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TORONTO - A hamburger or stir fry from a chain restaurant may contain the total daily recommended amount of sodium Canadians should consume, suggests a study published Wednesday in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.
When it came to stir fries, some sandwich wraps and even salads, researchers were surprised at the wide variation in the amount of sodium they contained, said Mary L'Abbe, chair of the University of Toronto's department of nutritional sciences and senior author on the study.
"Some of the top quarter of the foods were above the upper level for a day, but yet the lower end were... half your recommendation, so there was this big variety."
The daily recommended amount of sodium is 1,500 milligrams and no more than 2,300 milligrams — the equivalent of about a teaspoon of salt — is suggested per day. Research shows the average Canadian consumes 3,400 milligrams per day.
"You would normally think salad is a very healthy choice and so absolutely a large number of those salads were quite low in sodium... but at the same time there were also salads that had up to 2,200 milligrams (of sodium) per serving," L'Abbe said.
"So you could get the low end and have only 200 milligrams of sodium and you could get the high end, 2,000 milligrams of sodium."
The University of Toronto study of 4,044 foods from 85 chain restaurants found that, on average, a single menu item from a sit-down restaurant, such as a hamburger, sandwich or stir fry, contained almost 100 per cent of the daily recommended amount of sodium, or an average of 1,455 milligrams of sodium per serving.
Side dishes contained almost half that, an average of 736 milligrams of sodium.
Many foods geared toward children were also found to be high in sodium.
Health Canada has been educating Canadians on reducing sodium levels, but the focus has been on packaged foods and the agency has not issued guidelines for the restaurant sector, L'Abbe said.
It's been estimated that reducing Canadians' dietary sodium intake by 1,800 milligrams per day would result in an annual health-care savings of $2.33 billion, L'Abbe and co-author Mary Scourboutakos, who worked on the study as part of her doctoral research, said in the report.
About a quarter of Canadians eat something prepared at a sit-down restaurant, cafeteria or other food venue every day. Too much sodium causes high blood pressure, a leading cause of illness and premature death, the Ontario Medical Association said in a statement.
"We're especially concerned because the sodium in restaurant foods is hidden," said Dr. Doug Weir, president of the Ontario Medical Association.
"There is no easy way for patrons to choose lower-sodium options, because for the most part sodium content is not posted on the menu. Our patients, and especially those at risk for high blood pressure (40 per cent of population), need better information so that they can choose lower-sodium foods in restaurants. Menu labelling is the best way to do this."
Dietitians of Canada, which helped prepare the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Health Canada in 2010, also says the food industry needs to cut down on added sodium.
"Sodium reduction targets need to be set, monitored and reported on foods available in the food supply and that includes foods in restaurants and other food service establishments," Janice Macdonald, the organization's director of communications, wrote in an email.
Sodium is a component of table salt, the chemical sodium chloride. It's used in many foods and not only for taste.
In bread, you need salt as part of the leavening process. It's often used to help foods brown. Sodium is used in processed cured meats as a preservative.
In the restaurant industry foods with salt and a variety of salt additives hold more moisture. When the food is being cooked ahead of time, it doesn't dry out, L'Abbe explained.
Ditching the salt shaker is only one way to decrease sodium consumption.
At a fast-food or sit-down restaurant ask if there are lower-sodium choices. When it's possible to customize your food, ask if they would not add salt to your food.
Choose lettuce, onions and tomatoes for your burger rather than cheese, ketchup, mustard and relish, which add more sodium. Order smaller portions and share. Ask for gravy, sauces and dressings on the side and use a lesser amount. Add flavour with herbs, pepper and other seasonings rather than salt, L'Abbe suggested.
Visit the Healthy Canadians website for more tips on choosing foods that lack sodium when eating out and grocery shopping.
Bill C-460, being debated in Parliament, is asking chain restaurants to provide calorie numbers and high-sodium warnings on menus.
Sodium Awareness Week kicks off March 11.


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UW scientists have provided fresh insight into an issue that has vexed civilization since the beginning: how to keep a drink cold on a hot day. It turns out that condensation on the outside of a canned beverage can provide more heat than the surrounding air, meaning your drink would warm more than twice as much in humid weather as in dry heat.
"Probably the most important thing a beer koozie does is not simply insulate the can, but keep condensation from forming on the outside of it," explains Dale Durran, UW professor of atmospheric sciences. Durran is co-author of results published in Physics Today that give the exact warming for a range of plausible summer temperatures and humidity levels. For example, on the hottest, most humid day in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, condensation alone would warm a can from near-freezing temperature to 48 degrees Fahrenheit in just five minutes.
The phenomenon at work—latent heat of condensation—has implications beyond keeping you refreshed on a summer day. The concept is central to research on water vapor, heat transfer and global climate change being conducted by co-author Dargan Frierson, UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences. "We expect a much moister atmosphere with global warming because warmer air can hold a lot more water vapor," Frierson reports.

