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725 F.2d 671
U.S.v.Faison (James Raymond)
NO. 83-5364
United States Court of Appeals,Third circuit.
DEC 19, 1983
Appeal From: D.N.J.,
Biunno, J.,
564 F.Supp. 514
1
AFFIRMED.
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Over-expression of heat shock proteins in carcinogenic endometrium.
We have previously shown that the subcellular localization of beta-catenin changes according to the cell proliferation status of the human endometrium, suggesting a role of intercellular transduction in cell growth control in human endometrium not only in the physiological but also in the carcinogenic condition. To further study the possible role of heat shock proteins (HSPs) in growth control, we immunohistochemically analyzed 92 endometrial samples, 30 of normal endometrium, 20 of endometrial hyperplasia and 42 of endometrial cancer, for expression of HSP27, HSP70, HSP90, estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor. HSP27 and HSP90 were detected in endometrial epithelium strongly in the proliferative phase and weakly in the secretory phase during the menstrual cycle according to the serum estradiol level. However, they were over-expressed in endometrial hyperplasia, especially HSP27. In endometrial cancer, HSP27 expression was heterogenic among the glands and lower than that in the proliferative phase and endometrial hyperplasia. HSP27 over-expression was also observed in samples including endometrial cancer and associated hyperplasia. Results of Western blotting followed those of immunohistochemistry. HSP70 was not changed during the menstrual cycle, as HSP27 and HSP90 were, and was rather stably expressed in endometrial hyperplasia and cancer. Our results suggest that HSP27 and HSP90 contribute to cell proliferation in endometrial epithelium and that over-expression of HSP27 in endometrial hyperplasia occurs as a result of the activated condition of ER, though in cancer it decreases according to the loss of function of ER. |
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As an organization, the Red Sox put up with a lot from Manny Ramirez. Usually, it was in their best interest to do so.
So maybe he showed up late to spring training, maybe he would take a day off from time to time, maybe he didn't bust it down the line on every ground ball, but, well, the good generally outweighed the bad. The same could be said for the fans. They put up with the bad because the good was, quite simply, really, really good.
Despite this shaky track record in Boston, there is one precise moment in which Manny crossed the line, and it took place in the visitors' locker room at Minute Maid Park.
With the Red Sox in Houston for an interleague series in late June of 2008, Ramirez reportedly requested 16 tickets to a game without giving a day's notice. Jack McCormick, the Sox' traveling secretary, informed Ramirez that he may not be able to supply him with that many tickets, which set Ramirez off.
Ramirez, according to reports, shouted, "Just do your job!" at McCormick, and an argument ensued. When it ended, Ramirez had pushed McCormick to the ground.
McCormick was 64 years old at the time.
Despite the altercation, Ramirez was in the lineup that day, and, in typical Manny fashion, he went 1-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs scored.
Normally, that type of performance would nullify the negative effects of Manny's actions, but this time, things were clearly different. Many of Manny's biggest fans argued that McCormick, a former police officer, was not some frail, old man. That was obviously not a winning argument.
Manny was not suspended, but he was fined. He apologized to McCormick behind closed doors, only telling the media, "That's over. We're fine now."
Perhaps, in the short term, Ramirez, McCormick and the Red Sox were fine, but the incident marked a turning point in the enigmatic slugger's relationship with the team. For the first time since the Sox put Ramirez on irrevocable waivers in October of 2003, it seemed that Ramirez's time with the club was actually nearing its end. His teammates, including his unofficial spokesmen David Ortiz and Mike Lowell, no longer seemed amused to have to answer questions about him.
Obviously, Manny had done some stupid things in the past, but this one was clearly different. He crossed a line that no man should ever cross. Though the Red Sox didn't point to the incident as the major driving force that pushed the superstar out of town for good, it's hard to look back and see it as anything else.
Each day leading up to Manny's return to Boston on June 18,
NESN.com will run through one highlight and one lowlight from his career
with the Red Sox. |
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Golf tournament boosts program that builds homes for wounded veterans
Monday
Jul 30, 2007 at 12:01 AMJul 30, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Monday, more than than 100 golfers teed off as part of the second annual 890 ESPN Boston Celebrity Golf Invitational at the Hopkinton Country Club to benefit a program that builds homes for severely wounded veterans.
John Gonsalves' life changed three years ago when he saw a news report about an American soldier who had lost both of his legs while serving in Iraq.
Touched by the soldier's plight, the Wareham-based construction supervisor and contractor was eager to do anything he could to help. He wanted to lend his talents to an organization that built and adapted homes for severely wounded veterans.
The only problem was he couldn't find one.
``I found out that nothing like this ever existed,'' Gonsalves said.
So Gonsalves dropped his construction business and decided to start his own group called Homes for Our Troops, which builds or remodels homes for veterans who were severely wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yesterday, more than than 100 golfers teed off yesterday as part of the second annual 890 ESPN Boston Celebrity Golf Invitational at the Hopkinton Country Club to benefit Gonsalves' non-profit organization.
The list of celebrities who were scheduled to compete in the event included former Celtic Jo Jo White, former Boston Bruin Glen Featherstone and comedian Steve Sweeney.
Len Weiner, program director for 890 ESPN Boston, said the mission of Gonsalves' organization `` really struck a chord'' with those who organized yesterday's event.
Homes for Our Troops completed its first home two years ago in Middleboro for Sgt. Peter Damon and his family. Damon lost both of his arms in an explosion while he was changing a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter. Since then, the organization has completed 14 more homes for injured veterans, and 20 more are currently being built in 18 states, Gonsalves said.
One of the homes that's currently being built in Massachusetts is for a injured soldier in Plymouth.
Gonsalves said these types of fundraising activities like the one yesterday in Hopkinton do more than bring in much needed money to build and adapt homes for injured veterans. It also opens of the eyes of many who don't know the organization exists, he said.
``With events like this, it's not all just about the money we raise - it's about awareness,'' Gonsalves said.
Also participating in yesterday's event was Staff Sgt. Larry Gill, who was wounded in Oct. 7, 2003 in a grenade explosion in Baghdad. He met Gonsalves while he was recovering from his injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and now serves on the advisory board of Homes for Our Troops and is a veteran's advocate.
Gill is currently looking to raise money for a home for an injured soldier in his native state of Alabama.
``I think I was meant to help these guys,'' said Gill, who has twice been awarded the Purple Heart.
Gonsalves' organization has already received widespread support across the country. Pro golfer Phil Mickelson has publicly supported Home for Our Troops by taking part in a campaign called ``Birdies for the Brave'' where fans can join Mickelson in donating money to the organization every time Mickelson makes a birdie or eagle.
``The more people that know about what we're doing, the more of these houses we're going to be able to build,'' Gonsalves said.
Richard Conn of The MetroWest Daily News (Framingham, Mass.) can be contacted at 508-626-4338 or rconn@cnc.com.
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import("//llvm/utils/TableGen/tablegen.gni")
tablegen("X86GenDisassemblerTables") {
visibility = [ ":Disassembler" ]
args = [ "-gen-disassembler" ]
td_file = "../X86.td"
}
static_library("Disassembler") {
output_name = "LLVMX86Disassembler"
deps = [
":X86GenDisassemblerTables",
"//llvm/lib/MC/MCDisassembler",
"//llvm/lib/Support",
"//llvm/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc",
"//llvm/lib/Target/X86/TargetInfo",
]
include_dirs = [ ".." ]
sources = [
"X86Disassembler.cpp",
"X86DisassemblerDecoder.cpp",
]
}
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Q:
Добавить многомерный массив в БАЗУ php
Есть такой массив, его нужно добавить в БАЗУ. Не могу никак сделать запрос на добавление.
Если кто знает, помогите.
[name] => Array
(
[0] => 115000917
[1] => 115000916
[2] => 115000915
)
[text] => Array
(
[0] => Щит R1 C асмодианина 54-го уровня
[1] => Щит R1 B асмодианина 54-го уровня
[2] => Щит R1 A асмодианина 54-го уровня
)
[img] => Array
(
[0] => 54
[1] => 54
[2] => 54
)
[tegs] => Array
(
[0] => -
[1] => -
[2] => -
)
Запрос такой
INSERT INTO `table`(`name`, `text`, `img`, `tegs`) VALUES ('.....')
Возможно, это не лучший вариант, но работает четко:
$n = $t = '';
$arr = array('name'=>array(115000917,115000916,115000915),'text'=>array('Щит R1 C асмодианина 54-го уровня','Щит R1 B асмодианина 54-го уровня','Щит R1 A асмодианина 54-го уровня'));//ваш массив
$arr_res = array();
foreach($arr as $k => $v) {
foreach($v as $key => $val) {
$arr_res[$key][$k] = $val;
}
}
print "<pre>";
print_r($arr_res); //смотрим, что за массив получился, можно и не распечатывать
foreach($arr_res as $val) {
$n = $val["name"];
$t = $val["text"];
$sql = "INSERT INTO `table`(`name`, `text`) VALUES ('$n','$t')";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
}
A:
//INSERT INTO `table`(`name`, `text`, `img`, `tegs`) VALUES ('.....')
$query = "INSERT INTO `table`(`name`, `text`, `img`, `tegs`) VALUES ('";
foreach ($name as $key=>$name_val){
$query .= $name_val.','.$text[$key].','.$img[$key].','.tegs[$key];
}
$query .= "')";
Запрос готов, можно запускать.
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When it was first created, Apache Kafka® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages which enables you to pick the language you want. This freedom of choice ultimately allows you to build an event streaming platform with the language best suited to your business needs.
At Confluent, we have an engineering team dedicated to the development of these Kafka clients. They are constantly adding new features, running functionality, scalability and soak tests, and testing interoperability against different Kafka versions. They make these clients more robust so that you can confidently deploy them in production. Over time Confluent Platform has started providing Kafka clients for the most popular languages, including:
C/C++
Go
Java
.NET
Python
Scala
The open source community also offers Kafka client functionality in an extensive ecosystem of additional programming languages, including:
Erlang
Groovy
Haskell
Kotlin
Lua
Node.js
OCaml
PHP
Ruby
Rust
Tcl
Swift
…and others…
Many of these extensions are built on the C client library for the Kafka protocol called librdkafka, which is itself maintained and supported by Confluent and recently reached v1.0.0. As a result, you can write Kafka client applications in pretty much any language of your choosing. You can run them with an on-prem cluster, or you can use the fully managed services in Confluent Cloud.
Over the past few weeks, we tweeted 12 tech tips, each of which showcased a different language along with a simple example of how to write a producer and consumer to Confluent Cloud. Those examples, plus others, are available to run in GitHub at confluentinc/examples, and we have compiled a list of them below for reference:
We hope this helps you get started with Kafka. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Slack—there’s a #clients channel, too!
Interested in more?
To learn more, check out Confluent Cloud—a fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka, and listen to the Streaming Audio podcast with Magnus Edenhill on librdkafka 1.0. |
Q:
how to solve catch or finally expected error?
How to solve "'catch' or 'finally' expected" error in android studio..?
