Release Notes
DotNetNuke XML Module 06.00.03
This release is compiled against the .Net 3.5 Framework using VS2012.
The minimum DotNetNuke core version is 5.6.2
Maintenance release
06.00.04
- Fix: Layout information has been ignored, preventing output like csv.
- document() function can be enabled in web.config by setting enableDocument="true" in web config for xslCompiledTransformProvider
- Converted to VS2012
06.00.02
- HttpRequest did not work in Medium Trust
06.00.01
- This release circumvents a bug in DNN6.0.0 which stopped the HttpRequest provider. It introduces no new features.
06.00.00
New Features
- Data Sources and Rendering are now implemented as providers. New data sources
and rendering engines can be added as DotNetNuke providers
- HttpRequest-provider
- Cacheable DataSources
- URL can be defined using TokenReplace
- XslCompiledTransform-provider supports now new XSLT Extension object. These
actions are currently supported:
- setting of page title, page description, module title,
- loading of CSS and javascript files and statements,
- calling TokenReplace to query additonal contect information
New Architecture
- The module switched from VB.NET to C#
- The project was converted from WSP to a Web Application Project (WAP)
- VS2010 project file
- Automatic package creation using MsBuild. Source package requires
msbuildtasks
- Providers build on DotNetNuke.Components, fully supporting DotNetNuke extension
model


[gecode-users] Gecode 2.0.1 released
Guido Tack
tack at ps.uni-sb.de
Thu Feb 7 10:31:49 CET 2008
We would like to announce the release of
Gecode 2.0.1
http://www.gecode.org
This is a bug-fix only release. Very unfortunately, we had to fix
three serious bugs in search (LDS, Restart, and assignment
branchings). We highly encourage you to switch to Gecode 2.0.1 as soon
as possible. For the other changes, please see the changelog on our
web pages.
More binary packages, including Gecode/J 2.0.1, will follow shortly.
Cheers,
Guido
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Run WRF on Raspberry Pi¶
Also known as WRF on Pi, the goal of this project is to run a real weather model on your Raspberry Pi and make a weather forecast. You will run the simulation for the days you want, where you want, visualize the output, and make a forecast. By working through this module, you will gain an understanding of how a weather forecast is made, how a meteorologist adds “value” to the forecast, and you will learn some of the limits and shortcomings of some of our latest weather models.
Forecast¶
Overview:¶
Weather is intertwined within nearly all aspects of our lives.  On an individual level, the weather can affect events like birthday parties, weddings, outdoor concerts, sporting events, and other occasions in our daily lives. In extreme cases, weather can adversely affect both life and property.
Given these impacts, it is very important for us to forecast or predict the future weather. Making a weather forecast isn’t a blind guess, but it is a process of using observations of the current weather to start or initialize a mathematics-based computer model. The model is then used to simulate the weather in the future.
Even though our weather models have been in development since the 1940’s, making an accurate forecast is still very difficult – even for a trained meteorologist. This is because our computer simulations are not perfect. Sometimes they suggest the wrong values for temperature, wind, and precipitation. Therefore, meteorologists use weather models as a guide, and use their expertise to deliver a more accurate forecast.
Goal:¶
The goal of this project is to run a real weather model on your Raspberry Pi and make a weather forecast. You will run the simulation for the days you want, where you want, visualize the output, and make a forecast. By working through this module, you will gain an understanding of how a weather forecast is made, how a meteorologist adds “value” to the forecast, and you will learn some of the limits and shortcomings of some of our latest weather models.
Who this is for:¶
This if for anyone who is interested in running their own weather model or learning how a weather forecast is made. The education module associated with this project is for grades 7-9.
Setup¶
These instructions assume your Raspberry Pi is already up and running.
Section 1. Download and install Docker on your Raspberry Pi¶
The WRF application is run through a program called Docker. It is too complicated for this lesson on how Docker works, but a good description can be found here. Once you have Docker installed onto your computer, it will be very easy to launch the application on your Raspberry Pi.
1.1 Install Docker by opening a terminal and typing¶
curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh
1.2 Launch the application by copying and pasting the following command¶
sudo docker run -it --rm --net=host -e DISPLAY -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority ncar/pi-wrf
When you enter the following command and execute it, Docker downloads the file for you and then launches it. If you close the program, Docker will save the “file” so you do not have to download it the next time you run the application.
Section 2.¶
Once you have launched the appliction, it is time to run it. The app allows you to configure when you want the model to run and for how long. Follow the steps below to make your first forecast.
2.1 Click the Run Forecast Button.¶
2.2 Select a start and end date, and confirm your selection.¶
2.3 Click and drag the domain you would like to select. The map automatically zooms to your domain. If you accidentally choose a domain that is too small, then you may either zoom out or reset the domain. Once you are done, click the run model tab.¶
2.4 Press the run model button when you are ready to run the model. After the model finishes, a button will appear to view the output. Click it to see the results of the model.¶
Verify Your Results:¶
Websites like these are great for determining the observations of your domain:
How the Model Works¶
Creating a real world forecast is a complicated process. It involves combining observations (from satellites, weather balloons, radars, aircraft, buoys, etc.) and short term forecasts, a process called data assimilation. The end goal of data assimilation is to create the initial conditions for the weather model, which is essentially a snapshot of the atmosphere. The initial conditions tell the weather model what the values are for pressure, temperature, wind, and water vapor throughout the entire atmosphere. Once the initial state of the atmosphere is known, the weather model runs, and physics and mathematics take over as the weather model begins to simulate weather in the future.
- data assimilation¶
The process of combining observations and model forecasts
- domain¶
The area you want to simulate
- grid cells¶
The model divides the domain into a series of squares that resembles a checkers/chess board. These squares are known as grid cells
- resolution¶
The size of the grid cells. Having smaller grid cells allows the model to simulate finer and more detailed features. Therefore small grid cells indicate a higher resolution


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Six teenagers arrested following shoot-out with Durban police
by Algoa FMSix teenagers have been arrested following a high-speed car chase and shoot-out with the police on the Dumisani Makhaye Highway in Durban North.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Brigadier Jay Naicker says police officers spotted a vehicle on Friday evening which raised their suspicions, and as they attempted to pull it over, the occupants, aged between 15 and 16, sped off and a chase ensued.
He says when the vehicle reached the highway, the suspects opened fire at the police, and during the shoot-out, one of the suspects was wounded.
He was taken to hospital where he remains under police guard.
Naicker says five other youths were arrested and taken to the Greenwood Park Police Station.
Police seized two firearms.
They were charged with attempted murder and possession of firearms and ammunition, and released into the custody of their parents.
They will appear in the Durban Magistrates' Court on Monday.
- African News Agency


Web Audio Arpeggiator, made by Dave DeSandro. Code on GitHub. May I also recommend: Isotope, Flickity, & Packery


Today we are learning how to style html using classes, divs and spans. Spanning lets me do stuf like red , blue and green, Although not to be confused with spam which is irrelevent. Just need to enclose whatever text we want to affect with blue
Next up are divs which are also fun to use. Like from green to ...
Red!!! Letting me mess with an entire paragraph without using classes.

