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Q: How to reorder nodes (change depth) in a scatterplot for an animation I have a bunch of points in a scatterplot which overlap.  I am using FuncAnimation to create an animation.  In successive frames I would like to change which appear in front of the others.
As a simple MCVE, consider the code below in which each frame makes a different set of points be red.  However, these red points are often largely obscured by other points.  I would like to make these red points come to the front.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
import random

def update(time, plotted_points, N):
    #in here I would like to update the order that the points are plotted in.  I would like the red points to come to the front.
    color_change_indices = set(random.choices(range(N), k=1000))
    colors = ['red' if n in color_change_indices else 'gray' for n in range(N)]
    plotted_points.set_color(colors)
    return plotted_points

def animate(N):
    x = [random.random() for val in range(N)]
    y = [random.random() for val in range(N)]

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    plotted_points = ax.scatter(x, y, color='gray')

    fargs = (plotted_points, N)

    ani = FuncAnimation(fig, update, frames = range(100), fargs = fargs)
    plt.show()

animate(10000)

I can change their color.  I can move their coordinates.  However, so far I cannot modify their relative depth.
So far the best idea I have is that perhaps I should delete the plotted points and then replot them.  But I don't have a deep understanding of matplotlib, and my attempts to delete them have failed so far.

A: You can have a second scatter plot, red coloured and with a higher zorder, and update its points:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
import random
plt.ion()

def update(time, red_plotted_points, points, N):
    indexes = set([random.choice(range(N)) for i in range(int(N/2))])  # for instance!
    new_points = [points[i] for i in indexes]
    red_plotted_points.set_offsets(new_points)

def animate(N):
    x = [random.random() for val in range(N)]
    y = [random.random() for val in range(N)]
    points = [[x[i], y[i]]for i in range(N)]

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    plotted_points = ax.scatter(x, y, color='gray', zorder=1)
    red_plotted_points = ax.scatter([], [], color='red', zorder=2)  # starts empty

    fargs = (red_plotted_points, points, N)

    ani = FuncAnimation(fig, update, frames=range(100), fargs=fargs,
                        interval=200, repeat=True)

    ani._start()
    fig.show()
    return fig, ani

if __name__ == '__main__':
    fig, ani = animate(100)

(python 2.7.14, matplotlib 2.1.1)

Edit: Updated to also run on Python 3.6.3, matpotlib 2.1.0

I'm not sure why, but it seems that if a reference is not kept to the FuncAnimation it does not work on Python 3.6. Thanks to Joel (comments) for noticing.

A: In order to bring red points in front, you need to sort the data where red points come last. In a following code, instead of sorting the points by their color, it shuffles the data and draws last 1000 points with red, at each time update is called.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
import random

import numpy as np # np.random.shuffle

def update(time, plotted_points):
    # Extract data and colors
    data = plotted_points.get_offsets()
    colors = plotted_points.get_facecolor()

    # shuffle the data [N, 2] along the first axis
    np.random.shuffle(data)

    # Set shuffled data and reset colors
    plotted_points.set_offsets(data)
    plotted_points.set_color(colors)

    return plotted_points

def animate(N):
    x = [random.random() for val in range(N)]
    y = [random.random() for val in range(N)]

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

    # Need to define colors at first.
    colors = ['red' if idx < 1000 else 'gray' for idx in range(N)]
    colors.reverse()
    plotted_points = ax.scatter(x, y, color=colors)

    fargs = (plotted_points,)

    ani = FuncAnimation(fig, update, frames = range(100), fargs = fargs)
    plt.show()

animate(10000)


