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Hierarchical cluster analysis is an algorithm that groups similar objects into groups called clusters. The endpoint is a set of clusters, where each cluster is distinct from each of the other clusters, and the objects within each cluster are broadly similar to each other. This article describes how to conduct a hierarchical cluster analysis in Displayr.
Please note, Displayr's hierarchical cluster analysis tool treats the variables as the cases, so it does not produce segments in the traditional sense (e.g., it is used for creating segments of brands, rather than segments of people). If you want to group similar respondents together, consider an alternative method such as Latent Class Analysis or k-means cluster analysis.
- Hierarchical clustering can be performed with either raw data or a distance matrix. When raw data is used, the distance matrix is automatically computed in the background.
- From the toolbar, select Anything > Advanced Analysis > Cluster > Hierarchical Cluster Analysis.
- From the object inspector, select the variables from your data set that you want to use as inputs to the cluster analysis. For this example, we've used binary variables showing device ownership from a technology survey.
- Enter a value for the Number of clusters that you want to create.
- OPTIONAL: Select a distance measure from the Distance input. This is the formula used to compute the distance between points, prior to clustering. For more information, see the dist package documentation which is used for the distance matrix computation.
- Euclidean (default)
- OPTIONAL: Select the algorithm to use to form the clusters from the Clustering method input. For more details, see the hclust package documentation.
- Ward1 (ward.D)
- Ward2 (ward.D2) (default) - Commonly know as Ward's method
- OPTIONAL: Tick Variable names. This Displays Variable Names in the output.
OPTIONAL: Tick Categorical as binary. This represents unordered categorical variables as binary variables. Otherwise, they are represented as sequential integers (i.e., 1 for the first category, 2 for the second, etc.). Numeric - Multi variables are treated according to their numeric values and not converted to binary.
OPTIONAL: Set the Label margin, which is the width of the right-hand margin to accommodate long labels.
- Click the Calculate button to generate the custom analysis output.
The output is what's called a dendrogram which shows the distance between the variables. Each of the clusters is displayed as a separate color.
How to Analyze Data by Groups/Segments
How to Do Latent Class Analysis
How to Create a Segmentation Comparison Table
How to Do Mixed Mode Cluster Analysis in Displayr
How to Do K-Means Cluster Analysis
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Książ Castle – Walbrzych, Poland - Atlas Obscura
Książ Castle
A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.
Shrouded in secrets within the Owl Mountains of southwestern Poland, there sits a magnificent castle where many Nazi conspiracy theories find their roots.
Ksiaz Castle is an impressive fortress rising up on a cliff embankment and surrounded by lush forests and immaculate gardens. With a history that dates to the 12th century, the imposing complex has had a wide variety of important owners and architectural acknowledgments that are worth a visit in their own right. Today, however, it is what lies under the castle that draws people's attention.
Ksiaz was confiscated by the Nazis during World War II, and tens of thousands of Nazi prisoners, mainly Jews from Hungary and Poland, were forced to build a massive subterranean complex with 12-meter high ceilings beneath the Gothic and Baroque ramparts that rose above.
Most of the network of underground structures lie unfinished directly beneath the castle and in the surrounding area, all part of the mysterious Project Riese (German for "giant"). One of the largest Nazi construction projects during the war, Project Riese continues to baffle historians and scholars due to it's top-secret status and the few documents that remain detailing it's purpose. One thing is for certain: Upon completion of Project Riese the castle was to become Adolf Hitler's personal headquarters.
It never did though. The project was never finished and Ksiaz was eventually captured by the Red Army which stole, destroyed, and secreted much of the information relevant to the project. To this day, little but word of mouth rumors and stories can be gleaned from locals who tell of secret atomic weapons or hidden Nazi trains that are laden with valuable art and treasure, said to be booby trapped with extensive weaponry and lying within the soil around the complex.
Every year, treasure seekers from around the globe can be found hunting the hills around the castle with metal detectors and dowsing rods, hoping to be the one to find a cache of Nazi gold or any sort of hint to the secrets the castle's underground complexes may hold.
Know Before You Go
From Wroclaw, the castle is easy to get to by public services. Take a train from Wroclaw to Walbrzych-Miasto station which will take around an hour and thirty minutes and cost 14.60 zloty, and then jump on the number 8 or 12 bus. Alternatively you can drive the 70km from Wroclaw. Taxis from Walbrzych-Miasto are usually around 20-30 zloty.
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Advertising Toxicity to Defend Against Reef Predators
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Although chemical defenses can provide excellent protection for many reef organisms, there is always a danger that an inquisitive predator might launch an attack before realizing its mistake. Although this may have dire consequences for the attacker, the prey animal may also suffer serious injury. Therefore, it pays for animals to advertise their toxicity clearly, making sure that predators get the message well before they become too interested.
Do all inedible animals advertise?
Whereas the most dangerous animals usually do invest in warning colors, there are many species that, for whatever reason, do not. Marine sponges are soft bodied and highly vulnerable to fishes but those that live among high densities of fishes, such as coral reef sponges, are almost always unpalatable to fish. On the whole, sponges do not use bold warning colors to alert their predators, possibly because they are able to regenerate damaged tissue. But even without these warning colors most fish rarely attack them and even avoid eating fragments of sponges. This may be because the sponges also smell bad or because the fish simply learn to avoid them after an early encounter.
What color patterns do poisonous animals use as warning signals?
In biological terminology, using color patterns to warn potential predators of danger is known as aposematism. Most poisonous animals are aposematic the deadly blue-ringed octopus uses a subdued, camouflaged color pattern for most of its life, but when threatened it flashes the vivid blue warning pattern that gives it its common name. Similarly, the devil scorpionfish blends in with its background under normal conditions, but when threatened it produces a display to warn its assailant of its toxic qualities.
However, a warning signal is only effective when it can be generally recognized. For this reason, groups of poisonous animals all tend to converge on the same kinds of signal; for example, many stinging insects, such as bees and wasps, use the combination of yellow and black to give advance warning. The same happens on the reef, where different nudibranch species all adopt the same livery to consolidate the message to any potential predators, a phenomenon known as Mullerian mimicry.
Are warning colors mimicked by other reef animals?
When large groups of poisonous animals all use the same warning colors to signal that they are poisonous and should not be interfered with, it sends a strong message to their potential predators. But, rather sneakily, the message can be hijacked by perfectly harmless animals that merely pretend to be poisonous.
For example, hoverflies have exactly the same color pattern as wasps but are completely inoffensive; this is known as Batesian mimicry. In effect, the harmless creatures use the wasp's color pattern — pretending to be
dangerous without actually being so — to protect themselves. On the coral reef, predators avoid the valentine pufferfish and with good reason — it is extremely poisonous. But the blacksaddle filefish (Paraluteres prionurus), a completely harmless species, gains protection simply by looking like a valentine pufferfish. However, predators are not stupid; this bluffing strategy only works when there are comparatively few mimicking cheats relative to the number of real poisonous species, otherwise the predators would quickly leam and start to attack

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Data archiving
Some improvements and bug fixes were made to the observing data tracking and archiving system. One of the main advantages is that it can be started from anywhere, e.g., DVD production can be started from the Residencia before going to the telescope, and everything can be ready by the time you arrive at the telescope. Some more improvements of the archiving system are planned (reprinting of covers, burning more than one night to one DVD, dealing with shared nights, etc)
At the sea-level office a mass data storage system has been set-up to copy all the data from the archive (CDs and DVDs). As a first step this will be the more modern MEF format data, where the plan is to convert older data to a more modern format before saving it. Software is being written to make the process of copying the data from the disks as easy as possible. In the long run the storage system can act as online archive and be integrated with a Virtual Observing system.
Thomas Augusteijn 2010-05-27


