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the first derivative of c(k). What is d(w)? 1 Let l(y) be the third derivative of y**8/6720 + y**7/840 - y**6/180 + y**5/40 + y**4/8 - 2*y**2. Let g(d) be the second derivative of l(d). What is g(-4)? 3 Suppose 0 = 2*k + 3*y - 0*y, 2*y = -5*k + 22. Let a(w) = w**3 - 5*w**2 - 7*w + 9. What is a(k)? 3 Let i(l) = -11*l + 7. Let j(a) = -10*a + 6. Let u(p) = -5*i(p) + 6*j(p). Let r = 2 + -3. Calculate u(r). 6 Suppose 4*b - 20 = -d, d - 4 + 2 = -b. Let y(m) = -5*m - 6. Let v(p) = 4*p + 7. Let t(w) = -6*v(w) - 5*y(w). What is t(b)? -6 Let a(k) = -7*k + 1. Suppose -5*q = -0 + 5. Determine a(q). 8 Suppose -10 - 6 = -4*c. Let i(n) = n**3 - 4*n**2 + 3*n - 6. Determine i(c). 6 Let g(x) = -x**2 + 3*x. Let k(o) = -o + 3 - 3 - 1. Let b be k(-5). Calculate g(b). -4 Let d(l) be the first derivative of 2*l**2 + 4*l - 16. Let k(r) = 2*r**3 + 4*r**2 + 3*r + 2. Let n be k(-2). Calculate d(n). -12 Let b = -3 - -3. Let h(w) be the third derivative of w**7/840 - w**6/360 - w**4/4 + w**3/3 + 2*w**2. Let g(v) be the first derivative of h(v). Determine g(b). -6 Let w be 4/6 + 7/3. Suppose 4*q = -2*b + 18, -6*b + b + 27 = q. Let c(m) = -1 - 3 + b - 2*m. Give c(w). -5 Let m(b) = b**3 - 2*b**2 - b - 3. Suppose -2*c + c = -3. Calculate m(c). 3 Let r(v) = -31*v - 47. Let t(q) = 11*q + 16. Let w(u) = -6*r(u) - 17*t(u). Determine w(0). 10 Let f(x) be the third derivative of x**5/60 + 5*x**4/12 - 7*x**3/6 - 7*x**2. Determine f(-11). 4 Let n(i) = 7*i**3 + i**2 + 2*i + 1. Suppose 0 = 3*p - 3, p = 4*u - 5*u. Calculate n(u). -7 Let s(i) = -8*i - 5. Let w(m) = -9*m - 6. Let t(v) = -7*s(v) + 6*w(v). Calculate t(-3). -7 Let c = 2 - 4. Let k(q) = -q**2 + 1. What is k(c)? -3 Suppose 2*w + 5 = -9. Let o(i) = i**2 + 2*i - 6. Let n be o(-5). Let y be 1 - 3 - (w + n). Let p(z) = -z - 5. Give p(y). -1 Let j(y) = 41*y**2 - 4*y - 40*y**2 - y + 4. What is j(3)? -2 Let b(f) = -f**2 - 4*f. Let m = 22 + -23. Let a be (2/m)/((-6)/(-9)). Determine b(a). 3 Let z(n) be the third derivative of n**5/60 + n**4/3 - n**3/3 + 16*n**2. Calculate z(-8). -2 Let b be 1/(-1)*9/(-1). Suppose 2*g - 3 = l, g + 3*l + 0*l = -b. Let w(n) = n + 6. Determine w(g). 6 Let c(q) = -q**3 + 3. Let h be c(0). Let b(f) = 2*f**2 - h*f**2 + 0*f + 4*f. Let t = -43 - -46. Determine b(t). 3 Let s(n) = 3*n - 3. Suppose -4 = o - 2*j + 1, -13 = -3*o - j. Calculate s(o). 6 Let u(a) = a**2 - 4*a - 3. Let j(i) be the first derivative of 3*i**2/2 - 4*i - 3. Let x be j(3). Calculate u(x). 2 Let k(t) be the second derivative of t**5/10 - t**4/4 + t**3/3 - t**2/2 - 4*t. Determine k(2). 7 Let n(q) = q + 1. Let x be n(-1). Let z(p) be the first derivative of -1/3*p**3 - 1/2*p**2 - 4*p + 1. Give z(x). -4 Suppose 2*q - 28 = 4*a, -3*q - 4*a - 8 = -0*q. Let z(v) = -v**2 + 5*v + 2. What is z(q)? 6 Let w(m) be the second derivative of -1/4*m**4 - 1/720*m**6 - 3*m + 0*m**2 + 1/40*m**5 + 0*m**3 + 0. Let n(x) be the third derivative of w(x). Determine n(0). 3 Let h(r) = -r + 4. Let x(l) = -4*l + 31. Let t be x(9). What is h(t)? 9 Let p(f) be the third derivative of -f**5/60 + 5*f**4/24 - 5*f**3/6 + f**2. What is p(5)? -5 Let c(r) = -r - 2 + r**2 - 5 + 7*r**3 + 0*r - 12*r. Let k(g) = -3*g**3 - g**2 + 6*g + 3. Let t(b) = 4*c(b) + 9*k(b). Suppose 0 = -3*h + 4*h - 3. What is t(h)? -13 Let z(n) = -n**3 + 4*n**2 + 7*n + 1. Let q(a) = -5*a**3 + a + 1. Suppose -p = -1, -2*p = u - 0*p - 1. Let h be q(u). Suppose h*s - 10 = 15. Calculate z(s). 11 Let p(g) = 4*g**2 + g**3 + 1 + g**2 - g**2. Calculate p(-2). 9 Let d(p) = -p - 1. Let f be d(1). Let k be 4/f + 2 - -6. Let x(b) = b + 4 - k*b + 4*b. Determine x(4). 0 Let i(l) = 4 + 3 + 4*l - 3*l. Let k(z) = -3*z - 15. Let n(h) = 5*i(h) + 2*k(h). Let w = 20 + -20. Give n(w). 5 Let t(m) be the first derivative of -3*m**2 - 3 - 1/3*m**3 + m. Calculate t(-6). 1 Let x be (-3)/(-12) + 105/12. Let q(k) = -11*k**2 + 1 + 5*k**2 + x*k**2 - 2. Give q(1). 2 Let q(y) = 11*y + 1. Let r(a) = -a. Let w(g) = -q(g) - 2*r(g). Determine w(-1). 8 Let m be (-158)/(-10) - 16/20. Suppose -a - 2*a = m. Let j(w) = w**2 - 2 + w + 5 + 3*w. Give j(a). 8 Let r(o) be the second derivative of 0 + 1/120*o**6 - 1/120*o**5 + 1/3*o**3 + 0*o**2 - 4*o + 0*o**4. Let b(s) be the second derivative of r(s). Calculate b(1). 2 Suppose -5 = j - 6*j. Suppose -3*i = j - 7. Let t(v) = -v**3 - 2*v**2 - 2*v**i + 3*v**2 + 1 + 5*v**3. Determine t(1). 4 Let j(c) be the second derivative of c**5/20 - 5*c**4/12 + 5*c**2/2 - c. Let b = 90 + -86. Determine j(b). -11 Let c(x) = -x**3 - 6*x**2 + x + 12. Let v be c(-6). Let t(w) = -w**3 + 5*w**2 + 6*w - 6. Calculate t(v). -6 Let p(d) = 3*d - 3. Let l(t) = 4*t - 3. Let m(n) = -4*l(n) + 5*p(n). Determine m(5). -8 Let y = -11 + 16. Let u(w) = w + 3 + 4 + y*w + w**2. Give u(-5). 2 Let z(i) = 5*i + 3. Suppose -5*a + 4 = -3*a + 2*r, 5 = 4*a + 3*r. Let s = -3 - a. Determine z(s). -7 Let i(v) be the first derivative of -v**5/20 - v**4/2 + 4*v**2 + 6*v - 10. Let k(s) be the first derivative of i(s). What is k(-6)? 8 Let a(m) = -5*m - 2. Let n(v) = -v**3 + 9*v**2 - 9*v + 11. Let k be n(8). Suppose -6*z = -4*b - 5*z - 5, -5*z = -k*b + 9. Give a(b). 8 Let n(i) = i**3 + 4*i**2 + i - 3. Suppose 4*z - 70 = 6*z. Let m be (-2)/(-4) + z/10. What is n(m)? 3 Let w(n) = 15*n**2 + 11*n**2 - 2*n**3 + n**3 - 3*n - 20*n**2. Give w(2). 10 Let t(x) = 4*x - 39. Let u(z) = -3*z + 26. Let f(y) = -5*t(y) - 7*u(y). Determine f(0). 13 Let l(m) = -m**2 + 6. Let k be 2/9 + (-4066)/(-171). Let t = k + -24. Give l(t). 6 Let a(h) = 13*h**3 + 12*h**2 - 11*h - 11. Let u(b) = 7*b**3 + 7*b**2 - 6*b - 6. Let g(l) = -6*a(l) + 11*u(l). Give g(4). 16 Let a(j) be the second derivative of j**4/12 - 5*j**3/3 - 6*j**2 + 52*j. Determine a(11). -1 Let o(c) = -c**2 - 3*c + 5. Suppose -3*q + q = 10. What is o(q)? -5 Let x(g) = -2*g - 7. Suppose 0 = -3*a - 0*a + 24. Let o be 3/(-2)*-2 - a. Give x(o). 3 Let m(u) be the third derivative of u**4/12 - u**3/2 - 3*u**2. Let b be -3*(1 + 14/(-6)). Suppose -2*z + b*z - 8 = 0. Calculate m(z). 5 Let o(g) = g + 6. Suppose -3*y - 12 = 2*q, 4*y + 3*q = 2*q - 16. Calculate o(y). 2 Let a(m) = -m**2 + m - 1. Let z(u) = 0 + 0 + 4 - 2*u. Let i be 16/6 + 2/6. Let t be z(i). Give a(t). -7 Let t(l) = l**2 + 31*l - 27. Let i be t(-32). Let w(h) = h - 5. What is w(i)? 0 Let w be 15 - 11 - (1 + 1). Suppose -2*f + 2*b + 8 = 0, 0 = w*b + 2*b + 20. Let l(d) = 13*d**3 + d**2 + d + 1. Determine l(f). -12 Let u = -12 + 10. Let t(z) = 1 + z + 1 + z. What is t(u)? -2 Let d(g) be the second derivative of -g**4/12 - g**3 + 3*g**2 + 4*g. Let x(t) = -5*t**2 - 25*t + 25. Let w(p) = 9*d(p) - 2*x(p). Calculate w(3). 1 Let k(o) = 5*o - 3*o + 1 + 3*o. Determine k(-3). -14 Let j(b) = -b - 2. Let m be -2*(1 + (-7)/2). Suppose -m*y - 3 = 2. Calculate j(y). -1 Let g(x) be the second derivative of x**4/12 + 5*x**3/6 + 3*x**2/2 + x. Let j be -2*(-3 - -15 - 2). Let b be (j/16)/(6/24). Calculate g(b). 3 Let a(j) = -j**2 - 1. Let c be a(1). Let z(r) = -r**3 + r**2 + 2*r + 3. Give z(c). 11 Let m(g) = -g**3 - 15*g**2 - 15*g - 11. Suppose 5*t + 4*f = -50, -t + 6*t + 5*f = -45. Let b be m(t). Let c(h) = -h - 2*h - h**2 + 2*h**2 + 1. What is c(b)? 1 Suppose -4*m - 24 = -9*m - 2*q, -5*q = -2*m + 27. Let u(b) = -b + 8. Give u(m). 2 Let a = 5 + -8. Let p(q) = 2*q + 3. Calculate p(a). -3 Let y be (-2 + 4)/(2/2). Let x(p) = p**3 + 0*p**2 + 3*p - 2*p + 5*p**y - 5. Give x(-4). 7 Let f(t) = -t**2 + 4*t - 4. Suppose 5*a + 5*u - 60 = 0, -2*a - u = -4*a + 36. Let q = -11 + a. Determine f(q). -9 Let d(k) be the third derivative of k**4/24 + k**3/2 - k**2. Give d(-2). 1 Suppose -4*j - 8 = -4*v, 5*j + 2*v - 6 = 3*v. Suppose -4*a - 5*m = -21, 5*a + 5*m - m = 24. Let u(q) = 3*q**j - a*q - 4*q**2 + 0*q**2 + 2. What is u(-3)? 5 Suppose -n - 19*n = 20. Let u(a) be the second derivative of -4*a**3/3 - a. Give u(n). 8 Let w(p) = -p + 1 + 3 - 1 - p. Let d(c) be the first derivative of c**2/2 - 2. Let j be d(3). Calculate w(j). -3 Let x(y) = -2*y - 12 + 16 - 3 + 4*y. Give x(-2). -3 Let w(x) = -x**3 - x**2 + 3*x + 1. Let t be w(-2). Let d = 4 + t. Let n(k) = d*k - k - 2 - 1. Give n(3). 3 Suppose -s = 2, 3*y = -0*y - 4*s + 10. Suppose -2*x - 4 - y = 0. Let g(u) = u**3 + 5*u**2 + u - 1. Calculate g(x). -6 Let o(k) = k + 12. Let l be o(-9). Let z(d) = 2*d + d**l - 2 + 3*d**2 + d - 8*d. Determine z(-4). 2 Le | Low | [
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Q: How can I tell which button in a repeater got pressed? I have the following markup in an .aspx file: <asp:Repeater ID="ListOfAssignments" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="ListOfAssignments_ItemDataBound"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:Label ID="AssignmentID" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label> <br /> <asp:Label ID="PathToFile" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label> <br /> <asp:Button ID="RemoveAssignment" runat="server" Text="Remove" OnClick="RemoveAssignment_Click"/> </ItemTemplate> </asp:Repeater> There are two labels and a button in a fairly standard repeater control. The repeater is bound to a database, and populates the labels with records from the database. Here's my problem: I have a click event for each button in the repeater. The RemoveAssignment_Click method is called when the user clicks any of the buttons. In the click event, I want to know the text of the two labels associated with whatever button the user clicked. What I mean is, in this method: protected void RemoveAssignment_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { //code goes here } I want to be able to know the text of the labels that are adjacent to the button that was clicked. How do I do that? A: What you are looking for is the Button.OnCommand Method: This allows you to create multiple Button controls on a Web page and programmatically determine which Button control is clicked. So inside ListOfAssignments_ItemDataBound you'd assign the CommandArgument to the button, where the CommandArgument is the ID of the article to be deleted: protected void ListOfAssignments_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e) { if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem) { Button delButton = e.Item.FindControl("RemoveAssignment") as Button; delButton.CommandArgument = //set to the value of AssignmentID //rest of your code } } And now your button should say to use your new OnCommand: <asp:Button ID="RemoveAssignment" OnCommand="RemoveAssignment" runat="server" Text="Remove" /> And then you create the method: protected void RemoveAssignment(object sender, CommandEventArgs e) { int articleIDToDelete = 0; if (Int32.TryParse((string)e.CommandArgument, out articleIDToDelete)) { //delete the article with an ID = articleIDToDelete } } | Mid | [
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Q: .htaccess 301 redirect not working I have a basic CMS in PHP/MySQL where content managers can create pages to the system for public viewing. Each page is then available at an url such as http://www.example.com/pages.php?pid=123 Now, I want to redirect requests to http://www.example.com/pages.php?pid=123 to http://www.example.com/pages.php?pid=456. I've already removed the pid=123 page from the db but because of the cms code the site still returns a 202 when some one tries to access the page. I thought I could use a 301 redirect in .htaccess to make the redirect work, i.e.: redirect 301 pages.php?pid=123 http://www.example.com/pages.php?pid=456 but this doesn't work, Apache still return 202 when trying to fetch the pid=123 page. Also, I've tried using mod_rewrite, but it doesn't work: RewriteRule ^pages.php?pid=123$ pages.php?pid=456 [R=301,L] Any ideas what could be wrong and how I can fix the 301 redirect? A: You can perform the redirect in PHP (which probably knows more about what to redirect where) using header(). Please note that ? is a special character used by regular expressions, so your regex matches pages.phppid=123 and pages.phppid=123. Even then, I don't think the query string (including the ?pid=123 part) is used in the URL handled by RewriteRule, so you would need to use something like: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^pid=123$ RewriteRule ^pages.php$ pages.php?pid=456 [R=301,L] This shouldn't work as is, but it should give you some ideas. | Mid | [
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The Ducks have signed goaltender Angus Redmond to a three-year entry-level contract. Per club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Redmond, 21 (10/3/95), led Michigan Tech to a Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) championship and earned WCHA All-Rookie Team honors after posting a 22-10-5 record, 1.85 goals-against average (GAA), .917 save percentage (SV%) and four shutouts in 38 games. The Langley, B.C. native ranked third in the nation in GAA and tied for ninth in wins, which set a Michigan Tech record for wins by a freshman goaltender. The 6-1, 200-pound freshman was named the WCHA Rookie of the Month for November and earned WCHA Rookie of the Week honors on four occasions. Redmond posted a shutout in his first career start on Oct. 28 vs. Northern Michigan and went on to win 12 of his first 15 starts (12-2-1). He also appeared in 132 career games with the Salmon Arm SilverBacks of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) from 2012-2016, posting a 59-61-7 record, 2.94 GAA, .906 SV% and eight shutouts. | High | [
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Q: Is the supremum of an almost surely continuous stochastic process measurable? Let's take a stochastic process $(X_t)_{0\leq t \leq 1}$ and assume that the sample paths are almost surely continuous. Let us define $S \equiv \sup_{t \in [0,1]} X_t$. How can we show that $S$ is measurable? For example, the if we take the Brownian motion $B_t$ as our stochastic process, then given the continuity of the sample paths, we can focus on the supremum over $t \in [0,1] \cap \mathbb{Q}$, which is a countable, dense subset of $[0,1]$, and we have continuity of $B_t$, therefore the supremum is measurable (see the answer here: Measurability of the supremum of a Brownian motion). How does almost sure continuity instead of continuity change the way of proving measurability? I would be very grateful for any hint! A: We have to assume that the underlying probability space is complete; otherwise the assertion might fail. So, suppose that $(\Omega,\mathcal{A},\mathbb{P})$ is a complete probability space and $(X_t)_{t \in [0,1]}$ a process with almost surely continuous sample paths, i.e. there exists a null set $N \in \mathcal{A}$ such that $$[0,1] \ni t \mapsto X_t(\omega)$$ is continuous for all $\omega \in \tilde{\Omega} := \Omega \backslash N$. Now $$\tilde{X}_t(\omega) := \begin{cases} X_t(\omega), & \omega \in \tilde{\Omega}, \\ 0, & \omega \in N \end{cases}$$ defines a stochastic process on $\Omega$ with continuous sample paths, and therefore $$\sup_{t \in [0,1]} \tilde{X}_t = \sup_{t \in [0,1] \cap \mathbb{Q}} \tilde{X}_t$$ is measurable as countable supremum of measurable random variables. On the other hand, we have $$\tilde{S}_t(\omega) = \sup_{t \in [0,1]} \tilde{X}_t(\omega) = \sup_{t \in [0,1]} X_t(\omega)= S_t(\omega) \quad \text{for all $\omega \in \tilde{\Omega} = \Omega \backslash N$}$$ and so $$\{S_t \in B\} = \left( \{\tilde{S}_t \in B \} \cap N^c \right) \cup \bigg( \{S_t \in B \} \cap N \bigg)$$ for any Borel set $B$. Since $N \in \mathcal{A}$ and $\tilde{S}_t$ is measurable, we know that $$\left( \{\tilde{S}_t \in B \} \cap N^c \right) \in \mathcal{A}.$$ Moreover, $$\left\{ S_t \in B \right\} \cap N \subseteq N$$ and since the probability space is complete, this implies $$\left\{ S_t \in B \right\} \cap N \in \mathcal{A}.$$ Combining both considerations proves $\{S_t \in B\} \in \mathcal{A}$, and this proves the measurability of $S_t$. Remark More generally, the following statement holds true in complete probability spaces: Let $(\Omega,\mathcal{A},\mathbb{P})$ and $(E,\mathcal{B},\mathbb{Q})$ be two measure spaces and assume that $(\Omega,\mathcal{A},\mathbb{P})$ is complete. Let $X, Y: \Omega \to E$ be two mappings. If $X$ is measurable and $X=Y$ almost surely, then $Y$ is measurable. | Mid | [
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/* * ChunkConsolePage.java * * Copyright (C) 2020 by RStudio, PBC * * Unless you have received this program directly from RStudio pursuant * to the terms of a commercial license agreement with RStudio, then * this program is licensed to you under the terms of version 3 of the * GNU Affero General Public License. This program is distributed WITHOUT * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING THOSE OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the * AGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt) for more details. * */ package org.rstudio.studio.client.workbench.views.source.editors.text; import org.rstudio.core.client.js.JsArrayEx; import org.rstudio.core.client.widget.FixedRatioWidget; import org.rstudio.studio.client.common.debugging.model.UnhandledError; import org.rstudio.studio.client.workbench.views.source.editors.text.rmd.ChunkOutputUi; import com.google.gwt.core.client.JsArray; import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style.Unit; import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.ScrollPanel; import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget; public class ChunkConsolePage extends ChunkOutputPage implements ChunkOutputPresenter.Host { public ChunkConsolePage(int ordinal, ChunkOutputSize chunkOutputSize) { super(ordinal); chunkOutputSize_ = chunkOutputSize; init(new ChunkOutputStream(this)); } public ChunkConsolePage(int ordinal, ChunkOutputStream stream, ChunkOutputSize chunkOutputSize) { super(ordinal); chunkOutputSize_ = chunkOutputSize; init(stream); } @Override public Widget thumbnailWidget() { return thumbnail_; } @Override public Widget contentWidget() { return content_; } @Override public void notifyHeightChanged() { scrollToBottom(); } @Override public void onSelected() { scrollToBottom(); } public void showConsoleText(String text) { preview_.addText(text); stream_.showConsoleText(text); } public void showConsoleError(String error) { preview_.addText(error); stream_.showConsoleError(error); } public void showErrorOutput(UnhandledError err) { stream_.showErrorOutput(err); } public void showConsoleOutput(JsArray<JsArrayEx> output) { for (int i = 0; i < output.length(); i++) { preview_.addText(output.get(i).getString(1)); } stream_.showConsoleOutput(output); } public boolean hasErrors() { return stream_.hasErrors(); } public void completeOutput() { stream_.completeOutput(); } // Private methods --------------------------------------------------------- private void scrollToBottom() { panel_.setVerticalScrollPosition( panel_.getMaximumVerticalScrollPosition()); } private void init(ChunkOutputStream stream) { preview_ = new ChunkConsolePreview(); preview_.addText(stream.getAllConsoleText()); stream_ = stream; panel_ = new ScrollPanel(); panel_.add(stream); if (chunkOutputSize_ != ChunkOutputSize.Full) { content_ = new FixedRatioWidget(panel_, ChunkOutputUi.OUTPUT_ASPECT, ChunkOutputUi.MAX_PLOT_WIDTH); } else { panel_.getElement().getStyle().setWidth(100, Unit.PCT); content_ = panel_; } thumbnail_ = new ChunkOutputThumbnail("R Console", "", preview_, ChunkOutputWidget.getEditorColors()); } private ScrollPanel panel_; private ChunkOutputStream stream_; private Widget thumbnail_; private Widget content_; private ChunkConsolePreview preview_; public final static int CONSOLE_INPUT = 0; public final static int CONSOLE_OUTPUT = 1; public final static int CONSOLE_ERROR = 2; private final ChunkOutputSize chunkOutputSize_; } | Low | [
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Frank Lloyd Wright Products and Gifts Timeless Style for Your Home or Office Frank Lloyd Wright left his unique mark on the architecture of this country in many places. But his winter home, and the place where current-day architects still learn the master's technique is located in Scottsdale, Arizona. If you know a Frank Lloyd Wright devotee, or someone who has visited Taliesin West, these gift ideas may just hit the mark. Looking for a unique, but reasonably priced gift for a Frank Lloyd Wright lover? These note cards with magnets might just do the trick. Several different styles available. 04 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Lamps and Lighting Fixtures ••• Courtesy PriceGrabber Various styles of lamps made in the Frank Lloyd Wright Tradition. Continue to 5 of 11 below. 05 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Jigsaw Puzzles ••• Courtesy PriceGrabber Various sizes and subjects, from easy to not-so-easy! 06 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona By Lawrence W. Cheek. A short, illustrated book concentrating on Frank Lloyd Wright's relationship with and love of Arizona. 07 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Night Lights Light up the night with these unusual FLW night lights. 08 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Stained Glass Frank Lloyd Wright designed leaded-glass windows for almost every one of his buildings between 1885 and 1923, creating more than 4,000 window designs for over 160 structures. You can have your own stained glass panel to brighten your window pane or stand in your office. Continue to 9 of 11 below. 09 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Clocks Frank Lloyd Wright Coonley Playhouse Tumblers Set of 2 Tumblers. These 14 oz. tumblers measure 4 inches high and 3 inches in diameter, holding a total of 14 oz. The design is a detail of Frank Lloyd Wrights Avery Coonley Playhouse window in Riverside, Illinois, completed in 1912. 11 of 11 Frank Lloyd Wright Coloring Book Break out the crayons or markers, and create your own colorful glass designs based on Frank Lloyd Wright's Designs. | Mid | [
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Onaka (grape) Onaka is one of a number of hardy hybrid grape cultivars produced by the prolific breeder Nels Hansen at South Dakota State University. It is a product of a cross of Beta (a hybrid of Vitis labrusca and Vitis riparia known for its cold hardiness) and Salem (a Vitis labrusca x Vitis vinifera hybrid). Although never widely cultivated and today largely forgotten, it has contributed to the cold-climate grape-breeding efforts of breeders such as Elmer Swenson and is a likely parent of his variety Kay Gray. References Category:Hybrid grape varieties | High | [
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Q: Is there some weaker form of choice involved here? Consider the following partition of $\mathbb{Q}^2$ into disjoint classes : $(p_1, p_2) \sim (q_1,q_2)$ if and only if both $p_1 - q_1$ and $p_2 - q_2$ have odds denominators when written in their lowest terms. Suppose I endow the equivalence class containing $(0,0)$ with some structure (say, a graph structure and a coloring of edges) and suppose I want to transfer this structure to all the other equivalence classes by translation. Do I need some weaker form of choice (like $\textsf{AC}_\omega$ for instance) to do this ? A: No. Since $\Bbb Q$ is provable countable, then $\Bbb Q^2$ is provable countable. Therefore we can define all the choice functions we need here, by fixing an enumeration of $\Bbb Q^2$ and considering the least element in the enumeration satisfying whatever we wanted. (The same argument holds for any countable set. Note, however, that if your set does not have any definition which is provably countable, then it is going to be hard to define such an equivalence relation on your set.) | Mid | [
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Q: trying to remove the first occurence of the number in the arraylist public static void main(String [] args){ Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter some numbers (all on one line, separated by spaces):"); String line = input.nextLine(); String[] numbers = line.split(" +"); ArrayList<Integer> a = new ArrayList<Integer>(); for(int i=0; i<numbers.length; i++) a.add(new Integer(numbers[i])); System.out.println("The numbers are stored in an ArrayList"); System.out.println("The ArrayList is "+a); System.out.print("\nEnter a number: "); int p = input.nextInt(); System.out.println(removeNumber(a,p)); System.out.println(removeNumber2(a,p)); } public static <T> ArrayList<T> removeNumber(ArrayList<T> a, Integer e) { ArrayList<T> b = new ArrayList<T>(); for(int i = 0; i< a.size();i++) { if (a.get(i).equals(e)) a.remove(e); } return a; } if ex.value = 4, I want to remove 4 from the arrayList. If my arraylist contains [5,12,4,16,4], I want to remove the first occurence of four from it, and save it to another arraylist. Don't want to use Iterators A: Without using an iterator, here's what you could do to fix your code : for(int i = 0; i< a.size();i++) { if (a.get(i).equals(e.value)) { a.remove(e.value); i--; } } Beyond the change of == to equals, you have to decrement i whenever you remove an element from the ArrayList. The reason for that is that removing the ith element from an ArrayList decreases the indices of all the elements that follow it by one. Therefore, the i+1th element will become the new ith element, so you must decrement i in order not to skip the next element. EDIT : For some reason I was sure you wanted to remove all occurences of the number from the list, and not just the first one. If you only want to remove one element from the list, you don't have to worry about iterating over the rest of the list after removing that element. | Low | [
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PVC 170X35 protective railing (pc.) DESCRIPTION Protective padding for bed rails. Foam made of foam with a PVC sheath. EFFECTS AND ADVANTAGES Protects the patient from bumping into the railing and prevents getting arms or legs between the bars. The cover is waterproof, fireproof, breathable, anti-mite, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-allergic, autodesodorante. INDICATIONS Suitable for hospital beds. INSTRUCTIONS It conforms with 4 buckles. The cover can be washed by hand or machine with cold water and non-abrasive products. Contact us Ortopedia Silvio uses its own and third-party cookies, making it easier to navigate through our website and to analyze user navigation.If you go on surfing, we will consider you accepting its use.To learn more about our use of cookies, you can consult our Cookies Policy. | Mid | [
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What we know is that nearly 70% of the world’s population will live in cities. What we want, as envisioned through Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11), is that future cities are inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable for all – including over one billion persons with disabilities. In keeping with SDG11, the New Urban Agenda is striving to ensure that future cities, towns and basic urban infrastructures and services are more environmentally accessible, user-friendly, and inclusive of all people’s needs, including persons with disabilities. The need for disability-inclusive urban development cities was emphasized at the Ninth World Urban Forum (WUF9), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in February 2018. Throughout the seven-day conference, participants from around the world highlighted, among other themes, the importance of the inclusion of persons with disabilities in urban development. In this video, Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo (@McNhlapo), the World Bank’s Global Advisor for Disability Inclusion, interviews World Bank Director for Urban and Territorial Development and Disaster Risk Management, Sameh Wahba (@SamehNWahba) on his reflections on the outcomes of WUF9. Ms. Sharif became the Executive UN-Habitat in December 2017, succeeding Joan Clos of Spain. She was previously Mayor of the City Council of Penang Island, Malaysia, where she led the Municipal Council of Seberang Perai to achieve its vision of a “cleaner, greener, safer and healthier place to work, live, invest and play.” In 2011, Ms. Sharif was the first woman to be appointed president of the Municipal Council of Seberang Perai, where she collaborated with the World Bank on urban development projects. Under Ms. Sharif’s leadership, UN-Habitat has focused WUF9’s theme on “Cities 2030, Cities for all: Implementing the New Urban Agenda” as a tool and accelerator for achieving Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Watch a video blog of UN-Habitat Executive Director Maimunah Mohd Sharif (@MaimunahSharif) and World Bank Director Sameh Wahba (@SamehNWahba) where they discuss the importance of collaboration and partnership for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Over a year ago, national and city leaders from around the world gathered at the Habitat III conference in Quito to endorse the New Urban Agenda, which sets a new global standard for sustainable urban development and guides global efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the era of climate change. In just three weeks, early February 2018, representatives of the world’s countries and cities will convene again to discuss “Cities 2030, Cities for All: Implementing the New Urban Agenda” at the world’s premier conference on cities – the Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) in Kuala Lumpur, co-hosted by UN-Habitat and the government of Malaysia. In the video, World Bank Senior Director Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez (@Ede_WBG) and Director Sameh Wahba (@SamehNWahba) share the World Bank's three priorities at the World Urban Forum. Too often, however, that dream risks remaining an urban daydream, due to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods, as well as climate change. Those of us working to help these families find a better future must focus more on ways to support efforts to protect their lives – and their livelihoods. In the 40 years since the launch of Habitat I, governments and municipalities throughout emerging and developing countries have been proving that their cities can be not only inclusive and secure, but also resilient and sustainable. However, unless they increase their speed and scale, they are unlikely to achieve the goals of the “New Urban Agenda” and its Regional Plans, launched at Habitat III in 2016. From our perspective helping governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, and ahead of the World Urban Forum taking place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February, let us share three key ingredients necessary to achieve that goal: In the 15th century, few places in Southeast Asia rivalled Melaka as a trading hub – a strategic conduit for the bustling spice trade. As traders from the region settled in the area and contributed to a melting pot of cultures, Melaka transformed into a hub known for its diversity, resilience, and innovation.Creative Commons Christ Church Melaka by Martin Pilát is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Melaka retains its reputation for openness, and is extending it beyond cultural heritage into development solutions. The Malaysian state is host to the country’s first solar farm and a large new port, and the Melaka City’s riverfront is being transformed into a picturesque tourist attraction. In addition to being the first of its kind in Malaysia, this is also the first city-led project for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Cities, or GPSC, which strives to integrate sustainability into urban planning. When we think of urban expansion in the 21st century, we often think of ‘sprawl’, a term that calls to mind low-density, car-oriented suburban growth, perhaps made up of single-family homes. Past studies have suggested that historically, cities around the world are becoming less dense as they grow, which has prompted worries about the environmental impacts of excess land consumption and automobile dependency. A widely cited rule of thumb is that as the population of a city doubles, its built area triples. But our new study on urban expansion in East Asia has yielded some surprising findings that are making us rethink this assumption of declining urban densities everywhere. About Us The Sustainable Cities blog is a space for urban development professionals to exchange ideas and engage some of the central questions of sustainable cities: What makes a sustainable city? How do we measure a city's sustainability? More ... Subscribe by email E-mail: * Enter your email to receive email notifications when new content is posted | Mid | [
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SmartSenior@home: Acceptance of an integrated ambient assisted living system. Results of a clinical field trial in 35 households. The primary objective of the SmartSenior@home study was to examine the acceptance of the SmartSenior system by older adults. Twenty-eight partners from industry and research, including the health care sector, worked collaboratively to implement services aiming to maximize independence in old age. The prospective cohort study was conducted in Potsdam, Germany, with n = 35 older adults between 55 and 88 years of age in their apartments. All participants underwent extensive pre- and post-study visits with in-home interviews, functional assessments for cognition, fine motor skills, and mobility as well as responding to questionnaires on user acceptance and quality of life. The results indicate moderate-to-high user acceptance for the SmartSenior system. In particular, the services for general assistance and health, such as audio/video communication, blood pressure monitoring, and communication with a health professional, were rated as very attractive. Less used and less accepted services were those promoting social interaction and reminder services. Besides reliable functioning of the SmartSenior system, the availability of a confidant seems to be the most significant acceptance factor. As one conclusion of this trial, it is possible to develop, integrate, and test an infrastructure for ambient assisted living services in real life. | High | [
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Sirtuin 6 nuclear localization at cortical brain level of young diabetic mice: an immunohistochemical study. A study was conducted to assess the physiopathological significance of sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) at the brain cortical level. We analyzed the specific expression and subcellular localization of SIRT6 in young db/db mice, an experimental animal model of type II Diabetes mellitus. We analyzed the cytoarchitecture of the brain cortex, evaluated SIRT6 expression and its localization by immunohistochemistry comparing db/db mice to lean control mice, examining the six cortical layers and the motor and somatosensory cortex. Finally, we calculated a SIRT6 labeling index. We observed the absence of significant morphological differences between lean and db/db mice, indicating that young db/db mice showed a neuronal morphology and distribution similar to that of lean mice and also normal brain tissue architecture with intact cortical layers. Moreover, sirtuin 6 is mainly localized in the nucleus of both lean and db/db mice. In particular, the db/db mice showed few positive cells compared to lean control mice in all cortical layers. We found a lower sirtuin 6 labeling index without significant differences between the motor and somatosensory cortex. Our findings contribute to further understanding the sirtuin 6 immunohistochemical changes in the early stages of type II Diabetes mellitus and propose its possible implication in the pathogenic processes associated with Diabetes mellitus and diabetes-induced neurodegeneration. | Mid | [
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The Influence of Surface Topography and Surface Chemistry on the Anti-Adhesive Performance of Nanoporous Monoliths. We designed spongy monoliths allowing liquid delivery to their surfaces through continuous nanopore systems (mean pore diameter ∼40 nm). These nanoporous monoliths were flat or patterned with microspherical structures a few tens of microns in diameter, and their surfaces consisted of aprotic polymer or of TiO2 coatings. Liquid may reduce adhesion forces FAd; possible reasons include screening of solid-solid interactions and poroelastic effects. Softening-induced deformation of flat polymeric monoliths upon contact formation in the presence of liquids enhanced the work of separation WSe. On flat TiO2-coated monoliths, WSe was smaller under wet conditions than under dry conditions, possibly because of liquid-induced screening of solid-solid interactions. Under dry conditions, WSe is larger on flat TiO2-coated monoliths than on flat monoliths with a polymeric surface. However, under wet conditions, liquid-induced softening results in larger WSe on flat monoliths with a polymeric surface than on flat monoliths with an oxidic surface. Monolithic microsphere arrays show antiadhesive properties; FAd and WSe are reduced by at least 1 order of magnitude as compared to flat nanoporous counterparts. On nanoporous monolithic microsphere arrays, capillarity (WSe is larger under wet than under dry conditions) and solid-solid interactions (WSe is larger on oxide than on polymer) dominate contact mechanics. Thus, the microsphere topography reduces the impact of softening-induced surface deformation and screening of solid-solid interactions associated with liquid supply. Overall, simple modifications of surface topography and chemistry combined with delivery of liquid to the contact interface allow adjusting WSe and FAd over at least 1 order of magnitude. Adhesion management with spongy monoliths exploiting deployment (or drainage) of interfacial liquids as well as induction or prevention of liquid-induced softening of the monoliths may pave the way for the design of artificial surfaces with tailored contact mechanics. Moreover, the results reported here may contribute to better understanding of the contact mechanics of biological surfaces. | High | [
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During D23 Expo Japan 2018, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Bob Chapek revealed new details about major expansion in progress across Florida's Walt Disney World Resort leading up to the 50th Anniversary. Let’s take a look at what’s in store for guests: Toy Story Land Advertisement The fun will soar to infinity and beyond beginning this summer with the opening of Toy Story Land. This playful new 11-acre land will transport guests into the adventurous outdoors of Andy’s backyard where guests will feel like they have been shrunk to the size of Woody and Buzz, as they are surrounded by oversized toys. Using toys like building blocks, plastic buckets and shovels, and game board pieces, Andy has designed the perfect setting for this land that includes two major new attractions. Slinky Dog Dash is a family-friendly coaster that will send riders dipping, dodging and dashing around turns and drops through the world of Andy’s toys. Guests can also spin around with little green aliens aboard Alien Swirling Saucers and quick refreshments will be on tap at Woody’s Lunch Box. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge This highly anticipated new land is set to open in 2019, both at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disneyland Park – on a grand scale – including the creation of a full-sized fleet of X-wing star fighters and a life-size Millennium Falcon starship. The totally immersive land will include two jaw-dropping attractions that allow guests to have control of their experiences. One attraction will put guests in the middle of a battle between the First Order and the Resistance—inside a Star Destroyer. In the second attraction, guests will have the chance to fly the Millennium Falcon – the most famous ship in the galaxy. Throughout the land, guests will also have the chance to interact with Chewie, the lovable BB8 and members of the First Order, plus wander through a toy shop in the street market run by a Toydarian, one of the creatures from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Immersive Star Wars-Themed Hotel Fans can live out their Star Wars adventures beyond the theme parks with an immersive experience at a groundbreaking new Star Wars–themed hotel concept. The epic new experience will take guests to a galaxy far, far away and will be seamlessly connected to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the new land set to open in 2019 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Unlike anything that exists today, the new luxury resort will completely immerse guests in an authentic Star Wars story. The journey through space begins the moment guests arrive, as everyone boards a starship and departs together for a multi-day Star Wars adventure. An opening date for the new hotel has not been announced. Guardians of the Galaxy Attraction at Epcot Larger-than-life Super Heroes will descend upon Epcot with the opening of a Guardians of the Galaxy attraction. Based on the rockin’, action-packed “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies, this one-of-a-kind family attraction will feature a brand-new, innovative ride system – and will be one of the longest enclosed roller coasters in the world! Coming to Epcot Future World, the new attraction will open in time for the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort in 2021. Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway at Disney’s Hollywood Studios The first ever ride-through attraction themed to Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will delight guests at Disney’s Hollywood Studios beginning in 2019. Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway will feature a new original story and lovable theme song, as it takes guests on a journey inside the wacky and unpredictable world of Disney Channel’s Emmy Award-winning “Mickey Mouse” cartoon shorts. New technologies will transform the two-dimensional cartoon world into an incredible multi-dimensional experience. Disney A New Family-friendly Show at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Just in time for the 20th Anniversary of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, a new, family-friendly show will debut at the theme park April 22. Featuring Russell and Dug from Disney•Pixar’s “Up,” guests will get a chance to see their favorite Senior Wilderness Explorer and his furry friend as they discover bird species from around the world. | Mid | [
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, 1, -4, -676272 Sort -314, -139, 30. -314, -139, 30 Sort -6, -2, -25753, 6. -25753, -6, -2, 6 Sort 1/117, -16/3, -1748, -4. -1748, -16/3, -4, 1/117 Sort -11/64, -10786, 0.06, -0.4 in increasing order. -10786, -0.4, -11/64, 0.06 Sort -43, -295, 639 in descending order. 639, -43, -295 Sort 11141, 6, 89, -9. -9, 6, 89, 11141 Sort 26, -218, 18, 1, -9/7 in descending order. 26, 18, 1, -9/7, -218 Put -265, -13, 151 in descending order. 151, -13, -265 Sort -194, -5, -522, 2, 5. -522, -194, -5, 2, 5 Sort 68, 196, -5, 0, -17, 13. -17, -5, 0, 13, 68, 196 Put 9, -0.4, 3.6, 0.1, -5, 2/7 in descending order. 9, 3.6, 2/7, 0.1, -0.4, -5 Sort -3.69, -2/31, -1.75 in descending order. -2/31, -1.75, -3.69 Sort 6, -2162, 4, -11, 0 in descending order. 6, 4, 0, -11, -2162 Put 671, -2, 7/3, 3/11 in descending order. 671, 7/3, 3/11, -2 Sort 4, 3, 0, -3, 120, 26, -2. -3, -2, 0, 3, 4, 26, 120 Sort -0.16, -247, -5, -9906 in ascending order. -9906, -247, -5, -0.16 Put 2, -3, -12, -100270 in increasing order. -100270, -12, -3, 2 Sort 67993, 2210, -1 in increasing order. -1, 2210, 67993 Put -4150, -2.6, 1091 in descending order. 1091, -2.6, -4150 Put 118949, 19, 1, 0, -4 in decreasing order. 118949, 19, 1, 0, -4 Sort -6382, -1, -31 in descending order. -1, -31, -6382 Sort 6, -1, -14254 in descending order. 6, -1, -14254 Sort 0.1, 2, 5, -107368, -1/8, 7 in ascending order. -107368, -1/8, 0.1, 2, 5, 7 Sort -1, -6/13, 29/4, -13, 3 in descending order. 29/4, 3, -6/13, -1, -13 Sort 68, -0.05, -2, -4, -1/5 in ascending order. -4, -2, -1/5, -0.05, 68 Sort 0, 131820, -8, -3 in decreasing order. 131820, 0, -3, -8 Sort 2, 3, 4, -290627, -1 in ascending order. -290627, -1, 2, 3, 4 Sort -1/4, -2/22839, -206, 1/19 in ascending order. -206, -1/4, -2/22839, 1/19 Sort -3667, 5, 1, -4, -362. -3667, -362, -4, 1, 5 Sort -4, -0.09907, 0.024 in increasing order. -4, -0.09907, 0.024 Sort -2, 3012, -4, 37, -28, 15, 4 in decreasing order. 3012, 37, 15, 4, -2, -4, -28 Sort 51399, -1/6, 2/11, -0.1. -1/6, -0.1, 2/11, 51399 Put -139, 0.038, 0.2, -2, 1, -0.11 in descending order. 1, 0.2, 0.038, -0.11, -2, -139 Sort -15, 1/5, 0.4, -9969.72, -2 in decreasing order. 0.4, 1/5, -2, -15, -9969.72 Put 4623, 225, 8 in descending order. 4623, 225, 8 Put 80, -0.02, -0.1, -0.2939 in ascending order. -0.2939, -0.1, -0.02, 80 Sort -1/6, -1480, 1/8, -2, -0.3 in descending order. 1/8, -1/6, -0.3, -2, -1480 Put -6, -4, 1798, 256, -1 in decreasing order. 1798, 256, -1, -4, -6 Sort -75, 3, -2908, -1/2 in descending order. 3, -1/2, -75, -2908 Sort -26, -3/2, -60621, -0.3, -4/3 in ascending order. -60621, -26, -3/2, -4/3, -0.3 Put 223861, 36, 1 in descending order. 223861, 36, 1 Sort -9, -1799, -1, 2 in ascending order. -1799, -9, -1, 2 Sort -4, 334395, -3, -1. -4, -3, -1, 334395 Sort -28085, -1, 0.288 in decreasing order. 0.288, -1, -28085 Put 0.1, -9/140311, -1/2 in descending order. 0.1, -9/140311, -1/2 Sort 4, 3, 408, -6, -3, 67, -4 in descending order. 408, 67, 4, 3, -3, -4, -6 Sort 2, -6, 4, -296, -3, -36 in increasing order. -296, -36, -6, -3, 2, 4 Put 1/4, 9560, 7/1181, -0.1, 3 in increasing order. -0.1, 7/1181, 1/4, 3, 9560 Sort 20, -1, 91, -5, 3, 80 in decreasing order. 91, 80, 20, 3, -1, -5 Sort 611, 4, 12, -5, 5, 2 in decreasing order. 611, 12, 5, 4, 2, -5 Put -742, -60, 17 in increasing order. -742, -60, 17 Sort -21.42, -2, 67/2, -1/6, 3, 1/2 in increasing order. -21.42, -2, -1/6, 1/2, 3, 67/2 Put -0.277, -4, -0.03, 3, -0.6 in ascending order. -4, -0.6, -0.277, -0.03, 3 Put -0.4, -3/7, 19347, 10, -6 in decreasing order. 19347, 10, -0.4, -3/7, -6 Sort 1733702, -2, 9. -2, 9, 1733702 Sort 5, 2, -2163, 265 in ascending order. -2163, 2, 5, 265 Put 5, 147/17, -0.6 in decreasing order. 147/17, 5, -0.6 Sort -18, 370, -13492. -13492, -18, 370 Put 2/7, -422, 3/34, -3, -2, 0, 16 in increasing order. -422, -3, -2, 0, 3/34, 2/7, 16 Sort 2791, -4, 0, 106 in decreasing order. 2791, 106, 0, -4 Put -13, 0, -2, 7, -35, 11, 2 in descending order. 11, 7, 2, 0, -2, -13, -35 Sort -2, -12595, 873. -12595, -2, 873 Sort 63, -3, -98, -1 in descending order. 63, -1, -3, -98 Sort -1, 2, -4618240, 5, -7 in increasing order. -4618240, -7, -1, 2, 5 Sort 50, 4, -5667979 in descending order. 50, 4, -5667979 Sort 0, 31, 0.3, -5/7, 48.3, -0.3 in ascending order. -5/7, -0.3, 0, 0.3, 31, 48.3 Sort 0, -89, 2244, -3 in increasing order. -89, -3, 0, 2244 Sort 662, -3/5, -13, 0, -1.1, 1/5 in descending order. 662, 1/5, 0, -3/5, -1.1, -13 Sort 3, 19, 3/8, -2.6, -3, 23 in decreasing order. 23, 19, 3, 3/8, -2.6, -3 Sort 1, -0.5, 7, -0.014, 5, 4/93. -0.5, -0.014, 4/93, 1, 5, 7 Sort -31, -159820, 2 in increasing order. -159820, -31, 2 Sort 153, -575657, -5 in ascending order. -575657, -5, 153 Put -7, -5, 663, -4, 4, 6 in increasing order. -7, -5, -4, 4, 6, 663 Put -3, -5, 94533, -20, 3 in descending order. 94533, 3, -3, -5, -20 Sort 6, -2/17, -3/4, -11, -5, 1/7 in decreasing order. 6, 1/7, -2/17, -3/4, -5, -11 Sort 3, -64, 0, 1, -128 in descending order. 3, 1, 0, -64, -128 Sort 8, 8/7, 5, -129, -4, 7 in 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ASA bans Coca-Cola’s Vitaminwater brand for misleading ads UK Today News: Vitaminwater of Coca-Cola, which claims to be nutritious and good for health, has reportedly been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority. Complaints were received that the drink contains 23g of sugar. According to the ASA, the nutritional claim of the company was misleading , as the drink has more than normal sugar content. Coca-Cola confessed that the drink contains 23g sugar, but at the same time it also defended that the drink also contains other nutrients like vitamin B and C. “We considered that consumers would understand the word ‘nutritious’ in the context of the ad as a claim that Vitaminwater contained added ingredients that were needed by the body in order to stay healthy,” the ASA said. ASA also added that 23g of sugar in a nutritious drink is not at all acceptable. The advertising watchdog further said that, the word ‘nutritious’ was misused by the company in the ad and has also banned the ad for the misrepresentation of the brand. | Mid | [
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How to Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs How to Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs A simple technique that's easy to master The only correct answer to “How do you like your eggs in the morning?” is “Scrambled, perfectly.” That having been definitively established, let’s move on to pulling it off, perfectly, every single time. Here is how to make perfect scrambled eggs. Begin by heating a medium cast-iron or other heavy skillet over low heat. | High | [
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La Rosière de Salency La Rosière de Salency is a three-act comedy, mingled with ariettes, by Charles-Simon Favart, music by Blaise, Philidor, Monsigny and Duni. It was presented at Château de Fontainebleau 25 October 1769 and at Comédie-Italienne 14 December. The story draws inspiration from the feast of , a tradition born in the French village of Salency (Oise). On 18 January 1774, André Grétry had a new version of La Rosière presented at Fontainebleau, with a libretto reworked by marquis de Pezay. External links Toutes les représentations sur le site CÉSAR Libretto online Category:French plays Category:1769 plays Category:Opéras comiques Category:Operas Category:Operas by André Grétry Category:Operas by Egidio Duni | Mid | [