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Yesterday I wanted to wear a pair of green pants, I actually own two pairs of pants this particular shade of green and made of similar material, I actually can't tell them apart for some reason, one fits decent, and the other can't be buttoned, yesterday I attempted to put on the small pair on accident, they almost fit. Soon I'll be able to wear everything in my closet.
Yesterday's weight was 172.2 pounds with 19.5 percent fat, and 55 percent body water.
Today's weigh-in came to 170.8 pounds with 19% fat and 55.5% water.
Barilla Mezze Penne with tomato and basil sauce.
This post brought to you from deep within the thought-stream of Tangent.
Monday I found out the ingredients of the ''eggs" at Subway and McDonald's for their breakfast sandwiches via a post by David DiSalvo on Forbes.
"Consider the egg. Simple, delicious, and incredibly easy to prepare. And yet, if you peruse the nutritional listings of America's favorite fast food restaurants, quite a different picture of the egg emerges -- and it's anything but simple. I took a look at the published ingredient lists for six fast food mainstays that sell"
This just underscores the importance of knowing what is in your food, the mega corporations do not your best interest in mind, their responsibilities are to maximize profits for their shareholders and to obey the applicable local laws to where they operate.
Now I have a little extra incentive not to hit the snooze button or three extra times in the morning. If I am running late, the plan is now to hit Burger King for my egg sandwich fix, or McDonald's for their oatmeal. I'd rather not pay what McDonald's charges for oatmeal, two of those and I can get a box of Quaker, I don't even know how much the organic stuff costs, but it can't be too far off from the Quaker.
Yesterday saw a slight reduction in weight, to 173.4 pounds. Body fat measured in at 19 percent body fat. Total body water was 55.5 percent.
Food: Organic oatmeal, bottled water, Taco Bell Taco Locos x3 add tomatoes, sub beans for meat, Large slice of red velvet cake, small Pepsi. Dinner was Whole grain pasta with marinara, filtered water.
Today's workout consisted of 1 set speed-jacks, 3 sets of lunges, 3 sets of pushups, 3 sets side-bridge per side.
Today's weigh-in: 172.2 pounds with 18 percent body fat. 56 percent total body water.
Today's food: 2 to 3 handfuls of French fry wedges, filtered water, 3 slices of Pizza Hut thin crust Pineapple pizza, 3 slices of their Hershey's desert (not that great and very sticky, plus it had a bit of the oily taste from regular breadsticks), tall glass of Coke, bottled water.
People in general are resistant to change, but they seem to take it to the next level sometimes here in the Southeast. Alternative fueled vehicles, hybrids, and now electric and range-extended electric vehicles don't seem to get a fair shake here.
People seem to have some sort of idea in their heads about how things work and they don't care to be informed further than what they think they are. Like my Volt people assume it's slow, that it consumes monstrous amounts of electricity, that it can explode into a fiery ball of flames or that it works something like the Toyota Prius. Thankfully people try to keep an open mind when seeing the vehicle in the flesh.
My Volt turns into a hybrid when it runs out of charge; it is an electric vehicle the other 93% of the time I've owned it. It can do 101 miles per hour in EV mode with no gasoline assistance; until it burns all of the charge (I'm curious how long it can maintain top speed on EV only). The car has more torque than many V6 sedans (273 lb.-ft., the power to get you up to speed) and a similar amount of horsepower (149 horsepower, the power to keep you going) to a 4 cylinder engine. My vehicle hasn't lost a stoplight to speed limit heat yet (closed course do not attempt). Something I enjoy doing when leaving a stoplight is to leave everyone behind by three or more car-lengths, and the people around here don't know how to conservatively take off from a stoplight, if you aren't doing 30mph in one car-length you get all kinds of dirty looks. I prefer to take off at 2 mph per second until I get to the speed limit when I'm driving for fuel economy, people whip around me like I'd just cut them off when I drive like this.
The vehicle has a 16 KWh battery but it only exposes 9.7-10.2 of that for you to use. At 110 volt charging there are more charging losses due to the thinner cables and the increased amount of time the battery heating or cooling system runs vs. the 240 volt charging. This equates to 8-10 hours on 110v for a full charge vs. ~4 on 220v. At the rates I'm charged for electricity it's about $1.02 per charge (and I don't often drain the battery upon arriving home) at the rates they pay at work it's about 75¢ to 80¢ for a full charge, again I don't often have a completely drained battery, but it can get pretty close. My commute is 42 miles each way. I was spending $200 a month in gas before I got this car, now fuel is under $40 a month.
This is usually based on an unrealistic test conducted on the vehicle in the lab, about three weeks after a severe crash with a completely full battery (my battery starts dropping the minute I leave my driveway) a test vehicle caught fire in the scrapyard. This is similar to doing the same thing with a gasoline powered car and leaving the tank full after a severe crash. Both cars have approved methods to drain their fuel. The possibility of this rare situation happening was eliminated with a fix from General Motors and verified by the same agency that found the possibility. The two fires involving Volts in garages were ruled by their fire marshals to not be the cars or their charging equipment. One of those two cases involved a home-built electric car in addition to the Volt but it was ruled out too.
This morning's weigh-in returned 174.0 pounds with 18.5% body fat and 55.5% total body water. I think the goal of getting to 150 before getting serious will be pretty much useless the way I'm going about things now. As much as I loved and miss my grandpa, I don't want his gut, so the new goal will be to lose that and then re-evaluate. I'm curious how low the body fat can get without becoming a gym rat, as you can see my "workouts" are under 15min each so far, the last time I did this routine the longest was 25 minutes and that was just trying to get all the movements correct, the following two workouts (these come in threes before moving on to the next) were 15 or so minutes. I know 11% will produce some nice looking abs and amateur body builders try to keep to 8 or 9%, the number 5% stands out but I don't remember what group has that fat target. As a vegetarian this should be an easy enough endeavor, but I love junk food and breads, I do need to cut most other processed foods that don't fit the description of bread or multivitamin tablets.
A good way to think of me is like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, my emotions are there below the surface and very strong, but I often refuse to acknowledge or show them, many times it's because I can't describe them or perhaps I feel I'll be ridiculed or thought weak. Unfortunately, unlike Spock there is no cool death-grip and a much shorter short-term memory. Like Spock I value logic, truth, and enlightenment over the touchy feely stuff, particularly when someone's gut feeling is wrong and nor even close. That isn't to say I don't appreciate or have feelings, but the other concepts of logic and truth are easier to grok.
Just like Spock, I am at my best when I embrace both my social/emotional and my logical sides. It seems this will be a life journey, especially since I went from being extremely shy to working with the public, albeit in small groups at a time. Progress is being made integrating my logical, analytical self with the side that wants to jump with joy, or weep sorrowfully. My sense of humor taps both sides already, I love a good joke, but many involving social situations aren't funny to me and I need someone to explain these jokes to me sometimes.
After a day "socializing" I do need alone time to regenerate (oh snap, this is like Spock's meditating) and recover. I process much of what I see of other people's interactions, and how to react social situations using my analytical brain. My social brain skates trough life like a super spoiled kid, or a kid dropped on its head with its favorite sibling or a close friend covering for all its little mistakes.
