Atmospheric gravity waves between Indonesia and Australia
Atmospheric gravity waves between Indonesia and Australia
 - Credit:
 Jeff Schmaltz
When the Sun reflects off the surface of the ocean at the same angle that a satellite sensor is viewing the surface, a phenomenon called sunglint occurs. In the affected area of the image, smooth ocean water becomes a silvery mirror, while rougher surface waters appear dark. Sometimes the sunglint region of satellite images reveals interesting ocean or atmospheric features that the sensor does not typically record. This image shows a large, overlapping wave pattern in the sunglint region of an image of Indonesia (the islands at the top of the image) and Australia (the landmass in the bottom of the image). The wave pattern seen in the image is not from large ocean waves, however. The pattern is the "impression" of atmospheric gravity waves on the surface of the ocean. As the name implies, atmospheric gravity waves form when buoyancy pushes air up, and gravity pulls it back down. On its descent into the low-point of the wave (the trough), the air touches the surface of the ocean, roughening the water. The long, vertical dark lines show where the troughs of gravity waves have roughened the surface. The brighter regions show the crests of the atmospheric waves. Beneath the crests, the water is calm and reflects light directly back towards the sensor. Clouds commonly form at the crests of the waves, and such clouds are visible throughout this scene.
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 November 23, 2005
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 January 5, 2005
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A Real Gem
Vehicles that skim over rough seas and
rugged terrain on a cushion of air are called hovercraft, hydroskimmers
or ground-effects machines (GEM). You can build a model that will
show how these almost friction-free air supported vehicles work.
- A metal pie pan with a smooth bottom
- A spool
- A balloon
- Turn the pan over and punch a small hole in the center.
- Glue the spool to the
inside of the pan, centering it over the hole.
- Stretch the neck
of the balloon well down over the spool.
- Inflate the balloon by
blowing through the hole in the bottom of the pan.

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Rendering Views and Updating them with Ajax
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I wanted to implement a widget that could refresh itself through Ajax without refreshing the whole page. CGridView and CListView are excellent examples of such widgets.
I spent some time trying to understand how a controller renders it's view(s) and then looked at the actionAdmin and actionIndex actions of an app generated by gii. The views generated by these actions contain CGridView and CListView widgets respectively.
My case study was a simple Dashboard application, where I have two view – left and right in the same page (layout file). The sequence diagram outlines how these two pieces are rendered and how they're merged with the layout file to generate a page the user will see. I came up with the sequence diagram below.
If the pieces appear unfamiliar to you, you might want to read – Rendering View Files in Yii here (if this link get's deleted, google the title).
Sequence Diagram
It might be worth mentioning that, the default implementation of the aforementioned widgets, requests the "owning" controller (the one that created the widget) to render it's entire view again through an Ajax request. When a response arrives, the html response (page) is parsed using jQuery and the section (div) that the widget is interested in is extracted. The widget's contents are then replaced with the extracted (partial contents) one.
In a typical application's controller, where one might be displaying several models/views, it might make sense to write a controller that returns just the partially rendered view without any layout applied. This should cut down some time for you depending on how complex your views/models are. This approach, if thought out carefully should also maximize code sharing.
If I have provided inaccurate information, please feel free to comment and let me know.


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Nationwide 3D Dataset for noise simulations available
For the calculation of noise levels produced by road and rail traffic and industry, a noise expert uses a 3D model of the environment. This 3D model contains information about the height of the terrain, buildings and sound-reflection/absorption properties of the soil. It can be a cumbersome process to create this 3D model. Since last year, noise experts in the Netherlands can use an automatically generated country-wide 3D dataset for noise simulation that was co-developed by the 3D Geoinformation research group, Department Urbanism.
This 3D dataset has recently been renewed. All buildings in the Netherlands that have been built, rebuilt or demolished until January 1st, 2021, have been incorporated in the new dataset and other information has also been updated. In addition, improvements have been made. The dataset is available through the governmental open geodata portal: PDOK (Publieke Dienstverlening Op de Kaart), in a format that allows noise experts to use it directly in noise simulations.
The technique behind the 3D model for simulation has been developed by the 3D Geoinformation research group, Urbanism Department led by Prof. Jantien Stoter in cooperation with RIVM and Kadaster commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. This research group also developed the technique behind the 3D BAG dataset (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) containing 3D models of all 10 million buildings in the Netherlands.
Interested in the 3D noise dataset at PDOK? Go to the project page of the Kadaster/PDOK.

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Afar in a Sentence 🔊
Definition of Afar
in a distant area
Examples of Afar in a sentence
Everyone could tell that the stranger came from afar due to his unknown accent. 🔊
When the weather forecaster told about the violent storm approaching the coast, no one at my house was scared since the coast was afar. 🔊
Sarah had never encountered Asian culture because that land was located afar. 🔊
Deployment for the soldiers meant that they would be travelling afar to unfamiliar lands. 🔊
In order to be safe, the witness would have to move afar according to the Witness Relocation Program. 🔊
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Hematology and Serum Biochemistry of Broiler Chicks Fed Soybean (Glycine Max) Subjected to Varying Toasting Times
Hematology and serum biochemical responses of broiler chicks to soybean subjected to varying toasting periods were assessed using ninety 4-week old broilers. In the 28-days trial, broilers were assigned to soybean subjected to five toasting times of 0 minutes as control, 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes as treatment 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively and incorporated into the treatment diets. Each treatment was replicated 3 times in a completely randomized design. Feed and water were served ad libitum to the birds. Results showed that most hematological and serum biochemical parameters differed significantly (p<0.05) between birds in various treatments. However, no trend was observed in most of the results. Packed cell volume of the birds on T1, T2, T3, and T4, which were 25.33, 26.67, 25.00 and 27.33% respectively were below the normal range of 30-40% except those of T5, which had 30.67%. A similar trend was observed for Hb values of the birds. The serum biochemical parameters also varied (p<0.05) between treatments. Cholesterol level reduced with increasing toasting time of the soybean. It is hereby recommended that 15 minutes-toasting time of dietary soybean at 500C is optimal broilers.
