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December Not a Merry Month for the Avalanche
By Kevin Goff December 30th, 2013
The month of December did not leave the plethora of Christmas joy that fans of the Colorado Avalanche were hoping for, though it didn't exactly leave a huge lump of coal, either. Just looking at the schedule it was obvious that the Avalanche were going to have some challenges ahead of them, only six home games all month plus road trips to some of the best teams in the Western Conference. So, how did the month play out?
Wins Harder to Come By
To this point, with only the New Year's Eve game against Columbus left, the Avalanche are 4-5-4 in the month of December, which is clearly their worst monthly showing to date. Is my review of the month of November, the Avalanche were going to need to post eight to ten wins in order to keep pace with the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks. Unfortunately, that has not happened, but things aren't exactly as bas as they seem. The Avalanche have still done enough to keep a lead in the standings on everybody else in the Division and still have three games in hand on the Minnesota Wild, who figure to be Colorado's biggest competition for the third and final guaranteed playoff spot in the Central Division.
On the plus side of this, while clearly going through the most difficult portion of their season to date, the Avalanche can still manage to come out of this difficult stretch with a .500 record for the month with a win on New Year's Eve. While .500 isn't really where anybody wants to be, in the grand scheme of things, coming through that portion of the schedule at the .500 is a good thing. This team faced a lot of adversity throughout this month and managed to come back and steal a couple of points where they easily could have had none. At the same time, they also let a few leads slip away and gave away points they weren't giving away early in the season.
Plusses and Minuses
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On the plus side of things, Matt Duchene has found his game, once again. He had struggled after returning from injury, not scoring any goals in his first seven games before catching fire and even earning third NHL star of the week honors. Erik Johnson has also started finding his scoring touch to go with what has been very solid defensive play all season long. The Avalanche also have gotten some good news regarding Alex Tanguay. Patrick Roy believes that Tanguay will play again for the Avalanche this season, but hasn't set a specific timetable yet. Getting Tanguay back in the lineup would be a huge boost to the Avalanche.
On the minus side, the Avalanche have been inconsistent in their scoring. It seemed that, during the month of December, only one line at a time ever really had things going. For a while, the John Mitchell line was the best line, by far, then Matt Duchene's line really got it going again, and finally Paul Stastny's line has put together a few good showings towards the end of the month. Early on in the season, the Avalanche were getting scoring from everywhere, at the moment they are only getting scoring from one place at a time. The power play and penalty kill both took major hits during this month. Part of the trouble with he PK was the injury to Jan Hejda, which could have been much worse, that kept him out for a few games. Once Hejda got back, the PK has balanced out a bit. The power play, however, looked atrocious for much of the month. In the last week, the Avalanche have managed to get some good production from their power play again, which is a good omen moving forward.
Injuries have been another negative this month. The worst of which came during Colorado's penultimate game of the month to P.A. Parenteau. Parenteau is currently fourth on the team in scoring and, while he has struggled with turnovers this season, will still be a big loss for this Avalanche team.
P.A. Parenteau out roughly six weeks with knee sprain, #Avs coach says – The Denver Post http://t.co/jaralW4mvm via @denverpost
— Mike Chambers (@MikeChambers) December 30, 2013
What Does The New Year Hold?
January sees the Avalanche playing 14 games, once again. The Avalanche start the month off by continuing a long home stand that runs to a total of seven games, tough only five of them are in the month of January. These games are against Philadelphia, San Jose, Calgary, Ottawa and the New York Islanders. Only the San Jose Sharks have more points in the standings than the Avalanche do right now. Most of these are also Eastern Conference teams, and the Avalanche have had good success against the East this season, currently 8-3-0. If the Avalanche take full advantage of this home stand at the start of the month, it could propel them to another great month.
The Avalanche play a total of eight home games in the month of January, and must take advantage of their home ice. Their road trips, which does include some trips to the a few more Eastern Conference teams, will not be a walk in the park. Games in Minnesota, Chicago Dallas and Tampa Bay should provide the Avalanche with a good challenge outside the somewhat friendly confines of the Pepsi Center. This month will be a challenge for the Avalanche, who will still need to overcome some injuries, but could also do a lot to help jump start the Avalanche after what was a less than successful month.
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The 754th Bombardment Squadron is a former United States Army Air Forces unit.  The squadron was first activated in July 1943.  After training with Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations, where it participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.   Following V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States, where it began training with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, but was inactivated in October 1945.

History

Training in the United States
The 754th Bombardment Squadron was activated at Wendover Field, Utah on 1 July 1943 as one of the four original squadrons of the 458th Bombardment Group.  Before the month ended, the squadron moved to Gowen Field, Idaho, drawing its initial cadre from the 52d Bombardment Squadron.  The air echelon of the squadron's cadre immediately departed for Orlando Army Air Base, where they spent the next two months participating in specialized tactical training.  In September 1943, the air and ground echelons of the squadron were united at Kearns Army Air Base, Utah before proceeding to Wendover to begin the first phase of training with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.

At Wendover, most of the initial combat crews were assigned to the squadron.  By the end of the year, the squadron completed its training and began moving to the European Theater of Operations.  The ground echelon departed its final training base, Tonopah Army Air Field, Nevada, for the port of embarkation on 29 December 1943, sailing for England on the .  The air echelon  assembled at Hamilton Field, then ferried its Liberators to England via the southern ferry route.

Combat in Europe
The squadron arrived at its combat station, RAF Horsham St. Faith, on 1 February 1944, although the last bombers of the 458th Group did not arrive until 16 February.  It entered the strategic bombing campaign against Germany during Big Week, but its first missions, flown on 24 and 25 February 1944, were diversionary missions, not strikes against the German aircraft manufacturing industry.  On 2 March it began flying strategic bombardment missions.  Its targets included an aircraft manufacturing plant at Brandenburg an der Havel, an airfield near Braunschweig, a fuel depot at Dulmen, oil refineries near Hamburg, marshalling yards at Hamm, an aircraft engine manufacturing factory at Magdeburg, the shipping canal at Minden, aircraft factories at Oschersleben and the industrial area of Saarbrücken.

The squadron was occasionally diverted from the strategic bombing campaign to conduct air interdiction and close air support missions.  It helped prepare for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, by striking artillery batteries, V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket launching sites, and airfields in France.  On D-Day, it attacked coastal defenses to support the amphibious landings. Afterward, it attacked lines of communication to prevent the movement of enemy personnel and materiel from reaching the battlefield.  It attacked enemy troops during Operation Cobra, the breakout from the beachhead through Saint Lo in late July.  It also flew support missions during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and January 1945 and during Operation Varsity, the airborne attacks across the Rhine in April 1945.  In addition, The squadron stopped its bombing during September 1944 to transport gasoline to airfields in France to supply Third Army, which had outrun its supply lines (called Operation Truckin').  These were not considered combat missions.  The squadron flew its last combat mission on 24 April 1945.

Return and inactivation
During May 1945, the squadron flew "Trolley" missions.  These missions transported ground personnel of the unit over target areas on the continent to permit them to see the results of their contributions to the squadron mission.  The squadron returned to the United States in June 1945, with aircraft beginning to depart for Bradley Field, Connecticut on 14 June.  The ground echelon sailed on the  on 6 July.  The squadron assembled at Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota in July.  At Sioux Falls, all personnel who had not been discharged were transferred to other units.

The squadron reformed at Walker Army Air Field, Kansas, moving to March Field, California in August, once the group had achieved 20% manning.  At March Field, it trained with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber, but never approached authorized manning.  It was inactivated there in October 1945.