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Draft Experts Crushing Hard on 2019 NFL Draft Prospects One of the benefits of running our 2019 NFL Mock Draft Database (which you should bookmark now, because it is updated daily) is that I get to see who the top draft analysts are mocking where, every day. Running that game, you start to notice trends. Some experts are way higher on some draft prospects than everyone else out there. In some ways, creating a mock draft is like drafting a fantasy football team: it’s about believing in “your guys” and planting the proverbial flag. Yes, much of the process requires us just to make simple predictions- which NFL teams will select which NFL draft prospects in the 2019 NFL Draft? But sometimes emotion sneaks in there. And you mock the guys that you like a little higher than everyone else does, because you see something in them. You believe. And you hope that an NFL franchise will see that same thing that you see, and take that player early. We are usually wrong about our guys. But when we plant our flag, and we are right (as Eric Galko was about Patrick Mahomes long before anyone else) then it is a beautiful thing. It might even be the deciding factor in your mock draft contest against your friends. Wait, are you joking? You haven’t challenged anyone to a mock draft contest yet? Come on, do yourself a favor and get in there. Download the app. Invite your draft friends to your private mock contest. It’s all free. So here they are, the draft experts and “their guys” who they are mocking earlier than everyone else in their 2019 NFL mock drafts. Bleacher Report: Matt Miller loves Trayvon Mullen, CB Clemson In 9 out of 10 mock drafts, you won’t find Trayvon Mullen as a first rounder. In Matt Miller’s mock draft and Big Board, he is in the top-10. According to Miller: “Clemson cornerback Trayvon Mullen is an under-the-radar star hidden on a defensive depth chart full of future NFL players. Mullen, a 6’2″ cover man, has the ideal size and mentality to play on the outside and lock up No. 1 wide receivers.” Walterfootball: Walter and Charlie love Derrick Brown, DT Auburn Derrick Brown is mocked by most as a late first- early second-round prospect. Throughout the entire draft process, both Charlie and Walter from Walterfootball have had Derrick Brown as a top-5 player in every. single. mock. draft. From Charlie: “Brown is up to 41 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for a loss and one forced fumble so far in 2018. Teams have sent consistent double teams at him, but he still managed to stuff runs and cause disruption. Brown also has the quickness to fire into the backfield and pressure the quarterback from the interior. The 6-foot-5, 316-pounder has a ton of upside and is just scratching the surface of what he is capable of doing.” Draft Wire: Luke Easterling loves Will Grier, QB WVU Obviously, Easterling isn’t introducing us to some unknown gem of this draft class. We all know who Grier is. But Easterling, more than any other analyst I’ve seen, declared Grier a top-10 pick way back in the preseason, and has stuck with him as a top-10 pick in every mock draft since then. Easterling hasn’t gone into as much detail about his picks as some other analysts, but I think it’s safe to say that he believes the traits Grier possesses are traits that will be coveted by teams selecting in the top-10 of the 2019 NFL Draft. The Draft Network: everyone loves D.K. Metcalf, WR Ole Miss and Deionte Thompson, S Alabama It can be hard keeping track of who The Draft Network contributors are into more than everyone else, because they are so influential in the space right now that everyone catches up. It should be taken as a great compliment, but it also makes it harder for them to visibly plant their flag. Two players who they brought the nation on board with are Metcalf and Thompson. I hadn’t even heard of Metcalf, much less seen him in any first round mock drafts, until TDN started hyping him. They had him listed as the top-WR in the draft class WAY before everyone else, and it took about a month for the rest of the mock draft community to catch up and agree. Obviously the injury changes things, but we all know the simple fact; TDN was in on him first. Same thing goes for Deionte Thompson. I think it was right around week 3 of the college season when one of them (maybe Solak?) first alerted us to Thompson’s game, putting him in the top-5, and assuring his cohorts that all of them would soon do the same thing. That prediction came wildly true, and now you cannot find a mock without Deionte going in the top-half of the first round. Again, after watching a little bit of college football, pretty much anyone can see that they belonged in the first round discussion. TDN isn’t alone in their adoration for these guys. But they were first. seahawksdraftblog: Rob Staton loves Christian Wilkins, DT Clemson and D’Andre Walker, OLB Georgia Finally, we’ve got Rob Staton, who I believe might unintentionally be the ultimate contrarian. I don’t know him, so I can’t say for sure whether or not this is true, but he seems to have set himself apart from the draft communityby focusing almost entirely on his OWN opinion and what he sees and thinks. I don’t get the sense that he reads anyone else’s scouting reports or mocks, because his are always so different. Untarnished by the outside world. That is a recipe for being significantly lower on some players (like Jonah Williams) and higher on others (Wilkins and Walker) than the rest of the draft community. Here’s what he thinks about these draft prospects: On Wilkins: Fantastic player. Like Deshaun Watson, familiarity is breeding contempt. He has the ideal frame to play inside and rush. Great character, expect a great combine. On Walker: Walker is underrated. 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Search News Dwayne Bravo ramps up pressure on South African 'chokers' West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo hopes that South Africa\'s habit of \'choking\' at major tournaments will work in his side\'s favour when they meet in a winner-takes-all Champions Trophy clash on Friday. Cardiff: West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo hopes that South Africa's habit of 'choking' at major tournaments will work in his side's favour when they meet in a winner-takes-all Champions Trophy clash on Friday. Whichever team comes out on top in Cardiff will join already qualified India as one of the two semifinalists out of Group B in a competition featuring the world's top eight one-day nations. Despite having had several fine limited overs sides since re-admission, the Proteas haven't lifted a major one-day trophy since winning the 1998 edition of this tournament. Especially at World Cups, they've found some remarkable ways to bow out, be it a dramatic 1999 tie with Australia at Edgbaston when they had the match all but won or failing to read correctly the Duckworth/Lewis sheet for rain-affected fixtures on home soil four years later. Hence the tag of "chokers", one Bravo had no hesitation in using despite the fact the West Indies have not beaten South Africa in a one-day international since 2006. "I think in tournaments, it doesn't really matter whether you win previous games against opposition or not," Bravo told reporters in Cardiff on Thursday. "I think the South Africans will feel the pressure also. They know if they lose, they are going back home. They have a tag of being chokers that do not do well in big tournaments, so that would be added pressure on them. "For us, we're going to enjoy the occasion and forget about what happens in previous games," added Bravo of a West Indies side who won last year's World Twenty20 event. "It's a tournament. It's a knockout game. We've been in this situation before, do well and go beyond. So, no pressure is on us," the all-rounder added. "I'm really excited and looking forward to this game tomorrow (Friday)." South Africa, however, are set to field Dale Steyn for the first time this tournament on Friday. Widely regarded as the best fast bowler currently in world cricket, Steyn has yet to feature in this Champions Trophy after suffering a side-strain in a warm-up defeat by Pakistan. However, Proteas captain AB de Villiers was confident of unleashing Steyn against the West Indies. "He bowled at a 100 percent intensity yesterday (Wednesday), and it was sort of the first part of his fitness assessment and today he's doing a bit more," de Villiers said. "He's 99.9 percent ready, but we're just going to make sure this (Thursday) afternoon that he'll be ready to go. "Both teams have won one and lost one of their two pool matches thus far. If the forecast rain does descend on Sophia Gardens to such an extent no result is possible, South Africa would go through to the last four courtesy of their superior net run-rate. However, a reduced overs match could favour the West Indies, given their status as World Twenty20 champions. But de Villiers said South Africa would have no problems adapting, if required, to a shortened fixture. "Whether we play a shortened game or a normal game, it's all about focus and team intensity off the field," he said. "I mention this so often, but it's really true, the guys that can adapt the quickest can really walk on the field and switch on straight away. "We still rate ourselves as a serious cricket team in whatever format we play and however many overs we play in," said wicketkeeper-batsman de Villiers, also a key figure in the South Africa side now on top of the world Test rankings. "Whatever happens tomorrow (Friday), we'll go out and make sure we play better than the opposition." | Low | [
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TFC sign designated player Pablo Piatti Toronto FC announced the signing of their newest designated player, Pablo Piatti. The Argentine joins Toronto from the Spanish side RCD Espanyol. While most TFC fans were hoping for another striker to bolster the attack, Toronto President Bill Manning is confident in the club’s new signing. “We believe he’s the type of dynamic player who is going to enhance our attack and TFC fans are really going to enjoy watching him play,” Manning said after the news broke today. What To Expect The 30-year-old is a pacey winger who can provide service and creativity in attack. Though traditionally playing as a left winger, the ambipedal Argentine can play on either wing. This skill set perfectly suits TFC’s preferred 4-3-3 formation. Piatti comes to Toronto after a 2019 marred by injuries. A serious knee injury and hamstring issues saw him sidelined for the better part of this and last season. But Piatti does bring a wealth of experience with him to TFC. Appearances in both the Champions and Europa Leagues as well as La Liga, add to his pedigree. Provided he stays healthy and fit, Piatti will make an instant impact at the club. | Mid | [
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212 B.R. 564 (1997) In re UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TECHNICAL SERVICES GROUP, INC., d/b/a UST Tech, Debtor. Michael A. MASON, Trustee of Underground Storage Tank Technical Services Group, Inc., d/b/a UST Tech, Plaintiff, v. ZORN INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant. Bankruptcy No. 95-30841, Adversary No. 95-3109. United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division-Flint. February 13, 1997. *565 Jay L. Welford, Detroit, MI, for plaintiff. Kenneth W. Kable, Saginaw, MI, for defendant. OPINION REGARDING DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ARTHUR J. SPECTOR, Bankruptcy Judge. INTRODUCTION Geodynamics, Inc., entered into an agreement with the United States, pursuant to which the former was to serve as general contractor for a construction project at the Air National Guard in Battle Creek, Michigan. In connection with this project, Geodynamics "subcontracted" with Underground Storage Tank Technical Services Group ("UST Tech"), which in turn "sub-subcontracted" with Zorn Industries, Inc. Zorn fulfilled its contractual obligation, which was to provide fuel storage tanks for the project. UST Tech, however, did not pay the full amount that it owed Zorn for these tanks. The outstanding balance of $18,300 was instead paid to Zorn by Geodynamics. Less than 90 days after Geodynamics made this payment, UST Tech filed for bankruptcy relief. In this adversary proceeding, the chapter 7 trustee seeks to avoid the payment received by Zorn pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 547(b). The Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment. For the reasons which follow, the motion will be granted. DISCUSSION To successfully invoke § 547(b), the challenged "transfer" must be "of an interest of the debtor in property." 11 U.S.C. § 547(b). The Plaintiff must prove that UST Tech held such an interest. See 11 U.S.C. § 547(g); see also, e.g., In re Hartley, 825 F.2d 1067, 1069 (6th Cir.1987); Brown v. First Nat'l Bank of Little Rock, 748 F.2d 490, 491 (8th Cir.1984). Zorn alleges that this requirement is not met, relying primarily on In re Arnold, 908 F.2d 52 (6th Cir.1990). See Defendant's Brief at pp. 3-5. In that case, the general contractor of a construction job in Tennessee (Shankle) made two payments directly to a sub-subcontractor (Braid) on a debt owed by the debtor/subcontractor (Arnold). Arnold, *566 908 F.2d at 53-54. The trustee sought to avoid these payments, which were made post-petition, using § 549.[1] The bankruptcy court ruled in favor of the trustee with respect to a portion of the payments (amounting to $55,580.55), and the district court affirmed. Id. at 54. Braid appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which characterized "[t]he critical question" as being "whether $55,580.55 of the amount paid to Braid constitutes property of Arnold." Id. at 55. According to the court of appeals, the bankruptcy court's affirmative answer to this question was "based upon its factual finding that Shankle's debt to Braid arose solely out of Arnold's relationship with Shankle." Id. Because this finding was "clearly erroneous," id., the court reversed and directed "that judgment . . . be entered in favor of Braid." Id. at 56. The lower courts erred, the Sixth Circuit explained, because they overlooked the fact that "the contract between the State of Tennessee [which owned the project] and Shankle . . . obligates Shankle to pay Braid for materials used on the project which were supplied by Braid. This contract imposed an obligation on Shankle to pay Braid independent of any relationship Shankle had to Arnold." Id. at 55. Since "Shankle's payment to Braid[] ar[ose] out of an obligation independent of any obligations [that Shankle] owed to Arnold," the court reasoned, there was "no basis upon which to conclude that the funds paid by Shankle are the property of Arnold's estate." Id. at 56. Arnold is troubling in a couple of respects, one being the court's rather cavalier conclusion that Shankle was liable to Braid pursuant to the terms of the contract between the owner and Shankle. The contract provision upon which the court relied stated that, "[u]nless otherwise provided in the Contract Documents, the Contractor [Shankle] shall provide and pay for all labor, materials . . . and other . . . services necessary for the proper execution and completion of the Work." Id. at 54 (quoting section 4.4.1 of Tennessee's contract with Shankle). If Braid had attempted to use section 4.4.1 as a basis for obtaining a judgment against Shankle, it would have had to establish in effect that it was a third-party beneficiary of that provision. See generally, e.g., In re Edward M. Johnson and Assocs., 845 F.2d 1395, 1398-99 (6th Cir.1988) (discussing the circumstances under which a contract creates "enforceable rights" in a third party under Tennessee law). As one court noted, "[c]laims based upon a third party beneficiary theory have proven to be difficult ones for courts to entertain because the ideas behind the theory are obscure and elusive." Moore Constr. Co. v. Clarksville Dep't of Electricity, 707 S.W.2d 1, 7 (Tenn.Ct.App.1985). See also id. at 7-8 ("[D]ecisions [regarding whether a litigant can invoke the third-party beneficiary doctrine] are inconsistent and in apparent conflict. . . . The application of. . . . [this doctrine] to construction contracts has been particularly troublesome. . . . The law regarding third party beneficiaries has developed in Tennessee no less tortuously than it has developed in other states."). Notwithstanding the controversial nature of the third-party beneficiary doctrine, Arnold glibly assumed that Braid could avail itself of it. Worse yet, this assumption was implicit: The court did not even identify the doctrine by name, much less discuss the criteria which must be satisfied before it can be invoked. Arnold is also confusing because the court did not explain the purpose of its "independence" inquiry. That issue has no obvious relevance to the question of whether the estate had a property interest in the specific money that Shankle used to pay Braid. Nor *567 does it appear that the trustee argued that he held such an interest. See Arnold, 908 F.2d at 56 (noting the "[a]bsen[ce of] any evidence that Shankle used money that belonged to Arnold to pay Braid"). Presumably, then, the court was considering whether, by accepting payment from Shankle, Braid essentially appropriated Arnold's right of payment. Under this theory, the transfer could be likened to an involuntary seizure, such as occurs when a judgment creditor garnishees the judgment debtor's wages: In either case, the debtor has for all intents and purposes (involuntarily) transferred an account receivable to the creditor. The contention that Braid effectively wrested an account receivable from Arnold would have carried a good deal of force if it had been established that Braid's rights vis-à-vis Shankle were defined by Arnold's rights vis-à-vis Shankle. Such is the case, for example, when a judgment creditor garnishees the judgment debtor's bank account: The creditor has a claim against the bank if, and only to the extent that, the debtor has a claim against the bank. See, e.g., Barnhill v. Johnson, 503 U.S. 393, 398, 112 S.Ct. 1386, 1389, 118 L.Ed.2d 39 (1992) ("A person with an account at a bank enjoys a claim against the bank in an amount equal to the account balance."); In re Battery One-Stop Ltd., 36 F.3d 493, 495 (6th Cir.1994) (Under Ohio law, "[a] garnishee is liable to the judgment creditor for all money, property, and credits . . . of the judgment debtor in his possession." (citation omitted; emphasis added)). Thus when the creditor obtains payment from the bank, it is in a very real sense collecting on the debtor's account receivable: by virtue of the garnishment writ, it has in effect substituted its name for that of the debtor on the "I.O.U." Conversely, the account-appropriation theory runs into conceptual problems if a finding is made that the preference defendant had rights against the payor that are not derivative of the debtor's rights. Under those circumstances, the analogy to a garnishment or similar action breaks down because the defendant is not capitalizing on the happenstance of an obligation running from the third party to the debtor. Hence the Sixth Circuit's emphasis on the independent nature of Shankle's obligation to Braid: Since Braid was entitled to payment from Shankle regardless of whether Shankle paid Arnold, the trustee had no basis for claiming that Braid usurped the estate's right of payment. So understood, the focus in Arnold on Braid's rights against Shankle makes sense. And the omission in that case of any discussion regarding the extent of the estate's control over the subject property is unremarkable: The control doctrine had no logical role to play if the court's perceived task was to determine whether payment to Braid was in substance payment of the debt owed by Shankle to Arnold. See Hartley, 825 F.2d at 1070 ("In the context of transfers by third parties [to the preference defendant], the diminution of estate doctrine asks whether the debtor controlled the property to the extent that he owned it and thus the transfer diminished his estate." Courts are to refer to this doctrine in cases "[w]here there is a question as to the debtor's ownership of the money" paid by the third party. (emphasis added; citation omitted)). Arnold should therefore be construed as holding that the third party's independent obligation established that the transfer did not constitute a seizure of the debtor's account receivable. In attempting to distinguish Arnold, the trustee put a great deal of emphasis on a letter from Geodynamics to UST Tech in which the former sought (and ultimately obtained) UST Tech's "authoriz[ation] . . . to pay [the] . . . amount [owed Zorn by UST Tech] to ZORN . . . and deduct said amount from the outstanding balance due and owing from Geodynamic to UST [T]ech." Trustee's Brief at p. 8. According to the trustee, this authorization demonstrates that Geodynamics was paying the debt that it owed to UST Tech, and thus moots the question of whether Geodynamics was independently liable to Zorn. The trustee's reasoning goes roughly as follows. The ultimate issue in Arnold was whether Shankle's payment was made on account of a debt owed by Shankle to the estate or, instead, on a debt owed by Shankle to Braid. Evidence on that issue was "lacking" in Arnold, so the court assumed the *568 latter. See id. at p. 9. But when there is sufficient affirmative evidence to the contrary, as here in the form of UST Tech's authorization, the assumption no longer applies. See id. There is little in Arnold which supports or negates this argument. The court noted that "one reason Shankle made the payments to Braid was because Shankle was [contractually] obligated to do so." Arnold, 908 F.2d at 55. But that comment appears to have been a simple aside, designed to make the point that even the parties themselves recognized a contractual obligation which the bankruptcy court had overlooked. See id. And other parts of the opinion arguably suggest that the result turned solely on the issue of whether the obligation existed. See, e.g., id. at 56 ("If section 4.4.1 of the contract between the State of Tennessee and Shankle did not exist, then th[e] fact [that Shankle's payment corresponded to the amount Shankle owed to Arnold] might carry more weight."). In short, Arnold is inconclusive with respect to this point. We will therefore attempt to predict how the Sixth Circuit would rule if it were squarely presented with the trustee's argument. See In re Pearson, 917 F.2d 1215, 1216 (9th Cir.1990), cert. denied, 503 U.S. 918, 112 S.Ct. 1291, 117 L.Ed.2d 514 (1992) ("[r]eading the tea leaves" to anticipate how the Supreme Court would decide the issue under consideration); cf. Kingsley Assocs., Inc. v. Moll PlastiCrafters, Inc., 65 F.3d 498, 507 (6th Cir.1995) ("Since the Michigan Supreme Court has not addressed this issue, . . . we must predict how it would resolve the issue from `all relevant data.'" (citation omitted)). The trustee is in effect arguing that he must prevail if Zorn collected on UST Tech's account receivable, rather than on its own account receivable. The problem with this proposition is that it is purely theoretical: In practical terms, it made no difference to any of the parties which "account" Geodynamics was paying. It seems silly to make this inherently arbitrary designation outcome-determinative. This is not to suggest that the trustee's argument favors form over substance. Characterizing this transaction as amounting to an appropriation by Zorn of UST Tech's account receivable against Geodynamics is neither more nor less "valid" than the assertion that Zorn simply cashed in on its own account receivable.[2] But since "economic reality" provides no clear signpost, there is no reason to deviate from the course which Arnold suggests. If faced with this issue, then, we predict that the Sixth Circuit would opt for simplicity over technical nuance by ruling that in cases of this type the sole issue is whether the defendant had an independent right to the money received. Cf. In re Glenn, 760 F.2d 1428, 1435 (6th Cir.) cert. denied, 474 U.S. 849, 106 S.Ct. 144, 88 L.Ed.2d 119 (1985) (resolving statutory uncertainty in favor of a "result . . . [which is] primarily a pragmatic oneone that . . . is most readily capable of use"). This Court therefore concludes that even if UST Tech's authorization is tantamount to an assignment of its claim to Zorn, the latter is not precluded from successfully invoking Arnold's "independence" doctrine. As for the applicability of that doctrine, it is surprising that neither party made the United States/Geodynamics contract a part of the record. Rather than relying on this contract, the Defendant cited the Miller Act, 40 U.S.C. § 270a et seq., in arguing that Geodynamics was satisfying an independent obligation. See Defendant's Brief at p. 3. That Act generally requires that a party entering into a construction contract with the United States "furnish . . . [a] payment bond with a surety . . . satisfactory to . . . [the] officer [awarding the contract] for the protection of all persons supplying labor and material in the prosecution of the work provided for in said contract." 40 U.S.C. § 270a(2). Although Zorn's contract was with UST Tech rather than Geodynamics, it nevertheless had the right to make a claim on the payment bond if UST Tech was a "subcontractor" *569 for purposes of a proviso in the Miller Act which confers such a right on "any person having [a] direct contractual relationship with a subcontractor" of the general contractor. 40 U.S.C. § 270b(a). See MacEvoy Co. v. United States ex rel. The Calvin Tomkins Co., 322 U.S. 102, 108-11, 64 S.Ct. 890, 894-95, 88 L.Ed. 1163 (1944) (holding that a party which contracted with a "materialman" could not recover from the payment bond because a materialman is not a "subcontractor"). UST Tech apparently meets this criterion, as the trustee freely allowed at the hearing on the motion that Zorn had rights against the bond. The trustee did argue, however, that Zorn's reliance on the Miller Act is misplaced because its rights thereunder are only against the bond, and not against Geodynamics itself. Thus the trustee seemed to be asserting that Geodynamics would incur no liability if Zorn had asserted its bond rights under the Miller Act. But at the hearing, he implicitly conceded that Geodynamics would be required to reimburse the surety for any payment made by the latter to Zorn on a bond claim. The trustee, then, is not arguing that Geodynamics has no liability whatsoever vis-à-vis Zorn; rather, he contends that such liability is not triggered until the surety pays the bond claim, and then runs to the surety. The trustee's position appears to be contradictory, since the theory behind the surety's reimbursement claim against Geodynamics would presumably be that Geodynamics is liable on the bond i.e., that Geodynamics is the principal. See, e.g., In re V. Pangori & Sons, Inc., 53 B.R. 711, 716 (Bankr. E.D.Mich.1985) ("Reimbursement . . . is an equitable right implied in law in favor of the surety against the principal."); John J. Petro, The Fundamental Rights and Responsibilities of the Contractor's Surety: What Happens When the Contractor Defaults?, 330 P.L.I./Real 299, 301 (1989) (Since "[a]ny obligation for which the surety must respond must, in the first instance, be an obligation of the principal[,] . . . the principal owes a duty to the surety to indemnify and hold harmless the surety from any loss, claim or liability which the surety might incur as the result of having executed a bond for the principal."). But as will be explained, the trustee's argument is unavailing even if he is correct in asserting that Geodynamics' bond liability to Zorn is only indirect. The gist of the court's holding in Arnold was that Braid did not acquire the estate's account receivable because it had its own right to payment a right which did not derive from the estate's rights against Shankle. Stated differently, the estate lost in Arnold because Shankle could not have satisfied its obligation to Braid by making payment to Arnold. So too in this case. If Geodynamics had paid UST Tech instead of Zorn, the latter would continue to have a right of payment against the surety. And the surety's right of reimbursement means that Zorn's claim will in substance be paid by Geodynamics.[3] Thus there is no reasoned basis for this distinction between direct and indirect obligations: So long as the obligation is independent of the payor's obligation to the debtor, Arnold is applicable. The Plaintiff's third and final argument against summary judgment was that Geodynamics paid Zorn with money that belonged to UST Tech. If that is so, then it would seem that Arnold can properly be distinguished. See supra p. 566-67. However, the assertion does not withstand scrutiny. Whether the Debtor had the requisite interest in the money paid by Geodynamics turns on whether "that property . . . would have been part of the [bankruptcy] estate had it not been transferred." Begier v. IRS, *570 496 U.S. 53, 58, 110 S.Ct. 2258, 2263, 110 L.Ed.2d 46 (1990). The issue will ordinarily be decided under state law. See Barnhill, 503 U.S. at 398, 112 S.Ct. at 1389 ("In the absence of any controlling federal law, `property' and `interests in property' are creatures of state law."); In re Smith, 966 F.2d 1527, 1530 (7th Cir.), cert. dismissed, 506 U.S. 1030, 113 S.Ct. 683, 121 L.Ed.2d 604 (1992) ("The definition of an interest in property' . . . is generally a matter of state law."). In this regard, the Plaintiff did not argue that UST Tech held an explicitly created interest in Geodynamics' money, as might have been the case had the latter established an escrow to secure UST Tech's performance. Nor did he claim that the money in question was under UST Tech's control. Rather, the trustee argued that the money paid by Geodynamics should be deemed to have been the subject of a constructive trust in UST Tech's favor. Such a trust is an equitable remedy used by courts to prevent "unjust enrichment." In re Omegas Group, Inc., 16 F.3d 1443, 1449 (6th Cir.1994) (citation omitted). In support of his constructive-trust argument, the trustee cited the bankruptcy court's decision in In re Gray Electric, 192 B.R. 706 (Bankr.E.D.Mich.1996) (Rhodes, C.J.), rev'd sub nom. Gold v. Alban Tractor Co., 202 B.R. 424 (E.D.Mich.1996). The facts in that case are substantially the same as here. The general contractor of several federal construction projects, DeMaria Building Company, subcontracted with Gray Electric Co., which in turn "purchased equipment from Alban" Tractor Co. Gray Electric, 192 B.R. at 707. Gray Electric "failed to pay $411,653.81 due to Alban for the equipment." Id. Alban sued the other two parties, as well as the surety. Id. at 707-08. In accordance with the terms of a "stipulated settlement agreement," DeMaria paid a total of $250,000 to Alban. Id. at 708. This payment was by means of three checks made payable to the order of Alban and Gray Electric, the latter endorsing the checks over to Alban "[a]t DeMaria's direction." Id. The trustee for Gray Electric's estate argued that these payments were avoidable under § 547(b). Id. The only issue before the bankruptcy court was "whether the debtor had any interest in the funds paid by DeMaria to Alban." Id. at 709. It decided that issue in the trustee's favor. Id. at 710-11. In so holding, the court stressed that the money used by DeMaria to pay Alban constituted "funds owed to the debtor on the various construction projects, which had been withheld when the debtor failed to pay Alban." Id. at 710. Since "DeMaria used funds that were owed to the debtor," the court apparently reasoned, the debtor had the requisite interest in those funds. See id. (distinguishing Arnold, supra p. 565, on the grounds that "[t]here was no evidence that Shankle used money that belonged to Arnold to pay Braid" (emphasis added)). The court's holding was based in large part on the conclusion that the transfer diminished the debtor's estate. See Gray Electric, 192 B.R. at 711. Use of that criterion is misguided, however, as estate depletion is a consequence of a transfer of the debtor's property interest not proof that such an interest was in fact transferred. See Hartley, 825 F.2d at 1070 ("[T]he court must determine whether the debtor had such an interest in the funds such that a transfer thereof would result in a diminution of the estate." (citations omitted)); Coral Petroleum, Inc. v. Banque Paribas-London, 797 F.2d 1351, 1355-56 (5th Cir.1986) ("[I]t is essential that the debtor have an interest in the property transferred so that the estate is thereby diminished." (citation omitted)); cf. Smith, 966 F.2d at 1536 n. 13 ("The view that `an interest of the debtor in property' turns on a diminution of the debtor's `estate' would seem to conflict with the Supreme Court's admonition that the property issue is simply a matter of state law."). Also troubling is the standard used by the court in concluding that the estate had been diminished. The appropriate test in this context is whether the transferred "property . . . would have been part of the estate had it not been transferred." Begier, 496 U.S. at 58, 110 S.Ct. at 2263 (emphasis added). Cf. Brown, 748 F.2d at 491 ("It must be shown that the transfer depleted the debtor's estate." (emphasis added)). Gray Electric recast *571 this sensible formulation so that the estate had a guaranteed winner: [T]he debtor's estate was . . . diminished by the amount of th[e] payments to Alban, because if the debtor had received all that it was due from DeMaria under its subcontract agreement, there would have been more assets in the debtor's estate with which to pay unsecured creditors. Gray Electric, 192 B.R. at 711 (emphasis added). Using this mode of analysis, of course, all property transfers can be said to diminish the estate even those having no conceivable nexus to the debtor or the debtor's property. And when this inquiry led to the (inevitable) conclusion that the transfer "depleted" the estate, the bankruptcy court supplied the missing link of debtor ownership under the convenient theory of constructive trust. See id. at 710-11. The court's invocation of that theory leads to more problems. The court of appeals recently indicated that a constructive trust in favor of a creditor of the bankruptcy estate cannot be recognized unless it was imposed by pre-petition judicial decree. See Omegas, 16 F.3d at 1449-52. Yet despite the obvious implications of that case, Gray Electric did not discuss it. This apparent oversight may not be serious, inasmuch as Omegas is potentially distinguishable. The Sixth Circuit "recognize[d] that there is dicta in Selby v. Ford Motor Co., 590 F.2d 642 (6th Cir.1979) noting that various courts have held that `[i]n the absence of statute . . . construction funds in the hands of a contractor are held subject to a constructive trust or an equitable assignment or an equitable lien.'" Omegas, 16 F.3d at 1451 (quoting Selby, 590 F.2d at 648). It distinguished Selby in cursory fashion, describing it as "limited in application to the specific exigencies of the construction industry." Id. Thus Omegas leaves room for the argument that creditors in the construction industry are excepted from the "no-more-constructive-trusts" rule. In fact, this interpretation of Omegas would seem to be necessary to harmonize the Sixth Circuit's decision with Supreme Court precedent. See Pearlman v. Reliance Ins. Co., 371 U.S. 132, 136-41, 83 S.Ct. 232, 234-37, 9 L.Ed.2d 190 (1962) (The bankruptcy estate of a general contractor did not acquire equitable title to funds withheld from the contractor by the project owner because such title vested in the contractor's surety, which had paid the contractor's debts as required by the payment bond.[4]). The Omegas rule may be inapplicable in this context for a different reason. A central premise of the court's opinion was that the constructive trust doctrine is contrary to the principle of parity among creditors. See Omegas, 16 F.3d at 1452 ("Constructive trusts are anathema to the equities of bankruptcy since they take from the estate, and thus directly from competing creditors, not from the offending debtor."). Where, as here and in Gray Electric, it is the estate which seeks to invoke the doctrine, that concern is of course not implicated. Cf. United States v. NBD Bank, 922 F.Supp. 1235, 1243 (E.D.Mich.1996) ("The funds being sought in this case are in the hands of NBD, not Fidelity's bankruptcy estate. . . . Thus the rationale of the rule in Omegas clearly does not apply. If this court imposes a constructive trust over these funds, ratable distribution of the bankruptcy estate will not be affected because the funds are not being taken from the estate."). To the contrary, such use of the doctrine would subserve what Omegas called "the equities of bankruptcy," creating a larger estate from which creditors could be paid according to the priorities of the Code. See Omegas, 16 F.3d at 1452. It therefore could be argued that Omegas does not preclude the trustee from invoking the doctrine of constructive trust. Even if Omegas is inapplicable for either or both of the reasons mentioned, however, *572 there are other problems with Gray Electric's use of the constructive-trust doctrine. The relevant time frame for ascertaining the nature of the debtor's interest in transferred property is, of course, immediately prior to the transfer. See Begier, 496 U.S. at 55, 58, 110 S.Ct. at 2261, 2262-63. And there is no indication in the opinion that anything transpired during that period of time which would even remotely call for invocation of a constructive trust or similar remedy in Gray Electric's favor. See generally H. Jefferson Powell, "Cardozo's Foot": The Chancellor's Conscience and Constructive Trusts, 56 Law & Contemp. Probs. 7, 14 (Summer, 1993) (noting that "mistake, fraud, duress and undue influence" comprise the non-exhaustive list of grounds provided by the Restatement of Restitution as justifying the "deci[sion] that one has been unjustly enriched"). The bankruptcy court failed to explain, nor is it clear, how such a remedy can be used to vest Gray Electric with rights in DeMaria's money before it was paid to Alban. Indeed, there is not even a suggestion in Gray Electric that the payment itself involved mistake or some sort of misconduct. Also troublesome is the bankruptcy court's reliance on Arnold for "the principle that `construction funds in the hands of a contractor are held subject to a constructive trust.'" Gray Electric, 192 B.R. at 710 (quoting Arnold, which in turn quoted Selby, supra p. 571). This trust, the bankruptcy court explained, "exists even in the absence of express contractual language or a statute establishing that sort of obligation." Id. (citing Arnold). One problem with this assertion is that neither Selby nor Arnold actually imposed a constructive trust. As the Sixth Circuit itself later acknowledged, the pertinent passage from Selby was dicta. See Omegas, 16 F.3d at 1451. Arnold simply restated this dicta, and did so only "to support the contractor's independent obligation to the supplier, and not as the Bankruptcy Court would have it to support a `constructive trust' on behalf of the debtor subcontractor." Gold, 202 B.R. at 428. Of course, the fact that Arnold's reference to constructive trusts was made to illustrate a different point does not necessarily undermine the proposition that such a trust arises in favor of the debtor/bankruptcy estate with respect to "construction funds" in the hands of a contractor. But what the lower court in Gray Electric failed to recognize is that that proposition is incompatible with Arnold's holding that Shankle's payment did not involve property in which the estate held an interest. After all, Arnold would have been just as logical (or illogical) a beneficiary of a constructive trust imposed on Shankle's money as would Gray Electric vis-à-vis DeMaria's money. Rather than focusing on the outcome in Arnold, the bankruptcy court was led astray by passages in that opinion which in light of the Sixth Circuit's holding can only be dismissed as loose talk. A key problem with Gray Electric relates to its finding that the transfer involved money that DeMaria "owed" to Gray Electric. Clearly, DeMaria owed money to the debtor. But it would seem to be just as clear that the debtor had no claim to, or rights in, specific dollar bills in DeMaria's corporate coffers. Orthographic similarity notwithstanding, there is a great difference between money owed and money owned: The bankruptcy court bridged this gap with no real explanation, ruling in effect that Gray Electric had an enforceable right to be paid with the very same money that DeMaria used to pay Alban. The bankruptcy court's decision was perhaps animated by the concern that Alban would otherwise be circumventing an undisputed policy underlying § 547(b), which is to prevent debtors from favoring one creditor over another. See, e.g., Smith, 966 F.2d at 1535 ("[T]he avoidance power promotes the `prime bankruptcy policy of equality of distribution among creditors' by ensuring that all creditors of the same class will receive the same pro rata share of the debtor's estate.") (quoting H.R.Rep. No. 595, 95th Cong., 2d Sess. 177-78 (1978)). But if Alban got favorable treatment, it was doled out by DeMaria, not the debtor. In fact, Alban was in this sense no different from a creditor who collects from a third-party guarantor or surety a situation in which courts routinely hold that no voidable preference occurs. See, e.g., *573 In re Lockard, 884 F.2d 1171, 1177 (9th Cir.1989) ("[T]he `overwhelming weight of authority' under both the Bankruptcy Act and Code holds that a contractor has no property interest in a surety bond issued by a third-party to guarantee the contractor's performance. . . ."); In re Bohlen Enters., 859 F.2d 561, 565 (8th Cir.1988); Brown, 748 F.2d at 491; cf. In re Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co., 660 F.2d 1108, 1113 (6th Cir. 1981) ("The insurance fund, not the debtor's estate, pays the claims for which the employer has paid the premium. Therefore, as to claims arising [while the employer was self-insured] . . ., the claimants can collect from the Commission[,] which can then resort to the surety bonds pledged [by the employer] as security. These bonds are the property of the Commission and are not assets of the debtor's estate."). It may be true that DeMaria's "special treatment" of Alban, if one wants to call it that, prejudiced the estate by giving DeMaria a setoff right that effectively rendered UST Tech's account receivable uncollectible. But see 11 U.S.C. § 553(b) (permitting the trustee to "recover" certain setoffs occurring within 90 days pre-petition). The simple and proper response to this point is that "prejudice" is not enough under § 547(b): The transfer has to harm the estate because it stripped the debtor of a property interest that is recognized under applicable nonbankruptcy law. That statutory requirement cannot be ignored, even for the sake of promoting the bankruptcy ideal of parity among creditors. See generally, e.g., Norwest Bank Worthington v. Ahlers, 485 U.S. 197, 206, 108 S.Ct. 963, 969, 99 L.Ed.2d 169 (1988) ("[W]hatever equitable powers remain in the bankruptcy courts must and can only be exercised within the confines of the Bankruptcy Code."). The trustee needed to show that there is a "genuine issue" concerning the question of whether UST Tech held an interest in the money used by Geodynamics to pay Zorn. F.R.Civ.P. 56(c) (incorporated by F.R.Bankr.P. 7056). See, e.g., Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 2552, 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986) ("[T]he plain language of Rule 56(c) mandates the entry of summary judgment, after adequate time for discovery and upon motion, against a party who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial."). In this regard, the sum and substance of his position was that the facts here are indistinguishable from the facts in Gray Electric, and that that case was correctly decided by the bankruptcy court. Because we disagree with the latter assertion, the Court rejects the trustee's contention that UST Tech owned the money paid by Geodynamics to Zorn. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The gist of the Defendant's motion was that summary judgment in its favor is mandated by Arnold. The Plaintiff challenged that assertion by making the following allegations: (1) Geodynamics paid the debt it owed to UST Tech, rather than the debt it owed to Zorn; (2) insofar as Zorn was concerned, Geodynamics' only obligation was to reimburse the surety in the event the latter paid Zorn's bond claim; and (3) UST Tech owned an interest in the money with which Geodynamics paid Zorn. The first allegation calls for an inquiry into which debt the parties "had in mind" when the preference defendant received the payment in question. The Court's expectation is that the Sixth Circuit would reject this hairsplitting, formalistic approach. The second allegation is irrelevant to the underlying purpose of the "independence" test i.e., to ascertain whether the preference defendant's right of payment was coextensive with the debtor's right of payment. The trustee's theory as to the nature of Geodynamics' obligation to Zorn may (or may not) be correct, but it in no way negates Zorn's contention that its payment right is non-derivative of UST Tech's payment right. In contrast to the first two allegations, the third one if correct would be availing to the trustee. However, the trustee failed to substantiate this allegation. *574 For these reasons, the Defendant's motion will be granted.[5] The Plaintiff's own motion for partial summary judgment, which was premised on denial of the Defendant's motion, will be denied. Dated: February 13, 1997. NOTES [1] Whereas § 547(b) is directed at property interests owned by the debtor, § 549 refers to "transfer[s] of property of the estate." 11 U.S.C. § 549(a). However, this distinction simply reflects the fact that, with few exceptions, the debtor's property is the estate's property once the bankruptcy petition has been filed. See 11 U.S.C. § 541(a)(1) (Estate property generally comprises "all . . . interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the case."); see also Begier v. IRS, 496 U.S. 53, 58, 110 S.Ct. 2258, 2263, 110 L.Ed.2d 46 (1990) ("`[P]roperty of the debtor' subject to the preferential transfer provision is best understood as that property that would have been part of the estate had it not been transferred before the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings."). [2] Under this latter scenario, UST Tech retains its claim against Geodynamics. That claim, however, is subject to Geodynamics' right of setoff for paying Zorn, a debt which rightfully should have been paid by UST Tech. [3] It likely is true that, upon paying the surety, Geodynamics would then have a claim (or setoff right) against UST Tech. But that was no less true in Arnold: If Shankle had already paid Arnold when it made the payment to Braid, Shankle would presumably have had a reimbursement claim against the estate. Indeed, the trustee's action must have been predicated on the assumption that Shankle's payment by giving rise to a right of setoff effectively worked a pro tanto discharge of Shankle's obligation to the estate. If there were no such setoff right, then presumably the trustee would simply have collected his account receivable from Shankle, and not worried about the latter's payment to Braid. It therefore makes no difference here whether Geodynamics would have a reimbursement right after indemnifying the surety. [4] The surety in Pearlman did not obtain a prepetition declaration that it held a property interest in the funds, nor was such an interest created by statute. See Pearlman, 371 U.S. at 136, 83 S.Ct. at 234-35. It bears noting that while Pearlman was a construction case, the Court did not purport to limit its "equitable lien" rationale to the building industry. Unfortunately, Omegas did not mention Pearlman, much less attempt to distinguish it. 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The Russian occupation force took removed the commemorative plaque for Vasyl Stus (1938–1985) at Donetsk University. Stus was a Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he died in Gorbachev-era GULAG. (Image: Larysa Lysiak) Article by: A. N. Exposed bricks, that’s all that remains in place of the commemorative plaque to one of the bravest people that ever lived in Donetsk. The Russian occupation force cowardly took it down. The plaque attached to the facade of Donetsk University was honoring one of its graduates, the major Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus. Stus never took an easy path. His love for Ukraine, his literary talent and inextinguishable sense of justice made it impossible for him to be silent about the suppression of human rights and everything Ukrainian under the Communist rule. Through his poetry and activity in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, he fought the totalitarian state, but the fight was unequal. He died at the age of 47, while serving the fifth year of a 10-year sentence on charges of “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” in a GULAG mine six months after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR. Weep, sky, weep and weep! Wash the unabated seaOf thin-voiced waters and dampen the heart.It seems it was just now, just yesterdayThat a deathly shiver buried you alive.Weep, sky, weep and weep! The past cannot be returned.Today has been reduced to naught, the future will not come.Something weighs on the mind that can neverBe torn from the heart. This prison is a prison for prisons!Weep, sky, weep and weep! Still over your horizonsAnd let the stars fall from darkened skies!Is there in this world a trumpet that will soundA final blast to keep me from my resurrection?Flow, water, flaw and sweep me away from my weariness,For eternities of bondage have crushed me.High upland thunder, girdle the earth!Pitch-winged cloud, bless me!Lightning, send a message!Hallowed be the world. The night is its companion.So, water. Flow forth! And you, misfortune, rage! – Vasyl Stus (Translated by Marco Carynnyk, The Ukrainian Weekly, September 15, 1985, p. 10., taken from article by Dr. Wolodymyr Zyla published online) The plaque to Vasyl Stus before it was taken down by the Russian occupation force (Image: Yakudza, wikipedia.org) Related What low lifes did this to a poet who died in the Gulag? How much lower can they go? John Shirley Well if you take a look at Putin, I’d say about 5’4″ with shoe lifts. Of course I’ve heard he is much lower when he is on his knees around little boys. Marko Russian golden horde barbarians. The ebola of the World. The Scum of the Earth. Randall Cook ruskis are barbaric vermin; and should be treated that way. Their western moral-supporters should be executed. Or deported to ruSSland with the other nazis there. Dirk Smith Subhumans. ISIS, Taliban, Putinists. Borys Potytorsky the ruSSians have shown the world ONCE again who they really are, nothing but asiatic DNA defected barbarians. no class just animals canuke Cowards! disqus_aJpixObjG7 The ethnic russians were doing this in Eastern Ukraine even before the NAZI/russian invasion of 2014- Most new post-1991 monuments or plaques to Ukrainian culture were immediately smashed and destroyed with sledge hammers and Ukrainians furthering their own cultural identity were regularly beaten almost to death or murdered… the ethnic russian police looked on approvingly…such is the russian racist genocidal anti UKRAINIAN mania.. Jack McColley You must understand. They are only correcting historical errors. According to Putinology, this poet never existed. Ukraine is pulling down all statues of the communist gods, and so Putin will do the same for Ukrainian false heroes. Soon, there will be no history at all for either side in this conflict. All will be obliterated. In fact, it is said all Ukrainians will be shipped to Siberia where there is no population, and all of what was Ukraine will be a vast buffer to keep European homosexuals and other perverts out. This will be accomplished by removing the dome at Chernobyl. Long live mother Russia. She may be a whore, but she’s our mother, and we love her. Article by: Mariana Budjeryn By now, it is a well-known story: in the early 1990s, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal inherited from the collapsed Soviet Union in exchange for security assurances from nuclear... | Mid | [
