Organization of the course
This year we'll have 12 or 13 classes (depending on the end of the semester) starting March 10th and two of these classes will be tutorial sessions (the dates of the tutorials will be announced later).
You will receive your final mark after a colloquium
with me (oral exam).
To be admitted to the oral exam you must pass a written
test or submit a well received report on your final
project(see below).
The written test provides that you have 4 hours to work on two or three problems designed to be solved using paper, pen and a hand-held calculator. An interesting fact is that you can use all the written and printed materials you can bring to the examination room…
Following each tutorial you will receive homework problems to solve (possibly working with your colleagues) and hand in. Even if the homeworks have no direct influence on the admission to the oral or on your final mark, they are useful to help you focus your preparation and get ready for either the common Computational Mechanics + Dynamics of Structures project (see below) or the written test.
At the end of the course (mid April) you will be
assigned an individual project, designed to check your
understanding of both Dynamics of Structures and
Computational Mechanics. You will produce a report on
your project and this report will be evaluated, possibly
leading to your admission to the final exam.
If we'll be back to normality then, it is possible that
the work on the project will be started in a common
workshop with the teacher of Computational Mechanics and
me.
The slides I use will be posted here after each class,
as well as solved problems and other classroom materials
[1], if you want to have a look at the
slides before a
class, last year's slides are a
click away[2].
Please understand that the
slides , etc, are not a substitute for a
real textbook.
[1] Other classroom materials means, mostly, small
computer programs.
[2] You can go back for quite a few years of materials
modifying the URL above.
Homeworks
The 2 homeworks are strictly optional and have no direct influence on your final marks. On the other hand, working on them lets you test your understanding of the subject and prepare for either the project or the written test. You can find the homeworks and the solutions here.
Recommended textbooks
- Anil K.Chopra, Dynamics of Structures (Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering), 4th ed.
- Ray W. Clough, Joseph Penzien,
Dynamics of Structures.
This classic text is solely sold by the software house linked above. You can find an used copy with a bit of luck.
The course is mostly inspired by Clough and Penzien's book, but for many topics it follows Chopra's approach and examples. Should you prefer to buy a single book, my advice is "Buy Chopra's".
Note that
- former editions of Chopra's book are perfectly OK for my course and can be found at lower prices, both used or new,
- a fair number of copies of Chopra's book (3rd ed.) are available from the Campus Library in Lecco.
Homeworks, Final Project & Software
Most homework problems as well as the final project will require you to plot a time series or to perform some matrix algebra, but most spreadsheets (say Excel or Calc) can do these things.
However it may be simpler to write some computer programs that solve the problems, using Mathematica or MATLAB (or Matlab's free clone Octave) or Python or ... to perform the computations and generate the plots.
Politecnico's students can freely download the proprietary software I mentioned (Excel, Mathematica, MATLAB ) as well as many other proprietary applications and development tools, from a specific Politecnico site. OTOH Calc, Octave, Python etc are Open Source software.
The software examples that I'll discuss in class are in Python (really easy to read even for the inexperienced). To have an idea of the language here it is the solution of a recently assigned problem presented as a notebook, while the software used in tutorials is MATLAB .


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this helps: the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne
I've been in a mid-life crisis since going into interviews. There's a certain value to third-party perspective putting you in your place. Let's face it, when I thought, what will I be doing when I'm 32 years old? ... I had no idea what it would be. But now that I'm here, I'm not impressed.
There are too many things I haven't done, code I haven't coded, and thoughts I haven't thought and life I haven't lived.
This, a quick-solution anti-thesis, is the only thing I've read lately that has made me feel any better about it. It has also been the most helpful guide on what steps I could take to get where I want, and helped with the staccato pattern of panicked heart, by bringing my expectations back into line.
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Could be worse. You could still be in school at this age, and constantly have people ask you 'So, what *are* you going to do when you grow up.'
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Introduction
Instant Articles TeamYes, it’s true. Instant Articles open on mobile devices really quickly.
But that’s just the beginning of it. Instant Articles are buttery smooth and addictive. Once you’ve read a few, you’ll never want to go back.
The Facebook-native format is packed with innovative ways to tell deeply engaging, interactive stories. Thanks to the powerful, built-in media features and customizable typographic elements, Instant Articles gives you awesome new editorial tools to use while delivering a decidedly superior experience for your readers.
More than half of Instant Articles readers scroll 90% of the way through their articles, while, historically, 38% of web readers haven’t made it past the first line of other online media.
This article gives you a quick highlight tour of Instant Articles features and shows you how to make magic with the format. You’ll be happy to find that Instant Articles are not only delightful but surprisingly easy to create.
Photography
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To return to the article, tap the image again. The interactive mode works best with high-definition photos containing rich visual information. For low-resolution media, we recommend using the non-interactive setting so that it will remain in-line in the correct aspect ratio and your readers won’t tap into a mushy, pixelated experience.
Social Feedback
You can add native Facebook Likes and Comments buttons to images, giving readers extra opportunities to engage with individual elements in your stories. This feature currently works for photographs and videos.
Slideshow
You can also group collections of images into slideshows that scroll horizontally.
Video
Native videos in Instant Articles play automatically, by default, as soon as they scroll into view on the reader’s screen—a powerful way to make the page come to life. You have many options for presenting videos. Here’s an interactive one with play controls.
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When this video first scrolls into sight, it appears in-line in its correct aspect ratio and plays automatically with the volume off. By tapping it, the video expands to fill the screen and can be turned to view horizontally. The soundtrack becomes audible, and play controls, with scrubber, are accessible.To hide play controls, tap the video again; the pause/play icons and scrubber can be toggled on and off this way. You can also rotate the phone sideways while the video is in-line to view it in landscape mode.
Alternately, try using a short video to add color and mood to a story. Disable the play controls and set it to loop with a cross-fade.
Ambient Video Example
Tap the video to expand and then tilt to explore. Think of this kind of interactive video as a moving photograph. It gives curious readers an opportunity to explore a living scene and become immersed in a new way. Looping continuously, the video adds atmosphere to an article and can be used to emphasize a section break. torcia/iStockYou can also ingest GIFs natively—no need for third-party players.
Cartography
Another great way to add information and texture to your stories: maps! Instant Articles has two cartographic features that deliver additional context to news and help readers situate it in the wider world.
Geotagging Example
Major news events often occur in locations unfamiliar to readers. Photos and videos in Instant Articles can easily be geotagged, such as this image of Mount Etna, so that readers can tap the globe icon to see where the action is happening. By pinching this map, you can zoom in to see details on the snow-capped slopes of the volcano or zoom out far enough to see the boot of Italy—and beyond. Marco Restivo/Getty ImagesRotating contour maps can be inserted in stories with a simple code block, giving readers a bird’s-eye view of topography and the ability to pinch and zoom in or out.
Map Example
The pin on this map designates Facebook Media Central’s offices in New York City.Embeds
Instant Articles deliver rich, multimedia stories even when you don’t own all the source media files. You might want to publish evolving news about an incident captured in video on YouTube. Or a listicle made up entirely of Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagrams and Vines. Instant Articles seamlessly integrate all types of web-based embeds, including your own interactive graphics, video players, ads and social media, such as this post from Mark Zuckerberg.
