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Meng Li, Xu Shan, Shan-shan Niu, Ya-guo Tang, Fang Wu, Chun-kai Xu, Xiang-jun Chen. High Resolution Electron Momentum Spectroscopy Study on Ethanol: Orbital Electron Momentum Distributions for Individual Conformers[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics , 2016, 29(6): 645-649. doi: 10.1063/1674-0068/29/cjcp1604080
Citation: Meng Li, Xu Shan, Shan-shan Niu, Ya-guo Tang, Fang Wu, Chun-kai Xu, Xiang-jun Chen. High Resolution Electron Momentum Spectroscopy Study on Ethanol: Orbital Electron Momentum Distributions for Individual Conformers[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics , 2016, 29(6): 645-649. doi: 10.1063/1674-0068/29/cjcp1604080
High Resolution Electron Momentum Spectroscopy Study on Ethanol: Orbital Electron Momentum Distributions for Individual Conformers
Meng Li1 ,
Xu Shan1 , ,
Shan-shan Niu1 ,
Ya-guo Tang1 ,
Fang Wu1 ,
Chun-kai Xu1 ,
Xiang-jun Chen1
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
The outer-valence binding energy spectra of ethanol in the energy range of 9-21 eV are measured by a high-resolution electron momentum spectrometer at an impact energy of 2.5 keV plus the binding energy. The electron momentum distributions for the ionization peaks corresponding to the outer-valence orbitals are obtained by deconvoluting a series of azimuthal angular correlated binding energy spectra. Comparison is made with the theoretical calculations for two conformers, trans and gauche, coexisting in the gas phase of ethanol at the level of B3LYP density functional theory with aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets. It is found that the measured electron momentum distributions for the peaks at 14.5 and 15.2 eV are in good agreement with the theoretical electron momentum distributions for the molecular orbitals of individual conformers (i.e., 8a' of trans and 9a of gauche), but not in accordance with the thermally averaged ones. It demonstrates that the high-resolution electron momentum spectrometer, by inspecting the molecular electronic structure, is a promising technique to identify different conformers in a mixed sample.
Electron momentum spectroscopy,
Individual conformer,
Ethanol,
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Meng Li1,
Xu Shan1, ,
Shan-shan Niu1,
Ya-guo Tang1,
Fang Wu1,
Chun-kai Xu1,
Electron momentum spectroscopy /
Individual conformer /
Ethanol /
Abstract: The outer-valence binding energy spectra of ethanol in the energy range of 9-21 eV are measured by a high-resolution electron momentum spectrometer at an impact energy of 2.5 keV plus the binding energy. The electron momentum distributions for the ionization peaks corresponding to the outer-valence orbitals are obtained by deconvoluting a series of azimuthal angular correlated binding energy spectra. Comparison is made with the theoretical calculations for two conformers, trans and gauche, coexisting in the gas phase of ethanol at the level of B3LYP density functional theory with aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets. It is found that the measured electron momentum distributions for the peaks at 14.5 and 15.2 eV are in good agreement with the theoretical electron momentum distributions for the molecular orbitals of individual conformers (i.e., 8a' of trans and 9a of gauche), but not in accordance with the thermally averaged ones. It demonstrates that the high-resolution electron momentum spectrometer, by inspecting the molecular electronic structure, is a promising technique to identify different conformers in a mixed sample.


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Rod, Nola & family have just left after a very pleasant afternoon. They are all well. Leila begins her holiday on Monday. Rod told me that Aunty Ethel is not well.
Michael Richardson (friends of the Fosters) left on Wednesday. It was quite a surprise, because he seemed to have settled in so much.
I received a parcel from Tony & Mehegan & it was much appreciated. I will wait a few days before I write to them because Tony said he was going to Suva with Michael Shanahan.
Last Thursday, a Benedictine priest who works in Rome, came & spoke to us. He was Fr. le Clerq – one of the brains behind the changes in the Liturgy. He had been staying with the Cistercians at Kopua.
Maka Tatafu, who's in my band but at present in Tonga; well, his brother came up yesterday & stayed the night. He is a Methodist, & is the split image of Maka. In fact he's so much like Maka, that when I first saw him I didn't know whether to recognize him & say "Hello Maka" & thus make a fool of myself, or ignore him at the risk of him being Maka.
Well that's about all the news. I didn't have a chance to watch the film of T.V. on Saturday – "A Night to Remember" – about the Titanic.


