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Doris Debenjak (née Krisch) (5 August 1936 – 21 September 2013) was a Slovene and Gottschee German linguist and translator.

Life and work
Doris Krisch was born in Ljubljana to Gottschee German parents. She grew up speaking both German and Slovene. She was married to the Slovene philosopher and translator Božidar Debenjak.

She received her bachelor's degree in German and English in 1959 at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts. She then studied education for a year in Novo Mesto. She started working as an assistant instructor of German at the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts in 1960. She started working independently as a translator into and from Slovene and German in 1982. From 1988 to 1991 she was the chair of the Union of Scientific and Technical Translators of Yugoslavia. In this capacity, she served as a deputy in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, being named in the committee investigating circumstances surrounding the arrest and trial of Janez Janša, Ivan Borštner, David Tasić and Franci Zavrl. She was the chief author of the largest Slovene–German and German–Slovene dictionaries, which she published together with her husband and her son Primož. She was also a major translator of the five-volume Slovene translation of Johann Weikhard von Valvasor's The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola.

Doris Debenjak was a member of the Society of Native Gottschee Settlers (, ), which was founded in 1992 in Kočevske Poljane. She was elected a member of the society's governing board on 8 December 2002.

Major works
 Doris Debenjak. 1974. Nemško-slovenski in slovensko-nemški slovar. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba.
 Doris Debenjak, Božidar Debenjak, & Primož Debenjak, 1993. Veliki nemško-slovenski slovar. Ljubljana: DZS.
 Doris Debenjak, Božidar Debenjak, & Primož Debenjak. 1995. Veliki slovensko-nemški slovar. Ljubljana: DZS.
 Doris Debenjak, Božidar Debenjak, & Primož Debenjak. 2004. Mali nemško-slovenski & slovensko-nemški slovar. Ljubljana: DZS.
 Johann Weikhard von Valvasor. 2009–2013. Čast in slava vojvodine Kranjske. Transl. Doris Debenjak, Božidar Debenjak, Primož Debenjak, et al. Ljubljana: Zavod Dežela Kranjska.

References

1936 births
Ethnic Slovene people
Linguists from Slovenia
Slovenian lexicographers
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
2013 deaths

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(27.5 cm), 154 pp., 87 illustrations (some in colour). 119 catalogue entries. Publisher's brown cloth. - "One of the best documented and most readable accounts of spectacles in the great age of illusion" (review by A. Hyatt Mayor, in Master Drawings, volume 4, 1966, pp.304-305). ¶ From the library of Anthony M. ("Tony") Clark, a specialist in Roman 17th-18th century painting. Inscribed: Anthony M. Clark nyc Oct 1966, with a few pencil annotations on lower pastedown. Excellent copy.


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Social networking, aided by the widespread adoption of smartphones in the US, is quickly making the jump to mobile, according to eMarketer estimates.
By the end of this year, nearly 82 million US mobile users will use a social networking site on their phone at least monthly, or more than a quarter of the total US population. The vast majority of these users (95.5%) will be checking social sites on a smartphone, and smartphone users are about twice as likely as overall mobile phone users to do so this year. By 2014, eMarketer estimates, nearly half of the total US mobile population will be mobile social networkers.
Unsurprisingly, most of these mobile social networkers are hitting up Facebook on their phones. Nearly 70 million people will access Facebook from their phones each month this year, or 85.4% of the overall mobile social networking population. That share will rise to 87.4% by 2014, when about four in 10 mobile users and nearly two-thirds of smartphone users will check Facebook on mobile devices.
Growth in mobile social networking is slowing, from 50% in 2011 to 40% this year. By 2014, the number of mobile social networkers will increase by just 18%—still in the healthy double digits. Mobile Facebook usage will have a similar growth trajectory.
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I joined 50plus-Club in September 2014, I think. I got in touch with several nice men and dated a couple. It was nice although nothing special. Then the 13 of January someone who lived away from me sent me a smile I answered and we started to write each other. It was the most wonderful man I've ever met. I'm 60 years old and he is 61. His birthday is in Valentine's day. We decided to meet in valentine's in San Antonio, TX, to spent his birthday. It was wonderful. Now we skype every night and send hello and love messages every day. We are very much in love. We are going to spend Easter together. We have plans to spend the rest of our life together. It is the most rewarding relationship I have had in all my life. Thank you 50plus-Club to be there helping us to find our perfect match.


