Event Location:
University of Iowa - University Capitol Centre
201 S Clinton St
Iowa City, Iowa
Abstract:
Data systems administrators pride themselves on their ability to dig deep into the weeds of their systems and get to the root of problems. However, when it comes time to explain a complex or intermittent issue, we find that others don’t enjoy those weeds. Ever wish you could draw a better picture of what’s going on? Enter Power BI! This tool is beloved by many analysts and developers but it can transform more than just OLTP data. Attend this session to learn how you can use quick models in Power BI against administrative data such as the SSRS execution log, SQL Server Extended Events, XML JSON files, query performance data, and even those random Excel files you get from vendors. You’ll leave this session with the skills you need to survey your domain from a new angle and communicate what you learn to your organization.
Speaker(s): Gina Meronek,
Abstract:
Completing a full assessment on a SQL Server is essential to learning about not only the current state of the server, but also any area that may be impacting performance or security. If you have more than one DBA, it is also important to have all the DBA team members review the same areas when completing an assessment. During this session we will discuss when assessment are useful, what should be included in the assessment as well as how to interpret the results. We will use a SQL script that will capture all the data needed. This script will more than 88 data points, including fragmentation of indexes, performance counter values, server and database security information, queries that consume the most CPU time including execution plans as well as many other data points. This session will also cover to document your findings and recommendations.
Speaker(s): Dave Bland,
Abstract:
If you took a look at Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016, you may have had some reservations about it. It was a great concept, but because the database engine could no longer access the data, a lot more of the data processing was pushed to the clients. For many companies, that was far from ideal. Enter SQL Server 2019. With Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves, the benefits of Always Encrypted are retained, but the SQL Server engine gains the ability to carry out operations on the data - without the data ever leaving the server, and without decryption. How is this possible? Does it live up to its promises? Come to this session to find out and to see how to use it in your applications.
Speaker(s): Ed Leighton-Dick,
Abstract:
Your application developers benefit from Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices to accelerate feature deployment and catch regression issues up front, but your database deployments are still stuck in the proverbial dark ages. The build scripts might be in source control or even an SSDT project already, but deploying is still an exercise in creating the perfect script, and don't even think about making a data (or data type) change! SSDT and Azure DevOps can solve some of these problems, and even give us a window into the world of automated testing. In this talk, we will explore how to automate your database builds and deployments using SSDT and Azure DevOps, and we will explore automated testing using tSQLt and Docker. Lastly, we will check up on some tasks that you cannot (or should not) automate and talk about how to make sure your application developers are not left behind.
Speaker(s): Dan Mallott,
Abstract:
Do you have or are you developing a BI roadmap without Analysis Services? Do you write a lot of SSRS reports with SQL queries, views or stored procedures? Have you heard about Analysis Services but don't know if it's a good fit for you?  Are you thinking about using Power BI? Are your business users hungry for data? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably need Analysis Services. In this session we will go over use cases for Analysis Services and highlight the differences and strengths of each flavor of SSAS. We will review typical BI architectures and show how adding Analysis Services can turn your report users into happy and self sufficient data analysts. If you have a data warehouse(or even if you don't) and aren't using SSAS, come learn how SSAS will make your users love you. Prerequisites: no prerequisites.
Speaker(s): Phillip Labry,
Abstract:
Social science has shown that people tend classify one another by gender, race, or other physical characteristics and instinctively react based on stereotypes and cultural norms. These automatic prejudices (often called unconscious bias) contribute to the disproportionate success of white men in STEM when compared to equally qualified women or minorities. The difference between unconscious bias and intentional discrimination is that the people that participate in it are often motivated to end these behaviors when they're brought to their attention. This discussion will cover some common patterns of unconscious bias that occur in the workplace and offer real, concrete actions to intervene as an employee, a manager, or an organization.
Speaker(s): Andrea Mascher,
Abstract:
You know how locking works in SQL Server, but now you are tasked with diagnosing and fixing deadlocks. How do you take the knowledge you have and apply it to address deadlocks in your production database? In this session, we will discuss how you can use free tools to detect and analyze deadlocks in your system. We will do a deep dive on deadlock XML with an eye toward interpreting the information automatically collected by SQL Server when the free tools fall short. Attendees will leave with the understanding they need to develop solutions to deadlocks in their systems.
Speaker(s): Jake Manske,
Abstract:
Ever considered giving a presentation of your own? Pondered how your favorite speakers got their start? Contemplated whether you could ever do that too, but were not sure where to begin? Well I say you can and will show you how to get started! In this session, I will teach you how to develop your idea and create session content, and share tips tricks that I have learned along the way. You will leave armed with a wealth of resources (and hopefully some inspiration) to venture forth and develop your first presentation.
Speaker(s): Andy Yun,
Abstract:
Have you used SSAS before? Have you created reports using T-SQL and Group by? Are you interested in or currently using Power BI? Do you you have a need for Analysis Services but don't want to have to deal with the hassle of buying and installing a server? Are you dreading having to upgrade your hardware for your current SSAS Tabular instance? Is your organization using Office 365? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might need Azure Analysis Services. The wait is over! Azure Analysis Services is the platform as a service version of the wildly popular Analysis Services Tabular product. This demo heavy session will be focused on setting up Azure Analysis Services, deploying a model, loading the model with data and finally reporting from your Azure Analysis Services instance. Prerequisites: Prior knowledge of SSAS or Power BI
Speaker(s): Phillip Labry,
Abstract:
Modern CPU architectures are complex and misunderstood, especially as they relate to SQL Server instance configuration and database usage patterns. Default values in virtualization and the SQL Server instance can cause misalignments and improper balance in the way the SQL Server lines up with the CPUs and memory, which results in an immediate (and silent) performance penalty. Come learn as we discuss topics such as physical and virtual NUMA, hyperthreading, query parallelism, public cloud CPU selection, and SQL Server instance settings, and show you how to validate your SQL Server architecture and improve the performance of your critical SQL Servers for both on-prem and cloud-based SQL Servers.
Speaker(s): David Klee,
Abstract:
Most of us have heard that using the NOLOCK hint is not recommended. But why is this? What is it about NOLOCK that sends most DBAs into a tizzy? And how about other hints such as ROWLOCK and RECOMPILE - are they OK to use? Come hear a discussion on why exactly query hints cause problems when used excessively, and watch some demos of NOLOCK craziness in action.
Speaker(s): Rick Lowe,
Abstract:
One of the best starting places for performance tuning is the execution plan. But in the real world, execution plans become complicated very quickly and it can be difficult to know where to start. This session will demonstrate how execution plans can be interpreted to explain performance, including details on how SQL Server retrieved the data.
Speaker(s): Arthur Daniels III,
Abstract:
Data breaches are now a when, not an if. Yet despite years of reading about data breaches in the news, very few companies are ready to weather the storm. This course will provide a general primer on data breach incident response and the parallels between the IT and Legal response cycles. At the end of this course, you will have the baseline knowledge of data breach responses and legal aspects your company needs to know.
Speaker(s): Wm Bruce Wray,
Abstract:
In 2018 creating a cube is one of the more common tasks in BI, however what happens when the cube you build/inherit is growing so much? This session shows how to handle tabular models of size and details the fundamental considerations required in order to allow it to continue to scale. It also delves into what to think about when moving or building your cubes in Azure.
Speaker(s): George Bryant,
Abstract:
We've all been told at some point that heaps are usually bad for select, update, and delete performance. But how bad are they really? Can they also be problematic for worloads that are _mostly_ insert? Are they always recommended for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) operations? Does it help to create non-clustered indexes on top of heaps? For this installment of Rick's "Weird Stuff" series we will take a closer look at why heaps can cause issues and maybe see a deadlock or two.
Speaker(s): Rick Lowe,
Abstract:
New in SQL Server 2019, Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) completely redesigns the SQL Server database engine recovery process. This allows the time spent recovering from a crash or rolling back a transaction to be greatly reduced. ADR also prevents the transaction log from growing during a long-running transaction. Join me for this session to learn about ADR architecture and to see demonstrations of what it can do.
Speaker(s): Frank Gill,
Abstract:
Azure Data Factory V2 is relatively new in Azure and has a lot of great new SSIS-like features but is it good enough to replace SSIS? In this session we will go over some of the new control flow, branching, and scheduling features in Azure Data Factory and see how to make a fully cloud capable data orchestration engine. As a bonus we'll also show how you can run SSIS packages directly in Azure!
Speaker(s): Joshuha Owen,
Abstract:
Interested in learning text mining techniques but not sure where to start? Want to learn more about SQL Saturday presentations but haven't dug into the details? This is the presentation for you! This is an introduction to text mining techniques that will use the SQL Saturday abstracts as examples. We will look at how to analyze data to find the most commonly used words and patterns and how to do sentiment analysis. Is "database" the most commonly used word in SQL Saturday abstracts? Come and find out!
Speaker(s): Lynn Ballard,
Abstract:
CosmosDB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, massively scalable, cloud based database that is hosted in AZURE. Who cares? You should if you need to support thousands of transactions a second, global distribution and redundancy, and different consistencies. Do you need to support JSON, Graph, et al? Done. Join me and see how easy it is to get started. We will set up a local instance of CosmosDB, load JSON data and build a PowerBI visualization. Along the way I’ll point out a couple of things to watch out for. At the end of the session you will then learn how, with a couple of commands, to switch your visualization to the cloud.