a screenshot of the error
public class FragmentRecent extends Fragment {
View root_view, parent_view;
private RecyclerView recyclerView;
private AdapterChannel adapterChannel;
private SwipeRefreshLayout swipeRefreshLayout;
private Call<CallbackChannel> callbackCall = null;
private int post_total = 0;
private int failed_page = 0;
private InterstitialAd interstitialAd;
private OfflineDatabase databaseHelper;
int counter = 3;
@Nullable
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
root_view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_recent, null);
parent_view = getActivity().findViewById(R.id.main_content);
loadInterstitialAd();
swipeRefreshLayout = (SwipeRefreshLayout) root_view.findViewById(R.id.swipe_refresh_layout_home);
swipeRefreshLayout.setColorSchemeResources(R.color.orange, R.color.green, R.color.blue, R.color.red);
recyclerView = (RecyclerView) root_view.findViewById(R.id.recyclerViewHome);
recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity()));
recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
//set data and list adapter
adapterChannel = new AdapterChannel(getActivity(), recyclerView, new ArrayList<Channel>());
recyclerView.setAdapter(adapterChannel);
// on item list clicked
adapterChannel.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterChannel.OnItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onItemClick(View v, Channel obj, int position) {
Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), ActivityDetailChannel.class);
intent.putExtra(Constant.KEY_CHANNEL_CATEGORY, obj.category_name);
intent.putExtra(Constant.KEY_CHANNEL_ID, obj.channel_id);
intent.putExtra(Constant.KEY_CHANNEL_NAME, obj.channel_name);
intent.putExtra(Constant.KEY_CHANNEL_IMAGE, obj.channel_image);
intent.putExtra(Constant.KEY_CHANNEL_URL, obj.channel_url);
intent.putExtra(Constant.KEY_CHANNEL_DESCRIPTION, obj.channel_description);
startActivity(intent);
showInterstitialAd();
}
});
// detect when scroll reach bottom
adapterChannel.setOnLoadMoreListener(new AdapterChannel.OnLoadMoreListener() {
@Override
public void onLoadMore(int current_page) {
if (post_total > adapterChannel.getItemCount() && current_page != 0) {
int next_page = current_page + 1;
requestAction(next_page);
} else {
adapterChannel.setLoaded();
}
}
});
// on swipe list
swipeRefreshLayout.setOnRefreshListener(new SwipeRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener() {
@Override
public void onRefresh() {
if (callbackCall != null && callbackCall.isExecuted()) callbackCall.cancel();
adapterChannel.resetListData();
requestAction(1);
}
});
requestAction(1);
return root_view;
}
private void displayApiResult(final List<Channel> channels) {
adapterChannel.insertData(channels);
swipeProgress(false);
if (channels.size() == 0) {
showNoItemView(true);
}
}
private void requestListPostApi(final int page_no) {
ApiInterface apiInterface = RestAdapter.createAPI();
callbackCall = apiInterface.getPostByPage(page_no, Config.LOAD_MORE);
callbackCall.enqueue(new Callback<CallbackChannel>() {
@Override
public void onResponse(Call<CallbackChannel> call, Response<CallbackChannel> response) {
CallbackChannel resp = response.body();
if (resp != null && resp.status.equals("ok")) {
post_total = resp.count_total;
displayApiResult(resp.posts);
} else {
onFailRequest(page_no);
}
}
@Override
public void onFailure(Call<CallbackChannel> call, Throwable t) {
if (!call.isCanceled()) onFailRequest(page_no);
}
});
}
private void onFailRequest(int page_no) {
failed_page = page_no;
adapterChannel.setLoaded();
swipeProgress(false);
if (NetworkCheck.isConnect(getActivity())) {
} else {
//showToast("Internet Not");
if (databaseHelper.getOfflineData("FragmentCategory").length() != 0) {
setJson(databaseHelper.getOfflineData("FragmentCategory"), false);
}
}
}
//databaseHelper.removeAll();
private void requestAction(final int page_no) {
showFailedView(false, "");
showNoItemView(false);
if (page_no == 1) {
swipeProgress(true);
} else {
adapterChannel.setLoading();
}
new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
requestListPostApi(page_no);
}
}, Constant.DELAY_TIME);
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
swipeProgress(false);
if (callbackCall != null && callbackCall.isExecuted()) {
callbackCall.cancel();
}
}
private void showFailedView(boolean show, String message) {
View lyt_failed = (View) root_view.findViewById(R.id.lyt_failed_home);
((TextView) root_view.findViewById(R.id.failed_message)).setText(message);
if (show) {
recyclerView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
lyt_failed.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
} else {
recyclerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
lyt_failed.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
((Button) root_view.findViewById(R.id.failed_retry)).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
requestAction(failed_page);
}
});
}
private void showNoItemView(boolean show) {
View lyt_no_item = (View) root_view.findViewById(R.id.lyt_no_item_home);
((TextView) root_view.findViewById(R.id.no_item_message)).setText(R.string.no_post_found);
if (show) {
recyclerView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
lyt_no_item.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
} else {
recyclerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
lyt_no_item.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
}
private void swipeProgress(final boolean show) {
if (!show) {
swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(show);
return;
}
swipeRefreshLayout.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(show);
}
});
}
public void setJson(String result, Boolean isOnline) {
try {
//inseting result to database
if(isOnline) {
ContentValues offline_data = new ContentValues();
offline_data.put(OfflineDatabase.KEY_OFFLINE_DATA, result);
if(databaseHelper.getOfflineData("FragmentCategory").length()!=0) {
databaseHelper.update("FragmentCategory",offline_data);
} else {
offline_data.put(OfflineDatabase.KEY_ACTIVITY_NAME, "FragmentCategory");
databaseHelper.addOfflineData(offline_data, null);
//handle both exceptions
}
}}}
private void loadInterstitialAd() {
if (Config.ENABLE_ADMOB_INTERSTITIAL_ADS) {
interstitialAd = new InterstitialAd(getActivity());
interstitialAd.setAdUnitId(getResources().getString(R.string.admob_interstitial_unit_id));
interstitialAd.loadAd(new AdRequest.Builder().build());
interstitialAd.setAdListener(new AdListener() {
@Override
public void onAdClosed() {
interstitialAd.loadAd(new AdRequest.Builder().build());
}
});
} else {
Log.d("AdMob", "AdMob Interstitial is Enabled");
}
}
private void showInterstitialAd() {
if (Config.ENABLE_ADMOB_INTERSTITIAL_ADS) {
if (interstitialAd != null && interstitialAd.isLoaded()) {
if (counter == Config.ADMOB_INTERSTITIAL_ADS_INTERVAL) {
interstitialAd.show();
counter = 1;
} else {
counter++;
}
} else {
Log.d("AdMob", "Interstitial Ad is Disabled");
}
} else {
Log.d("AdMob", "AdMob Interstitial is Disabled");
}
}}
A:
there you start with try:
public void setJson(String result, Boolean isOnline) {
try {
...
}
...
}
which has to continue with:
try {
...
} catch(Exception e) {
} finally {
}
where either catch or finally are optional (depending where the Exception shall be handled).
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module.exports = {
directory: {
// The list of directories we should not traverse
blacklist: ['node_modules', '.git', '.settings'],
},
confirmation: {
fileName: '_CONFIRMATION_',
},
arguments: {
snapFingers: 'snap-fingers',
withGlove: 'with-infinity-gauntlet-glove',
noMercy: 'no-mercy',
},
};
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Q:
DB2 - Invalid use of an aggregate function SQLCODE=-120
Can anyone help me to understand what is wrong with this Db2 query syntax,it is failing with SQLCODE -120 because i am trying to use row_number()?
SELECT COUNT(ORDER_ID) OVER() TOTAL_NO_OF_RECORDS,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CREATED_DATE DESC) AS ROW_NUM
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT A.ORDER_ID ORDER_ID,
B.AgencyName AS AGENCY_NAME,
C.FirstName FIRST_NAME,
C.LastName LAST_NAME,
DEMOGRAPHIC.State STATE,
A.CreatedTS CREATED_DATE,
E.WritingTIN WRITING_TIN,
E.ParentTIN PARENT_TIN
FROM DBO.TABLE1 A
INNER JOIN
DBO.TABLE2 TABLE2 ON TABLE2.ORDER_ID=A.ORDER_ID
INNER JOIN
DBO.TABLE3 TABLE3 ON TABLE3.QuoteId=TABLE2.QuoteId
INNER JOIN
DBO.Demographic DEMOGRAPHIC ON
DEMOGRAPHIC.DemographicId=TABLE3 .DemographicId
INNER JOIN
DBO.Agent E ON E.AgentId=DEMOGRAPHIC.AgentId
INNER JOIN
DBO.User USER ON USER.WebAcctID=AGENT.WebAcctId
INNER JOIN
DBO.Shopper SHOPPER ON SHOPPER.ShopperId=DEMOGRAPHIC.ShopperId
LEFT OUTER JOIN
DBO.Subsidy D ON D.demographicId=DEMOGRAPHIC.demographicId
LEFT OUTER JOIN
DBO.Employer EMPLOYER ON DEMOGRAPHIC.demographicId=EMPLOYER.demographicId
WHERE E.WritingTIN = 'XYZ' AND E.ParentTIN = 'XYZ'
AND DEMOGRAPHIC.State='OH'
AND A.Status IN ('X','Y','Z')
)AS ORDER_DETAILS
where ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CREATED_DATE DESC) BETWEEN ((1*50)-50)+1 AND 1*50 ORDER BY CREATED_DATE DESC
ERROR SHOWN:Invalid use of an aggregate function or OLAP function.. SQLCODE=-120, SQLSTATE=42903, DRIVER=4.18.60
A:
You have multiple errors:
X is not defined in the subquery.
B.CREATED_DATE is referenced in the outer query, but it is not defined.
ROW_NUMBER() is used in the WHERE clause.
This would seem to be the intention of the query you write:
SELECT COUNT(*) OVER () NO_OF_RECORDS, ROW_NUM
FROM (SELECT A.ID, B.FirstName as FIRST_NAME, B.LastName as LAST_NAME,
MAX(B.CREATED_DATE) as CREATED_DATE,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY MAX(CREATED_DATE) DESC) AS ROW_NUM
FROM SCHEMANAME.A A INNER JOIN
SCHEMANAME.B B
ON B.ShopperId = A.ShopperId LEFT OUTER JOIN
SCHEMANAME.C C
ON C.demographicId = B.demographicId
WHERE A.WritingTIN = 'XYZ' AND A.ParentTIN = 'XYZ' AND
B.State = 'OH' AND C.Status IN ('X', 'Y', 'Z')
GROUP BY A.ID, B.FirstName, B.LastName
) ORDER_DETAILS
WHERE ROW_NUM BETWEEN ((1*50)-50)+1 AND 1*50
ORDER BY CREATED_DATE DESC;
I'm not sure that this result makes sense, but it should fix your error.
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Q:
Create new column with sum of vector column in pandas
I have a dataframe that looks like this:
df = pd.DataFrame({'A':[[1,2,3],[4,5,6,7],[8,9]]})
All entries are integers.
I want to make a make a new column, 'B', that would read [5,22,17].
I can do this with a loop, but is there a one-line solution? Thanks!
A:
Check with re-construct your list columns , then do sum
pd.DataFrame(df.A.tolist()).sum(1)
0 6.0
1 22.0
2 17.0
dtype: float64
df['New']=pd.DataFrame(df.A.tolist()).sum(1)
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Daily Stormer
February 16, 2014
Instead of Whites paying reparations to blacks for slavery, we demand that blacks pay reparations to us for the destruction of our once prosperous cities and colonies. These reparations can take the form of manual labor on our plantations. And while we’re at it, we should demand extra repayment from the Jamaicans for the scourge of reggae music and rasta culture that has corrupted our youth.
From the Telegraph:
A coalition of 14 Caribbean states, including Jamaica… is now mounting the first united campaign for reparations from Britain over its role in the Atlantic slave trade.
The group is ready to sue in the courts and has hired Leigh Day, the London law firm that last year won £20 million for Kenyans tortured by the British during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s.
This month it will unveil a list of 10 demands for Britain, France and Holland, including funds likely to total billions, an apology, and assurances slavery will never be repeated, The Telegraph can disclose.
Professor Verene Shepherd, the chairman of Jamaica’s reparations committee, said British colonisers had “disfigured the Caribbean,” and that their descendants must now pay to repair the damage.
“If you commit a crime against humanity, you are bound to make amends,” Prof Shepherd told The Telegraph. “The planters were given compensation, but not one cent went to the freed Jamaicans”. |
258 Md. 387 (1970)
266 A.2d 17
MONMONIER
v.
MONMONIER, ET AL.
[No. 406, September Term, 1969.]
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Decided June 4, 1970.
The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.
Peter B. Turney for appellant.
F. Duncan Cornell for appellee J. (Joseph) Carroll Monmonier.
*388 No brief filed for appellee Edward Paul Swiss, Executor.
HAMMOND, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
The contest before us is between two members of the Monmonier family, each known as J. Carroll Monmonier and each claiming to be the "John Carroll Monmonier" intended to take under paragraph 2 (a) of the will of their aged spinster cousin, Emma Lou Monmonier. Judge Haile, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, found that Joseph Carroll Monmonier (Jay) was the intended beneficiary, and his cousin, John Carroll Monmonier (John), has appealed.
Testimony that put the Court in the armchair of the testatrix came in by stipulation or without objection and showed the following: a Francis Monmonier is the common ancestor of the testatrix, Jay, and John. By his first wife he had a son, John Francis who had a son Louis who had another John Francis, who in turn had John, the appellant. John is thus a great, great grandson of the common ancestor and, as the testatrix puts it in her will, her "distant cousin." By his second wife the common ancestor, Francis, had two sons, Louis and Joseph Carroll. Emma Lou, the testatrix, is the daughter of Louis. Louis' brother Joseph Carroll had a son also named Joseph Carroll, who is the father of Joseph, the appellee. Thus Jay is the great grandson of the common ancestor Francis and, as the testatrix puts it in her will, her "second cousin" (perhaps more technically, or as in some places below Mason and Dixon's Line, her first cousin once removed).
Emma Lou, the testatrix, made her will in 1960 when she was eighty-five and died nine years later without immediate family. When she was thirty-three (1908) Jay, her cousin of the whole blood once removed, was born in Catonsville. He resided there much of his life and lived at 200 Beechwood Avenue when the will was made, as he now does. He has always used the name J. Carroll Monmonier, *389 as did his father and his grandfather before him, and is known as Carroll to his family and friends. Neither he nor his father or grandfather used the name Joseph. His father and grandfather lived side by side in Catonsville and Emma Lou often visited his father there.
After he became an adult, Jay did not see Emma Lou for many years. Several months before the will was made, he visited her with another cousin, a visit occasioned by the death of a Monmonier relative. After that she sent him her father's watch, saying she wanted him to have it (he is a jeweler and watchmaker). Several months after the execution of the will of which he then knew nothing he had another pleasant visit with Emma Lou.
The appellant John and his wife and son visited Emma Lou more often during the years and they had some correspondence, including the exchange of Christmas cards. John worked for the B. & O. Railroad and resided on Birch Drive in Woodlawn when the will was made.
In her will Emma Lou Monmonier mentioned the name "John Carroll Monmonier" in three separate paragraphs. In paragraph 2 (a) after giving conditional life estates in her home property at Hydes, Maryland which failed, she gave and devised "said premises and the furniture contained therein to my second cousin, John Carroll Monmonier, presently residing on Beech Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland, to have and to hold as his property absolutely" (italics supplied).
In paragraph 3 the testatrix said "I give, devise and bequeath unto my distant cousin, John Carroll Monmonier (who is presently working for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) my `School-house' property located on Sunshine Avenue, Baltimore County, Maryland * * * in Trust for his son Mark Monmonier * * *" (italics supplied).
In paragraph 4 Emma Lou bequeathed "to my cousin, John Carroll Monmonier, the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) Dollars."
Everyone agreed that John took under paragraph 3. Judge Haile found that the testatrix had in mind two *390 cousins, thought of both cousins as Carroll and that to her "her cousin Carroll, of Catonsville, and her cousin Carroll, the railroad man, were both named John Carroll Monmonier." He held that Jay was intended to take the home property under paragraph 2 (a) and John the $2,000 under paragraph 4. No appeal was taken from the holding as to paragraph 4, and we think Judge Haile was right as to paragraph 2 (a).