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What is an Eye Pillow?
Gain sense of Peace and Relaxation
An Eye Pillow is a wonderful tool that can be used to help a person alleviate daily stress and allow them gain a sense of peace and relaxation. An Eye pillow is typically a small bag filled with flax seeds, beads or gel beads that is placed over your eyes when you lie on your back.
How does it work?
The Eye Pillow works firstly by shielding the eyes from light and then secondly by applying either warmth or cool to the forehead and eyes relieving facial muscle tension. Eye pillows are often also scented with aromatic herbs to help clear sinuses and stimulate the immune system.
Eye pillows need to be comfortable to wear for long periods without discomfort. Better quality eye pillow coverings are made from natural fabrics; such as soft cottons or luxurious silk blends so as not to cause irritation.
Reduce Stress and Relax
Eye Pillows help people to overcome stress and tension in their lives; they are great for a whole range of ailments. People can gain relief from headaches to head colds. Seasonal allergy sufferers often find an eye pillow and invaluable tool.
Styles and Designs
Eye Pillows come in a range of styles, designs and fabrics. Some are beautiful shapes and colors, such as the Monarch Butterfly Dreams Eye Pillow which is made from hand-painted silk. The type of filling and blend of aromatic herbs may differ as well in order to create different sensations or remedies for the wearer.
Traditionally flax seed is used to weight the mask and provide an even pressure to the wearer. Lavender and Chamomile are known for their calming properties and are often used as the herbs of choice.
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- Nelson's Column and base (1843): built of Foggintor Granite
of Permian age from Dartmoor; Nelson's statue (Bailey,
1842), carved of Craigleith Sandstone from near Edinburgh.
- The bollards, walls and statue plinths in the Square are
of grey Aberdeen Granite.
- Inlaid strips of Cornish Granite with big feldspar crystals
occur throughout the Square.
- Charing Cross Underground Station (Bakerloo Line). Much
of the London Underground passes through London Clay.
- 'Chequerboard' pavings of red Mansfield Sandstone, of Permian
age, and white Portland Stone. Portland Stone is a hardy
white limestone of Jurassic age.
- Sandstone pavings from quarries near Edinburgh.
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medibot: A wall composed entirely of plot.
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An obstacle that prevents you from progressing to the next Adventure Town and advancing the plot further. Once this plot advancement has occurred, the bridge is fixed. Named for one of the most common methods, a bridge that's out/fallen.
This is often a method of "Railroading", as it allows the game designers or GMs of Tabletop RPGs to follow a specific path until the plot has reached the desired point.
Not necessarily a literal bridge — the trope applies to any random obstacle that exists just to keep you from going Off the Rails. Some of the more common non-bridge examples:
 - Avalanche or large boulder blocks the mountain pass.
 - An NPC Roadblock, where a person blocks your path or refuses to allow entry past a certain point.
 - Impassable body of water, and the boat is currently unavailable.
 - A Locked Door blocks your path, and cannot be opened, bypassed, or destroyed until you get the proper key.
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 - Adorable little kid asks for your help with some random task, like saving his lost brother or finding medicine for his mom. One or more of the members of your party (usually The Chick) will feel pity for him and, since they can't resist random chivalry, demand that you stop and help. If you try to leave anyway, they'll whine and stop you.
 - You've been declared an outlaw in a particular place, and can't return there until you've cleared your name.
 - You're supposed to meet an NPC in a particular place, but they either haven't arrived yet or have gone off somewhere for a brief while. They won't show up until after you've wandered around town for a while and gotten yourself into trouble.
 - You've commissioned an NPC to make an essential item or perform some other task for you, but they warn you that it's going to take a while. Since you can stand around for days or weeks without the requisite time passing, the time elapsed in-game is instead measured by the plot advancement.
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 - A strong enemy that is utterly invincible against your abilities stands in your way. If you follow the plot railroad properly, then you will either get an upgrade that allows the undefeatable enemy to become beatable, someone else will come along to defeat it, or it will wander off.
 - A puzzle thwarts the player's progress until a "correct" solution is discovered. Common in adventure games, and usually accompanied by the player's character saying I Can't Reach It or Informing the Fourth Wall.
If you're lucky, the removal of the broken bridge will logically follow from solving the Fetch Quest (i.e., the person who removes it will be the one you helped in the fetch quest), but many game designers aren't that devoted. Often the fetch quest is just a Solve the Soup Cans puzzle, and the broken bridge just happens to be solved independently while you're off retrieving the girl's necklace or whatever. Another logical solution is to use The Great Repair on a damaged transport.
If the heroes go off to fix the bridge, there may be villains to defeat or some plot twist revealed.
Tool used by designers to keep you on the One True Sequence. Event Flags are how they implement this. A poorly-designed broken bridge (from a mechanical standpoint) will often be the victim of clever gamers. Don't go crying if there's an Empty Room Psych on the other side though.
May overlap with Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence, if the characters should logically be able to bypass or remove the obstacle but can't because the plot says so. Border Patrol is a variant on the "impossibly strong enemy" idea mentioned above. In mythology, a similar concept is called Threshold Guardians and finally the Beef Gate for when the threshold in question can be overcome if your character(s) have become strong/skilled enough to overcome the aforementioned threshold.
While they both use monsters, Beef Gates are different in that a Beef Gate could be beaten by Level Grinding, skilled play, or exploits. If the monster is made of invincibility until the plot says otherwise, it's a broken bridge.
If something appears to be a broken bridge, but never actually lets you by at any point in the game, see Missing Secret. Ability Required to Proceed is a subtrope of Broken Bridge. In this case, gaining new powers serves as a way to "repair" the bridges and move forward in the game.
If a broken bridge or other obstacle prevents you from returning to earlier areas, it's a Point of No Return. Compare Inescapable Ambush.
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 - Ecstatica starts with the player entering a village only connected by a bridge, and trying to head back will result in the bridge breaking, even though in the final cutscene the bridge is restored and perfectly usable with no explanation.
 - In the Western GTA clone Gun, the main character is trapped in the initial town because the only bridge over the canyon was destroyed by Native Americans and he can't progress until he undertakes a mission to protect the bridge builders from further attacks.
 - Legend of Kay features a very literal broken bridge: the items you have to go get in the Fetch Quest are precisely the items needed to extend the bridge.
 - The Legend of Zelda games are quite fond of this. You will very often find paths blocked by boulders, pits, etc., that usually require a specific dungeon treasure to get past.
 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has a couple of interesting subversions, such as a literal Broken Bridge that will not be fixed until after you figure out how to cross over it anyway, and an NPC who can be commissioned to do something for you that, when he tells you to wait a few days for it to be done, actually means it. No plot advancement necessary. Just wait a few days, really. And you can speed this up with your ocarina. That said, the game does have some classic broken bridge scenarios, such as King Zora being directly in the way of getting to the third Spiritual Stone dungeon until you bring him a note from his daughter that convinces him to move out of the way, Sheik standing directly in front of the Master Sword's pedestal to prevent you from returning to the past until after you've cleared one Temple, various Kokiri boxing you in during the beginning of the game until plot points are fulfilled, etc.
 - The Groundhog Day Looping The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask had a variation where a pass blocked by a rock would, if you waited for workers to clear it, only be opened after it was far too late. You had to show up with a huge bomb once you unlocked it and blast it open ahead of time.
 - In fact Majora's Mask is worse on this matter than just that. You want to go the Swamp? Just dandy! Wanna go to the mountains? Well you have to shoot down an icicle with an arrow (found in the swamp) that breaks the ice blocking your path. You wanna to go the beach? Well you're going to need a horse (which can only be gotten by going to the mountains to get a big enough bomb to unclog the path) to jump over a fence. Wanna go to the canyon? Get ready to write this one down. You're gonna need to find the horse to hop over fences, then ditch the horse and use the hookshot to get past a cliffside, and then, here's the kicker, use ice arrows to freeze octoroks so you can cross the river. (Fortunately, as with OoT, when you reach a new area you can learn a warp song that flies you back as often as you want.)
 - Similarly, at the beginning of the game you're stuck in Deku scrub form, so the guards bar you from leaving town because it's too dangerous outside the walls...until it's too late and they have bigger things to worry about. You can only pass by completing the first quest, retrieving your Ocarina of Time and escaping deku scrub form. However, even once you do this, the guards will continue to stop you from leaving town if you're in the wrong form.
 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has at least three literal examples. In two cases, you even have to use the game's portal system to literally go get the bridge yourself.
 - In the first case, if you save and quit at the wrong time after the bridge is stolen, you will be reloaded on the wrong side of the bridge, making the game Unwinnable, as all other paths are blocked by indestructible barriers or other broken bridges at this point.
 - Another one happens in the Forest Temple, where Ook cuts down the central bridge with the Boomerang and you have to rescue the captive monkeys throughout the temple to cross.
 - you actually go all the way to the first dungeon near the beginning of the game, but its entrance is blocked with boulders. Sometime between the Ordon children in the woods plot and purging Faron of the twilight, the boulders get replaced with a web you can burn with your lantern.
 - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass does this right at the beginning. As soon as you're told (and allowed) to go off to the east, the bridge crumbles from an earthquake. The two people you can talk to about it say "Oh, the bridge is broken? Well,


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This is our record of all trips and stops (activities) that have been completed by tracked assets. This allows you to track macro behavior on an event scale, rather than second by second. These events are great ways to track overall behavior over larger scopes of time as well, then break it up into manageable pieces.
This report displays the type of activity, the IMEI of the tracker involved, name of the tracker, our activity start time, activity end time, location, distance, and duration. The final three columns of data are very useful. The location will display the start address and ending address for trip activities, and will give the address of the stop activity. The distance will show total mileage covered during the trip. Note that the distance will be blank during a stop, as the tracker has not travelled during said stop. Duration shows the time that passed during the activity.
When looking at the activity report, you can get a real sense of patterns involving your trackers. You can also easily ID any deviation in those patterns. Say, for instance, your trackers always travel for 10 mile (16.09 km) or less trips. If you see a trip of 17 miles (27.36 kilometers), that is a key indicator to investigate that trip further. Seeing these patterns and digging into them is a real key benefit to using the reporting tool.
You can also use this report as a key indicator of utilization. Seeing a high number of completed trips for one vehicle and relatively few for the others shows an imbalance. This can lead to lack of or unnecessary maintenance. It can lead to early wear on assets. These are all things that you can at least be clued into by using this report on the regular.


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 - TITLE: Agnes de Mille (American dancer and choreographer)
 Rodeo (1942), one of her most important ballets, was created for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The first ballet to include tap dancing, it used distinctively American gestures—bronco-riding and steer-roping movements. Most of de Mille's other ballets were choreographed for New York City's Ballet Theatre, which she joined in 1940. Her works for that company include Fall River...
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 ...attributed to a series of events in the 1940s. In 1942 Agnes de Mille introduced narrative ballet into the Broadway show with Oklahoma!. Although in Rodeo (1942) she had also been the first to introduce tap dance into ballet, her billing as a "choreographer" and the false competition with ballet made tap seem...


