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I am trying to make a photo tutorial document of multiple captioned images with no text apart from the captions, but the images won't stay where I position them between saving and closing the document and then opening it again. A few of the images end up partly underneath a neighbouring image or half off the page and cannot be dragged back to where they should be. I have tried to anchor each captioned image as a character, but it's not solved the problem.
Is there any way to make such a document where the images will stay where they are put, and can be added to between editing sessions?
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Of course, you can. But without the exact description of the anchors, we can't help much.
ajlittoz gravatar imageajlittoz ( 2019-07-04 07:45:06 +0100 )edit
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by an "exact description of the anchors".
artefacts gravatar imageartefacts ( 2019-07-04 07:54:23 +0100 )edit
For captioned images, you need to understand that you are dealing with two objects actually: an image, and a frame around the image, which holds the image and its caption. So, you need to make sure that you set anchoring of frame to As Character, if you want to define the placement correctly.
Showing formatting marks and text boundaries is very convenient way to understand what elements your document actually consists of.
Mike Kaganski gravatar imageMike Kaganski ( 2019-07-04 08:35:33 +0100 )edit
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When working with the inserted objects and their positions in Writer, one should first try to understand two important concepts: what anchoring the object means, and what positioning the object means.
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Anchoring is what is there in the document content, to which this object is linked (some fundamental entity, such as a paragraph, or a character, or a frame): it means that when that entity moves in the document, the anchored objects may move with that entity. Anchoring creates semantical link between the text content and the inserted objects: the link means something like "this object helps to understand, or decorates, or otherwise relates to this part of document"; and naturally, when e.g. the paragraph goes a couple pages forth, it doesn't make sense that a picture that illustrates something in that paragraph would stay where it were, two pages behind.
There are five possible anchoring modes: To Paragraph; To Character; As Character; To Frame; and To Page. The latter one is very special, and actually is very unfortunate to even exist. While the first four mean that an object is linked to some real fundamental document elements - paragraphs, characters, or frames, that actually constitute the document, - the To Page anchoring links objects with something ephemeral, dynamic in the world of text processing software, to something created and destroyed on demand: to a page number. Any given page is only existing there because there's some text that needs to be placed on a page. As soon as the text gets modified/reformatted, it might take less paper space than before, and any given page may become unnecessary. Or the text may grow, edits may insert content before any given text, and so any paragraph may move to following pages. But objects linked to "page number" would stay where they were, would not move anywhere; would cause blank pages to be kept - just to let the linked object stay there. There's nothing in the document that would let these objects move forward or backward - if you insert more pages "before" such objects, the objects would "jump" to "previous" pages, actually keeping anchored to the same "page number 3 in the document, no matter what". I strongly advocate against this type of anchoring.
In essence, all types of anchoring allow to define unambiguously on which page a given anchored object will be placed: for To Paragraph, To Character, As Character, To Frame, this is the page where the linked entity is placed; for To Page, it's a fixed page (as discussed).
But anchoring, while giving us the page on which the object is placed, doesn't yet describe the image position on the page (with the exception of As Character anchoring). In case of the four "floating" anchoring modes (To Paragraph; To Character; To Frame; and To Page), positioning plays role in placement on page (and even for As Character, it has some significance).
So, positioning is the way to tell where the object will be placed... (more)
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Thank you for that exhaustive explanation. As I mentioned in the OP, I have anchored each image 'As Character', and I still have a few overlapping/floating off page problems. However, I didn't know about the importance of positioning. I will try to make another document, being careful to anchor and position each image as I add it, and see if that will stay'set' upon closing and reopening the document.
artefacts gravatar imageartefacts ( 2019-07-04 08:35:51 +0100 )edit
Very clear and exhaustive information +1
ajlittoz gravatar imageajlittoz ( 2019-07-04 09:54:39 +0100 )edit
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Internet Problem Solving Contest
IPSC 2017
Solution to Problem F – Flipping and cutting
This problem is based on a nice puzzle called "The Ice Cream Cake puzzle". Its origin is unknown, but you can find it, for example, in Peter Winkler's book "Mathematical Mind Benders".
The main interesting thing about this problem is that – contrary to what many people intuitively expect – the answer is always finite, even if the step happens to be irrational. Yes, even if we never cut the circle twice in the same place, it will still always return to the all-black state after finitely many steps. We will now show why that is the case and also how to compute the minimal number of steps needed.
How is that even possible?
The key observation is that the locations of cuts don't necessarily matter. After the cut, we always flip and reverse a part of the circle. If the reversal brings back a piece of the same color, the cut will, for all practical purposes, disappear – as if we never made it.
The only thing that matters are the coordinates at which a white piece touches a black piece. Below, we will call these coordinates borders.
Changing the game
Let's change the game slightly. The new game will be completely equivalent to the old one, but it will be a bit easier to argue about it.
First of all, let's scale everything. From now on, we'll assume that the step length x is an arbitrary real from the open interval (0, 1), and that the circumference of the circle is exactly 1.1
The second change: instead of going around the circle, we will rotate the entire circle by x (measured along its circumference) after each flip. This way we'll get an equivalent process, but we will always be making the cut at the same place, and we will always be flipping a wedge that lies on the same part of the table.
Imagine a fixed coordinate system around the circle. (I.e., the coordinates don't rotate when the circle does, they are written on the table.) The coordinates wrap around the circle – i.e., all operations with them are done modulo 1. For example, the coordinates 0.47, 23.47 and −0.53 all represent the same point.
But back to our game. We will make the first cut at 0. Then, each round will consist of three steps:
A simple special case
The game is simple if the circumference is a positive multiple of x. If it happens to be the case that kx = 1 for a positive integer k, the game clearly ends after 2k steps: first we flip everything upside down in k steps and then we flip it back in another k steps.
The remaining general case
Below, we will deal with the remaining case. Let k = ⌈1/x.
If we start with an all-black circle, the first k − 1 cuts will flip a black wedge to its white side. Then, the k-th cut will cut into the first wedge.
Let's write x = y + z, where y = 1/k. After the first round we have two borders: at 0 and at x. After the second round the borders are at 0 and 2x. After k − 1 rounds the borders are at 0 and (k − 1)x. In the following round we get a new border at x − kz. In the following rounds new borders appear at 2x − kz, 3x − kz, …, (k − 1)x − kz. And that's it. We can easily show that if the current borders are only at some of these coordinates before a round, there will only be borders at some of these coordinates (and nowhere else) after the round.
Finiteness of the game
The current state can be described by specifying the current set of borders and the color of one of the pieces between them. As there are only finitely many possible locations of borders, a state must eventually repeat. As the process is deterministic, it must be eventually periodic. And as the process is reversible, it must be purely periodic. Hence, the first state to repeat must be the initial state when the circle is all black.
Period length
The full set of border lines divides the circle into 2k − 1 areas. Out of those, k have length (x − kz) each, and between them (except for zero) k − 1 areas have length 4z. Let's call the first ones "areas of type A" and the second ones "areas of type B".
It is easy to show that areas of type A change their color periodically. As we do the rounds of our process, first we turn them from black to white, one at a time, and then we turn them back from white to black, one at a time. Thus, all areas of type A are black only once every 2k rounds.
The same holds for areas of type B. But as there is only k − 1 of those, they are only all black once every 2(k − 1) rounds.
It follows that the entire circle is black once every 2k(k − 1) rounds. (Note that k and k − 1 are relatively prime.)
 1. In the task statement we just use some special values of x, but the proof and the algorithm work for all positive reals.