John urges that there is a latent ambiguity in the will and therefore the testimony of the scrivener and of John and his wife, which he says shows that the testatrix intended him to take under paragraph 2 (a) of the will should be considered. A latent ambiguity exists "where the words of the instrument are apparently definite and specific, but are susceptible of application with equal certainty to each of several subjects or objects." E. Miller, Construction of Wills, § 42, at 122. If there is a latent ambiguity, parol evidence is admissible to show intent. Bradford v. Eutaw Savings Bank, 186 Md. 127, 136. We see no latent ambiguity in the will and therefore parol evidence to show intent was inadmissible. We add that had the testimony as to intent of the scrivener and of John or his wife been admissible, it would not, in our view, prove that John was the intended beneficiary under paragraph 2 (a) of the will.[1]
The case essentially is not too different from Douglas v. Blackford, 7 Md. 8, where the Court found no ambiguity and identified a farm devised by analysis of the facts about the farm mentioned by the testator. The reason we see no latent ambiguity in the present will is because *391 it is clear to us that the testatrix had in mind two different beneficiaries. Thinking that both her cousins were named John Carroll, she undertook to identify them by the closeness of their family relationship to her and by a place of residence on the one hand and an occupation on the other. Joseph was a closer cousin of the whole blood and he lived in Catonsville, an area she knew well and with which she identified him from his youth, and he is described by reference to these facts in paragraph 2 (a), with no reference to any child. John is the more distant cousin of the half blood and he worked for the B. & O. Railroad. He is identified in paragraph 3 by reference to these facts and the further fact that he is the father of Mark. We find the intention of the testatrix to be clear.
Decree affirmed, with costs.
NOTES
[1] The scrivener said that the testatrix told him that "he was the one who worked for the B. and O. Railroad and was the father of Mark," and that at no other time did she mention any other male Monmonier, other than Mark or John Carroll. But the scrivener also said that the will was prepared completely in accordance with the instructions of the testatrix. "She was a maiden lady and insisted that the will be prepared just the way I prepared it."
The testimony of John and his wife was only that long before the will was made, Emma Lou Monmonier asked casually on one occasion if he would like the Hydes property and on another said something about having it to help with Mark's education.
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MLS Power Rankings: Week 3
Week 3 saw a series of comebacks, golazos and great saves. What it didn’t produce was any kind of clear consensus, since more than half the week’s games ended tied and a couple of the league’s best had a bye. Still, there are always some winners and losers in the rankings, and if you've got an issue with ours, vote for your own! All match times for this week's games are ET.
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Nothing anyone in the league did this past weekend could have knocked RSL out of the top spot: a 4-0-1 mark in all competitions heading into Tuesday’s CONCACAF Champions League semifinal second leg, Nick Rimando the Player of the Month for March and every reason to believe the RSL machine will keep chugging along indefinitely.
Which isn’t to say the Rapids are far behind. It’s not often MLS Cup champs get better and deeper, but it looks like that’s exactly what happened this offseason with the addition of Caleb Folan and Sanna Nyassi. A midweek US Open Cup play-a loss at the Chicago Fire in which the Rapids played largely a reserve squad – is a blip, not a trend.
New York are not the first team to have their night ruined by Tally Hall, but Juan Agudelo and especially Thierry Henry were complicit in the 1-1 scoreline. Despite the addition of Dwayne De Rosario, there are real questions to ask of this team, first and foremost being, “Where are the goals going to come from?” No definitive answers yet.
The Power Rankings committee was right to give LA a mulligan for their 4-1 drubbing at RSL last week. The return of some key starters – none more so than Omar Gonzalez – and a clever tactical shift from Bruce Arena provided the best defensive performance of any team this year, even while down a man.
The Union kept their core pieces from 2010, but look like a totally different team. They’re now defined by a lock-down defensive unit and a solid veteran 'keeper. Gone too, though, is the attacking verve and creativity that was the highlight of the inaugural season. They need Sebastien Le Toux and Justin Mapp to get healthy — and Danny Mwanga to rediscover his confidence.
The place of the Fire is still up for debate since they’ve played most of the season up a man and then beat a Colorado side in the Open Cup play-in that was short-handed. But there’s no denying the attacking power of Gastón Puerari, Diego Cháves, Marco Pappa and Patrick Nyarko. Things are looking good in the Windy City.
The Quakes still have some kinks to work out with Frank Yallop’s new 4-3-3, but there’s no question they’re generating chances and playing some good soccer. With Ike Opara returning to full health and fighting for minutes, there’s a good chance the defense will improve as well.
On First Kick weekend, the Revs played a 1-1 draw at LA that probably felt like a win. This past Saturday, their 1-1 home result against the Timbers probably felt like a loss. The good news, though, is that last year’s leaky defense is a thing of the past and central defender A.J. Soares is an early Rookie of the Year contender.
For about 65 minutes they were climbing up the rankings behind some of the most exciting attacking play in the league. Then the questions about their outmanned defense cropped up again in what was a stomach-punch of a draw. How they bounce back can reveal a lot about this team.
It’s looking very likely that the ‘Caps aren’t your run-of-the-mill expansion franchise. Their 3-3 comeback draw sent the crowd into delirium – rightly so – and spoke to a heart and solidarity that any team in the world would envy. When Eric Hassli and Russell Teibert get back, and Jay DeMerit and Davide Chumiento get healthy, Vancouver could be a force.
Getting a point from a very good San Jose team at their house is a positive result. Doubly so when two goals are part of the package, and newest signing Mauro Rosales shows his playmaking chops in the final third. Also, Steve Zakuani looks like he’s made the leap and become one of the top five players in the league.
The Crew finally got the ship headed in the right direction with their 2-0 win over FC Dallas on Friday. Emilio Renteria provided the spark and Eddie Gaven iced the cake, but the questions about the team’s form in front of net will continue to be real until Andres Mendoza starts scoring from the run of play.
For the second straight week, Tally Hall stood on his head and got his team a point on the road. He has faced nearly 50 shots in the last 180 minutes, and only two have found their way into the back of his net. It’s great to have a goalkeeper who can get you points, but Hall’s teammates are going to have to do some heavy lifting of their own soon.
Hand-wringing about De Rosario, debates about sacred locker rooms and the miss of the century overshadowed what was a strong last 70 minutes from TFC. Tony Tchani protected the back line, Danleigh Borman got up and down the left wing and their shape was solid throughout. The new beginning looked good, even though the result was disappointing.
This marks the second straight week that DC conceded goals in bunches, a worrying trend for Ben Olsen. Relying on rookie Perry Kitchen to come back and right the ship is promising but dangerous as Kitchen is just 19 years old. The offense, however, still looks good – even when playing at the champs, and even without a number of starters.
It’s not crisis time in Dallas just yet: FCD were equally bad to start the 2010 season. But it looks like the loss of all the “little things” Dax McCarty did has taken a big-picture toll. Add in some defensive injuries, under-performing rookies and the fact that they keep giving their opponents a man advantage, and it’s been an ugly start to 2011 in Big D.
The Timbers got their first win in MLS with a midweek victory over Chivas USA in a US Open Cup play-in game, then got their first point in the league by going on the road and playing pretty well at New England. Jack Jewsbury was the key man in both results, and the Timbers now have something to build upon.
A point on the road is a good result for a team looking for anything at all to be positive about. But they were lucky to get that much, and haven’t consistently been threatening in the final third. Robin Fraser & Co. have a lot of work yet to do to prevent a long season for the Rojiblancos. |
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This being said, employment growth for Neurology technicians, which is included in the category of Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians is projected to increase by 16% between 2014 and 2024. The Bureau of Labor Statistics considers this much faster than average growth.[i] Other potential careers might include:
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Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance in a bone marrow donor.
We report on a patient suffering from multiple myeloma, for whom allogeneic bone marrow transplantation was planned. Donor workup revealed monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance. We discuss this finding and stress the importance of performing complete donor examinations. |
Alexis Sanchez says he will discuss his Arsenal future with Arsene Wenger at the end of the season, but is frustrated he has not been able to win the big titles he feels can make a player become truly great.
The Chile international is out of contract in 2018 and has been the subject of intense speculation throughout the campaign, with the Gunners struggling to secure a top-four Premier League finish, the FA Cup final representing their only chance of silverware.
Sanchez has impressed individually this season, scoring 24 goals in all competitions, but he insists it is the chance to win league titles and the Champions League that drives him, which will play a part when he thinks about his next move after 2016-17.
Asked if there was any news on his future following optimistic comments from Wenger, Sanchez told Sky Sports: "No, we have said that the two of us will sit down together to discuss the topic in terms of what will happen and what we are going to do, what is best for the club, what is best for me, what is best for him.
"We will speak once the season is over because if I speak now, that would take my focus away from what I want, which is qualifying for the Champions League and winning the FA Cup.
"It depends. What I want to do now is to finish the season well and then I will sit down with the club to decide what I'm going to do.
"I'm very happy about [my goal tally], but, as always, I demand more from myself. I think that if a player wants to be at the very top, he needs to win the Champions League and league titles. That's what makes the great players truly great.
"I don't think it has been a very good season for me because I came here to win trophies, to be competing in the Champions League semi-finals and to win the Premier League.
"I want to win the Champions League which is every footballer's dream. I want to win the Premier League because I play here.
"I feel disappointed that we are not in a position to win the Premier League or the Champions League, but we do have the FA Cup final coming up and we will give it our all to try to win it.
"When I got here, I thought, 'I will win the title with this squad'. I feel that we should win more games 3-0 or 4-0, of course, that does sometimes happen when we play very well. I think Arsenal play the best brand of football in England.
"I have played for other clubs and I have to say that the quality of the players here is very impressive. There isn't a very big difference."
Sanchez insists his frustrated body language during some disappointing Arsenal performances simply highlights his desire to succeed.
"Players who want success in football and people who want to achieve greatness in life get angry when it's not going well and demand more from themselves," he said.
"Sometimes I am frustrated, sometimes I'm not. There have been games when we have been in a position to kick on and win, but we have made a small mistake and found ourselves 2-0 down.
"Sometimes that gets to me because winning those points is so important if you want to win the Premier League.
"No, I'm not normally like that [an angry character]. I sometimes get angry with myself because there are moments on the pitch when I make mistakes and I don't like it when that happens." |
Posts Tagged ‘child’
Middle Child leaves for Europe this week. It’s the same kind of trip that Oldest Child took two years ago, a few days in France, a few days in Spain, but Middle Child will be going to different cities than his brother did. The same teacher is heading up the group and it’s a good, responsible, group of kids, so I’m not worried about logistics or crazy behavior. Of course, I am very jealous because I am a ridiculous Europhile, but I am genuinely glad that he’s getting this opportunity, the same as his brother did.
I had my first out-of-the-country experience when I was sixteen. Of course, I’d been to Canada several times before that, but as it is for any Detroiter, going to Canada was so not a big deal. No, I had the opportunity to go to Australia and Hawaii with the Michigan Lions All-State Band and it was a fabulous time. I’ve written about it before, so I won’t go on about it too much, but that trip was a pivotal time in my life. It was on that trip that he realization sunk in that the U.S. was not the only place in the world, that there were other realities for other people, and that the places where they lived were just as important to them as mine was to me. Granted, Australia isn’t shockingly different from the U.S., and Hawaii, while culturally different, is a state, but it was just enough to give me a hunger to see what else is out there, not just in my own backyard. This isn’t discounting anything that is here in the U.S., there are some pretty amazing places in my own country, but I think for people to have a balanced view of the world, they should see more of it with an open mind, not with the expectation that everyone should be like us.
That is what I hope Middle Child takes away from his experience. His first trip overseas will be different than mine, however, because it will be to two countries where English isn’t the first language, and he’s in for a real eye-opener. Even if you take the time beforehand to study the language, using the words around native speakers for the first time is a scary thing. Of course, in the big cities, many people do speak English because there are so many tourists, but I found out that even a little effort to try the native language is appreciated by most people. Middle Child hasn’t done a lot of studying, so he may be in for some surprises.
I said that I wasn’t worried, and I’m not, but there is that part of me that is nervous about letting my baby go for an extended period of time over the ocean without me. It has nothing to do with the threat of terrorism, that’s a risk that we take anywhere we are today, unfortunately, but more of the I’ve-taught-you-everything-I-can-now-you’re-on-your-own kind of thing. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a smart kid and he’s going to be just fine, but I think every mother would feel the same, at the least the first time. When Oldest Child went back to Europe this last summer for work study, I wasn’t concerned at all because he did so well when he went to France and Spain.
All in all, it’s another sign that my kids are growing up. They are moving on to make their own wonderful memories, and that’s a very, very, good thing. Middle Child leaves in just a few days and it’s taking a lot for me not to jump on that plane with him. Maybe sometime in the future, one of them will let me tag along.
There are things that I’m thinking about when I look at you and you say, “What?”. Here’s some insight as to what may be running through my mind. You see, memories from when you were very new stay with me, and I love to go back and revisit the flashes of you that I still see today.
Things like:
– Taking a pregnancy test to prove your father wrong, happily finding out that it was me who was wrong.
– Going to the doctor because I thought I broke a rib riding horseback, only to find out I would be a mama.
– Taking a pregnancy test because The Wizard of Oz made me sob.
– The secret, flutterby, kicks that made me smile.
-The never-ending waiting for you to be born. Christmas doesn’t hold a candle to a due date.
– Tiny. So, so, very tiny.
– Baby sighs and phantom smiles in your sleep.
– Those baby giggles when I pretended to sneeze.
– The absolute contentment when you would fall asleep on my chest, warm and cozy.
– The protective instinct. I could quite easily kill anyone who hurt you, even now.
– Picking you up from preschool. You were so happy to see me, unashamed to hug me as tight as you could and tell me all about your day.
