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"Lucifer Sam" is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, featured on the band's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967).

Music and lyrics
The song is built around a descending riff, with the dominant instrument being composer Syd Barrett's electric guitar, fed through an echo machine; the resultant sound has been likened to a "sinister" Duane Eddy. This is augmented by bowed bass and increasingly agitated organ and percussion effects.

Though the lyric frequently refers to Lucifer Sam as a cat, some speculation has arisen as to whether this was in fact slang ("a hip cat") for a man, real or imagined, in some type of relationship with Barrett's then-girlfriend, Jenny Spires (referred to in the song as "Jennifer Gentle"). However, Sam was simply Barrett's Siamese cat (and is referred to as such in the first line: "Lucifer Sam, Siam cat"); the track was originally called "Percy the Rat Catcher" during the recording sessions, which took place between April and June 1967.

Personnel

Pink Floyd
Syd Barrett – vocals, guitar, slide guitar
Richard Wright – farfisa organ, piano
Roger Waters – bass guitar, bowed bass
Nick Mason – drums, maracas

Live and cover versions

"Lucifer Sam" was only performed live by Pink Floyd in 1967 and featured as an encore during many performances, mostly notably at the Games for May concert.

Barrett later performed the song with his 1972 band Stars.

Lightning Seeds covered the song as a B-side, and it appeared on their 2006 best of collection.

The track has also been covered by the Black Crowes, Electric Hellfire Club, the Minders, the Flaming Lips, True West, Jay Farrar, Love and Rockets, Shockabilly, the Sadies, the Three O'Clock, MGMT, Spirits in the Sky, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Cat's Eyes, Bauhaus, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Horrors and Chris & Cosey.

Nick Mason played this during his 2018 Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets tour of Europe.

References

External links
[ Allmusic review]
 Full lyrics of this song at Allmusic

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Psychedelic pop songs
1967 songs
Songs written by Syd Barrett
Songs about cats

