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This intricate biscuit tower is made up of four flavoured shortbreads – vanilla, lemon and lavender, orange and cardamom and chocolate – built up in layers, decorated with buttercream and with an iced clock tower at the top.
Equipment and preparation: you will need a free-standing food mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and a small piping bag for this recipe.
For the biscuits, place 500g/1lb 2oz butter and 200g/7oz caster sugar into a free-standing food mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk until creamy.
Mix in 500g/1lb 2oz plain flour, 160g/5¾oz rice flour and 90g/3¼oz cornflour.
Divide the mixture into two. Add the vanilla pod seeds and one teaspoon of vanilla essence to one half. Add the zest of an orange and the cardamom to the other half.
Using your hands, work each mixture to form a dough. Wrap the doughs separately in cling film and leave to chill in the refrigerator.
Put another 250g/9oz butter and 100g/3½oz caster sugar into a free-standing food mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk until creamy. Mix in 250g/9oz plain flour, 80g/3oz rice flour and 45g/1½oz cornflour.
Add the zest of two lemons and the lavender essence. Use your hands to work the mixture together to form a dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to chill in the refrigerator.
Place 250g/9oz butter and 100g/3½oz caster sugar into a free-standing food mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk until creamy.
Add 210g/7½oz plain flour, 40g/1½oz cocoa powder, 80g/3oz rice flour and 45g/1½oz cornflour. Use your hands to work the mixture together to form a dough.
Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to chill in the refrigerator.
Flour a clean work surface. Roll out the biscuit dough, one dough at a time, into mostly fingers, about 7.5cm/3in by 2.5/1in high. Make at least 60 fingers and then make the remaining decorative pieces.
For the remaining decorative pieces, roll out and cut 14 x 4cm/1½in diameter circles (and slightly thinner than the fingers).
Cut four flat biscuits about 5mm/¼in deep measuring 10cm/4in x 11cm/4½in.
Cut two 8cm/3in x 15cm/6in rectangles for the roof.
Cut 2 x 5cm/2in diameter circles for the clock faces.
Bake all the biscuits on greased and lined baking trays in batches for about 15-20 minutes each, but take the thinner ones out earlier.
For the decoration, use the green paste to make four trees, forming cones about 8cm/3in high and snipping all around with sharp scissors to resemble the branches of a pine tree. Set side.
For the buttercream, cream the butter and icing sugar together in a bowl until pale, light and fluffy.
Add a drop of vanilla extract and colour with a little brown food colouring.
For the icing, mix together the icing sugar in a bowl with enough water to make a thick icing. Ice four of the round biscuits with water icing and leave to slightly harden. Put the buttercream into a small piping bag and pipe on the clock face and numbers.
To assemble, use the biscuit fingers to build a clock tower. On a serving board, build the lower part of the tower eleven layers high. At the top of this lay the 10cm/4in x 11cm/4½in biscuits at the top of the main tower and use the 8cm/3in x 15cm/6in pieces to make a pyramid roof. Make the top of the clock tower by building another mini tower of finger biscuits under the roof and resting the clock faces against the mini tower on each side.
Make battlements by cutting the small round biscuits in half, spreading thinly with buttercream and topping with chopped nuts and placing around the edge of the large flat pieces. Finish by spreading icing on to the roof to resemble snow and dragging a few pieces over the edge to look like icicles.
Put the trees on each corner of the tower and decorate with chocolate beads and edible glitter.


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mhmms [options] <MHMM file> <sequence file>
mhmms searches a sequence database using a motif-based hidden Markov model (HMM) of the kind produced by mhmm. Each sequence in the database is assigned an E-value, and the IDs and scores of sequences scoring below a given threshold are printed in sorted order.
The E-value of a given sequence is the expected number of sequences which match the given model as well or better than this sequence that you would expect to see by chance in a random database of the same size as the given database. Scores are assigned using a local search algorithm; in other words, the algorithm finds the subsequence that matches a subset of model states with highest log-odds.
The emission probabilities in the model are converted to log-odds scores before performing the local search. This is done by combining pseudocount probabilities derived from a score matrix (see the --pam and --score-file options below) with the emission frequencies. You can control the relative weight placed on the emission probabilities versus the pseudocount probabilities (see --pseudo-weight below). The adjusted emission probabilities are then converted to odds by dividing by background probabilities (see --bg-file below). Finally, they are converted to log-odds scores by taking their logarithm.
Transition probabilities are converted to log-odds scores by taking their logarithms before searching. This can be overridden and the gap scores can be set explicitly using the --gap-open and --gap-extend switches, below. This allows you to specify a single affine gap cost function for all spacers in the model.
The filename of a motif-based hidden Markov model. If the filename is given as '-' then mhmms will attempt to read the HMM from standard input.
A file containing FASTA formatted sequences. If the filename is given as '-' then mhmms will attempt to read the sequence database from standard input.
The MHMM scan results are written to standard output.
| Option | Parameter | Description | Default Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Options | |||
| --paths | single|all | This option determines how mhmms computes raw scores. With the single option, mhmms computes the Viterbi score, which is the log-odds score associated with the single most likely match between the sequence and the model. The all option yields the total log-odds score, which is the sum of the log-odds of all sequence-to-model matches. | Viterbi scoring is used as if --paths single had been specified. |
| --global | Uses global scoring in the viterbi or forward algorithm. | Uses local scoring. | |
| --maxseqs | max seqs | The maximum number of sequences to print. | There is no limit on the number of printed sequences. |
| --p-thresh | p-value threshold | The --p-thresh option activates
p-value score mode, motif match scores are converted to
their p-values. They are then converted to bit scores as follows:
S = -log2(p/T)
where S is the bit score of the hit, p
is the p-value of the log-odds score, and T is the
p-value threshold. In this way, only hits more significant
than the p-value threshold get positive scores. The
p-value threshold, T, must be in the range
0 < T ≤ 1. This mode of scoring automatically activates
the -motif-scoring feature (described
below under "Advanced Options:") so that partial motif hits are
disallowed.