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Battle Remains in the Ypres Salient, Belgium
This page lists some of the more well known battle remains which can be seen or which are accessible to visitors in the _PHONE_ Ypres Salient battlefields.
In the list below click to show the place on the map or to expand the details.
Bayernwald German Trenches
Wijtschate (2 kilometres north of the village)
Reconstructed section of original German trench system (access by prior booking from Kemmel Tourist Office).
British Bunker at Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Station, Ieper-Ijser Canal
Western Ieper-Ijser canal bank, north of Ypres
Preserved bunker complex used by the British Army as a medical dressing station.
From the original dugouts in the earth of the western spoilbank of the Ieper-Ijser canal in April 1915, a medical treatment centre near Essex Farm was developed into a concrete bunker with several rooms by 1917. See our page giving information about the origins of the dressing station with a sketch showing the plan of the complex.
British Bunker at Zillebeke
Komenseweg, off the N336 south of Ypres
(The bunker is on private land and not accessible, but can easily be seen from the road.)
This bunker can be seen in a field on the north side of the road near to Transport Farm British military cemetery. The horizontal lines in the concrete were created when sandbagging was laid onto the bunker's surface while the concrete was still wet.
Bunkers and Battlefield Relics at Pond Farm, near St. Julien
Fortuinhoek (6 kilometres north-east of Ypres)
A private museum at the farm includes a collection of antique items from the First World War period and many fascinating relics found on the battlefields around the farm.
The farm near St. Julien was known as Pond Farm on British Army trench maps, and Kazerne Häseler on German military maps. After the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915 the farm was in German occupied ground. By 1917 Pond Farm was one of many reinforced strongpoints in the German Army's defensive line. Three large bunkers, small bunkers, tunnels and cellars formed the fortifications at this place.
For a comprehensive history of the farm with photos and what visitors can see there go to the website:
Cratered Ground and Bunker at Hill 60
Zwaarteleenstraat, off Komenseweg at Zwaarte Leen
The cratered ground at Hill 60 was left relatively untouched after the First World War and preserved as a memorial
Many hundreds of French, British and German soldiers lost their lives in the fight for this area of high ground. A bunker can be found in the central area of the Hill 60 Memorial Site grounds.
German Command Post Bunker at Zandvoorde
South of Zandvoorde village, south-east of Ypres
A preserved German command post built in 1916 in the rear area of the 1916 German Front Line.
See our page about the bunker and how to find it:
German Bunker near Langemark
Beekstraat, off the Klerkenstraat north of Langemark
This bunker is similar to the three concrete bunkers within the German military cemetery at Langemark. It was captured by the British Army in September 1918.
It was used after that time as an Advanced Dressing Station (ADS) to treat the wounded. The memorial to the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers of the British 34th Division has been located next to this bunker.
The bunker can be accessed by a path from the road at all times.
German Bunkers in Tyne Cot Cemetery
Tynecotstraat, south of Passschendaele village
There are three German bunkers in Tyne Cot cemetery. One of the three bunkers is the location where it was decided to build the Cross of Sacrifice. The other two bunkers remain untouched.
For information about Tyne Cot Cemetery and the features in the cemetery including the bunkers see our page:
Hussar Farm Observation Post
N345 Kruiskalsijdestraat, south of Potijze village
The Observation Post (O.P.) was built by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers inside the original farmhouse.
The brick and concrete structure was strengthened with railway lines and corrugated iron sheeting. In spite of the artillery shelling from the German guns for most the four years of war in the Ypres Salient this OP has survived.
Mine Crater on The Caterpillar at Zillebeke
Zwaarteleenstraat, off Komenseweg at Zwaarte Leen
This crater was formed by a mine exploded under the German position on high ground south of the YpresComines railway.
This high ground had been created by the spoil from when the railway cutting was made before the First World War. The high ground was known as The Caterpillar and it overlooked Hill 60, similarly created from the railway cutting spoil only a few hundred metres to its east. The mine crater has since filled with water and now forms a small round pond in the wood which has grown up since the fighting ended here.
Access to the crater is free. There is a path of about 100 metres to reach the mine crater from the road. Once in the wood the crater is located on the right of the path.
Mine Crater at Spanbroekmolen — The Pool of Peace
Kruisstraat, south east of Wijtschate
Mining underneath the enemy's position was a characteristic of warfare in the Ypres Salient. A number of large mines were exploded in the Ypres Salient.
The most notable of these were the 19 mines exploded in the early hours of 7th June 1917 at the launch of the British offensive on the German lines on the Messines Ridge. This mine crater is one of these mines. The crater created by the explosion here has filled with water due to the high water table and the clay soil.
The Spanbroekmolen crater was purchased by Toc H in the 1920s. It remained untouched until the 1990s, when it was formally named "The Pool of Peace" in Remembrance of the _PHONE_ war and those who fought in it.
Trenches at Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62)
Canadalaan, off the N8 Menenstraat
When the farmer returned to reclaim his land after the fighting ended he left a section of trenches on his land in a wood near Hill 62, which had been known as Sanctuary Wood on British Army maps.
This is one of few sections of trench line with saps and a tunnel on the Western Front which can offer the visitor an idea of what they would have looked like.
Yorkshire Trench near Boezinge
Bargiestraat, off the road called Oostkaie on the east side of the Ypres-Yser canal.
Yorkshire Trench was discovered and dug out during the development of the industrial zone to the north of Ieper in the late 1990s.
A section of original British trench system, with entrances to two tunnels and dugouts, has been reconstructed with concrete sandbags and duckboards. Information boards explain the history of the trench and the area it is in.
Access is free and is open to visit at all hours.
For more information about the typical types of battlefield remains to be found on the Western Front see our pages:Battlefield remains on the Western Front Battle Remains in the French Flanders and Artois Battlefields Battle Remains on the Somme Battlefields
The Ypres Salient Battlefields, Flanders, BelgiumThe Ypres Salient Battlefields
Photograph of Pond Farm courtesy of _URL_

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Many shops can be observed in crowded places also not doing well which are opposite a street. Even where the cost of the plot is very high few places are always vacant because of a lane or street opposite to that place.
But some are very good and prosperous even though they face a street opposite to their plot.
This is the Vastu energy which are created by this street some are good and some are bad. In Chinese Feng Shui this phenomena is called as "Poison Arrow" and in Tamil it is called as "Therukuthu".
Always an experienced Vastu Consultant must be approached for rectification. By doing simple rectifications prosperity can be achieved. If not rectified by proper Vastu methods serious misfortunes may happen and whatever investments and efforts are taken might go wasted.
For example in a south-west corner plot, if there is a road opposite to its west of south-west corner it is a major Vastu defect. This road being at a wrong direction as per Vastu Shastra can cause the following troubles to the plot owner and the people living in the house.
- The plot owner may meet with accidents, which can hospitalize him for very long time.
- The people living in the place may commit suicide and die.
- Sudden and un-expected death of elderly people living in the house may happen.
- The females living in the house may become mentally ill or get incurable disease.
- Huge financial loss in business due to unforeseen circumstance can make the owner popper.
- If the main door is kept in the west of south-west corner, the plot owner may go to jail due to a quarrel, can get heart attack, major surgery, accidents of fatal in nature,..Etc.
Vastu remedies for correction of defective plots and houses:-
Vastu Shastra suggests many ways for correcting the defects. Consulting an expert Vastu consultant is suggested to get the best remedial action.
1. These plots can be corrected by dividing the plot in to two, where by the portion opposite the street becomes a separate plot.
2. Shops, Garages, Small temples, Gardens, etc. can be built to divert the bad effects.
3. Separate compound wall must be constructed as explained in the picture below:
1. Vastu Rectification of plots that is defective due to roads opposite south west corner and south east:
2. Rectification plots defective due to roads opposite south west corner and North West corner:


