Learning the Ropes
This week, we split off to start researching and prototyping different aspects of the MVP for Hands on Deck, and at the same time familiarizing ourselves with Unity and developing on the Oculus Quest.
There were three main areas of the MVP that we experimented with this week: multiplayer, ship mechanics, and water physics. James and Julian teamed up to tackle multiplayer while Patrick helmed the ship and Abhinav dove into water.
Protohype (PUN Intended)
After doing some research on the options for multiplayer Quest development, we found Photon Unity Networking (PUN) 2 to be the most promising. It's been used by a variety of established developers and has the most documentation and tutorials. Unfortunately, the rapid changes to Quest development as a whole have made many tutorials out of date and inaccurate, which has made getting a working prototype challenging. In addition, once we found a tutorial we could follow we encountered a bug where one VR camera rig would steal the view for all players. Despite these roadblocks, we were able to pull together a scene where 2 people could run around and shoot lasers at each other. While this doesn't have anything to do with sailing, it is progress.
Ship-Shape
While we're excited to start acquiring and modeling assets for Hands on Deck, we first need to get an idea of how to properly set up imported assets in a project. Fortunately for testing, there are a number of free assets on the Unity Asset Store, so we selected a fitting colonial ship as the prototype. We set up a scene, rigged the ship with the proper physics components, and were able to get a player to move around on the deck in the Quest and bump into parts that should be bumped into. A good start then.
Go With the Flow
Since Hands on Deck users are going to be looking out at the seas for a sizeable portion of the experience, it is vital to make the water realistic and dynamic. Initially, we tried to go for a more simplistic take considering the Quest's graphical limitations. We found a tutorial on how to create a water plane using the ShaderGraph and Lightweight Render Pipeline packages. We followed it, but while the water had decent movement and color, the waves were "pointy," the ripples looked more like a swimming pool, and it didn't seem like this method would scale. So, we looked onward for more ocean-worthy methods and stumbled upon a fantastic open source ocean generation system, Crest. It looks great, has good performance, decent documentation, and customization for waves, foam, color, reflectivity, and more. This might just be exactly what we're looking for.
- Work Log -
James and Julian: researched and prototyped multiplayer for Quest using PUN 2
Abhi: researched and tested methods of simulating water for the environment
Patrick: tested rigging physics to premade ship asset
- Work Plan -
Patrick and Abhi: acquire and rig final ship asset and add it to water environment. Figure out wind physics for waves and ship movement
James and Julian: work out the kinks with PUN2 networking and get a joinable lobby working, potentially in the environment Patrick and Abhi make.
Everyone: set up app for MVP in Oculus, set up repo for Unity project and sync up VC workflows


Before Change
selected = auto_select_categorical_features(X, threshold=self.threshold)
n_features = X.shape[1]
ind = np.arange(n_features)
sel = np.zeros(n_features, dtype=bool)
sel[np.asarray(selected)] = True
not_sel = np.logical_not(sel) // Non-categorical features
X_sel = X[:, ind[not_sel]]
n_selected = np.sum(sel)
if n_selected == 0:
// No features selected.
After Change
array-like, {n_samples, n_components}
selected = auto_select_categorical_features(X, threshold=self.threshold)
_, X_sel, n_selected, _ = _X_selected(X, selected)
if n_selected == 0:
// No features selected.


The elements about which a template metaprogrammer might be interested in finding out at compile time about a type are:
These are the compile-time questions which the TTI library answers.
All of the questions above attempt to find an answer about an inner element with a particular name. In order to do this using template metaprogramming, macros are used so that the name of the inner element can be passed to the macro. The macro will then generate an appropriate metafunction, which the template metaprogrammer can then use to introspect the information that is needed. The name itself of the inner element is always passed to the macro as a macro parameter, but other macro parameters may also be needed in some cases.
All of the macros start with the prefix BOOST_TTI_
,
create their metafunctions in a namespace called 'boost::tti', and come in
two forms:
BOOST_TTI_
prefix removed, a final underscore added, and the macro parameter 'name'
in lower case. As an example, for the macro BOOST_TTI_HAS_TYPE(MyType)
the name of the metafunction is boost::tti::has_type_MyType
and it will look for
an inner type called 'MyType'.
BOOST_TTI_TRAIT_
and a 'trait' name is passed as the first parameter, with the 'name' of
the inner element as the second parameter. The 'trait' name serves solely
to completely name the metafunction in the boost::tti
namespace. As an example, for the macro BOOST_TTI_TRAIT_HAS_TYPE(MyTrait,MyType)
the name of the metafunction is boost::tti::MyTrait
and it will look for an inner
type called MyType
. Every
macro has a corresponding complex form.
Once either of these two macro forms are used for a particular type of inner element, the corresponding macro metafunction has the exact same functionality.
| Important | |
|---|---|
When introspecting a particular inner element any given macro metafunction generated can be reused with any combination of template parameters which involve the same type of inner element. Furthermore once a macro metafunction is generated, attempting to generate another macro metafunction of the same name will create ODR violations since two C++ constructs with the same name/type in the same namespace will have been created. This latter possibility has much less chance of occurence if you use the simple form of each macro and just reuse the macro metafunction. You can even do this if you are introspecting for two entities of the same name in different enclosing types, or in the same enclosing type but with different signatures, as with overloaded member functions. |
In the succeeding documentation all macro metafunctions will be referred by their simple form name, but remember that the complex form name can always alternatively be used.
The library also provides a set of macros which can be used to automatically generate the names of the macro metafunctions so that the end-user does not have to remember the naming scheme given above.
For each of the macros using the simple form there are two corresponding macros based on the simple form macro name, each of which takes the name of the inner element as the single macro parameter.
_GEN_BASE
appended to it, and outputs the name of the metafunction without a namespace.
_GEN
appended to it, and outputs the full name of the macro metafunction within
the Boost TTI namespace.
These simple form name generation macros are automatically included when the appropriate macro metafunction header file is included.
For the macros using the complicated form, there are two fixed name macros, each of which takes the 'trait' name as the single macro parameter.
BOOST_TTI_TRAIT_GEN_BASE(trait)
simply outputs 'trait' without a namespace.
BOOST_TTI_TRAIT_GEN(trait)
outputs 'trait' within the BOOST TTI namespace.
Both of these last macros are trivial, but are provided nonetheless to parallel the way that the simple form generation macros output their macro metafunction names.
Finally there is a convenience macro which simply outputs the name of the full TTI namespace.
BOOST_TTI_NAMESPACE
simply
outputs the full TTI namespace.
These complicated form macros are included by all TTI header files.


European populists more favourable to Russia
by EUobserverSupporters of populist parties in Europe tend to be more favourable to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, but to dislike the EU and migrants, according to a fresh survey by US pollster Pew. "Supporters of many right-wing populist parties in Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, the Netherlands, and Sweden are all at least 20 percentage points more likely than non-supporters to express confidence in Putin," it said.


PMA cadet dies of accidental drowning – police
THE Baguio police yesterday said there was no foul play in the death of 4th class cadet Mario Telan Jr. who was found drowned in the swimming pool of the Philippine Military Academy on Friday.
Police said an initial investigation showed that Telan Jr. appeared to have drowned in the campus’ swimming pool.
The PMA also said there was no foul play in the death of Telan based on a CCTV footage.
Telan, who was desbribed as a non-swimmer, was found 15 feet under water at the deep end of the PMA swimming pool.
PMA spokesperson Capt. Cheryl Tindog said an investigation is ongoing to determine the possible liability of the on-duty swimming instructors.
“We are currently investigating the two swimming instructors for possible security lapses which led to Telan’s death,” she said.


