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The industrial use of enzymes is often limited by their high cost and rapid inactivation. Soluble enzymes are lost with the product at the conclusion of a process, and must be replenished. One means to improve the economic feasibility of enzymes for industrial processes is through enzyme immobilization onto a matrix, which may facilitate their re-use. Immobilization research has focused upon means to enhance the transfer of enzymes onto the support, and upon means to ensure that the immobilized enzymes remain active. Inactivation of enzymes during catalytic turnover is another key obstacle which limits the economic feasibility of enzyme-mediated processes. Enzymes may be inactivated by extremes of temperature, pH, shear, and also by free radicals and other reactive species present in the reaction medium. Immobilization technology has the potential to reduce such enzyme inactivation, and thus extend their useful lifespans. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 4, (2000), 137-141, Ganesh K et al, teaches that during the production or downstream processing of an enzyme it is always subjected to shear stress, which may deactivate the enzyme. This susceptibility of enzymes to shear stress is a major concern as it leads to the loss of enzyme activity and is, therefore, a major consideration in the design of the processes involving enzyme production and its application. In this reference, cellulase enzyme was subjected to shear stress in a stirred reactor with an objective of investigating its deactivation under various conditions, such as different agitation speeds, concentrations of enzyme, concentrations of buffer, pH ranges, buffer systems and the presence of gas-liquid interface. It was found that the extent of deactivation depends upon the conditions under which the enzyme was subjected to shear. For industrial use, it is generally not sufficient for only one of these obstacles to be overcome. For example, a stable, immobilized enzyme that cannot be easily recovered or reused offers few advantages. Similarly, an immobilized enzyme that is easily recovered and reused, but does not maintain its activity over an extended period offers few advantages over a process mediated by soluble enzymes, since, in both cases, the enzymes must be replenished at frequent intervals. The main goals are to produce a stable immobilized enzyme, which can also be efficiently and completely recovered, so that its useful lifespan is many times greater than the single use afforded by a soluble enzyme. An enzyme recovery system is therefore of paramount importance. To date, immobilized enzyme/reactor technologies have focused on “in situ” enzyme preparations, in which the enzymes are retained within the reactors, while the process fluid is passed through. This prevents loss of the enzyme with the process fluid, and allows the enzyme to be used several times. Examples include, enzymes immobilized within gels which are used within a packed bed reactor, and enzymes attached to, or retained within, semi-permeable, hollow, fiber membranes. Enzymes have also been incorporated within monoliths, such as those used in an automobile catalytic converter, wherein the fluid containing the substrate passes through the monolith. Unfortunately, enzymes “entrapped” within gels are subject to mass transfer limitations, which may dramatically reduce the performance of the immobilized enzymes, relative to soluble enzymes. The use of enzymes in packed beds is seemingly attractive in that the immobilized enzyme is retained within the reactor, while the process fluid containing substrate and product passes through. However, such an arrangement may be limited by mass transfer outside the particle, due to restriction of fluid flow around the tightly packed particles. To avoid extra-particle mass transfer limitations, relatively large particles are used for the immobilized enzyme. However, larger particles lead to greater mass transfer limitations within the particle, and consequently, it is necessary to choose a particle size that balances intraparticle and extraparticle mass transport. Furthermore, a packed-bed arrangement is only practical if the substrate is easily transported through the packed bed. Replacing the immobilized enzyme in such a reactor may also be time-consuming as to lead to significant process “down-time”. Thus, the economic benefits are only realized if the enzyme is very stable, and it does not need frequent replacement. Packed bed reactors and other types of “in situ” immobilized enzyme reactors, such as monoliths and hollow fibers, can be prone to plugging. Consequently, they may be inappropriate if the substrate is insoluble, for e.g., in a slurry. In all cases, in situ preparations rely on the transport of the substrate to the immobilized enzyme, either by convection or diffusion. If flow is “segregated”, as in a slurry, or there is insufficient mixing, or if the substrates are bulky and have low diffusion rates, such substrate-enzyme contact may be hindered and lead to dramatically reduced efficiency and performance. Since some of the key industrial enzymatic processes involve slurries, e.g., starch hydrolysis and pulp processing, there is a need for an immobilized enzyme reactor process that differs from the traditional “in situ” immobilized enzyme reactor. A particular example of an immobilized enzyme reactor is that which is used for isomerization of dextrose to fructose. A solution of soluble dextrose passes through a bed of immobilized glucose isomerase at such a rate as to ensure a specific product, namely, fructose, concentration at the bed outlet. Owing to continuous inactivation of the immobilized enzyme, the flow rate through the packed bed reactor must be continuously reduced, to ensure that the fructose concentration of the effluent is held constant. It is often necessary to reduce the feed flow rate by a factor of ten or more throughout the “useful” lifespan of the immobilized enzyme. However, such a reduction in flow rate also leads to a proportional reduction in the rate of production of fructose. Consequently, an array of generally 20 or more reactors is used, each of which reactor contains immobilized glucose isomerase of a different age, and each with a different, continuously changing flow rate (H. S. Olsen, Enzymatic Production of Glucose Syrups, in Handbook of Starch Hydrolysis Products and Their Derivatives, M. W. Kearsley and S. Z. Dziedzic, eds., Blackie Academic and Prof. Publishers (Chapman and Hall), Glasgow, 1995). By combining the effluent from each reactor, the average production rate of fructose is kept relatively constant. Once the immobilized enzyme reaches the end of its useful lifespan, that reactor in the array is taken out of service, and the immobilized enzyme is replaced with fresh enzyme. Unfortunately, such a process arrangement is cumbersome and complex, and the capital cost is high due to the number of reactors required, and the need for complex valving and process control equipment to manage the adjustment of fluid flow rates to each reactor in the array. A further disadvantage of such an arrangement is the production of “color” and other “off-flavor” reversion byproducts, which are more likely to be generated at low flow rates and thus, high residence times. Thus, improvements in immobilized enzyme technology and enzyme recovery methods could dramatically simplify this process, and improve its economics. U.S. Pat. No. 5,177,005, issued Jan. 5, 1993—Lloyd and Antrim, describes a continuous process for production of fructose involving glucose isomerase adsorbed onto a support such as a resin. The reactor was packed with excess resin as a support and, periodically, fresh, soluble glucose isomerase was added to compensate for the inevitable loss of activity of the previously immobilized enzyme. In trials, fresh glucose isomerase was added approximately every 3 weeks, on average, to keep the dextrose conversion between 40 and 44%. Over a 27 week trial, the quantity of soluble enzyme added represented approximately 4 times the quantity of enzyme originally present in the reactor. Unfortunately, such additions can only continue as long as there is binding capacity on the resin. Once the resin is fully loaded, additional soluble glucose isomerase may confer little benefit, unless the inactivated enzyme is somehow removed from the support. At this point, the process must either be shut down to replace the gel, or run in a “variable flow rate mode”, similar to that with traditional immobilized glucose isomerase, described hereinbefore. U.S. Pat. No. 4,033,820, issued Jul. 5, 1977—Brouillard R. E. describes another in situ immobilized enzyme preparation based on a highly porous, spongy starch gel, modified to act as a support for the enzymes. It was acknowledged that this approach is only suitable for substrates that are soluble in water and that slurries cannot be processed. Another challenge with this approach is the degradation of the starch support gel. Several exotic cross-linking treatments are required if the support is to be used for enzymes that degrade starch, e.g., amylase and glucoamylase. Bactericides, such as formaldehyde or chlorine, were used to regularly wash the column to prevent bacterial contamination. U.S. Pat. No. 4,209,591, issued Jun. 24, 1980 to Hendriks P., describes a multistage fluidized bed process involving countercurrent flow of an immobilized enzyme and substrate solution. The system is designed such that nearly all of the activity of the immobilized enzyme has been lost by the time it reaches the outlet of the multistage unit. Thus, this operation also involves a “single use” of enzyme, since the enzyme is not recovered or reused. Sieve plates or mesh screens may be used between and within stages to regulate the transfer of immobilized enzyme and substrate from one compartment to the next. In principal, this process is amenable to the use of substrate slurries, however, the particle sizes of the substrate and immobilized enzyme must be small enough to pass through the sieve or mesh. Furthermore, an extremely narrow particle size distribution is required for the immobilized enzyme, to prevent its separation into various sized fractions during operation. It is well accepted that for proper fluidization, the flow rate of the substrate solution is determined in large part by the size and shape of particles and the particle density relative to that of the fluid. Other examples aimed at multiple use of immobilized enzymes include U.S. Pat. No. 4,442,216, issued Apr. 10, 1984 to Harvey, D. G., U.S. Pat. No. 4,511,654, issued Apr. 16, 1985 to Rohrbach et al, and U.S. Pat. No. 4,594,322, issued Jun. 10, 1986 to Thompson G. J. The former describes a screw-type reactor that includes a screw-lift mechanism and conveyor to recover the immobilized enzyme, wash it and return it to the inlet of the reactor. U.S. Pat. No. 4,511,654 describes an immobilized glucoamylase packed bed reactor with subsequent substrate recycle via an ultrafiltration membrane. The enzyme in this process is, thus, in situ. This process is suitable for soluble sugar feedstocks only. Aforesaid U.S. Pat. No. 4,594,322 describes a similar process in which the hydrolysis products are separated into a glucose-rich stream and a polysaccharide-rich stream, the latter of which is recycled to pass again through the reactor containing immobilized enzyme. U.S. Pat. No. 4,844,809, issued Jul. 4, 1989 to Yoshiro et al, describes the use of a hollow fiber membrane for removal of fine particles from a reaction solution. While the inventors cite this invention for other purposes, such as the removal of impurities, such a technique could also, conceivably, be used to retain enzymes immobilized to fine particles within a hollow fiber reactor, e.g. “Ultrafiltration Separation of Cellulase and Glucose for a Lignocellulosic Biomass to Ethanol Process”, J. S. Knutsen and R. H. Davis, Conference Proceedings, Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, Breckenridge, Colo., May. 6-9, 2001. Consequently, applications of immobilized enzymes have been essentially restricted to in situ preparations, usually within packed bed reactors. Such processes, although technically and, occasionally economically feasible, may be unnecessarily cumbersome. They may also be unsuitable for process streams in which the substrate is present as a slurry. An immobilized enzyme process capable of processing slurries, and/or which avoids the complexity required to account for enzyme inactivation within in situ preparations, e.g. production of HFCS, would be extremely advantageous. Slurries cannot be processed using an in situ immobilized enzyme within a packed bed or monolith reactor, due to plugging of the bed or monolith, and mass transfer problems that limit immobilized enzyme-substrate contact. A design in which the immobilized enzyme is free to circulate within the reactor can overcome these limitations. However, a means to facilitate recovery and reuse of the immobilized enzyme is also required. There is, therefore, a need for an immobilized enzyme recovery process which enables the immobilized enzyme to be reused and, preferably, recycled within a full enzymatic treatment plant, wherein substrate feedstock is enzymatically treated with particulate immobilized enzyme.

Q: Can INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT queries be put in the same file I have folders and pages /admin/add/index.php, /admin/edit/index.php & /admin/view/index.php which all are requiring page /admin/php.php which has all of my php code for each, I'm getting fail to open stream errors. Should I be seperating them with <? ?> or is doing what I'm doing not possible or the best approach? My admin/php.php file: <?php FOR ADD CONTACT PAGE require ("../../dbandpassword.php"); $ID = $_POST['ID']; $firstname = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['firstname']); $lastname = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['lastname']); $sql = "INSERT INTO table (firstname, lastname) VALUES ('$firstname', '$lastname')"; mysqli_query($con,$sql) or die ("Error: ".mysqli_error($con)); header("location: http://www.mydomain.com/admin/edit/?ID=".mysqli_insert_id($con)); exit; } FOR EDIT CONTACT PAGE require ("../../dbandpassword.php"); $ID = $_POST['ID']; $firstname = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['firstname']); $lastname = mysqli_real_escape_string($con,$_POST['lastname']); $sql = "UPDATE table SET `firstname` = '$firstname', `lasttname` = '$lastname' WHERE `table`.`ID` = '$ID' LIMIT 1"; mysqli_query($con,$sql) or die ("Error: ".mysqli_error($con)); FOR VIEW CONTACT PAGE require ("../../dbandpassword.php"); $ID = $_GET['ID']; $sql = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE ID='$ID' limit 1" or die ('Error: ' .mysqli_error()); $query = mysqli_query($con,$sql) or die ('Error: ' .mysqli_error($con)); $row = mysqli_fetch_array($query); $space = (!empty($row['firstname']) && !empty($row['lastname'])) ? ' ' : ''; $name = $row['firstname'].$space.$row['lastname']; mysqli_query($con,$sql) or die ("Error: ".mysqli_error($con)); FOR VIEW ALL CONTACTS PAGE require ("../dbandpassword.php"); $ID=$_GET['ID']; $query = "SELECT * FROM table WHERE firstname IN ('Bob','Joe') AND lastname = 'Smith' ORDER BY date DESC"; $result=mysqli_query($con,$query); while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) { $space = (!empty($row['firstname']) && !empty($row['lastname'])) ? ' ' : ''; $name = $row['firstname'].$space.$row['lastname']; mysqli_query($con,$query) or die ("Error: ".mysqli_error($con)); } ?> A: Its better to create a php file and then create separate function for each of the action like function insert() { } function delete() { } function update() { } function fetch() { }

During processing of silver halide color photographic elements, the developed silver is oxidized to a silver salt by a suitable bleaching agent. The oxidized silver is then removed from the element in a fixing step. The most common bleaching solutions contain complexes of ferric ion and various organic ligands. One primary desire in this industry is to design bleaching compositions that are more compatible with the environment. Thus it is desirable to reduce or avoid the use of ferric complexes as bleaching agents. Peracid bleaching solutions, such as those containing peroxide and persulfate bleaching agents, offer an alternative to the ferric complex bleaching solutions. They are less expensive and present lower chemical and biological demands on the environment since their by-products are less harmful. While persulfate bleaching agents have low environmental impact, they have the disadvantage that their bleaching activity is slow and thus requires the presence of a bleaching accelerator. However, the most useful accelerators are thiols that have undesirable odors. Because hydrogen peroxide reacts and decomposes to form water, a peroxide-based bleaching solution offers many environmental advantages over persulfate and ferric complex bleaching solutions. Many publications describe peroxide bleaching solutions, including U.S. Pat. No. 4,277,556 (Koboshi et al). The described peroxide bleaching agents are catalyzed by various metal ions and are generally stable in an acidic environment. However, these acidic bleaching solutions are not rehalogenating or silver retentive (that is, the developed silver can be oxidized to a soluble salt, and undeveloped silver halide remains in the element). Because of the toxicity of silver, its level in effluent is highly regulated, and photofinishers are often required to recover silver from the fixing solution. Photofinishers would rather not have to recover silver from both a bleaching solution and a fixing solution because of the added expense. Thus, it is desirable that the bleaching solution be silver retentive by containing halide ion. Yet, raising the level of halide ion in the bleaching solution to make it silver retentive, deactivates the bleaching agent under these acidic conditions. U.S. Pat. No. 4,301,236 (Idota et al) and U.S. Pat. No. 4,328,306 (Idota et al) describe acidic peroxide bleaching solutions that contain a ferric complex catalyst. The bleaching solutions are silver retentive, but the presence of the iron destabilizes the system because iron is a well-known catalyst for peroxide decomposition. WO-A-92/07300 (published Apr. 30, 1992) and EP 0 428 101A1 (published May 22, 1991) generally describe alkaline peroxide bleaching solutions that are rehalogenating. Although these alkaline solutions are quite active toward silver oxidation, they suffer from poor stability and are considered useful only with high chloride (&gt;90 mole %) silver halide emulsions. Despite all of the efforts of researchers in the art, no peroxide bleaching solution or method has been commercialized because of the various problems including vesiculation (blistering of the photographic element from the evolution of oxygen), poor bleaching efficiency and instability. There remains a need, therefore, for highly efficient peroxide bleaching that does not suffer from the problems noted above. Particularly, it is desirable that such bleaching be carried out with stable solutions (that is, solutions that suffer little decomposition of the peroxide), and be highly efficient in bleaching a variety of photographic elements including those having emulsions having &lt;90 mole % silver chloride.

An 84-year-old man with continuing iron deficiency anemia was referred to our hospital. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and ileocolonoscopy showed no significant hemorrhagic lesions. The patient underwent retrograde balloon-assisted enteroscopy (BAE). A laterally spreading tumor (LST)-like tumor with an erythematous perimeter was detected in the ileum 60 cm from the ileocecal valve ([Picture 1](#g001){ref-type="fig"}, [2](#g002){ref-type="fig"}). An analysis of the biopsy specimen revealed a neoplastic lesion, and the tumor was surgically resected. The definitive diagnosis according to a pathologic analysis was intramucosal adenocarcinoma with no adenomatous component and without vascular or lymphatic invasion ([Picture 3](#g003){ref-type="fig"}, [4](#g004){ref-type="fig"}). LSTs are flat, elevated neoplastic lesions that normally occur in the colon and are considered to be early cancerous lesions ([@B1]). Small bowel (SB) cancer is extremely rare, comprising only 3% of all gastrointestinal tumors ([@B2]). SB cancers are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, with circular SB stenosis as a presenting symptom. We herein report the first case of LST-like adenocarcinoma in the SB that was detected during BAE. {#g001} {#g002} {#g003} {#g004} **The authors state that they have no Conflict of Interest (COI).** [^1]: Correspondence to Kento Takenaka, <ktakenaka.gast@tmd.ac.jp>

New Bidcon distribution partner in Singapore 2017-03-10 Elecosoft management are pleased to announce its new Singaporean distribution partner, DK Outsource Ltd, for Bidcon® estimating software. This is consistent with Elecosoft’s strategy to make its market leading software available to an international audience. Dennis Kwok at DK Outsource Ltd, comment on the partnership with Elecosoft; “We are pleased to work with Elecosoft as it provides digital construction solutions that address the significant parts of a construction project. Elecosoft Bidcon with its scalable cost plans and 3D models can drive greater productivity and attain efficiency benefits. We are truly glad to be in partnership with Elecosoft. “ Tomas Marklund, International Sales Manager for Elecosoft says; “Our opportunity to go international with Bidcon increases with DK Outsource as partner. They have experience with similar products and they have knowledge of the construction business in Singapore which places both companies in a good position to succeed through its partnership” Dennis Kwok further commented on Bidcon and the market in Singapore; “Bidcon allows us to define the way we want to work. It is flexible and has dynamic templates and reports that enable Builders and Consultants to identify the most cost-effective solutions and revise estimates accordingly. Bidcon is also available with a BIM option which gives a true 5D environment for costing and estimating. The Singapore market has grown significantly in the adoption of BIM and BIM related software to enhance productivity. Prime target includes Builders, Consultants and Developers that need to comply with regulatory requirements as well as established firms that aspire to improve productivity and competitiveness.” About DK OutsourceDK Outsource Ltd delivers value-added services to the members of the building and construction industry in affordable cost and project management. Cost-related services include tender measurements, development of cost estimates, and preparation of tender documents, re-measurements and final account finalization among others. Project management services include scheduling, site meetings, sourcing and negotiation among others.

1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to a safety device arranged on the movable excavation devices of an underground mine. 2. Description of Related Art Such a personnel protection system is employed in underground mining operations in the areas proximate to all moving machines and machine components, for example planes, shearers, loading machines, conveyors, conveyor vehicles, and similar machines. The safety area associated with these personnel protection systems should correspond as precisely as possible to the area affected by the machines, in order to avoid superfluous work halts. This is especially important for shield mining in a longwall mine, because the number of support shields along a longwall can range from 100 to 300 units; for this reason, on the one hand, comprehensive personnel protection is difficult, and on the other hand, losses resulting from unnecessary stoppages and the associated disruptions of operations are high. Shields are included in the definition of the term “support shields” in this description, or more generally as excavation devices. This description of the invention relates primarily to applications in longwall coal mining and to the support shields/chocks utilized therein. As in the case of many other excavation devices those support shields in a longwall mine are moved automatically or by remote control, depending on the position and direction of movement of the mining machine. Particularly in the case of automatic processes, visual and acoustic warning signals are given. Nevertheless, a risk still exists, particularly for persons who are unexpectedly incapable of moving, or for any other reason cannot reach the emergency shutoff switch. For the protection of all personnel in a longwall mine, it is possible to monitor their current location. With the provision of current locations for personnel, the excavation devices which pose a danger for those persons can be blocked manually or automatically by electronic control. For the purpose of detecting the current location of each person present in the longwall mine, each person is equipped with an element which is detected by a “reading device” associated to each excavation device. The presence of the element and person is then signaled to excavation device controller (device controller unit, particularly support shield controller unit) or the central control (longwall controller unit). There are two possibilities for the technical implementation of this approach: i. Each person in the longwall mine carries a passive element, for example a coil or a passive transponder. In each excavation device/support shield, an active transmitter/receiver element is installed, which detects this passive element. or i. Each person in the longwall mine is equipped with an active transmitter/receiver element which is normally in standby mode (sleep mode). An element attached to each excavation device, e.g. support shield, initially activates the transmitter/receiver worn by the person, at which point said transmitter/receiver is detected and identified by means of its signals. Such safety devices are known for support shields (chocks) from DE10029918A1 and the prior art referenced therein. In that case, the device is intended to ensure that no person is located in the area of motion in which the machine travels when the support shield is in motion. For this purpose, the area of motion is scanned by sensors which are simultaneously activated by the control unit for the support shield upon every movement of the same. Even with this method, safety cannot be ensured in a comprehensive manner. These sensors (DE10029918A1) arranged on the support shields execute self tests at regular or irregular intervals. However it cannot be ruled out that the passive element (coil or passive transponder), or the active transmitter/receiver element which must be worn by each person, is defective or is failing for another reason to function correctly, or the safety areas of the excavation devices do not fully extend to cover all possible personnel locations. This can occur particularly in the case of coal seams with larger thicknesses. The problem addressed by the invention is that of removing these gaps in the area of protection.

Q: How to compute the fundamental group from first homology group? I have been reading about the fundamental group and its connection to the first homology group. In fact, there is an isomorphism $$\pi_1^{ab}(X,x_0) \to H_1(X)$$ for every path-connected topological space $X$. So this provides a tool to compute the first homology group for a path-connected space when already knowing the fundamental group of that space just by dividing out the commutator subgroup. I'm interested in a converse statement: Is it possible to compute the fundamental group $\pi_1(X,x_0)$ of a pointed space by knowing the homology group? In case yes, what are the assumptions to make? Thank you for your help! Tom A: There are some conditions that guarantee that the fundamental group of a space will be abelian. For example, if the fundamental group of an H-space is abelian. In these cases, the first homology group will be isomorphic to the fundamental group (if the space is path connected). Otherwise, if you're only given the data of $H_1(X)$, you cannot compute $\pi_1(X)$ from that. The reason is simple: if you're given the abelianization of a group $G_{ab}$, the group $G$ could be pretty much anything. It could be the product of $G_{ab}$ with a perfect group, or some other extension of $G$... To give you an example, a knot in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is almost determined by the fundamental group of its complement (as far as I remember, you also need to specify some orientation -- a knot theorist could correct me if I remember incorrectly). But it's also a theorem that the first homology group of this complement is always $\mathbb{Z}$! Even though knot complements are very well-behaved spaces, you still get a lot with the same first homology group. In fact the noncommutativity of $\pi_1$ can lead to "strange" situations. For example, if the fundamental group is abelian, then trivial homology ($\tilde{H}_*(X) = 0$) implies trivial homotopy ($\pi_*(X) = 0$). But when the fundamental group is not abelian, then it's not true anymore, and there are in fact tons of so-called acyclic spaces whose homology vanish but who are not contractible. Their fundamental group will be perfect because of the Hurewicz isomorphism, but after that (almost) all bets are off. See for example Acyclic spaces by Dror Farjoun. So not even the whole homology of a space is enough to determine the fundamental group if you don't know that it's abelian. Another example of possible condition is "$X$ is a co-H-space". The fundamental group of $X$ is then free, so the rank of the abelianization is enough to find $\pi_1$ up to isomorphism. I think you can even find the generators by considering lifts of generators of $H_1$.

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Experts are full of valuable knowledge and are ready to help with any question. Credentials confirmed by a Fortune 500 verification firm. Get a Professional Answer Via email, text message, or notification as you wait on our site. Ask follow up questions if you need to. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee Rate the answer you receive. Ask UKfamsol Your Own Question UKfamsol, Family Solicitor Category: Family Law Satisfied Customers: 560 Experience: Very experienced specialist family law solicitor, qualifed in 1994 40487810 Type Your Family Law Question Here... UKfamsol is online now Type your legal question here My husband and I have separated Customer Question Type your legal question here My husband and I have separated due to his excessive use of alcohol and having caught him with another woman, he left the property last Saturday. I met with him yesterday to discuss the house and he is refusing to pay the mortgage anymore and said he is signing all rights over to me. His earnings is 48,000 per year and I am 5 months pregnant working part time earning approx. 150.00 per week. I also have a 13year old daughter living with me. I have asked him if he could continue to pay the mortgage until our baby is born in August but his response was 'Iam looking out for myself now and I will not be paying the mortgage anymore' I just want to know where I stand legally? The mortgage is in my husbands name, however my name is on the deeds of the property. Fees were paid for my name to go on the property but my husband never followed through on the matter and the offer expired. he was informed of this by letter. he has savings of up to 27,000 and a pension of 12,000 per year and an annual income of 35,000 approx. A 2 or 3 bedroom house would cost approx. 700-750 to rent per month. To buy would be in the excess of 200,000. I intend to divorce my husband and he is out of the property as of 2 weeks ago approx. Can you help? 1) You have clear grounds for a divorce based on your husband's behaviour. I would advise you to issue divorce proceedings as soon as possible, as the only way to get a legally-binding agreement in relation to finance and property is within divorce proceedings. That can be either a consent order (if you reach agreement) in which case neither of you will need to go to court, or a final order following contested proceedings, both equally binding. 2) Given the enormous difference between your husband's income and your own income, you have a strong case for maintenance pending suit ie maintenance for yourself until a final financial order is made by the court to cover all the matrimonial assets as well as maintenance. 3) Rearding the financial situation overall, you haven't said how much the house you are currently living in is worth, nor have you said how much is the total mortgage on that property. Without those figures, I can't give you a detailed answer. But what I can say is that once a divorce petition has been filed at court, if you & he cannot agree how the assets should be divided, either side can apply to court to ask the court to decide how the matrimonial assets ahould be divided. The matrimonial assets are everything in your name, everything in his name and everything in joint names, including any savings of either of you, and pension entitlements. The court could for example order that the house is put into your name (if it is not already) and that your husband pays a lump sum to reduce the mortgage to a level that you could manage, and in return, you might agree not to make a claim against his pension - this is only a suggestion, and I don't have all the information necessary to be able to predict what the court might order. However, going to court is expensive, time-consuming and stressful, so if you can possibly reach agreement with your husband, that would be better. You can negotiate either between yourselves, or via solicitors' correspondence or via mediation. Mediation is a round-the-table discussion with you and your husband, together with a trained and neutral mediator, whose aim is to help a you both reach a fair and workable compromise. Here's where to find a family mediation service local to you: http://www.familymediationhelpline.co.uk/find-service.php The family court anyway now requires the parties to have attempted mediation before it will consider an application to court. If mediation fails and you do decide to apply to court or you just want some face-to-face legal advice, here's where to find a specialist family law solicitor: http://www.resolution.org.uk/findamember/ From what you say, ir wasn't clear to me whether the house was now in your sole name or not. If it is not, then you need to register a matrimonial homes right of occupation at the Land Registry, to protect yourself aginst the possibility that he might try to sell the property without your being aware of this. Either way, you need to inform the building society of the situation, and see if they will give you a payment holiday or at least allow you to make interest-only payments for a while, to give you a breathing space. You can claim child support from him as soon as the baby is born. Here's where to find out more about child support: http://cmoptions.org/ If you are no longer being financially supported by your husband, then you should be eligible to claim working family tax credits and child tax credits. The best place to get help with claiming benefits is the Citizens' Advice Bureau. Here's where to find their local branch: http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice.htm I hope I've given you some idea on how to move forward, and that this helps. 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A state lawmaker is taking up the fight of a Douglas County teenager whose school district, he says, is discriminating against him. Sen. Chris Holbert shared Ben Wann’s story on the Senate floor. The teen has epilepsy. If he has a seizure, the only drug that could save his life is a cannabis-based nasal spray. Ben’s mom, Amber Wann, says she couldn’t get to her son’s school, Mountain Vista High School, in time and, she says, he’s deathly allergic to the medicine on ambulances. The family begged the Douglas County School Board to let volunteers at school keep and administer the nasal spray. It refused.

Spray nozzle A spray nozzle is a precision device that facilitates dispersion of liquid into a spray. Nozzles are used for three purposes: to distribute a liquid over an area, to increase liquid surface area, and create impact force on a solid surface. A wide variety of spray nozzle applications use a number of spray characteristics to describe the spray. Spray nozzles can be categorized based on the energy input used to cause atomization, the breakup of the fluid into drops. Spray nozzles can have one or more outlets; a multiple outlet nozzle is known as a compound nozzle. Spray nozzles range from heavy duty industrial uses to light duty spray cans or spray bottles. Single-fluid nozzle Single-fluid or hydraulic spray nozzles utilize the kinetic energy of the liquid to break it up into droplets. This most widely used type of spray nozzle is more energy efficient at producing surface area than most other types. As the fluid pressure increases, the flow through the nozzle increases, and the drop size decreases. Many configurations of single fluid nozzles are used depending on the spray characteristics desired. Plain-orifice nozzle The simplest single fluid nozzle is a plain orifice nozzle as shown in the diagram. This nozzle often produces little if any atomization, but directs the stream of liquid. If the pressure drop is high, at least , the material is often finely atomized, as in a diesel injector. At lower pressures, this type of nozzle is often used for tank cleaning, either as a fixed position compound spray nozzle or as a rotary nozzle. Shaped-orifice nozzle The shaped orifice uses a semispherical shaped inlet and a V notched outlet to cause the flow to spread out on the axis of the V notch. A flat fan spray results which is useful for many spray applications, such as spray painting. Surface-impingement single-fluid nozzle A surface impingement nozzle causes a stream of liquid to impinge on a surface resulting in a sheet of liquid that breaks up into drops. This flat fan spray pattern nozzle is used in many applications ranging from applying agricultural herbicides to row crop to painting. The impingement surface can be formed in a spiral to yield a spiral shaped sheet approximating a full cone spray pattern or a hollow-cone spray pattern. The spiral design generally produces a smaller drop size than pressure swirl type nozzle design, for a given pressure and flow rate. This design is clog resistant due to the large free passage. Common applications include gas scrubbing applications (e.g., flue-gas desulfurization where the smaller droplets often offer superior performance) and fire fighting (where the mix of droplet densities allow spray penetration through strong thermal currents). Pressure-swirl single-fluid spray nozzle Pressure-swirl spray nozzles are high-performance (small drop size) devices with one configuration shown. The stationary core induces a rotary fluid motion which causes the swirling of the fluid in the swirl chamber. A film is discharged from the perimeter of the outlet orifice producing a characteristic hollow cone spray pattern. Air or other surrounding gas is drawn inside the swirl chamber to form an air core within the swirling liquid. Many configurations of fluid inlets are used to produce this hollow cone pattern depending on the nozzle capacity and materials of construction. The uses of this nozzle include evaporative cooling and spray drying. Solid-cone single-fluid nozzle One of the configurations of the solid cone spray nozzle is shown in a schematic diagram. A swirling liquid motion is induced with the vane structure, however; the discharge flow fills the entire outlet orifice. For the same capacity and pressure drop, a full cone nozzle will produce a larger drop size than a hollow cone nozzle. The coverage is the desired feature for such a nozzle, which is often used for applications to distribute fluid over an area. Compound nozzle A compound nozzle is a type of nozzle in which several individual single or two fluid nozzles are incorporated into one nozzle body, as shown below. This allows design control of drop size and spray coverage angle. Two-fluid nozzles Two-fluid nozzles atomize by causing the interaction of high velocity gas and liquid. Compressed air is most often used as the atomizing gas, but sometimes steam or other gases are used. The many varied designs of two-fluid nozzles can be grouped into internal mix or external mix depending on the mixing point of the gas and liquid streams relative to the nozzle face. Internal-mix two-fluid nozzles Internal mix nozzles contact fluids inside the nozzle; one configuration is shown in the figure above. Shearing between high velocity gas and low velocity liquid disintegrates the liquid stream into droplets, producing a high velocity spray. This type of nozzle tends to use less atomizing gas than an external mix atomizer and is better suited to higher viscosity streams. Many compound internal-mix nozzles are commercially used; e.g., for fuel oil atomization. External-mix two-fluid nozzles External mix nozzles contacts fluids outside the nozzle as shown in the schematic diagram. This type of spray nozzle may require more atomizing air and a higher atomizing air pressure drop because the mixing and atomization of liquid takes place outside the nozzle. The liquid pressure drop is lower for this type of nozzle, sometimes drawing liquid into the nozzle due to the suction caused by the atomizing air nozzles (siphon nozzle). If the liquid to be atomized contains solids an external mix atomizer may be preferred. This spray may be shaped to produce different spray patterns. A flat pattern is formed with additional air ports to flatten or reshape the circular spray cross-section discharge. Control of two-fluid nozzles Many applications use two-fluid nozzles to achieve a controlled small drop size over a range of operation. Each nozzle has a performance curve, and the liquid and gas flow rates determine the drop size. Excessive drop size can lead to catastrophic equipment failure or may have an adverse effect on the process or product. For example, the gas conditioning tower in a cement plant often utilizes evaporative cooling caused by water atomized by two-fluid nozzles into the dust laden gas. If drops do not completely evaporate and strike a vessel wall dust will accumulate, resulting in the potential for flow restriction in the outlet duct, disrupting the plant operation. Rotary atomizers Rotary atomizers use a high speed rotating disk, cup or wheel to discharge liquid at high speed to the perimeter, forming a hollow cone spray. The rotational speed controls the drop size. Spray drying and spray painting are the most important and common uses of this technology. Ultrasonic atomizers This type of spray nozzle utilizes high frequency (20–180 kHz) vibration to produce narrow drop-size distribution and low velocity spray from a liquid. The vibration of a piezoelectric crystal causes capillary waves on the nozzle surface liquid film. An Ultrasonic nozzle can be key to high transfer efficiency and process stability as they are very hard to clog. They are particularly useful in medical device coatings for their reliability. Electrostatic Electrostatic charging of sprays is very useful for high transfer efficiency. Examples are the industrial spraying of coatings (paint) and applying lubricant oils. The charging is at high voltage (20–40 kV) but low current. Nozzle performance factors Liquid properties Almost all drop size data supplied by nozzle manufacturers are based on spraying water under laboratory conditions, . The effect of liquid properties should be understood and accounted for when selecting a nozzle for a process that is drop size sensitive. Temperature Liquid temperature changes do not directly affect nozzle performance, but can affect viscosity, surface tension, and specific gravity, which can then influence spray nozzle performance. Specific gravity Specific gravity is the ratio of the mass of a given volume of liquid to the mass of the same volume of water. In spraying, the main effect of the specific gravity Sg of a liquid other than water is on the capacity of the spray nozzle. All vendor-supplied performance data for nozzles are based on spraying water. To determine the volumetric flowrate Q, of a liquid other than water the following equation should be used. Viscosity Dynamic viscosity is defined as the property of a liquid that resists change in the shape or arrangement of its elements during flow. Liquid viscosity primarily affects spray pattern formation and drop size. Liquids with a high viscosity require a higher minimum pressure to begin spray pattern formation and yield narrower spray angles compared to water. Surface tension The surface tension of a liquid tends to assume the smallest possible size, acting as a membrane under tension. Any portion of the liquid surface exerts a tension upon adjacent portions or upon other objects that it contacts. This force is in the plane of the surface, and its amount per unit of length is surface tension. The value for water is about 0.073 N/m at 21 °C. The main effects of surface tension are on minimum operating pressure, spray angle, and drop size. Surface tension is more apparent at low operating pressures. A higher surface tension reduces the spray angle, particularly on hollow cone nozzles. Low surface tensions can allow nozzles to be operated at lower pressures. Nozzle wear Nozzle wear is indicated by an increase in nozzle capacity and by a change in the spray pattern, in which the distribution (uniformity of spray pattern) deteriorates and increases drop size. Choice of a wear-resistant material of construction increases nozzle life. Because many single fluid nozzles are used to meter flows, worn nozzles result in excessive liquid usage. Material of construction The material of construction is selected based on the fluid properties of the liquid that is to be sprayed and the environment surrounding the nozzle. Spray nozzles are most commonly fabricated from metals, such as brass, Stainless steel, and nickel alloys, but plastics such as PTFE and PVC and ceramics (alumina and silicon carbide) are also used. Several factors must be considered, including erosive wear, chemical attack, and the effects of high temperature. Applications Automotive coating: automotive coating demands droplet from 10-100 micron size uniformly deposited on substrate. Applications of spray technology are more pronounced during the course of base and clear coatings process which are encompassed as the last stages in automotive coating. Among others rotary bells mounted on robots and hvlp (high volume, low pressure) sprayers are widely used Spray drying See also Nozzle Nebulizer Pesticide application Ilass Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems Spray bottle References Category:Nozzles Category:Articles containing video clips

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Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 I did my part...I voted for every song and only once for the songs with two polls. Do I get a cookie? Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:47 pm by willbreathes Fee wrote:I did my part...I voted for every song and only once for the songs with two polls. Do I get a cookie? This guy is hand-delivering one for ya... hopefully it makes it. Last day to vote!! (maybe) Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:46 pm by willbreathes Forum locked, Bracket Buster coming shortly. Random draw. Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:37 pm by willbreathes This may blow up in my face. Odd number of entries for a bracket buster... I decided to leave a few off the big show. It made it (somewhat) easier. If you even notice the ones missing.. good for you. I was pretty confident with the drawing they got, they were not getting passed the first round anyways. So... I'm making this up as I go, brackets have been made. Almost time to rock n roll. Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:35 am by ghost_2000 Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:53 am by Ship Of Fools Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 9:39 pm by The Ubiquitous Smokey Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:09 am by willbreathes Polls closed. Now who wants a burger? Re: Polls Open January 1st, 2009 Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:27 pm by ghost_2000 Damn...hard to believe it's been almost 2 years since the polls opened.