 Like an example of making this paragraph blue.

I am Alphonso de la Nuve and I enjoy sipping champange by the beach on my private island. Come join and watch as I learn to code since I don't need to work. Other states need to work on making better burritos.


--- layout: newsstory title: XMAS SPIRIT match: Yeltz 1 Gloucester 0 and Yeltz 2 Bath City 1 ---
Two narrow victories at The Grove over the holiday period meant the mighty Yeltz go into 2006 in a little better spirits (let's not go overboard here). A 1-0 win over Gloucester was followed by a 2-1 defeat of Bath City - and yes I was there for the Bath game (and I even saw Howard's very early goal!). Full details as ever in Dave's match reports.
We complete our holiday fixtures today (Monday) when we travel to Merthyr. It's important we keep our good run going if we are going to keep our promotion hopes realistic. We won there last year but it's always a tough place to visit and they're in decent form so a point would be reasonable I reckon.
I'm back from my travels now so the site should be back to normal service - let's hope for a successful 2006!


General election: Nigel Farage 'rejects 11th-hour deal from Boris Johnson'
Boris Johnson suggested only fielding "paper candidates" in Labour-held constituencies to give the Brexit Party a better chance - but the offer was rejected by Nigel Farage who wanted the Tories to stand down entirely
by Joshua Taylor, Catherine Wylie, https://www.facebook.com/dailymirror/Nigel Farage has turned down an 11th-hour electoral pact offer from the Conservatives, according to reports.
Boris Johnson suggested the Tories could put up "paper candidates" in Labour-held seats and do minimal campaigning.
This would give the Brexit Party a stronger chance of winning in Leave-supporting areas.
But the deal was reportedly rejected by Mr Farage - who wanted the Tories to step aside entirely in the constituencies.
He also feared it would leave the Brexit Party with just 40 target seats.
The talks broke down on Tuesday and the deadline to nominate candidates arrives at 4pm today.
Mr Johnson's final offer came after after the Brexit Party withdrew its own candidates from all 317 seats currently held by Conservatives, the Telegraph reports.
Mr Farage described this as the first step towards building a "leave alliance".
But the Brexit Party leader remains under pressure to withdraw even more candidates.
The Prime Minister has insisted voting Conservative is the "only way" to get Brexit done.
Mr Farage has said he will field candidates in every Labour-held seat - in a move that could hamper Tory efforts to win a majority.
A Brexit Party source said: "At every election the Tories have upwards of 100 paper candidates.
"If this offer was made it was an offer of the status quo, in in other words, no offer at all.
"It looks like an attempt to portray the Brexit Party and Nigel Farage as unreasonable, despite the huge concessions that we have made, both on a policy and on the unilateral decision not to stand in the 317 Tory held seats.
"If the Tories are serious then this isn't the way to show it."


