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using System.Collections.Generic;
using FluentMigrator.Builders.Delete.Index;
using FluentMigrator.Expressions;
using FluentMigrator.Model;
using Moq;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace FluentMigrator.Tests.Unit.Builders.Delete
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class DeleteIndexExpressionBuilderTests
    {
        [Test]
        public void CallingOnTableSetsTableNameToSpecifiedValue()
        {
            var indexMock = new Mock<IndexDefinition>();

            var expressionMock = new Mock<DeleteIndexExpression>();
            expressionMock.SetupGet(e => e.Index).Returns(indexMock.Object);

            var builder = new DeleteIndexExpressionBuilder(expressionMock.Object);
            builder.OnTable("Bacon");

            indexMock.VerifySet(x => x.TableName = "Bacon");
            expressionMock.VerifyGet(e => e.Index);
        }

        [Test]
        public void CallingOnColumnAddsNewColumnToExpression()
        {
            var collectionMock = new Mock<IList<IndexColumnDefinition>>();

            var indexMock = new Mock<IndexDefinition>();
            indexMock.SetupGet(x => x.Columns).Returns(collectionMock.Object);

            var expressionMock = new Mock<DeleteIndexExpression>();
            expressionMock.SetupGet(e => e.Index).Returns(indexMock.Object);

            var builder = new DeleteIndexExpressionBuilder(expressionMock.Object);
            builder.OnColumn("BaconId");

            collectionMock.Verify(x => x.Add(It.Is<IndexColumnDefinition>(c => c.Name.Equals("BaconId"))));
            indexMock.VerifyGet(x => x.Columns);
            expressionMock.VerifyGet(e => e.Index);
        }

        [Test]
        public void CallingOnColumnsAddsMultipleNewColumnsToExpression()
        {
            var collectionMock = new Mock<IList<IndexColumnDefinition>>();

            var indexMock = new Mock<IndexDefinition>();
            indexMock.SetupGet(x => x.Columns).Returns(collectionMock.Object);

            var expressionMock = new Mock<DeleteIndexExpression>();
            expressionMock.SetupGet(e => e.Index).Returns(indexMock.Object);

            var builder = new DeleteIndexExpressionBuilder(expressionMock.Object);
            builder.OnColumns("BaconId", "EggsId");

            collectionMock.Verify(x => x.Add(It.Is<IndexColumnDefinition>(c => c.Name.Equals("BaconId"))));
            collectionMock.Verify(x => x.Add(It.Is<IndexColumnDefinition>(c => c.Name.Equals("EggsId"))));
            indexMock.VerifyGet(x => x.Columns);
            expressionMock.VerifyGet(e => e.Index);
        }
    }
}

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Documentary, Entertainment, Events, History, Movies, Politics, Protests, U.S.	 January 8, 2017
"Birth of a Movement", PBS Documentary on William Monroe Trotter and his Protest of Original "The Birth of a Nation", Premieres Feb. 6
(Image via boston.eventful.com)
article by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (follow @lakinhutcherson)
Birth of a Movement, a documentary about African-American newspaper editor William Monroe Trotter's 1915 battle against America's first blockbuster movie – D.W. Griffith's infamous The Birth of a Nation – will have its broadcast premiere Feb 6, 2017 on Independent Lens/PBS.
The documentary film was produced and directed by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray at NLP in Boston, is executive produced by Sam Pollard and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (who is also interviewed in the film), is narrated by Danny Glover, and written by filmmaker Kwyn Bader and Edgar Award Winner and Pulitzer nominee Dick Lehr. Spike Lee and Reginald Hudlin appear in the film, as does Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, who provided the score. There are also premiere screenings – open to the public – in Boston and NYC on Jan 30 and 31st, respectively.
For Boston ticket info, click here: http://boston.eventful.com/events/birth-movement-boston-premeire-/E0-001-098857426-8
For New York City ticket info, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/films-at-the-schomburg-birth-of-a-movement-the-battle-against-americas-first-blockbuster-tickets-30972781423
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Adults, Community, Documentary, History, Media/Internet, TV, U.S.	 December 3, 2016
PBS to Air Documentary on William Monroe Trotter, a Black Newspaper Editor Who Fought Against Original "The Birth of a Nation"
William Monroe Trotter (photo via colorlines.com)
article by Sameer Rao via colorlines.com
As D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" contributed to the Ku Klux Klan's resurgence nearly 100 years ago, pioneering Black newspaper editor and activist William Monroe Trotter fought to ban the film in his native Boston. An upcoming PBS doc will explore his battle against the infamous 1915 film.
"Birth of a Movement" focuses on Trotter's mobilization of community protests, which included an attempt to see the movie with supporters that ended in a scuffle and his arrest. These protests were part of a career spent critiquing segregationist policy that included founding and editing The Boston Guardian, criticizing Booker T. Washington, helping to create the NAACP and leading the National Equal Rights League. Trotter's activism grew into a broader movement to combat the film's violent aftermath.
The documentary premieres February 6 at 10 p.m. as part of PBS' "Independent Lens" series.
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Books, Community, Entertainment, Fiction, Seniors, TV	 January 24, 2014
PBS' "American Masters" to Profile Alice Walker
Alice Walker at the London premiere of American Masters "Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth," in London. PBS will commemorate Black History Month with programs including a profile of "The Color Purple" author Walker. The Walker profile will air Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/PBS, Brenda Lawley)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — PBS will commemorate Black History Month with shows including a profile of The Color Purple author Alice Walker.
The public television service announced Tuesday that the program about Walker will air Feb. 7 as part of the American Masters series.
Other PBS shows marking Black History Month in February include American Promise, a coming-of-age documentary about two young men, and a documentary about a Mississippi state commission that investigated foes of segregation.
American Promise airs Feb. 3 on the POV showcase. Spies of Mississippi will air Feb. 10 on the Independent Lens program.
To mark Black History Month online, PBS.org will offer Behind the Lens, about photographer Eunique Jones Gibson's portrayals of prominent African-Americans as youngsters.
article via bigstory.ap.org
Filed under: "American Masters", "Independent Lens", "Spies of Mississippi", Alice Walker, Black History Month, Eunique Jones Gibson, Eunique Jones Photography, PBS
Documentary, Entertainment, History, Justice, TV	 February 24, 2013 February 26, 2013
Whitney Young Documentary On PBS Tells Story Of Unsung Civil Rights Leader
WASHINGTON — Just before the March on Washington in 1963, President John F. Kennedy summoned six top civil rights leaders to the White House to talk about his fears that civil rights legislation he was moving through Congress might be undermined if the march turned violent.
Whitney Young Jr. cut through the president's uncertainty with three questions: "President Kennedy, which side are you on? Are you on the side of George Wallace of Alabama? Or are you on the side of justice?" One of those leaders, John Lewis, later a longtime congressman from Georgia, tells the story of Young's boldness in "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights," a documentary airing during Black History Month on the PBS series "Independent Lens" and shown in some community theaters.
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I reached for an Irish whiskey — two fingers, neat, as my uncle used to say in trying to teach me how to drink — just after finishing "Last Call," Daniel Okrent's haunting and entertaining book on Prohibition. The drink was necessary, in part, because his gallop through one of the most otherworldly episodes in American history made me shudder at the parallels to this age.
We are about to get a full immersion in that great moralistic experiment from 1919 to 1933, a generator of crime not just vast and organized, but vertically integrated from street thugs to judges. "Prohibition," the latest story from the history factory of filmmaker Ken Burns, is set to run on PBS stations in October. It was co-directed by Lynn Novick and is a "first cousin" to the book, in Okrent's words.
Burns has made that general comparison. "This is a story about a single-issue campaign that metastasized," he said, when I first heard him talk about "Prohibition" last year. Initially, I didn't see it that way. Still, after finishing Okrent's book during a summer of insanity in Congress, I found his conclusion less of a reach.
Prohibition got chiseled into the nation's governing document after the temperance cause became a grand vehicle for the loosely organized loathing that was widespread at the time, from the Ku Klux Klan to viciously anti-immigrant groups. Those who hated, or distrusted, Roman Catholics, new arrivals from Italy, Greece and other nations long tied to the grape, blacks, the teeming urban mass of the working poor — they made common cause with high-minded liberals and evangelical Protestants. The bigots thought if they could deprive the disenfranchised of drink they would take away their gathering houses and political wards — the neighborhood saloons. The purists thought people would raise their eyes to God, or spend more time at home, when all a working man could look forward to at the end of the day was root beer.
"A mighty alliance of moralists and progressives, suffragettes and xenophobes had legally seized the Constitution, bending it to a new purpose," writes Okrent, who was the first public editor of The Times.
The coalition against drink was hardly a majority. The Anti-Saloon League played an outsized role at the margins, killing off moderates at the primary level, or in legislative deals, and forcing politicians to pledge to their cause.
Sound familiar? Today, virtually every Republican in national office, and a majority of those seeking the presidency, has taken a pledge to an unelected, single-issue advocate named Grover Norquist. His goal is to never allow a net tax increase — under any circumstances — and in the process reduce government to a size where he can "drown it in the bathtub," in his well-known statement of mortal intentions.
So, even though huge majorities support keeping Medicare and Social Security strong, and raising taxes on the very rich in the interest of sustainable government, one single-issue group drives national affairs — to the bafflement of average citizens. This dysfunction was on full display in August when Republicans nearly pushed the government into default by refusing to budge from their fealty to Norquist.
The other parallel from the dry years concerns personal liberties. With the 18th Amendment, the prohibitionists took away the right to make a basic choice. Gov. Rick Perry, now leading the Republican polls for president, has vowed to do the same, promising to amend the Constitution in several ways to take away freedoms. One would prevent gays from ever getting married. Another would outlaw a woman's right to decide when to end a pregnancy. A third would repeal the 17th Amendment, which gives citizens the right to directly elect their senators.
Could any of this happen? It did, with Prohibition — the urge to dictate the private actions of citizens is a character trait that has never left the American gene pool.