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St Mary's Church, Preston Park St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Preston Village area of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. It was built from 1910 to 1912 in the Arts and Crafts style of Gothic Revival architecture. It is situated on the Surrenden Road on the corner with Preston Drove opposite Preston Park. It was designed by Percy Aiden Lamb, a student of Edward Goldie, and is a Grade II listed building. History Foundation In 1903, the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction of Nevers moved into the Preston Village area of Brighton. They did so to escape the secularisation occurring in France at the time. At first they worked within the parish of St Joseph's Church in Brighton. In 1904, the sisters were invited by the Bishop of Southwark, Peter Amigo, to start a convent school in the Withdean area of the city. Their convent chapel also served as a place of worship for the local Catholic population. In 1906, a Fr Frederick Hopper became chaplain to the convent. With the increasing congregation he started the process of getting a new Catholic church built in the area. Construction In 1907, the site for St Mary's Church was bought from the lands of Preston Manor. Catherine and Denis Broderick gave money for the building of the church. On 9 August 1910, the foundation stone was laid. In 1912, construction was finished and the first Mass was said in the church on 7 April 1912. Construction was halted then because of a disagreement because Broderick wanted the sanctuary built first, instead of Hopper's plans of building a tower. When the church was opened, a tower was built, but the east side of the church with its fittings were left unfinished. The architect was Percy Aidan Lamb. In 1907, not long before being commissioned to design St Mary's Church, he started his architectural firm in London. Before that he trained with Edward Goldie. From 1895 to 1907, he worked for John Francis Bentley on the construction of Westminster Cathedral. He built St Mary's Church in the Gothic Revival style with Arts and Crafts movement influences. In the church, he also designed the font made of onyx. It was made by J. Whitehead & Son, crafted from a pair of columns originally constructed for Westminster Cathedral. Developments In 1918, the old high altar was installed in the church. It was from the old Xaverian College in Brighton. The pews in the church were made by the congregation and were inspired by the pews in St Michael and All Angels Church in Harbledown, Kent. In the 1950s, the interior was renovated. The floor was relaid and the reredos was removed. In 1978, the presbytery was built to the north of the church and the sanctuary was added. It was built in the shape of a polygon and both were designed by Patrick Foley. In 1979, the stained glass window in the east side of the church was added. It was designed by Cox & Barnard. In 2004, with funding from Cyril Cassidy and plans by the priest, Canon Oliver Heaney, the construction of a parish centre was proposed. In 2007, the Cassidy Centre was opened by the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Kieran Conry. It is attached to the east end of the church and designed by Stephen Wright from the Brighton-based Morgan Carn firm. They also worked on the Divine Motherhood and St Francis of Assisi Church in Midhurst. That year, the stained glass window behind the font was added. It was designed by Caroline Benyon who worked out of the Glass House in Fulham. In 2011, the convent, from which St Mary's Church was founded, closed. Parish The church has three Sunday Masses, they are at 7:00 pm on Saturday evening and at 10:00 am and 12 midday on Sunday. There are weekday Masses at 10:00 am on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Interior See also List of places of worship in Brighton and Hove Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton References External links St Mary's Parish site Category:Roman Catholic churches in Brighton and Hove Category:Grade II listed churches in East Sussex Category:Grade II listed Roman Catholic churches in England Category:Arts and Crafts architecture in England Category:Gothic Revival architecture in East Sussex Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in England Category:1910 establishments in England Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1910 | High | [
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Global Economy's Derivatives Bubble Hits A Record High The global derivatives bubble is now 20 percent bigger than it was just before the last great financial crisis struck in 2008. It is a financial bubble far larger than anything the world has ever seen, and when it finally bursts it is going to be a complete and utter nightmare for the financial system of the planet. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total notional value of derivatives contracts around the world has ballooned to an astounding 710 trillion dollars ($710,000,000,000,000). Other estimates put the grand total well over a quadrillion dollars. If that sounds like a lot of money, that is because it is. For example, U.S. GDP is projected to be in the neighborhood of around 17 trillion dollars for 2014. So 710 trillion dollars is an amount of money that is almost incomprehensible. Instead of actually doing something about the insanely reckless behavior of the big banks, our leaders have allowed the derivatives bubble and these banks to get larger than ever. In fact, as I have written about previously, the big Wall Street banks are collectively 37 percent larger than they were just prior to the last recession. "Too big to fail" is a far more massive problem than it was the last time around, and at some point this derivatives bubble is going to burst and start taking those banks down. When that day arrives, we are going to be facing a crisis that is going to make 2008 look like a Sunday picnic. If you do not know what a derivative is, Mayra Rodríguez Valladares, a managing principal at MRV Associates, provided a pretty good definition in her recent article for the New York Times... A derivative, put simply, is a contract between two parties whose value is determined by changes in the value of an underlying asset. Those assets could be bonds, equities, commodities or currencies. The majority of contracts are traded over the counter, where details about pricing, risk measurement and collateral, if any, are not available to the public. take our poll - story continues below How have you been greeting people this holiday season? How have you been greeting people this holiday season? How have you been greeting people this holiday season?* Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Bah Humbug. Make America Great Again! Email* Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Completing this poll grants you access to Freedom Outpost updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to this site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. In other words, a derivative does not have any intrinsic value. It is essentially a side bet. Most commonly, derivative contracts have to do with the movement of interest rates. But there are many, many other kinds of derivatives as well. People are betting on just about anything and everything that you can imagine, and Wall Street has been transformed into the largest casino in the history of the planet. After the last financial crisis, our politicians promised us that they would do something to get derivatives trading under control. But instead, the size of the derivatives bubble has reached a new record high. In the New York Times article I mentioned above, Goldman Sachs and Citibank were singled out as two players that have experienced tremendous growth in this area in recent years... Goldman Sachs has been increasing its derivatives volumes since the crisis, and it had a portfolio of about $48 trillion at the end of 2013. Bloomberg Businessweek recently reported that as part of its growth strategy, Goldman plans to sell more derivatives to clients. Citibank, too, has been increasing its derivatives portfolio, despite the numerous capital and regulatory challenges, In fact, its portfolio has risen by over 65 percent since the crisis — the most of any of the four banks — to $62 trillion. According to official government numbers, the top 25 banks in the United States now have a grand total of more than 236 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives. But there are four banks that dwarf everyone else. The following are the latest numbers for those four banks... JPMorgan Chase Total Assets: $1,945,467,000,000 (nearly 2 trillion dollars) Total Exposure To Derivatives: $70,088,625,000,000 (more than 70 trillion dollars) Citibank Total Assets: $1,346,747,000,000 (a bit more than 1.3 trillion dollars) Total Exposure To Derivatives: $62,247,698,000,000 (more than 62 trillion dollars) Bank Of America Total Assets: $1,433,716,000,000 (a bit more than 1.4 trillion dollars) Total Exposure To Derivatives: $38,850,900,000,000 (more than 38 trillion dollars) Goldman Sachs Total Assets: $105,616,000,000 (just a shade over 105 billion dollars – yes, you read that correctly) Total Exposure To Derivatives: $48,611,684,000,000 (more than 48 trillion dollars) If the stock market keeps going up, interest rates stay fairly stable and the global economy does not experience a major downturn, this bubble will probably not burst for a while. But if there is a major shock to the system, we could easily experience a major derivatives crisis very rapidly and several of those banks could fail simultaneously. There are many out there that would welcome the collapse of the big banks, but that would also be very bad news for the rest of us. You see, the truth is that the U.S. economy is like a very sick patient with an extremely advanced case of cancer. You can try to kill the cancer (the banks), but in the process you will inevitably kill the patient as well. Right now, the five largest banks account for 42 percent of all loans in the entire country, and the six largest banks control 67 percent of all banking assets. If they go down, we go down too. That is why the fact that they have been so reckless is so infuriating. Just look at the numbers for Goldman Sachs again. At this point, the total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 460 times greater than their total assets. And this kind of thing is not just happening in the United States. German banking giant Deutsche Bank has more than 75 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives. That is even more than any single U.S. bank has. This derivatives bubble is a "sword of Damocles" that is hanging over the global economy by a thread day after day, month after month, year after year. At some point that thread is going to break, the bubble is going to burst, and then all hell is going to break loose. You see, the truth is that virtually none of the underlying problems that caused the last financial crisis have been fixed. Instead, our problems have just gotten even bigger and the financial bubbles have gotten even larger. Never before in the history of the United States have we been faced with the threat of such a great financial catastrophe. Sadly, most Americans are totally oblivious to all of this. They just have faith that our leaders know what they are doing, and they have been lulled into complacency by the bubble of false stability that we have been enjoying for the last couple of years. Unfortunately for them, this bubble of false stability is not going to last much longer. A financial crisis far greater than what we experienced in 2008 is coming, and it is going to shock the world. About the AuthorMichael Snyder Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years. Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael and his wife, Meranda, believe that a great awakening is coming and are working hard to help bring renewal to America. Michael is also the author of the book The Beginning Of The End Join the conversation! We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, vulgarity, profanity, all caps, or discourteous behavior. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain a courteous and useful public environment where we can engage in reasonable discourse. | High | [
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Whaddya do if you realize you're not the hero of your own story? How lame could you feel? How impotent and pointless would your existence seem? I didnWhaddya do if you realize you're not the hero of your own story? How lame could you feel? How impotent and pointless would your existence seem? I didn't expect this theme or anything as...erm...profound to be found in this book (read the back cover and you'll understand). I was looking forward to some witty repartee, ridiculously comic circumstances and a lot of bad (but totally enjoyable) puns. It was weird - I found all that and more, although the emotional 360 as our protagonist comes to terms with his own self-imposed unimportance was a little depressing as it strikes a chord that everyone has probably felt at one time or another. Yet, our spunky man-hero does not resign himself to despondency and he triumphs over fate, fatalism, and self-pity in a funny story with an interesting theme. ...more | Low | [
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Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azazel is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. Written by Ben Borg <[email protected]> | Mid | [
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This invention pertains generally to mattresses and beds and, more particularly, to an air bed. Beds heretofore provided have, for the most part, employed innerspring mattresses and foundations, although some alternative support systems such as waterbeds and air beds have also been provided. Air beds have certain advantages in that the pressure within an air mattress, and hence the firmness of the bed, can be adjusted to suit the needs of the person sleeping on it. In beds designed for more than one person, side-by-side air mattresses have been employed, and with the firmness of each mattress controlled independently. Examples of air beds, controls and related components are found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,644,597, 4,829,616, 4,890,344, 4,897,890, 4,908,895, 4,991,244, 5,144,706, 5,170,522 and 5,509,154. It is in general an object of the invention to provide a new and improved air bed. Another object of the invention is to provide an air bed of the above character which overcomes the limitations and disadvantages of air beds and other sleep systems of the prior art. These and other objects are achieved in accordance with the invention by providing an air bed having a knockdown foundation made up of preassembled boxes which are used as shipping containers for the other elements of the bed, mattresses having interposed sets of isolated chambers for improved pressure distribution, contoured foam rails surrounding the mattresses and a visco-elastic foam pad overlying them, a cover with a removable pillow top enclosing the mattresses and foam, a blower assembly mounted inside one of the rails with control valves for supplying air to and removing air from the mattresses, and individual controls with means for returning the pressure in the mattresses to a desired level upon command and means for preventing a drop in mattress pressure as the blower is turned on to increase that pressure. | High | [
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Q: What are the Japanese terms for "character dictionary"? "漢辞海"? "漢字典"? I'm looking for a cheap secondhand character dictionary in Japan but: I don't know if there is one or more kind of these, and I don't know what they are called. Two I saw had these on their spines, but I don't know if they are titles or types of dictionary: 漢辞海 漢字典 Tsuyoshi Ito suggests this term in a comment: 漢和辞典 Is there more than one kind of character dictionary? What are the various kinds called? (Please supply romaji or at least kana too) I do not need to know about general Japanese or translating dictionaries, just the ones that focus on kanji. A: 漢和辞典 is what you want: Shinchosha have just released a Kanji-only dictionary called: Shin'Nihongo Kanji Jiten: http://www.shinchosha.co.jp/jiten/kanjijiten/index.html that includes not only words with origins in China, but also native Japanese words that happen to be scripted in Kanji. | High | [
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US ‘almost out of time’ for debt deal: Obama July 30, 2011 8:31 am Shares By AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, WASHINGTON, Jul 30 – Spurred on by President Barack Obama, US lawmakers on Saturday began a frantic beat-the-clock weekend effort to avert a disastrous debt default that could plunge the world economy into recession. In a grim warning of what may come if there is no breakthrough by a midnight Tuesday deadline, US markets fell for a fifth straight day Friday — a month of gains wiped out in a week due to poor US growth and the political stalemate. “We are almost out of time. We need to reach a compromise by Tuesday so that our country will have the ability to pay its bills on time, as we always have,” Obama said in appeal for Republicans and Democrats to carve out a deal. The US economy hit its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling on May 16 and has used spending and accounting adjustments, as well as higher-than-expected tax receipts, to continue operating normally — but can only do so through Tuesday. Business and finance leaders have warned that default would send crippling aftershocks through the fragile US economy, still wrestling with stubbornly high unemployment in the wake of the 2008 global meltdown. The Republican-held House of Representatives late Friday passed Republican Speaker John Boehner’s bill to avert a default, but within two hours it had been rejected by 59-41 votes in the Democratic-led Senate. Twenty-two House Republicans had joined all 188 Democrats voting in opposing Boehner’s legislation, while 218 Republicans backed it — eking out the 216 votes needed for passage. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he hoped Republican Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would now help work out a final deal — the outlines of which were far from clear with the clock ticking down. White House spokesman Jay Carney derided the House vote as “a political exercise” and pressed lawmakers to “start working together immediately to reach a compromise” that avoids default while reining in the galloping US deficit. A key sticking point was the duration of any debt limit increase: Reid rejected Boehner’s plan in large part because it would set the stage for another high-stakes showdown in a few months. “We cannot be in this battle all the time,” said Reid, whose own plan aimed to spare Obama another politically fraught debt battle as he seeks a second term in the November 2012 elections. Boehner’s bill had sought to pair raising the debt ceiling by $900 billion with spending cuts of some $917 billion over 10 years, while requiring later debt limit increases be tied to congressional passage of a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution for ratification by the 50 states. Reid, whose Democrats oppose tying the debt limit to such amendment, has offered a blueprint that would raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion while cutting spending by some $2.4 trillion over 10 years. And he grafted onto his bill a two-week-old “backup plan” mechanism by McConnell that would effectively allow Obama to raise the debt limit by that amount in three steps with only Democratic votes. Reid also moved to set up procedural votes on the road to final Senate passage of a compromise on Monday or Tuesday — if a deal emerges out of the angrily partisan chamber, where Republicans can block legislation. That would leave it up to the bitterly divided House to take the final step, a vote that would require Democrats and Republicans to pass the legislation in a down-to-the-wire endgame with unprecedented financial stakes. In more bad news for the US economy, struggling to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, government data released Friday showed economic growth had nearly stalled in the first half. The US economy grew at a dead-pace 0.4 percent in the first quarter and only 1.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011, the Commerce Department said. Markets around the world remained on edge as Asian stocks fell amid fears that US lawmakers will not break the deadlock. Index | Next AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Agence France-Presse is a global news agency delivering fast, in-depth coverage of the events shaping our world from wars and conflicts to politics, sports, entertainment and the latest breakthroughs in health, science and technology. | Mid | [
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The potential of 1H-MRS in CNS drug development. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) is a cross-species neuroimaging technique that can measure concentrations of several brain metabolites, including glutamate and GABA. This non-invasive method has promise in developing centrally acting drugs, as it can be performed repeatedly within-subjects and be used to translate findings from the preclinical to clinical laboratory using the same imaging biomarker. This review focuses on the utility of single-voxel 1H-MRS in developing novel glutamatergic or GABAergic drugs for the treatment of psychiatric disorders and includes research performed in rodent models, healthy volunteers and patient cohorts. Overall, these studies indicate that 1H-MRS is able to detect the predicted pharmacological effects of glutamatergic or GABAergic drugs on voxel glutamate or GABA concentrations, although there is a shortage of studies examining dose-related effects. Clinical studies have applied 1H-MRS to better understand drug therapeutic mechanisms, including the glutamatergic effects of ketamine in depression and of acamprosate in alcohol dependence. There is an emerging interest in identifying patient subgroups with 'high' or 'low' brain regional 1H-MRS glutamate levels for more targeted drug development, which may require ancillary biomarkers to improve the accuracy of subgroup discrimination. Considerations for future research include the sensitivity of single-voxel 1H-MRS in detecting drug effects, inter-site measurement reliability and the interpretation of drug-induced changes in 1H-MRS metabolites relative to the known pharmacological molecular mechanisms. On-going technological development, in single-voxel 1H-MRS and in related complementary techniques, will further support applications within CNS drug discovery. | High | [
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Keith, It was a great pleasure to work you with on this project. The entire Enron team was impressed by the quality of the students and commitment of the School to exploring new and creative ways of exposing students to business problems. Vince Weigelt <[email protected]> on 04/10/2001 12:05:25 PM To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> cc: Subject: Enron project Vince; I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed working with Enron on the Tiger Project. I found the interaction with you and your colleagues very stimulating. The ideas we covered (like whether there are network externalities in these markets) was more like a workshop than a project. I wish all businessmen had your interests and capabilities. Thanks Keith | Mid | [
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Like this: Good morning sunshine! The most unreliable source aka "Wikipedia" states "Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy". I would've went with dictionary.com but it defines happiness simply as the state of being happy. Seeing that definition was equivalent to feel asking my mom where she's going for her to respond "out" lol. hence why I went with the first definition. Anyway, I wanted to share my thoughts on this topic because I've been on the off and on roller coaster to being happy. Some days it comes easy and others not so much. So what i've learned: Back in the (pre-blogging) days I'd pick menswear over womenswear almost always! I wore suits, suspenders, ties, pocket squares, the works. These beauties that Cat footwear sent over has me wanted to give menswear a round for spring. They're clean, classic, timeless and super quality leather. My dad and Sam both want a pair. haha! You may be seeing me shift towards menswear heavy, soon. My personal style is as confused as a chameleon in a bag of skittles so who knows, we'll see! You know when you mess up your eyeliner so you add layers upon layers in an attempt to fix it but you end up with sharpie strokes on your face? Well, that's exactly what happened here but with the help of this shorts/dress situation I think I rocked it. I felt gone with the wind fabulous, honey! As many times as I've seen blogger shoots at this concert hall, we knew we had to come back and play after shooting a set for Lace & Liberty. We even threw a couple of flash photography shots in there for chuckles. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to similar dress/ short items! | Mid | [
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The Manchester United striker suffered the injury while on international duty with Mexico this week, but won’t let that stop him finding a new club. Manchester United attacker Javier Hernandez is still said to be available for sale this summer, despite a recent injury sustained on international duty jeopardising such a departure, according to the Manchester Evening News. He broke his collarbone in Mexico’s match with Honduras on Wednesday, and the concern was that he would be out for an extended period and attract minimum interest as a result. But according to the MEN, hospital scan confirms that Hernandez will only miss a month, and therefore could still leave before the transfer window closes. The striker has been linked with a number of clubs over the last 12 months, as he slipped further from the first team picture at Old Trafford, and the last thing the 27-year-old would have wanted was to be unable to play, thus making him a less attractive signing. The Mexican endured a difficult loan spell with Real Madrid, with the precious few starts during the season, but he was still at one of the biggest clubs in the world, and managed to register 9 goals – including a key strike in the Champions League derby win over Atletico Madrid. It would have been enough to show plenty of teams that he still had something to offer, and recent reports have suggested Liverpool and Orlando, as appeared in the MEN, are in the running for a player that has previously been linked with Southampton by the Independent. A good option for Liverpool? What the Reds missed most last season was a striker they could rely on to find the net on a regular basis. Mario Balotelli, Rickie Lambert, Fabio Borini, even Daniel Sturridge when he was back, they didn’t manage to net more than a handful of goals all season. Though Hernandez wouldn’t be a stellar signing, he would be a guaranteed goal contributor, something he has proved at every club he has been at, both as a starting player and off the bench. In fact, between all of Liverpool’s strikers, they scored just 13 goals last season, with Hernandez, in a loan spell that wasn’t deemed particularly successful not far off that himself. In other news, Report: Tottenham told they can't sign Patson Daka | Mid | [
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Q: Redirect to login page which is in another site I have two sites that are app1 and app2. If a user requests a resource in app2, in order to authenticate, I like to redirect to the login page which is in app1. Once authenticated over there, return back to app2. Can you please tell what are necessary steps? A: An easy way would simply be to use Response.Redirect to point the user to the new site, and place the current URL as a QueryString. If the user is successfully authenticated in the new site, then parse the querystring to get the original URL they came from and redirect them there. (ps - you should accept answers to previous questions if you expect to get better answers yourself) | Mid | [
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YJ-Moyu Weilong V2 3x3 Speed Cube Yongjun MoYu Weilong Plus V2 Black base core edition White base core edition Primary Color Core edition Stickerless Color Core edition More details Base Colors : Black White Stickerless Stickerless Pink Transparent Reference YJ-WLall3x3 Quantity This product is not sold individually. You must select at least 1 quantity for this product. Availability: 4941 Item in stock Items in stock Notify me when available Warning: Last items in stock! $11.99 By buying this product you can collect up to 11 loyalty points. Your cart will total 11 points that can be converted into a voucher of $0.66. | Mid | [
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“Feminism and Women Under 40″ at Pace Law School on March 21 On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 7:00 p.m., Pace Law School is sponsoring a panel discussion, “Feminism and Women Under 40,” as part of its Public Policy Lecture Series. Here is a description of the program: As baby boomers enter retirement, likewise “feminism” is fading from the mainstream and becoming a reference point for the past. Of the social movements of the last 30 years, the women’s movement is perhaps most at risk of “slipping backwards” in the first decade of the new millennium but do the women it impacts most even care? There are challenging political, professional and cultural paradoxes – is Hillary Clinton bringing women closer to the top of the ticket or further away? Can corporations do more if women don’t want to ? Is Lara Croft a feminist icon or a feminist nightmare? Why have Ali McBeal and Murphy Brown been replaced by Desperate Housewives at the same time business schools are becoming dominated by women? Is feminism extinct, obsolete or evolved? Has the notion of a “social movement” been replaced by a new emphasis on”personal choice”? This panel examines the current needs and challenges for feminism to engage and involve the generation that must drive it into the new millennium. | Mid | [
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Lindsay Lohan Leaves Jail After About 5 Hours Lindsay Lohan checked in and out of a Los Angeles County lockup Receive the latest celebrity updates in your inbox About five hours after she was booked into a Los Angeles jail, Lindsay Lohan is a free woman. The hard-partying celebrity checked into the slammer to serve a 30-day sentence for violating her probation at about 8:50 p.m. PT on Sunday, Deputy Tony Moore told The Associated Press. She was seen riding home in a chauffeured black Cadillac Escalade at about 1:40 a.m. PT. Celebrity Signature Poses Essentially, she was booked and released. Lohan's sentence was expected to be short due to overcrowding and staff reduction in California jails. The 25-year-old "Mean Girls" star had until Nov. 9 to report to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. The punishment was handed down by Judge Stephanie Sautner last week after finding she violated her probation when her flakiness got her booted from her community service assignment at a women's shelter. Lindsay Lohan's Highs and Lows Lohan now has to finish up her community service at the county morgue or risk serving an additional 270 days in jail, the judge said. She was sentenced to janitorial work at the mortuary, rather than a homeless shelter, because the shelter said she was a "bad example" for the people there. "The Downtown Women's Center is willing to take you back, but I'm not going to put them through that again," Sautner said Wednesday. "I looked into another group, the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women. They refused to take you because they said you were a bad example for women who are trying to get their lives in order. | Low | [
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It’s well-known that the Los Angeles Lakers intend to be major players in free agency this summer when the likes of Paul George, LeBron James, and DeMarcus Cousins will be available. They have made moves to free up their cap space, with more likely to come so that they can potentially land two of the biggest names of the summer. However, last summer the Lakers had an opportunity to get George in house one year early when the Indiana Pacers decided to trade their star rather than risk losing him for nothing. George made it known that he wanted to play for his hometown Lakers, but with the Pacers reportedly asking for multiple first-round picks, George ultimately was shipped off to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. With the Thunder taking on the Lakers in Los Angeles on Wednesday, George spoke about whether he regretted that word got out about his desire to play in the city in which he grew up, via Erik Horne of The Oklahoman: “I have no regrets at all. All that was said was a destination I would have loved to go to. There wasn’t a gun pointed to the head, “hey, send me here.” I just stated somewhere I wanted to go play. You ask 87 percent of guys in the league if they would love to go back home and play for their city, play for their home. That’s all that I stated, that I would love to go back home and play for my city.” From the Lakers perspective, George explaining how much he would love to play for his hometown has to be encouraging. The Thunder are starting to pick up steam and win games, but Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka will have to hope that his desire to come home remains as strong as ever. While the Lakers can’t offer the benefit of playing alongside Russell Westbrook, they do have a solid young team that includes a pass-first point guard in Lonzo Ball, which would allow George to be featured more on offense. Of course, if the Lakers can land a second star to sign on with George, like James, that certainly wouldn’t hurt their case either. WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION? CHECK OUT THE NEW LAKERSNATION FORUM CLUB | High | [
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Self-Adjustable Modelsself-adjustable dk2-vt-b These clamps have a self-adjustable ball pressure screw inserted into a clamp jaw. The ball bearing at the end is made of steel and equipped with torsion protection, allowing the ball to self-adjust up to 9 degrees. This makes clamping irregular-shaped parts and castings more flexible. | High | [
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An Anonymous Site Called 'Utopia' Is Replacing Silk Road As The Web's One-Stop Shop For Guns, Drugs, And Fake Money Silk Road is certainly the most famous place online to buy your less-than-legal materials — the site operates on the TOR network, which anonymizes its traffic, and conducts all transactions in Bitcoin, the equally anonymous digital currency. The site became even more famous after the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged owner and operator, who was charged with facilitating drug deals. Users report that the site loads much more quickly than Silk Road (perhaps a function of it being a newer site not yet discovered by the swarm). Additionally, the site doesn't have the same CAPTCHA login error that's been driving Silk Road users nuts. There are few differences of substance here. It's still a place to buy stuff when you don't want the seller (or parents, teachers, and law enforcement) to know who you are. Time will tell if it grows enough for Silk Road to feel any sort of pinch, or for law enforcement to take an interest. | Low | [
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Q: Upload image path-name reads "System.Web.HttpPostedFileWrapper" Had this working; at one stage. The problem is the following text is now appearing in the field for the image in the database "System.Web.HttpPostedFileWrapper" the following code is from the controller: [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(CarAdvert caradvert, HttpPostedFileBase picture1) { if (ModelState.IsValid) { if (picture1 != null) { string image1 = picture1.FileName; caradvert.Image1 = image1; var image1Path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/Content/Images"), image1); picture1.SaveAs(image1Path); } db.CarAdverts.Add(caradvert); db.SaveChanges(); return RedirectToAction("Index"); } This code is from the create view: @using (Html.BeginForm("Create", "UserCarAdverts", FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" })) { @Html.ValidationSummary(true) <fieldset> <legend>CarAdvert</legend> <div class="editor-field"> <input type="file" name="Image1" /> </div> <p> <input type="submit" value="Create" /> </p> </fieldset> } A: the paramater in the controller for HttpPostedFileBase has to have the same name as the input type="file" . Either do: [HttpPost] public ActionResult Create(CarAdvert caradvert, HttpPostedFileBase Image1) or <input type="file" name="picture1" /> That should do it | Mid | [
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Miroslav Ćurčić Miroslav Ćurčić (Serbian Cyrillic: Mиpocлaв Ћуpчић; 22 March 1962 – 10 August 2017) was a Serbian football player. During his playing career he played for FK Novi Sad in the Yugoslav Second League, FK Vojvodina in the Yugoslav First League, Royal Antwerp FC in the Belgian First Division, S.C. Farense, Belenenses and G.D. Estoril-Praia in the Portuguese Liga and SG Egelsbach in the German lower leagues. Ćurčić died on 10 August 2017 in Germany. References External links Stats from Yugoslav Leagues at Zerodic.com Category:1962 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Zrenjanin Category:Serbian footballers Category:Yugoslav footballers Category:RFK Novi Sad 1921 players Category:FK Vojvodina players Category:Yugoslav First League players Category:Royal Antwerp F.C. players Category:Belgian First Division A players Category:Expatriate footballers in Belgium Category:S.C. Farense players Category:C.F. Os Belenenses players Category:G.D. Estoril Praia players Category:Primeira Liga players Category:Serbian expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Portugal Category:Expatriate footballers in Germany Category:Association football forwards | Mid | [
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Q: Toggling visibility using ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames Im not sure why the following is not working. I am attempting hiding and showing a textbox every .2 seconds for 1.2 seconds when the bound model property changes. can anyone see an issue with this style or how i am attempting to do this? <Style x:Key="FlashStyle" TargetType="TextBlock"> <Style.Triggers> <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Binding.TargetUpdated" > <EventTrigger.Actions> <BeginStoryboard> <Storyboard> <ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames BeginTime="00:00:00" Storyboard.TargetProperty="(UIElement.Visibility)"> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.2" Value="{x:Static Visibility.Visible}"/> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.4" Value="{x:Static Visibility.Collapsed}"/> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.6" Value="{x:Static Visibility.Visible}"/> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:00.8" Value="{x:Static Visibility.Collapsed}"/> <DiscreteObjectKeyFrame KeyTime="00:00:01" Value="{x:Static Visibility.Visible}"/> </ObjectAnimationUsingKeyFrames> </Storyboard> </BeginStoryboard> </EventTrigger.Actions> </EventTrigger> </Style.Triggers> </Style> <TextBlock Text="{Binding Data.QuotePrice, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" Style="{StaticResource FlashStyle}" /> A: The Binding.TargetUpdated event does not occur: Occurs when a value is transferred from the binding source to the binding target, but only for bindings with the NotifyOnTargetUpdated value set to true. Only thing i can think of besides precedence (which should be fine if this is your actual code). | Mid | [
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Thought processes and conversations started under the tilted cap of Tropicana Field. Someday everyone will know the Rays play in St. Petersburg, Florida, not TAMPA, or the fictitious city of TAMPA BAY. Fans get to Decide the Final Rays T-Shirt Design It is not often anymore that the Tampa Bay Rays ask the fans for any suggestions or even help when planning their promotions. So it was a delightful surprise and a great addition to my Labor Day holiday weekend when I got an email from someone within the confines of the Rays brain trust asking if I would write about the upcoming Fan Favorite T-shirt design to be given out to Rays fans before the Friday, September 24th game against the Seattle Mariners. Even more important, it will be the last available T-shirt promotion from the Rays in their Friday Fest promotional series, and what better way to close out the seasonal series than offer a Rafael Soriano designed T-shirt. By the time the T-shirt will be given out to fans, Soriano will undoubtedly be the Rays single season saves leader needing just 3 more saves at this moment to pass long time holder Roberto Hernandez for the crown. Interesting enough, with last night’s save against Baltimore, Soriano has firmly tied for second place with 41 saves with former Rays closer Danys Baez. It is simply just amazing the way Soriano has come onto the Rays this year and solidified the closer’s role and boosted the confidence of everyone, even the fans when the ninth inning pops up. So it is more than fitting that we have a Fan ballot that will decide which of the three designs Rays fans truly think optimizes the player who has shut the door on opponents with authority this season. As usual, the first 10,000 Rays fans will be presented with the collectible T-shirts when they enter the stadium. All three designs center around the common thread of the message “Dominate Late”, which is simply the way Soriano has taken to task his role against the American League this season. And being one of the top contenders for the American League Cy Young Award with his performance shows just how effective he has been in his role this season. All three designs also have another common element in that Soriano in all three will be striking his post-game pose of saluting to the heavens after the last out of the game. But from there, all three have their own distinctive differences. So let’s take a moment to look at all three designs, then I will conclude with a link for the Fan Ballot and we can all cast our votes for our favorite designs. The first example of T-shirt to be voted on has a distinctive blue and white image of Soriano as he give thanks to the heavens, then is punctuated by the word “Dominate” in what looks like a classic Old Style Serif, with the word “Late” set maybe in a Latin-inspired Norte Dame Roman Blackletter font. Striking also in this design is the way they included Soriano’s name within the black border under the word “Late” to accent the word. What is also striking about this design is the way the artist made sure that all the prevalent material of Soriano’s signature and his jersey number were added below the border to pull your eyes towards that section of the T-shirt. Also interesting is the “TB” logo nestled right below his right knee. Another fine touch is the positioning of the Lion symbol upon the left side of Soriano’s jersey number. This is the second time this season a symbolic animal has been positioned upon a Rays giveaway T-shirt. Most might remember the regal Griffin design earlier this year on the James Shields inspired T-shirt. The second design is basically just a normal back and white silhouette set upon a white T-shirt with the lettering being set in a simple but commanding Cleartype font, maybe in the a Cambria or Candara styling. What is simply unique about this rendition is the way the lettering of the phrase “Dominate Late” is just a bit off tilt in both words and give that forceful punch to the T-shirt. Another nice addition to the T-shirt is Soriano’s name running up the right side of his image on the T-shirt with his first name in a normal font, with his last name set in bold lettering. This time the rambling “TB” logo makes it appearance up above the “T” in the word “Dominate” up near the clavicle region of the T-shirt. It is punctuated here with the same signature Soriano puts on baseballs underneath the “E” in “Late” complete with his jersey number in his own handwriting this time. It has a more “homemade” feel to it than the first design, and in some ways seems a bit less powerful. But the black and white design is a different approach than the Rays have done on most of their T-shirts this season where they have used color and graphic to make the words explode off the white T-shirts. The third design seems to be more in the line of what the Rays have offered this season to their fans during their Friday Fest promotions. It is again accented by three dominant colors in the design, with a Carolina Blue accent basically whitewashing the image of Soriano and making it pop out a bit from the white fabric. Again we have the same pose by Soriano on the one side of the T-shirt with the “Dominate Late” this time all set in the same font style and consistent on the middle of the T-shirt. In this design, the “TB” logo makes its appearance upon the center spot on the T-shirt just under the written phrase. What is so remarkable on this design option of the two corresponding lion figures facing outward flanking Soriano’s jersey number “29” that is topped by a regal crown all also set in a Carolina Blue color that pronounces boldly off the T-shirt. The last feature is another baseball style signature of Soriano’s set right below the Carolina Blue regal insignia based in a darker blue color to accent it on the white T-shirt. So there is a small accented preview of the three Fan Ballot selections that will be online right here for everyone to vote on before they are distributed to fans on September 24, 2010 before the Rays take on the Seattle Mariners. An added dimension to the Rays final T-shirt voting process is that you can vote up to 25 times for your favorite design, so vote often for your favorite and who knows….We all could be wearing your choice on September 24th! Jane, I agree totally. Usually it is a figurine or bobblehead that get the final Fan Vote, but the T-shirt is a better fashion accessory for the active Rays fan. Ilike one for the fonr, but like three also since it fits into the Rays usual T-shirt design color palette this season. Should be fun to see which one ends up with the highest total votes. The following are trademarks or service marks of Major League Baseball entities and may be used only with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. or the relevant Major League Baseball entity: Major League, Major League Baseball, MLB, the silhouetted batter logo, World Series, National League, American League, Division Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the names, nicknames, logos, uniform designs, color combinations, and slogans designating the Major League Baseball clubs and entities, and their respective mascots, events and exhibitions. | High | [
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THE HAGUE: There is an immense scope for cooperation in medical tourism between India and the Netherlands, Union minister of state for Ayush Shripad Yesso Naik said on Monday.The healthcare system in the Netherlands is one of the best in Europe, and there is a lot of potential to integrate traditional knowledge from India, he said at a seminar titled 'India-Netherlands collaboration in Healthcare, including Ayurveda ' at Leiden.Ayush refers to traditional and non-allopathic medical systems in India. It includes ayurveda, yoga , unani, siddha, and homoeopathy."India is the world's largest producer of generic medicine and there is wide scope for medical value travel to India, both in conventional and alternative medical treatments such as Ayurveda," Naik said at the seminar organised by the Indian Embassy here.Emphasising that the scope for cooperation in the health sector between the two countries is immense, he said, "India and the Netherlands can work together closely to promote healthy living."Asserting that both the countries have top class medical practitioners, Naik said the Netherlands with its 2.25 lakh Indian origin population can lead the way in promoting Indian traditional medicine across Europe.Addressing the seminar, Dutch minister for Medical Care and Sport Bruno Bruins said Ayurveda's approach for healthcare differs for individuals and being healthy does not only mean being free from illness but also being independent, functional and participating in society."Cooperation between India and the Netherlands in healthcare can become stronger with both countries working together to deal with the issue of antibiotic resistance," he added.Alojz Peterle, former Prime Minister of Slovenia and current member of European Parliament , said Ayurveda is considered as the mother of modern medicine.He further said Indo-European strategic cooperation should also include healthcare.The Indian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Venu Rajamony, pointed out that the biggest health challenge the Netherlands faces is high costs and the need for care for an ageing population."Ayurveda and Yoga can help reduce costs and promote healthy ageing," Rajamony said.The seminar was the concluding event of the 4th International Ayurveda Congress organised by the Indian Embassy in the Netherlands in collaboration with International Maharishi Ayurveda Foundation, Netherlands, All India Ayurvedic Congress, New Delhi and the International Academy of Ayurveda, Pune.Naik is on an official four-day visit to the Netherlands from September 1. He is leading a delegation of senior officials from Ministry of Ayush, including the Pharmacopoeia Commission of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy.The minister will meet the deputy mayor of the City of The Hague in charge of healthcare, witness a yoga demonstration by Dutch yoga enthusiasts and visit the Samadhi Sthal of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Vlodrop tomorrow. | High | [
