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A. GS1 Related Indian Society 1. Every third child bride in the world is Indian: report B. GS2 Related Polity 1.  WCO lauds India’s trade facilitation plan 2. Digital trade games Environment and Ecology 1. A Sunderbans denizen staves off extinction D. GS4 Related E. Concepts-in-News: Related Concepts to Revise/Learn F. Bills/Acts/Schemes/Orgs in News G. UPSC Prelims Practice Questions H. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
UPSC Current Affairs 2017: News Analysis
A. GS1 Related
1. Every third child bride in the world is Indian: report
Report: ‘Eliminating Child Marriage in India’, released by ActionAid India highlights-
- Every third child bride in the world is an Indian.
- There had been some improvement in the age of marriage, but that India still accounted for about 33% of all child marriages in the world. Of the married female population in India, 30.2% had been child brides.
- 75% of all child marriages took place in rural areas as on 2011. The number was even higher for the period between 2007 and 2011, at 82%.
- Uttar Pradesh accounted for the highest percentage of child marriages in India, at 16.6%. U.P., Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh accounted for 70% of all child marriages in India as of 2011.
B. GS2 Related
1. Mentally retarded adult not a child: SC
Context
- A “mentally-retarded” adult cannot be considered a child and given refuge under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act of 2012, the Supreme Court held.
- The case before the court was that of a rape victim, whose biological age is 38 though medical reports conclude that her “mental age” is that of six-year-old.
Biological age
- The petitioner said the biological age of a person should not be the governing yardstick for POCSO, which seeks to protect children from sexual abuse.
- Treat them with fragility and provide them gentle care throughout the criminal trial and swiftly punish the guilty.
- Any person, even an adult, who is incapable of understanding what is happening to her, is equal to a child.
- A holistic interpretation of the term ‘child’ to include intellectually-vulnerable adults serves the basic purpose of the 2012 Act.
SC Judgement
- In separate judgments, agreed that a judge cannot take on the role of the legislator.
- It is not for the judge to decide “what the law ought to be instead of what the law is”.
- Definition of the term ‘child’ in Section 2(d) is exhaustive and includes only persons below the biological age of 18.
- The 2012 Act recognises the phenomenon of “mental disability,” but confines its ambit to only the mental disability of minors.
- The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 Definition of a child under the Act: The Act is gender-neutral and defines a child as any person below the age of eighteen years.
- The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 provides:
- Precise definitions for different types of Child abuse crimes
- Stringent punishments
- Mandatory reporting
- Child-friendly procedures
- Under Section 45 of the Act, the power to make rules rests with the Central Government
- Qualifications and experience of interpreters
- Arrangements for care and protection
- Criteria for award of compensation by the Special Court
- The rules rely on the structures established under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.
1. WCO lauds India’s trade facilitation plan
In news:
- The World Customs Organisation (WCO) describes India’s National Trade Facilitation Action Plan (NTFAP) as a ‘best practice’ other nations can adopt
- The WCO is impressed by the fact that as many as 51 of the 76 activities mentioned in the NTFAP “go beyond” the implementation requirements of the World Trade Organisation’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)
- The TFA is meant to ease Customs norms for faster flow of goods across borders- had come into effect in February 2017
What is NTFAP?
- It aims to cut cargo release time for exports and imports as part of measures to boost goods trade
- The NTFAP is to be implemented between 2017 and 2020, is part of India’s efforts to improve its ease of doing business ranking
World Customs Organization
- The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium
- It has 182 member nations (including India) that manage more than 98% of world trade.
- The WCO is noted for its work in areas covering the development of international conventions, instruments, and tools on topics such as commodity classification, valuation, rules of origin, collection of customs revenue, supply chain security, international trade facilitation, customs enforcement activities, combating counterfeiting in support of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), drugs enforcement, illegal weapons trading, integrity promotion, and delivering sustainable capacity building to assist with customs reforms and modernization
- The WCO maintains the international Harmonized System (HS) goods nomenclature, and administers the technical aspects of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements on Customs Valuation and Rules of Origin
Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA)
- The TFA is the WTO’s first-ever multilateral accord that aims to simplify customs regulations for the cross-border movement of goods. It was outcome of WTO’s 9th Bali (Indonesia) ministerial package of 2013
- The agreement includes provisions for Lowering import tariffs and agricultural subsidies: It will make it easier for developing countries to trade with the developed world in global markets
- Abolish hard import quotas: Developed countries would abolish hard import quotas on agricultural products from the developing world and instead would only be allowed to charge tariffs on amount of agricultural imports exceeding specific limits
- Reduction in red tape at international borders: It aims to reduce red-tapism to facilitate trade by reforming customs bureaucracies and formalities.
Context:
- Need for an efficient ‘data flow’ strategy for India
- Many countries are placing great limitations on digital policymaking in the name of promoting e-commerce
- Few people understand the real nature of the digital issues involved
- And the relevant policy requirements of the present and the future
Wrong consideration
- Free global flow of data is wrongly presented as being the same as the free flow of information
- The data that underpins global media, or personal/social communication networks is one thing
- And the data basic to banking, retailing, the defence forces, public services, health, education services,etc is an entirely different matter
Needs to be done?
