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Orang Asli Hospital not fulfilling role
By Ding Jo-Ann | March 22, 2010 3 Comments
KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Mar 2010: A hospital set up by the British to serve the Orang Asli in Gombak is not fulfilling its objectives in part because most of its patients are non-Orang Asli.
Dr Selva Vathany Kanapathi Pillai, recently transferred out of the hospital after publicly voicing her concerns, told The Nut Graph that more than two-thirds of the hospital's patients were non-Orang Asli.
"This is despite the fact that there is access to government clinics and hospitals nearby," she said in a phone interview.
Suhakam commissioner Datuk Siva Subramaniam (left) accepting the memorandum from
Orang Asli representative Sokyen Man
This complaint was one of several which the Orang Asli raised with the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) in a memorandum on 16 Mar 2010.
In their complaint, the Orang Asli said outsiders and foreigners were also going to the hospital, hence disadvantaging the indigenous communities.
Dr Selva surmised that non-Orang Asli patients came to the hospital's outpatient department because the waiting time was shorter and parking was more convenient.
"Some even use the emergency department for outpatient treatment. They come [to the emergency department] at night or weekends for blood pressure readings or dressings," she said, citing these as examples of abuse of the system.
Dr Selva said these patients received treatment at the expense of the Orang Asli's health, which the hospital was primarily meant to serve.
Dr SelvaDr Selva said she had proposed for the outpatient department at Gombak Hospital to be shut down, without jeopardising long-term patients, since the majority of patients were not Orang Asli.
"There is more to improving Orang Asli health than just running the outpatient and accident and emergency departments," she said, citing for example the need to conduct regular trips into the interior.
"We can't just have [irregular] trips to the interior and just dispense some medicine on an ad hoc basis."
Other mismanagement
Dr Selva claimed that the Gombak Hospital also did not implement the Health Ministry's basic food basket programme for malnourished children.
"Once a child falls below their expected height and weight, after ruling out medical conditions, they are put on a programme where they receive a food basket every month," Dr Selva explained.
However, she said that there was a case of a malnourished Orang Asli child, living just behind the hospital, who was only given a one-off assistance of three milk tins.
"She was just drinking tea with milk. I reported her case to welfare. We were told our hospital does not [provide welfare assistance to] 'Orang Asli bandar', only those in the interior."
Original purpose
Dr Colin NicholasCentre for Orang Asli Concerns coordinator Dr Colin Nicholas said that the hospital was set up during the Emergency to improve Orang Asli health.
"When they tried to resettle the Orang Asli, about 7,000 Orang Asli died due to disease, malnutrition and mental depression," Dr Nicholas told The Nut Graph. "This prompted research into their health status [and] the establishment of the hospital in surroundings that [would] make the Orang Asli feel at home. [This included employing Orang Asli staff in the hospital]."
Dr Nicholas said the hospital was meant to provide a holistic approach to improving the community's health standards.
"When one person came to the hospital because he or she had tuberculosis or some other disease, they wouldn't come alone. The whole family would come with them. So, the hospital staff would take the opportunity to check the whole family at the same time," he explained.
Dr Nicholas, who has co-written a paper on Orang Asli health, said the hospital used to train Orang Asli as paramedics.
"They would receive basic health training such as how to detect and treat malaria and were then sent back to the villages with stocks of medicines. When there were serious cases, they would radio for assistance and they would be sent (by helicopter) to Gombak Hospital.
"It wasn't just a hospital. It was a centre for Orang Asli health and was connected to all the villages."
Dr Nicholas claimed that this holistic approach has no longer been practised at the hospital since the 1990s and that standards have deteriorated.
"A [Orang Asli] child recently died from kwashiorkor, [a severe condition caused by malnutrition] which occurs only in very poor countries." Nicholas said the hospital was supposed to have arranged for a medical evacuation by helicopter but this did not come about and the child died a few days later. "His death was not even recorded in the health statistics of the Orang Asli."
Health ministry needed
Orang Asli representatives with some members of the Malaysian Bar at Suhakam
Among others, the Orang Asli, in their memorandum to Suhakam, want the Health Ministry to take over the administration of the Gombak Hospital from the Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli (JHEOA). They also want the hospital to be made into a research centre for Orang Asli health.
Dr Nicholas said there was no reason for the hospital to be administered by the JHEOA, which is part of the Rural and Regional Development Ministry. "Before 1995, education was also under the JHEOA. People not trained as teachers ended up teaching Orang Asli children. Since 1995, the Education Ministry has taken over and is responsible for Orang Asli education and there has been a marked improvement in this field," he noted.
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Keruah says
It is sensible that the Ministry of Health should take over the running of Gombak Hospital from JHEOA. JHEOA has clearly failed in its duties.
But in the long run we need a revamp of the racist policies and supremacist attitudes of the bureaucracy. All Malaysian races are suffering from jingoistic bureaucrats in the [civil service], in the Ministry of Health, JHEOA and elsewhere.
starranise says
This is a very kind approach towards the infamous Gombak Hospital. Dr Selvaa came out earlier this year and made a statement saying JHEOA have been stealing essential foods and meds from the Orang Asli: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/124280
Despicable!
Lisanne Ashton says
I was a British VSO voluntary nurse, along with my then dentist husband, in Gombak Hospital in 1973 just after Dr Malcolm Bolton, the founding doctor had left. All the qualified staff were volunteers and we trained Orang Asli as paramedics, but I remember working with one qualified Malay nurse ..Sister Hamishah. Conditions were somewhat primitive but entirely as quoted ….holistic and supportive of the Orang Asli people throughout the country. Medivac by helicopter was common and I went 'up jungle' every month to carry out an anti tuberculosis programme…vaccines carried in a thermos so quickly non serviceable. Recent photos online show enormous developments at the hospital but I hope the reason the hospital was created, and still shows in its name, has not been forgotten: Gombak Orang Asli Hospital. Often in my thoughts despite 40 years on…please keep up the good work.


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Q: java display in a JTextField component I am new in java programming and I would like to know how can I add the statement cboDisplayList.getItemAt(4) to the program code below so that the fifth item in the list is displayed in a JTextField component.
 package pkTopic5T6;
 import javax.swing.*;
 import java.awt.Color;
 import java.awt.Font;
 public class Topic5T6
{
public JComboBox cboDisplayList;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Topic5T6 My56 = new Topic5T6();
    My56.go();
}
public void go()
{
    GUI56 My56 = new GUI56();
    populateList Mypop = new populateList();
    Mypop.grabItems();
}
class GUI56 extends JFrame
{
    JLabel lblHeading;
    protected  GUI56()
    {
        this.setSize(600,500);
        this.setLocation(100,100);
        this.setTitle("56");
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setLayout(null);
        Font f1 = new Font("Monospaced",Font.BOLD,32);
        Font f2 = new Font("Dialog",Font.BOLD,32);
        lblHeading = new JLabel("Testing Combo");
        lblHeading.setBounds(10,10,300,50);
        lblHeading.setFont(f2);
        this.add(lblHeading);
        cboDisplayList = new JComboBox();
        cboDisplayList.setBounds(10,70,300,50);
        cboDisplayList.setBackground(Color.PINK);
        cboDisplayList.setFont(f1);
        this.add(cboDisplayList);
        this.setVisible(true);
    }
}
class populateList
{
    protected int k;
    protected populateList()
    {}
    protected void grabItems()
    {
        for (k=1; k<= 20; k =k+1)
        {
            cboDisplayList.addItem("Dummy Item " + k);
        }
       }
    }
}

