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Footnotes, Headers, and Footers
Posted on April 15, 2013 by Peter Kelly
Among the features I've had the most requests for are the ability to add footnotes to documents, as well as custom page headers and footers. These are standard features of print-oriented word processors and many people naturally expect to find them in UX Write. So I thought I'd give an outline of my plans for supporting these. There's some rather tricky issues involved due to the web-oriented nature of the app, but fortunately these are solvable.
WebKit for editing
UX Write actually doesn't do any layout itself; it is entirely dependent on the WebKit rendering engine, as used in Safari and Chrome, for displaying all content. WebKit is based on HTML and CSS, the document structure and formatting languages of the web, which work somewhat differently to the file formats used by print-oriented word processors such as Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer. The differences — in particular, HTML's continuous, non-paginated nature — have important implications for the feature set that is possible to support in UX Write.
Writing a (sufficiently capable) custom layout engine is a task that takes a sizeable team of people and many years of effort, which simply wasn't a viable option for this app. Relying on WebKit makes it possible to invest all development resources entirely on editing capabilities, rather than all of the logic to calculate where each piece of text goes and how it's formatted. This is why UX Write possesses so many more features than its competitors — all the hard work of layout is already taken care of. WebKit is also built in to iOS, which makes it a very convenient choice for use in an iPhone/iPad word processor.
By using WebKit, UX Write inherits both the capabilities and limitations of HTML. Although HTML has a lot of great features — styles, tables, images, lists, hyperlinks, and a ton of formatting options — it's not particularly good at paginated, print-based output. On the web, there's no notion of a document being divided into a series of (virtual or real) sheets of paper like in a traditional pure-WYSIWYG word processor. I've previously discussed why relying on explicit pagination during editing doesn't make sense in the context of writing for e-books or the web, but it is relevant for documents that are ultimately destined for print output only. Unfortunately, among the features HTML lacks are — you guessed it — footnotes, headers, and footers.
Currently, UX Write uses WebKit for both editing and print/PDF output — but there's some changes on the way for the latter.
LaTeX for printing
WebKit isn't the only layout engine out there of course. Another popular one is Donald Knuth's famous TeX typesetting engine, which was designed in the early 1980s for high-quality presentation of scientific and mathematical publications. It was later used by Leslie Lamport as the basis for LaTeX, a high-level set of macros for structuring documents that are ultimately typeset by TeX to produce printed output. I've used LaTeX for producing all of my academic publications (though doing my writing in LyX, a graphical front-end), and it's pretty much the de-facto standard for academic publishing in computer science, mathematics, physics, and other scientific fields. After being around for more than 25 years, LaTeX is still regarded as one of the best quality typesetting engines out there.
LaTeX provides excellent support for print-oriented features such as footnotes, headers, and footers, plus many others such as page-number references and embedding of hyperlinks and outline navigation elements in PDF files. It's a much better option than WebKit for generating print output, and making use of it in UX Write will make it possible to provide these features.
There's one major problem with LaTeX however — it is only able to run in batch mode, and cannot provide real-time updates to the typeset document during editing, as WebKit can. What batch mode means is that a document is supplied to LaTeX, it goes away and does its thing, and then a few seconds later you get back a PDF file with the output. This means that it can only realistically be used for printing or exporting PDF files, and leaves us with WebKit as the only viable option for actual editing.
It's always been a goal of mine to have built-in LaTeX support in UX Write. My hopes were initially dashed after I read about the immense difficulties the developers of Texpad had encountered while attempting a port to iOS due to the complexity of the codebase, however they eventually achieved success with a much simpler LaTeX distribution than that which is typically used on desktop systems. Upon learning of this I realised two things — that it is viable to do, and that I should work with them.
So LaTeX provides the solution to the problem of producing high-quality print output with all the layout features typically expected. However because getting this integration working is quite an involved task, I'm going to be doing it in two separate stages:
Stage 1 (soon): External typesetting
Initially, UX Write will provide an option to export the current document as a .tex file, which can either be converted to a PDF directly on your iPad or iPhone using Texpad, or on your desktop system using an existing LaTeX distribution such as TeX Live.
Installing and using LaTeX on a desktop system requires a fair bit of technical proficiency, and is something I only recommend for advanced users who are already familiar with the process. Texpad is a much easier solution, as it's just as easy to install as any other iOS app, and will integrate seamlessly with UX Write. I've been working with the Texpad developers over the past couple of months on getting this integration working, and we're getting fairly close to having it available.
Stage 2 (later): Built-in typesetting
Eventually, UX Write will contain a built-in version of LaTeX that it will run directly when you print or export to PDF. Everything will be done within the app, without requiring any third-party software, and it will be just as seamless and easy to use as the current print/PDF option. You won't even realise there's anything special going on behind the scenes.
Given that Texpad provides a very good solution to the problem, I'm going to be leaving this second stage until much later on, and focus on other features like find & replace, spell checking, EPUB support, and better file management over the next few months.
I know all this sounds awfully complicated — and, well, it is. I understand and sympathise with those of you who are waiting for these features and I'm just as keen as you are to have them in place. Unfortunately these things take a lot of time and effort — even Microsoft, with all the resources at their disposal, are at least 18 months away from having a working release of Word on the iPad, if recent rumours are to believed. The important thing to know is that I'm very much aware of the needs of professional writers and have a solid roadmap in place for the future of UX Write.