Have you discovered Ladybug Girl by Jacky Davis and illustrated by David Soman? Last month we shared some ideas for a birthday party themed around the Ladybug Girl book series. After the fun we had last month with book themed party ideas, this month Penguin Kids sent us the original Ladybug Girl book and asked us to come up with some ideas to go with it. Of course they sent us more than just the book.
Our original plan was to throw a Ladybug Girl Birthday Party Play Date, but unfortunately Hazel's friends could not come when we could have it and then it was Easter. We however did plan some things around this idea. Now included in the pack came "Happy Birthday, Ladybug Girl!" balloons.
There were also coloring pages of birthday cards for Ladybug Girl.
Ladybug Girl is about a young girl named Lulu who wears her ladybug outfit all the time. In this book Lulu's parents tell her and her brother that they need to entertain themselves for the day. Lulu does not know what to do with herself. Her older brother tells her she cannot play baseball with him and his friends. She and her dog, Bingo, look for things to do around the house and then go outside. Outside she becomes Ladybug Girl who can do anything. She helps some busy ants by moving the big rock out of their way. She does many more things she sees as daring and brave and has a lot of fun. When she sees her brother and his friends arguing she decides their game does not look like that much fun anyway. The message of this book is that everyone can entertain herself/himself with a little imagination and each child has the power to do things. I love this message and feel it is perfect to help empower Hazel who can be shy and a bit timid. As Ladybug Girl, Lulu feels she can do anything. Taking that idea, Hazel and I decided to become bug girls. First I made Hazel some new ladybug wings from a fabric I bought ages ago to make her a tutu. I will still make the tutu, but have not had time yet. She also found a ladybug headband at the Dollar Tree and insisted on having it for her costume.
For the wings I used two wire hangers. I bent them into a new shape and covered them with a piece of the fabric folded in half. I used double folded bias tape to finish the edge. I glued it all together and used clips to keep it together until it dried.
I hooked the hangers together and added elastic loops to put the wings on and covered the hanger hooks with red felt. I glued everything into place.
Once it was dry, Hazel put it on with her new headband and became Ladybug Girl.
She decided she wanted to be Butterfly Girl, so she made herself some butterfly wings. I cut to large pieces of foam into the same shape and glued them together. Then she decorated them with various trims (that were on clearance at Joann Fabrics) and her gems.
I made dragonfly wings to be Dragonfly Girl. I glued them onto a piece of green felt cut like a dragonfly tail.
I had hoped to have each child at the play date make their own type of bug wings, but it didn't happen. We also made a fruit and chocolate chip ladybug snack. Hazel loved making these with a strawberry, red grape and mini chocolate chips. She insisted on using one of her ladybug plates too.
Another easy ladybug craft was using a cupcake liner and black paper (and some hole punches) and glue.
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Dr. Stone – Manga Vs Anime
I am a fan of stories in many forms, especially anime and manga. I am also a bit of a science nerd; I work in the healthcare field, so it is a natural byproduct of being around that environment for so long. When Dallas and I were looking at doing Anime April this week, we went to several places asking for anime recommendations, and "Dr. Stone" came highly recommended for the anime, and our friend and Devoted Patreon Geek APK also suggested the Manga. So we have given it a try, there is a devotion on our Youtube about the anime, but the purpose of this article is to compare the manga with the anime and let you know if you should do the anime, the manga, or both! This article's parameters are the first three anime episodes of the series alongside the manga's first volume since they have the same story coverage.
So… get excited.
The Manga:
The manga was a beautiful book, bought from B&N, and like most current manga, was not flipped. For those unaware, Japan reads from right to left, and as a result, what we would consider the back is the front. They used to do what we call "Flip" -ing for the manga for English readers, but that has fallen out of fashion, and some debate that you lose part of the story when they do flip it. The book itself was well printed, an excellent feel to the pages though, for the book enthusiasts like myself, the print left an odd scent to the pages( I smell all my books, it's a thing). The art and lettering in the manga are beautiful, and there are little extra tidbits at the end of "chapters" that are lacking in the anime. The lack of these tidbits does not mean less story in the anime, but they rob you of a way of helping you to feel closer to the characters than you do in the manga.
The Anime:
We watched the anime through a free account on Funimation. The art, story, and general feel of it is identical to the manga, which is a good and a bad thing. The "good" aspect of it is that there is no story missing from the anime that is in the manga. As a result, you do not have the age-old argument of "the book is better" or the "movie is better." However, if they read the manga or watched the anime, you do have people asking, "why read or watch the other?" To which we say, "Because you must complete everything. Right? Or is that just me? Overall the first three episodes are great. They pull you in, the story gets moving quickly, and you are swiftly invested with the story.
Is Dr. Stone Worth It?
In my opinion, yes. The art for both manga and anime is beautiful; it is slightly educational because the science is sound in theory, and it is an entertaining story. Should you read the manga AND watch the anime? Well, that is up to you and your preferences. I loved getting the extra tidbits( such as a conversation between Senku and Tanju about them only metaphorically being the Adam and Eve of the new world). Still, if you are not a reader, you will be able to love and enjoy Dr.Stone just as well with just viewing the anime.
Our Rating of the first book and first three episodes of Dr. Stone is a resounding four out of five Oniguri, the last onigiri being reserved because we have not finished the story in anime in manga form.
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December 2015 Primer: The Movies,...
December 2015 Primer: The Movies, Music, Sports and More Coming Your Way This Month
December 2, 2015 by E. Spencer Kyte
Above: There are plenty of entertainment options available to you throughout December
Let's just skip past the part where next month is actually next year and stick to being excited about all the cool stuff on deck for December.
Between a couple highly anticipated movies, a crazy week of fights in Las Vegas, a ton of Netflix new arrivals and holiday specials galore, there are plenty of entertainment options available to you over the next month.
Here's a look at them all in the December 2015 edition of The Primer.
Mélange of Music (Various Dates)
December's new musical releases skews towards the hip hop and R&B side, the offerings from Pusha T, Chris Brown and Rick Ross are joined by a brand new music from Coldplay as well. Whether you're still buying CDs or giving iTunes gift cards, there are plenty of good choices available.
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Both Just Cause and Kung-Fu Panda have delivered previous games of varying levels of success to your console and this month, both return with the latest entry into their collection. The last Just Cause was critically praised, so the bar is set high for JC3 and Kung-Fu Panda has always been fun and this latest offering should be no different.
New Joints on Netflix (Various Dates)
In addition to several Adam Sandler-helmed projects that are likely to be terrible, December also brings A Very Murray Christmas, Bill Murray's Christmas special, and Making a Murderer, a documentary series in the save vein as The Jinx or Serial. Add a Bill Burr cartoon and Avengers: Age of Ultron and you've got plenty of new stuff to watch in the coming weeks.
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Everyone has the one or two favourites they always watch during the holiday season. Whether it's cooking specials, Elf or any of the animated classic from yoru childhood, they're on this month.
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You know what's awesome? Rolling out a "Santa isn't coming this year" creepy-ass holiday movie to kick off the month at the movies. Krampus should scare the crap out of a few kids that are destined for the naughty list and be a welcomed alternate to the standard Christmas offerings.
Three Very Different, Very Intriguing Movies (December 11)
Ron Howard's true story In The Heart of the Sea, Tom Hardy's true story of twin gangster brothers Legend and the fictional adaptation of Michael Lewis' true story of the housing crisis The Big Short all open on the second Friday of the month and all should be pretty solid at the very least. Hardy doing double duty will likely be the best individual performance, but the ensemble for The Big Short – Bale, Carell, Gosling, Pitt – is too hard to pass up.
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James Gunn and Peter Safran named co-CEOs at DC Studios
Extremely exciting, but not at all surprising.
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The search for the "DC Kevin Feige" has not been an easy one. The Marvel Studios competitor has now found not one, but two leaders to lead this potential-filled franchise towards greener pastures. James Gunn (best known for his work on Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy and DC's Suicide Squad and Peacemaker) and Peter Safran (currently attached to DC's Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) have been appointed as co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios.
Gunn and Safran started their new roles on November 1 and will oversee all film, television, and animation projects in the works under DC Studios, and will report directly to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. While their positions will take up a considerable amount of time, they are still expected to continue on with their personal projects within the company — so Peacemaker fans can rest easy, knowing Gunn will continue to be involved during the HBO Max series' second season, and Blue Beetle fans will have their dream project remain in the hands of Safran.
"DC has among the most entertaining, powerful, and iconic characters in the world and I am thrilled to have the singular and complementary talents of James and Peter joining our world-class team and overseeing the creative direction of the storied DC Universe. Their decades of experience in filmmaking, close ties to the creative community, and proven track record thrilling superhero fans around the globe make them uniquely qualified to develop a long-term strategy across film, TV, and animation, and take this iconic franchise to the next level of creative storytelling," Zaslav said of Gunn and Safran.
As we've seen with Gunn's superhero work in the past (and as of late), he cares a lot for the characters he writes and directs, and to be teamed up with someone like Safran — who seems to be doing the same with Shazam! Fury of the Gods and Aquaman 2 — means that Zaslav might have found 2 formidable opponents to rival Kevin Feige's Marvel Studios.
"We're honored to be the stewards of these DC characters we've loved since we were children. We look forward to collaborating with the most talented writers, directors, and actors in the world to create an integrated, multilayered universe that still allows for the individual expression of the artists involved. Our commitment to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Harley Quinn, and the rest of the DC stable of characters is only equaled by our commitment to the wonder of human possibility these characters represent. We're excited to invigorate the theatrical experience around the world as we tell some of the biggest, most beautiful, and grandest stories ever told. We're especially enthusiastic about doing all of this with Mike, Pam, Casey, Channing, and the whole Warner Bros. Discovery team, and are grateful to David Zaslav, whose bold vision for the future of the franchise we share and allows for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Most of all, we can't wait to bring you all into the story of the DCU."
We're excited to see what Gunn and Safran bring to the DCEU. If the Harley Quinn series is any indication, we're stoked. Hopefully, there's a bright future ahead, and no more certifiable evil people coming back.
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Last week we started discuss Executive Function Disorder and how it can impact on our children's behavior. Many times children have difficulties in the areas of Executive Function. We talked about how Executive Functions encompass the following areas, Inhibition, Working memory, Organization of Materials and Self-Monitoring.
We previously mentioned that regulating emotions helps solve problems. It is also important to note that there are some children whose temperament is such that they are more prone to be irritable, cranky and frustrated. They experience moods more intensely than happy-go-lucky type of kids. Their ability to be flexible and handle frustration is compromised by their temperament. Being able to regulate your emotions means that you can delay gratification, and control your impulsive behavior which are important for children to develop into healthy adults.
Emotional Regulation is needed throughout the day, especially when children are in school. This is how children get ready for learning, stay on task and approach any problem solving activity.
Children who lack emotion regulation skills will have more difficulty in the classroom and are more likely to exhibit problem behavior.
Young children in general are black and white thinkers. They have a tough time understanding nuances. They are invariably inflexible. As children grow they ideally develop cognitive flexibility, and become more flexible in their thinking and are able to process the "grey" areas of life. Children who exhibit challenging behavior have difficulties in this area. According to Ross W. Greene in his book "The Explosive Child" these children have what he calls, cognitive flexibility dysfunction.
That means they have trouble approaching the world in a flexible, adaptable way. They get extremely frustrated when they have to switch gears and when things don't go as they planned. They have a strong need for routine and fight their parents when their is a change or when rules and limits are ambiguous.
For example, these children might balk if their parents choose to go out for dinner instead of staying home, or if a play date has been cancelled because of illness. Parents will find themselves very quickly entangled in a power struggle or dealing with a temper tantrum.
As I mentioned in our last post, we are reviewing a lot of information here. We are working on putting this all together in a report form for our subscribers. But for now, stay tuned for our next and last post in the series. We will talk about the last Executive Skill: Social Skills.


