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8/23/2018
People meet many new people throughout their college experience, whether you are a freshman or a senior. And when you meet a new person, it is important to ask the important questions like, “Do you like Harry Potter?”
Those who say, “Eh, it’s all right,” are not the people someone who loves Harry Potter wants to have a butterbeer with. But if they say, “Uh, who doesn’t like Harry Potter?” then that’s the person you want to make friends with, especially if you’re a Potterhead.
That simple, meaningful question can spark a whole conversation that will lead to more questions. Whether you are the one asking or answering the questions, here are the Qs you might encounter when talking to a Potterhead for the first time:
A person’s house says a lot about their character.  Not all Slytherins are bad people. They’re just ambitious and will stop at nothing to get what they want.
The cool house to be in is Hufflepuff. Everyone will say they are a Hufflepuff because they want to seem cool and relaxed. Don’t believe them.
Ravenclaws are smart and cunning. They are the ones who will think up the biggest and best pranks all while getting As on their exams. Ravenclaws are impressive, and you always want to have one in your friend group.
 It’s not cool anymore. The Harry Potter movies have been out for more than a decade and people are no longer interested in being a part of the bravest house. You will encounter them, though. They are the ones who want to venture into the The Ridges late at night.
Potterheads often talk about morphed houses. Those are combinations between two Harry Potter houses. In fact, the person writing this if a Gryffinpuff: a cross between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. Take that as you will.
Those who say Harry is their favorite character is using that as a cop out. Fans are stuck in Harry’s head for seven books and eight movies — nobody really likes him. Hermione is another person that everyone likes. It’s not as bad as liking Harry, but it’s up there. Ron is the most underrated from the Golden Trio. Anyone who says he is the best out of the three is a loyal friend. Sure, Ron has his downsides (like his unrelenting jealousy and search for fame), but so do Harry and Hermione.
The secondary characters is what really shows what a person is like. People empathize with the misunderstood Luna Lovegood. Neville Longbottom is the loveable underdog. Ginny Weasley is a fierce woman with sassy comebacks. Those who chose Draco are the people who understand the complexities of life. Long story short: if a person says any of the supporting characters are their favorite, they are a true Harry Potter fan.
If someone says the movies, don’t trust them. End of story.
Like the characters, people’s favorite installment of the series says a great deal. Those who say Sorcerer’s Stone is the best long for nostalgic moments and love to relive the innocent times in life. Chamber of Secrets is when the series starts to pick up, so people who love this one are in it for the story. The same can be said for Prisoner of Azkaban, which is the only one that doesn’t feature Voldemort.
Goblet of Fire is all about sports, so athletic people tend to love it. But Goblet of Fire is also the beginning of the end. The climax is presented with the spare Cedric Diggory dying at the command of the Dark Lord. Order of The Phoenix is a long-winded installment, and only truly loyal Potterheads say this is their favorite.
Half-Blood Prince is one of the best in the series. The end is near, and those truly invested in the outcome are going to say this is their favorite. Deathly Hallows is shrouded in callbacks to the other books, but it also furthers the story past Harry’s generation. This is where Grindelwald is mentioned, and when people start doubting Dumbledore’s motives in the previous books. Those who recognize those aspects of the series are the ones who understand the depths of anything.
So here’s the bottom line: be prepared to talk about Harry Potter in college. Almost everyone will have opinions that can show you a lot about them as a person.
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Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida
by Kirk Munroe
"Mark and Ruth Attend an Auction"
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- Year Published: 1886
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Munroe, K. (1886). Wakulla, A Story of Adventure in Florida. New York: Harper.
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- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 9.0
- Word Count: 2,723
- Genre: Adventure
- Keywords: florida
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Although Mr. and Mrs. Elmer regretted the delay in Key West, being anxious to get settled in their new home as soon as possible, the children did not mind it a bit; indeed, they were rather glad of it. In the novelty of everything they saw in this queerest of American cities, they found plenty to occupy and amuse them.
The captain and their father were busy in the courtroom nearly every day, and Mrs. Elmer did not care to go ashore except for a walk in the afternoon with her husband. So the children went off on long exploring expeditions by themselves, and the following letter, written during this time by Ruth to her dearest friend, Edna May, will give an idea of some of the things they saw:
“KEY WEST, FLA., December 15, 188-.
“MY DEAREST EDNA,—It seems almost a year since I left you in dear old Norton, so much has happened since then. This is the very first chance I have had since I left to send you a letter, so I will make it a real long one, and try to tell you everything.
“I was not seasick a bit, but Mark was.
“In the Penobscot River we rescued a man from a floating cake of ice, and brought him with us. His name is Jan Jansen, but Mark calls him Jack Jackson. A few days before we got here we found a wreck, and helped get it off, and brought it here to Key West. Now we are waiting for a court to say how much it was worth to do it. I shouldn’t wonder if they allowed as much as a thousand dollars, for the wreck was a big ship, and it was real hard work.
“This is an awfully funny place, and I just wish you were here to walk round with Mark and me and see it. It is on an island, and that is the reason it is named ‘Key,’ because all the islands down here are called keys. The Spaniards call it ‘Cayo Hueso,’ which means bone key, or bone island; but I’m sure I don’t know why, for I haven’t seen any bones here. The island is all made of coral, and the streets are just hard white coral worn down. The island is almost flat, and ‘Captain Li’—he’s our captain—says that the highest part is only sixteen feet above the ocean.
“Oh, Edna! you ought to see the palm-trees. They grow everywhere, great cocoa-nut and date palms, and we drink the milk out of the cocoa-nuts when we go on picnics and get thirsty. And the roses are perfectly lovely, and they have great oleanders and cactuses, and hundreds of flowers that I don’t know the names of, and they are all in full bloom now, though it is nearly Christmas. I don’t suppose I shall hang up my stocking this Christmas; they don’t seem to do it down here.
“The other day we went out to the soldiers’ barracks, and saw a banyan-tree that ‘Captain Li’ says is the only one in the United States, but we didn’t see any monkeys or elephants. Mark says he don’t think this is very tropical, because we haven’t seen any bread-fruit-trees nor a single pirate; but they used to have them here—I mean pirates. Anyhow, we have custard apples, and they sound tropical, don’t they? And we have sapadilloes that look like potatoes, and taste like—well, I think they taste horrid, but most people seem to like them.
“It is real hot here, and I am wearing my last summer’s best straw hat and my thinnest linen dresses—you know, those I had last vacation. The thermometer got up to 85 degrees yesterday.
“Do write, and tell me all about yourself and the girls. Has Susie Rand got well enough to go to school yet? And who’s head in the algebra class? Mark wants to know how’s the skating, and if the boys have built a snow fort yet? Most all the people here are black, and everybody talks Spanish: it is SO funny to hear them.
“Now I must say good-bye, because Mark is calling me to go to the fruit auction. I will tell you about it some other time.
“With love to everybody, I am your own lovingest friend,
“RUTH ELMER.
“P.S.—Don’t forget that you are coming down here to see me next winter.”
Before Ruth finished this letter Mark began calling to her to hurry up, for the bell had stopped ringing, and the auction would be all over before they got there. She hurriedly directed it, and put it in her pocket to mail on the way to the auction, just as her brother called out that he “did think girls were the very slowest.”
They had got nearly to the end of the wharf at which the schooner lay, when Ruth asked Mark if he had any money.
“No,” said he, “not a cent. I forgot all about it. Just wait here a minute while I run back and get some from mother.”
“Well,” said Ruth, “if boys ain’t the very carelessest!” But Mark was out of hearing before she finished.
While she waited for him, Ruth looked in at the open door of a very little house, where several colored women were making beautiful flowers out of tiny shells and glistening fish-scales. She became so much interested in their work that she was almost sorry when Mark came running back, quite out of breath, and gasped, “I’ve got it! Now let’s hurry up!”
Turning to the left from the head of the wharf, they walked quickly through the narrow streets until they came to a square, on one corner of which quite a crowd of people were collected.  Shall I have the five? Yes, sir; thank you. Forty-five, five, five—who says fifty? Fifty, fifty, forty-five— going, going, gone! And sold at forty-five to Mr.—Beg pardon; the name, sir? Of course, certainly! And now comes the finest lot of oranges ever offered for sale in Key West. What am I bid per hundred for them? Who makes me an offer? I am a perfect Job for patience, gentlemen, and willing to wait all day, if necessary, to hear what you have to say.”
Of course he was an auctioneer, and this was the regular fruit auction that is held on this same corner every morning of the year. Many other things besides fruit are sold at these auctions; in fact, almost everything in Key West is bought or sold at auction; certainly all fruit is. For an hour before the time set for the auction a man goes through the streets ringing a bell and announcing what is to be sold. This morning he had announced a fine lot of oranges, among other things, and as Mrs. Elmer was anxious to get some, she had sent Mark and Ruth to attend the auction, with a commission to buy a hundred if the bids did not run too high.
The children had already attended several auctions as spectators, and Mark knew enough not to bid on the first lot offered. He waited until somebody who knew more about the value of oranges than he should fix the price. He and Ruth pushed their way as close as possible to the auctioneer, and watched him attentively.
“Come, gentlemen,” said the little man, “give me a starter. What am I to have for the first lot of these prime oranges?”
“Two dollars!” called a voice from the crowd.
“Two,” cried the auctioneer. “Two, two, two and a half. Who says three? Shall I hear it? And three. Who bids three? That’s right. Do I hear the quarter? They are well worth it, gentlemen. Will no one give me the quarter? Well, time is money, and tempus fugit. Going at three—at three; going, going, and sold at three dollars.”
Several more lots sold so rapidly at three dollars that Mark had no opportunity of making himself heard or of catching the auctioneer’s eye, until, finally, in a sort of despair he called out “Quarter,” just as another lot was about to be knocked down to a dealer at three dollars.
“Ah!” said the auctioneer, “that is something like. It takes a gentleman from the North to appreciate oranges at their true value. A quarter is bid. Shall I have a half? Do I hear it? Half, half, half; and sold at three dollars and a quarter to Mr.—what name, please? Elder. Oh yes; good old name, and one you can live up to more and more every day of your life. John, pick out a hundred of the best for Mr. Elder.”
The oranges selected by John were such beauties that neither Mark nor his mother regretted the extra quarter paid for them. After that, during the rest of their stay in Key West, whenever Mark went near a fruit auction he was addressed politely by the auctioneer as “Mr. Elder,” and invited to examine the goods offered for sale that day.
One day Mark and Ruth rowed out among the vessels of the sponging fleet that had just come in from up the coast. Here they scraped acquaintance with a weather-beaten old sponger, who sat in the stern of one of the smallest of the boats, smoking a short pipe and overhauling some rigging; and from him they gained much new information concerning sponges.
“We gets them all along the reef as far as Key Biscayne,” said the old sponger; “but the best comes from Rock Island, up the coast nigh to St. Mark’s.”
“Why, that’s where we’re going!” interrupted Ruth.
“Be you, sissy? Wal, you’ll see a plenty raked up there, I reckon. Did you ever hear tell of a water-glass?”
“No,” said Ruth, “I never did.”
“Wal,” said the old man, “here’s one; maybe you’d like to look through it.”  “Jest take an’ hold it a leetle ways down into the water and see what you can see.”
Taking the bucket which was held out to her, Ruth did as the old man directed, and uttered an exclamation of delight. “Why, I can see the bottom just as plain as looking through a window.”
“To be sure,” said the old sponger; “an’ that’s the way we sees the sponges lying on the bottom. An’ when we sees ‘em we takes those long-handled rakes there an’ hauls ‘em up to the top. When they fust comes up they’s plumb black, and about the nastiest things you ever did see, I reckon. We throws ‘em into crawls built in shallow water, an’ lets ‘em rot till all the animal matter is dead, an’ we stirs ‘em up an beats ‘em with sticks to get it out. Then they has to be washed an’ dried an’ trimmed, an’ handled consider’ble, afore they’s ready for market. Then they’s sold at auction.”
The sponge crawls of which the old man spoke are square pens make of stakes driven into the sand side by side, and as close as possible together. In some of them at Key West Mark and Ruth saw little negro boys diving to bring up stray sponges that the rakes had missed. They did not seem to enjoy this half as much as Mark and his boy friends used to enjoy diving in the river at Norton, and they shivered as though they were cold, in spite of the heat of the day.
When the children told Mr. Elmer about these little, unhappy- looking divers that night, he said,
“That shows how what some persons regard as play, may become hard and unpleasant work to those who are compelled to do it.”
Several days after this Mr. Elmer engaged a carriage, and took his wife and the children on a long drive over the island. During this drive the most interesting things they saw were old Fort Taylor, which stands just outside the city, and commands the harbor, the abandoned salt-works, about five miles from the city, and the Martello towers, built along the southern coast of the island. These are small but very strong forts, built by the government, but as yet never occupied by soldiers.
In one of them the Elmers were shown a large, jagged hole, broken through the brick floor of one of the upper stories. This, the sergeant in charge told them, had been made by a party of sailors who deserted from a man-of-war lying in the harbor, and hid themselves in this Martello tower. They made it so that through it they could point their muskets and shoot anybody sent to capture them as soon as he entered the lower rooms. They did not have a chance to use it for this purpose, however, for the officer sent after them just camped outside the tower and waited patiently until hunger compelled the runaways to surrender, when he quietly marched them back to the ship.
In all of the forts, as well as in all the houses of Key West, are great cisterns for storing rain-water, for there are no wells on the island, and the only fresh-water to be had is what can be caught and stored during the rainy season.
It was a week after the orange auction that Mr. Elmer came into the cabin of the schooner one afternoon and announced that the court had given its decision, and that they would sail the next day.
This decision of the court gave to the schooner Nancy Bell five thousand dollars, and this, “Captain Li” said, must, according to wrecker’s law, be divided among all who were on board the schooner at the time of the wreck. Accordingly, he insisted upon giving Mr. and Mrs. Elmer each two hundred dollars, and Mark, Ruth, and Jan each one hundred dollars. As neither of the children had ever before owned more than five dollars at one time, they now felt wealthy enough to buy the State of Florida, and regarded each other with vastly increased respect. While their father took charge of this money for them, he told them they might invest it as they saw fit, provided he and their mother thought the investment a good one.
At daylight next morning the Nancy Bell again spread her sails, and soon Key West was but a low-lying cloud left far behind. For three days they sailed northward, with light winds, over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. On the evening of the third day a bright light flashed across the waters ahead of them, and “Captain Li” said it was at the mouth of the St. Mark’s River. As the tide was low, and no pilot was to be had that night, they had to stand off and on, and wait for daylight before crossing the bar and sailing up the river beyond it.