Note
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| --both-strands | This allows matches to occur on either DNA strand. The -both-strand option implies the --motif-scoring option. | Motif matches are only found on the given strand. | |
| --e-thresh | threshold | mhmms lists the sequences that have E-values below the given threshold. | The default threshold is 10. |
| --fancy | The --fancy option turns on a more
detailed output format that shows, in addition to the score for
each sequence, the complete model-to-sequence match. Here is an
example of the fancy output format, showing a two-motif model
matching a sequence of length 179:
*................................................. 170K_TRVPS 1 GAHLVPTKSGDADTYNANSDRTLCALLSELPLEKAVMVTYGGDDSLIAF 49 .........................FDWqKFAGtWH.............. D+ F G+ 170K_TRVPS 50 PRGTQFVDPCPKLATKWNFECKIFKYDVPMFCGKFLLKTSSCYEFVPDPV 99 .................................................. 170K_TRVPS 100 KVLTKLGKKSIKDVQHLAEIYISLNDSNRALGNYMVVSKLSESVSDRYLY 149 ......GYCPEVKPI...............* C+ K I 170K_TRVPS 150 KGDSVHALCALWKHIKSFTALCTLLPRRKG 179 |
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| --width | w | Specify the width (in characters) of each line in the output. The description of each sequence, which is taken from the input FASTA file, will be truncated as necessary. | The output width is 132 characters. |
| --nosort | Do not sort the output. | ||
| --bg-file | background file | Read background frequencies from background file. The file should be in MEME background file format. | The background letter distribution of the appropriate (DNA or protein) NCBI non-redundant database is used. |
| --allow-weak-motifs | In p-value score mode, weak motifs are defined as ones
where the best possible hit has a p-value less than the
p-value threshold. Such motifs cannot contribute to a
match in p-value score mode. When the
--allow-weak-motifs option is supplied
the search will proceed, but the weak motifs will never appear
in any matches.
NoteThis option only applies to p-value score mode. |
Any search containing weak motifs is rejected. | |
| --progress | n | Print to standard error a progress message after every n sequences. | |
| --noheader | Do not include a header in the output. | Include a header in the output. | |
| --noparams | Do not list the parameters at the end of the output. | ||
| -notime | Do not include a running time or host name at the end of the output. | ||
| --quiet | Combine the previous 3 flags and set the verbosity to 1. | ||
| Advanced Options | |||
| --zselo | Specifying the --zselo option causes the spacer emission log-odds scores to be set to zero. This prevents regions of unusual base/residue composition matching spacers well when the spacer emission probabilities are different than the background probabilities. It is particularly useful with DNA models. | ||
| --gap-open | cost | The --gap-open option causes all transitions into a spacer state to be assigned a log-odds score equal to cost. Together with the -gap-extend option, this allows you to specify an affine gap penalty function, overriding the gap penalty implicit in the model (transition probabilities into and out of gap states). | |
| --gap-extend | cost | The --gap-extend option causes all spacer self-loop log-odds scores to be set to cost. In addition, it causes all other transitions out of a spacer to be set to zero. Together with the --gap-open option, this allows you to specify an affine gap penalty function, overriding the gap penalty implicit in the model (self-loop transition probabilities of gap states). | |
| --motif-scoring | Specifying the --motif-scoring option forces all matches to motifs to be complete. This prevents matches to motifs from overhanging the sequence ends. It also prevents matches from beginning (ending) anywhere but at the start (end) of a motif. This option is enabled by the --p-thresh option. | Matches can begin or end anywhere within a motif. | |
| --pseudo-weight | beta | The weight on the pseudocount probabilities can be adjusted to any value ≥ 0 using the -pseudo-weight option. The smaller the weight, the less effect the pseudocount probabilities have, and the closer the adjusted probabilities will be to the emission probabilities in the model. | The pseudocount probabilities are weighted by beta = 10, and emission probabilities in the model by alpha = 20. (See the formula above for converting letter frequencies to letter scores.) |
| --pam | distance |
With the --pam option, you can specify
a different integer distance from 1 to 500. This can be
overridden with the --score-file
option, below. The distance-1 transition/transversion
joint probability matrix for DNA is given below:
A C G T A .990 .002 .006 .002 C .002 .990 .002 .006 G .006 .002 .990 .002 T .002 .006 .002 .990 |
The target probabilities are derived from the distance-250 PAM matrix for proteins, and from a distance-1 transition/transversion matrix for DNA. |
| --score-file | score file | The --score-file option causes a score file (in BLAST format) to be read and used instead of the built-in PAM (for proteins) or transition/transversion (for DNA) score file. The target probabilities for letters are then derived from the score file. Several score files are provided (including BLOSUM62) in directory mhmm/data. Other, user-provided score files may be specified as well, as long as they are in the same format. |


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Chapter 6 Data gathering strategy
6.1 Concepts
The data gathering process was divided into three sets of decision: where (Location), when (Frequency) and what to sample (Parameter). Additionally available resources ( budget, time, capacity, access) should be considered. In the example,
In the following paragraphs, an incremental approach is suggested with different approaches based on available data.
Another important
6.1.1 Location
The choice of sampling location can be determined based on the available information. The incremental approach proposed develops on three levels (L1,L2,L3)
L1: Topological approach – The choice of sampling location is one of the first decision to be taken. In case of no prior information the topological approach developed by Sharp (1971). This method allows to optimize network coverage and sampling points with only the network topology. Each section of the river is numbered based on the number of tributaries (or sources) that is receiving. Applying this procedure to a network creates a magnitude value for each segment. Centroid position can defined as the segment nearest to \(M_o/2\), where \(M_o\) is the magnitude at the outlet. This step can be repeated several to meet a desired number of sampling locations (figure 6.1).
It is recommended to sample after full water mixture, a distance from tributaries connection of L=25 x width can be taken as general reference (Alilou et al. 2019).
L2: Weighted topological approach based on land cover – After the first draft of ideal location points, new knowledge can be incorporated in form of expert opinion, published literature, national data. The topological approach was improved by associating weight to each river segment (T. G. Sanders et al. 1983; Rajagopal 1984 ).
L3 incorporating published literature – Data from published studies (Akalu, S., Mengistou, S., and Leta 2011; Melaku et al. 2007; Kassegne et al. 2019; Weldegebriel, Chandravanshi, and Wondimu 2012). (Figure 8.4) was used to update the map (Figure 8.5) by ranking the river segments based on risk likelihood. Likelihood was calculated as assumed water quality x presence of farming activities. Note that farming was only assessed as presence/absence and size of farmed land was not considered.
L4 using geo-statistical tools – Moving towards more sophisticated methods, kriging, genetic algorithm, conditional entropy could be included (Jiang et al., 2020; Karamouz et al., 2009) as well as Bayesian approaches (Scientific Advisory Board-Ecological Processes Standing Committee (EPSC), 2014). This would require initial data from existing stations and a higher capacity for calculations.
6.1.2 Frequency
Frequency of sampling is likely to be determined by project timeline and budget. Despite this limitation, some considerations can be made.
F1 minimum requirement – A bare minimum could consist in one sample per location per climatic season.
F2 minimum international standard – The program GEMS/WATER recommends for streams an optimal of 24 samples per year (with a minimum of 4) and a minimum of 12 and maximum of 24 for large drainage areas of rivers (100,000 km2).