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12 thoughts on "Footnotes, Headers, and Footers"
Tim Wood on November 13, 2013 at 3:29 pm said:
Peter, your original post barely brushed the title (footnotes, headers and footers) and you haven't responded to any of the posts asking questions about footnotes, headers and footers. While, as a programmer, I appreciate the value of support for LaTex, can you answer at least some of the other responses and provide and some thoughts on when we'll be able to see footnote, header and footer support in UX Write?
Peter Kelly on November 13, 2013 at 3:39 pm said:
The value of LaTeX support is that it will make these things possible – HTML has no support for either of these three important features, and it's impossible to do them in a web browser (or web browser layout engine such as WebKit, which is what UX Write uses).
The question of how to represent these features in a HTML file is an interesting one. One approach I've though of is to come up with a custom mechanism (i.e. one unique to UX Write) which would work for the cases of docx files (which could be translated appropriately behind the scenes to use this mechanism) and HTML files that are only edited in UX Write itself. However this solution would not provide interoperability with other HTML editors.
I recently became aware of O'Reilly's work on HTMLBook (https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook), which is an attempt to standardise extensions to HTML that allow a program to store information about additional structural elements such as these. Unfortunately, while it does support footnotes, it doesn't include any constructs for headers and footers. When time permits, I'm considering getting involved with the standardisation effort however, and this is one of the most important things I would suggest as an improvement.
With a lot of these features, the problem fundamentally arises from limitations in HTML. I picked this as the native file format for the app because of it's standardisation, widespread support, and (most importantly) the ability to use an existing layout engine (WebKit) for displaying content; the project would not have been viable without the latter. However, this also means that anything which is a limitation of HTML is also a limitation of UX Write. The lack of these features is something that is common to all web browsers and web-based editing tools in general, not something specific to UX Write. And one of my priorities is to do things according to widely standardised file formats, rather than come up with a proprietary format which might include these extra features but would not be compatible with anything else.
I'm sorry if I've missed some of the posts – I thought I'd answered them all but I do get a *lot* of emails and occasionally I miss one here and there (my inbox went from 180 emails to 8 this evening). If you can point me to questions I've missed or have any others I'll be happy to answer them.
Also with regards to timeframes – the most honest answer I can give you is that I don't know. There's a huge number of things on my to do list at the moment (one of which is spending a great deal of time on marketing, which I hate, but is unfortunately necessary to make this work as a viable business). I've recently had a couple of people start working with me and they're currently about to begin implementation of ODF support; depending on priorities LaTeX may come after that, but it's complex set of variables to evaluate.
I appreciate your frustration. All I can say is that I'm committed to getting this all in eventually, I just have to do what I can with limited resources.
Tim Wood on December 16, 2013 at 6:36 am said:
Peter, sorry for the delay on responding to your invitation on my thoughts on a way to support endnotes/footnotes.
Right off the bat, I'll admit your point about standards. They who create these things have not addressed the problem. And, in the meantime, I've found a relatively straightforward way to address the issue when I'm (semi-)manually setting html. The actual notes can be handled by inserting an ordered list () at the end of the document. I've found putting the ol in a div (with an appropriate class like "endnotes") can be useful for css purposes. And, yes, someone is probably screaming about the excess markup as they read this.
I preface each endnote with two things. First, an anchor tag (e.g. ) that can be linked to. Second, a return tag (e.g. return) that can be hidden in print/pdf.
Within the text proper, the footnote/endnote number needs comparable tagging: a link, an anchor and superscript. So, 1
The one fly in the ointment is, of course, handling automatic renumbering. The ol/li approach solves that for the notes themselves. If a footnote was added/removed in the middle of the document proper, UXWrite would have to renumber the remaining ones below that.
Hopefully some variant of that seems like a workable solution until standards catch up.
Jeffrey Weimer on November 9, 2013 at 6:59 pm said:
OK, I am now impressed! This blog promises to solve in a serious way a serious interest that I have to be able to compose scientific docs on the iPad in ??? (UX Writer) and compile them on the desktop with LaTeX.
Certainly, I can get UX Writer, create the document on my iPad, export it as HTML to a Dropbox file, and do HTML -> LaTeX via a desktop converters. I understand converters can leave something to be desired.
So …
How soon to complete Stage 1 where UX Writer will output the document in a .tex format?
And dare I presume that, having a .tex output option in UX Writer means the user will have some backdoor to change how he/she wants to convert HTML5 some text to \texcommand{some text}?
I learnt a long time ago not to make promises on timeframes, as I inevitably end up not meeting them 🙂
LaTeX support is one of the many things on the to do list – and it's an important one – but I'm not certain exactly when it will be done. Developer time is a problem right now, and I've just had two other people join the project to help me out who are working on ODF support. We may look at doing LaTeX next (there's a partial implementation but not yet working properly).
Regarding customisation, I'm not sure at this stage, but I think there'll need to be some options here, e.g. to tell it whether h1 should be \chapter or \section. This will require a lot of thought about how to do appropriately 🙂
Antonio Garcia on November 9, 2013 at 3:28 am said:
Do you have and integration with MathJax?? Based on HTML5 I can guess that it is possible to have such integration.