Rylan Clark-Neal defends political Twitter posts after ‘snobby’ comments
The Strictly: It Takes Two host and former X Factor star said he is ‘probably informing the people who follow me’ more than his detractors are.
Rylan Clark-Neal has defended himself against critics who say he should not talk about politics on Twitter, saying that he is informing his followers who “might not necessarily understand Brexit”.
The TV presenter said that he received “a few snobby-arsed comments from a few snobby-arsed people who were like, what the f*** do you know?” after he tweeted about the latest political goings-on earlier this year.
Clark-Neal said he feels “no pressure to fit in a box others want to put (him) in”, telling The Big Issue magazine: “Politics is something I’ve been interested in for a long time.
“More now than ever because of Brexit.”
The Strictly: It Takes Two presenter, who will co-host Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night show, said that, after putting a tweet out earlier this year “that went a little bit viral” on the subject of Brexit, he received negative comments.

“With all due respect, the audience that I’ve got might not necessarily understand Brexit or what’s going on in Parliament.”
Clark-Neal added: “When I explain stuff on Twitter in layman’s terms people message me and go ‘Thanks for doing that, I didn’t really understand what WTO meant or what the Northern Irish backstop involved’.
“You can take the piss out of me all you want, but I’m probably informing the people who follow me more than you’re informing people.”
However, the presenter said he will stay silent on who he is backing in the forthcoming General Election.
He said: “It means I can talk to people in a rounded way that probably does more good than it would if I told people how to vote.
“People need to make up their own minds. I’m more than happy to stick up for what I think is right but I’m not going to sit there and tell people what to do. I don’t think that’s my platform.
“I use it to make sure everyone is as informed as they possibly can be without necessarily having to take extra time out of their busy lives to dive into the nitty gritty of it.”
Last week, Clark-Neal announced his part in Channel 4’s election coverage on Twitter, joking: “So yeah…. This X factor reject will be hosting election night. Lols.”
He will join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Katherine Ryan in the live broadcast after the public cast their votes in the General Election on December 12.
Clare Balding, Matt Forde and Rob Rinder will also appear in the eight-hour programme.
The Big Issue, sold by vendors to lift themselves out of poverty, is out now.


Pedras do Patacho Hotel / HautLab
- Curated by Pedro Vada
- about 12 hours
- version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Architects: HautLab
- AreaArea of this architecture projectArea: 1207.0 m2
- version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?YearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2017
- version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?PhotographsPhotographs: Bruno Lima
- version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?ManufacturersBrands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers: Alumiaco, Campelo Prime, Concrepoxi artefactos, Decortiles, Hansgrohe, Newline, Palimanan, SteelDecor, Stella Tech, Vao Livre
Text description provided by the architects. Patacho beach, in Alagoas, is one of the few Brazilian northeastern coast destinations still “intact” nowadays, surrounded by 40km of coconut trees, different from everything that there is in the region. Perfect scenery for a product that also has the proposal to be unlike anything in the area.
Pedras do Patacho Hotel is in the “Hotel Boutique” category, which means that the essence of the boutique enterprise is to provide an experience to the guests that, perhaps, is far beyond what they expected to experience in that place.
The goal of the project was to create a remarkable architecture and spatially relevant, capable of impacting and providing an experience that can be kept in the guests’ memory for the rest of their lives. The parti was a minimalist architecture, exclusive and sophisticated, comprehending the main operations of the international boutique hotel business nowadays.
The main challenge was to deal with the narrow lot and site the bungalows in a way that none of them could be harmed by their position and yet had privacy. The starting point was to create a path, in the longitudinal direction of the land, formed by great walls of 7 meter height, covered with natural stones. The pathway, organic and relatively narrow, provides little discoveries to the guest, maximizing the sensory experiences that the architecture can provide.
Behind the great walls there are the bungalows, in a total of 7, just in the first phase of the enterprise. Every unit has an ocean view and, considering the premise of guaranteeing a full privacy and exclusivity to the guest, we have developed a bungalow that has, on its roof, a private pool with an exclusive landscape to each unit, where it is possible to enjoy the pleasure of relaxing in the calm atmosphere of the Patacho Beach, with an unique view.
The use of rustic and timeless materials, explored in the whole hotel route, inside the bungalows, restaurant and common areas provide the enterprise a minimalist and contemporaneous atmosphere. Stylish elements were incorporated to the landscape that surrounds the Hotel: coatings such as stones, wood and corten steel compose the structure along with items such as metal sheets and glass, bringing a unique architectural identity.
The corten steel also gives the name to the restaurant, entirely externally coated with the material. The volume, raised on pilotis, gives the impression of floating above the common pool, providing a panoramic view of Patacho Beach. Inside, there is polished concrete as flooring, rebars closing the stairs, ceiling in wood strips and walls with metal screens (the ones that are used as the concrete armor) that contrasts with the huge orange block that highlights itself on the landscape.
A placed planned, since its design, to create memories – through the architecture, gastronomy or service. The Pedras do Patacho Hotel is guarantee that the guest is going to have, at least, an experience unlike anything they have already lived.


