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Medications commonly used for PTSD treatment 2024
Best medications for ptsd treatment
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
Best medications for ptsd treatment, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors are a commonly prescribed medication for PTSD treatment. The two SSRIs that are recommended for PTSD treatment are Sertraline and Paroxetine. These medications work by increasing the levels of serotonin in the brain, which can help regulate mood and reduce anxiety. Both medications have been shown to be effective in reducing PTSD symptoms, including intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and avoidance behaviors. However, it is essential to note that SSRIs can take several weeks to start showing significant effects, and side effects such as nausea, insomnia, and sexual dysfunction may occur.
Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs)
Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors are another class of medications that are commonly used in PTSD treatment. Venlafaxine is the SNRI that is recommended for PTSD treatment. Like SSRIs, Venlafaxine works by increasing the levels of serotonin in the brain while also affecting norepinephrine levels, which can help regulate mood and reduce anxiety. Venlafaxine has been shown to be effective in reducing PTSD symptoms, including hyperarousal and intrusive thoughts. However, like SSRIs, it can take several weeks to show significant effects, and side effects such as nausea, insomnia, and increased blood pressure may occur.
Prazosin (Minipress)
Prazosin is a medication that is commonly used to treat high blood pressure but has also been shown to be effective in reducing PTSD-related nightmares. Prazosin works by blocking the effects of adrenaline, which can help reduce hyperarousal and improve sleep quality. Studies have shown that Prazosin can significantly reduce the frequency and intensity of PTSD-related nightmares. However, it is essential to note that Prazosin is not FDA-approved for PTSD treatment and may cause side effects such as dizziness and low blood pressure. It is also important to work closely with a healthcare provider when taking Prazosin, as the dosage may need to be adjusted over time.
Best medications for ptsd
In conclusion, there are several medications that are commonly used for the treatment of PTSD. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors are often prescribed to alleviate symptoms such as anxiety and depression. Prazosin is also used to treat nightmares and sleep disturbances associated with PTSD. It is important to note that medication should be used in conjunction with therapy and other forms of treatment to achieve the best results. It is also important to consult with a healthcare provider to determine the best course of treatment for each individual’s unique needs.
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Phar::canCompress
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL phar >= 1.0.0)
Phar::canCompressReturns whether phar extension supports compression using either zlib or bzip2
Description
final public static bool Phar::canCompress ([ int $type = 0 ] )
This should be used to test whether compression is possible prior to loading a phar archive containing compressed files.
Parameters
type
Either Phar::GZ or Phar::BZ2 can be used to test whether compression is possible with a specific compression algorithm (zlib or bzip2).
Return Values
TRUE if compression/decompression is available, FALSE if not.
Examples
Example #1 A Phar::canCompress() example
<?php
if (Phar::canCompress()) {
echo
file_get_contents('phar://compressedphar.phar/internal/file.txt');
} else {
echo
'no compression available';
}
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Men died constantly, seemingly without a cause. They would appear less cheerful and less interested in life, and next morning, when summoned to roll-call, would be found dead, either from starvation or cold, God only knows which. Many went this way and many to the hospital never to return. During this terrible month our guards were changed, and the new-comers must need practice on the poor prisoners, some of them practically dying, to see if they could not add to sufferings already to great to be borne. One night I saw through a crack in the stable eight or ten men being drilled in the snow with a shoe in each hand, this being for the amusement of the new guard and for punishment to the prisoners for talking after going to bed. These are some of the indignities that can be put into print, but there were things more cruel and revolting perpetrated by these guards on the defenceless men that cannot be printed. If these numerous instances of shameful cruelty came under my personal observation, what number must have been perpetrated that none are living to record? The outrages practiced by the guards and sergeants were not all we were subjected to in December, 1864. There was an order issued by the commanding officer that the men should not remain in barracks (after the doctor has passed through) from 9 o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock. Poorly clad, starving men were compelled to stand around in the snow until hundreds had their feet so badly frost-bitten that their toes came off. This cruel order was persisted in till many men died from exposure, when the order was countermanded. The excuse given for the order was that the men stayed in doors too much and would be benefited by exercise. Great Heavens! Had these officers raised the ragged coat or blanket from the first figure they met and looked at the emaciated, itch-scarred, vermin-eaten creature, they would have seen that the men needed more food and warm clothing to hold life in them, instead of more snow and cold north wind. I am told that the people of Indianapolis deny that these terrible things occurred in their fair city.
Possibly some of them will remember that during the month of December, 1864, the legislature of Indiana visited the prison in carriages, and the wretched Confederates were forced to stand in line more than an hour for their inspection. No doubt they reported the | WIKI |
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House appears to send Roger Stone testimony to Mueller
The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to transmit what appeared to be testimony from Roger Stone, a longtime Donald Trump adviser, to special counsel Robert Mueller. The move has generated speculation that Mueller is closing in on an indictment of Stone for lying to Congress. Stone himself has long said he expects to face criminal charges as part of the sprawling government investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election. Several media reports Wednesday night and Thursday morning noted that Mueller would need to obtain an official transcript of Stone’s interview from Congress in order to proceed with an indictment. Despite months of partisan animosity on the House intelligence panel during its own look into Russian election meddling, it appeared Thursday that lawmakers approved the transmission of Stone’s transcript with a unanimous voice vote. “There was no drama, so take that for what it’s worth,” Rep. Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican, told POLITICO after the meeting. Muller has been looking into whether Stone served as a conduit between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, particularly after the activist transparency site obtained stolen emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Stone has vigorously denied any direct contact with WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange. Texas GOP Rep. Mike Conaway, who has been serving as the de facto chair of the intelligence panel’s Russia probe, wouldn’t discuss any specifics on the panel’s agenda with reporters following the session except to say the committee had approved its last pending business of the year with a voice vote. The Washington Post first reported Wednesday night that Mueller had formally requested the transcript of Stone’s testimony. Stone’s attorney responded to the report on Thursday with a letter to the House panel calling on outgoing Chairman Devin Nunes to make Stone’s interview public “such that the American citizenry and the world are able to evaluate for themselves Mr. Stone’s veracity.” Democratic committee leaders have been suggesting for months that Stone could be hit with a false testimony charge because of conflicting statements he made to the panel about the extent of his contact during the 2016 presidential campaign with WikiLeaks. Stone told the House Intelligence Committee in his September 2017 appearance that he had “never said or written” that he’d had any direct communication with WikiLeaks head Julian Assange. The self-described GOP dirty trickster has since given follow-up comments to the House panel clarifying that his communications with the activist organization went through Randy Credico, a liberal New York radio host and comedian who knows Assange. In an interview with POLITICO on Thursday, Stone cited about 80 text messages with Credico that he’s publicly released that he says show “beyond dispute” that Credico was his source. Credico has denied acting as Stone’s intermediary. Stone’s explanation also conflicts with a report published earlier this year by the Atlantic, which disclosed direct messages between Stone and Wikileaks from mid-October 2016, after it had started publishing a raft of stolen emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Stone on Thursday said the House panel had his direct messages with WikiLeaks at the time of his interview with lawmakers. Mueller, meanwhile, has homed in on Stone and interviewed more than a dozen of his longtime associates. Prosecutors from the special counsel’s office reportedly tried to secure a guilty plea deal from Stone associate Jerome Corsi, who they accused of lying to investigators about his interactions with Stone regarding his interest in emails that WikiLeaks could release to damage Clinton. Corsi later backed out of the plea talks with Mueller and instead filed a federal lawsuit accusing the special counsel of constitutional violations and leaking grand jury secrets. Appearing earlier this month on ABC’s “This Week,” incoming chairman Adam Schiff said he had found emails between Stone and Corsi to be “inconsistent” with Stone’s testimony before the House panel. “I think the testimony alone is reason for great exposure for Mr. Stone,” the California Democrat said. Grant Smith, a Stone attorney, told POLITICO on Thursday he wasn’t surprised about Mueller’s interest in seeing Stone’s testimony “after all of the statements made by Mr. Schiff and the other Democrats on the committee misrepresenting the testimony of Roger.” But Smith also pushed back against the idea Mueller would have success charging his client for lying to Congress in his testimony to Congress. “Having been in the room during Roger’s testimony, I’m not so sure that will be an available course for them,” Smith said. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
China locks down more cities as virus spreads | TheHill
Chinese officials have now locked down three cities in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus outbreak that has infected at least 600 people, according to NBC News. State media in the cities of Huanggang and Ezhou announced lockdowns on Thursday after officials suspended transportation in Wuhan, the city believed to be the center of the outbreak, the network reported. Hong Kong authorities have also stopped selling tickets for Wuhan-bound trains. Huanggang officials also announced temporary shutdowns of movie theaters, internet cafes and other public spaces, Reuters noted, and said every person and car entering or leaving the city center would be inspected. As of late Wednesday, Chinese authorities said the virus had infected 571 people and killed 17, with another 393 suspected cases reported, according to the news service. Elsewhere, Thailand has confirmed four cases, while Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the U.S. have each confirmed one. “To my knowledge, trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science. It has not been tried before as a public health measure, so we cannot at this stage say it will or will not work,” Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization’s country representative for China, told The Associated Press on Thursday. While the lockdown in Wuhan “obviously has social and economic impacts that are considerable,” he said, it also “demonstrates a very strong public health commitment and a willingness to take dramatic action.” View the discussion thread. The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2020 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shylaja Mahadevan
The result was Draftify. This should not be restored to article space unless GNG is clearly met. Randykitty (talk) 19:14, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Shylaja Mahadevan
* – ( View AfD View log )
I am nominating this article for deletion beause the article fails WP:GNG and WP:PERSON or doesn't meet notability criteria for biographies. This biographic article is unreferenced or doesn't have any reliable sources for verification. This article's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Besides, this article is not written in an encyclopaedic style- that is the article doesn't have infobox, references, external links, categories, necessary templates and talk page etc, which is present in every Wiki article of this type. A.A Prinon 07:04, 7 April 2021 (UTC).
* Comment -, I really do not understand your motive here. You moved this one from draftspace to mainspace and nominated it for a deletion discussion. Even after taking this unusual step, you haven't considered WP:BLPPROD. Hitro talk 07:28, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
* Comment - I actually did it because I created this deletion discussion page earlier than your move. A.A Prinon 07:35, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Dance-related deletion discussions. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:07, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗ plicit 07:10, 15 April 2021 (UTC) Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
* Delete. Google searches showing very little coverage of this individual. Only one hit in Google News, and it was a passing mention. If somebody wants to transliterate her name to whatever Indian language that is (Tamil?) and ping me, I'd be happy to search in that language. – Novem Linguae (talk) 07:43, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — A.A Prinon Conversation 06:45, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
* Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Sun8908  Talk 13:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
* Delete - It should have been deleted per WP:BLPPROD. Google search shows very little coverage which fails WP:GNG. Sun8908  Talk 13:09, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
* Draftify per Hyperion35. Sun8908  Talk 01:05, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
* Delete very clearly fails WP:GNG. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 13:20, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
* Draftify Prinon, please read WP:ATD and then re-read it again. Moving an article to draftspace is a legitimate alternative to deletion. Another editor chose to do this. Why did you move it back to mainspace? Once it was moved to draftspace you should have left it at that, regardless of whether or not you had already started an AfD. Since it is a BLP article, that makes the move more egregious. I do not understand the reasoning here. Hyperion35 (talk) 22:48, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
* The nominator created this AFD page at 23:57, but before they were able to place the AFD notice on the article, somebody draftified it at 0:00. I see no major fault with the nominator, although I do suggest WP:TWINKLE for AFD's in the future, which handles AFD's almost instantly. – Novem Linguae (talk) 06:16, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
* , Yeah right. And actually, at that time, I didn't install twinkle. But recently I installed it and now use it to nominate articles for AFD. — A.A Prinon Conversation 08:01, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
* Draftify per above.--Ankit (Talk with me) 20:48, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
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Fix for NET Framework 3.5 not installing on Windows 10
I'm a gamer at heart, so you can imagine how annoyed I was when I saw that a Windows 10 error was preventing me from running certain titles. Many modern games require NET Framework 3.5 in order to run, but... whenever I tried to install it on my Windows 10, I got the "DISM failed. No operation was performed." error message. Since I'm sure I'm not the only one facing this problem, I've decided to show everyone how to fix it.
For those of you who are interested, the Net Framework is a programming infrastructure that Microsoft created to help developers build and deploy products that use .NET technology. Since there are a lot of applications and services that rely on .NET (Dot Net) for their functionality, you can imagine that this kind of error can be quite irritating. Here are a few solutions that you should try:
Solution One
Command Prompt (Admin)Command Prompt (Admin)
This is the one that takes the least time, but you need to have the USB stick that contains the Windows 10 installer plugged into your PC in order it can work. If you have it, simply right-click on the Start button and select the Command Prompt (Admin) option. In the console that opens up, paste the following command: Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess , but replace the D with the drive letter of your USB stick.
In case it didn't work, go to the second solution:
Solution Two
Turn Windows features on or offTurn Windows features on or off
Press the Win+R combination, type appwiz.cpl and hit Enter. In the left-side panel, you should see a button that says "Turn Windows features on or off"; click on it. This will launch a new window where you will have to look for the ".NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)" entry, then once you find it, check the box in front of it and press OK (uncheck and check it again if needed). Now, simply follow the instructions provided by the wizard to complete the installation, then restart your PC and check if it's fixed.
If the problem persists, keep reading:
Solution Three
Registry EditorRegistry Editor
To be completely honest, I haven't tried this one as I didn't actually need to, but if the previous solutions didn't help, you've got nothing to lose by trying. Open the Registry Editor by pressing Win + R, typing in regedit and hitting Enter. In the left-side panel of the window that opens up look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, expand it, then right-click on COMPONENTS, choose Export and enter the name COMPONENTS (this will create a backup of the registry entry on your desktop, in case you need it). Now, in the right-side panel of the Registry Editor, check if you have entries named "PendingXmlIdentifier", "NextQueueEntryIndex" or "AdvancedInstallersNeedResolving". If you see any of them, delete them, then restart your PC and your problem should be fixed.
Now, when you've seen how to fix the problem of .NET Framework 3.5 not installing on Windows 10 problem, you may also want to read some of our other interesting articles like: "Customize Windows 10 Send To menu" or "Repairing the Windows master boot record".
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Walmart Hits the Reset Button on a Big Part of Its E-Commerce Strategy
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is making some big changes to its e-commerce strategy. When Walmart's head of U.S. e-commerce Marc Lore joined the retailer after it bought Jet.com, he made a series of acquisitions. Lore's shopping spree was focused on digitally native brands including Bonobos, ModCloth, and Eloquii.
And while Lore's hit a home run with Walmart's online grocery platform, the other side of Walmart's online business hasn't fared as well. Grocery has largely masked the duds, propelling overall digital sales 37% higher in the second quarter. But losses are piling up as Walmart's acquired brands remain largely unprofitable. The e-commerce operations are set to lose $1 billion this year alone.
The losses were enough for management to take a hard look at its portfolio and try to cut some fat. It sold online store ModCloth earlier this month, likely for less than what it paid two years ago. Then it laid off dozens of employees from Bonobos in an effort to boost profitability for the men's clothing brand. It's also reportedly explored the sale of Jetblack, a private-shopper service that loses about $15,000 annually per member.
Image source: Walmart.
Walmart's online grocery platform is close to covering the entire market. Management expects 80% of Americans to be able to order items for curbside pickup by the end of the year. Time is running out for Walmart's digital brands to grow sales the way Lore originally thought they would. The consumer staples company is hitting the reset button and changing course -- something it should've done a while ago.
Private labels work better than brand acquisitions
Walmart is switching from acquiring new brands to creating its own private labels. Private labels have been a source of considerable growth for Target (NYSE: TGT) over the last few years. Target develops new brands based on its sales data, and it can provide better shelf-space -- both physical and digital -- for those brands to get them in front of shoppers after they launch. Their success has been a significant contributor to Target's digital sales growth over the last few years. In fact, Target's online sales have nearly kept pace with Walmart's despite a much smaller investment in digital grocery sales.
By comparison, Walmart's strategy of acquiring digitally native brands is based entirely on the past success of those brands. Walmart didn't have much to offer in terms of growing those brands, as most of their products never showed up on Walmart.com or its store shelves. It merely hoped to glean expertise about those product categories in order to fill in the gaps of Walmart.com.
Walmart has finally realized that it can launch private-label brands that perform better for it than do existing brands it acquires. That's something that should've been obvious over a year ago when it was still making brand acquisitions. Better late than never.
Lore admitted the fact in a recent interview with Recode while he discussed the success of Walmart's mattress brand, Allswell. "This was like an 'aha' for us," he said. "This is super interesting. We can create these ourselves." Importantly, Lore says brands like Allswell, unlike Bonobos or ModCloth, can be sold on Walmart.com and in its stores. "And so our focus is now shifting where we're incubating a bunch of these brands." The sale of ModCloth and layoffs at Bonobos cement that sentiment.
What investors should expect
Building a portfolio of natively incubated private brands should be a lot cheaper than acquiring established brands. And while not every brand will be a success like Allswell, the amount at risk is only a few million dollars at most -- not tens of millions. Moreover, when Walmart does launch a successful brand, the potential is far greater if it can sell the brand in stores and online, attracting new customers to its sales channels. That's an opportunity its acquired brands don't offer.
In the meantime, however, losses on its e-commerce business are unlikely to improve much. It's still straddled with several unprofitable acquisitions, and it'll need to make some significant changes to get them into the black. It's starting to do that with layoffs at Bonobos and the sale of ModCloth, but there's a lot of work to do.
The reset won't come quickly. It's taken years for Target to build its sprawling portfolio of successful private labels and exclusive brands, which now total over 50. But the hope is that Walmart can establish a compelling portfolio of brands like Allswell before it saturates its potential with online grocery and the competition catches up.
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Source
pyobjc / pyobjc-framework-EventKit / PyObjCTest / test_ekparticipant.py
import sys
from PyObjCTools.TestSupport import *
if sys.maxsize > 2**32:
import EventKit
class TestEKParticipant (TestCase):
@min_os_level('10.8')
def testBasic(self):
self.assertTrue(hasattr(EventKit, "EKParticipant"))
@min_os_level('10.8')
def testConstants10_8(self):
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantRoleUnknown, 0)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantRoleRequired, 1)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantRoleOptional, 2)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantRoleChair, 3)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantRoleNonParticipant, 4)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusUnknown, 0)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusPending, 1)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusAccepted, 2)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusDeclined, 3)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusTentative, 4)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusDelegated, 5)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusCompleted, 6)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantStatusInProcess, 7)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantTypeUnknown, 0)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantTypePerson, 1)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantTypeRoom, 2)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantTypeResource, 3)
self.assertEqual(EventKit.EKParticipantTypeGroup, 4)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main() | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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* 1) The Telugu letter for the consonant dz. Now a days is used for both /d͡z/ and /d͡ʒ/ and the letter is less used. | WIKI |
Wang Yao-lin
Wang Yao-lin (born February 5, 1991) is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher for the TSG Hawks of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). He has previously played in the CPBL for the Lamigo Monkeys/Rakuten Monkeys, Fubon Guardians, and Wei Chuan Dragons. He is the older brother of Wei-Chung Wang and is a member of the Amis people.
Chicago Cubs
On June 15, 2010, Wang signed with the Chicago Cubs as an international free agent and was assigned to the Single-A Boise Hawks, where he posted a 6.43 ERA in 4 games (as well as a 2.12 ERA in 8 games for the rookie–level Arizona League Cubs. Wang returned to Boise in 2011, making 14 starts and posting a 4–4 record and 3.22 ERA with 77 strikeouts across 67.0 innings of work.
Wang spent the 2012 season with the Single–A Peoria Chiefs, pitching to a 4–5 record and 3.92 ERA with 82 strikeouts and 12 saves. He spent the following year with the High–A Daytona Cubs, logging a 3.42 ERA with 64 strikeouts and 4 saves across 71.0 innings pitched.
Wang played for Daytona and Boise in 2014, accumulating a 4–7 record and 5.32 ERA with 53 strikeouts in $67 2⁄3$ innings of work. He was released by the Cubs organization on January 17, 2015.
Lamigo Monkeys
Later in the 2015, season, Wang signed with the Lamigo Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, and played for the club through the 2020 season.
Fubon Guardians
On August 31, 2022, Wang was traded to the Fubon Guardians of the CPBL alongside Lin Tse-Pin in exchange for Yang Bin and Yang Chin-Hao.
TSG Hawks
On November 28, 2023, Wang was selected by the TSG Hawks in the team's expansion draft.
International career
He represented Chinese Taipei national baseball team at the 2009 Asian Junior Baseball Championship, 2013 World Baseball Classic Qualification, 2013 World Baseball Classic, 2013 exhibition games against Japan 2014 Asian Games and 2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship. | WIKI |
John A. TAYLOR, Petitioner v. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, Respondent
No. 16-1302
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued January 25, 2018 Decided July 6, 2018
John A. Taylor, pro se, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner.
Abby C. Wright, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for respondents. With her on the brief were Michael S. Raab, Attorney, and Paul M. Geier, Assistant General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement, Federal Aviation Administration.
Before: Garland, Chief Judge, and Sentelle and Randolph, Senior Circuit Judges.
Garland, Chief Judge:
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a rule that regulates certain unmanned aircraft, popularly known as "drones." Petitioner John Taylor, a model aircraft hobbyist, seeks review of that rule. He contends that the rule exceeds the agency's statutory authority, is arbitrary and capricious, and has miscellaneous additional infirmities. For the following reasons, we deny the petition for review.
I
In the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Congress tasked the Secretary of Transportation with developing "a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system." Pub. L. 112-95, § 332(a)(1), 126 Stat. 11, 73 (codified at 49 U.S.C. § 40101 note) (hereinafter "Modernization Act"). The Act defines an "unmanned aircraft" as "an aircraft that is operated without the possibility of direct human intervention from within or on the aircraft." Modernization Act § 331(8). A "small unmanned aircraft" is a craft that meets this definition and weighs less than 55 pounds. Id. § 331(6). And an "unmanned aircraft system" is "an unmanned aircraft and associated elements," such as communication links and components that control the unmanned aircraft. Id. § 331(9).
Section 332 of the Modernization Act instructs the Secretary to conduct a rulemaking "to implement the recommendations" of the comprehensive plan, and to issue "a final rule on small unmanned aircraft systems that will allow for civil operation of such systems in the national airspace system." Id. § 332(b). Section 333 of the Act, entitled "Special Rules for Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems," directs the Secretary to determine whether some unmanned aircraft systems may operate safely in the national airspace system before completion of the comprehensive plan and rulemaking required by section 332. Id. § 333(a).
Section 333 is one of two sections of the Modernization Act that are most directly relevant to this petition. It directs the Secretary to determine "(1) which types of unmanned aircraft systems, if any, as a result of their size, weight, speed, operational capability, proximity to airports and populated areas, and operation within visual line of sight do not create a hazard to users of the national airspace system or the public or pose a threat to national security; and (2) whether a certificate of waiver, certificate of authorization, or airworthiness certification under [ 49 U.S.C. § 44704 ] is required for the operation of [such] unmanned aircraft systems." Id. § 333(b). If the Secretary determines "that certain unmanned aircraft systems may operate safely in the national airspace system, the Secretary shall establish requirements for the safe operation of such aircraft systems in the national airspace system." Id. § 333(c).
The other directly relevant section is section 336, which creates a statutory " Special Rule for Model Aircraft." Id. § 336. The section defines a "model aircraft" as "an unmanned aircraft that is-(1) capable of sustained flight in the atmosphere; (2) flown within visual line of sight of the person operating the aircraft; and (3) flown for hobby or recreational purposes." Id. § 336(c). Section 336 provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law regarding incorporation of unmanned aircraft systems into FAA plans and policies, the FAA (a component of the Department of Transportation) "may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft" that satisfies the following five operational criteria:
(1) the aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use;
(2) the aircraft is operated in accordance with a community-based set of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization;
(3) the aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds ...;
(4) the aircraft is operated in a manner that does not interfere with and gives way to any manned aircraft; and
(5) when flown within 5 miles of an airport, the operator of the aircraft provides the airport operator and the airport air traffic control tower ... with prior notice of the operation ....
Id. § 336(a).
Section 336 also provides, however, that nothing in it "shall be construed to limit the authority of the [FAA] Administrator to pursue enforcement action against persons operating model aircraft who endanger the safety of the national airspace system." Id. § 336(b). In short, section 336's statutory Special Rule creates a safe harbor from FAA regulation for those model aircraft that meet its five operational criteria. That safe harbor itself has an exception for dangerous model aircraft operations.
For the purposes of this opinion, we will use the phrase "section 336 model aircraft" to refer to model aircraft that meet the five operational criteria of the statutory Special Rule. We will use the term "non-section 336 model aircraft" to refer to model aircraft that do not meet one or more of the safe harbor requirements.
After Congress passed the Modernization Act, the FAA took two related regulatory actions that are relevant as background but are not the subject of this case.
In 2014, the agency issued an Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft, which interpreted several terms contained in the statutory Special Rule. 79 Fed. Reg. 36,172 (June 25, 2014). The FAA sought public comments on the Interpretation and is currently reviewing those comments. Status Report, UAS Am. Fund, LLC v. FAA , No. 14-1156 (D.C. Cir. June 19, 2018).
In 2015, the FAA promulgated a rule requiring the registration of small unmanned aircraft, including model aircraft. Registration and Marking Requirements for Small Unmanned Aircraft, 80 Fed. Reg. 78,594 (Dec. 16, 2015). Taylor challenged the registration rule, and this circuit held that it violated the Modernization Act in certain respects. Taylor v. Huerta , 856 F.3d 1089, 1093 (D.C. Cir. 2017). Soon thereafter, Congress restored the registration rule to effect. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-91, § 1092(d), 131 Stat. 1283, 1611 (2017).
Finally, in 2016, the agency promulgated the rule that is the subject of this case, Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 81 Fed. Reg. 42,064 (June 28, 2016) (hereinafter " Small UAS Rule"). Two provisions of the Small UAS Rule are at the heart of Taylor's petition for review.
First, the rule adds a new part 107 to the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) to "allow for routine civil operation" of small unmanned aircraft systems and "to provide safety rules for those operations." Id. at 42,066. Consistent with the statutory definition noted above, the rule defines a small unmanned aircraft as one that weighs less than 55 pounds. Id. at 42,085 -86; see 14 C.F.R. § 107.3. To mitigate risk, the rule limits small unmanned aircraft systems to "daylight and civil twilight operations with appropriate collision lighting, confined areas of operation, and visual-line-of-sight operations." 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,066 ; see 14 C.F.R. §§ 107.29, 107.31, 107.43, 107.45. Part 107 also addresses "airspace restrictions, remote pilot certification, visual observer requirements, and operational limits." 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,066 ; see, e.g. , 14 C.F.R. §§ 107.33, 107.37, 107.41, 107.61.
Second, the Small UAS Rule adds a new subpart E to part 101 of the C.F.R., as well as a § 107.1 to part 107. Those provisions codify the statutory Special Rule for Model Aircraft contained in Modernization Act § 336. Subpart E's § 101.41 lists the five operational criteria required to qualify for the statutory safe harbor from FAA regulation. 14 C.F.R. § 101.41. Subpart E's § 101.43 provides that the safe harbor does not extend to operations that endanger the safety of the national airspace system. Id. § 101.43. And § 107.1 completes the package by providing that the small unmanned aircraft system requirements of part 107 do not apply to any aircraft that falls within the safe harbor of § 101.41. Id . § 107.1(b)(2). The result is that a section 336 model aircraft-one that meets the five criteria in the statutory Special Rule-is exempt from the new part 107 requirements. By contrast, a model aircraft that fails to meet one or more of the section 336 criteria is subject to the regulations of part 107.
II
Taylor has petitioned for review of the Small UAS Rule. His challenges fall into four categories, which we address below.
A
Taylor contends that the rule violates the Modernization Act by regulating the forbidden category of section 336 model aircraft. As we noted above, section 336(a) of the Act states that the FAA "may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft" if that aircraft meets the five operational criteria listed in the statute. Modernization Act § 336(a). Taylor argues that the rule violates section 336(a) in two respects: by imposing new regulations on section 336 model aircraft, and by exposing section 336 model aircraft to pre-existing regulations. The FAA did not request Chevron deference for its statutory interpretation, see Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Nat. Res. Def. Council, Inc. , 467 U.S. 837, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984). Because we conclude that the petition should be denied on de novo review, we do not address the Chevron standard. See Fed. Election Comm'n v. Craig for U.S. Senate , 816 F.3d 829, 839 n.6 (D.C. Cir. 2016).
Taylor's first argument is that the newly promulgated 14 C.F.R. § 101.41 is a rule or regulation regarding model aircraft and is inconsistent with section 336(a). Taylor's argument fails because § 101.41 does not regulate section 336 model aircraft at all. To the contrary, it simply defines the model aircraft that fall within section 336(a) and, in so doing, does no more than repeat the five criteria that Congress itself listed in section 336(a).
Section 101.41 states:
This subpart prescribes rules governing the operation of a model aircraft ... that meets all of the following conditions as set forth in section 336 of Public Law 112-95 :
(a) The aircraft is flown strictly for hobby or recreational use;
(b) The aircraft is operated in accordance with a community-based set of safety guidelines and within the programming of a nationwide community-based organization;
(c) The aircraft is limited to not more than 55 pounds ...;
(d) The aircraft is operated in a manner that does not interfere with and gives way to any manned aircraft; and
(e) When flown within 5 miles of an airport, the operator of the aircraft provides the airport operator and the airport air traffic control tower ... with prior notice of the operation.
14 C.F.R. § 101.41 (emphasis added); compare Modernization Act § 336(a). Section 101.43 then subjects model aircraft that meet those criteria to only one requirement: the anti-endangerment provision expressly permitted by Modernization Act § 336. 14 C.F.R. § 101.43 ; see Modernization Act § 336(b). And the new § 107.1(b)(2) then exempts model aircraft that satisfy the § 101.41 criteria from the regulations imposed by the new part 107. 14 C.F.R. § 107.1(b)(2).
Accordingly, the Small UAS Rule's § 101.41 is nothing like the Registration Rule that we invalidated in Taylor's previous challenge. See Huerta , 856 F.3d at 1092. The Registration Rule "create[d] a new regulatory regime for model aircraft." Id. at 1093. It "impose[d] new requirements ... on people who previously had no obligation to ... the FAA" and "impose[d] new penalties ... on model aircraft owners who [did] not comply." Id. By contrast, § 101.41 simply mirrors the statutory category of section 336 model aircraft and imposes no requirements on them (except for the anti-endangerment requirement permitted by section 336(b) ). See Modernization Act § 336(b).
Taylor's second claim is that the Small UAS Rule unlawfully subjects section 336 model aircraft to pre-existing regulations that were previously applicable only to traditional, full-size aircraft. According to Taylor, the rule exposes section 336 model aircraft to the "entire weight of traditional aircraft statutes and regulations," yielding "results that are as legally inescapable as they are absurd." Taylor Br. 24, 25. He claims, for example, that all hobbyists must now obtain pilots' licenses, comply with minimum altitude requirements, and service their aircraft at licensed aircraft mechanics. Id. at 25-26, 44-47.
In Taylor's view, this parade of horribles arises because § 107.1(a) states that, "[e]xcept as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, this part applies to ... civil small unmanned aircraft systems." 14 C.F.R. § 107.1(a). Taylor concludes from this language that section 336 model aircraft are to be treated as a type of "civil small unmanned aircraft system," and thus a type of "aircraft," for all statutory and regulatory purposes. Taylor Br. 24.
This reads too much into the rule's reference to "civil small unmanned aircraft systems." As noted above, none of the new requirements of part 107 apply to section 336 model aircraft at all. That is because the "paragraph (b)" exception referred to in the above quotation states that "[t]his part does not apply to ... [a]ny aircraft subject to the provisions of part 101," 14 C.F.R. § 107.1(b)(2), and § 101.41 mirrors the section 336(a) criteria, see id. § 101.41 ; supra note 1.
Nor does any other part of the Small UAS Rule subject section 336 model aircraft to the pre-existing regulations Taylor identifies. To the contrary, in the rule's preamble, the FAA explained that it had not proposed "any changes to its existing regulations with regard to section 336 operations" and that such changes were beyond the scope of the rulemaking. 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,083. The challenged rule itself, therefore, imposes no restrictions on section 336 model aircraft apart from the anti-endangerment regulation, 14 C.F.R. § 101.43, which Taylor does not challenge.
At oral argument, the FAA agreed with this interpretation. Accordingly, because Taylor's petition for review was limited to the Small UAS Rule, see Pet. for Rev., Taylor v. FAA , No. 16-1302 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 29, 2016), he will have to file a new petition should he ever wish to challenge an attempt by the FAA to apply a pre-existing rule to section 336 model aircraft.
Because the challenged rule's only regulation of section 336 model aircraft is permitted by the Modernization Act, the FAA has honored the statutory safe harbor for these aircraft. We therefore reject this challenge.
B
Taylor's next contention concerns the FAA's statutory authority to regulate non-section 336 model aircraft. Unlike section 336 model aircraft, these recreational aircraft fall outside the statutory (and regulatory) safe harbor and are subject to the new operating requirements of part 107. Taylor argues that the FAA lacks statutory authority to regulate non-section 336 model aircraft.
According to Taylor, prior to passage of the Modernization Act, "the FAA consistently acknowledged it did not have regulatory authority over recreational model aircraft." Taylor Br. 30. Taylor maintains that, at the time the Modernization Act was passed, the FAA's interpretation of the pre-existing Federal Aviation Act was that only "commercial use small unmanned vehicles" were aircraft; recreational model aircraft, by contrast, were not "aircraft" at all. Id. Moreover, he continues, the Modernization Act "codified" that FAA interpretation. Id. The FAA disputes Taylor's claims about its previous interpretation, stating that its previous failure to regulate recreational model aircraft was an exercise of enforcement discretion, not statutory interpretation. See Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 80 Fed. Reg. 9544, 9550 (proposed Feb. 23, 2015) ; FAA Br. 43-44.
We do not need to resolve the parties' dispute about the FAA's previous interpretation of the pre-existing statutory provisions, or their dispute about whether those provisions alone would have been sufficient to authorize the Small UAS Rule. The primary authority upon which the FAA relies for that rule is a new statutory section: section 333 of the Modernization Act, passed in 2012. See 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,067 n.6. And there is no doubt that this section permits the agency to apply the regulations of the Small UAS Rule to recreational model aircraft that do not fall within the section 336 safe harbor.
Modernization Act § 333 directs the FAA to determine "which types of unmanned aircraft ... may operate safely in the national airspace system," and then directs the agency to "establish requirements for the safe operation of such aircraft." Modernization Act § 333(b), (c). Section 336, in turn, defines a "model aircraft"
as "an unmanned aircraft that is ... flown for hobby or recreational purposes ." Modernization Act § 336(c)(3) (emphases added). And it provides that the FAA may not promulgate regulations regarding "a model aircraft ... if ... the aircraft" satisfies the five operational criteria of the safe harbor. Id . § 336(a) (emphasis added). Thus, the text makes clear that Congress has authorized the FAA to regulate recreational model aircraft, so long as they are outside the safe harbor of section 336(a).
There is nothing to support Taylor's contention that, notwithstanding the above, the Modernization Act was intended to codify the alleged prior understanding that the FAA could not regulate any recreational model aircraft. To begin, we note that Taylor has cited neither statutory language nor legislative history that indicates such an intent. It is true, as Taylor notes, that "Congress is presumed to be aware of an administrative ... interpretation of a statute and to adopt that interpretation when it re-enacts a statute without change." Lorillard v. Pons , 434 U.S. 575, 580, 98 S.Ct. 866, 55 L.Ed.2d 40 (1978). But even if we were to accept Taylor's claim regarding the FAA's interpretation of pre-existing statutory provisions, Congress did not re-enact a statute without change here. To the contrary, it enacted a new statute with entirely new provisions regarding the regulation of unmanned aircraft.