There's no MathJax support, but we do plan on adding MathML support in a future version.
François on July 24, 2013 at 3:45 am said:
As much as I would like to see these features (and bibliographical references) integrated in UX Write, I can understand and agree with your will to do it right not just technically, but for the average end-user as well. The beauty of UX Write lies in his simplicity at tackling complex tasks left out by other iPad editors and I think it should remain this way.
Tim Wood on July 17, 2013 at 2:56 am said:
For much of what I do, simple endnotes would be a great addition. I'd even settle for a way to fake; e.g. add anchors () and links to them (1) with either as a styling option or the ability to add arbitrary css key/value pairs to a style.
Peter Gallagher on April 15, 2013 at 11:18 pm said:
Hi Peter, Look forward to LaTeX integration in UX Write. But many TeX devotees (I know you're one) would bridle at the suggestion that the installation of a TeX system on a desktop takes "a fair bit of technical proficiency". On the Mac it takes just one download from tug.org/texlive/: installation is completely automated. Alas, it's after the installation that "technical proficiency" becomes an issue. But, even without LyX props, I reckon you need no more markup skills than the Markdown kiddies have to produce beautiful things in, say, XeTeX..
Peter Kelly on April 16, 2013 at 3:45 am said:
Well, I was erring on the side of caution with that comment 😉
In general yes, it is relatively easy to set up, and like Linux, when it *does* work it's great. But sometimes you can run into some issue or another that in order to solve you need a certain degree of understanding of how your OS configuration works (which many people lack), and I don't want to be fielding support questions about that 😉 And things like having to do three separate runs of LaTeX to get all references & citations correctly displayed are a pain to deal with (I know there are tools to get around this but that's another thing to deal with).
I've also encountered people who are violently opposed to LaTeX and command line interfaces, and want to take their needs into account as well. The Texpad/UX Write integration currently in beta works really smoothly and even someone without any knowledge of LaTeX or markup languages will find it seamless to use.


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This latest incident confirms that with respect to non-statist ideology on its turf, the Chinese Communist Party prefers to maintain a vice-like grip.
Tristan Vanheuckelom
Chinese authorities have violated the provisional agreement on the appointment of bishops, the Vatican says. In a statement released on November 26th, the Holy See "noted with surprise and regret" that bishop John Peng Weizhao had been installed by the Chinese government as an "auxiliary bishop of Jiangxi," a diocese it does not recognize.
With the move, China has unilaterally incorporated into a single diocese all five bishoprics traditionally linked to the Metropolitan See of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province.
The Vatican statement went on to note that Peng's installation ceremony in Nanchang "did not occur in accordance with the spirit of dialogue … and what was stipulated in the Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops, on September 22, 2018."
It also expressed concern over reports that "prolonged and heavy pressure from local authorities" preceded the installation. Hoping that "similar episodes will not be repeated," the Holy See awaited "appropriate communications on the matter," as it reaffirmed its "full readiness to continue the respectful dialogue concerning all matters of common interest."
The Chinese foreign ministry has not yet issued a response.
In theory, the deal allows Rome to pick its own bishops within China, which it has since managed to do on six occasions only. Ever since it was established, some Catholics have been vocal in their denouncement of it—reactions vary from labelling the deal as ineffectual at best, while at worst, outright capitulation.
This latest incident confirms such suspicions. Concerning non-statist ideology on its turf, the Chinese Communist Party prefers to maintain a vice-like grip.
In China, practising 'Catholicism' is a bifurcated proposition; on the one hand, there is an underground Church faithful to Rome, while on the other, a state-sanctioned Church, under the tight control of the Chinese Communist Party.
As The European Conservative warned earlier in July, Rome has proven to be too trusting that Beijing would hold up its end of the (watered-down) bargain.
Peng had been Pope Francis' appointee, and had been secretly ordained as an underground bishop of Yujiang in 2014. For this infraction, Chinese authorities arrested Peng and held him in custody for six months.
As AsiaNews reported two years ago, after the 2018 Agreement, the underground Church in Yujiang came under intense pressure to join the official Church. It would appear that Peng has now finally caved.
According to the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which is controlled by the Communist Party, the auxiliary bishop swore to
faithfully preach the gospel, lead the priests and Catholics of
the Diocese of Jiangxi, abide by the national constitution, safeguard the unity of the motherland and social harmony, love the country and religion, adhere to the principle of independence and self-management of the Church, adhere to the direction of Sinicization of Catholicism in our country, actively guide Catholicism to adapt to socialist society, and contribute to the realisation of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The press release further notes that Peng's superior, bishop John Baptist Shuguang Li of Nanchang presided over the installation ceremony with about 200 people in attendance. Li also serves as the vice president of the Chinese bishops' conference, a group that has not received recognition from the Holy See.
The day following Peng's installation, former archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, a stalwart critic of the agreement, was convicted by a Hong Kong court. For having failed to register a fund for pro-democracy protesters, he has to pay a HK $4,000 (€491) fine.
