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java.lang.Object java.sql.DriverManager
public class DriverManager
The basic service for managing a set of JDBC drivers.
NOTE: The DataSource
interface, new in the
JDBC 2.0 API, provides another way to connect to a data source.
The use of a DataSource
object is the preferred means of
connecting to a data source.
As part of its initialization, the DriverManager
class will
attempt to load the driver classes referenced in the "jdbc.drivers"
system property. This allows a user to customize the JDBC Drivers
used by their applications. For example in your
~/.hotjava/properties file you might specify:
jdbc.drivers=foo.bah.Driver:wombat.sql.Driver:bad.taste.ourDriver
A program can also explicitly load JDBC drivers at any time. For
example, the my.sql.Driver is loaded with the following statement:
Class.forName("my.sql.Driver");
When the method getConnection
is called,
the DriverManager
will attempt to
locate a suitable driver from amongst those loaded at
initialization and those loaded explicitly using the same classloader
as the current applet or application.
Starting with the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, version 1.3, a
logging stream can be set only if the proper
permission has been granted. Normally this will be done with
the tool PolicyTool, which can be used to grant permission
java.sql.SQLPermission "setLog"
.
Driver
,
Connection
| Method Summary | |
|---|---|
static void |
deregisterDriver(Driver driver)
Drops a driver from the DriverManager 's list. |
static Connection |
getConnection(String url)
Attempts to establish a connection to the given database URL. |
static Connection |
getConnection(String url,
Properties info)
Attempts to establish a connection to the given database URL. |
static Connection |
getConnection(String url,
String user,
String password)
Attempts to establish a connection to the given database URL. |
static Driver |
getDriver(String url)
Attempts to locate a driver that understands the given URL. |
static Enumeration<Driver> |
getDrivers()
Retrieves an Enumeration with all of the currently loaded JDBC drivers to which the current caller has access. |
static int |
getLoginTimeout()
Gets the maximum time in seconds that a driver can wait when attempting to log in to a database. |
static PrintStream |
getLogStream()
Deprecated. |
static PrintWriter |
getLogWriter()
Retrieves the log writer. |
static void |
println(String message)
Prints a message to the current JDBC log stream. |
static void |
registerDriver(Driver driver)
Registers the given driver with the DriverManager . |
static void |
setLoginTimeout(int seconds)
Sets the maximum time in seconds that a driver will wait while attempting to connect to a database. |
static void |
setLogStream(PrintStream out)
Deprecated. |
static void |
setLogWriter(PrintWriter out)
Sets the logging/tracing PrintWriter object
that is used by the DriverManager and all drivers. |
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
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clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
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public static PrintWriter getLogWriter()
getLogWriter
and setLogWriter
methods should be used instead
of the get/setlogStream
methods, which are deprecated.
java.io.PrintWriter
objectsetLogWriter(java.io.PrintWriter)
public static void setLogWriter(PrintWriter out)
PrintWriter
object
that is used by the DriverManager
and all drivers.
There is a minor versioning problem created by the introduction
of the method setLogWriter
. The
method setLogWriter
cannot create a PrintStream
object
that will be returned by getLogStream
---the Java platform does
not provide a backward conversion. As a result, a new application
that uses setLogWriter
and also uses a JDBC 1.0 driver that uses
getLogStream
will likely not see debugging information written
by that driver.
In the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, version 1.3 release, this method checks
to see that there is an SQLPermission
object before setting
the logging stream. If a SecurityManager
exists and its
checkPermission
method denies setting the log writer, this
method throws a java.lang.SecurityException
.
out
- the new logging/tracing PrintStream
object;
null
to disable logging and tracing
SecurityException
- if a security manager exists and its
checkPermission
method denies
setting the log writerSecurityManager.checkPermission(java.security.Permission)
,
getLogWriter()
public static Connection getConnection(String url, Properties info) throws SQLException
DriverManager
attempts to select an appropriate driver from
the set of registered JDBC drivers.
url
- a database url of the form
jdbc:subprotocol:subname
info
- a list of arbitrary string tag/value pairs as
connection arguments; normally at least a "user" and
"password" property should be included
SQLException
- if a database access error occurspublic static Connection getConnection(String url, String user, String password) throws SQLException
DriverManager
attempts to select an appropriate driver from
the set of registered JDBC drivers.
url
- a database url of the form
jdbc:subprotocol:subname
user
- the database user on whose behalf the connection is being
madepassword
- the user's password
SQLException
- if a database access error occurspublic static Connection getConnection(String url) throws SQLException
DriverManager
attempts to select an appropriate driver from
the set of registered JDBC drivers.
url
- a database url of the form
jdbc:subprotocol:subname
SQLException
- if a database access error occurspublic static Driver getDriver(String url) throws SQLException
DriverManager
attempts to select an appropriate driver from
the set of registered JDBC drivers.
url
- a database URL of the form
jdbc:subprotocol:subname
Driver
object representing a driver
that can connect to the given URL
SQLException
- if a database access error occurspublic static void registerDriver(Driver driver) throws SQLException
DriverManager
.
A newly-loaded driver class should call
the method registerDriver
to make itself
known to the DriverManager
.
driver
- the new JDBC Driver that is to be registered with the
DriverManager
SQLException
- if a database access error occurspublic static void deregisterDriver(Driver driver) throws SQLException
DriverManager
's list. Applets can only
deregister drivers from their own classloaders.
driver
- the JDBC Driver to drop
SQLException
- if a database access error occurspublic static Enumeration<Driver> getDrivers()
Note: The classname of a driver can be found using
d.getClass().getName()
public static void setLoginTimeout(int seconds)
seconds
- the login time limit in secondsgetLoginTimeout()
public static int getLoginTimeout()
setLoginTimeout(int)
@Deprecated public static void setLogStream(PrintStream out)
DriverManager
and all drivers.
In the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, version 1.3 release, this method checks
to see that there is an SQLPermission
object before setting
the logging stream. If a SecurityManager
exists and its
checkPermission
method denies setting the log writer, this
method throws a java.lang.SecurityException
.
out
- the new logging/tracing PrintStream; to disable, set to null
SecurityException
- if a security manager exists and its
checkPermission
method denies setting the log streamSecurityManager.checkPermission(java.security.Permission)
,
getLogStream()
@Deprecated public static PrintStream getLogStream()
DriverManager
and all drivers.
null
setLogStream(java.io.PrintStream)
public static void println(String message)
message
- a log or tracing message
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Above mentioned research gap gives the idea about the gap between the existing features that have provided by the existing systems. It clearly shows the benefits that users can get by using the approach that we are going to introduced. Followings are the brief descriptions about the research problems that we are going to introduce after completing our approach. Concept of having huge malls is quite new for Sri lankan. Even though we can see a rapid growth of having huge malls. Navigating through these malls without getting lost has become a considerable matter. Living in a era where everyone is having a busy life, having navigation through these malls is a necessity in order to save time. This era is famous for less social interactions but more interactions with the mobile devices and internet. In order to come up with a problem that is getting lost in a huge malls, can be output as the user’s favourable.