Speaker(s): Jim Dorame,
Abstract:
Do you spend your days slinging T-SQL code? Want to improve your T-SQL game? If you answered yes, then this session is for you. This demo-intensive session will showcase a collection of my favorite beginner and intermediate level tips and tricks. We will explore how to identify and fix some common T-SQL anti-patterns, my favorite SSMS productivity tricks, and clever solutions to some common but not easily-coded challenges. This session targets both developers and DBAs; the only prerequisites are the desire to write better T-SQL code and aim of living an easier life!
Speaker(s): Andy Yun,
Abstract:
As we all know, SQL Server loves memory and will use as much as it can get. However, when there is memory pressure we need to use our DBA skills to identify what is causing the pressure. During this session we will explore how SQL Server uses memory and how to properly configure memory settings. We will discuss the use of DMVs and other tools to help us find what is consuming the most memory and some potential solutions.
Speaker(s): Dave Bland,
Abstract:
When you're performance tuning queries that request memory grants, you want to know where, how and why the memory is granted and used in your query. In this session, we'll cover query memory grants through examples. We'll also demonstrate the problems that memory grants can cause, and a variety of solutions to use when performance tuning.
Speaker(s): Arthur Daniels III,
Abstract:
This session is an introduction to tuning backups. Learn how to take those backup jobs to disk and change them from running for hours to running in minutes. We’ll be discussing the advantages disadvantages of using the following parameters: COMPRESSION, BUFFERCOUNT, MAXTRANSFERSIZE. We’ll also be covering the concept of striping database backups.
Speaker(s): Mike Hays,
Abstract:
Think infrastructure in the cloud is still just for sysadmins? Think again! As your organization moves into the cloud, infrastructure architecture skills are more important than ever for DBAs to master. Expert knowledge of cloud-related infrastructure will help you maintain performance and availability for databases in the cloud. For example, know what an IOP is? Should you use a database-as-a-service or provision a cloud-based VM? How many compute resources does your database consume during a given day? Can you secure it properly? Come learn many of the key cloud infrastructure points that you should master as the DBA role continues to evolve!
Speaker(s): David Klee,
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmallott/
Contact: https://www.danielmallott.com
Dan Mallott is a Chicago-based consultant for West Monroe Partners in their Technology Practice. His passion is for service-layer development, particularly database technologies, including Microsoft SQL Server and Apache Cassandra. Recent projects have included designing a new integration architecture for a mid-sized health insurer, designing a full technical architecture for a large health insurer, building a new member portal for a healthcare-related association, and developing threat hunting software for use by West Monroe. In his spare time, Dan can be found writing his own libraries instead of using package solutions, or on the ice as a hockey player and referee.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlbek
Contact: http://sqlbek.wordpress.com
Andy Yun is a SentryOne Principal Solutions Engineer and a former Microsoft MVP. He has been working with SQL Server for nearly 20 years as both a Database Developer and Administrator. Leveraging knowledge of SQL Server Internals and extensive experience in highly transactional environments, he strives to make T-SQL leaner and meaner. Andy is extremely passionate about passing knowledge onto others, regularly speaking at User Groups, SQL Saturdays, and PASS Summit. Andy is a co-founder of the Chicago SQL Association, co-Chapter Leader of the Chicago Suburban User Group, and part of the Chicago SQL Saturday Organizing Committee.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaklee
Contact: http://davidklee.net
David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise include cloud, virtualization, performance, and business continuity. David speaks at a number of national and regional technology related events, including PASS Summit, VMware VMworld, SQLBits, SQL Saturday events, and many SQL Server User Groups.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/eleightondick
Contact: http://www.edleightondick.com
Ed Leighton-Dick is a Microsoft MVP, SQL Server performance and architecture specialist, and Founder/Principal Consultant of Kingfisher Technologies. He is a frequent volunteer with PASS, including current roles as a Regional Mentor, co-leader of I-380 PASS local group, and co-leader of the HA/DR virtual group. He can often be found teaching sessions at local, regional, and national events, including user groups, SQLSaturday, and PASS Summit.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuha
A Data and AI Premier Field Engineer by day and tech geek at all times. I enjoy working with data technologies as well as dabbling in other areas such as VR programming.
LinkedIn: http://http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=22766305amp;trk=tab_pro
Contact: http://skreebydba.com/
Frank Gill is a Senior Data Engineer at Concurrency With 21 years of IT experience, the first 8 as a mainframe programmer, he has developed a love of all things internal. Over the past several years, he has worked extensively with SQL Server solution in Azure, including Managed Instance. When not administering databases or geeking out on internals, Frank volunteers at the Art Institute of Chicago and reads voraciously.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-ballard/
Lynn Ballard grew up wanting to study killer whales in the Pacific Northwest. That changed when she took the first computer science class offered by her high school and began to see how technology would change the world. Today she is a senior database developer/administrator with Morningstar in Chicago, Illinois. She is a member of Morningstar's Women In Technology (WIT) and Chicago's SQL PASS groups. She's presented training at Morningstar, previous employers and for Chicago's SQL Saturday. She's a widowed mother of two who learned firsthand about preparing and recovering from worst case scenarios. To the great envy of many, she cures and smokes her own artisanal bacon. Don't worry...she shares with her database friends!
Contact: http://phillip.labry.com
Phillip Labry is a Senior BI Consultant and Trainer with over 20 years experience in SQL Server and over 30 in IT. He has been lucky enough to work on data projects spanning telecom, banking, retail, law enforcement, health care, insurance, financial services and energy sectors. As a national consultant he provides training and builds solutions utilizing the full MS BI stack. He is an active member of the Madison, WI PASS chapter and speaks at events in the USA and Canada.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rick-lowe/a/228/441/
Contact: http://dataflowe.wordpress.com/
Rick is a Microsoft Certified Master with more than 20 years of SQL Server experience in a variety of roles. He currently lives in Washington state and works as an independent consultant providing remote performance DBA and performance tuning services for clients in the USA and Canada. His first exposure to SQL Server was as a database developer, but over time he became more and more interested in how the database engine operated... eventually specializing more on performance issues than code. Rick will work with all things relational, but most enjoys helping smaller companies get better performance from MSSQL, as well as smoothing over relationships between DBA and development teams.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlbek
Contact: http://sqlbek.wordpress.com
Andy Yun is a SentryOne Principal Solutions Engineer and a former Microsoft MVP. He has been working with SQL Server for nearly 20 years as both a Database Developer and Administrator. Leveraging knowledge of SQL Server Internals and extensive experience in highly transactional environments, he strives to make T-SQL leaner and meaner. Andy is extremely passionate about passing knowledge onto others, regularly speaking at User Groups, SQL Saturdays, and PASS Summit. Andy is a co-founder of the Chicago SQL Association, co-Chapter Leader of the Chicago Suburban User Group, and part of the Chicago SQL Saturday Organizing Committee.
Contact: http://phillip.labry.com
Phillip Labry is a Senior BI Consultant and Trainer with over 20 years experience in SQL Server and over 30 in IT. He has been lucky enough to work on data projects spanning telecom, banking, retail, law enforcement, health care, insurance, financial services and energy sectors. As a national consultant he provides training and builds solutions utilizing the full MS BI stack. He is an active member of the Madison, WI PASS chapter and speaks at events in the USA and Canada.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrgbryant
George has over a decade of experience in the Business Intelligence industry and is an active member of the BI community across the Midwest. His knowledge spans multiple industries including, retail, manufacturing, finance, and medical, however recent years has seen him focus on the analytics in sports. George specializes in BI architecture and end to end development in order to deliver advanced analytics and metrics to multiple organizations across the country. In recent years George has focused on and worked primarily in the Azure cloud, utilizing both established and recent offerings.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaklee
Contact: http://davidklee.net
David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise include cloud, virtualization, performance, and business continuity. David speaks at a number of national and regional technology related events, including PASS Summit, VMware VMworld, SQLBits, SQL Saturday events, and many SQL Server User Groups.
Andrea Mascher (she/her) leads the SQL Server DBA team at The University of Iowa (UI). In addition to her experience in the education sector, Andrea previously supported systems in the biotechnology and healthcare fields. Andrea is an advocate for gender diversity in STEM and co-founded the UI Women In Technology users group to promote a climate of inclusivity and professional growth for women and non-binary individuals in technical fields at UI. Andrea also serves as a member of the UI Council on the Status of Women. Andrea's undergraduate and graduate coursework at UI was in Computer Science, with a focus on Electronic Voting Systems and Technology Law and Policy.
Contact: https://www.DBA-Art.com
Arthur Daniels is a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft. He has focused on diagnosing and optimizing performance on very large databases in mission critical environments.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lowrykoz/
Lowry Kozlowski is a SR SQL DBA and SR Consultant for SWC Technology Partners. Been involved with SQL for 17 years. Co-Leader of the Chicago Suburban SQL User group. Part of the SQL Saturday team for Chicago. Love SQL, photography, solving problems and trying new food. Goal in life is to minimize off hours calls by proactive work on systems.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-bland-sql-server
Contact: https://www.davebland.com
Over 20 years of SQL Server experience that includes being a DBA, BI development and Application development using VB.NET. Dave currently is the Manager of the DBA team at Stericycle. Dave is a Friend of Red-Gate for 2019. He is a frequent presenter at SQL Saturday events and user groups around the country. Has been teaching SQL Server since version 2000 and is the SQL Server instructor at Harper College in Palatine, IL. Current certifications include: • Microsoft Certified Trainer • MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance • MCTS: SQL Server 2008, BI Development and Maintenance • MCSA: SQL Server 2008 • MCSA: SQL Server 2016 • MCSE: SQL Server 2016 - BI • MCDBA: SQL Server 2000 • MCSD • MCSE: Data Management and Analytics
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesdorame
Contact: http://www.jamesdorame.com/
Jim Dorame has been working with SQL Server for over 20 years. Over those years he has learned a great deal from the SQL community. He has also given back to the community in the hopes that he may help someone in their career. He is always looking for something to learn and luckily Microsoft keeps adding to SQL Server.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rick-lowe/a/228/441/
Contact: http://dataflowe.wordpress.com/
Rick is a Microsoft Certified Master with more than 20 years of SQL Server experience in a variety of roles. He currently lives in Washington state and works as an independent consultant providing remote performance DBA and performance tuning services for clients in the USA and Canada. His first exposure to SQL Server was as a database developer, but over time he became more and more interested in how the database engine operated... eventually specializing more on performance issues than code. Rick will work with all things relational, but most enjoys helping smaller companies get better performance from MSSQL, as well as smoothing over relationships between DBA and development teams.
Contact: https://concurrencyexchange.com
Jake has been a T-SQL developer since 2013, starting after he jumped ship from an academic life as a mathematics professor to the software industry. He focuses on solving difficult concurrency problems, large scale data warehouse ETL processes, data conversions, and understanding SQL Server optimizer behavior.
Contact: https://www.DBA-Art.com
Arthur Daniels is a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft. He has focused on diagnosing and optimizing performance on very large databases in mission critical environments.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wwray/
Mr. Wray is Vendor Legal Counsel for an international payments company, handling complex procurement negotiation and focusing on technology and security related aspects of the vendor on-boarding and management processes. ISC^2 CISSP certified, with Masters' Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, focused on Information Assurance. He worked prior as an associate at a national law firm, working within their Intellectual Property/Information Technology group. Prior to joining the legal profession, he worked for over a decade in the information technology field, focusing on development, database, and security, and taught as an adjunct professor, including courses in mathematics, computer science and information assurance.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-bland-sql-server
Contact: https://www.davebland.com
Over 20 years of SQL Server experience that includes being a DBA, BI development and Application development using VB.NET. Dave currently is the Manager of the DBA team at Stericycle. Dave is a Friend of Red-Gate for 2019. He is a frequent presenter at SQL Saturday events and user groups around the country. Has been teaching SQL Server since version 2000 and is the SQL Server instructor at Harper College in Palatine, IL. Current certifications include: • Microsoft Certified Trainer • MCTS: SQL Server 2008, Implementation and Maintenance • MCTS: SQL Server 2008, BI Development and Maintenance • MCSA: SQL Server 2008 • MCSA: SQL Server 2016 • MCSE: SQL Server 2016 - BI • MCDBA: SQL Server 2000 • MCSD • MCSE: Data Management and Analytics
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginameronek
Contact: http://ginameronek.com
Gina Meronek is a Business Intelligence, Application Architecture, and IT Management professional with 18 years of experience applying the right people and tools to produce genuinely useful technology. She is dedicated to transforming data into information that solves problems via the right system architecture and interactive data visualizations. Gina has been active in the SQL PASS Community for a number of years and is passionate about sharing knowledge with other data geeks in her community. When not glorying in all that Power BI can do, she loves reading, riding her horse, or attending theater with her husband.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hays-21097419
Contact: http://www.thesqlreport.com/
Mike has been working with Microsoft SQL Server for the last twenty years. Currently working as a Database Administrator for a diversified energy company, he has also worked in the retail, manufacturing, banking sectors. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Information Science from Cleveland State University.
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Omo-Agege, Wase’s aides groan, plan protest as NASS reduces salaries
- Aides to principal officers of the National Assembly have threatened to go on a protest over eeduction in their salaries
- The aides alleged that they have only been paid their salaries twice since they resumed office in June
- The aides said some of the payments by were made randomly as staff were selectively paid
Some aides to the deputy Senate president, Omo-Agege, and the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Wase, have accused the National Assembly of refusing to pay their salaries and entitlements.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that although the aides to the president Senate, Ahmad Lawan and those of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, were not affected their colleagues would continue with the planned protest.
It was also gathered that the aides to NASS principal officers said that while they were appointed between June and July 2019, they have only received salaries for two months.
The report also said that the aides have written a petition to their bosses over instruction by the clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, to suspend all payments.
An aide at the National Assembly said some of the payments by were made randomly as staff were selectively paid.
The aide said: "It is not me alone but some of us. I am one of the earliest to be appointed by the deputy speaker. Since then, they have not paid us salaries. They will pick some, pay them and leave others till the next month."
The aide also said that a few of those in the office of the deputy speaker's office is affected by the reduction.
"They later issued another letter and I was placed on the Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure which is higher than the first one," the aide said.
Another aide to the deputy speaker said their payment should have come from the month they were employed.
“The appointments are not determined by the management, it is the principal who determines when you are appointed.”
“It is true; we are faced with the same situation. People are seriously agitated about it. I’m told that there will be a protest by next (this) week," the aide said.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that an organisation had called on senators of the United States of America to stop their interference in Nigeria's domestic politics.
The Friends of Democracy and Freedom (FDF) urged the senators especially New Jersey's Robert Menendez to desist from interfering in Nigeria's internal democracy.
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a 12-hour hackathon for high schoolers of all programming abilities
Saturday, September 27th @ LHS Field House
8:00 am • 11:00 pm
Congratulations to the winners of the first-ever LexHack!
1) First Place (Leap Motion Controllers) - "3D Etch-a-Sketch" by Lyle Cheatham, Andrew Panasyuk, Anthony Wiryaman, Noel Qiao
2) Second Place (Quadcopters) - "Snail Mail" by James Curry, William Davenport, Greg Derecho
3) Third Place (Chromecasts) - "ContraBox" by Naomi Wharton, May Tomic, Sylvie van der Weide, Vyshnavi Chunduru
Beginner Award (KTByte & Treehouse Lessons) - "Maze Game" by Piper Bau, Anna Sanders, Laura Appleby, Irene Terpstra
Thanks to all the participants for coming to our first-ever LexHack and building so many amazing projects! You can check out the winners and even more hacks at our ChallengePost. More event photos are available at our Flickr album. Special thanks to our fantastic sponsors, mentors, and volunteers, and we'll see you next year!
LexHack is a hackathon targeting high school students of all programming abilities. A hackathon is an event where teams of 4 (or less) individuals work together towards development of a software application (or a hardware project if you're so inclined). At LexHack, you will have 12 hours to complete your project, after which your project will be judged by a panel of judges. These judges will then determine a winner based on the reward criteria for the event.
This event is totally free; all you need to do to attend is register here and show up on September 27th at the Lexington High School Field House (the giant dome at 251 Waltham St, Lexington MA) by 8:30 am. If you don't have a team, don't worry, you can find one when you arrive at the event! In that case, please try to arrive a little earlier so we can match you up with others who need a team. All we ask is that you bring a laptop and any other hardware you wish to use, as well as an open mind.
| 8:00 am • 9:00 am | Registration / mingle time |
| 9:00 am • 9:15 am | Opening ceremonies |
| 9:15 am • 9:15 pm | Hacking (w/ breaks for food) |
| 9:15 pm • 10:00 pm | 1st round judging + delibration |
| 10:00 pm • 11:00 pm | Demos/2nd round judging + closing ceremonies |
Anyone currently enrolled in high school may attend. If you're unsure about your eligibility, please email us.
Nope! Part of the goal of LexHack is to help people learn how to quickly develop a prototype of a full application from a single idea. We'll have plenty of mentors at the event to help you learn, and we guarantee you'll have built something awesome by the end of the day! However, we do recommend checking out sites like Codecademy or Code.org to familiarize yourself with basic programming concepts. We'll also have a special award category for the best beginner project.
Absolutely nothing! This is thanks to the gracious donations of our sponsors.
Not at all! We recommend competing with a team of 4 students (or less), and if already have a team in mind, that's great! However, we've set aside time in the morning for you to meet others and form a team if you don't have one when you sign up. Just be prepared to come a little earlier (doors open at 8 am).
You can create your application using any technology you would like, as long as it meets one of two criteria for submission:
- You can provide source code that anyone can run (e.g. code in a language with a readily-available compiler)
- You can provide a working executable for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android, as well as source we can view (e.g. a project written with a proprietary compiler, such as an iPhone app).
If you are still unsure if the programming language you wish to use is legal, please contact us.
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Safe working environment is an important condition to ensure the progress of diagnosis and treatment. In order to reduce the spread of the virus through person-to-person transmission during the coronavirus epidemic, outpatient pharmacy of THJU are disinfected 4 times everyday. Pharmacists of outpatient pharmacy also designed safety transfer devices to avoid contacting patients in drugs dispensing. Otherwise, pharmacists adjusted the route and time of drug transportation in the hospital and used designated elevators and vehicles for drug delivery.


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Alerts
Provide contextual feedback messages for typical user actions with the handful of available and flexible alert messages.
Examples
Alerts are available for any length of text, as well as an optional close button. For proper styling, use one of the eight required contextual classes (e.g., .alert-success
).  Ensure that information denoted by the color is either obvious from the content itself (e.g. the visible text), or is included through alternative means, such as additional text hidden with the .sr-only
class.
Link color
Use the .alert-link
utility class to quickly provide matching colored links within any alert.

A simple primary alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple secondary alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple success alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple danger alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple warning alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple info alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple light alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

A simple dark alert with an example link. Give it a click if you like.

Additional content
Alerts can also contain additional HTML elements like headings, paragraphs and dividers.
Well done!
Aww yeah, you successfully read this important alert message. This example text is going to run a bit longer so that you can see how spacing within an alert works with this kind of content.
Whenever you need to, be sure to use margin utilities to keep things nice and tidy.

Well done!

Aww yeah, you successfully read this important alert message. This example text is going to run a bit longer so that you can see how spacing within an alert works with this kind of content.

Whenever you need to, be sure to use margin utilities to keep things nice and tidy.

Dismissing
Using the alert JavaScript plugin, it's possible to dismiss any alert inline. Here's how:
- Be sure you've loaded the alert plugin, or the compiled Bootstrap JavaScript.
- Add a close button and the
.alert-dismissible
class, which adds extra padding to the right of the alert and positions the close button. - On the close button, add the
data-dismiss="alert"
attribute, which triggers the JavaScript functionality. Be sure to use the<button>
element with it for proper behavior across all devices. - To animate alerts when dismissing them, be sure to add the
.fade
and.show
classes.
You can see this in action with a live demo:

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<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">
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</button>

JavaScript behavior
Triggers
Enable dismissal of an alert via JavaScript:
var alertList = document.querySelectorAll('.alert')
alertList.forEach(function (alert) {
new bootstrap.Alert(alert)
})
Or with data
attributes on a button within the alert, as demonstrated above:
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close">
×
</button>
Note that closing an alert will remove it from the DOM.
Methods
You can create an alert instance with the alert constructor, for example:
var myAlert = document.getElementById('myAlert')
var bsAlert = new bootstrap.Alert(myAlert)
This makes an alert listen for click events on descendant elements which have the data-dismiss="alert"
attribute. (Not necessary when using the data-api's auto-initialization.)
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
close
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Closes an alert by removing it from the DOM. If the .fade and .show classes are present on the element, the alert will fade out before it is removed.
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dispose
|
Destroys an element's alert. |
getInstance
|
Static method which allows you to get the alert instance associated to a DOM element, you can use it like this: bootstrap.Alert.getInstance(alert)
|
var alertNode = document.querySelector('.alert')
var alert = bootstrap.Alert.getInstance(alertNode)
alert.close()
Events
Bootstrap's alert plugin exposes a few events for hooking into alert functionality.
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
close.bs.alert |
Fires immediately when the close instance method is called.
|
closed.bs.alert |
Fired when the alert has been closed and CSS transitions have completed. |
var myAlert = document.getElementById('myAlert')
myAlert.addEventListener('closed.bs.alert', function () {
// do something…
})


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Our goal at Truetech is to provide various computer parts for an affordable price. While the current selection of parts is not very numerous, we plan to expand our choices as the company grows.
Our goal at Truetech is to provide various computer parts for an affordable price. While the current selection of parts is not very numerous, we plan to expand our choices as the company grows.


public class ManifestFiles
extends java.lang.Object
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
static ManifestFile |
decode(byte[] manifestData)
Decode the binary data into a
ManifestFile . |
static byte[] |
encode(ManifestFile manifestFile)
Encode the
ManifestFile to a byte array by using avro encoder. |
static ManifestReader<DataFile> |
read(ManifestFile manifest,
FileIO io)
Returns a new
ManifestReader for a ManifestFile . |
static ManifestReader<DataFile> |
read(ManifestFile manifest,
FileIO io,
java.util.Map<java.lang.Integer,PartitionSpec> specsById)
Returns a new
ManifestReader for a ManifestFile . |
static ManifestReader<DeleteFile> |
readDeleteManifest(ManifestFile manifest,
FileIO io,
java.util.Map<java.lang.Integer,PartitionSpec> specsById)
Returns a new
ManifestReader for a ManifestFile . |
static CloseableIterable<java.lang.String> |
readPaths(ManifestFile manifest,
FileIO io)
Returns a
CloseableIterable of file paths in the ManifestFile . |
static ManifestWriter<DataFile> |
write(int formatVersion,
PartitionSpec spec,
OutputFile outputFile,
java.lang.Long snapshotId)
Create a new
ManifestWriter for the given format version. |
static ManifestWriter<DataFile> |
write(PartitionSpec spec,
OutputFile outputFile)
Create a new
ManifestWriter . |
static ManifestWriter<DeleteFile> |
writeDeleteManifest(int formatVersion,
PartitionSpec spec,
OutputFile outputFile,
java.lang.Long snapshotId)
Create a new
ManifestWriter for the given format version. |
public static CloseableIterable<java.lang.String> readPaths(ManifestFile manifest, FileIO io)
CloseableIterable
of file paths in the ManifestFile
.manifest
- a ManifestFileio
- a FileIOpublic static ManifestReader<DataFile> read(ManifestFile manifest, FileIO io)
ManifestReader
for a ManifestFile
.
Note: Callers should use read(ManifestFile, FileIO, Map)
to ensure
the schema used by filters is the latest table schema. This should be used only when reading
a manifest without filters.
manifest
- a ManifestFileio
- a FileIOpublic static ManifestReader<DataFile> read(ManifestFile manifest, FileIO io, java.util.Map<java.lang.Integer,PartitionSpec> specsById)
ManifestReader
for a ManifestFile
.manifest
- a ManifestFile
io
- a FileIO
specsById
- a Map from spec ID to partition specManifestReader
public static ManifestWriter<DataFile> write(PartitionSpec spec, OutputFile outputFile)
ManifestWriter
.
Manifests created by this writer have all entry snapshot IDs set to null. All entries will inherit the snapshot ID that will be assigned to the manifest on commit.
spec
- PartitionSpec
used to produce DataFile
partition tuplesoutputFile
- the destination file locationpublic static ManifestWriter<DataFile> write(int formatVersion, PartitionSpec spec, OutputFile outputFile, java.lang.Long snapshotId)
ManifestWriter
for the given format version.formatVersion
- a target format versionspec
- a PartitionSpec
outputFile
- an OutputFile
where the manifest will be writtensnapshotId
- a snapshot ID for the manifest entries, or null for an inherited IDpublic static ManifestReader<DeleteFile> readDeleteManifest(ManifestFile manifest, FileIO io, java.util.Map<java.lang.Integer,PartitionSpec> specsById)
ManifestReader
for a ManifestFile
.manifest
- a ManifestFile
io
- a FileIO
specsById
- a Map from spec ID to partition specManifestReader
public static ManifestWriter<DeleteFile> writeDeleteManifest(int formatVersion, PartitionSpec spec, OutputFile outputFile, java.lang.Long snapshotId)
ManifestWriter
for the given format version.formatVersion
- a target format versionspec
- a PartitionSpec
outputFile
- an OutputFile
where the manifest will be writtensnapshotId
- a snapshot ID for the manifest entries, or null for an inherited IDpublic static byte[] encode(ManifestFile manifestFile) throws java.io.IOException
ManifestFile
to a byte array by using avro encoder.manifestFile
- a ManifestFile
, which should always be a GenericManifestFile
.java.io.IOException
- if encounter any IO error when encoding.public static ManifestFile decode(byte[] manifestData) throws java.io.IOException
ManifestFile
.manifestData
- the binary data.ManifestFile
. To be precise, it's a GenericManifestFile
which don't expose to public.java.io.IOException
- if encounter any IO error when decoding.


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The functions as described previously are not really useful on their own: they rather form the groundwork for a higher layer which performs the actual modifications according to the objects' state.
We decided to use the mediator pattern as mentioned in the SDO whitepaper. Each mediator is specific to the used backend, so there could be an EJB mediator if the value objects have entity beans as counterparts, or an HibernateMediator which would transfer the version information in calls to the hibernate persistence layer. The only implemented mediator for now is the DemoMediator, which is used by the Webstart Demo application.
The application only sees the mediator interface, which provides very basic operations to manipulate the graph. Using a prototype VO, you ask the mediator to give you the complete graph:
TestVO prototype = new TestVO(); prototype.setId(new Long(0)); TestVO result = myMediator.getGraph(protoype);
This would look for an object with the primary key '0' and populate a value object with the corresponding data. Once you have obtained the graph , you do your modifications and call updateGraph to let the mediator apply your changes:
// perform a modification result.addObject(new TestVO()); // and update myMediator.updateGraph(result);
As the object is versioned, the mediator can use optimistic locking to detect concurrent access and inform the client accordingly (via a ConcurrencyException).
TestVO test = new TestVO(); test.setId(new Long(0)); TestVO result = myMediator.getGraph(test); result.setName("new"); myMediator.updateGraph(result); result.setName("new2"); // try to do a second update without obtaining the last version first myMediator.updateGraph(result); // will throw ConcurrencyException
To delete objects, simply remove them from the container:
// ... TestVO result = myMediator.getGraph(prototype); result.getCollection().clear(); // or remove(Object o) etc. myMediator.updateGraph(result);
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Maharashtra Lottery Akshar Pushkaraj Results | NOV 21| Thursday | 4:15 PM
by Roshan ShettyLottery
Maharashtra lottery results are announced at 4:15 pm, daily. Get all the Akshar Pushkaraj lottery results, announcements and updates for November 21 here.
Written By Roshan Shetty | Mumbai | Updated On: November 21, 2019 13:26 IST
The Maharashtra State Lottery came into existence on April 12, 1969. Maharashtra state lotteries conduct the ‘Akshar Pushkaraj’ Lottery every Thursday at 4:15 pm. The lotteries conducted by Maharashtra state are legal under the amendment and have been active since then. The Akshar Pushkaraj Lottery results for November 21 will be announced soon. The state government has brought this lottery to existence so that the common man does not fall prey to duplicate lottery tickets.
Prizes to be won in Maharashtra Akshar Pushkaraj Lottery
The first prize winner of the Maharashtra Lottery gets to take home ₹ 7 lakhs. The second prize winner of the Maharashtra Lottery gets ₹ 2,000. Then, there are third and fourth prize winners for the lottery. The third position of the Maharashtra Lottery winner gets to take home a sum of ₹ 1000. Followed by that, the fourth prize winner of Maharashtra Lottery gets a sum of ₹ 500. The fifth prize winner of the lottery gets to take home ₹ 200. The sixth prize winner of the lottery gets to take home ₹ 100, which is given to 600 random numbers common to all series. Apart from this, there is a consolation prize worth ₹ 7,000, which is given to multiple people.
Also Read: Maharashtra Lottery Results | Maha Sayadri Mini | Nov 20 | 5:15 PM
Akshar Pushkaraj Lottery Results for Today
Also Read: Maharashtra Lottery SagarLaxmi Results | Nov 18 | Monday | 4:15 PM
Other Maharashtra State Lotteries over the week
Sunday Maharashtra Lottery
- Maha.Mohini Weekly Draw
- Surabhi Ravi Weekly Draw
Monday Maharashtra Lottery
- SagarLaxmi Weekly Draw
- Surabhi Som Weekly Draw
Tuesday Maharashtra Lottery
- Padmini Weekly Draw
- Surabhi Mangal Weekly Draw
Wednesday Maharashtra Lottery
- Akshay Weekly Draw
- Surabhi Budh Weekly Draw
Thursday Maharashtra Lottery
- Akarshak Pushkaraj Weekly Draw
- Surabhi Guru Weekly Draw
Friday Maharashtra Lottery
- VaibhavLaxmi Weekly Draw
- Surabhi Shukra Weekly Draw
Saturday Maharashtra Lottery
- MaharashtraLaxmi Weekly Draw
- Surbhi Shani Weekly Draw
Also Read: Maharashtra Lottery Sayadri MahaLaxmi Results: Oct 29, 5:15 PM
Things to remember
The state of Maharashtra shows immense participation in the lotteries. A large number of people wish to their luck to take home large sums of money. But the ticket holders need to keep certain things in mind. The tickets that the Maharashtra Lottery winners are going to present have to be intact and without any damage. The presentation of a mutilated ticket will not be accepted and he/she shall not be given the prize money. Also, the lottery ticket should not be torn or damaged. The winner should carry a proper identification card along with passport size photographs.
Also Read: Maharashtra Lottery Maha GajLaxmi Mangal Results | Nov 19 | 4:45 PM


Taliesin L. Smith, OCAD University
Clayton Lewis, University Colorado, Boulder
Emily B. Moore, University Colorado, Boulder
HCII, Toronto ON, July 22, 2016
P1 (paraphrased): I wanted to study Chemistry, but when I started losing my sight in high school, my teachers could not figure out a way for me to do it. They suggested Biology, but still that was still a passive experience.
 I guess they are negative."
Consider a simple exploration of Balloons & Static Electricity.
learners can explore the sim and engage in open questioning. I wonder what happens if…
and then immediately try it out.
How might a student who cannot see the visuals, and who does not use the mouse, interact & learn along side their sighted peers with this simulation?
P1: "I generally use the arrow keys to navigate line by line."
P8 (paraphrased for brevity) "I'm new to this site, so I am first going to go through everything with the down arrow [...] I'm repeating stuff to make sure I didn't miss anything. [...] Now, I'm going to do a Tab through."
P3: [with 2 negatively charged balloons on the Sweater] "I want to see what happens if I put one balloon on top of the other." [second Balloon repels and moves to the bottom of the sweater.] "What will happen if I do the same thing on the Wall?"
P5: [After first rubbing Balloon on Sweater] "Hmmm...I got a lot more charges than I had before."
More information: phet.colorado.edu/en/accessibility
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'Pleasantville' (1998) Taps into Hollywood's Lack of Integrity with Subtle Messages That Can Be Easily Missed
(www.pleasantville.com) April 2, 1999 (Friday)
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen, J.T. Walsh, Jeff Daniels
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and thematic elements
Genre: Drama
In My Opinion: **** out of ****
In Short: It takes a lot of careful observation to see the true morals and lessons brought out in this film; one can easily be misled as to what the real message is.
Review: In a literally colorless world with an almost mechanical population, there is no room for transitioning variety or even the customary happenings of everyday life, such as rain, fire, or emotions. The town of Pleasantville has one adjective: pleasant. There is no sadness, no fear, no danger, no discomfort, no love, and no hate. Put simply, it's a place Alanis Morissette could really work wonders for. J One big note however is that it is only a 50's sitcom that airs in reruns on an "oldies" TV station… or is it?
I had waited months to see this movie and after doing so on opening day I was not disappointed. I found it quite intriguing and delightful and went back 3 more times in the period it endured at the box office. But it wasn't until months later, when I slipped in for a small showing in one of those crummy "dollar theaters" after not having seen it for so long, that my eyes were opened to such a deeper meaning and perspective than I had previously experienced.
It is a far too feasible misconception that this is a film which forwards the idea that a world without some "healthy" immorality is not a world at all. Instead, the actual message, which so far has not been recognized by many viewers that I know of, is that a world without immorality doesn't give one the ability to discern right and wrong for himself, because everything is automatically right. There is no room for mistakes and growth and learning because there are no mistakes to be made, no space for growth, and never anything new to learn, and that is the key component to the entire purpose of the story. Now I'm not saying that's necessarily the way it was intended to be interpreted, but that is hands down the proper way in which it should be.
Besides a hidden symbolic depth and themes that go beyond what we can absorb from previews, this film has elements of physical wonder and strength that make it just so great to watch. The visual effects are indeed striking and what little color is revealed is impartially favorable. After spending the bulk of the movie staring at black and white, it's hard not to identify and appreciate the fact that our own world allows for all that brilliance and more. A truly intelligent addition to it all, however, is the charming and ardently attainable cast that operates together like clockwork.
That said, the plot goes as such. David and Jennifer are two very 90's high school twins with the typical "relationship" outline of don't-mess-with-my-life-and-I-won't-mess-with-yours. They demonstrate the well-known teenage qualities of two of the common versions of adolescents today. David is the shyer, subtler twin who would rather watch TV Land than MTV, while Jennifer is the wild, licentious one who spends her days at the mall and relishes in the pleasures of the offensive world of degradation.
But when a freak accident enchantingly plops them smack dab in the middle of Pleasantville as two of the main characters, they are forced to depend on each other to make it back home. Nevertheless, Jennifer works her magic and introduces the town to a more unrestrained approach to life, and while David frantically tries to stop her and get them back home, he realizes that change was exactly what the town needed. And, as said earlier, not to flip the town around into some corrupt society, but rather to give people the choice to decide between good and bad and to reap the results of their decisions and learn from them. Not only were difficult choices being brought upon the town, but the simple accepted occurrences of ordinary existence also began to take place. People got hurt. They cried. They became afraid and happy and thoughtful and started to think for themselves, and that's when their physical world turned colors as well.
This can be looked upon as quite a controversial movie, but to me the message is finally clear. I hope after reading this people can be more open to the film than they had been in the past, and realize that without choosing how our own lives will be run, we'll never know what we could have done better.
Until the next great movie I see, I remain sincerely, Danielle Flynn, IMR
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Book:
Java Open Source Programming : with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate
A good summary of what's new in WebWork 2.0:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000085.html
Writeup of Mike's Talk at TSS on WebWork2
(7/03)
Mike's PPT Presentation from TSS Symposium:
http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000200.html
Some Japanese translated information (including the presentation above):
http://www.mobster.jp/webwork/
Another PPT presentation from Rick Salsa, Groove Systems:
http://www.groovesystems.com/training/java4/webwork.ppt
Building with WebWork on TheServerSide (11/03):
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Jason Carreira's slides and example code (4/04):
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A brazilian portuguese tutorial teaching the main concepts and features of Webwork (14/04):
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STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1996 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 7.5 Alternative Scale: *** out of ****
United States, 1996 U.S. Release Date: 11/22/96 (wide) Running Length: 1:51 MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence, profanity, sexual innuendo) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, Neal McDonough Director: Jonathan Frakes Producer: Rick Berman Screenplay: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, and Ronald D. Moore Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti Music: Jerry Goldsmith U.S. Distributor: Paramount Pictures
For the first time in the seventeen-year run of the successful STAR TREK movie franchise, there is no Captain Kirk. STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, the eighth entry into the motion picture series, is the first to rely exclusively on the crew of THE NEXT GENERATION, who were introduced to film audiences two years ago in STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. Following in the wake of a trio of disappointing features, FIRST CONTACT proves to be the most entertaining STAR TREK in more than a decade. First time director Jonathan Frakes (who also plays Riker, the Enterprise's second-in-command) injects some badly-needed energy and inventiveness into a series that, prior to this effort, was sinking under its own weight and boldly going nowhere.
A conscious decision was made to develop FIRST CONTACT into the most action-oriented adventure since STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, and the largely-effective results speak for themselves. This film moves, rarely ever stopping to take a breath. Originality is not at an all-time high, but the film makers have shown a great deal of ingenuity in grafting elements of MOBY DICK, ALIENS, TERMINATOR 2, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, RETURN OF THE JEDI, and even DIE HARD onto the familiar STAR TREK formula, which emphasizes ideas over mindless thrills. The editing is crisp and the direction is sure-handed, making for perhaps the most streamlined STAR TREK movie of them all.
The highlight of FIRST CONTACT is the first reel, a recklessly- paced, dazzling display of special effects that is exhausting in its intensity. For the first time in eight films, there's no "getting to know you" period. Five minutes after the opening credits have ended, we're right in the middle of the action. And what action it is -- the most spectacular space battle ever to grace the screen in a STAR TREK film. It's clear that this sequence, with dozens of starships doing battle with the enemy -- a cube-like Borg vessel -- ate up a considerable portion of the budget.
The Borg, undoubtedly THE NEXT GENERATION's most popular foe, appeared in about a half-dozen TV episodes, but created a legacy that made them a natural choice for a big screen appearance. Half-organic, half-robot, the Borg all share one mind, and have proven to be the most difficult foe for the Federation to overcome. In FIRST CONTACT, when an attack of Earth during the 24th century fails, the Borg travel back in time to change history. The USS Enterprise-E, helmed by Captain Jean- Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), must follow them to the mid-21st century to save the future. But the Borg are on board the Enterprise, and a battle for control of the ship soon develops.
As a species, the Borg are effective, cinematic villains, although, on an individual level, their "queen" (played by Alice Krige) is probably the least menacing of them all. The Borg's natural implacability enhances their sinister aura.  The Borg's hive -- actually the corridors of the Enterprise's lower decks -- bears more than a passing resemblance to the nest of the Alien queen in James Cameron's ALIENS.
FIRST CONTACT's greatest asset is Patrick Stewart. The British screen veteran's presence is formidable enough to allow us to forget William Shatner. Stewart makes us believe in and care about the proceedings. Here, Picard is not just the "intellectual commander" his reputation suggests. Instead, he has become a futuristic Ahab, intent on revenge (he was once captured and "assimilated" into the "Borg collective"). Stewart gives vitality and power to Picard's obsessive rage.
All the regulars from the NEXT GENERATION crew are on hand: First Officer Will Riker (Frakes), Data (Brent Spiner) the android, Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton), Worf (Michael Dorn) the Klingon, Doctor Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). Plus, for fans of the series, there are a couple of unexpected cameos. Joining the regular crew for this one-time outing are James Cromwell (BABE) as Zefram Cochrane, the creator of warp drive, and Alfre Woodard (PASSION FISH) as Lily Sloane, his no-nonsense assistant.
If there's an obvious area where FIRST CONTACT falls short, it's in its stabs at humor. Many of these seem like forced attempts to reduplicate the lightness of STAR TREK IV (the one with the humpback whales), and only a few don't come across as misplaced. There are occasional instances of natural comedy, but Troi getting drunk rings about as true as Scotty cracking his skull on a bulkhead in STAR TREK V.
The script is cleverly written so that non-fans will be able to follow and enjoy the plot while aficionados will get all the little "in" references. FIRST CONTACT effortlessly negotiates a number of potential problem areas (such as time travel), which is a credit to the screenwriting team of Brannon Braga, Ronald Moore, and producer Rick Berman.
After three consecutive less-than-stellar adventures, FIRST CONTACT has single-handedly revived the STAR TREK movie series, at least from a creative point-of-view. If the box office results follow suit, there will be a STAR TREK 9, hopefully with Patrick Stewart and his crew on board. Whatever the case, there's little doubt that FIRST CONTACT has come along at the right time to ensure that STAR TREK continues to live long and prosper.
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resolvedstellarpops.math.mpfit.mpfit module¶
Perform Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares minimization, based on MINPACK-1.
AUTHORSThe original version of this software, called LMFIT, was written in FORTRAN as part of the MINPACK-1 package by XXX.
Craig Markwardt converted the FORTRAN code to IDL. The information for the IDL version is:
Craig B. Markwardt, NASA/GSFC Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20770<EMAIL_ADDRESS>UPDATED VERSIONs can be found on my WEB PAGE:
- Mark Rivers created this Python version from Craig’s IDL version.
- Mark Rivers, University of Chicago Building 434A, Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Updated versions can be found at http://cars.uchicago.edu/software
- Sergey Koposov converted the Mark’s Python version from Numeric to numpy
Sergey Koposov, University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley road, CB3 0HA, Cambridge, UK<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Updated versions can be found at http://code.google.com/p/astrolibpy/source/browse/trunk/
DESCRIPTIONMPFIT uses the Levenberg-Marquardt technique to solve the least-squares problem. In its typical use, MPFIT will be used to fit a user-supplied function (the “model”) to user-supplied data points (the “data”) by adjusting a set of parameters. MPFIT is based upon MINPACK-1 (LMDIF.F) by More’ and collaborators.
For example, a researcher may think that a set of observed data points is best modelled with a Gaussian curve. A Gaussian curve is parameterized by its mean, standard deviation and normalization. MPFIT will, within certain constraints, find the set of parameters which best fits the data. The fit is “best” in the least-squares sense; that is, the sum of the weighted squared differences between the model and data is minimized.
The Levenberg-Marquardt technique is a particular strategy for iteratively searching for the best fit. This particular implementation is drawn from MINPACK-1 (see NETLIB), and is much faster and more accurate than the version provided in the Scientific Python package in Scientific.Functions.LeastSquares. This version allows upper and lower bounding constraints to be placed on each parameter, or the parameter can be held fixed.
The user-supplied Python function should return an array of weighted deviations between model and data. In a typical scientific problem the residuals should be weighted so that each deviate has a gaussian sigma of 1.0. If X represents values of the independent variable, Y represents a measurement for each value of X, and ERR represents the error in the measurements, then the deviates could be calculated as follows:
DEVIATES = (Y - F(X)) / ERRwhere F is the analytical function representing the model. You are recommended to use the convenience functions MPFITFUN and MPFITEXPR, which are driver functions that calculate the deviates for you. If ERR are the 1-sigma uncertainties in Y, then
TOTAL( DEVIATES^2 )will be the total chi-squared value. MPFIT will minimize the chi-square value. The values of X, Y and ERR are passed through MPFIT to the user-supplied function via the FUNCTKW keyword.
Simple constraints can be placed on parameter values by using the PARINFO keyword to MPFIT. See below for a description of this keyword.
MPFIT does not perform more general optimization tasks. See TNMIN instead. MPFIT is customized, based on MINPACK-1, to the least-squares minimization problem.
USER FUNCTIONThe user must define a function which returns the appropriate values as specified above. The function should return the weighted deviations between the model and the data. It should also return a status flag and an optional partial derivative array. For applications which use finite-difference derivatives – the default – the user function should be declared in the following way:
- def myfunct(p, fjac=None, x=None, y=None, err=None)
- # Parameter values are passed in “p” # If fjac==None then partial derivatives should not be # computed. It will always be None if MPFIT is called with default # flag. model = F(x, p) # Non-negative status value means MPFIT should continue, negative means # stop the calculation. status = 0 return([status, (y-model)/err]
See below for applications with analytical derivatives.
The keyword parameters X, Y, and ERR in the example above are suggestive but not required. Any parameters can be passed to MYFUNCT by using the functkw keyword to MPFIT. Use MPFITFUN and MPFITEXPR if you need ideas on how to do that. The function must accept a parameter list, P.
In general there are no restrictions on the number of dimensions in X, Y or ERR. However the deviates must be returned in a one-dimensional Numeric array of type Float.
User functions may also indicate a fatal error condition using the status return described above. If status is set to a number between -15 and -1 then MPFIT will stop the calculation and return to the caller.
ANALYTIC DERIVATIVESIn the search for the best-fit solution, MPFIT by default calculates derivatives numerically via a finite difference approximation. The user-supplied function need not calculate the derivatives explicitly. However, if you desire to compute them analytically, then the AUTODERIVATIVE=0 keyword must be passed to MPFIT. As a practical matter, it is often sufficient and even faster to allow MPFIT to calculate the derivatives numerically, and so AUTODERIVATIVE=0 is not necessary.
If AUTODERIVATIVE=0 is used then the user function must check the parameter FJAC, and if FJAC!=None then return the partial derivative array in the return list.
- def myfunct(p, fjac=None, x=None, y=None, err=None)
# Parameter values are passed in “p” # If FJAC!=None then partial derivatives must be comptuer. # FJAC contains an array of len(p), where each entry # is 1 if that parameter is free and 0 if it is fixed. model = F(x, p) Non-negative status value means MPFIT should continue, negative means # stop the calculation. status = 0 if (dojac):
pderiv = zeros([len(x), len(p)], Float) for j in range(len(p)):
pderiv[:,j] = FGRAD(x, p, j)
- else:
- pderiv = None
return([status, (y-model)/err, pderiv]
where FGRAD(x, p, i) is a user function which must compute the derivative of the model with respect to parameter P[i] at X. When finite differencing is used for computing derivatives (ie, when AUTODERIVATIVE=1), or when MPFIT needs only the errors but not the derivatives the parameter FJAC=None.
Derivatives should be returned in the PDERIV array. PDERIV should be an m x n array, where m is the number of data points and n is the number of parameters. dp[i,j] is the derivative at the ith point with respect to the jth parameter.
The derivatives with respect to fixed parameters are ignored; zero is an appropriate value to insert for those derivatives. Upon input to the user function, FJAC is set to a vector with the same length as P, with a value of 1 for a parameter which is free, and a value of zero for a parameter which is fixed (and hence no derivative needs to be calculated).
If the data is higher than one dimensional, then the last dimension should be the parameter dimension. Example: fitting a 50x50 image, “dp” should be 50x50xNPAR.
CONSTRAINING PARAMETER VALUES WITH THE PARINFO KEYWORDThe behavior of MPFIT can be modified with respect to each parameter to be fitted. A parameter value can be fixed; simple boundary constraints can be imposed; limitations on the parameter changes can be imposed; properties of the automatic derivative can be modified; and parameters can be tied to one another.
These properties are governed by the PARINFO structure, which is passed as a keyword parameter to MPFIT.
PARINFO should be a list of dictionaries, one list entry for each parameter. Each parameter is associated with one element of the array, in numerical order. The dictionary can have the following keys (none are required, keys are case insensitive):
- ‘value’ - the starting parameter value (but see the START_PARAMS
- parameter for more information).
- ‘fixed’ - a boolean value, whether the parameter is to be held
- fixed or not. Fixed parameters are not varied by MPFIT, but are passed on to MYFUNCT for evaluation.
- ‘limited’ - a two-element boolean array. If the first/second
- element is set, then the parameter is bounded on the lower/upper side. A parameter can be bounded on both sides. Both LIMITED and LIMITS must be given together.
- ‘limits’ - a two-element float array. Gives the
- parameter limits on the lower and upper sides, respectively. Zero, one or two of these values can be set, depending on the values of LIMITED. Both LIMITED and LIMITS must be given together.
- ‘parname’ - a string, giving the name of the parameter. The
- fitting code of MPFIT does not use this tag in any way. However, the default iterfunct will print the parameter name if available.
- ‘step’ - the step size to be used in calculating the numerical
- derivatives. If set to zero, then the step size is computed automatically. Ignored when AUTODERIVATIVE=0.
- ‘mpside’ - the sidedness of the finite difference when computing
numerical derivatives. This field can take four values:
0 - one-sided derivative computed automatically 1 - one-sided derivative (f(x+h) - f(x) )/h
- -1 - one-sided derivative (f(x) - f(x-h))/h
- 2 - two-sided derivative (f(x+h) - f(x-h))/(2*h)
Where H is the STEP parameter described above. The “automatic” one-sided derivative method will chose a direction for the finite difference which does not violate any constraints. The other methods do not perform this check. The two-sided method is in principle more precise, but requires twice as many function evaluations. Default: 0.
- ‘mpmaxstep’ - the maximum change to be made in the parameter
value. During the fitting process, the parameter will never be changed by more than this value in one iteration.
A value of 0 indicates no maximum. Default: 0.
- ‘tied’ - a string expression which “ties” the parameter to other
- free or fixed parameters. Any expression involving constants and the parameter array P are permitted. Example: if parameter 2 is always to be twice parameter 1 then use the following: parinfo(2).tied = ‘2 * p(1)’. Since they are totally constrained, tied parameters are considered to be fixed; no errors are computed for them. [ NOTE: the PARNAME can’t be used in expressions. ]
- ‘mpprint’ - if set to 1, then the default iterfunct will print the
- parameter value. If set to 0, the parameter value will not be printed. This tag can be used to selectively print only a few parameter values out of many. Default: 1 (all parameters printed)
Future modifications to the PARINFO structure, if any, will involve adding dictionary tags beginning with the two letters “MP”. Therefore programmers are urged to avoid using tags starting with the same letters; otherwise they are free to include their own fields within the PARINFO structure, and they will be ignored.
PARINFO Example: parinfo = [{‘value’:0., ‘fixed’:0, ‘limited’:[0,0], ‘limits’:[0.,0.]}
for i in range(5)]parinfo[0][‘fixed’] = 1 parinfo[4][‘limited’][0] = 1 parinfo[4][‘limits’][0] = 50. values = [5.7, 2.2, 500., 1.5, 2000.] for i in range(5): parinfo[i][‘value’]=values[i]
A total of 5 parameters, with starting values of 5.7, 2.2, 500, 1.5, and 2000 are given. The first parameter is fixed at a value of 5.7, and the last parameter is constrained to be above 50.
EXAMPLEimport mpfit import numpy.oldnumeric as Numeric x = arange(100, float) p0 = [5.7, 2.2, 500., 1.5, 2000.] y = ( p[0] + p[1]*[x] + p[2]*[x**2] + p[3]*sqrt(x) +
p[4]*log(x))fa = {‘x’:x, ‘y’:y, ‘err’:err} m = mpfit(‘myfunct’, p0, functkw=fa) print ‘status = ‘, m.status if (m.status <= 0): print ‘error message = ‘, m.errmsg print ‘parameters = ‘, m.params
Minimizes sum of squares of MYFUNCT. MYFUNCT is called with the X, Y, and ERR keyword parameters that are given by FUNCTKW. The results can be obtained from the returned object m.
THEORY OF OPERATIONThere are many specific strategies for function minimization. One very popular technique is to use function gradient information to realize the local structure of the function. Near a local minimum the function value can be taylor expanded about x0 as follows:
- f(x) = f(x0) + f’(x0) . (x-x0) + (1/2) (x-x0) . f’‘(x0) . (x-x0)
- —– ————— ——————————- (1)
Order 0th 1st 2nd
Here f’(x) is the gradient vector of f at x, and f’‘(x) is the Hessian matrix of second derivatives of f at x. The vector x is the set of function parameters, not the measured data vector. One can find the minimum of f, f(xm) using Newton’s method, and arrives at the following linear equation:
f’‘(x0) . (xm-x0) = - f’(x0) (2)If an inverse can be found for f’‘(x0) then one can solve for (xm-x0), the step vector from the current position x0 to the new projected minimum. Here the problem has been linearized (ie, the gradient information is known to first order). f’‘(x0) is symmetric n x n matrix, and should be positive definite.
The Levenberg - Marquardt technique is a variation on this theme. It adds an additional diagonal term to the equation which may aid the convergence properties:
(f’‘(x0) + nu I) . (xm-x0) = -f’(x0) (2a)where I is the identity matrix. When nu is large, the overall matrix is diagonally dominant, and the iterations follow steepest descent. When nu is small, the iterations are quadratically convergent.
In principle, if f’‘(x0) and f’(x0) are known then xm-x0 can be determined. However the Hessian matrix is often difficult or impossible to compute. The gradient f’(x0) may be easier to compute, if even by finite difference techniques. So-called quasi-Newton techniques attempt to successively estimate f’‘(x0) by building up gradient information as the iterations proceed.
In the least squares problem there are further simplifications which assist in solving eqn (2). The function to be minimized is a sum of squares:
f = Sum(hi^2) (3)where hi is the ith residual out of m residuals as described above. This can be substituted back into eqn (2) after computing the derivatives:
f’ = 2 Sum(hi hi’) f’’ = 2 Sum(hi’ hj’) + 2 Sum(hi hi’‘) (4)If one assumes that the parameters are already close enough to a minimum, then one typically finds that the second term in f’’ is negligible [or, in any case, is too difficult to compute]. Thus, equation (2) can be solved, at least approximately, using only gradient information.
In matrix notation, the combination of eqns (2) and (4) becomes:
hT’ . h’ . dx = - hT’ . h (5)Where h is the residual vector (length m), hT is its transpose, h’ is the Jacobian matrix (dimensions n x m), and dx is (xm-x0). The user function supplies the residual vector h, and in some cases h’ when it is not found by finite differences (see MPFIT_FDJAC2, which finds h and hT’). Even if dx is not the best absolute step to take, it does provide a good estimate of the best direction, so often a line minimization will occur along the dx vector direction.
The method of solution employed by MINPACK is to form the Q . R factorization of h’, where Q is an orthogonal matrix such that QT . Q = I, and R is upper right triangular. Using h’ = Q . R and the ortogonality of Q, eqn (5) becomes
- (RT . QT) . (Q . R) . dx = - (RT . QT) . h
- RT . R . dx = - RT . QT . h (6)
- R . dx = - QT . h
where the last statement follows because R is upper triangular. Here, R, QT and h are known so this is a matter of solving for dx. The routine MPFIT_QRFAC provides the QR factorization of h, with pivoting, and MPFIT_QRSOLV provides the solution for dx.
REFERENCESMINPACK-1, Jorge More’, available from netlib (www.netlib.org). “Optimization Software Guide,” Jorge More’ and Stephen Wright,
SIAM, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics, Number 14.
- More’, Jorge J., “The Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm:
Implementation and Theory,” in Numerical Analysis, ed. Watson, G. A., Lecture Notes in Mathematics 630, Springer-Verlag, 1977.
MODIFICATION HISTORYTranslated from MINPACK-1 in FORTRAN, Apr-Jul 1998, CM
Copyright (C) 1997-2002, Craig Markwardt This software is provided as is without any warranty whatsoever. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute modified or unmodified copies is granted, provided this copyright and disclaimer are included unchanged.
Translated from MPFIT (Craig Markwardt’s IDL package) to Python, August, 2002. Mark Rivers Converted from Numeric to numpy (Sergey Koposov, July 2008)
- class resolvedstellarpops.math.mpfit.mpfit.mpfit(fcn, xall=None, functkw={}, parinfo=None, ftol=1e-10, xtol=1e-10, gtol=1e-10, damp=0.0, maxiter=200, factor=100.0, nprint=1, iterfunct='default', iterkw={}, nocovar=0, rescale=0, autoderivative=1, quiet=0, diag=None, epsfcn=None, debug=0)[source]¶
Methods
- blas_enorm32(x[, n, offx, incx]) = <fortran snrm2>¶
- blas_enorm64(x[, n, offx, incx]) = <fortran dnrm2>¶
- defiter(fcn, x, iter, fnorm=None, functkw=None, quiet=0, iterstop=None, parinfo=None, format=None, pformat='%.10g', dof=1)[source]¶
resolvedstellarpops.math.mpfit.mpfitexpr module¶
Copyright (C) 2009 Sergey Koposov
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- resolvedstellarpops.math.mpfit.mpfitexpr.mpfitexpr(func, x, y, err, start_params, check=True, full_output=False, imports=None, **kw)[source]¶
Fit the used defined expression to the data Input: - func: string with the function definition - x: x vector - y: y vector - err: vector with the errors of y - start_params: the starting parameters for the fit Output: - The tuple (params, yfit) with best-fit params and the values of func evaluated at x Keywords: - check: boolean parameter. If true(default) the function will be checked for sanity - full_output: boolean parameter. If True(default is False) then instead of best-fit parameters the mpfit object is returned - imports: list of strings, of optional modules to be imported, required to evaluate the function Example: params,yfit=mpfitexpr(‘p[0]+p[2]*(x-p[1])’,x,y,err,[0,10,1])
- If you need to use numpy and scipy functions in your function, then
- you must to use the full names of these functions, e.g.: numpy.sin, numpy.cos etc.
- This function is motivated by mpfitexpr() from wonderful MPFIT IDL package
- written by Craig Markwardt


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| def | skipped_results |
| def | more_results |
| def | next_batch |
| def | cursor |
| def | next_batch_async |
| def | __getstate__ |
A batch produced by a datastore_query._AugmentedQuery.
| def google.appengine.datastore.datastore_query._AugmentedBatch.__init__ | ( | self, | |
| batch_shared, | |||
in_memory_offset = None , |
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in_memory_limit = None , |
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next_index = 0 , |
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start_cursor = Cursor() |
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| ) |
A Constructor for datastore_query._AugmentedBatch. Constructed by datastore_query._AugmentedQuery. Should not be called directly.
| def google.appengine.datastore.datastore_query._AugmentedBatch.query | ( | self | ) |
The query the current batch came from.


Namespaces
color
- Main name space. Usually contain color model classes, but also might contain other useful things.
For more details see .
color::check
-
Test/check color
For more details see check.
color::fix
-
Fix color
For more details see fix.
color::place
-
Get index of some color component.
For more details see place.
color::operation
-
All operations are situated here. Some operations are not designed to be used in this form e.g.
color::operation:addition
For more details see operations.
color::category
-
Contain all color categories. Category is pair of model and format.
For more details see category.
color::get
-
Get some property of color by the name. Depend of used color model this operation might be instant like getting red from RGB or require some calculation, get red from HSV model.
For more details see get.
color::set
-
Set some property of color. Similarly to get this operation might be instant or need calculation.
For more details see set.
color::make
-
Make color by given name.
For more details see make.
color::_internal
-
Miscellaneous internal things. Do not use entities from here. It is highly probably that this might change from version to version or from one commit to another.


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It's currently used as the official calendar in Nepal.
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