Keywords: Broilers, Soybean, toasting time, hematology, serum chemistry


Bypass MFA
How to bypass MFA for users when they are within the corporate network or on a managed device.
MFA is optional but strongly recommended for organizations. Under certain conditions, organizations may choose to bypass the default multi-factor authentication behavior. Akamai provides customers with configuration options that allows an administrator to bypass its MFA capabilities in the following circumstances:
Use bypass MFA only if you understand the risks and agree to assume responsibility for them.
Bypass MFA only applies to MFA factors like SMS, Email, TOTP, DUO and does not apply to certificate-based authentication of IdP. Bypass MFA cannot be used with PCI DSS MFA.
The workflow is:
STEP 1: If you've configured an MFA policy in Akamai identity provider (IdP), then also add one or multiple bypass MFA criteria in the IdP. By default, the bypass MFA criteria will apply to all applications using this IdP.
STEP 2: Use the identity provider as the authentication source for the application you want to bypass MFA. Assign the directory the user belongs to this identity provider.
STEP 3: When the user accesses the application or the identity provider, and the bypass criteria is met, MFA is not prompted for the user. If any of the bypass MFA criteria is not met, the user is prompted for MFA.


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This is an expected behavior as you apply the Quality of Service (QoS) on the physical interfaces that make up the EtherChannel. Since the commands get applied line-by-line, the port channel sees the ports mismatched at different instances of time, which causes it to unbundle the ports.
Once an EtherChannel is configured, it is recommended that you apply commands to the logical port-channel interface and these get propagated to the individual ports.
In other words, when you configure QoS on a port that is part of an EtherChannel on CatOS, you must always configure it on a per-port basis. Also, you must ensure that you apply the same QoS configuration to all ports, because the EtherChannel can only bundle ports with the same QoS configurations. This means that you need to configure these parameters the same:
Port trust type
Receive port type (2q2t or 1p2q2t)
Transmit port type (1q4t or 1p1q4t)
Default port class of service (CoS)
Port-based QoS or VLAN-based QoS
Access control list (ACL) or protocol pair that the port carries


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I have a point shapefile with thousand of points. It has an ID code field that supposed to be unique. Every now and then the data entry clerk wrongly type the id creating duplicates.Right now I'm manually scrolling the field to find the duplicate.Is there a sane way to do this using the Search Query Builder? Thanks for any help.
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If you need to enforce uniqueness I would recommend using a database e.g. Postgres/PostGIS, Spatailite – Nathan W Jun 20 '12 at 10:26
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If the IDs are consecutive, I would add a new temporary column with unique values like _USER_.shp suggested and then use the query builder to search for ID!= uniqueID.
That would return the duplicates directly. After fixing the original IDs, remove the extra column or repeat the whole process as needed — it is not clear what kind of pattern your IDs must match. If they just need to be unique, note the last value first and you can then edit the bad IDs in one iteration, just bumping the number as you go.
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Use Group Stats plugin and set the ID as a field classification. You can see how many times each value has been entered in 'count' column.
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A quick (although inelegant) way to do this is to go into Layer properties, select Style - Categorized using the column that you're interested in. Apply this, then right click on the layer in the layers window and check the Show Feature Count checkbox. Then expand the layer in the layers window and you can immediately see how many times each value has been entered.
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Also you can use the split by attribute and end up with a seperate table for each value.
I like Rayo's suggestion though. except statist doesn't quite work like I thought it did.
It does give a count of unique values but doesn't help with what those values are.
Another software might add a count field and allow you to export it to csv or other spreadsheet format.
My suggestion for the split layer by attribute is in the vector management tools
management too
split your data on any 1 field an dyou will have your counts.
way more inelegant than ship.ship's solution
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Please consider upvoting the answers you like! – whuber Jun 20 '12 at 18:58
self upvote is not allowed! – Brad Nesom Nov 20 '12 at 16:35
Yeah I banged my head against the wall for similar problem.
Here is my script for removing features with same ID's. It takes first feature with more than one index attribute and writes it to new feature class.
_TAG_ of inputs and outputs
# Written by: Gregor Skrt
##[Example scripts]=group
##unique_field=field input
##output=output vector
_TAG_ body
from qgis.core import *
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from processing.core.VectorWriter import VectorWriter
# "input" contains the location of the selected layer.
# We get the actual object, so we can get its bounds
layer = processing.getobject(input)
provider = layer.dataProvider()
fields = provider.fields()
writer = VectorWriter(output, None, fields, provider.geometryType(), layer.crs() )
inFeat = QgsFeature()
outFeat = QgsFeature()
inGeom = QgsGeometry()
nElement = 0
values = {}
value_field_index = layer.fieldNameIndex(unique_field)
feats = processing.getfeatures(layer)
nFeat = len(feats)
for inFeat in feats:
 progress.setPercentage(int((100 * nElement)/nFeat))
 nElement += 1
 inGeom = inFeat.geometry()
 attrs = inFeat.attributes()
 value = attrs[value_field_index]
 if value not in values:
 _TAG_ ne vem ce bo drzalo???
del writer
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on the database engine. (Note: Resource Gov is NOT needed to process trace events, only the trace event that is used by RG to limit REQUEST_MAX_CPU_TIME_SEC.)
Q: If we now have a FRAMEWORK to process alerts, what other "events" can be added to our pool of interesting alerts?