Lineage
 Constituted as the 754th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 19 May 1943
 Activated on 1 July 1943
 Redesignated 754th Bombardment Squadron, Heavy 20 August 1943
 Redesignated 754th Bombardment Squadron, Very Heavy on 5 August 1945
 Inactivated on 17 October 1945

Assignments
 458th Bombardment Group, 1 July 1943 – 17 October 1945

Stations

 Wendover Field, Utah, 1 July 1943
 Gowen Field, Idaho, 28 July 1943
 Kearns Army Air Base, Utah, 10 September 1943
 Wendover Field, Utah, 15 September 1943
 Tonopah Army Air Field, Nevada, 4 November 1943 – 1 January 1944
 RAF Horsham St. Faith (Station 123), England, 1 February 1944 – 3 July 1945
 Sioux Falls Army Air Field, South Dakota, 15 July 1945
 Walker Army Air Field, Kansas, 25 July 1945
 March Field, California, 22 August-17 October 1945

Aircraft
 Consolidated B-24 Liberator, 1943–1945
 Boeing B-29 Superfortress, 1945

Campaigns

See also

 B-24 Liberator units of the United States Army Air Forces

References

Notes
 Explanatory notes

 Citations

Bibliography

Bombardment squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces
Military units and formations established in 1943
World War II strategic bombing units

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The enduring appeal of retail: why physical stores will never go out of style
by Anh H. Nguyen
I will just come out and say it: the so-called Retail Apocalypse is nonsense, nothing but a drummed up scare tactic. Proof? The Covid-19 pandemic, or more accurately, the lockdowns and other restrictions have ironically showed that we as a society, as a species, wants, needs, craves retail. Online shopping simply does not suffice; it is but a pale substitute for the real thing. Shopping in person is a need as old as civilization itself, and online shopping is never going to replace it.
You don't believe me? 2000 years ago, the Romans built Trajan's Market, widely considered to be the oldest shopping center in history. It had 6 levels and over 150 shops, on par with most modern counterparts. The 600-year-old Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has 4000 shops spanned over 58 streets and still serves both tourists and locals alike to the tune of 400,000 visitors daily. Name a metropolitan city and chances are at least one of its historical shopping centers is a renowned attraction: the Moscow's GUM, the Oxford Covered Market, the Boston's Quincy Market, the Kyoto's Nishiki Market, the Milan's Galleria, all of which are still standing tall and proud, bustling with life and activities. Why aren't they surrendering to e-commerce yet?
The answer is simple: While online shopping does a spectacular job of getting us the physical things we need, it could never give us the intangible things we want.
Still not convinced? Think about the wet markets stationed in every neighborhood of Southeast Asia, the 9000 farmers' markets in the US, the glittery Christmas markets springing up across Europe each winter, the floating markets in the Mekong Delta, and the dazzling array of night markets all over the world. Think about areas and towns entirely devoted to shopping: the swanky Bond Street and 5th Avenue, the magical Jiufen Old Street, the vibrant Chatuchak and Pratunam, the hip Ginza, the larger-than-life Marina Bay Sands, the pragmatic American outlet malls. What online marketplaces could rival such a kaleidoscope of culture, art, and festivities? What perks could online shopping possibly offer to make up for the lack of colors, tastes, smells, sounds, and sensations?
Jiufen, one of the most popular tourist spot in Taiwan, coming to life when night falls.
To chalk it all up to consumerism would be a mistake. We all trade our hard-earned money for goods, but more often than not, we merely need the goods while we like, love, miss the experience. The experience of seeing, touching, tasting, trying on the products. Of interacting, mingling, watching people, showing off, coming and going. Of indulging and belonging, taking in the environment, enjoying a moment in time. Of feeling alive. Those are basic instincts present even in less evolved species. In humans, those are the drives behind the rise of empires and economic powerhouses. What kind of societies would we have now if our ancestors all stayed inside their caves and ordered stuff off a stone tablet? What kind of cultural exchanges would such societies foster? I have no doubt that without our beloved, sometimes noisy, oftentimes messy marketplaces, our languages would be poorer, our attires duller, our lives less worth living.
The last four months has been the weirdest time in my life. Due to some severe outbreaks in our city, our freedom of movement got increasingly restricted until we were all ordered to stay inside indefinitely. Our whole world shrank and shrank until it became no larger than the confines of our homes. In many regards, I had it better than many less fortunate souls: I could still order most of the things I needed off the Internet, although it called for some extra resourcefulness (i.e: planning, waiting, and in some cases, repeatedly pleading). I had a lot of free time to read the whole Harlan Coben bibliography and rewatch some yesteryear TV shows. I even managed to get some work done. But I grew more and more despondent each day, and many people I knew reported feeling the same way. We tried to console ourselves by counting our blessings, but to a large extent it was in vain.
The lakeside area near my home, the beating heart of the city's Southern part, was an urban center crossed with a bucolic oasis. Before Covid-19, it was teeming with life day and night. The lockdown turned it into a deserted, dark, and depressing landscape, very much like something straight out of a post-apocalyptic novel. Hungry stray cats and dogs, their bones almost poking through the papery skins, patrolled the area in packs looking for scraps, but even the garbage bins were empty.
Desolation: Melbourne, one of the world's most livable cities, also endured the world's longest lockdown.
At the beginning of October, things started to change. Strict lockdown measures were gradually relaxed and then entirely lifted. The big shopping mall next to the lake lit up like a beacon and people started gathering, strolling, exercising, having dinner and chatting, big goofy smiles plastered on our faces. We were deliriously happy just to walk around. Cars and motorbikes lined up the lake bank, and even the (very occasionally seen) stray animals looked much plumper. The first time I went shopping post-lockdown was a beatific experience. Mundane acts like walking around a store, perusing the shelves, even waiting in a checkout line, were elevated simply because of how aware I was. I told myself, "this is what normal feels like".
Am I suggesting that opening malls will solve all our mental health problems? Of course not. But it certainly plays a big, indispensable part in how we cope. Getting everything delivered to us, like necessities, foods, and drinks, is convenient most of the time. But if it is all we have, it becomes imprisonment. Covid-19 showed us that a world where people stay in solitary units and shop solely online is neither tranquil nor realistic, it is dystopian and suffocating. That is why revenge buying, i.e. people compensate for the anxiety, hurt, and pent-up demand by spending money, crops up all over the place whenever and wherever lockdown ends, from China to the US. It is retail therapy raised to the tenth power due to extenuating circumstances. It is not a phenomenon governed by logic. It is dictated by optimism, fear of missing out, and most importantly, a plain, incurable love for shopping.
Making up for lost time: the first day Hanoi's shopping malls opened after the 2021 summer lockdown.
What does it mean for retailers? I believe that retailers should not fear e-commerce, because there is no need to do so. Traditional retail is just so intoxicating and deeply-rooted in people's psyche that we will never abandon it in favor of online shopping. What they should actually do is analyze what e-commerce actually does better, namely data-driven business making, and try to emulate that. If physical retailers could combine their intrinsic magnetism with the power of data-backed insights, they will be invincible.
Mastering the three Ps: Palexy's complete framework to succeed in smart retail
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Collita vetusta is a moth of the  family Erebidae. It is found in Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima), the Russian Far East, northern China and Korea.

The wingspan is 33–38 mm. The ground colour of the wings is whitish testaceous or sometimes brown. The hindwings are paler than the forewings.