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Blessed thistle is thought to be a galactagogue, taken to help increase breast milk production. Blessed thistle can help prevent or at the very least slow down bleeding due to its astringent-like qualities.
Because of these properties, blessed thistle is used to create natural remedies for skin ulcers and boils. It also enhances memory by delivering oxygen to the brain and is supportive of the heart and lungs.
It contains astringent compounds that are antiseptic, dilate peripheral blood vessels, and shrink inflamed tissue. Blessed thistle is an excellent herbal source of potassium and sodium.
The herb has been used to treat dysmenorrhoea, arthritis, dysuria, jaundice, fevers and respiratory allergies. It is given to young women beginning their menstrual cycles for the first time.
It will alleviate pain associated with menstruation and purify the blood. A tea made from the herb should be taken before bedtime to soothe the body during menstruation.
Blessed thistle is an excellent herb to use in the prevention of diseases. If heart or kidney problems run in your family, this herb should be taken daily before bedtime to prevent the onset of disease. Blessed thistle purifies the blood and keeps the organs healthy.
Topically, a poultice of this herb is used to soothe skin irritated by burns, scrapes, shaving, sunburn, and other relatively minor injuries. A poultice is usually a soft cloth that has been soaked in a medication, possibly heated, and applied to an aching or injured area of skin surface. Blessed thistle can be applied as often as needed.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should avoid taking blessed thistle because not enough is known about how it might affect developing babies or infants.


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/**
 * Internal dependencies
 */
import getCommonObjectValue from '../getCommonObjectValue';
import { MULTIPLE_VALUE } from '../../../../constants';

describe('getCommonObjectValue', () => {
  it('should return matching values for the defined properties', () => {
    const matchingValue = 1;
    const elements = [
      {
        foo: {
          a: matchingValue,
          b: 2,
        },
      },
      {
        foo: {
          a: matchingValue,
          b: 1,
        },
      },
    ];
    const defaultShape = { a: 0, b: 0 };
    const obj = getCommonObjectValue(elements, 'foo', defaultShape);
    expect(obj.a).toStrictEqual(matchingValue);
  });

  it('should return default value for unmatching properties', () => {
    const matchingValue = 1;
    const elements = [
      {
        foo: {
          a: matchingValue,
          b: 2,
        },
      },
      {
        foo: {
          a: matchingValue,
          b: 1,
        },
      },
    ];
    const defaultShape = { a: 0, b: 0 };
    const obj = getCommonObjectValue(elements, 'foo', defaultShape);
    expect(obj.b).toStrictEqual(MULTIPLE_VALUE);
  });

  it('should only return defined properties', () => {
    const matchingValue = 1;
    const elements = [
      {
        foo: {
          a: matchingValue,
          b: 2,
          c: 1,
        },
      },
      {
        foo: {
          a: matchingValue,
          b: 1,
          c: 1,
        },
      },
    ];
    const defaultShape = { b: 0, c: 0 };
    const obj = getCommonObjectValue(elements, 'foo', defaultShape);
    expect(obj.a).toBeUndefined();
    expect(obj.b).toBeDefined();
    expect(obj.c).toBeDefined();
  });
});


