Clear, conductive coating could protect advanced solar cells, touch screens
New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say
| Source: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Summary: | Researchers have improved on a transparent, conductive coating material, producing a tenfold gain in its electrical conductivity. When incorporated into a type of high-efficiency solar cell, the material increased the cell's efficiency and stability. |
MIT researchers have improved on a transparent, conductive coating material, producing a tenfold gain in its electrical conductivity. When incorporated into a type of high-efficiency solar cell, the material increased the cell's efficiency and stability.
The new findings are reported in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT postdoc Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh, professors Karen Gleason and Jing Kong, and three others.
"The goal is to find a material that is electrically conductive as well as transparent," Gleason explains, which would be "useful in a range of applications, including touch screens and solar cells." The material most widely used today for such purposes is known as ITO, for indium titanium oxide, but that material is quite brittle and can crack after a period of use, she says.
Gleason and her co-researchers improved a flexible version of a transparent, conductive material two years ago and published their findings, but this material still fell well short of matching ITO's combination of high optical transparency and electrical conductivity. The new, more ordered material, she says, is more than 10 times better than the previous version.
The combined transparency and conductivity is measured in units of Siemens per centimeter. ITO ranges from 6,000 to 10,000, and though nobody expected a new material to match those numbers, the goal of the research was to find a material that could reach at least a value of 35. The earlier publication exceeded that by demonstrating a value of 50, and the new material has leapfrogged that result, now clocking in at 3,000; the team is still working on fine-tuning the process to raise that further.
The high-performing flexible material, an organic polymer known as PEDOT, is deposited in an ultrathin layer just a few nanometers thick, using a process called oxidative chemical vapor deposition (oCVD). This process results in a layer where the structure of the tiny crystals that form the polymer are all perfectly aligned horizontally, giving the material its high conductivity. Additionally, the oCVD method can decrease the stacking distance between polymer chains within the crystallites, which also enhances electrical conductivity.
To demonstrate the material's potential usefulness, the team incorporated a layer of the highly aligned PEDOT into a perovskite-based solar cell. Such cells are considered a very promising alternative to silicon because of their high efficiency and ease of manufacture, but their lack of durability has been a major drawback. With the new oCVD aligned PEDOT, the perovskite's efficiency improved and its stability doubled.
In the initial tests, the oCVD layer was applied to substrates that were 6 inches in diameter, but the process could be applied directly to a large-scale, roll-to-roll industrial scale manufacturing process, Heydari Gharahcheshmeh says. "It's now easy to adapt for industrial scale-up," he says. That's facilitated by the fact that the coating can be processed at 140 degrees Celsius — a much lower temperature than alternative materials require.
The oCVD PEDOT is a mild, single-step process, enabling direct deposition onto plastic substrates, as desired for flexible solar cells and displays. In contrast, the aggressive growth conditions of many other transparent conductive materials require an initial deposition on a different, more robust substrate, followed by complex processes to lift off the layer and transfer it to plastic.
Because the material is made by a dry vapor deposition process, the thin layers produced can follow even the finest contours of a surface, coating them all evenly, which could be useful in some applications. For example, it could be coated onto fabric and cover each fiber but still allow the fabric to breathe.
The team still needs to demonstrate the system at larger scales and prove its stability over longer periods and under different conditions, so the research is ongoing. But "there's no technical barrier to moving this forward. It's really just a matter of who will invest to take it to market," Gleason says.
The research team included MIT postdocs Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli and Maxwell Robinson, and research affiliate Edward Gleason. The work was supported by Eni S.p.A. under the Eni-MIT Alliance Solar Frontiers Program.
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Suying Zheng - Bio
Education
- Bachelor of Art in Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz
- Bachelor of Art in Business Management Economics, University of California Santa Cruz
- Associated Degree of Mathematics, City College of San Francisco
Experience
- Computer System Programmer, United States Postal Service (Sep, 2019 - Current)
- Develop React web applications.
- Develop Ionic Angular mobile application (IOS and Android) and Angular web application.
- Update mobile applications compatibility for IOS updates.
- Create SQL to update Oracle database, including new table design, load data from other resources, update existing data, back up and export data.
- Production patch deployments, fix code issues, debug to keep the applications running.
- Selenium automation testing.
- Setup Jenkins.
- Customer Service Representative, Sterling Bank & Trust (May, 2018 - August, 2019)
- Recommend appropriate financial products and services by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.
- Provide professional assistance to customers with their banking transaction and service.
- Professionally perform cash and check transactions to balance by ensuring all the daily works are accurate.
- Statistics Tutor, City College of San Francisco Learning Assistance Center (Sep, 2014 - Jun, 2015)
- Created personalized study plans for students from diverse backgrounds in one-on-one meetings.
- Explained complex statistics concepts in simple ways helping students to pass their classes.
Technical Highlights
- Coding:
React, JavaScript, Java, Python, Spring Boot, Selenium, Angular Ionic, JSP, SQL
- Software and Tools:
Oracle Database, Git, UNIX/Bash, Android Studio, Xcode, Jenkins, SonarQube, Qlik, Eclipse, Visio Studio, Figma, Microsoft Visio, Excel
Projects
- yelpCamp
- A Node.js web application for users to share campgrounds with pictures and description.
- Use MongoDB as database.
- Use passport authentication that enables users to login or logout, and manage their posts and comments.
- Display different layouts according to logged-in or not.
- Thumb A Ride
- A web application developed in Web2py that used for UC Santa Cruz students register accounts for sharing trips.
- Used MySQL to select data to show in UI, and used Bootstrap to design layouts of web pages.
- Adopted Google Map API on the website that enables users to direct routines.
- Web-Spiders
- Python based web spiders that capture original images and sound files from legal websites.
- Employed beautifulSoup, request and regular expression to parse source documents.
- Pata-Clone
- A web application imitated the visual sound kit application https://patatap.com.
- Generates different sounds and random polygons according to the key that the user hit on keyboard.
- RGB Color Game
- An online game that generates random RGB colors for player to guess according to given RGB scales.
- Two difficulity levels for users to choose.
Experience
- Computer Programmer/Analyst Associate, United States Postal Service (Sep, 2019 - Current)
- Develop mobile and web applications on Ionic, Angular, React, and Maven projects.
- Write sql in database to get and manipulate data, Oracle Client.
- Fix code issues, debug, and add Junit test for projects. Keep track of Jenkins and SonarQube to do code changes.
- Selenium automation testing.
- Customer Service Representative, Sterling Bank & Trust (May, 2018 - Aug, 2019)
- Recommend appropriate financial products and services by collecting customer information and analyzing customer needs.
- Provide professional assistance to customers with their banking transaction and service.
- Professionally perform cash and check transactions to balance by ensuring all the daily works are accurate.
- Statistics Tutor, City College of San Francisco Learning Assistance Center (Sep, 2014 - Jun, 2015)
- Created personalized study plans for students from diverse backgrounds in one-on-one meetings.
- Explained complex statistics concepts in simple ways helping students to pass their classes.
Volunteer Experience
- ESL Class Coach,CCSF Project SHINE
- Help instructor to pass handouts, to translate English into Cantonese for students who have trouble to understand when needed.
- Explain class materials in detail to students when they feel confused.
- Packet Pick Up, Nike Women's Half Marathon
- Distribute race packets to runners.
- Help runners to choose opt-in/out in the system during the race.
- Grain Bagging, San Francisco Food Bank
- Pack loose grain into small 1 pound sized packages.
- T-Shirt Distribution, San Francisco Giant Race
- Distribute the race T-shirts to runners.
- Help runners to choose opt-in/out in the system during the race.
Resume


