Project Specifics: The project consisted of a main addition to the narthex/sanctuary space and associated renovations to the sanctuary.
Challenges: Working within an active sanctuary attached to an occupied school was a significant challenge. This called for extensive collaboration with church administrators to schedule work around a number of activities including morning and afternoon school traffic and special ceremonies, which typically occurred with little notice. Despite taking extra precautions to minimize the impact on the existing school and church operations while performing major construction, Shmina completed the project four months ahead of schedule.


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Book Reviews: As its title suggests, Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider is intended for all types of primary care providers, but it is written with a special emphasis on nurse practitioners and physician's assistants. Our goals are to assist drug prescribes to master the essential info-mason necessary for treating patients with medications and to present factual information on the most commonly pre-scribes drugs in primary care practice.
The Top 100 Drugs prescribed in the United States are identified in the chapter-opening Drug Overview tables by the icon 0.
Complete discussions on drug action and drug treatment principles are presented for every drug category.
Patient Safety Alerts (highlighted by the icon A) and Clinical Practice Alerts d thwart essential information that primary care providers must remember so that they can avoid serious problems. The Patient Safety Alerts include cautions for prescribing, information about drug interactions, or warnings about particularly ominous adverse effects of which the clinician should be aware. New to this edition are the Clinical Practice Alerts, which highlight professional considerations and challenges beyond patient safety.
Based Recommendations, and Cardinal Points of Treatment sections are included for all drug categories. This content helps direct clinical decision making and is based on a variety of sources that will help the clinician identify the must valid information and keep abreast of new findings in practice.
Unit I describes the responsibilities of primary health care providers and summaries the rants dimensions of their roles. It also coven the legal parameters and professional role implementation of prescriptive authority and explains what we know about different types of primary health care providers.
Unit 2 is one of the most important in the whole text-book. It provides a foundational understanding of pharmacokinetics. Specific factors are considered in terms Of prescribing drugs to geriatric, pediatric, and pregnant patients.
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Q: About image backgrounds while preparing training dataset for cascaded classifier I have a question about preparing the dataset of positive samples for a cascaded classifier that will be used for object detection.
As positive samples, I have been given 3 sets of images:

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*a set of colored images in full size (about 1200x600) with a white background and with the object displayed at a different angles in each image

*another set with the same images in grayscale and with a white background, scaled down to the detection window size (60x60)

*another set with the same images in grayscale and with a black background, scaled down to the detection window size (60x60)

My question is that in set 1, should the background really be white? Should it not instead be an environment that the object is likely to be found in in the testing dataset? Or should I have a fourth set where the images are in their natural environments? How does environment figure into the training samples?

A: The background should be a typical environment of the object, because when you actually try to detect the objects, the search window will always include some of the background. The best thing is to crop the objects from natural images.
If you use the trainCascadeObjectDetector function in MATLAB, you do not even have to crop the samples.  It lets you specify multiple bounding boxes per image. You also do not have to worry about the size of the samples, because trainCascadeObjectDetector will resize them for you.
There is a very handy GUI app on MATLAB file exchange for labeling objects of interest in images designed for use with trainCascadeObjectDetector.
Edit: couple of other points. Your negative images should also contain backgrounds typically associated with your objects of interest.  Here is a tutorial that explains how to prepare training data and how to set some of the parameters.

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Labor Day 2011 Bastrop State Park and surrounding area had a catastrophic wild fire that affected 34,000 acres and destroyed 1697 homes. I can't speak for the people who lost homes and businesses from the fire, but the natural landscape is healing very well. While visiting the park, I made several of my own observations on tree regeneration and got some good information while on a walk with the park host.
One of my first observations and question was why are all the tall pine trunks killed by the fire still standing. Why weren't they removed? The first answer that initially came to mind was the funding for such a removal project would be immense. The subject came up on a guided tour with the park guide, and the answer was the new vegetation both planted and natural regrowth took better in areas where the old trunks remained.
An analogy would be it takes a village to raised a child and it takes an ecosystem to raise a tree. The burned trees were a valuable part of the ecosystem and the foundation for a successful tree regeneration program. The softwood provided homes for owls and other birds. The rotting wood provided food for termites and which provided food for other insects and small vertebrates, mammals, reptiles and birds. The rotted trunk material returns its nutrients to the soil. The old ushers in the new.
New Pine Growth on the North Face of a slope is evidence of tree regeneration.
Fortunately, there were no heavy rains in 2011 after the fire. Heavy rain after the fire would have caused bad erosion when the soil was vulnerable. Without stable ground and fertile soil, plants cannot take root. Erosion has occurred in the park, but hydro mulching and manually reseeding trees mitigate erosion. For a good twist of fate, there was a blanket of seeds for the strain of loblolly pin unique to Bastrop that had been slated for disposal that was still available for replanting. Fire opens many other pine species seeds but fire destroys loblolly seeds. Native grasses were flourishing.
I visited the park six years after the fire that became known as the Bastrop County Complex fire that ignited September 4, 2011 and was the most destructive wildfire in state history. I didn't see that initial stages of the park's healing process. The park guides spoke of a white-footed mouse they observed in the initial recovery stages that blanketed the landscape. The mice arrived to take advantage of the pioneer plants with large nutritious seed pods and the temporary absence of predators. The resurgence of pioneer plants and a large population of white-footed mice brought back the indigenous predators, highlighting the close relationship between wildlife and tree regeneration.
The dominant tree species are the loblolly pines, then post oaks, and black jack oaks.
The dominant Chaparral tree is the Youpon Holly. This tree is extremely flammable.
There are also still some pioneer tree species around such sand willows and a pinate leaf tree and with a bean pod similar to a mesquite.
The oaks are naturally more hardy than the pines in direct sunlight. They are growing multi-trunk bushes back all over the park. The oaks will never reach the size or height of the single trunk trees they are replacing.
The oaks could dominate the short-term future of the Bastrop forest. They are replacing the single-trunk trees on slopes where the sun is intense. In places where the Texas son is less intense like the north-facing slopes and the lowest part of the steep valleys, the loblollies and other more delicate plants are flourishing. Trained arborists are overseeing the changes. A good recovery will not necessarily mean a return to the exact ecosystem of the past. "That is impossible," Kelly said.
Tree Regeneration at Bastrop State Park Oaks on South-Facing Slope. Oaks returning.


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Le Collège Salette est une institution privée d'enseignement de niveau collégial situé au 3536 Boulevard St-Laurent, à Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Fondé en 1942 par M. Auguste Salette, le Collège Salette se spécialise en formation professionnelle et technique de courte durée dans le secteur spécifique des arts graphiques. Ses ateliers de dessin offerts en 1942 se sont transformés en programme de formation professionnelle et technique sanctionné par le diplôme d'études professionnelles (DEP) - Dessin publicitaire - en 1970, puis par l'attestation d'études collégiales (AEC) en Graphisme - maquettes et montage, en 1985, auquel se sont ajoutés l'infographie (1992) et le multimédia (1998).

Toujours consacré exclusivement à la communication graphique et aux technologies, le Collège Salette offre trois programmes d'AEC, dont deux spécialisations :

 NTA.0F Concepteur infographiste (Graphisme, Infographie, Web design et production et Illustration) - 1260 heures - 15 mois

 NTA.0S Illustration publicitaire - 405 heures - 4 mois (spécialisation)

 NWE.03 Design interactif et médias sociaux - 450 heures - 4 mois (spécialisation)

Cité comme « digne de mention » sur l'ensemble du réseau collégial par la Commission d'évaluation de l'enseignement collégial du gouvernement du Québec, le Collège Salette accueille chaque année environ 150 étudiant(e)s adultes, canadiens et étrangers.

Le Collège Salette est membre du Conseil des collèges non subventionnés (CCNS) et de la  (NACC) où sa Directrice générale, madame Ginette Gervais, assure respectivement la présidence et siège au Board  of Directors (le Conseil d'administration), à titre de représentante du Québec.