Subspecies
Collita vetusta vetusta (Russian Far East, northern China and Korea)
Collita vetusta aegrota (Butler, 1877) (Japan)

References

Moths described in 1854
Lithosiina
Moths of Japan


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Q: What is the Swift 3 syntax for creating an AWSTask with a result? Before Swift 3, my code for creating an AWSTask with a result was something like this:
let results = ["resultOne", "resultTwo"]
let task = AWSTask(result: results)

But using Swift 3, I'm getting this error message from Xcode 8:
Cannot convert value of type '[String]' to expected argument type '_?'
Has anyone else come across this? Thanks so much!

A: Simply add as NSArray like this:
let results = ["resultOne", "resultTwo"] as NSArray
let task = AWSTask(result: results)

Because results must confirm to Protocol AnyObject when define AWSTask:
open class AWSTask<ResultType : AnyObject> : NSObject {...}

In swift 2.2 ["resultOne", "resultTwo"] is auto brige to NSArray,
But in swift 3.0 you have to brige [String] to NSArray manually.
This is the explanation:
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0072-eliminate-implicit-bridging-conversions.md

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Posted on June 11, 2013 by ExtremePlanet
Image of vegetation damage near the location where the highest doppler velocities were recorded more than 400ft above the ground. The tornado was given an EF5 rating less than 36 hours after dissipating solely due to mobile doppler radar velocities between 290 and 336mph, possibly the strongest ever recorded (AMS, 2013). The tornado was later downgraded to an EF3 due to a lack of EF5 damage indicators.
□ On May 31, 2013, a train of violent supercell thunderstorms erupted in the sky to the west of Oklahoma City. In the city suburb of Moore, rain began to fall over the tangled remains of homes and businesses obliterated less than two weeks earlier by a catastrophic EF5 tornado. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service recognized the tell-tale signs of a rotating mesocyclone on radar, and reports from storm chasers near the community of El Reno quickly verified the presence of a large, nebulous mass of clouds that had spun down to the ground. A rare tornado emergency was issued for the area a second time.
An unusually large number of storm chasers, both amateur and seasoned, drove down the perfect grid of county roads to the south of El Reno to film the ensuing storm. Like many large tornadoes, the El Reno storm began with a series of transient funnels beneath a rapidly rotating mesocyclone. Heavy rain left few good angles to film the storm, so most chasers concentrated near Highway 81 just northeast of the tornado. As the storm progressed slowly to the east-southeast it underwent a period of explosive strengthening. The already large tornado suddenly doubled in size in less than one minute (many say less than 30 seconds) to over two miles in width. Footage from multiple storm chasers showed a sudden increase in surface winds well away from the visible funnel. Near the intersection of Choctaw Avenue and SW 15th Street, two vehicles were engulfed by the storm, killing both drivers. One of the men killed, Richard Henderson, became the first amateur storm chaser fatality in history.
Storm chaser Richard Henderson sent this photograph to a friend several minutes before he was killed by the tornado on SW 15th Street. The same friend was on the phone with Henderson when debris began to strike the chaser's car. Moments later, the line went dead (Kelly, 2013).
Trees along SW 29th Street were damaged and a piece of timber pierced 11 inches (measured) into the ground. The distance of visible damage along Highway 81 was 2.5 miles, although extreme straight line winds blurred the distinction. All of the damage visible from Highway 81 was in the EF0 to EF2 range, although wide spacing between buildings and trees left few reliable damage indicators.
A Weather Channel vehicle driving on Highway 81 was impacted by a violent wind feature, causing it to tumble through an adjacent field (initial reports stated the car travelled 200ft while later broadcasts reported 200 yards). All of the vehicle's passengers were injured to some degree but most were able to walk away from the wreckage. Around this time, the tornado was completing an unexpected turn to the northeast. Highly knowledgable storm chasers were caught off guard by the storm's size and unpredictability. A motorist due east of the Weather Channel crew was killed by the tornado at the intersection of Alfadale Road and Reno Street. Along SW 10th Street, a white car carrying three professional storm chasers was swept off the road west of Radio Road. Unlike the Weather Channel vehicle, the car driven by Tim Samaras was hurled 650 yards through the air at a high rate of speed (AMS, 2013). The three chasers, likely with cameras in hand, were all killed in the "unsurvivable" wreck. Several minutes later, the tornado swept across the I-40, killing a young mother and her infant son in a car hurled from the freeway. Forty minutes after first forming, the tornado weakened and dissipated.
I surveyed the damage from the El Reno tornado and interviewed local residents on June 4th and 5th. Photographs from my survey are shown below, and my final analysis can be found at bottom.
*In August of 2013, the El Reno tornado was officially downgraded to an EF3 by the National Weather Service (Querry/NWS, 2013).
A home just south of SW 15th Street along Highway 81 experienced EF1 damage despite being near the geographic center of the storm. The tornado's multi-vortex nature meant that most of the damage swath encountered winds in the EF1 and EF2 range. The tornado's first two fatalities occurred in two vehicles a mile west of Highway 81 along SW 15th Street (KFOR, 2013).
Wheat crop was blown to the ground in swaths approximately 50ft wide a half mile east of Highway 81 on SW 15th Street.
Fence posts adjacent to homes that experienced EF1 and EF2 damage were generally only lightly damaged. In other areas they were bent to the ground or removed entirely. In some instances, metal stakes were twisted due to bursts of winds from various directions.
A home on Alfadale Road suffered severe internal damage but was left largely standing, like most of the homes in the area. One survivor who was staying with a relative on SW 29th Street said that the tornado "lasted about five minutes, but the worst of it happened in the first 30 seconds when every window shattered at the same time."
A home on Alfadale Road experienced EF2 damage. A motorist in a vehicle at this intersection became the storm's third fatality.
A blizzard of dry plant materials was caught by standing fences along Radio Road.
View northeast at the intersection of Radio Road and 10th Street, where the most intense winds were recorded by mobile doppler radar. While analysis is ongoing, velocities between 290 and 336mph were recorded as a single, exceptionally powerful sub-vortex slingshotted around the south side of the tornado at 177mph. The peak winds occurred on the eastern edge of the vortex where all of the rotational velocities combined. While of record intensity, the peak winds were found 110 yards above the surface and would have impacted a standing structure for only half a second (AMS, 2013).
10th and Radio Road was marked by a sign placed after the tornado to direct local traffic.
The only tree near the intersection of 10th and Radio Road was stripped of leaves and damaged in a fashion consistent with past EF4 tornadoes.
Vegetation was blown to the ground and strewn with small pieces of debris, including fragments from destroyed vehicles. Metal fence posts were bent to the east-northeast or absent entirely from the ground. The gravel along 10th Street was blown almost completely away in areas affected by sub vortices. This is where a vehicle driven by Tim Samaras was recovered.
A fence was ripped from its posts and left in a tangled mass a half mile northeast of 10th and Radio Road.
A vehicle carrying storm chasers Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young was swept off 10th Street approximately 545 yards west of Radio Road. The car was thrown more than 650 yards, killing the three occupants (AMS, 2013). According to ABC News, Tim Samaras was found in the front seat whereas the other two passengers were ejected from the vehicle and found up to a half mile away. DOW observations at the time indicated that an intense sub-vortice with a forward speed of 177mph impacted the vehicle unexpectedly from the north (AMS, 2013). (Image by Jason Morris)
Area near 10th Street where the chase vehicle was swept off the road.
Flattened wheat crop just south of 10th Street.
Tree damage near where the chase vehicle was overtaken by the storm. Trees 100ft to the north on the other side of 10th Street were damaged but not defoliated. Flooding carved deep ditches into areas that were previously flat fields.
A quarter mile south of the I-40, an RV company was severely damaged in the tornado. A vehicle from the facility was thrown several hundred yards. Most of the powerlines along N2880 Road were snapped just above ground level.
Some of the most severe vegetation damage appeared to be along the I-40, north of where the peak doppler velocities purportedly occurred.
A livestock trailer was blown over 300 yards to the south from a complex across the freeway and left tangled in the remains of a fence.
View of the destroyed OKC West Livestock Market where the trailer originated.
Debris in a wind-damaged field just south of the I-40.
Tree damage just south of the I-40 near the OKC West Livestock complex. The tornado's massive size and slow movement would have exposed many areas to tornadic winds for greater than five minutes, though peak velocities occurred only in suction spots.
Extremely heavy rainfall on the day of the tornado led to widespread flooding in the affected areas. Visible here is the OKC West Livestock Market and a pool of water that trapped large pieces of debris, including sections of broken powerlines.
Closer view of the destroyed livestock complex. Dozens of large animals were killed throughout the tornado's path, leaving the smell of rotting flesh several days later.
Heavy tree damage just north of OKC West.
Deep impact mark on a hillside adjacent to the I-40. Several vehicles were swept from the freeway in this area, resulting in two fatalities.
Personal Damage Survey Conclusions:
Due to my belief that the Enhanced Fujita Scale grossly underestimates winds in violent tornadoes, the wind ranges I utilize are based on my research, discussions with wind engineers and comparisons between known surface readings and adjacent damage indicators in past tornadoes. My wind estimates are significantly higher than those employed by the National Weather Service.
Peak Intensity: EF4 (≈220mph)
□ The most intense damage occurred to vegetation in a swath of varying width from an area commencing just west of the intersection of 10th Street and Radio Road and ending at the I-40. Steel fence posts were bent to the ground by winds alone and not debris impacts. Powerlines were sheared just above ground level, vehicles were thrown over 200 yards and surface crops were severely damaged and bent to the east-northeast. The most intense structural damage likely occurred to the OKC West Livestock Market just north of the I-40 and several homes west of Highway 81. The most intense structural damage was consistent with winds in the EF3 range. The scarcity of trees and buildings left few reliable damage indicators, but no EF5-level vegetation damage was noted.
□ While the tornado has been deemed the "second strongest" in recorded history due to extreme doppler velocities, this claim is completely unfounded. Few violent tornadoes are ever tracked by mobile doppler radar, so the available readings are not an objective method of classification.
□ While the tornado is being called the "widest" in history, this claim is also unfounded. The 1999 Mulhall tornado likely left a significantly wider damage path. In terms of violent tornado damage, the damage swath from the 2013 El Reno tornado was narrower than many documented tornadoes, including the 2011 Joplin tornado.
The width of EF0+ damage along Highway 81 was 2.55 miles in width, as measured by the distance between the northernmost and southernmost instances of missing shingles and downed tree branches. The southern margin was 300 yards south of SW 29th Street and northern margin was just north of 10th Street. Straight line wind damage was found in areas unaffected by the tornado, so the exact damage contours were impossible to ascertain.
The vegetation damage from the El Reno tornado was noticeably less intense than the damage caused by the 2013 Moore tornado. Few trees were debarked in El Reno, whereas all of the trees in the core damage path of the Moore tornado near County Edge Drive were completely stripped of bark and branches.
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Dean Heller & Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Compare the voting records of Dean Heller and Kirsten E. Gillibrand in 2017-18.
Dean Heller
Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.)
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)
John Boozman (R-Ark.)
John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)
Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.)
Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.)
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.)
Michael D. Crapo (R-Idaho)
Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
John Cornyn (R-Texas)
Bob Casey (D-Pa.)
Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)
Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.)
Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)
Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)
Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.)
Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.)
Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Deb Fischer (R-Neb.)
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)
Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)
Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah)
Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii)
Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)
John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)
Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)
Margaret Hassan (D-N.H.)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.)
Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
Doug Jones (D-Ala.)
Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)
Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Angus King (ID-Maine)
Tim Kaine (D-Va.)
John Kennedy (R-La.)
Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)
James Lankford (R-Okla.)
Mike Lee (R-Utah)
Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)
John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.)
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Gary Peters (D-Mich.)
Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
David Perdue (R-Ga.)
Jack Reed (D-R.I.)
Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Mike Rounds (R-S.D.)
Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.)
Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)
Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)
Ben Sasse (R-Neb.)
Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
Luther Strange (R-Ala.)
Tina Smith (D-Minn.)
John Thune (R-S.D.)
Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.)
Jon Tester (D-Mont.)
Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
Tom Udall (D-N.M.)
Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
Mark Warner (D-Va.)
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Todd Young (R-Ind.)
Represented Nevada. This is his 7th year in the Senate.
Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Represented New York. This is her 9th year in the Senate.
Dean Heller and Kirsten E. Gillibrand are from different parties and disagreed on 77 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always disagree. Out of 568 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 131 votes, including 10 major votes.
Senate Vote 271
On the Motion
Dec. 18, 2018 — A bill to reauthorize and amend the Marine Debris Act to promote international action to reduce marine debris, and for other purposes.
Motion Agreed to by a margin of 75 votes.
On the Conference Report
Dec. 11, 2018 — A bill to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes.
Conference Report Agreed to by a margin of 74 votes.
Oct. 3, 2018 — A bill to provide for opioid use disorder prevention, recovery, and treatment, and for other purposes.
Senate Vote 12
Jan. 18, 2018 — A bill to implement the use of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the innocent, to prevent DNA analysis backlogs, and for other purposes.
Oct. 24, 2017 — A bill to amend title 28 of the United States Code to authorize the appointment of additional bankruptcy judges; and for other purposes.
Sept. 7, 2017 — A bill to enhance the transparency and accelerate the impact of assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to promote quality basic education in developing countries, to better enable such countries to achieve universal access to quality basic education and improved learning outcomes, to eliminate duplication and waste, and for other purposes.
July 26, 2017 — Of a perfecting nature.
Motion Rejected by a margin of 14 votes.
On the Amendment
Amendment Rejected by a margin of 10 votes.
On Passage of the Bill
June 15, 2017 — An Act to Provide Congressional Review and to Counter Iranian and Russian Governments' Aggression.
Bill Passed by a margin of 96 votes.
June 14, 2017 — To impose sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation and to combat terrorism and illicit financing.
Amendment Agreed to by a margin of 95 votes.
On the Cloture Motion
Dec. 19, 2018 — Joseph Maguire, of Florida, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Cloture Motion Agreed to by a margin of 94 votes.
Dec. 18, 2018 — To require the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to notify each victim of the offense for which the prisoner is imprisoned the date on which the prisoner will be released.
Dec. 13, 2018 — To provide that nothing in the joint resolution shall be construed to influence or disrupt any military operations and cooperation with Israel.
On the Point of Order
Dec. 12, 2018 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.
Point of Order Well Taken by a margin of 93 votes.
Oct. 10, 2018 — An Act to provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to provide for water pollution control activities, and for other purposes.
Oct. 9, 2018 — To provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to provide for water pollution control activities, and for other purposes.
Oct. 3, 2018 — A bill to provide protections for certain sports medicine professionals who provide certain medical services in a secondary State.
On the Nomination
Sept. 27, 2018 — Lisa Porter, of Virginia, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Nomination Confirmed by a margin of 97 votes.
Sept. 24, 2018 — Jackie Wolcott, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador; and Jackie Wolcott, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador
Sept. 18, 2018 — A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.
Sept. 17, 2018 — A bill to provide for opioid use disorder prevention, recovery, and treatment, and for other purposes.
Sept. 17, 2018 — A bill to ensure that health insurance issuers and group health plans do not prohibit pharmacy providers from providing certain information to enrollees.
Sept. 17, 2018 — To limit application of the gag clause to self-insured group health plans.
Aug. 23, 2018 — A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.
Aug. 23, 2018 — In the nature of a substitute.
Aug. 21, 2018 — To increase funding for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Aug. 21, 2018 — To require a Comptroller General of the United States report on the implementation of the Military Health System Genesis electronic health record.
Aug. 1, 2018 — A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.
Aug. 1, 2018 — To appropriate funds to carry out programs relating to the innovation, process improvement, and marketing of dairy products.
Aug. 1, 2018 — To prohibit the use of funds to enforce standards of identity with respect to certain food.
July 31, 2018 — An act to extend the National Flood Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
July 25, 2018 — To reduce the amounts appropriated to comply with the spending limits under the Budget Control Act of 2011.
July 25, 2018 — To make an amount available for the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence of the Department of the Treasury to investigate the illicit trade of synthetic opioids originating from the People's Republic of China.
July 25, 2018 — To express the sense of Congress relating to the importance of long-distance passenger rail routes.
July 25, 2018 — To prohibit the use of funds to revoke certain exceptions.
July 24, 2018 — To provide amounts for inspection of foreign seafood manufacturers and field examinations of imported seafood.
July 24, 2018 — To provide for a report on facilities of the Department of the Interior damaged by certain volcanic eruptions.
July 24, 2018 — To require the Inspector General to update an audit report concerning on-time performance of Amtrak.
July 24, 2018 — To increase the amount available for a Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance matching grants program for tax return preparation assistance.
On the Resolution
July 19, 2018 — A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate against the making available of current and former diplomats, officials, and members of the Armed Forces of the United States for questioning by the government of Vladimir Putin.
Resolution Agreed to by a margin of 98 votes.
July 11, 2018 — A bill making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes.
July 10, 2018 — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
June 28, 2018 — To prohibit certain practices relating to certain commodity promotion programs and require greater transparency by those programs.
June 21, 2018 — To increase employment for members of the Armed Forces in emerging industries.
June 20, 2018 — To prevent the denial of access to records and documents by various inspectors general.
June 20, 2018 — To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on the effectiveness of the Veterans Crisis Line.
June 20, 2018 — To set aside funds for cooperative agreements and laboratory support to accelerate the domestic production of Molybdenum-99.
June 19, 2018 — To direct the Secretary of the Army to submit a report on the status of returning to non-Federal project sponsors excess non-Federal funds.
June 19, 2018 — To express the sense of the Senate regarding the need for funding for innovative scientific research.
June 14, 2018 — To improve the amendment.
On the Motion to Table
June 13, 2018 — To clarify that an authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority does not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States.
Motion to Table Failed by a margin of 38 votes.
On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
June 7, 2018 — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes
June 5, 2018 — Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
June 5, 2018 — Robert Earl Wier, of Kentucky, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky
May 23, 2018 — A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide outer burial receptacles for remains buried in National Parks, and for other purposes.
On the Motion to Proceed
May 17, 2018 — A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2019 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2020 through 2028.
Motion to Proceed Rejected by a margin of 55 votes.
April 12, 2018 — Rebecca Grady Jennings, of Kentucky, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky
April 10, 2018 — Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky
April 9, 2018 — Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky
On the Motion for Attendance
March 22, 2018 — A bill to amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to include severe forms of trafficking in persons within the definition of transnational organized crime for purposes of the rewards program of the Department of State, and for other purposes.
Motion for Attendance Agreed to by a margin of 85 votes.
March 21, 2018 — A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of such Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sexual exploitation of children or sex trafficking, and for other purposes.
March 6, 2018 — Terry A. Doughty, of Louisiana, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana
March 5, 2018 — Karen Gren Scholer, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
Feb. 12, 2018 — A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the premium tax credit with respect to unsubsidized COBRA continuation coverage.
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to by a margin of 96 votes.
Feb. 5, 2018 — Andrei Iancu, of California, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Jan. 25, 2018 — R. D. James, of Missouri, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
Jan. 18, 2018 — A bill to amend title 44, United States Code, to restrict the distribution of free printed copies of the Federal Register to Members of Congress and other officers and employees of the United States, and for other purposes.
Motion to Proceed Agreed to by a margin of 95 votes.
Senate Vote 6
Jan. 10, 2018 — Michael Lawrence Brown, of Georgia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia
Jan. 10, 2018 — Thomas Lee Robinson Parker, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee
Jan. 9, 2018 — Thomas Lee Robinson Parker, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee
Jan. 9, 2018 — William L. Campbell, Jr., of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee
Dec. 21, 2017 — A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue Department of Homeland Security-wide guidance and develop training programs as part of the Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign, and for other purposes.
Dec. 2, 2017 — To provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.
Dec. 2, 2017 — To provide middle class tax relief.
Nov. 16, 2017 — Donald C. Coggins, Jr., of South Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina
Oct. 19, 2017 — To reduce discretionary spending by $43,000,000,000.
Oct. 19, 2017 — To modify reconciliation instructions to reduce the deficit.
Oct. 19, 2017 — To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to the provision of full, permanent, and mandatory funding for the payment in lieu of taxes program.
Oct. 19, 2017 — To make the American tax system simpler and fairer.
Oct. 18, 2017 — To provide tax relief to American families with children to provide them with more money in their paychecks to make ends meet.
Sept. 28, 2017 — Ralph R. Erickson, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit
Sept. 13, 2017 — To repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force and the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.
Motion to Table Agreed to by a margin of 25 votes.
Sept. 11, 2017 — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
Aug. 3, 2017 — A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biological products, and for other purposes.
Aug. 3, 2017 — Dan R. Brouillette, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy
July 28, 2017 — A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017.
July 27, 2017 — A bill to provide congressional review and to counter aggression by the Governments of Iran, the Russian Federation, and North Korea, and for other purposes.
July 12, 2017 — David C. Nye, of Idaho, to be United States District Judge for the District of Idaho
Nomination Confirmed by a margin of 100 votes.
June 26, 2017 — Kristine L. Svinicki, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the term of five years expiring June 30, 2022
June 15, 2017 — To reaffirm the strategic importance of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty to the member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its contribution to maintaining stability throughout the world.
Amendment Agreed to by a margin of 100 votes.
June 15, 2017 — To provide an exception for activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
On the Motion to Discharge
June 13, 2017 — A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the proposed export to the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of certain defense articles.
Motion to Discharge Rejected by a margin of 6 votes.
June 12, 2017 — Kenneth P. Rapuano, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense
June 6, 2017 — Courtney Elwood, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency
June 5, 2017 — A resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.
On the Resolution of Ratification
March 28, 2017 — Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Montenegro
Resolution of Ratification Agreed to by a margin of 95 votes.
March 21, 2017 — Danny C. Reeves, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2019; and Charles R. Breyer, of California, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission for a term expiring October 31, 2021
Feb. 13, 2017 — David J. Shulkin, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Feb. 7, 2017 — Jeff Sessions, of Alabama, to be Attorney General
Jan. 24, 2017 — Nikki R. Haley, of South Carolina, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations; and Nikki R. Haley, of South Carolina, to be the Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations
Jan. 17, 2017 — A bill to ensure the Government Accountability Office has adequate access to information.
Jan. 12, 2017 — To create a point of order against legislation that would undermine the historic coverage gains the United States has made in children's health, which have resulted in the lowest uninsured rate for children in the Nation's history.
Motion Rejected by a margin of 0 votes.
Jan. 12, 2017 — To create a point of order against legislation that makes women sick again.
Jan. 11, 2017 — To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to lower prescription drug prices for Americans by importing drugs from Canada.
Amendment Rejected by a margin of 6 votes.
Jan. 11, 2017 — To create a point of order against legislation that would eliminate or reduce Federal funding to States under the Medicaid expansion.
Jan. 11, 2017 — To create a point of order against legislation that would make people with disabilities and chronic conditions sick again.
Jan. 11, 2017 — To create a point of order against legislation that would limit veterans' ability to choose VA health care.
Jan. 11, 2017 — To create a point of order against legislation that would harm rural hospitals and health care providers.
Jan. 9, 2017 — To protect the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Jan. 9, 2017 — In the nature of a substitute.