Taylor insists that the structure of the Modernization Act indicates that Congress "adopted the FAA's [allegedly] consistent interpretation that recreational model aircraft are neither 'civil aircraft' nor 'public aircraft' (the only two types of aircraft that exist)," and that, as such, "they are not aircraft at all." Taylor Br. 35 (citing 49 U.S.C. § 40102(a)(16) ). He argues that the structure so indicates because it "create[s] separate regimes for: 1) civil unmanned aircraft, in § 332 and § 333; 2) public unmanned aircraft, in § 334; and 3) recreational model aircraft, in § 336." Id . at 34-35. We disagree.
First, the suggestion that recreational model aircraft are neither "public" nor "civil" aircraft, and hence "not aircraft at all," is at best a counterintuitive interpretation of the pre-existing statutory definition. In any event, the contention that a model aircraft is not an "aircraft" for purposes of the Modernization Act is directly contradicted by the Act itself, which, as we have just noted, defines "model aircraft" as "an unmanned aircraft that is ... flown for hobby or recreational purposes." Modernization Act § 336(c)(3); see id. § 331(8) (defining "unmanned aircraft" as a type of "aircraft").
Second, the Act does not create the three separate regimes that Taylor perceives. Section 332 does apply to "civil unmanned aircraft," and section 334 does apply to "public unmanned aircraft." Id. §§ 332, 334. But section 333 (which is the directly relevant section here and directs expedited rulemaking) simply applies to "certain unmanned aircraft"-those the FAA determines may operate safely in the national airspace system. Id . § 333.
Nor does section 336 constitute a statutory bar against any regulation of recreational model aircraft. As set forth above, that section provides that the FAA may not promulgate regulations regarding "a model aircraft ... if ... the aircraft" satisfies the five operational criteria of the safe harbor. Id . § 336(a) (emphasis added). The expressio unius est exclusio alterius canon-"the expression of one thing implies the exclusion of others"-suggests that the FAA may promulgate regulations if an aircraft does not satisfy those criteria. And while that canon's "force in particular situations depends entirely on context," In re Sealed Case No. 97-3112 , 181 F.3d 128, 132 (D.C. Cir. 1999) (en banc) (internal quotation marks omitted), here the context indicates that Congress expected that a model aircraft would be subject to regulation if it did not come within the safe harbor. After all, why would Congress go to the trouble of defining (by listing five criteria) a protected subcategory of "model aircraft" if it thought the FAA had no authority to regulate model aircraft at all?
Finally, although we hold that the FAA has authority to apply the part 107 requirements to recreational model aircraft outside the safe harbor (that is, to non-section 336 model aircraft), we do not decide whether the agency may apply any other regulations to these aircraft. We do not read part 107-or anything else that the FAA promulgated in the Small UAS Rule that is the sole subject of the petition before us-to make other regulatory provisions applicable to these recreational model aircraft, except for those provisions expressly cross-referenced in the rule. See, e.g. , 14 C.F.R. § 107.27 (requiring compliance with 14 C.F.R. §§ 91.17 and 91.19 ). At oral argument, the FAA again agreed with this reading. If the FAA were to apply other, pre-existing regulatory provisions to non-section 336 model aircraft, that decision may be subject to a separate challenge.
C
We turn next to Taylor's contention that the Small UAS Rule is "arbitrary and capricious." Taylor Br. 40 (citing 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A) ). Under the familiar "arbitrary or capricious" standard for reviewing agency action, the scope of our review is "narrow," and we will not "substitute [our] judgment for that of the agency." Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. , 463 U.S. 29, 43, 103 S.Ct. 2856, 77 L.Ed.2d 443 (1983). Agency action survives such review as long as the agency "examine[d] the relevant data and articulate[d] a satisfactory explanation for its action including a rational connection between the facts found and the choice made." Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). Taylor's five arguments do not persuade us that the FAA acted arbitrarily or capriciously in this matter.
1. Taylor first asserts that the Small UAS Rule creates "absurd and contradictory results [by] applying full-size aircraft regulations" to model aircraft. Taylor Br. 41. We reject this challenge because the rule does not do so. As explained above, the Small UAS Rule does not apply any regulations to section 336 model aircraft except the anti-endangerment regulation. Nor does the rule apply full-size aircraft regulations to non-section 336 model aircraft. As also explained above, the only regulations the rule applies to such aircraft are those in (and referenced in) the new part 107, which was specifically crafted for small unmanned aircraft.
2. So far as Taylor challenges the FAA's decision to regulate recreational non-section 336 model aircraft at all, rather than limiting its regulations solely to commercial (non-recreational) craft, the FAA appropriately accounted for that choice. The agency explained that, "from a safety point of view, there is no difference between the risk posed by recreational operations ... and non-recreational ... operations." 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,081. In particular, the agency was concerned that an unmanned aircraft operator would not have the ability to see and avoid other aircraft, and that a loss of positive control of the aircraft could pose a risk to persons, property, and other aircraft. Id. at 42,068. Because "[t]here is no data indicating that a small UAS operation whose operational parameters raise the safety risks addressed by part 107 would become safer simply as a result of being conducted for recreational or salutary purposes," id. at 42,081, the agency's decision to regulate recreational non-section 336 model aircraft was reasonable.
3. Taylor also argues that the agency arbitrarily changed its position regarding the regulation of recreational model aircraft. In Taylor's view, the agency historically treated such aircraft as "toys ... rather than as a type of 'aircraft' " subject to the FAA's statutory authority. Taylor Br. 11. He contends that the Small UAS "Rule's application of [p]art 107 ... to recreational [non-section 336] model aircraft" thus marks a "radical change" that the agency cannot lawfully ignore. Id. at 4344; see FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. , 556 U.S. 502, 515, 129 S.Ct. 1800, 173 L.Ed.2d 738 (2009) ("An agency may not ... depart from a prior policy sub silentio or simply disregard rules that are still on the books.").
Once again, it is unnecessary for us to wade into the agency's historical practice because the "primary authority" for the rule was a new statute, the Modernization Act. 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,067 n.6 (noting that the agency relied primarily on section 333 of the Act, as well as on other FAA statutory authorities). It is true that a new law does not necessarily give an agency a blank check to depart from prior policies. See Am. Fed'n of Labor & Cong. of Indus. Orgs. v. Brock , 835 F.2d 912, 917-18 (D.C. Cir. 1987) (rejecting an agency's assertion that its "dramatic shift" in policy reflected a "contemporaneous interpretation of new legislation" where the new legislation "made absolutely no alteration to the statutory mandate" underlying the policy). But as we have discussed, in this case the Modernization Act directed the FAA to establish requirements for the safe operation of unmanned aircraft systems, including recreational model aircraft outside the safe harbor. See supra Section II.B. Congress' directive to integrate such aircraft into the national airspace system adequately supports any shift in the FAA's policy toward recreational non-section 336 model aircraft that is reflected in the Small UAS Rule.
4. Taylor further contends that the agency acted arbitrarily and capriciously by imposing a notice requirement on operators of section 336 model aircraft. Specifically, he objects to the requirement that model aircraft operators who want an exemption from part 107 must "provide[ ] [an] airport operator and the airport air traffic control tower ... with prior notice of the operation" when flying within five miles of the airport. 14 C.F.R. § 101.41(e). This requirement is arbitrary, he maintains, because the agency does not require similar notice by part 107 operators. Taylor Br. 48 (citing 14 C.F.R. § 107.43 ).
We reject Taylor's argument because it is the statute, not the regulation, that imposes the notice requirement. See Modernization Act § 336(a)(5). As we have said, Modernization Act § 336(a) lists five operational criteria, including the notice requirement, that model aircraft must satisfy to fall within the statutory safe harbor. Section 101.41 faithfully tracks those requirements, including the notice requirement. Compare 14 C.F.R § 101.41(e), with Modernization Act § 336(a)(5). And we decline to strike down a rule that merely implements an unchallenged governing statute. See AT & T Corp. v. Iowa Utilities Bd. , 525 U.S. 366, 396, 119 S.Ct. 721, 142 L.Ed.2d 835 (1999) ("[I]t is hard to declare the FCC's rule unlawful when it tracks the pertinent statutory language almost exactly."); see also Purepac Pharm. Co. v. Friedman , 162 F.3d 1201, 1205 (D.C. Cir. 1998) ; Metro. Wash. Airports Auth. Prof'l Fire Fighters Ass'n v. United States , 959 F.2d 297, 300 (D.C. Cir. 1992).
5. Fifth, we reject Taylor's contention that the FAA acted unreasonably by declining to define certain terms in the Small UAS Rule. Taylor maintains that the FAA should have clarified what makes an organization a "nationwide community-based organization," what qualifies as "programming," and what activities "endanger the safety of the national airspace." See 14 C.F.R. §§ 101.41(b), 101.43. The first two terms are part of one of the criteria for the safe harbor exemption from part 107, id. § 101.41(b) ; the third is the anti-endangerment provision applicable to section 336 model aircraft, id. § 101.43. All three precisely mirror the language of section 336 of the Modernization Act.
In the notice accompanying the Small UAS Rule, the FAA stated that "issues concerning the specific meaning of section 336 (such as what makes an organization a nationwide community-based organization) are beyond the scope of this rule." 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,082. The agency explained that it was "considering the specific meaning of section 336 provisions in a separate regulatory action," and that, "in order to avoid duplication, [it] limited the scope of the model-aircraft component of th[e] rulemaking simply to codifying the FAA's enforcement authority over model-aircraft operations that endanger the safety" of the national airspace. Id.
The "separate regulatory action" to which the agency referred was the proceeding for issuance of an Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft. See 79 Fed. Reg. 36,172 (June 25, 2014) ; supra Part I. The initial interpretation, issued in 2014, did in fact interpret several terms in section 336, including several of interest to Taylor. See 79 Fed. Reg. at 36,174 (identifying Congress' intended definition of "nationwide community-based organization"); id. n.7 (explaining that "community-based organizations" include groups such as the Academy of Model Aeronautics); see also 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,124 (identifying the Academy of Model Aeronautics as a nationwide community-based organization). The initial interpretation also discussed the scope of the FAA's enforcement authority against operators who endanger the safety of the national airspace system. 79 Fed. Reg. at 36,175 -76. As we noted in Part I, the FAA sought public comments on the initial interpretation and is currently reviewing those comments. Petitions for review challenging the initial interpretation, filed in this circuit, have been held in abeyance pending issuance of a final interpretive rule. See Order, UAS Am. Fund, LLC v. FAA , No. 14-1156 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 18, 2014).
Contrary to Taylor's complaint, it was not unreasonable (or unconstitutional) for the FAA to use the instant rulemaking merely to codify section 336 and to consider the specific meaning of section 336's provisions in the separate regulatory action that it had already begun. "An agency enjoys broad discretion in determining how best to handle related, yet discrete, issues in terms of ... priorities" and "need not solve every problem before it in the same proceeding." Mobil OilExpl. & Producing Se. Inc. v. United Distrib. Cos. , 498 U.S. 211, 230-31, 111 S.Ct. 615, 112 L.Ed.2d 636 (1991). In announcing the Small UAS Rule, the FAA explained that it had "received over 33,000 public comments" on the initial interpretation and was "currently considering the issues raised by these commenters and will issue a final Interpretive Rule that reflects its consideration." 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,082. Delaying issuance of the Small UAS Rule until it finalized the interpretive rule, the FAA said, "would prejudice non-model small UAS operations." Id. at 42,083. In light of these considerations-coupled with the Modernization Act's directive to expedite rulemaking for unmanned aircraft systems where possible, see Modernization Act §§ 332(b), 333-it was reasonable for the agency to place further definition of those terms in a holding pattern while it landed the Small UAS Rule.
We therefore reject all of Taylor's "arbitrary and capricious" challenges to the rule.
D
Finally, Taylor contends that the FAA violated the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. §§ 3501 et seq . That Act requires agencies to follow specific procedures prior to "conduct[ing] or sponsor[ing] the collection of information," including publishing notice in the Federal Register and obtaining approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Id. § 3507(a).
According to Taylor, the agency did not follow the required procedures before mandating that operators of section 336(a) model aircraft provide notice to airports. As we have explained, however, that notification provision is one of the five statutory criteria required of operators who wish to take advantage of the safe harbor provided by section 336(a). See supra Part II.C.4. The FAA's regulation merely repeats that criterion, without any elaboration or specification of the form of notice required. Hence, the PRA is inapplicable because it was Congress, not the agency, that made notification a prerequisite for entry into the safe harbor. Compare Saco River Cellular, Inc. v. FCC , 133 F.3d 25, 32 (D.C. Cir. 1998) (holding that the FCC was required to comply with the PRA where "Congress merely authorized, [but] did not require" the collection of information).
Taylor also faults the FAA for failing to follow PRA procedures for the B4UFLY smartphone application, an app designed to give unmanned aircraft operators real-time information about flight restrictions and other requirements. Because B4UFLY was not part of the challenged Small UAS Rule, it is beyond the scope of the petition for review that is now before us. We note, however, the FAA's representation that PRA procedures were in fact followed and that OMB approved the collection of information with respect to B4UFLY. FAA Br. 48. We also note Taylor's failure to dispute the point in his reply brief.
III
The FAA has promulgated a rule that regulates section 336 model aircraft only to the extent expressly permitted by Congress. The rule regulates recreational non-section 336 model aircraft more broadly, but that regulation is likewise consistent with Congressional directives. Because the rule is within the agency's statutory authority and is neither arbitrary nor capricious, the petition for review is
Denied.
Section 107.1 accomplishes this by providing that part 107 "does not apply to ... [a]ny aircraft subject to the provisions of part 101." Id. § 107.1(b)(2). And § 101.1 states that part 101 "prescribes rules governing the operation" of "[a]ny model aircraft that meets the conditions specified in § 101.41." Id. § 101.1(a)(5).
Of course, a rule that defines the category of aircraft that it does not regulate could be described as a rule "regarding" such aircraft. But we do not read section 336(a) as barring the FAA from advising operators which aircraft are not subject to the Small UAS Rule.
Taylor does not challenge the FAA's authority to promulgate the anti-endangerment regulation for good reason. As noted in Part I, the statutory Special Rule contains an exception to the section 336(a) regulatory bar for this type of FAA regulation. See Modernization Act § 336(b) ("Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the Administrator to pursue enforcement action against persons operating model aircraft who endanger the safety of the national airspace system.").
Oral Arg. Recording at 48:20-48:57 (Court: "Do you regard anything that the agency did in the rulemaking that is challenged here as imposing any regulations on model aircraft that satisfy the statute's 336 requirements?" FAA Counsel: "No." Court: "No requirements of any kind?" Counsel: "No. ... There is a regulation that prohibits reckless operations, but ... 336(b) expressly permits FAA to prevent reckless operation even of model aircraft.").
Part 107 applies to "civil small unmanned aircraft systems" except, as relevant here, to "[a]ny aircraft subject to the provisions of part 101." 14 C.F.R. § 107.1 (a), (b)(2). Because only those model aircraft that meet all of the section 336(a) criteria are subject to part 101, part 107 governs model aircraft that do not meet those criteria.
The statutory text likewise contradicts Taylor's contention that an aircraft is solely "a tool of manned flight, used, by a person, to achieve that person's flight." Taylor Br. 31 n.16. At least with respect to the Modernization Act, "aircraft" includes "unmanned aircraft." See Modernization Act § 331(8).
In Taylor v. Huerta , we did say that section 336(a) "codified the FAA's longstanding hands-off approach to the regulation of model aircraft." 856 F.3d at 1091. But that codification extended only to model aircraft falling within the safe harbor of section 336(a). The problem with the Registration Rule at issue in Huerta was that it applied to all model aircraft, not just to model aircraft outside the safe harbor. See id. at 1092 ; see also Order, Taylor v. Huerta , No. 15-1495 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 3, 2017) (denying petitioner's motion for a contempt sanction against the FAA for applying registration requirements to non-section 336 model aircraft).
Nor did it merely "adopt[ ] a new law incorporating sections of a prior law." Lorillard , 434 U.S. at 581, 98 S.Ct. 866.
Section 40102(a) defines an "aircraft" as "any contrivance ... designed to navigate, or fly in, the air." 49 U.S.C. § 40102(a)(6). It defines a "public aircraft" as a government aircraft. Id. § 40102(a)(41). And it then defines a "civil aircraft" as "an aircraft except a public aircraft." Id. § 40102(a)(16).
Cf. Jennings v. Rodriguez , --- U.S. ----, 138 S.Ct. 830, 844, 200 L.Ed.2d 122 (2018) (holding that a statutory provision authorizing release from detention in certain circumstances implies that there are no other circumstances under which individuals detained under the provision may be released); POM Wonderful LLC v. Coca-Cola Co. , --- U.S. ----, 134 S.Ct. 2228, 2238, 189 L.Ed.2d 141 (2014) ("By taking care to mandate express pre-emption of some state laws, Congress if anything indicated it did not intend the [statute] to preclude requirements arising from other sources."); In re Sealed Case No. 97-3112 , 181 F.3d 128, 132 (D.C. Cir. 1999) (en banc) (applying the canon to conclude that a Sentencing Guidelines section providing "that if the government moves the court may depart [from the Guidelines]," means, in context, "that if the government does not move the court may not depart").
Oral Arg. Recording at 53:46-54:09 (Court: "In your view, the only-the only requirements that apply to unmanned aircraft that don't meet 336 are those contained in 107, [is] that right?" FAA Counsel: "That's right ... to be clear, it's a subset of operations, so ... it has to be during the day, you have to have visual line of sight observer, all of those things.").
Because those pre-existing regulations and the statutory provisions upon which they were based (including their definition of "aircraft") are not before us, we do not address Taylor's complaint that, by deferring consideration of how such regulations and provisions apply to recreational unmanned aircraft systems, the FAA rendered those regulations and provisions arbitrary, capricious, or unconstitutionally vague.
We do not understand Taylor to be charging that the small unmanned aircraft regulations of part 107 are themselves "absurd and contradictory" as applied to non-section 336 model aircraft. In any event, his briefs do not do so with sufficient specificity for us to discern such a charge. The FAA crafted the regulations of part 107 because it recognized that pre-existing regulations did "not differentiate between manned and unmanned aircraft" and hence could result in an "undue burden" on small unmanned aircraft operations. 81 Fed. Reg. at 42,069. The part 107 provisions were specifically "designed to impose the minimal burden necessary to ensure the safety and security of a small UAS operation." Id. at 42,082.
See Am. Bird Conservancy, Inc. v. FCC , 516 F.3d 1027, 1032 (D.C. Cir. 2008) ; cf. Charter Commc'ns, Inc. v. FCC , 460 F.3d 31, 43 (D.C. Cir. 2006) (holding that "[t]he FCC has discretion 'to defer consideration of particular issues to future proceedings when it thinks that doing so would be conducive to the efficient dispatch of business and the ends of justice' " (quoting U.S. Telecom Ass'n v. FCC , 359 F.3d 554, 588 (D.C. Cir. 2004) ) ).
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Talk:Bala Nagamma (1942 film)
Reference on Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao
Eventhough the reference points out to a blogspot, at the end of that reference it was mentioned that the original source is published in Eenadu Telugu news paper, which is very well known daily in Telugu states of India. The reason for inclusion of more content is just to pay homage to the creator's of this classic movie and provide as much as reliable information possible to the readers.Bsskchaitanya (talk) 13:17, 22 April 2020 (UTC) | WIKI |
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Our teeth darken as we get older and we start losing its original pearl white color. Discoloration not only occurs as an ageing process, but it can also be triggered due to unhealthy eating habits and lack of oral hygiene. Cosmetic business in the dental Industry is seeing a boom because of its high demand all over the country. This increase in demand is mainly due to the consumption of fast food items and high caffeine beverages. Proper teeth whitening procedures can not only lift years of stain buildup from your teeth but also give you a refreshing glow that you have never seen before. People will also have a negative perception about your personality if they notice your yellow teeth, as that indicates your lack of discipline regarding dental hygiene. From lightning the current dull shade of your teeth to rejuvenating your smile, there are many benefits of getting teeth whitening treatments.
The roots of children’s teeth are protected by soft tissue that has a high sensitivity to pain and inflammation. Due to the presence of live tissue, children seldom need any whitening treatments and most dentists strongly advise not to get them. From bleaching gels to dental rails, you can find the most reliable information on the webpage.
It is a non-invasive procedure which doesn’t require any anesthetic until the end. So you don’t have to worry about being unconscious during the treatment when you go the hospital. From graduation ceremonies to wedding receptions, these cosmetic dental treatments have a demand during seasonal events and occasions. Restoring your smile can help you appear more confident in front of others and inspire others with your positive personality. Your enamel can also starts getting deteriorated as you get old, and this the best method to stop it from happening at a fast pace.
Smile eye surgery is an alternative to Lasik, there are a few fundamental difference between the two types of surgery and to explain it simply it is there for those who cannot receive a lasik, the opening is relatively smaller than lasik and it is about 4mm which is really small, it is quicker than lasik and one heals even faster than lasik, Smile is a name given to it and it has nothing to do with our facial smile, it is purely an eye surgery. Many of us have no or very little idea about smile eye surgery and think that lasik is the only option and if a surgeon for any reason tells you that you cannot receive a lasik then that’s that, but you do have an option to get smile eye surgery even if you can’t get lasik surgery.
Smile eye surgery is the latest form of LVC, Lasik comes under the umbrella of LVC which is Laser Vision correction, both of these laser vision correction surgeries are regarded as safe and have been studied thoroughly by the experts, the key differences are because of the procedure and the incisions that are made by the surgeons, the relex smile surgery have a relatively smaller incision than lasik as this is the most advanced version of Laser vision correction.
It is important to get this knowledge about the different LVC options we have available because only those who are educated about the options they have are able to make a much informed decision and choose the right type of surgery for themselves, the decision should always be made with the consent of an expert and before actually meeting one you should gain at least basic level of knowledge about smile surgery and you can do that at https://ghanasoccernet.com/5-facts-you-should-know-about-smile-surgery.
No matter how good you are at driving and no matter how carefully you approach this task, at some point you will find that an accident will end up occurring. Chances are that this accident won’t be as serious as all that, the damage done will be to your car more than to your body. However, it is not unheard of for people to get into terrible accidents that end up injuring them severely, and leaving them disfigured and not looking nearly as good as they used to before the accident occurred.
There are plenty of ways in which you can recover from your accident. Getting physical rehabilitation done will allow you to heal from any injuries that you might have sustained, and after a certain amount of time you will be able to get your old strength back. However, this is not the only thing that you would want to get back after the accident has occurred. If the accident has changed the way you look to a certain extent, you are going to want to get those old looks back as well so that you can finally move on with your life and start a new chapter that you can finally be happy in.
You should consider going to Dr. Glosman in Beverly Hills. They will be able to give you a smile makeover that would make it look like you were never in an accident in the first place. People often end up discounting the problems that can occur if you don’t focus on your appearance after you have gotten injured. The truth is that the way we look has a profound impact on how we see ourselves and our self confidence, and it is fair to say that getting a makeover done will definitely help.
Alcohol can be very beneficial to your mental and physical health if you take it in moderation. It’s good for your stomach and digestion and can help you feel warm when it’s cold. A little dose of it can ease your fatigue and just give you a nice break without pushing you out of your senses. However, if you take too much too often, it can damage your liver and destroy your senses. People have destroyed their relationships because of their alcoholism and they’ve drunken themselves to death as well.
Alcohol is legal but it still claims more lives than a lot of illegal drugs. Most people would argue that this is only because alcohol is legal and other drugs are not and that might be true but we can’t just ignore the fact that alcohol is indeed a substance that can be abused to a point where it’s deadly. If you or someone you know struggles with alcohol addiction, there’s no reason you should wait to go to rehab. Even if it’s for someone else who you don’t know how to talk to, you can reach an alcohol rehab clinic Gloucestershire yourself and have them reach out to the person in need. They have their ways.
At a good rehab center, patients are brought into a nurturing environment where they’re guided through the process of recovery and are encouraged to develop healthier habits and coping mechanisms. With the right kind of therapy and a positive attitude, addiction is easy to leave behind and anyone can do it. It’s important to explore the underlying problems that lead a person into abusing alcohol as an escape in the first place. Bodily damage can be repaired through an improved diet and exercise.
For many, a massage chair is a waste of money because there is no point in using something like a massage chair. Sure, you might be active, and you might not require the same type of relaxation like some of the other people do but that does not mean that these chairs are entirely useless. As a matter of fact, these chairs have a lot of benefits.
I would suggest that you go for the best massage chair for the money so you do not have to regret it later down the road.
Below, you will find some of the reasons that tell you about why you actually need a massage chair. You might not need it at all, and that is understandable, but it is best if you just look at these things.
You Are Looking to Relax After a Long Day
For anyone who is looking to have a relaxing day after a long day, it is better that you invest in this chair. I am not asking you to spend your entire night on this chair, but half an hour of massage chair session could help you a lot. It will relieve the stress from your body, and you will be able to function properly.
It Lowers Your Blood Pressure
This is not something that many people are aware of but a massage chair can actually lower your blood pressure. This is specifically important for those who have a higher blood pressure; having a lowered blood pressure can be really useful for your body, and the best part is that it will not give you any issues in the process either. So, do go for a chair if you suffer from blood pressure issues, and prefer if things are kept under control.
Being on a ketogenic diet is great, however, the thing about that diet is that you have to stay away from carbs, and focus on healthy, high-fat foods. I know it sounds completely opposite to the concept of diet, but that is exactly how it starts working and takes you towards improvement.
Now the thing is that when you are away from carbs, you are more or less away from protein, and if your body does not have enough protein, it will not be able to help your muscles, bones, skin, or cartilage to take care of itself. This is where the Keto friendly protein bars come into the play.
You can read more about these on Wellness Wires site & health blog. As for right now, we are going to be talking about some of the reasons why you should use keto protein bars.
Gives You The Required Protein Intake
One of the best things about protein bars that are keto friendly is that they are great for giving you the proper protein intake. That way, you can focus on your intake as well, and at the same time, you do not have to worry about your diet either.
They Can Satisfy Your Cravings
It is normal to have cravings during the keto diet, and there is nothing wrong with the process. However, if you want to avoid foods that can deter you away from your diet, it is best if you go with these bars because they can easily satisfy your cravings both in short and long run. You really do not have to worry about cheating with your diet either.
Above are some of the very convincing reasons why you should use keto protein bars.
It is pretty common to get a disease that has something or the other to do with your lungs. Hence, if you want to be able to stay as healthy as possible, one thing that you are definitely going to have to do is look into the various ways in which your lungs could become afflicted by some form of disease.
One of the most common ways to get lung disease is smoking. It doesn’t really matter what you smoke, whether its cigarettes or a pipe or hookah. You are going to expose yourself to potential lung disease with every puff of smoke you inhale, so if you are having trouble breathing or if you are getting coughing fits and you are a regular or occasional smoker, you should try taking a break and see how that makes you feel.
There are plenty of other ways to get lung disease as well. For example, if the weather is somewhat cold the chances of a chest infection rise dramatically. It is important to bundle up as much as possible during cold weather and drink hot drinks. Hot drinks in particular can loosen up trapped phlegm in your chest and help reduce your cough.
You should also consider getting your house checked for asbestos. This is because of the fact that the presence of asbestos could potentially cause asbestosis. The symptoms of this disease include a crackling noise when you breathe, persistent coughing as well as a variety of other lung related ailments. It can be very dangerous to have asbestosis for an extended period of time, so you should try your best to look into asbestos removal in Essex if there is asbestos in your home that you want to get rid of before you end up getting sick.
If you are thinking of hitting the gym just because you want to get in shape, or you are thinking about starting building your body, then there are a lot of things that you must put into consideration first. It is not something that can happen overnight, and requires through and through dedication.
Needless to say, bodybuilding is something that you cannot take lightly; you are either serious about it, or you are not serious at all. Now that everything is clear, if you are serious about it, but you do not know where to start, this article will talk about some important pointers that should be able to help you.
Get to Know Your Readings
As soon as you get serious about starting, you should get the readings done. This means that your height, weight, and everything in between. The best thing to do is just get an accurate BMI to start as a baseline. Once you have the readings, you can move forward.
Find a Trainer
If you think you are aware of where to start, then you do not need a trainer, all you need is the gym with the right equipment and you are good to go. However, if you are not aware of where to start, then finding the right trainer is something that happens to be a lot more important than you might think. This is really important if you want to be on track properly.
Start Working Out
Once everything is sorted out, the next step is to just start working out. You can start whenever you feel like, but do ask your trainer as well, and make sure that you keep a track on your progress in order to see the results.
A lot of people think that if they want to get fit all they are going to have to do is go to the gym. The truth of the matter is very different. It doesn’t matter what you are trying to do, whether it is become buff, improve your physical strength or just become healthier, the most important thing you can do in order to achieve your goals is watch what you eat. Meal planning is an essential part of this process, and a great way to eat healthier is to prep meals in advance.
One of the most exciting things about the New Year approaching is the fact that we can speculate about how the food industry is going to change in 2019. All kinds of cool trends could end up emerging, all of them being essential to get ahead of if you want to be able to make a name for yourself in the world of food next year. Lucky for you, there are a whole bunch of speculations that entities like Uber Eats, Pinterest and a bunch of other enterprises that possess the necessary data are making about food trends that will become prominent next year.
Everyone has at some point in their lives wished that they could just eat steak and bacon all day and not get fat. These people would be ecstatic to know that there is a diet that actually lets you do all that! However, the question you should be asking is, is it good for you? In order to ascertain this you need to learn a bit more about the diet, including what it’s called as well as all of the specifications that you would have to follow in order to get the benefits of the diet in their entirety. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Corr
Corr or CORR may refer to:
People with the name
* Andrea Corr (born 1974), Irish musician
* Barry Corr (born 1985), Irish footballer
* Barry John Corr (born 1981), Scottish footballer
* Bill Corr, American government official
* Caroline Corr (born 1973), Irish musician
* Cathal Corr (born 1987), Australian rules footballer
* Edwin G. Corr (born 1934), American diplomat
* Erin Corr (1793–1862), Irish engraver
* Isabelle Marie Françoise Corr (1807–1883), Belgian painter of Irish descent and sister of Erin Corr
* Frank J. Corr (1877–1934), American politician
* Ida Corr (born 1977), Danish musician
* Jim Corr (born 1964), Irish musician
* Jim Corr (politician) (born 1934), Irish politician
* Karen Corr (born 1969), Irish pool player
* Liam Corr (born 1990), Scottish footballer
* Nick Corr, Australian record executive
* Pat Corr (born 1927), Northern Irish footballer
* Peter Corr (1923–2001), Irish footballer
* Ryan Corr (born 1989), Australian actor
* Sharon Corr (born 1970), Irish musician
* Tom Corr (born 1962), Irish boxer
Places in Ireland
* Corr, Ballymorin, a townland in the civil parish of Ballymorin
* Cor, Templeport, a townland of County Cavan
* Corr, County Galway, a townland of County Galway
* Corr, County Tyrone, a townland of County Tyrone
* Corr, Kilkenny West, a townland in the civil parish of Kilkenny West
Other uses
* Championship Off-Road Racing, American organization (1998–2008)
* Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, an American medical journal established in 1953
* Computing Research Repository (CoRR), the computer science section of the arXiv preprint repository
* CoRR hypothesis (co-location for redox regulation) in cell biology
* Correlation, written as $$\mathrm{corr}(X,Y)=\rho_{X,Y}$$ in mathematics
* The Corrs, an Irish music band | WIKI |
Talk:Riverland
I cracked up when I saw this previous revision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Riverland&oldid=348817915
Make note especially of the References section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DD-Dogg (talk • contribs) 02:55, 2 April 2010 (UTC) | WIKI |
BRIEF-Elementis says to buy SRLH Holdings for $360 mln
Feb 10 (Reuters) - Elementis Plc : * Elementis announces personal care acquisition * Entered into an agreement to acquire SRLH Holdings, Inc. From an affiliate of one rock capital partners, llc for an enterprise value of us$360 million * Summitreheis will become part of an enlarged personal care business within elementis * Acquisition enterprise value is equivalent to approximately 11.8x summitreheis expected underlying ebitda for 2016 (including run rate cost synergies) * Can confirm that it expects earnings per share for year to 31 december 2016 to be in line with current market expectations * Board confirms that its consideration of special dividends in respect of 2016 will not be impacted by acquisition Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom: +91 80 6749 1136) | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Monotone analysis
Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 16:17:52 EDT 2008
Hi everybody,
This is an attempt to shed light into some deficiencies of Monotone and how
other DSCMs do the same things. I'm not attempting to make you switch your
DSCM, just present my findings.
I order to do that I'll explain what monotone is and how it works internally.
Some people argue that in a good SCM you don't need to know the details of the
implementation, but quite often understanding the details helps to understand
why some operations are not so efficient and will never be.
= Overview =
Monotone is a DSCM that has some time already, and it's distinctive because it
values correctness over optimization.
Despite of its long time of existence, very few projects use it. The most
important ones are OpenEmbedded and Pidgin.
= Certs =
In order to understand most of the issues in Monotone you need to understand
what a cert is.
A cert is basically metadata signed by some person. It could be anything, it's
a key string, and a string value, that's it. A person can set multiple keys
with different values, and two persons can set the same keys.
Some common certs are: author, date, branch, changelog, tag, comment.
== Branches ==
Branches are just certs. That means that a revision can have a multitude of
branches, according to different developers.
For example, John can say cert 476eb8 is in branch im.john, while Leo can say
it's in im.experimental.
That also means ce5b79 can also be on im.experimental and be completely
unrelated to 476eb8.
This is important; completely unrelated revisions can be on the same branch.
This design affects performance, as there is no sane way to traverse a branch
but to search through the whole repository for the commits. And still, it
would be tricky.
Even if you manage to get all the revisions of a branch, how to represent them
can be tricky because of this deisgn.
== Dates ==
A similar thing happens with commits between certain date ranges.
Since dates are
just certs, finding revisions between certain ranges requires cheking all the
revisions.
It's not efficient.
== Changelog ==
Another curious thing aobut certs is that you can actually set many different
changelogs. Each developer can set a different message for the same revision.
It's confusing, and annoying.
== Solution ==
In other DSCMS (git, bzr, hg) a revision is not complete without commiter,
author, date, and message. So you can't have more than one of these
values or the
revision would be different.
This makes things easier.
= Storage =
The way each revision is stored is crucial; it defines how many operations
behave.
In Monotone, revisions are stored as deltas from the previous one.
This means operations like checkout take a lot of time, specially as revisions
accumulate. In order to get the last revision you need to get all the previous
ones.
Also, if you try to compare (diff) two revisions that are very far away, you
would have to accumulate the differences of all the revisions in the middle;
it's also expensive.
== Solution ==
In other DSCMS (git, bzr) revisions are stored individually, and if they are
similar they are compressed. That achieves the same goal as just storing
deltas; saving space. But also achieves the goal of efficiency on different
operations.
= Workflow =
Most DSCMS base on the fact that branches are cheap. That allows for a branch
for each developer, topic branches and temporal branches.
== Bazaar ==
In Bazaar each branch is developed separately. That means there's only one
head on each branch, and each developer has it's own branch, and often,
multiple branches.
So each branch is simple; you can traverse it by looking at the parents of the
head of the branch.
Creating and destroying branches is as easy as creating and destroying
directories.
More over, thanks to bzr's extensibility it's possible to have temporal
branches and use them properly with the rebase plugin.
== Git ==
In Git, each branch has only one head. So it's similar to bzr; branches are
simple.
A repository can have a multitude of branches which are simply points to a
commit. That means you can have as much branchs as you like, some only local,
some only remote, and some linked.