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Agonita tricolor is a species of Agonita, described by Chûjô in 1933.
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- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
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A group of friends are talking about how each member of their group is getting married one by one. One of the group says the following line of a still single friend who has just had a woman flirt with him:
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She is making amorous glances at brother but he still does not have a partner.
How do you tell when 相手 is partner or opponent?
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 The very short answer: context. But in this case, you'll want to look up "相手にする" in your favourite dictionary. Also, don't interprete "兄ちゃん" too literally. Finally, to whom is the line addressed: the still single friend? the woman who did the flirting? or to the other people in the group? – Philippe Jun 18 '17 at 3:50
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 相手にしない is a phrase, which means "to ignore", "to take no notice of", "to refuse to deal with". This 相手 isn't "someone". – Yuuichi Tam Jun 18 '17 at 5:26
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 Thanks for the comments. So would a possible meaning of the sentence be "She is making dreamy eyes at him but he is not taking notice of it anyway"? – Noob Jun 18 '17 at 7:36
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 If you means the "it" is "making dreamy eyes at him", it is wrong. "he would not take notice of her anyway" would be correct. To be exact, 相手にされない is passive form, so it would be "she would be ignored by him anyway". – Yuuichi Tam Jun 18 '17 at 8:10
相手 is neutral so it can be used to both refer to friendlies and foes. It's like saying "the other", so you'll have to rely on context.
相手にする is a set phrase, literally translated "consider as counterpart". It means people (or animals) engage with another, who is trying to engage. For example you'd say: 母犬が子犬の相手をしている, or 子犬は遊びたがっているが、母犬が相手にしない. It can also be used in an unfriendly context, e.g. 反乱軍は投石を行なったが、政府軍の装甲車は相手にもせず進軍を続ける
 - I would add that, the way I've seen it used, 相手にする implies recognizing someone as worthy, and 相手にしない implies not considering someone as worthy of even interacting with. – hasen Oct 14 '18 at 20:53
This is more of a piggyback to _USER_'s comment that 相手 isn't always a "someone". 相手にしない / 相手にしない is more of a (defiant) attitude.
So the translation would be more along the lines of:
"She's making amorous glances at him, but he's not giving in." or,
"She's making googly-eyes at him, but he's not having it."
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Barry Landau's friend
Betty Currie's cousin
Bill Clinton's dog
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He uses to work as a gardener for George W. Bush
He's a writer.
He has played with many presidential dogs
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John F. Kennedy
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AMPHIBIO is The Futuristic Garment For Underwater Breathing
AMPHIBIO was designed by a student named Jun Kamei at the Royal College of Art in London. The concept here will allow humans to breath underwater. The device has yet to be tested on humans, but that is the next step. Things such as these always start from inspiration and then evolve into real world use. Kumei was inspired by Insects that create a bubble to help them breathe.
When researching insects we found something incredible. So how do these insects do this? Here is an excerpt from National Geographic:
Thousands of microscopic hairs cover the bodies of these insects. These hairs create a water-repellent coating on their shell, so when the insects submerge themselves, an air bubble forms around them. In this manner, the bugs are free to breathe the oxygen in the bubble and stay underwater. As the oxygen level falls and the carbon dioxide level rises inside the bubble, fresh oxygen is drawn from the water and carbon dioxide dissolves into the water. Essentially, the insect could stay underwater indefinitely.
Here is a video Demonstrating the design in action underwater:
We are all or most familiar with the recent news of the boys who were trapped in a cave in Thailand. Operations like that could make use of this kind of technology allowing for a better success rate of rescue. Although this technology is still in the early stages of development, this is exciting because it has real world application when successful. Let us know in the comments below what you think of this new invention in the comments.
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What is the difference?The words "fun" and "funny" are both used as adjecives. But usually "fun" is used as an uncountable noun.
Fun as an uncountable noun means an activity or situation is "pleasant, enjoyable, or causing happiness"
Examples:Let's join in the fun.
"I had a wonderful fun at Disneyland," said Tomo.
|Fun as an adjective means something is "enjoyable" or someone is "pleasant to be with."|
Examples:It's a fun trip.
Hana is a fun friend.
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Australians with vision impairment will have greater access to books and other published materials in accessible formats such as large print, braille or audio following Australia's ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty The Treaty is a significant international agreement that will help 285 million people with vision impairment worldwide to access these materials.
Ratifying this treaty is an important part of the Government's commitment to supporting Australians with disability. Accessible format materials are essential to ensuring all Australians can engage fully in school, work and our communities.
By improving access to large print, braille and audio materials in the Indo-Pacific, the Marrakesh treaty will also support economic and social development in our region.
The treaty recognises the commercial interests of copyright holders by encouraging the use of accessible material already available, before relying on the treaty.
Australia joins eleven other countries in ratifying the treaty, which will come into effect three months after 20 countries have ratified or acceded to it. We strongly encourage other countries to take this step.
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In this article, you'll learn the approach to integrate MongoDB data source using data virtualization technique in SQL Server 2019. In this article, you can see how SQL Server 2019 provides a platform to create a modern enterprise data hub using data virtualization technology and the PolyBase technique.
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The advent of Data virtualization in SQL Server 2019 allows us to solve modern and complex data challenges. Data virtualization with PolyBase in SQL Server 2019 is used as a data hub, and you can directly query the data from several heterogeneous data sources. These data sources include Azure Managed Instance, Oracle, Teradata, SAP HANA, MongoDB, Hadoop clusters, Cosmos DB, and SQL Server. We can query the data source using T-SQL and without separately installing driver software.
The data virtualization in SQL Server 2019 is an improvised solution to the ETL process. The other advantage of Data virtualization is that it allows the integration of data from different sources such as Azure MI, SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle, DB2, Cosmos DB, and Hadoop-Distributed-File-System (HDFS) without the much data movement around the source and destination. This process is possible with the advent of PolyBase connectors.
 - Using T-SQL, we can query heterogeneous data sources using PolyBase connectors. This provides the bridge to query the data from external data sources such as SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, MongoDB, and ODBC data sources with external tables
 - It also supports the UTF-8 encoding format
Get started:
In this section, you will learn how to create secure data access from the underlying data source.
In this case, PolyBase uses the security model of the MongoDB model to access the data. In most cases, we need permission to read the data. However, the credentials used to read the data and it is stored inside the PolyBase data hub.
To set-up data virtualization, follow the below steps:
 1. Setup database master key
 2. Create database-scoped credentials
 3. PolyBase external tables
 4. Configure External data sources
To configure database virtualization, select the database. Right-click the database and select Create External Table that starts the data virtualization wizard.
 1. Select a data source
 2. Create a database master key
In this section, we will see how to create a database master key. The master key is created inside the SQL Server database and it acts as a data hub.
The master key is providing a secure way to read data using the credentials in the external data source. It is always recommended to choose a complex password for the master key. In addition, use the BACKUP MASTER KEY command to back up the master key.
 1. You can have one master key in a database instance
 2. Use a secure location to backup the master key
 3. If you already have the master key created in your SQL instance—re-use it. The same master key is used to secure data access for data virtualization
 4. To see whether the master key is already created run the following query
 Display Sysmetric_keys details
Syntax to create a database master key is as follows:
Database scoped credentials
Database scoped credentials provide the abstraction layer to secure the model to access the data from the data source. SQL Server 2019 supports the following security models when using PolyBase for data virtualization:
 1. Proxy authentication
 2. Kerberos authentication
 3. Storage access key—shared secret key
The following syntax is used to provide SQL Server with the security context for a connection to a MongoDB external data source. In addition, you will see a shared secret key in use to create a database scoped credential.
 - Note: The identity refers to the username of the MongoDB external data source
To validate database scoped credentials in the datahub run the following T-SQL:
Display database scope credentials
Configure External data sources
External data sources provide a path to virtualize data from other data sources. It collects all the meta-data to access data from the single database object.
Each external data source provides the below options required to access the external source:
 - Location
 - port
 - credential
 - connectivity
The LOCATION parameter defines the communication protocol, server name and port for connectivity.
In this case, the communication protocol is mongodb and server is and port is 27017
The CREDENTIAL argument uses the database scoped credential MyMongoDBDemo2019. The external data source will use this database-scoped credential to query the target data sources
 - Note: The Connection_options and Pushdown parameters will be explained later in the article
 - To validate external data sources run the following T-SQL:
 Display external_data_sources
 How to map an external data table
 In this section, we will see how to create external views. On selecting the parent tables, the child tables are also referred by default. In addition, you have the mapping table where you modify the columns to match the target data types. This also gives you the option to modify the name of the external table.
 Let us look at the details of the MongoDB instance. Create the user using the following commands. I will not go in-depth on MongoDB concepts.
 how to connect mongoDB
 PolyBase external tables
 External tables provide SQL Server with the schema to reason over data in the external data source.
 Error Message:
 The T-SQL create external table statement errors out with the following details. You can see that the TLS handshake failed error reported. This can be handled in two ways. You can manage it at the Mongo DB startup parameters or you can turn off the SSL parameter or you can turn off the SSL=false in the T-SQL statement.
 "Msg 105082, Level 16, State 1, Line 16
 105082;Generic ODBC error: [Microsoft][MongoDBODBC] (110) Error from MongoDB Client:
 No suitable servers found (serverSelectionTryOnce set):
 [TLS handshake failed: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0) calling ismaster on '']
 (Error Code: 13053) Additional error <2>:
 ErrorMsg: [Microsoft][MongoDBODBC] (110) Error from MongoDB Client: No suitable servers found (serverSelectionTryOnce set)
 (Error Code: 13053), SqlState: HY000, NativeError: 110 "
 You may receive this error due to the SSL issue. Now, the CONNECTION_OPTIONS parameter plays a role to connect MongoDB data source.
 In this case, set the connection_options to ssl=false and then run the create external statement.
 The CONNECTION_OPTION setting suppresses the connection over SSL, which is a default requirement for communicating with many other data sources. I will discuss more about it in the next article.
 Let us run create external table statement again:
 We can see in the below snippet, the external table created successfully.
 Create mongoDB external table
 Let us validate the external table using the following T-SQL:
 Display the external tables
 Now, Let us browse object explorer to validate the existence of the External Tables and External Data Sources.
 Display external employee table
 Finally, query the external table
 MongoDB data validation in SSMS and MongoDB console
 In this article, we discussed how to set up a PolyBase in SQL Server for MongoDB external data source.
 To summarize the steps real quick:
 The data virtualization framework provides a platform to eliminate the use of redundant data copies. To maintain the physical copy always requires additional storage and hardware resources. It incurs to increase an additional overhead on costs. Using the data virtualization technique, organizations can create an abstract layer to create a virtual data copy from a heterogeneous or homogeneous data repositories. The virtual copies define the soft external table links to the physical data repository. As I mentioned, the data virtualization technique not only avoids extra storage but it provides strong consistency between the source and the target in the data retrieval process. In addition, it addresses the data issues which in turn improves the data quality and improves the data query performance.
 That's all for now. I hope you like this article. Stay tuned for more updates…
 Prashanth Jayaram
PolyBase, SQL Server 2019
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In countries that hold equality is important, clustering occurs between groups because of polarizing factors such as religion, wealth or ethnocentrism. Clustering is often considered an enriching part of free cultures in which one can visit a Chinatown or a French quarter for restaurant choices. Other sociologists assert that clustering of like minded individuals leads to political polarity and intolerance of contrary opinions, as the United States has allegedly been trending since the 1950s.
- Bill Bishop, Robert G. Cushing, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) _URL_ ISBN 0-547-23772-3, ISBN 978-0-547-23772-5
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The Errigal Road by John Montague
Within 'The Errigal Road' Montague delves into themes of Irish myth/legend, community, and heritage. The poem takes the reader through an engaging landscape that represents the similarities and deeper connections between all Irish people, Protestant or Catholic.
The Errigal Road John Montague
In 'The Errigal Road,' John Montague explores Irish mythological history while advocating for relationships that go beyond contemporary violence.
The poem takes the reader through a series of landmarks around Hill Head Road in Northern Ireland. The speaker and his neighbour are exploring the landscape. Montague's speaker depicts the land's history, and the neighbour explains stories and legends that they both can relate to and appreciate. As the walk comes to an end the neighbour asks that the speaker remember the clear-headed conversation they had and tell others that it's possible.
You can read the full poem here.
Structure and Poetic Techniques
The Errigal Road' by John Montague is a thirteen stanza poem that is separated into sets of three lines, known as tercets. These terces do not follow a specific rhyme scheme, nor do they conform to one metrical pattern.
Montague makes use of several poetic techniques in 'The Errigal Road' these include alliteration, enjambment, and similes. The latter, similes, are a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as". A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it "is" another. For example, in the second line of the fifth stanza in which the speaker describes the movement of a red quarry as "a movement swift as a bird's".
Another important technique commonly used in poetry is enjambment. It occurs when a line is cut off before its natural stopping point. Enjambment forces a reader down to the next line, and the next, quickly. One has to move forward in order to comfortably resolve a phrase or sentence. For instance, the transition between lines one and two of the second stanza or the transition between lines two and three of stanza six.
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things that uses the words "like" or "as". A poet uses this kind of figurative language to say that one thing is similar to another, not like metaphor, that it "is" another. For example, these lines in stanza ten "Heavily booted soldiers probing vehicles, streets, / their strange antennae bristling, like insects."
Detailed Analysis
Stanzas One and Two
In the first stanzas of 'The Errigal Road,' the speaker begins by describing a walk he took with his "old Protestant neighbour" up along the "Hill Head Road" in Ulster, Northern Ireland. While walking, they passed a number of sights that his companion helped point out. There was the churchyard of Errigal Keerogue and various hills and valleys "celebrated in local myth". The neighbour knew these paths well. In fact, the speaker refers to them as belonging to the neighbour.
Stanzas Three and Four
Next, the neighbour points out "Whiskey Hollow" which is a line of white "lunar birches". While walking, the two take their time imagining the plotting of men hiding out in amongst the hills and feeding fires to keep warm.
Stanza Five and Six
The neighbour also mentions "Foxhole Brae" that can be found in the "torn face of a quarry". The "them" the neighbour refers to in the third line of the fifth stanza is foxes. They used to live everywhere, but now there are barely any. One appears in the sixth stanza. The red fox is generally regarded as a symbol of the Irish peasant, or as Potts states in Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, for general Irish resourcefulness under colonization. It is quick on its feet and able to disappear and melt like rain.
Stanza Seven and Eight
The next stanzas of 'The Errigal Road' depict "Fairy Thorn Height". From there they can see more of the countryside. This place is a mythological landmark that helps the two see beyond their current differences. Catholics and Protestants can together understand the world through their common Irish Heritage.
Stanza Nine and Ten
The two expand their conversation into the wider violence that's going on around them. They think about a "gun battle outside Aughnacloy" and the machine-gun fire that rang out. There is also the story of "two men beaten up near dark Altamuskin". The last event they talk about is "an attempt to blow up Omagh Courthouse". This is a reference to a ca bombing in August of 1998 at the courthouse. It was prefaced by a telephone call warning: "There's a bomb, courthouse, Omagh, main street, 500lb, explosion 30 minutes".
Stanza Eleven and Twelve
The next lines address the chaos after the call came in. The military response is compared to insect swarms. The helicopters were like "hovering locusts" and the soldiers on the street "like insects". These are compelling similes and paint an easy to understand image of the scene.
The twelfth stanza of 'The Errigal Road' is back to describing the neighbour again. Here, he turns to address the speaker. He makes a broad statement that is simple, yet very meaningful. He asks that the speaker pass on the fact that "old neighbours" no matter their differences can "still speak to each other around here". This persevering sense of community in amongst violence and hate is the main theme of this work. The two are connected by something deeper than religious affiliation.
Stanzas Thirteen and Fourteen
In the last two stanzas of 'The Errigal Road,' the speaker describes how the neighbour said goodbye and then the speaker went on his way. He trailed back down the "main road" where he is back in the real, contemporary world. His adventures into the past are over and all of a sudden there are "cars" whipping "smartly past" him.
The last lines express his concern for the future and allude to his desire for a continuation of the neighbourly talk/walk he just went on. If only this kind of calm and clear-headed communication could occur between all those who fight around him.
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 - I understand John was at school with my Father.
 The Hill Head Road took them as travellers from the main Omagh Road (John actually went to school at Glencull or Glen Chuil, at that end of the Hillhead Road) to a T junction. We lived for a time at that exact T junction.
 To their left as they arrived, down a quite steep hill, is the ancient Errigal Keerogue graveyard with its listed Celtic cross and old church (my grandparents are buried there, as is my Father).
 They could not have passed it, but instead they then turned right, heading up the Gort Road, to where the Eagleson Family lived (and who we also occasionally visited). We moved away, but I met the Eaglesons again when i saw them after my Father's funeral in the 90's. There, I believe i met the person referenced in this poem.
 Both travellers would have known each other and the area very well.
 John would have lived even further on up that road when he was a child (having returned from New York, then being forced to live with a relative, plus suffering as a stranger with – his US accent – at the first school he was sent to… He left that place to go to Glencull)
 This whole area is steeped in folklore, mysticism, deep history, and reminders of past peoples (with dolmens, neolithic tombs, stone inscriptions, ancient place names often roughly or badly translated into English from the 1600's onwards). John had a very intimate deep interest in, and sensitivity to, the place, its history, and its unseen echoes of yesteryear.
 The poem itself was written in 1975 (published in 95) so it would be impossible that John was referring to a bomb in 1998. More likely this is a reference to a completely different and earlier incident given that the Troubles kicked off way back in 1969.
 The 1970's were an extremely difficult time for those in the border communities, with the military presence etc. No doubt even close friendships and relationships were strained at a time when so many were being killed in this particular area. This would have been very hard in a community where (quite literally) 'everybody knew everybody' and all could probably have told you every member of everyones family going back generations.
 The Whisky Hollow section is a reference to a place where Irish Moonshine (poitin) was made by use of illicit stills.
 Hope some of that gives further context.
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Imagine a small square on the ground and you are standing in the middle of it. As fast as you can jump out of the box and back to starting working your way all around the box. Then repeat with your left and right feet.
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Repeat the pattern again with your left and right feet seperately.
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Intentions say what we want to achieve and where we want to go. Having a list of intentions can help keep us on track to be a better + happier person!
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Start or end every day by writing 3 things you are grateful for.
A gratitude journal is proven to improve your well-being and increase positivity.
By choosing to focus more on the positive we trick our minds to think more optimistic. This is a simple habit can alter the way we think and train our brains to give less power to negative thinking. If we practice this habit in the mornings, we start the day on a positive note and carry this energy throughout our day. If we practice this habit in the evenings, we go to sleep with a clear head and a positive spirit. (AKA get a better night's sleep!)
If you are thankful for a person in your life and find yourself adding them to your gratitude journal— don't be afraid to show them your appreciation. We don't need to wait until Thanksgiving to tell our loved ones why we're thankful for them!
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One small act of kindness can go a long way. A random act of kindness has many positive effects on the brain— improves mood, generates happiness and increases energy.
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All integral instant products have a timing layer that kicks in roughly 2 - 5 minutes after the pod bursts and this brings the pH down which shuts off development.
All instant products, just like all normal photo products are temperature sensitive and the results vary with temperature.
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Making fake clouds for a party or holiday decoration can be done in just five simple steps. While clustering white balloons together as clouds is simple, it is not very realistic. By taking a little extra time, you can create unique, realistic clouds. This craft can be done by children, over the age of seven, with some adult supervision.
- Skill level:
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- White spray paint
- Cotton batting
- Spray adhesive
- Large paint brush or soft cloth
- Clear tape
- Fishing line
- Ornament hanger
Blow up 7 to 10 balloons and tie off the ends. Use twine to tie balloons into a cluster. The number of balloons you use will determine the size of your clouds.
Wet newspaper with water and paper mache around the outside of the balloon cluster. Mix one part flour and one part water in large bowl. Apply mixture to wet newspaper using a paint brush or soft cloth. Allow to dry thoroughly.
Spray paint the paper mached balloon cluster white. Add a second coat of paint if newsprint is still visable. Allow to dry.
Spray balloon cluster with spray adhesive. Apply cotton batting to the sprayed area. Once the adhesive is dry, pull small bits of cotton batting loose to form clouds.
Carefully insert an ornament hanger into the top of the cluster. Tie fishing line to the hanger and attach it to the ceiling with clear tape.
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Wind Farm in Galva, IL 2018, Paul Douglas Institute
A 100 Percent Renewable Chicago
An Economic Impact Report Assessing Renewable Energy in the City of Chicago
Zarek Drozda, Ekin Dursun, Vanessa Ma, Devin McNulty
This report assesses the potential impacts of a 100% renewable energy transition for the City of Chicago. We examine Chicago's current electrical demand and supply, project Chicago's electricity demand through 2035, and then test scenarios for a full transition to renewable electricity. We then model aggregate job creation, economic output, and emissions reduction potential. In addition to explaining the methodology behind "A 100% Renewable Chicago: By the Numbers" infographic, this paper provides background and context on the mechanisms through which Chicago sources energy to serve as a resource for local advocates, community stakeholders, and policymakers.


