To the Aspiring Data Scientists
A lot of times interested folks contact me with a question like this: ‘I want to be a data scientist; can you help?’
Well, I wish I could. The reality is, I won’t be able to unless I really understand what you want and why you want it.
Firstly because guiding someone is next to impossible in this time and era when everything is so convoluted. People come to learn with preconceived ideas and notions. I am not saying you have to come with a blank slate, what I am saying is you need to show real motivation. I repeat, you must have a motivation and you must be able to articulate why you are motivated.
There is no shortage of tutorials, courses, documents, websites, articles today on how to become a data scientist. Sadly, most of the times there is a business mind lurking behind such documents and campaigns. They will tell you only partial truth. They will tell you that you can become a data scientist in 4 months, or in 6 months, or by completing a boot camp and so on and so forth.
In my opinion, if you already have the background of a typical data scientist (have worked with data, have knowledge of scientific process, programming skills in R, Python, SAS, or any relevant language), then yes, you can acquire the knowledge and become familiar with the tools that data science utilizes within a short period of time.
 This is because you were drawn to something for which you were not prepared for. And you did not anticipate the challenges you would face to become a data scientist.
Now let’s come to the main point.
Why do you want to become one
Ask yourself the “why” question and give an honest answer. What is your response?

But the best approach would be to write a few points on a piece of paper as to why do you want to become a data scientist.
- Point 1
- Point 2
- Point 3
- Point 4
You could list that you are passionate about working with data; you want to make an impact by helping the management or team leaders making the right decision based on data, or you just enjoy solving other’s problems with data.
Whatever may be your reasons, it is important to list them down. Listening makes you look at it by yourself. That helps you to assess whether this is really something you want to do.
Motivation is the key.
Know what is data science and who are data scientists
Before you jump into this field, do some research about the field. Google it, find some blogs to follow, read some whitepapers from reputed analytic organizations and software companies such as SAS, IBM, Google, Microsoft and many others. Spend some time reading. Not just skimming through; actual reading. To me, reading is the best way to broaden knowledge. In this era of YouTube and video lectures, I still find reading somewhat superior, especially for beginners. Once you have acquired a general understanding of the field, listening to lectures or watching short video clips would boost your knowledge quickly.
What do data scientists do
I will write briefly. I am working work on a separate article on it.
Data scientists solve problems with the help of data. That’s what they do.
On paper, Data Scientists do so many things that someone with a title of data scientist in one industry cannot possibly list what another data scientist might be doing in a different industry. That is to give you an idea of how variable the type of works data scientists is involved with.
Simply put, data scientists work with data to bring actionable insight that helps to solve a problem. If the data scientist is working in a financial organization, the problems would be related to, say, banking industry, the stock market, etc. If the data scientist works in healthcare, the problem would be related to healthcare service provider such as hospitals, health units.
Data scientists do not necessarily get involved with building the data architecture such as data warehousing or setting up or maintaining cloud infrastructure for an organization. Those who work in this type of work are called ‘Data Engineers’. You may want to read a little more about this in my earlier post (in Bengali).
Let me clarify one thing–data scientists do not necessarily design the databases. It is the data engineers who do that. Data scientists analyze the data to drive business whereas data engineers develop and maintain the architecture that stores data. Data scientists or statisticians do not build or maintain databases in most of the cases. However, there is often a need to create smaller databases for a specific purpose or a project. A data scientist may need to design, develop and maintain project-specific databases, which are largely different from enterprise-level data warehouse.
Most large organizations have their separate team of engineers who develop and maintain the data-science platforms (DBs, Hadoop, etc.).
 The reason is in part, your preparation, in part your effort. If you are not from a quantitative background with some math, and computer programming experience, I would say it would be a daunting task for you to learn what it takes to be a data scientist. I am completely being honest.
At some point in time, you are going to read and write computer programs.
If you’ve never written a computer program, I am not sure how long it will take for you to pick up a language. But I personally feel that it takes at least 6 months to get some basics of any programming language. Another year or so to know a bit more. If you engage yourself full time to learn a language, you might be able to write simple programs and carry out simple data science tasks within 4-6 months.
Two approaches to be a Data Scientist
Learn the tools to become data scientist, or Find the problems you want to solve, and then learn what it takes to solve them
The first approach is the typical approach and I call it bottom-up approach. I will not discuss the first approach because it has been the mainstream approach thus far. This has brought so many discussions, lot of training offerings, online courses, articles in the media, blogs, and vlogs, and much more.
I will focus on the second approach to becoming a data scientist. I call it top-down approach.
Find problems that you want to solve
This is perhaps the easiest way to find out if you really want to be a data scientist. If so, keep reading.
I call this approach a top-down approach, you first find a problem and then solve it.
As I wrote earlier in this article, data scientists solve problems with the help of data. In other words, they have a problem to solve in front of them and they would provide a solution using data.
Now this may sound like, well, problem is there, the data is there, so what’s the big deal?
It’s not a big deal, but its a huge deal.
Having the data is only one step to solving the problem. What if you do not have the data in the right form, or you do not have the data in the first place. If you have the data, it often takes 80% of your time to prepare it for your analysis.
If you do not have the data, then you first need to get the data in the first place.
Where do I find problem?

I am going to give you some ideas which should give you enough clues to find a problem on your own and discover what it takes to solve those problems. Here goes the list with brief descriptions.
Problem 1: Building a list of most important news of the day
This may sound like an unattractive problem. But think about how you might want to use the information. First, you need to think about a focus area. If you are interested in politics, the possibilities are endless. If you build a list exclusively on “North Korea”, you would find at the end of the year how the things unfolded and you can present the information on a timescale. The importance of such a list is to be able to find temporal relationship between different events which may affect some other event/outcome of interest.
You might be aware that news or sometimes a tweet from an influential person can affect the stock price of a particular company in the US stock market. But this could be useful beyond US market. You will find many potential use cases if you think a bit deep.
Problem 2: Tracking accident statistics
This problem is particularly suitable for resource-limited countries where government record keeping is inadequate. Every day newspapers report accidental deaths due to road crashes. You could select one or two major newspapers and scan their pages to retrieve news about road accidents. This could be done as part of a research project at your institution where you pursue a Bachelors or Masters degree.
Problem 3: Calculating impact of faculty research
This is something you can do for your department, or institution or country. Start with your department first where you have only a handful of faculties who are presumably doing some kind of research and publishing their findings in journals. Think of developing an automated system that would find articles (in Google Scholar, for example) and calculate impacts (from the journal impact factors). You can present the results by department, by type of research, or by institution.
Problem 4: Build an economic performance dashboard
You can use Google’s Data Studio to build a dashboard of economic performance of your country on some key performance metrics. The data could be found on the central bank’s website or government data repositories. For Bangladesh, many economic data sets are available online free of charge. Just visit https://www.bb.org.bd/econdata/ and find your data there.
Conclusion
In conclusion, you can take the easier route to be a data scientist. In this route, you first need to find a problem and you will point your learning path towards solving that problem. The path is not smooth. But you can always ask questions to someone who knows or someone more experienced. It is a good practice to find someone who would be your mentor and will guide you through your learning path. Since you are learning on your own, you have to take the responsibility on your own. If you do not want to learn, nobody is going to push. If you are really interested and motivated, I hope this article has given you some direction.
Happy learning.


