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experienced a total defeat near the Lake Regillus, and were obliged to sue for peace. (Dion. Hal., 6, 18.) According to this historian, the Latins received the thanks of the Roman senate, some years afterward, for having taken no advantage of the disturbances at Rome, which finally led to the secession of the people to Mons Sacer, and for having, on the contrary, offered every assistance in their power on that occasion; he adds also that a perpetual league was formed at that time between the Romans and the Latins. However, about 143 years afterward, we find the latter openly rebelling, and refusing to supply the usual quota of troops which they had agreed to furnish as allies of Rome. Their bold demand, which was urged through L. Annius Setinus, in the Roman senate, that one of the consuls at least should be chosen out of their nation, led to an open rupture. A war followed, which was rendered remarkable from the circumstances of the execution of the young Manlius by order of his father, and the devotion of Decius. After having been defeated in several encounters, the Latins were reduced to subjection, with the exception of a few towns, which experienced greater lenity, and Latium thenceforth ceased to be an independent state. (Liv., 8, 14.—Plin, 34, 5.) At that time the rights of Roman citizens had been granted to a few only of the Latin cities; but at a later period the Gracchi sought to level all such distinctions between the Latins and the Romans. This measure, however, was not carried. The Social war followed; and though the confederates were finally conquered, after a long and desperate contest, the senate thought it advisable to decree, that all the Latin cities which had not taken part with the allies should enjoy the rights of Roman citizens. Many of these towns were, however, deprived of their privileges by Sylla; and it was not till the close of the republic that the Latins were admitted generally to participate in all the rights and immunities enjoyed by the Quirites. (Suet., Vit. Jul., 8.-Ascon., Ped. in Pis., p. 490.—On the Jus Latii and Jus Italicum, consult Lipsius, ad Tacit., Ann., 11, 24.— Panvin., Comm. Reip. Rom., 3, p. 329. –Spanheim, Orb. Rom., 1, 16.)—The name of Latium was at first given to that portion of Italy only which extends from the mouth of the Tiber to the Circaean promontory, a distance of about 50 miles along the coast; but subsequently this latter boundary was removed to the river Liris, whence arose the distinction of Latium Antiquum and Novum. (Strabo, 231. –Plin., 3, 5.) At a still later period, the southern boundary of Latium was extended from the Liris to the mouth of the river Vulturnus and the Massic hills. (Cramer's Anc. Italy, vol. 2, p. 1, seqq.) Latmus, a mountain of Caria, near Miletus. It was famous as having been the scene of the fable of Endymion. (Vid. Endymion.) In the vicinity of this mountain stood the city of Heraclea, commonly termed 'Hpák'Aeta # totrö Aaruois, "Heraclea below, or at the foot of Latmus." The mountain gave to the adjacent bay the name of Latmicus Sinus. (Mela, 1, 17.-Plin., 5, 29.) Latogrígí, a people of Belgic Gaul, in the vicinity of the Tulingi, Rauraci, and Helvetii, whose country lay on the banks of the Rhine, about 90 miles to the west of the Lacus Brigantinus, or Lake of Constance. If they are the nation called by Ptolemy Latobici, they must have changed their settlements before that geog. rapher wrote, as he includes their territories in Pannonia near Noricum. (Caes., B. G., 1, 2. —Id. ib., 3, 1.) LAtomize. Vid. Lautumiae. LatóNA (in Greek Léto), was the daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe. In Homer she appears as one of the wives of Jupiter, and there occur no traces of enmity between her and Juno. (Il., 21, 499.) Later, poets, however, fable much about the persecu. tion she underwent from that goddess, an account of
which will be found near the commencement of the article Apollo. Her children by Jupiter were Apollo and Diana. —While wandering from place to place with her offspring, Latona, says a legend most prettily told by Ovid ão. 6,313, seqq.), arrived in Lycia. The sun was shining fiercely, and the goddess was parched with thirst. She saw a pool and knelt down at it to drink. Some clowns, who were there cutting sedge and rushes, refused to allow her to slake her thirst. In vain the goddess entreated, representing that water was common to all, and appealing ..". compassion for her babes. The brutes were insensible: they not only mocked at her distress, but jumped into and muddied the water. The goddess, though the most gentle of her race, was roused
to indignation: she raised her hand to heaven, and,
cried, "May you live for ever in that pool!" Her wish was instantly accomplished, and the churls were turned into frogs.-Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, proud of her numerous offspring, ventured to set herself before Latona; the offended goddess called upon her children, Apollo and Diana, and soon Niobe was, by the arrows of those deities, made a childless mother, and became stiffened into stone with grief. (Vid. Niobe.)—Tityus, the son of Earth, or of Jupiter and Elara, happened to see Latona one time as she was going to Delphi (Pytho). Inflamed with love, he attempted to offer . violence. The goddess called her children to her aid, and he soon lay slain by their arrows. His punishment did not cease with life, but vultures preyed upon his liver in Erebus. (Vid. Tityus.)—The Greeks personified night under the title of AHTQ or Latona, and BAYBQ; the one signifying oblivion, and the other sleep or quietude (Plutarch, ap. Euseb., Prap. Evang, 3, 1. —Hesych, s. v. Bavbå); both of which were meant to express the unmoved tranquillity prevailing through the infinite variety of unknown darkness that preceded the creation or first emanation of light. Hence she was said to have been the first wife of Jupiter (Odyss., 11,579), the mother of Apollo and Diana, or the sun and moon, and the nurse of the earth and the stars. The Egyptians differed a little from the Greeks, and supposed her to be the nurse and Fo of Horus and Bubastis, their Apollo and Diana (Herod., 2, 156), in which they agree more exactly with the ancient naturalists, who held that heat was nourished by the humidity of ". (Macrob., Sat., 1, 23.) Her symbol was the Mygale or Mus Araneus, anciently supposed to be blind (Plut., Sympos., 4, p. 670. — Anton., Liberal. Fab., 28); but she is usually represented upon the monuments of ancient art under the form of a o and comely woman, with a veil upon her head. This veil, in painting, was always black: and in gems the artists generally availed themselves of a dark-coloured vein in the stone to express it; it being the same as that which was usually thrown over the symbol of the generative attribute to signify the nutritive power of night fostering the productive power of the pervading spirit; whence Priapus is called in the poets black-cloaked. (Mosch, Epitaph. Bion., 27.) The veil is often stellated. (Knight, Inquiry into the Symb. Lang., &c., § 87-Class. Journ., vol. 24, p. 214.) LAropólis, a city of Egypt in the Thebaid, between Thebes and Apollinopolis Magna. It derived its Greek name from the fish Latos worshipped there, which was regarded as the largest of all the fishes of the Nile. (Athenaeus, 7, 17.-Strabo, 816.) The later writers drop the term tróAuc (polis), and call the place merely Laton (A4tav, Hierocles), and therefore, in the Itin. Anton. and Notitia Imperii, the ablative form Lato occurs. The modern Esne occupies the site of Latopolis, and is an important place in the caravan trade from Darfur and the more southern regions. (Mannert, Geogr., vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 831.)
LaverNA, a Roman divinity, the patron-goddess of thieves, who were anciently called Larerntones (Festus, s. v.), and of all, in general, who practised artifice and fraud. (Horat., Epist., 1, 16, 60.) At Rome she had an altar by the temple of Tellus, near the gate which was called from her the gate of Laverna. (Varro, L. L., 4, p. 45.) There was also a temple of this goddess near Famiae. (Cic, Ep. ad Att., 7, 8.) Her name is probably derived from lateo, significatory of darkness or obscurity. (Compare the change of t and v in Tizza, and cello; 3620 and colo; Azurüç and clivus, &c. — Keightley's Mythology, p. 529. — Consult Mem. Acad. des Inscript., &c., vol. 7, p. 77, "De la Deesse Laverne.") Laver NIUM, a temple of Laverna, near Formiae. (Cic., Att., 7, 8.) Lavi NIA, a daughter of King Latinus and Amata, promised by her mother in marriage to Turnus, but given eventually to AEneas. (Wid. Latinus.) At her husband's death she was left pregnant, and being fearful of Ascanius, her step-son, she fled into the woods, where she brought forth a son called Æneas Sylvius. (Virg., AEm., 6, 7–Ovid, Met., 14, 507.—Liv., 1, 1.) Lavisium, a city of Latium, situate on the river Numicius, near the coast, and to the west of Ardea. It was said to have been founded by Æneas, on his marriage with the daughter of Latinus (Dion. Hal., 1, 45.-Liv., 1, 1); this story, however, would go but little towards proving the existence of such a town, if it were not actually enumerated among the cities of Latium by Strabo and other authors, as well as by the Itineraries. Plutarch notices it as the place in which Tatius, the colleague of Romulus, was assassinated. (Wit. Rom.) Strabo mentions that Lavinium had a temple consecrated to Venus, which was common to all the Latins. (Strabo, 232.) The inhabitants are styled by Pliny (3, 5) Laviniates Ilionenses. Lavinium and Laurentum were latterly united under the name of Lauro-Lavinium. (Front. de Col. — Symmachus, 1, 65. — Vulp., Vet. Lat., 10, 6.) Various opinions have been entertained by antiquaries relative to the site which ought to be assigned to Lavinium. Cluverius placed it near the church of St. Petronella (Ital. Ant., 2, p. 894); Holstenius on the hill called Monte di Livano (ad Steph. Byz., p. 175); but more recent topographers concur in fixing it at a place called Practica, about three miles from the coast. (Vulp., Wet. Lat., 10, 1.—Nibby, Viaggio Antiquario, vol. 2, p. 265.—Cramer's Anc. Italy, vol. 2, p. 19.) LAurexcum, a fortified town of Noricum Ripense, the station of a Roman fleet on the Danube, and the headquarters of the second legion. (Notit., Imp. Occident.) It lay to the east of the junction of the OEnus and Danube. The modern village of Lohr stands near the site of this place, a short distance to the north of the present city of Ens. (Mannert, Geogr., vol. 3, p. 637.) LAURENTE's AGR1, the country in the neighbourhood of Laurentum. (Tibull., 2, 5, 41.) LAURENti A. Vid. Acca. LAURENtum, the capital of Latium, about sixteen miles below Ostia, following the coast, and near the spot now called Paterno. (Vulp., Wet. Lat., 10, 1.Nibby, Viaggio Antiq., vol. 2, p. 313.) Cluverius and Holstenius are both wrong in assigning to Laurentum the position of San Lorenzo. Of the existence of this city, whatever may be thought of AEneas and the Trojan colony, there can be no doubt: without going so far back as to Saturn and Picus, it may be asserted, that the origin of Laurentum was most ancient, since it is mentioned among the maritime cities of Latium, in the first treaties between Rome and Carthage, recorded by Polybius (3, 22). Though Laurentum joined the Latin league in behalf of Tarquin, and shared in the defeat at the Lake Regillus (Dion. Hal., 5, 61), it seems afterward to have
been firmly attached to the Roman interests. (Liry, 8, 9.) Of its subsequent history we know but little; Lucan represents it as having fallen into ruins and become deserted, in consequence of the civil wars (7, 394). At a later period, however, Laurentum appears to have been restored under the name of Lauro-Lavinium: a new city having been formed, as it is supposed, by the union of Laurentum and Lavinium. (Front., de Col.—Symmachus, 1, 65.—Vulp., Vet. Lat., 10, 6.) The district of Laurentum must have been of a very woody and marshy nature. The Silva Laurentina is noticed by Julius Obsequens (de Prod), and by Herodian (1, 12), the latter of whom reports, that the Emperor Commodus was ordered to this part of the country by his physicians, on account of the laurel-groves which grew there, the shade of which was considered as particularly salutary. It is from this tree that Laurentum is supposed to have derived its name. The marshes of Laurentum were famous for the number and size of the wild boars which they bred in their reedy pastures. (Virg., AEm., 7, 59.Id. ibid., 10, 707.-Hor., Sat., 2, 4.—Martial, 9, 49.) However unfavourable, as a place of residence, Laurentum may be thought at the present day, on account of the malaria which prevails there, it appears to have been considered as far from unhealthy by the Romans. We are told that Scipio and Laelius, when roleased from the cares of business, often resorted to this neighbourhood, and amused themselves by gathering shells on the shore. (Val. Mar., 8, 8.-Cic., de Orat., 2, 22.) Pliny the Younger says Laurentum was much frequented by the Roman nobles in winter; and so numerous were their villas, that they presented more the appearance of a city than detached dwellings. Every lover of antiquity is acquainted with the elegant and minute description he gives of his own retreat. (Ep., 2, 17.) Hortensius, the celebrated orator, and the rival of Cicero, had also a villa in this neighbourhood. (Varro, R. R., 3, 13.-Cramer's Anc. Italy, vol. 2, p. 16, seqq.) Laurion, a range of hills, extending from that part of the Attic coast which lay near Azenia, below the Astypalaea Promontorium, to the promontory of Sunium, and from thence to the neighbourhood of Prasiae on the eastern coast. This tract was celebrated for its silver mines. Herodotus informs us, that the produce of these mines was shared among the Athenians, each of whom received ten drachmae; but we are not informed whether this division took place annually. Themistocles, however, during the war with Ægina, advised them to apply this money to the construction of 200 galleys; a measure which contributed, in a great degree, to the naval ascendancy of the Athenians. (Herod., 7, 144.) Thucydides reports, that the Lacedæmonian army, in their second invasion of Attica, advanced in this direction as far as Laurium (2, 55). The produce of the mines had already much diminished in the time of Xenophon. (Mem., 3, 6, 5.) We collect from his account that they then were farmed by private persons, who paid a certain sum to the republic in proportion to the quantity of ore they extracted; but he strongly urged the government to take the works into their own hands, conceiving that they would bring a great accession of revenue to the state. (De Prov., p. 293, ed. Steph.) These private establishments were called épyaaripta év toir àpyvpelotc. (AEschin. in Timarch., p. 14.) Nicias is said to have employed at one time 1000 slaves in the mines. (Xen., l. c.—Plut., Wit. Nic.—Andocid., de Myst.—Diod. Sic., 5, 37.) Strabo informs us, that the metallic veins were nearly exhausted when he wrote: a considerable quantity of silver, however, was extracted from the old scoriae, as the ancient miners were not much skilled in the art of smelting the ore. (Strabo, 399.)