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Gum disease: The most common form of bone loss
A neutrophil fights off infection in the mouth (graphic illustration courtesy of Dr. Glogauer)
On July 19, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research announced it will be funding the work of three research teams investigating bone health. The University of Torontos Dr. Michael Glogauer, Associate Professor with the Faculty of Dentistry, heads one of those teams. A clinician scientist whose post-doctoral work at Harvard focussed on neutrophils white blood cells that help fight infection and inflammation - Glogauer spoke with U of T News about seeking new ways to identify bone loss in gum disease.
When we hear the words bone loss, osteoporosis comes to mind. What does bone loss have to do with gum disease?
The most common form of bone loss is not osteoarthritis or osteoporosis its periodontal or gum disease. And with three-quarters of the population expected to experience it you can imagine the costs associated with it.
Because its painless most people dont realize its going on until its too late. By the time they decide to go to the dentist or end up at the periodontal gum specialist, theyve actually lost significant amounts of bone. They may even lose their teeth and require implant placement or dentures.
What are the symptoms?
Bleeding gums is a sign but it will come and go periodontal disease is episodic, like all inflammatory diseases. There will be periods where its very active and periods where its quiet and a lot of people will just ignore it.
Eventually, teeth will start to shift, to move around. There will be pain on chewing or teeth will actually start to become loose. And when the teeth become loose its almost too late at that point.
How will your research help?
What were trying to do is identify novel diagnostic biomarkers that will allow us to do a couple of things. First, we want to develop diagnostic tests like a rinse which patients can use at home or in a dental office to identify if you have disease at the very early stages, before bone loss starts to occur.
Second, there are some patients who have very severe forms of the disease and are very resistant to treatment. We want to try to identify markers to show which patients are at very high risk for the aggressive forms of the disease so they can be treated more aggressively than the standard patient.
With this grant, well be collecting fluid from the patients mouth and around the teeth and carrying out high throughput screening and sophisticated analysis of these fluids in order to identify possible novel biomarkers.
Is this all taking place at U of T?
This money will allow us to take our research to the next level by creating a collaborative team. Our team includes Dr. Christopher Overall at the University of British Columbia. Hes one of the worlds leading experts on doing a specific type of proteomic analysis. Using mass spectrometry, well be able to look, not just at proteins in the fluids, but also at proteases that modify these proteins and change their functions. Were trying to see if these fine-tuned proteins will serve as more significant or pertinent biomarkers.
There are three of us here in Toronto Professor Sergio Grinstein, Professor Christopher McCulloch and myself. The fifth member is Dr. Deborah Mathews working out of Dalhousie so we really have a cross-Canada team, all the way from Dalhousie to UBC.
Drs Mathews, McCulloch and I are going to also focus on the knowledge translation aspect of the project.
Its not enough to just identify the biomarkers and come up with the test. Right from the beginning we want to make contact with industry, with the various patient groups and clinician provider groups to try to come up with the best way to formulate the test and the best way to get that into the clinics so that patients can start using it as soon as it becomes available. Thats knowledge translation.
Earlier this year you also received one of U of Ts Connaught Innovation Awards for something called a colourmetric rinse test. Is that related to bone health?
The colormetric rinse test measures the oral inflammatory load basically its a way of telling you that a patient has significant inflammation in their gums, and that patient is in need of treatment.
The key marker that were using there is a type of white blood cell called a neutrophil. Its an excellent tool for letting us know that the patient has inflammation and the severity of the inflammation we can use to make certain the treatment is successful. What were trying to do with this grant, going forward is to try to catch things even earlier in the process. And these biomarkers hopefully can also tell us which patients are not going to respond well to the treatment.
The more aggressive forms, which probably happen in less than five percent of cases, patients come in and theyve got excellent hygiene, theyre doing everything they should, visiting the dentist every three to six months, and theyre still breaking down, still going to lose their teeth. So we want to identify these patients early on.
We also want to try to find some of the genes associated with the aggressive bone loss in these patients in hopes that, by understanding the genetics we can improve treatment as well.
Could your work help with other forms of bone loss, or other conditions affected by inflammation?
Theres a consensus now that you can almost pick any disease, and its associated with inflammation. Inflammation has a hand in everything - osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, cancer. Pick a condition and its affected by inflammation.
Periodontal disease is the prototypic, osteo-immune disease, where the inflammatory system is impacting on bone and causing bone to be lost. So we believe that the markers we find in the mouth will be very applicable for diseases such as arthritis. We believe that the mechanisms are almost identical.
This will be an excellent way to take the knowledge we find and test it out for other conditions.
At any time you have between eight and 12 students working your lab dentistry students or medical students?
Im a dentist but half the stuff in my lab is not really dental focused. We use transgenic mouse models so we can really understand the immune system and osteoclasts (cells that break down bone) and the osteo-immune connection, take what were doing fundamentally at the bench with mice and cells, and then look at whats happening with patients.
We have masters students, PhDs, one or two post-docs and particularly during the summer we usually have about four to six undergrads working in the lab. About two-thirds are usually on the dental side but we have medical students as well.
But its not just about training doctors and dentists. My goal is to try to create clinician scientists. Im trying to turn people on to research because I think its critically important we need smart people to help us figure out the answers to the important questions we have.
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武内桂舟: Mouse Lamp - Artelino
絵師: 武内桂舟
作品名: Mouse Lamp
日付: 1912.
詳細と価格: 武内桂舟: Mouse Lamp - Artelino
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From the Bungei Kurabu novel "Akatsuki" ("Dawn") in Vol.18, No.1. A young woman reads a letter by an oil lamp. A mouse on top of the lamp also looks into the letter. Kuchi-e (frontispiece illustration) was made for the popular literary magazines largely aimed at the female readers in Meiji-Taisho era. They were published by newly established publishers such as Bungei Kurabu, Shunyodo and Suzando. These publishing companies; among which Chuo-koronsha, Kodansha, Shinchosha still exist; published not only literary subjects but also many different everyday subjects such as cooking, sewing and hobbies as monthly publications.


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 if (recordId == Guid.Empty)
 record = graph.CreatePeerRecord(CHAT_MESSAGE_RECORD_TYPE,
 new TimeSpan(0,0,10));
 record.DataAsString = textBox3.Text;
 textBox3.Text = string.Empty;
 record = graph.GetRecord(recordId);
 record.DataAsString = textBox3.Text;
 graph.UpdateRecord(record, new TimeSpan(0,0,3));
If no existing record has been selected, then the entered text is associated with a new record. CreatePeerRecord is called to create a record, the text is added as data, and the record is added to the graph. Otherwise, when an existing record has been selected, the record is retrieved, the data is updated with the entered text, and the graph is updated.
The application's OnRecordChanged event is fired when the status of a record in the graph changes. When a record is added, it adds the record's ID to the top list. When a record is deleted or when it expires, it removes the record's ID from the top list. In all cases, a diagnostic message is recorded.
private void OnRecordChanged(object sender,
 PeerGraphRecordChangedEventArgs e)
 PeerRecord record;
 switch (e.Action)
 case PeerRecordAction.Added:
 record = graph.GetRecord(e.RecordId);
 LogMessage(@"Added", record.DataAsString);
 case PeerRecordAction.Deleted:
 LogMessage(@"Deleted", e.RecordId.ToString());
 case PeerRecordAction.Expired:
 LogMessage(@"Expired", e.RecordId.ToString());
 case PeerRecordAction.Updated:
 record = graph.GetRecord(e.RecordId);
 LogMessage(@"Updated", record.DataAsString);
 textBox3.Text = record.DataAsString;
 recordId = e.RecordId;
Points of Interest
In order for the PeerRecord class to be cached by an application, it must make a copy of the unmanaged data. The reason for this is that after the PEER_RECORD has been marshaled, its memory is freed. To simplify freeing memory, Microsoft chose to create a continuous block of memory to store a record and its data. That is, the data follows the record in the same block of memory. As a result, once the memory is freed, the data is no longer accessible from managed code (the IntPtr is invalid). In an effort to maintain the data in marshalable form, the unmanaged data is copied into the unmanaged memory. It's too bad, Microsoft doesn't provide a better way to do this.
private void CopyUnmanagedData(PEER_DATA data)
 IntPtr ptr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(data.cbData);
 byte[] buffer = new byte[data.cbData];
 Marshal.Copy(data.pbData, buffer, 0, data.cbData);
 Marshal.Copy(buffer, 0, ptr, data.cbData);
 data.pbData = ptr;
I will need to run some benchmarks to determine if there is a more optimal approach to handling this problem, especially if the majority of the time, it's only marshaled for reading.
Links to Resources
I have found the following resources to be very useful in understanding peer graphs:
I hope you have found this article useful. The next article will focus on associating XML meta-data with a record. Stay tuned for more articles on the following topics:
 1. Peer Name Resolution - Windows Vista Enhancements
 1. Peer Graph - Attributes
 2. Peer Graph - Searching
 3. Peer Graph - Importing and Exporting a Database
 1. Peer Groups and Identity
 1. Peer Collaboration - People Near Me
 2. Peer Collaboration - EndPoints
 3. Peer Collaboration - Capabilities
 4. Peer Collaboration - Presence
 5. Peer Collaboration - Invitations
If you have suggestions for other topics, please leave a comment.
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CBSE Board NCF-FS System: Schools affiliated to CBSE Board will have to adopt the 'National Framework for Foundational Stage' (NCF-FS) 2022. Let us know what this new system is after all.
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CBSE Board: Now the system of pre-primary schooling is going to change in all the schools affiliated to the CBSE board. Till now, after studying nursery and KG class, children used to get admission in the first class. However, now this whole system is about to change. In fact, CBSE Board has asked all the schools to adopt the 'National Framework for Foundational Stage' (NCF-FS) 2022. It has been prepared by the 'National Council of Educational Research and Training' (NCERT).
NCF-FS 2022 was released in October 2022. Under this new NCF-FS system, schools will have to adopt a three-year pre-primary schooling system. Overall, the NCF-FS system will be of five years, with emphasis on foundational learning.
Read also: Why did the CBSE Board warn the schools? After all, what is the matter, know
What is the new system?
Till now, first of all children had to take admission in nursery class. Then the number of KG used to come and then of the first class. This was called the pre-primary system. However, now there will be a change in this system. After nursery and KG, now there will be one more class at pre-primary level. That is, the pre-primary will now be of three years instead of two.
After this there will be first and second class, which will be part of the primary level. In the schools which already have pre-primary classes, arrangements for lower KG are also being made there. Three pre-primary classes will be started in government schools and Kendriya Vidyalayas. The reason for this is that in both these types of schools, education starts from the first class.
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Schools will have 'Balvatika'
CBSE Board Director (Academic) Joseph Emmanuel said, "To meet the objectives stated in the NCF-FS 2022, schools have been advised to follow the new structure of five years of elementary education and three years of secondary education". Include 'Balvatika' or say nursery classes.
He said, 'There will be more emphasis on activities in school kindergarten classes, which will generate curiosity in children. Attention will also be paid to the health, hygiene, nutrition etc. of the students in the Balvatika class.