Bishop John Peng Weizhao's installation ceremony took place almost exactly one month after the Vatican renewed its deal with Beijing on the appointment of Catholic bishops for an additional two years, after the last one in 2020.
The exact terms of the 2018 deal, the Provisional Agreement on the Appointment of Bishops signed by the Vatican and the CCP—and of its subsequent renewals—have never been made public.
Tristan Vanheuckelom is a Belgian journalist who writes for The European Conservative. A book and film reviewer for various Dutch-language publications, his other interests include history, political science, and theology.
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Phorm, which has endured setbacks in the UK market this year with ISPs BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk moving away from deploying the service, said losses for the first six months to 30 June 2009 fell from $24.7m (£15.25m) in the same period last year.
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Why Asking People To Change Their Behavior During The Pandemic Is So Hard To control the virus, some officials are forgoing rules or mandates and instead are relying on individuals to do the right thing. So what motivates behavior change, and what falls short?
Why Asking People To Change Their Behavior During The Pandemic Is So Hard
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To control the virus, some officials are forgoing rules or mandates and instead are relying on individuals to do the right thing. So what motivates behavior change, and what falls short?
The soaring number of coronavirus cases in this country underlines a reality, not everybody is taking the safety measures that would keep cases down. Some governors have been reluctant to impose too many safety rules, trusting citizens to act responsibly on their own. But whatever the rules, keeping yourself safe is hard. WHYY's Nina Feldman reports on the psychological challenge.
NINA FELDMAN, BYLINE: She's embarrassed to admit it, but there were moments over the summer when Adriana Caplan (ph) almost forgot about the pandemic. At first, she took it really seriously. She had all her groceries delivered, worked her software engineering job from home and didn't really leave the house. But by the end of May, she started getting restless.
ADRIANA CAPLAN: I'm not good at just sitting at home. Like, I felt trapped.
FELDMAN: Caplan started inching her way out of the house. She began shopping at the corner store in her Philly neighborhood at off hours. Then she started hanging out with her neighbors again, first with masks and then without. She went back into work more often. She started dating. And everything seemed fine.
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FELDMAN: This is Gretchen Chapman, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon.
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FELDMAN: Chapman says it's natural to loosen up a little when the impact of the pandemic is not right up in your face. When that happens, it's the government's job to get people to act in a way that benefits the greater good. To do that, she says, leaders have to make rules. They can't put all the burden on individuals like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently suggested.
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FELDMAN: It makes sense why governors like Cuomo wish they could rely on human behavior to stop the spread of the virus. They want to avoid imposing unpopular rules and lockdowns, everyone does. But, Chapman says, that's not an entirely fair ask.
CHAPMAN: We don't say, like, taxes would really help the federal government and community services. We think it should be up to individuals to donate taxes to the government, because if they do, it'll be so much better. That would not work. People would not do that.
FELDMAN: As summer turned to fall, Adriana Caplan's risky behavior was being rewarded. She got to see her family. Dating led to a relationship. Then she had a scare. A colleague she'd spent time with came to work after being exposed to the virus. Caplan had to go into quarantine. Suddenly, she was flooded with guilt about all the ways she could've exposed someone during her carefree summer.
CAPLAN: While I was doing it, I didn't feel like it was wrong. But looking back at it, I do regret it.
FELDMAN: Now Caplan's buckling down again. She turned down a few invitations to fall weddings and canceled holiday plans. But she's actually glad she had this personal experience to jolt her back to reality and remind her that the virus is still out there. It had started to feel like someone else's problem.
For NPR News, I'm Nina Feldman in Philadelphia.
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Arts & CultureBooksJune 22, 2020 issue
Review: The continued fight to eradicate clergy sex abuse
James F. KeenanJune 12, 2020
Sex abuse survivors Denise Buchanan and Alessandro Battaglia are pictured in front of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Feb. 24, 2019, on the final day of the Vatican's four-day meeting on the protection of minors in the church. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters)
A Canadian pediatrician and woman religious who has worked on issues of sexual abuse for more than three decades, Nuala Kenny, S.C., offers her diagnoses and prescriptions for treating the "sick soul" and the "global septic shock in the Body of Christ" in Still Unhealed.
Still Unhealedby Sr. Nuala Kenny, M.D., with David Deane, Ph.D
Twenty-Third Publications
175p, $19.95
Kenny has been working in this area since she joined the one-of-its-kind, lay-led Archdiocesan Commission of Inquiry on Clergy Sexual Abuse in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1989. Still Unhealed follows on her earlier work, Healing the Church: Diagnosing and Treating the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis (2012). Kenny brings to this study all the investigative curiosity that one would expect from a physician confounded by a patient's failure to heal. In fact, in the case of treating the church, the physician seems far more interested in recovery than the patient itself does.
However, Kenny's determination gives the reader hope. She makes us realize there are solutions to this deep crisis that need to be implemented with urgency.
While the sexual abuse crisis has been investigated by those inclined to either law or morality (with their interests in crime and sin, respectively), Kenny's medical mind and heart presents us with the crisis as an illness. Concerned not only with the abuse itself and the insensitive banality of the hierarchy's responses, she focuses on the underlying ecclesial pathology that sustains the lethargy and resistance that has characterized much of the "hierarchicalism" (my term) that leaves the church impotent and compromised.
