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Maysem H
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Chicago, United States
More about me
Hi everyone! I’m Maysem, a newbie crafter that loves crafty people! I’ve been inspired to take a leap into the crafting world and to discover the creative side in me. On my crafting journey I’ve learned that I can sew, decorate cakes and cookies, style dessert tables, and more!
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Factors of importance in the hyperglycaemia induced by upper abdominal surgery.
The variation in the hyperglycaemic response, between different individuals, is large in the immediate postoperative period. In the present study, factors of possible importance in the hyperglycaemic response to standardized elective surgery (cholecystectomy) were determined by stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. The statistical analysis comprised 29 variables which included hormones (catecholamines, cortisol, insulin, thyroid hormones), blood-borne energy metabolites (glucose, lactate, free fatty acids (FFA), glycerol, 3-hydroxybutyrate, alanine) as well as anthropometric data and variables related to surgery and anaesthesia. In linear regression analysis, with one independent variable, the glucose concentration correlated significantly with: the duration of surgery, the dose of pancuronium bromide, the dose of fentanyl, the lactate, adrenaline and cortisol concentrations respectively. The variables which, when successively included in stepwise regression, significantly reduced the residual variance for glucose were, in order of introduction; the duration of surgery and the cortisol and adrenaline concentrations respectively. It is concluded that, in standardized surgical trauma the duration of surgery may influence the metabolic response to surgery. Duration of surgery has, thus, to be taken into account when interpreting results from studies where different treatments are compared. Our results confirm that there is a synergistic effect of cortisol and adrenaline in mediating the hyperglycaemic response to surgery.
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Embossed Velvet Dinner Dress, 1929
1929
Dinner dress and matching slip of lemon yellow cut velvet on a georgette base. The dress has a tiered skirt cut on the bias. Accents include a yellow chiffon puff and streamer on the right shoulder at the back. This garment was owned by Matilda Dodge Wilson (October 19, 1883 – September 19, 1967),who was the wife of John Francis Dodge (October 25, 1864 – January 14, 1920), co-founder of the Dodge Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan.
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Digital Objects Rights from Digital Dress Collection:
Users can cite and link to these materials without obtaining permission. Users can also use the materials for non-commercial educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use. For other uses or to obtain high resolution images, please contact the copyright holder.
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Brian Howey
INDIANAPOLIS – If there was an understatement enunciated on Tuesday when Indiana’s sensational political cycle reached another apex on a cascading range, it was newly minted Republican gubernatorial nominee Eric Holcomb saying, “This year, as many of you know, has taken many twists and turns and I am ready to take this next call and lead us to victory.”
He preceded that observation by saying, “We’ve got work to do and a short time to get there.”
Just minutes after Holcomb won a second-ballot nomination by the Indiana Republican Central Committee, after leading 11-9-2 over U.S. Reps. Susan Brooks and Todd Rokita on the first ballot, Politico reported that a key rationale for the Holcomb nomination, having access to Gov. Mike Pence’s $7.4 million campaign fund, wasn’t completely correct. And as Holcomb, Brooks and Rokita made their cases before the committee, this dilemma didn’t come up.
In Pence’s two-week mad dash to the vice presidential nomination, the critical decision that wasn’t made was moving those funds to either the Republican Governors Association, the Indiana Republican Party or a specific candidate. When Pence accepted the nomination on July 20, the money fell under new Federal Election Commission guidelines.
“Since Day One of his governorship to yesterday, this has all been about Mike Pence,” one influential Republican told me. “There was not adequate time to research all the issues.”
On Wednesday morning, Republican kingmaker Bob Grand explained, “It’s all going to get worked out. It’s not a problem and it’s not going to be a problem. Eric Holcomb is going to have plenty of money to run this race. A fair amount of it will come from the Mike Pence campaign. The other piece is there’s a lot of money being raised and people are really energized about the race.”
Holcomb said Wednesday at his first joint appearance with Democrat John Gregg, “I’ll let Gov. Pence speak for every penny he decides to spend. I am concerned about raising the money I need. I am confident I can do that. We’ll raise the millions it will take to get the message out over the next 100 days.”
The Pence money dilemma can be solved, one source told me, with a chunk of the Republican Governors Association money returned to that organization, which can then be reallocated to Holcomb, or simply spent by the RGA. For an individual who donated $5,000, for instance, $2,700 can be spent by the campaign under FEC rules now that Pence is a federal candidate, and $3,300 could be returned to the donor, who could then donate it back to the Holcomb campaign.
But in a 100-day sprint that the campaign against John Gregg has become, having to jump through such hoops to gain access to funding has the potential to bog the machine down.
Holcomb won the 22-person committee vote with a combination of a “next man up” sentiment, longtime relationships with many of the committee members, and the Pence endorsement. Had Holcomb lost, it would have been an embarrassment for Pence in Trump world, where power is everything and weakness is not tolerated.
“I am ready to take Indiana to that next level,” Holcomb said in the kind of parlance that his old boss, Gov. Mitch Daniels, used back in his “comeback” days. “We cannot, cannot, and the reason I ran is we cannot afford to allow the state to slip and go backwards into debt and delayed payments to schools.”
When the dust settled, Holcomb had $20,000 in his own campaign account and, according to John Gregg campaign sources, has statewide name ID in the 15 percent range. He faces a Democrat who has raised more than $10 million. The Democratic Governors Association just put $500,000 cash into the Gregg campaign, and there is another $2 million to $3 million in the pipeline, according to knowledgeable Gregg campaign sources.
Holcomb found a midsummer way station on one of the most stunning rises in Hoosier political history, winning a 12-day gubernatorial nomination sprint after Pence ascended to the vice presidential nomination. In the span of five months, Holcomb had evolved from a third-place U.S. Senate candidate to the party’s gubernatorial standard bearer in the most unpredictable election cycle during the state’s bicentennial year.
Holcomb faces a time and money crunch. He will inherit the remaining parts of the Pence campaign team who didn’t depart for Trump Inc.
In Gregg, he faces a much more disciplined and funded candidate than the Democrat was in 2012. The Gregg 2.0 campaign comprises of Hoosier operatives this time, instead of nationals dispatched here. Gregg’s media looks, sounds and resonates better than his folksy 2012 TV ads. And Gregg is working in tandem with Glenda Ritz, superintendent of public instruction, whereas four years ago there wasn’t such synchronicity. That year, Ritz benefited greatly from the sprawling and disaffected education network that is poised to reactive this fall.
Key telltales will be how the RGA responds next week, who Holcomb’s running mate is, who takes command staff positions, and whether the Pence war chest can be unlocked and put into use in a timely fashion. But given the sensational twists and turns, this race has gone from a tossup to leans Gregg.
Howey is publisher of Howey Politics Indiana at howeypolitics.com.
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Q:
Circular list iterator in Python
I need to iterate over a circular list, possibly many times, each time starting with the last visited item.
The use case is a connection pool. A client asks for connection, an iterator checks if pointed-to connection is available and returns it, otherwise loops until it finds one that is available.
Is there a neat way to do it in Python?
A:
Use itertools.cycle, that's its exact purpose:
from itertools import cycle
lst = ['a', 'b', 'c']
pool = cycle(lst)
for item in pool:
print item,
Output:
a b c a b c ...
(Loops forever, obviously)
In order to manually advance the iterator and pull values from it one by one, simply call next(pool):
>>> next(pool)
'a'
>>> next(pool)
'b'
A:
The correct answer is to use itertools.cycle. But, let's assume that library function doesn't exist. How would you implement it?
Use a generator:
def circular():
while True:
for connection in ['a', 'b', 'c']:
yield connection
Then, you can either use a for statement to iterate infinitely, or you can call next() to get the single next value from the generator iterator:
connections = circular()
next(connections) # 'a'
next(connections) # 'b'
next(connections) # 'c'
next(connections) # 'a'
next(connections) # 'b'
next(connections) # 'c'
next(connections) # 'a'
#....
A:
Or you can do like this:
conn = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
conn_len = len(conn)
index = 0
while True:
print(conn[index])
index = (index + 1) % conn_len
prints a b c d e f a b c... forever
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// +build !windows
package container // import "github.com/docker/docker/api/types/container"
// IsValid indicates if an isolation technology is valid
func (i Isolation) IsValid() bool {
return i.IsDefault()
}
// NetworkName returns the name of the network stack.
func (n NetworkMode) NetworkName() string {
if n.IsBridge() {
return "bridge"
} else if n.IsHost() {
return "host"
} else if n.IsContainer() {
return "container"
} else if n.IsNone() {
return "none"
} else if n.IsDefault() {
return "default"
} else if n.IsUserDefined() {
return n.UserDefined()
}
return ""
}
// IsBridge indicates whether container uses the bridge network stack
func (n NetworkMode) IsBridge() bool {
return n == "bridge"
}
// IsHost indicates whether container uses the host network stack.
func (n NetworkMode) IsHost() bool {
return n == "host"
}
// IsUserDefined indicates user-created network
func (n NetworkMode) IsUserDefined() bool {
return !n.IsDefault() && !n.IsBridge() && !n.IsHost() && !n.IsNone() && !n.IsContainer()
}
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#ifndef __DEMO_DEFINES_H__
#define __DEMO_DEFINES_H__
#include "demodata.h"
/* Error codes. */
#define DEMO_OK 0
#define DEMO_ERROR_ALLEGRO 1
#define DEMO_ERROR_GFX 2
#define DEMO_ERROR_MEMORY 3
#define DEMO_ERROR_VIDEOMEMORY 4
#define DEMO_ERROR_TRIPLEBUFFER 5
#define DEMO_ERROR_DATA 6
#define DEMO_ERROR_GAMEDATA 7
/* Screen update driver IDs */
#define DEMO_UPDATE_DIRECT 0
#define DEMO_DOUBLE_BUFFER 1
#define DEMO_PAGE_FLIPPING 2
#define DEMO_TRIPLE_BUFFER 3
#define DEMO_OGL_FLIPPING 4
/* Input controller IDs */
#define DEMO_CONTROLLER_KEYBOARD 0
#define DEMO_CONTROLLER_GAMEPAD 1
/* Virtual controller button IDs */
#define DEMO_BUTTON_LEFT 0
#define DEMO_BUTTON_RIGHT 1
#define DEMO_BUTTON_JUMP 2
/* Game state/screen IDs. Each game state must have a unique ID.
DEMO_STATE_EXIT is a special state that doesn't relate to any
actual gamestate but represents the final state of the game
framework state machine. */
#define DEMO_STATE_MAIN_MENU 0
#define DEMO_STATE_NEW_GAME 1
#define DEMO_STATE_OPTIONS 2
#define DEMO_STATE_GFX 3
#define DEMO_STATE_SOUND 4
#define DEMO_STATE_CONTROLS 5
#define DEMO_STATE_MISC 6
#define DEMO_STATE_ABOUT 7
#define DEMO_STATE_HELP 8
#define DEMO_STATE_INTRO 9
#define DEMO_STATE_CONTINUE_GAME 10
#define DEMO_STATE_SUCCESS 11
#define DEMO_STATE_EXIT -1
/* Size of the buffers containing absolute paths to various game files. */
#define DEMO_PATH_LENGTH 1024
/* Size of the static array that holds the game states. */
#define DEMO_MAX_GAMESTATES 64
/* Skater can use both AllegroGL and plain Allegro fonts. AllegroGL fonts
require somewhat more code but are much faster that Allegro fonts. */
/* By defualt, use AllegroGL fonts if building in AllegroGL mode. */
#ifdef DEMO_USE_ALLEGRO_GL
#define DEMO_USE_ALLEGRO_GL_FONT
#endif
#endif /* __DEMO_DEFINES_H__ */
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Klotho reduces apoptosis in experimental ischaemic acute renal failure.
Klotho is associated with the suppression of several ageing phenotypes. Because high klotho gene expression was detected in the kidney and several studies have found altered expression in animal models, we explored the physiological relevance of klotho expression in the kidney under renal ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI). Male Wistar rats were subjected to bilateral renal ischemia or sham operation, followed by reperfusion for 6, 12 or 24 h, or 2 to 10 days. Renal expression of klotho was assessed by real-time PCR or Western blotting. Creatinine levels were determined. Immunohistochemical studies and TUNEL staining were performed. An adenovirus harbouring the mouse klotho gene (ad-kl) was intravenously administered to one group of rats before renal IRI. Renal klotho mRNA and protein expressions were significantly reduced in IRI rats the first day after ischemia. Pre-treatment with ad-kl resulted in a robust induction of klotho mRNA and protein in the liver but not in the kidney. Ad-kl gene transfer improved serum creatinine and the histological changes. Apoptosis induced by IRI was attenuated following ad-kl administration. The data suggest klotho to be involved in the pathophysiology of IRI. Downregulation of renal klotho exacerbates ischaemic acute renal failure, and klotho gene induction has therapeutic potential in managing ischaemic renal damage.
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Q:
Can I put a second layer of caulk over newly installed caulk to fill a gap?
My bathroom backsplash-to-wall junction was just re-caulked yesterday. (The old caulk was discolored and showing signs of mold.) But on one side of the countertop where there's a 3/8" gap between wall and backsplash, the new caulk was applied at a slightly lower level than the top of the backsplash, meaning there's a small area where water will pool on top of the caulk instead of draining back down onto the backsplash and countertop.
Question: can I just add more caulk on top of the now-dried other caulk, in order to raise the caulk level above the backsplash top so water will drain correctly? Or do I need to rip out all the caulk and start from scratch?
I'm using GE Max 5000 caulk if it matters.
A:
Ideally it would be one continuous bead of caulking, however for 3/8" of a gap at the very top, you will probably be OK just adding a bit more caulking to fill it in. However, if you don't want to have to touch it again for a while--and considering the low cost and relative ease of applying it--I think I would be inclined to remove the existing bead and apply a new one that covers the entire length. That way you don't have to worry about water getting behind it.
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Q:
How do I know why a certain Jar was added to my project?
Is there a way to enter a single jar name to maven and get the full path of jars that added it to my project?
A:
The best thing that you can do is using the mvn dependency:tree command.
It doesn't display the full path of jars that pulled the dependencies.
Instead, it displays the dependency tree for the current Maven project.
You could so know for each resolved dependency the Maven module/dependency that pulled that.
Make the mapping between a dependency identified by the trio groupId-artifactId-version and your local repository should be so very simple.
Here is an example with a project that among other things has jmh as dependency :
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ map-benchmark ---
[INFO] davidxxx:map-benchmark:jar:1.0
[INFO] +- junit:junit:jar:4.7:test
[INFO] +- org.openjdk.jmh:jmh-core:jar:1.19:compile
[INFO] | +- net.sf.jopt-simple:jopt-simple:jar:4.6:compile
[INFO] | \- org.apache.commons:commons-math3:jar:3.2:compile
[INFO] \- org.openjdk.jmh:jmh-generator-annprocess:jar:1.19:compile
You can see for example that junit is not a transitive dependency as it pulled by the current project itself.
But you could also see that commons-math3 is a transitive dependency pulled by jopt-simple itself pulled by jmh-core.
The dependency:tree goal can also be used to filter only specific dependencies.
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.apache.commons:commons-math3
or (note : without prefix if we don't need to specify the groupId) :
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=:commons-math3
will output :
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ map-benchmark ---
[INFO] davidxxx:map-benchmark:jar:1.0
[INFO] \- org.openjdk.jmh:jmh-core:jar:1.19:compile
[INFO] \- org.apache.commons:commons-math3:jar:3.2:compile
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
This plugin can help to solve conflicts.
Here is a relevant example from the documentation.
For example, to find out why Commons Collections 2.0 is being used by
the Maven Dependency Plugin, we can execute the following in the
project's directory:
mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose -Dincludes=commons-collections
The verbose flag instructs the dependency tree to display conflicting
dependencies that were omitted from the resolved dependency tree. In
this case, the goal outputs:
[INFO] [dependency:tree]
[INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:maven-plugin:2.0-alpha-5-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- org.apache.maven.reporting:maven-reporting-impl:jar:2.0.4:compile
[INFO] | \- commons-validator:commons-validator:jar:1.2.0:compile
[INFO] | \- commons-digester:commons-digester:jar:1.6:compile
[INFO] | \- (commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:2.1:compile - omitted for conflict with 2.0)
[INFO] \- org.apache.maven.doxia:doxia-site-renderer:jar:1.0-alpha-8:compile
[INFO] \- org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-velocity:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO] \- commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:2.0:compile
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Update: Since this story was first published last week, a representative for the Georgia Institute of Technology has been in touch to say: "Thad is working on in-ear wearables. But he does so for Georgia Tech with United Sciences."
"This will get plenty of attention when the project is ready for prime time. I don't want people thinking it's a Google idea. The concept came from academia and is being developed by academia, not industry."
Original story:
Google looks set to get in on the hearables action and is apparently working on an in-ear wearable that will work in combination with its Google Glass augmented reality headset.
That's what we've been told by Andy Mathes, who is EVP of Business Development at United Sciences. The Atlanta based company specialises in accurate 3D scanning of the ear to create custom fit devices such as hearing aids, and the kind of in-ear monitors musicians wear on stage.
Essential reading: The future of hearables
According to Mathes, Google is already looking at bringing technology to the ear with the help of a United Sciences brand ambassador Thad Starner. If you're not familiar with the name, Starner is known in the industry as a wearable pioneer and is considered to be the inventor of Google Glass. He apparently took the idea to Larry Page and Sergey Brin pitching the concept of an augmented reality headset and worked in the Google X Lab responsible for the failed first effort.
Speaking to Wareable, Mathes told us, "He's (Thad) working with Google still on some kind of in-ear wearable and Glass combination. They're very keen on the ear."
While Mathes didn't elaborate on what or how that hearable would work with Glass, he's not surprised by the fact Google is looking at little closer at the ear calling it a "physiological playground".
The revelation comes at a time when Google appears to be preparing its next move with wearables. This week it revealed the logo for Project Aura, the project that's seen as the successor to Glass. At the end of last year, images of its Google Glass Enterprise Edition also surfaced, which suggests it won't be too long before we see what's next.
There has also been talk of two non-Glass Project Aura devices making an appearance in 2016, with a stronger focus on audio. One apparently uses bone conduction speaker technology, while a sport edition is being built for fitness tracking.
We tipped hearables to be a major talking point in 2016 in our Wareable 50 watch list. This year, we've already seen the official launch of Bragi Dash and Doppler Labs' Here Active listening earbuds are beginning to make their presence felt including turning up at Coachella this year. It's going to be big, we can feel it...
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A fuel cell has been proposed as a clean, efficient and environmentally responsible power source for electric vehicles and various other applications. Individual fuel cells can be stacked together in series to form a fuel cell stack for various applications. The fuel cell stack is capable of supplying a quantity of electricity sufficient to power a vehicle. In particular, the fuel cell stack has been identified as a potential alternative for the traditional internal-combustion engine used in modern automobiles.
One type of fuel cell is the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. The PEM fuel cell includes three basic components: an electrolyte membrane; and a pair of electrodes, including a cathode and an anode. The electrolyte membrane is sandwiched between the electrodes to form a membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA). The MEA is typically disposed between porous diffusion media (DM) such as carbon fiber paper, which facilitates a delivery of reactants such as hydrogen to the anode and oxygen to the cathode. In the electrochemical fuel cell reaction, the hydrogen is catalytically oxidized in the anode to generate free protons and electrons. The protons pass through the electrolyte to the cathode. The electrons from the anode cannot pass through the electrolyte membrane, and are instead directed as an electric current to the cathode through an electrical load such as an electric motor. The protons react with the oxygen and the electrons in the cathode to generate water.
It has been desirable to fabricate the fuel cell and related fuel cell components from radiation-cured structures. The formation of radiation-cured structures such as microtruss structures are described in Assignee's co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/339,308, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. The formation of radiation-cured fuel cell structures are further described in Assignee's co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 12/341,062 and 12/341,105, the entire disclosures of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Radiation-cured microtruss structures and methodology are described by Jacobsen et al. in “Compression behavior of micro-scale truss structures formed from self-propagating polymer waveguides”, Acta Materialia 55, (2007) 6724-6733, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. One particular method and system of creating radiation-cured structures is disclosed by Jacobsen in U.S. Pat. No. 7,382,959, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. Further radiation-cured structures are disclosed by Jacobsen in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/801,908, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Typically, the radiation-cured structures are formed from radiation-sensitive materials such as radiation-curable materials and radiation-dissociable materials. The radiation-cured structure is generally formed by a method including the steps of: providing the radiation-sensitive material; placing a mask between an at least one radiation source and the radiation-sensitive material, the mask having a plurality of substantially radiation-transparent apertures formed therein; and exposing the radiation-sensitive material to a plurality of radiation beams through the radiation-transparent apertures in the mask. The apertures of the mask may be selected to provide different radiation cured structures. To form complex or multi-layered radiation cured structures, different masks having different apertures are generally sequentially applied. Undesirably, masks must be removed following radiation exposure so that further radiation-cured structure may be fabricated. Since masks typically are placed in physical contact with the radiation-sensitive material, the masks must also be cleaned after use in order to remove residual radiation-sensitive material. Although it is possible to achieve multiple radiation exposures through repeated release and application of masks, this methodology can be quite complicated and costly.
There is a continuing need for an efficient and cost effective system and method for fabricating radiation-cured structures. Desirably, the system and method provide complex radiation-cured structures without employing costly and inefficient masking techniques, processing steps, and cleaning steps.
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Q:
Android how to play different sound for each item in recyclerview
I build app with images of animals, and after you click on animal, its play sound for that animal.
I use Recyclerview for displaying all animals items.
My problem is that i do not know how to handle click event for playing sounds for each animal. I do know how to play same sound for each item in recyclerview but i do not know how to handle specific sound for each item.
this is code for my class where i handle data, where i put all animal names, images and sounds for each object.
package com.example.android.animalsoundsforchildren;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Zivotinje {
private String mAnimal_name;
private int mAnimal_slika;
private int mSound;
public Zivotinje(String animalName, int slika, int sound) {
this.setmAnimal_name(animalName);
this.setmAnimal_slika(slika);
this.setmSound(sound);
}
public String getmAnimal_name() {
return mAnimal_name;
}
public void setmAnimal_name(String mAnimal_name) {
this.mAnimal_name = mAnimal_name;
}
public int getmAnimal_slika() {
return mAnimal_slika;
}
public void setmAnimal_slika(int mAnimal_slika) {
this.mAnimal_slika = mAnimal_slika;
}
public int getmSound() {
return mSound;
}
public void setmSound(int mSound) {
this.mSound = mSound;
}
//putting data
public static ArrayList<Zivotinje> createZivotinjeList() {
ArrayList<Zivotinje> animals = new ArrayList<Zivotinje>();
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Sheep", R.drawable.domestic_sheep, R.raw.gun));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Sparrow", R.drawable.birds_sparrow, R.raw.birds_sparrow));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Dolphin", R.drawable.sea_dolphin, R.raw.dolphin));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Bumblebee", R.drawable.insects_bumblebee, R.raw.bumblebee));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Tractor", R.drawable.cars_tractor, R.raw.tractor));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Baby Cry", R.drawable.laugh_baby_cry, R.raw.baby_cray));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Wind", R.drawable.nature_wind, R.raw.wind));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Golf", R.drawable.effects_golf, R.raw.golf));
animals.add(new Zivotinje("Clock", R.drawable.others_clock, R.raw.clock));
return animals;
}
}
This is code for Adapter, and here i handle click and when i click on item, it play the same sound but how to play different sound for each animal, not the same sound like here. Here i always play sound R.raw.clock
package com.example.android.animalsoundsforchildren;
import android.content.Context;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import java.util.List;
public class ZivotinjeAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ZivotinjeAdapter.ViewHolder> {
@Override
public ZivotinjeAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
Context context = parent.getContext();
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
// Inflate the custom layout
View contactView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item_zivotinje, parent, false);
// Return a new holder instance
ViewHolder viewHolder = new ViewHolder(contactView);
return viewHolder;
}
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ZivotinjeAdapter.ViewHolder viewHolder, int position) {
Zivotinje zivotinjeIme = mZivotinje.get(position);
// Set item views based on the data model
TextView textView = viewHolder.nameTextView;
textView.setText(zivotinjeIme.getmAnimal_name());
ImageView slika_source = viewHolder.imageView;
slika_source.setImageResource(zivotinjeIme.getmAnimal_slika());
}
@Override
public int getItemCount() {
return mZivotinje.size();
}
public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
public ImageView imageView;
public TextView nameTextView;
public ViewHolder(final View itemView) {
super(itemView);
nameTextView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.zivotinjaIme_id);
imageView = (ImageView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.slika_id);
//It works when i play for each item sound but how to play specific sound for each animal
itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(v.getContext(), R.raw.clock);
mediaPlayer.start();
}
});
}
}
private List<Zivotinje> mZivotinje;
public ZivotinjeAdapter(List<Zivotinje> animals) {
mZivotinje = animals;
}
}
A:
Refer the link https://gist.github.com/grantland/cd70814fe4ac369e3e92
you can refer to the item click event and how to get the item on click event
please refer the code below. i have made the changes
public class ZivotinjeAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<ZivotinjeAdapter.ViewHolder> {
@Override
public ZivotinjeAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
Context context = parent.getContext();
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
// Inflate the custom layout
View contactView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item_zivotinje, parent, false);
// Return a new holder instance
ViewHolder viewHolder = new ViewHolder(contactView);
return viewHolder;
}
@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(ZivotinjeAdapter.ViewHolder viewHolder, int position) {
Zivotinje zivotinjeIme = mZivotinje.get(position);
// Set item views based on the data model
TextView textView = viewHolder.nameTextView;
textView.setText(zivotinjeIme.getmAnimal_name());
ImageView slika_source = viewHolder.imageView;
slika_source.setImageResource(zivotinjeIme.getmAnimal_slika());
viewHolder.setItem(mZivotinje[position]);
}
@Override
public int getItemCount() {
return mZivotinje.size();
}
public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
public ImageView imageView;
public TextView nameTextView;
private Zivotinje mItem;
public ViewHolder(final View itemView) {
super(itemView);
nameTextView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.zivotinjaIme_id);
imageView = (ImageView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.slika_id);
public void setItem(Zivotinje item) {
mItem = item;
}
//It works when i play for each item sound but how to play specific sound for each animal
itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// here you will get mItem and from that you can get the sound
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(v.getContext(), R.raw.clock);
mediaPlayer.start();
}
});
}
}
private List<Zivotinje> mZivotinje;
public ZivotinjeAdapter(List<Zivotinje> animals) {
mZivotinje = animals;
}
}
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Italy's banks were already reeling before the Brexit market rout. Now it seems some of them may need a bailout.
Shares in the country's biggest lenders lost 30% of their value on Friday and Monday as global markets went into meltdown after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. The stocks stabilized on Tuesday but are still deep in the red for the year -- some of the big names have lost 60%.
Media reports suggest the government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is considering injecting as much as 40 billion euros ($44 billion) into the sector in the form of new capital or government guarantees.
In an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Renzi said he was ready to do "everything necessary to save customer and citizens' security." Italy was ready, if needed, to work with European institutions to ensure the security of the banks and their customers, he said.
"This is the priority," Renzi added.
A spokesperson for the European Commission told CNNMoney that it was closely monitoring market developments across the EU.
"Specifically, as regards Italy, we are in close, regular contact with Italy as part of our normal exchanges. We have no comment on the speculations in the press on any potential specific measures," the spokesperson said.
Related: How low can bond rates go after Brexit?
Italy's banks are being crushed by bad debts that total 360 billion euros ($396 billion) -- a third of the total in the eurozone, according to Reuters.
The problem has become more pressing during years of economic stagnation. A highly fragmented and inefficient industry doesn't help -- Italy has more than 600 banks, supporting 52 bank branches for every 100,000 adults. Germany has 14 bank branches per 100,000 adults, and the United States 38.
Related: It's a horrible time to be a U.S. bank
After years of inaction by previous Italian governments, Renzi has started to overhaul the sector, pushing for consolidation. Two banks, Banco Popolare and Banca Popolare di Milano, agreed to a rare merger earlier this year -- a deal that creates the third biggest lender behind Intesa Sanpaolo (IITSF) and UniCredit (UNCFF).
Italy has tried to find solutions for its bad debts but has struggled to come up with an effective plan that satisfies European competition rules, which set strict conditions on the provision of state aid to banks.
In recent years, Europe has introduced new rules on bank bailouts that allow governments to use taxpayers' money only if investors share some of the pain too.
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Q:
Maths Competition Question - Algebra/Number Theory
Twelve cowboys sit in a circle around a bonfire. Each observes that his age (viewed as an integer) is the average of the ages of his left and right neighbours. Which of the following could be the sum of their ages?
A. 224
B. 226
C. 227
D. 228
A:
They must all be the same age, for if someone A is sitting next to two people of diferent ages, then one of those must be older, and on the other side of the person that is older than A must be someone that is older yet, etc. But with a circle, ages can't keep rising, for eventually you get back to A.