—The mines themselves were called Laureia or Lauria, and the district Lauriotice. Hobhouse (Travels, vol. 1, p. 417, Lond. ed.) describes Laurium as a high and abrupt hill, covered with pinetrees and abounding with marble. Stewart also recognised in Legrina and Lagriona, near Sunium, the name Laurion, which has also evidently been preserved in the names Lauronoris, Mauronoris, Mauronorise (Aačptov Špoc). According to his statement, it is an uneven range of hills full of exhausted mines and scoria. (Antiq. of Attica, vol. 3, p. 13.) Mr. Hawkins, in his survey of this part of the Attic coast, discovered many veins of the argentiferous lead ore, with which the country seems to abound; he observed traces of the silver-mines not far beyond Keralia. The site of the smelting furnaces may be traced to the southward of Thorico for some miles, immense quantities of scoria occurring there. These were probably placed near the seacoast for the convenience of fuel, which it soon became necessary to import. (Walpole's Memoirs, vol. 1, p. 430. — Gell's Itinerary, p. 79. – Dodwell's Tour, vol. 1, p. 358.)—The mines at Laurium were worked either by shafts (općara, putei) or adits (úróv. oupt, cunei); and by neither of these two modes of working did they, in the time of Xenophon, arrive at the termination of the ore (Xen., de Vectig., 24, 6). For the chambering of the mines timber was probably imported by sea (Demosth. in Mid., p. 568, 17), which, according to Pliny (33, 21), was the case also in Spain. Hobhouse mentions (l.c.) that one or two shafts have been discovered in a small shrubby plain not far from the sea, on the eastern coast; and he states also that a specimen of ore, lately found, was shown to him at Athens. If the hole which Chandler (Travels, c. 30) saw upon Mount Hymettus was really, as he conjectures, a shaft, it follows that some, at least, had a considerable width, for the circular opening was of more than forty feet in diameter; at the bottom of the hole two narrow passages led into the hill in opposite directions. It was also the practice, according to Witruvius, to make large hollows in the silver mines (7, 7). The pillars which were left standing for the support of the overlying mountain were called ūpuot, and more commonly utookptveiç (Plut., Vit. X., Orat.— Op., vol. 6, p. 256, ed. Hutt.—Pollux, 3, 87.-Id., 7, 98), as they, at the same time, served for the divisions between the different compartments, or, as they were called, workshops. As these pillars contained ore, the proprietors were tempted by their avarice to remove them, although by law they were strictly Y. from doing so; in the time of the orator
ycurgus, the wealthy Diphilus was condemned to death for this offence. (Wit. X., Orat., l.c.) The opening of new mines was called kauvorouía, and on account of the great risk and expense, no one would willingly undertake it. If the speculator was successful, he was amply remunerated for his undertaking; if unsuccessful, he lost all his trouble and expense; on which account Xenophon proposed to form companies for this purpose. The ancients speak in general terms of the unwholesome evaporations from silvermines (Casaub., ad Strab., 101), and the noxious atmosphere of those in Attica is particularly mentioned (Xen., Mem., 3, 6, 12.—Plut., Comp. Nic. et Crass. init.), although the Greeks as well as the Romans were acquainted with the use of shafts for ventilation, which the former called obvrayoya. (Ler. Seg., p. 317.) In what manner the water was withdrawn from the mines we are not informed; it is, however, probable that the Greeks made use of the same artificial means as the Romans. (Consult Reitemeier, Art of Mining, &c., among the Ancients, p. 114, of the German work.) The removal of the one appears to have been performed partly by machinery and partly by men, as was the case in Egypt and Spain, in which latter country, the younger slaves brought the ore through the adits to the surface of the soil; whether, however, the miners in Attica used leather bags for
this purpose, and were on that account called bag-carriers (ov/axopópot), is, to say the least, uncertain; for, according to the grammarians, these bags contained their food. (Pollur, 7, 100.-Id., 10, 149.—Hesych., s. v.) The stamping of the ore at the founderies, in order to facilitate its separation from the useless parts of the stone, was generally performed in stone mortars with iron pestles. In this manner the Egyptians reduced the gold ore to the size of a vetch, then ground it in handmills and washed it on separate planks, after water had been poured over it; which is the account given by a Hippocratean writer of the treatment of gold ore. (Diod. Suc., 13, 12–Agatharch., ap. Phot., p. 1342.-Hippocrates, de pictus rat., 1, 4.) In Spain it was bruised in the same manner, and then, if Pliny does not invert the proper order, first washed, and afterward calcined and pounded. Even the quicksilver ore, from which cinnabar was prepared, was similarly treated; that is, first burned off, in which operation a part of the quicksilver flowed off, and then pounded with iron pestles, ground, and washed. (Plin., 33, 21.) In Greece, the labourers in the founderies made use of a sieve for washing the comminuted ore, and it is mentioned among the implements of the miners by the appropriate name adža;. (Poll., 7, 97.) This method of treating ore was not only in use in ancient times, but it was the only one employed either during the middle ages or in more recent times, until the discovery of stamp works. (Beckman's History of Inventions, vol. 1, pt. 5, num. 3–Reitemeier, p. 121, seqq.) Of the art of smelting in the founderies of Laurium, nothing definite is known. That the Athenians made use of the bellows and charcoal is not improbable; the latter, indeed, may be fairly inferred, from the account of the charcoal-sellers, or, rather, charcoal-burners, from which business a large portion of the Acharnians in particular derived their livelihood. The art of smelting among the ancients was so impersect, that even in the time of Strabo, when it had received considerable improvements, there was still no profit to be gained by extracting silver from lead ore, in which it was present in small proportions; and the early Athenians had, in comparison with their successors (who were themselves not the most perfect masters of chymistry), so slight a knowledge of the management of ore, that, according to the same writer, not only was that which had been thrown away as stone subsequently used, but the old scoria were again employed for the purpose of extracting silver. (Strab., 399.) According to Pliny (33, 31), the ancients could not smelt any silver without some mixture of lead (plumbum nigrum) or gray lead (galena, molybdaena); he appears, however, only to mean ores in which the silver was combined with some metal to which it has a less powerful affinity than to lead. At Laurium it was not necessary, at least in many places, to add any lead, it being already present in the ores. Pliny states in general terms the manner in which argentiferous lead ores were treated (34, 47), and there can be no doubt that this was the method adopted in Attica. According to his account, the ore was first melted down to stannum, a composition of pure silver and lead; then this material was brought to the refining oven, where the silver was separated, and the lead appeared half glazed in the form of litharge, which, as well as gray lead, the ancients call galena and molybdena: this last substance was afterward cooled, and the lead (plumbum nigrum, us?v000, to distinguish it from tin, plumbum album, or candidum, kaaaitepoc) was produced. (Boeckh's Dissertation on the Mines of Laurium, Comment. Acad. Berol., an. 1814 et 1815, p. 89.—Boeckh's Public Economy of Athens, vol. 2, p. 415, seqq.) LauroN, a town of Spain, towards the eastern limits of Baetica, and not far from the sea, probably among the Bastitani. It has been supposed o; * to be 2
the modern Liria, five leagues from Valentia. It was this city of which Sertorius made himself master in the face of Pompey's army; and in its vicinity, at a subsequent period, Cneius Pompeius, son of Pompey the Great, was slain after the battle of Munda. (Plut., Vit. Sert.—Oros., 5, 23.-Florus, 4, 2.-Cas., Bell. Hisp., c. 37.) LAUs, I. a river of Lucania, now Lao, running into the Sinus Laws, or Gulf of Policastro, at the southern extremity of the province. At its mouth stood the city of Laüs.-II. A city at the southern extremity of Lucania, at the mouth of the river Laüs, and on the gulf of the same name. It was a colony of Sybarites (Herod., 6, 20.—Strab., 253), but beyond this fact we are very little acquainted with its history. Strabo reports, that the allied Greeks met with a signal defeat in the neighbourhood of this place from the Lucanians. These were probably the Posidoniatae, and the other colonists on this coast, and we may conjecture that this disaster led to the downfall of their several towns. In Pliny's time Laüs no longer existed. (Plin., 3, 5–Ptol., p. 67.) Cluverius identified its site with the present Laino (Ital. Ant., 2, p. 1262); but later topographers have justly observed, that this town is fourteen miles from the sea, whereas the Table Itinerary evidently marks the position of Laüs near
the coast. It is more probable, therefore, that Scalea represents this ancient city. (Romanelli, vol. 1, p. 383.)
Laus Pompeia, a town of Cisalpine Gaul, next in importance to Mediolanum, and situate to the southeast of that place, near the river Lambrus. It was founded, as Pliny reports, by the Boii (3, 17), and afterward probably colonized by Pompeius Strabo, father of the great Pompey. In a letter of Cicero to his brother, it is simply called Laus (2, 15). Its position answers to that of Lodi Vecchio, which, having been destroyed by the Milanese, the Emperor Barbarossa caused the new town of Lodi to be built at the distance of three miles from the ancient site. (Cramer's Anc. Italy, vol. 1, p. 53.) LAutumize or Latomize, a name properly denoting a quarry, and derived from the Greek Zāaç, "a stone," and réuvo, "to cut" or "quarry." This appellation was particularly applied to certain quarries near Syracuse, one of which still bears the name of "The Ear of Dionysius," because it is said to have been used by that tyrant for a prison, and to have been so constructed that all the sounds uttered in it converged to and united in one particular point, termed, in consequence, the tympanum. This point communicated with an apartment, where Dionysius placed himself, and thus overheard all that was said by his unsuspecting captives. Such is the popular opinion respecting this place, an opinion which has no other support save the narratives of travellers and the accounts of some modern historians, who have been equally misled by vulgar tradition. There is no doubt, however, but that these quarries actually served as places of imprisonment, and Cicero reproaches Verres with having employed them for this purpose in the case of Roman citizens. (Cic. in Verr., 5, 27.) AElian informs us, that some of the workmen in the quarries near Syracuse remained so long there as to marry and rear families in them, and that some of their children, having never before seen a city, were terrified on their coming to Syracuse, and beholding for the first time horses and oxen. (AElian, W. H., 12, 44.) LEANDER, a youth of Abydos, beloved by Hero. The story of his fate will be found under the latter article. (Wid. Hero.)—The following remarks relate to his alleged feat of swimming across the Hellespont and returning the same night. "It was the custom," observes Hobhouse, "for those who would cross from Abydos to Sestos to incline a mile out of the direct line, and those making the contrary voyage were obli
ged to have recourse to a similar plan, in order to take advantage of the current. Leander, therefore, had a perilous adventure to perform, who swam at least four miles to meet Hero, and returned the same distance the same night. It is very possible, however, to swim across the Hellespont without being the rival or having the motive of Leander. My fellow-traveller (Lord Byron) was determined to attempt it." (Hobhouse's Journey, vol. 2, p. 218, Am. ed.) It appears, from what follows, that Lord Byron failed in his first attempt, owing to the strength of the current, after he and the friend who accompanied him had been in the water an hour, and sound themselves in the middle of the strait, about a mile and a half below the castles. A second attempt was more successful; Lord Byron was in the water one hour and ten minutes, his companion, Mr. Ekenhead, five minutes less. Lord Byron represents the current as very strong and the water cold ; he states, however, that they were not fatigued, though a little chilled, and performed the feat with little difficulty. The strait between the castles Mr. Hobhouse makes a mile and a quarter, and yet it took four boatmen five minutes to pull them from point to point. All this tends to throw a great deal of doubt upon the feat of Leander, who could hardly have been a more expert swimmer than Lord Byron, and who, besides, had a longer course to pursue. Consult Lord Byron's own account (Moore's Life of Byron, vol. 2, p. 308, seqq.), and Mr. Turner's remarks appended to the volume just cited, p. 560.
LEBADEA, a city of É. west of Coronea, built on a plain adjacent to the small river Hercyne. It derived its name from Lebadus, an Athenian, having previously been called Midea. This city was celebrated in antiquity for the oracle of Trophonius, situated in a cave above the town, into which those who consulted the Fates were obliged to descend, after performing various ceremonies, which are accurately detailed by Pausanias, who also gives a minute description of the sacred cavern (9,39). The oracle was already in considerable repute in the time of Croesus, who consulted it (Herod., 1, 46), as did also Mardonius. (Id., 8, 134.) The victory of Leuctra was said to have been predicted by Trophonius, and a solemn assembly was in consequence held at Lebadea, after the action, to return thanks. This was known, however, to have been an artifice of Epaminondas. (Diod. Sic, 15, 53.) Strabo calls the presiding deity Jupiter Trophonius (Strab., 413), and so does #. (45, 28), who says the shrine was visited by Taulus AEmilius after his victory over Perseus. The geographer Dica-archus, as we are informed by Athenaeus (13, p. 594, e), wrote a full account of the oracle. The modern town of Libadea stands near the site of the ancient city: the castle occupies the site of the Acropolis. (Dodwell, vol. 1, p. 217.—Gell's Itin., p. 178. —Clarke's Travels, vol. 7, p. 168, Lond. ed.— Cramer's Anc. Greece, vol. 2, p. 240.)
LeBEdus (Aé6edoc), one of the twelve cities of Io nia, northwest of Colophon, on the coast. It was at first a flourishing city, but upon the removal of a large portion of its inhabitants to Ephesus by Lysimachus, it sank greatly in importance. (Pausan., 1,9.—Strabo, 632.) In the time of Horace it was deserted and in ruins. It would seem to have been subsequently restored, as Hierocles, in the seventh century, speaks of it as a place then in existence. (Mannert, Geogr., vol. 6, pt. 3, p. 316.)