Just like a real naïve kid, my social brain sometimes really screws things up when its champion (the sibling or understanding friend, aka my logical brain) has their back turned for a moment. An example is how I have learned most questions where a female asks me about her looks are loaded, I cannot tell which situations warrant a particular answer, and which are traps. I don't know when to say or not to say, "oh that looks good," and "you don't look fat", so my default is not to answer and try to change the subject to more familiar turf.
Obviously social brain tried to answer these queries once or twice while logical brain was preoccupied with something else or logical didn't correctly flag the questions for deeper review. So now logical brain sounds the klaxon in these situations making me lock-up like a rusty mechanism, this prevents one type of harm while making me look very goofy rather than taking the time to re-analyze the situation for what type of answer is required.
Why the alone time? Logical brain uses more energy. If a typical person sits around doing math equations for hours straight, they will want to relax by vegging or socializing. Remember anytime I am socializing, I'm running figures and stats through my analytical brain, and if I was already doing mentally exhausting work, hanging out with more than one or two close friends pushes me past capacity, making me more error prone or agitated. This is the same as if a typical person is pushed just a bit too far on those same equations, they get angry and short with people, they make more mistakes on the task, and if pushed far enough, they don't socialize either, naptime.
Wait, did I just describe a stereotypical geek? Yep, Aspies are often driven to fields like research, engineering, computer science, architecture, music, etc., though they are individuals just as varied as typical people, but it seems easier to see Aspies in these areas than others.
I didn't fit in with the normal kids and I was not truly special-ed, I was both gifted and in need of remedial organizational skills. In middle school, the teachers and my parents agreed it was best I just type everything rather than deal with the hand written stuff. You can see how much more I write with a keyboard, even the virtual keyboard on a phone.
Oh my!, this was supposed to be a quick note on the phone so I didn't forget what I ate; I'll polish the rough edges and post this.
Snack: Sleeve of Smarties like at any party or found in a piñata.
Dinner: Mexican restaurant: bean burrito, cheese enchilada, beans, rice, 2 glasses of coke with restaurant typical amount of ice. Vegetarian item E, at Yucatan in Sumter.
Maureen and I saw "Mirror Mirror", I enjoyed it but it felt like the story dragged in a few places and it had a good amount of funny bits.
Pami, John Robert, Gabby & I saw the new 3 Stooges movie, it was pretty funny, it probably would have been even better for someone who remembers any of the original program.
Today's "foods" were all processed junk food, this morning's weigh-in: 173.0 pounds, 19.5% fat, 55% total body water.
Continuing my testing of Windows 8 Storage Spaces, I'm running a test server with Windows Server 8 Beta, after reading the post on the Building Windows 8 blog I thought it might be useful to test.
This isn't by any means thorough, it suits the way I'll need to use the feature on a production server once the OS RTMs. I threw in a 3TB drive and 2 160GBdrives, and all was fine for a while. I was using the Parity setting, at this point that mode is incredibly slow compared to the two or three way mirrors and the simple volumes as well. Once any drive in the pool is full the system gets incredibly unstable, adding drives to the pool doesn't fix the problem, rotating in a drive is also not an option yet, once I added in a pair of 500gb drives the system got marginally more stable, for a few minutes.
My solution is to delete the volumes and shares and use matched drives until the next public build comes out.
No workout today, it's a rest day.
Lunch was a foot-long egg & cheese on honey oat with spinach, salt & pepper, and olive oil, toasted, from Subway. Two chocolate chip cookies and a medium Coke with a splash of Minute Maid light lemonade.
People with Asperger's Syndrome are occasionally called Aspies (Ahs pees), I'd long thought my intense reaction to ice cubes touching my teeth to be indicative of sensitive teeth, but while studying Asperger's something that came up from time to time was intense reactions to or inability to cope with certain textures or sensations (or visual or auditory sensations). I think my aversion to ice cubes is due to this, that and the vibration of the cord of hair clippers on the left or right of my lower back. Bright light transitions, like oncoming headlights, or any high beams pointed at me or my mirrors just irritate me.
Coping with the clippers cord on my back took some time, I've always been ticklish, but this sensation was unbearable, what I found allowed my barber or my dad to be able to effectively cut my hair was gripping my throat quite firmly with my left hand, that sensation would distract the urge to jump out of the chair just enough to get the haircut. My dad eventually learned to try and avoid letting the cord touch me while the clippers were running. It never occurred to me to tell him not to let that happen, it seemed silly and unnecessary, and I couldn't come up with the words to describe what I wanted (not to happen). Today this sensation still drives me batty but what I do now is cross both arms so I can squeeze both biceps with the opposing hands, again the left gets the stronger grip, the seatback of the barber's chair's with me as an adult makes this an incredibly brief experience, the barstool dad used and the kiddie seat in the barbershop exposed my back to the vibrations of cord of the running clippers for nearly the entire time.
Why the left hand? I don't know, I'm a lefty turned ambidextrous, I use my left hand only to write, hold a fork, eat one handed while driving, as the primary hand in a two handed catch, poking things (like a touch screen), and occasionally to operate a pair of ambidextrous scissors. I use the right hand for everything else including operating ambidextrous scissors. When confronted with a right favored tool like all the computer mice I grew up with things curved such that they only work in the right hand I've adapted to feeling that's right or normal. I'd probably be a lefty mouse user if the old Microsoft mice didn't have that ridiculous lower curve on them, I occasionally mouse with my left hand now though, usually this will happen when I've filled my right hand (food or a book etc.) or when using a mouse on someone else's computer that they've configured in lefty mode, or just set on that side of the desk.
I've kept journals (the diary type) before but like many Aspies I can fall into some deep depressions occasionally and these got really dark so I stopped. The very first one was abandoned because it was in an actual paper journal, and I'm not a hand written person, thanks to my poor and labored penmanship. (Stupid computer converted my British spelling of Laboured to US style.) There's another common Aspie trait, we often pronounce or spell words the way we remember first encountering. Dr. Tony Attwood explains this is why many British and Australian Aspies speak with an American accent despite the rest of their family speaking with a local accent.
I have been hovering between 152-181 lbs.; bodyweight, 150.5 and 184 were both touched for a day each. My daily exercise preference has been to basically try to match calories burned to calories eaten; obviously more of the former is preferred. This morning I picked up a workout routine that I tried back in 2009, I came across it while putting some clothes up from winter (go figure that it'd be 38 degrees F this morning after hitting 90 earlier this month).
This trainer believes long workouts will never get done by normal people, and that loads of cardio are for girls and that you get resistant to it like a bad drug needing more and more to achieve the same effect.
