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One such challenge involves breaking cracked rocks to reveal stowed away insider facts, collectibles, and new paths. This guide will dive into various strategies and techniques to break these obstinate obstacles, including fusing to create a demolishing weapon, utilizing bomb blossoms, and harnessing the power of the Sage of Fire. By mastering these procedures, you'll uncover stowed away treasures and open additional opportunities in TotK.
Fusing to Create a Demolishing Weapon:
Cracked rocks can be formidable barriers, yet with the right hardware, you can easily conquer them. One compelling strategy involves fusing things to create a powerful weapon capable of shattering even the sturdiest of rocks. Here is a bit by bit guide on the most proficient method to accomplish this:
Distinguish the necessary things: Search for explicit things or assets within the game world that can be combined to create a demolishing weapon. These things could include a solid hammer, a magical pearl, or a rare material.
Acquire the necessary materials: Investigate prisons, complete missions, or engage in side activities to gather the expected materials for the combination cycle. These materials may be concealed in chests, dropped by defeated foes, or rewarded for completing explicit challenges.
Locate a combination master: Search out NPCs or characters within the game world who have the information and abilities to meld things. These specialists may be tracked down in specialized shops, secret locations, or within certain story-driven missions.
Initiate the combination cycle: Interact with the combination master and follow the on-screen prompts to initiate the combination cycle. Select the ideal things to be intertwined and affirm the combination.
Test your recently created weapon: When the combination is finished, prepare the recently created demolishing weapon and approach cracked rocks. Utilize the weapon's one of a kind abilities to break them apart and reveal stowed away areas, treasures, or easy routes.
Utilizing Bomb Blossoms to Obliterate Rocks:
In the vast expanse of TotK, bomb roses are nature's dangerous gift to adventurers. These volatile plants can be used as powerful tools for breaking cracked rocks. Here is an aide on using bomb blossoms really:
Spotting bomb blossom patches: While exploring TotK, watch out for patches of bomb blossoms. These vibrant and distinctive plants are often tracked down near rough areas or within prisons.
Approach with caution: Bomb blossoms are profoundly hazardous, so practice caution while interacting with them. Avoid striking or jostling them, as they can detonate and cause damage.
Picking up bomb blossoms: Approach a bomb bloom patch and carefully interact with a completely developed bomb blossom. Link, the protagonist, will get it, allowing you to involve it as a dangerous tool.
Throwing bomb blossoms: Aim your toss by adjusting Link's heading. Be mindful of the trajectory and distance to guarantee accurate placement. Recollect that bomb blossoms have a restricted clock before they detonate.
Breaking cracked rocks: Stand at a safe distance and toss the bomb bloom towards the cracked stone. The blast will shatter the obstacle, granting you access to stowed away areas, treasures, or alternate routes.
Breaking Cracked Rocks Using the Sage of Fire Power:
As you progress through TotK, you'll experience strong sages, each possessing special elemental powers. The Sage of Fire is particularly adept at breaking cracked rocks using their blazing abilities. This is the way you can harness their power:
Embark on the journey: Engage in the main storyline or seek after unambiguous side missions that lead you to the Sage of Fire. Follow the pieces of information, interact with NPCs, and unravel the secrets surrounding their whereabouts.
Earn the Sage's favor: To harness the power of the Sage of Fire, you should substantiate yourself commendable. Complete trials, address confuses, or satisfy journeys assigned by the sage. Demonstrate your determination and expertise to gain their trust.
Learn the Fire spell: After earning the Sage's favor, they will impart their insight and teach you the sacred Fire spell. Master the expected procedures and motions to channel the flames really.
Approach cracked rocks: Locate the cracked rocks obstructing your path. They may be tracked down in prisons, far off areas, or within intricate mazes. The Sage's fire power is particularly compelling against these obstacles.
Cast the Fire spell: Center your energy and invoke the Fire spell. Direct the flames towards the cracked stone, allowing the intense heat to fracture the obstacle, granting you access to stowed away mysteries and treasures.
In Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, breaking cracked rocks is an essential ability to investigate stowed away areas and uncover valuable rewards. By utilizing various procedures, for example, fusing to create a demolishing weapon, utilizing bomb blossoms strategically, and harnessing the power of the Sage of Fire, you'll defeat these obstacles and uncover the mysteries that lie past.
Make sure to approach these challenges with patience and careful observation. Investigate the universe of TotK completely, interact with its inhabitants, and embark on missions to find new tools and abilities that will aid you in your stone breaking endeavors.
Thus, furnish yourself with the information and abilities shared in this aide, and let the sound of shattered rocks be the herald of your victory in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.


} of smooth real-valued functions on open subsets {U} of the manifold {M}, but we will not need to do so here.
Example 15 A simple example of a smooth {1}-dimensional manifold is the unit circle {S^1 = \{ z \in {\bf C}: |z| = 1 \}}; there are many equivalent atlases one could place on this circle to define the smooth structure, but one example would be the atlas consisting of the two charts {\phi_1: U_1 \rightarrow V_1}, {\phi_2: U_2 \rightarrow V_2}, defined by setting {V_1 := (-\pi, \pi)}, {V_2 := (0, 2\pi)}, {U_1 := \{ e^{i \theta}: \theta \in V_1 \} = S^1 \backslash \{-1\}}, {U_2 := \{ e^{i\theta}: \theta \in V_2 \} = S^1 \backslash \{1\}}, {\phi_1(e^{i\theta}) := \theta} for {\theta \in U_1}, and {\phi_2(e^{i\theta}) := \theta} for {\theta \in U_2}. Another smooth manifold, which turns out to be diffeomorphic to the unit circle {S^1}, is the one-point compactification {{\bf R} \cup \{\infty\}} of the real numbers, with the two charts {\phi_1: U_1 \rightarrow V_1}, {\phi_2: U_2 \rightarrow V_2} defined by setting {V_1=V_2:={\bf R}}, {U_1 := {\bf R}}, {U_2 := ({\bf R} \backslash \{0\}) \cup \{\infty\}}, {\phi_1} to be the identity map, and {\phi_2} defined by setting {\phi_2(x) := 1/x} for {x \in {\bf R} \backslash \{0\}} and {\phi_2(\infty) := 0}.
Exercise 16 Verify that the unit circle {S^1} is indeed diffeomorphic to the one-point compactification {{\bf R} \cup \{\infty\}}.
A Riemann surface is defined similarly to a smooth manifold, except that the dimension {n} is restricted to be one, the reals {{\bf R}} are replaced with the complex numbers, and the requirement of smoothness is replaced with holomorphicity (thus Riemann surfaces are to the complex numbers as smooth curves are to the real numbers). More precisely:
Definition 17 (Riemann surface) Let {M} be a Hausdorff topological space. A holomorphic atlas on {M} is an open cover {(U_\alpha)_{\alpha \in A}} of {M} together with a family of homeomorphisms {\phi_\alpha: U_\alpha \rightarrow V_\alpha} (known as coordinate charts) from each {U_\alpha} to an open subset {V_\alpha} of {{\bf C}}, such that, for any {\alpha,\beta \in A}, the transition map {\phi_\beta \circ \phi_\alpha^{-1}: \phi_\alpha(U_\alpha \cap U_\beta) \rightarrow \phi_\beta(U_\alpha \cap U_\beta)}, which maps one open subset of {{\bf C}} to another, is required to be holomorphic. A map {f: M \rightarrow M'} from one space {M} (equipped with coordinate charts {\phi_\alpha: U_\alpha \rightarrow V_\alpha} for {\alpha \in A}) to another {M'} (equipped with coordinate charts {\phi'_\beta: U'_\beta \rightarrow V'_\beta} for some {\beta \in B}) is said to be holomorphic if, for any {\alpha \in A} and {\beta \in B}, the maps {\phi'_\beta \circ f \circ \phi_\alpha: \phi_\alpha^{-1}( f^{-1}(U'_\beta) \cap U_\alpha ) \rightarrow V_\beta} are holomorphic; if {f} is invertible and {f} and {f^{-1}} are both holomorphic, we say that {f} is a complex diffeomorphism, and that {M} and {M'} are complex diffeomorphic. Two holomorphic atlases on {M} are said to be equivalent if the identity map from {M} (equipped with one of the atlases) to {M} (equipped with the other atlas) is a complex diffeomorphism; this is easily seem to be an equivalence relation, and we refer to such an equivalence class as a (one-dimensional) complex structure on {M}. A Riemann surface is a Hausdorff topological space {M}, equipped with a one-dimensional complex structure. (Again, in some texts the hypothesis of second countability is imposed. This makes little difference in practice, as most Riemann surfaces one actually encounters will be second countable.)
By considering dimensions {n} greater than one, one can arrive at the more general notion of a complex manifold, the study of which is the focus of complex geometry (and also plays a central role in the closely related fields of several complex variables and complex algebraic geometry). However, we will not need to deal with higher-dimensional complex manifolds in this course. The notion of a Riemann surface should not be confused with that of a Riemannian manifold, which is the topic of study of Riemannian geometry rather than complex geometry.
Clearly any open subset {U} of the complex numbers {{\bf C}} is a Riemann surface, in which one can use the atlas that only consists of one "tautological" chart, the identity map {\phi: U \rightarrow U}. More generally, any open subset of a Riemann surface is again a Riemann surface. If {U,V} are open subsets of the complex numbers, and {f: U \rightarrow V} is a map, then by unpacking all the definitions we see that {f: U \rightarrow V} is holomorphic in the sense of Definition 17 if and only if it is holomorphic in the usual sense.
Now we come to the Riemann sphere {{\bf C} \cup \{\infty\}}, which is to the complex numbers as {{\bf R} \cup \{\infty\}} is to the real numbers. As a set, this is the complex numbers {{\bf C}} with one additional point (the point at infinity) {\infty} attached. Topologically, this is the one-point compactification of the complex numbers {{\bf C}}: the open sets of {{\bf C} \cup \{\infty\}} are either subsets of {{\bf C}} that were already open, or complements {({\bf C} \cup \{\infty\}) \backslash K} of compact subsets {K} of {{\bf C}}. As a Riemann surface, the complex structure can be described by the atlas of coordinate charts {\phi_1: U_1 \rightarrow V_1}, {\phi_2: U_2 \rightarrow V_2}, where {V_1 = V_2 := {\bf C}}, {U_1 := {\bf C}}, {U_2 := ({\bf C} \backslash \{0\}) \cup \{\infty\}}, {\phi_1} is the identity map, and {\phi_2(z)} equals {1/z} for {z \in {\bf C} \backslash \{0\}} with {\phi_2(\infty) = 0}. It is not difficult to verify that this is indeed a Riemann surface (basically because the map {z \mapsto \frac{1}{z}} is holomorphic on {{\bf C} \backslash \{0\}}). One can identify the Riemann sphere with a geometric sphere, and specifically the sphere {S^2 := \{ (z,