So, the sum must be a multiple of 12, which is 228.
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Jeremy Renner in The Bourne Legacy Teaser Trailer
Jeremy Renner stars in the spin-off/reboot of the Bourne franchise The Bourne Legacy, and now we’re getting a look at how director Tony Gilroy is handling the reset button in the film’s first trailer. With that title it means that Matt Damon‘s Jason Bourne is going to hover over the film – though it’s hard to say for how long of the running time. Check out the teaser…
They brought back Joan Allen, Scott Glenn, David Strathairn and Albert Finney from the last couple movies, and upped their game by adding Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton into the mix, with up and comer Oscar Isaac also joining the ranks. You’re going to be seeing a lot of Isaac soon. Currently a chameleon, he appeared in Sucker Punchand Drive, and is the lead in the latest Coen Brothers movie.
I like the teaser, though I wonder how long we’re going to have to spend watching the franchise get rebooted. The trailer tells us that Renner’s character is a lot like Bourne but better. The problem is that every single film in the franchise pointed out that Bourne wasn’t the only super awesome agent, so I don’t know how long you have to explain that. As long as the action delivers and we don’t have to spend an hour being told all the same things over again, we’re on board. The film opens August 3, and here’s the poster art:
Damon worked in the film business as a Film Buyer for a theater chain for many years, which gives him an interesting perspective on the numbers. He's written for Collider, Chud, Screencrush, The DVD Journal and Binaryflix online, and was published by The New York Times and Willamette Week, along with his college, high school and middle school papers.
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Q:
ext3 file system failures after RAM upgrade
I have just added 2GB of RAM into my laptop and started getting problems with ext3 file system. I have tested the actual memory modules with MemTest86+, and they were fine.
This issue also happens when I add other 2GB module (different manufacturer), so it's unlikely that added module itself is faulty. Both modules are same frequency (PC2-5300).
If newly added 2GB module gets removed or replaced with 1GB one, issues disappear.
This is an example of error messages in dmesg:
[ 1113.347106] EXT3-fs error (device
sda5) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO
failure
[ 1113.347119] Aborting journal on device sda5.
[ 1113.348031] Remounting filesystem read-only
[ 1113.349228] EXT3-fs error (device sda5) in ext3_dirty_inode: IO failure
[ 1114.883303] EXT3-fs error (device sda5): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #1900599: inode out of bounds - offset=0, inode=1900599, rec_len=12, name_len=1
What could possibly be a problem and what are the ways to look for solution?
Thanks!
UPD: Strange thing - as soon as I go back to kernel 2.6.28-15 everything crashes again. However it's all fine on 2.6.31-020631-generic
Thanks for your answers.
A:
Memtest is software-based, and software memory testers can tell if if there is a problem, but can't tell you there isn't.
In other words if it finds an issue, there's a problem. If it doesn't, it might not have a problem. It's like asking your brain to objectively evaluate yourself. Doesn't work entirely well.
You don't mention the laptop manufacturer but you might want to doublecheck that it supports that much memory with that speed and size. Some laptops don't like it.
If it weren't the memory or the memory interface, you should continue to have issues when you remove the memory modules. That would mean you could look at filesystem or motherboard corruption issues.
If your hardware does indeed support that much memory then you may have an issue with the motherboard. Since it goes away when you don't have the additional memory in, then the hard drive and filesystem should be intact, leaving the culprits to most likely be the modules, the motherboard's memory interface for memory, or the motherboard itself has an obscure issue.
You might be able to check for BIOS/firmware updates for the laptop to see if this is an issue that is addressed with an upgrade.
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Brent Spar
Brent Spar, or Brent E, was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had continued in use, but by 1991, was considered to be of no further value. Brent Spar became an issue of public concern in 1995, when the British government announced its support for Shell's application for its disposal in deep Atlantic waters at North Feni Ridge (approximately from the west coast of Scotland, at a depth of around ).
Greenpeace organized a worldwide, high-profile media campaign against this plan occupying Brent Spar for more than three weeks. In the face of public and political opposition in northern Europe (including a widespread boycott of Shell service stations, some physical attacks and an arson attack on a service station in Germany), Shell abandoned its plans to dispose of Brent Spar at sea — whilst continuing to stand by its claim that this was the safest option, both from an environmental and an industrial health and safety perspective. Greenpeace's own reputation also suffered during the campaign, when it had to acknowledge that its assessment of the oil remaining in Brent Spar’s storage tanks had been grossly overestimated. Following Shell's decision to pursue only on-shore disposal options, as favoured by Greenpeace and its supporters, Brent Spar was given temporary moorings in a Norwegian fjord. In January 1998, Shell announced its decision to re-use much of the main structure in the construction of new harbour facilities near Stavanger, Norway.
Technical information
Brent "E" was a floating oil storage facility constructed in 1976 and moored approximately from the Brent "A" oil rig. It was jointly owned by Shell and Esso, and operated wholly by Shell, which gave them responsibility for decommissioning the structure. Brent Spar was high and in diameter, and displaced 66,000 tonnes. The draft of the platform was such that manoeuvring in the North Sea south of Orkney was not possible. The storage tank section had a capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude oil. This section was built from thick steel plate, reinforced by ribs and cross-braces. It was known that this section had been stressed and damaged on installation. This led to doubts on whether the facility would retain its structural integrity if it was re-floated into a horizontal position.
Shell based its decommissioning decisions on estimates of the quantities of various pollutants, including PCBs, crude oil, heavy metals, and scale, which it had calculated based on the operating activities of the platform, and metal that would remain in the structure after decommissioning. Scale is a by-product of oil production and, because of the radioactivity found in the rocks from which the oil is extracted, is considered to be low-level radioactive waste. It is regularly dealt with on-shore by workers wearing breathing masks to prevent inhalation of dust.
Disposal options
Shell examined a number of options for disposing of the Brent Spar, and took two of these forward for serious consideration.
On-shore dismantling
The first option involved towing the Brent Spar to a shallow water harbour to decontaminate it and reuse the materials used in its construction. Any unusable waste could be disposed of on land. Technically, this option was more complex and presented a greater hazard to the workforce. This option was estimated to cost £41M. There was some concern that the facility would disintegrate in shallow coastal water, having a much more economically and environmentally significant effect.
Deep sea disposal
The second option involved towing the decommissioned platform into deep water in the North Atlantic, positioning explosives around the waterline, then detonating them, in order to breach the hull and sink the platform. The facility would then fall to the seabed and release its contents over a restricted area. Due to the uncertainty associated with detonating explosives, a number of possible scenarios were envisaged. First, the structure would fall to the seabed in one piece, releasing its contaminants slowly, and affecting the seabed for around "down-current". Second, the structure might disintegrate as it fell through the water column. This would release contaminants in a single burst, and have an effect for "down current" of the final resting place, although this would last for a shorter time than in the first instance. Third, the structure could fail catastrophically when the explosives detonated, releasing its contaminants into the surface waters. This would affect sea birds and on the fishing industry in that area. The cost of this option was estimated at between £17M and £20M.
Shell proposed that deep sea disposal was the best option for Brent Spar, arguing that their decision had been made on sound scientific principles and data. Dismantling the platform on-shore was more complex from an engineering point of view than disposal at sea. Shell also cited the lower risk to the health and safety of the workforce with deep sea disposal. Environmentally, Shell considered that sinking would have only a localised effect in a remote deep sea region which had little resource value. It was considered that this option would be acceptable to the public, to Her Majesty's Government and to regional authorities. Shell acknowledged that sinking the Brent Spar at sea was also the cheaper option.
Having decided on a preferred method of disposal, Shell contracted Fisheries Research Services (FRS) to investigate possible sites for sinking the facility. There were two stipulations to this search: firstly, that the site was within the UK exclusive economic zone, and secondly, that the site be deep enough that the sunken buoy would present no hazard to shipping. FRS identified three sites as squares, which were considered suitable; the Maury Channel, the North Feni Ridge and the Rockall Trough.
At these three sites, FRS carried out:
seabed visualisation surveys using a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to confirm the topography in each area
sediment sample collection using a box core sampler to analyse for heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), oil-related hydrocarbons and radionuclides
investigations into particle size distribution, and total organic carbon levels of the sediment
box core sampling to count the numbers of animals living in the sediment of the seabed
beam trawl sampling to determine the different animals living on the seabed
The North Feni Ridge was found to include a narrow channel. The Rockall Trough area was found to be a gently sloping basin between the Anton Dohrn Seamount and the Wyville-Thomsom Ridge. The Maury Channel area was found to be a flat, gently sloping area.
Infaunal communities were found to be high in diversity and low in abundance, characteristic of unimpacted sediments. These communities were thought to have a limited food supply, which is also normal in deep water communities.
The final conclusions of FRS were that abundance and diversity were greater than had been expected, especially in the North Feni Ridge area, however the limited extent of sampling precluded detailed analysis of data for the entire area. On the basis of the data which FRS gathered, there was little to choose between the three potential disposal areas. Analysis of the North Feni Ridge area may indicate that this area may have been accumulative, but that this would not preclude deep-sea disposal of the platform.
Having received these conclusions, Shell opted for the North Feni Ridge site, and applied to the British government for a licence to dispose of the rig at sea. This was approved in December 1994.
Greenpeace involvement
Greenpeace became aware of the plan to sink the Brent Spar at sea on 16 February 1995. The organization had been campaigning against ocean dumping in the North Sea since the early 1980s, monitoring the dumping of radioactive waste and waste from titanium dioxide production and on occasion using high-seas civil disobedience tactics to physically hinder the perpetrators, and lobbying for a comprehensive ban on ocean dumping through the OSPAR convention.
Greenpeace objected to the plan to dispose of the Brent Spar at sea on a number of issues:
That there was a lack of understanding of the deep sea environment, and therefore no way to predict the effects of the proposed dumping on deep sea ecosystems.
The documents which supported Shell's licence application were "highly conjectural in nature", containing unsubstantiated assumptions, minimal data and extrapolations from unnamed studies.
That dumping the Brent Spar at sea would create a precedent for dumping other contaminated structures in the sea and would undermine current international agreements. The environmental effects of further dumping would be cumulative.
Dismantling of the Brent Spar was technically feasible and offshore engineering firms believed they could do it safely and effectively. The necessary facilities were already routinely in use and decommissioning of many other oil installations had already been carried out elsewhere in the world.
To protect the environment, the principle of minimizing the generation of wastes should be upheld and harmful materials always recycled, treated or contained.
Greenpeace claimed that the scientific arguments for ocean dumping were being used as a way of disguising Shell's primary aim, which was to cut costs.
The "battle" of Brent Spar
Four Greenpeace activists first occupied Brent Spar on 30 April 1995. In total, 25 activists, photographers and journalists were involved in this stage of occupation. They decided to cover up the Exxon logos on the platform. At this time, activists collected a sample of the contents of the Spar and sent it for testing, to determine the nature of the pollutants which the platform contained. This sample was collected incorrectly, leading to a large overestimate in the contents of the facility. Although Greenpeace quoted Shell's own estimate of the amount of heavy metals and other chemicals on board, they also claimed there were more than 5,500 tonnes of oil on the Spar – while Shell's estimate was 50 tonnes. For context, the Exxon Valdez oil spill involved around 42,000 tonnes.
Greenpeace mounted an energetic media campaign that influenced public opinion against Shell's preferred option. It disputed Shell's estimates of the contaminants on the Brent Spar, saying that these were much more than initially estimated. On 9 May, the German government issued a formal objection to the British government, with respect to the dumping plan. On 23 May, after several attempts, Shell obtained legal permission to evict the Greenpeace protesters from the Brent Spar, and they were eventually taken by helicopter to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they held a press conference.
Towing of the platform to its final position began on 11 June. By this time, the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell's profitability as well as brand image. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl protested to the British Prime Minister, John Major at a G7 conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Support from within the oil industry was not unanimous. Although oil production companies supported Shell's position, influential companies in the offshore construction sector stood to make money from onshore dismantling if a precedent could be set, and consequently supported the Greenpeace point of view.
On 20 June, Shell had decided that their position was no longer tenable, and withdrew their plan to sink the Brent Spar. They released the following statement:
"Shell's position as a major European enterprise has become untenable. The Spar had gained a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its environmental effect. In consequence, Shell companies were faced with increasingly intense public criticism, mostly in Continental northern Europe. Many politicians and ministers were openly hostile and several called for consumer boycotts. There was violence against Shell service stations, accompanied by threats to Shell staff."
In early July, the Norwegian government gave Shell permission to mothball the Brent Spar in Erfjord. It remained there for several years while other options for disposal were considered.
Aftermath
Having moored the Brent Spar in Erfjord, Shell commissioned the independent Norwegian consultancy Det Norske Veritas (DNV) to conduct an audit of Spar's contents and investigate Greenpeace's allegations. Greenpeace admitted that its claims that the Spar contained 5500 tonnes of oil were inaccurate and apologized to Shell on 5 September. This pre-empted the publication of DNV's report, which endorsed Shell's initial estimates for many pollutants. Greenpeace noted that its opposition to the dumping had never been solely based on the presence or absence of oil, however, and that opposition to the disposal plan was part of a larger campaign opposing the dumping of all waste into the North Sea.
Shell received over 200 individual suggestions for what could be done with the Brent Spar. One of these came from the Stavanger Port Authority. They were planning a quay extension at Mekjarvik, to provide new Roll-On/Roll-Off ferry facilities. It was hoped that using slices of the Spar's hull would save both money and energy that would otherwise have been spent in new steel construction. The Spar was raised vertically in the water by building a lifting cradle, placed underneath the Spar and connected by cables to jacks on board heavy barges. Jacking the cables upwards raised the Spar so that its hull could be cut into 'rings' and slid onto a barge.
After cleaning, the rings were placed in the sea beside the existing quay at Mekjarvik and filled with ballast. The construction of the quay extension was completed by placing a concrete slab across the rings. The Spar's living quarters and operations module were removed and scrapped onshore at a Norwegian landfill site.
While the Brent Spar was being dismantled, quantities of the endangered cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa were found growing on the legs of the platform . At the time, this was considered unusual, although recent studies have shown this to be a common occurrence, with 13 of 14 North Sea oil rigs examined having L. pertusa colonies. The authors of the original work suggested that it may be better to leave the lower parts of such structures in place — a suggestion opposed by Greenpeace campaigner Simon Reddy, who compared it to "[dumping] a car in a wood – moss would grow on it, and if I was lucky a bird may even nest in it. But this is not justification to fill our forests with disused cars".
Effect of Brent Spar
According to a poll of 1000 adults carried out by Opinion Leader Research on 26 January 1996 on behalf of Greenpeace, a majority of the British public were aware of the Brent Spar (57%). Of these, 57% were opposed to the dumping of Brent Spar in the Atlantic, and 32% were in favour of it.
Although Shell had carried out an environmental impact assessment in full accordance with existing legislation, they had severely underestimated strength of public opinion. Shell were particularly criticised for having thought of this as a "Scottish", or "UK" problem, and neglecting to think of the effect which it would have on their image in the wider world. The final cost of the Brent Spar operation to Shell was between £60M and £100M, when loss of sales were considered. Although Shell and the offshore industry consider that Brent Spar did not set a precedent for disposal of facilities in the future, signatory nations of the OSPAR conventions have since agreed that oil facilities should be disposed of onshore, so it is difficult to see how this does not set a precedent.
Shell claimed that spending such an amount to protect a small area of remote, low resource value, deep sea was pointless and this money could be much more constructively spent.
The overestimation of the contents of the Brent Spar damaged the credibility of Greenpeace in their wider campaigns. They were criticised in an editorial column in the scientific journal Nature for their lack of interest in facts. Greenpeace moved to distance itself from its "5500 tonnes" claim, after the Brent Spar argument was won.
Timeline
1976: Brent Spar built and enters service
1977: 3 men lose their lives to hydrogen sulfide poisoning
September 1991: Brent Spar ceases operations
1991–93: Shell examines options and carries out risk assessment and environmental impact assessment. Decides to sink Brent Spar at the North Feni Ridge.
February 1994: Independent environmental consultancy, Aberdeen University Research and Industrial Services, endorses choice of deep sea disposal. Shell begins formal consultations with conservation bodies and fishing interests. Draft Abandonment Plan submitted.
December 1994: UK government approves plans for sinking.
30 April 1995: Greenpeace activists board Brent Spar and start occupation of abandoned installation.
30 April - May 21, 1995: Brent Spar occupied by Greenpeace to draw attention to the issue of decommissioning of obsolete North Sea oil and gas installations. During the occupation activists take samples from the oil storage tanks and European Greenpeace offices organize a boycott of Shell products and services.
5 May 1995: British Government grants disposal license to Shell UK.
9 May 1995: German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety protests against disposal plan.
21 May 1995: Activists removed from Brent Spar by Grampian police and Shell.
10 June 1995: Shell UK begins to tow Spar to deep Atlantic disposal site.
15 June 1995: German chancellor Helmut Kohl protests to British Prime Minister John Major at G7 summit.
14–20 June 1995: Protesters in Germany threaten to damage 200 Shell service stations. 50 are subsequently damaged, two fire-bombed and one raked with bullets. Greenpeace officially distances itself from any violence related to the Brent Spar controversy.
16 June 1995: Greenpeace wrongly asserts that the Brent Spar still contains 5,500 tonnes of scale and crude oil.
26–30 June 1995: Eleven states call for a moratorium on sea disposal of decommissioned offshore installations at meeting of Oslo and Paris Commissions. Opposed by Britain and Norway.
7 July 1995: Norway grants permission to moor Spar in Erfjord while Shell reconsiders options.
12 July 1995: Shell UK commissions independent Norwegian consultancy Det Norske Veritas (DNV) to conduct an audit of Spar's contents and investigate Greenpeace allegations.
5 September 1995: Greenpeace admits inaccurate claims that Spar contains 5,550 tonnes of oil and apologizes to Shell.
18 October 1995 - DNV present results of their audit, endorsing the original Spar inventory. DNV state that the amount of oil claimed by Greenpeace to be in the Spar was "grossly overestimated".
29 January 1998: Shell announces Brent Spar will be disposed of on shore and used as foundations for a new ferry terminal.
23 July 1998: OSPAR member states announce agreement on onshore disposal of oil facilities in the future.
February 1999: BBC 9 O'Clock News screens interview with Conservative former environment minister John Selwyn-Gummer in which he accuses Greenpeace campaigners of telling lies and, as a result, causing damage to the whole environmental movement.
10 July 1999: Decommissioning is completed and the first stages of constructing the ferry terminal are started.
25 November 1999: BBC formally apologizes to Greenpeace over screening of Gummer allegations.
Helicopter crash
On 25 July 1990, a British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61 registration 'G-BEWL' coming in from Sumburgh Airport crashed onto the platform as the pilots were attempting to land. The Sikorsky fell into the North Sea, where six of the 13 passengers and crew on board died.
References
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17830117
External links
Greenpeace History of the Brent Spar
Media relating to Brent Spar at BBC Online
Planetfilm Documentary film about Brent Spar
Image: The Greenpeace activists celebrating in Aberdeen
Category:Oil platforms off Scotland
Category:Royal Dutch Shell buildings and structures
Category:Royal Dutch Shell controversies
Category:Environmental issues in Scotland
Category:1995 in the environment
Category:1995 in Scotland
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Gimena Accardi
María Gimena de los Milagros Accardi (born 27 May 1985) is an Argentine actress.
Biography
Born María Gimena de los Milagros Accardi on May 27, 1985 in the Sanatorium Anchorena of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Career
At age 10 she began studying theater. She gave her first years on the boards with Stella Maris Closas. Then there would be a season in the Escuela de Teatro de Patricia Palmer, to arrive, later, in the house of Raúl Serrano, where he studied two years. Gimena continued with her theater classes, her teacher Stella Maris Closas advised her to appear in a casting that made the Canal 13 of Buenos Aires, Argentina. There she recorded her first television pilot, Cosa de chicos from producer Quique Estevanez, which was finally never issued. Estevanez, betting again on her figure, called her to personify Jessica, the sister of "Beto" Santana in Los buscas de siempre by Azul Televisión. Then she was part of the cast of PH by Azul Televisión, playing Sofía, a teenager who had to face, among others, her problems of drug addiction. At the beginning of 2002 she played Catalina, an inveterate liar, in Maridos a domicilio by Azul Televisión. After this program, a short time on the air, changed the station. First it was a chapter in the unit Los simuladores by Telefe as Melina and then participated in Kachorra by Telefe she played Josefina, a teenager with whom the character of Natalia Oreiro had to deal with. Later he played Sabrina in the second season of Rebelde Way by América TV. In 2003 she was convened by the film director Teresa Constantini to play Lucila in the unitary program Ensayo: Habitación 306. In 2004 she found her every Sunday personifying Jazmín in the comedy Panadería los Felipe by Telefe. In February 2005, while she was about to restart the recordings of the second season of Panadería los Felipe, she was cited to become Tatiana in the soap opera Amor en Custodia by Telefe. In 2006, after finishing her participation in this last program, she was summoned to star in a feature film, but economic reasons postponed her filming for later. Without wasting time, she continued her university career during the first semester of the year she holds the title of cinematographic director, while recording a chapter for Un cortado program that was broadcast daily by Canal 7. In July, the producer Cris Morena called her to play Bernardita and be part of the cast of Alma Pirata. At the beginning of 2007 she began working on the postponed film Cartas para Jenny, filmed in San Luis Province and then in Israel. During that period, in parallel, the recordings of Casi Ángeles by Telefe. There she played Malvina, at the beginning one of the villains of the series, which then with the passing of the seasons was reformed. In 2009 she was the antagonistic character of the film Papá por un día with Nicolás Cabré and Luisana Lopilato. In 2011 she was part of one of the most successful telenovelas of that year, Herederos de una venganza in which she played China Villegas, one of the antagonists in history. While recording the novel she made two theatrical replacements, first replacing Eugenia Tobal and then Griselda Siciliani. In 2012 she was part of the second season of Los únicos she played Dolores, the counter-figure of the character played by Emilia Attias. In the middle of 2012 and during 2013 the telenovela of Pol-ka, Sos mi hombre where she played another villain in her career this time it was the protagonist's counter-figure, Celeste Cid, fighting for the love of the character played by Luciano Castro to realize later that she really likes women. In 2013 and early 2014 it is part of the cast of Solamente vos. In the year 2015 she is part of the unitary leading cast Milagros en campaña, also has a participation in Conflictos modernos. In 2016 stars in the musical El otro lado de la cama and is part of the judge of Canta si puedes. In 2018 she stars in Mi hermano es un clon she plays Lara and Patricia after Violeta Urtizberea rejected the offer.
Personal Life
On December 11, 2016, she married her partner of 9 years, Nicolás Vázquez. The dream wedding on the beach was witnessed by a hundred guests, among those who highlighted great figures of the business and political world. The photos of the event were captured by the photographer and businessman, Juan José Levy.
Filmography
Television
Movies
Theater
Videoclips
Television Programs
Awards and nominations
Discography
2007 — Casi Ángeles
References
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#pragma once
#include "Banner.h"
#include "Painter.h"
class PainterBanner : public Banner, public Painter
{
public:
PainterBanner(const std::string &str) : Banner(str) {}
virtual void printStrong() override
{
showWithParen();
}
virtual void printWeak() override
{
showWithAster();
}
};
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All 91 of the U.S. Navy’s enlisted job titles are headed for Davy Jones’ locker.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus prodded the Navy and Marine Corps early this year to look for ways to create gender-neutral rating titles. The Marines responded with new job titles in June, but the Navy ultimately decided to go with a complete overhaul of its system.
“We’re going to immediately do away with rating titles and address each other by just our rank as the other services do,” Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke told Navy Times for a piece published Thursday. “We recognize that’s going to be a large cultural change, it’s not going to happen overnight, but the direction is to start exercising that now.”
The move, which officials say will make service members more employable post-service, does away with titles like airman and fireman in favor of Navy Occupational Specialties (NOS).
“Under this new system, for example, Gunner’s mates will be identified as B320 and quartermasters will be B450,” Navy Times explained.
The title seaman will remain the last nonrated rating remaining for those with a rank of E-3 and below.
Vice Adm. Robert Burke told the newspaper that NOS will be configured into broad career fields within 13 communities of service. The new system aims to give sailors a greater number of duty stations and more flexibility in terms of how their careers advance.
A spokesman for Secretary Mabus denied any “direct line” between the directive for gender-neutral job titles and the Navy’s decision to overhaul its system, the Washington Examiner reported.
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uppose n + 2/13*f - 2/13*f**2 = 0. What is f?
-2, 3
Let a(k) be the second derivative of k**4/15 + 106*k**3/3 + k - 127. Factor a(i).
4*i*(i + 265)/5
Determine y so that -1/2*y**5 - 13/2*y**4 - 7/2*y**3 + 0 + 57/2*y**2 - 18*y = 0.
-12, -3, 0, 1
Let d(i) be the first derivative of -172 + 2/55*i**5 + 2/11*i**4 + 0*i + 0*i**2 + 2/11*i**3. Determine g so that d(g) = 0.
-3, -1, 0
Let c be 3625/(-1450)*((-2)/(-15))/(-1). Let d(j) be the first derivative of 1/2*j**4 + 1/5*j**5 + 0*j**2 + 0*j - 10 + c*j**3. Factor d(i).
i**2*(i + 1)**2
Factor 6/11*t**5 + 0 - 270/11*t**4 - 31434/11*t**2 + 4446/11*t**3 + 79092/11*t.
6*t*(t - 13)**3*(t - 6)/11
Let x(r) be the first derivative of 54*r**4 + 220*r**3 + 248*r**2 + 80*r + 4798. Determine k, given that x(k) = 0.
-2, -5/6, -2/9
Let v(y) = 78*y**2 - 828*y - 40. Let h(b) = 79*b**2 - 827*b - 39. Let k(z) = -8*h(z) + 9*v(z). Factor k(g).
2*(g - 12)*(35*g + 2)
Suppose -2*j - 11*j = -j. Suppose j = 4*d - 5*r + 13, 6 + 4 = 2*r. Factor q**d - 3/2*q + 5/2*q**2 + 0.
q*(q + 3)*(2*q - 1)/2
Let a(p) be the second derivative of -p**7/105 - 8*p**6/75 - 6*p**5/25 + 9*p**4/5 + 63*p**3/5 + 162*p**2/5 - 9451*p. Determine s, given that a(s) = 0.
-3, -2, 3
Let w(a) be the second derivative of a**6/195 - 9*a**4/26 + 18*a**3/13 - 11940*a. Suppose w(i) = 0. Calculate i.
-6, 0, 3
Let j(x) be the third derivative of -7*x**5/600 + 479*x**4/80 - 41*x**3/6 + 75*x**2. Factor j(d).
-(d - 205)*(7*d - 2)/10
Find v such that -353/2*v**3 - 1/2*v**4 + 0 + 0*v + 177*v**2 = 0.
-354, 0, 1
Let l(m) be the second derivative of -m**5/20 + m**4/6 + 7*m**3/6 - 9*m**2/2 - 27*m. Let y be l(3). What is q in -30*q - 47 - y*q**2 - 61 + 36*q - 42*q = 0?
-6
Suppose 0*w - 5*q + 51 = w, 0 = -q + 2. Let f = w - 39. Solve 20*j**4 - 75*j**2 - 3 - 17 - 35*j**3 - 97*j**f - 115*j + 22*j**2 = 0 for j.
-1, -1/4, 4
Let u(z) be the first derivative of z**7/420 - 13*z**6/240 + 61*z**2 - 51. Let r(y) be the second derivative of u(y). Suppose r(n) = 0. What is n?
0, 13
Let k(a) = -27*a**3 - 801*a**2 - 26133*a - 49110. Let v(j) = -14*j**3 - 401*j**2 - 13067*j - 24554. Let q(c) = -11*k(c) + 21*v(c). Factor q(b).
3*(b + 2)*(b + 64)**2
Let w be (-1548)/(-4515)*15/4. Let f(l) be the second derivative of -27/70*l**6 - 5/7*l**3 + 0 - 3/14*l**2 - 81/70*l**5 + 13*l - w*l**4. Factor f(q).
-3*(q + 1)*(3*q + 1)**3/7
Suppose -5*t - 9 - 1 = 0. Let m be ((-6 - 0)*-1)/((-3)/t). Solve -4*w**3 + 10*w**4 - 7*w**3 + 8*w - m*w**5 - 8*w**2 + 5*w**3 - 2 + 2*w**3 = 0 for w.
-1, 1/2, 1
Let u = -3/38276 - -38285/114828. Solve -1/6*z**4 + u*z**3 - 1/3*z + 0 + 1/6*z**2 = 0.
-1, 0, 1, 2
Factor -2139/2*j**2 - 362467097/2 - 1/2*j**3 - 1525107/2*j.
-(j + 713)**3/2
Let z(i) be the first derivative of -i**7/280 + 13*i**6/720 - i**5/30 + i**4/48 + 26*i**3/3 + i - 30. Let a(b) be the third derivative of z(b). Factor a(x).