In Sri Lankans having a huge mall is a new Concept even though we can see a rapid growth of having huge malls. In an era where time is a very important and limited finding a place in a huge mall is a bit of a messy task to do if it is the first time at the mall. Been able to navigation through these malls is a necessity in order to save time. From the Research carried out on the new upcoming solutions for problems like these we came across applications that give a 3D view for a particular indoor environment, so that users can refer those and navigate through the mall. Creating an indoor environment one by one is time consuming and an expensive task since models must be created and must also input details on each and every location so to navigate through. It could be concluded that the feature that is not yet available in the new indoor navigation applications is to self-generate GIS environment for any given sample floor plan. Concept of having huge malls is quite new for Sri lankans. Even though we can see a rapid growth of having huge malls. Navigating through these malls without getting lost has become. In Sri Lankans having a huge mall is a new Concept even though we can see a rapid growth of having huge malls. In an era where time is a very important and limited finding a place in a huge mall is a bit of a messy task to do if it is the first time at the mall. Been able to navigation through these malls is a necessity in order to save time. From the Research carried out on the new upcoming solutions for problems like these we came across applications that give a 3D view for a particular indoor environment, so that users can refer those and navigate through the mall. Creating an indoor environment one by one is time consuming and an expensive task since models must be created and must also input details on each and every location so to navigate through. It could be concluded that the feature that is not yet available in the new indoor navigation applications is to self-generate GIS environment for any given sample floor plan. Concept of having huge malls is quite new for Sri lankans. Even though we can see a rapid growth of having huge malls. Navigating through these malls without getting lost has become a considerable matter. Living in a era where everyone is having a busy life, having navigation through these malls is a necessity in order to save time. Existing solution applications are giving 3D view for indoor, so that users can refer those and navigate through the mall, but the researchers prove that users tend to like actual view more. Huge the malls get more the users become confused about where they are and to where they should go. That’s the place where indoor positioning comes. Wifi fingerprinting and bluetooth beacons have used as the base of many existing indoor positioning systems. Problem they encounter was the range of Wifi and bluetooth. Calculations shows that the wifi has 32 meters range. Which is not enough to determine the location. The other main problem is to find the way to a specific place in a huge mall without getting lost. System should be able to display the shortest and the most preferable path to the user. Path that user selects can change according to the users’ preferences and it’s better if the the user has multiple options in this case. One of the existing ways of getting the shortest is to convert the images into a graph. But the drawback of that is it is time consuming. User might not want to spend some considerable amount of time till the application converts the images into a graph and then calculate the shortest path from that. Over the past years users had a hard time locating themselves to their intended destination.When it comes to huge shopping malls user gets confused about where they are and where they should go.It is a complicated task to find a shop inside a huge high complex shopping mall even with a pre knowledge of the buidling.How often have you had a hard time locating ourselves to the correct shop we were supposed to be in?How convenient would it be to have a hand held indoor navigation application that can be used to guide the user to their desired destination. For long as we can remember positioning it has been important to know where we are in the world in the olden days we used compass and maps to find our way around. Nowadays we use GPS to find our way when traveling by vehicles or foot.GPS is incredibly useful technology most of us rely on GPS in some form however there is big problem the GPS navigation doesn’t work inside an indoor environment.GPS signals can be reflected by walls making it less accurate and in cities.On an average day here in Sri Lanka we might walk miles to find our desired destination basically tracking own position of the customer and navigate to his/her intended destination in big complex building like shopping malls highly challenging task most of the shopping malls have several shops they can’t be easily monitored manually and finding a specific place inside a building especially when it’s the first time in that building is time consuming and higher probability of getting lost but using this application,user should be able to find the shortest path and the most popular path to user’s intended destination and user can locate themselves to the desired destination.In fact,It reduces time wastage because customers don't have to move around to find out a specific location instead,they channel that time into doing other important tasks. Many alternative solutions have been presented over the past years most of the technologies based on distance measurement to nearby wifi access points, magnetic field positioning and RSS.When it comes to fingerprinting method signal strength is collected from known locations and then store it in a database.When identifying the location the users current location coordinates are querying from the database if the users unknown coordinates is compared with the stored prior measured data so every time user need to identify his/her location user needs to query the unknown location coordinates and compare against to the stored data and most challenging task is the maintenance of the database and the storing the measured huge amount of data in the database and its time consuming. Above mentioned research gap gives the idea about the gap between the existing features that have provided by the existing systems. It clearly shows the benefits that users can get by using the approach that we are going to introduced. Followings are the brief descriptions about the research problems that we are going to introduce after completing our approach. Concept of having huge malls is quite new for Sri lankan. Even though we can see a rapid growth of having huge malls. Navigating through these malls without getting lost has become a considerable matter. Living in a era where everyone is having a busy life, having navigation through these malls is a necessity in order to save time. This era is famous for less social interactions but more interactions with the mobile devices and internet. In order to come up with a problem that is getting lost in a huge malls, can be output as the user’s favourable. One of the main problems is to find the way to a specific place in a huge mall without getting lost. System should be able to display the shortest and the most preferable path to the user. Path that user selects can change according to the users’ preferences and it’s better if the the user has multiple options in this case. One of the existing ways of getting the shortest is to convert the images into a graph. But the drawback of that is it is time consuming. User might not want to spend some considerable amount of time till the application converts the images into a graph and then calculate the shortest path from that. Getting the shortest path or the user preferable path has becoming more and more challengeable. Mostly because each and every commonly used or the existing algorithms consumes higher pre processing power and the memory. Mostly this higher pre processing power is required to generate the visibility graph. Some given solutions are proposing to minimize the size of the visibility graph so that the pre processing power can be saved. But the getting optimal path within a short time is the real challenge. As we can clearly see in the literature review, genetic algorithms can be used to get the shortest path. By developing a dynamic fitness function to each user optimal paths can be retrieved. Issue that occurs with the genetic algorithm is the accuracy. Since there are more local minimum and one global minimum drawback is the cannot be hundred percent assure that the algorithms reaches to the global minimum. There can be a scenarios where it reaches the local minimum and assuming it as the global minimum and stop the function running. Other challenge is since the GPS is not working fine in the environment, get the paths between given two nodes. Most of the approaches tries to convert the map into a graph but all those methods takes much time. Since this solution is going to be an android mobile application, I can't be expecting system to take much more pre processing time. Then the application will be slow and it will eventually caused to the user dissatisfaction. Giving the optimal path should be the ultimate goal but when achieving that goal, user satisfaction should be a key factor to consider.
Our main intention in this study is to, come up with a solution which has better indoor localization and visual based indoor navigation with intelligent path finder. The research team is willing to accomplish those objectives by developing a web application and a mobile application.
The system that is proposed in our research consist of 2 application. A web application and a mobile application. The web application is mostly handled by the system admin or owner of a particular building to upload the floor plans of the building and configure the building as required. Also the web application allows a 360 tour on the indoor environment for users trying to navigate through the web application. The web application is connected directly with the server and database with Restful APIs. The mobile application is built using android. This is targeted only for the users since it allows the users to navigate through the indoor environment using the shortest, most preferable and popular path. Also helps in in tracking the location of user in an indoor environment.
In the research done by Hande Hong, Kartik Sankaran from School Of Computing, National University of Singapore and Chengwen Luo and Jianqiang Li from collage of computer science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, China they had found a way to generate an indoor map using walking trajectories captured through inertial sensing and crowdsourcing where they merge all the paths to generate the indoor map. Also higher-level schematic objects such as doors, stairs, elevators etc. can be detected in this method of process. In their system they collect all the relevant data using mobile device and the server program collects all the crowdsourced trajectories and performs map inference and semantic-based localization queries to generate a map. However in this method of gathering information and configuring the floor plan, there have been some problems due to conflicts in repeating pathways. In a research by SungTae Moon, Wesub Eom from the Aerospace Convergence Technology Team, Korea Aerospace Research Institute proposed a design for large scale map generation which uses Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technologies that generates a 2D image of the map and later converts it into a 3D. Using Sensors such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), SONAR (Sound Navigation And Ranging) and RGB-D camera a 2D image can be generated with the help of Hector Simultaneous Localization and Mapping technology. This method of indoor mapping generated an accurate floor plan by using sensors. This method has proven useful however working with such devices is not economically beneficial for users or partners using that technology. In a research done by Xuan Du and Dongdai Zhou they found a way to generate a path from a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) which contains the polygons representing rooms’ outline, coordinates of rooms’ door and polylines indicating the corridors. Based on the data and the pathway mapping that was available they were able to identify a pathway graph for the indoor environment. However they were able to identify a pathway for each and every node only if the details were mentioned on the map graphically. Thus this method is only applicable for static indoor environments.
With the research references we did, we discovered there are few solutions for the individual components of our study. Over the years there were some number of researches has presented regarding those components, but there were some considerable number of issues in performance and the complexity of them are also bit high. From the research referencing which is done by our research team, we haven’t met any research which has all the components of our study. In the research done by R. Abhilash and P.Asha from Department of Computer Science, Sathyabama University they have discussed about an indoor navigation solution which is limited to a single area. In their proposed solution, both 2D and 3D maps will be displayed and by entering the source and the destination they will display the paths that they can use. Since they are not using Global positioning system (GPS) or any similar kind of technology user cannot find the path to the destination from his/her exact location. If we need to user this system in another place, we need to create a 3D model of that place as well. From a study our research team have done, we found that many users like to interact with the actual view than a 3D view. Athira Sudarsanan V, Michael George, Babita Roslind Jose and Jimson Mathew of Cochin University of Science And Technology, Kochi and Indian Institute of Technology Patna have discussed about the indoor navigation problem in a different perspective. Their approach was to generate a topological map and images from the different locations of the building using a walkthrough video. From this video, the system will extract the important frames (keyframes) and construct the topological map. We can apply this approach to anywhere and to take this approach first we need to have a walkthrough video of the whole building. In our approach first we need to capture 3600 images from a mobile phone or any other device in appropriate distance, and then apply them on top of the map. In the research done by Low Chee Huey, Patrick Sebastian and Micheal Drieberg of electrical and electronic engineering department, universiti Teknologi Petronas proposed and designed an augmented reality based indoor positioning navigation tool to superimpose the directional signage on the real view of the indoor environment in 3D form. The team have used ARtoolkit software to do the implementation and using ARtoolkit, application will display a 3D marker in the camera view, to guide the user to the destination. Since they are using a mobile application, users have to use their laptop webcam.