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St. Nicholas, Santa Claus & Father Christmas
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The Man Behind the Story of Father Christmas/Santa Claus
St. Nicholas was a Bishop who lived in the fourth century in a place called Myra in Asia Minor (now called Turkey). He was a very rich man because his parents died when he was young and left him a lot of money. He was also a very kind man and had a reputation for helping the poor and giving secret gifts to people who needed it. There are several legends about St. Nicholas, although we don't know if any of them are true!
The most famous story about St. Nicholas tells how the custom of hanging up stockings to put presents in first started! It goes like this:
There was a poor man who had three daughters. The man was so poor that he did not have enough money for a dowry, so his daughters couldn't get married. (A dowry is a sum of money paid to the bridegroom by the brides parents on the wedding day. This still happens in some countries, even today.) One night, Nicholas secretly dropped a bag of gold down the chimney and into the house (This meant that the oldest daughter was then able to be married.). The bag fell into a stocking that had been hung by the fire to dry! This was repeated later with the second daughter. Finally, determined to discover the person who had given him the money, the father secretly hid by the fire every evening until he caught Nicholas dropping in a bag of gold. Nicholas begged the man to not tell anyone what he had done, because he did not want to bring attention to himself. But soon the news got out and when anyone received a secret gift, it was thought that maybe it was from Nicholas.
Because of his kindness Nicholas was made a Saint. St. Nicholas is not only the saint of children but also of sailors! One story tells of him helping some sailors that were caught in a dreadful storm off the coast of Turkey. The storm was raging around them and all the men were terrified that their ship would sink beneath the giant waves. They prayed to St. Nicholas to help them. Suddenly, he was standing on the deck before them. He ordered the sea to be calm, the storm died away, and they were able to sail their ship safely to port.
St. Nicholas was exiled from Myra and later put in prison during the persecution by the Emperor Diocletian. No one is really knows when he died, but it was on 6th December in either 345 or 352. In 1087, his bones were stolen from Turkey by some Italian merchant sailors. The bones are now kept in the Church named after him in the Italian port of Bari. On St. Nicholas feast day (6th December), the sailors of Bari still carry his statue from the Cathedral out to sea, so that he can bless the waters and so give them safe voyages throughout the year.
in 1066, before he set sail to England, William the Conqueror prayed to St. Nicholas asking that his conquest would go well.
You can find out lots about about St Nicholas at the St. Nicholas Center.
How St. Nicholas Became Santa Claus
In the 16th Century in northern Europe, after the reformation, the stories and traditions about St. Nicholas became unpopular.
But someone had to deliver presents to children at Christmas, so in the UK, particularly in England, he became 'Father Christmas' or 'Old Man Christmas', an old character from stories plays during the middle ages in the UK and parts of northern Europe. In France, he was then known as 'Père Nöel'.
In some countries including parts of Austria and Germany, present giver became the 'Christkind' a golden-haired baby, with wings, who symbolizes the new born baby Jesus.
In the early USA his name was 'Kris Kringle' (from the Christkind). Later, Dutch settlers in the USA took the old stories of St. Nicholas with them and Kris Kringle and St Nicholas became 'Sinterklaas' or as we now say 'Santa Claus'!
Many countries, especially ones in Europe, celebrate St. Nicholas' Day on 6th December. In Holland and some other European Countries, children leave clogs or shoes out on the 5th December (St. Nicholas Eve) to be filled with presents. They also believe that if they leave some hay and carrots in their shoes for Sinterklaas's horse, they will be left some sweets.
St. Nicholas became popular again in the Victorian era when writers, poets and artists rediscovered the old stories.
In 1823 the famous poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' or 'T'was the Night before Christmas', was published. Dr Clement Clarke Moore later claimed that he had written it for his children. (Some scholars now believe that it was actually written by Henry Livingston, Jr., who was a distant relative of Dr Moore's wife.) The poem describes St. Nicholas with eight reindeer and gives them their names. They became really well known in the song 'Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer', written in 1949. Do you know all eight names?
Did you know that Rudolph and Santa's other reindeers might well be all girls!? Only female reindeer keep their antlers throughout winter. By Christmas time most males have discarded their antlers and are saving their energy ready to grow a new pair in the spring.
The UK Father Christmas and the American Santa Claus became more and more alike over the years and are now one and the same.
Some people say that Santa lives at the North Pole. In Finland, they say that he lives in the north part of their country called Lapland.
But everyone agrees that he travels through the sky on a sledge that is pulled by reindeer, that he comes into houses down the chimney at night and places presents for the children in socks or bags by their beds, in front of the family Christmas tree, or by the fire place.
Most children receive their presents on Christmas Eve night or early Christmas morning, but in some countries they get their presents on St. Nicholas' Eve, December 5th.
St. Nicholas putting the bag of gold into a stocking is probably where the custom of having a tangerine or satsuma at the bottom of your Christmas stocking came from. If people couldn't afford gold, some golden fruit was a good replacement - and until the last 50 years these were quite unusual fruits and so still special!
The biggest Christmas stocking was 51m 35cm (168ft 5.65in) long and 21m 63cm (70ft 11.57in) wide (from the heel to the toe). It was made the volunteer emergency services organisation Pubblica Assistenza Carrara e Sezioni (Italy) in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy, on 5th January 2011. Just think how many presents you could fit in that!
Santa Claus and Coca-Cola
St. Nicholas in Harper's Weekly: January 1863
There's a Christmas Urban Legend that says that Santa's red suit was designed by Coca-Cola and that they might even 'own' Santa!
This is definitely NOT TRUE!
Long before coke had been invented, St Nicholas had worn his Bishop's red robes. During Victorian times and before that, he wore a range of colors (red, green, blue and brown fur) but red was always his favorite!
In January 1863, the magazine Harper's Weekly published the first illustration of St Nicholas/St Nick by Thomas Nast. In this he was wearing a 'Stars and Stripes' outfit! Over the next 20 years Thomas Nast continued to draw Santa every Christmas and his works were very popular indeed (he must have been very good friends with Santa to get such good access!).
This is when Santa really started to develop his big tummy and the style of red and white outfit he wears today. Nast designed Santa's look on some historical information about Santa and the poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas'.
On January 1st 1881, Harper's Weekly published Nast's most famous image of Santa, complete with a big red belly, an arm full of toys and smoking a pipe!
This image of Santa became very popular, with more artists drawing Santa in his red and white costume from 1900 to 1930.
Santa was first used in Coke adverts in the 1920s, with Santa looking like the drawings of Thomas Nast. In 1931, the classic 'Coke Santa' was drawn by artist Haddon Sundblom. He took the idea of Nast's Santa but made him even more larger than life and jolly, replaced the pipe with a glass of Coke and created the famous Coke holding Santa!
Coca-Cola also agree that the red suit was made popular by Thomas Nast not them!
Coke has continued to use Santa in their adverts since the 1930s. In 1995 they also introduced the 'Coca-Cola Christmas truck' in the 'Holidays are coming' TV adverts. The red truck, covered with lights and with the classic 'Coke Santa' on its sides is now a famous part of recent Christmas history.
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Q: Oracle package for adding 2 numbers I am learning oracle packages. I have created a package in that I created a procedure to add two numbers. Below is my syntax.
CREATE PACKAGE ADD2Numbers AS
    PROCEDURE ADD1(A IN NUMBER ,B IN number ,C OUT Number );
END ADD2Numbers;

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY  ADD2Numbers AS
    PROCEDURE ADD1(A IN NUMBER ,B IN number ,C OUT Number ) IS
    BEGIN
       C:=A + B;
    END ADD1;
END ADD2Numbers;

I am calling this procedure as below.
 Declare C Number; call ADD2Numbers.ADD1(1,2); Print :c;

But I get the below error.

call ADD2Numbers.ADD1(1,2)
  Error report -
  SQL Error: ORA-06553: PLS-306: wrong number or types of arguments in call to 'ADD1'
  06553. 00000 -  "PLS-%s: %s"
  *Cause:
  *Action:

What am I doing wrong?

A: DECLARE
C Number;

BEGIN
 ADD2Numbers.ADD1(1,2,C);
 DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(C);
END;

To view dbms output in SQL Developer:
1.Click View-> Dbms Output
2.Click on the green colored "+" icon on and dbms output window that opened by step 1 above.
3.Add the connection you are using
4.Run the above anonymous block again

A: You have declared a variable c but not passed it as a parameter to the procedure.  The number of parameters passed to a procedure must match its signature.
So the solution is quite simple (this is using SQL*Plus syntax):
define C Number;
call ADD2Numbers.ADD1(1,2, :C);
print  c;

As @JustinCave says, the normal way of implementing this sort of functionality is with a stored function.
CREATE PACKAGE ADD2Numbers AS
    FUNCTION ADD1(A IN NUMBER ,B IN number) return number;
END ADD2Numbers;

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY  ADD2Numbers AS
    FUNCTION ADD1(A IN NUMBER ,B IN number) return number IS
       c number;
    BEGIN
       C:=A + B;
       return c;
    END ADD1;
END ADD2Numbers;

You could call it like this ...
select ADD2Numbers.ADD1(1,2) from dual;

... use it in PL/SQL like this ...
declare
  x number;
begin
  x := ADD2Numbers.ADD1(1,2);
  dbms_output.put_line('x=' || to_char(x));
end;

Remember to enable SERVEROUTPUT when using DBMS_OUTPUT calls (most IDEs will do this be default).  Find out more.