- Instead of seeing it as a global flow of data, one must see it as a global flow of intelligence
Nature of digital intelligence
- First, digital intelligence is going to be by far the single most important economic resource
- Whoever has it controls everything
- Second, digital intelligence tends to concentrate strongly around a few poles or centres
Effects of digital intelligence on future world
- The nature of digital intelligence will results in every sector getting organised around a very few centres of sectoral digital intelligence
- Countries will be forced to negotiate with countries which supplies most of their A.I. software, for example, China or the United States
- Why: to essentially become that country’s economic dependent
- How: by taking in welfare subsidies in exchange for letting the “parent” nation’s A.I. companies continue to profit from the dependent country’s users
- Such economic arrangements would reshape today’s geopolitical alliances
Digital Industrialisation in India
- India must consider a digital industrialisation strategy
- Why: to ensure that digitally-induced efficiencies in every sector to be retained within India and not allowed to flow out without any obstruction
- This will not only ensure that our economy and society are not controlled from outside but also protect existing jobs and create many more new ones
- But if it allows such outflows, it will soon find itself on the wrong side of digital colonisation
Requirements for starting a Digital Industrialisation in India
- This requires an independent digital policy, including protections for India’s digital industry
Category: ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. A Sunderbans denizen staves off extinction
In news:
- A critically endangered- the rare Northern river terrapin (Batagur baska), resident of the Sunderbans is set to get a new home, beginning a slow journey to recovery from a disastrous decline in the wild. It is more threatened than the Bengal tiger, but far less known.
- Batagur baska, the 60-cm-long turtle that is presumed extinct in several Southeast Asian countries, is classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) in its Red List of threatened species. The tiger, by comparison, is endangered.
- Batagur baska is described as the world’s second most endangered turtle.
- The Yangtze giant soft shell turtle, Rafetus swinhoei, is considered the most endangered freshwater turtle.
- Habitat of Batagur baska: river estuarine.
- Of six large fresh water turtles of the genus Batagur, three are found in India. Batagur kachuga (Red-crowned roofed turtle) and Batagur dhongoka (Three-striped roofed turtle) are found in the tributaries of the Ganga, such as Chambal.
D. GS4 Related
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E. Concepts-in-News: Related Concepts to Revise/Learn
F. Bills/Acts/Schemes/Orgs in News
G. Practice Questions for UPSC Prelims Exam
Question 1. The rare Northern river terrapin has been classified as _______, under
IUCN’s Red data book.
- Rajasthan
- Assam
- Haryana
- Kerala
Question 2. Consider the following statement with reference to Trade Facilitation
Agreements
- The agreement includes provisions for Lowering import tariffs and agricultural subsidies
- TFA aims to reduce red-tapism to facilitate trade by reforming customs bureaucracies and formalities
Choose the correct statement.
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
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Question 3. The Green Climate Fund has been established by the _________.
- World Bank
- United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Bonn Convention
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Question 4. Consider the following statements:
- In case of any delay in conducting the election of new President by any reason, the Vice President acts as President until a new President is elected
- When a vacancy occurs in the office of Vice President for any reason other than sickness, the Chief Justice of India acts as the Vice President until a new Vice President is elected
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
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Question 5. Which one of the following island-countries is NOT located in the Indian Ocean?
- Seychelles
- Madagascar
- Comoros
- Cyprus
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- “Spreading education and building confidence among girls enables them to resist child marriage and chart their own lives” Discuss.
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import pandas as pd
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Case study - Conflict mapping: mining sites in eastern DR Congo¶
In this case study, we will explore a dataset on artisanal mining sites located in eastern DR Congo.
Note: this tutorial is meant as a hands-on session, and most code examples are provided as exercises to be filled in. I highly recommend actually trying to do this yourself, but if you want to follow the solved tutorial, you can find this in the _solved
directory.
Background¶
IPIS, the International Peace Information Service, manages a database on mining site visits in eastern DR Congo: http://ipisresearch.be/home/conflict-mapping/maps/open-data/
Since 2009, IPIS has visited artisanal mining sites in the region during various data collection campaigns. As part of these campaigns, surveyor teams visit mining sites in the field, meet with miners and complete predefined questionnaires. These contain questions about the mining site, the minerals mined at the site and the armed groups possibly present at the site.
Some additional links:
Tutorial on the same data using R from IPIS (but without geospatial aspect): http://ipisresearch.be/home/conflict-mapping/maps/open-data/open-data-tutorial/
Interactive web app using the same data: http://www.ipisresearch.be/mapping/webmapping/drcongo/v5/
1. Importing and exploring the data¶
The mining site visit data¶
IPIS provides a WFS server to access the data. We can send a query to this server to download the data, and load the result into a geopandas GeoDataFrame:
import requests
import json
wfs_url = "http://geo.ipisresearch.be/geoserver/public/ows"
params = dict(service='WFS', version='1.0.0', request='GetFeature',
typeName='public:cod_mines_curated_all_opendata_p_ipis', outputFormat='json')
r = requests.get(wfs_url, params=params)
data_features = json.loads(r.content.decode('UTF-8'))
data_visits = geopandas.GeoDataFrame.from_features(data_features, crs={'init': 'epsg:4326'})
However, the data is also provided in the tutorial materials as a GeoJSON file, so it is certainly available during the tutorial.