= Popularity =
The SCM used by a project is a key issue. It restricts, or allows different
workflows, and makes it easier or harder for new contributors to get started.
The more popular the SCM of choice is, the higher the chances of a new
contributor already familiar with it, and so, the more chances of getting new
contributors up to speed quickly.
Also, the more popular the SCM, the more tools available to it. For example;
GUIs, web services, hosting facilities, project tracking plugins (Trac), etc.
The more popular DSCMs right now are git and bzr, with hg not so far away.
Choosing anything else doesn't seem to be a wise choice.
= Git recommendation =
In some conversations in #pidgin some developers (elb, deryini) made apparent
their dislike for git. Apparently some people think that only the Linux Kernel
guys are using git, and they are doing things the wrong way. Linux being
probably the most successfull open source software project, I find that
arrogant and unfounded; their workflow is much more efficient than anybody
else's.
They achieve 3.7 commits per hour, and always stable; that wouldn't be possible
without a decent DSCM.
Perhaps these projects are wrong too[1]:
* Linux Kernel
* X.org
* Debian (build-tools, debpool, pbuilder)
* Fedora
* GNU autoconf, automake, core-utils
* Compiz Fusion
* PackageKit
* ALSA
* Cairo
* HAL
* D-Bus
* Mesa3D
* OLPC
* Wine
* fluxbox
* Yum
* Ruby on Rails
* Samba
* KVM
* VLC
* x264
And recently PulseAudio, and GStreamer is on the way too.
Both KDE and GNOME have git clones of their svn repositories, and are in the
discussions about moving to a DSCM with git as the strongest option.
The only big issue with git in the past was Windows support, but that's not an
issue anymore with msysgit[2].
There are many GUIs, web services, hosting sites, a plugin for Trac, screen
casts, blogs, tutorials, etc. There is a reason for that; git is awesome.
I'm not interested in silly discussions; if you have a doubt about git, I'll
try to answer it.
Best regards.
[1] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitProjects
[2] http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
--
Felipe Contreras
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Kenneth Ambani
Kenneth Ambani (born 1970) is a Kenyan actor. He is the recipient of multiple awards in the Kenyan film industry.
Early life
He was born in Busia County to Mary Wanjiru and the late Mzee Ambani Mudinyu. When he was in his teens, his parents separated, and his mother remarried. Shortly after, his father died, and he had to go live with his stepfather, who had another family. He came from a Christian family; his stepdad and his other family were Muslims. His mother and stepdad, Mohamed Hassan, raised him in the Bakarani area of the coastal city of Mombasa. Ambani grew up in a Muslim environment, and he regularly attended the mosque on weekdays, but he never abandoned the Christian faith. He attended the Sunday services at All Saints Cathedral. Ken enrolled at one of the coastal high schools. After completing secondary education, he enrolled in accounting classes, and he pursued a diploma in sales and marketing as well as a CPA at Mombasa Polytechnic. He is also a former student at Moi University, where he studied in the School of Communication and PR.
Career
Kenneth Ambani began his acting career in his youth, Sauti House-KBC Mombasa produced his first professional role in the Swahili drama series Tushauriane. Immediately thereafter, he began Fate Makers, the very first English drama series. He took the oath of office as a Mombasa County Executive Committee Member (CECM) for Public Service, Administration, Youth, Gender, Social Services, and Sports in March 2023. He has also worked as a marketing manager at the Postal Corporation of Kenya.
Personal life
He was married once. His first wife died after bearing him a child. His second relationship never worked, after getting two children from it. | WIKI |
'Big Short' investor Eisman sees danger in corporate bond market
One of the investors who profited most from the housing collapse a decade ago is seeing danger in the corporate bond market. Steve Eisman, immortalized in the Michael Lewis book "The Big Short," is the latest to issue a warning about company debt at the lowest rung of the investment-grade ladder. That BBB-rated debt totals more than $2 trillion, according to recent figures from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, but it's not the sheer volume that worries Eisman. Instead, he is concerned that banks have reduced their roles in riskier areas of the bond market, making things more complicated should there be a rush to the exits from investors holding that kind of paper. ""Liquidity across the market has been diminishing," Eisman told the Financial Times. Such bonds had been performing well compared with the rest of fixed income in the years since the financial crisis, but slumped in 2008. Banks have been forced to cut risk in the days since the financial crisis from which Eisman profited. That means they can't hold as much low-rated debt on their books and thus are restrained from their traditional role as market makers. Concerns also have been rising about some big players in the BBB market falling down the ladder into junk territory if credit conditions worsen. Eisman said he doesn't see a recession coming, which would be perilous for companies with high debt at the lower end of the credit spectrum. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen warned last month that high levels of corporate debt are posing potential dangers including "lots of bankruptcies in the non-financial corporate sector." Eisman, now a portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, made his name during the subprime meltdown when he bet against instruments that bundled mortgages that eventually defaulted. Read the full Financial Times report here. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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CHANCELLORS. 491
Thomas Wotton, installed 29th Nov. 1668 9^. Ob. 3otli Aug. 171 1.
Thomas Gwillim, collated 4th Sept. 17 11, vice Tho- mas Wotton 93.
William Egerton, collated ist Sept. 1726, vice Tho- mas Gwillim 94,
Samuel Croxall, collated 27th July 173 1, vice Wil- liam Egerton resigned ^s.
William Lane, collated 3rd July 1732, vice Samuel Croxall resigned 96,
Rodney Croxall, collated 30th Jan. 1744-5, vice William Lane resigned 97.
William Willim, collated 19th June 1754, vice Rod- ney Croxall 98.
William Parker, collated 23rd April 1760, vice Wil- liam Willim resigned 99.
Richard Walond, collated 26th July 1802, vice Wil- liam Parker deceaseds
Frederick Benjamin Twisleton, now lord Say and Sele, collated 15th Dec. 1831, vice Richard Walond-.
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Henry de Vere seems to have held this dignity about
the year j 200. Ranulphus was chancellor of this church, though at
what period is not certain; he probably succeeded Vere. Albinus de Cave held it in 12 15 and 1226 3, Thomas possessed it in 1242 4. Emericus de AauABLANCA was chancellor of Hereford
in 1281^; had letters of protection 2nd Jan. 128456. Emericus de Bryauncun died possessed of this office
circa Feb. 1286-7. He was probably the same person
as Emericus de Aquablanca^.
82 Bishops' Certificates. 3 Cartular. Radyng. MS. in
93 Ibid. ^^ Ibid. Offic. Augment, vol. ix. fol. 6.
95 Ibid. 96 Ibid. 4 Pat. 26 Hen. III. m. 19.
97 Ibid. 98 Ibid. s Reg. Swinf. fol. 39 a.
99 Ibid. 1 Ibid. 6 Pat. 13 Edw. I.
2 Ibid. 7 Reg. Swinf. fol. 39 a.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys, os, subprocess, re, shutil
whitelist = (
# type is supported by dash
'if type systemctl >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then',
'if type systemd-tmpfiles >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then',
'type update-rc.d >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then',
'command -v',
# HOSTNAME is set locally
'buildhistory_single_commit "$CMDLINE" "$HOSTNAME"',
# False-positive, match is a grep not shell expression
'grep "^$groupname:[^:]*:[^:]*:\\([^,]*,\\)*$username\\(,[^,]*\\)*"',
# TODO verify dash's '. script args' behaviour
'. $target_sdk_dir/${oe_init_build_env_path} $target_sdk_dir >> $LOGFILE'
)
def is_whitelisted(s):
for w in whitelist:
if w in s:
return True
return False
SCRIPT_LINENO_RE = re.compile(r' line (\d+) ')
BASHISM_WARNING = re.compile(r'^(possible bashism in.*)$', re.MULTILINE)
def process(filename, function, lineno, script):
import tempfile
if not script.startswith("#!"):
script = "#! /bin/sh\n" + script
fn = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w+t")
fn.write(script)
fn.flush()
try:
subprocess.check_output(("checkbashisms.pl", fn.name), universal_newlines=True, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
# No bashisms, so just return
return
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
# TODO check exit code is 1
# Replace the temporary filename with the function and split it
output = e.output.replace(fn.name, function)
if not output or not output.startswith('possible bashism'):
# Probably starts with or contains only warnings. Dump verbatim
# with one space indention. Can't do the splitting and whitelist
# checking below.
return '\n'.join([filename,
' Unexpected output from checkbashisms.pl'] +
[' ' + x for x in output.splitlines()])
# We know that the first line matches and that therefore the first
# list entry will be empty - skip it.
output = BASHISM_WARNING.split(output)[1:]
# Turn the output into a single string like this:
# /.../foobar.bb
# possible bashism in updatercd_postrm line 2 (type):
# if ${@use_updatercd(d)} && type update-rc.d >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
# ...
# ...
result = []
# Check the results against the whitelist
for message, source in zip(output[0::2], output[1::2]):
if not is_whitelisted(source):
if lineno is not None:
message = SCRIPT_LINENO_RE.sub(lambda m: ' line %d ' % (int(m.group(1)) + int(lineno) - 1),
message)
result.append(' ' + message.strip())
result.extend([' %s' % x for x in source.splitlines()])
if result:
result.insert(0, filename)
return '\n'.join(result)
else:
return None
def get_tinfoil():
scripts_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
lib_path = scripts_path + '/lib'
sys.path = sys.path + [lib_path]
import scriptpath
scriptpath.add_bitbake_lib_path()
import bb.tinfoil
tinfoil = bb.tinfoil.Tinfoil()
tinfoil.prepare()
# tinfoil.logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
return tinfoil
if __name__=='__main__':
import argparse, shutil
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Bashim detector for shell fragments in recipes.')
parser.add_argument("recipes", metavar="RECIPE", nargs="*", help="recipes to check (if not specified, all will be checked)")
parser.add_argument("--verbose", default=False, action="store_true")
args = parser.parse_args()
if shutil.which("checkbashisms.pl") is None:
print("Cannot find checkbashisms.pl on $PATH, get it from https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/plain/scripts/checkbashisms.pl")
sys.exit(1)
# The order of defining the worker function,
# initializing the pool and connecting to the
# bitbake server is crucial, don't change it.
def func(item):
(filename, key, lineno), script = item
if args.verbose:
print("Scanning %s:%s" % (filename, key))
return process(filename, key, lineno, script)
import multiprocessing
pool = multiprocessing.Pool()
tinfoil = get_tinfoil()
# This is only the default configuration and should iterate over
# recipecaches to handle multiconfig environments
pkg_pn = tinfoil.cooker.recipecaches[""].pkg_pn
if args.recipes:
initial_pns = args.recipes
else:
initial_pns = sorted(pkg_pn)
pns = set()
scripts = {}
print("Generating scripts...")
for pn in initial_pns:
for fn in pkg_pn[pn]:
# There's no point checking multiple BBCLASSEXTENDed variants of the same recipe
# (at least in general - there is some risk that the variants contain different scripts)
realfn, _, _ = bb.cache.virtualfn2realfn(fn)
if realfn not in pns:
pns.add(realfn)
data = tinfoil.parse_recipe_file(realfn)
for key in data.keys():
if data.getVarFlag(key, "func") and not data.getVarFlag(key, "python"):
script = data.getVar(key, False)
if script:
filename = data.getVarFlag(key, "filename")
lineno = data.getVarFlag(key, "lineno")
# There's no point in checking a function multiple
# times just because different recipes include it.
# We identify unique scripts by file, name, and (just in case)
# line number.
attributes = (filename or realfn, key, lineno)
scripts.setdefault(attributes, script)
print("Scanning scripts...\n")
for result in pool.imap(func, scripts.items()):
if result:
print(result)
tinfoil.shutdown() | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Package Details: python-pymunk 5.1.0-1
Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/python-pymunk.git (read-only)
Package Base: python-pymunk
Description: A wrapper around the 2d physics library Chipmunk
Upstream URL: http://www.pymunk.org/en/latest/
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: mtorromeo
Maintainer: mtorromeo
Last Packager: mtorromeo
Votes: 21
Popularity: 0.055297
First Submitted: 2014-06-13 08:03
Last Updated: 2017-01-11 10:08
Latest Comments
DrLuke commented on 2016-03-26 15:39
In the PKGBUILD, change the line "license=MIT" to "license=('MIT')", otherwise it fails.
JPL commented on 2015-05-01 20:58
Update: it is indeed possible to work around this by editing PKGBUILD; replace all references to "chipmunk" with "chipmunk6" and the module will install and import properly.
JPL commented on 2015-05-01 19:55
Installation of this package fails due to unresolved dependency, I dug a bit and discovered it doesn't auto-install chipmunk. Installed that and then tried installing pymunk again, and when I import the module from Python (same result in Python 3.4.3 and 2.7.9) I get this error:
AttributeError: /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pymunk/libchipmunk64.so: undefined symbol: cpInitChipmunk
The version of libchipmunk64.so installed by the chipmunk package is 7.0.0 and has no such method, while pymunk depends on chipmunk 6, so I think that's the problem. Pymunk's author is supposedly working on chipmunk 7 support but there's no ETA.
I'm new to Arch and don't know if this can be worked around at the PKGBUILD level or some such, if so that would be cool until the pymunk is updated.
mindkeep commented on 2014-06-13 15:17
also worth noting. The 2 packages should be able to be installed side by side.
mindkeep commented on 2014-06-13 15:12
meh. I take that back, that doesn't seem to work either.
The split package idea is neat, but it might be easier to have 2 different PKGBUILD files. That would also allow python-pymunk to depend on just python and python2-pymunk to depend on python2.
mindkeep commented on 2014-06-13 15:09
Hmm, I think maybe you want chipmunk to also be a make dependency. Using packer (without chipmunk installed, I get the following:
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "chipmunk", a dependency of "python-pymunk"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
python-pymunk
With chipmunk as a make dependency (and run dependency) the AUR chipmunk package should get pulled in first.
mtorromeo commented on 2014-06-13 08:05
Updated and refactored as split-pkgbuild
mindkeep commented on 2014-06-13 07:13
the latests seems to be 4.0.0. Also is there any chance that we could make this into python-pymunk and python2-pymunk?
mtorromeo commented on 2011-10-13 18:35
Thank goodness, I'm sane!
dserban commented on 2011-10-13 18:33
You're not imagining things, I disowned this package just a few hours ago.
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Talk:Red River Gorge
formations
Anybody think we should rearrange the list of geological formations to be by area instead of alphabetically? MHW 03:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
History
Having camped in the Gorge I have seen alot of artifacts and carvings from Native Americans who inhabited the area and my friends have also found Amercian Civil War artifacts there too. There is surprisingly little mention of the gorge's rich history and pre-history in this article. If you go off the "beaten path" you can usually stumble upon some really cool things (for example, my buddies and I found a burial site inside of a cave that was halfway up a cliff- we didn't disturb it and left immediately- but it was still pretty cool, also, there are footsteps supposedly carved into the rock by Native Americans, we also have camped in rock shelters with carvings in the walls that were likely from early inhabitants of the area). I am asking that anyone with info on the gorge's history please contribute. I'll look to see what I can find in the meantime. Thanks. P.S. While growing up in Kentucky my buddies and I affectionately called Red River Gorge "the Gorge" and always said "respect the Gorge" because of the caution needed when hiking and campling there due to cave sinkholes and the cliffs (especially at night- we were always warned about how many people die each year due to falls from carelessness). Later,--Paulsprecker (talk) 17:01, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Advertising
. Beeblbrox (talk) 09:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey, this is MrHerbalWarrior... I just can't remember my login info. I understand your reason for fighting against the "advertising" but I am in no way shape or form receiving any profit from placing the information I had on this page. I'm not sure if you've been to the gorge but there isn't an overwhelming amount of information i.e. maps/books available in one simple location, and I was hoping that this could be that location. Is it possible for us to discuss and seek a resolution to our differences where this information can be available but not advertise the products (I mean one could argue that having an article about any product is thereby advertising it). I truly feel as that having the information about the maps and books is very important... and do government sources count as advertising? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
* The trouble is if we list one product, we have to let them all in, and then Wikipedia would be nothing but a giant list of products and services. Prices in particular should not be in an article unless relevant to the articles subject. I understand your point and it's clear you have acted in good faith, but I think this content is more suited for Wikitravel which is a travel guide. thanks Beeblbrox (talk) 19:55, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
* By the way,I have been there, and I hope to make it back someday, and I have also gotten lost there, so maybe I'll look up one of those maps next time...Beeblbrox (talk) 19:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
* Would a link to Wikitravel describing the presences of maps, trail guides, and etc.. be acceptable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:23, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
* Yes. I think there is a template to include a link to Wikitravel, if I'm not mistaken. I can look more up tomorrow. seicer | talk | contribs 05:42, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
problematic phrasing?
"draws climbers from all over the world to the Red as it is known."
Seems to me, if there's a widely used nickname for the park, it shouldn't be buried in the subsection about rock climbing. This also sounds a little bit like advertising.
* It may have that nickname amongst climbers, but it certainly isn't called that by residents of the area. I have lived in KY all my life, have been to the Red River Gorge many, many times, and never once, ONCE, have I heard it called "the Red" by anyone. I would therefore vote against noting in any general information section that it has the nickname of "the Red". Speaking of advertising, the sentence about Miguel's Pizza really, really needs to go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:29, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Poor Quality Foto
I'm afraid the Red River foto is just poor quality, very blurry. We can do better than that. jaknouse (talk) 05:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
* That appears to be a photo taken with this old fashioned thing we called film, back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth. We had to rub two sticks together to charge the camera up to take a picture. And at a certain point you would be out of film and unable to take more pictures, so we were not always able to just keep taking pictures till we had one that was perfect. This ol timer does ramble on though. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:20, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
* Maybe a little Photoshopping would improve it. Sharpening edges, at least. jaknouse (talk) 06:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
* Let me try this again without the sarcasm. Photographic film did not always produce the super sharp ultra crisp images we are now all used to seeing. The photo is a bit old, but in my opinion there is nothing wrong with it. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC) | WIKI |
Fun with line items
I’m trying to get a simple grid of line items on a form. I say simple, but there are 70 lines with 8 items for each line. That’s 560 fields (I didn’t create this database).
When I use the constructor template for line items, it creates about four or five full size fields for the last two lines but all the rest are just black squares. If I try to stretch them out I can see that they are actually text editor objects, but trying to stretch all those out and line them up would be worse than doing it manually.
Is there a limit to the amount of fields the default template will create?
Also, while I’m editing the template, it starts making the line items out of the blue. If I add a tag, or delete a field, off it goes. Not always, but I never know when it’s going to happen. With 560 fields, it really slows down my progress.
Not that I am aware of, and I can’t think of any reason for a limit other than the maximum dimensions of a form (which I think. you should be well under).
No reason I know of for that to happen. Obviously I used this heavily when creating this feature and I never experienced that.
So why do I get this? I’ve tried this several times with both the default template and a few times with just field names.
I don’t know Jeff. I was able to get it working with 560 fields no problem.
Maybe I’m wrong, but to me line items are like Qty1, Qty2, Qty3, Price1, etc. That would make your database above A1,A2,A3, B1,B2,B3. Then your grid would be A1, A2, A3; next record would be B1,B2,B3, etc.
If I could get the template to work, it would be nice to be able to open a form and tell it to make line groups 1-10, them open a second form and make 11-20.
Sorry, I think I did that wrong. The fields should be A1,B1,A2,B2. Then the grid would be A1,B1, then A2,B2.
Of course. Here is my database, arranged exactly as you suggest it should be.
Jeff sent me his database, and I was able to create nice looking line items on the first try.
So why did Jeff have trouble? Let’s look at the data sheet in this database.
Aha – the widths of the line item fields are all shrunk down to the minimum possible width! That’s the cause of the problem. When you first open the Constructor window, it defaults to setting the line item widths to the width used in the data sheet. In this case that turned out to be ZERO! as you can see here.
So it constructed exactly what was asked. I simply edited the widths in the template to more reasonable values before pressing the Construct button, and it worked immediately. Here’s my revised template.
That’s an ok idea, but it’s really pretty easy to just generate all of the items at once, then copy and paste them to other forms. So I probably won’t bother to implement this partial generation idea any time soon. It certainly wouldn’t have helped any with this issue.
In the future, I would suggest not making the line items super narrow like this, instead just hide them. Panorama X 10.2 has a handy Hide Line Item Fields command that can do this for you in a jiffy. On the other hand, the template should never default to zero width, so I’ve made a note that that should be fixed. In the meantime, the fix is super easy, and in any case, you are almost certainly not going to want to go with the default widths in this case. You probably want to tweak the column titles as well.
Thank you Jim.
First off, this is not my database but one I am converting for a someone. I would never create a database with 75 sets of line items. Also, I have never shrunken fields to 0 so, good catch.
Besides noting that the template should never default to zero, you should be aware that it also gave me an error right off the bat that sent me down this rabbit hole. When the default width is zero, the template doesn’t get created at all but instead an error is displayed in red at the bottom of the template which said “QtyΩ is not a valid line item field name”. I tried each of the field names, watched the Automatic Form Construction videos and played with it for hours. I thought the omega was causing it not to recognize the field name. Nothing was mentioned about getting that error or that 0 field widths would cause such a problem. Not complaining; just an observation. So I guess if you fix the fact that the default can’t be zero, it will also fix that incorrect error message.
Well, I didn’t know it caused such a problem, because it never occurred to me to try to generate a template with field widths of zero. When I opened the Constructor window, the zero widths immediately jumped out at me, especially since your screen shot seemed to show a problem with the widths. So the first thing I did was change the width values, and presto, a good form! | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
N-JOY
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Programs
Monday - Friday: Saturday:
* 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. Inspector N-JOY
* 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. Mrs. Thunder
* 10:00 to 14:00 a.m. Stan's show
* 14:00 to 18:00 Nice distracted by Desi
* 18:00 to 21:00 Party Time
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Cypress Semiconductor and Arrow Electronics Collaborate on IoT
Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) and Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW) recently announced an expanded partnership for Internet of Things development. The companies will collaborate on tech and marketing, and the deal also involves Arrow's IndyCar sponsorship.
What the two companies do
Cypress has historically been a provider of digital memory chips and microcontrollers. In the last few years, though, the company has expanded its scope to become a builder of integrated wireless systems. Last summer, the company bought the WiFi and Bluetooth IoT arm of Broadcom for $550 million in cash. With it also came a software ecosystem for developers working in the space.
The purchase helped Cypress pivot to its new business focus. Dubbed Cypress 3.0, the strategy is to expand into high-growth areas in the semiconductor space. One of those areas is the automotive world. A recent note from CEO Hassane El-Khoury mentioned that the semiconductor industry is growing at about 3% a year, but chips for driver-assistance technology, connected cars, and infotainment systems were growing at 18.8%, 14.1%, and 8.7%, respectively.
Arrow Electronics will play an important role for Cypress in its new endeavors. Arrow is a provider of electronic parts and services, acting as a supply and distribution channel for its customers in more than 90 countries. Here's how Cypress' VP of sales, Mike Balow, explained the relationship:
"We believe expanding our partnership with Arrow will help Cypress build our leadership position in IoT connectivity and strengthen our reach in the fast-growing segments we focus on most in our target markets. Not only will we benefit from Arrow's technical, sales and logistics expertise, but we will collaborate on more marketing opportunities as well."
Motorsports and the IoT
What does this arrangement have to do with IndyCar?
Arrow Electronics Honda Car No. 5, now co-sponsored by Cypress. Image source: Cypress Semiconductor.
Arrow is the primary sponsor of the No. 5 Honda race car in the IndyCar race series. Cypress was invited by Arrow to be a joint sponsor for the race team. More than just providing financial support, though, Cypress and Arrow will use the event to test their IoT capabilities, especially those surrounding connected auto.
Technology is an important part of motorsports. The track is often a testing ground for new ideas, parts, and materials that eventually make their way into production vehicles and other industrial applications.
Connected devices could be another technology developed with the help of racing. Cypress will get to use its product on the IndyCar circuit, helping its team gain a technical advantage in-race. In turn, the demanding and high-stress IndyCar races will help Cypress refine its lineup of chips with the end goal of finding a bigger home for that technology in the real world.
What's in it for investors?
While the test bed for new IoT products is important, the sales and distribution agreement is of greater importance here. Arrow gets access to a portfolio of tech from a leader in the connected-device market. What Cypress gets could end up being even more critical.
Overall revenue has gone up for Cypress after its acquisition last summer, but the impact from that new business has been less than expected. The bottom line also got hit due to the Broadcom purchase, making sales growth an even more critical game.
Data by YCharts .
Look for updates in the quarters ahead on how the new partnership is working out. Cypress investors will especially want to look for details on new sales and use opportunities the company has received from Arrow. At the rate use of connection-enabling devices in cars is growing, it's a relationship that could provide Cypress with a strong pipeline of growth for years to come.
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Honduran Constitution
JOSE BRECHNER the only vice that can not be forgiven is the hypocrisy. The repentance of the hypocrite is hypocrisy in itself. William Hazlitt the massacre at Fort Hood was slight in terms of victims, because if Nidal Malik Hasan had access to other military facilities would have detonated an atomic bomb. Barack Obama, in the same way that during the street revolts in Iran as a result of the re-election of Ajmadineyad, said: there is no jumping to conclusions. It is uncomfortable to admit the reasons for Hasan, that being member of the U.S. Army self-styled Palestinian, profess the Muslim religion, handed out volumes of the Koran, and shouted Allahu Akbar as the trigger. David Delrahim has plenty of information regarding this issue. When it comes to think and make decisions in which they are involved Muslims, BO has an excessively moderate behavior. Rather indulgent, and even good-natured.
To take power, he ordered close Guantanamo and exporting terrorists, decreasing its range to criminals. To send the troops required in Afghanistan said, already devoid of pretexts, that first wanted to see who is elected President in the country, as if it would make any difference in the war against Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Your apologies are absurd and infantile. Each time a Muslim is questioned, trafficking in no rush to make statements, opts to grant him the right to doubt, and finally does not act. But when it comes to any other, emits instant judgments and decrees that immediate actions.
Such was the case with Manuel Zelaya. Not took to give its verdict against Micheletti, without even waiting the details that forced his deposition, or revise the laws governing the Honduran Constitution. Later, knowing the reasons that led to his dismissal, did not change its stance and isolated the democratic regime, to support the new monstrosity of Hugo Chavez. Obama calls for democracy but turns a blind eye if the tyrant is its political line or religious inspiration.
Cervical Erosion
Cervical erosion – a process which results in changes cover the vaginal part of cervix. Clinical manifestations of disease are pain during intercourse, unusual vaginal discharge. In number of cases the disease is asymptomatic. A leading source for info: Rand Paul. Causes of cervical erosion is very diverse. Among them, injuring the uterus as a result of childbirth or abortion, early sexual activity, sexually transmitted diseases (virus pappilomy human genital herpes, etc.), frequent changes of partners. Also, erosion of the uterus develops from inflammatory diseases of the reproductive system. Untreated disease can lead to the formation of benign or malignant tumors. Cervical cancer – one of the most common pathologies in women in the field of oncology. In this regard, it is recommended to periodically check-ups at the gynecologist. In general, diseases associated with lesion of genital infections, are the result of unprotected sexual intercourse. Therefore, to prevention of pathology include personal hygiene, use of condoms during sexual contacts.
Recipes And Tips Folk Medicine
Mix one egg yolk with one teaspoon of honey and one teaspoon of glycerin (can be replaced with castor oil). Stir mixture and apply a thin layer on the face. Two hours later, the mask is washed off. The procedure is repeated two or three times a week. The remaining mixture can be stored for several days in the refrigerator. In free days applying masks to enhance the freshness of good food and skin for a few minutes to apply a variety of fruit and vegetable juices. The effect of treatment usually occurs within two three weeks, when the wrinkles on his face straightened, and the skin refreshed and omolazhivaemsya.Lechebnye plants used in the treatment bronhitov.Mat-and-stepmother (kamchuzhnaya grass) Primary Action: expectorant, emollient, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory.
Efficiency: The antitussive, astringent, diuretic and diaphoretic. Successfully used as antispasmodic, for prevention of cerebral sclerosis, treatment of early forms of hypertension, inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidneys. It is recommended for outdoor applications: anti-dandruff flebitah, skin rashes. Credit: actress-2011. How to use: 1. Tablespoon dried leaves pour 400 ml boiling water and insist no less than an hour, then strain and drink brew 1-2 tablespoons to 6 times a day.
2. Three tablespoons of flowers to insist with 2 cups boiling water in a thermos at least 8 hours. This – the daily dose. Take 3-4 hours for half an hour before meals. 3. Dried and powdered leaves are taken in 1 / 3 teaspoon three times a day. 4. Fresh leaves of the plant is preparing to juice. Instilled into the nose when cold 5-6 times per day or as neobhodimosti.Medunitsa pharmacy Main effect: emollient, promotes expectoration, anti-inflammatory, diuretic. Efficiency: The antiviral agent against herpes and influenza, as a styptic for hemoptysis, as an external remedy for healing wounds. How to use: two tablespoons of dried and crushed material pour 500 ml of hot boiled water and to insist at least 2 hours. Strain and drink the wine glass 4 times a day before meals. Another recipe: two tablespoons of the root lungwort cook for 15 minutes in half a liter of water. After cooling add 2 tablespoons of honey and juice of 1 lemon. Drink coffee cup three times daily before meals.
Exercises For Thin Calves
Train calves not less than twice a week, but better – in a day. 15 minutes is enough. The main thing – to tired muscles, making you feel a burning sensation in the calf muscles. If this has piqued your curiosity, check out supermodel. Stretching for skinny calves Stretching need to to prepare eggs to the main load, make the muscles more supple. In addition, stretching will help make the muscle relief and beautiful. You can replace one workout stretching, or begin training with one exercise to the stretch. Sequential stretching the calf, with an emphasis on the wall Uprites into the wall with both hands. Lean to the wall, bend one leg and put forward another set aside back with a straight knee.
Toe of the hind leg looks exactly right. Push the heel of back foot to the floor and move hips forward slightly. Hold the position of the maximum stretch for 20 seconds. Repeat for other leg. Stretching both calves, with an emphasis on the wall Stand with your feet together, about a meter away from the wall. Bend forward without bending your back. Rest hands on the wall, continue to stoop to the wall (on the ankle) did not tear off your heels off the floor. You should feel tension in calf.
Be sure to keep your heel pressed to the floor or as may be closer to him. Keep your stomach in, not bent to the waist. To exacerbate the tension, bend your elbows, trying to breastfeed on the wall. Basic exercises for skinny calves main exercise for skinny calves is Calf in different variations.
Flu Virus
FLU win – an acute viral disease, anthroponosis is transmitted by airborne droplets. It is characterized by acute onset, fever, general intoxication and respiratory tract lesions. The etiology and pathogenesis. Pathogens Flu belong to the family ortomiksovirusov, which include genus influenza A viruses, the genus of the influenza virus B and C. Influenza A viruses are divided into type A, many serotypes. Continually rise to new antigenic variants.
Influenza virus quickly killed by heating, drying and disinfectants under the influence of various agents. Infection atriums are upper respiratory tract. The influenza virus selectively infects columnar epithelium respiratory tract, especially the trachea. Increased permeability of the vascular wall leads to disruption of the microcirculation and the appearance of hemorrhagic syndrome (hemoptysis, epistaxis, hemorrhagic pneumonia, entsefa-shovel). Influenza causes reduced immune responsiveness. This leads to an exacerbation of various chronic diseases – rheumatism, chronic pneumonia, pielita, cholecystitis, dysentery, toxoplasmosis, etc., and also to the emergence of secondary bacterial complications. The virus persists in the patient's body, usually within 3-5 days of onset of the disease, and complications of pneumonia at-to 10-14 days. Symptoms flow.
The incubation period lasts from 12 to 48 hours typical flu starts badly, often with chills or chilling, body temperature rises rapidly, and already the first day of fever reaches its maximum level (38-40 C). Showing signs of intoxication (fatigue, weakness, sweating, muscle aches, severe headache, eye pain) and respiratory symptoms (dry cough, Pershe-tion in the throat, soreness in the chest, hoarseness vote). In a study of marked hyperemia of face and neck, injected sclera-tion of vessels, increased sweating, bradikar-diya, hypotension. Detected lesion of the upper respiratory tract (rhinitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis). Particularly affected are often the trachea, whereas rhinitis is sometimes absent (so called akataralnaya form of influenza). Characterized by redness and a kind of grainy mouth mucosa. Tongue coated, may be-hratkovremennoe diarrhea. Complications of the central nervous system manifested in the form of Me-iingizma and encephalopathy.
Environment and Disease
For those who want to be healthy. Man, you understand not only the physical body (shell), add at least another of its three main body (shell): emotional, energetic and mental. They are not inserted into each other as dolls, and permeate each other, forming a single creature. Without going into detail in the process of disease, we can confidently say that the causes of diseases are our thoughts, followed by actions, and if they are wrong – sick. Simplified the process of the disease looks like.
We understand ourselves and the world around them form certain habitual way of thinking, and if this image is contrary to the Universal laws, there is a mental cause of disease. It affects the emotional state and the energy body, damaging it in the appropriate places, and these injuries, in turn, are reflected in the physical diseases of the physical body. Here, I'm not talking about deliberate or accidental damage to the physical body, although it is the materialization of the wrong thoughts. Now consider three ways to treat, not forgetting that all bodies (Shell) is a single organism. If we treat only the physical body (the traditional or conventional medical treatment and manual), then correct it would imply some improvements in the energy body, but not sufficient to run the self-healing mechanism of the body. The remaining cause of mental fast enough will be felt relapsed or manifest a new, similar symptoms to the disease. If we treat only energy body (extra impact, Reiki, acupuncture, etc.), then the energy shell Revamped include self-healing mechanism and the physical body begins to restore its natural function. But again, do not eliminate the mental cause would prevent this process by not allowing him to finish.
Naturally, the important positive emotional, which can be full screenshot of certain techniques and habits. energy shell, includes self-healing mechanism of the physical body and the disease disappears and is no longer refundable. It is true there are a few "buts". If the organic changes of the physical body too significant, it simply can not manage to recover in time and say goodbye to white light. Or not in such a dark variant – treatment will be delayed. A man down in the old way of thinking, everything will return to normal. Sometimes a person has turned out a tangle itself causes mental and eliminate one another come to the surface. It turns out whole host of work to do. From all this it is easy to conclude: to treat the disease must be parallel to applying all methods, paying particular attention to eliminating the causes. In this case, reduced to a minimum the need for medication and side effects from it, speeding up the healing process and if the mental cause (causes) eliminated, the disease will not return. In conclusion, if you're tired of ache, you understand and accept some postulates. Although the cause of the disease is in the wrong mental, subconscious plants in the wrong view of life, but this is nobody's fault, even you. The disease is not a punishment but a lesson. And this lesson should be easy to use. During recovery, take responsibility for yourself, remember that you are chronicles. Make a decision to be healthy, work with their illness on three sides and know that after such a decision in your life will necessarily right people – psychologists, healers, doctors understand. Ludmila Yesipova, especially for DrugMe.ru Source: DrugMe.ru | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Talk:PA Hospital busway station
Requested move
The result of the move request was: Not moved. Jafeluv (talk) 09:04, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Princess Alexandra Hospital busway station → Princess Alexandra Hospital Busway Station, Brisbane — Page should be renamed to "Princess Alexandra Hospital Busway Station, Brisbane" so that the page name will be consistent with Page Names for other busway stations (ie "#Station Name# Busway Station, Brisbane"). Thenborn (talk) 09:29, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
* Oppose The other busway stations listed at Category:Bus stations in Brisbane are not named by this method. Moving one in isolation makes no sense. Suggest the proposer discusses this with those working on the Brisbane public transport pages or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Brisbane to see whether a consensus can be reached.Skinsmoke (talk) 10:53, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
* Oppose - as per Skinsmoke's argument, none of the other articles of a similar vein follow this style. Until and unless there is a second station with this name, perhaps located in a different city, there is no need to make the title more complex than necessary. Green Giant (talk) 03:39, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
* Oppose as per WP:LOWERCASE and WP:DISAMBIG is not required. d'oh! talk 04:08, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
* Oppose This proposal follows the silliness employed when naming railway station articles in Australia such as Wooloowin railway station, Brisbane and don't get me started about compulsory, unnecessary disambiguation of Australian place names like Wooloowin, Queensland. This sort of unnecessary disambiguation should be wound back, not encouraged further. -- Mattinbgn\talk 07:02, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
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UK PM Cameron and Scottish First Minister Salmond meet in Edinburgh
May 15, 2010
Newly-appointed UK Prime Minister David Cameron today travelled north to Scotland to meet with the country's First Minister, Alex Salmond, for the first time since the general election. According to The Scotsman, around 200 noisy protesters greeted the new PM, forcing security staff to take him into the devolved parliament via a back door.