ALIEN 3 A film review by Mark Santora Copyright 1992 Mark Santora
ALIEN 3 **** out of *****
******MINOR PLOT SPOILERS IN REVIEW******* *****NO MAJOR SPOILERS ARE IN REVIEW******
The previous two "Alien" films have each had their own unique styles to them. The Ridley Scott's ALIEN was very much a stylistic suspense film. James Cameron's ALIENS was much more of an action film. And I liked each film separately for which it was. Now ALIEN 3 is out. And it is it's own film in the same right that ALIEN and ALIENS were.
Unlike ALIENS, ALIEN 3 requires that you have seen ALIENS. This is very important as the story picks up exactly were ALIENS left off. The survivors of the expedition to LV-426 are returning home after battling and beating the Aliens. The climactic fight scene between Ripley and the Mother Alien on the Sulaco in ALIENS left behind one item, an egg. In the opening sequence we see the egg hatch, find its quarry, which leads to a fire aboard the Sulaco when the facehugger is injured, an leads the Sulaco to jettison the hypersleep tubes in an escape vessel. This vessel crash lands on Fury 109. Everyone in the vessel is killed, except Ripley. The facehugger is jettisoned with them and survives the crash.
Fury 109 is an ex-mining/maximum security prison. When closed down, some of the lifer prisoners decided to stay and live out the remaining years on the planet. All the prisoners are men who have not seen a woman in many years. Ripley's arrival sparks a problem with the inmates. As for the new haircut that Ripley and the prisoner's sport, there is an infestation of lice on the planet. Being an ex-prison means that there is no way off the planet and no weapons. So the prisoners and Ripley are off to face the Alien on their own.
I will not go into detail, but you can guess what happens here. The Alien is loose and no one believes Ripley's outstanding story. She finds comfort in the arms of the colony's doctor. Yes, after 57 years Ripley has sex. It is not gratuitous, in fact, we don't even see them kiss, but it is just as well. A sweaty sex scene would not have worked in the context of the film.
There is a lot more gore in ALIEN 3. In fact I would guess to say that there is more in ALIEN 3 than either of the earlier two. It also sports a new Alien with 4 legs! I won't say how, but it leads us to believe a few new things about the Alien and its cycle, which I am sure will be explored in ALIEN 4.
Sigourney Weaver is back as Ripley and provides another excellent performance of this character. Her scene during the autopsy of Newt is enough to garnish her another academy nomination. The rest of the cast is also quite good. Notably, Charles Dance as the doctor with whom Ripley finds momentary escape from Fury 109.
ALIEN 3 has a very distinct look. This is due largely to its director, David Fincher. Mr. Fincher, who until now has only directed music videos and commercials, has done an incredible job here. His direction is excellent and makes this film come to life in ways no "Alien" film has before. For Mr. Fincher, I see a long prosperous career ahead of him.
The music was also done by a newcomer to the film industry. Elliot Goldenthal has created a deeply moving score which lends itself to the claustrophobic setting that the "Alien" series been set in. This time the score is not so much a rip off of STAR TREK II (James Horner's ALIENS). This score has a choral back up at times and even lends itself to the old style of Ennio Morricone scoring. This is a great score.
The ending to ALIEN 3 is quite good. There were times I thought that Hollywood would come in and screw it up, but it played very nicely. I will not ruin the ending for you. Go see the film. I consider it to be a much more involved film than any of the other films released so far this season. ALIEN 3 is a worthy successor to ALIENS and ALIEN. And when they make ALIEN 4, perhaps they will be able to find yet another new direction to take it in.
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What has gone wrong at Mothercare?
by Dearbail JordanFor many parents, Mothercare inspires warm memories of buying baby clothes or shopping for their first pram.
But cold, hard reality has finally caught up with the retailer and it has announced plans to put its UK business into administration.
Some 2,500 UK jobs are now on the line after Mothercare was unable to find a buyer for the operation.
After 58 years of trading, Mothercare's name could soon disappear from the UK High Street - so what has gone wrong?
Increased competition
Like many struggling retailers, Mothercare has found itself squeezed by the big UK supermarkets, fast fashion brands and the internet.
While it continues to have success overseas - its international business in countries such as India, Indonesia and Russia is not subject to administration - the UK is different.
"The burgeoning middle classes in places like India still seem to trust the Mothercare brand," says retailing consultant Nick Bubb. "But in the UK, the middle class parents are quite happy to save money by buying baby products and kidswear through Amazon or at the supermarkets."
All the big supermarkets have clothing ranges for babies and children, such as Tesco's F&F and Sainsbury's Tu.
And because of their size, supermarkets can be nimble both on pricing and updating their ranges, says Richard Lim, chief executive at Retail Economics.
Meanwhile, fast fashion retailers such as Zara and H&M offer on-trend children's clothing at low prices.
One of the problems, says Mr Lim, is that Mothercare failed to differentiate itself from rivals as a specialist retailer.
"It is all about creating a meaningful experience," he says. "For expectant parents, they don't know how much things are going to cost and what to buy [but] Mothercare didn't provide an environment where they were supported.
"Parents didn't have a strong enough reason to go and visit Mothercare."
The online problem
Mothercare's online business was - for a time - heading in the right direction.
Under chief executive Mark Newton-Jones, UK online sales grew to hit £171.9m in the year to March 2017 before heading back downwards.
Shopping online at Mothercare has proved to be challenging for Northern Ireland mum Mary Lane (pictured).
Her closest store, in Londonderry, has already shut down which means the mum of one, who is expecting her second child, is doing more shopping online.
Unfortunately, she says she had "major difficulties with the online structure of Mothercare due to the geoblocking that automatically sent us to the Irish website rather than the UK site. Also I wasn't able to send links of items to my in-laws in England when they asked for gift suggestions."
While she says she is sad the local store is gone, it is not surprising "since they were not prepared to adapt to customer needs and purchasing trends".
'A downward spiral'
Nearly a decade ago, Mothercare had 353 stores in the UK and 969 overseas.
As its UK business has continued to struggle, it has had to close more and more shops to the point where it only has 79 left in Britain.
Although Mothercare has been focused on reducing losses and debts, Mr Bubb thinks the continual closures may have actually damaged the business.
"Cost-cutting alone is never the answer to a struggling business, as it just demotivates staff and hurts customer service and can cause a downward spiral," he says.
Mothercare's decision to put the UK business into administration before the key Christmas season shows just how bad things have got for the brand, Mr Bubb says. The move came despite the retailer having agreed a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) with its creditors last year which allowed it to close shops and reduce the rent on other sites.
He says: "The fact that the UK business has gone into administration in early November, without even waiting for the Christmas cash to go through the tills, shows how bad things must be.
"And the fact that the CVA last year slashed store rents and that still wasn't enough to stem the losses shows how poor trading must be, in such a competitive market."
Even Mothercare's chief executive Mark Newton-Jones admitted that a 8.9% fall in like-for-like UK sales for the year to March had been "exacerbated in the first half by reduced consumer confidence in the brand following the group's refinancing".
Too many changes at the top
Between 2002 and 2011, Mothercare had the same chief executive, Ben Gordon.
That was until poor performance in the UK business and a series of profit warnings ushered him out the door.
Since then, the company has been led by three different people, one of whom was ousted only to be rehired weeks later.
It has meant that no sooner has one chief executive implemented a turnaround plan than their successor has changed it.
Under Simon Calver, the former boss of defunct postal DVD service Lovefilm, Mothercare pared back its UK shops and introduced in-store cafes and "mumspace" for activities such as yoga.
Just two years later in 2014, he was replaced by Mr Newton-Jones, who swiftly began closing down the yoga studios.
Mr Newton-Jones was briefly ousted early last year by chairman Alan Parker and David Wood, the former boss of US retailer Kmart, who was named as his replacement.
But weeks later Mr Parker was out, Mr Newton-Jones returned and Clive Whiley was named as chairman.
"It is quite extraordinary to have a set of circumstances where the chief executive leaves and then six weeks later, he's asked to come back," says Mr Lim. "It shows a lack of leadership."
Are you a Mothercare employee at risk of losing your job? Or are you a Mothercare customer? Will you be sad to see it go? Share your experiences by emailing<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:


publications
2022
- Can Rationalization Improve Robustness? In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2022 [pdf]
- WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022 [pdf]
2021
- Action-Based Conversations Dataset: A Corpus for Building More In-Depth Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2021 [pdf]
- Non-Parametric Few-Shot Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2021 [pdf]
2020
- Interactive Classification by Asking Informative Questions In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2020 [pdf]
- Autoregressive Knowledge Distillation through Imitation Learning In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020 [pdf]


The viewModelBinder module is used any time the framework needs to bind a view to an object. Usually this happens through using the composition module.
This module exports the following functions:
function bind(obj, view)
- Databinds obj, which can be an arbitrary object, to view which is a dom sub-tree. If obj has a function called beforeBind, then it is called prior to binding. If obj has a function called afterBind, then it is called following binding. Both functions are passed the view.
function bindContext(bindingContext, view [, obj])
- Applies bindings to a view using a pre-existing bindingContext. This is used by the composition module when a view is supplied without a model. It allows the parent binding context to be preserved. If the optional obj parameter is supplied, a new binding context will be created that is a child of bindingContext with its model set to obj. This is used by the widget framework to provide the widget binding while allowing templated parts to access their surrounding scope.
Note: Both the above APIs add helpful logging and debugging support while the framework is in debug mode. If you wish the errors to be reported as such, rather than logged, set
viewModelBinder.throwOnErrors = true;
.
overridable function beforeBind(obj, view)
- Called before every binding operation. Does nothing by default.
overridable function afterBind(obj, view)
- Called after every binding operation. Does nothing by default.