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Liens externes
 Site web du Collège Salette
 Site de la Commission d'évaluation d'enseignement collégial
 Site du Ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec
 Site du National Association of Career College

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From the Champagne region, we received the Château Frontenac , a red wine. At Uvinum, this red wine scores an average rate of 4 of 5 points.
I decided not to pair it with any dish. It was a gift for my brother and he enjoyed it very much.


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What episode does Modern Family go to Australia?
"Australia" is the 20th episode of the fifth season of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 116th overall….Australia (Modern Family)
Modern Family episode
Episode no. Season 5 Episode 20
Directed by Steven Levitan
Written by Elaine Ko Danny Zuker
Where can I watch Modern Family Season 11 Australia?
Stream Modern Family on BINGE To watch the even more elusive Modern Family Season 11, Australia also has BINGE for on-demand streaming.
Did they actually film Modern Family in Australia?
The entire cast of Modern Family has been brought to Australia by Qantas to film a family vacation episode. The cast will be in Australia for two weeks, with the show filming scenes in both Sydney and Hayman Island.
Where can I watch Modern Family 2021?
Modern Family is available to stream on Peacock in the US. And the first 12 episodes are completely free. If you want to binge-watch the rest of the series, you will need to sign up for a Premium Peacock account or a Hulu subscription.
Did the cast of Modern Family go to Hawaii?
The cast of ABC's hit comedy Modern Family has been in Hawaii all this week filming the series' first season finale. They've been holed up at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, which is conveniently serving as both their home-away-from-home and workplace for the Hawaii shoot.
Are the cast of Modern Family friends?
More than just colleagues, the cast — which includes Julie Bowen, Ariel Winter, Sarah Hyland, Ed O'Neill and other stars — are friends behind the scenes too. "We all really do love each other," said Ferguson. "With any family, there are obviously dynamics and disagreements, but we all care about each other so much.
Why did Modern Family go to Australia?
For season 5, episode 20 of this comedy series, the Dunphy-Pritchetts visited Australia together. Their reason for going was mostly for Phil, who wanted to fulfill his late mother's wish to discover where his parents had their honeymoon.
Does Disney plus have all seasons of Modern Family?
Modern Family came to an end in 2020, but it's getting a new lease of life on Disney Plus's newly launched Star service – but not all of the episodes will be made available on the platform.
How can I watch Modern Family in Australia?
Modern Family can be watched and streamed on a couple of different platforms in Australia, including BINGE, Fetch TV, Foxtel, Telstra TV, Google Play, iTunes and occasionally on the free-to-air channel 7Flix.
Did Modern Family actually go to Disneyland?
About two months ago, the cast and crew of ABC's hit comedy "Modern Family" spent a few days in Anaheim, Calif., filming a special episode in which the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker family goes to the Disneyland Resort. Now, we're sharing some fun photos taken during the production.
Why did Modern Family shoot in Australia?
The Dunphy-Pritchetts went on vacation to Australia for 1 'Modern Family' episode. For season 5, episode 20 of this comedy series, the Dunphy-Pritchetts visited Australia together. Their reason for going was mostly for Phil, who wanted to fulfill his late mother's wish to discover where his parents had their honeymoon.
What episode of Modern Family does Phil go to Australia?
"Australia" is the twentieth episode from Season 5 of Modern Family, it aired on April 23, 2014. The entire family goes to Australia when Phil hopes to fulfill his mother 's wish to visit the country where he was conceived, but the locals aren't quite ready to welcome him as a native son.
What are the episode titles of Modern Family?
Modern Family Episode # Episode # Original Air Date Titles 1. 1-1 23 Sep 09 Pilot 2. 1-2 30 Sep 09 The Bicycle Thief 3. 1-3 07 Oct 09 Come Fly with Me
Why does Phil take the family to Australia in Season 5?
Phil takes the family to Australia, in attempt to connect with his late mother, whereas the others have plans to explore the country in their own ways. The fifth season had two travel episodes, called "Las Vegas" and "Australia".
How many travel episodes are there in Season 5 of Family Guy?
The fifth season had two travel episodes, called "Las Vegas" and "Australia". Although the former received better feedback and higher ratings, the latter managed to have an entertaining script with fun comments during its intervals. "Australia" introduces more family troubles and atrocities.


There are a number of safety features found within the Toyota Yaris. When you visit us at Lithia Toyota of Klamath Falls, we can show you what you can look forward to. Thanks to technology and airbags, you'll be safer on the roads.
Toyota has included a significant amount of technology that can help you to detect potential problems to avoid accidents altogether. This includes a low-speed pre-collision system, and an active safety system with dynamic stability control and traction control, a brake override system, and more.
Buying a pre-owned vehicle can be a challenge for those who aren't car experts. How do you know you are getting a vehicle that doesn't have a ton of hidden problems? What happens if something goes wrong as soon as you drive it off the lot? The Toyota Certified Used Vehicle program is here to help.
There's growing evidence that more and more families are trading in the traditional sedan and making a truck their main vehicle. Pickup trucks are no longer relegated to ranchers and workmen, but they have evolved into sophisticated and well designed vehicles that offer a comfortable ride and numerous advanced safety features, including automatic emergency braking and lane departure warning.
Although men traditionally made up the predominant market for trucks, more and more women are discovering the advantages of investing in a full-size pickup truck.


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Texan receives newly established theater award
EDWARDSVILLE — A multi-talented actress and performer from Texas received the Stuart Fischoff Excellence in Musical Theater Award, established last year.
Marla Schulz, a Southern Illinois University Carbondale junior in its Bachelor of Fine Arts Musical Theater program, received the Stuart Fischoff Excellence in Musical Theater Award for fall 2014. Established last year by Stuart Fischoff and Rachel Gordon Fischoff the award is given each semester to a student in the SIU Department of Theater and School of Music who shows outstanding excellence and exhibits great potential for success in their career. The award comes with a $1,000 cash scholarship.
Schulz is a multi-talented actress and performer. Born and bred in Fort Worth, Texas, she became interested in musical theater at a children's summer camp at Casa Manana in Texas. Through the camp, she appeared, at age 6, in the children's chorus of a touring production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" and was bitten by the acting and performing bug. She decided to pursue musical theater professionally in high school.
Her family is mostly from Venezuela. She describes their gatherings as lively, "filled with food and music." She celebrates their "contagious energy" and is grateful for their love and support.
In her free time she likes to compose music. Last year she composed a score for a movie musical, "The Sound of Shadows," which she directed and produced as a thesis project. She enjoys playing the piano.
"It's a great way to let out the tensions of the day," she said.
She also is learning to play the violin and guitar and jokes that she may start her own home band.
This past summer she spent six weeks studying at the Collaborative Arts Project 21 conservatory in New York City.
"It was an incredible experience," she said and solidified her choice to target the city as her "choice."
At SIUE she appeared in "Ragtime," served as assistant to the director of "Curtains" and will be assisting Mr. Ojewuyi on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park."
After completing her degree at SIUC, she plans to "hopefully" work as a director and/or choreographer for a few years, and then apply to a graduate program. She has her eye on the Musical Theater Directing program at Penn State.
"Marla has a vivid and irresistible presence on stage. We are very pleased that she has won. We will follow her career in musical theater with keen interest and a special smile," Gordon Fischoff said.


We walked around the western sides of Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun and stopped at Whole Foods for a break. We took Midtown Greenway to Bryant Avenue and walked to Common Roots for lunch. We went back to the Greenway and walked to Cedar-Riverside and stopped at Republic before returning home on the bus.