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A Grisly End
Posted on May 4, 2018 by Tim Newman
Another reader alerts me to this story, presumably so I continue this week's theme of middle-aged women travelling to exotic shores:
A woman who travelled to India to treat her depression was drugged, raped and beheaded before her body was found hung upside down in a forest.
Liga Skromane, 33, who is Latvian but was living in Dublin, Ireland, for the past five years with her partner, arrived in Kerala with her sister in February.
She was hoping to be treated at one of the ayurvedic centres the area is famous for, according to NDTV.
So she went with her sister.
But she went missing a few weeks after arriving in the country after leaving the centre to visit a beach.
Her decomposing body was found near a mangrove forest in Thiruvallam on April 21.
Which has me wondering where the sister was. Unless the beach was very close by, you'd have thought the two of them would have gone together.
Two suspects are in custody. They are drug peddlers and one is a repeat offender with a history of sexually abusing men and women in the area where Ms Skromane's body was found, sources told NDTV.
Police said the victim's post-mortem examination didn't reveal much because of how decomposed her body was.
However, they were able to determine that she was given drugs and assaulted before being strangled to death.
I don't know what to make of this, other than two women went to a dangerous foreign place, and one went off on her own to find a beach and wound up being killed. Common sense seems to have been in short supply, especially considering the presence of drugs in the story and that the victim was suffering depression. There's probably a bit more to this story, but I doubt we'll ever know it.
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40 thoughts on "A Grisly End"
The Meissen Bison on May 4, 2018 at 3:12 pm said:
I'm intrigued that one can tell that someone has been strangled if they've been decapitated.
KMcC on May 4, 2018 at 3:21 pm said:
Fracture of the hyoid bone is a sign of strangulation I think
If Quincy reads this blog, I'd be interested in knowing how one can tell that someone has been strangled if they've been decapitated.
R. Sherman on May 4, 2018 at 3:35 pm said:
People lack situational awareness. It's not a matter of being paranoid or fearful all the time; it's a matter of keeping one's wits about him. It's about acknowledging that things can go wrong and thinking about how to extricate oneself from such circumstances. It's about realizing that most of the world is not like your local neighborhood, and therefore minimizing risks, even if those risks can never be eliminated entirely.
When one reads stories of mayhem, one discovers that among the survivors, there are those who are merely lucky. But many are those who consciously or subconsciously pondered the question, "What if . . .?"
Eh? Not sure what happened there!
Tim Newman on May 4, 2018 at 3:59 pm said:
Like a bull in a china shop bison in a comments section.
JuliaM on May 4, 2018 at 4:16 pm said:
"Which has me wondering where the sister was. "
Makes me wonder who the sister was under…
Andrew S. Mooney on May 4, 2018 at 4:46 pm said:
Because the lower windpipe is a mess having been crushed. It is made of firmish collagen/cartilage material that helps keep it rigid/dilated when you are breathing – like a vacuum cleaner hose has metal wire to help keep it open under suction.
They even grow artificial ones: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20671-man-receives-worlds-first-synthetic-windpipe/
If you just chopped someones head off with a blade, cleanly, that doesn't happen or at least will not be nearly as pronounced.
sophie on May 4, 2018 at 6:15 pm said:
Dailymail.co.uk is an incredibly trashy and superficial source of information. If this story interests you, why haven't you done any deeper research? There is a lot of high quality information available on this story out there. The sister has given several interviews.
33 years old and middle-aged woman ? Really ?:) Why ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/middle-age
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19622330
When you say "a dangerous foreign place", please back it up with the facts. How many tourists (and women) have been killed in India over the last 10 or 20 years? How many have been raped ? Which regions are the most dangerous in India ?
@TN 🙂 My sobriquet is apt.
@ Andrew S Mooney – thanks for that. Incidentally I wasn't suggesting there was anything implausible about this finding but I was intrigued that it was possible to strangle someone and subsequently remove the head with a machete or some blade and not just leave a mess.
TechieDude on May 4, 2018 at 7:28 pm said:
Sophie –
Look up "post wall woman". Middle age isn't a numeric number from a man's perspective. What you find may be a surprise.
Having told you that at great risk of my man-card being revoked, This is a blog, not a travel site, nor a news magazine. Tim doesn't have to do any sort of research, it's all in his blog. So he's not "Reporting", he's rendering a viewpoint, the frame of reference of which being his body of previous works.
To aid you, look up "backpacker chick". You should find perspective there.
Sam Vara on May 4, 2018 at 7:50 pm said:
"A woman who travelled to India to treat her depression…"
It's dirty, there is extreme poverty on open display, things don't work, corruption is endemic, and the medical treatment for mental illness is a long way behind Ireland. Still, Ayurvedic, eh?
jwl on May 4, 2018 at 8:16 pm said:
I don't know where this woman was but it feels like I have been reading about tourists getting murdered regularly in Goa for past 15-20 years.
Juri on May 4, 2018 at 8:57 pm said:
@ sophie
""…When you say "a dangerous foreign place", please back it up with the facts….""
There is few wonderful thing`s we can use to estimate danger without pile of dead bodies. Like education, common sense and mental stability.
How many people die in zoo ? Very few because most of us do not climb over the fence to give lions and tigers company.
Some mentally unstable people do not understand that and get killed. Planet Earth average IQ rose by this event and this is how Darwin theory works.
This event is on the Latvian news also. Use Google translate and read yourself how happy everybody are because one communist got multiculted.
In the German, there is a word Schadenfreude. This highly educated open minded person wanted diversity to Latvia but instead of Latvian`s she got herself enriched by diversity….xD
Dailymail.co.uk is an incredibly trashy and superficial source of information.
Indeed, I should ban the commenter who linked to it. But I notice you go on to link to Wikipedia and the BBC.
If this story interests you, why haven't you done any deeper research?
Because I know all the English speaking newspapers all reprint the same stuff: having just checked, there's no additional information in any of the other sources that come up on Google, and I am confident the queries I raise aren't answered anywhere.
There is a lot of high quality information available on this story out there. The sister has given several interviews.
Like this one?
Her sister, Ilze, recalls Liga had gone missing even before. Before checking in to the ayurvedic centre, the duo stayed in a guest house in Varkala. There, Ilze had gone to church and when she came back, Liga was nowhere to be seen. Ilze searched everywhere and finally found her sister on a beach.
Liga told her that she wanted to have a swim in the ocean, but the high tide had scared her. Then a German man approached her, gave her a lift on his bike and took her to the backwaters. By the time, she finished her swim, he had disappeared.
Yeah, that clears things up.
33 years old and middle-aged woman ?
Pretty much, yes. They're hardly in their youthful prime now, are they?
When you say "a dangerous foreign place"