Novel therapies for oral lichen planus. Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic mucocutaneous disorder commonly found in middle-aged women. Despite the progress in research and advance in knowledge on OLP, a successful management is still difficult to achieve. The main aim of OLP treatment is to control the symptoms of the affected patients. Steroids and other immunosuppressive drugs have been recommended and widely used in the treatment of OLP. Topical corticosteroids are the mainstay of OLP treatment, but strong evidence on their effectiveness is lacking. The effectiveness of alternative ways of managing OLP has been recently reported. Topical aloe vera, topical pimecrolimus and oral curcuminoids are the most promising of the new treatment modalities. Other interesting modalities are topically applied thalidomide and amlexanox. Nevertheless, the careful assessment between the risks and benefits of these drugs is crucial and larger and well-conducted trials need to confirm the above encouraging results.

You are here community wireless networks This article reviews recent developments in several countries and regions (including Australia, Africa, the EU and North America), that aim to provide free or low-cost access to modern telecommunication services, especially through community wireless networks (CWNs) such as guifi.net. From Do-It-Yourself satellites to open-source GSM, these projects offer non-commercial alternatives to present telecommunications services.

Q: How can I remove the margins around text in a WPF label? I am trying to make a little virtual keyboard out of labels. The following is my keyboard in XAML (but with more than just 3 keys): <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center"> <Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="DarkGray"> <Label Content="A" FontSize="12" MouseDown="KeyButton_Click" /> </Border> <Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="DarkGray"> <Label Content="B" FontSize="12" MouseDown="KeyButton_Click" /> </Border> </StackPanel> <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Center"> <Border BorderThickness="1" BorderBrush="DarkGray"> <Label Content="C" FontSize="12" MouseDown="KeyButton_Click" /> </Border> </StackPanel> </StackPanel> The problem with this is that there is too much space surrounding the text in the labels, causing the keyboard to be much bigger than it needs to be. If I manually set the height and width of the labels, that will (1) not account for differences in fonts and (2) will cut of part of the letter rather than the top and left margins. Is there any other way to shrink these margins to be just about the same size as the text itself? A: Set padding to 0. I had the same problem. Upon examining the properties of a label in the properties window, I discovered the default padding of a label is 5. Setting it to 0 did the trick. A: Use TextBlock instead of Label

Seth Edulji Dinshaw Seth Edulji (or Eduljee) Dinshaw (died 8 May 1914) was an Indian philanthropist. Business interests A member of the Parsi community, he made his initial fortune during the Second Afghan War (1878–1881) by being a contractor for the British Army. He then took his wealth and invested it in land and factories which reaped him huge rewards. By the late nineteenth century, he owned around half of the city of Karachi, and the local government is believed to have placed an informal ban on his acquiring any more. His enterprises included a factory for pressing cotton and wool for export and an ice factory. He also had substantial landholdings in Mumbai. Philanthropy He donated large sums of money for various charitable works which benefited both his own community as well as the general public at large. These included: Hospitals and dispensaries Lady Dufferin Hospital. When the Vicerene, Lady Dufferin, collected funds to build a hospital in Karachi in 1884, she collected Rs 10,000 from the whole population of the city. Edulji Dinshaw, personally, gave Rs 85,000. Edulji Dinshaw Dispensary. In 1882, Edulji Dinshaw commissioned the architect James Strachan to build an Italianate charitable dispensary in Saddar in Karachi - the dispensary still functions today. Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw Dispensary Education, art and architecture In 1885 and again in 1887, he gave Rs. 3000/- towards the college fund of Sind Art College in Karachi. He donated a bust of King Edward VII which stood in Frere Hall in the Civil Lines area of Karachi. In 1890, he also commissioned a marble fountain, which had seraphs as the central feature of its design, which stands in the gardens of Frere Hall, and which has fallen into disrepair in recent years In the 1910s he donated Rs 75,000 to the Mama Parsi Girls' School in Karachi, and started a hostel in the school. Parsi community The Bachubai Edulji Dinshaw Nirashrit Fund The Soonabai Edulji Dinshaw Charitable Fund Other involvements He was a Director of Land and Shipping Co and a delegate of the Parsi Matrimonial Court. He was also a Trustee of the Karachi Port Trust (KPT), located on Eduljee Dinshaw Road, and a member of Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC). British honour For his services to the public, he was the first person in the city to be appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE). The award was announced in the 1899 New Year Honours list on 2 January 1899, and he was invested by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 1 March 1900. Death On 8 May 1914, while on his way to England, he died at sea, near Port Said, Egypt. In recognition of his contribution, and that of his first son Nadirshaw, to the city of Karachi, statues of them were placed at the intersection of Karachi's main roads in the 1930s. When unveiling the statue of Edulji Dinshaw, Sir Frederick Sykes, then Governor of Bombay, remarked that 'It is peculiarly appropriate that the city of Karachi should choose Mr Edulji Dinshaw as a fitting subject to be honoured by the erection of a statue in one of the most imposing and important sites in the whole town, for he had the vision to recognise fully the possibilities of greatness that the city held and also contributed very largely himself to developing it.' After partition, the statues were removed, and can now be seen in the grounds of the Karachi Parsi Institute. Family He had two sons, Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw and Framroze Edulji Dinshaw (known as FE Dinshaw). His first son, Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw, continued his business in Karachi and also his philanthropic ways. His second son, FE Dinshaw, took over the family's properties in Mumbai, and went on to become one of prepartition India's most prominent businessmen and lawyers. Framroze Edulji Dinshaw had one son, Edulji F. Dinshaw, and two daughters, Bachoobai and Markie (who died at a young age). Edulji and Bachoo settled at 1080 Fifth Avenue in New York in the 1940s. Edulji and Bachoo died in 1970 and 2003 respectively, without children. Gallery His grandson Hoshang NE Dinshaw, who was Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw's oldest son, played an important part in the economic development of Pakistan, including as the President of the Central Board of Directors of the National Bank of Pakistan. The descendants of Seth Edulji Dinshaw have kept up his philanthropic tradition. The Edulji Dinshaw family remains particularly noted for their charitable donations, especially to non-Parsis. References Further reading The Karachi Zoroastrian Calendar, A record of Important Events in the Growth of the Parsi Community in Karachi. compiled by Jehangir Framroze Punthakey, Translated English version. Reprinted in 1996. Category:Parsi people Category:1914 deaths Category:Indian philanthropists Category:People from Karachi Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire Category:Year of birth missing Category:Indian Zoroastrians

Q: Он предлагал ей все деньги мира – лишь бы она продала ему картину. Он предлагал ей все деньги мира – лишь бы она продала ему картину. Скажите, пожалуйста, можно считать выделенный фрагмент целевым придаточным? (предлагал с какой целью? - чтобы продала) или это самостоятельное предложение, выражающее желание? Спасибо! A: Да, это придаточное цели, для связи вместо обычного союза ЧТОБЫ используется союз-частица ЛИШЬ БЫ. Такие СПП считаются специализированными по тематике. Частица ЛИШЬ БЫ вносит в предложение компонент особой желательности, а в главной части присутствует особая лексика (способен, согласен на всё), выражающая высокую готовность субъекта к действию (предлагал все деньги мира).

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Q: Get shell environment for use with execle I have program that needs to run other programs. It works fine when ran from normal terminal session. When ran with initscript, it doesnt get normal shell environment and most programs fail. So how can i get it to work with initscript? vixie-cron seems to use execle() and pass envp as argument. But im having hard time to figure out how does it get the shell env settings. Here is the current code that doesnt work properly with initscript: pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } else if (pid == 0) { execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, (char *) NULL); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } EDIT: Something strange happened. Now the same program runs fine even when started by init script. Im sorry, this was kind of useless question. Anyways i got good answers. Thank you for help. A: Environment variables are passed to and accessed by your program with the optional third main() argument. Simply prototype your main function like this : int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]) ... to gain access to these variables. You can then pass it directly to the exec*e() family functions. You can see this documented in the execve(2) man page.

Q: how to choose file with certain extension? ruby I want ruby to look for a file in the current folder that ends with a certain extension. The extension would be .app.zip How would I do this? A: To get the first matching file in the current directory, you can use: file=Dir['*.app.zip'].first Or to find all .app.zip files in certain directory, for example files/*.app.zip, you can use something like : Dir[File.join('files', '*.app.zip')].each |file| puts "found: #{file}" end

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Q: Postgres running but not functioning with no errors A bit odd, but I followed the instructions here for installing and getting up and running on Postgres. I'm in the command prompt, commands seem to go through, but then nothing seems to take (except \l or \q). I've tried command with a semicolon and without. Nothing seems to work. Here is an example (please note that the database is never created): #psql postgres=# createdb test postgres-# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres (3 rows) postgres-# createdb test; ERROR: syntax error at or near "createdb" LINE 1: createdb test A: createdb is a command line tool like psql, it's not a SQL command. To create a database within psql use the SQL command create database

package test.kang.serviceloader; import java.util.ServiceLoader; import test.kang.serviceloader.service.IService; /* * 加载服务之前，要确保服务已经注册 * 注册文件固定位于{class根目录}/META-INF/services目录下 */ public class ServiceLoaderTest01 { public static void main(String[] args) { // 加载服务（懒加载） ServiceLoader<IService> serviceLoader = ServiceLoader.load(IService.class); // 使用服务 for(IService service : serviceLoader) { System.out.println(service); } } }

This is especially true for projects in Los Alamos. The complete streets project on Trinity Drive hasn’t even begun yet and already there is public outcry about what may or may not be developed on that stretch of road. During Tuesday night’s county council meeting, Los Alamos resident Howard Cady spoke to council regarding the plans for a complete street on Trinity Drive. He said he wanted to alert council to the fact that there’s trouble coming. Cady said he and his wife have been attending the meetings of the Downtown Streets Committee, as well as the public meetings that have been held to discuss the project. Because of these meetings, Cady said he felt compelled to address council. He followed up those comments in an interview Thursday. “It has looked to me like they are ignoring the engineering problems with what they’re trying to do. I don’t think that all of the members of the council were aware that was going on,” Cady said. He says his main concern was to wake the council up and get them to pay more attention to what their boards were doing. “When it comes to the street, I’m concerned about things like traffic flow. It sounds like that part of Trinity is carrying about 11,000 cars an hour,” Cady said. “It looks like they’re trying to put through two plans of which most of the people are leaning towards this roundabout solution,” he continued. He also said that he’s been trying to get the Planning and Public Works departments as well as emergency, rescue and the fire departments together so they can say, “yes this will work, or there’s a major flaw that needs to be addressed.” So far, however, Cady has been unsuccessful at getting these departments to address the situation. While Cady does not have a concrete vision for Trinity, he did say that good traffic counts need to be collected and staff needs to make sure their plans will work. “I think they need to address the full length of Trinity and Central and Canyon Road as a unit,” Cady commented. “It might be well to try and make Central take pedestrian and bicycle traffic and keep Trinity primarily for vehicle traffic.” He also said he’d like to see county staff consider all of the roads between Diamond Drive and the airport as a unit so they address the entire traffic flow problem at one time and can then decide what should be done. “Whatever they do will not affect me because I can dodge it and go through whatever route I want to,” Cady said. So far, three different options were presented to the public during the Complete Streets Workshop held on March 5. Those three options for Trinity were whittled down from seven options that had been presented at a meeting that was held prior to the workshop. Though the public was given the opportunity to rate the three options, Los Alamos County Planner Paul Belson wants to make clear that there is no concrete plan in place just yet. “We’re still in the phase of gathering public input. That will last a couple months from now,” he said. Belson said he will give presentations to community organizations in the near future. In addition, he will visit with the planning and zoning commission in a workshop format sometime in the future, as well. In addition, he will also brief council sometime next month. “We haven’t made any decisions or recommendations. We’re still having meetings and letting the public know what we’re doing. We’re gathering feedback,” he assured. Though one of the options features four roundabouts, Belson said that they’re not sure where the roundabouts would go. “Those ideas are to stimulate dialog and discussion. The ultimate decision will be with council,” Belson said. Public Works Director Kyle Zimmerman concurred with Belson on the fact that there are no immediate plans to revamp Trinity. “There’s no project,” Zimmerman said simply. “We’re not setting up to rebuild Trinity next year. There’s a huge misconception.” However, Zimmerman said the state is doing a project on DP Road and Central, towards the airport. Getting the state to maintain N.M. 502 has been a real challenge, Zimmerman said. “There are areas where the curb and gutters are almost disintegrating,” he said. The county is trying to get the state to meet its maintenance obligations. He said that whatever vision staff comes up with for Trinity, they want to make sure that things line up. “We don’t want to construct something today that we have to reconfigure in the not-so-near future,” Zimmerman said. “We want to find out what the community’s vision for the road is so when the state does their projects and developments alongside Trinity, we can make sure that vision is met.” In an effort to test how the three different Trinity options would work in real life, Zimmerman said that his staff is running the scenarios through traffic simulation software. “We need answers. You wouldn’t want to make a decision to go one way and find out it was the wrong decision. Council is asking that the state come up and present the N.M. 502 project to them. They have also asked for street standards. That should happen sometime in May,” Zimmerman said. In the meantime, residents are encouraged to attend the Complete Streets meeting and give staff their feedback and ideas about the possible project before a plan is put in motion. The Downtown Streets Committee holds meetings twice monthly, on the first and third Thursdays of the month. For more information on the meetings, visit the county’s website at www.losalamosnm.us, or call the Community Development Department at 662-8120.

Q: Wireshark plugin - dlg_utils in dissector I've been trying to incorporate some GUI utils in a dissector which is being developed as a plugin for Wireshark. The functionalities I need are the ones declared in ui/gtk/dlg_utils.h, specially the function dlg_window_new. I have linked libgtkui.lib in the relevant Makefile, but this library apparently requires the linkage of many other ones. Should libgtkui.lib be kind of stand-alone? If it should, what is being done wrong? If it should not, which other libraries should be linked with it? Thanks in advance! A: I've been trying to incorporate some GUI utils in a dissector That's not supported; there is no guarantee that it will work. (Dissectors are linked into TShark, which does not have and will not ever have a GUI, does not link with any GUI library, and is intended to be able to be built even if the target platform has no support for a GUI, just support for the command line.) The GUI should be implemented using a tap; see doc/README.tapping and various taps in the ui/gtk source directory.

Jack & Jill Preschool welcomes its LKG students It was a bright, sunny and a beautiful morning with a clear blue sky on the 6th of April 2011. On this day, the teachers of Jack & Jill Bhavans, Mangaf LKG wing were excited and anxious to greet their new batch of students as they renewed their commandments – to look beneath the grin, to look beyond the tears, the frowns and the fears, the runny nose and the endless doubts – to look for that which sparkles to search beneath the surface and to find gold in each and every student. To welcome the children some icebreakers were presented that morning. “The Three Little Pigs”, a skit presented by the LKG teachers amused & enthralled the children putting them at ease. The children swayed to the music of “Old McDonald” & “Mulberry Bush” & clapped merrily to the tunes along with their teachers as they looked forward to a happy & fun filled year. The principal Mrs. Rathi Ravindran, Vice Chairperson Mrs. Indu Bala Khandelwal and Richa Khandelwal were present to cheer the children and wish them their very best on their first day at Kindergarten.

Kin vandalize Odisha hospital over patient’s death Situation remains tense at Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (VIMSAR) in Odisha’s Burla as the relatives of a patient ransacked the casualty ward of the government-run hospital late last night following his death. The patient, identified as Himanshu of Atachakipada, was admitted to the surgery ward of the hospital on October 22 following complaints of pain in his chest. He was discharged yesterday. However, relatives brought him back to the hospital once again later yesterday after he complained of pain, barely hours after he was discharged from the hospital. “The doctors discharged him even before the disease was cured. That is why we had to bring him back to the hospital again. His condition was serious and I repeatedly called the doctors to attend to him. However, they left him unattended and asked me to get the doctors from the surgery ward. The patient died while I kept running here and there to get a doctor,” complained a relative of the deceased. While the kin alleged medical negligence, the doctors on duty refuted the charge and claimed that the patient was dead on arrival. Besides, the PG students of the medical college have demanded arrest of those involved in vandalism and have threatened to stop emergency service at the casualty in case their demands are not met. “We tried to treat him after he was brought to casualty, but he was already dead by then. The patient was dead on arrival,” said Dr Arbinda Dash. Both parties have filed complaints against the other at local police station and cops have been deployed at the hospital premises to keep a vigil on any development. “Police were alerted after the kin of the patient started ransacking the hospital. The PG students, who treat the patients at the casualty, were also there. Police and the hospital superintendent spoke to both parties and the situation is under control now. We have deployed force to keep a tab over the situation,” said Abakash Routray, SDPO of Sambalpur. “Both the PG students and the relatives of the patient have lodged complaints against each other at the police station. We are investigating the matter and action would be taken based on the findings,” he added.

/** * @license * Copyright Google LLC All Rights Reserved. * * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license */ import { ActiveDescendantKeyManager } from '@angular/cdk/a11y'; import { Directionality } from '@angular/cdk/bidi'; import { SelectionModel } from '@angular/cdk/collections'; import { CdkConnectedOverlay, Overlay, RepositionScrollStrategy, ScrollStrategy, ViewportRuler } from '@angular/cdk/overlay'; import { AfterContentInit, ChangeDetectorRef, DoCheck, ElementRef, EventEmitter, InjectionToken, NgZone, OnChanges, OnDestroy, OnInit, QueryList, Renderer2, SimpleChanges } from '@angular/core'; import { ControlValueAccessor, FormGroupDirective, NgControl, NgForm } from '@angular/forms'; import { CanDisable, ErrorStateMatcher, HasTabIndex, MatOptgroup, MatOption, MatOptionSelectionChange } from '@angular/material/core'; import { MatFormField, MatFormFieldControl } from '@angular/material/form-field'; import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable'; import { Subject } from 'rxjs/Subject'; /** * The following style constants are necessary to save here in order * to properly calculate the alignment of the selected option over * the trigger element. */ /** The max height of the select's overlay panel */ export declare const SELECT_PANEL_MAX_HEIGHT = 256; /** The panel's padding on the x-axis */ export declare const SELECT_PANEL_PADDING_X = 16; /** The panel's x axis padding if it is indented (e.g. there is an option group). */ export declare const SELECT_PANEL_INDENT_PADDING_X: number; /** The height of the select items in `em` units. */ export declare const SELECT_ITEM_HEIGHT_EM = 3; /** * Distance between the panel edge and the option text in * multi-selection mode. * * (SELECT_PANEL_PADDING_X * 1.5) + 20 = 44 * The padding is multiplied by 1.5 because the checkbox's margin is half the padding. * The checkbox width is 20px. */ export declare const SELECT_MULTIPLE_PANEL_PADDING_X: number; /** * The select panel will only "fit" inside the viewport if it is positioned at * this value or more away from the viewport boundary. */ export declare const SELECT_PANEL_VIEWPORT_PADDING = 8; /** Injection token that determines the scroll handling while a select is open. */ export declare const MAT_SELECT_SCROLL_STRATEGY: InjectionToken<() => ScrollStrategy>; /** @docs-private */ export declare function MAT_SELECT_SCROLL_STRATEGY_PROVIDER_FACTORY(overlay: Overlay): () => RepositionScrollStrategy; /** @docs-private */ export declare const MAT_SELECT_SCROLL_STRATEGY_PROVIDER: { provide: InjectionToken<() => ScrollStrategy>; deps: typeof Overlay[]; useFactory: (overlay: Overlay) => () => RepositionScrollStrategy; }; /** Change event object that is emitted when the select value has changed. */ export declare class MatSelectChange { source: MatSelect; value: any; constructor(source: MatSelect, value: any); } /** @docs-private */ export declare class MatSelectBase { _renderer: Renderer2; _elementRef: ElementRef; constructor(_renderer: Renderer2, _elementRef: ElementRef); } export declare const _MatSelectMixinBase: (new (...args: any[]) => HasTabIndex) & (new (...args: any[]) => CanDisable) & typeof MatSelectBase; /** * Allows the user to customize the trigger that is displayed when the select has a value. */ export declare class MatSelectTrigger { } export declare class MatSelect extends _MatSelectMixinBase implements AfterContentInit, OnChanges, OnDestroy, OnInit, DoCheck, ControlValueAccessor, CanDisable, HasTabIndex, MatFormFieldControl<any> { private _viewportRuler; private _changeDetectorRef; private _ngZone; private _defaultErrorStateMatcher; private _dir; private _parentForm; private _parentFormGroup; private _parentFormField; ngControl: NgControl; private _scrollStrategyFactory; /** Whether or not the overlay panel is open. */ private _panelOpen; /** Whether filling out the select is required in the form. */ private _required; /** The scroll position of the overlay panel, calculated to center the selected option. */ private _scrollTop; /** The placeholder displayed in the trigger of the select. */ private _placeholder; /** Whether the component is in multiple selection mode. */ private _multiple; /** Comparison function to specify which option is displayed. Defaults to object equality. */ private _compareWith; /** Unique id for this input. */ private _uid; /** Emits whenever the component is destroyed. */ private _destroy; /** The last measured value for the trigger's client bounding rect. */ _triggerRect: ClientRect; /** The aria-describedby attribute on the select for improved a11y. */ _ariaDescribedby: string; /** The cached font-size of the trigger element. */ _triggerFontSize: number; /** Deals with the selection logic. */ _selectionModel: SelectionModel<MatOption>; /** Manages keyboard events for options in the panel. */ _keyManager: ActiveDescendantKeyManager<MatOption>; /** View -> model callback called when value changes */ _onChange: (value: any) => void; /** View -> model callback called when select has been touched */ _onTouched: () => void; /** The IDs of child options to be passed to the aria-owns attribute. */ _optionIds: string; /** The value of the select panel's transform-origin property. */ _transformOrigin: string; /** Whether the panel's animation is done. */ _panelDoneAnimating: boolean; /** Strategy that will be used to handle scrolling while the select panel is open. */ _scrollStrategy: any; /** * The y-offset of the overlay panel in relation to the trigger's top start corner. * This must be adjusted to align the selected option text over the trigger text. * when the panel opens. Will change based on the y-position of the selected option. */ _offsetY: number; /** * This position config ensures that the top "start" corner of the overlay * is aligned with with the top "start" of the origin by default (overlapping * the trigger completely). If the panel cannot fit below the trigger, it * will fall back to a position above the trigger. */ _positions: { originX: string; originY: string; overlayX: string; overlayY: string; }[]; /** * Stream that emits whenever the state of the select changes such that the wrapping * `MatFormField` needs to run change detection. */ stateChanges: Subject<void>; /** Whether the select is focused. */ focused: boolean; /** A name for this control that can be used by `mat-form-field`. */ controlType: string; /** Trigger that opens the select. */ trigger: ElementRef; /** Panel containing the select options. */ panel: ElementRef; /** Overlay pane containing the options. */ overlayDir: CdkConnectedOverlay; /** All of the defined select options. */ options: QueryList<MatOption>; /** All of the defined groups of options. */ optionGroups: QueryList<MatOptgroup>; /** Classes to be passed to the select panel. Supports the same syntax as `ngClass`. */ panelClass: string | string[] | Set<string> | { [key: string]: any; }; /** User-supplied override of the trigger element. */ customTrigger: MatSelectTrigger; /** Placeholder to be shown if no value has been selected. */ placeholder: string; /** Whether the component is required. */ required: any; /** Whether the user should be allowed to select multiple options. */ multiple: boolean; /** * A function to compare the option values with the selected values. The first argument * is a value from an option. The second is a value from the selection. A boolean * should be returned. */ compareWith: (o1: any, o2: any) => boolean; /** Value of the select control. */ value: any; private _value; /** Whether ripples for all options in the select are disabled. */ disableRipple: boolean; private _disableRipple; /** Aria label of the select. If not specified, the placeholder will be used as label. */ ariaLabel: string; /** Input that can be used to specify the `aria-labelledby` attribute. */ ariaLabelledby: string; /** An object used to control when error messages are shown. */ errorStateMatcher: ErrorStateMatcher; /** Unique id of the element. */ id: string; private _id; /** Combined stream of all of the child options' change events. */ readonly optionSelectionChanges: Observable<MatOptionSelectionChange>; /** Event emitted when the select has been opened. */ openedChange: EventEmitter<boolean>; /** Event emitted when the select has been opened. */ readonly _openedStream: Observable<void>; /** Event emitted when the select has been closed. */ readonly _closedStream: Observable<void>; /** * Event emitted when the select has been opened. * @deprecated Use `openedChange` instead. */ onOpen: Observable<void>; /** * Event emitted when the select has been closed. * @deprecated Use `openedChange` instead. */ onClose: Observable<void>; /** Event emitted when the selected value has been changed by the user. */ selectionChange: EventEmitter<MatSelectChange>; /** * Event emitted when the selected value has been changed by the user. * @deprecated Use `selectionChange` instead. */ change: EventEmitter<MatSelectChange>; /** * Event that emits whenever the raw value of the select changes. This is here primarily * to facilitate the two-way binding for the `value` input. * @docs-private */ valueChange: EventEmitter<any>; constructor(_viewportRuler: ViewportRuler, _changeDetectorRef: ChangeDetectorRef, _ngZone: NgZone, _defaultErrorStateMatcher: ErrorStateMatcher, renderer: Renderer2, elementRef: ElementRef, _dir: Directionality, _parentForm: NgForm, _parentFormGroup: FormGroupDirective, _parentFormField: MatFormField, ngControl: NgControl, tabIndex: string, _scrollStrategyFactory: any); ngOnInit(): void; ngAfterContentInit(): void; ngDoCheck(): void; ngOnChanges(changes: SimpleChanges): void; ngOnDestroy(): void; /** Toggles the overlay panel open or closed. */ toggle(): void; /** Opens the overlay panel. */ open(): void; /** Closes the overlay panel and focuses the host element. */ close(): void; /** * Sets the select's value. Part of the ControlValueAccessor interface * required to integrate with Angular's core forms API. * * @param value New value to be written to the model. */ writeValue(value: any): void; /** * Saves a callback function to be invoked when the select's value * changes from user input. Part of the ControlValueAccessor interface * required to integrate with Angular's core forms API. * * @param fn Callback to be triggered when the value changes. */ registerOnChange(fn: (value: any) => void): void; /** * Saves a callback function to be invoked when the select is blurred * by the user. Part of the ControlValueAccessor interface required * to integrate with Angular's core forms API. * * @param fn Callback to be triggered when the component has been touched. */ registerOnTouched(fn: () => {}): void; /** * Disables the select. Part of the ControlValueAccessor interface required * to integrate with Angular's core forms API. * * @param isDisabled Sets whether the component is disabled. */ setDisabledState(isDisabled: boolean): void; /** Whether or not the overlay panel is open. */ readonly panelOpen: boolean; /** The currently selected option. */ readonly selected: MatOption | MatOption[]; /** The value displayed in the trigger. */ readonly triggerValue: string; /** Whether the element is in RTL mode. */ _isRtl(): boolean; /** Handles all keydown events on the select. */ _handleKeydown(event: KeyboardEvent): void; /** Handles keyboard events while the select is closed. */ private _handleClosedKeydown(event); /** Handles keyboard events when the selected is open. */ private _handleOpenKeydown(event); /** * When the panel element is finished transforming in (though not fading in), it * emits an event and focuses an option if the panel is open. */ _onPanelDone(): void; /** * When the panel content is done fading in, the _panelDoneAnimating property is * set so the proper class can be added to the panel. */ _onFadeInDone(): void; _onFocus(): void; /** * Calls the touched callback only if the panel is closed. Otherwise, the trigger will * "blur" to the panel when it opens, causing a false positive. */ _onBlur(): void; /** * Callback that is invoked when the overlay panel has been attached. */ _onAttached(): void; /** Returns the theme to be used on the panel. */ _getPanelTheme(): string; /** Whether the select has a value. */ readonly empty: boolean; /** Whether the select is in an error state. */ errorState: boolean; private _initializeSelection(); /** * Sets the selected option based on a value. If no option can be * found with the designated value, the select trigger is cleared. */ private _setSelectionByValue(value, isUserInput?); /** * Finds and selects and option based on its value. * @returns Option that has the corresponding value. */ private _selectValue(value, isUserInput?); /** * Clears the select trigger and deselects every option in the list. * @param skip Option that should not be deselected. */ private _clearSelection(skip?); /** Sets up a key manager to listen to keyboard events on the overlay panel. */ private _initKeyManager(); /** Drops current option subscriptions and IDs and resets from scratch. */ private _resetOptions(); /** Invoked when an option is clicked. */ private _onSelect(option); /** * Sorts the model values, ensuring that they keep the same * order that they have in the panel. */ private _sortValues(); /** Emits change event to set the model value. */ private _propagateChanges(fallbackValue?); /** Records option IDs to pass to the aria-owns property. */ private _setOptionIds(); /** * Highlights the selected item. If no option is selected, it will highlight * the first item instead. */ private _highlightCorrectOption(); /** Scrolls the active option into view. */ private _scrollActiveOptionIntoView(); /** Focuses the select element. */ focus(): void; /** Gets the index of the provided option in the option list. */ private _getOptionIndex(option); /** Calculates the scroll position and x- and y-offsets of the overlay panel. */ private _calculateOverlayPosition(); /** * Calculates the scroll position of the select's overlay panel. * * Attempts to center the selected option in the panel. If the option is * too high or too low in the panel to be scrolled to the center, it clamps the * scroll position to the min or max scroll positions respectively. */ _calculateOverlayScroll(selectedIndex: number, scrollBuffer: number, maxScroll: number): number; /** Returns the aria-label of the select component. */ readonly _ariaLabel: string | null; /** Determines the `aria-activedescendant` to be set on the host. */ _getAriaActiveDescendant(): string | null; /** * Sets the x-offset of the overlay panel in relation to the trigger's top start corner. * This must be adjusted to align the selected option text over the trigger text when * the panel opens. Will change based on LTR or RTL text direction. Note that the offset * can't be calculated until the panel has been attached, because we need to know the * content width in order to constrain the panel within the viewport. */ private _calculateOverlayOffsetX(); /** * Calculates the y-offset of the select's overlay panel in relation to the * top start corner of the trigger. It has to be adjusted in order for the * selected option to be aligned over the trigger when the panel opens. */ private _calculateOverlayOffsetY(selectedIndex, scrollBuffer, maxScroll); /** * Checks that the attempted overlay position will fit within the viewport. * If it will not fit, tries to adjust the scroll position and the associated * y-offset so the panel can open fully on-screen. If it still won't fit, * sets the offset back to 0 to allow the fallback position to take over. */ private _checkOverlayWithinViewport(maxScroll); /** Adjusts the overlay panel up to fit in the viewport. */ private _adjustPanelUp(panelHeightBottom, bottomSpaceAvailable); /** Adjusts the overlay panel down to fit in the viewport. */ private _adjustPanelDown(panelHeightTop, topSpaceAvailable, maxScroll); /** Sets the transform origin point based on the selected option. */ private _getOriginBasedOnOption(); /** Calculates the amount of items in the select. This includes options and group labels. */ private _getItemCount(); /** Calculates the height of the select's options. */ private _getItemHeight(); /** Updates the select's error state. Only relevant when used with @angular/forms. */ private _updateErrorState(); setDescribedByIds(ids: string[]): void; onContainerClick(): void; readonly shouldPlaceholderFloat: boolean; }

The New Pentagon Budget—So New? Obama plans to spend as much on defense as Bush did. Much remains unknown about the shape of President Barack Obama's debut defense budget. Details won't be announced—several key decisions won't be made—until April. But from the broad numbers released this morning, two things seem clear: Second, not counting the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are projected to decline significantly—in other words, looking just at the Defense Department's base-line budget for weapons production, research and development, uniformed personnel, and so forth—Obama's estimates for military spending over the next few years are roughly the same as George W. Bush's. If huge change is in the works at the Pentagon, it will come in the form of budgets reshuffled, not reduced. Advertisement And yet, there are signs—they can be gleaned from the numbers—that serious changes are in the offing, that some lumbering weapons programs will be slashed, perhaps canceled, though it's probably also the case that other programs will be boosted or accelerated to compensate. The basic outlines are these. The Obama administration is requesting $533.7 billion for the Defense Department in fiscal year 2010—a $20.4 billion, or 4 percent, increase over its budget this year, the last budget passed by the Bush administration. In addition, Obama is requesting $130 billion as a "best guess" of what continued operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost next year. This constitutes a breakthrough in honesty; Bush stuffed all war costs into midyear "supplemental" requests, toted and considered apart from the budget, subject to no scrutiny at all. So, with these war costs added to the total, we're up to $663.7 billion. Even so, this omits defense-related items in other parts of the federal government—mainly the maintenance of nuclear weapons in the Department of Energy—which, last year, amounted to $25.8 billion. The budget document doesn't say how much Obama will request for these items. Assuming it's nearly the same, this brings us to just less than $690 billion. Finally, in the back pages of this budget (Table S-7 on Page 131), we find an additional $7.4 billion to be allocated to the Defense Department from money allocated for the Recovery Act. (However, a Pentagon report notes that this money will be used to build military housing and hospitals, not as a backdoor way to fund weapons programs.) So, the actual total isn't $533.7 billion but rather nearly $700 billion. Plus there's another $75.5 billion to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of fiscal year 2009. But let's return to that $533.7 billion, the Defense Department base line. Some conservatives are depicting this sum as a cut in military spending, not an increase. They base this judgment on a report that, late last year, the Joint Chiefs put together an internal draft budget assuming that certain line items, which Bush had tucked away in the wartime supplemental, were suddenly made a part of the base-line budget. These included programs to enlarge the ranks of the Army and the Marines, to beef up security against roadside bombs, and to improve emergency medical care for the war-wounded. The Chiefs calculated that this more forthright budget, for FY 2010, would total $580 billion. President Obama's budget does just what the Chiefs figured a new president might do—it transfers those items from the supplemental to the budget. Yet his budget is just $533.7 billion. Still, it would be misleading to call this a cut. As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said at a news conference today, the Chiefs' rough budget estimate was never examined outside the Pentagon. Something Gates didn't say—especially with Adm. Mike Mullen, the JCS chairman, sitting next to him—is that these sorts of internal drafts are routinely chock-full of wish lists and embellishments, many of them tossed in as bargaining chips, in the full expectation that the White House budgeteers—in any administration, Republican or Democrat—will toss them back out. Still, probably half of Obama's $20 billion increase consists of these items that have been moved over from the supplemental. The president is also calling for a 2.9 percent increase in military pay—that will cost about $2.6 billion (and one can expect the Congress to add 1 percent or so on top of that)—as well as major increases in disability benefits, health care, and living conditions (especially for military families). Add up all this, and $20 billion probably falls short of what's needed. And so, to meet the White House budget target, something else will have to give—and that's where some big-ticket weapons can be expected to face the ax. Or, as Gates put it at his press conference, there will be some "rebalanced investment between current and future capabilities." President Obama made the point plainer still at his congressional address Tuesday night, promising, as he put it, to "reform our defense budget, so that we're not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don't use." The cognoscenti knew that the president was talking about one weapon system above all others—the F-22 Raptor fighting plane, which Gates has also decried several times in the past as a weapon that was built to fight aerial duels with the Soviet Union and that is so ill-suited to today's wars that no Air Force commander has ordered a single one of them into harm's way in any of the wars we've waged in recent years. The Air Force wants to buy 200 more of these planes—20 per year over the next decade at a cost of $4 billion annually. That's one battle to watch closely. But there are more weapons in the same situation. If President Obama is scrutinizing every line in every budget for programs that don't work or aren't critically needed, he could find several in the DoD budget that could be slashed or slowed down without doing any damage to the nation's security. Again, we don't yet know the breakdown of programs and costs in the FY10 budget, but it's likely to be—or the service chiefs would like it to be—a continuation of past years' trends. The current FY09 budget includes $4.2 billion for a new aircraft carrier, $3.2 billion for a new DDG-1000 destroyer, $3.6 billion for a new Virginia-class nuclear submarine, $12 billion for various components of a missile-defense system (which Obama is reportedly inclined to cut by 20 percent), and $3.6 billion for the Army's Future Combat System—a complicated high-tech network of systems that has run into huge problems: Its deployment date has slipped from 2011 to 2015, its cost has exploded (an estimated $160 billion and rising), and its reliability is in question This last program is still in the early stages of development—just $20 billion has been spent to date—and so it might be particularly vulnerable. The White House budget released today states in its introduction that weapons programs will not be allowed "to proceed from one stage of the acquisition cycle to the next until they have achieved the maturity to clearly lower the risk of cost growth and schedule slippage." That sounds like a reference to the Future Combat System. And if Obama and Gates want to take away big items from the Air Force and Navy, they would be wise—politically as well as on the merits—to take a big slice out of the Army's baroque mess, too. The president and his defense secretary, after all, are still asking for a lot of money: nearly as much as the military budgets of all the rest of the world's countries combined; more (adjusting for inflation) than the United States has spent on the military in any single year since World War II. It's long past time to scrutinize the defense budget just like any other budget, to stop treating its size as an untouchable symbol of national strength and more as a product of, yes, legitimate security concerns but also of institutional interests and inertia. The important thing is not how much we spend but what we buy.

10 Common GED Essay Topics To Practice On One part of your GED test will be to complete an essay. If you want to start practicing writing an essay for the GED test, you will want some essay topics to write it on. The GED test usually presents a certain type of question for the test. The main idea is to make sure that you can set up the paper properly and work on presenting some information in regards to the topic. You can practice writing all or just some of the ideas on this list. You will want to choose someone to read through the practice essays and provide feedback. You may not be able to catch all of the mistakes. Utilize any editing services that you may have to learn about your mistakes so that you don’t make them during your test. Topics to write about: If you were only given a few months to live, what changes would you make in your life? If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money? If you were the President of the United States, what changes would you make? What are the most important characteristics of a trustworthy person? What makes music so universally popular? What are the basic human rights that every person should have? If you could go back in time and make a different decision, what would it be and how would it affect your life today? What is your greatest achievement? What is the most memorable moment in your life so far? How do you deal with people from other ethnic backgrounds? Choose one of these topics and create an outline for it. You want to start to create a process for yourself so that you can duplicate it on the test. It will help you feel more secure about what you are doing and relieve some stress that could cause you to make unnecessary mistakes. Read lots of instructional information about how to write an essay and on what each part of the essay should consist of. The more you practice writing these types of essays, the better you will get at them. You can learn so much from the edited versions of your papers about how you write and about what mistakes are common to you and your writing. The indication of your common mistakes will lead you to understand what to watch out for on the test.

