Eight U.S. home-building stocks that offer real value
by Gary ChristieWhat are we looking for?
U.S. home-builder stocks with attractive valuations in a sector that has been outperforming the broad U.S. market.
The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB-NYSE) is up 39.5 per cent year-to-date as it holds near record highs this month. Housing is strong in the United States and the market is reflecting it. Is there still value to be found in a booming home building sector?
The screen
We will be using Trading Central Strategy Builder to search for U.S. home-builder stocks that have good valuations combined with strong return on equity and low debt levels.
We begin by searching for stocks exclusively in the home building and construction sector.
We want companies with a strong return on equity ratio of 10 per cent or more to see how effective management has used invested capital to generate income. The screen will also focus on stocks with a price-to-earnings ratio lower than 14 in order to find below-average valued companies when compared with the average P/E of the S&P 500 index, which sits at around 20.
To focus on companies with low levels of debt in case interest rates start to rise again, we will also filter to include only companies with debt-to-equity ratios of one or less. The higher the ratio, the more leveraged the company is.
Finally, we require a minimum market capitalization of US$2-billion because of the greater stability and safety larger companies offer.
We have also included annual dividend yield, year-to-date and one-year return with a requirement of positive performance.
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What we found
At the top of our list is D.R. Horton Inc., a leading home builder in the United States. The company also offers home buyers mortgage financing and title agency services through its financial services segment. D.R. Horton has the largest market cap on our list at US$19.9-billion and the second-lowest debt-to-equity ratio, at 0.4. The stock has been in an up-trend since the start of the year and remains near record highs that were reached this month.
Toll Brothers Inc. is the leading luxury home builder in the United States. The stock price has rebounded from lows in November, 2018, after being in a downtrend for all of 2018. Toll Brothers has the lowest P/E ratio in our list at 8.6 per cent and an impressive return on equity of 14.8 per cent.
Trading Central Strategy Builder provides a back-testing capability to evaluate how well an investing strategy would have worked in the past. Using a five-year historical period with quarterly rebalancing, the screen described had a 15.9-per-cent annualized return compared with 8.6 per cent for the S&P 500.
The investment ideas presented below are for information only. They do not constitute advice or a recommendation by Trading Central in respect of the investment in financial instruments. Investors should conduct further research before investing.
Select U.S.-listed home builder stocks
| Rank | Company | Symbol | Mkt. Cap. (US$ Bil.) | P/E | Debt/Equity | ROE (%) | YTD Performance (%) | 1Y Performance (%) | Div. Yield (%) | Recent Price (US$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | D.R. Horton Inc. | DHI-N | 19.9 | 12.7 | 0.4 | 17.3 | 57.4 | 52 | 1.3 | 54.46 |
| 2 | NVR Inc. | NVR-N | 13.5 | 16.9 | 0.3 | 42.2 | 49.0 | 46 | n/a | 3,632.19 |
| 3 | Lennar Corp. | LEN-N | 18.4 | 9.7 | 0.6 | 13.3 | 52.6 | 40 | 0.3 | 59.53 |
| 4 | PulteGroup Inc. | PHM-N | 10.6 | 12.1 | 0.6 | 18.3 | 52.5 | 54 | 1.1 | 39.34 |
| 5 | Meritage Homes | MTH-N | 2.70 | 12.2 | 0.7 | 12.4 | 87.6 | 80 | n/a | 67.72 |
| 6 | MDC Holdings Inc. | MDC-N | 2.4 | 12.4 | 0.7 | 12.3 | 51.0 | 47 | 3.1 | 38.78 |
| 7 | Toll Brothers Inc. | TOL-N | 5.6 | 8.6 | 0.8 | 14.8 | 21.5 | 23 | 1.1 | 39.69 |
| 8 | KB Home | KBH-N | 3.1 | 13.9 | 0.8 | 11.3 | 83.0 | 72 | 1.0 | 34.68 |
| Source: Trading Central |
Gary Christie is head of North American research at Trading Central in Ottawa.
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I have had some experience with psychedelics before. I've tried LSD and DXM. The OTC drugs have a special appeal for me, as others are a little hard to procure in my uppity hometown.
I had heard from a friend that I could trip from taking a box of Dramamine and the thought stuck in my head. A week or two later, a group of friends and I were going out bowling and I decided, 'Hey, why not?'
It started in on me about an hour and a half later, as I and a couple of friends (in one of their houses) were waiting for the rest of the group. I couldn't help myself, I became so totally exhausted that my head just fell onto my knees and I was only partly conscious. You know that half awake state you're in if you're awakened in the middle of the night and have no idea what's going on? Yeah, that one. Well, to me, it felt like hours, but it was only twenty minutes that I stayed like that. When it was time to leave, my friends rousted me and got me up.
I couldn't walk.
My sense of balance had just gone out the window. It was like being really drunk, except that my mind was shut down, not clouded as with alcohol. There was a black wall between me and reality. Somehow they managed to get me to the bowling alley (I quickly learned how to cope with the world's gravity not going downwards anymore).  I don't think I ever saw one of them hit the pins...they just disappeared. There was a blackness all around me. My field of vision was extremely small and I had no peripheral vision.
Later, about three hours after ingestion, we went to a restaurant for some food. There, I saw somebody that wasn't there. I even talked to him, but nobody seemed to notice (later I learned that everybody was wondering who in the hell I was talking to). My big problem with dimenhydrinate is that it doesn't allow me to understand the difference between a hallucination and reality. I would swear on a bible that there was another person sitting at that table, but there wasn't.
After that, I remember almost nothing. Bits and pieces of a car ride home, talking to my parents (and being amazed that they didn't notice anything), and crashing in a VERY comfortable bed. Of course, anything would have been very comfortable because I was SO DEAD TIRED!
So, my basic ideas of dimenhydrinate are these:
It's too hard to stay awake.
It's too dangerous in that I don't know the difference between illusions and reality.
It messes with my memory.
AND IT'S NOT WORTH IT!
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Winnipeg teen who encouraged thousands to vote, dies after battle with cancer
by Danton Unger, CTV News WinnipegWINNIPEG – The Winnipeg teen who – during her fight with terminal cancer – challenged thousands of Canadians everywhere to vote, has died.
The family of 18-year-old Maddison Yetman announced on Twitter Sunday morning that Yetman had died after a battle with cancer.
The University of Winnipeg student grabbed the attention of the country when – four days after being diagnosed with terminal cancer – she posted a video urging Canadians to vote. Sitting in her hospital bed, Yetman said she was able to cast her first-ever vote in the 43rd federal election.
She challenged Canadians asking them “what’s your excuse?”
The video went viral.
READ MORE: Terminally ill teen urges Canadians to vote after casting her first ballot
“Maddison passed away yesterday afternoon after a short but courageous battle with cancer,” a post on Yetman’s Twitter account read Sunday morning. “She ask that we thank everyone who sent messages of support and love.”
The post went on to ask, in lieu of flowers, that people make a donation to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.