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The Project Wing drone. Credit: Project Wing via DroneLife
In an interview with C4ISRNET, Center for the Study of the Drone co-director Dan Gettinger discusses the state of counter-drone funding in the Pentagon's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka has issued a temporary total ban on the use of drones in the country's airspace following the Easter Sunday bombings. In a statement, the CAA explained that the ban was being implemented "in view of the existing security situation in the country." It did not say when the ban would be lifted. (NDTV)
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has granted Project Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet, a two-year air carrier certification to begin commercial drone deliveries in Virginia. This marks the first time that the FAA has issued an air carrier certification to a drone company. (Reuters)
Meanwhile, Zipline and the Ghanaian government have launched a drone delivery network in Ghana. Operating from four distribution centers, Zipline drones will deliver vaccines, blood, and medications to health facilities in remote areas. The U.S. company plans to conduct 600 flights each day. According to Zipline co-founder and CEO Keller Rinaudo, it will be the "largest drone delivery network on the planet." (TechCrunch)
The University of Maryland Medical Center has conducted the first-ever organ transplant using an organ that was delivered by a drone. The University partnered with AiRXOS, a General Electric company, to use a drone to transport the organ between two hospitals in Baltimore. (Baltimore Sun)
Russia has unveiled a new 184-meter long nuclear submarine capable of launching Poseidon nuclear unmanned undersea vehicles and other unmanned submersibles. (Jane's)
The U.S. Army issued a Request for Information for unmanned aerial or ground vehicles for rapidly mapping the interior of tunnels and caves and dense urban areas. (Task and Purpose)
U.S. drone maker AeroVironment announced that it has assembled the first prototype of the HAWK30, a solar-powered high-altitude pseudo-satellite that it is developing under a joint Internet delivery venture with SoftBank. (Press Release)
Meanwhile, a joint venture of British firms and universities unveiled the Phoenix, an unmanned aircraft with a lung-like propulsion system that could be used to power high-altitude pseudo-satellites. (Aviation Week)
U.S. startup Cuberg unveiled a lithium-metal battery system that it claims can increase the flight endurance of multirotor drones by up to 70 percent. (Popular Mechanics)
A team from Virginia Tech has launched an effort to develop mathematical models and algorithms to help drones collaborate more effectively with human counterparts during search and rescue operations. (AUVSI)
Russia's Special Technology Center has developed a non-explosive rocket system for ramming adversary drones out of the sky. (C4ISRNET)
A senior U.S. Army official announced that the service plans to conduct a series of rapid development cycles and demonstrations for air-launched drone systems in the coming years. (Defense News)
Meanwhile, NASA released a video of a test in which four large multirotor drones released a swarm of 100 Cicada data-collection drones. (CNET)
U.S. aerospace firm Textron Systems has begun flight tests of its Shadow Block III tactical fixed-wing drone. (Shephard Media)
A U.S. Army RQ-7B Shadow drone crashed during a routine training mission in Pima County, Arizona. (KOLD News 13)
In a tour of Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) was shown the poor condition of the MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft Formal Training Unit, which has a sinkhole and a range of electrical and construction issues. (Alamogordo Daily News)
The East Greenland Ice-Core Project plans to use drones to conduct high-altitude high-latitude atmospheric data collection operations in Greenland. (AUVSI)
The City of Fort Wayne, Indiana is considering an ordinance that would require drone operators to file a notice before flights within 500 yards of large public events. (WPTA21) For more on local drone laws, click here.
After declining to move ahead with a plan to acquire a fleet of Piaggio Aerospace P.1HH and P.2HH HammerHead drones, the Italian government and Piaggio have settled on an agreement that covers the certification of several existing P.1HH aircraft and future plans to continue the development of drone technology. (Jane's)
The U.S. Navy awarded Hydroid a $23.1 million contract for work on the MK 18 family of unmanned underwater vehicles. (DoD)
The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit awarded Altavian a contract to develop a prototype for the Short Range Reconnaissance drone. (Press Release)
Microsoft awarded the University of North Dakota a $100,000 grant to develop autonomous drones for commercial applications. (Prairie Business)
Australia has confirmed that it will purchase a second Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton. Up to seven aircraft may be acquired for the Royal Australian Air Force. (Press Release)
Grand Sky Business and Aviation Park partnered with Harris for beyond visual line-of-sight drone operations in North Dakota. (Press Release)
HAPSMobile, a joint venture between SoftBank and AeroVironment, will invest $125 million in Loon, an Alphabet spinoff that is developing high-altitude platforms for beaming Internet to remote areas. (TechCrunch)
At WSLS 10 News, Jessica Jewell looks at how residents in Virginia's New River Valley are preparing for the launch of drone deliveries in the area.
At the Associated Press, Lindsay Whitehurst writes that a video game under development at the University of Utah could help cities plan for the introduction of delivery drones.
At Defense News, Jen Judson considers the U.S. Army's vision for the future of manned-unmanned teaming.
Also at Defense News, Burak Ege Bekdil writes that Turkey is betting that drone exports will provide a boost to domestic arms manufacturers.
At Bloomberg, Mike Juang navigates the increasingly complex marketplace for counter-drone systems that can be deployed in civilian spaces.
At Defense One, Samuel Bendett writes that Russia may be coming around to the idea that militarized artificial intelligence should be subject to international regulations.
At VentureBeat, Khari Johnson considers the feasibility of an aerial aqueduct composed of thousands of drones that could be used to fight wildfires.
In an op-ed, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal applauds the FAA on approving Google's drone delivery concept.
At Forbes, Kalev Leetaru considers the potential risks of pairing artificial intelligence and delivery drones.
At the Los Angeles Times, Samantha Masunaga looks at why the U.S. Navy is investing in massive unmanned submarines.
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jail in 1917. Later that same year he was arrested again, this time for making 'speeches calculated to cause disaffection' and was sentenced to one year hard labour at Mountjoy Prison. He demanded, along with other Republicans in the jail, to be treated as a prisoner of war. When these demands were refused, the prisoners went on hunger strike. Thomas Ashe died 25 September, 1917, as a result of incorrectly administered forcible feeding. 30,000 people marched in his funeral procession, led by Irish Volunteers in uniform.
Eamonn Ceannt was born in Glennamaddy, County Galway on 21 September 1881, but is raised and educated in Dublin as son of a constable of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). After finishing his study at the University College Eamonn Ceannt worked for the Treasury Department of the Dublin Corporation.
He was devoted to Irish language, music and dance and in 1900 Eamonn Ceannt joined the Gaelic League. Beside teaching Irish he was an excellent piper who added lustre to a meeting from Irish athletes with the pope. Eamonn Ceannt joined Sinn Féin in 1908 where he came to the attention of Sean Mac Diarmada who recruited him for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). In the year of its formation Eamonn was appointed to the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteer Force (IVF) and acquired the rank of Captain. In this capacity he was involved in the Howth Gun Running.
In 1915 Eamonn Ceannt was introduced in the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Although he was not a member of the Military Council of the Republican Brotherhood (IRB) it is assumed that Ceannt was involved in the planning of the Rising of 1916. The fact that he is signatory of the Poblacht na hÉireann also implies involvement in the preparations. During the Easter Rising Eamonn Ceannt was in command of the South Dublin Union and surroundings.
Eamonn Ceannt was court-martialled and sentenced to death by firing squad. The verdict was carried out on 8 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol.
(Tomás Ceannt in Irish)(1865 – 9 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist executed following a gunfight with the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) on 22 April 1916.
Kent was part of a prominent nationalist family who lived at Bawnard House, Castlelyons, County Cork. They were prepared to take part in the Easter Rising, but when the mobilization order was countermanded, they stayed home. The rising nevertheless went forward in Dublin, and the RIC was sent to arrest well-known sympathizers throughout the country including, but not limited to, known members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Sinn Féin, and the Irish Volunteers. When the Kent residence was raided they were met with resistance from Thomas and his brothers Richard, David, and William. A gunfight lasted for four hours, in which an RIC officer, Head Constable William Rowe, was killed and David Kent was seriously wounded. Eventually the Kents were forced to surrender, although Richard made a last minute dash for freedom and was fatally wounded.
Thomas and William were tried by court martial on the charge of murdering Head Constable Rowe. William was acquitted, but Thomas was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in, Cork on 9 May 1916. David Kent was brought to Dublin where he was charged with the same offence, found guilty and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted and he was sentenced to five years penal servitude. Apart from the singular case of Roger Casement, Thomas Kent was the only person outside of Dublin to be executed for his role in the events of Easter Week. He is buried in the grounds of Collins Barracks, Cork (formerly Victoria Barracks).
Born in the Isle of Wight to a Leitrim man and a Tipperary woman his parents eventually settled in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone. Tom emigrated to America to find work at an early age, taking a position as an explosives operative during construction work on Staten Island.
As a member of the I.R.B. from the age of 18 Tom was sent to London on their orders to put his new skills to work for their cause. He was captured with a case of liquid explosives and spent fifteen years in Pentonville Prison. Upon his release he married Kathleen, a niece of his old cell mate, John Daly, the Mayor of Limerick.
Clarke settled back in America but returned to Dublin in 1907 whereupon he set up a small shop at 75a Parnell Street. This business premises was often used for meetings as he and his new friend, Seán MacDiarmada set about reviving the I.R.B. and planning an uprising.
His drooping moustache and quiet manner lent an air of indifference to him but it has been said that the largest file in Dublin Castle was marked Tom Clarke. As the oldest and most respected member of the Military Council Clarke was given the honour of signing the Proclamation first.