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Recognition, diagnosis and management of obesity after myocardial infarction. We investigated the documentation of obesity as a medical problem, and subsequent management recommendations, in patients after myocardial infarction (MI). We performed a cross-sectional analysis of a randomly selected sample of 627 patients discharged after an MI, from five US teaching hospitals between 1/1/01 and 12/31/02. Information was extracted from clinical notes using standardized definitions. Mean body mass index (BMI) was 31+/-13 kg/m2, which was documented in only 14% of patients and had to be calculated post hoc in the rest. Waist circumference and waist/hip ratio were not documented at all; 83% of patients were overweight, 55% obese, and 8% morbidly obese. In only 20% of patients with BMI> or =30 kg/m2 was the diagnosis of obesity documented either as a current medical problem, as part of past medical history or as a final diagnosis. A dietary counseling was carried out in 61% of patients with BMI> or =25 kg/m2 and in 61% of patients with BMI<25 kg/m2, P=0.96. Weight loss was described as part of the goals/plan at discharge in 7% of overweight and 9% of obese patients. There was no change in either the level of recognition of obesity (22 vs 19%, P=0.3) or in the proportion of obese patients for whom weight loss was described as part of the goals/plan at discharge (8 vs 10%, P=0.7) before (n=301) compared to after (n=326) the Call to Action in Obesity by the Surgeon General in December 2001. Obesity is underecognized, underdiagnosed and undertreated in persons with acute MI. | High | [
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Most startups are spending money too fast. Slow it down. - benehmke http://www.humbledmba.com/most-startups-are-spending-money-too-fast-you ====== jroseattle There are so many dynamics at work when it comes to burn rate. At previous startups in which I was involved, we were expected to increase spending by the investors. While we wanted to walk it slowly, they wanted us to spend more (on headcount.) As was expected, the lesson of ten-women-cannot-make-a-baby-in-a- month was relearned. ~~~ js2 Nine women. ~~~ andrewfrankel The original poster is correct: human gestation is about 10 months (from conception). Most women would be aware of their pregnancy for only nine of those months. ~~~ aurelianito Human gestation is estimated as 40 weeks counting from the last menstruation. Conception is 2 weeks after that on average, so the actual time is about 38 * 7 = 266 days. Dividing by 30, you get 266 / 30 = 8,866666666667 months (almost nine). ~~~ karmajunkie Oh sweet Jesus, you guys are missing the point in style. ------ rokhayakebe The real problem is startups raise money too early. In my mind there should be two main reasons to raise money: 1) You have figured out a way to make $1 while spend less, and your data tells you you can do this x times over, 2) You cannot afford to pay for your servers or dev time due to customer growth. Can you think of more reasons? ~~~ BrandonM Since it takes a while to raise money, and since running low on cash can lead to a crisis, much fundraising is in anticipation of 1 or 2. But you're right, a lot of status do seem to raise money simply because it's what everyone else is doing. ~~~ davidhansen In case #1, it doesn't take a lot of time to raise money. Collateralizing a bank loan against future revenue is a fairly pretty straightforward process, and the only "pitch" you need is (possibly audited) documentation of your free cash flow. ~~~ tzury a) Bank loan is not an _investment_ , not even a convertible debt. b) Raising Money takes longer time than one imagine at first, especially at start when every available second is used for the development. All of a sudden, in the middle of the code server development, you have to stop your hacking works and author a 15-18 slides deck for an investor, that alone can take about a week. You know, working on the figures, facts, and backing up your thesis. Sending it over to get reviews, meeting, waiting for answer. It takes time, and it takes the most expensive time of yours. You are suddenly stop working for the startup and start working for the investor(s). ------ brezina Sometimes it is more risky to be less aggressive. This is a lesson I learned from Vinod Khosla - who by most metrics knows what he is doing. In nascent markets user acquisition costs rise quickly. In network effect businesses, switching costs are high. So should you lower your burn? Not necessarily. Ask yourself just as often "should I increase my burn." ~~~ freejack Another way to look at it is "Am I burning effectively?". If you're being honest, the answer is usually no. Unless your money is free, a lot can be achieved with no new burn. I like to keep tinder (cash) dry until we've found a way to be effective and then invest in it heavily. Put another way, it doesn't matter what your burn is if you've got your rockets pointed in the wrong directions. ------ thibaut_barrere _Funded_ startups tend to spend money too fast (from what I've seen). Maybe another reason to bootstrap/self-fund with consulting (what I'm doing right now). ------ trevelyan "There is no liquidity reason that explains why there's plenty of money available to seed concepts and not enough money available to A rounds." Is this true? I'd have assumed that most seed funding is provided by smaller investors who are investing personal funds while venture capital is using institutional capital. We're now year three+ after the general market downturn, which means deleveraging, wealth destruction and a preference for liquid asset classes (i.e. look at Treasury yields) shrinking the availability of institutional capital available for VC funds. And isn't this exactly what we are supposed to see in this situation? Smaller and knowledgeable investors pump up the bottom end of the market because it offers a much better return than sticking cash in anything else? ------ idanb Thanks for posting this. I'm not too knowledgable about the burn rate of others, but I know that we've kept ours very low. Much of this was motivated by the fact that we have a serious hardware play, and lots of our seed capital is allocated towards that. Regardless, when the problems are interesting and hard enough, we find that our clamp on spending is a really great recruiting filter. The people that join the team are truly passionate about our product and technology. It's painful at times, but spoiled grapes don't taste very good either. ------ jeffreymcmanus Testing unproven hypotheses requires, among other things, money. Pivoting requires, among other things, money. ~~~ rokhayakebe No, they require time. ~~~ tomjen3 But time is money. And I am not trying to be cute here. It is properly the single most common tradeoff here - you sell your hours for pay at a company, then buy a frozen pizza because you don't want to make it at home, then clean your own house because a maid is too expensive but outsource your taxes because they are so complex and would take you ten times longer to do, you drive a car because commuting by bike is too slow and the buses don't come by that often. Time can be brought (heck that is kinda what you are doing with your start-up because a successful start-up can mean you don't have to work at a job again, ever). ~~~ rokhayakebe The difference between time and money is that you have time by default. I assume most entrepreneurs started to work on their business in their spare time before having the money to quit and work on it full time. ------ hnsmurf Good Times RIP never did happen. Within a few months of that presentation people started wondering whether or not we were in a startup bubble. ------ jrockway What's the incentive to slow the burn rate? If the startup blows up, you just start another one. ~~~ ceejayoz Isn't "the startup might not blow up" the incentive? | Mid | [
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Books - UFOs The Gulf Breeze Sightings Description Although books, films, and TV continue to address the UFO phenomenon, there has been no satisfactory photographic evidence until now. Here, two witnesses give an absolutely riveting first-person account of the Gulf Breeze UFO sightings. 70 color photographs. | Low | [
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Pages January 12, 2014 So, I went and saw Lone Survivor. That happened. It certainly was a finely crafted movie, filled with solid performances, some nice cinematography, a surprisingly well balanced treatment of characters, some thrilling shootouts, and to top it off It has a reality to back up its tale. Granted, it is twisted a little for cinematic purposes, but that's all right, it is expected when anything true is adapted to the big screen. It is also a movie that has not exactly inspired me to write some big review about it. Still, I felt a little desire to go over a couple of reactions to it, so this is likely going to be even more random and stream of consciousness than I usually am.Lone Survivor is depicted in a very realistic fashion. This coming from someone who has never served, has no desire to, and really has no idea if it is real or not. What I am saying is that the way it plays out (even if dramatized and/or amped up for the big screen) feels like this is how it could really play out. Of course, knowing the outcome of the real events puts a damper on a bit of the suspense (which in turn allows me to forgive the at times manipulative film making, it is all for the reaction) and takes a little from some of the decisions that need to be made during the execution of the tale. I have read how some people think they should have killed the kids and gone on with the mission. To me that is a horrifying thought. Sure, terrible things happen in war, things happen that we wish didn't, we wish couldn't, and wish we could change. In this case, the right decision was made to honor the rules of engagement and act like human beings. We should never be killing kids. Could it have changed this outcome? Quite likely, but there was no way of knowing that what happened was going to happen. To follow that up, I am horrified of war, it is such a terrible thing that for some reason seems to be a necessity. I am not an anti military or anti gun guy, but seriously, what is wrong with people that we need to fight all the time? To recall an overused phrase: Can't we all just get along? Yes, I know humanity is a violent species and that blood thirst has been with us forever, but here's to hoping one day we can advance to a stage where war is not needed. Think of the good that money could do if we didn't have to fund war. For anyone who has ever served and seen action, I hope you are all right. I know that doesn't sound like much, but with the horrors that can be seen, perpetrated, and experienced in war I do not know how anyone can mentally recover from that. That is something that would be stuck in my mind for as long as I lived. I love movies and graphic horror films, but that is obviously fake, the idea of having to process the reality of such violent death and gore is unfathomable. It must have a lasting effect and I hope that anyone forced to experience it is able to get the support they need, from family, counseling, friends, whatever. As the movie played out and it got to where the firefight was starting, I must admit to being slightly taken aback to audience reactions. Everytime a Taliban is shot in the head, I heard laughter and cheers. I know, I know, it is war and they were the bad guys, but the audience just seemed so callous, so desensitized to death. It is not the kind of fighting we should be reveling in, we should be more concerned with the safety of our men than with the cheering on of killing. Oh yeah, it seemed that there was a lot of falling down the mountain scenes. Seriously, lots and lots of falling to almost comedic (unintentional, of course) effect. Really, the only thing I could think of was this scene from another movie: I particularly liked the moments towards the end of the film where Luttrell is found by the Afghan villager and all of their interactions. This seemed to be a very important sequence to me. It helped make the movie feel a bit less like propaganda (which seems to be part of the genre these days) and brought in a certain amount of balance. It seems like all too often it is forgotten that not everyone in these Middle Eastern countries is an enemy. Not everyone subscribes to the idea of Evil America, not everyone takes up arms to kill, fight, and destroy anyone who thinks differently. It is an important thing to realize, yet it seems so simple. Watching his interactions, which are not made to be sappy and keep in with the tone of everything else, just helps bring back a little focus. Just watch the boy, this is very good stuff. Also, remember this is “Based on a True Story.” It is not a “True Story.” It is important to remember the words “based on.” You can find different places online that go over some of the liberties taken, but just remember that this is a representation of a real event, but it is also a piece of entertainment part of whose goal is to make money. Too that end, things will be changed here and there to make the movie more cinematic. It happens. Basically, just realize this is not exactly how it happened. Yes, it is close, but not exact. This is not intended to be a documentary. This is a good example of a new type of war film. War has gotten uglier and uglier and even more indistinct. This is not to take away from wars of the past, but modern warfare is a very different thing. In the past we were involved in wars against countries or groups of countries, like the Allied and Axis powers in WWII. These days there is the "War on Terror" you have groups (Al Qaeda, Taliban, etc.) and the enemy is faceless. It is not like fighting another army. This movie helps show that shapeless, formless mass of the enemy and how it can be near impossible to discern friend or foe, or at least foe from not foe. Yes, Lone Survivor is a good movie. I liked it, I was caught up in the firefights, I was trapped by the drama, and I was moved at its climax. At times it felt a bit manipulative as it toyed with my emotions, there seems to be a rah rah element that creeps in at times, perhaps to inspire people to sign up for service, but overall it was legitimately involving and is quite well made. Not sure where it stands in the pantheon of war films, but that is more for time to decide, although I am not sure I will ever feel the need to watch it again, but do not regret one minute of watching it. | Mid | [
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Survival comparison of the Ross procedure and mechanical valve replacement with optimal self-management anticoagulation therapy: propensity-matched cohort study. It is suggested that in young adults the Ross procedure results in better late patient survival compared with mechanical prosthesis implantation. We performed a propensity score-matched study that assessed late survival in young adult patients after a Ross procedure versus that after mechanical aortic valve replacement with optimal self-management anticoagulation therapy. We selected 918 Ross patients and 406 mechanical valve patients 18 to 60 years of age without dissection, aneurysm, or mitral valve replacement who survived an elective procedure (1994 to 2008). With the use of propensity score matching, late survival was compared between the 2 groups. Two hundred fifty-three patients with a mechanical valve (mean follow-up, 6.3 years) could be propensity matched to a Ross patient (mean follow-up, 5.1 years). Mean age of the matched cohort was 47.3 years in the Ross procedure group and 48.0 years in the mechanical valve group (P=0.17); the ratio of male to female patients was 3.2 in the Ross procedure group and 2.7 in the mechanical valve group (P=0.46). Linearized all-cause mortality rate was 0.53% per patient-year in the Ross procedure group compared with 0.30% per patient-year in the mechanical valve group (matched hazard ratio, 1.86; 95% confidence interval, 0.58 to 5.91; P=0.32). Late survival was comparable to that of the general German population. In comparable patients, there is no late survival difference in the first postoperative decade between the Ross procedure and mechanical aortic valve implantation with optimal anticoagulation self-management. Survival in these selected young adult patients closely resembles that of the general population, possibly as a result of highly specialized anticoagulation self-management, better timing of surgery, and improved patient selection in recent years. | High | [
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### FILE="Main.annotation" ## Copyright: Public domain. ## Filename: BURN,_BABY,_BURN_--_MASTER_IGNITION_ROUTINE.agc ## Purpose: Part of the reconstructed source code for LMY99 Rev 0, ## otherwise known as Luminary Rev 99, the second release ## of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) software for Apollo 11. ## It differs from LMY99 Rev 1 (the flown version) only in the ## placement of a single label. The corrections shown here have ## been verified to have the same bank checksums as AGC developer ## Allan Klumpp's copy of Luminary Rev 99, and so are believed ## to be accurate. This file is intended to be a faithful ## recreation, except that the code format has been changed to ## conform to the requirements of the yaYUL assembler rather than ## the original YUL assembler. ## ## Assembler: yaYUL ## Contact: Ron Burkey <[email protected]>. ## Website: www.ibiblio.org/apollo. ## Pages: 731-751 ## Mod history: 2009-05-19 RSB Adapted from the corresponding ## Luminary131 file, using page ## images from Luminary 1A. ## 2009-06-07 RSB Corrected 3 typos. ## 2009-07-23 RSB Added Onno's notes on the naming ## of this function, which he got from ## Don Eyles. ## 2011-01-06 JL Fixed pseudo-label indentation. ## 2011-05-08 JL Removed workarounds. ## 2016-12-13 RSB GOTOP00H -> GOTOPOOH ## 2016-12-15 RSB Proofed text comments with octopus/ProoferComments ## and corrected the errors found. ## 2017-03-09 RSB Comment-text fixes noted in proofing Luminary 116. ## 2017-03-16 RSB Comment-text fixes identified in 5-way ## side-by-side diff of Luminary 69/99/116/131/210. ## 2017-08-01 MAS Created from LMY99 Rev 1. ## This source code has been transcribed or otherwise adapted from ## digitized images of a hardcopy from the MIT Museum. The digitization ## was performed by Paul Fjeld, and arranged for by Deborah Douglas of ## the Museum. Many thanks to both. The images (with suitable reduction ## in storage size and consequent reduction in image quality as well) are ## available online at www.ibiblio.org/apollo. If for some reason you ## find that the images are illegible, contact me at [email protected] ## about getting access to the (much) higher-quality images which Paul ## actually created. ## ## The code has been modified to match LMY99 Revision 0, otherwise ## known as Luminary Revision 99, the Apollo 11 software release preceeding ## the listing from which it was transcribed. It has been verified to ## contain the same bank checksums as AGC developer Allan Klumpp's listing ## of Luminary Revision 99 (for which we do not have scans). ## ## Notations on Allan Klumpp's listing read, in part: ## ## ASSEMBLE REVISION 099 OF AGC PROGRAM LUMINARY BY NASA 2021112-51 ## Page 731 ## <br><br> ## At the get-together of the AGC developers celebrating the 40th anniversary ## of the first moonwalk, Don Eyles (one of the authors of this routine along ## with Peter Adler) has related to us a little interesting history behind the ## naming of the routine.<br> ## <br> ## It traces back to 1965 and the Los Angeles riots, and was inspired ## by disc jockey extraordinaire and radio station owner Magnificent Montague. ## Magnificent Montague used the phrase "Burn, baby! BURN!" when spinning the ## hottest new records. Magnificent Montague was the charismatic voice of ## soul music in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles from the mid-1950s to ## the mid-1960s. BANK 36 SETLOC P40S BANK EBANK= WHICH COUNT* $$/P40 # THE MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE IS DESIGNED FOR USE BY THE FOLLOWING LEM PROGRAMS: P12, P40, P42, P61, P63. # IT PERFORMS ALL FUNCTIONS IMMEDIATELY ASSOCIATED WITH APS OR DPS IGNITION: IN PARTICULAR, EVERYTHING LYING # BETWEEN THE PRE-IGNITION TIME CHECK -- ARE WE WITHIN 45 SECONDS OF TIG? -- AND TIG + 26 SECONDS, WHEN DPS # PROGRAMS THROTTLE UP. # # VARIATIONS AMONG PROGRAMS ARE ACCOMODATED BY MEANS OF TABLES CONTAINING CONSTANTS (FOR AVEGEXIT, FOR # WAITLIST, FOR PINBALL) AND TCF INSTRUCTIONS. USERS PLACE THE ADRES OF THE HEAD OF THE APPROPRIATE TABLE # (OF P61TABLE FOR P61LM, FOR EXAMPLE) IN ERASABLE REGISTER 'WHICH' (E4). THE IGNITION ROUTINE THEN INDEXES BY # WHICH TO OBTAIN OR EXECUTE THE PROPER TABLE ENTRY. THE IGNITION ROUTINE IS INITIATED BY A TCF BURNBABY, # THROUGH BANKJUMP IF NECESSARY. THERE IS NO RETURN. # # THE MASTER IGNITION ROUTINE WAS CONCEIVED AND EXECUTED, AND (NOTA BENE) IS MAINTAINED BY ADLER AND EYLES. # # HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE # # **************************************** # TABLES FOR THE IGNITION ROUTINE # **************************************** # # NOLI SE TANGERE P12TABLE VN 0674 # (0) TCF ULLGNOT # (1) TCF COMFAIL3 # (2) TCF GOCUTOFF # (3) TCF TASKOVER # (4) TCF P12SPOT # (5) DEC 0 # (6) NO ULLAGE EBANK= WHICH 2CADR SERVEXIT # (7) TCF DISPCHNG # (11) TCF WAITABIT # (12) TCF P12IGN # (13) P40TABLE VN 0640 # (0) TCF ULLGNOT # (1) TCF COMFAIL4 # (2) TCF GOPOST # (3) TCF TASKOVER # (4) TCF P40SPOT # (5) ## Page 732 DEC 2240 # (6) EBANK= OMEGAQ 2CADR STEERING # (7) TCF P40SJUNK # (11) TCF WAITABIT # (12) TCF P40IGN # (13) TCF REP40ALM # (14) P41TABLE TCF P41SPOT # (5) DEC -1 # (6) EBANK= OMEGAQ 2CADR CALCN85 # (7) TCF COMMON # (11) TCF TIGTASK # (12) P42TABLE VN 0640 # (0) TCF WANTAPS # (1) TCF COMFAIL4 # (2) TCF GOPOST # (3) TCF TASKOVER # (4) TCF P42SPOT # (5) DEC 2640 # (6) EBANK= OMEGAQ 2CADR STEERING # (7) TCF P40SJUNK # (11) TCF WAITABIT # (12) TCF P42IGN # (13) TCF P42STAGE # (14) P63TABLE VN 0662 # (0) TCF ULLGNOT # (1) TCF COMFAIL3 # (2) TCF V99RECYC # (3) TCF TASKOVER # (4) TCF P63SPOT # (5) DEC 2240 # (6) EBANK= WHICH 2CADR SERVEXIT # (7) TCF DISPCHNG # (11) TCF WAITABIT # (12) ## Page 733 TCF P63IGN # (13) ABRTABLE VN 0663 # (0) TCF ULLGNOT # (1) TCF COMFAIL3 # (2) TCF GOCUTOFF # (3) TCF TASKOVER # (4) NOOP # (5) NOOP # (6) NOOP # (7) NOOP TCF DISPCHNG # (11) TCF WAITABIT # (12) TCF ABRTIGN # (13) # **************************************** # GENERAL PURPOSE IGNITION ROUTINES # **************************************** BURNBABY TC PHASCHNG # GROUP 4 RESTARTS HERE OCT 04024 CAF ZERO # EXTIRPATE JUNK LEFT IN DVTOTAL TS DVTOTAL TS DVTOTAL +1 TC BANKCALL # P40AUTO MUST BE BANKCALLED EVEN FROM ITS CADR P40AUTO # OWN BANK TO SET UP RETURN PROPERLY B*RNB*B* EXTEND DCA TIG # STORE NOMINAL TIG FOR OBLATENESS COMP. DXCH GOBLTIME # AND FOR P70 OR P71. INHINT TC IBNKCALL CADR ENGINOF3 RELINT INDEX WHICH TCF 5 P42SPOT = P40SPOT # (5) P12SPOT = P40SPOT # (5) P63SPOT = P41SPOT # (5) IN P63 CLOKTASK ALREADY GOING P40SPOT CS CNTDNDEX # (5) ## Page 734 TC BANKCALL # MUST BE BANKCALLED FOR GENERALIZED CADR STCLOK2 # RETURN P41SPOT TC INTPRET # (5) DLOAD DSU TIG D29.9SEC STCALL TDEC1 INITCDUW BOFF CALL MUNFLAG GOMIDAV CSMPREC VLOAD MXV VATT1 REFSMMAT VSR1 STOVL V(CSM) # CSM VELOCITY - M/CS*2(7) RATT1 VSL4 MXV REFSMMAT STCALL R(CSM) # CSM POSITION - M*2(24) MUNGRAV STODL G(CSM) # CSM GRAVITY VEC. - M/CS*2(7) TAT STORE TDEC1 # RELOAD TDEC1 FOR MIDTOAV. GOMIDAV CALRB MIDTOAV1 TCF CALLT-35 # MADE IT IN TIME. EXTEND # TIG WAS SLIPPED, SO RESET TIG TO 29.9 DCA PIPTIME1 # SECONDS AFTER THE TIME TO WHICH WE DID DXCH TIG # INTEGRATE. EXTEND DCA D29.9SEC DAS TIG CALLT-35 DXCH MPAC DXCH SAVET-30 # DELTA-T UNTIL TIG-30 EXTEND DCS 5SECDP DAS SAVET-30 # DELTA-T UNTIL TIG-35 EXTEND DCA SAVET-30 TC LONGCALL EBANK= TTOGO 2CADR TIG-35 TC PHASCHNG OCT 20254 # 4.25SPOT FOR TIG-35 RESTART. ## Page 735 TC CHECKMM DEC 63 TCF ENDOFJOB # NOT P63 CS CNTDNDEX # P63 CAN START DISPLAYING NOW. TS DISPDEX TC INTPRET VLOAD ABVAL VN1 STORE ABVEL # INITIALIZE ABVEL FOR P63 DISPLAY EXIT TCF ENDOFJOB # **************************************** TIG-35 CAF 5SEC TC TWIDDLE ADRES TIG-30 TC PHASCHNG OCT 40154 # 4.15SPOT FOR TIG-30 RESTART CS BLANKDEX # BLANK DSKY FOR 5 SECONDS TS DISPDEX INDEX WHICH CS 6 # CHECK ULLAGE TIME. EXTEND BZMF TASKOVER CAF 4.9SEC # SET UP TASK TO RESTORE DISPLAY AT TIG-30 TC TWIDDLE ADRES TIG-30.1 CAF PRIO17 # A NEGATIVE ULLAGE TIME INDICATES P41, IN TC NOVAC # WHICH CASE WE HAVE TO SET UP A JOB TO EBANK= TTOGO # BLANK THE DSKY FOR FIVE SECONDS, SINCE 2CADR P41BLANK # CLOKJOB IS NOT RUNNING DURING P41. TCF TASKOVER P41BLANK TC BANKCALL # BLANK DSKY. CADR CLEANDSP TCF ENDOFJOB TIG-30.1 CAF PRIO17 # SET UP JOB TO RESTORE DISPLAY AT TIG-30 TC NOVAC EBANK= TTOGO 2CADR TIG-30A TCF TASKOVER ## Page 736 TIG-30A CAF V16N85B TC BANKCALL # RESTORE DISPLAY. CADR REGODSP # REGODSP DOES A TCF ENDOFJOB # ***************************************** TIG-30 CAF S24.9SEC TC TWIDDLE ADRES TIG-5 CS CNTDNDEX # START UP CLOKTASK AGAIN TS DISPDEX INDEX WHICH # PICK UP APPROPRIATE ULLAGE - ON TIME CAF 6 EXTEND BZMF ULLGNOT # DON'T SET UP ULLAGE IF DT IS NEG OR ZERO TS SAVET-30 # SAVE DELTA-T FOR RESTART TC TWIDDLE ADRES ULLGTASK CA THREE # RESTART PROTECT ULLGTASK (1.3SPOT) TS L CS THREE DXCH -PHASE1 CS TIME1 TS TBASE1 INDEX WHICH TCF 1 WANTAPS CS FLGWRD10 # (1) FOR P42 ENSURE APSFLAG IS SET. IF IT MASK APSFLBIT # WASN'T SET, DAP WILL BE INITIALIZED TO ADS FLGWRD10 # ASCENT VALUES BY 1/ACCS IN 2 SECONDS. ULLGNOT EXTEND # (1) INDEX WHICH DCA 7 # LOAD AVEGEXIT WITH APPROPRIATE 2CADR DXCH AVEGEXIT CAF TWO # 4.2SPOT RESTARTS IMMEDIATELY AT REDO4.2 TS L CS TWO # AND ALSO AT TIG-5 AT THE CORRECT TIME. DXCH -PHASE4 CS TIME1 TS TBASE4 # SET TBASE4 FOR TIG-5 RESTART REDO2.17 EXTEND ## Page 737 DCA NEG0 # CLEAR OUT GROUP 2 SO LAMBERT CAN START DXCH -PHASE2 # IF NEEDED. REDO4.2 CCS PHASE5 # IS SERVICER GOING? TCF TASKOVER # YES, DON'T START IT UP AGAIN. TC POSTJUMP CADR PREREAD # PREREAD ENDS THIS TASK # **************************************** ULLGTASK TC ONULLAGE # THIS COMES AT TIG-7.5 OR TIG-3.5 TC PHASCHNG OCT 1 TCF TASKOVER # **************************************** TIG-5 EXTEND DCA NEG0 # INSURE THAT GROUP 3 IS INACTIVE. DXCH -PHASE3 CAF 5SEC TC TWIDDLE ADRES TIG-0 TC DOWNFLAG # RESET IGNFLAG AND ASTNFLAG ADRES IGNFLAG # FOR LIGHT-UP LOGIC TC DOWNFLAG ADRES ASTNFLAG INDEX WHICH TCF 11 P40SJUNK CCS PHASE3 # (11) P40 AND P42. S40.13 IN PROGRESS? TCF DISPCHNG # YES CAF PRIO20 TC FINDVAC EBANK= TTOGO 2CADR S40.13 TC PHASCHNG # 3.5SPOT FOR S40.13 OCT 00053 DISPCHNG CS VB99DEX # (11) TS DISPDEX ## Page 738 COMMON TC PHASCHNG # RESTART TIG-0 (4.7SPOT) OCT 40074 TCF TASKOVER # **************************************** TIG-0 CS FLAGWRD7 # SET IGNFLAG SINCE TIG HAS ARRIVED MASK IGNFLBIT ADS FLAGWRD7 TC CHECKMM # IN P63 CASE, THROTTLE-UP IS ZOOMTIME DEC 63 # AFTER NOMINAL IGNITION, NOT ACTUAL TCF IGNYET? CA ZOOMTIME TC WAITLIST EBANK= DVCNTR 2CADR P63ZOOM TC 2PHSCHNG OCT 40033 OCT 05014 OCT 77777 IGNYET? CAF ASTNBIT # CHECK ASTNFLAG: HAS ASTRONAUT RESPONDED MASK FLAGWRD7 # TO OUR ENGINE ENABLE REQUEST? EXTEND INDEX WHICH BZF 12 # BRANCH IF HE HAS NOT RESPONDED YET IGNITION CS FLAGWRD5 # INSURE ENGONFLG IS SET. MASK ENGONBIT ADS FLAGWRD5 CS PRIO30 # TURN ON THE ENGINE. EXTEND RAND DSALMOUT AD BIT13 EXTEND WRITE DSALMOUT EXTEND # SET TEVENT FOR DOWNLINK DCA TIME2 DXCH TEVENT EXTEND # UPDATE TIG USING TGO FROM S40.13 DCA TGO DXCH TIG EXTEND DCA TIME2 DAS TIG ## Page 739 CS FLUNDBIT # PERMIT GUIDANCE LOOP DISPLAYS MASK FLAGWRD8 TS FLAGWRD8 INDEX WHICH TCF 13 P63IGN EXTEND # (13) INITIATE BURN DISPLAYS DCA DSP2CADR DXCH AVGEXIT CA Z # ASSASSINATE CLOKTASK TS DISPDEX CS FLAGWRD9 # SET FLAG FOR P70-P71 MASK LETABBIT ADS FLAGWRD9 CS FLAGWRD7 # SET SWANDISP TO ENABLE R10. MASK SWANDBIT ADS FLAGWRD7 CS PULSES # MAKE SURE DAP IS NOT IN MINIMUM-IMPULSE MASK DAPBOOLS # MODE, IN CASE OF SWITCH TO P66 TS DAPBOOLS EXTEND # INITIALIZE TIG FOR P70 AND P71. DCA TIME2 DXCH TIG CAF ZERO # INITIALIZE WCHPHASE AND FLPASSO TS WCHPHASE TS WCHPHOLD # ALSO WHCPHOLD CA TWO TS FLPASS0 TCF P42IGN P40IGN CS FLAGWRD5 # (13) MASK NOTHRBIT EXTEND BZF P42IGN CA ZOOMTIME TC WAITLIST EBANK= DVCNTR 2CADR P40ZOOM P63IGN1 TC 2PHSCHNG OCT 40033 # 3.3SPOT FOR ZOOM RESTART. OCT 05014 # TYPE C RESTARTS HERE IMMEDIATELY OCT 77777 ## Page 740 TCF P42IGN P12IGN CAF EBANK6 TS EBANK EBANK= AOSQ CA IGNAOSQ # INITIALIZE DAP BIAS ACCELERATION TS AOSQ # ESTIMATES AT P12 IGNITION. CA IGNAOSR TS AOSR CAF EBANK7 TS EBANK EBANK= DVCNTR ABRTIGN CA Z # (13) KILL CLOKTASK TS DISPDEX EXTEND # CONNECT ASCENT GYIDANCE TO SERVICER. DCA ATMAGADR DXCH AVGEXIT CS FLAGWRD7 # ENABLE R10. MASK SWANDBIT ADS FLAGWRD7 P42IGN CS DRIFTBIT # ENSURE THAT POWERED-FLIGHT SWITCHING MASK DAPBOOLS # CURVES ARE USED. TS DAPBOOLS CAF IMPULBIT # EXAMINE IMPULSE SWITCH MASK FLAGWRD2 CCS A TCF IMPLBURN DVMONCON TC DOWNFLAG ADRES IGNFLAG # CONNECT DVMON TC DOWNFLAG ADRES ASTNFLAG TC DOWNFLAG ADRES IDLEFLAG TC PHASCHNG OCT 40054 TC FIXDELAY # TURN ULLAGE OFF HALF A SECOND AFTER DEC 50 # LIGHT UP. ULLAGOFF TC NOULLAGE WAITABIT EXTEND # KILL GROUP 4 DCA NEG0 ## Page 741 DXCH -PHASE4 TCF TASKOVER TIGTASK TC POSTJUMP # (12) CADR TIGTASK1 # **************************************** BANK 31 SETLOC P40S3 BANK COUNT* $$/P40 TIGTASK1 CAF PRIO16 TC NOVAC EBANK= TRKMKCNT 2CADR TIGNOW TC PHASCHNG OCT 6 # KILL GROUP 6. TCF TASKOVER # **************************************** P63ZOOM EXTEND DCA LUNLANAD DXCH AVEGEXIT TC IBNKCALL CADR FLATOUT TCF P40ZOOMA P40ZOOM CAF BIT13 TS THRUST CAF BIT4 EXTEND WOR CHAN14 P40ZOOMA TC PHASCHNG OCT 3 TCF TASKOVER EBANK= DVCNTR LUNLANAD 2CADR LUNLAND ## Page 742 ZOOM = P40ZOOMA BANK 36 SETLOC P40S BANK COUNT* $$/P40 # **************************************** COMFAIL TC UPFLAG # (15) ADRES IDLEFLAG TC UPFLAG # SET FLAG TO SUPPRESS CONFLICTING DISPLAY ADRES FLUNDISP CAF FOUR # RESET DVMON TS DVCNTR CCS PHASE6 # CLOCKTASK ACTIVE? TCF +3 # YES TC BANKCALL # OTHERWISE, START IT UP CADR STCLOK1 +3 CS VB97DEX TS DISPDEX TC PHASCHNG # TURN OFF GROUP 4. OCT 00004 TCF ENDOFJOB COMFAIL1 INDEX WHICH TCF 2 COMFAIL3 CA Z # (15) KILL CLOKTASK USING Z TCF +2 COMFAIL4 CS CNTDNDEX TS DISPDEX TC DOWNFLAG # RECONNECT DV MONITOR ADRES IDLEFLAG TC DOWNFLAG # PERMIT GUIDANCE LOOP DISPLAYS ADRES FLUNDISP TCF ENDOFJOB COMFAIL2 TC PHASCHNG # KILL ZOOM RESTART PROTECTION OCT 00003 INHINT TC KILLTASK # KILL ZOOM, IN CASE IT'S STILL TO COME CADR ZOOM TC IBNKCALL # COMMAND ENGINE OFF CADR ENGINOF4 TC UPFLAG # SET THE DRIFT BIT FOR THE DAP. ADRES DRIFTDFL ## Page 743 TC INVFLAG # USE OTHER RCS SYSTEM ADRES AORBTFLG TC UPFLAG # TURN ON ULLAGE ADRES ULLAGFLG CAF BIT1 INHINT TC TWIDDLE ADRES TIG-5 TCF ENDOFJOB # **************************************** # SUBROUTINES OF THE IGNITION ROUTINE # **************************************** INVFLAG CA Q TC DEBIT COM EXTEND RXOR LCHAN TCF COMFLAG # **************************************** NOULLAGE CS ULLAGER # MUST BE CALLED IN A TASK OR UNDER INHINT MASK DAPBOOLS TS DAPBOOLS TC Q # **************************************** ONULLAGE CS DAPBOOLS # TURN ON ULLAGE. MUST BE CALLED IN MASK ULLAGER # A TASK OR WHILE INHINTED. ADS DAPBOOLS TC Q # **************************************** STCLOK1 CA ZERO # THIS ROUTINE STARTS THE COUNT-DOWN STCLOK2 TS DISPDEX # (CLOKTASK AND CLOKJOB). SETTING STCLOK3 TC MAKECADR # SETTING DISPDEX POSITIVE KILLS IT. TS TBASE4 # RETURN SAVE (NOT FOR RESTARTS) EXTEND DCA TIG DXCH MPAC EXTEND DCS TIME2 ## Page 744 DAS MPAC # HAVE TIG - TIME2, UNDOUBTEDLY A + NUMBER TC TPAGREE # POSITIVE, SINCE WE PASSED THE CAF 1SEC # 45 SECOND CHECK TS Q DXCH MPAC MASK LOW5 # RESTRICT MAGNITUDE OF NUMBER IN A EXTEND DV Q CA L # GET REMAINDER AD TWO INHINT TC TWIDDLE ADRES CLOKTASK TC 2PHSCHNG OCT 40036 # 6.3SPOT FOR CLOKTASK OCT 05024 OCT 13000 CA TBASE4 TC BANKJUMP CLOKTASK CS TIME1 # SET TBASE6 FOR GROUP 6 RESTART TS TBASE6 CCS DISPDEX TCF KILLCLOK NOOP CAF PRIO27 TC NOVAC EBANK= TTOGO 2CADR CLOKJOB TC FIXDELAY # WAIT A SECOND BEFORE STARTING OVER DEC 100 TCF CLOKTASK KILLCLOK EXTEND # KILL RESTART DCA NEG0 DXCH -PHASE6 TCF TASKOVER CLOKJOB EXTEND DCS TIG DXCH TTOGO EXTEND ## Page 745 DCA TIME2 DAS TTOGO INHINT CCS DISPDEX # IF DISPDEX HAS BEEN SET POSITIVE BY A TCF ENDOFJOB # TASK OR A HIGHER PRIORITY JOB SINCE THE TCF ENDOFJOB # LAST CLOKTASK, AVOID USING IT AS AN COM # INDEX. RELINT # ***** DISPDEX MUST NEVER BE -0 ***** INDEX A TCF DISPNOT -1 # (-1 DUE TO EFFECT OF CCS) VB97DEX = OCT35 # NEGATIVE OF THIS IS PROPER FOR DISPDEX -35 CS ZERO # INDICATE VERB 97 PASTE TS NVWORD1 CA NVWORD +2 # NVWROD+2 CONTAINS V06 & APPROPRIATE NOUN TC BANKCALL CADR CLOCPLAY TCF STOPCLOK # TERMINATE CLOKTASK ON THE WAY TO P00H TCF COMFAIL1 TCF COMFAIL2 # THIS DISPLAY IS CALLED VIA ASTNCLOK -25 CAF V06N61 # IT IS PRIMARILY USED BY THE CREW IN P63 TC BANKCALL # TO RESET HIS EVENT TIMER TO AGREE WITH CADR REFLASH # TIG. TCF STOPCLOK TCF ASTNRETN TCF -6 CNTDNDEX = LOW4 # OCT17: NEGATIVE PROPER FOR DISPDEX -17 INDEX WHICH # THIS DISPLAY COMES UP AT ONE SECOND CAF 0 # INTERVALS. IT IS NORMALLY OPERATED TC BANKCALL # BETWEEN TIG-30 SECONDS AND TIG-5 SECONDS CADR REGODSP # REGODSP DOES ITS OWN TCF ENDOFJOB VB99DEX = ELEVEN # OCT13: NEGATIVE PROPER FOR DISPDEX V99RECYC EQUALS -13 CS BIT9 # INDICATE VERB 99 PASTE TS NVWORD1 INDEX WHICH # THIS IS THE "PLEASE ENABLE ENGINE" CAF 0 # DISPLAY; IT IS INITIATED AT TIG-5 SEC. TC BANKCALL # THE DISPLAY IS A V99NXX, WHERE XX IS THE CADR CLOCPLAY # NOUN THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DISPLAYED TCF STOPCLOK # TERMINATE GOTOPOOH TURNS OFF ULLAGE. TCF *PROCEED TCF *ENTER ## Page 746 BLANKDEX = TWO # NEGATIVE OF THIS IS PROPER FOR DISPDEX -2 TC BANKCALL # BLANK DSKY. THE DSKY IS BLANKED FOR CADR CLEANDSP # 5 SECONDS AT TIG-35 TO INDICATE THAT DISPNOT TCF ENDOFJOB # AVERAGE G IS STARTING. STOPCLOK TC NULLCLOK # STOP CLOKTASK & TURN OFF ULLAGE ON THE TCF GOTOPOOH # WAY TO P00 (GOTOPOOH RELINTS) NULLCLOK INHINT EXTEND QXCH P40/RET TC NOULLAGE # TURN OFF ULLAGE ... TC KILLTASK # DON'T LET IT COME ON, EITHER ... CADR ULLGTASK TC PHASCHNG # NOT EVEN IF THERE'S A RESTART. OCT 1 CA Z # KILL CLOKTASK TS DISPDEX TC P40/RET ASTNRETN TC PHASCHNG OCT 04024 CAF ZERO # STOP DISPLAYING BUT KEEP RUNNING. TS DISPDEX CAF PRIO13 TC FINDVAC EBANK= STARIND 2CADR ASTNRET TCF ENDOFJOB *PROCEED TC UPFLAG ADRES ASTNFLAG TCF IGNITE *ENTER INHINT INDEX WHICH TCF 3 GOPOST CAF PRIO12 # (3) MUST BE LOWER PRIORITY THAN CLOKJOB TC FINDVAC EBANK= TTOGO 2CADR POSTBURN ## Page 747 INHINT # SET UP THE DAP FOR COASTING FLIGHT. TC IBNKCALL CADR ALLCOAST TC NULLCLOK TC PHASCHNG # 4.13 RESTART FOR POSTBURN OCT 00134 TCF ENDOFJOB GOCUTOFF CAF PRIO17 # (3) TC FINDVAC EBANK= TGO 2CADR CUTOFF TC DOWNFLAG ADRES FLUNDISP INHINT # SET UP THE DAP FOR COASTING FLIGHT. TC IBNKCALL CADR ALLCOAST TC NULLCLOK TC PHASCHNG OCT 07024 OCT 17000 EBANK= TGO 2CADR CUTOFF TCF ENDOFJOB IGNITE CS FLAGWRD7 # (2) MASK IGNFLBIT CCS A TCF IGNITE1 CAF BIT1 INHINT TC TWIDDLE ADRES IGNITION CAF OCT23 # IMMEDIATE RESTART AT IGNITION. TS L COM DXCH -PHASE4 IGNITE1 CS CNTDNDEX # RESTORE OLD DISPLAY. TS DISPDEX TCF ENDOFJOB ## Page 748 # **************************************** P40ALM TC ALARM # PROGRAM SELECTION NOT CONSISTENT WITH OCT 1706 # VEHICLE CONFIGURATION REP40ALM CAF V05N09 # (14) TC BANKCALL CADR GOFLASH TCF GOTOPOOH # V34E TERMINATE TCF +2 # PROCEED CHECK FOR P42 TCF REP40ALM # V32E REDISPLAY ALARM INDEX WHICH # FOR P42, ALLOW CREW TO PROCEED EVEN TCF 14 # THOUGH VEHICLE IS UNSTAGED # **************************************** BANK 31 SETLOC P40S2 BANK COUNT* $$/P40 P40AUTO TC MAKECADR # HELLO THERE. TS TEMPR60 # FOR GENERALIZED RETURN TO OTHER BANKS. P40A/P TC BANKCALL # SUBROUTINE TO CHECK PGNCS CONTROL CADR G+N,AUTO # AND AUTO STABILIZATION MODES CCS A # +0 INDICATES IN PGNCS, IN AUTO TCF TURNITON # + INDICATES NOT IN PGNCS AND/OR AUTO CAF APSFLBIT # ARE WE ON THE DESCENT STAGE? MASK FLGWRD10 CCS A TCF GOBACK # RETURN CAF BIT5 # YES, CHECK FOR AUTOTHROTTLE MODE EXTEND RAND CHAN30 EXTEND BZF GOBACK # IN AUTOTHROTTLE MODE -- RETURN TURNITON CAF P40A/PMD # DISPLAY V50N25 R1=203 PLEASE PERFORM TC BANKCALL # CHECKLIST 203 TURN ON PGNCS ETC. CADR GOPERF1 TCF GOTOPOOH # V34E TERMINATE TCF P40A/P # RECYCLE GOBACK CA TEMPR60 TC BANKJUMP # GOODBYE. COME AGAIN SOON. P40A/PMD OCT 00203 ## Page 749 BANK 36 SETLOC P40S BANK COUNT* $$/P40 # **************************************** # CONSTANTS FOR THE IGNITION ROUTINE # **************************************** SERVCADR = P63TABLE +7 P40ADRES ADRES P40TABLE P41ADRES ADRES P41TABLE -5 P42ADRES ADRES P42TABLE EBANK= DVCNTR DSP2CADR 2CADR P63DISPS -2 EBANK= DVCNTR ATMAGADR 2CADR ATMAG ? = GOTOPOOH D29.9SEC 2DEC 2990 S24.9SEC DEC 2490 4.9SEC DEC 490 OCT20 = BIT5 V06N61 VN 0661 ## Page 750 # KILLTASK # MOD NO: NEW PROGRAM # MOD BY: COVELLI # # FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION: # # KILLTASK IS USED TO REMOVE A TASK FROM THE WAITLIST BY SUBSTITUTING A NULL TASK CALLED 'NULLTASK' (OF COURSE), # WHICH MERELY DOES A TC TASKOVER. IF THE SAME TASK IS SCHEDULED MORE THAN ONCE, ONLY THE ONE WHICH WILL OCCUR # FIRST IS REMOVED. IF THE TASK IS NOT SCHEDULED, KILLTASK TAKES NO ACTION AND RETURNS WITH NO ALARM. KILLTASK # LEAVES INTERRUPTS INHIBITED SO CALLER MUST RELINT # # CALLING SEQUENCE: # L TC KILLTASK IN FIXED-FIXED # L+1 CADR ???????? CADR (NOT 2CADR) OF TASK TO BE REMOVED. # L+2 (RELINT) RETURN # # EXIT MODE: AT L+2 OF CALLING SEQUENCE. # # ERASABLE INITIALIZATION= NONE. # # OUTPUT: 2CADR OF NULLTASK IN LST2 # # DEBRIS: ITEMP1 - ITEMP4, A, L, Q. EBANK= LST2 BLOCK 3 # KILLTASK MUST BE IN FIXED-FIXED. SETLOC FFTAG6 BANK COUNT* $$/KILL KILLTASK CA KILLBB INHINT LXCH A INDEX Q CA 0 # GET CADR. 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In 2014, the New York Jets will play, outside of their divisional games, the NFC North, the AFC West, the Pittsburg Stealers and the Tennessee Titans. Last year, the green and white finished the season 8-8 after a dramatic win in Miami to finish off the season and save Rex Ryan’s job. Their schedule in 2014 reflects their record of last year. Their home opponents had a combined record of 66-62 last year, while their away opponents had a combined record of 66-60-2 (the Vikings and Packers tied last year and New York plays them both away). The New York Jets will also play five of the 12 playoff teams from last year, along with their other opponents for the 2014 season, which are analyzed below. The Jet’s home games this year see them facing (outside of AFC East teams) the Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and the Pittsburg Stealers. This will be the fifth time the Jets play the Stealers in the last five years. They have not fared well against the black and gold, losing regular season games to them the past two years, and splitting their two games in 2010; unfortunately the game they lost in ’10 was in the AFC Championship game. They will face the Broncos for the first time since Peyton Manning has been on the team. Last time the two teams faced, Denver was in the middle of Tebow-mania and got the best of the Jets. Oakland is still in a rebuilding year, but have made some serious upgrades thus far; luckily for the Jets, Oakland has the longest trip of any home opponent which should slow down any momentum they may bring in. The Lions and Bears both have above average passing games with Calvin Johnson and Brandon Marshall, which could be a bad omen for the cornerback-less Jets, but at home they seem to play better defense. New York’s away schedule is quite different from their home. Outside of the AFC East teams, the Jets will travel to the Kansas City Chiefs, San Diego Chargers (their longest road trip), Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings and the Tennessee Titans. This will be the third year in a row New York plays Tennessee and hopes to get their first win against the Titans in that span. Kansas City and San Diego were both wildcard teams last year and boast strong run games with above average quarterbacks. New York was great against the run last year, which will be good when they play Green Bay and Minnesota who have Eddie Lacy and Adrian Peterson; Green Bay should also have a healthy Aaron Rodgers, who should have no problem throwing against the Jets’ below average passing defense. Outside of Kansas City, none of the New York Jets away opponents analyzed for 2014 season have great defenses, which should keep them in the games and hope to squeeze out a couple extra wins. The Jets have been very up and down against their AFC East counterparts. They were 1-1 against all three teams last year. New England, their hated rivals, will always be the two biggest games of the season. When the Patriots come to Met Life Stadium, Darrell Revis will have played at least one game every year in East Rutherford, assuming he is not injured before the game. The Jets have fared much better at home than away against the Patriots and will hope to keep their home winning ways going and change their fortunes away. The story between the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins is basically the same, just reversed. The past two years the Jets have won both their games in Miami, but lost both their games in Buffalo. When facing the two teams at home, the Jets have won both home games against Buffalo, but lost both against Miami. They have been able to figure Miami out on the road, but are stumped when they play them at home, and vice versa for the Bills. If the Jets want to have any hopes of making the playoffs this year, they will have to finish better than 3-3 in their division. If New York finds some good cornerbacks in the draft or through a trade, and gets a number one receiver, they could finish the season 10-6, putting them on the bubble of making the playoffs. Assuming they go 4-2 in their division (beating either Miami or Buffalo twice and splitting the others) they should be able to find wins against Oakland, Pittsburg (who have lost a lot in free agency), Minnesota and Tennessee. They will not win against Denver, and traveling to Kansas City and San Diego will spell losses for them as well. If they can go 2-1 against Chicago, Detroit and Green Bay, then a ten win season is very much in their grasp, assuming they find the missing pieces. After being analyzed, the New York Jets have a very average schedule, one year after finishing 8-8, and their opponents in 2014 reflect this. Commentary by Chris Dragicevich Follow Chris on Twitter Sources: NFL Pro-Football Reference Doc’s Share this: Print LinkedIn Pinterest Pocket Reddit Twitter Facebook Tumblr | Mid | [