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module  ActiveRecordSchema
  module SchemaDiff
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern

    def diff(*args)
      diff_method = "_diff_" << args.join('_')
      self.respond_to?(diff_method) ? self.send(diff_method) : []
    end

    def nothing_to_do?
      table_exists? && diff(:fields, :add).empty? && diff(:indexes, :add).empty? && diff(:joins, :add).empty?
    end

    def table_exists?
      _table_exists?
    end

    def prefixed_table_name
      _table
    end

    def _diff_fields_add
      model.schema.fields.values.delete_if {|field| _column_names.include?(field.name.to_s) }
    end

    def _diff_indexes_add
      model.schema.indexes.values.delete_if {|index| _index_exists?(index.name) }
    end

    def _diff_joins_add
      model.schema.joins.values.delete_if {|join| _table_names.include?(join.table.to_s) }
    end

    def _connection
      ActiveRecord::Base.connection
    end

    def _table
      # prefix = model.parents.find {|p| p.respond_to?(:table_name_prefix)}.try(:table_name_prefix)
      model.table_name
    end

    def _column_names
      _table_exists? ? _connection.columns(_table).map(&:name) : []
    end

    def _table_names
      _connection.tables
    end

    def _table_exists?
      _connection.table_exists?(_table)
    end

    def _index_exists?(columns)
      _connection.index_exists?(_table, columns)
    end

  end
end


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Matthew Wilson
Neuroscientist, Dream Researcher
Matthew Wilson is Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Picower Scholar at MIT. His lab is interested in teasing apart the mechanisms of sleep and arousal, and applications of neuroscience in engineering and the study of intelligence. Wilson investigates brain systems that contribute to learning, memory, spatial navigation, and decision-making and their possible involvement in neurological diseases and disorders. His research has focused on the manner in which memory representations in the brain are formed, maintained, and used during behavior. His approach employs several distinct strategies for examining the neural basis of memory, including electrophysiological, molecular genetic, behavioral, and computational approaches. Wilson received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology. In addition to his professorship at MIT, Wilson is also the Associate Department Head for Education.
Past Programs Featuring Matthew Wilson
The Mind after Midnight: Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep?
Friday, June 3, 2011 | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm


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Higher EU climate target 'economically feasible'
Researchers highlight that there is "no credible pathway" to climate neutrality by 2050 without higher contributions from countries like Poland or the Czech Republic
By Elena Sánchez Nicolás
The EU's plan to reduce the bloc's greenhouse emissions by 55 percent by 2030 is "technically and economically feasible," according to a new report published on Monday (24 August) by German think-tank Agora Energiewende and environmental research institute Öko-Institut.
In September, the European Commission will present a revised EU 2030 emissions reduction target aligned with its 2050 climate-neutrality target set in the Green Deal.
The European Commission will propose increasing the 2030 emission-reduction target to between 50 and 55 percent (Photo: European Environment Agency)
To do so, the EU executive is expected to propose increasing the 2030 emission-reduction target from the existing 40 percent goal to between 50 and 55 percent.
The report points out that the reform of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) scheme, which covers emissions from power plants, energy-intensive industry, and commercial flights, could be key to reduce emissions quickly.
To deliver the 55 percent target, researchers estimate that the emissions covered by the EU carbon market should fall to 61 percent from 2005 levels - a bigger cut than the 43 percent reduction the ETS is set to deliver by 2030.
Additionally, emissions from sectors not covered by the EU carbon market, such as buildings, agriculture, and waste, should also drop by 47 percent from 2005 levels.
However, member states remain divided about a higher EU 2030 target, as central and eastern European countries have expressed concerns about different starting positions and possibly deepening inequalities.
Still, researchers highlighted that there was "no credible pathway" to climate neutrality by 2050 without higher contributions from countries like Poland or the Czech Republic, which have tried to water down calls for higher climate ambition in the EU.
Moreover, the report indicates that the recently proposed €1.85 trillion stimulus package does not provide "adequate safeguards" to ensure that the EU budget will help poorer member states ramp up investment in buildings, power, transport, and industry.
"It is crucial that, as part of the EU budget agreement, dedicated EU facilities are established to accelerate climate action in critical areas, with a special focus on poorer member states," the report says.
Another proposed option would be a new EU-wide system of auctioning emissions permits not covered by the ETS, with proceeds directed to help low-income EU countries.
Meanwhile, green groups have previously warned that increasing the 2030 climate target from 40 percent to between 50 and 55 percent is still not aligned with the Paris climate agreement and efforts to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees - calling for at least 65 percent in reduction targets.
Socialist Swedish MEP Jytte Guteland, who is the European Parliament's climate law rapporteur, announced earlier this year that she will try to push for a 65 percent emission-reduction target by 2030.
Why Poland can't and won't hit 2050 EU Green Deal target
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How to recover from corona without choking the planet
Many capitals, experts and politicians see Poland as the 'enfant terrible' of climate negotiations. Everybody asks why? But the answer is darn simple. Money and time.
Eight EU countries on Tuesday called on the European Commission to strengthen the Green Deal, while central and eastern Europe remain cautious - citing different starting positions and deepen inequalities.
Majority of member states are off-track to deliver on air pollution reduction commitments for 2020 and 2030, EU estimates, as emissions from new cars and vans increased again.
China's pledge to become carbon neutral before 2060 is "good news" for Europe, but it sends a clear message to Washington ahead of the US election - in which climate change has become a significant aspect for voters.
The EU's updated 2030 climate-target plan, due to be presented by the European Commission, have been criticised for including land and forest carbon sinks in its emissions-reduction goal. Green groups describe it as an "accounting trick".
MEPs ignore Commission to vote for 60% climate target
8. Oct 2020, 07:16
The European Parliament voted in favour of a 60-percent emissions-reduction target by 2030 in the first-ever EU climate law. MEPs also supported an interim 2040 target, and making the EU's 2050 climate-neutrality target binding for each member state.


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Raluka Serban (Nacida 17 de junio de 1997) es una jugadora de tenis profesional, nacida en Rumanía, de nacionalidad chipriota desde 2018.

Serban tiene como mejor ranking de individuales, el número 214, logrado en diciembre de 2018. También tiene como mejor ranking de dobles, el número 181, logrado en diciembre de 2018. Hasta la fecha, Șerban ha ganado diez títulos individuales y once de dobles en el circuito ITF .

Șerban debutó en un cuadro principal en el torneo de dobles de  2018 BGL Luxemburgo haciendo pareja con Isabella Shinikova.

Títulos ITF

Singles 10

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Tenistas femeninas de Rumania

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Magnelab UCT-1250 Series are better than one percent accuracy and less than one degree phase angle. Output is controlled by a precision resistor fixed at the industry standard of 0.333 Volt AC. The rugged epoxy encapsulated construction comes with eight feet twisted leads.
Solid-core current transformer products in the UCT class of sensors from Magnelab have better than a one percent accuracy and a less than one degree phase angle. Output is controlled by a precision resistor fixed at the industry standard of 0.333 Volt AC. The rugged epoxy encapsulated construction comes with eight feet twisted leads.
Revenue Grade version available with 0.5% linearity with less than 0.26° phase shift. See SPEC sheet for more details. For a solid-core current sensor with a 5 amp output, see the MGS solid-core current sensor.


The daily chart on CWEB looks interesting. With a rise in the last month, some consolidation but continued push towards the all time highs makes this a potential for a nice breakout.
Based on the weekly chart, I think if we can get a break, my target is for $24.