In the research done by R. Abhilash and P.Asha from Department of Computer Science, Sathyabama University they have discussed about an indoor navigation solution which is limited to a single area. In their proposed solution, both 2D and 3D maps will be displayed and by entering the source and the destination they will display the paths that they can use. Since user won’t be given shortest path user has to pick a random path and navigate through it which may results to user navigates through the longest path and which will consume time. In ICET conference at Ohrid, Macedonia have discussed about a solution for finding a shortest path in a Maze. To get that approach they have used a robot to navigate from a one position to the exit of the maze and then implemented an algorithm for movements of the robot. Their main consideration was to get images of the maze from the top and convert it into a graph. These images indicate walls, empty spaces and the starting positions and end destination of the robot. Then they convert the maze into bitset from a graph which indicate the valid positions of the robot as vertices. Furthermore they have mentioned that after generating the graph, algorithm that are to find the shortest path can be applied on top of that. They have introduced an algorithm which has implemented the breadth first search. This algorithm will outcome the shortest path by observing the starting and ending vertices and the least passed vertices. After this research they have identified that converting the image into the graph can be time consuming when the dimensions are higher numbers. And the time that consumed to find the shortest path varies according to the dimensions of the maze. In a research which was done by Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, GMU . Their main approach was to collect crowdsources geospatial data and obtain the path that minimizing the distance and the paths which lead through the popular areas by using knowledge granted by users. The way of their implementation is was extracting words like “nearby” or “next to” from travel blogs which are basically defining the closeness between two places. These text processing part was done by using Python, modeling and implementing part has done by usingMatlab. And by using a probabilistic model, quantifying each of these relations. Using this they create a relationship graph where each node of the graph correspond to s POI(Points of interest) and the each edges of the graph defining the spatial connection between those respective points. Then they obtained a altered cost function which is not relay on the distance. Finally they have proposed a two routing algorithms which enrich the road network. They have used Flicker photo data to test these algorithm to real datasets. This research was done by Daniel Delling, Andrew V. Goldberg, Moises Goldszmidt, John Krumm, Kunal Talwar, Renato F. Werneck from Microsoft Research. Their main approach was to implement and a test a framework which is generating personalized driving directions. These directions are given by analysing user’s GPS tracks automatically. In order to fulfill this approach they model the road network as a directed graph G = (V,A) . This framework based on customizable route planning (CRP) in order to find the shortest path. Then finally they have come up with an algorithm which contains three parametres. This approach works fine for outdoors where GPS works finely. In a research which was done by Anders Strand-Holm Vinther (20033980 ) and Magnus Strand-Holm Vinther (20094430 ) in AarhusUniversity- Computer Science discuss about pathfinding in two dimensional world. In the research they have introduced their own optimal path finding algorithm called Binary Space Partitioning (BSP). Their main focus was to come up with a better optimizing algorithm. All the other optimizing algorithms relay on a heavy pre processing steps on creating a visibility graph. So their approach was to decrease the size of the visibility graph. This research works fine for dynamic polygonal worlds. And when comes to the other algorithms like Dijikstra and A*, the algorithm they came up with this research has lower preprocessing time. In research done by Geethu Elizebeth Mathew in K.S.R Institute for Engineering and Technology - Tiruchengode Namakka introduced a direction based Heuristic for pathfinding in video games. Their intention is to come up with a solution to get higher quality paths using less memory and time than the other algorithms do. In order to achieve their approach they are proposing to use Artificial intelligence principles. Instead of having a graph as all the other existing algorithms do, this approach is implements so that the map will be converted to a grid as below. Direction based heuristic that is introduced in this research, will minimize the nodes in the map but still give the optimal path in less time. In research done by Ahmed Younes Hamed in Department of COmputer science, faculty of science Sohag university Egypt is introducing a genetic algorithm for finding k shortest paths in a network. Their solution works fine for single source node and multiple destination. During the Literature review I have identified many attempts to overcome the generating optimal paths. From the Literature review written in this document you can get a very clear understanding about the current proposed solutions and the drawbacks of those solutions following is a brief description about the research gap and main drawbacks in the existing solutions compared to my proposed research solution. The complexity was caused due to the signal strength of Bluetooth/Wifi such as the bluetooth signal range limited to 10 meters. The accuracy of the Bluetooth iBeacons is high compared to Wifi. But it need expensive infrastructure assistant since we have to deploy Bluetooth iBeacons in known places in a building and the narrow transmission range which limited to 30-200m is the main drawback in Wifi indoor navigation systems however compared to BLE transmitters Wi-Fi needs more expensive installation. Other than the hardware approaches, other approaches that are available were the algorithms. As you can see in the literature review most of the researchers are trying to come up with algorithms to get a optimal paths which consumes less pre processing power and the less memory than the existing algorithms. Most commonly used and most advanced existing algorithm to get the optimal path is the A* Algorithm. This algorithm is mostly and commonly used for path finding. It is considered to be one of the smartest algorithms which makes the different between other conventional algorithms. Drawback of this algorithm is A* algorithm requires higher pre processing power in order to generate visibility graph. Most of the researchers are trying to minimize the time that is taken to generate the visibility graph and the memory that A* algorithm requires. Genetic ALgorithms can be used to get the optimal paths by using the fitness function the issue is with the accuracy level. Since genetic algorithms are not a hundred percent assure about reaching the global minimum since there are many local minimums. Some solutions that are mentioned in the literature review, works fine for the outdoor scenarios where GPS is working fine. SInce this solution is for the indoor environment that cannot be used.
During the past years there have been lot of research projects proposed to develop an accurate solution for the indoor positioning and most of the indoor positioning systems developed with the help of Bluetooth beacons, tedious adjustments, high expensive sensors and costly infrastructure. In the research done by Christian Esposito and Massimo Ficco from University of Nepol They have proposed about an indoor positioning system based on RSS. In their approach when positioning inside an indoor environment, user’s location is identified by comparing user location's signal strength value and the prior measured signal strength values of known locations. The user’s location is identified if the stored pre-measured signal strength value and the new value is tally with each other. If the user’s current location signal strength value and the pre-stored value not equal to each other it will be a big issue. And the RMI devices should be deployed to measure the signal strength values. Over the decades most of the indoor positioning systems are based on Wifi fingerprinting. In the research done by Pei Jiang, Yunzhou Zhang, Wenyan Fu, Huiyu Liu and Xiaolin Su from Department of Weaponry Engineering, Naval University of Engineering College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University they have proposed a solution for indoor positioning based on Wi-Fi fingerprinting. This proposed approach requires time consuming manual correction of data.According to the analysis done by Shixiong Xia, Yi Liu, Guan Yuan, Mingjun Zhu and Zhaohui Wang School of Computer Science Technology, China University of Mining and Technology China they mentioned the disadvantages of Wi-Fi fingerprinting indoor positioning approach. The Wi-Fi fingerprinting technique needs advanced algorithms and this approach need an outsized quantity of pre-measured information for identification of the position of the user. iBeacon is another proposed technique to detect the user’s indoor position but there are some drawbacks in iBeacons due to the Bluetooth signal strength because the Bluetooth signal range is narrow it limits to maximum 10m.This may be affected to the calculation of the distance because distance is calculated based on the transmission of the Bluetooth signal. The company named Estimote Inc provide a Complete Software Development Kit (SDK). There are some problems in Estimote iBeacons.It’s only supports for IOS and provide equipment and SDK, not the application services. And the indoor map is not much user friendly and only display 2D information of the indoor environment in our approach we are going to display both 2D and 3D view. From the study our research team has done, we found most effective indoor positioning technique is using a smartphone main benefit of using a smart for indoor positioning is, system is not depending on infrastructure. In this research we are going to use accelerometer and gyroscope inertial sensors to overcome this indoor positioning technique by using those sensors we can get readings of Orientation, Compass, Gravity and Linear Movement. In the research done by Supriya, S. Aruna Devi and Karthick Nanmaran of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, India they have proposed a technique to get the user’s current location by tapping the floor map displayed in the android application but if the user doesn’t have any prior knowledge of the interior information of the building it is difficult to tap the floor map to get the current position, to overcome this problem we have proposed a solution Codes will be pasted on the walls of the building at certain points. The user can scan the QR code and get the input of the current/starting position of him inside the building. Then it can be shown in the map using the android map. By comparing the current situation and the place where the user has to go the routes can be shown including the shortest path. The indoor positioning is a main function of an indoor navigation system accuracy of the indoor positioning component mainly affect to the accuracy of the entire indoor navigation system. Indoor positioning can be divided into four different parts based on the methodology. Triangulation based, direct sensing, pattern recognition and dead reckoning. Triangulation methodology and direct-sensing needs infrastructure assistance. The Bluetooth