COPYCAT A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1995 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ****
COPYCAT is cinema at its best. We are talking edge of the seat thriller, but not because it's shocking, which is frequently is, but because it is an extremely well written, directed, and acted movie. This is the sort of movie that draws its audience into the story like a spider into its web until in the end, the picture is life, and you feel a part of it. When the house lights came up, I could hardly move. My one comment was a huge wow!
The show starts like any good murder mystery or thriller. It seems that people are being killed by a serial killer. My first reaction was this was going to be an enjoyable cop show with some good acting. Think of the show as a Japanese bullet train. It starts off at a normal pace from the station, but by the time the show is a third over, you are flying along. Moreover, the last quarter of the movie is a leap into hyperspace the tension gets so thick, but at no time does the movie play with your emotions and no matter how gory the crime scenes, they never cross over the line by over doing any of the scenes.
The San Francisco police team, lead by Detective Mary Jane, a.k.a. M. J., Monahan (Holly Hunter) and her sidekick Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) avoid saying the killings were done by a serial killer until it becomes obvious. When M. J.'s boss (Thomas Quinn) wants to take her off of the case because it is too big for her, she tells him, "Nobody in this department has ever worked on a serial case." Her boss replies, "I did too, the Zodiac case" To which M. J. retorts, "Wasn't he never caught, and didn't he die of old age?"
Hunter is one of my favorite actresses perhaps because I have a Southern accent like hers and am on the small side so I always identify with her. Actually, I think she is more my idol. Here she gives a possible Academy Award nomination performance. She has not been so good since one of my all time favorite movies, BROADCAST NEWS, which I think no human being can see too often it is so brilliant. I am unhappy to report that the producers (Arnon Milchan and Mark Tarlov) of COPYCAT felt she needed a dialog coach to tone down her Southern accent a bit. Hey, people with Southern accents do move to places like San Francisco and keep their accents. I know; I did, and its okay. We do not need people to come and tell us how to speak "right".
Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) is a world renown psychiatrist who lectures on serial killers. She is attached by one, Darryl Lee Cullum (Henry Connick Jr.), and after that becomes a severe agoraphobia spending almost the entire movie in her apartment.  She is so frighten that when the paper carrier delivers her paper four feet away from the door she goes into a sever panic attack. Weaver, who I think it is generally terrific, has been known to overdo it if not carefully directed. In a similar role in DEATH AND THE MAIDEN she lost control of her acting. Here she delivers a near perfect performance of a woman living on the edge. She is a shoe-in for an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal.
Eventually, the good doctor and the detective form a bond and join forces to thwart the serial killer, Peter Foley (William McNamara). Foley's specialty is like that of a great forger since he reproduces in sequence some of the most heinous serial killers of this century. This turns out to be a fascinating plot device and the script treats each small point, like how the sequence is determined, carefully. Soon the killer draws the doctor into his diabolical schemes, and the tension reaches higher and higher fever pitches. The tightly drawn violins of the music by Christopher Young add immensely to the overall feeling of dread and impending doom.
The script by first time screenwriters Ann Biderman and David Madsen is brilliant and the dialog is smart. Like PULP FICTION the writers know how to push the edge of the envelope, but they never step out of the bounds of good taste and reasonableness no matter how gruesome the material. The whole character of the agoraphobic is one which is so easy to make into caricature which they skillfully avoid. They even know when to introduce laughs to cut through the tension. The story is made highly creditable and believable from start to finish. The ending is perfect, and they avoid several possible cliched epilogues. These writers are in total control of their material. I look forward to many more movies from them.
As good as the script is, there is a throw away part in it of an old love interest of M. J.'s, a cop named Nico (Will Patton) and of Nico's jealousy of Reuben. This subplot was not of the same quality as the rest of the story, and if Nico's entire role had been purged, the story would have been tighter and stronger still.
The subtle but effective cinematography by Laszlo Kovacs has just the right blend of lightness and darkness to give an eeriness to everything without ever overpowering any of the scenes. The editing cuts at all of the right moments for maximum intensity. The makeup, especially on the doctor, adds to the realism.
Now for the real star of COPYCAT, the director, Jon Amiel. Like the first time screenwriters, there is nothing in his background to suggest greatness. His few previous pictures included SOMMERSBY and the TV miniseries "The Singing Detective". Both of these were good shows but nothing outstanding. Here he keeps his actors and actresses so tightly wound and yet under control at the same time that is a joy to watch such directorial craft in action. I sure hope he decides to do many more thrillers. I can't wait.
COPYCAT runs for 2:03, but you won't spend much time checking your watch. Other than deleting the Nico subplot, I think the show is near perfection and the pacing exactly right, albeit bordering on heart attach pace. The movie is rated R for violence, gory dead bodies, and nudity. The show would be suitable for teenagers, only if they are quite mature and are not prone to nightmares. I strongly recommend this show to you. You may want to see this picture with a friend who can walk you to the car afterwards.  It gets my rare, full **** rating.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show.  Totally unbearable.
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A mollete, native to northern Mexico, is made with bolillos sliced lengthwise and partially hollowed, filled with frijoles refritos, and topped with cheese and slices of jalapeño or serrano peppers. It is then grilled in an oven until the cheese melts. The frijoles refritos are "frijol mantequilla" known outside of the region as "pinto beans".
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By: Lynsey Nielson, Horticulturist
Trees are usually the most valuable part of the living landscape—for the shade and aesthetics they provide, and for the amount of time it takes to replace a loss. Therefore, shopping around for the right arborist is well worth the investment and the little planning required.
The best option for locating qualified arborists in Utah is through the International Society of Arboriculture, Certified Arborist Program. Utah has many arborists who are certified through the ISA. To locate a certified arborist in your area, see the Utah Community Forest Council’s website (Utah Chapter of ISA). Certified arborists must pass an intense exam and annually satisfy required continuing education credits. Typically, not all arborists in a company are certified, so be sure to request an arborist whose certification is current and ask to see their certification.
Being a certified arborist will not in itself assure a quality job. As with hiring any contractor, it is important that you interview and check references before signing a contract. Some potential questions are "What is 'included bark' and why is that a problem?", or "Why are flush cuts harmful to my tree?", or "Why is topping harmful to my tree?"
A good arborist will educate you on the proper care of trees and the harmful effects of improper pruning. An arborist with a high code of ethics will walk away from a job that requires topping. This is the person you want to care for your trees!
For more information, go to our Pruning 101 article.
Make sure the company you hire is insured. Request a copy of their insurance coverage, and do not permit work to start on your property without verification.
Most states, including Utah, DO NOT have state-run programs for testing or licensing arborists; therefore a company claiming to be ‘licensed’ in Utah is most likely referring to a simple business license.
Work performed near an energized power line must be performed by a certified arborist utility specialist. These professionals have received appropriate training concerning the hazards and safe practices of working near energized lines and only use ANSI-approved equipment. In addition, Utah’s Overhead Line Safety Act requires a contractor to notify the power utility in advance if tree work within 10 feet of an energized power line will need to be performed. The utility and contractor will work together to create a safe work zone, which may include placing mechanical barriers to prevent contact with power lines, temporarily moving a power line or de-energizing and grounding the line. Private tree trimmers and homeowners have been killed or seriously injured while working close to energized power lines.
Utah Community Forest Council / International Society of Arboriculture Utah Chapter