A: Anything that can be monitored in SQL Profiler (or SQL TRACE) can be monitored and alerted on using EVENT NOTIFICATIONS. For the CPU Usage alert we only needed RESOURCE GOVERNOR to set the max threshold. Otherwise, it isn't really needed for this framework to function. [I believe DDL triggers can also be processed with this framework but I have not tested any.] Adding any event that is available from sys.trace_events requires two simple steps:
1. Create a new notification. Such as…
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2. Add a block of code to the Service Broker "Service" dbo.dba_processEventNotifications. This custom "service":
 - Pops the trace events off of the SB queue.
 - Reads the XML out of the SB message.
 - Formats the email SUBJECT and BODY content and sends out the DB Mail message that contains the alert information.
Basically, the following block of code would need to be added. The @message section would need to be tweaked to pull out the relevant attributes from the XML message. For example, CPU would not be relevant to an alert triggered by a database file autogrowth, but the database file name would be of interest.
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Mirrors And Reflections
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 I've been trying to implement a mirror system in my OpenGL engine, but I'm having trouble. I don't want to just use the negative (scaled) of the scene and redraw it, because I want to have arbitrarily oriented mirrors. How can this be done?
 Actually, it is quite simple. You need a few things to get started. First, you'll need some construction paper, a pencil, a piece of string, and a small rodent.
Next, determine the point at which your camera's vector intersects the mirror's plane (this point may not be within the mirror polygon) - a ray/plane intersection will do the trick (we'll call this point B).
Now you'll need to reflect the camera's location across the mirror's plane. To do this, you'll need your ray/plane intersection code again. Start off by inverting the plane's normal and use that as the vector for the ray. The origin for the ray is the camera's location. This will create a ray that points directly at the plane from the camera. Find the intersection of this ray with the mirror's plane. This is the closest point to the camera on the mirror's plane. From this, we create a vector from the camera's location to the resulting intersection point. This vector represents the same vector that was used in the last ray/plane intersection, but this time its length is the closest distance to the plane from the camera. Now double the length of the vector. If you add this vector to your camera's location, you'll have the camera's location reflected across the mirror's plane (this is point A.) Subtracting B from A, you get the vector V.
Your new camera will be centered on point A, using the "look-at vector" of V. To render the reflected scene through the mirror, you'll need to clip everything to the mirror's polygon and to the mirror's plane (i.e. not rendering anything behind the mirror.) When rendering, you'll also need to render the scene backwards (left-right) to account for the reflection of the mirror.
Finally, poke the pencil through the construction paper, throw the string away, and get that rodent out of the microwave!
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Scatterplot legend and fill not working in Octave
The following works for me:
n = 100;
x = randn(n, 1);
y = randn(n, 1);
S = rand(n, 1)*20;
hold on
scatter(x(1:50), y(1:50), S(1:50), "red", "filled")
scatter(x(51:100), y(51:100), S(51:100), "green", "filled")
hold off
print('-depsc', 'bubbleplot.eps');
However, I'm not able to add a legend, and I didn't find any bug report or indication of a missing functionality for this. So, as an alternative, I would suggest adding marker and text to your plot.
How to get the size of tar.gz in (MB) file in python
According to Python on-line docs, you should look at the size attributes of a TarInfo object.
Getting dataset for building association rules with Weka
Apart from the example dataset used in the following class, Association Rule Mining with WEKA, you might want to try the market-basket dataset.
Also, please note that several datasets are listed on Weka website, in the Datasets section, some of them coming from the UCI repository (e.g., the Plants Data Set).
R Using a for() loop to fill one dataframe with another
Not sure I fully understood your question, but you can try this:
df1 <- data.frame(col1=letters[1:26], col2=sample(1:100, 26))
df2 <- with(df1, expand.grid(col1=col1, col2=col1))
df2$col3 <- df1$col2
The last command use recycling (it could be writtent as rep(df1$col2, 26) as well).
The results are shown below:
> head(df1, n=3)
 col1 col2
1 a 68
2 b 73
3 c 45
> tail(df1, n=3)
 col1 col2
24 x 22
25 y 4
26 z 17
> head(df2, n=3)
 col1 col2 col3
1 a a 68
2 b a 73
3 c a 45
> tail(df2, n=3)
 col1 col2 col3
674 x z 22
675 y z 4
676 z z 17
Regarding the approach of displaying a classification/decision tree from the command line?
I'm not sure if you are looking for something very elaborated, but basically decision trees are printed when you use weka.classifiers.trees. There is an illustration with Random Tree in a response of mine , but here is what you would get using the J48 algorithm on the iris dataset:
~/weka/data$ weka weka.classifiers.trees.J48 -t iris.arff -i
J48 pruned tree
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petalwidth <= 0.6: Iris-setosa (50.0)
petalwidth > 0.6
| petalwidth <= 1.7
| | petallength <= 4.9: Iris-versicolor (48.0/1.0)
| | petallength > 4.9
| | | petalwidth <= 1.5: Iris-virginica (3.0)
| | | petalwidth > 1.5: Iris-versicolor (3.0/1.0)
| petalwidth > 1.7: Iris-virginica (46.0/1.0)
Number of Leaves : 5
Size of the tree : 9
Time taken to build model: 0.08 seconds
Time taken to test model on training data: 0.01 seconds
Trying to Install RVM 1.8.7
If you don't have rvm on your system, then follow the instructions here: Installing RVM. Basically, you have to download a shell script that will does the job for you (fetch the latest release and install it). Then, just add
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
in your .profile, .bash_profile, or whatever you use.