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GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH REFORMS Outpatient Mental Health Services in Mozambique: Useand TreatmentsBradley H. Wagenaar, M.P.H., Ph.D., Vasco Cumbe, M.D., M.P.H., Manuela Raunig-Berhó, B.A., Deepa Rao, M.A., Ph.D.,Brandon A. Kohrt, M.D., Ph.D., Andy Stergachis, Ph.D., Manuel Napúa, M.D., Kenneth Sherr, M.P.H., Ph.D.
To describe current outpatient mental health service use and women was more likely for mood and neurotic disorders and treatments in Mozambique, the authors reviewed registry less likely for substance use disorders and epilepsy. First- entries for 2,071 outpatient psychiatric visits at the Beira generation antipsychotics, most often paired with pro- Central Hospital in Sofala Province from January 2012 methazine, dominated treatment regimens. Evidence-based to September 2014. Service use was most common for reforms are needed to improve identification of mood dis- schizophrenia, followed by epilepsy, delirium, and organic orders and broaden care beyond severe mental disorders.
behavioral disorders. Only 3% of consultations for schizo-phrenia were first-visit patients. Treatment seeking among Psychiatric Services in Advance (doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201500508) Across Mozambique, prevention, care, and treatment of staff, although stock-outs are common, and certain essential mental disorders have been historically neglected compared medications are not available (2).
with other health conditions. As of 2011, the Ministry of The objective of the assessment reported here was to Health in Mozambique allocated only .16% of the total health address a gap in the peer-reviewed literature documenting budget to mental health services. This neglect of service current outpatient mental health utilization patterns, along provision occurs at a time when mental, neurological, and with treatment patterns. This study was conducted at the substance use disorders are recognized as the primary Beira Central Hospital, one of three central hospitals in drivers of disability worldwide. A 2011 report that imple- Mozambique. The hospital employs numerous specialists mented the World Health Organization's Assessment Instru- and serves all of central Mozambique, providing 26% of all ments for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) indicated outpatient mental health consultations in Sofala Province.
that the most common outpatient psychiatric consultations in Because it generally has better availability of mental health Mozambique were for epilepsy (53%), child mental disorders medicines (2) and specialists, it likely serves patients with (15%), and schizophrenia (14%) and that 40% of mental more severe illness.
health consultations were for women (1).
There are fewer than 15 psychiatrists in public-sector Data and Analysis Procedures service in Mozambique, and the vast majority of mental healthcare is provided by psychiatric technicians who undergo a We reviewed 2,071 outpatient psychiatric registry entries two-year training program after acquiring at least a tenth- from January 2012 to September 2014. Registries are hand grade education. This program is a major success of the written with one line per patient, including the consultation Ministry of Health. Even with very limited financial resources date, age, sex, visit number (first or two or more), diagnosis, for mental health services, the number of psychiatric tech- treatments provided, and corresponding ICD-10 code. Two nicians working nationally increased from 66 in 2010 to 241 trained abstractors manually entered data into Excel 2013.
as of December 2014. These technicians are placed mainly Inconsistencies between abstractors and instances of illegi- at district-level referral hospitals, and the government has ble handwriting were resolved by revisiting the registry and recently achieved the goal of placing one technician in each cross-checking with responsible staff.
of the 135 districts. Psychiatric technicians are able to diag- Outpatient ICD-10 diagnosis groupings and individual nose all categories of mental health conditions and treat them diagnoses were analyzed by continuous age and percentage by using brief psychotherapy and all therapeutic categories of females. Individual diagnoses were tabulated, and the four of psychotropic medications. Psychotropic medications are most common primary diagnoses within each ICD-10 di- generally available at facilities with trained mental health agnostic grouping are reported. All treatment regimens were GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH REFORMS tabulated for each of the four most common individual di- females were four times more likely than males to receive a agnoses, and the three most common regimens for each di- diagnosis of depressive illness. This is surprising because in agnosis are presented. Two-sample t tests were used to most settings, the prevalence of major depressive disorder is compare continuous age distributions. Chi square tests were estimated to be twice as high among women than men (4).
used to test for gender differences. Fisher's exact tests were The elevated mean age of those seen for depressive illness used if any cell was less than five. Individuals with missing (40–45 years) may indicate heterogeneity in diagnoses, care data on a given factor were excluded for analyses of that seeking, or prevalence of depression by age—important variable. Stata 13 was used for statistical analyses. All tests questions for future studies.
were two-tailed with an alpha value of .05.
With only five total cases of bipolar disorder diagnosed among 2,071 consultations and the relatively stable pop-ulation point prevalence of .7%21% globally (5), it seems Findings and Practical Implications likely that bipolar disorder may be routinely misdiagnosed.
Service Use. The study provided gender and age profiles of This could represent a missed opportunity for suicide pre- common diagnoses by ICD-10 code, as well as typical treat- vention, given that individuals with bipolar disorder are ment regimens, for more than 2,000 outpatient consulta- estimated to be 60 times more likely than the general pop- tions over a 20-month period. We found that use of ulation to die from suicide (6).
outpatient mental health care at the Beira Central Hospital As expected, given the cultural climate around psycho- was primarily by individuals under age 36 (61% age #35) active substance use, males were more likely to be given who were seeking care for severe mental illnesses, namely diagnoses of substance use disorders. A previous population- schizophrenia and schizotypal or delusional disorders, level study of alcohol consumption in Mozambique found which accounted for over 40% of all outpatient consulta- only a twofold higher prevalence of current alcohol drinking tions. Schizophrenia was the single most common diagnosis, among men compared with women (7). Our study found a accounting for almost 30% of all outpatient consultations.
nearly ninefold higher prevalence among males, which [Tables presenting demographic and clinical data are in- could result from either underuse of treatment or under- cluded in an online supplement to this column.] Overall, less diagnosis among females with substance-related issues, po- than 14% of all outpatient consultations were for new pa- tentially because of strong stigma associated with females' tients. Among visits by patients with common diagnoses, use of psychoactive substances.
schizophrenia accounted for the lowest proportion of first-visit patients—less than 4% of consultations were for new Treatment Patterns and Quality. The first-generation anti- patients. These findings are concerning because they indi- psychotics trifluoperazine, fluphenazine, decanoate of flu- cate that few new patients are entering the outpatient care phenazine, haloperidol, and chlorpromazine—all of which are system. Cross-national studies from other settings indicate on the national essential medication list (2)—were the most that schizophrenia does not have differential incidence or common treatment regimens for most types of organic dis- prevalence by gender. Therefore, it is encouraging that no orders, as well as for psychoactive substance use, schizo- significant gender differences were found in service use for phrenia and delusional disorders, and intellectual disability.
schizophrenia in our sample. In addition, overall mental Most often, these first-generation antipsychotics were pre- health service use was almost perfectly balanced between scribed alongside promethazine—an unusual combination be- genders, an indicator that services may be skewed toward cause promethazine is not a first-line treatment for prevention severe illness and away from common mood disorders, be- of extrapyramidal side effects in high-income countries nor cause across diverse global primary care settings depression is it recommended in the WHO Mental Health Gap Action is twice as prevalent among women.
Program (WHO mhGAP).
Epilepsy was the second most common outpatient psy- Evidence-based guidelines from WHO mhGAP state that chiatric diagnosis. Patients with epilepsy were significantly anticholinergics should not be routinely prescribed to pre- younger than patients in the average consult and more likely vent the development of extrapyramidal side effects, should to be male (60% of cases). These data suggest that men may be considered only for short-term use among patients with have a higher burden of epileptic disorders in central significant existing side effects, and should not be prescribed Mozambique; this is not surprising, because studies indicate for long-term use by pregnant women. Given that a large that men may have a higher incidence of epilepsy in other proportion of patients treated in this setting are women sub-Saharan African countries (3). Gender differences may of reproductive age and that promethazine is not first-line be especially important for neurotic and mood disorders.
