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Colorado Rockies Details
The Rockies joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1993. The team has made a number of playoff appearances over the course of its short history.
Colorado's first trip to the World Series started in exciting fashion, with a Wild Card berth that required them to win 14 of the last 15 games of the 2007 season. The Rockies kept winning in the playoffs, too. They beat the Padres in a one-game playoff, swept the Phillies in the NLDS, and then swept the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS. But Colorado's amazing run came to an end in the World Series: they lost in four games to the Boston Red Sox.
Outfielder Larry Walker was the team's first-ever National League MVP, winning the award for the 1997 season. Walker, one of the greatest players in team history, hit .366 that season, with 49 home runs and 130 RBI. He also won a Gold Glove that year, one of seven over the course of his career. Walker was also a five-time All-Star.
Rockies fans might associate Walker with his longtime teammate Todd Helton, who played his entire 17-year career with the Rockies from 1997 to 2013. Helton is a career .316 hitter who hit 369 home runs for the Rockies and made five All-Star teams.
The Rockies' home ballpark is Coors Field, located in Denver's lower downtown area. Because baseballs travel farther in the dry Denver air, Coors Field has a reputation for being one of the most hitter friendly parks in baseball. The Rockies store their baseballs in a gigantic humidor in order to counteract the effects of Denver's elevation. The center field bleachers at Coors Field are known as the Rockpile. Die-hard Rockies fans have sat in the Rockpile since the franchise's first season when they played at Mile High Stadium.
Frequently Asked Questions About Colorado Rockies Tickets
How much are Colorado Rockies tickets?
Rockies ticket prices on the secondary market can vary depending on a number of factors. Typically, Rockies tickets can be found for as low as $9.00, with an average price of $42.00.
How to get cheap Rockies tickets?
If you're looking for cheap Rockies tickets, tickets can be found for as low as $9.00. Additionally, once you click on your preferred event date, use the "sort by price" button located in the top left hand corner of the event page to sort all available Rockies tickets by cheapest tickets available.
Where do the Colorado Rockies play?
The Rockies home games are played at Coors Field in Denver, CO.
What teams are in the Colorado Rockies division?
The Rockies are in the NL West division with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, and San Francisco Giants.
Do I need to print my Rockies tickets?
As of 2019, all MLB teams offer mobile ticketing methods but some teams still allow print-at-home tickets. Currently, the Rockies accept mobile only tickets to gain entry into Coors Field.
Does my child need a ticket for Rockies games?
Each MLB team has their own child ticket policy. Some teams have age requirements and others have restrictions on height. The Rockies ticket policy states all children 2 and under are free.
Colorado Rockies schedule
The Rockies schedule is typically released in August, though the MLB will continue to announce games through the middle of January. See above for all Rockies games, home and away.
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SeatGeek will process your order and deliver your Colorado Rockies tickets.
Rockies fandom extends far beyond the Colorado borders
Based on an analysis of SeatGeek data published prior to the 2019 MLB season, Rockies "fandom" covers 162 counties in total, 98 of them outside of Colorado. Those counties make up nearly 400,000 square miles across Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana.
Only the Mariners -- who control Alaska and much of the Pacific Northwest -- top the Rockies when it comes to the team that covers the greatest land area. The Rangers, with large coverage of the country's second-largest state of Texas, are third at roughly 340,000 square miles.
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Q: Examples of apps in the Mac App Store not made with objective-c/c/c++? Are there any apps in the store made using mono, ruby or lisp or put together in another alternative way.
Do you know of any?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm already making apps using cocoa/objective-c, and I really love ruby and obscure languages.

A: It looks like Briquette is written in MacRuby and made it into the MAS, so it looks like there is at least one alternative to Objective-C for MAS apps.

A: I'm fairly certain that Crush the Castle used some sort of Flash-to-ObjC converter.

A: This app is a QT app according to this thread, so QT is ok I in the MAS I guess.
However this doesn't shed any light on wether alternative languages are allowed in the MAS.

A: QuickAlarm was primarily written in MacRuby along with some Objective C routines.

A: There are loads of electron applications. WhatsApp is in the Mac App store, for example.
Perhaps it isn't in as an obscure programming language as you might have been thinking of but nonetheless, Electron is an option other than Objective-C or Swift.

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If you're anything like the Verily editors, you've waited until the last minute to find a Halloween costume. Although this weekend's parties have come and gone, there's still the official holiday coming up on Wednesday, in which case you may just need another outfit for get togethers at the office or taking the kids trick or treating.
This is the perfect opportunity to get creative with your closet; even better, call good girlfriends over to mix and match clothes and have a good laugh. With little time and even less desire to spend money on a store-bought ensemble, Verily Editor in Chief Kara Eschbach, contributing writer Monica Gabriel, and I stormed our closets to dig up homemade costume ideas in a pinch!
1. Kara as Katniss Everdeen, from The Hunger Games: Army green pants, leather jacket, riding boots, a side braid. The one prop you may have to find is a toy bow and arrow—I happened to have this one lying around as a gift for one of my nephews—which you can find at many dollar stores or big box retailers.
2. Myself as a super cool Book Nerd: Glasses with tape, button down shirt, goofy knee socks, stack of books, pigtails. Really this can be as funny as you want!
3. Monica as Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's: Little black dress, oversized sunglasses, diamonds and pearls—pile them on! How did we make her long cigarette holder? Find a thin paintbrush or chopstick, wrap white tape around the end, and voilá, you're good to go.
4. 1950s Housewife: A-line skirt, cardigan, pearls, apron, headband, oven mitts. Bonus points if you bring a cookie sheet (times 200 if you actually bring cookies)!
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Need an easy costume you don't have to shop for? No problem!
Take a classier, more subtle approach to Halloween costumes this year.
Imitate classic couples from the movies this year.
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Spri has a chart with yellow being the easiest to purple being the hardest. You can go to their site or go to Amazon because they are sold on that platform too.
Do the workout two or three days a week with rest or a cardio day between the rubber tubing boot camp workout. I will include how to videos with each exercise. Have a variety of tubes because some exercises will be harder to perform than others. The thickness of the tube determines its strength level.
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Remember the day you first saw a deer through your kitchen window? Thoughts of beauty and peaceful country living probably echoed through your head, re-affirming your decision to dwell out of the city center. Compare that to the last time you saw a deer delicately nibbling a blossom off your favorite flowering plant - chances are, all those warm and fuzzy thoughts about them are gone. How do you keep deer away from your favorite plants, you ask? The answer is not fool-proof, as it turns out that deer have varied tastes; there's always going to be a chance that the deer in your area do, in fact, like the plant that the expert assured you was abhorrent to all deer.
It seems the trick is to attack the problem from the other angle - what we know the deer like to eat - and then do the opposite. Deer favorites include: soft, lush flowers without a lot of fragrance; moist grasses, and non-thorny plants (with the exception of roses, because, well who doesn't like roses). They eat for both nutrition and water, so filling your flower bed with fuchsias, roses, or other moisture-rich plants is like hosting a party in their honor.
Deer do not like strong smelling food, so interspersing thyme, rosemary, sage, and other fragrant herbs throughout your flower beds will deter deer while simultaneously attracting bees and butterflies. They also can't stand to have excessive noise while eating; choose plants with leaves that squeak when rubbed together, such as the delicate pink Bergenia, commonly known as Pigsqueak.
Native plants may not be the most exciting or eye-catching, but the deer are less likely to come and disturb the blooms in your yard with all it's human and pet smells when they can just as easily access it down the road, away from human nuisance.
Here are some suggestions of local, readily available, dry, and pungent plants. Ornamental grasses, heather, fragrant herbs, ferns, rhododendrons and azaleas, english boxwood, black-eyed susan, foxglove, wild iris, and butterfly bushes.
Even though that may sound like a short list, there are so many varieties of these plants that your yard is sure to look and smell nice to you, while pulling a Jedi mind-trick on the deer: these aren't the plants they're looking for.