SQL window function in R Language
You can use aggregate and merge if you are familiar with SQL syntax. Taking one of the example from the PostgreSQL manual, we would use
empsalary <- data.frame(depname=rep(c("develop", "personnel", "sales"), c(5, 2, 3)),
 empno=c(11, 7, 9, 8, 10, 5, 2, 3, 1, 4),
 salary=c(5200, 4200, 4500, 6000, 5200, 3500, 3900, 4800, 5000, 4800))
merge(empsalary, aggregate(salary ~ depname, empsalary, mean), by="depname")
to reproduce the first example (compute average salary by depname).
 depname empno salary.x salary.y
1 develop 11 5200 5020.000
2 develop 7 4200 5020.000
3 develop 9 4500 5020.000
4 develop 8 6000 5020.000
5 develop 10 5200 5020.000
6 personnel 5 3500 3700.000
7 personnel 2 3900 3700.000
8 sales 3 4800 4866.667
9 sales 1 5000 4866.667
10 sales 4 4800 4866.667
You may probably want to look at what plyr has to offer for more elaborated construction.
p-value matrix of x and y variables from anova output
Here is one solution, which consists in generating all combinations of Y- and X-variables to test (we cannot use combn) and run a linear model in each case:
dfrm <- data.frame(y=gl(ncol(yvars), ncol(xvars), labels=names(yvars)),
 x=gl(ncol(xvars), 1, labels=names(xvars)), pval=NA)
## little helper function to create formula on the fly
fm <- function(x) as.formula(paste(unlist(x), collapse="~"))
## merge both datasets
full.df <- cbind.data.frame(yvars, xvars)
## apply our LM row-wise
dfrm$pval <- apply(dfrm[,1:2], 1,
 function(x) anova(lm(fm(x), full.df))$'Pr(>F)'[1])
## arrange everything in a rectangular matrix of p-values
res <- matrix(dfrm$pval, nc=3, dimnames=list(levels(dfrm$x), levels(dfrm$y)))
Sidenote: With high-dimensional datasets, relying on the QR decomposition to compute the p-value of a linear regression is time-consuming. It is easier to compute the matrix of Pearson linear correlation for each pairwise comparisons, and transform the r statistic into a Fisher-Snedecor F using the relation F = νa r2/(1-r2), where degrees of freedom are defined as νa=(n-2)-#{(xi=NA),(yi=NA)} (that is, (n-2) minus the number of pairwise missing values–if there're no missing values, this formula is the usual coefficient R2 in regression).
R multiple file "split and plot"
Assuming you already have your data frame set up correctly, how about using aggregate (or ddply from the plyr package)? Here is a toy example with one such data frame (you will need to embed this in your loop or write a custom function).
L01_001 <- data.frame(Cases=gl(5, 2, 5*2*2, labels=c("AAA","BBB","CCC","DDD","EEE")),
 replicate(3, rnorm(5*2*2)))
mean.by.case <- with(L01_001, aggregate(L01_001[,-1], list(Cases=Cases), mean))
## opar <- par(mfrow=c(nlevels(L01_001$Cases), 1))
## apply(mean.by.case[,-1], 1, function(x) barplot(x))
## par(opar)
library(lattice)
barchart(~ X1 + X2 + X3 | Cases, mean.by.case)
I would not recommend using bar charts for visualizing your


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For Primary 5 – Primary 7 Pupils
The local to Highland Neil Gunn Writing Competition is extending its submission date for P5-P7 children across Highland until the end of term (April 5th) to provide schools with the time to get their submissions in. This is a great opportunity for children to create a piece of writing for a competition which celebrates the life of the Scottish writer Neil Gunn.
The theme for P5 – P7 is a quote from Neil Gunn's writing:
"He was wakened by a loud knocking at the door." (The Well at the World's End)
Children in P5-P7 can write a piece which is inspired by this quote, presented in either poetry or prose.

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Vischer Ferry in Saratoga County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Hamlet of Vischer Ferry
The ferry established here by Eldert Vischer in the late 18th century encouraged the growth of a settlement. Early settler Benjamin Mix began keeping a tavern by 1788 and a store by 1791. The tavern, built on the site of the present day firehouse, was replaced by a larger inn or hotel in 1797. This structure burned in 1947.
In 1802 residents built a church and gave the name Amity (meaning Friendship) to the growing hamlet. Amity grew and prospered and in 1832 a post office was established. The name of the post office, however, was Vischer's Ferry, not Amity. The post office dropped the ['s] in 1893, making it Vischer Ferry, and in 1934 the post office closed. The church has remained the Amity Reformed Church.
The Erie Canal was constructed through Vischer Ferry in 1822, by local labor. The opening of the canal between Albany and Buffalo in 1825 supported rapid growth of the communities along its path. Two dry docks, located within yards of this kiosk, employed carpenters building and repairing canal boats. These boatmen built many of the mid-19th century Greek Revival houses that line the streets of the hamlet.
Vischer Ferry became a National Historic District when it was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
[Top Right:] The first Amity Reformed Church _PHONE_
[Bottom Left:] Erie Canal at Vischer Ferry, c. 1890. The bridge abutments to this canal bridge are here next to this kiosk. Remains of an Erie Canal dry dock are north of the canal bridge abutments along Ferry Drive.
[Bottom Middle:} The Vischer Ferry Hotel (_PHONE_) as it appeared c. 1930
[Bottom Right:] Picnickers on the bridge over the Sluice way to the Vischer Mill, Vischer Ferry, July 4, 1891
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels. In addition, it is included in the Erie Canal series list. A significant historical date for this entry is July 4, 1891.
Location. 42° 47.662′ N, 73° 49.876′ W. Marker is in Vischer Ferry, New York, in Saratoga County. Marker is on Ferry Drive 0.1 miles south of Riverview Road when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Rexford NY 12148, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The Vischer Ferry Bridge (here, next to this marker); Ferry (here, next to this marker); The Vischer Family (here, next to this marker); Vischer Ferry Historic District (approx. 0.2 miles away); Amity Reformed Church (approx. 0.3 miles away); The Ferry Road Bridge & Its Surroundings… A Brief History (approx. half a mile away); Vischer Ferry (approx. 0.6 miles away); Lock 19 (approx. 0.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Vischer Ferry.