treatment for the prevention or treatment of extrapyrami- These conditions were rarely diagnosed in our outpatient dal symptoms, the routine pairing of promethazine or other sample (only 4.7% and 1.9%, respectively), and patients with anticholinergic agents with first-generation antipsychotics these diagnoses were more likely to be female. For example, should be reviewed. Moreover, antipsychotics and anticho- 87% of patients with a depressive episode, 73% of patients linergics are contraindicated in the treatment of delirium with adjustment disorder, and all patients given a diagnosis and dementia, with an increased mortality risk, although this of bipolar disorder were female. These findings indicate that was the treatment of choice in our sample. As evidence-based GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH REFORMS guidelines recommend biperiden for first-line treatment commonly for schizophrenia, epilepsy, and delirium or of extrapyramidal side effects, its availability could be other organic disorders. Mood disorders, although hy- prioritized and going forward it could be used in place of pothesized to have high population prevalence, are cur- rently not well addressed. To address the low rate of mood The most cost-effective treatment for schizophrenia in disorder identification, implementation of rapid screening lower–middle-income countries (LMICs) includes antipsy- tools, such as the Patient Health Questionnaire–2, could be chotics plus psychosocial interventions, which increase considered alongside increased efforts to integrate mental improvement by 15% to 26% compared with no treatment health care into primary care. For most diagnoses, medi- (8). Similarly, evidence-based recommendations suggest that cation use currently focuses on first-generation antipsy- diazepam is preferable to manage acute alcohol withdrawal chotics routinely paired with promethazine or another and that antipsychotics are not indicated as stand-alone anticholinergic agent. Some regimens may not be following treatment. In the outpatient setting in Mozambique, an in- up-to-date guidelines, indicating that a larger review of creased focus on brief (five to 30 minutes) psychosocial provider knowledge and national training materials and interventions for substance use and schizophrenia with po- guidelines could help ensure that all patients are receiving tential follow-up seems warranted and is supported by the best possible care. Giving nurses or medical assistants strong evidence from other settings.
more responsibility for follow-up medication administra- There are many reasons why a treatment regimen not ini- tion and regimen guidance could decrease the burden on tially indicated in evidence-based guidelines would be pre- the limited numbers of mental health specialists.
scribed in this setting: clinicians treat patients with complexsymptoms that may not always correspond to a single di- AUTHOR AND ARTICLE INFORMATION agnosis on the basis of Western-developed systems; many Dr. Wagenaar, Ms. Raunig-Berhó, Dr. Rao, Dr. Stergachis, and Dr. Sherr best-evidence treatments are not consistently (or ever) avail- are with the Department of Global Health, University of Washington,Seattle (e-mail: Dr. Wagenaar and Dr. Sherr able in Mozambique or in other similar LMICs; and the reality are also with Health Alliance International, Seattle. Dr. Rao is also of available financing, time, and information access to adopt with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and recent evidence-based guidelines is limited in Mozambique Dr. Stergachis is also with the School of Pharmacy, both at the and similar settings. For example, use of first-generation an- University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Cumbe is with the Department tipsychotics by individuals with a primary diagnosis of a of Mental Health and Beira Central Hospital, Beira, Mozambique.
Dr. Kohrt is with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sci- substance-related disorder may make sense if these patients ences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Napúa is with the have comorbid psychotic symptoms. In regard to the avail- Beira Operations Research Center, Beira, Mozambique. José Miguel ability of best-evidence treatments, methadone, buprenorphine, Caldas de Almeida, M.D., and Matt Muijen, M.D., Ph.D., are editors of acamprosate, naloxone, and disulfiram are all indicated to this column.
manage alcohol withdrawal or to reduce relapse, but none are This work was supported by the African Health Initiative of the Doris available in Mozambique. Finally, many psychiatric techni- Duke Charitable Foundation and the University of Washington's Royalty cians have been practicing since 1996 with few opportunities Research Fund. Dr. Sherr was supported by grant K02TW009207 fromthe Fogarty International Center.
for formal retraining as new formularies are adopted and The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.
evidence-based guidelines change. Going forward, formalevaluations of the psychiatric technician program, includingtraining, retraining, supervision structures, and effectiveness 1. Dos Santos PF: Evaluation of Mental Health Services in Mozambique of treatments provided, could drive quality improvements.
[in Portuguese]. Master's thesis. Lisbon, Portugal, New Univer-sity of Lisbon, Mental Health Policy and Services Department, Limitations. This study had limitations. First, our data lacked a gold-standard comparison diagnosis, impeding the de- 2. Wagenaar BH, Stergachis A, Rao D, et al.: The availability of es- termination of whether, for example, men are more likely sential medicines for mental healthcare in Sofala, Mozambique. GlobalHealth Action, 2015 (doi 10.3402/gha.v8.27942) than women to be given an epilepsy diagnosis or men are 3. Preux PM, Druet-Cabanac M: Epidemiology and aetiology of epi- actually presenting more often with epilepsy symptoms.
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Recollections of the Pegasus 1964 expedition to the Gouffre Berger
Saturday 8th August 1964, off to Midland Station Nottingham, meet up with the other guys (Ian Curphey - Ian Patrick) ??? for our first leg of the journey to the Gouffre Berger.
Next stop London St Pancras station, we then went down the street to another station to catch the Boat Train to Dover and on to Calais. I think the boat was called the Lord Warden. I went out on deck and took a photograph while the other guys stayed below. We all had packs with personal gear in, all the caving gear was taken in the trailer pulled by Paul Thompson's Land Rover. On arrival at Calais we disembarked the boat; we were shown where to go to get a train to Paris, Gare Du Nord. We had to wait a while on the train, possibly waiting for other passengers, then we set off, after about half an hour of travel the border police came around looking at our passports, they were taken away stamped and returned. On arrival at Gare du Nord found out that our connection train to get to Grenoble was about to leave, so we hastily got on the metro for Gare Du Sud hoping we would be in time, but on arrival all the gates were shut and we could not get access to the platform, bugger!! Someone made an executive decision to get the next train south to Lyon, it was not long to wait, and we boarded with our pre-booked tickets. On arrival at Lyon, we started looking for a local commuter train to go to Grenoble, this turned out to be electric and only about 3 carriages long, not built for comfort with solid wood slatted seats, but the scenery was worth seeing, going through the foothills. On our arrival at Grenoble we headed to the centre of town and looked for the coach station, I managed to get a postcard off to UK (let the parents know all ok) with a little help from Curphey's French skills.
We found a place to have a coffee and something to eat not far from the coach station, we realised that the odd delays we had experienced meant an overnight kip, which we did at the coach station, no one bothered us, perhaps a regular occurrence. We were picked up in the morning after breakfast by Paul Thompson and co, but my memory is not sure on this, but we were picked up and taken to the campsite at the Sornin Plateau.
My next recollection is sherparing gear to the cave entrance, which I believe we did two or three times, I had a look around from the campsite to see where about we were, to get an idea of landscape, basically the French or Swiss Alps in the distance. And pine trees all the way round us. What I did note was skull and crossbones on posts," Danger Mines" in French, so kept well away. I think after most of the gear had been taken to the cave entrance and was lowered into the cave, we started descending down ladders. We had to hump gear, including all food for the team further into the cave system, I reckon this took a couple of days; this is sketchy as I had no watch and no real way of telling the time of day or night. The first night we slept on a boulder pile, thank goodness for my lilo, slept like a log, then after a bit of food, we started descending to camp one proper, again ferrying all the gear, this was easier terrain as it was a massive chamber, at this point you could hear water thundering somewhere.
We arrived at camp one after traversing Lake Cadoux and around the Tyrolean, a rope line at the side of the waterfall on a rock ledge, then onto the big rubble heap and past the Hall of Thirteen (stalagmite and stalactites) then camp one at 1600m below cave entrance. I think I stayed at Camp one for a few days, looking around the rest of the cave, and went with the team to explore where Pete Watkinson thought another passage might be, it did not go very far. I can remember lifelining at the top of a pitch. Whilst there waiting I can recall watching the guys climbing up this very unstable old riverbed site. Later on the area was called Pegasus Bridge.
I don't recall anything special about the trek out of the cave, just the reverse of going in, ferrying gear etc, but not as much. I do recall going out first, and just before the final pitch, someone had removed the lifeline, so I climbed the ladder without a lifeline and installed one to enable the others to climb up and out into daylight, marvelling at the bright and vivid colours, blues and greens, after being underground. The trip out was brought forward because of heavy rain above and flooding in the cave, so we did not hang about. During the trip, when we had a bit of time off from being underground, we were invited to a meal at the Maison Forestiere not far from the road up to the Berger camp site. When John Fisk tried to engage some of the French men who were at the table by saying sprechen sie Deutsch, the reaction was a finger across the throat, as we later found out; they were part of the French Marquis. Also we found out that in August it was the anniversary ( 20 years) since liberation of WW11. We also had a reporter from Reuters who used to come up most days and we talked him into bringing up some fresh baguettes, quite a luxury, from hard tack and biscuits.