A: There is a setText method for setting the text for JTextField

A: You are first displaying JFrame and then populating data in combobox. If you are adding a textfield in GUI56 constructor and get the content in combobox, it will print null only, since you have not populated any value in combo box. So setText should be called after populating value in combo box. please see my solution.
package pkTopic5T6;
 import javax.swing.*;

import org.omg.CORBA.PUBLIC_MEMBER;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
 public class Topic5T6
{
public JComboBox cboDisplayList;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Topic5T6 My56 = new Topic5T6();
    My56.go();
}
public void go()
{
    GUI56 My56 = new GUI56();
    populateList Mypop = new populateList();
    Mypop.grabItems();
    My56.addText1();
    System.out.println("end");
}
class GUI56 extends JFrame
{
    JLabel lblHeading;
    JTextField  textField;
    protected  GUI56()
    {
        this.setSize(600,500);
        this.setLocation(100,100);
        this.setTitle("56");
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setLayout(null);
        Font f1 = new Font("Monospaced",Font.BOLD,32);
        Font f2 = new Font("Dialog",Font.BOLD,32);
        lblHeading = new JLabel("Testing Combo");
        lblHeading.setBounds(10,10,300,50);
        lblHeading.setFont(f2);
        this.add(lblHeading);
        cboDisplayList = new JComboBox();
        cboDisplayList.setBounds(10,70,300,50);
        cboDisplayList.setBackground(Color.PINK);
        cboDisplayList.setFont(f1);
        this.add(cboDisplayList);
        textField=new JTextField("test");
       // this.add(new JTextField(cboDisplayList.getItemAt(0)+" test"));
         this.setVisible(true);

    }
    public void addText1()
    {

         textField.setText(cboDisplayList.getItemAt(4)+"");
         textField.setBounds(20,150,180,90);
         textField.setVisible(true);
         System.out.println("set text");
        this.add(textField);
    }
}
class populateList
{
    protected int k;
    protected populateList()
    {}
    protected void grabItems()
    {
        for (k=1; k<= 20; k =k+1)
        {
            cboDisplayList.addItem("Dummy Item " + k);
        }
       }
    }
}

I have used another method addText1() to add a textfield in the frame and is invoked after populating the data in combobox. cboDisplayList.getItemAt(4) will return the item in the combobox at position 4 as object and cboDisplayList.getItemAt(4)+"" will cast it as string

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import hashlib
import datetime

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template.context import RequestContext
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect

def build_filename(instance, filename):
    """
    Converts an image filename to a hash.
    """
    now = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    name = hashlib.md5('%s' % now).hexdigest()
    ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
    return os.path.join('%s/%s' % (instance._meta.app_label, instance._meta.module_name), '%s%s' % (name, ext[1]))

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    """
    Simple wrapper for render_to_response.
    """
    kwargs['context_instance'] = RequestContext(request)
    return render_to_response(*args, **kwargs)

def redirect(request, obj=None):
    """
    Simple wrapper for HttpResponseRedirect that checks the request for a
    'next' GET parameter then falls back to a given object or url string.
    """
    next = request.GET.get('next', None)
    redirect_url = '/'

    if next:
        redirect_url = next
    elif isinstance(obj, str):
        redirect_url = obj
    elif obj and hasattr(obj, 'get_absolute_url'):
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Q: Bellman's equation's loss in TFjs I am trying to implement a simple Pong Q-Network in JS using p5 and tfjs.
To train the network, I first created a custom loss function where I passed a label tensor only containing the labels for the actions a_t

TFjs didn't really seemed to like the fact that the shape was different from the predictions from the model, so I crafted another custom loss function where the label input is a tensor of shape [batchSize, 3] (3 actions up, down and none) where each element is in the form [0,0,y_j] or [0,y_j,0] or [y_j,0,0] (y_j at the place I am supposed to compare to the predictions tensor and 0 elsewhere). Here it is:
function bellmanLoss(predictions, labels)
{
    let predictions_buffer = predictions.buffer();
    let labels_buffer = labels.buffer();
    let length = labels.shape[0];
    predictions.dispose();
    labels.dispose();
    let loss = 0;
    for(let i = 0; i < length; i++)
    {
        for(let j = 0; j < 3; j++)
        {
            if(labels_buffer.get(i,j) != 0)
            {
                loss += Math.pow(labels_buffer.get(i,j) - predictions_buffer.get(i,j), 2);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
    return tf.tensor(loss);
}

But here I am crafting a tensor from scratch and so I get this error using model.fit: "Error: Cannot find a connection between any variable and the result of the loss function y=f(x). Please make sure the operations that use variables are inside the function f passed to minimize()".
Is there a way to have a loss compatible with model.fit or do I have to tune the model weights manually (which would be a pain)?
Update : I've made some changes to be more "tensory" and it seem to go in the right direction:
function bellmanLoss(preds, labels)
{
    let mask = tf.cast(labels, 'bool');
    let zeros = tf.zerosLike(preds);
    let clean_preds = preds.where(mask, zeros);
    return tf.squaredDifference(clean_preds, labels).mean();
}

However, I still need to find another alternative because

"Error: Cannot compute gradient: gradient function not found for where"

Final update: I've found a way without using tf.where and it works
function bellmanLoss(preds, labels)
{
    let mask_b = tf.cast(labels, 'bool');
    let mask = tf.cast(mask_b, 'float32');
    let clean_preds = preds.mul(mask);
    return tf.squaredDifference(clean_preds, labels).mean();
}