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Disruption of Sonic hedgehog signaling alters growth and patterning of lingual taste papillae
Joshua M H Hall, Melanie L Bell, Thomas E. Finger
Taste buds on the anterior part of the tongue develop in conjunction with epithelial-mesenchymal specializations in the form of gustatory (taste) papillae. Sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 (BMP4) are expressed in developing taste papillae, but the roles of these signaling molecules in specification of taste bud progenitors and in papillary morphogenesis are unclear. We show here that BMP4 is not expressed in the early tongue, but is precisely coexpressed with Shh in papillary placodes, which serve as a signaling center for both gustatory and papillary development. To elucidate the role of Shh, we used an in vitro model of mouse fungiform papillary development to determine the effects of two functional inhibitors of Shh signaling: anti-Shh (5E1) antibody and cyclopamine. Cultured E11.5 tongue explants express Shh and BMP4LacZ in a pattern similar to that of intact embryos, localizing to developing papillary placodes after 2 days in culture. Tongues cultured with 5E1 antibody continue to express these genes in papillary patterns but develop more papillae that are larger and closer together than in controls. Tongues cultured with cyclopamine have a dose-dependent expansion of Shh and BMP4LacZ expression domains. Both antibody-treated and cyclopamine-treated tongue explants also are smaller than controls. Taken together, these results suggest that, although Shh is not involved in the initial specification of papillary placodes, Shh does play two key roles during pmcry development: (1) as a morphogen that directs cells toward a nonpapillary fate, and (2) as a mitogen, causing expansion of the interplacodal epithelium and underlying mesenchyme.
Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4
Morphogenesis
Mitogens
BMP4
Cyclopamine
Fungiform papillae
Mouse tongue culture
Hall, J. M. H., Bell, M. L., & Finger, T. E. (2003). Disruption of Sonic hedgehog signaling alters growth and patterning of lingual taste papillae. Developmental Biology, 255(2), 263-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00048-9
Disruption of Sonic hedgehog signaling alters growth and patterning of lingual taste papillae. / Hall, Joshua M H; Bell, Melanie L; Finger, Thomas E.
In: Developmental Biology, Vol. 255, No. 2, 15.03.2003, p. 263-277.
Hall, JMH, Bell, ML & Finger, TE 2003, 'Disruption of Sonic hedgehog signaling alters growth and patterning of lingual taste papillae', Developmental Biology, vol. 255, no. 2, pp. 263-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00048-9
Hall JMH, Bell ML, Finger TE. Disruption of Sonic hedgehog signaling alters growth and patterning of lingual taste papillae. Developmental Biology. 2003 Mar 15;255(2):263-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00048-9
Hall, Joshua M H ; Bell, Melanie L ; Finger, Thomas E. / Disruption of Sonic hedgehog signaling alters growth and patterning of lingual taste papillae. In: Developmental Biology. 2003 ; Vol. 255, No. 2. pp. 263-277.
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Admiral Raoul Castex French Navy Selections translated and edited with an introduction by Eugenia C Kiesling (1)
(-) Anthony J Watts (1)
(-) Carl LaVO (1)
(-) C P O Bartlett Edited by Nick Bartlett (1)
(-) Ira Dye (1)
An Illustrated History
By Anthony J. Watts
The Royal Navy's long and glorious tradition of service to Britain is covered in this fascinating, illustrated history—from the age of empire, when it was the most powerful navy in the world, through two world wars, to its present status as a vital part of the NATO alliance.
Back from the Deep
The Strange Story of the Sister Subs 'Squalus' and 'Sculpin'
By Carl LaVO
This epic World War II saga follows the USS Squalus and Sculpin as they play out their dramatic destinies in the Pacific. The author, a seasoned journalist, re-creates their entire perilous journey. The i>Squalus sank during a test dive in 1939, but thirty-three trapped crewmen were saved thanks to the revolutionary use of the McCann diving bell. The Sculpin's role ...
Fatal Cruise of the Argus
Two Captains in the War of 1812
By Ira Dye
This is history, vibrant and on a grand scale and rich in the details of seafaring life with a focus on an American and a British naval officer whose separate paths converge in 1813 during a fierce battle between the Argus and the Pelican.
In the Teeth of the Wind
Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
By C. P. O. Bartlett; Edited by Nick Bartlett
The dawning of aerial warfare is fully recounted in this dramatic memoir of the first bomber squadron mission of the Royal Navy Air Service over the Western Front. The author recounts his own extraordinary 101 missions, including the operation that very nearly decided the war.