We had a trip to Villard de Lans sight seeing and a trip to the swimming pools, it was nice to freshen up. Someone was selling fruit in the town, so we purchased a heap of peaches and they were so sweet and cheap.
When the expedition was starting to break up and people were beginning to go home, a decision was made to go to the mountains, specifically a place called La Berarde to climb a peak called Pic Coolidge which is 3774 m high. We camped by the glacial river, visited the local cafe for some food, red wine mixed with lemonade.
I purchased my ice axe in a local climbing shop ( still have it today), overnighted on the mountain, in what can best be described as an oversize chicken hut. Next day went back down the mountain and the day after that a group of about 4 made for home. We hitched a lift back to Grenoble to catch an early evening train, an overnighter, absolutely chock bang full of Italians, no seats to be had, so sleeping bags and lilo's out, we camped at the end between two carriages, right by the toilets! and slept there the night. Another day to get to Calais and onto the ferry, back to London and get the train to Nottingham. Met at the station by parents, and my mother walked right past me, not recognising my blonded hair and tanned skin!!
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Who is facing Ian Curphey?
The oversize chicken hut refuge on Pic Coolidge with Alan Harrison at left and Ian Curphey centre. There is another face in the doorway but not sure who. (see enlargement). Other people I do know who made the climb were Melvin Batchford, Ian Patrick, Paul Thompson, Peter Nicholson and myself Stuart(Cheg)Chester.
If you did not get a mention and you were there, let me know!
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Press release: NC Secretary of Commerce to visit Asheville high school next week as part of gov's 'Education Works' tour
N.C. Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco. Photo courtesy of N.C. Dept. of Commerce.
From the North Carolina Office of Gov. Bev Perdue, shared May 12:
RALEIGH – Gov. Perdue today announced that she and her cabinet secretaries will spend the next seven days showing how "Education Works" – visiting classrooms in public schools and community colleges around the state and talking to teachers, students and local leaders about the importance of education in our economic recovery.
The new focus follows the governor's Jobs Tour of April, during which time she announced 4,700 new and retained jobs and a quarter billion dollars in new investment from businesses. It also comes on the heels of a state budget from the House of Representatives that proposed the largest mass layoff of education personnel in state history.
"We celebrate our teachers because they are the men and women responsible for preparing our children in a competitive global economy – for ensuring that North Carolina's workers remain competitive, sharp, innovative and smart," said Gov. Perdue. "I'm traveling the state to keep fighting for our educators and our education system at every level. The foundation we build for our future is too important to abandon."
GOV. PERDUE'S VISIT TODAY (May 12)
Who: Gov. Bev Perdue and Tracy Coston, principal of Belville Elementary School
What: Visit to Belville Elementary School, in Leland
When: Thursday, May 12, at 3:30 p.m.
Where: 575 River Road
CABINET SECRETARY EVENTS
Secretary of Revenue David Hoyle will visit Gaston Community College, at 201 Highway 321 South, in Dallas, at 11 a.m.
Secretary Linda Hayes, of the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention will be interviewed on WFSS, 91.9 FM, Fayetteville State University's radio station, at 8:30 a.m. in Fayetteville.
Secretary Linda A. Carlisle, of the Department of Cultural Resources, will visit Weaver Academy, 300 Spring St., in Greensboro, at 9:15 a.m. Secretary Carlisle will visit Peeler Open Elementary School for the Performing Arts, 2200 Randall St., in Greensboro, at 10:45 a.m.
Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco will visit T.C. Roberson High School, at 250 Overlook Road, in Asheville, at 9:30 a.m. to talk to business management and information technology classes.
Secretary of Correction Alvin Keller will speak to an Honors, Law and Justice class at Holly Springs High School, 5329 Cass Holt Road, in Holly Springs at 11:30 a.m.
Secretary of Transportation Gene Conti will visit Rocky Mount High School, 308 South Tillery Street, in Rocky Mount, at 9:30 a.m.
Secretary Reuben Young, of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, will speak at the graduation ceremony for new Alcohol Law Enforcement officers, at the Sampson Community College Auditorium, 1801 Sunset Ave., Hwy. 24 West, in Clinton, at 10 a.m.
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From Editor Robert Parry: In the near 18-year history of Consortiumnews, we have relied mostly on small donations from readers and an occasional grant from a few family foundations. But it's important that we finally secure funding support from a big donor or two if we are to reach a larger audience.
With that in mind, I've prepared the following narrative explaining why we exist and what we have accomplished. If you know anyone who fits the bill as a potential major funder, please forward this message along with your recommendation that we deserve serious consideration:
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As a longtime investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline, I reached the unpleasant conclusion in the 1990s that journalism was failing the American people and our democratic Republic. For a host of reasons from personal careerism to ideological pressures mainstream journalists simply weren't taking on the challenging stories that were defining U.S. policies and politics, especially in the areas of national security.
My conclusion was shaped by the hostility that often greeted my own investigative work and that of a few others into the crimes of the Reagan administration, from secret arms shipments to various unsavory characters, to tolerance of drug trafficking by supposed allies in Central America, to the cover-up of the wrongdoing. But Ronald Reagan was well-liked and many news executives shared his views about the need for a robust U.S. foreign policy. So negative stories were usually received with annoyance, if not anger.
While some of this may seem like ancient history, the failure of the mainstream news media to deal honestly and professionally with the grim reality of the Reagan years distorted America's political structure over the next decades in ways that have handed dangerous people control of important levers of national power, taking the country into unnecessary wars, draining the national Treasury and refining tactics that are used for propagandizing the public.
My experiences from that time convinced me that nothing is more important to a democracy than a truthful narrative of key events. Out of my frustrations with what had become a timid or complicit mainstream media grew the idea for Consortiumnews.com, founded in 1995 in the early days of the modern Internet.
The original idea was to use this new medium to create a framework that would support the work of investigative journalists, providing them resources, editing support and a place to publish. I thought naively as it turned out that the funding would be the easy part, that foundations and wealthy individuals would understand the need.
The funding instead became the principal drawback, but we pressed ahead creating a home for invaluable investigative journalism that reset the narrative of recent decades based on documentary evidence and other solid reporting.
But perhaps my biggest surprise was that Consortiumnews.com began to attract submissions from former CIA analysts who, it turned out, had been facing the same kinds of pressures inside the government to slant their analyses that we in the mainstream press were encountering in our newsrooms. These intelligence professionals saw their job as getting the information right just as responsible journalists did.
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NY 25A is the northernmost major east/west route on Long Island. It begins as 21 Street and Jackson Avenue at the Midtown Tunnel (I-495). Jackson Avenue ends at Queens Boulevard (NY 25), where Northern Boulevard begins. Northern Boulevard runs east through Queens and Nassau. At the Nassau-Suffolk county line, Northern Boulevard ends and NY 25A is routed to the north along Harbor Road through Cold Spring Harbor. Harbor Road becomes Main Street, which runs through Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington. After Huntington, Main Street becomes Fort Salonga Road, which later becomes Saint Johnland Road. NY 25A is multiplexed with NY 25 as Main Street in Smithtown. After NY 25 and NY 25A split, NY 25A is called North Country Road, in addition to some sections that have no name. As one proceeds farther east, NY 25A is called Hulse Avenue. The last section of NY 25A is Parker Road, which cuts to the south and ends at NY 25 in Calverton. Many years ago, instead of cutting south on Parker Road, NY 25A extended farther east along Sound Avenue and ended at NY 25 in Mattituck.
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hi all..i was in the city centre this morning and took these pics..wont be able to do this soon as from 22nd july all traffic including buses will cease to run down corporation st owing to the new metro track that is being built..its the end of an era..
I was in corporation Street today.
We are seeing so many changes........sad really.
Trust me Den they aren't all for the better either.
I wonder how much this city spent in the olden days ripping up the tram lines.
I really don't understand why trams were done away with, all they needed was upgrading and modernising. Don't tell me that the economists didn't see the massive rises in fuel costs coming even 60 years ago.
No john, I can't do that on my camera. I used one of my comp programs.
I look at these photo's and wouldn't know they were taken in Corporation Street if you hadn't told me.
Is it the end of oof buses?