Typography
Don’t forget to make use of pull quotes and block quotes. Give the quote extra punch by customizing its color using the Style Editor.
To include a long excerpt from another source, such as the following example from Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, use a block quote. It’s in the same style as the body text but set off with a rule on the left margin.
But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in the streets, they envisioned a century later, men and women would be truly equal. A century later, we are still squinting, trying to bring that vision into focus.
Customizing the Formatting
To create advanced effects, you can play with different layout settings on your media elements. To create full-bleed layouts with a magazine-like feel, for example, you can crop a series of photos vertically and stack them in-line without spacing or text in between.
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“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
Kurt VonnegutVisit the Instant Articles Design Guide to learn how to customize your typography and layout. The Format Reference describes the HTML-5 markup used to set interactive features and vary the presentation modes for media.
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Get inspired by some of the incredible showcase articles that we’ve posted on the Instant Articles Facebook page. Whether you want to create a specially designed long read filled with multimedia elements or to quickly publish an on-the-scene video connected to an evolving news story, Instant Articles has the features and flexibility to help you deliver stories that not only load fast but are hard to forget.
Look at this format as a tool box. How you choose to use Instant Articles and what you make with them are limited only by your imagination. We plan on continuously adding tools to the kit, based on your experiences and feedback. Our team is eager to work with publishers, bloggers and independent journalists to help you deliver your stories to new audiences with the most impact and multimedia goodness possible.


I refuse to believe that the Gruen Transfer helps retail in any way. The kind of store that tends to stock the clothes I like, department stores, are notoriously the most “effective” implementors of the Gruen Transfer.
They scatter their clothes throughout a huge area. Shorts, T-shirts, collared shirts and jackets are all dispersed over 50m². It’s impossible to compare the range and you’re forced to walk around.
When you finally find the clothes you want, you then have to find where to pay for it.
Surely frustrating your shoppers by forcing them to search for similar items and a place to pay for them couldn’t possibly outweigh helping shoppers find what they want and pay for it as efficiently as possible.
I imagine department store executives: “I know! We’ll disorient our customers, make it difficult to browse our entire range and force them search for the place where they give us their money!”


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Co-taught with Harvard University, this is a CS class for those with little to no programming experience. This is not designed for CS majors, however, it serves as a good introduction to programming if you don't feel comfortable diving into CPSC 112.
Introductory programming course for those who are intending to take the CS major and have little to no programming experience.
Introduction to computer science with those who have some experience with programming. No specific language requirements are needed for this class other than understanding programming logic as a whole. Class is taught in Racket (similar to LISP/Scheme) which may seem unconventional, however, the main focus of this class is on understanding methods of recursion and functional programming rather than object oriented.
Introduction to algorithms and data structures in C. This class can be difficult when compared to CS


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Lately, I’ve taken a break from my Ansible work to concentrate on WorkFlow Automation by NetApp. I know, I know, why am I working with yet another automation project. I’ve discussed previously here and here how Ansible fits into provisioning and managing NetApp storage; however, there are times …


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Qualtrics is an online survey and data collection software platform. Qualtrics is used across many domains in both academia and industry for online surveys and research. While users can manually download survey responses from Qualtrics through a browser, importing this data into R is then cumbersome. The qualtRics R package implements the retrieval of survey data using the Qualtrics API and aims to reduce the pre-processing steps needed in analyzing such surveys. Currently, this package is the only package on CRAN that offers such functionality, and is included in the official Qualtrics API documentation.
Note that your institution must support API access and that it must be enabled for your account. Whoever manages your Qualtrics account can help you with this. Please refer to the Qualtrics documentation to find your API token.
The authors of this package are not affiliated with Qualtrics, and Qualtrics does not offer support for this package. For specific information about the Qualtrics API, you can refer to the official documentation.
This package can be installed from CRAN:
Alternatively, you can install the development version with the remotes package (or alternatively, devtools):
Currently, the package contains three core functions:
all_surveys()
fetches a list of all surveys that you own or have access to from Qualtrics.fetch_survey()
downloads a survey from Qualtrics and loads it into R.read_survey()
allows you to read CSV files you download manually from Qualtrics.It also contains helper functions:
qualtrics_api_credentials()
stores your API key and base url in environment variables.survey_questions()
retrieves a data frame containing questions and question IDs for a survey.metadata()
retrieves metadata about your survey, such as questions, survey flow, number of responses etc.Note that you can only export surveys that you own, or to which you have been given administration rights.
There are two important credentials you need to authenticate with the Qualtrics API. These are your API key and institution-specific base URL. The base URL you pass to the qualtRics package should either look like yourdatacenterid.qualtrics.com
or like yourorganizationid.yourdatacenterid.qualtrics.com
. The Qualtrics API documentation explains how you can find your base URL.
You can store your API credentials QUALTRICS_API_KEY
and QUALTRICS_BASE_URL
in your .Renviron
file for repeated use across sessions. The qualtRics package has a function to help with this.
library(qualtRics)
qualtrics_api_credentials(api_key = "<YOUR-QUALTRICS_API_KEY>",
base_url = "<YOUR-QUALTRICS_BASE_URL>",
install = TRUE)
After you use this function, reload your environment (readRenviron("~/.Renviron")
) so you can use the credentials without restarting R.
Once your Qualtrics API credentials are stored, you can see what surveys are available to you.
You can then download the data from any of these individual surveys (for example, perhaps the sixth one) directly into R.
See the qualtRics vignette for more details on variable metadata, automatic conversion of variables, retrieving responses between specific dates or for specific survey items, and more.


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I was with a friend last night.. yes last night. We were both depressed so we wanted to ' smoke some dope.' It is a common misconception in my school (I'm a junior in hs) that Weed is a safe drug and just numbs you. true right?
 So we smoke and smoked. About 2 minutes later, I started seeing the moon from his door... and it looked like it had rings around it. I then immediately started feeling the effects. I Saw Christopher columbus, and then I Saw Jesus on a beach walking with me, and then I saw a ring and then I Was on the moon. I then immediately fell down to the ground. I woke up 5 seconds later and started screaming, ' THE DONUTS ARE IN THE OVEN.' I then immediatelye felt my heart pounding out of my chest. I thought I was going to die. My heart was pumping a million times faster then my head which was spinning. I went to my friends basement tried to chill and went home.
It is now 10 hours later and I am half normal and still half high... what can I say about weed?
1.- its not a safe drug, neither is any drug sold on a black market, and I certaintely dont know if what I'm getting is laced or not, because lets be honest, drug dealers dont care about my health
2.- My weed was most likely laced with Hallucigens bc my effects were not supposed to be felt with weed.   I didnt know anything I Was saying and I wanted to die feeling like I was in a hole of non reality and I would never get back to reality. For once, reality seemed like something nice to me.
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Energy. If nothing else, Anthony was all about energy. I met him while I was grabbing breakfast at a newly opened cafe in Budapest and within the minute he had struck up a conversation with me about his bold plans for the cafe.
Cafe des Arts & Innovation is in the centre of Budapest, a five minute walk from a nightlife strip, and ten minutes away from the famous ruin bars. More interesting than that, Anthony's vision of it included a co-working space on the first floor (complete with 3D-printers), a cozy cafe vibe on the ground floor, and a hidden bar in the basement, all decked out in a sci-fi, gadget theme. His eyes lit up as he bounced from idea to idea, gesturing at the potential greatness that he envisioned.