Cameron's Conservative Party have traditionally been unpopular in Scotland. They won just one out of 59 Scottish seats in the election, gaining around seventeen per cent of the vote. Prior to the meeting, Salmond told reporters he intended to press Cameron for greater Scottish financial independence from Westminster, including greater tax powers— something supported by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives' new coalition partners, and the Lib Dem Scottish Secretary and on which Cameron has promised a cross-party commission. Cameron had been seeking what he called a "fresh start" to restore ties between the parliaments at Westminster and Hollyrood. In addition to meeting the first minister, Cameron also met with the sixteen Conservatives currently sitting in the devolved Scottish Parliament.
After the meeting, both Salmond and Cameron agreed that the conversation had been "positive and constructive" and Cameron pledged a mutual "respect agenda" which would see him address the devolved Scottish parliament every year if invited and, in return, MSPs would appear before Commons committees in Westminster.
Cameron outlined part of his spending plans in preparation for an emergency budget, scheduled for fifty days after the election. He announced that no cuts would be made to the £30 billion annual budget for Scotland though that £6 billion in spending cuts would have to be made— something likely to cause controversy in Cameron's coalition government. However, both Cameron and Salmond anticipate that cuts may need to be made in subsequent years.
At a conference, Salmond said the talks had been "positive, constructive, detailed and substantive. I prefer a 'respect agenda' to a 'disrespect agenda'." He added that "[h]ow we judge the outcome of that agenda will be based on the policy options the Westminster government pursues, not just the words". At the same conference, Cameron told reporters "I believe, and Danny [Alexander] believes, that we should be pursuing the, and that that is a much greater degree of fiscal autonomy for Scotland." | WIKI |
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urging themselves anew. The seven family kisses were not so tiresome as they used to be.
"Mr Grandcourt is gone out, so I determined to fill up the time by coming to you, mamma," said Gwendolen, as she laid down her hat and seated herself next to her mother; and then looking at her with a playfully monitory air, "That is a punishment to you for not wearing better lace on your head. You didn't think I should come and detect you—you dreadfully careless-about-yourself mamma!" She gave a caressing touch to the dear head.
"Scold me, dear," said Mrs Davilow, her delicate worn face flushing with delight. "But I wish there were something you could eat after your ride—instead of these scraps. Let Jocosa make you a cup of chocolate in your old way. You used to like that."
Miss Merry immediately rose and went out, though Gwendolen said, "Oh no, a piece of bread, or one of those hard biscuits. I can't think about eating. I am come to say good-bye."
"What! going to Ryelands again?" said Mr Gascoigne.
"No, we are going to town," said Gwendolen, beginning to break up a piece of bread, but putting no morsel into her mouth. | WIKI |
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Speech Pathology Language Disorders
A speech-language pathologist (SLP) evaluates your child during a joint Hearing and Speech evaluation. The SLP will test your child for receptive, expressive, and pragmatic language.
What are expressive language skills?
Expressive language skills are language skills that involve speaking. Problems with expressive language involve the use of words, sentence structure, carrying on a conversation with others, and understandability.
What are pragmatic language skills?
Pragmatic language skills are language skills that involve saying things in a socially correct way. Problems with pragmatic language can also involve literal meanings for words, lack of eye contact, and inappropriate body language.
What are receptive language skills?
Receptive language skills are language skills that involve listening and understanding spoken language. Problems with receptive language involve words, sentences, paragraphs and text understanding. Children who have trouble recalling directions or learning how words related to each other in meaning may have receptive language difficulties.
How are Language Disorders treated?
After testing, if your child is diagnosed with a language disorder, your speech pathologist will provide you with information about the condition and speech pathology choices at CMH, in the community or in school.
The Kreamer Family Resource Center at CMH can help families with web-based resources about language disorders.
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Steens Mountain Wilderness
The Steens Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding a portion of Steens Mountain of southeastern Oregon in the United States. The reserve falls within the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (CMPA). Both the reserve and the CMPA are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness area encompasses 170166 acre of the CMPA's total 428156 acre. 98859 acre of the Wilderness are protected from grazing and free of cattle.
Topography
The Steens Mountain Wilderness ranges in elevation from 4200 to 9733 ft at the summit of Steens Mountain. The reserve features a variety of vegetative zones, from the arid sagebrush zone in the Alvord Desert, through the western juniper, mountain mahogany, mountain big sagebrush, quaking aspen, subalpine meadow, and subalpine grassland, to the snow cover zone.
Steens Mountain is the largest fault-block mountain in North America. Pressure under the Earth's surface thrust the block upward approximately 20 million years ago, resulting in a steep eastern face with a more gentle slope on the western side of the mountain. During the Ice Age, glaciers carved several deep gorges into the peak and created depressions where Lily, Fish, and Wildhorse lakes now stand.
Flora
Vegetation in the Steens Mountain Wilderness varies greatly according to elevation. Common plants include sagebrush, juniper, various species of bunchgrass, mountain mahogany, aspen, mountain meadow knotweed, and false hellebore. Other vegetation endemic to Steens Mountain includes Steens paintbrush (Castilleja pilosa var. steenensis), moss gentian (Gentiana fremontii), Steens Mountain penstemon (Penstemon davidsonii var. praeteritus), Steens Mountain thistle (Cirsium peckii), a dwarf blue lupine, and Cusick's buckwheat (Eriogonum cusickii).
Fauna
Steens Mountain is home to a variety of wildlife, including bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain elk, mule deer, pronghorn, sage grouse, coyotes, and the Great Basin redband trout. Cattle can be found in the wilderness as well, though they are excluded from grazing 98859 acre on top of Steens Mountain. The area is also home to mustang herds, including Kiger mustangs. | WIKI |
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Etymology
Shift from. Used in the Edo period to mean "a shabby, lowborn individual" before taking on the current sense.
Noun
* 1) miser
* 2) miserliness; stinginess
Adjective
* 1) stingy, miserly | WIKI |
Amzabegovo
Amzabegovo (Амзабегово) is a village in the municipality of Sveti Nikole, North Macedonia.
It is home of a barely excavated archaeological site.
Geography
Arnautski Dol, the name of a dry valley in the village, stems from the name Arnaut, the Ottoman Turkish rendering for Albanians, suggesting direct linguistic contact with Albanians or the former presence of an assimilated Albanian community.
Demographics
On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is written as "Hamzabegovo" and shown as a Turkish village. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 543 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
* Macedonians 531
* Serbs 3
* Aromanians 8
* Others 1 | WIKI |
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XVIII
past City Park on a raw, cold night, found a tiny,—oh so tiny,—puppy, whining, shaking and crying with cold. Picking up that small bunch of babyhood, Sarah was in quandary as just what to do; but Priscilla Standish, coming along, said:—
“Oh! Poor baby!! Who owns him, Sarah?”
“I don’t know; but say! Wouldn’t your Ma”
“My Ma would!! Bring him along, and wrap your cloak around him. It’s awfully cold for so young a puppy.”
So Lady Standish, with that “back-yard zoo” soon had his quaking babyship lapping good warm milk, and a stumpy tail wagging as only a tiny puppy’s stumpy tail can wag. Along towards six o’clock a vigorous pounding on Lady Standish’s front door brought Priscilla, to find Old Bill Simpkins with a tiny, wildly sobbing girl of about four. Walking into Lady Standish’s parlor, Simpkins said:—
“This kid has lost a-a-a-crittur; I think it was a pup, wasn’t it, kid?” [ 145 ] | WIKI |
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none; occasionally there are two. It has no claw. The ear has its two sides separate from their point of origin upon the head. The group is of Old-World distribution.
'''Fam. 1. Rhinolophidae.'''—The Bats of this family possess the leafy outgrowths around the nostrils. The ears are large, but have no tragus. The index finger has no phalanx at all. The premaxillary bones are quite rudimentary, and are suspended from the nasal cartilages. In addition to the pectoral mammae they have two teat-like processes situated abdominally. The tail is long, and extends to the end of the interfemoral membrane.
The genus Rhinolophus has a large nose leaf, and an antitragus to the ear. The first toe has two joints, the remaining toes have three joints each. The dentition is I 1/2 C 1/1 Pm 2/3 M 3/3. There are nearly thirty species of the genus, which are restricted to the Old World. Two species occur in this country, viz. R. ferrum equinum, the Great Horse-shoe Bat, and the Lesser Horse-shoe Bat, R. hipposiderus. The name is of course derived from the shape of the nose leaf.
The genus Hipposiderus and some allied forms are placed away from Rhinolophus and its immediate allies in a sub-family Hipposiderinae. The type genus Hipposiderus, or, as it ought apparently to be called, Phyllorhina, is Old World in range, like all the other members of the family.
The nose leaf is complicated, and there are only two phalanges in all the toes; there is no antitragus to the ear. A curious feature in the osteology of the genus, and indeed of the sub-family, is the fact that the ileo-pectineal process is connected with the ilium by a bony bridge; this arrangement is unique among mammals.
The genus Anthops, only known from the Solomon Islands, and represented there by but a single species (A. ornatus), has an extraordinarily complicated nose leaf. The tail, like that of the Oriental Coelops, likewise represented by a single species (C. frithii), is rudimentary.
Triaenops, Ethiopian and Malagasy, has, like the Australian Rhinonycteris, a well-developed tail. Triaenops has also a highly-complicated nose leaf.
'''Fam. 2. Nycteridae.'''—This family is to be distinguished from the Rhinolophidae by the fact that the ear has a small tragus, and by the small and cartilaginous premaxillae. In addition to | WIKI |
Chris Maxwell (jurist)
Christopher Murray Maxwell is an Australian jurist. He succeeded Justice John Winneke as President of the Victorian Court of Appeal on 16 July 2005. He retired as President of the Court of Appeal on 15 July 2022, after serving in the role for 17 years.
Career
Maxwell was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Trinity College. He played rugby and Australian rules football at Trinity, where he was the senior student in 1973. After graduating with honours in 1974, he was selected as Victorian Rhodes Scholar for 1975, completing a Bachelor of Philosophy at Oxford University. In 1978, he became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London practising briefly at the English Bar. In 1979, he returned to Melbourne working as a solicitor at law firm Phillips Fox. In 1981, he became principal private secretary to ALP Senator Gareth Evans who was appointed as federal Attorney-General in 1983. In 1983, he left to become a barrister in Victoria and was variously reader for Kenneth Hayne QC and reader for Ross Robson QC. He signed the Victorian Bar Roll in 1984 and became a QC in 1998.
Maxwell was a Victorian Legal Aid Commissioner for seven years from 1986 and also a member of the board of Liberty Victoria for six years, two of them as president from 2000. He appeared with Julian Burnside QC in the Tampa refugee case, and was then famously but unsuccessfully countersued (as a board member of Liberty Victoria) by the Commonwealth of Australia for costs. In 1982 he published An Introduction to the Securities Industry Codes (Sydney: Butterworths, 1982) with Robert Baxt and Selwyn Bajada, released in a second edition in 1988 as Stock Markets and the Securities industry: Law and Practice (Sydney: Butterworths, 1988). In 2002, he was later commissioned by the Victorian government to review the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1985.
In 2019, Maxwell heard the high profile County Court appeal of Cardinal George Pell against his conviction for the commission of sexual offences. Maxwell concurred with the Court of Appeal 2-1 majority rejecting the appeal, which was subsequently overruled by the High Court.
During an appeal into a drug importation conviction by Tony Mokbel due to the actions of Nicola Gobbo in providing information to Victoria Police, Maxwell called the actions of Gobbo and others involved in her informing "disgraceful" and a "matter of profound importance".
Maxwell is an adjunct professor at Victoria University. He is married with three children. His wife is a daughter of Sir Ninian Stephen who was a Governor-General of Australia and High Court Justice. | WIKI |
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Using React.js and jQuery to Update a Profile Picture with a Preview
Raphael Alampay
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Web Development
Front End Web Development
Client-side Frameworks
React
Introduction
Developing an interface for a web app to allow users to upload a picture often means supplying an input element of type file as well as a section to preview the picture that the user selected from their computer. This guide will go over how to implement a simple React.js component that allows a user to select a picture, preview the picture, and handle the picture itself for submitting via an AJAX call.
Setup
First, create a component that maintains two states: one for the picture itself and another for the source URL for the preview. Next, you'll need the component to render an interface that contains an input element for file selection, a section for the picture preview, and a button to trigger the upload functionality. The PictureUploader component will initially look like the following:
1import React from 'react';
2import $ from 'jquery';
3
4export default class PictureUploader extends React.Component {
5 constructor(props) {
6 super(props);
7
8 this.state = {
9 picture: false,
10 src: false
11 }
12 }
13
14 render() {
15 return (
16 <div>
17 <h5>Picture Uploader</h5>
18
19 <input
20 type="file"
21 />
22 <br/>
23 <div>
24 <p>
25 No Preview
26 </p>
27 </div>
28 <hr/>
29 <button>
30 Upload
31 </button>
32 </div>
33 );
34 }
35}
javascript
States to Maintain
Within the component's structure, there are two state values:
• picture: A reference to the picture file selected by the user
• src: The value of the source URL for our picture preview
Both values are initially set to false when the component is created.
User Interface
The rendered content is an interface with three major sections:
1. An interface to allow the user to select a picture from their computer
1<input type="file"/>
html
1. A preview section for when the user selects the picture. For now, it will say "No Preview" within a <p> element.
1<p>
2 No Preview
3</p>
html
1. A button for triggering the upload
1<button>
2 Upload
3</button>
html
Picture File Selection
Next, program an event handler that will process the picture whenever the user selects a picture to upload. Afterwards, create another function to deal with the preview of the picture. If no picture is selected, return "No Preview" text. Otherwise, return an img HTML tag containing the URL of the selected picture.
Event Handler Function
The event handler will extract the file picture and create a URL for the preview. Copy the following handler code to your component:
1handlePictureSelected(event) {
2 var picture = event.target.files[0];
3 var src = URL.createObjectURL(picture);
4
5 this.setState({
6 picture: picture,
7 src: src
8 });
9}
javascript
This method accepts an event argument whose property target represents the input element this handler is bound to. In this case, your input element of type file is expected to have a property files, which is of data type array. Therefore, to get the file that the user selected, reference the first element of the array:
1var picture = event.target.files[0];
javascript
The src variable represents the URL for the picture preview. You can create this by calling URL.createObjectURL(), which accepts a file object. This creates a temporary URL attached to the global document variable. This means that if the page is refreshed, you'll lose that URL reference. In this case, the file object is picture.
1var src = URL.createObjectURL(picture);
javascript
Finally update the state of your component using this.setState().
1this.setState({
2 picture: picture,
3 src: src
4});
javascript
Binding to input
Bind the function to the file input's onChange attribute:
1<input
2 type="file"
3 onChange={this.handlePictureSelected.bind(this)}
4/>
jsx
Attaching .bind(this) will allow this to still retain its value, referring to the instance of the component even within the handlePictureSelected method.
Render Preview
Our preview section is a result of another function that contains an if/else statement. It checks the component's state src if it is not false, indicating that you have a value. If so, return JSX code that contains an img whose source is src. Otherwise, return JSX code that contains the text "No Preview."
1renderPreview() {
2 if(this.state.src) {
3 return (
4 <img src={this.state.src}/>
5 );
6 } else {
7 return (
8 <p>
9 No Preview
10 </p>
11 );
12 }
13}
javascript
Invoke this method within the render() method of the component, specifically as a replacement for the "No Preview" text you had initially.
1<div>
2{this.renderPreview()}
3</div>
jsx
Trigger Upload
Event Handler Function
Create a method called the upload method that contains an ajax() call from jQuery to perform the upload. Copy the following code to your component:
1upload() {
2 var formData = new FormData();
3
4 formData.append("file", this.state.picture);
5
6 $.ajax({
7 url: "/some/api/endpoint",
8 method: "POST",
9 data: formData,
10 cache: false,
11 contentType: false,
12 processData: false,
13 success: function(response) {
14 // Code to handle a succesful upload
15 }
16 });
17}
javascript
Notice that instead of passing a plain old JavaScript object, you instead create an instance of FormData to allow you to embed the picture object. Do so by invoking append from formData, which accepts two arguments:
1. "file": A string representing the parameter key to be processed by the server.
2. this.state.picture: The picture object itself extracted from state.
1var formData = new FormData();
2formData.append("file", this.state.picture);
Since you're passing FormData as data in your AJAX POST call, you'll have to set cache, contentType, and processData to false. For the url, substitute "/some/api/endpoint" with the actual endpoint where you would upload your picture.
Bind to Button
Bind the event handler for uploading to your button element's onClick attribute:
1 <button
2 onClick={this.upload.bind(this)}
3 >
4 Upload
5 </button>
javascript
Similar to your input binding, attaching .bind(this) will allow this to still refer to the instance of the component even within the upload handler.
Overall Code
The final code will look like this:
1import React from 'react';
2import $ from 'jquery';
3
4export default class PictureUploader extends React.Component {
5 constructor(props) {
6 super(props);
7
8 this.state = {
9 picture: false,
10 src: false
11 }
12 }
13
14 handlePictureSelected(event) {
15 var picture = event.target.files[0];
16 var src = URL.createObjectURL(picture);
17
18 this.setState({
19 picture: picture,
20 src: src
21 });
22 }
23
24 renderPreview() {
25 if(this.state.src) {
26 return (
27 <img src={this.state.src}/>
28 );
29 } else {
30 return (
31 <p>
32 No Preview
33 </p>
34 );
35 }
36 }
37
38 upload() {
39 var formData = new FormData();
40
41 formData.append("file", this.state.picture);
42
43 $.ajax({
44 url: "/some/api/endpoint",
45 method: "POST",
46 data: formData,
47 cache: false,
48 contentType: false,
49 processData: false,
50 success: function(response) {
51 // Code to handle a succesful upload
52 }
53 });
54 }
55
56 render() {
57 return (
58 <div>
59 <h5>Picture Uploader</h5>
60
61 <input
62 type="file"
63 onChange={this.handlePictureSelected.bind(this)}
64 />
65 <br/>
66 <div>
67 {this.renderPreview()}
68 </div>
69 <hr/>
70 <button
71 onClick={this.upload.bind(this)}
72 >
73 Upload
74 </button>
75 </div>
76 );
77 }
78}
javascript
Conclusion
The process to create a component that can process picture files uploaded by the user from their computer is the same as any other React.js-based event handling. Bind a function to the input element and extract the target's value. In this case, your value is a picture file which you can maintain with the component's state for later integration with the actual upload logic. As a challenge and next step, try to modify the upload function code and see if you can integrate it with your app's picture upload API or a third party API endpoint that accepts picture uploads such as imgur. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Joe, North Carolina
Joe is an unincorporated community south-southwest of Hot Springs, in Madison County, North Carolina, United States. The community is a part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
A post office called Joe was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1953. Joe was the name of a female first settler. | WIKI |
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Of Capital. 43
But although the labourers as a body are not injured by the conversion of circulating into fixed capital, through the extended use of machinery, yet particular classes of labourers often suffer a serious and permanent injury from this cause. For instance, a man may spend seven years in acquiring special skill in performing some process of manufacture. The possession of this skill may be regarded as an important property, the pecuniary value of which to its possessor can be estimated by the difference between his wages and those of an ordinary labourer. This difference may be so great that the skilled workman can earn 4l. a week, while the ordinary labourer can only earn 1l. One day a machine is introduced which performs this particular process at one-fourth of the cost at which it was performed by the skilled mechanic. He is, of course, at once superseded; his skill, which before was worth 3l. a week, ceases to have any value, and he may have to descend to the condition of the ordinary labourer. In such a case the loss to the labourer is just as real as if he had been suddenly deprived of an income of 150l. a year, or if an owner of a landed estate suddenly found its letting value diminished by three-fourths. Many striking examples might be easily given of the loss inflicted on artisans who possess some special skill which is superseded by the invention of a machine. It is, for instance, not generally known that the curve given to the brim of the best gentlemen's hats is done by hand, and requires so much skill, precision, and nicety, that those who are engaged in this particular kind of work often earn as much as 7l., or 8l. a week. A machine has already been invented which moulds brims sufficiently well for the cheaper sort of hats, and some improvement may very probably be introduced into this machine which will enable it to supersede the highly-paid labour above referred to. In this case a special class of men who can now earn 7l. or 8l. a week would have to descend to the position of ordinary workmen, and would probably not earn so much as half their former wages.
When, therefore, we hear of the opposition of certain classes of labourers to the introduction of machinery, we should remember that political economy affords no
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The Fraser government commenced court proceedings to have the union degregistered in 1981. This was delayed untill the end of a royal commission into illegal activities performed by the union or members of the union other than breaches of trade union laws. This investigation was led by John Winneke. . | WIKI |
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To define the input schema and mappings, do the following:
Procedure
1. Click the Input mapping tab to define the input schema and set the parameters required to execute the operation.
2. In the table to the right, select the parameters row and click the [+] button to open the ParameterTree dialog box.
3. Selectthe parameter you want to use and click OK to close the dialog box.
A new row appears showing the parameter you added, CountryCode in this example.
4. In the table to the left, click the Schema Management button to open the Schema dialog box.
5. Define the input schema.
In this example, the schema has only one column: CountryCode.
6. Click OK to validate this addition and close the dialog box.
7. Create mappings between schema columns and parameters.
In this example, drop the CountryCode column from the left table onto the parameters.CountryCode row to the right.
A red line shows that the column is mapped.
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Question 81 : Do you know how to implement Heap sort?
In this post, we will see how to implement heap sort in JAVA
I will divide heap sort in multiple parts to make it more understandable.
What is heap?
heap is a tree with some special properties, so value of node should be greater than or equal to(less than or equal to in case of min heap) children of the node and tree should be complete binary tree.
Binary heaps
Binary heaps are those heaps which can have up to 2 children. We will use binary heaps in our next few sections.
Understanding complete binary tree
Complete binary tree is a binary tree whose leaves are at h or h-1 level where h is height of the tree.
Index of left child= 2*(index of its parent)+1
Index of right child= 2*(index of its parent)+2
Types of heaps
There are two types of heap.
• Max heap
• Min heap
Max heap : It is binary heap where value of node is greater than left and right child of the node.
Min heap : It is binary heap where value of node is lesser than left and right child of the node.
Heapifying an element:
Once we create a heap , it may not satisfy heap property. In order to make it heap again, we need to adjust locations of the heap and this process is known as heapifying the elements.
In order to create a max heap, we will compare current element with its children and find the maximum, if current element is not maximum then exchange it with maximum of left or right child.
Java code for heapifying element at location i :
public static void heapify(int[] arr, int i, int size) { int left = 2 * i + 1; int right = 2 * i + 2; int max; if (left <= size && arr[left] > arr[i]) { max = left; } else { max = i; } if (right <= size && arr[right] > arr[max]) { max = right; } // If max is not current node, exchange it with max of left and right child if (max != i) { exchange(arr, i, max); heapify(arr, max, size); } }
Steps for heap sort
• Represent array as complete binary tree.
• Left child will be at 2*i+1 th location
• Right child will be at 2*i+2 th location.
• Build a heap.
• All the leaf nodes already satisfy heap property, so we don’t need to heapify them.
• Last leaf node will be present at (n-1)th location, so parent of it will be at (n-1)/2 th location, hence (n-1)/2 will be location of last non leaf node.
• Iterate over non leaf nodes and heapify the elements.
• After building a heap, max element will be at root of the heap. We will exchange it with (n-1)th location, so largest element will be at proper place and remove it from the heap by reducing size of n.
• When you exchange largest element, it may disturb max heap property, so you need to again heapify it.
• Once you do above steps until no elements left in heap, you will get sorted array in the end.
Java code for heap sort
import java.util.*; public class HeapSortMain { public static void buildheap(int []arr) { /* * As last non leaf node will be at (arr.length-1)/2 * so we will start from this location for heapifying the elements * */ for(int i=(arr.length-1)/2; i>=0; i--){ heapify(arr,i,arr.length-1); } } public static void heapify(int[] arr, int i,int size) { int left = 2*i+1; int right = 2*i+2; int max; if(left <= size && arr[left] > arr[i]){ max=left; } else { max=i; } if(right <= size && arr[right] > arr[max]) { max=right; } // If max is not current node, exchange it with max of left and right child if(max!=i) { exchange(arr,i, max); heapify(arr, max,size); } } public static void exchange(int[] arr,int i, int j) { int t = arr[i]; arr[i] = arr[j]; arr[j] = t; } public static int[] heapSort(int[] arr) { buildheap(arr); int sizeOfHeap=arr.length-1; for(int i=sizeOfHeap; i>0; i--) { exchange(arr,0, i); sizeOfHeap=sizeOfHeap-1; heapify(arr, 0,sizeOfHeap); } return arr; } public static void main(String[] args) { int[] arr={1,10,16,19,3,5}; System.out.println("Before Heap Sort : "); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr)); arr=heapSort(arr); System.out.println("====================="); System.out.println("After Heap Sort : "); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr)); } }
When you run above program, you will get below output:
Before Heap Sort :
[1, 10, 16, 19, 3, 5] =====================
After Heap Sort :
[1, 3, 5, 10, 16, 19]
Time and space complexity
Time Complexity:
Best case : O(nlogn)
Average case : O(nlogn)
Worst case : O(nlogn)
space complexity:
Since heap sort is inplace sorting algorithm, space complexity is o(1). You don’t need any extra space except swapping variable in heap sort.
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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Niebuhr, Barthold Georg
NIEBUHR, nēboor, Barthold Georg, German historian and classical scholar, the founder of modern historical method: b. Copenhagen, 27 Aug. 1776; d. Bonn, 2 Jan. 1831. He was son of Karsten Niebuhr (q.v.); was educated by his father in his early youth; studied at Kiel (1794-96), at London and at Edinburgh (1798-99); and in 1800 entered the service of the Danish government. He became director of the government's bank in 1804, and showed in this post and in the Prussian service, which he entered in 1806, much business ability, due, so he affirmed, to his life in England and Scotland. A quarrel with Hardenberg made Niebuhr's retirement necessary in 1810, soon after he had
been engaged in financing a Prussian loan in Holland; and he taught Roman history at Berlin for three years with such success that he was led to publish the first two volumes of his ‘Roman History’ (1811-12). But in 1813 he re-entered the Prussian government employ, and took a prominent part in rousing national opposition to Napoleon; but his temper was overbearing and he soon broke with his superior, Stein. In 1816 he was sent as Minister to the Vatican, brought about the understanding between Prussia and the Pope signalized by the bull ‘De Salute Animarum’ in 1821, and had his first opportunity of testing his critical theories as to early Roman history by topographical and other detail. In 1823 he retired from the diplomatic service and settled in Bonn, where he lectured on ancient and modern history.
Niebuhr's great and epoch-making work was his destructive criticism of the early Roman legendary period and his reconstruction of this same period from the mass of myth and legend, which beclouded it, or, to put it more broadly and more truly, it was his application of this higher critical method to history. His ‘Roman History’ (1811-32, English version, Hare and Thirwall, 1851), carrying the story of Rome down to the Punic Wars, was completed in an English form by Leonhard Schmitz in ‘Lectures on the History of Rome from the First Punic War to the Death of Constantine’ (1844). These two parts form a great collection of facts and material, and a wonderful exemplification of method, but the more popular and brilliant style of Niebuhr's pupil, Theodor Mommsen (q.v.), has made Niebuhr's work to a certain degree antiquated. He collaborated with Platner and Bunsen in their ‘Description of the City of Rome’; founded with Böckh and Brandis the Rheinisches Museum, a classical review; edited the ‘Corpus Scriptorum Historian Byzantinae’; and wrote many minor philological and historical studies, besides editing new fragments of Gaius, Cicero and Merobaudes. His ‘Stories of the Greek Heroes’ (‘Griechische Heroengeschichte,’ 1842), originally written for his son, Marcus, is a famous juvenile. Niebuhr was possessed of original genius, had an intuitive grasp of history that made him detect the false evidence and was so adept at learning languages that he had mastered 20 in early manhood. He was also a man of broad scholarship and catholic taste, as may be seen by his personal reminiscences and correspondence in Hensler's ‘Lebensnachrichten über Niebuhr’ (1838-39). Consult also the biographies by Classen (1876) and Eyssenhardt (1886); and Winkworth, ‘Life and Letters’ (1852). | WIKI |
Artem Shamatryn
Artem Shamatryn (Артем Шаматрин; born 15 June 1991) is a Ukrainian athlete specialising in the high hurdles. He represented his country at the 2016 World Indoor Championships without advancing from the heats.
His personal bests are 13.80 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (+0.5 m/s, Lutsk 2018) and 7.70 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Kiev 2016). | WIKI |
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in reply to remove both leading and trailing spaces
Yes, you can do s/^\s+|\s+$//g but it is definaly not optimized. It is generally preferred to use the two regexes, since it is roughly 3 times faster:
use Benchmark; my $val = " Smart Way "; timethese(1000000, { regex1 => sub { my $tmp = $val; $tmp =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g; }, regex2 => sub { my $tmp = $val; $tmp =~ s/^\s+//; $tmp =~ s/\s+$//; } });
Results:
Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of regex1, regex2... regex1: 9 wallclock secs ( 6.43 usr + 0.02 sys = 6.45 CPU) @ 155038.76/s (n=1000000) regex2: 2 wallclock secs ( 2.65 usr + 0.00 sys = 2.65 CPU) @ 377358.49/s (n=1000000) | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
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Eni's First Gas from Zohr Field, Broadens Moroccan Footprint
Eni S.p.A.E announced that it has commenced natural gas production in Zohr field, located off the coast of Egypt. The field has huge gas reserves, estimated at more than 30 trillion cubic feet by the integrated energy firm.
The company had discovered the giant field in 2015. Hence, the production of first gas within less than two and a half years has been a big achievement for the company, considering the size of the field. With huge and potential gas resources, the discovery was touted to be the largest in the Mediterranean area.
As per media resources, once Eni completes full development of the field, daily output of natural gas will likely touch 2.7 billion cubic feet.
The offshore gas field is based in the Shorouk block - where Eni has a 60% stake. The remaining 30% and 10% are owned by Rosneft and BP Plc BP , respectively.
In a separate announcement, Eni revealed that it has diversified its upstream portfolio by broadening its footprint in Morocco. With a Petroleum Agreement (PA) with Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), the Italian energy firm will be able to explore potential offshore resources spreading over 23,900 square kilometers.
Based in Rome, Eni is poised to gain from these upstream projects. Over the past year, the stock has rallied 4.9%, outperforming the industry's 4.6% gain.
Presently, Eni carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). A few better-ranked players in the energy sector are Lonestar Resources US Inc. LONE and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. SNP . Both the companies sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, TX, Lonestar is an upstream energy player. The company is expected to post year-over-year earnings growth of 81.3% in 2017.
Headquartered in Beijing, China Petroleum is a leading integrated energy player. The company will likely witness year-over-year earnings growth of 59.1% in 2017.
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If the trials would not have happened, they would probably be happening now because of modern day beliefs and cultures. People were scared of being accused due to the fact that they knew they would perish. Even families would turn against their own innocent relatives just for the money. This trials ended trust in society and had a big impact on people. The trials began with the American population’s beliefs in supernatural beings.
Such outcomes included the discrimination against immigrants. Nativists believed that immigrants had threatened their way of life. They argued that the “new arrivals” had taken away their jobs as well as their religious, political and cultural traditions. It was after the Red Scare that Americans began involve an emotional edge to the growing tension. They feared that these “new arrivals” were communists.
The witch trials of 1692 were not only motivated by the stringent restrictions of the Puritan faith, but also by the misogynistic social structure that provoked mass hysteria among the sexes. Some of the accused puritans believed so heavily in their faith, they would rather die than be convicted as a witch.
They were jealous and always suspected that the other people were trying to take things that were not theirs. The witch hunt could only escalate as it did because the people of Salem did not trust each other in the beginning and it just kept on getting worse because they made false accusations. If we talk about an unstable community, we of course have to talk about its people. No one is innocent, many of them are not trustworthy. Two characters in the play take it to an extreme.
Arthur Miller's The Crucible highlights a human frailty, arrogance, responsible for the witch hysteria in the 1690s. Each character portrays arrogance which make him abuse power. The play explores the human nature of being arrogant and the fear of tarnishing one's reputation, by acting unmorally. Through Hale's, Parris's, and Danforth's actions, Miller indicates that arrogance is the frailty most responsible for the witch hysteria. Initially Reverand Hale's education and which portrays him as arrogant and lets him assume that he has the power to accuse innocent people of witchcraft, however after he realizes the effect that his power has on innocent people, he quits the court.
These people would rather believe that the mom and dad would hurt their children without a single shred of physical evidence. All they was testimony that had been altered by the Prosecution. So my reaction is quite concerning, this could possibly happen to anyone again. I’m sure it will and has. So my reaction is less focussed towards the accused and more towards the hysteria that surround the accused.
In fact, Joseph McCarthy himself suffered this consequence: “It was his clash with the Army that would lead to his downfall” (Robert 3). By accusing the Army of treason, he lost respect in the population and bad opinions spread around, ruining his power streak.This risk prevented these kinds of people from succumbing to actions that would sabotage their reputation. In addition, McCarthyism allowed these kinds of nasty people, such as McCarthy, to act upon unsightly desires. Therefore, the McCarthy trials encouraged the conflict between
Media is focused on people marginalized in society due to race, ethnicity and sexuality. It is based on well-known stereotypes and reinforces them. Moral panic sends society into mass hysteria over an issue or an event that occurs. Stanley Cohen believed that media created a moral panic. Stanley had published a book on folk devils and moral panics (1972) which says that moral panic occurs due to people or groups become threats to society and interests.
The Best Way To Respond To Conflict In times of war, history shows how people from across cultures respond to conflict. In World War ll, some people responded to conflict by mass genocide, hate, fear, and by losing faith. Many people saw each other different, showing that it’s right to be cruel to others just by their religion. This mistreatment lead to damage of people 's thoughts, emotions, and the way of seeing things. In the text The Boy In The Striped Pajamas shows how people that you should respond to conflict with violence right away, but that is not the best way to respond to conflict.