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Q: Calculating Weighted Mean in PySpark I am trying to calculate weighted mean in pyspark but not making a lot of progress
# Example data
df = sc.parallelize([
    ("a", 7, 1), ("a", 5, 2), ("a", 4, 3),
    ("b", 2, 2), ("b", 5, 4), ("c", 1, -1)
]).toDF(["k", "v1", "v2"])
df.show()

import numpy as np
def weighted_mean(workclass, final_weight):
    return np.average(workclass, weights=final_weight)

weighted_mean_udaf = pyspark.sql.functions.udf(weighted_mean,
    pyspark.sql.types.IntegerType())

but when I try to execute this code
df.groupby('k').agg(weighted_mean_udaf(df.v1,df.v2)).show()

I am getting the error
u"expression 'pythonUDF' is neither present in the group by, nor is it an aggregate function. Add to group by or wrap in first() (or first_value) if you don't care which value you get

My question is, can I specify a custom function ( taking multiple arguments) as argument to agg? If not, is there any alternative to perform operations like weighted mean after grouping by a key?

A: A User Defined Aggregation Function (UDAF, which works on pyspark.sql.GroupedData but not supported in pyspark) is not the same as a User Defined Function  (UDF, which works on pyspark.sql.DataFrame).
Because in pyspark you cannot create your own UDAF, and the supplied UDAFs cannot resolve your issue, you may need to go back to RDD world:
from numpy import sum

def weighted_mean(vals):
    vals = list(vals)  # save the values from the iterator
    sum_of_weights = sum(tup[1] for tup in vals)
    return sum(1. * tup[0] * tup[1] / sum_of_weights for tup in vals)

df.rdd.map(
    lambda x: (x[0], tuple(x[1:]))  # reshape to (key, val) so grouping could work
).groupByKey().mapValues(
    weighted_mean
).collect()

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Effect of temperature on life cycle and behaviour of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
Hafisha Khatun Anee Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Zannatul Ferdous Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Ashfaqul Muid Khandaker Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Mohammad Shamimul Alam Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Reza Md Shahjahan Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
https://doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v49i3.58511
Aedes aegypti, Heat-shock, Bioassay, Life cycle, Mortality
In this study, effect of increasing temperature on life cycle, mortality, and behavior of the mosquito species, Aedes aegypti was evaluated. Heat shock was applied at 32°C, 37°C and 42°C for 20 minutes, 1 hour and 2 hours for each temperature to egg, 2nd instar, 3rd instar and pupal stage separately and changes in life cycle pattern was recorded on a routine basis. The control temperature was 27°C at which the mosquito was reared. When heat-shock was applied to eggs, the developmental period for each stage was found to be inversely proportional to temperature rise. The shortest embryonic developmental period was recorded at 32°C, and the shortest larval and pupal stages were recorded at 37°C (2h). The shortest full development period was also found to be at 37°C (2h). No hatching was recorded at 42°C. While heat shock was applied to 2nd instar larvae, 3rd instar larvae and pupae, similar decreased pattern was observed. In this study, 100% viability was observed upon heat shock to eggs, larvae (2nd and 3rd instar) and pupae at 27°C and 32°C. In case of 37°C, egg, 2nd instar and pupal viability decreased. No egg hatched at 42°C, while few 2nd instars survived. Lowest viability rate for 3rd instar larvae and pupae were counted at 42°C. Change in the rate of movement also decreased gradually with increasing temperatures in pupae. The change was irregular in case of 2nd and 3rd instar larvae. The highest movement was recorded for 2nd and 3rd instar larvae at 32°C and 27°C, respectively and lowest was recorded at 42°C.
Bangladesh J. Zool. 49 (3): 369-379, 2021
Anee, H. K., Ferdous, Z. ., Khandaker, A. M., Alam, M. S. ., & Md Shahjahan, R. . (2022). Effect of temperature on life cycle and behaviour of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 49(3), 369–379. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v49i3.58511