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King Dork Approximately King Dork Approximately is a 2014 Young Adult Novel by Frank Portman. It is a sequel to his 2006 debut novel King Dork. References Category:2014 American novels Category:Books by Frank Portman Category:American young adult novels

Hereditary pancreatitis presenting in childhood: case report with family studies. A 12-year-old boy presented with recurrent abdominal pain and failure to thrive and was shown to have chronic calcific pancreatitis. Investigations failed to show any of the demonstrable causes of pancreatitis, but on family study four close paternal relatives were found to have had chronic pancreatitis, three with radiological calcification. No definable cause for pancreatitis had been determined in any of these relatives.

Treatment of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction. Patients with abnormalities of left ventricular (LV) systolic or diastolic function may have no symptoms, especially in the early stages. These patients are not uncommon in the community, and the prevalence of this condition increases in the presence of risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, and coronary artery disease. Patients with asymptomatic LV dysfunction have a significantly increased risk of overt heart failure and mortality. Therefore, it is of prime importance to identify and treat these patients to prevent progression of the disease. Echocardiography is an excellent tool to characterize systolic and diastolic properties of the left ventricle. However, its cost and lack of widespread availability have limited its usefulness in screening the general population. Careful clinical assessment coupled with electrocardiography and natriuretic peptide level assessment can identify higher-risk patients who should be referred for detailed evaluation of LV function. The goal of therapy is to halt and even reverse LV remodeling. Neurohormonal blockade, now the cornerstone of heart failure therapy, has been shown to have salutatory effects in patients with asymptomatic LV systolic dysfunction, both in reversing remodeling and reducing adverse clinical outcomes. Except for risk factor control, there is no evidence to advocate any specific therapy for asymptomatic patients with LV diastolic dysfunction.

This example demonstrates how to use RadToolBar as a custom RadGrid Command item container. The buttons in the toolbar have CommandName values set which are internally 'recognized' by the grid when its event bubbling mechanism is triggered (after pressing a button from the command item toolbar). Thus the respective command is executed without any extra coding.

-- a simple test to test sorted/clustered syntax CREATE TABLE INPUTDDL4(viewTime STRING, userid INT, page_url STRING, referrer_url STRING, friends ARRAY<BIGINT>, properties MAP<STRING, STRING>, ip STRING COMMENT 'IP Address of the User') COMMENT 'This is the page view table' PARTITIONED BY(ds STRING, country STRING) CLUSTERED BY(userid) SORTED BY(viewTime) INTO 32 BUCKETS; DESCRIBE INPUTDDL4; DESCRIBE EXTENDED INPUTDDL4;

I confess to having had to pad out my mosaic this month as I was only in the company of my beloved stash for a couple of weeks. While I was in England, I finished Baby George`s 1001 Peeps` quilt and he posseted over it immediately. I`ll take that as a good sign. When reunited with said stash, I finished my blockade bee blocks for the 4x5 Modern Quilt Bee, made a couple of starflower blocks for Karen in the do.Good Stitches bee, whipped up a super simple quilt top form Amy Butler`s Lark in the Glamor colourway, made a practice pouch for the Mouthy Stitches swap from its selvedges and another in Echo. This month looks super busy already what with more bee blocks, the Mouthy Stitches pouch swap, a make for the For the Love of Solids swap and Jennifer`s Modern Mini Challenge,..oh and add in to the mix Zaki being on his school holidays for the next couple of weeks - EEEK! Follow this blog with bloglovin About Me Originally from the UK, I now live in the beautiful city of Marrakech, Morocco along with my wonderful husband and gorgeous but cheeky 5 year old son. When not helping to run our riad in the medina (old town), I'm discovering a passion for quilting, I'm a keen amateur photographer, I love cooking and enjoy making jewelry using semi-precious stones and silver.

Interaction of bioactive hydrophobic peptides with the human multidrug transporter. In this report we demonstrate that various biologically active hydrophobic peptide derivatives, e.g., proteinase inhibitors, chemoattractants, ionophores, enkephalins, and immunosuppressants, stimulate a membrane ATPase activity associated with the human multidrug transporter (MDR1). The stimulation of the MDR1-ATPase by these agents does not correlate with their known biochemical or pharmacological activities but rather with their hydrophobicity. The peptides that show high-affinity interaction with the MDR1-ATPase also interfere strongly with fluorescent dye extrusion catalyzed by the multidrug transporter in intact cells and some have been shown to reverse drug resistance in cultured cells. These data suggest that several hydrophobic peptides behave as substrates of the multidrug transporter and may be used to modulate the chemotherapy resistance of tumor cells.

Integration Site Analysis in Gene Therapy Patients: Expectations and Reality. Integration site (IS) analysis is one of the major tools for addressing the safety of gene therapy clinical protocols based on the use of integrating vectors. Over the past years, the study of viral insertions in gene therapy-treated patients has allowed identifying insertional mutagenesis events, evaluating the safety of new viral vector platforms and tracking the in vivo clonal dynamics of genetically engineered cell products. While gene therapy is progressively expanding its impact on a broader area of clinical applications, increasingly more accessible, faster, and more reliable safety readouts are required from IS analysis. Several actors, from researchers to clinicians, from regulatory agencies to private companies, have to interface to different degrees with the results of IS analysis while developing and evaluating gene therapy products based on retroviral vectors. This review is aimed at providing a brief overview of what the current state and the future is of these studies with a particular focus on what are the main analytical constraints that should be considered upon conducting IS analysis in clinical gene therapy.

740 A.2d 50 (1999) 128 Md. App. 694 Lamon Michelle WRIGHT, et vir v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 6261, Sept. Term, 1998. Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. November 1, 1999. David A. Schiller, Rockville, for appellants. Andre M. Forte (Amy Leete Leone and McCarthy, Wilson & Ethridge, on the brief), Rockville, for appellee. Argued before THIEME, KENNEY and JAMES S. GETTY (Ret'd, Specially Assigned), JJ. JAMES S. GETTY, Judge (Ret'd, Specially Assigned). The issue in this case is whether Mr. and Mrs. Ronnell Wright, who were shot by an acquaintance while driving in their car, may recover for their injuries under the uninsured motorists provisions of their liability insurance policy. Background On September 22, 1995, the Wrights and their three-year-old child were driving on Sonar Road in Prince George's County. They stopped at a stop sign. While they were in a stationary position, a man emerged from a parked vehicle to the side of them and began shooting at the occupants in the car. Mr. Wright was struck by two bullets; his wife was struck by one. *51 After the gunshots were fired, the shooter hurried to his vehicle and left the scene. Mrs. Wright attempted to drive from the passenger seat toward Southern Maryland Hospital, because her husband was unconscious. Within a short distance from the area where the shooting took place, the car went off the road and struck a tree, causing additional injuries to Mr. and Mrs. Wright. The child was not injured. The Wrights recognized the shooter as an acquaintance named "PeeWee" Erskine Caldwell. Ironically, on August 8, 1995, Mr. Wright was proceeding down Daingerfield Road when a car pulled alongside the Wright vehicle and the driver began shooting at Mr. Wright. After being struck in the shoulder by a bullet, Wright lost control of his car and veered off the road, striking a tree. The driver/shooter on that occasion was the same "PeeWee" Erskine Caldwell. Discussion At the time of the second shooting, the Wrights' vehicle was insured by Allstate Insurance Company. In accordance with Maryland law, the policy issued provided uninsured motorists coverage. Specifically, the policy provided: We will pay damages for bodily injury sickness, disease or death, or property damage which an insured person is legally entitled to recover from the owner or operator of an uninsured auto. Injury must be caused by accident and arise out of the ownership, maintenance or use of an uninsured auto. Under the above provision, the Wrights claim that they are entitled to uninsured motorists coverage. The Wrights filed suit against Allstate to recover for their injuries. Cross-motions for summary judgment were filed on the sole issue of whether the injuries to the Wrights resulted from the uninsured motorist's "use" of his motor vehicle within the terms of the policy. After oral argument, Judge William D. Missouri held that the accident did not result form the shooter's "use" of a motor vehicle. The Wrights appealed. The Law In this case, there were no material facts in dispute. Our concern, therefore, is whether the trial court was legally correct in granting summary judgment for Allstate. See Lynx, Inc. v. Ordnance Prods., Inc., 273 Md. 1, 327 A.2d 502 (1974). The applicable test for determining when an injury arises out of the "use" of an automobile was set forth in Frazier v. Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Bd., 262 Md. 115, 277 A.2d 57 (1971). The Court of Appeals explained that whether an injury arose out of the use of an automobile hinges on "whether the use of an automobile is directly or merely incidentally causally connected with the injury, even though the automobile itself may not have proximately caused the injury." Id. at 118, 277 A.2d 57. In Frazier, a woman and her son were traveling in a convertible vehicle on the Fourth of July. An occupant of another car driving in the opposite direction threw a lighted firecracker into the convertible. The explosion and her son's cries distracted the driver, causing her to crash into a tree. The Court held that, for the purpose of determining whether leave to sue the Board should have been granted, the injuries under the facts of the case did arise out of the ownership, operation, or use of an unidentified motor vehicle. The Court also noted a reluctance to be bound by decisions involving the interpretation of insurance contracts, the distinction being that the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Act is remedial in character and must be liberally construed with due regard for the protection of the Fund. (Citing Wheeler v. Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund, 259 Md. 232, 239, 269 A.2d 593 (1970).) The case of Harris v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, 117 Md.App. 1, *52 699 A.2d 447 (1997), is also instructive. In that case, Sigridur Harris was walking to her car at a shopping center when a stranger drove alongside her and grabbed her purse. Ms. Harris's arm became entangled in the strap of the purse and she was dragged approximately fifteen feet as the vehicle sped away with her purse. The driver was never apprehended. Ms. Harris sought uninsured motorist benefits from her insurer, Nationwide, to compensate her for the serious injuries she sustained in the incident. Nationwide refused payment. The insurer contended that the injuries did not arise out of the "ownership, maintenance or use" of an uninsured motor vehicle, and there was no "accident" because the assault on Ms. Harris was intentional. The trial court agreed and granted Nationwide's motion for judgment. Ms. Harris appealed and this Court, in an opinion authored by Judge John J. Bishop, Jr., reversed the ruling of the trial court. We dismissed the notion that only unintentional acts constitute an accident. Sec. 19-501(c) of the Insurance Article, Md.Code (1997), formerly Article 48A, sec. 538(a), defines a motor vehicle accident as follows: (c) Motor vehicle accident—(1) "Motor vehicle accident" means an occurrence involving a motor vehicle that results in damage to property or injury to a person. (2) "Motor vehicle accident" does not include an occurrence that is caused intentionally by or at the direction of the insured. Thus, the intention of the Legislature was clear and unambiguous. On the agreed facts of Harris, the statute clearly supported the claim of a motor vehicle accident. On the second issue in Harris, this Court also held that the injuries sustained by Ms. Harris were directly connected, causally, to the use of an uninsured vehicle. The use of the vehicle to commit the robbery and simultaneously flee from the scene established that the vehicle was directly, not incidentally, connected with the injuries to Ms. Harris. The case sub judice differs materially from either Frazier or Harris. Judge Missouri concluded that no substantial nexus existed between the injuries sustained by the Wrights and the use of the automobile driven by the assailant. At some point in time before the incident, PeeWee drove to the intersection and waited for the Wrights to arrive at the stop sign. Once the Wrights arrived, PeeWee came toward their car and began shooting at them from an estimated distance of sixty to two hundred feet. He returned to his car and drove away. PeeWee's vehicle was simply a means of transportation to an area where he predicted the Wrights would appear. This is in stark contrast to the role of the vehicles in Frazier and in Harris, where the vehicles played a prominent role in the commission of the crimes. The Wrights were injured because PeeWee shot them, not because he was using a car. Ironically, this was his second or third attempt to murder Mr. Wright by shooting him while he was driving his car.[1] We agree that the use of the car was incidental to the attempt to kill Wright. It was not directly, causally, connected to the incident. Were we to hold otherwise, as Allstate points out, any victim of a crime whose assailant fled the scene of a crime in a car could seek recovery from his own insurer if he had a policy containing uninsured motorists coverage. Uninsured motorists coverage was never intended to cover the type of injuries presented by the facts of this case. The primary purpose of sec. 19-509 of the Insurance Article is to assure financial compensation to the innocent victims of motor vehicle accidents who are *53 unable to recover from financially irresponsible uninsured motorists. Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Ins. Co. v. Gartelman, 288 Md. 151, 416 A.2d 734 (1980). In formulating the rule on coverage turning on whether the use of an automobile is directly or merely incidentally causally connected with the injury, the Court in Frazier noted one Maryland case and three cases from other jurisdictions. In Commercial Union Ins. Co. of New York v. Hall, 246 F.Supp. 64 (1965), a man named Hall was injured by the driver of another car who blocked Hall's car and then physically assaulted him. In the ensuing lawsuit, the issue was whether Hall's injuries arose "out of the use" of his attacker's car. The Court held that although the car was used to force Hall off the road, it was incidental to the events that followed. A second case cited by the Court in Frazier was Kraus v. Allstate Ins. Co., 258 F.Supp. 407 (1966). In that case, a car parked on a city street exploded. Several pedestrians were injured and one woman was killed by the blast. The Court held that the use of the vehicle as a detonating device was not within the contemplation of the contracting parties. In contrast, the Court of Appeals cited National Indemnity Co. v. Ewing, 235 Md. 145, 200 A.2d 680 (1964), as an example of a case in which injuries were "directly causally connected" by the use of an automobile. Two men in a car had been drinking heavily. The driver lost control of the car, causing the passenger to be ejected. As the driver was helping the passenger back into the car, a second vehicle struck them. The Court of Appeals held that the passenger's injuries arose "out of the use" of the driver's vehicle. Ewing is easily distinguishable from the present case. PeeWee's vehicle played no part in the injuries except for transportation to the scene, and no collision occurred in the present case. In the final case cited by the Court of Appeals, a person injured by slipping on oil leaking from a parked car was held to be within the policy provisions governing use of the vehicle. See Mullen v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., 287 Mass. 262, 191 N.E. 394 (1934). A shooting case somewhat similar to the present case was resolved by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. v. Brown, 779 F.2d 984 (S.C. 4th Cir.1985). In that case, Brown directed his employee, Proctor, to use a customer's truck and meet Brown in a nearby town. Brown said he wanted to locate his estranged wife and, if she refused to talk to him, he would kill her. The two men located Brown's wife and child in her car. Brown grabbed the steering wheel from Proctor and intentionally collided with his wife's vehicle. He approached his wife's car and shot and killed her. In a suit by the Administrator of Mrs. Brown's estate, several insurance policies were in effect providing general liability coverage for Mrs. Brown's car and for the customer's truck. Those policies were issued by Nationwide. A third policy, issued by Insurance Company of North America (INA), was a liability policy issued to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, providing uninsured motorist coverage and personal injury protection for both parties. Both the Nationwide policy on the customer's truck and the INA policy required that the injuries for which coverage is claimed arise out of the ownership, maintenance or use of an automobile. The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the United States District Court's decision that the policies provided no coverage for the shooting. The Court of Appeals stated: Cases construing the phrase "arising out of the ... use of a motor vehicle" uniformly require that the injured person establish a causal connection between the use of the motor vehicle and the injury.... Such causal connection must *54 be more than incidental, fortuitous or but for. The injury must be foreseeably identifiable with the normal use of the vehicle.... An assault by an armed assailant upon the driver of a car is not the type of conduct that is foreseeably identifiable with the normal use of a motor vehicle. 779 F.2d at 989 (quoting Detroit Automobile Inter-Ins. Exchange v. Higginbotham, 95 Mich.App. 213, 290 N.W.2d 414 (1980) (citations omitted)). Summary The majority of courts that have considered whether personal injuries from physical assaults by insured vehicle drivers or passengers arose out of the use of the vehicle have found no causal relation between the use of the vehicle and injuries sustained by physical assaults. Accord: Govt. Employees Ins. Co. v. Melton, 357 F.Supp. 416 (1972), aff'd, 473 F.2d 909 (4th Cir.1973); Detroit Automobile Inter-Ins. Exchange v. Higginbotham, supra; Love v. Farmers Ins. Group, 121 Ariz. 71, 588 P.2d 364 (1978); Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. v. Goldman, 374 So.2d 539 (Fla.App.1979); Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. v. Knight, 34 N.C.App. 96, 237 S.E.2d 341 (1977). We agree with Judge Missouri that the use of the uninsured vehicle by PeeWee was incidental to the cause of the injuries sustained by the Wrights. JUDGMENT AFFIRMED. COSTS TO BE PAID BY APPELLANTS. NOTES [1] Wright testified that he was told by a friend that PeeWee believed Wright was a police informant, and that he was responsible for a police raid on Pee Wee's chop shop and car theft operation.

Investigation of keratinocyte regulation of collagen I synthesis by dermal fibroblasts in a simple in vitro model. Hypertrophic scarring and skin graft contracture are major causes of morbidity after burn injuries. A prominent feature is excessive fibroplasia with accumulation of increased fibrillar collagen relative to normal scar tissue. The application of split-thickness skin grafts or cultured epithelial autografts to burn wounds is known to reduce scarring and contraction. To investigate further how the keratinocyte influences underlying fibroblast behaviour by examining the influence of keratinocytes on fibroblast collagen synthesis, using a new assay for collagen synthesis never previously applied to skin cell biology. We investigated the influence of the keratinocyte on fibroblast synthesis of type I collagen using an immunoassay for the aminoterminal propeptide of type I collagen (P1NP) in conditioned medium from monocultures and cocultures of keratinocytes and fibroblasts over 14 days. The importance of the physical presence of the keratinocyte was investigated by comparing cocultures of keratinocytes and fibroblasts against fibroblast monocultures with keratinocyte-conditioned medium. Pharmacological agents known to promote fibroblast proliferation [basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF)], keratinocyte proliferation [insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-1], modify scarring in vivo[tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha] or modify collagen biochemistry [putrescine, estrone, estradiol and beta-aminopropionitrile (beta-APN)] were then investigated for their effect on collagen synthesis in fibroblasts and in keratinocyte/fibroblast cocultures. Keratinocytes in coculture with fibroblasts, and keratinocyte-conditioned medium, both reduced fibroblast P1NP synthesis. Of the pharmacological agents investigated, bFGF, IGF-1, TNF-alpha and beta-APN all increased collagen synthesis both in monocultures of fibroblasts and in cocultures of keratinocytes and fibroblasts. Fibroblast collagen synthesis appears to be downregulated by keratinocyte-derived cytokines. Fibroblast growth factors and proinflammatory cytokines appear to be able partially to overcome this downregulation and to increase collagen synthesis.

[Satisfaction with health status in the German Federal Republic and the former German Democratic Republic--a comparison]. The subjective feeling of the status of health by persons residing in the FRG and GDR is compared on the basis of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which were collected shortly before the merger of both states. The subjective state of health is on the whole approximately similar in both states. Differences in influencing factors are revealed by multivariate analysis.

Progressive lens Progressive lenses, also called multifocal lenses, progressive addition lenses (PAL), varifocal lenses, progressive power lenses, graduated prescription lenses, or progressive spectacle lenses are corrective lenses used in eyeglasses to correct presbyopia and other disorders of accommodation. They are characterised by a gradient of increasing lens power, added to the wearer's correction for the other refractive errors. The gradient starts at the wearer's distance prescription at the top of the lens and reaches a maximum addition power, or the full reading addition, at the bottom of the lens. The length of the progressive power gradient on the lens surface depends on the design of the lens, with a final addition power between 0.75 and 3.50 dioptres. The addition value prescribed depends on the level of presbyopia of the patient. In general the older the patient, the higher the addition. History The first patent for a PAL was British Patent 15,735, granted to Owen Aves with a 1907 priority date. This patent included the manufacturing process and design which was however never commercialized. Unlike modern PALs, it consisted of a conical back surface and a cylindrical front with opposing axis in order to create a power progression. While there were several intermediate steps (H. Newbold appears to have designed a similar lens to Aves around 1913), there is evidence to suggest that Duke Elder in 1922 developed the world's first commercially available PAL (Ultrifo) sold by "Gowlland of Montreal". This was based on an arrangement of aspherical surfaces. The Carl Zeiss AG & Varilux lenses were the first PAL of modern design. Bernard Maitenaz, patented Varilux in 1953, and the product was introduced in 1959 by Société des Lunetiers (Now Essilor). The first Varilux lenses' surface structure was however still close to a bifocal lens, with an upper, aberration-free half of the surface for far vision and a rather large "segment" for clear near vision. The breakthrough in user adaptation and comfort, as well as peripheral and dynamic vision however occurred in 1972 with the introduction of Varilux 2, for which Maitenaz created a totally aspheric design and manufacturing process. Carl Zeiss AG developed freeform technology in 1983 with its own patented progressive series Gradal HS Early progressive lenses were relatively crude designs. Right and left were identical variable power lenses with distance and reading power centers in the upper and lower part of the lens, respectively. The glazing was made to accommodate eye position changes from distance viewing to reading. The point of reading is about 14 mm below and 2 mm to the nasal side in comparison to distance viewing. By tilting the reading power towards the nasal side in perfect symmetry, appropriate reading power was given to the wearer. The symmetric design, however, was difficult to accept for patients, because the eyes in general work asymmetrically. When you look right, your right eye view distal and left nasal. Modern sophisticated progressive lenses are designed asymmetrically for greater patient acceptance and include special designs to cater to many separate types of wearer application: for example progressive addition lenses may be designed with distance to intermediate or intermediate to near prescriptions specifically for use as an occupational lens, or to offer enlarged near and intermediate view areas. The typical progressive lens is produced from a so-called semi-finished lens. The semi-finished lens is molded with an asymmetrical power pattern on the front. On the back side a custom surfacing is made to adjust the power for each patient. This method is however problematic, especially for astigmatic prescriptions. The reason being that the semi-finished front pattern is designed for a spherical prescription. Freeform designs are tailored to each prescription and do not have this problem. Since the 1980s, manufacturers have been able to minimize unwanted aberrations by: Improvements in mathematical modeling of surfaces, allowing greater design control. Extensive wearer trials. Improved lens manufacturing and measurement technology. Today the complex surfaces of a progressive lens can be cut and polished on computer-controlled machines, allowing 'freeform surfacing', as opposed to the earlier casting process, thus explaining the difference in price. In short, the price is based on the technology used and the year the lens came to market. Advantages and use Compared to single vision lenses, progressive lenses provide the correction required for a presbyopic patient to see clearly at all viewing distances, typically adjusted by tilting the head slightly. Progressive addition lenses avoid the discontinuities (image-jumps) sometimes found with bifocal and trifocal lenses Some people find them more cosmetically attractive. Because bifocals and related designs are associated with old age, proponents have suggested the lack of visible lines makes a progressive lens appear similar to the single vision lenses worn before the onset of presbyopia. Disadvantages Peripheral Distortion: Progressive lenses suffer regions of aberrations and geometric distortions in the periphery, leading to poor vision when turning the eyes down and to the sides. Different brands of progressive lenses have more or less of this distortion. Fitting: Progressive lenses require careful placement relative to the wearer's pupil centre for a distance-viewing reference position. Incorrect specification of the fitting location can cause problems for the wearer including (depending on the design of the lens) narrow fields of view, clear vision in one eye only, on-axis blur, and the need to alter the natural head position in order to see clearly. Cost: Progressive lenses are more expensive than bifocal and single-vision lenses due to higher manufacturing and fitting costs. Some research has been conducted to reduce the fabrication cost by precision injection molding. When recommending a progressive lens design, an eyecare practitioner will usually ask the customer some questions about their lifestyle, which coupled with prescription restrictions or recommendations and cost can establish the suitability of various models of progressive lens. Different lenses have different glazing restrictions, lens material availabilities, maximum and minimum fitting heights, prescription ranges and as such the variation in quality between higher and lower end varifocal lenses is considerable. Miscellaneous For those new to progressive lenses, an accommodation period is often required because the brain needs to learn to adapt to them. This period varies from a few hours for some individuals up to around two weeks. During this period, side effects can include headache and dizziness. It is advised that, when these symptoms set in, the progressive lenses be removed for a short period and replaced after symptoms have subsided. Returning to an older prescription or different type of lens design (bifocal, trifocal) only serves to increase the adaptation period to the progressive lenses. Some wearers find the visual discomfort caused by these distortions outweigh the benefits of wearing PALs; this is known as progressive non-tolerance. However, manufacturers claim acceptance rates of 90%–98%. Depth perception and distance estimation can be influenced during the adaptation period. References Category:Corrective lenses

Q: What does delta letter mean in some ceramics chemical material formula? Here is a given chemical formula for ceramic material: La0.6Sr0.4Fe0.8Ni0.2O3-δ There is a letter δ. What does it stand for? I guess it is something about oxygen vacancies in crystal lattice. A: Exactly. In your example, it is related to oxygen vacancy (oxygen deficiency) in the crystal lattice. It can affect the physical properties of the ceramic material. Take the example of this piezoelectric ceramic material:$\ce{Eu_{0.5}Ba_{0.5}TiO_{3-\delta}} $ Oxygen-vacancy induces antiferromagnetism to ferromagnetism transformation. In general, $\delta$ denotes deviation from the stoichiometry (exces or deficiency) in a chemical formula

Q: OCaml - how to see module's interface? Is it possible to see the interface of a loaded module in interactive OCaml? I have (unsuccessfully) tried searching for such a possibility, and online docs/sources are not what I am looking for. A: The standard trick for this is to define a synonym for the module, which induces the toplevel to list the interface. $ ocaml OCaml version 4.00.1 # #load "str.cma";; # module S = Str;; module S : sig type regexp = Str.regexp val regexp : string -> regexp val regexp_case_fold : string -> regexp val quote : string -> string val regexp_string : string -> regexp val regexp_string_case_fold : string -> regexp val string_match : regexp -> string -> int -> bool . . . val first_chars : string -> int -> string val last_chars : string -> int -> string end Update (Note that this answer is from 2013. Recent revisions of OCaml provide a toplevel directive to show a module interface: # #show_module Str;; module Str : sig type regexp val regexp : string -> regexp . . . val first_chars : string -> int -> string val last_chars : string -> int -> string end So the semi-clever workaround is no longer required. (There are many new directives. Type #help;; at toplevel to get a list.) A: Both utop and ocaml interpreters added the #show directive since a moment. It does exactly what you want, as in the following example : │ Welcome to utop version 1.19.3 (using OCaml version 4.04.0) │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Type #utop_help for help about using utop. ─( 15:12:33 )─< command 0 >──────────────────────────────────────{ counter: 0 }─ utop # #show List;; module List : sig val length : 'a list -> int val cons : 'a -> 'a list -> 'a list val hd : 'a list -> 'a ... val fast_sort : ('a -> 'a -> int) -> 'a list -> 'a list val sort_uniq : ('a -> 'a -> int) -> 'a list -> 'a list val merge : ('a -> 'a -> int) -> 'a list -> 'a list -> 'a list end PS:i'm using 4.04 version but i know that it also works for 4.03.> and maybe before that too.

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Q: Play m4p with AudioQueue Is it possible to play protected m4p files with AudioQueue? I tried NSSound (it can play m4p) and the AudioQueue sample afplay (does not work otb). Is there any way to play m4p with AudioQueue? A: What I discovered so far: AudioQueue: no m4p support, because quicktime is responsible for the encryption. NSSound: supports m4p (I assume that it is using quicktime to do it) but it definitely sucks at large sound files. (playback quality problems and performance problems) QTKit: Can play m4p but only if you are not starting from Xcode or the gdb. It looks like this is a protection mechanism.

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Ultrastructure of epidermis of Salamandra salamandra followed throughout ontogenesis. Ventral epidermal ultrastructure of the amphibian urodele Salamandra salamandra is described and followed throughout its life cycle. Tadpoles were divided into five categories on the basis of the organization of their epidermis and the ultrastructure of its cells. In newly hatched tadpoles the epidermis is arranged in two layers and four types of cells were recognized. The number of epidermal layers increases in the metamorphosing tadpole. At this stage the layers become organized in four strata. Metamorphosis involves the disappearance of some cell types and the appearance of others, typical of the adult epidermis. The significance of these ontogenetic changes in epidermal ultrastructure is discussed in respect to aquatic and terrestrial life habits.

3. 5*(d + 1)*(d + 5153)/3 Solve 4*a**2 + 5092*a - 77280 = 0. -1288, 15 Find x such that -5*x**4/4 - 1665*x**3/4 + 82635*x**2/4 - 915515*x/4 - 499905/2 = 0. -378, -1, 23 Factor -5*r**2 - 880*r - 24675. -5*(r + 35)*(r + 141) Factor m**2 + 258924*m + 16760409444. (m + 129462)**2 Solve 5*b**3 + 1775*b**2 + 15660*b + 31140 = 0 for b. -346, -6, -3 Factor -3*n**2 + 109665*n - 219318. -3*(n - 36553)*(n - 2) Suppose -4*i**4/3 + 2308*i**3 - 133836*i**2 + 782260*i/3 - 129224 = 0. What is i? 1, 58, 1671 Find r such that -3*r**5/7 + 3471*r**4/7 - 1002231*r**3/7 - 1026567*r**2/7 + 6034338*r/7 = 0. -3, 0, 2, 579 Factor l**3/2 - 119184*l**2 - 476742*l - 476744. (l - 238372)*(l + 2)**2/2 Let 2*g**3/9 - 530*g**2/3 - 1592*g/9 = 0. What is g? -1, 0, 796 Solve -2*r**4/7 + 10*r**3/7 + 8*r**2 - 184*r/7 - 480/7 = 0 for r. -4, -2, 5, 6 What is p in -4*p**4 - 535800*p**3 - 17942066692*p**2 + 35885740800*p - 17943138304 = 0? -66976, 1 Find g such that 3*g**2 + 87*g - 91770 = 0. -190, 161 Determine i so that i**4 - 10209*i**3 + 30621*i**2 - 30619*i + 10206 = 0. 1, 10206 Factor 5*w**3 + 200*w**2 - 2685*w + 6120. 5*(w - 8)*(w - 3)*(w + 51) Solve 2*o**4 + 142154*o**3 - 284314*o**2 + 142158*o = 0 for o. -71079, 0, 1 Factor 4*g**3 - 1360*g**2 + 16948*g + 18312. 4*(g - 327)*(g - 14)*(g + 1) Solve 15*d**4 + 14646*d**3 - 52944*d**2 - 23520*d = 0. -980, -2/5, 0, 4 Factor -a**2/7 - 17461*a + 733398/7. -(a - 6)*(a + 122233)/7 Find u such that -4*u**3/3 - 4528*u**2/3 - 26960*u/3 + 72064/3 = 0. -1126, -8, 2 Suppose -173*d**4/6 + 74215*d**3/6 + 1031*d**2/6 - 74215*d/6 - 143 = 0. Calculate d. -1, -2/173, 1, 429 Let -70*m**5 - 223*m**4 - 148*m**3 + 77*m**2 + 92*m + 20 = 0. Calculate m. -2, -1, -1/2, -2/5, 5/7 Determine o, given that -o**4/4 - 2287*o**3/2 - 5198217*o**2/4 + 18403615*o - 17102917 = 0. -2294, 1, 13 Factor -u**5/5 + 15922*u**4/5 - 63361596*u**3/5 - 126786888*u**2/5. -u**2*(u - 7962)**2*(u + 2)/5 Find x, given that 9*x**2 - 229881*x - 153258 = 0. -2/3, 25543 Determine u so that 2*u**4 - 194554*u**3 + 6308478300*u**2 - 68182033336696*u - 68188342009552 = 0. -1, 32426 Suppose q**3/2 + 10463*q**2/2 - 5233*q - 10464 = 0. Calculate q. -10464, -1, 2 Factor -3*f**2/7 + 158577*f/7 - 634260/7. -3*(f - 52855)*(f - 4)/7 Factor -t**4/10 - 102*t**3/5 - 5303*t**2/5 - 10302*t/5 - 10201/10. -(t + 1)**2*(t + 101)**2/10 Factor -2*y**3 + 2006*y**2 - 593152*y + 42950656. -2*(y - 448)**2*(y - 107) Solve -200*u**4 - 135*u**3 + 600*u**2 + 5*u - 270 = 0 for u. -2, -27/40, 1 Find q, given that -q**4/6 + 241*q**3/6 - 11659*q**2/6 - 120127*q/2 = 0. -21, 0, 131 Solve -3*i**4 + 1161*i**3 - 15663*i**2 - 1161*i + 15666 = 0. -1, 1, 14, 373 Determine z, given that 2*z**2 - 980*z - 44688 = 0. -42, 532 Let 2*r**2 + 22116*r - 354368 = 0. Calculate r. -11074, 16 Factor -2*f**2/7 + 14514*f/7 - 14500. -2*(f - 7250)*(f - 7)/7 Factor d**2/6 + 183349*d/3 - 122233/2. (d - 1)*(d + 366699)/6 Solve -13*s**4/7 - 114*s**3/7 + 996*s**2/7 - 2200*s/7 + 1536/7 = 0 for s. -192/13, 2 Factor -6*k**2/5 - 16222*k/5 - 10812/5. -2*(k + 2703)*(3*k + 2)/5 Suppose 10*g**2/11 - 61104*g/11 + 146592/11 = 0. What is g? 12/5, 6108 Factor 4*v**4 - 63*v**3 - 336*v**2 - 80*v. v*(v - 20)*(v + 4)*(4*v + 1) Factor -2*y**3/5 + 546*y**2/5 + 666*y + 5022/5. -2*(y - 279)*(y + 3)**2/5 Factor -5*z**3 + 19870*z**2 - 59565*z. -5*z*(z - 3971)*(z - 3) Let -2*x**4 + 68*x**3 - 246*x**2 - 1244*x - 928 = 0. Calculate x. -2, -1, 8, 29 Factor 5*k**3/3 - 4975*k**2 - 14940*k. 5*k*(k - 2988)*(k + 3)/3 Determine x so that 2*x**4 + 11076*x**3 + 11074*x**2 = 0. -5537, -1, 0 Find u, given that 2*u**2 + 5001768*u + 3127210390728 = 0. -1250442 Factor w**3 - 694*w**2 + 1385*w - 692. (w - 692)*(w - 1)**2 Let -u**2/3 - 25804*u/3 - 166461604/3 = 0. Calculate u. -12902 Let -h**3/4 + 35*h**2/4 - 66*h = 0. Calculate h. 0, 11, 24 Determine k, given that -22*k**4 - 4052*k**3 + 11562*k**2 - 5992*k - 1496 = 0. -187, -2/11, 1, 2 Factor -156*y**3 + 1582*y**2 - 5280*y + 5814. -2*(y - 3)**2*(78*y - 323) Factor -w**2/3 + 163*w/3 - 364. -(w - 156)*(w - 7)/3 Find o such that -o**3 + 237*o**2 - 2066*o + 3192 = 0. 2, 7, 228 Determine k so that -2*k**3 - 418*k**2/15 + 1076*k/15 + 448/5 = 0. -16, -14/15, 3 Determine b so that 4*b**5 + 48*b**4 - 2400*b**3 - 7448*b**2 - 7524*b - 2520 = 0. -30, -1, 21 Suppose -361*c**5/9 + 22781*c**4/9 - 2753*c**3 + 2419*c**2/9 - 62*c/9 = 0. Calculate c. 0, 1/19, 1, 62 Find f such that 2*f**2/17 - 610*f/17 + 22532/17 = 0. 43, 262 What is o in 2*o**4/17 - 54*o**3/17 - 1236*o**2/17 - 1064*o/17 + 2352/17 = 0? -14, -2, 1, 42 Solve -o**2/7 + 985*o/7 - 984/7 = 0 for o. 1, 984 Suppose -3*j**2 - 11112*j - 10289712 = 0. Calculate j. -1852 Factor -3*f**2/4 + 987*f/2 - 6762. -3*(f - 644)*(f - 14)/4 Solve -x**2/2 + 368*x - 9912 = 0. 28, 708 Determine p so that 20*p**5 + 65036*p**4 + 52864496*p**3 - 10627536*p**2 - 42302016*p = 0. -1626, -4/5, 0, 1 Find i, given that -728*i**3/3 + 398*i**2 + 6008*i/3 + 472 = 0. -2, -1/4, 354/91 What is g in -2*g**4 + 174*g**3 - 770*g**2 - 4350*g + 20500 = 0? -5, 5, 82 Let -4*n**3 + 436*n**2 - 11644*n - 12084 = 0. Calculate n. -1, 53, 57 Factor 33075*u**2/8 - 315*u/4 + 3/8. 3*(105*u - 1)**2/8 Suppose -3*b**4 + 474*b**3 - 6195*b**2 + 21168*b = 0. What is b? 0, 7, 144 What is t in 5*t**5/3 + 2240*t**4/3 + 64045*t**3/3 + 566470*t**2/3 + 594580*t + 426360 = 0? -418, -17, -6, -1 Suppose 2*q**3 + 1966*q**2 + 68320*q + 128792 = 0. What is q? -947, -34, -2 Solve -4*f**3 - 1616*f**2 - 163216*f = 0 for f. -202, 0 What is c in -2*c**4/5 - 79402*c**3/5 - 1050991254*c**2/5 - 928164732022*c - 37059366486256/5 = 0? -13231, -8 Determine o so that -o**5 + 69*o**4 + 437*o**3 + 963*o**2 + 896*o + 300 = 0. -2, -1, 75 Factor -h**2/4 - 631*h/4 + 14491/2. -(h - 43)*(h + 674)/4 Factor 51*b**3/8 - 5655*b**2/8 - 333*b/4. 3*b*(b - 111)*(17*b + 2)/8 Solve v**4/10 - 5*v**3/2 - 29*v**2/5 + 1154*v/5 + 924 = 0 for v. -6, -5, 14, 22 Suppose 4*w**3 + 1484*w**2 - 33112*w - 72128 = 0. Calculate w. -392, -2, 23 Solve -32*d**5/3 + 1712*d**4/3 + 12138*d**3 - 149924*d**2/3 - 81682*d/3 - 3496 = 0. -19, -1/4, 4, 69 Factor 3*f**2/4 + 9357*f/4 + 16338. 3*(f + 7)*(f + 3112)/4 Find m such that 2*m**4/13 + 52978*m**3/13 - 6*m**2/13 - 158930*m/13 + 105956/13 = 0. -26489, -2, 1 Let u**5/7 + 293*u**4/7 - 1814*u**3/7 - 5956*u**2/7 + 7240*u/7 + 19136/7 = 0. What is u? -299, -2, 2, 8 Let 3*k**2/2 - 1619*k - 1080 = 0. What is k? -2/3, 1080 Let 2*b**5/15 - 14*b**4/5 + 302*b**3/15 - 274*b**2/5 + 112*b/3 = 0. What is b? 0, 1, 5, 7, 8 Determine q so that q**2/2 - 223257*q/2 + 111628 = 0. 1, 223256 Find t, given that 5*t**4 + 5955*t**3 + 293820*t**2 + 3553420*t - 3853200 = 0. -1140, -26, 1 Factor 5*t**3 - 169610*t**2. 5*t**2*(t - 33922) Solve 5*v**2 + 6175*v - 12370 = 0 for v. -1237, 2 Let u**5/9 - 37*u**4/9 - 247*u**3/9 - 467*u**2/9 - 86*u/3 = 0. Calculate u. -3, -2, -1, 0, 43 Factor -4*b**3/5 + 168*b**2/5 - 476*b/5 + 312/5. -4*(b - 39)*(b - 2)*(b - 1)/5 Determine l, given that 2*l**3 - 33126*l**2 + 137249262*l - 685418410 = 0. 5, 8279 Factor 3*s**2 - 5523*s + 5520. 3*(s - 1840)*(s - 1) Let -5*m**5 + 175*m**4 - 1915*m**3 + 7925*m**2 - 7080*m - 17100 = 0. Calculate m. -1, 5, 6, 19 Let 3*a**5 - 381*a**4 + 12609*a**3 - 35571*a**2 + 34824*a - 11484 = 0. Calculate a. 1, 58, 66 What is v in -6*v**4/5 + 369*v**3/5 - 5472*v**2/5 - 6609*v/5 + 11718/5 = 0? -2, 1, 31, 63/2 Suppose j**2 + 477*j - 5868 = 0. Calculate j. -489, 12 Factor -130*j**2/9 + 72004*j/9 + 8864/9. -2*(j - 554)*(65*j + 8)/9 Determine f so that -4*f**3 + 134856*f**2 - 1136094180*f - 9097386272 = 0. -8, 16861 Let 4*r**5 - 13232*r**4 - 4*r**3 + 13232*r**2 = 0. Calculate r. -1, 0, 1, 3308 Find a such that 2*a**3/5 + 316*a**2 - 18*a/5 - 2844 = 0. -790, -3, 3 Factor -k**3 + 477*k**2 - 1832*k - 28380. -(k - 473)*(k - 10)*(k + 6) Solve -28*c**5 + 372*c**4 + 6084*c**3 + 4028*c**2 - 1656*c = 0 for c. -9, -1, 0, 2/7, 23 Find q, given that -q**2/6 - 1503*q - 332297/6 = 0. -8981, -37 Suppose 3*b**5/4 + 7*b**4/2 - 205*b**3/4 + 14*b**2 + 33*b = 0. Calculate b. -11, -2/3, 0, 1, 6 What is s in -3*s**5 + 11556*s**4 - 11116851*s**3 - 22326198*s**2 + 44467452*s + 89119896 = 0? -2, 2, 1927 Factor 9*z**2/4 + 72951*z + 48633. 3*(z + 32422)*(3*z + 2)/4 Factor -c**4 - 2778*c**3 - 2566848*c**2 - 783677440*c + 4795072512. -(c - 6)*(c + 928)**3 Factor n**4/2 + 320