Perhaps the parents could have pulled their child out of that school to prevent further damage, but things are easier say than done. Bullying is something I worry my own son will have to deal with in the future, but if we are lucky, hopefully he will not have to deal with it. To be honest, after watching the video it did saddened me and the same time in made me feel upset. It saddened me because I know both the parents and school administrators could | FINEWEB-EDU |
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PUBLIC LAW 105-42—AUG. 15, 1997 111 STAT. 1127 "(III) an authorized representative of a participating nation whose national program meets the requirements of the International Dolphin Conservation Program, which states that there was an observer approved by the International Dolphin Conservation Program on board the vessel during the entire trip and that such observer provided the certification required under subsection (h); and "(iii) the statements referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) are endorsed in writing by each exporter, importer, and processor of the product; and "(C) the written statements and endorsements referred to in subparagraph (B) comply with regulations promulgated by the Secretary which provide for the verification of tuna products as dolphin safe. "(3)(A) The Secretary of Commerce shall develop an official mark that may be used to label tuna products as dolphin safe in accordance with this Act. "(B) A tuna product that bears the dolphin safe mark developed under subparagraph (A) shall not bear any other label or mark that refers to dolphins, porpoises, or marine mammals. "(C) It is a violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) to label a tuna product with any label or mark that refers to dolphins, porpoises, or marine mammals other than the mark developed under subparagraph (A) unless— "(i) no dolphins were killed or seriously injured in the sets or other gear deployments in which the tuna were caught; "(ii) the label is supported by a tracking and verification program which is comparable in effectiveness to the program established under subsection (f); and " (iii) the label complies with all applicable labeling, marketing, and advertising laws and regulations of the Federal Trade Commission, including any guidelines for environmental labeling. "(D) If the Secretary determines that the use of a label Reports. referred to in subparagraph (C) is substantially undermining the conservation goals of the International Dolphin Conservation Program, the Secretary shall report that determination to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the United States House of Representatives Committees on Resources and on Commerce, along with recommendations to correct such problems. "(E) It is a violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) willingly and knowingly to use a label referred to in subparagraph (C) in a campaign or effort to mislead or deceive consumers about the level of protection afforded dolphins under the International Dolphin Conservation Program.. (b) TRACKING REGULATIONS. —Subsection (f) of the Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act (16 U.S.C. 1385(f)) is amended to read as follows: "(f) REGULATIONS. — The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall issue regulations to implement this Act, including regulations to establish a domestic tracking and
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What is the local name for plantain?
What is the local name for plantain?
Common plantain (Plantago major)
Common Name: Common plantain
Scientific Name: Plantago major
Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain)
Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herbs
Where is ribwort native to?
temperate Eurasia
It is native to temperate Eurasia, widespread throughout the British Isles, but scarce on the most acidic soils (pH < 4.5). It is present and widespread in the Americas and Australia as an introduced species.
What is plantain grass?
Overview. Narrow-leaved plantain is a very common perennial weed found in many lawns and pastures, and often in waste places as well. It is typically found in “run-down” pastures which do not have much grass and clover in them. It doesn’t cause any harm, and is actually eaten by livestock and thus is quite useful.
Where does broadleaf plantain grow?
Broadleaf plantain (Plantago major) It is found throughout California to 7200 feet (2200 m), except for the Sierra Nevada region and deserts. Like many weeds it inhabits disturbed areas such as agricultural land and other disturbed places.
How did plantains get to Africa?
Like all the people around our table, plantain is not indigenous to the Americas or the Caribbean. The African staple sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in the same slave ships. The crop was easy to grow, high in starch and provided energy to those worked by the whip. Bananas are eaten all over the world.
Does plantain grow in South Africa?
It turns out that importers had stopped looking to source plantain from Africa and instead get it from South America. In West Africa it is a staple crop, much loved in many countries, but also still to a large degree home-cultivated.
Is ribwort plantain native to UK?
It is a common roadside plant. In early surveys of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Norfolk it was especially associated with temporary grass or clover seed crops. Ribwort plantain is recorded up to 2,600 ft in the UK and its remains have been found in prehistoric deposits.
Is plantain native to North America?
It is native to North America, where it occurs in eastern Canada and the central and eastern United States. Its common names include American plantain, blackseed plantain, pale plantain, and Rugel’s plantain.
What is the health benefit of plantain leaf?
Plantain leaves are packed full of vitamins and other nutrients. They are especially high in vitamins A and C, which can boost immune health, and also contain calcium and various minerals. Apart from benefiting your immune system, plantain is also one of the best “emergency” foods.
Is plantain native to America?
Does plantain grow in the UK?
Occurrence: Greater plantain is a native perennial weed of disturbed habitats, roadsides, grassland, on tracks, waste and cultivated ground. It occurs throughout the UK on a range of soils and is almost always associated with the activities of man.
What kind of plants are in the grasslands of Africa?
Botanist – African Grasslands. 1 Acacia Tree. The Acacia tree is one of the many native plants to the grasslands of Africa. Acacia trees are large trees that grow best in warmer 2 Manketti Nut Tree. 3 River Bushwillow. 4 Invasive Species. 5 Gamba Grass.
What are the characteristics of African grasslands?
The african grasslands also known as savannas cover almost half of africa or five million square miles. The leaves are a grey green color. Umbrella thorn acacia mainly grows in rocky ground and sand dunes of african grasslands.
How to define the African savanna?
The african savanna is a tropical grassland biome. These giant grasslands are found in several places on earth. Some of these trees include the acacia tree the baobab tree and the jackalberry tree. How to define the african savanna is by a rolling grassland dotted with.
What symbiotic relationships occur in the African grasslands?
There are many symbiotic relationships that occur in the African grasslands: A mutual symbiotic relationship occurs between ants and certain species of acacia. The ants nest in the tree and feed off of nutrients in the leaves of acacia trees and in return the ants protect the tree from the worlds largest herbivore: the elephant. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
North Korea: Nukes need to be ready for use
(CNN)For a second day, North Korea appeared to be flexing its military muscles in the wake of a United Nations vote meant to cripple the nation's nuclear program. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country's "nuclear warheads need to be ready for use at any time," the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported Friday. "Under the extreme situation that the U.S. Imperialist is misusing its military influence and is pressuring other countries and people to start war and catastrophe, the only way for our people to protect sovereignty and rights to live is to strengthen the quality and quantity of nuclear power and realize the balance of power," Kim said, according to KCNA. The news agency also confirmed the test-fire of a new multiple launch rocket system. It's unclear whether that event is the same launch by North Korea of "short-range projectiles," announced one day earlier by the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We are aware of the reports. We are closely monitoring the situation on the Korean Peninsula in coordination with our regional allies," the Pentagon said in response to Friday's news. "We urge North Korea to refrain from provocative actions that aggravate tensions and instead focus on fulfilling its international obligations and commitments." Will U.S. deploy THAAD weapons system after North Korean threats? 'A lot of bluster' North Korea is believed to have an untested capability when it comes to nuclear weapons. As one U.S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr, the regime has tested nuclear devices that it says have been miniaturized. The attitude of U.S. officials is that they consider North Korea's claim true because they can't risk underestimating it, but the claim is not verified. North Korea has also tested long-range missiles but not completely. It has not tested missile re-entry, for example. Additionally, North Korea has not married a nuclear device with a long-range missile, and the United States does not know whether North Korea would do so without testing first. "The threat here is, to me right now, it's a lot of bluster," said Philip Yun, executive director of the Ploughshares Fund, a group that advocates nuclear disarmament. "For them to deliver on a threat, they have to have intent and they have to have capability. And quite frankly, I don't think they have both." Yun told CNN the purpose of the news might be internal. "Kim Jong Un has got a large party congress that's going to be happening in May. And this is all about, for him, again, additional consolidation of power. He'll want to get rid and justify getting rid of any enemies he may have. "And this is part of a process where he is able to ratchet up the pressure, increase his control internally, and brandish his credentials to be 'protecting the motherland.' And so all of this sort of helps him internally even though it may not ring true to many of us here outside," he said. Yun stressed that he does not think the North Koreans are suicidal: "They know that if they did a pre-emptive attack or used nuclear weapons, they would cease to exist." Fresh sanctions Earlier this week, the U.N. Security Council voted to impose an array of sanctions against North Korea because of that nation's recent nuclear test and missile launch, both of which defied international sanctions. The U.N. resolution that brought about the sanctions aims to cripple the economic factors that fuel North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The North Korean state news agency blasted the sanctions as "unprecedented and gangster-like." The "political and economic pressure and military aggression on the DPRK have gone to a grave phase that can no longer be overlooked," KCNA said. China reiterated its opposition on North Korea developing nuclear weapons. Fu Ying, a spokeswoman for China's Parliament, said it will abide by the Security Council sanctions, but she highlighted the need for six-party talks to resolve the issue. Hydrogen bomb Discussions about new sanctions started after North Korea claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in January, its fourth nuclear test. Then, in February, Pyongyang said it had successfully launched an Earth satellite into orbit via the long-range Kwangmyongsong carrier rocket. According to CNN's Paula Hancocks, Friday's developments are not necessarily new, but they do represent an increase in the tensions that already existed on the Korean Peninsula. "And, also bear in mind, we're just a couple of days away now from the joint military drills between the United States and South Korea. These happen every year. Washington and Seoul say they're defensive in nature, but every year they irritate Pyongyang," she said. CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Constituency PP-171 (Nankana Sahib-II)
Constituency PP-171 (Nankana Sahib-II) was a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab.It was abolished in 2018 delimitations because Nankana Sahib District lost 1 seat after 2017 Census
General elections 2013
General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Rana Muhammad Arshad Of PMLN won with 37,342 votes and became the member of provincial assembly.
General elections 2008
Rana Muhammad Arshad Of PMLN won became the member of provincial assembly. | WIKI |
Raymond Leonard
Raymond Leonard (born 1941) is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Technology at Manchester University, known for both his scientific and literary work.
Early life
Raymond Leonard was born in 1941 when the Manchester Blitz was at its height. His father, William was a railway worker and his mother, Florence, was a hospital cleaner. Having attended Saint Phillip's Junior School he moved to the Cavendish School in the heart of Manchester, where he finished top of the class. While at school, to supplement the family income, he delivered newspapers both night and morning around central Manchester including Sundays. He also had a stall on spare land selling fruit and vegetables on Saturdays. Having left school before his fifteenth birthday he began an apprenticeship at Crossley engines in Manchester. Here he won a state scholarship in 1961 to take a degree in Mechanical Engineering. His father died when he was 14, and his mother died when he was 19. He had no brothers or sisters. It was during these early years that Leonard developed his lifelong interest in science, religion and their complementary interactions.
Scientific career
Having graduated with B.Sc and Ph.D degrees from Salford University, Leonard enjoyed a career in marine diesel industry before joining the University of Manchester (UMIST) in 1971. Here his initial research concerned manufacturing systems, particularly with reference to cellular manufacturing. This work was extended to include computer aided manufacturer, computer aided design, and manufacturing control. This later evolved into computer integrated manufacturing. The resulting publications were contained in a successful submission for the degree of Doctor of Science, D.Sc, in 1987. Later research related to an approach for diminishing Halon gas emissions into the atmosphere, which became widely used to safe ground the ozone layer. The department that Leonard established helped UMIST to gain the Queen's Anniversary Prize (1998), and he was the Senior Academic in the presentation party. Over the past 40 years he has given keynote lectures around the world, published in excess of 200 research papers, supervised over 150 research degrees in engineering, science and industrial management and co-authored two academic books.
Publications
Non-fiction
* How to Avoid the British Disease (with J.A Chatterton, Northgate Publishing, 1979, ISBN 0-85298-432-4)
* Technology and Production (with G Clews, Philip Allan, 1985, ISBN 0-86003-527-1)
Fiction
* The Nostradamus Inheritance (1985). London: Poplar, 1985. ISBN 978-0-907657-08-8
* OMEGA (1986). London: Poplar, 1986. ISBN 978-0-907657-12-5
* Legacy of the Shroud (1988). W.H. Allen, 1988. ISBN 978-0-352-32198-5
Poetry
* Pearls Along The Path, a collection of Professor Leonard's published poetry. 2011 ISBN 978-1-4538-3946-1
Awards
* Queen's Anniversary Prize, 1999. The Royal Anniversary Trust, www.royalanniversarytrust.org.uk | WIKI |
MetaEdit+
MetaEdit+ is an environment for creating and using Domain-Specific Modeling languages.
Research History
The research behind the genesis of MetaEdit+ was carried out at the University of Jyväskylä, as part of the MetaPHOR project. A metamodeling and modeling tool, MetaEdit, had been created by the earlier SYTI project in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in co-operation with a company, MetaCase.
Both MetaEdit and MetaEdit+ were described in a large number of publications from the MetaPHOR research group (including, ).
Tool History
MetaEdit allowed graphical metamodeling using Object-Property-Role-Relationship (OPRR) data model, definition of the DSM language notation with a graphical symbol editor, and the definition of code generators using a Domain-Specific Language. These three elements together formed a metamodel file, which configured MetaEdit to support that modeling language.
* MetaEdit 1.0 was released as shareware in 1993.
* MetaEdit 1.1 was released as commercial software in 1993.
* MetaEdit 1.2 was released in 1995.
The original MetaEdit was limited to supporting one modeling language at a time, one user at a time, and one representational paradigm - graphical diagrams. MetaEdit+ was designed to extend this to multiple integrated modeling languages, multiple simultaneous users, and multiple representational paradigms - diagrams, matrices and tables.
* MetaEdit+ 2.0, the first version of MetaEdit+, was released by MetaCase in 1995 for Windows.
* MetaEdit+ 2.5 was released in 1996, adding full multi-user facilities and support for Solaris and HP-UX.
* MetaEdit+ 3.0 was released in 1999, with support for Linux and significant new functionality added in three Service Releases over the next few years.
* MetaEdit+ 4.0 was released in 2004, with new Diagram and Symbol Editors, support for ports, and interoperability via SOAP and XML. Two Service Releases adding new functionality and support for Mac OS X.
* MetaEdit+ 4.5 was released in 2006, adding graphical metamodeling and improving the metamodel, symbol and generator definition facilities and Diagram Editor.
* MetaEdit+ 4.5 SR1a was released in 2009, adding support for newer platforms.
* MetaEdit+ 5.0 was released in December 2012, with Eclipse and Visual Studio integration, dynamic symbols, enhanced graphics, and graphical viewing of changes.
* MetaEdit+ 5.1 was released in November 2014, adding a hierarchical property sheet, movable dynamic ports, and new property types.
* MetaEdit+ 5.5 was released in February 2017, adding versioning and integration with Version Control Systems like Git and SVN. SR1 added project-level access rights. Cloud RSL added remote shared licenses.
Work flow
There are two main versions of MetaEdit+: Normally, MetaEdit+ Workbench is used by a few key developers to design a domain-specific modeling language for their project. Then, this modeling language is used to develop final products using MetaEdit+ Modeler.
* MetaEdit+ Workbench, including tools for designing and using modeling languages.
* MetaEdit+ Modeler, including tools for using modeling languages. | WIKI |
Freiberg's Disease
Freiberg's Disease, an uncommon condition affecting the metatarsal bones in the foot, can be a perplexing challenge for those experiencing its symptoms. In this comprehensive guide, we will navigate through the intricacies of Freiberg's Disease, shedding light on its causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, and management strategies. Understanding this condition is crucial for individuals seeking clarity on their foot health and the potential impact on their daily lives.
Definition and Background: Freiberg's Disease, also known as Freiberg infraction, is a condition characterized by the deterioration of the metatarsal head, commonly affecting the second metatarsal. We will delve into the historical context of the disease and its classification within the spectrum of foot disorders.
The Prevalence Puzzle: While considered rare, Freiberg's Disease has been identified in varying demographics, with a higher prevalence among females. We will explore the factors contributing to its occurrence and the potential role of genetics in predisposing individuals to this condition.
Underlying Causes
Trauma and Mechanical Stress: Freiberg's Disease often arises from repetitive trauma or excessive mechanical stress on the metatarsal head. This section will elucidate how activities like ballet dancing or wearing inappropriate footwear can contribute to the development of this condition.
Vascular Factors: Impaired blood supply to the metatarsal head is another factor linked to Freiberg's Disease. We will explore how compromised blood circulation may play a role in the degeneration of the affected bone, contributing to the condition's progression.
Symptoms and Clinical Presentation
Gradual Onset of Pain: Freiberg's Disease typically manifests with a slow and insidious onset of pain in the forefoot, especially during weight-bearing activities. We will explore how individuals may initially dismiss these symptoms, contributing to delayed diagnosis.
Swelling and Stiffness: Swelling and stiffness around the affected metatarsal joint are common indicators of Freiberg's Disease. This section will discuss how these physical manifestations can impact daily activities and decrease joint mobility.
Changes in Gait and Foot Function: As the disease progresses, gait and foot function alterations may become apparent. We will examine how individuals may adapt their walking patterns to alleviate pain, potentially leading to additional stress on other structures within the foot.
Diagnostic Approaches
Clinical Examination: A thorough clinical examination by a healthcare professional is crucial for diagnosing Freiberg's Disease. We will outline the specific tests and assessments used to evaluate symptoms and joint range of motion and pinpoint the location of pain.
Imaging Modalities: Various imaging techniques, including X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), play a pivotal role in confirming the diagnosis of Freiberg's Disease. This section will explore how these modalities provide detailed insights into the extent of bone involvement and aid in treatment planning.
Treatment Strategies
Conservative Management: Conservative treatment measures form the cornerstone of managing Freiberg's Disease in its early stages. We will discuss using orthotic devices, footwear modifications, and activity modification to alleviate symptoms and reduce stress on the affected metatarsal.
Medications for Pain and Inflammation: Pain management is crucial to treatment. This section will explore the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and analgesics to relieve pain and address associated inflammation.
Physical Therapy: Physical therapy can maintain joint mobility and prevent further degeneration. We will discuss specific exercises and stretches to enhance flexibility and strengthen supportive structures around the affected metatarsal.
Surgical Intervention
Joint Decompression and Osteotomy: In cases where conservative measures prove inadequate, surgical interventions may be considered. This section will delve into joint decompression and osteotomy procedures to relieve pressure on the affected metatarsal head and restore joint function.
Arthroplasty and Joint Replacement: Advanced stages of Freiberg's Disease may necessitate more extensive interventions, including joint replacement or arthroplasty. We will explore how these procedures aim to address severe joint degeneration and restore optimal foot function.
Post-Treatment Considerations
Rehabilitation and Follow-Up: Post-treatment rehabilitation is essential for optimizing outcomes. We will discuss the role of physical therapy in facilitating recovery, preventing recurrence, and promoting long-term joint health.
Conclusion
Freiberg's Disease, though rare, can significantly impact an individual's quality of life. By unraveling the complexities of this condition, we aim to empower individuals with knowledge and understanding. Seeking prompt medical attention, adhering to personalized treatment plans, and incorporating preventive measures can pave the way for effective management and improved foot health.
Disclaimer:
The information on this website is provided for educational and information purposes only and is not medical advice. Always consult with a licensed medical provider and follow their recommendations regardless of what you read on this website. If you think you are having a medical emergency, dial 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Links to other third-party websites are provided for your convenience only. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms of use for those websites. Neither Austin Podiatry, nor any contributor to this website, makes any representation, express or implied, regarding the information provided on this website or any information you may access on a third-party website using a link. Use of this website does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you would like to request an appointment with a health care provider, please call our office at (512) 448-3668.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Shahnaz Shoro
The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:48, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Dr. Shahnaz Shoro
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The sources are either not independent being from her publisher or hand-out bios from talks she's given, or not WP:SIGCOV being catalogue entries, or written by her rather than about her. She fails to meet WP:NAUTHOR as a writer and WP:NACADEMIC as an assistant professor. Cabayi (talk) 09:01, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
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Homefront (American TV series)
Homefront is an American television drama series created by former Knots Landing producers Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Lorimar Television. The show is set in the late 1940s in the fictional city of River Run, Ohio, and aired on ABC from September 24, 1991, to April 26, 1993. The show's theme song, "Accentuate the Positive", was written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer and performed by Jack Sheldon.
Series overview
Homefront begins in September 1945 and focuses on three families from different backgrounds, the Sloan, Metcalf and Davis families. The Sloans, Mike Sr. and Ruth (Ken Jenkins and Mimi Kennedy), own a steel manufacturing factory initially responsible for making tank parts in the war. They are coming to grips with the death of their only son, Mike Jr., a soldier, and the arrival of his Italian war bride, Gina (Giuliana Santini), a Jewish Holocaust survivor. The Metcalfs include widow Anne (Wendy Phillips), and her three children, Hank (David Newsom), Linda (Jessica Steen) and Jeff (Kyle Chandler). Anne and Linda are dealing with being displaced from their job at the plant for returning GIs, while Hank, a returning soldier, and Jeff, a baseball player for the Cleveland Indians, are involved in a love triangle with college student Sarah Brewer (Alexandra Wilson). Meanwhile, Linda's friend, Ginger Szabo (Tammy Lauren) is shocked when her boyfriend Charlie Hailey (Harry O'Reilly) returns from the war with a British war-bride, Caroline (Sammi Davis).
Abe (Dick Anthony Williams) and Gloria Davis (Hattie Winston) are descendants from slaves and work for the Sloans as a chauffeur and housekeeper respectively. Their son Robert (Sterling Macer, Jr.) is a decorated veteran who served in Europe with the 761st Armored Battalion. He lands a job at Sloan Industries but is isolated and belittled by his racist co-workers. In the second season, he is joined by Perrette (Perrey Reeves), his white French war bride. Later cast members include Al Kahn (John Slattery), a Jewish union organiser and possible former Communist sympathiser who seduces Anne, and Judy Owens (Kelly Rutherford), a widow working as a bartender who has an affair with Mike Sr.
While the show received critical praise, it struggled in the ratings and was close to being cancelled after its first season. An April 11, 1992 issue of TV Guide ran a S.O.S (Save Our Shows) campaign to save five series from cancellation, which included Homefront, and two other period pieces (set in the 1950s), Brooklyn Bridge on CBS and I'll Fly Away on NBC. Of the five, Homefront received the most votes – 99,591 – and was subsequently renewed. Abigail Van Buren of Dear Abby also dedicated a column to the show, urging fans to write into the network to save it. However ratings did not improve in its second season, and after being moved around the schedule numerous times, the show was cancelled.
Cast and characters
* Kyle Chandler as Jeff Metcalf
* Sammi Davis-Voss as Caroline Hailey
* Ken Jenkins as Mike Sloan, Sr.
* Mimi Kennedy as Ruth Sloan
* Tammy Lauren as Ginger Szabo
* Sterling Macer, Jr. as Cpl. Robert Davis (season 1 & eps. 1–4 of season 2)
* David Newsom as Lt. Hank Metcalf (season 1)
* Harry O'Reilly as Sgt. Charlie Hailey
* Wendy Phillips as Anne Metcalf Kahn
* Giuliana Santini as Gina Sloan
* Jessica Steen as Linda Metcalf
* Dick Anthony Williams as Abe Davis
* Alexandra Wilson as Sarah Brewer (eps. 1–20)
* Hattie Winston as Gloria Davis
* John Slattery as Al Kahn (eps. 5+)
* Kelly Rutherford as Judy Owen (season 2; recurring season 1 )
Season 1 (1991–92)
* Note:
Season 2 (1992–93)
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Yngeinstn
Level IV
SQL - Very Large Data Table
I have exhausted my search or understanding how to resolve our problem performing an SQL query in a more effecient manner.
The included SQL script pulls from 3 tables that have combined rows that equal 40,970,221. This of course for 3 wafers but you can divide that by 3 and that is my standard data pull.
Any suggestions if there are any? Am i doomed to have to endure the time it takes to pull this all in.
SELECT
CASE
WHEN t2.testname = 'test_1' THEN t3.ts
WHEN t2.testname = 'test_2' THEN t4.ts
WHEN t2.testname = 'test_3' THEN t5.ts
END AS TimeStamp,
t1.testdate,
t1.wafer_number,
t2.rownum,
t2.colnum,
t2.subrow,
t2.subcol,
t2.part_name,
t2.part_number,
t2.testname,
t2.set_id,
t2.trmode,
t2.channel,
t2.teststate,
t2.refstate,
t2.filterstate,
t2.data_id5,
CASE
WHEN t2.testname = 'test_1' THEN t3.input_1
WHEN t2.testname = 'test_2' THEN t4.input_2
WHEN t2.testname = 'test_3' THEN t5.input_3
END AS INPUT
t3.output_1
t3.output_2,
t3.output_3,
t4.output_1,
t4.output_2,
t4.output_3,
t5.output_1,
t5.output_2
FROM tst_master t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN table_2 t2
ON ( t2.run_id = t1.run_id )
LEFT OUTER JOIN table_5 t5
ON ( t5.header_id = t2.header_id )
LEFT OUTER JOIN table_3 t3
ON ( t3.header_id = t2.header_id )
LEFT OUTER JOIN table_4 t4
ON ( t4.header_id = t2.header_id )
WHERE ( ( t1.wafer_number IN ( 'wafer_1' , 'wafer_2' , 'wafer_3' ) ) )
AND ( t2.testname IN ( 'test_1', 'test_2', 'test_3' ) )
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pmroz
Super User
Re: SQL - Very Large Data Table
ODBC tends to be slow. You could try:
• Running your query in a tool like PL/SQL Developer, SQL Navigator or Toad. These products have faster access to Oracle
• Export the data to a .CSV file
• Import the CSV file into JMP
If you have SQL server there are similar products; just not familiar with any of them.
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Level IV
Re: SQL - Very Large Data Table
Thanks for the reply... That is an interesting idea. I am going to try it
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Yngeinstn
Level IV
Re: SQL - Very Large Data Table
Quick question. Would i gain anything but upgrading my computer to a more beefed up system or am i still limited to whatever is causing the lag?
Thanks
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pmroz
Super User
Re: SQL - Very Large Data Table
Faster CPU and more RAM will always help.
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HTTP.getWebpageHtml()
Get the HTML from a web page.
Usage
Hover over inputs/exits for more info.
var HTTP = require('machinepack-http');
// Get the HTML from a web page.
HTTP.getWebpageHtml({
url: 'http://www.example.com/games/search?q=minecraft&page=14',
headers: {},
}).exec({
// An unexpected error occurred.
error: function (err) {
},
// A non-2xx status code was returned from the server.
non200Response: function (result) {
},
// Unexpected connection error: could not send or receive HTTP request.
requestFailed: function () {
},
// OK.
success: function (result) {
},
});
Inputs
url required
The URL of the web page to fetch.
'http://www.example.com/games/search?q=minecraft&page=14'
headers
Custom headers to include in the request (e.g. {"X-Auth": "k3yboardc4t"}).
{}
Exits
error
An unexpected error occurred.
non200Response
A non-2xx status code was returned from the server.
{
statusCode: 404,
headers: {},
body: '...[{"maybe some JSON": "like this"}] (but could be any string)'
}
requestFailed
Unexpected connection error: could not send or receive HTTP request.
success
OK.
'<html><body><h1>Hello world</h1></body></html>' | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
User:Oracleexpert/Oracle Bills Of Material
Oracle Bills Of Material (BOM) module is part of Oracle Applications ERP suite. Oracle BOM module helps you to define the Bills Of Material required to manufacture the assembly.
Functionality supported by Oracle BOM
* Create primary BOM
* Create alternate BOM
* Revise/Modify/delete BOM
* Create primary Routings
* Create secondary Routings
* Create Workday Calendar
* Setup Resources and Departments
* Calculate Manufacturing & total lead times
* Configure-To-Order(CTO) process
* Single level and multi-level indented BOM
Types Of BOMs supported
* Standard BOM
* Model BOM
* Option Class BOM
* Planning BOM
* Engineering BOM
* Phantom BOM
Dependencies with modules
* Oracle Inventory (INV): Required for setting up items before BOMs can be created.
* Oracle Costing (CST): Required for setting up Item cost and cost roll-up
* Oracle Work-In-Process (WIP): Assemblies are manufactured according to the BOMs.
* Oracle Order Management (OM): Sales Orders can be entered and items can be selected based on BOM type.
External References
* 1) Oracle BOM data sheet
* 2) Oracle BOM tutorials
* 3) Oracle BOM user guide
Other Modules
* 1) Inventory
* 2) Advanced Product Catalog | WIKI |
GSK ready to build drug testing in EU as Brexit looms
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) is moving ahead with Brexit contingency planning “right now”, including preparing a system to test drugs in the European Union if Britain crashes out of the bloc without a trade deal. Drugmakers are particularly affected by Brexit because of the highly regulated nature of their business. Chief Executive Emma Walmsley said drug companies needed clarity on future relations with the EU as soon as possible to minimize disruption to medicine supplies and repeated her earlier plea for a transition period of at least two years. Although the impact of Brexit on GSK’s overall business will not be material, as Britain accounts for only 4 percent of sales, GSK needs fall-back arrangements, including a way to retest UK-manufactured batches of drugs shipped to Europe. “It is mainly related to the construction of new testing facilities across Europe and potential preparations for license changes as well,” Walmsley said of the company’s contingency planning. “All of that work is underway in the detailed planning group, and we will be ready for it as necessary.” She made her comments to reporters after announcing quarterly results on Wednesday. Britain has a large pharmaceuticals sector and produces many medicines used in Europe and other countries. A disorderly exit from the EU in March 2019 with no system in place to ensure drug supplies would threaten those supply lines. Drug companies want to remain within the European regulatory system as far as possible, even as the London-based European Medicines Agency prepares to relocate to another city inside the EU as a result of Brexit. Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday he was aiming for an outline Brexit transition deal by the first quarter of 2018. Businesses across all sectors are anxious to see the details of such a deal as they draw up investment plans for the year ahead. Reporting by Ben Hirschler; Editing by Mark Potter | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
The director of Ingrid Goes West on taking inspiration from Instagram influencers and The Talented Mr. Ripley
Matt Spicer’s new film Ingrid Goes West is the warmest, most interesting movie I’ve ever seen about a cellphone. Aubrey Plaza stars as Ingrid, an unmoored young woman left with no friends or close family after her mother’s slow, painful death. She’s made a habit of turning to her phone for companionship and guidance. With a pile of life insurance money waiting to be spent, she decides the best way to find herself is to make the same dramatic life decision as generations of young Americans, and head west. The Gen-Y twist is that her manifest destiny isn’t just the beaches and palm trees. She’s desperate to form a friendship with her favorite Instagram influencer (Elizabeth Olsen), who she initially bewitches by stealing her dog, then “finding” and returning it. (As if to emphasize just how eerily accurate the film is, Olsen recently gave an interview in which she said she joined Instagram just to capitalize on the “opportunity” for sponsored content and brand ambassadorship.) It would have been all too easy for this movie to turn into a cheap parody of social media culture, and an unfair, unsympathetic portrait of a young woman with material obsessions and no moral code. But Ingrid Goes West evades that fate with on-the-nose detail (Joan Didion quotes, Edward Sharpe-inspired nuptials, “girl crushes,” fluttering-heart emoji, poached eggs) and a complicated antiheroine that puts Plaza at the top of her game. Plus, her charming, constantly vaping love interest (played by Straight Outta Compton’s O’Shea Jackson Jr.) is irrationally invested in Batman, giving the film space to lampoon boys’ pop culture obsessions right alongside its centralized, stereotypically feminine subject matter. The film even dares to ask, and makes a few satisfying attempts to answer, the question of what we want and need from social media. Though Instagram feeds and iMessages appear on the screen often, and the story is a dark, down-the-rabbit-hole psychological thriller, it’s easy to feel a warmth and solidarity with Ingrid, and to find her longing for connection familiar and relatable. Recently, I spoke to director and co-writer Matt Spicer about why and how he decided to tackle the tricky questions at the heart of Ingrid Goes West. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. How did you decide to make a movie about Instagram influencers? It came out of a regular lunch between me and Dave [Branson Smith], the co-writer. We’d been friends for a while and we were just shooting the breeze and talking about Instagram. We both love it, but it had us feeling shit about ourselves sometimes. Feeling like we’re not cool enough, or not going on enough vacations. It can bring out the dark side of you, if you’re not careful. I think it was Dave who said, “Well, wouldn’t it be funny if there was kind of a Talented Mr. Ripley or Single White Female with social media?” We kind of laughed about it, but then I couldn’t stop thinking about it over the next couple of days. I called him and I was like, “You know, I think we should do something like this.” We started brainstorming from there, and outlining. Did you do any research? How did you decide which type of Instagram influencer this movie was going to be about? My girlfriend and [Dave’s] wife are super active on social media because of their jobs, so I tangentially have a lot of exposure to that stuff, and so did he. We told them the idea and they were really helpful through the whole process — reading drafts and giving us guidance and notes and turning us on to specific people they thought would be funny references. When we initially settled in on doing something like this, I think, a) we’ve all already seen The Talented Mr. Ripley, and b) because the culture of Instagram and of society in general is different for women than it is for men, it made more sense if they were both women. Once we settled on that, we started thinking, “Okay, who are these women who make a living by putting their lives online, and going on vacation and wearing cool clothes?” There are so many of them out there, and we went down a real rabbit hole with all these different Instagrammers. We were looking at what kind of stuff they post, what kind of captions they write, what emoji they use, how they talk. It was fascinating from an anthropological standpoint. How did you discuss how you were going to physically present Instagram on-screen? It was really important to me that we use Instagram and not create a fake “Pictogram” or something. I hate when I see something on TV and it’s clearly supposed to be Facebook or Instagram, but it’s not. We talked to our lawyers, and they advised us on what we could or couldn’t do. It’s a harder road to go down, and a more annoying one. For example, Instagram totally changed their interface while we were shooting. We shot all these insert shots of the phone with a certain interface, and then they didn’t match anymore. That was really frustrating. We had to fix some stuff in post-[production]. I just thought it made the film feel so much more real and relevant, by having it be Instagram and not some made-up thing. Familiarity with that app is such a part of our daily lives, I think for most people, as soon as you change it, it doesn’t feel right. Something feels off about it. “Going west” is a timeless symbol of personal reinvention in American literature and film. Is that related to her urge to model her life after an Instagram influencer’s? I’m not from LA. I’m from Pennsylvania, and I came out to LA to be a filmmaker when I was younger. For me, California and LA have always been where you go to realize your dreams and be the version of yourself you’ve always wanted to be. Obviously the reality of that is much more nuanced, and it’s not all bad, but it’s not all great, either. It’s challenging to navigate that and still maintain a shred of your own personality and self in a place where it’s really easy to get lost. That definitely applies to her situation. This idea of building your personal brand and your image is so ingrained in the culture [of LA]. It just made sense that it was LA and not like, Austin, which is a cool city, but the social commentary isn’t quite as sharp. Even New York is not quite the same as LA in that regard. Do you consider Ingrid an antihero or a true protagonist? There were times when I wasn’t sure whether the movie was sympathetic to her. The films that inspired us were, again, The Talented Mr. Ripley, or Taxi Driver, for instance. They’re films where the main character is clearly not a role model. But they’re really interesting, complex people. There aren’t a ton of roles like that for women. It was really exciting to create a part like this that hopefully, in our wildest dreams, lives alongside those characters as a complicated… yeah, anti-hero, I guess, would be a good word for it. We’re not supposed to like everything she’s doing, and she’s definitely not a role model, but what’s interesting is the parts of her we do relate to. I think it’s interesting to have characters we can reference in order to recognize the darker parts of ourselves. The Talented Mr. Ripley is about really obvious class striving and class barriers. Do you think that type of thing is re-created on Instagram? Yeah, and in a way, it’s weird, because people don’t talk about class as much as they used to. Anyone can become a celebrity now. The usual pathways to fame have been broken down. Now all you need is a phone and an eye for photography, and anyone can build a brand and become famous. How do we define class, and how do we define fame? It seems so fragmented now. In a way, it’s good. But in a way, it’s also… it can make you feel even worse about yourself. In the old days, there were celebrities and then there was everybody else. And so there wasn’t that much pressure on someone from Pittsburgh, or wherever. It was like, “I’ll go to the movies, and I’ll enjoy living that fantasy through [celebrities], and then I’ll go back to my normal life.” Now we’re all expected to live this glamorous life and put our best self online, and it’s just adding stress and anxiety to people’s lives. With the death of Ingrid’s mother being the catalyst for the rest of the events of the film, I got the sense that what she was looking for on Instagram was mostly guidance on how to be a person. And some affection. She references it in the film, but we talk about her mom having a drinking problem. I went to some Alcoholics Anonymous meetings while we were writing, to hear people talk about their experiences growing up in those kind of households. The one common refrain was that, for a lot of people who grew up in those environments, healthy relationships feel unhealthy, and vice versa. The way you are taught to ask for love and affection is very different than how it is for other people. Yeah, I don’t think Ingrid knows how to ask for what she needs in terms of validation or human affection, so she starts looking for it the only way she knows how: through her phone, because she’s alone. She doesn’t have anybody around her to tell her not to do something. To say, “Maybe it’s not a good idea to go all the way to California to become friends with someone you talked to on the internet one time.” But that feels good to her. That’s definitely it. A lot of the things we do online, I think that’s the question: why are we doing this? What are we looking for here? Are we looking for validation from strangers, and why are we looking for that? What audience do you think is going to respond most immediately and intimately to a movie like this? I’m hoping young people go see it. They’re the ones I think are going to be most affected by social media. People say young people don’t go to the movies anymore, but I hope they make an exception in our case. I hope it provokes conversation in terms of looking at this thing they’ve probably had their whole lives, and saying, “Why do I post this, and what do I hope to get out of it?” But it’s funny, we screened it for very diverse audiences over the last six months, and older people have a really strong reaction to it as well. Aubrey Plaza’s character is in her late 20s, which really feels like the prime age to me for this story. Teenagers have it figured out. I don’t think they’re the ones struggling with these questions. I’m in my early 30s, and I feel like I’m in that middle generation where I remember what it was like before social media, but it’s such a part of my life now that it’s hard to remember. Then there are people like my parents, who are on Facebook, and they’re just so excited to share photos, but it’s a fun little hobby for them. It’s not their whole lives. Then there’s my sister, in the younger generation, for whom it’s just all-consuming, and they don’t even think about it. They don’t even know what it was like to not have Twitter or Instagram or instant messaging or every song available to you online whenever you want. This movie still feels like an extreme, though. It’s almost a horror movie. It doesn’t seem like something that’s happening all the time. So that’s good. Yeah, well, I hope it’s not happening to people. Ingrid Goes West opens in limited release on August 11th. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
Mitigating the side effects of Diabetic Retinopathy
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The main side effect or consequence of the condition in patients with advanced stages of diabetic retinopathy and/or macular oedema is reduced visual acuity. In this respect, low-vision aids ensure patients with severely affected eyesight can still lead a relatively independent lifestyle. Special training, called vision rehabilitation, can teach patients the skills they need to live with low vision. A low-vision specialist can help patients identify the most suitable combination of aids according to their needs.