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Universities have a limited number of funding sources. The primary funding sources for research universities to perform their research and educational missions are tuition, research grants and contracts, philanthropy, endowment income, and, in the case of public institutions, state appropriations. When universities are unable to recover the full allowable costs of research, they must rely on other primary funding sources to make up the difference. A cap on F&A costs might result in:
- institutions refusing to accept research awards that require significant institutional subsidy;
- the deterioration of research facilities as the risk becomes too great to invest institutional funds;
- a substandard compliance environment because institutions cannot afford to pay for mandated compliance costs; and,
- increases in tuition rates to cover costs that have been shifted to the institution.
Each of these would result in harm to not only the institutions conducting research, but the nation which would lose its competitive edge in science and innovation.

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"Climate tells you how you are functioning as an organisation, Culture tells you why your organisation is functioning that way."
(Human Synergistics Australia)
Climate, engagement, morale, pulse, are these terms interchangeable and where do they fit with Culture? Are they the same as Culture? This article is the second in a series focusing on the Human Synergistics (HS) White Papers and draws from the "Organisational Culture: Beyond Employee Engagement" White Paper. I have taken a practical approach to breaking down organisational Climate and articulating where it fits with Culture.
The first article in this series focused on Culture and outlined the HS approach to measuring current Organisational Culture and providing specific data to develop a Constructive Organisational Culture.
The HS organisational level diagnostics (OCI/OEI) measure both Culture and Climate:
Ideal Culture – Causal Factors (Perceptions) – Operating Culture – Outcomes (Feelings)
(OCI) (OEI) (OCI) (OEI)
*Note: OEI is the Organisational Effectiveness Inventory and is the HS diagnostic tool that measures Organisational Climate. OCI is the Organisational Culture Inventory and is the HS diagnostic that measures Organisational Culture.
A critical consideration when differentiating Culture and Climate is that the Outcomes (feelings) of the current Climate in an organisation are the symptoms of the organisations Current Culture. Whilst easier to see (as per Iceberg model in White Paper), we don't address the Outcomes (Climate) to bring about desired change. We focus on specific Causal Factors (Perceptions) to develop a Constructive Operating Culture and this approach will drive high engagement levels within an organisation. As this White Paper points out, it is possible to have high engagement levels and a poor Culture, therefore it is important to focus on developing a Constructive Culture to improve Climate to ensure the organisation is well placed for long term sustainable success.
Following points taken from the White Paper provide a good summary of how Climate might play out in an organisation:
Perceptions (*OEI – Cause):
- Are ideas listened to?
- Adequate training?
- Remuneration system
- Talent Management
- How effective are supervisors, management and leadership rated?
- Role clarity and expectations
- Extent to which members believe they can influence how things get done
Feelings (*OEI – Effect)
- Job Satisfaction
- Employee Engagement
- Team Collaboration
- Job Security
- Work/life balance
Grounded in the experience and evidence base HS has developed over a long period, the following points establish an understanding around Climate from a HS standpoint:
- Engagement is a measure of Organisational Climate, it is not Organisational Culture.
- Culture causes engagement, therefore, to address engagement, develop Culture.
- Climate is an indicator of short-term performance, Culture is a better predictor of long-term performance.
- Engagement is a symptom, Culture is the cause, a focus on Climate looks at 'what' is happening, not 'why'.
- Experience shows organisations can have high engagement and a non-constructive Culture.
- Climate is the 10% of the iceberg above the surface, Culture is the 90% of iceberg below the surface.
- Climate is an indicator of current effectiveness, Culture tells you how well your organisation can sustain that effectiveness over time. They are not alternatives, they each tell part of the story.
A personal story to provide an analogy highlighting the cause and effect relationship between Culture and Climate is through my daughter who has issues with food intolerances. Symptoms include skin rashes, sneezing, coughing, blocked sinuses, and lethargy. There was a period we treated these symptoms as they presented, using strong steroid cream for the rashes and asthma medication for some of the other symptoms. Once we pinpointed the food intolerances as the primary cause (Causal Factors) of the symptoms (Outcomes), we could address the cause (Levers for Change) and provide long term relief from the symptoms (developing a Constructive Culture).
A key benefit for organisations when using the HS OCI (Culture) and OEI (Climate) simultaneously is that it provides a clear story of how Culture and Climate are playing out specific to the organisation. This measurable data enables organisations to identify where efforts can be best placed to further develop Constructive Organisation Culture and high levels of engagement. This is significant as the OCI is the only diagnostic of its type that provides a measurable indication of on organisations current Culture.
To see the HS framework in action, follow the link to see a BRS Case Study outlining the provision of leadership, team and organisation coaching services to the City of Tea Tree Gully. This involved the implementation of a customised leadership development program and executive coaching to meet the unique needs of the client and ensure all leaders were accountable for their development.
Whilst BRS are advocates of the HS framework for use with clients, as an organisation, since its inception, BRS has used HS diagnostics internally to measure and inform the development of Constructive behaviours and effectiveness at an individual and organisational level. The Case Study below outlines the internal application of the HS diagnostics.


From a Notification to a Movement: Exploring a MENA Activism Toolbox [Bread&Net 2020 Session]
The session demystifies online transformation leadership in the civil society by introducing online tools and modules that can be used to understand a given context, organize activist and volunteer groups and bring new mediums to the advancement of civil rights causes in critical contexts; especially where access to the internet may be limited due to political, economic or cultural conditions.
SMEX is a registered Lebanese NGO that works to advance self-regulating information societies in the Middle East and North Africa.