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Portage River may refer to:

Canada
Portage River (Alberta), a tributary of the Peace River
Portage River (Beauce-Sartigan), a river in Quebec
Portage River (Bécancour River tributary), a river in Quebec
Portage River (Boucher River tributary), a river in Quebec
Portage River (La Sarre River tributary), a river in Quebec
Portage River (New Brunswick), a tributary of the Northwest Miramichi River
Portage River (Percé), a river in Quebec
Portage River (Petit-Saguenay River tributary), a tributary of the Northwest Miramichi River
Portage River, a river of Prince Edward Island

United States

Michigan
Portage River (Houghton County, Michigan), the southern end of the Keweenaw Waterway
Portage River (Jackson County, Michigan), a tributary of the Grand River
Portage River (Kalamazoo/St. Joseph Counties), a tributary of the St. Joseph River
Portage River (Livingston/Washtenaw counties), a tributary of the Huron River

Minnesota

Portage River (Fish Hook River tributary), Minnesota

Portage River (Moose Horn River tributary), Minnesota
Portage River (Nina Moose River tributary), Minnesota

Ohio
Portage River (Ohio), empties into Lake Erie near Port Clinton, Ohio

Historical uses
The South Branch of the Chicago River, once called the Portage River


The local water board "Hunze en Aa's works together with municipalities, provinces, leisure sector and nature conservation organizations as partners to achieve our common goal of a lively, attractive and climate resilient lake "Zuidlaardermeer." The project is both aimed on EU environmental objectives like Natura 2000 and Water Framework Directive (WFD) as on a sustainable recreative use of the lake.
Today the water quality does not meet the objectives and standards. There is a need to reduce the nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) in the lake water and the sediment i.e. to prevent blooms of blue green algae. Also the fish stocks and biotopes for aquatic plants do not meet the standards.
An important aim of the project is the development and usage of innovative measures that help reducing the concentration of phosphorus. These innovative measures are, among others: The improvement of existing reed vegetation and the development of new wetlands with reed.
Development of islands in shallow parts create a lee for developing biotopes for aquatic plants instead of algae. The new wetlands contribute to climate adaptation and innovations in water management by enlarging our water catchments areas.
We believe that the implementation of this project and exchanging good practice and knowledge with our (international) partners contributes to a sustainable North Sea Region.
The central aim of this project is to increase our knowledge about bringing back the amount of nutriants in fresh water. Therefore we wish to implement several innovative measures that should contribute to this goal.
Improving the waterquality in the lake should give a boost to biodiversity, recreational usage and to local economy.
We are looking for partners that are working on water quality as well.


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BeInMedia Agency is a Digital Advertising agency based in Kuwait offering digital marketing solutions to local and international businesses including government organisations and non-profit organisations.

History
The company was established in 2008 and has since expanded its operations to Dubai and Doha. BeInMedia Agency's basic services have been online marketing, social media marketing, email marketing and animated video marketing, however, the company has also reported to have been providing digital solutions like search engine optimization and app / website development to international tech companies.

The notable digital marketing and development works by the company include working for Starcom, Samsung and MasterCard.

References

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On the phone: Mielke and Madore on park fee decision
Monday evening, Clark County Commissioners voted to eliminate park fees for the six county parks. We called the commissioners to get their comment via phone.
CRC Light Rail Tolling Project Update
Clark County to use taxes to lobby against voters. C-Tran snubs voters December 11 who said No to funding Light Rail and BRT in the General Election. The C-Tran Board voted to rush ahead on the CRC Light Rail Tolling project and BRT anyway.
A sub-district reeks of taxation without representation
The next step in the process to push Portland's light rail into Vancouver is to secure taxes to fund expenses for operation and maintenance (O&M). Unlike the cost to construct light rail – which is funneled through state and federal taxes – monies for operation and maintenance are derived from ...
Unraveling the train wreck of the Columbia River Crossing
The Columbia River Crossing story of intrigue continues to reveal bizarre twists and turns that baffle common sense. For the first time in recent years, a legislative body was able to hear from sources other than the CRC yesterday. What was presented was nothing short of jaw dropping. To understand ...
C-Tran board commits $300K for 2012 high capacity transit vote
After some hemming and hawing, the C-Tran board approved a $330,000 contract Tuesday night to hire engineering firm BergerABAM to assist in the preparation of a vote on high capacity transit financing for Fall 2012...
C-Tran debates sales tax options knowing any vote could sabotage light rail
The C-Tran board wants to make it perfectly clear that a sales tax measure it hopes to bring to voters this November to support high capacity transit in Clark County will not be a referendum on light rail. However, unless the board comes up with a back-up funding plan, a ...
CRC 'pre-construction' plans begin, but opponents not invited
The Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) has officially entered its "pre-construction" phase, even though planners have yet to secure a penny of the estimated $10 billion* they will need to fund capital costs. The announcement came Thursday during the final meeting of the CRC Project Sponsors Council, a ...
Commissioners reject admissions tax, baseball stadium deal dead
There still may be a minor league baseball team in Clark County's future, but it won't be the Class A Yakima Bears. The team's bid to move to Vancouver was scuttled Tuesday when the Board of County Commissioners voted 2 to 1 to reject a proposed 5 percent tax
Questions remain over proposed baseball stadium financing
If Clark County gives the green light, more than just baseball fans could end up paying for the construction of a $23 million, 6,000–seat stadium at Vancouver's Clark College. An admissions tax could charge moviegoers, golfers, motocross fans, and concertgoers five percent per ticket in an effort to cover most ...
One out and two runs as board agrees to letter of intent
Vancouver's love of baseball wasn't debated this morning as the board of Clark County commissioners agreed to sign a non-binding letter of intent with Short Season LLC which hopes to relocate the Yakima Bears minor league team to Vancouver. But commissioners and the public in attendance did debate the proposed finance ...
C-Tran board delays CRC document review
The executive director of C-Tran did not ask the transit agency's board of directors to review additional Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project* documents as was scheduled to continue during Tuesday evening's board meeting. The board reviewed the CRC draft environmental impact statement during its June meeting and was scheduled ...


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To start or stop trash service, or for questions about your trash bill, please contact Athens directly at (888) 336-6100. Additional information about Athens services is available on the Athens web site or by calling Athens.
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What in the world is this "source code" anyway?
(this page is part of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, 2007 edition. Please do read that introduction to know more about the Guide, especially if you mean to comment this page. Thanks)
The source code of a software program is the complete description, in a (theoretically) human readable programming language, of what that program must do. For 95% of human beings, this sounds like one of the most boring and useless things to know or look at. However, even if almost nobody has to look at any source code, the way it is managed is still crucial for our lives and civilù rights, not to mention, sometimes, national security.
Source versus machine code
Internally, computers do not need source code, nor would they be able to understand it. The only instructions that any microprocessor, the central electronic circuit of every computer, can directly understand are machine codes. These are special sequences of bits (1's and 0's), each of which corresponds to one specific operation which the processor is able to execute at very high speed: things like sum, multiply, copy data from one location to another and so on. Any software program, no matter how complex it is, is just a sequence of instructions in machine code.
It is possible to write programs directly in machine code, but it is a very boring, complicated and error prone activity. Since only very elementary instructions are available, it is necessary to write a lot of them for even the simplest task and, even for a competent programmer, the resulting code is very hard to read and figure out, especially when it is necessary to update or modify programs written by somebody else. For all these reasons, machine code is written by hand only in special situations where it is absolutely necessary to maximize the performances of the computer by giving to it the smallest possible number of low level instructions.
How source code is used
Today it is possible to describe the behavior of a software program in a wide variety of computer languages at a much higher level than would be possible with machine code. These descriptions, that is the source code of the actual programs, are then translated into machine code by specialized programs called compilers. The process is semiautomatic, since the compiler needs specific instructions to perform the conversion in the optimal way.
The development of compilers and the related possibility of writing and modifying only source code in high level computer languages has been a huge step forward for software engineering and society as a whole.
Every software language has high level operators which allow one to express the basic steps of any generic procedure: some of these operators mean things like "if this is true, do X, otherwise do Y" or "write these data to a file named Z", others can describe with one or two keywords very long sequence of repetitive instructions or very complex mathematical operations.
Thanks to all these features, writing programs in a high level software language takes much, much less time than doing the same thing in machine code. The same applies to correcting errors, adding new capabilities to a program or merging two programs into a new one. Machine code is also very dependent on the physical structure of the processor which executes it: as a general rule, the machine code written for one processor cannot run without heavy changes or a complete rewriting, on any different processor model.
This doesn't happen with source code, because it is written at a higher abstraction level. Besides productivity at the initial stage, the first time a program is created, this gives another huge practical advantage: portability, that is the capability of generating different versions of machine code, each optimized for one specific processor or operating system. In order to create a different version, the programmer only needs to give different instructions to the compiler: there is no need to rewrite the whole program from scratch.
Why it is necessary to know what source code is
Besides the huge improvements to design and maintenance, source code is also essential to figure out how a program really works. In other words, studying the source code of real, widely used software and, if possible, improving it, is by far also the best possible way to learn programming well enough to make a living (or anything else really meaningful) out of it.
Source code is also all that is needed to generate a working copy of a software program perfectly equal to the official one distributed by the original author. For this reason, controlling by law how source code can be distributed, or if, how and by who it can be modified, is a very powerful economic weapon for everybody who wanted to either stimulate or prevent competition in the software industry. Last but not least, access to source code, to check without intermediaries the presence of security problems, is vital for every software program used by military equipment or when, for example, the software shall be used to protect state secrets.
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Hi all - I appreciate any tips you can offer. I'm not that email saavy but can find my way around a bit. This has stumped me. For the past 3 years I've used Yahoo mail with POP forwarding. Suddenly people weren't receiving my emails and it turned out they would show up 2 or 3 weeks later. I believe the problem was yahoo so I've since switched to using Outlook instead but want to see if I've been tagged as a spammer (I send a couple of hundred emails a day, not spam but even so I'm now worried) or if the problem is with dreamhost. Would you please take a look at these two headers and see if you understand where the problem was caused? Big thanks to any offers of help!
These lines make me think that the delay is inside Yahoo. After the long delay, Dreamhost finally gets it about a minute later from omp103.mail.ac4.yahoo.com.
I suggest changing your Yahoo forward to go to a Gmail account and see if that speeds things up. That will at least help narrow down the problem.