It’s July 9, 2001. I wanted to record a Saturday a couple of weeks ago. Ken’s Mom has need of round-the-clock care. She broke her arm, and since her mind is about gone, she gets angry, frustrated, and upset because of the pain and because of the cast which restricts her from being as independent as she wants to be so she tries to cut it off, break it off or soak it off. We have to watch her all the time and many times it is the nighttime which is the worst. Irven & Sandy and Ken & I had been taking turns watching her. Sandy was doing it during the weekdays and Ken & I would take turns staying the evenings with her & Irven, and Ken & I would do the weekends. (We call it “tend her”) as sometimes she is worse than a 2-year-old as a 2-year-old seems to understand and remember better than she does.  Other times she is quiet, sweet and alert. We play “rummy”, her favorite card game with her sometimes and she is alert and even wins. I was amazed at how she figured out how to play with her broken arm as the cast goes from her hand to her shoulder. Her fingers stick out of the cast and part of her hand. She got another chair and spread the cards out on it. They were on the other side of her so we couldn’t see them and then she could maneuver them and be able to play with her one hand.
This one Saturday, Ken was staying with her while I stayed at home to clean, do laundry, trim the lawns, go grocery shopping, etc. Ken had mowed the lawns early before he went over to be with his mom. I decided to trim before it got too hot. When I came in to get a drink of water, the phone rang and Scott asked if I had remembered that it was Kylan’s birthday and that they had invited me to go swimming with them. I remembered his birthday, but forgot about going swimming. I asked them when they were going and they said “in about 15 minutes”. I told them I’d meet them at the Clearfield pool. I hurried and changed and drove over. We had a wonderful time and stayed for about 3 hours. Scott & Mishelle had bought a float tube for Kylan and he loved it and had a great time. We took turns playing with him and swimming. Scott did some great dives off the high diving board and the lower one - flips, backwards, etc. Scott was on the Layton High School diving team and went to state. I love to watch him. He’s modest so doesn’t want to do it if there are too many people. Mishelle and I even went off the lower diving board. She dove, but I just jumped off. I used to dive when I was younger, but I’m too nervous now. I really had a great time being with Scott, Mishelle and little Kylan and I love to swim - so it was great.
I gave them my gift and Kylan opened it and I left for home, changed back into my grubbies and was heading out to finish trimming the lawns when Jeff came up the stairs and asked if I would like to go see the movie “Pearl Harbor” with him. He said he had been calling his friends, but either they weren’t home or couldn’t go.  He said “Oh Mom, you need to watch the Disney video “Jungle Book” more and be like Baloo - he just enjoyed life and doesn’t take it so seriously.” Jeff told me he would do the vacuuming when we got home. I said “Ok” and went up to change my clothes again. It was fun being with Jeff and visiting. He’s a special son and it was great “bonding” together (as he put it). The show was good, it was amazing to see what actually went on when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. It only had a little “dog poop” (bad language and a love scene). I had been told by many good people that the show is incredible and doesn’t have anything “bad” in it, but there was.  Ken and I just mainly rent old movies on video instead of going to the movies.
Anyway, I still enjoyed it and enjoyed being with Jeff. I changed into my grubbies for the 3rd time and was on my way to at least finish trimming before it was too dark and the phone rang. It was Scott asking if I wanted to come over and watch Kylan open his presents and have cake and ice cream. I said to myself “what the heck”, that’s more important than house cleaning so I asked them to give me a few minutes to finish trimming and I would be over. I quickly finished trimming, changed clothes again and drove over to their home. Kylan was tired as he hadn’t had a nap, but he was cute most of the time anyway. Mishelle made him a cupcake and put a big candle in and lit it. She helped him blow it out and took the candle out and let him have to it. He didn’t grab it, instead he took little pieces off the edges of the cupcake with his thumb and index finger and ate it. Mishelle scared him accidently and he started crying so they got him down to open his presents. I got some cute pictures. It was fun being with them and I was glad they had invited me over. Ken was staying the night at his mom’s, but when I got home he called. He had called earlier and was worried since no one was home, wondering where I was. He prayed and had a good feeling that I was alright and the thought came to him that I might be at Scott’s. I’m sure thankful for prayer as I have prayed about him and the children different times when I have been worried about them and I get that comforting, peaceful feeling too and can relax. Well, I had a fun day - didn’t accomplish much on the list of things I had planned to do, but it was a wonderful day. Jeff did vacuum for me and I stayed up late getting a few things done.
Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, on the way to work, I was listening to the radio when the news came on of the terrible tragedies which happened to the Twin Trade Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Two planes were hijacked and flew right into the Twin Trade Towers in New York City. The Hijackers were illegal aliens from the Middle East - terrorists. I was devastated and could not believe what I had just heard. Then a third plane hit the Pentagon. We found out several days later that over 6,000 people were killed. That news has greatly affected not only the citizens of the United States of America, but the people throughout the world. We have been praying all week for the people who mourn the loss of their loved ones who were killed, for the firemen and rescuers, for those who were injured and for the President of the United States and the other leaders of our country. We have realized later that these twin towers could not have come down this way. A science professor at BYU told about that and the church had to tell him that he could not tell the public this as he was representing the Church. He wouldn’t stop, so he was fired. Of course, the media did not tell his information, now that he was fired. They would have made it a real story if they could have criticized the church. Satan has control of the media, he has great power in the world today. There are many who feel this destruction of the Twin Towers was done deliberately as since then our government have made such strict regulations and have more control over us. We had a good president in Ronald Regan, but since then it has gone downhill. But, we are told that in the last days there would be much wickedness, evil, corruption and confusion and it surely is.
Since then we have had a drug which is a powder sent in letters throughout the country and some have died from that drug. They feel these are from terrorist also.
This last week, Oct 20 - 23, 2001, there were so many terrible things reported in the news that it made me depressed and upset and I didn’t want to listen to the news anymore and I haven’t for a few days. The news told of a man & his wife who had separated.  Another incident happened in Tooele - a little boy found his dad’s loaded rifle and shot and killed his little brother. In a daycare center a baby was killed.  The daycare lady had gone outside to check on the other children I understand. Another report told of two men who shot and killed two deer hunters -just to get their truck. They led the police on a chase and escaped for a couple of days, but were found and are in custody now. The deer hunters were young men in their 20's. The one was married and had 3 small children. This world is getting so wicked; it scares me for my children and grandchildren. I hope and pray they will be strong and can overcome the powers of Satan and stay strong in the gospel and stand for the right.
December 2001: Sandi & Terry invited our family to come to their cabin the day after Christmas and spend the rest of that week there with them. I think most, if not all, of our family were there. We had such a great time and Sandi & Terry were a great host and hostess. We played games, visited, went sleigh riding down the road by their house with their snowmobiles pulling us back up, ate great meals and just enjoyed relaxing and being together. We have a close family and we are so thankful for that. Everyone enjoys being together. While there, Mike was riding Sandi and Terry’s four-wheeler and road past a building lot that was for sale for $10,000. He was amazed at that price and told Ken and I about it. He took us back and we looked at the beautiful corner lot with lots of quaking aspen trees. We got the phone number to call. We thought that would be a great investment even if we didn’t build on it, but the thought crossed our minds that we might want to build on it. We prayed about it and both of us had a good feeling about it. Ken has always wanted to build our own home and this might be the right opportunity. We called and were able to purchase it.


Risk: That the broad Java development community is not interested in developing or using pluggable type systems. JEP 104
Risk: That the broad Java development community is not interested in developing or using pluggable type systems.


The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) score is calculated (Matthews BW (1975) <doi:10.1016/0005-2795(75)90109-9>).
| Version: | 0.4.4 |
| Suggests: | testthat |
| Published: | 2017-06-15 |
| Author: | Hitoshi Iuchi |
| Maintainer: | Hitoshi Iuchi <hiuchi at sfc.keio.ac.jp> |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| CRAN checks: | mccr results |
| Reference manual: | mccr.pdf |
| Package source: | mccr_0.4.4.tar.gz |
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| Old sources: | mccr archive |
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mccr to link to this page.


From: Dr.Goronyo Baba.. Satellite Tel: Note:Do not send emails.You can contact me directly on the tel.number or by sending me a satellite message stating your telephone number and email address contact on this number just given to you using the link online below. http://www.iridium.com/..there, you will see send a satellite message to my sat.tel.number- 881-631-410-574 Attn:President/C.e.o. Strictly Confidential & Urgent Business Proposal. Re: Transfer Of Usd $21,500.000{Twenty - One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars Only. I am a member of the Federal Government Of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.P.C). Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in the Petroleum Trust Fund (P.T.F.) BY MY COMMITTEE. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of us$ 21.5Million Dollars. This was done delibrately. The over - invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We not want to transfer this money, which is in a suspense account with the P.T.F. into any oversea account, which we expect you to provide for us. Share: 60 % of the money would be for my partners and I. 30 % of the money would be yours, for providing us with logistics, which, would include a safe bank account, where we shall facilitate funds transfer into, as soon as documentations are concluded over here. 10 % of the money has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that might be incurred during the course of the transaction, (both local and international expenses). If interested in assisting us, please contact me via my secured satellite tel number- 881-631-410-574, specially procured for this project, using the text message.. It may interest you to know that a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, President of Crane International Trading Corp., of 153 East 57th St., 28th floor, N.Y.10022, Telephone:<PHONE_NUMBER> and Telex: 6731689. The deal was concluded and all covering documents, forwarded to Mr. Miller to authenticate the claims. Once the funds were transferred, Mr. Miller presented to his bank, all the legal documents and remitted the whole funds to another bank account, and disappeared completely. My colleagues and I were shattered, since such opportunities are not easy to come by. Please, if you are interested in assisting us carry out to the fullest capacity, this transaction, we would require the following information from you which would enable us make formal application to the various ministries / parastatals, for the release and onward transfer of the money to your account. 1.Your Full Name, Company's Name, Address, Telephone and Fax Numbers. 2.Your Bank Name, Address. Telephone and Fax Number. 3.Your Bank Account Number and Beneficiary Name - You must be the signatory. Please, note that we have strong and reliable connections at the Central Bank Of Nigeria and other Government Parastatals, hence assistance in this regards, would not be a problem. At the conclusion of this transaction, we shall use same contacts to withdraw all documents used in the course of this, to avoid any trace whatsoever that may ever arise, to you or to us, now and in the nearest possible future. It might also interest you to know that we are mere civil servants who do not want to miss this opportunity, hence, we want this money transferred out, as soon as possible, before the newly democratically elected government ever think of making enquiries as regards the various activities of the past military government. Kindly contact me as soon as possible, whether or not you are interested in this deal, so that whereby you are not interested, it would give us more room to scout for another partner. But if you are interested, kindly contact me via above email, telephone or fax, so that we can swing into action, as time is not on our part. I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. Yours Faithfully, Dr.Goronyo Baba. Send me your email address and tel.numberif interested for re-verification that you actually received this mail.


Procedural Tear & Wear / Imperfection Using Bevel Shader
glitchi writes:
We will be using a Bevel Shader that comes with Blender Cycles to generate a tear and wear imperfection mask. “Wait a minute! Bevel Shader only generates normal information!” — you say, and that’s exactly right! BUT we will force it to do what we want it to do, using short node setup to do so.


Before Change
"goal_object_distance_cost_coeff": 1.0,
"goal": tune.grid_search([(0, -1)]),
},
"default-reach": {
"arm_goal_distance_cost_coeff": tune.grid_search([1.0]),
"arm_object_distance_cost_coeff": 0.0,
},
},
"sawyer-torque": {
After Change
"exclude_current_positions_from_observation": False,
}
},
"pusher-2d": { // 3 DoF
"default": {
"arm_object_distance_cost_coeff": 0.0,
"goal_object_distance_cost_coeff": 1.0,
"goal": (0, -1),
},
"default-reach": {
"arm_goal_distance_cost_coeff": 1.0,
"arm_object_distance_cost_coeff": 0.0,
},
"image-default": {
"image_shape": (32, 32, 3),
"arm_object_distance_cost_coeff": 0.0,
"goal_object_distance_cost_coeff": 3.0,
},
"image-reach": {
"image_shape": (32, 32, 3),
"arm_goal_distance_cost_coeff": 1.0,
"arm_object_distance_cost_coeff": 0.0,
},
"blind-reach": {
"image_shape": (32, 32, 3),
"arm_goal_distance_cost_coeff": 1.0,
"arm_object_distance_cost_coeff": 0.0,
}
},
"sawyer-torque": {
},


Lucky for you, UpUp is serving you content even when you are on a plane flying over the pacific, or 20,000 leagues under the sea.
To add the functionality you’re seeing now, we simply added a small piece of code to our site:
<script src="upup.min.js"></script>
<script>
UpUp.start({
'content-url': 'offline.html', // show this page to offline users
'assets': // Save the following files to cache as well
['css/offline.css', 'css/bootstrap.min.css', 'img/mb-offline.png', 'img/logo.png', 'img/sunset.jpg']
});
</script>


Be a part of a fully open source ecosystem. Also look up the official ERPNext Partner Program for details.
ERPNext is an Open Source ERP application that helps Small to Medium Sized business manage their organizations efficiently. It covers financial accounting, inventory management, manufacturing, human resource management and much more. It is a web based application, easy and user friendly.
The ERPNext Project is now backed by the ERPNext Foundation, a not-for-profit that works towards building and maintaining ERPNext.
Before you sell anything to anyone, you must be completely convinced that it is the right tool for you to promote. After all, it is your reputation at stake. Before you sell any ERPNext service, we recommend that you evaluate ERPNext very minutely yourself and the best way to do it is self-implementation. Start using ERPNext for billing, customer support, CRM, quoting your customers. Even if you don't wish to use it in production, use it as a test. Once, and if, you are convinced of the application, you should demo it to your customers. Nothing sells better than confidence, so its best to be confident before you sell.
Disclosure: We use ERPNext extensively in our own organization too!
You need not pay for self implementation, you can either use the 30-day trial at erpnext.com or use the Virtual Machine. If you need support, you can first go through:
If you need priority one-on-one help sessions, you can also buy a subscription service for it.
To implement ERPNext, you must have a general understanding of financial accounting, inventory management and how organizations manage their information. Skills in spreadsheet tools like Excel will be handy for data import. If you are good in HTML / CSS, you can also create a website from within ERPNext.
If you also want to offer customization services on ERPNext, you should have some expertise on:
No. This is an open source application and it does not require you to pay us anything. You can charge the customer as you prefer for implementation, training, customization and support.
If your customer wants production support on their servers, you can do it yourself.
If you want to list yourself a service provider then you must become a member of the foundation.
With ERPNext compared to other ERPs, the cost of license is zero, so there is more money on the table to ensure a successful ERP implementations. These savings can be effectively used to tailor the ERPNext system to the user's requirements and / or to enhance the ERPNext product itself by adding features that could be sponsored. There is always the usual revenue model for:
For listing yourself on the community portal, you must become a member of the ERPNext foundation. You can list yourself as a Service Provider, and provide details about services you offer on ERPNext.
By becoming a member, you will not only support the ongoing development and enhancement of ERPNext that is so critical to your business but also get a say in what features get built next.
ERPNext is built as a community product with the help of hundreds on end users and developers. If you face a problem with ERPNext or have a suggetion for a feature, you should plan on having the feature contributed back to ERPNext. Unlike other "open core" projects, ERPNext does not encourage 3rd party apps, which ultimately lead to a bad user experience and usually leave the end-user hostage to a service provider and in many cases saddled with a bad solution.
If you want to propose an enhancement, you must first send a proposal. Once it is okayed by any maintainer, you can start development according to the contribution guidelines and send a pull request to the core product. Read the contribution guidelines for more details
ERPNext is our brand and identity. All work we do will be under the brand name of ERPNext and Frappe. If you want to disguise this as your work, you are free to do it, but don't expect any help from us. If you are using our help documentation, you must attribute us publicly because the documentation is licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


Jump Start
GraphQL and Apollo
GraphQL
{
who
why
when {
y2012
y2015
y2016
}
} $P
GraphQL
{
"data": {
"who": "Facebook",
"why": "Ever Evolving, Extremely Engaging, Feature Flooded!",
"when": {
"y2012": "Internal",
"y2015": "Open Sourced",
"y2016": "Production Ready!"
}
}
} $P
Good News; Bad News
You would stop using REST
You can use GraphQL with REST
Problems with REST APIs? $P
- Strict Specs but wildly interpreted
- Hard coded; can't adopt with changing clients' needs
- Not built as per clients' need/intent
- API versioning
- Under/over Fetching $P
- Requests Responses Waterfall $P
- API Documentation
- No Componentization
Can we do better?
- Efficient data loading
- Client should be in control
- No API versioning
- A consistent way of data fetching
- Independent of framework/tech stack/platform
- Auto documentation as we develop
- Fastest development for rapid feature releases
What is GraphQL?
- Query Language for API
- Request decides Response
- Single API endpoint
- Enables declarative data definition and fetching
- Independent of where data is coming from
- Demand Driven API
- New API standards/specs
Why GraphQL?
- Most Modern way of Dealing Data
- Powerful, Fast, Flexible and Efficient
- Development at Speed of Thought
Happy GraphQLing


| Beyonwiz::WizPnPDevice |
use Beyonwiz::WizPnPDevice;
Represents an entry in the Beyonwiz trunc file.
Beyonwiz::Recording::WizPnPDevice->new($location, $dom)
Create a new WizPnP device object.
$location
is the URL for the device's XML description,
and $dom
us the XML::DOM
tree for the description.
Normally constructed by
Beyonwiz::WizPnP
in search or addDevice.
$wpnpd->location([$val]);
Returns (sets) the URL for the device's XML description.
$wpnpd->dom([$val]);
Returns (sets) the device description DOM tree.
$wpnpd->netmask([$val]);
Returns (sets) the netmask of the network the device is attached to, as a packed IP address.
$wpnpd->longNames([$val]);
Returns (sets) the flag to use the long or short form of device names in searches and name functions. Defaults to false.
$wpnpd->baseUrl;
Returns the base URL for the device.
$wpnpd->indexUrl;
Returns the URL of the the device recording index document.
$wpnpd->deviceDom;
Returns the <device>
DOM subtree of the description.
$wpnpd->hostIP;
Returns the WizPnP device's IP address as a string in in dotted quad format
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Returns the WizPnP device's host num as a string in in dotted format.
This is the hostIP ($wpnpd->hostIP;
)
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parts stripped off.
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$wpnpd->portNum;
Returns the WizPnP device's port number as an integer (e.g. 49152
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$wpnpd->shortName;
Returns the device's WizPnP name (as set in Setup>Network>WizPnP>Name
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$wpnpd->longName;
Returns the device's WizPnP name ($wpnpd->shortName;
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host number ($wpnpd->hostNum;
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port number ($wpnpd->portNum;
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The DomemasterStereo shader is added to a Maya scene using the ArnoldDomemaster3D Shelf tool.
When you run the DomemasterStereo shelf tool it adds a custom ArnoldDomemasterStereo camera rig to the scene that has the left and right cameras set up automatically. The left camera DomemasterStereo attributes are used to drive the stereoscopic settings for both the left and right cameras. This means you only have to change the Zero Parallax Sphere or Camera Separation setting in one place.
To change the DomemasterStereo attributes, select the camera in your scene. Open the attribute editor and switch to the camera's shape node. The lens shader is listed in the Arnold section.
The current version of the Arnold Domemaster3D shaders (as of 2015-02-23) are a development build. At this point in time there is no easy way to create screen space texture maps using Arnold's MtoA and SItoA render nodes. This means a solution has to be developed inside the Domemaster3D shaders that will remap an existing texture map into screen space coordinates.
At this point, the DomemasterStereo shader will render a stereo fulldome image but you will notice something that looks like a small "swirly region" in the zenith part of the fulldome frame. This is due to a lack of a screen space turn map texture.
Camera: Choices are Center/Left/Right. Selects the camera to use for rendering. Center skips 90% of the calculations and gives you a highly optimized standard latlong image.
Field of View: Controls the field of view for the rendered angular fisheye image. A "Domemaster" formatted image has a 180 degree field of view, and a "light probe" style angular image has a 360 degree field of view.
Zero Parallax Sphere (focus plane): This is the distance at which the left and right camera's line of sight converges.
Camera Separation: The initial separation of the left and right cameras.
Dome Forward Tilt: Dome tilt in degrees. Note that this value is not used unless you enable Dome Tilt Compensation.
Dome Tilt Compensation: Enabling this option, shifts all the calculations by the # of degrees specified in Dome Forward Tilt. Basically, it keeps the fulldome cameras / viewer's head vertical while the dome rotates forward.
Vertical Mode: Enables the vertical dome mode which automatically adjusts the head turn setting and adds a turn compensation for the upper and lower part of the dome. It's a simplified and optimized version of the Dome Tilt Compensation with a 90 degree tilt angle, but with a different automatic handling of the top and bottom pinch correction. It is faster and easier to use.
Separation Map: A value between 0-1 that multiples the Camera Separation. This attribute is meant to be used with a grayscale texture mapped to the screen space. It's used to control the amount of 3D effect, and eliminate it where desired.
Head Turn Map: A value 0-1 that controls the amount of the head turn. This attribute is meant to be used with a grayscale texture mapped using the screen space. Typical use, keep the head straight while looking at the top of the dome.
Head Tilt Map: A value 0-1 (with 0.5 being the "neutral" value) that tilts the cameras (or head) left/right. This attribute is meant to be used with a grayscale texture mapped using the screen space. 0 means 90 degrees to the left, 1 means 90 degrees to the right.
Flip X: Flips the view horizontally
Flip Y: Flips the view vertically
Exposure: This attribute allows you to control the overall brightness of the final rendered frame.
You can control the stereoscopic effect seen in the DomemasterStereo shader with the help of control texture maps.
The Domemaster Stereo Shader
shader's Separation Multiplier, Turn Multiplier, Head Tilt attributes support control texture mapping. The images have to be applied using screen space coordinates.


Pregnant woman punched, stomped on by stranger at cafe
by Shanee DobesonA heavily pregnant woman has allegedly been punched in the head and stomped on in an horrific random attack at a cafe in Sydney.
The 31-year-old, who is 38-weeks pregnant, was with friends at a cafe on Church Street in Parramatta when a man randomly approached her table.
Police say he allegedly leaned over the table and punched the woman in the head multiple times before she fell to the ground where it’s alleged the man then stomped on her head.
Other patrons ran to her aid and managed to restrain the man until police arrived.
The 43-year-old was arrested at the scene before being taken to the local police station where he was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.
He was refused bail to appear in Parramatta Local Court today.
The woman was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital for observation.
Police confirmed the man is not known to the woman.


Euromillions winner who scooped £76m prize marries partner at local pub
Builder Andrew Clark, 51, won the incredible prize last December and married his girlfriend Trisha Fairhurst, 52, at their local pub in Boston, Lincolnshire
by Elaine McCahill, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/elaine-mccahill/A Euromillions winner who scooped £76 million in the lottery draw has married his partner in their local pub.
Andrew Clark, 51, and his girlfriend Trisha Fairhurst, 52, tied the knot almost a year after he won the incredible prize last December.
The self-employed builder, of Boston, Lincolnshire, had no idea he was the owner of Britain's biggest ever unclaimed lottery ticket for well over a month.
With a habit of stockpiling tickets in his van, he worked through many cold and wet winter days, unaware he had become a multi-millionaire.
It was only when his partner's niece, Louise, reminded him to check his tickets, tucked in the visor of his Peugeot Expert, that he discovered his win.
When he finally called to confirm his win, he was heard saying: "I think I've won a few quid."
When he won the big prize, Andrew was coy about any wedding plans but shortly afterwards Trisha quit her hospital kitchen job, reports The Sun.
They started planning their nuptials and decided to tie the knot in their local wedding venue, The Poachers.
Family and friends gathered at an intimate ceremony and enjoyed a reception at the pub afterwards.
While they didn't go for a celebrity style wedding, the couple have bought a new house and Andy splashed out £700,000 on supercars including a Porsche, a McLaren and a Mercedes.
Despite being worth millions, Trisha has eschewed fancy cars and still drives her £20,000 Nissan Quashqai.
A source told the newspaper: “Andy and Trisha are determined to keep their feet on the ground - it’s only the cars where Andy has really spent money.
“They just wanted a close-knit ceremony with all their family and friends and The Poachers was easy for everyone to get to.
“It might not be fancy but they still had a terrific time.”
Camelot the couple have declined to comment.


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Welcome To My Website
A Little About Myself
Hello! I'm Gloria, thanks for stopping by.
I'm a Technical Project Manager based in San Francisco Bay Area. I'm currently a Dev Bootcamp student and an Adobe Digital Academy scholar. When I'm not making tech at my desk, I'm a full-time mom and wife.
My interest lie where functionality meets beautiful design. Living abroad for several years, away from family and friends, I have a passion for making the world a better connected place.
I'm originally from the North of Mexico and I have traveled to several countries in past few years, but California now, holds a very special place in my heart. I try to take advantage of everything that the Bay Area has to offer. On a weekend day, you are likely to find me and my family, eating Asian food, running or biking along the Bay Trail, kayaking in Foster City's lagoon or exploring a kid-friendly location in San Francisco.
Getting Social
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Welcome to the future
DocInsight
Where patient information can be stored and conveniently shared between hospitals.
Have you ever wanted to change hospitals and wanted to transfer your health information. Well, this application allows doctors to share patient's information between each other, and even allows patients to view their health informaiton.
We created a application form for a doctor to make for a patient, and adds them to the database.
Click here to create a patient profile.
> Paitent and Doctor Application FormsThis application will ask for questions such as full name, birthday,ethnicity and more that the are important for a docotor to have.
According to the EDI, "Data can be exchanged through serial links and peer-to-peer networks...," which our application follows, since we implemented our idea through blockchains. With blockchains, patient files will be encrypted with secure codes, and only with access codes provided to doctors can they access patient informations.
If you need any assistance, or have any questions just contact us we would love to help in anyway possible.


iBWIM measures vehicle parameters—it is natural to use this data to classify vehicles by type. iBWIM has always done so, either using the broad classes set out in COST323, or into much more specific categories required by some of our clients. A description of some important classification schemes is given here. We are currently working on a number of technologies to provide an even finer grain classification.
A highly specific vehicle classifier has two advantages:
The simplest way to discriminate between vehicle categories is axle count. This is the first (simplifying) step in all our algorithms. The next obvious feature is the axle groupings: i.e. how are the axles spaced? are they grouped in pairs or triples? With a simple set of IF THEN rules we can discriminate many classes of vehicle based on their axle distances. Figure 1 shows a plot of the distances between the first and second, and second and third axles for three axle vehicles. Simple rules will discriminate many, though not all of the classes shown.
Consider a simple case where we wish to discriminate a Mercedes Acros 3 axle semi-trailer from its tipper variant. The unloaded and fully loaded axle weights are specified be the manufacturer, we can plot the possible loadings of these two axles on a two dimensional plot, Figure 2. The unloaded (kerb) weight is the lower vertex on the diagonal of trapezoid; the maximum loading is the upper vertex. The adjacent vertices allow for natural variation in the measurements. If we were to measure a set of vehicles belonging to these two classes, with various loads, and plot their second and third axle loadings we would get a distribution of the form shown in Figure 3. Simply using one axle load would not be enough to tell us to which class a given truck belongs; however, with both axle loadings and a simple rule (blue line), we can confidently discriminate between the tipper and the semi-trailer.


Australians Sing Getaran Jiwa Flawlessly, Could Be The Most Beautiful Rendition Thus Far!
by Fadzly HanaffiTap to listen to this article instead: 🔊 Listen to Post
Getaran Jiwa is a song that any Malaysian can relate to and one that resonates in our hearts.
The song, penned and performed by Malaysian actor, singer and songwriter Allahyarham Tan Sri P Ramlee, has seen its fair share of renditions being belted out through the years by fans here as well as overseas.
Understanding that there are different styles of how the song is sung today, what one netizen came across whilst strolling the streets of Melbourne, Australia could be the best rendition yet.
Shared by Facebook page Era (Malaysia), here is the video of the lovely couple serenading others with their beautiful music.
Beautiful right!?
The video has taken Malaysia by storm and has been shared across various social media platforms, giving a sign that P Ramlee’s legend lives on!
Here is a little history lesson about the song – written by S. Sudarmaji the song was sung by Allahyarham P Ramlee when he acted the role of Sazali in the film Antara Dua Darjat (1960).
Achieving the status of Malar Hijau or Evergreen, the song has since been sung by various artists and has been translated to English with the song named ‘Whispers in the Wind’.
Let’s relive this classical legend today or better yet add the song to your existing playlist and ensure that the legend of P Ramlee lives on!
Also read: Our Queen Sings the Favourite Song of Woman with Down Syndrome and Awes the Rakyat


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Call For Papers
The SMS Workshop provides a unique venue for graduate students around the world to present, discuss, and exchange ideas on cross-cutting research on mobile wireless networks. As its name suggests,
the workshop is organized by students, and the technical sessions are given by student presenters. Submissions must be first authored by a student. The workshop aims at fostering early-career development among students and exposing
them to the workings of an academic life. It provides a venue for students to learn about each others' work and discover opportunities for collaboration. Accepted papers' authors are provided with the option to include or exlude their publication in the conference proceeding and the ACM digital library.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Experience with mobile applications, networks, and systems
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Innovative mobile, mobile sensing, and mobile crowdsourcing applications
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Tools for building and measuring mobile systems
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Innovative wearable or mobile devices
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Novel software architectures for mobile devices and mobile computing
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Data management for mobile applications
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Infrastructure support for mobile computing
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System-level energy management for mobile devices
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Operating systems for mobile devices
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Support for mobile social networking and the mobile web
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Security and privacy in mobile systems
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Resource-effcient machine learning and AI for mobile devices
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Systems for location and context sensing and awareness
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Mobile computing support for pervasive computing Vehicular and mobile robotic systems
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Systems and networking support for virtual or augmented reality
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Applications of mobile systems in health, sustainability, and smart cities
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Satellites Communication and networks
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Architectures, protocols, and algorithms in mobile network
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Measurements of mobile and network ecosystems
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Mobile data science & analysis
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Sensing using mobile phones, wearables, robots, quad-copters, crowd-sourcing etc
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Operating system and middle-ware support for mobile computing and networking
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Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks
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Applications of machine learning to mobile/wireless research
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Mobile web, video, AR/VR/Immersive reality, and other applications
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User interfaces, experience, and usability for mobile applications and systems
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Data management for mobile and wireless systems
The workshop invites students to submit papers, posters, and demos through the following hotcrp link: https://sms2021.hotcrp.com. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the student TPC. We encourage students with a paper, poster, or demo at ACM MobiCom main conference to present their work at SMS as well.
Please contact the TPC co-chairs at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>for any queries.
Submission Instructions
We invite submissions for:
Short Papers: Works-in-progress, position papers, case studies, and papers that have already been published at other venues. The page limit for these papers is three pages.
Poster and Demo Abstracts: The page limit for posters and demo submissions is one page. However, if the submitted poster is already accepted in MobiSys 2021 poster and demo track, you can submit the 2-page version.
Following the main ACM MobiSys submission guidlines, papers should adhere to the ACM templates that can be found here. Templates are provided for formatting papers in MS Word and LaTeX. In LaTeX, use \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}.
The submissions should not be anonymized.
Three Minute Competition Instructions
Three Minute Thesis (3MT ®) is a research communication competition originally developed by The University of Queensland in 2008 and now has been widely adopted at universities around the world. The exercise challenges students to present a compelling talk on their work and its significance. In our workshop, we expect students in this competition have just three minutes and one slide to convey their often highly-technical research work to the audience audience in just 3 minutes and one slide. Judging criteria is centered on three core competencies:
Communication Style: was the thesis topic and its significance communicated in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
Comprehension: did the presentation help the audience understand the research?
Engagement: did the oration make the audience want to know more?
Three Minute Thesis (3MT ®) is a research communication competition originally developed For more information and sample videos, visit
the 3MT ® website at the University of Queensland.
Important Dates
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Submission Deadline:
May 28, 2021 June 04, 2021
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Acceptance Notifcations: June 14, 2021
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Camera Ready Deadline: June 21, 2021


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Workshops in 2020
Noon and Esmeralda, with their new banner, at the Datathon for Social Good!
This year, we’ve been thinking about our prior workshops: what worked well, what what should change, and what we’d like to focus on this year.
A few ideas have emerged.
Technical Workshop (on the 10th of April)
#1 Smaller classes
The idea is twofold. For our first workshop, we had 17 people and two instructors. We had people work in groups. I think this is a nice idea, but we found that the skill-level of people was quite varied, and teaming people up didn’t necessarly mean that they worked together well as a group, in terms of bringing everyone up to the same rough skill level.
We think that if we limit the number of attendees, say to six people per session, then we can still have two groups, but give closer attention and support to everyone. And furthermore, the skill variance should be smaller, so it will be easier to manage.
Furthermore, and importantly, we can also change the workshop content to suit the interests of the participants.
While we were able to do this a bit in the larger workshop, I’m sure that there are things we could’ve covered.
#2 New schedule
From chatting to a few people, I’ve learned that it’s probably inconvenient to do the workshop over 6 weeks, where most of the time commitment is actually outside (typical) work hours.
So, we’ve decided to drop the workshop down to two eight-hour days, followed by an afternoon post-workshop session. The eight hour days roughly cover the original content, and the final afternoon is intended as a kind of project kick-off session. The idea is that either you bring something you want to work on, and we get started together; or you work through one of our projects that we’ve thought of; that explores a particular aspect of deep learning.
We’ve also put the workshop so that it has a weekend during the middle of the two days.
AI For Leadership Workshop (on the 23rd of March)
We’ve run a few of these now, and overall they’re going well. The one-day format works really nicely, and having a group of about 10 people allows for really interesting exchanges and interactions, as well as good group activities.
We won’t really be changing a lot, but there are some thoughts floating around of other areas to cover:
- Platforms/Hardware: Should we build or buy? What are the pros/cons?
- Tools: What’s good? How should we adopt it?
- Case studies: What are other companies doing out there?
We already cover a few case studies, but we’ll try and add in a few more.
I also want to allow this workshop to develop along the interests of the attendees, so perhaps we’ll find a way to work in a bit of the themes of the afternoon session from the tech workshop into this format. I.e. a “BYO Problem” discussion section.
Overall
In general, we’re keen to learn and adapt to what works, and what helps us build a sustainable business.
We’re always interested in hearing from you, in any capacity, about what is of interest, what would suit you best, and what kinds of formats works well.
Overall, our aim remains the same:
- Bring more people into the AI industry,
- Support people with their AI projects,
- Push the AI field in a much ethical/sustainable direction,
- Engage with people and projects we love, that are doing good out in the world!
If you have any thoughts, please send them our way!.
In particular, if you’d like to join a workshop, but have some specific needs that we’re not meeting, or concerns that are holding you back, please reach out! We’ll do our best to help.


Research Data Analyst, Global Disease Epidemiology and Control - Baltimore, MD 21218
Classified Title: Research Data Analyst
Working Title: Research Data Analyst
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MC
Starting Salary Range: $44,749 - $55,000/ commensurate with experience
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:30a - 5:00p/ 37.5 hours per week
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: 05-MD: School of Public Health
Department name: 10001140-Global Disease Epidemiology and Control
Personnel area: School of Public Health
General Summary/Purpose
The Research Data Analyst will provide research support services to assist Research Investigators in ongoing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) randomized controlled trials and cohort studies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Research Data Analyst will work closely with other research team members to support the conduct of the research. This individual will help manage, prepare, analyze, and interpret data, as well as report on analysis results.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
WASH intervention development
Create databases for digital data capture systems for trials and cohort studies using Microsoft Access, ODK, or other equivalent program
Manage datasets/variables and perform data cleaning, including identifying potential problems with study data and collaborating with research team to resolve issues encountered
Merge, create, and recode variables to prepare data for analyses
Develop data cleaning programs for new forms and run data cleaning programs for existing forms
Develop and implement data quality assurance procedures to ensure validity and reliability of study results
Create datasets for analysis by other investigators Write detailed documentation/specifications for analysis data sets and related files
Perform analyses on datasets and document analyses using statistical software packages, analyses include logistic and linear regression
Create tables and figures in publication-quality form summarizing the results of statistical analyses and present results orally to study investigators
Draft and oversee data quality control protocols
Data entry of forms not entered by study site staff
Support preparation of IRB submissions and amendments
Contribute to writing and reviewing drafts of reports, posters, and manuscripts, including writing up interpretation of analysis results and description of statistical methods used
9 months out of the 12 months will be travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo is required
Please note: This will be a fixed term position for 12 months with the possibility of extension if funding is available.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in related discipline.
Three (3) years related experience.
French language skills are required
Additional education (Master's level) may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the * JHU Equivalency Formula : 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job. *
Preferred Qualifications
Strong programing skills in SAS, Stata, or R
Strong organizational, communication, problem solving, and writing skills.
Ability to work independently and meet project deadlines
Strong time management
Ability to critically analyze research studies.
**Position end date Feb. 29, 2020**
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.
The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.
During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.
The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.
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Assignment - Diving Deeper into CSS
- Build a nice box (
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- If you didn't do it already: Set different padding and margin for the four different sides of the box.
- Add the same box below the first box and note if you can identify any strange behavior.
- Give the first box a height of 100% of the window height.
- Set the first box back to a more reasonable height of 300px and set its width to 50%.
- Position the two boxes next to each other.
- "Hide" box number 1 and see how that changes the page.
- Add a hover effect to the the LAST
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Customizing Visual Studio With External Tools, Part 2
In my previous post I showed you how to configure your own External Tools in Visual Studio, such as a command that opens up the current document in an external text editor, or a tool that launches a custom deployment executable. External Tools by default are accessed through the Tools menu, but this is lame. In this post I’ll show you to create your own toolbar to contain your tools so they are no more than one click away.
Creating a custom toolbar
To create a custom toolbar, click Tools > Customize… or right-click in the open space in the toolbar area and select “Customize…” at the very bottom of this context menu. Click “New…” to create a new toolbar and give it a name and click OK, then close this dialog box.
It may appear that nothing has happened, but your toolbar has been added, it’s just empty. Look closely at your toolbars and you should be able to spot it:
Click on the arrow, then “Add or Remove Buttons” then “Customize”. From this dialog, click “Add Command…”. Here you’ll see two lists, one for categories and another for the commands associated with the selected category. Find and select the “Tools” category, then select the “External Command 1” command.
The process is certainly a little cumbersome, but you’ll get the hang of it after doing it once or twice. The “External Commands” listed in the Commands window correspond with the external tools you have [previously configured –link to post #1]. It’s not magical enough to know the name of the external tools you’ve configured, so you’ll have to keep track of what you’ve created and the order they are in. In my example, I have three external tools configured, and I’m going to add each of them to my toolbar: External Command 1, External Command 2, and External Command 3.
When you are done, close out any remaining open dialogs and your custom toolbar should be all set!


Client Overview
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Tuesday
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The last time I wrote about Bryan’s office, we had just finished painting it blue. Wednesday, I started organizing the Mission’s books. The office has a lot of cabinets, but no bookshelves. This allowed for great disorganization with the books, particularly because books were stacked on top of themselves.
Soon, we will have bookshelves installed – and my task has been / is to catalog and organize all of the books. This past week, I managed to find all the books in the cabinets (some were hidden quite well) and catalog them on the computer. I piled all the books into the guestroom attached to the office.
As you can see, I tried to have some sort of order to my piling.
Now that I have done that, the next phase will be to categorize the books and decide where to put them. I will have to categorize the physical books as well as the corresponding entries in the computer – which could take a lot of time.
I will also be working on my portion of the YWAP camp video.
-the pj.


Yachts must clear Guam Customs and Immigration at Apra Harbour. Before entering the harbour, contact PORT CONTROL on Channel 13, preferably some hours before entry, for instructions.
Visiting yachts are usually directed to proceed to MYC. Crews are often permitted to go ashore to await clearance. Officials will normally visit the boat.
If planning to arrive on a Sunday, you will be required to pay overtime for Customs and Immigration services.
Last updated May 2015.
All visitors must have a valid passport.
US visa regulations are in force. All nationals, except those of the USA, are required to have a visa in advance of arrival.
The visa waiver scheme does NOT apply when arriving by yacht.
See Noonsite.com/USA/Immigration
It has been reported that a visa-on-arrival may be provided (at a much higher cost) but this is not certain, and those arriving without a visa may either be refused entry or only be granted a few days stay at most, and have to remain on board. There is a $200 fine for arriving without a visa.
It is possible that citizens of the following countries may be allowed entry for 45 days under the via waiver scheme:-
Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. This visa waiver does not permit entry into the USA.
Last updated May 2015.
Firearms must be declared on arrival and will be sealed on board. Permits may have to be shown.
Animal must be declared and will probably face quarantine or other restrictions.
Last updated May 2015.
Overtime is charged for clearance outside of normal office hours.
The inner harbour of Apra Harbour is a US naval base and access is restricted.
Animals must be declared and should have up-to-date health certificates. They are not allowed to land.


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After Boris Johnson visits Cambridge - five times the Tories let down the city
The
by Nicola Bartlett, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/nicola-bartlett/Boris Johnson spent the first day of the election campaign visiting Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge.
There he was challenged by 23-year-old medical student Julia Simons about his government's record on the NHS and her fears about what a trade deal with Trump's US could mean for the health service.
Cambridge is seen as an affluent area because of the University and picture-perfect images of students punting down the river Cam.
But the city is deeply divided with pockets of deprivation a stone’s throw away from the wealthy city centre.
These are a few of the ways the Tories have failed the city:
1 They tried to shut down the city’s magistrates court and sell off the building “to generate funds for the court and tribunal services” but a Labour-backed campaign saved it.
2 Now they are trying to close the Crown Post Office in the city centre and move it into WHSmith as part of a bigger plan to relocate up to 40 post offices across the UK into branches of the stationer.
3 They tried to academise St Phillip’s Primary School in the city centre but were resisted. Local MP Daniel Zeichner raised it in Parliament and eventually the plans were scrapped.
4 City schools have seen massive cuts. Netherhall School head Chris Tooley says the £200,000 reduction in the secondary and 6th form school’s funds next year is “terrifying”. And St Matthew’s Primary is getting £60,000 less.
5The Tories want to move the police station out of the centre and into the village of Milton on the outskirts. The current building on Parkside occupies a prime plot of land valued at £35million in December 2016.


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ConsenterSupport is used to mock the multichannel.ConsenterSupport interface Whenever a block is written, it writes to the Batches channel to allow for synchronization
type ConsenterSupport struct { // SharedConfigVal is the value returned by SharedConfig() SharedConfigVal *mockconfig.Orderer // SharedConfigVal is the value returned by ChannelConfig() ChannelConfigVal *mockconfig.Channel // BlockCutterVal is the value returned by BlockCutter() BlockCutterVal *mockblockcutter.Receiver // BlockByIndex maps block numbers to retrieved values of these blocks BlockByIndex map[uint64]*cb.Block // Blocks is the channel where WriteBlock writes the most recently created block, Blocks chan *cb.Block // ChainIDVal is the value returned by ChainID() ChainIDVal string // HeightVal is the value returned by Height() HeightVal uint64 // NextBlockVal stores the block created by the most recent CreateNextBlock() call NextBlockVal *cb.Block // ClassifyMsgVal is returned by ClassifyMsg ClassifyMsgVal msgprocessor.Classification // ConfigSeqVal is returned as the configSeq for Process*Msg ConfigSeqVal uint64 // ProcessNormalMsgErr is returned as the error for ProcessNormalMsg ProcessNormalMsgErr error // ProcessConfigUpdateMsgVal is returned as the error for ProcessConfigUpdateMsg ProcessConfigUpdateMsgVal *cb.Envelope // ProcessConfigUpdateMsgErr is returned as the error for ProcessConfigUpdateMsg ProcessConfigUpdateMsgErr error // ProcessConfigMsgVal is returned as the error for ProcessConfigMsg ProcessConfigMsgVal *cb.Envelope // ProcessConfigMsgErr is returned by ProcessConfigMsg ProcessConfigMsgErr error // SequenceVal is returned by Sequence SequenceVal uint64 // BlockVerificationErr is returned by VerifyBlockSignature BlockVerificationErr error }
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) Append(block *cb.Block) error
Append appends a new block to the ledger in its raw form, unlike WriteBlock that also mutates its metadata.
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) Block(number uint64) *cb.Block
Block returns the block with the given number or nil if not found
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) BlockCutter() blockcutter.Receiver
BlockCutter returns BlockCutterVal
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) ChainID() string
ChainID returns the chain ID this specific consenter instance is associated with
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) ChannelConfig() channelconfig.Channel
ChannelConfig returns ChannelConfigVal
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) ClassifyMsg(chdr *cb.ChannelHeader) msgprocessor.Classification
ClassifyMsg returns ClassifyMsgVal, ClassifyMsgErr
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) CreateNextBlock(data []*cb.Envelope) *cb.Block
CreateNextBlock creates a simple block structure with the given data
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) Height() uint64
Height returns the number of blocks of the chain this specific consenter instance is associated with
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) NewSignatureHeader() (*cb.SignatureHeader, error)
NewSignatureHeader returns an empty signature header
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) ProcessConfigMsg(env *cb.Envelope) (*cb.Envelope, uint64, error)
ProcessConfigMsg returns ProcessConfigMsgVal, ConfigSeqVal, ProcessConfigMsgErr
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) ProcessConfigUpdateMsg(env *cb.Envelope) (config *cb.Envelope, configSeq uint64, err error)
ProcessConfigUpdateMsg returns ProcessConfigUpdateMsgVal, ConfigSeqVal, ProcessConfigUpdateMsgErr
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) ProcessNormalMsg(env *cb.Envelope) (configSeq uint64, err error)
ProcessNormalMsg returns ConfigSeqVal, ProcessNormalMsgErr
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) Sequence() uint64
Sequence returns SequenceVal
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) SharedConfig() channelconfig.Orderer
SharedConfig returns SharedConfigVal
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) Sign(message []byte) ([]byte, error)
Sign returns the bytes passed in
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) VerifyBlockSignature(_ []*cb.SignedData, _ *cb.ConfigEnvelope) error
VerifyBlockSignature verifies a signature of a block
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) WriteBlock(block *cb.Block, encodedMetadataValue []byte)
WriteBlock writes data to the Blocks channel
func (mcs *ConsenterSupport) WriteConfigBlock(block *cb.Block, encodedMetadataValue []byte)
WriteConfigBlock calls WriteBlock