– The first time another kid rejected you. I never wanted to hit a 7-year-old before. (Just to clarify, I would never hit a 7-year-old.)
– The joy of your joy, whether it was a bug friend, a song you sang to me, or a baby lamb, the sight of you deliriously happy was my whole world.
-You sleeping in a fuzzy blanket, dark lashes on pale cheeks.
-The three of you on the couch arms and legs entwined like a pile of puppies while watching tv.
– The ache of watching you become more independent, knowing that every accomplishment takes you a small step away from me, but knowing that it is meant to be.
So when you catch me staring at you, with a funny look on my face, chances are something like these thoughts are racing through my brain. It’s because I love you. I love who you are, I love who you were, and I love who you are becoming. |
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how to save html page in pdf format include contents like text, image using jquery
I want to save HTML page into pdf format, Im using jsPDF script this works only in text format but if any URL or image in this page, script not working.
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DOMPDF will be useful for HTML to pdf and it will support for images and links also.
Please go through https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Hoisin Noodles with Turkey and Green Beans
If I had actually followed the recipe for tonight's dinner, the calories in this meal would have been significantly lower. Also, if I had followed the recipe, this dinner would have qualified as a dish requested by one of my MFP pals: a meal involving pasta and chicken.
Here is where the problem lay.. My grocery store didn't have ground chicken and I really wasn't in the mood to travel around to different stores to find a place that did. I decided to settle for turkey, because I figured it would be closer in calories to chicken than like.. beef. I mean, that's still probably right, but holy shoot did it rocket my initial estimate really high.
I use the website myfitnesspal and I asked my friends over there to tell me what they wanted to see me cook. Every suggestion I got has been worked into my meal plans for the next two weeks. Every day I'll be posting at least one dish. At least one dish will be something I made per the request of an MFP friend.
Today's dish.. well, just pretend there's chicken in it instead. If you can find ground chicken that is. It's obviously not the easiest thing to find in the whole world. The flavor was really yummy, kind of spicy, but generally just good.
1. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Boil the green beans for 6 minutes. Add the ramen and boil for 4 more minutes. Drain.
2. In small bowl combine the hoisin sauce, lime juice, and chili paste.
3. In a skillet heat the olive oil. Add the turkey and cook until no longer pink. Add the garlic and cook until tender. Add the green beans and ramen and stir to combine. Add the green onions and combine more. |
A characterization of excitatory postsynaptic potentials in the avian nucleus magnocellularis.
1. The activation of current-clamped neurons in the chick nucleus magnocellularis (nMAG) by eighth nerve stimulation has been studied in a brain slice preparation using patch electrodes. Single presynaptic stimuli produced rapidly rising, suprathreshold, excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) with a synaptic delay of approximately 0.4 ms. Spontaneous, miniature EPSPs (mEPSPs) were evident in control extracellular solution and in the presence of tetrodotoxin (TTX). 2. The EPSP was composed of a large, brief component that was sensitive to antagonists of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors, and a smaller, slowly decaying component that was sensitive to both N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and AMPA receptor antagonists. 3. Injection of depolarizing current steps revealed a strong outward rectification of the membrane conductance at potentials close to the resting potential. Consequently, neurons could fire only a single, TTX-sensitive action potential during a current step. The conductance responsible for this rectification was sensitive to 1 mM 4-aminopyridine but not to 1 mM tetraethylammonium. 4. Following the termination of depolarizing current pulses, membrane potential decayed with a half-time (t1/2) that decreased as the depolarizing current increased, reaching approximately 0.25 ms for a depolarization from rest of 20 mV. The t1/2 for the decay of EPSPs matched the membrane t1/2, indicating that the underlying synaptic conductance decays more quickly than the membrane t1/2. 5. The slow phase of the EPSP was always longer than the membrane t1/2 and increased in size with hyperpolarization. This result is consistent with the contribution of AMPA receptors to the slow, as well as fast, EPSP. 6. The safety factor for transmission with low-frequency stimuli was large, as indicated by the rise time of the EPSP, the extent to which the EPSP shunted the action potential, and the size of EPSPs after prolongation of the synaptic conductance by cyclothiazide. 7. During repetitive synaptic stimulation, the slow EPSPs summated to produce a plateau depolarization of 10-20 mV. The plateau potential was only partially blocked by NMDA receptor antagonists. 8. During trains of stimuli, the faster EPSPs rode atop the plateau potential and could drive action potentials at rates up to 500 Hz for short periods. Synaptic depression was evident during trains, such that EPSPs often fell below threshold after 5-10 stimuli at rates above 200 Hz. EPSPs could remain suprathreshold for several seconds at 50 Hz.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS) |
Morrison Road
Morrison Road is a major road which runs through the suburbs of Woodbridge, Midland, Midvale and Swan View, in the east of Perth, Western Australia.
It connects with other major roads and highways including Roe Highway, Lloyd Street, Great Northern Highway and Great Eastern Highway. It also plays a major role in bringing in traffic into the Midland City Centre.
With sections of the road originally named Woodbridge Terrace and Boundary Road, the road was later given the one name of Morrison Road after James Morrison who was responsible for subdividing land along the southern side of the road in 1897.
The section west of Great Northern Highway is part of National Route 1. It connects the route from that highway to Great Eastern Highway.
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SLAVERY IN FOCUS January 16, 2013
The history of slavery is outside my immediate compass since I do not watch contemporary films.
My ancestors (I imagine) were either indigenous inhabitants of the islands on the North West coast of the Eurasian landmass,or conceivably they might have been part of the extraordinary migration of boat people from the mainland, who might then have been captured by the Feudal System, which underpinned the conflict there over rights in the 17th Century.
I have some experience of wage slavery, of course, and it bears repetition that modern corporations are not fundamentally democratic, which in the very least is deeply contradictory. Perhaps this observation might not be coincidental. History is often reduced to a mythical narrative. I have been criticized, probably correctly, for dabbling in this activity. Some myths, even if contradicted by very apparent evidence, both then and now, such as the Egalitarian Myth may be on balance be positive. However, it is more important to recognize the humanity of all people, and therefor their human potentials.
Imara Jones at Colorlines, via Alternet, identifies her list of ten top things everybody should know about the economic history of slavery in the US:
1) Slavery laid the foundation for the modern international economic system.
The massive infrastructure required to move 8 to 10 million Africans halfway around the world built entire cities in England and France, such as Liverpool, Manchester and Bordeaux. It was key to London’s emergence as a global capital of commerce, and spurred New York’s rise as a center of finance. The industry to construct, fund, staff, and administer the thousands of ships which made close to 50,000 individual voyages was alone a herculean task. The international financial and distribution networks required to coordinate, maintain and profit from slavery set the framework for the modern global economy.
2) Africans’ economic skills were a leading reason for their enslavement.
Africans possessed unique expertise which Europeans required to make their colonial ventures successful. Africans knew how to grow and cultivate crops in tropical and semi-tropical climates. African rice growers, for instance, were captured in order to bring their agricultural knowledge to America’s sea islands and those of the Caribbean. Many West African civilizations possessed goldsmiths and expert metal workers on a grand scale. These slaves were snatched to work in Spanish and Portuguese gold and silver mines throughout Central and South America. Contrary to the myth of unskilled labor, large numbers of Africans were anything but.
3) African know-how transformed slave economies into some of the wealthiest on the planet.
The fruits of the slave trade funded the growth of global empires. The greatest source of wealth for imperial France was the “white gold” of sugar produced by Africans in Haiti. More riches flowed to Britain from the slave economy of Jamaica than all of the original American 13 colonies combined. Those resources underwrote the Industrial Revolution and vast improvements in Western Europe’s economic infrastructure.
4) Until it was destroyed by the Civil War, slavery made the American South the richest and most powerful region in America.
Slavery was a national enterprise, but the economic and political center of gravity during the U.S.’s first incarnation as a slave republic was the South. This was true even during the colonial era. Virginia was its richest colony and George Washington was one of its wealthiest people because of his slaves. The majority of the new country’s presidents and Supreme Court justices were Southerners.
However, the invention of the cotton gin took the South’s national economic dominance and transformed it into a global phenomenon. British demand for American cotton, as I have written before, made the southern stretch of the Mississippi River the Silicon Valley of its era. The single largest concentration of America’s millionaires was gathered in plantations along the Mississippi’s banks. The first and only president of the Confederacy—Jefferson Davis—was a Mississippi, millionaire slave holder.
5) Defense of slavery, more than taxes, was pivotal to America’s declaration of independence.
The South had long resisted Northern calls to leave the British Empire. That’s because the South sold most of its slave-produced products to Britain and relied on the British Navy to protect the slave trade. But a court case in England changed all of that. In 1775, a British court ruled that slaves could not be held in the United Kingdom against their will. Fearing that the ruling would apply to the American colonies, the Southern planters swung behind the Northern push for greater autonomy. In 1776, one year later, America left its former colonial master. The issue of slavery was so powerful that it changed the course of history.
6) The brutalization and psychological torture of slaves was designed to ensure that plantations stayed in the black financially.
Slave revolts and acts of sabotage were relatively common on Southern plantations. As economic enterprises, the disruption in production was bad for business. Over time a system of oppression emerged to keep things humming along. This centered on singling out slaves for public torture who had either participated in acts of defiance or who tended towards noncompliance. In fact, the most recalcitrant slaves were sent to institutions, such as the “Sugar House” in Charleston, S.C., where cruelty was used to elicit cooperation. Slavery’s most inhumane aspects were just another tool to guarantee the bottom line.
7) The economic success of former slaves during Reconstruction led to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
In less than 10 years after the end of slavery, blacks created thriving communities and had gained political power—including governorships and Senate seats—across the South. Former slaves, such Atlanta’s Alonzo Herndon, had even become millionaires in the post-war period. But the move towards black economic empowerment had upset the old economic order. Former planters organized themselves into White Citizens Councils and created an armed wing—the Ku Klux Klan—to undermine black economic institutions and to force blacks into sharecropping on unfair terms. Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Warmth of Other Suns”, details the targeting of black individuals, as well as entire black communities, for acts of terror whose purpose was to enforce economic apartheid.
8) The desire to maintain economic oppression is why the South was one of the most anti-tax regions of the nation.
Before the Civil War, the South routinely blocked national infrastructure protects. These plans, focused on Northern and Western states, would have moved non-slave goods to market quickly and cheaply. The South worried that such investments would increase the power of the free-labor economy and hurt their own, which was based on slavery. Moreover, the South was vehemently opposed to taxes even to improve the lives of non-slaveholding white citizens. The first public school in the North, Boston Latin, opened its doors in the mid-1600s. The first public school in the South opened 200 years later. Maintenance of slavery was the South’s top priority to the detriment of everything else.
9) Many firms on Wall Street made fortunes from funding the slave trade.
Investment in slavery was one of the most profitable economic activities throughout most of New York’s 350 year history. Much of the financing for the slave economy flowed through New York banks. Marquee names such as JP Morgan Chase and New York Life all profited greatly from slavery. Lehman Brothers, one of Wall Street’s largest firms until 2008, got its start in the slave economy of Alabama. Slavery was so important to the city that New York was one the most pro-slavery urban municipalities in the North.
10) The wealth gap between whites and blacks, the result of slavery, has yet to be closed.
The total value of slaves, or “property” as they were then known, could exceed $12 million in today’s dollars on the largest plantations. With land, machinery, crops and buildings added in, the wealth of southern agricultural enterprises was truly astronomical. Yet when slavery ended, the people that generated the wealth received nothing.
The contention that outright theft, rather than the workings of the price system in a free market, was the primary engine of economic wealth in the West will have some ideologues frothing. But if the “market” was so great, why was slavery necessary and why was it maintained. Whatever else it may be slavery is a system of economic and social violence.
The History of Slavery in the US provides an overview from the 17th Century to Reconstruction, including reference to Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and James Brown:
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The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says “State” instead of “Country” (the Framers knew the difference – see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia’s vote. Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that . . . and we all should be too.
So this contention seems credible, and so it is very significant given the current fervour among many gun ownership advocates.
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Profile and bioconcentration of minerals by King Bolete (Boletus edulis) from the Płocka Dale in Poland.
This study aimed to provide basic data on the composition of metallic elements, including toxicologically important Cd and Hg, in popular and prized wild King Bolete mushrooms. We investigated the importance of soil substratum as a source of these metals. ICP-OES and CV-AAS were applied to determine the profile of Al, Ba, Ca, Cd, Cu, Fe, Hg, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Sr and Zn in caps and stipes of King Bolete mushroom and in the surface layer of soil (0-10 cm) from the Płocka Dale area of Poland. Hg, Cu, Cd, Zn, Mg and K exhibited bioconcentration factors (BCF) > 1. Specifically, Hg, Cu and Cd (mean BCFs for caps were 110, 19 and 16, respectively) were efficiently bioconcentrated by King Bolete, while other elements were bioexcluded (BCF < 1). Cadmium was present in the caps at mean levels of 5.5 ± 2.4 mg kg(-1) dry weight (dw) and mercury at levels of 4.9 ± 1.4 mg kg(-1) dw, both occurring at elevated concentrations in those King Bolete mushrooms surveyed. |
Case: 09-30280 Document: 00511027342 Page: 1 Date Filed: 02/12/2010
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
FILED
February 12, 2010
No. 09-30280
Conference Calendar Charles R. Fulbruge III
Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
RONALD LELEAUX,
Defendant-Appellant
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Louisiana
USDC No. 3:08-CR-315-1
Before GARZA, DENNIS, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
The attorney appointed to represent Ronald Leleaux has moved for leave
to withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v. California, 386
U.S. 738 (1967). Leleaux has filed a response.