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The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed! Tuesday, January 16, 2018 How about this in the hands of terrorists? We had somespiriteddiscussions in these pages a few days ago (follow those three links to find the articles), concerning terrorist attacks on a Russian airbase in Syria, using 'hobbyist'-style quadcopter drones as well as some homemade larger models. Some people are still unconvinced that the former pose any realistic threat. Now Boeing has announced the development - in just three months from 'clean-sheet' concept to a flying prototype - of an octocopter that can carry payloads of up to 500 pounds. Octocopters big enough to carry a human passenger have already been announced. If Boeing can build something like that shown above in three months, using off-the-shelf components, I'm willing to bet a backyard mechanic team can do something similar in a year or so. Given that sort of payload capability - 500 pounds is the weight of a standard USAF Mark 82 bomb - there are all sorts of nasty weapon and target combinations that come to mind. Amazon.com is already talking about using UAV's to deliver parcels and packages. UPS and FedEx are doing the same. We'll soon be seeing something like this drone in the skies around our homes. Terrorists are sure to figure out that by painting their drone in familiar colors, and sticking a couple of commercial logos on it, and wrapping its payload in cardboard or plastic to resemble a commercial delivery, they can operate their drones with virtual impunity. I damn well guarantee it. This genie is well and truly out of the bottle. 17 comments: Unlike prior threads, that thing not only works, it's the size of a bathtub. Which puts it back on the grid for standard AAA and AA missiles. Boeing can try to bootstrap things (good luck), but what killed recent package delivery schemes was people not wanting unpiloted aircraft big enough to kill somebody zooming through their neighborhoods 24/7/365, and that, coupled with the utility of converting this to terrorism, is going to kill it again. Will it carry a workable payload?Absolutely.That makes it an aircraft, and outside the military/gov, aircraft require a pilot.People on the ground will shoot those things down for sport, and the first time one comes down on a freeway or playground and kills somebody, the lawsuits will end the entire scheme. You want to carry 500 pounds of payload 10 miles?Great.Call UPS, instead of flying it over my head, my home, and putting everyone underneath at risk. The problem with something this size isn't that it can't work, it's that it can. And incidentally, it's big enough to take out general aviation aircraft and helicopters, while being small enough to be missed by most pilots, and being dumb itself, which really fornicates up the entire concept of VFR airspace. Take out a family in Cessna, just once, and guys will be going up in Piper Cubs and biplanes with semi-auto shotguns hunting for those things to shoot them down. I watched National Geographic's "Chain of Command" show last night. First episode had, yep, ISIS using weaponized drones. Funny, some of them looked just like the tiny hobby drones that someone who posts here says couldn't carry a weapon. The Iraqi Self Defense forces sure seemed to be all assed-up about them, though. And, anti-drone defense seems to be either of the low tech 'shoot-them' variety or the super-duper USA system that jams the signals of the drones and sends them back to the user (if the drone has an auto-return feature.) First, that thing is a one-off concept vehicle. Betcha money we're looking at about $100K at least. All Aesop says above is basically correct. The problem with all this is power. Those batteries have to be something right out of the Skunkworks or DARPA labs. All of this tech is light years out of Abu-Al-Fuknuk-Al's league. When you consider that he is flummoxed by the workings of a flush toilet or AK47 - he's still better off with RPG7's, mortars, IED's and conventional weapons. But I'm glad you're finally putting some effort into this, Pete. I'm still laughing about that pic of the fighter jet with the tailfeathers blown off by a plastic toy, and the ammo dump that was clearly destroyed by a rocket attack rather than toy drones. So my verdict is - yes, you COULD weaponize that thing... but why bother? Don't underestimate the engineering talent in that part of the world. There were a lot of Iranian guys in American engineering schools back in the late 70's and early 80's and they were pretty sharp. And the bad guys don't have to (re)invent all this stuff, they just have to buy it. As long as adding a battery and motor increases the net lift of the vehicle, nothing stops you from having 30 motors with normal batteries and motors to get to whatever load capacity you want (assuming your load is distributed enough that you don't need to increase the weight of the frame at a higher rate than you add lift) controlling 30 motors is 'just software' If you think that yahoos flying around shooting guns out of aircraft are going to make a dent in the number of drones out there, you are ignoring all the damage their ammo that misses the drones is going to do (and you are assuming that the attackers are practicing near their targets) I won't even start on the stupidity of thinking that FAA pilot regulations are going to slow down people prepared to commit murder The "yahoos" shooting at the things will be GA pilots not inclined to get taken out by some jacktards' pilot-stupid package delivery toys infesting VFR airspace, not people looking to cure terrorism. (Where you got any other idea is a mystery for the ages.) The "damage" caused by shotgun pellets falling from altitude would be negligible. You might do the physics calculations on the destruction wrought from Creation to the present by a nominal 1-oz crap from a seagull at altitude, multiplied by the worldwide seagull population through 2018, and see if you can figure out what happens when a fraction of an oz lead pellet plummets to earth instead. We're not talking about sending 20MM Vulcan cannon HE-T slugs downrange. But why let reality get in the way of a great rant, right? I won't even comment on the stupidity of assuming anything I said about FAA regs was presumed to affect terrorists to any degree, because evidently that was pulled from the same orifice as the previous comment's stream-of-consciousness. English is a thing.You should learn it.Logic too, for that matter.Then you wouldn't have to spend so much time building strawmen and knocking them back down solely for your own amusement, but that's what happens when you supply answers not germane, to arguments not made. But yes, adding batteries and motors would theoretically increase the payload/range capacity of this or any drone. For the same reason a B-52 can carry a greater payload of coconuts than can be borne by a migratory swallow gripping a coconut by the husk. Right up to the point sizewise that said drone shows up as both a radar target and heat source, and someone blows it to pieces at distance with a Stinger, Sidewinder, or AMRAAM missile miles from its intended target, the entire advantage set of a miniscule COTS drone having been completely obviated by making it so much bigger, and they'll be splattered from the sky at Mach 5, while doing nothing but providing local air defense with regular practice drills, and giving the DHS bloodhounds new rabbits to hunt.Well-played. The Air Force (actually, about twenty different ones) figured out that particular math/physics problem in the 1960s. And Glen:Check your glasses. The only rockets in the munitions dump explosion referenced previously were outbound from ground zero, and after the thing was fully involved and aflame. The videos were only started after the dumps were fully involved and gloriously aflame. That's what happens when you drop thermite onto propellants and high explosives, and set acres of it on fire. When you find a video taken before the explosions of an alleged drone attack, showing the rocket arc you imagine (probably with the video recorder catching the cameraman repeating "Allahu Akbar" or "Путин сосет" repeatedly), by all means, link to it. Forest, Trees? Will this thing carry 200 lb 20 miles? if so hang a canvas Bosun's chair under it and use it as a flying car to commute to work. Park in the company-supplied electric vehicle slots and recharge for 8 hours, then buzz home. Hopefully you can make a controlled landing on 7 motors should one conk out. Watch out for power lines and the morning traffic copter. Yer full a beans Aesop! :) I'm sorry, I clearly saw rockets fired at that ammo dump on that vid. And no, a plastic toy will not take the empennage off an armoured fighter plane. And no. Adding more batteries and motors won't necessarily increase payload and flight time. To make drones effective weapons you need to increase the power to weight ratio. (Especially if you plan to use toy drones as weapons). Then you need to communicate and control it. That means advanced radio and control technologies. Sorry boys but terrorists won't be using these things as weapons an time soon. @Glen: You need to read the linked articles describing those attacks. The rockets you saw were exploding INSIDE the ammo dumps, AFTER the drone attacks with thermite grenades. The details are known. It's not rocket science. @glenno, you don't have to increase the power-to-weight ratio, you just need to increase the total payload. Airships have a horrible lift-to-weight ratio, but if you make them big enough, you can have a huge amount of cargo capacity. you don't need to have these things have 20 mile range, If you have a mile or two, you can drive a pickup with one of these things into the area, launch and leave well before any response forces can get to you. @Billlthey were going to fly a 2-seater commuter multicopter at CES, but the flight got grounded due to weather. The short blurb I saw on it talked about it being powered by a diesel generator instead of batteries to get it's range. all of you saying that these things can't scale, search for large drones on youtube They already are. If even the libtards at NatGeo are reporting it, that means it is quite common. Them ISIS boys are probably a tad bit smarter than you in their ability to kludge something up and make it go boom, after all, there are all those engineering students that went to American, British and German universities that dropped off the net after the Jihad started. Along with all those helpful Chinese and Indians and Pakistanis. I'm reading this - Peter's post and the comments - and I'm asking: "What's the point?" Can drones be weaponized? Yes, possibly, probably. Can they be scaled up to carry serious weapons? Yes, probably. But as someone else pointed out, at some point you get big enough to enter standard AA and missile shoot-down territory. We'e dealing with that already. So what. Do we need to worry about all of the terrorists and the technology they might get their hands on? I don't know about you, but for me that answer is "NO". I refuse to do a flop-and-twitch because of what some third-world a$$hole might be "someday" capable of. Technology marches on regardless of whether I worry about it or not. Technological improvisation begets technological response. And regardless of the payload, the light toy drones can be stopped by something as simple as a net. "And trading multi-million dollar missiles or thousand dollar drones is not a winning trade over the long term." Another jet-fuel genius. 1) What Boeing probably spent in parts, testing, and engineering man-hours, to create the drone in the video would likely support a family of four for a year in NYFC. At Trump Plaza. The batteries alone probably cost more than your car, even if you drive a Freightliner semi-trailer with attached motorhome suite. 2) A Stinger goes for [email protected] latest Sidewinder is up to $690K, but that's because we haven't bought very many yet. Prior editions were [email protected] AMRAAM is approx. [email protected] and Chinese examples are orders of magnitude cheaper (the benefits of glorious socialism in action).If you're buying multi-million dollar missiles on your shopping spree, you're doing it wrong, Dr. Evil.And yet again, the Internet is a thing.Maybe look up Dunning-Kruger while you're surfing. 3) An average military hand fragmentation grenade costs about $50. So, how much should anyone spend to stop one from going off on your kids' playground during recess, or up your personal tailpipe?Do the math, and show your work. Most countries in the First World would happily expend a multi-thousand dollar missile to prevent DirkaDirka Jihad from taking out a building full of people, regardless of the unit cost of the drone, and then pile on by happily spending a few pallets of cash to blow DirkaDirka, his friends, his village, and all their goats off the map, even if it required a full carrier alpha strike, or a sortie of B-2s from Missouri and six mid-air refueling rendezvous, before we even get to the cost of the ordnance we'd expend.That's how the math is actually done.cont. cont.And to the person who posted this gem:"Drunks with guns in Cessnas? Nah, nothing could possibly go wrong. /sarc":Point to the place where anything but the voices in your head said they'd be drunk.I'll wait while you find that.Or is that you just imagine that anyone who fires a gun must be so?Just wondering. Glen: What you think you saw, unfortunately can't be found on the referenced videos, so I repeat, check your glasses. Neither of those videos was started before the ammo dumps in question were already gloriously aflame. Because the persons shooting the video didn't know the dumps were going to blow up in advance. Reality is funny like that. Ditto for human reaction.That's how time works, so everything doesn't happen all at once. The rocket arcs visible were secondary explosions set off because of the initial fire, which all sources report was caused by drone(s) dropping an incendiary on the target. You can tell this using common sense and Mk I eyeballs, because the exhaust trails originate at the site that's burning and exploding, and travel outwards from that area.Physics is funny like that too. Sorry the facts and the video don't accord with your expertise, from months later and thousands of miles away.If you have a video of either incident, or any others, shot from before the initial explosions, showing the original rocket launch and impact, post the link, by all means, and we can all see for ourselves.Otherwise, as previously noted, you're out of your depth trying to do forensic analysis on secondary detonations from a fully-involved ammo dump fire from YouTube video, and you can't even see why. And that tailplane from the crippled aircraft wasn't damaged by the plastic drone, it was destroyed by the PG-7 antitank warhead the drone was carrying. But you knew that, and chose to misrepresent it to bolster your pathetically weak case. I'm guessing you don't have any feel whatsoever for how much damage 500mm of armored steel penetration by a shaped charge equates to on aircraft aluminum tailplanes. Jeez, man, Stevie Wonder could argue your case better than you do yourself, and he'd have quit five tries ago. Seriously man, this is getting to be drowning-puppies-painful.Just let it go. You missed that bus, and it ran you over. Then backed up over you a few times, to be sure.Digging in your heels isn't going to stop the bumper on the next pass.Dust yourself off, and try to do better tomorrow. @RoyI agree that we can't go into twitches worrying about all the bad things that can be done with off-the-shelf technology. I'm just trying to counter the people who say 'there is no threat' Standard AA envelope does not cover things as small as even the large human carrying devices, especially if they are largely made out of composite materials instead of metal. These things don't require a large area to work from, and even the large ones comfortably fit in the back of a truck light helicopters could be a similar threat, but they don't generally come with autopilot and even the small ones are a bit larger than these things. And for everyone else who points out how much the drone in the article probably cost, look at what people are building at home and putting on youtube, those aren't costing these people a years salary, they are being built by hobbiests. | Mid | [
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Q: Holonomic and Topological Quantum Computing In topological quantum computation, anyons are braided in spacetime, performing non-trivial evolutions of some degenerate groundstate. In holonomic quantum computation, the system is braided in parameter space, performing non-trivial evolutions of some degenerate groundstate (via the holonomy of a non-abelian connection). What are the key differences between the two? A: In brief, the holonomy depends on the area enclosed by the path in parameter space, and is therefore sensitive to perturbations of the path, e.g. its length. In contrast, a topological evolution is largely independent of the path geometry, and depends only on topological data, specifically homotopy (e.g. how many times a path encircles a singular point, which for a pair of anyons is $r=0$, with $r$ the relative coordinate). In particular, two homotopically equivalent paths lead to the same evolution. This makes topological quantum computing much more robust in principle. | High | [
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Q: Is brute force the accepted best practice for handling Excel COM 'busy' exceptions? Following on from a question about handling-com-exceptions-busy-codes I would like to know if the following model is the accepted best practice of handling Excel COM busy messages when accessing the Excel COM object model: private void AskExcelToDoSomething() { bool retry = true; do { try { // Call Excel OM retry = false; } catch (COMException e) {} } while (retry); } Assuming that IMessageFilter has been implemented and catches the errors for which it is intended and retries, is the above model the 'accepted' way of handling these busy exceptions? If so, is it not vulnerable to hanging if for some reason it keeps being rejected? Is there no better way of doing this that guarantees success? A: You're missing the Thread.Sleep(500); call from the linked post's solution, which is much, much better than what you've posted here: private void TryUntilSuccess(Action action) { bool success = false; while (!success) { try { action(); success = true; } catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException e) { if ((e.ErrorCode & 0xFFFF) == 0xC472) { // Excel is busy Thread.Sleep(500); // Wait, and... success = false; // ...try again } else { // Re-throw! throw e; } } } } (above code from sepp2k's answer here) is it not vulnerable to hanging if for some reason it keeps being rejected? Given that this code is meant to address a COM exception thrown when Excel is busy, it remaining in the loop would mean, well, that Excel is still busy - and possibly hung... in which case, the user will probably lose their patience and kill the application anyway. The difference between sepp2k's code and the code you're having here, is that you're swallowing all COM exceptions - which is bad. I really don't see a reason not to use the code provided in the post you're following-up on, which filters the error code (if ((e.ErrorCode & 0xFFFF) == 0xC472)) and re-throws all other exceptions, leaving you with a way to exit the loop if you get a COM exception that's saying anything other than Excel is busy. | Mid | [
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Q: how to replace image on click, Knockout? I'd appriciate if anyone could help =) i want my image to change when i click on it .html file: <a href="#" data-bind="click: $root.markCompleted"><img class = "check" src = 'bee-icon-gray.jpg' width = '25px' height = '23px'/></a> .js file function AppViewModel() { var self = this; self.tasks = ko.observableArray([]); self.markCompleted = function(task) { task.status('completed'); } } So i'd like to replace bee-icon-gray.jpg image with bee-icon-colored.jpg when i click on it, also it would be just perfect if i could toggle the images each time i click! i'd be thankful for any help! A: In a normal web page, indeed using the jquery selector would be best, but because you are building a SPA with knockout, mixing jquery selects in your view model is a no-no. So, end response: <a href="#" data-bind="click: $root.markCompleted"><img class = "check" data-bind='attr: {src: imageSrc}' width = '25px' height = '23px'/></a> and in your view model: function AppViewModel() { var self = this; self.imageSrc = 'initialImage'; self.tasks = ko.observableArray([]); self.markCompleted = function(task) { task.status('completed'); self.imageSrc('newImage'); } } A: Try with below code, its may help you out. $('.check').click(function(){ $(this).attr('src','newimagesrc'); }); | Mid | [
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Development and comparison of transperitoneal and retroperitoneal approaches to laparoscopic-assisted aortofemoral bypass in a porcine model. Transperitoneal and retroperitoneal approaches to video-assisted aortofemoral bypass were developed and compared using gasless laparoscopic techniques in a porcine model. Ten pigs were randomized to either a transperitoneal or retroperitoneal approach. Aortic clamp time, total operative time, and complications were recorded. Both operations used an external lift device to maintain the working space. Retroperitoneal operations first used serial balloon inflation to dissect the retroperitoneum. After exposure of the infrarenal aorta, a graft was tunneled under endoscopic visualization. End-to-side aortic and femoral anastomoses were created with conventional instruments through 4 cm incisions. Mean +/- SEM aortic clamp time, operative duration, and graft patency rates were similar for both approaches (difference not significant by unpaired t test). Intraoperative complications related to the use of the laparoscopic technique included injury to the bladder and small bowel (n=2) and occurred only in the transperitoneal group. The use of a gasless technique allowed direct visualization, standard instrumentation, and conventional anastomotic techniques. The retroperitoneal approach used the peritoneal sac to exclude the bowel, simplifying the aortic dissection. Gasless laparoscopic-assisted aortofemoral bypass can be performed by both transperitoneal and retroperitoneal approaches and holds promise as a minimally invasive treatment for aortoiliac occlusive disease. | High | [
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Particulate materials, especially inert particulate materials such as carbon black, silca, clay, talc, and polymeric materials are employed as fluidization aids for polymerization of olefin polymers, especially sticky polymers, in fluidized bed reactors, especially gas phase fluidized bed reactors. In sticky polymers such as, for example, ethylene-propylene and ethylene-propylene-diene rubbers, carbon black is the most frequently employed particulate material. Such processes are taught, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,994,534; 5,304,588; 5,317,036; and 5,453,471, as well as WO 95/09826 and WO 95/09827. These inert particulate materials or fluidization aids are manufactured as fine powdery cohesive solids which are then formed into beads or pellets for shipping and handling. Before they can be used in olefin polymerizations, they must be subjected to grinding, drying, purification, and/or passivation processes. For example, carbon black is classified as a solid material and is developed initially in the form of an aerosol. For this reason, carbon black just formed has a flocculent appearance, which also gives rise to the expression "fluffy" carbon black or carbon black "fluff". The fluff form of carbon black is composed of more than 96% finely dispersed carbon with small amounts of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur and traces (less than 0.5%) of organic components. The fluff form of carbon black poses difficulty in dispersing, handling, and transporting. The difficulty worsens when these processes are conducted under elevated pressures. Because of this, manufacturers of carbon blacks further process carbon black fluff to provide it to consumers in the form of dispersions, powders, beads, or pellets. To convert carbon black fluff to beads, it is oxidatively after-treated. This after-treatment can produce carbon black beads containing up to 15% oxygen. After-treated carbon black typically contains higher amounts of other contaminants (e.g., hydrogen nitrogen, sulfur, moisture). Before carbon black beads are utilized in a polymerization process to produce polymers, the polymer manufacturer subjects them to a grinding process which in turn can introduce additional impurities such as moisture and traces of metals into the ground carbon black powder so produced. The polymer manufacturer uses carbon black powder in polymerization because it is a better fluidization aid than beads. As those skilled in the art know, oxygen, moisture (water), as well as the other above-mentioned impurities (e.g., sulfur) found in carbon black or introduced in after-treatments, are considered to be poisons in polymerization processes such as those used to produce sticky polymers. The presence of these impurities in carbon black requires extensive drying and/or purifying and passivation operations before polymerization is initiated and/or the use of a scavenger material (typically, additional amounts of co-catalyst, e.g., aluminum-alkyls halides and/or hydrides), both of which are extremely costly steps in polymer production. It would be desirable to efficiently utilize the fine, powdery form of a particulate material, especially the fluff form of carbon black, directly in a fluidized polymerization vessel. The feeding of particulate materials, especially inert particulate materials, such as carbon black fluff from a carbon black reactor directly to a fluidized reactor would eliminate the need for most, if not all, of the after-treatment provided by the supplier of carbon black, eliminate the need for grinding carbon black beads into powder by the polymer manufacturer, and reduce the amount of co-catalyst/scavenger material or passivation agent used in the polymerization by that amount which serves as a scavenger for impurities introduced by after-treatment and grinding. In addition, as compared to beads and powder, the smaller-sized carbon black fluff would improve fluidization in the polymerizing reactor, minimize or eliminate gel formation, and enhance overall reactor operability. | Mid | [
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Q: Move back button to original position with UIView.Animate I'm creating 14 buttons programmatically in another function and I added target to them and get them animate each all, and I've targets when I press any button go the target, my problem how to move back to original position with using UIView.Animate ?? Exactly like this Gif : Codes: var tileArrayXAxis: [Int] = [] // X-Axis of the my 14 buttons var tileArrayYAxis: [Int] = [] // Y-Axis of the my 14 buttons var tileArrayWidth: [Int] = [] // Width of the my 14 buttons var tileArrayHeight: [Int] = [] // Heigh of the my 14 buttons var targetArrayXAxis: [Int] = [] // X-Axis of the target var targetArrayYAxis: [Int] = [] // Y-Axis of the target var targetArrayWidth: [Int] = [] // Width of the target var targetArrayHeight: [Int] = [] // Heigh of the target var i : Int = 0 func moveButton(sender: UIButton) { var xS = Int() var yS = Int() var widthS = Int() var heightS = Int() if i < targetArrayXAxis.count && i < targetArrayYAxis.count && i < targetArrayWidth.count && i < targetArrayHeight.count { xS = targetArrayXAxis[i] yS = targetArrayYAxis[i] widthS = targetArrayWidth[i] heightS = targetArrayHeight[i] yS -= widthS let startS = CGPoint(x: xS, y: yS) let sizeS = CGSize(width: widthS, height: heightS) sender.frame = CGRect(x: startS.x, y: startS.y, width: sizeS.width, height: sizeS.width) } UIView.animate(withDuration: 2, delay: 0, usingSpringWithDamping: 0.2, initialSpringVelocity: 6, options: .allowUserInteraction, animations: { [weak self] in sender.transform = .identity self?.i += 1 }) } A: Setting transform to identity after you’ve set the frame to a new value will not move the button at all, as it will just return the new frame. Either: You need to store the old frame in a variable, before you set it to a new value: let oldFrame : CGRect = sender.frame // Now set the frame to its new value sender.frame = .... And then in your animation block: sender.frame = oldFrame Or: do not assign a new frame to sender but assign a translation transform to it, then set the transform to identity in the animation block to undo the transform and send the button back to where it was. EDIT: As requested, a simple ViewController implementation of this as follows: import UIKit class ViewController: UIViewController { fileprivate var buttonOne : UIButton! fileprivate var buttonTwo : UIButton! fileprivate var buttonOneFrame : CGRect { return CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: view.bounds.width / 2 - 200, y: 100), size: CGSize(width: 150, height: 100)) } override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() buttonOne = { let bO : UIButton = UIButton() bO.backgroundColor = .red bO.setTitle("Frame Method", for: .normal) bO.addTarget(self, action: #selector(frameMethodMove(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) bO.frame = buttonOneFrame return bO }() buttonTwo = { let bT : UIButton = UIButton() bT.backgroundColor = .blue bT.setTitle("Transform Method", for: .normal) bT.addTarget(self, action: #selector(transformMethodMove(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) bT.frame = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: view.bounds.width / 2 + 50, y: 100), size: CGSize(width: 150, height: 100)) return bT }() view.addSubview(buttonOne) view.addSubview(buttonTwo) } override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() { super.didReceiveMemoryWarning() // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated. } @objc fileprivate func frameMethodMove(sender: UIButton) -> Void { let newFrame : CGRect = CGRect(origin: CGPoint(x: buttonOneFrame.origin.x, y: buttonOneFrame.origin.y + 500), size: buttonOneFrame.size) sender.frame = newFrame sender.removeTarget(self, action: #selector(frameMethodMove(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) sender.addTarget(self, action: #selector(frameMethodMoveBack(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) } @objc fileprivate func frameMethodMoveBack(sender: UIButton) -> Void { UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, delay: 0, options: .allowUserInteraction, animations: { sender.frame = self.buttonOneFrame }, completion: ({ _ in sender.removeTarget(self, action: #selector(self.frameMethodMoveBack(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) sender.addTarget(self, action: #selector(self.frameMethodMove(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) })) } @objc fileprivate func transformMethodMove(sender: UIButton) -> Void { sender.transform = CGAffineTransform.init(translationX: 0, y: 500) sender.removeTarget(self, action: #selector(transformMethodMove(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) sender.addTarget(self, action: #selector(transformMethodMoveBack(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) } @objc fileprivate func transformMethodMoveBack(sender: UIButton) -> Void { UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.5, delay: 0, options: .allowUserInteraction, animations: { sender.transform = .identity }, completion: ({ _ in sender.removeTarget(self, action: #selector(self.transformMethodMoveBack(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) sender.addTarget(self, action: #selector(self.transformMethodMove(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside) })) } } | Low | [
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TSS Sir John Hawkins (1929) TSS Sir John Hawkins was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1929. History TSS Sir John Hawkins was built by Earle’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Hull and launched on 15 May 1929. She was one of a pair built for tendering duties in Plymouth harbour, her sister TSS Sir Richard Grenville being launched two years later. On 27 August 1940 she was damaged during an air raid. Following repairs she was taken over by the Royal Navy in January 1941 and saw service at Plymouth, Scapa Flow and Pentland Firth. She was returned to the GWR at Plymouth on 22 November 1945 and remained stationed there until 1962 when she was sold for scrap The vessel can be seen in the 1958 movie Dunkirk where it is portrayed in harbour returning troops evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo. References Category:1929 ships Category:Passenger ships of the United Kingdom Category:Steamships of the United Kingdom Category:Ships built on the Humber Category:Ships of the Great Western Railway Category:Ships of British Rail | Low | [
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Shilajit Capsule What is Shilajit? Shilajit is commonly used mineral compound mostly used in Ayurvedic & Unani system of medicine since ancient practice of Ayurveda, a 5,000-year-old method of disease prevention and treatment originating in India. Shilajit is still being used in India Pakistan China & Bhutan. While it’s miraculous result attracted doctors & researchers from around the world. Don’t be confused with Shilajit Majumdar Shilajit Majumdar was born on October 9, 1965 in Karidhya, Birbhum, West Bengal, India. He is known for his work on Rupkatha Noy (2013), Hemlock Society (2012) and Ram Baloram (2008). How Shilajit is formed? Shilajit is formed naturally in the cracks and wrinkles of the Great Himalayan mountains of the indo china border over millions of years through the pressure of Himalaya mountains and the transformation of a sea bed which has been turned to lush jungles, Shilajit is a compound of natural mass rich in Fulvic Acid and dozens of other minerals. This potent nutritious rich substance has long been known as the “food of the immortals” and is actually the only natural source of fulvic acid on the planet. Found also in the mountains of India, China, Tibet and Burma, and known also as “blood of the mountains” or “juice of the rocks,” this incredible substance to cure many health disorders and helps to bring the body back to young. Often seen as a black powder, the higher quality shilajit looks like a black tar, and in its most refined state, a white small rock known as “White stone oil” – which is even more rare and refined. Benefits of Shilajit Capsule Shilajit capsule contains several potent substances in it including antioxidants and humic and fulvic acid. The Shilajit Capsule contains over 90 minerals that support the human body the natural way, and many other incredible benefits on a health specially on man’s sexual health. The detailed study of Shilajit Capsule are listed below Promotes Testosterone Levels Naturally Shilajit Capsule increases testosterone Harmon inside male body. People who take shilajit capsule regularly feel increase level of testosterone & easily get on demand erection in any age & situation. Shilajit Capsule also helps in building & protecting muscle tissue, keep fat off, and maintain good sexual as well as mental health. AntiviralShilajit capsule has many dozens of minerals & metallic salt in it & shilajit capsule helps in fighting with number of viruses. A research study tells us that shilajit capsule has ability to fight and kill many different viruses inside human body, including some herpes viruses. Infertility Shilajit is also a safe medicine for male infertility & unable to produce suffecient amount of sperms. In a study, a group of 60 infertile male took shilajit twice a day for 90 days after dinner. At the end of the 3 months time, more than 60% of the males report were showing an increase in total sperm count. More than 12 percent report had an increase in sperm motility. Liver CancerShilajit capsule has ability to fight with few types of cancer viruses including liver cells that is affected with cancer. A study shows that shilajit capsule accelerates the process of destruction of cancerous cells in liver. Shilajit capsule also stops cancerous cells chain reaction of being multiplied. Overall doctors are agree on this common point that shilajit capsule has anti cancer affect. Fights UlcersSeveral studies have claimed that Shilajit capsule may reduce ulcers with its anti-androgenic activity. Though It can be really effective in treating peptic ulcers as it contains fulvic acid and several other substances that help in reducing acid and pepsin secretion. Shilajit capsule also increases the mucus barrier in the stomach & provides protection against the damage done by other over secretion of digestive fluids. Increases energy and stamina Key content of shilajit capsule is shilajit which is traditionally called the ‘destroyer of weakness’ and ‘conqueror of mountains,’ in India since ancient times. Shilajit Capsule has been prescribed by Ayurvedic Gurus to rejuvenate the body and boost energy & vital functions. Many people complain of feeling tired, despite eating well and getting sufficient sleep, but with over-farmed land and overuse of pesticides, the levels of nutrients found in our food have drastically decreased. It’s no wonder then that our bodies cannot work optimally. Without getting sufficient nutrients by food. As shilajit capsule helps increase the production of ATP, it increases overall energy and stamina. Furthermore, whilst shilajit capsule activates mitochondrial respiration, it also suppresses activity of succinate-oxidase and NADH-oxidase in Mitochondrion. This means that while increasing production of energy through cellular respiration, the substance simultaneously protects from damage that usually accompanies increased production of energy. Shilajit Capsule Side Effects To make sure you do not caught with side effect of shilajit capsule. If you are planing to use shilajit capsule make sure you are purchasing it offline from reputed medical house & manufacturer is a authentic self manufacturing company & not a private label manufacturer & start with a single capsule a day & observe the changes. Later you may increase the capsule quantity based on result on your body. Always take doctors advice & suggestion before going to take shilajit capsules as doctor advice is the safest way to avoid side effect of Dabur Baidyanath or any shilajit capsules side effect. As shilajit capsules are rich in iron & other metallic component & you are having any type of metallic allergy. Price. Dabur Shilajit Gold Capsule cost you Rs. 164 for 10 capsule at amazon.in while 30 capsule of Dabur Shilajit Regular cost you Rs. 198 at healthmug.com Best way to buy Dabur shilajit gold is to purchase from daburshilajitgold.com at Rs.500 for 100 dabur shilajit cap. & Rs. 615 for 30 cap of dabur shilajit gold. Deemark Shilajit Capsules Deemark Shilajit Gold is blessing of Ayurveda, it increases your power, stamina and libido & help in erectile dysfunction. Deemark Shilajit Gold is formulated with exotic herb and made with ayurvedic procedure. This product is made of extracts from selected herb Shilajit. Price. Deemark Shilajit Gold cost Rs.1050 for pack of 90 capsule. Regenerate Shilajit Capsules Regenerate is a combination of predominantly Shilajit, with synergistic benefits of both Ashwagandha and Amalaki. Price. On lifespa.com store you can get Regenerate at cost of US$23.95 Dehlvi Ambar Shilajit Capsules Dehlvi Ambar Shilajit Capsules nourishes the central nervous system – the brain and the spinal cord. It is improves blood circulation and is useful in general debility and lethargy. Each 500 mg. capsule of Dehlvi Ambar contains: Castoreum (Jund) 10 mg Ambra grasea (Ambar) 15 mg Asphaltum (Shilajit) 475 mg. Morpheme Shilajit Capsules Morpheme Remedies is one the leading manufacturer of pure ayurvedic medicine and herbs which are of the highest quality with a view to maximizing their benefits and minimize the side effect & products are free of chemicals. How to check if the capsule contain original Shilajit? Take Shilajit capsule, open the gelatin container & take out the inside powder & pour in a water, let it dissolve. Do not dissolve it by stirring. It will dissolve in water automatically within a second as Shilajit is highly soluble in water. Pure Shilajit is soluble in water where as impure Shilajit will not dissolve. This test concludes that Shilajit capsule is 100% pure. Pure Shilajit is insoluble in alcohol. Take Shilajit capsule open the gelatin container take the powder out & dissolve it in 2 spoons of alcohal. Pure Shilajit will not dissolve in alcohol. Comments Disclaimer: A Doctor’s advice should be taken before using any product. All trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners and we are not affiliated with manufacturer. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Individual results will vary.If you want to make any product/ post better please connect with us & we will update the post according to your information. | Mid | [
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Q: Form input conditioning for styling I have this jquery $(function(){ function validatemin() { if (('input[name=amount]').value() <= 2.00) { $('#inpamount').css('color', 'red'); } else { } } }); Which should be triggered onkeyup in the HTML below, changing the input text colour. <input id='inpamount' type="text" name="amount" value="2.00" onkeyup="validatemin()"> Turning the text red. Any Ideas why it does not work? Also, how can I change the if so that if input > 2.00 (as it is now) OR < VALUE OF ANOTHER ELEMENT. For example the class of the other element is otherelement Cheers A: validatemin was not seen because it was within the scope of the ready handler. Extract it out To get the value in jQuery, use val(), not value() Before initiating a selector, you need the jQuery object or alias $ function validatemin() {
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Pages Thursday, March 09, 2006 In Passing...Fell to Frankenstein This was really one of the biggest weeks in comics in awhile for me (in a time when two or three issues is the norm. The debut of American Virgin, the conclusions of The Pulse and Mister Miracle, and a lot of other floppies. Ultimate Spider-man #91 - Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley just keep outdoing themselves. The dynamic between Peter and Kitty is awesome! And I'm not saying that just because I'm partial toward Kitty Pryde - it just works! Patrick was saying, and I agree, that he hopes this is lasting, that Peter doesn't end up just going back to Mary Jane because it's what the fanboys want. Mary Jane's in a place where she just needs to be herself (as her proclaiming "I'm going to get that Peter Parker if it's the last thing I do" (a few issues back) illustrates). She needs someone else to come into her life, or she needs to just become strong on her own two feet. And Bagley's art just seems to improve with every issue. There are some really pretty panels in this issue. Best comic of the week. 9.7/10 Fell #4 - Detective Fell investigates a floater that washes up on Snowtown's docks, despite the resistance he encounters from the rest of the force. Fell sees this investigation as important because of the message it sends to the criminals committing such crimes, and goes to great lengths to accomplish his goal. This issue is a real turning point for the character, as we see Snowtown affecting Fell, possibly changing him in ways he wasn't expecting. 7.8/10 Fables #47 - "The Ballad of Rodney and June" concludes as Rodney and June strive to overcome all odds for the sake of their love. I wasn't much of a fan of the guest penciller Jim Fern's art (or the storybook quality he presented the events in), nor the story, this time around. Despite its decent conclusion, I'll be happy for the next story arc and Buckingham's return to the title. 6.9/10 Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle #4 (of 4) - Shilo battles Omega after making his ultimate escape, outsmarting the void and overcoming the odds. This was a very strange issue, which wasn't surprising in the wake of the previous offerings, and didn't quite live up to the awesomeness of the last issue. Actually, it didn't even come close. This mini-series had one great issue going for it, but the rest was sadly quite underwhelming compared to the other Seven Soldiers titles. I'm not sorry to see this one come to an end. 6.9/10 Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein #3 (of 4) - And on the flipside of the Seven Soldiers saga, there's Frankenstein which boasts excitement and oozes creativity with every issue. I mean, this big undead guy fighting a bunch of furry little animals holding eyeballs (just look at that cover!) couldn't get much better. And then there's the special guest appearance from a very special lady and it was so obvious (practically staring us in the face) that it just shows us what a genius Morrison is with this sort of storytelling. A great premise to the issue, with really creepy imagery and awesome art by Doug Mahke - simply brilliant. 9.5/10The Pulse review forthcoming! | Mid | [
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Using clojure-contrib Generic Interfaces Generic interfaces in clojure-contrib provides multimethods that you can implement for your custom data structures, which allows you to define various operations such as arithmetic, comparison etc. ( ns vector2d ( :use [clojure.contrib.types :only ( deftype )] [clojure.contrib.generic :only (root-type)]) ( :require [clojure.contrib.generic.arithmetic :as ga])) ( defstruct vector2d-struct :x :y ) ( deftype ::vector2d vector2d ( fn [x y] (struct vector2d-struct x y)) ( fn [v] (vals v))) (derive ::vector2d root-type) ( defmethod ga/+ [ ::vector2d ::vector2d ] [u v] ( let [[ux uy] (vals u) [vx vy] (vals v)] (vector2d ( ga /+ ux vx) ( ga /+ uy vy)))) The only problem is when you want to use it, you need to tell Clojure to not load the function from core but instead use multimethods from the generic interface. ( ns core ( :refer-clojure :exclude [+]) ( :use (clojure.contrib.generic [arithmetic :only [+]])) ( :refer vector2d)) (+ (vector2d 2 3) (vector2d 2 3)) Generic interface also contains collection operations as multimethods which allows you to implement operations such as assoc, conj, seq etc. | High | [
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Daggett gets little help from ballot position On Cape May County ballots, independent candidate Chris Daggett drew the eighth position -- meaning Daggett supporters will have to do some searching to find his name on election day. By Dan Good Here's what ballots in Ocean City, Cape May County will look like. Chris Daggett's location is circled. By Dan Good On Atlantic County ballots, independent candidate Chris Daggett drew the 10th and final position -- meaning Daggett supporters will have to do some searching to find his name on election day. On Atlantic County ballots, Chris Daggett is listed last among independent gubernatorial candidates. Staff photo by Anthony Smedile Independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett After his spirited performance in last Thursday's debate, independent candidate for governor Chris Daggett has seen the number people Googling him increase by 40 times over last year. Voters who want to pull the lever for Daggett will need to embark on a similar sort of search come election day - to find his name on their ballot. Daggett is one of 10 independent and minor party candidates in the race. A week ago, voters may not have known what separated him from the other nine. But since Daggett put on a bright pink tie and took his televised opportunity Thursday to lay into his opponents, incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine and Republican Chris Christie, voters may now want to seek him out. His obstacle: New Jersey laws reserving the top two spots on any ballot for the two major-party candidates. Last month, Daggett - along with Libertarian Party candidate Kenneth Kaplan - took the step of filing suit against the practice. The suit argued the system was unconstitutional because it gives an unfair advantage to those backed by major parties. But the state Superior Court Judge Theodore Bozonelis declined to hear the case before November's vote. "It makes a big difference," he said. "The political system is set up to favor the two major parties - and any time you make it harder for people to do something, fewer of them do it." "Ballot position does matter - and I think the 2000 election is an example of why that's true," said Brigid Harrison, professor of political science at Montclair State University, refering to the close presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore, where voting-machine glitches allowed votes to be mistakenly cast for third-party candidates. But, citing "gut instinct," she said position would only cost Daggett a statistical percentage-point or two. But both Dworkin and Harrison added that other factors will be at work within the voting booth. "Particularly with Daggett voters, these are people who have made a conscious decision to split with the main-party system and vote for him," said Harrison. "So it's well within their capabilities to scope out and vote for Chris Daggett." Dworkin, however, said that Daggett's election-day performance may not match his poll numbers - simply because voters find it easier to tell pollsters they're leaning to a third party than to act on it. "They may feel they're throwing their vote away," Dworkin said. Back in Cape May, county clerk Rita Marie Fulginiti recalled other local independent candidates who had made light of their lowly ballot position. She particularly noted one erstwhile candidate for various public offices. "We had one gentleman, Andrea Lippi, who would use his candidate's message space to promote his poetry," she recalled. | Low | [
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Q: When does an operation not include execution? According to the GraphQL specification: Response Format A response to a GraphQL operation must be a map. If the operation included execution, the response map must contain a first entry with key data. When does a GraphQL operation not include execution? A: The only case I can think of is the following section (right below the one you quoted): The response map may also contain an entry with key extensions. This entry, if set, must have a map as its value. This entry is reserved for implementors to extend the protocol however they see fit, and hence there are no additional restrictions on its contents. So, in theory, there might be a server that returns the following response, given a GraphQL document: { "extensions": { "message": "ACK" } } I have never seen such a server in practice, but a server acting like this is GraphQL spec compliant. | Mid | [
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Laravel and the Enterprise Laravel and the Enterprise You may have heard some folks say "Laravel is great for small apps, but when it comes to something *real*..." It's my goal to show how inaccurate and misconceived these criticisms are; to show how many companies are using Laravel in enterprise contexts, and how successfully; and to provide some guidance for common process, code, and dev-ops/deploy concerns when writing enterprise-ready Laravel applications. | High | [
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Working Title Films Working Title is a British film and television production company owned by Universal Pictures. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions. Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are now the co chairmen of the company. Company Working Title Films was co founded by producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. In 1992, PolyGram became the company's corporate backer. Radclyffe left Working Title, and Eric Fellner, a fellow independent film producer, joined the company. The company produced a variety of films for PolyGram's London based production company, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. An Anglo–Dutch film studio, PolyGram Films became a major Hollywood competitor. In 1998, Seagram sold the bulk of its library of PolyGram films released up until March 31, 1996 to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1999, PolyGram was sold to the Seagram company and merged with MCA Music Entertainment, to form Universal Music Group. PolyGram Films was sold and folded into Universal Pictures in 1999. Although contractually allowed to produce any film with a budget of up to $35 million, on a practical basis, Bevan and Fellner consult with studio executives at Working Title's parent company NBCUniversal. Working Title is headquartered in London, and has an office in Los Angeles, which is headed by producer Liza Chasin. WT2 Productions In 1999, Bevan and Fellner launched a subsidiary company named Working Title 2 Productions, commonly known as WT2. The company is an independent film production arm run by Natascha Wharton, and has produced films that include Billy Elliot, Shaun of the Dead and The Calcium Kid. Television division Working Title has been active in television production since the beginning of the 1990s. In February 2010, Working Title officially launched its television division as a joint venture with parent company NBCUniversal, itself owned by Comcast. Since then, they have produced content for both British and American television. Notable productions and co productions developed by Working Title Television (WTTV) include NBC's About a Boy, and Showtime's The Tudors. WTTV has offices in London, headed by Andrew Woodhead, and Los Angeles, headed by Andrew Stearn. Filmography 1991 ITV franchise bid In 1991, Working Title was involved in a bid for the London Weekend ITV licence. Working Title, Mentorn, Palace and PolyGram wanted to take over from London Weekend Television and broadcast to London under the name London Independent Broadcasting. In the event LWT retained its licence; London Independent Broadcasting's proposals were deemed by the Independent Television Commission, which was overseeing the bid process, to fail the quality threshold. Films 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Direct-to-video feature films Upcoming March 20, 2020 — Radioactive May 8, 2020 — The High Note September 25, 2020 — Last Night in Soho TBA — An American Werewolf in London TBA — Untitled Baby Driver Sequel TBA — Rebecca TBA — Untitled Yusra Mardini project References External links Profile of the founders on BBC News Shaun of the Dead production company Working Title to launch TV division Category:Film production companies of the United Kingdom Category:Film production companies of the United States Category:Television production companies of the United Kingdom Category:Television production companies of the United States Category:Media companies established in 1983 Category:Universal Pictures | High | [
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Q: Subscript out of range/listobject doesnt exist even though listobject exists? I've been trying to add a row to a listobject if last row is filled. but somehow it doesnt identify the listobject on the if statement, and when i try to set variable tbl to the listobject it gets the error that the subscript is out of range lastRow = .Cells(Cells.Rows.Count, "G").End(xlUp).Row End With For Row= 4 To lastRow With Sheets("Uitwendige scheidingen") 'Intersect is not working either. 'If Not Intersect(Target, .ListObjects("Table_" & Row - 3)) Is Nothing Then Set tbl = .ListObjects("Table_" & Row - 3) 'End If End With Next code to add he listrows:(in another module) Set tbl= .ListObjects.Add(xlSrcRange, Source:=.Range("F" & NextRow + 11 & ":G" & NextRow + 11), XlListObjectHasHeaders:=xlYes) tbl.Name = "Table " & Rij - 3 and as you can see. the listobject is added in excel:(GrondWand is the original table name, changed it to english for here) I've tried: changing Sheets("Uitwendige scheidingen") to Sheets(Sheet2) (apparently Sheet2 doesn't exist) Sheet2.ListObjects("table_1") instead of Sheet2.ListObjects("Table_" Row - 3) Copied the table name in excel and pasted it in the Set tbl = .ListObjects("Table_" & Row - 3) line A: maybe you can adjust this to your needs? Again, I'm unsure what exactly you want so I wrote it as generic as I could. Sub test() 'Goes through all sheets For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Count 'And through all listobjects on those sheets. For j = 1 To ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).ListObjects.Count 'Just for your info: to see names and references? Debug.Print "Sheet, Listobject number and its name: " & i & " " & j & " " & ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).ListObjects(j).Name 'Find the last row LastRowOfThisListObject = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).ListObjects(j).DataBodyRange.Rows.Count 'If that row (first column) is not empty then If Not ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).ListObjects(j).Range(LastRowOfThisListObject, 1) Like "" Then 'Add another empty row below ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).ListObjects(j).ListRows.Add 'If you also want to write to it go with this: ' With ThisWorkbook.Sheets(i).ListObjects(j).ListRows.Add ' .Range.ClearFormats ' .Range(1, 1) = " " ' .Range(1, 2) = " " ' .Range(1, 3) = " " ' etc. ' Call OtherSub(.Range) '...for example ' End With End If Next Next End Sub Edit to answer a follow up. This works for me: Sub test2() Set target = ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1).Range("A1:D5") 'The table is in Range("B4:I15") Row = 4 With Sheets(1) If Not Intersect(target, .ListObjects("Tabelle" & Row - 3).Range) Is Nothing Then Debug.Print "test" End If End With End Sub PS: its really difficult to guess where you defined what with the limited code you showed. I just made a table and defined some range to test it. I think your error is the missing .range. Hope you can adjust this as needed | Low | [