I'm going off this:
They are drug peddlers and one is a repeat offender with a history of sexually abusing men and women in the area where Ms Skromane's body was found, sources told NDTV.
Presumably you think places where a known repeat sexual offender has seemingly murdered a woman by decapitation is perfectly safe.
please back it up with the facts. How many tourists (and women) have been killed in India over the last 10 or 20 years? How many have been raped ? Which regions are the most dangerous in India ?
You seem to have mistaken me for your husband, or perhaps another hen-pecked underling.
So he's not "Reporting", he's rendering a viewpoint, the frame of reference of which being his body of previous works.
William of Ockham on May 4, 2018 at 11:08 pm said:
Most of India is no more dangerous than Dublin.
I can't comment on Goa, however, as I have always steered well clear of the place, mainly because of the negative impression I have formed when looking at the type of westerner in the queue for flights there.
JerryC on May 4, 2018 at 11:58 pm said:
India has a pretty low murder rate overall, but 99.9% of the people there are locals who know what to do and what not to do. One suspects the risk for clueless foreign women wandering about alone is significantly greater than the overall crime rate would indicate.
The Meissen Bison on May 5, 2018 at 12:29 am said:
My experience of living in the Indian subcontinent is that the dangerous places for unaccompanied western women to go are those where other unaccompanied western women go in search of sex.
sophie on May 5, 2018 at 1:32 am said:
Tim, many thanks for your reply!
First of all, I apologize if my previous comment was too aggressive. Of course, this is your blog and you are free to express your thoughts.
Yes, I did indicate Wikipedia and BBC. I agree that they are not very reliable sources of information, however, in my opinion, they are a bit more reliable than tabloids (Wikipedia usually has references and BBC tend to use higher-quality sources than Dailymail.co.uk, but, of course, you are right, their quality is debatable, I agree.). According to the Office for National Statistics, ( https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/lifeexpectancies/bulletins/nationallifetablesunitedkingdom/2014to2016 ) the average life expectancy of a British woman is 82 years old, so one can say that the average middle-aged woman in the UK is about forty years old. In Latvia, 79,4 years old, so again – the average middle-aged Latvian woman is about 40 years old ( http://data.csb.gov.lv/pxweb/en/Sociala/Sociala__ikgad__iedz__muza_ilg/PMG010.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=cdcb978c-22b0-416a-aacc-aa650d3e2ce0).
However, when you say "middle-aged", it seems that you mean "post-wall woman", as TechieDude indicated. Thanks, Techie, for the information!
Personally, I do believe that most women and men are still in their prime in their thirties, as usually they are still healthy, able to do many things, more stable in their careers and personal lives. Some of them are even more physically fit and attractive than in their teens and twenties, as they learn to take care of themselves and feel more comfortable within their own body.
You seem to assume that, as a rule, women are past their prime in their thirties. Are you referring to sexual attractiveness and fertility? The value and potential of a woman is equivalent to/measured by her youthfulness? What about other areas of life which often start to peak in thirties and later in life? One may reach, for example, professional success or certain wisdom even much later in life. Undoubtedly, our health and fertility diminish with years, but, as members of a civilized society, we are not limited only to our biological functions to which you seem to reduce women. We have other functions as well, for example, our social and professional roles. Fertility is only one aspect of a woman's or man's life in a modern and civilized society. Yes, sure, I don't deny our biological functions, but it seems a bit too unfair to limit the value of our existence solely to our biological functions in the context of today's society (what about social, intellectual, psychological, and professional development ?) Just imagine how your words can affect women. How would they feel and live if they would believe in your words, that is, that they are past their prime already in their early thirties? That their whole worth lies in their youthfulness and attractiveness ? That there is nothing else to strive for in life ? There are no other primes? Biologically, yes, there are constraints, but we do "exist" in other ways too, don't you think? I think it's important to see human beings (both men and women) from all kinds of perspectives and not to measure their value solely in a sexist and ageist way. However, I appreciate that you may not share my opinion. I just wanted to share mine.
Some countries are more dangerous for tourists than others, so sometimes one must travel very cautiously and choose the right company. I don't deny that there is a danger out there, but I believe that one can travel quite safely in India or in other countries you call "exotic", if one does take care of all safety measures. Of course, there is a risk, so it's up to each person to decide whether to go there or not. I couldn't find statistics about tourists' deaths in India from murders, but I know people who traveled there many times without any problems, both men and women. However, they went to very specific places and didn't walk around aimlessly. As Ilze stated in the press conference (please see below the link), her sister Liga was in a very vulnerable state, depressed, easy to manipulate. Of course, one might wonder why Ilze took her sister to India in such a state if one can probably receive a similar ayurvedic treatment in Europe ? Yes, it can be difficult to understand such a decision. However, after having seen the conference, it seems that she was very desperate and probably made this decision based on her emotions and her previous (positive) experience in India as a solo traveller. As she explained in the conference, she didn't know what to do, how to help, since her sister was severely depressed and suicidal due to post-traumatic stress disorder (Liga could not sleep for long periods of time).
Here is the press conference that was given by Liga's sister Ilze and Liga's partner Andrew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PvjgTYoWso
Mr Ecks on May 5, 2018 at 2:31 am said:
Numpty womiccumalobus females who wander about shithole zones as if they are in their living room can easily come a cropper. Such as the Italian nitwit who tried to hike across the RoP crescent to Jerusalem to prove that tales of beardie brutality to women where just white western wickedness. Got as far as the arse end of Turkey before being robbed, beaten, gang-raped, strangled and her naked body left on a rubbish dump as a final gesture of contempt.
Bernie And The Jets on May 5, 2018 at 6:32 am said:
@ Sophie:
Got yer Know-It-All ass handed to ya, huh? I guess the rest of the world isn't as impressed by your pompous nattering as you are.
Funny, that. It made me laugh, at least!
Juri on May 5, 2018 at 8:59 am said:
How do you estimate danger ?
This question is very hot issue in the Europe right now. For example, we have people who claim that net comments are real danger. Gang rape, violence and terrorism is just pack and parcel living in big city
Then we have people, who claim that danger depends for geography. For example, when some thing`s happen in Middle East , then they are dangerous and people are entitled to asylum. But when the very same things happen in Europe then this is just new normality and we must get used .
Could you kindly explain how to estimate risks in our brave new world ?
Tim Newman on May 5, 2018 at 9:23 am said:
the average life expectancy of a British woman is 82 years old, so one can say that the average middle-aged woman in the UK is about forty years old. In Latvia, 79,4 years old, so again – the average middle-aged Latvian woman is about 40 years old
You seem to think "middle age" is a point in someone's life rather than a period.
You seem to assume that, as a rule, women are past their prime in their thirties. Are you referring to sexual attractiveness and fertility?
You ask this question and then write a hundred words on the assumption that I am. I'm not.
What about other areas of life which often start to peak in thirties and later in life? One may reach, for example, professional success or certain wisdom even much later in life.
Sorry, I thought we were talking about middle age, not when we peak at various activities. The way I see it is adulthood begins at around 20 and you spend the next 10 years laying the foundations for what most of your life will become. By the time you're 30-35 you'd better have your shit squared away and the building blocks in place for what you want to do, i.e. it's time to start living your life rather than preparing for it. For example, if you want a family you'd better be married by 30 and looking to have your first child by 35 at the very latest. If you want to be an engineer, by 30 you need to already have 3-5 years solid experience on your CV and a good idea what discipline and industry you want to be in, and by 35 you ought to be hitting senior or lead positions, 40 at the latest. Whatever you want to do in life, by 33 you need to be actually doing it, not training for it, and not thinking about it – doing it. If this isn't a definition of middle aged, I don't know what is. Alas, the article you link to in the BBC suggesting middle age is 55 I found laughable.
Just imagine how your words can affect women.
I don't just imagine, I hope they read them and wake up.
How would they feel and live if they would believe in your words, that is, that they are past their prime already in their early thirties?
It depends on the context, but if they are single and looking to settle down and get married and they've only a string of failed relationships behind them I'd imagine my words would make them feel pretty miserable. But that's hardly my fault. If the context is their careers, well I doubt they'd pay any attention to my words, and why should they?
I don't deny that there is a danger out there, but I believe that one can travel quite safely in India or in other countries you call "exotic", if one does take care of all safety measures.
Note I said "dangerous places" not "dangerous countries". I never implied one cannot travel safely in India, but the place in India they went to appears to have been rather dangerous.
Of course, one might wonder why Ilze took her sister to India in such a state if one can probably receive a similar ayurvedic treatment in Europe ?
And subsequently leave her to wander off alone in a locality known for having sex predators on the loose? Mighty strange, yes? Almost as if there is more to this than meets the eye. Hence the blog post.
Exactly. During my research into the Burning Man festival I heard a woman complain that weird men turn up there with the expectation they can just get laid whenever they like with whomever they like. It didn't seem to occur to her that a festival with pavilions called, for example, The Orgy Dome where people boast of having meaningless sex with strangers might attract such people. It also turned out she was into having sex with random strangers, just not all the time.
See also the sex predators which descended on the Occupy encampments.
Bardon on May 5, 2018 at 9:55 am said:
Trust me to spend my time as a young single man in India in the north with holy men and miss out on those hornbag western women looking for sex and drugs in the south, too young for the sexual revolution of the sixties and too old for Burning Man, which leaves me standing here shirtcockless at the end of the day.
MC on May 5, 2018 at 10:10 am said:
Just regarding the general safety of India, a friend of mine travelled there for work once or twice as a solo woman traveller and described the experience as a constant rebuffing of crude advances. No actual groping as I recall but then she wasn't so deranged as to be out on her own on public transport.
Andrew again on May 5, 2018 at 10:45 am said:
A country that has highly publicised news of gang rapes on public transport, that has a highly publicised problem with sexual assault, that has an area, Goa, with highly publicised problem with drugs and it's expected to be safe for women travelling, or even just walking around, alone?
Sounds like the risk antennae of these people were not switched on. Given comments on this blog I wonder whether they were ever fully grown in the first place given the incredible absolute safety of the western world.
Tim Newman on May 5, 2018 at 10:59 am said:
which leaves me standing here shirtcockless at the end of the day
Heh! Good memory!
JuliaM on May 5, 2018 at 11:50 am said:
Lions and leopards don't hang around waterholes because they are thirsty….
Sophie: "Just imagine how your words can affect women. How would they feel and live if they would believe in your words, that is, that they are past their prime already in their early thirties? That their whole worth lies in their youthfulness and attractiveness ? That there is nothing else to strive for in life ? There are no other primes? "
Speaking as a woman, I don't take that impression at all. Seems to me you'd only do that if you came with a pre-conceived notion of….
Ivan on May 5, 2018 at 11:53 am said:
So now we know that Tim is sexist and ageist and sophie is not. And the BBC is a nicer pile of shite than the Daily Mail because sophie thinks so (even though the Daily Mail does not rob people at gunpoint to get financed, last time I checked). Fortunately, I doubt any of this will make Tim check his privilege.
Ed P on May 5, 2018 at 10:33 pm said:
I wonder if Sophie knows that sophistry means deceiving?
Hector Drummond on May 5, 2018 at 11:37 pm said:
Sophie, I'm glad you put words in Tim's mouth, because otherwise we'd have never known what he thinks. He's generally a bit reticent, especially on these issues.
Trevor on May 5, 2018 at 11:53 pm said:
Well, she's not depressed now.
William of Ockham on May 6, 2018 at 12:59 am said:
Secular Detective wrote a good piece on the subject; https://seculardetective.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/victim-blaming-a-vacuous-and-costly-term/
David Moore on May 6, 2018 at 2:01 am said:
William of Ockham
I have notice this with many of my travels bumping into these types, all I ever see is a predator/prey situation. Were-ever you see vulnerable, middle-age women, you will find those who seek to prey on them. Male yoga teachers always give me the creeps for this reason, they are either some kind of broken and weak, or predators.
You say it so much more eloquently than I!
Sophie;
"Some countries are more dangerous for tourists than others, so
sometimes one must travel very cautiously and choose the right company. I don't deny that there is a danger out there, but I believe that one can travel quite safely in India or in other countries you call "exotic", if one does take care of all safety measures. …………her sister Liga was in a very vulnerable state, depressed, easy to manipulate."
I've got to say this, someone who is in a very vulnerable state had no business being in a place that relied on her judgement to keep her safe and alive. Dublin is perfectly well equipped with people who could have helped her.
William of Ockham on May 6, 2018 at 5:53 am said:
@David Moore,
The clothes westerners wear in India give a great indication of the type of traveller they are. Colourful tie dyed pyjamas tell me they are wide-eyed idiots concerned more about their chakras than assessing whether they are making safe choices.
India is full of really well-meaning folk. The problem is, that kindness and openness can also be used as a disguise to con the gullible. And it often is.