The goal of MUS-106 is musical fluency—the successful depositing of musical information into readily-accessible long-term memory and the successful cognitive assimilation of musical skills and concepts.
This term, our goal is a more advanced level of musical fluency with concepts and skills that will allow you to compose and analyze short pieces of music in a variety of styles, and sing and actively listen to this music as well. The course is divided into written theory, which meets on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and aural skills, which meets on Tuesday and Thursday.
Assessment and Grading
Assessment in this course follows a standards-based model. Written theory and aural theory are divided into three categories each. In written theory, music fundamentals, music analysis, and composition. In aural skills, performance skills, keyboard skills, and dictation.
Each of the six categories contains between 6 and 20 specific objectives that students should aim to master. For example:
Create an analytical sketch of a passage containing functional progressions, any type of dominant function chord, dominant preparation chords, and non-chord tones.
At any point in the semester, for each objective, students will have a current mark of N – not attempted, A – attempted, P – passed, or NP-not passed. Only the most recent attempts will count toward a student’s grade.
A student’s letter grade for each category is determined by the number of objectives passed. And final grades are a simple average of the six category grades.
Current grades are available at tinyurl.com/your-UB-ID-number, where “your-UB-ID-number” is the 8-digit number assigned to you by UB.
Reassessment
Objectives in aural skills and written theory are tied to units of study—three each for written theory and for aural skills, and students should aim to complete all of the relevant objectives before the end of each unit.
Students will have multiple attempts to demonstrate mastery of the concepts. Only the most recent attempts will count toward a student’s grade. In general, students may reassess the relevant objectives within one week of the unit deadline.
For any given skill, only two assessment opportunities are allowed each day.
Tutorials
Once each week, every student will have a 10-minute tutorial with one of our teaching assistants. These tutorials are opportunities for students to get individual help with the various aural skills, and for them to attempt keyboard and singing objectives.
Students will sign up for these tutorials during the first week of classes and should maintain the same time throughout the term.
Unit Guides
Specific information about the units of study in both written theory and aural skills, including relevant concepts and objectives, resources, and deadlines, are included below.
Written Theory
Aural Skills
Course materials
- Charles Smith, Tonal Models of Music. (Unpublished text.)
- Text and Examples, Chapters 9-17: Available online and in hard copy at the UPS Store in the UB Commons.
- Workbook, Chapters 10-17: Available online and in hard copy at the UPS Store in the UB Commons.
- Gary Karpinski and Richard Kram, Anthology for Sight Singing
- Gary Karpinski, Manual for Ear Training and Sight Singing
Final exam
No required class activities will take place during finals week, only final assessments and reassessments.
Policies
For university policies relevant to this course, please see this page.
About this syllabus
This syllabus is a summary of course objectives and content and a reminder of some relevant university policies, not a contract. All information in this syllabus (except for the general description at the top of this page) is subject to change, with sufficient advanced notice provided by the instructor.


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Usain Bolt being congratulated by the crowd at the 2008 Beijing Olympics © Reuters/ . Ask students to imagine that their plan to get home is suddenly in tatters.
http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/Teaching-resources/Lesson-plans/Olympics-2012
Geographical Association - Beijing 2008: Teaching Resources
Resources for two lessons based on the Beijing Games. The Geography of the Olympics This American lesson plan and worksheet were created in 1992 but can .
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You might integrate a lesson on the Summer Olympics with a unit on Ancient Greece, Olympic Traditions, . Teacher Planet offers lesson plans that discuss various aspects of the Summer Olympics. . Beijing 2008 Olympics Education Site .
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"Beijing, China will host the 2008 Olympics" --Provided by CNN with links to relevant CNN news articles and web resources, this .
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Education World: Gold Medal Olympics Activities
. Olympic Games in London. Use these gold-medal lessons to capitalize on the excitement. . Lesson: Olympics Students plan and stage a classroom Olympics.
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New Beijing, Great Olympics - Stanford University
urban planning and economic information about Beijing's Olympic budget. In examining possible political lessons that. China's leaders may be able to draw from .
http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjeaa/journal42/china3.pdf
NewsHour Extra: Lesson Plan | Politics and the Olympics | PBS
May 5, 2008 . In this lesson plan students research the role politics has played in past . As for the Beijing Olympics, politics have been at play since the .
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/world/jan-june08/olympics_china.html
Breaking News English ESL Lesson Plan on Beijing Olympics
May 8, 2007 . ESL Lesson: The Chinese government has already started to clean up its capital city, ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0705/070508-beijing_olympics.html
2008 Beijing Olympic Games Case Study: lesson Plan Teaching ...
2008 Beijing Olympic Games Case Study: lesson Plan. Teaching Background and Objectives. Learning Area: Travel and Tourism. Target Students: Form 4 and .
http://www.edb.gov.hk/attachment/en/curriculum-development/kla/pshe/references-and-resources/cross-curricular-resources/teaching_plan_eng.pdf
Lesson Plan Olympics - The Smith Family
One World One Dream is the slogan for the Beijing Olympic Games. One World One Dream stands for these 6 words below. Their meanings are in the right .
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As an Indian watching the Olympics, there is not much to look forward to. The best in our one billion-strong nation don’t make it past the qualification criteria for most sports. And, when they do, they are usually found at the bottom of the standings - forming a solid base from which, every Olympics, we moan the dearth of infrastructure and the deluge of corruption in India.
The list of medals won per capita at the Summer Olympics has India finishing last in Total Medals per Capita, Gold Medals per Capita and second-to-last (woot! woot!) in Weighted Medals per Capita, finishing ahead of that great Olympic nation - Iraq, who were nice enough to only win one bronze medal ever.
Of course, a well-read mind will point out that Iraq has been mired in wars since the ’80s whereas most of India has not faced similar troubles. To that, an Indian may say, “Well, they have never lost to us at football, so surely the wars are no excuse!” - a statement that is likely to leave him feeling both proud and abject at the same time, an emotion the Indian has perfected over years of experiencing our athletes finish just outside the medal spots. So, with this in mind, we travel back in time to 2004 to a house called Kottackal in Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (the Indian state of names unpronounceable).
Kottackal was home to my maternal grandparents, whom I was visiting for the summer holidays. As the 2004 Olympics were in full swing, my family and I spent most of the month-long break from life in Dubai glued to the TV. As viewers, we were prepared - which meant everyone had two things picked out. Firstly, a political party to criticize for this mess that our contingent was in and secondly, an Indian sportsman to praise for making it this far despite said political party’s best efforts.
This particular day, the lucky Indian sportsman chosen was a man called Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. The event was some sort of a shooting event. Double trap. We had never heard of it, but, for this one day, for these few hours, like all good Indians, we had reincarnated ourselves as avid followers of the sport. Shortly after making quick work of the rules (you shoot a target), we figured out that the “2” next to the Indian shooter’s name stood (surprisingly) for his rank and not his score. We knew he would win nothing, but, we felt hope surging in our hearts - a feeling that many Indians know better than they know themselves: being simultaneously hopeful and pessimistic. This is due, in no small part, to our national cricket team that - for the entirety of the 90s - gave us front seats in an emotional rollercoaster that involved a tremendous amount of emotion rolling and absolutely no coasting.
Slowly, the seconds ticked and the minutes tocked, and it looked like hope might just blossom into reality. That’s not something we were used to - was India really going to win a medal!? Turns out, we were! How truly blissful!  It seemed like nothing could bring us down to earth and that’s when I noticed it…
An Emirati. The winner of the event, was an Emirati! The tiny country of UAE, with fewer than a million people. The country we had left to come to India (and would soon be returning to) had won its first-ever medal at the Summer Olympics. And of course, it had to be in this event, and of course, it had to be a gold. So, we all sat there, watching the medal ceremony, looking at the silver medal around Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s neck as the familiar UAE national anthem played. Once again, we were not sure if pride was the right emotion to feel and if it was, how much of it would be appropriate.
Given the fact that India had claimed another individual medal in shooting (a gold!) at the 2008 Olympics, it seemed only reasonable to try and make sense of how our shooters were doing. An article I found online said that our hero from the previous anecdote - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore - had, unfortunately, not qualified. Oh, well! He had done his part when he won us that silver medal, I thought to myself and went on with my day.
The next day, I notice a Twitter account making comments on various Indian shooters and the federation. The profile photo seemed familiar - wait a second, someone was posing as Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore! This incompetent fraudster didn’t seem to be trying very hard to seem authentic - for one, his Twitter handle was @Ra_thore, a name only a spammer could come up with, and two, his account was (obviously) missing the blue checkmark of verification. This charlatan had convincingly fooled a few others into thinking he was the silver medalist and was freely voicing his opinion on India’s shooting contingent. How truly disgusting!
The dedicated one hour of fandom I expressed as I watched the Olympics back in 2004 meant that I had no choice but to take this personally - someone besmirching Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s name was as good as any personal affront. I couldn’t stand by and watch the names of one of our great sportsmen (and an army man to boot) get dragged through the ditches of Twitter. I tweeted at the account, calling the fraudster out:
A few minutes later, to my surprise, I got a reply! Aha! Now, there was no doubt in my mind - not only was this guy a cheat, he was a poor one. No elite sportsmen has time to tweet and reply to nobodies like me.
As this dragged on, I began to wonder… My convictions gave way to doubts and I felt there may have been a slight chance that I was very, very, wrong. So, backing off a bit, I asked him to get his account verified - if it really was him, that is (note: I refused to address him in the second person “you”).
When I opened Twitter a few days later, I saw his account had changed slightly. It now had a small blue check mark next to his name. His account was now verified. Great! Incredible. I had done it - I had helped an Olympic silver medalist. Not in a truly notable way, but also in a way that would be noted by his 100, 000+ followers. Not only had I helped him, but, in the process of doing so, I had called him a complete fake. Though, to be fair, as an Olympic medalist, I’m sure he has had to face bigger challenges.
And, to this day, when I look at Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore’s Twitter page, I feel like I am truly Indian. Not because he won us an Olympic medal. Not even because he was in the army. But, because when I see that little blue check mark, I feel - yet again - that weird, uniquely Indian emotion: abject pride.