“This Court must examine the basis of its jurisdiction, on its own motion,
if necessary.” Mosley v. Cozby, 813 F.2d 659, 660 (5th Cir. 1987). Article III,
section 2, of the Constitution limits federal court jurisdiction to actual cases and
controversies. Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1, 7 (1998). The case-or-controversy
*
Pursuant to 5TH CIR . R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .
R. 47.5.4.
Case: 09-30280 Document: 00511027342 Page: 2 Date Filed: 02/12/2010
No. 09-30280
requirement demands that “some concrete and continuing injury other than the
now-ended incarceration or parole—some ‘collateral consequence’ of the
conviction—must exist if the suit is to be maintained.” Id. at 7.
Upon revoking his supervised release, the district court sentenced Leleaux
to one year and one day of imprisonment, but the court did not impose any
additional term of supervised release. During the pendency of this appeal,
Leleaux completed his term of imprisonment. Accordingly, there is no case or
controversy for us to address.
Although Leleaux argues that his underlying 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9)
conviction was invalid because of a subsequent expungement of the predicate
offense, he cannot use his appeal of the revocation of his supervised release to
challenge the underlying conviction. See United States v. Willis, 563 F.3d 168,
170 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 976 (2009).
For the foregoing reasons, this appeal is DISMISSED as moot, and
counsel’s motion to withdraw is DENIED as unnecessary.
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Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Rodham Clinton mishandled sensitive government information on a private email account she used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.
Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.
Here's the first paragraph of an article thepublished shortly before midnight Eastern Time on Thursday night, preserved in digital amber by the invaluable NewsDiffs:And here's the lede as it was rewritten —in dramatic fashion—an hour later:Emphasis added in both instances, and boy could that emphasis not be more different. In the first version,reporters Michael Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo say that these nameless government officials are basing their request on possible misdeeds Clinton herself is alleged to have committed; in the latter, that's transformed into an incredibly vague construction: "mishandled in connection with." What does "in connection with" even mean? It could mean almost anything.
What's more, this major alteration was made without any notice to the reader. On top of that, the Times even changed the URL (the old one now redirects to the new one). If it weren't for NewsDiffs and assiduous observers like Zeke Miller, this big edit might have gotten flushed down the memory hole. But in this day and age, fortunately, that sort of shenanigan is difficult to pull off, and "paper of record" will have plenty to answer for Friday morning.
In the meantime, here's NewsDiffs' capture of the new lede, just in case the Times decides to finagle with it again. |
(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:2]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00]
PW[White]PB[Black]AW[lc][re]AB[nc][pd]LB[lc:1][nc:2][qd:A][rd:C][re:3][qf:B]C[Whte 3 is hamete. How should Black respond - A, B, or C]
(;B[qd]CR[qd]
;W[qh]LB[aa:A][rd:B]CR[qh]C[Play A (tuneki) or B]
(;B[rd]CR[rd]
;W[ic]LB[qd:1][rd:2][re:A]CR[ic]C[Black at R16 left a weakness at S16. Black can only defend this weakness with gote and in doing so had to play two moves (1 and 2) to defend against the hamete stone A.])
(;B[aa]CR[aa]
;W[rd]CR[rd]
;B[rc]CR[rc]
;W[rb]CR[rb]C[White responds with a tesuji]
(;B[qb]CR[qb]
;W[sc]CR[sc]C[Black ends up overly concentrated in the corner])
(;B[sc]CR[sc]
;W[pb]CR[pb]
;B[qb]CR[qb]
;W[oc]CR[oc]
;B[od]CR[od]
;W[nb]CR[nb]C[Black's position is over concentrated.])
(;B[qc]CR[qc]
;W[sc]CR[sc]C[Black ends up overly concentrated in the corner])))
(;B[qf]CR[qf]
;W[rf]CR[rf]
;B[qg]CR[qg]
;W[qc]CR[qc]
;B[pc]CR[pc]
;W[qb]CR[qb]C[After this exchange, Black's position is too cramped.])
(;B[rd]CR[rd]
;W[od]CR[od]C[S16 is the correct response to S15. However -- white plays another hamete and another problem for Black ensues.]
(;B[oc]CR[oc]
;W[qd]CR[qd]
(;B[qc]CR[qc]
;W[qe]CR[qe]C[This is what white is expecting]
(;B[rc]CR[rc]
;W[pe]CR[pe]
;B[pc]CR[pc]
;W[qi]CR[qi]C[The exchange is very favorable for white])
(;B[pe]CR[pe]
;W[rc]CR[rc]
;B[rb]CR[rb]
;W[sd]CR[sd]
;B[qb]CR[qb]
;W[pf]CR[pf]
;B[of]CR[of]
;W[og]LB[pf:A][og:B]C[These are very strong plays for white. Black's position is over concentrated, and White has taken part of the corner.]))
(;B[qe]CR[qe]
;W[qc]CR[qc]
;B[pe]CR[pe]
;W[rc]CR[rc]
;B[rf]CR[rf]
;W[sd]LB[qg:A]CR[sd]C[Black finishes with A. This may seem like a good exchange for Black. But Black's position is too heavy. If you come to understand this, then you are on your way to becoming a stronger player.]))
(;B[oe]CR[oe]
;W[qd]CR[qd]
;B[qc]CR[qc]
;W[qe]CR[qe]
;B[rc]CR[rc]
(;W[pc]CR[pc]C[CHOICE]
;B[pe]CR[pe]
;W[oc]CR[oc]
;B[nd]CR[nd]
;W[nb]LB[oa:B][mb:A]CR[nb]
(;B[mb]CR[mb]
;W[qb]CR[qb]
;B[rb]CR[rb]
;W[ne]CR[ne]C[Ouch. The cut is very painful])
(;B[oa]CR[oa]
;W[qb]CR[qb]
;B[pa]TR[oc][pc][od]CR[pa]C[RIGHT Black uses a tesuji and white loses the marked stones]))
(;W[pe]CR[pe]
;B[pc]CR[pc]
;W[nd]CR[nd]
;B[md]CR[md]
;W[ne]CR[ne]
;B[of]CR[of]
;W[oc]CR[oc]
;B[qg]TR[qd][pe][qe][re]CR[qg]C[RIGHT White loses the four marked stones and the White stones on the left are over concentrated. Black now has a good sized corner and room to expand])))) |
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Did 'fake news' just jump the shark?
The Dominican Republic's oldest and most important newspaper El Nacional on Friday printed a photo of Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Trump on "Saturday Night Live" in a lead article about Trump and Israel.
The photo was used side-by-side with a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
While it was not immediately clear whether the image of Baldwin was accidental or an intentional joke, the newspaper later clarified their error...
El Nacional published on Friday as Donald Trump a picture of actor Alec Baldwin, who imitates on a television program the president of the United States. The picture was sent that day by Associated Press (AP) with the name of the actor and reported on the program, but was placed as if it were Trump's, a situation that went unnoticed for all who reviewed page 19. National apolgizes to the readers and all those who felt affected by the publication.
The newspaper did however get the picture of Shakira criticizing Trump's immigration policy correct... |
Since being selected with the 10th overall pick at June’s NHL Draft, Evan Bouchard has been at the front of mind for Oilers fans everywhere because of his potential to be a long-term solution to the Oilers puck moving woes on the back end. He’s big, he has a bomb of a shot, and can move the puck up ice at an elite level which makes him a rare commodity on the Oilers’ defensive depth chart. No one expected Bouchard to fall to the Oilers at 10 and after seeing him play in his first handful of NHL games you can see what a gift that was. With time, I believe that this is a guy that has the ability to make a tremendous impact for this organization and seeing him play only reinforced that idea. The problem, of course, is that expecting him to handle that job right now is a little too much too soon, and I think the Oilers made the right call in sending the 19-year-old back to the OHL for further seasoning.
I know some folks said there is nothing left for him to learn at the junior level but I strongly disagree. By going back to London, Bouchard will get the opportunity to play the minutes needed to work on and round out the deficiencies in his game under the watchful eye of Edmonton’s scouts. That extra playing time is a luxury that he wouldn’t have had in Edmonton and the Oilers made the smart choice in making sure he gets it. While there are areas of his game where he already excels, the offensive side in particular, there were times when Bouchard struggled in his own end which is not at all uncommon for a young defenceman trying to learn the ropes at the NHL level. Not only that, Bouchard will now have the opportunity to compete for a spot on Canada’s roster at the World Juniors Tournament, a valuable experience in itself, and also for a Memorial Cup with a London Knights team that is built to compete.
In an ideal world, the Oilers would have been able to send Bouchard to the AHL to further his development there, but that’s not an option right now so that makes going back to London the best spot for him right now. The biggest thing at this stage of Bouchard’s development is that the Oilers need him to play and in going back to London, he’ll get a truckload of minutes there that he wouldn’t get nor is he ready for yet in Edmonton. From the asset management side of things, Bouchard’s assignment not only extends team control over the player for another year but also give the Oilers another protected contract in the upcoming expansion draft which will be immensely valuable in itself. All in all, this a smart choice by the organization from a hockey side and an asset management perspective, and I’m thrilled to see them thinking ahead with this player rather than trying to have him learn on the job at the NHL level.
So for now, we must say goodbye to our new dad and wish him well on his journey in London. Personally, I’m excited to see how the rest of his season will play out and how much better he’ll be for it by the time next year’s training camp rolls around. All the best in London, Bouche! We’ll see you soon.
In seven games played, Bouchard had one goal, 10 shots on net, two PIMs, and a -5 rating.
Oilers fans, let’s just stop and appreciate what we finally have. Healthy competition and depth. Take out players like Bouch, Yamo, and Jesse and we have older players like Chiasson, Rattie, and Garrision ready to contribute. We don’t have to rush prospects even if they’re good enough to make the team – we can do what’s best for their player development. Sure guys like Marody, Benson, and McLeod would have made this team in the past, but now they get lots of ice time, leadership experience, and development in the A/OHL!
So happy that they brought up Kevin Gravel and have left Ethan Bear in Bakersfield for now – Hopefully Bear is allowed the privilege of a good stretch of games and isn’t forced up early due to injury (or poor play).
I think your are not far off. I don’t think the Oil are looking beyond winning games now and if Bouchard was clearly one of their best 7 dmen he would be here. But I think that he hasn’t shown he is clearly better than Garrison, Benning, Gravel or even Bear (is he still injured?) so there is little reason to keep him here.
Yeah, it’s interesting how the Oilers look like they will have strength in defence coming up, but they are now weak on the wings. It’s a better place to be though – wingers are easier to come by. That Hall trade was still one-sided, but Larsson is playing so much better this year that it doesn’t look quite so bad.
Not crazy about this. IMO he has NHL level talent right now. Playing him against 16/17 year old teenage kids is not going to develop and push him the same way growing his game against adults would. Hopefully he does what Mathews did and goes to Europe for the year. And hopefully they make it so these guys can play in the AHL in the future rather than just juniors.
Most players in the OHL are between 18-20. If Bouchard makes Team Canada, most of the competition will be 19-20. Bouchard as an NHL draft choice out of the OHL having signed a contract is precluded from going to Europe. I wouldn’t expect the NHL and the Junior leagues to change this arrangement any time soon, since it benefits both leagues, and there are so few 18-19 old players who would be better off in the AHL, that changing the rules would not be worth it.
All that and he’ll develop the confidence to do everything as second nature.
The thing I really liked about Bouchard is that he didn’t clam-up when he made a mistake.
He made a lot of mistakes, but that’s great at his level, as it shows he wasn’t afraid to make them (unlike some other prospect players on this team). By him shaking off his mistakes and continually trying to be effective he actually was pretty effective. As “B’milk” said, the Oilers will still be working with him to give him development projects with the Knights and those mistakes will become less & less. He will play the game as second nature & know were and what to do, without thinking about it. Now, as said earlier, if we could only get one of our other top prospects to develop this confidence?… We’ll see.
An Oakville Blade Eh? Of which I am an alumn. Anyone know if Vern Quigley (H.Coach) is still around? It was Jr. B when I was their. Not sure what league it is now?
So does this open up a spot on the 25 man roster or is there another move to make once Rattie comes back? I cant imagine the Oil taking Cagguilla or Chaisson out of the lineup right now, so it comes down to JP, Yama or Kassian getting pushed down.
Good on management to send him back to London. He got some time to skate with the Oil, netted a goal and looked very promising. We have a great prospect in Bouchard, nice to see they are thinking ahead in terms of player development and the looming expansion draft.
I like how the Oilers handled Bouchard. Keep him up, give him a taste of the NHL and slow play those 7 games. Let him be around the team, practice with the team and especially spend time with Yawney learning. With 3 years of junior already under his belt, it would be better if he could go to the AHL but that can’t happen. He will be a player next year to watch I believe.
The next move they need to make is once Rattie is healthy, send down both Yamo and Puljujarvi. I would have them both in a meeting, tell them how important they are to the team, their future as top 6 guys. Then have a conference call with Woodcroft telling him in front of those 2 how critical they are and how the Oilers want them to play a ton and they be given extra attention. Then when Marody is healthy, I would send him down as well. I would call up Malone and have him sit in the press box watching.
This cant be seen as a negative. It allows Bouchard to play and hone his skills, gives him a chance to captain London to another MasterCard Cup, and allows him to play for gold at the World Juniors. Fantastic decision.
Everyone knew this was coming because for the Oilers to leave Bouchard on the roster wouldn’t have been smart at all especially if he isn’t going to play and only going to get a handful of minutes a night, I am sure they would have loved to have Boucahrd in the AHL playing better competition and a lot of minutes but that option wasn’t available it was on the roster or back to Junior and Juniors was the wise choice.