Photos 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Extended Cab - FROM $26,740 Despite an aging design, the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 is a strong contender in the full-size pickup segment thanks to its wide range of body styles, capable performance and good highway manners. What's New for 2013 For 2013, the Chevrolet Silverado sees just a minor shuffling of equipment. Introduction The 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 is something of an enigma. Last revised back in 2007, this Chevy goes up against recently redesigned trucks from Ford and Ram. Nevertheless, the Silverado remains fully competitive, even as it, too, is about to be redesigned. In important aspects of performance such as ride comfort, towing capacity and options and features, the Silverado 1500 remains competitive in every way. Regular updates, useful utility packages and rugged styling -- not to mention the truck's traditional emphasis on a smooth, quiet ride and comfortable seating -- have also contributed to keeping the current Silverado in the game. There are a few caveats, however. The aging 195-horsepower V6 struggles to motivate such a heavy vehicle and is easily outclassed by more powerful and efficient V6s offered by its competition. The Work Truck trim level is still notably dull compared to the more inviting interiors seen in base models of the Ram and Toyota trucks. Lastly, a large turning radius hampers maneuverability, something that becomes apparent in any parking lot. Savvy shoppers will note that the Ford F-150 boasts more available high-tech features, while the Toyota Tundra is roomier in its crew cab trim. This Ram 1500 is our favorite of the bunch thanks to its top-notch interior, new features and smooth highway ride. Yet because it does so much right and so little wrong, the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 remains a solid choice and deserves attention when you're shopping for just the right combination of features and performance in this very competitive segment. Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options The 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 is a full-size pickup offered in a variety of cab/cargo-bed configurations in both two- and four-wheel drive. Body styles include regular cab, extended cab and crew cab. Regular and extended cabs are available with either a 6.5-foot standard bed or an 8-foot long bed. Crew cabs are mated to only a 5-foot-8 short bed. Regular cabs are limited to the base Work Truck and midlevel LT trims, while the extended and crew cabs come in LS, LT and the range-topping LTZ trim. The Work trim (or WT) is limited to the bare necessities, which include air-conditioning (extended- and crew-cab versions), a trip computer, a tilt steering wheel, OnStar telematics, vinyl seating, a 40/20/40-split front bench seat and a four-speaker sound system with an auxiliary audio jack. The LS adds full power accessories, keyless entry, cruise control, a CD player, satellite radio and adjustable lumbar support for the driver. The LT trim includes premium cloth seating, a lockable compartment with a power outlet built into the center cushion of the split front seat, an auto-dimming rearview mirror and a leather-wrapped steering wheel. The LTZ piles on 20-inch alloy wheels, dual-zone automatic climate control (in extended and crew cabs), an exclusive dash design with wood and metallic accents, leather upholstery, 10-way power-adjustable heated front bucket seats, driver-seat memory settings, Bluetooth, remote engine start and a Bose audio system with a six-disc CD changer, a USB/iPod interface and rear audio controls. Many of the features on the upper trim levels are offered on the lower ones as options. Other popular options (depending on the trim level and configuration) include various towing packages, the Z71 Off-Road package (skid plates, off-road suspension, 18-inch wheels and body-colored front end), 18- and 20-inch wheels, a sunroof, heated power-folding outside mirrors, an EZ-Lift tailgate, a power-sliding rear window, rear parking sensors, a rearview camera, upgraded audio systems, a rear-seat entertainment system, a navigation system and ventilated front seats. A number of thematic packages are available as well (depending on the trim level). The All-Star package includes the 5.3-liter V8, a locking rear differential, a towing package, 17-inch alloy wheels, dual-zone automatic climate control, Bluetooth, audio upgrades (CD player, iPod/USB interface and auxiliary jack), six-way power driver seat and the EZ-Lift tailgate. There is also the XFE (extra fuel economy) trim variant for the two-wheel-drive 5.3-liter V8 crew cab that features aerodynamic enhancements and lightweight aluminum components that improve fuel economy. Powertrains and Performance Chevy offers four engines in the 2013 Silverado, including three V8s. The standard 4.3-liter V6 produces 195 hp and 260 pound-feet of torque. LS trim buyers may upgrade to a 4.8-liter V8 rated at 302 hp and 305 lb-ft, or a 5.3-liter V8 that's good for 315 hp and 335 lb-ft. The biggest engine is a 6.2-liter V8 cranking out 403 hp and 417 lb-ft of peak torque. The LT trim, depending on body style, will have one of the two smaller V8s as standard, while the 5.3-liter is standard on the LTZ. The 6.2-liter is available as an option on select models. A four-speed automatic transmission with a tow-haul mode is standard on Silverado pickups with the base V6 and 4.8-liter V8. The 5.3-liter and 6.2-liter V8s utilize a six-speed automatic. In a recent Edmunds test, a Silverado with a 6.2-liter V8 accelerated from zero to 60 mph in 6.6 seconds, which is very quick for a full-size pickup. Properly equipped, a Silverado 1500 can tow up to 10,700 pounds. Buyers have a choice of either rear- or four-wheel drive. The Work and LS trims with 4WD have a traditional floor-mounted selector for the transfer case. All other 4WD trims have Autotrac (optional on the Work and LS), which features an automatic setting that shifts into 4WD when wheel slippage is detected. Safety Standard safety equipment includes antilock disc brakes, OnStar, electronic stability control and traction control. Front seat side airbags and side curtain airbags are also standard. Four-wheel disc brakes are available as part of the Max Trailering package. In Edmunds brake testing, a Silverado crew cab with four-wheel disc brakes stopped from 60 mph in a short 120 feet. In government crash tests, the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 received an overall score of four stars (out of five). It earned four stars for overall frontal crash protection and five stars for overall side crash protection. In Insurance Institute for Highway Safety testing, a Silverado crew cab earned a top score of "Good" for frontal-offset crash protection and a second-best score of "Acceptable" in side-impact testing. Interior Design and Special Features The base model won't excite the senses but it meets the needs of work-only owners who want durability and don't have to worry about hosing out the mud, if needed. Comfort features along with fit and finish improve greatly when moving up to the more popular and upscale trim levels. The navigation system offers an easily read display and quick response times. The heated and ventilated bucket seats are offered only on the LTZ trim level, but otherwise it's easy to get in a comfortable driving position with the available power-adjustable pedals. Crew cab models feature comfortable rear 60/40-split bench seats with flip-up seat cushions that provide a nearly flat load floor. Interior storage is merely adequate, with small cupholders and haphazard center console organization. Driving Impressions Overall, the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 is pleasant to drive. It features light yet reasonably precise steering and a relatively supple suspension. The latter keeps the body under control without any drama and provides as comfortable a ride as can be expected from a full-size truck. One downside is the wide turning circle, which doesn't help the broad-shouldered truck maneuver in a downtown parking garage. The base V6 doesn't provide the power needed for hauling a heavy load, although the 4.8-liter V8 picks up the pace a little. The 5.3-liter V8 feels brawny, while the 6.2-liter V8 turns the Silverado into a veritable muscle truck. The smaller engines are still saddled with an outdated four-speed automatic that doesn't contribute much to either low-end grunt or fuel economy. But the six-speed automatic transmission that comes standard with the two bigger V8s does an admirable job of keeping power on tap and features a well-calibrated tow-haul mode and cruise-grade braking.

Castlevania (1986 video game) Castlevania is an action-platformer video game developed and published by Konami for the Family Computer Disk System video game console in Japan in September 1986. It was ported to cartridge format and released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in May 1987 and in Europe in 1988. It was also re-issued for the Family Computer in cartridge format in 1993. Players control Simon Belmont, who has entered Castlevania to defeat the vampire Count Dracula. It is the first game in Konami's Castlevania video game series, and was developed in tandem with the MSX2 game Vampire Killer, which was released a month later and follows the same premise, but features different gameplay mechanics. Castlevania was succeeded by an NES sequel, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, and an NES prequel, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Super Castlevania IV, which follows the same setting, was released in 1991 for the Super Nintendo. A remake of the game for the Sharp X68000 home computer was eventually re-released for the PlayStation as Castlevania Chronicles in 2001. Castlevania was positively received and financially successful. It is considered an NES classic by PC World, while Nintendo Power and Game Informer ranked it in their list of best video games ever made. Gameplay Castlevania uses platform gameplay and is divided into six blocks of three stages each, for a total of 18 stages. Simon can move, jump, crouch, climb stairs, and use a magic whip as his primary combat weapon. When the player presses the button to crack the whip, there is a short delay before Simon actually does so. The player begins the game with four lives and five hearts, and must complete the current block of stages before a timer runs out. Simon has a health meter, which decreases whenever he is attacked by an enemy or projectile; if Simon's meter is fully depleted, he falls into a pit (even from an upper screen when there is ground on the previous screen that he walks up the stairs from), he gets hit by a moving spiked ceiling (which always instantly defeats him regardless of his health), or the timer reaches zero, the player loses one life. Hidden food items restore health, and bonus lives are earned at certain score thresholds. A boss character must be defeated at the end of each block in order to advance to the next one (and before advancing, an orb must be collected after defeating the boss); the ultimate goal is to defeat the Count at the end of Stage 18, triggering the collapse of his castle. Throughout the game, the player can find and use various backup weapons. However, only one such weapon can be carried at a time, and it is lost if the player loses a life. Backup weapons require hearts for their use, which can be found or taken from defeated enemies. Other hidden items include point bonuses, temporary invincibility, whip upgrades (3 levels total), instant destruction of all on-screen enemies, and double/triple use of the backup weapon. When all lives are lost, the player has the option to continue from the start of the block in which the game ended. Development Castlevania was directed by Hitoshi Akamatsu. An admirer of cinema, Akamatsu approached projects with a "film director's eye", and said the visuals and music for Castlevania were "made by people who consciously wanted to do something cinematic". With Castlevania, he wanted players to feel like they were in a classic horror film. It was originally released for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986. Due to its success in Japan, it was released in cartridge format for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) under the title of Castlevania in 1987 and 1988 in North America and Europe respectively, and rereleased in cartridge format for the Japanese Famicom under its original title in 1993. The international name of Castlevania was the result of Konami of America senior vice president Emil Heidkamp's discomfort with the religious connotations of the title Akumajō Dracula, which he believed translated as "Dracula Satanic Castle." Castlevania was one of the first major platform games on the NES and a part of an unofficial second wave of video games for the NES. Its release coincided with the 90th anniversary of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The player-character Simon was originally named Peter Dante, a vampire killer who was a grandson of Christopher Dante. At the time, whip attacks were planned to be in multiple directions, an idea later seen in Super Castlevania IV. Other sub-weapons were planned, such as garlic, wooden stakes and an item that transforms the player-character into a werewolf, but they were not included in the game. A game also titled Akumajō Dracula was developed for the MSX2 simultaneously. It was released a month after the Disk System game. It was released in Europe under the title Vampire Killer where it was the first game in the series to be released. The MSX2 version featured different areas and a different structure. Versions and re-releases Castlevania has been ported to a variety of different video game consoles, handheld game consoles, home computer systems, and mobile phones. A ROM version of the game was released for the Japanese Family Computer in 1993. The port omitted the name registration screen from the original Famicom Disk version (as well as saving) and included an "Easy" mode. In 2002, Konami released the first three NES Castlevania games for Windows as Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra. In 2004, Castlevania was released for the Game Boy Advance as part of the Classic NES Series published by Nintendo. The mock ending credits of the game, which are mostly puns on the names of veteran horror movie stars, were removed in this version. The original game was included as one of 30 games featured on the 2016 NES Classic Edition. The game is included in Castlevania Anniversary Collection, a compilation released as part of Konami's 50th anniversary. The 1993 Famicom version was later included through an update. Reception Since its original release, Castlevania has received generally positive reception. Japanese gaming publication Famitsu gave it a score of 34 out of 40. It sold impressively and was considered a classic by Retro Gamer and IGN. It was rated the 22nd best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Powers Top 200 Games list in 2006. In August 2008, Nintendo Power listed it as the 14th best Nintendo Entertainment System video game. Game Informer ranked it the 48th best game ever made in 2001; the staff noted that its gameplay set a standard for the industry. IGN ranked it 19th on their list of the best NES games; the second and third Castlevania games were ranked 25th and 5th respectively. It was praised for its difficulty, gameplay, soundtrack, and visuals. GameZone ranked it as the eighth best Castlevania game. Robert Workman (an editor for GameZone) felt that the game had aged well and was a great value on the Wii Virtual Console. IGN's Lucas M. Thomas noted the relative realism of Castlevanias weapons versus "glowing flowers that let you throw bouncing fireballs." He also praised it for feeling scary while also not taking itself too seriously. The combination of these elements and others caused him to credit it as a "unique and wonderful" game and a game that made an impact on later Castlevania games. Retro Gamer called it one of the most enduring video games ever made. It attributed its quality less so to unique gameplay and more so to its more adult atmosphere and challenge. In his review of the Virtual Console version, IGN's Mark Birnbaum personally enjoyed its difficulty and design but noted that people who were quick to become frustrated would enjoy the Super NES sequel Super Castlevania IV better. 1UP.com's Kurt Kalata praised its level of difficulty and its realistic visual design. In Japan, video gaming magazine Famitsu scored Famicom version game a 34 / 40. Game Informers Tim Turi claimed that the original Castlevania made the series a "legend" and called it the "essential Castlevania experience." IGN wrote a piece that discussed the idea that this game as well as other Castlevania titles were overshadowed by the 1997 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night which it's considered the best title in the series. It cited this game's absence from IGN's top 100 games of all-time as well as the absence of the second and third Castlevanias from Game Informers top 100 games of all-time list. It suggested that the reason this is the case is because of the NES games' high learning curve and difficulty level. It also felt that Symphony of the Nights influence on the series after its release caused people to forget about the NES games. It praised the Virtual Console for allowing players unfamiliar with these games to experience them more easily. IGN's Lucas M. Thomas included its 25th anniversary in a list of forgotten anniversaries which took place in 2011. He felt it odd that Castlevania had so many titles before its 25th anniversary and only one title during 2011. The Classic NES Series re-release of the game was met with mixed to positive reception. It holds an average score of 74/100 and 71% at Metacritic and GameRankings respectively. 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443 S.W.2d 146 (1969) Melba BROWN, Appellant, v. Bob KITTERMAN, Respondent. No. 53610. Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2. July 14, 1969. *148 Robert B. Baker, Ellington, for appellant. John W. Belew, Doniphan, Moore & Brill, Richard D. Moore, Newton C. Brill, West Plains, for respondent. STOCKARD, Commissioner. By Count I of her petition plaintiff sought actual and punitive damages for libel, and by Counts II, III and IV she sought actual and punitive damages for slander. The trial court dismissed the petition for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, and plaintiff has appealed. We affirm. Defendant's motion to dismiss the appeal for the reason that plaintiff's brief failed to comply with Civil Rule 83.05, V.A.M.R., while not totally without merit, is overruled. Plaintiff alleged she was libeled by the publication by defendant of a letter, which in its entirety was as follows: "Grandin, Mo., Mar. 6, 1966. "University of Missouri Extension Service "Van Buren, Missouri "Gentlemen: Re: Community Center Survey Grandin, Mo. "Since I did not have time to answer the survey in the short length of time given I am taking this means to give my objections and suggestions. Since the community center building was rented without the approval of a majority of the original building committee and it is now being managed by the owner of the building, I don't think the owner of the property should also be the manager. "Several things have been happening in the Grandin Community during the past few months which doesn't look good, some of it is directly from the center and some isn't. "One of the VISTA workers proposes that we should legalize prostitution in a high school class at Ellisnore, the same worker has had considerable to do with the setting up and management of the center. We have had two school girls reported to be pregnant another has been forceable assaulted. On two different occasions we have heard from our home girls hollow out and a car door slam, the car takes off then all is quiet. To me this all adds up to social problems that are not being solved. I do not think the center should be operated in the manner it is in the name of the community. If the owner wants to operate such a place of business then let it be under some other name than the community. "If the center is to be such a good and desirable organization then I make the following suggestions to insure its future well being. "Why not let each official church board appoint one of its members to serve on a committee, this would give the center a *149 governing board of 5, then let this committee have the rights to appoint and supervise the management. If all 5 churches would cooperate in this manner, I think the center would have a much better atmosphere. "To sum up my thinking, I do not think we need the center in Grandin, if it is to be operated as is. Unless some very good improvements can be made the Federal Government should not put its money in it. We have to [sic] many other more important things the Government can help us with, other than spending money on undesirable activities. "I certainly hope some good can come from this survey. Respectfully yours, /s/ Bob Kitterman Mayor City of Grandin." In view of plaintiff's attempt to plead innuendoes we shall set forth certain basic rules pertaining to the law of libel and thereby define and delineate the precise issue for determination. Published words in a written communication which are defamatory within the meaning of Section 559.410, RS Mo 1959, V.A.M.S., without the aid of extrinsic facts, referred to as libelous per se, are actionable. Langworthy v. Pulitzer Publishing Company, Mo., 368 S.W.2d 385; Chambers v. National Battery Co., D.C., 34 F.Supp. 834; 53 C.J.S. Libel and Slander §§ 8 and 162. In such a situation the law presumes some damages which may be alleged generally, Eby v. Wilson, 315 Mo. 1214, 289 S.W. 639, 50 A.L.R. 268, and the allegation of special damages is not required although proof of actual damage may be made to support the presumption of injury and to show its extent. Langworthy v. Pulitzer Publishing Company, supra, 368 S.W.2d at p. 388. A petition based on published words not defamatory per se may state a cause of action for libel, but to do so the petition must allege facts extrinsic to the published matter, referred to as the inducement, and the explanation referred to as the innuendo, which establishes the defamatory sense within the meaning of Section 559.410, supra. In addition, it has been the uniform rule in this state, and the majority rule elsewhere, that in such situation special damages must be pleaded in order for the petition to state a cause of action. Hellesen v. Knaus Truck Lines, Mo., 370 S.W.2d 341; Langworthy v. Pulitzer Publishing Company, supra, 368 S.W.2d at p. 388. See also the numerous cases cited in the Langworthy case. Plaintiff challenges this rule, but if the publication in this case constitutes libel per se there would be no need to discuss this challenge. We shall first determine whether the publication constitutes libel per se. Section 559.410, supra, defines libel as follows: "A libel is the malicious defamation of a person made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or effigy tending to provoke him to wrath or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to deprive him of the benefits of public confidence and social intercourse, * * *." The courts, as set out in Coots v. Payton, 365 Mo. 180, 280 S.W. 2d 47, have uniformly held that to constitute libel per se the published writing must itself amount to a "defamation," and that in addition it must expose one to hatred or contempt, etc. It was held in Diener v. Star-Chronicle Pub. Co., 232 Mo. 416, 135 S.W. 6, 11, that "There must be defamation in a libelous sense before there can be a libel. * * * To make a libel there must be defamation in the sense of the law, before the public scorn and contempt feature is operative. Defamation includes the idea of calumny, aspersion by lying; the injury of another's reputation in that way. To defame is to speak evil of one maliciously, to dishonor, to render infamous." The motion to dismiss the petition for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted does not admit the construction of the words pleaded in an innuendo, Fritschle v. Kettle River Co., *150 346 Mo. 196, 139 S.W.2d 948; Langworthy v. Pulitzer Publishing Company, Mo., supra, and whether the alleged libelous words, when given their natural meaning, Lightfoot v. Jennings, 363 Mo. 878, 254 S.W.2d 596, are "capable of the defamatory meaning ascribed to them" is a question of law for the court to decide on a motion to dismiss. Cook v. Pulitzer Pub. Co., 241 Mo. 326, 145 S.W. 480, 485. Plaintiff extracts seven portions or phrases from the above publication which she alleges were false, and in her petition she ascribes to each of them by way of innuendo a meaning. Although in our determination of whether any of the seven excerpts constitute libel per se, we are not bound by the meaning ascribed to them by plaintiff, we will set forth the various excerpts and the pleaded meanings. [1] "The community center building was rented without the approval of a majority of the original building committee and it is now being managed by the owner of the building, "Meaning that Melba Brown, plaintiff, was the owner and manager of the center." [2] "Several things have been happening in the Grandin community during the past few months which doesn't look good, some of it is directly from the center and some isn't." "Meaning that some things which do not look good were being encouraged by the community center managed by Melba Brown, plaintiff." [3] "One of the VISTA workers proposed that we should legalize prostitution in a high school class in Ellsinore, the same worker has had considerable to do with the setting up and management of the center. We have had two school girls reported to be pregnant, another has been forceable assaulted. On two different occasions we have heard from our homes girls hollow out and a car door slam, the car takes off then all is quiet. To me this all adds up to social problems that are not being solved." "Meaning that the above class and character of activities are being promoted and encouraged at the Community Center by Melba Brown, plaintiff." [4] "I do not think the center should be operated in the manner it is in the name of the community. If the owner wants to operate such a place of business then let it be under some other name than the community." "Meaning that Melba Brown, plaintiff, is operating the community center in such a manner as to encourage illicit sexual relations by persons who come there." [5] "If the center is to be such a good and desirable organization then I make the following suggestions to insure its future well being." "Meaning that the community center operated by Melba Brown, plaintiff, is an undesirable organization because of the promotion and encouragement of the above stated activities." [6] "I think the center would have a much better atmosphere." "Meaning that the community center now has an immoral atmosphere because of the promotion of the above immoral activities." [7] "To sum up my thinking. I do not think we need the center in Grandin, if it is to be operated as is. Unless some very good improvements can be made the Federal Government should not put its money in it. We have to [sic] many other more important things the Government can help us with, other than spending money on undesirable activities." "Meaning that Melba Brown, plaintiff, is operating the community center *151 in such a way as to promote and encourage immoral activities and that the Federal Government is spending money for this purpose." Plaintiff alleged that the letter was published of and concerning her, and by reason of Civil Rule 55.22, V.A.M.R., this was sufficient for what is referred to as the "colloquium." It is not clear, but when the entire petition is considered it appears, and we shall assume, that plaintiff owned the building which was rented for use as a community center, and that she was the manager of the community center. However, plaintiff alleged that the words which had that meaning were false. There was no allegation of special damages. When we consider the language of the letter in its entirety, and give the words their plain and ordinarily understood meaning, what is there in the various portions relied on in the petition which are defamatory of plaintiff? We can find nothing. In the first excerpt set out by plaintiff it was stated that the community center building was rented without approval of "the original building committee" (presumably a committee representing the community center) and that "it" (the building or the community center) is now being managed by the owner of the building, which we assume was plaintiff. However difficult it may be to formulate a definition of "defamatory" which may be applied in determining whether particular words constitute a "defamation," Coots v. Payton, 365 Mo. 180, 280 S.W.2d 47, 54, when we assume factual matters most favorable to plaintiff we find nothing defamatory of plaintiff in these words. If we should accept the meaning ascribed to the words by plaintiff there is nothing defamatory within the definition of Section 559.410, supra. The same is true as to the second excerpt. The third excerpt contains statements concerning "one of the VISTA workers," "school girls" and "social problems that are not being solved." Plaintiff does not allege that she was the "VISTA worker" or one of the "school girls." Plaintiff's position seems to be the statement was defamatory of her because the meaning of the words was that she "promoted and encouraged" the activities referred to. The statement does not say that, and it is only by extrinsic facts that such a meaning could be brought about. However, plaintiff does not allege any extrinsic facts, except possibly that she was the manager of the community center. Instead she simply sets forth, presumably by way of an innuendo, a claimed meaning of the words, not supported by the words themselves, and not supported by extrinsic facts. We find nothing defamatory in the words constituting the third excerpt. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh excerpts, when the words are considered alone, are totally devoid of anything defamatory of plaintiff. As noted, plaintiff does not allege special damages, and for this reason under the applicable present rule the petition could not state a claim for libel per quod. However, plaintiff argues that Nordlund v. Consolidated Electric Co-operative, Mo., 289 S.W.2d 93, 57 A.L.R.2d 832; Langworthy v. Pulitzer Publishing Co., Mo., 368 S.W.2d 385; Otto v. Kansas City Star Company, Mo., 368 S.W.2d 494; Hellesen v. Knaus Truck Lines, Mo., 370 S.W.2d 341, and other cases should no longer be followed insofar as they express the rule that special damages must be alleged in order to state a claim for libel when the published words do not constitute libel per se. She cites several cases from other states, including Pitts v. Spokane Chronicle Company, 63 Wash.2d 763, 388 P.2d 976, 9 A.L.R.3d 550; Herrmann v. Newark Morning Ledger Co., 48 N.J.Super. 420, 138 A.2d 61. She also cites articles in various law reviews, Prosser on Torts, and Harper & James, Torts. Although published words not libelous per se may be actionable (as libel per quod) when, by what is known as the inducement, extrinsic facts are pleaded which result *152 in words, nondefamatory on their face, having a defamatory meaning as shown by the pleaded innuendo, we doubt that the petition states a claim for libel per quod. We need not, however, expressly so rule because we are not persuaded that the rule followed in Missouri concerning the need to allege special damages in order to state a claim for libel per quod should be changed. Although Professor Prosser apparently has some question as to which rule should be followed, he agrees that the rule urged by plaintiff is applied only in "a small minority of the American jurisdictions," and that the rule followed in Missouri is of the "great majority." Prosser on Torts, 3d Ed., § 107, pp. 781, 782. See also Prosser, Libel Per Quod, 46 Va. L.Rev. 839. The rule requiring the allegation of special damages to state a claim for libel per quod has been characterized as "the modern American trend," 28 Mo.L. Rev. 661, and that it "seems to be generally agreed that a complaint [for libel per quod] which fails properly to allege [special damages] is defective." 33 Am.Jur., Libel and Slander § 243, p. 223. See also 53 C.J.S. Libel and Slander § 170, p. 271. In a revealing article by Professor Prosser, More Libel Per Quod, 79 Har.L.Rev. 1629, the author points out that he has found only one case, Sydney v. McFadden Newspaper Pub. Corp., 242 N.Y. 208, 151 N.E. 209, 44 A.L.R. 1419, where a court has expressly and necessarily ruled that the allegation of special damages is not an element of libel per quod, and that case is no longer followed by the New York courts. See Everett v. Gross, 22 A.D.2d 257, 254 N.Y.S.2d 561; O'Connell v. Press Publishing Co., 214 N.Y. 352, 108 N.E. 556; Kuhn v. Veloz, 252 App.Div. 515, 299 N.Y.S. 924; Solotaire v. Cowles Magazines, Inc., Sup., 107 N.Y.S.2d 798; Macri v. Mayer, 22 Misc.2d 429, 201 N.Y.S.2d 525. Mr. Prosser admits that language in Herrmann v. Newark Morning Ledger Co., 48 N.J.Super. 420, 138 A.2d 61; Martin v. Outboard Marine Corporation, 15 Wis. 2d 452, 113 N.W.2d 135; and Pitts v. Spokane Chronicle Company, 63 Wash.2d 763, 388 P.2d 976, 9 A.L.R.3d 550, indicate that the allegation of special damages is not a requisite for libel per quod, but he asserts that in those cases the publication was actionable without the allegation of intrinsic facts so the statements were unnecessary to the result reached and were contrary to the majority rule. In the above article it is pointed out that in those states where the issue has been squarely presented, other than in the one New York case, the ruling has been that the allegation of special damages is essential to the statement of a claim for libel per quod. See Ilitzky v. Goodman, 57 Ariz. 216, 112 P.2d 860; McBride v. Crowell-Collier Pub. Co., 5 Cir., 196 F.2d 187 (applying Florida law); Karrigan v. Valentine, 184 Kan. 783, 339 P.2d 52; Axton Fisher Tobacco Co. v. Evening Post Co., 169 Ky. 64, 183 S.W. 269, L.R.A. 1916E, 667; Campbell v. Post Pub. Co., 94 Mont. 12, 20 P.2d 1063; Chase v. New Mexico Pub. Co., 53 N.M. 145, 203 P.2d 594; Flake v. Greensboro News Co., 212 N.C. 780, 195 S.E. 55; Ellsworth v. Martindale-Hubble Law Directory, 66 N.D. 578, 268 N.W. 400; Moore v. P. W. Publishing Co., 3 Ohio St.2d 183, 209 N.E.2d 412; Hargrove v. Oklahoma Press Pub. Co., 130 Okl. 76, 265 P. 635; Fite v. Oklahoma Pub. Co., 146 Okl. 150, 293 P. 1073; Fry v. McCord, 95 Tenn. 678, 33 S.W. 568; Electric Furnace Corp. v. Deering Milliken Research Corp., 6 Cir., 325 F.2d 761 (applying Tennessee law); Yelle v. Cowles Publishing Co., 46 Wash. 2d 105, 278 P.2d 671, 53 A.L.R.2d 1. See also the cases cited in the footnotes to 53 C.J.S. Libel and Slander § 170(c). There may be some question concerning the historical development of the rule (see Henn, Libel-By-Extrinsic-Fact, 47 Cornell L. Quart. p. 14), but after careful consideration of the articles and cases relied on by plaintiff and those cited above, we conclude that the requirement that special damages must be alleged when the published words are not libelous per se is sound. When the published words do not constitute libel per se the law does *153 not presume that at least some damage resulted, but "special damages constitute the sole basis for a recovery." 33 Am. Jur., Libel and Slander § 243, p. 223. If a plaintiff must plead extrinsic facts to show he has been libeled, he should also plead facts to show his damage. We turn now to the counts in the petition pertaining to slander. In Counts II, III and IV plaintiff alleged that in the presence of others, defendant "willfully, wantonly and maliciously spoke of and concerning the plaintiff certain false, defamatory and slanderous words" as follows: Count II, "That Melba Brown was running the community center as a `pick up joint;'" Count III, "All they do is come in here and hold hands and make love;" Count IV, "The government was paying the rent on the community center building. Melba Brown was receiving $200.00 per month for operating the community center, and that she was lying to the public about the source of funds to operate the community center when she said they were voluntary contributions." By attempted innuendoes plaintiff alleged that the oral statements of defendant set forth in Counts II and III respectively meant that plaintiff "was operating the community center in such a way as to encourage prostitution and other forms of illicit sexual activity," and that plaintiff "was managing the community center in such a way as to encourage and promote immoral activities." No intrinsic facts were alleged in any of the counts, and no innuendo was alleged in Count IV. Only general damages were pleaded. "The reluctance with which the common law courts at first received the action of slander, and their fear of invading the province of ecclesiastical law, led them to hold that the action would not lie without proof of `temporal' damage. From this there developed the rule that slander, in general, is not actionable unless actual damage is proved. To this the courts very early established certain specific exceptions: the imputation of crime [in Missouri, the crime must be punishable by imprisonment, Kirk v. Ebenhoch, 354 Mo. 762, 191 S.W.2d 643], of a loathsome disease, and those affecting the plaintiff in his business, trade, profession, office or calling—which required no proof of damage. * * * Modern statutes and decisions have added a fourth category, the imputation of unchastity to a woman. For these four kinds of slander, no proof of any actual harm to reputation or any other damage is required for the recovery of either nominal or substantial damages." Prosser on Torts, 3d Ed. § 107, p. 772. This expresses the general rule in Missouri. Kirk v. Ebenhoch, supra; Boyce v. Wheeler, 197 Mo.App. 295, 195 S.W. 84; Tincher v. National Life & Accident Ins. Co., 235 Mo.App. 663, 146 S.W.2d 663. Since special damages were not alleged in Counts II, III or IV, we need only determine whether the alleged slanderous words fall within any of the above four categories, or as frequently said, whether they constitute slander per se. Obviously, the alleged slanderous words do not impute to plaintiff the commission of a crime punishable by imprisonment even if we adopt the alleged meaning, which we think is not justified, that plaintiff was operating the community center in such a way to encourage prostitution. See Section 563.630, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S., and Kirk v. Ebenhoch, supra. Neither do the words impute to plaintiff a loathsome disease or unchastity. In one of the statements alleged to have been said by defendant, plaintiff was accused of lying to the public when she said the funds to operate the community center were received from voluntary contributions. However, "Oral imputations of falsehood generally are not actionable per se, and may be actionable only where they occasion special damages." 53 C.J.S. Libel and Slander § 19, p. 66. See also McDaniel v. Jordan, 164 Ark. 455, 262 S.W. 30; Wooten v. Martin, 140 Ky. 781, 131 *154 S.W. 783, Ann.Cas. 1912B 407; Floraday v. Monometer Gauge & Equipment Corporation, 50 Ohio App. 397, 198 N.E. 488; Barnes v. Trundy, 31 Me. 321; Townshend on Slander, 4th ed., § 174, p. 197. In Bruno v. Schukart, 12 Misc.2d 383, 177 N.Y.S.2d 51, the term "liar" was held not to constitute slander per se in the absence of some showing that it would affect plaintiff's business. Plaintiff's argument in her brief is directed primarily to the contention that the words set forth in Counts II, III and IV constituted a defamation affecting her in her business, trade or employment. However, at no place in any of the counts pertaining to slander, or in Count I pertaining to libel, does she allege that she was engaged in any business, trade or employment, or that the alleged defamatory words affected or tended to prejudice her in her business, trade or employment. In each count she merely alleges that the words were false and were said of her, and that she was "injured in her good name and fame" or "reputation." As a general rule, false words which tend to prejudice the person spoken of in his business, profession, office, occupation, or employment, are actionable without proof of special damages if they affect him in such calling in a manner that may, as a necessary consequence, or does, as a natural consequence, prevent him from deriving therefrom that pecuniary reward which, probably he might have obtained. 33 Am.Jur., Libel and Slander § 63. The words must impute "a want of knowledge, skill, capacity, or fitness to perform or discharge the duties" of a profession, trade, business or employment, Heitzeberg v. Von Hoffman Press, 340 Mo. 265, 100 S.W.2d 307, or, stated another way, to be actionable per se the words must be defamatory of the plaintiff in such calling in that they impute fraud, want of integrity or misconduct in the line of his calling. McKim v. Moore, 291 Mo. 697, 237 S.W. 773; Stowers v. Western Bentley Mercantile Co., Mo.App., 140 S.W. 2d 714. Where the words complained of show on their face that they were published of plaintiff with respect to his profession, business, or employment and contain matter injurious to him in such capacity, no averment that the words were so published is necessary. 53 C.J.S. Libel and Slander § 164(b) (2), p. 258. However, when words are not obviously defamatory (whether of plaintiff personally or of plaintiff in his business or calling) the plaintiff must allege facts from which it can be found that the words were used in a defamatory sense. Bernhardt v. Armbruster, Mo.App., 217 S.W.2d 759. In other words, when plaintiff's contention is that the published words were defamatory of him in his business or calling, such defamatory meaning must appear from the words or it is "necessary to allege that plaintiff was engaged in such profession, business or employment at the time of the publication and that the charge was published of plaintiff with respect thereto." 53 C.J.S. Libel & Slander § 164(b) (2), p. 258; Stowers v. Western Bentley Mercantile Co., Mo.App., 140 S.W.2d 714. We shall examine the alleged defamatory words in the light of these principles. To say of plaintiff that she operated the community center, with no allegation as to what it is or its purposes, as a "pick-up joint," that persons go there to "hold hands and make love," that the government was paying the rent on the community center, and that plaintiff was receiving $200 a month to operate it cannot be slanderous per se. They are not defamatory of plaintiff personally. The term "pick-up joint" and the reference to persons who go to the center and "hold hands and make love" are capable of perfectly innocuous meanings. They do not impute to plaintiff a want of knowledge, skill, capacity or fitness to perform or discharge her duties. They cannot be defamatory in that respect without the allegation of extrinsic facts to demonstrate such defamatory character, and no extrinsic facts were alleged. The only other *155 charge is that plaintiff "was lying to the public about the source of funds to operate the community center when she said they were voluntary contributions." As noted above, an oral charge of lying or of untruthfulness is not slander per se of an individual, but it might be actionable per se in some circumstances if the words tend to prejudice the person spoken of in his business or calling. Plaintiff does not allege what her business or calling was. We have assumed it was manager of a community center, whatever that is. Neither does plaintiff allege that the charge of lying was published of her with respect to her business or calling, and whatever her duties and responsibilities were as such manager, a charge that she misrepresented the source of the funds for the operation of the center, as distinguished from a charge, for example, that she violated her duties as manager or that in the management of the center she appropriated funds for an unauthorized purpose, does not demonstrate on its face that plaintiff was defamed in her business as manager of the community center by imputing to her fraud, want of integrity, or misconduct in her duties as manager. For a somewhat comparable case, see Dunnebacke v. Williams, 214 Tenn. 581, 381 S.W.2d 909. Perhaps extrinsic facts would demonstrate this, but without them the words cannot be construed to be defamatory of plaintiff personally or of her in her business or calling. We mention one further matter lest it might be assumed the issue had been overlooked. We have assumed plaintiff was manager of the community center. If we had not, the alleged oral statements could not in any event have been found to have prejudicially affected plaintiff in her employment or calling. But, when we make that assumption, plaintiff then apparently becomes a public official within the meaning of New York Times Company v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d 686, 95 A.L.R.2d 1412, or at least a person comparable to the manager of a county operated recreation area who was the plaintiff in Rosenblatt v. Baer, 383 U.S. 75, 86 S.Ct. 669, 15 L.Ed. 2d 597. There are no facts alleged in the petition from which it could be found that the alleged falsehoods were published with malice, that is, with knowledge of their falsity or with reckless disregard of whether they were true or false. In view of our conclusion that the petition does not allege libel or slander per se, further development of the rule announced in the New York Times case, and the cases following it, is unnecessary. The judgment is affirmed. BARRETT, C., concurs. PRITCHARD, C., not sitting. PER CURIAM: The foregoing opinion by STOCKARD, C., is adopted as the opinion of the Court. All of the Judges concur.