LechAUM, that part of Corinth which was situated on the Sinus Corinthiacus, being distant from the city about 12 stadia, and connected with it by means of two long walls. (Strabo, 380. — Xen., Hist. Gr., 4, 5, 11.) It was the great emporium of Corinthian traffic with the western parts of Greece, as well as with Italy and Sicily. (Strab., l.c.—Polyb., 5, 24.—Id., 5, 24, 12.-Liv., 32, 23.) According to Sir W. Gell, "Lechaum is thirty-five minutes distant from Corinth, and consists of about six houses, magazines, and a custom-house. East of it, the remains of the port are yet visible at a place where the sea runs up a channel into the fields. Near it are the remains of a modern Venetian fort." (Itin. of the Morea, p. 205.) Lectonia. Ancient traditions, as well as physical observations, point out the former existence of the land of Lectonia, which would seem to have occupied a part of the space now filled by the Grecian Sea. An earthquake probably broke down its foundations, and the whole was finally submerged under the waves. Perhaps this event happened when the sea, which was formerly extended over the Scythian plains, forced its way through the Bosporus, and precipitated itself into the basin of the Mediterranean. (Compare remarks under the articles Cyanea and Mediterraneum Mare.) The numerous islands of the Archipelago appear to be the remains of Lectonia, and this tract of land probably facilitated the passage of the first colonists out of Asia into our part of the world. It was the opinion of Pallas that the Euxine and Caspian Seas, as well as the Lake Aral and several others, are the remains of an extensive sea, which covered a great part of the north of Asia. This conjecture of Pallas, which was drawn from his observations in Siberia, has been confirmed by Klaproth's survey of the country northward of Mount Caucasus. Lastly, M. de Choiseul Gouffier adds, that a great part of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Besarabia bears evident traces of having been formed by the sea. It has often been conjectured that the opening of the Bosporus was the occasion of the draining of this ocean, in the midst of Europe and Asia. The memory of this disruption of the two continents was preserved in the traditions of Greece. Strabo (49), Pliny (2,90), and Diodorus Siculus (5,47), have collected the ancient memorials which existed of so striking a catastrophe. The truth of the story, however, has been placed on more secure grounds by physical observations on the districts in the vicinity of the Bosporus. (Consult Dr. Clarke's Travels, and particularly a Mémoire by M. de Choiseul Gouffier in the Mcms. de l'Institut. Royal de France, 1815, in which the author has collected much curious information on this subject.) It appears that the catastrophe was produced by the operation of volcanoes, the fires of which were still burning in the era of the Argonautic voyage, and enter into the poetical descriptions of Apollonius and Valerius Flaccus. According to the false Orpheus, Neptune, being angry with Jupiter, struck the land of Lectonia with his golden trident, and submerged it in the sea, forming islands of many of its scattered fragments. There seems to be some resemblance between the name Lectonia and Lycaonia, but then we must refer the latter term, not to a portion of Asia Minor, but to the northern regions of the globe. Thus we have in Ovid (Fast., 3,793) the expression "Lycaonia Arctos," in the same poet (Trist., 32, 2) "Lycaonia sub axe," and in Claudian (Cons. Mall. Theod, 299) "Lycaonia astra." By the northern regions of the globe, however, Italy and Greece can easily be meant, since they were both referred by the ancients to the countries of the North. (Müller's Univer. History, vol. 1, p. 32, in notis.Ukert, Geographie der Griechen und Römer, vol. 1, p. 346.-Hermann in Orph., Arg., 1274.) Lectum, a promontory of Troas, below the island of Tenedos, now Cape Baba. It formed the northern limit, in the time of the eastern empire, of the province of Asia, as it was termed, which commenced near the Maeander, and extended along the coast upward to Lectum. Dr. Clarke speaks of this promontory as follows: "Thence we sailed to the promontory of Lectum, now Cape Baba, at the mouth of the Adramyttian Gulf: the southwestern extremity of that chain of mountains of which Gargarus is the summit. This
cape presents a high and bold cliff, on whose steep acclivity the little town of Baba appears, as though stuck within a nook. It is famous for the manufacture of knives and poniards: their blades are distinguished in Turkey by the name of Baba Leeks." (Travels, vol. 3, p. 224, seqq., Lond. ed.) A very accurate view of the promontory is given in Gell's Topography of Troy, p. 21. The place was called Baba from a dervish (Baba) buried there, who always gave the Turks intelligence when any rovers were in the neighbouring seas. (Clarke, l.c., in notis.-Egmont and Heyman's Travels, vol. 1, p. 162.) LEDA, a daughter of Kin o and Eurythemis, who married oil; of Sparta. Accord. to the common account, she became, by Jupiter (who assumed for that purpose the form of a swan), the mother of Pollux and Helen, and by her own husband, the parent of Castor and Clytemnestra. Two eggs, it seems, were brought forth by her, from which, respectively, came the children just named, Pollux and Helen being in one, and Castor and Clytemnestra in the other. Other versions, however, are given of the legend, for which consult the articles Castor and Helena. LEDAEA, an epithet given to Hermione, &c., as related to Leda. (Virg., AEn., 3, 328.) LEDUs, now Lez, a river of Gaul, near the modern Montpelier. (Mela, 2, 5.) Legio septima gemina, a Roman military colony in Spain among the Astures, northeast of Asturica. It is now Leon. (Itin. Ant., p. 395.-Ptolemy, 2, 6.) Ptolemy calls it Legio Septima Germanorum. (Ukert, Geogr., vol. 2, p. 441.) Lelaps or LAELAPs, I. a dog that never failed to seize and conquer whatever animal it was ordered to pursue. It was given to Procris by Diana, and Procris reconciled herself to her husband by presenting him with this valuable animal. According to some, Procris had received it from Minos, as a reward for the dangerous wounds of which she had cured him. (Hygin, fab., 28.—Ovid, Met., 7, 771.)—II. One of Actaeon's dogs. LElegí:is, a name applied to Miletus, because once possessed by the Leleges. (Plin., 5, 29.) LELéges, an ancient race, whose history is involved in great obscurity, in consequence of the various and almost contradictory traditions which exist concerning them; according to which, they are on the one hand represented as among the earliest inhabitants of Greece, while on the other they are said to be the same people as the Carians. Herodotus states (1, 171) that the Carians, who originally inhabited the islands of the AEgean Sea, were known by the name of Leleges before they emigrated to Asia Minor; and according to Pausanias (7, 2, 4), the Leleges formed only a part of the Carian nation. The Leleges apear, from numerous traditions, to have inhabited the islands of the AEgean Sea and the western coasts of Asia Minor from a very early period. In Homer they are represented as the allies of the Trojans; and their king Altes is said to have been the father-in-law of Priam. (Il., 20, 96. –Ib., 21, 86.) They are said to have founded the temple of Juno in Samos (Athenaus, 15, p. 672), and Strabo informs us that they once inhabited, together with the Carians, the whole of Ionia. (Strab., 331.)—On the other hand, in the numerous traditions respecting them in the north of Greece, we find no connexion between them and the Carians. According to Aristotle (quoted by Strabo, 332), they inhabited parts of Acarnania, Aotolia, Opuntian Locris, Leucas, and Boeotia. In the south of Greece we again meet with the same confusion in the traditions of Megara respecting the Leleges and the Carians. Car is said to have been one of the most ancient kings of Megara, and to have been succeeded in the royal power, after the lapse of twelve generations, by Lelex, a foreigner srom Egypt. (*#):39,4, seq.)
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Whether it's cutting, engraving, marking, welding, cleaning or strengthening, the use of lasers on both organic and inorganic materials inevitably leads to the release of potentially harmful particles. In the UK, the term 'laser-generated airborne contaminants' has been applied by the Health and Safety Executive to these emissions in order to differentiate them from the gases or vapour occurring from alternate processing methods, such as traditional welding.
Particles smaller than 1µm are considered to be respirable, whereas particles less than 0.3µm can overcome the lung-blood barrier, and it is these that are of particular concern. In order to ensure the safety and well-being of workers, companies need to invest in suitable vacuum extraction and filtration.
He continued by adding that in addition to reducing the toxicity within the surrounding atmosphere, vacuum extraction systems serve to avoid defocusing the laser due to particles in the beam path, and to protect the mechanical and optical components for high production quality. By sufficiently filtering the air, no residue remains on the component due to particle deposits or unintended chemical reactions, thereby extending the life of the laser system – especially the lens.
Typically, filters used within this area include saturation filters and cartridge filter units; a combination of a fine dust filter, HEPA filter and activated carbon; and chemical absorption filters. At Teka Absaug- und Entsorgungstechnologie, a company specialising in filtration technology, the filters used belong in the H13 class, which means that 99.95 per cent of particles within the hazardous range, including those less than 0.3µm, can be filtered out. This level of filtration is standard across the industry due to its necessity.
There are two main approaches for how to deal with hazardous emissions. According to John Horsey, research and applications engineer at Bofa International, some organisations continue to vent the fumes to the outside atmosphere; however most recognise the benefits of filtration and returning the air back into the factory, rather than pure extraction. This is particularly crucial in cases where a facility is situated near a residential area. This also offers a degree of flexibility as the facility is then free to move the laser within the workspace without the need to install new ductwork each time.
Horsey agreed that the extraction market is changing and he attributes this to the fact that greater publicity, and activity by fume extraction companies, has raised the awareness of the hazards of laser-generated airborne contaminants. 'This increased awareness has contributed to a much greater uptake of local fume extraction, from around 30 per cent to nearer to 60 per cent of laser users,' he commented.
So what exactly are the expectations of laser users when it comes to filtering and extraction? ULT's Jakschik explained that users want extraction systems that offer low energy consumption, are easy to use, quiet, compact and that deliver a high level of security that ensures the effectiveness of filtration. As with every industry, there is no guarantee that these expectations will be met; however, users that avail themselves of specialised consultancy to undertake thorough planning stand a far better chance of getting the best possible system.
'Individual planning is essential,' Jakschik commented. 'Depending on the laser power, repetition rate and material to be worked with, different hazardous matter can [be produced] and so it's critical that the correct extraction system be selected. Once this has been done, a smaller filter device could be found that would save energy and be more cost effective.' He added that it's important to note that not every supplier of filter units can deliver this level of consultancy.
Horsey believes that there should ideally be a greater degree of interaction between the extraction company and laser company, particularly in the design of the extraction hood. However, he also suggests that this is generally not possible because the cost value of the extraction unit is relatively low compared to that of the laser, making individual design attention non-viable. 'Often, interaction at individual applications only occurs when there is a problem,' he said.
The danger here, as Giebken highlighted, is that the category of emissions being produced by the laser system – which, again, would be specific to the individual application – dictates the type of filter required. If questions regarding emissions aren't being addressed until towards the end of the project, users may find the filtration system would not be adequate for their needs.
'Small pieces of information given at the end of the process can mean the difference between two opposite filtration systems,' he explained. 'As an industry we have to think in more encompassing terms from the very beginning of a project. It starts with extraction capacity, given in cubic metres, and it ends with the filter class – and all of it is connected to the process itself.' Giebken added that forming closer relationships with laser companies is a critical goal, as although companies like Teka are able to help with extraction and filtration technology, they will be able to do so far more effectively if the flow of information within the industry is improved.
The laws and regulations pertaining to fume extraction can differ from country to country. Here, the focus is on those that apply in the UK and Germany.
Regulation 6: Requires risk assessments to be carried out, including consideration of any relevant workplace exposure limits.
Regulation 7: Where an employer can't avoid the generation of a harmful substance, this regulation sets out the requirement to apply protection measures and their order of priority.
Regulation 8: Where an extraction system is provided by an employer, it is a legal requirement that employees make 'full and proper use' of it.
Regulation 9: When an extraction system is installed it must be thoroughly inspected and tested at least once every 14 months (in practice every 12 months). A suitable record must be kept of the examination and tests, for at least five years.
Regulation 10: It is a requirement that a 'personal sampling and gravimetric analysis' be carried out for workers in the area of a possible source of airborne contaminants if it is not possible to demonstrate by another method that fumes are being adequately extracted.
Regulation 12: Employers are required to provide training for workers likely to be exposed to a hazardous substance. This has to include details of these substances, including their workplace exposure limit.
These laws and regulations apply to all workplace processes including lasers, one difference being that laser fume extraction systems are often not recognised by health and safety practitioners as LEV systems to which the COSHH regulations should be applied.
Within Germany, there are three main laws and regulations to consider regarding implementations: Arbeitsschutzgesetz, Gefahrenstoffverordnung, and technical rules for hazardous substances. Within Arbeitsschutzgesetz (Working Environment Act), operators have to identify and assess the risk of the respective work. Work can only be started when a risk is identified and respective precautions are realised. There are four general principles involved: avoid as many hazardous substances as possible, extract hazards directly at the source, consider state-of-the-art technology, and individual protection.
Gefahrenstoffverordnung is the Ordinance on Hazardous Substances of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and it serves to define exposure limit values of the identified relevant harmful products. Finally, there are technical rules for hazardous substances that include specific guidance on the Hazardous Substances Act for individual processes. Laser welding, for example, is governed by TRGS528.
Information provided by John Horsey, research and applications engineer at Bofa International, and Alexander Jakschik, CSO and managing director of ULT.