-(x - 1)**2*(6*x - 1)/2
Let h(n) be the third derivative of -n**6/60 + 19*n**5/6 - 825*n**4/4 + 3375*n**3 + 6*n**2 - 38*n. Factor h(a).
-2*(a - 45)**2*(a - 5)
Suppose 0*u - 5*u + 10 = -5*i, -4*i = 4*u - 8. Let y = i - -5. Factor 3 - 9*n + n**2 + 0*n + y*n.
(n - 3)*(n - 1)
Factor -1922/17 + 2046/17*d - 126/17*d**2 + 2/17*d**3.
2*(d - 31)**2*(d - 1)/17
Let m(d) be the second derivative of d**5/15 + 3*d**4/2 + 16*d**3/3 + 28*d**2 + 43*d. Let x(n) be the first derivative of m(n). Determine s so that x(s) = 0.
-8, -1
Determine t, given that -1/7*t**2 - 127/7*t + 114 = 0.
-133, 6
Suppose -2082 = -70*x + 67*x. Let n = x + -694. Let 0*z**3 + n*z + 5/3*z**5 + 0*z**2 + 0 + 5/3*z**4 = 0. What is z?
-1, 0
Let q(l) = -3849*l**3 + 49471*l**2 + 6422*l + 213. Let h(b) = -17320*b**3 + 222620*b**2 + 28900*b + 958. Let z(c) = -5*h(c) + 22*q(c). Factor z(f).
2*(f - 13)*(31*f + 2)**2
Let z(c) = -5*c + 32. Let p be z(6). Let m(j) be the first derivative of 0*j**p + 1/12*j**6 + 3/8*j**4 + 0*j - 3/10*j**5 - 1/6*j**3 + 6. Factor m(g).
g**2*(g - 1)**3/2
Let r(s) be the third derivative of s**6/24 + s**5 - 45*s**4/2 + 5*s**2 - 311*s. Factor r(m).
5*m*(m - 6)*(m + 18)
Let s be 5*3 - (8 + 11 + -12). Suppose 2*c = 0, 4*h - s = -2*c - 2*c. Factor 3/2*y + 7/4*y**h - 3/2*y**3 - 7/4.
-(y - 1)*(y + 1)*(6*y - 7)/4
Let q = 70 + -67. Determine d so that -4*d**4 - 57*d + 29*d + 44*d - 12*d**q = 0.
-2, 0, 1
Let r(m) be the first derivative of 0*m + 0*m**2 - 16/5*m**4 + 4/25*m**5 - 68/15*m**3 + 27. Factor r(w).
4*w**2*(w - 17)*(w + 1)/5
Let g(y) = y**2 - 7*y - 6. Let t be g(5). Let z = t + 18. Determine k so that 2*k - 3*k**2 + z + 2*k**2 - 2 - 1 = 0.
1
Let w = -31919 - -31919. Factor 2/3*j**3 + 0*j**2 + w*j + 0 - 4/3*j**4 + 2/3*j**5.
2*j**3*(j - 1)**2/3
Solve -136*o**2 - 89 - 3/2*o**3 - 447/2*o = 0 for o.
-89, -1, -2/3
Let g be (4/5)/(303/(-300) + 1). Let z be 64/g*(-30)/16. Suppose -z*x**2 - 2 - 4*x = 0. What is x?
-2, -2/3
Suppose -9 + 21 = 6*j. Find s such that -15*s**2 + 13*s - j + 9*s**2 - 2*s + 19*s**2 = 0.
-1, 2/13
Let j = 970519/43134 - 2/21567. Factor -9 + 4*u**2 + j*u.
(u + 6)*(8*u - 3)/2
Let t = 72594 + -72594. Find d such that t + 2/9*d**3 - 4*d**2 + 18*d = 0.
0, 9
Let y be (3/(-2))/(((-18)/(-104))/(-3)). Suppose -3*n + 7*n = -3*h + y, -3*n = h - 17. Find f, given that -4*f**3 - f - 6*f**2 + 4 + 7*f - 3*f**h + 3*f**2 = 0.
-2, -1/2, 1
Let a(v) = v**3 - 3. Let o(b) = 6*b**3 - 32*b**2 + 165*b - 249. Let p(k) = -5*a(k) + o(k). Suppose p(r) = 0. Calculate r.
3, 26
Factor -41542*n + 5*n**2 + 11852*n - 10*n**2 - 44074805.
-5*(n + 2969)**2
Let -3/4*f**5 + 3*f**4 + 27/2*f**3 - 81*f**2 + 0 + 405/4*f = 0. Calculate f.
-5, 0, 3
Suppose 24/7*j**2 - 2/7*j**5 + 32/7*j**3 + 6/7*j**4 + 0*j + 0 = 0. Calculate j.
-2, -1, 0, 6
Let o(r) be the first derivative of -16/9*r**3 - 1/15*r**5 + 7/12*r**4 - 78 + 0*r + 2*r**2. Factor o(w).
-w*(w - 3)*(w - 2)**2/3
Suppose -2*j = p - 6, -4*j = 3*p - 4*p - 6. Determine h, given that 7*h**5 - 4*h**4 - 2*h**5 - h**5 - 5*h**4 + 6*h**3 - h**p = 0.
0, 1/4, 1
Let c(l) be the third derivative of -l**5/30 - 5*l**4/6 + 111*l**2 + l + 6. Factor c(v).
-2*v*(v + 10)
Factor 7*j**2 - 48*j - 73*j**3 + 85*j**3 + 384 - 119*j - 579*j**2 - 33*j.
4*(j - 48)*(j + 1)*(3*j - 2)
Let i(b) = 2*b**4 - 77*b**3 - b**2 + 210*b - 139. Let h(a) = -3*a**4 + 115*a**3 + 2*a**2 - 316*a + 209. Let p(q) = 5*h(q) + 7*i(q). Factor p(n).
-(n - 36)*(n - 1)**2*(n + 2)
Let v(w) be the second derivative of w**4/108 - 8*w**3/3 - 5079*w. Factor v(s).
s*(s - 144)/9
Suppose 4*g = 2*k + 66, 69 = 4*g + k - 0*k. Let c = -16 + g. Factor -1 - 2*n**2 - 1 + 5 - c.
-2*(n - 1)*(n + 1)
Let h(r) be the first derivative of -2 + 0*r - 7*r**3 - 1/15*r**4 - 1/360*r**6 + 11/300*r**5 + 0*r**2. Let q(v) be the third derivative of h(v). Factor q(n).
-(n - 4)*(5*n - 2)/5
Let a be ((-9)/(-747))/((-2576)/(-2566) + -1). Let o = a + 9/83. Determine c so that 0 + 4/5*c**3 - o*c**4 + 0*c**2 + 0*c = 0.
0, 1/4
Let d = 11/13 - -153/65. Let m be (-3283)/(-737) + (-56)/(-22) + -2. Solve d*q + 24/5*q**3 + 0 - 32/5*q**2 - 8/5*q**4 + 1/5*q**m = 0.
0, 2
Let w(a) be the second derivative of 4/3*a**3 - 114*a + 0 - 1/25*a**5 - 7/30*a**4 + 1/75*a**6 - 12/5*a**2. What is h in w(h) = 0?
-3, 1, 2
Let g = -537 + 538. Let l be (g + -5 - -3)*-10 - 6. Suppose -16/3*p**2 + 12*p**l - 64/3*p**3 + 0*p + 0 = 0. What is p?
-2/9, 0, 2
Let j = 5299 + -5281. Let q(m) be the second derivative of 1/18*m**3 - 1/36*m**4 + 0 + 0*m**2 + j*m. Determine t, given that q(t) = 0.
0, 1
Let g(n) = -75*n**3 - 965*n**2 - 3220*n - 20. Let j(w) = 11*w**3 + 138*w**2 + 460*w + 3. Let c(o) = 3*g(o) + 20*j(o). Factor c(u).
-5*u*(u + 4)*(u + 23)
Suppose -3408*m + 3399*m + 72 = 0. Let -16/5*i - 36/5*i**3 - 2/5*i**5 - 14/5*i**4 - m*i**2 + 0 = 0. Calculate i.
-2, -1, 0
Suppose 7*y - 35 = -13*y + 85. Let u(f) be the third derivative of -1/480*f**y - 1/80*f**5 + 0*f + 0 + 13*f**2 - 1/48*f**4 + 0*f**3. Find n such that u(n) = 0.
-2, -1, 0
Let w = -320/41 + 1764/205. Solve w*r**4 - 36/5*r**3 - 4/5*r**2 + 36/5*r + 0 = 0.
-1, 0, 1, 9
Let w(m) be the first derivative of 1/15*m**5 - 32/3*m + 8/3*m**3 + 76 - 2/3*m**2 + 11/12*m**4. Factor w(v).
(v - 1)*(v + 2)**2*(v + 8)/3
Let v be (-8)/(-6) - 1 - (-9625)/57750. Let 0 - v*z**2 + 6*z = 0. What is z?
0, 12
Factor -283024/3 + 4/3*b**3 + 708*b**2 + 93632*b.
4*(b - 1)*(b + 266)**2/3
Suppose 3*m + b = -19, -11*b - 19 = 4*m - 16*b. Let c be (m/18)/((-6)/72). Factor 2/7 + h**c + 5/7*h - 5/7*h
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Kinetic analysis of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity: evidence for noncompetitive inhibition by autologous lymphoid cells.
Inhibition of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) by autologous lymphocytes was analyzed by using classical techniques for enzyme-substrate interactions. We determined empirically that the interaction of murine spleen cells with antibody-coated targets to produce lysis was analogous to the interactions that have been described for an enzyme with its substrate. Varying numbers of antibody-coated target cells ("substrate") were mixed with a constant number of spleen cells ("enzyme") and the number of target cells killed ("product") was measured as a function of time. By analogy with Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics, two parameters of the reaction were determined: Vmax, the maximum velocity of lysis that is proportional to the number of killer cells present, and K1/2, an intrinsic property of the killer cells. These parameters were found to be independent variables. Addition of autologous lymph node cells produced a dose-dependent decrease in Vmax whereas K1/2 was not significantly changed. By analogy with enzyme kinetics, this inhibition is noncompetitive, suggesting that the autologous lymphocytes inactivate the killer cells rather than competing for the cell-cell binding sites.
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# FreeType 2 src/sfnt Jamfile
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# Copyright (C) 2001-2019 by
# David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg.
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# indicate that you have read the license and understand and accept it
# fully.
SubDir FT2_TOP $(FT2_SRC_DIR) sfnt ;
{
local _sources ;
if $(FT2_MULTI)
{
_sources = pngshim
sfdriver
sfntpic
sfobjs
ttbdf
ttcmap
ttcolr
ttcpal
ttkern
ttload
ttmtx
ttpost
ttsbit
;
}
else
{
_sources = sfnt ;
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Library $(FT2_LIB) : $(_sources).c ;
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Set in East Troy, Quality Inn & Suites East Troy features free WiFi.
All rooms are fitted with a private bathroom.
Milwaukee is 49 km from the hotel, while Lake Geneva is 21 km away. General Mitchell International Airport is 45 km from the property.
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giovedì 12 marzo 2009
Nature’s Origami: Protein Folding Is 'Hit And Miss' Process
ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2009) — Sometimes known as “nature’s origami”, the way that proteins fold is vital to ensuring they function correctly. But researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered this is a ‘hit and miss’ process, with proteins potentially folding wrongly many times before they form the correct structure for their intended purpose.
The body’s proteins carry out numerous functions and play a crucial role in the growth, repair and workings of cells. Sheena Radford, Professor of Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds, says: “There’s a fine balance between a protein folding into the correct shape so that it can carry out its job efficiently and it folding incorrectly, which can lead to disease. Just one wrong step can tip that balance.”Proteins are made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and the sequence of these amino acids is determined by the gene producing them. How these chains of amino acids are preprogrammed to fold into their correct protein structure is one of the mysteries of life.The culmination of many years’ work, the collaborative study looked at the Im7 protein, a simple protein which is present in bacteria and has a crucial role to play in ensuring that bacteria do not kill themselves with the toxins they produce.“Im7 is like an anti-suicide agent,” says Professor Radford. “We studied it partly because of its simplicity and partly because of the known evolutionary pressure on the protein to fold correctly to enable the bacteria to survive.”The study has revealed that these proteins misfold en route to their intended structure, and importantly, has shown the forces at work during the folding process. While the chain of amino acids determines which shape a protein needs to take, the researchers discovered that it was the very amino acids central to the protein’s function that were causing the misfolding.“This breakthrough could have huge implications for understanding the evolution of today’s protein sequences and in determining the balance between heath and disease,” says Professor Radford. “It’s fundamental science, but significant for our understanding of the mechanisms at work in the human body.”This research was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, with further support from various organisations including EMBO, the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society, and the Medical Research Council. The study was carried out in collaboration with scientists at the University of Cambridge, and the University of Leeds’ School of Physics and Astronomy.Journal reference:Friel et al. The mechanism of folding of Im7 reveals competition between functional and kinetic evolutionary constraints. Nature Structural Molecular Biology, 2009; DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1562Adapted from materials provided by University of Leeds.
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Q:
remove background via css
I have an issue where I can't seem to get rid of the background colour of a p tag, is it possible to do this? I have set the divs backgrounds to images.
Output:
CSS
.box {
display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; margin: -1px; text-align: left; padding: 25px;
}
#tables {
max-width: 1080px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
#screenshots {
background: url(http://i.cubeupload.com/nAtNKD.jpg) no-repeat center;
width: 308px;
height: 280px;
}
#csmatches {
background: url(http://i.cubeupload.com/nAtNKD.jpg) no-repeat center;
width: 308px;
height: 280px;
}
#fixtures {
background: url(http://i.cubeupload.com/nAtNKD.jpg) no-repeat center;
width: 308px;
height: 280px;
}
HTML
<div id="tables">
<div id="screenshots" class="box">Screenshots</div>
<div id="csmatches" class="box"><p>Recent Match Results</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="fixtures" class="box">Fixtures</div>
</div>
A:
#csmatches p {
background:none !important;
}
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I trust everyone would have got your share of suntan by now in this summer 😉 That brings me to today’s review, a pretty decent sunscreen lotion from the house of “Aroma Magic.” I love this brand for producing chemical-free products. As I am a working-from-home professional, I wanted some lightweight sunscreen with lesser SPF. And this Carrot Sunscreen Lotion with SPF 15 and broad-spectrum UVA/UVB protection fitted the bill. By the way, the word carrot grabbed my attention in the first place, because carrots have many skin benefits. Moreover, this mineral sunscreen lotion is safe for children. Continue reading “Aroma Magic Carrot Sunscreen Lotion SPF 15 Review”
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Q:
Passing expressions by reference inside expressions
I am fairly new to Julia, so apologies for any misunderstandings of the language I may have. I have mostly used Python recently, and made heavy use of SymPy and its code generation features, and it seems like Julia with its metaprogramming features is built for writing code in exactly the kind of style I like.
In particular, I want to construct block matrices in Julia from a set of smaller building blocks with some different operations in between. For debugging purposes and because the various intermediate matrices are used in other calculations, I want to keep them as expressions containing variables, such that I can quickly loop over and test different different inputs, without wrapping everything in a function.
Now, for a minimal case study, say I have two expressions mat1 = :a and mat2 = :b that I want to combine to form a new, third expression:
mat3 = :($mat1 + $mat2)
The above method works fine until I modify mat1 and mat2, in which case I have to re-evaluate mat3 in order to reflect this update. This is caused, I presume, by the fact that $mat1 + $mat2 is not passing mat1 and mat2 by reference, but rather interpolates the expressions inside at the time of evaluation of that line. The behaviour I want to achieve is that mat1 and mat2 are not inserted until I call eval(mat3), preferably with minimal boilerplate.
Is it possible to achieve this in a handy syntax?
A:
mat3 will reflect the mutation of mat1 and mat2, but not rebinding of mat1 and mat2. It is important to understand the distinction between mutation and rebinding.
Mutation
Mutation occurs when the data of an object is modified. Note that this does not affect any names, only objects. This can manifest in many ways, including functions like push! and assignment syntax with a complex left-hand side, like A[1] = 5.
For example, all of the following are examples of mutation:
A = [1, 2, 3]
A[1] = 4
The name A is unchanged; A still points to the same object. The object that A represents is modified.
A = :(f(x))
A.args[1] = :g
The name A is unchanged; A still points to the same object. The object that A represents is modified.
mat1 = :(f(x))
mat2 = :(f(y))
mat3 = :($mat1 + $mat2)
mat1.args[1] = :g
The name mat1 is unchanged; it still points to the same object. That object is modified. mat3 references that same object also, and because it's been modified, it will reflect the changes. Indeed, now mat3 contains :(g(x) + f(y)).
Rebinding
(also known as assignment)
Rebinding occurs when no object data is modified but the target of a name is changed to that of a different object. This is indicated by a simple = assignment, with the left hand side being the thing rebound.
x = 2
x = 3
Here x is being rebound from the object 2 to the object 3. We are not changing the object 2. In fact, because 2 is an immutable object, it is not allowed to mutate the object 2. Instead, the reason the observable value of x has changed is because it references a different object now: 3.
A = [1, 2, 3]
A = [4, 2, 3]
Once again here we are not mutating the vector A; we're creating a new vector and now A references this new vector. Distinguishing between mutation and rebinding is important. Once again, mutation acts on objects, and rebinding acts on names.
mat1 = :x
mat2 = :y
mat3 = :($mat1 + $mat2)
mat1 = :z
Note here that the simple assignment does not mutate the object :x that mat1 references; it simply rebinds mat1 to the different object :z. This means that mat3, which contains the object :x, will not be affected.
Note that Symbol is an immutable type, so you cannot mutate it. Thus it is impossible to do what you're proposing.
A better way to do what you're proposing is to use a function instead of a single expression. A function can be called multiple times, producing different objects.
mat1 = :x
mat2 = :y
mat3() = :($mat1 + $mat2) # function definition
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Skyline Commissary
The Skyline Commissary (also known as the Rock Store) is a historic building in Skyline, Alabama. It was built in 1935 as part of Skyline Farms, a project of the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that sought to provide jobs for unemployed farmers on collective farms. The commissary sold food to both co-op members and surrounding residents, and served as the hub of social activity for the community. The co-op operated until the end of World War II, when it was sold to private owners. The commissary continued to operate as a general store for the community until the early 2000s. It was converted into a heritage museum in 2005. Like other New Deal structures, the commissary makes heavy use of local materials. The walls are of locally quarried limestone, and the façade features a pedimented portico covering double entry doors. The entry is flanked by two large, multi-paned fixed windows. A gable-roofed ell was added to the north of the rear side in 1937. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The Skyline Farms Heritage Association owns the building and operates it as the Rock Store Museum. It is open on a limited basis.
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Category:National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Alabama
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1935
Category:Museums in Jackson County, Alabama
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Robert Manuel (politician)
Robert Manuel (born 1953) is a Haitian political figure who was an unsuccessful nominee to the post of Prime Minister of Haiti in 2008.
Manuel, a commercial architect, is regarded as an authority in law enforcement and security. He served as Secretary of State for Public Safety under President René Préval from 1996 until he resigned at the request of Préval on October 7, 1999. Manuel and police chief Pierre Denize had been strongly opposed by supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and Aristide's Lavalas party led protests against them in April and May 1999. He left Haiti soon afterwards and alleged that Aristide's supporters were attempting to destabilize the upcoming election. After Aristide was forced out of office during the February 2004 rebellion, Manuel returned to Haiti.
He is considered a friend of Préval, and he was Préval's campaign manager during the February 2006 presidential election, which was won by Préval. During Préval's second term (2006–present), Manuel has served as a presidential adviser. Critics have said that Manuel was behind harsh crackdowns on Aristide supporters.
After Prime Minister Jacques-Édouard Alexis was defeated in a no-confidence vote in April 2008, Préval nominated Ericq Pierre to replace him, but Pierre's nomination was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies on 12 May 2008 due to a technicality with his citizenship papers. Préval then nominated Manuel, a presidential adviser, as Prime Minister late on May 25 during a meeting with the President of the Senate and the President of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Chamber of Deputies rejected Manuel's nomination by a vote of 57 to 26, with 6 abstentions, on 13 June 2008, noting that he did not own property on Haiti and only registered to vote a day after formally being nominated to the post; both of those are necessary qualifications to becoming Prime Minister. The main group of deputies rejecting Manuel was the Progressive Parliamentarians Conference (CPP), composed of 52 deputies. Préval had attempted to win the CPP's support for Manuel at a meeting on the previous day. According to CPP spokesman Levaillant Louis Jeune, the group was only trying to "make sure the constitution is respected" in rejecting Manuel's nomination. October 21, 2009, Robert Manuel who speaks fluent Spanish, became ambassador of Haiti in Mexico. During the Haiti earthquake in 2010, Robert Manuel played an important role maintaining the Mexican media updated about the situation in Haiti.
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Category:1953 births
Category:Living people
Category:Haitian politicians
Category:Haitian diplomats
Category:Ambassadors of Haiti to Mexico
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Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome - own experiences.
Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome, also known as Refetoff syndrome, is a rare disease associated with decreased reaction of body tissues to thyroid hormones (TH). Patients with Refetoff syndrome tend to have elevated free TH concentrations and normal or inadequately elevated TSH (caused by thyrotropic cells in the pituitary gland insensitivity to TH). The cause of the disease is the mutation in TR-beta receptor gene. Depending on the clinical presentation generalised and pituitary resistance to TH are described. The syndrome is often misdiagnosed as hyperthyroidism and unnecessarily treated with anti-thyroid drugs. Some patients receive l-thyroxine treatment for apparent hypothyroidism. In this report, three patients are presented with a long history in our Clinic and Outpatient Clinic.
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Top Five Tips for Employers Regarding Employee Use of Social Media
Odds are that you, or at least one person you know, have at least some presence on social media, whether it be a Facebook or Instagram profile, a Twitter handle, a LinkedIn page, or a personal blog. Employers, too, are engaging more in social media in terms of marketing to clients, recruiting and hiring employees, and even connecting with employees in different offices locally, nationally, or globally. Such prevalent use of social media has a range of direct and indirect consequences for employers, ranging from the multiple business impacts of employee social media use, the development and maintenance of appropriate workplace social media policies, and maintaining compliance with discrimination, labor, and privacy laws.
Below are the top five tips for employers to keep in mind when navigating employment issues involving social media.
Tip 1: Remember that traditional workplace claims still apply in the social media realm.
Claims of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation are all impacted by employee use of social media. The key is how the employer uses and regulates the use of social media. For instance, “personal information-such as that gleaned from social media postings-may not be used to make employment decisions on prohibited bases, such as race, gender, national origin, color, religion, age, disability or genetic information.” Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Press Release, Social Media Is Part of Today’s Workplace but its Use May Raise Employment Discrimination Concerns, (March 12, 2014), available here. Employers must be aware of—and be able to address—social media’s impact on employee claims of hostile work environment, harassment, and retaliation. For example, if Employee A is posting harassing or derogatory posts about Employee B on his personal social media account, his employer may be held liable for that conduct. See Espinoza v. County of Orange, No. G043067, 2012 WL 420149 (Cal. Ct. App. Feb. 9, 2012). Social media posts by a manager about a fired employee could also be used to find the employer liable for a retaliation claim. Stewart v. CUS Nashville, LLC, 2013 WL 456482 (M.D. Tenn. Feb. 6, 2013).
Tip 2: Maintain updated social media policies.
It is imperative for employers to develop social media policies which address the various social media-related issues that may arise in the workplace. Implementing policies concerning social media and related technologies (such as internet use and employee devices) is important for at least two reasons. First, from a business perspective, such policies can serve to limit productivity lost due to employee time spent on social media; such policies should, therefore, be sufficiently clear as to what internet and social media use (if any) is permissible in the workplace. Second, appropriate policies can serve to reduce a company’s exposure to legal claims by both employees and third parties based on employees’ statements and conduct on social media.
Tip 3: Craft policies that are specific, precise, and narrowly tailored to the company’s business interests.
In recent years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has increasingly addressed the issue of workplace policies that, both directly and indirectly, involve social media. In 2014, the NLRB issued several decisions relating to social media, many of which found that workplace policies involving social media and technology that are too broad, vague, overly subjective, not consistently applied, or not narrowly tailored to the employer’s defined and specific business interests unlawfully chilled employees’ rights to engage in protected concerted activity. See Schmidt, Michael C., The Latest Do’s and Don’ts With Social Media Policies, Social Media Law & Policy Report, Bloomberg BNA (July 15, 2014).
The main takeaway from these NLRB decisions is to develop and maintain social media policies that are specific, precise, and narrowly tailored to defined business interests. A policy that generally prohibits employees from making “offensive,” “inappropriate” or “disparaging” remarks on social media platforms, for example, could reasonably be interpreted to prohibit protected criticisms of the employer’s policies, in violation of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 157. In contrast, a policy prohibiting employees from engaging in harassment or discrimination of co-workers both in the workplace and after hours outside the workplace would likely be permissible if it is sufficiently precise and narrowly tailored to an employer’s interest of protecting its employees from unlawful harassment and discrimination. Thus, policies that specifically outline what is prohibited, define key terms, and protect, in a narrow fashion, an employer’s valid business interests, will likely be upheld.
Tip 4: Do not require or request job applicants to provide access to their personal social media accounts.
In 2013, New Mexico enacted legislation prohibiting prospective employers from requesting or requiring that applicants provide their user names and passwords to their personal social media accounts. NMSA 1978, § 50-4-34(A). This legislation does not, however, preclude an employer from obtaining information about prospective employees that is in the public domain. Section 50-4-34(C). Nor does it preclude an employer from implementing appropriate policies regarding workplace use of the internet, social networking sites and e-mail and from monitoring use of an employee’s electronic equipment and email. Section 50-4-34(B). As discussed above, an employer should develop policies with regard to social media use by its current employees, including with regard to such use in the recruiting and hiring process.
Tip 5: Use a third-party service or designated employee without hiring authority to conduct social media searches in the public domain.
Social media may be a vital tool in terms of recruitment and casting a wide net for potential job applicants. Yet it also raises potential discrimination issues given that most individuals’ social media sites include personal information, such as a person’s gender, age, ethnicity, or religious beliefs, which could be used in violation of state and federal discrimination laws. Therefore, to the extent your company wishes to conduct social media searches of prospective employees, the EEOC recommends such be done by either a third-party recruiter or a designated person within the company who does not have hiring authority. SeeEEOC Press Release. In addition, the searches should only consist of publicly available information. Id.
While social media can be a powerful and valuable tool for employers, these top five tips suggest employers must be cognizant of and take steps to address the varied impacts social media has upon workplace issues. Employers must keep in mind that use of social media—both by employees for business purposes such as recruiting, hiring, and marketing, as well as by employees for their own personal use—must comport with state and federal discrimination, labor, and privacy laws. As such, it is essential that employers not only develop social media policies that are precise and narrowly-tailored to concrete business interests, but also that employers stay up-to-date with the recent trends in this ever-changing area.
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Socovos
Socovos is a municipality in Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 1,986.
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Extended lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer: results in a teaching hospital.
Lymphadenectomy including second-echelon lymph nodes (D2 resection) for gastric cancer has not been widely adopted partly as a result of a reported increase in operative morbidity and mortality. In the present study we examined the operative risk of D2 resection in a public teaching hospital. From 1995 to 1998, 57 patients underwent exploratory laparotomy for gastric neoplasm: nine with curative D2 resection (Group I), 17 with curative but less than D2 resection (Group II), 16 with palliative resection (Group III), and 15 with no resection (Group IV). Among the four groups, patients with curative D2 resection (Group I) were older and had increased operative time and estimated blood loss, but their need for blood transfusion, the operative morbidity and mortality, and the mean hospital stay were not increased. In contrast, those patients with palliative resection (Group III) had the highest morbidity among all groups, the only fatality, and prolonged hospital stay. Therefore, curative D2 resection can be performed safely even with significant resident involvement. The advanced patient age or the extensive dissection does not increase its surgical risk. Hence, D2 dissection should be considered whenever curative resection is feasible because it allows accurate staging with the added benefit of possible improvement in patient survival.
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Logistics
Logistics
Timber is transported directly from the forest to the customer. This approach is based on the Scandinavian model.
In other words, no storage or transhipment is required – simply the shortest route to the end user. This model also works particularly well in the Netherlands given its fragmented forest areas. Solid relations were forged between various forest owners and large European customers. Years of extensive logistics experience means that we know exactly what type of wood and what ranges, roundwood, can be transported as quickly as possible to the customer by train or by ship.
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Representative Brad Sherman (D-California) has introduced a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” including obstruction of justice over the president’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
The initiative, submitted to the House of Representatives, claims the president has “prevented, obstructed and impeded” a federal investigation into his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
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Trump “sought to use his authority to hinder and cause the termination of such investigation(s) including through threatening then terminating James Comey who was until such termination the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” reads the proposed resolution.