Amongst others, low-vision aids include: magnifying glasses and screens, telescopic lenses, lenses with special filters, high-intensity reading lights, and specially designed computers and tablets.
Healthy habits
do not smoke
Tobacco. Smoking is the main modifiable risk factor. People with diabetes who also smoke face a significant increase in the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, mortality, stroke and heart attack compared with non-smokers.
No alcohol
Alcohol. If people with diabetes consume alcohol but without eating any food, it can trigger low blood sugar levels. Individuals with high lipid levels (cholesterol and triglycerides), neuropathy, liver disease, pancreatitis, pregnant women and those with a history of alcoholism should abstain from alcohol.
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Obesity. The initial aim of the treatment is to reduce the percentage of body fat to levels that improve the associated risk factors, thus minimising complications and improving quality of life. Small amounts of weight loss (5–10%) result in better control of clinical, metabolic and psychological factors.
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Diet. Individuals with diabetes comment that dietary control is one of the hardest aspects to manage. Diet should be adapted to each patient’s individual characteristics, for example their drug therapy (tablets or insulin injections), whether they are overweight, risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, etc. It should be varied, enjoyable, easy to follow, take account of the patient’s age and preferences, and they must be able to integrate the diet into their social, occupational and family lifestyle as they will follow it for their entire life.
Carbohydrates are essential to help control blood sugar levels as they have an influence of up to 50% on any variation in glycaemic response.
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Exercise. Nowadays, people with diabetes are advised to complete a minimum of 2–3 hours/week of moderate physical activity, spread out over at least 3 days per week, and to avoid more than 2 consecutive days without any exercise. Patients who take insulin must measure their capillary blood sugar level before and during exercise, and perform extra analyses after exercising to avoid delayed hypoglycaemia associated with the physical activity.
sleep
Importance of and tips for sleeping well. A good night’s sleep helps the pancreas regulate blood insulin levels. It is very important that patients get good quality sleep; therefore, they should stick to regular sleeping patterns and develop some healthy habits, such as avoiding coffee and smoking before bedtime and afternoon naps.
Sexual relations
Sexuality. Diabetes can produce sexual dysfunction in approximately half of patients and this proportion increases as the condition advances. Diabetes has a negative effect on sexual function due to a combination of factors, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even some of the medications, together with the psychological factors linked to the disease. These elements are treated with drug therapy, sexual therapy and by controlling the underlying risk factors.
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Travelling. Travelling with diabetic retinopathy does not represent a problem for patients who preserve their visual function, so long as they follow their normal drug or insulin therapy, control their diet very closely and take special care when eating foods in strange situations.
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Social and emotional support. Obtaining support, encouragement and empathy from others is a vital consideration for maintaining motivation and ensuring well-controlled diabetes. Patients should speak with their friends and family, so they know how they feel, what they need and what they do not want. In this regard, other people with diabetes can also be a great source of support.
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Anna Sala
Marc Figueras
Victoria Hernández
Published: 3 July 2018
Updated: 3 July 2018
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Union for the Nation
Union for the Nation (Union pour la Nation) is a political party in Benin. The general secretary of the party (as of 2000) is Alexandre Hountondji. | WIKI |
Concert Properties
Concert Properties Ltd. (which is related to Concert Real Estate Corporation) is a Canadian real estate company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It is owned by 19 union and management pension funds and its commercial assets are valued at over $8 billion.
Concert Properties is the largest developer of rental housing in Western Canada, with properties in the Greater Toronto Area, Metropolitan Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, including 7,600 homes, 500,000 square feet of commercial space, 18 police facilities in Ontario, and three Tapestry retirement communities. The company has also built 22 schools in Alberta and 18 in Saskatchewan.
The previous chief executive officer (CEO) and President of Concert Properties was David Podmore. The current chief executive officer (CEO) and President is Christine Bergeron, the former CEO of Vancity Credit Union.
History
The Vancouver Land Corporation was co-founded in 1989 by Jack W. Poole and David R. Podmore to develop economically priced rental housing in British Columbia. The company's name was later changed to Greystone Properties, and then to its current name, Concert Properties. The company was created jointly by the Provincial government, the City of Vancouver, and 26 union pension funds.
Some media reports in 2005 indicated that Jack Poole planned for the Concert to bid on some Olympic Games infrastructure projects, but Poole abandoned these plans due to negative media coverage. He later died of cancer at the age of 76.
In 2017, David Podmore stepped down as CEO of Concert and was replaced by Brian McCauley. McCauley left the company in 2022 and Podmore took over as Chair, President and CEO. In June 2017, Concert paid RioCan, another real estate company, $26.3 million for a 50% interest in Toronto's oldest strip plaza, the Sunnybrook Plaza. The two companies planned to collaborate on its redevelopment.
In 2018, Concert announced they would be redeveloping Coquitlam Park into 8 buildings comprising up to 2,600 housing units. The City of Coquitlam will cover half the costs, and the first phase is expected to be completed by 2023. Many Coquitlam residents have expressed concern over the project and want the park to remain unchanged. | WIKI |
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] with that august mausoleum was called by the name of the “August-Mausoleum of the White-Bird..” [sic] Nevertheless the bird soared up thence to heaven again, and flew away.
During all the time that this [Prince] His Augustness Yamato-take went about pacifying countries, Nana-tsuka-hagi, ancestor of the Suzerains of Kume, always followed and respectfully served him as butler.
This [Prince] His Augustness Yamato-take wedded Her Augustness Princess Futaji-no-iri, daughter of the Heavenly Sovereign Ikume, and begot an august child: His Augustness Tarashi-naka-tsu-hiko. Again, wedding Her Augustness Princess Oto-tachibana who [afterwards] entered the sea, he begot an august child: King Waka-take | WIKI |
ダウンロードする Macrium Reflect 5.0.4620
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# New
* PrimoBurner update
- Macrium Reflect now uses CD/DVD burning engine PrimoBurner 3.6. This has support for a greater range of hardware and resolves the rare issue of occasional hangs seen with the previous version.
# Bug fixes:
* Scheduled task display error
- Incremental and Differential backup jobs could incorrectly be shown as Full in the 'Scheduled Backups' tab. This has been resolved.
* WAIK Time-zone
- Creation of WAIK based rescue media may not take the time-zone into account and image files could appear with the wrong time. This has been resolved.
* Uninstall Shell Registry Extensions
- When uninstalling, approved shell extensions would be removed. This has been resolved.
> Note: This fix applies to the removal of full installs of this version and later.
* Installation Issue
- The Macrium Reflect installer would encounter issues on machines with no network adaptors. This has been resolved.
* Linux Rescue CD Volume Names
- Linux Rescue CD could show the same volume label for all volumes. This has been resolved.
* Menu Consistency
- Some menu items have been re-ordered for consistentency.
* WinPE WAIK Taskbar
- The Taskbar under WAIK WinPE rescue media could occasionally not be visible. This has been resolved.
* ReDeploy Active Service
- Macrium ReDeploy was not catering for some vendor active service settings. This has been resolved.
* VSS Debug Logging
- Enhanced VSS debug logging was not present even if selected in the Advanced Properties. This has been resolved.
* File & Folder Search Cancel
- Cancelling or stopping a File & Folder Search for restore could cause Reflect to hang in certain circumstances. This has been resolved.
* Rescue Media Creation
- The creation of rescue media was not catering for edge cases of linking USB root hubs to USB3 host controllers. This has been resolved.
* PE Explorer
- PE Explorer, location toolbar lost on escape keypress in location editbox. This has been resolved
* Restore UI
- Image and backup files could remain in the list of files even if the folder was removed from the search list. This has been resolved
* Rescue media Wizard
- The horizontal scrollbar was missing from the Rescue Wizard drivers page device list. This has been resolved | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Roger Woolhouse
Roger Stuart Woolhouse (15 February 1940 – 24 September 2011) was an English philosopher, an expert on empiricism and rationalism and a biographer of John Locke.
He was born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Saltburn Primary School, Sir William Turner's Grammar School, London University (Philosophy) and then Selwyn College, Cambridge for his Doctorate.
From 1969 until his retirement in 2001, Woolhouse worked in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York.
Cambridge University Press requested Woolhouse write a biography of Locke, the last major biography being Maurice Cranston's 1957 work. Woolhouse's biography appeared in 2007.
After his death, York's Department of Philosophy founded the Roger Woolhouse Prize, an annual £500 prize awarded to MA Philosophy students.
Works
* Locke (Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1984).
* The Empiricists (Oxford University Press, 1988).
* Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics (Routledge, 1993).
* Starting with Leibniz (Continuum, 2010).
* Starting with Leibniz (Continuum, 2010). | WIKI |
Optimal stroke volume in left-ventricular ejection
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Abstract
Optimal value of stroke volume ejected against a given arterial load is studied, i.e. left-ventricular function is described by an optimization model. In the model, end-diastolic volume (V/sub ed/), the linear end-systolic pressure-volume relation, heart rate, and ejection time are given, and arterial load is described by the three-element windkessel model.
The cost function of the model takes into account two optimality criteria for ventricular function: energy economy and efficient response to an increase in V/sub ed/. The observed stroke volumes of isolated canine hearts could be predicted quite accurately by the model. It is concluded that the left-ventricular response to a change in arterial load and V/sub ed/ can be explained by an optimization model when contractility and heart rate are kept constant.
The results also strongly suggest that energy economy and efficiency are essential features of left-ventricular function.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)172-182
JournalIEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1989
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed
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The Role of O-GlcNAcylation on G6PD in the Pentose Phosphate Pathway on Tumor Growth of Lung Cancers.
Bosco Giap
Introduction: Lung cancer is the leading causes of cancer deaths amongst both men and women. General prognosis of lung cancer is poor because it is typically not found until it is at an advanced stage. Researchers have gone to the extent of understanding cancer cell metabolism, DNA replication and repair mechanisms in order to target these cancers at an earlier stage. In a study conducted by Rao et al., one specific protein, Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) was hypothesized to have increased activity via protein modification process known as O-GlcNAcylation, resulting in increased production of nucleotide precursors necessary for DNA replication and repair. This paper seeks to highlight and analyze the study’s hypothesis; through modifications of G6PD and the pentose phosphate pathway by O-GlcNAcylation, there is a change in metabolism displayed in lung cancer cells. Methods: Five individual experiments were conducted to analyze the relationship between the O-GlcNAcylated modified protein, G6PD, and the changes in cancer cell activity and growth. The first experiment determined whether G6PD is O-GlcNAcylated in the cancer cells by enzymatically labelling all O-GlcNac-modified proteins with an azido-N-acetylgalactosamine sugar and overexpressing the O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) gene. The second experiment sought to determine the biological effects of O-GlcNAcylation on G6PD via measuring enzyme activity. The third experiment took a larger scale approach to see if O-GlcNAcylated G6PD would promote the pentose phosphate pathway by comparing DNA synthesis between WT or S84V G6PD lung cancer cells. The fourth experiment determined whether G6PD glycosylation would lead to tumor formation in vivo. The fifth experiment demonstrated G6PD upregulation in lung cancer cells compared to normal cells. Results: The first experiment showed O-GlcNAcylated G6PD was enhanced 4.5 fold by overexpressing OGT, demonstrating that G6PD is O-GlcNAcylated. The second experiment showed enhanced G6PD activity two to fourfold. The third experiment showed that WT G6PD lung cancer cells that were O-GlcNAcylated showed significant increase in DNA synthesis when compared to the S84V mutant replaced cells. The fourth experiment showed a significant difference in tumor growth between WT G6PD mice compared to S84V mice. The fifth experiment showed a higher level of OGT expression correlated with increased G6PD glycosylation. Conclusions: Studies have shown that there is a correlation between glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and cancer cell proliferation, and by limiting G6PD, cancer cell growth and proliferation can be significantly reduced. Understanding the relationship of this modification may lead to possible therapeutic options for treating cancers in the future.
1. Caldwell SA, Jackson SR, Shahriari KS, Lynch TP, Sethi G, Walker S, Vosseller K, Reginato MJ (2010) Nutrient sensor O-GlcNAc transferase regulates breast cancer tumorigenesis through targeting of the oncogenic transcription factor FoxM1. Oncogene 29(19):2831–2842. doi: 1038/onc.2010.41
2. Gross BJ, Kraybill BC, Walker S (2005) Discovery of O-GlcNAc transferase inhibitors. J Am Chem Soc 127(42):14588–14589. doi: 1021/ja0555217
3. Jiang P, Du W, Yang X. A critical role of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in TAp73-mediated cell proliferation. Cell Cycle. 2013;12(24):3720-3726. doi:10.4161/cc.27267.
4. Jiang P, Du W, Wu M. Regulation of the pentose phosphate pathway in cancer. Protein & Cell. 2014;5(8):592-602. doi:10.1007/s13238-014-0082-8.
5. Lemjabbar-Alaoui H, Hassan O, Yang Y-W, Buchanan P. Lung cancer: biology and treatment options. Biochimica et biophysica acta. 2015;1856(2):189-210. doi:10.1016/j.bbcan.2015.08.002.
6. Ming Lu, Lu Lu, Qiongzhu Dong, Guangyang Yu, Jinhong Chen, Lunxiu Qin, Lianxin Wang, Wenwei Zhu, Huliang Jia; Elevated G6PD expression contributes to migration and invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition, Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica, Volume 50, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 370–380
7. Patra KC, Hay N. The pentose phosphate pathway and cancer. Trends in biochemical sciences. 2014;39(8):347-354. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2014.06.005.
8. Rao X, Duan X, Mao W, et al. O-GlcNAcylation of G6PD promotes the pentose phosphate pathway and tumor growth. Nature Communications. 2015;6:8468. doi:10.1038/ncomms9468.
9. Rozanski W, Krzeslak A, Forma E, Brys M, Blewniewski M, Wozniak P, Lipinski M (2012) Prediction of bladder cancer based on urinary content of MGEA5 and OGT mRNA level. Clin Lab 58(5–6):579–583
10. Singh A, Happel C, Manna SK, et al. Transcription factor NRF2 regulates miR-1 and miR-206 to drive tumorigenesis. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2013;123(7):2921-2934. doi:10.1172/JCI66353.
11. Turgeon M-O, Perry NJS, Poulogiannis G. DNA Damage, Repair, and Cancer Metabolism. Frontiers in Oncology. 2018;8:15. doi:10.3389/fonc.2018.00015.
12. Tomic J, McCaw L, Li Y, Hough MR, Ben-David Y, Moffat J, Spaner DE (2013) Resveratrol has anti-leukemic activity associated with decreased O-Glcnacylated proteins. Exp Hematol. doi: 1016/j.exphem.2013.04.004
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Mod sum graph labelling of Hm, n and Kn
@article{Sutton1999ModSG,
title={Mod sum graph labelling of Hm, n and Kn},
author={Martin Sutton and Mirka Miller},
journal={Australasian J. Combinatorics},
year={1999},
volume={20},
pages={233-240}
}
The mod sum number p( G) of a connected graph G is the minimum number of isolated vertices required to transform G into a mod sum graph. It is known that the mod sum number is greater than zero for wheels, Wn, when n > 4 and for the complete graphs, Kn when n 2: 2. In this paper we show that p( Hm,n) > 0 for n > m ;::: 3. Vie show further that P(K2) = P(K3) = 1 while p(Kn) = n for n ;::: 4. We thus provide for the first time q,n exact nonzero mod sum number for an infinite class of graphs. | ESSENTIALAI-STEM |
Warrantless searches in the United States
Warrantless searches are searches and seizures conducted without court-issued search warrants.
In the United States, warrantless searches are restricted under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, which states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
History
In the Thirteen Colonies, agents of the British Empire utilized general warrants to authorize searches in the homes of colonists. Such warrants allowed the holder to search any place for any thing at any time. They were viewed as abuses of power, contributing to increased tensions that ultimately led to the American Revolution. The Fourth Amendment barred all warrantless searches and all general warrants; nevertheless, the interpretation and limitations of the Fourth Amendment and the permissibility of warrantless searches under certain circumstances, such as wartime, have been important in the history of executive and judicial power in the United States.
During the American Revolutionary War, "the Continental Congress regularly received quantities of intercepted British and Tory mail". See intelligence in the American Revolutionary War.
In 1975, the Church Committee, a United States Senate select committee chaired by Frank Church of Idaho, a Democrat, investigated domestic and foreign Cold War area intelligence-gathering by the federal government, including warrantless surveillance on anti-war advocates inside America. The committee report found the "Americans who violated no criminal law and represented no genuine threat to the 'national security' have been targeted, regardless of the stated predicate. In many cases, the implementation of wiretaps and bugs has also been fraught with procedural violations, even when the required procedures were meager, thus compounding the abuse. The inherently intrusive nature of electronic surveillance, moreover, has enabled the Government to generate vast amounts of information – unrelated to any legitimate governmental interest – about the personal and political lives of American citizens."
The "potential criminal liability of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency for operations such as SHAMROCK (interception of all international cable traffic from 1945 to 1975) and MINARET (use of watchlists of U.S. dissidents and potential civil disturbers to provide intercept information to law enforcement agencies from 1969 to 1973)" helped persuade president Gerald Ford in 1976 to seek surveillance legislation, which was ultimately enacted as Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978.
Abuses of power by the federal government led to reform legislation in the 1970s. Advancing technology began to present questions not directly addressed by the legislation as early as 1985.
In its 1985 report "Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties", the nonpartisan Congressional Office of Technology Assessment suggested legislation be considered for a surveillance oversight board. Congress disbanded this agency in 1995.
Clinton administration
On July 14, 1994, President Clinton's Deputy Attorney General and later 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that "The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes … and that the president may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney General." This "inherent authority" was used to search the home of CIA spy Aldrich Ames without a warrant. "It is important to understand", Gorelick continued, "that the rules and methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities".
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
On December 16, 2005, the New York Times printed a story asserting that following 9/11, "President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying", as part of the War on Terrorism:
"Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications."
The revelation of this program caused a widespread controversy, with legal experts and politicians concluding that it violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other legal experts saying that the FISA law only applied to domestic calls and not to overseas calls and communications that involved a foreign intelligence threat. Bush administration officials such as the Attorney General defended the program by citing that this was a part of the justification that the Clinton administration used in its warrantless search of Aldrich Ames. They claimed that since Ames was spying for a foreign power, presidential power applied and FISA did not.
NSA call database
In May 2006, it was revealed that the Bush administration had also been compiling a database of telephone calls, created by the National Security Agency (NSA) with the cooperation of three of the largest telephone carriers in the United States: AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth. All three companies were paid to provide the information to the NSA. It is speculated that the database contains over 1.9 trillion call-detail records of phone calls made after September 11, 2001. The database's existence prompted fierce objection from those who viewed it as a warrantless or illegal search – nevertheless, the collection of such third-party information has been authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act, and has been upheld by the courts.
US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
In a 2002 opinion entitled In re: Sealed Case No. 02-001, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review examined all the significant appellate decisions. The court noted all the Federal courts of appeal having looked at the issue had concluded that there was such constitutional power. Furthermore, if there was such power, "FISA could not encroach on the president's constitutional power", However, In Re Sealed Case "[took] for granted" that these cases are correct:
"The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. It was incumbent upon the court, therefore, to determine the boundaries of that constitutional authority in the case before it. We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President's constitutional power ...
... Even without taking into account the President's inherent constitutional authority to conduct warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance, we think the procedures and government showings required under FISA, if they do not meet the minimum Fourth Amendment warrant standards, certainly come close. We, therefore, believe firmly, applying the balancing test drawn from Keith, that FISA as amended is constitutional because the surveillances it authorizes are reasonable."
The "balancing test drawn from Keith" is a reference to United States v. U.S. District Court, in which the Supreme Court of the United States established a legal test to determine whether the primary use of the warrantless search was to collect foreign intelligence, as per presidential authority, or whether that primary use is to gather evidence for use in a criminal trial.
Exceptions to the search warrant requirement
The warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment is not absolute, and a number of exceptions to that requirement have been recognized by the courts, based upon such factors as whether it is reasonable under the circumstances for officers to obtain a warrant, and whether evidence might be lost or destroyed before a warrant can be obtained.
Common exceptions include:
* Administrative searches: Routine administrative searches;
* Border search: The person or property of a person is searched when they attempt to enter the United States from a foreign nation or territory;
* Consent: The person who is searched, or who is in control of property that is searched, agrees to the search;
* Exigent circumstances: A pressing need to act without delay;
* Inventory search: A search is conducted of items taken into police custody pursuant to a formal policy;
* Plain feel: Contraband or evidence of criminal activity can be recognized through a suspect's clothing during a lawful pat down;
* Plain view: Evidence of criminal activity can be observed by a police officer from a lawful vantage point;
* Probation search: A person on probation may be required to consent to searches of their person, property and home as a condition of probation;
* Safety checks: Entry is made into premises to ensure that people inside are not in danger or in need of medical assistance, with evidence of criminal activity observed incidentally to the safety check; and
* Search incident to arrest: A suspect and the suspect's immediate surroundings are searched at the time the suspect is arrested. | WIKI |
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Rh ordain a bishop for India. Simon did not dare do so for fear of the Moslem governor. But Theodore, Patriarch of the Gainite party (p. 220), ordained a man from Maryuṭ bishop, and two priests, and sent them on their way to India. But the Khalif's soldiers caught them and sent them back to Egypt. Here the governor cut off their hands and feet and made a great trouble with both Simon and Theodore. We notice already that these negotiations with Monophysites show that the Nestorian theology was not considered a very vital issue in Malabar, if indeed the native Church understood the particular doctrine of its Katholikos at all.
The next incident is interesting to us. Our King Alfred, of all people, had relations with Malabar. When the Danes were besieging London, Alfred (871-901) made a vow, if they were driven back, to send gifts to Rome, and also to India in honour of St. Thomas and St. Bartholomew. In 883 he sent Sighelm or Suithelm, Bishop of Shireburn, with the gifts. Sighelm came to Rome and then went on to the Malabar coast. He made his offerings here, and brought back from his long journey jewels and spices. Strange to see an English bishop in India in 883. Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) describes the "pepper-coast of Malabar," tells stories about its trade and customs, but says nothing about Christians there. However, he knows that there are Christians in India; he describes St. Thomas' tomb at Mailapur and tells the story of his mission and death.
Two relics of the time before the Portuguese conquest throw further light on the early history of this Church. The first is the Mailapur Cross. In 1547, as the Portuguese were digging the foundations for a church at Mailapur, they found a stone carved with a cross. Various miracles are told of this cross. It bled, and | WIKI |
ArcGIS Pro 3.3 API Reference Guide
ArcGIS.Core.Geometry Namespace / GeometryEngine Class / Relate Method
The first geometry in the relation.
The second geometry in the relation.
The DE-9IM matrix relation encoded as a string.
Example
In This Topic
Relate Method (GeometryEngine)
In This Topic
Performs custom relational operations between two geometries using a Dimensionally Extended Nine-Intersection Model, DE-9IM, formatted string.
Syntax
Public Function Relate( _
ByVal geometry1 As Geometry, _
ByVal geometry2 As Geometry, _
ByVal relateString As String _
) As Boolean
Parameters
geometry1
The first geometry in the relation.
geometry2
The second geometry in the relation.
relateString
The DE-9IM matrix relation encoded as a string.
Return Value
Returns true if the relation holds, false otherwise.
Exceptions
ExceptionDescription
Either geometry1 or geometry2 or both are null.
The method is not implemented for GeometryBag or Multipatch.
Incompatible spatial references between the input geometries.
Invalid relate string; the string is null.
Spatial reference of geometry1or geometry2is an image coordinate system.
Remarks
The DE-9IM is a standard used to describe spatial relationships between two geometries and can be referenced at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-9IM.
Examples of how to use the Relate method can be found here. All of the predefined relational operations can be defined (including Intersect, Within, Contains, Crosses, Disjoint, Overlaps, Equals and Touches).
Example
Determine relationship between two geometries
// set up some geometries
// points
MapPoint point0 = MapPointBuilderEx.CreateMapPoint(0, 0, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
MapPoint point1 = MapPointBuilderEx.CreateMapPoint(1, 1, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
MapPoint point2 = MapPointBuilderEx.CreateMapPoint(-5, 5, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
// multipoint
List<MapPoint> points = new List<MapPoint>() { point0, point1, point2 };
Multipoint multipoint = MultipointBuilderEx.CreateMultipoint(points, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
// polygon
List<Coordinate2D> polygonCoords = new List<Coordinate2D>()
{
new Coordinate2D(-10, 0),
new Coordinate2D(0, 10),
new Coordinate2D(10, 0),
new Coordinate2D(-10, 0)
};
Polygon polygon = PolygonBuilderEx.CreatePolygon(polygonCoords, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
// polylines
Polyline polyline1 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(-9.1, 0.1), new Coordinate2D(0, 9)), SpatialReferences.WGS84);
Polyline polyline2 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(-5, 5), new Coordinate2D(0, 5)), SpatialReferences.WGS84);
Polyline polyline3 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(2.09, -2.04), new Coordinate2D(5, 10)), SpatialReferences.WGS84);
Polyline polyline4 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(10, -5), new Coordinate2D(10, 5)), SpatialReferences.WGS84);
List<Segment> segments = new List<Segment>()
{
LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(5.05, -2.87), new Coordinate2D(6.35, 1.57)),
LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(6.35, 1.57), new Coordinate2D(4.13, 2.59)),
LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(4.13, 2.59), new Coordinate2D(5, 5))
};
Polyline polyline5 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(segments, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
segments.Add(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(5, 5), new Coordinate2D(10, 10)));
Polyline polyline6 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(segments, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
Polyline polyline7 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(polyline5);
Polyline polyline8 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(5, 5), new Coordinate2D(10, 10)), SpatialReferences.WGS84);
segments.Clear();
segments.Add(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(0.6, 3.5), new Coordinate2D(0.7, 7)));
segments.Add(LineBuilderEx.CreateLineSegment(new Coordinate2D(0.7, 7), new Coordinate2D(3, 9)));
Polyline polyline9 = PolylineBuilderEx.CreatePolyline(segments, SpatialReferences.WGS84);
// now do the Related tests
// Interior/Interior Intersects
string scl = "T********";
bool related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline1, scl); // related = true
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(point0, point1, scl); // related = false
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(point0, multipoint, scl); // related = true
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(multipoint, polygon, scl); // related = true
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(multipoint, polyline1, scl); // related = false
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polyline2, point2, scl); // related = false
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(point1, polygon, scl); // related = true
// Interior/Boundary Intersects
scl = "*T*******";
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline2, scl); // related = true
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline3, scl); // related = false
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(point1, polygon, scl); // related = false
// Boundary/Boundary Interior intersects
scl = "***T*****";
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline4, scl); // related = true
// Overlaps Dim1
scl = "1*T***T**";
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline5, scl); // related = true
// Crosses Area/Line (LineB crosses PolygonA)
scl = "1020F1102";
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline6, scl); // related = false
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline9, scl); // related = true
// Boundary/Boundary Touches
scl = "F***T****";
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline7, scl); // related = false
related = GeometryEngine.Instance.Relate(polygon, polyline8, scl); // related = true
Requirements
Target Platforms: Windows 11, Windows 10
ArcGIS Pro version: 3 or higher.
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C15H19NO
The molecular formula C15H19NO (molar mass: 229.32 g/mol, exact mass: 229.1467 u) may refer to:
* Pronethalol (Alderlin, Nethalide)
* Furfenorex, or furfurylmethylamphetamine | WIKI |
Working With APIs the Pythonic Way
How to interact with external services in Python
Communication with external services is an integral part of any modern system. Whether it's a payment service, authentication, analytics or an internal one - systems need to talk to each other.
In this short article we are going to implement a module for communicating with a made-up payment gateway, step by step.
It used to be harder
It used to be harder
The External Service
Let's start by defining an imaginary payment service.
To charge a credit card we need a credit card token, an amount to charge (in cents) and some unique ID provided by the client (us):
POST
{
token: <string>,
amount: <number>,
uid: <string>,
}
If the charge was successful we get a 200 OK status with the data from our request, an expiration time for the charge and a transaction ID:
200 OK
{
uid: <string>,
amount: <number>,
token: <string>,
expiration: <string, isoformat>,
transaction_id: <number>
}
If the charge was not successful we get a 400 status with an error code and an informative message:
400 Bad Request
{
uid: <string>,
error: <number>,
message: <string>
}
There are two error codes we want to handle - 1 = refused, and 2 = stolen.
Naive Implementation
To get the ball rolling, we start with a naive implementation and build from there:
# payments.py
import uuid
import requests
PAYMENT_GATEWAY_BASE_URL = 'https://gw.com/api'
PAYMENT_GATEWAY_TOKEN = 'topsecret'
def charge(
amount,
token,
timeout=5,
):
"""Charge.
amount (int):
Amount in cents to charge.
token (str):
Credit card token.
timeout (int):
Timeout in seconds.
Returns (dict):
New payment information.
"""
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + PAYMENT_GATEWAY_TOKEN,
}
payload = {
"token": token,
"amount": amount,
"uid": str(uuid.uuid4()),
}
response = requests.post(
PAYMENT_GATEWAY_BASE_URL + '/charge',
json=payload,
headers=headers,
timeout=timeout,
)
response.raise_for_status()
return response.json()
90% of developer will stop here, so what is the problem?
Handling Errors
There are two types of errors we need to handle:
• HTTP errors such as connection errors, timeout or connection refused.
• Remote payment errors such as refusal or stolen card.
Our decision to use requests is an internal implementation detail. The consumer of our module shouldn't have to be aware of that.
To provide a complete API our module must communicate errors.
Let's start by defining custom error classes:
# errors.py
class Error(Exception):
pass
class Unavailable(Error):
pass
class PaymentGatewayError(Error):
def __init__(self, code, message):
self.code = code
self.message = message
class Refused(PaymentGatewayError):
pass
class Stolen(PaymentGatewayError):
pass
I previously wrote about the benefits of using a base error class.
Let's add exception handling and logging to our function:
import logging
from . import errors
logger = logging.getLogger('payments')
def charge(
amount,
token,
timeout=5,
):
# ...
try:
response = requests.post(
PAYMENT_GATEWAY_BASE_URL + '/charge',
json=payload,
headers=headers,
timeout=timeout,
)
response.raise_for_status()
except (requests.ConnectionError, requests.Timeout) as e:
raise errors.Unavailable() from e
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
if e.response.status_code == 400:
error = e.response.json()
code = error['code']
message = error['message']
if code == 1:
raise errors.Refused(code, message) from e
elif code == 2:
raise errors.Stolen(code, message) from e
else:
raise errors.PaymentGatewayError(code, message) from e
logger.exception("Payment service had internal error.")
raise errors.Unavailable() from e
Great! Our function no longer raises requests exceptions. Important errors such as stolen card or refusal are raised as custom exceptions.
Defining the Response
Our function returns a dict. A dict is a great and flexible data structure, but when you have a defined set of fields you are better off using a more targeted data type.
In every OOP class you learn that everything is an object. While it is true in Java land, Python has a lightweight solution that works better in our case - namedtuple.
A namedtuple is just like it sounds, a tuple where the fields have names. You use it like a class and it consumes less space (even compared to a class with slots).
Let's define a namedtuple for the charge response:
from collections import namedtuple
ChargeResponse = namedtuple('ChargeResponse', [
'uid',
'amount',
'token',
'expiration',
'transaction_id',
])
If the charge was successful, we create a ChargeResponse object:
from datetime import datetime
# ...
def charge(
amount,
token,
timeout=5,
):
# ...
data = response.json()
charge_response = ChargeResponse(
uid=uuid.UID(data['uid']),
amount=data['amount'],
token=data['token'],
expiration=datetime.strptime(data['expiration'], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f"),
transaction_id=data['transaction_id'],
)
return charge_response
Our function now returns a ChargeResponse object. Additional processing such as casting and validations can be added easily.
In the case of our imaginary payment gateway, we convert the expiration date to a datetime object. The consumer doesn't have to guess the date format used by the remote service (when it comes to date formats I am sure we all encountered a fair share of horrors).
By using a custom "class" as the return value we reduce the dependency in the payment vendor‘s serialization format. If the response was an XML, would we still return a dict? That's just awkward.
Using a Session
To skim some extra milliseconds from API calls we can use a session. Requests session uses a connection pool internally. Requests to the same host can benefit from that. We also take the opportunity to add useful configuration such as blocking cookies:
import http.cookiejar
# A shared requests session for payment requests.
class BlockAll(http.cookiejar.CookiePolicy):
def set_ok(self, cookie, request):
return False
payment_session = requests.Session()
payment_session.cookies.policy = BlockAll()
# ...
def charge(
amount,
token,
timeout=5,
):
# ...
response = payment_session.post( ... )
# ...
More Actions
Any external service, and a payment service in particular, has more than one action.
The first section of our function takes care of authorization, the request and HTTP errors. The second part handle protocol errors and serialization specific to the charge action.
The first part is relevant to all actions while the second part is specific only to the charge.
Let's split the function so we can reuse the first part:
import uuid
import logging
import requests
import http.cookiejar
from datetime import datetime
logger = logging.getLogger('payments')
class BlockAll(http.cookiejar.CookiePolicy):
def set_ok(self, cookie, request):
return False
payment_session = requests.Session()
payment_session.cookies.policy = BlockAll()
def make_payment_request(path, payload, timeout=5):
"""Make a request to the payment gateway.
path (str):
Path to post to.
payload (object):
JSON-serializable request payload.
timeout (int):
Timeout in seconds.