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Judge approves change of venue for Richmond Hill explosion suspect Mark Leonard
The Marion County prosecutor has dropped its opposition to a request to move the trial of Richmond Hill suspect Mark Leonard out of Marion County.
Judge approves change of venue for Richmond Hill explosion suspect Mark Leonard The Marion County prosecutor has dropped its opposition to a request to move the trial of Richmond Hill suspect Mark Leonard out of Marion County. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1mZf2hp
Tim Evans, tim.evans@indystar.com Published 12:34 p.m. ET July 29, 2014 | Updated 8:42 p.m. ET July 30, 2014
Mark Leonard is led from a court hearing Feb. 20, 2013.(Photo: Charlie Nye/The Star file photo)Buy Photo
After two and a half days of grilling potential jurors on what they knew about the Richmond Hill explosion and whether they could be fair and impartial in judging suspect Mark Leonard, the prosecution made an unexpected announcement.
Marion County deputy prosecutor Denise Robinson said she was throwing in the towel in the legal fight over whether Leonard could receive a fair trial in the county.
The difficulty in finding jurors who did not know about the case, she said, and the risks and ramifications of winning a conviction, then having it overturned on appeal because of questions about the jury, were too great.
After Robinson announced the prosecution was dropping its opposition to Leonard's change-of-venue request, Marion Superior Judge Sheila A. Carlisle granted the defense motion to have his case heard by a jury from another county.
"We always believed that in a case that's received coverage this pervasive, that the only way Mr. Leonard would receive a fair trial was to move it away from Marion County," said Deana Martin, one of Leonard's public defenders.
"We're thankful to the court for conducting the test jury process, so that the state could also see that, in order to guarantee a fair trial, it would be necessary to move the trial to somewhere where the residents were less effected by the media coverage."
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said he agreed with the change of venue.
"It's appropriate to agree to the change of venue in order to have an assurance that all parties — not only the defendants, but all parties — would have a fair and impartial jury to hear this matter," Curry said.
"At this point, I certainly anticipate that a change of venue would be applicable to the other two (defendants) as well."
Still unresolved are when, how and where the trial of Leonard — the first of the three defendants slated to go before a jury — will move forward. Legal experts said Carlisle could order the trial moved to another county, or a jury could be selected in another county and brought to Indianapolis for the trial.
Leonard, his half-brother, Bob Leonard, and Monserrate Shirley, Mark Leonard's former girlfriend, are charged with murder and 46 counts of arson and conspiracy to commit arson in the Nov. 10, 2012, blast that killed Shirley's next-door neighbors, John and Jennifer Longworth. The house explosion also damaged more than 80 homes in the Southeastside subdivision and upended the lives of dozens of families.
Prosecutors plan to argue at trial that the defendants had planned an insurance fraud scam to solve financial problems brought on in part by mounting gambling and credit card debt.
Jack Crawford, who has worked as both a prosecutor and defense attorney, said the prosecutor made the right decision in dropping the fight. Crawford, who sat in on part of the questioning of potential jurors, said he thinks Carlisle would have granted Leonard's request.
"Denise Robinson is one of the best prosecutors in the state," Crawford said. "If she has doubts about the ability of the defendants to get a fair trial in Marion County, you know the decision to move the trial was right."
Crawford said he suspects the prosecutor was worried the question of whether Leonard was judged by a fair and impartial jury would be an issue on appeal if he is convicted.
"I don't think she wants to put the victims and their families through this process more than once," he said. "It was the right thing to do and, in the long run, I think it will definitely save the county money and cut off a dangerous issue about the fairness of the trial."
As he watched prosecutors and defense attorneys question some of the "test" jury members called to court this week, Crawford said he was struck "by the many people who said they actually heard the blast or even 'felt' it."
"I think," he said, "that was a major factor in granting the change of venue."
The state's surprise move came during the third day of a hearing to determine whether Leonard could get a fair trial in Marion County. His attorneys argued the extensive media coverage of the explosion and criminal charges make that impossible.
During the hearing, attorneys had interviewed about 50 prospective jurors to determine how much they had learned about the case from reading and watching media accounts. While more than 20 of those prospective jurors did not meet criteria to be dismissed because of pre-trial publicity — which was the exclusive focus of the hearing — a judge would consider a wide range of other factors during actual jury selection for a trial.
Robinson said a review of questionnaires filled out by the test jury pool revealed it was unlikely, when the broader range of potential juror challenges is taken into account, that a jury could be seated in Marion County for Leonard's trial.
In another, recent high-profile criminal prosecution, the trial last year of former IMPD officer David Bisard was moved to Allen County because of the extensive media coverage of his fatal drunken-driving case and a subsequent operating while intoxicated arrest.
Curry said he anticipates the trial of Mark Leonard to take place early next year.
EARLIER: Test jurors don't know much about Richmond Hill explosion, defendants
A judge on Tuesday morning denied defense challenges to seven of 14 members of a test jury called to determine whether Mark Leonard can get a fair trial in Marion County for his role in the deadly 2012 Richmond Hill explosion.
The action came during the second day of a hearing on Leonard's request to move his murder and arson trial out of Marion County because of extensive pretrial publicity about the explosion and criminal case.
Marion Superior Court Judge Sheila A. Carlisle did grant one defense request to exclude a prospective juror who said "it would be foolish to think" she could put aside what she has heard about the case and her feelings and be a fair and impartial juror.
Carlisle took two other defense challenges under advisement.
Leonard, his half brother Bob Leonard and Monserrate Shirley, Mark Leonard's former girlfriend, are charged with murder and 46 counts of arson and conspiracy to commit arson in the Nov. 10, 2012 blast that killed Shirley's next-door neighbors, John and Jennifer Longworth. The house explosion also damaged more than 80 homes in the Southeastside subdivision and upended the lives of dozens of families.
Prosecutors at trial will argue that the defendants had planned an insurance fraud scam to solve financial problems brought on in part by mounting gambling and credit card debt.
All three have asked Carlisle to move their trials out of Marion County.
A weeklong hearing on Mark Leonard's request for a change of venue began Monday.
The jurors called to court today, seven at a time, were among 125 people summoned to the City County building Friday as part of a testing process to determine how much they know about the case and how difficult it would be to find an impartial jury in Marion County.
The test jury was called only for informational purposes and will not hear the case when it does go to trial. But the jurors did not know that until they reported to court this morning.
On Friday, the prospective jurors filled out standard jury questionnaires and special forms addressing issues related to the change of venue request, such as how much they knew about Mark Leonard and the case and whether they had formed any opinions about the explosion.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors will continue to probe jurors, prying deeper into their answers on the questionnaires, this afternoon.
The defense is attempting to show that extensive media coverage of the explosion and the criminal charges against the Leonards and Shirley will make it impossible to find fair and impartial jurors in Marion County who do not know about the case or who have not formed opinions about the defendants.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors agreed Monday to strike, or dismiss, 18 of the test jurors because of what they knew about the case or for having formed opinions about Mark Leonard's guilt or innocence.
The judge also granted a defense request to dismiss three others, but took about 20 other challenges under advisement. Those jurors are among prospects who were called back into court Tuesday for additional vetting.
Facing questions individually, many of the jury prospects said they had heard about the explosion and criminal charges but had not formed opinions of the innocence or guilt of Mark Leonard or the other suspects.
Many said they did not pay attention to news coverage or did not always believe what the media reported.
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Going and Coming Back: Photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine
Darren Newbury
Research output: Non-textual output › Exhibition
In the late 1940s and early 1950s the South African-born, English-educated photographer Bryan Heseltine made a series of extraordinary photographs in and around Cape Town. Shortly after he made this work, however, Heseltine left South Africa taking his photographs with him to England. Aside from an exhibition in 1955, they would remain there unseen and largely unknown for more than half a century. Heseltine's photography provides a unique view of Cape Town at the very beginning of the apartheid period, blending modernist visual influences with social and political concerns. The photographs were made in several areas of the city, each of which occupies a distinct position in relation to the racial zoning and forced removals that were central to the implementation of apartheid: the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa, Nyanga and Windermere. Heseltine's carefully composed images depict aspects of social and cultural life and illustrate the diversity of Cape Town's inhabitants. Working predominantly in medium and large format, the degree of care accorded to his subjects was unusual and extends the value of this body of work. Heseltine's photography can be viewed as, in equal measure, a critical social commentary on, an aesthetically sophisticated response to, and a human engagement with, the people and spaces of the segregated city. Returning these photographs to be shown in South Africa for the first time since 1952, the aim of the exhibition is to reconnect the photographs to the city in which they were made and to contribute to public understandings of the history of Cape Town and its visual representation.
exhibition - District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 Sep 2013 - 28 Feb 2014
Duration: 24 Sep 2013 → …
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Newbury, D. (Author/Creator). (2013). Going and Coming Back: Photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine. Exhibition
Newbury, Darren (Author/Creator). / Going and Coming Back: Photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine. [Exhibition].
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abstract = "In the late 1940s and early 1950s the South African-born, English-educated photographer Bryan Heseltine made a series of extraordinary photographs in and around Cape Town. Shortly after he made this work, however, Heseltine left South Africa taking his photographs with him to England. Aside from an exhibition in 1955, they would remain there unseen and largely unknown for more than half a century. Heseltine{\textquoteright}s photography provides a unique view of Cape Town at the very beginning of the apartheid period, blending modernist visual influences with social and political concerns. The photographs were made in several areas of the city, each of which occupies a distinct position in relation to the racial zoning and forced removals that were central to the implementation of apartheid: the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa, Nyanga and Windermere. Heseltine{\textquoteright}s carefully composed images depict aspects of social and cultural life and illustrate the diversity of Cape Town{\textquoteright}s inhabitants. Working predominantly in medium and large format, the degree of care accorded to his subjects was unusual and extends the value of this body of work. Heseltine{\textquoteright}s photography can be viewed as, in equal measure, a critical social commentary on, an aesthetically sophisticated response to, and a human engagement with, the people and spaces of the segregated city. Returning these photographs to be shown in South Africa for the first time since 1952, the aim of the exhibition is to reconnect the photographs to the city in which they were made and to contribute to public understandings of the history of Cape Town and its visual representation.",
author = "Darren Newbury",
note = "exhibition ; Conference date: 24-09-2013",
Newbury, D, Going and Coming Back: Photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine, 2013, Exhibition.
Going and Coming Back: Photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine. Newbury, Darren (Author/Creator). 2013. Event: exhibition, District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 Sep 2013 - 28 Feb 2014.
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N2 - In the late 1940s and early 1950s the South African-born, English-educated photographer Bryan Heseltine made a series of extraordinary photographs in and around Cape Town. Shortly after he made this work, however, Heseltine left South Africa taking his photographs with him to England. Aside from an exhibition in 1955, they would remain there unseen and largely unknown for more than half a century. Heseltine's photography provides a unique view of Cape Town at the very beginning of the apartheid period, blending modernist visual influences with social and political concerns. The photographs were made in several areas of the city, each of which occupies a distinct position in relation to the racial zoning and forced removals that were central to the implementation of apartheid: the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa, Nyanga and Windermere. Heseltine's carefully composed images depict aspects of social and cultural life and illustrate the diversity of Cape Town's inhabitants. Working predominantly in medium and large format, the degree of care accorded to his subjects was unusual and extends the value of this body of work. Heseltine's photography can be viewed as, in equal measure, a critical social commentary on, an aesthetically sophisticated response to, and a human engagement with, the people and spaces of the segregated city. Returning these photographs to be shown in South Africa for the first time since 1952, the aim of the exhibition is to reconnect the photographs to the city in which they were made and to contribute to public understandings of the history of Cape Town and its visual representation.
AB - In the late 1940s and early 1950s the South African-born, English-educated photographer Bryan Heseltine made a series of extraordinary photographs in and around Cape Town. Shortly after he made this work, however, Heseltine left South Africa taking his photographs with him to England. Aside from an exhibition in 1955, they would remain there unseen and largely unknown for more than half a century. Heseltine's photography provides a unique view of Cape Town at the very beginning of the apartheid period, blending modernist visual influences with social and political concerns. The photographs were made in several areas of the city, each of which occupies a distinct position in relation to the racial zoning and forced removals that were central to the implementation of apartheid: the Bo-Kaap, District Six, Langa, Nyanga and Windermere. Heseltine's carefully composed images depict aspects of social and cultural life and illustrate the diversity of Cape Town's inhabitants. Working predominantly in medium and large format, the degree of care accorded to his subjects was unusual and extends the value of this body of work. Heseltine's photography can be viewed as, in equal measure, a critical social commentary on, an aesthetically sophisticated response to, and a human engagement with, the people and spaces of the segregated city. Returning these photographs to be shown in South Africa for the first time since 1952, the aim of the exhibition is to reconnect the photographs to the city in which they were made and to contribute to public understandings of the history of Cape Town and its visual representation.
T2 - exhibition
Y2 - 24 September 2013
Newbury D (Author/Creator). Going and Coming Back: Photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine 2013.