based indoor positioning systems and WIFI signal based indoor positioning systems needs expertise to fix the Bluetooth beacons or Wi-Fi routers in known positions inside an indoor In research done by Carl Fischer, Kavitha Muthukrishnan, Mike Hazas and Hans Gellersen of Department of computing of Lancaster University Lancaster, UK.and University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands they have proposed a navigation system based on a combination of foot-mounted inertial sensors and ultrasound beacons. They have used landmarks when the user enters into an unknown environment. In their they have used ultrasound nodes from the Relate project as landmarks to correct the drift in PDR. Some other projects have used Ultrasound in order to predict the indoor position. The landmarks are quite interesting when there are multiple users and locate themselves to a destination relative to each other. In research done by Agustinus Noertjahyana, Ignatius Alex Wijayanto, Justinus Andjarwirawan Department of Informatics Petra Christian University Surabaya, Indonesia they have proposed a solution for indoor positioning using android and bluetooth low energy with trilateration method They have used sensor beacon bluetooth low energy with the advantages of having low power consumption and relatively small dimensions that can be placed in various places that are difficult to reach by WiFi.Trilateration is a method for determining location with known three location information and device distance to each access point. They have used Trilateration method with measurement technique based on RSSI value. The main consequence of this solution is Bluetooth Low Energy focuses on short-range communications. If the transmission power is high the range of the transmitted signal is high, so it increases the usage of the battery. In the research done by Andreas Blattner, Yavor Vasilev and Bettina Harriehausen- Mühlbauer they have proposed a Mobile indoor navigation assistance system for mobility impaired people. They have developed Mobile application which identify barrier-free routes between starting position and the intended destination. This feature is more useful for impaired people. They have used Bluetooth 4.0 transmitters which send UUIDs to predict the starting position. User’s current position is identified by trilateration of the signal strength of each transmitter. The new UUID design is useful for providing the information needed to determine the location of the device by the Trilateration method. The intended destination is manually chosen by the user according to the user’s preferences it will displayed as a geo location. Crowded environments like shopping malls can harm the accuracy of the application so the accuracy of the application depend on the environment because human bodies interfere with the Bluetooth signal. so mainly accuracy of the location determination depends on the environment of the reference point In the research done by Laura Filardo, Federica Inderst, Federica Pascucci they have developed an Android app which based on a background service. This background service able to log data retrieved from the 9-Degree of Freedom IMU embedded in a smartphone and to compute the current user position. This application able to detect the position of the user inside an indoor environment using inbuilt sensors of the smart phone. The position of the user is displayed on a map. The main objective of this system is to continuously track user’s position during motion when starting position is given. The main disadvantage of these smart phone based indoor positioning system is the accuracy of the application depends on the orientation of the sensor frame with respect to the body frame. In their solution user wears a smartphone so the body frame corresponds to the sensor frame. When we consider a practical scenario user never wear a smart phone while walking so their solution is not much realistic. According to the research done by David Mascharka and Eric Manley Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Drake University they have proposed a solution for indoor positioning using mobile device based on readings from its sensors utilizing machine learning methodologies. The positioning component is separated into two different parts data collection and analysis. The data collection phase consists of moving about the building taking readings of the Wi-Fi signal strengths so before using the application lot of pre- measured data should be gathered. In the analysis phase several machine learning algorithms are used. Some preprocessing of the data may be beneficial, depending on the algorithm. In the final stage they have tested the application while walking inside an indoor environment. In the research done by Eladio Martin, Oriol Vinyals , Gerald Friedland , Ruzena Bajcsy International Computer Science Institute and Dept. of EECS University of California, Berkeley they have proposed a solution for Indoor Localization Using Smart Phones. In order to build a multimodal solution, they have studied the technologies related to Wi-Fi radio, cellular communication radio and the inbuilt android sensors accelerometer and magnetometer. They have obtained a radio map(Fingerprinting approach) of Wifi RSSI values moving around the building and the position of the user is identified by comparing the current value and the stored RSSI values.[19]There are several attempts to track the indoor positioning without fingerprinting but those solutions show an important loss in accuracy. Fingerprinting approach is basically creating a map of SS vectors. Each vector belongs to the coordinate of the measurement taken in the area of interest. According to the research done by Thibaut Raharijaona, Rodolphe Mawonou , Thanh Vu Nguyen , Fabien Colonnier , Marc Boyron , Julien Diperi and Stéphane Viollet they have a proposed a solution for indoor positioning using Flickering Infrared LEDs.They have used , minimalistic optical sensing device is used in order to detect relative position between the sensor and active markers. The relative position is identified using amplitude modulated infrared light. The innovative insect-based sensor can measure azimuth and elevation angles with respect to two small and cheap active infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs) flickering at two different frequencies by comparing previous lens less visual sensor the position of the user is identified. There are various indoor positioning solutions using infrared beacons but there are several disadvantages of infrared when we use it to detect the indoor position. Infrared is only suitable for short-distance transmission and the positioning accuracy has limitations. A major disadvantage of infrared based systems is that they require substantial infrastructure changes and incur a significant cost to deploy. The authors in have developed a mechanism for indoor position system using Magnetic signature. First, they have fingerprinted each hallway using measured magnetic signature. They have obtained the user’s position in meters by classifying the test signature when user enters to an unknown hallway and the one of the measured fingerprints. The fingerprints were collected in different hallways. Magnetic field anomalies also used for pinpoint user’s position inside a building. Some other authors have created a magnetic map using artificial magnetic beacons. The major problem in those solutions is the preliminary scene preparation for the future positioning. In the research done by by Supriya, S. Aruna Devi and Karthick Nanmaran of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, Chennai, India they have proposed a technique to get the traveled distance by assuming the two steps taken by the user approximately equal to 1 meter and they have divided the floor map into grids of side 1 meter. Despite of the lower accuracy achievable by using the approximation, we proposed to apply our approach to get the most accurate Distance.
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Here is a responsive image carousel implemented in AMP. Tap on one of the images to enter the lightbox mode.
AMP provides a rich set of built-in actions for creating interactive websites.
Hello... and this is how you toggle a class attribute.
HelloAMP offers different ways to render dynamic content on a page. With amp-list it's possible to client-side render data pulled in from a JSON endpoint.
Here is another example, a simple calculator implemented with amp-bind:
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Concerto Novo presents An Evening of Classical and New Music at Weil Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
October 1, 2016 at 8pm
Tickets are now available at carnegiehall.org for $35 and $45 (students $25).
Premieres
The concert will feature the World Premiere of George Oakley's Stabat Mater, and the U.S. debut of up-and-coming Georgian cellist Lizi Ramishvili.
Program
Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano, in D major, op. 102 Schumann's Fantasiestücke, op. 73 Oakley's Sonata for Cello and Piano Oakley's Stabat Mater Inga Kashakashvili, Piano Lizi Ramishvili, Cello Sivan Magen, Harp Nikolai Kachanov Singers
From the Press Release
Concerto Novo is proud to present An Evening of Classical and New Music at Carnegie Hall on October 1, 8 PM.
The concert features the world premiere of George Oakley's Stabat Mater. It also features Georgian cellist Lizi Ramishvili's United States debut, in which she will perform Oakley's Sonata for Cello and Piano.
This chamber concert will take the audience through three distinct musical periods: The Classical period, represented by the Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano in D major, op. 102, the Romantic period with Schumann's Fantasiestücke, op. 73, and through to contemporary classical via New York-based Georgian composer George Oakley.
The concert will present the World Premiere of Oakley's Stabat Mater, for chorus and harp, written exclusively for the Nikolai Kachanov Singers and taking its musical inspiration from the medieval period, filtered through a modern mentality. Also on the program is Oakley's deeply moving Sonata for Cello and Piano which premiered at Merkin Hall in February 2014 to a standing ovation.
Videos
Lizi Ramishvili, Paganini Variations
George Oakley, composer Inga Kashakashvili, Piano Jay Campbell, Cello


This is a catalog for six compositions that I created using HTML, CSS and jQuery. The organizing principle here is an elevator which allows the user to gain access to the different floors (Levels- LL, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5).
The lower level is my composition showing underwater. The first floor is land where Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse are shown rolling their eyes and a backdrop showing their home. The third floor is a composition of the sky where the color of the sky is changing and the birds are flying. (pure HTML and CSS, images have not been used in the first three compositions). The fourth floor shows a higher altitude with Santa Clause and falling snowflakes on hovering over them (use of jQuery). I have depicted a scene from the story of “Jack and the Beanstalk” on the fourth floor. Jack is shown falling as the user scrolls down. The fifth floor is space with abstract looking solar bodies are shown (use of jQuery).
The user navigates through this website by first clicking on the blinking button to call for the elevator and then once the user is inside, they can access each floor by clicking on the level number. There is a navigation bar present on top of each composition that allows the user to go to another floor without starting the process all over.