Top 5 Frost-Free Refrigerators and why should we buy them
None of us are guests to seeing ice form in our freezers. This happens due to the uneven circulation of cooling air in the freezer. As soon as cool air meets hot or humid air, frost is formed. Frost-Free refrigerators as the name implies prevents the formation of frost or ice. This is due to a small convection (electrical fan) that evenly distributes cold air avoiding frost to form.
Advantages of frost-free refrigerators:
 1. The main advantage of frost-free refrigerators is that you don't have to manually clean the fridge to thaw and drain out the ice every few months. The frost-free fridge avoids the formation of ice saving you time and effort.
 2. It maintains the maximum freshness of food, preventing it from getting spoilt due to ice crystals forming on stored food.
 3. Storage can be utilized to the maximum as there is no frost to create an interference with space.
 4. Neglecting regular frost formation in the fridge could cause a problem with the fridge's lifespan. As frost-free refrigerators prevent frost from forming, they have a longer lifespan.
Here is our list of the top 5 Frost-Free Refrigerators to buy:
Whirlpool FP 343D Frost-Free Refrigerator
The Whirlpool FP 343D is a triple door frost-free refrigerator with a storage capacity of 330 litres. It comes with the 6th sense active fresh technology and moisture retention technology.
The 6th sense active fresh technology keeps all the fruits and vegetables fresh for a longer time. The moisture retention technology maintains the natural taste and moisture for longer. Additionally, the air booster circulates air so that all compartments of the fridge receive even circulation of cool air.
LG GL-I322RPZL Frost-Free Double Door Refrigerator
The LG I322RPZL is a double door frost-free refrigerator that comes with a storage capacity of 308 litres. It has incorporated various technologies like the smart inverter compress which adjusts the cooling power based on the amount of food stored in the fridge.
The ice beam door cooling technology makes sure that there is even temperature flowing throughout the fridge. Furthermore, the unique jet ice technology converts water to ice in less than 90 minutes.
Top 5 Frost-Free Refrigerators and why should we buy them
SAMSUNG RT28M3022S8-HL Frost-Free Refrigerator
The Samsung RT28M3022S8-HL is one of the best double door frost-free refrigerators in India. With the new digital inverter technology, the compressor speed is automatically adjusted according to the cooling demand. This frost-free fridge uses minimal noise and energy and gives a long-lasting performance.
The shelves of this sleek and elegant fridge are made with toughened glass to hold a weight of almost 150 kg without any hassle. The fridge has a power-efficient and long-lasting LED lighting making it easier to find things quickly.
Whirlpool FP 313D Frost-Free Refrigerator
The whirlpool FP 313D frost-free triple door refrigerator is a packed with features. These features make the fridge all the more tempting to buy. The 6th sense active fresh technology along with the moisture retention keeps the fruits and vegetables fresh and safe from moisture.
Alongside that, the micro-block system which is present in the refrigerators compartment kills up to 99.9 percent of the microbes keeping your food healthy and safe for consumption. The air boosters system makes sure to circulate precise cooling throughout the fridge as well as prevents the odour mixing from one compartment to the other.
Top 5 Frost-Free Refrigerators and why should we buy them
SAMSUNG RT28K3022RJ/HL Frost-Free Refrigerator
The Samsung RT28K3022RJ/HL double door frost free fridge comes with a 253 litres capacity is a long-lasting refrigerator. It automatically adjusts the cooling speed with the help of the digital inverter compressor making the fridge durable. It is an energy-efficient refrigerator saving on the electricity consumption.
The easy slide shelf feature is built on rolling hinges to easily pull out and organize the items on the rack. The Big guard feature is not usually found in conventional refrigerators. It becomes easy to store bigger bottles or containers with this added feature.
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Moon Maid (comic) : definition of Moon Maid (comic) and synonyms of Moon Maid (comic) (English)
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Moon Maid
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Publisher Tribune Media Services
Created by Chester Gould
Moon Maid was a major character at one period in the Dick Tracy comic strip, then drawn by its creator, Chester Gould.
Gould, hoping to keep the strip evolving and changing with the times, slowly began changing the focus of the strip from a crime drama into one whose primary focus was science fiction. Tracy had always been equipped with the latest, most up-to-date police equipment, including forensic science, but with the introduction into the strip of eccentric industrialist Diet Smith as Tracy's friend in the 1940s, Tracy began to have the assistance of devices such as the two-way wrist radio, and later the two-way wrist TV.
The logical extension of this in Gould's mind was the introduction of space travel. Smith invented the magnetic-powered Space Coupe. With the use of this vehicle, Tracy and company landed on the moon in 1964, finding there an advanced race of humanoids whose high technology meshed remarkably well with that of Smith's. The Moon race looked like Caucasian humans except for having abnormally large eyes and giraffe-like horns on their foreheads.
 Fictional character biography
Moon Maid was the daughter of the Moon's supreme ruler, a male humanoid who was always identified as "the Governor of the Moon". It is not clear whether he was democratically elected, or some form of hereditary ruler. She served as a liaison between her race and the humans. She and her family became one of the strip's primary focuses for several years.
Moon Maid eventually married Junior, the now-adult adopted son of Dick Tracy. Her father the Governor resented this marriage. Eventually, Moon Maid became pregnant by Junior. Her father was anxious that the child be born on the Moon, so as to be legally a Moon denizen. An extremely contrived plot twist put the pregnant Moon Maid, Junior, Dick Tracy and the Governor all aboard a Space Coupe when Moon Maid gave birth at precisely the midpoint in space between Earth and the Moon.
The child, a girl, was named Honey Tracy and had slightly over-large eyes, and two prominent tufts of hair on her forehead in the position corresponding to Moon Maid's horns; we are never told what lies beneath those tufts. The daughter also demonstrated a magnetic ability to attract small metal objects to her hands; this talent never played an important role in the strip.
During this period, Dick Tracy himself had many adventures on the Moon, notably solving a murder case involving a man named Purdy Fallar who kept two of his fingernails extra-long, claiming they were for harvesting the meat of giant Escargot: a race of gigantic Moon snails, prized on Earth as delicacies. In reality he used his sharpened fingernails as throat-slashing weapons.
When the impending 1969 NASA moon landing threatened to make the preceding Moon stories look silly, Gould chose to return to the material that made the Dick Tracy strip famous—Earth-bound crime. The strip made one oblique reference to the Apollo 11 landing shortly after its completion, with Diet Smith commenting about some "equipment left behind" on the Moon (in a caption above a panel showing the abandoned Lunar Module).
 Later years
After Apollo 11, Moon Maid and Honey continued to remain on Earth, as wife and daughter of Junior; all references to their selenic origin were phased out, with Honey never demonstrating her magnetic talents, and Moon Maid identified solely as "Junior's wife". Both characters continued to appear sporadically, in greatly reduced roles. Soon after Rick Fletcher and Max Collins took over the strip in 1978, Moon Maid was murdered accidentally by a man named Little Littel who was trying to kill Tracy with a car bomb while trying to collect on a million dollar open contract on Tracy's head by elderly crime lord "Big Boy" Caprice. Little would later be killed himself in an explosion when Junior Tracy goes to his shop looking for revenge on his wife's murder.
Although Honey Tracy survived—now apparently retconned to be totally human—it was understood that this moment represented the termination of the strip's Moon years.
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I posted the same question on MATLAB central, and Bill Greene kindly provided an answer.
I briefly report and extend it so that it can be useful to others.
Solution by Bill:
Here is one way to create such a plot. Assume you have the point matrix created by the PDE Toolbox mesher, p, and a solution vector, u. The function below will create a plot of that solution along a line defined by the x and y locations of the two end points. My example is for a solution on a unit square and I want a plot along the line (0,.5) to (1,.5). I want to include 25 points in the plot. As you can see, the real work is being done by the
TriScatteredInterp function from core MATLAB.
plotAlongLine(p, u, [0,.5], [1,.5], 25);
function plotAlongLine(p, u, xy1, xy2, numpts)
x = linspace(xy1(1),xy2(1),numpts);
y = linspace(xy1(2),xy2(2),numpts);
F = TriScatteredInterp(p(1,:)', p(2,:)', u);
uxy = F(x,y);
figure; plot(x, uxy); //REM: x is chosen here as a curvilinear coordinate
I'd like to further remark that the previous function allows one to plot the solution
u or its functions
u is defined on mesh nodes (as typically happens for FEM approximated solutions).
If one needs to plot sections of functions defined on mesh centers (e.g. functions of
grad u), she may use in advance the function
pdeprtni which produces node-valued-functions out of center-valued-functions.

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A health care law Call for Articles has been announced by the West Virginia Law Review. The announcement is set forth below:
Call for Articles
The West Virginia Law Review announces a call for articles and invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to submit contributions for its upcoming issue focusing on health care. This issue will include articles from the Law Review's Lecture Series, "Beyond Politics: A Discussion of Health Care in America," a thoughtful discourse on the social disparities in access and outcomes engrained in our current health care system. For this issue, we are particularly interested in scholarship discussing the following topics:
- Health care reform;
- Health care access and outcome disparities, especially as they affect women and children, racial minorities, and the rural poor;
- Health care as a human right.
Articles will be selected by our Articles Selection Team and the Editor-in-Chief based on scholarly merit, originality, relevancy, and writing style. Articles should be thoroughly researched and contain appropriate footnotes in bluebook format.