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Durian Threatens Malaysian Forests
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Chinese appetite for Durian Threatens Malaysian Forests
The growing Chinese appetite for durian, an oblong fruit with a tenacious odor, is accused of causing a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia where part of the jungle is razed to the profit of plantations. Durian, which can weigh one to three kilos and grows in Southeast Asia, is considered "the king of fruits" by amateurs, who compare its creamy texture and intense aroma to that of blue cheese. But many people do not support its smell, compared to that of old socks, sewers or vomit. The opinions are so clear that many hotels in the region prohibit customers from having durians in their rooms while in Singapore the king of fruits is banned from the metro.
In China, it has a growing success, which pleases Malaysian Exporters.
To meet demand, Malaysian farmers are abandoning small orchards in favor of large plantations, a practice that encourages deforestation, already widely practiced for the cultivation of palm oil, according to environmental protectors. Deforestation is underway to plant durian duri hitam intended to meet this demand," confirms Sophine Tann, from the PEKA association. In the forest district of Raub in central Malaysia, whole swathes of tropical forest have been cut to make room for durian plants protected by nets. A plantation was installed next to a forest reserve which shelters a very rich fauna, including monkeys and exotic birds. The river in this area is now cloudy and strewn with trunks and branches left by the cutting of trees. Asked by AFP about this, Ample Harvest Produce, the company managing the project, did not want to comment. But according to the PEKA association, these cuts were authorized by the local authorities in a previously protected area.
Lovers of Durians
Some 4,000 km away, the owner of a stall selling Malaysian durians, "The little fruit captain", has no trouble selling his goods: Wang Tao explains that his customers have "fallen in love" with durians Malaysians because of their particularly sweet taste. It imports frozen fruit from Malaysia and serves it in plastic containers, or in other forms, as a cake, ice cream or chips. I tried for the first time when I was a child, it's a taste that you acquire," says Liu Zelun, a student who says he visits this store at least once a week. "Thai durians have a stronger flavor but we get tired of it, not the ones we buy here. The most sought after variety, "Musang King", has thick, golden flesh. We can find in Beijing sold up to 800 yuan a piece (120 dollars). "Our customers don't care about the price, they just want the best," says Wang.
Doubling of Exports
Growers are increasingly turning to durian, while world palm oil prices appear to be continuing to decline, combined with increased production in Southeast Asia and a falling demand in Europe – where consumers are turning away because of the environmental damage linked to this crop. The Malaysian government, on the contrary, encourages the cultivation of durian: the country's farmers are pushed to exploit existing orchards. Exports of this fruit to China doubled in the first eight months of 2018 from the previous year, to 7.4 million ringgits ($ 1.8 million), according to the agriculture ministry, and Malaysia hopes that an agreement signed in August to allow the export of whole frozen durians to China will further boost the industry. But conservationists are pessimistic. The culture of durian "brings even more deforestation and loss of biodiversity in Malaysia", estimates the association Rimba. She warns of the risk of "destroying the habitat of many species, including tigers, elephants, primates and toucans.
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import { Property } from "@nativescript/core";
import { MLKitCameraView } from "../mlkit-cameraview";