Nuala Kenny, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax, reminds one of the authority that other doctors of the church, like Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Ávila, have had as they dealt forthrightly with scandal and leadership in the church.
Kenny finds the root of the sickness in the church's agency—that is, the ecclesial leadership that is insufficient in its capacity to mend and recuperate but rather governs in ways that stave off the Holy Spirit's attempts to animate and restore the body of Christ.
While occasionally consulting her colleague, the theologian David Deane, Kenny proposes, among other prescriptions: women and other lay cardinals (a proposal I have heartily endorsed); the elimination of mandatory celibacy for the priesthood; women deacons; greater lay oversight in matters of allegations and accountability; a more truthful sexual ethics; and, in the formation of priests and bishops, an appreciation for servant leadership and a respect for the obligation to follow one's conscience.
Nuala Kenny, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax, reminds one of the authority that other doctors of the church, like Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Ávila, have had as they dealt forthrightly with scandal and leadership in the church. A very wise read.
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "Still Sick ," in the June 22, 2020, issue.
More: Literature / Books / Sexual Abuse / US Church / Vatican
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James F. Keenan, S.J., is the Canisius Professor and vice provost for global engagement at Boston College.
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Working with Azure Data Explorer requires as everything else – source control and automation of deployments. I recommend that you start using the latest version of Az PowerShell with the Az.Kusto module to manage the clusters and databases.
For now you will use the Azure Data Explorer Query Explorer, but if you are planning on automating deployments using Azure DevOps take a look at the plugin Azure Data Explorer – Admin Commands. The plugin enables you to run admin commands like creating tables, enforcing table policies and so on from the release pipeline.
Let's assume that you have have provisioned the cluster and is ready to create the database. Open PowerShell and log in to your Azure account. Set the context to where the Azure Data Explorer is provisioned.
Load the Az.Kusto module inside PowerShell ISE and run the below command. This will create a database named myadxdb with policies for hot cache and soft delete set to one day. These policies should be based on the requirements you have for the project.
Wait for the command to complete. When it's finished your database should be visible at the azure resource page under the databases selection.
Now that the database is created, let's create the first table using the query explorer. This can be accessed by clicking at the query option at the azure resource page.
For demonstration purpose you will create a table named WeatherLog. In the upcoming series you are going to populate it with weather data, but for now copy-paste the below statement to the query editor in your browser and execute it.
Once the command is done executing it will return the result as a JSON with the schema that was created, and if you take a closer look you will notice that the timestamp column is missing. I guess that is quite crucial when logging weather data?
Add a timestamp column to the create statement and run it again.
Did you notice that the same JSON was returned? Use the .create-merge table instead of .create table command as it will update the table definition, but take note that the .create-merge command also behaves as a create when the table does not exists.
Congratulations on creating your first database and table!
Note! As you probably have been observing, the create table commands starts with a dot. According to the documentation this is done for security purposes, and at the language level it determines if the request is a control command or a query.
Creating tables, policies and so on for the database is of course easy to do when using the query explorer, but not maintainable at a long term basis. This brings me to the next point I want to highlight. It's important that you version the code and structure the source control repository so that it makes sense from a deployment perspective and is manageable on a day-to-day basis. In most simplest form you can structure the Azure Data Explorer repository something like the below image.
The schema directory contains a sub-directory for each table in a given database. Each table directory has a belonging script for the table definition.
Below each table directory we add the policies to a separate sub-directory so that it's easy to see the policies that are enforced.
The prefix on each file is mainly added for deployment purposes. The idea is that Azure DevOps can be configured to deploy code in the correct order.
There is of course more to consider when versioning; especially when to use .create compared to .create-merge, how to handle deployment and deployment errors, how should you deploy multiple tables at the same time, and much more.
Stay tuned for the upcoming series where I will dive deeper into the world of Azure Data Explorer. Until then I would love to hear from you! Have you started using Azure Data Explorer, and what are your thoughts and impressions so far?
Warning! Remember to remove or pause you Azure Data Explorer cluster when not using it.


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2. Cai Ming(China); CEO of Kebao & Boloni Kitchen & Bathroom Furniture Co., Ltd, who introduced the core concept of an integrated home equipment décor and design solution as a basic component of modern lifestyle to China. Founder of Beijing Gaobeidian art district which merges art, living quarters, design, creation, and leisure.
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As one of the earliest bloggers in the Chinese community, Isaac is not only co-founder of CNBlog.org which is the earliest evangelizing site in China on grassroots publishing, but also the co-organizer of Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou). The CNBlog team then transformed into Social Brain Foundation (SBF) later on to promote free culture in China covering Free Access, Free Speech and Free Thinking areas. The current project SBF is supporting includes Ideas Factory, Open Education and Creative Commons China, etc.
Isaac is also a global bridge in blogosphere. He is regular speaker/keynote to Wikimania, Chinese Internet Conference and other global internet cultural events. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history leads developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in Intel HomeCD project and Tangram BackSchool suite. He applied many HCI methodogies into software design process and improved the usability of software so much. He turns to Social Computing research and organized the first Social Software Forum in China.