Credits. This page was last revised on April 26, 2021. It was originally submitted on April 21, 2021, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York. This page has been viewed 35 times since then. Last updated on April 24, 2021, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York. Photo 1. submitted on April 21, 2021, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.


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William Davis is a famous for the simplicity, clarity and sincerity of his poems. 'Leisure' is a simple but forceful poem in which he advises us not to fall a prey to hurry and haste. He feels sorry at the miserable plight of the modern man.
The poet says that modern man has become the slave of Time. He remains busy in gathering wealth and making progress from morning till late at night. He has no time to rest. He can not enjoy himself of the beauties of nature.
The tragedy of modern man does not end here. He has a lot many things to worry about. He lives under constant stress and strain. We have become machines by reaming in the company of machines.
We are unable to spare some moments of leisure to refresh our minds by standing among the hills and trees. In the poet's opinion, our slavery to Time is the greatest curse of the modern age. He also advises us how to make use of our leisure. (172 words)
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Transportation of building materials in Ukraine
Specificity of transportation of building material
The construction of any object is a difficult and interesting task. In its implementation, various types of building materials are used: gravel, boards, pipes, metal structures, soil, lime, cement, sand, farms, etc. Each kind of building material has its own specifics of transportation, and should be delivered as quickly as possible and without damage to the object.
Often, for transportation of building material, these types of transport:
 1. Dumpers
 2. Rolling stock, mainly for oversized transport, namely, metal structures, beams, trusses, etc.
 3. Cement carriers
Cargo transportation of cement is one of the most extensive works in the transportation of building materials. At the same time, it is necessary to understand the specifics of the transportation of such expensive construction material, which, if not correctly transported, can lose part of the cargo due to spraying. It is also necessary to take into account the detrimental effect of moisture on cement, any interaction with water should be excluded. When transporting cement dust, it can also adversely affect the health of the driver, so you need to ensure the integrity and insulation of the packaging. Implementation of cement loading is carried out with the help of vacuum in the center of the cement carrier or bunker. Unloading is performed using a pneumatic method and a screw.
Transportation of construction cargo in bulk is performed using a dumper. It is carried out by forklift, belt conveyors, excavator. This kind of cargo transportation is used during excavation operations, as well as stripping works.
It has an interesting specificity of transporting liquid concrete. First, the transportation of concrete is limited in terms of time, because concrete has the property to harden because of the breakdown into component parts. In winter, it can freeze, so care must be taken to maintain certain climatic conditions of the container. An obligatory condition is the sealing of the body, containers, in order not to lose part of the material during loading. A transport agent for transportation is a concrete carrier with a stirrer drum.
Brick and its derivatives, transported on pallets or in a container way.
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The Impact of Information Technologies on Political Participation: Tendencies of Internet Penetration and Activeness of Voters in Lithuania
Keywords:political participation, internet penetration, activeness of voters, development of information communication technologies, election
AbstractActive political participation in the process of democratic governance provides citizens an opportunity to influence elections and control politician's work. The aim of this article was to identify the impact of internet on political participation of voters in Lithuania. The tendencies of internet penetration and activeness of voters were analysed. Furthermore causal relations between political participation in 2007-2012 elections and factors of internet penetration (hosehold with internet access and individuals, who used internet daily or at least once per week) were analyzed in this article. According to this study relation between activeness of voters in 2007-2012 election and factors of internet penetration was found. After division of election according their types, the relation was observed only in the election of Parliament. It is noted, that further internet penetration and more active application of electronic democracy forms will give bigger opportunities to participate in policy for electors who have the internet.


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Psychohistorical views on infanticide (in psychohistorical jargon "early infanticidal childrearing") is a model used in the study of psychohistory to refer to the occurrence of infanticide in paleolithic,[1][2] pre-historical, or historical hunter-gatherer tribes or societies (although infanticide still occurs in the advanced nations). "Early" means early in history or in the cultural development of a society, not to the age of the child. "Infanticidal" refers to the high incidence of infants killed if compared to modern nations.[3] The model was developed by Lloyd deMause within the framework of psychohistory as part of a seven-stage sequence of childrearing modes which describe the development of human cultures in their attitude to their children.[4] The word "early" is also meant to distinguish it from late infanticidal childrearing, identified by deMause in the more established, agricultural cultures up to the ancient world.
The model
This particular model is a psychological concept that aims to understand anthropological data, especially from such societies as the Yolngu of Australia, the Gimi, Wogeo, Sambia (tribe), Bena Bena, and Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea, the Raum, the Ok and the Kwanga, based on observations by Geza Roheim,[5] Lia Leibowitz, Robert C. Suggs,[6] Milton Diamond, Herman Heinrich Ploss, Gilbert Herdt, Robert J. Stoller, L. L. Langness, and Fitz John Porter Poole, among others.[7] While anthropologists and psychohistorians generally do not dispute the data of their particular research, they dispute its significance (both in terms of importance and in terms of meaning) and its interpretation.[7]
Supporters attempt to explain cultural history from a psycho-developmental point of view, and argue that cultural change can be assessed as "advancement" or "regression" based on the psychological consequences of various cultural practices.[8] While most anthropologists reject this approach, and most theories of cultural evolution as ethnocentric, the psychohistorians in their turn proclaim the independence of psychohistory and summarily reject the mainstream view in scholarship, that of Boasian anthropologists.