Anthony's enthusiasm for his project quickly got me excited about it as well. He was so passionate about it that I was shocked when he told me that he actually didn't have any stake in the business. He just walked into the cafe, saw it's potential, and spoke to the owners about lending a hand in renovating the place.
Working hard on a project simply for the joy of creation is refreshing to see. It seems like a lot of the people around me are so focused on getting a degree so that they can get a job so that they can make money so that they can... what? Meeting Anthony was a reminder that not everything in life needs to have a well defined reward. Enjoying what you do is a reason enough to do it.
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Story: Words and sentences: given by ≠girri-sse
Words and sentences: given by ≠girri-sse
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Words and sentences: given by ≠girri-sse
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Words and Sentences. Given by ≠girri-sse (L VII.-1. 6041-6044). Includes the sentence 'I come from the strong water', meaning the Breakwater Convict Station.
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MEN IN BLACK A film review by Andrew Hicks Copyright 1997 Andrew Hicks / Fatboy Productions
(1997) *** (out of four)
Last year at this time, the number-one box office attraction was INDEPENDENCE DAY, featuring a wise-cracking Will Smith battling aliens. This year at this time, the number-one box office attraction is MEN IN BLACK, featuring a wise-cracking Will Smith battling aliens. History repeats itself. I repeat myself. Both movies are effects-driven action romps that play much better in a packed multiplex on a huge screen. The flaws, I'm sure, shine through a lot brighter if you're home by yourself watching it on your 13" Sony.
The plot of MEN IN BLACK is simplified to an almost Corky-like point -- funded by but independent from the U.S. government is a super-secret organization that tracks and controls extra-terrestrial activity. A group of Armani-suit-clad men in black carry out the peaceful and violent tasks of the organization, although for plot purposes, we only see the violent ones.
Tommy Lee Jones, pretty much reprising his character in THE FUGITIVE, is the no-nonsense veteran of alien battle. Will Smith, absolutely reprising his ID4 character, is the young, cocksure cop recruited by Jones toward the beginning, after Jones sees him chase down an alien on foot. Smith doesn't know it's an alien, of course, and once he finds out his memory of it is erased by Jones with a gizmo that comes in handy for anyone with something to cover up. Clinton would never have been sued by Paula Jones if he had one.
Smith and Jones are out to track down an insect alien inhabiting Vincent D'Onofrio's human body. The alien is after some diamonds that turn up on a dead alien body attended to by kinky morgue worker Linda Fiorentino. She's in the movie, as always, to add a little sex appeal, although her flirtatious scenes with Smith mostly fall flat. It's her unsurprising but still interesting turn as the film's third hero that elevates her from being just another movie sexpot.
Rick Baker, hot off his plumper work in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, does the alien effects here. A lot of them are standard-issue "creature" aliens, like the oversized beatle that serves as the movie's villain. There are weird-looking but harmless Cantina band types and a few nice touches, like the talking pug that steals a scene about halfway through the movie. The effects aren't groundbreaking, or really even that special, but they do help keep the movie entertaining.
The best thing about MEN IN BLACK is the men in black -- Smith and Jones. They have so much fun with their roles that we have fun watching them. The movie also has enough constant one-liners that it seems more comedy at times than action, like a modern-day GHOSTBUSTERS. The downside to it all, and this is what separates it from the far-superior and far-funnier GHOSTBUSTERS, is it's incredibly low-brow. For every funny line there's a lame one, and the plot is transparent. If you have a brain, leave it at the door or under the seat, because it will only get in the way of your fun. If you don't have a brain, you can't read this anyway.
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Sergio Aguero explains why Man City care more about Man Utd than Liverpool
Pep Guardiola's side travel to Anfield to face the league leaders on Sunday
by Hassan RashedSergio Aguero has insisted that Manchester City still consider Manchester United as the club's biggest rivals, despite admitting that Liverpool are their main title challengers.
The defending champions travel to Anfield on Sunday looking to close the gap on Jurgen Klopp's side, who currently hold a six-point lead at the top of the Premier League table.
It is set to be second season in a row that the two clubs will be involved in a tight contest for the title, after Pep Guardiola's side narrowly beat the Merseyside club to the league championship by a single point last season.
And although Liverpool's recent success has seen them develop a strong rivalry with City, Aguero is adamant that his side still consider their meetings with local rivals United to be more important.
“It may be the clasico for television, but for us, the clasico, it’s the match against United," the Argentina international told France Football (via Sport Witness).
"Liverpool has always been a tough opponent. But when I arrived, the team we were fighting for the title was United.
"Initially, it was something strange in the city that City competes against United. Then there was Chelsea ."
The prolific striker, who has scored nine league goals this season, continued: "But these last four seasons, Liverpool have become a very strong team and are now fighting with us to win the Premier League.
"It’s the only team in the league that can hurt us. They have been chasing a new league (title) for years.
"Last season, they didn’t go all the way, so they are very motivated. This year, they are in front of us and will try to go to the end.”
Although they overturned a larger points deficit to win the title last season, Guardiola's side head into Sunday's meeting knowing that defeat would put Liverpool firmly in the driving seat.
City haven't won at Anfield since 2003 and come up against a side that is yet to lose in the league this season, with their only two dropped points coming in a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
Addressing the weekend's trip, Aguero added: “We know that this is a ground where it’s very difficult to win, but we’ll try to do it because it has been a long time since the club last won there.
"This will be a key match for the title.”


There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead—and even then Doctor, did you ever hear of the miserable gringos on Azuera, that cannot die.
- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
I've been a student at NC State for just under two years now, and one of the most fascinating aspects of it is Hillsborough Street. Surrounding the main campus, this lively and cheerful street is home to some great food and boasts the evergreen Bell tower at one end. However, its lesser-known gem is a bookstore called the Reader's Corner.
What's truly fascinating about this spot is that you can buy some incredible books at an incredibly low price. Outside the store, there are shelves filled with used books, and the remarkable thing about these shelves is that any book on the left side of the store costs 25 cents, and on the right, it costs 10 cents. And if that's not enough, they update these shelves periodically with a variety of books. The store's owner, Irv Coats, has been running it since 1980 and donates all the proceeds from the outdoor book sales to NPR.
The store itself is absolutely fascinating as well. You can scan hundreds of comics, most of which are priced at a dollar. They also have an extensive collection of science fiction and detective stories, as well as fun items like posters, which usually cost around $2.
This month, when I visited the store, their poster collection caught my eye, and I decided to browse through their collection in the hope of finding inspiration for my next blog post. That's when I came across the following poster:
Truth be told, this was the first time I heard of an Addressograph. So what does it do? What was the motivation behind its creation? And how does it work? Let's take a dive into an Addressograph.
In 1892, Joseph Smith Duncan created the Addressograph, which is an addressing machine at its core. That is,
a business machine that automatically imprints names, addresses, or other information on successive envelopes or forms.