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Q: How to translate this "Group By" MySQL query to Spring's JPA / CrudRepository interface We have a MySQL table
id | username | state | action
 1 |  Ringo   |   CA  |  sell
 2 |  Paul    |   CA  |  sell
 3 |  John    |   CA  |  buy
 4 |  Ringo   |   CA  |  sell
 5 |  Ringo   |   MA  |  sell

And we like to get the latest "sell" actions of each user in "CA" (so in this example, for Ringo, we like to get record number 4, but not record number 1).
In MySQL, we can do something like that (I bet this can be improved):
select * from actions where id in (
   select max(id) from actions
   where action = "sell"
   and state = "CA"
   group by username
)

We were trying to do it in Spring's CrudRepository in several ways, but none seems to do what we like.
Here are some of the things we have tried:
public interface ActionsRepository extends CrudRepository<ActionEntry, Long>{
List<ActionEntry> findDistinctUserNameByStateAndActionOrderByIdDesc(String state, String action);
List<ActionEntry> findTopByStateAndActionOrderByIdDesc(String namespace, String action);

Is there a way to do it in JPA?

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Gullinbursti (Old Norse: , meaning "Gold Mane" or "Golden Bristles") is a boar in Norse mythology.

When Loki had Sif's hair, Freyr's ship Skíðblaðnir, and Odin's spear Gungnir fashioned by the Sons of Ivaldi, he bet his own head with Brokkr that his brother Eitri (Sindri) would not have been able to make items to match the quality of those mentioned above.

So to make gifts to Freyr, Eitri threw a pig's skin into a furnace as Brokkr worked on the bellows, and together they manufactured the boar Gullinbursti which had bristles in its mane that glowed in the dark.

The story of Gullinbursti's creation is related in the Skáldskaparmál section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

According to Húsdrápa, Freyr rode Gullinbursti to Baldr's funeral, while in Gylfaginning, Snorri states that Freyr rode to the funeral in a chariot pulled by the boar.

The boar is also known as Slíðrugtanni (Old Norse: meaning "Sharp Tooth" or "Fearsome Tooth") (sometimes anglicized to "Slidrugtanni").

In fairy tales
In a Dutch fairy tale, a fairy prince named Fro, son of Nerthus, sculpts with gold The Pig with the Golden Bristles, named Gullin in the story.