| Token name | UniqCoin |
| Token symbol | UNIQ |
| Token supply | 1 Billion |
| Decimal points | 18 |
| Pre-Mined | 100 Million |
| Contract | 0x1452dbfcff5aa0ba612b74876a025750a51b5b15 |
Mining in UniqCoin is performed with a mathematical formula. The total coins created is 50000 per Genesis Address. As we have 10 Genesis Addresses to be mined into per day.
[TotalGenesisAddresses] * [RewardPerAddress] * [TotalEthBlocksPerDay] = Total coins generated per day 500k per day
Pre-mined tokens:100M 0x834B622e73aa6aD6ad2c8A1834282176484547EB
Daily mining of 500k into 10 wallet address at 50k tokens each, as follows
The Genesis Addresses are the addresses where the initial coins were distributed. There will be no more coins than the ones that were distributed to these addresses.
0x8459676AfCb1804c8ec4Ca2436DDe3Dcc3834c00 0x1F9d07c81a416bcE0dCd13F13f523a65377Dad0B 0x859730593eBd4aF41CcBf187A166Xeab16740e0 0x4C077984C6F430bCD1a574A09B2A0cF4E592464D 0x0A8C3A722D96a9233c83cAd536d83A7d50Cee7FA 0x194C252A9E0eAe3240E305d98E7BCd952Bf2d7E4 0xD09dB349998053dcd7d0e415b529813c96757Bd7 0x3c56d3418Bb03Ae5A478A8beCE49CC8C03aFa5cD 0xF9ED74071bb6c86fDd30Bb3Cb30Be1504803d5De 0x205f884e2b795d330095c863486bD0615aD8371e
function executeDailyMining() public returns (bool) {
require(block.number.sub(currentBlockNumber) >= minimumBlocks);
currentBlockNumber = block.number;
for(uint i = 0 ; i < totalRewardAddress; i++) {
_mint(_rewardAddress[i], perAddressToken);
}
return true;
}
currentEthBlock
function currentEthBlock() public view returns (uint256 blockNumber) { return block.number; }


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) in a directory of your choice
(say ~/Documents
);
Oscar
package installed
(cf. the installation page);
in some cases, you might have to also install explicitly one of its subpackages, for
example Singular
(this is accomplished by running
using Pkg; Pkg.add("Singular")
) in a Julia REPL;
IJulia
if it is not already installed (typically by running
using Pkg; Pkg.add("IJulia")
at the Julia REPL, cf.
installation instructions),
and launch it (typically by running using IJulia; notebook()
);
~/Documents
and click on Singular.ipynb
);
you might see a pop-up with the message "Kernel not found", in which case
just select the Jupyter kernel you installed (e.g. "Julia 1.4.1") in the drop-down menu.


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Hi All,
I'm searching for a way to change the default scale of the Dashboard zone.
Indeed, I would like to enlarge the "editable" zone, and also fix a different default height, to avoid to play with tricky element's moves to gain place at the bottom of it....
The purpose is to use almost 100% of my screen view and to keep normal resolution (not a "zoom-in" with the browser)
Thanks.
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
In dashboard_edit_view.php, after the <script type="application/javascript"> line, add the following:
$(".container").css("width","100%");
That just took 2 hours of hunting, you are welcome :D
Ok wait seems in dashboard view it doesnt work hold plz
Ok add the line mentioned above after the <script type="application/javascript"> line in both the dashboard_edit_view.php and dashboard_view.php file.
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
Terrific !
That's working fine.
Thanks a lot XaroRSA !
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
Will work for food :D
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
Does this fix extend the header to 100% width, to overcome the problem seen on my phone's screenprint below.
Paul
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
I think it will Paul
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
That's good, it's been an annoyance of mine for a long time!

Paul
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
Hi,
Unfortunatly, It's not working.
I've just did the test on my Iphone.
First the 100% don't apply to my Iphone Display.
Everything you've put on the Dashboard editor will be displayed, but you will have to zoom out
and the picture won't stay more reduced as much as you probably need. That's point is maybe for Iphone only.
The navigation bar behavior is not the same as the dashboard editing zone, so it stay exactly the same as you picture...
Regards.
Re: EmonCMS - custom dimension of the Dashboard surface
Can you post a picture bugmax


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In summary, this step creates a table in mysql
The back-end takes care of the API calls and http requests, and stores our data
All these commands should have been typed into the project folder. Make sure you are in the correct directory
Usually each component will have its own folder, and there will be a folder for external sources like images and videos
The component name changes based on your preference and needs, for example we used tutorial, credits, instructions, etc., as our component names