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Authentic, unspoilt and likely to remain so
In 2007 the National Geographic Traveler carried out a survey among 111 island communities all over the world. In the words of National Geographic Traveler the reson for doing an island survey was that "islands symbolize vacation. Escape! Their very insularity makes them attractive. They are worlds unto themselves—their own traditions, ecosystems, cultures, landscapes. That's what attracts us. But as micro-worlds, islands – the world's most appealing destinations - are the ones most prone to tourism overkill."
In the survey a panel of 522 well-traveled experts in sustainable tourism were asked to rank 111 different islands. This survey rates the qualities that make a destination unique—"integrity of place".
The panelists were asked to evaluate just the islands with which they were familiar, using six criteria weighted according to importance:
- Environmental and ecological quality
Social and cultural integrity
Condition of historic buildings and archaeological sites
Outlook for the future
Below are edited excerpts of the panelists' comments offering a glimpse of their points of view and the reasoning behind the scores:
Superb glaciated landscape with improbably steep slopes. Little flat land. Local society unified and resolutely Faroese, not Danish, with own language, etc. Built heritage, down to the grass roofs, reasonably protected, certainly cherished. Most tourists adventurous and well-informed."
"Cultural integrity strong. On Koltur, visitors can meet a farmer, tour the island, experience a living museum of farm life today, and sample local traditional cuisine. The farmer is part of a green certification program. If the numbers of cruise ships continue to grow rapidly, there may be problems with island carrying capacity."
"All new buildings are required to maintain historic architecture."
- "Quite rightly, tourists are expected to be like the Faroese, such as taking choppy ferries and hiking through any weather. The future could bring severe social and environmental impacts, but the Faroese are aware of the dangers and are debating solutions."
You can read the full survey here.


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that together form the definition string. Clients # with rich display capabilities may use this to provide a richer and more # precise representation of the definition line (e.g. by highlighting # arguments based on the user's cursor position). For non-callable # objects, this field is empty. 'argspec' : { # The names of all the arguments args : list, # The name of the varargs (*args), if any varargs : str, # The name of the varkw (**kw), if any varkw : str, # The values (as strings) of all default arguments. Note # that these must be matched *in reverse* with the 'args' # list above, since the first positional args have no default # value at all. defaults : list, }, # For instances, provide the constructor signature (the definition of # the __init__ method): 'init_definition' : str, # Docstrings: for any object (function, method, module, package) with a # docstring, we show it. But in addition, we may provide additional # docstrings. For example, for instances we will show the constructor # and class docstrings as well, if available. 'docstring' : str, # For instances, provide the constructor and class docstrings 'init_docstring' : str, 'class_docstring' : str, # If it's a callable object whose call method has a separate docstring and # definition line: 'call_def' : str, 'call_docstring' : str, # If detail_level was 1, we also try to find the source code that # defines the object, if possible. The string 'None' will indicate # that no source was found.'source' : str, } Complete -------- Message type: ''complete_request'':: content = { # The text to be completed, such as 'a.is' 'text' : str, # The full line, such as 'print a.is'. This allows completers to # make decisions that may require information about more than just the # current word. 'line' : str, # The entire block of text where the line is. This may be useful in the # case of multiline completions where more context may be needed. Note: if # in practice this field proves unnecessary, remove it to lighten the # messages. 'block' : str, # The position of the cursor where the user hit 'TAB' on the line. 'cursor_pos' : int, } Message type: ''complete_reply'':: content = { # The list of all matches to the completion request, such as # ['a.isalnum', 'a.isalpha'] for the above example.'matches' : list } History ------- For clients to explicitly request history from a kernel. The kernel has all the actual execution history stored in a single location, so clients can request it from the kernel when needed. Message type: ''history_request'':: content = { # If True, also return output history in the resulting dict. 'output' : bool, # If True, return the raw input history, else the transformed input. 'raw' : bool, # So far, this can be 'range', 'tail' or'search'. 'hist_access_type' : str, # If hist_access_type is 'range', get a range of input cells. session can # be a positive session number, or a negative number to count back from # the current session.'session' : int, # start and stop are line numbers within that session.'start' : int,'stop' : int, # If hist_access_type is 'tail', get the last n cells. 'n' : int, # If hist_access_type is'search', get cells matching the specified glob # pattern (with * and? as wildcards). 'pattern' : str, } Message type: ''history_reply'':: content = { # A list of 3 tuples, either: # (session, line_number, input) or # (session, line_number, (input, output)), # depending on whether output was False or True, respectively. 'history' : list, } Connect ------- When a client connects to the request/reply socket of the kernel, it can issue a connect request to get basic information about the kernel, such as the ports the other ZeroMQ sockets are listening on. This allows clients to only have to know about a single port (the shell channel) to connect to a kernel. Message type: ''connect_request'':: content = { } Message type: ''connect_reply'':: content = {'shell_port' : int # The port the shell ROUTER socket is listening on. 'iopub_port' : int # The port the PUB socket is listening on.'stdin_port' : int # The port the stdin ROUTER socket is listening on. 'hb_port' : int # The port the heartbeat socket is listening on. } Kernel shutdown --------------- The clients can request the kernel to shut itself down; this is used in multiple cases: - when the user chooses to close the client application via a menu or window control. - when the user types 'exit' or 'quit' (or their uppercase magic equivalents). - when the user chooses a GUI method (like the 'Ctrl-C' shortcut in the IPythonQt client) to force a kernel restart to get a clean kernel without losing client-side state like history or inlined figures. The client sends a shutdown request to the kernel, and once it receives the reply message (which is otherwise empty), it can assume that the kernel has completed shutdown safely. Upon their own shutdown, client applications will typically execute a last minute sanity check and forcefully terminate any kernel that is still alive, to avoid leaving stray processes in the user's machine. For both shutdown request and reply, there is no actual content that needs to be sent, so the content dict is empty. Message type: ''shutdown_request'':: content = {'restart' : bool # whether the shutdown is final, or precedes a restart } Message type: ''shutdown_reply'':: content = {'restart' : bool # whether the shutdown is final, or precedes a restart }.. Note:: When the clients detect a dead kernel thanks to inactivity on the heartbeat socket, they simply send a forceful process termination signal, since a dead process is unlikely to respond in any useful way to messages. Messages on the PUB/SUB socket ============================== Streams (stdout, stderr, etc) ------------------------------ Message type: ''stream'':: content = { # The name of the stream is one of'stdin','stdout','stderr' 'name' : str, # The data is an arbitrary string to be written to that stream 'data' : str, } When a kernel receives a raw_input call, it should also broadcast it on the pub socket with the names'stdin' and'stdin_reply'. This will allow other clients to monitor/display kernel interactions and possibly replay them to their user or otherwise expose them. Display Data ------------ This type of message is used to bring back data that should be diplayed (text, html, svg, etc.) in the frontends. This data is published to all frontends. Each message can have multiple representations of the data; it is up to the frontend to decide which to use and how. A single message should contain all possible representations of the same information. Each representation should be a JSON'able data structure, and should be a valid MIME type. Some questions remain about this design: * Do we use this message type for pyout/displayhook? Probably not, because the displayhook also has to handle the Out prompt display. On the other hand we could put that information into the metadata secion. Message type: ''display_data'':: content = { # Who create the data'source' : str, # The data dict contains key/value pairs, where the kids are MIME # types and the values are the raw data of the representation in that # format. The data dict must minimally contain the ''text/plain'' # MIME type which is used as a backup representation. 'data' : dict, # Any metadata that describes the data'metadata' : dict } Python inputs ------------- These messages are the re-broadcast of the ''execute_request''. Message type: ''pyin'':: content = { 'code' : str, # Source code to be executed, one or more lines # The counter for this execution is also provided so that clients can # display it, since IPython automatically creates variables called _iN # (for input prompt In[N]). 'execution_count' : int } Python outputs -------------- When Python produces output from code that has been compiled in with the'single' flag to :func:'compile', any expression that produces a value (such as ''1+1'') is passed to ''sys.displayhook'', which is a callable that can do with this value whatever it wants. The default behavior of ''sys.displayhook'' in the Python interactive prompt is to print to ''sys.stdout'' the :func:'repr' of the value as long as it is not ''None'' (which isn't printed at all). 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|Title||Ballard Locks, Seattle, ca. 1920 |
|Date||ca. 1920 |
|Caption||For years, there was no easy or cheap way to move logs, coal, and other resources directly from the east side of Lake Washington to Elliott Bay. There were many plans and several attempts to build a canal via Lake Union. However, none was successful until the Lake Washington Ship Canal was built in 1911 to 1917.|
The Hiram Chittenden Locks were a vital part of the canal's operation. They allow boats and ships from Lake Union and Lake Washington to be lowered to the level of Puget Sound. Those traveling the other way are raised to the level of the lakes.
This postcard shows a ship and a smaller boat in the locks, heading out of the canal toward Puget Sound.
|Notes||Caption on image: Canal Locks Second to Panama, Seattle, Washington.|
Caption on verso: Canal Locks Second to Panama - The Canal is about eight miles long from Puget Sound to Lake Washington. It adds more than ninety miles to Seattle's water frontage and gives access for ocean shipping to the non-tidal fresh water harbors of Lake Union, in the heart of the City, and Lake Washington, twenty-five miles long and four wide on the east boundary of Seattle. The right-of-way is 300 feet wide, the channel 100 feet wide, and the depth 36 feet. The locks are capable of lifting larger vessels than any government locks outside the Panama Canal.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
|Subjects||Vessels--Washington (State)--Seattle; Locks (Hydraulic engineering)--Washington (State)--Seattle; Canals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (Seattle, Wash.); Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.) |
|Places||United States--Washington (State)--Seattle|
Ballard (Seattle, Wash.)
|Digital Collection||Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
|Image Number||1989.73.17 |
|Ordering Information||To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact _EMAIL_ or phone us at _PHONE_. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
|Credit Line||Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
|Repository||Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
|Repository Collection||Postcard Collection |
|Physical Description||1 postcard: color; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. |
|Digital Reproduction Information||Scanned from original postcard as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
|Photographer's Reference Number||150 |