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Q: What is the kubectl equivalent commands to "minikube service "? I have executed minikube service mynginx1 and the result is:
 |-----------|----------|-------------|-----------------------------|
 | NAMESPACE |   NAME   | TARGET PORT |             URL             |
 |-----------|----------|-------------|-----------------------------|
 | default   | mynginx1 | 8080-80     | http://192.168.85.153:31706 |
 |-----------|----------|-------------|-----------------------------|

What are the kubectl equivalent commands so that I can retrieve the URL if I am not using minikube?

A: To expose k8s application you can use kubectl expose
to create service of type NodePort:
kubectl expose pod <pod_name> --type NodePort --port 8080

or
kubectl expose deployment <deployment_name> --type NodePort --port 8080

then when you list your services you will see:
$ kubectl get services
NAME           TYPE        CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
<service_name> NodePort    10.99.147.24   <none>        8080:31208/TCP   3s

Notice two ports under PORT column: 8080:31208/TCP. First is in-cluster port and the second is a node port. So now you can access your service with nodePort using: <node-IP>:31208 from outside of a cluster.
There is another option which only applies of you are running in cloud environment and LoadBalancers are supported (so if you are either using k8s as a service solution or running self hosted k8s in cloud with cloud provider configured).
You can create a service of type LoadBalancer like following:
kubectl expose pod <pod_name> --type LoadBalacer --port 8080

$ kubectl get services
NAME             TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
<service_name>   LoadBalancer   10.107.151.19   x.x.x.x       8080:31111/TCP   2s

and now use EXTERNAL-IP address to connect to your service: x.x.x.x:8080

A: Port forward worked for me
kubectl port-forward deployment/es-manual 9200:9200

A: I had the same issue as the OP when trying to use Docker Desktop instead of Minikube - Docker desktop now comes with a Kubernetes single-node cluster so I didn't see the need to install Minikube in order to play with Kubernetes on my dev machine.
Assuming you use kubectl get services to list your services, you can then use kubectl cluster-info to get your master node ip.
OOTB, Docker Desktop sets 127.0.0.1 as the master node ip (or you could use kubernetes.docker.internal)
>> kubectl get service
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)        AGE
helloworld   NodePort    10.107.197.207   <none>        80:32714/TCP   71m
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1        <none>        443/TCP        3h4m
>> kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes control plane is running at https://kubernetes.docker.internal:6443
CoreDNS is running at https://kubernetes.docker.internal:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy

With the above information I can launch helloworld at http://kubernetes.docker.internal:32714/ or http://127.0.0.1:32714/

A: equivalent to minikube service mynginx1
would be
kubectl get service mynginx1


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Luis Arturo Gardeweg Villegas (Valparaíso, 10 de noviembre de 1897 - Santiago, 31 de agosto de 1985) fue un profesor, abogado y político conservador chileno.