Isaac Mao earned BS degree in Computer Science and got MBA training program at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Isaac is also a pedagogy consultant to some local institutions. He acts as advisors for some local hi-tech firms on their business strategy. Isaac Mao was listed as the people of "2006-2016, Map of the Decade", by Institute for the Future. He is also as director of Shanghai Youth Development Foundation. Mao recently made waves in the technology and business world with his open letter to Google, challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its China strategy.
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Three years ago, the ten year old luxury furniture brand Boloni Home Décor purchased a furniture factory in the Gaobeidian area of Beijing in the hopes of establishing its own factory district. Soon afterwards, the area was incorporated into the CBD business district. Boloni was determined to look towards the future and contribute to future city planning based on its status as a professional business, and to advocate a unique and prominent art district that would be completely integrated with the creative industry.
Whereupon, in the area that connects CBD and Tongzhou named "Beihuayuan" by Kublai Khan, Boloni Home Decor together with Thinking Hands Co.,LTD, the curators of the Dangdai International Art Festival (DIAF), attempted to construct a district that merges art, living quarters, design, creation, and leisure -- the GBD Art District. The plan involves six blocks on 450,000m2 of land and includes: the Industrial Renewal Art District; the Flagship Store Street with international top brand stores; the New Scene of Qingming Shanghe Street that is a fusion of traditional culture; the Peach Blossom Island that is a recreation area with bars and clubs; the Creative Land that houses an open air venue for avant garde art; the Business District with a high class hotel and conference center. This six block area is slated for completion in 2010.
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Eskom seeks 20% tariff increase
Eskom wants its clients to pay on average 19,9% more for electricity from 1 April next year and proposes that municipalities pay 27,3% more for bulk electricity purchases from 1 July, 2018.
This comes against the background of controversy about an aborted irregular R30-million pension benefit for its former CEO Brian Molefe, after serving only about two years in the post.
The proposed increase was disclosed in a confidential draft tariff application for 2018/19 that Eskom submitted for comment to National Treasury and local government association Salga. Moneyweb has seen the document.
Eskom is expected to incorporate the comments from National Treasury and Salga before submitting its application to energy regulator Nersa in the coming week. Public consultations will be held before Nersa decides on the increase.
The application follows after the regulator allowed Eskom an increase of only 2,2% in the current financial year, which is in real terms a decrease. Nersa at the time invited Eskom to submit an application for a higher increase based on financial hardship, but Eskom preferred to proceed with its application for the next tariff period.
It did receive permission from Nersa to apply for a single year increase due to regulatory uncertainty around the Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) mechanism that is currently the subject of a court appeal and pending the finalisation of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and Integrated Energy Plan (IEP).
The draft application is for total revenue of R218,7-billion, an increase of 6,6% from the current year. The price impact is however much bigger because of the lower sales volumes.
The building blocks of the tariff allocation are operational cost, primary energy including the cost of buying energy from independent power producers (IPPs), return on assets and depreciation. This is then divided by the forecast sales volumes to arrive at an average tariff. Nersa prescribes the methodology for these processes.
In its draft application, Eskom states that electricity sales volumes were lower during the previous tariff period (MYPD3) that stretched from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2018. Nersa did not adjust the sales forecast during the period and therefore the sales forecast has to be rebased. This alone accounts for 9,6 percentage points of the 19,9% increase Eskom applies for.
Eskom states that 5,5 percentage points are for IPP cost and 7,4 percentage points for operating costs.
These are offset by lower returns and depreciation, which constitutes a drop of 9,4 percentage points compared with the current year, Eskom says.
Even if Eskom signs those agreements today, the 37 affected projects won't be in production during 2018/19. Construction has not yet started and will take at least two years.
Eskom acknowledges that a 20% tariff increase could have a 0,76% impact on the consumer price index (CPI).
Eskom bases the higher increase proposed for its municipal bulk customers on the prescribed methodology and specifically, that the increase would only take effect three months into the tariff period, on 1 July 2018. This is due to the provisions in the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) that allow municipalities to increase its retail tariffs only once a year, at the start of the municipal financial year on 1 July.
The draft application provides for a return on assets of R14,7-billion, which is only 2%, Eskom states. It is not enough to cover its interest payments of R36-billion and represents a sacrifice of R41,7-billion, according to Eskom.
The draft application does not include the detailed information required by Nersa. Moneyweb earlier this month reported that Eskom requested an open-ended exemption from the disclosure rules. The information it told Nersa it couldn't supply includes segmented cash flow for the last reporting period, certain detail regarding assets, depreciation, capital expenditure, deferred debits and credits, coal purchases, coal handling costs and sales revenue and demand forecasts.
Nersa has put Eskom's request to the public for comment and the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) and Business Unity South Africa (Busa), among others, called on Nersa not to allow Eskom to withhold information necessary to assess its tariff application.
Nersa has not yet ruled on the exemption and stated in its electricity committee meeting, that Moneyweb attended, that Eskom would have to comply with all the requirements pending the ruling.
This article was first published by Moneyweb and is republished here with permission
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 Безносов (Безсонов), Андрей Васильевич — русский дворянин, был дворцовым дьяком при Иоанне IV Грозным в 1570 году.