As the diamond industry gears up for the holiday season, fancy colour diamond prices are holding steady, according to the Fancy Color Diamond Index.
The Fancy Color Diamond Index states prices of these diamonds remained stable during the third quarter of 2015, at a time when white diamond prices showed declines of 6-10%.
The best performing fancy colour diamonds were Vivid blues, which showed price increases of up to 6% over the previous quarter.
Between July to September 2015, the Fancy Color Diamond Index remained practically unchanged, despite lower transaction volumes. Yellow diamond prices, especially in the Fancy category, were soft and declined by up to 2%. Blue diamond's showed average price rises of up to 2%, driven by the Vivid category, with certain sizes (1.5 carat, 2 carats and 5 carat) increasing by 5 – 6% over the previous quarter. This marks the most significant quarterly price increase for blue diamonds in the last 12 months. Prices for pink diamonds were on average unchanged.
On a year-on-year basis, when compared to Q3 2014, blue diamonds have been the strongest performer among all colour categories with a 3-4% price appreciation. The highest single-category year-on-year price increase was for 5 carat Vivid blue diamonds at 11%.


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The Third Workshop Astronomia en los Andes will be held from November 12-16, 2018 in Lima, Peru. Pre-registration is now open
Several lectures, film screenings were conducted as part of the weekly activities at the JAS Cultural Forum. JAS also organized several star nights and observational camps for schools, universities and various clubs
The 12th Arab Conference on Astronomy and Space Science will be organized in Amman, Jordan between the 1st and the 3rd of May 2018
In collaboration with Mbarara University of Science and technology (MUST) and ESSTI and RAS/ROAD, Prof. Donald Kurtz was able to travel to Uganda and Ethiopia and give courses, public talks, share experiences and discuss future possible collaborations
Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) – Entoto Observatory and research Center (EORC) started to graduate its first batch PhD program students (Astronomy department)
East African ROAD participated in the Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference 2018 in Japan and European Week of Astronomy and Space Sciences in UK
Total lunar eclipse winter camp: 60 provincial astronomy olympiad (high school) students from 29 high schools in Guangdong Province, China. Organized in cooperation with the Guangdong Astronomical Society.
Initiation and initial recording of the "Mars Colonization" multi-episode fictional documentary, which will be recorded in the rocky desert in Northern China, and will be broadcasted nationwide by the Chinese media giant SINA. The goal is to make the audience think about the future of humanity, the environmental problems on Earth, and the challenges associated with interplanetary space travel and colonization of a new planet. Organized in collaboration with SINA Media, the Chinese Gemini Observatory, and the local government of Dunhuang in northwestern Gansu province, China.
Ongoing projects: university-level astronomy development in Sichuan Province (China West Normal University; specialization in astronomy education and outreach) and Guizhou Province (Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities; specialization in radio and engineering
The European Regional Office of Astronomy for Development was officially established on 26 February 2018 at a signing ceremony in Leiden, the Netherlands. The event was attended by the South African Minister of Science and Technology and marked the formation of the tenth Regional Office of Astronomy for Development. The occasion also marked the appointment of the Minister as honorary visiting Oort Professor of 'Astronomy for Development'.
Launch of the 100th Anniversary of Eddington@Sundy website
On the 11th of February, a video was produced in the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, introducing Margarida Cunha, an astronomer from the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), and inviting girls to pursue a career in astrophysics and to keep in touch with her.
The fourth edition of Dia das Meninas no Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (Girls' Day at the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences) in Rio de Janeiro took place on March 7 under the theme "Diversity in Science", addressing gender and ethnic-racial issues, essential factors to achieve the Development Goals proposed by the United Nations
International Women's Day on March 8 was celebrated with a webinar with the Portuguese astronomer Teresa Lago
9th Southeast Asia Astronomy Network Meeting (SEAAN) was held at Mandalay University, Myanmar from 29-30 Nov 2017 with 100 participants
SEAAN meeting was accompanied by "You are Galileo Workshop" organised by OAO, OAD, SEA-ROAD, NARIT and NAOJ at Mandalay University, Myanmar, 1-2 Dec 2017
NARIT-SOKENDAI Winter School: Astrophysical Masers & Molecular Lines in Radio Astronomy – January 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand : 40 participants
ASEAN Astronomy Camp 2018 – January 2018, Chiang Mai, Thailand : 50 participants
Areg Mickaelian participated in EaP PLUS (European Eastern Partnership) project meeting in March 2018 in Kiev, Ukraine
Publication of articles related to SWCA ROAD countries in the Armenian Astronomical Society Newsletters (ArASNews)
Release of a documentary film devoted to Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) by Erkir Media TV
Four OAD-RAS travel grants were offered to facilitate travel to the region and to the UK i. Sarah Eve Roberts- Astrolab training event 2018 ii. Sohan Jheeta- ASTROSCIENCE MALAWI iii. Katherine Blundell- Global Jet Watch iv. Prospery Simpemba- EWASS SS23 about African-European collaborations
There will be a training workshop for Astrolab Tutors from 18-22 June 2018 at University of Zululand in South Africa. Deadline for application is 31 March 2018. The target group is lecturers from Southern Africa
Six countries from the region attended CAP Conference in Japan and those from SKA partner countries had a Co-design public engagement MAPP9 training workshop organised and sponsored by SARAO prior to CAP2018
Southern African ROAD will also participate in the Africa-European collaborations session at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) 3-6 April 2018 in the UK
An astronomy Club has been established in Ile-Oluji, a rural community in Southwest Nigeria to encourage students interest in STEM. The inuaguration activity included star parties for students and general public
Collaboration started with Enugu state university of technology (ESUT) to introduce Astronomy programme in the University
Training on Spectral Energy Distribution fitting (SED), Gaussian fitting done in February 2018. Participants included graduate students, lecturers from the University of Nigeria, and scientists from the centre for basic space science, Nsukka
A radio program started in March 2018 tagged 'Astronomy and you'; this entails various aspects of talks in communicating Astronomy with the public. It is a live call-in programme

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import { assert } from '../util/assert';
import { Code, FirestoreError } from '../util/error';
import { debug } from '../util/log';
import { AnyDuringMigration } from '../util/misc';
import { AnyJs } from '../util/misc';
import { Deferred } from '../util/promise';
import { SCHEMA_VERSION } from './indexeddb_schema';
import { PersistencePromise } from './persistence_promise';

const LOG_TAG = 'SimpleDb';

export interface SimpleDbSchemaConverter {
  createOrUpgrade(
    db: IDBDatabase,
    txn: SimpleDbTransaction,
    fromVersion: number,
    toVersion: number
  ): PersistencePromise<void>;
}

/**
 * Provides a wrapper around IndexedDb with a simplified interface that uses
 * Promise-like return values to chain operations. Real promises cannot be used
 * since .then() continuations are executed asynchronously (e.g. via
 * .setImmediate), which would cause IndexedDB to end the transaction.
 * See PersistencePromise for more details.
 */
export class SimpleDb {
  /** Opens the specified database, creating or upgrading it if necessary. */
  static openOrCreate(
    name: string,
    version: number,
    schemaConverter: SimpleDbSchemaConverter
  ): Promise<SimpleDb> {
    assert(
      SimpleDb.isAvailable(),
      'IndexedDB not supported in current environment.'
    );
    debug(LOG_TAG, 'Opening database:', name);
    return new PersistencePromise<SimpleDb>((resolve, reject) => {
      // TODO(mikelehen): Investigate browser compatibility.
      // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API/Using_IndexedDB
      // suggests IE9 and older WebKit browsers handle upgrade
      // differently. They expect setVersion, as described here:
      // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IDBVersionChangeRequest/setVersion
      const request = window.indexedDB.open(name, version);

      request.onsuccess = (event: Event) => {
        const db = (event.target as IDBOpenDBRequest).result;
        resolve(new SimpleDb(db));
      };

      request.onblocked = () => {
        reject(
          new FirestoreError(
            Code.FAILED_PRECONDITION,
            'Cannot upgrade IndexedDB schema while another tab is open. ' +
              'Close all tabs that access Firestore and reload this page to proceed.'
          )
        );
      };

      request.onerror = (event: Event) => {
        reject((event.target as IDBOpenDBRequest).error);
      };

      request.onupgradeneeded = (event: IDBVersionChangeEvent) => {
        debug(
          LOG_TAG,
          'Database "' + name + '" requires upgrade from version:',
          event.oldVersion
        );
        const db = (event.target as IDBOpenDBRequest).result;
        // We are provided a version upgrade transaction from the request, so
        // we wrap that in a SimpleDbTransaction to allow use of our friendlier
        // API for schema migration operations.
        const txn = new SimpleDbTransaction(request.transaction);
        schemaConverter
          .createOrUpgrade(db, txn, event.oldVersion, SCHEMA_VERSION)
          .next(() => {
            debug(
              LOG_TAG,
              'Database upgrade to version ' + SCHEMA_VERSION + ' complete'
            );
          });
      };
    }).toPromise();
  }