Cornelius Colbert was born in Athea in Co. Limerick. He was educated in North Richmond St Christian Brothers School after the family moved to Dublin. He secured a job in Kennedy's baker, Parnell Street. He became a pioneer of Fianna Eireann, (Irish National Boy Scott Movement), an organisation so close to his heart that he spent all of his spare time cycling from place to place encouraging people to set up a new sluagh. He joined the Irish Volunteers at its inception and was one of its first drill instructors. He was quickly appointed captain of F Company in the 4th Battalion, a position he held until the rising. Despite his youth, he was an inspiration, and became appointed to Volunteers Headquarters staff. In the years before 1916 he devoted his time to organising the men and boys who were to participate in this historic event. His wages were meagre but he spent almost every penny on the advancement of the movement. Pearse asked him to become a drill instructor at St. Enda's. In spite of his mounting commitments he agreed and when it was suggested that he be put on the payroll he declined and Pearse had to apologise and forget the idea.
In the week before the rising Colbert was convinced he was going to die but knew it would not be in vain. He was glad of the opportunity to play his part. He was recognised as a man of high esteem to such an extent that the British soldier who was ordered to pinion him asked for the privilege of shaking his hand. On the 8th of May 1916 Captain Cornelius Colbert was executed in Kilmainham gaol for his part in the Easter Rising.
During the rising, it was Connolly who lead the group that entered Dublin Castle, firing the first shot that killed a British soldier, Castle guard James O'Brien. Connolly's men moved from there to take up a position at City Hall, where Connolly himself was shot while attempting to hoist to the top of the City Hall dome the very same green flag that he had used in the play. The first to kill, he became the first of the Rebels to be killed in the Easter Uprising.
Edward "Ned" Daly (25 February 1891 – 4 May 1916) was commandant of Dublin's 1st battalion during the Easter Rising of 1916. He was the youngest man to hold that rank, and one of the youngest executed in the aftermath.
Limerick-born Daly was the younger brother of Kathleen Clarke, wife of Tom Clarke, and an active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His uncle was John Daly, a prominent republican who had taken part in the Irish Rebellion of 1867.
Daly's battalion, stationed in the Four Courts and areas to the west and north of Dublin center, saw the most intense fighting of the rising. He surrendered his battalion on 29 April. In his trial, he claimed that he was just following orders, but was executed by firing squad on 4 May 1916, at the age of 25.
The men in his battalion spoke of him as a good commandant. This opinion was also shared by a British officer that Daly's battalion had captured.
Seán Heuston (1891-1916) was born at 24 Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin, the son of John Heuston, a clerk, and Maria McDonald. He was educated to intermediate grade by the Christian Brothers at O'Connell's Schools on North Richmond Street. At the age of seventeen he joined the Great Southern and Western Railway Company as a clerk and was stationed in Limerick for six years. He joined Fianna Éireann, the scouting club for boys revived by Bulmer Hobson and Countess Markievicz in August 1909. He organised an extremely active branch in Limerick which eventually had a membership of 250 boys. He devoted most of his spare time to the organisation: lecturing, drilling, marching and promoting a high level of proficiency in the boys under his command. In 1913 he was transferred to Dublin by the GSWR and assigned to the traffic manager's office at Kingsbridge railway station (now Heuston station). He continued his work with Fianna Éireann where he met Con Colbert and Liam Mellows, both prominent in the organisation. He was given command of a branch in the north side of the city based in Hardwick Hall. He was promoted vice-commandant of the Dublin Brigade and also became director of training. Colbert and Patrick Pearse engaged him for Saint Enda's, where he provided training in drill and musketry for the students. On the occasion of the landing of arms at Howth in July 1914, he led a contingent of Fianna, bringing a consignment of guns safely back to Dublin in a trek-cart. Heuston joined the Irish Volunteers soon after their formation in November 1913, eventually becoming a captain in Ned Daly's 1st Battalion. He worked hard with his company, organising marches and field manoeuvres, fostering a spirit of commitment and camaraderie, and procuring arms and equipment by purchase and any other means at his disposal. On Easter Monday he was assigned command at the Mendicity Institution, a building on the south side of the river Liffey, to the west of the Four Courts where Daly and the 1st Battalion were based. Heuston's function was to control the route between the Royal Barracks (later Collins Barracks, now the National Museum of Ireland) and the Four Courts for some hours so that Daly and the remainder of the 1st Battalion would have time to settle in. In the event, Heuston and his force of less than 30 men held out for over two days. Surrounded and in a hopeless situation, Heuston surrendered on Wednesday to save the lives of his men. Seán Heuston was tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. He was executed on 8 May. At twenty-five years and two months, he was the youngest of those executed. Between 3.45 and 4.05am on 8 May 1916, Sean Heuston was shot in the former stonebreakers yard at Kilmainham Prison. His remains were later buried in Arbour Lane Cemetery. He was unmarried. He was survived by his mother and his brother Michael, then a student for the priesthood at the Dominican Priory, Tallaght.
Major John MacBride (sometimes mistranscribed as McBride) (7 May 1865 – 5 May 1916) was an Irish republican executed for his leading role in the 1916 Easter Rising.
John MacBride was born was born at The Quay, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland to Patrick MacBride, a shopkeeper and trader, and the former Honoria Gill, who survived her son . He was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Westport and at St. Malachy's College, Belfast. He worked for a period in a drapery shop in Castlerea, County Roscommon. He had studied medicine, but gave it up and began working with a chemist firm in Dublin.
He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and was associated with Michael Cusack in the early days of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He also joined the Celtic Literary Society through which he came to know Arthur Griffith who was to remain a friend and influence throughout his life. Beginning in 1893, MacBride was termed a "dangerous nationalist" by the British government. In 1896 he went to the United States on behalf of the IRB. On his return he emigrated to South Africa.
He took part in the Second Boer War, where he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade. Despite being known as MacBride's Brigade its first commander was in fact an Irish-American, colonel John Blake, an ex-US Cavalry Officer. The Brigade was given official recognition by the Boer Government, the commissions of the Brigade's officers were signed by State Secretary FW Reitz. He was commissioned with the rank of major in the Boer army and given Boer citizenship.
MacBride, unlike the other Rising leaders, was not a member of the Irish Volunteers, and happened to find himself in the midst of the Rising without notice, but he offered his services to Thomas MacDonagh and was appointed second-in-command at the Jacob's factory. MacBride, after a court martial under the Defence of The Realms Acts, was shot by British troops in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin.
Kilmainham JailHe was executed on 5 May 1916, two days before his fifty-first birthday. Facing the British firing squad, he refused to be blindfolded, saying "I have looked down the muzzles of too many guns in the South African war to fear death and now please carry out your sentence." He is now buried in Arbour Hill Cemetery (Dublin).
Sean MacDiarmada was born in Leitrim and in his youth worked as a gardener and tram conductor. Later, in Belfast, he was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In 1908 he was transferred to Dublin, where he developed a close personal and political friendship with Thomas Clarke.
From this time onwards he was unrelenting in his organisation of the IRB and through his travels across Ireland became the movement's best-known and most popular personality. He was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and was Secretary of the Supreme Council of the IRB. He was a member of the Provisional Government and signatory to the 1916 Proclamation. He was executed for his part in the Easter Rising.
Thomas MacDonagh (1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.
MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary. Throughout his life he had a keen interest in Irish heritage and the Irish language. He moved to Dublin where he joined the Gaelic League, soon establishing strong friendships with such men as Eoin MacNeill and Patrick Pearse.
His friendship with Pearse and his love of Irish led him to join the staff of Pearse's bilingual St. Enda's School upon its establishment in 1908, taking the role of teacher and Assistant Headmaster. He also founded the teachers' trade union ASTI (Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland). Though MacDonagh was essential to the school's early success, he soon moved on to take the position of lecturer in English at the National University. MacDonagh remained devoted to the Irish language, and in 1910 he became tutor to a younger member of the Gaelic League, Joseph Plunkett. The two were both poets with an interest in the Irish Theatre, and formed a lifelong friendship.
Though credited as one of the Easter Rising's seven leaders, MacDonagh was a late addition to that group. He didn't join the secret Military Council that planned the rising until April 1916, weeks before the rising took place. The reason for his admittance at such a late date is uncertain. Still a relative newcomer to the IRB, men such as Clarke may have been hesitant to elevate him to such a high position too soon, which raises the question as to why he should be admitted at all. His close ties to Pearse and Plunkett may have been the cause, as well as his position as commandant of the Dublin Brigade (though his position as such would later be superseded by James Connolly as commandant-general of the Dublin division). Nevertheless, MacDonagh was a signatory of the Proclamation of the Republic.
During the rising, MacDonagh's battalion was stationed at the massive complex of Jacob's Biscuit Factory. On the way to this destination the battalion encountered the veteran Fenian, John MacBride, who on the spot joined the battalion as second-in-command, and in fact took over much of the command throughout Easter Week, although he had had no prior knowledge and was in the area by accident.
As it was, despite MacDonagh's rank and the fact that he commanded one of the strongest battalions, they saw little fighting, as the British Army easily circumvented the factory as they established positions in central Dublin. MacDonagh received the order to surrender on April 30, though his entire battalion was fully prepared to continue the engagement. Following the surrender, MacDonagh was court martialled, and executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916, aged thirty-eight.
MacDonagh was generally credited with being one of the most gregarious and personable of the rising's leaders.