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Q: Confusion regarding correlation and mse I have a dataset containing three variables. I have this confusion, low mse means higher correlation isn't it? Now when I calculate the mse for variable two and three where the third variable is my ground truth, I get higher mse than the one I get by comparing variable one and variable three (ground truth).
However, when I calculate the correlation using corr function in matlab, I get higher correlation between variable two and three around .78. On the other hand, the correlation between variable one and three is .76. Why is it so?
Let me tell you I have different number of variable1-variable3 and variable2-variable3 set. I meant to say sometimes the values of the variables are missing. So altogether, I have 1280 sets of variable1-variable 3 pairs and 400 of variable2-variable 3 pairs. As I have said I have higher mse for the variable1-variable 3 set than variable2-variable3 set calculating for the number of pair points 400 and 1280 respectively.
I am a bit confused. Any insights?

A: I suggest we look at the definitions.
$$ MSE = \frac{1}{n-2}\sum_{i=1}^n (Y_i -\hat{Y}_i)^2. $$
Again, by definition
$$ \hat{Y}_i = r\frac{S_y}{S_x}(X_i - \bar{X}) + \bar{Y}, $$
so
$$SSE = \sum_{i=1}^n \left( (Y_i - \bar{Y}) - r\frac{S_y}{S_x}(X_i - \bar{X}) \right) ^2  = (n-1)S_y^2 + (n-1)r^2S_y^2 - 2(n-1)r^2S_y^2,$$
so that
$$ MSE = \frac{n-1}{n-2}S_y^2 \left(1-r^2\right).$$
MSE depends on $r^2$, and as you mentioned, the lower the correlation, the higher MSE, but as you can see it depends as well on the variance of the response variable $S_y^2$. Actually, this is expected, because MSE has a unit (the square of the unit of $Y$) and the coefficient of correltion does not. For that reason you cannot usually compare MSE of different regressions models (for the same reason you cannot compare km2 and kg2).
Also note that multiplying the values of $Y$ by 10 would not change the coefficient of correlation between $Y$ and $X$ (what I think you call your ground truth), but it would multiply MSE by 100.
In short, you can use MSE to compare different predictors (the name of "ground truths" in regression models) to model the same response variable, but you cannot use MSE to compare different response variables modeled by the same predictor.
Update: after looking at your data directly (thanks for sending) I computed the following measures with complete cases (the ones where all three variables are observed which is only 163 out of 5,374,625):
$$MSE(Y_1|Y_3) = 0.00275; cor(Y1,Y3) = 0.85 \\
MSE(Y_2|Y_3) = 0.0208; cor(Y2, Y3) = 0.61$$
On the other hand, when taking only the pairwise complete cases needed for the computation I obtained the following:
$$MSE(Y1|Y3) = 0.00323; cor(Y2, Y3) = 0.766 \; (n=464) \\
MSE(Y2|Y3) = 0.0117; cor(Y2, Y3) = 0.785 \; (n=1280)$$
Notice how the correlation changes when taken on different datasets (and the order actually changes). Even though I believe that the upper part of my answer is correct, @whuber is right in his comment that you cannot draw any conclusion if your measures are taken on different datasets.

A: Correlation: The degree or extent to which variables are linearly related is called the correlation among variables.
MSE: If $T$ be an estimator of $\theta$. $MSE(T)$ is a measure of the spread of the values of $T$ around $\theta$
These two are different so don't be confused

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This allows for functions like peer-to-peer lending markets, streaming services and decentralized exchanges to be built into smart contract applications. DeFi takes complex financial services and products traditionally offered by legacy financial institutions and codes them to enable self-executing services. These are automated, self-executing products and services where users directly interact with the application without interfering with third parties like banks, insurance companies, agents, exchanges or brokerages. DeFi applications utilize blockchain technology and thus is a peer-to-peer system that can be accessible to anyone and anywhere. As CEO of AQRU, an incubator specializing in decentralized finance, I've crossed paths with many people who think this way. But, unlike its traditional counterpart, these services use peer-to-peer and blockchain technology to eliminate intermediaries and to offer higher returns for investors.
These tokens are volatile – even for crypto – so be careful, and don't invest more than you're willing to lose. CryptoKitties proved to the community that the concept of non-fungible tokens could really work to verify collectible digital assets. Decentralized lending offers higher interest rates than centralized lending with better security and anonymity. These liquidity pools are funded by other users who earn the exchange fees for providing this liquidity. Thus, it can have issues or "bugs," which is the embedded technology risk of any software.
The DeFi industry is still in its infancy, but already boasts some promising startups. Most DeFi projects use a proprietary cryptocurrency token to power their system. Should one of these DeFi startups create a hit product, demand for their token will increase, and so will its value.
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This means anyone can open an account and no entity can freeze your funds or charge you for failing to maintain a minimum balance.
It also would purge the central nodes in a network that can make it more vulnerable to widespread disruption.
For example, crediting accounts with interest payments on a regular schedule requires that the bank's operations receive signals on the interest rate and the date.
It ecnompasses any blockchain-based application that facilitates peer-to-peer financial transactions, allowing users to trade digital assets on crypto exchanges, lend and borrow crypto, purchase goods and more.