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Q: Compact Subset Of $GL_n(\mathbb{C})$ Let X be a compact subset of $GL_n(\mathbb{C})$ and Y= set of all eigen values of matrices in X, we need to show Y is compact in $\mathbb{C}$, What I have done is that if $A\in X$ and $\lambda$ is an eigen value of A then $Ax=\lambda x$ for some eigen vector x, then $||Ax||=|\lambda| |x|$ but as X is compact so $||A||\le K$ for some K, so from the inequility $||Ax||\le ||A|||x|$ we finally get $|\lambda|\le K$ so Y is bounded set in $\mathbb{C}$ and from sequential argument we can say about the closedness. shall be highly pleased if you write any other way to proof. A: Given a sequence of eigen values $y_n \in Y$ converging to $y \in \mathbb{C}$, choose matrices $A_n \in X$ such that $y_n$ is an eigen value of $A_n$. Also, take $v_n$, unitary vectors such that $A_n v_n = y_n v_n$. Since $X$ is compact, and since the set of unitary vectors is compact, there is a subsequence $n_k$, an $A \in X$ and an unitary vector $v$ such that $A_{n_k} \rightarrow A$ and $v_{n_k} \rightarrow v$. The fact that $v_{n_k} \rightarrow v$ implies that $$ A_{n_k} v_{n_k} = y_{n_k} v_{n_k} \rightarrow y v. $$ On the other hand, the fact that $A_{n_k} \rightarrow A$ implies that (since product of matrices is continuous) $$ A_{n_k} v_{n_k} \rightarrow A v. $$ By the uniqueness of limits, $Av = yv$. That is, $y \in Y$. This shows that $Y$ is closed. To show that $Y$ is bounded, just take an unbounded sequence (ie: $y = \infty$) to conclude, using the same argument as above, that $A_n$ would not have any convergent subsequence. | High | [
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Clinical neuroscience of addiction: similarities and differences between alcohol and other drugs. Existing pharmacological treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and other substance use disorders (SUDs) have demonstrated only modest efficacy. Although the field has recently emphasized testing and developing new compounds to treat SUDs, there are numerous challenges inherent to the development of novel medications, and this is particularly true for SUDs. Thus, research to date has tended toward the "repurposing" approach, in which medications developed to treat other mental or physical conditions are tested as SUD treatments. Often, potential treatments are examined across numerous drugs of abuse. Several repurposed medications have shown promise in treating a specific SUD, but few have shown efficacy across multiple SUDs. Examining similarities and differences between AUD and other SUDs may shed light on these findings and offer directions for future research. This qualitative review discusses similarities and differences in neural circuitry and molecular mechanism(s) across alcohol and other substances of abuse, and examines studies of pharmacotherapies for AUD and other SUDs. Substances of abuse share numerous molecular targets and involve much of the same neural circuitry, yet compounds tested because they putatively target common mechanisms have rarely indicated therapeutic promise for multiple SUDs. The lack of treatment efficacy across SUDs may be partially explained by limitations inherent in studying substance users, who comprise a highly heterogeneous population. Alternatively, medications may fail to show efficacy across multiple SUDs due to the fact that the differences between drug mechanisms are more important than their commonalities in terms of influencing treatment response. We suggest that exploring these differences could support novel treatment development, aid in identifying existing medications that may hold promise as treatments for specific SUDs, and ultimately advance translational research efforts. | High | [
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Serum neuron-specific enolase as a tumor marker in the diagnosis and follow-up of small-cell lung cancer. Serum samples for the determination of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) levels were collected at diagnosis, after induction of chemotherapy and at relapse in order to assess the value of NSE in the diagnosis and management of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). At diagnosis, 47 of 64 patients with SCLC (73%) had abnormal NSE values (i.e. NSE > 12.5 micrograms/l). Mean NSE values were significantly higher in patients with extensive disease compared to limited disease. Patients with other malignancies or benign lung diseases presented with elevated NSE levels in approximately 15 and 4% of cases. Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of positive results of NSE at diagnosis were 74, 83 and 71%, respectively, for a cutoff value of 12.5 micrograms/l. In responders mean NSE dropped significantly from 46.1 micrograms/l before chemotherapy to 17.0 micrograms/l after three cycles of chemotherapy. Nonresponders as a group showed a nonsignificant drop. At relapse mean NSE increased from 6.5 micrograms/l at the time of response to 51.9 micrograms/l at the time of progression, but in 5 of the 18 evaluable patients normal levels persisted. Thus, evolution of NSE in patients receiving chemotherapy correlated well with tumor volume in patients who responded, but often failed to predict a therapeutic outcome in patients with apparently chemoresistant tumor (i.e. some nonresponders showed a decrease in NSE levels). A similar lack of correlation between NSE levels and tumor volume was seen at the time of relapse. We conclude that the determination of NSE levels is of doubtful utility in the diagnosis and follow-up of SCLC patients. | Low | [
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$NetBSD: patch-be,v 1.1 2006/01/18 23:24:12 rillig Exp $ SunPro cannot handle this style of direct initialization. --- src/flow.c.orig 2003-09-10 20:52:05.000000000 +0200 +++ src/flow.c 2006-01-16 14:37:58.365503000 +0100 @@ -218,11 +218,13 @@ void finish_flow_sensitive(void) static inline einfo mkeinfo(qtype qt, store out, store true_out, store false_out, bool ismalloc) { - struct einfo result = {qt: qt, - out: out, - true_out: true_out, - false_out: false_out, - ismalloc: ismalloc}; + struct einfo result; + + result.qt = qt; + result.out = out; + result.true_out = true_out; + result.false_out = false_out; + result.ismalloc = ismalloc; return result; } @@ -250,13 +252,17 @@ static inline store false_out_einfo(einf static inline sinfo mksinfo(store out) { - struct sinfo result = {out: out}; + struct sinfo result; + + result.out = out; return result; } static inline dinfo mkdinfo(store out) { - struct dinfo result = {out: out}; + struct dinfo result; + + result.out = out; return result; } | Low | [
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Q: Data binding for multiple dropdownlists for default shown values I have 3 dropdownlists to be populated(cascading). Country, City and Factory. Data does get binded correctly for all three dropdownlists. The problem is when i select a country, relevant cities get binded correctly to city ddl but for the first value which got selected to city ddl(default shown value), factory ddl doesn't show the relevant factories. But if i choose another element from city ddl and then again if i click on that default shown element of city ddl it works fine. Here is my script <script> //For ddls var cityDropdown = $("#SelectedCity"); $('#SelectedCountry').change(function () { $.ajax({ url: '@Url.Action("FillCity", "Godown")', type: "GET", dataType: "JSON", data: { Country: $(this).val() }, success: function (cities) { cityDropdown.empty(); $.each(cities, function (i, city) { cityDropdown.append($('<option></option>').val(city.CityId).html(city.CityName)); }); } }); }) var factoryDropdown = $("#SelectedFactory"); $('#SelectedCity').change(function () { $.ajax({ url: '@Url.Action("FillFactory", "Godown")', type: "GET", dataType: "JSON", data: {City: $(this).val() }, success: function (factories) { factoryDropdown.empty(); $.each(factories, function (i, factory) { factoryDropdown.append($('<option></option>').val(factory.FactoryId).html(factory.FactoryName)); }); } }); }) </script> All help appreciated. Thanks in advance! A: You need to trigger the .change() event of the Cities dropdown list once you populate the cities, so that the associated factories are then loaded $('#SelectedCountry').change(function () { $.ajax({ .... success: function (cities) { cityDropdown.empty(); $.each(cities, function (i, city) { cityDropdown.append($('<option></option>').val(city.CityId).html(city.CityName)); }); $('#SelectedCity').trigger('change'); // add this } }); }) However this is unnecessarily making an ajax call to the server to populate the factories for a city that the user may not be interested in. It would be better to add a default "Please select" option to the cities dropdownlist so that the user can then select a city and populate the associated factories. $('#SelectedCountry').change(function () { $.ajax({ .... success: function (cities) { cityDropdown.empty(); cityDropdown.append($('<option></option>').val('').html('Please select')); // add this $.each(cities, function (i, city) { cityDropdown.append($('<option></option>').val(city.CityId).html(city.CityName)); }); } }); }) | Low | [
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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's first vice foreign minister said Wednesday that the country has no interest in a summit with the United States if it's going to be a "one-sided" affair where it's pressured to give up its nuclear program. The Wednesday statement by Kim Kye Gwan came hours after North Korea abruptly canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea, and in it he threatened to do the same with the planned summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump next month. Kim Kye Gwan appeared to take the most issue with recent comments by Mr. Trump's top security adviser John Bolton and other U.S. officials who have spoken about how the North should follow the "Libyan model" of nuclear disarmament and provide a "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement." He said North Korea had "already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," but that it was not interested in following the model implemented in Libya, whereby the rogue state gave up all elements of its weapons program and allowed inspectors in before receiving any compensation in the form of aid or sanctions relief. Get Breaking News Delivered to Your Inbox Kim appeared to suggest that it was Bolton, "talking about (a) formula of 'abandoning weapons first, compensating afterwards,'" which had prompted the threat to pull out of the planned summit. He said the "world knows too well that our country is neither Libya nor Iraq" -- neither of which had viable nuclear weapons when deals for disarmament were reached. "It is absolutely absurd to dare compare the DPRK (North Korea), a nuclear weapon state, to Libya which had been at the initial stage of nuclear development," Kim said in the statement published by North Korea news agency KCNA. He added that the North Korean regime could, "not hide our feeling of repugnance toward" Bolton. Bolton said on "Face the Nation" late last month that the White House was, "looking at the Libya model of 2003, 2004" as well as the 1992 joint North-South denuclearization agreement. Bolton mentioned Libya by name a few times, says CBS News reporter Kylie Atwood, and he pointed out that the country had allowed American and British observers into all of its nuclear related sites. He noted differences between Libya and North Korea and said the "strategic decision to give up nuclear weapons doesn't have to be the same as Libya," but indicated that the outcome of denuclearization should be the same and observers must be let in. Atwood notes that State Department officials have been careful not to refer publicly to the Libya model when discussing talks with North Korea, as it is a known irritant for the Kim regime. "If the Trump administration takes an approach the DPRK-U.S. summit with sincerity for improved DPRK-U.S. relations, it will receive a deserved response from us," Kim Kye Gwan said in the statement. "However, if the U.S. is trying to drive us into a corner to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment, we will no longer be interested in such dialogue and cannot but reconsider our proceeding to the DPRK-U.S. summit." Kim Jong Un took power weeks after former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's gruesome death at the hands of Western-backed rebel forces amid a popular uprising in October 2011. The North has frequently used Qaddafi's killing to justify its own nuclear development in the face of perceived U.S. threats. The North's earlier cancellation of the planned summit between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, which came in a pre-dawn dispatch by North Korea's state media, had already cooled what had been an unusual flurry of outreach from a country that just last year conducted a provocative series of weapons tests that had many fearing the region was on the edge of war. It was still unclear early Wednesday morning whether the North intended to scuttle all diplomacy, or was merely trying to gain leverage -- and express discontent -- ahead of the still-planned June 12 talks between Kim and Mr. Trump. The statement on the North-South summit was released hours before representatives of the two Koreas were to meet at a border village to discuss setting up talks aimed at reducing military tension along the world's most heavily armed border and restarting reunions between families separated by the Korean War. South Korea said the North's move to cancel the meeting at the last-minute over regularly scheduled allied military drills was "regrettable" and demanded the North's quick return to talks. Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Baek Tae-hyun said Wednesday that the North's decision went against the spirit of last month's inter-Korean summit, where the Koreas' leaders issued a vague vow on the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula and pledged to seek a permanent peace between the rivals. North Korea's KCNA news agency reported that Wednesday's meeting was canceled and that Pyongyang was also questioning -- even before Kim Kye Gwan's remarks were published -- whether the summit between Kim and Mr. Trump could take place as planned. "We are aware of the South Korean media report," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in response not long after the news broke. "The United States will look at what North Korea has said independently, and continue to coordinate closely with our allies." State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday that the U.S. would "continue to plan the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un." The Pentagon reiterated that the military exercise with South Korea was a routine, annual event that is purely defensive in nature. Army Col. Rob Manning said "Exercise Max Thunder 2018" was designed to improve the abilities of the U.S. and South Korea to operate together. It began Monday and was slated to run through May 25, and expected to include aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, as it has in the past. "The defensive nature of these combined exercises has been clear for many decades and has not changed," said Manning. In March, then-CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told "Face the Nation" that Kim had allowed the U.S. to, "continue our exercises on the peninsula -- something that's been fought over for decades." In March, South Korean National Security Adviser Chung Eui-Yong said Kim, "understands that the routine joint military exercises between the Republic of Korea and the United States must continue" after meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House. Before Wednesday, North Korea had taken a number of steps appearing to try and ease tensions ahead of the U.S. summit, including freeing three imprisoned Americans and moving ahead with plans to close its main nuclear test site -- moves President Trump was quick to laud and thank them for on Twitter. The nuclear test site's closure was set to come before the Kim-Trump summit, which had been shaping up as a crucial moment in the decades-long push to resolve the nuclear standoff with the North, which is closing in on the ability to viably target the mainland United States with its long-range nuclear-armed missiles. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy says the Kim regime did appear this week to still be following through on its promise to destroy the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site; new satellite images have shown several buildings at the site torn down. Despite the North's moves, many experts remained skeptical about whether Kim would actually be willing to give up a nuclear program that he had pushed so hard to build. Kim has expressed his intention to negotiate over his weapons, but he still uses a long-contentious term, "the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." The North previously has used this phrase when demanding that the United States pull its 28,500 troops out of South Korea and withdraw its so-called "nuclear umbrella" security guarantee to South Korea and Japan as a condition for its nuclear disarmament. Wednesday's threats could also be aimed at a domestic audience, showing Kim is willing to stand up to Washington. Kim has repeatedly told his people that his nuclear weapons are a "powerful treasured sword" that can smash U.S. hostility. North Korea also has a long history of launching provocations or scrapping deals with Seoul and Washington at the last minute. In 2013, North Korea abruptly cancelled reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War just days before they were held to protest what it called rising animosities ahead of joint drills between Seoul and Washington. 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An ENU-induced mouse mutant of SHIP1 reveals a critical role of the stem cell isoform for suppression of macrophage activation. In a recessive ENU mutagenesis screen for embryonic lethality, we identified a mouse pedigree with a missense mutation of SHIP1 (SHIP1(el20)) leading to an amino acid substitution I641T in the inositol-5'-phosphatase domain that represses phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase signaling. Despite detectable expression of functional SHIP1 protein, the phenotype of homozygous SHIP1(el20/el20) mice was more severe than gene-targeted SHIP1-null (SHIP1(-/-)) mice. Compared with age-matched SHIP1(-/-) mice, 5-week-old SHIP1(el20/el20) mice had increased myeloid cells, serum IL-6 levels, marked reductions in lymphoid cells, and died by 7 weeks of age with infiltration of the lungs by activated macrophages. Bone marrow transplantation demonstrated that these defects were hematopoietic-cell-autonomous. We show that the el20 mutation reduces expression in SHIP1(el20/el20) macrophages of both SHIP1 and s-SHIP, an isoform of SHIP1 generated by an internal promoter. In contrast, SHIP1(-/-) macrophages express normal levels of s-SHIP. Compound heterozygous mice (SHIP1(-/el20)) had the same phenotype as SHIP1(-/-) mice, thus providing genetic proof that the more severe phenotype of SHIP1(el20/el20) mice is probably the result of concomitant loss of SHIP1 and s-SHIP. Our results suggest that s-SHIP synergizes with SHIP1 for suppression of macrophage activation, thus providing the first evidence for a role of s-SHIP in adult hematopoiesis. | High | [
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Cocaine Testing Specialist CLS Diagnostics Laboratory Services located in Franklin, MA Cocaine abuse is a serious health issue that could be affecting your patients and contributing to their mental and physical health problems. If you need fast and accurate cocaine testing for a patient or your practice’s screening program, CLS Diagnostics in Franklin, Massachusetts, provides an expert drug screening service for medical professionals. Call the lab or book an appointment online today to find out more. Cocaine Testing Q & A Why would I need to order a test for cocaine use? Cocaine is an illegal substance with no legitimate medical purpose in modern medicine. Abusing cocaine is likely to result in serious health issues, as well as the problems associated with addiction. What are the effects of cocaine use? Side effects of cocaine use include: Constricted blood vessels High temperature Rapid heart rate High blood pressure (hypertension) Headaches Abdominal pain Nausea Decreased appetite Malnourishment Severe paranoia Aural and visual hallucinations Bowel gangrene Heart failure Stroke In addition to these risks, snorting cocaine is especially harmful to the upper respiratory tract and if done regularly can result in: Loss of the sense of smell Nosebleeds Nasal septum decay Difficulties swallowing Persistently runny nose Hoarse voice Injecting cocaine also increases the user’s risk of contracting infections such as hepatitis and HIV. In addition to these effects, cocaine is addictive and long-term use can lead to serious addiction problems, affecting a person’s health and their ability to perform their job or other responsibilities safely and effectively. Overdosing on cocaine can cause: Seizures Heart failure Cerebral hemorrhage Respiratory failure The presence of cocaine is an indicator of criminal behavior as well as having implications for someone’s physical and mental health. What methods are used to test for cocaine? The marker for cocaine is benzoylecgonine, which is detectable using blood, hair, saliva, and urine tests. CLS Diagnostics uses urine testing to detect cocaine in test subjects, as urinalysis can pick up both recent and long-term exposure. In addition to testing for benzoylecgonine, the lab analyses the pH level of the urine and concentration of creatinine to confirm the quality and purity of the sample and determine whether there’s been any attempt to distort the results of the test. If a test result confirms the presence of cocaine at concentrations above 300 ng/ml the subject fails the test, but the lab runs a follow-up test to confirm the initial result. The follow-up test must show cocaine levels below 150 ng/ml for the subject to pass. For accurate and reliable cocaine testing, call CLS Diagnostics or book an appointment online today. | High | [
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Edge computing could push the cloud to the fringe - tzury https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/03/edge-computing-could-push-the-cloud-to-the-fringe/ ====== jackfraser First of all, this guy seems like he watched the last season of Silicon Valley and took it too seriously (perhaps due to having his firm name-dropped, who knows). > As Levine puts it, “Think about a self-driving car, it’s effectively a data > center on wheels, and a drone is a data center with wings and a robot is a > data center with arms and legs and a [ship] is a floating data center…” A self-driving car is not a datacentre. It will have a few computers, sure, but a datacentre is a distinct class of entity featuring hundreds of highly- available, enterprise grade computers; the self-driving cars that will ultimately succeed will have automotive grade machines, built to the lowest possible standard and price that meets quality and reliability requirements as defined by the DoT and the warranty department. A drone is not a datacentre with wings. It has the least it can possibly have aboard, because it needs to use as little electricity as possible for computing so that most of it can be used for spinning motors. While some drones do have multicore CPUs and GPUs on board, if anything we'll likely see improvements in wireless that enable that kind of tech to be pushed back to base stations / controllers / phones, so as to free up more precious battery for flying. Now, a ship I'll believe - you do need racks of servers on a cruise ship, for sure, especially given the fact that it's going to be away from a reliable network connection for ages at a time. However, it's not doing the same thing as the cloud; it's got to be reliable as hell with minimal IT staff on hand to deal with it, which means imaged machines running simple, basic things that can be trusted without having to have techs use expensive satellite data to fix it remotely. While there's some logic to the circular nature of centralized vs. distributed communication, packaging this up and branding it as "edge computing" strikes me less as a true observation or prediction, and more as someone who's spent too much time thinking about things through a marketing lens. | Low | [
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Wiggo to Challenge Merckx Sir Bradley Wiggins, who set a new world hour record this summer, has hinted he will take on the elusive “Merckx Hour.” In a new book released this week, “My Hour,” Wiggins outlined a behind-the-scenes attack on the hour record of 54.526km on June 7 at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London. In excerpts of the book posted on Sky’s website, Wiggins hinted he may take on the Merckx Hour as well. “Merckx’s Hour was the definitive record. He’s the benchmark,” Wiggins wrote in the book. “I’ve spoken about going for the record again, and I’m toying with going for his distance in an Athlete’s Hour of my own. “I’m planning on doing some tests with similar kit – a hairnet crash-hat and so on – to see what the numbers are. I might be way off his pace. I might not be able to hold his position and be as aerodynamic, but then Merckx wasn’t aero in the slightest.” Wiggins’ attempt this summer came in a wave of assaults on the hour record following UCI rule changes in 2014 that allowed bikes that met UCI standards for any endurance event on the track. Eight riders took up the challenge, and of those, five set new marks, with Wiggins’ highly anticipated attempt setting what some consider a definitive new distance. The so-called Merckx Hour (49.431km set in 1972) retains a mystical hold over the peloton because the Belgian legend was the last to set the hour record without the use of modern innovations, such as disc wheels, aero helmets, carbon-fiber frames, and arm extenders. Wiggins is a big admirer of Merckx, and said it would be the ultimate challenge to imitate the conditions of the Merckx Hour, and try to beat it. Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/11/news/wiggins-hints-at-taking-on-merckx-hour_389714#jB7jopTXh55PQvGl.99 | High | [
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Oil companies continued to cease offshore operations and evacuate personnel on Thursday in preparation for Tropical Storm Harvey becoming a full-blown hurricane. The tropical storm is expected to intensify into an category 3 hurricane by Friday morning, as it heads directly for the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. If it reaches hurricane strength, Harvey would be the first hurricane to hit Texas in nearly a decade. Oil firms Exxon Mobil, Shell, and Anadarko had begun shutting down their offshore operations Wednesday evening. An Exxon spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner that it continued to close its offshore and coastal operations through Thursday afternoon, while refineries on land continued normal operation. "Exxon Mobil is closely monitoring Tropical Storm Harvey, and continues preparation for severe weather at its offshore and coastal operations in the Gulf of Mexico," said spokeswoman Suann Guthrie. "We are in the process of evacuating all personnel from our facilities expected to be in the path of the storm, which includes the Hoover platform and Galveston 209 platform," she explained. The Hoover platform was built to be the world's deepest offshore drilling platform at 4,800 feet and is named for the Hoover field that it extracts roughly 100,000 barrels a day of oil, along with equivalent amounts of natural gas. Both the Hoover and Galveston 209 platforms are "shut in" in anticipation of the storm, said Guthrie. "Our Hadrian South subsea production system in the Gulf of Mexico is also shut in. Refineries are currently operating as normal." Shell and Anadarko also shut in their offshore platform facilities. Anadarko said late Thursday afternoon that it has completed evacuation of all its facilities in the western Gulf, and stands ready to do the same in the eastern portion if the storm intensifies. "We have safely removed all personnel and temporarily shut in production at our operated Boomvang, Gunnison, Lucius, and Nansen facilities, which are located in the western portion of the Gulf," Anadarko reported at 5 p.m. on Thursday. "These facilities will remain shut in until the hurricane has passed, and it is safe to return our people to these offshore locations. We will continue to track Harvey and are ready to remove additional personnel and shut in production at our operated facilities in the eastern portion of the Gulf, if necessary." On-land operations were just suspended on Thursday, and ConocoPhillips announced it was stopping all drilling and fracking in the Eagle Ford shale field. Although another large firm, Apache, said it was taking precautions but does not plan to cease production. As of Thursday, 9.5 percent of Gulf oil production has been shut in, or taken offline, because of the Harvey threat. That represents about 167,000 barrels per day, according to the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. In addition, oil imports are also expected to fall over the next few days. West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices had dropped in afternoon trading by 81 cents to $47.60 per barrel, while Brent crude oil future prices fell 41 cents, to land at $52.07 per barrel. The White House said it is monitoring the situation along with the Department of Homeland Security, which houses the Federal Emergency Management Administration. | Low | [
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In vitro assays of Arf1 interaction with GGA proteins. ADP-ribosylation factor 1 (Arf1) is a GTP-binding protein that regulates membrane traffic. This function of Arf1 is, at least in part, mediated by Arf1 x GTP binding to coat proteins such as coatomer, clathrin adaptor protein (AP) complexes 1 and 3, and gamma-adaptin homology-Golgi associated Arf-binding (GGA) proteins. Binding to Arf1 x GTP recruits these coat proteins to membranes, leading to the formation of transport vesicles. Whereas coatomer and the AP complexes are hetero-oligomers, GGAs are single polypeptide chains. Therefore, working with recombinant GGAs is straightforward compared to the other Arf1 effectors. Consequently, the GGAs have been used as a model for studying Arf1 interactions with effectors and as reagents to determine Arf1 x GTP levels in cells. In this chapter, we describe in vitro assays for analysis of GGA interaction with Arf1 x GTP and for determining intracellular Arf1 x GTP levels. | High | [
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All-optical pattern recognition for digital real-time information processing. To recognize digital streams of digital data, all-optical and passive techniques able to discriminate optical bit words in real time are presented. Discrimination capability of different correlators, both in free space architectures and in delay lines structures, is theoretically and experimentally analyzed. Experimental performances in word recognition are shown in the case of a volume holographic correlator, in the case of a lithographic phase-only-filter correlator, and in the case of a novel coherent delay lines correlator operating at the wavelength 1550 nm and at the bit rate of 2.5 Gbit/s. | High | [
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Mike Wood: Welcome back to another episode of Michigan News Beyond the Headlines. I’m Mike Wood. I’m a video producer and I also run the Michigan news studio here on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Our studio puts U of M faculty on the air, on major radio and TV networks around the world. But today, we’re going Beyond the Headlines. Cynthia Chestek is an associate professor of biomedical engineering here at the University of Michigan. Her team, including plastic surgeon Paul Cederna, have developed a process to help patients who have had a hand amputated control prosthetic devices using nerve signals from their brain. And she’s here with us now. Welcome, Cindy. Cynthia Chestek: Thanks for having me. Wood: Well, we first met just a few days ago when you came to the studio to be on a radio show on the CBC in Canada called Quirks and Quarks. And then a few days later, you were back to appear on Science Friday on NPR. [AUDIO OF SCIENCE FRIDAY PLAYS] Wood: After years of doing your research in relative anonymity, what’s it been like to be thrust into the national and international spotlight? Chestek: I’ve actually found it to be really overwhelming. Like, I’m— I’m really glad that the research is getting all the attention and that hopefully this will become widespread. But yeah, I’ve— I’ve had a lot of attention, a lot of people emailing me from my hometown, people’s parents hearing it on NPR. But yeah, overwhelming. Wood: In addition to NPR and the CBC, I know the story also appeared in several major publications like Wired magazine and actually over 240 news outlets all over the world have picked up the story. Chestek: Wow. Wood: What have been some of the responses from old friends? Anyone, you know, like people surprised or— is that you? Chestek: A lot of people that knew me when I was a kid. And so there. Yeah. And I also heard, our study participants are also like sharing this broadly and their families are hearing about it. And so I’m really glad that this is—yeah. Making— the word is getting around. Wood: And so what your research has shown is that you can take a nerve signal— and it’s amplified and you can actually— someone can control a prosthetic device using their brainwaves, right? Yep. [AUDIO OF STUDY PARTICIPANT PLAYS] Wood: That was Joe Hamilton, who is one of the study participants. Chestek: Yeah, they can just think about moving. And we— we basically we came up with a method of making a nerve signal 10 or 100 times bigger. And that sort of unlocks a whole suite of, you know, machine learning tools that we can apply to those signals and try to predict hand movements. Such that the people don’t have to learn anything. They can think about moving. They can— you know, it is their brain. Even though its coming from the brain, through the nerves, through the small piece of muscle. But yeah, no, it’s— it’s working pretty well. Wood: So you are an engineer and you work in engineering, but you were working with— who’s your partner in this? Chestek: Yeah. Dr. Paul, Cederna in plastic surgery. And he has done this in hundreds of patients at this point, mostly to control pain. But a subset of those people work with us on these prosthetic control experiments. Wood: So what did he do to enhance that signal, that nerve signal? Wood: Well, so they developed this surgery. I mean, starting from I think he said the project started 12 years ago and I’ve been involved for the last eight or so. And they tried all kinds of really complicated ways of getting a signal out of a nerve back then and finally realized that this fairly simple surgery could reliably reattach the nerve to a muscle. And I got involved for actually taking these signals and controlling the prosthetic hand. Wood: Wow, so what does he do? Isn’t it something involving a muscle? Chestek: Yeah. So they can get the muscle from just about anywhere. So they’ll— they’ll take it from the thigh. Or if they’re doing the amputation right then— like it’s a traumatic case, they’ll take it from, you know, good muscle on the the limb they’re amputating. But it just looks like a small thin sheet of muscle. It looks like— it looks like it’s gonna be too thin. But then when they actually roll it up, it’s about a centimeter across and it forms this little muscle burrito around the nerve and the nerve will re-innervate into that. And then it eventually re-vascularizes and it becomes just like part of the normal muscle bed. Wood: And then— and because of that, what does it do to the nerve signal or the strength. Chestek: Yeah. So it makes it much bigger. And so specifically why that happens is, you know, you have this very tiny signal in a few micron wire and then that, you know, makes connections to lots of different bigger muscle fibers and they all fire at the same time. And so that’s how the signal gets ten to a hundred times bigger. Now that the signals are big enough, we have all of these algorithmic approaches developed for brain machine interfaces, which is sort of my— my day job. And so we’re— we’re good at interpreting neurons. Neurons in the brain and trying to turn that into a real-time control signal for hands and fingers and things like that. I mean, a lot of the you know, the code is very similar to what we’ve been doing in brain machine interfaces for years. And it’s also, you know, it’s the sort of the same library of algorithms that are used in satellites and autonomous vehicles. So it’s you know, it’s a lot of machine learning that’s been developed for control over the past ten years or so. Wood: So when you started your career as an engineer, did you ever think your engineering would be integrated with human physiology or-? Chestek: Yeah. I mean, I think I knew that I was gonna do something like that. So, you know, I’ve always— loved the electrical side. So all my background is in electrical engineering. And at some point I started learning about neurons in the brain. And it really struck me that this was, you know, really a subset of electrical engineering. Right. I mean, it’s entirely circuits and electricity. And, you know, they love electrical engineers and neuroscience labs. And that’s how I got my undergraduate research experience. But I think once you start recording from live neurons, there’s little that’s more cool than that. And so I was you know, I ended up in brain machine interfaces because that’s really where, you know, the engineering skillset gets applied to decoding these signals and so, yeah. Wood: So the signals that our nerves are sending out and our brain is sending out— are similar to electrical signals that you’re looking at in regular machine engineering? Chestek: I like to give a— you know when I’m teaching my students, I like to say that it’s not that we’re using circuits to make models of neurons. It’s that neurons are circuits. They are little electrical elements that are— exist so they can send electrical signals to other electrical elements. And this is what controls your body. And so it’s their circuits. Wood: Wow. That’s crazy. Chestek: We are so grateful to our participants to— they agreed to undergo an additional surgery in which we took very small wires, which are, you know, very similar to cardiac pacemaker leads, but very small. And they agreed to have these wires placed into the grafts. And also, if you other, you know, whatever muscles they had available also. And then they— they emerged from the arm on a little connector, and it goes under gauze. And when they come into the lab, you know, we’re very careful to keep it clean, but we can hook up a cable to that connector and then they can start controlling the prosthetic hand. And they have to stay six feet from a cart at all times because we’re recording on a medical amplifier. But, you know, they can— they can walk around and they can use the hand. Wood: Wow. That’s amazing. And I’ve seen the video where they can pick things up and they can, you know, manipulate their thumb. Is that kind of key? The thumb? Chestek: I think that is the most important new function here, is that they can actually orient their thumb with two degrees of freedom. And that’s because when you— when you think about it, the muscles for controlling your thumb are— a lot of them are inside your hand. So, you know, if I start pulling my thumb against the side of my hand, those muscles would be gone. If I if I lost my hand. So because we can get signals from the nerve to do that, we can now control the thumb in multiple dimensions. And so, you know, in real life the thumb has more than two degrees of freedom. But, you know, if I— that those two degrees of freedom are really helpful, if I go to grab an object, a lot of times it’s my thumb that’s going to rotate around the other side. And it’s really hard to orient these prosthetic hands without being able to move that thumb. Wood: Wow. So what’s the next step? Obviously, this is really cool and it’s showing some promise, but they can’t get away from that cart in the lab. Chestek: Yeah. So we’ve gotta get away, you know, to get people home. And so I think that everything we’re doing could be done in a conventional medical device. We just need to find a path from here to there. You know, we’re— we’re laser focused on finding a way to get people home. You know, whether it’s two years or now or five years from now or what. Wood: So the typical prosthetic arm or hand that people have now, you know, they seem pretty, pretty complicated and stuff. What are the limitations with those versus what you hope to do in the future? Chestek: Yeah. So there’s all these cool videos of prosthetic hands on YouTube. You know, when you see them moving all the individual fingers, that is usually done with a joystick or with with motion capture or something like that. And so right now, the state of the art that you can actually go home with from the clinic is a hand that can do a lot of different grass. But you still have to pull out your phone and change the mode to go from, you know, making a fist, to making a pinch, to making a point. Wood: What do you think is the coolest thing about this research so far? Chestek: It’s one of the first times we’ve seen nerve signals this large and probably there are other medical applications that are going to open up when you can get large signals out of the nerve, or large signals out of the brain. And one can foresee that there’s going to be additional medical applications other than these first few that we’re going after. So I you know, I have really high hopes for the next 10 years in neural engineering becoming really important to medicine. Wood: So how did you first become interested in engineering? Chestek: So, I mean, I was— I was a maker as a kid, so I always had a project going. I was always taking things apart. And I was always very crafty. I always liked big projects. And so, yeah, I mean, I think that, you know, I flirted with a lot of other career ideas, but ultimately kept coming back to, you know, the math and engineering. Wood: Were you ever as a woman—were you ever intimidated to get into something that has been traditionally a male dominated field? Chestek: Well, I mean, I guess I was a— I mean, so I was a tomboy. So that was— it wasn’t so much of an issue for me, I think. And I was also very competitive. And I think that, you know, if you have that, it makes it a lot easier. Yeah, I was you know, I had a number of classes there. I was the only woman in them. And I mean, you know, it is very difficult if you are intimidated by being the only woman in the room. But, you know, in general, I mean, I’ve always I’ve always loved it. I’ve always liked making things. And I think I’ve always appreciated, you know, how my love of making things means I should be an engineer. And these sort of inherent I mean, if you want a job that’s about creativity and also a job, I mean, if you’re very motivated to help people and aren’t satisfied with just helping the people in front of you. You know, this is a really influential job before changing things. Wood: That’s awesome. So you told me about a—about a guy who had a big influence on you. A fella who actually went to the University of Michigan back in the 1940s and lived across the street from you. And you guys did some making. Chestek: Yeah, absolutely! Wood: Who was that guy? Chestek: Yeah. So I’m thrilled to talk about my grandfather. When I was growing up, my my grandparents were across the street from me and he was this really cool guy. He was like this polymath because he was an engineer and a lawyer. Right. So like— so he was always making stuff. And we used to build model rockets and airplanes and he had like this giant shop. And that was from when he was an engineer. But, you know, later in life, he had gone on to become a lawyer and eventually a federal bankruptcy judge and had like, you know, a study filled with all the books of the great philosophers, and we’d spend hours talking about ethics and things like that. So, yeah. No, he was a major influence on me growing up. Wood: So, yeah, you said he he had gone to the U of M. That’s kind of like your family has many people have gone on to higher degrees. And it kind of started with your grandpa. Chestek: It did. Wood: Coming to the University of Michigan. Chestek: Yeah. So when I was a kid, he was just this really cool guy that lived across the street and let us get into all kinds of trouble. But as I became an adult, I learned more of his family story and I realized that the University of Michigan changed the whole economic fate of my family. And so I can explain how that how that happens. When he was a child, his father died. You know, leaving behind four children. And, you know, his mother had terrible difficulties. His older brother went to work on an oil rig. He got sent to live with his uncle on a farm. And, you know, well—while she got secretary training to try to, you know, get some income, he went through schooling thinking there was no way he was gonna go to college. Right. That the family— it was just not in the cards for him. You know, and he always loved the athletics, so that— that was his focus in high school. However, World War Two broke out and he found out about this really cool opportunity through the Navy’s V12 program. Annapolis wasn’t graduating enough naval officers during World War Two. So they, you know, it was free tuition, you know, and then you were slotted to be a Navy officer afterwards so you could choose engineering, medicine or foreign languages. He chose engineering. And so and he got free tuition and went to the University of Michigan. And also, while he was here, he played football. And he is probably prouder of playing football for the University of Michigan than anything he did afterwards, including going to Harvard and becoming a judge. Right, so he’s-? Wood: That is so cool. Chestek: Yeah. He married my grandmother, who was an immigrant from Russia during the Cold War. I mean, he was a really cool guy. And so, you know, and I did grow up with, like, you know, the leather football helmet around the house. And the TV was always on to the University of Michigan football game. My uncle went also. He tried to get my mom to go, but she went somewhere else. But, yeah, no Michigan’s always been a part of our family history. Wood: Yeah. I looked him up a little bit. I saw he played in 1944 and 1945. Chestek: Yeah. No, he was always super athletic. And even- Wood: Oh he ran track here, too, I think. Chestek: Yep. Yeah. No, he did. He did a lot of sports and he was you know, he— he also got the engineering degree. Like, you know, worked in Toledo as a civil engineer for a long time. I can remember when he was in his 70s, he was still winning handball tournaments. And so he played my brother, who was, you know, 25, and he beat him and he was telling him, wow, I must getting old because I really had to work for that. So, but yeah, he was a super and I mean, he was a pillar of the community, too, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Wood: That’s neat. And you said he even wore a Michigan ring. Most of his life? Chestek: Yeah. He wore a Michigan ring his whole life. And I didn’t think anything of it. I brought a friend home from college who pointed out he’s like, well, he went to Harvard also, why does he only tell, like wear the Michigan ring and talk about Michigan? And he’ll tell you he went to Michigan. You know, within ten minutes of meeting you so-. Wood: Oh, that’s so cool. Chestek: He was very proud of it. I mean, I think it’s, you know, looking back, this is where his life changed and yeah so-. Wood: That changed your whole family, really? From then on with what he was able to do. Chestek: Yep. Yeah. No. And he was then the sort of you know, he was the rock of our family. He placed such a high importance on education. I mean, it’s all— you know, all of his kids got some kind of graduate degree. It’s a lot of doctors and lawyers and Ph.D.’s. Wood: That is amazing. So when you were out looking for a job or, you know, for your next challenge and U of M was one of the places you looked at. Did his affiliation and everything have any influence on it at all? Chestek: At the time, I would’ve told you no. I would’ve said that, you know, I’m just looking for the best possible research program. But of course, Michigan does have a really good ranking in both engineering and medicine, and it’s great for neural engineering. So, you know, I was trying to be, you know, objective about it. But I mean, of course, yeah, I had grown up surrounded by Michigan paraphernalia my entire life, and I knew it would make him happy. You know, he unfortunately passed a few years ago. But one of the last conversations that I had with him when he was sort of still very lucid was getting to tell him that I had taken a faculty position at the University of Michigan. And so he was— he was so happy about it. And he was so proud of me. And so, I mean, I think. Yeah. No, he— he loved this place. Then he just started telling me all about Ann Arbor. And there’s so many locations around town that, you know, are still here. And, yeah, he loved his time here. Wood: That’s awesome. So with the recent news with, you know, you being in the news and everything you guys have done, what do you think your grandpa’s reaction would be to that, having studied engineering here and now his granddaughter? Chestek: He’d be asking me all kinds of specific questions about it. So if— if my grandfather was still alive, he’d want to know every piece of it. He— he spent his whole life still kind of thinking of himself as an engineer, even though he had been a lawyer for decades. Wood: So you told me you’re a maker and you love doing stuff, and always have even as a kid with your grandpa. Do you still do any making? Or what kinds of things? Chestek: Yeah. No, I’ve been a maker my whole life. And so right now, and I’m, you know, for a long time now I’m a medieval re-enactment enthusiast so that means- Wood: So like the Renaissance Festival kind of thing, or-? Chestek: No, no this is the Society for Creative Anachronism, which is more like, you know, it’s less about performance and more about doing it yourself. So I have this beautiful shop that’s my sunroom. It’s got, you know, it’s full of sunshine. And I do a lot of armor construction. I’m making a tent right now like a giant, you know, canvas tent. I do a lot of like weaving and other yarn crafts, a lot of sewing. And it’s— it’s a lot of fun. So I always have to be making something with my hands. Probably the thing I enjoy the most is the armor construction. Wood: And what is that constructed out of? Chestek: Well, so it’s a variety. I do work with steel as a steel leather. And, you know, it’s— it’s functional armor. So we do, you know, actual combat, which is a lot of fun. I have armored my whole family of four, including the children. I’m currently working on a Japanese kit for my eight year old. And so it’s— it’s a lot of fun, if you like, making stuff. Wood: How old are your kids, and girl or boy? Chestek: They are—I have a ten year old girl and an eight year old boy. They both hit people with pool noodle swords. And so it’s a lot of fun. Wood: Pool noodle swords. Chestek: And It’s adorable to have a little, you know, a gaggle of medieval children running around some of these events. Wood: That is so funny. So what got you interested in that? Chestek: Well, I mean, I think I always liked making stuff. I mean, even when I was in a dorm room, I would always find a way to have tools and a sewing machine in there, even though my quality of my tools and sewing machine have gotten a lot better over time. Wood: Cool. Chestek: But yeah, no, I’ve I have always been crafty. Wood: But why the medieval stuff? Chestek: Well I mean cause it’s fun to put your brain somewhere else and actually a lot of the fun for me is learning what technology used to be. And it’s always sort of better than you think it was. You know, you sort of think of people as having nothing before whatever technology we had here. But people have always been clever. And so the more you learn about how they made things, how they did things, you realize like, ha, actually they— this is not a bad pair of socks, right? And so, and there’s ways of getting to all these things. And, you know, I think society 2000 years ago was a lot more advanced than people think of it, as you know, due to the sort of the cleverness of the makers back then. Wood: Do you— do you try to be historically accurate as much as you can? Or is it more like— like in how you manufacture it? Chestek: Yeah. No, I mean, I think that I’m— I’m very interested in that. Like, you know, there’s some people that are more like, that will only use period correct tools. I use power tools. Wood: I was going to say, you have got to use power tools. Chestek: I just like— I’m a product crafter, so I like things to come about quickly. But I like them to, you know, look like that. I think my daughter put it the best when she said, like, if you know, if you have everything perfect and you can’t see anything modern, it feels really peaceful. So that— that’s how she put it in her ten year old, you know, way of thinking. And so, it’s a lot of fun. Wood: That’s really cool. Chestek: So, do you have any advice for, like, a young woman that’s, you know, maybe a freshman in college or high school kids just starting out trying to think about what do I want to do with my career and maybe engineering, but, you know. Chestek: So, you know, I mean, really, the skill set is electrical engineering, which is— it is unfortunately still very low percentage women. So I’m always asking myself, you know, where are the missing women who, and I want to issue a personal invitation to, you know, the people that— that might have otherwise been engineers if— if not for some of the cultural barriers. And I mean, I think that, you know, who it is, is there’s a lot of people that love making things with their hands and they love having a big project that, you know, they’re working on with a lot of people and all the pieces, you know, come together and come to fruition Wood: Problem solving. Chestek: Yeah. And I mean, I think that is the core of engineering. I think that people think it’s math and code, and math and code are super important. But like, it’s not about loving math and code. Like, I don’t love math and code. I’m not sure anybody really does. I just love what it makes me able to do in terms of making things and making big things happen. And so I think that, you know, if I can make one cultural change, it’s, you know, to— to re-associate engineering with creativity and the love of seeing your ideas become reality. It’s really about that, you know, the act of creation. And so, you know, if you’re crafty, this is your personal invitation. And, you know, I think that you’re gonna be really pleasantly surprised. You know, once you get through that math and code, which is not fun for anybody, you know how much you love using it on the other side. Wood: What do you think having more women and more diversity in general in a field like engineering does for the field of engineering? Chestek: So I think it’s really important. It’s mostly important just because, you know, we’re— we’re missing people. There is— there’s a lot of ideas and creativity out there. It’s a major issue of equality. And, you know, you do have a lot of power to affect the future. And I think it’s, you know, in the interest of fairness that that should be shared also by by women and other underrepresented minorities. Keep in mind that research is all about finding the new way. And, you know, it’s— it’s you have one job, which is to do something that’s never been done before. And if you don’t keep recruiting people from a wide range of life experiences, you’re not going to find the new ways. And so I think diversity is extremely important for research in particular. I have enjoyed this career so much and I’ve enjoyed, you know, what the kind of things that you can sort of bring about. And so mostly I want to invite all of the young women out there to have this kind of fun as well. Wood: And thank you all for listening. I’d also like to thank the whole team here at Michigan News for their support of this podcast, including audio engineers Kirk Lawrence and Justin de Groat, Nicole Smith and Hans Anderson helped with digital strategy and marketing. And we couldn’t do it without the support from news director Laura Lessnau and associate news director, Bernie de Groat. I’m Mike Wood, be well and be safe. I’ll see you beyond the headlines. Cynthia Chestek has turned her lifelong passion for “making” into a very successful career in engineering. Her team at the University of Michigan has come up with a way for amputees to control prosthetic devices using their brain waves. Her family connection to the university started with her grandfather Warren Bentz, who attended in the 1940s. | Mid | [