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public static final int |
ALIGNED_WITH_DIAMONDS |
2 |
public static final int |
ALIGNED_WITH_ITSELF |
4 |
public static final int |
ALIGNED_WITH_NOBODY |
0 |
public static final int |
ALIGNED_WITH_PLAYERS |
1 |
public static final int |
ALIGNED_WITH_REBELS |
3 |
public static final int |
BASIC_BLACK |
15 |
public static final int |
BASIC_BLUE |
11 |
public static final int |
BASIC_BROWN |
12 |
public static final int |
BASIC_CYAN |
9 |
public static final int |
BASIC_GRAY |
7 |
public static final int |
BASIC_GREEN |
13 |
public static final int |
BASIC_LIGHTBLUE |
3 |
public static final int |
BASIC_LIME |
5 |
public static final int |
BASIC_MAGENTA |
2 |
public static final int |
BASIC_ORANGE |
1 |
public static final int |
BASIC_PINK |
6 |
public static final int |
BASIC_PURPLE |
10 |
public static final int |
BASIC_RED |
14 |
public static final int |
BASIC_SILVER |
8 |
public static final int |
BASIC_WHITE |
0 |
public static final int |
BASIC_YELLOW |
4 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_BLACK |
0 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_BLUE |
4 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_BROWN |
3 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_CYAN |
6 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_GRAY |
8 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_GREEN |
2 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_LIGHTBLUE |
12 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_LIME |
10 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_MAGENTA |
13 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_ORANGE |
14 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_PINK |
9 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_PURPLE |
5 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_RED |
1 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_SILVER |
7 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_WHITE |
15 |
public static final int |
BLOCK_YELLOW |
11 |
public static final int |
CONTROLLED_BY_WHITE |
5 |
public static final int |
CONTROLLED_BY_WHITE_BUT_ALIGNED_WITH_DIAMONDS |
7 |
public static final int |
CONTROLLED_BY_WHITE_BUT_ALIGNED_WITH_ITSELF |
9 |
public static final int |
CONTROLLED_BY_WHITE_BUT_ALIGNED_WITH_PLAYERS |
6 |
public static final int |
CONTROLLED_BY_WHITE_BUT_ALIGNED_WITH_REBELS |
8 |
public static final float |
EMOTION_ANGER |
0.875f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_DOUBT |
0.25f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_DREAD |
0.0f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_GRIEF |
0.125f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_HAPPY |
0.625f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_HYPED |
0.5f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_LIMIT |
1.0f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_PRIDE |
0.75f |
public static final float |
EMOTION_SHAME |
0.375f |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_BACK |
10 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_BACK_OF_HEAD |
1 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_CHEST |
9 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_FOREHEAD |
0 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_LEFT_EYE |
3 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_LEFT_FOOT |
17 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_LEFT_HAND |
8 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_LEFT_KNEE |
15 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_LEFT_SHOULDER |
6 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_LEFT_THIGH |
13 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_NAVEL |
11 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_NOSE |
4 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_RIGHT_EYE |
2 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_RIGHT_FOOT |
16 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_RIGHT_HAND |
7 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_RIGHT_KNEE |
14 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_RIGHT_SHOULDER |
5 |
public static final int |
GEMSTONE_RIGHT_THIGH |
12 |


Quick-start: Consuming the ZptSharp API
This guide is for those who wish to use ZptSharp within their own application. The guide assumes that you are using .NET Core (or .NET 5+). These steps may be followed with only a few differences for an app written with .NET Framework.
Create a project to consume the API
In this tutorial, we will be creating a command-line app project. This makes it easy to run & test without any other assumptions or dependencies. Once you have followed this guide, you are encouraged to adapt these instructions to your own intended usage. Further information is available in the more detailled reference documentation for consuming ZptSharp as an API.
To begin with a new/empty project, use the following command:
dotnet new console -o ZptSharpConsumer
Install ZptSharp packages
To install a minimal set of ZptSharp packages, use the following commands:
dotnet add ZptSharpConsumer\ZptSharpConsumer.csproj package ZptSharp
dotnet add ZptSharpConsumer\ZptSharpConsumer.csproj package ZptSharp.HtmlAgilityPack
Set up Generic Host
.NET Generic Host is an easy way to set up/scaffold an application, we will be using that here. Install the generic host package using the following command:
dotnet add ZptSharpConsumer\ZptSharpConsumer.csproj package Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting
Now, we add the basic structure of generic host to the app.
Open and modify the Program.cs
file in the new project, so that the class now looks like the following (the code is based upon this example):
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
CreateHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
}
public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
.ConfigureServices((hostContext, services) =>
{
services
.AddZptSharp()
.AddStandardZptExpressions()
.AddHapZptDocuments();
});
}
Create a class to consume ZptSharp
Create a new class named Application
- this class should look like the following:
public class Application : IHostedService
{
public async Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
Console.WriteLine("The app is starting.");
}
public Task StopAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken) => Task.CompletedTask;
}
This class needs to be added to the Generic Host builder too, so that it is started-up.
Add the following to the ConfigureServices
callback within Program.cs
.
It may go either before or after the AddZptSharp
line, it does not matter.
services.AddHostedService<Application>();
You may run the app if you wish, at this point, using the following command. You should see the message "The app is starting." logged to the console.
dotnet run --project ZptSharpConsumer
Create a document template file
Create a new text file in a path of your choosing, named template.pt
and set its content to the following:

<title>ZptSharp 'Hello world' example</title>

Example API usage

The greeting message appears here.

Add code to render the document using a model
We are now ready to add the logic which shall use ZptSharp to render our HTML. For simplicity, we will output to the console.
In the Application
class, we shall make use of the dependency injection set up within Generic Host and constructor-inject two ZptSharp services.
These services are IRendersZptFile
& IWritesStreamToTextWriter
.
Constructor injection is a fairly common pattern, but in case you are unfamiliar, refer to this code sample below (only the constructor and two new fields are shown, the rest of the class is omitted).
readonly IRendersZptFile fileRenderer;
readonly IWritesStreamToTextWriter streamCopier;
public Application(IRendersZptFile fileRenderer, IWritesStreamToTextWriter streamCopier)
{
this.fileRenderer = fileRenderer ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(fileRenderer));
this.streamCopier = streamCopier ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(streamCopier));
}
Now, we may write the real content of the StartAsync
method:
public async Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
var stream = await<EMAIL_ADDRESS>new { Message = "Hello World!" });
await streamCopier.WriteToTextWriterAsync(stream, Console.Out);
}
In this sample, replace "path\to\template.pt"
with the actual file path to the template.pt
file.
Try it out
Run the application using:
dotnet run --project ZptSharpConsumer
You are expecting to see some HTML output, showing the rendered template, with values substituted using the model.
Continue learning in the tutorial
You have now completed the quick-start for consuming the ZptSharp API!
To continue learning about ZptSharp, please follow the ZptSharp tutorial, which teaches the ZPT language.
Throughout the tutorial, changes to the model are performed by altering the second parameter passed to RenderAsync
.
If this becomes cumbersome, feel free to separate the creation of the model into a separate private method.