At a first glance, automatically imprinting addresses may seem like a small feat, even for the 1890s. In fact, in the early 2010s I recall sending handwritten letters to my grandfather and he'd reply to me with letters bearing his stamped address. He'd invested in a rubber stamp with an ink pad for this purpose. Eventually, he switched to using address stickers.
Given that a rubber stamp would have sufficed during the 1890s, why create a mechanical device like this?
Well, during a 1918 interview for the Manufacturing and Wholesale Industries of Chicago (Volume 2), J.S. Duncan shared his thoughts on experimenting with rubber stamps:
With as little prospect of getting another position as there was in those days (Duncan here is referring to the Panic of 1893), I began to wonder how I might use my small amount of capital in making a living. The addressing machine idea had been clinging to me persistently, and as I had a good deal of mechanical experience in my work at the mill, I decided to experiment with the hope of producing a device which could be marketed.
My first experiment was pretty crude. I glued the rubber parts of a number of hand stamps onto a big wooden drum. This drum was then revolved from one address to another to do the printing. The work was readable, and there was no chance to make mistakes in the addresses. But the drum only held a few names. How was it to take care of even a small mailing list such as we had at the bank? Clearly the plan was a failure, because it was not practical.
The motivation was to develop a more scalable version of the rubber stamp approach. It's worth mentioning that addressing machines existed even before the 1890s, but Addressograph emerged as one of the major victors of the 19th century. The Early Office Museum provides a more in-depth history of addressing machines. I also found Wright and Peck and H. Moeser's addressing machine from the 1860s particularly interesting.
Fascinatingly, Moeser's patent is concise and spells out how it operates:
The machine consists of levers, a slide, and a set of types, combined in such a manner that it is possible to print with it any number of names on papers or letters. Thus to print the names of subscribers on newspapers the following plan is pursued. The names (of persons or places) to be printed are set up in type in a column and secured in a form which moves by means of a slide beneath a stamp in such a manner that every Word in the column, one after another, is exposed to the action of the stamp, and so that paper after paper brought between the stamp and the types gets the proper impression.
Before the operation of the machine is to commence the whole set of names in the form is inked at once and put on the slide so that the first name in the column is right under the slit of the plate, and the impression is effected then by holding the paper on which the name is to be printed under the stamp and by pressing the main lever down. By raising the lever again the slide moves by the action of the spring-pawl so much that the second name of the column gets beneath the stamp, and if then another paper is brought under the stamp the second name will be printed on it by pressing the main lever down, and so forth, till the whole number of names is printed on the respective papers.
So, let's jump back to Addressograph. Did J.S. Duncan not have knowledge of Moeser's work? It seems that he didn't. In that same interview in 1918, Duncan stated the following:
Back in 1892 I was in charge of the books of a large milling concern in Sioux City, Iowa. Among other duties I had to see that a number of flour price lists and bids for grain were sent out each day to a list of people with whom he regularly did business. This addressing was a tedious job. It used to keep one of the young men in the office busy most of the time. Every now and then one of these bids would go astray through a mistake in the address, with the result that other milling companies would get the business. In a year's time these losses amounted to a good deal of money.
As I was a stockholder and director in the company, although the amount of stock I held in those days was necessarily small, I was much annoyed by this loss of business. I felt that there ought to be some way of addressing our cards mechanically, a way that would prevent mistakes and that would save most of the time and effort then wasted by the clerks in writing, over and over again, the same names and addresses.
So I looked for an addressing machine. I searched all the trade papers, and wrote to several office supply houses in Chicago, but to no avail. There was no such thing as a commercial addressing machine on the market; so I let the matter drop for the time being.
At this point, a natural question to ask would be, how does it work? And how is it different from Moeser's machine, as well as other addressing machines that came before it?
The original Addressograph, created by J.S. Duncan had a simple yet remarkably ingenious start. In the 1918 interview, Duncan described how it worked:
One day it occurred to me that the difficulty might be done away with by setting up the addresses in individual rubber type, and linking them in detachable chains of carriable length. I made a model along these lines and showed it to several of my business friends. Most of them thought the idea very clever, but all were skeptical as to its practicability; in fact, several of them laughed at the thing, and told me I was foolish to waste time in trying to commercialize a device of that kind.
But no doubting or ridicule could disturb my conviction. Encouraged by a very good friend, I came to Chicago in the latter part of '93 and rented a small room on Dearborn street where I proposed to begin the manufacture of the Addressograph.
This is explained in much greater detail in his 1896 patent for Addressograph .
My invention relates to improvements in addressing-machines in which a chain of detachable type-plates is suspended over a rotating drum and a plunger or stamper capable of being driven downward upon the top of the drum carries a platen into contact at each movement of the machine with one of the type-plates, which are inked from a suitable inking device; and the objects of my improvement are to provide,
- first, a type-belt easily removable and capable of being compactly stored away when not in use;
- second, an inking device having a direct bearing on the type, without rolling or sliding, and in which the ink-pad is normally closed from air and dust;
- third, a simple and accurate means of rotating the type-belt so as to bring the name-plates successively under the platen;
- fourth, to dispense with all pulleys for the type-belt, suspending it from a single drum;
- fifth, to provide a detachable link which will retain the printing-surface and yet allow it to be easily removed, and in which any link can be easily removed from the chain, and,
- sixth, to produce a small compact addressing-machine capable of being easily clamped to the edge of a desk or table.
As Duncan found success after selling his initial machines, he worked on various iterations to improve his design. In the same interview, he said:
Enthusiastic over our success in selling these first machines, I had a hundred more built. These were arranged so that a foot lever could be attached, thereby leaving both the operator's hands free for feeding the envelopes. It was a much needed improvement, and served greatly to speed up the work of the machine.
This led to the eventual creation of the Addressograph Company in 1893.
At the bottom of the poster, Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio is boldly mentioned. So, it's worth tracing back steps from this part. Firstly, how did this corporation come into being? Well, when J.S. Duncan decided to bring the Addressograph into production in the 1890s, he partnered with John B. Hall, a salesman who investigated the prospective market and helped demonstrate the product to business magnates. According to the Addressograph article on Made in Chicago museum:
By the early 1920s, John Hall had passed away, and Duncan was in semi-retirement, spending a lot of his time in Los Angeles with his wife Adelaide. Finally, in 1924, he elected to step away for good, with half the interest in Addressograph staying with the Hall family, and the other half acquired by another Chicago businessman, Frank H. Woods of Lincoln Telephone & Telegraph.
Woods installed Joseph Egerton Rodgers as the new company president, and by 1930, after some legal battles with the Hall family, the new ownership struck a deal to merge the Addressograph International Corp. with one of its chief rivals, the American Multigraph Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. The new organization, known as the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation, ultimately centralized its operations in Cleveland.
Apparently, the merger was completed in 1932, and around 1933, the 152-page book titled “Business Short Cuts,” containing Addressograph methods and machines (as mentioned in the bottom-left part of the poster), was published. Hence, my guess would be that this poster is from the early 1930s. The quality of the poster is remarkably impressive for something that is nearly 90 years old!
So, what ultimately happened to this new corporation? According to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the company experienced steady growth after World War II and by 1967, it had accumulated $400 million in sales from its parent and 27 subsidiaries. However, the emergence of Xerox in the 1970s had a major impact on their success. Despite making numerous changes and significant cuts to improve efficiency, the company ultimately closed its doors in 1982 and filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11.