  /** Deletes the specified database. */
  static delete(name: string): Promise<void> {
    debug(LOG_TAG, 'Removing database:', name);
    return wrapRequest<void>(window.indexedDB.deleteDatabase(name)).toPromise();
  }

  /** Returns true if IndexedDB is available in the current environment. */
  static isAvailable(): boolean {
    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || window.indexedDB == null) {
      return false;
    }
    // We extensively use indexed array values and compound keys,
    // which IE and Edge do not support. However, they still have indexedDB
    // defined on the window, so we need to check for them here and make sure
    // to return that persistence is not enabled for those browsers.
    // For tracking support of this feature, see here:
    // https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/status/indexeddbarraysandmultientrysupport/

    // If we are running in Node using the IndexedDBShim, `window` is defined,
    // but `window.navigator` is not. In this case, we support IndexedDB and
    // return `true`.
    if (window.navigator === undefined) {
      return process.env.USE_MOCK_PERSISTENCE === 'YES';
    }

    // Check the UA string to find out the browser.
    // TODO(mikelehen): Move this logic into packages/util/environment.ts
    const ua = window.navigator.userAgent;

    // IE 10
    // ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)';

    // IE 11
    // ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko';

    // Edge
    // ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
    // like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0';

    if (
      ua.indexOf('MSIE ') > 0 ||
      ua.indexOf('Trident/') > 0 ||
      ua.indexOf('Edge/') > 0
    ) {
      return false;
    } else {
      return true;
    }
  }

  /** Helper to get a typed SimpleDbStore from a transaction. */
  static getStore<KeyType extends IDBValidKey, ValueType extends AnyJs>(
    txn: SimpleDbTransaction,
    store: string
  ): SimpleDbStore<KeyType, ValueType> {
    return txn.store<KeyType, ValueType>(store);
  }

  constructor(private db: IDBDatabase) {}

  runTransaction<T>(
    mode: 'readonly' | 'readwrite',
    objectStores: string[],
    transactionFn: (transaction: SimpleDbTransaction) => PersistencePromise<T>
  ): Promise<T> {
    const transaction = SimpleDbTransaction.open(this.db, mode, objectStores);
    const transactionFnResult = transactionFn(transaction)
      .catch(error => {
        // Abort the transaction if there was an error.
        transaction.abort(error);
      })
      .toPromise();

    // Wait for the transaction to complete (i.e. IndexedDb's onsuccess event to
    // fire), but still return the original transactionFnResult back to the
    // caller.
    return transaction.completionPromise.then(
      () => transactionFnResult
    ) as AnyDuringMigration;
  }

  close(): void {
    this.db.close();
  }
}

/**
 * A controller for iterating over a key range or index. It allows an iterate
 * callback to delete the currently-referenced object, or jump to a new key
 * within the key range or index.
 */
export class IterationController {
  private shouldStop = false;
  private nextKey: IDBValidKey | IDBKeyRange | null = null;

  constructor(private dbCursor: IDBCursorWithValue) {}

  get isDone(): boolean {
    return this.shouldStop;
  }

  get skipToKey(): IDBValidKey | IDBKeyRange | null {
    return this.nextKey;
  }

  set cursor(value: IDBCursorWithValue) {
    this.dbCursor = value;
  }

  /**
   * This function can be called to stop iteration at any point.
   */
  done(): void {
    this.shouldStop = true;
  }

  /**
   * This function can be called to skip to that next key, which could be
   * an index or a primary key.
   */
  skip(key: IDBValidKey | IDBKeyRange): void {
    this.nextKey = key;
  }

  /**
   * Delete the current cursor value from the object store.
   *
   * NOTE: You CANNOT do this with a keysOnly query.
   */
  delete(): PersistencePromise<void> {
    return wrapRequest<void>(this.dbCursor.delete());
  }
}

/**
 * Callback used with iterate() method.
 */
export type IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType> = (
  key: KeyType,
  value: ValueType,
  control: IterationController
) => void | PersistencePromise<void>;

/** Options available to the iterate() method. */
export interface IterateOptions {
  /** Index to iterate over (else primary keys will be iterated) */
  index?: string;

  /** IndxedDB Range to iterate over (else entire store will be iterated) */
  range?: IDBKeyRange;

  /** If true, values aren't read while iterating. */
  keysOnly?: boolean;

  /** If true, iterate over the store in reverse. */
  reverse?: boolean;
}

/**
 * Wraps an IDBTransaction and exposes a store() method to get a handle to a
 * specific object store.
 */
export class SimpleDbTransaction {
  private aborted = false;

  /**
   * A promise that resolves with the result of the IndexedDb transaction.
   */
  private readonly completionDeferred = new Deferred<void>();

  static open(
    db: IDBDatabase,
    mode: IDBTransactionMode,
    objectStoreNames: string[]
  ): SimpleDbTransaction {
    return new SimpleDbTransaction(db.transaction(objectStoreNames, mode));
  }

  constructor(private readonly transaction: IDBTransaction) {
    this.transaction.oncomplete = () => {
      this.completionDeferred.resolve();
    };
    this.transaction.onabort = () => {
      if (transaction.error) {
        this.completionDeferred.reject(transaction.error);
      } else {
        this.completionDeferred.resolve();
      }
    };
    this.transaction.onerror = (event: Event) => {
      this.completionDeferred.reject((event.target as IDBRequest).error);
    };
  }

  get completionPromise(): Promise<void> {
    return this.completionDeferred.promise;
  }

  abort(error?: Error): void {
    if (error) {
      this.completionDeferred.reject(error);
    }

    if (!this.aborted) {
      debug(
        LOG_TAG,
        'Aborting transaction:',
        error ? error.message : 'Client-initiated abort'
      );
      this.aborted = true;
      this.transaction.abort();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns a SimpleDbStore<KeyType, ValueType> for the specified store. All
   * operations performed on the SimpleDbStore happen within the context of this
   * transaction and it cannot be used anymore once the transaction is
   * completed.
   *
   * Note that we can't actually enforce that the KeyType and ValueType are
   * correct, but they allow type safety through the rest of the consuming code.
   */
  store<KeyType extends IDBValidKey, ValueType extends AnyJs>(
    storeName: string
  ): SimpleDbStore<KeyType, ValueType> {
    const store = this.transaction.objectStore(storeName);
    assert(!!store, 'Object store not part of transaction: ' + storeName);
    return new SimpleDbStore<KeyType, ValueType>(store);
  }
}

/**
 * A wrapper around an IDBObjectStore providing an API that:
 *
 * 1) Has generic KeyType / ValueType parameters to provide strongly-typed
 * methods for acting against the object store.
 * 2) Deals with IndexedDB's onsuccess / onerror event callbacks, making every
 * method return a PersistencePromise instead.
 * 3) Provides a higher-level API to avoid needing to do excessive wrapping of
 * intermediate IndexedDB types (IDBCursorWithValue, etc.)
 */
export class SimpleDbStore<
  KeyType extends IDBValidKey,
  ValueType extends AnyJs
> {
  constructor(private store: IDBObjectStore) {}

  /**
   * Writes a value into the Object Store.
   *
   * @param key Optional explicit key to use when writing the object, else the
   * key will be auto-assigned (e.g. via the defined keyPath for the store).
   * @param value The object to write.
   */
  put(value: ValueType): PersistencePromise<void>;
  put(key: KeyType, value: ValueType): PersistencePromise<void>;
  put(
    keyOrValue: KeyType | ValueType,
    value?: ValueType
  ): PersistencePromise<void> {
    let request;
    if (value !== undefined) {
      debug(LOG_TAG, 'PUT', this.store.name, keyOrValue, value);
      request = this.store.put(value, keyOrValue as KeyType);
    } else {
      debug(LOG_TAG, 'PUT', this.store.name, '<auto-key>', keyOrValue);
      request = this.store.put(keyOrValue as ValueType);
    }
    return wrapRequest<void>(request);
  }

  /**
   * Adds a new value into an Object Store and returns the new key. Similar to
   * IndexedDb's `add()`, this method will fail on primary key collisions.
   *
   * @param value The object to write.
   * @return The key of the value to add.
   */
  add(value: ValueType): PersistencePromise<KeyType> {
    debug(LOG_TAG, 'ADD', this.store.name, value, value);
    const request = this.store.add(value as ValueType);
    return wrapRequest<KeyType>(request);
  }