In May, Trump abruptly fired Comey as the FBI director was leading an investigation into potential collusion between Trump’s aides and the Russian government during the 2016 presidential race.
A month later, Comey testified in Congress on the conversations he had with the president, which he said led him to believe that Trump asked him to stop looking into Flynn.
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy,” Comey remembered Trump saying, according to Comey’s written notes of their meeting.
The conversation took place on February 14, according to Comey’s memos ‒ the day after Flynn was fired over misleading Vice President Mike Pence about contacts he had with Russia’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak.
However, when asked during the June Congressional hearing if Trump “at any time” asked him “to stop the FBI investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 US elections,” Comey replied: “Not to my understanding, no.”
Even though many Democrats have accused Trump of obstruction of justice, party leaders seemed reluctant to formally back an initiative to impeach him when the calls first came in May.
Currently, the only co-sponsor on Sherman’s proposed House resolution is Representative Al Green (D-Texas).
Green was the first Congressman to call for Trump’s impeachment from the House floor in May.
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“President Trump is not above the law. He has committed an impeachable act and must be charged,” Green said in a statement.
“Our mantra should be ‘I.T.N. – Impeach Trump Now,’” he said.
Impeachment is a three-part process outlined in the Constitution. It begins in the House of Representatives, where a simple majority can vote to impeach a federal official for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
The definition is vague and has long been debated. In 1970, then-House Minority Leader Gerald Ford defined an impeachable offense as “whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."
Once the House has voted to impeach, the issue heads to the Senate, which holds a trial. If the official in question is the president, then the chief justice of the US Supreme Court is the presiding judge, otherwise it is the vice president in his role as president of the Senate. The Senate needs a two-thirds majority, or 67 out of 100 votes, to find an official guilty and remove that person from office.
Only two presidents ‒ Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1999 ‒ have ever been impeached by the House, both of which history has judged to be highly partisan proceedings. Neither was convicted by the requisite two-thirds majority in the Senate. President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, rather than go through an impeachment vote in the House.
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"Hillary" Sort by
The film focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced-and why. The best evidence for extra-terrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-secret witness testimony, documents and UFO footage, 80% of which has never been revealed anywhere else. The behind-the-scenes research and high-level meetings convened by Dr. Steven Greer will expose the degree of illegal, covert operations at the core of UFO secrecy. From briefings with the CIA Director, top Pentagon Generals and Admirals, to the briefing of President Obama via senior advisor John Podesta, chairman of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, we take the viewer behind the veil of secrecy and into the corridors of real power where the UFO secrets reside. The viewer will learn that a silent coup d'état has occurred dating back to the 1950s and that the Congress, the President and other world leaders have been sidelined.
Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives deep in the heart of hostile TrumpLand territory with his daring, profound, and uproarious one-man show. When the show gets banned from the first town they tried, Mike moves on to an even bigger community of Trump supporters in the ironically-named Clinton County, Ohio. Performed, shot, and edited just weeks before the 2016 election, this heartfelt, honest, and hilarious concert film is essential election viewing for a divided America. With a title like Michael Moore in TrumpLand, you may think you know what's in store, but the film is sure to surprise. Entertaining, outraging, and informing in equal measure, no matter who you're voting for, this movie has something for everybody.
Between the 1920s and the 1960s the world's great powers sent vast military-style expeditions to conquer the peaks of the Himalayas, with Everest at their head. This was a great game played - camera in hand - by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America. As a result, Himalayan mountaineering's most iconic, epic and tragic moments didn't just go down in history, but were caught on film - from the deaths of Mallory and Irvine on Everest in 1924, to Everest's final conquest in 1953 by Hillary and Tensing. Using footage never before seen on British television, this is the story how of how film-makers turned the great peaks into great propaganda.
In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they’ve earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six figure fees for speaking gigs. Now, Peter Schweizer shows who is really behind those enormous payments. He detailed patterns of official corruption in Washington that led to congressional resignations and new ethics laws. He follows the Clinton money trail, revealing the connection between their personal fortune, their “close personal friends,” the Clinton Foundation, foreign nations, and some of the highest ranks of government.
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Collector arranges old age pension for two sisters who saved demonetised notes
Coimbatore, Nov 29 : Tirupur district collector, K Vijayakathikeyan played a role of good Samaritan to the two septuagenarian sisters, who had saved Rs.46,000 demonetised currency unaware that it has been banned.
Learning about the story of the sisters of Poovanur village, Thangammal and Rangammal, who handed over the old currency to their relatives for treatment, Vijaykarthikeyan directed the officials to check the problem. Revenue inspector and the VAO met them and inquired about the problem and submitted the report to the collector, with their bank account and Aadhar card details, official sources said.
Based on the report, Vijayakarthikeyan arranged for old age pension for the sisters and also for their eye treatment in the Government Hospital in Tirupur. Vijayakathikeyan also personally convinced them that
the currency which they had saved cannot be exchanged for new notes now.
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Henry C. Warmoth
Henry Clay Warmoth (May 9, 1842 – September 30, 1931) was an American attorney, Civil War officer in the Union Army, who was elected governor and state representative of Louisiana. A Republican, he was 26 years old when elected as 23rd Governor of Louisiana, one of the youngest governors elected in United States history. He served during the early Reconstruction Era, from 1868 to 1872.
Facing strong criticism from some Republican leaders for weakening civil rights legislation and for endorsing a Democratic/Fusionist ticket in the 1872 election, Warmoth ended his term under state legislature's impeachment proceedings and was suspended from office. Lieutenant Governor P.B.S. Pinchback assumed office during Warmoth's absence, becoming the first African-American governor in the United States. The legislature dropped the impeachment charges against Warmoth after his term of office ended.
Warmoth was the first elected Reconstruction Governor of Louisiana. He stayed in the state and was elected in 1876 as a Louisiana State Representative, serving one term from 1876 to 1878. He also managed his sugar cane plantation. Reconstruction ended in 1877 as the federal government withdrew its troops from the state. In 1888, Warmoth challenged former governor Francis T. Nicholls in a gubernatorial contest and narrowly lost to the Democrat; the election was noted for widespread voter fraud as Democrats suppressed black Republican voting. In 1890, Warmoth was appointed as US Collector of Customs in New Orleans and served for several years.
Early life
Henry Clay Warmoth was born in 1842, in McLeansboro, Illinois, to parents of Dutch descent, the eldest child of Isaac Sanders & Eleanor (Lane) Warmoth, and named for statesman Henry Clay. He studied in the public school system of Illinois. He studied law, and was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1860. He established his legal career in that state, being appointed as the district attorney of the Eighteenth Judicial District.
Civil War
During the American Civil War, Warmoth served as lieutenant colonel of the 32nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He was at the capture of Arkansas Post and was wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg. He was dishonorably discharged for alleged exaggerations of Union losses. After his personal appeal to the Commander-in-Chief, President Abraham Lincoln reinstated Warmoth's military status.
After reinstatement, Warmoth was reunited with his regiment. He commanded at the Battle of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, took part in Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and reinforced General Nathaniel Banks at the Red Cedar retreat. He was later commissioned as judge of the Department of the Gulf Provost Court.
In early 1865, Warmoth resigned from the military to resume a legal practice.
Political career
Warmoth went to New Orleans, which was still occupied by Union Army troops. He specialized in the kind of law practice for which his military experience had qualified him: cotton claims and courts-martial decisions. At the same time, he became an active Republican, gaining support among freedmen.
In November 1865, Warmoth ran for territorial delegate as a Republican in an unauthorized election, in which black Louisianians cast over 19,000 votes, nearly as many as were won among whites by the victorious Democratic candidate for governor. Louisiana restricted the suffrage to white males, so the blacks' votes were not counted. Republicans hoped to show that full suffrage could result in competitive elections. By electing a territorial delegate, they were making the statement that no legal state of Louisiana existed while it was occupied by the Union Army, and Congress should remand it to the status of a territory. Congress did not do so.
Because of continuing violence in the South, especially the Memphis Riots of 1866 and the New Orleans Riot of 1866, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act to create five military districts to oversee changes in the former Confederate states. It also passed the Fourteenth Amendment to extend full citizenship to freedmen. Louisiana and Texas were put under the Fifth Military District, and the US Army was assigned to oversee the process by which a new constitutional convention could be called, with delegates to be voted for by both blacks and whites alike.
When the convention had finished its work, a ratification election was called and the Republican Party chose a state ticket. Warmoth was selected as the nominee for governor over Major Francis E. Dumas. He faced a Democrat and Louisiana Supreme Court Justice James G. Taliaferro, a planter and wartime Unionist backed by the True Radical faction, which was composed mostly of black Republicans. Taliaferro found some support from Democrats.
Governor
All the same, Warmoth carried the state by some 26,000 votes, and the Reconstruction constitution was ratified. Warmoth was sworn into office on July 13, 1868. Elected at 26, he was one of the youngest governors in United States history. (Stevens T. Mason, the first governor of Michigan, was the youngest state governor, elected at 24.)
Elected with Warmoth was Oscar Dunn as Lieutenant Governor, an African-American leader in the Prince Hall Freemasons. He had a wide network in New Orleans, where he was a painting contractor. When Dunn died suddenly in office in 1871, he was succeeded by P.B.S. Pinchback, a person of color who was President of the State Senate.
Turbulence and some violence had marred the April 1868 election. With the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the disorder worsened over the summer. By fall, night-riding, murder, and intimidation were common. The number of Republicans killed for political reasons may have approached 800. Large riots in outlying parishes and Democratic white paramilitary forces in New Orleans kept thousands of blacks from voting in the fall 1868 presidential election. As a result, Democratic candidate for President Horatio Seymour carried Louisiana, although his Republican opponent Ulysses S. Grant carried the country.
Because of the reported fraud and coercion, Warmoth created a State Returning Board, to certify future elections. All election returns were reported to the State Returning Board for validity and approval. At the same time, the governor augmented the military forces at his command: a 5000-man state militia and a Metropolitan Police force, with authority over the greater New Orleans area where the state government was then based.
Warmoth also sought to broaden the Republican Party to include a larger share of the propertied white class. He supported government aid for railroad construction and levee repair, called for and got a constitutional amendment limiting the state's ability to go into debt, and vetoed pork barrel bills. At his recommendation, the voters removed the provisions in the Reconstruction constitution that had temporarily disenfranchised a portion of the former Confederates. Warmoth appointed some former Confederates to office, notably General James Longstreet. When he had a choice, Warmoth chose white applicants over black ones.
Warmoth's 1868 inaugural address expressed his support for the recently passed Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, pledging "equality before the law and the enjoyment of every political right of all the citizens of the state, regardless of race, color, or previous condition." He argued for the amendments to be supported by legislation that had popular as well as legislative support:
only when this grand distinctive feature of the new constitution shall be stamped on every act of legislation, and when such legislation shall find approval and support in that general public sentiment which gives to law its vitality, will our State fairly enter upon that career of greatness and prosperity which the almighty designed for her.
Warmoth signed a weak bill to integrate access to public facilities, but he vetoed a more extensive one that would penalize owners of public places and vehicles who failed to provide equal service to blacks and whites. Historian Francis Byers Harris thought his veto of the public accommodations bill was crucial in eroding his political base. Harris wrote in 1947, "Negroes had their hearts set on this law, and Warmoth sowed a seed of distrust which grew into enmity for the man they had helped elect."
In consequence, Republicans developed severe internal conflicts. A division arose between the Warmoth-Pinchback faction, supported by many Creoles of color who had been free before the war, and what was called the Custom House faction, led by Stephen B. Packard, a US Marshal, and James F. Casey, Collector of the Port of New Orleans and brother-in-law to President Grant. Although Warmoth had helped William Pitt Kellogg gain legislative election as a US Senator, he became allied with Packard, as did Oscar Dunn, lieutenant governor and African-American leader of many Republican ward clubs in New Orleans.
By 1871, every local convention turned into a fracas. The Custom House wing of the Republican Party took control of the state convention, enforced by state militia. Warmoth's supporters had to assemble in a convention of their own. That winter, the governor seized control of the statehouse from his opponents by using the state militia forces outfitted with bayonets for protection. Warmoth's leadership was strained.
Believing that President Grant supported his enemies, Warmoth joined the Liberal Republican Party that was seeking a reform candidate for President. When it endorsed Horace Greeley and the Democrats adopted Greeley as their Presidential candidate, the governor carried his influence to Greeley's side. In state politics, that meant endorsing the Fusionist-Democratic ticket of John McEnery in the 1872 gubernatorial election. Such a step alienated Warmoth from any black Republican support that he still had, including that of Pinchback. None of them trusted Democrats to protect equal rights, whatever the politicians professed. Fraud and violence accompanied the election, and its results were contested.
Both McEnery and William Pitt Kellogg, the official Republican candidate, declared victory and held inaugurations. The Warmoth-appointed Returning Board declared McEnery as victor. Republicans established a separate Returning Board, which certified Kellogg.
Ultimately, Grant supported Kellogg's Republican candidacy. The Republican-controlled legislature filed impeachment charges against Warmoth for his actions during the 1872 election. Only 35 days before the end of his term, he was suspended from office, as called for by Louisiana law for impeached officials, pending the outcome of a state senate trial. Pinchback was sworn in as the first governor of African descent in the United States. With the end of Warmoth's term soon reached, Warmoth was allowed to leave office and no impeachment trial was held.
After Reconstruction
In 1877, at age 35, Warmoth married heiress Sally Durand of Newark, New Jersey. They had two sons and a daughter, and resided at Magnolia Plantation in Plaquemines Parish. Warmoth had bought the sugar cane plantation in 1873. Warmoth helped establish a sugar refinery and get a railroad constructed along the west bank of the Mississippi, which contributed to the development of the area.
He represented the Sugar Planters Association in seeking a tariff against foreign competition, which they gained from Congress. Louisiana planters could not compete against outside sugar. In 1884, Warmoth traveled to France and Germany to study their sugar industries, and he developed an experimental station at his plantation afterward. Unable to compete with foreign sugar, Warmoth sold his plantation and moved with his wife and family to New Orleans.
In 1888, Warmoth ran for and narrowly lost a race for Governor to Francis T. Nicholls, a Democrat and former governor, in an election accompanied by extensive voter fraud. In 1890, Warmoth was appointed US Collector of Customs in New Orleans by President Benjamin Harrison. In turn he used his patronage appointments to select many men from among the Afro-Creole community, who had supported him politically. During his service, Warmoth lived in the St. Charles Hotel.
In 1889, the white Democrat-dominated legislature passed a constitutional amendment incorporating a "grandfather clause", which effectively disenfranchised most blacks in the state. Not being able to vote also excluded them from juries and local office. The Democrats essentially maintained this exclusion until after passage by Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized the federal government to oversee and enforce the constitutional right of all citizens to vote.
Warmoth published his memoir, War, Politics and Reconstruction, in 1930. It is well regarded and considered a classic of the genre. Warmoth died in New Orleans in 1931, at 89.
In popular culture
A New Orleans service industry writer and Quarter Rat columnist took the name "Henry Warmoth" as a pseudonym.
References
Bibliography
Binning, F. Wayne, "Carpetbaggers' Triumph: The Louisiana State Elections of 1868," Louisiana History 14 (Winter 1973): 21-39
Current, Richard Nelson, Those Terrible Carpetbaggers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)
Tunnell, Ted, Crucible of Reconstruction:War, Radicalism and Race in Louisiana, 1862-1877 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
External links
Henry Clay Warmoth, War, Politics and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana, Introduction by John C. Rodrigue, Univ of South Carolina Press, 1930/2006, googlebooks
Inventory of the Henry Clay Warmoth Papers, 1798-1953, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill.
"Henry Clay Warmoth", KnowLa - Encyclopedia of Louisiana
National Governors Association
Cemetery Memorial, Louisiana Cemeteries
Category:Governors of Louisiana
Category:1842 births
Category:1931 deaths
Category:American Episcopalians
Category:American people of Dutch descent
Category:Impeached United States officials
Category:Louisiana Republicans
Category:People from McLeansboro, Illinois
Category:Politicians from New Orleans
Category:Republican Party state governors of the United States
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A technique to reposition sinotubular junction in aortic valve reimplantation procedures with the De Paulis Valsalva graft.
Sinotubular junction reconstruction in reimplantation type of valve-sparing aortic procedure can present some problem when a Valsalva graft is used. Since in the Valsalva graft the sinotubular junction height is predetermined, correct matching with native commissures height can be difficult. We propose a method by which it is possible to create a new sinotubular junction in Valsalva graft without altering its original configuration.
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Endocrine Manifestations in a Monocentric Cohort of 64 Patients With Erdheim-Chester Disease.
Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a rare non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis, characterized by infiltration of foamy histiocytes in multiple organs. Endocrine involvement has mostly been described in case reports. We performed systematic endocrine evaluation in a large cohort of patients with ECD. This was a single-center observational study conducted between October 2007 and May 2013. The evaluation was conducted in Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris, France), a tertiary care hospital. Sixty-four consecutive patients with ECD (sex ratio, 3.6; mean age, 57.6 years [range, 20-80 years]). Thirty-six patients had follow-up assessments. There were no interventions. Clinical, biological, and morphological evaluations of pituitary, gonadal, adrenal, and thyroid functions, as well as metabolic evaluation, were performed. Diabetes insipidus was found in 33.3% of patients, frequently as the first manifestation of ECD. Anterior pituitary dysfunction was found in 91.3% of patients with full anterior pituitary evaluation, including somatotropic deficiency (78.6%), hyperprolactinemia (44.1%), gonadotropic deficiency (22.2%), thyrotropic deficiency (9.5%), and corticotropic deficiency (3.1%). Thirty-five patients (54.7%) had ≥2 anterior pituitary dysfunctional axes, rising to 69.6% (16 of 23) when only patients with complete evaluations were considered. Two patients had panhypopituitarism. Infiltration of the pituitary and stalk was found with magnetic resonance imaging in 24.4% of patients. Testicular insufficiency was found in 53.1% of patients, with sonographic testicular infiltration in 29% of men, mostly bilateral. Computed tomography adrenal infiltration was found in 39.1% of patients, and 1 case of adrenal insufficiency was observed. No patient was free of endocrine hormonal or morphological involvement. Endocrine dysfunctions were most often permanent, and new deficits appeared during follow-up. Endocrine involvement is very frequent in ECD and should be evaluated carefully at diagnosis and during follow-up.
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Statement on fire in North Kensington
14 June 2017
Updated at 4.15pm
London Ambulance Service Director of Operations Paul
Woodrow said:"Following this morning’s fire at Grenfell Tower, West
London, we treated 68 patients and took them to six hospitals
across London, where 18 people are currently in critical care. Our
thoughts are with everyone affected by this incident and their
friends and families.
"Over 100 of our clinicians have worked extremely hard in
difficult circumstances to care for those who were injured. This
has been a protracted and large-scale incident over many hours.
“We are still on scene supporting London Fire Brigade in the
recovery phase of the incident and would urge Londoners to only
call us in a genuine emergency and to call NHS 111 for urgent
healthcare advice.
“We initially sent ambulance crews, advanced paramedics,
advanced trauma teams from London's Air Ambulance, as well as our
hazardous area response teams who carry specialist equipment
including breathing apparatus. We treated patients for a range of
injuries, as well as for smoke inhalation.
“I am incredibly proud and grateful for the work of our staff
and our emergency service colleagues and partner agencies.”
Ends
Notes to editor
Patients were taken to the following hospitals: St Mary’s,
King’s College, Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal Free, St Thomas’
and Charing Cross.
A further 10 patients made their own way to hospital, bringing
the total number of people being treated to 78.
Members of the public who are concerned about friends and
relatives should contact the police Casualty Bureau on 0800 096
1233.
London Ambulance Service Director of Operations Paul
Woodrow said:"Following this morning’s fire at
Grenfell Tower, West London, we have treated and taken 64 patients
to six hospitals across London, where 20 people are currently in
critical care. Our thoughts are with everyone
affected.
"Over 100 of our medics have been working hard to respond to
this incident, including ambulance crews, advanced paramedics,
advanced trauma teams from London's Air Ambulance and those staff
managing the incident in our special operations centre. Our
hazardous area response teams are also on scene, who carry
specialist equipment including breathing apparatus. We’ve been
treating patients for a range of injuries, as well as for smoke
inhalation.
"A major incident has been declared and we continue to work
closely with other members of the emergency services at the
scene.
"Members of the public who are concerned about friends and
relatives should contact the police Casualty Bureau on 0800 096
1233.
"We urge Londoners to only call us in a genuine emergency and to
call NHS 111 for urgent healthcare advice."
Ends
Notes to editor
Patients have been taken to the following hospitals: St Mary’s,
King’s College, Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal Free, St Thomas’
and Charing Cross.
A further 10 patients made their own way to hospital, bringing
the total number of people being treated to 74
London Ambulance Service Assistant Director of
Operations, Stuart Crichton said:"We have now
taken over 50 patients to five hospitals across London following
the incident at Grenfell Tower, Lancaster West Estate, W11. Our
thoughts are with everyone affected.
"Over 100 of our medics are working hard to respond to this
incident, including ambulance crews, advanced paramedics, advanced
trauma teams from London's Air Ambulance and those staff managing
the incident in our special operations centre. In addition, our
hazardous area response team are also on scene.
"A major incident has been declared and we continue to work
closely with other members of the emergency services at the
scene.
"Members of the public who are concerned about friends and
relatives should contact the police Casualty Bureau on 0800 096
1233.
"As always, we urge Londoners to only call us in a genuine
emergency and to call NHS 111 for urgent healthcare advice."
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Q:
Snapping a line over points?
I am looking for a solution that addresses this problem, but I have not been successful in my searches. After vectoring points on a raster, they are minimally aligned, as shown in the appended illustration. Then you get an initial line, the blue line, and you want this line to be adjusted according to solution 1 or solution 2, ignoring points more distant. I do not know if I could do this with PyQGIS or PostGIS. Has anyone had to provide similar solution can you point me a north?
A:
Solution 2
With PyQGIS, my solution is substantially based on the using of QgsSpatialIndex and of a distance (set by the user) used to find the surrounding points.
I summarize my workflow:
Create a first spatial index with all the input points;
Create a buffer around the current line using the specified distance;
Find the nearest point to one of the line vertices and call it firstpoint;
Iterate over the features which intersect the buffer and insert them in a second spatial index;
Iterate over the the second spatial index and find the nearest distance from firstpoint. Once the nearest point is set, remove it from the second spatial index;
Create a memory layer and store the attributes of the input line, together with the new geometry.
This is my code:
##points=vector point
##line=vector line
##buffer_distance=number 30
from qgis.core import *
layer1 = processing.getObject(points)
layer2 = processing.getObject(line)
crs = layer2.crs().toWkt()
# Create the output layer
outLayer = QgsVectorLayer('Linestring?crs='+ crs, 'snapped' , 'memory')
prov = outLayer.dataProvider()
fields = layer2.pendingFields() # Fields from the input layer
prov.addAttributes(fields) # Add input layer fields to the outLayer
outLayer.updateFields()
all_points = {} # Dictionary containing all the input points
index1 = QgsSpatialIndex() # First spatial index
for feat in layer1.getFeatures():
index1.insertFeature(feat)
all_points[feat.id()] = feat
index2 = QgsSpatialIndex() # Second spatial index
first = True
for ft in layer2.getFeatures():
count = 0
line_attr = ft.attributes()
line_geom = ft.geometry()
bf_geom = line_geom.buffer(buffer_distance, -1) # Buffer using the distance set
firstpoint = line_geom.interpolate(0) # Start point from the input line
idsList = index1.intersects(bf_geom.boundingBox())
for id in idsList:
inGeom = all_points[id].geometry()
if bf_geom.intersects(inGeom): # Check if the feature is within the buffer
index2.insertFeature(all_points[id])
count += 1
for num in xrange(0, count):
nearest = index2.nearestNeighbor(firstpoint.asPoint(), 1)
index2.deleteFeature(all_points[nearest[0]])
outGeom = QgsFeature()
if first:
seg_start = QgsPoint(firstpoint.asPoint())
seg_end = QgsPoint(all_points[nearest[0]].geometry().asPoint())
outGeom.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPolyline([seg_start, seg_end]))
seg_start = seg_end
first = False
else:
seg_end = QgsPoint(all_points[nearest[0]].geometry().asPoint())
outGeom.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPolyline([seg_start, seg_end]))
outGeom.setAttributes(line_attr)
seg_start = seg_end
prov.addFeatures([outGeom])
# Add the layer to the Layers panel
QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().addMapLayer(outLayer)
For example, setting a searching distance of 20 m, the result is the following (I have also inserted the buffer created for more clearness, but it's not an output):
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Q:
md-nav-bar not rendering, only showing plain text
I have a problem with the Angular Material directive "md-nav-bar". It is not rendering in my code. I tried copying various working pieces of code, but I didn't manage to get it running.
HTML
<body ng-app="app" ng-controller="MainController">
<md-content layout="row">
<md-toolbar class="md-hue-2">
<div class="md-toolbar-tools">
<md-button class="md-icon-button" aria-label="Home" href="#/welcome">
<i class="material-icons">explore</i>
</md-button>
<h2 href="#/welcome">
md-nav-bar Test
</h2>
<span flex></span>
<md-button class="md-icon-button" aria-label="Coontact Us" href="mailto:info@osterdach.de">
<i class="material-icons">email</i>
</md-button>
<md-button class="md-icon-button" aria-label="Call Us" href="tel:+4915732224836">
<i class="material-icons">phone</i>
</md-button>
</div>
</md-toolbar>
</md-content>
<md-content>
<md-nav-bar md-selected-nav-item="currentNavItem" nav-bar-aria-label="navigation links">
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/holzbau" name="page5">Holzbau</md-nav-item>
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/dach" name="page5">Dach</md-nav-item>
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/fassade" name="page5">Fassade</md-nav-item>
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/erhaltUndEnergie" name="page5">Erhalt und Energie</md-nav-item>
</md-nav-bar>
</md-content>
<md-content>
<p><strong>The Routing is working properly, so I am not including it completely here!</strong></p>
<a href="#/holzbau">Holzbau</a> |
<a href="#/dach">Dach</a> |
<a href="#/fassade">Fassade</a> |
<a href="#/erhaltUndEnergie">Erhalt und Energie</a>
</md-content>
<hr>
<md-content ng-view layout="row" layout-align="center"></md-content>
</body>
app.js
var app = angular.module("app", ["ngRoute", "ngMaterial"]);
/* ROUTING & THEMING */
app.config(function ($mdThemingProvider, $routeProvider) {
/* ROUTING */
$routeProvider
.when("/holzbau", {
templateUrl : "views/holzbau.html"
})
.when("/dach", {
templateUrl : "views/dach.html"
})
.when("/fassade", {
templateUrl : "views/fassade.html"
})
.when("/erhaltUndEnergie", {
templateUrl : "views/erhaltUndEnergie.html"
})
.when("/welcome", {
templateUrl : "views/welcome.html"
})
.otherwise({
templateUrl : "views/welcome.html"
});
/* END ROUTING */
/* THEMING */
var customPrimary = {
'50': '#3defff',
'100': '#24ecff',
'200': '#0aeaff',
'300': '#00dcf0',
'400': '#00c4d6',
'500': '#00ADBD',
'600': '#0096a3',
'700': '#007e8a',
'800': '#006770',
'900': '#005057',
'A100': '#57f1ff',
'A200': '#70f3ff',
'A400': '#8af5ff',
'A700': '#00383d'
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$mdThemingProvider
.definePalette('customPrimary',
customPrimary);
var customAccent = {
'50': '#68070b',
'100': '#80090d',
'200': '#970b10',
'300': '#af0c12',
'400': '#c70e15',
'500': '#df1017',
'600': '#f13138',
'700': '#f2494f',
'800': '#f46166',
'900': '#f6787d',
'A100': '#f13138',
'A200': '#EF1921',
'A400': '#df1017',
'A700': '#f79094'
};
$mdThemingProvider
.definePalette('customAccent',
customAccent);
var customWarn = {
'50': '#949eb6',
'100': '#8590ab',
'200': '#7582a1',
'300': '#677496',
'400': '#5c6987',
'500': '#525D78',
'600': '#485169',
'700': '#3d465a',
'800': '#333a4b',
'900': '#292e3b',
'A100': '#a3abc0',
'A200': '#b2b9ca',
'A400': '#c1c7d5',
'A700': '#1e222c'
};
$mdThemingProvider
.definePalette('customWarn',
customWarn);
var customBackground = {
'50': '#ffffff',
'100': '#ffffff',
'200': '#ffffff',
'300': '#f4fbfb',
'400': '#e1f5f4',
'500': '#CEEEED',
'600': '#bbe7e6',
'700': '#a8e1df',
'800': '#95dad8',
'900': '#82d4d1',
'A100': '#ffffff',
'A200': '#ffffff',
'A400': '#ffffff',
'A700': '#6fcdca'
};
$mdThemingProvider
.definePalette('customBackground',
customBackground);
$mdThemingProvider.theme('default')
.primaryPalette('customPrimary')
.accentPalette('customAccent')
.warnPalette('customWarn')
.backgroundPalette('customBackground')
/* END THEMING */
});
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app.controller("MainController", function($scope, $route) {
});
See this Pen with my code: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pbBOdv
A:
You need to load the Angular Material CSS file and update the JS file - CodePen
CSS: https://cdn.gitcdn.link/cdn/angular/bower-material/v1.1.0/angular-material.css
JS: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angular_material/1.1.0-rc.5/angular-material.min.js
You also need to make the name of each md-nav-item unique:
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/holzbau" name="page1">Holzbau</md-nav-item>
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/dach" name="page2">Dach</md-nav-item>
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/fassade" name="page3">Fassade</md-nav-item>
<md-nav-item md-nav-href="#/erhaltUndEnergie" name="page4">Erhalt und Energie</md-nav-item>
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Q:
.NET Chinese CultureInfo "zh" does not exist?
