Bitcoin Upside Potential At $8k Is Far Greater Than the Down
by Emilio JanusAs a novice Bitcoin trader, it may seem logical to think that long and short trades are pretty much equivalent. You decide if you think price is going up or down, and long or short it accordingly, right?
But that ignores the asymmetrical nature of the two options, as Scott Melker, a trader at TxWestCapital tweeted yesterday. Even a short from all-time high to bottom was less profitable than a long from that bottom back up to $6.5k.
And of course, even that isn’t the whole story.
Asymmetrical Nature Of Bitcoin Shorts And Longs
The first thing to consider is that short and long trades are not equal in every respect. For simplicity, let’s look at a starting bitcoin price of $5k.
Now sure, you can choose to either short or long that price, and if the price goes down (or up), say $500, then you get a tidy 10% dollar profit, on either option.
But you aren’t content with 10%. You want to double your money, which means if you are shorting, Bitcoin price needs to drop to zero, and at that point you hit a limit. If you are going long, however, then price has to rise to $10k, from which point it can keep going and further increase returns.
This is why a short from the top of the market to the bottom (around $20k to $3200, or 84%) would have netted you less profit than a long from $3200 back to $6500 (103%). If you consider the (currently hypothetical) long from bottom back to $20k, then you are looking at 525% profit.
Dollar Profit Versus Satoshis
As pointed out in some of the replies to Melker’s original tweet, however, this doesn’t tell the whole story.
Whilst the dollar profit in the above example is certainly greater for the long option than the short, a successful short ends with a lower bitcoin price, hence your profit would be substantially more in terms of bitcoin. 84% of $20k would buy 5.25 bitcoin at $3200, whereas 525% of $3200 would only buy you 0.84 bitcoin at $20k.
So if you held the gains in bitcoin then the potential profit (after another swing in price) favours an initial short… and that’s before you even start looking at leverage.
But Melker does state that “Shorting can be massively profitable when well timed and managed by a professional trader.” However, for the majority of us, it is far easier to buy a dip and hold in a generally upwards trending market.
So at $8k, bitcoin has far more potential to the upside than the down.
Do you agree that Bitcoin has a better upside potential at $8,000? Add your thoughts below!
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The Rundown


Notting Hill * * * (out of * * * * )
Directed by Roger Michell. Cast: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Rhys Ifans, Emma Chambers, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, Hugh Bonneville. 1999 - 124 minutes Rated PG-13 (for profanity and sexual situations). Reviewed May 30, 1999.
The final installment of what I'd like to call the "unrelated bookstore romance trilogy," director Roger Michell's "Notting Hill" is, for my money, easily the best (the other two being "You've Got Mail" and "The Love Letter"). It is a sparkling romantic comedy, full of so much energy, laughs, and intelligence that it also must go down as one of the better films of its genre this decade. Taking the overly familiar formula of "boy-gets-girl/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-girl-back," Michell and screenwriters Richard Curtis and Duncan Kenworthy have put an extra spin on the potentially mundane by having a great deal to say about fame, and the price celebrities must pay, when most would probably rather lead a "normal" life.
Set exclusively in the homely England town of Notting Hill, William Thacker (Hugh Grant) is a lonely 35-year-old divorcee who runs a travel bookshop and shares a townhouse with the goofy, unsightly Spike (Rhys Ifans), a scruffy-looking man who is oddly lovable even when he is revolting. One day while at work, William finds his life suddenly change before his eyes when Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), the world's most famous movie star, walks in to do some book-shopping. After a brief encounter, William then experiences a "Meet-Cute" with Anna when he accidentally spills orange juice on her while walking along the street. After stopping by at his home to clean up, it becomes clear that Anna really likes William, and might even want to further the relationship, but there are, predicatably, many obstacles in the way. For one, the life of a movie star is not easy, as they rarely are able to snatch a moment's time for themselves. And two, Anna knows that their budding romance might very well lead to life-changing consequences for William and herself, particularly when the media inevitably catches on to the story.
Watching "Notting Hill," it is clear to see how easily the film could have been of lesser quality. After all, we've seen this story outline numerous, practically endless, times before and to mostly ho-hum results. It is only after the fame aspect is added in that the film proves it is trying something a little different, as the dialogue always comes off as nothing less than witty and entertaining. This slyness also leads to the heavy dose of humor the film has going for it, and I can't even remember when I've laughed so hard at a romantic comedy before.
Aside from the scripting, the supporting characters are all comic originals, from Ifans, as William's roomate, Spike, who brightens up each scene he is in (even if the scenes are already bright), to Emma Chambers, as William's talkative, lovable sister, Honey, who is fortunate enough to be given the film's most laugh-inducing line of dialogue, when she first meets Anna, the movie star. Also effective in minor roles are Tim McInnerny, as William's brother, and Gina McKee, as his crippled wife, who share a few nice scenes together, and whose relationship is believable and touching as a married couple who love each other with all their hearts, no matter what.
And of course at the center of the film are the star attractions, Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Grant is the character whom we follow throughout the film, and he gives a memorable performance that more than adequately displays the full round of emotions William feels when it looks like his relationship with Anna isn't going to work out after all, and then when he finds himself given another chance. The question of should he take the chance or not is cause for some debate, and your opinion will greatly hinge on if you, like William, have fallen for Anna. Since she is played by Julia Roberts, of all people, my prediction is that most people will grow to care and understand her character's plight, as she has all of the money and success that she could ask for, but still is burdened with her extreme popularity, the media, and no privacy. It would be the easy way out to say that Roberts is, in general, playing herself, but I don't think so. Anna is strictly a character, but the reason Roberts is so wonderful and right at home here is because she, no doubt, has taken her own experiences with fame and put them into the context of this film. Together, Grant and Roberts are dynamite, and perhaps they could go on to become the next Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romantic duo.
One of the pleasures to be had in "Notting Hills" is in its dealing with Hollywood. One of the best, and most hilarious, on-target, sequences comes when William drops by the Ritz hotel to see Anna, and finds himself in the midst of press interviews. Saying that he is from "Horses & Hounds" magazine, William is forced into a seemingly endless stream of interviews with Anna Scott's co-stars in her latest film, the sci-fi epic, "Helix." The sheer accuracy of the interview procedure is one of the reasons the scene is so successful, and is only aided by William's utterly benign questions, such as when he asks Anna, "do you wish that you had added more horses into your film?"  Because of her fame, Anna knows that she can never have what most people have, which is a regular life, but still feels frustrated by the fact that she can't do anything without the media turning it into a major headline blitz. The treatment of this character element only enhances the film, and Anna, so that when she grows upset at one point late in the picture, it is an understandable reaction.
Although not vital to the film's story, one added bonus that should be pin-pointed is a magical, liberating sequence in which William walks down a Notting Hill street and right in front of your eyes, we see the seasons change from summer to rain to snow, and finally, to spring. Bravo to director Michell for attempting something so fresh and stylish, and performing it to perfection.
How everything ends up at the conclusion of "Notting Hill" can be more or less telegraphed before the movie even starts, but getting to that predictable moment was an unexpected delight, and for the film to have ended any other way would have seemed like a cheat. "Notting Hill" is the rare, quintessential Hollywood romance--smart, affectionate, realistic, and thoroughly likable.
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Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers To Headline Boston Calling 2020
by Chris DeVilleBoston Calling has booked its two biggest headliners ever for 2020. The music festival returns to Harvard Athletic Complex this spring, and although its full lineup is under wraps until January, they’re sharing the top two names today. Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers will top the bill alongside 60-plus other acts from 5/22 to 5/24. Tickets are available here starting this Thursday, 11/14, at 10AM EST.


Copyright Bruce Wilcox<EMAIL_ADDRESS>www.brilligunderstanding.com
Revision 6/25/2017 cs7.51
You can give parameters on the run command or in a config file. The default config file is cs_init.txt
at the top level of CS (if the file exists). Or you can name where the file is on a command line parameter config=xxx
. Config file data are command line parameters, 1 per line, like below:
noboot
port=20
Actual command line parameters have priority over config file values.
Chatscript statically allocates its memory and so (barring unusual circumstance) will not allocate memory every during its interactions with users. These parameters can control those allocations. Done typically in a memory poor environment like a cellphone.
| option | description |
|---|---|
buffer=50 |
how many buffers to allocate for general use (80 is default) |
buffer=15x80 |
allocate 15 buffers of 80k bytes each (default buffer size is 80k) |
Most chat doesn't require huge output and buffers around 20k each will be more than enough. 20 buffers is often enough too (depends on recursive issues in your scripts).
If the system runs out of buffers, it will perform emergency allocations to try to get more, but in limited memory environments (like phones) it might fail. You are not allowed to allocate less than a 20K buffer size.
| option | description |
|---|---|
dict=n |
limit dictionary to this size entries |
text=n |
limit string space to this many bytes |
fact=n |
limit fact pool to this number of facts |
hash=n |
use this hash size for finding dictionary words (bigger = faster access) |
cache=50x1 |
allocate a 50K buffer for handling 1 user file at a time. A server might want to cache multiple users at a time. |
A default version of ChatScript will allocate much more than it needs, because it doesn't know what you might need.
If you want to use the least amount of memory (multiple servers on a machine or running on a mobile device), you should look at the USED line on startup and add small amounts to the entries (unless your application does unusual things with facts).
If you want to know how much, try doing :show stats
and then :source REGRESS/bigregress.txt
. This will run your bot against a wide range of input and the stats at the end will include the maximum values needed during a volley. To be paranoid, add beyond those valuse. Take your max dict value and double it. Same with max fact. Add 10000 to max text.
Just for reference, for our most advanced bot, the actual max values used were: max dict: 346 max fact: 689 max text: 38052.
And the maximum rules executed to find an answer to an input sentence was 8426 (not that you control or care). Typical rules executed for an input sentence was 500-2000 rules. For example, add 1000 to the dict and fact used amounts and 10 (kb) to the string space to have enough normal working room.
| option | description |
|---|---|
output=nnn |
limits output line length for a bot to that amount (forcing crnl as needed). 0 is unlimited. |
outputsize=80000 |
is the maximum output that can be shipped by a volley from the bot without getting truncated. |
Actually the outputsize
value is somewhat less, because routines generating partial data for later incorporation into the output also use the buffer and need some usually small amount of clearance. You can find out how close you have approached the max in a session by typing :memstats
. If you need to ship a lot of data around, you can raise this into the megabyte range and expect CS will continue to function. 80K is the default. For normal operation, when you change outputsize
you should also change logsize
to be at least as much, so that the system can do complete logs. You are welcome to set log size lots smaller if you don't care about the log.
| option | description |
|---|---|
livedata=xxx |
name relative or absolute path to your own private LIVEDATA folder. Do not add trailing / on this path Recommended is you use RAWDATA/yourbotfolder/LIVEDATA to keep all your data in one place. You can have your own live data, yet use ChatScripts default LIVEDATA/SYSTEM and LIVEDATA/ENGLISH by providing paths to the system= and english= parameters as well as the livedata= parameter |
topic=xxx |
name relative or absolute path to your own private TOPIC folder. Do not add trailing / on this path / |
buildfiles=xxx |
name relative or absolute path to your own folder where filesxxx.txt is found. Do not add trailing / on this path / |
users=xxx |
name relative or absolute path to where you want the USERS folder to be. Do not add trailing / |
logs=xxx |
name relative or absolute path to where you want the LOGS folder to be. Do not add trailing / |
userlog |
Store a user-bot log in USERS directory (default) |
nouserlog |
Don't store a user-bot log |
tmp=xxx |
name relative or absolute path to where you want the TMP folder to be. Do not add trailing / |
| option | description |
|---|---|
source=xxxx |
Analogous to the :source command. The file is executed |
login=xxxx |
The same as you would name when asked for a login, this avoids having to ask for it. Can be login=george or login=george:harry or whatever |
build0=filename |
runs :build on the filename as level0 and exits with 0 on success or 4 on failure |
build1=filename |
runs :build on the filename as level1 and exits with 0 on success or 4 on failure.Eg. ChatScript build0=files0.txt will rebuild the usual level 0 |
debug=:xxx |
xxx runs the given debug command and then exits. Useful for :trim , for example or more specific :build commands |
param=xxxxx |
data to be passed to your private code |
bootcmd=xxx |
runs this command string before CSBOOT is run; use it to trace the boot process |
trace |
turn on all tracing. |
redo |
see documentation for :redo in ChatScript Debugging Manual manual |
noboot |
Do not run any boot script on engine startup |
logsize=n |
When server log file exceeds n megabytes, rename it and start with a new file. |
Here few command line parameters usage examples of usual edit/compile developement phase, running ChatScript from a Linux terminal console (standalone mode):
Rebuild level0 (compiling system ChatScript files, listed usually in file files0.txt
):
BINARIES/LinuxChatScript64 local build0=files0.txt
Rebuild level1, compiling bot Mybot (files listed in file filesMybot.txt
), showing build report on screen (stdout):
BINARIES/LinuxChatScript64 local build1=filesMybot.txt
Rebuild and run: If building phase is without building errors, you can run the just built Mybot in local mode (interactive console) with user name Amy:
BINARIES/LinuxChatScript64 local login=Amy
Build bot Mybot and run ChatScript with user Amy:
BINARIES/LinuxChatScript64 local build1=filesMybot.txt && BINARIES/LinuxChatScript64 local login=Amy
You can create predefined bot variables by simply naming permanent variables on the command line, using V to replace $ (since Linux shell scripts don't like $). Eg.
ChatScript Vmyvar=fatcat
ChatScript Vmyvar="tony is here"
ChatScript "Vmyvar=tony is here"
Quoted strings will be stored without the quotes. Bot variables are always reset to their original value at each volley, even if you overwrite them during a volley. This can be used to provide server-host specific values into a script. Nor will they be saved in The user's topic file across volleys. This also applies to variables defined during any CS_BOOT
If the system does not recognize the bot name requested, it can automatically restart a server (on the presumption that something got damaged). If you don't expect no such bot to happen, you can enable this restart using nosuchbotrestart=true
. Default is false.
| option | description |
|---|---|
Timer=15000 |
if a volley lasts more than 15 seconds, abort it and return a timeout message. |
Timer=18000x10 |
same as above, but more roughly, higher number after the x reduces how frequently it samples time, reducing the cost of sampling |
:TranslateConcept
Google API Key| option | description |
|---|---|
apikey=xxxxxx |
is how you provide a google translate api key to :translateconcept |
Typically security parameters only are used in a server configuration.
| option | description |
|---|---|
sandbox |
If the engine is not allowed to alter the server machine other than through the standard ChatScript directories, you can start it with the parameter sandbox which disables Export and System calls. |
nodebug |
Users may not issue debug commands (regardless of authorizations). Scripts can still do so. |
authorize="" |
bunch of authorizations "". The contents of the string are just like the contents of the authorizations file for the server. Each entry separated from the other by a space. This list is checked first. If it fails to authorize AND there is a file, then the file will be checked also. Otherwise authorization is denied. |
encrypt=xxxxx decrypt=xxxxx |
These name URLs that accept JSON data to encrypt and decrypt user data. User data is of two forms, topic data and LTM data. LTM data is intended to be more personalized for a user, so if encrypt is set, LTM will be encrypted. User topic data is often just execution state of the user and potentially big, so by default it is not encrypted. You can request encryption using userencrypt as a command line parameter to encrypt the topic file and ltmdecrypt to encrypt the ltm file. |
The JSON data sent to the URL given by the parameters looks like this:
{"datavalues": {"x": "..."}}
where ... is the text to encrypt or decrypt. Data from CS will be filled into the ... and are JSON compatible.
Either Mac/LINUX or Windows versions accept the following command line args:
| option | description |
|---|---|
port=xxx |
This tells the system to be a server and to use the given numeric port. You must do this to tell Windows to run as a server. The standard port is 1024 but you can use any port. |
local |
The opposite of the port command, this says run the program as a stand-alone system, not as a server. |
interface=<IP_ADDRESS> |
By default the value is <IP_ADDRESS> and the system directly uses a port that may be open to the internet. You can set the interface to a different value and it will set the local port of the TCP connection to what you designate. |
Scripts can direct the system to store individualized data for a user in the user's topic file in USERS. It can store user variables ($xxx
) or facts.  But facts can be arbitrarily created by a script and there is no natural limit. As these all take up room in the user's file, affecting how long it takes to process a volley (due to the time it takes to load and write back a topic file), you may want to limit how many facts each user can have written. This is unrelated to universal facts the system has at its permanent disposal as part of the base system.
userfacts=n
limits a user file to saving only the n most recently created facts of a user (this does not include facts stored in fact sets). Overridden if the user has $cs_userfactlimit
set to some value
Each user is tracked via their topic file in USERS. The system must load it and write it back for each volley and in some cases will become I/O bound as a result (particularly if the filesystem is not local).
You can direct the system to keep a cache in memory of recent users, to reduce the I/O volume. It will still write out data periodically, but not every volley. Of course if you do this and the server crashes, writebacks may not have happened and some system rememberance of user interaction will be lost.
Of course if the system crashes, user's may not think it unusually that the chatbot forgot some of what happened. By default, the system automatically writes to disk every volley, If you use a different value, a user file will never be more out of date than that.
cache=20
cache=20x1
This specifies how many users can be cached in memory and how big the cache block in kb should be for a user. The default block size is 50
(50,000 bytes). User files typically are under 20,000 bytes.
If a file is too big for the block, it will just have to write directly to and from the filesystem. The default cache count is 1, telling how many users to cache at once, but you can explicitly set how many users get cached with the number after the "x". If the second number is 0, then no caching is done and users have no data saved. They remember nothing from volley to volley.
Do not use caching with fork. The forks will be hiding user data from each other.
save=n
This specifies how many volleys should elapse before a cached user is saved to disk. Default is 1. A value of 0 not only causes a user's data to be written out every volley, but also causes the user record to be dropped from the cache, so it is read back in every time it is needed (handy when running multi-core copies of chatscript off the same port).
Note, if you change the default to a number higher than 1, you should always use :quit
to end a server. Merely killing the process may result in loss of the most recent user activity.
In stand-alone mode the system logs what a user says with a bot in the USERS folder. It can also do this in server mode. It can also log what the server itself does. But logging slows down the system. Particularly if you have an intervening server running and it is logging things, you may have no use whatsoever for ChatScript's logging.
Userlog
Store a user-bot log in USERS directory. Stand-alone default if unspecified.
Nouserlog
Don't store a user-bot log. Server default if unspecified.
Serverlog
Write a server log. Server default if unspecified. The server log will be put into the LOGS directory under serverlogxxx.txt where xxx is the port.
Noserverprelog
Normally CS writes of a copy of input before server begins work on it to server log. Helps see what crashed the server (since if it crashes you get no log entry). This turns it off to improve performance.
hidefromlog="label label2 label3"
If there is data you don't want reflected into either server or user log files, this is the parameter. Maybe you don't want an authorization code recorded, or whatever. This presumes the data is part of some JSON object. You name one or more labels and when those are found in data outbound to a log file, the label and its value will be omitted.
Serverctrlz
Have server terminate its output with 0x00 0xfe 0xff as a verification the client received the entire message, since without sending to server, client cannot be positive the connection wasn't broken somewhere and await more input forever.
Noserverlog
Don't write a server log.
Fork=n
If using LINUX EVSERVER, you can request extra copies of ChatScript (to run on each core for example). n specifies how many additional copies of ChatScript to launch.
Serverretry
Allows :retry
to work from a server - don't use this except for testing a single-person on a server as it slows down the server.
servertrace
when present, forces all users to have tracing turned on. Traces go to the user logs.
erasename=myname
:reset, when called from running script, is unable to fully reset the system. Facts that have already been created are not destroyed and user variables that have been defined are not erased, only ones in the bot definition are changed back to their default settings. The erasename parameter is used to perform a full reset prior to loading th user topic file. The incoming input is scanned for the text given, and if found the system bypasses loading the topic file and instead just initializes a fresh bot. The actual erasename seen in input will be converted to all blanks, so it will not disturb normal behavior, either in OOB input or user input.
The default value for this is: csuser_erase
which you can change to anything else you want.
If the system does not recognize the bot name requested, it can automatically restart a server (on the presumption that something got damaged). If you don't expect no such bot to happen, you can enable this restart using nosuchbotrestart=true
. Default is false.
There are various configurations for having an instance be a client to test a server.
client=xxxx:yyyy
This says be a client to test a remote server at IP xxxx and port yyyy. You will be able to "login" to this client and then send and receive messages with a server.
client=localhost:yyyy
This says be a client to test a local server on port yyyy. Similar to above.
Load=1
This creates a localhost client that constantly sends messages to a server. Works its way through REGRESS/bigregress.txt
as its input (over 100K messages). Can assign different numbers to create different loading clients (e.g., load=10 creates 10 clients).
Dual
Yet another client. But this one feeds the output of the server back as input for the next round. There are also command line parameters for controlling memory usage which are not specific to being a server.


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overall an average place which i would not recommend nor return to stay.
[2]
manager is a privilege not a right it was frustrating to switch from one room to another.


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public interface TableListener
Listener interface for monitoring changes to a table. There are three different scenarios:
// The data, ie. all rows changed: tableChanged(source, 0, source.getRowCount()-1, ALL_COLUMN, UPDATE); // Structure change, reallocate TableColumns: tableChanged(source, -1, -1, ALL_COLUMN, UPDATE); // Metadata for column 3 has changed: tableChanged(source, -1, -1, 3, UPDATE); // Row 1 changed: tableChanged(source, 1, 1, ALL_COLUMN, UPDATE); // Rows 3 to 6 inclusive changed: tableChanged(source, 3, 6, ALL_COLUMN, UPDATE); // Cell at (2, 6) changed: tableChanged(source, 2, 2, 6, UPDATE); // Rows (3, 6) were inserted: tableChanged(source, 3, 6, ALL_COLUMNS, INSERT); // Rows (3, 6) were deleted: tableChanged(source, 3, 6, ALL_COLUMNS, DELETE);
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static int |
ALL_COLUMN
Constant. |
static int |
DELETE
Indicates a data delete operation. |
static int |
INSERT
Indicates a data insert operation. |
static int |
UPDATE
Indicates a data update operation. |
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void |
beginEdit(int context)
Specify that the following calls to tableChanged belong to the same transaction. |
boolean |
checkInvariants()
Checks if the table meets criteria defined by invariant(s). |
boolean |
endEdit(int context)
Specify that the calls to tableChanged belonging to the same transaction are finished. |
void |
tableChanged(Table t,
int start,
int end,
int col,
int type)
Notification that a table has changed. |
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static final int ALL_COLUMN
static final int DELETE
static final int UPDATE
static final int INSERT
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void beginEdit(int context)
This method could be used when a large number of modification are made on a Table and notifying everything would be time expansive. For instance, it could disable notifications. The behavior of this method clearly depends of the purpose of the Obvious implementation.
context
- an integer used, if needed, to identify the edition
context of the edit.boolean endEdit(int context)
This function could be used to re-enabled notifications for the current TableListener if they were disabled. It could also replay a stored context of the period where the notifications where disabled. The behavior of this method clearly depends of the purpose of the Obvious implementation.
context
- an integer used, if needed, to retrieve the edition
context It could be used to execute further operations on the table
(for instance replaying sequence of events).
boolean checkInvariants()
void tableChanged(Table t, int start, int end, int col, int type)
t
- the table that has changedstart
- the starting row index of the changed table regionend
- the ending row index of the changed table regioncol
- the column that has changed, or
EventConstants#ALL_COLUMNS
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My my! Things are looking better. A quick glance to your right and you'll see we've won the last three games . Hurrah!
After a shaky start, Clinton Thomas has now started to find the back of the net, and goals in the 31st and 66th minutes set The Yeltz on their way against an in-form Ilkeston (they'd beaten Salisbury 6-0 on Saturday). A late third from Darren Wright capped what was probably the best result so far this season. They had a man sent off and arrived late because their coach broke down, but it's about time we had a bit of luck.
We're off to Wales on Saturday when we visit Newport - don't forget that it's an early kick-off (12.15 I think) presumably because of the Rugby World Cup.


The Negotiator
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, J.T. Walsh
"The Negotiator" is the best movie, alongside "The Truman Show", I have seen this summer. It is intelligent and well-acted and does not feature any comets or asteroids or lizards, just a expertly crafted storyline and some of the best acting you're likely to see in any action movie.
The movie is about an expert hostage negotiator (played by Samuel L. Jackson) who finds himself being framed for murder by an unknown source. He thinks he can find some answers in the office of an Internal Affairs officer (very nicely played by J.T. Walsh) and ends up taking the place hostage. Being a hotage negotiator, he "knows the rules of engagement" and, as his first demand, requests a negotiator of his own choosing (Kevin Spacey). Much of the remainder of the film involves Spacey and Jackson talking to each other on the phone, trying to work the situation out.
Now, from my description, this movie may sound like a standard hostage taking plot, along the lines of "Dog Day Afternoon", but it's not. It's really so much more. For one thing, there's the brilliant performances of Jackson and Spacey, two actors at the top of their game. Jackson hits just the right note as a man who's innocent, but not afraid to do whatever it takes to clear his name. Spacey plays an imperfect hero, if he can be called that, who constantly finds himself trying to assert his authority over cops and FBI agents who want to end the situation quickly, but violently.
Without a good script, the performances would have been worthless. That is not the case here. The dialogue comes off as realistic and, more importantly, not just as words the screenwriter might have thought would "sound good". For example, there is a scene early on in the film in which Jackson and his partner are sitting in a parked car talking, and a fellow police officer interrupts them. The following exchange between the three of them felt real, and not just like something a writer might have throught police officers sound like. Sure, it's a small thing, but it's also very important.
The ending is a bit of a letdown, though. I won't spoil it, but let's just say that everything is wrapped up a little too nicely. The revelations that come during the final few minutes all arrive in a way that seemed, to me, way too conveniant. It's as if the writer had painted himself into a corner, and couldn't think of an original way to get out.
The real surprise of the film is J.T. Walsh, in a complex role that a lesser actor would likely have been unable to pull off. He gives such a subtle performance as the internal affairs officer who may or may not know more than he lets on. He is able to say with merely a glance what most actors can't say with a whole page of dialogue. Sadly, this is his last film. He died last year of a heart attack. He was a profound talent, and this film is a fitting showcase for his talent.
***1/2 out of ****
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A2Z Hybrid Database Support
This documentation provides useful information about the dimensional/document databases Arizona supports
Database Support
- Relational Database
- Relational to Dimensional Storage ETL
- Serialization of Composite Object Models
Abstract Data Factory Pattern
Arizona's runtime, persists data via a service layer definition that can be configured to implement the database platform you prefer by defining the DBFactory option. If no factory is declared, Arizona will assume default connections to an internal SQLite3 database.


Brian Tarantina, actor in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' dead at 60
by Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content DeskActor Brian Tarantina, who has appeared in roles in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and "Gilmore Girls,” has died, his manager said Saturday. He was 60.
Tarantina was found unresponsive in his New York apartment, CNN reported. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.
“(Tarantina was) quite ill recently,” manager Laurie Smith told CNN. "I have known him for years. He was an amazing, very, very talented actor and very sweet person. I was really shocked and very sad. I'm still shocked."
A medical examiner will determine cause of death.
Tarantina and other members of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won a Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series in January.
Tarantina also appeared in movies, including “Summer of Sam,” “Knight and Day,” and “Uncle Buck.”


Class in Ruby is like objects in our world. It carries data, or characteristics. If we are a wine maker, we make wine, and we can make different kinds of wine – Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc. Each kind of wine has different taste, color, and best food to pair with. Let me demonstrate the class concept with this example.Like defining a method, the first step to create a class in ruby is to name it. See how the class name is different than method names:
Class Wine end
Cabernet Sauvignon is our first wine! This is how we can call it out:
But before we start to make our first wine, we know we want to make more than one type of wine. We need to tell ruby that each time we make a new wine with “Wine.new”, we are trying to make a different kind of wine. So how do we do that? It’s easy.
Class Wine   def initialize(wine_name)   @wine_name = wine_name end
The initialize method brings up the concept “instance variable” which tells ruby each time we call out “Wine.new”, we are creating an instance of such class. After adding the initialize method, now we can proceed with our 3 kinds of wine with their ingredient and :
Now we have 3 kinds of wine with their descriptions!Let’s move on to the next step to make instance method inside class that will return each instance’s description upon calling:
Class Wine    def initialize(wine_name)      @wine_name = wine_name    end
   def taste      @taste    end
   def color      @color    end
   def pairing_food      @pairing_food    end end
The @ symbol in front of variable meaning it’s an instance variable. If I input
wine_1.pairing_food
Ruby will know I’m referring to the instance variable of wine_1, which is “cabernet sauvignon” and return its pairing food “red meat”I hope it's not overwhelming. I can talk a lot more about Ruby class. Below is an interactive bingo game I've built. You may download it and run it through terminal!download file


Liquidery will be usefull to note down what drinks you have tasted. Then, when you go buy to the supermakert and you´re not sure if you already tried that wine... POM! Liquery in your pocket to the rescue! Also if you want to try with a fancy dinner (again...) this time you will remember if that one works or not, just sayin'


Prince Andrew interview and Harry rows 'show Queen has lost control of her family'
Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell claims the Queen's advisers were not consulted about Prince Andrew's Saturday's BBC Newsnight interview
by Matthew Dresch, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/matthew-dresch/The Queen no longer has 'strong central control' of her family, according to the BBC's royal correspondent.
Nicholas Witchell claims Prince Harry's recent attack on the tabloid press and Prince Andrew's Jeffrey Epstein disastrous interview this weekend showed a 'lack of strong central control' in the royal family.
He claimed the Queen's advisers were not consulted over the Duke of York's BBC Newsnight interview, in which he addressed his relationship with his paedophile former pal Epstein.
The journalist said: "The Queen was informed but she is 93 years old now, and she is not exercising the strong control she had, if she ever did.
"We have had two episodes within just a couple of months, of senior members of the royal family doing it their way.
"We had Prince Harry with his rant against the tabloid media which was absolutely against the advice of his communications officials who were in despair over it.
“We have a similar situation now. The mainstream advisors of the Queen at the Palace were not a part of this Prince Andrew debate.”
Mr Witchell - once called 'an awful man' by Prince Charles - claims the Queen would have asked her second son 'are you sure' if he told her about his interview plan.
He added that the Duke discussed the Newsnight sit down with his daughters and close advisers.
According to the Express, ex-Buckingham Palace press officer Dickie Arbiter described Prince Andrew's interview on Saturday night as 'excruciating'.
There are conflicting reports over whether the Duke received his mother's permission to go ahead with the interview.
Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis believed the monarch signed off on the interview after he sought 'approval from higher up'.
However, sources previously told the Express that while the Queen was “aware” of his interview, she had not approved it.
Pressure mounted on the Duke to address his friendship with Epstein after the billionaire financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges in July and killed himself in prison in August.
One of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts - now Giuffre, claimed she had been trafficked to have sex with Prince Andrew three times.
She said she had sex with the royal when she was 17-years-old.
The Prince categorically denied having sex with Mrs Giuffre and said he could not even remember meeting her.
He also denied recalling the infamous picture of him and Mrs Giuffre cosying up to each other being taken, suggesting it could be a fake.


Arts and humanities
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Education
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Multi-subject
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public class ConnectionEvent
extends java.util.EventObject
This class defines following types of event notifications:
ConnectionEventListener
,
Serialized Form| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
static int |
CONNECTION_CLOSED
Event notification that an application component has closed the
connection
|
static int |
CONNECTION_ERROR_OCCURRED
Event notification that an error occurred on the connection.
|
protected int |
id
Type of the event
|
static int |
LOCAL_TRANSACTION_COMMITTED
Event notification that a Resource Manager Local Transaction was
committed on the connection
|
static int |
LOCAL_TRANSACTION_ROLLEDBACK
Event notification that a Resource Manager Local Transaction was
rolled back on the connection
|
static int |
LOCAL_TRANSACTION_STARTED
Event notification that a Resource Manager Local Transaction was
started on the connection
|
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
ConnectionEvent(ManagedConnection source,
int eid)
Construct a ConnectionEvent object.
|
ConnectionEvent(ManagedConnection source,
int eid,
java.lang.Exception exception)
Construct a ConnectionEvent object.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
java.lang.Object |
getConnectionHandle()
Get the connection handle associated with the Managed
Connection instance.
|
java.lang.Exception |
getException()
Get the exception.
|
int |
getId()
Get the type of event
|
void |
setConnectionHandle(java.lang.Object connectionHandle)
Set the connection handle.
|
public static final int CONNECTION_CLOSED
public static final int LOCAL_TRANSACTION_STARTED
public static final int LOCAL_TRANSACTION_COMMITTED
public static final int LOCAL_TRANSACTION_ROLLEDBACK
public static final int CONNECTION_ERROR_OCCURRED
protected int id
public ConnectionEvent(ManagedConnection source, int eid)
source
- ManagedConnection that is the
source of the eventeid
- type of the Connection eventpublic ConnectionEvent(ManagedConnection source, int eid, java.lang.Exception exception)
source
- ManagedConnection that is the
source of the eventexception
- exception about to be thrown to the applicationeid
- type of the Connection eventpublic java.lang.Object getConnectionHandle()
public void setConnectionHandle(java.lang.Object connectionHandle)
public java.lang.Exception getException()
public int getId()


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Vietnam jails music teacher for 11 years over 'anti-state' Facebook posts
HANOI: A court in Vietnam jailed a music teacher for 11 years on Friday (Nov 15) for a series of posts on Facebook that the government said were "anti-state".
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing openness to social change, Vietnam's ruling Communist Party retains tight media censorship and does not tolerate criticism.
Nguyen Nang Tinh, 43, was accused of "making and spreading anti-state information and materials" at the one-day trial at the People's Court in the northern-central province of Nghe An, Nguyen Van Mieng, Tinh's lawyers said.
"At the trial, Tinh said the accusation was not true as this Facebook account didn't belong to him," said Mieng.
"The prosecutors stuck to the idea that the Facebook user named Nguyen Nang Tinh and my client Nguyen Nang Tinh are the same person".
Tinh, who teaches music at a provincial college, was arrested in May after he was found writing and sharing anti-state posts and videos on his Facebook account, police said in a statement.
Late last month, a 54-year-old architect was jailed for 12 months over the accusations he uploaded anti-government posts to his Facebook account, police said in a separate statement on the department's website.
Facebook is widely used in the Southeast Asian country and serves as the main platform for both e-commerce and dissent. In January, Vietnam accused Facebook of violating the law by allowing users to post anti-government comments.
The US social media giant said in May that it had increased the amount of content it restricted access to in Vietnam by more than 500 per cent in the last half of 2018.
"Nguyen Nang Tinh is the latest in a long line of dissidents targeted for posting information and criticism on Facebook," John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Thursday, ahead of the trial.
Tinh would be placed under house arrest for five years after serving his jail term, his lawyer said.


Assign to variable 'shift' the result of calling operation 'newShift' on class TestData with:
- "A shift type" as an argument for 'description'
- 1 as an argument for 'shiftsPerDay'
Assign to variable 'taxi1' the result of calling operation 'newTaxi' on class TestData with:
- "Taxi 1" as an argument for 'name'
- variable 'shift' as an argument for 'shift'
Assign to variable 'taxi2' the result of calling operation 'newTaxi' on class TestData with:
- "Taxi 2" as an argument for 'name'
- variable 'shift' as an argument for 'shift'
Assign to variable 'driver' the result of calling operation 'newDriver' on class TestData with "Driver 1" as argument
Ensure that TBD: includes
Ensure that TBD: includes
Call operation 'book' on variable 'driver' with variable 'taxi1' as argument
Ensure that (TBD: includes) is false
Ensure that TBD: includes
Call operation 'release' on variable 'driver'
Ensure that TBD: includes
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For developers
Repository
To create your own instance of this service, first you will need to install Yarn:
Install Yarn on OS X
- Install the development environment
- Homebrew
- node (
brew install node
) - yarn (
npm i yarn
)
Install Yarn on Windows
- Download Node.JS of version 9 or newer(as .zip since .msi is blocked)
- To set up your newly installed Node command line tools such as npm globally:
- Start menu > Control Panel > User accounts > user accounts > change my environment variables > select path > Edit
- Now enter the location where you have Node installed with a ; to separate between any other entries here. For example:
C:\dev ; C:\Node
- Run
npm install -g yarn
Running the App
- Clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:cds-snc/find-benefits-and-services.git
- Change directories to /find-benefits-and-services:
yarn install
yarn dev
- If you run into syntax errors chances are there are missing packages/dependencies and you may want to try
running a clean yarn install. Delete node_modules folder and then re run
yarn install
in the main folder.
- Now visit http://localhost:3000/ in your web browser and you should see an app that looks like this. Any changes you now make to your local version of the source code will be reflected on your localhost.
- Your local app is loading data from data.json. This includes which benefits are displayed, what the eligibility criteria is, which questions will be asked, and more! One way to modify this data is set up an instance of Airtable, which is described below. Another way would be to write the data to a number of csv files and then covert it into the json format shown in data.json.
Airtable
By default, the application loads data from data.json as described in the previous section. We have also configured the application to read data from Airtable, which has an intuitive interface for entering / managing data. If you don’t want to use Airtable, see below. The rest of these set up instructions will assume that you are using Airtable.
We’ve set up a demo Airtable base with some sample data. If you wish to enable Airtable as the source for your data, follow the instructions in this section.
- Visit our demo Airtable base and click “Copy base”
- If you don’t already have an Airtable account, you’ll be prompted to create one
- Add the base to one of your workspaces
Now you’ll need to set up some local environment variables to get the content from your Airtable base into your app.
Adding environment variables
Add the following 4 environment variables using the steps below.
| Variable | Use | Required |
|---|---|---|
AIRTABLE_READ_KEY |
Load data (benefits / translations / etc) from Airtable. This value is your API Key for your account on Airtable. To generate this key, visit your account page and click on the “Generate my API key” | yes |
AIRTABLE_BASE_KEY |
This tells the app which Airtable base to pull data from. To locate this key, visit your Airtable base and click: help > API documentation. Then copy the base key from your current URL, which will have the format: https://airtable.com/AIRTABLE_BASE_KEY/api/docs |
yes |
USE_AIRTABLE |
true = pull data directly from Airtable, false = pull data from data.json |
yes |
AIRTABLE_WRITE_KEY |
Write feedback form data to Airtable. If the API key for your account has write permissions to your Airtable base, you can use the same value for this variable. | only if you want the feedback feature to work |
Adding a new environment locally (OS X)
- In the terminal, run:
nano ~/.bash_profile
(ornano ~/.zshrc
if you’re using the zsh shell) - Add the following line:
export AIRTABLE_READ_KEY="foo"
- [ctrl] + x, and type
y
to save source ~/.bash_profile
(orsource ~/.zshrc
)echo $AIRTABLE_READ_KEY
to make sure it is set
Repeat these steps for each of the 4 environment variables in the table above.
Adding a new environment locally (Windows 7)
- Visit: Start Menu > Control Panel > User Accounts > User Accounts > Change my environment variables > New…
- Add a variable called
AIRTABLE_READ_KEY
- Restart the Command Prompt, run
echo %AIRTABLE_READ_KEY%
to check if the new varaible exists
Repeat these steps for each of the 4 environment variables in the table above.
Make a content change using Airtable
- run
yarn dev
- visit http://localhost:3000/
🎉 Congratulations! You should now be viewing content pulled directly from your new Airtable base. To test that it’s working, change the name of one of the benefits.
- navigate to the benefits table
- change the 1st row 1st column “Benefit 1” to “My Awesome Benefit”
- navigate to http://localhost:3000/data-validation
- click “refresh cache”
- visit http://localhost:3000/benefits-directory
- You should see your new name displayed on the 1st benefit card
Adding in your new content and eligibility
You can now start customizing the content in the app to suite your use case. Our guide to changing content will help you get started with that. Note that there are two options for loading content into your app going forward:
- Load content and logic directly from your Airtable base (
USE_AIRTABLE = "true"
). This is great for development and quickly seeing your changes in the live app. - Load content from data.json. This is a good option when your app is live and and content changes may be less frequent and require more peer review. To choose this option, remove the
USE_Airtable
environment variable from your environment. To make a pull new content into the app, runyarn download
. This copies the most recent Airtable data to data.json.
What if I don’t want to use Airtable?
It is also possible to not use Airtable. An alternative method would be to store and edit your content and logic in another spreadsheet application like Excel or Google Sheets. You could then export csv files and parse these into the same json format we use in data.json. If you take this approach, d3.dsv may be helpful.
Reference
If you’d like to contribute to the project, refer to the detailed documentation regarding our tech choices here.
This application uses the following resources:
- NextJS https://learnnextjs.com/
- Jest https://facebook.github.io/jest/
- Prettier https://prettier.io/


{% set page = {
title: '',
dev: true,
html_classes: [],
nav: {
section: 'Case view',
subsection: 'Case view'
},
layout: prototype.current.layoutPath + 'layout.html',
primary: {
col: "full"
},
secondary: false
} %}
{% extends page.layout %}
{% block primary %}
Case view
| Suspect details |
|
| Title: |
Miss |
| First name: |
Elidia |
| Last name: |
Helsel |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Date of birth: |
25 Mar 1974 |
| N.I. |
PG515593 |
| Telephone: |
07985 999466 |
| Email: |
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
| PV: |
Yes |
| Vulnerable: |
Yes |
| Address: |
3 Golf Road, Shelf, Halifax. HX6 2QW
|
| Address commenced: |
21 Nov 2011 |
|
Appointee details
| Title: |
Mr |
| First name: |
Mathews |
| Telephone: |
07985 999466 |
| Email: |
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
| Address: |
14 Essex Rd, Little Roundabout, Essex. EX2 2BT |
Partner details
| Title: |
Mr |
| First name: |
Dave |
| Last name: |
Singer |
| Telephone: |
07995 5646858 |
| Address: |
12 Golf Road, Shelf, Halifax. HX6 2QW |
Case number
3687111
Case owner
Darren Silcox
Case stage
Information gathering
Activity
Book appoinment
Due date
17 Nov 2016
Allegation
Working in receipt (2 weeks or more)
Elidia Helsel is claiming jobseekers allowance and working.
Information states that she works at the Metro Cafe 5 days a week making sandwiches.
Benefit award
| Current benefit |
| JSA | £80.00 | Commenced: 1 Oct 2016 |
| Benefit history |
| PIP | £91.55 | 1 Mar 2016 to 30 Sep 2016 |
| UC | £125.66 | 1 Mar 2015 to 28 Feb 2016 |
{% endblock %}


There are four main categories of impairment to consider. These are vision impairment; motor difficulties; cognitive and learning; and deaf and hard of hearing.
Impairments to consider
Vision impairment
Users with severe vision impairment, e.g. users of screen reader software. Screen reader users typically have issues with poorly labelled images, or links which don’t make sense when read out of context.
Users with medium vision impairment, e.g. users of magnification software. Magnification users are hindered by images of text (which become pixelated at high resolutions).
Users with mild vision impairment, e.g. users who might enlarge text in the browser with high contrast and use colour preferences.
Motor difficulties
Users with severe motor difficulties, e.g. users who are quadriplegic who might use speech recognition software or switch access as an alternative to the keyboard or mouse.
Users with medium motor difficulties or upper limb disorder, e.g. users who might only use a keyboard, a mouse being too difficult to use. Keyboard users have issues with navigation or forms that don’t have a logical tab order.
Users with mild motor difficulties, e.g. users who might use a mouse or equivalent adaptive technology but who might have fine mouse control difficulties. Link size is an important issue for this group of users.
Cognitive and learning
Users with medium dyslexia, e.g. users who might change site colours or text formatting, and who might supplement this with text to speech software for reading sections of text.
Users with mild to medium learning or cognitive disabilities, e.g. users who might use a symbol browser to convert web pages to symbols or have no special access methodologies and rely on someone else assisting them.
Deaf and hard of hearing
British Sign Language (BSL) users who might experience problems with multimedia content or complex language.
Non-signing deaf or hard of hearing, e.g. users who might benefit from captions or transcripts of audio content.
The above categorisation is purely for illustrative purposes. In reality, users may have a combination of impairments. For example, older users may have a combination of reduced vision, restricted mobility and decline in memory.
Older users
Older people can suffer from physical disabilities, such as a restricted ability to move their arms or hands. They might experience difficulty using a mouse.
The performance of the eye diminishes with age and can lead to decreased visual acuity, contrast or colour sensitivity, reduced field of vision, or an increased sensitivity to glare. Older people that have such visual impairments tend to find it difficult to point to specific objects on the screen and click on small icons with the mouse.
Older people that suffer from a reduced spatial ability and a decline in memory might find it difficult to navigate deep hierarchies of a web site.


In the figure on the right, each slice's innermost band represents the population in that human development category, and the height of the slice reflects its HDI value.
In 1990, well over half the world lived in low HDI countries, while the very high grouping included only a subset of countries in Northern Europe and North America, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Additionally, as the index had only just been introduced, there were many countries all over the world where the data simply wasn't available.
The initial five year period following the establishment of the first Human Development Report in 1990 produced some noteworthy trends across both HDI groups and geographical regions. The total population of the low HDI category dropped by over a billion people globally, in part thanks to China’s move up to medium HDI. This period in the early 1990s is also notable due to political developments across the European continent.
Within the same time period as the establishment of the European Union, countries of Northern and Western Europe, such as Denmark, the United Kingdom, Finland, Luxembourg, France, Spain, and Italy all saw themselves move up to the very high HDI category. In Eastern Europe, dissolution of the Soviet Union alongside conflict from the Yugoslav Wars saw the decline in HDI across countries such as Lithuania, Armenia, and Moldova. In particular, Serbia, Latvia, Romania and Ukraine all moved down from high HDI to medium HDI.
The run up to the new millennium is remarkable in regards to the continued growth of countries and populations now classified by either medium, high, or very high HDI. The most notable regional development of the late 1990s was in Latin America and the Caribbean, where Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama moved up to the high HDI category, and Guyana, Nicaragua and Honduras moved up to medium HDI. Most of the Eastern European countries that had fallen previously from 1990 - 1995 returned to the high HDI category alongside Croatia and Bulgaria.
The turn of the millennium and the early years of the 21st Century were distinct in terms of human development by the growth of the two highest levels of HDI. Newly-minted European Union member-states such as Czechia, Malta, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary all moved up to very high HDI status. Progress was not only bounded to continental Europe; the island states of Bahrain, Cuba, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, and the Dominican Republic progressed to high HDI. The start of the 21st Century also issued in more robust statistics; as national and international agencies continually improve their data series and collection, the data including the HDI values and population numbers has enabled researchers and policymakers to have a more complete and accurate picture of global development across time and geographic space.
2005 to 2010 was transformative in terms of global human development as since the establishment of the first report in 1990, this period marked the first time in which the low HDI category now made up the lowest share of the global population across the four HDI groups. The decrease in low HDI can be partially contributed to India, home to the world’s second largest population, and their move up to medium HDI.
Additionally, this period is characterized by the impressive growth of the high HDI category. In total, 16 countries moved from medium HDI to high HDI, including China and several Central Asian countries such as the Caucasus states of Azerbaijan and Armenia, and nearby Turkey and Iran.
2010 to 2015 is distinguishable in regards to the continued reduction of low HDI’s share of the global population. Countries in South and Southeast Asia, including Bangladesh, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Cambodia, Nepal and Pakistan all moved from low HDI to medium HDI. Concurrently, several states in Sub-Saharan Africa, comprising Kenya, Eswatini, Zambia and Angola made progress and moved up to medium HDI. For all the tremendous progress that has been made in the past 25 years up to this point, human development is not always linear. The deleterious effect of conflict occurring in Syrian Arab Republic, Libya, and Yemen precipitated steep declines in those nations’ respective HDIs, and Syria moved down to the low grouping.


PHP has over the last 10 years developed from a rather small language for the enthusiasts to a major platform for WEB based application development. The reason we call it a platform rather than a script language is the fact that when referring to PHP it is impossible not to include the very large library of included standard modules which makes it more of a platform than a scripting language. As such there are more extensions to PHP both in the form of external libraries as well as core language extension than any single person can have a working knowledge of. This means that development teams have to select carefully where best to invest time and training. So how can the JpGraph extension library motivate its existence? Perhaps a quick personal reflection of how this library came about might give some insights.
When I first became aware of PHP at the end of 1998 the PHP 3 version was the new shiny kid on the block after a complete rewrite of the previous PHP2. Initially I proposed to a client I was then working for to use this new script language to build some - what was then - state of the art interfaces to a legacy mainframe system. As part of that some basic graphic capabilities was needed and as part of that work I put together some fairly crude and not very generic small library that would just fit the need to my client. This was not a major part of the development and it didn't make sense at the time to spend a lot of complex design effort into this very small part of the system. After the work for that client was done I felt that I should rewrite the small library I put together so that it would be both a little bit more generic and also a bit more maintainable. (Side note: As part of the contract with the client I was explicitly forbidden to use any object-oriented-technology since my client had been terrible burnt by some previous contractors in this area). Hence the original library was basically a function library and the first thing that was needed was a proper design using a more maintainable OO-design philosophy.
This rewrite of the library and the "plugin" architecture/framework it is based on tried to make the best of the very crude object oriented support available in PHP3 at that time. The support available then was almost nothing more then some syntactic sugar. However, the initial design from then is almost unchanged to this day, almost 11 years later. To the best of my knowledge this makes it one (if not the) oldest object oriented library for PHP that is still actively maintained and developed.
Philosophy of the manual
Writing a good user manual for feature rich library is a bit of a challenge. Learning to efficiently use a library of this size is not a linear undertaking. One start with some basics, jump to a bit that is needed at the moment, (perhaps not fully understanding the details), and then goes back to the beginning again. This makes writing a manual that suits everyone impossible. What we have tried is to mainly follow a "from-the-basics-to-the-advanced" style as much as possible.
At certain times we find ourself in the need of some more advanced concept that have not yet been introduced. In those circumstances we will briefly introduce the concept before making use of it and refer to other parts of the manual that discuss the particular feature in more detail. In this way we hope that the more advanced features will at least register as an area for further exploration even early on in the study of the library and help build up the mental map on what is possible to do in the library. This of course has the result that the same information might be in two or three places, but from a slightly different angle, when it is needed. This manual is deliberately not a long list of API - a detailed description of all API and classes are available in the reference manual.
A final note on the examples shown in this manual might be in place. It is custom to keep introductory examples clean of any real error handling in order to keep them short. We do not believe that this is a good idea. Error and exception handling is one of the most crucial part in design and implementation of any system. For this reason we have included, where appropriate, a basic error handling even though it will make some examples slightly larger.
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Brief description
Computer programming techniques for collecting and analyzing data in linguistic research. Introduction to regular expressions, and Python scripting. Hands-on experience gathering, formatting, and manipulating corpus, field, and experimental data, combining data from multiple sources, and working with existing tools. Knowledge of computer programming not required. Units: 1-4
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Attendance will be taken daily, with one point assigned for each class attended. Class will begin on time and end on time; I are obliged to finish on time, and you are obliged to arrive on time.
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I would like everyone to ask questions, offer ideas, etc., in class. Questions and ideas sent via email also count as participation, though I would prefer it if everyone got involved during our class meetings.
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Weekly assignments (50%)
The assignments are distributed on Tuesdays and due one week later, before the start of class.
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The primary goal of these assignments is to give you practice problem-solving in Python, so that you become a fluent programmer.
Right from the start, you will be doing interesting things that you can connect with your work. To make this possible, the assignments typically involve code-fragments that you flesh out into (more or less) complete solutions. Part of doing the assignment is studying and thinking about the code provided, so that you can adapt it to other tasks later in the course, and to your own projects.
Penalties for late work: for each assignment A, 2 points off your total points earned for A for each calendar day it is late. An assigment becomes one day late at 10:00 am on its due date.
Final project (25%)
For your final project, you will write an advanced piece of reusable code. Part of the project will involve describing the use cases for this code. The project will be evaluated on the following critera:
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- How clearly articulated are the goals?
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We will talk a lot more about the final project, and components of it will be part of the assignments during the second half of the term.
The final project is due at the end of our scheduled exam time (which we will not use): Thursday, December 12, 6:30 pm.
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I made a thing. I’m a big fan of command line applications–sometimes I just don’t want to get distracted by everything that comes with using a web app (before you know it you’ve spent an hour and a half on twitter) and I just want a simple command line interface to do what I want to get done. As a bonus if there’s some part of the process you want to automate command line apps make this much easier to do.
So when I was checking out conference vieos on confreaks.tv and discovered that they have a public api I thought I’d take the opportunity to build a little ruby command line app to consume its API and automatically download videos taking advantage a few excellent gems that simplified matters a great deal and which I highly recommend:
- viddl-rb: gem for providing a simple interface for downloading videos from various sites (youtube, vimeo) as well as the
- httparty: gem which makes working with public APIs via HTTP a total cinch.
- commander: Greatly simplifies spinning up interactive command line apps of the
appname subcommand --options
form.
Usage
Complete documentation on the github page but you can get some useful value out of the gem right away like this:
$ gem install get_freaky
$ get_freaky
get_freaky by itself is aliased to the help which will give you all your options. If you’re not picky about which conference video you’d like to watch or just wanna make sure it works you can download the featured video like this
$ get_freaky featured
This will show you the featured video from confreaks, with its title and description and then ask you if you’d like to download the video.
Check it out! If there’s something or there’s another feature you’d like please let me know and I’ll try to fix/build it. I’m open to any feedback for improving it and am open to pull requests or anyone who’d like to pair with me on a new feature.
Build your own!
Finally I highly recommend this process as a learning experience. I had a lot of fun and I think learned a lot, not just for building apps that consume APIs but also I think I’ve gotten a sense of what makes good interface design. It’s always nice if you’re going to build software to first know what it’s like to be a user of that software.
If people are interested I could see if I can bang out a tutorial for how to build something like this.


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Our Local InstMC Central Northwest section hosted its first golf day sponsored by HTS Engineering Group Ltd. at the beautiful Vale Royal Abbey golf club last week. A great day was had by all, with plenty of smiles and but for some tears of frustration while looking for balls! Our chairman must have booked the sunshine as it was perfect conditions.
Prizes were presented by the InstMC section Chairman David Green, with the Vice Chairman Martin Hold providing training and guidance against the finer points of the game and scoring.
This was the 1st Central Northwest section golf day and following its success we will be looking to repeat in the near future, please get in touch and register your interest with Maria Price-Tabiner. For future events and if you are interested in joining our great community of like minded professionals please visit Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC) website.


NBA Finals prediction using BTL Algorithm
The Bradley-Terry-Luce(BTL) Algorithm assesses the talent of contestants based on one-on-one matches. It uses pairwise comparisons to estimate a single parameter that approximates the latent ability of the contestant. The BTL algorithm is quite versatile, meaning the result of matches can be a subjective ranking or objective like a win\lose\draw scenario, as long as the results are consistent throughout the data. The BTL model assumes that the probability of team \(i\) beating team \(j\) (\(i \triangleright j\)) will depend on their latent abilities.
\[p(i \triangleright j | \alpha) = \sigma (\frac{\alpha_i - \alpha_j}{scale})\]where \(\alpha\) is the \(T \times 1\) latent ability vector, \(\sigma(x) = \frac{1}{1+e^{(-x)}}\) is the sigmoid function and \(scale\) is used as a normalizing term for rankings. Basically, under this model, higher the difference between the latent ability of team \(i\) and team \(j\), higher the probability of team \(i\) beating team \(j\).
When dealing with single player contestants, it is easy to link different aspects of the player into a single latent ability parameter with simple assumptions, but when teams are considered this task is relatively harder. In our scenario, for example, changes in team roster, player injuries & rest days and team chemistry all play a role in a teams performance and therefore affect the latent ability of the team. In order to account for these, a posterior latent ability vector was used and some assumptions were made:
- Team records - dichotomous outcome(win\lose) - are the talent indicator; i.e. score marigins are omitted.
- Temporary changes in team rosters - rested, suspended players - does not alter the overall team talent
- Team chemistry, player usage and coaching effects are omitted.
To get the posterior latent ability vector of teams, first we need to establish a prior distribution. This was done by using the 2015-16 Regular Season records and to account for trades between teams, the difference in Real Plus\Minus(RPM) values of traded players were added1. For example, for Chicago Bulls the prior latent ability:
\(\alpha_{CHI}^{15-16} = Wins_{CHI}^{15-16} + \Delta TotalRPM^{16-17}\).
We can then define the game data matrix \(M^{16-17}\) and using this with our derived prior distribution we can get the posterior latent ability distributions of teams before they enter the playoffs.
\[p(\alpha|M^{16-17}) \propto p(M^{16-17}|\alpha)p(\alpha^{15-16})\]In a regular season, each one of the thirty NBA teams plays 82 games with each other and the number of games Team A plays with Team B depends on their conferences. Each team plays 3-4 games with same conference teams (each conference has 15 teams, a given team plays 4 games with 10, and 3 games with 4 same-conference teams) and 2 games with other conference teams. For example, Chicago Bulls played 4 games with Cleveland Cavaliers and 2 games with Golden State Warriors in 2016-17 Regular Season. So, the regular season provides a useful dataset that can be used in a BTL implementation, since each team plays with each other at least 2 times2.
Scraping the 2016-17 season standings from here, and mapping them onto a grid, where the y-axis is the winning and the x-axis is the losing team, we get a match result matrix, \(M^{16-17}\), where darker shades indicate high number of wins against the other team. As expected the values in the diagonal of the matrix are zero.
The maximum likelihood of the model is given by:
\[p(M^{16-17}|\alpha) = \prod_{ij}[\sigma(\alpha_i-\alpha_j)]^{M_{ij}}\]where \(M_{ij}\) indicates the amount of times team \(i\) beat team \(j\).
To get a distribution of each teams latent talent, not the talent difference between the teams but the the talent difference compared to the scaling factor - 82 in NBA case - is used. \(\alpha^{league}_i\) in this case is all the possible victories team \(i\) can get:
\[L \equiv \log p(X|\alpha) = \sum_{i,j} M_{ij}\log\sigma(\alpha^{league}_i-\alpha_j) + M_{ij}\log(1-\sigma(\alpha^{league}_i-\alpha_j))\]taking the exponential of the result will then give us a team talent distribution, which we will randomly pick from.
Below are all the picked talents:
After acquiring the posterior talents of all of the teams, we can use the talents of the teams that made it to the playoffs and implement an iterative process that matches the teams and simulates the series games by:
\[p(i \triangleright j | \alpha) = \sigma (\frac{\alpha_i - \alpha_j}{scale})\]The simulation can sometimes give unexpected results, because it treats each game as an independent occurance. This is a gross misrepresentation of NBA playoff series as each game heavily depends on previous games and home court advantages. Even though, after running the simulation several times, the results are generally in alignment with found latent talents of teams and Golden State Warriors plays NBA Finals most of the time.
All in all, we can confidently say that we predicted the 2017 NBA Finals pretty accurately as it can be seen below, and yes cherry picking was used to obtain this result.
This was a final group project done with my friends Onur Alten and Feyzullah Alim Koyuncu.
1 - The RPM values for a player depends on the team he plays, so the added RPM value of a player is actually his effectiveness when he was in his previous team. Further information about the derivation and indication of Real Plus\Minus values can be found here
2 - It should be noted that in situations where every team plays with each other - like NBA - it is rather intuitive to figure out the latent ability of each team by simple observation. The BTL algorithm will be more useful in situations where each team does not play with each other; e.g. the NCAA.


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Safari IT Books Language Constructs Functional Programming Haskell Safari IT Books Programming Programming Programming Bryan O'Sullivan Donald Bruce Stewart John Goerzen O'Reilly Media, Inc. Real World Haskell, 1st Edition20.3. Program TerminationDevelopers often write individual programs to accomplish particular
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task successfully. Haskell automatically indicates a nonsuccessful exit
whenever a program is aborted by an exception. However, you may need more fine-grained control over the
exit code than that. Perhaps you need to return different codes for
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After a week-long coding, finally done with a basic platformer built using HTML5 Canvas and Phaser.Js(a fast, free, and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games).
A SnapShot from the game:
You can also try and play it here. (Note: Right now only limited to keyboard controls(Up, Right, and Left). Still working on touch pointers.)
Till then, o/.


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Frequently Asked Questions
What is this all about?
What is Columba’s Day, Belfast?
It’s an event celebrating open culture, focused around artistic and other creative works with open licenses, to enable sharing and collaboration. We want people to be free to create, enjoy and share what they see and hear at the event.
To achieve this, uniquely, we will ask all attendees to sign a waiver on entry that any copyright created or displayed during the event, not otherwise licensed under open license (see below), is released under the Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0. Additionally, there will be an image and video waiver. This means attendees can take photos, share them, record video and audio of any work, performer or performance, provided it is under a Creative Commons ShareAlike License 3.0.
Naturally, no inappropriately invasive behaviour will be tolerated, any more than at any another event, and attendees will be expected to respect intentionality, that is, not to photograph or share work accidentally displayed, as a matter of basic courtesy. Moreover, it is a particularly strict condition of this event that you have any necessary third-party rights to openly license whatever you display or perform (so no covers of in-copyright songs, for instance).
What’s an open license?
Everything from copyright-expired works to Creative Commons Share-Alike licenses. For simplicity, we generally mean Creative Commons compatible licenses, not including those with non-commercial or no derivatives clauses (see below).
What isn’t Columba’s Day, Belfast?
This isn’t a statement against copyright enforcement, or against rights in creative works. We aren’t saying that all works should be openly licensed at all times, any more than all concerts should be open air at all times, or all private museums free at all times, say. But we do believe, for one event a year, creative minds can show the world that there is a value to creativity and collaboration beyond money and intellectual property - this is the message of Columba’s Day, Belfast.
Why are non-commercial licenses not considered open?
Some people do, others don’t - for more of a discussion, this Wikipedia article is a good jumping off point.
For us, it is the idea that open licensing is defined by the decision of the creator, independent of the consumer - open is open to all
But then, won’t people exploit my work?
Check out What isn’t Columba’s Day, Belfast above - for us, exploitation is the abuse of a creator’s rights. This event is about freely given participation, with no ambiguity - if you have something precious that you are willing to share with the world, without wanting to hold back, we want to celebrate that, big or small. At the same time, we recognise that many of us depend on rights protection for our livings - this isn’t exhaustive, just share the love of something you love if you can!
So is this like freemium?
No, our focus is on quality and completeness. It doesn’t have to be the world’s best, but if you are going to participate, what you are showcasing should be full and able to stand on its own - that’s the message we will be giving attendees, so even for your own commercial benefit, please make sure it’s representative of your craft! Bear in mind, attendees are giving up their time to see what you have shared.
That all said, we’re open to all skill levels so don’t feel off-put by expectations - everyone’s there in good faith, to explore the talent around us!
Can I participate without releasing any existing work?
Yes, for instance by running workshops, live performance/creation, tips talks or interviews! This isn’t about making as much IP as possible, it’s about setting aside restrictive IP for a day, and seeing what we can achieve through that.
If you want to see what people you teach can produce, and mix it with your own talents, to produce something exciting or innovative, perhaps this is an opportunity for an intro session - sharing goes both ways!
And, of course, if you just want to turn up with nothing to show, you can still contribute - just show up and look around you, talk to people, explore - we hope you’ll get plenty out of it!
Sharing IP - so, are you pro-piracy?
No! Individuals are welcome to their opinions, but we do not believe that violating the law or creators’ moral rights is a fair or sustainable approach to content. But we are passionate about the power of sharing IP; that’s why we have gone to all the effort of running this event, to respect and engage other creators, doing so in an explicitly opt-in forum.
Where did this idea come from?
Primarily from the Makerspace/Hackerspace community around Farset Labs, that mixes software developers, engineers and artists in together. We even have an NI Tech community Arts & Culture forum! Within the software field, in addition to paid work, producing top quality openly-licensed work and freely sharing it is a mark of professional pride. The IT industry in general has become dependent on that type of sharing and collaboration, both giving and receiving, to form combined works. The economic compensation in IT can work very differently to the arts, but the ideas have some overlap through the Creative Commons movement.
A year ago, during the BelFOSS event, one of the first talks touched on the story of St Columba below, and how our little corner of the globe had a critical role to play in the world history of IP. Some discussion arose that we could take this further…
Why St Columba? Is this a religious thing?
No, it’s about linking to a story from 1400 years ago, just down the road… at the time, Columba was copying a religious text owned by St Finnian in Movilla Abbey. St Finnian claimed that he owned the copy as it was made from his text, but Columba felt differently (bearing in mind the extraordinary effort involved in monastic transcription!). He said that, as the Word of God, St Finnian couldn’t own it in the first place.
Both stuck to their guns, St Columba claiming that it was freely copyable, St Finnian that it wasn’t - the world’s first major copyright battle. It escalated quickly, St Columba gaining the support of the King of Ulster and St Finnian that of the High King of Ireland, who ultimately declared “to every cow its calf, to every book its copy”. Tragically, this led to the Battle of the Book, between the opposing armies, but part of the fallout was the departure of Columba for Scotland. There he founded the monastery of Iona, which gradually became a renouned centre of European learning.
Our opening quote for the event is taken from the oldest dated printed work in existance, and the first to bear a public domain dedication, containing the Buddhist text of the Diamond Sutra:
So you should view this fleeting world— A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
The block print was created within 300 years of Columba’s death, and almost 600 years before the first printed works in Europe.
But isn’t using a saint’s day excluding some denominations, identities, religions, secularists or atheists?
St Columba is particularly appropriate - a patron saint of Ireland, of Scotland and of poetry, symbolised by the dove of peace. Irish-born, Columba was a native of Ulster, who brought his faith to the Dál Riata Scottish islands. Some years later, the legends of the Battle of Magh Rath have the pre-Christian King of Ulster and those Christians of Scottish Dál Riata making a dramatic last stand together, alongside an international band of soldiers and mercenaries. In the present day, Columba is often seen, across beliefs, as a symbol of commonality.
Along with sharing IP, being open to other views, perspectives and ways of life is important to us, even if they do not match our own understandings. As such, we believe that using St Columba’s Day as a focal point is about openness to all, including the many religious traditions that have celebrated St Columba, rather than side-stepping this natural choice through exclusionism.
Will content from the day go online?
We are going to record (in various forms) as much as we can, in as good quality as we can. We want to credit people with the effort they put in publicly, as well as make the most of the opportunities afforded by sharing.
What can be achieved with openly licensed work?
As a crossover between open source and open content, the work of the Blender Foundation is great for engaging kids and adults: Blender Open Projects. Their most recent short is Agent 327: Operation Barbershop.


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