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We meet at Fløibanen Entrance at 2pm April 4th, Welcome!
Graham's work often refers to the implicit violence of our accepted cultural values and unquestioned social norms. The ever-obsessive drive towards new urban development and expansion is an example of this violence, and has become a particular preoccupation of his. As we face environmental catastrophe, Graham finds the two are completely at odds, and the dissonance is observably remarkable. He uses some of the visual language of the construction site to refer to this stark absurdity.
One aspect of his work is the sense that an event has recently taken place, and he is interested in creating a kind of material and affective aftermath. By combining everyday materials with found objects, plants and idiosyncratically crafted sculptures, he seeks to create an environment where the viewer can experience conflicting sensations, where there is protection, interruption and exclusion all at once. He often uses vibrant plants to serve as a living return to civility, carrying with them a sense of optimism after the destruction. His aim to create a kind of material tension, a physical dissonance and unease that gives way to a surprising sense of optimism arising from the new circumstance.
Remembering Ruin is an installation that plays on ideas of visibility, resource management and the mystery of ruination. Ordinary materials are re-contextualised to draw attention to the relationship between hyper development, resource, and ruin. Through the movement in the banners and the unexpected materials used in the installation, the work becomes light and celebratory; a metaphorical act of resistance to development or even ruin.


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PRLog (Press Release)
- Apr. 10, 2012 -
Many are not aware that on the day Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the ship had received no less than six wireless transmissions describing the extent of the dangerous ice fields and bergs, but that not all of these messages made it to the bridge and that the captain therefore had an incorrect mental picture which did not match the reality on the ocean in front of him. Author David Warner Mathisen, a professional analyst and former US Army Infantry officer, observes that this type of failure to "connect the dots" is well known in the Army, and that military concepts such as "situational awareness" and Clausewitz's phrase "the fog of war" are valuable tools for extracting lessons from the disaster that we can apply today. He points out that in many situations, the information that is needed to enable accurate analysis of the situation is actually available, but overlooked or not placed into the proper framework or context, so that the dots are not connected, something that happens so often that we can conclude that gaining true situational awareness is actually exceedingly difficult, even though it might at first appear to be simple. He then goes on to argue that the data we may be overlooking from a civilizational perspective may be creating a dangerous "false picture" that creates potentially serious danger, which should encourage greater efforts to "connect the dots" using tools that can facilitate better analysis. While many various theories of greater or lesser merit have been put forward to explain the 1912 Titanic disaster, including some recent analysis that the position of the earth in relation to both the moon and the sun may have played a role, ultimately the sinking and the tragic loss of life were the result of a lack of situational awareness – not just prior to the collision but in the fatal aftermath as well.
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David Warner Mathisen is a professional analyst and former US Army officer, and the author of the book "The Mathisen Corollary" and of the recently-released essay "Titanic and the Fall of Civilizations."


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Waterfield Family History
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Waterfield Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vatierville in Seine-Maritime, France, so named from the personal name Walter + Old French ville 'settlement'.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Dangerfield, Wakefield, Canfield, Haverfield, Battenfield, Sherfield


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Al-Haq Sends Letters to EU Member States Calling for Immediate and Effective Measures to Ensure that Israel Respects the Democratic Process of the Palestinian Elections
24، Apr 2021
On 05 April 2021, Al-Haq sent letters to European Union (EU) member states, in relation to Israel's attempts to impair and undermine the prospect of conducting free, fair, and simultaneous national presidential, legislative, and Palestinian National Council elections, in violation of Palestinian inalienable right to self-determination and freedom of expression. The letters urged EU member states to immediately intervene and to undertake effective measures to ensure that Israel respects the democratic process of the Palestinian elections.
In particular, the letters outlined how the Israeli intelligence services have contacted, called, and summoned Palestinians to their offices; threatening to arrest them if anyone of them decided to run for elections, or to participate in any relevant activity. Using a different intimidation tactic, the Israeli occupying forces (IOF), accompanied by Israeli intelligence officers, further raided Palestinian homes and threatened potential candidates not to run for, or participate in, the Palestinian election process.
The letters highlighted Israel's previous attacks on the democratic process in the lead up, during and in the aftermath of the 2005/2006 elections. As Palestinians continue to endure Israeli-imposed policies of displacement, dispossession, fragmentation, and denial of exercising their inalienable right to self-determination, inherent in Israel's settler-colonial and apartheid regime over the Palestinian people as a whole, Al-Haq warned that given its current policies and practices of violations during the election process, there is a heightened risk that Israel will continue to interfere with the democratic process in Palestine throughout the election, and afterwards.
The letters urged EU member states to take immediate and effective actions to prevent Israel from its attack on democracy and its ongoing intimidation and harassment actions and policies against the Palestinian people. By doing so, Israel, as an Occupying Power, is not only sabotaging the election process but also undermining the international community and third state efforts to ensure a free and fair elections in Palestine.
Stressing that these attacks are conducted against all Palestinians, and their right to self-determination, the letters urged states to reaffirm their commitment to the protection of human rights and the rule of law in the State of Palestine; including by calling upon Israel to halt all its actions and interference that aim to impede and diminish the Palestinian elections process; and thereby, enabling Palestinians of holding free and fair elections in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.


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- Step 1: Select the dimensions of the wall.
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EZ Kitchen includes a complete file manager that allows you to open, save and delete your designs in your device.
You can define several sections on the wall and apply different materials to each section. This is very useful to create a tiled backsplash.
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A new, permanent refuge chamber for Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Experimental Mine is the latest in mine safety rescue technology and training.
The MineARC Refuge Chamber is capable of sustaining as many as 20 people for 36 hours in relative comfort while waiting for rescue if access to the surface is prohibited. It includes air filtration systems, climate control, food and water, and oxygen as well as medical supplies and communications equipment.
The chamber, supplied by MineARC, Inc., was installed and tested last December. Student and Harrison Western co-crews completed underground construction.
"The new refuge chamber is state-of-the art in refuge chamber technology, and will be used to train both students and industry personnel in keeping trapped miners alive in an underground environment," said Bob Ferriter, mine safety and health program coordinator.
About the Edgar Experimental Mine:
The Edgar Mine is a footnote to Colorado's rich mining history. In the 1870s, it produced high-grade silver, gold, lead and copper. Today, as an underground laboratory for future engineers, it produces valuable experience for those who are being trained to find, develop and process the world's natural resources. In this underground laboratory, Mines students gain hands-on experience in underground mine surveying, geological mapping, rock fragmentation and blasting, mine ventilation field studies, rock mechanics instrumentation practice, underground mine unit operations and mine safety.


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2. Are they in the stem cells?
3. By using the iummostaining, how can we know the presences of pluripotent markers?
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Im stuck developing an important detail of my game water: Making it flow downwards!
Considering a typical 3D world in wich water tends to go towards gravity
g=(0,-1,0), and having the normal of the water surface
n=(x,y,z), how can I calculate, based on that, the water flow direction vector?
As an example, consider this badly-done graph (In 2D, though)
Update: I'm considering a very simplified water surface (Just a plane: No ripples, no waves, no pressure, etc.). If any of those needed to be applied, the answer would depend on more factors than just the normal.