I'm using .NET 3.5 and running the following code:
var culture = new CultureInfo("zh"); // Throws ArgumentException
I got the string "zh" from an xml:lang attribute. I don't understand why an exception is thrown, because for instance "de" (wich is parent for "de-DE") is working fine. The culture "zh-CN" does work, but thats nothing that I can use.
Edit:
It works on .NET 4.5.1 (thanks to xanatos) - so even if the MSDN page explains that Chinese is an exception, the behaviour is different in newer .NET versions.
A:
There is a small note on the CultureInfo page:
There are two culture names that contradict this rule. The cultures Chinese (Simplified), named zh-Hans, and Chinese (Traditional), named zh-Hant, are neutral cultures. The culture names represent the current standard and should be used unless you have a reason for using the older names zh-CHS and zh-CHT.
So you could try zh-Hans or zh-Hant
And/or you could see What cultures are supported by the CultureInfo class in .NET 3.5?
The accepted answer says:
Unfortunately, it is OS dependent. Check here for default language support per OS.
A:
In .NET 3.5 "zh" does not work, use "zh-Hans" or "zh-Hant" instead. Didn't find a better solution. Or switch to .NET 4.5.
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Q:
$E(S_T^2)\not=E (\sum_{i=1}^T \sigma_i^2) $ when $E|T|<\infty$
I am currently learning random walk and come across a problem concerning stopping time.
The question asks to give an example that $X_1,X_2,...$ independent r.v. with mean $0$ and variance $\sigma_i^2$, and
$$E(S_T^2)\not=E (\sum_{i=1}^T \sigma_i^2) $$ when $E|T|<\infty$ and $T$ is a stopping time.
I am not sure how to construct such example as so far what I learned are all iid case and in iid case the above would be an equality. I know that in iid case and $E|T|=\infty$ there could be such inequality by letting $T=\min \{n: S_n=1\}$ of a symmetric simple random walk.
A:
Let $(X_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of independent random variables such that $$\mathbb{P}(X_n = 2^n) = \mathbb{P}(X_n = -2^n)=\frac{1}{2}$$ and set $$T := \inf\{n \geq 1; X_n = 2^n\}.$$ $T$ is a stopping time (with respect to the canonical filtration) and $$\mathbb{P}(T=n) = \frac{1}{2^n}. \tag{1} $$ This shows in particular that $$\mathbb{E}T = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} n \mathbb{P}(T=n)<\infty.$$ Moreover, since
$$\sum_{n=1}^{N-1} 2^n = 2^{N}-2, \tag{2}$$
we have
$$S_T = \sum_{n=1}^{T-1} X_n + X_T = \sum_{n=1}^{T-1} (-2^n) + 2^T = 2.$$
Hence, $\mathbb{E}(S_T^2)=4$. On the other hand,
$$\begin{align*} \mathbb{E} \left( \sum_{n=1}^T \sigma_i^2 \right) &= \mathbb{E}\left( \sum_{N=1}^{\infty} \sum_{n=1}^N 2^i 1_{\{T=N\}} \right) \\ &\stackrel{(2)}{=} \mathbb{E} \left( \sum_{N=1}^{\infty} (2^{N+1}-2) 1_{\{T=N\}} \right) \\ &\stackrel{(1)}{=} \sum_{N=1}^{\infty} (2^{N+1}-2) \frac{1}{2^N} = \infty. \end{align*}$$
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Best Place to Stock Up for the End of the World as We Know It Phoenix 2012 - Honeyville Farms
If the end came tomorrow, chances are the only people who'd last through the day after would fall into two groups: preppers and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Fortunately, the keys to post-apocalyptic survival can, for the most part, be found in one convenient location. The Honeyville Farms retail store in Chandler offers all you'd need to survive alien attack, zombie invasion, or just about any other apocalyptic happening. From freeze-dried scrambled eggs and bacon to hygiene kits and portable toilets, this emergency preparedness store has it all. With 50-pound bags of harder-to-find whole grains like buckwheat and rye, Honeyville draws customers from home bakers to ardent Arizona survivalists. And this doomsday cloud has a (sunny) silver lining: Honeyville's sun-oven demos have us thinking there might be an upside to global warming after all.
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Silicon nanohybrid-based SERS chips armed with an internal standard for broad-range, sensitive and reproducible simultaneous quantification of lead(ii) and mercury(ii) in real systems.
Lead ions (Pb2+) and mercury ions (Hg2+), the two commonly coexisting heavy metal ions, pose severe risks to environment and human health. To date, no surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor has been reported for the simultaneous quantification of Pb2+ and Hg2+ in real systems. Herein, the first demonstration of SERS chips for simultaneous quantification of Pb2+ and Hg2+ in real systems is presented based on the combination of reproducible silicon nanohybrid substrates and a corrective internal standard (IS) sensing strategy. This chip was made of a silver nanoparticle-decorated silicon wafer via modification of the IS, i.e. 4-aminothiophenol, molecules. The as-prepared chip was further functionalized with Pb2+- and Hg2+- specific DNA strands capable of simultaneously detecting Pb2+ and Hg2+. Quantitatively, upon correction by the IS Raman signals, the broad dynamic ranges from 100 pM to 10 μM for Pb2+ and from 1 nM to 10 μM for Hg2+ were achieved, with the detection limit down to 19.8 ppt for Pb2+ and 168 ppt for Hg2+. For real applications, we further demonstrated that Pb2+ and Hg2+ spiked into industrial wastewater could be readily distinguished via the presented chip, and the relative standard deviation (RSD) value was less than ∼15%. More significantly, the resulting SERS chip can be well coupled with a hand-held Raman instrument and can then be used for the qualitative analysis of both Pb2+ and Hg2+ in real systems in a portable manner. Our results suggest that this high-quality SERS chip is a powerful tool for on-site detection of various heavy metal ions in real samples in the field of food safety and environment protection.
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a or b - Logical or
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599 F.2d 181
5 Bankr.Ct.Dec. 243, Bankr. L. Rep. P 67,111
In the Matter of LICEK POTATO CHIP CO., an IllinoisCorporation, Debtor.Appeal of Wayne H. FAIR and Bettie A. Fair.
No. 78-1811.
United States Court of Appeals,Seventh Circuit.
Argued April 9, 1979.Decided May 21, 1979.
Terry L. Fields, Springfield, Ill., for appellants.
Richard C. McDonald, J. Christopher Jackson, Decatur, Ill., for appellees.
Before TONE and BAUER, Circuit Judges, and BONSAL, Senior District Judge.*
TONE, Circuit Judge.
1
This is an appeal from an order of the district court affirming the bankruptcy judge's dismissal of a third-party complaint for lack of jurisdiction. We do not reach the issue of the correctness of the order appealed from, because we are without jurisdiction to hear the appeal.
2
Appellants, Wayne and Bettie Fair, and Licek Potato Chip Company entered into an agreement, the terms of which are not clear from the record but which seems to have provided for distribution of potato chips by the Fairs. Soon thereafter Licek filed a petition under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. § 701, et seq. At the first meeting of creditors, Licek presented a proposed plan of arrangement. The Fairs filed an acceptance and a proof of claim for $35,000, based on a note Licek had executed and delivered to them. The bankruptcy judge then entered an order confirming the plan.
3
Subsequently Licek and the receiver filed a complaint in the bankruptcy proceeding seeking a declaration that the transaction between Licek and the Fairs was a loan transaction and that the Fairs' claim was unsecured and subject to the provisions of the plan of arrangement, and asking that the Fairs be required to deliver to Licek and the receiver certain vehicle titles involved in the Licek-Fairs transaction. The Fairs answered, alleging that the transaction "was for the purchase of routes and equipment from the debtor and was not a loan transaction." The bankruptcy judge allowed the Fairs' claim as an unsecured claim and later entered an order approving the final report of the receiver and closing the case as to all matters except "the claim of Wayne H. Fair and Bettie A. Fair against the debtor."
4
The Fairs then filed a "cross-complaint and third-party complaint" naming Licek as cross-defendant and the appellees herein as third-party defendants and alleging as follows: Appellees First National Bank of Decatur and Jonann, Robert, and Charles Lyon wrongfully induced the Fairs to purchase a Licek distributorship from the Lyons using $35,000 borrowed from the bank for that purpose without informing the Fairs of the precarious financial position of Licek and its obligation to the bank in excess of $200,000. Appellees William Walker and Patrick Nolan, who subsequently purchased Licek in the course of the Chapter XI proceedings, promised to make the Fairs whole in the transaction. Appellee Acton Company purchased Licek from Walker and Nolan subject to the claim of the Fairs. The relief sought was the return of the $35,000 to the Fairs.
5
On motion of appellees, the bankruptcy judge dismissed for lack of jurisdiction "the third-party complaint," meaning that part of the Fairs' pleading that sought relief against appellees. The record before us contains no ruling on the claim which the pleading asserted against Licek. The district court affirmed the bankruptcy judge's order. Although no determination and direction under Rule 54(b), Fed.R.Civ.P., was entered, the Fairs filed a notice of appeal from the order.
6
Appellant's argument in support of our jurisdiction is based primarily on § 24(a), 11 U.S.C. § 47(a), which is made applicable to Chapter XI by § 316, 11 U.S.C. § 716. 8 Collier on Bankruptcy, P 3.30(2.1) at 276 & n.5 (14th ed. 1978); 9 Moore's Federal Practice, P 206.02 at 1205 & n.9 (2d ed. 1975). Section 24(a) grants the courts of appeals jurisdiction over both final and interlocutory orders in "proceedings in bankruptcy" but over only final orders in "controversies arising in proceedings in bankruptcy." 2 Collier on Bankruptcy, P 24.04(2) at 715 (14th ed. 1976); 9 Moore's Federal Practice, supra, P 110.19(5) at 222; 16 Wright, Miller, Cooper & Gressman, Federal Practice and Procedure, § 3926 at 103 & n.6 (1977). For the distinction between the quoted terms, See In re Durensky, 519 F.2d 1024, 1027 (5th Cir. 1975); See generally 2 Collier on Bankruptcy, supra, PP 24.12-24.36.
7
However difficult it may sometimes be to apply this often criticized distinction,1 the days of which are now numbered,2 it is readily determinable that, at the very least, the dispute here is not a proceeding in bankruptcy; for it concerns the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court over a claim by an adverse claimant against third-parties and is not an administrative matter presented in the ordinary course of the administration of the bankrupt's estate. Accord, United Kingdom Mutual Steamship Assurance Association v. Liman, 418 F.2d 9 (2d Cir. 1969); In re Christ's Church of the Golden Rule, 172 F.2d 523 (9th Cir. 1949). We need not decide whether the dispute is a controversy arising in a proceeding in bankruptcy, as were those in the United Kingdom and Christ's Church cases,3 because even if it is we have no jurisdiction unless the order appealed from is final. Whether the dispute is a "controversy" under § 24(a) or is neither a "proceeding" nor a "controversy" under that section and hence outside its purview and subject to 28 U.S.C. § 1291,4 the order is appealable only if it is final. See 9 Moore's Federal Practice, supra, P 110.19(5) at 222 & n.3.
8
We turn therefore to the question of whether the order appealed from, in which the district court affirmed the bankruptcy judge's order dismissing the third-party claim for lack of jurisdiction, is final. An order dismissing a third-party complaint but leaving another claim pending is a paradigm of an interlocutory order subject to Rule 54(b), Fed.R.Civ.P. E. g., Courembis v. Independence Avenue Drug Fair, Inc., 115 U.S.App.D.C. 7, 8, 316 F.2d 658, 659 (1963). Rule 54(b) is made applicable in Chapter XI proceedings by Bankruptcy Rules 11-61(a) and 754. The Fairs contend, however, that the dismissal of their third-party claim was a final order because it adjudicated the rights of all the parties before the district judge on the appeal from the bankruptcy judge.
9
This argument rests on a misconception of the jurisdictional scheme in bankruptcy cases. We note initially that orders of the bankruptcy judge need not be final to be appealable to the district judge.5 This does not mean, however, that the latter's ruling on an interlocutory appeal is appealable to the court of appeals,6 for our jurisdiction is, with exceptions not applicable here, limited to review of final orders of the district court in bankruptcy cases, as it is in other cases.7
10
The district judge's order in the case at bar did not finally decide all the issues between all the parties. Undecided issues remained before the bankruptcy judge and hence before the district court. In the absence, therefore, of an appropriate determination and direction under Rule 54(b), the order was not appealable.
11
The Fairs argue that the district court's entry of a stay pending disposition on appeal implied a determination that no just reason for delaying appeal existed. Rule 54(b), however, requires that the "determination that there is no just reason for delay" and the "direction for the entry of judgment" both be "express." These requirements not having been satisfied, we are without jurisdiction to hear this appeal.
12
The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Appellants are, of course, free to seek an appropriate determination and direction from the district court, in compliance with Rule 54(b), that would make the ruling appealable. If the district court sees fit to grant such a request and to enter judgment accordingly, and a notice of appeal from that judgment is filed, the new appeal will be considered by this panel on the briefs and oral arguments already presented.
*
The Honorable Dudley B. Bonsal, Senior District Judge of the Southern District of New York, is sitting by designation
1
E. g., In re Brissette, 561 F.2d 779, 781 (9th Cir. 1977); 9 Moore's Federal Practice, supra, P 110.19(5)
2
The distinction is eliminated by the Bankruptcy Reform Act, Pub.L. No. 95-598, 92 Stat. 2549, 2667 (1978), adding § 1293 to Title 28. Under that provision only final orders of the trial court in bankruptcy matters are appealable to the courts of appeals
3
Here the dispute over jurisdiction arose between adverse claimants and third-parties who the claimants allege fraudulently induced them to enter into the original transaction. This does "present distinct and separable issues" but not "between the trustee and adverse claimants" and not "concerning the right and title to the bankrupt's estate."
4
The parties do not contend that jurisdiction exists under 28 U.S.C. § 1292. The order appealed from does not fall within any of the categories of § 1292(a). 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(2) refers only to the "ordinary equity receiver," 7B Moore's Federal Practice, P 1292(a)(2) (2d ed. 1978), and not to bankruptcy receiverships, 2 Collier on Bankruptcy, supra, P 24.27(2.1) at 726.1 n.7. Section 1292(b) does not apply because the district judge did not state in writing that his order satisfied the criteria listed therein
5
Section 2(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C. § 11(a)(10), gives the district court jurisdiction to "consider records, findings, and orders certified to the judges by referees, and confirm, modify, or reverse such findings and orders, or return such records with instructions for further proceedings . . . ." Neither this section, nor § 39, 11 U.S.C. § 67, which prescribes the procedure for review of a bankruptcy judge's order and allows review as of right, nor the bankruptcy rules governing appeal to the district court, See Bankruptcy Rules 801-814, nor any other applicable provision contain a finality requirement. The Act and Rules place no limit on the jurisdiction of the district court to review interlocutory orders of the bankruptcy judge. Willyerd v. Buildex Co., 463 F.2d 996, 1001 (6th Cir. 1972); Sulmeyer v. Pfohlman, 329 F.2d 915, 917 (9th Cir. 1964); 2A Collier on Bankruptcy, P 39.21 (14th ed. 1978)
Interlocutory orders of the bankruptcy judge will also be reviewable at the trial court level under the Bankruptcy Reform Act, Pub.L. No. 95-598, 92 Stat. 2549 (1978). Under § 201 of that Act, 92 Stat. 2659 (1978), which will become 28 U.S.C. § 160, appellate panels consisting of three bankruptcy judges may be designated "to hear appeals from judgments, orders, and decrees of the bankruptcy court (created in the new 28 U.S.C. § 151, Pub.L. No. 95-598 § 201, 92 Stat. 2657 (1978)) . . . ." The new 28 U.S.C. § 1482(b), Pub.L. No. 95-598 § 241(a), 92 Stat. 2671 (1978), gives these panels "jurisdiction of appeals from interlocutory judgments, orders, and decrees of bankruptcy courts . . . ." In districts which will not have appellate panels, appeal may be taken to the district court under the new 28 U.S.C. § 1334, Pub.L. No. 95-598 § 238, 92 Stat. 2668 (1978), which gives district courts jurisdiction over interlocutory orders of the bankruptcy courts.
6
The bankruptcy judge does not stand in the same relationship to the district court that the district court does to this court. He is an officer of the district court, appointed by that court, 11 U.S.C. § 62(a), and deriving his jurisdiction and powers from that court, 11 U.S.C. § 66. Heiser v. Woodruff, 150 F.2d 867, 868 (10th Cir.), Cert. denied, 326 U.S. 778, 66 S.Ct. 271, 90 L.Ed. 471 (1945). Parties before the bankruptcy judge are before the district court
7
The same will be true under the Bankruptcy Reform Act. 92 Stat. 2667 (1978), adding 28 U.S.C. § 1293
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Q:
Why does Xcode 11 attribute selector for colors have 2 different colors in the thumbnail?
Here is an image of the color selector in the attribute inspector of Xcode 11.x. I could not figure out why a lot of the color thumbnails show 2 colors. I suspected that the pair of colors indicate the Light and Dark Modes but this does not seem to be the case.
A:
Those colors have an opacity less than 100%.
The left side is what we see when the color is on black background. The right side is on white background.
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The decorum of the United States Senate was on full display Wednesday Marco Rubio ostensibly threatened to fight Alex Jones in a congressional hallway.
Sen. Rubio and InfoWars' Jones had a very public confrontation that was captured on video, with Rubio threatening to “take care” of Jones after the infamous conspiracy theorist touched the senator’s shoulder.
Jones interrupted Rubio, who was speaking to reporters outside of congressional hearings with social media company executives, and started pestering the senator about alleged “shadow banning” of Republicans on social media.
Jones went on to call the former Republican presidential candidate, who was clearly growing impatient, a “frat boy” and insisted that Rubio was familiar with InfoWars, Jones’ website that is now largely banned from major social media platforms. Rubio responded that he had no idea who Jones was. That’s when Jones touched Marco Rubio’s shoulder.
“Don’t touch me again, man,” Rubio said. “I’m asking you not to touch me again.”
“Well, sure, I just patted you nicely,” Jones responded.
“I don’t want to be touched,” Rubio said. “I don’t know who you are.”
“Oh, you want me to get arrested?” Jones asked.
“You’re not going to get arrested, man; I’ll take care of you myself,” Rubio said.
You can watch the full video below:
It’s unclear what exactly Rubio meant when he said he would “take care” of Jones. VICE News has reached out to Rubio’s office to ask if the senator meant he would fight the conspiracy theorist, or something more sinister.
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Atlus released Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker in North America earlier this month, but there's still more DLC and SpotPass demons to be had. Both are now available, and Atlus also has one final trailer for the Nintendo 3DS remake after the jump.
We're under a week away from the North American release of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, so it's high time we had a look at the enhanced RPG's combat. See how it works after the jump.
Kodansha had a diverse list of manga plans to introduce at this weekend's Anime Boston convention. New licenses include the Shin Megami Tensei family Persona Q and Devil Survivor as well as Ninja Slayer Kills and cat manga from the horror manga master Junji Ito. These are joined by a special edition of Attack on Titan and return the Vinland Saga. More after the jump.
Atlus released a new trailer for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, focusing on the eBay-style auctions that can net the highest bidder some powerful demons. See the brief overview of Demon Auctions in the video after the jump.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker is bringing its enhanced RPG action to Nintendo 3DS in the Americas on May 5, so Atlus is here with a new trailer. Get acquainted with the Fate system in the video after the jump.
Atlus recently released a new story trailer for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, introducing the Triangulum story arc that adds around 40 hours of brand new content. There's also a release date for the enhanced 3DS RPG, which is officially coming to the North American eShop and retail on May 5. Hit the jump for more.
This time the Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker spotlight is on the Triangulum arc version of Yamato Hotsuin. The circumstances behind his involvement after the events of the original Devil Survivor 2 are a bit spoilery, but you can see a bit of it in the 30-second clip after the jump.
Atlus released a couple new trailers for Devil Survivor 2: Break Record, the enhanced 3DS port that's coming to North America this spring as Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker. See Durarara!! characters and more after the jump.
Before Devil Survivor 2: Break Record hits Nintendo 3DS in North America early next year as SMT: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker, it's coming to Japan on January 29. See some new character clips for the enigmatic Anguished One and artificial intelligence Tycho along with videos showing Demon Auctions, Battle Training, and Demon Fusion after the jump.
Atlus has an early 2015 release lined up for SMT: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker in North America, and those who pre-order or pick up limited first-run copies will get a soundtrack CD, a special arrangement from Shoji Meguro and the Atlus sound Team. More after the jump.
Two days ago Atlus announced Devil Survivor 2: Break Record for North America, where it will arrive under the title Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker. That should make the latest batch of Japanese character introduction clips that much more enjoyable for fans in the west. See the new set after the jump.
We shared a handful of Japanese promos for Devil Survivor 2: Break Record recently, and now Atlus USA confirmed its localization. The enhanced RPG heads to Nintendo 3DS in North America as Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker in early 2015. Hit the jump for more.
Atlus is back with another set of character clips for Devil Survivor 2: Break Record, which hits Nintendo 3DS in Japan on January 25, 2015. Dig the brief introductions to Otome Yanagiya, Makoto Sako, and Fumi Kanno after the jump.
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Blandine N'Goran
Blandine N'Goran (born May 4, 1987) is a Ivorian female professional basketball player.
External links
Profile at fiba.com
Profile at University of Arkansas
Category:1987 births
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Abidjan
Category:Ivorian women's basketball players
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The regular season is on its final leg. We are approaching the time of year that matters most, and the Wildcats couldn’t be playing better.
In a conference where road wins are at a premium, K-State marched into Austin, Texas and completely shut down the Longhorns. Despite struggling on the boards early, the Wildcats kept Texas within reach in the first half. Once the clock started in th...
Wins over Georgia Tech and Temple may not scream “ooh, wow, look out, here comes Duke,” but a closer look at these two opponents are an insight into how Duke is starting to find that patented Coach K-groove at just the right time.
First, GT may not be the Tech of old, but they do have a player who has bolted up many NBA draft boards, including the famed WalterFootball.com index. S...
Since the Aztecs received their first loss of the season at BYU, they have rebound and played quit well of late. The Aztecs have now won four straight games in conference play, including a 56-54 thriller at CSU, in a very good game against a good team. D.J. Gay made a jumper with 1.6 seconds left on the clock, which sealed the deal for the Aztecs. If the Aztecs want to go far in the NC...
Florida Defensive Coordinator Larry Shyatt better be angry.
The Gators allowed South Carolina 21 three point attempts in a 72-69 loss Saturday. Florida’s defense hovered around the key throughout the game, which gave the Gamecocks plenty of time to pick their shots and grab a quick lunch before releasing the ball.
The first few minutes of the game were only a mirage of what could have been....
Cal knew that in order to get a much-needed win on Saturday, they had to get off to a good start against Arizona State. They jumped out to a 21-7 lead in the first 11 minutes, with good defense and solid rebounding. Arizona State ended the first half on a 9-4 run to reduce the deficit to 8 points as they trailed 31-23.
The Bears looked good defensively in the first half as they had numerous...
The California Golden Bears are looking for a bright spot. They have lost 6 of their last 10 games, and to make matters worse, freshman guard, Gary Franklin, who was a top-100 national recruit last year, informed the coaches he was transferring and leaving the team this past week.
The Bears came into Tucson Thursday night looking to right the ship and bring their conference record to 1-1. C...
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namespace SkorubaIdentityServer4Admin.STS.Identity.ViewModels.Manage
{
public class DeletePersonalDataViewModel
{
public bool RequirePassword { get; set; }
[DataType(DataType.Password)]
[Required]
public string Password { get; set; }
}
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[Advance on insulin-like growth factor 2].
Insulin-like growth factors play an important role in fetal growth and development, tumour cell proliferation and muscle growth. This review is focused on the insulin-like growth factor 2 gene structures, and their imprintings in mammalian genomes. In addition, we also discussed that IGF2 is the major paternally expressed candidate gene affecting muscle mass.
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1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to magnetic thin film heads (TFH) for recording and reading magnetic transitions on a moving magnetic medium.
2. Background of the Invention
Magnetic TFH transducers are known in the prior-art. See, e.g. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,016,601; 4,190,872; 4,652,954; 4,791,719 for inductive devices and U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,190,871 and 4,315,291 for magnetoresistive (MR) devices.
In the operation of a typical inductive TFH device, a moving magnetic storage medium is placed near the exposed pole-tips of the TFH transducer. During the read operation, the changing magnetic flux of the moving storage medium induces changing magnetic flux upon the pole-tips and gap between them. The magnetic flux is carried through the pole-tips and back-portion core around spiralling conductor coil winding turns located between the core arms. The changing magnetic flux induces an electrical voltage across the conductor coil. The electrical voltage is representative of the magnetic pattern stored on the moving magnetic storage medium. During the write operation, an electrical current is caused to flow through the conductor coil. The current in the coil induces a magnetic field across the gap between the pole-tips. A fringe field extends into the nearby moving magnetic storage medium, inducing (or writing) a magnetic domain (in the medium) in the same direction. Impressing current pulses of alternating polarity across the coil causes the writing of magnetic domains of alternating polarity in the storage medium. Magneto-resistive (MR) TFH devices can only operate in the read mode. The electrical resistance of an MR element varies with its magnetization orientation. Magnetic flux from the moving magnetic storage medium induces changes in this orientation. As a result, the resistance of the MR element to a sensing electric current changes accordingly. The varying voltage signal is representative of the magnetic pattern stored on the magnetic medium.
Prior-art magnetic recording inductive thin film heads include top and bottom magnetic core pole layers, usually of the alloy Ni--Fe (permalloy), connected through a via in the back-portion area, and separated by a thin gap layer between the pole-tips in the front of the device. The bottom pole-tip is usually designed to be wider than the top pole-tip in order to prevent "wraparound" due to misregistration or misalignment, as taught by R. E. Jones in U.S. Pat. No. 4,219,855. Alternatively, one or both pole-tips are trimmed by ion-milling or by reactive ion etching (RIE) to ensure similar width and proper alignment. Such a technique is disclosed, for example, by U. Cohen et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,141,623. As the track width decreases in order to increase the recording density, the write head pole-tips must be very narrow. P. K. Wang et al. describe elaborate schemes to obtain pole-tips for writing very narrow track width, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 4710-4712, November 1991.
One of the problems associated with the prior-art pole-tip designs is that during write operations, substantial noise is introduced along the track-edges (on the magnetic storage medium), which adds to the noise generated by the medium during read operations. During the write operations, significant portions of the intense magnetic flux lines, emanating from the corners and side-edges of the pole-tips, deviate from a direction parallel to the track's length. The non-parallel magnetic field magnetizes the medium in the wrong directions, giving rise to noise along the track-edges. This noise is usually characterized as "track-edge fringing noise" and is a major obstacle to increasing the track density. According to a paper by J. L. Su and K. Ju in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp 3384-3386, September 1989, the track-edge noise extends about 2.5 .mu.m on each side of the written track. As track density increases, the track width decreases along with the strength of the read-back signal. If the track-edge fringing noise remains the same, then the signal to noise ratio (SNR) is directly proportional to the track width, and deteriorates rapidly as the latter decreases. The current state-of-the-art magnetic thin film media can support lineal density of about 40,000-60,000 flux changes per inch (FCI), corresponding to domain length of about 0.4-0.7 .mu.m. Yet, the track width is at least an order of magnitude larger, about 8-12 .mu.m. There is no apparent reason why the media could not support much narrower tracks, if not for the rapid deterioration of the SNR. By eliminating most of the track-edge fringing noise, the useful track width could be decreased to about 1.0 .mu.m, or less. This represents an increase of recording density by about an order of magnitude.
In addition to the medium's noise, there is also the head's noise. A significant portion of the head's noise is due to edge-closure domains in the pole-tips. This noise contribution becomes more dominant as the width of the pole-tips decreases. This problem was described, for example, by D. A. Herman in Paper No. 299, "Laminated Soft Magnetic Materials", The Electrochemical Society Conference, Hollywood, Fla., October 1989.
