The 1990s saw two prominent proposals for the biological basis of human nature. Some proponents of the Human Genome Project suggested that human nature lies in our unique gene sequence. Evolutionary psychologists argued that human nature lies in a set of mental modules selected in our evolutionary past. These approaches to human nature have been widely criticised. One objection is that such approaches inappropriately adopt genetic determinism. Another objection is that such approaches rely on outdated assumptions in biological taxonomy, namely essentialism and typological thinking. There are many other criticisms.
The aim of this session is not to further criticise such accounts of human nature but to develop positive alternatives. Many philosophers and scientists assume that knowledge of our biology is important for understanding human nature. The question is how to construct a biological approach to human nature? Recent literature on biological kinds and human kinds suggests a path. That literature contains two overlapping approaches. One approach is found in Ian Hacking's work on human kinds. Human kinds are different than standard natural kinds; their etiology is both biological and sociological. The other approach to human kinds comes from evolutionary developmental theory. The etiologies of individual humans and human kinds are the result of our genes, environments, and cultures. These two approaches suggest a more robust account of the biological basis of human nature. Developmental and cultural factors, as well as genes, are seen as important components of our natures. Phylogeny weaves those different components together. This account of humans avoids the pitfalls of previous biological approaches, and it offers a richer explanatory framework for human nature. The assumption that there is a human essence is replaced with the idea that there is an evolving variety of humans. The purpose of this symposium, then, is to explore such an account of human nature and human kinds.
We constantly assign humans to different categories, just as we have elaborate systems for the classification of animals. There are some major differences between these practices, one of which is that in biology we have a need for a general system of classification. In the human case this is neither needed nor desirable. My talk will explore the consequences of this and other differences as part of a general project of exploring the heterogeneity of kinds.
I have argued elsewhere that emotions are not a natural kind, and that the same is probably true of many specific emotion categories, such as anger and love. Many philosophers of emotion remain unconvinced. Many suppose that my position can be refuted by giving any reasonably clear analysis of vernacular concept of emotion. But the claim that emotion is not a natural kind is entirely consistent with the fact that a systematic account can be given of the vernacular concept. The question at issue is whether that vernacular category is a productive object of scientific enquiry. Other critics have been concerned to show that the category of emotion has a valuable role in normative practices such as self-criticism, and have suggested that the concept is thereby insulated from revision of intension and extension as a result of empirical inquiry. This critique raises important issues about the relationship between scientific and vernacular discourse about the mind, issues which I attempt to address here.
Many writers claim that human kinds are significantly different from
biological and natural kinds. Some suggest that humans kinds are unique
because social structures are essential for the etiology of human kinds.
Others argue that human cultural evolution is a decidedly different form of
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TURBO: A POWER RANGERS MOVIE A film review by Darienn Lombard Copyright 1997 Darienn Lombard
A Twentieth Century Fox-Film Corporation Release Produced by Saban Entertainment in association with Toei Company, LTD.
Length: 99 min. MMPA Rating (USA): PG (for action scenes).
Contents:
I. Preface
a. Disclaimer b. The Story c. Background on the Production
II. Story Critique
a. Plot Review b. Script Quality c. Characterization d. Direction
III. Presentation
a. Audio b. Video
IV. Movie Review
a. Good Qualities b. Bad Qualities c. Ending Grade
I. Preface
a. Disclaimer
The below text contains detailed information regarding the content of the above listed motion picture. If you have not viewed this film yet and do not wish to be told the plot ahead of time, do not continue reading. This post is for those interested in whether or not they should spend the money and time watching this movie. Do not write angry E-Mail to me regarding this review. This is America and I am entitled to make available my opinion on subject matter available to the public. Thank you for your time.
b. The Story
In order to prevent the closing of an orphanage Justin (Blake Foster) lives at, Tommy Oliver (Jason David Frank), Rocky (Steven Cardenas) and Adam Park (Johnny Yong Bosch) participate in a martial arts tournament to raise money to save it. However, during training, Rocky injures himself endangering the fate of the tournament. Justin learns of the identities of the Power Rangers while paying Rocky a visit in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Lerigot possesses powers to allow intergalactic pirates led by the dominatrix-type villainess Divatox (Hillary Shepard) to pass through the Nemesis Triangle. Beyond this interdimentional gateway lies the lost island Muranthias where her object of matrimony exists, a hideous beast named Maligore resides. Once married, Divatox figures she will have possession of all the universe's riches through exploiting his unmatched might.
Upon Lerigot's escape to Earth, the wizard is taken under the wing of Alpha V (voiced by Richard Wood), the automaton guardian of the Power Chamber where Zordon (voiced by Bob Manahan) resides. However, Lerigot has a wife: Tera and a son. Divatox threatens their safety if Lerigot does not serve them; Lerigot prepares to surrender. The Power Rangers refuse to turn the wizard over to Divatox until they learn that Jason Lee Scott (Austin St. John) and Kimberly Hart (Amy Jo Johnson), the former Red/Gold Ranger and Pink Ranger have been captured by Divatox. Her interest in them is only to present a sacrifice to Maligore.
After Divatox tricks the Power Rangers in to believing they turned over Jason and Kimberly, they formulate a plan. Chase Divatox and her fellow pirates to Muranthias to rescue Lerigot and his family, Jason and Kimberly and stop Maligore using their new Turbo Power Morphers. Since Rocky is still in recovery, Justin is called to become Blue Ranger.
A VERY LONG voyage on an enchanted ship leads the Power Rangers with their new Turbo Vehicles to the lost island of Muranthias which does not end without consequences. Divatox's submarine fires torpedoes at the Power Rangers' ship blowing it up entirely bringing Adam to the bring of believing his friends have died. However, the rangers successfully escape in their Turbo vehicles. Upon reaching the island, the rangers use their keys to activate their Turbo Power Morphers as follows:
Tommy: Red Ranger, driver of Red Lightning Turbo Zord Adam: Green Ranger, driver of Desert Thunder Turbo Zord Justin: Blue Ranger, driver of the Mountain Climber Turbo Zord Tanya: Yellow Ranger, driver of the Dune Star Turbo Zord Kat: Pink Ranger, driver of the Wind Chaser Turbo Zord
Together, they will form the Turbo Mega Zord, the most powerful Megazord yet to fight the self-enlarged Maligore to the death.
c. Background on the Production
It is amazing that Saban was able to find the investors to provide the budget for this film. In its first week, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie made over $3 million at over 2,110 auditoriums, so they didn't make any money. At least, not directly from the film (or its soundtrack). However, they probably have sold a great deal of toys.
Rumor in late 1995 was that there would be a second Power Rangers film, however, it would be filmed in Mexico. Fortunately, they didn't go to such extravagant means to shoot this film. They did film in Hawai'i but most of the production took place in Woodland Hills (outdoor scenes) and sets were built at Saban Studios in Valencia, California; Stage 3.
Mercury Records was behind the soundtrack on this motion picture which would explain why more than one song produced by Ron Wasserman made it onto the soundtrack, however, they still fought hard to eliminate rock music from the score. Of course, they could not entirely eliminate it considering that it is apart of the Power Rangers motif. Shuki Levy, known for scoring early 80s DIC produced animated series', had never scored any music for Power Rangers until this movie. And fortunately he did not fail us.
II. Story Critique
a. Plot Review
One must admire Shuki Levy and Shell Danielson, the writers for this motion picture, in their attempt to raise the level of intelligence required to watch this movie beyond none at all. However, it is too little too late. I say this because, in the case where Justin discovers the identity of the Power Rangers, Rocky is in the hospital from over-extending himself and his friends visit him. They're called by Zordon via their wrist communicators and teleport away. Meanwhile, Justin is hiding under Rocky's bed listening the whole while.
Even though that was a clever thing to write, it isn't so clever when you compare it against the past near 200 episodes of Power Rangers where they have morphed in public, stood around without their helmets in public, communicated and teleported in public, and so on. By the definition of these "low-intelligence" episodes, that should have never happened.
Meanwhile, we've got the same old, over-the-top, unrealistic character playing lead villain (or villainess in this case). The only thing that sets this movie apart from previous episodes of Power Rangers is that the villains are actually pretty gruesome looking.  Lord Zedd was better. She spends the whole episode jiggling her over-exaggerated bosoms while ranting and over-acting. Whenever she was on camera, one could not wait until she was not. I don't know who screwed up; Hillary, the director or the writer (which was the same person in some cases), but this character was a total mess.
A lot of time was wasted on suspense and "cute" scenes to amuse Children (to off-set the actually darker tones set in this movie than in the last). This run time could have been more constructively put towards character development. A peek into their personalities, a crack in their otherwise flawless appearance of existence.
Finally, what's amazing about the very beginning of the movie is that it carries over the same aggravating sexism that Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie actually flaunted flamboyantly. In the case of Power Rangers Turbo, it is less apparent. However, it is given away by the fact that while the male rangers are training, Kat (Catherine Sutherland) and Tanya (Nakia Burrise) are singing Kindergarten songs to a bus full of children on their way to the tournament (for what purpose, is unknown to me). It seems like that warriors who fight the forces of super-powered Aliens on a regular basis should either already have their skill mastered or be constantly practicing, if not both.
b. Script Quality
This film is already better than Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, by the fact that it included elements from the original series. Such as the usage of the Zeo powers (even if it was for just a brief moment). Alpha 5 looking more like himself and the Power Chamber looking more like it does in the television series. It's also nice the Rangers will look the same in the TV series as they will in the movie. Too bad Ernie (Richard Genelle is only seen for a few seconds at the end of the film).
Power Rangers Turbo was not as heavily saturated with catchy one-liners like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was. This movie had an overall darker feel than the first did with an enhanced atmosphere of "Getting down to serious business". When the Turbo Power Rangers first make their appearance into the Power Chamber, their walk indicates there is about to be a deadly challenge to be faced.
It was nice they didn't make Lerigot speak English. Even Grade A sci-fi such as Star Trek make it seem like the universal language is English, most of the time (it was nice of them to give the Klingons their own language, however). Anyway, I'm getting off the point. This film reminded me of Star Wars more so than the last Power Rangers movie (which was professed to feel like Star Wars, which I didn't feel). In Star Wars, there is supposedly 6 million languages or something to that effect. Lerigot comes off as an authentic non-Earthling/partial-humanoid, especially with the Jim Henson-class costume effects. Too bad they didn't follow the same lead with Divatox and Friends. Unfortunately, they are cartoony-Earthlike supervillains rather than aliens with malicious intent.
Some portions moved a lot faster than they should have, however, this is probably at fault of the Film Editor and not the directors Shuki Levy and/or David Winning. However, it never made any sense to me that Tommy would remove his helmet during combat. Levy and Danielson was trying to convey that Tommy believe that by seeing his face, Jason would "snap out of it" but that would also imply that Tommy is not a very good martial artist. As anyone in the field of combat knows to never let your guard down.
The best part of the film was ironically when Jason and Kimberly were made evil. Once again, the overall darker overtones expressed in this film made everything more realistic allowing non-children viewers to take the film more seriously (compare to 1st season Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode, "Power Ranger Punks").
c. Characterization
Practically non-existent, however it was nice for Jason to give Bulk (Paul Schier) and Skull (Jason Narvy) the verbal lashing they have long deserved for being the inappropriate comic reliefs that nobody needs.
There would have been more of an opportunity to focus on characters if they had made the martial arts tournament an implied occurrence which never made it on screen. It was necessary to write a believable story about how Justin, a boy, could have all this free time to be a Power Rangers, however, it isn't necessary to consume all this time that could be used into going into exposing the true nature of who these five teenagers are. As without that, you really can't care about these characters as heros.
d. Direction
David Winning, I can tell, saved this movie from the certain doom Shuki Levy presented to it. Almost every episode he and Shell Danielson wrote of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers wound up a total disaster. Especially when this dynamite-duo get together and direct!
This film beats out the first one in the action department, especially with all of the dangerous looking underwater stunts. There was only two martial arts combat sequences, however. And for a film Based on martial-arts, this is pretty poor. It's even worse when you consider that only one of those battle scenes were done out of costume. Jason Frank and Johnny Bosch are talented martial artists (I've seen them perform behind the scenes, they know their craft). Not taking further advantage of this isn't good for an action film. On the other hand, it's obvious that this was supposed to be more of an adventure, rather than action film (primarily to satisfy the parential consortium), however, this just didn't go over well with me at all.
The battle sequences in costume made poor use of props, even though they did a better job than in the last film. However, both forgot what those weapons were attached to their belts. And all the superior visual effects like blows-to-impervious-uniform-generating-sparks used plentifully in sentai (the originating genre this movie was based on), was missing in Power Rangers Turbo. This is probably because they were trying to satisfy the US audience used to seeing US-style martial-arts films. If you want to see this movie for Japanese-style action, don't.
Still, however, Power Rangers Turbo did not welch on the martial arts. The last film made too frequent usage of "wire gags" (flying and what have you) and not enough raw talent. Turbo, on the other hand, had plenty of hand-to-hand combat sequences of high complexity Almost worthy of the Japan Action Club (the JAC being the source of stunt-persons for high-grade on-screen Japanese martial-arts).
The "evil" Jason and Kimberly scenes were the best part of the ranger combat portion towards the end of the movie. It was believable and well executed. What was even better was Maligore. This is the first non-Computer Generated enemy the rangers have ever faced where it was genuinely demonic looking. No foam-rubber here, just one authentic "Alien"-grade monster.
Some might prefer the hard-to-follow Megazord sequences in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie because of the 90's addiction to CGI, however, the CGI was admittedly rushed and thus the zords appeared as if they were made out of liquid metal (the same goes for the two monsters they fought, Hornitor and Scorpitron). However, the Turbo Megazord looked like back-to-basics, original Japanese-style robotics involving some pretty neat effects where Divatox was standing on a hill next to the fight between it and Maligore. The "size" proportioning was executed well. And so was the battle.
III. Presentation
a. Audio
Ron Wasserman warned me that his songs were going to come out sounding bad and that was the case. They, indeed, mixed his music wrong--so wrong I could hardly tell he produce it until I heard his voice. The score was enjoyable, even though the mix of symphony and hard rock was somewhat strange. The main theme song wasn't too bad, but I liked Power Rangers Zeo's theme better.
Speaking of Power Rangers Zeo, unless you're a die-hard fan like yours truly, you'd probably not notice this, however, in the final scenes where Tommy, Adam and Jason were fighting in the tournament, they played Power Rangers Zeo's best battle song: Calling for a Hero. It was nice hearing that wonderful composition by Ron's friend Jim Cushinery in surround-sound Dolby stereo.
Sound effects. They were professional, of course. However, they were applied more carefully to provide more realism. For example, the stomp-like walk of Maligore and the march of the Turbo Megazord.
b. Video
What's interesting about this movie is that Kat looked much like a super-model in the face. It's obvious they spent a lot of time making her look good (which is interesting, considering she already does); including throwing her in some way-too-short jeans. Because they had a professional motion picture team working on this film, it is obvious they instructed the camera operators to de-emphasize Nakia Burrise's nose. I am not poking fun, it's just that since glamor is a huge part of the motion-picture industry, I am surprised they did not pick someone more "flawless". (It's even more amazing that the Film Editor didn't clip the scene where Kimberly's rump is prominently displayed after she is washed ashore). One of my prime complaints about the first movie was Kimberly's lack of athletic clothing (fitting her motif of gymnastics). I guess my prayers have been answered.
The special effects of Lerigot's wizardry were not less than professional. It looked as if they spent a fortune on convincing special effects and computer graphics.
The abduction of Bulk and Skull actually made their cowardly cries worthy of our annoyance by how frightening they actually were taken!
The morphing was over-done and should have been completed with a single vocal command, say, "Turbo Ignition!" but instead, there was this long ranger-by-ranger morphing sequence similarly to the tiresome Zeo morphing sequence. I don't mind the visual effects of the transformation, but there should have been a five-way split-screen of the rangers being suited rather than one-by-one. However, since they only "morph" ONCE during the entire movie, a lengthy henshin (or transformation) scene was necessary to satisfy the audience since they weren't ever going to see _that_ again.
It was interesting that once morphed, the rangers ran "super-fast" because in the originating sentai that Turbo was based on (Violent Dash Task Force CARRANGER), the CARRANGERs ran "super-fast" (followed by engine-rev and brake sound effects).
The highlight of visual effects are after they reach the Island Muranthias. Maligore was the best monster the Power Rangers have ever fought. The Turbo Megazord transformation sequence was equal to that of the first movie, and I thought both were excellent. Good set construction on the Megazord cockpit, including realistic camera work (each step the Megazord took, the cockpit changed angles).
IV. Movie Review
a. Good Qualities
Script Content: The dialogue was not conspicuously "text-book" generated. Even though battle phrases will be duplicated (because there are only many ways to give orders), the movie managed to avoid pointless one-liners. The worst aspect of the movie was Divatox. This aspect earns a B- Grade.
Director's Efforts: Success. He managed to get Amy Jo Johnson and Austin St. John to come off as if they were possessed by the devil himself. All stunts were equal to the TV series (not comparing against original sentai footage). This aspect deserves an A Grade.
Audio Soundtrack: They messed up the music a little bit, however, all mistakes are excused with the usage of Calling For A Hero. All Sound Effects were flawlessly applied. This movie's sound (music & effects) easily out-do most tokusatsu (the genre where sentai comes from). This aspect deserves an A- Grade.
Visuals: The Turbo Megazord was the best I have ever seen the US do as far as imitation Japanese giant-robot sequences go. Maligore was the most threatening, deadliest looking monster ever shown on screen during anything for the Power Rangers. If this is how Power Rangers had have started, I do believe more would take the series more seriously.   Because the plot was not related to the characters state of minds at all, this aspect gets a C- Grade.
Characterization: Because they neglected to include any, they get a D- grade in this department, which strongly detracts from the strength of its plot.
c. Ending Grade
Even though the characterization was non existent forcing the plot to be empty, the direction and visual effects saved the film with a strong soundtrack of sound effects to support the on-screen performances and special effects. It was worth the $4.50 I paid to see it.
So, I give this movie a B- grade.
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OpenVidu Pro will be priced through AWS Marketplace. Any piece of software offered in AWS Marketplace has two different charges: the cost of the AWS resources running the software and the cost of the software itself. Software manufacturers specify this second charge, and it is the only revenue they receive from the total cost of the stack. Having made this clear:
- The moment you cancel your OpenVidu Pro subscription in AWS Marketplace, no more charges will be applied. You only pay for the time you are running the service.
- OpenVidu Pro is considered a beta version right now, and for this reason no extra fees will be charged for the software part.