So the scale this morning read 170.6 with 19% body fat and 55.5% body water content, which is good, it has been 171-174 and 18-22% fat, for the past two or so months, body water content is always 55.x-58%. I think the extremely stable water percentage is due to the fact that I weigh right out of the shower, but this really doesn't concern me drinking fluids is not a problem, 170.x pounds has been seen occasionally.
Today I was late leaving the house so I couldn't have my bowl of oatmeal at home, and it was too late to make it at work without feeling like I was taking advantage of the situation. So I had an egg & cheese bagel at McDonald's, reminding me why I always order this item without the "breakfast sauce", that and once again setting me to wondering why they have such a hard time not burning the bagel. The bagel was washed down with a medium orange juice.
Lunch was Vegan Hot & Sour ramen with Cookies & Cream Ice cream (I'm a veggie not a vegan [yet anyway]) One bottle of water.
Update 20:11: Taco Bell Taco Locos - sub beans for the beef, add tomatoes (i'm not a fan of sour cream particularly not on these tacos, with the waythey gob it on), Small Pepsi, and another chocolate chip granola bar, organic with dark chocolate this time.
I was diagnosed with ADD (attention deficit disorder) as a child; I think today all of these are classified as ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). A pair of my mentors in high school (perhaps it was Junior High, my family was military and we moved quite a bit), Rich Phillips and Hunter Matheson, noticed that I'd often take a conversation to places that were only thinly related to the existing conversational thread, sometimes he could see why I veered off in a certain direction, and sometimes only I could follow the connections.
It was really more of a loving jab as many nicknames are, not meant to cause harm, more of an inside joke with them and myself. They also used it as a bit of a code word when in the company of someone who didn't know how I operate, "*cough* TANGENT *cough*", as a prompt to watch my conversational threads.
I do want to thank you two for taking time out of your day several times a week to help me process things and to talk shop. Go figure that a kid with a special interest in computers would take a liking to a pair of network engineers huh?
I watched the documentary "Loving Lampposts" today, I felt that it was well done and it showed a mix of high and low functioning adults and children on the Autism spectrum, it also questioned the use of those labels. They showed a fair argument from the anti-vaccine crowd and explained where they are coming from without calling them crazy, it also explains quite clearly that the main piece of documentation these people use other than their own personal experiences (study samples not controlled and way too small) has been refuted and many of the authors of that paper have retracted it.
They touched on some Autism spectrum disorders like Asperger's Syndrome and PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified).
They also did a great job questioning the intense dread the public has about people on the Autism Spectrum, the media has successfully married the word Autism to some of the more extreme cases of classic Autism, characterized it as an epidemic and made people feel fearful they've done something wrong if they end up having a child on the spectrum.
I think that I may be on the spectrum, I've been studying the disorder since early this year, and the descriptions of Asperger's syndrome fit me like a glove. Obviously I'm not some creepy movie character that exhibits every possible symptom at the same time, some don't seem to apply to me at all (or at least not anymore now that I'm older). I think I'll go and see a specialist about a diagnosis this year, I spent up my whole childhood and early young adult life knowing I was different and not knowing why, having a label for this thing won't change anything but it will give me peace of mind, and light up a bit of a roadmap of what kind of coping strategies might help me lead a more fulfilled life.
My studies have already highlighted several of my strengths and weaknesses, I've begun to capitalize on the strengths and use strategies I learned growing up and that were pointed out during the studying to help minimize the negative effects or to better explain to someone just how I process specific stimuli. Even if I don't meet the criteria for a clinical diagnosis, there's no denying I've got enough of a touch of this that some of these resources and strategies apply to me directly.
These people aren't broken, I'm not broken, we're different, and having different thought processes may allow us to come up with solutions that nobody has brought fourth yet.
The documentary is on Hulu at the moment.
I still like writing here way better than the likes of Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, so I think I may just post links back here when I want to share something.
I bought a 2012 Chevrolet Volt, this is the closest I could get to my grade-school dream of buying/leasing a GM EV1, I remember telling my mother once that I was going to get an EV1, she didn't doubt me or discourage me, my personality is sometimes incredibly driven, she figured if I meant it I'd do it. Well GM crushed the EV1s and terminated the program, but back in January I bought the closest thing that vehicle had to a successor. I've owned 3 hybrids an '04 Toyota Prius, an '09 & '12 Honda Civic Hybrid. This Volt is the closest thing to a pure EV, and has none of the compromises of one, though it does have most of the compromises of hybrids. It needs an oil change every two years, and you need to fill it with gasoline.
The benefits outweigh the two negatives, I would love longer all electric range, but for my daily commute it works perfectly, I go ~84 miles round trip each day, rarely using gas, but I also don't need to figure out alternative transportation when I need to leave my EV range. I hope this vehicle has a successor when I'm ready for my next car.
I've got 5277 all electric miles on it now out of a total of 5661, and I've only burned 9.2 gallons of gas.
My day job is now Internet & Business Development Manager Jones Chevrolet, I love working with this family, and my coworkers, they're awesome.
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It seems all children go through a train-loving phase, where all they want to do is watch the trains go by all day long. For some people, that love never ends. For rail fans big and small, South Carolina offers a wide array of ways to indulge your love of railroads, from museums to model trains to riding railroads to heritage rail lines.
The South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winnsboro is a treat for train lovers big and small. The train museum is filled with fascinating railroad memorabilia and photographs, but the real treasures await outside. Many old restored railroad cars, from locomotives to cabooses, and every type of car in between, await your discovery. But the highlight of the museum is the hour-long train ride on the museum's very own railroad line, the Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad (RR&W). You can choose to ride in an old dining car, an open-air car or even the caboose. Great fun for kids of all sizes, it's a must-stop for all train-lovers.
The Miniature World of Trains in Greenville is just as promised-a tiny world encircled by model trains zipping by. A charming and highly detailed HO scale model of the city of Baltimore will soon be joined by G scale (large scale) and N scale sets. You even have a chance to control the trains zooming by yourself. In December, a Christmas train appears.
The Heritage Park Railway is a riding railroad in Simpsonville's lovely Heritage Park. There's just something delightful, to kids and grownups, about a shrunken train cars children can ride in, and a locomotive that the conductor rides atop.
If your little ones want to ride on a real train, they're in luck. Amtrak stops in several cities in South Carolina. Based on the times that trains come through, however, the easiest way for a tiny train fanatic to take a ride would probably be a day trip from Charleston to Kingstree. Kingstree has a beautiful old railroad station from 1909, and the Kingstree Depot Family Restaurant and Diner is housed right in the train station. Big CSX freight trains pass by several times an hour, giving a thrill to rail fans young and old alike as they get some lunch before heading back to Charleston.