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OpenShift Client
This client helps you develop, build, deploy, and run your applications on any OpenShift or Kubernetes compatible platform. It also includes the administrative commands for managing a cluster under the 'adm' subcommand.
Usage:
oc [flags]
Basic Commands:
types
An introduction to concepts and types
status
Show an overview of the current project
cluster
Start and stop OpenShift cluster
Build and Deploy Commands:
rollout
Manage a Kubernetes deployment or OpenShift deployment config
rollback
Revert part of an application back to a previous deployment
tag
Tag existing images into image streams
Application Management Commands:
get
Display one or many resources
describe
Show details of a specific resource or group of resources
edit
Edit a resource on the server
set Commands that help set specific features on objects
label
Update the labels on a resource
annotate
Update the annotations on a resource
expose
Expose a replicated application as a service or route
delete
Delete one or more resources
scale
Change the number of pods in a deployment
autoscale
Autoscale a deployment config, deployment, replication controller, or replica set
Troubleshooting and Debugging Commands:
logs
Print the logs for a resource
rsh
Start a shell session in a pod
rsync
Copy files between local filesystem and a pod
debug
Launch a new instance of a pod for debugging
exec
Execute a command in a container
proxy
Run a proxy to the Kubernetes API server
attach
Attach to a running container
run
Run a particular image on the cluster
cp
Copy files and directories to and from containers.
wait
Experimental: Wait for one condition on one or many resources
Advanced Commands:
adm
Tools for managing a cluster
create
Create a resource from a file or from stdin.
replace
Replace a resource by filename or stdin
apply
Apply a configuration to a resource by filename or stdin
patch
Update field(s) of a resource using strategic merge patch
process
Process a template into list of resources
export
Export resources so they can be used elsewhere
extract
Extract secrets or config maps to disk
idle
Idle scalable resources
observe
Observe changes to resources and react to them (experimental)
policy
Manage authorization policy
auth
Inspect authorization
convert
Convert config files between different API versions
import Commands that import applications
image
Useful commands for managing images
registry Commands for working with the registry
api-versions
Print the supported API versions on the server, in the form of "group/version"
Settings Commands:
logout
End the current server session
config
Change configuration files for the client
whoami
Return information about the current session
completion
Output shell completion code for the specified shell (bash or zsh)
Other Commands:
ex
Experimental commands under active development
help
Help about any command
plugin
Runs a command-line plugin
version
Display client and server versions
Use "oc <command> --help" for more information about a given command.
Use "oc options" for a list of global command-line options (applies to all commands).


Saratoga Springs Retreat Center is owned and operated by Saratoga Springs Community LLC. We are a group of passionate and dedicated people who came together to steward the land and carry on the legacy of the retreat center. Beginning in 2012, we have developed and are implenting a new plan to improve the property, facilities and services we provide.
Saratoga Springs' staff is dedicated to providing quiet and efficient service to the groups and individuals who are our guests. Our mission is to provide a safe place for one to follow their own path, and to nurture body, mind, and soul.
Saratoga Springs Retreat Center has a long history supporting and serving the LGBTQ community. From its inception in 1993, the center's mission has been to provide a safe and welcoming place for members of the LGBTQ community to gather, learn and flourish. Current owners include organizers and activists from the Queer community of California.
Our customers represent a broad cross section of the LGBTQ family. Many groups have been coming to Saratoga Springs for more than 20 years. We welcome all members of our community to enjoy the features and facilities at Saratoga Springs.


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Requires keys in object literals to be sorted alphabetically
Useful in preventing merge conflicts
Not configurable.
"object-literal-sort-keys": true
{}


General
| Key Press | Command |
|---|---|
| ⌘ + N | New File |
| ⌘ + S | Save File |
| ⌘ + O | Open File |
| ⌘ + ⇧ + N | New Window |
| ⌘ + ⇧ + W | Close Window |
| ⌘ + ⇧ + P | Command Palette |
Selection/Search
| Key Press | Command |
|---|---|
| ⌘ + U | Undo |
| ⌘ + A | Select All |
| ⌘ + D | Expand Selection to Word |
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1. Singh B, Parsaik AK, Mielke MM, et al. Association of Mediterranean diet with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Alzheimers Dis. 2014;39(2):271-282.
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21. Morris MC, Evans DA, Bienias JL, et al. Consumption of fish and n-3 fatty acids and risk of incident Alzheimer disease. Arch Neurol. 2003;60:940-946.
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1. Harvard Health Publications: Harvard Medical School. Regular Exercise Changes the Brain to Improve Memory, Thinking Skills.
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1. Singh B, Parsaik AK, Mielke MM, et al. Association of Mediterranean diet with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Alzheimers Dis. 2014;39(2):271-282.
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6. Ngandu T. et al., A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomized controlled trial. The Lancet. 2014; 386: 2255-2263.
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Getting into GSoC
May 3, 2017
Hello, this post is a brief description of what is GSoC and how I wrote my project proposal for GSoC
What exactly is GSoC?
GSoc stands for Google Summer of code. It is an annual programming event which encourages students at University level to contribute more to open source. A student gets many perks if he successfully completes his/her project including:
- A mentor to learn from.
- Stipend (2400 USD for three months in India) - quite a big deal.
- Referrals when you apply for a job at Google.
- Contacts with programmers round the world.
- A kickstart guide which motivates you to get started on open source development.
For more info, please visit GSoC’s official website
My experience with GSoC
After going rounds through the organisations list for GSoC and shortlisting them on the basis of how much do I fit in the requirements and lurking around in the IRC channel, chat room. Now, reading past messages in coala’s gitter room, I knew one thing for sure - people here are absolutely beginner friendly. Also, the documentation and management structure was so proper that it was easy to get started with and I almost completely fitted in the requirements section. So, I finally realised that I need to work with the coala community.
Initially, I did a beginner issue, which some minor change in the documentation. Since, I had been using unittest for a while, I tried to do something creative while porting from pytest to unittest. But the porting was objected upon and it did seem legit (Here’s the link). I tried to solve a couple of more issues. Review system is wonderful here. Now, since I was interested in the vulture project, I started exploring vulture. It took me around four to five hours of consolidation to get familiar with the code base. Then, I also started working on the project proposal, tried to have a big picture in my mind on how we could possibly implement the VultureBear. Jendrik - my mentor, creator and maintainer of vulture helped me immensely throughout the phase by giving his expert critique. Thank you @jendrik
Some of the college alumni and my friends helped me with finalising an initial draft. I made sure everything was in place and finally submitted it for feedback. Maintainers at coala are so awesome that they even managed proposal review system through which we could submit the link for the draft and they would give feedback within a day or two. After getting it reviewed a couple of times, I finally submitted a PDF a day before.
An incident which happened during the application phase:
It was just one day left for submitting the proposal and the proof of enrolment when I uploaded the proposal and the affidavit one of my professor had prepared (for proof of enrolment) and then went straight to bed. The next day was quite a long day at college and then I had a seminar to attend, so it was around 21:15 when I rang the doorbell. Now, for some reason, before having dinner I decided to open my laptop first and as soon as I open chrome, I see an email from John that you haven’t submitted a proof of enrolment yet. I was quite shocked and the clock rang 21:20 at the time. I suspect this was because of slow internet speed the day before. But anyways, I was able to upload it successfully on time (owe this to John).
I later come to see that John had literally messaged me everywhere he could to notify me about the scenario. (He emailed me, commented on the project proposal, messaged me on hangout, public coala channel and even PM’d me on gitter.)
A big thank you @jayvdb, I have no words to express my gratitude.
Some Remarks:
During the application phase, I was often distracted by a feeling of letting it go - I won’t be selected anyways. But people at coala are generous. ;P. On a more serious note, We should always believe in ourselves. If we think of ourselves as under qualified, or we still don’t know enough, this would only strengthen the procrastination and ultimately, we may not even apply. We should never miss an opportunity.
My mom helped me by believing in me. Thank You Mom
Thank you for reading along. I’ll be posting my project specific details in a seperate post.
UPDATE: Here’s a link to the post containing relevant info on my project