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Ravenna football team reaching for playoffs, more, with prolific passing game
Scenes from Ravenna's 2019 football media day with MLive Muskegon Chronicle
By Scott DeCamp | sdecamp1@mlive.com
This is the 11th story in a series previewing the 2019 high school football season in the Muskegon area.
RAVENNA, MI – Ravenna's passing game could be a problem for a lot of opponents this season.
With senior Conner Kilbourne back at the quarterback controls and a bevy of rangy receivers at his disposal, the Bulldogs should be able to light up the scoreboard.
"I'm really excited. I've been at some bigger schools in West Ottawa and Forest Hills Northern, and I don't think we've ever had the depth at receiver that we do heading into this year at Ravenna," Bulldogs second-year coach Doug Samuels said. "You know, it will be a key to stay healthy throughout the year. If we can do that, I think our weapons are some of the best in West Michigan. They're really special."
What could make or break Ravenna are the Bulldogs' offensive line and their defense. Experience and length in both of those areas should help.
Competing in the West Michigan Conference against the likes of Montague, Oakridge and Whitehall, plus opening the season vs. a strong Hopkins program, are tough assignments.
Ravenna finished 5-4 last season, just missing a playoff berth. That stuck in the Bulldogs' craw, and Samuels is hoping that it continues to drive his hungry team.
"Oh, yeah, that was really tough," said Grant Parker, who is among a talented core of players entering their senior season. "I thought we should've made it, personally, but we worked super hard in the offseason just to make it back this year."
Samuels, who employs an offense that some term as a "smash-mouth spread," said that his team last year went through some growing pains on that side of the ball.
Defensively, Ravenna struggled to slow down the tougher opponents on the schedule, a slate that does not leave much margin for error for a team trying to get in the playoffs.
Team-by-team 2019 schedules for the Muskegon area
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"Hopefully that experience for these (seniors) made them a little hungry to sit down Selection Sunday and see our name not pop up and other teams pop up," Samuels said. "Hopefully that sting and that chip on our shoulder is something we can carry into this next year, but I feel really good about the experience that these (seniors) had last year to be able to carry it into 2019."
Again, it all starts with the skill-position players, who are led by the strong core of seniors. Kilbourne (5-foot-11, 185) sets the tone (he'll also play defensive back). The Bulldogs' playmaking, pass-catching group is led a trio of Kilbourne's classmates, including returning all-stater Josh Cox (WR/DB, 6-1, 160), Calvin Schullo (WR/OLB, 6-4, 190) and Parker (TE/OLB, 6-5, 215).
Ravenna football player Conner Kilbourne is pictured in Muskegon on Monday, July 30, 2018. Cory Morse | MLive.comCory Morse | MLive.com
Senior Jack Emery (WR/DB, 6-4, 170) is another threat in the passing game, while junior Chad Erickson (TE/LB, 6-4, 180) brings even more length. Senior Trevor Sterken (WR/DB, 5-9, 160) rounds out the deep receiving corps.
"Very rangy, catch everything, run great routes, and understand spacing," Samuels said about his receiver group. "Being great basketball players, too, you kind of understand where you fit in routes and spacing and spatial awareness and stuff like that. It's important to what we do, and every one of our guys gets that."
Seniors Dalton Hogan (RB/DB, 5-8, 165) and Dom Mabrito (RB/LB, 6-1, 200) look to be factors in the running game, while seniors Chase Shelley (OL/DL, 6-2, 210) and Hunter Funk (OL/DL, 6-3, 230) will be keys up front on both sides of the ball. Sophomore Thomas McCullough (QB/DB, 6-2, 165) is a skilled athlete.
"Honestly, I think we're strong all around, but I think our passing game is top-notch," Parker said.
Ravenna strives to be an explosive team, one that wins with big plays on both sides of the ball. Samuels said that the Bulldogs are focused on explosive plays, because when a team wins those and comes out ahead in the turnover battle, it finds victory 92 percent of the time.
Ravenna aims to run the football, and it helps that the Bulldogs are effective at passing it. Some deception is involved, according to Samuels.
"Up front, especially, I've been impressed with our (weight-room) turnout and things like that. We did the Plainwell Lineman Challenge a couple of weeks ago and made the semifinals," said Samuels, whose O-line group is being coached by Joe Tanis, who was Orchard View's head coach the last seven years, and who is defensive coordinator for the West Michigan Ironmen.
"It's a really good group," Samuels continued. "It's not deep – we graduated our right tackle and left tackle last year, one that was a state finalist wrestler and another guy that came off the ball with reckless abandon, so those guys are tough to replace. So our makeup will be a little different, but we'll also I think be a little more mobile up front and our pin-and-pull schemes and things like that will really work to our advantage."
Ravenna Bulldogs 2019 schedule
Aug. 29: HOPKINS
Sept. 6: at North Muskegon*
Sept. 13: SHELBY*
Sept. 20: at Whitehall*
Sept. 27: MASON COUNTY CENTRAL*
Oct. 4: at Montague*
Oct. 11: HART*
Oct. 18: at Oakridge*
Oct. 25: at Muskegon Heights Academy
* West Michigan Conference game
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The Mid-Southern Anatolia region accounts for 12.1% of all the wine produced in Turkey.
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The critics' pens of dishonour
Gallagher, Donat (2014) The critics' pens of dishonour. Quadrant, 58 (10). pp. 107-109.
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[Extract] The mysterious chemistry of public opinion decreed that during the closing decades of Evelyn Waugh's life, and for many years after his death, he would be, as Frederick Raphael put it in a prominent article, "The Artist as a Bad Man". Criticism in the literary pages became routinely, often ludicrously, personal.
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Books review of "Evelyn Waugh" by M. Barber, Hesperus Press, 2013, 135 pages, ISBN: 9781843919278 and of "Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family", by M.G. Brennan, 2013, 170 pages, ISBN: 978-1441100344.
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The BU men's soccer team announced its "signing" of Team IMPACT member Pierce Sabin on October 16, and followed the event with a 2-0 win over Colgate later that day. The University has partnered with the nonprofit since 2012. Photo courtesy of BU Athletics
Nonprofit pairs children battling serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams
Brady Gardner (COM'22)
Boston University is extending its partnership with Team IMPACT, the athletics department announced. The Boston-based nonprofit pairs college sports teams with children battling serious or chronic illnesses.
"It is with great pleasure that we formally announce an elevated partnership with Team IMPACT," says Drew Marrochello, director of athletics, in announcing the two-year commitment. "We are honored to continue working with such a wonderful local organization that has enhanced the lives of so many across the country."
Team IMPACT was founded in 2011 and for the last decade has matched more than 2,200 sick children from 5 to 16 with over 60,000 student-athletes at 700-plus colleges and universities across the country.
BU Athletics began its involvement with Team IMPACT in 2012 with matches for field hockey and men's basketball. Since then, six more teams—men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse, women's basketball, and women's ice hockey—have welcomed a Team IMPACT child to their program, the most recent on October 16, when the men's soccer team added seven-year-old Pierce Sabin to their roster. Midfielder Aidan Holmes (ENG'24) says the team has rallied around its youngest signee.
"Since the first day we met him, Pierce's smile and passion for BU soccer has brought us closer together on and off the field," Holmes says. "Pierce is the heart of the BU soccer family and this relationship will only continue to grow. Team IMPACT is a great organization and I'm really thankful they connected us with Pierce."
This sentiment is echoed by Kevin Nylen, men's soccer head coach. "If we think about BU soccer, we immediately think about Pierce," Nylen says. "He is resilient and such a great young boy. We are all so lucky to call him a friend and a teammate of our BU soccer family."
Both players and coaches say that the day Pierce was introduced to the program was one of the highlights of the season, with the Terriers and their new teammate celebrating one of the two goals.
The BU men's soccer team bonded instantly with their Team IMPACT teammate Pierce Sabin, celebrating a goal with him the day he was signed by the team.
The announcement of the two-year commitment means that there will be plenty more moments like that to come. BU has said it will maintain or increase its involvement with Team IMPACT, and in turn, the nonprofit will provide BU student-athletes with opportunities for development in areas of diversity and inclusion, advocacy, and professional development.
Those interested in enrolling a child in the program or learning more about Team IMPACT can find additional information here.
Brady Gardner (COM'22)	is pursuing a double major, in journalism and public relations. He has worked with the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, BU Athletics, and Agganis Arena. He is from Foxborough, Mass., and takes pride in being left-handed. He can be reached at bradyg@bu.edu.	Profile
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March Madness descended on New York City last week, with both the ACC and the Big East holding their men's basketball tournaments at Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden, respectively. Photographers from The Players' Tribune were on the scene at both arenas,…
The Players' Tribune went behind-the-scenes with heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder as he successfully defended his title against Luis Ortiz and extended his career record to 40-0.
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Kråkö kapell är en kyrkobyggnad i Kråkö hamn söder om Hornslandet öster om Hudiksvall. Kapellet tillhör Hudiksvallsbygdens församling i Uppsala stift.

Kapellet
Kapellet byggdes genom Hudiksvallsprosten Olof Johansson Bromans försorg. Han bekostade kapellet med egna medel när andra inte ville stödja honom. Han lät timra kapellet i Hudiksvall. Den 27 juni 1736 forslade han ut kapellet till Kråkön för uppmontering. Redan den 11 juli 1736 kunde den viljestarke prosten förrätta invigningen av guds hus. En minnestavla till höger om altaret talar sitt tydliga språk: "Til Guds Namns Äro och Öje-Boernas Tiänst hafwer Mag: Ol: Joh: BROMAN med egen Bekostnad Upbygt thetta Capell 1736."

Kapellet ligger högt beläget i utkanten av Kråkö hamn, med kyrkklockan i en stapel vid västväggen. Nedanför kapellet finns prästkammaren, som prästen använde under prästhelg och i dag närmast fungerar som museum.

Inredning
 Predikstolen är från 1755 och kommer från Idenors kyrka. Den moderniserades i samband med en omfattande restaurering 1851–52.
 Altartavlan är, enligt en tradition, från Idenor och förändrades också i restaureringen 1851–52.
 Dopskålen är ursprungligen en pokal, som Kråkö salteri fick av Gävleborgs läns hushållningssällskap 1927.
 Bänkinredningen är sluten och sannolikt från 1736.
 Kristallkronan, en ovanlighet i ett skärgårdskapell, är en gåva till kapellets hundraårsjubileum 1836.
 Votivskeppen är relativt nya. Karavellen med hög akter är tillverkad av Pelle Blomkvist, Hudiksvall, och skänkt till kapellets tvåhundraårsjubileum 1936 av Kråkö hamnlag. Den fyrmastade barken är en gåva från Anna Dahlström 1945.
 Altarmattan är komponerad av Marthe Bohm.
 Oljemålningen ovanför ingången är från 1700-talet och föreställer den förlorade sonens återkomst.
 På norra väggen finns en porträtt av Olof Broman, en kopia från 1936 målad av Anna-Stina Murray av originalet i Hudiksvalls kyrka från 1748.
 På södra väggen hänger kung Karl IX, som förlänade Kråkön och de andra öarna till Hudiksvalls stad.

Referenser
 Kilström, Bengt Ingmar (1972). Fiskarkapellen i Hudiksvalls skärgård.
 Nylander, Lars; Olsson, Daniel & Ulfhielm, Bo (2016). Fiskarkapell i Gästrikland och Hälsingland. Gävle: Hälsinglands museum

Externa länkar
 Hudiksvallsbygdens församling

Kyrkobyggnader i Uppsala stift
Kyrkobyggnader i Hudiksvalls kommun
Kyrkobyggnader invigda 1736
Kapell i Sverige
1736 i Sverige

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Great lot in Gold Canyon zoned for either a single family home or multi-family. This lot may be purchased along with the adjacent lot 87. Lot would require some fill and an alternative septic system would be required. Seller has conducted a Site Soil evaluation and has the results of the report available.