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Hunger in Asia
What region of Asia has the worst hunger?
Total Votes: 2
There are at least 18 countries in Asia that suffer from hunger and about 61% or 615 million of the world's 923 million hungry people are in Asia. Asia is the world's most populated country in the world, meaning hunger numbers are going to be higher than in most countries. The southern part of Asia is the area with the worst hunger. The good thing is that rice, an important food source for Asia, is a crop, meaning it can be grown in most places. However, weather can be an important factor. Asian hunger is a major problem, though it does have solutions.
Causes of Hunger in Asia
One of several of the causes is that Asia's huge population, which is always growing, makes for little food for some. Another reason is that in some areas, the land is not viable enough to grow the necessary food for the poorer citizens.
Effects of Hunger in Asia
An important effect of hunger in Asia is, as in other places, deaths from starvation and as we said on the first page, 25,000 die on average every day and 1,042 every hour. Another effect is the children whose families can afford to educate them cannot focus during classes and therefore do not do as well. Also, the people have weaker immune systems and the children cannot grow as well.
Asian Hunger Solutions
The probable solution for hunger in Asia is that in places where the land is not able to grow food for the masses is using either hydroponics or aeroponics, which a product called the AeroGarden uses and is sold in the U.S. Hydroponics is a method of growing almost all terrestrial plants in a mineral nutrient solution instead of soil, and actually uses much less water than standard agriculture and also produces more. Aeroponics is used with hydroponics a backup in case of failure but uses a mist format of the nutrient solution and the increased aeration of the solution allows more oxygen to go to the plants and have more growth. The downside to hydroponics is that it could stimulate samonella, so aeroponics is the logical choice for Asia's hunger crisis.