F3 frequency for hypothesis testing – Once previously published data is incorporated, sampling number and frequency can be adjusted to detect a specific margin or trend. For a given confidence (\(Z_α/2\)), previously calculate mean (µ) and variance (σ) and confidence interval width (\(µ-x\)) (T. G. Sanders et al. 1983)[eq. 5.7] Sanders (1983 eq. 5.7; Thomas G. Sanders and Adrian (1978) Sanders and Adrian, 1978) proposes the following:
\[n≥\left(\frac{Z_{α/2}\times σ}{μ-x}\right)^2\]
For time series a quantification of samples that assumes concentrations to be random, independent and identically distributed would be calculated as (Strobl and Robillard, 2008):
\[N=[(t_{α/2} S / R)]\times2\]
Where N is the number of equally (temporally) spaced samples collected per year; tα/2 is a constant which is a function of the level of significance, and the number of samples; S is the standard deviation of the water quality concentrations; and R is the specified half-width of the confidence interval of the annual mean. More sophisticated statistical tools can be used including harmonic, Bayesian analysis, entropy, semivariogram (Khalil and Ouarda, 2009).
6.1.3 Parameters
6.2 Tools
6.3 An example
6.3.1 Location
6.3.2 Frequency
6.3.3 Parameters
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"AMETHYST "one of the precious stones in the breastplate of the high priest (Exodus 28:19; 39:12), and in the foundation of the New Jerusalem(Revelation 21:20). The ancients thought that this stone had the power of dispelling drunkenness in all who wore or touched it, and hence its Greek name formed from a, “privative,” and methuo, “to get drunk.” Its Jewish name, ahlamah’, was derived by the rabbins from the Hebrew word halam, “to dream,” from its supposed power of causing the wearer to dream.
It is a pale-blue crystallized quartz, varying to a dark purple blue. It is found in Persia and India, also in different parts of Europe.


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IN THE COMPANY OF MEN A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1997 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 9.0 Alternative Scale: **** out of ****
Canada, 1997 U.S. Release Date: 8/1/97 (limited) Running Length: 1:33 MPAA Classification: R (Mature themes, profanity) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards Director: Neil LaBute Producers: Mark Archer, Neil LaBute, Stephen Pevner Screenplay: Neil LaBute Cinematography: Tony Hettinger Music: Karel Roessingh, Ken Williams U.S. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is one of those rarest of rare breeds -- a movie that doesn't just ignore Hollywood conventions, but openly flouts them. The film, which premiered to great critical acclaim at 1997's Sundance Film Festival, initially had trouble obtaining a U.S. distributor (for the record, Sony picked it up). The reason is simple: because of its brutally-direct depiction of certain aspects of the current North American social climate, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is anything but entertaining. It's virtually impossible to sit through this film without suffering bouts of intense discomfort, and therein lies its power.
The picture begins as something much different than what it concludes as, and the metamorphosis occurs so gradually that it only becomes apparent in retrospect. Shortly after IN THE COMPANY OF MEN opens, the intent appears to be to center on the conflict between the sexes. Ultimately, however, this only a small piece of the much larger pie into which Neil LaBute's directorial debut slices. IN THE COMPANY OF MEN widens its focus to encompass the falseness and gamesmanship that underlies many aspects of everyday human interaction. It's a cynical perspective that's all the more disturbing because it's grounded so deeply in reality. The characters here aren't cardboard cut-out stereotypes -- they're the kind of people you can find anywhere inside or outside of the workplace.
Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy) are two very different guys with a great deal in common. They attended the same college, work for the same corporation, and have a history of bad relationships with women. Their combined romantic record reads like a litany of injustices perpetrated on them by females. They have been duped, rejected, neglected, and intentionally misunderstood. Chad, ready to go to war against the entire gender to "restore a little dignity", has a simple, vicious suggestion for revenge. They will find a woman who has trouble getting dates, both take her out, then, after duping her into falling in love with one or both of them, they'll dump her at the same time. Howard is initially reluctant, but Chad talks him into it before locating the perfect target: an attractive-but-deaf typist named Christine (Stacy Edwards), whose disability has caused her self-esteem to erode.
Have you ever seen anyone leap from the top of a skyscraper? Or perhaps watched as two cars collide head-on? The revulsion and horror are indescribable, but the compulsion to look is too great to ignore. No matter how deeply the experience tears at the soul, we can not avert our eyes. It's a base reaction, but that's human nature. Sitting through IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is a cleaner, more guilt-free experience, but it's not entirely dissimilar -- much as we dread viewing what must happen, we cannot tear ourselves away. As painful as this film can be, it is never less than engrossing.
The film doesn't follow a linear path; it evolves continually, which is untrue of many lesser motion pictures. At the beginning, everything seems deceptively simple, but there are layers of complexity underlying each move. As the story unfolds, it becomes difficult to discern a genuine action from a duplicitous one, and once-clear motives grow murky. Slowly, however, the truth begins to assert itself, and, for those who really understand what drives these characters, the ending will be inevitable, not surprising.
Much of LaBute's script is about manipulation and deceit, but he's smart enough to show the characters manipulating each other without turning that manipulation on the audience. Nevertheless, because we become so involved in the interaction between these people, it's impossible for us not to be enflamed by what's transpiring, or to hope that justice comes from heaven in the form of a lightning bolt. Part of us wants a deus ex machina resolution; however, LaBute's solution is more true, albeit less cathartic. And, considering the overall impact of IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, it's hardly worth mentioning the writer/director's few rookie mistakes (static camera placement, occasionally stilted word choice).
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Reminder! To run these examples, you should first start a new session then load the sample database using:"/localvision/samples/general/sample.load" asFileContents evaluate ;Any other files referenced can be read from the /localvision/samples/general/ directory.Note: The sample.load file runs by default on a Unix environment. If you are using a Windows NT platform, this location may be prefixed by a drive and optional path (e.g. d:/visiondb/localvision/samples/general/sample.load). Check with your Vision Administrator for further details.
Execute the following:
Named Company GM salesYou will see:
101781.00When you ask for the value of an item that is tracked over time, by default you access the value that was most recently updated on or before the current date. Now type the following:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 19891231You should see the value 102813.00 .
The : preceding the message sales indicates to Vision that you wish to access the entire time series for sales instead of the most recent value. This time series responds to the asOf: 19891231 message by accessing the value of the time series that was in effect as of December 31, 1989.
The parameter for the message asOf: must be a Date object or an Integer in one of the following forms:
Form Definition Examples DateThe expressions:
YYYYMMDD FullDate 19871231 Dec. 31, 1987 19870430 Apr. 30, 1987 19870215 Feb. 15, 1987 YYMM Month-end 8712 Dec. 31, 1987 8704 Apr. 30, 1987 8702 Feb. 28, 1987 YY Year-end Date 87 Dec. 31, 1987 86 Dec. 31, 1986
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 89 Named Company GM :sales asOf: 8912and
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 19891231are all equivalent and return the value of GM's sales that was in effect as of December 31, 1989.