- Read the GeoJSON file `data/cod_mines_curated_all_opendata_p_ipis.geojson` using geopandas, and call the result `data_visits`.
- Inspect the first 5 rows, and check the number of observations
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping3.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping4.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping5.py
The provided dataset contains a lot of information, much more than we are going to use in this tutorial. Therefore, we will select a subset of the column:
data_visits = data_visits[['vid', 'project', 'visit_date', 'name', 'pcode', 'workers_numb', 'interference', 'armed_group1', 'mineral1', 'geometry']]
data_visits.head()
Before starting the actual geospatial tutorial, we will use some more advanced pandas queries to construct a subset of the data that we will use further on:
# Take only the data of visits by IPIS
data_ipis = data_visits[data_visits['project'].str.contains('IPIS') & (data_visits['workers_numb'] > 0)]
# For those mining sites that were visited multiple times, take only the last visit
data_ipis_lastvisit = data_ipis.sort_values('visit_date').groupby('pcode', as_index=False).last()
data = geopandas.GeoDataFrame(data_ipis_lastvisit, crs=data_visits.crs)
Data on protected areas in the same region¶
Next to the mining site data, we are also going to use a dataset on protected areas (national parks) in Congo. This dataset was downloaded from http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/congo-basin-forests/democratic-republic-congo#project-tabs and included in the tutorial repository: data/cod_conservation.zip
.
- Extract the `data/cod_conservation.zip` archive, and read the shapefile contained in it. Assign the resulting GeoDataFrame to a variable named `protected_areas`.
- Quickly plot the GeoDataFrame.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping10.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping11.py
Conversion to a common Coordinate Reference System¶
We will see that both datasets use a different Coordinate Reference System (CRS). For many operations, however, it is important that we use a consistent CRS, and therefore we will convert both to a commong CRS.
But first, we explore problems we can encounter related to CRSs.
Goma is the capital city of North Kivu province of Congo, close to the border with Rwanda. It’s coordinates are 1.66°S 29.22°E.
- Create a single Point object representing the location of Goma. Call this `goma`.
- Calculate the distances of all mines to Goma, and show the 5 smallest distances (mines closest to Goma).
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping12.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping13.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping14.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping15.py
The distances we see here in degrees, which is not helpful for interpreting those distances. That is a reason we will convert the data to another coordinate reference system (CRS) for the remainder of this tutorial.
- Make a visualization of the national parks and the mining sites on a single plot.
Check the first section of the [04-more-on-visualization.ipynb](04-more-on-visualization.ipynb) notebook for tips and tricks to plot with GeoPandas.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping16.py
You will notice that the protected areas and mining sites do not map to the same area on the plot. This is because the Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) differ for both datasets. Another reason we will need to convert the CRS!
Let’s check the Coordinate Reference System (CRS) for both datasets.
The mining sites data uses the WGS 84 lat/lon (EPSG 4326) CRS:
data.crs
The protected areas dataset, on the other hand, uses a WGS 84 / World Mercator (EPSG 3395) projection (with meters as unit):
protected_areas.crs
We will convert both datasets to a local UTM zone, so we can plot them together and that distance-based calculations give sensible results.
To find the appropriate UTM zone, you can check http://www.dmap.co.uk/utmworld.htm or https://www.latlong.net/lat-long-utm.html, and in this case we will use UTM zone 35, which gives use EPSG 32735: https://epsg.io/32735
- Convert both datasets (`data` and `protected_areas`) to EPSG 32735. Name the results `data_utm` and `protected_areas_utm`.
- Try again to visualize both datasets on a single map.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping19.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping20.py
More advanced visualizations¶
For the following exercises, check the first section of the [04-more-on-visualization.ipynb](04-more-on-visualization.ipynb) notebook for tips and tricks to plot with GeoPandas.
- Make a visualization of the national parks and the mining sites on a single plot.
- Pay attention to the following details:
- Make the figure a bit bigger.
- The protected areas should be plotted in green
- For plotting the mining sites, adjust the markersize and use an `alpha=0.5`.
- Remove the figure border and x and y labels (coordinates)
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping21.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping22.py
In addition to the previous figure:
- Give the mining sites a distinct color based on the `'interference'` column, indicating whether an armed group is present at the mining site or not.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping23.py
In addition to the previous figure:
- Give the mining sites a distinct color based on the `'mineral1'` column, indicating which mineral is the primary mined mineral.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping24.py
2. Spatial operations¶
- Access the geometry of the "Kahuzi-Biega National park".
- Filter the mining sites to select those that are located in this national park.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping25.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping26.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping27.py
- PART 1 - do this for a single mining site:
- Get a single mining site, e.g. the first of the dataset.
- Calculate the distance (in km's) to all protected areas for this mining site
- Get the index of the minimum distance (tip: `idxmin()`) and get the name of the protected are corresponding to this index.
- PART 2 - apply this procedure on each geometry:
- Write the above procedure as a function that gets a single site and the protected areas dataframe as input and returns the name of the closest protected area as output.
- Apply this function to all sites using the `.apply()` method on `data_utm.geometry`.