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text: The purpose of the present work is to compare the nature, the role and the structure of the bodies responsible for tax litigation in Italy and in the United States: the "Commissioni Tributarie" and the "U.S. Tax Court" (par. 1). The essay starts from a terminological clarification related to the notion of "tax justice" (par. 2) and then describes the comparative aspects of this phenomenon, adopting a classification that divides all modern Countries into three "models" of resolution of tax disputes: the "monistic" one, the "dualistic" one and, finally, the "mixed" system, that combines features of both the previous models (par. 3). Relying on an historical and constitutional approach, the paper then investigates the evolution of both the "U.S. Tax Court" (par. 4) and the "Commissioni Tributarie" (par. 5) from executive agencies into real Courts, in order to highlight – in a comparative perspective – similarities and differences between the Italian tax litigation system and the U.S. one, having regard to the crucial issues of constitutional legitimacy, separation-of-powers principles and compliance with the guarantees of "due process" (par. 6).


WILD LIFE IN ACONCAGUA about aconcagua
The reserve is in the phytogeographic High Andean province. Because it is an ecosystem of extreme elevation and low precepitations, turning the weather rigurous, the biodiversity is low. However, the animal and plant species are interesting, showing a remarkable adaptation to high altitude life and concentrating themselves towards the lower areas of the park.
The predominante vegetation are open pastures of huecú and coirones with limited areas of low trees, such as yellow leña, yareta and goat horn. In general, the vegetation adapts to endure low temperatures, poor soils and snow and wind storms, almost disappearing over 4000 m All this is what gives it its stocky look. There are flatter areas where water accumulates and you see other kinds of vegetation, that endures long periods of soil freezing.
The typical animal species are the condor, the eagle, mountain mice and the red fox, there is a frog species that stands out and a lizard, both of them typical mountain species. The flat lands and the streams are visited by special bird species, such as chorlos, churrines and torrente ducks. There are large herds of llamas, followed by pumas, the main predator. The european hares are abundant, an exotic animal in the region.
As an adaptation to cold weather, the animal species are, in general, big, avoiding the loss of their body heat. The mammals posess soft and thick fur, that keeps them warm. Other species, such as the guanacos (llamas), pumas or foxes have the capacity to emigrate to the lower regions when the weather is too cold, this is the case of the condor and the eagle. The mountain mice can not move very far, so they take refuge in their caverns during the winter.
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PTA Constitution
Balerno High School PTA Constitution
1 Title
The association shall be known as Balerno High School PTA.
2 Aims
The aims of the association are to advance the education and well being of the
pupils of the school by providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for education
at the school. This includes:-
a) promoting close co-operation and communication between parents and
b) studying and discussing matters of mutual interest relating to the education
and welfare of pupils
c) engaging in activities which support and advance the education of the pupils
attending the school, including fund raising and after school activities
d) considering applications for funds put to the PTA from parents, teachers and
groups within the school and granting funds to support such applications where the
request is passed by a majority of the general committee.
3 Membership
The members of the association shall comprise all parents or guardians of children
attending the school and all teachers employed at the school.
4 Powers of the association
The association shall have the power to do anything considered by the general
committee to be in furtherance of the aims. This includes the power to:
a) raise funds and invite and receive contributions in furtherance of the aims of
the association
b) purchase, retain and sell any assets of any description
c) pay from the funds of the association all the proper costs and expenses
incurred by the general committee in establishing and administering the charity and
funds of the association
d) reimburse themselves out of the funds of the association created in the
performance or exercise of their duties and powers
e) employ and pay proper and reasonable remuneration to staff, professional
and technical advisers whose services are, in the opinion of the general committee,
required for the carrying out of the purposes of the association
f) establish and operate both current accounts and deposit accounts with
bankers in the name of the association provided that cheques drawn on such
accounts shall not be signed by less than two members of the general committee
5 Office bearers
The office bearers of the association shall consist of:
1 Chairperson
2 Vice chairperson
3 Secretary
4 Treasurer
5 Minute secretary
The general committee of the association may appoint such other office bearers as
may from time to time be deemed necessary. The office bearers will be elected by the committee at the first meeting after the AGM. Office bearers will hold office for one year, being eligible for re-election. Where an office bearer's position becomes vacant during the normal term of office the committee may, at their discretion, opt to fill this post in one of the following ways:
(i) the deputy for the post or an agreed member of the committee may stand
in for the duration
(ii) the committee may elect a replacement from its membership, or
(iii) an EGM may be called to elect a new member to the post.
The minute secretary shall be responsible for keeping accurate minutes of all
meetings and distributing these to the committee members. Copies should be made
available to any member of the association who requests them.
6 General committee
The business of the association shall be managed by a committee of no more than
25 members, consisting of at least 5 parents and 1 teacher.
Members of the committee shall be appointed at the AGM. They shall be elected for
a period of 3 years or until the AGM immediately following three year's service
should they join mid-term.
In the event of any vacancies, the committee shall have the right to co-opt as many
members as necessary to complete the complement until the following AGM.
Where a member of the committee fails to attend regular meetings and does not play
an active role in any of the activities of the Association, the General Committee
reserves the right to ask the member to step down.
Meetings of the general committee shall be held as required during term time. At all
meetings of the committee a third of general committee members, at least two of
whom are office bearers, shall form a quorum.
by a simple majority vote of those present. The chairman shall have the deciding
A representative from the PTA general committee will attend parent council
7 Annual general meetings
The AGM shall be held in October each year. The notice calling the meeting
shall be sent to members at least 21 days in advance provided that non-receipt of
such notice by any member shall not invalidate the meeting.
The business shall include:-
a) the work of the Committee
b) approval of the Accounts for the preceding year
c) appointment of an independent examiner of the accounts if requried
d) receipt of reports of the office bearers
e) election of members to serve on the committee
f) discussion of motions received
At all AGMs voting shall be on the basis of one vote per member present at the
At all AGMs the quorum shall consist of no less than 5 members of the association.
The general committee or a minimum of 25 members, on submission of a formal
written request, shall have the power a call an EGM
Any member of the association shall have the right to raise a motion to be voted on
at the AGM by sending the motion in writing to the secretary by no later than 10 days
prior to the AGM.
8 Finance
Funds of the association shall be lodged in a bank, building society or other account
in the name of Balerno High School PTA. Cheques shall be drawn or withdrawals
made against the signatures of two named committee members.
The treasurer shall be responsible for keeping accurate records of the financial
transactions of the association.
The association's financial year shall end on the last day of July in each year. If the
income level achieved makes review by an independent examiner mandatory the
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previous AGM by the members.
The committee shall be responsible for ensuring that all property/money received
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[Numpy-discussion] Broadcasting and indexing
Thu Jan 21 10:37:09 CST 2010
I'm trying to understand how array broadcasting can be used for indexing. In the following, I use the term 'row' to refer to the first dimension of a 2D array, and 'column' to the second, just because that's how numpy prints them out.
If I consider the following example:
>>> a = np.random.random((4,5))
>>> b = np.random.random((5,))
>>> a + b
array([[ 1.45499556, 0.60633959, 0.48236157, 1.55357393, _PHONE_ ],
[ 1.28614593, 1._PHONE_, 0.63308615, 1.28904227, 1.34070499],
[ 1.26988279, 0.84683018, 0.98959466, 0.76388223, 0.79273084],
[ 1.27859505, 0._PHONE_, 1.02725009, 1.38852061, 1.56065028]])
I understand how this works, because it works as expected as described in
So b gets broadcast to shape (1,5), then because the first dimension is 1, the operation is applied to all rows.
Now I am trying to apply this to array indexing. So for example, I want to set specific columns, indicated by a boolean array, to zero, but the following fails:
>>> c = np.array([1,0,1,0,1], dtype=bool)
>>> a[c] = 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
IndexError: index (4) out of range (0<=index<3) in dimension 0
However, if I try reducing the size of c to 4, then it works, and sets rows, not columns, equal to zero
>>> c = np.array([1,0,1,0], dtype=bool)
>>> a[c] = 0
array([[ 0., 0., 0., 0., 0. ],
[ 0.41526315, 0._PHONE_, 0.39872546, 0.56141914, 0.69795153],
[ 0., 0., 0., 0., 0. ],
[ 0.40771227, 0.60209749, 0._PHONE_, 0.66089748, 0.91789682]])
But I would have thought that the indexing array would have been broadcast in the same way as for a sum, i.e. c would be broadcast to have dimensions (1,5) and then would have been able to set certain columns in all rows to zero.
Why is it that for indexing, the broadcasting seems to happen in a different way than when performing operations like additions or multiplications? For background info, I'm trying to write a routine which performs a set of operations on an n-d array, where n is not known in advance, with a 1D array, so I can use broadcasting rules for most operations without knowing the dimensionality of the n-d array, but now that I need to perform indexing, and the convention seems to change, this is a real issue.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
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Snapshot 1: the graphs of the step function
and the formula using no zeta zeros
Snapshot 2: the graphs of
and the formula using 40 pairs of zeta zeros
The Moebius mu function
is defined to be 1 if
; it is
is the product of
distinct primes and 0 otherwise (i.e., if
is divisible by the square of a prime).
The Mertens function
is defined to be the sum of
for positive integers
The first three complex zeros of the zeta function are approximately
. The zeros occur in conjugate pairs, so if
is a zero, then so is
. The important Riemann hypothesis is the unproven conjecture that all these complex zeros have real part 1/2. So far, it has been verified that the first
complex zeros do, indeed, have real part 1/2 (see ).
In 1897, Mertens conjectured that for
is always between
. If the Mertens conjecture were true, then the Riemann hypothesis would be also have to be true. But in 1985, Odlyzko and te Riele proved that the Mertens conjecture is false. This does not disprove the Riemann hypothesis, which remains one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics.
Odlyzko and te Riele did not give a specific
for which the Mertens conjecture is false. However, in 2006, Kotnik and te Riele proved that there is some
for which the Mertens conjecture is false. It is also known that the Mertens conjecture is true for all
This Demonstration uses the following formula to calculate
complex zero of the Riemann zeta function. For a proof, see.
The first sum runs over the first
complex zeros of the zeta function.
These complex zeros occur in conjugate pairs: if
is a zero, then so is
If you use the slider to choose, say, one pair of zeta zeros, then the first sum in the above formula, in effect, combines two terms corresponding to the first conjugate pair of zeta zeros
. So, when these terms are added, their imaginary parts cancel while their real parts add. The
applied to the first sum is simply an efficient way to combine the two terms for each pair of zeta zeros.
Notice that the second sum has the same form as the first, except that the second sum extends over the so-called "trivial" zeros of the zeta function, namely,
. The second sum is small when
is large. Notice that, without any zeta zeros being included (
), this formula is close to
As we include more zeta zeros in the first sum, we more closely replicate the jumps in the step function
, and we can do so for larger values of
All known zeta zeros have multiplicity 1, which is assumed in the formula. At those values of
, the formula converges to the midpoint,
approaches infinity. You can see this in the graphs.
 T. Kotnik and H. J. J. te Riele, "The Mertens Conjecture Revisited," in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4076
, Proceedings of the 7th Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium
, Berlin, 2006 pp. 156–167.
 A. M. Odlyzko and H. J. J. te Riele, "Disproof of the Mertens Conjecture," J. reine angew. Math. 357
, 1985 pp. 138–160.
 E. C. Titchmarsh, The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function
, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951 p. 318.