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ProviderConfig
| Attribute | Name | Default value | Comment |
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| id | ID | Generated automatically | |
| application | Application object | Empty ApplicationConfig | |
| interfaceId | Service interface (unique identifier) | Use the actual interface class for both normal calls and return calls. | |
| uniqueId | Service tag (unique identifier) | ||
| filterRef | Filter configuration example | List | |
| filter | Filter configuration alias | separated by commas | |
| registry | Registry center on the server | List | |
| methods | Method-level configuration | Map<String, MethodConfig> |
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| serialization | Serialization protocol | hessian2 | |
| register | Whether to register | true | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| subscribe | Whether to subscribe | true | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| proxy | Proxy type | javassist | As well as JDK dynamic proxy |
| ref | Service interface implementation class | ||
| server | server | List, and it can be sent to multiple servers at once | |
| delay | Time for delaying service publishing | Service delay | |
| weight | Service static weight | ||
| include | Included methods | ||
| exclude | Methods not included | ||
| dynamic | Whether to dynamically register | ||
| priority | Service priority | ||
| bootstrap | Service publishing starter | bolt | |
| executor | Custom thread pool | ||
| timeout | Execution timeout period for server | ||
| concurrents | Concurrent execution request | Maximum number of parallel executable requests per method under interface. -1 indicates turning off the concurrent filter, and 0 means that filtering is enabled but not limited | |
| cacheRef | Result cache implementation class | ||
| mockRef | Mock implementation class | ||
| mock | Whether to enable Mock | ||
| validation | Whether to enable parameter verification (jsr303) | ||
| compress | Whether to start compression | false | |
| cache | Whether to enable result caching | false | |
| parameters | Extra attributes | Map<String, String> |
ConsumerConfig
| Attribute | Name | Default value | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | ID | Generated automatically | |
| application | Application object | Empty ApplicationConfig | |
| interfaceId | Service interface (unique identifier) | Use the actual interface class for both normal calls and return calls. | |
| uniqueId | Service tag (Unique identifier) | ||
| filterRef | Filter configuration example | List | |
| filter | Filter configuration alias | List | |
| registry | Registry center on the server | List | |
| methods | Method-level configuration | Map<String, MethodConfig> |
|
| serialization | Serialization protocol | hessian2 | |
| register | Whether to register | true | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| subscribe | Whether to subscribe | true | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| proxy | proxy type | javassist | As well as JDK dynamic proxy |
| protocol | Call protocol | bolt | Currently supports bolt, rest, dubbo |
| directUrl | Direct address | Directly connected to register | |
| generic | Whether to generalize calls | false | |
| connectTimeout | Timeout period for connection establishment | 3000(cover 5000) | |
| disconnectTimeout | Timeout period for disconnection | 5000(cover 10000) | |
| cluster | Cluster mode | failover | |
| connectionHolder | Connection manager implementation | all | |
| loadBalancer | Load balancing algorithm | random | |
| lazy | Whether to delay establishing a persistent connection | false | |
| Sticky | Whether to use sticky connection | false | Skip load balancing algorithm and use previous address |
| inJVM | Whether to switch to JVM call | true | JVM discovers service provider and turns to local |
| check | Whether to check for strong dependencies | false | Startup failure due to no server available |
| Heartbeat | Heartbeat Interval | 30000 | The client sends heartbeat interval to the server. It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| reconnect | Reconnection interval | 10000 | The interval at which the client rebuilds the persistent connection of the port. It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| router | Router configuration alias | List | |
| routerRef | Router configuration example | List | |
| bootstrap | Service reference starter | bolt | |
| addressWait | Waiting time for address acquisition | -1 | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| timeout | Call timeout period | 3000(cover 5000) | |
| retries | Number of retries after failure | 0 | It is related to cluster mode and is read in failover mode. |
| invokeType | Calling type | sync | |
| onReturn | Number of concurrent execution requests | Maximum number of parallel executable requests per method under interface. -1 indicates turning off concurrent filters, and 0 means that filtering is enabled but not restricted. | |
| cacheRef | Result cache implementation class | ||
| mockRef | Mock implementation class | ||
| cache | Whether to enable result caching | false | |
| mock | Whether to enable Mock | ||
| validation | Whether to enable parameter verification | Based on JSR303 | |
| compress | Whether to start compression | false | |
| parameters | Extra attributes | Map<String, String> |
MethodConfig
| Attribute | Name | Default value | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Method name | ||
| timeout | Call timeout period | null | |
| retries | Number of retries after failure | null | |
| invokeType | Calling type | null | |
| validation | Whether to enable parameter verification | null | Based on JSR303 |
| onReturn | SofaResponseCallback called on return | null | Used to implement callback |
| concurrent | Number of concurrent execution requests | null | Maximum number of concurrently executeable requests per method under interface. -1 indicates turning off concurrent filters, and 0 means that filtering is enabled but not restricted. |
| validation | Whether to enable parameter verification | null | |
| compress | Whether to start compression | null | |
| parameters | Extra attributes | Map<String, String> |
ServerConfig
| id | Id | Default value | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| protocol | Protocol | bolt | Currently supports bolt, rest, dubbo |
| host | host | <IP_ADDRESS> | |
| port | port | 12200 | Default port: bolt:12200, rest:8341, h2c:12300, dubbo:20880 |
| contextPath | Context path | / | |
| ioThreads | Number of IO Thread Pools | 0 | It depends on implementation and may not take effect. For example, bolt defaults to cpu*2. 0 means automatic calculation. |
| threadPoolType | Business thread pool type | cached | |
| coreThreads | Size of core business thread pool | 80(override 20) | |
| maxThreads | Maximum size of business thread pool | 400(override 200) | |
| telnet | Whether to allow telnet | true | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. For example, bolt does not support telnet. |
| queueType | Business thread pool type | normal | There is also priority queue, etc. |
| queues | Business thread pool queue | 1000(override 0) | |
| aliveTime | Business thread pool survival time | 300000(override 60000) | |
| preStartCore | Id | Generated automatically | |
| accepts | Maximum number of persistent connections | 100000 | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| serialization | Serialization protocol | hesisan2 | |
| virtualHost | Virtual host address | preferred when registering to the registry center | |
| virtualPort | virtual host port | preferred when registering to the registry center | |
| epoll | Using | false | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| Daemon | Whether to guard the port | true | If true, exit with the main thread exit; if false, exit actively. |
| adaptivePort | Whether to adjust the port | false | When the port is occupied, +1 automatically to adapt |
| transport | Transport layer implementation | bolt (cover netty4) | It depends on the implementation and may not take effect. |
| autoStart | Whether to automatically start the port | true | |
| stopTimeout | Timeout period (ms) for graceful shutdown | 10000(override 20000) | |
| boundHost | Bound Address | It defaults to the host value. | |
| parameters | Extra attribute | Map<String, String> |
RegistryConfig
| Attribute | Name | Default value | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| protocol | Protocol | zookeeper | Currently supports zookeeper and local |
| address | Registry center Address | You must select one from the address and index attribute. | |
| index | Specify the address of the registry center addressing service | You must select one from the index and address attribute. | |
| register | whether to register service | true | |
| subscribe | Whether to subscribe to service | true | |
| timeout | Timeout period for calling registry center | 10s | |
| connectTimeout | Timeout period for connecting to registry center | 20s | |
| file | local file location used by local protocol | $HOME |


Inheritance
It is used to indicate that one class will get most or all of its features from a parent class. This happens implicitly when you write class Baby < Mama which says that a class Baby inherits from Mama. This is great to inherit the behaviors to Baby from Mama, with the ability to override or add behaviors.
Example of inheritance:
Composition
There is an alternative way of doing a very similar thing. In the example below, instead of using class Mama, I used class Family and brought in from of the functionality of Family by initializing a variable in the class Baby. this would be useful if we had multiple family members with with some similarities with which we would not have to repeat the same code, and extend this similarities to many different classes if need be.
Example of Composition:
So, when do we use inheritance or composition?
Since we want the code to be DRY, you Don't want to Repeat Yourself, so identify what code is repeated or duplicated and think about how the code code be manipulated in the future and why/how the code is going to be accessed.
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The tropical rainforests are found between latitudes 23.5o N
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Celtic edge ahead of Rangers, Ireland's Daryl Horgan on target for Hibs
Steven Gerrard’s side head to Hamilton on Sunday looking to close the gap on their Glasgow rivals.
by AFPCELTIC MOVED three points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership on Saturday as James Forrest scored twice in a comprehensive 4-0 home win over Livingston.
Odsonne Edouard put the Hoops ahead in the 19th minute with his 10th league goal of the season before Scott Brown added a second after 57 minutes.
Forrest’s second-half double added gloss to the scoreline and ensured Celtic made it eight consecutive wins in all competitions since they lost to Livie last month.
Second-placed Rangers head to Hamilton on Sunday looking to close the gap on their Glasgow rivals.
Jack Ross’ first game in charge of Hibernian ended in a 3-1 victory over Motherwell at Easter Road.
Liam Polworth had put the visitors in front before a quickfire double from Christian Doidge and Florian Kamberi turned the game on its head inside the opening 25 minutes.