// TODO could combine this with 'maxResults'
export const confidenceThresholdProperty = new Property<MLKitImageLabeling, number>({
  name: "confidenceThreshold",
  defaultValue: 0.5,
});

export abstract class MLKitImageLabeling extends MLKitCameraView {
  static scanResultEvent: string = "scanResult";

  protected confidenceThreshold: number;

  [confidenceThresholdProperty.setNative](value: any) {
    this.confidenceThreshold = parseFloat(value);
  }
}

confidenceThresholdProperty.register(MLKitImageLabeling);


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 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
(function () {
  'use strict';

  describe('horizon.framework.widgets.help-panel module', function () {
    it('should have been defined', function () {
      expect(angular.module('horizon.framework.widgets.help-panel')).toBeDefined();
    });
  });

  describe('help-panel directive', function () {
    var $compile,
        $scope,
        element;

    beforeEach(module('templates'));
    beforeEach(module('horizon.framework.widgets'));
    beforeEach(module('horizon.framework.widgets.help-panel'));
    beforeEach(inject(function ($injector) {
      $scope = $injector.get('$rootScope').$new();
      $compile = $injector.get('$compile');
      element = $compile('<help-panel>Help</help-panel>')($scope);
      $scope.$apply();
    }));

    it('should be compiled', function () {
      expect(element.html().trim()).not.toBe('Help');
      expect(element.text().trim()).toBe('Help');
    });

    it('should be closed by default', function () {
      expect(element[0].querySelector('.help-panel').className).toBe('help-panel');
    });

    it('should add "open" to class name if $scope.openHelp is true', function () {
      $scope.openHelp = true;
      $scope.$apply();
      expect(element[0].querySelector('.help-panel').className).toBe('help-panel open');
    });

    it('should remove "open" from class name if $scope.openHelp is false', function () {
      $scope.openHelp = true;
      $scope.$apply();
      $scope.openHelp = false;
      $scope.$apply();
      expect(element[0].querySelector('.help-panel').className).toBe('help-panel');
    });
  });

})();