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Why is "May I Join You?"
Such a Powerful Question
Greeting a Friend
When you were young you probably got used to asking permission to do things. Parents require this to be sure their child is safe within boundaries. But children tend to push back, testing limits, when they begin to individualize.
Part of gaining the right to expand boundaries comes from a parent's approval; hearing the word "yes." It's a process based on concurrence. Getting the green light feels good.
The same principle applies when asking permission to join someone in an activity, a conversation, or a project. It feels good when someone says, "Sure! Join us."
Can I vs. May I
You probably remember from vocabulary classes the difference between "May I?" and "Can I?" "May I?" implies asking permission, whereas "Can I?" implies that capability is being considered.
When a person asks if he can join you, he is asking if something is possible. When he asks if he may join you, he is asking if something is permissible.
Why Ask "May I Join You?"
"May I join you?" is an influential question. It is immediately friendly, but at its foundation it reflects understanding and consideration.
When you enter someone's personal space, you are crossing a sacred boundary. When you know someone well, you might assume you already have permission to enter her space. However, this is not a likely assumption when you don't know someone. Which is why we use introductory words and phrases:
 - "Hello."
 - "Excuse me,..."
 - "May I help you?"
 - "Hi, may I ask..."
 - "How are you?"
Each of these "introductions" is an indirect way of asking, "May I join you?" You are about to enter into conversation with someone, thus entering his space.
Asking the direct question when you wish to join someone clarifies your intention. You are seeking permission to be in the same space and interact with that person.
And you have provided a chance for the person to tell you she prefers that you not join her. You've given her an "out" in case one was needed. This helps her feel that she is fully in charge of her personal space.
So, why is "May I join you?" such a powerful question to ask?
 - You refrain from an unwanted interjection by seeking permission to participate.
 - You show respect and good will.
 - You give someone an "out" in the event they do not want you to join them – whatever that reason may be.
 - You allow another person to be in charge of their own space.
Interacting with people can sometimes be tricky at best. But remembering what your parents taught you about seeking permission can smooth the edges of a desire to be included. Such an etiquette-ful request is difficult for a kind person to turn down.
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In this tutorial, Kafka and ZooKeeper are configured to store data locally in the Docker containers. For production deployments (or generally whenever you care about not losing data), you should use mounted volumes for persisting data in the event that a container stops running or is restarted. This is important when running a system like Kafka on Docker, as it relies heavily on the filesystem for storing and caching messages. For an example of how to add mounted volumes to the host machine, see the documentation on Docker external volumes.
Installing and Running Docker
For this tutorial, Docker is run using the Docker client. If you are interested in information on using Docker Compose to run the images, skip to the bottom of this guide.
To get started, you'll need to first install Docker and get it running. The Confluent Platform Docker Images require Docker version 1.11 or greater.
Docker Client: Setting Up a Three Node Kafka Cluster
If you're running on Windows or Mac OS X, you'll need to use Docker Machine to start the Docker host. Docker runs natively on Linux, so the Docker host will be your local machine if you go that route. If you are running on Mac or Windows, be sure to allocate at least 4 GB of ram to the Docker Machine.
Now that you have all of the Docker dependencies installed, you can create a Docker machine and begin starting up Confluent Platform.
Note
In the following steps, each Docker container is run in detached mode and you are shown how to access to the logs for a running container. You can also run the containers in the foreground by replacing the -d flags with -it.
 1. Create and configure the Docker machine.
 docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --virtualbox-memory 6000 confluent

 Next, configure your terminal window to attach it to your new Docker Machine:
 eval $(docker-machine env confluent)

 2. Clone the git repository:
 git clone _URL_
 cd cp-docker-images

 3. Start the services by using the example Docker Compose file. Navigate to cp-docker-images/examples/enterprise-kafka, where it is located:
 cd cp-docker-images/examples/enterprise-kafka

 4. Start up the services. The Docker Compose file has configuration for one ZooKeeper and 6 Kafka brokers. These brokers are configured to be on 2 racks. We will first start one rack (with 3 brokers) and create a topic with sample data and run the ADB CLI tool to balance the cluster. After this step, we will walk you through a tutorial for adding another rack of brokers and running the ADB CLI tool to rebalance the data across the new added brokers.
 Start ZooKeeper and first rack of brokers using the Docker Compose commands.
 docker-compose create

 You should see the following
 Creating enterprisekafka_zookeeper_1
 Creating enterprisekafka_kafka-6_1
 Creating enterprisekafka_kafka-4_1
 Creating enterprisekafka_kafka-5_1
 Creating enterprisekafka_kafka-2_1
 Creating enterprisekafka_kafka-3_1
 Creating enterprisekafka_kafka-1_1

 Start the services
 docker-compose start zookeeper kafka-1 kafka-2 kafka-3

 You should see the following
 Starting zookeeper ... done
 Starting kafka-2 ... done
 Starting kafka-3 ... done
 Starting kafka-1 ... done

 Make sure the services are up and running:
 docker-compose ps

 You should see the following:
 Name Command State Ports
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 enterprisekafka_kafka-1_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Up
 enterprisekafka_kafka-2_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Up
 enterprisekafka_kafka-3_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Up
 enterprisekafka_kafka-4_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Exit 0
 enterprisekafka_kafka-5_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Exit 0
 enterprisekafka_kafka-6_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Exit 0
 enterprisekafka_zookeeper_1 /etc/confluent/docker/run Up

 Now check the ZooKeeper logs to verify that ZooKeeper is healthy.
 docker-compose logs zookeeper | grep -i binding

 You should see the following in your terminal window:
 zookeeper_1 | [2016-10-21 22:15:22,494] INFO binding to port 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:22181 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory)

 Next, check the Kafka logs for the destination cluster to verify that broker is healthy.
 docker-compose logs kafka-1 | grep -i started

 You should see message a message that looks like the following:
 kafka-1_1 | [2016-10-21 22:19:50,964] INFO [Socket Server on Broker 1], Started 1 acceptor threads (kafka.network.SocketServer)
 kafka-1_1 | [2016-10-21 22:19:51,300] INFO [Kafka Server 1], started (kafka.server.KafkaServer)
 ....