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The American LGBTQ+ Museum breaks ground on new, permanent home
By Adrian Murphy
The American LGBTQ+ Museum has begun work on a permanent expansion of the New York Historical Society Museum & Library building in Central Park West, which will become its home in 2024.
A ground-breaking ceremony held last week was attended by social justice activist and former tennis player, Billie Jean King – who also opened the Center for Women's History at NY Historical Society in 2017 – NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and American LGBTQ+ Museum Chair Richard Burns.
First for the city
The new museum will span 70,000 sq ft and will be the city's first museum dedicated to preserving, researching and sharing LGBTQ+ history and culture. It has been in the planning since 2017 and the push for a physical space is based on research, which revealed 'urgency, support and excitement' about the vision.
"Simply put: this is the biggest step we've ever taken toward realising our dream and opening the first museum in New York City dedicated to preserving and celebrating LGBTQ+ history and culture," the museum said.
The organisers say that while other great institutions investigate, preserve, and tell their histories, they believe it is now time for a national LGBTQ+ museum.
Especially urgent
"LGBTQ history is especially urgent because our communities have emerged from denial, repression, and invisibility into acceptance, pride and full societal participation," said Urvashi Vaid, Attorney, Writer, Activist and Secretary and Trustee of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. "This Museum helps forge the future by documenting our past."
The museum says the new space will allow visitors to encounter vital historical objects and will embrace immersive and interactive media. It will include an active public space along with galleries, programming and contemplative spaces.
Exhibitions will include a permanent or core content where visitors will discover persistent themes in the LGBTQ+ history. However, it says the exhibitions will be designed so that the elements can be easily revised or reconfigured and visitors can explore a wide range of evolving topics and themes over time.
The exhibitions will also reflect the museum's research into the needs, desires, and interests of queer communities, while also drawing upon the expertise of LGBTQ+ historians.
Visitors will be part of history
"The Museum will be a place where visitors can see themselves as part of history," it says. "Our primary audience will be LGBTQ+ people: New Yorkers and visitors, adults and youth. This demographic includes at least 7.3m people, and is young, growing, and likely undercounted.
"And our fundamental goal is to serve people from all parts of the LGBTQ+ community—from all sexual orientations, gender identities, racial backgrounds, nationalities, and income levels."
New-York Historical Society Museum & Library is the city's oldest museum, founded in 1804, and Dr Louise Mirrer, president and CEO, said it was with great foresight that in 1937 its Trustees purchased the land adjacent to its current building: "Knowing that our growing collections and evolving programs for scholars, students, educators, and the public would someday need room to expand."
The capital project is being made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by Manhattan Borough President Gale A Brewer and by lead support from the New-York Historical Society's Board of Trustees.
About the author – Adrian Murphy
Adrian is the Editor of MuseumNext and has 20 years' experience as a journalist, half of which has been writing for the cultural sector.
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The Three Secret Cities
by Matthew Reilly
Sean Mangan
The "king of hardcore action" (Brad Thor, New York Times bestselling author) and New York Times and #1 international bestselling author weaves a breathless thriller starring Jack West, Jr. that's "a clever mix of history, mythology, and geography" (Associated Press).
A shadow world behind the real world...
When Jack West, Jr. won the Great Games, he threw the four legendary kingdoms into turmoil.
A world with its own history, rules and prisons...
Now these dark forces are coming after Jack...in ruthless fashion.
That is reaching into our world—explosively...
With the end of all things rapidly approaching, Jack must find the Three Secret Cities, three incredible lost cities of legend.
It's an impossible task by any reckoning, but Jack must do it while he is being hunted...by the greatest hunters in history.
With Matthew Reilly's signature "wave after wave of nonstop action" (Booklist), The Three Secret Cities is an electrifying rollercoaster ride of a thriller.
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Edition: Unabridged
Number of parts: 13
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How exercise protects your brain from depression
Study suggests a new protective role for fit muscles.
By Alex Hutchinson
Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute published study in the journal Cell last week that may shed some light on how and why exercise fights depression (press release here). It's fairly complicated stuff (to me, at least), and it's a mouse study – but I think it's interesting enough to be worth taking a closer look at.
It's fairly well established that exercise is an effective countermeasure to depression, but it's not clear why. Is it something to do with the cardiovascular system? Psychosocial factors related to getting out and exercising? Is there some chemical produced in the brain during exercise that fights depression (that would have been my guess), or a chemical produced in the muscles that then travels to the brain? Turns out it's none of the above.
Depression is very complex and multi-faceted, so there are likely lots of different factors involved. But the particular pathway identified in the new study is sort of the opposite of the chemical-produced-in-the-brain hypothesis. Instead, it appears that there's a chemical called kynurenine produced mainly in the liver in response to stress that then travels to the brain, where it's linked to (among other things) neuroinflammation, cell death and depression. Exercise causes your muscles to increase levels of a protein called PGC-1alpha1, which in turn leads to higher levels of an enzyme that converts kynurenine into kynurenic acid – and the key difference is that kynurenic acid is unable to cross the blood-brain barrier, so (unlike kynurenine) it can't get into your brain and wreak havoc.
So the short version is: stress produces kynurenine which may lead to depression, but exercise helps you convert kynurenine into a harmless substance, leaving you more resilient to stress-induced depression.
KYN is kynurenine, KYNA is kynurenic acid. Yeah, it didn't really help me understand it either; for what it's worth, the press release I linked to at the top is pretty good.
The study itself tested the hypothesis in a bunch of different ways. By exposing mice to mild stress (noises, flashing lights, etc.) over several weeks, they were able to induce depressive behavior; but genetically engineered mice with high levels of PGC-1alpha1 didn't develop depression. They were also able to induce depression by simply injecting kynurenine into the mice, show that exercise increases levels of the enzyme that converts kynurenine to kynurenic acid, and several other key steps in the pathway.
In the end, well, it's a mouse study. How well does this translate to humans, and how generalisable is stress-induced depression? I really don't know. But it's certainly an interesting possibility. I'd always assumed that exercise's mental health benefits were partly from the social benefits of simply getting out and doing something, and partly from the direct feel-good effects of, say, endorphins and other brain chemicals. But this suggests it may play a more fundamental and direct role in making the brain more resistant to problems in the first place.
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Breath of Fire II
Genres Role-playing
Breath of Fire II is a role-playing video game developed and published by Capcom. It is the second entry in the Breath of Fire series. It was later ported to Game Boy Advance and re-released worldwide. Unlike later installments in the series, Breath of Fire II is a direct sequel to Breath of Fire. Set 500 years after the original game, the story centers on an orphan named Ryu Bateson, whose family vanished mysteriously long ago. After his friend is falsely accused of a crime, Ryu embarks on a journey to clear his name.
Breath of Fire II is a traditional role-playing video game featuring two-dimensional character sprites and environments. Players view the game from a top-down perspective and move their characters in four directions across various environments including towns and dungeons while interacting with non-player characters and battling enemies to advance the story.
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MNPs-supported acidic catalysts in oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides
Ali Mirzaie
Young Researchers and Elite Club, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran
10.26655/jmchemsci.2018.6.2
Sulfoxide derivatives are also prevalent structural motifs in many drugs and biologically active molecules. Oxidation of sulfides is the best strategy for the preparation of the sulfoxides. In recent times, a series of acids supported on magnetic nanoparticles have been reported for the oxidation of sulfides to the sulfoxides. In this paper, attention is focused on the fabrication of MNPs-supported acidic catalysts and their catalytic applications in the oxidation of sulfides to the sulfoxides.
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Mirzaie, A. (2018). MNPs-supported acidic catalysts in oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides. Journal of Medicinal and Chemical Sciences, 1(Issue 1. pp. 1-25), 5-8. doi: 10.26655/jmchemsci.2018.6.2
Ali Mirzaie. "MNPs-supported acidic catalysts in oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides". Journal of Medicinal and Chemical Sciences, 1, Issue 1. pp. 1-25, 2018, 5-8. doi: 10.26655/jmchemsci.2018.6.2
Mirzaie, A. (2018). 'MNPs-supported acidic catalysts in oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides', Journal of Medicinal and Chemical Sciences, 1(Issue 1. pp. 1-25), pp. 5-8. doi: 10.26655/jmchemsci.2018.6.2
Mirzaie, A. MNPs-supported acidic catalysts in oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides. Journal of Medicinal and Chemical Sciences, 2018; 1(Issue 1. pp. 1-25): 5-8. doi: 10.26655/jmchemsci.2018.6.2