Volume Snapshots
Volume snapshots are immutable, point-in-time images of the contents of one or more volumes.
FlashArray User Guide.
All Pure Storage® FlashArray devices support volume snapshots. Because of the innovative technology used to implement the volume snapshots, snapshot creation and its lifecycle management does not impact an array's performance. Generally snapshots are classified as crash consistent or application consistent. Crash consistent snapshots preserve the data at the moment of snapshot but without the application awareness that snapshot is created. It is conceivable that open files will not be properly protected with a crash consistent snapshot. Application consistent snapshots ensure that all pending transactions and file system operations are completed at the time the snapshot is created. Application consistent snapshots provide reliable means of full data recovery.
MongoDB Replica Sets
MongoDB has been designed and developed with high availability features which are provided by replica sets. A replica set duplicates database data across all replica set members. At a minimum, three servers are required to configure the replica set. One of the replica set members serves as a primary with two or more secondaries (slaves). By default, the primary replica set member is responsible for read and write database operations. In the event of a primary failure, the remaining members elect a new primary. MongoDB 4.0 supports up to fifty nodes in a replica set with seven members participating in the primary member election. Besides high availability, the replica set model provides great flexibility in situations where software and hardware updates are required. Nodes can be safely evacuated from a replica set without impacting database performance and availability. Moreover, delayed replica set members can be utilized for a database point in time recovery operations or backups. Replica set members can be geographically dispersed and located in different data centers. An example of a five node MongoDB replica set is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Taking Advantage Of FlashArray Data Services With MongoDB
In most cases, MongoDB replica sets have been deployed on servers with Direct-Attached Storage (DAS). While using servers with DAS offers some benefits, there are also many challenges associated with this deployment model such as lack of integrated data services (data reduction and snapshots). The benefits of FlashArray data reduction are covered in MongoDB: (Disk) Space The Final Frontier blog. To determine how volume snapshots can benefit MongoDB FlashArray deployments, let us examine the replica set member failure or scheduled maintenance activity and corresponding recovery scenario. In a MongoDB replica set, the primary node maintains oplog (operations log) which is a rolling record of all inserts and updates. Secondary nodes also posses the oplog copy which is asynchronously updated from the primary. If the secondary node is unavailable for an extended period of time, the oplog on the primary may be overwritten without being duplicated to the secondary. Once the oplog has been overwritten or the disk subsystem on the failed node has been corrupted or lost, content of the entire database must be copied from another surviving node. This process, depending on the size of the database, workload and the network throughout can be time consuming. During the replication process, MongoDB replica set is at higher risk of failure should another node or nodes malfunction.
This risk can be easily reduced or mitigated if MongoDB data files are stored on FlashArray. By utilizing volume snapshots, the failed node may be recovered much faster than copying database files across the network. The possible MongoDB replica set with a FlashArray deployment is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2.
MongoDB Replica Set Node Recovery Using FlashArray Snapshots
By utilizing MongoDB's replica set high availability features and FlashArray snapshots, the failed node recovery process is simple and efficient. The steps outlined below provide a general MongoDB replica set node recovery guidelines where database disks (dbpath) are located on FlashArray volumes. See Figure 3 (animated).
 1. Secondary Replica Set Member B: down for maintenance or failed
 2. Secondary Replica Set Member A: flush writes to disk and lock the database (db.fsyncLock())
 3. FlashArray: Snapshot database volume or volumes connected to Secondary Replica Set Member A locked in step 1 (purevol snap)
 4. Secondary Replica Set Member A: Unlock the database locked in step 1 (db.fsyncUnlock())
 5. FlashArray: Copy snapshot to volume/volumes or overwrite from snapshot existing volume/volumes which are connected to the recovering node (purevol copy)
 6. Secondary Replica Set Member B: Start mongod process on the recovering node (/usr/bin/mongod)
 7. Verify the replica set status (rs.status() and rs.printSlaveReplicationInfo())
Note: If the volume snapshot (step 3) is not required for longer term retention, volume copy with overwrite option (purevol copy –overwrite) may be executed eliminating step 5.
Figure 3 (animated).
Replica Set Secondary Node Recovery Test
The criterion for successful recovery was when the tested node reached the SECONDARY state. The node status can be obtained by executing rs.status() command.
In Pure Storage lab, the recovery of a 230 GB idle (no workload) database on the secondary replica set member with an empty dbpath (no database files) using MongoDB replication mechanism took approximately eighteen minutes. Recovering the same secondary node using FlashArray snapshots completed in less than a minute after starting mongod process.
Repeating the same test scenario with database under load (50% reads 50% updates) the recovery time on node with an empty file system (dbpath) took approximately twenty five minutes. Restoring identical node with FlashArray snapshot, the node state change from STARTUP2 to SECONDARY occurred in less than a minute. See table below.
MongoDB Replication FlashArray Snapshot Improvement
No Workload 18 minutes 1 minute 18x
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Hot and Cold Ideal Gases Documents
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The EJS Hot and Cold Ideal Gases model simulates the mixing of hot and cold two-dimensional ideal gases in a square box. This simulation can be used as part of the activity described in "The Statistical Interpretation of Entropy: An Activity" by Todd Timberlake, to be published in The Physics Teacher.
In the model, one gas is initially confined to the left side of the box while the other gas is confined to the right side. An animation window shows the motion of the particles in the box, while an optional graph window plots the temperature of each side of the box, which is determined by measuring the average KE of the particles on each side. The initial number of particles and temperature on each side of the square can be changed and a button allows the user to reverse the particle velocities at any time. The user can modify this simulation if EJS is installed locally by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item.
EJS Hot and Cold Ideal Gases model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_entropy_HotAndColdIdealGases.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. EJS is a part of the Open Source Physics Project and is designed to make it easier to access, modify, and generate computer models. Additional EJS models are available. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or EJS.
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The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the EJS Hot and Cold Ideal Gases Model. Unzip this archive in your EJS workspace to compile and run this model using EJS.
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Battery Ground Resistance Measurer
Switchgear and control Floating Battery Systems are not intentionally grounded. The advantage of the design is that a single field ground will not cause the battery operated control system to malfunction. It takes at least two field grounds (or even more, if the ground resistances are very large) to cause a control system malfunction.
If the field resistances are very small, the malfunctions can consist of blown fuses and tripped circuit breakers, which can result in the complete loss of battery power to the control system. If the field resistances are larger, but still less than the system Critical Resistance, circuit elements such as relays, solenoid valves, solid-state inputs, etc. can fail to activate or deactivate.
But what is the system Critical Resistance in your application? You can review the vendors' specifications for your control elements and you can perform tests. Place a variable resistor in series with a 125 VDC relay coil. Set the battery charger to its equalize voltage. Slowly decrease the resistance until the relay pulls in. Remove the resistor and measure its resistance (e.g. 8K ohms). Reconnect, and slowly increase the resistance until the relay drops out. Remove the resistor and measure its resistance (e.g. 38.5K ohms). Do this with all the circuit element types (solenoid valves, solid-state inputs, etc.). The largest variable resistor setting of all the circuit elements is the system Critical Resistance. If, in our example, the relay had the largest resistor setting (38.5K ohms), the system Critical Resistance would probably be declared as 40K ohms. Any battery ground equal to or less than 40K ohms must immediately be found and removed.
BATTERY GROUND RESISTANCE MEASURER
The Battery Ground Resistance Measurer (BGRM) is an extremely lightweight and portable system designed for your field technicians. With it, they can quickly determine the battery positive post to ground resistance and battery negative post to ground resistance. If either of these resistances is equal to or less than that site's Critical Resistance, the sources of the battery grounds must be immediately found and removed. If any of the resistances are starting to approach the system Critical Resistance, the site should be marked for more frequent monitoring, or scheduled for a ground search in the near future.