2C-E & Mushrooms - P. cyanescens
This isn't a report of some frightening overdose on a research chemical with the tripper barely making it.
No, its a story of what most would consider a completely uninteresting dose of 2CE, and the completely unexpected result.
I've been tripping for 15 years now, and every once so often something utterly gobsmacking happens completely out of the blue - something that never ever happened before.
Last sunday, on a small dose of 2CE, this proved to be the case once more.
My best friend and I took 2CE, He took 12mg and I ended up taking 4mg, a dose which for me works out to be about as active as a gram of Cubensis mushrooms, typically about 6mg Psilocybin, which to my high sensitivity is a good amount. His girlfriend was to be our sitter, in case issues needed working through.
The effects came slowly, building to full intensity over about 2:30 hours, and the effect itself was quite relaxing and tremendously slow, compared to the hectic nature mushrooms and LSD tend to have. It was in many ways similar to the mescaline experience we had weeks earlier with San Pedro cactus.
There proved to be very little going on for both of us, the psychedelic effects were almost generic. We were sitting wrapped in blankets, tripping in a comfortable way and calmly having a meaningful discussion in complete darkness, while our sitter listened in and meditated to pass the time. The day before we had been her sitters, and there was much for her to meditate on.
My friend and I noticed unpleasant vasoconstriction from the 2CE, especially my friend with his higher dose was unpleasantly affected. I'm a cardiac patient and always have a bottle of sublingual nitroglycerin spray at hand to counter angina pectoris attacks. My (healthy) friend decided to want to try using that to counter his vasoconstriction, and took 800 micrograms of nitroglycerin sublingual, and I followed suit. For both of us the nitroglycerin's vasodilation proved to counter 2CE's vasoconstriction comfortably, but not completely.
As time progressed my friend decided to go to bed to try get to a deeper level meditatively, and I did the same, turning inward in near complete darkness, wrapped in a comfy blanket on their living room couch.
Up until then the 2CE had been both enjoyable and relatively uneventful. But all that was about to change, fast!
I gazed inward to observe sparse visuals. I believe I had my eyes closed for 10 minutes when suddenly something came from beyond, as we in Holland say: 'like a clap of thunder from a clear sky'.
Suddenly as if a valve was opened wide I was flooded with memories, imagery and emotions. At first obscure, it soon became all too clear what was happening: I was being flooded with memories from a past life, from the life before this one.
I've always been a tad skeptic about 'past life memories' but however real or illusory the phenomenon is - it happened to me.
Incredibly detailed memories that spanned all senses, sight, sound, touch, smell, taste it was all there, and all wrapped in strong emotions that felt 100% authentic.
My rational mind frowns at the thought of past life memories but the experience, the flood of sensations, was completely authentic, as if indeed I remembered it.
My name was Salim. I was a black orphaned child who lived homeless on the streets in sub-Saharan Africa. I lived in hunger, trying to survive, in the 1960s and early 1970s. I died by a lung ailment that made white slime froth from my mouth about 12-13 years old, to be reborn shortly after in my current life.
The memories came and came and at first I was overcome by the tragedy of it all and cried for well over half an hour, mourning my past life and agonized death, where I died so young starving and choking on my own fluids.
Though I believe in reincarnation, I never gave Karma much thought. This experience was chock full of unmistakable Karma. Much hopes and desires of that abysmally poor boy had I sought after and fulfilled in this life. Issues which then were important, carried over to this life. The story wasn't alien to me in the least bit, because so much of my current life which I couldn't put my fine on is a LOGICAL consequence of that past. There were parallels beyond belief, tiny ones and really big ones.
The defining word here is *authentic*. It felt so completely authentic with details so blatant and trivial, you just can't make that up.
This whole outpour lasted over an hour, then the faucet closed with the return of my friend.
Though I cried and cried for much of it, it at NO point was a 'bad thing'. It was a homecoming. It was remembering something long forgotten but ESSENTIAL to life as it is now.
The trip returned to more mundane matters, and hours went by. When my friend and his girlfriend went to bed, after 11 hours had passed, I decided to take a quarter gram of Psilocybe cyanescens mushrooms (typically containing about 3-4mg Psilocybin) to see if I could reconnect with the past life experience.
Could I ever!
Alone in the night, I partially regressed to being that young boy, while at the same time aware of whom I was now.
The regression was partial and I felt being both lives simultaneously. He looked through my eyes, when I ate something he tasted it it too.
And all the while memories poured in. Memories of staring at a torn poster of a Hindi cinema movie and being enthralled by all the wealth and glamour, as opposed to his own life of poverty, memories of his best friend Achmed/Ahmed (he couldn't read or write so I had to reconstruct phonetics) who was a bit older and watched over him like a brother, speaking to him saying things like: 'Achmed - there IS life after death' and being convinced that all would be well if he could just find Achmed again.
Partially regressed I took pen and paper and wrote down memories as they came. Reading it sober, a few days after, it reads like it was both written by a young boy and grown man. Later the experience faded, and I was convinced I will learn more from this in sessions to come. I went and put some verifiable things through Google and indeed some words I remembered were in the Swahili language, as is the name, and the East African region where this is spoken indeed is Muslim to quite some extent.
I went to bed and slept well. The next day I was high with excitement to have experienced the utterly unexpected, yet what I felt and feel is an important piece of the puzzle of my life. To me its not completely important whether the experience related to authentic reincarnation or was a symbolic abstraction made in this life. It was a truly awesome experience that I feel did me quite some good.
An uneventful trip giving rise to what in every way feels like a past life recollection, a phenomenon I used to be skeptic about. You are never too old to learn.
Mr. Alexander Shulgin, thank you for bringing this amazing molecule into this world.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


It has only been 6 days since my first (and last) belladonna experience. Having read up extensively on this plant I was quite excited to find a large bush of deadly nightshade at a local park and as I grabbed a twig to examine the purple berries I squeezed the contents into my eye. It immediately began to sting; I licked my finger (stupid idea) and rubbed furiously at my eyeball. Before walking to the park, I had drunk around about 5 standard drinks so I was pleasantly inebriated as I walked home after the incident with the berries.
(00.15 mins after absorption)
As I walked home, I began to feel very very drunk, my head felt extremely heavy and I was stumbling quite badly. However I continued to drink when I got home.
(00.30 mins after absorption)
My head is now extremely heavy; feel drunker than Iíve ever been before. Hallucinating very badly, I saw myself, my own body and walked around myself and screamed at myself. Kicked at myself (which was actually a wall) then became disinterested as my phone was ringing. I answered and it was my friend. I told him via lots of screaming that I had eaten magic mushrooms and I felt funny. Then another friend rang and I felt out of control and I told her I had taken heroin.
(00.50 mins after absorption)
A dog ran out in front of me, it was my old dog, which had long since passed away. For some reason I thought this was real, it seemed so real.  As I walked my legs would fall out from under me causing me to go crashing into the road, but my dog would always wait for me.
(Approx an hour and half after absorption)
When I reached the park I was hallucinating widely (although it still seemed normal). Iíve taken a lot of hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline, DMT etc. quite a few times) but these visions were nothing like them, for one they were a change of the entire scenery and to me they seemed real.
There was lightning all around me, the sky was ripped apart and clouds sweeping by quickly, they were tinged with red. All around me (its 8.00 pm) the normally deserted park is filled with people; horrible gray shadows with back holes for eyes, there are thousands of them. The trees are dripping with blood and the ground is littered with body parts. These people are laughing at me, but I can only hear them in my head, they scream at me, horrible things about the universe coming to an end. I remember grabbing my head and screaming.
(Approx two hours after absorption)
nb. This account is from my friends who found me; at this point I no longer have a recollection of what happened.
I was found at the park, screaming in some unknown language at the top of my voice, I was deliberately hurling myself towards the ground, into trees and walls and attempting to throw myself into the river. They called the ambulance who then called the cops. They spent at least half an hour trying to settle me down but I was too confused and violent. The police handcuffed me and tried to hold me down but I threw them off. The ambulance officers shot me up six times with a sedative, which finally brought me down.
I spent 3 days in an induced coma and five days in intensive care, this is where I woke up having no idea what had happened or who I was.
The Australian doctors had never seen a case of belladonna/atropine poisoning before and decided that an opiate derivative and general anesthetic was a good treatment.
Belladonna was a descent into absolute madness; to this day my vision has not recovered (blurry and unable to focus), of all the drugs Iíve used belladonna was the strongest and most terrifying. I would never recommend this plant to anyone who doesnít want to wipe themselves out to the point of dying. It wasnít Ďtrippyí, enlightening and fun. It was the most horrific experience Iíve ever had before.
There are far better (and safer) alternatives to this plant Ė belladonna, I wouldn't risk it.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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Lorem Khaled Ipsum is a major key to success. Put it this way, it took me twenty five years to get these plants, twenty five years of blood sweat and tears, and I’m never giving up, I’m just getting started.  Everyone has a choice. I pick my choice, squeaky clean. Let’s see what Chef Dee got that they don’t want us to eat. Cloth talk. Mogul talk.


Music Metadata by Matija Kolarić is a software library written in pure Python.
It is a sponsored open-source project. Sponsors get access to features they sponsor immediately. As cost of development are covered, features are released as open-source (MIT license).
Open-source code is available at github.com/musicmetadata.
At this moment, this includes:
These features have been developed and thoroughly tested, and can be made available to sponsors at once:
5 demos are available on this site.
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In order for your application to communicate with your cognito identity pool we need to provide the appropriate cognitoIdentityPoolId to the UI.
No Facebook App Id configured.
In order for your application to establish trust between a federated identity provider we need to provide the appropriate facebook app id to Cognito. That requires 2 steps: 1 add Facebook App Id to environment.ts and 2) add the Facebook App Id to your Cognito Identity Pool.
No API URL configured.
We need to specify a backend api url in order for this static single page web application to communicate with the ticket service api.
API URL needs a trailing "/".
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Just like the DailyDealz mockup, this entire app is centered around a single penny auction interface. A user would buy IAP bids, and click their bids away in order to be the last person to have a bid before the time runs out. Each bid will reset the timer.
I have worked with the front and backend of penny auction sites. This will take a lot of funds to maintain. It will use some form of timing system like Cron Jobs in order to link it to a database that gets updated every single second... |
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| Tapping on th menu, you can see your purchases and notifcation setting to have the deal sent to your phone. I'm not sure if google will like that one. If theres any ADS in a notification, then it will be bad news for me. But I'm not sure what the line is. | |
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LittlePlugger is a module that provides Gem based plugin management. By extending your own class or module with LittlePlugger you can easily manage the loading and initializing of plugins provided by other gems.
Plugins are great! They allow other developers to add functionality to an application but relieve the application developer of the responsibility for mainting some other developer’s plugin code. LittlePlugger aims to make it dead simple to manage external plugins as gems.
Every plugin managed by LittlePlugger will have a name represented as a Symbol. This name is used to register the plugin, load the plugin file, and manage the plugin class/module. Here are the three rules for plugin names:
1) all lowercase with underscores 2) maps to a file of the same name with an ‘.rb’ extension 3) converting the name to camel case yields the plugin class / module
These rules are essentially the standard ruby practice of naming files after the class / module the file defines.
Plugins are found by searching through the lib folders of all installed gems; these gems are not necessarily loaded - just searched. If the lib folder has a subdirectory that matches the plugin_path, then all ruby files in the gem’s plugin_path are noted for later loading.
A file is only loaded if the basename of the file matches one of the registered plugin names. If no plugins are registered, then every file in the plugin_path is loaded.
The plugin classes / modules are all expected to live in the same namespace for a particular application. For example, all plugins for the “Foo” application should reside in a “Foo::Plugins” namespace. This allows the plugins to be automatically initialized by LittlePlugger.
Optionally, plugins can provide an initialization method for running any setup code needed by the plugin. This initialize method should be named as follows: “initializer_#{plugin_name}” where the name of the plugin is appended to the end of the initializer method name.
If this method exists, it will be called automatically when plugins are loaded. The order of loading of initialization is not strictly defined, so do not rely on another plugin being initialized for your own plugin successfully initialize.
LittlePlugger is used by extending your own class or module with the LittlePlugger module.
module Logging extend LittlePlugger end
This defines a plugin_path and a plugin_module for our Logging module. The plugin_path is set to “logging/plugins”, and therefore, the plugin_modlue is defined as Logging::Plugins. All plugins for the Logging module should be found underneath this plugin module.
The plugins for the Logging module are loaded and initialized by calling the initialize_plugins method.
Logging.initialize_plugins
If you only want to load the plugin files but not initialize the plugin classes / modules then you can call the load_plugins method.
Logging.load_plugins
Finally, you can get a hash of all the loaded plugins.
Logging.plugins
This returns a hash keyed by the plugin names with the plugin class / module as the value.
If you only want a certain set of plugins to be loaded, then pass the names to the plugin method.
Logging.plugin :foo, :bar, :baz
Now only three plugins for the Logging module will be loaded.
LittlePlugger allows the use of a custom plugin path and module. These are specified when extending with LilttlePlugger by passing the specific path and module to LittlePlugger.
class Hoe extend LittlePlugger( :path => 'hoe', :module => Hoe ) plugin( :clean, :debug, :deps, :flay, :flog, :package, :publish, :rcov, :signing, :test ) end
All ruby files found under the “hoe” directory will be treated as plugins, and the plugin classes / modules should reside directly under the Hoe namespace.
We also specify a list of plugins to be loaded. Only these plugins will be loaded and initialized by the LittlePlugger module. The plugin method can be called multiple times to add more plugins.


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Undergraduate
Course Descriptions - CISC undergraduate courses 100-400 level
CISC 101 PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTING
3 credits
Introduces students to the central ideas of computing and computer science including programs, algorithms, abstraction, the internet, and information systems. Instills ideas and practices of computational thinking and engages students in activities that show how computing and computer science change the world. Explores computing as a creative activity and empowers students to apply
computational thinking to all disciplines including the arts, humanities, business, social and physical sciences, health, and entertainment.
RESTRICTIONS: Does not count toward graduation if taken after any other CISC course. Not open to students with credit for MISY160 or 260, or FREC135.
CISC 103 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH WEB APPLICATIONS
3 credits
Principles of computer science illustrated through programming in scripting languages such as JavaScript and VBScript. Topics include control structures, arrays, functions, and procedures. Programming projects illustrate web-based applications.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to non-majors. Student may not receive credit for CISC103 after receiving credit for CISC106 or CISC108.
CISC 106 GENERAL COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR ENGINEERS
3 credits
Principles of computer science illustrated and applied through programming in a general-purpose language. Programming projects illustrate computational problems, styles, and issues that arise in engineering.
COREQ: MATH241 or any higher level MATH course. RESTRICTIONS: Student may not receive credit for both CISC106 and CISC108.
CISC 108 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE I
3 credits
Computing and principles of programming with an emphasis on systematic program design. Topics include functional programming, data abstraction, procedural abstraction, use of control and state, recursion, testing, and object-oriented programming concepts. Requires no prior programming experience, open to any major, but intended primarily for majors and minors in computer science or mathematics.
COREQ: MATH115, MATH117, or higher math course or math placement.
RESTRICTIONS: Student may not receive credit for both CISC106 and CISC108.
CISC 181 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE II
3 credits
Principles of computer science illustrated and applied through programming in an object oriented language. Programming projects illustrate computational problems, styles and issues that arise in computer systems development and in all application areas of computation.
PREREQ: Grade of C- or better in CISC108 or CISC106. COREQ: MATH221, MATH241, or a higher level math course or math placement.
CISC 220 DATA STRUCTURES
3 credits
Review of data type abstraction, recursion, arrays, stacks, queues, multiple stacks and linked lists. Emphasis on dynamic storage management, garbage collection, trees, graphs, tables, sorting and searching.
PREREQ: A minimum grade of C- in CISC181. COREQ: MATH210 or MATH241.
CISC 250 BUSINESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS
3 credits
Examines technologies of information transmission currently utilized in the business environments and the implications of these technologies upon the development and implementation of information systems. Provides a basic background in the convergence of voice, data and video services into common
digital networks. Security issues also considered.
PREREQ: CISC181. RESTRICTIONS: Degree credit will not be given for both CISC250 and CISC450.
CISC 260 MACHINE ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE
3 credits
Introduction to the basics of machine organization. Programming tools and techniques at the machine and assembly levels. Assembly language programming and computer arithmetic techniques.
PREREQ: A minimum grade of C- in CISC181.
CISC 275 INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
3 credits
Object oriented software design and development through use of the Java programming language. Topics include team programming, design patterns, graphical user interfaces, software engineering tools (eg., integrated development environments, version control, build management, bug tracking, automated
testing).
PREREQ: Minimum grade of C- in CISC220.
CISC 303 AUTOMATA THEORY
3 credits
Automata and formal language theory. Background for advanced applications in compilers, computer networks, operating systems, and natural language processing. Finite automata and regular languages. Push down automata and context free grammars. Turing machines.
PREREQ: A minimum grade of C- in both MATH210 and CISC220.
CISC 304 LOGIC AND PROGRAMMING
3 credits
Propositional and predicate logic for general reasoning and advanced applications
in knowledge representation in artificial intelligence and database, program
correctness and programming semantics. Models, resolution, logic programming,
and natural deduction.
PREREQ: CISC220, MATH210 (with minimum C- grade in both).
CISC 320 INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS
3 credits
Design and analysis of algorithms: worst/average case analysis, proofs for correctness and performance of algorithms. Algorithmic strategies (divide and conquer, greedy methods, dynamic programming, etc.). Algorithms for searching, forming and traversal of strings, trees and graphs. Categorization of computational problems: classes P and NP. NP completeness.
PREREQ: MATH210 and a minimum grade of C- in CISC220.
CISC 355 COMPUTERS, ETHICS AND SOCIETY
3 credits
Explains relationships among information technology, society and ethics by examining issues raised by increasingly widespread use of computers. Topics include ethics for computer professionals, computer impact on factory work, office work, personal privacy and social power distribution.
RESTRICTIONS: Cannot be used as a technical elective for CISC majors or minors.
CISC 356 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
3 credits
Explore economic, philosophical, social, and technical approaches to intellectual property (1500 BCE to present) then will research contemporary IP issues in software, entertainment, the Internet, and biotechnology.
RESTRICTIONS: Junior or Senior standing. Cannot be used as a technical elective for CISC majors or minors.
CISC 360 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
3 credits
Principles and techniques used in the architecture of digital computers. Machine elements and their interrelation. Instruction sets, risc vs cisc, registers, busses and switches.
PREREQ: A minimum grade of C- in CISC220 and CISC260 (or equivalent courses).
CISC 361 OPERATING SYSTEMS
3 credits
Principles and techniques employed in the development of operating systems and their control programs. Includes management of memory, processors, I/O devices.
PREREQ: A minimum grade of C- in both CISC220 and CISC260. CPEG222 may be substituted for CISC260. RESTRICTIONS: CISC360 recommended as a prerequisite.
CISC 364 SYSTEM SECURITY
3 credits
Concepts in maintaining a secure network of computers connected to the
Internet. Topics include information security, classic/common exploits of
operating system and networking weaknesses (e.g., buffer overflows, denial of
service) and how to prevent them, symmetric and public-key cryptography, digital
signatures, wireless LAN security, and firewalls.
PREREQ: CISC361
CISC 366 INDEPENDENT STUDY
1-6 credits
3 credits
CISC 372 PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
3 credits
Introduction to parallel programming concepts, methodologies, and tools. Programming techniques for programs that contain code segments which will run simultaneously on multiple processors. Topics include: concurrency, program decomposition, data distribution, communication, load balancing, scalability, locality, granularity, debugging, performance evaluation.
PREREQ: CISC220
CISC 374 EDUCATIONAL GAME DEVELOPMENT
3 credits
Experience the software engineering process through creating educational games for youth; open-ended, project-oriented team learning while assisting regional teachers in integrating computing and computational thinking into the classroom; interact with teachers as clients, hone communication skills and experience design-studio-based critiques of your ideas.
PREREQ: CISC 220.
CISC 401 ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY OF COMPUTATION
3 credits
General models of computation, formal languages and automata theory and algorithmic unsolvability.
PREREQ: CISC303 RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC401 and CISC601.
CISC 404 LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
3 credits
Formal introduction to first-order logic with emphasis on its relevance to computer science. Syntax, semantics, models, formal proofs and results on soundness, consistency, completeness, compactness and undecidability. Automated theorem proving also covered.
PREREQ: CISC304. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC404 and CISC604.
CISC 409 TOPICS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
3 credits
Contents vary to coincide with the interests of students and current faculty.
PREREQ: CISC401 RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC409 and CISC609.
CISC 410 INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL ANALYSIS & ALGORITHMIC COMPUTATION
3 credits
Direct and iterative methods for solution of algebraic equations and systems of
linear equations, matrix inversion, pseudo-inverses, algebraic eigenvalue
problems, linear least-square problems and nonlinear equations. Stresses both
numerical analysis and algorithmic aspects.
Crosslisted with MATH426. PREREQ: MATH349 or MATH341 or MATH351; and CISC106 or CISC108. RESTRICTIONS: Requires familiarity with computing (e.g., programming language).
CISC 411 ALGORITHMIC AND NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
3 credits
Algorithms for numerical integration and differentiation. Initial value problems; boundary value problems in ordinary differential equations; finite difference (explicit and implicit) methods; polynomial and spline approximation; finite elements and collocation; and introduction to numerical methods for partial differential equations.
Crosslisted with MATH428. PREREQ: MATH426 or CISC410
CISC 414 FORMAL METHODS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
3 credits
Formal approaches to the specification, verification, and design of software systems. Topics include representing programs as transition systems; liveness and safety properties; state space reachability; explicit, symbolic and automata-based model checking; temporal logics; symbolic execution; automated theorem-proving; and relational calculus. Learn to use state-of-the-art tools based on these methods, such as the model checker Spin.
PREREQ: CISC304 or equivalent course, or permission of instructor.
RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC614/CPEG614 and CISC414.
CISC 429 TOPICS IN ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY THEORY
3 credits
Contents vary to coincide with the interests of students and current faculty.
RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC429 and CISC629.
CISC 436 BIOINFORMATICS
3 credits
Concepts, methodologies, and tools in bioinformatics. Abstraction of biological problems for computational solutions. Genome sequencing and assembly, biosequence analysis and comparison and database search, dynamics programming, hidden Markov models, and phylogenetic trees.
PREREQ: CISC220 or permission of instructor.
CISC 437 DATABASE SYSTEMS
3 credits
Physical and logical organization of databases. Data retrieval languages, relational database languages, security and integrity, concurrency, distributed databases.
PREREQ: A minimum grade of C- in CISC220. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC437 and CISC637.
CISC 440 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
3 credits
Computer graphics technology, two- and three-dimensional systems, graphics
software systems, modeling and object hierarchy, and animation.
PREREQ: CISC220 and MATH241 RESTRICTIONS: CISC320 recommended. Credit cannot be received for both CISC440 and CISC640.
CISC 442 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER VISION
3 credits
Analysis of images and video to recognize, reconstruct, model, and otherwise infer
static and dynamic properties of objects in the three-dimensional world.
Geometry of image formation; image processing such as smoothing, edge and
feature detection, color, and texture; segmentation; shape representation
including deformable templates; stereo vision; motion estimation and tracking;
techniques for 3-D reconstruction; image registration methods.
PREREQ: CISC220. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC442 and CISC642.
CISC 450 COMPUTER NETWORKS I
3 credits
Foundation principles, architectures and techniques employed in computer and
communication networks. Focuses on mechanisms used in TCP/IP protocol suite.
Topics include connection management, end-to-end reliable data transfer, sliding
window protocols, quality of service, flow control, congestion control, routing,
LANs, framing, error control, analog versus digital transmission, packet versus
circuit switching, multiplexing.
May be crosslisted with CPEG419. PREREQ: CISC260 or CPEG222.
RESTRICTIONS: Knowledge of probability and statistics recommended. Credit cannot be received for both CISC450 and any of the following courses: CISC250, CPEG419, CISC650, ELEG651.
CISC 451 DATA COMPRESSION IN MULTIMEDIA
3 credits
Important approaches to data and multimedia compression. Lossless techniques: Huffman, dictionary, arithmetic, run length. Lossless applications: GIF, lossless JPEG, Unix compress, facsimile. Lossy techniques: scalar/vector quantization, differential/subband/transform/wavelet encoding. Lossy applications: JPEG, JPEG200, MPEG, MP3.
PREREQ: CISC220, MATH210, MATH241, and either MATH205 or MATH350.
CISC 452 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
3 credits
Presents basic concepts in telecommunications, emphasizing topics such as SONET, Cell and Frame Relay and multimedia switching. Concepts of operation and maintenance of large communications networks discussed.
PREREQ: CISC250, or CISC450 RESTRICTIONS: Open to CIS and EE majors and minors only.
CISC 453 SIMULATION OF COMPUTER NETWORKS
3 credits
Modeling and computer simulation of discrete systems using discrete event simulation techniques. Application to the performance evaluation and modeling of computer networks and networking protocols. Study and use of simulation systems such as OPNET, Qualnet, and ns-2.
PREREQ: CISC450, or equivalent.
CISC 458 APPLIED COMPUTER NETWORKS
3 credits
Principles of communications as they apply to computer networks. Includes advanced concepts of network design, construction and management.
PREREQ: CISC450
CISC 459 TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONS, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND NETWORKS 3
3 credits
Contents vary to coincide with the interests of students and current faculty.
PREREQ: CISC450. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC459 and CISC659.
CISC 464 INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK SECURITY
3 credits
Practical introduction to network security field. Covers material on cryptography, intrusions, denial-of-service attacks, worms, honeynets and other hot topics in network security.
PREREQ: CISC450 or equivalent.
CISC 466 INDEPENDENT STUDY
3 credits
CISC 470 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
3 credits
Selection, use and implementation of appropriate language(s) for given problems. Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, parameter passing, abstract data types and comparisons between languages.
PREREQ: CISC275 RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC470 and CISC670.
CISC 471 COMPILER DESIGN
3 credits
Introduction to the design and implementation of compilers, with a focus on lexical analysis, parsing and syntax directed translation.
PREREQ: CISC260 and CISC303
CISC 473 COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECTS
3 credits
Experimental, theoretical and literature studies of computer science problems.
RESTRICTIONS: Open to majors only. Requires permission of instructor. May be taken twice for credit when topics vary.
CISC 474 ADVANCED WEB TECHNOLOGIES
3 credits
Programming and architecture of web servers and the technologies for implementing high performance, sophisticated web sites for applications like e-commerce. Students learn how to install and set-up a web server, how to write and install programs for a web server, and how to design and implement multi-tier client/server applications with database backends.
PREREQ: CISC275 COREQ: CISC437
CISC 475 ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
3 credits
Understand and apply a complete modern software engineering process. Topics
include requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, verification,
and project management. Real-life team projects cover all aspects of the software
development lifecycle, from the requirements to acceptance testing.
PREREQ: CISC275. CISC361 is recommended. RESTRICTIONS: Senior status. Credit cannot be received for both CISC475 and CISC675.
CISC 449 TOPICS IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
3 credits
Contents will vary to coincide with the interests of students and current faculty.
RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC449 and CISC649.
CISC 477 SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION
3 credits
Introduces students to the internals of UNIX, trouble-shooting system and network problems, hardware and software configuration and installation, and security aspects of hosts on the internet. Multi-operating system integration will also be discusssed.
PREREQ: CISC361
CISC 479 TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE AND SOFTWARE
3 credits
Contents will vary to coincide with the interests of students and faculty.
PREREQ: CISC361. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC479 and CISC679.
CISC 481 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
3 credits
Programming techniques for problems not amenable to algorithmic solutions. Problem formulation, search strategies, state spaces, applications of logic, knowledge representation, planning and application areas.
May be crosslisted with CGSC481. PREREQ: CISC220 with a minimum grade of C-, CISC304. RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC481 and CISC681.
CISC 483 INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING
3 credits
Concepts, techniques, and algorithms for mining large data sets to discover
structural patterns that can be used to make subsequent predictions. Emphasis on
practical approaches and empirical evaluation. Use of a workbench of data mining
tools, such as the Weka toolkit.
PREREQ: CISC-275, or permission of instructor.
CISC 489 TOPICS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
3 credits
Contents vary to coincide with the interests of students and current faculty.
PREREQ: CISC481/681 RESTRICTIONS: Credit cannot be received for both CISC489 and CISC689.
600 level courses may be taken honors credit.


[[Erowid Note: IV injection of crushed pills/tablets can be very dangerous due to unknown binders and fillers present in the tablets.]
Recently I had acquired some Subutex from a friend, and I am prescribed Klonopin (CLONAZEPAM). I heard and have read warnings about mixing these to drugs together, especially intravenously, but I am and experienced opiate user it takes about 200 milligrams of oxycodone I.V. to put me into a nod so I thought I would give this a try...
I crushed up the Subutex and the Klonopin then placed the powders into a spoon. I warmed them very gently with a candle and then drew up the solution about .35 CC's and hit my vein on the first shot...
I really didn't feel anything after the first shot so I added more water to the spoon and heated what was left and hit my vein again. I repeated this process one more time (note I never added more subutex or klonopin to the spoon in between shots I just wanted to make sure I got it all.) By the time I had pulled the syringe out the third time a huge wave had come over me I felt like I had just done like 7 bags of heroin but yet I could control myself or so I thought...
After about 20 min's from the first shot I decided to lie down and rest a little only because I was feeling so comfortable and it seemed like a good idea...  The opiate high I had first experienced had been relatively unchanged, the experience was nothing like that of heroin or oxycodone-it's onset was relatively slow comparably, but once it hit me it lasted all day long and it was very enjoyable.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


This tree control was put together by Sam Minnée at SilverStripe in New Zealand. We've put it out there for everyone to enjoy. Check out our blog if you're wondering what we're up to.
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Here's a basic demo of the tree control. Our styling is fairly basic, but with updated CSS and images you can do whatever you like. Just for fun, try changing the text size.
Download everything you need here - tree.zip, 11kb
The first thing to do is include the appropriate JavaScript and CSS files:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="tree.css" />

Then, create the HTML for you tree. This is basically a nested set of bullet pointed links. The "tree" class at the top is what the script will look for. Note that you can make a tree ndoe closed to begin with by adding class="closed".
Here's the HTML code that I inserted to create the demo tree above.

item 1

item 1.1

item 1.2

item 1.2.1

item 1.2.2

item 1.2.3

item 1.3

item 2

item 2.1

item 2.2

item 2.3

Your tree is now complete!

My item

Is turned into the more ungainly, and yet more easily styled:

My item

Additionally, some helper classes are applied to the
 and  elements:


Custom element Expander is a simple and easy to use widget that shows/hides an element. It supports several built-in expand modes. You can set it up to show or hide an element after a click, double-click or mouse enter event on the expander's header. This widget also comes with customizable slide and fade animations.


The Watcher * * (out of * * * * )
Directed by Joe Charbanic. Cast: James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei, Chris Ellis, Ernie Hudson. 2000 - 93 minutes Rated R (for violence and profanity). Reviewed by Dustin Putman, September 9, 2000.
There have been so many films made in the Serial Killer genre that, more often than not, they rely on a sole gimmick to set them apart from the crowd. When a movie of this sort attempts to create genuine characters and situations, and acquire innovative approaches to its story, as in 1986's stark "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" or 1991's Oscar-winning "The Silence of the Lambs," it comes as a startling change of pace. On the one hand, Joe Charbanic's "The Watcher" falls into the former category--that is, it's one hope for success falls on the idea of the villain holding up a peculiarly close relationship with the troubled investigator on the case. The picture is rarely ever original, and first-time feature film director Joe Charbanic uses too much flash and not enough substance to convey his ideas.
However, the movie does hold a few unpredictably intriguing notions, and successfully creates a palpable level of suspense. With both positive qualities and negative downfalls consistently weighing from both sides, the fate of "The Watcher" falls on how satisfying the venture is once everything is said and done. Ultimately, the film begins to unravel during its climax, and the disappointing ending leaves you asking what exactly the point was. It also puts in place the final nail in its at-once-promising coffin.
Detective Campbell (James Spader), a troubled man suffering from migraine headaches and a barbituate dependency, has recently relocated to Chicago from Los Angeles to get away from his unfortunate past. At the same time, murders of young women begin to plague the area, and it soon becomes apparent that they are the work of Griffin (Keanu Reeves), a serial killer from Campbell's previous case in L.A. who has followed him to his new surroundings to haunt him once more. The hook is that Campbell begins to receive individual pictures of anonymous women in the mail, and is given exactly twenty-four hours to locate the potential victim before Griffin ends their life. It seems Griffin gains pleasure in forming relationships with the top investigators on his case, and although he doesn't know it yet, so does Campbell, whose obscure past is linked to the killer.
As far as movies in the recent Serial Killer genre go, "The Watcher" is a step above the tiresome likes of 1997's "Kiss the Girls" and 1999's "The Bone Collector," but inferior to 1995's "Se7en" and "Copycat." While getting off to a rocky start that doesn't seem to be going anywhere, when the cat-and-mouse games begin between Griffin and Campbell at the thirty-minute mark, the film is reinvigorated with a level of much-needed tension and fast pacing. Unfortunately, as with most thrillers of this sort, the outcome can be easily telegraphed in advance and its novel twist inevitably resorts by its conclusion into a cliched fight to the finish between the protagonist and antagonist.
The cast is talented all the way around, but nonetheless give a mixed bag of performances. James Spader (1997's "Crash") is in fine form as the afflicted hero, Campbell, and is effective in transmitting his character's confusion to why, exactly, he feels such a strong connection to his enemy. Meanwhile, Keanu Reeves (1999's "The Matrix") plays against-type as the cold-blooded murderer. Reeves isn't bad in the role, but Griffin's motivations are never clearly identified, and he occasionally has trouble acting menacing. The once-successful Marisa Tomei (1992's "My Cousin Vinny"), as Campbell's psychiatrist Polly, has recently fallen on hard times, and is handed here an underdeveloped character who has little purpose other than becoming one of Griffin's targets. Tomei simply looks bored in the part, and understandably so.
The one thought-provoking idea that screenwriters David Elliot and Clay Ayers do form is that, in your everyday life, you come into contact with a large amount of people, but most take interaction for granted and rarely ever notice those around them. Throughout, Campbell comes into very close proximity with Griffin (at one point, they share an elevator together), but as is common in human nature, Campbell never notices.
Complete with a memorable blend of current heavy metal and pop music, as well as annoyingly artsy photography that includes slow-motion and grainy video footage, "The Watcher" is a film that comes thisclose to overcoming its problems and succeeding as a thriller, but doesn't quite make it. The climax simply does not hold the amount of care required to end on a satisfying note. It leaves the viewer with a feeling of distaste and wasted time, rather than of pleasure and time well spent.
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Merges the else branch of an if-else statement if else contains nothing but a nested if-else statement.


A Product by Team RedLine
District Data Labs Incubator 3
Pitchfest, 10/24/15
Felicia Charlot, MA, Research Analyst, US Dept. of Labor
Ian Cummins, MPA, MBA, Product Account Manager, Inovalon
Wat Hughes, JHU DS Specialization (in progress), Consultant, Creative Data
Wayne Liu, Research Fellow, National Cancer Institute
Emily Liddel
Mark Zak
Miriam Birdwell
Laura Lorenz
Source datafiles: http://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cs
Data documentation part 1: http://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cs/cs.txt
Data documentation part 2: http://www.bls.gov/iif/oiics_manual_2010.pdf
BLS Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities Home: http://www.bls.gov/iif/
Application URL: https://wathughes.shinyapps.io/ShinyEDA
Project source code: https://github.com/WatHughes/03-the-redline
District Data Labs: http://www.districtdatalabs.com/
This presentation: http://wathughes.github.io/03-the-redline/DDL3Pitchfest
ShinyTree: https://github.com/trestletech/shinyTree
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Follows API
Status: DRAFT. Part of the upcoming Beaker Browser 0.9 release.
Read and create follow relationships between sites.
import {follows} from 'dat://unwalled.garden/index.js'
// read
await follows.list({
filters: {src, dst, trust},
offset,
limit,
reverse
})
await follows.get(srcUrl, dstUrl)
// write
await follows.add(dstUrl)
await follows.remove(dstUrl)
Site
The values returned by follow functions will fit the following object shape:
- url
string
- title
string
- description
string
- type
string[]
follows.listFollowers(siteUrl, opts)
List the sites known to follow the given URL. (Will only include sites which have been crawled by the local user.)
- siteUrl
string
The URL of the site to get followers of. - opts
Object
- filters
Object
- followedBy
string
Filters the results to sites which are followed by this URL.
- followedBy
- offset
number
- limit
number
- filters
- Returns
Promise<Site[]>
follows.listFollows(siteUrl, opts)
List the sites followed by the given URL.
- siteUrl
string
The URL of the site to get follows of. - opts
Object
- filters
Object
- followedBy
string
Filters the results to sites which are followed by this URL.
- followedBy
- offset
number
- limit
number
- filters
- Returns
Promise<Site[]>
follows.isAFollowingB(siteUrlA, siteUrlB)
Checks whether one site follows the other.
- siteUrlA
string
The URL of the site which will have its “follows” queried. - siteUrlB
string
The URL of the site which will be looked for in the “follows.” - Returns
Promise<boolean>
follows.follow(siteUrl)
Add a follow to the current user’s site.
- siteUrl
string
The URL of the site to follow. - Returns
Promise<void>
follows.unfollow(siteUrl)
Remove a follow from the current user’s site.
- siteUrl
string
The URL of the site to unfollow. - Returns
Promise<void>


I began my coding journey in the late-summer/early-fall of 2016 when I took a few free and paid classes online. A new spark and love for coding consumed me as I looked for every resource to learn all that I could about web development. This new passion lead me to Codeup where I became completely immersed in the world of code. While at Codeup, I quickly learned both the front and back end of web development and became proficient in PHP. The cumulation of my work done at Codeup and other side projects can be seen in my Portfolio. So please take a look at my work and please feel free to contact me.


SPANKING THE MONKEY A film review by Ben Hoffman Copyright 1994 Ben Hoffman
From the opening scenes between the son, Raymond Aibelli (Jeremy Davies), and his father, Tom (Benjamin Hendrickson), we feel an immediate empathy for Raymond and a strong distaste for Tom. Raymond, a college freshman, is met at the airport by his father who immediately (and all through the film) lays a guilt trip on his son. Raymond is expecting to do an internship during the summer as a start toward his ambition to be a doctor but his father tells him that the mother, Susan (Alberta Watson), has broken her leg in a fall and that as Tom has to go out of town on business, Raymond will have to take care of his mother. Forget about the internship.
Hendrickson is excellent.  His every moment, almost, is at her beck and call. You can see he is trapped. Even when he goes to the bathroom to masturbate (spank the monkey), he has no peace, the dog sniffing and whining on the other side of the closed door. When he takes the dog for a walk he meets Toni (Carla Gallo), a high school senior who starts the ball rolling between them, only to later report him to her father, a psychiatrist, for his having been too rough.
Nothing goes well for Raymond. He does not take drugs, he is studious, yet everything seems to conspire against him ... including his youngish mother who has been neglected by her husband for too long. Things begin to happen as the intimacy of carrying her to the bathroom, helping her shower, massaging her toes and limbs, start to take on new meaning.
Superbly acted by all, with excellent dialogue by Writer/Director, David O Russell in his first feature film, make this a "must see" film.
3 Bytes 4 Bytes = Absolutely must see. 3 Bytes = Too good to be missed. 2 Bytes = So so. 1 Byte = Save your money.
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Facebook fixes 'bug' that activated iPhone cameras
by Jonathan Forani, CTVNews.ca WriterTORONTO -- Facebook is reassuring users that it has not been secretly collecting video of them, saying it’s now fixed a “bug” in its app that turned iPhone cameras on in the background.
After users posted screen-recorded videos to Twitter showing that the camera activated when they opened a photo or rotated to landscape mode.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Facebook's vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, acknowledged the glitch and said no content was recorded, stored or uploaded in any incident.
“We’ve confirmed that we didn't upload anything to (Facebook) due to this bug and that the camera didn’t capture anything since it was in preview mode,” he wrote.
A new, corrected version of the app was submitted to the App Store, Apple’s distribution platform for smartphone apps, and was “already rolling out” on Tuesday, he added.
The social media goliath, which recorded more than US$55 billion in revenue last year, has faced increasing scrutiny around privacy issues in recent years, including the Cambridge Analytica data scandal in user information was sold for political purposes. The company has long denied that it eavesdrops on users for ad-targeting purposes.