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping28.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping29.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping30.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping31.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping32.py
3. Using spatial join to determine mining sites in the protected areas¶
Based on the analysis and visualizations above, we can already see that there are mining sites inside the protected areas. Let’s now do an actual spatial join to determine which sites are within the protected areas.
Mining sites in protected areas¶
- Add information about the protected areas to the mining sites dataset, using a spatial join:
- Call the result `data_within_protected`
- If the result is empty, this is an indication that the coordinate reference system is not matching. Make sure to re-project the data (see above).
- How many mining sites are located within a national park?
- Count the number of mining sites per national park (pandas tip: check `value_counts()`)
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping33.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping34.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping35.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping36.py
Mining sites in the borders of protected areas¶
And what about the borders of the protected areas? (just outside the park)
- Create a new dataset, `protected_areas_borders`, that contains the border area (10 km wide) of each protected area:
- Tip: one way of doing this is with the `buffer` and `difference` function.
- Plot the resulting borders as a visual check of correctness.
- Count the number of mining sites per national park that are located within its borders
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping37.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping38.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping39.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping40.py
# %load _solved/solutions/case-conflict-mapping41.py


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Joe Root's message to Jofra Archer as England face off against New Zealand
The England captain wants his fastest bowler to blow away New Zealand and has told him not to 'underestimate' his own talent
by Dean Wilson, https://www.facebook.com/DeanWilsonCricketMirror/Joe Root has told Jofra Archer to use his raw pace to fire England to victory in New Zealand.
And rather than worry too much about swinging and seaming the ball, he wants his fastest bowler to blow away the Black Caps batting line-up.
Archer is much more than a one trick pony with a ball in his hands, but trying to persuade him that he might not need to use his entire repertoire could be Root’s greatest challenge as he tries to use brute force to beat the Kiwis.
“Knowing Jofra, he wants to see the ball moving sideways,” said Root. “But one thing he underestimates is his own talent sometimes and that pace through the air can be quite a big skill in its own.
“I just want him to go and bowl and enjoy bowling, the different challenges that this part of the world will throw at him.
“I want him to come away from it learning there is more than one way of taking 20 wickets, he doesn’t have to be seaming or swinging it round corners, we’ve already seen hostile spells of bowling. Can he tailor that to these conditions?
“That’s a skill in itself. He makes it look ridiculously easy with the his action and the way he approaches the crease, the nature of his style, but to be able to bowl at that pace for a period of time is a skill in itself and I think he needs to understand that.”
Bowling this fast is a gift, but it can also be a fragile one, and the last thing Root wants to do is damage his golden arm.
“One thing I have learned is that he has a huge hunger for wickets,” added Root.
“He wants to be in the game and once you get the ball in his hand he can be very hard to get it off.
“It’s a great trait to have but you want him to bowl as many spells as possible over 90mph, not one a series or once in a blue moon. That’s something over time we’ll get better at.”
Probable teams
New Zealand: Raval, Latham, Williamson (c), Taylor, Nicholls, Watling (wk), de Grandhomme, Santner, Southee, Boult, Ferguson
England: Burns, Sibley, Denly, Root (c), Stokes, Pope, Buttler (wk), Curran, Archer, Leach, Broad
Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena and Bruce Oxenford
TV Umpire: Paul Wilson


mapproj - Map projection routines
The mapproj package provides a set of procedures for converting between world co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) and map co-ordinates on a number of different map projections.
The following commands convert between world co-ordinates and map co-ordinates:
Converts to the plate carrée (cylindrical equidistant) projection.
Converts from the plate carrée (cylindrical equidistant) projection.
Converts to the cylindrical equal-area projection.
Converts from the cylindrical equal-area projection.
Converts to the Mercator (cylindrical conformal) projection.
Converts from the Mercator (cylindrical conformal) projection.
Converts to the Miller Cylindrical projection.
Converts from the Miller Cylindrical projection.
Converts to the sinusoidal (Sanson-Flamsteed) projection. projection.
Converts from the sinusoidal (Sanson-Flamsteed) projection. projection.
Converts to the Mollweide projection.
Converts from the Mollweide projection.
Converts to the Eckert IV projection.
Converts from the Eckert IV projection.
Converts to the Eckert VI projection.
Converts from the Eckert VI projection.
Converts to the Robinson projection.
Converts from the Robinson projection.
Converts to the Cassini (transverse cylindrical equidistant) projection.
Converts from the Cassini (transverse cylindrical equidistant) projection.
Converts to the Peirce Quincuncial Projection.
Converts from the Peirce Quincuncial Projection.
Converts to the orthographic projection.
Converts from the orthographic projection.
Converts to the stereographic (azimuthal conformal) projection.
Converts from the stereographic (azimuthal conformal) projection.
Converts to the gnomonic projection.
Converts from the gnomonic projection.
Converts to the azimuthal equidistant projection.
Converts from the azimuthal equidistant projection.
Converts to the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection.
Converts from the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection.
Converts to the Hammer projection.
Converts from the Hammer projection.
Converts to the conic equidistant projection.
Converts from the conic equidistant projection.
Converts to the Albers equal-area conic projection.
Converts from the Albers equal-area conic projection.
Converts to the Lambert conformal conic projection.
Converts from the Lambert conformal conic projection.