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The CIO 'can't be an order-taker'
The modern chief information officer needs to be proactive about having business conversations -- or risk being left out of them completely. Plus more, from the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit.
By Andrew Nusca for Between the Lines | April 24, 2013 -- 16:10 GMT (09:10 PDT) | Topic: CXO
NEW YORK -- The global economy seems to be recovering, albeit slowly, and it therefore follows that the tremendous pressure—financial, technological, existential—on companies' IT organizations will ease.
Right? Wrong. Well, maybe. It all depends.
Three senior executives—Freddie Mac CIO Robert Lux, Evercore Partners managing director of equity research Kirk Materne, and Blackstone CTO Bill Murphy—gathered here at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit to tease out the real role of the CIO in the modern business, debate best practices for the IT organization and offer solutions for future success.
All that, in just 30 minutes.
They spoke with Bloomberg's Kevin McGilloway; here are a few highlights from their discussion, edited and condensed for clarity.
Is there really an uptick in IT spending?
Lux: Yes. One of the main things that's driving it is regulatory compliance. If you're in financial services and you're not seeing this, let me know -- we've got to talk. (laughs) At Freddie, we're trying to use technology to address it.
The mortgage market is very fragmented, Balkanized. None of the entities in the mortgage supply chain really speak. You transfer data back and forth in different proprietary formats. Our acting director has actually done a great job to standardize this.
Up until last year, there was no standard for property appraisals—there was "good" or "good plus." As of last year, we standardized those conditioning quality attributes of the data, and we're getting them through a centralized portal. We're spending more, but it's for the benefit of the overall industry and the consumer experience.
Materne: There are three drivers. First, regulatory and compliance [concerns]. A lot of regulations are difficult and onerous for current systems to deal with. Two, the tech talent challenge globally. We're obsoleting a significant portion of the talent pool. And three, shadow IT. You're trying to make everyone happy and leaving all the game-changing ROI projects on the side.
Murphy: There was certainly fat to cut, but it takes real leadership to understand that even though the benefits are going to be on the business side, the costs are going to be on the technology side. You need to look at them together to make sure you don't undercut your technology spend.
On financial challenges for the IT organization.
Materne: There's a need for speed and agility. First, there's the acceptance of more CIOs to have some part of IT delivered as a service. They're saying, "If it's not a differentiated technology, do I really need to own it? Does this really help me do my job better?" Is it easier to use Amazon Web Services?
Second, more people are looking at open source technologies to gain leverage against existing vendors. People's comfort level with open source technology is much higher than it was 10 years ago. Third, the democratization of IT technologies, bringing business users in. It's up to them, and moving costs to that. Yes, there's shadow IT, but if the business users are all about it, and you can show them advantages around analytics and mobile productivity…they're using IT as a way to gain leverage against competitors.
Murphy: The problems that they're creating could be significant and costly, but they're only seeing the $19.95 a month or whatever. Until they can really see the true costs of a solution, there's no way they'll be able to determine its benefits.
Materne: It's not just about speeds and feeds anymore. If you're having that conversation, I'm not sure that works. People want business value, and that's the manifestation of tight IT budgets.
Lux: I was at IBM for the first death spiral. Having seen what happened and how long it took to recover from that, we're embracing it. At Freddie Mac, we embrace BYOD. My [colleague] didn't come to me asking for a tablet, I gave it to him.
On serving the internal customer and "shadow IT":
Lux: I look at shadow IT as a reflection not that business people are doing something wrong, but that we -- IT -- are doing something wrong. If they're going elsewhere for technology solutions, we're not doing it right. When people actually work with us, they're not as demanding. They get a product they like at the end, rather than the old waterfall method. Getting closer to business users, being more nimble and embracing new technologies.
Murphy: You can't be an order-taker. The role of the CIO is stark. Do innovation as a group. Otherwise you get business people getting together making bad decisions about technology. If you can show that competence to have that business discussion, then laying out the transparency to have that discussion is possible. But if you're reactive, you essentially have no hope. They won't believe you, or trust you, or they'll think you'll mess it up.
Materne: Big data is a great example. It's a problem that's been out there. How do you help me get value from all this data? I don't really care about the storage technology behind it. I need a big red button for risk. If you can have that business discussion…
Murphy: …you'll be successful.
On technology as an enabler of company culture:
Lux: It unleashes the creativity of your people. A lot of Silicon Valley companies took 3M's model and gave them time to innovate. We can't do that as a taxpayer-funded organization, but I can call any CIO anywhere. The CIO of Facebook, Tim Campos, I asked him about his code jams, his hackathons. [When we mimicked them,] we had 19 different teams volunteer with this.
Your people are hungry to innovate if you just unleash it. How can you get the brightest minds to bear?
Murphy: Technologists are often mischaracterized as non-creatives. Engineers are often the most creative. Giving them that outlet and chance to have that conversation so you can come up with a better solution is where the cost efficiencies kick in. But you have to create that ecosystem to make that happen.
Materne: The best companies have IT leaders that want to empower their users, whether developers or business users, and help creative competitive advantage.
On taking technology risks:
Murphy: It all comes down to the app. If the application really solves their problem, leap. If it doesn't really solve their problem and could be more disruptive, step.
Materne: If you leap, how do you make sure that the company or asset you're acquiring doesn't lose what made it great in the first place? Tech companies have had a hard time of that. Some are incubating versus integrating. EMC-VMware. SAP-SuccessFactors. Software eats the world, right? Some of the hardware vendors are going to have to start eating software vendors. Margins will force them to move up the stack.
Lux: Death by a thousand cuts? You can also have death by a big leap. We handle one in four mortgages in the United States. So I'm concerned with the big leap. We look at even the commodity services as, "We're special, we're different."
Our HR system has 2,500 customizations in it. We have about 5,000 people in the United States. So we have one customization for every two people. Does that make sense? [Nonetheless,] we're not going to move everything to the cloud because we do have a lot of proprietary stuff that we use that you just can't buy.
On the CIO vs. CTO vs. CDO ("chief data officer"):
Murphy: There's the ability to iterate on the technical side probably much more quickly than the data side. That's a problem that's not well understood by the business. You can swap out hypervisors, clouds, applications. Swapping out data is so much harder to do.
Materne: People are trying to figure out how to empower their people to become essentially data scientists. That trend is going to continue. If you can create competitive advantage from it, the dollars will be there to support it.
Lux: We're trying to place small bets on innovative things you can do with data. We're all about analytics. We've got scale. We can save a lot of money from that. And we're using that data outside the mortgage industry, to gain insights around fraud.
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<?php
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class nav_walker_megamenu extends Walker_Nav_Menu {
      public function start_lvl( &$output, $depth = 0, $args = array() ) {
             $indent = str_repeat("\t", $depth);
             if($depth == 0) $output .= "\n$indent