Fue hijo de Enrique Gardeweg Werra y de Amalia Villegas Villegas. Contrajo matrimonio en 1938 con Carmen Lacourt Melo y entre sus hijos destacaron Germán Gardeweg, subsecretario del Interior (1983) y Carmen Gardeweg, periodista.

Actividades profesionales
Estudió en el Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Valparaíso y en el Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile, donde se graduó como profesor de Historia y Geografía (1919). Estudió además Derecho en la misma Universidad, donde juró como abogado (1920), con una tesis titulada "Comisión revisora de poderes: Ley de 8 de febrero de 1906".

Profesor de Historia en el Liceo "Federico Hanssen" (1918-1920), Rector del Liceo Nocturno del mismo nombre (1920-1925). En el mismo período hizo clases de educación cívica en la Universidad Popular "Juan Enrique Concha".

Desarrolló actividades agrícolas en la provincia de O'Higgins y en Llanquihue. Fue presidente y gerente de la agrícola y forestal Purranque S.A.

Actividades políticas
Militante del Partido Conservador, fue Regidor de la Municipalidad de Providencia (1930-1933).

Elegido Diputado por la 7.ª agrupación departamental, correspondiente al . Distrito Metropolitano: Puente Alto (1933-1937), participando de la comisión permanente de Educación.

Reelegido Diputado por la misma agrupación (1937-1941), en esta oportunidad formó parte de la comisión permanente de Constitución, Legislación y Justicia.

Volvió a ganar tres veces más las elecciones como Diputado por Puente Alto (1941-1945, 1945-1949 y 1949-1953). En estos períodos integró las comisiones de Hacienda, la de Gobierno Interior y la de Constitución, Legislación y Justicia.

Notas y referencias

Enlaces externos

Nacidos en Valparaíso
Conservadores de Chile
Diputados del XXXIX Período Legislativo del Congreso Nacional de Chile
Diputados del XL Período Legislativo del Congreso Nacional de Chile
Diputados del XLI Período Legislativo del Congreso Nacional de Chile
Alumnado del Instituto Pedagógico de la Universidad de Chile
Fallecidos en Santiago de Chile


Combine the flour, semolina, NESTLÉ Sweetened Condensed Milk, sugar, ghee, water, yeast and mahlab making soft dough and keep aside for 10 minutes. Melt the butter, mix it with the sugar syrup and pour them over the sesame.
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Bake them using a non-stick tray at 200 °C for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden in color.


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I'd seen the split shape of the US state of Michigan, and wondered if there was a way to cross from one to the other without going through another state. For example, one has to travel through the East Malaysian state of Sarawak to get between the two halves of Brunei.
Which reminds me, I've been to Sarawak but not Brunei. I could even spend my Singapore dollars there! More just for curiousity than anything else. But I digress.
Sortland is a town and municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vesterålen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sortland. Other population centres in Sortland include Bø, Holand, Holmstad, Liland, Sigerfjord, and Strand. The Norwegian Coast Guard has its northern base in Sortland, called Kystvaktskvadron Nord.
That's clearly the wrong article.
The Mackinac Bridge (/ˈmækɪnɔː/ MAK-in-aw) is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan.
The 722-square-kilometre (279 sq mi) municipality is the 153rd largest by area out of the 426 municipalities in Norway.
Oh for Pete's sake. Let's try that again.
It warms my heart that this exists.


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How Weather Trends Affect Each Fantasy Football Position
By Mark Gallant @marky_money
Like the legendary Jonathan Bales, I find weather quite interesting. It plays a big role in both baseball and football, and bettors and DFS players can capitalize on certain trends.
Even though most of my time has been spent on how weather impacts baseball games, I wanted to take a look at some simple trends in the NFL DFS world to see what I could find. Some of my findings aren't exactly groundbreaking, but others are pretty interesting. Take a look at how both wind speeds and temperatures have impacted expected performance and consistency on DraftKings…
<10 miles per hour: +0.11 Plus/Minus, 47.5% Consistency
10-plus miles per hour: -1.24 Plus/Minus, 40.8% Consistency
15-plus miles per hour: -1.89 Plus/Minus, 50% Consistency
Evidently, it's harder to throw an air-filled object when it is windy out … shocker! These numbers did not come off as all that surprising. There are plenty of instances in which QBs have performed exceptionally regardless of the conditions, but you'd be better off fading them more often than not if you see the anemometer reading double-digit wind speeds.
≤30 degrees: -2.22 Plus/Minus, 33.0% Consistency
31-79 degrees: +0.16 Plus/Minus, 47.9% Consistency
80-plus degrees: -0.27 Plus/Minus, 46.2% Consistency
I was a bit surprised to see the quarterbacks do that poorly in cold weather, especially considering overs have reigned supreme in straight-up sports betting situations. My gut tells me it's because their precious little fingers get cold and numb and it's tougher to get a feel for the ball. On the other hand, the balls should naturally deflate a bit due to the laws of physics, and, as we all know, it's a bit easier to throw a ball that isn't ready to burst. Just ask Tom Brady.
<10 mph: +0.06 Plus/Minus, 40.9% Consistency
10-plus mph: -0.61 Plus/Minus, 36.7% Consistency
15-plus mph: +2.02 Plus/Minus, 50.0% Consistency
This was one of my more interesting findings. Running backs really excel in very windy situations but have been quite inconsistent and underwhelming in moderately windy games. My theory is that teams are still trying to throw the ball as often as they normally would in the games with winds right above 10 mph. This leads to the offense doing poorly as a whole, resulting in shorter drives and fewer scoring opportunities. When the wind is really whipping, the coaches realize they can't throw the ball and switch to a ground-and-pound style, which is why we see running backs' numbers really jump at the 15-plus mph level.
≤30 degrees: +0.38 Plus/Minus, 41.0% Consistency
Even though quarterbacks have really struggled in cold games, running backs have done well. This makes some sense, as dainty QBs would rather hand the ball off than throw it themselves. The backs have really struggled in the heat, though. Nobody likes running around in full pads in the hot sun, so I can't blame them on that one.
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Ho hum. Just bringing the facts to the table for you, and sometimes the stats aren't that exciting. The relationship here between wide receivers and wind speed is as expected.
80-plus degrees: +0.05 Plus/Minus, 40.9% Consistency
I was a little surprised to see the hot category with a positive Plus/Minus since quarterbacks underperformed, but I suppose someone has to pick up the slack from the running backs. Like QBs, wideouts have mightily struggled in the cold. Is it the quarterbacks' faults for crappy passes or are the wide receivers' hands turning to stone? Who's to blame? A bit of a chicken-and-the-egg thing going on here.
15-plus mph: +0.05 Plus/Minus, 37.2% Consistency (Gronk 44.9%)
I smell a fluke… Gronk be thy name. There are just 46 tight end instances in the 15-plus MPH category and Gronk accounts for two of them. He put up 44.9 and 28.5 points in those two games and has really skewed the numbers as a result. Take him out of the sample and the numbers drop to -0.96 Plus/Minus with a 34.1% Consistency. That's more like it.
I thought that perhaps tight ends would do a bit better in the cold, with them being burlier and manlier than the wide receivers and whatnot. I was wrong, though. Often times I am. Much like the wideouts, tight ends have played as similarly in hot weather as they have in normal temperatures.
<10 mph: -0.05 Plus/Minus, 42.4% Consistency
All right, onto the other end of the ball. I was definitely a bit surprised to see the defenses struggle in the extremely windy games, but I think it's a fluke, too, to be honest. The sample size is quite small, and there are a couple of big Patriots games from a few years back that are bringing the average way down. I would expect this to line up and eventually eclipse the numbers we see in the 10-plus mph group as the sample gets larger.
31-79 degrees: -0.10 Plus/Minus, 42.0% Consistency
When quarterbacks struggle, defenses thrive. Earlier in the season, the defenses in those hot games should be targeted. When Thanksgiving comes a knockin' and the temps drop as December looms, you'll definitely want to stick with defenses in cold games rather than the ones in which the weather is still a bit balmy.