(President Irish Volunteers, Sentenced by Courtmartial to Penal Servitude for Life. The official leader of the Irish Volunteers was Eoin MacNeill, a distinguished academic and cofounder of the Gaelic League. He believed that the Volunteers should only resort to violence if the government threatened to disarm them, and upon being informed that an actual armed uprising was to take place over the Easter weekend, refused to sanction it. When he learned that, in fact, the British government was planning to disarm the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army after the holiday weekend, he agreed the rising should go ahead... but once again withdrew his support upon learning that Roger Casement, who was attempting to land a boatload of arms from Germany, had been captured by the British over the weekend. Concerned with the inevitable loss of life in what seemed a hopeless cause, MacNeill decided to do everything in his power to stop the armed rebellion and took out an ad in the Sunday Independent cancelling the scheduled 'manoeuvres'.
Little is known about Michael Mallin. He was born in Dublin in 1874 and earned a living as silk weaver and shop owner. In 1909 Michael Mallin became Secretary of the Silk Weavers Union. The shop went out of business in 1913. Michael Mallin found a new job in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU) as band instructor. Michael drew James Connelly's attention when these bands were included in the Irish Citizens Army (ICA) and he became drill instructor. At the time of the Easter Rising Michael Mallin was the second in command of the Irish Citizens Army (ICA).
According his own statement Michael Mallin was not informed about an upcoming rising. James Connolly ordered him on Easter Monday to go to Saint Stephens Green with 36 men and report at the officer of the Irish Volunteer Force (IVF) there. Soon after he had arrived the shooting began and Countess Markievicz made him the commanding officer of Saint Stephens Green. In no-time the serene city park was transformed in a wasteland with hasty raised barricades of motorcycles and criss-cross dug trenches. Remarkably they did not made attempts to seize the buildings. Although one might question Mallin's statement it is apparent that there were no plans for occupying and defending Saint Stephens Green. For those unfamiliar with the situation: Saint Stephens Green is a real city park, with several access roads and enclosed by buildings. It is simply impossible to keep such location without controlling the buildings. Not surprising that Saint Stephens Green was the first stronghold to collapse on the third day of the Rising, forcing the Republicans to withdraw in the adjacent Royal College of Surgeons.
Michael Mallin refused to abandon the Royal College of Surgeons. It took a direct order from James Connelly to persuade Michael Mallin to surrender on Sunday 30 April, two days after Pádraig Pearse and James Connolly.
Michael Mallin was executed on 8 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol.
which he bequeathed the copyright to his novel 'A Swordsman of the Brigade'. The book was published posthumously.
Michael O'Rahilly was the first of the actual leaders of the Rebellion to die and the only one killed in action. Although a founding member of the Irish Volunteers who believed that armed revolt was the only way to end British rule in Ireland, he opposed the timing of the Easter Rising but felt honour bound to participate once it had started, deciding that 'having helped to wind the clock he must come to hear it strike'. When fires in the GPO became unbearable, The O'Rahilly led a group in a charge up Moore Street and got as far as the corner of Ridley Road and Moore Lane when he was shot. Crawling to a nearby doorway he had time to write a final note to his wife Hannah, who he left behind, along with three sons. 'It was a good fight anyhow,' he said.
In November 1913 Pearse was invited to the inaugural meeting of the Irish Volunteers, formed to enforce the implementation of Westminster's Home Rule Act in the face of opposition from the Ulster Volunteers. The bill had just failed to pass the House of Lords at the third effort, but the diminished power of the Lords under the Parliament Act meant that the bill was only to be delayed.
Early in 1914, Pearse became a member of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation dedicated to the overthrow of British rule in Ireland and its replacement with a Republic. Pearse was then one of many people who were members of both the IRB and the Volunteers. When he became the Volunteers' Director of Military Organisation in 1914 he was the highest ranking Volunteer in the IRB membership, and instrumental in the latter's commandeering of the Volunteers for the purpose of rebellion. By 1915 he was on the IRB's Supreme Council, and its secret Military Council, the core group that began planning for a rising while World War I raged on the European mainland.
On 1 August 1915, Pearse gave a now-famous graveside oration at the funeral of the Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. It closed with the words: "Our foes are strong and wise and wary; but, strong and wise and wary as they are, they cannot undo the miracles of God Who ripens in the hearts of young men the seeds sown by the young men of a former generation. And the seeds sown by the young men of '65 and '67 are coming to their miraculous ripening today. Rulers and Defenders of the Realm had need to be wary if they would guard against such processes. Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. The Defenders of this Realm have worked well in secret and in the open. They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but, the fools, the fools, the fools! — They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace."
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William James Pearse was born in 1881 as the younger brother of Pádraic Pearse. The two brothers developed a close, but somewhat unbalanced, friendship in which William was completely devoted to Pádraic. In this respect the brothers Pearse can be compared with the Emmet brothers Thomas and Robert. Initially William Willie Pearse followed in his father's, a monumental sculptor, footsteps and was educated at the Dublin School of Arts and in Paris.
In 1908 William Pearse left the workshop of his father to become a teacher at Pádraic's Scoil Éanna, or Saint Enda's School, and would eventually disappear in the shadow of his brother. Like his brother William was a founding member of the Irish Volunteer Force (IVF) and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). When Pádraic Pearse became more and more involved in the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) William took over the day-to-day routine at Saint Enda's. William never achieved a rank of significance in none of the organisations, nor was he member of the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).
On Easter Monday 1916 William Pearse joined his brother to the General Post Office (GPO) and stood beside Pádraic when he proclaimed the Poblacht na hÉireann, Irish Republic. The rank of William during the Easter Rising is disputed. According to some he was an officer, while the British General Sir John Maxwell described William as acting as an officer. Although William pleaded guilty he stated that he was only the personal attaché of his brother without direct command.
Probably because of his plead and of course his relation with Pádraic William Pearse was sentenced to death and transferred to Kilmainham Gaol. His request to visit his brother for the last time was granted, but Pádraic was shot at the moment William was on his way to the cell. William Willie Pearse was shot in the former stone breakers yard of Kilmainham Gaol on 4 May 1916.
A keen scholar and the son of a papal count, Joseph Plunkett had the benefit of close ties with the literary world, and has left us with some inciteful poetry.
He was a friend of Thomas MacDonagh with whom he worked as director of the Irish Theatre and as co-editor of the Irish Review. Plunkett's house in Kimmage, a suburb of Dublin was used as one of the clearing stations for the cargo of arms landed at Howth in 1914 for the Irish Volunteers.
It was also used as a training camp for young men who had been invited by the Plunkett family to Ireland from Britain to avoid conscription during World War One and to fight for an Independent Ireland instead.
Joseph Plunkett suffered from ill health and had had an operation for glandular tuberculosis only days before the Rebellion, struggling out of his sick bed to partake in it. He was assisted by a young and unknown IRB volunteer who acted as his Aide de Camp, Michael Collins.
Joseph Plunkett was a member of the Military Council of the Provisional Government and of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers.
He married his sweetheart, the artist Grace Gifford, in Kilmainham Gaol just hours before his execution.
against the 'Sinn Feiners'. At first the British tried to cover up Colthurst's actions but continued protests led to his formal court-martial on June 6th. He was found guilty but insane and incarcerated in Broadmoor Criminal Asylum. Colthurst spent 20 months there, then emigrated to Canada to retire on a military pension.
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The Wizard of Oz - Creative Stage Productions
Before being whisked away on a journey of colour, laughter and mayhem, the words Summer and Pantomime was a questionable concept… however this week, in The MET Studio (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre) Creative Stage Productions bought forward a show that left the tinsel in December and instead presented a show that was quickly paced but was full of fun for children and adults alike.
The fun very much began as soon as you enter the intimate venue with Director (and Scarecrow) Scott Bagnall throwing the audience into the madness with a preshow that allowed you to get comfortable with the tongue in cheek tone of the evening.
Standout performances were given from Ian Hill playing the Cowardly Lion who was able to give the warm nostalgia of the 1939 movie, while tickling the funny bones performing the role with a strong Stoke-On-Trent accent. His vocal and physical characterisation was held throughout and made for an entertaining performance. Dan Dayle made for an extremely slimy Flesh-creep, he nailed his performance with children and adults alike squirming at his performance, while beaming with a smile at his very funny comic delivery.
Lewis Warren & Scott Bagnall provide plenty of laughs during the production playing the Tin Man and Scarecrow, respectively. Two special moments without giving two much away involve a very funny scene involving a certain BBC quiz show and the story of an unfortunate meal! Emily Oakes played the wide eyed Dorothy perfectly, the young children in the audience were attached to her performance the moment she entered the stage and delivered a show stealing performance, of Home from The Wiz.
An army of young dancers flooded the stage to provide brilliant chorus numbers, with the chorus playing an array of fantastic characters, from Munchkins to Monkeys and Ghosts to Ozians, they provided fantastic moments in the show, however a greater focus on emotions, simply smiling during the upbeat numbers would have lifted the overall essence of fun during these numbers.
The MET Studio was cleverly transformed through scenes with projections and lighting, however some of the action was missed due to the staging of the production, and it is certainly worth making sure that you are able to get to the venue early, and sitting in the middle of the seats, to make sure that children do not miss out on any of the magical action.
With fast paced humour and plenty of songs for all the family, Creative Stage Productions have delivered a fantastic two hours of escapism for families this summer, with lots of humour improvised on the night (watch out if you don't turn your phone off!), it's a perfect treat for children, to be swept over the rainbow!


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NGC 1381 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. It is located at a distance of circa 60 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 1381 is about 55,000 light years across. It is a member of the Fornax Cluster. NGC 1381 appears edge-on and features a thin disk with high surface brightness and a boxy bulge. Both the box-shaped bulge and the kinematics of the central area of the galaxy suggest that NGC 1381 has a bar.

NGC 1381 was discovered by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt on January 19, 1865. Julius Schmidt was then director of the National Observatory of Athens and he was inspecting the Cape catalogue nebulae with a 6 ft refractor. Along with NGC 1381, he also discovered the nearby galaxies NGC 1382, NGC 1386, NGC 1389, and NGC 1428. The publication of their discovery was delayed by 10 years and was published in 1876 with the work Über einige im Cape-Catalog fehlende Nebel.

NGC 1381 lies at the core of the Fornax Cluster. It lies within a region with increased density of candidate globular clusters nearly half a degree across that connects the elliptical galaxy NGC 1399 with its surrounding galaxies like NGC 1404, NGC 1387, and NGC 1380B. This structure is considered to be the result of the interactions between the cluster galaxies. A region  with intracluster light has also being discovered between NGC 1381, NGC 1387, and NGC 1379. It is suggested that it was created by the tidal stripping of stars and globular clusters from the galaxies.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 1381:  SN 2022ffv (Type Ia, mag 13.3).

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Astronomical objects discovered in 1865
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Natural Sciences Quotes Page 2
Part 2 of the natural sciences quotations list about sayings citing William Herschel, John Lighton Synge and Michael Faraday captions
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience.
— William Herschel
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.
— John Lighton Synge
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.
— Michael Faraday
Science is a perception of the world around us.
Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
— Aldo Leopold
Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
— Phillip E. Johnson
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.
— Akira Yoshizawa
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc.
— Friedrich Engels
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.
— Guglielmo Marconi
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
— J. Arthur Thomson
To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo.
But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.
— Frans de Waal
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
— Leonhard Euler
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art.
It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
— Emanuel Lasker
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
— William Harvey
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
— Carl Linnaeus
I am going to tell you what nature behaves like.
If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.
— Richard P. Feynman
There's a snobbery at work in architecture.
The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
— Norman Foster
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!
— Francois Arago
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
— Antoine Lavoisier
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.
— Fujio Cho
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?
— Steven Weinberg
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.
— Rupert Sheldrake
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.
— Balfour Stewart
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
— Immanuel Kant
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.
— Theodore Holmes Bullock
Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.
— William H. Stewart
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
— James C. Maxwell
— Charles Darwin
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.
— Tony Rothman
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
— Robert L. Park
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Q: Addition of PCIEX4 NVMe M.2 expansion card disables graphics card Problem

*

*Purchased HP EX950 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD and Orico NVME M.2 EXPANSION CARD (PCI-E 3.0 X4)

*When installed into PCI-E slots, graphics card seems to be disabled

*Display only comes from onboard/motherboard graphics but NVMe is detected and works in Win 10

*GFX Card not detected in Device Manager but the fan is spinning

*Seems that the addition of the NVMe M.2 PCI-E expansion card disables the GFX Card completely regardless of numerous BIOS and hardware configurations

What I Have Tried

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*Updated BIOS

*Tried NVMe in both PCIEX8 and PCIEX4 slots with GFX Card in PCIEX16 slot

*Tried GFX Card in PCIEX8 and NVMe in PCIEX4 slots

*GFX Card works in either PCIEX16 and PCIEX8 slots without the NVMe installed

*BIOS: PEG Gen3 Slot Configuration (manual page 49). Setting to: Auto / Gen1 / Gen2 / Gen3

*BIOS: Init Display First (manual page 55). Set to: PCIe 1 Slot with GFX Card in Slot 1 (PCIEX16), NVMe in Slot 3 (PCIEX4)

*BIOS: Init Display First (manual page 55). Set to: PCIe 2 Slot with GFX Card in Slot 2 (PCIEX8), NVMe in Slot 3 (PCIEX4)

*BIOS: PCIE Slot Configuration (manual page 57). Set to: Auto / X4

Questions

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*What else can I try to get my graphics card to work with my new NVMe SSD connected via the PCI-E Expansion Card? (Will continue debugging)

*Will my PCIEX16 run at X8 with the NVMe on Slot 2 (PCIEX8)?
Yes, due to PCI-E lane sharing.

*Will my PCIEX16 run at X8 with the NVMe on Slot 3 (PCIEX4)?
No, the chipset will handle the PCIEX4 and PCIEX1 slots.

*My CPU (and newer ones) have 16 PCI-E lines, does this mean even new PCs drop their PCI-E x16 Slot speeds to x8 if there are NVMe/M.2 drives present since they're on the same line?
No, the chipset is used to handle this. The PCIEX4 Slot on my motherboard is handled by the chipset so the GFX Card in the PCIEX16 Slot will operate at X16
System

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*CPU: Intel i7 4770

*Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H

*RAM: G.SKill Trident X 16GB

*HDD: 3 SATA Harddrives (2x SSD, 1x 7200RPM)

*GFX: Nvidia GTX 1070

Resources

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*Mobo manual: https://download1.gigabyte.com/Files/Manual/mb_manual_ga-z87x-ud3h_e.pdf

*Expansion card: https://www.orico.me/product/orico-m-2-nvme-to-pci-e-3-0-x4-expansion-card-psm2/

*GFX Card: https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N1070IXOC-8GD#kf
Notes

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*"New PC" is not a valid solution. I will do that next year.

*I have tried my best to Google this, but I'm not perfect so I may have missed something.

Updates (Times are GMT+2)

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*2 Feb 2021 ~16h00

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*Public question posted

*3 Feb 2021 ~09h00

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*Questions 2, 3 & 4 Updated

*Realized that my main BIOS was corrupted due to a power failure, so I have been using the backup BIOS for the past 4 years. Perhaps that could be disabling the GFX Card? Switches SW_BIOS and SB are both up (non-default positions - manual page 22).

*BIOS Updated to 11c (unofficial release from Gigabyte to a user with NVMe booting issues). This just made the NVMe visible on boot, but the display still only comes from the motherboard as the GFX Card is still not detected, it seems. See post #51 for the BIOS link: https://www.win-raid.com/t3522f44-OFFER-Gigabyte-GA-Z-X-UD-H-updated-BIOS-vF-b-F-F-c-NVMe-mod-EFI-amp-microcode-3.html

*Found a user with exactly the same problem but with a different motherboard. No solution was found as he assumed his board was faulty: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/gpu-not-detected-after-installing-m-2-nvme-drive/128957

*12 Feb 2021 ~12h00

*

*Returned the expansion card and got a NVMe to USB enclosure. Using it as an external for now until I upgrade to a motherboard that has NVMe slots. Sacrificing a lot of speed but it's fast enough for now.

*Enclosure: ORICO M2PV-C3

Thank you for your time and effort in assisting me - JD


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Partial-order methods make it possible to check properties of a concurrent system by state-space exploration without considering all interleavings of independent concurrent events. They have been applied to linear-time model checking, but so far only limited results are known about their applicability to branching-time model checking. In this paper, we introduce a general technique for lifting partial-order methods from linear-time to branching-time logics. This technique is shown to be applicable both to reductions that are applied to the structure representing the program before running the model checking procedure, as well as to reductions that can be obtained when model checking is done in an automata-theoretic framework. The latter are extended to branching-time logics by using the model-checking framework based on alternating automata introduced by Bernholtz, Vardi and Wolper.


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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District Gilbert v. Commissioner of Social Security Filing 26
Gilbert v. Commissioner of Social Security
Filing 26
ORDER DISMISSING CASE for Failure to Follow a Court Order; ORDER DIRECTING the Clerk's Office to Close This Case, signed by Magistrate Judge Gary S. Austin on 1/4/17. CASE CLOSED. (Marrujo, C)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 SPENCER ALAN GILBERT, 15-cv-1757 GSA 12 Plaintiff, 13 14 15 16 ORDER DISMISSING CASE FOR FAILULRE TO FOLLOW A COURT ORDER v. CAROLYN COLVIN, Commissioner of Social Security, ORDER DIRECTING THE CLERK'S OFFICE TO CLOSE THIS CASE Defendant. 17 18 19 20 21 22 On November 19, 2015, pro se Plaintiff Spencer Gilbert ("Plaintiff") filed a complaint requesting a review of the Commissioner's denial of disability benefits. (Doc. 1). Plaintiff filed an amended complaint on January 7, 2016, which was served on the Defendant on April 11, 2016. 23 24 25 (Doc. 5). 1 On January 12, 2016, the Court issued a scheduling order advising Plaintiff that he was required to serve a confidential letter brief on the Defendant thirty days after the filing of the 26 administrative record. (Doc. 8, pg. 2). Defendant served the administrative record on August 9, 27 2016 (Doc.14), requiring that the confidential letter brief be served on the Defendant no later than 28 1 Both parties have consented to magistrate judge jurisdiction. (Docs. 10 and 12). 1 1 2 3 September 8, 2016. On August 12, 2016, Plaintiff filed a "Motion for a Status Update." (Doc. 15). The Court held a telephonic status conference with the Plaintiff on September 14, 2016. (Doc. 20). At the 4 conference, Plaintiff was given until November 3, 2016, to serve Defendant with the confidential 5 6 7 letter brief. On October 28, 2016, Plaintiff called chambers indicating that he had not served the letter 8 brief and requested Defendant's address. On October 31, 2016, the Court issued a minute order 9 listing Defendant's address. (Doc. 22). Plaintiff was also advised that if he wanted an extension 10 11 of time to serve the confidential letter brief he needed to file a motion in writing no later than November 10, 2016. Plaintiff did not file a request for an extension of time. On November 18, 12 13 14 15 16 2016, Defendant filed a status report indicating that the confidential letter brief was not received and that there had been no communication with the Plaintiff since the September 14, 2016 status conference. (Doc. 23). On December 1, 2016, this Court issued an Order to Show Cause ("OSC") requiring that 17 within twenty days, Plaintiff show cause why monetary sanctions should not be imposed, or why 18 this case should not be dismissed for his failure to comply with this Court's orders, and for his 19 failure to prosecute this case. Plaintiff has not filed a response to the Court's OSC as ordered. 20 21 22 Rule 110 of this Court's Local Rules provides that the "failure of counsel or of a party to comply … with any order of the Court may be grounds for imposition by the Court of any and all 23 sanctions … within the inherent power of the Court." Moreover, this Court has the inherent 24 power to manage its docket. Thompson v. Housing Auth., 782 F.2d 829, 831 (9th Cir. 1986). A 25 court may dismiss an action, with prejudice, based on a party's failure to prosecute an action, 26 failure to obey a court order, or failure to comply with local rules. See, e.g., Ghazali v. Moran, 46 27 F.3d 52, 53-54 (9th Cir. 1995) (dismissal for noncompliance with local rule); Ferdik v. Bonzelet, 28 2 1 963 F.2d 1258, 1260-61 (9th Cir. 1992) (dismissal for failure to comply with an order requiring 2 amendment of complaint); Carey v. King, 856 F.2d 1439, 1440-41 (9th Cir. 1988) (dismissal for 3 failure to comply with local rule requiring pro se plaintiffs to keep court apprised of address); 4 Henderson v. Duncan, 779 F.2d 1421, 1424 (9th Cir. 1986) (dismissal for lack of prosecution and 5 6 7 failure to comply with local rules). In determining whether to dismiss an action for lack of prosecution, failure to obey a 8 court order, or failure to comply with local rules, the court must consider several factors: (1) the 9 public's interest in expeditious resolution of litigation; (2) the court's need to manage its docket; 10 (3) the risk of prejudice to the defendants; (4) the public policy favoring disposition of cases on 11 their merits; and (5) the availability of less drastic alternatives. Ghazali, 46 F.3d at 53; Ferdik, 12 13 14 963 F.2d at 1260-61; Thompson, 782 F.2d at 831; Henderson, 779 F.2d at 1423-24. Here, the Court finds that the public's interest in expeditiously resolving this litigation and 15 the Court's interest in managing the docket weigh in favor of dismissal because there is no 16 indication that the Plaintiff intends to prosecute this action. For example, Plaintiff was given a 17 two month continuance to serve his confidential letter brief and the Court again reminded him of 18 19 the deadline before it expired. (Docs. 20 and 22). Despite these accommodations, Plaintiff did not serve the letter as required. (Doc. 23). The Court then issued an OSC to give Plaintiff another 20 21 22 opportunity to prosecute this action and the Plaintiff did not file a response as ordered. Therefore, Plaintiff has been given ample opportunities to pursue his case but has chosen not to do so. 23 The third factor, risk of prejudice to defendants, also weighs in favor of dismissal because 24 a presumption of injury arises from any unreasonable delay in prosecuting an action. Anderson v. 25 Air West, 542 F.2d 522, 524 (9th Cir. 1976). The fourth factor, public policy favoring disposition 26 27 28 of cases on their merits, is greatly outweighed by the factors in favor of dismissal. Finally, a court's warning to a party that his failure to obey the court's order will result in dismissal satisfies 3 1 the "consideration of alternatives" requirement. Ferdik, 963 F.2d at 1262; Henderson, 779 F.2d 2 at 1424. Here, the OSC advised Plaintiff that a failure to respond would result in dismissal of this 3 action. (Doc. 25, pg. 3). Given Plaintiff's lack of response, the imposition of lesser drastic 4 alternatives is not an alternative. 5 ORDER 6 7 In light of the above, the Court ORDERS that his case be DISMISSED for Plaintiff's 8 failure to comply with a court order, and for failure to prosecute this action. The Clerk of the 9 Court is direct to close this case. 10 11 IT IS SO ORDERED. 12 Dated: 13 January 4, 2017 /s/ Gary S. Austin UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 4


Pervasive transcription of the human genome generates RNAs whose mode of formation and functions are largely uncharacterized. Now researchers from Yale University School of Medicine have discovered yet another type of RNA: DoGs, which stands for – downstream of gene containing transcripts. They combined RNA-seq with detailed mechanistic studies to describe this transcript type derived from protein-coding genes. The resulting RNAs possess long non-coding regions (often >45 kb) and remain chromatin bound. DoGs are inducible by osmotic stress through an IP3 receptor signaling-dependent pathway, indicating active regulation. DoG levels are increased by decreased termination of the upstream transcript, a previously undescribed mechanism for rapid transcript induction. Relative depletion of polyA signals in DoG regions correlates with increased levels of DoGs after osmotic stress. The researchers detected DoG transcription in several human cell lines and provide evidence for thousands of DoGs genome wide.


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Q: kotlin data class constructors not getting picked up I am creating a data class in kotlin as such

data class User(val name: String, val age: Int)
{
    constructor(name: String, age: Int, size: String): this(name, age) {
    }

}

In my main function, I can access the objects as such:
fun main(){

    val x = User("foo", 5, "M")
    println(x.name)
    println(x.age)
    println(x.size) // does not work
}

My problem is that I can't get access to size.
What I am trying to do is, create a data class where top level params are the common items that will be accessed, and in the constructors, have additional params that fit certain situations. The purpose is so that I can do something like
// something along the lines of
if (!haveSize()){
    val person = User("foo", 5, "M")
} else {
     val person = User("foo", 5)
    }
}

Any ideas?

A: In Kotlin you do not need separate constructors for defining optional constructor params. You can define them all in a single constructor with default values or make them nullable, like this:

data class User(val name: String, val age: Int, val size: String = "M")

fun main(){
    val x = User("foo", 5, "L")
    val y = User("foo", 5)

    println(x.size) // "L" from call site
    println(y.size) // "M" from default param
}

A: You can not access size variable, because this is from secondary construct, but we have alternative variant.
data class User(var name: String, var age: Int) {

 var size: String

 init {
     size = "size"
  }

constructor(name: String, age: Int, size: String) : this(name, age) {
    this.size = size
  }
}

A: In short, you want to have one property that can be one of a limited number of options. This could be solved using generics, or sealed inheritance.
Generics
Here I've added an interface, MountDetails, with a generic parameter, T. There's a single property, val c, which is of type T.
data class User(
    val mountOptions: MountOptions,
    val mountDetails: MountDetails<*>,
)

data class MountOptions(
    val a: String,
    val b: String
)

interface MountDetails<T : Any> {
    val c: T
}

data class MountOneDetails(override val c: Int) : MountDetails<Int>

data class MountTwoDetails(override val c: String) : MountDetails<String>

Because the implementations MountDetails (MountOneDetails and MountTwoDetails) specify the type of T to be Int or String, val c can always be accessed.
fun anotherCaller(user: User) {
    println(user.mountOptions.a)
    println(user.mountOptions.b)

    println(user.mountDetails)
}

fun main() {
    val mt = MountOptions("foo", "bar")

    val mountOneDetails = MountOneDetails(111)
    anotherCaller(User(mt, mountOneDetails))

    val mountTwoDetails = MountTwoDetails("mount two")
    anotherCaller(User(mt, mountTwoDetails))
}

Output:
foo
bar
MountOneDetails(c=111)
foo
bar
MountTwoDetails(c=mount two)

Generics have downsides though. If there are lots of generic parameters it's messy, and it can be difficult at runtime to determine the type of classes thanks to type-erasure.
Sealed inheritance
Since you only have a limited number of mount details, a much neater solution is sealed classes and interfaces.
data class User(val mountOptions: MountOptions)

sealed interface MountOptions {
    val a: String
    val b: String
}

data class MountOneOptions(
    override val a: String,
    override val b: String,
    val integerData: Int,
) : MountOptions

data class MountTwoOptions(
    override val a: String,
    override val b: String,
    val stringData: String,
) : MountOptions

The benefit here is that there's fewer classes, and the typings are more specific. It's also easy to add or remove an additional mount details, and any exhaustive when statements will cause a compiler error.
fun anotherCaller(user: User) {
    println(user.mountOptions.a)
    println(user.mountOptions.b)

    // use an exhaustive when to determine the actual type
    when (user.mountOptions) {
        is MountOneOptions -> println(user.mountOptions.integerData)
        is MountTwoOptions -> println(user.mountOptions.stringData)
        // no need for an 'else' branch
    }
}

fun main() {

    val mountOne = MountOneOptions("foo", "bar", 111)
    anotherCaller(User(mountOne))

    val mountTwo = MountTwoOptions("foo", "bar", "mount two")
    anotherCaller(User(mountTwo))
}

Output:
foo
bar
111
foo
bar
mount two

A: This is really the "default values" answer provided by Hubert Grzeskowiak adjusted to your example:
data class OneDetails(val c: Int)
data class TwoDetails(val c: String)
data class MountOptions(val a: String, val b: String)

data class User(
    val mountOptions: MountOptions,
    val detailsOne: OneDetails? = null,
    val detailsTwo: TwoDetails? = null
)

fun main() {
    fun anotherCaller(user: User) = println(user)

    val mt = MountOptions("foo", "bar")
    val one = OneDetails(1)
    val two = TwoDetails("2")

    val switch = "0"
    when (switch) {
        "0" -> anotherCaller(User(mt))
        "1" -> anotherCaller(User(mt, detailsOne = one))
        "2" -> anotherCaller(User(mt, detailsTwo = two))
        "12" -> anotherCaller(User(mt, detailsOne = one, detailsTwo = two))
        else -> throw IllegalArgumentException(switch)
    }
}