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Dad In Stitches Over Daughter’s Christmas List
by Cameron FrewA Macbook Air, iPhone 11, AirPods and $4,000; this 10-year-old’s Christmas list will make your eyes water.
The festive season has undergone a seismic change since my youth. With the advent of amazing technology, for kids there’s simply too much to choose from.
This young girl has a genius solution… just ask for everything.
Twitter user @A_Johnson412 shared the list on Twitter, writing: ‘My 10 year old daughter must be out of her mind with this Christmas list.’
It’s so well put-together, politely written and littered with hilarious spelling mistakes (‘asenchal oil’) that it’s impossible to be annoyed.
Check out the amazing list below:
Here’s the full list, strap in:
iPhone 11, AirPods, New Macbook Air, a real bunny, hydroflask, clothes, makeup, pink Puma trainers, Gucci sliders, Chanel purse, perfume, essential oil, American girl doll car, new shoes, earrings, jewellery, chequered vans, GoPro, pink duct tape, food colouring and laundry detergent, clothes for bunny, $4,000, LOL doll with camper and chalet, new sheets and cover, and an alarm clock.
You’ve got to admit, it’s a comprehensive list. I particularly like the inclusion of $4,000 so low down, almost like a last minute thought.
Growing up, for me it was quite simple: games consoles. Whether it was the PS2, Xbox 360, Wii or PS4, a new console was the straightforward Christmas request. I’d probably add a couple of games to the list, and that would be it completed.
Now, it’s different. Everyone wants the latest and best phones and computers, no matter their age.
The dad’s followers are absolutely loving his daughter’s requests, calling her a ‘baby queen’.
One user wrote: ‘An alarm clock, Gucci slides and some laundry detergent? Mama has range and her priorities in check!’ Another added: ‘Her taste is exquisite, I am impressed.’
Since posting the list, the tweet has racked up nearly 120,000 likes and more than 22,000 retweets.
One user wrote: ‘Get her that alarm clock sis! Lol tell her it’ll wake her up from that dream where she think she’s getting everything on there.’
Another added: ‘Sneaking in that 4K at the bottom is a rockstar move.’ The dad replied: ‘Right like oh yea lemme ask for 4K too. Right by the bunny clothes.’
It’s good to see people getting into the festive spirit. Whether you like it or not, November marks the beginning of the Christmas countdown.
If you’re still struggling to jingle those bells, maybe check out the new John Lewis advert with Excitable Edgar.
After graduating from Glasgow Caledonian University with an NCTJ and BCTJ-accredited Multimedia Journalism degree, Cameron ventured into the world of print journalism at The National, while also working as a freelance film journalist on the side, becoming an accredited Rotten Tomatoes critic in the process. He’s now left his Scottish homelands and took up residence at UNILAD as a journalist.