filmcritic.com presents a review from staff member Max Messier. You can find the review with full credits at http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/583d5a965b4ac9cb88256894000d43fd?OpenDocument
The Filth and The Fury A film review by Max Messier copyright 2000 filmcritic.com
Good documentaries aren't hard to find. Great documentaries are few and far between the cracks of cinematic achievements.
The new documentary The Filth and the Fury ranks as one of the great ones. It chronicles the rise and tragic fall of the infamous British Punk band The Sex Pistols, and the cultural impact they have spread upon the world around us. Director Julian Temple takes the film far above the usual VH-1 retrospectives, recounting past glories, drug parties, and the way a musician found God in a motel in Alabama, thus bringing together the catalytic elements that resulted in the musical movement called `Punk.' The Sex Pistols were the forefathers of that movement.
In the late seventies, Britain's social upheaval was severe. A stagnant economy, unemployment, race riots, looting, and strikes intersected with a strong distaste for royalty and the upper class. A working class revolution was in the works. Punk music was its Gabriel's Trumpet, and the Pistols were blowing with all of their might.
With this backdrop, the film then beautifully intertwines social commentary with television commercials of the time, footage of riots, and various news reports. The film then juxtaposes current and past interviews with all five band members as well as home footage of the bandmates' childhood (including a rare interview with Sid Vicious before his death in 1978). The intimacy of these interviews and the evidence of the social strife validate the actions of the members of the Pistols and really makes you feel what the band was trying to convey in the words and rhythms of its music.
Julian Temple was also responsible for the first film concerning the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols: The Great Rock and Roll Swindle. That film painted the Pistols as a brilliant marketing tool in the hands of their manager, Malcolm MacLaren. The Filth and the Fury sets the record straight for the first time. It gives great insight into the motivations of the Pistols, but it also gives the uneducated a great perspective on how the Punk movement began and how it all came hurtling to a blind halt by commercialism, social pressure, and the fear of individuality.
Director: Julian Temple Producers: Anita Camarata & Amanda Temple Starring: Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook
Four stars
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Numerical methods for non linear systems
The Rayleigh Quotient method
Under the assumption of separation of variables, the frequency of vibration can be computed equating the maximum values of the kinetic and strain energies.
Using an assigned shape is equivalent to imposing an additional constraint, the natural frequency is hence a lower bound of the Rayleigh Quotient.
Using the deflections produced by the application of the postulated inertial forces, it is possible to refine the first estimate.
MDOF Systems
Multiple degrees of freedom linear systems are very simple to study if we adopt a matrix notation for the equation of motion...
- Vectorial equation of dynamic equilibrium.
- Linear relationship between displacement, acceleration vector and elastic, inertial force vector are written in terms of a matrix product.
- Homogeneous equation of motion, equation of frequencies, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, eigenvectors' properties.
- Modal superposition.
- A complete example of solution.
- the Newton-Raphson slides,
- the Rayleigh Quotient slides,
- the MDOF systems slides used during most of the lesson, lesson
- a ready to print version of the last slides,
- a notebook with the solution of the 2 DOF problem discussed in class.