Like Bear the Oiler and fans can see there is tremendous upside to Bouchard and like Bear areas of his game that need work, but when these two shore those areas of their game up and improve on them that is going to be two future decent D men that they have for down the road that are going to challenge guys for spots
IMO, this was the best move for both Bouchard and the Oilers. The kid has potential and maybe a bright future in the NHL someday. I am glad that they are not going to rush him. He looked okay, but not so good that he had to stay in the line-up. |
At last night’s debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was asked straight up if her Medicare for all plan would raise taxes on the middle class and she refused to answer:
Warren sidesteps the question of whether she supports middle class tax hikes to pay for Medicare for All. As she does with virtually every targeted question ever. — Jedediah Bila (@JedediahBila) July 31, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren refuses to answer whether she backs middle class tax hikes for government health care takeover. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/WvrV4L9aYB — Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) July 31, 2019
And the reasons she’s answering with this BS “less out of pocket” is because she KNOWS taxes will have to go up:
middle class families will pay "less out of pocket" for M4A, per warren. well, what about taxes? point me to a nation on earth with the universal benefits coming close to anything she's advocating without taking the majority of wages from the middle class. — Tiana Lowe (@TianaTheFirst) July 31, 2019
Warren said a lot there but didn’t answer on middle class tax hikes. — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 31, 2019
She dodged when asked about it after the debate as well:
“Costs are going to go up for billionaires, they’re going to go up for giant corporations and out-of-pocket costs for middle-class families are going to go down. It’s costs that matter.”
Elizabeth Warren continues to refuse to answer whether she is going to increase taxes on millions of hard working Americans pic.twitter.com/2lgXsyb3vY — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 31, 2019
Hide your wallets:
To be clear: The subtext of Elizabeth Warren's answer on whether middle-class taxes will go up was that they almost certainly will, maybe by a lot. — Katherine Mangu-Ward (@kmanguward) July 31, 2019
And she should just be honest:
Here is what Warren is not saying. She may in fact raise taxes to pay for more universal health care. When she says middle class costs go down, she means TOTAL costs, total they pay for health care. Which is an important goal. But she is open to raising taxes as part of that. — Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) July 31, 2019
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Caught on camera! Here's a giddy Elizabeth Warren doing a 'wealth tax hand rub' https://t.co/07QQeje7wV — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 31, 2019
KABOOM: Katie Pavlich drops an irony nuke on how Elizabeth Warren ‘closes the night’ at the #DemDebate https://t.co/4LTVqSYKsX — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 31, 2019 |
Los Angeles (AFP) - A state of emergency was declared on Friday in the western US state of Washington following a measles outbreak that has affected more than two dozen people, the majority of them children.
The disease was declared eliminated in the US in 2000 but has since made a comeback that is tied to imported cases and the rise of the anti-vaccine movement.
"Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease that can be fatal in small children," Washington Governor Jay Inslee said in a statement. "The existence of more than 26 confirmed cases in the state of Washington creates an extreme public health risk that may quickly spread to other counties."
The outbreak began near Portland, Oregon, at the start of the year and quickly spread to nearby Clark County and King County, both in Washington.
Health officials have warned that people infected with the disease had visited schools, churches, a dentist's office, a Costco store, an Ikea store and the Portland airport.
The majority of those infected are children, many of whom have not been immunized against the disease, officials said.
They added the outbreak could still be in its infancy as the incubation period of the virus averages 14 days. Those infected can spread measles to others four days before and four days after the rash appears.
The highly contagious disease can cause severe diarrhea, pneumonia and vision loss, and ultimately can be fatal.
The World Health Organization in November warned that measles cases worldwide had jumped more than 30 percent in 2017 compared to the previous year, in part because of children not being vaccinated. |
Experiences of military CRNAs with service personnel who are emerging from general anesthesia.
We conducted this qualitative study to understand the experiences of military Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) working with service personnel who have traumatic brain injury (TBI) and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and are emerging from general anesthesia. This study is important because there are no studies in the literature that describe the experiences of anesthetists working with patients with these specific problems. The leading questions were: "Out of all the anesthesia cases both abroad and stateside (post 9/11/2001), have you noticed service members wake from general anesthesia (not utilizing total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA), in a state of delirium? If so, can you tell me your experiences and thought processes as to why it was occurring?" Five themes emerged: (1) Emergence delirium (ED) exists and to a much higher degree in the military than in the general population. (2) ED was much more prevalent in the younger military population. (3) TIVA was a superior anesthetic for patients thought to have TBI and/or PTSD. (4) Talking to all patients suspected of having TBI and/or PTSD before surgery and on emergence was vital for a smooth emergence. (5) There is something profound happening in regard to ketamine and PTSD and TBI. |
Q:
Lightweight SQL editor for Eclipse
Is there any simple SQL editor in Eclipse? Or do I need to find a simple SQL editor plugin for Eclipse?
By simple I mean, the editor does NOT connect to any DB, does syntax highlighting and preferably formatting sql is a bonus.
A:
for reference to add sql syntax highlighting / coloring to eclipse
you can install Data tools platform extender sdk from "install new software", under Database Development
or enter site location directly
http://download.eclipse.org/datatools/updates
A:
This Eclipse SQL Editor seems very lightweight. It only does syntax highlighting and provides an outline view. As of now the author is planning to eventually add code folding and completion, but those two features are still on the todo list.
A:
Use Toad eclipse-extension (community edition), you will get almost everything you want in an SQL editor. Search for 'toad' in eclipse market place. It has very good Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL support.
Take a look at Installation instructions and screenshots.
Alternatively, there is DBeaver (very good in my experience and support almost all DB's) which is built on eclipse platform and available as standalone and eclipse plugin.
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// Copyright 2015 The etcd Authors
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
package etcdserver
import (
"fmt"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"strings"
"time"
"golang.org/x/net/context"
"github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/netutil"
"github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/transport"
"github.com/coreos/etcd/pkg/types"
)
// ServerConfig holds the configuration of etcd as taken from the command line or discovery.
type ServerConfig struct {
Name string
DiscoveryURL string
DiscoveryProxy string
ClientURLs types.URLs
PeerURLs types.URLs
DataDir string
// DedicatedWALDir config will make the etcd to write the WAL to the WALDir
// rather than the dataDir/member/wal.
DedicatedWALDir string
SnapCount uint64
MaxSnapFiles uint
MaxWALFiles uint
InitialPeerURLsMap types.URLsMap
InitialClusterToken string
NewCluster bool
ForceNewCluster bool
PeerTLSInfo transport.TLSInfo
TickMs uint
ElectionTicks int
BootstrapTimeout time.Duration
AutoCompactionRetention int
QuotaBackendBytes int64
StrictReconfigCheck bool
// ClientCertAuthEnabled is true when cert has been signed by the client CA.
ClientCertAuthEnabled bool
AuthToken string
}
// VerifyBootstrap sanity-checks the initial config for bootstrap case
// and returns an error for things that should never happen.
func (c *ServerConfig) VerifyBootstrap() error {
if err := c.hasLocalMember(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := c.advertiseMatchesCluster(); err != nil {
return err
}
if checkDuplicateURL(c.InitialPeerURLsMap) {
return fmt.Errorf("initial cluster %s has duplicate url", c.InitialPeerURLsMap)
}
if c.InitialPeerURLsMap.String() == "" && c.DiscoveryURL == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("initial cluster unset and no discovery URL found")
}
return nil
}
// VerifyJoinExisting sanity-checks the initial config for join existing cluster
// case and returns an error for things that should never happen.
func (c *ServerConfig) VerifyJoinExisting() error {
// The member has announced its peer urls to the cluster before starting; no need to
// set the configuration again.
if err := c.hasLocalMember(); err != nil {
return err
}
if checkDuplicateURL(c.InitialPeerURLsMap) {
return fmt.Errorf("initial cluster %s has duplicate url", c.InitialPeerURLsMap)
}
if c.DiscoveryURL != "" {
return fmt.Errorf("discovery URL should not be set when joining existing initial cluster")
}
return nil
}
// hasLocalMember checks that the cluster at least contains the local server.
func (c *ServerConfig) hasLocalMember() error {
if urls := c.InitialPeerURLsMap[c.Name]; urls == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("couldn't find local name %q in the initial cluster configuration", c.Name)
}
return nil
}
// advertiseMatchesCluster confirms peer URLs match those in the cluster peer list.
func (c *ServerConfig) advertiseMatchesCluster() error {
urls, apurls := c.InitialPeerURLsMap[c.Name], c.PeerURLs.StringSlice()
urls.Sort()
sort.Strings(apurls)
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.TODO(), 30*time.Second)
defer cancel()
if !netutil.URLStringsEqual(ctx, apurls, urls.StringSlice()) {
umap := map[string]types.URLs{c.Name: c.PeerURLs}
return fmt.Errorf("--initial-cluster must include %s given --initial-advertise-peer-urls=%s", types.URLsMap(umap).String(), strings.Join(apurls, ","))
}
return nil
}
func (c *ServerConfig) MemberDir() string { return filepath.Join(c.DataDir, "member") }
func (c *ServerConfig) WALDir() string {
if c.DedicatedWALDir != "" {
return c.DedicatedWALDir
}
return filepath.Join(c.MemberDir(), "wal")
}
func (c *ServerConfig) SnapDir() string { return filepath.Join(c.MemberDir(), "snap") }
func (c *ServerConfig) ShouldDiscover() bool { return c.DiscoveryURL != "" }
// ReqTimeout returns timeout for request to finish.
func (c *ServerConfig) ReqTimeout() time.Duration {
// 5s for queue waiting, computation and disk IO delay
// + 2 * election timeout for possible leader election
return 5*time.Second + 2*time.Duration(c.ElectionTicks)*time.Duration(c.TickMs)*time.Millisecond
}
func (c *ServerConfig) electionTimeout() time.Duration {
return time.Duration(c.ElectionTicks) * time.Duration(c.TickMs) * time.Millisecond
}
func (c *ServerConfig) peerDialTimeout() time.Duration {
// 1s for queue wait and system delay
// + one RTT, which is smaller than 1/5 election timeout
return time.Second + time.Duration(c.ElectionTicks)*time.Duration(c.TickMs)*time.Millisecond/5
}
func (c *ServerConfig) PrintWithInitial() { c.print(true) }
func (c *ServerConfig) Print() { c.print(false) }
func (c *ServerConfig) print(initial bool) {
plog.Infof("name = %s", c.Name)
if c.ForceNewCluster {
plog.Infof("force new cluster")
}
plog.Infof("data dir = %s", c.DataDir)
plog.Infof("member dir = %s", c.MemberDir())
if c.DedicatedWALDir != "" {
plog.Infof("dedicated WAL dir = %s", c.DedicatedWALDir)
}
plog.Infof("heartbeat = %dms", c.TickMs)
plog.Infof("election = %dms", c.ElectionTicks*int(c.TickMs))
plog.Infof("snapshot count = %d", c.SnapCount)
if len(c.DiscoveryURL) != 0 {
plog.Infof("discovery URL= %s", c.DiscoveryURL)
if len(c.DiscoveryProxy) != 0 {
plog.Infof("discovery proxy = %s", c.DiscoveryProxy)
}
}
plog.Infof("advertise client URLs = %s", c.ClientURLs)
if initial {
plog.Infof("initial advertise peer URLs = %s", c.PeerURLs)
plog.Infof("initial cluster = %s", c.InitialPeerURLsMap)
}
}
func checkDuplicateURL(urlsmap types.URLsMap) bool {
um := make(map[string]bool)
for _, urls := range urlsmap {
for _, url := range urls {
u := url.String()
if um[u] {
return true
}
um[u] = true
}
}
return false
}
func (c *ServerConfig) bootstrapTimeout() time.Duration {
if c.BootstrapTimeout != 0 {
return c.BootstrapTimeout
}
return time.Second
}
func (c *ServerConfig) backendPath() string { return filepath.Join(c.SnapDir(), "db") }
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With three tiers you can easily grow diverse varieties even those requiring different amounts of water fertilizer and maintenance. Great for beginner gardeners-surprise them with a gift. Got a cropped porch or a sloped yard that needs company? Use this garden bed as a stunning nature art that you construct. Crafted of solid wood harvested from the Cypress tree family with decay resistance similar to Western Red Cedar Durable for all seasons Protects roots from becoming waterlogged Compact ideal for smaller gardens Accommodates varieties of many types and sizes Dimensions 48 in. |
Q:
Rails: how do I set an attribute just by calling it
I'm trying to get @user.stripe_customer_id to return a string. If it isn't set, then it should run a call to an external service, set it, and return it.
More verbosely here are my tests:
context 'Stripe ID' do
it 'should not be writable' do
expect { @user.stripe_customer_id = 'random_id_123123' }
.to raise_error(NoMethodError)
end
it 'should be generated if it does not exist' do
@user.save
expect(@user.stripe_customer_id).to include('cus')
end
end
where @user is a valid User << ActiveRecord instance.
Rspec fails with the following:
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:87 # User Stripe ID should be generated if it does not exist
And the User.rb file has the following lines:
def stripe_customer_id
if stripe_customer_id.blank?
stripe = Stripe::Customer.create(
description: "Username: #{username}",
email: email
)
self.stripe_customer_id = stripe.id
save!
end
stripe_customer_id
end
private
def stripe_customer_id=(new_customer_id)
write_attribute(:stripe_customer_id, new_customer_id)
end
A:
You are trying to overwrite the getter method for stripe_customer_id
def stripe_customer_id
self[:stripe_customer_id] || write_attribute(:stripe_customer_id, new_customer_id)
end
This is an untested code which i just wrote up. But i'm pretty sure this should work for your case. Please give it a try an let me know.
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham Stephanie GrishamIvana Trump on Melania as first lady: 'She's very quiet, and she really doesn't go to too many places' The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump uses White House as campaign backdrop Coronavirus tests not required for all Melania Trump speech attendees: report MORE will return to work on Wednesday after testing negative for the coronavirus, a spokesman said.
“Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who has been quarantined since coming in contact with Brazilian officials almost two weeks ago and working from home, has received negative COVID-19 test results and will be back to work tomorrow,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
Grisham, a top aide to President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE, was with the president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida earlier this month when he hosted a Brazilian delegation, including President Jair Bolsonaro. A press aide in the delegation later tested positive for the coronavirus.
It was later announced that Grisham would self-quarantine out of an abundance of caution, joining a number of lawmakers and administration officials who have self-quarantined in recent weeks after coming in contact with someone who had tested positive for the virus.
The president and his coronavirus task force headed by Vice President Pence have launched a public relations blitz to tout the White House's response to the burgeoning virus outbreak, which has infected more than 53,000 people in the U.S. |
There are three basic types of fuel injector systems. Those that use port fuel injection (PFI), gasoline direct injection (GDI), and direct injection (DI). While PFI and GDI use gasoline as the fuel, DI uses diesel fuel. Efforts continue to further develop fuel injector nozzles and fuel injection systems containing the same so as to potentially increase fuel efficiency and reduce hazardous emissions of internal combustion engines, as well as reduce the overall energy requirements of a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine. |
He and his brother Jason recently launched Legal Shred, a mobile service that provides one-time purges or regularly scheduled document destruction on- or off-site for individuals and businesses. The company also destroys all types of X-ray film, hard drives and media, including CDs, DVDs and microfiche.
"Customers can actually see their documents being destroyed rather than just handing them over," Sean Fredericks said. "It's a much more secure process. We have cameras mounted inside the truck and a monitor on the side, so everything can be observed curbside."
Or, if a customer prefers, the pair will pick up materials and haul them away in locked containers to be shredded at the company's secure location. Once that's done, they provide a document of destruction and recycle the remains in Tampa, where they are pulped.
Sean Fredricks, 35, formerly owned a shredding company called Code Shred in Long Island, N.Y, which he sold to Cintas in 2010. He worked as a consultant for Cintas for about a year, oversaw the closing of his business and moved to Apollo Beach to be closer to his family, all of whom live in South Shore communities.
He and Jason, 37, incorporated Legal Shred last year, then spent $250,000 to purchase a 24-foot document-shredding truck, which pierces and tears as much as 8,000 pounds of paper an hour. The company began providing service in April.
Things are progressing well, Sean Fredricks said. Although home base is Hillsborough County, the company already has clients in Charlotte, Pinellas, Sarasota, Polk and Manatee counties as well.
"Right now we're looking for a couple of really large businesses, like a hospital, medical center, financial institution or law firm to add to our customer base," Fredricks said. "Competition is much heavier here and there is more relationship building required, but it's much easier and less expensive to do business. We know it will take time."
Pricing is based on the frequency of the job, which can be daily, weekly, monthly or annually, and the size and number of containers the customer chooses, he said. For one-time purges, there's a minimum fee of $49.95, and the company offers monthly service starting at $19.95.
"Our service is fast, efficient and secure," Fredricks said. "We can shred 10 boxes of documents in three minutes. You don't have to remove metal clips or binders. There's no breaking or jamming or wait."
Legal Shred is a member of the South Shore and Brandon chambers of commerce. |
// Copyright (c) AlphaSierraPapa for the SharpDevelop Team (for details please see \doc\copyright.txt)
// This code is distributed under the GNU LGPL (for details please see \doc\license.txt)
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;
using ICSharpCode.Core;
using ICSharpCode.SharpDevelop.Gui;
namespace ICSharpCode.FormsDesigner.Services
{
public class UIService : IUIService
{
IDictionary styles = new Hashtable();
public IDictionary Styles {
get {
return styles;
}
}
public UIService()
{
styles["DialogFont"] = Control.DefaultFont;
styles["HighlightColor"] = Color.LightYellow;
}
public void SetUIDirty()
{
// TODO: Fixme!
}
#region ComponentEditor functions
public bool CanShowComponentEditor(object component)
{
return false;
}
public bool ShowComponentEditor(object component, IWin32Window parent)
{
throw new System.NotImplementedException("Cannot display component editor for " + component);
}
#endregion
#region Dialog functions
public IWin32Window GetDialogOwnerWindow()
{
return WorkbenchSingleton.MainWin32Window;
}
public DialogResult ShowDialog(Form form)
{
return form.ShowDialog(GetDialogOwnerWindow());
}
#endregion
#region Show error functions
public void ShowError(Exception ex)
{
MessageService.ShowError(ex.ToString());
}
public void ShowError(string message)
{
MessageService.ShowError(message);
}
public void ShowError(Exception ex, string message)
{
MessageService.ShowError(message + Environment.NewLine + ex.ToString());
}
#endregion
#region Show Message functions
public void ShowMessage(string message)
{
ShowMessage(message, "", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
}
public void ShowMessage(string message, string caption)
{
ShowMessage(message, caption, MessageBoxButtons.OK);
}
public DialogResult ShowMessage(string message, string caption, MessageBoxButtons buttons)
{
return MessageBox.Show(GetDialogOwnerWindow(), message, caption, buttons);
}
#endregion
public bool ShowToolWindow(Guid toolWindow)
{
return false;
}
}
}
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Retrovirus infections in a sample of injecting drug users in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil: prevalence of HIV-1 subtypes, and co-infection with HTLV-I/II.
Retrovirus infections among injecting drug users (IDUs), a core at-risk population for both HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II infections in Brazil, were assessed within an ongoing cooperative research. The study assessed the seroprevalences of HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II infections, as well as the prevalence of HIV-1 subtypes in a sample of IDUs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. An attempt to evaluate HIV incidence was carried out using a dual 'sensitive/less sensitive' testing strategy. Cross-sectional evaluation of 175 IDUs. Serostatus for HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II were established by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, and confirmed by western blot. The dual testing strategy aimed to estimate HIV-1 incidence rates. Differentiation between HTLV-I and -II was performed by western blot. DNA samples were polymerase chain reaction amplified by a nested protocol, and HIV-1 subtyping was determined by heteroduplex mobility assay. Forty-six and 29 samples were found to be, respectively, positive for HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II, 15 of them co-infected by both viruses. Among HTLV-I/II-infected patients, 75.9% were infected by HTLV-I. Thirty-one HIV samples were identified as B subtype, with seven of them showing the typical "Brazilian B" pattern in the gp120 V3 loop, and ten were identified as F subtype. The use of less sensitive assays for HIV infection wrongly identified a deeply immunocompromised patient as an incident case. Moderately high seroprevalences were found for both HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II infections, HIV-1/HTLV-I co-infections being of special concern. A non-statistically significant higher prevalence of F subtype was observed, when compared with the distribution of F/B subtypes among Brazilian patients from other exposure categories. No recent HIV-1 infections were detected, but a limitation of the "sensitive/less-sensitive" testing strategy was made evident. |
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash - epi0Bauqu
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
======
boredguy8
Variation and natural selection is nothing like artistic evolution, and
teaching them as though they're the same (or even similar) undermines actual
scientific education.
Kids aren't dumb, and 'packaging' education rarely succeeds.
(It also, on a side note, gives fodder to anti-evolutionists)
~~~
hsmyers
Metaphor isn't the map either, but it works. If you read the article a bit
more closely, you would read that the problem is to find a bit of traction on
students who are primed to walk away. As much as I despise the little rodent,
if Mickey makes it, more power to him(or more to the point to a teacher
determined enough to make a difference.)
~~~
boredguy8
I read the article quite closely, thankyou.
I'd rather have people opposed to a correct understanding of the idea than
embracing a caricature of evolution.
~~~
MJC
I disagree. First of all, we're talking about highschool, so you have to allow
for the fact that we're not going to dive arbitrarily deep into the details
with this audience. For most of these kids, this is probably the first and
only serious conversation about he topic they've ever seen, and many of them
starting from an antagonistic point of view (as was clear in the article).
But is talking about Mickey _incorrect_ in any substantial sense?
No.
The notion that there is a replication/inheritance stage and a death/selection
stage is essentially correct and forms the core of the idea of evolution by
natural selection. That "drawing" is the replication stage and Walt Disney's
managerial decisions (and aesthetic appeal based on which Mickey people find
more attractive) is the selection stage in place is, of course, _artificial_
selection, but that just makes the lesson more general.
If that's all these kids learn about evolution, that's fine.
My only worry is that it puts Walt in the role of God, which plays into the
hands of the creationists this teacher is trying to silence, but not that the
essential ideas are wrong.
|
Festival faces friendly fire in the fight for audiences
CALL it friendly fire but the annual Sydney Festival faces fierce competition to get bums on seats this month.
The battle for audiences is being waged on a number of fronts, from rival Spiegeltents to the steps of the Sydney Opera House, which has its own program of offerings, Summer at the House.
The new director of the Sydney Festival, Lieven Bertels, said he had mixed feelings about his competitors.
''I'm totally at peace with the fact that in a free market, it's actually very good,'' he said.
One of the roles of the Sydney Festival was to provide a stage for new and experimental shows that might not otherwise be produced, he said.
At The Famous Spiegeltent in Hyde Park, for example, proven shows such as the sold-out Cantina helped support new shows such as Inside.
''We can actually only play that role of what I would call planting very exotic trees if we've got the fertile soil to plant them on,'' he said.
Bertels also said there's an element of competition that at some point breaks the bank: ''Then as a society we will have to decide what the role of the festival is.''
The Sydney Festival's chief rival is the Opera House's Summer at the House, which includes children's shows Imaginocean and The Cat in the Hat, the dance show Blaze and La Soiree, a cabaret show that includes many performers who previously appeared in the Sydney Festival's Spiegeltent.
The Festival's opera productions A Masked Ball and Semele Walk are up against Opera Australia productions of La boheme and Il trovatore.
It also competes for family audiences with Belvoir's well reviewed production of Peter Pan. That show, which was turned down by the Sydney Festival, is selling about 200 tickets a day and is on track to sell out, according to Belvoir spokeswoman Elly Clough.
The Opera House's director of programming, Jonathan Bielski said the Opera House earns 40 per cent of its revenue from December to March.
''It's fair to say the Opera House is packed to the rafters and going flat out in January,'' he said.
Bielski said some of the Sydney Festival's offerings would not work at the Opera House but ''obviously our doors are wide open''.
''But the government is giving them money to go west,'' he said. ''Sydney is much bigger than Bennelong Point.''
One of the priorities listed on NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell's website is a ''dedicated Western Sydney program for Sydney Festival'', which has seen a significant push into Parramatta.
In contrast, the CBD opening of the Sydney Festival last weekend was dramatically scaled back to just three events after the NSW government cut its funding.
After its subdued opening the festival gathers pace this weekend with highly anticipated productions The Secret River and Semele Walk, as well as the free Summer Sounds concert in the Domain.
WEEK ONE AT THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL
WHAT'S HOT
Daptone Super Soul Revue An uber groovy line-up from Brooklyn soul-funk revivalists Daptone Records had the Domain shaking in a revue. The true grit of James Brown heir Charles Bradley outshone even the high energy of Sharon Jones.
The Blind Date Project Anna (the project's creator, Bojana Novakovic) has no idea who her potential suitor will be each night. This unscripted theatre work alternates between erotically charged, horribly awkward and wincingly funny.
Cantina Acrobatics, contortionists and illusion are a festival perennial but this sold out Spiegeltent show reinvigorates the adult circus concept.
Eraritjaritjaka Part-concert, part-theatre, part-film. Can be demanding and intellectual but what saves it is the performances and theatrical virtuosity which, at the reveal, draws gasps of delight from the audience.
WHAT'S NOT
Sacre - the Rite of Spring ''Very little movement, none of it dramatic and all of it so basic that you have to wonder why you are there,'' wrote the Herald's Jill Sykes.
Fun Run Tristan Meecham's Domain marathon was hampered by small crowds, heat and competition from a five-storey-high duck in Darling Harbour.
Murder The twisted turn from a company known for entertaining children divided opinion in combining top-notch puppetry with macabre themes.
In the Eruptive Mode A theatrical exploration of the Arab Spring had gripping potential, but wandering monologues depleted its power.
This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited. |
Evaluation of a UV-light emitting diodes unit for the removal of micropollutants in water for low energy advanced oxidation processes.
There is growing interest in using light emitting diodes (LEDs) as alternative to traditional mercury lamps for the removal of micropollutants by advanced oxidation processes due to their low energy consumption and potential for high efficiency and long lifetime. This study investigates the penetration and coverage of the light emitted by LEDs in order to build an optimised LED collimated beam apparatus. From the experimental data, cost analysis was conducted in order to identify when LEDs will become economically viable. It was observed that if their development follows the predictions, LEDs should be a viable alternative to traditional lamps within 7yr for both UV/H2O2 and UV/TiO2 processes. However, parameters such as wall plug efficiency and input power need to improve for LEDs to become competitive. |
Three Sacred Portals of Womanhood
There are many ways to explore the changing stages of a woman’s life.
Though each stage may be symbolized by a woman
of a particular age and phase of life, their aspects interweave within us.
They exist as archetypes, an aspect of the human experience that continually occurs,
a pattern of behavior that becomes represented, or embodied by a symbolic personality.
The Emerging Maiden The Nurturing Mother The Conscious Crone
Space is limited so contact Ymani for more information, or to make your reservation: |
by William Iven Facebookでは以前から「嘘のニュース(フェイクニュース)」やデマの拡散を防ぐための手をいろいろと打っているのですが、新たに、広告のリンク先が事実確認を行う第三者機関によって「虚偽である」と判断された場合に、その広告を表示させない措置を執ることを発表しました。 Blocking Ads from Pages that Repeatedly Share False News | Facebook Newsroom https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/08/blocking-ads-from-pages-that-repeatedly-share-false-news/
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You can read the machine translated English article here. |
Great for garages or game rooms
OPGI now has these sturdy and great-looking bar stools available with your favorite logo. Perfect for your game room, garage or shop, these bar stools come with a durable, heavy-duty vinyl seat with logo, chromed legs and a ball bearing swivel seat. They're 14" wide and 30" tall and some assembly is required. |
Q:
Change colors to table lines
I have:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{orangec}{RGB}{255,158,62}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\cline{1-2}
\rowcolor{orange}\multicolumn{1}{|l}{text} & \\
\cline{1-2}
\rowcolor{orangec}text & text \\
\cline{1-2}
text & text \\
text & text \\
text & text \\
\cline{1-2}
\rowcolor{orangec}text & text \\
\cline{1-2}
text & text \\
text & text \\
text & text \\
& text \\
& text \\
\cline{1-2}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
which gives a table with black lines.
However, I can't change the color of the lines at will.
The result I want is this one:
A:
You can use \multicolumn and !{\color{orangec}\vline} instead of | to change the color of a vertical rule midways:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{orangec}{RGB}{255,158,62}
\begin{document}
\arrayrulecolor{orangec}\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
\rowcolor{orange}\multicolumn{1}{|l}{text} & \\
\arrayrulecolor{white}
\hline
\arrayrulecolor{orangec}
\multicolumn{1}{!{\color{orangec}\vline} l !{\color{white}\vline}}{\cellcolor{orangec}text}
& \multicolumn{1}{l !{\color{orangec}\vline}}{\cellcolor{orangec}text} \\
\hline
text & text \\
text & text \\
text & text \\
\hline
\multicolumn{1}{!{\color{orangec}\vline} l !{\color{white}\vline}}{\cellcolor{orangec}text}
& \multicolumn{1}{l !{\color{orangec}\vline}}{\cellcolor{orangec}text} \\
\hline
text & text \\
text & text \\
text & text \\
& text \\
& text \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
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Q:
How to create a log file that displays the names of files and the contents of it
I have a BAT file that displays the file names of all the CSV files in a specific folder into a log file. It also displays the contents of those CSV files.
dir /b > MM.LOG
type *.csv >> MM.LOG
The way it is outputting is:
File1 Name
File2 Name
File1 Content
File2 Content
Is there a way to get it to display as:
File1 Name / File1 Content
File2 Name / File2 Content
An additional question, the "log" file seems to be saving as a .txt instead of .LOG. How can I fix this?
A:
The type command, when wild-cards like ? and * are used, returns the name or path of each typed file at the STDERR stream, which could be redirected to the STDOUT stream:
type *.csv > MM.LOG 2>&1
The term > MM.LOG, equivalent to 1> MM.LOG, redirects data at stream 1 (STDOUT) to the log file. 2>&1 redirects data at stream 2 (STDERR) to the same target as for stream 1, hence MM.LOG.
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What’s a voice mashup? <ul><li>A mashup takes services or data from two or more sources, typically through APIs, and combines them into a new application </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Typically quick and easy to deploy </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Doesn’t require you to understand the technology behind the services </li></ul></ul><ul><li>A voice mashup simply uses some capability of the voice channel as part of the application </li></ul><ul><li>Can also describe an app that uses the voice channel to power a Web, mobile, or desktop app </li></ul>
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Web APIs: Making things easy for the Web developer <ul><li>Web developers are used to using APIs </li></ul><ul><li>RESTful APIs are key </li></ul><ul><ul><li>HTTP+XML </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Stateless </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Client-server relationship </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Supplemented by libraries for specific programming languages </li></ul>Asterisk and VoiceXML are not tools for Web developers!
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Offering a developer program <ul><li>An API is not enough by itself </li></ul><ul><li>Docs </li></ul><ul><li>Examples </li></ul><ul><li>Forums/Wiki </li></ul><ul><li>Live support </li></ul><ul><li>Getting out there </li></ul>
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an idle rotation speed learning control method and apparatus of an electronically controlled throttle type internal combustion engine. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for learning and correcting a target opening of a throttle valve at the time of idling, in an internal combustion engine having an electronically controlled throttle system for electronically controlling the opening of the throttle valve.
2. Description of the Related Art
Heretofore, there is known an electronically controlled throttle system where the throttle valve is opened and closed by an actuator such as a motor or the like, and a target air quantity is set based on an accelerator operation amount, and the opening of the throttle valve is electronically controlled to an opening giving the target air quantity.
Moreover, there is known a construction where, at the time of idling the engine, while feedback controlling the intake air quantity of the engine so that the engine rotation speed approaches a target idle rotation speed, when predetermined learning conditions materialized, the air quantity due to the feedback correction is learned as a fluctuation amount of a required intake air quantity due to friction of the engine or variations in the combustion efficiency, and a change amount in an opening area with lapse of time due to soiling or blocking of an intake system or deterioration or replacement of other parts, or the like. The intake air quantity and the target opening of the throttle valve are then corrected based on the learned values.
With the system as described above however, which collectively learns the fluctuation amount of the required intake air quantity and the change amount in the opening area only by the feedback control of the engine rotation speed at the idling time, the learning accuracy cannot be increased sufficiently. That is to say, with the above method, a discrepancy between a detection value of the throttle valve opening and the actual opening cannot be learned, and only the discrepancy of the detection value of the throttle valve opening with respect to the fluctuation amount of the required intake air quantity and the change amount in the opening area can be learned. Hence, the target opening of the throttle valve cannot be corrected sufficiently accurately in response to a required engine output.
The present invention addresses the above problems with the object of effecting control in an internal combustion engine comprising an electronically controlled throttle system, which makes the opening of the throttle valve correspond very accurately to the required engine output.
Moreover, it is another object of the present invention to effect control which makes the opening of the throttle valve correspond very accurately to the required engine output over a long period of time.
It is a further object of the present invention to be able to avoid the influence of programming bugs. |
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Q:
How to get all the metadata keys for any ItemGroup item?
Is there a way to get all the metadata keys associated with a given item?
I want to do something like the following.
Given:
<ItemGroup>
<MyItems Include="item1">
<key1>val1</key1>
<key2>val2</key2>
<key3>val3</key3>
</MyItems>
<MyItems Include="item2">
<key4>val4</key4>
</MyItems>
</ItemGroup>
Be able to determine that item1 has metadata available for key1, key2, and key3, and that item2 has metadata available for key4, without knowing what the names of those keys actually are.
In effect, I'm trying to use the metadata to specify attributes that I have no idea about, and then trying to figure out a way to check to see what attributes have been specified.
Put another way, I believe the metadata of each item is just a hash containing key/value pairs and I'm trying to figure out what all the keys are.
Anyone know how to do this with msbuild?
Thanks
A:
I ended up solving this using a custom inline task similar to the following:
<UsingTask
TaskName="GetMetadataTask"
TaskFactory="CodeTaskFactory"
AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll" >
<ParameterGroup>
<MyItemGroup ParameterType="Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITaskItem[]" Required="true" />
<MetadataString Output="true" />
</ParameterGroup>
<Task>
<Using Namespace="System"/>
<Code Type="Fragment" Language="cs">
<![CDATA[
StringBuilder command = new StringBuilder();
foreach (ITaskItem item in MyItemGroup )
{
command.AppendFormat("ItemName={0}\r\n", item);
foreach (string parameter in item.MetadataNames)
{
command.AppendFormat(" {0}={1}\r\n", parameter, item.GetMetadata(parameter));
}
command.AppendFormat("\r\n");
}
MetadataString = command.ToString();
]]>
</Code>
</Task>
</UsingTask>
Note that the above will also include all the default metadata that MSBuild automatically adds to every item in an itemgroup (like FullPath, RootDir, Filename, etc). In my implementation I added an extra check to ignore those metadata items that I didn't care about
Sample usage:
<GetMetadataTask MyItemGroup="@(YourItemGroup)">
<Output TaskParameter="MetadataString" PropertyName="YourMetadataString"/>
</GetMetadataTask>
<Message Text="$(YourMetadataString)" />
To see message output in Visual Studio's Output window, you may need to change your MSBuild output verbosity to at least Normal.
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Blockchain: looking beyond the hype
Businesses would be forgiven for not quite understanding blockchain, but the Irish Computer Society (ICS) is hoping to get them on the right track early.
It’s hard to escape the hype that surrounds blockchain. While it’s true that its potential is significant, the real benefits can get lost in the bluster surrounding it. Businesses themselves may want to know what it’s about, but might not be sure where to start or who to trust.
“It’s not just ICS Skills, it’s the total ecosystem of the Irish Computer Society that’s going to benefit,” explains Friars. “Whatever emerging technologies or groups that are pertinent to our membership are doing, we want to be a part of that. A year and a half ago, I starting looking into blockchain and that’s when I met the guys from the Blockchain Association. They had literally formed the week before I contacted them.
“We’ve been working together over the last few years and then we made this decision to come together and bring their sector expertise into our administrative expertise.”
Blockchain has taken off in the area of cryptocurrencies, but what is exciting is how it could benefit other industries says Friars. It uses a digital ledger, which effectively treats digital assets the same way as physical assets.
“Any of the things you can imagine – like leasing, intellectual property, food safety, pharmaceuticals – anything that requires traceability, that’s where blockchain has massive implications,” he says. “Say for fintech, when you have a distributed ledger embedded into the technologies you’re building, something like blockchain is going to be core to what they’ll be trying to do.
This is a strategic move for the ICS because of the way the multiple membership organisation works. “When we bring in something like the Blockchain Association under our umbrella, all of the associations that are under the ICS umbrella . . . can opt to join.”
ICS is running a halfday conference on blockchain on March 21 to introduce the concept to other sectors. It mightn’t be adopted straight away – there’s still a considerable amount that needs to happen before it becomes commonplace – but it will give members a head-start in understanding it.
Also, the ICS has a reputation for high standards and professionalism. This isn’t just a way to jump on a bandwagon, it’s because it can see the long-term benefits for its members.
“We’re the body in Ireland that’s responsible for IT professionals in Ireland and we bring to the Blockchain Association the same kind of rigour,” says Friars. “Continuous professional development is a big part of [what we do] and we’re always making sure we’re at the cutting-edge of it for all of our members.
“[We help] people who want to get through the hype but understand what are the applications that can make a difference to both their own knowledge and their organisation.
“CIOs are being asked by their boards: ‘What is this blockchain thing?’ And that’s a big question. It needs a lot more time and effort to understand whether there are applications within [a company’s] work environment or strategic plan for their IT.
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Friars likens blockchain to another hot topic for businesses: GDPR. While most businesses only registered it on their radars two years ago when the deadline was announced, ICS members had known about data protection for longer, thanks to its approach.
“It’s interesting because everybody has GDPR written on something that they’re promoting. We’re been involved with the Association of Data Protection Officers since 2008 and it’s funny to see the number of organisations that have woken up in the last year and a half. This is something that has been embedded in the way we’ve taught and we’ve grown out the organisation for years now.”
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Children with dyslexia reveal abnormal native language representations: evidence from a study of mismatch negativity.
Although a deficit perceiving phonemes, as indexed by the mismatch negativity (MMN), is apparent in developmental dyslexia (DD), studies have not yet addressed whether this deficit might be a result of deficient native language speech representations. The present study examines how a native-vowel prototype and an atypical vowel are discriminated by 9-year-old children with (n = 14) and without (n = 12) DD. MMN was elicited in all conditions in both groups. The control group revealed enhanced MMN to the native-vowel prototype in comparison to the atypical vowel. Children with DD did not show enhanced MMN amplitude to the native-vowel prototype, suggesting impaired tuning to native language speech representations. Furthermore, higher MMN amplitudes to the native-vowel prototype correlated with more advanced reading (r = - .47) and spelling skills (r = - .52). |
Statistics can sometimes be deceiving. They can also be revealing. So the question posed to Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg was simple: What does he make out of the fact that the Eagles are 3-0 when LeSean McCoy gets at least 20 carries, and 0-6 when he gets fewer than 20 carries?
"I make that we're in four-minute [offense] at the end of the game, so he gets a few more carries," Mornhinweg said. "It's just simple."
This is a factual inaccuracy, though. McCoy has had five carries in the final four minutes of wins this season. Five.
Told that the Eagles came from behind in their wins, Mornhinweg didn't waver.
"I think LeSean is eighth in carries and fourth in total touches; I don't think there's a problem there," Mornhinweg said. "Every game is different. You have to dig into every game. And usually the ball carriers a few more carries when you're ahead in the four minute and toward the end of the game."
Mornhinweg was correct about the amount of carries and touches that McCoy has. So it's not as if he isn't being used. But the carries number is telling -- 20 or more, the Eagles win. Twenty or fewer, the Eagles lose. |
During the coming year we propose to pursue an examination of the role of the platelet in the pathogenesis of human disease by studies in both experimental animals and in man. Both baboons (Papio cynocephalus) and monkeys (Macaca nemestrina) will be used as experimental animals in carrying out quantitative measurements of endothelial cell loss and proliferation, platelet accumulation and turnover, and measurement of intimal lesion formation in the following experimental settings: 1) hypoxia, 2) antiendothelial cell antibody infusion, and oral sulfinpyrazone administration throughout, 3) three months of sustained homocystinemia, and 4) six months of hyperlipidemia. The relative thrombogenicity of selected prosthetic materials and fabrications will also be determined using the ex vivo baboon A-V shunt. Platelet involvement in human disease will be explored by simultaneously measuring 51Cr-platelet survival, 14C-serotonin platelet survival, and platelet factor IV in selected patients representing a spectrum of vascular disease including: 1) hyperlipidemia; 2) coronary artery disease with a history of successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation; 3) renal vascular disease; 4) diabetes mellitus; 5) scleroderma; and 6) malignancy. |