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Roll Call · Politics in Stereo
Inside Elections
North Carolina 8: Result Is No Shocker
by Nathan L. Gonzales June 26, 2008 · 12:05 AM EDT
North Carolina Rep. Robin Hayes (R) is vulnerable.
This is a surprise?
A newly released Democratic poll showed challenger Larry Kissell (D) edging out Hayes in a general election matchup. But the survey just confirmed the obvious and does not signify movement in a race that was already highly competitive.
In November 2006, Hayes and Kissell battled to a virtual draw, with the Congressman prevailing, 50.1 percent to 49.9 percent, or a margin of 329 votes.
Six months later, an Anzalone Liszt Research survey for Kissell's campaign had the race essentially tied, with Hayes at 45 percent and the schoolteacher at 43 percent.
In November of last year, a Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (D) survey conducted for the Service Employees International Union and the Center for American Progress Action Fund showed Kissell leading Hayes, 49 percent to 47 percent.
And now in June 2008, an Anzalone Liszt Research survey for Kissell's campaign showed the schoolteacher leading the incumbent narrowly, 45 percent to 43 percent.
The closeness of the race can be viewed two ways. On one hand, it shows Hayes' inability to create some breathing room between him and his opponent, who nearly won last cycle and will be better funded this time. On the other hand, Democrats may have lost their opportunity to knock off Hayes in the worst Republican environment in decades two years ago. Either way, Hayes won't be taken by surprise.
The Republican is a perennial Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee target. First, it was because of some of his trade votes, but now it has more to do with the competitive nature of the district. President Bush won it with 54 percent in 2004, but the recent Anzalone survey showed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) leading in the presidential race, 50 percent to 37 percent, in a district that is more than one-quarter African-American.
After winning an open seat in 1998 with 51 percent, Hayes was re-elected with 55 percent two years later, defeating Democratic lawyer Mike Taylor both times. The 8th district was subsequently redrawn, giving Hayes more Democrats, and drawing the attention of the DCCC.
Hayes would go on to defeat young attorney/former Yale running back Chris Kouri (D) with 54 percent in 2002 and young beauty queen Beth Troutman, who is now a Charlotte TV news anchor,with 56 percent in 2004.
This might be the year Democrats knock off Robin Hayes, but it's no surprise that the race is close and the Congressman will be ready for the fight.
This story first appeared in RollCall.com on June 20, 2008.
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Numbers are important
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Celebrating Innovation and Intellectual Property at the 2nd Annual GIPC Global IP Summit
There has perhaps never been more innovation, investment, and experimentation in the American film and television industry than there is today. Over the past seven years, the Global Intellectual Property Center has emerged as a leading voice promoting and protecting the intellectual property rights around the world that allow that creativity and innovation to flourish, so, I was delighted to attend and speak at yesterday's 2nd Annual GIP Global IP Summit on behalf of all those within the film and television community who rely, every day, on those very rights in order to do their jobs.
It's important to remember that the ongoing innovation and creative leaps happening in TV and filmmaking do not happen miraculously. It takes dedicated, creative, hard-working men and women willing to invest their time, energy, and finances in order to make them happen. Every day, more than 1.9 million people go to work in jobs connected to, contributing to, or dependent upon the American film and television industry. And their hard work is reflected in the numbers: $111 billion in wages generated, $120 billion in sales recorded, and $16.2 billion in worldwide exports created by this industry in 2012 alone. There can be no denying the enormous impact film and television has on the American economy.
For as long as moviemaking has existed, protecting creators' intellectual property has been the foundation of a healthy film and television industry. And it remains among the most effective guarantors for the creation, production, and dissemination of cultural works anywhere in the world today. Intellectual property ensures every one of the hardworking individuals involved in bringing films and television series to life have jobs and are decently compensated for the countless hours of work they contribute to these stirring productions.
We recognize that we can do more to help consumers legally find the content they are looking for. There are now more than 100 different legitimate sites available to users for watching content in the U.S. But with all of these different sites, and the fierce competition they create, there can also come confusion given the wide variety of available choices. That is why we created WhereToWatch.com, a one-stop shop, connecting users directly to legal content sites. All you have to do is type in the title of a film or TV show, the name of an actor or director, or the type of film genre you want to watch, and WheretoWatch will provide legal options for buying, renting or streaming what you're looking for. And if you're looking to see something currently in theaters, all you have to do is type in your zip code and the site will provide show times for what's playing in nearby theaters. We created WheretoWatch to simplify the viewing experience for you. And we hope to keep adding availabilities to the site in the months to come; this is only the beginning…