Q: How do I vertically center a single cell within a table? I can't find a way to vertically center a single line within a table cell. Take a look at this screenshoot: I'd like to vertically center the text within the bottom right cell and I just can't find a way to do it. I tried \usepackage{array} but I couldn't figure out how to apply the \centering\arraybackslash, which seems to align things vertically within cells, just to this single cell. (I'm also not sure why the right border is missing for this cell.) Here is the LaTeX code that generates this table: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[left=1cm,top=1cm,right=1cm,bottom=1cm,nohead,nofoot]{geometry} \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref} \usepackage{verbatim} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{array} \hypersetup{colorlinks} \lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily} \pagestyle{empty} % ----------------------------------------------------------------------- \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{|p{5.5cm}|p{12.2cm}|} \hline \large\textbf{Redirection} & \large\textbf{Description} \\ \hline \verb|> file| & Redirect standard output (stdout) to a file. \\ \hline \verb|1> file| & Same as \verb|> file|. \verb|1| is the default file descriptor for stdout. \\ \hline \verb|2> file| & Redirect standard error (stderr) to a file. \verb|2| is the default file descriptor for stderr. \\ \hline \verb|>> file| & Append stdout to a file. \\ \hline \verb|2>> file| & Append stderr to a file. \\ \hline \verb|&> file| & Redirect stdout and stderr to a file. \\ \hline \verb|>file 2>&1| & Another way to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file. This \textbf{is not} the same as \verb|2>&1 >file|. \textbf{Redirection order matters!} \\ \hline \verb|> /dev/null| & Discard stdout. \\ \hline \verb|2> /dev/null| & Discard stderr. \\ \hline \verb|&> /dev/null| & Discard stdout and stderr. \\ \hline \verb|< file| & Redirect the contents of the file to the stdin. \\ \hline \verb|<< EOL| \\ \verb|foo| \\ \verb|bar| \\ \verb|baz| \\ \verb|EOL| & Redirect a bunch of lines to the stdin. \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{document} A: You can use the m option provided by the array package to vertically centre the material in table columns. However, you have another problem. Using \\ without a preceding ampersand creates a row with only one column. This is why part of the right edge of the table is missing. Instead, you could use \par to insert a line break without moving to the next line of the table. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{array} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{|m{5.5cm}|m{12cm}|} \hline \large\textbf{Redirection} & \large\textbf{Description} \\ \hline \verb|> file| & Redirect standard output (stdout) to a file. \\ \hline \verb|1> file| & Same as \verb|> file|. \verb|1| is the default file descriptor for stdout. \\ \hline \verb|2> file| & Redirect standard error (stderr) to a file. \verb|2| is the default file descriptor for stderr. \\ \hline \verb|>> file| & Append stdout to a file. \\ \hline \verb|2>> file| & Append stderr to a file. \\ \hline \verb|&> file| & Redirect stdout and stderr to a file. \\ \hline \verb|>file 2>&1| & Another way to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file. This \textbf{is not} the same as \verb|2>&1 >file|. \textbf{Redirection order matters!} \\ \hline \verb|> /dev/null| & Discard stdout. \\ \hline \verb|2> /dev/null| & Discard stderr. \\ \hline \verb|&> /dev/null| & Discard stdout and stderr. \\ \hline \verb|< file| & Redirect the contents of the file to the stdin. \\ \hline \verb+<< EOL+\par \verb+foo+\par \verb+bar+\par \verb+baz+\par \verb+EOL+ & Redirect a bunch of lines to the stdin. \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{document} A: There are some mistakes. You are ending a tabularline with \. It should be \\. Also you are having two columns. Irrespective of the data, you have to use ampersands like (say) \verb|foo|& \ This is the reason you are not getting right border. To center the the particular cell you can use multirow. Put \usepackage{multirow} in the preamble and use \verb+<< EOL+& \multirow{5}*{Redirect a bunch of lines to the stdin.} \\ \verb+foo+&\\ \verb+bar+&\\ \verb+baz+&\\ \verb+EOL+ & \\ \hline Full code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{multirow} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{|p{5.5cm}|p{12cm}|} \hline \large\textbf{Redirection} & \large\textbf{Description} \\ \hline \verb|> file| & Redirect standard output (stdout) to a file. \\ \hline \verb|1> file| & Same as \verb|> file|. \verb|1| is the default file descriptor for stdout. \\ \hline \verb|2> file| & Redirect standard error (stderr) to a file. \verb|2| is the default file descriptor for stderr. \\ \hline \verb|>> file| & Append stdout to a file. \\ \hline \verb|2>> file| & Append stderr to a file. \\ \hline \verb|&> file| & Redirect stdout and stderr to a file. \\ \hline \verb|>file 2>&1| & Another way to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file. 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574 F.Supp. 90 (1983) Timothy Wade REYNOLDS v. SHERIFF, CITY OF RICHMOND, et al. Civ. A. No. 83-0458-R. United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division. October 26, 1983. *91 Lawrence Douglas Wilder, Roger L. Gregory, Wilder, Gregory & Associates, Richmond, Va., for plaintiff. James W. Hopper, Richmond, Va., for defendants. OPINION WARRINER, District Judge. On 28 July 1983 plaintiff filed his complaint seeking damages for a violation of his right to be secure from cruel and unusual punishment. Somewhat incongruously, the complaint alleges the negligent infliction of punishment as well as the malicious infliction of punishment. All three defendants have moved to dismiss and the briefing is complete. Defendant Virginia Department of Corrections is alleged to be liable to plaintiff in paragraphs 26 through 29 of the complaint by virtue of its policy or practice of leaving convicted felons in the jail system. As a consequence of this policy it is alleged that plaintiff, a pretrial detainee in the jail, came in contact through the act of defendant Melchor with two convicted felons who beat him, causing the injury of which he complains. The Department of Corrections bases its motion to dismiss on two grounds: (1) it, as an agency of the State, is immune from suit under the Eleventh Amendment; (2) it, as an agency of the State, is not a "person" within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendant Virginia Department of Corrections appears entitled to dismissal on both these grounds. Plaintiff acknowledges that immunity would ordinarily apply but argues that Virginia waived her sovereign immunity by enactment of Section 8.01-195.1 of the Code of Virginia. This Code section waives sovereign immunity in some cases for tort liability provided the suit is filed in State court. Such waiver may not properly be construed as a waiver of immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the same or similar suits in federal court. See Marrapese v. Rhode Island, 500 F.Supp. 1207, 1214 (D. R.I.1980); Alabama v. Pugh, 438 U.S. 781, 782, 98 S.Ct. 3057, 57 L.Ed.2d 1114 (1978); Jacobs v. College of William and Mary, 495 F.Supp. 183 (E.D.Va.1980). Similarly, though plaintiff argues that Monell v. Department of Social Services of the City of New York, 436 U.S. 658, 98 S.Ct. 2018, 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978) brought an end to the legal supposition that only natural persons are "persons" in contemplation of § 1983, Monell should not be read, at least at the present, to include State-wide agencies such as the Virginia Department of Corrections as persons. See Quern v. Jordan, 440 U.S. 332, 338, 99 S.Ct. 1139, 1143, 59 L.Ed.2d 358 (1979); Ruiz v. Estelle, 679 F.2d 1115, 1137 (5th Cir.1982). Accordingly, an order dismissing the Virginia Department of Corrections as a party defendant will issue. Defendant Sheriff Winston moves to dismiss on the ground that the complaint alleges no personal involvement on his part and that the absence of personal involvement *92 is fatal to a § 1983 action under Vinnedge v. Gibbs, 550 F.2d 926, 928 (4th Cir.1977). While defendant Winston is correct that he may not be held liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior, plaintiff argues in his reply brief that the complaint is sufficient to be construed as alleging that the Sheriff either directed the offending act by defendant Melchor or that he acquiesced in such act after it was committed. If that is what plaintiff sought to allege, it arises only by inference from the words used. Further, if the alleged direction from or acquiescence by the Sheriff is merely a defensive supposition on plaintiff's part, it should soon be revealed by an appropriate motion for summary judgment. In truth, if plaintiff has no reason in fact or in law to bring suit against the Sheriff, he ought not to do so. If he does have such reason then he certainly should not refrain from doing so. In any event, given plaintiff's construction of his complaint it would be premature to dismiss the action against the Sheriff. There is a further reason for not dismissing the action as against the Sheriff, not mentioned by counsel. Paragraph 23 of the complaint may fairly be construed as indicating a policy on the part of the Sheriff of non-segregation of felons from pretrial detainees. If the Sheriff established and maintained such a policy, and if such a policy violates a constitutional right of plaintiff, and if as a proximate result thereof plaintiff was injured, then it is at least arguable that a claim has been stated under § 1983. Giving paragraph 23 et seq. such a construction, affords the Court an additional reason for denying Sheriff Winston's motion to dismiss. Defendant Melchor, in a motion joined in by the Sheriff, moves to dismiss the complaint on the ground that it alleges plaintiff is a pretrial detainee and, as such, defendants argue, he is conceptually without the protection of the Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause. These defendants point out that it is of this constitutional deprivation, and this deprivation only, that the complaint speaks. They rely on Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 555, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 1882, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979) and Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U.S. 651, 664, 97 S.Ct. 1401, 1408, 51 L.Ed.2d 711 (1977) for the proposition that convicted persons, only, may look to the Eighth Amendment for succor. I think the defendants Winston and Melchor are undeniably correct in their legal analysis. Plaintiff recognizes the strength of their argument also but argues that as a pretrial detainee he is not properly subject to any punishment and that he will undertake to prove not only that he was punished but also that the punishment was cruel and unusual. It is difficult to understand why plaintiff would choose to allege and prove substantially more than is required of him in order to prevail in this action. In my understanding of the law whether or not the injury inflicted upon plaintiff was punishment, properly so called, much less whether it was cruel and unusual punishment, is not plaintiff's burden. What plaintiff must prove, I believe, is that he was intentionally deprived of some right protected by the Constitution of the United States without due process of law. The right implicated in this case may be his liberty right to be free from bodily injury. In this connection, however, see Dandridge v. Police Department of the City of Richmond, 566 F.Supp. 152 (E.D.Va.1983); Sellers v. Roper, 554 F.Supp. 202 (E.D.Va.1982); and Brooks v. School Board of the City of Richmond, 569 F.Supp. 1534 (E.D.Va. 1983). At this stage of the pleading, however, it cannot be ascertained what right plaintiff claimed was violated by the acts of defendants or any one or more of them. A claim that plaintiff's right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment must be dismissed on the authority of Bell, Ingraham, and Freeman v. Franzen, 695 F.2d 485, 491 (7th Cir.1982). However leave will be granted plaintiff to file an amended complaint within ten days of the entry hereof naming the appropriate party or parties *93 defendant and stating which constitutional right, if any, that party defendant intended to deprive plaintiff of or that right which the party defendant reasonably should have known would be the consequence of his act or omission. Defendants shall file their response thereto within ten days of the filing of the amended complaint. If the amended complaint be not filed within ten days of the entry hereof, an order dismissing the complaint will issue. And it is so ORDERED.

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Waterfront - Sri Lankan Food - I woke up today dreaming of last night's food at the Waterfront. It was really delicious, served in clay pots, the wait staff wore traditional saris and they had that rarity in Hong Kong - sambal. Oh, and I forgot the hoppers! Light and fluffy, and oh so tasty.Highly recommended! Can't wait for the next Sri Lankan night. We probably had to leave too early before they were served, missing them once again, after stuffing ourselves in the narrow in-Waterfront OSC Santa Claus sleigh, a real first in both of our looong lives!The sleigh was last seen on Main Street, full of children and Santa, surrounded by elves collecting lots of cash for Operation Santa Claus. Reserve it for your next visit, only parked in the Waterfront till end of the year, maybe longer, before it'll be mothballed(?) till next Christmas. We just loved the food and the company, especially the chicken and fish curries; plus delicious, but spicy tuna balls. We chatted with brand-new, big-surprise manager Robert Lockyer (of One Million Words fame, his first-ever picture in a tie on this website!), new Filipina staff, plus the vivacious daughter of former Waterfront/Island Bar co-owners Dan & Sharon, Sascha, all of them framed by splendidly attired, Sari-ed Waterfront Director Ira (see all of them below).(No picture of the table full of former and current Waterfront owners and their offspring, sorry.) I just love these "Typically Lamma!" group shots, where everybody comes from a different country and lives on Lamma these days; happy, cheerful parts of our 70+ (?) nationalities! And I set a new record running from the Waterfront to the ferry pier! I shot this group shot at 5 minutes before 8pm, when our 2nd-to-last ferry left punctually for Pak Kok. I just made it by a few seconds... Christmas Set Dinner @ Jing Jing yesterday. We both just love Marlon's cooking and Joyce's always cheerful presence! They are both what makes us regulars in Jing Jing Bar & Restaurant. We're eagerly awaiting the re-opening of Joyce's Diesel's across the street next year sometime! The non-standard chestnut gravy sauce and Yorkshire pudding were oh-so-delicious and made for dunking!Almost perfect appetiser and main course, no idea on how you could improve on these (except to cross-cut the big Brussels sprouts, so they boil softly all through.) We even liked the flavourful, but light onion soup with croutons and the astonishingly light blackcurrant cheesecake (not pictured). We'll be back for next Christmas. Still available today, Christmas Day... "Your favorite Southeast Asian Lamma chefs Haohao and Bee (formerly at Carlos’ Tapas) announce the grand opening of The Happy Papaya! at our new location (Babe La next to the Dim Sum restaurant on the way to the ferry). Haohao and Bee will be serving up authentic Vietnamese and Thai takeaways for breakfast, lunch and early dinners.Hours 7AM-5PM. Menu items include fresh papaya salad, Pad Thai and Thai curries, minced chicken salad, Vietnamese spring rolls and baguette sandwiches, beef wraps with a secret sauce, and wash it all down with Thai milk tea. Catering also available. Contact Haohao or Bee at 6907 7695 or 6088 2203. Come share good food and great fun!" "Bella Vista is changing its name to "JUST KITCHEN". Basically we're planning to supply Western and Mediterranean foods. Such as kebabs, pasta, salad etc. Of course, drinks too. We also going to renovate the outside garden. But for CNY we have to delay. Because we ordered in China and it will all arrive after their CNY holidays only. When the garden will be set up it will be a very beautiful and relaxing place for breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee and drinks, of course. We'll have a 2-hour "Happy Hour" everyday for draft beer. For the soft opening, we offer all-day happy hours and only buy 1 get 1 free (For draft beer only). Anyway, we also offering 20 percent discount for Friday opening for all kind of dishes." Who is online Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot post attachments in this forum

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1959 1000km Nürburgring The ADAC 1000 Kilometer Rennen took place on 7 June, on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, (West Germany). It was also the third round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. Report Entry A massive total of 77 racing cars were registered for this event, of which 68 arrived for practice and started the long distance race on the 14.174 mile German circuit. David Brown who had won the event in 1957 and again in 1958 sent along just one Aston Martin DBR1 over from England for Stirling Moss/Jack Fairman. As for championship leaders, Porsche, this was their home event and they arrived with two different cars; 356A and 718 RSK for their squad of drivers led by Wolfgang von Trips and Jo Bonnier. Scuderia Ferrari would head the Italian challenge. Ferrari had three works 250 TR 59s in the Eifel mountains, Tony Brooks/Jean Behra, Phil Hill/Olivier Gendebien and Dan Gurney/Cliff Allison. They were joined by a fleet of privateer drivers in their Alfa Romeos, Porsche 356A Carreras Oscas and other mainline sportscars. Qualifying Qualifying was held over three sessions for a total of 1,710 minutes over the three days prior to the race. The Ferrari 250 TR of Behra took pole position, averaging a speed of 88.33 mph around the 14.173 mile circuit. Race With each lap over 14 miles in length, the race covered a total of 44 laps, or 1,000 miles, the Nordschleife was a fearsome thing to behold. A crowd of approximately 200,000 in attendance came to witness the race, despite a day of intermittent rain. As for the race, victory went to the Aston Martin DBR1/300 of Moss and Fairman, gaining the marque their first points of the season, to win for the third time in a row. The victory was one of Moss’s greatest drives, having to make up for time lost while Fairman drove. The winning partnership, won in a time of 7hr 33:18.0 mins, averaging a speed of 89.204 mph. The margin of triumph over the Ferrari of Hill/Gendebein was 41secs., who were followed home by their team-mates Brooks/Behra who were 3min 27s adrift of the Aston. The first of the Porsches came home in fourth, with Umberto Maglioli/Hans Herrmann winning their class. Moss’s pace was so quick that his fastest lap of the race, was faster than Behra’s pole lap by over five seconds. The race continued for another hour to allow the other classes/division to try and complete the full 1000 km. Official Classification Class Winners are in Bold text. Fastest Lap: Stirling Moss, 9:32.0secs (89.204 mph) Class Winners Standings after the race Note: Only the top five positions are included in this set of standings. Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars. Only the best 3 results out of the 5 races could be retained by each manufacturer. Points earned but not counted towards the championship totals are listed within brackets in the above table. References Category:World Sportscar Championship Nurburgring Category:6 Hours of Nürburgring Nurburgring Category:1959 in German motorsport

Pages Sunday, February 3, 2013 There are several reports that the Mets are close to signing Brandon Lyon, additionally despite his 79 saves Lyon isn't considered the closer to compete with Frank Francisco. There are reports that the Mets want to bring in a second closer to compete with Francisco and while Lyon is considered to be a late inning reliever, he is not that second closer. I like what the Mets are doing with the pen, bringing in any veteran reliever they can find, see what sticks and no real harm in who doesn't. What I can't understand is why they didn't do the same thing with the outfield, there were at least 10 outfielders signed to minor league deals I think they could have/should have brought in... Lyon, 33, went a combined 4-2 with a 3.10 ERA in 67 relief appearances last season with the Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays. He posted a career-high 26 saves in 2008 with the Arizona Diamondacks as well as 20 in 2010 with the Astros, but may not viewed as a candidate to unseat Frank Francisco as closer. source ESPN NY Disclaimer Mets Fever is privately owned and operated, and in no way is affiliated with Mets.com, MLB.com or Sterling, IP. Mets Fever posts both rumors and opinions, as well as accurately reported information from other sources. Information on Mets Fever may contain errors or inaccuracies. Links to content and the quotation of material from other news sources are not the responsibility of Mets Fever.

1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates generally to methods and systems for tracking the location of devices near the surface of the Earth, and more particularly. to a method and system for tracking a device near the surface of the Earth using a very fast acquisition portable transponder. 2. Background of the Invention Various techniques are available to determine the position of a device on the surface of the Earth. U.S. Pat. No. 3,063,048 discloses the use of the Doppler shift in a transmitted signal to determine the position of a device transmitting the signal. This patent teaches measuring when the Doppler shift frequency is changing at a maximum rate to determine the position of the object transmitting the signal undergoing the Doppler frequency shift. In this system, the satellite must continuously receive the signal being transmitted from the object to determine. when the frequency is changing at its maximum to locate the object. As a result, the time to compute a position fix is unacceptably long for applications such as locating a satellite telephone. The Global Positioning System (GPS) also provides geo-location capability. Moreover, it is desirable to know the position of a mobile terminal, such as a cellular telephone, and to have this position information at a central location (e.g., at a Service Operations Center or SOC). One technique is to place a GPS receiver on the mobile terminal, calculate position in the GPS receiver, and transmit via satellite (or other communications system) the position fix to a central location. This method suffers from the Time-To-First-Fix (TTFF) limit inherent in GPS receivers upon waking up from a cold start. From the cold start state, a GPS receiver must download the GPS satellite almanac, ephemeris, and clock correction information. The TTFF limit effectively eliminates using a GPS receiver in situations where a long TTFF is unacceptable. For example, in wireless or cellular telephone telephony applications, it would not be acceptable to require the user to wait for the mobile terminal (i.e., the wireless or cellular telephone) to download GPS data prior to making a telephone call. The present invention is therefore directed to the problem of developing a system and method for calculating the position of a mobile terminal, which can be accomplished rapidly using a minimal amount of power and equipment. The present invention solves this problem by collecting observation data at the mobile terminal, forwarding the observation data to a central location, and performing the position calculations at the central location rather than at the individual mobile terminal. Thus, the mobile terminal of the present invention needs only to gather a few milliseconds of observation data, such as GPS code phase information, and then relays this observation data to a central station, via satellite or other relay means, for subsequent position calculation. In this manner, the. present invention requires that the mobile unit be on only for very brief periods of time, so that a very fast (e.g. 1 second including data transmission time) position solution can be obtained. This would make practical, for example, the geolocation of a phone prior to a call being placed, which is particularly useful in satellite based phone services to control access and call routing decisions. The fast solution and minimal battery drain make practical the employment of a geolocating system in situations that may not otherwise economically justify such use. According to one aspect of the present invention, a system for determining the location of an object located on or near the surface includes a communication satellite, a satellite gateway or earth station, a mobile terminal, and a service operations center. In this system, the communications satellite broadcasts an interrogation signal, to which the mobile terminal responds. The mobile terminal is disposed on the object, and includes a receiver, a transmitter and a processor. The receiver receives the interrogation signal from the communications satellite, and is capable of receiving signals being broadcast from GPS satellites. The processor measures at least one characteristic in each of the signals being broadcast from the GPS satellites upon receipt of the interrogation signal from the communications satellite. The mobile terminal transmits a reply signal at a predetermined time relative to receipt of the interrogation signal to the communications satellite. The reply signal includes the measured characteristic(s) in each of the signals being broadcast from the plurality of GPS satellites. The operations center receives the reply signal from the communications satellite, and calculates a position of the mobile terminal using time of arrival information and the measured characteristics returned by the mobile terminal. In the above system, the measured characteristic(s) can include, for example, code phase information, carrier phase information, Doppler-shift information, or bit phase information. Code phase measurements alone are insufficient to unambiguously identify the position of the mobile terminal. The service operations center requires additional information to constrain the position solution. One means for constraining the position solution is to determine the range from the terminal to the communications satellite. For this reason, in the first aspect of the present invention, the service operations center includes a processor that calculates a range between the communications satellite and the mobile terminal. In this calculation, the processor uses a time the reply signal arrived at the satellite gateway and a time difference between the broadcast of the interrogation signal to the mobile terminal and its receipt at the satellite gateway. To do so, the processor accounts for known delays in the signal path between the communications satellite and the mobile terminal and the point at which the time-of-arrival information is measured at the satellite gateway. The processor also calculates an intersection curve between a sphere, whose radius is the range previously determined, and a model of the surface of the Earth. Furthermore, the processor determines several initial points on the intersection curve, one of which points must lie within a known convergence zone around the terminal. Next, the processor calculates candidate position solutions for each initial point, and then screens the candidate solutions using predetermined criteria and discards any candidates not satisfying the screening. Finally, if more than one candidate solution remains, the processor selects the solution representing a best fit of all the observation data. In the above system, the predetermined criteria may include one or more selected of the following: a solution range to the communications satellite, solution residuals, a solution altitude, a solution clock bias, and a solution proximity to a beam boundary. Not all types of communications systems provide the ability to measure propagation delay from a known site such as the satellite. A second preferred embodiment of the present invention solves the problem existing in the art by sending additional signal-related information as data to the SOC along with the code phase measurements. In the second preferred embodiment of the present invention, the additional signal-related information is a signal characteristic such as observed carrier frequency or observed Doppler shift of the carrier frequency. In addition to the measurement of the signal characteristic, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the time that the signal characteristic is measured is sent to the SOC. Alternatively, the time that the signal characteristic is measured is estimated from the time the message containing the observed data is received by the SOC. The code phase measurements are obtained at the GPS receiver, for example, in a cellular telephone. These measurements are sent to the SOC. In addition, the carrier frequency of the GPS signal sent by each of the GPS satellites is measured and sent to the SOC. The set of carrier frequency measurements form a set of observed carrier frequencies. Using the carrier frequencies and a general region containing the location of the receiver candidate locations are determined. The candidate locations are determined by searching in the general region for points in the general region that are consistent with the observed carrier frequencies. From this set of candidate locations, the position of the mobile terminal is determined using the code phase measurements. The position is that candidate location that minimizes a set of residuals calculated using the code phase measurements. It can be seen that the second preferred embodiment of the present invention does not require a satellite (other than the GPS satellites) for operation. Thus, one object of the present invention is to determine a location of a mobile terminal using a SOC. Another object of the present invention is to reduce the power requirements of a mobile terminal in order to determine its position. Another object of the present invention is to reduce the time required for a mobile terminal to be powered on so that its position can be determined. Another object of the present invention is to increase the speed of acquisition of information required to determine the position of a mobile terminal. Another object of the present invention is to perform calculations required to determine the position of a mobile terminal on a device other than the mobile terminal. Another object of the present invention is to provide a location of a mobile terminal using a SOC without having control of the communication channel over which measurement data is sent from the mobile terminal to the SOC. Another object of the present invention is to provide a location of a mobile terminal using a SOC with little or no change to the communication channel over which measurement data is sent from the mobile terminal to the SOC. Another object of the present invention is to provide location of a mobile terminal by performing position calculations in a SOC and not in the mobile terminal. Another object of the present invention is to provide a ground-based (i.e., terrestrial) technique for determining position of a mobile terminal using GPS satellite measurements. These and other objects of the present invention are described in greater detail in the detailed description of the invention, the appended drawings and the attached claims.

Precocious puberty associated with oral-facial-digital syndrome type I. A girl with the oral-facial-digital syndrome type I (OFD I) developed precocious puberty at early infancy. This is presumed to be due to a hamartoma in the tuber cinereum region. Hypothalamic hamartomas have not been described in OFD I earlier, whereas lingual hamartomas are a common feature in this condition.

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Q: Rails nested forms I would like to create form with text_fields TITLE CONTENT TAGS I have Post (TITLE, CONTENT) and Tag (TAGS) model. TAGS is a single text field. What do I have to do to save TAGS to Tag model. Let say I write 'banana, juice, new tag' in the TAGS field, how can this be parsed into array and then save in the Tag model. Thx! A: Use a setter method in your model to do it. Your view would look like this: <% form_for @post :url => { :action => "update" } do |post_form| %> Title: <%= post_form.text_field :title %> Content: <%= post_form.text_field :content %> Tags: <%= post_form.text_field :tag_field %> <% end %> And then in your model you would have a model such as this: def tag_field=(field_data) field_data.split.each { |tag| tags.build(:name => tag) } end Edit: As has been mentioned, there are plugins which do this for you, acts_as_taggable_on_steroids is a horribly named, but very effective option.

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - Holy Day of Obigation The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God is a feast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the aspect of her motherhood of Jesus Christ, whom Christians see as the Lord, Son of God. It is celebrated by the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church on 1 January, the Octave (8th) day of Christmastide.

How would you field the AX-1-0? Being just over a quarter of a 2000 point list, is it worth it for a dedicated heavy unit killer? You would basically be killing one thing a turn with it, so unless those thing are very pricy, it wouldn't be worth the points cost, in my opinion. Would you only bring it if you knew you were up against super heavy? What would you bring to compliment it? Lastly, what would your FLGS scene think of it if you brought it in for casual games? Keep in mind, it's NOT a super heavy and it doesn't have the Titanic keyword, it's just T8 W16. EDIT: I need to clarify. This is NOT the Tiger Shark Fight Bomber. If the flyer you are thinking of has Swiftstrike rail guns, drones, or Skyspear missiles, then you've got it wrong. They are two different flyers based on the same chassis. Sort of like a Skyray vs Hammerhead, or sunshark vs razorshark. Last edited by Raikoh067 on Nov 14 2017 07:40, edited 2 times in total. Raikoh067 wrote:How would you field the AX-1-0? Being just over a quarter of a 2000 point list, is it worth it for a dedicated heavy unit killer? You would basically be killing one thing a turn with it, so unless those thing are very pricy, it wouldn't be worth the points cost, in my opinion. Would you only bring it if you knew you were up against super heavy? What would you bring to compliment it? Edit: This post is about the Tiger Shark Fighter-Bomber, not the Tiger Shark AX-1-0. Enjoy! The Ion and Burst Cannon loadouts aren't going to kill many heavy units, so you need the absurdly over-costed Swiftstrike Railguns. If we shoot 4 Missile Pod shots, 2D3 Cyclic Ion Blaster shots, and 4 Swiftstrike Railgun shots at a Leman Russ, with three Markerlight hits, we should get the following results: Great, the 561-point model just dealt 9.7 wounds to, but didn't kill, a basic Imperial Guard tank! And we needed at least 48 points worth of Pathfinders supporting it too to get those 3 Markerlight hits, which it needs to prevent its ballistic skill from dropping as it moves... It would be much better to shoot weak vehicles, such as Rhinos and Devilfish, but at that point don't we have better options? Also, at that point, the Barracuda may be better- it gets two fewer Swiftstrike Railgun shots, but the same CIBs and the same Missile Pods. Now, if you configure it with the dual Heavy Burst Cannons and bonus missile racks, we get the following shooting. Let's attack a squad of Conscripts or something like that. So, in total we're looking at about 20.6 wounds, or 20.6 dead Conscripts. This loadout is cheaper, at 469 points, but you're spending a lot of points to hack down weak units. Is this efficient, or ideal? Honestly, who knows. I haven't tried it out on the table. But the numbers don't look super promising. Last edited by Arka0415 on Nov 14 2017 07:42, edited 2 times in total. Played this monday vs. a combined Guard (6 or 7 tanks) and Nurgle combo. I was allied with an eldar player. We had 1,000pts per player. I spent 583 on the Tigershark as I didn't bother taking seekers. 2 burst cannon, 2 missilepods as secondary weapons. By the end of the battle the Tigershark was down to it's last 5 hits and had destroyed 2 Russ's and a Chimera. Another Russ had lost about half it's hits. K'Pokk wrote:Played this monday vs. a combined Guard (6 or 7 tanks) and Nurgle combo. I was allied with an eldar player. We had 1,000pts per player. I spent 583 on the Tigershark as I didn't bother taking seekers. By the end of the battle the Tigershark was down to it's last 5 hits and had destroyed 2 Russ's and a Chimera. Another Russ had lost about half it's hits. K'Pokk wrote:Played this monday vs. a combined Guard (6 or 7 tanks) and Nurgle combo. I was allied with an eldar player. We had 1,000pts per player. I spent 583 on the Tigershark as I didn't bother taking seekers. By the end of the battle the Tigershark was down to it's last 5 hits and had destroyed 2 Russ's and a Chimera. Another Russ had lost about half it's hits. Raikoh067 wrote:How would you field the AX-1-0? Being just over a quarter of a 2000 point list, is it worth it for a dedicated heavy unit killer? You would basically be killing one thing a turn with it, so unless those thing are very pricy, it wouldn't be worth the points cost, in my opinion. Would you only bring it if you knew you were up against super heavy? What would you bring to compliment it? The Ion and Burst Cannon loadouts aren't going to kill many heavy units, so you need the absurdly over-costed Swiftstrike Railguns. If we shoot 4 Missile Pod shots, 2D3 Cyclic Ion Blaster shots, and 4 Swiftstrike Railgun shots at a Leman Russ, with three Markerlight hits, we should get the following results: Great, the 561-point model just dealt 9.7 wounds to, but didn't kill, a basic Imperial Guard tank! And we needed at least 48 points worth of Pathfinders supporting it too to get those 3 Markerlight hits, which it needs to prevent its ballistic skill from dropping as it moves... It would be much better to shoot weak vehicles, such as Rhinos and Devilfish, but at that point don't we have better options? Also, at that point, the Barracuda may be better- it gets two fewer Swiftstrike Railgun shots, but the same CIBs and the same Missile Pods. Now, if you configure it with the dual Heavy Burst Cannons and bonus missile racks, we get the following shooting. Let's attack a squad of Conscripts or something like that. So, in total we're looking at about 20.6 wounds, or 20.6 dead Conscripts. This loadout is cheaper, at 469 points, but you're spending a lot of points to hack down weak units. Is this efficient, or ideal? Honestly, who knows. I haven't tried it out on the table. But the numbers don't look super promising. Ok, so it is clear you are confusing the two different Tiger Sharks. The Fighter Bomber is what you are talking about, and it has a different weapon loadout, and costs over a hundred points less. The AX-1-0 does not have weapon loadout options at all, and comes with two S18 Ap-5 D2d6 gubs., The heavy rail cannons. The same one that the Taunar can take. Last edited by Raikoh067 on Nov 14 2017 07:41, edited 1 time in total. Raikoh067 wrote:Ok, so it is clear you are confusing the two different Tiger Sharks. The Fight Bomber is what you are talking about, and it has a different weapon load t, and costs over a hundred points less. The AX-1-0 does not have weapon loadout options at all, and comes with two S18 Ap-5 D2d6 gubs., The heavy rail cannons. The same one that the Taunar can take. Aww, someone made a thread about the older Tiger Shark right when the rules for the newer Tiger Shark's rules came out? How confusing Well, there's some mathhammer for you if anyone's interested in the fighter-bomber! Raikoh067 wrote:Ok, so it is clear you are confusing the two different Tiger Sharks. The Fight Bomber is what you are talking about, and it has a different weapon load t, and costs over a hundred points less. The AX-1-0 does not have weapon loadout options at all, and comes with two S18 Ap-5 D2d6 gubs., The heavy rail cannons. The same one that the Taunar can take. Aww, someone made a thread about the older Tiger Shark right when the rules for the newer Tiger Shark's rules came out? How confusing Well, there's some mathhammer for you if anyone's interested in the fighter-bomber! I suppose the release of the new model got me looking at both. The Fighter Bomber is decidedly worse in my opinion, even with it's best loadout of railguns and missile rack. It's also only 68 points less than the AX-1-0 at that point. My opinion on the AX-1-0 is that if you're bringing it, you need to bring some good anti infantry to compliment it. Something like the twin heavy burst cannon hammerhead, lots of drones, or some dbbc XV9's. Raikoh067 wrote:I suppose the release of the new model got me looking at both. The Fighter Bomber is decidedly worse in my opinion, even with it's best loadout of railguns and missile rack. It's also only 68 points less than the AX-1-0 at that point. My opinion on the AX-1-0 is that if you're bringing it, you need to bring some good anti infantry to compliment it. Something like the twin heavy burst cannon hammerhead, lots of drones, or some dbbc XV9's. I agree that the AX-1-0 is far better; however, the Heavy Railgun is so absurdly over-costed that it needs to shoot at a Titanic target just to stay points-efficient... if the AX-1-0 could exchange its 260 points of Heavy Railguns for 10-11 Lascannons, I'd do that in an instant. If you're bringing a 600+ point model, it should be absurdly good. However, it does pack plenty of other fun weapons, like the CIBs, Missile Pods, and Seeker Missiles. It's not a bad unit, but I've said this elsewhere- I'd much rather take half of it than pay 629 points for all that. I would only take it if.I would expect LoW or other expensive single models on the other side (landraider, stormraven, etc).It would replace at least one QFC in my list so that's where I would look to add more anti-infantry in form of Gun Drones or CIB Commander. Arka0415 wrote:I'd much rather take half of it than pay 619 points for all that. With missile mods, burst cannons and the rail cannons, it's 583. Not sure where you got the 619 cost. Also, lascannons are some of the most efficient tank hunting weapons in the entire game. I would trade a lot to have them on my Tau army in general, let alone as a replacement to the AX-1-0, lol Raikoh067 wrote:With missile mods, burst cannons and the rail cannons, it's 583. Not sure where you got the 619 cost. The main hull plus the two Heavy Railguns is 515. Then there's the required Missile Pods which brings you to 563. Adding the Cyclic Ion Blasters is only 16 points more than the stock two Burst Cannons and are many times more powerful. So let's add Cyclic Ion Blasters and the final cost is 599. Now, Seeker Missiles are a fantastic option too- we know how powerful a BS2+ Seeker Missile is, and getting six of those is great. That brings us to our final cost, 629. Tiger-shark Fighterbomber (HBC variant with skyspear missile racks) is an absolute monster and easaily one of, if not the best unit in our codex. The clincher is T8. Pushes it from being tough to almost indestructible. It was so strong that it led my local gaming group to ban flyers. The AX-1-0 is good, but dependent on the opponent bringing Titanic stuff. If they do I think a supremacy is better at this job point for point. But still a solid model. No-where near as strong as the fighter bomber though.