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This Is Why You Should Stop Eating Tilapia Immediately
The most important ingredient in fish – fish oil, which is not found in this fish
why tilapia is not good for your health
1. This fish is very popular because of its availability and inexpensiveness. However, you should learn everything you can possibly know about this fish before consuming it.
The consumption of fish may increase inflammation that are occurring in the body. Increased inflammation can lead to heart problems, asthma and other serious diseases. Consumption of this fish is worse than eating bacon or a hamburger. We eat fish to consume omega-3 fatty acids that reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack, but this fish does the opposite -. Which increases the chances of having a heart attack
2. The consumption of farmed tilapia increase the risk of developing cancer by 10 times because it contains contaminants. Hazardous ingredients in these fish are often added to their feed. Actually, the feed given to farmed fish contains chicken feces. Pork and duck feces are also one of the main food for farmed fish.
3. The tilapia also contains high amounts of pesticides and antibiotics. The owners of fish farms give antibiotics to protect them from diseases that can spread easily because the farms are too full of fish. Pesticides are given to farmed fish against sea lice, and this pesticide can even kill wild salmon if the pesticide is consumed accidentally.
4. healthy nutrients commonly found in fish are very low in farmed fish. omega-3 fatty acids tilapia are much less useful for our body than omega-3 fatty acids found in wild fish varieties. Tilapia and other farmed fish also contain less protein than other varieties of wild fish. Furthermore, farmed fish contain more omega-6 acids, which can cause inflammation in the body if consumed in high doses.
5. Health problems, especially cancer are caused by a dangerous toxin called dioxin. This dangerous chemical is found in farmed fish. It is very difficult to clean our body of dioxin after its entry. You can stay in the body for up to 11 years.
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old dictionary from last millenium (1980's heh heh) does not list "synergy".
It does show "synecdoche" with the definition as "figure of speech by which whole of thing is put for part or part for whole. eg sail for ship"
Am no linguist but i wonder what the source/root of "synergy" is?.
It would appear "synergy" itself is a metaphor!?
Other words/definitions which have not been listed yet-
 - compellingwhich may indicate there are other forces other than what is observed
 - coersive - as in coersive bond (chem)
 Another tangent could be the meaning of "threefold cord" being stronger than a two or one fold cord in the Bible. (Ec 4:12) It may take much research to get the meaningtry Watch Tower Library; but the gist is using the same elements to create a far superior strength and symbiotic relationship.
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A quick Google search away: _URL_.php?term=synergy - it was probably just left out of that dictionary – Izkata Aug 4 '13 at 5:52
You are looking for the equivalent of "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts", often referred to as synergy and Gestalt theory.
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Asking what if is a great way to bring action, twists, and conflict to fiction. In that time, write as many what if that could add excitement, adventure, or storytelling possibilities to the scenario.
Today's situation is going on a road trip.
- What if the car breaks down?
- What if the wrong address was put in the GPS?
- What if the people on the trip are fighting?
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An eminent scholar, a professor of law and ethics at Yale Law School who spent more than 50 years tackling confounding questions on the boundaries between law, medicine, psychology and ethics. An inspirational teacher and mentor not only to his law students at Yale, but, as one of his distinguished students and colleagues, Alexander Capron, professor of law and medicine at the University of Southern California, wrote in his preface to a special issue of Law, Medicine and Health Care (2007) dedicated to Jay Katz, a mentor "for many physicians and other health professionals across the country who found in him a model for what they sensed was missing from their own professional lives — a sense of questioning the received wisdom..."
He was most cognizant of the inherent tension in research involving human beings due to the unacknowledged conflict between the objectives of the researcher and the human subject who is expected to sacrifice his interests for the greater good. Prof. Katz cited the philosopher Hans Jonas, who compared human experimentation with the primeval human sacrifice; both involved the abrogation of personal inviolability, ritualized exposure to risk of health and life, justified by a presumed greater, social good. Jay Katz was troubled by "the readiness with which human sacrifice for the sake of scientific progress has been embraced by the medical profession."
He quoted a prominent surgeon who conducted radical mastectomies who stated:
"controlled studies may well sacrifice a generation of women but scientifically [they] have merit." (Robbins. Breast Cancer Management, 1977)
In 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg Doctors Trial, he stated:
"...the [Nazi] doctors' conduct illuminates, with flames from hell, less egregious though still troublesome practices that have stalked human experimentation from its beginnings to this day."
The most illuminating tribute to Jay Katz (published when he was still alive) was by another of his prominent students; Larry Palmer, endowed Professor of Law and Research — for 27 years a distinguished faculty member, vice president, and vice provost at Cornell University — who paid tribute to Jay Katz in the Yale Journal Of Health Policy, Law, And Ethics, 2006:
"... my first tribute to Jay is a personal note of gratitude: He has the ability to inspire those of us exposed to his light to take risks when we speak as citizens and as scholars... Jay's approach to human research could be a model for revitalizing interdisciplinary teaching."
"Jay Katz's towering presence in the scholarship on human experimentation has been a source of personal and professional inspiration. As I noted over thirty years ago in my review essay about his classic work, Experimentation with Human Beings, Jay's scholarship asks tough and penetrating questions about a truth we modern professionals hold to be sacred. We have always assumed that growth in scientific knowledge and social progress are linked.
Jay's analysis of the history of experimentation with human beings before, during, and after the Nazi era dispels the comforting notion that the Nazi investigators were individuals working outside the moral ethos of modern medicine and science (i.e., that they were merely racists and sadists). Instead, Jay reveals that they were physician-investigators searching aggressively (albeit blindly) for even better ways of making science socially useful and relevant."
Jay's broad influence on the entire field of bioethics by beginning with a personal tribute that honors Jay as a scholar and teacher... Jay's courageous insistence that to protect human' subjects we must develop new types of institutional arrangements. Jay used his position on bioethics commissions (starting with the panel to review the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male) and his writings to advocate for institutional change of the manner in which we regulate research. Jay Katz's scholarship and career provide a warning to those of us who call ourselves "bioethicists" in what I have called the "human genome era."
How many of us will have the courage that Jay demonstrated to dissent? Will we be able to challenge federal funding officials when the funding of our centers or programs is partially dependent upon our maintaining a certain kind of favorable visibility among program officers?
"Jay challenges us — particularly those of us trained as lawyers-to move beyond law's traditional focus on physical harms to subjects, to consider how risk-taking on the part of both subjects and investigators enhances or diminishes human dignity. I would propose that in dealing with the issue of race in the genomic era, we must combine Jay's quest for individual human dignity within the research process with a new systemic or institutionalist perspective towards the dignity of racial, ethnic, and religious differences. Those of us mentored by Jay, as a teacher, scholar, and friend, are aware that the challenge to be faced involves not only protecting individuals, but also respecting-without stigmatizing-groups and developing analyses of the research process that facilitate that respect.
"Genomics, informational technology, and a global economy have dramatically changed our human environment since the publication of Jay's pioneering book on human experimentation. What has not changed-and, in my view, should not-is our continuous effort to emulate the respect for every human being Jay modeled in his teaching, scholarship, and everyday encounters."
Among the issues that Dr. Katz explored as an outspoken public advocate was medical experimentation without patient consent. In 1993, he was named to a presidential commission that documented the exploitation of research subjects in post-World War II studies on the effects of radiation.
Jay Katz was an outspoken critic of an experiment conducted in the 1980s in which UCLA psychiatrists abruptly withdrew medication from patients with schizophrenia, in an effort to determine which patients could safely stop taking the drug.
One of the patients committed suicide while another attempted to kill his parents and threatened to kill then-President George H.W. Bush. In 1994, the UCLA research team was reprimanded by the National Institutes of Health, which determined that the researchers failed to adequately explain that patients risked relapsing as a result of the experiment. In Prof. Katz's view, the researchers misled the study participants by failing to tell them that the ultimate purpose was not to treat their illness but to gather information that might benefit future patients.
"There is persistent confusion between research and [clinical] practice and the obfuscation of the two," Katz told The Times in 1994. "You cannot use people — or you should not use people — as means for others' ends and for ends that might ultimately even be good."
He urged doctors and patients to share the responsibility of making medical decisions by talking honestly to each other about the uncertainties of treatment, their expectations and the role each party must play, a radical idea given the long tradition of physician paternalism and patient passivity.
In 1996, he was invited to be the keynote speaker at the 50th Anniversary of the Doctors Trial that culminated in the Nuremberg Code. He stated:
We cannot resurrect the dead, but we can learn from their suffering... what transpired in Nazi Germany has shaped my life as a person, a physician, and a teacher. In all my work the disadvantaged in our midst, those stripped of their rights and dignity — the mentally ill, women, children, patients, research subjects — have always been my people.
The same year, he spoke sternly against a change in federal regulations that allowed the enrollment of patients in hospital emergency centers who are unable to give their consent because of a head injury or other life-threatening condition, to be enrolled in clinical trials without informed consent. Prof. Katz said the change was a violation of the Nuremberg Code.
He also was a vocal opponent of scientists' use of data from experiments that Nazi doctors conducted on concentration camp prisoners during Hitler's reign.
These issues resonated particularly profoundly for Katz, who was born Oct. 20, 1922, in Zwickau, Germany, and witnessed Hitler's rise to power. He endured intense harassment by teachers and classmates as the only Jewish student in a school for the gifted. His father, a prominent businessman, was arrested by the Gestapo. That experience sensitized him to people who abuse their authority and abuse vulnerable people who are dependent on them.
I was privileged to have known and benefitted from Jay Katz'.* He encouraged me to send an article that I had written about an unethical paradigm in schizophrenia research which deliberately produces psychotic relapse in order to study "the pathophysiology of the disease." He suggested that I submit the article to The Hastings Center and the Georgetown's Kennedy Ubstutyte if Ethics Journal. Alas, my article was rejected, but a defense of the research paradigm was published, albeit without ever referring to the challenger.
A few of Jay Katz' publications:
- Experimentation With Human Beings: The Authority Of The Investigator, Subject, Professions, And State In The Human Experimentation Process (1972)
- The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, 1984 Examined the complex factors that shape the physician-patient relationship and hinder the medical decision-making process.
- The Regulation of Human Experimentation in the United States-A Personal Odyssey, Revue of Human Subjects of Research (1987) Argued that Nazi studies had antecedents and recounted some earlier examples of investigators discounting the dignity of human beings;
- The Consent Principle of the Nuremberg Code: Its Significance Then and Now, in The Nazi Doctors And The Nuremberg Code: Human Rights In Human Experimentation (George J. Annas & Michael A. Grodin eds., 1992) Observed that the Nuremberg Code's relentless and uncompromising commitment to the psychological integrity of research subjects has not been matched either prior to its promulgation or since;
- The Nuremberg Code and the Nuremberg Trial: A