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    }

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    }

    function start_el( &$output, $item, $depth = 0, $args = array(), $id = 0 ) {
        global $megamenu;
        $megamenu++;
        global $count;
        $count++;
        $indent = ( $depth ) ? str_repeat( "\t", $depth ) : '';
        $class_names = '';
        $classes = empty( $item->classes ) ? array() : (array) $item->classes;
        $classes[] = 'menu-item-' . $item->ID;

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            $output .= "\n$indent
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Native Lincolnite publishes article on Lincoln's political rhetoric
[May 08, 2014] SPRINGFIELD, MO - The lead article in the recently published issue of the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (JALA) is an 11,000-word composition by D. Leigh Henson, professor emeritus of English at Missouri State University. The title of the article is "Classical Rhetoric as a Lens for Reading the Key Speeches of Lincoln's Political Rise, 1852–1856." JALA "is the only journal devoted exclusively to Lincoln scholarship." JALA, published twice a year by the University of Illinois Press, selects only a few article submissions, and articles published have been revised by their authors according to critiques provided by several anonymous scholars. Henson, a native of Lincoln, Illinois, attended Lincoln College and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in English at Illinois State University.
Henson's article discusses communicative elements in several of Lincoln's speeches just before, during, and after he began his celebrated, second political career in 1854. Lincoln returned to politics after his undistinguished one term in Congress ended in 1849, so that he could oppose efforts to expand slavery into new territories and the free states. Lincoln's return to politics involved him in helping to establish the Illinois Republican Party in 1856. His party leadership in turn led to the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, then to his 1860 presidential election.
The communicative elements Henson discusses in Lincoln's speeches derive from classical rhetoric—the work of Greek and Roman writers who established the field of study dealing with the theory, practice, and instruction of discourse. Henson explains that familiarity with classical rhetoric enables readers to gain a better understanding of how Lincoln adapted the content, organization, and style of his speeches to suit his political purposes and audiences. Some of Lincoln's key speeches of this period refute Senator Stephen A. Douglas's position that local governments in new territories should decide whether to allow slavery. Lincoln argued that slavery is a national, not a local, problem. Lincoln found the solution to slavery grounded in the principle of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal." Lincoln insisted that slavery should be confined to Southern states, where the Constitution allowed it and where it would eventually die out. Lincoln's political rhetoric benefited from his lawyerly ability to expose contradictions and fallacies in his adversaries' positions.
This article pays special attention to Lincoln's strategies of organizing his arguments. Henson explains that Lincoln's two-hour, 1854 Peoria address is a textbook example of how to organize a political speech according to classical rhetoric. Lincoln's subsequent speeches of this period demonstrate flexible use of classical organization to suit his message and audience. These speeches were the first indication of Lincoln's growing communicative power that enabled him to advance to the White House. His presidential writing eventually distinguished him as a statesman and world-renowned man of letters.
This article also explores sources of classical rhetoric that may have influenced Lincoln's communicative knowledge and skill during his life-long efforts of self-education. Those sources include textbooks and anthologies he read in his youth and the speeches he later studied of Senator Daniel Webster, whose formal education included the study of classical rhetoric. Henson also notes that today's students continue to study rhetoric as an academic field to help them analyze, evaluate, and create written and spoken discourse, including communication on the job. He maintains that this study benefits from the use of writing models with traits derived from classical rhetoric.
Henson is a fourth-generation link in a chain of historians and Lincoln buffs from Logan County, Illinois, who passed their interest in Abraham Lincoln to the next generation. As a student at Jefferson School in the early 1950s, Henson heard stories of the Lincoln legend told by E.H. Lukenbill, county superintendent of public instruction. Henson's interest in Abraham Lincoln further stems from a course he took as a freshman at Lincoln College in 1960–61. That course on Lincoln's life and times was taught by the renowned historian James T. Hickey. For many years Hickey was the curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Illinois State Historical Library, now the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Hickey was a protégé of Judge Lawrence B. Stringer, author of the encyclopedic History of Logan County, Illinois, 1911. It features a chapter on Abraham Lincoln's legal and political activity in central Illinois that has been cited by major Lincoln biographers. Stringer drew upon the friendship and reminiscence of Robert B. Latham, one of the three founding fathers of Lincoln, Illinois (1853)—the first namesake town. Abraham Lincoln was the attorney for the town's founders, and the town was founded before he became famous. Latham was also a founder of Lincoln University, now Lincoln College. Latham was a personal and political friend of Abraham Lincoln and a Union colonel in the Civil War. Stringer was the first major benefactor of the newly relocated and enhanced Lincoln Heritage Museum of Lincoln College.
The Lincolnian seed that Lukenbill and Hickey planted in Henson's education lay dormant for forty years. It did not germinate until after he had completed his formal education at Illinois State University, had taught high school English for thirty years in Pekin, Illinois, and was well into his fourteen-year career of teaching technical communication at Missouri State University. In 2004 the Illinois State Historical Society gave a Superior Achievement Award to Henson's community history website of Lincoln, Illinois. In 2008–09 he was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission of that town. He researched and wrote the play script for the 2008 re-enactment of the 1858 Republican rally in Lincoln the day after the last Lincoln-Douglas debate. Lincoln delivered a stump speech at the rally, but no copy of it has been found. Henson's play script features a "reasonable facsimile" of that speech and rally, including give-and-take with the audience. The re-enactment was accomplished through collaboration with Paul Beaver, professor emeritus of history at Lincoln College; Ron Keller, director of the Lincoln Heritage Museum; and Wanda Lee Rohlfs, civic leader.
In 2008 Henson proposed erecting a statue of Abraham Lincoln the 1858 Senate candidate and a corresponding historical marker, both to be installed on the lawn of the Logan County Courthouse, where the 1858 rally took place. Presently a local committee is raising funds for those purposes. In 2012 Henson's book titled The Town Lincoln Warned: The Living Namesake History of Lincoln, Illinois, received a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society. In 2013 he proposed several additional statues of Lincoln in Lincoln to expand its namesake heritage, strengthen civic pride, and increase heritage tourism. Also in 2013 the Lincoln Elementary School District #27 honored Henson as one of four distinguished alumni. Henson continues to research Lincoln's political rhetoric.
Henson is an elected member of the Society of Midland Authors. He is also a member of the Illinois Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. He shares information about his Abraham Lincoln research, Illinois history, historic preservation, and heritage tourism on social media at Facebook and LinkedIn. His LinkedIn site has links to his various online publications: http://la.linkedin.com/pub/d-leigh-henson/16/1a5/923. Access the JALA website at http://www.abrahamlincolnassociation.org/Journal.aspx. JALA publishes its articles online six months after they appear in print. Access an overview and pictorial supplement to Henson's article about Lincoln's rhetoric at http://findinglincolnillinois.com/dlhjalaarticle.html.
[Text received; D. LEIGH HENSON, Ph.D.]