This "infanticidal" model makes several claims: that childrearing in tribal societies included child sacrifice or high infanticide rates, incest, body mutilation, child rape and tortures, and that such activities were culturally acceptable.[9] Psychohistorians do not claim that each child was killed, only that in some societies there was (or is) a selection process that would vary from culture to culture. For example, there is a large jump in the mortality rate of Papua New Guinean children after they reach the weaning stage.[10] In the Solomon Islands some people reportedly kill their first-born child. In rural India, rural China and other societies some female babies would be exposed to death.[10] The gist of deMause's argument is that the surviving siblings of the sacrificed child may become disturbed.[3]
Some states both in the Old World and New World also practiced infanticide, including sacrifice in Mesoamerica, the Incas and in Assyrian and Canaanite religions. Phoenicians, Carthaginians and other members of early states also sacrificed infants to their gods, as described in the table of the psychopathological effects of some forms of childrearing.[3]
The model is also based on a reported lack of empathy by infanticidal parents, such as mutual gazes between parent and child, observed by Robert B. Edgerton, Maria Lepowsky, Bruce Knauft, John W. M. Whiting and Margaret Mead among others. Such mutual gazing is widely recognized in developmental psychology as crucial for proper bonding between mother and child.
Nineteenth century British anthropology advanced a lineal, evolutionary sequence in a given culture from savagery to civilization (Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze age, etc.). The cultures were seen as a hierarchical ladder. For example, James George Frazer posited an universal progress from magical thinking to science. Most anthropologists of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century studied primitives outside Europe and North America. John Ferguson McLennan, Lewis Henry Morgan and others argued that there was a parallel development in social institutions. Led by Leslie White, in the 1950s these evolutionist ideas gained influence in American anthropology.[12]
The German-born Franz Boas managed to shift the paradigm. His approach, later named cultural relativism, resists universal values of any kind. According to Boas' principle, which represents the mainstream school in contemporary anthropology, a set of a culture's beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of its own culture. This principle has been established as axiomatic in contemporary anthropology. The war of Vietnam consolidated the Boasian shift in American anthropology.[12]
Since in a certain sense the psychohistorians' model is analogous to the now discarded unilineal evolution theory, it is understandable that mainstream anthropologists have been critical of the negative value judgments, and the lineal progression, in the model currently advanced by psychohistorians as to what constitutes child abuse in either "primitive" or non-Western cultures.[13] Furthermore, lumping paleolithic societies with contemporary hunter-gatherers, as deMause and the psychohistorians do, is for anthropologists bad science. This view was rejected by anthropologists a hundred years ago. Melvin Konner wrote:
In return, psychohistorians accuse most anthropologists and ethnologists of having avoided looking more closely to the evidence and having promulgated the myth of the noble savage.[15] They maintain that what constitutes child abuse is a matter of a general psychological law and that some of the practices which mainstream anthropologists do not pay due attention, such as beatings of newborn infants, result in brain lesions and other visible neurological and psychological damage.[7]
See also
 1. Decapitated skeletons of hominid children have been found with evidence of cannibalism. See e.g., Simons, E.L. (1989). Human origins. Science (journal) 245: 1344.
 2. Maringer, Johannes (1956). The Gods of Prehistoric Man, 10-19, London: Weidenfield & Nicolson.
 5. Roheim, Geza (1950). Psychoanalysts and Anthropology, NY: International Universities Press.
 8. deMause, Lloyd (1992). The evolution of childrearing modes. Empathic Parenting 15, issues 1 & 2.
 10. 10.0 10.1 Milner, Larry S. (2000). Hardness of Heart / Hardness of Life, University Press of America.
 11. deMause, Lloyd (1991). The universality of incest. The Journal of psychohistory 19, No. 2.
 15. Godwin, Robert (2004). One Cosmos under God, 166-174, Omega Books.
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Almost 65% of the global Internet users love using Google Chrome for their browsing needs. And no doubt, it's by far the most popular browser across the globe. But that doesn't mean that Chrome is free from errors and issues. One of the most common issues users face is Chrome not loading pages and displaying only text. It occurs when Chrome is not able to load all the elements of a web page. Since you are here, you're most probably facing this annoying issue in your browser. Anyways, you need not need to worry as I am here with six quick ways to fix Chrome not loading page, displays only text error. Let's get started.
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Trait gtk::prelude::FlowBoxChildExt[][src]
pub trait FlowBoxChildExt: 'static {
 fn changed(&self);
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fn connect_activate<F: Fn(&Self) + 'static>(&self, f: F) -> SignalHandlerId;
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Trait containing all FlowBoxChild methods.
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Marks self as changed, causing any state that depends on this to be updated. This affects sorting and filtering.
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Gets the current index of the self in its FlowBox container.
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Returns whether the self is currently selected in its FlowBox container.
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The Wolfeo API allows you to use Wolfeo as part of your production and website. The API provides a limited access to some of Wolfeo's features and functions. This API is subject to change and will be improved over time.
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# API Limits
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Home Heritage Useful Scots words Useful Scots word: peelie-wally
Useful Scots word: peelie-wally
by Betty Kirkpatrick
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Many of us who have a Celtic genetic inheritance have very fair skins. Usually this creates no problems and a fair skin can be a decided beauty asset. Pale skin looks fine against a background of its native heath, but transfer it to a sun-baked foreign beach and things change dramatically. Pale skin can stand out like an unfortunate sore thumb when surrounded by a sea of bronzed bodies. The Scots word peelie-wally springs to mind.
Peelie-wally, also spelt peelie-wallie and with wally pronounced to rhyme with sally, can mean pale, but in this sense it is far from being a compliment. You might describe a flawless porcelain complexion as pale, but you are very unlikely to describe it as peelie-wally. Rather, peelie-wally means pallid or washed-out looking, like the odd pale body among a multitude of sun-tanned ones.