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"Oh By Jingo!" (also "Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee You're The Only Girl For Me"), is a 1919 novelty song by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown.
The song was featured in the Broadway show "Linger Longer Letty", and became one of the biggest Tin Pan Alley hits of the post-World War I era.

While the song lyrics say it is set in "the land of San Domingo", no geographic nor anthropological accuracy is found nor intended in the silly lyrics, set in a generic "exotic" and "primitive" location.  The song was much imitated over the next decade.

The song appeared several times in film and television: it was performed by Betty Hutton in the film Incendiary Blonde (1945); by Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van as a specialty number in the Esther Williams  MGM vehicle, Skirts Ahoy!; sung in the I Love Lucy TV show (Season 4, ep. 2, "Mertz and Kurtz", October 11, 1954); and sung by Hugh Laurie in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster (Season 4, ep. 5).

References

 Who Wrote that Song? Dick Jacobs & Harriet Jacobs, published by Writer's Digest Books, 1993

1919 songs
Songs with lyrics by Lew Brown
Songs written by Albert Von Tilzer
Novelty songs


No HOA or Mello Roos! Connected to public sewer! Placerita Canyon estate home with solar on over a half an acre flat lot. The amazing flat usable backyard is great for entertaining. There are several patios, a sport court, above ground spa, built in BBQ, gated RV access, and extra-large driveway to the three-car garage. The grounds are like a private park and can easily be used for horses as well. This home has space for all your needs. As you enter the home there is double height ceilings with a grand staircase. Living room features a fireplace and lots of windows for natural light. There is also a separate dining room with arched entry, custom wood flooring, and sliding glass door to one of the many outdoor patios. As you continue through the home there is an open kitchen with walk in pantry and center island that opens to the eat in kitchen area and family room with second fireplace, built in bookshelves, and more access and views of the beautiful backyard. Downstairs there are two full bedrooms, one-half bathrooms, and laundry room with sink and lots of storage cabinet space. As you go upstairs you will find the amazing master suite that features a dual sided fireplace, retreat, expanded walk in closet, and master bathroom with dual sinks, vanity area, and separate tub.


NEW YORK – Contrary to a Washington Post report, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is not leading Trump's search for a running mate, according to campaign insiders.
The Post cited two unnamed Republicans on Tuesday who claimed Lewandowski is in charge of the vetting team, but Trump insider Roger Stone told the Chicago Tribune that Lewandowski is "overselling" his role in the VP search.
Lewandowski declined to comment to the Tribune.
Trump himself, in an Associated Press interview Wednesday, downplayed the assertion that Lewandowski was playing the lead role in the search, saying it's being carried out by "a group" that includes him and former GOP presidential rival Ben Carson.
WND received no response to an email inquiry to Lewandowski and Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks, asking for clarification of Lewandowski's role in the VP search and in talks with the Republican National Committee regarding the convention.
On Monday, Robert Costa reported in the Washington Post that Lewandowski will "oversee" the vice-presidential search.
"Lewandowski, Trump's traveling confident and campaign manager, will be in charge of the team that will survey and vet potential vice-presidential candidates for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, two top Republicans said," Costa wrote, siting two anonymous sources supposedly familiar with Lewandowski's responsibilities.
"Lewandowski formally took charge of the hunt for a running mate last week and has been described inside and outside the campaign as the point person for all related questions and meetings, the Republicans said," Costa continued.
On Tuesday, Ben Kamisar in the Hill echoed the Post's reporting, saying Lewandowski "will helm" Trump's search for a running mate.
In a Tuesday evening appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News television show, Hannity introduced Lewandowski as Trump's pick to lead the search for vice president.
But in the interview, Lewandowski appeared to back off from Hannity's description, insisting only that he was "humbled to be on the team" conducting the search for Trump.
Lewandowski heading Trump's RNC talks?
On April 22, Bloomberg reported a "secret meeting" took place between Trump adviser Paul Manafort and RNC head Reince Priebus at the RNC spring meeting in Florida. Bloomberg suggested that Trump planned to work with the RNC, despite campaign rhetoric charging the GOP primary and convention rules were "rigged" against Trump.
There was no mention in the Bloomberg report that Lewandowski attended the RNC meeting between Manafort and Priebus.
On Sunday, Politico reported "senior Trump aides," including Lewandowski, Manafort and political director Rick Wiley were meeting with top RNC officials to work out details of a final fundraising agreement.
While the Politico article listed Lewandowski first, there was no suggestion in the report that Lewandowski was leading the discussions.
On Monday, CBS reported that Lewandowski attended the RNC meeting along with Manafort and Wiley, adding that newly appointed deputy campaign manager Michael Glassner also attended.
Glassner's political credits include senior adviser to Sen. Bob Dole from January 1986 though January 2001, working on George W. Bush's 2000 campaign and acting as top adviser to vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin in 2008.
Lewandowski vs. Manafort: Who's in charge?
Last week, WND reported Trump insiders accused Lewandowski of micromanaging the appointment of Steven Mnuchin, a Wall Street veteran who worked for 17 years with Goldman Sachs, as campaign finance chairman. The insiders said the process was designed to keep Mnuchin's candidacy from Manafort, who was actively pursuing other candidates, believing he had been appointed by Trump to nominate the campaign's finance chairman.
Manafort is a GOP presidential campaign veteran who began managing Ronald Reagan's convention delegate operation in 1976.
The opponents of Lewandowski within Trump's campaign charge the campaign manager is isolating Trump, much as John Erlichman and H. R. Haldeman isolated President Richard Nixon to his detriment during the Watergate scandal.
The internal struggle appears to have begun almost from the first moments Manafort was hired by Trump to manage his delegate operation. The hire came in April after it became apparent that Trump might not gain the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination on the first ballot at the convention.
CNN reported April 7 that the loss of the Wisconsin primary and the delegate gains made by Sen. Ted Cruz led to a campaign shake-up in which Manafort would be playing an expanded role beyond managing Trump's delegate operation, with Lewandowski playing "a shrinking role" as campaign manager.
Politico reported in April that Trump, bristling at efforts by Manafort to make him appear more "presidential," was taking steps "to return some authority to Manafort's chief internal rival," Lewandowski.
Lewandowski was at the center of controversy in March when then-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields pressed misdemeanor battery charges alleging he grabbed her arm during a Trump press conference in Jupiter, Florida, on March 8. Last month, Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg decided not to prosecute Lewandowski, explaining he didn't have enough to bring the case.
His political credits include working as an administrative assistant to Rep. Robert Ney, R-Ohio, before the congressman was convicted of corruption charges in the Jack Abramoff scandal and working as campaign manager and communications director for Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H., in his unsuccessful 2002 re-election bid.