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The EPUB® specification is a distribution and interchange format standard for digital publications and documents. EPUB defines a means of representing, packaging and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content — including HTML5, CSS, SVG, images, and other resources — for distribution in a single-file format.
EPUB 3, the third major release of the standard, consists of a set of four specifications, each defining an important component of an overall EPUB Publication:
EPUB Publications 3.0 [Publications30], which defines publication-level semantics and overarching conformance requirements for EPUB Publications.
EPUB Content Documents 3.0 [ContentDocs30], which defines profiles of XHTML, SVG and CSS for use in the context of EPUB Publications.
EPUB Open Container Format (OCF) 3.0 [OCF3], which defines a file format and processing model for encapsulating a set of related resources into a single-file (ZIP) EPUB Container.
EPUB Media Overlays 3.0 [MediaOverlays30], which defines a format and a processing model for synchronization of text and audio.
EPUB has been widely adopted as the format for digital books (eBooks), and these new specifications significantly increase the format's capabilities in order to better support a wider range of publication requirements, including complex layouts, rich media and interactivity, and global typography features. The expectation is that EPUB 3 will be utilized for a broad range of content, including books, magazines and educational, professional and scientific publications.
This document provides a starting point for content authors and software developers wishing to understand these specifications. It consists of non-normative overview material, including a roadmap to the four building-block specification documents that compose EPUB 3.
Another non-normative document, EPUB 3 Changes from EPUB 2.0.1 [EPUB3Changes], describes changes in EPUB 3 from the previous version, but is intended primarily for Authors and EPUB Reading System vendors migrating from EPUB 2.0.1 to EPUB 3 and for those who anticipate supporting both versions.
This section provides an overview of the EPUB 3 specifications by explaining in brief the components of a Publication. Links to additional information within this document and to the specifications are included.
An EPUB Publication, at its most basic level, is a bundled collection of resources that can be reliably and predictably ingested by an EPUB Reading System in order to render its contents to a User. Some of these resources facilitate the discovery and processing of the EPUB Publication, while others make up the content of the source publication. The latter, EPUB Content Documents, are described in Content Documents and are fully defined in [ContentDocs30].
A Publication's resources are typically bundled for distribution as a ZIP-based
archive with the file extension .epub
. As
conformant ZIP archives, Publications can be unzipped by many software programs,
simplifying both their production and consumption. The container format is
introduced in Container and defined in [OCF3].
The container format not only provides a means of determining that the zipped
content represents an EPUB Publication (the mimetype
file), but also provides a universally-named directory of
informative resources (/META-INF
). Key among these
is the container.xml
file, which directs Reading
Systems to the root file of the Publication, the Package Document.
The Package Document is itself a kind of information warehouse for the Publication, storing metadata about the specific work contained in the Publication, providing an exhaustive list of resources and defining a default reading order. The Package Document is introduced in Package Document and defined in [Publications30].
The preceding components of an EPUB Publication are not new to EPUB 3, and will be familiar to anyone who has worked with Publications before, although they have been changed and enhanced in this version. A new core addition to EPUB 3, however, is the Media Overlay Document, which defines a means of synchronizing text and audio playback. The Overlay Document is introduced in Multimedia and defined in [MediaOverlays30].
The following example shows the resources a minimal "Hello World" Publication might contain:
mimetype META-INF/container.xml Content/HelloWorld.opf Content/HelloWorld.xhtml
While conceptually simple, an EPUB Publication is more than just a collection of HTML pages and dependent assets in a ZIP package as represented in this example. The following sections of this document delve into more detail about the primary features and functionality that Publications provide to enhance the reading experience.
This section covers the major features of EPUB, including important components and topics that apply to the process of authoring EPUB Publications as a whole.
Every EPUB Publication includes a single Package Document, which specifies all the Publication's constituent content documents and their required resources, defines a reading order for linear consumption, and associates Publication-level metadata and navigation information.
The Package Document represents a significant improvement on a typical Web site.
A Web site, for example, embeds references to its resources within its content,
which, while a simple and flexible means of identifying resources, makes it
difficult to enumerate all the resources required to render it. In addition,
there is no standard way for a Web site to define that a sequence of pages make
up a larger publication, which is precisely what EPUB's spine
element does (i.e., it provides an external declarative means to explicitly
specify navigation through a collection of documents). Finally, the Package
Document defines a standard way to represent metadata globally applicable to a
collection of pages.
The Package Document and other Publication-level constructs are specified in [Publications30].
The new EPUB Canonical Fragment Identifier (epubcfi) Specification [EPUBCFI] defines a standardized method for linking into a Publication.
Required support for this scheme in Reading Systems means that EPUB now has an interoperable linking mechanism, one that can, for example, facilitate the sharing of bookmarks and reading locations across devices.
EPUB Publications provide a rich array of options for adding Publication metadata. The Package Document includes a dedicated metadata section [Publications30] for general information about the Publication, allowing titles, authors, identifiers and other information about the Publication to be easily accessed. It also provides the means to attach complete bibliographic records to a Publication using the link element [Publications30].
The Package Document also allows a Unique Identifier to be established for a Publication using the unique-identifier attribute [Publications30]. The required last-modified date in the Package metadata section can be joined with this identifier to define a Package Identifier, which provides a means of distinguishing EPUB Publications that represent different versions of the same Manifestation (see Publication Identifiers [Publications30]). The Package Identifier addresses the issue of how to release a Publication without changing its Unique Identifier while still identifying it as a new version.
XHTML Content Documents also include the means of annotating document markup with rich metadata, making them more semantically meaningful and useful both for processing and accessibility purposes (Semantic Inflection [ContentDocs30]).
Every EPUB Publication contains one or more EPUB Content Documents, as defined in [ContentDocs30]. These are XHTML or SVG documents that describe the readable content of a Publication and reference associated media resources (e.g., images, audio and video clips).
XHTML Content Documents are defined by a profile of HTML5 that requires the use of XML serialization [HTML5] in order to ensure that content can be reliably manipulated and rendered. This profile also adds two additional EPUB-specific language constructs: the epub:type attribute [ContentDocs30] for element-level metadata and the epub:trigger element [ContentDocs30] for declaratively associating controls with multimedia elements.
These additions do not affect the ability of an HTML5 User Agent [HTML5] to render EPUB XHTML Content Documents, but Publications might not render identically in all User Agents depending on their support.
A key concept of EPUB is that content presentation should adapt to the User rather than the User having to adapt to a particular presentation of content. HTML was originally designed to support dynamic rendering of structured content, but over time HTML as supported in Web browsers has become focused on the needs of Web applications, and most popular Web sites now have fixed-format layouts.
EPUB Publications, however, are designed to maximize accessibility for the visually impaired, and Reading Systems typically perform text line layout and pagination on the fly, adapting to the size of the display area, the User's preferred font size, and other environmental factors. This behavior is not guaranteed in EPUB; images, vector graphics, video and other non-reflowable content may be included, and some Reading Systems might not paginate on the fly, or at all. Nevertheless, supporting dynamic adaptive layout and accessibility has been a primary design consideration throughout the evolution of the EPUB standard.
EPUB Content Documents may optionally reference EPUB Style Sheets, allowing Authors to define the desired rendering properties. EPUB 3 defines a profile of CSS based on CSS 2.1 [CSS2.1] for this purpose, together with capabilities defined by various CSS3 Modules and several additional properties specific to EPUB.
CSS3 properties were selected based on their current level of support in Web browsers, but support for them in Reading Systems and User Agents is not guaranteed (EPUB-defined properties may similarly be ignored).
EPUB 3 also supports CSS styles that enable both horizontal and vertical layout and both left-to-right and right-to-left writing, but Reading Systems might not support all of these capabilities. Reading Systems may also support different rendering options than the Author intended. Refer to CSS in the Global Language Support section for more information.
EPUB 3 also supports the ability to include multiple style sheets that allow users, for example, to select between day/night reading modes or to change the rendering direction of the text. Refer to Alternate Style Tags [ContentDocs30] for more information.
EPUB 3 supports audio and video embedded in [content documents] via the new [HTML5]
audio
and video
elements, inheriting all the
functionality and features these elements provide. (For information on supported
audio formats, please refer to Core Media
Types
[Publications30].
For recommendations on embedding video, refer to Reading System
Conformance
[Publications30].)
Another key new multimedia feature in EPUB 3 is the inclusion of Media Overlay Documents [MediaOverlays30]. When pre-recorded narration is available for a Publication, Media Overlays provide the ability to synchronize that audio with the text of a Content Document (see also Aural Renditions and Media Overlays).
EPUB 3 supports two closely-related font formats — OpenType [OpenType] and WOFF [WOFF] — to accommodate both traditional publishing workflows and emerging Web-based workflows. Word processing programs used to create Publications are likely to have access only to a collection of installed OpenType fonts, for example, whereas Web-archival EPUB generators will likely only have access to WOFF resources (which cannot be converted to OpenType without undesirable, and potentially unlicensed, stripping of WOFF metadata).
EPUB 3 also supports both obfuscated and regular font resources for both OpenType and WOFF font formats. Support for obfuscated font resources is required to accommodate font licensing restrictions for many commercially-available fonts.
EPUB strives to treat content declaratively — as data that can be manipulated, not programs that must be executed — but does support scripting as defined in HTML5 and SVG (refer to Scripted Content Documents [ContentDocs30] for more information).