 5. Now that the brokers are up, we will create a test topic called "adb-test".
 docker run \
 --net=host \
 --rm confluentinc/cp-kafka:4.1.5-SNAPSHOT \
 kafka-topics --create --topic adb-test --partitions 20 --replication-factor 3 --if-not-exists --zookeeper localhost:22181

 You should see the following output in your terminal window:
 Created topic "adb-test".

 Before moving on, verify that the topic was created successfully:
 docker run \
 --net=host \
 --rm confluentinc/cp-kafka:4.1.5-SNAPSHOT \
 kafka-topics --describe --topic adb-test --zookeeper localhost:22181

 You should see the following output in your terminal window:
 Topic:adb-test PartitionCount:20 ReplicationFactor:3 Configs:
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 0 Leader: 2 Replicas: 2,1,3 Isr: 2,1,3
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 1 Leader: 3 Replicas: 3,2,1 Isr: 3,2,1
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 2 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,3,2 Isr: 1,3,2
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 3 Leader: 2 Replicas: 2,3,1 Isr: 2,3,1
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 4 Leader: 3 Replicas: 3,1,2 Isr: 3,1,2
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 5 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,2,3 Isr: 1,2,3
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 6 Leader: 2 Replicas: 2,1,3 Isr: 2,1,3
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 7 Leader: 3 Replicas: 3,2,1 Isr: 3,2,1
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 8 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,3,2 Isr: 1,3,2
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 9 Leader: 2 Replicas: 2,3,1 Isr: 2,3,1
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 10 Leader: 3 Replicas: 3,1,2 Isr: 3,1,2
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 11 Leader: 1 Replicas: 1,2,3 Isr: 1,2,3
 Topic: adb-test Partition: 12 Leader: 2 Replicas: 2,1,3 Isr: 2,1,3
 Topic: adb


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Here There Be Dragons: Or Sometimes Not.
Q: When is a dragon not really a dragon?
A: When you are looking at the tiles in a mah-jong set.
When I started my research into mah-jong in anticipation of writing Thirteen Orphans, I looked forward to learning the answer to a question that had puzzled me since the first time I'd looked at a set of tiles.
Why is the Red Dragon tile inscribed with the character that means "center"? What does "center" have do with dragons?
The answer is that "center" has absolutely nothing at all to do with dragons. In fact, even the idea of dragons entered mah-jong terminology fairly late in the development of the game.
In the earliest surviving sets of mah-jong tiles, there are only six "honors" suits: the four directions (or winds) and two tiles with no set association of any sort. One of these is usually labeled "center" and the other is usually left blank.
Experts still argue when the final honors suit—now called the Green Dragon—was added, but certainly it had appeared by the late 1800s, as it is included in a set purchased in either 1889 or 1890.
Just as the Red Dragon tile is actually "center," the late added Green Dragon tile is labeled with the character meaning "get rich." The White Dragon very well may have begun life as a blank replacement tile or a joker. However, as time passed, the White Dragon became a standard part of play. The tile was now sometimes labeled with "B" or "P", the first letter in the word "bai" or "pai" (depending on your transliteration system) meaning "white."
When the White Dragon became standard for play, additional tiles were added to serve as replacements or jokers. This is why in some sets you have both tiles that are blank and tiles labeled "B" or "P". Sometimes the spare tile has a border around the edges. If there is a pure white tile and a bordered tile, it's up to house rules which tile serves as the White Dragon.
But how did center, get rich, and white become three dragons, adding richness to the imagery of the game, and contributing to any number of poetically named limit hands?
Likely the transition had to do with the game's acquiring Western players. Western players would not recognize what the inscribed characters "center" and "get rich" meant, and a blank tile is just plain confusing. Someone sought for something to call those three odd honors tiles, and settled on the symbol almost universally associated with the mystic Orient. This is, of course, the dragon.
Moreover, because these tiles were often printed in red, green, and white, you ended up with three colors of dragons.
It is quite likely that the direction tiles had been associated with winds for a long while. Therefore, the honors tiles became known as Winds and Dragons, creating poetry where none had been initially, once again transforming a mere gambling game into something that inspires not only enjoyment, but strange twists of the imagination.
Please note: This is the fifth post I've written about various aspects of the game of mah-jong. Rather than repeat myself, you can find them here, here, here, and here.
1. Jei
I've been enjoying your posts about mah jongg. I play the National Mah Jongg League's version with friends on a (mostly) weekly basis. I have a friend who plays one of the Chinese versions & another friend who plays the Wright-Patterson version as well. My daughters & grandsons have learned to play. We always play at least one game when they come to visit.
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2. heresiarch
So this intriguingly mysterious appellation which Westerners find so fascinating came about because Westerners wanted an appropriately exotic name to go with their exotic game? Hm.
3. bookfoldbrewcineaste
I learned how to play Mah Jongg when I was living in Japan back in the early 90's. A wonderful Japanese couple, who were very generous to my wife and I during our stay in their city, taught us the game, and even presented us with one of their sets of tiles when we left.
I can't remember now if the husband--who had a wonderful sense of humor--referred to the red and green honors tiles as dragons, but I'll always remember what he called the blank white tiles. Whenever he drew one that he couldn't use, he would sigh and discard it with the dismissive exclamation, "Tofu!"
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4. janelindskold
I thought I posted a response to this thread...
I guess I punched the wrong button.
In any case...
"bookfold" you got me... I'm never, ever going to be able to look at the "White Dragon" without thinking "Tofu"!
Thanks for the laugh...
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Exploring the History of Bagels for National Bagel Day
Did you know that the 21st-century bagel you ate for breakfast had its roots in 15th-century Jewish kitchens in Poland? That's right, the crusty, chewy bagels we enjoy today haven't changed much from their original form all those centuries ago. Sure, toppings have changed over time, but the bagel itself is basically the same. Let's explore some of the long and interesting history of bagels in honor of National Bagel Day (January 15th).
The Lineage of the Bagel
The known history of the bagel dates back 600 years ago to Medieval Poland. In reality, bagel-making is likely much older than that. The first written mention of the bagel occurs in the city regulations of Krakow, Poland in 1610. These regulations specified that women were to be given gifts of bagels after childbirth. The bagel's circular shape supposedly symbolized a long life to come.
Maria Balinska, author of The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread, speculates that bagels may have descended from the soft pretzels brought to Poland by German immigrants in the 14th century.
Those pretzels may have morphed into obwarzanek, a somewhat bagel-shaped roll. Written records from the 14th-century mention these feast day rolls that were popular with the nobility and the wealthy. Unfortunately, most of the population couldn't afford these wheat-based treats and had to settle for cheaper coarse rye bread.
According to Ms. Balinska, another theory of the origins of bagels traces to a baker wanting to honor a king. It's said that in 1683, a Viennese baker wanted to honor the king who led the successful effort to repulse an invading Turkish army. He made the bagel in the shape of a stirrup because of the king's love of horses.
Whichever story of the origin of bagel is true, we're the true beneficiaries!
The Jewish Connection
The anti-Semitic laws of Medieval Europe prohibited Jews from baking bread commercially. Poland was more tolerant than most other European countries and allowed Jews to bake dough that was first boiled. This is probably where bagels first developed that wonderful chewy texture and flavor. It came about as a result of boiling the dough before baking it.
When Jewish Poles and other Eastern Europeans immigrated to America, they brought their beloved bagels with them. It didn't take long for bagels to catch on in popularity. They eventually made their way across the country, but the heart of bagel culture in the United States remains in New York City.
While other Americans may settle for packaged bagels, New Yorkers prefer their bagels fresh and hot out of the stone oven. They also prefer a bagel with 'character'. That means a bagel that is hand-shaped, crusty, chewy, and a rich golden brown.
Unfortunately, mass-produced bagels have lost much of this character as they moved away from the ethnic neighborhoods of New York's Lower East Side. They tend to be softer, with less of that characteristic 'bite'. They also tend to be paler and sweeter than New York bagels.
Bagel making and eating are still evolving, with an ever-evolving variety of flours, sprinkles, dips, toppings, and smears. However, the bagel basics have remained the same. It's still a chewy ring of deliciousness.
When you bite into a warm bagel, you're getting a taste of history, culture, heritage, and tradition. Enjoy!

