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Data defined label position for more than one scale in one layer I'm looking for a better labeling-solution for my projects. It seems to be difficult - but maybe I'm just blind?   My projects: I build  printed bike-hike-books. The main scale is 1:75k and there are a city scale of 10k and a overview scale of 200k. Because I like to have a "cartographic" quality of labels placements, I touch every single label and move it to it's best position. I have to do this for every single scale so my labeling columns for 3 scales look like this ('scale 1' stands for 10k 'scale 2' for 75k  and 'scale 3' for 200k):    But before I try to explain in detail, I build this simple Example-Project where you can see and test my (old) labeling solution for 3 scales:   Well, it is working but:    You need labeling columns for every scale  You need a layer for every scale   I'm looking for a much better solution without duplicate layers and tons of columns. I count on your creative minds!  EDIT: I added this two very dense map as examples:    There is only one single possible position for "St. Paulus Dom" and it's not any quadrant:   Every label has to be moved manually. Some of the labels are not in a quadrant. Chosing a reference frame in which the Earth is at rest and doesn't rotate I have searched this for hours but still no luck, obviously doing something wrong.  The journal (Risk Analysis) wants "Reference style is based on the National Library of Medicine (NLM) style guide. In-text citations are numbered, superscripted and in parentheses, and the reference list is numbered in order of appearance within the manuscript. Footnotes are superscripted without parentheses".  Could someone please suggest an appropriate .bst file to use that will produce this? Thanks, J Is it possible to call a non-exported function that resides in an exe? Fix corrupt NTFS partition without Windows MY NTFS Partition has gotten corrupt somehow (it's a relic from the days when I had Windows installed).     I'm putting the debug output of fdisk and blkid .  At the same time, any OS is unable to mount my root partition, which is located next to my NTFS partition. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, though. I get the following error while trying to mount my root partition (sda5)  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,        missing codepage or helper program, or other error        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try        dmesg | tail  or so  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dmesg | tail [ 1019.726530] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): [ 1019.726533]         72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00  [ 1019.726551]         1a 3e ed 92  [ 1019.726558] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed [ 1019.726568] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 1a 3e ed 40 00 01 00 00 [ 1019.726584] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 440331666 [ 1019.726602] JBD: Failed to read block at offset 462 [ 1019.726609] ata1: EH complete [ 1019.726612] JBD: recovery failed [ 1019.726617] EXT4-fs (sda5): error loading journal   When I open gparted (using live CD), I get an exclamation next to my NTFS drive which states   Is there a way to run chkdsk without using windows ?  My attempt to run fsck results in the following :  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck /dev/sda fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda  The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:     e2fsck -b 8193 &lt;device&gt;   Update: I was able to fix the NTFS partition running chkdsk off Hiren's BootCD, but it seems that the superblock problem still remains.  Update 2: Fixed superblock issue using e2fsck -c /dev/sda5 How can wifi penetrate through walls when visible light can't? I did search the question on Physics S.E considering it would be previously asked. I found this  But in this question , the answers are w.r.t to or in comparison with microwaves , their absorption and certain other things. I didn't find a sort of general answer that could be the answer to the question. So the question is - wifi or radio waves  reach us through concrete walls . They also reach us through the ceiling (if some one is using it in the flat above ours ). Even through the air they travel such a lot , bending around corners or doors . Now I would not compare them to microwaves (because I don't want the answer in terms of properties of the material but physics). Visible light which is so much powerful than them can't penetrate black opaque paper leave alone the walls. Same is true for gamma rays (penetration through a very thick wall). So why then radio waves being so very less powerful than light  waves are able to travel through walls? There should be a general concept as to why the radio waves are able to pass through walls but microwaves or light waves cannot ! A linked question is also that sound travels much faster in solids(walls) but is not audible in it though it is in air. After reading @BillN's answer, it would be really helpful if any one could explain it in terms molecular resonance or crystalline structure or electrical conductivity or how does molecular resonance or crystalline structure or electrical conductivity cause this. I'm looking for a way to get the Default currency symbol (in a none-multi-currency org) of the salesforce org locale (to have it displayed on a visualforce page in a field that can't be &lt;apex:inputField&gt; or &lt;apex:outputField&gt;) preferably query-able from apex (via the database, a describe or whatever) and then again the actual symbol, meaning € for Euro, $ for dollar, and so on...  There must surely be some sort of mapping hidden in the code somewhere salesforce does this via the input/outputfields if bound to an sobject of type currency  Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is the phrase "it's just a matter of semantics" meaningless? I hear this phrase from time to time, and I really don't know what it means.  