And that's it folks! I hope you enjoyed this dive down a rather obscure part of history. I'll continue making occasional trips to the Reader's Corner in search of hidden treasures like these.


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“Are you awake now?”.
After hearing that familiar voice, Jin-Woo quickly opened his eyes . He saw a white ceiling, and the smell of disinfectant stung his nose . Although the sensation of the hard bed kissing his back was different, he could easily tell just where he was
This was a hospital
But, didn’t he definitely feel the sensation of his heart shattering when the ice-cold dagger stabbed into his chest?.
‘Even then… . I’m still alive?’.
Jin-Woo raised his upper torso up
He immediately spotted two men standing near his bed, making anxious faces as if they had been waiting for him to regain his consciousness for a long time . One of them was someone Jin-Woo knew very well
“Association President Woo Jin-Cheol! The Sovereigns… No, what happened to those monsters? How am I still alive?”.
Woo Jin-Cheol shared confused looks with the fellow agent of the Monitoring Division next to him, took his sunglasses off before addressing Jin-Woo
“There are three things I must tell you . ”.
He pulled a chair close to the bed and settled down . The junior agent quickly stepped behind him
“Firstly, I’m not the Association President, but the Chief of the Monitoring Division . Secondly, we are here to ask you about the animated stone statues . And finally… . ”.
A powerful glare oozed out from Woo Jin-Cheol’s scrutinising eyes
“… . How do you know about me? Have we met before, somewhere?”.
“H-hold on, wait! You said something about animated stone statues?!”.
“After we received the report from the survivors and arrived on site with the White Tiger Guild, it was already… . ”.
“No, no . Hang on . That’s not it… . ”.
Jin-Woo quickly cut Woo Jin-Cheol off and shook his head in dumbfoundedness . Several emotions, impossible to describe in words, rushed in
Could it be… . ?.
Jin-Woo raised his head and stared at the ceiling
He was thinking that it was an oddly familiar sight ever since he opened his eyes, but he really was back here
‘Makes sense why it’s so familiar… . ’.
He spent almost two weeks in this place, after all . This was the VIP patient room provided by the Hunter’s Association
He was back in the hospital room where he opened his eyes for the first time after barely managing to survive the dual dungeon incident . Thinking back to what Woo Jin-Cheol said just now, it didn’t seem like the location wasn’t the only thing here that was the same
‘But… how can such a thing even be possible?’.
Jin-Woo remained utterly confused and dazed, leading Woo Jin-Cheol to cautiously ask him
“… . Are you feeling alright?”.
Jin-Woo’s head dropped lower and he massaged his temples as a migraine gradually crept in . He didn’t forget to wave around his hand as a gesture to tell the others to not to worry about him
“I… . Can I be left alone to organise my thoughts? Please hurry up with measuring my magical energy so we can end this quickly . ”.
Woo Jin-Cheol stared dazedly at Jin-Woo with an expression that roughly said, “How did you know that we have been suspecting you going through a Re-Awakening?” before he quickly shook his head as if to get rid of all the distracting thoughts
“We’d like to hear what happened inside there before we proceed . If you have seen something strange before losing your consciousness… . ”.
“Like I told you before, I don’t remember anything . ”.
Did they ever meet and converse with Hunter Seong Jin-Woo before?.
No, never
Definitely not
As a man of the Monitoring Division, Woo Jin-Cheol never forgot the face of a Hunter he met, even if it was only one time . And his memory definitely didn’t hold information on anyone with the name of ‘Seong Jin-Woo’
‘Looks like his memories are all jumbled up from going through a serious mental shock . ’.
Woo Jin-Cheol decided as thus while looking at Jin-Woo’s current condition . In that case, he figured that he might as well finish what he came here to do and return as soon as possible . He addressed his underling next
“Bring it here . ”.
The junior agent heard the order and brought along the miniature magic energy measuring device
‘Hah… . ’.
A helpless chuckle leaked out of Jin-Woo’s lips as things played out exactly like his memories
“All you have to do is to place your hand on this magic crystal for a little while . ”.
“Okay . ”.
The measuring process ended quickly thanks to Jin-Woo’s cooperation
However, Woo Jin-Cheol began frowning greatly as he tried to confirm the results . He prodded the device several times before shifting his gaze over to the junior agent
“Why isn’t the device working? Didn’t I tell you to check it before leaving the HQ?”.
“Pardon me?”.
The junior agent couldn’t hide his fluster and hurriedly inspected the device from this angle and that, but obviously, nothing changed by doing that
The device that was operating perfectly up until just now suddenly switched itself off as soon as it touched the hand of the subject . And it didn’t want to work again
‘Tsk . ’.
Woo Jin-Cheol quietly tutted at the mistake of his junior agent and apologised to Jin-Woo before asking for his understanding
“Looks like there has been some sort of mistake on our part here . Do you mind waiting for a little bit? We should be able to go and fetch a new device very soon . This process must be performed during the investigation of this incident, and we ask for your coopera… ”.
Even before his words came to an end, Jin-Woo nodded his head . Woo Jin-Cheol led his junior agent and left the hospital room . However, he only took a few more steps before coming to a stop . He turned around again
‘What’s going on?’.
Jin-Woo raised his head slightly when Woo Jin-Cheol acted a little differently to how he remembered it
The Chief of the Monitoring Division stood before the bed and asked
“By any chance… .
“…”.
“I’ve met my fair share of high-ranking Hunters in my life . However, I’ve never met any Hunter with eyes like yours . If you’re hiding something, now’s the time to… . ”.
“I’ve nothing to hide . ”.
Jin-Woo cut him off again .  ”.
Jin-Woo watched Woo Jin-Cheol leaving the hospital room’s door and inwardly thought that he definitely better suited the role of the boss of the Monitoring Division rather than that of the Association President
Besides all that, though…
“… . Status Window . ”.
He wasn’t surprised in the least by the message floating in the air and took a look at the Status Window displaying his current level
Name: Seong Jin-Woo.
Level: 146.
Class: Shadow Sovereign.
Title: Demon Hunter (extra 2).
HP: 93,300.
MP: 155,720.
Tiredness: 0.
[Stats].
Strength: 324.
Endurance: 320.
Agility: 340.
Intelligence: 340.
Perception: 321.
(Available points to distribute: 0).
Reduction in physical damage: 65%.
Reduction in magical damage: 44%.
[Skills].
Passive Skills.
– Tenacity Lv . 1.
– Master of Shortsword Lv . MAX.
Active Skills.
– Quicksilver Lv . MAX.
– Intimidation Lv . 2.
– Violent Slash Lv . MAX.
– Dagger Rush Lv . MAX.
– Stealth Lv . MAX.
– Ruler’s Authority Lv . MAX.
[Class-specific Skills].
Active Skills.
– Shadow Extraction Lv . 2.
– Shadow Storage Lv . 2.
– Sovereign’s Territory Lv . 2.
– Shadow Exchange Lv . 2.
‘My level’s gone up a lot since the last time I took a look at it . Is it because of the experience points I earned after killing the Sovereign of Plagues?’.