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When the president appointed a panel without women
The legal profession is far from transformed.
Originally published by Thabang Pooe on GroundUp.
Women are severely under-represented in the higher echelons of the legal profession.
On 22 October, the office of the President issued a statement announcing the appointment of an Advisory Panel to interview for the Head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The panel will be chaired by Energy Minister Jeff Radebe. It consists of seven people, all men.
The statement said the panel has met to confirm its mandate and to decide how to complete its work.
When all the members of this panel sat in the room and looked around; did they question where the women were? Did none of them raise this as a concern? If they represent different stakeholders, did any of them see it appropriate to suggest nominating a woman for the panel? Does this profession not have worthy women?
This is not an isolated incident. It's yet another demonstration of the lack of gender transformation or even awareness of gender in the legal space. In 2015, during the biggest class action this country has seen, out of nearly 40 counsel involved, only three were black while every single senior counsel was white and male. Very few women were part of the legal teams. An article in GroundUp stated that 98% of the attorneys were white men.
More recently, questions were raised on social media on the composition of the legal team from South Africa that partnered with Lawyers for Human Rights (Zimbabwe) to represent MDC leader Nelson Chamisa in his bid to challenge the country's national election results in the Zimbabwean Constitutional Court.
In July 2018, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) published its long-awaited report on gender transformation in the judiciary and the legal profession. The report — which has now been gazetted – emanated from a complaint lodged by the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit and Sonke Gender Justice about the obvious slow pace of gender transformation in the judiciary. Sonke and DGRU pointed out between 2009 and 2012, when 110 judicial positions were up for grabs, only 24 women were appointed.
In the CGE report, the latest statistics on gender representation were revealed. Only 35% of permanently employed judges are female. In its first 20 years the number of women on the Constitutional Court bench remained unchanged; two out of 11. It is only in 2016 and 2017 that two more female judges were appointed.
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Gender representation at the bar is even worse. Only 27% of the bar is female. The CGE also canvassed 12 of the country's biggest firms and found that 80% of the chief executives were white men, as were 72% of all managing partners.
I am reminded of Viola Davis' 2015 Emmy acceptance speech when she said, "The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity … You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there."
The same message bears repeating in this context. The only thing that separates women – black woman in particular – and men, is opportunity and consideration.
It seems that our profession is great at paying lip service to the idea of gender transformation, but there really isn't a concerted effort to think about gender representivity at every occasion.
What we need urgently is to move from paying lip service to the practical application of gender equality, and this can only be achieved if all institutions of the state – including the president — uphold and implement the true values of our Constitution. We should not in 2018 have an all-male panel selecting key positions for the NPA. How are we to trust that this committee will ensure proper consideration of female candidates? How are female candidates to feel before a panel made up exclusively of males?
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Gender equality is intrinsically linked to sustainable development and is vital to the realisation of human rights for all. The overall objective of gender equality is a society in which women and men enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations in all spheres of life. In a young democracy where there is scope for unequal laws being made and interpreted to the detriment of so many women, the legal profession remains in great need of transformation.
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The 2016 Global Refugee and Displacement Crisis
A Refugees International Year-in-Review
In 2016, the world witnessed a global refugee crisis of historic proportions, with the number of refugees and displaced people reaching 65 million world-wide – the largest number since World War II. Millions fled their homes and their homelands because of wars and armed conflicts, persecution, and gender-based violence in countries including Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar, and Colombia. Throughout the past year, the international community struggled to establish to meet the humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children living in refugee camps, in make-shift shelters, in open fields and on city streets.
Through it all, Refugees International (RI) stayed at the forefront of these crises, advocating for the rights and protections of refugees and displaced people. Whether addressing the needs of those displaced by war, climate change, or ethnic- or gender-based violence, RI traveled to Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America to bear witness to these crises and raise the voices of world's most vulnerable peoples.
Over the past year, Refugees International achieved the following as a result of our missions around the world:
Syria – As conditions in Syria continued to deteriorate throughout 2016 and as the resulting refugee crisis grew, RI pressed the U.S. government to increase its humanitarian assistance to address the Syrian refugee crisis. The United States ultimately pledged an additional $439 million in assistance.
Turkey – RI undertook a special mission to investigate the rights of Syrian refugees to access the labor market in Turkey. Our advocacy contributed to the decisions of the Turkish government to approve work permits for thousands of Syrian refugees since January.
Iraq – The United States provided nearly $155 million in additional humanitarian assistance to aid the more than 3 million conflict-affected Iraqis displaced within their country. As recommended by RI, this humanitarian assistance focused on areas in southern and central Iraq — and included badly needed food assistance.
Uganda and South Sudan – As 2016 draws to a close and as fears of a potential genocide emerge from South Sudan, RI undertook a mission to northern Uganda to meet with refugees escaping the South Sudan's violence. RI will issue a report in early 2017, examining the allegations of mass rapes and other violence and detailing the status of South Sudanese refugees now living Uganda.
Nigeria – Refugees International released a groundbreaking report on the displaced women and girls affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria's Borno State. The report was presented to officials at the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and to senior staff at the Senate and House foreign affairs committees. In response to the report, the humanitarian community deployed high-level teams to tackle the challenges highlighted by RI. In addition, the U.S. government provided another $41 million in humanitarian aid to people affected by conflict and severe food insecurity.
Burundi – Following the release of Refugees International's report on unmet and hidden displacement in Burundi, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) began work on a humanitarian response plan for Burundi—a first step towards increasing the humanitarian presence and assistance recommended by RI. In addition, after RI advocacy efforts in Brussels, the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civilian Protection Department (ECHO) pledged €5 million in aid for the Burundi crisis - including, for the first time, "humanitarian protection activities inside Burundi." Prior EU aid packages had only benefited Burundian refugees in neighboring countries. RI raised concerns about conflict-related sexual violence in Burundi with UN Security Council members and senior Burundian officials. In particular, RI called on Burundi to thoroughly investigate allegations of sexual violence and criticized Burundi's public attempts to dismiss allegations and discredit survivors.
Zimbabwe – RI highlighted the lack of preparedness for a potential famine, which might unfold during the upcoming dry season in Zimbabwe. Soon after RI released its report, the United States and other donor governments announced an additional $54.5 million in humanitarian funding to help the country through the ongoing drought. As a result of our efforts, additional humanitarian staff has been deployed both in Zimbabwe and across southern Africa to improve coordination and preparedness for the worsening of crisis.
Rwanda – An RI team helped uncover a secret government-supported campaign in Rwanda to arm refugees — including children — in violation of international law. RI shared this information with U.S. officials and the public, rallying the necessary support in Congress and in the Obama administration to levy sanctions against those responsible. As a result, reports of this illegal recruitment have dropped significantly, allowing refugees to live in security. RI's findings were highlighted in the State Department's Annual Human Rights Report.
Ukraine – OCHA adopted RI's recommendation for improved assistance for people living in conflict zones and for greater UN advocacy to restore freedom of movement for civilians and goods. Refugees International and other NGOs also urged the Ukrainian government to improve its law covering internally displaced persons (IDPs) to better reflect international guidelines to develop long-range plans for IDPs. Advocacy by RI and other NGOs made it possible for people displaced by war to register as IDPs and receive assistance.
Rohingya Refugees – In March, the U.S State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration released funding to assist the persecuted Rohingya community from Myanmar, supporting education, health, and freedom of movement for Rohingya populations — all areas advocated by RI in 2015 and 2016 following missions in Southeast Asia.
Climate Displacement – RI undertook a mission to Myanmar to assess the status of the thousands of people affected by climate displacement. Following RI advocacy on climate displacement issues overall, the U.S. government announced it will join the Platform on Disaster Displacement (Nansen II) Steering Committee.