It is straightforward to add support for custom menu items in the context menu of a freeform project’s root node. Just open the project’s Properties dialog, and in Build and Run add entries to the Custom Menu Items table.
It is also not too hard to bind standard context-sensitive actions in the IDE, such as Compile File or Run File, to Ant targets. Details:
However on occasion you may wish to create your own context-sensitive actions and bind them to targets in one or more freeform projects. This module helps you do so:
First edit your project.xml
and build.xml
to include one or more bindings for a new
context-sensitive action. Pick any action name you like. For example:
<action name="reformat"> <target>run-jalopy-on-files</target> <context> <property>includes</property> <folder>${src.dir}</folder> <pattern>\.java$</pattern> <format>relative-path</format> <arity> <separated-files>,</separated-files> </arity> </context> </action>
<target name="run-jalopy-on-files"> <jalopy …options…> <fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="${includes}"/> </jalopy> </target>
Right-click the project and select Create Custom Command... from the context menu.
The Command should be preselected (here, reformat
).
Choose a display name (e.g. Custom Reformat).
Pick a menu (e.g. Source) and position (e.g. Reformat Code ↔ Shift Left).
Click Finish.
Now you should be able to select some Java sources in your project and select Source > Custom Reformat 3 Files to run Jalopy on them.
You should be able to use Tools > Options > Keymap to add keyboard bindings. To add a toolbar button, find the new action in Tools > Options > Advanced Options > IDE Configuration > Look and Feel > Actions, copy it, and paste to a subfolder of Toolbars.
This feature should be considered experimental. In particular, there is not yet any way to customize the action name or display name once it is created; you will need to delete the old action from Menu Bar and rerun the wizard.