That wasn’t all, either
Everything he had stored in his Inventory until now was also waiting for him as they always had been . He even spotted the pair of ‘Kamish’s Wraths’ resting quietly on the very first column of the Inventory and formed a hollow smile
He had somehow returned to the beginning with everything he had achieved so far
‘Well, the Shadow Soldiers aren’t here anymore, but… . ’.
But, his army could be rebuilt in no time at all . Since he had retained all of his prior abilities and memories, he was confident of doing a better job this time around
However…
… . Just how did this happen?.
Why was this thing happening?.
Although he was given the second go at life here, all sorts of possibilities fleeted in and out of his head and he couldn’t be happy about his current situation at all
Jin-Woo carefully combed over his memories, wondering if he had overlooked something, before his head rose up
‘Should be here soon… . ’.
As he expected; just like how he remembered it, his little sister pounced into the hospital room with excellent timing
“Oppa!!”.
After she lost almost all of her school friends at the hands of the Orcs, there always had been a shadow cast on her expression even when she was smiling . But, right now, there was no hint of such darkness on her face
Jin-Woo’s heart softened from seeing her expression and he tightly hugged her
“O-Oppa??”.
Jin-Ah was planning to urge her oppa to give up being a Hunter when he regained his consciousness, but now that she lost her initiative to him, she became rather flustered, instead
“What’s going on? What’s gotten into you? Did you hit your head?”.
Eventually, her oppa ended the hug and grinned refreshingly . Seeing him behaving like this, all thoughts of anger dissipated from her mind and she could only tilt her head this way and that with a puzzled look on her face
She couldn’t put her finger on it, but her oppa seemed somewhat different from the normal . Now that she took a closer look, she kind of got the impression that her oppa had grown a lot taller since the last time she saw him a few days ago
While Jin-Ah was falling deeper into confusion, Jin-Woo was able to use this lull to organise his thoughts better . He then began thinking about things he needed to do, step by step
A short while later, he lightly chased his little sister out and changed his clothes before stepping outside the hospital room himself
Since these clothes were his old ones, they didn’t fit his size now, and because he had survived a life or death situation, their condition was at their absolute worst, as well . But what choice did he have?.
He certainly couldn’t walk around the city in a patient gown now, could he?.
Jin-Ah watched her brother walk right past her in hurried steps and called out to him
“Oppa?! Where are you going now?”.
“To the Hunter’s Association . ”.
“Why there??”.
“To tell them I’m giving up being a Hunter . ”.
“Really???”.
Jin-Woo looked back at his little sister and her wide open eyes
“I know that you asked permission to leave from your school to come here, so you should go back now . ”.
“Whaaat-?!”.
Jin-Ah watched on with an expression gradually becoming even more confused as her oppa’s back disappeared from view
***.
The Association employee confirmed the re-evaluation test results once more and continued to rub his eyes over and over again
It had been two years since Cha Hae-In’s appearance, hadn’t it?.
The employee looked up at the tenth Hunter to reach the ‘unable-to-measure’ category in Korea and his complexion paled greatly . Since Jin-Woo’s outward appearance looked so wretched like a pauper, the employee was dismissive about this young man, but to think, he turned out to be a genuine rank S Hunter
“T-the device we have right now can’t measure your magic energy level, Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim . ”.
“I know . But before we do the re-test, I’d like to speak to the Association President first . Will that be alright with you?”.
“Y-you mean, the Association President??”.
“Yes . ”.
Jin-Woo was already familiar with the re-evaluation procedures . The Association employee became dazed by this request for a meeting with the Association President and picked up the phone to make the call
“Y-yes, yes . That’s correct . He’s definitely ‘unable-to-measure’ . Understood . Yes . I shall give him the message . ”.
Indeed, the Association President agreed to meet this young man
“I, I shall escort you to the office of the Association President… . ”.
“I know where it is already . Thanks for the offer, but it’s okay . ”.
Jin-Woo bade a short goodbye and walked straight to the elevator . The employee looked at his departing back with an expression of utter loss
‘How can an outsider know where the President’s office is?’.
Too bad for the employee, the elevator stopped on the correct floor where the Association President’s office was
“Heot… . ”.
The employee watched the floor display of the elevator with a worried expression before gasping out softly in surprise
Ting…
Jin-Woo stepped out of the elevator and immediately discovered a familiar face walking past him in order to enter the lift . He turned around to address this man
“Excuse me . ”.
The man pressed the ‘door open’ button to stop the elevator when Jin-Woo turned to look at him
“Are you talking to me?”.
“You haven’t disclosed the fact that you possess the ‘Stealth’ skill . You’re an upper-rank Hunter, but your name wasn’t on the list of those under the Association’s strict management . ”.
The Hunter affiliated with the Monitoring Division, Kahng Tae-Sik’s expression hardened instantly
“But how… . ?”.
“Someone will ask you to avenge his daughter soon . I don’t care what happens to the criminals . However, if the innocent Hunters get hurt in that incident, you will die by my hands . Understand?”.
Jin-Woo emitted just a little bit of his killing intent, causing Kahng Tae-Sik to flinch and reach into his waist . However, it wasn’t there
Kahng Tae-Sik continued to rummage around his waist for a while before finally realising that his knife had disappeared
“You looking for this?”.
Jin-Woo casually tossed a knife up and down before handing it back to him
Kahng Tae-Sik quickly recognised that Jin-Woo was on a completely different level compared to all the other Hunters he had been dealing with so far and wordlessly took the knife back
“You get only one warning . ”.
Knowing that this young man could easily dissect him into tiny little pieces if he wanted to, Kahng Tae-Sik slowly nodded his head while pocketing the knife . And then, he asked a question as Jin-Woo turned around to leave
“Look here, man… . Just who are you? Have we ever met before?”.
Jin-Woo didn’t bother to reply and quietly continued to make his way to the Association President’s office . After this mysterious man went away, Kahng Tae-Sik looked down at his cold sweat-soaked palms and lifted his finger away from the ‘door open’ button
“… . Feels like I’ve been entranced by a phantom, doesn’t it?”.
***.
‘Association President… . ’.
Jin-Woo’s steps came to a halt
Goh Gun-Hui, still alive, was sitting behind his desk going through his documents right now . Jin-Woo stood by the doorway and stared at the Association President with eyes filled with nostalgia
Meanwhile, Goh Gun-Hui chuckled good-naturedly
“Although you opened my door with so much confidence, it seems that you’re a bit lacking in spirit there . It’s fine for you to come inside, Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim . ”.
Goh Gun-Hui stood up from his chair and walked out in front while suggesting that they take a seat on the couch . He settled down on the couch opposite of Jin-Woo and asked the younger man
“Would you like to sit down?”.
Abruptly, the current Goh Gun-Hui overlapped with that of the Goh Gun-Hui he met for the first time and Jin-Woo’s expression stiffened for a brief moment . He stood there with an expressionless face for a second or two, before settling down as well
“Thank you . I will . ”.
Goh Gun-Hui studied the young man before him and spoke up first
“Seeing that you came to see me right away after your re-evaluation test, may I assume that you know about the ‘normal’ procedures?”.
“Yes, basically . ”.
“In that case, let me not beat around the bush and be direct with you . ”.
“Before that, I’d like to make a deal with you first, Association President . ”.
“A deal?”.