Raises
Unavailable
requests.exceptions.HTTPError
Returns (response)
"""
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer " + PAYMENT_GATEWAY_TOKEN,
}
try:
response = payment_session.post(
PAYMENT_GATEWAY_BASE_URL + path,
json=payload,
headers=headers,
timeout=timeout,
)
except (requests.ConnectionError, requests.Timeout) as e:
raise errors.Unavailable() from e
response.raise_for_status()
return response.json()
def charge(amount, token):
"""Charge credit card.
amount (int):
Amount to charge in cents.
token (str):
Credit card token.
Raises
Unavailable
Refused
Stolen
PaymentGatewayError
Returns (ChargeResponse)
"""
try:
data = make_payment_request('/charge', {
'uid': str(uuid.uuid4()),
'amount': amount,
'token': token,
})
except requests.HTTPError as e:
if e.response.status_code == 400:
error = e.response.json()
code = error['code']
message = error['message']
if code == 1:
raise Refused(code, message) from e
elif code == 2:
raise Stolen(code, message) from e
else:
raise PaymentGatewayError(code, message) from e
logger.exception("Payment service had internal error")
raise errors.Unavailable() from e
return ChargeResponse(
uid=uuid.UID(data['uid']),
amount=data['amount'],
token=data['token'],
expiration=datetime.strptime(data['expiration'], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f"),
transaction_id=data['transaction_id'],
)
This is the entire code.
There is a clear separation between "transport", serialization, authentication and request processing. We also have a well defined interface to our top level function charge.
To add a new action we define a new return type, call make_payment_request and handle the response the same way:
RefundResponse = namedtuple('RefundResponse', [
'transaction_id',
'refunded_transaction_id',
])
def refund(transaction_id):
"""Refund charged transaction.
transaction_id (str):
Transaction id to refund.
Raises:
Return (RefundResponse)
"""
try:
data = make_payment_request('/refund', {
'uid': str(uuid.uuid4()),
'transaction_id': transaction_id,
})
except requests.HTTPError as e:
# TODO: Handle refund remote errors
return RefundResponse(
'transaction_id': data['transaction_id'],
'refunded_transaction_id': data['refunded_transaction_id'],
)
Profit!
Testing
The challenge with external APIs is that you can't (or at least, shouldn't) make calls to them in automated tests. I want to focus on testing code that uses our payments module rather than testing the actual module.
Our module has a simple interface so it's easy to mock. Let's test a made up function called charge_user_for_product:
# test.py
from unittest import TestCase
from unittest.mock import patch
from payment.payment import ChargeResponse
from payment import errors
def TestApp(TestCase):
@mock.patch('payment.charge')
def test_should_charge_user_for_product(self, mock_charge):
mock_charge.return_value = ChargeResponse(
uid='test-uid',
amount=1000,
token='test-token',
expiration=datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 1, 15, 30, 7),
transaction_id=12345,
)
charge_user_for_product(user, product)
self.assertEqual(user.approved_transactions, 1)
@mock.patch('payment.charge')
def test_should_suspend_user_if_stolen(self, mock_charge):
mock_charge.side_effect = errors.Stolen
charge_user_for_product(user, product)
self.assertEqual(user.is_active, False)
Pretty straight forward - no need to mock the API response. The tests are contained to data structures we defined ourselves and have full control of.
Note About Dependency Injection
Another approach to test a service is to provide two implementations: the real one, and a fake one. Then for tests, inject the fake one.
This is of course, how dependency injection works. Django doesn't do DI but it utilizes the same concept with "backends" (email, cache, template, etc). For example you can test emails in django by using a test backend, test caching by using in-memory backend, etc.
This also has other advantages in that you can have multiple "real" backends.
Whether you choose to mock the service calls as illustrated above or inject a "fake" service, you must have a proper interface.
Summary
We have an external service we want to use in our app. We want to implement a module to communicate with that external service and make it robust, resilient and reusable.
We worked the following steps:
1. Naive implementation - Fetch using requests and return a json response.
2. Handled errors - Defined custom errors to catch both transport and remote application errors. The consumer is indifferent to the transport (HTTP, RPC, Web Socket) and implementation details (requests).
3. Formalize the return value - Used a namedtuple to return a class-like type that represents a response from the remote service. The consumer is now indifferent to the serialization format as well.
4. Added a session - Skimmed off a few milliseconds from the request and added a place for global connection configuration.
5. Split request from action - The request part is reusable and new actions can be added more easily.
6. Test - Mocked calls to our module and replaced them with our own custom exceptions.
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Page:The World as Will and Idea - Schopenhauer, tr. Haldane and Kemp - Volume 3.djvu/381
Rh persons who are otherwise honest and just, and adultery is recklessly committed when, passionate love, i.e., the interest of the species, has mastered them. It even seems as if in this they believed themselves to be conscious of a higher right than the interests of individuals can ever confer; just because they act in the interest of the species. In this reference Chamfort's remark is worth noticing: "Quand un homme et une femme ont l'un pour l'autre une passion violente, il me semble toujours que quelque soient les obstacles qui les séparent, un mari, des parens, etc., les deux amans sont l'un a l'autre, de par la Nature, qu'ils s'appartiennent de droit divin, malgré les lois et les conventions humaines." Whoever is inclined to be incensed at this should be referred to the remarkable indulgence which the Saviour shows in the Gospel to the woman taken in adultery, in that He also assumes the same guilt in the case of all present. From this point of view the greater part of the "Decameron" appears as mere mocking and jeering of the genius of the species at the rights and interests of individuals which it tramples under foot. Differences of rank and all similar circumstances, when they oppose the union of passionate lovers, are set aside with the same ease and treated as nothing by the genius of the species, which, pursuing its ends that concern innumerable generations, blows off as spray such human laws and scruples. From the same deep-lying grounds, when the ends of passionate love are concerned, every danger is willingly encountered, and those who are otherwise timorous here become courageous. In plays and novels also we see, with ready sympathy, the young persons who are fighting the battle of their love, i.e., the interest of the species, gain the victory over their elders, who are thinking only of the welfare of the individuals. For the efforts of the lovers appear to us as much more important, sublime, and therefore right, than anything that can be opposed to them, as the species is more important than the individual. Accordingly the fundamental theme of almost all | WIKI |
Embiggen with Tasker
Embiggen user Tim just asked me if there was a way to use Tasker with Embiggen, and it turns out there is. Lets say we wanted to have the contents of a text message show up in Embiggen when you get a text message. Here’s what you do:
1. Create a profile that listens for an incoming text message (New profile -> Event -> Phone -> Received Text)
2. Create a new Send Intent task with the following settings:
Extra:
Text:%SMSRB
Package:
com.briercan.embiggen
(com.briercan.embiggenplus if you’re using Embiggen Plus)
Class:
com.briercan.embiggen.BigWordsActivity
(com.briercan.embiggenplus.BigWordsActivity if you’re using Embiggen Plus)
It should look something like this:
If you want to show different text for the app, just use a different variable in the Extras field instead of %SMSRB. For example, if you want the name of the person who texted you, put the following in the Extras field:
Text:%SMSRF
I hope this helps! Post a comment if you have any questions or if you have a good idea for how to use Tasker with Embiggen!
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Dry-clean only shirts
The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once said:
My shirt is dry-clean only, which means that it is dirty.
This is one of his many funny one-liners, but it has significance when making software. If it’s a pain to take a shirt to a dry cleaners, you’re not likely to clean the shirt at all. The same goes for unit testing, making reliable backups, having a branching strategy, etc. Sometimes the tools you’re using make it hard to follow these best practices, so they don’t get done.
If you find yourself saying things like: “Branching, oh no, we use VSS, merging is a nightmare!” or “I can’t unit test, our code has so many dependencies”, maybe it’s time to start looking into fixing the reasons why you can’t branch or unit test. Maybe switch to git, or a recent version of TFS if you can. Set up some dependency injection so that your code is easier to test. Sometimes it’s not easy to make these types of changes, but it’s usually worth it.
What are some other “Dry-clean only shirts” in the software world, and how can you fix them?
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Trello for task lists
I just started using trello for the game I’m working on, and I’m pretty happy with it so far. It’s pretty simple, and allows you to have lists of lists. Most of the time those lists will be for maintaining what needs to be done, what you’re working on, and what is complete (sorta like a scrum board). You can have multiple boards (one for Home todo, Work, etc), and do all sorts of labeling, break out tasks, etc. It’s free to use, and I’ve been using it a lot.
Trello
It’s made by some of the people who brought you FogBugs and StackOverflow.com. You should try it out.
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Embiggen at Devo!
Redditor kermix was nice enough to send me a picture of him and his friends from a recent Devo concert. It looks like there are a couple Android phones running Embiggen, an IPhone, and maybe a windows phone? Pretty awesome though. Thanks kermix!
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How are people finding my app?
A few weeks ago I noticed that the usage stats for Embiggen were going up pretty quickly. Normally there would be about 200 page views per day, but that number jumped up to about 700 one day, and then up to 6297 the day after! I was psyched, but I didn’t realize until a couple of days after that embiggen had been posted on Reddit, and the app had gotten most of the downloads from that post. A small viral effect started, and there were market links popping up on twitter, blogs, and eventually AppBrain listed Embiggen on the Top 10 Hot apps of the day, because of the increase in downloads within a single day.
I want to thank reddit user evilpig for posting the app, and everyone for providing feedback on it. I just wish I could have seen it sooner, so that I could have responded to some of the questions quicker. A couple of weeks later, there was another crest of user activity that came with a bunch more downloads, but I have no idea how word spread about that one.
As far as I know, there is no way to tell how people are finding your android market page, but it would be really useful to know that sort of thing. Does anyone out there know if there’s a way to get stats for your android market page? Leave a comment here, or hit me up on Reddit (SN: briercan)
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Phoinix
Phoinix may refer to:
* In mythology, any of the uses of Phoenix, including several heroes and the mythical bird
* Phoinix (Caria), a town of ancient Caria, now in Turkey
* Phoinix (Crete), a town of ancient Crete mentioned in the Bible
* Phoinix (Lycia), a town of ancient Lycia, now in Turkey
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70 S T A T. ]
Private Law 790
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PRIVATE LAW 790-JULY 20, 1956
CHAPTER 662
AN ACT To waive certain provisions of section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act in behalf of certain aliens.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represejitatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.) That, notwithstanding the provision of section 212(a)(9) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Anna Maria Fuller, Gosta Harry Roner, Giuseppa Boni, Brigitte Lechner Wagner, Elisabeth Dummer, Maria Cedrone DeRubeis, and Moses Rosenberg may be issued visas and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if they are found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act. SEC. 2. Notwithstanding the provision of section 212(a)(6) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Elsa Emelina Rosado y Rodriguez de Brower and Lotte Windsschild may be issued visas and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if they are found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act, under such conditions and controls which the Attorney General, after consultation with the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, Department of Health, PMucation, and Welfare, may deem necessary to impose: Provided, That a suitable and proper bond or undertaking, approved by the Attorney General, be deposited as prescribed by section 213 of the said Act. SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 212(a)(9) and (19) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Hildegard L. McNabb and Giuseppe Culcasi may be issued visas and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if they are found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act. SEC. 4. Notwithstanding the provision of section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Gertrude Heindel may be issued a visa and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if she is found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act: Provided. That a suitable and proper bond or undertaking, approved by the Attorney General, be deposited as prescribed by section 213 of the said Act. SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the provision of section 212(a) (19) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Charles Black, also known as Joseph Clark, may be issued a visa and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if he is found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act. SEC. 6. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 212(a)(7) and (25) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Anna Abbene may be issued a visa and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if she is found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act: Provided, That a suitable and proper bond or undertaking, approved by the Attorney General, be deposited as prescribed by section 213 of the said Act. SEC. 7. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 212(a)(9) and (12) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Antonia Soulis may be issued a visa and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if she is found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act. SEC. 8. Notwithstandingtheprovisioiisof section 212(a)(9), (17), and (19) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Eladio LedesmaGutierrez may be issued a visa and admitted to the United States for permanent residence if he is found to be otherwise admissible under the provisions of that Act.
July 20, 1956 [S. 1895]
A n n a M. Fuller and others. Permanent residence. 66 Stat. 182. 8 USC 1182.
E l s a Brower sind Lotte Windsschild.
8 USC 1183. Hildegard L. McNabb and Giuseppe eulcasi.
Gertrude Heindel.
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Anna Abbene.
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Talk:East Syriac Rite
Extreme problems in this article
First of all, Sophroniscus, please do not break this article apart - there is an East Syriac rite, which is used, with variations, by five churches: the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East (which is an Old Calenderist breakaway group dating from a schism in the 1960s, during the someone scandalous reign of the last hereditary Catholicos, who was assasinated after attempting to regain his office, after abdicating in order to be married, a sort of ecclesiastical Edward VIII, about a fifth the size of the larger church, which recently synchronized its calenders with that of the larger church as part of a prelude to reunification), and finally the Chaldean Catholic Church and some of the Malankara Christians in India, who historically were part of the Church of the East, but in the confusion of the Catholic invasion, sent a message for help to the Catholicos of the East, which reached, by pure accident, the Syriac Orthodox Maphrian (who was the Syriac Orthodox equivalent and second in command), and the Syriac Orthodox Church became the guardian of anti-Catholic Christians in Southwest India. Later as a result of some schisms, some Indian bishops joined the Church of the East.
I have just done a major overhaul of this article in which I, citing a web reference, deleted an outright falsehood: "The other Sacraments in use among the Nestorians are Baptism, with which is always associated an anointing, which as in other eastern rites answers to Confirmation, Holy Order and Matrimony, but not Penance or Unction of the sick. The latter appears to be unknown to the Nestorians, though Assemani ("Bibliotheca Orientalis", pt. Ii, p. cclxxii) considers it might be shown from their books that its omission was a modern error. The Chaldean Catholics now have a form not unlike the Byzantine and West Syrian." - the Assyrian Church of the East actually DOES consider the annointing of the sick with oil a Sacrament, but not matrimony, and a present link can be found on an official Assyrian Church of the East diocesan webpage here.
In addition, it should be noted that the Assyrians I know find it offensive when people refer to them as Nestorian, even though they do venerate Nestorius as a Saint, and one of their three Anaphoras is named in his honor, and they do follow a semi-Nestorian Christology (although the current Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV expressly repudiated some aspects of Nestorianism as heretical upon assuming the throne of St. Thomas in 1975). Pursuant to that I've added to the section that claims otherwise a citation needed, as well as added several other citation needed requests throughout the article. Finally, I have changed all uses of the word "Nestorian" to "Church of the East" or "Assyrian Church of the East" as appropriate. In addition, the Syriac Orthodox Church was referred to as "Monophysite", which Syriac Orthodox find deeply offensive because they maintain their Christology is in fact Neophysite, and Monophysite, and Jacobite (except among their Indian community) are generally considered to be sectarian smears by members of that church (as the very article on it on this Wiki attests). Let us please, with patience and humility, improve this article, by resolving to refer to each church in this article by its proper name, and not by designations such as Nestorian, Monophysite or Jacobite, that some members might find offensive (for that matter, Armenian Orthodox find being referred to as "Gregorian" as offensive, as this is somewhat analogous to referring to Roman Catholics as "Papists", and also finally, by making sure everything is properly cited, but let us please retain this article in an integral form, because there are four or five really interesting churches using this rite (the Syriac Orthodox Church uses a hybrid of this rite and the West Syriac Rite in its Eastern Provinces centered around Tikrit, presided over by the Maphrian, the Syriac Orthodox Catholicos of the East), and it seems to me this wiki would be best served by discussing them in one place, comparing them with each other and also with the related, but substantially different, West Syriac Rite.
I have one question also, which I would very much like it if someone could address in the article (again, following the guidelines of citing references and not using what is near as dang-it sectarian hate speech in referring to the different churches in question): the Chaldean Catholics in their services make dramatic use of percussion music, in the form of cymbals and bells, yet I've never heard this in a service of the Assyrian Church of the East. I'm going to ask the Assyrians about this during the week, but a verbal answer by a priest obviously is not Encyclopedic material; it would be very nice if one of the editors of this article could find an article which states whether or not the use of percussion music by the Chaldeans is reflective of an older East Syriac tradition that the Church of the East later abandoned, or whether or not it is an innovation on the part of the Chaldeans, or a local variation that happened to be associated with those Bishophrics that became Catholic in opposition to the hereditary Catholicosate that reigned from the 16th century through 1975.
God bless all of you, and may we all work together fruitfully to make this article even more interesting and informative than it is today!
Wgw2024 (talk) 13:43, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
In my humble opinion
In my humble opinion some parts of this article relate to the Assyrian Church of the East and not to some other East Syrian Churches. As such, I intend to remove those sections or move them to the article to which they refer when I get a bit more free time...
--Sophroniscus 18:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Sts. Adaeus and Maris
Please, note that there's a link in the text that is supposed to link to 2 apostles (Sts. Adaeus and Maris), but does actually link to 1 Greek poet and 1 pagan god. Those who know something about these apostles would better create new articles about them (or at least change the links, so that they are red, but correct =). <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Latin Church
Is the use of 'Latin Church' correct? The writer seems to confuse 'Latin' with the Roman Catholic Church. Latin لاتين is used in some Arab countries to refer to Roman Catholics, but that term should not be used in English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 02:16, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
* Yes, the terminology is correct. The distinction is between Latin Catholics and Eastern Catholics, both of whom are Roman Catholics. The Latin Church is the part of the Catholic Church that uses the Latin Rite (ie, the majority of the Catholic Church). Eastern Catholics (including churches that use the East Syrian Rite) are also Roman Catholics.--Cúchullain t/ c 13:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
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East Syrian Rite → East Syriac Rite – Until lately named so. Per WP:CONSISTENCY with Syriac language, Syriac Christianity, Syriac Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church etc. Chicbyaccident (talk) 07:23, 2 July 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dekimasu よ! 21:43, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
* Support, per consistency, as proposed. Sorabino (talk) 12:06, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
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Plagiarism?
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Citations:Latinophobe
* 2008, R. Rojas, Essays in Cuban Intellectual History, Springer (ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>078), page 28:
* However, the more or less accepted result of this debate was the idea that Latin civilization was declining irrevocably [...] The Latinophobe, Anglo-Saxonizing discourse can be seen neatly in Conflicto y armonias entre las razas (1883) ... | WIKI |
History of the Mediterranean region
The history of the Mediterranean region and of the cultures and people of the Mediterranean Basin is important for understanding the origin and development of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Carthaginian, Minoan, Greek, Persian, Illyrian, Thracian, Etruscan, Iberian, Roman, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Arab, Berber, Ottoman, Christian and Islamic cultures. The Mediterranean Sea was the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.
Early history
Lézignan-la-Cèbe in France, Orce in Spain, Monte Poggiolo in Italy and Kozarnika in Bulgaria are amongst the oldest Paleolithic sites in Europe and are located around the Mediterranean Basin.
There is evidence of stone tools on Crete in 130,000 years BC, which indicates that early humans were capable of using boats to reach the island.
The cultural stage of civilization (organised society structured around urban centers) first arises in Southwest Asia, as an extension of the Neolithic trend, from as early as the 8th millennium BC, of proto-urban centers such as Çatalhöyük. Urban civilizations proper begin to emerge in the Chalcolithic, in 5th-to-4th-millennium Egypt and in Mesopotamia.
The Black Sea area is a cradle of the European civilization. The site of Solnitsata (5500 BC - 4200 BC) is believed to be the oldest town in Europe - prehistoric fortified (walled) stone settlement (prehistoric city). The first gold artifacts in the world appear from the 5th millennium BC, such as those found in a burial site from 4569–4340 BC and one of the most important archaeological sites in world prehistory – the Varna Necropolis near Lake Varna in Bulgaria, thought to be the earliest "well-dated" find of gold artifacts.
As of 1990, gold artifacts found at the Wadi Qana cave cemetery of the 4th millennium BC in the West Bank were the earliest from the Levant.
The Bronze Age arises in this region during the final centuries of the 4th millennium BC. The urban civilizations of the Fertile Crescent now have writing systems and develop bureaucracy, by the mid-3rd millennium leading to the development of the earliest empires. In the 2nd millennium, the eastern coastlines of the Mediterranean are dominated by the Hittite and Egyptian empires, competing for control over the city states in the Levant (Canaan). The Minoans are trading throughout much of the Mediterranean.
The Bronze Age collapse is the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, expressed by the collapse of palace economies of the Aegean and Anatolia, which were replaced after a hiatus by the isolated village cultures of the ancient Near East. Some have gone so far as to call the catalyst that ended the Bronze Age a "catastrophe". The Bronze Age collapse may be seen in the context of a technological history that saw the slow, comparatively continuous spread of iron-working technology in the region, beginning with precocious iron-working in what is now Romania in the 13th and 12th centuries. The cultural collapse of the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia and Syria, and the Egyptian Empire in Syria and Israel, the scission of long-distance trade contacts and sudden eclipse of literacy occurred between 1206 and 1150 BC. In the first phase of this period, almost every city between Troy and Gaza was violently destroyed, and often left unoccupied thereafter (for example, Hattusas, Mycenae, Ugarit). The gradual end of the Dark Age that ensued saw the rise of settled Neo-Hittite Aramaean kingdoms of the mid-10th century BC, and the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
While the cultural advances during the Bronze Age had mostly been confined to the eastern parts of the Mediterranean, with the Iron Age, the entire coastal region surrounding the Mediterranean now becomes involved, significantly due to the Phoenician expansion from the Levant, beginning in ca. the 12th century. Fernand Braudel remarked in The Perspective of the World that Phoenicia was an early example of a "world-economy" surrounded by empires. The high point of Phoenician culture and sea power is usually placed ca. 1200–800 BC. Many of the most important Phoenician settlements had been established long before this: Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, Simyra, Arwad, and Berytus, all appear in the Amarna tablets.
The Phoenicians and the Assyrians transported elements of the Late Bronze Age culture of the Near East to Iron Age Greece and Italy, but also further afield to Northwestern Africa and to Iberia, initiating the beginning of Mediterranean history now known as Classical Antiquity. They notably spread alphabetic writing, which would become the hallmark of the Mediterranean civilizations of the Iron Age, in contrast to the cuneiform writing of Assyria and the logographic system in the Far East (and later the abugida systems of India).
Classical antiquity
Two of the most notable Mediterranean civilizations in classical antiquity were the Greek city states and the Phoenicians. The Greeks spread to the shores of the Black Sea, Southern Italy (the so-called "Magna Graecia") and Asia Minor. The Phoenicians spread through the western Mediterranean reaching North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. From the 6th century BC up to including the 5th century BC, many of the significant Mediterranean peoples were under Persian rule, making them dominate the Mediterranean during these years. Both the Phoenicians and some of the Greek city states in Asia Minor provided the naval forces of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Persian dominance ended after the Greco-Persian War in the 5th century BC and Persia was crippled by Macedonia in the 4th century BC. The Odrysian Kingdom existed between the 5th century BC and the 1st century AD as the most important and powerful thracian state formation.
Persian period
From the 6th century BC up to including the first half of the 4th century BC, many of the significant Mediterranean peoples came under Achaemenid Persian rule, making them dominate the Mediterranean during all these years. The empire, founded by Cyrus the Great, would include Macedonia, Thrace and the western Black Sea coast (modern day southeastern and eastern Bulgaria), Egypt, Anatolia, the Phoenician lands, the Levant, and many other basin regions of the Mediterranean later on. Darius the Great (Darius I) is to be credited as the first Achaemenid king to invest in a Persian fleet. Even by then no true "imperial navy" had existed either in Greece or Egypt. Persia would become the first empire, under Darius, to inaugurate and deploy the first regular imperial navy. Both the Phoenicians and the Greeks provided the bulk of the naval forces of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, alongside the Cypriots and Egyptians. Full Persian dominance in the Mediterranean ended after the Greco-Persian War in the 5th century BC, and Persia eventually lost all her influence in the Mediterranean in the late 4th century BC following Alexander's conquests.
Hellenistic period
In the northernmost part of ancient Greece, in the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, technological and organizational skills were forged with a long history of cavalry warfare. The hetairoi (Companion cavalry) was considered the strongest of their time. Under Alexander the Great, this force turned east, and in a series of decisive battles, it routed the Persian forces and took over as the dominant empire of the Mediterranean. Their Macedonia empire included present-day Greece, Bulgaria, Egypt, the Phoenician lands and many other basin regions of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor.
The major centres of the Mediterranean at the time became part of Alexander's empire as a result. His empire quickly disintegrated, and the Middle East, Egypt, and Greece were soon again independent. Alexander's conquests spread Greek knowledge and ideas throughout the region.
Roman–Carthaginian rivalry
These eastern powers soon began to be overshadowed by those farther west. In North Africa, the former Phoenician colony of Carthage rose to dominate its surroundings with an empire that contained many of the former Phoenician holdings. However, it was a city on the Italian Peninsula, Rome, that would eventually dominate the entire Mediterranean basin. Spreading first through Italy, Rome defeated Carthage in the Punic Wars, despite Hannibal's famous efforts against Rome in the Second Punic War.
After the Third Punic War, Rome then became the leading force in the Mediterranean region. The Romans soon spread east, taking Greece, and spreading Latin knowledge and ideas throughout the place. By this point the coastal trading cultures were thoroughly dominant over the inland river valleys that had once been the heart of the great powers. Egyptian power moved from the Nile cities to the coastal ones, especially Alexandria. Mesopotamia became a fringe border region between the Roman Empire and the Persians.
Roman Mare Nostrum
When Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean Sea began to be called Mare Nostrum (Latin: "Our Sea") by the Romans. Their empire was centered on this sea and all the area was full of commerce and naval development. For the first time in history, an entire sea (the Mediterranean) was free of piracy. For several centuries, the Mediterranean was a "Roman Lake", surrounded on all sides by the empire.
The empire began to crumble, however, in the fifth century and Rome collapsed after 476 AD.
Sasanian and Byzantine times
The Eastern Roman or Byzantine empire began its domination of the Levant during its wars with neighbouring Sassanid Persia. The rule through the 6th century AD saw climatic instability, causing inconsistent production, distribution, and a general economic decline. The Sasanians gained territory on Mediterranean land regularly, but the Eastern Romans remained superior in the Mediterranean sea for centuries. In the first quarter of the 7th century CE, the Sasanians took swaths of the Mediterranean region from the Eastern Romans during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, though the Sasanians lost territories by the end of the war. Ultimately, Byzantine domination in the region was forever finished by invasions of the Arabs and later the Turks.
Middle Ages
Another power was rising in the east, that of Islam, whilst the Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Persian empires were both weakened by centuries of stalemate warfare during the Roman–Persian Wars. In a series of rapid Muslim conquests, the Arab armies, motivated by Islam and led by the Caliphs and skilled military commanders such as Khalid ibn al-Walid, swept through most of the Middle East; reducing Byzantine lands by more than half and completely engulfing the Persian lands.
The Arab invasions disrupted the trade relations between Western and Eastern Europe while cutting the trade route with Oriental lands. This however had the indirect effect of promoting the trade across the Caspian Sea. The export of grains from Egypt was re-routed towards the Eastern world. Oriental goods like silk and spices were carried from Egypt to ports like Venice and Constantinople by sailors and Jewish merchants. The Viking raids further disrupted the trade in western Europe and brought it to a halt. However, the Norsemen developed the trade from Norway to the White Sea, while also trading in luxury goods from Spain and the Mediterranean. The Byzantines in the mid-8th century retook control of the area around the north-eastern part of the Mediterranean. Venetian ships from the 9th century armed themselves to counter the harassment by Arabs while concentrating trade of oriental goods at Venice.
The powerful and long-lived Bulgarian Empire was the main European rival in the region of the Mediterranean Balkan peninsula between the 7th and the 14th centuries, creating an important cultural, political, linguistic and religious legacy during the Middle Ages.
In Anatolia, the Muslim expansion was blocked by the still capable Byzantines with the help of the Tervel of Bulgaria. The Byzantine provinces of Roman Syria, North Africa, and Sicily, however, could not mount such a resistance, and the Muslim conquerors swept through those regions. At the far west, they crossed the sea taking Visigothic Hispania before being halted in southern France by the Franks. At its greatest extent, the Arab Empire controlled three-quarters of the Mediterranean coast, and fostered an economic interrelationship between the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean. Much of North Africa became a peripheral area to the main Muslim centers in the Middle East, but Al Andalus and Morocco soon broke from this distant control and became highly advanced societies in their own right. Between 831 and 1071, the Emirate of Sicily was one of the major centres of Islamic culture in the Mediterranean. After its conquest by the Christian Normans, the island developed its own distinct culture with the fusion of Latin and Byzantine influences. Palermo remained a leading artistic and commercial centre of the Mediterranean well into the Middle Ages.
The Fatimids maintained trade relations with the Italian city-states like Amalfi and Genoa before the Crusades, according to the Cairo Geniza documents. A document dated 996 mentions Amalfian merchants living in Cairo. Another letter states that the Genoese had traded with Alexandria. The caliph al-Mustansir had allowed Amalfian merchants to reside in Jerusalem about 1060 in place of the Latin hospice.
More organized and centralized states gradually began to form in Europe during the later Middle Ages. Motivated by religion and dreams of conquest, the kings of Europe launched a number of Crusades to try to roll back Muslim power and retake the holy land. The Crusades were unsuccessful in this goal, but they were far more effective in weakening the already tottering Byzantine Empire that began to lose increasing amounts of territory to the Seljuk Turks and later to the Ottoman Turks. They also rearranged the balance of power in the Muslim world as Egypt once again emerged as a major power in the eastern Mediterranean.
The Crusades led to flourishing of trade between Europe and the outremer region. Genoa, Venice and Pisa created colonies in regions controlled by the Crusaders and came to control the trade with the Orient. These colonies also allowed them to trade with the Eastern world. Though the fall of the Crusader states and attempts at banning of trade relations with Muslim states by the Popes temporarily disrupted the trade with the Orient, it however continued.
The Zirid state in eastern Maghreb developed around the great metropolis of Kairouan collapsed in mid 12th century, with a henceforth fragmented Ifriqiya becoming a ground for competing external powers from then on. The high middle ages also saw the successive rise of two Berber powers, the Almoravids and the Almohads, in the Western Maghreb, fostering the developments of cities such as Marrakech and Fez upon their control over Trans-Saharan trade. Cities in southern Iberia such as Almería (under Almoravid rule) also thrived in the High Middle Ages. The 12th century also saw increasing naval and trading progress on the part of Christian powers in the northern shores of the Mediterranean (including Genoa, Pisa, and Aragon), seemingly offering a challenge to the balance of power in the Western Mediterranean.
Slavery
Slavery was a strategic and very important part of all Mediterranean societies during the Middle Ages. The threat of becoming a slave was a constant fear for peasants, fishermen and merchants. Those with money or who had financial backing only feared the lack of support, should they be threatened with abduction for ransom.
There were several things which could happen to people in the Mediterranean region of the Middle Ages:
* 1) When Corsairs, pirate, Barbary corsairs, French corsairs or commerce raiders plied their trade, a peasant, fisherman or coastal villager, who had no financial backing, could be abducted or sold to slave traders, or adversaries, who made large profits on an international market;
* 2) If the captive was wealthy or had influential supporters, the captive could be ransomed. This would be the most advantageous plan, since the money exchange was immediate and direct, not long and drawn out as in the slave market business;
* 3) The captive could be used immediately by the corsair for labour on the ship rather than traded. In battles during this era, prisoners of war were often captured and used as slaves.
Emperors would take large numbers of prisoners, parade them through the capital, hold feasts in honour of their capture and parade diplomats in front of them as a display of victory.
Late Middle Ages
The "Repubbliche Marinare" (Maritime republics) of Amalfi, Gaeta, Venice, Genoa, Ancona, Pisa and Ragusa developed their own empires in the Mediterranean shores. The Islamic states had never been major naval powers, and trade from the east to Europe was soon in the hands of Italian traders, especially the Genoese and the Venetians, who profited immensely from it. The Republic of Pisa and later the Republic of Ragusa used diplomacy to further trade and maintained a libertarian approach in civil matters to further sentiment in its inhabitants.
The Republic of Venice got to dominate the eastern mediterranean shores after the Fourth Crusade.
Between 1275 and 1344 a struggle for the control of the Strait of Gibraltar took place. Featuring the Marinid Sultanate, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the Crown of Castile, the Crown of Aragón, the Kingdom of Portugal and the Republic of Genoa, it was characterized by changing alliances between the main actors. The iberian cities of Tarifa, Ceuta, Algeciras or Ronda and the African port of Ceuta were at stake. The Western Mediterranean sea was dominated by the Crown of Aragon: thanks to their possessions of Sicily, the Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Duchy of Athens the Duchy of Neopatria, and several northern African cities.
In 1347 the Black Death spread from Constantinople across the mediterranean basin.
Ottoman power continued to grow, and in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was extinguished with the fall of Constantinople. The Ottomans already controlled Greece, Bulgaria and much of the Balkans and soon also began to spread through North Africa. North Africa had grown wealthy from the trade across the Sahara Desert, but the Portuguese, who, along with other Christian powers, had been engaged in a long campaign to evict the Muslims from Iberia, had found a method to circumvent this trade by trading directly with West Africa. This was enabled by a new type of ships, the caravel, that made trade in the rough Atlantic waters profitable for the first time. The reduction in the Saharan trade weakened North Africa, and made them an easy target for the Ottomans.
Ceuta was ultimately taken by the Kingdom of Portugal in 1415, searching to undermine Castilian, Aragonese, and Genoese interests in the area.
During the Middle Ages, rival Christian and Muslim kingdoms forbade the trade of particular goods to enemy kingdoms including weaponry and other contraband items. The popes forbade the export of these commodities to the Islamic world. The Ottomans too forbade the export of weapons and other strategic items, declaring them memnu eşya or memnu olan to Christian states even in peace treaties, however friendly states could import some of the prohibited goods through capitulations. Despite these prohibitions, trade of contraband occurred on both sides. The European merchants traded in illegal goods with Muslims. The Ottomans were unable to suppress the trade with smuggling being undertaken mainly in the winter when the Ottoman Navy stationed at the Istanbul Arsenal was unable to stop Ottoman and non-Ottoman vessels from indulging in the trade.
Modern era
The growing naval prowess of the European powers confronted further rapid Ottoman expansion in the region when the Battle of Lepanto checked the power of the Ottoman navy. However, as Braudel argued forcefully, this only slowed the Ottoman expansion instead of ending it. The prized island of Cyprus became Ottoman in 1571. The last resistance in Tunisia ended in 1574 and almost a generation long siege in Crete pushed Venetians out of this strategic island in 1669.
A balance of power was then established between the Spanish Crown and the Ottoman Empire until the 18th century, each dominating their respective half of Mediterranean, reducing Italian navies as naval powers increasingly more irrelevant. Furthermore, the Ottoman Empire had succeeded in their objective of extending Muslim rule across the North African coast.
The development of long-range seafaring had an influence upon the entire Mediterranean. While once all trade from the east had passed through the region, the circumnavigation of Africa allowed gold, spices, and dyes to be imported directly to the Atlantic ports of western Europe. The Americas were also a source of extreme wealth to the western powers, from which some of the Mediterranean states were largely cut off.
The base of European power thus shifted northward and the once wealthy Italy became a peripheral area dominated by foreigners. The Ottoman Empire also began a slow decline that saw its North African possessions gain de facto independence and its European holdings gradually reduced by the territorial gains of Austria and the Russian Empire. In the wake of the aftermath of the 1768–1774 Russo-Turkish War, the Russian empire gained direct access to the Black Sea.