count()
operation that
could be optimized.
The following call chains are replaced by this inspection:
Collection.stream().count()
→ Collection.size()
. In Java 8 Collection.stream().count()
actually iterates over the collection elements to count them, while Collection.size()
is much faster for most of the collections.Stream.flatMap(Collection::stream).count()
→ Stream.mapToLong(Collection::size).sum()
. Similarly,
there's no need to iterate over all the nested collections. Instead, their sizes could be summed up.Stream.filter(o -> ...).count() > 0
→ Stream.anyMatch(o -> ...)
. Unlike the original call,
anyMatch()
may stop the computation as soon as a matching element is found.Stream.filter(o -> ...).count() == 0
→ Stream.noneMatch(o -> ...)
. Similar to the above.
Note that if the replacement involves a short-circuiting operation like anyMatch()
, there could be a visible behavior change,
if the intermediate stream operations produce side effects. In general, side effects should be avoided in Stream API calls.


Our web app is for anyone who is looking for a new hair stylist. We know that whenever you move to a new neighborhood, it takes quite a while to find a stylist who knows your hair and cuts it the way you like. Yelp has reviews of entire hair salons but never individual stlyists, which is where our app comes into play.
There are two main pages for this website: a search page that provides a list view of different stylists, and profile pages of individual sylists. In the prototyping stage, Stephen created a map page, Adela created the list page, and Yasmeen created the individual profile pages. In implementation, Stephen created the Search Results page, Adela created the Review option on stylists' profiles, and Yasmeen created the Profile page.
On the search page, users will be able to filter through stylists according to their needs and the distance they are from them. Each list item contains a preview of the stylist's work, and clicking on the item leads to their profile page.


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NCP pulling out all the stops to bring Ajit Pawar back
by Staff ReporterDespite his revolt against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar and his being sworn in as Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister, along with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister, the NCP has yet not given up its attempts to bring Ajit Pawar back to the party.
NCP’s senior leader Chhagan Bhujbal, State unit president Jayant Patil and senior leader Dilip Walse-Patil held a meeting for over four hours with Mr. Ajit Pawar at Vidhan Bhavan to convince him. After the meeting, speaking to reporters, Mr. Bhujbal said, “The talks were positive. We have informed him that the party will welcome him and he too should come back to the party of which he was the founding member.”
Interestingly, even as Mr. Fadnavis assumed charge as CM on Monday and held a meeting with officials, Mr. Ajit Pawar is yet to take the reins of his office. BJP sources informed that since the portfolio distribution has not been made, Mr. Pawar did not assume his duties as deputy CM is not a constitutional post.
Meanwhile, all but two of the 54 NCP MLAs have returned to the party.
“Anna Bansode of Pimpri and Ajit Pawar are the only two MLAs who are not with us at present. But I am sure that both will soon return to the NCP,”said Mr. Patil.


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What Dreams May Come (1998)
Director: Vincent Ward Cast: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow Screenplay: Ron Bass Producers: Barnet Bain, Stephen Simon Runtime: 108 min. US Distribution: PolyGram Rated PG-13: thematic elements, disturbing images/language
By Nathaniel R. Atcheson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>I've seen films that deal with death and afterlife, but I don't think I've seen any that conquer the subject with such unrelenting determination as Vincent Ward's What Dreams May Come. It's so refreshing to see a Hollywood production that succeeds by ignoring all the standard conventions and cliches of the genre. This film is profound and deeply interesting -- it handles disturbing subjects with unflinching sincerity. And though it has its roots in many other works -- from Dante's Inferno all the way up to the films of Bergman -- it still manages originality and uniqueness.
But these aren't the elements that will stick with you, for What Dreams May Come is one of the most visually astounding films I've ever seen. It's a wealth of truly beautiful sets and special effects, seamless and visionary images of things that can't exist in our world. That's what makes this such a memorable film experience -- it takes you places you have never been, and shows you things you can't see anywhere else. In a time when most films don't exhibit the even lowest degree of creativity, here is a film that registers as art and serves its purpose both in sensation and perception.
At the same time, however, the film's flaws are almost as obvious as its virtues. It suffers from a terribly disjointed narrative -- the chronology is difficult to understand, and there's not always a strong sense of momentum. As a whole, the film may not have you feeling absorbed as much as you may feel trapped -- at times, it's so visually arresting that it seems like you're living the nightmare. This is a positive attribute to a point, but this film comes inches away from being intolerably depressing. I'll elaborate on all this later.
The film stars Robin Williams as Chris Neilsen, a doctor who, at the beginning of the film, meets his true love, Annie (Annabella Sciorra). They get married and have two children, Ian (Josh Paddock) and Marie (Jessica Brooks). The family is shattered one day when the kids are killed in a car accident. The film then jumps ahead four years, when Chris, too, is killed in another car accident, leaving Annie without anyone in her life.
Chris suddenly finds himself watching over Annie as she grieves for him. His status is explained to him by a guide named Albert (Cuba Gooding, Jr.). Soon, Chris allows himself to proceed into Heaven, where his world is created with the paint that his wife used to paint the pictures he loved when he was alive. Soon, however, it turns out Annie's soul is in trouble, and Chris must journey through the afterlife to find and save her.
I've left a lot out, and that's because there are many subplots, and many flashbacks that show small portions of Chris' and Annie's life before and after their kids get killed. Because it deals with such morose themes, What Dreams May Come is inescapably dark, even in the bright and wonderfully colorful world that Chris first creates for himself. There's always an underlying sense of malaise and frustration, an element that makes us feel like nothing is ever right, even when the characters seem at least momentarily placated.
The biggest problem with the film, however, is the lack of fluency in the narrative. This isn't Ward's fault -- in fact, it's hard to say if there is any one person at fault. The way the film is constructed lends itself to this kind of storytelling technique -- flashbacks and the like -- and, since it explains a world with which none of us are familiar, it's necessary for Chris to have a guide to explain him everything (Dante had Virgil, didn't he?). I don't mind that this explanation is necessary, but the first forty-five minutes of the film are spent watching Chris reject his placement in Heaven. Then, all the way up until the end, the film exists on two timelines -- one in the present tense, showing Chris on his journey, and the other showing Chris and his family when they were alive.
And, if you stop and think about it, it's all pretty absurd. Ron Bass' script isn't bad; the characterizations are solid, and the themes are well-established. But, on a technical level, it seems a bit sloppy: I could poke holes through its logic all day, although I'm not sure where that would get me. In addition, the film isn't as moving as I was expecting; I cared about the characters and their respective fates, but none of the dramatic elements in the film really took hold of me the way I was hoping they would.
Okay, so it has some big problems. Overall, though, What Dreams May Come is a satisfying picture, even if it misses a few opportunities for sound logic and effective drama. Vincent Ward is a truly gifted artist, and this film is proof of my statement: there are moments in What Dreams May Come that are literally breathtaking, moments that are so visually immersive that you won't even be able to blink, let alone look away from the screen. There are little things that Ward repeatedly uses that add depth to the scenery -- lots of running water and reflections, concrete stairways, walls that stretch up to seemingly infinite heights. It's the kind of imaginative world that we so rarely get to see in films.
The acting is superb; Williams, who is often a difficult man for me to watch, is wonderful here (although a bit heavy on the pathos). Gooding, Jr. is a demanding screen presence, and is very good in the role of the Explainer. Max von Sydow, who plays another guide whom Chris meets halfway into his journey, is perfect for his role. Most interesting, however, is Annabella Sciorra, who delivers her best performance (and, hopefully, her breakthrough role) as Annie. Sciorra's work is complex and shaded both emotionally and physically; she spends a lot of the film crying, but she manages to make what could have been a token part into a real character.
As flawed as it is, I have to recommend What Dreams May Come enthusiastically, simply because it really is an effective film. True, it could have been much better, and maybe it goes a bit overboard in its attempts to make us feel bad for the characters, but I can't think of a film in recent history that is more visually amazing. Vincent Ward has created a film so beautifully original that I doubt it could be ignored or forgotten by anyone who sees it. It's also a film that latches to its themes and pursuits with admirable dignity and persistence, and at least partially succeeds. Nowadays, it's nice to see anything that qualifies as art, but something done with as much conviction as this is a film to be cherished, in spite of its flaws.
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Over the years, Hacker News has developed somewhat of a reputation for saltiness. Where culinary experts once sang the praises of the site's bold, forward-thinking approach, they now hold it accountable for the rise of heart disease.
λ-Saltinator seeks to playfully evaluate this tendency using natural language processing and machine learning techniques to rank "saltiness". Who will take the sodium throne?
Our team is made up of a multidisciplinary group of students at Lambda School - half of our team comes from the Data Science program and the other half from the Full Stack Web Development program.