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We're a relatively small branch, but we more than make up for it with a personable service and our comprehensive product range. Of course, we can also order any product stocked by Brewers into store within a few days.
Brewers Walsall also offers protective coatings expertise, so professionals, tradespeople and designers can source specialist paints and tap our team for product and application advice for more unusual painting requirements.
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## Requirements
* ARC
* iOS8

## Installation

CPLabel is available through [CocoaPods](http://cocoapods.org).

### For latest release in cocoapods

```ruby
## for swift 2.3 use:
pod 'CPLabel', '~> 0.1.4'

## for swift 3.0 use:
pod 'CPLabel', '~> 0.1.5'

## for swift 4.0 use:
pod 'CPLabel', '~> 0.1.6'
```

### Usage

### storyboard:
* Drag UITextView and change the Custom Class Name to CPLabel in Identity Inspector
* import the module   [import CPLabel] in the class where we use CPLabel.
* give theOutlet from storyboard

## Example

```ruby
import CPLabel

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet weak var textLabel: CPLabel?
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        self.textLabel?.text = "\n\n\nHello World 1234567890 testCommit@gmail.com "
    }
}
```

## Feature

* Use it like UiLable with Extra Features Like:

* Copy the label text
* recognize Pnone numbers, emailIDs, lookups etc..
* long press selected text to give options like lookUp, email, send message, add to contact, copy and call..
## Author

Hari Krishna, harielakanti@gmail.com

## License

CPLabel is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

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The Wellington team has turned up in good numbers again to help with assembling the Gallipoli diorama. Within the confidentiality strictures for our work at Weta, here are a few shots of what's going on today.
Michael Perry and Armchair General survey the ground. Herman from Kapiti standing on the left.
McBeth, Brian and Nick hard at work touching up and painting the last few figures.
Paul (back) and Alex from Wellington were also involved in touching up.
I was really honoured when the Perrys modelled one of their figures on me!
Nick concentrates on the fine touching up.
Brian got the task of painting the two Turkish standard bearers, and touched up many more figures.
Alan and Michael Perry confer with Sir Peter Jackson on the finer points of Turkish tactics.
Just wow. Amazing once-in-a-lifetime hobby project.
That would be a dream job. The diorama will be awesome. Roly, what a likeness!