Why focus on Biomphalaria glabrata?
The biology of Biomphalaria glabrata comprises many aspects that make this organism a logical choice for a molluscan genome project. Below, such aspects are highlighted from the standpoints of basic science and of infectious disease.
The beginning of the 21st century will long be remembered by historians as the age of genome biology. One of the challenges for biologists during this exciting period is to determine a logical order with which to procure the abundance of fascinating information lying within the genomes of Earth�s various organisms. This challenge becomes particularly difficult now that a first tier of genomes that encompass the most prominent model organisms is in hand.
One of the major considerations in determining which eukaryotic organisms make their way onto a planned list of genomes to be completed is to begin to fill in some of the major phylogenetic gaps that exist in our current sample. Thus far, only a small sample of genomes representing the Kingdom Animalia is available: a nematode, an insect, and two mammals (humans and mice). Other projects already underway will provide additional genomes for a variety of vertebrates and medically significant parasitic animals, including additional nematodes and the flatworm, Schistosoma mansoni. The available sequences represent well the deuterostome lineage of animals, and the ecdysozoan lineages, but leave relatively under-represented one of the prominent groups of invertebrates, namely the more complex members of the Lophotrochozoa. Below, the case is made for obtaining the genome sequence for the freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata, a representative of a prominent lophotrochozoan lineage, the Phylum Mollusca.
One of the most prominent lophotrochozoan phyla, and indeed one of the largest of all animal phyla, is the Mollusca. There are an estimated 50,000 extant molluscan species, making it one of the largest and most successful of all phyla. Furthermore, their success is not transitory � molluscs have one of the best documented fossil records of any animal group and have played a prominent role in animal life since their origins in the Cambrian period over 550 million years ago. Of all the animals on earth, perhaps none have adopted body plans and life styles more distinctive than molluscs. Molluscs are remarkable for their possession of a soft, mucus-covered body frequently protected by a shell and a file-like radula for obtaining and processing food. They are often unusual in their coloration and body organization, making them unique among animal life.
Molluscs occupy habitats ranging from the oceanic depths to the tops of trees in tropical rain forests. As invertebrates go, molluscs like Architeuthis are the largest and the octopus the most intelligent. Some molluscs like squids have adapted to pelagic existence and are the equals of fish with respect to their swimming speed and ability. Some of the longest lived of all animals are molluscs: freshwater unionid bivalve species routinely live for more than 100 years. The unionids also emphasize the point that many molluscs are endangered and face extirpation. Molluscs also play a prominent role in the lives of humans. No other invertebrate group is as frequently exploited as a source of food or for products of commercial significance. Molluscs also play an essential role in the life cycles of many parasites, including some, like the digenetic trematodes, that are widespread and significant pathogens of human beings and domestic animals.
Finally, there is an argument to be made purely from an aesthetic point of view. Molluscs are often arrestingly beautiful � if you have ever watched a cuttlefish or squid hover in the water, watching you watch them, you know you are viewing one of the pinnacles of evolution�s accomplishments. To our knowledge, presently there is no initiative underway anywhere in the biological community to obtain the genomic sequence of a mollusc. The prospects that a molluscan genome holds for the discovery of novel genes and as yet unglimpsed biochemical or physiological capabilities are extraordinarily exciting.
Although there is a wealth of information pertaining to the paleontology and ecology of molluscs, the group as a whole is remarkably understudied at the molecular level. This is true with respect to the application of molecular methods to reveal phylogenetic relationships among molluscs, and the unique developmental and physiological pathways undertaken to produce their distinctive body plans. When molecular techniques have been applied to molluscs, the results are often surprising, and provide general enlightenment that extends well beyond the limited confines of molluscan specialists.
One example of how the study of molluscs has provided broad enlightenment is in the field of neurobiology. Molluscs like the squid were used early on to define the basic physiology of axonal conductance and the strong tradition established in molluscan neurobiology is carried on today in groundbreaking studies of molluscs like Aplysia and Lymnaea. Studies of gastropods are providing fundamental insights into how neuronal plasticity develops, and the underlying molecular and cellular basis of learning and memory. Cephalopods, like the octopus, are prominent models for the study of vision and capacity for problem solving in invertebrates. Another molluscan group that has provided novel biological insights is the cone snails (Conus). A single species of cone snail can produce over 100 different toxic peptides and studies of such conotoxins have provided new insights into a diversity of mechanisms that can be used for post-translational modification of peptides. The mechanisms used by molluscs to protect their moist body surface from pathogens is a topic that has barely been approached but should yield a wealth of new information regarding peptides and other anti-microbial factors. Gastropods play an essential role in the transmission of most species of digenetic trematodes, and studies of gastropod-digenean interactions have done much to enhance our overall understanding of host-parasite interactions. The evolution of sexuality in response to parasitism has been effectively studied using a gastropod-digenean system. Because digeneans typically castrate their molluscan hosts, they provide an excellent model system to explore the physiological mechanisms exploited by parasites to re-direct the energy metabolism of their hosts.
One of the most commonly investigated of all molluscs is the freshwater gastropod Biomphalaria glabrata. This distinction is well-deserved because this snail serves as one of the most important intermediate hosts for a widespread pathogen of humans, the digenetic trematode Schistosoma mansoni. To a large extent, the geographic distribution of this snail defines the distribution of S. mansoni in the Western Hemisphere. The snail is widely distributed on several Caribbean islands, and in extensive areas of South America, especially in Brazil. Biomphalaria glabrata also hosts a variety of other digenetic trematodes and has been adopted as the most commonly used model host to study the basic biology of digenean-snail interactions. One of the advantages of working with B. glabrata is that it is easily maintained in the laboratory.
Several studies underway with B. glabrata highlight its contribution to fields like evolutionary biology, parasitology or comparative immunobiology. As one example, B. glabrata has been found to produce after exposure to digeneans a unique family of hemolymph molecules termed FREPs (fibrinogen-related proteins). FREPs consist of a unique juxtaposition of fibrinogen and immunoglobulin superfamily domains, and have proven to be remarkably diverse in their composition. Biomphalaria glabrata thus serves as a new model system to examine the nature and diversity of non-self recognition molecules produced by invertebrates. Other studies with B. glabrata have begun to reveal the phenomena underlying adherence of invertebrate defense cells to foreign objects, and the mechanisms used by such cells to kill helminth parasites. A cell line derived from B. glabrata embryos has been used to support, for the first time, the complete in vitro development of a digenetic trematode. The genes responsible to resistance to digenean infection are actively being sought using B. glabrata. The possible role of transposons in altering susceptibility of snails to infection is also being actively pursued using B. glabrata.
Examination of GenBank reveals that more sequence data by far are available for B. glabrata (approximately 1400 nucleotide sequences) than for any other mollusc. Collectively, molluscs have only about 8400 entries. The more this database grows, the more B. glabrata will be used as a model organism. The genome of B. glabrata is distributed on 18 pairs of small chromosomes and is estimated to be 9.31 x 108 base pairs in size (TR Gregory, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada), with a CG content of 46%.
1. Genome sequencing efforts would thus include a member of a large, as yet unrepresented lophotrochozoan phylum, the Mollusca. The study of molluscan biology will be seriously impaired if there is not an attempt to provide a genome sequence for a representative mollusc.
2. B. glabrata represents the most abundant class within the Mollusca, the Gastropoda, a lineage that has been successful over geological time and that remains successful today.
3. B. glabrata has already proven its worth as a valuable model for basic biological studies. By providing a genome sequence, its value as a model would be further increased, and the provision of the sequence would greatly assist ongoing studies of B. glabrata biology. Furthermore, the application of novel techniques to study proteomes and transcriptomes rely increasingly on the availability of sequence data.
4. The genome itself is likely to be interesting for several reasons. B. glabrata is an exclusively tropical, aquatic, hermaphroditic organism, a combination of attributes not associated with any animal thus far sequenced. The molluscan genome will yield interesting insights regarding how a shell is formed, how the moist molluscan body surface is protected from pathogens, and how an asymmetrical body plan is produced.
5. There is an active international community of scholars working with B. glabrata to both assist in procurement and analysis of the sequence data, and to use it in the future.
Freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria are the intermediate hosts for Schistosoma mansoni, the most widespread of the three species that cause schistosomiasis in humans. This progressive and debilitating disease is one of the most intractable public health problems in many parts of the developing world. By most estimates, up to 10% of the world�s human population is infected with one of the three major schistosome species. The decline in public health measures and sanitation, along with construction of dams and new irrigation schemes, serve to spread the disease into previously unaffected regions.
The most thoroughly studied snail host for schistosomes is Biomphalaria glabrata. It is the one most closely associated with schistosomiasis in the Western hemisphere, but has also been reported in Egypt, having been introduced there accidentally sometime during the last few years. Of the schistosome snail hosts, it is the easiest one to maintain in the laboratory, and the volume of scientific literature on this species exceeds that of all others combined.
Since this snail species is linked to such an important human health problem, studies on its genetics have largely been focused on how this may affect its relationship with S. mansoni. These studies began in the mid-1950�s, when it was found that susceptibility to infection by S. mansoni is a heritable trait. Since then, we have found out a great deal about the genetics of parasite/snail compatibility. It is hoped that by identifying genes and their products that interfere with parasite survival in the snail, we may develop better methods of controlling transmission of schistosomiasis to humans. Information on the nature of those genes involved in the host parasite relationship however is still rudimentary. Efforts to identify genetic loci using a marker driven positional mapping approach is now under way, but this method is technically challenging because little in the way of either genetic/physical or RFLP maps exist for the B. glabrata genome.
Much of the problem centers around the genome size of B. glabrata, which is estimated to be 9.31 x 108 base pairs in size (TR Gregory, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada). The chromosomes (haploid number = 18) are small, relatively monomorphic, and have been organized into groups according to size and shape. To better understand the molecular make-up of B. glabrata, various gene libraries (cDNA, genomic, cosmid, BAC) have been constructed, and several laboratories are actively engaged in gene identification efforts.
It is clear that the entire phylum Mollusca is under-represented in proportion to its numbers and importance. A recent search of the public databases revealed the following information (table) on the nucleotide sequences of molluscs that have been deposited.For B. glabrata several genes have been sequenced and characterized, and there currently (November 2001) are approximately 1400 ESTs deposited in GenBank.
Compared to the genomic studies of invertebrate vectors of other parasitic diseases (most notably several mosquito species), molecular biology studies of these molluscs are considerably less advanced. The genomes of several invertebrates have now been sequenced and the molecular make-up of organisms such as Drosophila and Caenorrhabditis elegans are forthcoming. In the field of tropical medicine sequencing of the malaria parasite and its vector host Anopheles gambiae are in progress, and several other genome projects are underway, including that of S. mansoni. We realize that mapping the genome of B. glabrata would be one of the larger sequencing efforts to be undertaken in the infectious disease arena. The molecular information already gathered on this species however places it in the forefront of molecular studies for any member of the phylum Mollusca. In the animal kingdom, members of this phylum are second only to those of the Arthropoda (insects, spiders, crustaceans) in their numbers and diversity. Information on the genome of B. glabrata would also have relevance for molluscan species that serve as hosts for a number of other trematode, and some nematode, infectious agents. Besides schistosomiasis, diseases such as fascioliasis, clonorchiasis, and paragonimiasis represent only a few of the snail transmitted diseases with worldwide medical and economic impact.
Since schistosomes alternate between a vertebrate and invertebrate host, we believe that ongoing sequencing efforts for S. mansoni will produce some significant gaps in our knowledge without having comparable sequence information for its snail host. The degree of parasite differentiation in the snail is much greater than it is in the mammalian host, and gene expression by the parasite in snail tissue is likely more varied.
As evidenced by the success of the human genome project, and the sequencing efforts of several other complex genomes, the technology certainly exists for sequencing this species as well. Such an effort will likely be the most efficient way (in labor and material cost) to advance our molecular knowledge in such a complex system.
We propose that, for a meaningful start to a genome project for this organism, our collective efforts could be organized into 2 major phases. The approach proposed is flexible and may be adjusted on consultation with other investigators.
In summary, schistosomiasis research has been supported by NIH-NIAID for roughly 50 years. As a consequence great strides have been made in understanding the biology of the parasite and, most notably, deciphering immune components of the disease process in the mammalian host. We feel the time is appropriate now to sequence the genome of B. glabrata, thus giving more relevance to the information coming from the sequencing efforts for S. mansoni, and spearheading the NIH-supported sequencing movement into an entirely new phylum of medically and economically important organisms.