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[Top 15] Best Boss and Employee Love Korean Dramas
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Who says love and work don't mix? These 15 Kdramas are all about what happens when office employees get entangled in a little romance. Here are the top 15 most romantic office K-dramas!
Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Do Bong-soon is a woman born with superhuman strength that comes from the long line of women possessing it. when Ahn Min Hyuk, the CEO of ainsoft, a gaming company witnesses her strength he hires her as his personal bodyguard.
Jin-wook and Yoo-mi meet at a Gangwon-do resort and get caught up in a series of misunderstandings and accidents. Yoo-mi was charmed by Jin-wook's sly and playful personality, and they unexpectedly spend the night together. However, Yoo-mi disappears in the morning, leaving Jin-wook feeling perplexed and irrationally angry.
She Was Pretty
When Ji Sung-Joon was young, he was ugly. As he grew up, he began to have an attractive appearance. When Kim Hye-Jin was young, she was pretty. As she grew up, she became ugly. Ji Sung-Joon tries to find his first love.
A tomboy, mistaken for a lad, maintains the deception for the sake of employment. The situation becomes complicated when her male boss begins to develop feelings for this "boy."
Introverted Boss
Eun Hwan-Ki is the CEO of a public relation company but he's extremely shy. Due to his personality, his employees don't know him well. Chae Ro-Woon begins work at Hwan-Ki's company. She's energetic and recieves recognition for her work, but her only interest is the CEO. She plans to reveal who Eun Hwan-Ki really is.
Lucky Romance
A superstitious woman is told, by a fortune teller, that her sister will come out of coma if she spends the night with a man born in 1986. Later, she finds out that her boss, who is an antisocial nerd, was born in 1986 and tries to seduce him.
The Queen of Office
An upbeat and refreshing romantic comedy about the office life of "Super Contract Worker" Mrs. Kim, who intimidates even the department head, and the work and love lives of the employees around her.
My Name is Kim Sam Soon
The misadventures and romantic entanglements of Kim Sam-Soon, a passionate, stubborn, klutzy, and almost thirty year old pastry chef.
Jang Yoon-Ha is the youngest daughter of a chaebol (family owned conglomeration). Even though her family is extremely wealthy, she holds a part-time job at a food market. She hides her background as an heiress and attempts to find a man that loves her for herself.
Radiant Office
Ho Won is a young woman who struggles to find a steady job. Tired and hopeless, she attempted suicide. Hospital check-up discovers she might have terminal illness. Soon after, a furniture company accepts her as a contract worker. Faced with a possibility of dying, Ho Won decides to just let herself loose. Her newfound bold attitude puts her at odds with her workaholic manager Woo Jin.
The Master's Sun
Tae Gong Shil has the ability to see ghosts, but their constant demands of help make her life impossible, until she meets Joo Jong Won, handsome CEO that measures everything with money, since when she touches him, the ghosts disappear.
The story of four families and their differences with each other. But things start to change when a young orphan girl enters their lives.
Marriage Contract
A single mother signs a marriage contract in order to have a guardian for her child once she passes away from her brain tumor.
Falling for Innocence
Kang Min Ho is young man who want to revenge his uncle's unjust takeover of his father's company. Then he needs to undergo a heart transplant surgery. After the surgery, he completely changes and begins to learn the true meaning of love.
About Noh Ji-wook (Ji Chang-wook), a prosecutor and Eun Bong-hee (Nam Ji-hyun), a prosecutor trainee and how they work together on a mysterious case involving a sly psychopath murderer.
(Source: MyDramaList, Wikipedia)
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New decade, new strategies to advocate & communicate about #affordablehousing
Sunday, Jan 19, 2020 Tai Coates
As we start a new decade, it's a great time to reconsider how we advocate for housing. The way we communicate has shifted drastically since 2010. In the last decade, social media became the go-to platform for communication; digital resources outpaced print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source, and more people than ever are engaging politically online. Simply put, the playing field has changed for housing communicators like me. We can no longer exclusively rely on our canned political jargon, crafted for congressional members and staffers on the Hill – our audience is now much broader than that.
In June 2019, the National Low Income Housing Coalition reported that extremely low-income families account for 71 percent of all severely housing cost-burdened renters in the U.S., spending more than half of their limited incomes on housing costs. These high costs force them to cut back on other basic necessities like food, health care and transportation, while also putting them at risk of housing instability.
Affordable housing communicators and advocates can make the case for more affordable housing resources by helping residents raise their voices, to break through the noise and make an impact in our crowded digital and political environment. This requires us to adapt our methods of communicating, or risk being drowned out as we enter a new decade. Affordable homes serve as a foundation that impacts the economy of not only individual families, but an entire community. The couriers of this new narrative should not be limited to traditional housing advocacy groups. We can do that by engaging the largest natural group of advocates we have – residents.
Storytelling is one of the most effective means of communication. A good story brings an important issue to life by adding that personal story component of "I know this is true, because I've lived it." If done well, stories can engage audiences, convey information and influence action.
When the National Housing Trust and Enterprise Community Partners launched Where Will We Live? in 2017, we wanted to highlight the importance of affordable housing by sharing stories from residents who live in assisted communities. We shared their stories with elected officials and community leaders, educating them firsthand about the benefits posed by affordable housing policies, and advocating for additional resources to ensure everyone can access an affordable, quality home. The message was not just numbers, facts and figures. These stories represented real people: nurses, students, immigrants, refugees and single parents.
We want to help other housing communicators and advocates to strategically integrate residents' voices into their narrative, which is why the National Housing Trust released the Where Will We Live? Resident Storytelling Toolkit this month.
Storytelling provides a compelling personal perspective to complement hard facts and data. The contents within our toolkit provides communicators with the following:
Storytelling basics: how to develop an audience, key message, and framework for stories;
Tools, methods, and resources for collecting stories;
Establishing relationships to collect resident stories; and
Producing and distributing stories for outreach and communications efforts.
We hope that this guide will help you effectively include the resident narrative within your communications efforts. Affordable housing is a broad and nuanced topic that requires a holistic approach from all angles. Because of this, it is crucial that housing communicators also discuss the latest tactics and strategies for raising awareness of affordable housing and building support for affordable housing policies and development. NHC's Solutions for Housing Communications 2020 convening is the only event in the nation that brings housing communicators together to do just that.
Close to 200 communicators representing organizations that work in housing finance, advocacy and development across the nation attended last year's convening. It was exciting to attend this unique event, where I joined housing media experts who shared tools and resources for producing compelling stories, and housing policy and communications experts who spoke on how to advocate for bipartisan support. This year's sessions will feature tools and resources for breaking through barriers when communicating about affordable housing. As an NHC Emerging Leader in Affordable Housing member, I look forward to exchanging ideas with my peers and experts this year on March 18 at the National Press Club in D.C.
This is going to be a big year and the start of an innovative decade, but our success relies on the resiliency of our actions and the way in which we communicate. I hope to see you at #SolutionsComms!