Pictorially, the sales time series for GM can be viewed as a time line of three values:
If you request data as of a date that is not in the time series, the value before that date will be returned. For example:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 19890630returns the value 96371.63. Since no value is explicitly stored on June 30, 1989, the first value prior to this date is returned. In this case, the value is the value as of 12/31/1988, the first value to the left of the 6/89 in the time line. If your "as of" date is earlier than the first available date, the value NA will be returned. For example:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 87returns the value NA, since there is no time point on or before this date. If your "as of" date is later than the last available date, the value of the last point in the time series is returned. For example:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 91returns the 1990 value, the last value in the time series. The message displayAll can be sent to a time series to display all its points. For example:
Named Company GM :sales displayAll ;displays:
12/31/1988 96371.63 12/31/1989 102813.00 12/31/1990 101781.00
The message define: 'itemname' is used to create a new property that can be tracked over time. For example, suppose that each month you assign a valuation score for the companies you follow. To track this information in Vision, you would first need to define a new time series property for the the class Company. The expression:
Company define: 'score' ;defines a new property at Company that can be used to record scores for individual companies over time. To access a company's score, type:
Named Company GM scoreYou should see the answer NA (not available). Since you have not yet assigned any scores for GM, this is the correct answer. To specify that GM's score on January 31, 1990 is 7, type:
Named Company GM :score asOf: 19900131 put: 7Remember that the : preceding the item name indicates to Vision that you wish to access the entire time series instead of the most recent value. TimeSeries objects respond to the message asOf:put: by storing the supplied value as of the supplied date. To confirm that the value was stored, type:
Named Company GM :score asOf: 19900131You should see:
7Now type:
Named Company GM scoreThis expression also returns the value 7. Since the value stored for January 31, 1990 is the most recent relative to the current date, this is the value that is returned.
Update GM's score for February 28, 1990 as shown below:
Named Company GM :score asOf: 900228 put: 9Now type:
Named Company GM scoreYou should see the value 9. Since February 28, 1990 represents the date closest to the current date, the value from this date is returned. The asOf:put message will modify an existing value if the date already exists. For Example:
Named Company GM :score asOf: 900228 put: 10
To look at all the values that have been stored in your time series type the following:
Named Company GM :score displayAllYou should see:
1/31/1990 7 2/28/1990 10Now type the following:
Named Company IBM :score displayAllYou should see no output. A time series responds to the displayAll by printing out all dates and values that have been assigned into the time series. The report is blank for IBM, since no data has been stored for IBM's score. A time series will respond to the message count by displaying the number of points that have been stored in the time series. The expression:
Named Company GM :score countproduces the result:
2The expression:
Named Company IBM :score countproduces the result:
0To determine the first date for which you have recorded information into your time series, the expression:
Named Company GM :score firstDateproduces the result:
1/31/1990The expression:
Named Company GM :score lastDateproduces the result:
2/28/1990The first date that you stored data for GM's score was January 31, 1990. Try accessing GM's score for a date prior to this. For example, type:
Named Company GM :score asOf: 86The value NA should be displayed in the Output Window since no value was in effect for this date.
When you store a value into a time series as of a specific date, the value is assumed to go into effect on that date. It remains in effect until a value is stored at a later date. Two messages are available to determine the interval over which a value is in effect. Type the following:
Named Company GM :score effectiveDateAsOf: 19900215You should see:
1/31/1990This indicates that the value you are retrieving for February 15, 1990 was really stored on January 31, 1990. Now type:
Named Company GM :score nextDateAsOf: 19900215You should see:
2/28/1990This indicates that the first update date after February 15 was February 28, 1990.
One additional TimeSeries message is useful to learn at this time. The delete: message is used to delete a value as of a specific date. For example, to delete GM's score for February 28, type:
Named Company GM :score delete: 19900228Try using the other messages described in this section to confirm that this point no longer exists in the time series.
You have seen that you can explicitly access time series data as of any point in time by sending the asOf: message to the whole time series. Suppose you wanted to print the value for GM's sales and earnings per share as of December 31, 1989. Type the Vision statements:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 19891231 . print;producing the result:
Named Company GM :earningsPerShare asOf: 19891231 . print;
102813.00 4.11As you can see, this code accesses the correct information; however, you have to specifically tell each time series to return the data as of the same date.
Vision provides a more compact way for performing this operation. Type the following:
19891231 evaluate: [ Named Company GM sales print; Named Company GM earningsPerShare print; ];This code produces the same results as the previous example. The evaluate: message will access all data as of the date supplied (in this case 19891231). This date becomes the default date used for all operations contained inside of the brackets. You can eliminate the duplicate references to GM using the do: message:
19891231 evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ sales print ; earningsPerShare print ; ] ; ] ;This program also produces the same result. In other words, the use of the do: message does not change the evaluation date.
If you do not explicitly override it, Vision uses the current date as the default date. The message ^today can be used to specify the current date. For example, the expressions:
Named Company GM sales print; Named Company GM :sales asOf: ^today . print;and
^today evaluate: [ Named Company GM sales print; ];are all equivalent and return the value of GM's sales that is in effect as of the current date.
The message ^date can be used to access the default date that is in effect. By default, the value of ^date is the current date (i.e., "^today"). For example:
^today print;Displays the current date, as does the expression:
^date print;Now type:
89 evaluate: [ ^today printNL ; ^date printNL ; ];Notice that the value for current date (^today) does not change, but the value for the default date (^date) reflects the override you supplied, in this case 12/31/89.
Many of the TimeSeries messages have variations designed to use the default date including:
| General Message | Default Date Equivalent |
| asOf: put: | put: |
| effectiveDateAsOf: | effectiveDate |
| nextDateAsOf: | nextDate |
Instead of supplying an explicit date as a parameter, the messages in the second column use the current value of ^date as the date.
For example, assume that you wanted to update the scores for several companies as of February 28, 1990. You could explicitly update this point for each company as shown below:
Named Company IBM :score asOf: 19900228 put: 8; Named Company XON :score asOf: 19900228 put: 3; Named Company C :score asOf: 19900228 put: 6;Alternatively, you could use the following:
19900228 evaluate: [ Named Company IBM :score put: 8; Named Company XON :score put: 3; Named Company C :score put: 6; ] ;The put: message updates the time series by storing the value as of the default date, in this case February 28, 1990.
The <- message is used to change the value on or before the default date. For example, the expression:
^today evaluate: [ Named Company IBM :score <- 9 ; ] ;changes the value of IBM's most recent score. The following expressions are equivalent to this one:
Named Company IBM :score asOf: ^today assign: 9 ; Named Company IBM :score <- 9 ;These expressions all change the value for IBM's last score, relative to the current date, in this case the February 28, 1990 value.
It is often useful to perform analyses over a range of dates. For example, suppose you wanted to access GM's year-end sales value from 1988 through 1990. You can explicitly ask for each point as illustrated below:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 88 . printNL ; Named Company GM :sales asOf: 89 . printNL ; Named Company GM :sales asOf: 90 . printNL ;Vision provides a more compact way for performing this operation. Type the following:
88 to: 90 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM sales printNL ; ];The first part of this program creates a date range. Date ranges respond to the evaluate: [ ] message by executing the steps inside the square brackets, once for each point in the date range.