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media element in a [SMIL 2.1]
document.
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.
This document has been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and is endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited from another document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.
This version reflects changes made as a result of applying errata and addressing comments received since the Recommendation was first published. With one minor exception noted below, these changes are editorial.
This document is a revision of Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 [TTML10], superseding that previous Recommendation. The
only identified substantive difference between this version and its predecessor is a
change of the default treatment of the ttp:markerMode
parameter
attribute from continuous
to discontinuous
. A cumulative
summary of all changes applied to this version since the Recommendation was first
published is available at Changes from Recommendation to
Proposed Edited Recommendation (2nd Ed.) and Changes from Proposed Edited
Recommendation (2nd Ed.) to Recommendation (2nd Ed.).
A sample test suite is available. This set of tests is not intended to be exhaustive. The implementation report used by the director to transition to Recommendation has been made available. There have been no formal objections to the publication of this document.
This document was produced by the Timed Text (TT) Working Group as part of the W3C Video in the Web Activity, following the procedures set out for the W3C Process. The authors of this document are listed in the header of this document, including input and review by liaisons from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE).
If you wish to report errors in or submit comments on this document, then please submit them to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>(subscribe, archive). All comments are welcome.
This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.
1 Introduction
1.1 System Model
1.2 Document Example
2 Definitions
2.1 Acronyms
2.2 Terminology
2.3 Documentation Conventions
3 Conformance
3.1 Content
Conformance
3.2 Processor
Conformance
3.2.1 Generic Processor Conformance
3.2.2 Transformation Processor Conformance
3.2.3 Presentation Processor Conformance
3.3 Claims
4 Document Types
4.1 TTML Content
5 Vocabulary
5.1 Namespaces
5.2 Profiles
5.3 Catalog
5.3.1 Core Catalog
5.3.2 Extension Catalog
6 Parameters
6.1 Parameter Element
Vocabulary
6.1.1 ttp:profile
6.1.2 ttp:features
6.1.3 ttp:feature
6.1.4 ttp:extensions
6.1.5 ttp:extension
6.2 Parameter
Attribute Vocabulary
6.2.1 ttp:cellResolution
6.2.2 ttp:clockMode
6.2.3 ttp:dropMode
6.2.4 ttp:frameRate
6.2.5 ttp:frameRateMultiplier
6.2.6 ttp:markerMode
6.2.7 ttp:pixelAspectRatio
6.2.8 ttp:profile
6.2.9 ttp:subFrameRate
6.2.10 ttp:tickRate
6.2.11 ttp:timeBase
7 Content
7.1 Content Element
Vocabulary
7.1.1 tt
7.1.2 head
7.1.3 body
7.1.4 div
7.1.5 p
7.1.6 span
7.1.7 br
7.2 Content Attribute
Vocabulary
7.2.1 xml:id
7.2.2 xml:lang
7.2.3 xml:space
8 Styling
8.1 Styling Element
Vocabulary
8.1.1 styling
8.1.2 style
8.2 Styling Attribute
Vocabulary
8.2.1 style
8.2.2 tts:backgroundColor
8.2.3 tts:color
8.2.4 tts:direction
8.2.5 tts:display
8.2.6 tts:displayAlign
8.2.7 tts:extent
8.2.8 tts:fontFamily
8.2.9 tts:fontSize
8.2.10 tts:fontStyle
8.2.11 tts:fontWeight
8.2.12 tts:lineHeight
8.2.13 tts:opacity
8.2.14 tts:origin
8.2.15 tts:overflow
8.2.16 tts:padding
8.2.17 tts:showBackground
8.2.18 tts:textAlign
8.2.19 tts:textDecoration
8.2.20 tts:textOutline
8.2.21 tts:unicodeBidi
8.2.22 tts:visibility
8.2.23 tts:wrapOption
8.2.24 tts:writingMode
8.2.25 tts:zIndex
8.3 Style Value
Expressions
8.3.1 <alpha>
8.3.2 <color>
8.3.3 <digit>
8.3.4 <duration>
8.3.5 <familyName>
8.3.6 <genericFamilyName>
8.3.7 <hexDigit>
8.3.8 <integer>
8.3.9 <length>
8.3.10 <namedColor>
8.3.11 <quotedString>
8.3.12 <string>
8.4 Style
Resolution
8.4.1 Style Association
<IP_ADDRESS>
Inline Styling
<IP_ADDRESS>
Referential Styling
<IP_ADDRESS>
Chained Referential
Styling
<IP_ADDRESS>
Nested Styling
8.4.2 Style Inheritance
<IP_ADDRESS>
Content Style Inheritance
<IP_ADDRESS>
Region Style Inheritance
8.4.3 Style Resolution Value
Categories
<IP_ADDRESS>
Specified Values
<IP_ADDRESS>
Computed Values
<IP_ADDRESS>
Actual Values
8.4.4 Style Resolution Processing
<IP_ADDRESS>
Conceptual
Definitions
<IP_ADDRESS>
Specified Style Set
Processing
<IP_ADDRESS>
Computed Style Set
Processing
<IP_ADDRESS>
Style Resolution
Process
9 Layout
9.1 Layout Element
Vocabulary
9.1.1 layout
9.1.2 region
9.2 Layout Attribute
Vocabulary
9.2.1 region
9.3 Region Layout and
Presentation
9.3.1 Default Region
9.3.2 Intermediate Synchronic Document
Construction
9.3.3 Synchronic Flow Processing
9.3.4 Elaborated Example (Informative)
9.4 Line Layout
10 Timing
10.1 Timing Element
Vocabulary
10.2 Timing Attribute
Vocabulary
10.2.1 begin
10.2.2 end
10.2.3 dur
10.2.4 timeContainer
10.3 Time Value
Expressions
10.3.1 <timeExpression>
10.4 Time Intervals
11 Animation
11.1 Animation
Element Vocabulary
11.1.1 set
11.2 Animation
Attribute Vocabulary
12 Metadata
12.1 Metadata Element
Vocabulary
12.1.1 metadata
12.1.2 ttm:title
12.1.3 ttm:desc
12.1.4 ttm:copyright
12.1.5 ttm:agent
12.1.6 ttm:name
12.1.7 ttm:actor
12.2 Metadata
Attribute Vocabulary
12.2.1 ttm:agent
12.2.2 ttm:role
A Reduced XML Infoset
A.1 Document Information
Item
A.2 Element Information
Item
A.3 Attribute
Information Item
A.4 Character
Information Item
B Schemas
B.1 Relax NG Compact (RNC)
Schema
B.2 XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Schema
C Media Type Registration
D Features
D.1 Feature
Designations
D.1.1 #animation
D.1.2 #backgroundColor
D.1.3 #backgroundColor-block
D.1.4 #backgroundColor-inline
D.1.5 #backgroundColor-region
D.1.6 #bidi
D.1.7 #cellResolution
D.1.8 #clockMode
D.1.9 #clockMode-gps
D.1.10 #clockMode-local
D.1.11 #clockMode-utc
D.1.12 #color
D.1.13 #content
D.1.14 #core
D.1.15 #direction
D.1.16 #display
D.1.17 #display-block
D.1.18 #display-inline
D.1.19 #display-region
D.1.20 #displayAlign
D.1.21 #dropMode
D.1.22 #dropMode-dropNTSC
D.1.23 #dropMode-dropPAL
D.1.24 #dropMode-nonDrop
D.1.25 #extent
D.1.26 #extent-region
D.1.27 #extent-root
D.1.28 #fontFamily
D.1.29 #fontFamily-generic
D.1.30 #fontFamily-non-generic
D.1.31 #fontSize
D.1.32 #fontSize-anamorphic
D.1.33 #fontSize-isomorphic
D.1.34 #fontStyle
D.1.35 #fontStyle-italic
D.1.36 #fontStyle-oblique
D.1.37 #fontWeight
D.1.38 #fontWeight-bold
D.1.39 #frameRate
D.1.40 #frameRateMultiplier
D.1.41 #layout
D.1.42 #length
D.1.43 #length-cell
D.1.44 #length-em
D.1.45 #length-integer
D.1.46 #length-negative
D.1.47 #length-percentage
D.1.48 #length-pixel
D.1.49 #length-positive
D.1.50 #length-real
D.1.51 #lineBreak-uax14
D.1.52 #lineHeight
D.1.53 #markerMode
D.1.54 #markerMode-continuous
D.1.55 #markerMode-discontinuous
D.1.56 #metadata
D.1.57 #nested-div
D.1.58 #nested-span
D.1.59 #opacity
D.1.60 #origin
D.1.61 #overflow
D.1.62 #overflow-visible
D.1.63 #padding
D.1.64 #padding-1
D.1.65 #padding-2
D.1.66 #padding-3
D.1.67 #padding-4
D.1.68 #pixelAspectRatio
D.1.69 #presentation
D.1.70 #profile
D.1.71 #showBackground
D.1.72 #structure
D.1.73 #styling
D.1.74 #styling-chained
D.1.75 #styling-inheritance-content
D.1.76 #styling-inheritance-region
D.1.77 #styling-inline
D.1.78 #styling-nested
D.1.79 #styling-referential
D.1.80 #subFrameRate
D.1.81 #textAlign
D.1.82 #textAlign-absolute
D.1.83 #textAlign-relative
D.1.84 #textDecoration
D.1.85 #textDecoration-over
D.1.86 #textDecoration-through
D.1.87 #textDecoration-under
D.1.88 #textOutline
D.1.89 #textOutline-blurred
D.1.90 #textOutline-unblurred
D.1.91 #tickRate
D.1.92 #timeBase-clock
D.1.93 #timeBase-media
D.1.94 #timeBase-smpte
D.1.95 #timeContainer
D.1.96 #time-clock
D.1.97 #time-clock-with-frames
D.1.98 #time-offset
D.1.99 #time-offset-with-frames
D.1.100 #time-offset-with-ticks
D.1.101 #timing
D.1.102 #transformation
D.1.103 #unicodeBidi
D.1.104 #visibility
D.1.105 #visibility-block
D.1.106 #visibility-inline
D.1.107 #visibility-region
D.1.108 #wrapOption
D.1.109 #writingMode
D.1.110 #writingMode-vertical
D.1.111 #writingMode-horizontal
D.1.112 #writingMode-horizontal-lr
D.1.113 #writingMode-horizontal-rl
D.1.114 #zIndex
D.2 Feature Support
E Extensions
E.1 Extension
Designations
F Profiles
F.1 DFXP
Transformation Profile
F.2 DFXP Presentation
Profile
F.3 DFXP Full Profile
G References
H Other References (Non-Normative)
I Requirements (Non-Normative)
J Vocabulary Derivation (Non-Normative)
J.1 Element Derivation
J.2 Attribute Derivation
K QA Framework Compliance (Non-Normative)
K.1 Requirements
K.2 Guidelines
L Streaming TTML Content (Non-Normative)
M Concrete Encoding (Non-Normative)
N Time Expression Semantics
(Non-Normative)
N.1 Clock Time
Base
N.2 Media Time
Base
N.3 SMPTE Time
Base
O Common Caption Style Examples (Non-Normative)
O.1 Pop-On Caption Example
O.2 Roll-Up Caption
Example
O.3 Paint-On Caption
Example
P Acknowledgments (Non-Normative)
Unless specified otherwise, this section and its sub-sections are non-normative.
The Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) Version 1, also referred to as TTML1, provides a standardized representation of a particular subset of textual information with which stylistic, layout, and timing semantics are associated by an author or an authoring system for the purpose of interchange and processing.
TTML is expressly designed to meet only a limited set of requirements established by [TTAF1-REQ], and summarized in I Requirements. In particular, only those requirements which service the need of performing interchange with existing, legacy distribution systems are satisfied.
In addition to being used for interchange among legacy distribution content
formats, TTML Content may be used directly as a distribution format, providing, for
example, a standard content format to reference from a <track>
element in an HTML5 document, or a <text>
or
<textstream>
media element in a [SMIL 2.1]
document. Certain properties of TTML support streamability of content, as described
in L Streaming TTML Content.
Note:
While TTML is not expressly designed for direct (embedded) integration into an HTML or a SMIL document instance, such integration is not precluded.
Note:
In some contexts of use, it may be appropriate to employ animated content to depict sign language representations of the same content as expressed by a Timed Text Document Instance. This use case is not explicitly addressed by TTML mechanisms, but may be addressed by some external multimedia integration technology, such as SMIL.
Note:
In the first edition of this specification, the version number
1.0
was used to refer to this version of TTML. In this second
edition, this version number is simplified to 1
as a result of a
determination to call the next (future) version 2
instead of
1.1
.
Note:
In previous drafts of this specification, TTML was referred to as DFXP
(Distribution Format Exchange Profile). This latter term is retained for
historical reasons in certain contexts, such as profile names and designators,
and the short name ttaf1-dfxp
used in older URLs to refer to this
specification. Starting in this edition of the first version of TTML, the short
name ttml1
will be used, and subsequent versions of TTML are
expected to use short names of ttml2
, etc., with integer version
numbers.
Use of TTML is intended to function in a wider context of Timed Text Authoring and Distribution mechanisms that are based upon the system model depicted in Figure 1 – System Model, wherein the Timed Text Markup Language serves as a bidirectional interchange format among a heterogeneous collection of authoring systems, and as a unidirectional interchange format to a heterogeneous collection of distribution formats after undergoing transcoding or compilation to the target distribution formats as required, and where one particular distribution format is TTML (labeled as "DFXP" in the figure).
A TTML Document Instance consists of a tt
document
element that contains a header and a body, where the header specifies document
level metadata, styling definitions and layout definitions, and the body
specifies text content intermixed with references to style and layout information
and inline styling and timing information.
<tt xml:lang="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml">  <metadata/> <styling/> <layout/>   </tt> |
Document level metadata may specify a document title, description, and copyright information. In addition, arbitrary metadata drawn from other namespaces may be specified.
<metadata xmlns:ttm="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml#metadata"> <ttm:title>Timed Text TTML Example</ttm:title> <ttm:copyright>The Authors (c) 2006</ttm:copyright> </metadata> |
Styling information may be specified in the form of style specification definitions that are referenced by layout and content information, specified inline with content information, or both.
In Example Fragment – TTML Styling, four style sets of specifications are defined, with one set serving as a collection of default styles.
<styling xmlns:tts="http://www.w3.org/ns/ttml#styling">