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Leading personal wash company, PZ Cussons, has invested in a new high-speed liquids manufacturing facility, significantly increasing capacity as well as benefiting from a more efficient process. Its old site, which had grown organically over a long period of time, was unable to deliver the production volumes to satisfy the economies of scale necessary to meet the demands of the business. It also experienced too much operator intervention at virtually all stages of manufacturing, which often introduced unwanted levels of product variability.
The company knew that significant cost savings could be made by its production operations and recognized that only a modern process plant that provides flexibility, visibility, scalability and access to intelligent measurement device information would help reach these objectives.
As part of a complete overhaul and modernization of its UK supply chain, PZ Cussons decided to take advantage of the control and visibility capabilities offered by a modern process-capable automation infrastructure. While establishing the justification for a new UK manufacturing facility, the company realized that much of its existing process equipment at its old site was not up to the demands of a modern manufacturing environment.
This is one of the reasons why it chose to employ the very latest the industry had to offer from Rockwell Automation and its Alliance Partner Endress+Hauser. Not only was the solution all based on the ISA S-88 standard, utilizing networked instrumentation and routing valves, but the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture™ meant a common software environment and scalability made installation and cross-line migration incredibly straightforward.
FDT Technology (IEC 62453 and ISA103) was used to provide a common look and feel for intelligent device configuration and device maintenance and troubleshooting. This allowed the networked instrumentation and valves to be set-up and adjusted in a standardised application – saving time, reducing errors and supporting the validation requirements. FDT also enabled the seamless integration and visibility into each device from a central location, reducing unnecessary trips into the plant.
Starting from a 'clean slate', PZ Cussons recognized many areas where savings could be made and unnecessary costs removed. It also wanted to adopt leaner manufacturing procedures making further savings in stock holding and deliveries.
The primary challenge was to obtain visibility of all steps of the process and to keep all parameters within operational tolerances. This required extremely accurate batching, mixing and metering systems, which could not only communicate with each other, but also with the master control system within the offices and external suppliers via a secure extranet.
An entirely new processing and production operation was developed, controlled by equipment engineered, supplied and improved by services from Rockwell Automation, along with instruments and fieldbus networks engineered, designed and commissioned by Endress+Hauser. Also included was the FDT-enabled application FieldCare which contributed to the flexibility and reliability of the control system by enabling easy access to device diagnostic data.
FDT Technology and device DTMs contributed to solving their automation puzzle by maximizing production to meet the changing demands of the business by bringing together their available fieldbus and control technology, instrumentation assets and the expertise of the staff.
The implementation and use of FDT Technology on the project made full use of the flexibility and the improved process and diagnostic data that the fieldbus devices provide. Since FDT is supplier and protocol independent, it provides the flexibility and scalability needed to meet current and future demands.
This has given PZ Cussons a level of process visibility and control far beyond what it had in its older plant. The new approach is helping it to attain many of the savings it envisioned, while also removing many of the process variables which introduced unwanted costs. By measuring and automating virtually every step of the recipe creation, mixing, processing and packaging lines, the total solution supplied by Rockwell Automation and Endress+Hauser has had a significant impact. Not only has the control system provided the required production volumes, but with the seamless integration of the field devices, providing validated accuracy the quality targets have also been met. The savings have been such that the company is vindicated in its decision not to move manufacturing to alternative locations outside of the UK.
The new PlantPAx™ process automation system uses a combination of technologies to achieve the production and quality targets. Overall line control is undertaken by a number of cabinet encased, line-side Allen- Bradley® ControlLogix® PACs. As well as providing the core control for Allen-Bradley Intelligent Motor Control Centres, the controllers also link to FactoryTalk® Batch and supply data for FactoryTalk® Historian. The FactoryTalk® AssetCentre tool provides plant-wide asset management support. This tool uses an FDT Frame Application to provide visibility into a wide variety of field devices for better operational and maintenance decision making. The whole installation is also covered by a Strategic Maintenance Contract, and a Team Support Contract support should any primary system experience issues.
The field instrumentation can be maintained and configured from a central location using the FDT/DTM capabilities of Endress+Hauser's FieldCare. The fieldbus networks also facilitate central monitoring and analysis of communication traffic. This completes the seamless integration from the control system to the field device providing validation of measured variables and consistent device maintenance.
PZ Cussons has effectively been able to deskill some processes that took operators many years to learn. Even then, each operator had their own way of doing things on each of the machines, which lead to some of the process variability. Labour in one area has been reduced from 16 people on a four-shift pattern to just one person who only needs to visit the section once a day. The remote access of measurement device status and parameter configuration provided by FDT-enabled solutions also contributed to these savings. Some of these roles have been redeployed elsewhere in the factory. With the old approach, all of the recipes were hard coded into the PLCs so there was no easy way to test new recipes and mixes without a significant re-coding exercise. Rockwell Automation's technology has allowed the company to pilot test new recipes on a small scale prior to mass production. FDT Technology provided an easy and secure configuration environment to make device changes – independent on the number or complexity of the devices. Previously, there was a need for specialist operators, but due to the scalability and portability of the software, any operator can now run any line. Operators are now much more multi-skilled – adding value to the areas where their intervention really counts. Ellams concludes: "First-time passes are now becoming the norm. The quality standards we are seeing are very high with little or no tweaking required. We often go weeks without any production issues." Overall, the plant is experiencing reduced downtime, greater accuracy and shorter batch times, which, in turn, is also saving energy and shortening time to market.