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Before my birthday I told my wife that I had been thinking of doing a road trip to see my half brother (my first abuser). My whole family is into denial in a big way...It should be our last name. We were both groomsmen at each others weddings and have had a polite but very awkward relationship for the past 25 years. Other family members are often asking me what my problem is with him....Gee wiz...he made me suck his thing from the age of 4 to 8!!! I don't know??? We have all been keeping up the appearance of a happy family (in some ways we are I guess). I wanted to talk to him and get him to fill in the blanks in my memories. After I was married he rang and apologized for what happened. I wasn't ready to deal with it then so I just said I guessed stuff had happened to him first and I already forgave him and got off the phone as quick as I could. I think he was doing it as part of a 12 step thing. It was a pretty lame apology really. So I know he at least at one point felt sorry for what he did and acknowledged that it happened. Also NEED to know what happened to him....What he did to my other brother. I want to tell him about the rest of the stuff that happened to me and that he started a chain reaction. It feels like if we get some answers it will be healing for us both. So... On my birthday I got an e-card from my him. The E-card was some nice inspirational crap about the past and the future..bla bla bla. I was soooo confused. Like ok am I just making a big deal out of all this. I didn't respond to the e-card and he sent a follow up email to make sure I got it. I replied back with a thanks and some 'nice' chit-chat. since then I have been swinging like a pendulum. Angry that he trained me to be a s*x slave and is now nice to me .....guilty that I still seem to hold it against him. And... My wife talks to her mum about EVERYTHING - she is like her T. I am ok with that for now - as I haven't told my wife everything yet. her mum is cool and thinks I am AWESOME and has always been very supportive of anything I've done. (way more than my parents) . She has often told me how proud she is of me - even before the CSA came out. I have sort of adopted my wife's family. I know it sounds weird but my mother in law knows more about my abuse than my own parents. My wife asked her mum if she would go with me on the road trip. My wife is worried I will be in a bad state afterwards ...especially after I told her I was suicidal a while back. My mother in law has just quit her job and will have a holiday before she starts a new job. So I basically it would be better to do it in the next couple of weeks (it is a 6hr drive one way). At first I wasn't ready to do it yet but today I am feeling more confident. I have made a special T session tomorrow to discuss how I should ask him and basically how it should play out and if he thinks I'm ready. But part of me doesn't want to know the truth...what if it wasn't as bad as I remember or he down plays it. What if it only happened once and I made the rest up. 'This' has been such a big part of who I am - I don't know if I can let it go. or...what if it was worse than I remember???? Then today... Life goes on as usual. My wife and I had to go pick up a pony for our kids for Christmas. Just what you always wanted...right? We had a good 3 hours in the car alone together to talk. I told her about all the abuse up to 12 years old (5 perps) including the doctor. She did not want to know any details of what happened. She kept changing the subject - talking about 'normal' stuff. I asked if she was doing it on purpose. She said no. But kept doing it. I didn't feel like she was being a very good listener (to put it politely). I told her about my self image problems and that growing up (and even now) I felt like I was just a sex object for others pleasure - that my looks were all I had going for me. The only reason people like me. She said aren't you lucky you married someone who isn't 'into that'. She said "So... you want me to tell you you are ugly". No because I think I am ugly and that is why I NEED others to tell me I'm not. Then I told her about the Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) - she made that all about her recent slight weight gain. I reassured her that it didn't bother me (I said I still wanted to stick IT in her) and tried to bring the conversation back to CSA. I explained that I had a sexual addiction (MB and p0rn). She got very mad about the P0rn. I did not specify what type of p0rn and she didn't ask - she is assuming it is straight. I don't know if that is better or worse. She said that the thought of me doing her after getting horny from THAT made her feel disgusting. I said that I only thought of her when I was with her...(white lie) and that I couldn't help it that sometimes memories invaded my mind and that is usually when I have ED problems. She said that if she ever even thinks I have viewing p0rn then IT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING. She was also VERY mad that I had lied to her about this all these years. It was intense!!! I explained that I was introduced to p0rn at a young age and had been MBing since 10 and it was going to be a hard habit to break..... but I was trying. She insisted that I install the p0rn filter back on our computer straight away. I said sorry for lying. I had many teary moments and a few pauses to gain my composure - but mostly held it together. All this while driving our 4X4 (SUV) and towing a horse float!! In hind sight not the smartest thing I have done. I told her most of my recovery goals. On the way back she blurted out in a nasty voice that I need to be careful that I don't make this an attention seeking thing. Because I obviously still crave attention.....I was silent....I had nothing. About an hour after I said how hard it has been for me to talk about the abuse and how it affected me. I have been hiding it for 30+ years. I did't want anyone to think I am less of a man or 'broken'.....especially her. I didn't want to hide it from her anymore. I want her to know the truth about me and love me anyway..... no response. I didn't want to go into the teen acting out/abuse or SSA cause I think she may see that differently and I think what I told her today was enough for her to handle. I want to do that in the controlled environment of my T's rooms. Later she talked about how she prefered it when she was ignorant of all this and said that she wanted a refund jokingly....I said that is Sooo NOT funny. She said the actual abuse doesn't change the way she thinks about me. The Porn and Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) do. She said the BDD explained a lot and gave examples. She had NO IDEA I was had such a high sex drive and was into p0rn. She thinks it is degrading and since I am a good guy I would think the same. I talked about my need to do IT more than we are (1-2 a month) and that it would make it easier for me to be good. She said that she thought I was being unreasonable and if she is unwell she does not want to feel obligated to do it because we have only done it once so far this week. She said that I could MB as much as I like as long as she didn't have to know about it. (Even though she knew I did it she has always frowned on MB in the past - so I guess that is a positive) Basically I think it ended pretty well. (calmly). And at least we understand each other better. She is with her mum now...I can just imagine the conversation..... 'your son in law just told me he is a low down dirty rotten porn watching sex addict' My mother in law is staying with us for a few days....We will see if I am still the golden boy. For those of you who didn't grow up in an incest environment....Try to imagine my wedding. 2/3 groomsmen having sexually abused me as a child....supposedly supporting me on the biggest day of my life....All getting dressed in our suits together. I was married last and they had me as their groomsman. It would have looked like something was wrong if I didn't have them. All part of the lies and secrets. But that was my life....now I'm starting to tell the truth....finally.....and it hurts! Hey (((Lee))), wow, that is some ambitious plan ahead of you.It is good that you gonna talk with your T about all this, disclosing and confrontation is very sensitive happening and it should be done in safest possible environment. It is good that you won't be alone there, it might be that you'll need some support. Please don't be scared, even if it has happened once it doesn't mean that it wasn't bad. You are the only one who can tell how bad it was, you suffered a lot, you have had many scars because of it and it was terrible difficult for you, so please be calm about that. And certainly think to comment all your worries and fears with your T and it could be very helpful if you could bring your wife too there, she also has some needs that could be easily forgotten in all this chaos Not the best response you could have gotten from her. Many people are not "active listeners" and by reflex change the subject back to themselves; that's understandable, that's ok. But you describe her as near-totally unsympathetic, not comforting you or saying you deserved better or even saying how much it meant to have the truth out. That's not cool. Hopefully she was just taken by surprise and will act better on this info later. If I live to be a billion I will never understand people who think porn is evil and only freaks look at it. It wasn't right to shame you over that. WTF is it with people who don't get how to respond to secrets? Regardless, it was courageous of you to tell her and you picked the best setting possible I think. Don't mention the stuff about dudes. If she doesn't like you even THINKING about other WOMEN.... there are certain levels of truths that are more appropriate for some people. It doesn't make them bad people, any more than being the guy who can barely grasp remedial math. I'm so sorry your wife's response wasn't helpful when you needed more from her. I had something of a row with my wife when she told me I needed to leave the past in the past. To be fair, she doesn't know the guy at camp raped me instead of "just" fondling me. Still, it was hard to hear. She is supportive, but I didn't need that. Your wife may need time to process new disclosures you make. After all, you have had years to live with this and she has had a couple of months. I agree with Matt, that you shouldn't mention SSA. I'm impressed with what you are doing. In time, it will pay dividends. If you need to vent, MS is here. Will _________________________ I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. --FDR Thanks guys for all your support. It is really helping me to get through this. In my wife's defense it IS that time of the month and she suffers REALLY bad from PMT and period related depression (or should I say I suffer ) She is on meds for it which have improved things but I still have to be sensitive about 2 weeks every month. Needless to say I should have realised that she was not in the best place to 'hear' me. Add to that the fact that I have been preoccupied with my recovery and not working as hard as I normally do (still harder than the average Joe mind you)....which is frustating her. I saw my T today, It was specifically to make a plan to talk/confront my brother. But I ended up spending the first half hour talking about the episode with my wife. He agreed with most of you that how she acted was NOT OK. I said that the way she reacted made me feel less inclinded to disclose the SSA and subsequent acting out. He said that full disclosure is the only way that I can have the true and real relationship with her I desire where i feel like she loves me for who I really am and not who she wants me to be. She seems to be in denial and doesn't want to acknowledge that I may not be the strong, confident, good, upstanding, pure, wholesome, trustworthy man that I have protrayed to her for 14+ years. I have obviously been a very convincing actor and like so many of us have hidden behind the lies. Part of it is my nack for 'becoming' whoever the other person wants me to be. I guess I have to decide if I am happy to stay in a relationship where I have to hide who I am. Anyway I digress... The Plan! My T said he thought it could be a good thing BUT I had to be realistic about my expectations of him. I had to be prepared for the worst. We talked about what the worst case senario would look like...then we talked about my biggest hope from this 'talk'. We also talked about the fact that I can 'choose' whether to believe what he says or not. My biggest hope is that I could finally fill in the gaps of what happened to me and understand what happened to him to make him think it was ok to sexually abuse me. I would like to know how many other boys he abused. I want him to know what my childhood was REALLY like and how his actions 'set me up' for future perps. I want us to have an open and honest relationship where we both accept the truth about what happened. Nothing more - nothing less. We decided that I should ring rather than email to make a time. I came up with the idea that my mother in law was going to visit one of her relatives in his city 6 hours away (another lie) and that I thought I might go with and stop in to see him to spend some time with him. (he resently mentioned he was lonely)Tell him that I have been in couselling for a few monthsThen mention that I wanted to talk to him about what happened to me as a child. Tell him that I was not angry with him and that I wanted this to be healing for us both.Ask what time would suit him best. Reasons why I think I am ready to deal with this- He has already apologised for 'going stuff' to me (all be it half arsed) 12 years ago - He has contacted me recently via email in a way to suggest he wants a normal brotherly relationship with me- I want to tell the truth and I want to know the truth- Now I am the Alpha male (one of my friends here today made me realise how important it is to me to be an alpha male)Lasttime I saw him all I could think was how sad and pathetic his life is..divorced twice. Old looking for his age (45). On a invalid pension because of a back injury. Lonely. I am now better looking, bigger, stronger and better built than he is. I am the director of a multi-million dollar company. I have a beautiful wife and two happy children who love me.When I was 6 and he was 16 he was the alpha male. He was taller and stronger and had it all together. Now I feel more superior. I have confidence that I will be in control of the situation. I will decide how it plays out. He will not intimidate me. After my T session I took a little time out before going home to get myself together. I was still really tired from not sleeping the night before. When I got home I crashed for an hour on the bed. yeah, i sometimes feel like i spend a good percentage of my time and energy dealing with other people's reactions to my issues and how i deal with my issues. it is a mixed blessing to have others that you need to consider and take their needs into account. it sounds to me, though - like you have been working pretty hard on your recovery. give yourself a break. you have to do it at your pace - not according to someone else's expectations. sorry it got messy with her. that doesn't help. you are a good man and i'm sure you will keep it together and not inflict any additional pain. i hope she can learn to be kind to you - but at this point she doesn't really know how much you deserve it! sort of a catch 22. sounds like things are really progressing well towards the meeting with the brother. glad the T is preparing you for all eventualities. keep in mind that you may be mentally prepped - but the emotional impact may be another thing altogether. good you are taking care of yourself. keep it up!lee _________________________ "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself... And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." - Paulo Coelho I decided that I needed to ring him now or I would either chicken out or forget the game plan. After I had gotten the cows up for milking I left my wife to milk by herself (as usual - it only takes one of us). I went up to the house to get a drink and it was empty (the kids were playing outside) so I grapped the phone and locked my self in my room. I quickly wrote out some notes on a piece of paper so I didn't forget the plan. It was kind of impulsive. It rang for ages...I thought I'mnot leaving a message...then he answered. Crap!!!!He sounded surpised to hear from me - fair enough - I NEVER call him.He said he had just got home and started telling me about his day when he was finished that story there was a pregnant pause.........I said "the reason I rang up is I was just wondering if I could come and visit you in the next couple of weeks. [insert wife's name here]'s mum is coming up that way and I thought I would come with for the drive and see you while I'm there.He said "Yeah that would be great....are you bring the kids with you" Deep Breath!!!I said "acually I have an alterior motive - I've been in counselling for a few months and I would like to talk to you about what happened between us when I was little." He said "Oh....I see .... anything I can do to make up for what I did. I understand how awkward it is to talk about this stuff. Did your cousellor suggest it?"I said "No I just thought it could be healing for us both to talk about the elephant in the room rather than just pretending it isn't there. I just want you to know that I'm not angry about it anymore. I just need some answers about what happened."He said " sure what ever you think will help"I said "I would also like to know what happened to you growing up"He said "It is really hard to talk about but if you think it will help"I said " I also want to tell you about the other stuff tht happened to me. What happened with you was just the start and stuff also happened with [insert other brother] too. I asked him if he had been in counselling for it and he said he had for other stuff (abandonment issues etc) and thatthey had touched on it but nothing specifically targeted at the abuse. He said that he told his second wife about what he had done and she had been abused her self and from then on she put him in the same boat as her father. It was not why they divorced but it didn't help. He said that one of his T's had said that 'these things are only as bad as you make them'. If you think they are bad they will affect you in a bad way (.....Hmmmm) He said that he just didn't think what he was doing was wrong. He thought it would be fun. At least it wsn't like when an adult feels bad about what they are doing and then force the kid to do it......(again Hmmmmm) We set a date in the first week in January (when he doesn't have custody of his 15 year old son) He said he was glad I said that I wasn't angry or he would have been stressing out about it....thinking I was going to give him a summons or something....(he said he already had that?????) He did say that what he did was bad and must have messed me up. We talked about some other stuff (can't really remember right now - too happy) I am willing to accept that he will have a different 'take' on the situation and down play his responsiblilty. That changes nothing I will still be making it clear the rammifications of his actions. At the moment I am over the moon. I had set myself up for his refusal to talk about it and even deny it happened. I am confident that there will be a positive outcome from this....of some sort. Thank you all for walking with me on this journey. Damn...I was so excited about telling you about the good news that I forgot what happened next.My wife starts banging on the window of our bedroom screeming at me. "What are you doing???" I hung up and said "I have just been talking to my brother" "Why do you have to do that now" she said "you should be doing everything that has to be done right now". This comment was so ridiculous because I only had about 1 hour of work to do and 3 hours left of daylight. It was so not an issue. I got my boots on and asked her what she wanted me to do..."the usual". I said "Do you think you could at least TRY to be supportive". She said "You have not done ANY work around here for 2 weeks (so not true by the way). Meanwhile I am stressing out" She said something else right here that was so bad I can't even remember it. I just remember being so mad that I needed to turn around and walk away before I did something I would regret. I did all my jobs while her and the kids rode the new pony. Then I joined in and helped clean up the yard. Everything was back to normal. She seemed happy again....Women ....I will NEVER understand them. I agree that my access and use of the MaleSurvivor discussion forums and chat room is subject to the terms of this Agreement. AND the sole discretion of MaleSurvivor. I agree that my use of MaleSurvivor resources are AT-WILL, and that my posting privileges may be terminated at any time, and for any reason by MaleSurvivor. | Mid | [
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REPORTED IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND No. 476 September Term, 2013 CONWELL LAW LLC v. MARY BETH TUNG, ET AL. Eyler, Deborah S. Nazarian, Kenney, James A., III (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ. Opinion by Nazarian, J. Filed: February 25, 2015 * Judge Timothy E. Meredith did not participate, pursuant to Md. Rule 8-605.1, in the Court’s decision to report this opinion. This appeal arises from a suit brought in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County by a law firm, Conwell Law LLC (the “Firm”), against its former employee, Mary Beth Tung, an associated firm, BIO Intellectual Property Services LLC (“BIO”), and BIO’s employee, Douglas Robinson.1 The suit arose from the Firm’s representation of Technical Furniture Group, LLC (“Technical Furniture”) in matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Appeal Board”). Ms. Tung, then an employee of the Firm, served as lead counsel in those matters and Mr. Robinson as back-up counsel.2 The subject matter of the suit ends up not being important for our purposes, though—between failures of service and failure to state a claim, and notwithstanding the volume of paper filed in the case, the suit never got past the initial pleading stage. The circuit court dismissed the Firm’s claims against both appellees with prejudice after finding that the Firm’s initial (and later amended) complaint failed to state a claim against the BIO Defendants and that the Firm failed to effect service of process on Ms. Tung. On appeal, the Firm challenges these findings and raises for the first time issues concerning the appearance of impropriety in the circuit court. We find that the Firm failed to preserve its impropriety argument, reject the Firm’s other arguments, and affirm. 1 Because the Firm’s claims against Mr. Robinson and BIO are tightly intertwined, we refer to the parties together as the “BIO Defendants.” 2 A party represented before the Appeal Board is required to “designate a lead counsel and a back-up counsel who can conduct business on behalf of the lead counsel.” 37 C.F.R. § 42.10(a). I. BACKGROUND The Firm filed its initial complaint against Ms. Tung, Mr. Robinson, and BIO on December 16, 2011.3 It filed two versions of the complaint—one titled “COMPLAINT (NON-CONFIDENTIAL)” (the “Non-Confidential Complaint”) and the other titled “COMPLAINT (CONFIDENTIAL)” (the “Confidential Complaint”)—and explained in each version that only the Non-Confidential Complaint, which contained only a brief description of the parties and the claims, would be served on Ms. Tung and BIO. The Firm declined to serve the Confidential Complaint, which it claimed to have filed under seal, because it contained “extensive attorney-client and other extremely confidential information” regarding Technical Furniture.4 3 The Firm raised the following causes of action against Ms. Tung: fraud, constructive fraud, “Breach of Fiduciary Duty, the Duty of Confidentiality, and the Duty of Loyalty,” “Unfair Competition: Misappropriation of Trade Secrets,” “Non-Disclosure, Concealment, Negligent Misrepresentation,” “Injurious Falsehood,” tortious interference with contract, tortious interference with business relations, replevin, and “Professional Negligence and Legal Malpractice (Neglect of Reasonable Duty).” The BIO Defendants were named only in the last count. This case represents only part of the parties’ dispute. We considered in a separate appeal procedural issues raised in a professional neglience action filed by Technical Furniture and others against Ms. Tung, Mr. Robinson, and BIO and others. There we ultimately dismissed part of the appeal and affirmed the remainder of the circuit court’s dismissal of Technical Furniture’s claims for insufficient service of process and failure to state a claim. See Technical Furniture Group, LLC, et al. v. Mary Beth Tung, No. 95, Sept. Term 2013 (Md. App. March 13, 2014). 4 Ms. Tung points out that the Firm’s attempt to file under seal violated Maryland Rule 16-1009, which requires that a motion to seal or motion for protective order first be filed with the court to successfully seal a document. She argues that the Firm “circumvented the Maryland Rules by deciding for itself that the ‘Confidential Complaint’ should be ‘filed under seal.’” We agree, but this issue does not come into play in this appeal. 2 On December 21, 2011, the circuit court issued original process directed to each defendant, which would expire 120 days after issuance (on April 19, 2012). The Firm, however, made no effort to serve the defendants in that time frame or for two months after the 120-day period expired. On May 24, 2012, as a result of the Firm’s failure to effect service, the court issued a Notification of Contemplated Dismissal: Pursuant to Maryland Rule 2-507, this [proceeding] will be “DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION OR PROSECUTION WITHOUT PREJUDICE,” 30 days after service of this notice unless, prior to that time, a written motion showing good cause to defer the entry of an order of dismissal is filed. On June 18, 2012, the Firm requested that the court reissue summonses, which it did that day. Then, on June 22, the Firm filed a Notice of Service, explaining that each defendant had been served with summons and the Non-Confidential Complaint. That same day, the Firm also filed its Response to Rule 2-507 Notification and Motion to Defer Dismissal, in which it explained that it intentionally delayed the filing of its complaint to protect the interests of its client, Technical Furniture, and that it only filed the complaint when it did “because [filing] was necessitated by the statute of limitations.” It continued that the Firm “was delayed in proceeding [with service] . . . for the same reason as the delays in the initial filing, that it was protecting client interests and advocating on their behalf, all on related matters that effected [sic] and impacted the causes of action in the instant lawsuit.” On this basis, the Firm requested that the court defer dismissal, recognize that the Non-Confidential Complaint had been served, and stay the case. 3 On July 16, 2012, Ms. Tung filed a Motion to Dismiss pursuant to Rule 2-322(a), alleging insufficiency of process and service. She contended that the Firm, on June 19, 2012, delivered to her an incomplete copy of its complaint (the Non-Confidential Complaint), and that she had yet to be served with a complete copy of the complaint (the Confidential Complaint). She argued that as a party to the litigation, she was “entitled to access under Maryland Rule 16-1002(f)” to a full and complete copy of the complaint. The Firm never responded to this motion. On July 24, 2012, the Firm filed a Motion to Stay, asking the court to stay the case until a similar case, involving “joint clients of both [the Firm] and Defendants,” was resolved. (Emphasis in original.) The Firm contended that the court in the related case “issued an Order sealing all confidential client-related documents,” and that “[f]actual and legal issues, including the amount of damages, are likely to be decided in [the related case], that affect the issues to be resolved in the instant lawsuit.” Ms. Tung’s response to the Firm’s Motion to Stay, filed on July 30, 2012, incorporated her previously-filed Motion to Dismiss, noted that she still had not been served a complete copy of the complaint, and asked the court to rule on her Motion to Dismiss instead of staying the case. The court denied the Motion to Stay on August 6, 2012. On August 20, 2012, Ms. Tung filed an opposition to the Firm’s Motion to Defer Dismissal. She reiterated there much of what she had already argued: first, that the Firm had made no effort to serve the defendants with process for six months after filing its complaint; 4 second, that the Firm only attempted to serve the defendants at all after the court issued the Notice of Contemplated Dismissal; third, that the Firm still had not served a complete copy of the complaint on the defendants; fourth, that the Firm had not demonstrated good cause for its delay; and finally, that she had been prejudiced by the delay. On August 28, 2012, the circuit court entered an order denying Ms. Tung’s Motion to Dismiss, but found the Firm’s initial service attempt (of the Non-Confidential Complaint) insufficient. Instead of dismissing the case, the court gave the Firm another opportunity to serve Ms. Tung: ORDERED, that [the Firm] shall re-serve a copy of the Complaint and all accompanying papers upon [Ms. Tung] and submit a new affidavit of service to the Court within ten (10) days from the date this Order is docketed. If [the Firm] fails to comply with this Order, this action will be dismissed. (Emphasis added.) The BIO Defendants had also moved to dismiss on the same grounds raised by Ms. Tung on August 22, 2012, and on September 5, 2012, the court entered an identical order with respect to them. But despite these orders, the Firm never served Ms. Tung or the BIO Defendants directly. Instead, on September 6 and 7, the Firm served summons and the Confidential Complaint on counsel for each party. On September 28, 2012, the court entered an order noting the Firm’s failure to comply with its September 5, 2012 Order concerning the BIO Defendants and dismissing the case without prejudice as to them: Upon review of the file, the Court finds that an Order was entered on September 5, 2012, requiring [the Firm] to file a new 5 affidavit of service on [the BIO Defendants]. [The Firm] has failed to comply as directed. Therefore, this 26th day of September, 2012, by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, hereby ORDERED, that [the Firm’s] Complaint is dismissed without prejudice. The court did not mention whether the case was being dismissed with respect to Ms. Tung. On October 11, 2012, the Firm filed a Motion for Reconsideration requesting that the court revisit its dismissal of claims against the BIO Defendants entered on September 26, 2012. The Firm argued that its service on the BIO Defendants’ counsel was sufficient and that dismissal was inappropriate. The Firm reasoned that service on counsel was appropriate because the BIO Defendants “accepted and acknowledged service, and that . . . Defendants had responded to the Complaint.” On October 24, 2012, Ms. Tung’s counsel wrote a letter to Judge Davis-Loomis, the County Administrative Judge, asking that the case be specially assigned to a single judge to hear all open motions. On October 31, 2012, before the court specially assigned the case, Ms. Tung filed a Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Comply with Terms of the Court’s August 28, 2012 Order. The August 28, 2012 Order had directed the Firm to re-serve Ms. Tung with the Confidential Complaint within ten days of entry, but, as we explained, the Firm served counsel for Ms. Tung, not Ms. Tung herself. Ms. Tung argued that the Firm failed to comply with the August 28, 2012 Order because she never agreed to allow her counsel to accept service on her behalf, and that dismissal was appropriate. 6 The circuit court, through Judge Goetzke, entered an order on November 19, 2012, addressing both the Firm’s Motion for Reconsideration of the September 26, 2012 Order (filed on October 11, 2012) and Ms. Tung’s Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Comply with the August 28, 2012 Order. Judge Goetzke explained that the court “determined that, as of the date of this Order, it has no in personam jurisdiction over any defendant in [the] matter” and gave the Firm another chance to effect service: ORDERED, that this case is dismissed without prejudice as to all [defendants]; and it is, ORDERED, that [the Firm] may request one additional summons pursuant to Rule 2-122 (a) for each Defendant, provided the request is not made later than 7 days from the date on which this Order is docketed[5] (“Final Summons”); and it is, ORDERED, that this dismissal shall be stricken as to any Defendant over whom the court acquires in personam jurisdiction as a result of service pursuant to Rule 2-121 of the Final Summons for that Defendant; and it is, ORDERED, that on request of a Defendant, an order of dismissal with prejudice shall be filed as to any Defendant over whom the court has not acquired in personam jurisdiction as set forth in the preceding paragraph. (Underlining supplied.) Shortly thereafter, on December 5, 2012, Judge Davis-Loomis entered an Assignment Order assigning the case to Judge Caroom. 5 The Order was docketed on November 21, 2012. 7 On January 28, 2013, the Firm filed an Affidavit of Service stating that “the Defendants were previously served the Confidential Complaint on September 6th and 7th, 2012,” and providing documentation of subsequent service on counsel between January 22 and 24, 2013. The Firm concluded that “[a]ll counsel have been served.” (Emphasis added.) That same day, Judge Caroom, now specially assigned to the case, held a hearing on the open motions.6 The parties discussed the November 19, 2012 Order issued by Judge Goetzke that dismissed the case without prejudice and provided the Firm one additional chance to serve the defendants: [COUNSEL FOR MS. TUNG]: . . . I would point out . . . that Judge Goetzke’s order from November 21 said that Judge Goetzke had considered the motion for reconsideration and that as of that date the Court determined that, as of November 21, it had no in personam jurisdiction over any defendant after having considered the motion for reconsideration. And then went [on to] order [the Firm], with regard to all Defendants, to have summonses reissued within seven days. And then indicated that, upon request of the Defendant, an order for dismissal with prejudice would be filed as to any defendant as to whom service had not been acquired under, as Judge Goetzke termed it, in a defined term, the final summons. 6 The court first addressed the Firm’s Motion for Reconsideration of the November 19, 2012 Order, which found that the court had no personal jurisdiction over any of the Defendants. Judge Caroom offered the Firm an opportunity to request a hearing before Judge Goetzke on issues flowing from the order he issued on November 19, 2012, and specifically whether the Firm had complied with the order to complete service on all the defendants. None of the parties sought to have their motions heard by Judge Goetzke. 8 THE COURT: And set a deadline of January . . . 28, meaning it needed to be done before today? [COUNSEL FOR MS. TUNG]: Right. Well, they needed to be issued by [November 28] and . . . that has not occurred. The same thing occurred with the motion for reconsideration. There were exhibits from [the Firm] saying we mailed them to counsel for Ms. Tung. Mailing to counsel of the summons is not service. Judge Goetzke ordered that they be served pursuant to Maryland Rule 2-121. And Maryland Rule 2-121 expressly delineates the means of service, as I am sure you are aware, and mailing them to counsel is not service. (Emphasis added.) In response, the Firm argued that its service of the Confidential Complaint and Final Summons shortly before the hearing satisfied Judge Goetzke’s Order: [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]:[7] I served personally last week via certified mail all the Defendants. I have green cards right here with their signatures. Last week, I did file an affidavit of service with the Court for both cases, Conwell Law and Technical Furniture Group. I have a copy of the Technical Furniture Group case with the date stamped right here. * * * I would also like to point out, first of all, it was the confidential complaint that was served in January to all Defendants. I would also like to mention that this was not— THE COURT: Meaning for which you have the green cards? 7 Although the transcript shows that counsel for Ms. Tung was speaking here, the content of the statements made here show that counsel for the Firm was actually speaking. The transcript is rife with similar errors, which we have reconciled in this opinion where necessary. 9 [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]: Yes. Yes, that is what this is from. THE COURT: Okay, so let me invite you to show—I am not sure if they have seen it any more than I have, the green cards and the return of service that you are preparing to file today. [COUNSEL FOR MS. TUNG]:[8] Your Honor, I think the misunderstanding here is that these green cards show that—well, read it. I don’t know if it is a misunderstanding or not. I thought I made all positions clear. The green cards reflect certified mail, me and my partner. THE COURT: Not to the parties individually? [COUNSEL FOR MS. TUNG]: Not to the party. And mailing or delivery by a process server or by certified mail, the counsel is not serviced. THE COURT: Okay. So let me go back to [Counsel for the Firm]. I thought you just said that it was—that these were green cards signed by each of the Defendants individually. [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]: I am sorry. It was not by the Defendants, by defense counsel, given that— THE COURT: By counsel. [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]: —by counsel. That is correct. (Emphasis added.) The parties then discussed whether service upon counsel satisfied Rule 2-121(a): 8 The transcript does not indicate which party’s counsel is speaking here, as the place for counsel’s name after “Mr.” is left blank. However, again, we are able to recognize from the statement’s content that counsel for Ms. Tung is speaking here. 10 [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]: Given that all counsel had entered appearances with regard to each of those cases. It seemed, under the rule, that counsel could be served directly. Counsel of record, you know, in the system, and had to represent their clients with regard to these cases. [COUNSEL FOR MS. TUNG]: Well, let me just point out, Your Honor, that only, as Maryland Rule 2-321(a) states, “Only documents other than original pleadings in process can be served on counsel, after counsel has entered an appearance.” And Maryland Rule 2-121(a) specifically sets forth the three types of in personam service. Delivery to the person to be served, or leaving it at the person’s dwelling, house, or usual place of abode with a person, the resident of a suitable age or discretion, or mailing to the person to be served a copy of the summons, complaint, et cetera, et cetera, by a certified mail return receipt requested. The Firm’s counsel argued in response that service on counsel was appropriate because he had received letters from counsel for the Defendants “[t]hat specifically stated that they would agree to accept [service],” and that counsel had been representing and acting as agents for their clients in this case. But when asked by the court to produce the letters, counsel could not do so, and Ms. Tung’s counsel pointed out that “there is no correspondence from [them] agreeing to accept service.” At the same time, however, counsel for the BIO Defendants did acknowledge such an agreement: [COUNSEL FOR BIO DEFENDANTS]: We will accept service of the [Firm] complaint, because we prefer to have it decided on the merits. We are just going to move to dismiss, but at the appropriate time. So that is fine. We will accept service and move to dismiss at the appropriate time. 11 Ms. Tung then asked the court to dismiss the Firm’s claim with prejudice because the Firm failed to comply with Judge Goetzke’s November 19, 2012 Order, which provided that a defendant could request dismissal with prejudice if the Firm failed to complete service upon that defendant. The court agreed to do so: THE COURT: Okay. Obviously [the Firm’s counsel], your position was that Ms. Tung’s counsel agreed to accept service also, but since today is the motion hearing, we don’t have the document confirming that. I am inclined to grant their motion to make it as to this timely dismissal with prejudice and to direct the Court to put in the hearing sheet that the [BIO Defendants] . . . have agreed to accept service. The court also noted that it would consider altering the order if the Firm’s counsel produced the letter in which Ms. Tung’s counsel agreed to accept service on her behalf: THE COURT: If [the Firm’s counsel] go back to the office and they find the missing letters in which counsel for Mary Tung say we agree to accept service of the full complaint, then there could be a motion to reconsider on the motion to reconsider, but I am not going to, at this point, hold my breath on that. We will assume that the ruling that I just made is what is going to be going on with this case going forward. On January 30, 2013, Judge Caroom entered an order noting the court’s denial of the Firm’s Motion for Reconsideration and the BIO Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss (reasoning that counsel for each had “agreed to accept service on behalf of the defendants”), and its decision to grant Ms. Tung’s Motion to Dismiss. On February 20, 2013, the BIO Defendants filed a Motion to Dismiss, alleging that the Firm failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, or in the alternative, that, 12 as a result of Ms. Tung’s dismissal, the Firm had failed to properly join a necessary party. That same day, the Firm filed a Motion for Reconsideration of the January 30, 2013 Order, arguing that dismissal of its suit against Ms. Tung was inappropriate. Ms. Tung filed an Opposition to the Firm’s Motion for Reconsideration on March 8, 2013.9 The circuit court held a hearing on these motions on March 18, 2013. During the hearing, the trial judge walked through the timeline of this case, found no justification for the delay in service, presumed prejudice from the delay, and ultimately denied the Firm’s Motion for Reconsideration and dismissed its suit against Ms. Tung with prejudice: [THE COURT]: . . . In this case, the [Firm] case, the Court thinks that it is very comparable to the situation in Reed v. Cagan, 128 Md. App. 641, where there was no real explanation for the initial delay [in service], as filed in late 2011. Summonses are issued. Nothing happens for six months. The Court issues the notice of contemplated dismissal. The Defense moves to dismiss for lack of service. There are two motions to dismiss, which are considered by the Court in August and September for different Defendants, each giving additional time for service. That additional time for service is not used. There are two dismissals, September 28th, . . . November 21st. Those dismissals were [without] prejudice. But again, potentially with the opportunity to seek to reopen and reserve. So in effect the Court has given many, many warnings in this case that the case could be dismissed, the [Firm] versus Tung, for lack of adequate service. 