  /**
   * Gets the object with the specified key from the specified store, or null
   * if no object exists with the specified key.
   *
   * @key The key of the object to get.
   * @return The object with the specified key or null if no object exists.
   */
  get(key: KeyType): PersistencePromise<ValueType | null> {
    const request = this.store.get(key);
    // tslint:disable-next-line:no-any We're doing an unsafe cast to ValueType.
    return wrapRequest<any>(request).next(result => {
      // Normalize nonexistence to null.
      if (result === undefined) {
        result = null;
      }
      debug(LOG_TAG, 'GET', this.store.name, key, result);
      return result;
    });
  }

  delete(key: KeyType | IDBKeyRange): PersistencePromise<void> {
    debug(LOG_TAG, 'DELETE', this.store.name, key);
    const request = this.store.delete(key);
    return wrapRequest<void>(request);
  }

  /**
   * If we ever need more of the count variants, we can add overloads. For now,
   * all we need is to count everything in a store.
   *
   * Returns the number of rows in the store.
   */
  count(): PersistencePromise<number> {
    debug(LOG_TAG, 'COUNT', this.store.name);
    const request = this.store.count();
    return wrapRequest<number>(request);
  }

  loadAll(): PersistencePromise<ValueType[]>;
  loadAll(range: IDBKeyRange): PersistencePromise<ValueType[]>;
  loadAll(index: string, range: IDBKeyRange): PersistencePromise<ValueType[]>;
  loadAll(
    indexOrRange?: string | IDBKeyRange,
    range?: IDBKeyRange
  ): PersistencePromise<ValueType[]> {
    const cursor = this.cursor(this.options(indexOrRange, range));
    const results: ValueType[] = [];
    return this.iterateCursor(cursor, (key, value) => {
      results.push(value);
    }).next(() => {
      return results;
    });
  }

  deleteAll(): PersistencePromise<void>;
  deleteAll(range: IDBKeyRange): PersistencePromise<void>;
  deleteAll(index: string, range: IDBKeyRange): PersistencePromise<void>;
  deleteAll(
    indexOrRange?: string | IDBKeyRange,
    range?: IDBKeyRange
  ): PersistencePromise<void> {
    debug(LOG_TAG, 'DELETE ALL', this.store.name);
    const options = this.options(indexOrRange, range);
    options.keysOnly = false;
    const cursor = this.cursor(options);
    return this.iterateCursor(cursor, (key, value, control) => {
      // NOTE: Calling delete() on a cursor is documented as more efficient than
      // calling delete() on an object store with a single key
      // (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IDBObjectStore/delete),
      // however, this requires us *not* to use a keysOnly cursor
      // (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IDBCursor/delete). We
      // may want to compare the performance of each method.
      return control.delete();
    });
  }

  /**
   * Iterates over keys and values in an object store.
   *
   * @param options Options specifying how to iterate the objects in the store.
   * @param callback will be called for each iterated object. Iteration can be
   * canceled at any point by calling the doneFn passed to the callback.
   * The callback can return a PersistencePromise if it performs async
   * operations but note that iteration will continue without waiting for them
   * to complete.
   * @returns A PersistencePromise that resolves once all PersistencePromises
   * returned by callbacks resolve.
   */
  iterate(
    callback: IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType>
  ): PersistencePromise<void>;
  iterate(
    options: IterateOptions,
    callback: IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType>
  ): PersistencePromise<void>;
  iterate(
    optionsOrCallback: IterateOptions | IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType>,
    callback?: IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType>
  ): PersistencePromise<void> {
    let options;
    if (!callback) {
      options = {};
      callback = optionsOrCallback as IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType>;
    } else {
      options = optionsOrCallback;
    }
    const cursor = this.cursor(options);
    return this.iterateCursor(cursor, callback);
  }

  /**
   * Iterates over a store, but waits for the given callback to complete for
   * each entry before iterating the next entry. This allows the callback to do
   * asynchronous work to determine if this iteration should continue.
   *
   * The provided callback should return `true` to continue iteration, and
   * `false` otherwise.
   */
  iterateSerial(
    callback: (k: KeyType, v: ValueType) => PersistencePromise<boolean>
  ): PersistencePromise<void> {
    const cursorRequest = this.cursor({});
    return new PersistencePromise((resolve, reject) => {
      cursorRequest.onerror = (event: Event) => {
        reject((event.target as IDBRequest).error);
      };
      cursorRequest.onsuccess = (event: Event) => {
        const cursor: IDBCursorWithValue = (event.target as IDBRequest).result;
        if (!cursor) {
          resolve();
          return;
        }

        callback(cursor.primaryKey, cursor.value).next(shouldContinue => {
          if (shouldContinue) {
            cursor.continue();
          } else {
            resolve();
          }
        });
      };
    });
  }

  private iterateCursor(
    cursorRequest: IDBRequest,
    fn: IterateCallback<KeyType, ValueType>
  ): PersistencePromise<void> {
    const results: Array<PersistencePromise<void>> = [];
    return new PersistencePromise((resolve, reject) => {
      cursorRequest.onerror = (event: Event) => {
        reject((event.target as IDBRequest).error);
      };
      cursorRequest.onsuccess = (event: Event) => {
        const cursor: IDBCursorWithValue = (event.target as IDBRequest).result;
        if (!cursor) {
          resolve();
          return;
        }
        const controller = new IterationController(cursor);
        const userResult = fn(cursor.primaryKey, cursor.value, controller);
        if (userResult instanceof PersistencePromise) {
          const userPromise: PersistencePromise<void> = userResult.catch(
            err => {
              controller.done();
              return PersistencePromise.reject(err);
            }
          );
          results.push(userPromise);
        }
        if (controller.isDone) {
          resolve();
        } else if (controller.skipToKey === null) {
          cursor.continue();
        } else {
          cursor.continue(controller.skipToKey);
        }
      };
    }).next(() => {
      return PersistencePromise.waitFor(results);
    });
  }

  private options(
    indexOrRange?: string | IDBKeyRange,
    range?: IDBKeyRange
  ): IterateOptions {
    let indexName: string | undefined = undefined;
    if (indexOrRange !== undefined) {
      if (typeof indexOrRange === 'string') {
        indexName = indexOrRange;
      } else {
        assert(
          range === undefined,
          '3rd argument must not be defined if 2nd is a range.'
        );
        range = indexOrRange;
      }
    }
    return { index: indexName, range };
  }

  private cursor(options: IterateOptions): IDBRequest {
    let direction: IDBCursorDirection = 'next';
    if (options.reverse) {
      direction = 'prev';
    }
    if (options.index) {
      const index = this.store.index(options.index);
      if (options.keysOnly) {
        return index.openKeyCursor(options.range, direction);
      } else {
        return index.openCursor(options.range, direction);
      }
    } else {
      return this.store.openCursor(options.range, direction);
    }
  }
}

/**
 * Wraps an IDBRequest in a PersistencePromise, using the onsuccess / onerror
 * handlers to resolve / reject the PersistencePromise as appropriate.
 */
function wrapRequest<R>(request: IDBRequest): PersistencePromise<R> {
  return new PersistencePromise<R>((resolve, reject) => {
    request.onsuccess = (event: Event) => {
      const result = (event.target as IDBRequest).result;
      resolve(result);
    };

    request.onerror = (event: Event) => {
      reject((event.target as IDBRequest).error);
    };
  });
}