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Initialization Hooks (inithooks) - TurnKey initialization, configuration and preseeding
The intended readers of this page are:
 - Appliance developers interested in learning how TurnKey works under the hood and developing their own configuration hooks.
 - Hosting providers and private cloud operators interested in implementing tight integration between TurnKey and custom control panels.
 This isn't a requirement, just a bonus. TurnKey images can be deployed like any other Debian or Debian-based image, using your existing deployments scripts. If you can deploy Debian or Ubuntu it should be trivial to deploy TurnKey.
Inithook design goals
The inithooks package executes system initialization scripts which:
 - Regenerate secret keys (e.g., SSH, default SSL certificate): This isn't just a good idea, it's necessary to avoid man in the middle attacks.
 - Set passwords (e.g., root, database, application): necessary to avoid the risk of hardwired default passwords
 - Configure basic application settings (e.g., domain, admin email): especially useful when configuring the application would require hunting down the format of a configuration file.
Also, Inithooks provides a preseeding mechanism designed to make it easy to integrate TurnKey with custom control panels provided by various virtualization solutions and cloud hosting providers.
How it works
Inithooks itself is as generic and barebones as possible, leaving the bulk of functionality up to the appliance specific "hook" scripts themselves,
These scripts are located in two sub-directories under /usr/lib/inithooks - everyboot.d and firstboot.d.
They are executed in alphanumeric ordering. This means a script named 1-foo would be executed before 2-bar, which would itself be executed before 3-foobar. That's why scripts in these directories have funny numbers at the beginning.
The inithooks top-level init script is executed early on in system initialization, at runlevel 2 15. This enables configuration of the system prior to most services starting. This should be taken into consideration when developing hook scripts.
firstboot.d scripts
Scripts in the firstboot.d sub-directory are executed under the following conditions:
 1. If the user executes "turnkey-init" from a root shell. This command can be used to rerun the firstboot.d inithooks interactively to reconfigure the appliance if needed. Certain scripts such as those that regenerate secret keys are skipped. See BLACKLIST variable in /usr/sbin/turnkey-init for details.
 2. When the user logs in as root for the first time into a headless system. This triggers "turnkey-init" to run so that the user can interactively complete appliance initialization.
 3. When a TurnKey appliance boots for the first time
 inithooks checks whether or not this is the first boot by checking the value of the RUN_FIRSTBOOT flag in /etc/default/inithooks. If the value is false it runs the scripts and toggles the flag to true.
 The firstboot scripts may run in one of two modes, interactive or non-interactive, depending on the type of build.
 Interactive mode on non-headless builds - Live CD ISO, VMDK and OVF: With these image types interactive access to the virtual console during boot is expected so some of the inithooks initialization scripts will interact with the user via text dialogs the first time the system boots (e.g., ask for passwords, application settings, etc.). These are the same scripts that get executed if you run "turnkey-init".
 Non-interactive mode on headless builds - OpenStack, OpenVZ, OpenNode, Xen: with these image types interactive access to the virtual console during boot can not be assumed. The first boot has to be capable of running non-interactively, otherwise we risk hanging the boot while it waits for user interaction that never happens.
 So instead of interacting with the user the system pre-initializes application settings with dummy defaults and set all passwords to a random value. If a root password has already been set (e.g., in a pre-deployment script) the headless preseeding script will not overwrite it, so your root password should work just fine.
 The output from the non-interactive running of the firstboot scripts is logged to /var/log/inithooks.log.
 Interactive appliance configuration is delayed until the first time the user logs in as root. This is accomplished with the help of the /usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d/29preseed hook, which only exists on headless builds:
 #!/bin/bash -e
 # generic preseeding of inithooks.conf if it doesn't exist

 [ -e $INITHOOKS_CONF ] && exit 0

 MASTERPASS=$(mcookie | cut --bytes 1-8)

 cat>$INITHOOKS_CONF<<EOF
 export ROOT_PASS=$MASTERPASS
 export DB_PASS=$MASTERPASS
 export APP_PASS=$MASTERPASS
 export APP_EMAIL=_EMAIL_
 export APP_DOMAIN=DEFAULT
 export HUB_APIKEY=SKIP
 export SEC_ALERTS=SKIP
 export SEC_UPDATES=FORCE
 EOF

 chmod +x /usr/lib/inithooks/firstboot.d/30turnkey-init-fence

 Initialization fence: the above headless preseeding hook also activates the "initialization fence" mechanism which uses iptables to redirect attempts to access the local web server to a static web page served by inithooks/bin/simplehttpd.py.
 This page explains you need to log in as root first in order to finish initializing the system. The purpose of the fence is used to prevent users from accessing uninitialized web applications, which in some cases can pose a security risk.
 After the user logs in as root and completes the initialization process the "initialization fence" is turned off. Users can then access applications running on the local web server.
 What firstboot.d/30turnkey-init-fence does:
 1. enables turnkey-init-fence as a service and starts it
 service is enabled / disabled via update-rc.d
 2. activates ~$USERNAME/.profile.d/turnkey-init-fence
 the .profile.d script launches a screen session via inithooks/bin/screen_session.py
 screen_session.py is a wrapper around screen that
 calculates session id for a given command
 if the session exists, attach to it, otherwise create it
 what command are we running in the .profile.d screen session?
 turnkey-init -> deactivate initfence (service and profile.d)
everyboot.d scripts
Scripts that are in the everyboot.d sub-directory run on every boot. We try to minimize the number of scripts that live here because they're basically a poor man's init script and real init scripts are often a better idea.
Setting the root password in a headless deployment
On headless deployments the user needs to login as root to complete the appliance initialization process, but how do you login as root?
Not a problem if you're using OpenNode or ProxMox - those systems prompt you to choose a root password before deploying a TurnKey image.
On OpenStack you can log in as root with your configured SSH keypair or retrieve the random root password from the "system log".
Other virtualization / private cloud solutions should be able to use their existing deployment scripts to set the root password, just like they already do with Debian and Ubuntu.
Another more advanced option is to "preseed" the /etc/inithooks.conf file in the apliance's filesystem before booting it for the first time. This lets you leverage inithooks to pre-configure not just the root password but also the database and application passwords, admin email, domain name, etc.
However note that using preseeding deactivates the "initilization fence". If you're using preseeding TurnKey assumes you've already interacted with the user some other way (e.g., web control panel) to get the preseeded configuration values.
Preseeding
By default, when an appliance is run for the first time, the firstboot scripts will prompt the user interactively, through the virtual console, to choose various passwords and basic application configuration settings.
It is possible to bypass this interactive configuration process by creating /etc/inithooks.conf in the appliance filesystem and writing inithooks configuration variables into it before the first system boot. For example:
cat>/etc/inithooks.conf<<EOF
export ROOT_PASS=supersecretrootpass
export DB_PASS