# The Level Class
The Level class is a fluent interface to handle game scenes. This class has important tools to build game scenes with less code and compatible with the game internal mechanics.
Let's see some of these tools below:
## 1 - Colliders
Creating colliders that execute codes when intersects with other meshes can take a lot of code. Then we created these methods to help with it:
**addCollider(name, options)** - Adds a collider to the current scene. You can see usage examples inside the **TilesGenerator.js** class
**disposeColliders()** - Disposes all scene colliders
Usage example:
```
let colliderOptions = {
width: 100,
height: 100,
visible: false,
disposeAfterCollision: true,
collisionMesh: this.player.getMesh(),
positionZ: 10,
};
// Will execute this code when collide with this.player.mesh
colliderOptions.onCollide = function() {
console.log('will delete old tile colliders')
}
this.level.addCollider('deleteOldTilesCollider', colliderOptions);
```
## 2 - Materials Repository
To add BabylonJS materials and use in any part of the level (reducing material duplication), you can use these methods:
**addMaterial(material)** - Adds a material to the Materials Repository
**getMaterial(materialName)** - Gets the material from Repository by name
**removeMaterial(materialName)** - Removes a material from Materials Repository
## 3 - Value Interpolation
Sometimes it is necessary to smoothly interpolate values in the scene (for example, if I need to move an object to another place in 2 seconds, or change the object scale in 200 ms, etc).
With BabylonJS you can do it using [Actions](https://doc.babylonjs.com/how_to/how_to_use_actions), but we added the simplest method to do interpolations and execute code after the interpolation ends, if necessary:
```
/**
* Interpolate a value inside the Level Scene using the BABYLON Action Manager
* @param {*} target The target object
* @param {*} property The property in the object to interpolate
* @param {*} toValue The final value of interpolation
* @param {*} duration The interpolation duration in milliseconds
* @param {*} afterExecutionCallback Callback executed after ther interpolation ends
*/
interpolate(target, property, toValue, duration, afterExecutionCallback = null)
```
Usage example:
```
// Interpolates the player mesh height to 1.5 in 200 ms and then
// shows a message in the console
this.level.interpolate(this.mesh.scale, 'y', 1.5, 200, function() {
console.log('Interpolation finished');
});
```
## 4 - Assets Database
We added a simple way to load assets to the Level scene. To load assets before the scene starts rendering, put the code inside the method **setupAssets** on your Level class, as we made on **RunnerLevel.js**:
```
setupAssets() {
this.assets.addMusic('music', '/assets/musics/Guitar-Mayhem.mp3'); // Musics are sounds with autoplay and looping by default
this.assets.addSound('playerDieSound', '/assets/sounds/game-die.mp3', { volume: 0.4 });
}
```
Each of these loaded assets returns a [BabylonJS correspondent asset](https://doc.babylonjs.com/how_to/how_to_use_assetsmanager), then you can attach it to a property and reuse it on other places of your code:
```
setupPlayer() {
this.dieSound = this.level.assets.getSound('playerDieSound');
//...
}
// Then...
this.dieSound.play();
```
You can inspect all the Assets Database features inside the **AssetsDatabase.j** class.