The BGRM consists of three parts: An accurate digital Voltmeter, An Interface Test Box, and a Calculation Device. You supply the accurate digital voltmeter. It must be capable of measuring your battery voltage, and it must be able to accommodate shrouded banana plugs, such as those supplied with Fluke DVM's. It must have an input resistance of at least 10 Megaohms.
The standard Interface Test Box consists of a plastic case containing two 2 Amp, 500 VDC fuses and a 200K ohm, precision, metal film resistor. It has two shrouded banana plug leads for connecting your DVM. It has two battery clip terminated leads, each over six feet long. The battery clips are connected to the leads with stainless steel hardware. One battery clip is connected to ground; the other is connected to a battery post.
The Interface Test Box places an approximately 196K ohm battery ground on your system while it is used to measure the battery positive post to ground voltage and battery negative post to ground voltage. The battery clips allow your technician to walk away and perform other duties while the 196K ohm resistance quickly dissipates your system's battery to ground capacitive charge. When the ground voltage stops changing, the technician records the value. The third voltage your technician measures is the battery voltage. There is no need to use the Interface Test Box for this measurement, but the internal fuses would provide additional protection for your DVM.
The Calculation Device can be a portable computer running the Excel spreadsheet file provided on a CD with the BGRM, or as an option, we can provide a pre-programmed calculator which tells the technician when to input each of the measured parameters, and provides error messages if there is a problem. An additional benefit of the pre-programmed calculator is that the technician does not need to wait for his/her portable computer to boot up.
In addition to calculating the two battery ground resistances, the Excel spreadsheet file can also predict the ground voltages you will measure if you enter known battery ground resistances. This is useful for determining alarm points on certain battery charger, switched resistor ground detectors that only display voltages.
Most battery chargers, if they have a ground detector, have a balanced resistor ground detector. They are unable to detect battery grounds, even those below the system Critical Resistance, if the field positive post to ground resistance and field negative post to ground resistance are nearly the same. The BGRM has no problem measuring balanced battery grounds.
If you have a battery charger with a balanced resistor ground detector, the battery ground resistance calculated by the BGRM contains the battery charger ground detector resistance in parallel with the field ground resistance. You only want to know the field ground resistance. Both the Excel spreadsheet file and the pre-programmed calculator can provide the field ground resistance after you input the BGRM calculated resistance and the known ground detector resistance.
The standard BGRM, with its 200K ohm precision resistor, is designed for systems with a system Critical Resistance of 40K ohms or less. If your system Critical Resistance is significantly greater than 40K ohms, please contact us for a custom design discussion. The standard BGRM is designed for battery systems not exceeding 280 VDC. The BGRM will not accurately calculate the ground resistance of a battery ground internal to a battery string (between the cells of a battery).
Low resistance battery grounds are caused by water entering junction boxes or switch/sensor terminations, wire splices soaking in water, critters who gnaw insulation off wires for nest building material, cracks in aged insulation, sharp objects abrading insulation, etc. The Battery Ground Resistance Measurer is a powerful tool. It allows you to easily determine the battery ground status of your control system, in ohms, as often as you like. It is lightweight, portable, and inexpensive, allowing you to equip all of your technicians with this handy device.
Standby Power System Consultants, Inc. (SPS) is the exclusive provider of the Battery Ground Resistance Measurer. We supply many battery system related services in addition to those discussed on this page.
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Battery Ground Resistance Measurer
Includes Interface Test Box, Excel Spreadsheet File CD, Instructions, and Easy Clean Case.
BGRM with Pre-programmed Calculator
Includes Interface Test Box, Excel Spreadsheet File CD, Instructions, Multi-line Display Pre-programmed Calculator, and Insulating Case (to reduce calculator exposure to temperature extremes while traveling with the technician outdoors).
½ Day, On Site, BGRM Course
Limited to 8 students per class. Includes 8 Class Manuals, 1 Excel Spreadsheet File CD, and Professional Instruction in sources of battery grounds, determining and decreasing system Critical Resistance, theory of battery charger ground detectors, and theory, operation, limitations, and troubleshooting of the BGRM. Suitable for engineers and technicians. 4 Pre-programmed Calculators and 4 Interface Test Boxes are provided for the students to use during the class.
1Day, On Site, BGRM and Battery Ground-Fault Tracer Course
Limited to 8 students per class. Includes the ½ day BGRM course and a ½ day course on the Megger 246100B BGFT, used for tracking the source of battery grounds. Includes student participation on a battery ground simulator.
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MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - Alan Alda, the actor-turned-part-time professor, has a new question for scientists to consider: How do you explain color to an 11-year-old?
The television and film star best known for his role in the 1970s sitcom "MASH" is posing the question as part of the third annual "Flame Challenge." Alda helped organize the international contest as part of his work at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science.
The university on eastern Long Island named the center in Alda's honor earlier this year; its goal is to get scientists in various disciplines to explain complex concepts in the simplest of ways.
This year's question was selected by Alda after receiving about 800 suggested questions from children. He explained that many questions focused on issues about light and color, including the childhood classic: "Why is the sky blue?"
"I'm in awe of the scientists who can bring clarity to these questions and I'm in awe of the kids who keep the scientists on their toes," Alda said.
Alda, a New York native who has had a lifelong interest in science, started the contest in 2011 by asking scientists: What is a flame? He followed that up last year with: What is time?
Now comes color.
"We want scientists to think about how they can answer the question from their own field _ from biology to physics to anthropology or psychology," said Elizabeth Bass, director of the Alda Center. Bass said the answer can be explained from a variety of scientific perspectives, including physics, chemistry or psychology.
Scientists have a March 1 deadline to submit their responses, which will then be judged by 11-year-olds logging onto the Flame Challenge website. Last year, 20,000 students around the world served as judges.
Two winners _ one a written entry and the second for a video or graphic entry _ will receive a free trip to New York City, where they will meet Alda and be honored at the World Science Festival.
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Hot ice, more commonly referred to as sodium acetate, is basically the sodium salt of acetic acid. In non scientific terms, this substance is basically the opposite supercooling, as it gets warm since the reaction is exothermic. Continue reading to see five awesome demonstration captured on video.
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Sodium acetate is used in the textile industry to neutralize sulfuric acid waste streams, and as a photoresist while using aniline dyes. It is also a pickling agent in chrome tanning, and it helps to retard vulcanization of chloroprene in synthetic rubber production. In processing cotton for disposable cotton pads, sodium acetate is used to eliminate the buildup of static electricity.
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Sodium acetate is used to reduce the damage water can potentially do to concrete by acting as a Concrete sealant, while also being environmentally benign and cheaper than the epoxy alternative that is usually employed for sealing concrete against water permeation.
Sodium acetate may be added to foods as a seasoning. It may be used in the form of sodium diacetate - a 1:1 complex of sodium acetate and acetic acid, given the E-number E262. A frequent use of this form is in salt and vinegar chips in the United States. Many US brands, including national manufacturer Frito-Lay, sell "salt and vinegar flavored" chips that use this chemical, with lactose and smaller percentages of other chemicals, in lieu of a real salt and vinegar preparation.
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As the conjugate base of a weak acid, a solution of sodium acetate and acetic acid can act as a buffer to keep a relatively constant pH. This is useful especially in biochemical applications where reactions are pH dependent.
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Sodium acetate is also used in consumer heating pads or hand warmers and is also used in hot ice. Sodium acetate trihydrate crystals melt at 54C-58C dissolving in their water of crystallization. When they are heated to around 100°C, and subsequently allowed to cool, the aqueous solution becomes supersaturated. This solution is capable of cooling to room temperature without forming crystals. By clicking on a metal disc in the heating pad, a nucleation centre is formed which causes the solution to crystallize into solid sodium acetate trihydrate again.