Among the cylindrical equal-area projections, there are a number of choices of standard parallels that have names:
Converts to the Lambert cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallel is the Equator.)
Converts from the Lambert cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallel is the Equator.)
Converts to the Behrmann cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 30 degrees North and South)
Converts from the Behrmann cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 30 degrees North and South.)
Converts to the Trystan Edwards cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 37.4 degrees North and South)
Converts from the Trystan Edwards cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 37.4 degrees North and South.)
Converts to the Hobo-Dyer cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 37.5 degrees North and South)
Converts from the Hobo-Dyer cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 37.5 degrees North and South.)
Converts to the Gall-Peters cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 45 degrees North and South)
Converts from the Gall-Peters cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 45 degrees North and South.)
Converts to the Balthasart cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 50 degrees North and South)
Converts from the Balthasart cylindrical equal area projection. (standard parallels are 50 degrees North and South.)
The following arguments are accepted by the projection commands:
Longitude of the point to be projected, in degrees.
Latitude of the point to be projected, in degrees.
Longitude of the center of the sheet, in degrees. For many projections, this figure is also the reference meridian of the projection.
Latitude of the center of the sheet, in degrees. For the azimuthal projections, this figure is also the latitude of the center of the projection.
Latitude of the first reference parallel, for projections that use reference parallels.
Latitude of the second reference parallel, for projections that use reference parallels.
X co-ordinate of a point on the map, in units of Earth radii.
Y co-ordinate of a point on the map, in units of Earth radii.
For all of the procedures whose names begin with 'to', the return value is a list comprising an x co-ordinate and a y co-ordinate. The co-ordinates are relative to the center of the map sheet to be drawn, measured in Earth radii at the reference location on the map. For all of the functions whose names begin with 'from', the return value is a list comprising the longitude and latitude, in degrees.
This package offers a great many projections, because no single projection is appropriate to all maps. This section attempts to provide guidance on how to choose a projection.
First, consider the type of data that you intend to display on the map. If the data are directional (e.g., winds, ocean currents, or magnetic fields) then you need to use a projection that preserves angles; these are known as conformal projections. Conformal projections include the Mercator, the Albers azimuthal equal-area, the stereographic, and the Peirce Quincuncial projection. If the data are thematic, describing properties of land or water, such as temperature, population density, land use, or demographics; then you need a projection that will show these data with the areas on the map proportional to the areas in real life. These so-called equal area projections include the various cylindrical equal area projections, the sinusoidal projection, the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection, the Albers equal-area conic projection, and several of the world-map projections (Miller Cylindrical, Mollweide, Eckert IV, Eckert VI, Robinson, and Hammer). If the significant factor in your data is distance from a central point or line (such as air routes), then you will do best with an equidistant projection such as plate carrée, Cassini, azimuthal equidistant, or conic equidistant. If direction from a central point is a critical factor in your data (for instance, air routes, radio antenna pointing), then you will almost surely want to use one of the azimuthal projections. Appropriate choices are azimuthal equidistant, azimuthal equal-area, stereographic, and perhaps orthographic.
Next, consider how much of the Earth your map will cover, and the general shape of the area of interest. For maps of the entire Earth, the cylindrical equal area, Eckert IV and VI, Mollweide, Robinson, and Hammer projections are good overall choices. The Mercator projection is traditional, but the extreme distortions of area at high latitudes make it a poor choice unless a conformal projection is required. The Peirce projection is a better choice of conformal projection, having less distortion of landforms. The Miller Cylindrical is a compromise designed to give shapes similar to the traditional Mercator, but with less polar stretching. The Peirce Quincuncial projection shows all the continents with acceptable distortion if a reference meridian close to +20 degrees is chosen. The Robinson projection yields attractive maps for things like political divisions, but should be avoided in presenting scientific data, since other projections have moe useful geometric properties.
If the map will cover a hemisphere, then choose stereographic, azimuthal-equidistant, Hammer, or Mollweide projections; these all project the hemisphere into a circle.
If the map will cover a large area (at least a few hundred km on a side), but less than a hemisphere, then you have several choices. Azimuthal projections are usually good (choose stereographic, azimuthal equidistant, or Lambert azimuthal equal-area according to whether shapes, distances from a central point, or areas are important). Azimuthal projections (and possibly the Cassini projection) are the only really good choices for mapping the polar regions.
If the large area is in one of the temperate zones and is round or has a primarily east-west extent, then the conic projections are good choices. Choose the Lambert conformal conic, the conic equidistant, or the Albers equal-area conic according to whether shape, distance, or area are the most important parameters. For any of these, the reference parallels should be chosen at approximately 1/6 and 5/6 of the range of latitudes to be displayed. For instance, maps of the 48 coterminous United States are attractive with reference parallels of 28.5 and 45.5 degrees.
If the large area is equatorial and is round or has a primarily east-west extent, then the Mercator projection is a good choice for a conformal projection; Lambert cylindrical equal-area and sinusoidal projections are good equal-area projections; and the plate carrée is a good equidistant projection.