Home Tek AMD AND MICROSOFT SECURED-CORE PC
AMD AND MICROSOFT SECURED-CORE PC
Rilispedia.com – In today's world, computer security is becoming very important due the exponential increase in malware and ransomware attacks. Various studies have shown that a single malicious attack can cost companies millions of dollars and can require significant recovery time. With the growth of employees working remotely and connected to a network considered less secure than traditional corporate network, employee's computer systems can be perceived as a weak security link and a risk to overall security of the company. Operating System (OS) and independent hardware vendors (IHV) are investing in security technologies which will make computers more resilient to cyberattacks.
Microsoft recently announced their Secured-core PC initiative which relies on a combined effort from OEM partners, silicon vendors and themselves to provide deeply integrated hardware, firmware and software for enhanced device security. As a leading silicon provider to the PC market, AMD will be a key partner in this effort with upcoming processors that are Secured-core PC compatible.
In a computer system, low level firmware and the boot loader are initially executed to configure the system. Then ownership of the system is handed over to the operating system whose responsibility is to manage the resources and to protect the integrity of the system.
In today's world, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with threats targeting low level firmware becoming more prominent. With this changing paradigm in security threats, there is strong need to provide end customers with an integrated hardware and software solution which offer comprehensive security to the system.
This is where the Microsoft Secured-core PC initiative comes into the picture. A Secured-core PC enables you to boot securely, protect your device from firmware vulnerabilities, shield the operating system from attacks and prevent unauthorized access to devices and data with advanced access controls and authentication systems.
AMD plays a vital role in enabling Secure-Core PC as AMD's hardware security features and associated software helps safeguard low level firmware attacks. Before we explain how AMD is enabling Secured-Core PC in next gen AMD Ryzen products, let's first explain some security features and capabilities of AMD products.
 - SKINIT: The SKINIT instruction helps create a "root of trust" starting with an initially untrusted operating mode. SKINIT reinitializes the processor to establish a secure execution environment for a software component called the secure loader (SL) and starts execution of the SL in a way to help prevent tampering SKINIT extends the hardware-based root of trust to the secure loader.
 - Secure Loader (SL): The AMD Secure Loader (SL) is responsible for validating the platform configuration by interrogating the hardware and requesting configuration information from the DRTM Service.
 - AMD Secure Processor (ASP): AMD Secure Processor is dedicated hardware available in each SOC which helps enable secure boot up from BIOS level into the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). Trusted applications can leverage industry-standard APIs to take advantage of the TEE's secure execution environment.
 - AMD-V with GMET: AMD-V is set of hardware extensions to enable virtualization on AMD platforms. Guest Mode Execute Trap (GMET) is a silicon performance acceleration feature added in next gen Ryzen which enables hypervisor to efficiently handle code integrity check and help protect against malware.
Now let's understand the basic concept of firmware protection in a Secured-core PC. The firmware and bootloader can load freely with the assumption that these are unprotected code and knowing that shortly after launch the system will transition into a trusted state with the hardware forcing low level firmware down a well-known and measured code path. This means that the firmware component is authenticated & measured by the security block on AMD silicon and the measurement is securely stored in TPM for further usage by operating systems including verification and attestation. At any point of time after system has booted into OS, the operating system can request AMD security block to remeasure and compare with old values before executing with further operations. This way the OS can help ensure integrity of the system from boot to run time.
The firmware protection flow described above is handled by AMD Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement (DRTM) Service Block and is made up of SKINIT CPU instruction, ASP and the AMD Secure Loader (SL). This block is responsible for creating and maintain a chain of trust between components by performing the following functions:
 - Measure and authenticate firmware and bootloader
 - To gather the following system configuration for the OS which will in turn validate them against its security requirements and store information for future verification.
 - Physical memory map
 - PCI configuration space location
 - Local APIC configuration
 - I/O APIC configuration
 - IOMMU configuration / TMR Configuration
 - Power management configuration
Whilst the above methods help in safeguarding firmware, there is still an attack surface that needs to be protected, the System Management Mode (SMM). SMM is a special-purpose CPU mode in x86 microcontrollers that handles power management, hardware configuration, thermal monitoring, and anything else the manufacturer deems useful. Whenever one of these system operations is requested, an interrupt (SMI) is invoked at runtime which executes SMM code installed by the BIOS. SMM code executes in the highest privilege level and is invisible to the OS. Due to this, it becomes attractive target for malicious activity and can be potentially used access hypervisor memory and change the hypervisor.
Since the SMI handler is typically provided by a developer different then the operating system and SMM handler code running at a higher privilege has access to OS/Hypervisor Memory & Resources. Exploitable vulnerabilities in SMM code leads to compromise of Windows OS/HV & Virtualization Based Security (VBS). To help isolate SMM, AMD introduces a security module called AMD SMM Supervisor that executes immediately before control is transferred to the SMI handler after an SMI has occurred. AMD SMM Supervisor resides in AMD DRTM service block and the purpose of AMD SMM Supervisor is to:
 - Block SMM from being able to modify Hypervisor or OS memory. An exception is a small coordinate communication buffer between the two.
 - Prevent SMM from introducing new SMM code at run time
 - Block SMM from accessing DMA, I/O, or registers that can compromise the Hypervisor or OS
To summarize, AMD will continue to innovate and push boundaries of security in hardware, whether it is DRTM service block to help protect integrity of the system, the use of Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) to help protect data or Control-flow Enforcement technology (CET) to help prevent against Return Oriented Programming (ROP) attacks. Microsoft is a key partner for AMD and as part of this relationship there is a joint commitment with the Secured-core PC initiative to improve security within software and hardware to offer a more comprehensive security solution to customers.
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The California poppy is a beloved flower, and the state flower of California, but as this thread discussed, the cultivated forms are thought to interbreed with wild populations, potentially wiping out their local genetic adaptations.
What was not discussed in that thread was that, whereas the wild-type California poppy consistently has orange or yellow-orange flowers, there are cultivars with flower colors ranging from white to salmon and even purple. If such cultivars are grown within the wild-type's native range, one would expect – if interbreeding is a real risk – to see those cultivar colors beginning to show up in wild populations, at least in the F2 generation.
Let's expand it beyond the poppies, but keep it limited to same-species cultivars vs wild-type, i.e. leaving aside the related issue of interspecific hybridization. How prevalent are documented cases of this kind of genetic "contamination"? Do we see wild populations taking on the visible phenotypes of same-species cultivars grown in their range?