Three components are needed to construct a date range: the initial date, a final date, and an offset. In the preceding example, the initial date is 12/31/88, the final date is 12/31/90, and the offset is 1 yearEnds. Starting with the initial date, Vision increments the evaluation date by the offset provided (i.e., 1 yearEnds) until the final date is crossed.
Date ranges can be executed in reverse order as well. Try reversing the dates in the previous example, as shown below:
90 to: 88 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM sales printNL ; ];Since the initial date is later than the final date, Vision will decrement the evaluation date by the offset provided (i.e., 1 yearEnds) until the final date is crossed.
To print the date along with the sales, modify the previous example as shown below:
90 to: 88 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ ^date print ; Named Company GM sales print: 10 ; newLine print; ];You should see a report that contains a date and value on each line. To display the date, sales, and earnings per share on one line, modify the code as follows:
90 to: 88 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ ^date print ; sales print: 10 ; earningsPerShare print ; newLine print ; ] ; ];You should see the following report:
12/31/1990 101781.00 5.03 12/31/1989 102813.00 4.11 12/31/1988 96371.63 6.14To display this same information with dates across the page instead of down the side, try the following:
### First create a variable representing the date range !dr <- 88 to: 90 by: 1 yearEnds ; ### Print just the dates across the page dr evaluate: [ ^date print: -12 ] ; ### New Line after row of dates has been printed newLine print; ### Print a row of sales values dr evaluate: [ Named Company GM sales print: 12 ] ; newLine print; ### Now the eps values dr evaluate: [ Named Company GM earningsPerShare print: 12 ] ; newLine print;You should see:
12/31/1988 12/31/1989 12/31/1990 96371.63 102813.00 101781.00 6.14 4.11 5.03Three other messages are useful to know when working with dates. All dates respond to the messages year, month, and day. To fix the format on the previous example, modify the code to display just the year as shown below:
!dr <- 88 to: 90 by: 1 yearEnds; ### change this line to request ^date year dr evaluate: [ ^date year print: 12 ] ; newLine print; dr evaluate: [ Named Company GM sales print: 12 ] ; newLine print; dr evaluate: [ Named Company GM earningsPerShare print: 12 ]; newLine print;You should see the following modified report:
1988 1989 1990 96371.63 102813.00 101781.00 6.14 4.11 5.03If your date range includes a date that is earlier than the first available date, the value NA will be returned. For example:
90 to: 87 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [^date print ; sales print: 10 ; earningsPerShare print ; newLine print; ] ; ];produces the result:
12/31/1990 101781.00 5.03 12/31/1989 102813.00 4.11 12/31/1988 96371.63 6.14 12/31/1987 NA NABecause no data has been stored prior to 1988, the value NA is displayed for both data items. If your date range includes a date that is not in the time series, the value on or before this date is returned. As a result, if you ask for data as of a date that is after the last available date, you will access the last data point. For example:
91 to: 87 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ ^date print; sales print: 10 ; earningsPerShare print; newLine print; ] ; ];produces the result:
12/31/1991 101781.00 5.03 12/31/1990 101781.00 5.03 12/31/1989 102813.00 4.11 12/31/1988 96371.63 6.14 12/31/1987 NA NANotice that the 1990 and 1991 values are identical. Since the 12/31/1990 value is the last point in the time series, it is the value that is returned as of 12/31/1991 as well.
Vision can be used with offsets other than years. The following offsets are valid:
years yearEnds yearBeginnings quarters quarterEnds quarterBeginnings months monthEnds monthBeginnings days businessDaysFor example, try the following:
8903 to: 9012 by: 1 quarterEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ ^date print: 10 ; sales print: 10 ; earningsPerShare print; newLine print; ] ; ];You should see:
03/31/1989 96371.63 6.14 06/30/1989 96371.63 6.14 09/30/1989 96371.63 6.14 12/31/1989 102813.00 4.11 03/31/1990 102813.00 4.11 06/30/1990 102813.00 4.11 09/30/1990 102813.00 4.11 12/31/1990 101781.00 5.03Although you have accessed the data on a quarterly basis, the actual information only changes at year-end. As a result, the values retrieved for March, June, and September represent the prior year-end values.
Now update the month-end scores for GM:
Named Company GM do: [ :score asOf: 9001 put: 7 ; :score asOf: 9002 put: 10 ; :score asOf: 9003 put: 9 ; :score asOf: 9004 put: 7 ; :score asOf: 9005 put: 7 ; :score asOf: 9006 put: 8 ; :score asOf: 9007 put: 9 ; :score asOf: 9008 put: 6 ; :score asOf: 9009 put: 8 ; :score asOf: 9010 put: 9 ; :score asOf: 9011 put: 9 ; :score asOf: 9012 put: 9 ; ] ;and execute:
9003 to: 9012 by: 1 quarterEnds . evaluate: [ ^date print: 10 ; Named Company GM score printNL ; ];You should see
3/31/1990 9 6/30/1990 8 9/30/1990 8 12/31/1990 9This example displays quarter-end scores for GM in 1990. You can access data of different frequencies in the same evaluate: program. As always, the value on or before the default date is accessed. For example, the expression:
9002 to: 9012 by: 2 monthEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ ^date print: 12 ; :sales effectiveDate print: 12 ; sales print: 10 ; score print ; newLine print ; ] ; ] ;produces the result:
02/28/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 10 04/30/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 7 06/30/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 8 08/31/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 6 10/31/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 9 12/31/1990 12/31/1990 101781.00 9This program displays the bi-monthly sales and score for GM in 1990. The sales value for the first 5 dates all retrieve the value as of 12/31/89. Calculations involving data of different frequencies work in a similar fashion. For example, you could modify the previous program to display the sum of the score and the sales value:
9002 to: 9012 by: 2 monthEnds . evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ ^date print: 12 ; :sales effectiveDate print:12 ; sales print: 10 ; score print ; sales + score print: 15 ; newLine print ; ] ; ] ;You should see:
02/28/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 10 102823.00 04/30/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 7 102820.00 06/30/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 8 102821.00 08/31/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 6 102819.00 10/31/1990 12/31/1989 102813.00 9 102822.00 12/31/1990 12/31/1990 101781.00 9 101790.00
The examples in the previous section describe how to access data as of different points in time using explicit dates. It is often useful to be able to access data as of a date relative to some base date. Vision provides you with many tools for working with relative dates.
Suppose you wanted to access GM's sales as of last year-end. If the current date is January 15, 1993 you could type:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: 92If you wish to save this expression as a part of a program that you run each year, you would have to modify the program each time you use it, to reflect the correct date. Alternatively, you could specify the date you want to use relative to the current date as illustrated below:
Named Company GM :sales asOf: ^today - 1 yearEndsThis expression determines the "as of" date by calculating the year-end date that occurred prior to the current date.