This is an improvement of the invention disclosed and claimed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 331,930 entitled, "Center Compensating Master Cylinder", filed on Apr. 3, 1989, and assigned to the common assignee. Typical master cylinders in use in automotive vehicles for many years are of the dual or tandem type; that is, they have two pressurizing chambers in a common bore having a closed end and an open end, with brake fluid being pressurized by a primary pressurizing piston and a secondary pressurizing piston arranged in tandem in the bore. One of the chambers is typically connected to one brake circuit, such as one containing the vehicle front brakes, and the other chamber is typically connected to another brake circuit containing the vehicle rear brakes. At times other circuit arrangements, and even additional pressurizing chambers, are used. Such a master cylinder usually has a pair of holes in the main body adjacent each of the primary and secondary pressurizing piston seals The holes are connected with the master cylinder reservoir and extend to the bore. One of the holes is a compensation port located behind the seal of the associated piston. The other hole is a bypass hole positioned in front of the seal of the associated piston. When the master cylinder is actuated, the seals move across their respective bypass holes so that these holes are no longer fluidly connected with the pressurizing chambers, and the brake fluid in those chambers and the brake circuits connected with them can be pressurized to actuate the brakes. These seals are usually cup-like or V-block seals with lips which are subject to seal extrusion into the bypass holes under some conditions, resulting in damage to the seal and loss of full functioning pressure generation for the brake circuit associated with the damaged seal. In normal service braking operation, there is little pressure in the pressurizing chambers until the bypass holes are closed, so extrusion into those holes is minimized. However, with the advent of systems variously referred to as anti-lock, anti-skid, wheel lock control, or anti-block systems the modulation of brake pressures in the brake circuits when that type system is operating can cause rapid travel of the secondary pressurizing piston seal back and forth across the front bypass hole. That is the bypass hole associated with the forward pressurizing chamber in the master cylinder bore. The structure disclosed in the above noted patent application and embodying the invention claimed therein eliminated the usual front bypass hole over which the secondary pressurizing piston pressure seal must pass, thereby obviating the possibility of damage to that seal because of extrusion into such a bypass hole. That invention provided an internal path substantially along the center of the secondary pressurizing piston for brake fluid compensation and bypass for the secondary pressurizing chamber and its brake circuit, this being referred to herein as center compensation. That structure included a valve located on the secondary pressurizing piston within the master cylinder bore. The valve was open while the master cylinder was at the rest or released position, and was closed by actuating movement of the secondary pressurizing piston. It reopened when the secondary pressurizing piston was being returned to its rest position. The primary pressurizing chamber was compensated in the same manner as before, with the piston cup seal passing over the bypass hole during each master cylinder actuation operation and each release operation. Each compensation path was connected to its own reservoir or reservoir compartment.

Q: Two Flash questions What does _level0,_parent and _root mean in flash? What's the difference between absolute path and relative path? A: Levels in Flash are the base root element of everything. Every level has an associated _root element, which is the base of all attached movieclips, whether on stages or dynamically loaded. _parent is the previous element along the element hierarchy. For example, if _root has movie clip n loaded into it, then the n._parent == _root. Absolute path and relative paths mean the exact same thing as in any OS. The relative path is relative to your initial container clip. Absolute path is absolute to your OS.

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1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique of allowing to suppress degradation of the image quality when a captured image contains a shadow of a foreign substance adhering near an image capturing element of, e.g., a digital camera. 2. Description of the Related Art With the recent rapid progress of digitization of cameras, so-called digital single-lens reflex cameras are especially becoming popular, which have the same optical arrangement as a conventional single-lens reflex camera and use not a film but an image capturing element for photoelectric conversion. A digital single-lens reflex camera requires neither film winding nor film exchange. For this reason, once a foreign substance such as dust enters near the image capturing element during, e.g., lens exchange, captured images continue to contain the foreign substance, resulting in degradation of the quality of a series of captured images. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-204379 discloses a method of removing a foreign substance in an image capturing apparatus. According to the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-204379, a user removes a foreign substance that has entered in an operation such as lens exchange by operating a dustproof element arranged near the image capturing plane instead of cleaning using, e.g., a blower, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-222231 discloses a method of correcting a luminance change caused by a foreign substance on the basis of a reference image. According to the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-222231, the apparatus captures an image of a reference object with a uniform luminance and generates a transmittance map from the luminance distribution. Then, gain correction is appropriately done for an image captured by a user to correct a transmittance change caused by a foreign substance, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-172820 discloses a method of detecting a foreign substance from a plurality of images. According to the invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-172820, a user acquires a plurality of images in advance, detects, e.g., an invariable contrast part in the plurality of images, and detects a foreign substance position on the basis of the invariable part. He/she appropriately removes the foreign substance in, e.g., a cleaning mode and then performs image capturing, thereby obtaining a high-quality image. However, the invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-204379 requires adding a dustproof element, resulting in high manufacturing cost. The invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-222231 cannot appropriately correct the gain if the reference image is inadequate because of, e.g., the influence of texture so it is impossible to obtain a satisfactory image. The invention of Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-172820 requires the user to remove a foreign substance in advance in, e.g., a cleaning mode so he/she cannot cope with a foreign substance that has entered immediately before image capturing.

How long until Apple is bigger than Microsoft? - nickb http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2850 ====== satyajit Actually, I would hate to see Apple in MS position. Let it remain small(er), yet churn out innovative, compelling products as they have been doing in past few years, and remain profitable!

Q: View getting re sized on softkeypad open I am creating a layout with a scroll view and a relative layout. The problem which I am facing is that the layout is getting re sized as soon as the softkeypad opens. Here is layout file: <ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:fillViewport="true" android:padding="10px" > <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" > <TextView android:id="@+id/settings_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_marginTop="15dp" android:text="Settings" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_below="@+id/settings_textView" android:layout_marginLeft="19dp" android:layout_marginTop="22dp" android:text="Training Schedule:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/trainingSchedule_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_marginLeft="14dp" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:ems="10" > </EditText> <TextView android:id="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_below="@+id/trainingSchedule_editText" android:layout_marginTop="34dp" android:text="Days:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/days_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/trainingSchedule_editText" android:ems="10" android:inputType="number" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_below="@+id/days_editText" android:layout_marginTop="37dp" android:text="Time:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/time_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/days_editText" android:ems="10" android:inputType="time" > </EditText> <TextView android:id="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:text="Time Zone:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/timezone_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/time_editText" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:ems="10" android:inputType="number" > </EditText> <TextView android:id="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_below="@+id/timezone_editText" android:layout_marginTop="41dp" android:text="Frequency:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/frequency_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/timezone_editText" android:ems="10" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/notifications_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_below="@+id/frequency_editText" android:layout_marginTop="42dp" android:text="Notifications:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/notifications_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/notifications_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/notifications_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/frequency_editText" android:ems="10" /> </RelativeLayout> </ScrollView> This is the output after running in the emulator: How can I fix this? 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Please replace the following code frome your existing code, I have done some minor changes. <ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:fillViewport="true" android:padding="10px" > <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" > <TextView android:id="@+id/settings_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_marginTop="15dp" android:text="Settings" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_below="@+id/settings_textView" android:layout_marginLeft="19dp" android:layout_marginTop="22dp" android:text="Training Schedule:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/trainingSchedule_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_marginLeft="14dp" android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:ems="10" > </EditText> <TextView android:id="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/trainingSchedule_textView" android:layout_below="@+id/trainingSchedule_editText" android:layout_marginTop="34dp" android:text="Days:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/days_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/trainingSchedule_editText" android:ems="10" android:inputType="number" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/days_textView1" android:layout_below="@+id/days_editText" android:layout_marginTop="34dp" android:text="Time:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/time_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/time_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/days_editText" android:ems="10" android:inputType="time" > </EditText> <TextView android:id="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/time_textView1" android:layout_below="@+id/time_editText" android:layout_marginTop="34dp" android:text="Time Zone:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/timezone_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/time_editText" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:ems="10" android:inputType="number" > </EditText> <TextView android:id="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/timezone_textView" android:layout_below="@+id/timezone_editText" android:layout_marginTop="41dp" android:text="Frequency:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/frequency_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/timezone_editText" android:ems="10" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/notifications_textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/frequency_textView" android:layout_below="@+id/frequency_editText" android:layout_marginTop="42dp" android:text="Notifications:" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/notifications_editText" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/notifications_textView" android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/notifications_textView" android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/frequency_editText" android:ems="10" /> </RelativeLayout> </ScrollView>

Exaggerator Exaggerator (foaled February 5, 2013) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2016 Preakness Stakes. Racing as a two-year-old in 2015, he won three of his six starts including the Saratoga Special Stakes and the Delta Jackpot Stakes as well as finishing second in the Breeders' Futurity and fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. The following spring, he finished second in the San Vicente Stakes and third in the San Felipe Stakes before establishing himself as a contender for the 2016 Kentucky Derby with a six length win in the Santa Anita Derby. After finishing second to Nyquist in the Derby, he turned the tables to win the 2016 Preakness Stakes. He ran poorly in the Belmont Stakes but defeated Nyquist again in the Haskell Invitational. Tactically, Exaggerator was a "closer" – one who prefers to come from behind in his races. Background Exaggerator is a dark bay or brown colt with a small white star and a white sock on his right hind leg. Bred in Kentucky by Joseph B Murphy, he is from the fourth crop of foals sired by the 2007 Preakness Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic winner Curlin, whose other offspring have included Palace Malice and Keen Ice. Exaggerator's dam Dawn Raid showed some good form as a two-year-old in 2007, winning two races and finishing third in the Fanfreluche Stakes. She was a great-granddaughter of Bon Debarras, whose other descendants have included the Queen's Plate winner Niigon. Exaggerator was foaled at Stoneleigh Farm, where his nickname was "Buster." At Stoneleigh, he was well-liked by the staff, reputed to be a well-mannered colt in training, but playful in the pasture, where he would throw a horse toy "Jolly Ball" over the fence at passers-by, hoping they would throw it back in a game of fetch. The yearling colt was consigned to the Keeneland sale in September 2014 as Hip 1473 and bought for $110,000 by Big Chief Racing. After the 2015 Breeders' Cup, the owner of Big Chief Racing, Matt Bryan, brought additional partners into ownership of the horse. A 20 percent share is held by Sol Kumin under the business name Head of Plains Partners. Kumin is also noted as the owner of the mare Lady Eli. Another significant share in the partnership is held by Rocker O Ranch, owned by Ronny Ortoski. Prior to the Kentucky Derby, WinStar Farm announced that it had acquired the breeding rights to Exaggerator. During his racing career Exaggerator was trained by J. Keith Desormeaux. His regular jockey was his trainer's younger brother, Kent Desormeaux. Racing career 2015: two-year-old career Exaggerator began his racing career by finishing fifth behind Nyquist in a five-furlong maiden race at Santa Anita Park on June 5. On July 26 at Del Mar Racetrack Exaggerator started favorite for a maiden over six furlongs and recorded his first success, coming from well off the pace to take the lead in the final stride and win by a nose from Miner's Light. The colt was then stepped up in class for the Grade II Saratoga Special Stakes over six and a half furlongs at Saratoga Race Course. Racing for the first time outside California his final preparation for the race was handled by Desormeaux's assistant Julie Clark and he was ridden by Junior Alvarado. He raced at the rear of the six-runner field before producing a sustained run along the rail to take the lead inside the final furlong and won by three-quarters of a length from the favored Saratoga Mischief. After the race Clark commented that Exaggerator "showed some real class for a baby". On October 3 Exaggerator started favorite for the Grade I Breeders' Futurity over eight and a half furlongs at Keeneland. After tracking the leaders he took the lead in the stretch but was overtaken in closing stages and finished second, beaten a length by Brody's Cause. Four weeks later, over the same course and distance, Exaggerator was one of fourteen colts to contest the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. After tracking the leaders he stayed on in the stretch without ever looking likely to win and finished fourth behind Nyquist, Swipe and Brody's Cause, beaten three lengths by the winner. On his final appearance of the season, Exaggerator started favorite for the Delta Downs Jackpot Stakes run on November 21 on a muddy track at Delta Downs in Louisiana. The best fancied of his rivals was Sunny Ridge, who had finished runner-up in the Champagne Stakes. Exaggerator took the lead after a quarter mile and fought off a sustained challenge from Sunny Ridge to win by a neck. Commenting on the colt as a potential Kentucky Derby contender Keith Desormeaux said "He's bred for it. He has the precociousness and the athleticism for it." 2016: three-year-old career Exaggerator began his second season in the Grade II San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita on February 15. He came from off the pace and finished strongly but was beaten one and a half lengths into second place by Nyquist. Up to this point the colt tended to run as a "stalker," staying close to the pace. After the San Vicente, Desormeax changed tactics and began training him to colt fall back and come from behind, making him a "closer". In the San Felipe Stakes on March 12 Exaggerator started second favorite behind Mor Spirit, a Bob Baffert-trained colt who had won the Los Alamitos Futurity and the Robert B. Lewis Stakes on his last two starts. He challenged for the lead on the final turn but finished third behind the wire-to-wire winner Danzing Candy with Mor Spirit taking second. Exaggerator faced Danzing Candy and Mor Spirit again in the Grade I Santa Anita Derby on April 9 and started third choice in the betting at odds of 3.4/1. Racing on a sloppy track, Exaggerator trailed the field in the early stages as Danzing Candy set the pace but began to make rapid progress half a mile from the finish. He drew alongside the leaders on the final turn and quickly went clear of the field to win by six and a quarter lengths from Mor Spirit with Uncle Lino taking third ahead of the tiring Danzing Candy. Kent Desormeaux commented "He was the fourth horse that I rode in the mud today and the others felt like they had ice skates on: Exaggerator felt like he had track shoes on. He really liked the going and I think that was part of his incredible effort today. He enjoyed the mud". On May 7 Exaggerator started second favorite in a twenty-runner field for the 2016 Kentucky Derby. Racing on a fast surface he was towards the rear of the field until he began to overtake horses in the last half mile. He made a strong challenge in the straight but was unable to overhaul the favored Nyquist and finished second, beaten one and a quarter lengths. On May 21 Exaggerator started second favourite behind Nyquist for the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, with the lightly-raced Stradivari the best-fancied of the other nine runners. On a rainy day, and a sloppy but sealed track, Kent Desormeaux restrained the colt well behind the very fast pace set by Nyquist and Uncle Lino. Exaggerator began to make progress on the inside approaching the final turn before being switched to the outer to make his challenge in the straight. He overtook Nyquist approaching the final furlong and drew away in the closing stages to win by three and a half lengths. The outsider Cherry Wine, who had hit his head on the starting gate and was second-to-last for much of the race finished strongly to deprive Nyquist of second by a nose. After the race the winning jockey commented "I had a dream trip today. I was on the fence and they all stayed wide. With these turns you want to paint the fence. We did, they didn't... knowledge is power". Explaining the colt's light training regimen since the Derby, Keith Desormeaux said: "My philosophy was to take it as easy as possible because you're not going to gain any fitness in those two weeks. I did what I could to get him happy and fresh and strong". After an 11th-place finish in the G1 Belmont Stakes on June 11 Exaggerator returned to the races in the G1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 31. Over a sloppy track, Exaggerator bested American Freedom to win the race in a final time of 1:48:70. "It was a reminder of the Preakness. … I just tried to bide my time," Desormeaux said after trailing by 81/2 lengths at the half-mile pole. "He really exploded at the quarter pole … rode right off my fingertips. Exceptional race horse." In the Travers Stakes on a fast track at Saratoga on 27 August Exaggerator started favorite but was never in contention and finished eleventh of the thirteen runners behind Arrogate. Retirement On October 10, 2016 it was announced that Exaggerator had been retired from racing. Starting in 2017, he stands as a breeding stallion at WinStar Farm in Kentucky. His first foals will be of racing age in 2020. Pedigree References Category:2013 racehorse births Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky Category:Racehorses trained in the United States Category:Thoroughbred family 3-g Category:Preakness Stakes winners

Q: Nodejs - Generating unique random alpha numeric random string for Database I have a use case where I need to generate alpha numeric capital case strings of length 25, so the total possible unique combinations are very high: 36 pow (25) = 808281277464764060643139600456536293376 The string is to be stored in MySql database table with unique set to true I am using following code to generate the string: const Chance = require('chance'); const chance = new Chance(Date.now() + Math.random()); let randomStr = chance.string({length: 25, pool: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'}); console.log(randomStr); Node.js can run in cluster mode, so value of timestamp can be same for different requests so I also added Math.random(). Is this enough to ensure that MySql unique constraint won't be violated by the random strings. A: Is this enough to ensure that MySQL unique constraint won't be violated by the random strings. 3625 has 129 bit. If we apply the birthday problem, then you're likely getting a collision around 264 strings. You'll probably generate much less than that. This is only true provided that you use a good randomness source. Math.random() is not a good randomness source.

Man dies after Muni collision Tools A San Francisco attorney died Wednesday morning after being hit by a bus in the Financial District. Scott Whitsett, 49, stepped off the curb onto the rain slicked pavement of Mission Street near his office at LexisNexis about 11 a.m. There was a collision and Whitsett ended up trapped under the front of a bus. The incident occurred at the intersection of Mission and Beale streets. Firefighters used a hydraulic lift and wood planks to lift the bus and extricate Whitsett, according to fire Lt. Mindy Talmadge. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with life-threatening injuries, Talmadge said. Whitsett was pronounced dead shortly afterward. He walked out onto the street and was then hit, according to police Lt. Lyn Tomioka. “A first bus appeared to be stopped [at the intersection],” Tomioka said. “A second bus was coming up as he appeared to have stepped into the lane of traffic. The second bus hit him, and pinned him to the first bus.” At the scene, the driver of the Muni bus was visibly upset, crying into the arms of a friend as nearby workers watched the grisly scene. This was the first fatality Muni has reported this year. A bus struck a pedestrian in February on San Bruno Avenue, but the victim survived, according to police. Fatalities involving Muni vehicles have decreased since 2007, when there were eight reported. The drivers of both Muni buses have been placed on nondriving status and were tested for drugs and alcohol, per normal procedure, according to Muni spokeswoman Kristen Holland. Service on the 14-Mission and the 14-Mission Limited in the outbound direction was disrupted due to the crash. Muni service was back to normal Wednesday afternoon after being rerouted for a few hours after the incident.

Henning Rübsam Henning Rübsam is a choreographer and dancer based in New York City. He is the artistic director of SENSEDANCE, a faculty member of The Juilliard School and Fordham University, and a visiting guest professor at Texas Academy of Ballet (Carolyn Bognar, director). He is the dance curator for Arts at Work and a resident choreographer for Hartford City Ballet. Early life and work Rübsam was born in Marburg, Germany, where he took his first ballet class at the age of five. He studied with André Doutreval in Kassel and at the Hamburg Opera Ballet School. For several summers he studied at the Internationale Sommerakademie des Tanzes in Köln. After moving to New York as a teenager, Rübsam's early mentors included Martha Hill and Elizabeth Keen. While a student at the Juilliard School, he took Classical Spanish Dance, studied Indian dance with Indrani Rahman, took a summer intensive at the School of American Ballet, performed as the Faun in the Nijinsky/Debussy ballet, starred in a dance film at the Sundance Institute, where he worked with Diane Coburn-Bruning, Michael Kidd and Stanley Donen, and toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company. He received a B.F.A. degree in dance from Juilliard in 1991. Upon graduation he founded his own ensemble SENSEDANCE and continued to dance with other choreographers, namely Duncan Macfarland, Murray Louis and most importantly Alwin Nikolais. Rübsam found his next mentor in Beverly Schmidt Blossom, whose work he performed after Nikolais' passing. His interest in early modern dance led to guest appearances with repertory companies in the works of Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey and Anna Sokolow. His early work Schubert: Lieder (1991) and his epic solo Sand to Chopin (1993) might owe influences to José Limón, but an independent signature was visible early on, since Rübsam was able to create melodic lines in movement that conversed with the music rather than mirrored it. Rübsam appeared as a guest dancer with a myriad of contemporary choreographers and used his own company as a laboratory for ideas that ranged from setting biblical stories to live accompaniment of a 27-member choir at St. Mark's Church in Carissimi's "Jephte" (and setting an attendance record for the venue) to visceral movement experimentation in an evolutionary safari named "Dolphins and Antelopes" (1996). For the latter as well as future works "Moonpaths" (1998), "Dinner is West" (2005) and "Tenancy" (2011) he commissioned music scores by fellow Juilliard graduate Beata Moon. In addition to Moon, he has collaborated with numerous composers and musicians, including Ricardo Llorca and Leslie Wildman as well as designers of different disciplines, e.g. Fabio Toblini. Awards Among the many awards Rübsam received are a Jerome L. Greene Fellowship, a Lincoln Center Fellowship, a Manhattan Spirit Award as "best male dancer" in 1997, a choreography award from Stephens College in 2000, an award for his advocacy from Dancers Responding to AIDS in 2004 and the Distinguished Artist Award from Bergen College in 2009, the first time this award was given to a dance artist. Stage, film, advocacy and journalism Rübsam also works for theater and opera as both choreographer and director. He has been a guest choreographer and teacher for ballet, contemporary dance companies and universities throughout the Americas as well as in Australasia and Europe. Rübsam was the first speaker on dance for the Gel conference in 2007 and lead a workshop at Gel in 2011. He is a known advocate for his art form and has presented lectures for the Lincoln Center Young Patrons Program. In December 2010 he hosted fellow choreographers Robert Garland, Matthew Neenan and Luca Veggetti for a panel at Juilliard. His dance writing has appeared in The Hudson Review, The Dance Enthusiast, Dance Magazine and its annual Stern's Performing Arts Directory, Pointe Magazine, Ballet Review, The Juilliard Journal and he was the American correspondent for the European publication Dance-for-You. Rübsam appears in the documentary Behind the Curtain and is a long-time board member of the Martha Hill Dance Fund. On the occasion of his company's upcoming 20th anniversary season, Classic Talk conducted a two part interview with Rübsam in the fall of 2011. Choreographic development and teaching career Since working closely with the late Prima Ballerina Assoluta Eva Evdokimova starting in 2000, his choreographic work has incorporated ballet vocabulary. In 2002 he created a highly acclaimed solo work for Evdokimova and in 2004 began introducing point work to his eclectic repertoire, thus attracting dancers from American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet. His company SENSEDANCE premiered his Impending Visit (music: Rafael Aponte-Ledée) in 2009 at the Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and he represented the United States as a cultural ambassador at the Danza Nueva Festival in Lima and on a subsequent tour with his company through Peru in 2010. In Fall 2006, he joined the Juilliard faculty, where he implemented a dance history and appreciation program for the general public. Earlier that year he was named Resident Choreographer of the Hartford City Ballet. Dancers and students Among his well-known disciples and guest dancers are Violetta Klimczewska, Ramon Thielen, Andrea Long, Carlos Molina, Dartanion Reed, Christine Reisner, as well as Samuel Lee Roberts and Akua Noni Parker, both with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Producer Rübsam produces select events ranging from a tribute to theater critic Eric Bentley at New York City's Town Hall with Tony Kushner, Karyn Levitt, Austin Pendleton, Michael Riedel, and Glen Roven to "RADICAL BODIES: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer" at Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse and the Beverly Blossom Festival at the 92Y in which he performed alongside Tandy Beal, Betsy Fisher, Debra Noble, and others. Quotes "Mr. Rübsam has steadily followed his own drumbeat, though in the case of his cheerfully humanist choreography the sound might more appropriately be that of a flute." (Jennifer Dunning, NYTimes, Oct. 3, 2003) "HALF-LIFE and Göttingen poignantly tackle the big questions and put Rübsam forth as the Anselm Kiefer of dance." (Lori Ortiz, readingdance.com, June 26, 2011) Works His works include: Schubert: Lieder (1991) After Yet Another Fall (1992) – original music: Beata Moon Folk Tales (1992) Erect Secrets (1993) – original music: Christopher Buchenholz Sand (1993) - music: Chopin Kingdom (1993) - music: Bartok Lie (1994) Sunshine (1994) Jephte (1995) Ginger: My Story (1995) Dolphins and Antelopes (1996) – original music: Beata Moon Ode (1996) Brass Blues (1997) Art of Love (1997) – tribute to Laura Nyro Moonpaths (1998) – original music: Beata Moon Carousel (1999) Rhapsody (1999) Be Good (2000) Voices of Spring (2000) Addicted (2001) Brahms: "Double Concerto" (2001) Listeners borne as bone (2002) – original music: Kevin James The End of Innocence (2002) – music: Ricardo Llorca Litanei & Frühlingsglaube (2002) – for Prima Ballerina Eva Evdokimova On The Fritz (2002) Safari (2002) – music: Beata Moon Garden (2003) Petit Pas (2003) Chorale (2004) - music: Ricardo Llorca Django (2004) Quartet (2004) – music: Ricardo Llorca Herman Sherman''' (2004) Dinner is West (2005) – original music: Beata Moon The Dance Bag (2005) Burque Bosque (2006) - music: Beata Moon Basie's Basement (2006) Merciless Beauty (2006) – music: Leslie Wildman Caves (2006) – music: Ricardo Llorca Göttingen (2006) Amaranthine Road (2007) – music: Beata Moon Innocence (2007) – music: Ron Mazurek The Secret (2007) – music: Beata Moon Inter-Mez-Zo (2008) – music: Beata Moon Guernica (2008) – music: Beata Moon Final Bell (2008) – music: Ron Mazurek Scherzo (2008) – Hartford City Ballet Cloudforest (2008) – SENSEDANCE at Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater – NY, NY Impending Visit (2009) – at Festival Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes – San Juan, Puerto Rico José Antonio (2010) – Danza Nueva Festival – Lima, Peru Dvorák 8/3 (2010) – Texas Academy of Ballet HALF-LIFE (2011) Nonet (2011) - music: Ricardo Llorca Tenancy (2011) - original music: Beata Moon HALF-LIFE 102 (2012) obsession | calm (2012) - music: Ernest Bloch Brahms Dances (2012) Borders (2013) Sarao (2013) - music: Ricardo Llorca An einsamer Quelle (2013) Russian Lesson (2013) And There was Morning (2015) - original music: Beata Moon Grand Canyon (2015) - music: Matt Siffert Combat del Somni (2015) - music: Ricardo Llorca Papa's Porter (2015) - music: Cole Porter, Hildegard Knef Blackpatch (2016) - music: Laura Nyro Hungarian Dances (2016) - music: Bartok SHOALMATES'' (2018) - music: Mozart References External links Martha Hill Dance Reviews NY Times, November 25, 1993 NY Times, March 8, 1999 NY Times, April 6, 2000 NY Times, February 25, 2002 NY Times, June 7, 2003 NY Times, October 7, 2003 NY Times, October 18, 2004 NY Times, October 25, 2006 NY Times, November 10, 2008 NY Times, April 6, 2009 Category:Living people Category:Modern dancers Category:Ballet choreographers Category:German male ballet dancers Category:German choreographers Category:German artists Category:German emigrants to the United States Category:Contemporary dancers Category:Juilliard School alumni Category:Juilliard School faculty Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:People from Marburg

Gracefield, Quebec Gracefield is a city in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It was reorganized on 13 March 2002 when three former municipalities (Gracefield, Northfield, and Wright) were merged into one. Its name comes from Patrick Grace who opened there the first business and was mayor of Wright from 1885 to 1890. Gracefield is located along the Gatineau River and Picanoc River. Its area is dotted with many lakes, most of which are lined with numerous summer camps and cottages. History In 1840, Augustin Ethyer, originally from Saint-Martin on Île Jésus, became the first settler in Gracefield. Settlers built the first church in 1841 which also served as school during the week. In 1845, Gracefield counted 20 families forming a small village core. New families settled on the banks of the Gatineau River, in what would become Northfield, which was at that time the periphery of the village in the canton of Wright. Since the beginning of colonization, the population of these three municipalities lived in close relation, always sharing multiple services and infrastructure. Therefore, it was logical to reorganize them into one municipality in 2002, called Wright-Gracefield-Northfield and renamed to Gracefield on 22 February 2003. The great flood of 1974 is an event remembered by the local population. On May 14, 1974, the waters of the Gatineau river and lakes linked to the River overflowed. The water rose at a rate of three to six inches an hour. Many residences in the Gracefield area were flooded and approximately 50% of the village had to be evacuated. Although no one was injured, damages reached many millions of dollars. On June 23, 2010, Gracefield was struck by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake that rocked Central Canada. A state of emergency was declared after several buildings were damaged, including the church, some of the city's administration buildings and the Vimy Hotel. Gracefield had many mica mines in the late 19th century to early 20th century but they have now all closed. There has been some interest in mining zinc since discovering an important quantity in Wright around the Calument Road area corner of the 105 provincial Road. The Canadian Pacific Maniwaki subdivision linked Gracefield with Wakefield, but it was abandoned in 1986. Demographics Population: Population in 2011: 2355 (Population change 2006–11: −3.4%) Population in 2006: 2439 (Population change 2001–06: 7.3%) Populations in 2001 prior to amalgamation: Gracefield: 615 Northfield: 521 Wright: 1137 Population in 1996: Gracefield: 713 Northfield: 516 Wright: 1202 Population in 1991: Gracefield: 703 Northfield: 514 Wright: 1157 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1020 (total dwellings: 1685) Mother tongue: English as first language: 7.3% French as first language: 92.1% English and French as first language: 0% Other as first language: 0.6% References Category:Cities and towns in Quebec Category:Incorporated places in Outaouais Category:Designated places in Quebec

Laparoscopic refundoplication with prosthetic hiatal closure for recurrent hiatal hernia after primary failed antireflux surgery. One of the most frequent complications after laparoscopic antireflux surgery is estimated to be the intrathoracic herniation of the wrap into the chest. Therefore, in up to 5% of patients, revisional surgery is necessary. Patients who undergo laparoscopic refundoplication for postoperative intrathoracic wrap herniation using a circular polypropylene mesh for hiatal closure have a good to excellent functional outcome, during a complete follow-up of 1 year. Prospective nonrandomized trial of a consecutive sample. University-affiliated community hospital. Twenty-four patients undergoing laparoscopic refundoplication for persistent or recurrent symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease as a result of postoperative intrathoracic wrap migration. All patients underwent laparoscopic refundoplication with a circular polypropylene mesh for hiatal closure. Recurrences, complications, postoperative lower esophageal sphincter pressure, DeMeester score, esophagogastroduodenoscopy results, and barium swallow results. All refundoplications were completed laparoscopically. There were no intraoperative complications. Twenty-one patients underwent laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication; in 3 patients, a laparoscopic Toupet fundoplication was performed. Previous antireflux procedures included an open Nissen fundoplication (n = 5), a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication (n = 15), and a laparoscopic Toupet fundoplication (n = 4). Postoperatively, one patient had severe dysphagia and had to undergo pneumatic dilatation once. During a follow-up of 1 year after surgery, no patient developed a recurrent hiatal hernia, with or without intrathoracic wrap herniation. The mean lower esophageal sphincter pressure increased significantly (P<.01) at 3 months (12.2 mm Hg) and 1 year (11.9 mm Hg) after refundoplication. The mean DeMeester score decreased significantly (P<.01) from 50.5 points preoperatively to 16.0 points at 3 months and 14.7 points at 1 year after refundoplication. Laparoscopic refundoplication with prosthetic hiatal closure is a safe and effective procedure for preventing recurrent intrathoracic wrap herniation, with good to excellent functional outcome for a complete follow-up of 1 year.

Genome-wide association for the outcome of fixed-time artificial insemination of Brahman heifers in northern Australia. Fixed-time AI (FTAI) is a powerful tool for genetic improvement of extensively managed beef cattle. A genomewide association study (GWAS) was conducted to investigate genes and genetic markers associated with the outcome (pregnant or not pregnant) of FTAI in 614 commercial Brahman heifers genotyped for 18,895 SNP and imputed to 51,588 SNP. The likelihood of Brahman heifers becoming pregnant after hormonal treatment to synchronize ovulation followed by FTAI was influenced by the content of their genomes, as determined by a principal component analysis. The principal component analysis involved comparisons between the studied heifers and populations of known and ancestry. The heritability of FTAI outcome was = 0.18, which is higher than for most other reproductive outcome traits. The number of SNP associated with FTAI outcome was 101 ( < 0.001, false discovery rate = 0.53). Compared with all SNP tested, associated SNP had a tendency for highly divergent allelic frequencies between and . Associated SNP were located in nearly all chromosomes, a result that shows a complex genetic architecture that is typical of highly complex traits with low heritability. Considering this and previous GWAS that examined Brahman heifer puberty and postpartum anestrus interval, 3 genomic regions emerge as important for overall Brahman heifer fertility, which mapped to chromosomes 1, 7, and 9. Further analyses, including improved genome annotation, are required to elucidate the link between these regions and heifer fertility. Additional studies are needed to confirm SNP and gene associations reported herein and further elucidate the genetics of FTAI outcome. Future GWAS should target other Braham populations and additional cattle breeds with FTAI records, including breeds with higher ancestry.