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Annabella was born on July 14, 1907 (died on September 18, 1996, annabella was 89 years old) as Suzanne Georgette Charpentier. Annabella nickname was Charpentier Suzanne Georgette.
Annabella was a French cinema actress who appeared in 46 films between 1927 and 1952 including some Hollywood films during the late 1930s and 1940s. Born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier in La Varenne Saint Hilaire Val-de-Marne France. Annabella's chance to enter films came when her father entertained a film producer who gave her a small part in Napoléon in 1927. read more
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Introduced: Hurricane Nuking Ban
June 10, 2020
File this under "Laws no one would have imagined necessary until the age of Trump".
Washington Post:
Last August, Axios reported that President Trump repeatedly asked top national security officials to consider using nuclear bombs to weaken or destroy hurricanes. Now, one congresswoman wants to make it illegal for Trump, or any president, to act on this idea, which experts say would be both ineffective and extremely dangerous.
On June 1, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Tex.) introduced the Climate Change and Hurricane Correlation and Strategy Act, a bill that explicitly prohibits the president, along with any other federal agency or official, from employing a nuclear bomb or other "strategic weapon" with the goal of "altering weather patterns or addressing climate change."
In a phone interview, Garcia told The Washington Post that the bill was drafted as a direct response to last year's report that Trump has floated the idea of nuking hurricanes to his senior homeland security and national security advisers. Trump denied ever making such a suggestion in a tweet shortly after Axios published its report.
The bill comes at the start of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which is off to a roaring start, with Tropical Storm Cristobal, the earliest-recorded third-named storm of any season, striking Louisiana on Sunday. The season is expected to bring above-average storm activity, with 14 to 19 named storms, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Indeed, the idea of nuking the weather into submission is nothing new: According to James Fleming, a professor at Colby College and author of "Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control," people have been discussing the possibility for almost as long as nuclear weapons have existed.
In October 1945, Vladimir Zworykin, associate research director at Radio Corporation of America, suggested that if humans had technology to perfectly predict the weather, military forces could be sent out to disrupt storms before they formed, perhaps using atomic bombs. That same year, UNESCO director Julian Huxley spoke at an arms control conference in Manhattan, where he discussed using nuclear weapons for "landscaping the Earth" or dissolving the polar ice cap. In a 1961 speech at the National Press Club, U.S. Weather Bureau head Francis Reichelderfer said he could "imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea," according to a 2016 report by National Geographic.
The United States even conducted several near-space experiments using nukes, including Operation Argus, a 1958 field test in which the military and the Atomic Energy Commission detonated atomic bombs more than 100 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean in an ill-conceived effort to induce artificial radiation belts in Earth's magnetic field. According to Fleming, the Argus tests, along with subsequent high-altitude nuclear detonations, helped "fuel discussions" leading to the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which prohibits atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.
While nuking a hurricane in an attempt to destroy or weaken it would probably cause an international uproar, the Partial Test Ban Treaty wouldn't prohibit the president from doing so. In addition, there's no domestic law or international treaty that would prohibit such an action, according to Scott Sagan, a professor of political science at Stanford University.
"It would be a stupid thing to do, but it would not be an illegal thing to do," Sagan said. He said test bans wouldn't cover the actual use of a nuclear weapon against a perceived threat to the United States. In such circumstances, the president has sole authority to use nuclear weapons.
Hurricane experts have long maintained that detonating a nuclear device in a hurricane would have little effect on it, according to an FAQ page on the NOAA website. As the agency explains, the energy released by nuclear weapons pales in comparison to the energy released by a typical hurricane, which the NOAA describes as comparable to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding "every 20 minutes."
Even detonating multiple nuclear bombs inside a hurricane is unlikely to disrupt the storm, although the radioactive fallout released downwind could have catastrophic impacts for people and the environment.
5 Responses to "Introduced: Hurricane Nuking Ban"
 1. doldrom Says:
 I would favor the bill if they left out the part starting "with the goal …"
 Just ban employing nuclear bombs, which was te stated aim of the non-Proliferation Treaty.
 We were forewarned, because to my recollection, Trump was asking, before he was elected: What the point was of having nuclear weapons if you can't use them.
 - dumboldguy Says:
 After wading through "Look at Me" Chucky's usual inane and irrelevant comments, one finds some intelligent discussion of the topic by doldrom. Yep, banning use of nuclear weapons PERIOD would solve the problem, but we know that's not going to happen. Can we settle for just keeping the stable genius and his minions from uselessly firing one off against a hurricane?
 (And the list of stupid things done in the past with nuclear weapons or suggested by people who should have known better is pretty scary)
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How to Set Up Voicemail on a Cell Phone
If you have simply upgraded your cell phone but kept the same service provider, stop here: Your previous voicemail setup will carry over to your new wireless device. Otherwise, you'll have to establish a new voicemail account. Fortunately, this is easy to do.
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Methodically set up your voicemail by following the steps that your phone carrier outlines.
Verizon Wireless
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Dial "*86" on your device, and then press "Send" on your cell phone. You may also call your wireless number from another phone and press "#" when you hear a greeting.
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Follow the prompts to personalize your password, greeting and mailbox options.
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Dial "*86" and then "Send" from your wireless phone, or call your wireless number from another phone to check your greeting and listen to your messages. Press "#" when you hear your greeting, then enter your password followed by the "#" sign.
AT&T
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Press and hold "1" on your cell phone.
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Follow the prompts to create a password and record a personal greeting.
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Dial "1" from your cell phone to check your greeting or listen to messages. If you call your wireless number from another phone, press "*" to interrupt your greeting and then enter your password.
Sprint
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Press the envelope button on your cell phone until a "Connecting (your phone number)" message appears on your device's screen. You may also press and hold "1" while your wireless device is in standby or phone mode.
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Follow the prompts to select a password and record a greeting. Activate one-touch access, if desired, to access your voicemail without a password from within the Sprint network.
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Area Estimation and Design Analysis of Gaussian Pulse Shaping Filter
- Mr. Rajesh Mehra, Mrs. Ginne
- International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering ico_openaccess
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Gaussian pulse shaping filters plays an important role in digital communications due to its intersymbol interference free property. The pulse shaping filter is a useful means to shape the signal spectrum and avoid Interferences. In this paper a Gaussian filter has been presented for pulse shaping in wireless communication systems. The proposed filter has been designed and simulated using Matlab. The simulated results show that the designed Gaussian filter can be implemented using 11 number of multipliers and 10 number of adders by providing11 multiplications per input sample and 10 additions per input sample. Thus the designed filter provides cost effective solution for mobile and wireless communication systems.
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On sale! But does inexpensive mean cheap?
Posted By Amy Wolf-Vanderbilt On November 27, 2012 @ 10:32 am In Society & Culture | No Comments
VANDERBILT (US) — The holidays usher in the biggest shopping season of the year, but sellers need to beware: sale prices can mean different things to different consumers.
New research shows that consumers often make inferences to fill in gaps in knowledge when they don't have complete information regarding products. To some, price denotes quality. For others, a low price means a good value.
New research by Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management professor Steve Posavac and his co-authors finds that in some consumers' minds, price denotes quality. For others, low price leads a consumer to believe he or she is getting a good value.
"The bottom line of our research is that people can hold two opposing beliefs about a product. In the case of price, most people simultaneously believe that low prices mean good value and that low prices mean low quality. But these two beliefs are not equally present in consumers' minds all the time," says Steve Posavac, professor in marketing at Vanderbilt University.
Published in a forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research, the study finds that consumers use a series of theories when considering value and price. And how they size up a possible purchase depends on what's on their mind when they're thinking about a given product.
"Consumers rarely have complete information and use various strategies to fill the gaps in their knowledge as they consider and choose products. One of these strategies involves using naive theories: informal, common sense, explanations that consumers use to make sense of their environment," write Posavac and his co-authors Hélène Deval, Susan P. Mantel, and Frank R. Kardes.
For example, consumers may believe that popular products that are well advertised are high in quality while also believing that scarce or rarely heard of products are high in quality.
Price vs. quality
The researchers conducted eight experiments that tested marketing techniques that leaned toward price or quality. In one experiment, consumers were shown an ad for a bottle of wine with either a high or low price. When subtly reminded of quality, consumers evaluated the expensive wine more favorably than the cheap wine. However, when subtly reminded of value, they rated the cheap wine more favorably.
When marketing backfires
Sales promotions succeed when consumers perceive that they are getting a good deal, but they can also backfire if consumers perceive that lower prices indicate poor quality. Posavac uses department store J.C. Penney as an example.
"A company may implement an everyday low-pricing strategy that manages to reduce brand value and alienate consumers if many of them believe that low prices equal low quality. Over the years, J.C. Penney customers had become so used to sales that they no longer believed they were getting a good deal," says Posavac.
Because consumers use multiple "naïve theories" when analyzing a product, a company's subtle marketing tactics toward price or quality may attract one consumer while easily turning another consumer off.
"[Companies] design a strategy by assuming that a certain naive theory is going to drive consumer evaluation and choice when, in fact, several naive theories are available to the consumer," the authors conclude.
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FDA simulates the spread of AIDs with paper cups and acidic fluid
Wednesday, February 25, the East's Future Doctors of America Club (FDA) gathered in F084 for one of their last meetings of the 2008-09 school year.
Liz Kim ('09), current President of FDA, opened the meeting with a short discussion about the upcoming elections for next year's officer positions, which will be held on April 22.
The topic of today's meeting was the spreading epidemic, AIDS. The club planned an experiment called "A Ten Minute Epidemic," to further the members' understanding of the rapidly spreading epidemic. After signing in, the 27 club attendees listened to a brief history of AIDS. Then, each student received a paper cup with a number on the bottom filled with an acidic fluid. The students were to travel around the room and exchange fluids with five other students, each time recording the number of the cup fluid they obtained. After about fifteen minutes of simulated AIDS infecting, Kim walked around with an indicator base fluid, putting a drop into all of the students' cups. The fluids that turned pink were "infected" and the fluids remaining clear were clean. The club members were able to identify the cup origin of the virus just by recording who shared acid fluid with whom.
Kim said she tries to make the club fun, rather than just having members sit through lectures on medicine. Last November, FDA went to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia and learned about anatomy and human medical anomalies. The club also recently played medical Jeopardy to test the students' knowledge on different diseases and medical fields.
"We tried to change it up a little and it worked," said Kim.
The club offers both a social and an educational aspect.
"Each time we learn something new. [The club] introduces you to different medical fields," said Catherine Yu ('11).
Through countless bake sales, FDA has over $400 and plans to purchase t-shirts, which will be distributed to dedicated members who have attended over half of the meetings.
FDA's next meeting will be March 18, with a plastic surgeon guest speaker, a speaker Kim considers different from speakers FDA has featured in the past.