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Through the personal data stored to the Rekrytointi.com service, we support our users to evolve and succeed in their career as well as our customers within their business. We help the applicants to find the right job, suitable training or entrepreneurship opportunities. We help our customers to find suitable workers, entrepreneurs, or training participants. Users can choose to create a user ID for the service. User ID creation requires the transfer of personal data for the purposes of the service, which are for example search alert and applying for a job or training as well as buying and creating a listing.
LAURA Recruitment Ltd will also use personal data for the management and development of customer relations, the design and development of the business, PR, marketing, opinion and market research and analysis as well as statistics.
Registered User: Processing is based on agreement between the user and LAURA Recruitment Ltd (GDPR article 6. 1b).
Completion of the application form which opens directly from the listing: The processing is based on the request of the data subject in order to take steps prior to entering a contract (employment contract or training registration) (GDPR article 6. 1b). In these cases, the contract partner is the party responsible for the listing.
Listings: Job and training listings may include personal data that is provided by the advertisers. The publication and processing of personal data on these listings is the responsibility of the party responsible for the listing and the processing is based on the agreement (GDPR article 6. 1b).
Data stored on the service will not be transferred outside the EU or EEA by LAURA Recruitment Ltd. All service-related data is located on servers in Finland.
Listings published on the site may include advertiser provided personal data, which are part of the public listings. The listing and the included personal data can be read and stored anywhere in the world.
Rekrytointi.com's server platform provider DataCenter Finland Ltd's storage systems' vendor maintenance may happen outside of the EU.
LAURA Recruitment Ltd uses Mautic Cloud tool for e-mail marketing. Mautic Cloud's product development and maintenance work may happen outside of the EU.
Personal data stored on Rekrytointi.com will be retained for as long as there is a need for data processing. The data will be deleted when they are no longer necessary for the operations of the controller or otherwise necessary. The data of a registered user will be deleted from the service after one and a half year if the user has not been active in that period. Also sections containing personal data will be deleted from listings over one year old. LAURA Recruitment Ltd, however, does not delete data that is subject to e.g. requirements required by law (e.g. the accounting legislation). These include for example web shop purchase data.
Data collected and stored on the Rekrytointi.com site will vary depending on the service and will be reflected in the use of the service. All the information that the user provides of himself / herself is stored to the register.
Basic user: Name, email address, search criteria in search alerts and information on the use of the services.
User buying a listing: Basic information of the advertiser's contact details and the company or organization: name, professional / title, telephone number, email address, business ID, billing information, payment details and ordering information.
Sending a contact form: Contact information such as name, email address, other contact information and contact information message.
Generally the service also saves log information containing eg. IP-address, info on used browser, accessed page address, page address from which the user has accessed a page.
Personal data can be obtained otherwise than from the registered user himself. Such personal data is, for example, contact person's or other person's contact details on the listings in cases when the listing has been published by other person or the listings come through an integration e.g. from the customer's publishing system. LAURA Recruitment Ltd does not specifically assure or request consent to the processing of these personal data, since securing the case for each listing will cause unreasonable work to handle the matter.
Adequate and appropriate organizational and technical solutions are implemented for the protection of personal data on the service. The physical and digital security of the server hardware used for data storage is properly handled. Server environment provider DataCenter Finland Ltd has an ISO-27001 security certificate. Stored data, server access rights and other critical data related to the security of personal data are processed confidentially and only by employees with suitable job description. Service data is backed up on a regular basis and can be returned if needed.
The entire Rekrytointi.com site uses TLS encryption to protect the communication between the user's browser and the service. The service using the TLS encryption is usually identified by the lock image next to the browser's address box and the HTTPS-initiated address.
The user has the right to inspect and correct the data stored on the service. The service allows you to comprehensively review and edit the data stored on the service when a user logs in to the service with their user ID.
The user also has the right to request the removal of personal data or the limitation of personal data processing unless they are not prevented by the legitimate interests of LAURA Recruitment Ltd or the legislation requirements. In addition, the user has the right to transfer data from one system to another. The user also has the right to file a complaint with the supervisory authority if he or she suspects that LAURA Recruitment Ltd has processed his / her personal data in violation of the law and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
The necessary contacts or questions regarding these rights should be addressed to info@rekrytointi.com. LAURA Recruitment Ltd reserves the right to request additional information and to verify the identity, if necessary. The contacts will be answered in one month.
The Rekrytointi.com site does not do automated decision making related to personal data collected.
Google Analytics: Google Inc's (Google) web analytics service that we use to track site usage and the number of visitors. See more about Google Analytics privacy.
Facebook pixel: Used to target our advertising in Facebook. Learn more about Facebook's advertising settings.
SurveyMonkey: Used to gather user feedback as well as periodic research inquiries.
In addition, the following services are used: Google Maps and reCaptcha.


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Duane Martin Says Tisha Campbell Is Lying About Domestic Abuse
Aliya Faust, Managing Editor • @AliyaFaust
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It was a sad day when we learned that one of our favorite couples from the 90s, Duane Martin and Tisha Campbell, were getting divorced. The two had been together for 21 years before separating last year.
It's what's been a complicated public breakup, with reports of a battle over spousal support and domestic abuse, Martin is speaking out saying the abuse allegations are not true and that Campbell and her brother "illegally removed" his name from bank accounts and cut off his access to money.
According to The Blast, Martin says his ex and her brother "manufactured a false claim of alleged domestic violence against the Co-Debtor which they filed with the police. Even Co-Debtor's family law attorney would not sign his name on such a claim. The police saw the claim for what it was and did not pursue it."
As previously reported, Campbell accused him of hiding money, threatening to keep their children from her, and was granted a restraining order this year after alleging Martin abused her "emotionally, mentally and physically" for years.
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Aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund Management here within the Sekondi – Takoradi Metropolis on Friday, March 15th 2019 besiege the regional office of the Gold Coast Fund Management demanding from the fund managers their investments with them be paid to to them immediately after several attempt to get their locked up capitals failed.
Numbering a little over two hundred saids they have not been able to access either dividends or their capital investment since September 2018 irrespective of all the assurances from fund managers.
According to them, officials of the investment firm, a subsidiary of the GN Group, last year promised that customers will be able to access their investments beginning March 1, 2019 but till date they have not been able to access a cedi from their investments even though their agreed arrangement is due many months ago.
Lamenting to Business Today they emphatically stated that, "we are losing patience with the way fund managers continue to treat us over own investments", they said.
The heightening frustration faced by these customers has compelled them to resort to this radicals means to get their monies from Gold Coast Fund Management.
Meanwhile, Gold Coast Fund Management on March 10th 2019 announced their commitment in ensuring that all arrears of their customers since 2018 are cleared from this Month going forward.
In a statement signed by the General Manager, Investor Relations and External Affairs, Benjamin Afreh and copied to Various Media House states that the company has disbursed about GHC60 million and are on course to continue to meet the needs of more customers in the weeks ahead.
But efforts to speak to the Fund Managers with regards to last weeks incident in their Takoradi office proves futile.


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#metoo Sept. 11, 2018
Time's Up Calls for More Changes at CBS
By Anne Victoria Clark
Les Moonves. Photo: Antoine Antoniol/Getty Images
The Time's Up organization has issued an open letter to Shari Redstone and the board of CBS Corporation, following the departure of former chairman and CEO Les Moonves amid sexual harassment allegations, calling on the network to implement major changes, and announcing, "The CBS environment is your responsibility." The advocacy organization, founded earlier this year in the wake of the #MeToo movement, noted the entire CBS Corporation executive management team and all the heads of each of CBS's divisions are men, and called for a major diversity push using "aggressive recruitment for truly diverse management talent, as well as the pipeline for entry-level positions." Time's Up also calls on CBS to donate the $120 million dollars that was meant for Moonves's exit package (which was since cancelled) to organizations "that address sexual harassment and workplace safety." Read the whole letter below.
Dear Ms. Redstone and Members of the Board of the CBS Corporation:
This is your moment. A cascade of women's voices has changed the rules. The old playbook no longer applies. As one of the world's most powerful companies, you have a choice. You can cling to a status quo as it crumbles around you. Or you can demonstrate what happens when true leadership embraces the future. Now is your opportunity to rise.
As Norah O'Donnell said this week on CBS This Morning, "women will never achieve true equality in the workplace and in society until there is a reckoning and an acceptance of responsibility by those in charge." This is that reckoning. The CBS environment is your responsibility.
It has been an eventful few days with important changes made by CBS: the departure of the CEO, the refresh of the Board of Directors and the oversight that the board has started to assert. But it's not over yet.
TIME'S UP was formed to help workplaces move forward into a new era — a world that insists on safe, fair and dignified work for women of all kinds. We are asking you, the board and senior management, to move into that era with us for the sake of your employees and as an example to your colleagues and corporate peers. We ask that you review and remake not only the structure, but the culture, of CBS and take ongoing responsibility for issues of safety and equity in your company.
Sexual harassment, retaliation and toxic work environments exist when workplaces are not fully diverse and inclusive at all levels and employees are not able to feel safe or reach their full potential. Full, independent investigations of alleged wrongdoing and the departure of a few executives is only the start. Real progress can only occur with a transparent commitment to long-term structural changes from top to bottom.
We are glad to see the appointment of several new women to the board. But in reconstituting the board so quickly, an opportunity for meaningful inclusion was missed. Women of color and other underrepresented candidates were not added to the board in ways that are reflective of CBS's vast audiences.
While working on this issue, the new board can also demonstrate leadership in tackling the ongoing issues that hamper women's advancement and equality in the workplace.
TIME'S UP urges the newly reconstituted Board of CBS to commit to the following:
● A full, independent investigation of any allegations of sexual harassment, regardless of whether the subject of the investigation resigns or departs. Those who come forward must also be protected from potential retaliation.
● Establishing a workplace culture that represents the values of safety, equity and dignity, with this tone set from the top of the company. The board should establish regular (not just special committee) oversight of workplace culture as a matter of corporate governance, and senior management should be held accountable with specific and measurable benchmarks.
● Establishing a hiring, promotion and retention policy that will create an inclusive workforce at all levels, and set and measure goals for achieving a workplace reflective of the American population. This includes aggressive recruitment for truly diverse management talent, as well as the pipeline for entry-level positions. As listed on the company's website, the nine current most senior members of the CBS Corporation Executive management team and the heads of each of CBS's Divisions are all men.
● Providing training at all levels of the company, including the board, on the company's values, diversity and inclusion, and management skills, and commit to providing this training on a regular basis.
● Undertaking a pay equity study, and commit to closing any racial, ethnic or gender gaps.
We do not expect these measures to be implemented overnight. We do not ask for miracles. We recognize that meaningful, sustainable change will take time. But by enacting measures such as the above, you can create a model for not only the media and entertainment industry, but companies in general.
As it relates to Mr. Moonves, we ask for a commitment to assure that the results of the investigation will provide transparent integrity in the process. We also urge that the full amount reserved for Mr. Moonves' severance be contributed to organizations that address sexual harassment and workplace safety. That is $120 million dollars that will either go to Mr. Moonves or back into the coffers of the company that allowed the culture created by Mr. Moonves to continue. Or that $120 million can create change by going to organizations — and there are many impactful organizations — that can help women of all kinds. The choice is yours. But the answer is obvious. We ask that you not dishonor the bravery of those who have come forward by spending that money unwisely.
As we said, now is your opportunity to rise.
We stand ready to work with you and to promote your progress as it occurs.