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On the integrity of domination in graphs.
This thesis deals with an investigation of the integrity of domination in a.graph, i.e., the extent to which domination properties of a graph are preserved if the graph is altered by the deletion of vertices or edges or by the insertion of new edges. A brief historical introduction and motivation are provided in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 deals with kedge-( domination-)critical graphs, i.e., graphsG such that )'(G) = k and )'(G+e) < k for all e E E(G). We explore fundamental properties of such graphs and their characterization for small values of k. Particular attention is devoted to 3-edge-critical graphs. In Chapter 3, the changes in domination number brought aboutby vertex removal are investigated. \ Parameters )'+'(G) (and "((G)), denoting the smallest number of vertices of G in a set 5 such that )'(G-5) > )'(G) ()'(G -5) < )'(G), respectively), are investigated, as are'k-vertex-critical graphs G (with )'(G) = k and )'(G-v) < k for all v E V(O)). The existence of smallest'domination-forcing sets of vertices of graphs is considered. The bondage number 'Y+'(G), i.e., the smallest number of edges of a graph G in a set F such that )'(G- F) > )'(0), is investigated in Chapter 4, as are associated extremal graphs. Graphs with dominating sets or domination numbers that are insensitive to the removal of an arbitrary edge are considered, with particular reference to such graphs of minimum size. Finally, in Chapter 5, we-discuss n-dominating setsD of a graph G (such that each vertex in G-D is adjacent to at least n vertices in D) and associated parameters. All chapters but the first and fourth contain a listing of unsolved problems and conjectures.


How to Make Pizza at Home
Since the mid 1990s, Pizza has been a popular fast food in Nairobi and other major cities around the country. But, have you ever wondered how make Pizza at home? Well, it turns out it isn't that difficult and the ingredients are readily available in Kenyan supermarkets.
Pizza Ingredients
There are no rules on many of the ingredients and it all depends on the type of topping you want on your Pizza. The only thing you need to note is that meat toppings will have to have been pre-cooked. So for example, if you want beef cubes or strips as topping, you have to cook them separately first. You will also need an oven to prepare your Pizza.
The main Pizza ingredients are:
 1. Half a kilo of wheat flour
 2. Half of teaspoon of baking powder (yeast)
 3. 1 Teaspoon of salt
 4. 1 Tablespoon of sugar
 5. One and a half cups of luke warm water
 6. Cooking oil
 7. 2 Peeled and chopped tomatoes or tomato paste
 8. I peeled clove of garlic
 9. Quarter kilo (250 grams) of grated cheese - you can buy cheese in any supermarket (Check the frozen foods section) preferably Mozzarela (150g) and Cheddar Cheese (100g), the are well labelled at the Supermarket. Grate the cheese and have it ready in a bowl.
 10. Toppings of your choice e.g. bacon, meat cubes/stipes, mince meat, pineapple, omena stated before, there are no rules but of course don't put njahi or some other weird thing like carrots.
Pizza Preparation Process
 1. Start by making the dough.
 2. Pour the flour into a big bowl.
 3. Mix the sugar and baking powder (yeast) into the luke warm water and stir using a fork.
 4. Pour the liquid into the bowl of flour and stir with a fork until it becomes sticky.
 5. Use your hands to mix and knead the dough the same way you would when making chapati.
 6. Apply flour to a kitchen top surface to prevent the dough from sticking to the surface and knead it thoroughly for ten minutes.
 7. Spread some oil all around the bowl, place the kneaded dough back into the bowl and cover the bowl completely. If you have cling film, even better. Leave it for one hour.
 8. In the meantime, start working on the Pizza sauce.
 9. Pour the peeled tomatoes into a small sufuria.
 10. Crush the garlic and pour it into the sufuria as well.
 11. Turn the cooker on and let the mixture simmer on low heat for about 5 minutes. Stir the mixture well to make a nice thick sauce. Take the sufuria off the cooker and allow to cool.
 12. Take the dough out of the bowl and tear it into two equal pieces and then tear each piece into two additional equal pieces so that you end up with four separate pieces of dough.
 13. Pour some more flour on the preparation surface.
 14. Take one of the dough pieces and roll it using the a rolling pin the same way you would roll a chapati. Roll it quite thin because it will rise as a result of the baking powder.
 15. Preheat your oven to 230 Degrees Celsius.
 16. Place the rolled dough on an oven pan and spread 1 tablespoon of sauce on it. Spread the sauce evenly on the dough. You can apply as much sauce as you like. There are no rules on this.
 17. Sprinkle the cheese generously on the dough.
 18. Next, apply your toppings in any pattern or manner that pleases you.
 19. Sprinkle a dash of oil you pop it into the oven ten minutes.
 20. Repeat steps 14 to 19 with the remaining three pieces of dough.
 21. Remove, serve and enjoy.
The video below should help you understand the process better.
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By Leah Clark
The Activity Theory
The benefits of this theory are:
- They are more happy
- They are more sociable
- They remain physically interactive longer
- They are engaged in doing activities
- They are independent
The theorist for the activity theory is Robert Havighurst which developed this theory in the 1960's.
The Disengagement Theory
This can lead to elderly people becoming depressed, lonely and this could lead to elderly losing their communications skills.
With this theory, you need to encourage and inspire elderly people to become more active (which then leads to these people being involved in the activity theory).
This theory was developed by Cummings and Henry in the late 1950's.


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Our sample grant proposal is an example of a narrative for a CHW program based on standard sections found in requests for proposals from the federal government.
Grant proposals requested by private foundation funders may differ in structure and length. You can use this sample proposal as a model of how to describe community health needs, explain a CHW program, and write objectives.
The Resource contains details and sample text related to grant writing for the following sections:
- How to Use this Sample Grant Proposal
- Summary of the Sample Grant Proposal
- Background/Needs Assessment
- Proposed Program
- Goals and Objectives
- Work Plan
- Evaluation Plan & Tracking and Monitoring
- Resolution of Challenges
- Program Management and Staffing
- Organizational Information
- Reference List
- Sample Budget
If you are interested in implementing your own Community Health Worker program, look no further! MHP Salud offers training, consultation, and program implementation services. Click here to learn more.


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Heat transfer in the boundary layer flow of a Casson fluid over a permeable shrinking sheet with viscous dissipation
In this paper the dual solutions in the flow of a Casson fluid over a porous shrinking surface are numerically discussed. Viscous dissipation in the heat transfer analysis is presented. Appropriate similarity transformations are used to convert governing nonlinear partial differential equations of flow and heat transfer into the system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The shooting technique with the Runge-Kutta method is employed to solve the resulting equations. Graphical results for dimensionless velocity and temperature are reported and examined very carefully. The study reveals that the existence of dual solutions is possible for some range of the suction parameter. For both solutions, the momentum boundary layer thickness decreases with the Casson fluid parameter. The thermal boundary layer thickness decreases with the Prandtl number and increases with the Eckert number (in both solutions). Further, the thermal boundary layer thickness decreases with increasing values of wall mass suction for the first solution, whereas it increases with increasing values of the mass suction parameter for the second solution.