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Why would you want to do that?
When you're using an iterative workflow, little shortcuts make a big difference. Having the ability to use custom hotkeys on the keyboard while the app runs in the simulator turns out to be very useful. Being able to navigate to specific screens with a hotkey can save a lot of time when you're making small changes and restarting over and over. Our first application was triggering screenshot captures for a localization tool called Smartling. I think it will be useful in debugging edge cases where we need to trigger uncommon events in code. What would you use it for? Check out the code at:


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I love that OS X is so very scriptable and customizable. For example, if you don’t like the appearance of some application, resources like its text strings and images are usually right inside the application package (simply a folder with special treatment) to be edited like any other text or image.
Reshacking was never less impressive.
I’m still trying to get used to the metadataness of the iLife suit. I miss Winamp, but I’m trying to learn how to do the things i want in iTunes. It turned out that the iTunes Party Shuffle function is somewhat like Winamp’s queuing system. However, the name makes me gag. So I renamed it.
This is simply a matter of replacing occurrences of “Party Shuffle” with something decent (I went with “Mixlist”), in the file /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/ Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings. Then reopen iTunes.
This assumes you’re using the English locale for iTunes/OS X.
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< "163.059" = "The playlist “^1” does not contain any songs playable by Party Shuffle. Are you sure you want to choose this playlist?";
< "163.060" = "Party Shuffle automatically chooses upcoming songs from your Music Library or Playlists. You may add to, delete or reorder the upcoming songs at any time.";
---> "163.059" = "The playlist “^1” does not contain any songs playable by Mixlist. Are you sure you want to choose this playlist?";
> "163.060" = "Mixlist automatically chooses upcoming songs from your Music Library or Playlists. You may add to, delete or reorder the upcoming songs at any time.";
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< "9000.026" = "Party Shuffle";
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< "kTrackContextualMenuItem10" = "Play Next in Party Shuffle";
< "kTrackContextualMenuItem11" = "Add to Party Shuffle";
---> "kTrackContextualMenuItem10" = "Play Next in Mixlist";
> "kTrackContextualMenuItem11" = "Add to Mixlist";