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/**
 * @fileoverview Unit tests for topicLandingPage.
 */

import { NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA } from '@angular/core';
import { ComponentFixture, TestBed, async, tick, fakeAsync }
  from '@angular/core/testing';

import { UrlInterpolationService } from
  'domain/utilities/url-interpolation.service';
import { TopicLandingPageComponent } from
  'pages/landing-pages/topic-landing-page/topic-landing-page.component';
import { PageTitleService } from 'services/page-title.service';
import { SiteAnalyticsService } from 'services/site-analytics.service';
import { WindowRef } from 'services/contextual/window-ref.service';

import constants from 'assets/constants';

class MockWindowRef {
  _window = {
    location: {
      _pathname: '/math/ratios',
      _href: '',
      get pathname(): string {
        return this._pathname;
      },
      set pathname(val: string) {
        this._pathname = val;
      },
      get href(): string {
        return this._href;
      },
      set href(val) {
        this._href = val;
      }
    },
    gtag: () => {}
  };

  get nativeWindow() {
    return this._window;
  }
}

class MockSiteAnalyticsService {
  registerOpenCollectionFromLandingPageEvent(collectionId: string): void {
    return;
  }
}

let component: TopicLandingPageComponent;
let fixture: ComponentFixture<TopicLandingPageComponent>;

describe('Topic Landing Page', () => {
  let siteAnalyticsService = null;
  let windowRef: MockWindowRef;
  let pageTitleService = null;

  beforeEach(async(() => {
    windowRef = new MockWindowRef();
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [TopicLandingPageComponent],
      providers: [
        PageTitleService,
        { provide: SiteAnalyticsService, useClass: MockSiteAnalyticsService },
        UrlInterpolationService,
        { provide: WindowRef, useValue: windowRef }
      ],
      schemas: [NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA]
    }).compileComponents();
    pageTitleService = TestBed.get(PageTitleService);
    siteAnalyticsService = TestBed.get(SiteAnalyticsService);
  }));

  beforeEach(() => {
    fixture = TestBed.createComponent(TopicLandingPageComponent);
    component = fixture.componentInstance;
    fixture.detectChanges();
  });

  it('should get topic title from topic id in pathname when component' +
    ' is initialized', () => {
    windowRef.nativeWindow.location.pathname = '/math/ratios';
    component.ngOnInit();
    expect(component.topicTitle).toBe('Ratios');
  });

  it('should click get started button', fakeAsync(() => {
    windowRef.nativeWindow.location.pathname = '/math/ratios';
    let analyticsSpy = spyOn(
      siteAnalyticsService, 'registerOpenCollectionFromLandingPageEvent')
      .and.callThrough();
    // Get collection id from ratios.
    component.ngOnInit();

    windowRef.nativeWindow.location.href = '';
    component.onClickGetStartedButton();

    let ratiosCollectionId = '53gXGLIR044l';
    expect(analyticsSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(ratiosCollectionId);
    tick(150);
    fixture.detectChanges();

    expect(windowRef.nativeWindow.location.href).toBe(
      '/learn/math/ratios');
  }));

  it('should click learn more button', fakeAsync(() => {
    windowRef.nativeWindow.location.href = '';
    component.goToClassroom();
    tick(150);
    fixture.detectChanges();

    expect(windowRef.nativeWindow.location.href).toBe(
      `/learn/${constants.DEFAULT_CLASSROOM_URL_FRAGMENT}`);
  }));

  it('should have a tagline in the page title', fakeAsync(() => {
    windowRef.nativeWindow.location.pathname = '/math/fractions';
    component.ngOnInit();
    tick(150);
    fixture.detectChanges();
    expect(pageTitleService.getDocumentTitle()).toBe(
      'Fractions | Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide | Oppia');
  }));

  it('should return correct lesson quality image src', function() {
    let imageSrc = component.getLessonQualityImageSrc('someImage.png');
    expect(imageSrc).toBe('/assets/images/landing/someImage.png');

    imageSrc = component.getLessonQualityImageSrc('someOtherImage.png');
    expect(imageSrc).toBe('/assets/images/landing/someOtherImage.png');
  });
});


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Das Kleingebiet Sárvár ( Sárvári kistérség) war bis Ende 2012 eine ungarische Verwaltungseinheit (LAU 1) innerhalb des Komitats Vas in Westtransdanubien. Im Zuge der Verwaltungsreform gelangten Anfang 2013 alle 32 Ortschaften in den nachfolgenden Kreis Sárvár (ungarisch Sárvári járás), der zudem noch um 10 Gemeinden aus dem Kleingebiet Csepreg erweitert wurde.

Ende 2012 lebten auf einer Fläche von 601,98 km² 35.721 Einwohner. Das zweitbevölkerungsreichste Kleingebiet lag mit einer Bevölkerungsdichte von 59 Einwohnern/km² unter dem Komitatsdurchschnitt.

Der Verwaltungssitz befand sich in Sárvár (14.812). Die Stadt Répcelak war mit 2.659 Einwohnern die zweitbevölkerungsreichste Ortschaft im Kleingebiet. Die restlichen 30 Gemeinden hatten durchschnittlich 608 Einwohner.

Ortschaften

Am 26. September 2007 wechselte die Ortschaft Hegyfalu aus dem Kleingebiet Csepreg hierher.

Einzelnachweise

Sarvar
Komitat Vas

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HY products are widely used at commercial field, such as exhibition, garden, park, natatorium and so on.
Aluminum grating could be used as ceiling indoor which is with a sense of design. It could also be used as a wall indoor, it would be pretty together with grating ceiling. Aluminum grating is widely used as an outdoor or indoor flower shelf, could be supporting the flower and keeping air ventilation. When used at outdoor place, HY products could be made as fencing of flower, which could protect people inside out of sunlight effectively, and provide a supporting shelf for flower. Aluminum grating and aluminum stanchions can also applied to a catwalk or walkway for tourists in a park or other public areas. HY aluminum products can also used at natatorium or other places near the sea or lake as a platform or walkway as the character of corrosion resistance. Aluminum and steel grating can be anti skip with its serrated surface, and HY expanded grating is born to be knurled which can ensure safety even at a angle of 32°for a platform or bridge. And aluminum products can be made to different colors with powder coating to suit kinds of projects.
As its superior bearing capacity with low self weight, aluminum grating is widely used at kinds of platforms and catwalks. As sun screens, aluminum grating and aluminum louver are used at outside of building, normally covering the glazing facade to keep people inside out of strong sunlight. Our trafficable aluminum louver could also be used as a platform for maintenance and cleaning work as its good bearing capacity.


Adijat Adigun, a second-time mother, sat on a white plastic chair at the Maternity Hospital, Yemetu in Ibadan, Oyo state, for a post-natal session.
She curved the little crying baby on her arm, put her to her breast and listened, keenly, to the midwives and other facilitators of a lecture on what she would describe as "vital information" that helped her exclusively breastfeed both the baby in arm and five-year-old big brother at home.
Adigun looked slightly disturbed as this reporter tried to speak her and even shrugged her arms before she finally yielded. She said breastfeeding her two kids exclusively was tasking and eventful; and that everyone around her, including her mother, discouraged her from breastfeeding.
"The society is resistant to the culture of exclusive breastfeeding. Because in the first place, the culture is that you give your baby herbal mixtures and herbal concussions when you give birth," she said.
"Then, you are surrounded by people who strongly hold this view because they practiced them with us (their children) and we are still alive.
Adigun's experience is not uncommon in Nigeria where there is a strong extended family influence in parenting and parenting choices.
While more mothers are shifting to conscious, intentional parenting where they constantly research best practices for the well-being of their kids, a lot of mothers still depend on traditions handed down to them by matriarchs in their ancestry.
"It was a familial battle. There is no support whatsoever from people you know when the baby is born," Adigun said. "When you insist on exclusive breastfeeding, your mother would ask if you were not given these things.
Nigeria's breastfeeding statistics are dismal. Only 23.7% percent of Nigerian babies are exclusively breastfed compared to Ghana's 63 percent.
Breast milk serves as vaccines for neonates extending to the first six months of life. It prevents pneumonia and diarrhoea and reduces the chances of neonates dying.
According to UNICEF and WHO, "babies who are breastfed are 14 times less likely to die than those who are not fed breast milk".
And since breast milk contains all the nutrients and fluids a baby needs for the first six months of life, it boosts the brain/cognitive development of children. This means that kids who are breastfed often do better in school. Longer breastfeeding duration is associated with higher scores on intelligence tests.
Ada Ezeogu, a nutrition specialist at UNICEF, said some of the barriers to exclusive and extended breastfeeding practices are rooted in patriarchy.
Some mothers, she said, are discouraged from breastfeeding by their husbands or in-laws because of "perceived threat to father-child bond".
Other barriers are cultural habits like discarding the colostrum (the first milk breasts produced during pregnancy that contains many white cells and antibodies that protect the baby and wade off infection) because it is deemed "unclean".
Adigun explained that most ultimately resort to herbal mixtures.
Nigeria is actually a breastfeeding nation, with a 95 percent breastfeeding rate and a 71 percent rate of predominant breastfeeding (PBF).
PBF differs from exclusive breastfeeding in that while the baby's main source of nutrition is breast milk, the child is also fed with water and alternatives like coconut water, glucose water, and formula.
The reasons PBF thrives vary. Sometimes, it is the lack of sufficient knowledge.
Moromoke Lamid, a typist in Ibadan north-east local government area of Oyo, believed her baby needed more food after she turned three months. She insisted that breast milk was not enough to fill her baby, so she added formula and water to her feeding schedule.
In some cases, it is the lack of institutional support where mothers in Nigeria get a maximum of three months paid maternity leave with no in-house creches, nurseries or nursing rooms.
For Nkechi Ifeatu, who works in one of Nigeria's major telecommunications organisations, breastfeeding exclusively for six months was impracticable.
Ifeatu said she had to go back to work after two months because she was sickly during the last month of her pregnancy. She said it was difficult to preserve her breast milk as a result of the country's erratic power supply.
According to the 2014 Nutrition and Health Situation of Nigeria report, "the recommendation to exclusively breastfeed children for the first six months of life is met only by one fourth of mothers, implying that the vast majority of children under 6 months (75 percent) alongside with breast milk have received plain water and non-milk liquids".
The report says PBF is better than not breastfeeding at all because it is "associated with substantially lower risk of child mortality than no breastfeeding at all" — but it is still not exclusive breastfeeding.
According to Ezeogu, this means that there are increased chances of diseases like diarrhoea which largely contributes to infant mortality.
There is also the situation where the baby's tiny stomach is filled with water, leaving no room for sufficient breast milk that already contains over 70 percent water and sometimes causing vitamin A deficiency, a form of malnutrition.
Chris Isokponwu, head of nutrition, federal ministry of health, defined malnutrition as a "pathological condition brought about by inadequacy of one or more of the nutrients essential for survival, growth, development, reproduction and capacity to learn and function in the society".
He said Nigeria loses about 1, 219 under-five year olds daily.
Isokponwu went on to identify poor infant feeding practices, including breastfeeding, as key nutritional problems.
In August 2017, Tedros Adhanom, director general of WHO, identified breastmilk as having all the nourishment infants need to "survive and thrive".