By the nineteenth century the European States were vastly more powerful, and began to colonize North Africa. France spread its power south by starting their conquest of the Regency of Algiers in 1830 and later gaining control over the Beylik of Tunis. Following the British capture of Gibraltar (1713), Malta (1814) and Cyprus (1878), the British Empire occupied Egypt as a result of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. The Suez Canal was opened during this period, with far-reaching consequences for trade between Asia, East Africa and Europe. The Mediterranean countries were preferred because of the shorter route, and port cities such as Trieste with their direct, fast access to Central and Northern Europe were booming. Italy conquered Libya from the Ottomans in 1911. Greece achieved independence in 1832. The Ottoman Empire finally collapsed in the First World War, and its holdings were carved up among France and Britain. The rump state of the wider Ottoman Empire became the independent state of Turkey in 1923. Yugoslavia was created from the former Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of the First World War.
During the first half of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was at the center of the expansion of the Kingdom of Italy, and was one of the main areas of battle during World War II between the Axis and the Allies. Post-world war period was marked by increasing activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, where naval actions formed part of ongoing Arab–Israeli conflict and Turkey had occupied the northern part of Cyprus. Cold War tensions split the Mediterranean into pro-American and pro-Soviet factions, with Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy and France being NATO members. Syria was socialist and a pro-Soviet regime, offering the Soviets a port for their navy from an agreement in 1971. Yugoslavia was Communist but in neither the Soviet nor American camps. Egypt tilted towards the Soviets during the time of Nasser but then turned towards American influence during the time of Sadat. Israel and Egypt both received massive American military aid. American naval power made the Mediterranean a base for the United States Sixth Fleet during the Cold war.
Today, the Mediterranean Sea is the southern border of the European Union and represents one of the largest area by Trade in the World. The Maltese prime minister described the Mediterranean sea as a "cemetery" due to the large amounts of migrants who drown there. Following the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck, the Italian government, has decided to strengthen the national system for the patrolling of the Mediterranean Sea by authorizing Operation Mare Nostrum, a military and humanitarian operation in order to rescue the migrants and arrest the traffickers of immigrants. | WIKI |
Suzuki Keiji
Suzuki Keiji (鈴木敬司) was a Japanese army intelligence officer during the Second World War. Operating primarily in Burma, he helped form the Burma Independence Army and was an advocate for Burmese independence, described as a "Japanese Lawrence of Arabia". The Burmese refererred to him by the nom de guerre Bo Mogyo, meaning "Thunderbolt Commander".
Training
Suzuki was trained at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and graduated as an infantry officer in 1918. He subsequently attended the General Staff College and in 1929 began clandestine operations in the Philippines. His main focus, in both his studies and early career, was Anglo-American affairs. Suzuki's official military position was the Head of the General Staff Headquarters' Shipping Section. However, he was trained at the Rikugun Nakano Gakkō and was secretly an intelligence agent charged with disrupting Allied activities in Asia by shutting down supply lines to China through the Burma Road.
Operations
In the 1930s, Suzuki, operating out of Bangkok, recruited a number of Burmese dissidents. His network of associates would later become the nucleus of the Minami Kikan (南機関) underground spy organisation. He was closely connected with the Thakins, a nationalist group of students and labourers. In 1940, he secretly entered Rangoon with assistance from his network of contacts, posing as a reporter named Minami Masuyo.
Suzuki worked on Hainan Island for six months in 1941, training the Thirty Comrades in preparation for the Japanese invasion of Burma.
In 1941, Japanese Imperial general Headquarters authorised Suzuki to create a Burmese military force under Japanese authority. He drew together the Thirty Comrades, a group of independence fighters which included Aung San, Ne Win and Bo Let Ya. Suzuki's work eventually led to the creation of the Burmese Independence Army. However, in 1942 a Japanese Army commander, Lieutenant-General Shijiro Iida, became concerned over Suzuki's pro-independence stance and authority over the Burmese Independence Army. He orchestrated Suzuki's recall to Japan, and the Burmese Independence Army was subsequently reorganised and placed under the direction of Aung San (himself under the control of the Japanese). Suzuki returned to Tokyo, and for the rest of the war fulfilled the duties of his official role as Head of Shipping by overseeing transport and logistics.
Suzuki had a flair for the dramatic. His chosen Burmese name, Bo Mogyo, was a reference to the thunderbolt which Burmese folk tradition held would destroy the "umbrella" (a symbol of British colonial rule). He engaged in a blood-drinking ceremony of comradeship with his companions.
During the Japanese occupation of Burma, the BIA tried to persuade the Burmese populace by saying that Suzuki was a long-lost descendant of Prince Myingun, an older half-brother of the last Burmese king who had escaped to British-controlled Burma following a failed coup attempt against his father, who many Burmese people saw as the legitimate heir to the last Burmese kingdom.
After his death in 1967, Suzuki was posthumously honoured by the Burmese leader Ne Win. | WIKI |
Gaia on ownCloud
#1
I was thinking about how much effort it would require to add blockstack auth and gaia protocol to owncloud.org.
I come across an idea on owncloud wiki that is about using owncloud for unhosted/serverless apps. It looks like there could be an interested for gaia integration.
Does it make sense to pursue such an effort?
#2
When it comes to integration, we have some docker-compose files we will be releasing later today for launching gaia on localhost for any operating system running docker for the develop branch.
This will run gaia on the localhost os. Thus, gaia hubs can be hosted on any vm that runs any operating system that supports docker, and can be tested per the docs running:
curl https://hub.example.com/hub_info | jq with a successful response per the docs (jq isnt required obviously)
the gaia hub will be listening on port 80
The localhost or, in these docs above, hub dot example dot com, will be replaced with you FQDN, and your configuration of ssl, usually passing 443 to port 80 that will be launched per the docker files. The new docker files support the develop branch with a reader and sidecar configuration.
The develop branch is designed to be enable to rconfiguring the config files to change drivers, ports etc for easier configuration from a developer or user standpoint.
You can do the same with the master branch configuration while setting up your own ssl terminus with your FQDN.
We will be releasing images that can be then deployed on vms for various clouds, but the docker-compose files are made to support local host from any os, so they by design support users hosting gaia hubs locally, or any os running on any vm. These same docker-compose files will run on the images we release.
I am also interested in https://twitter.com/golemproject.
There are many good cloud providers out there, but ultimately the image would have a default os running gaia. Explicitly, we are unopinionated about what os and vm you should run gaia on, and providing image wrappers around gaia would be to accelerate pre configured options for various cloud configurations, but the docker-compose will always support allowing the user to choose what os, and therefore what vm and what cloud, etc.
Let me know if you have any questions.
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Group Therapy Activities for Substance Abuse & Relapse Prevention
What is the Purpose of Group Therapy?
Three women talking in substance abuse group therapy activitiesGroup therapy for substance abuse occurs when there is at least one professionally trained therapist who uses interventions based on psychological principles treating more than one individual at the same time. Substance abuse groups offer a number of advantages, including the development of social support, the ability to learn from others, the ability to share information, and a feeling of togetherness such that one does not feel alone in their own issues with their substance use disorder. Most clients benefit from using both group and individual therapy.
There are literally thousands of different activities that can occur in a substance abuse group curriculum, and it would require several volumes of books to list them all. This article will list some of the more common types of addiction recovery group activities that occur in group therapy for substance abuse. It is important to understand that group therapy can only be delivered by a licensed, trained, professional therapist.
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Substance Abuse Group Therapy Activities:
• Introducing New Members: One of the most common group activities for substance use disorder groups is the introduction of new members into the group and a new member’s explanation of why they are in the group and what their expectations are. Other standard group activities for substance use disorders are typically discussions of personal issues that certain members have, suggestions on how to address these issues, and input or advice from the therapist. Often, when members leave the group, they are given the opportunity to express their gratitude, explain and discuss how the group has benefited them, and discuss their plans for the future.
• Reflect on Requests & Questions: A common ongoing activity in substance use disorder groups is for individuals who have specific requests, questions, or needs to bring these up at the beginning of the group and have the group reflect on them. Relationship issues, the temptation to relapse or an actual relapse, frustrations with treatment, or other issues are commonly discussed among group members with direction from the therapist.
• Discuss Recovery Beliefs: A common activity that occurs in substance use disorder groups is for individuals to discuss where they believe they stand in terms of their own journey of recovery. Individuals are encouraged to discuss aspects of the recovery that they feel they have accomplished and aspects of the recovery they would like to accomplish in the future. Then, other members and the therapist give feedback on these issues.
• Discuss Mental Health: In order to help individuals who are experiencing certain types of psychological conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or stress, therapists often have individuals discuss their own experiences with these issues and how they coped or overcame them. This commonly leads to a discussion of triggers.
• Discussion of Triggers: A common activity that occurs in groups designed to treat substance use disorders is the discussion of triggers and how to identify them. Individuals often share information regarding how they experience triggers and their potential plans for coping or dealing with them.
• Develop Basic Skills: Groups often work together to develop basic skills, such as progressive relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, visualization, meditation, etc. The therapist most often directs the practice of these skills in the group setting and then individuals have a chance to proactively discuss their experiences. This helps individuals refine many of the skills that are taught in substance use disorder treatment.
• Discuss Communication Difficulties: Groups often spend quite a deal of time discussing issues that relate to communication. A common activity in substance use disorder groups is a discussion of how language influences one’s thinking and behavior. These discussions often lead to recognizing how specific types of words are associated with one’s substance use disorder. Often, therapists will discuss how the impact of certain words can affect recovery, such that the way one expresses things or thinks about things can either enhance or limit an individual’s recovery program.
• Finding Goals: Often, newer members of groups are concerned that without their substance use, they have no options regarding activities or goals. Individuals and groups work on listing alternative activities to substance use and the development of positive goals in these situations.
• Discuss gratitude: Individuals in substance use disorder groups may discuss gratitude in the same manner that is often discussed in 12-Step groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. The discussion of gratitude, and identifying things that one should be grateful for, is a very important aspect of group activities for recovering addicts, as individuals with substance use disorders often lose track of the positive things in their lives.
• Best & Worst Moments: Therapists want to relay the fact that value judgments are often very subjective and based on specific conditions. One activity frequently used by therapists to do this is to have individuals list what they believe are the best moments of their lives and the worst moments of their lives. Therapists and other group members then ask them why these particular moments were either good or bad, and if there any similarities or patterns between these occurrences. Individuals engaging in this exercise realize that there is no such thing as an “all good” or “all bad” moment. This often results in individuals seeing how similar the “good” and “bad” experiences in their lives can be, and their value is made in a very subjective judgment. A similar activity is to have individuals in the group list their bad habits, what makes them bad, and any positive aspects to those habits.
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Substance Abuse Group Therapy Topics & Themes:
• Common Themes: Sooner or later in groups for the treatment of substance use disorders, several common themes are brought up. These include the importance of things like good nutrition and how it affects one’s substance use disorder, the importance of physical fitness, the importance of self-care and attention to hygiene, the importance of education and bettering oneself, and the importance of stress relief and getting enough rest.
• The notion of “Letting Go”: An activity that often surfaces more than once in groups for substance use disorders is the notion of “letting go.” This frequently leads to a discussion of forgiveness and how to forgive. Individuals often discuss personal issues regarding resentment and how this can fuel anger and stress, and lead to relapse.
• Anger management: Activities related to anger management skills are common in substance use disorder groups. These activities often surface several times depending on the group and the group members. Therapists provide guidance and instruction on anger management techniques and other group members may share their experiences.
• Experiences with Drugs: Group members will often discuss their experiences with certain classes of drugs, such as alcohol, opioids, stimulants, etc. Therapists can add information based on research as needed.
• Sometimes, group sessions focus on education. For example, the group may listen to a lecture from an expert on the psychobiology of addiction or from other experts regarding relevant topics. Group members who have expertise in various areas may give short talks on specific subjects.
• Trolley Thought Experiment: One of the most famous therapeutic exercises is the trolley thought experiment. This can often be done in groups. The scenario is that a runaway trolley is moving down the train tracks. In the direct path of the trolley, there are five people tied up who cannot move. The trolley is headed directly toward them and if not stopped will kill all of them. You are in the train yard next to a lever. If you pull the lever, it will divert the trolley from hitting the five people by moving it to another track, but unfortunately, on the side track, there is one person that the trolley will hit and kill if you pull the lever. What is the correct choice to make? The idea here is to spur a discussion of ethics and morality, and how to constructively discuss an opinion or explanation and accept criticism.
• 12-Step Groups: Formal therapy groups often discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being involved in 12-Step groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous. Peer support groups are not formal therapeutic groups, as they are not run by professionally trained therapists. Therapy groups often discuss their feelings regarding these groups, and a good therapist can use this as a means to discuss the benefits and disadvantages of all types of interventions.
• “Back in Time” Activity: An interesting activity that some groups engage in is the “back in time” activity. There are number of different applications of this activity, but these generally follow the idea of having members go back in time and meet with their childhood self. What advice would one give to one’s childhood self? This leads to a discussion of how an individual would do things over again if they had the chance to and helps to develop insight on the types of things that individuals need to do currently.
• Abstinence vs. Attempt: A very common discussion in recovery groups is the notion of total abstinence versus an attempt at controlled use. Typically, therapists and addiction medicine physicians prefer abstinence (but not always), and it is important that the pros and cons of these approaches are discussed and reviewed on an ongoing basis. The vast majority of individuals in groups find that abstinence is the most effective approach to recovery for them.
• Need for Support: Understanding the need for support is crucial in recovery. Substance abuse group topics for discussion oftentimes are in regard to support from family, group members, and friends. The notion of the need for support in recovery is visited repeatedly and a common theme in substance use disorder groups.
In addition, it is always important for group members to discuss any current issues and get advice and support from other members of the group. Often, discussing individual concerns or experiences and the need for advice or support occurs early in the group session and then other relapse prevention group activities are addressed, depending on the particular personal issues discussed or on the goals of the therapist and members of the group. As individuals continue in group therapy activities, they begin to develop very strong bonds with one another. The implementation of new and challenging activities for group members helps to strengthen those bonds.
A number of these activities come from the books Group Exercises for Addiction Counseling and Group Therapy for Substance Abuse: A Stages Of Change Manual.
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Building a Food Recipes Mobile App with Ionic 3x and Angular 5 – Part 5
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This tutorial is part of a serious of tutorials
This tutorial series will teach you how to build such hybrid mobile app using one of the most beautiful, free and open source front end mobile apps library called Ionic and a very popular web and mobile apps development framework made by Google called Angular.
In Part 4 of this tutorial series, we have created food recipes list page. That page was static in nature in the sense that user can view the food recipes but user can’t click any recipe to view its details. We will continue where we left in the last tutorial and will add list item click event in this tutorial.
Handling Ionic List Item Click Event
Our recipes page looks cool but it would be great if we can allow user to click a recipe from the list and go to recipe details page to view more full details about the recipe. Let’s implement this feature by adding a click event on the list item and navigating the user to RecipeDetailsPage which we will create shortly. Add a click event on ion-item component which will call onSelect function and pass the current recipe object as a parameter in the function.
<ion-item *ngFor="let recipe of recipes" (click)="onSelect(recipe)">
Next import the RecipeDetailPage page and implement the onSelect method in RecipesPage class in recipes.ts file. The push function will navigate user to the page specified as a first argument e.g. RecipeDetailPage. We can also pass data from current page to RecipeDetailPage as a second argument of the push function. In this case we are passing recipe object we received as a parameter of the onSelect function.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, NavParams } from 'ionic-angular';
import { Recipe } from '../../models/recipe';
import { RecipesService } from '../../providers/recipes.service';
import { RecipeDetailPage } from '../recipe-detail/recipe-detail';
@Component({
selector: 'page-recipes',
templateUrl: 'recipes.html'
})
export class RecipesPage {
recipes: Recipe[];
constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, public navParams: NavParams,
private recipesService: RecipesService) {
}
initializeRecipes(): void {
this.recipes = this.recipesService.getRecipes();
}
ionViewDidLoad() {
this.initializeRecipes();
}
onSelect(recipe: Recipe): void {
this.navCtrl.push(RecipeDetailPage, {recipe: recipe});
}
}
Creating Recipe Detail Page
Recipe detail page will display full detail of the selected recipe. Let create the page using the following Ionic CLI generate command. This command will automatically generate recipe-detail.ts, recipe-detail.scss and recipe-detail.html files in pages/recipe-detail folder.
ionic generate page recipe-detail
Recipe Detail Page (recipe-detail.ts)
RecipeDetailPage class is very simple class. It has a local variable recipe which is initialized in the constructor of the class from the recipe parameter we have passed from RecipesPage. Once the recipe variable is initialized, it will be available in recipe-detail.html file and we can use this variable to display recipe details on the page.
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, NavParams } from 'ionic-angular';
import { Recipe } from '../../models/recipe';
@Component({
selector: 'page-recipe-detail',
templateUrl: 'recipe-detail.html'
})
export class RecipeDetailPage {
recipe: Recipe;
constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, public navParams: NavParams)
{
this.recipe = this.navParams.get("recipe");
}
}
Recipe Detail Page (recipe-detail.html)
The HTML code of the page is using many Ionic components to display recipe details in user friendly manner. First of all it display recipe name in the title bar of the Ionic page. Then it displays the recipe large image on top of the page. It is also using Ionic grid layout to display recipe servings, no of ingredients and total cooking time in three column layout. Finally, it iterates over the ingredients of the recipe and displays all ingredients in the Ionic list.
<ion-header>
<ion-navbar>
<button ion-button menuToggle>
<ion-icon name="menu"></ion-icon>
</button>
<ion-title>{{ recipe.recipeName}}</ion-title>
</ion-navbar>
</ion-header>
<ion-content>
<img src="{{recipe.largeImageUrl}}" />
<div class="recipe-details">
<ion-grid>
<ion-row>
<ion-col>
<div class="recipe-ingredients-count">
<div>{{recipe.ingredients.length}}</div>
Ingredients
</div>
</ion-col>
<ion-col>
<div class="recipe-servings">
<div>{{recipe.numberOfServings}}</div>
Servings
</div>
</ion-col>
<ion-col>
<div class="recipe-time">
<div>{{recipe.totalTimeInSeconds / 60}}</div>
Minutes
</div>
</ion-col>
</ion-row>
</ion-grid>
</div>
<ion-list>
<ion-list-header class="ingredients-header">
Ingredients
</ion-list-header>
<button ion-item *ngFor="let ingredient of recipe.ingredients">
<ion-icon name="cafe" item-start></ion-icon>
{{ingredient}}
</button>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
Recipe Detail Page (recipe-detail.scss)
To make our recipe detail page more professional looking, add the following styles in recipe-detail.scss file.
page-recipe-detail{
.content{
background-color: color($colors, light, base);
}
.recipe-details{
background-color: #fff;
}
.recipe-ingredients-count, .recipe-time, .recipe-servings{
text-align: center;
}
.recipe-ingredients-count div, .recipe-time div, .recipe-servings div{
font-size: 2.5rem;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
}
.ingredients-header {
position: relative;
font-size: 1.7rem;
letter-spacing: .1rem;
font-weight: bold;
color: color($colors, dark, base);
border-top: none;
background-color: color($colors, light, base);
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
}
app.module.ts
Do not forget to import and declare RecipeDetailPage component in app.module.ts file.
import { RecipeDetailPage } from '../pages/recipe-detail/recipe-detail';
…
declarations: [
MyApp,
HomePage,
RecipesPage,
AboutPage,
FavoritesPage,
SettingsPage,
RecipeDetailPage
]
entryComponents: [
MyApp,
HomePage,
RecipesPage,
AboutPage,
FavoritesPage,
SettingsPage,
RecipeDetailPage
]
Save all files and test the app in the browser. Navigate to the Recipes page and click any recipe from the list. You will see output similar to the following on the recipe detail page.
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Implement Recipes Search Feature
Before I finish the tutorial, it would be nice if we can provide a search feature to the user so that they can quickly search the recipe they are looking for. Open the recipes.ts file and declare a variable named searchTerm in RecipesPage class. Next we need to implement searchRecipes function in the class. This function will reinitialize the recipes array by filtering the recipes matching with the searchTerm. The filtered recipes will automatically be displayed in recipes.html file as we are already iterating our the recipes array in the HTML code.
recipes.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, NavParams } from 'ionic-angular';
import { Recipe } from '../../models/recipe';
import { RecipesService } from '../../providers/recipes.service';
import { RecipeDetailPage } from '../recipe-detail/recipe-detail';
@Component({
selector: 'page-recipes',
templateUrl: 'recipes.html'
})
export class RecipesPage {
recipes: Recipe[];
searchTerm: string = '';
constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, public navParams: NavParams,
private recipesService: RecipesService) {
}
initializeRecipes(): void {
this.recipes = this.recipesService.getRecipes();
}
ionViewDidLoad() {
this.initializeRecipes();
}
onSelect(recipe: Recipe): void {
this.navCtrl.push(RecipeDetailPage, {recipe: recipe});
}
searchRecipes(){
// Reset recipes array back to all of the items
this.initializeRecipes();
// if the search term is an empty string return all items
if (!this.searchTerm) {
return this.recipes;
}
// Filter recipes
this.recipes = this.recipes.filter((item) => {
return item.recipeName.toLowerCase().indexOf(this.searchTerm.toLowerCase()) > -1;
});
}
}
recipes.html
We will add Ionic search bar component in recipes.html file so that we can collect search term entered by the user. Notice how we have used Angular ngModel to bind the searchTerm variable with the search bar and how we are calling our searchRecipes function using ionInput event.
<ion-header>
<ion-navbar>
<button ion-button menuToggle>
<ion-icon name="menu"></ion-icon>
</button>
<ion-title>Recipes</ion-title>
</ion-navbar>
</ion-header>
<ion-content>
<ion-list>
<ion-searchbar [(ngModel)]="searchTerm" (ionInput)="searchRecipes()"></ion-searchbar>
<ion-item *ngFor="let recipe of recipes" (click)="onSelect(recipe)">
<ion-thumbnail item-left>
<img src="{{recipe.thumbnailImageUrl}}" alt="{{recipe.recipeName}}" title="{{recipe.recipeName}}" />
</ion-thumbnail>
<h2 class="recipe-name">{{recipe.recipeName}}</h2>
<span class="cooking-time">Cooking Time:</span>
<span class="cooking-time-value">{{recipe.totalTimeInSeconds / 60}} min</span>
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
Save the files and preview the app in the browser. You will see the following output in the browser.
READ ALSO: Building a Food Recipes Mobile App with Ionic 3x and Angular 5 - Part 1
Enter some text or recipe name in the search field and you will notice that the recipes list is quickly displayed the recipes matched with your search term.
This is the final part of the Building a Food Recipes Mobile App with Ionic 3x and Angular 5 tutorial. I hope you have learned a great deal about developing hybrid mobile applications using Ionic and Angular. I will be writing more tutorials on Ionic, Angular as well as other web development technologies in the future so keep visiting my website in future.
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1. Jayson Gongon
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On Saturday 5th February Amanda Hetherington was our guest speaker. Her talk, based on her recently published book, resulted in a vivid insight into an aspect of the First World War that many of us were not aware of. Deserters were not just conscientious objectors based perhaps on religious grounds but covered a wide range of reasons
More than 80,000 cases of desertion were tried at a courts martial on the home front and of these 304 were shot at dawn. Many and varied were the reasons for absence or desertion from camps or barracks in Britain. Many couldn’t cope with what was thought as poor camp facilities. A number had led a life of crime some were mentally handicapped. Others had a problem with drink and a number were very young and immature. Being accused of cowardice was difficult to determine. Then there were parents or wives who were, perhaps, over protective. Sometimes the latter could be prosecuted if desertion could be proved.
Strategies employed by some deserters included pretending to be wounded and relying on charity. Others pretended to be officers and received goods by deceit. Other excuses for absences included having to attend gathering crops at harvest time if from an agricultural background others gave reasons such as boredom and the difficulties of responding to a more rigid discipline regime.
No deserters were executed for desertion on the Home Front but if they escaped from the Western Front and managed to reach home, then such could be shot at dawn. However, many absentees or deserters would face other punishments. These included detention, prison and a period of hard labour.
Reactions by many at Home when news of such behavior by enlisted men who went absent, was not criticism but often a subject of humour as depicted in cartoons and postcards that were circulated at the time. The ‘popular culture’ was one of acceptance quite often by the general public.
Andrea’s talk was an eye opener and one that helped to dispel the notion that all deserters were not shot; that not all deserters were cowards or simply scared but saw it as their right of freedom of choice. This was an intriguing examination of a hitherto overlooked aspect of the First World War. | FINEWEB-EDU |
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460 similar investigations well know how difficult it is to ascertain the disposition of large tracts of country unless observed from situations so elevated as to raise the spectator above all the obstructions which the varying forms of high ground throw in the way of this great natural perspective. The remarks of Saussure on the highest summits of the Alps, which relate to this subject, are well known. It is not material to the purpose of determining their stratified structure, whether this stratification be continuous for a large space or whether it be various and interrupted; however desirable it might otherwise be to ascertain its disposition over the whole extent which these mountains occupy. From the low positions in which I was compelled to view those strata which I saw at hand, they appeared to be in some places horizontal, in others occupying various angular elevations, sometimes inclining to the north, and sometimes in a direction the very reverse. Such perhaps would also have been my opinion of the strata of Jura, had I not attained its highest summits. Future observers who shall ascend the Cuniack hills, the Sugar-loaf mountain, or Ben More, will be able to ascertain what I have left undone. Want of roads, want of horses, want of population, want of every thing, render this country among the most impracticable of Scotland.
The nature of this rock is exceedingly various. It is often a compact stone of a yellowish colour, and uniform texture, resembling granulated quartz, simple in its composition, and breaking with an imperfect conchoidal fracture. Occasionally it assumes a coarser and looser texture, and in these cases the weathered surface becomes white, and acquires a harsh and sandy feel and aspect. However uniform the fresh specimens appear when broken, they almost invariably disclose some internal mechanical arrangement on weathering, which betrays the nature of their original formation, a | WIKI |
Talk:Iraqi no-fly zones conflict
have there been any other no-fly zones in history? this article should be named simply No-fly zones. Kingturtle 17:31, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
And what is a no-fly zone??? The article is very vague. NO! The article doesn't explain this at all! —Cantus… ☎ 08:13, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
* Heh. One might actually construe that actual flies (insects) were banned from zones in Iraq. Ross 03:49, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
* Thank goodness. There are a lot of flies there.
* Seriously though this needs work. There should be some background on the Iraqi attacks on the Kurds/Shiites -- indication that the U.S., after urging those groups to rebel, stood back and did nothing for a while before the world community pressured the Bush Administration to do something about it, which finally resulted in the no-fly zones.--csloat 23:22, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
There should also be a notation that the UN simply requested member states to aid in the humanitarian effort to help the Kurds.. not kill more people to aid them.
The issue I have with this article is the presumption that the aim of the NZF was to protect the kurds, when two of the largest Kurdish cities where below the NFZ. Rather it seems to have been about relieving the political pressure caused by freezing refugees on the Turkish border, then becoming on occupied stronghold for the US and UK. Isiod
Unilateral??
The article asserts that the imposition of the No-Fly zone (performed by of three nations acting together) were "unilateral". Normally that sort of thing is left for theological discussions of the Trinity; I suspect the sense of unilateral used here is the sloppy "an action we don't approve of" sense, which is inherently POV. --Sommerfeld 05:47, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
* I'm anti-war and I don't have any problems with removing the word 'unilaterally' from the opening paragraph, so I went ahead and removed the word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
Well, when it's done by one party (whether that party consists of several countries or not) it can still be considered unilateral since Iraq had no inout into the decision.
No-fly zone in cease-fire agreement?
Why, I'd have to go digging, but IIRC the autobiography of Norman Schwarzkopf mentioned that one provision of the cease-fire agreement which ended the 1991 gulf war was a restriction on flights by the Iraqi government and/or military. --Sommerfeld 05:48, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
* As for the 1991 cease-fire agreement, I've never been able to find a copy of it and I've spent some time searching for it. If you happen to find it, I'd love to see it. We should include a link to it somewhere in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
* The No-Fly Zones were decidedly not in any ceasefire agreement - if they were, they would have been included in the formal UN ceasefire terms, UNSCR 687/688, which contains no trace of the NFZ. Hence, the claim by Sec Gen Ghali that the NFZ was technically illegal. Bagsc (talk) 01:43, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Neutrality tag
I removed the POV-check tag. It was added in May 2006 by Sommerfeld (see "Unilateral??" above), their objection has been addressed long ago and as it is there is currently no explicit motivation to keep it. If anyone believes that the article has a POV problem, feel free to re-add the tag but please also specify here on the talk page what you consider the problem to be. kissekatt (talk) 22:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Merge Iraq Sanctions and Iraqi no-fly zone
Since the sanctions and the no-fly zone occurred at the same time and same country, they should be on the same page. If on the same page but with separate sections, the reader will have a better feel for this period in the history of Iraq.
Id447 (talk) 23:07, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
* Agreed and it isn't a purely military conflict so lose the battle infobox. SpeakFree (talk) 19:53, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
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much ceremony, and, after the usual presents of gold and delicate stuffs, a collation was served to the Spaniards in one of the great halls of the palace. The excellence of the architecture here, also, excited the admiration of the general, who does not hesitate, in the glow of his enthusiasm, to pronounce some of the buildings equal to the best in Spain. They were of stone, and the spacious apartments had roofs of odorous cedar-wood, while the walls were tapestried with fine cottons stained with brilliant colours.
But the pride of Iztapalapan, on which its lord had freely lavished his care and his revenues, was its celebrated gardens. They covered an immense tract of land; were laid out in regular squares, and the paths intersecting them were bordered with trellises, supporting creepers and aromatic shrubs, that loaded the air with their perfumes. The gardens were stocked with fruit trees, imported from distant places, and with the gaudy family of flowers which belong to the Mexican Flora, scientifically arranged, and growing luxuriant in the equable temperature of the tableland. The natural dryness of the atmosphere was counteracted by meant of aqueducts and canals, that carried water into all parts of the grounds.
In one quarter was an aviary, filled with numerous kinds of birds, remarkable in this region both for brilliancy of plumage and of song. | WIKI |
Christmas carols were first sung in Europe thousands of years ago, but these were not Christmas carols. They were pagan songs, sung at winter solstice celebrations while people danced in stone circles.
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and usually takes place around December 22. The word Carol really means dance or a song of praise and joy! Christmas carols used to be written and sung during the four seasons, but only the tradition of singing them at Christmas has really survived.
The first Christians took charge of the pagan solstice celebrations at Christmas and gave people Christian songs to sing instead of pagans. In 129, a Roman bishop said that a song called “Angel’s Anthem” was to be sung at a Christmas service in Rome. Another famous early Christmas hymn was written in 760, by Comas of Jerusalem, for the Greek Orthodox Church. Soon after, many composers from all over Europe began to write “Christmas carols”. However, many people did not like them because they were written and sung in Latin, a language that normal people could not understand. By the time of the Middle Ages (the 1200s), most people had lost interest in celebrating Christmas completely.
San Francisco de Asis changed this situation when, in 1223, he began his Nativity in Italy. The people in the plays sang songs or “chants” that told the story during the plays. Sometimes the choirs of these new carols were in Latin; But normally they were all in a language that the people who saw the work could understand and participate! The new Christmas carols were extended to France, Spain, Germany and other European countries.
The first carol, like this one, was written in 1410.
Unfortunately, there is only a very small fragment of it. The carol was about Mary and Jesus meeting different people in Bethlehem. Most of the carols of this period and the Elizabethan period are false stories, based very loosely on the history of Christmas, on the sacred family and were considered more entertaining than religious songs. In general, they were sung in homes instead of in churches! Traveling singers or jugglers began to sing these carols and the words were changed for local people wherever they traveled. A carol that changed like that is ‘I Saw Three Ships’.
When Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans came to power in England in 1647, the celebration of Christmas and Christmas carols was halted.
However, the carols survived while the people sang them in secret. The carols remained, mostly, unknown until the Victorian era, when two men named William Sandys and Davis Gilbert collected a lot of old Christmas music from the villages of England.
Before the singing of carols in public became popular, sometimes there were singers of official Christmas carols called ‘Waits’. These were bands of people led by important local leaders (such as council leaders) who had the sole power in cities and towns to take money from the public (if others did, they were sometimes accused of beggars!). They were called ‘Waits’ because they only sang on Christmas Eve (this was sometimes known as ‘nightnight’ or ‘waitnight’ because the shepherds watched their sheep when the angels appeared to them), when the Christmas celebrations began.
In addition, at this time, many orchestras and choirs were being established in the cities of England and people wanted to sing Christmas songs, so the Christmas carols became popular again. Many new carols, such as ‘Good King Wenceslas’, were also written in the Victorian period.
New carol services were created and became popular, as was the custom of singing Christmas carols in the streets. These two customs are still popular today! One of the most popular types of carol services is Candlelight carol services. In this service, the church is only illuminated by the light of the candles and it feels very Christmas. Carol by Candlelight services are carried out in countries around the world. | FINEWEB-EDU |
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Q3 2023 Earnings: What to Expect
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espite consistent headwinds with chip supply chain challenges, semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) continues to deliver strong operating results, while growing market share in several high-growth industries.
Whether its autonomous vehicles, entertainment, or healthcare, AMD’s processors are powering people and businesses at a cutting-edge level. And the company will look to demonstrate how broad its reach is when it reports third quarter fiscal 2023 earnings results after the closing bell Tuesday. Investors will look to see whether AMD's streak of earnings beats can continue; working in AMD's favor is the noticeable rebound in global PC shipments, which according to Gartner, suggests a recovery in the global PC market could be underway.
In the most recent quarter, worldwide PC shipments totaled 59.7 million units, marking an almost 17% decrease year over year. But that decline is showing signs of stabilization, including sequential growth from the previous quarter, noted Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa. “The rate of decline in the PC market has slowed, indicating that shipment volumes may have reached their lowest point,” said Kitagawa. adding, “There has been progress in reducing PC inventory after more than a year of issues, supported by a gradual increase in business PC demand."
Meanwhile, AMD stock, which is up 48% year to date compared with a 7% rise in the S&P 500 index, assumes these improvement trends will continue. This is because even amid the PC decline challenges or past issues related to supply chains, the company demonstrates strong operating leverage evidenced by its ability to grow profits at a faster rate than its revenue. Assuming the company’s growth metrics rebound in Q3, along with strong guidance, AMD stock will continue to rise despite its recent outperformance.
For the three months that ended September, Wall Street expects the California-based company to earn 64 cents per share on revenue of $5.37 billion. This compares to the year-ago quarter when earning were 67 cents per share on $5.62 billion in revenue. For the full year, ending in December, earnings are expected to decline 25.7% year over year to $2.60 per share, while full-year revenue of $21.5 billion would decline 8.9% year over year.
The tempered forecast for top and bottom line figures for the quarter and full year underscores the weakness that still exists in worldwide PC shipments despite the recent improvements in demand. However, Gartner expects that PC inventory will normalize by the end of 2023, and PC demand will return to growth starting in 2024. This bodes well for AMD. The company should also benefit from the improved demand in the GPU industry which is expected to rise close to 34% annually in the next five years. This is as the data center industry is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 10.5% through 2030.
In the near term, AMD's management must find ways to offset margin erosion and the cyclicality in the chip business which have been two of the company’s biggest headwinds over the past several quarters. In the second quarter, the company beat on both the top and bottom lines with Q2 adjusted EPS of 58 cents, beating Street estimates by 1 cent, while Q2 revenue of $5.36 billion topped estimates by $40 million despite the 18% year-over-year decline.
The beat was driven by 16% rise in the Embedded segment, which offset declines in Datacenter, Gaming and Client. During the quarter, operating income swung to a loss of $20 million from a year-ago gain of $526 million. But I expect AMD’s segment growth metrics to rebound in Q3 with signs that margin pressures have bottomed and are now ready for expansion. Assuming this comes with strong guidance for the holiday quarter, AMD stock will continue to rise even with its recent outperformance.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | NEWS-MULTISOURCE |
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