Securities and Exchanges Commission estimating that 70% of day traders lose money each quarter. Meanwhile, risk-averse investors who are focused on the so-called safe investment options may not lose money but, to pay for this 'safety', their returns will tend to be low so, if they're lucky, they will only just outstrip inflation. A CryptoKitty is a virtual cat that has more in common with a bitcoin than a real cat. A crypto kitty is a token on a blockchain – just like Bitcoin, Ether or UNI – these tokens are attached to wallets, are liquid and store value.
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The thing about DeFi plays like this is that it's all about revenue and math and I was too lazy to do the math to determine what the key metrics were." In a future post, we will highlight that the problems which frequently arise in TradFi also appear in DeFi, while the aim of DeFi to avoid any discretionary intervention renders key TradFi corrective tools inoperable. Eventually, we also will post about regulatory approaches that can address the risks posed by DeFi, while supporting responsible financial innovation that lowers transaction costs and broadens consumer choice.
These companies are considered DeFi as they do not take custody of user funds and provide access to blockchain technology or a relevant decentralized service. The most common interaction with decentralized finance is exchanging or investing in decentralized currency, meaning any cryptocurrency that exists on a public blockchain. When money is deposited in a traditional savings account, the bank invests the assets in its diverse portfolio of holdings to generate profits which can range between 10% and 20%.
The blockchain's immutable ledger allows intermediaries to be stripped from financial transactions, greatly improving returns, as the only fees required are for the upkeep of the blockchain itself. Innovation on the blockchain has allowed smart contracts to be used to create impressive financial products, providing a real challenge to traditional financial institutions. DeFi is not a company or a cryptocurrency — it's an attempt to recreate the existing financial system on the blockchain. This is done through smart contracts, which are programs that live on the blockchain. Just like how Bitcoin is immutable and trustless, so are smart contracts.
The concept of embedded finance – integrating financial services with a traditionally non-financial service or product – will be significantly enhanced. While the hysteria over NFT's (non-fungible tokens) continues, a new blockchain-based form of finance called https://xcritical.com/ or DeFi has caught the attention of everyday consumers and Wall Street veterans alike. Given the deterministic nature of smart contracts, we can see that yield-generating strategies based on over-collateralized loans and governed by smart contracts have the potential to carry effectively no risk. As legal tender to help the majority of its citizens who don't have access to traditional financial services. DeFi transactions don't care about your financial history, Holloway said.
DeFi Hits a Bump, and as a result, so does Bitcoin and Ethereum – PaymentsJournal
DeFi Hits a Bump, and as a result, so does Bitcoin and Ethereum.
On January 4, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency officially allowed U.S. banks to conduct business using stablecoins. This marks a historic milestone for cryptocurrency acceptance, and an influx of cash is likely on the horizon. Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that offers investors access to over 100 coins and tokens.
For example, the data feeds for current market prices that a smart contract might require as a condition for code execution are often centrally controlled, leaving them vulnerable to manipulation. Turning to algorithmic stablecoins, to maintain the stability of their value against a fiat currency, the supply changes automatically according to a pre-determined rule. But even within this crypto-asset class, there are various approaches to attempting to maintain a Decentralized Finance peg. At one end of the spectrum, DAI is issued by MakerDAO and collateralized by Ether , the native coin of the Ethereum blockchain. Currently, the collateralization rate for DAI is 150%, so someone depositing $150 worth of Ether can then mint or borrow a maximum of 100 DAI (equivalent to $100). We can think of this transaction as occurring on a balance sheet where assets rise by $150 worth of ETH and liabilities by 100 DAI, boosting net worth initially by $50.
Earlier in Holloway's career at JPMorgan, she was the banker who'd accept or reject people for loans. She'd analyze their financial statements, review their credit scores and calculate their risks before approving the funds. It's a process meant to protect banks from undue risk, but it can also leave out the people who most need the loans.
Are DeFi's primary means for developing a governing community of individuals to shape the direction of a project or dApp. Getting a DAO token, for instance, is an investment in a project and gives you a voting share on decisions. "This is one area where the crypto community has to rethink how it the average person use this stuff and have the equivalent of an undo button to help them overcome personal errors," Wang said. Similar to the stock market, blockchain has its own derivatives market, too.
One of the primary ways to generate interest is through peer-to-peer lending. The borrower can take out a loan without worrying that the sum will dip in value. DataDecisionMakers is where experts, including the technical people doing data work, can share data-related insights and innovation.
Built on these fundamentals, crypto-assets provide mechanisms for making payments, storing value, and transferring risk, while DeFi offers markets in which owners can buy and sell these assets. News headlines mentioning cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and peer-to-peer finance have become common over the last years. Despite this, not everyone understands how they work and the decentralized finance sector can appear intimidating. Reserve-backed stablecoins are the liability of an issuer that maintains a balance sheet with assets of equal value. As we discuss in an earlier post, the two largest reserve-backed stablecoins are Tether (current market cap US$79 billion) and USD Coin (US$50 billion) that are both linked to the U.S. dollar. The quality and character of their reserve assets is a subject of some debate.


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Sunny, dry, warm-but-not-hot weather. It doesn't get any better than this in coastal northern New England.
This little goldfinch is the ambassador of our perfect day.
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