1. Introduction {#sec1} =============== Amino acids are important biomolecules that both serve as building blocks of proteins and are intermediates in various metabolic pathways. They serve as precursors for synthesis of a wide range of biologically important substances including nucleotides, peptide hormones, and neurotransmitters. Moreover, amino acids play important roles in cell signaling and act as regulators of gene expression and protein phosphorylation cascade \[[@B1]\], nutrient transport and metabolism in animal cells \[[@B2]\], and innate and cell-mediated immune responses. Amino acids are mainly obtained from proteins in diet and the quality of dietary protein is assessed from essential to nonessential amino acid ratio. High quality proteins are readily digestible and contain the dietary essential amino acids (EAA) in quantities that correspond to human requirements \[[@B3]\]. Proteins, the most abundant macromolecules found in biological systems, are present in diverse forms such as structural elements, enzymes, hormones, antibodies, receptors, signaling molecules, and so forth, having specific biological functions. Protein is necessary for key body functions including provision of essential amino acids and development and maintenance of muscles. Inadequate uptake of quality proteins and calories in diet leads to protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) (or protein-calorie malnutrition, PCM) which is the most lethal form of malnutrition/hunger. Kwashiorkor and marasmus, the extreme conditions of PCM mostly observed in children, are caused by chronic deficiency of protein and energy, respectively. PCM also occurs in adults who are under chronic nutritional deficiency. About 870 million people in the world are suffering from chronic protein malnutrition; 80% of children suffering from PCM are from developing countries \[[@B3], [@B4]\]. Fish, in this context, can play a vital role as it is an important and cheaper source of quality animal proteins. Therefore, there is a need to generate and document nutritional information on the numerous varieties and species of food fishes available. In comparison to the other sources of dietary animal proteins, consumers have wide choice for fish as far as affordability is concerned as there are many varieties and species of fishes available, especially in the tropical countries \[[@B5]\]. The present study was undertaken to generate information on protein content and amino acid composition of important food fishes with the objective of enhancing the scope for their utility in clinical nutrition for dietary counseling. 2. Materials and Methods {#sec2} ======================== 2.1. Ethical Statement {#sec2.1} ---------------------- The authors confirm that all the research done meets the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the study country. 2.2. Sample Collection and Processing {#sec2.2} ------------------------------------- Freshly caught fishes were collected from either the landing centers or the local fish markets and were brought to the laboratory in ice. A total of 27 species included for amino acid profiling were the carps*Catla catla*,*Labeo rohita*, and*Cirrhinus mrigala*, catfishes*Sperata seenghala*,*Heteropneustes fossilis*, and*Clarias batrachus,* the small indigenous fishes*Amblypharyngodon mola*,*Puntius sophore*,*Anabas testudineus* (all fresh water fishes), and*Tenualosa ilisha* (anadromous), the cold water fishes*Oncorhynchus mykiss*,*Tor putitora*,*Schizothorax richardsonii*,*Neolissochilus hexagonolepis*, and*Cyprinus carpio*; the marine fishes*Thunnus albacares*,*Stolephorus waitei*,*Stolephorus commersonii, Rastrelliger kanagurta*,*Nemipterus japonicas*,*Sardinella longiceps*,*Katsuwonus pelamis*,*Epinephelus*spp.,*Leiognathus splendens*, and*Trichiurus lepturus,* and the shellfishes*Crassostrea madrasensis*,*Perna viridis*. Fishes were cleaned, descaled, degutted, minced, homogenized, and stored at −40°C until used. 2.3. Amino Acid Analysis {#sec2.3} ------------------------ The crude protein content was determined by Kjeldahl method \[[@B6]\]. Amino acid composition was determined following Ishida et al. \[[@B7]\] and has been described earlier \[[@B8]\]. Briefly, muscle protein was hydrolyzed with 6N hydrochloric acid at 110°C under anaerobic condition for 24 h. The hydrolyzed samples were neutralized with 6N NaOH and were derivatized using a kit (AccQ-Fluor Reagent, WAT052880, Waters). The derivatized samples were injected in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (1525, Waters) equipped with a C~18 ~RP column and a fluorescence detector (2475, Waters). The amino acids were identified and quantified by comparing with the retention times and peak areas of standards (WAT088122, Waters). For the tryptophan analysis, minced meat was digested with 5% (w/v) NaOH for 24 h and neutralized to pH 7.0 with 6N HCl. Tryptophan content was measured spectrophotometrically at 530 nm \[[@B9]\]. All data have been presented as mean ± standard deviation. 3. Results and Discussion {#sec3} ========================= The physiological role of dietary proteins is to provide substrates required for the synthesis of body proteins and other metabolically important nitrogen-containing compounds. Therefore, the content of the nutritionally indispensable amino acids (AAs) in food proteins is usually the primary determinant of nutritional quality of protein \[[@B10]\]. Moreover, amino acids are associated with health issues and amino acid deficiencies lead to a number of diseases. Hence, knowledge of the amino acid composition of foods serves as a basis for establishing their potential nutritive value. It may also allow evaluation of changes in nutritive value that may arise in the preparation, processing, and storage of foods \[[@B11]\]. AAs have been traditionally classified as nutritionally essential (EAA), "nonessential" (NEAA) or conditionally essential (CEAA) \[[@B1]\]. Arginine, cystine, histidine, leucine, lysine, methionine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and valine are the EAAs, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine, proline, and taurine are CEAA, and aspartic acid, serine, and alanine are the NEAA for human nutrition. However, recently the concept of functional amino acids (FAAs) has been proposed. FAAs are those which participate and regulate key metabolic pathways to improve health, survival, growth, development, lactation, and reproduction of the organisms \[[@B1], [@B12]\]. The FAAs also hold great promise in prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases (e.g., obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders), intrauterine growth restriction, infertility, intestinal and neurological dysfunction, and infectious disease. Arginine, cystine, leucine, methionine, tryptophan, tyrosine, aspartate, glutamic acid, glycine, proline, and taurine have been classified as FAA in human nutrition \[[@B12]\]. Fish is an important source of quality animal proteins and it has been reported that fish protein has greater satiety effect than other sources of animal proteins like beef and chicken \[[@B13]\]. In comparison to the other sources of dietary animal proteins, consumers have wide choice for fish as far as affordability is concerned as there are many varieties and species of fishes available, especially in the tropical countries \[[@B4]\]. Here, we report the crude protein content and amino acid composition of 27 food fishes from the Indian subcontinent (Tables [1](#tab1){ref-type="table"} and [2](#tab2){ref-type="table"}) which could be useful in patient counseling and recommending species for patients with specific requirements and thus could be useful in clinical medicine. The distributions of amino acid in different species are discussed below. There was no appreciable variation in amino acid composition of fishes of the same species from different locations. Arginine plays an important role in cell division, wound healing, ammonia removal, immune function, and hormone release. It is also the precursor for biological synthesis of nitric oxide which plays important roles in neurotransmission, blood clotting, and maintenance of blood pressure. It is supplemented for recovery in a number of diseases like sepsis, preeclampsia, hypertension, erectile dysfunction, anxiety, and so forth. Arginine contents of cold water fishes*O. mykiss* (6.5 ± 0.3 g 100 g^−1^ protein),*T. putitora,* and*N. hexagonolepis* were found to be very high among the fishes studied and can be recommended in arginine deficiency \[[@B14]\]. Similar levels of arginine have been reported in the small forage fish capelin (*Mallotus villosus*) (5.70 ± 0.02%) \[[@B15]\]. Leucine is the only dietary amino acid that can stimulate muscle protein synthesis \[[@B16]\] and has important therapeutic role in stress conditions like burn, trauma, and sepsis \[[@B17]\]. As a dietary supplement, leucine has been found to slow the degradation of muscle tissue by increasing the synthesis of muscle proteins. Leucine was very high in marine fishes*S. waitei* and*R. kanagurta* (10.4 ± 0.4 and 10.3 ± 0.4 g 100^−1^ g protein, resp.), carps*L. rohita* and*C. mrigala,* and catfishes*C. batrachus* and*H. fossilis* ([Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}) which is higher than European seabass (7.21 ± 0.56%), gilthead seabream (7.27 ± 0.80%), and turbot (5.91 ± 0.69%) \[[@B18]\]. Methionine is used for treating liver disorders, improving wound healing, and treating depression, alcoholism, allergies, asthma, copper poisoning, radiation side effects, schizophrenia, drug withdrawal, and Parkinson\'s disease \[[@B19]\]. Methionine content of the marine fish*S. waitei* (4.0 ± 0.4 g 100^−1^ g protein) and cold water fish*T. putitora* (3.6 ± 0.3 g 100^−1^ g protein) was found to be highest among the fishes and is even higher than that found in mutton \[[@B20]\] and comparable to that of murrels*Channa striatus* (3.4 ± 0.11%),*Channa micropeltes* (4.0 ± 0.91%), and*Channa lucius* (3.6 ± 0.16) \[[@B21]\]. Glutamic acid plays an important role in amino acid metabolism because of its role in transamination reactions and is necessary for the synthesis of key molecules, such as glutathione which are required for removal of highly toxic peroxides and the polyglutamate folate cofactors. This amino acid was found to be one of the most abundant amino acids in the carps*C. catla*,*L. rohita*, and*C. mrigala* and catfishes*C. batrachus* and*H. fossilis* ([Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}). Similar values of glutamic acid have been reported in other fish species like mackerel \[[@B22]\] and red salmon \[[@B23]\] and in beef also \[[@B24]\]. Glycine plays an important role in metabolic regulation, preventing tissue injury, enhancing anti-antioxidant activity, promoting protein synthesis and wound healing, and improving immunity and treatment of metabolic disorders in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, ischemia-reperfusion injuries, cancer, and various inflammatory diseases \[[@B2]\]. The catfish*H. fossilis* was found to contain the highest amount of glycine followed by*A. testudineus* ([Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}) which was much higher than the glycine content of European seabass, gilthead seabream, turbot,*Channa striatus*,*Channa micropeltes*, and*Channa lucius* \[[@B18], [@B21]\]. Tryptophan is a precursor for serotonin, a brain neurotransmitter theorized to suppress pain. Free tryptophan enters the brain cells to form serotonin. Thus, tryptophan supplementation has been used to increase serotonin production in attempt to increase tolerance to pain \[[@B25]\]. Tryptophan is also the precursor of melatonin, tryptamine, and kynurenine and has an important role in the functioning of neurotransmitters like dopamine and nor-dopamine. Tryptophan supplement is used in treatment of pain, insomnia, depression, seasonal affective disorder, bulimia, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and chronic fatigue \[[@B26]\]. The fish*T. putitora* was found to contain the highest amount of tryptophan among the fishes studied ([Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}). Histidine plays multiple roles in protein interaction \[[@B27]\] and is also a precursor of histamine. It is also needed for growth and repair of tissue, for maintenance of the myelin sheaths, and in removing heavy metals from the body \[[@B28]\]. The marine fish*Rastrelliger kanagurta* was found to have high amount of histidine. The small indigenous fishes*A. testudineus*,*A. mola,* and*P. sophore* \[[@B29]\] were also found to be rich in histidine. Lysine is an EAA which is extensively required for optimal growth and its deficiency leads to immunodeficiency \[[@B30]\]. Lysine is used for preventing and treating cold sores. It is taken by mouth or applied directly to the skin for this use. Lysine content was very high in*S. commersonii* (16.1 ± 0.9 g 100^−1 ^g protein) and*T. putitora* (9.4 ± 0.6 g 100^−1 ^g protein). The amino acid content of*T. putitora* was similar to that of*Channa striatus* (9.7 ± 0.57%),*Channa micropeltes* (10.9 ± 1.05%), and*Channa lucius* (10.1 ± 1.42%) \[[@B21]\]. Threonine is used for treating various nervous system disorders including spinal spasticity, multiple sclerosis, familial spastic paraparesis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis \[[@B31]\]. Threonine content of*S. waitei* was found to be highest among the fish species studied ([Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}). Therefore, this fish can serve as a natural supplement for threonine. Isoleucine is a branched chain amino acid and is needed for muscle formation and proper growth \[[@B32]\]. Chronic renal failure (CRF) patients on hemodialysis have low plasma level of the branched chain amino acids (BCAA) leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The abnormalities in the plasma amino acid pool can be corrected with appropriate high-protein supplements \[[@B33]\].*O. mykiss* was found to contain the highest amount of isoleucine among the fish species studied (6.5 g 100 g^−1^ protein) followed by*L. rohita* and can be used for isoleucine supplementation. Although NEAA are synthesized*de novo* in the body, some of the nutritionally NEAA play important roles in regulating gene expression and micro-RNA levels, cell signaling, blood flow, nutrient transport and metabolism in animal cells, development of brown adipose tissue, intestinal microbial growth and metabolism, anti-oxidative responses, and innate and cell-mediated immune responses \[[@B1]\]. Aspartic acid (FAA) is the precursor of AAs methionine, threonine, isoleucine, and lysine and regulates the secretion of important hormones. Similarly, serine is the precursor of glycine, cysteine, and tryptophan and plays many important roles in cell signaling. Serine is also being used for treatment of schizophrenia. Aspartic acid and serine content of*S. commersonii* was found to be highest among the fishes studied, followed by*R. kanagurta*. The knowledge base enriched with amino acid composition data of 27 important food fishes would be useful in clinical nutrition for issuing patient advisory, dietary guidance, and counseling. Although cooking and boiling cause loss in the content of amino acids to varied degrees \[[@B34]\], the final content is proportional to the crude content \[[@B35]\]. Therefore, in general, the cold water species can be recommended for lysine and aspartic acid, marine fishes for leucine, small indigenous fishes for histidine, and the carps and catfishes for glutamic acid and glycine. However, for specific patient need the amino acid composition data of individual species, as given in [Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}, would be useful. This work was funded by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Fisheries Division under Outreach Activity (\#3) on "Nutrient profiling and evaluation of fish as a dietary component" (<http://www.cifri.ernet.in/outreach>). The authors are thankful to Dr. S. Ayyappan, Secretary, DARE, and DG, ICAR, for the constant encouragement and guidance. The authors are also thankful to Dr. B. Meenakumari, DDG (Fisheries Science), Dr. S. D. Singh, ADG (Inland Fisheries), and Dr. Madan Mohan, ADG (Marine Fisheries), ICAR, for the support and guidance. Conflict of Interests ===================== The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests. Authors' Contribution ===================== Bimal Mohanty is the Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the project. Bimal Mohanty, T. V. Sankar, and A. P. Sharma conceived and designed the study. Sample collection and analysis for freshwater fishes were done by Arabinda Mahanty, Satabdi Ganguly, Tandrima Mitra, Sudeshna Banerjee, Prasenjit Paria, Debajeet Das, Bijay Behera, Md. Aftabuddin, Dipesh Debnath, Baidyanath Paul, and N. Sridhar; marine fishes by T. V. Sankar, Kajal Chakraborty, Anandan Rangasamy, Suseela Mathew, Kurukkan Kunnath Asha, P. Vijayagopal, K. K. Vijayan, and P. T. Laxmanan; and cold water fishes by Debajit Sarma, Neetu Sahi, M. S. Akhtar, Pushpita Das. Preparation of manuscript was done by Arabinda Mahanty, Satabdi Ganguly, and Bimal Mohanty. Draft was edited by Bimal Mohanty. ###### Amino acid composition and protein content of 27 food fishes from India. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amino acids\ *Catla catla* *Labeo rohita* *Cirrhinus mrigala* *Sperata seenghala* *Clarias batrachus* *Heteropneustes fossilis* *Anabas testudineus* *Puntius sophore* *Amblypharyngodon mola* (g 100 g^−1^ protein) ---------------------------------- --------------- ---------------- --------------------- --------------------- --------------------- --------------------------- ---------------------- ------------------- ------------------------- Essential amino acids (EAAs)                    Arg^c^ 1.5 ± 0.4 0.8 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.2 nd 2.5 ± 0.5 1.5 ± 0.2 2.1 ± 0.4 0.1 ± 0.03 nd  His 5.3 ± 0.4 3.8 ± 0.5 4.3 ± 0.3 1.1 ± 0.2 3.9 ± 0.2 3.6 ± 0.3 3.9 ± 0.4 1.4 ± 0.3 2.8 ± 0.4  Iso 5.9 ± 0.2 6.2 ± 0.3 5.9 ± 0.4 0.4 ± 0.1 4.7 ± 0.2 5.6 ± 0.3 5.4 ± 0.3 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0  Leu^c^ 7.7 ± 0.2 9.0 ± 0.5 8.4 ± 0.4 0.7 ± 0.1 8.1 ± 0.3 8.2 ± 0.2 8.2 ± 0.3 0.4 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0  Lys 3.6 ± 0.3 2.9 ± 0.5 4.8 ± 0.3 0.3 ± 0.0 4.4 ± 0.3 3.9 ± 0.4 3.0 ± 0.2 nd    Met^c^ 1.9 ± 0.1 1.9 ± 0.1 1.6 ± 0.1 0.14 ± 0.0 2.85 ± 0.3 1.3 ± 0.3 1.6 ± 0.1 0.1 ± 0.0 0.1 ± 0.0  Phe 4.8 ± 0.2 5.5 ± 0.2 6.1 ± 0.3 0.4 ± 0.1 3.7 ± 0.3 6.2 ± 0.1 6.3 ± 0.2 nd 0.3 ± 0.0  Thr 5.5 ± 0.3 5.7 ± 0.6 5.8 ± 0.7 0.6 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.1 5.9 ± 0.3 5.5 ± 0.3 0.3 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0  Tyr^c^ 1.2 ± 0.3 1.3 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0.1 nd 0.9 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0.1 1.0 ± 0.0 nd nd  Val 6.7 ± 1.1 6.0 ± 0.9 7.2 ± 1.2 0.4 ± 0.0 5.7 ± 1.1 5.8 ± 1.0 7.3 ± 1.3 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0  Trp^c^ 1.0 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 1.1 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 1.4 ± 0.3 0.1 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0  Cys^c^ 0.1 ± 0.0 0.1 ± 0.0 0.1 ± 0.0 nd 0.2 ± 0.0 0.1 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 nd nd  Glu^ac^ 13.8 ± 3.5 14.6 ± 3.9 14.8 ± 4.0 1.6 ± 0.3 14.5 ± 3.6 16.0 ± 4.2 13.1 ± 4.0 0.7 ± 0.1 1.0 ± 0.2  Gly^ac^ 13.7 ± 3.4 13.6 ± 3.6 13.4 ± 3.2 0.4 ± 0.0 13.6 ± 3.1 15.4 ± 3.6 15.3 ± 4.1 0.6 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.1  Pro^ac^ 0.4 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.3 0.9 ± 0.1 1.6 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 Nonessential amino acids (NEAAs)                    Ala 7.2 ± 1.2 7.8 ± 1.1 5.9 ± 0.8 0.3 ± 0.0 6.4 ± 1.1 5.6 ± 1.2 7.3 ± 1.5 0.2 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0  Asp^c^ 10.4 ± 2.3 10.0 ± 2.5 10.9 ± 2.0 2.3 ± 0.9 11.1 ± 3.2 12.3 ± 3.5 10.8 ± 2.5 1.2 ± 0.2 1.4 ± 0.1  Ser 5.9 ± 1.5 6.3 ± 1.9 6.3 ± 1.5 0.4 ± 0.0 6.1 ± 2.3 6.5 ± 2.4 5.1 ± 1.6 0.2 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 Crude protein (%) 16.2 ± 0.5 15.9 ± 0.4 15.5 ± 0.5 19.0 ± 1.3 16.4 ± 0.3 16.3 ± 0.4 16.9 ± 0.5 16.3 ± 0.8 16.3 ± 0.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amino acids\ *Tor putitora* *Neolissochilus hexagonolepis* *Oncorhynchus mykiss* *Schizothorax richardsonii* *Cyprinus carpio* *Tenualosa ilisha* *Sardinella longiceps* *Nemipterus japonicus* *Thunnus albacares* (g 100 g^−1^ protein) --------------------------------- ---------------- -------------------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------------- ------------------- -------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------ --------------------- Essential amino acids (EAA)                    Arg^c^ 4.2 ± 0.2 2.1 ± 0.4 6.5 ± 0.3 2.3 ± 0.3 2.1 ± 0.3 nd 0.6 ± 0.2 1.1 ± 0.3 0.3 ± 0.1  His 0.5 ± 0.0 0.9 ± 0.1 1.1 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 1.7 ± 0.3 0.4 ± 0.0 2.8 ± 0.4 7.7 ± 0.5  Iso 3.7 ± 0.4 1.1 ± 0.3 6.5 ± 0.4 1.3 ± 0.2 0.8 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.1 0.4 ± 0.0 5.1 ± 0.2 4.9 ± 0.3  Leu^c^ 7.6 ± 0.3 2.1 ± 0.2 5.7 ± 0.2 2.3 ± 0.1 1.6 ± 0.1 0.7 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.0 10.1 ± 0.2 9.1 ± 0.3  Lys 9.4 ± 0.6 2.0 ± 0.2 3.5 ± 0.3 2.3 ± 0.4 1.1 ± 0.3 0.3 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.1 2.8 ± 0.3 12.4 ± 0.9  Met^c^ 3.6 ± 0.3 1.1 ± 0.1 3.1 ± 0.2 1.2 ± 0.1 0.8 ± 0.1 0.1 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.3 2.4 ± 0.2 2.7 ± 0.3  Phe 5.5 ± 0.3 0.9 ± 0.1 3.0 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.1 0.7 ± 0.1 0.4 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 3.7 ± 0.3 3.9 ± 0.3  Thr 3.9 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0.2 5.9 ± 0.5 0.9 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.3 0.6 ± 0.1 4.1 ± 0.5 6.4 ± 0.7 6.6 ± 0.8  Tyr^c^ 5.7 ± 0.5 0.9 ± 0.1 8.4 ± 0.8 nd 0.8 ± 0.2 nd 0.4 ± 0.0 1.3 ± 0.3 1.5 ± 0.3  Val 3.8 ± 0.9 1.6 ± 0.3 4.9 ± 0.8 1.7 ± 0.5 1.3 ± 0.4 0.4 ± 0.0 4.4 ± 0.9 8.6 ± 1.3 8.2 ± 0.4  Trp^c^ 6.5 ± 0.9 0.4 ± 0.0 6.2 ± 1.0 0.4 ± 0.0 0.9 ± 0.0 0.2 ± 0.0 nd 2.3 ± 0.7 1.6 ± 0.1  Cys^c^ nd 0.2 ± 0.0 nd 0.2 ± 0.0 0.04 ± 0.0 nd 0.2 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.1 nd  Glu^ac^ 9.6 ± 1.3 4.5 ± 1.2 4.9 ± 1.2 4.2 ± 1.0 4.2 ± 1.1 1.2 ± 0.3 1.1 ± 0.4 16.55 ± 1.2 11.1 ± 3.5  Gly^ac^ 7.5 ± 1.5 2.3 ± 0.4 6.9 ± 1.2 2.3 ± 0.9 3.2 ± 0.9 0.5 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 7.6 ± 1.5 8.5 ± 2.2  Pro^ac^ 6.7 ± 2.1 1.1 ± 0.2 9.6 ± 1.4 1.3 ± 0.3 1.2 ± 0.3 0.5 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 1.1 ± 0.3 0.9 ± 0.0 Nonessential amino acids (NEAA)                    Ala 5.1 ± 0.9 4.1 ± 1.3 6.1 ± 1.1 4.0 ± 0.8 3.7 ± 0.7 0.3 ± 0.1 0.4 ± 0.0 8.1 ± 1.9 6.1 ± 1.1  Asp 7.6 ± 1.8 7.1 ± 2.8 8.5 ± 1.9 5.2 ± 1.3 6.2 ± 1.9 1.8 ± 0.6 nd 11.1 ± 2.3 8.5 ± 1.9  Ser 4.1 ± 1.3 4.9 ± 1.3 6.6 ± 2.4 5.5 ± 2.1 5.5 ± 2.1 0.5 ± 0.0 5.5 ± 0.0 6.8 ± 2.3 6.6 ± 2.4 Crude protein (%) 17.0 ± 0.2 18.2 ± 0.3 17.2 ± 0.0 16.3 ± 0.1 17.2 ± 0.2 20.7 ± 2.7 17.1 ± 1.4 15.4 ± 0.2 23.9 ± 0.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amino acids\ *Stolephorus waitei* *Stolephorus commersonii* *Rastrelliger kanagurta* *Katsuwonus pelamis* *Epinephelus spp* *Leiognathus splendens* *Trichiurus lepturus* *Crassostrea madrasensis* *Perna viridis* (g 100 g^−1^ protein) --------------------------------- ---------------------- --------------------------- -------------------------- ---------------------- ------------------- ------------------------- ----------------------- --------------------------- ----------------- Essential amino acids (EAA)                    Arg^c^ 0.8 ± 0.1 nd 0.7 ± 0.2 1.0 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.2 nd 1.0 ± 0.2 2.7 ± 0.3 0.2 ± 0.0  His 4.4 ± 0.4 4.2 ± 0.3 7.9 ± 0.6 0.5 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 nd 0.6 ± 0.1 0.4 ± 0.1 0.03 ± 0.0  Iso 4.2 ± 0.5 5.2 ± 0.2 4.7 ± 0.3 0.5 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 0.3 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.1 0.05 ± 0.0  Leu^c^ 10.4 ± 0.4 7.9 ± 0.5 10.3 ± 0.4 0.9 ± 0.1 0.7 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.0 0.9 ± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.2 0.1 ± 0.0  Lys 5.7 ± 0.2 16.1 ± 0.9 4.6 ± 0.6 1.2 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.0 0.9 ± 0.0 1.1 ± 0.2 0.09 ± 0.0  Met^c^ 4.0 ± 0.4 1.0 ± 0.2 3.4 ± 0.1 0.4 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.1 0.02 ± 0.0  Phe 4.3 ± 0.2 3.6 ± 0.1 4.2 ± 0.2 0.5 ± 0.2 0.6 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 0.7 ± 0.1 0.06 ± 0.0  Thr 7.9 ± 0.9 5.4 ± 0.8 7.1 ± 0.9 0.6 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0   0.7 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.1  Tyr^c^ 1.1 ± 0.1 0.2 ± 0.0 1.2 ± 0.2 0.3 ± 0.1 1.4 ± 0.1 nd 0.5 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.0 0.03 ± 0.0  Val 5.6 ± 0.9 5.6 ± 0.5 7.1 ± 1.3 0.6 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 0.05 ± 0.0  Trp^c^ 2.1 ± 0.5 2.1 ± 0.6 1.2 ± 0.3 nd nd nd nd nd nd  Cys^c^ nd nd nd 0.6 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.1   0.2 ± 0.0 0.03 ± 0.0  Glu^ac^ 13.0 ± 3.9 13.6 ± 4.2 13.9 ± 4.0 2.1 ± 0.3 1.6 ± 0.6 nd nd 2.5 ± 0.9 0.2 ± 0.0  Gly^ac^ 9.8 ± 2.3 8.8 ± 1.5 8.3 ± 1.3 0.4 ± 0.0 0.4 ± 0.1 nd nd 1.9 ± 0.5 0.1 ± 0.0  Pro^ac^ 1.8 ± 0.2 1.5 ± 0.3 1.5 ± 0.2 0.5 ± 0.0 0.5 ± 0.0 nd nd 0.7 ± 0.1 0.07 ± 0.0 Nonessential amino acids (NEAA)                    Ala 4.1 ± 1.1 6.4 ± 1.2 4.8 ± 1.1 0.6 ± 0.1 0.5 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.0 nd 1.2 ± 0.2 0.08 ± 0.0  Asp 9.9 ± 3.0 12.3 ± 3.6 10.1 ± 3.2 nd nd nd nd nd 0.1 ± 0.0  Ser 7.2 ± 2.9 6.0 ± 2.4 6.9 ± 12.1 0.4 ± 0.0 0.6 ± 0.1 nd nd 1.2 ± 0.3 0.09 ± 0.0 Crude protein (%) 20.3 ± 0.1 16.4 ± 0.1 19.2 ± 0.1 22.4 ± 2.9 18.1 ± 1.1 17.2 ± 1.6 17.9 ± 1.5 16.8 ± 0.1 11.0 ± 0.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Classification of AA as nutritionally "essential" or "nonessential" or "conditionally essential" is as per Wu 2013 \[[@B12]\]. ^a^Conditionally essential amino acids; ^c^functional amino acids as per human nutrition (Wu 2010, 2013) \[[@B1], [@B12]\]. Values are reported as mean ± standard deviation of three replicates; nd: not detected. ###### Fish species rich in different amino acids. Fish species rich in specific amino acids among the species studied are listed (ref. [Table 1](#tab1){ref-type="table"}). Amino acids Species rich in particular amino acid -------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Essential amino acids    Arg^c^ *Oncorhynchus mykiss, Tor putitora, Neolissochilus hexagonolepis*  His *Rastrelliger kanagurta, Catla catla*, *Stolephorus waitei*, *Amblypharyngodon mola, Puntius sophore*  Iso *Oncorhynchus mykiss, Labeo rohita, Stolephorus commersonii*  Leu^c^ *Stolephorus waitei, Rastrelliger kanagurta*, *Labeo rohita*  Lys *Stolephorus commersonii, Thunnus albacores, Tor putitora*  Met^c^ *Stolephorus waitei, Tor putitora, Rastrelliger kanagurta*  Phe *Cirrhinus mrigala, Catla catla, Labeo rohita*  Thr *Thunnus albacores, Nemipterus japonicus, Stolephorus waitei, Stolephorus commersonii*  Tyr^c^ *Oncorhynchus mykiss, Tor putitora*  Val *Nemipterus japonicas, Cirrhinus mrigala, Rastrelliger kanagurta*  Trp^c^ *Tor putitora*  Glu^ac^ *Cirrhinus mrigala, Catla catla, Labeo rohita*  Gly^ac^ *Cirrhinus mrigala, Catla catla, Labeo rohita*  Pro^ac^ *Oncorhynchus mykiss, Tor putitora* Nonessential amino acids    Ala *Nemipterus japonicus*, *Labeo rohita, Catla catla*  Asp *Stolephorus commersonii, Heteropneustes fossilis, Clarias batrachus*  Ser *Stolephorus commersonii, Nemipterus japonicas, Thunnus albacares* ^a^Conditionally essential amino acids; ^c^functional amino acids as per human nutrition. [^1]: Academic Editor: Mario Herrera-Marschitz

Ask HN: join YC for a non-US resident - csomar Hi, I have an idea in mind (which is very stupid and simple) but if implemented correctly, it can turn productivity on. So I'm a "geek", i worked mainely on C# and php/mysql/jquery; I thought of trying to apply for YC.<p>The problem is "I'm not a US resident"; YC doesn't help in issuing VISA to US and suggest to ask other members, so here i ask! Are you an YC startup founder not from the US, how did you do to get VISA?<p>Also I'm 18 years old (but in January I'll be 19); so does that matter a lot.<p>+ is finding a partner hard? (currently I'm alone)<p>sorry for "lot of questions" but I don't know whom to ask, if you are that kind of people that want to talk a lot about their experiences why not add me (omar.abid2006@gmail.com) and talk about it ====== jacquesm I think that to get a real answer you're going to at least have to tell the people looking at this where you are from, that will make a huge difference in how hard it will be to get you to the USA. ------ jacquesm I found this in the HN/YC FAQ (linked at the bottom of the page): Do we have to be US citizens? No, as long as you can get here for at least three months. We've funded several startups founded by non-citizens. ------ envitar You'll probably have to go on tourist visa first, if you can. Or student - if you are

Wuzhen Theatre Festival The Wuzhen Theatre Festival () is an annual theatre festival held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China. It is jointly sponsored by Stan Lai, Chen Xianghong, Meng Jinghui and Huang Lei, and hosted by Culture Wuhan Co., Ltd. The festival includes units of Specially Invited Plays, Youth Theatre Artists Competition, Outdoor Carnival, and Wuzhen Dialogues. Introduction Wuzhen, located in Tongxiang, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is the hinterland of the Hangjiahu Plain and belongs to the Taihu Lake Basin. On May 9th, 2013, Wuzhen held the first theatre festival. Unit The festival is held at the Youth Theatre People's Theatre Arena. It is composed of artists from all over the world who love street performances and perform street performance art forms. It includes several major sections, such as drama workshop, drama forum, and exhibition. It is the dialogue channel between the creators and audiences of Wuzhen Theatre Festival. Select world theatre plays are invited to Wuzhen to give performances at different theatres. Past Review The first festival The first Wuzhen Theatre Festival was divided into three units: "Youth Theater Artists Competition", "Specially Invited Plays" and "Outdoor Carnival". The festival was sponsored by Stan Lai, Huang Lei, Meng Jinghui and Chen Xianghong. The Youth Theatre Artists Competition unit publicly solicited candidate plays from the drama enthusiasts and performed during the festival. Finally, the jury selected the top three of the Youth Competitions. It awarded Chen Danlu the "Best individual performance award," and awarded Baba Mom the "Best drama award." The "Shortlisted repertoire" included "One Person’s Red Woolen Blanket," "Reflection," "Reflection Lake," "Untitled," "Virtuous He Luxi," "Time Machine," "One or the Other," "Darkness," "Wrong Words," "Toy Patient," "Baba Mom," and "Utopia Town." The ancient town carnival event included more than 120 art performance groups around the world, who took the stage at Wuzhen Xizha and performed more than 500 plays. The second festival The Second Wuzhen Theatre Festival's theme was “Metamorphoses”. It was sponsored by Stan Lai, Huang Lei, Meng Jinghui, and Chen Xianghong. The second Wuzhen Theatre Festival was consisted of the units of “Outdoor Carnival”,“Specially Invited Plays”and“Youth Theatre Artists Competition”. The "Shortlisted repertoire" included Determined Tin Soldier, Grandpa's Adventures, On the Self-growth of a Half-orc, The Kidnapping, The Silence of Urban Dream Walkers, Monsters, West, If Leave, Vienna • Spring Sacrifices, Mountain House, Circular Door, and Original Initial. The third festival The Third Wuzhen Theatre Festival's theme was "Transmittal", and was divided into four units:“ Wuzhen Dialogues”,“Youth Theatre Artists Competition”,“Specially Invited Plays”and“Outdoor Carnival”,sponsored by Stan Lai, Huang Lei, Meng Jinghui,Chen Xianghong,hosted by Culture Wuzhen Co., Ltd.The 3rd Wuzhen Theatre Festival's closing drama was "Amazing Valley" The Youth Theatre Artists competition resulted in "Static", "Ever Never" winning the Best Drama Award, Li Bo, the actor and screenwriter of "Tracing the Line" winning the Best Individual Performance Award, and "Remembrance Day" winning the Special Concern Award. The Shortlisted Repertoire included Memorial Day, The Cenotaph, Zuo, Amnesia, Lianmu, Who Is Mad, Tracing the Line, Solo, Ever Never, Prometheus in the Tavern, Come Together, Static. While the Whuzhen Dialogues were a series of lectures. The fourth festival The Fourth Wuzhen Theatre Festival's theme was “Gaze Beyond”, and it consisted of four units: “ Wuzhen Dialogues”, “Youth Theater Artists Competition”, “ Specially Invited Plays” and “Outdoor Carnival”, a total of 22 works and 79 performances. The fifth festival The Fifth Wuzhen Theatre Festival took "Luminosity" as the theme, meaning "Self-discipline and social commitment, the yin and yang shining in all directions", it was held from October 19 to 29, 2017, 24 invited theatre from 12 countries and regions around the world, a total of 100 plays were performed in Wuzhen. The shortlisted repertoire included: "Running Away From Home", "One And a Quarter", "Crowd", "Breaking the Sky", "Certain Hypothesis of Sustainable Development", "Temporary Stay in the Woods at a Snowy Night", "The Lost Turtle", "Moon”, "Full", "Killing Rabbit", "Er Yu", "New Platform", "Fade Away", "Normal Development", "Xuniang’s Dream", "Moon Tide", "Muchui" "Summer Evening" The sixth festival The Sixth Wuzhen Theatre Festival's theme was “Magnanimity”. It was held from October 18th to 28th, 2018. 27+6 Specially Invited Plays from 17 countries and regions in the world performed in Wuzhen. There are four main units: Specially Invited Plays, Young Theatre Artists Competition, Outdoor Carnival, Wuzhen Dialogues. The shortlisted repertoire included: "A bad arhat kills a fisherman","Mournful birds cry","Independent people whizzby","Sleeping beauty wakes from a dream","Desperado","Little ants fly","Natural Death interpreted","Fragile diet-coke","Far away lies a beach","Unbridled","Fault-tolerant computing","Thank you dear ms.Xie wanting","Go away","Life on a banch keeps rolling","Dark nights do not slepp","Mystic river","The crazy parrot dances","Nearby,ripples plop". The specially invited plays were: 19.14 written and directed by Alexander Molochnikov; Dancer in the Dark written by Patrick Ellsworth based on the film by Lars von Trier, and directed by Bastian Kraft; Springtime in the North written and directed by Tadashi Suzuki; and Jeden Gest (One Gesture) written and directed by Wojtek Ziemilski and Wojtek Pustoła Award Record November 2017,the 2nd Boao International Tourism Communication Forum Tourism Communication Awards TC Award "Annual Tourism Marketing Activity List" January 2018, Chinese cultural figures in 2017, Huang Lei, Stan Lai, Chen Xianghong, Meng Jinghui's "Wuzhen Theater Festival Founder Team" Shortlisted Works of Past Terms of Competition Other Venue Theatre Chinese name: Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Organizer: Culture Wuzhen Co., Ltd. Location: Wuzhen, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province Sponsor: Huang Lei, Meng Jinghui, Stan Lai, Chen Xianghong Presidium Founder and Artistic Director:Meng Jinghui Founder and Festival Chairman:Chen Xianghong Founder and Festival Director:Stan Lai Founder and Producing Director:Huang Lei Executive Director:Nai-Chu Ding Managing Director:Chen Yu Artistic Committee He Jiong, Liu Heng, Li Liqun, Pu Cunxin, Sun Honglei, Xi Meijuan, Yu Hua, Yuan Quan Competition Jury Ding Naizheng, Yang Ting, Li Bo, Wu Bi, Stan Lai, Huang Lei, Shi Hang, Tian Qinxin, Zhou Liming References Category:Culture in Zhejiang Category:Theatre festivals in Asia Category:Cultural festivals in China

Q: How to count conditions across a row? I have a pandas data frame: df = pd.DataFrame({ 'a': [1, 2, 0, 3], 'b': [1, 2, 0, 0], 'c': [5, 2, 0, 3], 'd': [0, 3, 7, 1] }) I would now like to create another column n which counts how many values of columns ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] are > 0. By hand we need to do: df['n'] = [3, 2, 3, 3] I don't need to state that this is unhandy for larger frames. I know we can select the rows we are interested with df.a > 0, ..., df.d > 0. Unfortunately I am not able to convert the provided bool values to 0 and 1 and sum them. df['n'] = df. a > 0 + df.b > 0 + df.c > 0 + df.d > 0 Throws ValueError: The truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all(). How do I correct this? A: You could perform a list comprehension, looping over the columns and then use a boolean condition on that column, drop the values that don't meet the condition and call count: In [360]: [df.loc[df[col]>0,col].dropna().count() for col in df] Out[360]: [3, 2, 3, 3] This would yield the column: In [361]: df['n'] = [df.loc[df[col]>0,col].dropna().count() for col in df] df Out[361]: a b c d n 0 1 1 5 0 3 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 0 0 0 7 3 3 3 0 3 1 3 At this stage it may make sense to label your rows to the column names so that you n makes sense. EDIT I realised on my way to lunch that there was a simpler method just calling count: In [365]: df[df>0].count() Out[365]: a 3 b 2 c 3 d 3 dtype: int64

687 P.2d 451 (1984) The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dean Allen WILDER, Defendant-Appellee. No. 83SA341. Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc. September 4, 1984. Rehearing Denied September 24, 1984. *452 Terrance Farina, Dist. Atty., Thomas W. Blake, Deputy Dist. Atty., Grand Junction, for plaintiff-appellant. David F. Vela, Colorado State Public Defender, Jody Sorenson Theis, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellee. ERICKSON, Chief Justice. The prosecution appeals the district court's refusal to revoke a deferred judgment and sentence and enter a conviction pursuant to section 16-7-403, 8 C.R.S. (1978 & 1983 Supp.), after the defendant, Dean Allen Wilder, voluntarily admitted that he violated the conditions of a deferred judgment and sentence. We reverse. I. The defendant was charged with possession of cocaine pursuant to section 18-18-105, 8 C.R.S. (1973 Supp.). He entered a plea of guilty and was granted a deferred judgment which provided that he be placed under probationary supervision for two years, that he pay court costs, sheriff's costs, and supervision costs in the amount of $117.50, and that he refrain from unlawful activity in Colorado or any other jurisdiction. The prosecution subsequently filed an application to revoke the deferred judgment claiming that the defendant had violated several conditions of the deferred judgment and sentence. The prosecution alleged that the defendant had failed to maintain contact with his probation officer and had made only one payment of $20 to the court. Additionally, the prosecution alleged that defendant had been charged with removing a traffic control sign, failing to stop his vehicle at a stop sign, and driving with a suspended driver's license. At the revocation hearing, the defendant appeared with his counsel and admitted violating these four conditions of his deferred judgment. The trial court found that defendant's admissions were voluntary, but refused to revoke the deferred judgment and to enter a conviction and impose a sentence of either imprisonment or probation. II. The prosecution asserts that section 16-7-403(2), 8 C.R.S. (1978 & 1983 Supp.), requires a trial court to enter a judgment of conviction upon finding at a revocation hearing that the defendant has violated a condition of a deferred judgment. We agree. Subsection 2 of section 16-7-403, 8 C.R.S. (1978 & 1983 Supp.),[1] provides, in pertinent part: Prior to entry of a plea of guilty to be followed by deferred judgment and sentence, the district attorney, in the course of plea discussion as provided in sections 16-7-301 and 16-7-302, is authorized to *453 enter into a written stipulation, to be signed by the defendant, his attorney of record, and the district attorney, under which the defendant obligates himself to adhere to such stipulation.... Such stipulation shall specifically provide that, upon a breach by the defendant of any condition regulating the conduct of the defendant, the court shall enter judgment and impose sentence upon such guilty plea.... Whether a breach of condition has occurred shall be determined by the court.... The burden of proof at such hearing shall be by a preponderance of the evidence.... We have held that a trial court does not have discretion in revoking a deferred judgment once it finds that the defendant has violated the terms of a deferred judgment and sentence. In People v. Widhalm, 642 P.2d 498 (Colo.1982), the defendant pled guilty to felony theft and entered into a plea agreement which involved a one-year deferred judgment and sentence. Conditions of the deferred judgment included periodic reports to a probation officer and monthly restitution payments to the victim. During the one-year period, the prosecution filed a petition to revoke the deferred judgment. A hearing was held, and the court found that the defendant had violated two conditions of the deferred judgment. The court refused, however, to enter a judgment of conviction and the prosecution appealed. We reversed and held: Upon a judicial determination that such violation has occurred, the statutory direction in 16-7-403(2) is clear and unequivocal: the court shall enter a judgment of conviction upon the previously entered plea of guilty. This legislative mandate is irreconcilable with a judicial discretion to continue the defendant under a deferred judgment, notwithstanding a judicial determination that he has already violated the conditions of the deferred judgment. We have held in several cases that a court is not free to disregard a specific legislative mandate relating to sentencing, even though another alternative might appear to be more appropriately suited to the circumstances of the case before it. Widhalm, 642 P.2d at 500 (Colo.1982). See also Adair v. People, 651 P.2d 389 (Colo. 1982) (reaffirming Widhalm).[2] Here, the defendant pled guilty to possession of cocaine and a deferred judgment was entered. The trial court found that the defendant voluntarily admitted violating four conditions of the deferred judgment.[3] Applying Widhalm to these facts, we conclude that the trial court erred by not revoking the deferred judgment. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's ruling and remand the cause for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. NOTES [1] In 1983 the General Assembly amended section 16-7-403(2) to include: In addition, the stipulation may require the defendant to perform community or charitable work service projects or make donations thereto.... When, as a condition of the deferred sentence, the court orders the defendant to make restitution and finds that he has the ability to pay, evidence of failure to pay the said restitution shall constitute prima facie evidence of a violation.... Application for entry of judgment and imposition of sentence may be made by the district attorney at any time within the term of the deferred judgment or within thirty days thereafter.... Section 16-7-403(2) (1983 Supp.). These statutory amendments are not pertinent to this opinion. [2] In Adair, the defendant pled guilty to sexual assault without force and received a deferred judgment and sentence. As a condition of the deferred sentence, the defendant was required to participate in a program involving professional counseling. The defendant's probation officer reported to the court that the defendant had failed to cooperate with the program. A hearing was held and the court revoked the deferred judgment finding that the defendant had violated its conditions. [3] The record contains the following colloquy: Prosecution: Would the Court make a finding that this plea is voluntary? The Court: You said you had not been able to get hold of him, has he been removing traffic control signs? Defendant: I did not remove it. It was already on the side of the road. All I did was pick it up and then the sheriff — The Court: What about failure to stop while driving under suspension? Defendant: I did that, your Honor. The Court: You are living kind of a dangerous life. If you keep this up, one of these days you are going to be gone. You had better start paying attention. Defendant: Yes your Honor. The Court: The Court finds that the admissions are voluntary.