TORONTO - Target Canada says it will shut 16 locations permanently next week, the first wave of store closures that will eliminate 17,000 jobs in total when all is said and done.
Employees at each store will be notified about 10 days before the final day of business at their location, said company representative Molly Snyder.
Ontario is home to half of the stores that have been notified of closures between March 18 and 22. The remainder include three in Alberta, two in B.C., two in Quebec and one store in Manitoba.
Last week, leases for 11 former Target Canada properties were sold back to landlords for $138 million before taxes, while others are still on the sales block.
Any store leases that don't find a buyer will return to the landlords after a deadline set for the end of June.
Meanwhile, suppliers of Target Canada are challenging the company's $1.9-billion claim that it owes an "early termination payment'' to a property company it established to hold its real estate assets.
Suppliers are worried that could eat up all the money they claim to be owed in the insolvency — estimated to be around $400 million.
Last week, the suppliers submitted a list of more than 60 questions to Target Canada in an effort to get more clarity around the weeks that led up to the company's insolvency filing in January.
The group is trying to determine how Target Canada went about ordering inventory around the time it made the decision to close down its operations. Suppliers are asking for minutes from the company's board meetings between September 2014 and January 2015, among other things.
Target Canada must provide its response to the questions by Monday, though it can also detail reasons why it refuses to answer.
Court proceedings surrounding the company's wind down are expected to stretch into the summer.


Heart issues such as abnormal heart rhythm, a heart attack, and heart throbbing or pounding.
Human waste problems involving ineffective painful straining of the stool or urine and bladder control.
High bloood pressure, low amount of sodiumm in the blood, and low amount of potassium in the blood.
Bewilderment such as loss of memory, confusion, hallucination, and metnal disorder with loss of normal personality and reality.
Anxiety symptoms such as feeling anxious and nervous.
Stomach issues involving cramps, indigestion, and feeling like throwing up.
Problems with stool such as gas, diarrhea, and incomplete or infrequent bowel movements.
Frequent urination, excess urination, urination during the night, and kidney problems causing a decreased amount of urine to be passed.
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories withdrew Duract from the market after reports came in about the drug causing severe liver failure in patients who used the medication for longer than 10 days.
The FDA assigned Duract as category C. Duract is only recmommneded for use when the risk is outweighed by the benefit. Duract should be avoided during late pregnancy (last trimester) because the drug can delay parturition or cause premature colosure of the doctus arteriosus. It is unknown if this medication passes through breast milk and therefore nursing mothers should consult a physician before using this drug.
Patients should inform their doctor of any history of liver or kidney disease, any blood disorders, heart disease, frequent alcohol use, ulders, high blood pressure, asthma or eye diseases.
This drug may cause extreme tiredness and therefore patients should exert caution when taking this medication while performing activities that require alertness.
Alcohol use should be limited as it may cause an increase in intestinal and stomach bleeding.
Duract can increase the patient's sensitivity to sunlight and therefore patients should avoid sun exposure and wear protective clothing and sunscreen.
This drug should be used with extreme caution in the elderly.
Duract | Bromfenac is an anti-inflammatory drug used to relieve pain and reduce inflammation. The drug was withdrawn from the U.S. market due to safety and effective problems. Duract is most effective in relieving menstrual pain and is used for short-term pain relief.
Duract is taken orally. The drug should be taken 6 to 8 hours between the last use. The medication should also be taken with 6 to 8 ounces of water. After taking the drug, patients should not lie down for 30 minutes.
Duract should not be taken with high-fat meals, which may cause the drug to not work properly.
Patients should contact their local poison control center if an overdose is suspected.
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Q: Full wave bridge rectifier with capacitor resistors zener diode and a LED How can I analyze this circuit? What formulas can I apply and reach the output voltage?

Values of resistors are in ohms, zener diode is 4,7V. Capacitor is 2200 microFarad and 16V.

This is the circuit, so the output should have been just 4,7v because of zener's value? I have to find the theratical value for it and see if there is much of a difference.
R2 is 330 ohm in the actual circuit by the way.

A: As Andy points out the output across C1 will be peak voltage in (Vp) - 2* diode drops = 10 - 1.2 = 8.8V. (from figures shown in photo)
If no current is taken from the output connector and the zener is 4V7 we can use ohm's law to calculate the current through the LED.
                        Iled = (Vzener - Vled)/R2

taking Vled = 2.5V  this gives Iled = (4.7 - 2.5)/300 = 2.2/300 = 0.0073 A = 7.3mA
Without this LED load the current through the zener would be,
                         Iz = (Vc - Vz)/R1

where Iz is 'no load' zener current, Vc is the voltage across the capacitor and Vz is the zener voltage.
This gives Iz = (8.8 - 4.7)/220  = 4.1/220 = 0.01636 A = 10.6(4) mA
However as 7.3 mA is being taken by the LED this only leaves 3.3 mA through the zener.
If any current is taken from connector U2 in excess of 3mA voltage regulation will fail and the output voltage will fall below 4V7.
If the output connector was short circuited the current would be Vc/R1 = 8.8/220 = 0.04A = 40mA

A: It looks like you are already using a simulator so this should help immensely but a simple rule is that the capacitor will charge up to the peak voltage of the AC waveform minus two forward diode drops.
The ripple voltage is determined by the load resistance and can be found on this page here. Here's the picture that is relevant: -


Deposition Author(s): Reubold, T.F., Eschenburg, S., Becker, A., Leonard, M., Schmid, S.L., Vallee, R.B., Kull, F.J., Manstein, D.J.
Reubold, T.F., Eschenburg, S., Becker, A., Leonard, M., Schmid, S.L., Vallee, R.B., Kull, F.J., Manstein, D.J.
Here, we present the 1.9-A crystal structure of the nucleotide-free GTPase domain of dynamin 1 from Rattus norvegicus. The structure corresponds to an extended form of the canonical GTPase fold observed in Ras proteins. Both nucleotide-binding switch motifs are well resolved, adopting conformations that closely resemble a GTP-bound state not previously observed for nucleotide-free GTPases. Two highly conserved arginines, Arg-66 and Arg-67, greatly restrict the mobility of switch I and are ideally positioned to relay information about the nucleotide state to other parts of the protein. Our results support a model in which switch I residue Arg-59 gates GTP binding in an assembly-dependent manner and the GTPase effector domain functions as an assembly-dependent GTPase activating protein in the fashion of RGS-type GAPs.
Reubold, T.F.,Eschenburg, S.,Becker, A.,Kull, F.J.,Manstein, D.J.
Abteilung Biophysik, Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Jahnstrasse 29, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.


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Q: How does LASSO select the heavy collinear features (randomly?) We know that for a group of heavy collinear features, LASSO will mostly to select one of them and set the others zero. And many references said that this selected feature is randomly determined by LASSO. I am not sure for this conclusion and don't know the reason. Could you offer some related references?

A: I think you are making a small confusion here.
For a fixed data vector $y$ and a matrix $A$, the number of solution to the LASSO problem, defined as
$$\min_x ||Ax-y||_2+\lambda ||x||_1$$
is either one or infinite. In both cases, the strongest feature (eventually plural) is never chosen at random. The process is entirely deterministic.
However, when computing the solution numerically, depending on the algorithm, the initialization and the tolerance required on the solution. The results might be different.
Furthermore, if the data vector is the result of an experiment, then randomness is involved in the determination of $y$. Assuming $A$ contains strongly colinear features, the result might be unstable as well so several outputs of the same experiment might yield different results.
As a side note, if it happens, the selection among the colinear features is unlikely to be uniform. Strictly speaking, being randomly selected does not necessarily means that the different outomes have equal probability to happen.


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package org.olat.commons.coordinate.cluster;

import org.olat.commons.coordinate.cluster.jms.ClusterEventBus;
import org.olat.commons.coordinate.singlevm.SingleVMEventBus;
import org.olat.core.util.cache.n.impl.cluster.ClusterConfig;
import org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Cacher;
import org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Coordinator;
import org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Locker;
import org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Syncer;
import org.olat.core.util.event.EventBus;

/**
 * Description:

 * Coordinator implementation for the olat cluster mode
 *

 * Initial Date: 21.09.2007

 *
 * @author Felix Jost, http://www.goodsolutions.ch
 */
public class ClusterCoordinator implements Coordinator {
	private Syncer syncer;
	private EventBus eventBus;
	private Locker locker;
	private Cacher cacher;
	private ClusterConfig clusterConfig;

	/**
	 * [used by spring]
	 */
	public ClusterCoordinator() {
		//
	}

	/**
	 * to be used only by the cluster admin controller!
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public ClusterEventBus getClusterEventBus() {
		return (ClusterEventBus) eventBus;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Coordinator#getEventBus()
	 */
	@Override
	public EventBus getEventBus() {
		return eventBus;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Coordinator#getSyncer()
	 */
	@Override
	public Syncer getSyncer() {
		return syncer;
	}

	/**
	 * do not call normally, reserved for internal calls
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	@Override
	public EventBus createSingleUserInstance() {
		// take the normal singlevm event bus, since this is only
		// for within one user-session, which is in one vm
		return new SingleVMEventBus();
	}

	@Override
	public Locker getLocker() {
		return locker;
	}

	/**
	 * [used by spring]
	 *
	 * @param eventBus
	 */
	public void setEventBus(final EventBus eventBus) {
		this.eventBus = eventBus;
	}

	/**
	 * [used by spring]
	 *
	 * @param locker
	 */
	public void setLocker(final Locker locker) {
		this.locker = locker;
	}

	/**
	 * [used by spring]
	 *
	 * @param syncer
	 */
	public void setSyncer(final Syncer syncer) {
		this.syncer = syncer;
	}

	@Override
	public Cacher getCacher() {
		return cacher;
	}

	public void setCacher(final Cacher cacher) {
		this.cacher = cacher;
	}

	@Override
	public Integer getNodeId() {
		return clusterConfig.getNodeId();
	}

	/**
	 * [used by spring]
	 */
	public void setClusterConfig(final ClusterConfig clusterConfig) {
		this.clusterConfig = clusterConfig;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.olat.core.util.coordinate.Coordinator#isClusterMode()
	 */
	@Override
	public boolean isClusterMode() {
		return true;
	}

}

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The Isle of Man TT – A Spectacle Everyone Should Experience
Posted on July 15, 2018 By Alex Wood
What is the Isle of Man TT?
I must confess that compared to their four-wheel counterparts, motorbikes have always been relegated to the sidelines for me. I've watched the occasional MotoGP races of Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi battling wheel to wheel; but despite reporting on the Isle of Man TT for a number of years on behalf of Dunlop Tyres; 2018 would be the first time I was able to experience the TT, or any kind of motorcycle race, first hand. And it changed everything.
For over a century, some of the world's most daring men have made the annual pilgrimage to the 37.73 Snaefell Mountain course to experience the ultimate thrill. Held over two weeks in May and June, these riders take part in a series of races across a variety of classes of bikes. Reaching speeds of up to 200mph, riders hurtle around the infamous road racing circuit in search of eternal glory. Due to the nature of road-racing, it comes hand-in-hand with inherent danger; and unfortunately accidents happen more frequently than anyone would like to see. Don't let this deter you though; speak with any of the riders and you'll understand that the risk is something they are willing to overcome just for the chance to ride the Isle of Man TT course.
Speaking with the man of the moment
This became apparent to me whilst sitting with Peter Hickman in the back of his garage on the Monday afternoon. He had just claimed his first ever Isle of Man TT win in the Superstock class; breaking the record in the process with an average speed of 134mph on Dunlop's road legal tyres. Now, just a few hours later after achieving a lifelong dream; the pair of us sat reflecting on the gripping race as we filmed a piece for The Sun Newspaper. Peter's background is on 'short circuits' in the British Superbike Championship; but he has led somewhat of a revolution in recent years; attracting many more riders to take up dual duties on both closed circuits and road racing.
"No one puts a gun to our heads, we obviously understand what we're doing." He remarked. "A few years back I was riding in the BSB at Oulton Park during qualifying and came off. I slid across the circuit and unfortunately my bike hit me; I broke my back and was immediately sent to hospital. Still wanting to race though, I discharged myself and made my way back to the circuit. The only thing that stopped me riding the next day was the Clerk of the course. It's the same desire with the TT, no one could stop me. We're reaching speeds now that seemed unimaginable five years ago – could we do 135mph? Most likely, but I don't think we'd too!".
Words he would eat just days later as he set the ultimate lap record en-route to his Senior TT win, with an average speed of 135.452mph, the fastest anyone has ever lapped the mountain.
It's understandable why it becomes an itch you just have to scratch each year. I had arrived on the island just a couple of days before but had already begun to fall in love with the place. Alongside my Momentum Social business partner Jake Cawthorne (otherwise known as The Debonair) we had flown over to provide on-event social media support for Dunlop Tyres UK. Compared to many other sporting events, we were both immediately staggered by the sense of 'community' that fills the paddock; the circuit and in the capital, Douglas. Whereas in many sports you get opposing fans clashing, here, the only love is here for the Isle of Man TT itself; whether you're sitting in one of the many beer gardens or on the sea front watching one of the evening motorcycle displays; fans become friends no matter their age, nationality or background. Whether you've supported the TT for decades or it's your first venture, you feel instantly welcome and at home. There's no sides here, just a shared passion among many.
Nothing can prepare you for what you are able to witness though as the riders leave the gate. Once they receive that tap on the shoulder; the surrounding world and thousands of fans become nothing but a blur as they scream down Bray Hill for the first time. Standing at the side of the track; it seems unbelievable that you can be standing just metres from them as they fly past. Unlike other motorsports in recent years, you are not hidden behind a mass of catch-fencing either. An unobstructed view adds even more to the spectacle, even if it is controversial.
Watching with a TT legend
One man who would join us trackside during qualifying was legendary Isle of Man TT rider; and 23-time winner, John McGuinness. Following an accident at the Nw200 last year, John has been forced to sit on the sidelines while his leg recovers. Coincidentally, the last time we had met with John at the Isle of Man TT media day; he walked to our interview for the first time unaided in 9 months. His road to recovery looked on-course for him to return; only for a last-minute fracture to leave him wondering what could have been. The man is a true hero of the sport. Alongside the Dunlop family, he has risen the profile of road racing tremendously. A demon on any manufacturers bike, and a true gentleman to talk to off one, he is adored by fans around the world.
"Of course I'd rather be riding. I've been coming to the TT for as long as I can remember, it's everything to me. Not being able to take part this year obviously hurts, but I'm glad I was able to get out on the Norton as I felt I owed it to the fans. Some think I should hang up the leathers, and if I think back the perfect time would have been after winning the Senior in 2015. But all I want to do is ride, and I know deep down I've still got something in me to compete. People ask me why I still do it and it's quite simply because I love the Isle of Man TT."
What makes the Isle of Man TT so special
Hearing McGuinness recall so many memories through the years was inspirational. I'm under no illusions as to how privileged I am to have a job that puts me in such close proximity to these riders. For me, the most incredible part was watching the families faces of the riders as they entered the winners enclosure. Knowing that they had completed the gruelling endurance test and beaten it. For many its not about beating the dozens of other competitors, simply finishing is all the glory they need.
So for those that have always pondered heading to the Isle of Man TT. Or for those that want to experience what draws people from all over the world for those two weeks at the end of May each year; my advice to you is simple. Book the next available flight/ferry and head over for yourself. You wont regret the experience at all, and more than likely, like me, you'll come back a road-racing fan.
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WiCT Wednesdays: Cindy Stevens
Cindy Stevens, senior director, publications, Consumer Technology Association, discusses her thoughts on CES 2020 trends like 5G and how i3 inspires the next generation of women in technology. She will be honored with a Women in Consumer Technology Legacy Award at CES 2020.
By Megan A. Dutta ⋅
Cindy Stevens, senior director, publications, Consumer Technology Association (CTA) was recently awarded the Women in Consumer Technology (WiCT) Legacy Award.
Below, Stevens discusses her thoughts on CES 2020 trends like 5G and how i3 inspires the next generation of women in technology.
RESI: How did you get your start in the CT industry?
CINDY STEVENS: I was editor-in-chief of Wireless Business & Technology magazine at Phillips Publishing. When the company was acquired, I left to go to CTA as editor of Vision magazine beginning with its second issue in 1998. It was an exciting time in the middle of the dot-com boom, and I had a front row seat watching the consumer technology industry grow. When I began, Replay TV was the talk of the 1999 CES—there were 1,870 exhibitors and just over 97,000 attendees.
Today, over 4,500 exhibitors and 170,000 attendees are at CES 2020 and key topics include everything from AI and quantum computing to voice assistants and immersive entertainment. In 2013, we launched It Is Innovation (i3) magazine, and I have been fortunate to interview many top industry leaders and witness the next wave of innovation firsthand.
RESI: What is your goal at CES 2020?
CS: I am interested in learning more about how AI, blockchain, and 5G will impact the industry. CES is a great venue to get a sense of what is trending and hear from expert speakers. Walking the show floor and talking with exhibitors inspires me, especially the passion and dedication in Eureka Park.
I also love the serendipity of CES—you never know what the buzz at the show will be until you are in Vegas. And I always look forward to catching up with my industry friends. It's the unexpected moments that can be the most valuable.
RESI: What do you believe will dominate the tech conversation in 2020?
CS: Privacy will continue to be a major topic at CES and beyond. I also think how technology is improving lives will be highlighted more. For example, drones deliver medicine to remote places, cars use software to avoid accidents, and virtual and augmented reality is being used in education, health care, and even pain management.
RESI: How do you hope to inspire the next generation of women in tech?
CS: We feature strong women on the cover of i3, most recently IBM's Ginni Rometti, FQ's Shelley Zalis, Quibi's Meg Whitman, and Deloitte's Diana O'Brien. Each of these leaders has an inspiring story to share with other women. We also profile women entrepreneurs and female led startups in a variety of columns. And we have been inducting more women into the CT Hall of Fame. This year Elizabeth Feinler was honored for leading the Network Information Center that she calls the prehistoric Google. CTA also has a mentor program to connect with others and share experiences. And of course, the Women in Consumer Technology organization is doing an incredible job of bringing women together.
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Q: Problems with combining Keras 2.0 and pymc3 I am trying to combine keras 2.0 with pymc3 to build a neural network. It is a modification of the code from Thomas Weicki's Bayesian deep learning II
This is the code I have:
import numpy as np
import pymc3 as pm
import theano
import theano.tensor as T
from keras.layers import Input, Dense
from keras import backend as K
from sklearn import datasets
from sklearn.preprocessing import scale
from sklearn.cross_validation import train_test_split
from sklearn.datasets import make_moons
from scipy.stats import mode

X, Y = make_moons(noise=0.2, random_state=0, n_samples=1000)
X = scale(X)

X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test = train_test_split(X, Y, test_size=.6)

ann_input = theano.shared(X_train.astype(np.float32))
ann_output = theano.shared(Y_train.astype(np.float32))

print (X_train.shape)
print (Y_train.shape)

class GaussWeights(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.count = 0

    def __call__(self, shape, name='w',dtype=None):
        return pm.Normal(
        name, mu=0, sd=.1,
        testval=K.random_normal(shape,dtype=dtype),
        shape=shape)

n_hidden = 16

def build_ann(x, y, init):
    b = (T.ones_like(x[:]))
    rows = b.shape.eval()[0]
    cols = b.shape.eval()[1]
    with pm.Model() as m:
         i = Input(tensor=x, shape=(rows,cols))
         layer1 = Dense(16,kernel_initializer=init, activation='tanh')(i)
         layer2 = Dense(1, kernel_initializer=init, activation='sigmoid')(layer1)
         layer2 = layer2.reshape((rows,))
         out = pm.Bernoulli('out', layer2, observed=y)
    return m, out

#m,out = build_ann(ann_input, ann_output)
m,out = build_ann(ann_input, ann_output, GaussWeights())

with m:
    #Run ADVI which returns posterior means, standard deviations, and the evidence lower bound (ELBO)
    ann_input.set_value(X_train.astype(np.float32))
    ann_output.set_value(Y_train.astype(np.float32))
    v_params = pm.variational.advi(n=50000)
    trace = pm.variational.sample_vp(v_params, draws=5000)

# Replace shared variables with testing set
ann_input.set_value(X_test.astype(np.float32))
ann_output.set_value(Y_test.astype(np.float32))

with m:

    ppc = pm.sample_ppc(trace, samples=500)

    # Use probability of > 0.5 to assume prediction of class 1

    pred = ppc['out'].mean(axis=0) > 0.5
    pred_mode = mode(ppc['out'], axis=0).mode[0, :]

    print (pred.shape)

print('Accuracy = {}%'.format((Y_test == pred).mean() * 100))

But I get the following error which I don't know how to fix:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "keras_deep_learning.py", line 50, in <module>
    m,out = build_ann(ann_input, ann_output, GaussWeights())
  File "keras_deep_learning.py", line 43, in build_ann
    layer1 = Dense(16,kernel_initializer=init, activation='tanh')(i)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 558, in __call__
    self.build(input_shapes[0])
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/layers/core.py", line 827, in build
    constraint=self.kernel_constraint)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/legacy/interfaces.py", line 88, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/engine/topology.py", line 391, in add_weight
    weight = K.variable(initializer(shape), dtype=dtype, name=name)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/keras/backend/theano_backend.py", line 143, in variable
    value = value.eval()
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/gof/graph.py", line 516, in eval
    self._fn_cache[inputs] = theano.function(inputs, self)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/compile/function.py", line 326, in function
    output_keys=output_keys)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/compile/pfunc.py", line 486, in pfunc
    output_keys=output_keys)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/compile/function_module.py", line 1794, in orig_function
    output_keys=output_keys).create(
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/compile/function_module.py", line 1446, in __init__
    accept_inplace)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/compile/function_module.py", line 177, in std_fgraph
    update_mapping=update_mapping)
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/gof/fg.py", line 180, in __init__
    self.__import_r__(output, reason="init")
  File "/home/gbenga/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/theano/gof/fg.py", line 361, in __import_r__
    raise MissingInputError("Undeclared input", variable=variable)
theano.gof.fg.MissingInputError: Undeclared input

A: Unfortunately with Keras 2.0 you can no longer use a symbolic initializer for the weights. Try downgrading to Keras 1.2 it will work then.
See the following issues for reference:
https://github.com/fchollet/keras/issues/6546
https://github.com/fchollet/keras/issues/6551


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SpaceX donates face shields to St. Mary's Hospital in Madison Wisconsin
by Evelyn Arevalo April 28, 2020
Featured Image Source: SSM Health Wisconsin via Twitter
Entire cities across the United States have been under 'lockdown' as a countermeasure to decrease the probability of spreading COVID-19, a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus strain. The worldwide coronavirus outbreak has caused personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers to struggle to keep up with so much demand. Hospitals are experiencing a shortage of protective equipment, and are often reusing contaminated masks. Medical personnel voiced their concerns over the shortage that makes them ill-equipped to properly take care of patients.
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, announced in late March they were in the process of manufacturing face shields to donate to hospitals across the United States. The company initially donated its first batch of 75 face shields to Cedars Sinai Medical Center, near the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California.
SpaceX has now manufactured a batch of 300 face shields which have been donated to SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Last week, April 23, a SpaceX employee delivered the face shields directly to the hospital. Medical personnel from St. Mary's Madison thanked SpaceX and Musk via a Twitter post for the donation:
"Some of the face shields protecting St. Mary's Hospital – Madison employees come from a well-known aerospace manufacturer. SpaceX made these face shields for health care companies, and the hospital received a donation of 300 late last week. Thanks Elon Musk for thinking of us!"
Some of the face shields protecting St. Mary's Hospital – Madison employees come from a well-known aerospace manufacturer. @SpaceX made these face shields for health care companies, and the hospital received a donation of 300 late last week. Thanks @elonmusk for thinking of us! pic.twitter.com/d2gX8EqDQc
— SSM Health Wisconsin (@ssmhealthwi) April 23, 2020
Some COVID-19 patients require ventilators for survival. Ventilator manufacturers have struggled to keep up with worldwide demand. Musk's companies, SpaceX and Tesla have been collaborating with Medtronic to ramp up ventilator production since late-March. Engineers at SpaceX have been manufacturing vital valve components needed for ventilator production. Tesla, is collaborating by building ventilators, some have already been donated to hospitals from around the world.
Medtronic chairman and CEO Omar Ishrak says its partnership with SpaceX is "extremely important," as the rocket builder is using its "expertise in valve production" to make a "critical component" for ventilators.
"SpaceX is helping us multiply the number of such devices." pic.twitter.com/hxkDLgKqbN
— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) April 6, 2020
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