Initially, Goh Gun-Hui felt rather flustered by this young man, who was acting as if he knew he’d be a rank S Hunter from the beginning . However, being spunky was an excellent weapon wielded by the young, was it not?.
 Maybe that was why he didn’t bother to hide the smile naturally floating up on his lips and paid attention to Jin-Woo’s words
“What is it that you want from us, Hunter-nim?”.
“Please, change the regulations so that even the summoned creatures called out by the Hunters are counted as raid team members . ”.
“You want me to change the regulation… . That’s a rather difficult request, isn’t it? I expect an attractive offer from you, powerful enough to sway my mind . ”.
Jin-Woo took his time before making his reply
“I will kill all the ants on Jeju Island . ”.
Right now, replenishing his army took precedence over everything . And Jeju Island was practically crawling with the finest quality monsters ready to be turned into Shadow Soldiers
As long as this offer was accepted, not only would he get to solve the issue of filling up the ranks of the Shadow Army, he would also be spared from the headache of not having usable members in the future as well
Before he woke his mother up with the ‘Divine Water of Life’, he wanted to finish this part of the job first
However, what Jin-Woo said came across as a desire to kill himself to Goh Gun-Hui’s ears
“Don’t say something that nonsensical, young man!”.
 Jin-Woo didn’t lose his cool and calmly released all of the magical energy resting within himself for a very brief moment
A bottomless and vast power defying all attempts to estimate its true scope spread out from Jin-Woo’s body
The truly strong could recognise a fellow strong being; the Association President, often called the ‘sky above the sky’ shook his head in utter disbelief
“How… . Just how… . What on earth… is this?”.
He powerfully shuddered . Never before in his entire life had he felt this amount of magic energy emitted from another human being
A Special Authority-rank Hunter? No, this power had far surpassed their levels . The Association President simply couldn’t bring his slack jaw to a close
“I can take care of all the ants on Jeju Island . ”.
Didn’t Goh Gun-Hui once say that doing so was his life’s wish?.
The older man was about to chide Jin-Woo for being immature and reckless, but after seeing the resolute expression on Jin-Woo’s face, his own expression quickly changed as well
“Are you… being serious?”.
Jin-Woo nodded his head
“This is something only I can do . Please, leave it to me . ”.
***.
Jin-Woo took a long sweeping look at the corpses of ants strewn about from one end of the land all the way to the other side . And he looked below his feet where Beru, no, the ant king’s corpse was resting quietly
It hadn’t been that long since he had seen his loyal soldier, but Jin-Woo yearned to hear Beru’s voice busily calling out to his king again . So, he quickly shouted out towards the ants
“Rise up . ”.
When he did, Shadow Soldiers rose up from the shadows of every single ant he could see . Beru was among them, too
“Oh, my king… . ”.
Jin-Woo took in the sight of several thousand ants kneeling all around him and slowly nodded his head . A brand new army was here
The new Shadow Army, starting from the most perfect state imaginable, swore their loyalty to their new master
However….
After talking to his new soldiers, he became sure of it
“… . Let’s stop this . ”.
Even though a new Shadow Army had been created, there was this gaping hole in his heart that didn’t want to fill back up
Beru looked up with worry, but Jin-Woo knew that even that expression and emotion were all a lie . And that was why his heart ached even more so as he looked at his soldiers
Thick veins popped up in his throat as he loudly yelled out
“I know all of this is just an illusion! Why don’t you stop this charade and reveal yourself?!”.
This illusion was incredibly life-like . Because of that, there had been some moments that he dearly wished for this thing to be his true reality . However, there was no hiding the emptiness in his heart that seemed to grow larger and larger the longer he spent inside this illusion
That was why…
“Hurry up!!”.
Jin-Woo loudly roared into the empty sky above, before finally realising that a change had taken place – that time had frozen still
The gazes of every single ant soldier and their raised heads were directed towards him . For a moment there, he felt goosebumps break out on his skin from receiving all those mechanical stares
It was then
Below his feet, the Sovereign’s Territory, a jet-black shadow rapidly spread out . Everything touched by that shadow all vanished without exception . Beru, the soldiers, corpses, the ground, the sea, and finally, even the sky itself
Soon, the entire ‘world’ became submerged in shadow . No, everything simply transformed into darkness, instead
Only then did a weighty, heavy voice come at him from a place within this darkness
[As long as you want, you can live in this world for all eternity . It will be the same as you never waking from the most wonderful dream . ].
Jin-Woo searched for the voice coming from an unknown direction and made his reply
“Are you telling me to stay trapped within this illusion you have created?”.
[No . I did not create this world . You are responsible for its creation . ].
“I created this world?”.
Jin-Woo was about to reply with “Nonsense!” but sensed something approach him . It was his rear
He quickly spun around . Sure enough, someone was walking closer from within the impenetrable darkness
This figure was kitted out in this exquisite black armour that no other Shadow Soldier could even hope to match . And he also emitted an utterly shocking amount of pressure that no other living being Jin-Woo ever met possessed
He found it hard to open his mouth when he came face to face with this figure . This being spoke to him
[This world was created when your desire to fix all the mistakes you’ve made so far was added to my own power . This place is the world of death . Meaning, this is my true territory . ].
Jin-Woo finally realised then
He finally realised that this dark world he was standing in had been gently and invitingly embracing him all this time
‘So, this is the eternal rest, is it… . ’.
Death
If so, the man who claimed this world on the other side of consciousness as his territory had to be…
Jin-Woo wanted to hear the answer straight from the man’s mouth and asked the question
“And you must be… . ?”.
The man in the black armour slowly walked closer to Jin-Woo
[I have been watching you for far longer than you can imagine . You, who had always been striding close to death, yet always had been resisting bitterly against it . ].
‘You’ve been… . watching me?’.
 I am the evidence of your resistance . I am the reward of your pain . I am death, I am eternal rest, and I am also ‘terror’ . ].
Every word he spoke reverberated weightily within Jin-Woo’s soul
All those memories of him struggling hard to survive despite his weakness fleeted in and out of his mind like a revolving lantern, and made his heart palpitate faster
The figure reached down and grabbed Jin-Woo’s hand and placed it on his own armoured chest
That’s when Jin-Woo’s eyes widened in shock . He could definitely feel ‘it’ beyond the thick metal armour plate
How could he not recognise it?.
How could he not recognise the vigorous pounding of the heart that he always got to hear by concentrating just a little bit harder?.
How could he not recognise the sounds of his second heart, the one where he had no clue where it was beating from?.
It was the Black Heart
The Black Heart was powerfully beating within this armoured figure’s chest
[I am… . ].
The figure quietly finished his words
[… . You . ].
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Resources
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Gene Information eXtension (GIX)
Gene Information eXtension (GIX) is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that allows users to retrieve gene information directly on any website simply by double clicking a gene name. It supports several organisms and gene reports are customizable.
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ProHits-viz
James Knight developed interactive analysis visualization tools for interaction proteomics that enable organizing bait-prey data as heat maps or dot plots, quantitatively comparing two baits, calculating the specificity of preys across baits jointly analyzed, and analyzing the prey-prey relationships (a feature that is most useful for proximity biotinylation studies). With a simple text-based input compatible with SAINT or CRAPome outputs, this web-based resource should facilitate interaction proteomics analysis and visualization.