You can use any of the date offsets defined in the last section to compute new dates. For example (assuming today's date is May 15, 1987):
| Expression | Returns |
| ^today | 5/15/1987 |
| ^today - 1 days | 5/14/1987 |
| ^today - 7 days | 5/8/1987 |
| ^today + 7 days | 5/22/1987 |
| ^today - 1 businessDays | 5/14/1987 |
| ^today + 1 businessDays | 5/18/1987 |
| ^today + 5 businessDays | 5/22/1987 |
| ^today - 1 months | 4/15/1987 |
| ^today + 1 months | 6/15/1987 |
| ^today - 1 monthEnds | 4/30/1987 |
| ^today + 1 monthEnds | 6/30/1987 |
| ^today + 0 monthEnds | 5/31/1987 |
| ^today - 1 monthBeginnings | 4/1/1987 |
| ^today + 1 monthBeginnings | 6/1/1987 |
| ^today + 0 monthBeginnings | 5/1/1987 |
| ^today -1 quarters | 2/15/1987 |
| ^today + 1 quarters | 8/15/1987 |
| ^today - 1 quarterEnds | 3/31/1987 |
| ^today + 1 quarterEnds | 9/30/1987 |
| ^today + 0 quarterEnds | 6/30/1987 |
| ^today - 1 quarterBeginnings | 1/1/1987 |
| ^today + 1 quarterBeginnings | 7/1/1987 |
| ^today + 0 quarterBeginnings | 4/1/1987 |
| ^today -1 years | 5/15/1986 |
| ^today + 1 years | 5/15/1988 |
| ^today - 1 yearEnds | 12/31/1986 |
| ^today + 1 yearEnds | 12/31/1988 |
| ^today + 0 yearEnds | 12/31/1987 |
| ^today - 1 yearBeginnings | 1/1/1986 |
| ^today + 1 yearBeginnings | 1/1/1988 |
| ^today + 0 yearBeginnings | 1/1/1987 |
| ^today - 1 monthEnds + 3 days | 5/3/1987 # third day of the month |
Try experimenting with different date computations.
Date calculations need not be relative to the current date. For example, to compute the quarter-end date following May 28, 1987, type the following:
19870528 asDate + 0 quarterEndsNote that date offsets can only be added to and subtracted from dates. The asDate message is used to indicate that you wish to view the number 19870528 as a date, not an integer.
You can use a computed date any place you normally would use a date. For example, to access the last 5 years of GM's sales, you could use:
^today - 1 yearEnds to: ^today - 5 yearEnds by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ ^date print: 12 ; Named Company GM sales printNL ; ] ;In this example, the initial and last dates in you date range are computed relative to the current date instead of explicitly stated.
You can also compute dates relative to the default date. For example, to print the dates 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after December 31, 1989, type the following:
19891231 evaluate: [ ^date print: 12; ^date + 1 monthEnds print: 12; ^date + 3 monthEnds print: 12; ^date + 6 monthEnds print: 12; ^date + 12 monthEnds print: 12; ];The following example can be used to access GM's score as of May 31, 1990 as well as the scores 1 month prior and 3 months after this date:
9005 evaluate: [ Named Company GM do:[score print ; # 5/31/90 :score asOf: ^date - 2 monthEnds . print ; # 3/31/90 :score asOf: ^date + 1 quarterEnds . print ; # 9/30/90 ] ; ] ;producing the result:
7 9 8
The lag: message can be used to automatically subtract the date offset from the default date. The lead: message can be used to automatically add the date offset to the default date. The program below produces identical results to the previous example:
9005 evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ score print ; # 5/31/90 :score lag: 2 monthEnds . print ; # 3/31/90 :score lead: 1 quarterEnds . print ; # 9/30/90 ] ; ] ;Suppose you wanted to compute the change in value between two points in time. For example, to find the difference between GM's score in May and June 1990 type:
Named Company GM do: [ (:score asOf: 9006) - (:score asOf: 9005) print: 10 ; ] ;or
9006 evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ score - (:score lag: 1 monthEnds) print: 10 ; ] ; ] ;The message changeLag: provides a more streamlined way for requesting the same information. The expression:
9006 evaluate: [ Named Company GM :score changeLag: 1 monthEnds . print:10 ; ] ;produces the same result as the previous two versions. Likewise, the message pctChangeLag: can be used to compute the percent change in a value. The following two programs can both be used to find the 2-month score percent change relative to April 30, 1990:
9004 evaluate: [ Named Company GM do: [ 100 * (score / ( :score lag: 2 monthEnds) - 1) print:10 ; ] ; ] ;or
9004 evaluate: [ Named Company GM :score pctChangeLag: 2 monthEnds . print:10; ] ;Time series and lists can be used together. For example, to find the companies in fullList (defined in Tutorial 4: Using Lists) that have grown by more than 15 percent between 1989 and 1990, you could use the program:
90 evaluate: [ fullList select: [ :sales pctChangeLag: 1 yearEnds . > 15 ] . do: [ ticker print: 10 ; sales print: 10 ; :sales lag: 1 yearEnds . print: 10 ; newLine print ; ] ] ;producing the result:
C 26276.51 22586.30 CCI 27988.01 23496.00 DEC 9389.44 7590.32 DOW 13377.00 11113.00 EK 13305.00 11550.00 PEP 11485.20 9290.79 WMT 11909.00 8451.46This program selects all companies whose 1 year percent change in sales as of 1990 is more than 15% and displays the 1990 and prior year end sales for each company passing this screen. This program can be executed for a range of dates as well:
89 to: 90 by: 1 yearEnds . evaluate: [ "Sales Growth Report As Of: " print ; ^date year printNL; fullList select: [ :sales pctChangeLag: 1 yearEnds . > 15 ] . do: [ ticker print: 10 ; sales print: 10 ; :sales lag: 1 yearEnds . print: 10 ; newLine print ; ] ] ;You should see:
Sales Growth Report As Of: 1989 BA 16341.00 13636.00 F 62715.72 52774.31 GE 35211.01 28285.01 PEP 9290.79 8056.65 MO 20681.00 12149.00 WMT 8451.46 6400.85 Sales Growth Report As Of: 1990 C 26276.51 22586.30 CCI 27988.01 23496.00 DEC 9389.44 7590.32 DOW 13377.00 11113.00 EK 13305.00 11550.00 PEP 11485.20 9290.79 WMT 11909.00 8451.46This program displays the sales growth report for each date in the date range.
The previous sections have described techniques for accessing and updating specific points in a time series. You may also wish to analyze and display information for each point in the time series. Several of the messages defined for the List class are applicable to the TimeSeries class as well.
The do: message can be used to perform one or more operations on an element in the time series. For example:
1/31/1990 7 2/28/1990 10 3/31/1990 9 4/30/1990 7 5/31/1990 7 6/30/1990 8 7/31/1990 9 8/31/1990 6 9/30/1990 8 10/31/1990 9 11/30/1990 9 12/31/1990 9This program displays the date and the value for each point in the time series. In fact, this is the implementation for the displayAll method. Inside the do: program, all messages are evaluated for the current point in the time series. The ^date message returns the date associated with the current point in the time series. The messages select:, extendBy:, rankUp:, rankDown:, runningTotal:, and send: are all defined to work for the class TimeSeries in the same manner as they are defined to work for the class List. For example, you could select the points in the score time series that are between May and July 1990 using:
Named Company GM :score select: [ ^date >= 9005 asDate && ^date <= 9007 asDate ] . do: [ ^date print: 10 ; printNL ; ] ;producing the result:
5/31/1990 7 6/30/1990 8 7/31/1990 9The various sort messages are also defined to work with time series; however, the returned object will be a list not a time series. It is sometimes useful to be able to convert a time series to a list object so that the other List class messages can be applied to it. The toList message performs this operation. For example, the expression:
Named Company GM :sales toListreturns a list of 3 elements corresponding to the 3 year-end sales values.
The message extractForDateRange: returns a new time series that has a point for each point in the supplied date range based on the initial time series. For example, the expression:
!extractTS <- Named Company GM :sales extractForDateRange: (8903 to: 9012 by: 1 quarterEnds ) ;creates a time series with quarter-end points in it and saves this time series using the name extractTS. To display the values and associated dates you can use:
extractTS displayAllor
extractTS do: [ ^date print ; printNL ] ;producing the result:
3/31/1989 96371.63 6/30/1989 96371.63 9/30/1989 96371.63 12/31/1989 102813.00 3/31/1990 102813.00 6/30/1990 102813.00 9/30/1990 102813.00 12/31/1990 101781.00Notice the following:
1. The extractTS contains 8 points. There is a value for each of the 8 points in the date range. These values are the values as of the quarter-end date.
2. You do not need to put the : in front of the extractTS message. This is because the extractForDateRange: message returns an object that is already a time series object.
Various messages are available to provide summary statistics about a time series. For example, type:
Named Company GM :score average
The average of all scores that have been stored for GM will be displayed. To find the average score for a particular range of dates, type:
Named Company GM :score select: [ ^date >= 9004 asDate && ^date <= 9006 asDate ] . averageor
Named Company GM :score extractForDateRange: ( 9004 to: 9006 by: 1 monthEnds ). averageor
Named Company GM :score aveForDateRange: (9004 to: 9006 by: 1 monthEnds)Similar messages are defined for other statistics
One final variation is available for some of these messages. The messages average:, total:, min:, max:, median:, and stdDev: all require a single parameter that provides a program which can be evaluated for each element in the time series to compute the appropriate statistic. For example, to find the average of the log of each sales value, you could use:
Named Company GM :sales average: [ log ]
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Dillian Whyte: Heavyweight announces return to ring next month
Dillian Whyte says his next fight will take place on 7 December, with a "strong possibility" of being on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's rematch against Andy Ruiz in Saudi Arabia.
Heavyweight Whyte last fought in July, when he beat Oscar Rivas on points.
Whyte, 31, tested positive for a banned substance before the bout but was cleared to take part, while the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) told BBC Sport he is "not suspended".
No opponent has yet been named.
Asked whether Whyte could appear on the Joshua-Ruiz undercard, promoter Eddie Hearn said on the iFL TV podcast last week: "It has gone from a possibility to a strong possibility.
"We are seeing whether we can make it happen but there is a very good chance it will be on that card."
Whyte passed all tests with the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada) in the build-up and aftermath of his bout with Colombia's Rivas, but gave an adverse test with UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) in the run up to his win on 20 July.
He was notified of the test result on 17 July but cleared to fight by an independent panel on the day of the bout.
On 30 July, the WBC provisionally suspended Whyte's status as the organisation's interim world heavyweight champion and mandatory challenger to Deontay Wilder.
The BBBofC added that there were "ongoing procedures" but made it clear Whyte was not suspended, while Ukad said it could not comment on ongoing investigations.


Invitational tournament for boys born 2004
The fourth annual Ajax Cup will be held in June 2017 in Kempele, Finland (near the city of Oulu) by the local team Ajax Sarkkiranta.
The invitational tournament for boys born in 2004 will be hosting top quality teams from Finland.
The games will be played in two levels: Competition 1 (11v11) and competition 2 (8v8).
Participation fee will be 300€ for Competition 1, and 200€ for the competition 2.
The first two Ajax cup titles have been claimed by juniors of the Veikkausliiga team Kuopion Palloseura (KuPS). In 2016 the title was clinched by JJK Jyväskylä, after beating the host team Ajax-Sarkkiranta in the finals.
The games will be played 11v11 or 8v8. The winner of both series will be awarded with a trophy, and the best goal scorer and best goalkeeper of both categories will receive a special award.
The games will be played on two natural grass pitches (63x45m) and on two artificial pitches (66x47m).
Game time will be 2x20 mins in both groups.
The teams will have a chance to have lunch near a school in the near vinicity of the pitches. The hotel services of the city of Oulu are just 15 minutes away. Special hotel packages will be available for the teams.
More information regarding lunches and the options for accommodation will be given later on.
More information can be enquired from the tournament assistant mr. Jouko Kylmäoja.
See you in Kempele in June 2015!
Sarkkirannan urheilukeskus, Sarkkirannantie 20, 90440 Kempele
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First male birth control on the way as scientists complete clinical trials
Scientists in India have completed clinical trials for a male form of birth control that lasts for 13 years.
The contraceptive technique is administered via an injection into men’s testicles and the scientists claim that in 300 clinical trial patients they have witnessed no side effects.
What remains is for the Indian equivalent of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve it for general use. After that, it could feasibly make its way into other countries.
The process involves injecting (under local anesthesia) a polymer into the vas deferens, the tubule that delivers sperm from the testes to the penis where its released in ejaculate.
According to the Hindustan Times, the injection is 97.3% effective with no discernible side effects. Scientists have been working on perfecting it for a quarter of a century.
‘The product is ready, with only regulatory approvals pending with the Drugs Controller,’ said Dr RS Sharma, senior scientist with ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research).
‘The trials are over, including extended, phase 3 clinical trials for which 303 candidates were recruited with 97.3% success rate and no reported side-effects. The product can safely be called the world’s first male contraceptive,’ he told the Times.
In India, over half of couples use contraception but it is primarily the women who become responsible for managing it. It means they take on the side effects which, for the pill, can be weight gain, mood swings, nausea, acne, breast swelling and tenderness and breakthrough bleeding between periods.