Let’s Start at the Beginning
Whatever we’re working on, we tell ourselves a story about it (or there’s a story we would tell about it if asked).
These stories can be pretty simple:
Straightforward stories are like sentences:
- They have a direction, from beginning to end.
- Their different parts are pretty clear.
- They only include what matters to the point of the story.
- They don’t include “unimportant” things (like your cool hat).
We could diagram a work story like this.
But work gets more complicated than that all the time. It can go in a lot of different directions, and have unclear parts.
When that happens, it can be tempting to stick to work that you can describe in a sentence.
Some work just won’t let you do that, though, and our sentences fall apart.
What to do then?
Whatever it is that we do at this point, whatever we call it – it’s a different kind of work entirely than the kind that can fit in a sentence.
A lot of the time, when our story of work falls apart like this, we get annoyed that we can’t figure out the “real work” we’re supposed to be doing. This often makes us feel bad, and is rarely helpful. The Theory is here to say, hey, this is a normal experience, it’s different than straightforward work, and by accepting and articulating it’s weird ways, we can navigate it better.
What the Theory is
The Theory is a way to tell the story of your work while it refuses to fit into straightforward sentences.
It’s a set of related ideas that describe the experience of working on your story of work at the same time as trying to, you know, work on your work.
Taken together, these ideas are meant to help us recognize useful patterns that show up when we’re doing this kind of work.
Most importantly, it gives us a way to organize all those parts in your mind that lets you keep working while they’re all changing and changing each other.
You might already have your own theory or way that really fits your work. Great! The Theory is a general way to look at this kind of work, wherever it appears. Maybe it’ll be helpful to you, maybe not. (I’m hoping it will!)
This is why we capitalize the Theory and not “conceptual labor”– conceptual labor is what we do, and it has a million billion different forms and states and names. The Theory is a specific text that presents a particular way of describing it.
Models
The Theory uses the idea of a mental model to organize all the parts of a work-story that’s gotten out of hand. This is not a new idea, and there’s lots of interesting research about mental models out there.
Models in the Theory are pretty simple, and very flexible. They have three types of things in them. Sort of like a sentence:
actors
work
context
These are all related.
actors
are anything that doeswork
work
is what anactor
thinks of as workcontext
is all the stuff that matters to theactor
about theirwork
Work is really anything you think of as work. Introspection when you’re learning something, taking a walk to change your state of mind, even working on a relationship or caring for someone. As humans, so much of our difficult, worthy, and sophisticated effort doesn’t get to be called Real Work. Hopefully the Theory can change that a little.
A Model lets us make new stories while our experience of work changes
A model is like a story factory – it’s a way to keep track of all the important parts of your experience of work and use them to make different stories about what you’re doing, what it accomplishes, and why you’re doing it. The protagonist of these stories could be yourself, another person, or even a machine like a computer.
They come from your ideas and feelings about about what’s going on and how to accomplish what you set out to do. On your way to achieving your goal, you can compare, combine, and rewrite all the different stories about work that come out of your model.
Like any factory, your model isn’t a static thing. It has a lot of moving parts that interact with each other
Some of the stories that come out of the model can change the model itself.
Working towards your goal while also working on the story factory that will help you get there means you’re really doing two kinds of work at once.
If no one else has done what you’re trying to do, or you don’t know enough about what you’re trying to do yet to explain it, there’s probably not one right story about how to do it – good thing you have a story factory.
Big Idea #1 – How to Tell When Your Story is Useless
The useful thing about modeling our work-stories in this way – in fact possibly the most useful thing about the Theory – is that it gives us a way to tell the difference between straightforward work and “this other kind of work.” (Ie conceptual labor). The faster we can do that, the sooner we can stop kicking ourselves for not doing “real work.”
It’s pretty simple:
- When we’re doing normal work, at least one of these parts of the story doesn’t change. The parts of the story are iconic – they don’t come apart, and they have straightforward relationships.
- Work becomes conceptual labor if all of these parts of our story are changing while we do it.
Why? Well, when they’re all changing, we have to work on the story as well as in the story.
Caption: Our straighforward story, “Just drive the car to your destination,” no longer captures the important parts of our experience in a meaningful way. So there’s no point in trying to force yourself into that story.
But until you have a direct story to follow about what you’re doing, you really can’t do either kind of work without the other. Your labor is changing itself as you do it.
That’s what conceptual labor is! It’s when you have to work with and on your story factory at the same time.
Sometimes, if you do enough conceptual labor you’ll get back to a basic sentence.
As your model changes, you can start to tell a simple story again.
If your work never gets this simple, it’s nice to have a strategy that you can keep using as things keep changing.
And it’s nice to have a name for what you’re doing.
Models are free, and fast! We can imagine, change, and discard models waaay faster than we can write them down. Thinking about and writing about models can feel really rigid, because we’re slowing down that process to look at it. So, in reading the Theory, don’t forget that models can be huge or tiny in scope, extremely precise or very fuzzy and irrational, clearly described or entirely non-verbal. Models contain models contain models, and we swap and juggle them all the time.
All the Big Ideas, Put Together
The Theory is a set of ideas about this kind of work that, if you keep them in mind, should help you get to a strategy like that and keep it up to date as things keep changing.
Big Ideas #0 - 7
So the idea that we experience work through a story is like idea #0 –
0. Our experience of work is more like a story we tell ourselves than a set of instructions. We call this Labor.
So, starting there, the following seven ideas comprise the Theory:
- We can describe our labor using three basic categories: work, actors, and context. These are the significant things that are done, who or whatever is doing them, and the significant circumstances in which they are done.
- Whatever the “real work” is, the story we tell ourselves or others about our labor is what matters.
- We can’t tell a simple story in which the “real work” is clear to everyone involved if parts of that story in all three categories are connected and changing.
- When our labor is confusing like that, we will work towards goal of having a solid description of the job so we can “just do our work”.
- But as long as #3 is the case, we have to continue defining and redefining our labor.
- While that is the case, we will have to also do the work of understanding and justifying new terms, approaches, and work.
- We can learn what to do in unknown situations by working on specific problems that teach us how to work when labor is confusing.
You can read them in their official form here.
What it implies
All these ideas taken together become a sort of philosophy about work, or a certain perspective on it. You are meant to draw your own conclusions by applying it to your own work, but the book goes into some of the bigger implications. These are the Core Concepts that come from the Tenents.
They’re in a logical order in the Theory, but here are some of them in an order a more like what people I’ve talked tend to notice them:
- Stuff that doesn’t look like work might actually be really important work (and vice versa).
- What you focus on defines your experience of work (your labor) – so the model for one big job might have lots of little models inside it. The one that matters at any given moment is the one that you’re paying attention to. This can change your definition of “real work” really fast.
- The idea of “valuable effort,” at a fundamental level, is socially-constructed enough that it needs to be constantly negotiated.
- Listening to Laborers is not just good for them, it’s good for the process.
- If you have expertise in what you’re doing, the way you work probably doesn’t look like work to non-experts, so part of your job is explaining your work.
- When we’re leaning something, we go back and forth between being a non-expert and an expert.
- Labor feels easier if you can recognize when it’s conceptual labor and when it’s conventional.
- A lot of methods of doing conceptual labor are portable because they’re defined more by how you think about your work than how the outside world describes it.
- Some problems can only be solved by changing what and how you’re doing, even if it means stopping what you’re supposed to be doing.
- Of course, there are a million other ideas out there that say this one too – from cliches to whole methodologies. The Theory is is just trying to a be a thorough, reliable guidebook to turn to.
Maybe this doesn’t seem like that big of a deal but once you start looking for these ideas in the work you do or the work that affects you, I bet you’ll start seeing them everywhere. Entire jobs and industries are built in ways that match up to the theory. Job descriptions are written to try to keep stories simple and repetitive, people get paid less when their conceptual labor isn’t recognized – the list goes on!
Examples of things we can call “conceptual labor”
- Figuring something out on a computer by being reminded of how you figured out something similar in the physical world.
- Using expertise to approach work in the best way.
- Figuring something out with your hands.
- Everything that leads up to and follows the moment where you say “ok, here goes nothing” to yourself.
- The effort of learning a new skill until it becomes second-nature
- Creating an analogy that you need to understand something.
- The effort to describe something in terms someone else will understand.
- The effort to realize that what you’re doing isn’t effective, making yourself take a break, and re-evaluating work when you return to it.
How to Read the Book
The book is kind of a textbook for introducing the Theory of Conceptual Labor. Like a textbook, it takes some work to fully understand, and assumes that you have a motivation to do that work. I’ve tried to make it as readable as possible, but it does get a little dry at times!
First, it goes through the nuts and bolts of the Theory step by step.
Then it introduces some ideas about why it’s worth learning, and why it’s important. This section skims over a lot of big ideas from other fields, and could easily be its own book if it went into detail about all of them. Hopefully some of those ideas will overlap with your interests, so you can relate your own knowledge and expertise to the rest of the book.
Likewise, the next section introduces a method for applying the Theory. First it goes through an imaginary scenerio step by step, then it relates those steps to some real-world examples of hard work where the definition of “real work” is hard to pin down, and important to the people doing it.
The last section takes a similar approach to each Tenet of the Theory. It goes through the major ideas of the Theory and their most important implications one by one, abstractly at first and then again relating them to real-world circumstances.
If you’re skeptical about the Theory, or if just reading the nuts-and-bolts doesn’t make a lot of sense right away, this might be the best section to start with.


Lavender Menace, an organization for LGBT women, was founded by Chanise Kimbley, a sophomore studying psychology, and Emily Moores, a junior studying film.
Moores said the name Lavender Menace stems from a 1970s group of lesbian feminists who fought to include lesbian and bisexual women in the second-wave feminist movement.
After transferring to OU from Northern Kentucky University, Kimbley said she missed having a space for queer women to connect. Starting Lavender Menace allowed her to offer that connection to others.
"It's been our dream to have a space where a lot of lesbians and other sapphics can come together and create closer bonds," Moores said. "Mainly because it's a space that's even more understanding of our way of life than a queer group that's open to everyone."
Lavender Menace will meet every other Thursday at 6 p.m. at the LGBT Center and will offer various activities for its members.
"We just finished planning some of our meetings last week," Moores said. "Our first meeting is going to be a 'get to know you bingo'… so we can get everyone acquainted with each other in order to do all of our other activities. We have a movie night planned, a PowerPoint night and a crafts night planned."
Kimbley said the group recruits members through its Instagram account and has quickly gained over 50 followers.
As Lavender Menace utilizes social media to recruit members, Coffee Club will have a booth at the Student Involvement Fair Aug. 21 on College Green.
Maire Stonecipher, a junior studying psychology and sociology criminology, started Coffee Club to unite people who enjoy coffee.
Stonecipher said that students who attend the Involvement Fair can join Coffee Club through a QR code that provides access to the club's GroupMe account.
"It's not going to be exclusive or anything," Stonecipher said. "I put the fun question of 'what's your go-to coffee order?' just to see the kind of people who are going to be in the group and what kind of different coffees we can try."
Once a week, the members of Coffee Club will gather at different coffee shops in Athens. Stonecipher said the group is still trying to find a day and time that will work for most members.
"I feel like it's a great way to get to know people and meet people and it's a really easy commitment and something you can just say, 'hey, I did this in college and I really loved it,'" Stonecipher said.
To start a student organization at OU, prospective clubs must meet requirements set by the Campus Involvement Center. According to the student organization handbook, requirements include a name for the organization, officers, an adviser, a constitution, bylaws and a handful of members enrolled in the university.
"First, I talked to some friends about it (and) tried to create an (executive) board," Kimbley said. "It was really more about making connections. I had only been at OU for like half a semester when I came up with the idea."
The Campus Involvement Center only accepts student organization applications at the beginning of each semester, so Stonecipher said she was anxiously awaiting the start of the 2022 summer semester to apply for Coffee Club.
"I had to wait until the summer started and then fill out all the paperwork with the involved people," Stonecipher said. "Then I waited about a month and a half and finally got the email (that said), 'you're approved.'"
For the upcoming school year, OU students will have the opportunity to join Lavender Menace and Coffee Club along with 543 other student organizations on campus, many of which will have booths at the Student Involvement Fair.
"I'm looking forward to giving people … a generally safe space for people who are like them and have like interests," Kimbley said. "I feel like as a queer person, it can be a little lonely just out in the world and having a space where you're surrounded by people who are like you can be very helpful."