Did you notice anything about the programming this year? Well, you probably noticed quite a few things but let's focus on this: the copious number of "how to write/draw/design/succeed" panels. From becoming a voice actor to sharpening your digital illustration skills to understanding characterization, SDCC seems to offer all kinds of education and assistance to the fledgling creative.
If you're one of those attendees earnestly hoping to accelerate your career at Comic-Con, I would suggest going in with an open mind and realistic expectations. Every year I see people go to the "How to get your novel published! How to turn your indie comic into a viable income!" panels - and while sometimes attendees pick up a few good insights, those panels are rarely a career-altering event. Definitely go by all means, but don't get too attached to the outcome. And remember that many panelists are holding panels precisely to pad their bio or promote their products. If you're new to SDCC and have your creative career top of mind, you may want to read about who benefits from SDCC, as well as the soft skills you need to network and the materials to bring and the touchpoints available.
Because there are absolutely some solid opportunities to network, learn or promote - and CCI announced the schedule for one today, Portfolio Review. The name often leads attendees to believe it's only for visual artists and that's actually not true. Here's what is.
Portfolio Review is an opportunity to get your samples in front of companies like Disney, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, Lego and other titans.
In the morning, you'll sign up for the Portfolio Review list - and fill out a ticket for your target company. 15 minutes before that company's review time, they'll post a list of the randomly selected people they'll see.
Bring your best work, samples that show your range and depth. But you should also be prepared to answer questions - not just your professional history but your goals, your collaborative skills, your self-perception of your own talent and other potentially squirmy topics.
You may or may not get seen by your ideal company; you may or may not get valuable feedback; you may or may not get an invitation to a working relationship. But I think Portfolio Review can still be a worthwhile exercise, especially if you're fairly new in your career. The more experience you get pitching your work, the better you'll be at it - less nervous, more natural and eventually, more compelling.
And as with everything at SDCC, you never know who you'll meet. Be open and see where Portfolio Review takes you. Good luck.


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Y2K The Real Disaster
Hunt, Dave
This subject was forced upon us by the many letters and phone calls we received from frightened people. Some were on the verge of panic because of the disastrous consequences of the alleged worldwide computer crash predicted in some circles to occur January 1, 2000. So we addressed Y2K in a feature article and two subsequent Q&As.
We presented facts showing that the Y2K problem was largely overstated and would for all practical purposes be solved in time. Readers warned that I was ignorant of the subject, and that my "skepticism...may cost lives and countless opportunities for the body of Christ to minister to...unsaved." It was obvious that more had to be done to calm the rising panic in the church. To that end, I wrote Y2K: A Reasoned Response to Mass Hysteria, released in February. It documents fully what we can only summarize here.
My point of view on Y2K is no more welcome in many circles than my critique of psychology or of positive confession or of Catholicism. How appropriate for today were Christ's words to the Jews, "And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not" (Jn:8:45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
See All...). One of my interviews was for a Y2K national TV special. The film crew was enthusiastic, but Steve Hewitt of Christian Computing Magazine and I were cut out because our research undermined what the other "experts" said as well as the planned advertisements for Y2K survival supplies.
A lot of money is being made. Sadly, some of the Christian leaders sounding the alarm the loudest are profiting from their connection to, and even ownership of, firms selling freeze-dried food, generators, gold coins and other survival supplies. Already resentment and disillusionment are surfacing among those who have cashed in life's savings to buy what they will soon discover wasn't needed. Worst of all will be the backlash against Christianity and the gospel when January 1, 2000 reveals that Y2K is nothing like Christian alarmists have warned it would be.
Out of great concern for the damage which misinformation and alarmism are creating within the church, we reluctantly address this issue once again. Mounting evidence makes it clearer each day that the predicted worldwide computer crash is not going to occur. Major manufacturers have notified their suppliers that if their products are not Y2K compliant their contracts will be canceled. No one will buy noncompliant product; and those who sell it are being sued.
In addition to nearly 200 out-of-court settlements, more than 50 Y2K-related lawsuits are working their way through the courts, with significant damages being awarded against manufacturers of equipment that won't work beyond 1999. No electric utility, bank, phone company or 911 service will be able to plead on January 1, 2000 that they just didn't get around to fixing their computers! They've had 25 years to take care of that problem and not to do so would be criminal negligence, against which there's no insurance coverage.
Reflecting irrational fears in the church, InterVarsity canceled its Urbana Conference for the end of December 1999, concerned that flying won't be safe. Yet Jerry Greenwald, CEO of United Airlines, has promised, "We will make sure that you experience the start of the new millennium feeling as safe boarding our aircraft as you do every other day of every year." Greenwald must be absolutely certain to make such a statement. The FAA has announced that all critical components of U.S. air traffic control will be ready for Y2K by June 30, 1999; and the FAA is working with other nations to bring them into compliance. Canadian airports just passed a critical Y2K test: "It was really boring," said a spokesman. "All the systems worked well."
The American Bankers Association announced in early April that 97 percent of the nation's banks are ready for Y2K and that the 3 percent which are not will soon be forced by regulators to merge with those which are. The New York stock exchange and major brokerage firms have passed several Y2K tests. Senator Robert Bennett, whose pessimistic statements once supported alarmists, now admits that Y2K at worst will be a mere "bump in the road." Likewise, Peter de Jager, among the first to sound the alarm and once very gloomy, now says, "...the year 2000 problem no longer exists." As of March 31, 1999, the deadline set by Clinton, only about 500 of the estimated 6,123 critical systems in all 24 U.S. government agencies were not yet Y2K compliant, but soon would be.
Media reports are often sensationalized to excite the public. An article in papers across the country in mid-March, 1999, was headlined, "Glitch at nuke plant shows perils of Y2K tests." It reported that testing for Y2K shut a nuclear plant down for seven hours. In fact, the shut-down had nothing to do with Y2K; an engineer had improperly set a test clock. There was no peril, the problem was discovered and fixed, and power continued to flow. Most local power companies are electromechanical, not computerized, and the large hydroelectric projects depend upon gravity flow of water and could be operated manually.
The truth about the unlikelihood of significant Y2K problems and the thoroughness with which the experts are nevertheless providing for every contingency is found in the technical journals. Therein we discover how the real experts view Y2K, and it doesn't resemble at all what some Christian leaders are saying.
The information provided by these journals rarely finds its way into the popular media. The following is from recent editions of just a few of these publications:
Pshaw. This stuff is beginning to look like a blatant attempt to deceive the public into fixing something that probably isn't broken. If I see many more releases blowing the whole Y2K thing out of proportion, I won't be responsible for my actions...! ("Y2K: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOT A LOT," Computer Technology Review, January 1999 editorial)
Major manufacturers are well underway with year 2000 software bug fixes. (Control Engineering: Covering control, instrumentation, and automation systems worldwide, January 1999, in two articles listing numerous Y2K solutions and dealing with the high-tech developments expected to launch the next millennium)
Year 2000 battlefield simulation [tests] ...at White Sands Missile Range...the Apache Longbow, Apache and Kiowa Warrior helicopters each fired laser-guided Hellfire missiles to successfully verify rollover of five critical Y2K dates. (Boeing News, Feb. 19, 1999)
Department of Defense is in "hyperdrive" to solve Y2K problem....1,673 of 2,300 critical systems were Y2K compliant last December...[NORAD ran in December a] successful three-day exercise involving...five "midnight crossings [12/31/99]" which simulated 30 "missile events" ranging from mass attacks to single missiles. NORAD was able to respond....A similar exercise was successful for the Trident submarine-launched strategic missile system...94 percent [of DOD's mission-critical systems] will be ready by the end of [February 1999]. (Military & Aerospace Electronics, February 1999)
The high-tech journals seem almost contemptuous of Y2K. The media are catching on and further playing down the issue. In April, CNN's Headline News repeatedly ran the same clip about computer chips in autos (Christian "experts" have warned that trucks supplying grocery stores won't run). Mechanics and automakers explained that chips running cars [and trucks] don't care what year it is. It was suggested that owners of cars that won't start on January 1, 2000, might check the gas gauge!
In the face of all the evidence to the contrary, Christian leaders keep sounding the alarm. As a result the church is being led into the real disaster of Y2K: the ruined lives and testimonies, the disillusionment and shattered faith. Consider the backlash discrediting the church, our Lord, the gospel and Bible prophecy when Y2K turns out to be so much less than many have warned it could be. The cost will be incalculable in discredited testimonies and disrupted lives. "If it doesn't happen, you can eat or give away your freeze-dried food," is the standard disclaimer. That doesn't help those who were driven by fear to cash in retirement plans to buy a whole range of survival equipment and supplies.
Who will any longer believe those who were so certain of disaster that they organized neighborhoods, persuaded family and friends to buy generators, huge stores of food and supplies—and tied it all in with Bible prophecy and evangelism? Who will restore the shattered faith of disillusioned Christians who sold their homes to move into a country hideaway or into some "safe, self-contained Y2K Christian community" they saw advertised in a Christian publication such as Falwell's National Liberty Journal? We know of churches already dividing and families breaking up over Y2K, and worse could follow.
There has been a serious abuse of Scripture. A major mantra for Christians sounding the alarm is "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished" (Prov:22:3A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
See All..., 27:12). That scripture has no bearing upon Y2K. Solomon's prudent man knows the evil that's coming and thus what to hide from. But the alarmists, after telling us how disastrous it might be, themselves hide behind this specious phrase: "No one really knows what will happen." Yet they want everyone to prepare—for what? This uncertainty breeds "a spirit of fear" (2 Tim:1:7For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
See All...).
Another verse is used to make us feel guilty for not storing up vast amounts of food and supplies: "But if any provide not for ...those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel" (1 Tim:5:8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
See All...). Yet how is one to provide for one's house without knowing the extent of the problem? If we were to prepare for six months and it were to last a year, what then?
Possible scenarios are presented, from a mild bump to total disaster—lasting anywhere from a few days to years. Gary North predicts that 1.5 billion people could die from cold, starvation, riots, etc. In What Will Become of Us? (The International Crisis Management Center, 1998, pp. 111-16), Julian Gregori declares,
I predict...every developed nation will fall into a seven-to-eight-year economic collapse....serious Y2K computer ambushes will begin surprising Americans in mid-1999...a drastic correction in the stock market (by the end of September, 1999), and the closing of some banks. The closing of some nuclear power plants in October...the end of American lifestyles as we know them....
I predict...failures of electrical power. ...Most Y2K victims will be refugees who are attempting to flee anarchical conditions in the cities...by April 2000, at least seven out of every ten Americans will lose their jobs or their present level of income. ...martial law may be imposed in late 1999....
Senator Bennett has publicly compared [Y2K] to Tower of Babel catastrophism.
Such outdated quotes continue to be offered. To cover all bases, they hold open the possibility of anything from mild to meltdown. "Don't panic," they tell us, even while they lay out as at least possible scenarios that offer more than enough cause for panic. "Hope for the best, and prepare for the worst," we're told. But who could possibly prepare for the worst? Not the elderly in retirement homes or convalescent hospitals nor even the average Christian!
What are we to do? "Pray about it," they say. Thus prayer is turned into divination: seeking a message from God about what to do, when action should be dictated by facts. It is like praying for what stock to invest in on Wall Street or asking God to reveal whether one should get out of bed in the morning. Christian alarmists can't tell us which of their scenarios will actually happen, but God is supposed to tell us.
Spurred on by such advice, many Christians testify that God has told them to sell their homes and move out into an isolated place far from any city because Y2K is going to break down social and civil order. Abandoning friends and neighbors, they have opted for the ultimate in self-interest; some even unashamedly buying guns and fortifying their hideaways and communicating only by email. They argue that they don't have the means to feed all the hungry around them when Y2K comes and must provide for their families. Some Christians, unable to change their residences, have plywood ready to nail over windows and an old car they will park in their driveway and burn January 1, 2000, so that the rampaging mobs will think the house has already been looted and will pass it by.
Yet such Christians claim to have prayed and been led of God to adopt these measures. What will happen to their faith, the faith of their families and friends, and what message will it send to the unsaved when this "guidance from God" turns out not only to be a falsehood but folly?
Other Christians are convinced this will be the church's finest hour, that Y2K will provide the greatest opportunity in history to win the lost to Christ. It is supposedly up to Christians to feed their unsaved friends and neighbors—and when they come for food and warmth they'll be open to the gospel and will be won to Christ. However, starving people are interested in food, not religion; and when desperate enough they'll do anything to get it.
The early church was specifically told by a true prophet of a coming "great dearth throughout all the world" (Acts:11:27-30 [27] And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. [28] And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. [29] Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: [30] Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
See All...). Yet under the Apostles' leadership they did not store up food to feed unsaved neighbors or seek to use this disaster for evangelism. Nor is it biblical (or logical) to attempt to do so today.
The truth is that the world right now contains millions of starving and dying people who need help and the gospel. What a delusion to wait for Y2K to provide the greatest opportunity while neglecting the challenges we already face!
So what should we do as Christians? Prudence requires a reasonable stock of supplies on hand for any emergency (earthquake, hurricane, flood). At all times we should diligently be witnessing to family, neighbors, and the wider circle of unsaved with whom we come in contact. We can trust the One who wrought our eternal salvation to bring us through this earthly scene and to our heavenly home in triumph. TBC
Question: How can a Christian who is honestly seeking the truth concerning endtime prophecy ever expect to come to the correct view of this matter when one considers the many positions that are held by those who are really godly saints?
Question: What does it mean to "test the spirits" according to 1 John 4:1-3?
Question: You claim that Gentiles should not keep Jewish religious feasts because they have no meaning for anyone but Jews. Doesn't God call the festivals His festivals in Leviticus 23...?
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Q: keep duplicates using `make_clean_names` in R janitor package I am trying to clean a character column using make_clean_names function in janitor package in R. I need to keep the duplicated in this case and not add a numeric to it. Is this possible? My code is like this
x <- c(' x y z', 'xyz', 'x123x', 'xy()','xyz','xyz')