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Modularity in Art
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|Slavik Jablan, Mathematical Institute, Belgrade|
|Jablan uses the word "modularity" to refer to the process of making art by repeating a simple block, tile, or motif to make a more complicated design, by symmetry/reflection and/or tessellation. This site includes a paper on such art and its math, linked to illustrations from a wide range of sources: Paleolithic ornaments, Roman mazes and labyrinths, Kufic writing, Celtic key-patterns and modern Op-art works. The author includes pictures of his "SpaceTiles", "KnotTiles" and "OpTiles" with which you could create your own impossible objects, knotwork designs, and Op-art works.|
|Levels:||Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12), College|
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|Math Topics:||Symmetry/Tessellations, Topology, Art|
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The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel University School of Education.


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You have several alternatives for using your cell phone when travelling outside your country. If you are a postpaid client, you can pay the roaming rates of your home operator. If you have a prepaid SIM card, you cannot roam and must acquire a prepaid international sim card for usage in your destination country.
How does an international sim card work?
An international SIM card can be used on any cellular network.
Furthermore, it allows you to swap between your local phone number and the phone number of the country in which you are presently staying or visiting.
Why Should You Consider an International Prepaid SIM?
You may choose an international prepaid SIM card if you travel to various countries. These prepaid SIM cards allow you to roam on numerous operator networks inside and between countries. This is a crucial factor if you want to visit more than one country in Europe. It also provides peace of mind if you are in a region where one of the host networks does not have adequate coverage. After that, your phone will roam to another partner network.
Prepaid international SIM cards are comparatively easy to acquire before travelling and give the extra assurance of having phone service as soon as you reach your destination country. You'll also know your foreign prepaid SIM phone number before you fly, which you may share with friends, family, and coworkers. Finally, most international prepaid SIM cards have customer assistance in various languages, including English.
How to activate my Prepaid International SIM card?
Follow the procedures below to activate a Prepaid overseas SIM card:
1. Unlocking your phone
Make sure you unlock your phone before inserting your prepaid International SIM card. Unlocking implies that you should unlock your phone at the carrier level and be capable of detecting the prepaid International SIM.
Unlocking your phone needs a few simple procedures that your cellular network operator may do. The International SIM card will not be detected if your phone is not unlocked. They can only detect your existing domestic SIM in that case.
2. Check that the SIM card is registered.
The next thing you need to do before activating your prepaid international SIM card is to ensure your sim registration. You don't have to worry about registering most prepaid international SIM cards. You can directly call your service provider and ask them to register.
3. Turn off your phone
Make sure your phone is turned off before proceeding with the setup of your prepaid International SIM card. It is one of the most important measures that you should not overlook.
4. Insert your phone's prepaid International SIM card.
Simply put the prepaid international SIM card into your phone after turning it off. You can implement it in two different methods. Removing the phone's back cover and inserting the SIM card. This solution is intended for users with SIM card slots on the back of their phones.
The second approach simply entails removing the SIM tray by pushing it with a little needle. Each phone has a unique structure and place to install a sim card.
5. Configure the SIM's data
Now, you must activate a data plan on your mobile phone. To do so, navigate to your phone's settings, select wireless & networks, and then select mobile networks.
After selecting mobile networks, go to APN (Access Point Names) and enter the name of your cellular service provider.


2022 Day 20: Grove Positioning System
(edited after remembering another bad idea, whoops)
I had one very good idea, one good idea, and quite a few bad ideas, including one very bad idea that held me up a long time.
 - The very good idea was to use modular arithmetic, so as to minimize the motion: no point in shifting a number around the list however many times. As a result, the solution to both parts takes only less than two seconds (using full optimization and inlining).
 - The good idea I don't quite remember, sorry, but I had it in mind at one point. :grin:
 - One bad idea was to swap the value with the value at its final position, which completely forgets the shift. Fortunately, I caught that one quickly.
 - Another bad idea was to compute the net motion as the remainder of dividing by the list's length. When an entry moves around the list, it moves around one fewer than the list's length. Rather naughty of the example not to have a value that would illustrate that.
 - The very bad idea came while testing my code on the example. I forgot that the list is circular, and began tinkering with it so that each shift would end with the same starting value as what the website shows (which is almost always 1). Doing that complicates things, but if it's a circular list, all that matters is that the values are in the correct order. The score depends on counting from 0's position, and 0 is unique in the list, so it doesn't really matter which element is first. I wasted over an hour on that stupid mistake…
Yes, Modulo is key!
At first, I tried using regular arrays and use slicing to move the elements around. Somehow my solution was wrong - even though I'm not sure what I messed up. The test data worked fine.
Next, I tried using Vectors and delete the element from old position and insert before the new. This again produced the exact same wrong solution. The test data worked fine, again.
After a while, I gave up on linear storage, and implemented my own ring buffer using access types and simply removing the current element, moving the current position by the modulo amount, and inserting it again. Since the length of the buffer was 1 shorter after removing, the modulo worked perfectly. This produced a correct solution.
Solving part 2 was simply changing the value type to Long_Long_Integer and multiplying the list by the decryption key.
I didn't care about cleaning up the memory consumed by creating the buffer from part 1, but it's only 5000 elements anyways.
Timing is about 0.08s for part 1, and 1.25s for part 1 + 2.
This sounds a little similar to my journey, but with a different ending. I went with vectors rather than arrays, then switched to the library's doubly linked lists, which should have done the job, but didn't for some reason. That might have been back before I realized the input data has non-unique entries, so an implementation that works on the example can still fail on the input. Yet another way the example was naughty… So maybe that was your issue, too.
When I discovered that, I switched to using two vectors: one that held the values, and the other which held the positions they've moved to. After getting past my worst bad idea above, things worked out.
I don't think it was because of non-unique entries. I checked for duplicates in the data before starting to code. My element types have been records with values and a Boolean flag for my first tries. Later I replaced it with value plus input order, which was necessary for part 2, too.
The problem is reminiscent of the Crabs Cup puzzle (Day 23 in 2020).
I have used a doubly-linked list.
Banana skin: when the element to be moved is temporarily removed, the list has one element less (of course). But it means you skip complete cycles by doing mod (n-1), not mod n (where n is the data length).
Yuck, this one was a slog. I did end up just using an array and doing things less efficiently than it could have been, just to make it easier for me to reason about (removing the moved thing from the list first, then reinserting, shifting with array copying both times. Even with the really inefficient implementation, though, it still runs in less than half a second.
He does tend to reuse the basic ideas in a lot of problems, but I thought this one seemed especially familiar somehow, and maybe that's it. At some point I also went through the 2019 puzzles, and I feel as if there was one from those that's similar to this, too, but what I recall most distinctly was how that was the year of IntCode. As the calendar progressed, on every other day you added more features to a virtual machine that ran an "Intcode" instruction set. The coup de grace was that the Christmas puzzle required you to solve a text-based adventure game that ran on your Intcode computer. It was wonderful.
I was too busy / worn out last year to do the 2021 puzzle, but I do think of going back and doing some of the years I've missed. It's just that they're still pretty exhausting after the fact, too… :grin:
I will have to go back and see if I can re-implement my method as a doubly-linked list, because copying values is doutbless inefficient.
I finally managed to make doubly-linked lists work! Somewhat surprisingly, it gives a speedup of only about 30-40% over using arrays.