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When a clicked link or programmatic request invokes a web URI intent, the Android system tries each of the following actions, in sequential order, until the request succeeds:
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To create a link to your app content, add an intent filter that contains these elements and attribute values in your manifest:
Add one or more tags, each of which represents a URI format that resolves to the activity. At minimum, the tag must include the android:scheme attribute.
You can add more attributes to further refine the type of URI that the activity accepts. For example, you might have multiple activities that accept similar URIs, but which differ simply based on the path name. In this case, use the android:path attribute or its pathPattern or pathPrefix variants to differentiate which activity the system should open for different URI paths.
Include the BROWSABLE category. It is required in order for the intent filter to be accessible from a web browser. Without it, clicking a link in a browser cannot resolve to your app.
Also include the DEFAULT category. This allows your app to respond to implicit intents. Without this, the activity can be started only if the intent specifies your app component name.
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Notice that the two intent filters only differ by the element. Although it's possible to include multiple elements in the same filter, it's important that you create separate filters when your intention is to declare unique URLs (such as a specific combination of scheme and host), because multiple elements in the same intent filter are actually merged together to account for all variations of their combined attributes. For example, consider the following:

It might seem as though this supports only and app:// However, it actually supports those two, plus these: app:// and
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The manifest declaration and intent handler you set above define the connection between your app and a website and what to do with incoming links. However, in order to have the system treat your app as the default handler for a set of URIs, you must also request that the system verify this connection. The next lesson explains how to implement this verification.
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The cause of ubiquitous cognitive differences between American self-identified racial / ethnic groups (SIREs) is uncertain. Evolutionary models posit that ancestral selection pressures are the ultimate source of these differences. Conversely, sociological models posit that these differences result from racial discrimination. To examine predictions based on these models, we conducted a global admixture analysis using data from the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics Study (PING; N = 1,369 American children). Specifically, we employed the methodology of genetic epidemiology to determine whether genetic ancestry significantly predicts cognitive ability, independent of SIRE. In regression models using four different codings for SIRE as a covariate, we found incremental relationships between genetic ancestry and both general cognitive ability and parental socioeconomic status (SES). The relationships between global ancestry and cognitive ability were partially attenuated when parental SES was added as a predictor and when cognitive ability was the outcome. Moreover, these associations generally held when subgroups were analyzed separately. Our results are congruent primarily with evolutionary models of group differences, but also with certain environmental models which mimic the predictions of evolutionary ones. Implications for research on race / ethnic differences in the Americas are discussed, as are methods for further exploring the matter.


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I wasn't able to find any specific quotes from JK addressing this, but I did come across a post on MuggleNet from a contributor named Leah which speculated regarding a Celtic legend she happened upon in a bookstore. She explains the story in length, but summarizes it in this way:
Now, there are obvious similarities between [the main character's] mare and thestrals, such as their remarkable traveling abilities, their appearance, and their association with abstract things such as destiny, death, and magic. Rowling's thestrals were carnivorous, which brings me back to the bird, kestrel.
Kestrels are mentioned in Quidditch Through the Ages as the name of a team, denoting that Rowling is familiar with them. Kestrels are dark birds of prey, with white patches below their eyes. Perhaps Rowling combined these birds with the mare of doom? One thing I also caught was N'oun Doare's education by a Druid and his return at 17. Druids were ancient scholars and magicians who are believed to have practiced rituals in such places as Stonehenge. He reminds me very much of a certain young wizard…
I do not know if this is the story where J.K. Rowling discovered her intriguing creature, but one is allowed to speculate, no?
This seems a potential jumping off point for some further investigation, but of course not a solid answer.


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Mignify is a platform for collecting, storing and analyzing Big Data harvested from the web. It aims at providing an easy access to focused and structured information extracted from Web data flows. It consists of a distributed crawler, a resource-oriented storage based on HDFS and HBase, and an extraction framework that produces filtered, enriched, and aggregated data from large document collections, including the temporal aspect. The whole system is deployed in an innovative hardware architecture comprising of a high number of small (low-consumption) nodes. This talk will tackle the decisions made along the design and development of the platform, both under a technical and functional perspective. It will introduce the cloud infrastructure, the LTE-like ingestion of the crawler output into HBase/HDFS, and the triggering mechanism of analytics based on a declarative filter/extraction specification. The design choices will be illustrated with a pilot application targeting Daily Web Monitoring in the context of a national domain.


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-Minimum space requirement for storage and transportation.
-Non-slip serrated aluminium treads.
-Work comfortably and safely on a large standing surface (treads 360mm wide and 230mm deep).
-Side rails made from aluminium extruded profiles for maximum stability.
-Stiles made from tubular steel (25mm diameter) with powder-coated surface.
-With plastic inserts to prevent slipping.
Number of steps: 5
Platform height: 1.15* m
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This document specifies the safety requirements for slewing rough-terrain variable-reach trucks and rough-terrain variable-reach trucks defined by ISO 5053-1 (hereafter referred to as trucks) and their work platforms having front guards that can be opened for removal of roof material (hereafter referred to as work platforms). This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the combination of the truck and the integrated work platform when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. The significant hazards covered by this document are listed in Annex A. NOTE 1 Duplicate controls for the slewing upper structure, the boom and the work platform movements can be also provided under specific circumstances at the operating position in the enclosed cab of the truck. This document does not address hazards which can occur: a) when using non-integrated work platforms or other attachments not designed for lifting persons; b) when handling suspended work platforms which can swing freely; c) when operating underground or in potentially explosive atmospheres; d) when removing asbestos, regarding the possible release of fibres. This document does not specify safety requirements for trucks equipped with work platforms intended for leaving and re-entering at height. NOTE 2 National regulations for worksites can apply for asbestos removal to cover the risks related to the possible release of fibres.
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Battle of Yeosu
Part of Korean Conflict
Date 17 – 18 December 1998
Location off the coast of Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Result South Korean victory
 Republic of Korea Navy Korean People's Navy
12 warships,
3 bombers
1 semi-submersible
Casualties and losses
none 1 semi-submersible sunk
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The Battle of Yeosu, in December 1998, was a naval skirmish that began when the Republic of Korea Navy intercepted a North Korean semi-submersible vessel attempting to land commandos on the southern South Korean coast.
Throughout 1998 there had been several incidents involving North Korean infiltrators attempting to land on along the South Korean coastline. In the June 1998 Sokcho submarine incident a North Korean submarine was found in South Korean waters off Sokcho entangled in fishing nets, the submarine was towed to a ROK Navy base and when opened the crew were all dead in an apparent murder-suicide. Another infiltration occurred in July when a dead commando and abandoned infiltration craft was discovered near the city of Donghae. [1]
On December 17, a ten ton North Korean I-SILC class semi-submersible infiltration vessel was observed by a South Korean guard post about 2km off the coast of Yeosu and ROK Navy ships were scrambled to intercept it. After several warnings were given, the ROK Navy fired warning shots at the semi-submersible. The North Korean craft ignored the warnings and opened fire on the South Korean vessels. It then attempted to escape, fleeing southwest while being tracked by patrol planes and boats, but several hours later it had sunk in 300 feet (91 m) of water approximately 100km south of Geojedo. [2][3]
The ROK Navy attempted to recover the bodies of the dead North Koreans and pieces of the infiltration craft. The body of one North Korean frogman was found. From the size and type of the vessel it was assumed that the entire crew consisted of four sailors and that all had perished. Searches were also conducted on nearby land to make sure that infiltrators had not landed on the coastline. When questioned, the North Korean government denied sending the vessel or knowing anything about its origins. This incident helped fuel increasing tensions between the two governments and an even larger naval skirmish was fought the next year.
The (North) Korean Central News Agency said on 19 December:
The South Korean puppets said that they located a "submarine" in the sea off Ryosu, South Jolla Province, at 11:15 p.m. on December 17 and had a battle in which the "submarine" was sunken and they brought a dead body clad in diving-suit to the land. They also said that they issued an order called "Jindogae nN.1" throughout the coastal areas of South Korea and have been put on the red alert. This time, too, the puppets described the "incident" as the "intrusion by the north," shifting the blame on to the north. This frantic anti-communist campaign is a continuation of the anti-communist, anti-north campaign such as the fiction of the "intrusion of the north's vessel" near the coast of the Kanghwa island on the West Sea of Korea and the description of a flock of birds as "something mysterious" in the sea off the Kanghwa island. The incidents have nothing to do with the north. Now the South Korean are trying hard to find a pretext for unleashing a war against the north in line with the U.S. imperialists' moves for war against the DPRK. It goes without saying that the "north's submarine infiltration incident" is a farce cooked up for that purpose. We can no longer remain a passive onlooker to the South Korean continuous anti-communist campaign and slander against the north. The campaign can convince no one. We will take resolute measures so that the provokers may drink a bitter cup. We seriously warn the South Korean not to act rashly.
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 1. ^ "Dead Diver From North Puts Seoul on Alert". The New York Times. 13 July 1998. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
 2. ^ "North Korean Vessel Is Chased and Sunk Off Coast of South". The New York Times. 18 December 1998. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
 3. ^ "Sinking sparks'spy sub' alert". BBC News. 18 December 1998. Retrieved 18 September 2013.