It is important to note, however, that scripting support is optional for Reading Systems and may be disabled for security reasons.
Authors should also note that scripting in an EPUB Publication can create security considerations that are different from scripting within a Web browser. For example, typical same-origin policies are not applicable to content that has been downloaded to a User's local system. Therefore, it is strongly encouraged that scripting be limited to container constrained contexts, as further described in Scripted Content Documents — Content Conformance [ContentDocs30].
Scripting consequently should be used only when essential to the User experience, since it greatly increases the likelihood that content will not be portable across all Reading Systems and creates barriers to accessibility and content reusability.
EPUB 3 provides the following text-to-speech (TTS) facilities for controlling aspects of speech synthesis, such as pronunciation, prosody and voice characteristics:
Pronunciation
Lexicons
The inclusion of generic pronunciation lexicons using the W3C PLS format [PLS] enables Authors to provide pronunciation rules that apply to the entire EPUB Publication. Refer to PLS Documents [ContentDocs30] for more information.
Inline SSML
Phonemes
The incorporation of SSML phonemes functionality [SSML] directly into a EPUB Content Document [ContentDocs30] enables fine-grained pronunciation control, taking precedence over default pronunciation rules and/or referenced pronunciation lexicons (as provided by the PLS format mentioned above). Refer to SSML Attributes [ContentDocs30] for more information.
CSS Speech
Features
The inclusion of a select set of features from the CSS 3 Speech Module [CSS3Speech] (previously known as CSS 2.1 Aural Stylesheets [CSS2.1]) enables Authors to control further speech synthesis characteristics. Refer to CSS 3.0 Speech [ContentDocs30] for more information.
An EPUB Publication is transported and interchanged as a single file (a "portable document") that contains the Package Document, all Content Documents and all other required resources for processing the Publication. The single-file container format for EPUB is based on the widely adopted ZIP format. An XML manifest that specifies the location in the ZIP archive of the Package Document must be found at a well-defined location within the archive.
This approach provides a clear contract between any creator of an EPUB Publication and any system which consumes such Publications, as well as a reliable representation that is independent of network transport or file system specifics.
An EPUB Publication's representation as a container file is specified in [OCF3].
EPUB 3 supports alternate representations of all text metadata items in the
package metadata section to improve global distribution of Publications. The
alternate-script
property can be combined with
the xml:lang
attribute to include and identify alternate script
renditions of language-specific metadata.
Using this property, a Japanese Publication could, for example, include an alternate Roman-script representation of the author's name and/or one or more representations of the title in Romance languages. Refer to the alternate-script property [Publications30] for more information.
The page-progression-direction
attribute also allows the content
flow direction to be globally specified for all Content Documents to facilitate
rendering (see the page-progression-direction
[Publications30]).
XHTML Content Documents leverage the new HTML5 directionality features to improve
support for bidirectional content rendering: the bdi
element allows
an instance of directional text to be isolated from the surrounding content, the
bdo
element allows directionality to be overridden for its
child content and the dir
attribute allows the directionality of
any element to be explicitly set.
XHTML Content Documents also support ruby annotations for pronunciation support (which makes them supported in Navigation Document links, as well).
SVG Content Documents support the rendering of bidirectional text, but do not include support for ruby.
EPUB 3's support for new CSS3 modules enables typography for many different languages and cultures. Some specific enhancements include:
support for vertical writing, which also provides Reading Systems the ability to allow users to toggle direction;
better handling of emphasis, such as the inclusion of bōten;
better control over line breaking, so that breaks can occur at the character level for languages that do not use spaces to delimit new words; and
better control over hyphenation, to further facilitate line breaking.
EPUB 3 does not require that Reading Systems come with any particular set of built-in system fonts. As occurs in Web contexts, Users in a particular locale may have installed fonts that omit characters required for other locales, and Reading Systems may utilize intrinsic fonts or font engines that do not utilize operating system installed fonts. As a result, the text content of a Publication might not natively render as intended on all Reading Systems.
To address this problem, EPUB 3 supports the embedding of fonts to facilitate the rendering of text content, and this practice is recommended in order to ensure content is rendered as intended.
Support for embedded fonts also ensures that Publication-specific characters and glyphs can be embedded for proper display.
EPUB 3's support for PLS documents and SSML attributes increases the pronunciation control that Authors have over the rendering of any natural language in text-to-speech-enabled Reading Systems. Refer to Text-to-speech in the Features section for more information on these capabilities.
The combination of CSS Speech and inline SSML phonemes also allows fine control over ruby.
The OCF container format supports UTF-8, allowing for internationalized file and directory naming of content resources.
A major goal of EPUB is to facilitate content accessibility, and a variety of features in EPUB 3 support this requirement. This section reviews these features, detailing some established best practices for ensuring that EPUB Publications are accessible where applicable.
It is important to note that while accessibility is important in its own right, accessible content is also more valuable content: an accessible Publication will be adaptable to more devices and be easier to reuse, in whole or in part, via human and automated workflows. The EPUB Working Group strongly recommends that Authors use EPUB tools that generate accessible content.
HTML5 supports a number of new elements intended to make markup more semantically
meaningful (e.g., section
, nav
, aside
)
and introduces more clearly defined semantics for some HTML4 elements. These
elements, in conjunction with best practices for authoring well-structured Web
content, should be utilized when creating EPUB XHTML Content Documents. These
additions allow content to be better grouped and defined, both for representing
the structure of documents and to facilitate their logical navigation. XHTML
Content Documents also natively support the inclusion of ARIA role and state
attributes and events, enhancing the ability of Assistive Technologies to
interact with the content.
EPUB 3 further introduces the epub:type [ContentDocs30] attribute, which is meant to be functionally equivalent to the W3C Role Attribute [Role]. This attribute allows any element in an XHTML Content Document to include additional information about its purpose and meaning within the work, using controlled vocabularies and terms. Refer to Semantic Inflection [ContentDocs30] for more information.
The design center of EPUB is dynamic layout: content is typically intended to be formatted on the fly rather than being typeset in a paginated manner in advance (i.e., expecting a particular sized "page"). This core capability is useful, for example, for optimizing rendering onto different sized device screens or window sizes, and it facilitates and simplifies content accessibility.
While it is possible to incorporate more highly formatted content in EPUB — for example via bitmap images or SVG graphics, or even use of CSS explicit positioning and/or table elements to achieve particular visual layouts — Authors are strongly discouraged from utilizing such techniques. They are not reliable in EPUB since many Reading Systems render content in a paginated manner rather than creating a single scrolling Viewport and since each Reading System may define its own pagination algorithm. If these techniques are required to convey the content of the publication (for example, for graphic novels), fallbacks [Publications30] should always be included.
In general, it is preferable to achieve visual richness by using EPUB Style Sheets without absolute sizing or positioning.
Aural renditions of content are important for accessibility and are a desirable feature for many other Users. A baseline to facilitate aural rendering is to utilize semantic HTML designed for dynamic layout. Refer to Text-to-speech for more information on how to use the native facilities that EPUB XHTML Documents include.
Media Overlays provide the ability to synchronize the text and audio content of a Publication, a feature already familiar to readers of DAISY Digital Talking Books. Overlays transcend the accessibility domain in their usefulness: the synchronization of text and audio as a tool for learning to read, for example, being of benefit in many circumstances.
Not all formats are accessible in their native format, and not all Users prefer to read in the default format provided. EPUB defines a variety of means for providing fallbacks so that alternate renditions of a Publication can be made available in these cases.
Publication and content-level fallbacks are defined in Restrictions and Fallbacks [Publications30]. These allow for the alternate rendition of specific resources within a Publication, such as SVG images or video clips.
In addition, multiple instances of a complete work can be delivered in a single
Publication by defining multiple rootfile
elements in the OCF
container file (as described in Container –
META-INF/container.xml
[OCF3]). This
kind of fallback may be used, for example, so that a formatted graphic novel
defined via a sequence of SVG pages can be accompanied by an accessible text
version defined via XHTML.
EPUB 3 adopts a progressive enhancement approach for scripted content, whereby scripting must not interfere with the integrity of the document (i.e., must not result in information loss when scripting is not available). Consequently, although documents that do employ scripting may provide fallbacks [ContentDocs30] to further facilitate access to their contents, the documents must be accessible without them.
Several mechanisms in EPUB can further minimize and constrain scripting within Publications to improve accessibility:
The declarative trigger element [ContentDocs30] added to the EPUB HTML5 profile enables image or textual elements to act as controls for audio and video playback (for example, to start, stop and pause playback). This element eliminates the common use of scripting to include similar functionality.
The mediaType element [Publications30] provides a means of encapsulating script-based support for rendering custom XML vocabularies or other custom content types, as well as future-proofs Publications in case such content types are natively supported in future Reading Systems.
The semantic inflection capability provided by the type attribute [ContentDocs30] enables Authors to provide hints to Reading Systems about content properties. One use case is to define elements such as images and video as having a zoomable property value, in which case a Reading System may provide a means for Users to access an expanded view that is out-of-line with the normal layout. Such rollover effects are typically implemented via scripting in Web contexts, but scripting cannot be readily implemented given the wide variety of layouts that a Reading System may generate.
The switch element [ContentDocs30] provides a declaractive means for Authors to tailor the content displayed to Users without having to resort to scripted solutions.
Best practices for accessible scripting in Web documents, such as provided in [WAI-ARIA], should always be consulted, and use of scripting should be reserved for situations in which interactivity is critical to the User experience.