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Home > Faculty Research > College of Science and Mathematics > Kinesiology > 22
Holiday weight management by successful weight losers and normal weight individuals
Suzanne Phelan, Brown UniversityFollow
Rena R. Wing, Brown University
Hollie A. Raynor, University of Tennessee
Julia Dibello, Brown University
Kim Nedeau, Miriam Hospital
Wanfeng Peng, Health Dialog Services Corporation
Postprint version. Published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Volume 76, Issue 3, June 1, 2008, pages 442-448.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Suzanne Phelan was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.76.3.442.
This study compared weight control strategies during the winter holidays among successful weight losers (SWL) in the National Weight Control Registry and normal weight individuals (NW) with no history of obesity. SWL (n = 178) had lost a mean of 34.9 kg and had kept =13.6 kg off for a mean of 5.9 years. NW (n = 101) had a body mass index of 18.5-24.9 kg/m². More SWL than NW reported plans to be extremely strict in maintaining their usual dietary routine (27.3% vs. 0%) and exercise routine (59.1% vs. 14.3%) over the holidays. Main effects for group indicated that SWL maintained greater exercise, greater attention to weight and eating, greater stimulus control, and greater dietary restraint, both before and during the holidays. A Group × Time interaction indicated that, over the holidays, attention to weight and eating declined significantly more in SW than in NW. More SWL (38.9%) than NW (16.7%) gained =1 kg over the holidays, and this effect persisted 1 month later (28.3% and 10.7%, respectively). SWL worked harder than NW did to manage their weight, but they appeared more vulnerable to weight gain during the holidays.
2008 American Psychological Association.
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.
Kinesiology Commons
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/kine_fac/22
Kinesiology Website


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Modest Huys (25 October 1874, in Zulte – 30 January 1932, in Zulte) was a Flemish impressionist and luminist painter, who is regarded as one of the greatest Belgian painters of the 20th century.

Personal life

From a young age, he worked in his father's painting and decorating business and later studied at the "Gentse Nijverheidschool" (Ghent Industrial School). In 1891 or 1892, he came into contact with Emile Claus, who encouraged his artistic inclinations. In 1900, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), where his teachers were Eugène Joors and Frans Van Leemputten (1850-1914), but he never completed his studies. It was about this time that he became lifelong friends with the author Stijn Streuvels.

In 1909, he married and settled near Waregem.

Career

In 1902, he debuted at the Sint-Lucasgilde in Kortrijk and began to exhibit more widely. He spent time in Meetjesland, painting landscapes. From 1905, he participated in the exhibitions of Vie et Lumière, a luminist group, along with Claus, James Ensor and Jenny Montigny.

At the outbreak of World War I, he fled to the Netherlands, although he returned in 1915 and moved about as the war dictated. His home and studio were destroyed in 1918 and he ended up living with a forester near Brakel. After the armistice, he painted scenes of the devastation at the front, then settled in Wakken the following year.

He again began to exhibit extensively, including shows at the Paris Salon and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. During this period, his colors became darker and the contrasts harsher, approaching expressionism. In 1926, he built his ideal home-studio, the "Zonnehuys" (Sun House), in Zulte. Several taverns in the area claim to have frescoes that he painted. A square in Olsene (a district of Zulte) was named after him in 1999.

References

Further reading
 Willem G. Flippo, Lexicon of the Belgian Romantic Painters, Antwerp, International Art Press, 1981
 Serge Goyens de Heusch, L'impressionisme et le fauvisme en Belgique, Antwerp, Fonds Mercator, 1988
 Johan De Smet, Het luminisme voorbij. De jaren twintig in het oeuvre van Modest Huys, in: Bulletin of the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, 1-4, 1994-1995
 Johan De Smet and Veerle van Doorne, Modest Huys 1874-1932, exhibition catalog, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deinze, 10-5-12 1999
 Paul Piron, De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw, Brussels, Art in Belgium, 1999, 2 vols.

External links

 ArtNet: More paintings by Huys

1874 births
1932 deaths
Impressionism
20th-century Belgian painters
People from Zulte