[gecode-users] Passing information to the master() function
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Thu Oct 3 10:51:01 CEST 2013
Hi Kish,
Sorry for missing this.
If you want to post the constraint then you would have to store the
y-variables at someplace such that the master() function (you would have to
re-define it) can access y.
The second option is more meaningful: I think restricting restart to a
single solution does not hurt.
Cheers
Christian
--
Christian Schulte, Professor of Computer Science, KTH,
www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Kish Shen
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 5:15 AM
To: users at gecode.org
Subject: [gecode-users] Passing information to the master() function
(This is an edited repost of a message I sent, that was missed by Christian)
Hi Christian,
Thanks for your reply. I haven't been able to look again at this issue until
now, so sorry for the delay...
On 13/09/2013 12:20, Christian Schulte wrote:
>
> As for making sure that the same solution is not found again there is
some > support but not really the right one. For integer variable arrays x
and y > (also for Boolean arrays) you can post by
> rel(home, x, IRT_NQ, y);
> cannot be the same, that is there is at least one i for which x_i is >
different from y_i.
>
Am I correct that for the above, x would be the variables that are being
labelled by the search (i.e. the variables passed to branch()), and y is the
solution values for these variables (x and y can be swapped, of course)?
Also, this rel constraint should be posted in master()?
I am not quite sure how to pass y (the solution values) to the master()
function and space. Can this be done without some low-level programming
(i.e. inside the search engine)?
If this is not easy to do, then I think an alternative behaviour I can
implement is to not allow the user to ask for an alternative solution if
restart is used with DFS. Am I correct in thinking that restart is probably
not that useful if you want to search for multiple solutions of a problem,
because the search (unless you use some randomisation, as you
mentioned) will always drive you close to solutions you already found,
before exploring other parts of the search space.
Cheers,
Kish
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The SeqTools package consists of the following modules:
blixemApp: blixem and blixemh application code dotterApp: dotter application code belvuApp: belvu application code seqtoolsUtils: generic utilities


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rotten > Library > Biographies > Crime > Serial Killers > Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez
The Night Stalker
Southern Californian serial killer, into devil worship. Big fan of Australian rockers AC/DC. One of the female jurors who voted to convict him of murder later fell in love with him and they pursued a prison relationship for a while.
Timeline
| 20 Sep 1989 |
A jury finds Richard Ramirez ("The Night Stalker") guilty of 43 counts, including 13 murders and assorted incidents of burglary, rape, and sodomy. Ramirez terrorized Southern California during a string of murders, sexual attacks and burglaries. He would scrawl a pentacle in his victim's blood on the wall of each crime scene. |
| 7 Nov 1989 |
After being sentenced to death, convicted serial killer Richard Ramirez tells reporters: "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. I'll see you at Disneyland." |
| 3 Oct 1996 |
Doreen Lioy marries death row inmate Richard Ramirez ("The Night Stalker") in a ceremony in the visiting room at San Quentin Prison. Sadly, the newlyweds are disallowed conjugal visits. |
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To track day to day activities of teams and people. Just to records answers on simple questions:
Create account, organize people and teams. Track activities. Tracking daily activities possible using keyboard and/or audio recordings. No special tools are required for audio logging - just web browser. Get various reports, based on recorded information:
Provide account name, your email address, confirm and start use.
Add people to your organization.
Create one or more teams and assign people to team.
Track day to day people activity. Do not spend much time:
Get activity reporting to track tasks progress:
Make your decision after reporting analysis
Full featured log book for free
Here all resources to use online or to build and run on premise.
User resources:
The software usage not limited to this web site. You can build and deploy it on premise on a cloud. And use for your organization.
Actually this log book just a tracking of daily scrum meeting in online and based on scrum meeting ceremony. It helps focus the entire team on sprint goals showing who does what. And it doesn’t matter if the team is office or remote. Here is a way to run them efficiently.
Contact me in case of log book software questions.
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Stock Price Time Series:
Querying Large Data
With time series data, we can create relationships between subsets of time. A specific year can be divided into months, and the months can be divided to days.
Within the graph database, we can create the relationship between a year and its months through edges, and the same for months to days.
This allows us to create powerful queries with a variety of relationship groups and allows us to traverse them to build applications.
In this demo, when you select a specific time frame, our database is queried for an object corresponding to the time frame, and we traverse its relationships to uncover the data to display.
Simply traverse, no joins necessary!
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wormcells-de
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Differential expression on
C.elegans single cell RNA sequencing dataThe wormcells-de
app allows you to perform differential expression on data from C. elegans
single cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq). 21 experiments from 3 different studies were integrated and can
be compared. That
means you can select cells from two different experiments and perform differential expression on them!


Showcase
This page describes and provides links to published assimilations that rely on the DASH toolbox. These include:
- Tierney et al. (2022)
Spatial patterns of climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
- King et al. (2022)
Trends and variability in the Southern Annular Mode over the Common Era
- Osman et al. (2021)
Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum
- King et al. (2021)
A data assimilation approach to last millennium temperature field reconstruction using a limited high-sensitivity proxy network
- Tierney et al. (2020)
Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited
Tierney et al. (2022)
Citation
Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Li, M., Ridgwell, A., Hakim, G. J., Poulsen, C. J., … & Kump, L. R. (2022). Spatial patterns of climate change across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2205326119.
Summary
Tierney et al. reconstruct global surface temperatures at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. They assimilate a network of geochemical SST proxies and climate model output from iCESM1.2.
Links
King et al. (2022)
Citation
King, J., Anchukaitis, K., Allen, K., Vance, T., & Hessl, A. (2022). Trends and variability in the Southern Annular Mode over the Common Era. Nature Communications (in review).
Summary
King et al. reconstruct the Southern Annular Mode over the Common Era at annual resolution. They assimilate the PAGES2k network of temperature sensitive proxy records, the South American Drought Atlas, and the Australia-New Zealand Drought Atlas. They use output from a multi-model ensemble of four high-resolution climate models.
Links
Osman et al. (2021)
Citation
Osman, M. B., Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., Tardif, R., Hakim, G. J., King, J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2021). Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature, 599(7884), 239-244.
Summary
Osman et al. reconstruct global surface temperatures from the Last Glacial Maximum to present at 200-year resolution. They assimilation a network of geochemical SST proxies and climate model output from iCESM 1.2 and 1.3.
Links
King et al. (2021)
Citation
King, J. M., Anchukaitis, K. J., Tierney, J. E., Hakim, G. J., Emile-Geay, J., Zhu, F., & Wilson, R. (2021). A data assimilation approach to last millennium temperature field reconstruction using a limited high-sensitivity proxy network. Journal of Climate, 34(17), 7091-7111.
Summary
King et al. reconstruct summer (JJA) temperatures in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere over the last millennium at annual resolution. They assimilate a collection of 54 temperature-sensitive tree-ring records and output from an ensemble of 10 climate models.
Links
Tierney et al. (2020)
Citation
Tierney, J. E., Zhu, J., King, J., Malevich, S. B., Hakim, G. J., & Poulsen, C. J. (2020). Glacial cooling and climate sensitivity revisited. Nature, 584(7822), 569-573.
Summary
Tierney et al. reconstruct global temperatures at the Last Glacial Maximum. They assimilate a network of geochemical SST proxies and model output from iCESM1.2.