Peelie-wally is often used to refer to the kind of paleness that accompanies ill health. If a child is looking peelie-wally it is often a sign of impending sickness of some kind. In fact, peelie-wally can mean ill-looking or sickly or, by extension, thin or feeble.
Things as well as people can be described as peelie-wally when something colourless or insipid is being referred to. For example, you might refer to the beige décor of someone's house as peelie-wally if you are the sort of person who prefers strong colours. Or you might criticize the pastel colours of someone's dress as being too peelie-wally. If you like a strong cup of tea you might describe a weaker form of the beverage as peelie-wally.
An activity or performance of some kind can also be referred to as peelie-wally when it lacks vigour or vitality. Not surprisingly, this use usually occurs in connection with Scotland's obsession with football. Apparently there are many instances of peelie-wally performances on the pitch.
The expression peelie-wally started life out simply as peelie. This is likely to have a connection with the Scots word palie meaning sickly, listless, delicate or stunted in growth and palie is, in turn, likely to be connected with English pale.
However, it has been suggested that the origin of the peelie of peelie-wally may be imitative of a kind of whining, feeble noise made by people who are ill. As for the wally, it may just have been added for effect and may have been influenced by the Scots word paewae meaning pallid, sickly or insipid. The suggestion that there is a connection with the whiteness of wallie, meaning china or porcelain, seems less likely.
But back to our sun-baked beach. There is good news for the peelie-wally. Now that over-exposure to the sun is known to cause major skin problems, official health advice is to cover up in the sun. There is now no need to reveal yourself in all your peelie-wally glory on the beach. In any case, the peelie-wally skin does not bronze. It just goes an unattractive shade of red.
 - Anither Rab
 A've heard tell that in India "peelah wallah" (no shair aboot the spellin) means "pale man" an wis yaised tae descrive a body that wis no weel an the expression wis brocht hame bi Scottish sodgers as "peelie-wally".
 - Ostrakon
 You may be on to something…the expression is Pilau Wallah, used by Indians for a white or yellow coloured man.
 I suppose it would all come down to the first recorded usage of the expression Peely-Wally and whether it preceded the addition of the Indian subcontinent to the British Empire
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 Thank you Betty Kirkpatrick for a consistently informative and witty column on Scots words. As one educated in Scottish schools that frowned on the use of the "mither tongue" as coarse, I am delighted to savour the flavour of Scots as it is still spoken. The column on "peely-wally" filled me with the glow of approval. Theresa McCardle


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Export Visio to HTML##
This article explains how to export a Microsoft Visio diagram to HTML using Aspose.Diagram for Python via Java API.
Use the Diagram class constructor to read the diagram files and the Save method to export the diagram to any supported image format. Developers can save resultant HTML in the local storage or directly to a stream instance.
The image below shows a VSD file about to be saved to PNG format. You can use other diagram formats (VSDX, VSTM, VSTM, VSSX, VSS, VSSM, VDX, VST, VSTX, VDX, VTX or VSX) as well.
Input diagram.
todo:image_alt_text
In order to export VSD diagram to HTML, perform the following steps:
 1. Create an instance of the Diagram class.
 2. Call the Dagram class' Save method and set HTML as the output format.
The image below shows the output HTML file.
Output HTML diagram.
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Save resultant HTML in the local storage
The resultant file can be saved by passing a complete path string, including the filename and extension, e.g. @"c:\temp\MyOutput.html".
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Save resultant HTML in a stream instance
It is for use case to save the resultant HTML in a database or repository without storing it in the local storage. This feature also embeds other resultant resources of the HTML, e.g. fonts, CSS (containing the style information) and images. Since it saves a single HTML file into the stream instance.
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On March 17, 2014, the federal government introduced two new regulations under Canada's Special Economic Measures Act imposing an asset freeze on senior government officials and other individuals and entities in Russia and Crimea in connection with the recent developments in Crimea. On March 18 and 21, the federal government amended these regulations to designate additional names, including one Russian bank. The Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations and the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations (New Regulations), together with the subsequent amendments, came into force immediately. The New Regulations follow the designation of certain members of the former Ukrainian government under the Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials (Ukraine) Regulations on March 5, 2014.
Similar to the March 5, 2014 Regulations, the New Regulations apply to every person in Canada and every Canadian outside Canada and prohibit:
- dealing in any property, wherever situated, held by or on behalf of any person designated under the New Regulations;
- entering into or facilitating, directly or indirectly, any transaction related to such dealing;
- making any goods, wherever situated, available to a designated person; and
- providing any financial or related service to or for the benefit of a designated person or in respect of a dealing in the property of a designated person.
The New Regulations also prohibit anything that is intended or causes, assists or promotes the contravention of the prohibitions under the New Regulations.
Some limited exemptions apply.
The government also introduced a Special Economic Measures (Russia) Permit Authorization Order and a Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Permit Authorization Order, which authorize the Minister of Foreign Affairs to issue permits to carry out specified activities that are restricted under the New Regulations.
Regulated financial institutions are required to determine, on a continuing basis, whether they are in possession or control of property that they have reason to believe is the property of a designated person.
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Suppose X is a complete metric space, and $f:X↦X$ a continuous surjective function. Let D be a dense set. Suppose $f:D↦D$ is injective and $f^{-1}(D)=D$.
Is $f$ injective?
Is there a family of metric spaces where you can conclude $f$ is injective?