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Seven months after getting through the interview, I was at the Kempegowda International Airport, ready to leave for a two month long overseas trip to Halifax in Canada. Picking my two filled carry bags and collecting my air tickets I was finally ready for my sojourn in the Capital of Nova Scotia.
Getting an internship offer at Dalhousie University was nothing short of a surprise to me. Thanks, to Prof Kavi Mahesh, it was indeed a dream come true. I had been assigned to Prof Stan Matwin, a member of the Canada Research Chair and had to work in the domain of Big Data Analytics.
After nearly a twenty hour bumpy ride with two stops in Frankfurt and Montreal, I finally reached Halifax. Prof Mike Shepherd, the then DEAN of Computer Sciences, took me to Howe Hall, which would be my home for the next 9 weeks.
Canada was exciting from the very first day. I expected to be hit by a huge Cultural Shock, fortunately there wasn't much a difference. Prof Shepherd and his team kept me at ease at all times. Raghav Sampangi, a postdoc at Dalhousie, introduced us to the working princicples of the university. Vidhya Mam, (as I fondly called her), introduced me to Prof Stan and the Big Data Lab, the place where I was assigned to work. I was called as "Visiting Researcher".
The first meeting went off well. I was given a project related to Spatiotemporal Visualization, a field that I loved. The project was to be done using GIS Systems and R Language. As I had ample knowledge in that field, the project was simple to start.
Weekly meetings with all the other professors were also organised. It was to ensure that I was updated with the current on-going projects in the department. They also made me work more so that I meet their expectations. I even had the oppurtunity of meeting Prof Carolyn, the VPA of Dalhousie. She later tweeted about the meet.
Visiting CS undergrads from PES university in Bangalore share their research projects with us today. Great work. pic.twitter.com/KPyxSyEVur
— carolyn watters (@CarolynatDal) July 3, 2015
That's me, second from left, in between the Shepherds
The Project started off with a good pace. Projects back home, in PES, did help me a lot while doing this project. The Data was from the Atlantic Canada Oppurtunities Agency and I had to visualize that on the Elections Dataset. It invovled the usage of shapefiles and polygon visualization.
Towards the end of June, I joined Mrs Somayeh Fatahi to visualize sales data. Another interesting project, it involved the depiction of various supermarket stores (like the Atlantic Super Store) across Canada using ink-drop visualization.
The last day was a bit hectic. I had an hour long meet with Prof Stan where we discussed the future of the project. It was followed by a conference meet with other professors where I had to demonstate the work that was done till then. Finally the day ended with a seminar on Using distributed word vector representation for text classification by Prof Vera Sazonova. My project at the Big Data Centre was over. I managed to catch hold of my professor for a photograph.
I miss Prof Stan and his cute smile
Overall, the internship at Dalhousie gave me many unforgettable memories. Be it the lectures, interactions with the different professors or speaking with the other staff, all left an indelible impression on my mind. The stay was a truly a memorable one and I will certainly cherish those moments throughout my life.


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