janitor::make_clean_names(x)
[1] "x_y_z" "xyz"   "x123x" "xy"    "xyz_2" "xyz_3"

janitor::make_clean_names(x, unique_sep = '.')
[1] "x_y_z" "xyz"   "x123x" "xy"    "xyz.1" "xyz.2"

janitor::make_clean_names(x, unique_sep = NULL)
[1] "x_y_z" "xyz"   "x123x" "xy"    "xyz_2" "xyz_3"

Using unique_sep = NULL doesn't seem to work. Any other way to keep unique values?
Desired Output:
[1] "x_y_z" "xyz"   "x123x" "xy"    "xyz" "xyz"

I know how to use regular expressions to do this. Just searching for a shortcut.
PS: I know this function is created to clean names of a data.frame, I am trying to apply this to a different use case. This functionality might help a lot in cleaning character columns.

A: You can use sapply to go through the vector elements one by one and thus avoid adding numeric suffixes to duplicates:
sapply(x, make_clean_names, USE.NAMES = F)
[1] "x_y_z" "xyz"   "x123x" "xy"    "xyz"   "xyz"

A: Unfortunately no, it's not possible.  If you look at the code for make_clean_names you'll see it ends with this:
 # Handle duplicated names - they mess up dplyr pipelines.  This appends the
  # column number to repeated instances of duplicate variable names.
  while (any(duplicated(cased_names))) {
    dupe_count <-
      vapply(
        seq_along(cased_names), function(i) {
          sum(cased_names[i] == cased_names[1:i])
        },
        1L
      )

    cased_names[dupe_count > 1] <-
      paste(
        cased_names[dupe_count > 1],
        dupe_count[dupe_count > 1],
        sep = "_"
      )
  }

I think you're on the right track passing the unique_sep argument through to the underlying function that make_clean_names uses, snakecase::to_any_case.  But that while loop, recently introduced to ensure there are never duplicated names resulting from make_clean_names, will always deduplicate at the end.
You could try adapting your own function that is the first part of make_clean_names, without the loop, or you could perhaps make use of snakecase::to_any_case.


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Asked by: Glenn Hawkins
Subject: I.P. conclusions
Question: THE BIBLE OF GYROSCOPES
This paper is the first in-depth theorem of why and how the laws of motion cause the gyroscope to behave the way it does. The theorem reveals with prove that the gyroscope has capabilities beyond accepted by science.
THE UNIVERSE AND DEFLECTIONS
To understand deflection is to understand all curving motion. It is the beginning and ending of acceleration, deceleration, directions and directional changes. The nature of universe is at all times busily either curving, or attempting to curve from the tinniest particle, to the largest body. Everything is kept in a state of curving by constant deflecting events and there seems to be no straight paths allowed, but for perhaps in the shortest intervals of time.
DEFLECTIONS IN ROTATION
A good way to visualize angular deflection during rotation is to think of a ball bouncing around inside a small octagon made of panels. Ignoring friction, each time the ball collides into an angled panel it is deflected to the nest panel and the next, until the ball has made a complete deflected revolution inside the octagon. Now think of adding hundreds of angled panels and watching the ball being deflecting in tiny bumps and bounces around the panels. Add enough panels and the once regular inside surface becomes almost completely smooth. The ball rolls inside this smooth confined circle, yet still it is being deflected in the same way, though not visually. It is being deflected from its past position toward its future position, though rolling instead of bouncing.
If the ball is connected by a string to a center point of rotation the same things happen, with the difference being how the ball applies its force again deflection. A pliable ball held inside a smooth rim is being deflected, it flattens against the rim; if while a string would hold such a ball; the ball would stretch outward in the shape of an oval. The deflections travel down through the string and ultimately occur against the molecular glue holding the center point together.
Deflections guide the path of all curving motion and of course all rotations and all mass travels in these paths and never straight in line. Even light is bending its way through space.
The result of deflections in rotation is called centrifuge. It is the outward pressure of particles that while attempting to travel in a straight line are instead colliding against a curved enclosure, which creates the pressure that is called centrifuge.
When we are first introduced to centrifuge it is usually difficult to grasp and understand how it acts. This is so, because the instinctual idea is to assume that a when a ball is held by a string and whirled around a person's body and the string breaks, the ball will fly away in the direction it was traveling while in rotation; but it will not. Consider that if you swing a bat and strike a ball, the ball will fly away at a right angle to the bat. If however you were to swing a tennis racket with a ball stuck in the webbing and suddenly stopped the racket, the ball would not continue traveling in same direction as it was being rotated. Instead it would fly away at 180 degrees straight out from the line of your shoulder, arm and racket. A ball when released from rotation travels directly in the direction of centrifuge, not in the direction it was rotating.
THE OVERHUNG GYROSCOPE BRICK BY BRICK
Lecture gyroscopes in gamble rings function for the same reasons as overhung gyroscopes supported by pedestals or overhead strings. However the easiest method for study however, seems to be to with the overhung gyroscope and therefore it is chosen.
INCREASING INERTIAL RESISTANCE
During precession the gyroscope resists falling from its pedestal by the boosted magnitude of inertial reluctance to tilting. Inertial resistance is a simple concept. Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion and bodies in a state of rest tend to stay in a state of rest. That is, bodies resist acceleration and deceleration. Now let us see how the condition of inertial resistance to acceleration can be greatly increased; and then how a gyroscope resists falling while it precess'.
Two toy cars of equal weight race across a checkerboard from beginning to end. Each has a toy rocket with an equal thrust glued to the side of the cars to push them sideways even as they rolls forward.
Car A.) Car A travels forward slowly at one mile per hour, while its sideways rocket deflects its direction from straight, to a 45 degrees angle. It arrives in due time cross-wise from the upper to the lower corner of the checker board.
Car B.) It is under the same magnitude of sideways rocket force, however car B. travels forward very fast at forty-five miles per hour and arrives almost in a straight line across the center of the board.
The difference is; though the force of the rockets to deflect the course of the cars was equal, Car B. was traveling 45 times faster. Therefore car B. received only 1/45 as much time to allow sideways deflection.
It is not that increasing forward velocity increases sideways inertia resistance. It is that shortening time or distance of travel decreases the amount of total sideways force delivered.
There are three reasons that cause a gyroscope to resist falling:
The first is speed as is explained above.
The second is distance, such as the circumference of a rotating flywheel, as explained above.
The third is a constantly reversing, sideways force that applies at the top half of the wheel; and reversely at the bottom half of the wheel.
REVERSING FORCES
As overhung gyroscopes are tilted, the horizontal line running through the wheel's sideways center becomes a hinge. The hinge line is the dividing line between the top of the wheel tilting outward, and the bottom of the wheel tilting inward toward the support pedestal.
Rotating partials are accelerated sideways into tilting in one direction at the top of the wheel and are redirected at the hinge line toward tilting at the bottom in the opposite, inward direction. Each rotating particle experiences this sideways push then pull every one-half rotation. Whatever tiny amount of sideways velocity may be produced in these tiny windows of sideways acceleration, in time and distance; is stopped at the hinge line and reversed. The re-acceleration of the wheel into tilting has to overcome more than from having to continuously restart from a zero, which slows the tilting. The wheel also has to reverse the velocity of an opposite momentum that exist upper and lower between the hinge line.
The magnitude of tilting force from deceleration converts to the same magnitude of acceleration, like a perfect spring compressing and uncoiling. It is a perfectly elastic slingshot. The resistance is increased by increasing the speed of rotation. Greater speed closes the tiny windows of time and distance; and resistance grows more powerful as the time interval for tilting approaches zero.
Note: Lift support is generated by the horizontal curving movement of precession around a pedestal, and not by the otherwise more intuitive idea of upright maintenance from centrifuge against vertical tilt that is generally supposed. More on this later; ignore it for now.
QUADRANGULAR MODEL
To enable us to perceive the deflections and other invisible things, we will divide the wheel into vertical and horizontal quadrangular sections. Each of the four pie-like slices at the rim will equal a span of time and distance revisited by particles in rotation during the time the wheel is being tilted.
The particles at the front/top quadrant (a.) are continuously being tilted greater sideways distances as they rotate upwards. We may imagine with this contrivance; (jaws are opening from the hinge to the front teeth.) From the hinge line to the top of the rim, the upward rotating particles are continuously tilted further and faster sideways as they travel to the top.
As the wheel tilts, particles at the front/top quadrant, (a.) in resisting, apply pressure to twist the wheel inward and forward around the pedestal.
EXCHANGE AT THE CREST
As the front/top quadrant (a.) particles rise to top dead center, they cease to resist tilting. They have reached their maximum sideways velocity and momentum at the crest. From there they rotate down the rim of the rearward/top quadrant (b.) toward the hinge. As they do, the aperture narrows toward the hinge, transferring their sideways momentum into outward force that twist the rear of the wheel and swings it outward and forward around the pedestal.
EXCHANGE AT THE BOTTOM
Sideways forces at the rearward/bottom and forward/bottom work exactly the same way as the top, but in reverse. The rearward/bottom quadrant (c.) resists the inward tilting, therefore applying pressure outward and forward to twist the wheel around the pedestal. The accelerated velocity and momentum of particles releases at the front/bottom of the rim (d.) twist the flywheel inward and forward around the pedestal.
THE PRECESSION VECTOR
The combination of the two areas of resistance is represented in red. They apply force towards a 45 degree upward direction. The two combined areas of blue represent the force of momentum. The momentum applies forces towards a 45 degree downward direction. Each angled directional force, red from resisting and blue from built-up momentum, transfers from one to the other in a perfect elastic reaction creating two equal forces.
Combining the vector of 45 degrees upwards with the vector of 45 degrees downward translates to a 90 degree movement, which is the vector of horizontal precession.
Note: The lift support, which is an upward acting force at a right angle to precession, is caused by the curving angle of precession, or horizontal tilting at a right angle if you will. Precession deflects upwards becoming lift support. The conditions are exactly the same as from tilting vertically downward to cause precession.
DEFLECTING CENTRIFUGE
Pause: These following statements are supported by previous testing, which will be presented here in due time. Precession is not rotation.
NOW TO THE TESTS
The test will be presented in video.
The mechanical theory is correct, also the tests are correct when it is explained that the nonexistent shaft changed horizontal alignment in the extreme because it has no support.
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The tests were both complicated and ingenious and difficult to present here. The real meat of this mechanical papper is too complacated to bother with as it would not be understood, especially without drawings. which I can not past here. The conclusions, both written mechanical conceptions and real tests veveal that. . . . who here gives a rat's ass?
The paper is actually much longer, but it becomes far too complicated to be understood without props. The conditions; if they could be envisioned here are incredible and fascinating and I wish I could show you. I can't do that.
Hmm... your Quadrangular Model sounds amazingly similar to what I descried in this forum on May 5, 2012. I had a link at that time to a picture that had the explanation on it but that link has long since expired.
Actually the link still works! I have added the link to the posting in this forum. The link to the picture is in the forum link.
The explanation Blaze speaks of is ultimately incorrect in its conclusion, but I am impressed with that man who did it.
This man did some serious thinking and we share schematic designs initially, because the conditions that act, call for those drawings. There is sameness between us in the 2D circumference view. What is missing is views of the very complex twisting of particles presented in 3 D drawings. These 3 D drawing show how increasing the speed of rotation, verses the speed of the flywheel falling in a curve; as ratio variables that control the angles of force into and out from the pedestal; and thereby control the speed of precession. That is to say, how and why increasing the speed of rotation slows the speed of precession. Nothing in the article Blaze mentioned and drawings attempt to explain, or even mention the things I wrote about; the hows and whys of it all. That is to say, why and how the gyroscope uses the laws of motion to do the things it dose.
The man's ultimate conclusion is wrong. He said, "The pivot has a major advantage in leverage, because of its distance from the wheel. This means that a small force due to friction at the pivot's base can oppose a much larger force of the wheel processing."
That is wrong. Equal and opposite apply. There is simply so little force opposing precession in the form of air resistance during very slow precession, that the tiniest friction at the pedestal base is sufficient to maintain it possession.
In other words, the ultimate conclusion (not explained anywhere) but reached by me is that inertial propulsion of any kind is not possible. I sincerely wish I could be wrong.
I also wish I knew who made the drawings in an attempt to explain. I believe he would be capable of understanding my mechanics.
He is pretty sharp. We both wanted to prove I. P. was possible. He tried to make I. P. possible by giving the pivot more resistance than the laws of nature allow.
Initially I tried to prove I. P. was possible by explaining how the flywheel under so much veritable forces chose to move independently around the pedestal without transferring torque to the pedestal. Subsequent tests (I attempted to explain here some time ago), proved rather ingeniously that the torque of the wheel and pedestal are equal and opposite.
Glenn, Blaze good evening,
I am not suggesting that either of you agree with this.
I think it is far more complicated than it needs to be.
"The tests were both complicated and ingenious and difficult to present here".
I'll bet they were.
It's a bit like weighing a gyroscope in precession?
It is novel as far as I am concerned, but sorry folks it does not work for me.
Hello Sandy,
The truth is that the mechanics of why and how the things of gyroscopes work is on a minor scale like explaining the theories of Steven Hawking and Einstein. Not all of us care about the explanations, but there is room for them for people who do want to know and by knowing foresee into the actual designs of apparatus' and of even if they work and how best.
I have explained almost nothing above.
I have not even posted the full measure of what I have. It would be pointless. No one would understand, because the explanations are imposable, at least to me, to present well enough for human understanding. If there were fault, which there isn't, it would be with my inept presentation,not with the comprehension of an audience.
My work can not be understood given words only and not even with sketches. 3 D animation would allow for understanding, I think nothing less would. But; I know what is happening when I see gyros manipulated. It would be a fine thing, I say; to see these magnificent things occurring in one's mind. And if it has never been seen that way by people, how can it be faulted? How can one dismiss what he hasn't seen? The incredible pictures of particles in colors doing tricks against one another in space to show how forces in the universe work is a very pretty sight. Once seen, one would not never wonder why the history of scientific understanding has led us to these amazing things all around us. You have seen it. That is how you design, but you have not seen what I have seen.
I love you. I hope you don't get annoyed with me.
www.iseti.us/WhitePapers/Mars2005/MarsSociety-2005-(DoestheLaithwaiteGyroscopicWeightLosshavePropulsionPotential-2005-09-11).pdf
I am in error. I.P. is possible. Long story. I found the evidence of it's potential. I AM SORRY. Everything I've written above, other than that conclusion, is correct I believe. I will begin in another post when I have time. I think I can explain this one.
I.P. IS POSSIBLE.
I hope you know that I like you. Your human freshly change of mind makes me smile. Sometimes you are very impulsive but you are a likable person! ;-)
Regarding your gyro related explanations I have however my doubts, but I think each person has own ways of thinking and imagination how special things may work.
Therefore it is difficult to discuss or to convince others how such things may work without the use of a "common language" which everybody is able to understand.
Such a common language could be for instance the maths, however with the problem that not everybody is able to understand this language beyond a certain level, depending on the own level of education. This applies to me as well!
The graphic posted by Blaze is not totally wrong but in my opinion it demonstrates poorly understood gyro behavior.
But I definitely disagree with your "centrifuge" explanation. Centrifugal force is a fictious force contrary to the centripetal force, which is the counter directed force with same size.
If the real centripetal force does not act anymore (e.g. cut the rope during revolving of a mass), the fictious centrifugal force disappears instantly and thus only the rotation vector force of the mass is present which cause the mass to move away in a straight tangential path.
Think of a grinding pulley wheel in touch with a rigid Body on its cricumference. The sparks fly away in a tangential straight path but not in direction of the formerly acting centrifugal force!
All your other explanations are different to my way of thinking but it is your way of thinking and thus it is okay if this may help you for understanding these issues,
Thank you for responding and your example is clever. Good for you. I disagree though and can explain and I would like to and I will. I am too tired to think right now. My help laid out drunk again-- not German like; efficient and stable at all. Sandy is on my ass right now too.
I just love him. Later my friend,
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Hello Pat my friend,
It's good to hear from you. I understand! Your communication is very well expressed. Thank you again. I can't call, but I will try again.
All my Best to you,
Hey, somebody in England call Pat.
Hello Harry,
It is always fun to hear from you. I have finished that tough little project without help and now can pause to concentrate.
I, as doubtlessly you also have been familiar since I was in knee-pants with the classroom explanations of centrifuge and centripetal. I knew it was mechanically wrong then as ever afterwards. If any of us should need a moment's refresher of what we are talking about, I have listed two sites below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_motion
I physics the two concepts are designed to allow for easy and correct mathematical expressions and results. Bully for that. By that I mean 'good'. Scholastically Harold, I well know your are perfectly in line with the world of accepted physics and of course mathematics, but all of that is not correctly, exactly how things happen mechanically. I will explain, but first I want you to know I was reasonably well trained in some forms of mathematics to include; arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and logarithms. My business and limited design and engineering work do not require much math and for a reason I otherwise avoid math as to do with gyroscopes. He is mad some would say, but I have a purpose. My plain was to always thing mechanically. There is world enough of mathematical efforts, but to study them; to use them lessens the mechanical thinking out of the box. Hundreds of millions of people know the gyroscope mathematically, but I maybe the one, or the few who know it mechanically in my mine. I think, mechanically, that is the precise how and why things actually work the way they do. I think Glenn's mechanically, mechanically, mechanically, mechanically, mechanically.
This is impossible to follow obviously for some people. The class room keeps a lead on the box, and a led on an open mind.
When Professor Laithewait's demonstrated a non-understood phenomena at the most precious Royal Institution, not one Augustus member classroom science offered an explanation, or later tried to publicly explain the why and how of the demonstrated actions occur. They did not know and so the class room keeps-a-led-on syndrome followed in the form of closed lips and the concept of open-mind closed tight. That is what happens in the community toward my form of mechanics. They can be seen, or realized, but they cannot be accepted by scholars, because the books don't say the demonstrations they see act as they see them.
Here we go Harold:
The sparks on your grinding wheel spew out in the direction they are deflected by the object being sharpened and being ground down. Will you please do a couple of experiments? I mean actually do them. Throw a ball over-handed, that is, in a circular motion over your head, arm pivoting at your shoulder. When you release the ball with your arm pointed at a target straight a head, the ball flies away in that pointed direction, not down at the ground at your feed to complete the direction of the rotation of your arm. Watch a baseball game on TV. Watch the pitcher. Try this. Tie a string to a ball and whorl it around like a like David did with his sling shot to kill the Giant. Wherever your grip loosens the string, the ball will fly off sideways in the direction your arm was pointing, and not in the direction your arm and body was rotating.
Just think, if you do the tests with careful observation and another observer you will have evidence to suit me and prove your point, if you are correct, but of coarse my friend you are not correct.