References

Creatures in Norse mythology
Freyr
Mythological pigs
Wild boars

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Microchaetes sphaericus is een keversoort uit de familie pilkevers (Byrrhidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1834 door Hope.

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Q: Calling a controller method within another in functional test behaves weirdly It seems that when a public static method of a controller calls another public static method of the same controller explicitly (with a Java call), Play! doesn't know to just execute the code or redirect in functional tests.
If I have:
public class ApplicationTest extends FunctionalTest {
    @Test
    public void testProvesThatFunctionalTestsDoesntCallControllerMethods() {
        Response response = GET("/");

        assertEquals("", getContent(response));
    }

    @Test
    public void testProvesThatCallingItDirectlyWorksAsExpected() throws Exception {
        Response response = GET("/another");

        assertEquals("ok!", getContent(response));

    }

}

And:
public class Application extends Controller {
    public static void index() {
        another();
    }

    public static void another() {
        renderText("ok!");
    }
}

But if I run play run or play start and call "/" in my web browser then it returns "ok!", shouldn't FunctionalTest work exactly like running it in production or as if the real server? It pushes me to avoid functional test or have a huge manual setup and dependency of a pre-running web server, that's not cool.
Thanks in advance.

A: In your browser, when you call "/" it returns "ok" but not on the first response. It firsts return a redirect (302) and then returns a 200 (ok).
In your functional test, it is the same, You have to do something like
Response response = GET("/");
assertStatus(302, response);
response = GET(response.headers.get("Location").value())
assertIsOk(response);
assertEquals("ok!", getContent(response));


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President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
As the debate over voting by mail continues, President Donald Trump told a North Carolina news outlet that voters should test election safeguards by voting both in person and via mail, something which could cause voters legal issues.
Trump has expressed doubt in mail-in voting during the 2020 election cycle, claiming that mail-in voting is prone to fraud. But many states, some of which are led by Republicans, are ramping up mail-in voting efforts. Proponents of mail-in voting say that it is a safer alternative than in-person voting given the coronavirus pandemic.
The president, speaking to a reporter from WECT, said he wanted voters to test the state's safeguards.
"So let them send it in and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote," Trump told WECT. "If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. So that's the way it is. And that's what they should do."
In North Carolina, it is a Class I felony to vote twice. The National Conference of State Legislatures has a list of laws pertaining to "double voting" on its website. Voting twice in an election is illegal across the US.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, US Attorney General William Barr said that voting by mail is "playing with fire."
"We're a very closely divided country here," Barr told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "And if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and the legitimacy of the government and people trying to change the rules to this, to this methodology, which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion, is reckless and dangerous. And the people are playing with fire."
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Previously, investors and traders on those platforms would have to venture out into cyberspace on their own, finding relevant and trustworthy sources of information. As of November 2019, though, WiseAlpha and Seedrs will directly integrate CityFALCON content, making the due diligence process that much easier for retail investors.
Having invested in private companies and startups myself, I've experienced the pain associated with conducting pre-purchase due diligence and tracking progress post-investment for low-coverage securities. At CityFALCON, we are working to cover all the content that investors need to make informed decisions – news, company filings, sentiment, analytics, and alternative data. Using that as a basis, we are now working with Seedrs to provide as much transparency as possible in the private markets, where it is not easy to find timely content, while also providing a centralised location for due diligence to WiseAlpha, too.
Who are WiseAlpha and Seedrs?
Both are upstart, UK-based companies in the financial industry, and both now use CityFALCON content to power some of the data available to their customers.
WiseAlpha is an innovative corporate bond marketplace, whose main selling point is fractional bonds. They enable everyday investors to buy corporate bonds in clips of £100, financial products that were traditionally reserved only for a few institutional players due to minimum investment requirements.
This fractional offering makes it easier for retail users to buy bonds and, importantly, to diversify bond holdings. WiseAlpha uses cutting edge technology to improve the financial wellbeing of individuals and strongly believes in democratisation, empowerment, access, and transparency – just like us.
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Hertha Berlin had to settle for a share of the spoils on Saturday, after a resolute FC Augsburg held them to a goalless draw at the WWK ARENA.
Augsburg began the day nine points and places behind their fourth-placed visitors, but they were lively in the opening exchanges, with John Anthony Brooks' last-gasp interception all that separated Dong-won Ji from a gilt-edged chance minutes in. The capital club settled into their stride though, and Alexander Esswein was unlucky not to break the deadlock midway through the half, but the winger saw one shot on his weaker right-foot pushed around the post by Marwin Hitz, before another effort on his preferred left span wide.
Pal Dardai brought Genki Haraguchi and Julian Schieber on for Esswein and Salomon Kalou just past the hour, but they struggled to make an impact against a resolute home defence. Schieber saw a deflected header drift wide for a goal kick before Valentin Stocker - with another header - was denied by Hitz, who did brilliantly to race off his line after Veded Ibisevic had wrought havoc in the home box. It ended 0-0 with Hertha the more frustrated of the two sides at the share of the spoils.
Hertha's 21 points is nonetheless their best return at this stage of the season since the 2001/02 campaign when they went on to finish fourth. Dardai's side spent 20 weeks in the UEFA Champions League stages last year, and a tricky point on the road here is indicative of that having been no fluke.
Hertha kept their fifth clean sheet of the season.The capital club completed 456 passes to Augsburg's 279.Now on 12 points, this is Augsburg's best ever start to a top-flight campaign.


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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory är ett smygarspel.

I detta spel gäller det att smyga och överlista fienden för att man ska kunna klara av uppdragen. Man spelar som Sam Fisher, som är en "Splinter Cell", en agent som specialiserat sig på att vara osynlig och bara konfrontera fienden då det är absolut nödvändigt. Hans uppdragsgivare är "Third Echelon", en topphemlig del inom den amerikanska underrättelsetjänsten. Till sin hjälp har han flera olika vapen och massor med utrustning. Han står även i konstant radiokontakt med sin chef och ett team som kan behandla och bidra med information i realtid. Spelaren kan själv välja på vilket sätt denne vill spela. Man kan smyga och göra uppdraget utan att fienden ens vet att man är där, eller så kan man storma in och skjuta alla man ser. Detta är del tre i Tom Clancys Splinter Cell-serie med Samuel 'Sam' Fisher i huvudrollen.