BLAST FROM THE PAST (1999)
Rating: 7/10 Stars Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Dave Foley & Sissy Spacek Directed by Hugh Wilson
While watching "Blast from the Past", a song by trip-hop maestro Tricky came to mind: "Brand New, You're Retro". Things end up being too much retro, too little new, though Blast remains an enjoyable, if familiar, fish out of water tale.
Blast opens with a poorly-conceived credit sequence in which we see a newspaper montage as the classic "Accentuate the Positive" plays. It's a great song, and a great opening... except that we've seen this before, notably in one of 1997's best films, "L.A. Confidential", and in the sadly defunt ABC series, "Homefront".
Fortunately, things pick up from there, as we're introduced to paranoid husband Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his pregnant wife Helen (Sissy Spacek). Heading into their state-of-the-art bomb shelter as Kennedy lashes out against Cuba on tv, they're startled as a fighter jet on routine manuevers has engine trouble and crashes into their house. Mistaking this for "the big one", Walken hurriedly slams the locks, sealing them in for thirty-five years, the amount of time it will take for the radiation to clear. A few days later, their son -- appropriately, predictably named Adam -- is born, and the movie spends nearly a third of its time showing us vignettes from Adam's child- and eventually adult-hood.
We finally get to the main part of the story just after Adam's thirty-fifth birthday. Dad has broken the seal and gone to the surface to see how the recovery is going, and is dumbfounded at the "mutants" he encounters: transvestite hookers, drunken bums, and gang bangers. (Hookers & bums & guns, oh my!) Safe underground again, he decides that they should wait another ten years before attempting to return to the surface.
But there's a problem: they're running out of supplies. After Dad has an attack (heart, anxiety or panic, it's never made clear), it's up to Adam to go out for food, batteries... and perhaps a wife. Enter Eve (Silverstone) & Troy (Foley) as that '90's staple, the bombshell with the gay best friend ("My Best Friend's Wedding", tv's "Will & Grace", etc.).
What follows is fairly entertaining, though wholly predictable. It's never in doubt that the square Adam will turn out to be the hippest guy on the dance floor (both in a swing club number and in the funniest YMCA bit since "Wayne's World"), or that Adam will fall for Eve (duh), or that Adam will ultimately find his cloistered world to be preferable in many ways to Eve's world. (It's like an odd role reversal on H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine": Adam is the bright & sunny Eloi, while most of the surface-dwellers come across as hideous, mutated Morlocks.)
The performances are solid all-around, especially Fraser who wipes out any doubts about his ability to carry a film. Though obviously not up to par with his masterful performance in "Gods & Monsters", Fraser here demonstrates an incredible screen presence, dominating his every scene, even when paired with veterans like Walken & Spacek. This won't be the film that makes him a mega-star, but it's a step in the right direction, and bodes well for his next, "The Mummy", due out May 7th.
Blast treads some of the same ground as another New Line Cinema project, last fall's "Pleasantville", but doesn't bother itself with any seriousness or social commentary; Blast is a comedy, and knows it.
What it doesn't know is when to quit, overstaying it's welcome by about ten minutes. We've been entertained, and are ready for the film to be over, and it just keeps going. The finale draws out far too long, though it might not have mattered had the entire film been tightened up a bit. Many of the scenes with young Adam aren't necessary, and a continuing sub-plot featuring Joey Slotnick as a bar owner turned cult leader could have been excised with virtually no impact on the narrative.
Also, the film isn't quite sure when it takes place. Pointedly starting in 1962 in the thick of the Cuban missle crisis, it then abandons concrete dates in favor of the nebulous "The Present Day". Fine, except that Adam later tells us that he's 35, meaning the action takes place in 1997... which is not the present day. A minor point, to be sure, but this coupled with the draggy pacing suggests the need for a more hands-on producer. Blast ain't bad, but it could've been far better.
"Blast from the Past" runs approximately 1:45, and is rated PG-13, presumably for the few scenes of '90's nastiness we're exposed to.
Tom
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My name is Trinity and I am going into my freshman year of high school. I have a strong passion for social justice and cosmetology. My goal is to use the passions I have to make a difference in the world. My passion for social justice shows in this website.
My name is Markeisha.  And I love poetry and to draw. And I picked this topic mostly because I feel like its a big issue in alot of places and that it needs to be seen more.
The three brave interns who helped with this project are Kate (upper left), Laura (upper right), and Hope (bottom left). The mentor who helped with this project is Isabella( bottom right). Laura is going to be a senior in high school, and Kate and Hope are going to be freshmen in college. Isabella is going to be a freshman in high school. We chose to help the girls make a website about racism and diversity to bring awareness to these topics.


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When the company first started in 2011, it asked these questions: what makes meat taste so good? what makes it cook and smell the way that it does? It answered those questions and eventually developed the Impossible Burger, which Moses says uses 96 percent less land, 87 percent less water, and 89 percent low GHG emissions than an actual beef burger.


For my blog I decided to write a little about the has many / belongs to relationships between classes. I decided to explore this concept in the context of a side project that I’ve been tinkering with. I’m trying to build an app that should ultimately predict the outcome of NHL games, based on a variety of factors. This should include such factors as who the starting goalies will be, how the teams have performed against each other historically, whether the opposing team has a player who repeatedly scores against the specific opposing goalie, and so on. The app is called the Hockey Oracle and it is definitely going to take the fantasy sports market by storm.
At its most basic level, an individual player belongs to a team. We give the player a team
attr_accessor
, and then subsequently set that team attribute to an instance of the Team
class. On the other end, a team has many players. We enact this relationship by giving teams a goalies or players property upon initialization that is set to an array of goalie or player instances. We add goalies and players to their respective arrays by defining an instance method within the team class called #add_goalie
or #add_player
.
Anyhoo, I decided to start by setting up three basic classes: Goalie
, Skater
, and Team
. Goalies and Skaters (aka simply Players) belong to a team, while each instance of the Team
class ‘has many’ goalies and skaters. I also created a parent class, Player
, which I will use for common methods that goalies and skaters can both inherit.
So let’s first take a look at our Goalie class:
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I’m doing some fun Steven-inspired meta-programming in my initialize method, which lets me take in a hash of the goalie’s attributes and corresponding ratings as args. Each attribute gets set to an integer corresponding to their actual perceived skill in that area based on scouting reports. I stole the attribute designations from NHL 16. But I digress.
The first two arguments are more important for our discussion right now: name, which is required, and team, which is optional and will be nil if you don’t feel like setting it right away, or the goalie is a free agent or something like that. But let’s focus on team. Assuming the goalie has a team, which would be an already-created instance of the Team class, and also assuming you pass it in as an argument instead of letting it remain as nil.
So how do we get a goalie associated with a team? Well, first we had to make sure our Team class was set up. This meant giving team objects their own proper initialize method:
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I set up a class variable, @@roster_count
, so we can keep track of the total number of players on a given team, which will come in handy later. Then in my initialize method for Team
, I added empty arrays for skaters and goalies. The next thing is, how do we get a goalie to be on a certain team, and enact that relationship? Let’s write an #add_goalie
method that takes in an argument of an already-created instance of goalie.
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Once we get that down, we can create team objects. Say we want to make the New York Rangers.
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Now, let’s create our new goalie. Superstar Henrik Lundqvist, of course. I’m not going to worry about his specific attributes like reflexes and puck control right now, since I just want to focus on bringing him into existence as an instance of the Goalie class, and adding him to the Rangers.
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Nice, we passed in our team object, rangers
, as the argument for Lundqvist’s team. Now ‘lundqvist’ belongs to one team, and that team can have many goalies.
The reason this works is because we are actually calling the #add_goalie
method on the team argument at the moment that we initialize a new goalie. That method gets called on team, the goalie is shoveled into the team’s goalies array, goalie.team is set to self (since self is the team in the context of that instance method), and we also make sure to increment the @@roster_count
by one. The methods for adding a skater looks exactly the same, except for different naming of variables, and we run the #add_skater
method in the initialize for that class as well.
In this way, I’ve set up the preliminary relationship of my hockey prediction app, where teams have many skaters and goalies, and are able to keep track of them and add new ones with a simple adding method, and goalies and skaters belong to a specific team, which can be set based on the code in the two initialize methods for those two classes when each object gets created, assuming you pass in a instance of team as one of the arguments (but you don’t have to, since it’s easy to set it later).
There are a ton of other aspects to this complex interplay between related classes, but I think this gives an overview of how the relationship gets established at the most basic level, and in the context of my own app that I’m working on. I am looking forward to expanding on this as I work to build out my software, and explore the multitude of ways that related classes can reference each other and work together.
Thank you for listening!


I2C Port
The I2C port can be written to and read from using the diagnostics. In addition, the development kit has some I2C peripherals on board. The diagnostics give you the ability to control them as well.
This is accomplished using the following QuickUSB Library functions:
QuickUsbWriteI2C - Writes a block of binary data to the I2C port.
QuickUsbReadI2C - Reads a block of binary data from the I2C port.
The I2C tab is shown below:
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Welcome to Scripture Lottery. Maybe you don't know where to start reading today. Why not read this:
¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Welcome to Scripture Lottery. Maybe you don't know where to start reading today. Why not read this:
¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.


South Korea's Kang says to discuss wartime issues with Japan, but 'not much time left'
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan will put discussions about their contentious wartime past back on the table, Seoul’s foreign minister said on Saturday, warning that a recent thaw in relations had bought them a little, but not much, time.
Kang Kyung-wha made the comments to a small group of reporters on the sidelines of a Group of 20 (G20) ministers’ meeting in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Kang spoke after meeting with her Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu Motegi.
“We bought time for intense discussions, but there’s not much time left for us,” Kang told reporters.
On Friday South Korea reversed at the last minute a decision to let an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan expire. Kang hailed that as a breakthrough in relations.


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