Large areas having a primarily North-South aspect, particularly those spanning the Equator, need some other choices. The Cassini projection is a good choice for an equidistant projection (for instance, a Cassini projection with a central meridian of 80 degrees West produces an attractive map of the Americas). The cylindrical equal-area, Albers equal-area conic, sinusoidal, Mollweide and Hammer projections are possible choices for equal-area projections. A good conformal projection in this situation is the Transverse Mercator, which alas, is not yet implemented.
Small areas begin to get into a realm where the ellipticity of the Earth affects the map scale. This package does not attempt to handle accurate mapping for large-scale topographic maps. If slight scale errors are acceptable in your application, then any of the projections appropriate to large areas should work for small ones as well.
There are a few projections that are included for their special properties. The orthographic projection produces views of the Earth as seen from space. The gnomonic projection produces a map on which all great circles (the shortest distance between two points on the Earth's surface) are rendered as straight lines. While this projection is useful for navigational planning, it has extreme distortions of shape and area, and can display only a limited area of the Earth (substantially less than a hemisphere).
Copyright © 2007 Kevin B. Kenny <kennykb@acm.org>


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Does that dull, white-washed canvas that you print your words on start to seem a little, well, not fun? Wouldn't it be cool to make your document look like the Milky Way for a change. You can!
To change the background color:
- Pull down the Format menu, and select Change Background Color.
- The color picker will appear.
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Concepts/Themes Covered: أركان الإسلام > التوحيد > توحيد الله تعالي > وجوده Pillars of Islam> Islamic> Oneness of Allah> His Existence الإيمان > الإيمان بالله > اليقين Faith> Belief In Allah> Conviction الإيمان > اليوم الآخر > إثباته Faith> The Hereafter> Its Proof (Evidence) العلوم والفنون > الحقائق العلمية و الإشاة إلى وقائع أيدتهاالإكتشافات العلمية > الإشارة إلى الجاذبية Science and Art> The Scientific Facts and the Indication to Facts which have been supported by the Scientific Discoveries>Indication to Gravity
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STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (SPECIAL EDITION) A film review by Christopher E. Meadows Copyright 1997 Christopher E. Meadows
MPAA: PG (sci-fi violence, brief strong language) Written and Directed by George Lucas, Produced by Gary Kurtz Starring Mark Hamil, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, et al Rating: 10/10 (***** out of *****)
What can you say about a legend?
Books could be, and indeed have been written about the Star Wars trilogy, and rightfully so. This is a set of movies that shattered all expectations of what science fiction could be in the late 70s/early 80s, inspiring literally dozens of clones, from Battlestar Galactica all the way up to Stargate and Independance Day, and one could argue revitalizing the whole science fiction genre. The special effects were groundbreaking, revolutionary for their day and still eminently watchable well into twenty years later. Literally millions of people have seen the Star Wars trilogy and been touched by it. And now, George Lucas brings it back for a new audience to enjoy.
Much has been and is still being made of the fact that Mr. Lucas has gone back and revised his trilogy for rerelease now. Some fans are angry that he has dared to meddle with what they consider perfection, while others are thrilled by the idea of seeing yesterday's Star Wars updated with today's special effects wizardry. Either way, the Special Edition release means that Star Wars is back on the big screen, where it rightfully deserves to be seen.
Can there be anyone in the world who doesn't know what Star Wars is about? In a way, Star Wars is so much a part of our cultural heritage that it feels silly and almost artificial to try to summarize it. It's a story about a young man's coming of age, a fight for freedom against an oppressive empire, a tale of swashbuckling and derring-do the likes of which haven't been seen on the silver screen in decades, strange new worlds with strange alien creatures and weird surprises around every turn, and the yearning within each of us to realize our dreams and make a difference in the world. It's high adventure, incredible special effects, and...well, it's just an _experience_. Something about this movie sparked the imagination of a generation...and it's about to do so again.
This new release of Star Wars comes as no surprise to many of the film's devoted fans, who have been trading rumors and bits of information about it for quite some time now. Interviews, trailers, leaks from within Lucasfilm...all of these have been collected, collated, and placed on webpages for people to see (pages such as http://www.islandnet.com/~corona/films/details/sw4.html or, my personal favorite, http://leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~koukoula/). Pictures of before and after have been placed side by side...even months before the movies were released, fans were making comparisons.
In some cases, the changes were nothing less than phenomenal, and this can be seen from the comparison shots even before you go into the movie theater. The digital matte effects that were little more than a toy in Forrest Gump are put to excellent use here, unnoticeably sprucing up scenes that that George Lucas was unsatisfied with in the original. For instance, in my personal favorite example, the ancient temple on Yavin that was formerly a flat stone edifice now has deep, moss-covered carvings and etchings. And Mos Eisley Spaceport is now a bustling, booming city, with more surprises and things going on in the background than you can notice on the first viewing.
All the starships and fighters are now computer-animated, getting rid of glitches and artifacts of the special effects processes used when the film was originally made--and they look _fantastic_. Four and a half minutes of new or missing footage have been added, including a scene with Jabba the Hutt that had originally been shelved because the state of special effects in 1977 simply couldn't do it justice.
However, much of the ten million dollars that was spent on the Star Wars Special Edition restoration went into restoring the quality of the film itself. The negatives, badly damaged by the ravages of time, were brightened and returned to their original splendor. The audio tracks were remixed and reprocessed, with reworked sound effects by effects maven Ben Burtt, into glorious, booming, theater-shaking full-THX Dolby digital stereo. And _that_, more than the added scenes or new special effects, is where the real value of this new version lies. It's really true what they say in the commercials: Star Wars loses _so much_ on the small screen. Even letterboxing doesn't make up for the decrease in size and definition.