Substitute Daryl Horgan made sure of the three points with four minutes remaining as Motherwell missed the chance to go third.
Caretaker boss Austin MacPhee’s chances of landing the Hearts job on a permanent basis suffered a bodyblow as the Jambos conceded three times in the opening 16 minutes to lose 3-0 at Kilmarnock.
Chris Burke scored twice either side of an Eamonn Brophy goal to hand Killie their first league win in four games.
St Mirren moved off the bottom of the table as Sam Foley’s first goal for the club secured a 2-1 win over Ross County.


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Ampersand is an experiment.
We took a basic chat client and hooked it up with the Google Translate API. The result? Universal Translator Chat!
Choose any chat room with the field on this page. Once in a room, you can type /languages to get a list of available languages, and choose your language with /language {language name}.
Congratulations, you now speak every language.


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NServiceBus relies heavily on the underlying queuing system to make sure that messages gets delivered in a robust and timely fashion. In order to spot miss configurations it's very important to monitor the dead letter queues (DLQ's). You can think of the dead letter queue as a dumping ground for messages that can't be delivered by the queuing system. This post focus on MSMQ but the general ideas apply to the other queuing systems as well.
If your using NServiceBus this would be all messages since we make sure to set the required flags that tells MSMQ to enable the DLQ (negative source journaling in msmq lingo). This means there is no way you can loose valuable business data even if the queuing system is miss configured. More info on the dead letter queues in MSMQ can be found here.
Messages gets moved to the DLQ when the queuing system has tried to deliver a message for a while but decides to give up. This time is usually configurable and in MSMQ this happens when either time-to-reach-queue(TTRQ) or time-to-be-received(TTBR) for the message has expired.
The TTRQ is usually 4 days by default but can be adjusted per machine. TTBR is also 4 days by default but can be controlled on a message per message basis by adding the [TimeToBeReceived] attribute to your NServiceBus message definitions.
While the error queue in NServiceBus is usually system wide the DLQ's are machine specific. This means that you have to monitor all your machines to detect messages ending up in any of the DLQ's. There are many ways to do this, write a powershell script that periodically looks at the DLQ(s) , MSMQ has 2 different ones, and sound the alarm. To do this just use the System.Messaging.MessageQueue class in your script. The address is:
DIRECT=OS:{your machine}\SYSTEM$;DEADLETTER DIRECT=OS:{your machine}\SYSTEM$;DEADXACT
Another option is to use your favorite monitoring tool and watch the "Msmq Queue -> Computer Queues ->Messages in Queue " performance counter.
The image below shows this on my machine.
Note that the "Messages in queue" counter gives you the number of messages in both the DLQ's.
Make sure to monitor your DLQ's to detect message queuing issues!
Hope this helps!


An in-depth analysis showed us some examples where the language is not used in a neutral way to portray men and women. For example, think of the famous couple: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, both have astonishing careers. They have been married for a while now and have 2 children together.
If you look at the overview sections on their Wikipedia biographies, you can spot some differences in terms of the words used to describe them.
Catherine Zeta-Jones(born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age.
[...] Zeta-Jones established herself in Hollywood with roles that highlighted her sex appeal, such as in the action film The Mask of Zorro (1998) and the heist film Entrapment (1999). She received acclaim for her performances as a vengeful pregnant woman in Traffic (2000) and a murderous singer in the musical Chicago (2002); for the latter she won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress.
[...] Her struggle with depression and bipolar II disorder has been well documented by the media. She is married to American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children.
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
[...] Douglas received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
[...] Apart from his acting career, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
We can see that, in both cases, their origin and acting careers are well described. But then, also some differences are easy to spot. For her, we can find references to her struggle with depression, her physical appearance and the fact that she is married to Michael Douglas and has two children with him. On the contrary, the extra information given for Michael Douglas refers to his accomplishments and other awards, a reference to his marriage by the end but nothing about his children.
Being one of the most viewed sources of information in the world doesn't mean being completly neutral in some sense. Nevertheless, Wikipedia is built thanks to non-professional contributions and therefore might be harder to control. Let’s not forget that these details are very subtle and that they are written on an subconsciously manner, as gender gap is a fact in our society and in the way humans grow up.


Instructions and hints for work on the bwUniCluster
The basic operating system on each node of the bwUniCluster is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. If you do not have any experience with navigating on a Unix-like operating systems, check out this brief introduction to the shell.
https://bwhpc-c5.de/ZAS/bwunicluster_umfrage.php
Once you have registered as a user for the bwUniCluster you will be assigned your own username, which is your current username at the University of Hohenheim, preceded by ho_
(e.g. ho_user
). You can then access the server via ssh
as follows:
ssh<EMAIL_ADDRESS>After registering for the bwUniCluster service, one of your first steps should be the creation of your own workspace. The reason behind this is that all of your data and files that are stored under $WORK
are not backed up whereas files under $HOME
are. This has important effects on the performance of the service, particularly when you make lots of use of extensive I/O operations, i.e. saving, reading and moving files. The suggested best practice is to store important and comparatively small files in your $HOME
directory and your large data sets under $WORK
.
Another option would be to store everything under $WORK
and to keep all your important files, such as programs, under version control. Two nice hosts for version control are Github (particularly useful for files that you don’t mind being shared with the public) and Bitbucket (particularly useful for private repositories that only invited participants can access). Bitbucket is especially great for users from academia since you can host an unlimited amount of private repositories and invite as many collaborators as you want without charge.
While you’re in your home directory, create a new workspace (e.g. foo
) which will be your new workspace/project-directory by typing ws_allocate foo 60
at the command line. The number indicates the lifetime of your workspace in days (see table below for a full list of commands).
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
ws_allocate foo 60 |
Allocate a workspace named foo for 60 days (maximum) |
ws_list -a |
List all your workspaces |
ws_find foo |
Get absolute path of workspace foo |
ws_extend foo |
Extend lifetime of your workspace foo by 5 days from now. |
ws_release foo |
Manually erase your workspace foo . |
ws_allocate -h |
Help on workspace commands. |
lfs quota -u $(whoami)$WORK |
find out your disk usage of $WORK |
Each time you log on to the server, you can easily switch to your workspace foo
by typing `cd
ws_find foo``` at the command line.
The maximum lifetime of a workspace is 60 days with the possibility of three extensions, resulting in a cumulative maximum lifetime of 240 days for a workspace.
Fore more information visit http://www.bwhpc-c5.de/wiki/index.php/BwUniCluster_Hardware_and_Architecture#File_Systems
Mounting remote file systems on the local system can alleviate some of the problems you may find when moving files between the bwUniCluster and your local hard drive. For Unix like systems, this procedure is quite easy and can be achieved via the following steps from your local machine:
# Create a local directory in your home directory to mount the remote file system.
mkdir ~/bwUniCluster
# Mount your workspace to the newly generated local mount point. I will assume that your institution
# is the University of Hohenheim, that your actual username is simply 'user' and that you have called
# your workspace 'foo'.
sshfs ho_user@uc1.scc.kit.edu:/work/workspace/scratch/ho_user-foo-0 ~/bwUniCluster
After mounting the remote client on your local machine, you can simply move files via a GUI, just as you would move files on your local machine.
For Windows users there seems to be a similar option: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
Running a batch job on the bwUniCluster requires two components:
You can find a step-by-step instruction for such a job script here, the pure .sh
script content here and an exemplary R script, which can be called through the aforementioned shell script.
Any job can also be started directly from the command line using the same commands introduced in the previous section on running batch jobs via job files. However, this is much more tedious and causes considerably more clutter and headaches for users than the former. Nevertheless, a useful situation for running batch jobs from the command line is a case where you use a job file as your template and override some of the parameters interactively. Let’s assume that you are working with the following job script - which was introduced in the previous section - and that you want to run the same analyses for different ‘Species’. Instead of changing the content of this job file every time you want to alter one of its user-defined input variables, you can simply overwrite them at the command line. Line 14 in our job file has the following content:
#MOAB -v SPECIES=setosa
Now, if we wanted to run the same analysis for the species ‘versicolor’, you could simply type:
msub -v SPECIES=versicolor ./path/to/bwunicluster_mclapply.sh
If you want to alter multiple user-defined parameters at once, you simply separate them via ,
characters:
msub -v SPECIES=versicolor,TRIALS=5000 ./path/to/bwunicluster_mclapply.sh
Of course it is also possible to change any other argument that can be passed to the msub
command, such as -l walltime=
.