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In the beginning there was a need: a need to take a barren, historic homeland and make it bloom; a need to rebuild the Jewish homeland and create a better future for its people. For over a century, Technion has provided the spirit of innovation that responds to the need: anticipating the problems of tomorrow with pioneering solutions born out of an infinite source of potential.
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70 years ago, the State of Israel was born, but this wasn't the end of Technion's work, rather the start of a whole new challenge. Never before did the fate of a nation rest so unequivocally on the education of its young people. Israel needed infrastructure, medicine, water and energy. It needed innovators, decision-makers and entrepreneurs. For all of this, the people looked to Technion.
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Transfer option gains Traction
by AJDS | Nov 21, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Twenty or thirty years ago, talk about the transfer of Israeli Palestinians out of their homeland to somewhere else was beyond the pale, something only found amongst the right.
But today, even amongst the most elite of American immigrants to Israel, such talk has currency as does the abandonment of democracy and pluralism.
Robert Gordis comes from one of the elite families among Conservative Jews in the US (that is, a midway tradition). Anyone who has paid attention to modern Jewish scholarship will know the same, yet he, as a representative of the liberal religious tradition has come out with something like this in his latest book:
"For it is that majority that enables Israel to serve as such a beacon of hope for Jews. That, in turn, invariably will entail more than rhetoric. It will require abandoning the pretense that Israel is just like other countries, the charade that claims that Israel can deal with its minorities precisely as other democracies do…If Israelis genuinely believe in that purpose, they will then have to be willing to discuss what they are actually willing to do to protect the existence of the state that has saved the Jewish people."
But of course, on top of the chilling call for an 'mono-religious9; state, he has forgotten that it was other democracies (and the USSR) that has had the most profound role in saving Jews in the past.
Having just come back from South Africa, where the sins of the past regime's theological and political justifications are well remembered, I find this argument frightening. Of course, this is not to say that S.A and Israel are or were the same, but there is a continuum that Israel has the opportunity to avoid.
See the critique of his position here.