In regard to the Star Wars Special Edition, and to the other two films of the trilogy which have yet to be released, I'll make this final recommendation: Go and see it. Go and see it more than once...it may be another twenty years before it comes back to the big screen after it's gone this time. Take along the youngsters who've never had the big-screen Star Wars experience--you'll enjoy seeing it through their eyes as much as they will enjoy it for the first time. There's magic in this movie--Special Edition or no, there can be no denying that it's still Star Wars, and still has the power to thrill and enthrall children of all ages, from four to four hundred. Let's all return to that time long ago, and that galaxy far, far away...
Rating: 10 out of 10. A _must-see_.
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Confit is a great way of keeping the duck fresh - in an airtight kilner type jar, they will keep for a couple of months in the fridge. The fat can be reserved and used for cooking - especially for your Sunday roast potatoes!
To make duck confit, take 2 duck legs and weigh them. Measure 15g of salt per 1kg meat and sprinkle the salt with fresh thyme over the legs. Store in a fridge for at least 12 hours. Melt duck fat (available tinned from delis) in a pan over a low heat and bring to a simmer. Place the chilled duck legs in the fat and cook very gently for 1½-2 hours, do not boil. Take off the heat and leave to cool in the fat.
Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.  (Reserve the fat - it's good for roast potatoes or frying eggs).
Whisk together the honey and oil and smear over the duck legs. Sprinkle over the thyme leaves. Roast the legs in the oven for about 20 minutes, spooning the honey glaze over the legs 2-3 times.
Meanwhile, boil the potatoes in a pan of lightly salted water for about 15 minutes or until just tender. Drain, then mash with a fork, gradually beating in the hot milk, butter and plenty of seasoning.
Place the wine and stock into the saucepan, bring to the boil and continue boiling until reduced by two thirds. Season well.
Spoon the mashed potato onto the centre of warm serving plates, sprinkle the seaweed around the mash and sit the duck legs on top. Scrape any meaty bits from the roasting pan and sprinkle over, then pour over the reduced red wine sauce and serve immediately.


/**
* Copyright (c) 2015, Jozef Stefan Institute, Quintelligence d.o.o. and contributors
* All rights reserved.
*
* This source code is licensed under the FreeBSD license found in the
* LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
*/
/**
* Statistics module.
* @module statistics
* @example
* // TODO
*/
/**
* returns mean of vector.
* @param {(module:la.Vector | module:la.Matrix)} input - input can be vector or a matrix.
* @returns {(number | module:la.Vector)}
*
1. Number, if input parameters is {@link module:la.Vector}.
*
2. {@link module:la.Vector}, if parameter is {@link module:la.Matrix}.
*/
exports.mean = function (input) { return input instanceof Object.create(require('qminer').la.Vector) ? 0.0 : Object.create(require('qminer').la.Vector); }
/**
* returns vector containing the standard deviation of each column from input matrix.
* @param {(module:la.Vector | module:la.Matrix)} input - input can be vector or a matrix.
* @param {number} [flag=0] - Set `flag` to 0 to normalize Y by n-1; set flag to 1 to normalize by n.
* @param {number} [dim=1] - Computes the standard deviations along the dimension of `mat` specified by parameter `dim`. 1 is col std, 2 is row std.
* @returns {(number | module:la.Vector)}
*
1. Number, if input parameters is {@link module:la.Vector}.
*
2. {@link module:la.Vector}, if parameter is {@link module:la.Matrix}.
*/
exports.std = function (input, flag, dim) { return input instanceof Object.create(require('qminer').la.Vector) ? 0.0 : Object.create(require('qminer').la.Vector); }
/**
* returns `zscoreResult` containing the standard deviation `zscoreResult.sigma` of each column from matrix `mat`, mean vector `zscoreResult.mu` and z-score matrix `zscoreResult.Z`.
* @param {module:la.Matrix} input - Matrix
* @param {number} [flag=0] - Set `flag` to 0 to normalize Y by n-1; set flag to 1 to normalize by n.
* @param {number} [dim=1] - Computes the standard deviations along the dimension of `mat` specified by parameter `dim`. 1 is col std, 2 is row std.
* @returns {zscoreResult}
*
zscoreResult.sigma - Standard deviation of input used to compute the z-scores.
*
zscoreResult.mu - Mean of input used to compute the z-scores.
*
zscoreResult.Z - A vector of z-scores has mean 0 and variance 1.