Slots are not yet supported. Slots in my opinion is a very amazing feature that gives you the ability to neatly host production and development next to each other and avoids confusion and clutter of multiple resources. As a work around I could go with two Function Apps; one for prod and the other for dev.
No Test in Production. As funny and scary as the title is, that is a must have feature especially in our case, where we want to redirect only part of the traffic to another Slot. You could say that's not a big deal and just put it behind a Traffic Manager but, read the next point.
Not Compatible with Traffic Manager. Basically traffic manager ATM only accepts FQDN however, Function Apps have a full URL and if enabled, an authentication key. But the FQDN of the Function Apps return 404. Whereas Traffic Manager needs the FQDN to return a 200. Therefore, traffic manager will degrade the end point at once. When you try Azure resource instead of external links, it will select the Function Apps but goes into "Checking Endpoint" for ever and finally degrades it. If you call it, your will get a 404.
Those are the reasons why I decided to go with API App for now.
I think the Function Apps are still very new and in a real production scenario they should be able to at least support the features mentioned.


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The two-story Dockside Inn and Resort is located on the Fort Pierce Inlet on the south side of Hutchinson Island. The hotel has 72 rooms including several waterfront suites. Standard rooms include cable TV, air-conditioning and work areas with ethernet ports. Most are equipped with full kitchens including microwaves and refrigerators.
Hotel amenities include a complimentary continental breakfast, two heated pools, a whirlpool and guest laundry facilities. In order to facilitate the world-class sportfishing in the area, there are five fishing piers, 34 boat slips and boat rentals. Bait, tackle and other supplies are readily available. The Gulf Stream of the Atlantic Ocean is 13 miles away.
The eight-story Courtyard Hutchinson Island has a tropical theme. The hotel features 104 rooms and six suites, with views of the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian River Lagoon.
Accommodations include marble bathrooms, high-speed Internet access, flat-screen TVs with HBO, lush bedding, refrigerators and microwaves. Amenities include a pool with a waterfall, a hot tub, a poolside tiki bar and grill, a cafe, meeting and event facilities and a private beach.
The beachside Marriott Beach Resort & Marina on Hutchinson Island sits on 200 acres in the town of Stuart and includes a 77-slip marina, an 18-hole golf course and deep-sea fishing.
The four-story 274-room hotel features "oversized" smoke-free guest rooms with one king or two double beds, private balconies, satellite TV with HBO, microwaves, refrigerators, coffeemakers and free Wi-Fi. Many offer ocean views. Suites are also available.
On-site amenities include three heated pools, a whirlpool, 21 meeting rooms, beach access, guest laundry, gift shop and fitness center. The hotel also offers a beachside tiki bar and a restaurant.
Riot, Elaine. "Hotels & Vacation Condos in Hutchinson Island, Florida." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/hotels-vacation-condos-hutchinson-island-florida-26429.html. Accessed 22 April 2019.


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Q: In Dygraphs, How to display AxisLabels as Text instead of Numbers/Date I need to build a graph to show world's population by region and sample data would be

China           1,361,300,000
India           1,236,970,000
United States   317,148,000
Indonesia       237,641,326
Brazil          201,032,714

I am new to Dygraphs and I tried simple example on the same:

Now, How can I use Dygraphs to display country Name instead of numbers on x-Axis? Is it possible with Dygraphs?
Thanks in Advance.

A: You could use the valueFormatter and axisLabelFormatter options. See http://dygraphs.com/options.html
The following example will print 'text:' inside the legend and the x value from your data.
axes: {
    x: {
        valueFormatter: function(x) {
        return 'text';
       },
        axisLabelFormatter: function(x) {
        return x;
       },
    }
},

Example in jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/JaM3S/

A: @user3020781 Those two options for the x-axis helped me as well, thank you!  I also had an issue with having .5 steps between the whole numbers, and found the issue was I had the chart set too wide and I only had 6 groups plotted on the x-axis, so dygraph was automatically adding the half step.
Couple solutions:
1. Add cases in the switch statements for the .5 steps
2. use the pixelsPerLabel option inside the x axis.  The default for the x axes is 60, I doubled to get 120 which fixed mine.
3. Make the whole graph smaller.  Mine are all set to be 1000px wide.
Both worked for my problem.  Here's the Dygraph code.  I commented out the case statements because I went with the pixelsPerLabel fix.
g = new Dygraph(
    document.getElementById("graphdiv"),
    dataArray,
{
    xlabel: "x something",
    ylabel: "y something",
    title: "The coolest chart ever!",
    labels: ["FR", "Avg1", "Avg2"],
    labelsDiv: document.getElementById("labelsdiv"),
    labelsSeparateLines: true,
    width:1000,
    colors: ["#339933", "#990000"],
    strokeWidth: 2.5,
    valueRange: [4, 5.8],
    axes: {
        x: {
            /*the space between grid lines on x axis: default is 60px*/
            pixelsPerLabel: 120,
            valueFormatter: function(FR) {
                var ret;
                switch (FR){
                    case 1:
                        ret = 'A';
                        break;
                    case 2:
                        ret = 'B';
                        break;
                    case 3:
                        ret = 'C';
                        break;
                    case 4:
                        ret = 'D';
                        break;
                    case 5:
                        ret = 'D';
                        break;
                    case 6:
                        ret = 'F';
                        break;
                    /*case 1.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 2.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 3.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 4.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 5.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 6.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;*/
                }//end switch
                return ret;
            },//end of label formatter,
            axisLabelFormatter: function(FR) {
                var ret;
                switch (FR){
                    case 1:
                        ret = 'A';
                        break;
                    case 2:
                        ret = 'B';
                        break;
                    case 3:
                        ret = 'C';
                        break;
                    case 4:
                        ret = 'D';
                        break;
                    case 5:
                        ret = 'E';
                        break;
                    case 6:
                        ret = 'F';
                        break;
                    /*case 1.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 2.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 3.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 4.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 5.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;
                    case 6.5:
                        ret = '';
                        break;*/
                }//end switch
                return ret;
            }//end of axis label formatter
        }//end of x axis
    }//end of axis

}  );

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