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Home Free English Pronunciation Tools Alphabetical Glossary of Linguistic Terms / N
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What is a narrative discourse?
A narrative discourse is a discourse that is an account of events, usually in the past, that employs verbs of speech, motion, and action to describe a series of events that are contingent one on another, and that typically focuses on one or more performers of actions.
Events are organized chronologically.
First or third person pronoun forms are used.
The text is oriented around a specific agent or agents.
Folk stories
Stories about real or imagined ancestors, often containing supernatural elements
Stories or accounts about the social and political history of the world and its contacts with the rest of the world
Stories explaining origins, natural phenomena, or social and religious customs, often involving the supernatural
Accounts of significant events in the life of the narrator or the community
Exposition or setting
Inciting moment
Developing conflict
Denouement
Final suspense
A narrative discourse is a kind of
What is a discourse?
Longacre 1990 2
Larson 1984 366–367
Longacre 1983 3, 5
What is a narrative text?
A narrative text is an account of events.
Larson 1984 366
What is nasalization?
Nasalization is a way of pronouncing sounds characterized by resonance produced through the nose.
What is a nasalized vowel?
A nasalized vowel is a vowel that is nasalized by a process in which the soft palate is lowered, opening the velum, which allows air to go through both the nasal and oral cavities.
What is a natural class?
A natural class is a set of sounds that have certain phonetic features in common.
All the members of a natural class are affected in the same way in the same environment . Similarly, all members of a natural class have the same effect on other sounds that occur in their environment.
For a group of sounds to constitute a natural class,
they must all share one or more features and
there should be no other sounds in the language that have this feature or combination of features.
Examples (Isthmus Zapotec, Mexico)
Voiced plosives {b, d, g} form a natural class. All the members of the set are affected the same way in the same environment.
For example, following the voiceless S (possessive prefix), voiced plosives are realized as the corresponding voiceless plosives. These voiceless plosives form another natural class {p, t, k}:
'chicken'
S-pere-be
'his chicken'
biuuza?
'guest'
S-piuuza-be
'his guest'
'mat'
S-taa-be
'his mat'
'rope'
S-too-be
'his rope'
'tortilla'
S-keta-be
'his tortilla'
gamiZa?
'shirt'
S-kamiZa-be
'his shirt'
Merrifield 1987 80
Voiceless plosives form a natural class. They all have the same effect on voicing a following fricative (realized as [s]). Likewise, voiced plosives form a natural class and all have the same effect on a following fricative (realized as [z]).
map[s]
tab[z]
cup[s]
cub[z]
mat[s]
fad[z]
hit[s]
bid[z]
pack[s]
rag[z]
tick[s]
leg[z]
Burquest and Payne 1993 10
Here are some kinds of natural classes:
Plosive
Coronal consonant
Voiced fricative
Voiceless fricative
Rounded vowel
Sonorant
What is necessity?
Necessity is a degree of contingency in modality that in
alethic modality connotes logical requirement
deontic modality connotes obligation, and
epistemic modality connotes certainty.
Necessity is a kind of
What is mood and modality?
Chung and Timberlake 1985 242, 246
What is negation?
Negation is a morphosyntactic operation in which a lexical item denies or inverts the meaning of another lexical item or construction.
A negator is a lexical item that expresses negation.
Examples: Lexical items (English)
un-
Pei and Gaynor 1954 145
What is a negative conditional relation?
A negative conditional relation is a conditional relation
in which the consequent is related to the opposite meaning of the antecedent , and
that is marked on
the antecedent to carry the meaning equivalent to "unless," or
the consequent to carry the meaning equivalent to "otherwise."
Unless it rains, we'll have our picnic.
Thompson and Longacre 1985 196
I was not informed; otherwise I should have taken some action.
Halliday and Hasan 1976 259
A negative conditional relation is a kind of
What is a conditional relation?
Dijk 1977 78–79
What is a negative purpose relation?
A negative purpose relation is a means-purpose relation in which the expressed intent is avoidance of a state or event. The state or event to be avoided is marked by a form equivalent to the meaning of "lest."
He avoided slippery streets, lest he have an accident.
A negative purpose relation is a kind of
What is a means-purpose relation?
Beekman and Callow 1974 303
What is neuter gender?
Neuter gender is a grammatical gender that
includes those nouns having referents which do not have distinctions of sex, and
often includes some which do have a natural sex distinction.
Examples (German)
Here are some examples of words that have neuter gender [diacritical markings are not reproduced here]:
das Festmahl 'the banquet'
das Madchen 'the girl'
Neuter gender is a kind of
What is new information?
New information is information that is assumed by the speaker not
to be known to or assumed by the addressee , or
previously established in the discourse .
New information typically
is placed late in the sentence, and
has a high amount of stress placed on the words representing it.
In the following exchange, the stressed words are new information:
A: Do you know where my SHOES are?
B: I put them in the CLOSET.
What is a brand-new entity?
What is an unused entity?
New information is a kind of
What is given versus new information?
Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985 1361
What is a new metaphor?
A new metaphor is a metaphor that is not already part of the conceptual system of a culture as reflected in its language.
Love is a collaborative work of art.
Lakoff, G. and Johnson 1980 139
Here is a kind of new metaphor:
What is an allegory?
A new metaphor is a kind of
What is a metaphor?
What is a newsmark?
A newsmark is a move that treats a previous utterance as news and encourages further talk about it.
The following ritual expressions of disbelief are newsmarks:
You don't say
You're kidding
A newsmark is a kind of
What is a move?
Greatbatch 1988 406
What is a next turn repair initiator?
A next turn repair initiator is an utterance , used in the turn after a repairable item, that prompts for a third turn repair in the next turn.
In the following exchange, What? is the next turn repair initiator for the third turn repair in the next turn:
A: I need a new bolt for my oil filter.
B: What?
A: I mean for my oil PAN.
Here is a kind of a next turn repair initiator:
What is an echo question?
A next turn repair initiator is a kind of
What is a third turn repair?
Levinson 1983 335, 339
What is a nominal?
A nominal is a word which differs grammatically from a noun but functions as one.
In the poor are many, the word poor is a nominal. It functions as a noun; however, it does not pluralize.
A nominal is a kind of
What is a substantive?
What is a nominal clause?
A nominal clause is a subordinate clause that functions as a noun phrase .
I know that he is here.
From where I stood, I saw the horse.
Here is a kind of nominal clause:
What is a complement clause?
A nominal clause is a kind of
What is a nominalization?
A nominalization is a noun phrase that has a systematic correspondence with a clausal predication which includes a head noun morphologically related to a corresponding verb .
The noun phrase refusal to help corresponds to he refuses to help. The head noun refusal is morphologically related to the verb refuse.
A nominalization is a kind of
What is a noun phrase?
Noonan 1985 60
What is nominative case?
Nominative case is the case that identifies clause subjects in nominative-accusative languages. Nouns used in isolation have this case.
Nominative case is not often formally marked in nominative-accusative languages.
Nominative case is a kind of
What is case?
What is a nonconventional implicature?
An nonconventional implicature is a implicature that is drawn in accordance with pragmatic principles, such as the cooperative principle or the informativeness principle , rather than the meaning of a lexical item or expression.
Here are some kinds of nonconventional implicatures:
What is a nonconversational implicature?
A nonconventional implicature is a kind of
What is an actual implicature?
Levinson 1983 127–128, 131–132
Gazdar 1979 49–50
A nonconversational implicature is a nonconventional implicature that arises from the operation of a principle or maxim of language usage other than the cooperative principle and conversational maxims , such as an implicature derived from an assumption of the informativeness principle .
Here is a kind of nonconversational implicature:
What is the informativeness principle?
A nonconversational implicature is a kind of
What is a nondefective illocutionary act?
A nondefective illocutionary act is an illocutionary act for which all the presuppositions of the propositional content conditions , preparatory conditions , and sincerity conditions are satisfied.
A nondefective illocutionary act is a kind of
What is an illocutionary act?
Searle and Vanderveken 1985 22–23, 78
What is nonextendedness?
Nonextendedness is place deixis that has a component of meaning indicating that the location does not have length or area.
Nonextendedness is a kind of
What is extendedness?
Denny 1978 72–73
What is a nonfinite clause?
A nonfinite clause is a clause with a nonfinite verb .
A nonfinite clause is a kind of
What is a nonfinite verb?
A nonfinite verb is a verb that is not fully inflected for categories that are marked inflectionally in a language, such as the following:
Here is a kind of nonfinite verb:
What is an infinitive?
A nonfinite verb is a kind of
Palmer 1986 156, 162
Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985 150
What is nonfuture tense?
Nonfuture tense is an absolute tense that
refers to a time at or before the moment of utterance , and
contrasts with a future tense .
A nonfuture tense is a kind of
What is nonpast tense?
Nonpast tense is an absolute tense that
refers to a time at or after the moment of utterance , and
contrasts with a past tense .
Nonpast tense is a kind of
What is nonrecent past tense?
Nonrecent past tense is a past tense that refers to a time before the range of a contrasting recent past tense .
Nonrecent past tense is a kind of
What is past tense?
What is nonremote past tense?
Nonremote past tense is a past tense that refers to a time considered not more than a few days ago, in contrast to a remote past tense .
Nonremote past tense is a kind of
What is a nonrestrictive relative clause?
A nonrestrictive relative clause is a relative clause that does not aid in the identification of the referent of its head noun , but only provides information about it.
A nonrestrictive relative clause is formally distinguished in some languages.
John, who passed the test, was elated.
A nonrestrictive relative clause is a kind of
What is a relative clause?
What is a restrictive relative clause?
Comrie 1989 138–139
What is nonspecificity?
Nonspecificity is a kind of definiteness, expressed by an interpretation of or grammatical marking on a noun or noun phrase , indicating that the speaker presumably does not know the identity of the referent(s) .
The following sentence has the interpretation that the speaker does not have a particular Norwegian in mind:
Minna wants to meet a Norwegian.
Hawkins, J. 1978 204
A nonspecific is a kind of
What is definiteness?
Anderson, S. 1985 179
Hawkins, J. 1978 203–204
What is a nonvisual evidential?
A nonvisual evidential is a sensory evidential that signals that the speaker 's evidence for the truth of his or her statement is derived from a sense other than sight.
Here is a kind of nonvisual evidential:
What is an auditory evidential?
A nonvisual evidential is a kind of
What is a sensory evidential?
Palmer 1986 74
What is notional?
A notional X is an X that is thought of informally or in extralinguistic terms.
A notional noun is a person, place or thing.
A notional verb is a doing word.
A notional sentence is a complete thought.
Crystal 1997
What is not-yet tense?
Not-yet tense is an absolute tense that refers to times at and before the moment of utterance in asserting the present and past nonoccurrence of an event or state. It tends to imply that the event or state is expected to occur in the future.
This tense corresponds to the meaning of the English not yet.
Example (Luganda)
Here is an example of not-yet tense:
te- tu- nna- genda
NEG- we- NOT.YET- go
'We have not yet gone.'
Not-yet tense is a kind of
What is a noun?
A noun is a member of a syntactic class
that includes words which refer to people, places, things, ideas, or concepts
whose members may act as any of the following: subjects of the verb, objects of the verb, indirect object of the verb, or object of a preposition (or postposition), and
most of whose members have inherently determined grammatical gender (in languages which inflect for gender).
Nouns embody one of the most time-stable concepts in a language. As with verbs, however, this time-stability criterion defines only the prototypical nouns. Other, non-prototypical nouns must be identified by distributional similarities to prototypical nouns.
These nouns are prototypical nouns in English because they are perceived as concrete, physical, compact entities which do not change significantly over time.
The following nouns are less prototypical because they represent concepts or items that are not perceived as staying the same for a long period of time, or are not concrete:
Here are some kinds of nouns:
What is an abstract noun?
What is an alienable noun?
What is a collective noun?
What is a concrete noun?
What is a count noun?
What is an inalienable noun?
What is a mass noun?
What is a verbal noun?
A noun is a kind of
Givón 1984 51–52
Payne, T. 1997a 33, 39–41
What is a noun adjunct?
A noun adjunct is a noun that functions as a modifier of a noun.
In beef stew, the word beef is a noun adjunct.
A noun adjunct is a kind of
What is an adjunct?
What is a noun class?
A noun class system is a grammatical system that some languages use to overtly categorize nouns . Noun classes are
often based, at least in part, on characteristics (such as gender, animacy, shape) of the referents of some of the nouns in each class, and
distinguished by
an affix on the noun or by a clitic or word in the noun phrase , and
agreement affixes on noun phrase constituents and on the verb .
A finer distinction may be made, according to R. M. W. Dixon, between prototypical noun classes (a grammatical system) and noun classifiers (a lexical set).
Noun class systems have the following characteristics:
They typically comprise a closed set of two to twenty classes, into which all nouns in the language are divided.
Typically, few or no nouns can occur in more than one class.
Expression of the noun class is obligatory in all contexts.
Class may be marked on the noun itself, but will also always be marked on other constituents in the noun phrase or in the sentence that show concord (agreement) with the noun.
Most types of gender systems and concord systems; many IndoEuropean languages, Bantu languages, Niger Congo languages, Dyirbal (Australian)
Conversely, languages with noun classifier sets have the following characteristics:
They typically involve 20 or more classifiers (separate lexemes that co-occur with the noun). One hundred classifiers are common, and 400 are attested. Not every noun must take a classifier.
Many nouns can occur with more than one classifier.
The classifier occurs in only some syntactic environments. In addition, use of the classifier may be influenced by the pragmatics of style and the choice of written or spoken mode. (Often, the more formal the style, the richer the variety of classifiers used, and the higher the frequency of their use.)
Noun classifiers are always free lexical items that occur in the same noun phrase as the noun they qualify. They never form a morphological unit with the noun, and there is never agreement marking on the verb.
Noun classifiers are usually derived from words used as names of concrete, discrete, moveable objects.
Japanese, Chinese, Southeast Asian languages, Austronesian languages, Mayan languages, American Sign Language
Not all noun classifying languages fit neatly into one of these two prototypes of linguistic categorization. Various intermediate types are attested in languages of the Americas (see Craig 1986 4–5 ; Payne, D. 1986 113, 129, 130 ).
In Spanish, nouns are classified by gender. In the following words, the suffixes -a 'FEMININE' and -o 'MASCULINE' express the noun class on the noun, and the articles la 'FEMININE' and el 'MASCULINE' agree with the nouns accordingly:
la hija 'the daughter'
el hijo 'the son'
el mercado 'the market'
Here are some kinds of noun classes:
What is an animate class?
What is a human class?
What is an inanimate class?
A noun class is a kind of
What is a grammatical category?
See the following for more information:
Lakoff, G. 1987 91–114 (Chapter 6)
Craig 1986:(incomplete object)1–9
Dixon 1968 105
Dixon 1986 105–111
A noun phrase is a phrase that has a noun as its head .
A noun phrase generally includes one or more modifying words, but allowance is usually made for single-word minimal noun phrases that are composed only of a noun or pronoun .
Here is a kind of noun phrase:
A noun phrase is a kind of
What is a phrase?
Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985 61
What is a nuclear syllable?
A nuclear syllable is a syllable that carries maximum prominence, usually due to being stressed.
"I will give you a permit." Stress is on the nuclear syllable per of permit.
"I will permit you to do it." Stress is on the nuclear syllable mit of permit.
What is number?
Number is a grammatical category of nouns , pronouns , and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than one").
The count distinctions typically, but not always, correspond to the actual count of the referents of the marked noun or pronoun.
In the word girls, plural number is marked by the suffix -s.
Here are some kinds of numbers:
What is dual number?
What is plural number?
What is singular number?
What is a trial number?
A number is a kind of
What is a numeral?
A numeral is a word, functioning most typically as an adjective or pronoun, that expresses a
number, and
relation to the number, such as one of the following:
Here are some kinds of numerals:
What is a cardinal numeral?
What is a distributive numeral?
What is a multiplicative numeral?
What is an ordinal numeral?
What is a partitive numeral?
A numeral is a kind of
What is a quantifier?