The Thing Description (TD) ontology is an RDF axiomatization of the TD information model, one of the building blocks of the Web of Things (WoT). Besides providing an alternative to the standard JSON representation format for TD documents, the TD ontology can also be used to process contextual information on Things and for alignments with other WoT-related ontologies.
Validation of the document by the Working Group is expected by the end of June 2019.
The TD ontology is an idiomatic RDF axiomatization of the TD information model [[WOT-THING-DESCRIPTION]], which can be used to describe WoT things and their interaction affordances. The TD ontology imports the hypermedia controls ontology. However, although the TD information model also includes terms for data schemas and security configurations, the TD ontology does not force the use of the corresponding JSON schema and WoT security vocabularies. Other schema languages like SHACL [[shacl]] can thus be leveraged to describe WoT Things.
The fundamental WoT terminology such as Thing, Consumer, Thing Description (TD), Interaction Model, Interaction Affordance, Property, Action, Event, Protocol Binding, Servient, etc. is defined in Section 3 of the WoT Architecture specification [[WOT-ARCHITECTURE]].
The Thing Description terminology such as TD Information Model, TD Document, Term (Vocabulary Term), etc. is defined in Section 3 of the WoT Thing Description specification [[WOT-THING-DESCRIPTION]].
The TD ontology shares commonalities with other WoT-related vocabularies, in particular with SOSA [[vocab-ssn]] and schema.org. Alignments between these vocabularies are provided in a human-readable way in the following.
All alignments with SOSA are also available here in OWL: td-sosa.ttl.
Alignment of td:Thing
with SOSA:
| Sub-Class | Super-Class |
|---|---|
td:Thing
|
sosa:Sensor orsosa:Actuator orsosa:Platform orsosa:FeatureOfInterest
|
td:Thing andsosa:FeatureOfInterest
|
ssn:hasProperty some (( sosa:isObservedBy some sosa:Sensor ) or( sosa:isActedOnBy some sosa:Actuator )) |
td:Thing andsosa:Sensor
|
sosa:observes somesosa:ObservableProperty
|
td:Thing andsosa:Actuator
|
sosa:actsOnProperty somesosa:ActuatableProperty
|
td:Thing andsosa:Platform
|
sosa:hosts some (( sosa:Sensor andsosa:observes somesosa:ObservableProperty ) or ( sosa:Actuator andsosa:actsOnProperty somesosa:ActuatableProperty ) ) |
Alignment of td:InteractionAffordance
with SOSA:
| Sub-Class | Super-Class |
|---|---|
td:PropertyAffordance andtd:hasForm somehctl:hasOperationType valuetd:readProperty
|
ssn:forProperty some sosa:ObservableProperty
|
td:PropertyAffordance andtd:hasForm somehctl:hasOperationType valuetd:writeProperty
|
ssn:forProperty some sosa:ActuatableProperty
|
td:ActionAffordance
|
ssn:forProperty somesosa:ActuatableProperty
|
td:EventAffordance
|
ssn:forProperty somesosa:ObservableProperty
|
The alignments with schema.org's actions are also available here in OWL: td-sdo.ttl.
| Sub-Class | Super-Class |
|---|---|
td:InteractionAffordance
|
schema:Action andschema:actionStatus value
schema:PotentialActionStatus |
| Sub-Property | Super-Property |
|---|---|
td:hasInteractionAffordance
|
schema:potentialAction
|
The following example shows a TD instance from Example 1 Thing Description specification [[WOT-THING-DESCRIPTION]] in JSON-LD 1.1 (JSON-LD 1.1 tab) and in a RDF dataset (RDF tab).
The RDF dataset contains the corresponding Thing Description IRIs as defined in this document. This IRI mapping is provided by the Thing Description
context file https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/td/v1
. For instance, the field actions
is transformed to <https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/td#hasActionAffordance>
.
The following example includes two TD documents in the standard TD JSON representation format [[WOT-THING-DESCRIPTION]], identified by a unique electronic product code [[RFC5134]].
If these two documents are being merged together with contextual information in the form of an RDF graph that uses the same identifiers, it is possible to retrieve form metadata of these TDs depending on the relations that exist between Things. Here, the two Things share information on room 101 of some example building.
It is possible for affordances of different kinds to have the same effect. For instance, an affordance to a writable property may be equivalent to an affordance to invoke an action that changes the property value. Similarly, for every observable property, there may be an equivalent affordance to subscribe to an event that occurs at every property value change.
WoT clients can avoid having to deal with these discrepancies by
using the generic td:hasInteractionAffordance
predicate.
They can then decide to perform an action based solely on the operation type
of the form embedded in the affordance object.
It is possible to use the TD ontology to extend the definition of
well-known subclasses of Thing
by defining expected
affordances that Things of such types should present. The
following example specifies that every temperature sensor presents
an affordance to a temperature property (expressed in the SAREF
vocabulary [[smartM2M]]).