There are multiple situtations where you might want to run an interactive session on the bwUniCluster instead of batch jobs. For example, one of your batch jobs has encountered an error and you want to check what went wrong by browsing through your script and running tests interactively on the server. Or you have output that you want to use for a follow-up analysis that does not fit into the memory of your local machine. For an interactive session, you would typically type the following command: The following command could be used if your code encountered an error and (from the log file) you have a good guess of what could have gone wrong and how to fix it:
msub -I -V -X -l walltime=00:00:15:00,mem=4gb,nodes=1:ppn=1 -q develop
# command to run a job (batch or interactivley) on the server
msub
# Declare the job to be run interactively.
-I
# Export all environment variables to the job.
-V
# Defines the resources that are required by the job.
-l
## Define the amount of time that the job requires for its execution.
-l walltime=dd:hh:mm:ss
## Define the amount of memory that you job will require in total.
-l mem=[0-9]<unit>
## Specify the number of nodes and processes per node, respectively.
-l nodes=1:ppn=1
# Defines the destination queue (develop, singlenode, multinode, verylong,
# fat)
-q develop
Note, that for an interactive session you do not call a job script (with a ‘.sh’ suffix).
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
showq |
All your active, eligible or blocked jobs. |
showstart <job-ID |
Get information about estimated start time. |
showstart<procs>@<seconds> |
Display estimated start time for job requiring <procs> cores for <seconds> . |
showbf |
Get information about available resources. |
checkjob <job-ID> |
Get detailed information on your job. |
showq -c |
Display completed jobs. |
mjobctl -c <job-ID> |
Abort a job. |
For more information visit http://www.bwhpc-c5.de/wiki/index.php/Batch_Jobs.
In order for your programs to be executed, you will need to load software modules first. For example, if you want to run an R
program you will have to load it into the shell environment first by running module load /math/R
, first. For several modules there are multiple versions available. Run module avail
to check, which software is available. If you schedule your jobs via a job script you will have to write the module load <category>/<software_name>/<version>
command into the shell script.
GNU parallel can be used to parallelize single commands or scripts. It can help you with your daily working activties by speeding up routine tasks such as compressing, finding or downloading files. GNU parallel is also usefull if you want to run an e.g. one R script multiple times with changing input variables. Examples for such a task are the parallelization of the cross-validation for model validation in a genomic prediction framework or the parallelization of an association study by running e.g. one script for each chromsome. If you want to know more about it follow the Reader’s guide provided by the authors:
Matthias Westhues, 2016


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Storm Brendan set to batter Scotland as country hot by two weather warnings
The Met Office has put in the alerts for heavy rain and wind for much of the country on Tuesday.
by Daniel Morrow, https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/authors/daniel-morrow/Two weather warnings have been issued for much of Scotland as Storm Brendan is expected to batter the country.
A yellow warning for wind and rain has been put in place by the Met Office for Tuesday.
The yellow alert for rain will be in force from 6am to 3pm and will affect much of the west of Scotland.
Another warning for high winds will affect large parts of the borders, Glasgow and the surrounding areas, as well as some of the north east.
The yellow alert for gusts will be in place from 5am until 5pm.
Some areas of Scotland will see an overlap of the two warnings, including the likes of Glasgow, Greenock, Stirling, Dumfries and Ayr.
Both severe weather conditions could bring delays to public transport, while some businesses and homes could be flooded, according to the forecaster.
It comes after some areas of the UK faced the full force of Storm Atiyah on Sunday and Monday.


20 minutes
We’ve laid the groundwork, and now we’re ready to join our two datasets together!
The instructions below are written for the water beetle example data, but we encourage you to do this exercise on your own field data if you can, adapting the instructions as you go. You might find it useful to run through the exercise with the example data first, to get familiar with the process
Both of our example files have a column called ‘WPT’, which contains the waypoint name saved on the GPS. This allows us to match water beetle survey records to the location at which they were collected
Note that it’s possible to join the layers in either direction, choosing either file as the source or destination. The consequences would be as follows:
The water beetle dataset contains multiple records for each survey location, so we are going to use the second approach today, adding location coordinates (Latitude & Longitude) from our source layer of waypoints to our destination layer of beetle survey data
- Right-click on ‘waterbeetles_fieldobs.csv’ >
Properties
- Click
Join
in the left-hand list to open the Join tab- Click the
green '+'
at the bottom of the dialogue box to add a new join- Select the
Join layer
; the source layer which contains the data you want to add to your destination layer; in this case, it’s the geoJSON of waypoints- Specify the
Join field
- the column of unique location identifiers (WPT) in your source layer- Specify the
Target field
- the column of unique identifiers (WPT) in your destination layer- Under
Joined fields
, select which fields you want to join from your source to your destination layer - click the checkboxes beside Latitude and Longitude- Under
Custom field name prefix
, choose whether to prepend a phrase indicating from which dataset these records were joined. With our example dataset, you can delete this prefix to keep the column names short- Click
OK
andApply
to apply the join
- Check the join worked correctly by opening the attribute table of the water beetle field obs layer - right-click >
Open Attribute Table
)- Do Latitude and Longitude now appear in each record?
Properties
Join
in the left-hand list to open the Join tabgreen '+'
at the bottom of the dialogue box to add a new joinJoin layer
; the source layer which contains the data you want to add to your destination layer; in this case, it’s the geoJSON of waypointsJoin field
- the column of unique location identifiers (WPT) in your source layerTarget field
- the column of unique identifiers (WPT) in your destination layerJoined fields
, select which fields you want to join from your source to your destination layer - click the checkboxes beside Latitude and LongitudeCustom field name prefix
, choose whether to prepend a phrase indicating from which dataset these records were joined. With our example dataset, you can delete this prefix to keep the column names shortApply
to apply the join, and OK
to close the dialogue boxOpen Attribute Table
)


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DEIMOS-1 5th Anniversary
A brief history full of success
- 2009: July 29th, DEIMOS-1 was launched and the newcomer ELECNOR DEIMOS Imaging began operating it from Boecillo, Valladolid, Spain.
- 2010: DEIMOS-1 provided data for ESA TropForest project, supporting the JRC TREES-3 and FAO UN-REDD initiatives.
- 2011: DEIMOS-1 became the main data provider for the USDA in-season crop monitoring of the US, complemented by its twin satellite DMCii's UK-DMC2. This project is still on-going, and in its four years so far has provided an unprecedented 600 million square kilometers of 20 meters multispectral imagery to USDA.
- 2012: DEIMOS-1 became the sole satellite providing the African dataset for GMES (now Copernicus) Data Wharehouse for ESA, and started its contribution to the Spanish National Remote Sensing Plan (PNT), which is still on-going.
- 2013: DEIMOS-1, again in cooperation with UK-DMC2, started an unprecedented service of high-frequency monitoring for precision agriculture, providing one coverage every two days of large regions in the US, across the whole crop season. In September, ELECNOR DEIMOS Imaging was awarded as Best Newcomer Satellite Operator in the Euroconsult Earth Observation Summit held in Paris.
- 2014: Five years after launch, DEIMOS-1 is one of world main data providers for vegetation and resource monitoring projects all around the world, with a still unmatched capacity of frequent monitoring over large areas. The last assessment of the status of the satellite predicts a mission lifetime of at least 10 years.
Now it is time to reach 2019 with the same dedicated service level!
Congratulations to everyone that makes it possible!
Browse the catalogue
Since its launch, DEIMOS-1 has acquired earth surface snapshots covering 2658 Milions of square kilometers. Select a start and end date and browse the footprints and the previews of the images.
ABOUT
This visualization is a staff tribute to the DEIMOS-1 5th Anniversary. Is has been developed by the ICT Solutions and Earth Observation teams at Elecnor Deimos from Tres Cantos, Spain. We have used:
The DEIMOS-1 data has been provided by Deimos Imaging.
You can get more info about Elecnor Deimos at http://www.elecnor-deimos.com and following us on Twitter and Facebook.


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U2
No Line on the Horizon
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Muse
The Resistance
132 ratings
Kings of Leon
Come Around Sundown
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The Killers
Day and Age
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NOTORIOUS LANDLADY, THE (director: Richard Quine; screenwriters: Blake Edwards/Larry Gelbart/story by Margery Sharp; cinematographer: Arthur E. Arling; editor: Charles Nelson; cast: Kim Novak (Carlye Hardwicke), Jack Lemmon (William Gridley), Fred Astaire (Franklyn Ambruster), Lionel Jeffries (Inspector Oliphant), Estelle Winwood (Mrs. Dunhill), Maxwell Reed (Miles Hardwicke), Philippa Bevans (Mrs. Brown), Richard Peel (Sgt. Dillings); Runtime: 123; Columbia; 1962)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A rather mild comedy/mystery, filmed in B&W, featuring the bumbling comic antics of Jack Lemon and the ravishing beauty of Kim Novak. Under Richard Quine's laborious direction, the film plods along until it perks up for its surprising ending, which is a takeoff on those slapstick silent comedies. The film failed to catch my interest even though the actors seemed to be giving an all out effort to make this turkey have legs. The main problem lies in the ridiculous script.  His part was so wooden, you could have thrown it into the fireplace for kindling wood.