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Capsule: Billy Crystal is trying to make his own WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. He stars, directs, co- writes, and produces a somewhat lackluster tale of a romantic relationship evolving over four years. Only occasionally is the film as funny as it wants to be, and neither Crystal nor Debra Winger are as appealing as the film counts on them as being. Rating: 0 (-4 to +4)
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The story covers something like four years in the relationship of a couple including some hard times. One would expect a little bit of aging, but the only real difference we see in Mickey and Ellen is that there is a lot less chemistry between them at the end than there was at the beginning. The relationship undergoes a number of predictable strains including secrets from their past lives, irritation family members, jobs that are incompatible, jobs that put the characters under stress to make life-style changes, and each person just plain not liking the other's life-style. Each situation is played for comic effect and none is as endearing as the character Liz seems to think it is.
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Order of status effects?
Posted:
Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:23 pm
by Karl G.
Hey guys,
Does anyone remember the complete order of status effects across the bottom of the screen in Xen?
Thanks,
Karl
Posted:
Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:51 pm
by Necromadon
Order of SOME
Tueri then Velocitas then Nocte Visus then STUP then BATTLE SCROLL/ VIS BARITUS SCROLL then RED POT/ HIT AMMY then Magnus Robur then Extrudere[vis robur tueri]
That's all I know.
Posted:
Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:25 am
by Karl G.
Do you happen to remember where poison falls in there?
Posted:
Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:02 pm
by Vitriol
Karl G. wrote:Do you happen to remember where poison falls in there?
positive effects should go in bottom left corner of the screen.
negative effects should go just above that.
I mean, I think its a good idea to seperate them.
Posted:
Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:06 pm
by kuba
^^ for sure. It'd also be nice to be able to scroll over the charge to see what it does and what level it is.
Posted:
Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:08 pm
by Vitriol
kuba wrote:^^ for sure. It'd also be nice to be able to scroll over the charge to see what it does and what level it is.
excellent idea.
Posted:
Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:53 pm
by Karl G.
Okay those are both good ideas, but keep in mind that step 1 is to emulate Xenimus, step 2 is to modify it to make it better. If I start modifying everything from the start, what we end up with might not be enough like old Xen to be fun.
Posted:
Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:13 pm
by Necromadon
I think poisen fell right before stup.
Posted:
Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:02 pm
by kuba
Okay those are both good ideas, but keep in mind that step 1 is to emulate Xenimus, step 2 is to modify it to make it better. If I start modifying everything from the start, what we end up with might not be enough like old Xen to be fun.
sure, i just thought it might be a good idea to get it out of the way from the get go but its a minor detail. at some point or another however it'd be nice to see what strength velocitas or defense charge is casted on us.
Posted:
Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:28 pm
by logitech
poison was always far right


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Project - NetFlow
Type - User Friendly Platform for Digital Exams and Assessments
Description
NetFlow is a digital exam platform that handles the flow of student exams and management of the assessment process. It has three main user roles: Administrator, Student and Teacher. Administrator is authorized to perform a CRUD operations on the users. Student can register and login to their account. Student can view and sign up for desired educational courses. Student will be able to upload his assignment as a .pdf or .zip file up till 10MB. Teacher is authorized to create courses and conducting assessment of the student assignments. A search dialog at the Layout page allows the user to search for specific course or post. The main implementation technologies used for the project are : Visual Studio Community Edition 2019, ASP.NET MVC CORE 2.2, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, AutoMapper, Razor, GitHub, Bootstrap 4, HTML & CSS.
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User
- Id (string)
- First Name (string)
- Last Name (string)
- Username (string)
- Password (string)
- Email (string)
- Phone Number (string)
- Post (Collection of Posts)
- Course (Collection of Courses)
- Comment (Collection of Comments)
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- Id (string)
- Name (string)
- Description (string)
- Credit (int)
- StartDate (datetime)
- EndDate (dateTime)
- Students (Collection of Students)
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- StudentId (User)
- CourseId (Course)
- Grade (enum)
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- Description (string)
- CreatedDate (dateTime)
- User (User)
- Comments (list of Comment)
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- Id (string)
- Content (string)
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Yes. You already know it. Cryptocurrencies like BitCoin, Etherium, Ripple and so many has taken full attention of all key financial stakeholders
When it comes to Banking fees, you know it's too much and way too expensive for international Transactions. We can avoid that actually..
Yes !!. You can start with : BAT (Basic Attention Token), which is a great Crypto Currency with a good purpose, via the Brave web browser. So simple & promising !!
Hi !! If you are reading on this web-site, it means you are looking for ways to earn some crypto money, without going through the difficulties of using any credit/debit cards. You just want to see whether there’s any way to earn some cryptocurrency without any initial spending of money. I know because this was my mind-set when I was looking for such thing. Trust me, I know. And the good news is : There’s a great way of doing that !!!
HOW ?
Ok, I will quickly tell you the Steps to follow. Within the next 5-10 minutes, you will know it and definitely you are going to thank me for sharing this. Here We Go !!! First you have to download the Brave browser. Brave is a a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. It’s a lot like Chrome browser. So when you install Brave, you can simply enable ‘Brave Rewards’. Once you enable Brave Rewards, you starts to get BAT (Basic Attention Tokens) to your account, based on your browsing and ad clicking on the browser. You can totally control how many ads per minute and the max value is 5 /min.
The above is a snap-shot of my personal Brave rewards, which I started to do a few days ago. I have just clicked a very few ads here and there while doing my work and Boom, I’m an owner of few Cryptocurrency (BAT) equivalent to some $. Each month we get the BAT amount into our wallet. The great thing is Brave points (BAT) can be added to an Uphold account (https://uphold.com) and then we can convert it to any supported Cryptocurrency as well, other than BAT or even withdraw money as $. You can convert them to Bitcoins, Ethereum, etc…
Soooo, Start doing this and you will get some BAT (crypto) for yourselves without even knowing it. See, so simple !! You can even transfer your account with Seed phrases if needed. But keeping things simple, you can keep your BAT (money) and transfer to Uphold wallet whenever you need. Then you can play around with converting to other coins and vice versa.
So, that’s it for today. Hope you start earning your coins today and maintain an E-wallet instyle, without spending any money other than a little bit of your browser time. Cheers & see you with more cool stuff again !!!!


EastEnders star Jake Wood saves a dying chicken with Piers Morgan's face
EastEnders star Jake Wood has revealed that he and his wife Alison have adoped some battery hens – with one of them being named after Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan. Alison shared video footage on Twitter ofthe rescued chickens and one of them was brought back from the brink of death as they heated it with hairdryers.
Speaking to Piers on Good Morning Britain, the Max Branning star – who also presents wildly popular podcast Pound For Pound – said: ‘We’ve adopted some chickens, who are battery hen chickens.
‘They don’t have many feathers because they’ve been living inside. We had a tragedy yesterday. We lost one of the chickens. The other two are not very well, so we’ve taken them indoors.’
Using a hairdryer shaped like the face of Piers Morgan, Jake managed to save the chicken and has now honoured the presenter by naming the chicken after him. It’s enough to bring a tear to the eye!
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He added: ‘They needed heating up so we used the Morgan 3000, and now they’ve both come back to life. That one is now called Piers.’
Jake and Alison have been sharing their work saving the battery hens and giving them a better life via heartwarming social media videos.
The star also teased what’s in store for the show’s 35th anniversary in a recent interview with Metro.co.uk, enthusing: ‘I think what Kate has done has really upped the game and really brought us to the top — and as far as I can see it’s going to continue, the scripts we’re getting are just amazing, I know what the plans are for the 35th— they’re going to be some of the most exciting scenes we’ve ever done.
‘I’m really looking forward to it!’
The 35th anniversary episodes will take place in February – but we have an explosive Christmas to get through yet!