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The Museo della Laguna (Museum of the Lagoon) constitutes a collection of findings, starting from the 1970s, which later merged with a small antiquarium and which is nowadays in the interior of the museum. The exhibition collection includes over five hundred articles, for the most part unparalleled, which were recovered, some by chance, in various localities in the lagoons of Marano and Grado, as well along the coastal stretch behind the lagoons.
Through the Neolithic, Bronze and Roman Ages, through to the middle ages and to the Renaissance, the visitor is guided to rediscover the most important stages of the settlement's development, and of the landscape changes of the peri-lagoonar strip.
An introductory section illustrates the geological evolution of the Laguna di Marano (Marano Lagoon) and the distribution within the territory of the ancient settlements.
A glass showcase dispays findings datable to preand protohistory originating from two main sites: Bonifica di Muzzana and Ara del Gorgo. The Bronze Age is represented by an interesting winged axe, datable to the later phase of the medium Bronze Age (_PHONE_ B.C.), and by a nucleus of fragments of ceramic vases of different shapes and functions, datable to the recent Bronze Age (_PHONE_ B.C.).
It includes numerous artefacts which are evidence of daily life in that time: from eating and cooking ceramics to oil lamps, from glassware to objects of common use in bronze, and coins.


Gforth locals
Locals can be defined with
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: max { n1 n2 -- n3 }
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The similarity of locals definitions with stack comments is intended. A locals definition often replaces the stack comment of a word. The order of the locals corresponds to the order in a stack comment and everything after the -- is really a comment.
The name of the local may be preceded by a type specifier, e.g., F: for a floating point value:
: CX* { F: Ar F: Ai F: Br F: Bi -- Cr Ci }
\ complex multiplication
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Gforth currently supports cells (W:, W^), doubles (D:, D^), floats (F:, F^) and characters (C:, C^) in two flavours: a value-flavoured local (defined with W:, D: etc.) produces its value and can be changed with TO. A variable-flavoured local (defined with W^ etc.) produces its address (which becomes invalid when the variable's scope is left). E.g., the standard word emit can be defined in terms of type like this:
: emit { C^ char* -- }
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A local without type specifier is a W: local. Both flavours of locals are initialized with values from the data or FP stack.
Gforth allows defining locals everywhere in a colon definition. This poses the following questions:


I'm aware about the difference between _URL_-title and _URL_-article1-title. In my application I have the following type of urls: my_domain.com/2015/december/my-article1-title
Since the month is a word, not a digit, is there any downside for SEO? Will it be treated as a keyword and thus will be confused with the title of an article? Or is a search engine smart enough to realize that "december" is a part of a date?
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 You are seriously over thinking this. The short answer is No. Ontologies understand that 12 is December. – closetnoc Dec 24 '17 at 2:44
 - _USER_ the question is whether a search engine is able to do so – Kakki Dec 24 '17 at 2:45
 - Yes. Of course. Ontologies are used to understand meaning. Ontologies know 12, Dec, December, etc. So is there an issue with SEO? The answer is No. Both are the same. Cheers!! – closetnoc Dec 24 '17 at 3:55
 - _USER_ the question is whether a search engine is able to do so – Kakki Dec 24 '17 at 5:50
 - Google use only those keywords which is matched with user query, rest of keywords, google does not care. If someone type 12 on their query then first URL will be great, and if someone type december on their query then second URL will be great. Google does not confuse here, yes google consider it as dates, but they also consider it as keywords as well. – Goyllo Dec 24 '17 at 9:28
I would use the digits, as it makes your url shorter and easier to read for your users.
 - How is this answer helpful beyond what had already said by other users? – John Conde Dec 25 '17 at 21:27
 - added the user's perspective to the discussion. It's not really important if Google understands it as december or not. I would use the short version because of a better user experience > easier to read the url. – p3sn Dec 26 '17 at 9:31
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text: Broomcorn was one of the cash crops planted in the Deerfield area in the early to mid-19th century. The dried corn tassels were gathered and secured around the handle. The broom was clamped in this machine to form it into the correct shape and to hold the corn tassels steady until the worker sewed the individual pieces together into the broom. This phase of the production work was done in the wintertime when the farmer had extra time and could use an indoor occupation. With greater mechanization and specialization, this type of cottage industry was supplanted by factory production.


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Nasty Pesticide Broken Down by Probiotic Used In Culturing Food• _URL_, By Sayer Ji
A compelling study published in Letters in Applied Microbiology shows that a commonly used food probiotic known as Lactobacillus plantarum is capable of degrading dangerous pesticide residues in wheat (pirimiphos-methyl), confirming the traditional fermentation-based food-processing technique known as culturing can significantly improve the safety of conventional food.
The researchers found that Lactobacillus plantarum enhanced the degradation of the pesticide from 15-34%, a close to 81% enhancement. The significance and impact of the study was described as follows:
"Pesticide residues are an unavoidable part of the environment due to their extensive applications in agriculture. As wheat is a major cultivated cereal, the presence of pesticide residues in wheat is a real concern to human health. Reduction in pesticide residues during fermentation has been studied, but there is a lack of data regarding pesticide residues dissipation during cereal fermentation. Present work investigates the dissipation of pirimiphos-methyl during wheat fermentation by L. plantarum. Results are confirmation that food-processing techniques can significantly reduce the pesticide residues in food, offering a suitable means to tackle the current scenario of unsafe food."


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What is the outcome of genetic drift between two sub population?
Genetic drift is caused due to drastic changes in the frequencies of particular genes by chance alone. Genetic drift with changes in the gene flow imposed by isolation mechanism acts as an agent of speciation. Genetic drift can result in evolutionary divergence. Due to genetic drift, the variance between small sub populations increases with time. Due to genetic drift, allele frequencies fluctuate randomly in each sub population. This fluctuation is more rapid and more severe in smaller sub populations.
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text: Image-based localization or camera re-localization is a fundamental task in computer vision and mandatory in the fields of navigation for robotics and autonomous driving or for virtual and augmented reality. Such image pose regression in 6 Degrees of Freedom (DoF) is recently solved by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, already well-established methods based on feature matching still score higher accuracies so far. Therefore, we want to investigate how data augmentation could further improve CNN-based pose regression. Data augmentation is a valuable technique to boost performance on training based methods and wide spread in the computer vision community. Our aim in this paper is to show the benefit of data augmentation for pose regression by CNNs. For this purpose images are rendered from a 3D model of the actual test environment. This model again is generated by the original training data set, whereas no additional information nor data is required. Furthermore we introduce different training sets composed of rendered and real images. It is shown that the enhanced training of CNNs by utilizing 3D models of the environmen... mehrt improves the image localization accuracy. The accuracy of pose regression could be improved up to 69.37% for the position component and 61.61% for the rotation component on our investigated data set.