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Any I am using it in my notebook with 2GB RAM.

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A: For wordpress themes, I would like to suggest, Adobe Photoshop. And for the plugins, just Notepad++ will do.


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NUGEN Announces Winners of "Show Us Your Setup" Contest
Aug 31, 2021 | Client News, NUGEN Audio
LEEDS, UK – NUGEN Audio is congratulating Thomas Cassetta, Vladimir "Bajko" Bajnoci and Dean Lee for their beautiful submissions to the company's "Show Us Your Setup" photo contest. The contest tasked mixers and producers to submit beauty photos of their studio or workstation with NUGEN Audio's Paragon reverb on their monitors for a chance to win a $599 (USD) NUGEN Audio voucher, and branded swag.
The three lucky winners (Cassetta, first; Bajnoci, second; and Lee, third) were chosen by the entire NUGEN staff based on the quality of images submitted. Each was awarded a branded tote bag, mug, earplugs, pens and mask. In addition to the $599 (USD) software voucher for the first prize, second place was awarded a $99 (USD) software voucher. Set-ups in all regions and of all shapes and sizes, from professional studios to home workstations, were considered for this contest.
First Prize: Thomas Cassetta
A production sound/re-recording mixer and owner of Scopic Productions in Los Angeles, Cassetta focuses on bridging the creative gap between production and post-production. He accomplishes this by working through the technical aspect of the craft and engaging his clients at the heart of their story — whether it's narrative, commercial, documentary, podcasts or standup comedy.
"Producing sound is no longer a compartmentalized process; delivering numerous formats with a single master mix requires precision and reliability," he says. "NUGEN's tools provide this in spades, while also employing a beautiful GUI that allows the sound artist to focus on the creative choices from moment to moment. At Scopic, ISL 2 is patched in on every physical and virtual output and mix bus in Pro Tools, followed by VisLM 2 on every Mix and PM stem. This allows for instant access to trustworthy analysis at any point in the process. Additionally, Halo Upmix provides creative spatial opportunities, while Halo Downmix translates our multichannel master mixes into every down-chain deliverable without worrying about phase. We also recently employed Paragon on our narrative template due to its incredible flexibility and natural, emotional response."
Second Prize: Vladimir "Bajko" Bajnoci
A sound engineer/designer of commercial spots for radio and TV, Bajnoci served as imaging director at Fun Radio Slovakia for 25 years. In January 2021, he opened his own post-production studio, Bajko Sound Production. "I use NUGEN Audio's AMB for converting files for TV broadcasting on a daily basis," he says. "I can't imagine my professional life without this app. Sometimes, I mix for cinema productions and NUGEN's Halo Upmix must be in my plug-in chain for those projects."
Third Prize was awarded to Dean Lee of Hebei Province, China. More information about the contest requirements can be found here: https://nugenaudio.com/show-us-your-setup/.
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Pacquiao used to be a colossal PPV star in the U.S amid the prime of his profession, yet his notoriety has seemingly plunged significantly since his uneven 12 round consistent choice misfortune to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2015. It's hazy whether it was simply the misfortune or the non-exertion that Pacquiao put in for that session that has brought about him losing prominence. One hypothesis is the match-production for Pacquiao has been so terrible for him since the battle with Mayweather that the boxing fans haven't been amped up for seeing the Filipino star battle Jeff Horn, Lucas Matthysse, Jessie Vargas and Tim Bradley. Those were not the battles that Pacquiao expected to take. Pacquiao had just battled Bradley twice, so there was no reason for Top Rank assembling those two other than to make it an in house battle. It was a terrible thought, and Pacquiao ought to have opposed it energetically. The equivalent goes for Pacquiao's battles against Horn and Vargas. Those were an exercise in futility. In any case, there wasn't much Pacquiao could do, on the grounds that he was restricted to the folks that his advertiser was placing him in with at the time. It would have been intriguing to check whether Pacquiao's prevalence would have stayed high if his advertisers at coordinated him against any semblance of Errol Spence Jr., Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia or Amir Khan. Pacquiao needed to battle Khan in 2017, yet rather his advertisers coordinated him against Horn in a battle that occurred in Brisbane, Australia. The battle experienced difficulty composed on top of it the minute it was made.