Provides robust tests for testing in GLMs, by sign-flipping score contributions. The tests are often robust against overdispersion, heteroscedasticity and, in some cases, ignored nuisance variables. See Hemerik and Goeman (2017) <doi:10.1007/s11749-017-0571-1>.
| Version: | 0.2 |
| Imports: | stats, methods |
| Published: | 2018-09-12 |
| Author: | Jesse Hemerik, Jelle Goeman and Livio Finos |
| Maintainer: | Jesse Hemerik <j.b.a.hemerik at lumc.nl> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GNU General Public License] |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
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Mufti Taqi Usmani urges Muslim nations to raise issue of Holy Quran's desecration globally | Pakistan - Geo.tv
by Web DeskRenowned religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani on Friday urged Muslim nations to raise at international level the issue of the recent desecration of the Holy Quran in Norway, and called for the release of the Muslim man who had tried to stop the act in the Scandinavian country.
Mufti Usmani, in a Twitter post, said that the West, who lectures the Muslim fraternity on tolerance, has reached the nadir of cowardice by holding rallies to desecrate the Holy Quran.
The scholar praised Ilyas, the Muslim man who stopped the desecration, but deplored that neither any media nor any Muslim country — with the exception of Turkey — took notice.
Usmani said that that it is the duty of the Muslim countries to raise the issue globally and work to ensure that Ilyas is freed.
Social media was set ablaze with praises on Friday for the "Muslim hero" who interrupted an anti-Islam rally to stop another man from burning a copy of the Holy Quran in Norway.
A scuffle broke out after the leader of the 'Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN)' rally, Lars Thorsen, tried to burn a copy of the holy book in the city of Kristiansand despite warnings from local police officials.
In a video on social media, the 'Muslim hero' could be seen jumping into the barricaded circle to save the holy book from being desecrated. The rally soon turned violent, after which police took Ilyas and Thorsen into custody.


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In this tutorial we are going to take an existing ObjC application and add Python and PyObjC to it. One of the reasons why you may want to do this is because some things are much simpler in Python than in ObjC, mainly due to the rich library Python has.
To follow the tutorial you need:
- PyObjC 1.3.1
- py2app 0.2 or later (included in the binary installer for PyObjC)
- Python 2.3 or later (note: PyObjC is NOT compatible with MacPython-OS9)
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
- Xcode Tools
If you do not have a /Developer folder, then you do not have Xcode Tools installed. See Getting the Xcode Tools.
The application we are going to modify is Apple’s SimpleComboBox example. This example shows you how to use combo boxes, but that is not what interests us right now: the application pretends to be a database application that allows you to keep notes (such as track list) for your CD collection. With such an application it feels silly that even though you want to type notes on the CD you are currently playing in iTunes you still have to retype album title, artist and genre. This is what we are going to fix: we are going to add a button “ask iTunes”, which will use Python’s AppleScript support to ask iTunes about the currently playing track and fill in the fields for you.
Follow these steps:
Note
Before you start, download the reference source package for this tutorial.
From this point on, all shell commands take place from this SimpleComboBoxPlus folder.
Open it in Xcode, build it, and see what it does.
Open CDInfoDocument.nib. Select the Class View, NSObject, subclass as ITunesCommunication. Give the class an askITunes: action. Instantiate the class as object ITunesCommunication. This wll be the class that we write in Python.
Go to the object view again, open the Window.
Move the text box down a bit to make space, add a button “ask iTunes”.
Connect this button to the askITunes: action of the ITunesCommunication object.
We now need to write the code implementing the ITunesCommunication class. As this tutorial is about using PyObjC in existing ObjC programs and not about PyObjC itself, we are going to skip writing the code and simply copy ITunesCommunication_1.py to ITunesCommunication.py.
Now we need to create the build script for our plugin, create a file named setup.py with the following contents:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2app
setup(
plugin = ['ITunesCommunication.py']
)
You may also copy this file from setup.py.
Run the setup script to create a temporary plugin bundle for development:
Note that we use the -A argument to create an alias plugin bundle at dist/ITunesCommunication.py. Alias bundles contain an alias to the main script (ITunesCommunication.py) and symlinks to the data files (none in this case). This allows us to keep working on the source files without having to rebuild the application. This alias bundle is similar to a ZeroLink executable in Xcode - it is for DEVELOPMENT ONLY, and will not work on other machines.
Add dist/ITunesCommunication.plugin to the Resources folder in your Xcode project. You can do this by ctrl-clicking the Resources folder and choosing “Add Existing Files...”. Make sure to choose “Create Folder References for any added folders”.
Open main.m, it is in the “Other Sources” folder in your Xcode project, and change the main(...) function to the following:
int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString *pluginPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle]
pathForResource:@"ITunesCommunication"
ofType:@"plugin"];
NSBundle *pluginBundle = [NSBundle bundleWithPath:pluginPath];
[pluginBundle load];
[pool release];
return NSApplicationMain(argc, argv);
}
You may also copy a full main.m from main.m. This code ensures that our ITunesCommunication plugin is loaded before the nib files.
Build and run. When you press the “Ask iTunes” the “CD Title” and “Band Name” fields will be filled with one of the best albums of the last few years :-)
Now we need to make the program talk to iTunes. The current MacPython interface to the Open Scripting Architecture requires an extra step when compared to AppleScript: you need to manually generate a Python package that wraps all the AppleScript terminology for an application. To make matters more complicated iTunes is one of those special cases where the standard way to generate this package (start the application, ask it for its terminology) does not work, so we have to actually look into the bowels of iTunes.app. This leads to the following hefty command line which you should run in the SimpleComboBoxPlus directory:
$ cd SimpleComboBoxPlus
$ pythonw -c "from gensuitemodule import main;main()" \
--output iTunes --creator hook --resource \
/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunes.rsrc
Finally, add the code to ITunesCommunication.py to actually communicate with iTunes. We cop out and copy it from ITunesCommunication_2.py.
Build and run. If you press the button when iTunes is playing the Title and Band names will be filled, otherwise they will be cleared. In a real application you would disable the “Ask iTunes” button unless iTunes was active. All that is left as an exercise to the reader.
To make this application redistributable, perform the following commands to make the plugin redistributable:
$ rm -rf dist
$ python setup.py py2app
Then, from Xcode, clean your project (shift-cmd-K), switch to Deployment mode, and rebuild.
There a several projects that improve upon the built-in AppleScript support (or to be more precise “application scripting support”). One of those is AppScript.
When you have this module installed you can replace the contents of ITunesCommuncation.py with ITunesCommunication_AppScript.py, and you can skip step 13 entirely.


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My experience with Realy is absolutely positive. The themes are beautifully designed and well documented. Realy theme provides quick support.