9 The Firm also filed an amended complaint on March 8, 2013. The Firm failed to include a comparison copy, as was required by Rule 2-341(e). 13 And in terms of whether there is some justification for the delay, the Court really doesn’t find any justification for the delay, because all of the problems were problems basically of Plaintiffs’ own making. The delay was your own making. The private [versus] public version of the complaint, or confidential or non- confidential version of the complaint, however you want to call it, the issue was of your own making. The, I think, misconstrue [sic] of the communications with counsel as to whether they would accept service or serve themselves and just take notice of what was in the Court’s file instead of actually receiving it as required by the rules, was a problem of your own making. The Court asked if you had written documentation that counsel had agreed to accept some other arrangement and that has not been provided to the Court’s satisfaction. So I think really there is no justification for the delay. The prejudice is presumed—the Court could infer actual prejudice in terms of all of the legal services that the Defense has had to pay for, just litigating on this one issue, all of Plaintiffs’ making. So the Court is going to deny the motion to reconsider in the Firm [versus] Tung case. . . . And recognize that that dismissal has become one which is with prejudice after the passage of more than 30 days. (Emphasis added.) On March 22, 2013, Judge Caroom entered an order denying the Firm’s Motion for Reconsideration, dismissing the Firm’s case against Ms. Tung, and dismissing the Firm’s case against the BIO Defendants for failure to state a claim and based on the dismissal of Ms. Tung, all dismissals with prejudice. The Firm appealed from that order. 14 II. DISCUSSION The Firm raises the following questions for our review: 1. Whether the Appellees had been served and jurisdiction had been conferred. 2. Whether the trial judge erred in his two orders dismissing the case against all Appellees. 3. Whether the combined actions of two judges gave the appearance of impropriety, partiality, and prejudicial influence. We affirm the circuit court’s decision to dismiss the Firm’s complaint against both Ms. Tung and the BIO Defendants. The Firm did not effect proper service upon Ms. Tung, and despite multiple opportunities, the Firm failed to cure this jurisdictional defect, so dismissal was proper under both Rules 2-121(a) and 2-507(b). And although the Firm effected service upon the BIO Defendants, the court appropriately dismissed its complaint for failure to state a claim because the complaint failed to address a necessary predicate of its legal malpractice claim—the existence of an attorney-client relationship between the Firm and the BIO Defendants.10 Finally, the Firm failed to preserve the issue of judicial impropriety for review. 10 Because, as we explain, the circuit court appropriately dismissed the Firm’s suit against the BIO Defendants on the basis of the Firm’s failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, we need not address whether Ms. Tung was a necessary party or, in turn, whether the dismissal of the Firm’s suit against her warranted dismissal of its suit against the BIO Defendants. 15 A. The Circuit Court Properly Dismissed The Firm’s Claims Against Ms. Tung For Insufficient Service Of Process. “‘It is fundamental that before a court may impose upon a defendant a personal liability or obligation in favor of the plaintiff or may extinguish a personal right of the defendant it must have first obtained jurisdiction over the person of the defendant.’” Flanagan v. Dep’t of Human Res., 412 Md. 616, 623-24 (2010) (quoting Lohman v. Lohman, 331 Md. 113, 125 (1993)). A court obtains in personam jurisdiction over a defendant when that defendant is “‘notified of the proceedings by proper summons.’” Id. at 624 (quoting Lohman, 331 Md. at 130). “[T]he court has no jurisdiction over [a defendant] until such service is properly accomplished,” or until service “‘is waived by a voluntary appearance by the defendant, either personally or through a duly authorized attorney.’” Id. A party’s failure to comply with the Maryland Rules governing service of process “constitutes a jurisdictional defect that prevents a court from exercising personal jurisdiction over the defendant.” Id. (citing Lohman, 331 Md. at 130). “The ‘abuse of discretion’ standard of review is applicable to the issue of whether an appellate court should reverse the Circuit Court’s decision to dismiss an action for ‘lack of jurisdiction.’” Hariri v. Dahne, 412 Md. 674, 686 (2010). “‘[T]here is an abuse of discretion where no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the [trial court] . . . or when the court acts without reference to any guiding principles.’” Id. at 687 (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Pasteur, Inc. v. Skevofilax, 396 Md. 405, 418 (2007)). “In sum, to be reversed ‘[t]he decision under consideration has to be well removed from any center mark 16 imagined by the reviewing court and beyond the fringe of what that court deems minimally acceptable.’” Id. (quoting Pasteur, Inc., 396 Md. at 419). 1. The Firm did not effectively serve process on Ms. Tung. The Firm contends that no jurisdictional defect existed, and that dismissal was improper, because Ms. Tung and her counsel had been personally served with summons. The Firm made three attempts to serve Ms. Tung: first, on June 19, 2012, by delivery of the Non- Confidential Complaint to Ms. Tung; second, on September 6 and 7, 2012, by delivery of the Confidential Complaint to Ms. Tung’s counsel; and third, on January 18, 2013, again by delivery of the Confidential Complaint to Ms. Tung’s counsel. But for the circuit court to obtain personal jurisdiction over Ms. Tung, the Firm was required to effect service of process in accordance with Rule 2-121(a). See Lohman, 331 Md. at 130: Service of process may be made . . . (1) by delivering to the person to be served a copy of the summons, complaint, and all other papers filed with it; (2) if the person to be served is an individual, by leaving a copy of the summons, complaint, and all other papers filed with it at the individual’s dwelling house or usual place of abode with a resident of suitable age and discretion; or (3) by mailing to the person to be served a copy of the summon, complaint, and all other papers filed with it by certified mail requesting: “Restricted Delivery—show to whom, date, address of delivery.” Md. Rule 2-121(a). None of the Firm’s attempts to serve Ms. Tung complied with this rule. The Firm’s first attempt to serve Ms. Tung—delivery of the summons and Non- Confidential Complaint to her—did not amount to effective service. Effective service under Rule 2-121(a) requires delivery of “a copy of the summons, complaint, and all other papers 17 filed with it.” Md. Rule 2-121(a) (emphasis added). Delivery of the Non-Confidential Complaint did not satisfy this rule because that version of the complaint was not the complete version of the complaint filed with the court. Service of the complaint filed with the court is necessary because “‘[t]he purpose of service of process is to give the defendant fair notice of the action against him and the resulting fair opportunity to be heard.’” Mooring v. Kaufman, 297 Md. 342, 350 (1983) (quoting 1964 Md. Laws, Chap. 95); see also West Coast Theater Corp. v. City of Portland, 897 F.2d 1519, 1529 (9th Cir. 1990) (“[S]ervice of an incomplete draft complaint which was seven pages shorter than the complaint filed cannot be deemed to constitute compliance with [Fed.R.Civ.P. 4(m)11 ] because that Rule requires service of the filed complaint.”). The Non-Confidential Complaint, although also filed with the court, contained only “a description of the parties and the claims for notice purposes,” and could not provide Ms. Tung with fair notice of the action against her. Only the Confidential Complaint could provide such notice. The Firm’s second and third attempts to serve Ms. Tung—delivery of the summons and Confidential Complaint to her counsel—also did not amount to effective service. Although a plaintiff, in certain circumstances, can serve an individual by service upon an 11 The Ninth Circuit, in West Coast Theater, found that service of a draft complaint did not comply with Federal Rule 4(j), the predecessor rule to current Rule 4(m). 897 F.2d at 1529. Rule 4(m) mirrors Rule 2-507(b): each rule provides that a plaintiff’s failure to serve a defendant precludes a court from obtaining jurisdiction over that defendant, and that the failure to serve a defendant within 120 days of filing of the complaint warrants dismissal of the case without prejudice. 18 agent, that agent must be “authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process for that individual,” Md. Rule 2-124(b) (emphasis added), and no such authorization existed here. Although, at the January 28, 2013 hearing, the Firm claimed to have received a letter from Ms. Tung’s counsel agreeing to accept service on her behalf, the Firm could not produce evidence of Ms. Tung’s authorization when the court asked for it: THE COURT: Let me ask you to go—and if you are saying that there is correspondence from counsel by which they agree to accept service, go ahead and pull that out and we can make that an exhibit for today. Show it to opposing counsel and see if they agree or have anything else that the Court should consider. (Pause.) [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]: Your Honor, obviously we have a lot of paperwork to go through. * * * [COUNSEL FOR THE FIRM]: It appears we don’t have the letter with us in Court right now, Your Honor. However, we would be happy to go back to our office with the more complete record and provide that to you. [COUNSEL FOR MS. TUNG]: On behalf of my firm, Your Honor. This represents Ms. Tung. You know, there is no correspondence from us agreeing to accept service. And without authorization from Ms. Tung that her counsel could be served on her behalf, the Firm’s attempts to serve her counsel were ineffective. The Firm also argues that service of the Confidential Complaint on Ms. Tung’s counsel was proper because counsel had entered a general appearance. This argument flows 19 from an incorrect legal premise. An attorney’s appearance on behalf of a client affects only filing of pleadings other than original pleadings. Service of an original pleading, “the first pleading filed in an action against a defendant,” Md. Rule 1-202(s), is governed by Rule 2- 121(a), the rule applicable to service of process. See Francz v. Francz, 157 Md. App. 676, 688 (2004). Service of pleadings and papers other than original pleadings, on the other hand, is governed by Rule 1-321, which does, in fact, permit service upon an attorney who has entered an appearance. See Rule 1-321(a). Here, the Firm argues that its service of the Confidential Complaint, its original pleading, was properly made on counsel because counsel had entered an appearance. But, as we explained, the rules governing service of process (applicable to service of original pleadings, see Francz, 157 Md. App. at 688) do not permit service of an individual by service upon counsel without prior authorization. See Md. Rule 2-124(b). So even if Ms. Tung’s counsel had entered an appearance, and we make no findings in that regard, the Firm still needed to serve the Confidential Complaint on Ms. Tung herself. The Firm’s failure to effect service on Ms. Tung left the circuit court without personal jurisdiction over her. The only other possible avenue through which the court could obtain personal jurisdiction was through a waiver of service and consent by Ms. Tung. See Flanagan, 412 Md. at 624 (“[T]here can be no judgment nor decree in personam unless the defendant has been notified of the proceedings by proper summons, for the court has no jurisdiction over him until such service is properly accomplished, or is waived by a voluntary 20 appearance by the defendant, either personally or through a duly authorized attorney.” (quoting Lohman, 331 Md. at 130)). As we explain next, no such waiver or consent occurred. 2. Ms. Tung did not consent to jurisdiction or waive her right to service of process. The Firm argues next that “[j]urisdiction is conferred [and objections to service issues are waived] when a party makes a voluntary appearance,” and that Ms. Tung entered a voluntary appearance through two avenues: first, by failing to comply with Rule 2-322(a), which, according to the Firm, “requires that no motion or pleading . . . be filed before any motion to dismiss is filed”; and second, by filing “a pleading addressing in any way any subject other than jurisdiction.” The Firm’s arguments are premised upon both an incorrect timeline of this case and a misunderstanding of the law. Assuming for the moment that the Firm was correct (which, as detailed below, is not the case), the Firm would have to establish that Ms. Tung filed a pleading or motion 12 before she filed her Rule 2-322(a) Motion to Dismiss. In support of this argument, the Firm contends that “the first pleading filed by [Ms.] Tung was an Opposition to Motion to Defer Dismissal. Thus, as of August [20], 2012 when that motion was filed and served, [Ms.] Tung had waived Rule 2-322(a) defenses and had voluntarily consented to the jurisdiction of the court.” The docket tells a different story: Ms. Tung filed her Motion to Dismiss, raising Rule 12 As we explain later, filing an answer waives the defenses listed in Rule 2-322(a). 21 2-322(a) defenses, on July 16, 2012, more than a month before she filed her Opposition to the Firm’s Motion to Defer Dismissal on August 20, 2012.13 So on this basis alone, the Firm’s argument that Ms. Tung consented to jurisdiction by failing to raise Rule 2-322(a) defenses in a motion to dismiss filed before any other pleading or motion fails. But we don’t even get to that hypothetical because the Firm is wrong about the law. The Firm argues that a defendant waives Rule 2-322(a) defenses by filing any motion or pleading before a motion to dismiss raising those defenses. The Firm is incorrect. Instead, a party waives the defenses listed in Rule 2-322(a) only when that party files an answer before raising those defenses. See Md. Rule 2-322(a) (“The following defenses shall be made by motion to dismiss filed before the answer . . . : (1) lack of jurisdiction over the person, . . . (3) insufficiency of process, and (4) insufficiency of service of process. If not so made and the answer is filed, these defenses are waived.” (Emphasis added.)).14 13 The Firm also cannot plead ignorance here—it filed a motion in response to Ms. Tung’s Motion to Dismiss on August 17, 2012, before she filed her Opposition to the Firm’s Motion to Defer Dismissal. 14 The Firm relies on Chapman v. Kamara, 356 Md. 426 (1999), and LVI Environmental Services, Inc. v. Academy of IRM, 106 Md. App. 699 (1995), in support of its waiver argument. But Chapman does not stand for the proposition that the filing of any pleading waives the defenses listed in Rule 2-322(a), see 356 Md. at 438 (“Once a party files an answer without raising the defense of insufficient service of process, that defense ordinarily is waived.” (citing Md. Rule 2-322(a)). As to LVI (and a prior case on which the LVI Court relied, McCormick v. St. Francis de Sales Church, 219 Md. 422, 428 (1959)), these cases suggest simply that under some circumstances, a party may be estopped from asserting lack of personal jurisdiction when that party has sought affirmative relief from the court that could only be granted if the court were to have jurisdiction. (continued...) 22 We recognized this principle in Smith v. Cylus, 147 Md. App. 78 (2002), and rejected the same argument the Firm raises now. In Smith, the appellant argued that the appellee had “waived the defense of improper venue when [the appellee] served [appellant] with a request for admissions” because “[p]ursuant to Rule 2-322, the issue of venue is a mandatory defense which must be plead before any initial filing by the defendant.” Id. at 80 (emphasis added) (internal quotation marks omitted). We rejected this argument because only an answer waives the mandatory defenses listed in Rule 2-322(a): While appellant is correct that Rule 2-322 governs mandatory defenses, she misunderstands the rule. Rule 2-322(a) reads: “The following defenses shall be made by motion to dismiss filed before the answer, if an answer is required: (1) lack of jurisdiction over the person, (2) improper venue[, (3) insufficiency of process, and (4) insufficiency of service of process].” (Emphasis added.) In the case sub judice, appellee never filed an answer. Therefore, she has not waived the defense of improper venue. Id. at 81 (emphasis added).15 So even if Ms. Tung had filed her Motion to Dismiss after the Opposition Motion, which she didn’t, she still would not have waived her right to assert jurisdictional defenses because she had yet to file an answer. 14 (...continued) This decision simply prohibits a litigant from using certain defenses as a shield even as he or she seeks dismissal wielding the sword of a jurisdictional attack. 15 We pointed out in Smith that this understanding of Rule 2-322 is premised upon “a predecessor to that rule that required a motion to dismiss [asserting a mandatory defense] be made prior to filing of any pleading.” 147 Md. App. at 81 n.1. 23 3. The Firm’s failure to serve Ms. Tung warranted dismissal. The Firm contends next that dismissal of its case against Ms. Tung was improper even if its attempts to serve her were insufficient. It raises three arguments: first, that dismissal was an inappropriate remedy; second, that the circuit court improperly considered Rule 2-507 in denying its Motion for Reconsideration; and third, that Ms. Tung failed to demonstrate sufficient prejudice to support dismissal. i. Dismissal is an appropriate remedy. The Firm’s first contention, that dismissal was improper even if its service on Ms. Tung was insufficient, fails as a matter of law.16 Quoting Flanagan v. Department of Human Resources, 412 Md. 616 (2010), the Firm argues that “[d]ismissal is not an automatic remedy for delayed service.” Id. at 631. The Firm reads Flanagan selectively and ignores the context of the language it quotes. In Flanagan, the Court of Appeals was not reviewing a circuit court’s decision to dismiss a suit for service defects, as we are here—it was responding to a request for dismissal for insufficient service raised for the first time on appeal. The Court recognized that although the appellant was not served in a timely manner under Rule 2- 507(b), an appellate court is not empowered to dismiss a case for untimely service because “[d]ismissal is not an automatic remedy for delayed service.” Id. The Court explained instead that the decision whether to dismiss for delayed service “rests in the sound discretion 16 The Firm’s argument on this point is limited. In support, it provides only brief quotations from three cases and it does not apply the law it cites to the facts. 24 of a trial judge in the first instance, based on his or her weighing of the balance of the rights, interests, and reasons of the parties for the delay and the public demand for prompt resolution of litigation.” Id. (citing Langrall, Muir & Noppinger v. Gladding, 282 Md. 397, 400-01 (1978)); see also Reed v. Cagan, 128 Md. App. 641, 650 (1999) (“Appellee was not served with process for approximately two years from the time the complaint was filed and the original process was issued against him. Thus, there is no question that the case was subject to dismissal, in the court’s discretion.” (Emphasis added.)). The circuit court, finding that the Firm had not served Ms. Tung, was empowered in its discretion to dismiss the case, and we see no abuse of that discretion here. ii. Dismissal under either Rule 2-121(a) or Rule 2-507(b) was proper. The parties disagree over the rule upon which the circuit court relied in dismissing the case. The Firm claims that dismissal pursuant to Rule 2-322(a) (for insufficiency of service) was all that was at issue in its Motion for Reconsideration and that the court erred by denying its motion after the March 18, 2013 hearing on the basis of Rule 2-507(b) (for lack of jurisdiction). Ms. Tung counters that the Firm re-raised issues relating to Rule 2-507(b) in its Motion for Reconsideration. Although the court could perhaps have stated more clearly the rule on which it relied, we need not resolve the question because the Firm loses both ways: at no point did the Firm effect service upon Ms. Tung in compliance with Rule 2- 121(a), which supports dismissal under Rule 2-322(a), and the Firm’s service failure created a jurisdictional defect, which supports dismissal under Rule 2-507(b). 25 Dismissal pursuant to Rule 2-322(a) was proper because, as we established above, the Firm never properly served Ms. Tung in accordance with Rule 2-121(a). The Firm’s first service failure (delivery of the Non-Confidential Complaint to Ms. Tung) was the basis for Ms. Tung’s first Rule 2-322(a) Motion to Dismiss, filed on July 16, 2012. Although it is undisputed that this service attempt did not comply with Rule 2-121(a), the court had the authority to “dismiss the action or grant such lesser or different relief as may be appropriate,” Md. Rule 2-322(c), and, in the August 28, 2012 Order, the court elected to grant different relief. Specifically, the court denied Ms. Tung’s Motion but ordered, first, that the Firm was to “re-serve a copy of the Complaint and all accompanying papers upon [Ms.] Tung, and submit a new affidavit of service to the Court within ten (10) days from the date this Order is docketed,” and second, that if the Firm again failed to serve Ms. Tung, the action would be dismissed. The Firm conceded at oral argument that it never personally served Ms. Tung after this point, but it argues that its delivery of the summons and Confidential Complaint to Ms. Tung’s counsel shortly thereafter in September 2012 satisfied the August 28, 2012 Order. It did not, and the circuit court properly made this finding in its November 21, 2012 order. Even so, the court gave the Firm one more chance: [T]he Court having determined that, as of the date of this Order, it has no in personam jurisdiction over any defendant in this matter, it is this 19th day of November 2012, by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County: ORDERED, that this case is dismissed without prejudice as to all persons named as a defendant to this action as of the date of this order (individually, “Defendant”); and it is, 26 ORDERED, that Plaintiff may request one additional summons pursuant to Rule 2-112(a) for each Defendant, provided the request is made not later than 7 days from the date on which this Order is docketed (“Final Summons”); and it is, ORDERED, that this dismissal shall be stricken as to any Defendant over whom the court acquires in personam jurisdiction as a result of service pursuant to Rule 2-121 of the Final Summons for that Defendant; and it is, ORDERED, that on request of a Defendant, an order of dismissal with prejudice shall be filed as to any Defendant over whom the court has not acquired in personam jurisdiction as set forth in the preceding paragraph . . . . But the Firm again delivered the summons and Confidential Complaint to Ms. Tung’s counsel on January 18, 2013, and the court, after the January 28, 2013 hearing, reached the same conclusion. Following up on its November 21, 2012 Order, the court entered an order on January 30, 2013, dismissing the Firm’s case with prejudice, an appropriate remedy under Rule 2-322(a).17 The court would also have been justified in dismissing the Firm’s case pursuant to Rule 2-507(b), which governs dismissal for lack of jurisdiction.18 On appeal, however, the 17 Although the order doesn’t note this explicitly, the court also declared as moot the motions to dismiss for failure to comply with Rule 2-507. 18 Rule 2-507(b) governs dismissal for lack of jurisdiction and reads as follows: An action against any defendant who has not been served or over whom the court has not otherwise acquired jurisdiction is subject to dismissal as to that defendant at the expiration of 120 days from the issuance of original process directed to that defendant. (continued...) 27 Firm argues that the court’s consideration of Rule 2-507(b) during the March 18, 2013 hearing on its Motion for Reconsideration was inappropriate for two reasons: first, because the court considered the issues despite finding them to be moot in its January 30, 2013 Order, and second, because dismissal pursuant to Rule 2-507(b) cannot be pursued by a party, as it is only a procedural tool to be used by the clerk of the court. Each argument is unavailing. It was the Firm that re-raised arguments relating to Rule 2-507(b) in its Motion for Reconsideration of the January 30, 2013 Order, despite the court’s finding in that order that Rule 2-507(b) issues were moot. In its motion, the Firm argued that the court “should not require dismissal in the instant case, regardless of whether the multiple personal and representative services made were proper, because Defendant Tung has not been prejudiced pursuant to Rule 2-507.” Presumably in response to this argument, the court, at the hearing on the Motion for Reconsideration, addressed several issues relevant to a Rule 2-507(b) analysis—specifically the Firm’s justification for delay and prejudice to Ms. Tung as a result of the delay. The Firm also argues that the court wrongly mingled consideration of the Rule 2-507 and Rule 2-322(a) motions to dismiss. Specifically, the Firm relies on Thomas v. Ramsburg, 99 Md. App. 395, 399 (1994), and contends that the court erred by considering Rule 2-507(b) as “an offensive weapon for the defendants, instead of an administrative procedure for the 18 (...continued) Md. Rule 2-507(b). 28 clerk.” It reasons, again relying on Thomas, that the language of Rule 2-507 does not contemplate motions filed by parties directly with the court. The Firm’s contention fails for two reasons: first, Rule 2-507 did not arise here from a motion Ms. Tung filed with the court, and second, even if it had, the court’s consideration of Rule 2-507(b) in the scope of a Rule 2-322(a) motion to dismiss would have been appropriate. With respect to the first basis, the Firm overlooks that fact that Ms. Tung never used Rule 2-507 as an “offensive weapon,” as she never filed a motion to dismiss raising issues concerning Rule 2-507(b). Rule 2-507(b) was only considered by the court through its own initiative and through arguments raised by the Firm. That rule arose initially in the Notification of Contemplated Dismissal that the court issued administratively. Ms. Tung’s first Motion to Dismiss, filed on July 16, 2012, was filed pursuant to Rule 2-322(a) and concerned insufficiency of service under Rule 2-121(a), not jurisdictional defects, and her second Motion to Dismiss, filed on October 31, 2012, relied exclusively on the Firm’s failure to comply with the court’s order entered on August 28, 2012. Only after the court entered the January 30, 2013 Order dismissing the case with prejudice pursuant to Rule 2-322(a) did the court look to Rule 2-507. And it only did so because the Firm raised the issue in its Motion for Reconsideration. Also, even if Ms. Tung had raised Rule 2-507(b) arguments in a Rule 2-322(a) motion to dismiss, the court could have properly considered such a motion. The Firm reads Thomas too broadly to the contrary. Thomas provides that “[t]he plain language of Rule 2-507 does 29 not directly anticipate parties to an action filing motions to dismiss for lack of prosecution,” and that “only . . . the clerk of the court should initiate such dismissal proceedings.” 99 Md. App. at 399. But Thomas refers to subsection (c) of Rule 2-507, governing lack of prosecution, whereas, here, the court’s consideration of Rule 2-507 was focused upon subsection (b), governing lack of jurisdiction. A nearly identical argument arose in Reed v. Cagan,128 Md. App. 641 (1999), and the Court’s reasoning in rejecting the Firm’s argument applies equally here: Appellant argues that appellee had no right to file a motion to dismiss [pursuant to Rule 2-322(a)] directly with the court based on Rule 2-507(b), and that for the Rule to have any application to appellee’s motion to dismiss, the clerk must have initiated the dismissal, either on its own, or after a request by appellee. Appellant relies on Thomas v. Ramsburg, 99 Md. App. 395 (1994), for this proposition. We find Thomas to be inapposite and disagree with appellant’s conclusion. * * * In Thomas, this Court addressed the appropriate procedure when a defendant moved to dismiss a case for lack of prosecution under Rule 2-507(c). * * * In Thomas, the plaintiff filed his complaint, defendant answered, and discovery ensued. See Thomas, 99 Md. App. at 397. When more than a year had passed without any docket entries in the case, the defendant moved to have the case dismissed pursuant to Rule 2-507(c). See id. The trial court granted the motion and the plaintiff appealed. See id. We held that a defendant seeking to have a case dismissed for lack of prosecution under subsection (c) had no right to file a motion directly with the court, and that the dismissal had to be initiated by the clerk’s 30 filing a notice of contemplated dismissal pursuant to Rule 2- 507(d). See id. at 410-11. * * * The distinction between the present case and Thomas lies in . . . the difference between a dismissal under subsection (c) for lack of prosecution, and one under subsection (b) for lack of jurisdiction . . . . Thomas involved a dismissal under subsection (c) of Rule 2-507, for the plaintiff’s failure to prosecute the case. A dismissal under subsection (b) of Rule 2-507 for lack of jurisdiction arising from a failure to serve the defendant raises different concerns, and should be governed by different standards than a dismissal for lack of prosecution under subsection (c). Id. at 649-52. A Rule 2-507(b) defense for lack of jurisdiction could, therefore, have been raised through a motion filed pursuant to Rule 2-322(a), see id. at 655, but that never happened here. Ms. Tung’s motions to dismiss relied exclusively on the Firm’s failure to comply with the service requirements of Rule 2-121(a). The court nevertheless considered Rule 2-507(b) during the March 18, 2013 hearing, and the Firm argues that the court failed to require a showing of prejudice by Ms. Tung. As before, we addressed a similar set of circumstances in Cagan,128 Md. App. 641. In that case, like here, the appellant argued “that the trial court erred in dismissing his suit on the ground of a delay in service pursuant to Rule 2-507(b) because appellee failed to prove prejudice.” Id. at 647. Although the trial court in that case “did not identify the specifics of how the prejudice to appellee from the two-year delay in service manifested itself,” the Court 31 “[did] not consider a specific demonstration of prejudice to be required.”19 Id. at 648. We explained that a “more specific delineation and thereby a stronger showing of prejudice might be appropriate had appellant identified any justification for his failure to serve appellant for two years.” Id. at 649 (emphasis added). We found that “appellant did not proffer any justification for his two-year delay in service” or any “reason why he would have had any difficulty serving appellee,” despite the fact “that he was aware of appellee’s status as a practicing attorney in Baltimore with offices within a few blocks of the circuit court.” Id. at 648. The same circumstances are present here. The Firm was well aware of Ms. Tung’s status as a practicing attorney and knew her address, but it still did not provide a valid justification for failing to serve her. And like Cagan, the trial court did not explain its finding of prejudice, but presumed prejudice from the circumstances. (The court stated that it “could infer actual prejudice in terms of all the legal services that the Defense has had to pay for, just litigating on this one issue, all of Plaintiffs’ making.”) Moreover, like Cagan, the Firm brought suit shortly before the expiration of the statute of limitations, but unlike Cagan, where the appellee was served two years from filing of the complaint, id. at 649, service never occurred here. We do not require a more specific delineation of prejudice: as 19 In Cagan, the Court found that prejudice existed as a result of the fact that appellee missed opportunities to engage in discovery undertaken by other parties to that litigation and “from the fact that suit was not filed until three days before expiration of the statute of limitations, and thus service was not achieved until almost two years after the limitations period.” Cagan, 128 Md. App. at 648-49. 32 we held in Cagan, “[i]n the absence of any justification for [the Firm’s] lengthy delay, . . . the trial court acted within its discretion in drawing an inference of prejudice from the delay itself.” Id.20 B. The Circuit Court Properly Dismissed The Firm’s Suit Against The BIO Defendants For Failure To State A Claim. The circuit court dismissed the Firm’s cause of action against the BIO Defendants for “professional negligence and legal malpractice” after finding that the complaint failed to state 20 We recognize that the language of Rule 2-507(e) provides that when an action is dismissed for a violation of Rule 2-507, “the dismissal entered on the docket be ‘without prejudice,’” Hariri v. Dahne, 412 Md. 674, 684 (2010) (holding dismissal with prejudice to be inappropriate under the circumstances because the statute of limitations on the original claim had not yet run at the time of dismissal). But although the Firm does not challenge the dismissal with prejudice on that ground, there are circumstances that warrant dismissal with prejudice, and this is such a case. In Hariri, we noted that dismissal with or without prejudice is “of no consequence” when the applicable statute of limitations period has long since concluded at the time of service: [Cagan] involved the dismissal of a negligence action asserted by the appellant, who was born on May 6, 1975, and—under the “coming of age rule” established in Mason v. Board of Education, 375 Md. 504, 514 (2003)—“attained 18 years of age” by May 5, 1993. That action was (1) filed by the appellant on May 3, 1996, (2) not served on the appellee until April 6, 1998, and (3) dismissed “with prejudice” on July 6, 1998. Because the applicable statute of limitations had expired at the end of the day on May 5, 1996, it was of no consequence whether the dismissal was “with prejudice” or “without prejudice.” Id. at 685-86 (emphasis added) (citing Cagan, 128 Md. App. 641). So even if the court had dismissed without prejudice, the Firm would have been barred by limitations from trying again in any event. 33 a claim upon which relief could be granted. Our standard of review on this posture is well- understood: “In considering a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim under Maryland Rule 2-322(b)(2), a court must assume the truth of all well-pleaded material facts and all inferences that can be drawn from them.” Rossaki v. NUS Corp., 116 Md. App. 11, 18 (1997). The material facts setting forth the cause of action “‘must be pleaded with sufficient specificity. Bald assertions and conclusory statements by the pleader will not suffice.’” Adamson v. Correctional Med. Servs., Inc., 359 Md. 238, 246 (2000) (quoting Bobo v. State, 346 Md. 706, 708-09 (1997)). On appeal, we view the well-pleaded facts of the complaint “in the light most favorable to the appellant,” Parker v. Kowalsky & Hirschhorn, P.A., 124 Md. App. 447, 458 (1999), to determine whether the trial court was legally correct in dismissing the complaint. Adamson, 359 Md. at 246. “The grant of a motion to dismiss is proper [only] if the complaint does not disclose, on its face, a legally sufficient cause of action.” Rossaki, 116 Md. App. at 18 (citation omitted). Tavakoli-Nouri v. State, 139 Md. App. 716, 725 (2001). It is, appropriately, not hard to withstand a motion to dismiss, but the complaint must “contain a clear statement of facts necessary to constitute a cause of action and a demand for judgment for the relief sought.” Md. Rule 2-305. Both the complaint and first amended complaint21 raise one cause of action against the BIO Defendants—professional negligence 21 There are few differences between the legal malpractice claims raised in the original and amended complaint, so we refer to them together as the “complaint,” and will only make distinctions between the two versions when necessary. 34 and legal malpractice.22 To properly state a claim for legal malpractice, the Firm had to allege facts to support a finding of “strict privity,” which requires a showing of “‘(1) the attorney’s employment, (2) [the attorney’s] neglect of a reasonable duty, and (3) loss to the client proximately caused by that neglect of duty.’” Blondell v. Littlepage, 185 Md. App. 123, 138 (2009) (quoting Flaherty v. Weinberg, 303 Md. 116, 128 (1985)). At the risk of stating the obvious, “to hold an attorney liable for legal malpractice, an attorney-client relationship must exist between the parties.” Ferguson v. Cramer, 116 Md. App. 99, 112 (1997) (citing Cavacos v. Sarwar, 313 Md. 248, 253 (1988)). “[A] non-client third party, who may have some other type of contractual relationship with the attorney, ordinarily is unable to maintain a malpractice action as a matter of law because the attorney’s professional obligations are only to the client.” Blondell, 185 Md. App. at 138. Therefore, a co-counsel relationship will not suffice. Id. at 140 (finding that the appellant could not prevail in an attorney malpractice action against the appellee because it was co-counsel to, and not a client of, the appellee).23 22 The amended complaint was filed over a year after the original complaint, but filing was proper despite the delay. Under Rule 2-341(a), “[a] party may file an amendment to a pleading without leave of court by the date set forth in a scheduling order or, if there is no scheduling order, no later than 30 days before a scheduled trial date.” Md. Rule 2-341. Here, the circuit court neither issued a scheduling order nor set a trial date, so the filing of the Amended Complaint complied with Rule 2-341(a). 23 In Blondell, we rejected a party’s claim for legal malpractice based in a co-counsel relationship because that relationship did not satisfy the strict privity requirement: Blondell does not style his suit as an attorney malpractice action, and indeed he could not because he was not a client of Littlepage. Rather, Blondell bases his claims on the co-counsel (continued...) 35 The Firm has not pled any facts tending to show that it had anything more than a co- counsel, as opposed to an attorney-client, relationship with the BIO Defendants.24 The record demonstrates that the Firm’s client, Technical Furniture, had a matter before the USPTO Appeal Board and was required to “designate a lead counsel and a back-up counsel who can conduct business on behalf of the lead counsel.” 37 C.F.R. § 42.10(a).25 Ms. Tung, as the 23 (...continued) relationship . . . . Nonetheless, the policy considerations underlying the strict privity requirement apply with equal force here. Blondell’s theory elevates co-counsel relationship to a special status, allowing associated attorneys to sue one another, seeking an affirmative recovery, as distinguished from contribution or indemnification when sued as alleged joint tortfeasors, on the basis of allegedly erroneous or improper legal advice given to the client. 185 Md. App. at 140-41 (emphasis added). 24 The Firm also admits in its brief that its representation of Technical Furniture was undertaken “jointly” with the BIO Defendants. 25 In promulgating 37 C.F.R. § 42.10, the USPTO explained the role of back-up counsel: The [USPTO] expects that lead counsel will, and back-up counsel may, participate in all hearings and conference calls with the [USPTO Board of Appeals] and will sign all papers submitted in the proceeding. In addition, the role of back-up counsel is to conduct business with the [USPTO] on behalf of lead counsel when lead counsel is not available. Actions not conducted before the [USPTO] (e.g., taking of depositions) may be conducted by lead or back-up counsel. Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Judicial Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board Decisions, 77 Fed. Reg. 48612, 48630 (Aug. 14, 2012) (to (continued...) 36 Firm’s attorney in charge of legal representation and filings before the USPTO, served as lead counsel for Technical Furniture, and the BIO Defendants were retained by the Firm to serve as backup counsel. So for this claim to survive, the Firm would need to plead an attorney-client relationship between the Firm and the BIO Defendants. But at most, the BIO Defendants’ professional duties flowed to Technical Furniture, the joint client of the BIO Defendants and the Firm. We agree, therefore, that the Firm cannot state a claim for legal malpractice claim against the BIO Defendants.26 C. The Firm Did Not Preserve Its Arguments Relating To Judicial Bias And The Appearance Of Impropriety. Finally, the Firm argues for the first time on appeal that the special assignment of the case to a single judge gave the appearance of “impropriety, partiality, and prejudicial influence.” It contends that impropriety arose from two sources: first, the letter Ms. Tung’s counsel sent to Judge Davis-Loomis asking that the pending motions be specially assigned to one judge and the court’s agreement to make such an assignment; and second, the mutual involvement of Judge Caroom (the judge to whom the case was specially assigned) and Ms. Tung’s counsel in an event called Chambers Chat, a bench-bar event held monthly by the Anne Arundel County Bar Association. But the Firm did not challenge the special assignment 25 (...continued) be codified at 37 C.F.R. pt. 42, cmt. 39). 26 Beyond this, the allegations raised by the Firm in both the original and amended complaints regarding the BIO Defendants’ purported breaches of their duties are conclusory at best. 37 or seek recusal of Judge Caroom below, and by failing to do so failed to preserve these issues for appellate review. To initiate recusal procedures and preserve the recusal issue for appeal, “a party must file a timely motion” with the trial judge that the party seeks to recuse. Miller v. Kirkpatrick, 377 Md. 335, 358 (2003); see also Surratt v. Prince George’s County, 320 Md. 439, 468 (1990) (“[I]n order to trigger the recusal procedure we here prescribe, a motion must be timely filed.”). A timely motion is one that is “filed ‘as soon as the basis for it becomes known and relevant,’” Miller, 377 Md. at 358 (quoting Surratt, 320 Md. at 469), and “is not one that represents ‘the possible withholding of a recusal motion as a weapon to use only in the event of some unfavorable ruling.’” Id. Therefore, “a litigant who fails to make a motion to recuse before a presiding judge in circuit court . . . waiv[es] the objection on appeal.” Halici v. City of Gaithersburg, 180 Md. App. 238, 255 n.6 (2008) (citing Miller, 377 Md. at 358); see also Md. Rule 8-131(a) (“Ordinarily, the appellate court will not decide any . . . issue unless it plainly appears by the record to have been raised in or decided by the trial court.”); compare Traverso v. State, 83 Md. App. 389, 394 (1990) (finding that “no issue concerning the recusal [of the trial judge] has been preserved for [appellate review]” because the appellant “never asked the trial judge to recuse himself”), with Miles v. State, 88 Md. App. 360, 368 (1991) (finding the filing of an affidavit to the circuit court asserting bias and prejudice of a trial judge to be “sufficient to preserve the recusal issue”). 38 At the January 18, 2013 hearing, after the case was specially assigned to Judge Caroom, the Firm had an opportunity to challenge the assignment and to have Judge Caroom recused. The Firm declined to do so: [THE COURT:] Let me add one other thing, which is that normally the Court would expect a reconsideration to be considered by the same judge who issued the order; however, subsequent to those orders being passed the case was specially assigned to me. I then contacted the administrative judge and Judge Goetzke to discuss that question of who should rule on a motion to reconsider after the special assignment to a different judge. And the consensus that the Court got was that I should rule on them and that Judge Goetzke had no objection by ruling on them. So I am prepared to do that unless counsel wish to argue that we should sort of unassign the case in terms of the special assignment. Does anyone want to make that request, which would have to be directed to the administrative judge, or are we ready to go forward with that motion today if need be. (Emphasis added.) We decline the Firm’s invitation that we remand the case and “require that the case be set with a different circuit court judge chosen randomly in accordance with the court’s standard procedure” when the circuit court never had the opportunity to consider and decide this fact-specific and discretionary question in the first instance. JUDGMENT OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY AFFIRMED. COSTS TO BE PAID BY APPELLANT. 39 | Low | [
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Big East West. Has there ever been a more inane name? How about Big East North and Big East South? You could ignore geography (as they already do) and get rid of that silly name. Worst quote of the Final Four, by Maryland guard Juan Dixon: "If we ever got in that position again, when we were up 22 points, we were going to find a way to pull the game out. We did." Dixon is a great ballplayer. But if you are up 22, Duke or not, you aren't supposed to "find a way to pull the game out". You are supposed to let your walk ons tell their grand kids they played in the Final Four! Why don't they ever have change on the airplane when you are buying a beer? Is it a surprise? Do you suppose that beer is actually complimentary and the air crew have been pocketing all that cash? For that matter, why does your seat have to be in the locked and upright position? Is lower back comfort an issue in regards to your personal safety when the plane crashes at a couple hundred miles an hour? "He would have lived, but he was reclining..." Why is it that $5 for a beer in an airport is annoying, at a girlie bar is acceptable, and at your 10 year reunion its highway robbery? Why is it that when you buy the bag of Hershey's miniatures, there is always 22 Special Darks and 3 Krackels? Once you are to the point of "rent or go to the movies?" you should be at the point where you realize a movie like Star Wars or Minority Report needs a big screen and digital sound, while a chick flick...errr...I meant....letting her pick the movie-might not warrant the $9 for the big screen with the $4 popcorn. From Mrs. Ballgame, wife of webeditor [email protected], a few of her random thoughts with her own special sports perspective: The words "very cool" and "Bobblehead doll" should never be in the same sentence. Her new favorite game? Playing "name the year" with me on Classic sports. I have to go by players and coaches. She goes by haircuts, length of shorts, cheerleader outfits and hair, and the fonts the original channel used. She usually wins. On the brackets for the NCAA tourney this year: "A game played in Chicago is an East Regional? Playing in Pittsburgh is now called a West Regional? Might as well call 'em John, Paul, George and Ringo Regionals for all that means." On free throws- "You are standing still. No one is in your way. If you are good enough to earn a free education playing basketball, you should be able to hit 75% of your free throws. And don't even get me started on Shaq..." Upon seeing hundreds, if not over a thousand, people ice fishing on lake Winnipesaukee during the big ice fishing derby, she chimed in with "Look! Darwin's waiting room!" Her realization that I was making her wait for a timeout in a hoop game that was on Classic Sports: "Those basketball players have skinny arms and extra short shorts. That isn't live! Get off the couch and give me a hand!" On skiing and temperature: "There must be degrees. Zero degrees? As in NO degrees? Then no skiing!" On football: "Real men don't fair catch." (ok, maybe that was me, not her, but she'd agree. I've convinced her that the Draw Play is the root of all evil, this can't be far behind) | Low | [
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Pages Thursday, 2 April 2015 Creating a new vMotion VMK adapter using the new vMotion IP Stack One of the new features of vSphere 6.0 is that you can now route vMotion traffic over layer 3 networks. You could accomplish this in previous versions by using static routes on a per host basis but it did require approval from VMware before GSS would officially support this. Now with vSphere 6.0 this is supported out of the box. This is accomplished by giving vMotion it's own IP stack with it's own default gateway. I'm going to quickly show you how to create a new vMotion VMK port that utilizes the new vMotion TCP/IP stack. First, create your VMK port as you normally would and ensure the option for VMkernel Network Adapter is checked and click Next: Select the portgroup that you can this VMK adapter to be connected to and click Next: Click on the TCP/IP stack option and select vMotion and click Next: Give the VMK adapter an IP address and subnet mask. You'll notice that you don't have the option to enter the default gateway. We need to configure this option on the actual vMotion TCP/IP stack. Click next once you've entered the correct IP information: Verify your settings and click Next: Your new VMK adapter is created but you still need to configure the default gateway for the IP stack: Click TCP/IP configuration, select vMotion and then click the pencil to edit it: | High | [
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