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Hall Green Stadium
Hall Green Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium located in the Birmingham suburb of Hall Green, which existed from 1927 until 2017.
The track itself was a 412-metre long oval track with a sand covered surface. The capacity of the stadium was between 2,500 and 3,000.
Facilities
The stadium's main stand facilities included outside terracing along the main straight, fast food outlets, a bar on the first floor, and an indoor seated area with glass frontage overlooking the track on second floor. Also on the second floor was the a la carte restaurant. Executive suites that can hold between 18 and 100 people were located on the first bend of the track.
Related facilities included a hotel situated on bends 3 and 4 which opened in 1990, some rooms of which offered views of the track and a purpose built snooker hall along the back straight with 21 full sized tables. Conference facilities were also provided and managed by the stadium.
Renovations
Investment in 1970 resulted in the track becoming one of the major provincials in the country and the GRA spent over £750,000 renovating the club house into a four tier restaurant and a new electronic display tote board was built. The track kennels were demolished during the renovation resulting in a contract trainer system.
In 1981 the track changed to an all-sand surface which replaced the former grass straights, an 'Outside McKee Scott' hare and undersoil heating were also installed. Further stadium improvements in 1987 including a large snooker club to the tune of £400,000 and another face lift in 1989 to the tune of £1 million saw an extension to the restaurant and construction of a 48 bedroom hotel called ‘The Lodge’. A new track surface was also installed during this latest investment.
Greyhound Racing
Origins & Opening
The Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) bought the land that was known as the Olympia Sports Ground in the Birmingham suburb of Hall Green and constructed a greyhound track. Opened on 24 August 1927 it was the first greyhound track to be built in the city. A crowd of 20,000 turned up to experience racing for the first time despite the fact that another Birmingham track Kings Heath Stadium had just opened three months previous. The first race on that Wednesday evening was won by Lock Latham owned by Lady Lock and Mr P.Latham and was over 500 yards in a winning time of 29.66. Appearing that same night was Bonzo who duly won his race and would go on to win the first ever running of the Champion Hurdle race at White City Stadium, London, and this event would soon be called the Grand National.
Early history
In the late 1920s a 440-yard circumference track was a decent size circuit with long straights and fairly easy turns. Handicaps and an 'Inside Sumner' hare were features of the track and the main distances were 500 and 700 yards. Facilities at the time included the main stand which offered the Hall Green Sports Club and Enclosure Club with stands on the opposite side of the track to accommodate the large patronage. A small annual subscription allowed patron's admittance to the clubs and it was not long before a restaurant service was introduced. Similar to other larger tracks of the time there was a resting kennel located away from the track and the Hall Green resting kennels were found nearby at Bogay Hall Farm in Solihull. The stadium hosted speedway races between 1928 and 1938, with a team called the Birmingham Bulldogs racing out of the stadium.
After the war the track introduced a major event for the first time and it was called the Midland Flat Championship and the centre green was home to the Hall Green Amateurs football team between 1951 until 1965.
Later history
After the completion of the new facilities in 1970 the stadium recruited one of the country's finest trainers at the time in Geoffrey DeMulder. In 1973 another trainer Sid Mann retired ending a 43-year association with the GRA, Mann had originally taken out a licence in 1930. Sometime later Racing Manager Jeff Jefcoate joined Northern Sports at Ramsgate Stadium and his assistant Horace Peplow retired after 50 years leaving Sidney Wood the deputy chief Racing Manager for the GRA in charge and he was joined by Simon Harris. As 1984 came to an end the great Scurlogue Champ set two track records, one in December 1984 and another the following year.
In 1993 the British Breeders Forum Produce was switched from Wembley to Hall Green and Simon Harris was replaced by Gary Woodward. The Television Trophy was hosted at the track for the third time in 1997 following the previous staging in 1979 & 1988 and in 1999 the Blue Riband competition was brought to the track following the demise of Wembley with the Grand National switching to sister track Wimbledon Stadium. Under General Manager Stephen Rea two new races were inaugurated by the track, they were the Gymcrack in 2000 and the Prestige in 2003 but the Midland Flat was discontinued, it had been the tracks oldest race.
Competitions
Blue Riband (1999-2012)
Golden Jacket (1985)
Grand National (1985-1998)
Gymcrack (2000-2010)
Midland Flat (1946-2006)
Prestige (2003-2017)
Produce Stakes (1993-2008)
Achievements
1973 Hall Green lost a closely fought battle with Wembley in the Duke of Edinburgh Cup Grand Final by 64 points to 56.
1974 & 1979 Geoff DeMulder won two English Greyhound Derby triumphs in 1974 & 1979 with Jimsun and Sarahs Bunny respectively.
1992 Kildare Slippy trained by Paddy Hancox set some unbelievable track records. He recorded 28.52 winning a 474-metre hurdle race which was a sensation because it was four spots quicker than the 474 metre flat track record. This incredible run must go down as one of the greatest performances in racing history.
Closure
In 2014 the National Asset Management Agency (parent company of the Greyhound Racing Association) sold Hall Green and Belle Vue stadiums but retained a lease agreement for both venues; with Hall Green Stadium being purchased by Euro Property Investments Limited for £3 million. It was revealed on 23 February 2016 that the stadium is to be closed down and demolished in the near future due to a housing planning application made by owner Euro Property Investments Limited. The planning submission to the local council was originally declined in June 2016; but this ruling was subsequently overturned by appeal during the following month, and consequently a decision to allow demolition of the stadium was ratified by the council. In June 2017, it was revealed by the stadium's chief executive Clive Feltham that the stadium would close at the end of the following month; and the stadium's final night of racing occurred on 29 July 2017. Demolition of the stadium to make way for the housing estate subsequently commenced in May 2018.
Track records
At closing
Former
Pre Metric
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References
External links
Conference Venues and Meeting Rooms in UK
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Category:Defunct greyhound racing venues in the United Kingdom
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Below the knee PTA in critical limb ischemia results after 12 months: single center experience.
Evaluation of angioplasty with bare metal stents in infrapopliteal occlusions or severe stenoses in patients with critical limb ischemia. Percutaneous stent angioplasty was performed in 58 limbs in 47 patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) in Rutherford stage 4-6. Lesions with up to 5 cm in length with at least one patent vessel below the obstruction were treated. 121 bare metal stents (diameter of 2.5-4 mm; length of 18-38 mm) were implanted. Follow-up examinations were performed up to 12 months postinterventionally using clinical examination, ABI calculation, and color-coded duplex sonography. Patency rates were calculated on the basis of the Kaplan-Meier analysis. Technical success was achieved in 100%. Minor complications (hematoma, distal emboli, vessel dissection) were documented in 5.17% (n=3) limbs, respectively. The 3-month, 6-month, and 1-year primary patency rate was 93.0%, 78.9% and 66.7%, respectively. 86.9% of the lesions healed postinterventionally. The cumulative limb salvage rate was 96.6%. Stent angioplasty in infrapopliteal arteries is a safe and effective technique for the treatment of patients with CLI. By consequent clinical monitoring high secondary patency rates can be achieved. The use of a bare metal stent seems to result in high limb salvage, primary and secondary patency rates in the mid-term follow-up.
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Role of minerals in thermal alteration of organic matter--II: a material balance.
Pyrolysis experiments were performed on Green River and Monterey Formation kerogens (Types I and II, respectively) with and without calcite, illite, or montmorillonite at 300 degrees C for 2 to 1,000 hours under dry and hydrous conditions. Pyrolysis products were identified and quantified, and a material balance of product and reactants resulted. Significant differences were found in the products generated by pyrolysis of kerogens with and without minerals. Both illite and montmorillonite adsorb a considerable portion (up to 80%) of the generated bitumen. The adsorbed bitumen is almost exclusively composed of polar compounds and asphaltenes that crack to yield low molecular weight compounds and insoluble pyrobitumen during prolonged heating. Montmorillonite shows the most pronounced adsorptive and catalytic effects. With calcite however, the pyrolysis products are similar to those from kerogen heated alone, and bitumen adsorption is negligible. Applying these results to maturation of organic matter in natural environments, we suggest that a given type of organic matter associated with different minerals in source rocks will yield different products. Furthermore, the different adsorption capacities of minerals exert a significant influence on the migration of polar and high molecular weight compounds generated from the breakdown of kerogen. Therefore, the overall accumulated products from carbonate source rocks are mainly heavy oils with some gas, whereas light oils and gases are the main products from source rocks that contain expandable clays with catalytic and adsorptive properties.
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Bookseller's debut longlisted for Man Booker Prize
A bookseller's unpublished debut is among the novels longlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize 2017, alongside books by authors including Arundhati Roy, George Saunders, Sebastian Barry and Zadie...
A bookseller's as-yet-unpublished debut is among the novels longlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize 2017, alongside books by authors including Arundhati Roy, George Saunders, Sebastian Barry and Zadie Smith.
Fiona Mozley, aged 29, who works at the Little Apple Bookshop in York, was longlisted for her novel Elmet (JM Originals), a book about family as well as a meditation on landscape in South Yorkshire. The bookshop, whose staff didn't know her title had been put forward for the prize, called it "fantastic news" on its Facebook page this morning (27th July). The book, due to be published next month, was the first ever acquisition of John Murray assistant editor Becky Walsh, who revealed Mozley wrote the story while commuting on the train. “To be longlisted is an impressive achievement for anyone but for a debut author who wrote Elmet while travelling up and down to London from York on the train is just amazing,” she told The Bookseller.
Two other debut novels have been recognised: Saunders, a prolific US short story writer, is longlisted for his much-praised debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury). The father-and-son story, which has already secured a film deal, features Abraham Lincoln and is set in 1862 against the background of the American Civil War. And fellow American Emily Fridlund is longlisted for History of Wolves (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), set in a dying commune in the American Midwest.
The other authors to have made the cut on the 13-strong literary line-up are Colson Whitehead, Ali Smith, Kamila Shamsie, Mike McCormack, Mohsin Hamid, Jon McGregor and Paul Auster.
Roy has made the cut for the first work she has written since The God Of Small Things (Harper Perennial) last won the Booker Prize 20 years ago with The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. She is one of four authors on the list to hail from Hamish Hamilton's stables, nurtured by publisher director Simon Prosser, along with Pakistani novelist Hamid's fourth novel Exit West; Ali Smith's Autumn, part of an ambitious series of four seasonal novels and Zadie Smith's Swing Time, about friendship, music and stubborn roots in North West London.
Meanwhile Barry is one of four previously shortlisted writers to appear again in the "Man Booker Dozen", along with Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Mohsin Hamid. His American epic Days Without End (Faber & Faber), published in February, has already made him the first novelist to win both the Costa Book of the Year and the Walter Scott Prize twice. The novel follows Thomas McNulty, a migrant who flees the Irish famine during the 1850s, and his brother-in-arms as they go to fight in the Indian Wars and ultimately the Civil War. Costa judges earlier this year called it "brutal", "terrifying", and, in its exploration of the two characters' gay relationship, "one of the most wonderful depictions of love in fiction". Barry has previously been longlisted for the Booker prize for The Secret Scripture in 2008 and On Canaan’s Side in 2011.
Another much-garlanded author on the longlist is US scribe Colson Whitehead. His book The Underground Railroad (Fleet) about slavery in the antebellum American South this year attracted multiple awards including the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction in April, as well as praise from former US president Barack Obama. It follows runaway slave Cora's bid for freedom using a literal underground railroad, incorporating elements of magical realism.
Three independent publishers have an author longlisted for the prize. Canongate author Mike McCormack is recognised for his Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel Solar Bones, a book that is written in a single novel-length sentence, Faber & Faber counts two entries on the list with US author Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1 entering alongside Barry's Days Without End, and Bloomsbury has Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire, a reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone through two British Muslim families, as well as Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo.
IMPAC Award-winning author Jon McGregor only moved to 4th Estate a year ago from Bloomsbury to publish Reservoir 13, which is the final book to make the cut.Set in a Derbyshire village, the title tells a story of lives haunted after a teenage girl goes missing.
Chair of the 2017 judges Baroness Lola Young commented: "Only when we’d finally selected our 13 novels did we fully realise the huge energy, imagination and variety in them as a group. The longlist showcases a diverse spectrum — not only of voices and literary styles but of protagonists too, in their culture, age and gender. Nevertheless we found there was a spirit common to all these novels: though their subject matter might be turbulent, their power and range were life-affirming – a tonic for our times.
"Together their authors — both recognised and new — explore an array of literary forms and techniques, from those working in a traditional vein to those who aim to move the walls of fiction."
The Man Booker Dozen were all published between 1st October 2016 and 30th September 2017. A shortlist of six books will be announced on 13th September and the winner on 17th October at a ceremony in London’s Guildhall broadcast by the BBC.
For the past two years books from independent publisher Oneworld have won the prize. Last year's winner was The Sellout by Paul Beatty - the prize's first American winner. To date over 360,000 print copies of the Oneworld edition have been sold through Nielsen BookScan and 26 foreign language rights deals have been secured (19 of which were sold since his prize win).
Chris White, fiction buyer for Waterstones, commented: "There are so many great novels on this year’s longlist. I think it’s the strongest there’s been in years. Obviously, I’m delighted to see our current Book of the Month, The Underground Railroad, in there and if I were forced to predict a winner I’d say that it’s a toss-up between that book and George Saunders’ virtuoso debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, but really almost any of these books would make worthy winners.”
Frances Gertler, web editor for Foyles, said: "Ali Smith is a huge favourite at Foyles but Sebastian Barry is a strong contender and we also loved the Saunders. As last year, there are a couple of dark horses and it will be intriguing to see how these fare."
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Contributed by tbert on 2014-05-20 from the bug the founders dept.
On the May 21 episode of BSD Now , OpenBSD developers Brian Callahan (bcallah@) and Aaron Bieber (abieber@) are being interviewed on their roles in founding, running, and maintaining *BSD User Groups. Brian is an admin of the New York City *BSD User Group ( NYC*BUG ) and Aaron recently founded the Colorado *BSD User Group ( CoBUG ).If you've ever wanted to know how to get involved with your local BUG, or even how to find like-minded *BSD users in your area, this is the interview for you!For those of you who want to experience it live , the show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern time (18:00 UTC).
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Isolation and complementation of temperature-sensitive replication mutants of Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pC194.
Temperature-sensitive replication (Tsr) mutants have been isolated from the Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pC194. For three of the four mutant plasmids tested (pSAO801, pSAO802, and pSAO804) the segregation kinetics suggested a complete block of plasmid replication at 43 degrees C. The replication defects of three mutant plasmids: pSAO802, pSAO803, and pSAO804 could be complemented by recombinant plasmids carrying a segment from either the wild type or the other mutant, pSAO801. There was no complementation when the segment carried by the recombinant plasmid was derived from one of the three complementable mutants. These data were taken as evidence for the involvement of a diffusible, plasmid-encoded product, RepH, in pC194 replication. The complementation of the fourth Tsr mutant, pSAO801, could not be tested due to an abnormal susceptibility of this mutant to the incompatibility expressed by recombinants carrying segments derived from pC194 or its mutants. A single mutation was found to be responsible for both pSAO801 instability and its altered incompatibility properties but the nature of the defect has not yet been elucidated.
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Mechanisms of the bactericidal activity of low amperage electric current (DC).
The mechanisms whereby low amperage (10-100 microA) electric current (DC) is bactericidal were investigated with Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus. A zone of inhibition test involving the insertion of an anode and cathode into an agar plate inoculated with a lawn of bacteria was used to study the antimicrobial activity of electric current. A zone of inhibition was produced around the cathode when 10 microA (DC) was applied for 16 h. The diameter of the zone was greatly reduced in the presence of catalase. There was no zone around the cathode when the test was carried out under anaerobic conditions. H2O2 was produced at the cathode surface under aerobic conditions but not in the absence of oxygen. A salt-bridge apparatus was used to confirm that H2O2 was produced at the cathode and chlorine at the anode. The antimicrobial activity of low amperage electric current under anaerobic conditions and in the absence of chloride ions against bacteria attached to the surface of a current carrying electrode was also investigated. Antibacterial activity was reduced under anaerobic conditions, which is compatible with the role of H2O2 as a primary bactericidal agent of electricity associated with the cathode. A reduction in chloride ions did not significantly reduce the antibacterial activity suggesting that chlorine plays only a minor role in the bactericidal activity towards organisms attached to anodal electrode surfaces. The localized production of H2O2 and chlorine and the intrinsic activity due to electric current may offer a useful method for eradicating bacteria from catheter surfaces.
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Lipopolysaccharide enhances oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein by copper ions, endothelial and smooth muscle cells.
The effect of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin) on low density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidative modification by copper ions, endothelial and smooth muscle cells was studied by determination of the level of lipid peroxidation products (thiobarbituric acid reactive substances or TBARS), the diene level and the electrophoretic mobility of the LDL particle. LPS 25-75 microg/ml induced a dose-dependent increase in LDL oxidation by copper ions, endothelial and smooth muscle cells. At 75 microg LPS/ml, the TBARS content was 1.9, 1.6, and 1.8-fold increased, respectively. The LDL degradation by J774 macrophage-like cells was concomitantly stimulated. Preincubation of the LDL particle with LPS induced a marked increase in the subsequent LDL oxidative modification either by copper ions or by endothelial and smooth muscle cells. In addition, pretreatment of endothelial and smooth muscle cells with LPS also induced an enhancement of LDL oxidative modification performed in the absence of LPS. This effect was accompanied by a parallel increase in superoxide anion release by the cells. These results point at one of the mechanisms involved in the described association between bacterial infection and acute myocardial infarction as well as coronary heart disease.
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Randy Meisner placed under supervision of court-appointed guardian
It turns out allegations made earlier this year about Randy Meisner’s deteriorating mental and emotional well-being could very well be a reason for concern, at least that’s what a L.A. County Superior Court judge thinks. Judge David Cunningham has put the former Eagles and Poco bassist under 24-hour court supervision following claims he made murder-suicide threats last January.
In April, Meisner’s friend James Newton filed the paperwork needed to put him under conservatorship, due to alleged concerns about his mental state. At a hearing Wednesday, Newton’s attorney Troy Martin told the court Meisner had been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and voiced thoughts about suicide, according to the New York Daily News.
this year where Meisner had supposedly threatened to “gun everyone down with an AK-47,” though he didn’t have a firearm at the time. He also claimed the former Eagle had talked about killing himself by overdosing on meds in a separate incident. Meisner’s attorney responded that the allegations about his client’s mental condition were “widely overblown.”
The judge ultimately decided to put the former Eagle under the supervision of Frumeh Labow, a professional court-appointed conservator.
“If I’m going to err… it’s going to be on the side of protecting Mr. Meisner,” Judge
Cunningham said. “If it’s overkill, it’s overkill.”
After his announcement, the bassist’s wife Lana Rae Meisner walked out of the proceedings.
In April, Meisner told TMZ Newton was not a close friend and conjectured that he could be working with others trying to smear his wife and get a hold of his estate, which has been valued at several million dollars.
Both parties have consented to try mediation prior to another hearing scheduled for September.
Meisner, who quit the Eagles in 1977, is best known for singing and co-authoring their song “Take It to the Limit.”
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Evaluation of the ability of glass-ionomer cement to bond to glass-ionomer cement.
This study investigated the cohesive bond strengths of glass-ionomer cement at three setting and etching intervals and compared these bonds to the shear strength of the material itself. Bonded cylinders were created and then sheared using the Instron Universal Testing Machine. Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material. Bond values of unbonded glass-ionomer material indicate that the material itself is stronger than bonds established between bonded samples.
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Approval of Minutes
Everson/Saldana m/s to approve the minutes of the August 18 meeting two corrections.
Follow up and review of draft recommendations
Introduction and Overview
The committee discussed information to add to the Introduction/Overview of the Council report including the number of times the committee met, how proposals were solicited, the number of proposals received (breadth, scope, quality etc.), criteria used to evaluate the proposal, how the committee reached the decision to recommend the proposals. The committee voted to authorize Parker to write the final quarterly Introduction/Overview of the report.
Recommendations
General discussion and agreement on fine tuning to ensure recommendations have a common format, and common related information including the sponsor’s original proposal, the sponsor name, the HSC rational/background for the recommendation, approximate costs to the City to implement the recommendation and timeframe to implement.
Committee members will make appropriate edits to the drafts and send to Seltzer no later than Wednesday, September 21. The presentation to the City Council is not scheduled for Tuesday, October 4. Seltzer advised it could be moved to the October 18 meeting depending on the agenda for October 4.
General discussion on the spreadsheet which includes all the proposals received with committee comments and actions. Parker will make final edits to the spreadsheet.
Next meeting date is October 20, 2011. Seltzer will make arrangements with the library for meeting space.
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layer {
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layer {
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In a recent interview with People magazine, rapper Nas revealed that his secret obsession is the critically acclaimed HBO show Girls.
Girls is a comedy, created by and starring Lena Dunham, about four twenty-something-year-old girls living in New York City. “I don’t know where this girl Lena Dunham came from, but she’s amazing!,” said Nas.
Nas’ secret obsession comes as a surprise to some, considering his tough guy hip-hop persona. His appreciation for the show is also surprising, given the show has been publicly criticized for its lack of diversity.
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Animal Facts
Terrapin(
Chelonians )
Description
Terrapins
live either in fresh or slightly salty (brakish) water. They are
one type of Chelonian. This means they have four legs and a tough
shell made of two parts, which join at the sides. They also have
strong, horny mouths and no teeth.
There are two other types of Chelonians – turtles and tortoises.
Turtles live in the sea and most tortoises live on land. Chelonians
are part of the reptile family.
There are several types of terrapins including the:
Yellow-bellied Terrapin
Red-bellied Terrapin
Diamondback Terrapin
Florida East Coast Diamondback Terrapin
Alligator Terrapin
Mud Terrapin
Painted Terrapin
European Pond Terrapin
Red-eared Terrapin
African Helmeted Terrapin.
Habitat
Most types of terrapins live in fresh water, along rivers or in
ponds and lakes. The Diamondback lives in brackish (slightly salty)
water. There are several types of Diamondbacks that live in marshlands
from Massachusetts down to Florida and around to Texas, in the US.
Diet
Terrapins mostly catch their food in the water. They eat frog and
fish spawn, small fish, mollusks including snails, crabs and clams,
and insects. Some terrapins also eat young plant shoots and others
eat worms.
Habits and Biology
Terrapins are cold-blooded like their Chelonian cousins the turtle
and tortoise. The skeleton of a Chelonian wraps itself around the
reptile’s body and has two layers. The outer layer (exoskeleton)
is the hard shell. This is mostly greenish-brown, but the shells
of the Diamondback and Painted Terrapins are more ornate and colourful
than other species.
The inner layer (endoskeleton) is made up of the reptile’s
bones, including its ribs, backbone, shoulder blade and hipbones.
The outer shell layer is fused (joined) to the inner bony layer.
Although Chelonians don’t have teeth, terrapins and turtles
have powerful jaws for crushing crabs and snails and other food. Their
rear feet are large and webbed for swimming.
Chelonians don’t have any external part to their ears – so
their ears don’t stick out from their heads like human ears.
But they do have the same inner ear parts as other animals. Because
the outer ear catches sound vibrations and makes them louder, Chelonians
don’t hear airborne sounds as loudly as we do. Instead they feel
vibrations in their environment – in the water or on land, and
their senses of vision and smell are much sharper than ours.
The female Diamondback Terrapin grows twice as big as the male, but
has a shorter tail. She nests on beaches like the Sea Turtle and lays
8 – 10 eggs. Diamondbacks can live 25 – 30 years.
Red-eared Terrapins are sometimes kept as pets, but they need special
food and a large enclosure with water and space for basking in the
sun.
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A Vietnamese former banker and his business associate have been sentenced to death for their part in the embezzlement of $25 million, state media has reported.
The pair were among 11 defendants in the nine-day trial in Ho Chi Minh City, state media reported on Saturday, in a case that has highlighted Vietnam's efforts to show it is stamping out corruption in the face of widespread public anger over the issue.
Vu Quoc Hao, 58, the one-time chief of a finance subsidiary of the state-owned Vietnam Agribank and building firm boss Dang Van Hai, 56, were sentenced to death on Friday, according to state television.
"They were given the sentences for embezzlement of assets, mismanagement, abuse of power and fraud, causing serious consequences to the state," it said.
The other nine defendants were jailed for up to 14 years for violating state economic regulations, the report added.
The group was accused of embezzling more than $25 million of state money between April 2008 and March 2009 by falsifying financial leasing contracts, according to reports on state media.
Vietnam is rated one of the world's most corrupt nations and graft is a top concern for many ordinary people. The communist government has vowed to clamp down on the issue.
"There will be strict punishment for state cadres and officials who received bribes," warned the deputy prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, at an anti-corruption dialogue held in Hanoi on Tuesday, according to the government's website.
Vietnam resumed executions by lethal injection earlier this year, drawing criticism from the UN's human rights office.
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We are developing an artificial bone marrow for ex vivo culture of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). This platform has significant scientific value for testing hypotheses regarding the cascade of external signals responsible for directing HSC fate decisions within the bone marrow. An artificial marrow would also have significant clinical value for therapeutic expansion of HSCs or for study of the etiology and treatment of hematopoietic pathologies. However complicating this effort is limited information regarding the regulatory role played by the continuum of sub-niches that exist in close spatial order across the marrow responsible for maintaining hematopoietic homeostasis. We have recently described microfabrication approaches to generate an engineered bone marrow (EBM) containing overlapping patterns of marrow-inspired cellular, biophysical, and biomolecular cues to begin to examine the coordinated impact of these signals on HSC quiescence vs. activation. However, the small scale that makes the EBM advantageous introduces concerns regarding the unknown heterogeneity of a stem cell's response to these cues. While not surprising HSCs may exhibit a range of responses to a niche signal, effects may be magnified in multi-cue environments. We therefore propose to demonstrate a label-free approach to temporally track and quantify the heterogeneity of single HSC fate decisions in response to multiplexed EBM niche signals. To do this, we will combine photonic crystal enhanced microscopy (PCEM) and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) to create an integrated detection instrument able to trace single HSC fate decisions. We hypothesize that individually profiling these decisions across a continuum of biomaterial sub-niches will allow us to better predict niche regulation of HSC fate than more traditional metrics that report ensemble averages. Aim 1 will integrate SIMS and PCEM to determine the heterogeneity of HSC response to biophysical cues demonstrated to have an effect on populations of HSCs. Aim 2 will employ the PCEM/SIMS-based biosensor to examine HSC fate decisions within multi-cell colonies containing HSCs and supportive niche cells. Combining this novel biosensor with traditional functional assays will allow us, for the firt time, to determine the heterogeneity of HSC response to engineered niche signals. It also offers a framework to rapidly assess the impact of multiple signals using a minimal number of cells in order to identify hierarchies and/or synergies between these cues. Such data will bring new richness to our understanding of how HSCs integrate niche signals as well as identify critical design elements of an engineered bone marrow. By quantifying the level of heterogeneity in these fate decisions, we will also establish where along the continuum between single HSC and ensemble averages future investigations must focus.
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Q:
Thread.Yield() causes CPU spikes?
In a project of mine, I noticed the server spiking in CPU usage as the number of clients connected increase.
10 clients: 0% mostly, spikes to 7% randomly.
15 clients: 0% mostly, spikes to 10% randomly.
25 clients: 10% mostly, spikes to 60% randomly.
50 clients: 50% mostly, spikes to 60%, CPU is overall at 100% (due to gameservers).
(Note: there are 8 logical cores on the CPU)
I narrowed down the problem to Thread.Yield, on this line: https://github.com/vercas/vProto/blob/master/vProto/Base%20Client/Package%20Sending.cs#L121
As soon as I comment that line out, CPU usage stays at 0% constantly even with 100 clients!
Why is Thread.Yield doing this?
A:
It is due to the way Thread.Yield releases processing. It forces the current process thread to release prematurely. This in turn sends out messages to all other processes telling them to do their own thing. Switching process context is expensive in terms of swapping out memory, loading cached processes, and moving through the process list out of sequence.
From MSDN:
If this method succeeds, the rest of the thread's current time slice is yielded. The operating system schedules the calling thread for another time slice, according to its priority and the status of other threads that are available to run.
Yielding is limited to the processor that is executing the calling thread. The operating system will not switch execution to another processor, even if that processor is idle or is running a thread of lower priority. If there are no other threads that are ready to execute on the current processor, the operating system does not yield execution, and this method returns false.
This method is equivalent to using platform invoke to call the native Win32 SwitchToThread function. You should call the Yield method instead of using platform invoke, because platform invoke bypasses any custom threading behavior the host has requested.
UPDATE
There has been some challenge to the statement that Thread.Yield causes expensive context switching. Here are additional references:
Difference between Thread.Sleep0 and Thread.Yield
Threading in C# - Joseph Albahari
MSDN - About Processes and Threads
MSDN - Multitasking Considerations
The recommended guideline is to use as few threads as possible, thereby minimizing the use of system resources. This improves performance. Multitasking has resource requirements and potential conflicts to be considered when designing your application. The resource requirements are as follows:
The system consumes memory for the context information required by both processes and threads. Therefore, the number of processes and threads that can be created is limited by available memory.