Nyheter
I Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory har man tillgång till en del ny utrustning och grafiken har förbättrats avsevärt. Vissa saker har också förändrats på olika sätt.

Grafik
Grafiken har fått sig en rejäl uppgradering sedan sist. Numera är mörka hörn verkligen mörka och våta saker glänser om ljus lyser mot dem. För övrigt är allt mycket skarpare och känns mer verkligt.

Nya hjälpmedel

EEV (Electronicly Enhanced Vision)
Denna ersätter kikaren som fanns tidigare. Med denna kan man nu även använda datorer trådlöst på avstånd, så länge ingenting ligger i vägen. Detta möjliggör till exempel att man kan hämta information från en dator som används av en fiende, utan att behöva likvidera honom.

Hacking och datorer
Nu kan man ta sig igenom kodlås och ögonskanner utan att behöva ta reda på koden eller leta reda på en fiende som kan aktivera skannern. Detta genom att koppla upp sig mot panelen och hacka den manuellt. Man gör detta genom att steg för steg lista ut den korrekta IP-adressen för rätt kod.
Ofta behöver man hacka sig in i vissa partitioner i datorer för att komma åt viktig information. Numera får man själv titta igenom filerna, istället för att bara "använda" datorn.

Ljudmätare
Man har fortfarande kvar mätaren som visar hur mycket man syns, fast nu måste man också hålla koll på en mätare som visar hur mycket oväsen man för. Olika miljöer har olika mycket bakgrundsljud. Så om man står bredvid en högljudd fläkt så kan man föra mer oväsen än om man står i en tyst korridor.

Utrustningsförändringar
 Sam har nu tillgång till en kniv, med vilken man kan döda fiender, göra hål i tältdukar samt sabotera utrustning.
 "SC 20K"-geväret kan nu utrustas med flera olika tillägg (se mer nedan).
 Pistolen har utrustats med en liten apparat som tillfälligt kan störa ut elektronisk utrustning (se mer nedan).
 "Sticky Cam" och "Diversiary Cam" har sammanfogats till "Sticky Camera". Den kan göra samma saker som båda de gamla kamerorna kunde göra.
 "Ring Airfoil"-granaten knockar nu ut fiender med en träff.

Handling
Idag styrs nästan allting av datorer. Tänk dig att det finns ett sätt att ta sig in i vilken dator som helst utan problem och att bara två personer vet hur. Nu har den ena hittats torterad och mördad i Peru och den andre är spårlöst försvunnen.

Det är år 2007 och Japan har skapat en ny underrättelsetjänst, I-SDF, som har möjlighet att utföra operationer långt utanför Japan. Kina och Nordkorea anser att detta är ett brott mot den grundlag som infördes i Japan efter andra världskriget och inför en blockad för japanska skepp i gula havet. Då USA och Japan är allierade, skickar USA sitt modernaste krigsfartyg, USS Clarence E Walsh, till japanska havet för att försöka lösa konflikten.

På andra sidan stilla havet har Sam Fisher fått i uppdrag att rädda datorteknikern Bruce Morgenholt som har blivit kidnappad av peruanska revolutionärer. Morgenholt arbetade tillsammans med Ibrahim Zerkhezhi med att dechiffrera och undersöka de algoritmer, kallade The Masse Kernels, som skapats av Phillip Masse, för att användas mot USA (i det första Splinter Cell-spelet. Sam dödade dock honom).

Som betalning har de fått en stor sändning med toppmoderna vapen. Sam hinner dock inte fram till Bruce i tid, så nu måste han ta reda på vem som gett revolutionärerna uppdraget att kidnappa honom. Via banken som sköter om revolutionärernas transaktioner, leder spåret vidare till Ibrahim Zerkhezhi. Han är dock spårlöst försvunnen.

Samtidigt kraschar den japanska börsen och en serie strömavbrott sker i både USA och Japan. Detta innebär att den som nu har tillgång till algoritmerna också är villig att använda dem. Detta faktum blir ännu mer tydligt då USS Clarence E Walshs försvarssystem plötsligt kopplas ur och strax därefter träffas av en missil från Nordkorea, vilket resulterar i en krigsförklaring mellan Nordkorea och Sydkorea/USA. Nordkorea hävdar dock att de inte sköt iväg missilen avsiktligt. Detta tyder på att den som innehar Masses algoritmer är ute efter att starta ett krig i fjärran östern, som kan eskalera till ett tredje världskrig. Därför måste Sam hitta de skyldiga innan det är för sent.

Vapen och utrustning

Commando Knife
Med denna kan man tyst neutralisera sina offer. Den kan även användas till att skära hål i mjuka material och som verktyg vid desarmering av bomber.

Pistol
Sam har en FN 5,7-pistol med ljuddämpare som kan användas för att tyst döda enstaka fiender på medelavstånd. Den har även en liten apparat kallad OCP, fastsatt. Med denna kan man störa ut elektronisk utrustning (lampor, kameror, datorskärmar etc.) under korta perioder.

Gevär
Sam har ett specialdesignat gevär: FN 2000, som med olika tillägg (attachments) kan utformas efter behov. Geväret använder NATO 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition och är utrustat med en ljuddämpare.
 Foregrip attachment
 Tillägg för att man ska kunna skjuta mer pricksäkert.
 Sniper attachment
 Skjuter antimaterialkulor som kan gå igenom det mesta. Den är användbar på långa avstånd, men är ganska högljudd.
 Shotgun attachment
 Utmärkt för närstrid då smygande inte är nödvändigt.
 Launcher attachment
 Kanske den mest användbara. Med denna kan man skjuta iväg flera olika projektiler ljudlöst.
 Sticky Shocker
 Den avger en rejäl elstöt som bedövar människor utan problem. Med denna kan man neutralisera fiender på medelavstånd utan att döda.
 Ring Airfoil Round
 Används för att fysiskt knocka fiender.
 Sticky Camera
 Kan användas för spaning och kan även användas för att släppa ut gas, som söver ner en människa på ett par sekunder.
 Gas Grenade
 Avger samma gas som tidigare, fast ifrån en liten granat.

Granater
Det finns explosiva granater, gasgranater, flashbangs och väggminor. Dessa är ofta mycket användbara i olika situationer. Dock är de högljudda och bör undvikas om möjligt.