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STORING CONFIGURATION PROPERTIES
CONFIGURATION FILE STRUCTURE
ServiceConfig
RequestSecurity
EXAMPLE
The adapter contains configuration properties for setting values for URL or request timeouts and includes a subset of properties for security specific values, such as the account and license provided by Avalara to access the web services.
Configuration is a member of the primary services, AddressSvc and TaxSvc, and can be accessed after either class has been instantiated. Setting a property is accomplished using the syntax [Service].Configuration.[Property] = value. For example:
taxSvc.Configuration.Url = "http://www.avalara.com/avatax.services/"Likewise, security-specific properties are accessed as: [Service].Configuration.Security.[Property] = value.
The AvaTax Adapter API provides full support for programmatically setting and accessing configuration properties. However, there may be cases when it is necessary or desired to persist values in a configuration text file. The configuration file also provides full support for the configuration properties. Note: though the configuration file accepts Account and License elements, it is recommended that these values be stored in a more secure location, such as a password-protected database.
The configuration file must be named "Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter.dll.config". Casing is not important.
Since the configuration file is simply an XML document, it must be identified as such. The first line of the file should be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>and is followed by the root element:
<configuration>Between the root element tags are the ServiceConfig, RequestSecurity, and AvaLogger element blocks. Each will be covered in detail below.
.
.
.
</configuration>
This element block's children mirrors exactly the properties of the
Configuration class exposed from both AddressSvc and TaxSvc.
<ServiceConfig type="Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter.ServiceConfig, Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter">All XML tags must exist in the configuration file exactly as shown in the example above. Only the values between the tags, in this case https://www.avalara.com/avatax.services/ and 100, can be altered. Any one or more of the properties can be left out. For an explanation of these elements, please see the corresponding ServiceConfig class member.
<Url>https://www.avalara.com/avatax.services/</Url>
<ViaUrl></ViaUrl>
<RequestTimeout>100</RequestTimeout>
</ServiceConfig>
Service Config Class
Properties:
Url
ViaUrl
RequestTimeout
Security
This element block's children mirrors exactly the properties of the Security class exposed from both AddressSvc.Configuration and TaxSvc.Configuration.
<RequestSecurity type="Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter.RequestSecurity, Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter">The "..." in the Account and License text substitutes for a number of characters and/or numbers.
<Account>0100000...</Account>
<License>0100000...</License>
</RequestSecurity>
All XML tags must exist in the configuration file exactly as shown in the example above. Only the values between the tags, in this case 0100000..., 0100000..., and 300, can be altered. Any one or more of the properties can be left out. For an explanation of these elements, please see the corresponding RequestSecurity class member.
Request Security
Class Properties:
Account
License
This element describes the type of logging.
<AvaLogger logFilePath="" logLevel="none" logMessages="false" logTransactions="false" logSoap="false">
Attribute details:
logFilePath: where adapter log files will be created; default is logs folder in current directory logLevel: will be applied for all three types of adapter logging, default level is NONE Example for logLevel - NONE, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL logMessages: is a switch to turn ON or OFF adapter logging; Log Filename: Adapter.2008-07-17 logTransactions: is a switch for logging transactions required for adapter; Log Filename: AdapterTransactions.2008-07-17 logSoap: is a switch for logging adapter SoapTrace; Log Filename: AdapterSoap.2008-07-17
A sample configuration file can be found at SDK\Samples\Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter.dll
The following example shows a standard configuration file setup.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <ServiceConfig type="Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter.ServiceConfig, Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter"> <Url>https://www.avalara.com/avatax.services/</Url> <ViaUrl></ViaUrl> <RequestTimeout>100</RequestTimeout> <TraceSoap>true</TraceSoap> </ServiceConfig> <RequestSecurity type="Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter.RequestSecurity, Avalara.AvaTax.Adapter"> <Account>0100000...</Account> <License>0100000...</License> </RequestSecurity> <AvaLogger logFilePath="" logLevel="debug" logMessages="true" logTransactions="false" logSoap="true"> </configuration>
The "..." in the Account and License text substitutes for a number of
characters and/or numbers.
SDK Overview | Configuration Class | RequestSecurity Class


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QUICK Data Model
This reference documentation represents the QUICK logical data model.
The QUICK data model is an initiative of the Clinical Quality Information (CQI)
and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) HL7 Work Groups. This data model is
auto-generated from the HL7 Quality Improvement Core (QICore) FHIR Profiles.
The QUICK logical model hides some details of FHIR's physical implementation,
such as the distinction between elements and extensions. By abstracting away
some of the implementation details, and focusing on classes and attributes, the
features of the logical data model can be seen more clearly. As such, the terms
class and
resource will be used interchangeably in this documentation.
Profiles are represented as classes, so for example, the QICore Procedure profile is
simply represented as the
Procedure class. Elements and extensions are normalized
and listed as fields on the class with a given type, description, and cardinality.
The fields are classified as
must support and
is modifier, as defined in
FHIR and the
QICore Implementation Guide.
When class elements refer to other classes, the reference type is also normalized
from its formal profile name (e.g.,
QICore-Encounter) to
its logical class name (e.g.,
Encounter).
QICore-defined Extensions
QICore adds a variety of extensions to core FHIR classes. These extensions derive from
two primary sources: the Quality Improvement Domain Analysis Model (QIDAM), and the
Quality Data Model (QDM). The logical model represents extensions like any other element,
but annotates them to allow the reader to understand what is and what is not
a part of the core FHIR data model.
Must Support
Certain elements in the QICore profiles are annotated as
must support. These
elements must be supported in Quality Improvement (QI) implementations. QI
implementations SHALL understand and process
must support elements, and those
elements SHALL be available for use in clinical quality measures (CQM) and CDS artifacts.
Specific applications may modify the profiles and annotate additional elements as
must support, but may not remove existing
must support annotations.
If an element is
not annotated as
must support, there is no assurance
that an interpreter will recognize or process a quality improvement artifact containing
that element. Although the element may be returned in a resource when the resource is
retrieved from an EHR, no processing involving that data element can be expected. Note
that a
must support annotation does not imply that the element will always have
a value (i.e., no data may be available for some fields). The only assurance associated
with a
must support annotation is that the quality improvement application will
try to retrieve the data and process it if the data is available.
The
QICore Implementation Guide
provides further information regarding the
must support annotation.
Modifying Attributes
Certain elements in QICore profiles are annotated as
is modifier. These elements
may change the interpretation of the resource, depending on their value. Examples of
modifying elements include
status (in many resources), negations
(e.g.
Immunization.wasNotGiven), and certainty qualifications
(e.g.
Observation.reliability). QI implementations MUST always check the values
of modifying elements.
The
QICore Implementation Guide
provides further information regarding the
is modifier annotation.
Table View
The Table View lists all the fields for the particular class.
The table representing the logical view of the class contains three columns:
| Column | Content |
| Column 1 (Field) |
The name of the element in the resource.
Some names have "[x]" suffix, which is inherited from FHIR to mean that the [x]
is replaced with the title-cased name of the type that is actually used. See
FHIR spec
for details. For example, Patient class has a deceased[x] field with a type listed
as { Boolean | DateTime } such that a DateTime value can be referenced as
Patient.deceasedDateTime.
In addition, this column annotates elements using icons to represent must support,
QICore-defined extensions, and is modifier.
Key: = must support, = QICore-defined extension, = is modifier
|
|
Column 2 (Card.) |
The cardinality is the lower and upper bounds on how many times this element is
allowed to appear in the resource; e.g., 0..1 is optional and 1..1
is required. 0..* indicates that there is no lower or upper bound to how
many times the element may appear.
|
|
Column 3 (Type & Description) |
type
The type of the element (hyperlinked to the definition of the type).
If the name of the element has "[x]" suffix then the element can have multiple types.
Likewise, if the type of the element is Reference then the list of clinically
relevant resources will be listed.
The cardinality is the lower and upper bounds on how many times this element is
allowed to appear in the resource. If the upper bounds of the cardinality is
unbounded then the List<> notation is defined in the type definition.
description
A description of the element, and details about constraints that are applied to it.
Particularly, for coded elements, information about which codes can be used.
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Leadership
There was once a girl that came in for a trial at the cafe, and she accidentally wrote down a kitchen order wrong. So the meal came out wrong, and the chef/owner came out the front and really had a go at her. She goes off crying into the store room and says to me "you've got to nip that sort of behaviour in the bud". The girl was very upset, and even though I managed to cheer her up a bit and was able to get her to carry on the rest of the day, but she didn't come back, even though she was the best of the trial people that we had.
This incident comes to mind when I think of incompasssionate leadership, I think its because it really stresses the importance of people working together in a positive way, and how there are people out there who genuinely think aggressive 'shouty' approaches are the way to get the most out of their workers.
The meditating goodness exercise is a nice feeling. To be honest I've slacked off in my meditation and my minfulness in the latter weeks of phase-0, but hoping that bootcamp will kickstart a new enthusiasm for it all with yoga and engineering empathy stuff etc..
Tonglen was also quite good, I do really enjoy these exercises. I should just remember to do them more often. I don't think the SCARF model has applied to me that much personally during phase-0. The one I think is the most relavent is autonomy. I really have quite a strong urge to be able to be in complete control over the browser, with all the HTML,CSS and Javascript. I think this is good, I would really love to make pages behave in the exact way that I intend for them to with css, but this isn't always the case. This is a really motivating factor for me in learning to code!