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ProHits 4.0: Ready for DIA analysis
Guomin (Frank) Liu and colleagues in the Gingras, Nesvizhskii, Bandeira, Choi, Tyers and Raught labs release a major update to the ProHits LIMS. In ProHits 4.0, Data Independent Acquisition (DIA) is handled through DIA-Umpire, MSPLIT-DIA, mapDIA and SAINT-intensity. ProHits 4.0 also facilitates data deposition in public repositories such as MassIVE and the transfer of data to new visualization tools we have developed.
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DIA-Umpire: Integrated solution for Data Independent Acquisition
Chih-Chiang Tsou from the Nesvizhskii lab developed, in collaboration with the Gingras lab, DIA-Umpire, an integrated platform for untargeted and semi-targeted identification and quantification from Data Independent Acquisition. DIA-Umpire works on the basis of demultiplexing complex spectra through retention time alignment of MS1 and MS2 peaks and generation of pseudo-MS/MS spectra that can be searched using standard tools developed for shotgun proteomics. DIA-Umpire is integrated in the next public release of ProHits, in addition to being available as a stand-alone tool.
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MSPLIT-DIA: spectral matching tool for Data Independent Acquisition
Jian Wang from the Bandeira lab developed, in collaboration with the Gingras lab, MSPLIT-DIA, a spectral library matching tool for Data Independent Analysis. MSPLIT-DIA demultiplexes complex spectra through spectral projection, leading to the sensitive identification of peptides in DIA data. Used as a stand-alone, MSPLIT-DIA performs sensitive spectral counting compatible with SAINT analysis, and can also generate assay-specific libraries for targeted re-extraction.
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SAINT series of software tools
Significance Analysis of INTeractome (SAINT) tools for interaction scoring were initially developed for unsupervised analysis of interactome data (Science, 2010), but rapidly adapted by Hyungwon Choi, (Nat Methods, 2011) for semi-supervised analysis of spectral-count based interaction proteomics data using negative controls. More recent advances include the extension to intensity data (JPR, 2012), the implementation of the computationally efficient SAINTexpress (J Proteomics, 2015) and in 2016, the extension of the SAINT-intensity framework to peptides and transitions, for adaptation to Data Independent Analysis (DIA) data (Proteomics, 2016).
- SAINT is maintained by Hyungwon Choi.
- SAINT scoring is implemented within the ProHits LIMS, in the Contaminant Repository for Affinity Purification (CRAPome) and for use with our visualization tools (ProHits-viz).
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ProHits-web: web-accessible quantitative interaction repository
Interaction proteomics repository for the Gingras lab and our collaborators. The repository is meant to support publications by offering access to high quality quantitative interaction proteomics data and other supplementary material through easy graphical user interfaces. We also use the resource to give password-protected access to specific datasets to collaborators and/or reviewers. Developed by JianPian Zhang and Guomin (Frank) Liu.
- ProHits-web
- Publication
- Major datasets currently in ProHits-web include: the HSP90 co-chaperone specificity dataset (Taipale et al., Cell, 2014), an interaction dataset for the myotubularin phosphatases (St-Denis et al., Mol Cell Proteomics, 2015) and a comprehensive map of the centrosome-cilium interface (Gupta et al., Cell, 2015).
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CRAPome: Contaminant Repository for Affinity Purification
Database of annotated negative controls contributed by the research community to help distinguish real interactions from the non-specific background.
- CRAPome, designed by Datta Mellacheruvu and Zach Wright (Nesvizhskii lab).
- Publication
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ProHits - interaction proteomics LIMS
This software helps manage interaction proteomics data. Developed by Guomin (Frank) Liu and JianPian Zhang.
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SAINT version 1 - unsupervised model
SAINT version 1.0 allows users to define interaction significance based on label-free quantitative AP-MS data (optimized for large-scale datasets with no control runs).
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Nested clusters
This software helps in the identification of protein complexes from AP-MS data.
- Nested cluster, developed by Hyungwon Choi.
- Publication
Protocols
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Affinity-purification coupled to mass spectrometry in human cells
Protocols
Sources: Gingras et al., Mol Cell Proteomics, 2005; Chen and Gingras, Methods, 2007; Chen et al., J Biol Chem, 2008; Goudreault et al., Mol Cell Proteomics, 2009;
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Mammlian FLAG AP-MS Protocols
Protocols
- Anti-FLAG AP-MS with Magnetic beads 2012
- Anti-FLAG AP-MS with Agarose beads 2012
- 293 Flp-In FLAG magnetic AP - July 2013
Source: Kean et al., Methods, 2012
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Affinity-purification coupled to mass spectrometry in S. cerevisiae
Protocols
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293 Flp-In FLAG magnetic chromatin optimized AP protocol
Protocol
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Flp-In BioID Streptavidin sepharose chromatin optizided
Protocol
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Flp-In BioID Streptavidin sepharose protocol
Protocol
Source: Couzens et al., Sci Signal, 2013
Reagents
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Cloning vector - pcDNA5-FRT-FLAG & pcDNA5-FRT-eGFP
Sequence of the cloning vector pcDNA5-FRT-FLAG and pcDNA5-FRT-eGFP, for N-terminal tagging and expression in the Invitrogen Flp-In T-REx system.
Sequence
Map
Source: Kean et al., J Biol Chem, 2011
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Cloning Vectors: pDEST-pcDNA5-FLAG N-term & pDEST-pcDNA5-FLAG C-term
Gateway compatible vectors for N-terminal or C-terminal tagging and expression in the Invitrogen Flp-In T-REx system.
Sequence
Map
Source: Couzens et al., Sci Signal, 2013
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BioID Cloning Vectors: pDEST-pcDNA5-BirA-FLAG N-term & pDEST-pcDNA5-BirA-FLAG C-term
Gateway compatible vectors for N-terminal or C-terminal tagging and expression in the Invitrogen Flp-In T-REx system for BioID.
Sequence
Map
Source: Couzens et al., Sci Signal, 2013
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BioID control vectors: pDEST-pcDNA5-BirA-FLAG-GFP and pDEST-pcDNA5-FLAG-NLS-BirA
Vector controls for use with Invitrogen’s Flp-In T-REx system for BioID. Please refer to Couzens et al., 2013 in any publication using the BirA-FLAG-GFP vector and to Lambert et al, 2015 for the FLAG-NLS-BirA vector.
Sequence
Sources: Couzens et al., Sci Signal, 2013; Lambert et al., J Proteomics, 2015
Data
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Interaction data now at ProHits-web
Since 2013, our datasets are released through ProHits-web. We also deposit curated interaction lists at IntAct and BioGRID and our mass spectrometry data at MassIVE.
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Breitkreutz et al., Science, 2010
"A global protein kinase and phosphatase interaction network in yeast". High-confidence interactions were deposited in the BioGrid and IntAct databases.
- YeastKinome.org, developed by C Stark and BJ Breitkreutz.
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Goudreault et al., Mol Cell Proteomics, 2009
All reported interactions were deposited in the BioGrid and IntAct interaction databases.
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Chen et al., J Biol Chem, 2008
All reported interactions were deposited in the BioGrid and IntAct interaction databases.


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