[gecode-users] Decision Variables
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Mon Jun 25 14:30:32 CEST 2007
Dear Nick,
sure that's possible. But if you have a look to Example::run you will see
that it does nothing really interesting, so maybe you just rip out the code
and implement your own method to setup and run your problem.
All the best
Christian
--
Christian Schulte, http://www.imit.kth.se/~schulte/
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Nick Hindle
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:54 AM
To: users at gecode.org
Subject: [gecode-users] Decision Variables
Hi,
Is it possible to define an overload on Example::run to enable values for
the domain variables to be passed from command line arguments, rather than
having them compiled into the example (such as in cars.cc)?
The reason for this is that I would like to observe the effects of changing
the values of the domain variables on the solution, which means repeately
executing the example program, and so would like to avoid re-compiling each
time.
Thankyou,
Nick
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Anthony Sainez
published 27 July 2020
Phonetics is the study and classification of speech sounds, and linguists who study phonetics are called phoneticians. The word phonetics is derived from the ancient Greek word phōnē, which means 'sounds' or 'to speak'.
Individual speech sounds, like [b] or [k] are called phones— not to be confused with actual phones, like the one in your pocket! There’s a finite amount of them, since we use our vocal tract to make noise and it’s
not capable of producing an infinite number of noises.
Since the sixteenth century, we have made efforts to use a universal system for writing down sounds. Today, we use the International Phonetic Alphabet, which is commonly abbreviated to IPA.
You can find the alphabet here.
Normally, the transcription is indicated by brackets: the “b” sound in “buy” is denoted by [b] The IPA represents speech in segments, like the individual [b] phone in
the previous example.
Phonetics is used to help develop technology like Siri or Google Assistant, not only in their capacity to speak but also in their ability to hear!
Sound is basically just airwaves vibrating really fast in your ear. So, in order for us to make speech sounds, we have to vibrate air really fast. As you already know, we have a special place on our body just for this: the larynx,
located at your Adam’s apple. It houses the vocal folds (sometimes referred to as cords) which you use to manipulate the air your lungs provide into speech sounds, and it’s also made out of cartilage.
As air flows outta the lungs and up the trachea (sometimes called windpipe), and into your larynx. As it goes through the vocal cords, which is also called the glottis, different glottal states are
achieved.
The two glottal states are: voiceless and voiced.
When the vocal folds are pulled apart and air passes directly through without a lot of interference, it produces voiceless sound.
Try this: feel your vocal cords as you say the first sound in the word “shy.” Now try it with “bird.”
Notice how the [b] in “bird” causes your vocal cords to vibrate? That’s voiced, while the [ʃ] sound in “shy” is voiceless since there is little to no interference caused by (non-present) vocal cord vibrations.
The most basic division of sounds is between the vowels and consonants, but there are also the glides who share properties of both.
Consonants can be either voiced or voiceless but are made with either a complete closure or a narrowing of the vocal tract. You create consonants by blocking or restricting the airflow. Vowels, which are usually voiced, are made without
much obstruction in the vocal tract.
Vowels also happen to be more sonorous than consonants, and so we perceive them as louder and longer lasting.
Syllables are peaks of sonority— they are surrounded by less sonorous segments. When you count syllables, you are in effect counting vowels, so it can be said that they form the nucleus of a syllable.
| Vowels & syllabic elements |
Consonants & nonsyllabic elements |
|---|---|
| are produced with relatively little obstruction in the vocal tract. |
are produced with a complete closure or narrowing of the vocal tract. |
| are more sonorous. |
are less sonorous. |
Glides can be thought of as rapidly articulated vowels that move quickly to another articulation, like in yet and wet, or like boy and now. These guys never
form the nucleus of a syllable, since they show properties of both consonants and vowels.
Each part of the body where you can modify the airstream to produce different sounds is called a place of articulation.
| Place of articulation | Description |
|---|---|
| Bilabial | Both lips come together, as in p, b or m |
| Labiodental | Lower lip touches the upper teeth, as in f or v |
| Dental | The tip of the tongue or just behind it touches the upper teeth, as in th (like in thin or this) |
| Alveolar | Tongue tip contacts the alveolar ridge, as in t, d, n, or l |
| Postalveolar | The area just behind the tip of the tongue contacts the postalveolar region behind the alveolar ridge, as in sh, ch, zh, or j |
| Palatal | Middle of tongue approaches or touches the hard palate, as in y |
| Velar | Back of tongue touches the soft palate (velum) as in k, g, or ng |
| Labiovelar | Back of tongue approaches the soft palate and lips also come close together, as in w |
| Laryngeal | No obstruction anywhere but in the vocal cords, like h |
We generally classify our sounds by their manners of articulation— basically how we actually use those articulators. In general, most sounds are egressive, meaning we push air out of lungs to make them, but there are a few examples of ingressive sounds, where we take air into the lungs.
There are glottal stops, where we abruptly bring our vocal folds together and hold them tightly together, as in when you say uh oh! There are voiced sounds, where we vibrate our vocal
folds, like the z in zoo. And then there are voiceless sounds, where we don't vibrate our vocal folds, as in the s in Sam.
But linguists are very finnicky with classifications. So, there's tons of manners of articulations. Here's a few that we definetly use in English.
| Name | What does it do? | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Stop | It completely stops the airflow. | In [p], you stop the airflow at your lips. In [t], you stop it at your alveolar ridge. |
| Fricative | It constricts the airflow to create friction. | In [f], you make friction between the lips and the teeth. In [s] you make it between the alveolar ridge and the tongue. [f] and [s] are both voiceless, whereas [v] as in vim or [z] as in zoo are voiced fricatives. |
| Nasal | It lets the air flow only through your nose. | In [m], you stop the airflow at the lips while air is going out through your nose. |
| Approximant | It constricts the airflow only a little. | In [j] as in yes, you constrict your vocal tract but the air flows freely. |
| Affricate | It makes a stop and then a fricative. | The first sound in church is the affricate. |
| Vowel | It lets the air flow freely, but you change the sound by changing the shape of the vocal tract with the tongue. | Although I'm sure you know your vowels, just to be sure, they are: a, e, i, o, and u. |
Phones have suprasegmental or prosodic properties, like pitch, loudness, and length.
Pitch allows us to place it on a scale from high to low, and is especially noticeable in sonorous sounds like vowels, glides, liquids, and nasals.
The control of pitch results in tone and intonation.
A language is said to have tone when differences in word meaning are signaled by differences in pitch.
When one says “A car?” with a raising pitch, the word “car” refers to the same thing as when it’s pronounced without that raised pitch; this is intonation. In contrast, a speaker of Mandarin
can say entirely different words by changing the pitch; this is tone. For instance: [mà] with a falling pitch means something entirely different than [má] with a rising pitch.
The amount and classification of tone varies from language to language.
Also, it’s worth noting that some languages make use of both intonation and tone at the same time.
Sometimes, vowels are perceived as more prominent than others, like how in “banana” the second syllable is more prominent than the other two. Stress covers the combined effects of pitch, loudness and
length, which gives us this perceived prominence.
As you can tell from the name, in acoustic phonetics we study the actual physical, acoustic properties of speech sounds. It serves to fundamentally abstract linguistics all the way down to physics. Sometimes, phoneticians use spectrograms of speech to look more deeply into their nature. Obviously, this special subset of phonetics gets very mathy very quickly.
At the most basic level, there are four parts to a sound wave.
The wavelength is the distance between a peaks of waves. It's the horizontal length of one cycle of the wave.

The frequency is the number of cycles that pass a set point in a second, usually measured in Hertz (Hz). It's connected to pitch, with higher frequency meaning higher pitch and lower frequency meaning lower pitch.
The amplitude is represented by the height of the waves. Louder sounds have louder amplitudes, and vice versa. It's usally measured in decibels (dB), and the softest sound we can hear is the zero point. We normally speak at 60 dB.
Speech perception deserves an article of it's own, as it's study is deep and storied. It's the process by which sounds are heard, interpreted and understood and plays closely with phonetics and phonology, as well as cognitive science as a whole. It has applications in computer recognition of speech, like in Siri or even Google Translate.
The sound of speech contains acoustic cues that scientists use to differentiate speech sounds belonging to different phonetic categories. One example would be voice onset time, which can signal the difference between voiced and voiceless stops like "b" and "p."
This process is at an intersection of many discplines and is wonderful for demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of linguistics. In order to understand speech perception, one must draw from cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, and occasionally even computer science.
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West Coast FG Club, 3 time champs!
By Jerad Heming
Origin story
There is nothing else more pleasurable than waking up the morning of competition day in a dreamy hotel. Nerves get the best of you…or maybe it’s just the coffee. You have to sprint toward the loo. In your zen, 18 back to back eagles sink and all the podium glory is owned to you.
West Coast FootGolf Club (WC) knows a little thing or two about back to back. Not eagles per se (well not 18 straight, although I wouldn’t put it past these guys) but 2015, 2016, and now the 2018 Club National Champions!
The National Championship was played at the ever so gorgeous Reunion Resort down in Kissimmee, Florida late this August. Playing host to a number of top players in the world, including Matias Perrone (ARG, Placing 4th) and Nicolas Garcia (ARG, Placing 7th), Oakland Footgolf Club member and 2018 National Champion: Cesar Chavez
Three of the top 6 players at this year’s event are members of West Coast FootGolf Club. Respectively; Nick Wallace, Jordan Godfrey, and Sharif Khatib. This qualifies them to make up part of the 2019 Jansen Cup team (USA vs UK 2019). Where USA will travel to Celtic Manor Resort and look to avenge their loss to team UK in the first edition ever played. This makes Jordan and Nick selections for TEAM USA, both returning to represent the country once again in December! Sharif makes team USA by placing 3rd in the tour rankings.
Other members joining team USA from West Coast FG are Ramzey Khatib, Jeremy Johnson, Ken Fleck, and Leilani Tedeski.
Last year Oakland FootGolf Club defeated Miami FootGolf Club led by the Piero Menor and Mariano Copello, the Footgolfos.
This year West Coast came in fierce and fueled by the desire to win it all after missing out on the finals the previous year. Oakland looking to become repeat champions, met with WC to battle it out to be number one.
West Coast was able to achieve victory 6-2 to become victors of the title 3 out of the first 4 seasons. What an incredible accomplishment for the group of all-star players. What’s going on over there? Must be the water? Or the training? You decide.
To be honest though, who are these guys?
West Coasts FootGolf Clubs 2018 Roster:
- Sharif Khatib
- Ramzey Khatib
- Jose Acevedo
- Adam Ortiz
- Jorge Vazquez
- Michael Gora
- Leilani Tedeski
- Jo Reid
- Jeremy Johnson
- Adrian Moreno
- Nick Wallace
- Ken Fleck
- Joey Miller
- Robert Cohmanschi
- Jordan Godfrey
All of these names are easily recognizable throughout the FootGolf Community. Ladies and gentlemen, these footgolfers have been amongst the top of nearly every leaderboard in AFGL tour tournaments this year. No wonder they are three time champions!
I asked Jordan (United States #1 ranked player of 2018) a little about his play, the game, and of course how it was to win the club title once again. He practices at multiple courses throughout California in order to stay in top condition and peak performance. With a soccer background and interest in recreational golf, Jordan stated “I simply got hooked four years ago and decided I wanted to compete as much as I could.”. That’s exactly what he has done, and has done so with great success.
Who are some of the people, whether it be FootGolf or traditional golf, that you look up to? “I love watching golf on the weekends and learning as much as I can about their game because it translates to our game. I have so much respect for the professionalism and etiquette on display by the players on tour. I want that to be applied to FootGolf and for it to also became another gentlemens game”
I’m pretty positive Jordan and the rest of West Coast FootGolf Club plan to return and uphold the Club title in 2019. As of his feelings after winning the 2018 title? “Such an amazing experience. It is what we work towards all year. That is always the number one priority on our list of goals as a club.” Tacking on “…this years (win) was even more meaningful after what unfolded last year and it was a special performance from the guys against our heated rivals Oakland FootGolf.”
West Coast FootGolf is the club to beat everyone!
Will you be the club to knock them from the pedestal in 2019?