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Assessment of several interpreted pile capacity criteria for large-diameter open-ended piles
Antonio Kodsy, Nikolaos Machairas, Magued G. Iskander
Civil and Urban Engineering
The interpretation of field load tests on piles has many important practical considerations especially with respect to identifying the capacity of a pile. A number of interpretation criteria have been used in the past. With the increase in the use of large-diameter open-ended piles (LDOEPs) for support of infrastructure projects, it is important to ascertain that the interpretation criteria are suitable for LDOEPs. Fourteen of the most commonly used interpretation criteria were chosen for investigation in an effort to determine the best criterion to be used for LDOEPs. These methods were evaluated using a database of 68 load tests conducted on LDOEPs. The applicability of these criteria and their correlation with each other was examined. The effects of the pile diameter, pile length, and the soil type on the performance of each criterion were investigated, as well as the capacities corresponding to several serviceability limit states. It was concluded that none of these methods was superior to the others, and their performance was somewhat correlated. The original Davisson offset method and the New York City Building Code (NYCBC) criteria performed best in comparison to the average of all methods exhibiting the highest accuracy and the lowest of the standard deviations for the load tests considered. A variation of the NYCBC criterion is proposed for LDOEPs, where the capacity is taken at the smallest of (1) a settlement corresponding to the elastic compression plus 0.75 in. (20 mm); (2) the capacity at plunging or strain-softening; or (3) settlement corresponding to 5 % of the pile diameter, unless the settlement threshold is modified by the structural engineer of record. The proposed criterion is not influenced by diameter, length, or soil type. Additionally, the proposed criterion is well correlated with several well-known published criteria and introduces safeguards against capacities corresponding to excessive settlement in slender piles.
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Kodsy, A., Machairas, N., & Iskander, M. G. (2021). Assessment of several interpreted pile capacity criteria for large-diameter open-ended piles. Geotechnical Testing Journal, 44(5). https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20200074
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Kodsy, A, Machairas, N & Iskander, MG 2021, 'Assessment of several interpreted pile capacity criteria for large-diameter open-ended piles', Geotechnical Testing Journal, vol. 44, no. 5. https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20200074
Kodsy A, Machairas N, Iskander MG. Assessment of several interpreted pile capacity criteria for large-diameter open-ended piles. Geotechnical Testing Journal. 2021 Sep 1;44(5). https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20200074
Kodsy, Antonio ; Machairas, Nikolaos ; Iskander, Magued G. / Assessment of several interpreted pile capacity criteria for large-diameter open-ended piles. In: Geotechnical Testing Journal. 2021 ; Vol. 44, No. 5.
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