Synförstärkningsutrustning
Liksom tidigare bär Sam speciella mörkerglasögon, som även har ett heat-vision-läge. Nytt i detta spel är ett läge som låter användaren se strålning från elektronisk utrustning och det tidigare nämnda EEV-läget. Då Sam oftast arbetar i mörker är denna utrustning ovärderlig. Tack vare den kan man utan problem ta sig runt i totalt mörker, medan fienden är tvungen att använda sig av ficklampor.

Ljud- och Ljusmätare
Ljusmätaren är samma som i tidigare spel. Den visar hur mycket ljus man får på sig. Ljudmätaren är ny för detta spel och visar hur mycket oväsen man för. Båda dessa är bra att ha om man vill undvika att bli upptäckt.

Moves
Det som alltid varit utmärkande för Splinter Cell-serien är de många olika tekniker man kan utföra. Allt från att hänga i rör i taket till att smyga sig på en fiende och ta tag i honom bakifrån är möjligt! Några nyheter är möjligheten att kunna ta tag i en fiende som passerar under en när man hänger i taket, eller släppa taget och falla ner på honom och knocka honom istället. Nu kan man också i flera olika situationer välja om man vill döda eller bara knocka fiender. Möjligheten att byta från höger till vänster hand då man använder vapen blir mycket användbart om man måste skjuta från en skyddad position.

Multiplayer
Som i Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow finns det även onlinespel. I Versus Mode ska Legoknektar (Argus PMC) som spelar i förstapersonsläge och Spioner (Shadownet Spies), som spelar i tredjepersonsläge, slåss mot varandra och utföra olika uppdrag. Båda lagen är förstås utrustade med flera olika elektroniska prylar och vapen. Spionerna har inga kraftiga vapen, så de klarar sig bäst genom att hålla sig gömda. Legoknektarna använder sig av kraftiga vapen, fast de saknar möjligheten att kunna gömma sig. Det finns fem typer av uppdrag:
 Neutralisation
 Spionerna ska leta reda på datorterminaler och sedan arbeta med dem ett tag. Detta tar lite tid, men man kan avbryta och sedan fortsätta där man var. Legoknektarna ska skydda terminalerna och döda spionerna.
 Extraction
 Spionerna ska leta reda på och stjäla hårddiskar, som de sedan ska leverera till en speciell avlämningsplats. :Legoknektarna ska förhindra detta och döda Spionerna.
 Bombning
 Spionerna ska bomba speciella mål. Legoknektarna ska förhindra detta genom att desarmera eventuella bomber och döda Spionerna.
 Disc Hunt
 Spionerna ska stjäla och behålla ett antal Discs. Legoknektarna ska se till att Spionerna inte får tag i allihop och döda dem.
 Deathmatch
 Båda lagen ska eliminera motståndarlaget.

Det har även tillkommit ett nytt spelsätt: Co-op. Här får två agenter samarbeta i fem unika uppdrag som passar in i handlingsförloppet i Single-Player delen. Agenterna är blivande Splinter Cells, men på grund av det katastrofala läget har Third Echelon valt att kalla in alla tillgängliga resurser. Agenterna kallas bara Agent One och Agent Two. Med detta nya spelsätt tillkommer flera nya prylar och tekniker. Då detta spelsätt blev mycket populärt, släppte Ubisoft två nya banor som man kan ladda ner.

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I stumbled upon InkTober last year and thought it looked like a lot of fun! Of course, I didn't find it until December or something like that. Always too late.
Not this year. I started seeing posts about a week ago and thought …. yeah, I'm gonna do that this year! I'm nowhere near the level of InkTober creator, Jake Parker, but what the heck.
I'll start out simple...stuff around the house...like my purse here. Maybe work my way up to something grand!
I need a good kick in the pants to get me going again. I took of a few days off from blogging in early September and that turned into a few weeks.
My problem is that I continue to draw and doodle. I just get hung up on the scanning and blogging part! Life keeps getting in the way!
So now I've committed myself to #inktober. You read it right here!
You make me jaleous ... sigh ... I will have so much to do in the office for the next two months and can't attend. But I love your purse! It's super stylish and elegant!


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Q: Why do we say plenty of x? We say "I have plenty of apples." But why not "I have plenty apples?" This would follow the pattern of "I have enough apples." "I have too few apples." "I have too many apples." In all of these cases, I would only use 'of' in special cases, like "I have too much of this." But with 'plenty', 'of' is the default rather than the exception. Why is this?

A: Questions about idiomatic usage are difficult to answer with assurance, but "plenty" came into English from the Old French, and likely the Normans used an "of" equivalent.  They got the word from the Latin plenus, full, and nouns following that word take the genitive case.

A: Probably a construction which dates back from its origins. The use without of is very informal.
Plenty (n.)

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*mid-13c., "as much as one could desire," from Old French plentee, earlier plentet "abundance, profusion" (12c., Modern French dialectal plenté), from Latin plenitatem (nominative plenitas) "fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary). Meaning "condition of general abundance" is from late 14c. The colloquial adverb meaning "very much" is first attested 1842.  Middle English had parallel formation plenteth, from the older Old French form of the word. (Etymonline)

Plenty of  : (Usage note:)

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*The construction plenty of is standard in all varieties of speech and writing: plenty of room in the shed. The use of plenty preceding a noun, without an intervening of, first appeared in the late 19th century: plenty room in the shed.It occurs today chiefly in informal speech. As an adverb, a use first recorded in the mid-19th century, plenty is also informal and is found chiefly in speech or written representations of speech.

(Random House Dictionary)

A: Plenty in ME was (at first) not an adjective but a noun, meaning "fullness, abundance". When conjoined with another noun, it would take 'of' in its partitive genitive sense, e.g. plenty of time, as we today would say "with an abundance of caution".


This study provides recommendations that should be considered as Wickford Village faces the location of a Wal-Mart store approximately two miles away from the village center. These recommendations are the results of observations of Wickford Village, interviews with business owners in Wickford Village, research on the effect of Wal-Mart on "Main Street, and the identification of strengths and weaknesses in Wickford Village." The recommendations are primarily concerned with the physical and economic effects on Wickford Village. While no one can predict the precise economic or physical effects Wal-Mart will have on Wickford Village, these recommendations are intended to make the negative effects minimal and allow Wickford Village to survive by becoming a year-round destination.
Major, Kristine, "Preserving Wickford Village in the Shadow of Wal-Mart" (1996). Open Access Master's Theses. Paper 755.