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The quench detection and protection system is a critical element in superconducting magnets. After a short summary of the quench detection and protection issues in HTS magnets, an original detection system is presented. The main feature of this system is an active protection of the detection electronics during the discharges, making it possible to use standard electronics even if the discharge voltage is very high. The design of the detection system is therefore easier and it can be made very sensitive. An implementation example is presented for a twin coil HTS SMES prototype, showing the improvements when compared to classical detection systems during operation.
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Two worn Civil War flags set to be saved
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Cliff Eckle, a curator at the Ohio Historical Society, prepares two Civil War flags to be restored as a result of donated funds. The top flag is an 1863 flank marker for the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry; the other is the regimental colors of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
Two more flags that flew as Ohioans fought and died during the Civil War are being repaired and restored to their former glory thanks to private donations.
Although flags from the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry and the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry will be saved, hundreds of others are falling to pieces at the Ohio Historical Society because of lack of funds to preserve them. Nearly 150 years later, the smell of gunpowder still clings to some.
The small "flank" flag from the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry, the first black troops to be organized in Ohio, and the regimental colors of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, a unit from Cincinnati that participated in many major battles, were carefully packed away Monday at a Historical Society warehouse.
They will make a short trip to Textile Preservation Associates of Ransom, W.Va. There they will undergo a delicate restoration process: They will be bathed in distilled water, dried and encapsulated between layers of a see-through fabric. The edges will be carefully sewn closed, and the flags then will be ready for mounting and display.
Preserving a historical pennant is not cheap: $11,496 for these two small flags, from donations from the Gordon Chandler Memorial Fund of the Columbus Foundation and Ohio Society Children of the American Revolution. The price tag for a full-size flag can be $20,000 or more.
This effort will bring the total number of flags preserved to 19, but more than 500 remain - most from the Civil War. Some are too far gone to save.
Officials at the Historical Society said restoring flags is important because they are "an integral part of Ohio and American history" that came to "represent family, home and community" because soldiers were often recruited from the same geographic area.
Flags were displayed in the Statehouse Rotunda until the mid-1960s when officials recognized that they were deteriorating. They were moved to the Historical Society and eventually removed from display.
The website Fight for the Colors, describing the state's battle flag collection is at _URL_
Those who wish to contribute to the preservation fund can visit _URL_


Counterproliferation Program Review Committee
CPRC Annual Report To Congress 1997
Summary of Key DoD Activities and Programs Strongly Related to Counterproliferation
Introduction. In the tables that follow, the Counterproliferation Support Program (Table C. 1) and the Chemical and Biological Defense Program (Table C. 2) are summarized along with other key Service (Tables C. 3 - C. 5), DoD Agency (Tables C. 6 - C. 8 and C. 10 - C. 12), OSD (Table C. 9), and Joint Staff (Table C. 13) activities and programs strongly related to counterproliferation. The summaries include: program/ project title, program description, program accomplishments, key program milestones, relevant DoD counterproliferation ACE priorities, program/ project executing agencies, FY 1998 budget figures, and Program Element (PE) number.
It should be noted that detailed program descriptions, including project accomplishments, milestones, and plans are provided to Congress annually as part of the President's Budget. Accomplishments and milestones cited in the following tables represent selected highlights rather than an exhaustive characterization of counterproliferationrelated activities and programs.
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Boosting artificial nicotinamide cofactor systems†
Developing inexpensive nicotinamide cofactor biomimetics to replace the expensive NAD(P)/H cofactors is an ongoing research activity. Here we present mutational studies on a thermostable glucose dehydrogenase from Saccharolobus solfataricus (SsGDH) using a novel set of synthetic cofactors. Furthermore, we show the successful oxidation of a variety of different sugars in the context of cofactor regeneration. This combined approach resulted in an 160-fold improved system compared to the native enzyme with the standard biomimetic BNA+. These findings pave the way towards competitive industrial utilization of artificial cofactor regeneration systems.


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SWE-219 - Used first in NPR 7150.2D
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3.7.4 If a project has safety-critical software, the project manager shall ensure that there is 100 percent code test coverage using the Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC) criterion for all identified safety-critical software components.


IRS Rules: Restructuring in Today's Regulatory Climate
Some nonprofits have been forced to restructure their organizations due to the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, IRS rule changes from a couple of years ago make the restructuring process far easier than it once was. If you're considering such a change, here's what you need to know.
How have the rules changed?
Under previous IRS rules, a tax-exempt organization was required to file a new exemption application when it made certain changes to its structure. Each of these circumstances was seen as creating a new legal entity that must file an exemption application. An unincorporated association that incorporated was generally considered a new legal entity required to file an application, as well.
To apply for new exempt status, a restructuring organization would need to file a final Form 990 under its initial Employer Identification Number (EIN), obtain a new EIN and apply for exemption for the new entity. In addition to being a time-consuming and often expensive process, the new organization risked failing to receive the desired tax-exempt status. This also required changing the EIN on all bank and investment accounts, which is part of the administrative burden of a restructuring.
Then change arrived under IRS Revenue Procedure 2018-15. Restructuring nonprofits are now only required to report significant organizational changes on their Forms 990. However, the restructuring must satisfy certain conditions.
What are the requirements?
To avoid the application process, the original organization must be 1) a U.S. corporation or an unincorporated association, and 2) tax exempt as a 501(c) organization. It also must be in good standing in the jurisdiction where it was incorporated or, in the case of an unincorporated association, formed.
The reorganization must involve one of the following:
 - Changing from an unincorporated association to a corporation,
 - Reincorporating a corporation under the laws of another state after dissolving in the original state,
 - Filing articles of domestication to transfer a corporation to a new state without dissolving in the original state, or
 - Merging a corporation with or into another corporation.
The resulting, or "surviving," organization must carry out the same exempt purpose that the original organization had. If it's a 501(c)(3) organization, the new articles of incorporation must continue to satisfy the IRS's organizational test for such nonprofits. The test requires that the nonprofit's organizing documents (for example, its articles of incorporation) limit its purposes and use of its assets to exempt purposes.
Any exceptions or caveats?
The new rules don't apply if the surviving organization is a "disregarded entity" (an entity the IRS doesn't consider to be separate from its owner for tax purposes), limited liability company (LLC), partnership or foreign business entity. They also don't cover the incorporation of exempt trusts, or mergers of organizations into LLCs. Nor do the new rules include reorganizations in which the surviving organization obtains a new EIN. Surviving organizations that aren't covered by the new rules must submit a new exemption application to be recognized as exempt.
Covered surviving organizations don't escape without any reporting obligations, of course. The IRS still requires survivors to report the restructuring on any required Form 990 for the applicable tax year. In the case of a domestication or reincorporation in a different state, the surviving organization also must report its change of address on Forms 8822-B and 990.
Note, too, that the surviving organization will need to reapply for exemption if there's been a material change to the exempt purpose or type of exemption from the original organization. An example would be switching from providing outreach services to having an advocacy mission.
The new rules apply only to federal income tax exemptions. Your state's laws could require you to file a new exemption application.
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If you're considering restructuring, reach out to us. We can guide you through the process and help position your organization for future success.


Query: NC_010682:701912 Ralstonia pickettii 12J chromosome 1, complete sequence
General Information: Ralstonia pickettii 12J was isolated from copper-contaminated sediment from a lake in Michigan, USA. In addition to being highly resistant to copper, strain 12J is also resistant to zinc and cadmium. Ralstonia pickettii can be isolated from a wide range of environmental and clinical samples. This species is a nocosomial pathogen. It is associated with infections caused by contaminated solutions, such as distilled water and intravenous solutions. Ralstonia pickettii strains resistant to heavy metals have also been isolated from heavy metal contaminated environments.
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Subject: NC_013757:_PHONE_ Geodermatophilus obscurus DSM 43160, complete genome


text: Photoluminescence (PL) steady-state spectra of p-ZnGeP2 (ZGP) single crystals grown by high- and low-temperature directed crystallization have been investigated. It is determined that the long-wavelength component PL with a maximum in the interval 1.2–1.5 eV for different crystals quenched in the temperature range 77–300 K. The long-wavelength component PL are due to donor-acceptor pair transitions. At room temperature the short-wavelength PL with a maximum near 1.85 eV becomes the determining component. The nature of this band discussed. The use of low-temperature directed crystallization reduces the concentration of lattice defects in ZGP single crystals and opens up the new possibilities for increasing the conversion efficiencies of nonlinear devices.