Environment Four: Underwater
After hiking through the mountains, players will dive deep into the depths of Planet Roo's Underwater region in search of more meteors. While underwater, players will also get to assemble treasure chests and gather booty while enjoying the serenity of the deep blue sea.
Of course, the Roogoo are not alone here; Prince Moo is still determined to steal all of the meteors and he brings mines and additional Meemoo along with him. As players stack meteors and rotate platforms, Prince Moo commands either Meemoos or mines to hinder the safe passage of meteors like he did on the Mountains. In addition to these hazards, the blockers and rotating platforms are back too so players must be very alert to avoid losing meteors. If unsuccessful, players will watch their lost shapes slowly drift away with the current.
Before advancing to the next level, players will have a chance to skydive and dry off. However, these players must watch out for more mines that have been unleashed in the skies.
Environment 5: Swamplands
Players emerge from the depths of the Underwater region and surface within Planet Roo's Swamplands. The serene waves have been replaced by sporadic flashes of lightning, continuous rain and dense clouds– all contributing to a gloomy landscape.
Players will encounter similar challenges from previous environments while collecting meteors. Prince Moo has followed players to the Swamplands and has a new attack that dramatically reduces the speed of the descending shapes. This change in gameplay affects the timing for shapes passing through blockers that can be found in multiple levels.
In addition to the new challenges, players will also learn a new technique that alternates the order of shaded shapes in a stack. Players must match like shades together when the stack lands or watch the shapes fall into the murky swamp.
Environment 6: Ice
Players must prepare for the cold weather as they cross the Ice area. Snowflakes fall gently and cover the ground. Players get to play in the snow by assembling snowmen and nests for chickens to hatch their eggs.
While progressing through the Ice area, players will encounter new types of platforms. In addition to the flipping platforms, there are ones marked with arrows that increase the speed of shapes once they pass. Players must rotate the following platform very quickly to avoid losing the stack.
Of course, the Ice area would not be complete without the troublesome Meemoos around attempting to slip players up. Certain levels are overrun with Meemoo so players must be prepared to attack them using the speed technique learned previously and use it often.
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In celebration of the recent resolution of the Kadison-Singer problem by Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava, here is a question on isotropic point sets on which Kadison-Singer does not (seem to) shed any light. A positive resolution would likely have strong implications for the Sparsest Cut problem and SDP hierarchies. The question arose in discussions with Shayan Oveis Gharan, Prasad Raghavendra, and David Steurer.
Open Question: Do there exist constants such that for any, the following holds? Let be a collection of orthonormal bases and define. Then there are subsets with and.
[Some additional notes: One piece of intuition for why the question should have a positive resolution is that these orthonormal bases which together comprise at most vectors cannot possibly "fill" -dimensional space in a way that achieves -dimensional isoperimetry. One would seem to need points for this.
One can state an equivalent question in terms of vertex expansion. Say that a graph on vertices is a vertex expander if for all subsets with. Here, denotes all the nodes that are in or are adjacent to. Then one can ask whether there exists a 1-1 mapping from to for some orthonormal bases such that the endpoints of every edge are mapped at most apart (as ).]


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April 25, 2011
I am sure you all have used the Spelling & Grammar checker at some point, but what about Word's Thesaurus and Research features? Or the Dictionary? You will find these to be valuable writing tools!
- A good way to find a synonym for a word is to right click on it, scroll down to Synonyms and select one from the list. (Sometimes you have to change the word to its singular form or present tense to make this work correctly.) Or
- Click Review and in the Proofing section, click on the Thesaurus button. (You can also get there by right-clicking on the word, choosing Synonyms, and clicking the Thesaurus button at the bottom.) The Research pane opens at the right. Notice that you have the choice of selecting which reference to use.
- Right click on the word, scroll down to Look Up, and then choose which reference source you want to use. The Research pane opens and you can read the definitions or choose another source.
- Highlight your word or phrase, click the Review tab and then the Research button in the Proofing section.
- You can select your references source and find out more.
Another thing you can do while you are in the Research pane is Translation! (You might have to install the language to Word to do this, but that is another tip, another time!)


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# of CE's:
PRIVATEInvited participants only
This intermediate two day training is the initial process for therapists to learn to provide the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention(CFTSI Model). Trainees will receive didactics, engage in role plays and group discussions in order to be the model. Training will continue with 6 months of twice monthly consultation calls and trainees using the CFTSI and presenting during those calls.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this two-day presentation, the participnat will be able to:
Day 1:
 1. Describe the rationale for early interventions to prevent PTSD
 2. Discuss the outcomes of the randomized effectiveness trial
 3. Discuss that CFTSI is also an assessment and engagement strategy
 4. Discuss the importance of meeting with the caregiver in the first session
 5. Describe the procedures for Sessions 1 and 2
Day 2:
 1. Practice the coping skill modules
 2. Identify how to select skill modules
 3. Discuss how to increase communication between caregivers and their child
 4. Describe how to enhance emotional support by the caregiver towards their children
 5. Discuss the CFTSI protocol
Intended Audience:
This intermediate level workshop is designed for clinicians working in agencies that belong to the PACTS network and that work with children and youth during the peri-traumatic period.
Instructional Level:
Completion Requirements:
Participants must attend entire 2-day presentation and complete a course evaluation in order to receive credits


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Conventional wisdom is that the huge sinkhole that opened up on a street in Guatemala City earlier this week was caused by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Agatha. But unconventional thinkers say it could be proof of the so-called "Hollow Earth Theory."
This is a largely discredited theory that the earth is either entirely hollow, or has substantial hollow places all over. The idea has been around since ancient times, and now and then another report or book comes out to further it.
But science appears to have disproved the Hollow Earth Theory. It points out that if Earth were hollow, its mass would be much lower and thus its gravity on the outer surface would be much lower than it is. And by observing vibrations passing from one end of the planet to the other, scientists have been able to calculate the structure of Earth. And they say it is not a hollow structure.
But theorists still abound. In fact, a web site called The Hollow Earth Theory claims:
There is a wealth of evidence surfacing today that throws our current beliefs regarding the structure of our planet into serious doubt.
As far as the Guatemala City sinkhole (or entrance to the hollow world, depending on whom you believe), the perfectly round hole is 65 feet in diameter, and 100 feet deep. Residents in the neighborhood, called Ciudad Nueva, have long complained about the strange streets. Newspaper reports say people claim they feel hollow in certain places.
According to resident Karla Diaz, "For years we've heard loud rumblings coming from the ground. People reported this, along with random holes that would pop up in the pavement, but no one ever came to investigate."
Perhaps Ciudad Nueva is just a neighborhood with poor footings for construction. But perhaps it is something more -- the entryway into the hollow earth.


Secondary school enrollment
percent, 1970–2016
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Gross enrollment ratio is the ratio of total enrollment, regardless of age, to the population of the age group that officially corresponds to the level of education shown. Secondary education completes the provision of basic education that began at the primary level, and aims at laying the foundation for lifelong learning and human development by offering more subjector skill-oriented instruction using more specialized teachers.
Source: UNESCO


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First published on MSDN on Feb 20, 2018
We are delighted to announce the public preview of SQL Information Protection (Data Discovery & Classification), introducing advanced capabilities built into Azure SQL Database for
the sensitive data in your databases. Similar capabilities are also being introduced for on-premises SQL Server via SQL Server Management Studio.
Discovering and classifying your most sensitive data (business, financial, healthcare, PII, etc.) can play a pivotal role in your organizational information protection stature. It can serve as an infrastructure for:
Helping meet data privacy standards and regulatory compliance requirements, such as GDPR.
Data-centric security scenarios, such as monitoring (auditing) and alerting on anomalous access to sensitive data.
Controlling access to and hardening the security of databases containing highly sensitive data.
What is SQL Information Protection?
SQL Information Protection (SQL IP) introduces a set of advanced services and new SQL capabilities, forming a new information protection paradigm in SQL aimed at protecting the data, not just the database:
Discovery & recommendations
– The classification engine scans your database and identifies columns containing potentially sensitive data. It then provides you an easy way to review and apply the appropriate classification recommendations via the Azure portal.
– Sensitivity classification labels can be persistently tagged on columns using new classification metadata attributes introduced into the SQL Engine. This metadata can then be utilized for advanced sensitivity-based auditing and protection scenarios.
– Sensitivity of the query result set is calculated in real time and used for auditing access to sensitive data (
currently in Azure SQL DB only
– The database classification state can be viewed in a detailed dashboard in the portal. Additionally, you can download a report (in Excel format) to be used for compliance & auditing purposes, as well as other needs.
Additional SQL IP capabilities will continue rolling out throughout 2018 – Stay tuned!
How does SQL IP work?
We designed SQL IP with the goal of streamlining the process of discovering -> classifying -> labeling sensitive data in your database environment.
Our built-in automated classification engine identifies columns containing potentially sensitive data, and provides a list of classification recommendations, which can be easily applied as sensitivity metadata on top of columns, using new column sensitivity attributes that have been added to the SQL engine. You can also manually classify & label your columns.
Once you classify & label your data, our detailed overview dashboard provides you visibility into the classification state of your database, as well as the ability to export and download a classification report in Excel format:
Finally, the SQL engine utilizes the column classifications to determine the sensitivity of query result sets. Combined with Azure SQL Database Auditing, this enables you to audit the sensitivity of the actual data being returned by queries:
Get started today!
We encourage you to try out SQL Information Protection today for improved visibility into your database environment, as well as for monitoring access to your sensitive data.
More details on using SQL Information Protection can be found in: