|
Class Summary |
| Alignment |
Deprecated. Repackaged as jxl.Alignment. |
| Blank |
A blank cell. |
| BoldStyle |
Enumeration class containing the various bold styles for data |
| Boolean |
A cell, created by user applications, which contains a boolean (or
in some cases an error) value |
| Border |
Deprecated. repackaged as jxl.format.Border |
| BorderLineStyle |
Deprecated. Repackaged as jxl.format.BorderLineStyle |
| Colour |
Deprecated. This has been repackaged as jxl.format.Colour |
| DateFormat |
A custom user defined number format which may be instantiated within user
applications in order to present date and time values in the appropriate
format. |
| DateFormats |
Static class which contains Excels predefined Date formats |
| DateTime |
A Date which may be created on the fly by a user application and added to a
spreadsheet
NOTE: By default, all dates will have local timezone information added to
their UTC value. |
| Font |
Deprecated. Renamed to writable font |
| Formula |
A cell, created by user applications, which contains a numerical value |
| Label |
A cell containing text which may be created by user applications |
| Number |
A cell, created by user applications, which contains a numerical value |
| NumberFormat |
A custom user defined number format, which may be instantiated within user
applications in order to present numerical values to the appropriate level
of accuracy. |
| NumberFormats |
Static class which contains the available list of built in Number formats |
| Pattern |
Deprecated. Repackaged as jxl.format.Pattern |
| VerticalAlignment |
Deprecated. Repackaged as jxl.format.VerticalAlignment |
| WritableCellFeatures |
Container for any additional cell features |
| WritableCellFormat |
A user specified cell format, which may be reused across many cells. |
| WritableFont |
A class which is instantiated when the user application wishes to specify
the font for a particular cell |
| WritableFont.FontName |
Static inner class used for classifying the font names |
| WritableHyperlink |
A writable hyperlink. |
| WritableImage |
Allows an image to be created, or an existing image to be manipulated
Note that co-ordinates and dimensions are given in cells, so that if for
example the width or height of a cell which the image spans is altered,
the image will have a correspondign distortion |
| WritableWorkbook |
A writable workbook |


Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
no cooking required
Serves
Serves 2
This puff-pastry smoked fish parcel is perfect for little pirates to make and enjoy.
Before cooking, wash your hands and put on an apron. Weigh or measure all the ingredients. Ask a grown-up to preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 8.
Ask a grown-up to help you to use the scissors to cut up the haddock into bite-sized pieces, double checking for bones as you go. Put the fish into a mixing bowl and then add the crème fraiche. Add a pinch of ground black pepper.
Wash the watercress and dry it off on a tea towel. Tear the leaves off the stalks and put in the mixing bowl with the crème fraiche and fish. Stir and put the bowl to one side.
Flour your work surface. Roll out the pastry on the floured surface into a rectangle, about 5mm thick and about 15mm x 21mm/6in x 8in (roughly the size of a sheet of A5 paper).
With the pastry positioned with the short edge closest to you, place the fish mixture onto the bottom half of the rectangle, leaving a 1cm/½in border around the edges. Brush the edges of the pastry with a little water - this will help them stick together. Bring the top half of the pastry down to cover the mixture like an envelope. Fold and press the edges together firmly with your fingers. Trim the edges with a table knife and make a small slit in the top to let the steam out.
Ask a grown-up to put the parcel on a baking sheet with some baking paper and bake for 25–30 minutes or until golden-brown. Serve with carrot batons and cherry tomatoes.


How to use this app
My Game Plan helps people who are following up from a visit to a psychiatric emergency room or a stay in a psychiatric inpatient unit. Here is how it works.
- Enter follow up appointments with your discharge planner and set reminders for them.
- Complete a safety plan with the help of a doctor or other care provider. In this app you can enter warning signs, coping strategies, and supportive phone contacts. For warning signs and coping strategies, you can choose a suggestion or enter your own.
- Go through the safety plan to identify when you have one of the warning signs. You can mark each time you have it, and app remembers (this information does not leave the privacy of your phone).
- Choose a coping strategy. The pre-suggested strategies link to other free mobile apps that can help you use those strategies.
- Access your supportive contacts whenever you need to. There is also a button to call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline (United States only).
- Browse the resources for important news and tips from the suicide prevention community.


| HYTOOL Function Reference |
Compute drawdown with the Theis (1935) solution
s = ths_dim( p, t) p(1) = a = slope of Jacob Straight Line in meters p(2) = t0 = intercept with the horizontal axis for s = 0 t = measured time s = measured drawdown
The Theis (1935) solution assumes that the aquifer is confined, homogeneous, isotropic, and infinite. The well as radius that is negligible. It is pumped at a constant rate Q and is 100 percent efficient. Under these assumptions, Theis solution can be expressed as: s(r,t) = Q/(4 pi T) E1( r2S / 4Tt) where Q is the pumping rate, T the transmissivity, r the radial distance between the pumping well and the observation well, S the storativity coefficient and t the time. To interpret field data with the Theis solution, it is expressed as a function of two fitting parameters a and to which are defined as: a = 0.183 Q /T t0 = r2 S / 2.25 T
s = ths_dim( p,t )
ths_dmo, ths_gss, ths_rpt Published output in the Help browser showdemo ths_dim
| Hytool |
© 1998-2017 Philppe Renard and Co. Terms of Use Acknowledgments


- game - package game
-
- GAME_HEIGHT_PROP - Static variable in class gui.GUI
-
- GAME_WIDTH_PROP - Static variable in class gui.GUI
-
- GameState - Class in game
-
- getCol() - Method in class gui.ExplorerSprite
-
Return the explorer's column on the grid.
- getColumn() - Method in class game.Tile
-
Return the column of this Tile.
- getColumnCount() - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the number of columns in the grid.
- getCurrentLocation() - Method in interface game.ExplorationState
-
Return the unique identifier associated with your current location.
- getCurrentLocation() - Method in class game.GameState
-
Returns the unique id of the current location.
- getCurrentNode() - Method in interface game.EscapeState
-
Return your current location in the graph.
- getCurrentNode() - Method in class game.GameState
-
- getDestination() - Method in class game.Edge
-
Return the destination of this edge.
- getDistanceToTarget() - Method in interface game.ExplorationState
-
Return your current distance along the grid (NOT THE GRAPH) from the target.
- getDistanceToTarget() - Method in class game.GameState
-
Returns the distance from your current location to the target location on the map.
- getDistanceToTarget() - Method in class game.NodeStatus
-
Return the distance to the orb from the Node that corresponds to
this NodeStatus.
- getEdge(Node) - Method in interface game.Node
-
Returns the Edge of this Node that connects to q.
- getEdge(Node) - Method in class game.NodeImpl
-
- getEntrance() - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the node corresponding to the entrance to the cavern.
- getExit() - Method in interface game.EscapeState
-
Return the exit from the cavern.
- getExit() - Method in class game.GameState
-
- getExits() - Method in interface game.Node
-
Return an unmodifiable set of Edges leaving this Node.
- getExits() - Method in class game.NodeImpl
-
- getFirst() - Method in class game.Pair
-
Return the first object in this Pair.
- getGold() - Method in class game.Tile
-
Return the amount of gold on this Tile.
- getGoldIcon(Node) - Method in class gui.GUI
-
Return an icon for the gold on tile n, or null otherwise.
- getGoldIcon(Node) - Method in class gui.MazePanel
-
Return an icon for the gold on tile n, or null otherwise.
- getGraph() - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the set of all nodes in the graph.
- getIcon(Tile.Type) - Method in class gui.GUI
-
Return an image representing tile type.
- getIcon(Tile.Type) - Method in class gui.MazePanel
-
Return an image representing tile type type.
- getId() - Method in interface game.Node
-
Return the unique Identifier of this Node.
- getId() - Method in class game.NodeImpl
-
- getId() - Method in class game.NodeStatus
-
Return the Id of the Node that corresponds to this NodeStatus.
- getNeighbors() - Method in interface game.ExplorationState
-
Returns an unordered collection of NodeStatus objects
associated with all direct neighbors of your current location.
- getNeighbors() - Method in class game.GameState
-
Returns a collection of NodeStatus objects which contain the unique ID of the node
and the distance from that node to the target.
- getNeighbors() - Method in interface game.Node
-
Return an unmodifiable set Nodes neighboring this Node.
- getNeighbors() - Method in class game.NodeImpl
-
- getNodeAt(int, int) - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the node at position (r, c).
- getOriginalGold() - Method in class game.Tile
-
Return the original amount of gold on this tile (even if picked up.)
- getOther(Node) - Method in class game.Edge
-
Return the Node on this Edge that is not equal to n.
- getPoint() - Method in enum game.Cavern.Direction
-
Return the direction.
- getRow() - Method in class game.Tile
-
Return the row of this Tile.
- getRow() - Method in class gui.ExplorerSprite
-
Return the explorer's row on the grid.
- getRowCount() - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the number of rows in the grid.
- getSecond() - Method in class game.Pair
-
Return the second object in this Pair.
- getSource() - Method in class game.Edge
-
Return the source of this edge.
- getSprite(int, int) - Method in class gui.Sprite
-
Return offset (dRow, dCol) into the spritesheet.
- getTarget() - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the target node in this cavern.
- getTile() - Method in interface game.Node
-
Return the Tile corresponding to this Node.
- getTile() - Method in class game.NodeImpl
-
- getTileAt(int, int) - Method in class game.Cavern
-
Return the Tile information for (r, c).
- getTimeRemaining() - Method in interface game.EscapeState
-
Return the time remaining to escape from the cavern.
- getTimeRemaining() - Method in class game.GameState
-
- getType() - Method in class game.Tile
-
Returns the Type of this Tile.
- getVertices() - Method in interface game.EscapeState
-
Return all the nodes in the graph, in no particular order.
- getVertices() - Method in class game.GameState
-
- gui - package gui
-
- GUI - Class in gui
-
An instance is a GUI for the game.
- GUI(Cavern, int, int, long) - Constructor for class gui.GUI
-


In this example you can see how to use the plugin to obtain an infinite scroll.
The first thing to do is to initialize the gallery as usually.
$('#gallery').justifiedGallery({rowHeight:120});Then you need to initialize the infinite scroll as you want. But is necessary to implement its finish callback to recall Justified Gallery again. For example:
$(window).scroll(function() { if($(window).scrollTop() + $(window).height() == $(document).height()) { for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) { $('#gallery').append('' + '' + ''); } $('#gallery').justifiedGallery('norewind'); //callback } });You can notice that we call Justified Gallery using the special parameter
'norewind'
. In this way the plugin doesn't re-analyzes all the images, but only the new ones. This parameter increases the performance, and also prevents the page to have strange behaviours with the scrollbars.


The Three Amigos 29 Nov 2019, 13:30 by Luke Plunkett Zak Foreman is an artist at Epic. You can see more of Zak’s stuff at his ArtStation page.


Global settings
Requires HTML5 doctype
This template makes use of certain HTML elements and CSS properties that require the use of the HTML5 doctype. Include it at the beginning of all your projects.
<!DOCTYPE html>  ...
Typography and links
Since Serenity template built with bootstrap so we are using bootstrap basic global display, typography, and link styles. In addition we add our custom rules to remove radius, shadow and other things by adding 'overwrite.css' file in folder CSS
All basic bootstrap components style also changed with 'overwrite.css' file such as buttons, navigation, menu..etc
Default grid system
Live grid example
This template using default Bootstrap grid system utilizes 12 columns, making for a 940px wide container without responsive features enabled. With the responsive CSS file added, the grid adapts to be 724px and 1170px wide depending on your viewport. Below 767px viewports, the columns become fluid and stack vertically.
Basic grid HTML
For a simple two column layout, create a .row
and add the appropriate number of .span*
columns. As this is a 12-column grid, each .span*
spans a number of those 12 columns, and should always add up
to 12 for each row (or the number of columns in the parent).

...

...

Given this example, we have .span4
and .span8
, making for 12 total columns and a complete row.
Offsetting columns
Move columns to the right using .offset*
classes. Each class increases the left margin of a column by a whole column. For example, .offset4
moves .span4
over four columns.

...

...

Nesting columns
To nest your content with the default grid, add a new .row
and set of .span*
columns within an existing .span*
column. Nested rows should include a set of columns that add up to the number of columns
of its parent.

 Level 1 column

Level 2

Level 2

Fluid grid system
Live fluid grid example
The fluid grid system uses percents instead of pixels for column widths. It has the same responsive capabilities as our fixed grid system, ensuring proper proportions for key screen resolutions and devices.
Basic fluid grid HTML
Make any row "fluid" by changing .row
to .row-fluid
. The column classes stay the exact same, making it easy to flip between fixed and fluid grids.

...

...

Fluid offsetting
Operates the same way as the fixed grid system offsetting: add .offset*
to any column to offset by that many columns.

...

...

Fluid nesting
Nesting with fluid grids is a bit different: the number of nested columns should not match the parent's number of columns. Instead, each level of nested columns are reset because each row takes up 100% of the parent column.

 Fluid 12

Fluid 6

Fluid 6

Layouts
Fixed layout
Provides a common fixed-width (and optionally responsive) layout with only

required.

 ...

Fluid layout
Create a fluid, two-column page with

—great for applications and docs.

Responsive design
Enabling responsive features
Turn on responsive CSS in your project by including the proper meta tag and additional stylesheet within the
of your document. If you've compiled Bootstrap from the Customize page, you need only include the meta
tag.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link href="assets/css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet">
Heads up! Bootstrap doesn't include responsive features by default at this time as not everything needs to be responsive. Instead of encouraging developers to remove this feature, we figure it best to enable it as needed.
About responsive Bootstrap
Media queries allow for custom CSS based on a number of conditions—ratios, widths, display type, etc—but usually focuses around min-width
and max-width
.
- Modify the width of column in our grid
- Stack elements instead of float wherever necessary
- Resize headings and text to be more appropriate for devices
Use media queries responsibly and only as a start to your mobile audiences. For larger projects, do consider dedicated code bases and not layers of media queries.
Supported devices
Bootstrap supports a handful of media queries in a single file to help make your projects more appropriate on different devices and screen resolutions. Here's what's included:
| Label | Layout width | Column width | Gutter width |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large display | 1200px and up | 70px | 30px |
| Default | 980px and up | 60px | 20px |
| Portrait tablets | 768px and above | 42px | 20px |
| Phones to tablets | 767px and below | Fluid columns, no fixed widths | |
| Phones | 480px and below | Fluid columns, no fixed widths |
/* Large desktop */ @media (min-width: 1200px) { ... } /* Portrait tablet to landscape and desktop */ @media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 979px) { ... } /* Landscape phone to portrait tablet */ @media (max-width: 767px) { ... } /* Landscape phones and down */ @media (max-width: 480px) { ... }
Responsive utility classes
For faster mobile-friendly development, use these utility classes for showing and hiding content by device. Below is a table of the available classes and their effect on a given media query layout (labeled by device). They can be found in responsive.less
.
| Class | Phones 767px and below | Tablets 979px to 768px | Desktops Default |
|---|---|---|---|
.visible-phone
|
Visible | Hidden | Hidden |
.visible-tablet
|
Hidden | Visible | Hidden |
.visible-desktop
|
Hidden | Hidden | Visible |
.hidden-phone
|
Hidden | Visible | Visible |
.hidden-tablet
|
Visible | Hidden | Visible |
.hidden-desktop
|
Visible | Visible | Hidden |
When to use
Use on a limited basis and avoid creating entirely different versions of the same site. Instead, use them to complement each device's presentation. Responsive utilities should not be used with tables, and as such are not supported.
Responsive utilities test case
Resize your browser or load on different devices to test the above classes.
Visible on...
Green checkmarks indicate that class is visible in your current viewport.
- Phone✔ Phone
- Tablet✔ Tablet
- Desktop✔ Desktop
Hidden on...
Here, green checkmarks indicate that class is hidden in your current viewport.


--- layout: post title: CSS and printing tags: [] status: publish type: post published: true meta: {} ---
I am sure you have come across this a few times yourself. You have built a beautiful site, so beautiful that the client wants to be able to print out pages for one reason or another. Alas this is never so straight forward and required the generation of a separate template specially formatted for print. No more, thanks to Style sheets and they can really make your life easier, especially in the aforementioned scenario.
The best place to test this idea was for my site, I thought it would be nifty to be able to print out the articles themselves minus, the header, navigation and footer without the use of a second page. Since this was another in hindsight kind of step, I added a set of div tags to my page to logically group/structure the page. Roughly speaking this is what the page is structured:

...header and top level nav code goes here...

...main article body appears here...

...nav code goes here...

...footer is included here...

So far so good. Next I created a new style sheet specifically constructed for printing. The first thing was to hide the page elements that I didn't want to be printed out. This is achieved by specifying: display: none; and in my case assigning it to relevant
 ids. Next I wanted to show the category nav, but in a print manner so I opted for display links as underlined. Finally I formatted the main content area to appear on a white background and use arial as the preferred font and black as the colour for that font. Listed below is my external print style sheet: print.css
/* print styles */
A:link, A:visited { background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; }
#header { display: none; }
#content { background: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; }
#side_nav { display: none; }
#footer { display: none; }
Next thing I needed to do was link the document to that new style sheet, and restrict it's use to printing. The <link> tag has attribute called media, which can several values the default being screen (i.e. when you look at the page via your web browser). The first thing I did was modify my existing <link> tag to include the media type set to screen. Next I added another <link> tag with a media type set to print and pointing to my print.css style sheet.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/default.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
And that's pretty much it. The best way to test this is use the print preview option in IE. Now it this all worked the only thing displayed in the print preview area of the display is the content of this article, minus the header, the nav and the footer. A quick aside: if you are using IE6 and nothing appears in your print preview area, you might think your print style sheet is not working. There appears to be a slight bug, because if I zoom in and zoom out again the print preview displays properly (I could have wasted a lot of time on this...). Mind you this is just the beginning, there would seem to be a lot more options available, such as setting margins and much, much more. As and when I figure this out I'll be sure to make a few more notes. In the meantime... enjoy...


Hello! This is the page where index number {{index_number}} of class {{class_name}} can update information on his/her personal links. Passwords should have been distributed.


public static final class R.string
extends java.lang.Object
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
string() |
public static final int abc_action_bar_home_description
public static final int abc_action_bar_home_description_format
public static final int abc_action_bar_home_subtitle_description_format
public static final int abc_action_bar_up_description
public static final int abc_action_menu_overflow_description
public static final int abc_action_mode_done
public static final int abc_activity_chooser_view_see_all
public static final int abc_activitychooserview_choose_application
public static final int abc_search_hint
public static final int abc_searchview_description_clear
public static final int abc_searchview_description_query
public static final int abc_searchview_description_search
public static final int abc_searchview_description_submit
public static final int abc_searchview_description_voice
public static final int abc_shareactionprovider_share_with
public static final int abc_shareactionprovider_share_with_application
public static final int abc_toolbar_collapse_description
public static final int accept_bid
public static final int activity_title_my_bids
public static final int activity_title_my_books
public static final int activity_title_my_borrows
public static final int amount_
public static final int app_name
public static final int appbar_scrolling_view_behavior
public static final int auth_failure
public static final int bid_history_
public static final int bid_placed_by_
public static final int book_cat_
public static final int book_edition_
public static final int book_name_
public static final int book_name_hint
public static final int book_start_bid_
public static final int book_status_
public static final int cancel_en
public static final int comments_
public static final int comments_hint
public static final int current_bid_
public static final int current_highest_
public static final int date_placed_
public static final int decline_bid
public static final int delete_confirm
public static final int delete_item
public static final int discard_changes
public static final int edit_en
public static final int edit_warning
public static final int email
public static final int email_
public static final int error
public static final int error_own_bid
public static final int finish_en
public static final int invalid_bid_entered
public static final int invalid_book_name
public static final int invalid_user_profile
public static final int location
public static final int login
public static final int logout
public static final int logout_warning
public static final int member_since_
public static final int my_bids
public static final int my_borrows
public static final int my_inventory
public static final int new_book
public static final int new_search
public static final int no_bids
public static final int no_borrowed_book
public static final int no_en
public static final int no_inventory_book
public static final int no_result_found
public static final int nothing_here
public static final int offline_content
public static final int offline_new_book
public static final int offline_new_profile
public static final int offline_no_conn
public static final int offline_no_server
public static final int offline_not_available
public static final int offline_title
public static final int ok_en
public static final int oops
public static final int owner
public static final int owner_
public static final int owner__
public static final int password
public static final int password_
public static final int password_hint
public static final int place_bid
public static final int post_en
public static final int profile_cap
public static final int register
public static final int return_book
public static final int save_en
public static final int search_en
public static final int status_
public static final int status_bar_notification_info_overflow
public static final int success
public static final int take_pictures
public static final int title_bid_info
public static final int title_logout
public static final int title_owner_info
public static final int unsaved_warning
public static final int user_profile_empty
public static final int username
public static final int username_
public static final int username_exists
public static final int username_hint
public static final int userprofile
public static final int warning
public static final int yes_en


Reforestr is an autonomous drone that plants seeds. It was developed at HackGT in September of 2015. When the drone is told to, it replants an area then returns home.
Forest fires are natural occurences in forests, but after some large burns, the area can take a long time to recover. In order to keep our environment healthy, we need to help the recovery process along by replanting native species.
Reforestation is the act of planting in existing forests that have been depleted. There are many reasons that an area may need reforestation, including wildfires and logging. Reforestation can help the area recover, increasing local air quality and rebuilding natural habitats.
Current methods of replanting damaged forests include dispersing seeds from helicopters and replanting trees by hand. When dispersing seeds from a helicopter, many more seeds need to be distributed than will be successfully grown. This is because many seeds are damaged by the long fall to the ground, or land in areas where they will be unable to germinate. This causes significant waste in seeds. When planting by hand, sapplings are generally used. Sapplings are extremely expensive to purchase and labor-intensive to plant, making this an inneficient solution for larger areas.
Deforestation may have a huge environmental cost, but reforatation can have a large cost as well. Reforestation can vastly improve an area, but it can be an economic burden. In cases where large amounts of land have burned, as they did in Oregon, Washington, and California in 2015, aiding in the recovery of all the burned land poses a finantial challenge for the Forest Services.
The Reforestr Drone provides the environmental benefits of reforestation while reducing the cost and waste associated with it. When it is deployed, the drone navigates itself to the coordinates it is given. Once there, it approaches the ground and begins flying forward, living a tilled path into which it deposits seeds. Throughout this process the drone balances itself and avoids obstacles. Reforestr requires no manual operation -- it is fully autonomous. Once the area has been replanted or the battery is in need of charge the drone returns home to its base.


The Russian government announces it will sell nearly 20 percent of state-run oil company, Rosneft, to Swiss commodity trading firm, Glencore, and the Qatar Investment Authority for approximately $11.3 Bil. As of January 2017, the owners of Glencore were still unknown.
The deal suggests foreign investors are reconsidering U.S. sanctions against Russia following election of Trump. At the time, Trump was considering Exxon-Mobil Chairman Rex Tillerson for secretary of state. Tillerson had been critical of the sanctions.
Source: New York Times


No need for US to feel jittery
by David MannersThe USA has nothing to fear from China’s chip industry, said Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo (pictured) in Beijing at the weekend.
“There’s no need for the United States to feel jittery,” said Zhao, “we’re trailing far behind, not posing any threat to the U.S. in the competition.”
Zhao said that it will take at least another decade for China to become relevant in the industry.
In the summer, Unigroup said it had founded a new company called Ziguang Group to make DRAMs.
Unigroup already owns Yangtze Memory, the NAND manufacturer, Spreadtrum, RDA Microelectronics, Rockchip and Unisoc Communications.
Zhao urged US semiconductor companies to “relax and sleep well” and not feel threatened by Chinese competition.
Despite the huge funds reportedly invested by the China government in its domestic chip industry, Zhao pointed out that non-Chinese companies are investing far more.
While Samsung spends at least $20 billion in R&D and capex a year and Intel and TSMC each spend $10 billion a year, China’s National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund has only invested $18.6 billion in the local chip industry in the past five years, pointed out Zhao.
Zhao added that most of the Chinese effort in semiconductors is in the “lower tier” of the supply chain.
Zhao urged US chip companies to take a greater part in defusing trade tensions.
“On the one hand, they’re earning lots of money here in China, and on the other hand, they’re making malicious remarks about China to the U.S. government behind the scenes,” said Zhao, “US companies can do better, especially technology giants. Some American companies do well, and some do not.”
As part of the so-called ‘Phase One’ stage of the US-China peace talks in the trade war, it is proposed that tariffs on semiconductors be reduced or eliminated.
The finances of Unigroup have recently been under question after the value of its dollar-denominated debt fell sharply.
Earlier this year, Tsinghua Holdings, Unigroup’s parent company, tried to sell a 36% stake in Unigroup to a Shenzhen local government investment fund but the deal fell through last August.


Recently I was asked if it would be possible to add the log
function to the Flips library. Flips is a library for modeling and solving Linear and Mixed-Integer Programming problems. Both classes of problems are constrained to only having linear (i.e. straight) lines. You may ask, “What do you mean by straight?” The following are examples of linear functions.
$$ \displaylines{ \text{Linear Functions}\\ y=1.0x+2.0 \\ y=2.0x_{1}+3.0x_{2} \\ y=1.2x_{1}+1.7x_{2}+x_{3} } $$
The following are non-linear functions.
$$ \displaylines{ \text{Non-Linear Functions} \\ y=1.0x^2+2.0 \\ y=2.0/x_{1}+3.0x_{2} \\ y=1.2x_{1}+1.7x_{2}\times x_{3} } $$
For a function to be linear in the domain of Linear/Mixed-Integer Programming the variables can only be added, subtracted, or multiplied by a coefficient. The reason this is important is because a Solver takes advantage of this structure which searching for solutions.
What if we need a Non-Linear Function
Fortunately, we have ways of working around this limitation. Another way to think of a curve is just a series of straight lines. We could approximate our curve using a series of straight lines that were close enough to the original function to make our answer meaningful. For this example, let’s try modeling the parabola $y=-x^2+10.0$. We will use this to represent the Objective Function of our model. Below you see a plot which has a smooth grey line for the exact values of our parabola and a series of point connect by blue line segments. You will notice that the blue line segments closely match the shape of the parabola.
Our goal is to now model our original parabola with a series of segments. We will create a Decision variable which corresponds to each point on the plot. To get a value along the line segments we take a percent of the adjacent points. If I wanted the value of $y$ at the point $x=0.5$, I would use 50% of the value of $x$ at 0.0 and 50% of the value of $x$ at $1.0$. You may recognize this as linear-interpolation. If we want a value for x that is between our Decision variable, we just use a percent of the adjacent decisions. Let’s get to the code!
We open the Flips
library and generate the set of points we want Decisions for. We create a range of values from -5.0
to 5.0
and provide an index for the value. We extract the index values to be elsewhere in our code.
open Flips
open Flips.Types
open Flips.SliceMap
// The Range of values we want to consider and the index for the value
let valueRange =
[-5.0..5.0]
|> List.mapi (fun index value -> index, value)
// We will need the indices for the vertices of our lines
let indices = valueRange |> List.map fst
We now want to create a Decision
which corresponds for each of these points.
// Create a decision variable for each point
let decs =
DecisionBuilder "Amount" {
for i in indices ->
Continuous (0.0, 1.0)
} |> SMap
Next, we need to create a constraints which says the total percentage of the points that we use must be equal to 1.0
. This ensures that the solver is selecting a point along one of our segments.
// We create a constraint saying that we must
let totalOneConstraint = Constraint.create "TotalValue" (sum decs == 1.0)
One of the other rules that we need to impose is that the Solver can only use adjacent points for interpolation. It would make no sense if the Solver interpolated between the points -5.0
and 5.0
. To enforce this behavior, we are going to need to create an additional set of Decisions which correspond to the adjacent points along our line. We use the List.pairwise
function to iterate through the adjacent indices and create the corresponding Decision
. This decision type will be a Boolean
because we either want the solver to use the pair of points or to not use them at all.
// We create an indicator variable which corresponds to pairs of points
// on the line we are modeling
let usePairDecisions =
DecisionBuilder "UsePair" {
for pair in List.pairwise indices ->
Boolean
} |> SMap
Now that we have a Boolean
decision which corresponds to the pairs of Decisions, we need to create a set of constraints which will ensure that the Solver is only using one pair of points. We will do this with two types of constraints. The first constraint states that only one of the Pair decisions can be on at any given time.
// A constraint stating that only one pair may be used
let onlyOnePair = Constraint.create "OnlyOnePair" (sum usePairDecisions == 1.0)
The second type of constraints is for each pair of points. It states that if the usePairDecision
is set to 1.0
, then the Solver must assign a total of 1.0
to the two corresponding decisions.
// We state that if we want to use the pair of vertices,
// the indicator variable associated with that pair must
// be on as well
let pairConstraints =
ConstraintBuilder "UsePair" {
for KeyValue ((i, j), d) in usePairDecisions ->
decs.[i] + decs.[j] >== d
}
We now have all the structure we need in place to solve a model using our approximation of the parabola. We create a costExpression
which gives us the simplication of the parabola.
// We create a expression that is an approximation of our parabola
let costExpression =
List.sum [for (i, v) in valueRange -> (-1.0 * v ** 2.0 + 10.0) * decs[i] ]
We take the costExpression
and use that to create our Objective
. From there we create the model
and populate it with the constraints we created earlier.
// We creat an objective which is to maximize our expression
let objective = Objective.create "MaxValue" Maximize costExpression
// We create a model and add the constraints
let model =
Model.create objective
|> Model.addConstraints pairConstraints
|> Model.addConstraint onlyOnePair
|> Model.addConstraint totalOneConstraint
We are now ready to solve the model. We are only using the basic settings since this is such a simple problem. We call solve and print out the results.
// We are only using basic settings
let settings = Settings.basic
// We attempt to solve the problem and return the result
let result = Solver.solve settings model
// If the result is a success, we print out the value of the expression
// we were maximizing
match result with
| Optimal solution ->
printfn "Objective Value: %f" (Objective.evaluate solution objective)
The result that is printed out…
Objective Value: 10.000000
val it : unit = ()
We can validate this result visually by looking at the plot above.
Constraints on Non-Linear Functions
To make things more interesting, let’s add a constraint which says that our parabola can only go up to -1.0
. This would correspond to saying $x\leq -1.0$. Now remember, we do not actually have a single $x$, we have a series of them which correspond to the different points on our plat. So how do we model this? Quite easily! We add a constraint which says the value of our decisions multiplied the corresponding y
value, must be less or equal to -1.0
.
let lessThanNegativeOne =
let valueExpression = List.sum [for (idx, v) in valueRange -> v * decs[idx]]
Constraint.create "LessThan-1.0" (valueExpression <== -1.0)
We can use the same code for creating the model and solving. We just add our new constraint to the model.
let model =
Model.create objective
|> Model.addConstraints pairConstraints
|> Model.addConstraint onlyOnePair
|> Model.addConstraint decisionsTotalToOne
|> Model.addConstraint lessThanNegativeOne
let settings = Settings.basic
let result = Solver.solve settings model
match result with
| Optimal solution ->
printfn "Objective Value: %f" (Objective.evaluate solution objective)
And the result…
Objective Value: 9.000000
val it : unit = ()
Again, we look at our plot and this makes sense. Hopefully, that provides a little insight into how to model non-linear functions using linear approximations.


At the moment, my primary interests as a researcher are centred around differences: differences in ways of consuming content, differences in cultures, and differences in geographic location.
Although I do and have done work around the contributor base of Wikipedia, what fascinates me is our readers: the vast, silent horde of people who become donors and editors and even staffers, and how well we're serving our goal of bringing them the sum of all human knowledge.
I'm currently employed as a Research Analyst at the Wikimedia Foundation, and have been since December 2013.
My work primarily involves traffic analysis, along with various ad hoc editing-related requests, and personal projects that database access lets me work on. Highlights for me so far have been:
Defining content consumption metrics for a top-10 website with a decade of technical debt and accretion, including the new definition and filter set for "pageviews". This is being done in collaboration with Christian Aistleitner and Erik Zachte and involves handling a large number of different access methods, with accompanying sensitivity analysis, in a way transparent and understandable to the lay reader.
As part of the definition task, I implemented a prototype in R that processed approximately 500 days of sampled request logs in less than 10 days of runtime.
Pioneering the use of the Hive and Hadoop stack within the Research & Data team. When I joined the team, the stack was in alpha and not actively used by researchers; we're now preparing to use it for production systems.
My role in setting up the system consisted of extensive alpha-testing and debugging, and training other researchers in the use of Hive as a query platform.
Collaborations with external researchers, including Scott Hale, Heather Ford and Shilad Sen on various projects involving the geographic distribution of both reading and editing, and variations between countries or areas. See "research" for more details.
Prior to my research work, I handled community management for our Product Development team. As the first ever Liaison in Engineering, I was greeted with..kind of a lot of work.
The role was equal parts playing devil's advocate to Product, and acting as a conduit for issues the community had with our software development process (or vice versa). As with any job, there were both successes and failures, for a lot of reasons I'm happy to discuss but probably won't write out in the middle of my semi-formal C.V.
Despite being a HCI researcher, my background is actually law. I was awarded my law degree by the University of Northampton in 2011, following a double-length thesis focusing on the evolution of the Diceyan orthodoxy in the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty, and the historical and modern challenges to it. It's more interesting than it sounds, but not by much.
While at university I (amongst other things) occupied my time with acting as the Equality & Diversity officer for the Students' Union, and working as a political campaigner for the Liberal Democrats. The only real consequences of this is that I know far too much about charitable trusts law in England and Wales, and have a fun story involving a trust instrument, an NUS investigation and the democratic ideal.
In terms of the code I write, I tend to depend on an R, C++, Hive and Hadoop stack. Outside of that I'm comfortable mixing in bits of Python and AWK when necessary.
I've used Git, Gerrit and Bugzilla extensively to handle code and its problems, along with Mingle and Trello to look at the (slightly) bigger picture. I'm familiar with both agile methodology and the idiosyncracies of trying to come up with researcher processes in an agile environment. I've been involved with FOSS and Open Culture projects since I was fifteen years old, and have a pretty good understanding of what to do (and not to do) around copyright law.
I can be found via (in order of preference) email, IRC as Ironholds on Freenode, Twitter and Wikipedia.


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Obaseki swears in Esther Edigin as Edo Chief Judge
by Agency ReportGovernor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Friday swore-in Justice Esther Edigin as the seventh Chief Judge of the state, following the retirement of Justice Esohe Ikponmwen.
At the ceremony held at Government House in Benin, Obaseki urged judicial officers in the state to maintain worthy records.
“I commend judicial officers in the state on how they have remained unsoiled despite operating at a time when the judiciary is having integrity concerns.
“Edo has not recorded any incident of suspension or dismissal of a judge by the Nigerian Judicial Council on account of corruption.
“This is a worthy record and one which I implore all judicial officers to maintain,” he said.
He said that the new chief judge faithfully served as a judge in the state, urging her to ensure speedy dispensation of justice.
The governor also urged Edigin to strengthen the state magistracy.
In her remarks, the new chief judge said that her intention was to prioritise staff welfare especially that of the magistracy.
She promised that her administration would have zero tolerance for corruption.
Edigin promised to work with other judges in the state and other arms of government to ensure effective dispensation of justice.
She, however, appealed to the executive arm to complete the process of financial independence for the judiciary in accordance with Section 121 sub-Section 3 of the Constitution.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Edigin was born on May 17, 1956.
She was called to bar on July 17, 1979.
In 1989, Edigin joined the then Bendel State Judiciary as Chief Magistrate Grade 11 and was appointed a high court judge in 2001.
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DbmsLayer, as the name implies, is a layer built on top of akka that handles queries towards a Relational DataBase Management System. By default it uses mysql connector and it can behave in both asynchronous and synchronous ways. The DbmsLayer permits you to seamlessly integrate with akka, decomposing and parallelizing the interaction of your application with a RDBMS. The DbmsLayer can be easly integrated with different connection pool libraries and can easily integrate with other JDBC drivers.
Thanks to akka, the DbmsLayer can serve high amount of requests concurrently and parse/elaborate the replies efficiently. The whole application can so be designed to be reactive top to bottom and masks almost all the blocking nature of JDBC.
In this demo code, a few requests are performed to an existing mysql database, first from a 'normal' program and then from within an akka program/actor. Java >= 1.7 is required.
All those handlers are reactive.
Lets start with the setup steps now.
In resources you can find a sql script that can be used to create a
database schema suitable
for the test program. Once you have recreated such schema in your mysql instance, you can modifify
application.conf filling it with
hostname, database name, user and password
required to connect to your rdbms instance:
mysqldb {
host = "taurus"
port = 3306
dbname = "TemplateDB"
username = "root"
pwd = "root"
}
Once you have completed these steps, you can successfully test this activator template
In the next section, we'll do an overview of the layer architecture, and at the end, we'll see a few usage cases.
GenericDBMSQuerier is an Actor which deals with the sql requests. Its duties are the spawning of the underlying actor hierarchy, the logic for reusing it if required and the reply generation once the data arrives from the database. If you want to interact with DbmsLayer, you have to send a proper request to an actor of this kind.
DBMSWorker is an Actor which deals with the database interaction. Its duties are the connection fetching and releasing, the execution of explicit connection related DBMS commands (such as commit or rollback) and the choosing of the right dispatcher according to the request characteristics. We'll see the last point more in detail later. From an usage point of view, you will never deal with this kind of actor.
When the GenericDBMSQQueryingActor is created, it spawns a DBMSWorker. While the connection is being fetched from the connection pool, the GenericDBMSQQueryingActor parses the QueryGenerciArgument object used to represent the request and extracts the info regarding the request and the expected output.
A QueryGenericArgument object is used to instruct the layer not only about a request SQL and parameters, but also regarding the logical behaviour of the request itself. A typical QueryGenericArgument object has the following fields:
Father => The reply message will be sent to the actor specified as a father Query => The SQL query Request Properties => Logical meaning of the request, we'll see below Autocommit => Boolean that tells if a commit shall be performed after the execution of the request Reply Type => Object type that will be sent to father as reply for the whole request Argument Array => Object array that holds parameters for the SQL queryA Request Property is used to tell the system if the specified query will alter the content of the database (WRITE), will just read it (READ_ONLY) or will perform both, as with a stored function (READ_WRITE ).
The general facilities provide support for 'normal' rdbms interaction. They are provided through tree kind of dispatchers: Connections Broker, CloseConnection Broker and DeadLettersBroker.
When a GenericDBMSQuerying actor and its hierarchy are spawned, a request is sent to a Connection Broker that's in charge for fetching a connection from the connection pool. Once the DBMSWorker has the Connection, it's in charge for generating the correct Statement for the submitted query and send it back to the GenericDBMS requester. Once the requester has the statement, it can build the proper request and send it back to the DBMSWorker, that is in charge to route it to the right dispatcher according to the query properties.Once the the query has been executed, its output is sent back to the GenericDBMSQueryingActor. There an object of the specified output class is reflectively constructed using the infos contained in the class itself (number of columns and maximum number of lines) and the class constructor as a parser of the output. The final result is then sent back to the original requester leaving the hierarchy intact and ready to be used for another request through the same GenericDBMSQueryingActor, if any. In this way we can build a flow of queries using the same structure/connections, enabling us to build complex transaction friendly execution streams.
You can use the DbmsLayer from within your akka application as shown in the SimpleTestWorker
or use
is in a standalone application, using the generic broker
for performing queries without creating your own actor system,
as shown here.
Through the reuse apis
is possible to reuse hierarchies and turn them into async ones, according to your needs and your queries. It's
possible to perform
serveral queries, force a commit/rollback,
restart using the same hierarchy/connection, everything is very flexible.
As a generic guideline you can follow this generic schema:
- If you are outside an ActorSystem environment just send a QueryRequest message
to the generic query broker as shown in the Main class.
- If within an ActorSystem environment you can create a new DbmsLayer request through the create_generic_fsm
function.
- You can see a DbmsLayer request as a Java Connection, so once you get a reply from it you can just
keep asking sending a new request
to the handler with a tell() or with the reuse_fsm function. Transactions are preserved
between requests made through the same handler.
- If you are in the above case and you want to force the execution of a previously constructed request
on the dedicated async dispatcher, just send the object
to the handler through the async_reuse_fsm
function. As above, transactions are preserved.
Thanks for following this tutorial. It was just a quick glance at the reactive technologies build around akka and of the flexibility of the layer. Dive deeper into the code or contact us for more info and excitement.


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Details Parse the HTML document given as an argument, or referred to using a pathname.
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If handler is nil, the parser's internal representation of the document is returned. The result is equivalent to that returned using a PT builder as returned by make-pt-builder, but avoids creating the same representation twice. Alternatively, handler can be a HAX handler (see hax:abstract-handler) or a SAX handler (see the SAX protocol in cxml). In this case, the document will be serialized to the specified handler, and the result of hax:end-document will be returned from this function. Note that the parser will currently always process the entire document before sending the first HAX event. |
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I am an archaeologist interested in prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptations, specifically in how these are related to processes of climate and environmental change. I focus on the study of lithic technological organization and its correlation with various aspects of ecological dynamics and human behavior. I currently direct three field projects, I am co-responsible for a project investigating the origins and evolution of modern human cognition in southwestern Iberia, and a colaborator in different projects in Mozambique.
PhD in Archaeology, 2013
Universidade do Algarve
MA in Archaeology, 2009
Universidade do Algarve
Licenciatura in Cutural Heritage, 2007
Universidade do Algarve
For a complete list check my CV


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The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.


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Razer launches a gaming headset with 'expertly tuned drivers' for $129
by Paul LillyEvery so often, Razer sees fit to "Release the Kraken!," though unlike the one in Clash of the Titans, the goal is not to punish mortals by crushing them into oblivion. We hope not, anyway. Instead, Razer summoned its new Kraken Ultimate to pummel eardrums with "punchy base" and "super clear sound."
Razer's positioning the Kraken Ultimate as a higher end headset. We have not tested it ourselves, but on paper at least, it seems promising. The Kraken Ultimate uses large 50mm drivers that have been custom tuned to "produce a more natural sound" and allow users "to pick up even the slightest nuance in sound and use it to their advantage."
Some of that is marketing talk, obviously, though custom tuned drivers can be an enticing feature, depending on how they are configured. The Kraken Ultmate also supports THX Spatial Audio, which Razer says "delivers pinpoint positional accuracy greater than 7.1 surround sound."
"THX Spatial Audio optimizes the unique sound design and engineering of every game and delivers a natural listening experience by adjusting its virtual speakers to match the audio source's actual distance and location in-game. This can help to reduce brain and ear fatigue, as users are able to decipher where every sound is coming from instinctively, letting them stay focused longer—giving them the upper hand," Razer says.
From the pictures we've seen, the RGB earcups look similar to the ones on the Nari Ultimate, one of the best gaming headsets. They have cooling gel cushions and hidden eyewear channels for gamers to wear glasses.
Razer also touts a "pro-grade" microphone with active noise cancelling technology, RGB lighting, and aluminum construction.
- Frequency response—20Hz to 20kHz
- Impedance—32 Ω @ 1kHz
- Sensitivity (@1kHz)—109dB
- Input power—30mW (max)
- Drivers—50mm, with neodymium magnets
- Inner ear cup diameter—64mm / 2.5in
- Connection type—USB digital
- Cable length—1.3m / 4.27ft
- Weight—275g / 0.60lbs.
The Kraken Ultimate is available now for $129.99. Giving the timing of the release, it's unlikely (though not impossible) we will see it get marked down during the Black Friday deals bonanza later this month.
Razer also announced a cheaper Kraken X USB headset. Priced at $59.99, it's not as feature rich as the Kraken Ultimate, as it trades custom tuned 50mm drivers for 40mm drivers, and drops THX Spatial Audio support in favor of 7.1 surround sound.
Here are the specs at a glance:
- Frequency response—20Hz to 20kHz
- Impedance—32 Ω @ 1kHz
- Sensitivity (@1kHz)—113dB
- Drivers—40mm, with neodymium magnets
- Inner ear cup diameter— 65 x 44 mm
- Connection type—USB digital
- Cable length—1.3m / 4.27ft
- Approx. weight—275g / 0.60lbs
The Kraken X USB is available now as well.


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VIDEO: Ghana's ambassador to Egypt HE Winfred Nii Okai Hammond hosts Black Meteors ahead of Ivory Coast clash
Ghana's Ambassador to Egypt, Winfred Nii Hammond has implored the Black Meteors to fight for the colours of the nation in their U23 Africa Cup of Nations semifinal clash against Ivory Coast on Tuesday.
Ibrahim Tanko’s men will engage neighbours Ivory Coast in the first semifinal game of the ongoing U23 Africa Cup of Nations.
Ahead of the crunchy encounter, Ghana’s Ambassador to Egypt Winfred Nii Hammond hosted the team at his residence.
The soft-spoken Ambassador called on the team to play above their standards in order to finish the tournament with a flourish.
Ghana qualified to the semifinal Round of the competition after defeating Mali 2-0 on Thursday to finish 2nd on the Group A standings.
Watch the Ambassador’s video below;
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News Flash: Sentiments are now easy to quantify because there is soooo much data around to poke into. People eat,laugh,cry,sleep when they tweet, or maybe its the other way around.
So, we can derive loads of business and impact information based on these free streams of data and quantify them for our needs, which currently here is purely exploratory !
For mere instance, Lets put our favorite sport into the picture, Cricket! Its pretty easy to find out a quite strong co-relation between the tweets on both sides as they win or loose. Plus human emotions are what ‘I’ say somewhat elastic in nature; which means, if a person is sad due to his team losing, then after a bit of cribbing he will elastically get back to the ‘played well’ stance and later become a neutral subject. There maybe some exceptions.
As wiki states it:
Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining) refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials.
Seems too complex? Well it certainly is. If you need highly credible results so that you put your million marketing Dollars into that data. It sure is. But atleast we can be a NoOb at it and explore further.
What if we break a tweet into words then rate the words for their negativity and positivity ! Then add the scores up. If the score ends up to be positive the sentence is happy and if negative , the person is sad. Seem Legit? Well Sort of, maybe 60% sort of. Such rankings can be stored in a dictionary of words.
So that most common dictionary is called AFINN-111 by Finn Årup Nielsen,which is a list that has words and phrases rated between +5 and -5 to quantify sentimentality.
Now I used a nodejs package called sentiment that takes in the phrase and tells you the sentiment of the phrase using the AFINN-111 dictionary.
To install it: npm install sentiment
. Check out the README on the page for a quick start.
Next we need a twitter API Client for node, It will be Twit. You will need to get the usual Outh Tokens to use this library. You will need to install Twit similarly .
The Twit returns a JSON Object for the Tweet. So, extracting that is pretty easy with the ‘.’ operator.
With all these bits and pieces we have some code gluing left. I intent to log the data as CSV so that i can analyze it later. This requires a basic file access (write) library fs
that already comes with the package.
For my little experiment, i would analyze prominent Indian cities for their sentiments and plot the same using Plotly later. The time was the party time when you expect people to be happy. Saturday,7th Nov and time around 10-11:30pm .
Here is the script that i ran simultaneous (2 at a time and exiting at a sample size of 500 tweets). You can replace the co-ordinates of your city using this tool , choose the area and select CSV, then simply copy paste it in the script.
After 500 Tweets the data is as follows:
Notable Observations :
I will plan to do this again in IPL, so that i can statistically establish a correlation between twitter tweets and the score cards in two cities.
Caveats:
Hoping to listen from some Data Gurus !
Cheers,
Rohit


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After several years of WordPress, I finally decided to make a change. The main change was getting rid of comments. There were several useful comments over the years, but the vast majority of the comments that came in were spam. The spam filters got most of them, but over the last year, more and more have been getting through. They’ve become more subtle over the years, and so more of a headache to deal with on my side. The handful of useful comments weren’t worth it. Most of the time, people comment in order to ask me a question. They can still easily do that through email, and I can post any interesting threads as another blog post.
I also had grown dissatisfied with the readability of the blog. It was a bit busy, and code formatting wasn’t great. So now, like the cool kids, I’m trying out Octopress. I’ve always managed my blog in markdown, and WordPress fights that a little bit. Octopress is definitely a hacker’s blogging platform, which is nice for the hacker in me. I admit, it also is a bit awkward at times, and often feels more complicated than WordPress. And I absolutely worry that messing with my tools will get in the way of actually writing useful stuff. And so I need to be careful about that.
Now that I’ve gotten some other projects out of the way, I’m hoping to get back to blogging a bit in 2014. Plus there are several updates in the works for RNCryptor.


@(name : String, crewMembersSize : Integer, crewMembers : List[String], kitten : String) @import helper._
You should have paid more attention to your intuition.
You run ashore while trying to turn around in the latest dead end bay.
While trying to patch up the ship you and your crew are almost eaten by a rampaging herd of feral kittens.
The kittens destroy what remains of your ship.
Thus ends your jounry, @name. You can play again if you want.
Healthy crew members left: @crewMembersSize
List of remaining crew members:
@crewMembers


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Somewhere in the messy, laughably titled "Flawless" is a potentially fine character study about prejudice and the price we pay for sex. But Joel Schumacher's script (which he also directed) is a rhinestone in the rough, a piece of junk jewelry even Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman can't make sparkle.
Heaven knows they try, though. As Rusty, a drag queen who badly wants to be surgically transformed into "a real woman," Hoffman huffs and puffs and sometimes blows everyone else off the screen, as if he's certain he can somehow turn this shabby stick figure of a character into Mama Cass. DeNiro can't even hope to compete. He's playing Walter, a stroke victim with partially paralyzed vocal cords who seeks out loud-mouth Rusty for therapeutic singing lessons. Since Walter is a hard-boiled homophobe, of course the match-up is a disaster waiting to happen.
To further complicate matters, Schumacher has tossed in some of Walter's macho cop buddies, a cold-hearted "dancer" with eyes for Walter's wallet, a beautiful love-starved mouse (Daphne Rubin-Vega) and a passel of aggressively outrageous friends of Rusty's, most of whom spend their days shrieking out old Sylvester anthems and smacking their heavily glossed lips over the sight of the stud who works in the neighborhood pizza parlor.
All these mini-dramas prove to be irritating distractions, like gnats buzzing around your ears. But even that's not enough -- as a screenwriter, Schumacher can't say 'no' -- so every 15 minutes or so "Flawless" cuts away from the stormy Rusty/Walter relationship to a completely incongruous subplot about stolen drug money and murdered hookers.
 No wonder the story's message ultimately gets twisted along the way and inadvertently links being gay with having a physical disability. Good luck selling that theory to the local chapter of ACT-UP, Mr. Schumacher.
The movie would be a thorough waste of time were it not for a handful of DeNiro and Hoffman's scenes together in which the actors cut through Schumacher's silly yarn and try to simply let Walter and Rusty communicate as human beings, rather than as archetypes. Those moments far outclass everything else in the film, and it's conceivable "Flawless" could make an intriguing one-act play if Schumacher bothered to strip away all the ridiculous frills covering up his central theme. In the world of drag, fussiness can be an asset; in screenwriting, it's a major liability. James Sanford
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Jena2 Database Interface - Options for Initialization and Access
The following options are available for use with the persistence subsystem.
For each option Xyz, there are getXyz and setXyz methods in the associated
interface. Some options must be set when initializing (formatting) the database and others may
be set while accessing models.
Database Initialization Options
The following options may only be set before the database is
initialized. To set these options, invoke the associated set method on the database driver. There
is also a get method that may be called at any time to retrieve the option
value. If the database has already been formatted, i.e., if
IDBConnection.isFormatOK() returns
true, then these set methods will throw an
exception. These options are
persisted in the database. When (a model in) a previously formatted database
is opened, the option values in the database override (silently) any
user-specified values.
| IRDBDriver Option |
Type |
Default |
Description |
| LongObjectLength |
int |
* |
Maximum length of a literal or resource to be stored
in a statement table. |
| LongObjectLengthMax |
int |
* |
Maximum
possible value for LongObjectLength. |
| IndexKeyLength |
int |
* |
Maximum length of the key in a long object table. |
| IndexKeyLengthMax |
int |
* |
Maximum possible value for IndexKeyLength. |
| IsTransactionDb |
boolean |
* |
True if the database can support transactions. |
| DoCompressURI |
boolean |
false |
If true, do prefix compression on long URIs. |
| CompressURILength |
int |
100 |
URIs longer than this length will be compressed (if
doCompressURI is true). |
|
TableNamePrefix |
String |
jena_ |
The common prefix for all Jena table names in the database. |
* These options are
database-dependent. See the database-specific howto (HSQLDB,
MySQL,
Derby, Oracle,
PostgreSQL,
Microsoft SQL Server) for the default values.
- LongObjectLength
- This defines the maximum length of a value in a statement table where
the value may be either a literal or a resource URI. Values longer than this
length are stored in either the long literals or the long resources table.
Smaller values of LongObjectLength reduce database space consumption at the
cost of increased retrieval time. Each database engine has a maximum
permissible value for LongObjectLength which may be retrieved by calling getLongObjectLengthMax().
An attempt to set a larger length
will throw an exception.
- Note that LongObjectLength is an upper bound due to
the database encoding used for values. For example, if LongObjectLength is
ten, a literal string of ten or even nine characters would be stored as a
long object because, when stored, the string value is encoded with type
information which makes the actual stored value even longer.
- IndexKeyLength
- This defines the maximum length of an index key for long object values
(literals or resource URIs). Long objects are stored in three parts, a head,
a hash and a tail. The head is the prefix of the long value that can be
indexed. The hash is a content-based hash value of the remainder (the tail).
Exact matching is done by comparing the head and the hash value. In the
future, we plan to do prefix matching on the head for inequality and range
queries.
- Generally, there is no need to change IndexKeyLength. However,
smaller values could reduce database space consumption at the expense of
reducing the (future) effectiveness of inequality and range queries. Note
that IndexKeyLength is an upper bound due to the database encoding (see
comments in LongObjectLength). Each database engine has a maximum
permissible value for IndexKeyLength which may be retrieved by calling IndexKeyLengthMax().
An attempt to set a larger length
will throw an exception.
- IsTransactionDb
- Some database engines support a non-transactional configuration in which
begin-end transactions are not supported but the individual database
operations are atomic. MySQL has both transactional and non-transactional
configurations. This option can be used to set the transaction mode. Since
it affects the physical database structure, it can only be set prior to
database initialization. Applications must be careful when using
non-transactional configurations because the database may be left in an
inconsistent state if an application is interrupted in the middle of a
database operation.
- DoCompressURI
- By default, resource URIs are stored fully expanded in the database. If
DoCompressURI is true, URIs will be compressed by storing a prefix of the
URI (typically a namespace) in a separate table. This can be used to reduce
database space consumption. Ideally, it should not significantly increase
retrieval time since it is expected that the number of prefixes will be
relatively small and it should be possible to cache them in main memory for
expansion.
- Note that there is an interaction between
DoCompressURI and LongObjectLength. The prefix is compressed before the
object length is checked. For example, if LongObjectLength is ten and
DoCompressURI is true, the URI
myNamespace.com/foo:123 would be stored as a compressed URI directly in
a statement table. However, if DoCompressURI is false, then that URI would
be stored in the long resources table and the statement table would have a
reference to it.
- CompressURILength
- If DoCompressURI is true, this specifies the minimum length URI that
should be compressed. Resource URI's shorter than this value will be stored
fully expanded.
- TableNamePrefix
- Every database table created by Jena has a common prefix. This option
allows users to specify the prefix. It affects all Jena tables and indexes,
including the Jena system table. Consequently, with this option it is
possible to have multiple Jena persistent stores, each with different
formatting options (e.g., LongObjectLength, DoCompressURI, etc.) in a single
database instance, with each store having a distinct prefix.
- Note that this option differs from the previous
options in that it must be set on every connection that access the store.
Otherwise, the subsystem will assume the default prefix and will not be able
to locate the Jena system table which contains the configuration.
- The maximum
length of the prefix is database-dependent and an exception may be thrown if
the prefix is too long. Otherwise, it is the user's responsibility to ensure
that the prefix name conforms to the naming conventions for the underlying
database engine (e.g., certain prohibited special characters). Also, if the
database requires upper case table names (or lower case), the prefix will be
automatically (silently) converted to that convention.
- This option has subtle semantics and should be used
with care. Always use the following code sequence to ensure that the prefix
is set correctly for the database connection.
IDBConnection conn = ( make a database connection )
conn.getDriver().setTableNamePrefix("myNewNamePrefix");
Database Access Options
The following options may be set at any time and are not persistent. They
exist only for the duration of a database connection.
| IRDBDriver Option |
Type |
Default |
Description |
|
StoreWithModel |
String |
null |
If not null or empty, subsequent models will share tables with the named
model. |
|
CompressCacheSize |
int |
50 |
The size of the URI prefix cache if DoCompressURI is true. |
- StoreWithModel
- By default, models are stored in separate database tables. This option
enables models to share tables. Once specified, all subsequently created
models created on the current connection are stored in the same tables as
the specified model. A model name of "DEFAULT" references the default
(unnamed) model.
- If the specified model does not exist, an exception
is thrown when attempting to create a new model that references it. This is
also true of the default model, i.e., it is not automatically created. If
the specified model name is null or the empty string, then subsequently
created models are stored in separate tables.
- CompressCacheSize
- If URI compression is enabled (DoCompressURI is true), an in-memory LRU
cache of URI prefixes is maintained to reduce the need to access the
database to expand compressed URIs. The cache size can be adjusted at any
time after a connection to the database is established.
-
Model Access Options
The following options affect the behavior of query processing. These
options are not persisted in the database. The options are set by calling the
associated set method on the database model (an instance of ModelRDB). There
is also a get method to retrieve the option value.
|
ModelRDB Option |
Type |
Default |
Description |
| DoFastpath |
boolean |
true |
If true, enable query Fastpath. |
| QueryOnlyAsserted |
boolean |
false |
If true,
query only asserted statement
tables. |
| QueryOnlyReified |
boolean |
false |
If true, query
only reified statement
tables. |
| QueryFullReified |
boolean |
false |
If true, Fastpath ignores partially reified
statements. |
| DoDuplicateCheck |
boolean |
true |
If true, check if a statement is
already in the database before adding. it. |
- DoFastpath
- This option enables and disables Fastpath query processing. Generally,
it should be enabled but it may be useful to disable it for experiments or
debugging. For details on Fastpath processing and explanations of the
three query options in this table, see the Fastpath
notes.
- QueryOnlyAsserted
- When true, querying will only be done on asserted statement tables; the
reified tables are ignored. For applications that use only asserted
statements this may provide a performance improvement for certain types of
queries (specifically, those with unknown predicates), especially if the
database is remote from the application.
- QueryOnlyReified
- When true, querying will only be done on reified statement tables; the
asserted statement tables are ignored. For applications that use only
reified statements this may provide a performance improvement for certain
types of queries (specifically, those with unknown predicates), especially
if the database is remote from the application.
- QueryFullReified
- See the Fastpath
notes.
- DoDuplicateCheck
- When a statement is added to a persistent model, Jena first checks if
the statement already exists in the model. This prevents the occurrence of
duplicate rows in the statement tables. However, if a user knows that the
rows to be inserted do not already exist, DoDuplicateCheck may be disabled
to reduce overhead for adding statements. This can substantially reduce load times.
- Note that, once set, the value applies not just to
the specified model but to any model subsequently created in the database
during the user's session (the life of the database connection). The setting
for existing models is not affected.
- When duplicate checking is disabled, if an
application attempts to insert a duplicate statement in a model, the result
depends on the database engine and configuration. In general, the insert
will succeed, no indication will be provided to the application and the
database will contain duplicate statements. If this is undesirable, one
option is to create a unique index on the subject, predicate and object
columns of the statement table. This can easily be done by modifying the
templates for creating statement tables in the database-specific SQL
template files, e.g., see CreateStatementTable and
CreateReifStatementTable in the file 'etc/mysql.sql'.
If this is done then the database engine will generate an error when a
duplicate statement is added and an exception will be thrown to the
application.
-


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Company provided email and internet are not being actively monitored by anyone, but because they are company resources that are managed according to company policy, you should not expect privacy from either. Our company has both the ability and the right to look at employee usage for both in order to protect employee safety and wellbeing, as well as company property and interests.
Email messages (including attachments) sent and received from a company email address are the property of our company. We reserve the right to access, monitor, read, and/or copy email messages at any time, for any reason. You should not expect privacy for any email you send using your company email, including messages that you consider to be personal or label with a designation such as "Personal" or "Private."
We reserve the right to monitor employee use of the internet at any time. You should not expect that your use of the internet—including but not limited to the sites you visit, the amount of time you spend online, and the communications you have—will be private.


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# DeviceAtlas Carrier Identification API #
The DeviceAtlas Carrier Identification API provides a way to lookup Mobile
Carrier properties based on an IPv4 IP address. Using the IP address for a
Mobile Carrier the API will return properties such as _networkOperator_,
_networkBrand_, _countryCode_, _mcc_ and _mnc_.
### Data File ###
The Carrier API relies on a data file to function. DeviceAtlas provides weekly
carrier data file updates. Please ensure you are using an up-to-date data file.
The data file can be downloaded from your account page or automated via the
https://deviceatlas.com/getCarrierData page.
### Dependencies ###
This library does not depend on any third party libraries.
### Library ###
The DeviceAtlas Carrier Detection API consists of three libraries as below:
#### DeviceAtlas Common (Api/) ####
Contains the shared libraries which are common between the DeviceAtlas APIs.
When using the CarrierApi and CarrierApiWeb, the required files from this library
will be included automatically by the API. Keep the relative paths of the
libraries as they are in the downloaded package.
#### CarrierApi (Api/Carrier/Mobi_Mtld_Da_Carrier_CarrierApi) ####
The main DeviceApi that loads the Device data and detects and returns the
properties for a set of request headers or the IP address.
#### DeviceApiWeb (Api/Device/Mobi_Mtld_Da_Device_DeviceApiWeb) ####
A small extension to the main API that allows automatic extraction of the
request headers from the request. It is prefered to use this library for
real-time device detections in web applications.
### Usage ###
The API can be queried by passing any of the following to either the
getProperty() or the getProperties() methods.
1. An **IPv4** IP address string. _e.g. "<IP_ADDRESS>"_
2. An **Array** of HTTP Header names to HTTP Header values. The API will choose
the most appropriate IP address to use.
3. Without arguments. The API will choose the most appropriate IP address to use
from the $_SERVER when using CarrierApiWeb inside CarrierApiWeb.php.
### Choosing an IP Address ###
If the API is passed either an array of HTTP Headers or nothing is passed it
will try and choose the most suitable IP address for the end client. This is
done by iterating over the following HTTP Headers. The first non-private, valid
IP address is returned as the client IP.
- X-Forwarded-For
- Client-Ip
- X-Client-Ip
- rlnClientIpAddr
- Proxy-Client-Ip
- Wl-Proxy-Client-Ip
- X-Forwarded
- Forwarded-For
- Forwarded
The _X-Forwarded-For_ HTTP header can contain the client IP and multiple proxy
IPs, the API parses the header to extract the client IP.
### Example ###
The API has a very simple interface and can be used as follows:
```php
$ip = "<IP_ADDRESS>";
$carrierApi = new Mobi_Mtld_DA_Carrier_CarrierApi();
// multiple calls will reload the data file each time
$carrierApi->loadDataFromFile('/path/to/carrier-data-file.dat');
// get all properties
$props = carrierApi.getProperties($ip);
// .... use the properties ....
if ($props->containsKey('networkOperator')) {
$property = $props->get('networkOperator');
$operatorName = $property->asString();
echo 'networkOperator: ' . $operatorName;
}
// get a single property
$mccProp = $carrierApi->getProperty($ip, 'mcc');
if ($mccProp !== null) {
$mcc = $mccProp->asString();
echo 'MCC: ' . $mcc;
}
```
### Included Examples ###
Please see the Examples directory for example code:
1. **BasicUsage** - Simple examples using the API
2. **SingletonWrapper** - Shows how the API can be wrapped in a Singleton
3. **ExampleWebApp** - Simple page showing usage of the CarrerApiWeb class.
Note: By default the examples expect a carrier data file to exist in the
"[EXAMPLES-DIRECTORY]/Data/carrier-data-file.dat". Before trying the examples
please place a carrier data file inside this directory or change the path to
a carrier file inside the example sources.
### Master Carrier List ###
For a listing of all Carrier names and associated data please see:
https://deviceatlas.com/master-carrier-list
The Carrier List is also available in CSV and XML formats.  All rights reserved. https://deviceatlas.com _


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Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
2
For the beef, heat the oven to 230C/450F/Gas 8 and place a roasting tray inside.
Mix the salt, black pepper and rosemary together in a bowl, then rub the beef with the mixture.
Heat a frying pan over a high heat until hot. Add the oil and beef and fry for 15-20 seconds on each side, until golden-brown all over.
Transfer the beef to the hot roasting tray in the oven and roast for 20-25 minutes (or until cooked to your liking), turning the beef every eight minutes. Remove from the oven, loosely cover with kitchen foil, and leave to rest in a warm place for 15 minutes.
For the potato bread, place the potato, flour, butter, baking powder, horseradish sauce and garlic into a clean bowl and mix thoroughly to combine as a dough.
Dust the bottom of a frying pan with a thin layer of plain flour and place over a medium heat.
Divide the potato bread dough into four equal-sized rounds. Flatten the rounds into patties and place into the hot floured pan to cook for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until golden-brown all over.
Place a little butter into a clean frying pan over a medium heat. When the butter has melted add the potato breads and fry for 1-2 minutes on each side, or until heated through.
For the root vegetables, place the carrots, parsnips, turnips and sweet potato into a large pan of boiling water. Bring the water back to the boil and cook the vegetables for two minutes. Drain the vegetables and transfer to a clean roasting tray. Add the butter and honey and season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Stir the vegetables to combine the ingredients, then place into the oven to roast for 10-15 minutes, or until golden-brown and tender.
To serve, carve the beef into slices and place along the centre of a warmed oval serving dish. Arrange the roasted root vegetables and potato breads around the beef. Serve with red wine gravy.


Best Buy Canada ‘Early Release’ Black Friday tech deals are now live
by Ian HardyAnother week brings new discounts on tech. This time, it’s Best Buy Canada with a plethora of savings leading up to the big Black Friday bonanza. These “Early Release” deals below are valid from November 15th to 21st and the large retailer also offers free shipping on orders above $35.00 CAD.
Here’s a summary of what you’ll find online.
- Samsung Galaxy S9+ 64GB – $699.99 (Reg. $949.99)
- Samsung Galaxy S9 64GB – $859.99 (Reg $759.99)
- Samsung Galaxy A50 64GB – $399.99 (Reg. $449.99)
- Samsung Galaxy Note9 128GB – $849.99 (Reg. $999.99)
- Google Nest Hub with Google Assistant – Set of 2 – $199.00 (Reg. $338.00)
- August Smart Lock + Connect – $179.99 (Reg. $259.99)
- Amazon Echo with Alexa for $49.99 (Reg. $99.99)
- Nanoleaf Light Panels – Smarter Kit – 9 Panels – $179.99 (Reg. $249.99)
- Google Nest Thermostat E Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat – $199.99 (Reg. $229.99)
- Lenovo Smart Display 10″ with Google Assistant – $149.99 (Reg. $329.99)
- Philips Hue A19 White Smart LED Light Bulb Starter Kit – $89.99 (Reg. $127.99)
- Philips Hue Smart Bluetooth Plug – $29.99 (Reg. $34.99)
- Garmin Vivofit Jr 2 Kids Activity Tracker – $69.99 (Reg. $99.99)
- Samsung Galaxy Watch with Heart Rate Monitor, 42mm – $329.99 (Reg. $359.99)
- Apple Watch Series 3 42mm GPS Space Grey with Black Sport Band – Open Box – $239.99 (Reg. $289.99)
- Apple Watch Series 3 38mm GPS Silver with White Sport Band – Open Box – $219.99 (Reg. $399.99)
- Garmin vivofit jr 2 Kids Activity Tracker – $69.99 (Reg. $99.99)
- Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 with Heart Rate Monitor, 44mm – $329.99 (Reg. $399.99)
- Nintendo NES Classic Mini EU Console – $139.72 (Reg. $179.72)
- Assassin’s Creed III Remastered (Switch) – $29.99 (Reg. $49.99)
- Insten Wireless Pro Gaming Controller Joypad Remote For Nintendo Switch Console – $27.99 (Reg. $65.99)
- Tom Clancy’s The Division (PS4, Xbox One) – $19.99 (Reg. $34.99)
- Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (PS4, Xbox One) – $29.99 (Reg. $79.99)
- Xbox One X 1TB Battlefield V Gold Rush Bundle – $469.99 (Reg. $599.99)
- Bose SoundLink Around-Ear Wireless Headphones II – $209.99 (Reg. $269.99)
- Bose SoundSport Free In-Ear Truly Wireless Headphones – $209.99 (Reg. $249.99)
- Audio-Technica Sound Reality Over-Ear Headphones – $149.99 (Reg. $249.99)
- Beats by Dr. Dre Solo3 Wireless Headphones – $169.99 (Reg. $249.99)
- Samsung 340W 3.1-Channel Sound Bar – $299.99 (Reg. $449.99)
- Sennheiser CX 6.00BT Bluetooth Headphones – $79.99 (Reg. $129.99)
- Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless Bluetooth Headphones – $329.99 (Reg. $379.99)
- Samsung Galaxy Buds – $179.99 (Reg. $199.99
- Sony EXTRA BASS Bluetooth In-Ear Headphones – $59.99 (Reg. $89.99)
- Sony In-Ear Bluetooth Headphones – $49.99 (Reg. $69.99)
- Sony Over-Ear Noise Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones – $199.99 (Reg. $349.99)
- JBL Free Truly Wireless In-Ear Headphones – $99.99 (Reg. $199.99)
- Logitech MX Sound 2.0 Computer Speaker System – $69.99 (Reg. $89.99)
- Onkyo 9.2-Channel Dolby Atmos 4K Receiver – $499.99 (Reg. $649.99)
- Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM 2 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker – $99.99 (Reg. $129.99)
- Samsung 58″ 4K HDR LED Tizen Smart TV – $599.99 (Reg. $849.99)
- Sony 49″ X800G 4K HDR LED Android Smart TV – $649.99 (Reg. $999.99)
- Sony 65″ X900F 4K HDR LED Android Smart TV – $1499.99 (Reg. $1999.99)
- LG 55″ B9 4K HDR OLED WebOS Smart TV – $1599.99 (Reg. $1999.99)
- LG 55″ C9 4K HDR OLED webOS Smart TV – $1799.99 (Reg. $2699.99)
- Toshiba 55″ 4K Smart LED TV, Fire TV Edition – $449.99 (Reg. $699.99)
- TCL 4-Series 75″ 4K HDR Roku OS Smart TV – $999.99 (Reg. $1299.99)
Source: Best Buy


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