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Home > Antitrust > State AG Updates: June 7-11, 2021
State AG Updates: June 7-11, 2021
By Natalie O. Ludaway & Crowell's State AG Team on June 22, 2021
Posted in Antitrust, CFPB, Consumer Protection, Covid-19, Criminal Fraud Schemes, Criminal Medicaid Fraud, Cybersecurity, Elder Fraud & Abuse, Election Protection, Energy, Environment, Financial Misconduct, Financial Services, Labor, Law Enforcement
Monday, June 7, 2021:
June 7, 2021, the New York Senate passed the 21st Century Antitrust Act, S.933-A, which, if passed by the Assembly and signed by the governor, would be New York's first major antitrust law update in the past century, and which reports indicate would be the strongest antitrust law in the United States. Among other things, the bill would create an "abuse of dominance" standard for conduct that limits competitors' incentive or capacity to compete, would not allow pro-competitive effects to be used as a defense, and states that companies are dominant if they have over a 40% share of the market as a seller or over 30% as a buyer.
New York Attorney General James announced that she won her request for an injunction against the Rensselaer County Board of Elections for failing to provide voters in the county with equitable and sufficient access to early voting poll sites. The Board must select a reasonable site by June 9, 2021, ahead of the June 2021 primary election.
Washington D.C. Attorney General Racine announced that more D.C. households are now eligible for utility assistance programs after the Public Service Commission granted an Attorney General's Office motion. About 50,000 more households will now be able to receive discounts on electric, gas, water, and sewer bills.
Michigan Attorney General Nessel is asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to reduce a rate increase request from DTE Gas Co. The gas company is asking for a $195 million increase, which is more than an 11% increase for residential consumers. Attorney General Nessel is arguing that the company should only receive a $19 million annual increase, which should also be equally distributed.
A coalition of attorneys general led by California Attorney General Bonta and Massachusetts Attorney General Healey reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") which requires the EPA to initiate a rulemaking to gather data on and eliminate exemptions for the reporting on uses of asbestos. The EPA will publish a proposed rule no more than nine moths after the settlement's effective date and a final rule no more than 18 months after the effective date.
New Jersey Attorney General Grewal announced that the payroll manager for construction company UniMak, LLC was sentenced for violating prevailing wage rules on public works projects. The sentence includes, among other things, five years of probation and a payment of $23,913 in back taxes. The company previously entered a non-prosecution agreement and agreed to pay $1 million to employees.
New York Attorney General James announced that her office entered an agreement with Con Edison of New York resolving an investigation finding that the power company did not pay reimbursements for food spoilage after a power outage in accordance with its claim form instructions. The agreement will provide over $530,000 in consumer refunds.
Ohio Attorney General Yost filed a lawsuit in Delaware County Court asking the court to declare Google a public utility/common carrier subject to government regulation and alleging that Google has a duty to offer competitors or sources rights equal to its own rights. Attorney General Yost's lawsuit does not seek money damages.
Rhode Island Attorney General Neronha applauded the Rhode Island Senate's passage of five bills, including S 684, which would strengthen Rhode Island's consumer protection law by limiting exemptions to business activities regulated by the state or federal government and expressly authorized by law or regulation, and by providing for a $10,000 civil penalty per violation of an injunction.
Massachusetts Attorney General Healey issued an alert urging businesses and government entities to immediately take steps to protect their operations from ransomware attacks through security systems and practices.
Washington Attorney General Ferguson announced that collection agency Machol & Johannes must return about $475,000 to consumers, forgive up to $250,000 in fees and costs, and pay $414,000 to the Attorney General's Office to resolve allegations of unlawful debt collection practices. According to Attorney General Ferguson, the company violated the Washington Consumer Protection Act and Collection Agency Act when it failed to offer garnishment exemptions and illegally assessed fees and costs to consumers from whom it did not collect money. The settlement also includes injunctive relief.
California Attorney General Bonta warned financial institutions, debt collectors, and creditors that in California federal Child Tax Credit payments are exempt from garnishment for individual debts.
North Carolina Attorney General Stein announced that the former owner and operator of Nu Look on Life, LLC pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud, specifically obtaining property by false pretenses. In addition to her sentencing, she must pay $27,033.28 in restitution and is barred from working as a health care provider in a government health care benefit program in the future.
Florida Attorney General Moody announced the conviction of a former convenience store employee on multiple counts of credit card fraud and identity theft, including against senior victims. The defendant obtained the victims' information from credit card transactions and then used it for personal gain.
Ohio Attorney General Yost announced his filing of a temporary restraining order against the owner of a dairy farm for leaking waste into a nearby stream, violating Ohio's Soil and Water Conservation laws.
New Jersey Attorney General Grewal issued a directive setting a 60-day deadline for law enforcement agencies to publish public reports identifying those police officers who committed serious disciplinary violations between June 15, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
Washington Attorney General Ferguson issued a consumer alert warning consumers to be aware of marketing websites which state or imply that they are neutral sources of information about addiction treatment facilities. The alert states that this week Attorney General Ferguson resolved a case against Recovery Worldwide, which branded its websites as impartial without clearly disclosing that a lot of its content was from paid advertising. The settlement requires the company to pay $64,130 to the Attorney General's Office as well as to change its practices.
Arkansas Attorney General Rutledge filed a lawsuit against Flowmatic Technical Solutions, LLC and its owner for failing to provide a reliable internet service in rural communities, as well as for failing to give refunds, repair defective products, and in some cases to provide any internet service. The lawsuit seeks restitution, damages, and civil penalties.
California Attorney General Bonta announced a settlement against Lake Bowl Cardroom for violating the California Department of Public Health's COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. The company was previously ordered to cease gambling operations for violating the guidelines. The settlement allows it to resume operations if it complies with the settlement's conditions, which include following health and safety guidelines as well as a suspension and fine.
On June 11, 2021, bipartisan lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation geared towards restoring competition in digital markets, which includes provisions prohibiting technology companies from giving their own services preference, allowing regulators to force technology companies to sell parts of their business that could create a conflict of interest, and increasing filing fees for mergers.
On June 11, 2021, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") released its spring 2021 rulemaking agenda, including an announcement that it is no longer planning to conduct consumer testing on payday loan disclosure options, a policy goal from the last administration.
Nevada Attorney General Ford announced the passage of three of his bills, all of which will enhance state consumer protection laws. Among other things, the legislation establishes a price gouging prohibition for up to 75 days during a state of emergency, increases penalties for conduct targeting minors, strengthens charity laws, and prohibits the application of noncompete agreements to hourly employees.
A coalition of 22 attorneys general led by California Attorney General Bonta and the California Air Resources Board sent a letter to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration ("NHTSA") asking the NHTSA to repeal the "Preemption Rule," which ostensibly preempted California's emissions standards. The coalition is arguing that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act did not give the NHTSA the power to promulgate the rule and that it must be repealed.
Connecticut Attorney General Tong announced an amended settlement with United Illuminating ("UI") and state entities that will provide savings and stability for UI consumers by offsetting what would have been a five to eight percent rate increase due to a power purchase agreement and federally-mandated transmission charges.
A proposed class action lawsuit in the District of New Jersey filed on June 10, 2021 is alleging that debt collection law firm Weltman Weinberg & Reis violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by representing a creditor in a lawsuit seeking to collect an obligation released in bankruptcy and by sending unclear communications.
Attorneys general from California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, and Texas, along with the federal government, took part in a $2 million national settlement against medical device maker Medicrea USA, Inc. and its parent company, resolving allegations that the company violated the federal Open Payment Program and Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as state false claims law, by illegally paying physicians to use its medical devices in surgical procedures.
State AG Updates: June 2-8, 2022
State AG Updates: March 10-16, 2022
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## Getting Started
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Summary (Goodreads): Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she's more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma's inexplicable obsession with her finding the "Ideal Indian Husband." Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn't have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI has been on everyone's "most anticipated" list for a while now, so I was excited to have it be one of my first summer reads. I've never read anything about arranged marriages (even though this didn't end up being like I assumed it would be) but this turned out to be about way more than just relationships. Dimple is a sort of stereotypical rebellious girl–in the sense that her mother wants her to wear makeup, go to college primarily to meet a suitable husband, and focus on other things besides creating an app. Rishi is more traditional–his parents told him about the arrangement and he is genuinely excited, he doesn't eat meat, he's going to MIT to study engineering even though he'd rather be an artist. When they meet, it obviously does not go well. But, of course, they're at the same summer program, and end up working together on a project (Dimple's app idea) for over a month. So, of course, in the typical young adult novel fashion, they realize that they have more in common than they previously thought. I have to say, I like Rishi more than Dimple, but maybe because he's a bit more of a dreamer and has more of my kind of humor.
What I really liked about WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI was that although, yes, it is ultimately about romance, the characters are their own persons, and they continue to grow and improve, with or without each other. That's something that has a habit of getting lost in young adult novels and I loved how Dimple and Rishi were still themselves, only braver and more open together.
Anyways, this is a sad excuse for a review (I'm trying) but please read this wonderful, adorable, diverse book (also it's set in San Francisco soooo)!


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BrightFarms plans hydroponic greenhouses on supermarket roofs
By Jeremy Kingsley
This article was taken from the March 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
Why truck in fresh produce when supermarkets could grow it on their roofs? That's the premise of New York startup BrightFarms, which plans to build and operate hydroponic greenhouses on supermarket roofs (see concept art in the gallery) and sell the produce to the stores, reducing distribution time and distance to zero. "The price is never more than they would ordinarily pay," says Benjamin Linsley, BrightFarms' vice-president of business development. "And in many instances, less." Each greenhouse will be staffed by ten people and produce an average of 227 tonnes of mixed lettuces, tomatoes and greens. Vents, recirculating hydroponics and micro- nutrient control will ensure optimum yields in the greenhouse; waste heat from the supermarket's refrigeration systems will keep it warm.
BrightFarms began as an offshoot of New York Sun Works, a non-profit founded in 2006 to promote responsible farming. According to the company, its methods will produce 20-30 times the yields of conventional agriculture, using a tenth of the water. Its first supermarket operation opens soon, near or above a McCaffrey's Market in Pennsylvania, and the firm is talking to 12 other US chains. From tiny seeds...
This article was first published in the March 2012 issue of WIRED magazine
Benjamin Linsley
Brigthfarms
From cutouts to pandas, dining out during a pandemic is utterly weird
By Megan Tatum
Shops are changing their muzak to trick shoppers into calming down
By Will Pritchard
The world is running out of yeast for literally no good reason
How Brexit prepared supermarkets for our coronavirus stockpiling


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Q: WCF REST Parameters I am writing a method in wcf rest service. The method is get method and the parameter is date. How i use parameters as the service consume in jquery.
If i use templateUri, it must be string. Example:
[WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, UriTemplate = "/GetProductionDay/{shiftDate}")]

Otherwise i can use DateTime like query string. Example:
[WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, UriTemplate = "/GetProductionDay?shiftDate={shiftDate}")]

Which one is suitable? Like this i have multiple parameters with int, datetime etc. So if i go with first one all things must be string. am i right?
If i follow second one any problems in any type?

A: In cases like this I usually use UTC date representation (count of seconds/ms from 01.01.1970). On JavaScript side it could be get as
var utc = new Date().getTime() / 1000;

On server side it could be managed by following logic:
public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
    static readonly DateTime _unixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);

    static readonly double _maxUnixSeconds = (DateTime.MaxValue - _unixEpoch).TotalSeconds;

    /// <summary>
    /// Converts .NET <c>DateTime</c> to Unix timestamp used in JavaScript
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="dateTime">DateTime to convert</param>
    /// <returns>Unix timestamp in seconds</returns>
    public static long ToUnixTimestamp(this DateTime dateTime)
    {
        return (long)(dateTime - _unixEpoch).TotalSeconds;
    }

    public static DateTime FromUnixTimestamp(long seconds)
    {
        return _unixEpoch.AddSeconds(seconds);
    }

    public static DateTime? FromUnixTimestamp(string seconds)
    {
        long secondsNo;
        if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(seconds) || !long.TryParse(seconds, out secondsNo))
        {
           retun null;
        }

        return _unixEpoch.AddSeconds(secondsNo);
    }
}

Using this loigc you could convert all dates to simple numbers on client and use DateTime? on server side to correctly work with empty dates
[WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, UriTemplate = "/GetProductionDay/{shiftDate}")]
public int GetProductionDay (string shiftDate)
{
    DateTime? dt = DateTimeExtensions.FromUnixTimestamp(shiftDate);
    ....
    return res;
}

Some more info: How to convert a Unix timestamp to DateTime and vice versa?

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Simply put you do not draft a franchise talent first overall, bring him from junior hockey all the way to the NHL with no veteran first line (or second line) players in terms of age/production and change that players position.
John Tavares is a center, that's where he should be playing if he's going to be in the NHL this season.
I have read some of Scott Gordon's comments about Tavares perhaps playing wing and the question is why?
So Doug Weight or Richard Park can be his center?
On my depth chart down the middle it's Tavares, Bailey, Nielsen for better or worse.
It appears the only opening is for Doug Weight to slide to the right side (Guerin's spot) to be his winger because Bergenheim, Comeau and Tambellini are all left wings but that means Okposo does not skate on his line because he is a right wing.
Let me set the NHL on paper depth chart and no I'm not including prospect signings.
Only Nate Thompson has a two way contract and he likely has to clear waivers, all seven defenders have one-way contracts.
I can blog about Joensuu, Figren, Smith, Bentivoglio, some of the AHL signings and the Sarnia connection in Bridgeport with Kohn, Katic and MacDonald all week and even talk about deHaan winning a job but this is where things stand right now regardless if Garth Snow invites someone or signs a fighter or a Satan/whoever or makes a trade.
How many times this summer did I say in audio blogs if you want to add you have to subtract?
Why change Tavares position when it's going to be all he can do to play his natural position at this level?