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(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at Aston University and Russells Hall Hospital have discovered that an extract from a common plant in Pakistan may help cure breast cancer.
The plant, Fagonia cretica, and known as Virgon's Mantlem, is commonly used in herbal tea. It has been traditionally used to treat women in rural Pakistan who have breast cancer, but up until now this treatment has been regarded as something of a folklore remedy. However, patients in Pakistan who have taken the plant extract have reported that it does not appear to generate any of the serious common side effects associated with other cancer treatments, such as loss of hair, drop in blood count or diarrhoea.
Now, scientists at Aston University in Birmingham and Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley have undertaken tests of the plant extract and proved that it kills cancer cells without damage to normal breast cells in laboratory conditions.
Professor Helen Griffith and Professor Amutul R Carmichael who lead the study are now aiming to identify which element or elements of the plant are responsible for killing the cancer cells with a view to eventually begin trails with human cancer patients.
Professor Helen Griffith of Aston University said; "More research is needed to establish the role of the extract in cancer management and It now needs to be demonstrated that this extract is as effective in killing cancer cells inside the body as it is within laboratory. The next steps are to identify which element of the plant is responsible for killing the cancer cells with a view to eventually begin trails with human cancer patients."
Dr Caitlin Palframan, policy manager at Breakthrough Breast Cancer said; "Some of the most important cancer-fighting drugs are originally derived from plants. As this research is at the very earliest stage we won't know for quite some time whether drugs derived from this plant will be effective in treating breast cancer but we look forward to seeing any progress."
More information: PLoS ONE 7(6): e40152. doi:10.1371/journal.pone._PHONE_


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A study of sound images produced by loudspeakers in typical listening rooms pointed up the importance of the interaural crosscorrelation coefficient (IACC) in determining the impression of distance, strength, and clarity in the overall sound image. To permit quantitative evaluation of IACC, a simple, direct readout correlation meter was developed. Studies using the simplified measurement techniques revealed marked variations in IACC due to loudspeaker construction and installation. The effect of these variations, even though transmission frequency response and reverberation time are practically equal, is a notable change in clarity, strength, and perceived distance of the sound image. The result is that a higher IACC tends to be more desirable in terms of the quality of the sound image.
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¶ Flashbulb Memory
"Flashbulb memory" describes the tendency of our memories tend to focus on a few salient, random images, typically those connected to the emotions associated with the remembered event but also social psychological factors. Memories that involve a shared identity with others or that are rehearsed with others are more likely to achieve flashbulb status.
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Shiller, Robert J. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.


American in Spain
The Shadower - Realistic Drop Shadows in Javascript
December 4, 2006
This has been done before, but not in such a simple and elegant way, in my opinion. This implementation has four important features that separate it from the rest: no images, no messy nested divs in your html code, no CSS, and realistic fading shadows! It is based on the Prototype Javascript Framework, and requires version 1.5, which you can get here.
Some Examples
Other drop shadow libraries that eschew images, provide their shadow by adding an absolutely positioned div just behind the object. Like so...
Example 1
(Drag Me Around)
I think you'll agree that that looks pretty bad. But it's a lot better with a little opacity tweak...
Example 2
(Drag Me Around)
But it still just looks like a gray box under there, doesn't it? That's where the magic of The Shadower comes in. Rather than just one gray box, it uses several successively smaller boxes stacked on top of each other to create a realistic drop shadow that really fades into the background.
Example 3
(Drag Me Around)
Now, doesn't that look better? Drag it up next to the others if you aren't convinced.
So how do I use it?
There are five parameters to play with in getting your drop shadow just right.
distance [default: 8]
The distance away from the shadowed element to draw the shadow. This can also be thought of as the height "above the page" of the shadowed object
angle [default: 130]
The direction away from the shadowed element to draw the shadow. It is measured in degrees from the vertical. If you think of it like the numbers on a clock, 12 is at 0°, 3 is at 90°, 6 is at 180°, 9 is at 270°, etc. The default angle of 130 would be between 3 and 4 on the clock face.
opacity [default: 0.7]
The opacity of the shadow, measured between 0.0 and 1.0.
nestedShadows [default: 4]
This is the number of gradually darker shadows to draw under the shadowed element.
color [default: #000000]
This is the color of the shadow. The default black color is good enough for most uses, but you can change it if you want.
Go ahead! Play with it!
Test Example
(Drag Me Around)
Presets: Example 1Example 2Example 3
Ideally, you should set a CSS class on any elements that you want shadowed, and then call Shadower.shadowWithClass() on page load. Like so...
This div is shadowed
So what are you waiting for? Download it and start using it!
I have not yet tested this on all browsers. If you have any problems, please either leave a comment on this blog entry or email me at erikwordpressplugins -atgmail.