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MiniMax & Game Playing AI
If you want to play tic-tac-toe against the minimax algorithm, scroll down to the bottom of the post.
Game playing AI’s have achieved a great deal of sucess recently. I’m talking about agents like AlphaGo that are capable of defeating world class GO players, or more recently the agent from agent from OpenAI, that they call OpenAI Five. An agent trained using reinforcement learning that has begun to beat amateur human teams at the video game Dota 2. As OpenAI puts it, “Dota 2 is one of the most popular and complex esports games in the world, with creative and motivated professionals who train year-round to earn part of Dota’s annual $40M prize pool (the largest of any esports game).”
A variety of strategies and algorithms for game playing AI’s and algorithms exist. AlphaGo uses a combination of reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo Tree Search, while OpenAI Five uses a reinforcement learning algorithm known as proximal policy gradients.
Algorithms for playing games have quite a long history. IBM’s chess playing program Deep Blue, was one of the first well known algorithms to achieve success against a human player, defeating the chess grand master Gary Kasparov. Deep Blue used a form of tree search, where many possible sequences of games moves are calculated in advance, and the nodes of the tree, which correspond to game states, are evaluated for “goodness” in some manner.
I find game playing agents and algorithms to be very interesting, so I’ve started to create some of my own implementations of existing algorithms. In a previous post I implemented an Atari game playing deep q-learning algorithm. Now I’ve started looking into a different class of algorithms. Namely, tree search algorithms like minimax and monte carlo tree search.
The minimax algorithm, can be used for two player games like chess or tic-tac-toe. From Wikipedia, “The minimax value of a player is the smallest value that the other players can force the player to receive, without knowing the player’s actions; equivalently, it is the largest value the player can be sure to get when they know the actions of the other players”.
Essentially, the minimax algorithm assumes that your opponent will choose moves that minimize your own gain, while you will choose moves that maximize your gain. In a simple game like tic-tac-toe the space of possible games is small enough that every possible way a tic-tac-toe game could be played out can be enumerated in a tree.
At end states (states where one player wins or there is a draw) a value can be assigned. For example a state where you win could be assigned a 1, a draw could be assigned a 0, and a loss could be assigned -1. Starting from these end states the values can be propagated back up to the root of the tree. Which values propagate depend on whose turn it is at a particular node in the tree. For example a node where it is your opponent’s turn and they can make a move to win would be assigned -1 because this would result in a loss for you. This is what the mini in minimax refers to. When it is your opponent’s turn the algorithm assumes they will choose a move that minimizes your gain.
Try your luck against my implementation of the minimax algorithm below. In tic-tac-toe a player following the minimax algorithm is guaranteed to at worst draw, so if you manage to win there is a bug in my implementation.
Instructions:
- Click on either first player or second player
- If you choose first player click a location on the board to begin playing
- When the game is finished click reset to clear the board
Disclaimer: I haven’t implemented any exception handling so at the beginning of each game you must select a player, and at the end of each game you must hit reset, or the game logic will break.


I’ve been interested in learning more about the Mac App store so I figured I’d whip up something in my spare time. Being security conscious I decided to write a simple secure erase program that I could access via the menu bar. The use case is that there are several files that I need to securely erase and rather than “secure empty” my trash which could take hours, I could just drag those files into a menu bar icon which would securely erase them.
When I say securely erase, I mean the type of delete procedure where the file cannot be retrieved (EVER.) So I whipped me up an app. You erase files by dropping the on the menu bar icon:
This is the dialog that will appear:
You can see what is happening in the background via the console window:
And lastly here is the preferences dialog:
This is a work in progress so there are a lot of elements that need to be completed. I wrote the app in Xcode 4 in about 6 hours a few weekends ago. It is multi-threaded and uses the standard unix srm command to destroy the files. I plan to make it so that you can switch up the delete command so that the app uses a different command line app (like bcwipe.)
I want to implement a queue which would persist between launches of the app. That way you could queue up a ton of files, turn off your computer, turn it back on and let the app continue where it left off. You should also be able to queue up more files while it is currently operating on a series of files.
I think I’m going to give it away for free. I haven’t released it to the Mac App Store yet but plan to in the next day or so.


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Popular St Andrew's Hospice Santa Dash fundraiser to take place this weekend
All participating adults will be provided with Santa suits, while children will receive reindeer antlers and flashing noses.
by Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser, https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/authors/airdrie-and-coatbridge-advertiser/Santa will be making an early arrival to take part in the popular St Andrew’s Hospice fundraiser this weekend.
The Airdrie charity will be holding its annual Santa dash, reindeer run and Santa cycle at Strathclyde Park this Sunday at 11am, and is inviting as many Monklands residents as possible to take part in the 6k event.
All participating adults will be provided with Santa suits, while children will receive reindeer antlers and flashing noses.
Registration costs £10 for adults, £5 for children and £25 for a family ticket (for two adults and two children), with all proceeds going to the hospice’s work in providing specialist palliative care.
Click here for more from Airdrie and Coatbridge
Dogs are also welcome to take part at no additional cost, while there will also be a chance to visit Santa’s grotto and meet his magical reindeer.
The event is being sponsored for a fifth year by Amey; whose communications manager, Findlay Robertson, said: “We’re delighted to lend our support.
“The Santa dash plays such an important fundraising role and allows the hospice to carry on its outstanding work caring for patients and their families.”
Visit www.st-andrews-hospice.com/events or call 01236 766951 for further details and to register.


NordVPN announces NordLocker, a one-click app for securing and encrypting your files
by Jared PetersEncryption can be one of those terms that just sounds like a magic buzzword. You want your stuff to be encrypted, but what exactly does that mean? How can you tell that it’s encrypted? With a lot of devices, you can’t; it’s mysterious and difficult to manage.
NordVPN, despite having a recent security scare, wants to tackle this problem with their new NordLocker service. The program is a security tool that allows you to securely encrypt your files and information without needing to deal with any overly complex programs.
Encrypt all the things
Despite the name, NordLocker isn’t a cloud storage service. It can be used on your cloud files, if you want, but the purpose of NordLocker is to make it easy to take your files wherever they are and get them encrypted and away from danger and prying eyes. It’s end-to-end encrypted as well, which is a huge plus for securely handling your encryption keys and not letting any other company manage them for you.
It utilizes modern and difficult-to-crack cryptography, so you can feel safe with NordLocker handling your files. You also have control over who can look at them, so you can encrypt something, email it, and specifically only give that person access to the files.
It’s currently only available for MacOS and Windows, but hopefully mobile apps follow suit shortly.
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Creates a Task State to execute a `SageMaker Transform Job` https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/API_CreateTransformJob.html
stepfunctions::Block
-> stepfunctions::State
-> stepfunctions::Task
-> TransformStep
Inherited methods
new()
Initialize TranzformStep class
TransformStep$new( state_id, transformer, job_name, model_name, data, data_type = "S3Prefix", content_type = NULL, compression_type = NULL, split_type = NULL, experiment_config = NULL, wait_for_completion = TRUE, tags = NULL, input_filter = NULL, output_filter = NULL, join_source = NULL, ... )
state_id
(str): State name whose length **must be** less than or equal to 128 unicode characters. State names **must be** unique within the scope of the whole state machine.
transformer
(sagemaker.transformer.Transformer): The SageMaker transformer to use in the TransformStep.
job_name
(str or Placeholder): Specify a transform job name. We recommend to use :py:class:`~stepfunctions.inputs.ExecutionInput` placeholder collection to pass the value dynamically in each execution.
model_name
(str or Placeholder): Specify a model name for the transform job to use. We recommend to use :py:class:`~stepfunctions.inputs.ExecutionInput` placeholder collection to pass the value dynamically in each execution.
data
(str): Input data location in S3.
data_type
(str): What the S3 location defines (default: 'S3Prefix'). Valid values:
'S3Prefix' - the S3 URI defines a key name prefix. All objects with this prefix will be used as inputs for the transform job
'ManifestFile' - the S3 URI points to a single manifest file listing each S3 object to use as an input for the transform job.
content_type
(str): MIME type of the input data (default: None).
compression_type
(str): Compression type of the input data, if compressed (default: None). Valid values: 'Gzip', None.
split_type
(str): The record delimiter for the input object (default: 'None'). Valid values: 'None', 'Line', 'RecordIO', and 'TFRecord'.
experiment_config
(list, optional): Specify the experiment config for the transform. (Default: None)
wait_for_completion
(bool, optional): Boolean value set to `True` if the Task state should wait for the transform job to complete before proceeding to the next step in the workflow. Set to `False` if the Task state should submit the transform job and proceed to the next step. (default: True)
tags
(list[list], optional): List to tags https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/API_Tag.html to associate with the resource.
input_filter
(str): A JSONPath to select a portion of the input to pass to the algorithm container for inference. If you omit the field, it gets the value ‘$’, representing the entire input. For CSV data, each row is taken as a JSON array, so only index-based JSONPaths can be applied, e.g. $[0], $[1:]. CSV data should follow the RFC format. See Supported JSONPath Operators for a table of supported JSONPath operators. For more information, see the SageMaker API documentation for CreateTransformJob. Some examples: “$[1:]”, “$.features” (default: None).
output_filter
(str): A JSONPath to select a portion of the joined/original output to return as the output. For more information, see the SageMaker API documentation for CreateTransformJob. Some examples: “$[1:]”, “$.prediction” (default: None).
join_source
(str): The source of data to be joined to the transform output. It can be set to ‘Input’ meaning the entire input record will be joined to the inference result. You can use OutputFilter to select the useful portion before uploading to S3. (default: None). Valid values: Input, None.
...
: Extra Fields passed to Task class
clone()
The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.
TransformStep$clone(deep = FALSE)
deep
Whether to make a deep clone.