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By Grace
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remember the rain on the roof that morning
And all the things that I wanted to say The angry words that came from nowhere without warning That stole the moment and sent me away And you standing there at the doorway crying And me wondering if I'd ever be back I said I didn't come here to leave you I didn't come here to lose I didn't come here believing I would ever be away from you I didn't come here to find out There's a weakness in my faith I was brought here by the power of love Love by grace And I remember the road just went on forever Just couldn't seem to turn that car around 'Till in the distance like a long lost treasure A phone booth that just could not be found And you standing there at the doorway waiting And the moment when we laid back down Chorus That was just a moment in time And one we'll never forget One we can leave behind 'Cause when there was doubt You'll remember I said I didn't come here believing I would ever be away form you I didn't come here to find out There's a weakness in my faith I was brought here by the power of love I was brought here by the power of love Love by grace |


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The NRC database was last updated on RTK NET with a copy updated as of June 25, 2018, and includes incidents from 1982 through part of 2018.
The NRC spills and accidents database is a database of incidents reported to the National Response Center. These incidents include chemical spills, accidents involving chemicals (such as fires or explosions), oil spills, transportation accidents that involve oil or chemicals, releases of radioactive materials, sightings of oil sheens on bodies of water, terrorist incidents involving chemicals, incidents where illegally dumped chemicals have been found, and drills intended to prepare responders to handle these kinds of incidents.
The National Repsonse Center is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, and has become the central point of contact of contact used for the reporting of many different kinds of incidents involving hazardous materials.


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Phone:<PHONE_NUMBER>
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Tokyo
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In Part 1 of this short series exploring the limits of communication, Sean Fleming explored how our smartest technology copes with delivering all the nuances of human communication. (SPOILER: it's not very good at it.)
Now, in Part 2, he explores how these limitations cut both ways: how do the fleshy meat-bags that are our human bodies cope when we use Virtual Reality technology to communicate with others in ways that have never been experienced in all of human history? What happens when we are not even seeing our own life through our own eyes any more?
Immersive communication means that you feel like you're really there. And that's where it gets tricky.
Mark Farid is an artist. He wants to test the limits of how humans experience life, and Mark's got a plan: he intends to lock himself in a room, wearing an Oculus Rift headset the whole time.
He’ll experience life “through the eyes” of a series of other human beings who – via some advanced Google Glass-like equipment – will stream everything they see, hear and do into Mark’s eyes and ears.
For a month.

When you communicate in an immersive virtual environment, what does the “self” even mean?
Of the many intriguing parts of Mark’s scheme, one stands out. When VICE spoke to behavioural psychologists about his plan, they expressed concern for Mark’s wellbeing:
“...his behaviors—the way these thoughts manifest—are bound to be affected, and Mark will be forever changed by this, the same way we're all changed by our experiences.”
So it’s entirely possible that a future where simple, but continual, interfacing with other people through VR will change who we are and how act. It's just about recognisable as communication, but a lot more involved.
Mark’s is an extreme example, granted, yet it’s still highly instructive: when you communicate in an immersive virtual environment, what does the “self” even mean?
Despite the excitement and hype around VR/AR, digital communication will never push real-world interaction into total obsolescence.
As artist Mark points out: as we’ve grown up with technology, we’ve assumed that technology has grown up too. Maybe it simply isn’t able to.
Neither the telephone, nor fax, nor email could slake our thirst for in-person communication. In the early 90s, dot-com-fever-pitch tech “mavens” passionately predicted that cities would become spooky ghost-versions of their former selves, as the internet did away with cafés and offices.
And now, just look: with their tech dream in full bloom, we ironically occupy these once-social spaces with our laptops; to sip herbal teas as slowly as possible whilst we steal WiFi and connect with others, elsewhere.
So, we’re still physically hankering for real human connection, even if it’s just for someone to bring us a quinoa brownie while we post gifs on WhatsApp. We haven’t even fully adjusted to the limitations of our current communication channels yet.
But the line is going to keep getting blurrier, and in the meantime, we need to tell the difference between the extremes, as well as how to deal with the human bit in the middle.
We’re going to need old-fashioned, flesh-and-blood judgement.
Onward into an uncertain future of virtual chatter we go, then.
As end-users, we are the market, and have a say in what sort of experience we have when digital and synthetic communications combine seamlessly with what we now call “reality”.
At this point I’m reminded of David Foster Wallace’s unforgettable account of the rise and fall of the videophone in his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
“Video telephony rendered the fantasy insupportable. Callers now found they had to compose the same sort of earnest, slightly overintense listener's expression they had to compose for in-person exchanges. Those callers who out of unconscious habit succumbed to fuguelike doodling or pants-crease-adjustment now came off looking extra rude, absentminded, or childishly self-absorbed. Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.”
But that's fiction. It’s not like we’re obsessively concerned with exquisitely curating our digital selves, right? Between Instagram filters and wearing extra makeup, we clearly want to our representations, virtual or otherwise, to be flattering. To be... not us.
As digital citizens, we do not want to replicate our offline lives online.
We already have offline lives.  And so this is where Augmented Reality offers a third, new, way.
Forget VR and AR headsets and powerful laptops – it’s here now. The appeal of Snapchat is not in replicating existing interaction, but the layers of unreality you can stick onto your – let’s be honest – boring selfie.
 Gamify your morning commute. Record life stats. Stick puppy gifs onto boring buildings.
Welcome to Life Plus. Communicate wisely, friends.
As for me, my only digital life-augmentation thus far is a T-shirt with the Welsh flag on it that I purchased years ago for my now-retired Xbox Live avatar. Hey, I wonder what he’s up to nowadays? I should send him a DM.


The High Line Canal: A Time of Transition, A Vibrant Future
The High Line Canal stretches 71 miles from Waterton Canyon in Douglas County to its terminus in Adams County near Denver International Airport. Within its 100–foot width, the Canal corridor contains over 850 acres of land, more than the area of Central Park in New York City. For more than a century, the High Line Canal has served several roles: a water delivery infrastructure, a recreational trail, and an important urban ecosystem. The Denver–Aurora–Lakewood metropolitan statistical area (metro area) is at a crossroads with this cherished resource. The Canal has outlived its historic purpose of delivering irrigation water and now has new life as a recreational and ecological resource.
Colorado and the Front Range are changing. These changes are putting more pressure on our parks, open space, and stormwater systems. The High Line Canal is poised to serve a growing need in the metro area, not only as cherished natural open space and a recreational resource but also as a critical stormwater resource for the growing urban, suburban, and rural areas near the Canal.
The Canal is in transition, and the future depends on strong leadership, cooperation, and planning to preserve, protect, and enhance this resource for recreational use and environmental health.
The High Line Canal Conservancy, in close collaboration with Denver Water and numerous jurisdictions, completed a yearlong planning process that advanced and expanded the ideas of the Community Vision Plan. The Plan provides a road map for the future management and enhancement of the Canal as a highly valued community greenway and environmental and economic asset.
The High Line Canal Today
Connects to over 8,000 acres of adjacent open space from state parks to pocket parks and sees 500,000 users annually.
The Canal passes through:
- 11 jurisdictions
- 13 existing underpasses
- 13 regional trail connections
- 85 at–grade crossings
Park Area Comparison
Total area of The High Line Canal is comparable to the total size of New York’s Central Park. Circle size represents the area of park space.