To speed up the simulation, click Warp=10.
These circles are each controlled by their own neural network that tells them how to move, attack and change color. Circles that survive long enough get to be the template for the new creatures constantly being added to the board. These new creatures have the parameters of their network mutated slightly, which could either help them or harm them.
The creatures all have a type, shown by the colored circle around them. Food nodes are shown with a white circle instead of a colored one, and always look white. Changing away from the true color costs a small amount of energy. Creatures can only eat those with a different type, which encourages them to form teams. Each type has a separate genome, so they have to change how they act in response to the others.
Creatures see creatures near them by their color. There are 4 sensors on them, and the sum of each color component within their range is provided to the creature. This means that creatures are effectively invisible when they turn black.
They also have a very small short-term memory, which you can display with the "Toggle memory arcs" button. This enables them to form more complex behaviors, like remembering how a nearby node changes to see if it is a food node.
A blue square appears around the creature with the longest life. A yellow square appears around the creature (or creatures) with the longest lineage.
Check out the source code if you like that sort of thing.


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Our Mission
ITS is committed to align its services with the Alfaisal objectives to provide excellent IT services. The investments made in People, Processes, and Technologies to develop the IT infrastructure coupled with effective IT leaderships will enable the university to achieve its goals and objectives for quality teaching and research.
Our Vision
The ITS strategy is to early adopt new technologies to cater for all IT needs of our faculties, researchers, and students. For this, ITS vision is to become an EFFECTIVE IT service provider and a LEADER in IT management for higher education.
What we do?
ITS is the central facility at Alfaisal University responsible for providing IT services to support all faculties and business areas. The offered services are grouped into five categories
- IT Management and Compliance: manages the IT business and ensure proper compliance of IT standards. The IT Standards applied will be based on established frameworks, such as: ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology), ISO (International Organization for Standardization), CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Institute) and PMI ( Project Management Institute).
- Information Systems Management: plan, develop and deploy business application solutions. The department will be an active member of the IT Projects Committee for subject related matters.
- IT Infrastructure: install, configure and maintain infrastructure hardware and software. The department will be an active member of the IT Projects Committee for subject related matter.
- User Support Services: manage and operate the 'IT Service Desk' to provide first line support for application and desktop users.
- Web services: plan, develop, and deploy all web related services including on-going support of business development and university portal management.
Each of these categories has its own mission, structure, and approach to provide different services in accordance with an overall IT Governance framework, with focus on alignment with Alfaisal's business objectives.
Contact Us
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This is the second largest settlement in the Falkland Islands and is consists of Fox Bay East and Fox Bay West. It lies on the south east coast of West Falkland.
Position 51° 58'15"S, 60° 00'50.6"W.
No Clearance is possible here.
There is a shop and post office here.
Last updated November 2013.


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If you have any questions you can either come to a meeting and ask in person (Room 404 on Tuesdays from 2:15 to 3:15), or if this isn't an option for you or you prefer online communication, you can email us or Zach specifically using the following emails below.
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The internet age began with a vicious power struggle- to decide who would control the future of the emerging internet. Initially the web was used only for a bunch of nerds and people of science and research. The public didn’t know about the internet till the mid 90’s. In 1993, NCSA MOSAIC browser was made by students from University of Illinois. It was made by Marc Andreesen and his college pals. This browser was free for download, but the only ones who used the internet at that time were scientists. Looking at this browser, Jim Clark (a well known personality in the silicon valley) was interested in founding this.
Clark contacted Andreessen, they both put their thoughts together and wanted to create a browser and make it a business venture. Clark offered a huge sum of money for Andreesen and his college pals, who were still studying. In a few months, NetScape was launched, and Jim Clark was the co-founder. On the 13th of October, 1994, Netscape’s new browser NAVIGATOR entered the market. It was successful, web spread started with this browser.
When the information about the browser was informed to Bill Gates at that time, he wasn't really interested, and he just ignored it. He wasn't sure if he should enter this market with a browser. But as soon as Navigator became a hit, Microsoft started getting worried of their position in the computer industry. Initially Microsoft had a meeting with NetScape. Although nobody knows what happened in those meetings, many say that microsoft threatened the company and made them a “deal that they couldn’t refuse”. They offered a sum of 1m$ to have access to their technology. Netscape rejected it. Making deals like this was illegal, and NetScape hired a very famous lawyer from the silicon valley at that time.
Jim Clark wanted Netscape to go public. Initially, their IPO went incredibly well. It exceeded all expectations, and soared through the first day. Clark, who has spent 5m$ has earned around 660m$ at the close of the first day of stocks. In 1993, people didn't know about the internet and by the end of 1995, the spread of the internet became wide, thanks to this browser.
Marc Andreessen has started disrespecting microsoft. He spoke low of them in public interviews, He disrespected windows developers. Then Microsoft took this up as a challenge. Since, they were a monopoly, they had all the resources, the money, the expertise. Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer for free with their PC’s. By the end of the 90's it was obvious that Microsoft won the Web Wars, by a huge margin. Netscape was later acquired by AOL. Nobody was really disappointed, because they earned a huge amount of money by the time they were taken down.


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Behavioral Targeting Versus Contextual Advertising
There’s a continual shift that seems to be happening on whether contextual advertising is better than behavioral. It seems that most people are becoming bigger and bigger on behavioral, and assuming that contextual has reached it’s peak. After meeting with a company that at first started to do both, blurring the lines, taking advantage of each when they had appropriate data it started to become clear that they more so have their place and time. Behavioral and Contextual shouldn’t be direct competitors.
Context works really well in the form of a question. Google’s perfected this, when I ask for where to buy a bottle of cologne it gives me advertisements that are as accurate as search results, in fact often more accurate with displaying some level of pricing. Context works so well here, because when I go back to google I’m probably not going back for a bottle of cologne every time. It gives me ads based on the context of my search and it works!
If you take a major media publisher, and you put the same ads up that are related to the article you get some impact, but not as much as one would hope. If I go read an article about hurricane in florida, once I’ve read it I may want to read 1-2 more, but the majority of people move on to a different topic. Once I’m done with a page, my context is no longer relevant.
Another example is mobile advertising. Location based advertising has been a big interest for some time now. Foursquare has started doing this very well, based on when I check in at a place it’ll show me nearby specials. The problem is I’ve set down ordered my appetizer, THEN I see that I can get 10% off next door, at this point really doesn’t help me much.
This is where behavior has become such a hot topic. If you can track what a user is actually doing over a period of time it means you can better know what they want right? Well in some cases this is very true, if you take the foursquare problem of not knowing behavior, but could marry what I want (I’m hungry now, 3:00 is when I get coffee, I get a haircut once per month) the ads can become much more powerful.
But, behavior is big right now around standard web properties and display advertising. If you someone goes to a page about cologne, then puts something in his cart, then a review site, then comes back an hour later and buys it. You’ll probably want to put the same ads on every person that follows that path, and this can be applied for any pattern. In fact some of the patterns are very odd, perhaps a person browses for trucks for 1 month online, then ends up purchasing a kia. If this is 10% of people, perhaps you could easily increase this to a much higher conversion for showing kia ads to those browsing truck pages.
In most cases I think a highbred works quite well, though some rely more heavily on one piece than another, but the key is figuring out which is more important to your use case because each has their time and place.
If you take a major media publisher, and you put the same ads up that are related to the article you get some impact, but not as much as one would hope. If I go read an article about hurricane in florida, once I’ve read it I may want to read 1-2 more, but the majority of people move on to a different topic. Once I’m done with a page, my context is no longer relevant.
Another example is mobile advertising. Location based advertising has been a big interest for some time now. Foursquare has started doing this very well, based on when I check in at a place it’ll show me nearby specials. The problem is I’ve set down ordered my appetizer, THEN I see that I can get 10% off next door, at this point really doesn’t help me much.
This is where behavior has become such a hot topic. If you can track what a user is actually doing over a period of time it means you can better know what they want right? Well in some cases this is very true, if you take the foursquare problem of not knowing behavior, but could marry what I want (I’m hungry now, 3:00 is when I get coffee, I get a haircut once per month) the ads can become much more powerful.
But, behavior is big right now around standard web properties and display advertising. If you someone goes to a page about cologne, then puts something in his cart, then a review site, then comes back an hour later and buys it. You’ll probably want to put the same ads on every person that follows that path, and this can be applied for any pattern. In fact some of the patterns are very odd, perhaps a person browses for trucks for 1 month online, then ends up purchasing a kia. If this is 10% of people, perhaps you could easily increase this to a much higher conversion for showing kia ads to those browsing truck pages.
In most cases I think a highbred works quite well, though some rely more heavily on one piece than another, but the key is figuring out which is more important to your use case because each has their time and place.


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ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
dynamicRate
(def, def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
dynamicRate
- Property in
TestData
dynamicResult
- Property in
TestData
E
edit
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
edit
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
ExchangeCurrency
- Class in
grails-app.domain.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
ExchangeCurrency
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeCurrency
ExchangeCurrencyController
- Class in
grails-app.controllers.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
ExchangeCurrencyController
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeCurrencyController
exchangeCurrencyPaginate
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
ExchangeRate
- Class in
grails-app.domain.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
ExchangeRate
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeRate
ExchangeRateController
- Class in
grails-app.controllers.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
ExchangeRateController
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeRateController
exchangeRateCriteria
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateData
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateDrilldownReturn
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateHeading
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateHelpBalloon
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateHelpBalloons
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateMenuButton
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRatePaginate
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
exchangeRateResource
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
ExchangeRateService
- Class in
grails-app.services.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
exchangeRateService
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
exchangeRateService
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
ExchangeRateService
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeRateService
exchangeRateService
- Property in
ExchangeRateTagLib
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
- Class in
DefaultPackage
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
ExchangeRateTagLib
- Class in
grails-app.taglib.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
ExchangeRateTagLib
()
- Constructor in
ExchangeRateTagLib
F
fixDate
(def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
fromCode
- Property in
TestData
futureAllowed
- Property in
ExchangeRateService
futureRatesAllowed
()
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
G
getCurrencies
()
- Method in
CurrencyInitialData
getCurrency
(def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
getRate
(def, def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
H
hasMany
- Property in
ExchangeCurrency
hasPlugin
(def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
I
index
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
index
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
J
K
L
lastAutoCheck
- Property in
ExchangeCurrency
lastAutoSucceeded
- Property in
ExchangeCurrency
lastUpdated
- Property in
ExchangeCurrency
lastUpdated
- Property in
ExchangeRate
list
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
list
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
loaded
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
loaded
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
M
mapping
- Property in
ExchangeCurrency
mappings
- Property in
UrlMappings
maxCacheSize
- Property in
ExchangeRateService
N
name
- Property in
ExchangeCurrency
newlyCreated
- Property in
TestData
O
onChange
- Property in
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
onConfigChange
- Property in
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
P
Q
R
rate
- Property in
ExchangeRate
reset
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
resetAll
()
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
resetCurrencies
()
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
resetCurrency
(def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
resetThis
(String)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
round
(def, def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
S
save
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
save
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
show
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
show
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
source
(def, def, def)
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
statistics
()
- Method in
ExchangeRateService
T
test
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
TestData
- Class in
src.groovy.org.grails.plugins.exchangerates
TestData
()
- Constructor in
TestData
title
- Property in
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
toCode
- Property in
TestData
transactional
- Property in
ExchangeRateService
U
update
- Property in
ExchangeCurrencyController
update
- Property in
ExchangeRateController
UrlMappings
- Class in
grails-app.conf
UrlMappings
()
- Constructor in
UrlMappings
V
validFrom
- Property in
ExchangeRate
version
- Property in
ExchangeRatesGrailsPlugin
W
X
Y
Z
_
_Install
- Class in
scripts
_Install
()
- Constructor in
_Install
_Upgrade
- Class in
scripts
_Upgrade
()
- Constructor in
_Upgrade
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Sci-Fi: Storytelling Or Fortunetelling
-
by Filip Lacor
Innovation Consultant
As humankind, we have always been attracted to the unknown and the mystical. We are explorers – that’s in our nature. We explore the depths of our oceans, the heights of our mountains. Outer space exploration, looking towards the stars and finding different, distant worlds has been a particular fascination of ours.
In one way or another we are all addicted to the future and love speculating on what it would behold. That’s how science fiction came to be. From new gadgets and robots to new worlds and space travel – it’s coming out of the books into movies and in recent years/decades into our daily reality.
Think about Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), which is considered as the first science fiction film ever made. It tells a story about a spacecraft being launched to the Moon in a large cannon. Of course, it didn’t happen exactly so but the plan and execution for getting to the Moon was a success (not paying attention to the conspiracy theories!).
How about famous examples of James Bond and his collection of neat gadgets. We all want one of these underwater breathing devices we saw him use in Thunderball (back in 1965!). It was quite exciting to find a comparable product been backed with $895,000 through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. Unfortunately, recently the product was found to scientifically impossible.
On the other hand, we have success stories, like showcase driverless cars, facial recognition technologies, jetpacks, and the most famous gesture-based user interfaces, predicted in the movie Minority Report (2002). Lots of these technologies are currently being developed or even already realized!
More recent movies include Her (2013) and Ex-Machina (2015), where we get introduced to near-future scenarios in which humanoid robots and operational systems with artificial intelligence are adapting, evolving and learning fast. And though these still seem as a part of the somewhat distant tomorrow, they are bringing up important existential questions and even concerns about the way we love, live and interact.
Saying all this, I can’t help but think that science fiction is more than just storytelling, it is a sort of fortunetelling. The few examples above are just touching the top of the iceberg of predictions that already came or about to come true. But one thing is for sure – we have the capacity to build anything we put our minds to. Sometimes it’s a matter of years, sometimes of decades, but what science fiction may eventually turn into is a window to the future.