*/
exports.zscoreResult = function (mat, flag, dim) { return {sigma:'', mu:'', Z:''}; }
/**
* function studentCdf calculates Student's t cumulative distribution function (PDF integral from -inf to t)
* function studentCdf returns 'Alpha' as in the p-value of a Student t-test
* If you already have a t-value than the studentCdf function has 2 inputs: t-value and degrees of freedom
* @param {number} TVal - The t-value value of the sample you want to calculate the p-value for
* @param {number} Df - Degrees of freedom for the sample (if your sample is big n than degrees of freedom in n-1)
* If you don't have the t-value than studentCdf function has 4 inputs: Value, Mean, Standard deviation and degrees of freedom
* @param {number} Val - The average value of the sample you want to calculate the p-value for
* @param {number} Mean - The mean value of the sample you want to calculate the p-value for
* @param {number} Std - The sample standard deviation of the sample you want to calculate the p-value for
* @param {number} Df - Degrees of freedom for the sample (if your sample is n big then degrees of freedom is n-1)
* @returns {Alpha}
*/


game_data.py¶
TODO: Replace this with info about this file
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class
sc2.game_data.
GameData
(data)¶
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class
sc2.game_data.
AbilityData
(game_data, proto)¶ For Stimpack this returns ‘Stimpack’
- Return type
str
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property
friendly_name
¶ For Stimpack this returns ‘Research Stimpack’
- Return type
str
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property
id
¶ Returns the generic remap ID. See sc2/dicts/generic_redirect_abilities.py
- Return type
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property
link_name
¶ For Stimpack this returns ‘BarracksTechLabResearch’
- Return type
str
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class
sc2.game_data.
UnitTypeData
(game_data, proto)¶ -
property
cargo_size
¶ How much cargo this unit uses up in cargo_space
- Return type
int
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property
cost_zerg_corrected
¶ This returns 25 for extractor and 200 for spawning pool instead of 75 and 250 respectively
- Return type
-
property
morph_cost
¶ This returns 150 minerals for OrbitalCommand instead of 550
- Return type
Optional
[Cost
]
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property
tech_alias
¶ Building tech equality, e.g. OrbitalCommand is the same as CommandCenter Building tech equality, e.g. Hive is the same as Lair and Hatchery For Hive, this returns [UnitTypeId.Hatchery, UnitTypeId.Lair] For SCV, this returns None
- Return type
Optional
[List
[UnitTypeId
]]
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property
tech_requirement
¶ Tech-building requirement of buildings - may work for units but unreliably
- Return type
Optional
[UnitTypeId
]
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property
unit_alias
¶ Building type equality, e.g. FlyingOrbitalCommand is the same as OrbitalCommand
- Return type
Optional
[UnitTypeId
]
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property
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class
sc2.game_data.
UpgradeData
(game_data, proto)¶
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class
sc2.game_data.
Cost
(minerals, vespene, time=None)¶


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2011, 2012; Part 1/2
hi there, happy new year!
I just got back to my dorm several hours ago , from downtown tianjin. I was with three of my best friends celebrating the upcoming new year, 2012, and we were having great fun through the last moment of 2011
to the very first cup of beer of 2011. cheers!
so, I decided to post something to end this year and open up the new year. the title, which I think is brilliant, If you know some c programming language or something called ‘comma expression’, I think you will feel the same way
so, here we go.
2011, kinda a tough year for me, even though I wrote/drawn ‘hold on’ and ‘turn on’ on my 2011 edition of QQ icon. but still. not because I made one of the biggest decision of my life on my own, but I have to deal with my problems on my own. I have to learn by myself, I have cheer me up if I was feel upset. I have to learn to earn the every opportunity out there and finally grab some of them. sometimes I failed,
I told no one, then just keep on reading and learning, coding. anyway, I learn a lot from 2011 knowledge-wise and horizon-wise.
the later part of 2011, I don’t think much of it. I got back to tjpu, finish my education and keep on learning. my first project ended failure, but, there’s still some people love it and feel interesting, so, not a totally failure for me. maybe, I will re-open this project someday when time’s right. my second project is under coding now, I still have faith in that, because people need a stuff like that, to keep track of there favorite shows.
the good part of my returning are:
One:
I still have those two best buddies out there waiting for me and help me a lot, I even doubt that I will , some day, do the same things to the others. so, I am really really feel thankful for having you two, hoping we
will get really drunk one day, that the way of us to celebrating out brother-ship.
Two:
that awesome girl, again. I am just feel nothing but lucky to know her and we’re still in a very very good friendship , or it’s not just friendship, I don’t know. the point is, throughout those about three months, she’s just getting better and better. just totally a new person for me, compare to the first day I met her. but still, I am not that BAD, am I ?
I know I am a good guy, I am funny, and I can make a girl laugh a lot while we’re hanging out, and …….
I am ambitious and I have very clear goal about myself deep down in my heart, but I never talked much about it with friends. so, it’s not a surprise if a girl likes me, I know that too.
but, she is just awesome , I can not think about another word to describe her……
Three:
I know two geek-guy through a friend’s introduction, it’s kinda a luck , I guess. they help me a lot in exams and finally, I have someone to talk about technic stuffs in school. they just let me know, even if we’re in a crap university, there are still a few people who love what their do and will to put there times and energy into it. so, I am not alone. hope we can cooperate in the future. that’s the guy I can look for if I am ready to do something serious, and it’s the best time to find your future partner in the college. I think.
Sum up:
I met three new friends this year and I love them very much
even thought I failed to get the this year’s internship, which I was longing for a very long time, but just look at the bright side, I got more time to learn thing, to make new friends if I had to, so, just be patient. I think when the opportunity comes again, I am having a really good shot of grab it.
2011 , 2011 ; part 1/2 end.
To be continue.