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nice question... why should we close it? – Pietro Majer Oct 31 '11 at 8:16
_USER_: is it obvious that one can 'symmetrize' the examples in the question you link to so as to apply to the present question? – Yemon Choi Oct 31 '11 at 8:27
Related: mathoverflow.net/questions/73719/… – Joel David Hamkins Oct 31 '11 at 8:28
Yemon, no, I guess not. This question is more interesting! – Joel David Hamkins Oct 31 '11 at 8:47
Joel, I understand from the text that $f$ splits into $f_{|D}:D\to D $ which is bijective and $f_{|X\setminus D}:X\setminus D\to X\setminus D $ which is surjective. – Pietro Majer Oct 31 '11 at 11:49
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The map is defined on $[0,1]\times[0,1]$, and can be written as $$ f(x,y) = \begin{cases} (x, (2-x)y) & \text{ if }y\leq 1/2, \\ (x, xy+1-x) & \text{ if }y> 1/2. \end{cases} $$
Just take $D$ to be the set of $(x,y)$ with rational coordinates in $(0,1)\times(0,1)$, then $f$ is bijective on $D$ (because it can be easily inverted), but it is clearly not injective on $[0,1]\times[0,1]$.
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Here is another example which is easy to visualize. Let $X=[-1,1]^2$, $I$ be the segment between $(-1,0)$ and $(1,0)$ and $I_0$ its subsegment between $(-1/2,0)$ and $(1/2,0)$. There is a homeomorphism $f$ between $X\setminus I_0$ and $X\setminus \{0\}$ which sends $I\setminus I_0$ to $I\setminus\{0\}$ and extends continuously by setting $f(I_0)=0$. (Think of contracting the segment $I_0$ to the center while deforming the rest of the square continuously.) This map can be given by an explicit formula which is piecewise linear on each horizontal segment. Now define $D=X\setminus I$ and we are done.
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The answer to the second question is "yes, for discrete spaces where metric is $d(x, y) = 1,$ for $x \neq y.$
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This is by far the best answer to a question that I am surprised was not closed immediately. – Bill Johnson Nov 3 '11 at 18:18
I think I can prove that if X=[0,1] (or 1-dimensional) then the claim of FelipeG is true.
Indeed, let $X=[0,1]$ and $D,f$ be as above, and proceed by contradiction. Assume there are points $a,b\in [0,1]$ such that $ar$). On the other hand, by continuity of $f$, for every value $y\in D\cap (r,s)$ (which is not empty) there is an element $x_1\in (a,c)$ such that $ f(x_1) = y $ and an element $x_2\in (c,b)$ such that $ f(x_2)= y $. But, since $f^{-1}D=D$ both $x_1, x_2$ belong to $D$, which contradits the injectivity of $f_{|_D}$.
PS: this construction works if $f_{|_D}$ is a bijection (as one might argue from the title), otherwise there is a counterexample
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I took the liberty of fixing your LaTeX -- hope you don't mind – Yemon Choi Oct 31 '11 at 8:24
_USER_ Choi I was trying to fix it as well... In fact I still cannot visualize my comment correctly: may be the fact we were both working on the file simultaneously has generated some mess – ccarminat Oct 31 '11 at 8:28
Let me have another go... – Yemon Choi Oct 31 '11 at 8:28
[_USER_ Choi] now it works: thanks! – ccarminat Oct 31 '11 at 8:32
Nice. I understand that $r:=f(a)$, right? – Pietro Majer Oct 31 '11 at 12:41
There are counterexamples.
Let $X$ be the ordinal $\omega^2+1$, which as a topological space is the same as infinitely many convergent sequences, whose limit points converge. This space is homeomorphic to a countable closed subset of the unit interval and is therefore completely metrizable. Let $D$ be the isolated points of $X$, which is exactly the set of successor ordinals below $\omega^2$. This is dense, since the closure adds the missing limit ordinals. Let $f$ be the function that interleaves two successive sequences together into one. That, we combine the successor ordinals in the interval $[\omega\cdot 2n,\omega\cdot 2(n+1))$ to those in $[\omega\cdot n,\omega\cdot(n+1))$ by an injective function that simply interleaves the two sequences into one. This is injective on $D$ and also surjective. The function $f$ extends continuously to $X$ by mapping the limit points of the successive sequences, $\omega\cdot2n$ and $\omega\cdot2(n+1)$ both to $\omega\cdot n$, and $\omega^2\mapsto \omega^2$. Note that the extension $f$ is not injective.
A simpler version of this example, without ordinals, is to take $X$ to be the positive integers, plus a sequence converging to each of them in the interval below. Specifically, let $X$ have points $k$ and also $k-\frac 1n$ for positive integers $k$ and $n$. Thus, $X$ is a countable closed subset of $\mathbb{R}$. Let $D$ be the isolated points $k−\frac1n$, and let $f$ be the function that interleaves successive convergent sequences into one. That is, for each adjecent pair of sequences, converging to $2n$ and $2(n+1)$, we map the isolated points of the sequences bijectively to the sequence converging to $n$. This is bijective on D, but extends continuously to $X$, and is not injective on $X$.
(I have removed the earlier flawed example.)
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I don't understand. You have $1\in D$ and $f(-1)=1$, so $-1\in f^{-1}(D)$ but $-1\not\in D$. – Guillaume Brunerie Oct 31 '11 at 11:07
Oops. I go back to my first examples, where $f$ is bijective on $D$. – Joel David Hamkins Oct 31 '11 at 12:36
Here's an example. First take a countable family $\lbrace A_n:n\in\mathbb{N}\rbrace$ of countable dense sets in $(0,1)$ and then let $f:[0,1]\to\[0,1]$ be continuous such that for each $n$ the maps $f$ is an order-isomorpism between $A_n\cap(0,1/1)$ onto $A_{2n}$ and an order-reversing isomorphism between $A_n\cap(1/2,1)$ and $A_{2n+1}$. Thus $f$ is a bijection between $D=\bigcup_{n]1}^\infty A_n$ and itself, but it is not injective on $[0,1]$. The map $f$ is readily constructed, first recursively on $D$ and then by continuous extension to all of $[0,1]$.
Addendum: to construct the restriction of $f


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