After William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) lands in London as a low level American diplomat, he rents a flat in the exclusive Grey Square section from fellow American Carlye Hardwicke (Kim Novak). What he doesn't know, is that six months earlier she was suspected of killing her husband, but since there was no body found, Scotland Yard has not charged her with the crime but are keeping her under close observation.
Gridley finds this out from his boss Franklyn Ambruster (Astaire), who arranges with Inspector Oliphant (Lionel) for him to cooperate with Scotland Yard and act as an undercover agent. The conflict for Gridley is that he fell in love with her and only wants to snoop on her if he can prove her innocence.
The hilarious moments come, as Lemon bumbles around while courting the mysterious Kim. There are a few frantic ha-ha's here, as he nearly burns her flat down while lighting the outdoor grill, which gives him the publicity in the newspapers his boss said would remove him from serving in England, an assignment he covets since coming from Saudi Arabia. The mystery develops as we try to figure out what Kim is doing by pawning her expensive candelabra.
Spoiler to follow in the next paragraph.
It all comes clear when her husband turns up alive and she shoots him accidently as he tries to kill her for the pawn ticket, as they wrestle for the gun. She is about to be convicted of the crime when a witness Mrs. Brown suddenly appears and clears Kim of the murder. But it turns out Mrs. Brown had an ulterior motive for doing so, she knows Kim's hubby was a jewel thief and hid the jewels in the candelabra. Which results in the slapstick climax, set in an old age resort by the sea. The funniest moment is when the one who could truly clear Kim of any crime, the wheelchair-bound Mrs. Dunhill, is being pushed down a cliff by Mrs. Brown and Lemon is running after her to stop her fall.
Its offbeat comedy just didn't resonate with me. I found the production too dry and hardly on par with those Buster Keaton vehicles it tried to emulate and the mystery story was too lame-brain an effort to cause any fuss over. This one's watchable only for those fans of Kim or Lemon. I do not count myself as being one of those fans.
REVIEWED ON 11/29/2000 GRADE: C-
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Colombia expels 59 Venezuelans who took part in protests
Bogota: Colombia said Monday it is expelling 59 Venezuelans for taking part in street protests, as another big march was planned despite the launch of a national dialogue to address corruption, economic inequality and other woes.
The Venezuelans have been classified as a threat to public order and national security, the government's migration agency said.
Since last Thursday Colombia has been hit by unprecedented mass protests against the government of unpopular conservative President Ivan Duque, thus joining a wave of grassroots anger that, for different reasons, has swept through Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia.
Colombians want Duque to fight harder against corruption, improve public education and provide for more equitable economic growth. They are also concerned about management of a 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC rebels, which is unpopular with many Colombians.
Duque's administration also has to deal with hosting 1.4 million refugees fleeing neighboring Venezuela's economic meltdown,
Christian Kruger, the director of Colombia Migration, said the country had welcomed the 59 Venezuelans now due for expulsion as it did so many people from their beleaguered country.
"But we will not tolerate a group of misfits coming to threaten the safety of our streets," Kruger said in a statement.
He said the actions of these Venezuelans triggers "outbreaks of xenophobia" that hurts the reputation of good hardworking Venezuelans.
Police had earlier reported that during a night of curfew on Friday 29 Venezuelans were arrested in Bogota and Cali for violating that order.
Duque took part Sunday in the launch of a national dialogue with mayors and other government officials to address the gripes of the protesters, who were not represented in that initial session.
People marched again Sunday and another big procession has been called for Monday by a major trade union.
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Machine gun fire answers rock-throwing protesters. Motorcycle-riding Revolutionary Guard volunteers chase after demonstrators. Plainclothes security forces grab, beat and drag a man off the street to an uncertain fate.
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Anti-government protests swept Iraq’s oil-rich south on Sunday as demonstrators burned tires and blocked main arteries, outraged by rampant government corruption, poor services and scarcity of jobs.
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Several thousand Colombians continued their protest against President Iván Duque Saturday by banging pots and pans late into the evening in the latest show of rejection against his conservative government.
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Colombia is bracing for its largest protests in years Thursday with labor unions, students and indigenous groups leading a nationwide strike aimed at the deeply unpopular President Ivan Duque.


TinyCLR OS Introduction
TinyCLR OS is our path forward that started with the .NET Micro Framework to enable managed .NET development using Microsoft's Visual Studio on embedded devices -- including debugging features! All you need to get started is Visual Studio, a TinyCLR device, and a USB cable.
Tip
TinyCLR OS is still an alpha so there is still a lot more to come!
TinyCLR OS is made for .NET developers. Threading, memory management, timers, event handlers, and many more exist in TinyCLR OS just like they do on full .NET.
For interacting with hardware, TinyCLR OS has an API similar to the Windows 10 IoT Core Extensions API that you may already be familiar with.
Better yet, all libraries are available through NuGet. Because of this, there will be no SDK to install or machines to lock to specific versions. Simply use NuGet to download any needed version of any needed library on a per-project basis.
To set a system to use TinyCLR OS:
- If you don't already have Visual Studio 2017, download and install the freely available Visual Studio Community 2017.
- Make sure to select the
.NET desktop development
workload when installing Visual Studio. - Download and install the newest TinyCLR OS Visual Studio extension.
- Connect your device to your PC using a USB cable. Don't have a TinyCLR OS device yet? There are many supported boards.
- Start Visual Studio and create a new
TinyCLR Application
underC# > TinyCLR
. New to Visual Studio or C#? Take a look at the getting started guide from Microsoft. - Add some code and press
F5
to deploy and begin debugging your application! - Since TinyCLR OS is still so new, we haven't yet uploaded any packages to NuGet, so make sure to download the newest libraries, extract the archive, and place them in a local NuGet feed.
- Do not forget to update the firmware on your board.
- You are now ready to get started with TinyCLR! Take a look at the tutorials to get going.
Tip
If you're an existing user of NETMF and still want to use it in addition to TinyCLR OS, don't worry. TinyCLR OS is completely independent of NETMF and works side-by-side with no issues.
Take a look at the release notes to see what's new and the roadmap to see what we have planned.
Interested in running TinyCLR OS on your own device? Take a look at the porting guide for information on how to get started.


Brine City [ae4b], port city, in Buffalo Plains [av54], in Imperia
Last updated Turn #138
Brine City [ae4b], port city, in Buffalo Plains [av54], in Imperia
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12: Pleasure Sloop [v5n], ship, 30 hulls, 1 rowing port, 90 sails, arrived
12: from Ocean [aw54], owner:
12: Dorothy [v1b], Pen, with one worker, 94 sailors
12: Apollo [b5e], Imperial Empire, with 11 workers, 63 lt. xbowmen,
12: six sailors, accompanied by:
12: Lutra [a4w], Imperial Empire, with 13 paladins, 29 pikemen
12: Hera [g3f], Imperial Empire, with seven soldiers, 42 pikemen
12: Thor [r4g], Imperial Empire, with 43 pikemen
12: Eos [a2t], Imperial Empire, with ten workers, 48 lt. xbowmen
12: Khaki Blazer [w4j], Imperial Empire, with 13 soldiers,
12: six pikemen, 32 lt. foot
12: Banian [e7n], Imperial Empire, duke, the High Priest of the
12: Church of Eres [151], with four soldiers, ten angels
12: Winstin [o7y], Mandor Confederacy, prisoner
12: Merbit [e2m], Mandor Confederacy, prisoner
12: Trokad [m3d], Mandor Confederacy, prisoner
12: White Blazer [f2n], Mandor Confederacy, prisoner
13: Pleasure Sloop [v5n], ship, 30 hulls, 1 rowing port, 90 sails,
13: departed for Ocean [av53].
Routes leaving Brine City:
North, to Ocean [au54], The Inner Sea, 1 day
South, to Ocean [aw54], The Inner Sea, 1 day
West, to Ocean [av53], The Inner Sea, 1 day
Out, plain, to Buffalo Plains [av54], 1 day
Market report (tax of 25%):
trade who price qty wt/ea item
----- --- ----- --- ----- ----
buy ae4b 17 14 2 gorgon livers [332]
buy ae4b 10 13 1 giant bird feathers [325]
buy ae4b 6 6 10 centaur hides [320]
buy ae4b 4 15 1 woven baskets [94]
buy ae4b 2 100 2 fish [87]
sell ae4b 5 25 10 fish oil [97]
sell ae4b 50 10 100 pitch [261]
sell ae4b 100 5 1,000 oxen [76]
sell ae4b 115 2 300 riding horses [52]
sell ae4b 1,000 1 5 Manual of Necromancy [bs2a]
sell ae4b 1,075 1 5 rare book [ge4g]
Inner locations:
Long Manor [y96], tower, defense 20
Brine Navy Hall [d66], Shipcraft Guild, defense 20
Brine City Trading Center [l65], Trading Guild, defense 20
Dark Spire [l10], tower, defense 20
It is raining.