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Gas prices start to skyrocket
by Kirk PentonGas prices are on the rise in the Central Okanagan – but not in the north and south parts of the valley.
Several stations in Kelowna and West Kelowna this morning hiked their price for unleaded gasoline from 117.9 cents per litre to 131.9, which represents a whopping 14-cent hike.
However, gasbuddy.com indicates most Kelowna stations were still at 117.9 around the noon hour.
The cheapest gas in the Okanagan can still be found in Lake Country, where most stations were selling for 116.9.
Vernon was still holding steady at 122.9 as well.
Penticton prices are still on the lower end of the scale as well, checking in between 119.9 and 121.9 cents per litre.


Technical error for flight information display screens at klia2 still being fixed, says MAHB
by Justin LimKUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5): The recovery process of the flight information display screen error is still ongoing at klia2, said Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) in its Twitter post today.
MAHB said its IT team is working hard to fix the technical error for the flight information display screens at klia2. Of the screens affected, some of them have been backed up.
The airport operator urged passengers to approach its ground staff for assistance for the time being.
In a previous post, MAHB said the team was rectifying the technical error that has impacted several flight information display system screens at klia2.
At the noon break, shares in MAHB were 10 sen or 1.23% lower at RM8.04, giving it a market capitalisation of RM13.32 billion. The counter saw some 268,800 shares traded.


A character receives some shocking news while holding a (usually breakable) object. The news causes them to drop the object, and we follow it in close up with the camera overcranked all the way to the floor.
For extra credit, finish the shot with a slow-motion shot of the object shattering, with synchronized slow motion sound effects. For extra extra credit, throw in a Slow "NO!" and/or an attempted Desperate Object Catch while all of this is happening.
Subtrope of Dramatic Drop.
Compare with Slow-Motion Fall, Dramatic Shattering.
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Anime and Manga
- Bleach does it with Renji's sweat before his fight with Byakuya
- Death Note: L's spoon.
- Parodied in Duel Masters. When Shobu's mother dropped a cup in slow motion she noted the effect and its implications.
- Fushigi Yuugi has a tear-jerking example, when Tamahome visits his house, only to see that his entire family had been brutally murdered. He drops the ball he had bought for his little sister Yuiren, who is shown to be barely alive when the ball bounces to her fingers.
- Nana, with a lighter.
- Played with in the ninth episode of Naruto: Shippuuden by an old lady with a fishing rod.
- Kasumi in Ranma ½ asks Akane "Did you accept his proposal?". Akane drops the plate she was washing and it shatters dramatically.
- Gintama: Tsukyo's pipe in the Yoshiwara is Burning Arc
- The anime adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin does a variant slo-mo drop for a bead of sweat during the Kenshin vs. Soujirou battle: the camera follows a drop of cold sweat roll off Yumi's face, and by the time it splashes on the floor, the two combatants have already traded an insane amount of blows.
- At the end of the final battle between D and Meier Link in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Leila takes Charlotte's ring and tosses it at the floor. The camera follows it as it slowly, slooowly comes down, leaving a trail of after-images, interspersed with flashes of D and Meier Link fighting. When the ring bounces off the floor, the camera follows it up and down again. And it continues to follow as it rolls on its side and D picks it up on the edge of his sword.
Comic Books
- Played tear jerkingly straight in an issue of the Teen Titans comic series, where one page was devoted to Tim Drake/Robin answering a phone message, then dropping the phone to the ground and following suit. The page is textless and the reader doesn't actually hear why he's dropping the phone, but anybody reading comics at that time knew exactly the reason without needing an explanation: The Rogues had just killed his second best friend (the first, Superboy, having died in Infinite Crisis) Bart Allen/Flash.
Film
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: Two Austins bang into each other while each is trying to catch his mojo. Cue the Slow Motion Mojo Drop.
- Run Lola Run:
- It appeared to be initially subverted when Manni flings a red bag of stolen money into the air just before a twitchy poltzei shoots Lola in the chest. The bag isn't seen again throughout the dying scene. After a flashback and Lola's epiphany, then the bag is shown falling in slow motion, match cut with the falling of Lola's red telephone at the beginning.
- This is played a little straighter later, when Lola drops a green bag of robbery money on witnessing Manni's shocking death, but again, the bag isn't actually seen hitting the ground. After another flashback and Manni's epiphany, the bag is seen falling from beneath before cutting to the telephone again.
- The initial shot of the red phone spinning through the air in slow motion is the straight example. The camera cuts between its flight and Lola's face before dropping neatly into its cradle at the point that Lola comes to a decision.
- Parodied in the French Canadian show Le Coeur A Ses Raisons. After receving "shocking" news from Becky ("Your sister is mean"), Brett drops a "precious" silver object of art on the floor. However, the object is really made out of plastic. Brett tries to break it twice before just throwing it offscreen.
- Frequency had this, with both a glass at a bar mirroring his father sliding out to the ocean with the kid he was rescuing.
- The two people falling into the Hudson River are actually Slow-Motion Fall. However, the fire helmet bouncing on the pavement is an example of this trope.
- The 2008 Speed Racer live action film has an occasion.
- Agent Kujan from The Usual Suspects drops his coffee mug when understanding of The Reveal begins trickling in, complete with multiple shots of the cup breaking and spraying coffee in slow motion.
- The first Scary Movie parodied the coffee cup from The Usual Suspects; after it hit the ground, a goldfish was seen flopping about in the remnants.
- Also parodied in Wrongfully Accused, where multiple objects were dropped along with the coffee cup.
- In Ratatouille, after the Caustic Critic Anton Ego tastes the eponymous dish, he drops his pen and it falls in slow motion, making a loud "thud" as it falls.
- In Selena, the ring dropping from her fingers as she dies.
- In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Aragorn has a dream about Arwen dying and him dropping the Evenstar (which seems to represent Arwen's immortality), which breaks. In a much later scene in the Extended Edition, Aragorn looks into the Palantír to face Sauron, and he shows him the same scene of Arwen dying, to which he freaks out and steps back, dropping the Evenstar just as he had seen in the dream.
- In George of the Jungle, Ursula's mother drops her wineglass in this fashion after Ursula's announcement that she no longer wants to marry Lyle.
- Used in one scene of Alien³ to almost exaggerated level.
- In The Great Gatsby (1974), George's gun drops from his hand after his suicide.
Live-Action TV
- Babylon 5, with a snow globe being held by Delenn, on seeing that Sheridan's wife, previously thought dead, has stepped into his quarters.
- We actually see it happen three times in as many episodes. Once as a Flash Forward, with the camera focusing on Delenn and a woman's voice off-screen saying "Hello." Then we see it again when it actually happens, again without knowing why Delenn was so shocked. Then in the next episode, they show that clip again as a Previously On , but then this time finally provide the full context. Viewers had to wait half a season to find out why that damn snow globe was dropped. note
- Heroes:
- Averted at the end of Season 2. The vial with strain 138 A is telekinetically caught by Peter right before it falls to the ground. This happens only because the writers' strike caused the devs to end the season prematurely; in the original version, the vial crashes to the floor in a spectacular display of this trope.
- Played straight to the point of parody in season 1, when Sylar attempts to telekinetically carve open Peter Petrelli's skull, and his Peek-a-Bangs fall to the ground with a disproportionately loud boom.
- The pilot of Leverage has Eliot beat the everloving crap out of four armed goons in less time than it takes Hardison to drop a duffel bag, in slo-mo, to the floor.
- When Kevin Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live a second time, he did a skit parodying his movie The Usual Suspects. In it Andy Samburg tells Kevin an elaborate story about why he couldn't make it to a rehearsal. Kevin believes but after Andy leaves, Kevin drops his mug in slo-mo just like Chazz Palmenteri did in the movie and he notices that everything in his dressing room was a part of Samburg's story.
- Sherlock, In Season 3 Episode 2 of Sherlock, "The Sign of Three", Sherlock is the best man at John Watson's wedding. He talks about an unsolved murder of a Royal Guard that was killed in a locked shower stall with no weapon found. At the end of his speech Sherlock remembers something he heard while investigating the case and drops a wine glass in slow-mo when he realizes that the killer is at the wedding and must be in the room.
- The last shot of the pilot episode of Sliders showed Quinn's wine glass falling and shattering in slow motion.
- Star Trek: Picard: In "Stardust City Rag", the scene slows down when Maddox drops the glass which contains the drugged tranya and it smashes on to the table.
- In the season two opener of Supernatural, Sam drops his paper coffee cup upon seeing his father's dead body.
- The West Wing has this when Zoey is kidnapped. For added pathos (or Narm), the news is delivered while the Bartlets have family friends visiting and just after Zoey graduated from college; the President of the United States is looking through a collection of baby photos of Zoey as he's told about it, and they're what he drops.
- Immediately followed by a Dramatic Shattering as the drink he was holding in his other hand smashes, in fast motion, on top of the stack of pictures, as he looks around at Abbey with a stricken look on his face. It may also be worth noting that the drop and shatter are how we know that he's learned the news, since there's no sound in this part of the scene.
Video Games
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has an early Flash Back where Princess Zelda, having just heard Zant's "surrender or die" ultimatum, drops her sword in slow motion, signifying her capitulation.
- In Assassin's Creed: Unity, Arno Dorian drops his watch when, as a child, he sees his father's dead body.
- If the King/Queen's crown gets knocked off their head in Kingdom, everything slows down as it flies through the air. If you can't retrieve it before the Greed get their claws on it, well...
Web Original
- Homestar Runner does this in "Dangeresque: Puppet Squad" with a bowl of curly fries. Except they aren't actually falling in slow motion, they're being descended slowly on fishing lines.
- The Daily Drop was a web series that was nothing but a new Slow Motion Drop every week.  Then comes "Crowbar Is Ready"... at which point they throw up their hands and say "Nah.")
Western Animation
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Marge buys a $400 bag to show off with and plans to return it as soon as possible. When Homer takes her to a expensive restaurant, he bites into a sauce-covered shrimp and a tiny speck of the sauce splashes onto Marge's bag, much to her horror.
- An episode of Futurama where Fry's head was attached to Amy's shoulder following a car crash.
Amy: "I don't really like coffee."
Date: "Neither do I..."
Amy: "I feel a little tipsy."
Date: "Let me...pick up the cheque."
This trope is then played as the date's credit card falls. - This is one of many tropes frequently played up for melodrama on Clone High. In one example, Abe falls asleep during a standardized test, dropping his #2 pencil slowly to the floor, where it shatters (?) into four pieces.
- [1] in The Emperor's New School. In one episode, Kuzco has an argument with Chaca and Tipo on who gets to live in the attic. Pacha and Chicha decide to settle this with a coin flip. When Pacha tosses it in the air, we see it very slowly fall and Chicha says "Next time, don't use the slow-motion coin."