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The Magnitsky List: Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime – Government Statement in the House of Lords leads to calls for Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam to be added to the Magnitsky List along with Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party boss in Xinjiang
Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime
Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) [V]
My Lords, in declaring my interests as vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary groups on Hong Kong and the Uighurs, I too pay tribute to Bill Browder and warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary's decision to use Magnitsky powers to target those who themselves use the United Kingdom as a bolthole for their money and families, while abusing human rights in their own jurisdictions. Returning to the questions of the noble Lord, Lord Collins, and the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, can the Minister say whether active consideration is now being given to adding Hong Kong's Carrie Lam to the Magnitsky list, along with Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, in addition to others named in a letter to the Minister of 24 January last, who stand accused of grievous crimes against Muslim Uighurs, Falun Gong and other minorities in China?
My Lords, first, I pay tribute to the noble Lord. He and I have often had long discussions about the importance of having such a regime. In paying tribute to the likes of Sergei Magnitsky, who ultimately paid with his life, I also pay tribute to the noble Lord for the work that he does within the human rights field. He asks specifically about China and Hong Kong. I am sure he will accept that I cannot speculate on who might be designated under the sanctions regime in the future. But as I have repeatedly said as Human Rights Minister, we have on many occasions set out deep concerns about human rights violations in both Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Most recently, we had a campaign with 27 countries backing our statement at the Human Rights Council on 30 June.


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Bloedklonters absorberen bacteriele toxinen
Onderwerpen met wetenschappelijke, medische of algemene gezondheidsgerelateerde informatie en discussie dat niet specifiek betrekking heeft op de ziekte van Lyme.
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Berichtdoor bamboe » Vr 13 Dec 2013 13:47
Bloedklonters zijn op deze (zie hieronder) manier eigenlijk een vorm van overlevingsmechanisme: vergelijk het met cholesterol.
In surprise finding, blood clots absorb bacterial toxin
VIDEO: This video http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pu ... rom=256035 shows blood clot (red) forming and absorbing lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin) (colored green) in a live mouse. The clot-bound toxin is yellow.
Blood clots play an unexpected role in protecting the body from the deadly effects of bacteria by absorbing bacterial toxins, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found. The research was published Dec. 2 in the journal PLOS ONE.
"It's a significant addition to the short list of defenses that animals use to protect themselves against toxin-induced sepsis," said Peter Armstrong, professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis and senior author on the paper.
Even with modern antibiotics, septic shock from bacterial infections afflicts about 300,000 people a year in the U.S., with a mortality rate of 30 to 50 percent. Septic shock is caused by Gram-negative bacteria, which release a toxin called lipopolysaccharide or endotoxin. In small amounts, lipopolysaccharide triggers inflammation. When infections with these bacteria get out of hand, lipopolysaccharide courses through the bloodstream, causing catastrophic damage to organs and tissues.
These toxins cause disease in a variety of animal species — lipopolysaccharide is also toxic to both horseshoe crabs and lobsters, separated from humans by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. In humans and other mammals, blood clots quickly form from a mix of specialized blood cells and protein fibers. Arthropods like horseshoe crabs and lobsters can also form clots in response to injury, with a different mix of cells and proteins.
Clots protect and help to seal wounds, prevent blood or body fluids from leaking out and form a physical barrier that entangles and blocks bacteria from entering the body. The new study shows that they also actively soak up lipopolysaccharide, reducing its release from the wound site into the body, where it could cause disease or even death.
Armstrong's laboratory had previously developed fluorescent labels to show that a lipopolysaccharide-like molecule is present in chloroplasts, structures inside cells of green plants that carry out photosynthesis and are thought to be descended from bacteria. As he also studies the role of blood clots in resisting infections, Armstrong decided to test the same techniques on blood clots that had been exposed to bacteria or to bacterial lipopolysaccharide. The fluorescent probes lit up the clots, showing that the clot fibers bound lipopolysaccharide to their surfaces.
"I was ecstatic," Armstrong said. "It was one of those moments that makes the rest of the slogging worthwhile."
Armstrong and colleagues Margaret Armstrong at UC Davis and Frederick Rickles at George Washington University looked at clots of blood, or its equivalent, from humans, mice, lobsters and horseshoe crabs. In all four species, they found that fluorescently tagged lipopolysaccharide was bound to the fibers of the blood clot. The toxin was too tightly attached to be readily removed by chemical treatments that remove weakly bound macromolecules from proteins.
During a sabbatical leave in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Furie at Beth Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard University, Armstrong was also able to film clots in blood vessels of live mice and showed that these in vivo clots took up lipopolysaccharide in real time. These in vivo experiments, he said, confirm the bench-top observations and offer new insights into the pathology of sepsis.
One of the deadly consequences of septic shock is disseminated intravascular coagulation, when blood clots form rapidly throughout the body. But the new results suggest that on a small and local scale, this might be part of a protective mechanism against sepsis — these intravascular clots can soak up quantities of lipopolysaccharide from the blood. They also show that rather than being a simple physical barrier, blood clots play an active and dynamic role in protecting the body from infections.
Parts of the research were carried out at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. The work was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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