Again, the truth of the mechanical has in a few cases been altered to suit and convey methods for use in mathematics; not in logically and actuality the way things happen. I claim the opposite of what you say is true. Centrifuge is real. Centripetal is fictitious. Let us do some mental calisthenics. My turn :-) my friend, I do admire your excellence so. Please know that as I proceed.
HOWEVER: Position two heavy balls in space tied together by a long rope and cause the balls to rotate around one another. The rope holds the balls together by its molecular glue. It is lengthwise stationary and produces no force. There is no acting force in it. It resists force and its mire existence, even as only a resistance; both come into play as tightness only while an acting force is applied against it. Remove the cause of the tautness, that remove the acting force and the tautness disappears to non-existence. It never had force. It is molecular glue holding together chain two objects producing opposite forces.
The rope has no force at all at any point of its length, or at the center of its rotation. Imagine that you are able to cut a small parallel section of it away with two scissors at the same time. The balls that have been trying to travel in a straight line in opposite directions fly away taking with all the force they possessed in the form of momentum: force that they had been using to cause binary rotation. It is the balls that contain the outward force called centrifuge which is momentum. The little piece of center rotating rope that remains just continues to rotate its few ounces of mass. The center 'centripetal' never had any force; no power pull, only to resist and only to resist while real force acted against it. After the real force that caused everything is gone, it is nothing left, because there was nothing before. Nothing and nothing equal nothing. If the exited balls collide into an object they will deliver the force they carry. On the other hand the bit of rope, the past center of rotation should collide with something nothing happens. Lastly the center of mass of the rope in rotation, centripetal, had no force. It is a chain. Centripetal is fictitious. Centrifugal force is real for therein lies all the force and power.
Spring is about to visit your beautiful country. I am happy for you.
Wishing You and Family the Best, Sincerely,
Quoting from your post "Throw a ball over-handed, that is, in a circular motion over your head, arm pivoting at your shoulder. When you release the ball with your arm pointed at a target straight a head, the ball flies away in that pointed direction, not down at the ground at your feed to complete the direction of the rotation of your arm. Watch a baseball game on TV. Watch the pitcher."
We do not play base ball, as you know the British game is cricket. I do not play cricket either for that matter, do not like the game. Non the less I have observed the action of bowlers and pitchers. Pitchers throw the ball, wind up project the arm forwards and release the ball, sort of. That pitcher's action "Throwing" is a no-ball in cricket, and adds a run to the oppositions score. With Bowling the ball is released at the apex of the swing, when the ball is directly over the bowlers head. Think max tangential velocity parallel to the pitch. An even better example is the medieval catapult
http://www.real-world-physics-problems.com/catapult-physics.html
The mangonel swings is an arc until the arm strikes a bar , releasing the pay load tangential to the arm.
I particularly like the ball in an octagon, smoothing to a smooth surface. It precedes my own visualization of a ball bearing in a crystal sphere. I will post further on your concept, but cannot see how to reconcile your views on "pitching a ball " with my world view.
I see you are both correct, which means of course I was wrong about this:
Correction and agreement: A rotating ball will continue toward the straight path it was attempting to travel, until and unless it is deflected. The instant the deflecting surface is removed, centrifuge is removed, and the ball is free to travel the way it wanted to, that is, travel straight ahead and not at all in the direction of the previous centrifuge. After all, centrifuge is only the pressure of a collision of momentum against a stationary retaining wall. How simple huh? And, how simple minded of me to miss it. Congratulations boys. You did a fine job.
Still, I otherwise stick by my observations and explanations that centrifuge is real and centripetal is false, though it is an excellent mathematical tool. Yes! I can see a bearing rotating inside a glass sphere and I can see the sphere rolling back and forth on a table as a result of the centrifuge the ball is creating as it rotates.
Otherwise, Cool Harry K.!!! I like it.
Momentus, What a good post. I was delighted to hear your voice. From time to time I wondered, 'What's happened to that interesting, well mattered and smart guy.' You have won me over with your 'instantaneous precession', except for the ridiculously small amount of time molecular compression takes place when transferring force from one end of an object to another. Suffice to say, I agree with you.
Spring is HERE in my Southern Smoky Mountains of Tennessee!!!!! Yepeee!
Hello Glenn and Momentum,
The link from Momentum provides good explanations regarding the centrifugal/centripetal issue.
Glenn, I believe you underlie a misinterpretation regarding the behavior of masses under the influence of acting forces. The mass or rather a mass point always try to keep its momentary state, either to remain at rest or to remain at its actually non-accelerated (!) speed in any direction and this behavior is called mass inertia.
To move a mass/mass point around a central point, a constant additional force to the existing speed is in linear direction necessary to FORCE the mass/mass point moving around a central point. The formerly linear speed of the mass will now be transformed into the circumferential speed with the help of CENTRIPETAL force. This centripetal force is acting at each moment rectangular to the circumferential speed of the mass and is directed from the mass to the central point. Due to the existence of centripetal force, the mass will permanently forced to rotate around the central point and thus this forced rotation at constant circumferential speed is anyhow an accelerated but not a translational (non-accelerated) system!
The existence of this REAL centripetal force CAUSES a FICTIOUS CENTRIFUGAL force at the mass in counter direction to the causative centripetal force, i.e. from the central point to the perimetric mass. This centrifugal force is caused by the mass inertia, which defy the forced rotation around the central point. Now, if centripetal forced will be removed, for instance by cutting the rope of a rotated mass, the (causing) centripetal force is instantly not existent anymore and thus centrifugal force is not existent anymore as well. As a result the formerly orbiting mass will now move away in a straight pass in the direction of the last position on the circumference at the moment when the rope was cut. This direction is always tangential to the last position of the radius at the moment when the rope was cut, but it will never be the direction of the formerly acting centrifugal force vector which was congruent to this momentary radius.
I believe you think it was claimed that the mass would keep its rotation movement after the cut of the rope, what is not true. A rotation movement can only happen with the existence of a centripetal force (which in return causes a centrifugal force).
I cannot find any discrepancies regarding your example with the heavy balls rotating around each other. This is a two mass system, whereas each mass delivers the centripetal force for the other mass which in return causes the centrifugal forces at each mass. The "molecular glue" is responsible to force the both masses to rotate around their common centre of mass (central point of rotation). Imagine the rope would be made of a flexible rubber. In this case no or less centripetal force could not be generated to force the both masses around an orbiting path.
Hope this helps a bit for better understanding.
I have earlier agreed that I was mistaken and that a mass released from rotation will continue in the path of its last deflected direction and not outward from a center point of rotation.
Beyond that nothing is new here. Your explanations are not unknown and not challenged. The crux of the disagreement is simpler. We have opposite views of centripetal and centrifuge. I can see it your way perfectly. I always could. It is a contrivance of reason to support a method of counting. My method is purely mechanical and exact and most people can not grasp it. So we are not bulging here. We are going no where.
What is new in your life, Harry. The last report I got was that you had received a promotion. I was happy. That is what comes to people with excellent ability, even those who are mistaken about push and pull. Smile Harry.
Sorry there was an overlapping with our postings. I know that I did not told any news. That physics is hundreds of years old... ;-)
No news here, besides that my son married last year and I'm impatiently waiting to become a grandpa. :-)))


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The Columns
The Columns, 1972 November
On the cover: Dr. Cecil C. Humphreys, Memphis State University's sixth president, stands on the steps of the Tennessee state capital and a new career as the first chancellor of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. The 58-year-old native of Paris, Tenn., was appointed to the administrative position on September 13 by Gov. Winfield Dunn, and begins the task of unifying six state universities and nine community colleges under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Regents.
Also featured, "Justice and the education of its defenders"
Growth was rapid, and in three years - an almost unheard of minimum time - Memphis State's School of Law was accredited by the American Bar Association. Five years is usually the minimum required for this accreditation and some schools require 10 to 15 years. With approximately 620 students currently enrolled and a faculty of 14, the School of Law has grown to the point that Dean Cox is looking forward to the construction of a second building to provide additional classroom and library space.
Columns.6_2.1972 November
Memphis State University; University of Memphis; University of Memphis (Memphis, Tenn.). Alumni Association.
"The Columns, 1972 November" (2022). The Columns. 36.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-ua-alumni1/36