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Running the Ansible builds via GitLab CI/CD
20 Jun 2019
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Switching to Docker containers on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
09 Jun 2018
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Using Virtual Environments to Avoid Polluting System Python Libraries
08 Jun 2018
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Defining Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
17 May 2018
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How to Install the Latest Master Branch Build of Slic3r
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Using Vagrant Shell Provisioning to Execute an Isolated Build Process in a VM
05 May 2018
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Playing with Kubernetes for the First Time
04 May 2018
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Using BackBlaze B2 Cloud Storage for Encrypted Offsite Backups
04 May 2018
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Awesome New Share Bar Added to My Blog
03 May 2018
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Blocking Annoying Web Advertisements at the DNS Level with Pi-Hole
03 May 2018
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Celebrate World Password Day with a Password Manager
01 May 2018
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Checking What IP Addresses Connected to Your Nginx Server
28 Apr 2018
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Fixing SSH Key Permissions
27 Apr 2018
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How My Server is Deployed and Configured Using Ansible
27 Apr 2018
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Rapidly Setting Up My Linux Desktop Using a Makefile
27 Apr 2018
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Using Cockpit to Administer Linux Servers in the Browser
27 Apr 2018
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Install Google Web Fonts on your Linux or macOS Machine
27 Apr 2018
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How to install the Mainline Kernel on Enterprise Linux 7 the Easy Way
27 Apr 2018
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Creating Disposable OpenVPN Servers Using the Vultr Cloud API
27 Apr 2018
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I've Learned My Lesson and I'm Using LaTeX Now
26 Apr 2018
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Moving Hosts Again, This Time with NVMe Storage
25 Apr 2018
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A Fresh Start - Archiving Some Old Blog Content
10 May 2015
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Automatically Building My Website With Travis CI
20 Apr 2015
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Migrating from Wordpress to Custom Code and Jekyll


Miss South Africa wins Miss Universe competition
by Alexis CaracoMiss South Africa has won the Miss Universe competition.
Zozibini Tunzi took the crown on Sunday (8 December 2019) in Atlanta at the end of a telecast hosted once again by Steve Harvey.
She is the third South African to be crowned Miss Universe. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters won in 2017 and Margaret Gardiner was crowned before her in 1978.
Twenty-six-year-old Tunzi is from Tsolo, South Africa. She is passionate about encouraging natural beauty and crusades against gender bias.
Miss Puerto Rico Madison Anderson was this year's runner-up, with Miss Mexico Sofia Aragon in third.
Tunzi's crown is a new one. Jewellery designer Mouawad created a Power of Unity crown worth $5 million for the new Miss Universe.
The crown features 18-karat gold vines and ivy leaves inlaid with more than 1,770 diamonds. The ivy and vine are meant to represent the seven continents. It's flanked by two smaller diamonds cut from the same stone mined from Botswana.


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Performs linear discriminant analysis in high dimensional problems based on reliable covariance estimators for problems with (many) more variables than observations. Includes routines for classifier training, prediction, cross-validation and variable selection.
| Version: | 0.2-4 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.10.0) |
| Imports: | splines |
| Suggests: | MASS |
| Published: | 2015-10-19 |
| Author: | Antonio Pedro Duarte Silva |
| Maintainer: | Antonio Pedro Duarte Silva <psilva at porto.ucp.pt> |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | http://www.r-project.org |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | ChangeLog |
| CRAN checks: | HiDimDA results |
| Reference manual: | HiDimDA.pdf |
| Package source: | HiDimDA_0.2-4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: HiDimDA_0.2-4.zip, r-release: HiDimDA_0.2-4.zip, r-oldrel: HiDimDA_0.2-4.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: HiDimDA_0.2-4.tgz, r-oldrel: HiDimDA_0.2-4.tgz |
| Old sources: | HiDimDA archive |
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Ezekiel Elliott hilariously mocks Dak Prescott's pregame warmup on field before game
by TSD StaffCowboys teammates Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott get along well together, and, at times, they treat fans to some funny “broments” before, during and after games.
That was the case before Sunday’s primetime showdown with the Vikings at AT&T Stadium, when the two were warming up on the field before the game kicked off.
Prescott was feeling himself, doing his normal routine, attempting to get loose, especially his shoulders. Zeke saw him, then elected to creep behind him and emulate his quarterback, which was pretty funny.
Those two truly are great together.


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Hip Hop Dance
Competition Dataset
About This Page
In this website, I created a database of hip hop dance competitions.
The data would include information such as the competition name, the YouTube video link, the year of the competition, the dance team, the songs within the set, and the placing.
I hope to have others who are more knowledgeable about these competitions to help me fill in information
and to make this a collaborative effort. Hope you enjoy!
The data would include information such as the competition name, the YouTube video link, the year of the competition, the dance team, the songs within the set, and the placing.
I hope to have others who are more knowledgeable about these competitions to help me fill in information
and to make this a collaborative effort. Hope you enjoy!
Prelude SoCal Dance Competition
V MO
Year of Performance: 2020, Placing: 1st, Competing
Groove Against the Machine
Year of Performance: 2020, Placing: 2nd, Competing
Black Flag
Year of Performance: 2020, Placing: 3rd (tie), Competing
Jukebox Fam
Year of Performance: 2020, Placing: 3rd (tie), Competing


Intensive Outpatient and Group Programs
Individual Therapy
- Individual or Family Therapy ($60-$175 depending on provider)
Toxicology
- Urine Drug Screens ($15/screen)
- Soberlink Monitoring ($9/day)
Medical Services (in collaboration with Clayton Behavioral)
- Suboxone Treatment ($200 / physician visit)
- Outpatient Alcohol Detoxification ($250 / initial physician visit; $200 for follow-ups)
- Psychiatry (varies by provider)
Insurance
Plan Your Recovery does not contract with insurance companies for direct payment, but we will submit your group, individual, and family therapy sessions to insurance as a courtesy. Reimbursement will depend on your out-of-network benefits and your insurer's service requirements. Reimbursement is not guaranteed.


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Karnataka’s Haridaasa’s cult arouses varied questions in one’s mind. The literary works of great saint poets of Karnataka answer questions relating to spiritual experiences, knowledge of Tantra, Vedic wisdom, Societal Culture, Music, Dance, theatre and the like.
On 1st November 2019 at Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore, Prabhat Arts International won the second highest state honor - “The Rajyothsava award” for its contribution in the field of Art and Culture!
Bharat and Sharat has been bestowed the prestigious “Uday Shankar” award for excellence in choreography and production making from AttenDance!


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A friend of mine posted a Facebook Facecloth message, saying she is DJing tonight and has no idea what records to play, asking for tips on what “the kids” are listening to these days.
I replied: “It's not what the kids are listening to, it's what they should be made to listen to. I recommend Scriabin's ‘Poem Of Ecstasy’, Op.54.”