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15.9 Python Server PagesThough still somewhat new at this writing, Python Server Pages (PSP) is a server-side technology that embeds JPython code inside HTML. PSP is a Python-based answer to other server-side embedded scripting approaches. The PSP scripting engine works much like Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP, described earlier) and Sun's Java Server Pages ( JSP) specification. At the risk of pushing the acronym tolerance envelope, PSP has also been compared to PHP, a server-side scripting language embedded in HTML. All of these systems, including PSP, embed scripts in HTML and run them on the server to generate the response stream sent back to the browser on the client; scripts interact with an exposed object model API to get their work done. PSP is written in pure Java, however, and so is portable to a wide variety of platforms (ASP applications can be run only on Microsoft platforms). PSP uses JPython as its scripting language, reportedly a vastly more appropriate choice for scripting web sites than the Java language used in Java Server Pages. Since JPython code is embedded under PSP, scripts have access to the large number of Python and JPython tools and add-ons from within PSPs. In addition, scripts may access all Java libraries, thanks to JPython's Java integration support. We can't cover PSP in detail here; but for a quick look, Example 15-18, adapted from an example in the PSP documentation, illustrates the structure of PSPs. Example 15-18. PP2E\Internet\Other\hello.psp$[ # Generate a simple message page with the client's IP address ]$  <TITLE>Hello PSP World</TITLE>   $[include banner.psp]$
Hello PSP World

 $[ Response.write("Hello from PSP, %s." % (Request.server["REMOTE_ADDR"]) ) ]$
  A page like this would be installed on a PSP-aware server machine and referenced by URL from a browser. PSP uses $[ and ]$ delimiters to enclose JPython code embedded in HTML; anything outside these pairs is simply sent to the client browser, while code within these markers is executed. The first code block here is a JPython comment (note the # character); the second is an include statement that simply inserts another PSP file's contents. The third piece of embedded code is more useful. As in Active Scripting technologies, Python code embedded in HTML uses an exposed object API to interact with the execution context -- in this case, the Response object is used to write output to the client's browser (much like a print in a CGI script), and Request is used to access HTTP headers for the request. The Request object also has a params dictionary containing GET and POST input parameters, as well as a cookies dictionary holding cookie information stored on the client by a PSP application. Notice that the previous example could have just as easily been implemented with a Python CGI script using a Python print statement, but PSP's full benefit becomes clearer in large pages that embed and execute much more complex JPython code to produce a response. PSP runs as a Java servlet and requires the hosting web site to support the Java Servlet API, all of which is beyond the scope of this text. For more details about PSP, visit its web site, currently located at http://www.ciobriefings.com/psp, but search http://www.python.org for other links if this one changes over time. |
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#include <AggOOSVGShapeData.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| SVGSubPath () | |
| Status | Reset () |
| SVGSubPath & | operator= (const SVGSubPath &src) |
| size_t | GetVertexCount () const |
| Status | AddVertex (REAL x, REAL y) |
| Status | GetVertex (size_t idx, PointF *pt) const |
| Status | SetVertex (size_t idx, const PointF &pt) |
| Status | GetBoundingRect (RectF *bounds) const |
| Status | Normalize () |
| Status | Normalize (const RectF &bounds) |
Public Attributes | |
| std::vector< PointF > | mVertices |
| REAL | mNormalizationFactor |
Protected Member Functions | |
| Status | SetStatus (Status status) const |
| AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::SVGSubPath | ( | ) |
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Set the status of the pen
| Status AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::Reset | ( | ) |
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| SVGSubPath& AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::operator= | ( | const SVGSubPath & | src | ) | [inline] |
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| size_t AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::GetVertexCount | ( | ) | const [inline] |
Get the vertex count
| Status AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::AddVertex | ( | REAL | x, | |
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| ) |
Add a vertex to the shape
Set the vertex at a specified point. This requires that there be a vertex at the index, and that vertex will be replaced.
Calculate the bounding rect for the shape
| Status AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::Normalize | ( | ) |
Normalize the shape by scaling the vertices so that the shape radius is 1, and centered at 0,0.
Normalize the shape by scaling the vertices so that the shape radius is 1, and centered at 0,0.
Normalize a shape based on a bounding rect.
| bounds | Bounding rect. The shape will be centered in this rect, and scaled based on the rect's radius. |
| bounds | Bounding rect. The shape will be centered in this rect, and scaled based on the rect's radius. |
| std::vector< PointF > AggOO::svg::SVGSubPath::mVertices |
Vertices which define the path
Scale factor used to normalize the shape. This may be needed to preserve stroke width ratios.


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Everyone deserves to be happyGRACE CHISOM NWOKIKE is a graduate student at the prestigious Covenant University and a candidate for Masters degree in Environmental Chemistry. She had her Bachelor of Science degree also from Covenant University where she was selected to make a presentation on her project work in an International Conference and was awarded Best Poster Presentation. She was an ambassador of Face of Democracy Nigeria, a beauty pageant show designed to promote and encourage the Nigerian girl child and women participation in the growing democratic dispensation of Nigeria. Grace is a young lady whose vision is creating solutions to problems starting from putting smiles to people's faces in her little way to ending the world's greatest challenges at large. Her love for God is her driving force to showing love to others.
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Haruna Gideon Akamisoko is presently a student in the deparment of communication and media studies, Ajayi Crowther University, oyo. He is dedicated to improving the African society through wrinting and motivational speaking. Haruna who was part of the 16 finalist in Pat Utomi’s annual undergraduate debate competition, has a vision of touching lives through his dedicated skills, musical prowess and his gift of impacting people through motivational speaking.


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Andy, Corey and Kurt discuss Bob Brenly's departure from the Cubs. We take the opportunity to comment on all of the broadcasters. Then, we run through the players from the Cubs organization that are playing in the Arizona Fall League. We still haven't come up with an official name for our new segment. We browse through Cubs.com articles and pick out the most absurd comment. Corey finds two and Kurt finds another. Then, we look at this week's photo caption contest.
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Creative Motorist Drives ‘Coffin-Mobile’ Through Philippines
Leaving residents with their jaws on the ground, one local man opted to go out for a spin around the Philippines’ Cebu City - in a “coffin-mobile.”
According to Viral Press, the incident took place late last week on November 14. Talk about test driving a car - or a coffin - before you buy it.


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Welcome to Team Celestials!
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Hot-dogging it: Meet Dexter, the dog that can waterski and has become a local celebrity at Morgan
Is this South Australia’s most talented dog?
Chocolate labrador Dexter is a natural in the water. The six-year-old has been waterskiing on the River Murray at Morgan with his human family for four years.
Owner Kimberley Dunn says Dexter loves waterskiing so much he barks if he doesn’t get to have a turn first.
“He’s a bit of a show-off,” she said. “He loves it when the boat turns around.”
Ms Dunn, of Parafield Gardens, says her family usually take the boat out over Christmas and the canine has been swimming since he was a puppy.
Her sister and brother-in-law once took Dexter along on a biscuit (inflatable tube) and the boisterous boy hasn’t looked back since.
“My dad specially made (Dexter) a board... I said ‘he’s not going to want it by the time you finish’,” she said.
“But he loves it. He goes on shorter trips now that he’s older, but if he’s tired, he’ll hop off.”
The family filmed the labrador during river outings and made a video compilation last year.
Dexter gets a boost in a deepwater start and wears a lifejacket. He has since been given more waterski boards.
Ms Dunn said locals recognised Dexter when they were out on the river and children got excited seeing him on the board.
“I see people look twice when Dexter is out in the water … when we’re going past the shacks, people cheer,” she said.


Class DatabaseTransaction
LMDB Transaction that allows creating or opening databases. Only one of these can be active in the environment at a time.
Implements
Inherited Members
Namespace: KdSoft.Lmdb
Assembly: KdSoft.Lmdb.dll
Syntax
public class DatabaseTransaction : Transaction, IDisposable
Methods
Committed()
Called at end of commit, at this point the transaction is already closed/disposed.
Declaration
protected override void Committed()
Overrides
OpenDatabase(String, DatabaseConfiguration)
Open a database in the environment. A database handle denotes the name and parameters of a database, independently of whether such a database exists. The database handle may be discarded by calling mdb_dbi_close(). The old database handle is returned if the database was already open. The handle may only be closed once. The database handle will be private to the current transaction until the transaction is successfully committed. If the transaction is aborted the handle will be closed automatically. After a successful commit the handle will reside in the shared environment, and may be used by other transactions. This function must not be called from multiple concurrent transactions in the same process. A transaction that uses this function must finish (either commit or abort) before any other transaction in the process may use this function. To use named databases(with name != NULL), mdb_env_set_maxdbs() must be called before opening the environment. Database names are keys in the unnamed database, and may be read but not written.
Declaration
public Database OpenDatabase(string name, DatabaseConfiguration config)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| String | name | Database name. Can be |
| DatabaseConfiguration | config | Database configuration instance. |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Database | Database instance open for use. |
OpenFixedMultiValueDatabase(String, FixedMultiValueDatabaseConfiguration)
Open a fixed multi-value database in the environment. Each value must have the same size. A database handle denotes the name and parameters of a database, independently of whether such a database exists. The database handle may be discarded by calling mdb_dbi_close(). The old database handle is returned if the database was already open. The handle may only be closed once. The database handle will be private to the current transaction until the transaction is successfully committed. If the transaction is aborted the handle will be closed automatically. After a successful commit the handle will reside in the shared environment, and may be used by other transactions. This function must not be called from multiple concurrent transactions in the same process. A transaction that uses this function must finish (either commit or abort) before any other transaction in the process may use this function. To use named databases(with name != NULL), mdb_env_set_maxdbs() must be called before opening the environment. Database names are keys in the unnamed database, and may be read but not written.
Declaration
public FixedMultiValueDatabase OpenFixedMultiValueDatabase(string name, FixedMultiValueDatabaseConfiguration config)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| String | name | Database name. Can be |
| FixedMultiValueDatabaseConfiguration | config | Database configuration instance. |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| FixedMultiValueDatabase |
|
OpenMultiValueDatabase(String, MultiValueDatabaseConfiguration)
Open a multi-value database in the environment. A database handle denotes the name and parameters of a database, independently of whether such a database exists. The database handle may be discarded by calling mdb_dbi_close(). The old database handle is returned if the database was already open. The handle may only be closed once. The database handle will be private to the current transaction until the transaction is successfully committed. If the transaction is aborted the handle will be closed automatically. After a successful commit the handle will reside in the shared environment, and may be used by other transactions. This function must not be called from multiple concurrent transactions in the same process. A transaction that uses this function must finish (either commit or abort) before any other transaction in the process may use this function. To use named databases(with name != NULL), mdb_env_set_maxdbs() must be called before opening the environment. Database names are keys in the unnamed database, and may be read but not written.
Declaration
public MultiValueDatabase OpenMultiValueDatabase(string name, MultiValueDatabaseConfiguration config)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| String | name | Database name. Can be |
| MultiValueDatabaseConfiguration | config | Database configuration instance. |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| MultiValueDatabase |
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ReleaseManagedResources(Boolean)
Releases/closes managed resources - like cursors - owned by the transaction. Thread-safe. Part of Dispose() pattern.
Declaration
protected override void ReleaseManagedResources(bool forCommit = false)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Boolean | forCommit |
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The ilActiveMipmap function sets the active mipmap level.
ILboolean ilActiveMipmap(
ILuint Number);
ilActiveMipmap sets a mipmap of the image as the current mipmap. Currently, the only way to generate mipmaps is by calling iluBuildMipmaps. If neither function has been called for the current image, no mipmaps exist for it. If Number is 0, then the current base image is set.
IL_ILLEGAL_OPERATION - IL_ILLEGAL_OPERATION -
There is currently no image bound. Use ilGenImages and ilBindImage before calling this function, or
Number is too high.
IL_INTERNAL_ERROR - *Big* problem with DevIL. E-mail Denton with the conditions leading
up to the error and pray. =]
ilGenImages, ilBindImage, ilActiveImage, ilActiveLayer, iluBuildMipmaps


One killed, many wounded as DR Congo police fire on protesters
by Agency ReportOne person was killed and at least seven seriously wounded Saturday after DR Congo police opened fire on a crowd protesting deadly militant attacks in the northeastern city of Beni.
There have been a string of rallies against local forces and UN peacekeepers in Beni for failing to stop the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia from killing seven civilians on Wednesday.
“The doctor just told us that Obadi (a demonstrator) is dead. We just took his body to the morgue,” Ghislain Muhiwa Kasereka, a spokesman for the pro-democracy Lucha movement told AFP in Beni’s main hospital.
Military prosecutors also confirmed the death, adding that six or seven demonstrators and one policeman were in a critical state in hospital.
An AFP journalist said police opened fire in the heart of the city, near the hospital and the town hall.
More than 60 civilians have been massacred in the Beni region since military action against the ADF began at the start of November.
The ADF began as an Islamist rebellion hostile to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. They fell back into eastern DRC in 1995 and have recruited people of different nationalities, but appear to have halted raids inside Uganda.
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo known by its French acronym MONUSCO on Saturday said the Congolese army had launched the offensive unilaterally.
“MONUSCO cannot engage in operations in a war zone without being asked and without strict coordination with the national army,” it said in a tweet, adding that uncoordinated action could lead to friendly fire.
(AFP)


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The following grids should be 400px * 400px, except the first one which uses 'relative' positioning.


Analytics and Technical Project Management professional with 9+ years experience analyzing and interpreting data to identify strategic business initiatives, advocating for robust and resilient process, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations, and leading projects to advance the enterprise mission within healthcare, edtech, fitness technology, and non-profit industries.
Lead projects for a team of 15 data and analytics engineers alongside data scientists and analysts, that further the strategic goals of the Data Engineering team and broader Data Science department, to improve data quality, usability, and transparency, and ensure our data ecosystem is robust, resilient, flexible, and efficient. Work with matrix project teams to ensure alignment on global strategic initiatives, particularly with GRC, Finance, Accounting, Platform Engineering, Supply Chain/Field Ops/Logistics, Member Support, Retail Analytics, Marketing Analytics, and SRE.
Led rollout and orchestration of several concurrent projects with delicate interdependencies ensuring compliance with SOX testing and documentation policies and aligning stakeholders when they needed to take followup action. Simultaneous projects were:
migrate approximately 250 data pipelines from a single EC2 cron machine to Airflow,
implement an in-house snapshot process for critical ecommerce and user engagement RDS database tables and retire the legacy process which was managed by a third-party tool, and
migrate several critical and core data models into dbt (Data Build Tool).
Established the Data Science Changelog to increase transparency of DS improvement efforts that may have downstream impacts on user reporting, as a tool for stakeholders to prepare for upcoming changes, as well as engineers on call to reference when troubleshooting. A follow on New Dataset Releases publication announces new datasets that may provide insight in solving cross-functional business problems.
Leading efforts to improve protections around data privacy and compliance with national and international data protection regulations. Some efforts include:
role-based access, provisioning, and deprovisioning for Data Engineering-managed tools
data masking for PII and sensitive data and implementing 'GDPR deletion / DSAR-friendly' data ingestion processes
encryption of the Redshift cluster for additional data security
SOX control audits
publication of GDPR, CCPA, and SOX policy and process
supporting Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity planning for Data Engineering-owned business-critical tools
Implement all phases of projects driving Operational Compliance initiatives while building reliable, robust, and resilient organizational processes to support growth in alignment with domestic and international data, consumer protection, marketing, and education legislation.
Designed, implemented, trained, and managed a Jira Service Desk to support Compliance, Privacy, and Legal departments. In its first year, it routed over 1,000 requests from all departments and 3 product lines, and identified areas where additional training, documentation, and data protection was needed. The aligned service desk across the core business and two recently acquired companies served as an early example of the potential to integrate this service across business areas.
Designed an automated solution to provide university partners a pathway to comply with 2020 Department of Education regulations by engaging a matrix team including Data Science, Marketing, Email Automation, Web Production, CRO, University Services and Program Implementation.
Designed, modernized, streamlined, and expanded enterprise processes involving:
handling/processing student record information,
TCPA-compliant marketing outreach,
collection, access, and storage of sensitive information (as defined by GDPR / CCPA),
regulated disclosure notices regarding program accreditation, certification, and pathway to licensure, and
use of SMS text messaging in marketing, among others.
Developed web scraping programs to extract and document information from internal systems and marketing assets to establish a catalog of data used to expand guidance. The results of this analysis identified vulnerabilities.
Designed a formalized departmental risk register.
Steered organization-wide patient experience data strategy to accelerate achievement by 88% over 3 years, equating to additional $5.6 million increase in state incentive payments.
Planned, marketed, and executed all Council events, which, at times, attracted over 600 attendees, international and national media. Recognizing the need to update Council’s structure and expand membership,
Cum Laude
One of 5 finalists for embodying the 2U guiding principle "Strive for Excellence" among 4,500+ global employees and 800 nominations.
I love learning, and in my free time I'm often making my way through some interesting course online. My favorite platforms at the moment are Udemy and EdX. I'm currently working on the Data Engineering Masterclass using AWS Analytics Services. Previously I completed Colt Steele's Web Development Bootcamp to expand my exposure to web development, and pick up sections of the 10 course Data Science specialization through Johns Hopkins to sharpen my data science skills with R.
I also recently purchased my first Arduino starter set, and I'm looking forward to my first project - building a time-triggered self-opening container that can automatically feed my cat her daily heart medicine (tucked inside of a treat, of course!).
I'm a big podcast fan as well! Some of my favorites include:
If I'm not in front of a working or studying, I'm usually out exploring the amazing things New York has to offer, or weekending in Philadelphia, other parts of New York, or wherever I can go with a cheap plane ticket.


I was born and raised in Albany, Georgia, a small city that is about 3 hours away from the well known city of Atlanta. There isn't much to do in this small city, but the cost of living isn't that high so I guess that's one good thing about it. I do hope to move away from this city one day though. I hope I can move to a city that's bigger but also not too expensive or busy, something in the middle.
I have a real passion for music, anime and pretty much anything that is expressing the arts. I enjoy writing and I have written a couple of songs that I haven't released yet, but I plan to release them some day. I am starting to develop a love for coding the more that I do it. It makes me feel supersmart when I am able to code something successfully or troubleshoot coding successfully.
I didn't talk about anime in that last paragraph, but some of my favorites are Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Parasyte The Maxim, Assassination Classroom, and Yuu Yuu Hakusho. If you want to get into anime these are some good series to start with! Anime is the ultimate artform besides music!!


Torque + Tax Data
Deloitte Torque IntroDeloitte Workshop
01/14/15
You can find this page at:
Getting Started
Import a dataset
Today we’ll be making maps and interacting with a dataset of DC Tax lots. The original dataset is available here, DC tax lots. No need to download that though!
Today we will use a slightly cleaned up version of the dataset.
Let’s save the WIFI a bit though, instead of downloading the dataset, copy this URL (ctrl+c):
http://andrew.cartodb.com/api/v2/sql?q=SELECT%20*%20FROM%20tax_lots_m&format=geojson
After the file is imported, let’s change the name to,
dc_tax_lots
Making our first maps
Let’s take a second to tour the interface in case some of you haven’t picked up the tool in a while.
Transforming data types
Some SQL we hide for you, for example, no need to use SQL to change datatypes. But you can use SQL if you want!
Using SQL in CartoDB
CartoDB is built on PostgreSQL and gives you access to the full relational database model, plus geospatial functions based on PostGIS.
Example, calculating tax lot elevation based on DC contour lines. In this example, I’m using a second dataset from opendata.dc.gov for elevation data.
Filtering on the map**
SELECT * FROM dc_tax_lots WHERE
elevation > 50 AND elevation < 150
Updating data **
First I’ll add a new column, called elevation_b
. Next, I’ll run a relational SQL statement, that measures the elevation by finding the closest contour line in my second table (no interpolation here!).
UPDATE
dc_tax_lots
SET
elevation_b = (
SELECT
elevation
FROM
dc_20_foot_contours
ORDER BY
the_geom <-> tax_lots_m.the_geom
LIMIT 1
)
Let’s create a choropleth from the elevation column.
Transforming data type
In CartoDB, you can move between points, lines and polygons fairly easily using the PostGIS geospatial functionality. For example, you can join a group of points into a linestring. In this case, let me show you how to extract the centroid of each building so that we can use Torque to animated it.
SELECT
ST_Centroid(the_geom) the_geom, elevation, creation_d
FROM dc_tax_lots
We can capture a snapshot of this by using the options->table from query
functionality.
A quick look at Torque
Point torque
Categorical torque
Temporal bubbles
Cumulative bubbles
Method for creating the last two
CartoDB.js
Let’s all start with the same template, you can download an index.html file here,
The simplest CartoDB.js map
A map in one line of javascript
cartodb.createVis('map','http://team.cartodb.com/api/v2/viz/59428614-9c1f-11e4-be16-0e0c41326911/viz.json')
Adding to an existing Map object
First, make sure you delete the line we added above and create a leaflet map object,
var map = new L.Map('map', {
zoomControl: false,
center: [38.893, -77.03],
zoom: 13
});
Next, add a basemap. You can use one of the freely available CartoDB Basemaps
var layer = L.tileLayer('http://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/dark_nolabels/{z}/{x}/{y}.png',{
attribution: '© OpenStreetMap contributors, © CartoDB'
}).addTo(map);
The createLayer method
The createLayer method is a really powerful way to use CartoDB in your frontend applications. It allows you to add your own map object (leaflet, gmaps) and add your layers from CartoDB.
cartodb.createLayer(map, '{your-vis-json-url-here}')
.done(function(layer) {
// Do further things here
})
.addTo(map);
Add interactivity
You can add interactivity in the Editor very easily, but for maps you are creating on the fly in CartoDB.js, you can also add custom interactivity.
var lots = layer.getSubLayer(0);
lots.setInteractivity('cartodb_id, elevation');
lots.setInteraction(true);
Add custom interaction
You can use cursor events on your polygons (e.g. featureClick, featureOver, featureOut) to create your own actions on your webpage. Let’s log the Elevation value for any lot we hover over
lots.on('featureOver', function(e, pos, pixel, data) {
console.log("Elevation: " + data.elevation);
});
Map lot similarity
Let’s build a simple app that let’s you click a lot and see all lots within a 30 foot elevation envelope. We can do this by combining the click event and the ability to define a new SQL statment on our map tiles.
First, let’s construct our new SQL string from the click input,
lots.on('featureClick', function(e, pos, pixel, data) {
var newSql = "SELECT * FROM dc_tax_lots WHERE elevation >= "+(data.elevation - 30)+" AND elevation <= "+(data.elevation - 30);
console.log("SQL: " + newSql);
});
Updating layer parameters
Using the layer
object returned by createLayer, we can actually update our SQL, CartoCSS and interactivity on the fly. Let’s use setSQL to run our new statement:
lots.setSQL(newSql);
Add a button
Let’s add a simple button to reset the map. I’ve already added the HTML to the webpage, we just need to remove the class hidden
when we set the SQL filter and then wire up the button using jQuery.
$('button').removeClass('hidden');
Wire a button to a setSQL
$('button').click(function(){
$('button').addClass('hidden');
lots.setSQL("SELECT * FROM dc_tax_lots");
});