F2F Decision: Context
From: Robert Sanderson
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 11:09:12 -0600
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*** Annotating a Resource in Context ***
The requirement was defined in two separate parts:
1. The resource was annotated when it was part of the rendering of
another resource
(but does not convey any notion of invalidation of the annotation)
2. The annotation is only valid when the annotated resource is part of
the rendering of another resource
The group consensus was that validity of annotations should not be
considered in scope for the current work, as it would mean allowing
all sorts of different types of validity to be expressed, not just
containership. The consensus was also that "context" should be
narrowly defined as above, to ensure that all sorts of other
environmental factors that might occur were not included in the scope.
 Thus the operating system of the annotator is not "context" for this
part of the data model.
Use cases discussed included:
* Annotating an image in a page to say that it does not depict what
the page describes
* Annotating (part of) an image in a certain part of a page to say
that it is not the correct image for that location
(example: page with bio sketches, and one image is mistakenly used for
multiple people)
* Annotating a figure with a URI that is part of an academic paper,
where the context of the particular paper is important
The decision was to introduce a new predicate: oax:annotatedIn from a
SpecificResource to any Resource (including a SpecificResource)
Other options explored were:
* Lists/chains of Selectors, however the semantics weren't clear as to
whether it was a contextual selector or a regular use and was
particularly challenging when the context was part of a resource
rather than the entire resource.
* Whether or not the context was at the SpecificResource or Annotation
level. If it was at the Annotation level, then a Body could not have
a context and this was considered desirable. Also multiple targets
would be very difficult to model.
The name is the only contentious aspect remaining, as it implies that
it can only be used for a target of the annotation. We would like to
suggest the following revision:
oax:asIncludedIn (domain oa:SpecificResource) The object of the
predicate is a resource in which the subject is included, and was the
resource being viewed when the subject was used within the annotation
which has the subject as either body or target.
Other proposed names for the predicate will definitely be considered,
but should not use "context" and should convey the notion of inclusion
by reference (eg html) or value (eg pdf)
Rob & Paolo
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Gungan Frontier (Macintosh)
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 Ecological principles come alive in Star Wars®: The Gungan Frontier as your students try to create a balanced ecosystem on a barren moon. This simulation mirrors real world population dynamics, ecosystems, life cycles, regulation and behavior. Developed with scientists and teachers, tools like an interactive food web, glossary of ecological terms and population graphs lead to a better understanding of how small changes impact an environment over time.
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 - Create-a-Critter mode lets you design millions of creatures and plants, each with their own unique attributes.
 - The Kresch, a living encyclopedia, provides high-resolution images and detailed descriptions of every creature, plant, and Gungan bubble building.
 - Extensive graphic food web with species specifics, including diet, sounds, and terrain.
 - Detailed population graphs give you feedback to better manage your ecosystem.
 - Beginner and advanced modes provide challenges both engaging and complex.
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 As a hero of the Battle of Naboo, you've been called before the Gungan High Council to handle a critical mission. Their city is threatened by overpopulation, and you must establish a new colony on a nearby moon. The Gungans need you to create a new world filled with fantastic Star Wars creatures and plants from across the galaxy. You must discover how these alien animals and plants interact and how they depend on each other to live. Only when you have an ecologically sound environment can a new Gungan city truly thrive. The fate of an entire civilization rests in your hands because, on the moon of Naboo, the most powerful force of nature is you.
 In this first ever Star Wars simulation designed for players age 9 and up, your goal is to transform the barren moon of Naboo into a thriving, balanced ecosystem and help the Gungans build a new underwater bubble city. From your transport ship, you control the release of Star Wars creatures and exotic plants into the empty landscape. Creatures move and interact in life-like, 3D animation and digital sounds. Monitor population levels, manage the food web, consult your online encyclopedia, and harvest valuable resources that can be used to build the new Gungan city.
 Contributed by Adam Baratz (1353) on Jan 13, 2001.


Encouraging Your Sales Team to Embrace CRM
It can be challenging to make any changes within an organization, and this is made even more difficult when the team isn't onboard with the alterations. So, if you wish to benefit from CRM software, then you have to get your sales team to use it as it is intended. This really comes down to communication. #1. Be Sure They Are Involved From the Onset Don't just drop the product in their laps and expect them to celebrate. You have to keep the lines of communication open throughout the process, so they can give input and ask questions, knowing that they do have some say in what is implemented. This is beneficial in more ways than one. Not only does it make the team feel included, it also helps to better ensure that you get a product that will work well within your organization. When the software is customized to best mimic the current behaviors of the sales team, the transition will go more smoothly, and the salespeople will more immediately recognize the benefits of using it.
#2. Acknowledge the Advantages to the Individual Don't just talk about how great this product will be for the company. While it is true that a CRM can make an organization run more smoothly, that is not what the salesperson is most concerned with. So, be sure to point out the individual advantages, such as the fact that there will be fresh leads brought to them with very little work on their part. Furthermore, those leads will have already been assessed and deemed worthwhile by the program, so there is a better chance that the lead will turn into a sale. That means an increased likelihood of earning a commission on each lead.
#3. Provide Education Be sure that the sales team is not thrown in without a lifeline. Provide them the education that they need to make the best possible use of the software. This will ultimately benefit everyone. In addition to that initial training, it is a good idea to have a source of information available to those who have questions or concerns as they work with the CRM system.
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I know it's a type of capillary electrophoresis, but I don't get how does the separation happen exactly.
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Many of us are using isotachophoresis all the time without even realising it. The explanation that follows may not be exact, but I hope that it helps.
Firstly, think about a simple electrophoresis set-up - in agarose electrophoresis of DNA we have a uniformly distributed buffer such as Tris-borate. The current is carried by the borate ions and the DNA molecules run through the homogeneous electric field towards the anode. They separate by size because of the sieving effect of the agarose matrix.
Now let's think about what is happening in an SDS-PAGE separation (a Laemmli gel). Just to remind you:
The running (or reservoir) buffer is Tris-glycine pH 8.3
The stacking gel is in Tris.HCl pH 6.8
The separating gel is in Tris.HCl pH 8.8
When the power supply is turned on, the glycinate ion in the top reservoir begins to move into the stacking gel. When it hits the zone of pH = 6.8 it is much closer to its pKa and so is now only weakly charged. Consequently it slows down. Meanwhile the chloride ions in the stacking gel have begun to move rapidly down through the stacking gel (towards the anode). This creates a discontinuous electric field: the chloride zone has a lower resistance than the glycinate zone so the field strength in the chloride zone is weaker than the field strength in the glycinate zone. This is a stable situation because the ions cannot stray into each other's zones: if a glycinate ion happens to diffuse forwards into the chloride zone it will experience a weaker field and slow down, whereas if a chloride ion diffuses back into the glycinate zone it will hit the stronger field and quickly move ahead again.
What about the SDS-protein complexes that were in the well? (I'll just refer to these as proteins from now on.) Their ionic properties lie between the glycinate and the chloride, and so they eventually end up moving through the stacking gel between the trailing zone of glycinate and the leading zone of chloride. Any protein that finds itself in the glycinate zone will move quickly forward (due to the higher field strength) and any protein that moves ahead by chance into the chloride zone will slow down due to the weak field strength, falling back into the protein zone. And in this way these zones move in a procession through the stacking gel, with the proteins being focussed into a very narrow region in the middle. The glycinate, the proteins and the chloride are all moving at the same speed, and so this is an example of isotachophoresis (isotacho- = "same speed"). The polyacrylamide gel matrix in the stacking gel has no separating function - its role is simply to stabilise against convective effects. The proteins can reach very high local concentrations in the stacking gel, and if you look carefully you will often see refractive effects as your sample runs through the stacking gel. In this way the protein sample is "applied" to the separating gel in a very tight band, perfect for achieving high resolution separation (bands broaden by diffusion in the separating gel so the tighter the bands ar eat the point of loading, the better the final result.)
Once the sample hits the separating gel, all of this breaks down: the pH is now 8.8 so the glycinate becomes strongly charged and zooms off ahead with the chloride through the gel, leaving the proteins to move more slowly due to the sieving effect of the polyacrylamide matrix.
It is possible to set up an isotachophoresis as described above in isolation. Individual proteins will have slightly different ionic properties and will line up in the region between the two buffer ions, allowing for their separation.
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When it comes to cutting methods, there has always been a fierce showdown between manual and power techniques. Each method has its own advocates, fiercely defending the merits of their preferred approach. Manual cutting, also known as traditional cutting, relies on the skilled hands of the operator to control the tool and make precise cuts. It requires patience, skill, and a steady hand to achieve the desired results. On the other hand, power cutting methods have gained popularity for their speed and efficiency. These methods involve the use of electric or pneumatic tools that can quickly slice through various materials, reducing the time and effort required for a task. Both manual and power cutting methods have their strengths and drawbacks, prompting a debate that continues to divide professionals and hobbyists alike.
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Oneida Carry Forts
Oneida Carry Forts: 1755, Oneida County,
Rome. The present City of Rome is located on the Oneida Carry. This was the
the western most navigatible part of the Mohawk River to the navigatible part
of Wood Creek that led to Oneida Lake, Oswego River and Lake Ontario. In 1755
the British built Forts Williams, Newport and Bull to protect this key portage.
After a destructive raid on Fort Bull it was replaced with Fort Wood Creek,
and Fort Craven was started to replace Fort Williams. After the French took
the Oswego Forts, these forts were destroyed and the British withdrew further
East. Later they returned to the region and built Fort Stanwix.
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New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military
February 20, 2006