Keeping track of a large number of threads consumes significant processor time. If there are too many threads, most of them will not be able to make significant progress. If most of the current threads are in one process, threads in other processes are scheduled less frequently.
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Dark Sense 2.1 is compatible with Galaxo 1.6.3.4 - It is not tested on other ROMs or Galaxo versions.
- Copy the theme to your root directory on the internal SDCard.
- Perform a nanodroid backup.
- Boot in Recovery Mode and fix the permissions.
- Use the "apply any zip" option and choose the Theme.
- Finished!
Sidenote: If you dont like the ADW Sense Theme, go to Android Codex and download the latest flashable Donut System Version.
Ok - I just installed ver1.5 of this theme (NOT above pics) and am in no hurry to change it anytime soon, but darn, you make my mouth water inFECT ! Please tell me, HOW do you go about theming a phone? I want to learn. Also, is there a risk of bricking the phone in the process?
Ok - I just installed ver1.5 of this theme (NOT above pics) and am in no hurry to change it anytime soon, but darn, you make my mouth water inFECT ! Please tell me, HOW do you go about theming a phone? I want to learn. Also, is there a risk of bricking the phone in the process?
-chronodekar
Click to expand...
Even though I never really did a complete theme that you can install via the recovery, I can tell you how, but it's somewhat complicated if you don't know that stuff.
Let me start by saying that a .apk is simply a .zip that you can open in winrar and such programs. And in it, you'll see all the pictures used in the application, so all you have to do is to modify them in the .apk, and you'll have a custom theme. If you want to modify stock applications, I suggest you start by using Metamorph, it's really simple (and download a metamorph theme to see how it's done). That won't work with Google apps (well, it will work, but you'll get a force close when you try to install apps from the market).
If you want to do it via update.zip, which I believe is a tad more complicated, you'll have to start in the same way: modifying the .apk to your liking.
When you're done messing around with the app, you'll have to recompress it in a .zip. Then, rename the .zip to .apk. It's not done yet, you have to sign your application, else it won't work.
To sign it, you have to download this and extract it. You'll also use this later to sign the update.zip.
Alright, now your apps are modified and signed, all you need to do is the "update.zip". You'll need two folders at its root, the first being "system". The second is "META-INF", in which you'll need a "com" folder, inside of which you'll need a "google" folder and inside of which you'll need an "android" folder.
In that new "android" folder, create a new file called "update-script" and write "copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:" in it. Note that this file has no extension.
In the "system" folder, create a folder called "app", containing the apps you modified. Again in the "system" folder, create another folder called framework, in which you'll have to put the framework-res.apk and the service.jar (you need the later the changed the color of the date, clock, etc, but I won't get into it, else this post will never end).
Now you've got to sign your update.zip, which is almost ready. So open a command prompt and put:
That's about it. You should probably look into finding a better tutorial, cause it's long to explain and someone probably already did it better than me. Plus, it feels kind of weird to explain something when no one uses it. Anyway, I hope that helps some people get into themes. As I said, it's much more simple with Metamorph, but it's not so complicated either if you do a simple theme.
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Deciphering the Multisite Interactions of a Protein and Its Ligand at Atomic Resolution by Using Sensitive Paramagnetic Effects.
Quantitative analysis of multisite interactions between a protein and its binding partner at atomic resolution is complicated because locating the binding sites is difficult and differentiating the flexibility of each binding site is even more elusive. Introduction of a paramagnetic metal center close to the binding pocket greatly attenuates the signals in the NMR spectrum upon binding. Herein, the multisite binding of hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) with lanthanide complexes [Ln(DPA)3 ]3- (DPA=dipicolinic acid) was analyzed with sensitive paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy. Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (PRE) revealed that HEWL interacts with [Ln(DPA)3 ]3- at four major binding sites in aqueous solution, which is in contrast to a previous X-ray structural analysis. The varied binding affinities for the ligands and different flexibilities at each binding site were in good agreement with atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The present work demonstrates that a combination of paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy and MD simulations is a powerful tool to delineate the multisite interactions of a protein with its binding partner at atomic resolution, in terms of both affinity and flexibility.
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Q:
An example that a $p$ adic Galois representation is crystalline but not $B_e$ admissible
$B_e=B_{\text{cris}}^{\phi=1}$, so if a $p$-adic Galois representation $V$ is $B_e$ admissible, then it is crystalline, so I want to know an example that $V$ is crystalline but not $B_e$ admissible.
Thanks!
A:
We have $(V \otimes B_e)^{G_K} = D_{\mathrm{cris}}(V)^{\varphi = 1}$. So any representation which is crystalline, but such that $\mathbf{D}_{\mathrm{cris}}(V)$ has zero $\varphi$-invariants, is an example of a representation which is $B_{\mathrm{cris}}$-admissible but not $B_e$-admissible.
For instance, taking $K = \mathbf{Q}_p$ and $V$ any non-zero power of the cyclotomic character) will do the trick -- note that $D_{\mathrm{cris}}(\mathbf{Q}_p(n))$ is 1-dimensional with $\varphi$ acting as multiplication by $p^{-n}$.
(Moral: although the ring $B_e$ is useful in many ways, it is too small for the category of $B_e$-admissible representations to be interesting.)
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Por: Eunice Rendón (@EuniceRendon)
Ante lo ocurrido la semana pasada en el Colegio Americano en Monterrey, todos estamos consternados y sobre todo tristes ante el incidente. Sin embargo, dada la gran cantidad de información, opiniones y perspectivas que se han versado al respecto, nos parece relevante hacer algunas reflexiones desde una perspectiva de prevención social de la violencia y de seguridad humana que mucho vienen al caso.
Primero que nada, debemos reflexionar sobre las discusiones y temas de agenda que tenemos hoy sobre la mesa en materia de seguridad. Es decir, en lugar de estar discutiendo si los militares deben estar o no en las calles, o si debemos armar a las personas para una legítima defensa según, deberíamos estar planteando e implementando políticas integrales que consideren elementos de prevención social, es decir, ir a la raíz del problema, a las causas que generan los fenómenos de violencia y delito. La violencia es un fenómeno multifactorial, es decir diversas cosas cuentan y es el cúmulo de los factores de riesgo lo que genera el fenómeno. Sin duda, el caso del Colegio Americano del Sureste refleja la sociedad y entorno en el que nuestros niños y jóvenes están creciendo, pero sobre todo la falta de atención que estamos dando a los pequeños desde una perspectiva de prevención social de la violencia y la falta de factores de protección que en ese sentido les estamos quedando a deber.
El menor murió, pero si estuviera vivo la discusión sería sobre bajar la edad de reclusión para su castigo, como ya sucedió en Chihuahua hace un par de años con el incidente de los menores que mataron a otro jugando al secuestro. Repito, lo importante es entender, atender y prevenir el porqué nuestros niños y jóvenes cada vez más pequeños se están involucrando en este tipo de actos violentos.
En 2014, por iniciativa de SEGOB y de INEGI se hizo en México la ECOPRED, primera encuesta en el mundo que en una escala tan grande (98 mil hogares) mide factores de riesgo y dinámicas sociales asociadas a conductas de violencia en jóvenes de 12 a 29 años en diferentes ámbitos. Algunos resultados interesantes al respecto: el primero es que 11.5 % de los jóvenes reportó haber tenido cercanía a un arma de fuego o haber participado en grupos o pandillas violentas. Asimismo, 1 de cada 5 reportó bullying o acoso escolar. Otro dato relevante de la ECOPRED es la baja capacidad de diálogo y la falta de una cultura de resolución pacífica de conflictos, es decir, cuando hay algún problema al seno del hogar o entre pares, lo que hacemos en el más del 50 % de los casos es dejarnos de hablar y esto solo incrementa el encono y el enojo entre los involucrados. Dicha encuesta, muestra algunos datos interesantes y predictivos relacionados con lo ocurrido, es por ello que este tipo de herramientas deben ser usadas para el diseño de políticas y estrategias de prevención.
Finalmente, es fundamental que los niños, familias y personas cercanas o involucrados en el caso y en el colegio sean atendidas y no sólo aquellos que recibieron impacto de bala, también los que en términos de salud mental y trauma requieren ser atendidos. Se debe implementar algunas actividades postcrisis en el colegio del incidente y con padres de familia.
A continuación algunas propuestas y acciones, que contribuyen desde una visión preventiva a disminuir este tipo de eventos:
En las escuelas contar con protocolos de detección de casos como el del menor en cuestión. Es decir, en el mismo video se veía ya aislado de los demás y muy probablemente tuvo un comportamiento distinto y depresivo en los últimos días anteriores al hecho. Si la maestra contara con un protocolo sabría referenciar el caso a alguien que pudiera atenderlo.
de casos como el del menor en cuestión. Es decir, en el mismo video se veía ya aislado de los demás y muy probablemente tuvo un comportamiento distinto y depresivo en los últimos días anteriores al hecho. Si la maestra contara con un protocolo sabría referenciar el caso a alguien que pudiera atenderlo. Acciones de mediación . Generar capacidad de diálogo y resolución pacífica de conflictos, tanto en la escuela como en el hogar –mediación comunitaria para atender casos de violencia familiar o entre pares y de esta forma poder disminuir el resentimiento, etc.
. Generar capacidad de diálogo y resolución pacífica de conflictos, tanto en la escuela como en el hogar –mediación comunitaria para atender casos de violencia familiar o entre pares y de esta forma poder disminuir el resentimiento, etc. Acciones relacionadas con arte, deporte y cultura como mecanismos de protección para los niños. Es muy importante generar factores de protección en los niños para que se blinden ante este tipo de situaciones o exposición en redes o internet.
para los niños. Es muy importante generar factores de protección en los niños para que se blinden ante este tipo de situaciones o exposición en redes o internet. Por supuesto fomentar estrategias preventivas y de alerta en redes sociales que ayuden a disminuir el impacto que estos mensajes tienen en los niños y jóvenes.
Es fundamental contar con políticas y acciones que eviten el acercamiento y acceso a armas. El hecho de contar con un cuadro depresivo como el del niño, aunado al acceso que tenía a armas en el hogar, aumentó la letalidad del evento o conflicto.
El hecho de contar con un cuadro depresivo como el del niño, aunado al acceso que tenía a armas en el hogar, aumentó la letalidad del evento o conflicto. Trabajo en el entorno familiar y comunitario. Relación entre pares es fundamental también en los esquemas de prevención, ya que muchas veces los niños que violentan a otros en las escuelas lo hacen porque replican conductas y exponen sus resentimientos con diversos actores o momentos. A los niños que cometen bullying, lejos de correrlos o marginarlos se les debe atender de manera diferenciada y especial, para saber y mejorar lo que esta pasando en su entorno.
y exponen sus resentimientos con diversos actores o momentos. A los niños que cometen bullying, lejos de correrlos o marginarlos se les debe atender de manera diferenciada y especial, para saber y mejorar lo que esta pasando en su entorno. Otra cuestión fundamental es la salud mental. En este país solo el 2 % del presupuesto en salud se destina a este rubro, lo cual debe modificarse por las necesidades y contexto en el que vivimos.
En este país solo el 2 % del presupuesto en salud se destina a este rubro, lo cual debe modificarse por las necesidades y contexto en el que vivimos. Más allá de revisar las mochilas, que es una actitud ya ante la presencia del factor de riesgo, lo que hay que revisar es la parte psicoemocional, sentimientos y pensamientos de nuestros pequeños para resolver de fondo y con responsabilidad el asunto.
* Eunice Rendón es doctora en políticas públicas por Sciences-Po París y experta en prevención de la violencia, seguridad y comunidades migrantes y en situación de vulnerabilidad. Es investigadora SNI I del CONACYT. Ha trabajado en organismos internacionales y en prevención de la violencia desde diversas instituciones de gobierno como la Secretaría de Salud y la Secretaría de Gobernación. El último año fue directora del Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior.
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Q:
Background com imagem transparente
Como deixo a imagem de fundo transparente e responsiva, responsiva eu consegui com o código abaixo, mais agora preciso colocar transparecia na imagem.
CSS
body{
background: url(../img/bg.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: cover; /*Css padrão*/
-webkit-background-size: cover; /*Css safari e chrome*/
-moz-background-size: cover; /*Css firefox*/
-ms-background-size: cover; /*Css IE não use mer#^@%#*/
-o-background-size: cover; /*Css Opera*/
}
HTML
<html>
<head>
<title>ControlHall - Telve Tecnologia</title>
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
A:
Você pode usar o filtro de opacidade no CSS:
opacity: 0.5;
filter: alpha(opacity=50); /* PARA IE8 ou superiores */
Leia mais sobre opacidade e transparência no site do W3SCHOOLS - CSS Opacity / Transparency
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Cancer researchers struggle to identify tumor cells that are interspersed within nonmalignant tissues because tumor cells exploit the tissue environment and monopolize available resources to continue growing. Researchers attribute cancer cell's ability to use cell signaling and metabolic pathways that override normal cell growth restrictions to complicated chemical exchanges between tissue and tumor cells. A new approach shows promise to begin analyzing cell-to-cell interactions in this complex environment.
Researchers at the University of Washington have demonstrated a new technique for mapping the flow of biomolecules in and around solid tumors. In a special issue of Biointerphases, an AVS journal from AIP Publishing, that is highlighting women in the field of biointerface science, the group uses time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) to observe how molecules move and how tumors send signals to their microenvironment and sap local tissue of resources.
"People are going to see that this TOF-SIMS technique, when combined with knowledge of tumor cell behavior, will allow researchers to understand what's happening on the chemical molecular level," said Lara Gamble, an author on the paper. "Are there certain molecules, lipids or fuels that tumors suck away from regular tissues to help them grow?"
Tumor cells can draw in lipids from neighboring cells to help build bigger membranes and provide energy for bloated tumor cells. Blood vessels can become disrupted, leaving "blood lakes" inside tumors that some researchers believe feed the growing tumor.
Various methods have been developed for identifying where a tumor is and how it utilizes connective tissue like blood vessels to sustain its growth, but, until recently, little has been understood about what kinds of signals tumors use to achieve this. To address this question, Gamble and her colleagues use TOF-SIMS to blast nanoscale regions of a tumor so parts leave the sample and enter a mass spectrometer. This device then separates and counts molecules based on their molecular weight.
Scanning areas of 800 nanometers or less, the approach generates a map for where any particular molecule is present in a tumor sample. One square millimeter is reported to take about an hour and a half to map.
The group tested their technique on an inducible mouse model of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumorigenesis that is well-established as a model for studying the interaction between oncogenes and tumor suppressors, which together generate highly aggressive cancers.
When mapped, the mouse tumor microenvironments showed significant changes in metabolism. The ToF-SIMS technique was able to identify alterations to the normal flow of a wide variety of molecules ranging from larger lipids and nucleotides down to single ions.
Next, Gamble and her group plan to use their technique on earlier time-points of tumor induction in an attempt to chart out a series of chemical signals that tell the story of pancreatic tumor growth.
"We're also looking to see if the there's cross-talk between tumors," Gamble said. "We would like to identify the molecules that could both initiate and maintain tumor growth."
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to apparatuses and processes for mixing, coating and drying a plurality of objects. Most preferably, this invention relates to apparatuses and processes for distributing and drying a sugar coating to the surfaces of confectionery.
2. Related Background
Many edible items (xe2x80x9cpiecesxe2x80x9d) have an outer coating comprised of sugar and other edible material. Such outer coatings, or candy shells, serve many functions, including preserving the center confectionery, as well as supplying an appealing look and taste to the edible item. Candy shells also give an identified xe2x80x9ccrunchxe2x80x9d when eaten.
Many devices are known for applying a coating to edible pieces. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,507,868 discloses a typical prior art sugar coating apparatus. The reference describes a device having a rotary drum panner having a plurality of air holes and hollow shaft portions. Drying gas is supplied through one of the hollow shaft portions and directed downward toward an accumulated layer of particles for drying.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,050,406 discloses a sugar coating apparatus which uses an annular mesh trough for containing objects for coating. The apparatus is mounted on springs and is vibrated to move the objects around the annular container. Drying air is supplied through the center of the apparatus directly to the mesh. The airflow then flows straight through the mesh to exit the top of the apparatus. The airflow is not a tangential flow.
Another prior art device is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,158,804. This patent discloses a coating apparatus and process for coating small quantities of tablets (drugs during the initial stages of formulation and development). A spray coating is applied from above the tablets on a mesh and drying air is supplied upwardly from below the mesh. In addition, the mesh is vibrated to make the tablets bounce up and down.
Still other prior art devices fluidize objects for coating. For example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,792,507 and 5,296,265, disclose coating apparatuses and processes which use a rotating disc in conjunction with an air flow at the periphery of the disc near the inner wall of a cylindrical container to fluidize the particles to be coated.
The above apparatuses and processes are insufficient for economically coating a multitude of confectionery since the costs associated with building, operating and maintaining them are relatively high. In addition, the prior art processes require a relatively long period of time to coat confectionery, which results in the expenditure of a greater amount of energy per unit mass of coated material. Further longer coating times reduce productivity of a piece of equipment resulting in higher cost per unit mass of product.
Thus, there is a need for an efficient, compact, and faster apparatus, which consumes less energy than existing apparatuses, and which produces coated confectionery in shorter period of time.
The present invention addresses the above concerns and presents new and novel apparatuses and processes for coating and drying a plurality of particles. Moreover, the present invention lends itself to any process which benefits from good mixing of particles within a deep bed of product, especially for coating, mixing and drying a hard-panned sugar shell applied to confectionery.
The factory floor area required for the present invention is greatly reduced over existing apparatuses, yielding additional cost savings.
In one aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for heating and/or cooling a plurality of particles includes a generally circular bed for holding the particles, the bed including a substantially centered annular inner bed wall, an outer bed wall and an irregular bottom. The irregular bottom is an uneven surface which may or may not be perforated and most is preferably a screen. The apparatus also includes a drive mechanism rotatably affixed to the bed, where rotation of the drive mechanism at a predetermined rate produces a displacement of the bed horizontally and vertically resulting in a particle flow in the x, y and z directions. The particle flow in the x and y planes for a majority of the particles is in a dominant direction. The apparatus also includes an air plant which provides a heated and/or cooled airflow tangentially below the screen. The airflow moves through the screen, and into the bed of particles.
The air plant may include a pump for providing an airflow into a duct, a dehumidifier in fluid communication with the pump, a heater positioned downstream from the dehumidifier and in-line with the duct, and a generally circular intake manifold having an outer manifold wall and an airflow inlet in fluid communication with the duct and tangentially arranged on the outer manifold wall. The intake manifold is positioned below the bed and includes an outer circumference substantially corresponding to the bed.
An outlet may be included along the outer wall of the bed and be removably covered by a tangentially positioned cover provided around a portion of an inner surface of the outer wall. The cover includes a first end affixed to the inner circumference of the outer wall downstream of the outlet in the dominant direction, and a second movable end adjacent the inner surface of the outer wall when the outlet is closed. The movable end is be positioned upstream from the outlet in the dominant direction and is opened when the movable end is moved toward the center of the bed. The cover and outer wall form a funnel having an entry for accepting particles from the dominant direction.
In another aspect of the present invention, a process for heating or cooling a plurality of particles in an apparatus as described in the previous aspect includes the step of displacing the bed at a predetermined frequency vertically and horizontally to produce a particle flow in the x, y and z directions. Particle flow in the x and y planes for a majority of the particles is in a dominant direction. The process also includes the step of heating and/or cooling an airflow to a predetermined temperature and directing the airflow tangentially to the bed via a generally circular intake manifold substantially corresponding in circumference to the circular bed and positioned below the screen. The airflow flows in a circumferential pattern around the interior of the intake manifold, through the screen and into the bed.
In yet another aspect of the present invention a process for coating and drying a plurality of particles in the apparatus, as described in the first aspect, includes the step of displacing the bed as described in the previous aspect to produce a similar particle flow. Other steps of the process include, in the case of coating particles, applying a coating material from a nozzle positioned above the bed, the application of the coating occurring during a first predetermined period of time, providing a temperature controlled airflow and directing the temperature controlled airflow tangentially to the bed via a generally circular intake manifold which substantially corresponds in circumference to the circular bed and is positioned below the irregular bottom. The airflow being provided after a second period of time has passed after the coating material has been applied. The airflow moves in a circumferential pattern around the interior of the intake manifold, through the irregular bottom and into the bed.
While a preferred embodiment provides the airflow tangentially to the bed in a direction opposite to the dominant mixing direction, air flow in the direction of the dominant mixing direction may also be used.
The high degree of mixing of the individual particles in the x, y and z directions in the present invention ensures consistent treatment of all particles with the desired process. This high mixing reduces piece to piece variation which that results when individual pieces remain in localized areas within the process volume when drying, coating or other conditions differ from the average.
Accordingly, it is a feature of the present invention that a high degree of shear and contact is created between individual pieces of the confectionery product as a result of the particle flow created. This results in faster coating and drying times since confectionery are mixed more thoroughly and evenly and are more uniformly coated, without damaging the confectionery or causing rough surfaced candies.
The tangential air injection into the cylindrical area creates a centrifugal pressure gradient which encourages the majority of the air flow to occur through the outer area of the bed where the majority of the particles are present. This maximizes the desired transfers between the air and the particles.
The present invention optimizes airflow and temperature to maximize evaporation rate. This results in a cycle time for some confectionery which is 20-40% of the time of traditional apparatuses and methods, even with relatively high air humidity dew-points approximately between 4-12xc2x0 C. By carefully monitoring and controlling the temperature of the product in the bed throughout the coating cycle, a hotter supply of air on average can be used, thereby increasing the amount of moisture that can be removed per cfm.
Thus, it is a further feature of the present invention that the dehumidified and heated airflow provided tangentially to the bed provides maximum evaporative effect to the particles within the bed so that they may be dried faster than other apparatuses and processes disclosed in the prior art.
The speed of coating and drying occur so much faster than in existing techniques, that lower-solids coating solution may be used. High-solids coatings, used in existing techniques, are generally used so that less moisture will be required to be removed from the coated particles after application. High-solids coatings, however, must be kept at heated higher temperatures. Thus, use of lower-solids coating solutions eliminates the need for keeping coatings hot, thereby eliminating the need to heat the coatings and also eliminates the need for water jacketing of piping and containers for ferrying and storing the hot coating. The elimination of hot coating also contributes to significant energy savings due to less heat loss to the environment air.
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Q:
cx_freeze, conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.18, need exactly 8.5.15
It looks like this question has been asked before, but didn't resolve the issue. I'm using cx_freeze for an application, and when I attempt to run it, my output is:
{C:\Users\ant\Documents\GitHub\vocal\calipso\build\exe.win32-2.7\tcl} C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/exe.win32-2.7/tcl8.5 C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/lib/tcl8.5 C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/library C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/library C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/tcl8.5.18/library C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/tcl8.5.18/library
C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/exe.win32-2.7/tcl/init.tcl: version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.18, need exactly 8.5.15
version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5.18, need exactly 8.5.15
while executing
"package require -exact Tcl 8.5.15"
(file "C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/exe.win32-2.7/tcl/init.tcl" line 19)
invoked from within
"source C:/Users/ant/Documents/GitHub/vocal/calipso/build/exe.win32-2.7/tcl/init.tcl"
("uplevel" body line 1)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list source $tclfile]"
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
Makes sense, looks like Tcl is the wrong version. But how do I get ahold of 8.5.15? I've looked all over the web and can't seem to find anything to download previous versions of tcl.
I'm on Windows 7, 32 bit anaconda python 2.7 . I don't have a clue of how to resolve this issue, any help is appreciated.
A:
Related questions here.
Python :Standart version TCL
Python-Module: Require X.X.X TCL
Replace require TCL version on your related module.
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These are exciting times for physicians interested in the treatment of hypertension, with new and important data emerging regularly. Translating the excitement into better outcomes for large numbers of patients, however, means placing the new information in the hands of generalist physicians (family physicians and general internists), and making the information clear enough to be usable rather than baffling. Hypertension practice guidelines should accomplish this information placement, but recent guidelines based on the most recent evidence reach conflicting conclusions in some ways \[[@B1],[@B2],[@B3]\]. The conflict centers around two key issues: does it matter how blood pressure is lowered?; and are there subsets of patients who benefit from antihypertensive drugs at lower pressures than we have conventionally believed, or who do not benefit unless pressures are higher than we have believed?
Two recent trials offer what appears to be confusing guidance on the first question. STOP-2 \[[@B4]\] compared newer and older antihypertensive agents, and concluded that there were no substantial differences in outcomes among them. This finding lends credence to the conventional view that blood pressure is the factor that matters, and lowering it by any means that has acceptably low side effect rates is the appropriate approach. Not long after the publication of STOP-2, however, the doxazocin arm of the ALLHAT trial was terminated because of an excessive rate of development of congestive heart failure compared with thiazides \[[@B5]\], suggesting that how blood pressure is lowered may indeed matter in terms of outcomes achieved. What is the primary care physician to make of these developments?
The \'pressure is what counts\' view is attractive. It offers simplicity, and great flexibility in clinical choices: any treatment that reduces pressures and is acceptable to patients is a good treatment for hypertension. It is tempting to think that the ALLHAT findings may be an anomaly, or perhaps specific to doxazocin, and that the conclusion of STOP-2 is the correct one. Closer examination, however, suggests that this conclusion is not prudent.
STOP-2 did not really find that all the regimens were similar. It rather showed an excess of both myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure (CHF) in the calcium antagonist arm as compared with the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor arm, a finding attributed to chance due to the total of 48 such comparisons made. The similarity of that finding to the results of the earlier Appropriate Blood Pressure Control in Diabetes (ABCD) trial \[[@B6]\], however, lends support to the argument that it was not a chance occurrence. Furthermore, an excess of myocardial infarction almost reached significance among the conventional-therapy arm compared with that of ACE inhibitor. Conventional therapy in STOP-2 involved thiazides and beta-blockers, and there is evidence from other studies that beta-blockers are not as effective, in terms of outcomes in the elderly, as thiazides \[[@B7]\].
The marked change in our understanding of CHF over the past decade is worth considering in our thinking about hypertension. The results of recent antihypertensive trials are exciting, rather than being confusing and dismaying, when seen in light of the CHF research, and offer hope of getting closer to the real roots of the harm that hypertension does. A deeper understanding of the role of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and the pathophysiological role of angiotensin II in vascular disease \[[@B8]\], in particular, adds more credence to the view that pressure *per se* may not be all that, or even mostly what, matters for the hypertensive patient\'s outcome. Antihypertensive drugs cause many effects other than lowering pressure, and those other effects are different for different classes. With the emergence of data demonstrating that ACE inhibition improves cardiovascular outcomes in high-risk diabetics even without hypertension \[[@B9],[@B10]\] and the established efficacy of beta-blockers for CHF patients without hypertension \[[@B11]\], the role of humoral rather than merely mechanical factors in determining outcomes must be considered by the primary care physician when choosing medication therapies.
If humoral factors matter as much as or more than pressure *per se* in determining outcomes of hypertension, we must focus our research on interventions that affect those humoral factors. But changing our thinking about how we treat will not be enough. We must also think carefully about how we decide whom to treat. Beta-blockade improves outcome among patients with coronary artery disease, regardless of hypertension, and, as already noted, ACE inhibition also appears to do so for diabetics. Trials of what we regard as antihypertensive therapy could show improved outcomes among patients with high-normal or even normal pressures for reasons entirely unrelated to blood pressure, if the patients enrolled had significant baseline risks of cardiovascular disease. We might erroneously conclude that our threshhold for diagnosing hypertension should be lowered, and mistakenly extrapolate those findings to all patients above our lowered thresholds.
So what do the findings of these most recent trials imply for the generalist physician? First and foremost, we cannot assume that all antihypertensive drugs are created equal. We should preferentially prescribe for our patients those that have demonstrated the best outcomes. At the present time, considering these outcomes, low-dose thiazides, beta-blockers, and ACE inhibitors should be the mainstays of therapy. We also need additional research: direct comparisons of different classes of agents in randomized non-placebo (active control) trials. Those trials must compare real outcomes not blood pressures, and we must interpret those trials with care. At present, low-dose thiazides set the benchmark for outcome improvement among both elders with systolic hypertension and middle-aged patients with diastolic hypertension, and should be the active controls against which other agents are measured.
Finally, and most importantly, we are moving further from a single decision criterion for deciding whom to treat. Primary care is a tough challenge, in which most patients have a number of health problems and concerns. Hypertension is only one player on the stage and, to the patient, it may not even have the starring role. It was very helpful to have only one number, 140/90, to remember amidst those many competing agendas and time pressures of the primary care visit. It was\....but is no more. We have just begun becoming comfortable with a different criterion for diabetics; we must now begin looking at treating patients who are not hypertensive by any criterion, if their cardiovascular risks are high enough. Conversely, it may well not be worth treating some stage I hypertensive patients who are at such low risk that their potential absolute risk reduction from treatment is miniscule. Primary care physicians must shift their thinking to treating cardiovascular risks, rather than blood pressure numbers, and begin to develop the decision support models that allow this treatment in the busy, distracting, time-constrained context of primary care.