I bet Jordan is.
Please leave your thoughts and opinions below!
Author: Jerad Heming


When launched by using the Java Network Launch Protocol (JNLP), rich Internet applications (RIAs) can access the client with the user's permission. Consider the Text Editor applet example to understand how to use JNLP API based services. The Text Editor has a text area and buttons labeled Open, Save, and SaveAs. The Text Editor can be used to open an existing text file, edit it, and save it back to disk.
The Text Editor applet is shown next.
The
TextEditor
and
TextEditorApplet
classes lay out the user interface and display it as an applet. The
FileHandler
class contains the core functionality with respect to using JNLP API based services.
Remember, the techniques described in this topic apply to Java Web Start applications as well.
To make use of a JNLP service, first retrieve a
reference to the service. The initialize
method of the
FileHandler
class retrieves references to JNLP services as
shown in the following code snippet:
private static synchronized void initialize() { ... try { fos = (FileOpenService) ServiceManager.lookup("javax.jnlp.FileOpenService"); fss = (FileSaveService) ServiceManager.lookup("javax.jnlp.FileSaveService"); } catch (UnavailableServiceException e) { ... } }
After you have a reference to the required services, invoke methods on
the service to perform the necessary operations. The open
method of the
FileHandler
class invokes the openFileDialog
method of the
FileOpenService
class to display a file chooser. The open
method returns the contents of the
selected file.
public static String open() { initialize(); try { fc = fos.openFileDialog(null, null); return readFromFile(fc); } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(System.out); return null; } }
Similarly, the save
and saveAs
methods
of the FileHandler
class invoke corresponding methods of the
FileSaveService
class to enable the user to select a file name and
save the contents of the text area to disk.
public static void saveAs(String txt) { initialize(); try { if (fc == null) { // If not already saved. Save-as is like save save(txt); } else { fc = fss.saveAsFileDialog(null, null, fc); save(txt); } } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(System.out); } }
At runtime, when the RIA attempts to open or save a file, users see a security dialog asking them if they want to allow the action. The operation will proceed only if users allow the RIA to access their environment.
The complete source of the
FileHandler
class is shown next. You can also see source code for a complete text editor
called WebPad in the sample
directory in your JDK installation (your jdk path/sample/jnlp/webpad
). WebPad
makes extensive use of the JNLP API.
// add javaws.jar to the classpath during compilation import javax.jnlp.FileOpenService; import javax.jnlp.FileSaveService; import javax.jnlp.FileContents; import javax.jnlp.ServiceManager; import javax.jnlp.UnavailableServiceException; import java.io.*; public class FileHandler { static private FileOpenService fos = null; static private FileSaveService fss = null; static private FileContents fc = null; // retrieves a reference to the JNLP services private static synchronized void initialize() { if (fss != null) { return; } try { fos = (FileOpenService) ServiceManager.lookup("javax.jnlp.FileOpenService"); fss = (FileSaveService) ServiceManager.lookup("javax.jnlp.FileSaveService"); } catch (UnavailableServiceException e) { fos = null; fss = null; } } // displays open file dialog and reads selected file using FileOpenService public static String open() { initialize(); try { fc = fos.openFileDialog(null, null); return readFromFile(fc); } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(System.out); return null; } } // displays saveFileDialog and saves file using FileSaveService public static void save(String txt) { initialize(); try { // Show save dialog if no name is already given if (fc == null) { fc = fss.saveFileDialog(null, null, new ByteArrayInputStream(txt.getBytes()), null); // file saved, done return; } // use this only when filename is known if (fc != null) { writeToFile(txt, fc); } } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(System.out); } } // displays saveAsFileDialog and saves file using FileSaveService public static void saveAs(String txt) { initialize(); try { if (fc == null) { // If not already saved. Save-as is like save save(txt); } else { fc = fss.saveAsFileDialog(null, null, fc); save(txt); } } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(System.out); } } private static void writeToFile(String txt, FileContents fc) throws IOException { int sizeNeeded = txt.length() * 2; if (sizeNeeded > fc.getMaxLength()) { fc.setMaxLength(sizeNeeded); } BufferedWriter os = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(fc.getOutputStream(true))); os.write(txt); os.close(); } private static String readFromFile(FileContents fc) throws IOException { if (fc == null) { return null; } BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fc.getInputStream())); StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer((int) fc.getLength()); String line = br.readLine(); while (line != null) { sb.append(line); sb.append("\n"); line = br.readLine(); } br.close(); return sb.toString(); } }
javax.jnlp
package, include
<your JDK path>/jre/lib/javaws.jar
in your classpath.
At runtime, the Java Runtime Environment software automatically makes these
classes available to RIAs.
Download source code for the Text Editor Applet example to experiment further.


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Summer School of Science is open to all high school students with a strong interest in science, regardless of nationality. University students will not be accepted.
IMPORTANT: It is NOT necessary to have any previous research or science competition experience in order to attend. In fact, students who didn't have a chance to gain similar experience are especially encouraged to apply.
You can apply only by filling in the online application form. When filling out the form, you will need to write a motivation letter and provide us with contact information of one of your teachers (not necessarily in the science field). If needed, we will contact your teacher separately to obtain a recommendation letter. In case you will be applying for scholarship (see below), you will need to upload a separate Scholarship application letter as well.
Incomplete applications will NOT be considered!
If you are still not sure whether you want to apply or not you can submit your e-mail address through this form so we can remind you when the application deadline approaches. Meanwhile, feel free to contact us if you have any concerns about the application process or read through the questions we were frequently asked.
Application opening: March 16th 2023
Application deadline: June 1st 2023 at midnight (00:00 CEST)
Extended applications: June 12th 2023 at midnight (00:00 CEST)
Summer School of Science is organized in two camps: S3 (for grades 9 and 10) and S3++ (for grades 11 and 12).
DATES
S3 2023: July 23rd - August 2nd
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All applications will be reviewed by the school organizers and a certain number of applicants will be selected for interviews. Please, check regularly your e-mails to ensure that you got the response. We will let you know about outcome in both cases, being selected or excluded from the interviews. The advantage is given to students who can benefit the most from the School (eg. they have never participated in something similar before), since usually there are more good applicants than available places. Therefore, it is of great importance to write a good motivation letter! Interviews will be conducted by Skype, this year mid June. Students will be notified by e-mail about the exact time of the interview. During interviews, we focus on wide range of topics (not necessarily science), assess student's proficiency in English and his/her personal motivation. Final selection will be announced in the following week.
We believe that each applicant who has expressed an interest in science should be given the opportunity to develop professionally. However, due to lack of resources, we cannot place all interested students in one of our camps. Therefore, if you were not selected, it doesn't mean you were not good enough and you can always try next year. We still want to maintain contact with you and to offer you guidance when neded. Please visit the Summer School of Science Facebook page. There you can communicate with us, ask questions about science and careers in science, and be informed about many science-related events.
Applicants who are selected to participate at the Summer School of Science have to pay a fee before the School starts (details about payment methods will be provided after selection process is completed). The fee covers accommodation, food, excursion costs and regular antigen Covid testing. Students have to cover their own travel expenses which might also contain additional PCR Covid testing.
The fees in the year 2023 are:
320 EUR (Category I), 560 EUR (Category II) or 650 EUR (Category III)
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The fee for participants in higher categories reflects the real economic cost of the participation. Thanks to our sponsors, we have managed to reduce one part of the fees in year 2022: those for participants coming from Category I (lower income) countries. However, we are constantly working to find new sponsors in order to further reduce the fee for all participants. If we succeed we will announce new, reduced fee amounts on this website prior to the beginning of the camp. Also, please note that we function inside a non-profit organization and all our mentors work pro bono, so we do not run a profit on the School. We invite all interested donors to contact us.
To help pay the fee, we encourage students to find a sponsor (your school, town or a company; international applicants can also try their embassy). There are several scholarships available each year. Please see the text below for more information.
Every applicant can apply for a scholarship, in which case you will pay the reduced fee amount of which will be announced when applications open.
To qualify, you must include a separate letter in your application, explaining the economic situation of your family. This year we are able to give several scholarships to students who need them the most. A few scholarships are provided by the Society for Out-of-Frame Education.
Additionaly, as of 2018 Dominik "Dino" Knežević Scholarship is also available this year for several students. The priority is given to students of Matija Mesić Gymnasium in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. In case there are no successful candidates from that Gymnasium, it will be awarded to other students from Croatia or abroad, according to the criterion of need. You can find more details here (in Croatian).
Finding a sponsor can seem like a daunting task, especially if you have never tried it before. However, it can provide a lot of benefits. You will get training in fundraising, an important skill for students and scientists, who often have to find financing for their projects, studies or travel to conferences.
In order to find a sponsor, consider both big and small, local, national and international companies. Examples are: banks, state or private companies (especially those which benefit from research and development, like those in the pharmaceutical industry), government structures (schools, your city or county, embassy) or non-governmental institutions. Some of them give donations on a regular basis with competitions with fixed deadlines. In your request, you should include a one-page letter explaining your demand and why the School would be good for your education and career. Include the reasons why you are applying to them. We encourage you to add your CV and a Letter of Support, which we can send you.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. We wish you the best of luck! And remember - even if you are unsuccessful, you have gained an important experience.
The principal aim of Summer School of Science is to gather people with professional interests in science and technology, and to provide them with practical experience according to our possibilities. Since only about 40 participants can be admitted each year (around 20 per camp), the organizers select those students who will benefit the most from participation. During the selection process, they will examine each student's background and motivation through the motivational letter and a Skype interview. Thus, it is of uttermost importance to write a good motivational letter, explaining your future goals and interests. The letter is a way for the organizers to get to know you and understand the reasons why you want to participate.
Your motivation letter should include:
The letter should be at least 200 words long, but it can be as long and you want.
Finally, don't be afraid that you will write something "wrong". Honesty and openness are very much appreciated.


I discovered poppies online in November 2004. I read an article on how you could make tea out of poppy pods and thought to try it. I have done them more or less every other day since then and, to everyone's including my surprise, I have never experienced a single withdrawal symptom. Poppies were the opiate/s that I started with, I had never ingested a single one before that.
The first time I drank them, I did a fairly poor job. I must have simmered them too quickly or too hot, and I received either an experience I couldn't notice or none at all. Me and my family went out to dinner at a Cajun restaurant and I threw up immediately after we got home, 4 hours later or so. Since then, I have revised my methods of cooking them a lot and eventually I stopped boiling them completely and simply ate the pods. I find this mechanism of dosage to be much more reliable, easier, more discreet, and probably a bit tastier.
Since I predictably don't remember anything but my most recent poppy experiences, and since I've only had one in seven weeks (I was in an environment that, short to say, strongly discouraged psychoactive use), I will describe my experience of the day before yesterday to try and make this a little more informative:
3:30: I started to choke down 4 dried pods of medium-large size, roughly 4 or 5 inches around. The taste isn't that bad, but the texture makes them much harder to swallow. I finished getting them down at about 4:15.
4:20: I think to myself: 'What's this?'
4:34: I feel myself coming up slightly. It feels even better knowing that I've gone weeks upon weeks without having this, it's like returning home truly, almost, as druggie-ish as that sounds.
5:02: I am at my peak. I'm sitting in a chair next to a computer, lying down about as far as I can, playing Halo and listening to Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros (Agaetis Byrjun and Svefn-G-Englar, by the way, are the defining opiate experience songs for me). At this point I am literally in heaven. I can literally feel the bass undertones of Agaetis Byrjun resonating in my bones. I am perfectly sedated and ecstatic.
5:34: Effects are slightly less prominent, but still orgasmic in effect. I have an amazing body high, it feels almost as if I'm being wrapped in warm cloths and floating somewhere. I am unbelievably warm. I'm still playing Halo, which I note to myself that I'm not very good at. Upon typing this, I look at the xBox and realize that it's been on for about three days. Not good. Anyway, the high is still going strong here.
5:58: Still feel about the same as at the peak. Agaetis Byrjun is still playing, I'm thinking to myself that I should buy it instead of pirating it constantly. I can still feel the warmth all over my body along with the massive euphoria that accompanies an opiate experience. Coming down slightly, I notice, but still incredible. I love opiates.
6:45: Coming down a bit more, still enjoying it. Listening to 'Matt Pond PA' and still playing 'Halo', can barely stand to get up. At this point I've drank (drunk?) seven Fruit2Os, as usually seems to be the case with opiates. I feel almost like I'm blended in with the chair.
7:23: After effects mostly, at this point. I got up and walked around and cooked some pizza, the high is more or less over for me.
7:59: Almost gone. No noticeable nausea, surprising considering my long abstinence from opiates.
8:45: High is completely gone. I have no nausea, although I took some TUMS anyway for good measure. I still feel fairly happy, but the body high is gone.
Anyway, I love opiates. I haven't had any problems with them, depsite what I've heard, and they have improved my life heavily.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Turkey's Erdogan calls Macron's NATO comments 'unacceptable'
by AFPWASHINGTON: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed as “unacceptable” recent remarks on NATO by French leader Emmanuel Macron, who claimed the alliance was experiencing “brain death” and deplored Turkey’s actions in Syria.
Hosting his counterpart in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said Erdogan was “very disappointed in the statement made by France” regarding NATO.
“I think that bothered the president very much,” Trump said. “I think a lot of other people feel that way too.”
“Unacceptable,” added the Turkish leader, speaking through an interpreter.
In an interview earlier this month, the French president decried what he called a lack of coordination between Europe and the United States and lamented recent unilateral action in Syria by Turkey, a NATO member.
“You have no coordination whatsoever of strategic decision-making between the United States and its NATO allies. None,” Macron told The Economist.
“You have an uncoordinated aggressive action by another NATO ally, Turkey, in an area where our interests are at stake,” he added.
Turkey’s latest military operation against Kurdish forces in northern Syria was staunchly opposed by fellow NATO members like France, but made possible by a withdrawal of US forces ordered by Trump.
In the interview, Macron asked what NATO’s mutual self-defense pact, enshrined in Article 5 of its founding treaty, might mean in the future, and pondered whether it could be invoked if President Bashar al-Assad’s forces retaliate against Turkey’s military operation in northern Syria.
Macron also said that while “it’s not in our interest” to expel Turkey from the alliance – as has been urged by some politicians – members states should “reconsider what NATO is.”


This command sets and prints the default printing depth. If depth is not given, this command prints the default printing depth. If depth is given, it must be a positive integer and is used to reset the default printing depth.
The "default-wme-depth" parameter is used to control the default printing depth of the print command. The default initial setting of the "default-wme-depth" parameter is 1.
The command issued with no arguments, returns the print depth:
default-wme-depth
The next example makes use of Tcl command abbreviation while setting the depth to 3:
def 3
Soar variables cannot be abbreviated in the same manner as commandnames.
This parameter can be overridden in any invocation of the print command by using the -depth option.


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I have worked in service roles for over ten years, and have found my passion as a psychotherapist. My commitment to service, social justice, and equality was instilled growing up in the Quaker community and reinforced in my academic career at the small liberal arts Quaker College, Earlham. Following graduation I worked for several years as an Early Head Start Home Visitor in Portland, Oregon, and then joined the United States Peace Corps and served for 3 years in Costa Rica. My early professional and volunteering experiences deepened my commitment to finding ways to support and nurture individual and community capacity for growth and change.
These experiences led me back to graduate school at the University of Michigan where I earned a Masters in Social Work (MSW) and a Masters in Public Health (MPH). I completed a 2-year post-graduate clinical fellowship at the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry and am now a member of their clinical staff. I see clients privately in downtown Ann Arbor one day a week.
As a therapist I feel privileged to be a part of your journey towards healing and wellness. I work from a strengths-based perspective, helping each person to find and connect with their own innate wisdom, while providing opportunities to learn and practice more effective coping and communication skills. My goal is to help you address both specific problems as well as understand and navigate the underlying causes of your suffering.
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A bomb will explode when its countdown timer reaches 0:00 or when too many strikes have been recorded. The only way to defuse a bomb is to disarm all of its modules before its countdown timer expires.
Front | Side |
Each bomb will include up to 11 (or 23 on double-decker bombs) modules that must be disarmed. Each module is discrete and can usually be disarmed in any order. Exceptions to this rule are the Key Switch modules described in Section K, as well as the Forget Me Not module in Section E. See there for further information.
Instructions for disarming modules can be found in Sections F - O. "Needy" modules present a special case and are described in Section N.
Non-Needy Modules can be identified by an LED in the top right corner. When this LED is lit green the module has been disarmed.
All modules must be disarmed to defuse the bomb.
When the Defuser makes a mistake the bomb will record a strike which will be displayed on the indicator above the countdown timer. Bombs with a strike indicator will explode upon the third strike. The timer will begin to count down faster after a strike has been recorded.
If no strike indicator is present above the countdown timer, the bomb will explode upon the first strike, leaving no room for error.
Some disarming instructions will require specific information about the bomb, such as the serial number. This type of information can typically be found on the top, bottom, or sides of the bomb casing. See the Appendix for identification instructions that will be useful in disarming certain modules.
The pages in this manual are sorted in the following categories:
The corresponding category for any manual page is denoted in the lower-left, so that resorting the manual after each bomb can be done more easily.
Modules usually start on a right side page. In some cases two single-page manuals from different modules can be combined on a double-printed paper, to save resources. This will be denoted with a big exclamation mark in the lower-right of the front page.
This section covers modules that contain no more than two input elements. Also modules with large displays are excluded.
This section covers modules with any kind of wiring or other types of electronic components.
This section covers modules containing four buttons arranged in a symmetrical manner.
This section covers modules with more than six buttons of (nearly) identical shape. Hereby it is not allowed that each of those buttons contains letters only. At least one of the buttons must contain numbers, pictures or symbols. Buttons containing letters only are covered in section T.
This section covers modules which contain a large display showing any kind of message, along with any kind of buttons. The button caption may only contain letters (a-z), but never numbers, arrows or symbols.
This section covers modules with a multitude of setting options, which need to be seen through before the right one can be chosen.
This section covers modules with any kind of boolean (two-state) behaviour like for example yes/no decisions. This does however NOT include cut/don't cut decisions for wires.
This section covers expert modules with a red background.
This section covers all modules that do not fit in any previous or following category.
Needy modules cannot be disarmed, but pose a recurrent hazard.
Needy modules can be identified as a module with a small 2‑digit timer in the top center. Interacting with the bomb may cause them to become activated. Once activated, these needy modules must be tended to regularly before their timer expires in order to prevent a strike.
Stay observant: needy modules may reactivate at any time.
The appendix contains additional usefull information which is not necessarily needed to defuse the modules in the previous sections. Most of the time this will be some common knowledge one might forget when faced with a ticking time bomb.


1. A new generation of portable R&D test frame, modular design, providing 2 slots, supporting any combination of test modules from 10M to 100G.
2. Add portable handles on the side, the maximum running noise is only 65 decibels, and the maximum power consumption of the whole machine is only 150W.
3. Provide RENIX, a new generation test software based on PCT architecture, for use with V series test modules.
4. Provides 2-3 layer Ethernet protocol simulation and performance test, RFC2544/2889/3918 test suite, which can meet the comprehensive testing requirements in R&D, experiment and quality control.
5. If you want to use multiple slots at the same time, please purchase the host BigTao6200 with 6 slots.
Support independent host use, convenient and flexible
Support network sharing for multi-person use, improve efficiency
Support multi-chassis cascading, all port synchronization test
Graphical operation software platform
Automate configuration of TCL scripts
API for secondary development
| project | BigTao220 | BigTao6200 |
| Number of slots | 2 | 6 |
| size | Width 340mm x depth 400mm x height 95mm | Width 446mm x depth 413mm x height 132mm |
| weight |
Empty chassis (with empty panel): approx. 6.6kg Full card: about 9.2kg |
Empty chassis (with empty panel): approx. 12.5kg Full card: about 20kg |
| Switch display |
Rear AC power switch Power, Fan, Temp, Link LED indicator, 16*02 character LCD Chassis master reset button Chassis LCD control button |
Rear AC power switch Power, Fan, Temp, Link, SYS LED indicator, OLED display Chassis master reset button Chassis OLED control button |
| IO interface |
1 DB15 display interface 1 RJ45 10/100/1000M BaseT management interface 1 RJ45 10/100/1000M 1588 clock input interface 1 RJ45 RS232 serial port 1 SYNC-OUT, 1 SYNC-IN chassis cascade interface 1 DB9 GPS RS232 serial port 1 1PPS, 1 10MHz input BNC 1 IRIG-B DC TTL input BNC 2 USB Type A interfaces |
1 DB15 display interface 1 RJ45 10/100/1000M BaseT management interface 1 RJ45 10/100/1000M 1588 clock input interface 1 RJ45 RS232 serial port 1 SYNC-OUT, 1 SYNC-IN chassis cascade interface 1 DB9 GPS RS232 serial port 1 1PPS, 1 10MHz input BNC 1 IRIG-B DC TTL input BNC 4 USB Type A interfaces |
| temperature | Work: 0°C to 35°C; Storage: -40°C to 70°C | |
| humidity | Work: 20% to 85% relative humidity, no condensation; Storage: 20% to 85% relative humidity | |
| Chassis power supply | 1 way 110VAC/220VAC 50/60Hz @10A | 1 way 110VAC/220VAC 50/60Hz @10A |
| noise | The whole machine runs at full load noise ≤ 65dba | The whole machine runs at full load noise ≤ 75dba |
| operating system | CentOS6.7 and above, 64bit; | |
| Network management | Compatible with IPv4 and IPv6 management networks; support panel keys to modify IP address and query status; support Telnet/SSH terminal to modify IP and query status; support external display and keyboard to modify IP and query status; support web page to download client, modify IP, query Status; support for license management and hardware management through client software; | |
| Client software | Renix test platform: 2~3 layer flow test and protocol simulation | |
| Client operating system |
System: Microsoft Windows 7 / Windows 10 / Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition CPU: i3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHz and above Memory: 4GB and above |
|
| Board support |
V6000 series Gigabit function test module（10M/100M/1000M） V8000 series Gigabit function test module（10G） V2-10G series 10G multi-speed function test module（100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G） V2-100G series 100G multi-speed function test module（10G/25G/40G/100G） |
| model | Total number of ports | Maximum port rate | details |
|---|---|---|---|
| V2-100G-4QSFP28-Q | 4 | 100G | 4-port QSFP28 100G multi-speed (10G/25G/40G/100G) functional test module |
| V2-10G-8C-Q | 8 | 10G | 2-port RJ45 10G multi-speed (100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G) function test module |
| V8008F | 8 | 10G | 8-port SFP+ 10G functional test module |
| V8008D | 8 | 10G | 8-port SFP+ 1G/10G functional test module |
| V8004F | 4 | 10G | 4-port SFP+ 10G functional test module |
| V8002F | 2 | 10G | 2-port SFP+ 10G functional test module |
| V8004C | 4 | 10G | 4-port RJ45 10G functional test module |
| V8002C | 2 | 10G | 2-port RJ45 10G functional test module |
| V8008M | 8 | 10G | 4-port SFP+ and 4-port RJ45 10G functional test module |
| V8004M | 4 | 10G | 2-port SFP+ and 2-port RJ45 10G functional test module |
| V6016C | 16 | 1G | 16-port RJ45 10/100/1000M adaptive function hair test module |
| V6016M | 16 | 1G | 8-port RJ4510/100/1000M and 8-port SFP 100/1000M adaptive functional test modules |
| V6016F | 16 | 1G | 16-port SFP 100/1000M adaptive functional test module |
| V6008C | 84 | 1G | 8-port RJ45 10/100/1000M adaptive functional test module |
| V6008M | 84 | 1G | 4-port RJ4510/100/1000M and 4-port SFP 100/1000M adaptive functional test modules |
| V6008F | 84 | 1G | 8-port SFP 100/1000M adaptive function test module |
| V6004C | 4 | 1G | 4-port RJ45 10/100/1000M adaptive functional test module |
| V6004F | 4 | 1G | 4-port SFP 100/1000M adaptive functional test module |


Utility types.
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AppenderAttachedImpl | A straightforward implementation of the IAppenderAttachable interface. |
| CompositeProperties | This class aggregates several PropertiesDictionary collections together. |
| ContextPropertiesBase | Base class for Context Properties implementations |
| CountingQuietTextWriter | Subclass of QuietTextWriter that maintains a count of the number of bytes written. |
| CyclicBuffer | A fixed size rolling buffer of logging events. |
| EmptyCollection | An always empty ICollection. |
| EmptyDictionary | An always empty IDictionary. |
| FormattingInfo | Contain the information obtained when parsing formatting modifiers in conversion modifiers. |
| GlobalContextProperties | Implementation of Properties collection for the GlobalContext |
| LevelMapping | Manages a mapping from levels to LevelMappingEntry |
| LevelMappingEntry | An entry in the LevelMapping |
| LogicalThreadContextProperties | Implementation of Properties collection for the LogicalThreadContext |
| LogLog | Outputs log statements from within the log4net assembly. |
| NativeError | Represents a native error code and message. |
| NullDictionaryEnumerator | An always empty IDictionaryEnumerator. |
| NullEnumerator | An always empty IEnumerator. |
| NullSecurityContext | A SecurityContext used when a SecurityContext is not required |
| OnlyOnceErrorHandler | Implements log4net's default error handling policy which consists of emitting a message for the first error in an appender and ignoring all subsequent errors. |
| OptionConverter | A convenience class to convert property values to specific types. |
| PatternConverter | Abstract class that provides the formatting functionality that derived classes need. |
| PatternParser | Most of the work of the PatternLayout class is delegated to the PatternParser class. |
| PatternString | This class implements a patterned string. |
| PatternString.ConverterInfo | Wrapper class used to map converter names to converter types |
| PropertiesDictionary | String keyed object map. |
| ProtectCloseTextWriter | A TextWriter that ignores the Close message |
| QuietTextWriter | TextWriter that does not leak exceptions |
| ReaderWriterLock | Defines a lock that supports single writers and multiple readers |
| ReadOnlyPropertiesDictionary | String keyed object map that is read only. |
| ReusableStringWriter | A StringWriter that can be Reset and reused |
| SystemInfo | Utility class for system specific information. |
| SystemStringFormat | Utility class that represents a format string. |
| TextWriterAdapter | Adapter that extends TextWriter and forwards all messages to an instance of TextWriter. |
| ThreadContextProperties | Implementation of Properties collection for the ThreadContext |
| ThreadContextStack | Implementation of Stack for the ThreadContext |
| ThreadContextStacks | Implementation of Stacks collection for the ThreadContext |
| Transform | Utility class for transforming strings. |
| WindowsSecurityContext | Impersonate a Windows Account |
| Enumeration | Description |
|---|---|
| WindowsSecurityContext.ImpersonationMode | The impersonation modes for the WindowsSecurityContext |


Meet our City A.M. PA Awards Judges - Leonid Shutov
by City A.M. EventsLeonid Shutov is the owner and CEO of Bob Bob Ricard and Bob Bob Cité
Bob Bob Cité opened in the summer of this year after much anticipation – how have your first few months been?
Very busy and very exciting – there is always much to do when a restaurant first opens. We have been talking to our customers, listening to their thoughts and comments and looking for ways to improve our offer even further.
What makes Bob Bob Cité unique?
It’s the unique combination of classic French country cooking (which would not be out of place in a 1920s brasserie) with possibly the most urban interior that can only exist in an early 21st-century, Richard Roger’s-designed skyscraper.
Meet another judge: Alice Scutchey Senior Executive Assistant, Citi and Founder & Director, The Canary Wharf PA Club
Why did you choose the City for your next location?
The City is without doubt one of the most exciting parts of London (or the world, for that matter) – the mix of old and new architecture, of ancient history and the modern day is unlike anywhere else.
How much personal input did you have on the interior design at BBC?
A lot. It was a truly collaborative effort with Shayne Brady of BradyWilliams Design (just like it was with David Collins on Bob Bob Ricard). In fact, after nearly 3 years of design and build, once Bob Bob Cité was finished, it felt odd not to have daily contact and interactions.
What qualities are you looking for in City A.M PA of the year? A thorough understanding of what drives and ensures their superior’s success.
To nominate an individual, yourself or an exceptional colleague, please visit https://www.cityam.com/events/pa-awards/


If this option is checked, Jenkins makes it possible to set an environment for the build job (or for each run on a matrix project) by defining environment variables and execute a script (a setup script).
All these actions will be executed before a SCM checkout.
By default, after the set up, only injected variables (with Jenkins variables) will be available in the build scripts, in the Jenkins post-actions, and so on.
Default inherited environment variables (inherited variables by the Jenkins process which often contains
machine-specific information, like PATH
, TIMEZONE
, etc.) can be unset if you enable
the envInject property and
check Unset system variables in the node configuration page.


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PROJECT REFLECTIONS: I chose this project because domestic violence is a real thing. It impacts victims' well being, confidence, and self worth. This project provides victims a tool to check their financial health in order to make any significant decision to get out of the situation.
FAVORITE QUOTE: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi
LAMBDA COHORT: WEB19
PROJECT REFLECTIONS: The opportunity to contribute to a real world application that potentially could help save/change someone’s life was my biggest reason for choosing this project.
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” - Bruce Lee
LAMBDA COHORT: Summer Hackers
PROJECT REFLECTIONS: Project was great opportunity to explore how social justice advocates utilize technology to create change.
FAVORITE QUOTE: "'Thank you' is the best prayer anyone can say" - Alice Walker


Use the directive [lightbox]
to open the lightbox on elements clicks
Alternatively, you can still use the Lightbox
service to open the lightbox
programmatically.
If you haven't installed the module in step 1 see the Getting Started Guide
Create a gallery items array to load it in the gallery
Now that you have gallery items, display their thumbnails in the template and add the directive [lightbox]
on each item so the clicks open the lightbox.
Example
If you are using multiple galleries in your app, then each gallery should have an id.
Full Example
Demo
Lightbox config can be set globally in LightboxModule.forRoot(config)
or directly
with the open function.
By default, the lightbox uses full screen style on small screens like on mobile phones, but you can force a full screen style on large screens too.
For example, open the lightbox in mode
List of lightbox options is available in the


Plugin for jQuery that allows for the easy caching of image files in the browsers localStorage or indexedDB. Can be bound elements or parents.
Plugin for jQuery that allows for the easy caching of image files in the browsers localStorage. The local storage approach allows the media to persist across sessions, while the browser manages all of the cross-domain privacy protections.


An equation is explicit if one side contains just a single simple variable, which does not appear on the other side.
eg: a=b(c-d)+c(b+e)


Tottenham Hotspur name Jose Mourinho as manager
by ReutersLONDON: Tottenham Hotspur have named Jose Mourinho as their new manager on a contract that runs until the end of the 2022-23 season, the Premier League club said on Wednesday.
The 56-year-old Portuguese returns to management for the first time since being sacked by Manchester United in December, and replaces Mauricio Pochettino, who was sacked on Tuesday.
“In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football,” Spurs Chairman Daniel Levy said in a statement on the club website.
“He has a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician. He has won honours at every club he has coached. We believe he will bring energy and belief to the dressing room.”
Spurs, who currently sit 14th in the league, are the third Premier League club that Mourinho will manage.
“I am excited to be joining a club with such a great heritage and such passionate supporters,” Mourinho said.
“The quality in both the squad and the academy excites me. Working with these players is what has attracted me.”


Depression is prevalent and imposes a very high societal burden in terms of cost, morbidity,
quality of life, and mortality. This plot shows the percentage of people surveyed in 2014 that responded "yes"
to the question "Ever been told that you have a form of depression?" shown against median age by state.
We see that people with depression diagnoses are clustered in the middle of the age range,
between about 36-41 years of age. There is no obvious positive or negative trend, but we do see some
interesting outliers. UT has a higher percentage of depression and a lower median age. HI has the lowest
percentage of depression and a median age of 38, which is not surprising considering the tropical weather/landscape.
Similarly, some of the coldest areas in the Northeast have higher percentages of depression, such as ME, VT, and NH.


With many years of experience in state-of-the-art carpet care, Professional Cleaning Services Carpet Treatment is well positioned to provide you with the best carpet cleaning service available. We are the biggest carpet cleaning service in the nation, and our iconic yellow vans are a familiar sight in neighborhoods everywhere. Today, we know that our success as the best carpet cleaning provider in the country is based on a few solid principles that we enthusiastically endorse:
There are many reasons why Professional Cleaning Services provides the best carpet cleaning service in the business. Not the least of these is our exclusive hot-water extraction method. We inject hot, soft water and our proprietary cleaning solution into your carpet. Then our magic wand loosens and lifts the dirt and soil from the carpet, without the abrasive brushing of other cleaning methods. And, drying time is faster since 95 percent of the moisture is suctioned out of the carpet. That means no leftover soapy residue. You say goodbye to dirt, allergens, dust mites and other microscopic pollutants that collect in your carpet.
At Professional Cleaning Services, we also know that every carpet cleaning situation is unique. That’s why we begin our carpet cleaning service with a complete analysis of your carpet, noting any heavily-soiled or high-traffic areas. Then our cleaning specialists use our highly-effective hot-water extraction method to remove ground-in dirt and debris that may or may not be visible to the naked eye.
Our powerful, truck-mounted vacuum system extracts most of the moisture from your carpet, but it may still be damp to the touch. It’s okay to walk on it—just not in your street shoes. You can accelerate the drying time with fans or air conditioning. Just be sure to leave the protective pads in place until the carpet and furniture are completely dry to avoid any possible transfer of color. And be careful not to slip when leaving damp, carpeted
Our powerful, truck-mounted vacuum system extracts most of the moisture from your carpet, but it may still be damp to the touch. It’s okay to walk on it—just not in your street shoes. You can accelerate the drying time with fans or air conditioning. Just be sure to leave the protective pads in place until the carpet and furniture are completely dry to avoid any possible transfer of color. And be careful not to slip when leaving damp, carpeted areas.


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Properties
activityModeHash
activityModeHash: number
currentActivityHash
currentActivityHash: number
currentViewers
currentViewers: number
Optional dateFeatured
dateFeatured: string
dateLastPlayed
dateLastPlayed: string
dateStatusUpdated
dateStatusUpdated: string
dateStreamStarted
dateStreamStarted: string
destinyCharacterId
destinyCharacterId: string
followers
followers: number
isFeatured
isFeatured: boolean
isSubscribable
isSubscribable: boolean
overallViewers
overallViewers: number
partnershipIdentifier
partnershipIdentifier: string
thumbnail
thumbnail: string
thumbnailLarge
thumbnailLarge: string
thumbnailSmall
thumbnailSmall: string
trendingValue
trendingValue: number


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You don’t have root access to your Google Nexus 4, which you spent your hard earned money to buy??
Don’t worry!!
Rooting your Nexus 4 is but a piece of Cake. (Do at your own risk though!)
First things first – THE PROCEDURE BELOW WILL WIPE ALL YOUR DATA CLEAN.
1. Take a Backup of your personal files, contacts, messages etc (only if you want to :P).
2. Download Google Nexus 4 USB drivers (https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers) and unzip it.
3. Turn on USB debugging mode from Developer Settings in your phone and connect it to your PC.
4. Go to Device Manager, select your phone, right click -> update drivers and when it asks for driver location, browse to the downloaded unzipped folder and select it. Driver install successful.
5. Download Android SDK, Team Win Recovery Project (twrp) image and Chainfire-SuperSU zip
Links: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html,
http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/mako,
http://download.chainfire.eu/344/SuperSU/
Android SDK gives you two main tools – adb and fastboot.
adb (Android debug bridge) is a client-server tool that lets you communicate with an Android device.
When you’re working in the bootloader, adb no longer works. You’re not yet booted into Android, and the debugging tools aren’t active to communicate with. That’s where we use fastboot.
fastboot is a utility that lets you directly flash the filesystem via USB.
Both of them are located in the /sdk/platform-tools directory of your android sdk.
6. Go into the /sdk/platform-tools folder of Android SDK and locate adb and fastboot files
7. Copy the Team Win Project Recovery image file into there. (This is done for ease of typing commands in the command prompt). The image filename would be something like openrecovery-twrp-x.x.x.x-mako.img
#### Now we will proceed to unlock the bootloader ####
8. Make sure your phone is detected by adb. For that Open your browse via command line to the /sdk/platform-tools of your android sdk folder and type in:
adb devices
This should list your device if all is well.
9. Now reboot your phone in the bootloader mode.
adb reboot bootloader
10. Now to unlock the bootloader:
fastboot oem unlock
11. Confirm by selecting ‘Yes’ using Volume-Up and Power button.
#### Now we will flash the twrp custom recovery ####
12. Again reboot your phone in the bootloader mode
13. Flash twrp recovery.
fastboot flash recovery <name-of-twrp-recovery-image>
14. Select ‘Recovery mode' using volume buttons and Power button to get into twrp homescreen.
15. Select Backup and take a backup.
16. Again come to twrp homescreen
17. Reboot
######### Rooting ##########
18. Connect phone to PC via USB and transfer SuperSu zip to phone’s internal memory
19. Again reboot your phone in the bootloader mode
20. Select ‘Recovery mode’ to get into twrp homescreen
21. Select Install
22. Select the SuperSu zip file from its path
23. Click/Swipe on ‘Install’
24. Reboot
############## You are Now the Root ##############