Two people are debating, and one says "the difference between your position and mine is just a matter of semantics."   This would seem to me to be quite an important difference.  That is, if one person means one thing, and the other person means something else, then they really do have different positions.  If they said "it is just a matter of terminology" or "just a matter of phrasing" I would get it.  But if someone says "we differ only what we mean" ... it kinda makes me chuckle because it seems to be saying that their meaning is not important, as if the argument was primary and the positions they take a secondary consideration.  So I started looking around for examples of this. I guess it seems that there is a popular notion that semantics is about very fine distinctions, such as:   Another interpretation seems to be that semantics is the difference between two ways of saying the same thing:   Maybe it is just a way of stopping an annoying conversation:   And then there is some usage that I simply don't understand:    And also:   Still, to me it is just a meaningless phrase.  Am I missing an important meaning here? Infinite series $\sum _{n=2}^{\infty } \frac{1}{n \log (n)}$ Not able to install Win Xp on Lenovo Ideapad z570 I want to install Win Xp on my Ideapad Z 570 laptop but i always get blue screen with message with some drive related problem which asks me to run CHKDSK command. I tried with that but no luck. Is there any way i can install Win Xp with SP 2 ?  Edit: i searched across the sites and came to know there could be some Compatibility problems, and i could fix it by setting HDD mode to IDE; will it solve the problem? Are C-style macro names subject to the same naming rules as identifiers?  After a compiler upgrade, it is now emitting this warning for a legacy application:  warning #3649-D: white space is required between the macro name "CHAR_" and its replacement text   #define         CHAR_&amp;        38   This line of code is defining an ASCII value constant for an ampersand.  #define   DOL_SN        36 #define   PERCENT       37 #define   CHAR_&amp;        38 #define   RT_SING       39 #define   LF_PAR        40   I assume that this definition (not actually referenced by any code, as far as I can tell) is buggy and should be changed to something like "CHAR_AMPERSAND"? Upon realizing it is a sarcophagus, he decides to sacrifice himself (I think by disconnecting his air) and exist in it for eternity along with the original creature. It may have been in an old Omni magazine, or some other periodical. I thought it may have been in the anthology "Dead Astronauts" but I did not find the story in there. Can a function be differentiable at the end points of its (closed interval) domain? Assume $f$ has a domain of $[a,b]$. Is it possible that $f$ is differentiable on the closed interval $[a,b]$, or must the maximal domain for $f'$ be $(a,b)$? I installed Dev C++ using Wine on Ubuntu 18.04 and the program is compiling but it not showing any output screen. When using sudo to allow edits to files, I regularly get 'permission denied'.  For example, my mouse is jittery and sluggish, so I want to disable polling:  sudo echo "options drm_kms_helper poll=N"&gt;/etc/modprobe.d/local.conf   I'm prompted for a password, and then get:  bash: /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf: Permission denied   So I tried to do a temporary change to disable polling by using:  sudo echo N&gt; /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll   Yet again the system responded with:  bash: /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll: Permission denied   Any ideas? How can one prove the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization condition $$ \oint p~dq ~=~2\pi n \hbar $$ from the WKB ansatz solution $$\Psi(x)~=~e^{iS(x)/ \hbar}$$ for the Schroedinger equation? With $S$ the action of the particle defined by Hamilton-Jacobi equation $$ \frac{\partial S}{\partial t}+ \frac{(\nabla S)^{2} }{2m}+V(x)~=~0 .$$ Today, after returning from vacations, I started my QGIS 1.7 and got this terrible message:    Help, anyone? Almost all passports I have seen have a place of birth field on them. For instance, on the US Passport,    Is there a specific reason to this? The  is minimal and clean on a fresh installation of Windows. Install a bunch of applications and soon the context menu is loaded with all kinds of opening options from various applications.  How do I remove items from the right click (context) menu?  I find that there are different types of right click menu items:   Global items that appear in all context menus. Items that appear only on folders. Items that appear only on files. Items that appear only on special folders (Ex: Right clicking a folder of MP3s shows up a context menu with items like Play with Windows Media Player.) Items that appear only on certain file types (Ex: Right clicking a MP3 file shows up a context menu with items from Windows Media Player/Foobar2000/VLC/your-favorite-media-player begging to open this file.)   I want to be able to delete all these kinds items from the right click (context) menu. Adding related resources or hyperlinks in edits So, I've been rejecting the addition of resources/hyperlinks to posts simply because I had no idea that this was an acceptable practice.  Today, I was browsing through the edits page and saw:     Some common reasons to edit are:         to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes   to clarify the meaning of a post without changing it   to correct minor mistakes or add addendums / updates as the post ages   to add related resources or hyperlinks      Why is this an acceptable practice?  I can see adding links to official documentation, but the quality of outside resources is (potentially) subjective.  I see the merit in adding resources, but it seems to me that these additional resources should be placed in comments, not inserted into the post via an edit.  Anyone have thoughts on this?