Q: How can I convert an object from a combobox selected item to a string This is all in a WINDOWS FORM C#, MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2008 I have a combo box that is being displayed this way: private void populateCombos() { string GetConn1 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = c:\\Data\\Db\\Comp.mdb"; string queryString = "SELECT DISTINCT DC FROM Comp"; OleDbDataAdapter dA = new OleDbDataAdapter(queryString, GetConn1); DataTable dC = new DataTable(); dA.Fill(dC); comboBoxDC.DataSource = dC; comboBoxDC.DisplayMember = "DC"; string GetConn2 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = c:\\Data\\Db\\Comp.mdb"; string queryString2 = "SELECT DISTINCT PL FROM Comp"; OleDbDataAdapter dA2 = new OleDbDataAdapter(queryString2, GetConn2); DataTable pL = new DataTable(); dA2.Fill(pL); comboBoxPL.DataSource = pL; comboBoxPL.DisplayMember = "PL"; } I am having issues here being that I cannot make the selected item into a string: object da = comboBoxDC.SelectedItem; object pr = comboBoxPL.SelectedItem; Console.WriteLine(da.ToString()); Console.WriteLine(da); Console.WriteLine(pr); //Connection... var list = new List<dataQuery>(); string GetConnectionString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source = c:\\Data\\Db\\Comp.mdb"; string connectionString = GetConnectionString; string queryString = "SELECT DC, PL, CompID, User, Email FROM Comp WHERE DC = \'" + da + "\' AND PL = \'" + pr + "\'"; And in order for me to query these commands I need the selected item comboBoxDC to be a string and same for comboBoxPL. ANSWER!!!!!!!: So I found this out: code: string da = comboBoxDC.Text.ToString(); string pr = comboBoxPL.Text.ToString(); Console.WriteLine(da) Console.WriteLine(pr) output is successful with text.tostring and is actually string. A: MessageBox.Show(comboBoxDC.SelectedItem.ToString()); Works fine on my WPF solutions.

Q: What was the legal basis for the federal court's nullification of the executive order banning travel? Can courts ban any executive order they feel is unconstitutional? What were the legal grounds for this decision? A: You can read the judge's order here. The first thing to note is that the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington did not "nullify" or "ban" Executive Order 13769. Instead the Court issued only a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), which only temporarily suspends the order while the case is being adjudicated. As the TRO explains, the standard for issuing a TRO requires the moving party to demonstrate the following: (1) that he is likely to succeed on the merits, (2) that he is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief (3) that the balance of equities tips in his favor (4) that an injunction is in the public interest Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, inc. 555 U.S. 7, at 20 (2008). In this case, Judge Robart found that all four factors fell in plaintiff's favor, requiring him to issue a temporary restraining order. Note that TRO's are generally issued very early in the litigation process, before a full hearing is conducted. Judges therefore usually do not go into detail discussing the merits of each party's legal arguments, as they are pressed for time. The state of Washington argued that the President exceeded his statutory authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act, and violated the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution when issuing his order. Though Judge Robart found that Washington was likely to suceed on the merits of these arguments, he did not offer a detailed explanation as to why. For that, you are probably going to have to wait until either a preliminary injunction or the final judgment on the merits is issued.

Adapted from Skill: 40 Principles that Surgeons, Athletes, and Other Elite Performers Use to Achieve Mastery. Don’t Fall for the Prodigy Myth Too often it’s believed that naturally gifted people can effortlessly do things that others will never be able to do. But talent in any field is honed through specific regimens, like persistent training and study. Remember that talent is not bestowed — it’s acquired. Always Carry a Notebook High-level performers keep a performance journal. They write and reflect. Get a journal and write your results from today, your ideas for tomorrow, and your goals for next week. Reverse Engineer Your Mentor Identify the heroes or mentors who have inspired you, and watch them closely: study their preparation, their work ethic, their leadership skills, and how they respond to pressure. Do not passively observe them. Take command and immerse yourself in their excellence. Let Go of Ego Self-critique is difficult but essential. People who pay deeper attention to an error learn significantly more than those who don’t. Address mistakes immediately, and take them seriously but never personally. Isolate the Sweet Spot You reach the sweet spot when you put yourself at the edge of your ability, which is where you learn the best and the quickest. The sweet spot is difficult, elicits frustration, creates alertness to errors, forces a struggle, and requires full engagement. Push to find your personal sweet spot.

Chest physiotherapy effectiveness to reduce hospitalization and mechanical ventilation length of stay, pulmonary infection rate and mortality in ICU patients. Although physiotherapy is an integral part of the multiprofessional team in most ICUs there is only limited evidence concerning the effectiveness of its procedures. The objectives of this study were to verify if physiotherapy care provided within 24 h/day for hospitalized patients in the ICU reduce the length of stay, mechanical ventilation support, pulmonary infection and mortality compared to a physiotherapy care provided within 6 h/day. A cohort study was designed to assess differences between one hospital where patients were given physiotherapy care for 24 h/day and another hospital with only 6 h/day. We considered the following as outcome measurements: clinical diagnosis, medication in use, presence of associated diseases, APACHE II and SOFA scores, ICU and mechanical ventilation length of stay, development of pulmonary infections and survival. One hundred and forty-six patients were enrolled. Patients admitted in the service A presented a lower length of stay in mechanical ventilation (p < 0.0001), ICU stay (p = 0.0003), respiratory infections (p = 0.0043) than patients admitted in service B. No difference was found for APACHE II score (p = 0.8) and SOFA scores (p = 0.2) between groups. The mortality risk was OR 1.3 (1.01-2.33) (p = 0.04) for patients in the service B. The presence of a physiotherapist in the intensive care unit contributes decisively to the early recovery of the patient, reducing mechanical ventilation support need, number of hospitalization days, incidence of respiratory infection and risk of mortality.

Q: Qt5 C++ Application Crashes for unknown reasons I am really struggling with that strange bug for some time. My application crashes even before widgets are shown (but window itself is shown). Here is my code: main.cpp #include "mainwindow.h" #include <QApplication> #include <QTimer> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { QApplication a(argc, argv); MainWindow w; w.setWindowTitle("Snake"); w.resize(500, 500); w.show(); QTimer* timer = new QTimer(); while(!w.checkCollision()) { if(timer -> isActive() == false) { w.play(); timer -> start(1); } } return a.exec(); } mainwindow.h #ifndef MAINWINDOW_H #define MAINWINDOW_H #include <QMainWindow> #include <QPainter> #include <QKeyEvent> #include <QDebug> #include <snakeclass.h> namespace Ui { class MainWindow; } class MainWindow : public QMainWindow { Q_OBJECT public: explicit MainWindow(QWidget *parent = 0); Snake snake; void paintEvent(QPaintEvent*); void keyEvent(QKeyEvent* keyevent); void move(); bool checkCollision(); void play(); ~MainWindow(); private: Ui::MainWindow *ui; }; #endif // MAINWINDOW_H mainwindow.cpp #include "mainwindow.h" #include "ui_mainwindow.h" #include <QPainter> #include <QPainterPath> #include <QKeyEvent> MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) : QMainWindow(parent), ui(new Ui::MainWindow) { } void MainWindow::paintEvent(QPaintEvent*) { QPainter painter(this); // Draw black background. painter.drawRect(0, 0, 500, 500); painter.fillRect(0, 0, 500, 500, Qt::black); for(unsigned int i = 0; i < snake.getLength(); i++) { // Draw green snake's body. painter.setPen(Qt::green); painter.setBrush(Qt::green); // If i = 0, so if we are drawing snake's head. if(i == 0) { // Draw red head. painter.setPen(Qt::red); painter.setBrush(Qt::red); } painter.drawEllipse((snake.getDot(i)).x, (snake.getDot(i)).y, 10, 10); } } void MainWindow::keyEvent(QKeyEvent* keyevent) { if(keyevent -> key() == Qt::Key_Left) { if(snake.getDirection() != Snake::Direction::RIGHT) { snake.setDirection(Snake::Direction::LEFT); } } else if(keyevent -> key() == Qt::Key_Right) { if(snake.getDirection() != Snake::Direction::LEFT) { snake.setDirection(Snake::Direction::RIGHT); } } else if(keyevent -> key() == Qt::Key_Up) { if(snake.getDirection() != Snake::Direction::DOWN) { snake.setDirection(Snake::Direction::UP); } } else if(keyevent -> key() == Qt::Key_Down) { if(snake.getDirection() != Snake::Direction::UP) { snake.setDirection(Snake::Direction::DOWN); } } } void MainWindow::move() { for(unsigned int i = snake.getLength(); i > 0; i--) { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(i - 1)).x, (snake.getDot(i - 1)).y, i, (snake.getDot(i - 1)).direction); } if(snake.getDirection() == Snake::Direction::UP) { if(int(snake.getDot(0).y - 10) < 0) { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(0)).x, 500, 0, snake.getDirection()); } else { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(0)).x, (snake.getDot(0)).y - 10, 0, snake.getDirection()); } } else if(snake.getDirection() == Snake::Direction::DOWN) { if(((snake.getDot(0)).y + 10) > 490) { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(0)).x, 0, 0, snake.getDirection()); } else { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(0)).x, (snake.getDot(0)).y + 10, 0, snake.getDirection()); } } else if(snake.getDirection() == Snake::Direction::RIGHT) { if(((snake.getDot(0)).x + 10) > 490) { snake.editDot(0, (snake.getDot(0)).y, 0, snake.getDirection()); } else { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(0)).x + 10, (snake.getDot(0)).y, 0, snake.getDirection()); } } else if(snake.getDirection() == Snake::Direction::LEFT) { if((int((snake.getDot(0)).x) - 10) < 0) { snake.editDot(500, (snake.getDot(0)).y, 0, snake.getDirection()); } else { snake.editDot((snake.getDot(0)).x - 10, (snake.getDot(0)).y, 0, snake.getDirection()); } } } bool MainWindow::checkCollision() { for(unsigned int i = 0; i < snake.getLength(); i++) { for(unsigned int j = 0; j < snake.getLength(); j++) { if((i != j) && ((snake.getDot(i)).x == (snake.getDot(j)).x) && ((snake.getDot(i)).y == (snake.getDot(j)).y)) { return true; } } } return false; } void MainWindow::play() { //move(); update(); } MainWindow::~MainWindow() { delete ui; } snakeclass.h #ifndef SNAKECLASS #define SNAKECLASS #include <vector> class Snake { public: enum class Direction { LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN }; // Dot is a part of the snake. struct dot { unsigned int x; unsigned int y; // Number of the dot (head is 0). unsigned int dotNumber; // Direction of the particular dot. Direction direction; }; unsigned int getLength(); unsigned int getScore(); unsigned int getSpeed(); Direction getDirection(); dot getDot(unsigned int dotNumber); void setLength(unsigned int length); void setScore(unsigned int score); void setSpeed(unsigned int speed); void setDirection(Direction direction); // Returns new dot's dotNumber. unsigned int newDot(); void editDot(unsigned int x, unsigned int y, unsigned int dotNumber, Direction direction); private: unsigned int length = 3; unsigned int score = 0; unsigned int speed = 1; Direction direction = Direction::RIGHT; std::vector <dot> dots = {dot {250, 250, 0, Direction::RIGHT}, dot {240, 250, 1, Direction::RIGHT}, dot {230, 250, 2, Direction::RIGHT}}; }; #endif // SNAKECLASS snakeclass.cpp #include "snakeclass.h" unsigned int Snake::getLength() { return length; } unsigned int Snake::getScore() { return score; } unsigned int Snake::getSpeed() { return speed; } Snake::Direction Snake::getDirection() { return direction; } Snake::dot Snake::getDot(unsigned int dotNumber) { return dots.at(dotNumber); } void Snake::setLength(unsigned int length) { this -> length = length; } void Snake::setScore(unsigned int score) { this -> score = score; } void Snake::setSpeed(unsigned int speed) { this -> speed = speed; } void Snake::setDirection(Snake::Direction direction) { this -> direction = direction; } unsigned int Snake::newDot() { dot newDot; newDot.dotNumber = dots.size(); dots.push_back(newDot); length ++; return newDot.dotNumber; } void Snake::editDot(unsigned int x, unsigned int y, unsigned int dotNumber, Snake::Direction direction) { for(unsigned int i = 0; i < dots.size(); i++) { if((dots.at(i)).dotNumber == dotNumber) { dots.at(i).x = x; dots.at(i).y = y; dots.at(i).direction = direction; } } } I am new to Qt5 and this is my first project involving painter and keyboard events. Could you help me to figure out what the problem in the code above is? Thank you for all the answers! A: My application crashes even before widgets are shown (but window itself is shown). It doesn't crash. In main.cpp there is an infinite loop in which some results are expected, namely !w.checkCollision(), but since there is no event loop running in main.cpp nothing happens and the programs hangs there waiting in vain. As an answer to your question, in order to see the widgets add QApplication::processEvents(); in the following way: while(!w.checkCollision()) { QApplication::processEvents(); if(timer -> isActive() == false) { w.play(); timer -> start(1); } } However, with this approach you will face further problems. So I would strongly advise you to take a look at the examples in the Qt Creator in order to see which is the correct way of using the library as thought by the Qt developers.

Short Stories I find short stories the perfect format to explore an idea or vignette in more depth. The following have been published so far: My most recent and favourite story (so far!) is “The Prisoner of Dorian Gray”, a dark, scientific take on the Oscar Wilde fable, based on an idea first developed with The Mechanisms. It was published on The Mechanisms website in November 2016: “Orpheus, Dionysus, Muriatic Acid and the Strange Whirring Thing” was written alongside The Mechanisms’ Dieselpunk Noir album Ulysses Dies at Dawn, set in a world where the Greek myths are played out against the backdrop of a dystopian mechanised city where death is both illegal and impossible. It was first published in the “Fiction” section of the Mechanisms website in 2013, and was featured as the monthly short story on the Stand Up Tragedywebsite in November 2014. “Orpheus and Narcissus go on a Trip to the Seaside” is a prequel to the previous story, exploring the friendship between Orpheus and Narcissus and delving deeper into Narcissus’ character. It was published in the “Fiction” section of the Mechanisms website in 2014 and acted as the inspiration for the song “Narcissus Under the Knife“. “The Girl in the Dress“, a tale of lost chances and missed connections surrounding a mysterious girl in Victorian dress spotted every morning from the bus, was aired as a dramatic reading as part of Brum Radio’s Tall Tales series in 2016, and can be listened to in podcast form here:

Nonadiabatic scattering of NO off Au3 clusters: A simple and robust diabatic state manifold generation method for multiconfigurational wavefunctions. The presence of nonadiabatic effects during the interaction of small molecules with metals has been observed experimentally for the last decades. Specially remarkable are the effects found for NO/Au, where experiments have suggested the presence of very strong vibronic coupling during the molecular scattering. However, the accurate inclusion of the nonadiabatic effects in periodic boundary conditions (PBC) theoretical methods remain an unapproachable challenge. Here, aiming to give some theoretical insight to the strong vibronic coupling, we have adopted a pragmatic point of view, taking use of an auxiliary simplified system, NO/Au3 . We show the importance of nonadiabatic coupling, during the scattering of NO from a Au3 cluster, using a diabatic representation of 12 electronic states of the system, including a few charge-transfer states. Our diabatic representation is obtained by rotating the orbital and configuration interaction (CI) vectors of a restricted active space (RAS) wavefunction. We present a strategy for extracting the best effective manifold of states relevant to the system, below some prescribed energy, directly from the RAS CI vectors. This scheme is able to disentangle a large dense manifold of adiabatic states with strong coupling and crossings. This approach is also shown to work for multireference configuration interaction (MRCI). By performing quantum propagations, we observed an increase in vibrational redistribution with increasing initial vibrational or translational energies. We suggest that these nonadiabatic effects should also be present at smaller energies in larger clusters. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

The protection ring will protect its owner from physical hazards. External and direct threats to our well-being arise much more often than magical ones. The ring will warn the owner about the imminent danger in time, which will make it possible to turn in time from the fatal road. It is most advisable to use this ring during business trips and travels. Wear the ring should be on the middle finger of his left hand. In addition, it provides a harmonious combination of energy flows with a ring from the evil eye.

Pages Wednesday, June 23, 2010 On the up... Hello all! I am happy to write here today and tell you that I am feeling much much better! The best part is I know that I will just keep feeling better and better from here on out! So happy. I think it took a few days for the antibiotics to "work" in my system because come Monday my "rash" was so much better. I still had leg pain, but it wasn't as severe and yesterday there was no pain at all. Same today. So the lymph nodes have stopped acting up, thank goodness. Whew! I think I nipped it in the bud. I will still be taking the antibiotics until Saturday. The only side effect I'm dealing with now is the neuropathy. Ugh. It's in my hands and feet, definitely worse than the last round, but it does come and go. I'm still taking my B6 vitamins (ok, I missed a couple days...maybe that's why it's back) but I will be taking it from here on out for sure! I got my PET scan scheduled for July 12th. That's a big day folks. The verdict will be delivered then on the 15th. I'm nervous already. I just want to know...but soon I will. I have a lot of fans out there that have good gut feelings that it's gone and I won't need a transplant. My gut is on the fence as of now. I usually don't get "feelings" this far out either so we'll see what my gut tells me when it gets closer to the day. :) Hey, it is what it is. I got to spend the last few days with my family, my brother included! It was great fun. His dog Tillman got to meet my dogs Heidi and Frank today too and that was a hoot. Frank and the T-man got along great. My dogs are woooooorn out. I am going back to work tomorrow! Mentally I'm ready but I think my body will take a couple days to get used to working again, but there's people there at work to help me. I'm sure I will be fine. I can't sit around here any longer either. It's time. I need to start saving for my well deserved vacation too!! Hee hee hee. So that my friends is the latest. It's hotter than heck here, N. Arizona is in flames, a restaurant is serving Lion burgers here in Mesa, but we won today in the FIFA cup! Woo hoo! I will finally include pictures of my final day of chemo...enjoy!!!

[Psychopharmacotherapy of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder]. Based on literature data and own results, the author presents a general strategy, a methodology and methods of treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with some groups of psychopharmacological drugs. Peculiarities of the treatment of acute reaction to stress and PTSD are noted. There are differences in effectiveness of psychopharmacotherapy of these states: positive results in the therapy of acute reaction to stress are achieved in 90% and in that of PTSD--in 40-60%. Recommendations for the treatment of these states are presented.

c Let c(z) = z - 15. Suppose 0 = 4*q + 5*s - 244, 3*q + 0*q - 160 = 2*s. Suppose 4*p = 8*p - q. Let m be c(p). Are 2/17 and m equal? False Suppose 12*u = -u - 13. Let y be ((-2092)/700 + 3)/u. Is -1 > y? False Let x = 0.315 - 0.26. Let g = -2.555 + x. Is -0.1 bigger than g? True Let l = 2 - -2. Let z(g) = g - 3. Let h be z(l). Let n = 7 + -5. Which is smaller: n or h? h Let d = -8213/2185 - -57/115. Which is bigger: -2 or d? -2 Suppose 82*b - 92*b - 200 = 0. Which is smaller: -141/7 or b? -141/7 Let m = -207 - -200. Are 4 and m unequal? True Let y(a) = a + 6. Let f be y(-4). Let z(c) = -5*c + 4. Let r be z(f). Do -5 and r have the same value? False Suppose -7*a = -5*a - 6. Let f be (-2)/6 - 5/3. Let j be (2/(-3))/(f/6). Which is smaller: a or j? j Let j be (1715/(-45))/(-7) - 6. Let d = 2/9 + j. Suppose 2*m = 4*m. Is m smaller than d? False Let d = 1463471/233 + -6281. Are d and 1 unequal? True Let h = 3.4 - -12.6. Let f = -17.1 + h. Let o = -0.1 - f. Is -4 smaller than o? True Let v be ((-190)/20 - -10)*-10. Does -67 = v? False Let q = -1.72 + 76.72. Let p = q + -74.9. Which is smaller: p or 3/5? p Let o = 184 - 8282/45. Which is bigger: o or 0? 0 Let j(b) = b**3 + 12*b**2 - 7*b + 99. Let d be j(-14). Is -196 bigger than d? False Let g = -1824.3 - -1825. Let u be (-13)/(-20) - (-2)/(-8). Which is smaller: g or u? u Suppose -w + d = 5*d - 11, 5*d + 2 = 4*w. Is w at least 9? False Let d be (2/((-72)/(-2)))/(114/(-57912)). Which is smaller: d or -29? -29 Suppose 91 = -7*a + 14*a. Which is smaller: -3 or a? -3 Let y = 2/2483 - -4776/235885. Let z = -0.3 + 0.2. Is y >= z? True Suppose 3*r + 21 + 12 = 0. Suppose -62 = 6*g - 2*h, -28 = 4*g + 3*h + 9. Which is greater: g or r? g Let b(m) = 2*m + 5. Let h(u) = -2*u - 5. Let o(r) = 6*b(r) + 7*h(r). Let i be o(-3). Is 1 >= i? True Let p(a) = 20*a**2 + a + 1. Let b be p(-1). Suppose 7*r + b = 12*r. Suppose 5 = r*u + 9. Is 3/7 bigger than u? True Let s be 1*-2*(-5 + 6 + -2). Suppose s*b - 46 = 3*n, -n - 2 = -b + 12. Which is smaller: -19 or n? -19 Let w = 0 + 0.1. Let m = w + 0. Let r = 3743 - 26205/7. Is r <= m? True Let v = -20.94 + 21. Let d = -1177/3 - -389. Let c = -3 - d. Which is bigger: v or c? c Let r = 42 - 41. Let h = 10774/27 - 399. Is h > r? False Let d = -12.07 + 0.07. Let h = -10.75 + -0.25. Let s = d - h. Which is smaller: 0.09 or s? s Let b be (-1027)/2 - (-1 + 6/12). Which is smaller: b or -514? -514 Let d(q) = -5*q - 79. Let p be d(-16). Which is smaller: 77 or p? p Let g be 2/12 + 1545/450. Is 4 >= g? True Let n = -198 + 198. Is 12/73 bigger than n? True Let i(v) = -v**2 + v + 2. Let j be i(-3). Let t be 11/(-55) + (-52)/j. Let f = -1 - 1. Which is greater: f or t? t Let o = 148 - 23. Is o less than 127? True Suppose 2*q + 12 = -3*u, 9 - 1 = -4*q + 2*u. Do q and -42 have the same value? False Suppose -68 = 4*i - 200. Which is bigger: 31 or i? i Let f = -2855 - -334037/117. Let w = -84829/397215 + 26/485. Let u = f + w. Which is greater: 2/5 or u? 2/5 Suppose 4*v + 7673 = -3*t, 3*v + 9597 = -2*v + 2*t. Is -1918 equal to v? False Let o = -67 + 71. Let m be (2 - (-70)/(-32))/((-1)/o). Do m and 2 have different values? True Suppose 32*o - 29*o - 90 = 0. Which is smaller: 27 or o? 27 Let m be 26/((3 - 0) + 18). Let u = m + -293/84. Is u greater than -1? False Let i = 237.2 + -237. Is 19 greater than or equal to i? True Let v = 9 - 9.04. Let l = -0.057 - 0.003. Let t = l + v. Which is greater: -2/3 or t? t Suppose 9 = -2*v + v. Let h = -99 - -98. Let o be h - 3*6/v. Which is greater: -2/5 or o? o Let z = -5 - -2. Let f = 1818164795/623 - 2918401. Let x = -1/89 - f. Which is bigger: z or x? x Suppose -6*w + 603 = -8*w + 5*t, -2*t = -4*w - 1230. Which is bigger: -311 or w? w Let h(a) be the second derivative of -7*a**3/6 - a**2/2 + 8*a. Let c(t) = t - 1. Let o(i) = 6*c(i) + h(i). Let l be o(0). Which is bigger: -1 or l? -1 Suppose 0*u + 10*u - 630 = 0. Suppose 5*z - u = -8*v + 11*v, -v - z - 13 = 0. Is v smaller than -13? True Suppose 11 = -27*y + 11. Which is smaller: -5 or y? -5 Let r = 466 - 493.9. Let j = -28 - r. Is 3.2 smaller than j? False Let l = -764 - -740. Is 3 not equal to l? True Suppose 5*b - 2 + 12 = 0. Let s be 5 + -3*(-6)/9. Let t be (-6)/14 - 2/s. Which is smaller: b or t? b Suppose -3*a - 3*q - 6 = 0, q = 4*a - q + 8. Let r be 0/(a - (3 - 3)). Let s(v) = -v**2 + v + 1. Let m be s(2). Which is bigger: m or r? r Let a be (143/273*7)/((-3)/(-9)). Let p = -4 - 0. Let j(i) = 2*i**2 + 4*i - 4. Let d be j(p). Is d > a? True Let o be (-225)/(-7) - (-12)/(-70)*-5. Is o at most 38? True Let n(s) be the second derivative of -3*s**5/20 - s**4 + s**3/3 + 4*s**2 - 27*s. Let u be n(-4). Is 1/36 at most u? False Let v(p) = 20*p**2 + 2*p + 2. Let d be v(-2). Let a = d - -9. Let s = 695/8 - a. Which is smaller: 1 or s? s Let b = -63.2 - -102. Let t = b + -39. Is 6/7 less than t? False Let n = 0.17 + 6.83. Let d = -30 - -22. Let y = n + d. Which is greater: -0.08 or y? -0.08 Let f(g) = 6*g - 24. Let a be f(4). Suppose a = -4*j - 48 - 28. Are j and -18 non-equal? True Let c = 27326 + -55651/2. Do c and -501 have the same value? False Let a = 0.64 - 0.74. Let m = -3.4 - -2.3. Let k = m - a. Is 1.1 smaller than k? False Suppose 25*a + 108 = 21*a. Let q be 1/((a + -3)*5/2). Which is bigger: q or 1? 1 Let y(p) = 278*p + 410. Let q be y(-4). Are -702 and q nonequal? False Let t(u) = u**3 + 6*u**2 + 2*u + 3. Let x be t(-2). Let n be x/(-12)*3/(105/(-2)). Which is bigger: n or -0.1? n Let b be 0 - (-39)/(-15) - -3. Suppose 2*w = 6 - 8. Let k be 2 - (-2 + (-4)/w). Do b and k have different values? True Suppose -5*s + 1 = -4*s, 164 = 4*q + 4*s. Let b(k) = -k**3 + k**2 - k + 2. Let i be b(-3). Which is smaller: i or q? q Suppose -4*m = -9*m - 95. Let a = m + 18. Is -1 at least as big as a? True Let v(y) = -25*y - 74. Let z be v(-3). Is -2/175 != z? True Let l be -6 + 0 + (-1392)/(-234). Are l and 0 nonequal? True Suppose -2*b - 20*p - 344 = -17*p, -5*b - 883 = -4*p. Which is smaller: b or -176? -176 Let q be 3/(-2)*(-20)/3. Suppose 0 = -4*h - 6 - q. Which is smaller: h or -5? -5 Suppose -8*p + 3*p = -10, 1 = -o + p. Let k be (42/63)/(o/(-3)). Is -4 less than or equal to k? True Suppose t - 6*t = 0. Suppose -d + 3 = -3. Suppose 0 = -2*a - 4*j - 2, t = -d*a + a - 2*j + 3. Which is smaller: 0.09 or a? 0.09 Let p = 38 + -36. Let t be p*((-4)/20)/((-6)/(-15)). Is t at most -57? False Let t(m) = -4*m - 2 - 4*m + m**2 + 6*m**2 + m**3. Let h be t(-8). Which is smaller: -10/7 or h? h Let a = -542 - -235. Which is bigger: a or -306? -306 Let u be 192/(-88) - (-2)/1. Let k = 403 - 424. Which is greater: k or u? u Suppose 32*b - 33*b = -3. Suppose w + 9 - b = 0. Which is smaller: -4 or w? w Suppose -r - 16 = -2*l, 0 = -4*r + 4*l - 5*l - 28. Let t be 152/(-36) + 2/9. Let m be -3 + (-2)/2*t. Is m <= r? False Let b(t) = t**3 - t**2 + 29. Let v be 1/(-2)*(1 - 1). Let p be b(v). Which is smaller: 27 or p? 27 Suppose -2*b + 2 = -2. Let f be (-1 - 1)*b/12. Let i = -177 - -171. Which is smaller: f or i? i Let u(h) = -h**2 - 7*h - 2. Let q be u(-3). Suppose 6*p - q*p = 120. Let c be (6/15)/(48/p). Do c and 0 have the same value? False Let r = -474382/1507 - -3462/11. Let m = r + -1193/685. Let z = -2 - -1. Which is smaller: z or m? m Suppose 3*j = -5*o - 23203, -38701 = 5*j - 0*j + o. Let a = j + 101450/13. Let i = 63 - a. Is 0 greater than i? False Let g = -22 + 0. Suppose 50 = -0*h - 3*h + 4*n, 0 = -5*h + 3*n - 98. Are h and g equal? True Let h be (-14)/21*3*(-1)/(-2). Let x = 0.07 - -1.43. Let r = -2 + x. Which is greater: h or r? r Let g(j) = -j**3 + 8*j**2 + 31*j + 27. Let q be g(11). Let a be 0*(0 + (-2)/(-4)). Suppose -4*r - 15 = -q*m, a*m + m + 4*r + 21 = 0. Which is smaller: -2 or m? -2 Suppose 4*q + 930 = -6*q. Is -92 bigger than q? True Let a be 0 - (-25)/110*8/(-5). Which is greater: a or -0.1? -0.1 Let j be ((-24)/(-10))/((-3)/10). Suppose 29 = 3*o + 3*u - 2*u, -2*u = -2*o + 22. Let x = j + o. Is x at most as big as 3/2? False Let j be 5/2 - (-1)/(-2). Let f = -1980 - -1981. Which is greater: j or f? j Let k = -7.827 + -0.053. Let a = k + -0.12. Let r = -7.9 - a. Is r bigger than 2? False Suppose -x + 4 = 0, k + 5*x = 34 - 9. Suppose 3*r = k*r + 14. Let u = -6 + 5. Which is greater: r or u? u Let j(y) = 8*

Ensemble Studio Theatre The Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) is a non-profit membership-based developmental theatre located in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. It has a dual mission of nurturing individual theatre artists and developing new American plays. Overview The Ensemble Studio Theatre — commonly known as “EST”— was founded in 1968 by Curt Dempster on the belief that "extraordinary support yields extraordinary work". EST are an ever-expanding group of artists committed to the discovery and nurturing of new voices and the continued support and growth of artists throughout their creative lives. The ensemble works together repeatedly over time to develop and produce new plays. With 589 ensemble artists concentrated mainly in New York City, EST has been under the artistic direction of William Carden since 2007. EST fosters the creation of new works in part by hosting three groups of playwrights: Youngblood, EST's collective of emerging professional playwrights under the age of 30; the EST Playwrights Unit, a diverse group of playwrights that comprises both EST members and non-members; and Going to the River, a group of women playwrights of color with distinct and powerful voices. EST also cultivates the development of plays during a three-week annual tenure as the resident theater company of the prestigious Southampton Writers Conference, in partnership with the SUNY Stony Brook's MFA summer playwriting program. The company received two 2013 Drama Desk Award nominations for Finks by Joe Gilford and one 2014 Drama Desk nomination for Bobby Moreno in Year Of The Rooster by Eric Dufault, who won the 2014 NY Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for a new playwright debut. Hand To God, originating at EST, was nominated for five Tony Awards for its Broadway run, and in 2015 EST received a special Drama Desk Award for its “unwavering commitment to producing new works” at the end of May. EST has presented its new, short play festival, the Marathon of One-Act Plays, annually for over thirty years, and it is a public forum for new works by both well-established and up-and-coming writers. The Marathon has been credited for reviving the one-act play form, inspiring many similar festivals across the country. Past playwrights include Horton Foote, Tina Howe, David Mamet, Shirley Lauro, Jaquelyn Reingold, and José Rivera. Since 1968, EST has produced over 6,000 new works and has helped launch the careers of many recognized playwrights, actors and directors. It produces approximately 150 projects each year, ranging from fully produced mainstage productions to a variety of in-progress workshops and readings. Membership EST has a membership of over 600 theatre artists, including playwrights, directors, actors, designers and managers. Notable EST Member Artists David Auburn Annie Baker Bob Balaban Lewis Black Geneva Carr Catherine Curtin Dane DeHaan Danny DeVito Lucy DeVito Christopher Durang John Guare William Jackson Harper Lucas Hnath Tina Howe William H. Macy David Mamet Gates McFadden Qui Nguyen Sarah Jessica Parker Austin Pendleton José Rivera John Patrick Shanley Grant Shaud Shel Silverstein Lois Smith Jon Voight Wendy Wasserstein Claudia Weill Ming Na Wen Leah Nanako Winkler Jerry Zaks Anna Ziegler EST Youngblood Youngblood is Ensemble Studio Theatre's OBIE-winning collective of emerging professional playwrights under the age of 30. Founded in 1993, Youngblood serves as a creative home for the next generation of theater artists. Youngblood provides artistic guidance, peer support, regular feedback and a fertile production environment which allows EST member playwrights to hone their skills and explore their craft. The group also provides exposure to the public and the press, professional outreach to the industry, and opportunities for production and publication. Plays by current and former Youngblood playwrights have been performed at The Royal Court Theatre, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Mark Taper Forum, the Vineyard Theater, the Atlantic Theater Company and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, including award winners such as Annie Baker's The Aliens and Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, and have been adapted by film and television companies, including alumni Lucy Alibar's Juicy and Delicious which was adapted into the Cannes Caméra d'Or-winning film Beasts of The Southern Wild. Youngblood is currently run by Co-Artistic Directors Graeme Gillis and RJ Tolan. Notable Youngblood Alumni Robert Askins Annie Baker Amy Herzog Mike Lew Qui Nguyen Christopher Shinn Lucy Thurber Leah Nanako Winkler Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project The Ensemble Studio Theatre/The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project is an initiative designed to stimulate artists to create credible and compelling work exploring the worlds of science and technology and to challenge the existing stereotypes of scientists and engineers in the popular imagination. The partnership between the Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is the creative engine behind over 200 commissioned new American plays that challenge and broaden the public's understanding of science and technology and their impact in our lives. Beyond New York, the program now has a nationwide reach. It supports development and production of new plays in over 60 theatres across the country through a combination of seed grants and production incentives. These initiatives provide an extended life for EST/Sloan plays in subsequent regional productions, and the seed grants provide a broader base of artistic opportunity for communities outside of New York, allowing the program to cast a wider net for new work. Over the last 18 years, the EST/Sloan Project's reputation has been enhanced by the critically acclaimed productions presented on the theatre's Mainstage every season under the banner of the EST/Sloan Project, including Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, which later went on to complete a successful run on London's West End starring Nicole Kidman, as well as productions like Isaac's Eye by Lucas Hnath, End Days and Informed Consent by Deb Laufer, Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen, and Relativity by Cassandra Medley. References External links Official website Ensemble Studio Theatre at NYC-Arts.org Ensemble Studio Theatre at NYTheatre.com Category:Theatres in Manhattan Category:Off-Off-Broadway Category:Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan ja:ヴィニヤード・シアター

Austin, Texas -- A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption - making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state's first indicted governor in nearly a century. A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised to cancel $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit run by the office of Travis County Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Lehmberg, a Democrat, was convicted of drunken driving, but refused Perry's calls to resign. "The veto in question was made in accordance with the veto authority afforded to every governor under the Texas Constitution," she said. "We will continue to aggressively defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action, and believe we will ultimately prevail." The unit Lehmberg oversees investigates statewide allegations of corruption and political wrongdoing. It led the investigation against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican who in 2010 was convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for taking part in a scheme to influence elections in his home state - convictions later vacated by an appeals court. Several top aides to the Republican governor appeared before grand jurors in Austin. Perry himself did not testify. Perry was indicted on charges of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony with potential punishments of five to 99 years in prison, and coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 10 years. No one disputes that Perry is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature. But the left-leaning Texans for Public Justice government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint accusing the governor of coercion because he threatened to use his veto before actually doing so in an attempt to pressure Lehmberg to quit. "We're pleased that the grand jury determined that the governor's bullying crossed the line into illegal behavior," said Craig McDonald, executive director of Texans for Public Justice. "The complaint had merit, serious laws were potentially broken."