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How to Set Up a Project Document in Microsoft Project 2002
- Oct 4, 2002
In this chapter
Setting up a new Project document correctly from the beginning will help make your use of Microsoft Project much easier. Before you enter the first task in a new project, it's a good idea to examine several settings and make any needed changes to them. Although there are no defined rules for doing this, by following the steps outlined in this chapter, you will be able to create a more accurately calculated schedule.
You generally use most of the default settings in Microsoft Project to schedule tasks. Project also allows flexibility and adaptability to accurately reflect the actual workings of each individual project. You can change many of these settings after tasks and resources have already been entered into the project. However, by addressing these issues up front, you are guaranteed to communicate a schedule that is based on logic and calculated reason.
Although you can address the preliminaries of a project in any order, the order in which the topics are presented in this chapter is the order recommended when you begin developing your first project.
Supplying Information for a New Project
You should understand the working conditions in a project, including the working calendar and holidays, before attempting to set up the project. Project calculates the schedule for activities based on this information, so you should outline this information before you begin using Project to schedule tasks.
When you begin working with Project, you typically start by setting up the environmental working options. Next, you define the working time calendar, considering working hours and nonworking time. After you set up a calendar, you might want to print it for review at a later time. You might also want to use the same calendar for other projects; to do this, you need to use the Organizer, which is described later in this chapter.
Project 2002 includes two new wizards: the New Project Wizard and the Calendar Wizard. Using wizards in Microsoft products makes the setup process easy and complete. You are strongly encouraged to take advantage of these new wizards to expedite your setup time and allow you to focus on defining the scope of work for the project.
When you start a new project, you must consider whether you want the project to be scheduled from a specific start date or scheduled backward from a predetermined finish date. It is not possible to do both: You must either schedule forward based on the project's start date or schedule backward based on the project's finish date. When Project calculates the forward-scheduling of tasks, it considers many factors, including the duration of the tasks, the base calendar selected, the settings set by the user, dependencies defined between activities, the calendar of the resource assigned, and, if one is created, a specific task calendar that is assigned to the activity. When Project calculates the backward-scheduling of tasks, it does essentially the same thing it does when forward-scheduling, except that it calculates backward from the project's fixed end date.
In addition to calendar information, you need to provide summary information; Project inserts this information into many of the reports it can generate, and this information enables Project users to search for specific contents of files saved on your computer. You enter this summary information into the Properties dialog box, which you access by selecting File, Properties. The following sections describe how you input data into the Project Information and Properties dialog boxes.
Using the Project Information Dialog Box
To start a new file, choose File, New or click the New button on the Standard toolbar. Microsoft Project automatically displays the Project Information dialog box.
You use the Project Information dialog box to record basic information about a project, such as the starting date and the base calendar to use for scheduling. To access the Project Information dialog box at any time, you choose Project, Project Information.
Figure 3.1 shows the Project Information dialog box that appears in the Standard edition of Project. Figure 3.2 shows the Project Information dialog box that appears in the Professional edition of Microsoft Project.
Figure 3.1 The Project Information dialog box defines the start date for a project.
Figure 3.2 The Project Information dialog box for the Professional edition includes enterprise custom project level fields.
If the Project Information dialog box does not display when you open a new project, choose Tools, Options. On the General tab, mark the Prompt for Project Info for New Projects check box. Then start a new file; the Project Information dialog box should now appear (see Figure 3.3).
Figure 3.3 The option to have the Project Information dialog box appear when you open a new project is available under the General tab of the Options dialog box.
The fields in the Project Information dialog box are as follows:
Start Date, Finish Date, and Schedule FromThe Schedule from drop-down selects whether the project forward schedules from a start Date or backwards schedules from a finish Date. To define a specific date for a project to start, you can type the date in the Start Date text box or click the Start Date drop-down button to choose a date on a calendar. If you must schedule a project to finish on a specific date, select the Schedule From list box and choose Project Finish Date. You can then type a specific date in the Finish Date text box. This will move the project to schedule backwards from this date.
Current Date and Status DateMicrosoft Project uses the information in these fields to perform several date-related calculations. If you leave the Status Date field set to NA (for example, if you want to see the values in the Earned Value fields calculated up through and including the current date or a date you specify), Project uses the date in the Current Date field as the status date. This date is also used - in the Complete Through field in the Update Project dialog box and in the placement of progress lines in the Gantt Chart view. See the section "Understanding the Current Date and Status Date Text Boxes," later in this chapter, for more information about when and how you might want to use this field.
→ For information on telling Microsoft Project that work on the current project is complete through a specific date, see "Analyzing Progress and Revising the Schedule," p. 563.
- CalendarYou can use the Calendar list box to select a different base calendar for scheduling the project. The section "Scheduling with Calendars," later in this chapter, explains when you should use the default base calendar (Standard) and when you should consider using a different calendar.
If the base calendar you want to use is defined in a different project file from the one you're currently using, you must use the Organizer to copy that calendar into the current project file before you can select it (see the section "Working with Calendars," later in this chapter).
- PriorityWhen you are sharing a pool of resources across multiple projects, you can identify which project has the highest priority by changing the Priority field in the Project Information dialog box. You can set this project level priority between 0 and 1000.
→ When you have a resource spread too thin (that is, overallocated), you can have Microsoft Project attempt to resolve the problem. For more information, see "Resolving Resource Assignment Problems," p. 411.
Understanding the Start and Finish Date Text Boxes
When you're starting a new project document, you enter either a start date or a finish date into the Project Information dialog box to function as an anchor point for scheduling the tasks in the project. Microsoft Project computes the other date. You cannot specify both a start date and a finish date.
If you enter the start date, Microsoft Project schedules the first task in the project to begin at that time and calculates the project's finish date based on that starting date and the sequence of tasks that come after the first task. New tasks that are added begin as soon as possible when you schedule from a start date.
If you enter the finish date, Microsoft Project schedules the tasks from the end of the project first and works backward. The final task is scheduled to end by the finish date; the task that precedes the final task is scheduled to end in time for the final task to begin, and so on. By the time Project schedules all tasks to end in time to meet the finish date requirement, the program has calculated a start date (that is, the date by which the first task must begin for the project to be completed by the specified finish time). New tasks that are added begin as late as possible when you schedule from a finish date.
You can use the Schedule From list box to change a project's schedule as often as you like. If you want to see when a project must start in order to finish by a deadline date, you can change the Schedule From option to Project Finish Date and enter the deadline date. When you choose OK, Project recalculates the schedule, including a new start date. You can then view the Project Information dialog box again to see what the required start date is, given the new finish date deadline. While in the Project Information dialog box, you can switch back to scheduling from a fixed start date.
To select a start date or finish date, you can either type the date or click the drop-down button to select a date from a calendar (see Figure 3.4). To select a date in the current month, you simply click that date. To select a date in a different month, you use the left and right arrows to select a different month and then click the date.
Figure 3.4 The start date of the project should be defined from within the Project Information dialog box, not the start field of the first task of the project.
When you're managing a project, it's best to schedule forward based on a start date. If you schedule the project based on a fixed finish date, all activities must flow backward based on durations, linkages, and the calendars assigned; this is fine until you begin tracking the project. When you schedule


The Yamaka (यमक; Pali for "pairs") is a text of the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It is a text on applied logic and analysis included in the Abhidhamma Pitaka.
The Yamaka consists of ten chapters, each dealing with a particular topic of Buddhist doctrine: roots (mula), aggregates, elements (dhatu), and so on.[1] Its title ('pairs') stems from its treatment of topics by way of a thesis and antithesis: Is all X Y? Does this imply that all Y is X?
The text's commentary treats the ten chapter headings as a mātikā, though no explicit matrix is presented in the text.[1] A. K. Warder suggested that the text was a late addition to the Abhidhamma Pitaka, and represented an advanced text in applied logic meant to refine the knowledge of scholars already familiar with the Thervada abhidhamma system. In many places, the text considers the question of where and under what circumstances a being will be reborn given certain circumstances and levels of understanding.[1]
 1. ^ a b c Norman, Kenneth Roy (1983). Pali Literature. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. pp. 105–06. ISBN 3-447-02285-X.
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Background: High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels in premenopausal and postmenopausal women are differentially affected by exogenous sex hormones depending on their apolipoprotein E (apo E) genotype. Because endogenous sex hormones markedly increase during pregnancy, we examined whether HDL-C declines after a first birth varied by apo E polymorphisms. Methods: In 1147 nulliparas (416 black, 731 white), fasting blood samples (nonpregnant) were drawn at baseline and at follow-up years 5, 7, and 10. Time-dependent pregnancy groups included 0 pregnancies (P0), 1+ short pregnancy (P1+), 1 birth (B1), 2 or more births (B2+). ApoE groups by alleles identified with a phenotype method included E4 (4/3 and 4/4), E3 (3/3), and E2 (2/2 and 3/2). Differences in adjusted mean HDL-C changes among pregnancy groups and ApoE groups were examined using repeated measures multiple linear regression. Results: HDL-C declines associated with parity (one or more births) depended on ApoE group (ApoE*Pregnancy Interaction; p < 0.002). For B1 and B2+ vs. P0, HDL-C declines were -2.4 to -2.7 mg/dl in E4 and -3.4 to -4.1 mg/dl in E3. In E2, HDL-C declines were -6.6 mg/dl for one birth, and -11.5 mg/dl for two or more births, each relative to the 0 pregnancies (P0) group (linear trend, p < 0.001). Conclusions: The degree to which childbearing adversely affects long-term HDL-C declines varies by apo E phenotype, based on a method that accurately classifies genotype. Our findings show that 2/2 and 3/2 genotypes are associated with larger parity-related HDL-C declines than 3/3, 4/3, and 4/4 genotypes.
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