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Gruesome evidence is mounting that implicates agents of the Saudi Arabian regime in the savage murder of Arab journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Yet, as more and more governments around the world are expressing alarm about the killing, President Donald is leaning over backwards to make excuses for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Trump appears to care far more about U.S. arms deals with the Saudis than about human rights and a free press.
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What a magical casserole this is!
Seriously, it is so creamy and contains my favorite veggie: green beans! You can’t go wrong with green beans. Especially when they are coated in this super tasty sour cream sauce. My kids even chow down on this veggie side dish. Even though these are cooked veggies, I still refer to this dish as a salad. It just reminds me of a lovely vegetable salad with a creamy sauce on top. If you have picky eaters in your brood who turn their nose up at veggies, this is the side dish that will win them over.
I love pairing this green bean dish with chicken or any other meat, especially fish. However, I have been known to eat the leftovers for lunch the following day all by themselves. It really is a good meal. You won’t believe how easy this dish is to make, either.
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Five Star Story Style design by MVRDYX,Wellcome To Visit~~~
hello,MINNA SAMA,my name is MVRDYX from china,I have readed FSS for 8 years.and there are some FSSS designed by me.
please have fun.I wish that there are someone enjoy this and communicate with me~~THANK YOU
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I just visited your site. Your work is beautiful! I really like how you are going in your own direction, using Nagano's designs as a basis. There are many pieces that I am eager to see finished, and your design for the 20km-sized starship is fantastic.
BTW, i think the papercraft fatima design i've seen before, did 百鬼 made one based on your design?
And Welcome to Gears
THANK U SO MUCH~~SHUN~~I DID KNOW YOU,YOU USE THE SAME PICTURE AS YOUR HEAD IN FSSUN~~~
I POSTED THE FIRST DESIGN IN FSSUN IN 2006,I HOPE YOU HAVE SEEN IT~~
THE papercraft fatima CHANGEED INTO WHITE COLOUR BY OUR FRIEND "百鬼".
I just visited your site. Your work is beautiful! I really like how you are going in your own direction, using Nagano's designs as a basis. There are many pieces that I am eager to see finished, and your design for the 20km-sized starship is fantastic.
HI~~Newton,WELCOME TO MY SITE TOO~~
IN FACT,I AM NOT REALLY SURE ABOUT MY DIRECTION IN DESIGNS.SO FAR ,DESIGN MH IS SOMETING I INTRESTED,I JUST WANT TO MADE ONE MH AS GOOD AS NAGANO DO,IT IS MY DREAM~~~
ALSO THANKS FOR SURPORT MY DESIGN~~I WILL GO ON WORKING~~
Hope you can go into more detail in designing your mecha - how the head, arm, torso, leg and additional components would look like. For example, BEECRAFT once did some awesome renderings of the gundam wing zero:
Hope you can go into more detail in designing your mecha - how the head, arm, torso, leg and additional components would look like. For example, BEECRAFT once did some awesome renderings of the gundam wing zero:
Well~~~thanks very much for give me the web site i can post my macha design~~~~
You know,it is really hard to communicate designs with other designer in china,because really few peaple enjoy it= =
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In December 2014 the discussion of “police” began to look at the roots of the institution. Peter Gelderloos concluded a three part study in CounterPunch flatly stating, “The police are a racist, authoritarian institution that exists to protect the powerful in an unequal system.”[1] Sam Mitrani, a scholar of the Chicago police, concluded similarly, “The police were not created to protect and serve the population. They were not created to stop crime, at least not as most people understand it.” [2] Yet a physician in Ann Arbor, Catherine Wilkerson, caused a local stir when she stated “that neither racism nor racist police violence can be abolished under this economic system, i.e. under capitalism”.
On 21 January 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates in a speech in Ann Arbor argued persuasively that plunder is the leading social activity at the base of racist violence beginning with slavery days and continuing to now. Capitalism is such a social activity! It is relatively new in human history. It depends on the exploitation of those who don’t own the means of subsistence and production by those who do. It creates racist oppression in order to divide the exploited so that the Few may rule the Many.
Two sources of knowledge are especially pertinent. The first is the report called Lynching in America issued last week by the Equal Justice Initiative. It describes 3,959 lynchings in the American South between 1877 and 1950. The second is Stolen Lives which documents more than 2,000 people killed by law enforcement in the decade of the 1990s.[3] If we add the data of capital punishment to these data we can begin to understand that the resulting murderous pattern of terror is the punishment of capital.
Investigation into the history of police soon finds it to be inseparable from conquest, slavery, debt, industrial discipline, and social hierarchies. Armed settlers, “pioneers,” militia, army units, slave patrollers, Texas rangers, posse comitatus, slave catchers, factory guards, troopers, private security forces, vigilante groups, MPs, lynch mobs, Ford’s “service department,” death squads, night riders, and the KKK have all served police functions.
It may help to define police as armed, uniformed, salaried agents of government, part of the civil service, but it was not thus clear at the
beginning.
Etymologically the word is related to “policy” and to the Greek polis, or city. “Police” was a new word in English gaining usage in the 18th century at the time of the sugar plantation, textile factories, racism, and mechanization. The thing itself was integral to city forces of merchant, manufacturer, banker, shipper, factor, and insurer, as well as to planter and landlord. It developed on the one hand in opposition to parochial forces of the civil power – the constables and the watch – and on the other hand it developed separately from the military – the army and navy.
As for capitalism let us go back to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations of 1776, because it connected the actual details of the labor process (exploitation) to the world market of commodities (globalization). He said “civil government, so far as it is instituted for the sanctity of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor.” His student, Adam Ferguson, said plainly “wealth comes from inequality.” The “poor” created wealth, i.e. worked, labored.
These ideas first appeared as “police” as reported in Adam Smith’s Lectures on Police (c.1763) delivered in Glasgow, a new hub in the Atlantic economy for banking and commerce of tobacco plantations. He defined police as “cleanliness, security, cheapness and plenty.” At first, then, “police” encompassed health, commodity, market, privatization, labor, and force. Already policy makers and profiteers were studying the intricate political relationship between low wages and high food prices. Although political economy and police violence were soon to separate as different limbs within the ruler’s body politics, they never lost their actual association with its heart. The goal was to make people work longer and harder.
Adam Smith’s contemporary wrote An Essay on Trade and Commerce (1770). “A multitude of people being drawn together in a small territory will raise the price of provisions; but, at the same time, if the police be good, it must keep down the price of labor.” The poor house must become “a house of terror.” The workers are “a many-headed monster which every one should oppose.” To establish the six-day working week, “a good police must be established.”
Divisions within this class were formalized by wage, geographic, gender, and racial differences, producing apparently permanent segments of that class of people without much of anything to call their own. So it comes as no surprise to learn that parallel to these “economic” developments was the development of racism. Carl Linneas, the Swedish biologist and deviser of binomial nomenclature in his Systema naturae (1758) created the term homo sapiens in a hierarchy of skin color. With spurious pretensions to science he identified four “races” describing white people as gentle, acute, quick, and governed by fixed laws and describing black people as crafty, indolent, careless, and capricious. These are not biological attributes but ones concerning obedience of interest to HR, bosses, foremen, overseers, in short, slavers!
Global commodity production entailed the enclosure of the commons, the fractionation of human beings, and the enslavement of women, children, and men, The social formation of Atlantic capitalism consisted of massive labor camps in America and the “Satanic mills” or factories of Britain. The international political order had to change and did so creating new entities of power, the U.S.A. (1789) and the U.K. (1801).
Plantation (sugar, cotton) met factory (textiles) at the port (London, Liverpool). The proletarian woman, the slave, the factory hand, the urban artisan, and the maritime worker, sailors, dockers. The port was where the first police were introduced. A new era of history commenced. If you call it “industrialization,” or “modernization,” or even the “anthropocene” you are in danger of overlooking the demons at the center of it, Moloch and Mammon.
By the time of the Haitian slave revolt (1791) which brought the sugar system into crisis and at the time of the invention of the cotton ‘gin (1793) which brought the cotton system into expansion, the “pushing-system” began the transition of the most dynamic world commodity from sugar to cotton. Edward Baptist in the latest historical study of slavery and capitalism notes that the increased productivity of “the pushing system” depended on a decisive technology, “the whipping machine.”[4] The whip intensified labor to the limit of human endurance. It accompanied the expansion of slavery to new territories and the expansion of the internal slave trade from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi.
Economically speaking sugar began in the realm of production (slave plantation) and in Europe entered the realm of consumption (the tea cup, the rum bottle). In contrast, cotton began in the slave labor camp or plantation like sugar, but unlike sugar it became a means of exploitation on the other side of the Atlantic. Private property may belong to an individual for consumption, or it may be used as capital as an input of production. Police protect and serve the owners of these forms of property.
Capital exists in three modes or forms, as money (bank), as production (factory, plantation), as commodity (commerce, inventory). Capital as commodity sits in dockside warehouses. Capital as money sits in banks, insurance offices, and other counting houses. Capital as production will be in the field, the factory, and the ship. Thus the plantation, the docks, and the factory became three sites of a single economic system on either side of the Atlantic.
Glasgow (Scotland) was the city of Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1821). As a youth between 1760 and 1766 he lived on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. He was a planner of the trans-Atlantic cotton economy compiling stats of the workers, wages, factories, and imports in order to assist the prime minister and cabinet of England maximize profits from the cycle of capital in England, India, America, Ireland, Africa. That work was interrupted by the revolutions in France and Haiti.
In the 1790s he criminalized custom. [5] He led the hanging of those committing money crimes. He led the apprehension of those in textile labor who re-cycled waste products to their own use. He organized political surveillance by spies and snitches of those opposing slavery. In addition to his Virginia cotton interests he owned shares in Jamaican sugar plantations. Financed by West India merchants and planters in 1798 Colquhoun established the Police Office. In 1800 Parliament passes the Marine Police Bill expanding and making official the police as a centralized, armed, and uniformed cadre of the state. His treatises on police inspired the foundation of police in Dublin (Ireland), Sydney (Australia), and New York (USA).
To summarize, then, in two points. First, at the time of the independence of America (1776) “police” (intellectually, theoretically, and politically) meant the social and economic relations between the rich and the poor in the governance and planning of world-wide empire. Second, at the time of the creation of the U.S.A. (1787-1791) the actual institution of police simultaneously criminalized the urban commons and efficiently linked plantation and factory, the U.S.A. and the U.K., into a temporary Atlantic system, call it capitalism.
Finally, there is no ‘moving forward’ without reckoning with this past. If it took more than a century (a blink in history’s eye) to produce this unsustainable amalgam of production and police, work and violence, wealth and terror, we must expect that our efforts to eliminate effectively the one must be accompanied by the restoration or reparation of the other. There is no reason, historically-speaking, why this can’t be done in a hurry. The ideal of justice is indefeasible and undivided; it is a unity and does not wait.
Peter Linebaugh teaches history at the University of Toledo. His books included: The London Hanged,(with Marcus Rediker) The Many-Headed Hydra: the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic and Magna Carta Manifesto. His essay on the history of May Day is included in Serpents in the Garden. His latest book is Stop Thief! The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance. He can be reached at:plineba@yahoo.com
Notes.
[1] “Learning from Ferguson: A World Without Police,” CounterPunch, 29 Dec. 2014.
[2] Sam Mitrani, “The Police Were Created to Control Poor and Working Class People,” CounterPunch, 31 Dec. 2014. See his book, The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 (University of Illinois Press).
[3] Equal Justice Initiative, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Mongomery, Alabama, 2015), and Stolen Lives Project, Stolen Lives Killed by Law Enforcement (New York, 1999)
[4] The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
[5] Patrick Colquhoun, A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis (1796) and A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames (1798)
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Q:
Can one program have multiple processes?
after reading and searching about OS and process and threads, I checked on wiki and it said,
A computer program is a passive
collection of instructions, a process
is the actual execution of those
instructions. Several processes may be
associated with the same program; for
example, opening up several instances
of the same program often means more
than one process is being executed.
Now is it possible for a program to have more than one process and I am not including the possibility of running more than one instance of the same program. I mean one instance of one program is running, is it possible for a program to have more than one process?
If yes, how? If no, why not?
I am a newbie in this, but damn curious :)
Thanks for all your help..
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Yes, fairly obviously - you can run two or more copies of most programs - I routinely have about 5 copies of vim running, and each of those is a separate process. As to how, the OS loads the executable file, creates a process and then tells that process to start executing the file contents.
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It is most definitely possible but a desktop application might not be a good example and I think this is the source of your confusion.
Consider a webserver instead (NginX or Apache). There is one master process and multiple worker processes at work. The master process "accpets" the work , so to speak, and delegates it to the workers. Both NginX and Apache could be configured to any number of worker processes.
At our company we are in the business of delivering a SaaS that helps businesses have an online chat with their visitors via their websites. The back-end part of our system has multiple "service"es communicating with each other to accomplish the task. Each service has multiple instances running.
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Project Boreas YN 18650 has been delivered
We are delighted to announce that YN 18650 Project Boreas has been delivered on August 12, 2019, after rigorous sea trials in the North Sea in calm sea conditions with light winds and waves up to 0.5m.
This 50m full aluminium motor yacht sports an ultra-efficient Fast Displacement Hull Form (FDHF) hull designed by Dutch hydrodynamicists Van Oossanen and engineered by Heesen’s in-house naval architects. Project Boreas is powered by two MTU 12V 2000M72 engines rated at 1,080kW each, and will offer the full suite of benefits the FDHF hull confers, including a fast but efficient cruising speed and a high degree of comfort.
Indeed, during the sea trials Project Boreas proved to be extremely quiet while also exceeding the contractual speed. She reached a top speed of 20 knots, and showed a range higher than the requirements laid out in her specifications. Thanks to large rudders and a powerful bow thruster, she is also very responsive when manoeuvring in close quarters.
The owner appointed MCM as technical consultant and representative. MCM co-founder Nigel Ingram comments: “I already had a relationship with the owner because I had been his representative on his 54m classic sailing yacht. There were few sailors among the younger generation of his extended family, so a motor yacht made sense, not least because it’s a more comfortable platform for a large family with lots of grandchildren. One of the most important factors for the owner was being able to get the boat quickly. Heesen’s “Fast Delivery” approach gained him at least a year on the water, which was a huge plus. In fact, we defaulted quite quickly to Heesen, as the shipyard also ticks all the right boxes in terms of quality and price point. As MCM’s first project with Heesen, it was a very positive experience. We come from the sailboat side, where projects are usually full custom, so my inclination is always to get involved and approach things from the owner’s point of view. Heesen know exactly what they’re doing and I’m very happy with the way the yacht turned out. The owner was quite involved in the details. The shipyard handled it all very well and the boat is exactly how he wanted it.”
Frank Laupman of Omega Architects penned the exterior lines of this 50m yacht and he has created a contemporary profile that retains timeless cues. A gently reversed stem carries the bow to the upper deck line, creating a powerful forward profile which is balanced by elegant profile curves and tapered ends to the decks. A lack of fashion plates creates the illusion of suspended upper decks and hardtop, adding a sense of lightness to the design.
Mark Whiteley worked closely with the owner to create a warm contemporary interior design, which features bespoke loose furniture on all exterior living spaces. Among many standout details of the interior, the main staircase will certainly make a strong impression on guests when boarding the yacht. The combination of mesmerising geometry and precious materials such as a nickel mesh wall covering by French artist Sophie Mallebranche allow guests to move from the lower deck to the bridge deck in style.
YN 18650 is a brilliant illustration of how a discerning client can personalise the pre-engineered design platform of a hull already in construction, considerably shortening the delivery time while benefitting from the highest levels of Dutch quality in build and finish.
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I have approx 4-5 hours to spend in Fort Lauderdale before catching my flight home. Are there any public lockers at Port Everglades to store luggage, e.g. lockers similar to ones at train stations and the airport?
No, there are not. Once you claim your luggage and clear immigration/customs, you are deposited outside the terminal. Your best bet would be to take a taxi to one of the hotels on 17th Street (the Marriott would be my choice) and check your bags with the hotel and then go do what you want to do.
The taxi fare is minimal (about $5) and the bellman will gladly accept your luggage. Of course, you should tip generously for the favor.
Most airlines will only let you check your luggage within 4 hours of your flight's departure making it difficult to head back into town. However, you could do it in Ft. Lauderdale as the airport is so close to everything.
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During May of 2018, average monthly CO2 values will likely range between 411 and 412 parts per million. A new record for a heat-trapping gas that is causing serious damage to both the Earth’s environment and human civilizations.
(Atmospheric CO2 accumulation since 2007 as depicted by this animation of Mauna Loa Observatory CO2 measurements by Robbie Andrew, of the CICERO Center for International Climate Research.)
There’s one word that best describes this — trouble. And in the most simple terms it means that more unprecedented severe weather, ocean health impacts, and sea level rise is on the way.
Exceeding the 410 PPM Threshold
Last year, atmospheric CO2 levels peaked at around 409.7 parts per million during May of 2018. Hitting just shy of the 410 ppm threshold which will be consistently exceeded this year during the annual peak.
This peak comes during April and May following Northern Hemisphere winter due to seasonal loss of tree leaf photosynthesis that converts a large volume of CO2 into oxygen during summer and fall. As trees return to bloom across the large northern land masses, CO2 concentrations periodically drop.
However, due to human fossil fuel burning, the natural CO2 cycle has, since the 18th Century been significantly thrown out of balance. And as a result, the atmospheric concentrations of this key heat trapping gas rapidly ramped higher and are now in a range not seen in 15-17 million years.
(The CO2 measure at the Mauna Loa Observatory shows a hockey stick like spike in CO2 following a relatively stable period of glaciation and deglaciation over the last 800,000 years. Image source: The Keeling Curve.)
As you can see in the image above, the present period has shown an unprecedented and dangerous rate of atmospheric CO2 increase. One that has no corollary in the past 800,000 years. One that is probably unique in its velocity.
High Levels of Heat Trapping Gases Pose Serious Consequences
Such a great accumulation of heat trapping gases results in serious consequences. Present atmospheric CO2 concentrations, if maintained over multiple Centuries are likely enough to warm the Earth by more than 3 degrees Celsius (significantly more than present warming in the range of 1 to 1.2 C). And such high levels of heat trapping gases — ranging above 410 parts per million — are likely enough to melt significant portions of the world’s ice sheets over Century to multi-Century time scales. During the last climate epoch when atmospheric CO2 exceeded 410 parts per million, the Middle Miocene, sea levels were 100 to 170 feet higher than they are today.
(Atmospheric CO2 levels are now the highest since the Middle Miocene of 15 to 17 million years ago. Image source: Skeptical Science.)
Sea level is not the only system influenced by high atmospheric CO2 levels. And everything from storms to drought intensity, to ocean health, to growing seasons, to typical seasonality, to coral bleaching, and including the Earth’s net ability to support life will ultimately be impacted.
Fossil Fuel Burning is the Primary Cause, Renewable Energy the Primary Solution
As mentioned above, record CO2 emissions brought on by fossil fuel burning is driving the unprecedented atmospheric accumulation we see today. During recent years, very rapid rates of annual accumulation near 3 parts per million (ppm) were achieved as a strong El Nino rippled through the Pacific and reduced the ocean’s ability to draw down carbon. The La Nina years of 2017 and 2018 are seeing these rates of accumulation dip back to near 2 ppm or slightly less as ocean drawdowns have periodically recovered. But more El Nino years are on the way and atmospheric CO2 levels will keep rising so long as mass fossil fuel extraction and burning continues.
(CO2 annual growth rates have proceeded in lock step with increasing rates of fossil fuel burning on decadal time scales. Shorter term fluctuations are driven by the ENSO cycle and large volcanic eruptions. Image source: NOAA ESRL.)
The advance of renewable energy and the reduced use of coal has enabled the world to achieve a slower rate of atmospheric CO2 release growth that appears to be reaching a plateau near 11-12 billion tons of carbon per year. This is still an insane rate of release. However, if the world resolves itself, it can begin to rapidly reduce this severely harmful annual belching of greenhouse gasses. Emergent clean energy technologies like wind, solar, battery storage, and electrical vehicles are providing this hope for response. However, rates of adoption will need to be quite rapid if serious and ever-ramping climate harms are to be avoided. Presently high atmospheric CO2 levels exceeding 410 ppm this year represent a serious hazard. One that we fail to fully address at our peril.
Notes:
Human emissions of heat trapping gases is not limited to CO2. Methane and other greenhouse gasses produced by industry have resulted in a net CO2 equivalent forcing near 491 parts per million (CO2e). Though CO2 gain is the primary driver of human forced warming, these other gases have an accumulative impact. I have used the Middle Miocene as a corollary in this analysis due to the fact that present CO2 levels at 410 parts per million and CO2e levels at 491 parts per million (end 2017) generate a rough boundary for both the top and bottom ranges for this climate epoch. It is worth noting that the human forcing is probably more dangerous than that which occurred during the Middle Miocene due to the velocity at which heat trapping gases are accumulating.
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A racist bus rider hurled anti-Muslim slurs — and her cup of soda — at a Hijab-wearing teenager in Brooklyn, police said Sunday.
“What is that rag on your head,” the woman asked the 18-year-old at about 5:40 p.m. on Friday while the two were riding the B6 MTA in Bensonhurst, according to the NYPD.
The unknown bigot then told the teen to “Go back to your country!” before spitting and throwing her soda at the younger woman while exiting the bus at Bay Ridge Parkway and Bay Parkway, cops said.
The NYPD released a photo of the bigot and asked for the public’s help to track her down.
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AIR Ignite Review - First Impressions
I remember standing in the Hilton Hotel at NAMM 2012 when I first had the vision of Ignite shared with me. ‘Musicians are not engineers and we need to enable them to make music in a way that makes sense’ was how Ignite was pitched. It wasn’t even called Ignite then, it went through several cringe worthy iterations of a name before its final moniker, but discretion forbids me from outing them.
Of course the vision for Ignite makes sense, trying to make music with the average DAW is becoming more and more challenging, as layer upon layer of technology barriers are added with feature creep.
The job of any Product Manager is to realize a vision, so the big question is ‘does Ignite realize that original vision?’ I’m going to make a video to give a full show and tell of how it can become part of any songwriter or composer’s workflow and how to get it into Pro Tools, but for now this is my first impressions review.
Ignite is a FREE (please do not read crap for FREE) download from the AIR website, so you can head over now and download it for yourself.
How It WorksPut simply Ignite works in a new paradigm (notice I didn’t use game changer there), but isn’t paradigm just an over used cliche? Not on this occasion, let me explain why.
Firstly Ignite does not fall back on the old linear timeline approach to composition, it allows you to create audio sketches on a desktop, which can either be related or not. Let me try and unpack that a little more - you can drop down a piano motif and set that looping and then drop a drum track behind it - but they are not sitting on a linear timeline, instead they sit as independent clips that co-exist to be used together or not.
Everything works in loop cycles and they can be as short or as long as you wish - so for example you can put down a 2 bar piano motif, then drop down a 1 bar kick and snare, then an 8 bar bass and then a 16 bar lead part and they all just work together. If that is working then you can drag them all together as a multiple clip.
Even better loops just run around and then if you want to over dub stuff they just hang around until you start to play your new part - none of that waiting for the metronome or finding the right place on the timeline, it is positively freeing to work this way.
Once you have an idea down then you can start to change the sounds, fix the timing and of course edit audio if you’ve recorded that into Ignite too, you can also add effects.
How Does It Sound?The sounds in Ignite come from the AIR team, so they are top-notch and include every sound you could possibly need to get an idea down with. The biggest mistake anyone could make with Ignite is to think it’s just another Garageband style home DAW, either in terms of function or sound quality - this couldn’t be further from the truth. Ignite is a powerful new way for musicians to get their initial ideas down before they take the time to fire up their super powered DAW - think of it as an artist sketching out a new picture, but not on the back of a cigarette packet with a biro, but on beautiful parchment with the highest grade pencil.
How Does It Fit Into A Workflow?The best bit is that none of your ideas are wasted when you sketch them out in Ignite, because all of them can be exported either as high quality 44.1/48Khz audio or/and MIDI. They are exported to a folder and are easily dragged into your favourite DAW to continue taking your idea to the finished product. Being able to export both the audio and the MIDI means you can then replace any sounds from the original with those from your favourite VIs. Surprisingly I found myself needing to do this less than I expected as the sounds are so good.
I would like the team at AIR to consider creating a ReWire host option for Ignite, this would mean you could then work dynamically between Ignite and your DAW. I understand why it does not have this right now, but it could benefit from this addition for professional work flows.
ConclusionGet it, it’s FREE - I would say the same thing if it was $99.00.
It makes a welcome change being able to get down ideas without having to spend several minutes getting a DAW session in shape before I start. It also makes a welcome change not being restricted to a linear timeline and makes getting down your ideas a far a more fluid, and dare I say, natural experience.
Last week Avid announced a new partnership to sell copies of Pro Tools with various inMusic products, if they are smart then I would suggest they start selling Ignite with their products before another DAW vendor does! Pro Tools has its place, but Ignite also has a valuable place to fill that no other DAW seems to deliver on; that is a simple way of getting down a composition without needing a degree in computing.
So in answer to my question, does it achieve the vision of making composition easier? A resounding yes. Get it and Ignite your creativity.
Capture your ideas quickly and make music - without getting bogged down with technical jargon and complicated steps.
Individual musical ideas are captured as phrases and are placed in the Arranger. The Arranger is an organic “stage” where you can organize your music ideas and phrases in whatever way make sense to you.
Clips can be any length, and don’t have to be aligned into a pre-determined structure (such as tracks and lanes). Multiple clips can be played back together, or even grouped to create more complex phrases and song sections.
Instant M-Audio Keyboard Integration
Ignite will instantly recognize any current generation M-Audio keyboard controller once it is connected to your computer.
Key parameters will be automatically assigned, or mapped, to the front panel controllers. The on-screen image labels the controllers with their current parameters, providing visual reminders.
Superior AIR Instrument Sounds
Included with Ignite are over 275 remarkable instrument sounds developed by AIR Music Technology. This international team also created the acclaimed Hybrid, Strike, Transfer, Structure, and Velvet instruments for Pro Tools - the industry-standard professional music and audio workstation.
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Overturning a popular perception that newsprint is dying because of the digital invasion, new research has found that youths in Britain spend more time with newspapers in print than online.
Readers aged 18 to 34 are spending nearly twice as much time with newspapers' print editions than with their websites and apps, said the study published in the journal Journalism Studies.
"For younger readers, like for middle-aged and older consumers, newspaper print editions provide an experience they invest time in, compared to how they snack and scan news online," said lead author Neil Thurman, Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich.
The researchers calculated the total time spent with eight UK newspaper brands -- The Mail, Mirror, The Sun, Star, Standard, The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Times -- by their British print and online (PC and mobile) audiences (aged 18 and over) using data from the National Readership Survey and comScore.
In 2016, the 18-34 year old British readers of the eight UK national newspapers spent a total of 21.7 billion minutes reading the news brands' print editions, but just 11.9 billion minutes using their websites and apps, the findings showed.
But there is also bad news.
Although most newspapers are attracting more attention from younger readers via their print editions than their online channels, the young are spending less time with newspaper brands than they used to even though digital distribution has made access easier and cheaper.
The researchers compared the time spent with newspapers in 2016 against the time spent at the turn of the millennium.
Overall there has been a 40 per cent drop, with much larger falls in the attention coming from younger (-64 per cent) and middle-aged (-57 per cent) readers than from the older (-14 per cent) audience segment.
However, some newspaper brands have bucked this downward trend in visibility.
The study found that the total time spent with The Guardian and the London Evening Standard by their British audiences had actually increased since the turn of the millennium, by 19 per cent and 17 per cent respectively.
In the case of The Guardian, the researchers credited the gain to the title's relatively successful online editions, which have attracted more attention than has been lost from declines in its print readership.
In the Standard's case, becoming a freesheet in 2009 boosted readership -- and, as a result, time spent with the brand, the study said.
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Order Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing, Michigan
February 7, 2011 Robert P. Young, Jr.,
Chief Justice
141386 Michael F. Cavanagh
Marilyn Kelly
Stephen J. Markman
Diane M. Hathaway
Mary Beth Kelly
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, Brian K. Zahra,
Plaintiff-Appellee, Justices
v SC: 141386
COA: 296120
Wayne CC: 06-010757-FC
NATHANIEL SMITH,
Defendant-Appellant.
_________________________________________/
On order of the Court, the application for leave to appeal the June 9, 2010 order of
the Court of Appeals is considered, and it is DENIED, because the defendant has failed to
meet the burden of establishing entitlement to relief under MCR 6.508(D).
I, Corbin R. Davis, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
February 7, 2011 _________________________________________
s0131 Clerk
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