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| file | uip_arp.c |
| Implementation of the ARP Address Resolution Protocol. | |
| file | uip_arp.h |
| Macros and definitions for the ARP module. | |
Data Structures | |
| struct | uip_eth_addr |
| Representation of a 48-bit Ethernet address. More... | |
| struct | uip_eth_hdr |
| The Ethernet header. More... | |
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| void | uip_arp_init (void) |
| Initialize the ARP module. | |
| void | uip_arp_ipin (void) |
| ARP processing for incoming IP packets. | |
| void | uip_arp_arpin (void) |
| ARP processing for incoming ARP packets. | |
| void | uip_arp_out (void) |
| Prepend Ethernet header to an outbound IP packet and see if we need to send out an ARP request. | |
| void | uip_arp_timer (void) |
| Periodic ARP processing function. |
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ARP processing for incoming ARP packets. This function should be called by the device driver when an ARP packet has been received. The function will act differently depending on the ARP packet type: if it is a reply for a request that we previously sent out, the ARP cache will be filled in with the values from the ARP reply. If the incoming ARP packet is an ARP request for our IP address, an ARP reply packet is created and put into the uip_buf[] buffer. When the function returns, the value of the global variable uip_len indicates whether the device driver should send out a packet or not. If uip_len is zero, no packet should be sent. If uip_len is non-zero, it contains the length of the outbound packet that is present in the uip_buf[] buffer. This function expects an ARP packet with a prepended Ethernet header in the uip_buf[] buffer, and the length of the packet in the global variable uip_len. |
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ARP processing for incoming IP packets. This function should be called by the device driver when an IP packet has been received. The function will check if the address is in the ARP cache, and if so the ARP cache entry will be refreshed. If no ARP cache entry was found, a new one is created. This function expects an IP packet with a prepended Ethernet header in the uip_buf[] buffer, and the length of the packet in the global variable uip_len. |
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Prepend Ethernet header to an outbound IP packet and see if we need to send out an ARP request. This function should be called before sending out an IP packet. The function checks the destination IP address of the IP packet to see what Ethernet MAC address that should be used as a destination MAC address on the Ethernet. If the destination IP address is in the local network (determined by logical ANDing of netmask and our IP address), the function checks the ARP cache to see if an entry for the destination IP address is found. If so, an Ethernet header is prepended and the function returns. If no ARP cache entry is found for the destination IP address, the packet in the uip_buf[] is replaced by an ARP request packet for the IP address. The IP packet is dropped and it is assumed that they higher level protocols (e.g., TCP) eventually will retransmit the dropped packet. If the destination IP address is not on the local network, the IP address of the default router is used instead. When the function returns, a packet is present in the uip_buf[] buffer, and the length of the packet is in the global variable uip_len. |
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| ddmatrix-print {pbdDMAT} | R Documentation |
Print method for a distributed matrices.
print(x, ...) ## S4 method for signature 'ddmatrix' print(x, ..., all = FALSE, name = "x") ## S4 method for signature 'ddmatrix' show(object)
x, object |
numeric distributed matrix |
... |
additional arguments |
all |
control for whether the entire distributed matrix should be printed to standard output |
name |
character string that will be printed to standard output along with the matrix elements |
Print method for class ddmatrix
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If argument all=TRUE
, then a modified version of the ScaLAPACK TOOLS
routine PDLAPRNT is used to print the entire distributed matrix. The matrix
will be printed in column-major fashion, with one element of the matrix per
line. If all=FALSE
then the name=
argument is ignored.
The function silently returns 0.
## Not run: # Save code in a file "demo.r" and run with 2 processors by # > mpiexec -np 2 Rscript demo.r library(pbdDMAT, quiet = TRUE) init.grid() # don't do this in production code x <- matrix(1:16, ncol=4) dx <- as.ddmatrix(x) print(dx) print(dx, all=T) finalize() ## End(Not run)


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DFSearchIndex
@objc
public class DFSearchIndex : NSObject
Indexer using SKIndex as the core
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Container for storing the properties to be used when creating a new index
See moreDeclaration
Swift
@objc(DFSearchIndexCreateProperties) public class CreateProperties : NSObject
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Close the index
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func close()
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Add some text to the index
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func add(_ url: URL, text: String, canReplace: Bool = true) -> Bool
Parameters
url
The identifying URL for the text
text
The text to add
canReplace
if true, can attempt to replace an existing document with the new one.
Return Value
true if the text was successfully added to the index, false otherwise
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Add a file as a document to the index
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func add(url: URL, mimeType: String? = nil, canReplace: Bool = true) -> Bool
Parameters
url
The file URL for the document (of the form file:///Users/blahblah….doc.txt)
mimeType
An optional mimetype. If nil, attempts to work out the type of file from the extension.
canReplace
if true, can attempt to replace an existing document with the new one.
Return Value
true if the command was successful. NOTE If the document wasnt updated it also returns true!
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Recursively add the files contained within a folder to the search index
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func addFolderContent(folderURL: URL, canReplace: Bool = true) -> [URL]
Parameters
folderURL
The folder to be indexed.
canReplace
If the document already exists within the index, can it be replaced?
Return Value
The URLs of documents added to the index. If folderURL isn’t a folder, returns empty
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Remove a document from the index
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func remove(url: URL) -> Bool
Parameters
url
The identifying URL for the document
Return Value
true if the document was successfully removed, false otherwise. NOTE if the document didn’t exist, this returns true as well
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Remove an array of documents from the index
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func remove(urls: [URL])
Parameters
urls
An array of URLs identifying the documents to remove
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Returns the indexing state for the specified URL.
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func documentState(_ url: URL) -> SKDocumentIndexState
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Returns true if the document represented by url has been indexed, false otherwise.
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func documentIndexed(_ url: URL) -> Bool
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Sets additional properties for the document which are retained in the index.
Document must have been indexed for setting of properties to take effect.
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func setDocumentProperties(_ url: URL, properties: [String : Any]) -> Bool
Parameters
url
The identifying URL for the document
properties
The properties to store in the
Return Value
true
if the properties were set,false
otherwise -
Returns additional properties for the document
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func documentProperties(_ url: URL) -> [String : Any]
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A class to contain a term and the count of times it appears
See moreDeclaration
Swift
@objc(DFSearchIndexTermCount) public class TermCount : NSObject
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An enum identifying the state of a document.
See moreDeclaration
Swift
@objc(DFSearchIndexTermState) public enum TermState : Int
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Returns all the document URLs loaded into the index matching the specified term state
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func documents(termState: TermState = .All) -> [URL]
Parameters
termState
Only return documents matching the specified document state
Return Value
An array containing all the document URLs
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Returns the number of terms for the specified document url
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func termCount(for url: URL) -> Int
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Is the specified document empty (ie. it has no terms)
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func isEmpty(for url: URL) -> Bool
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Returns an array containing the terms and counts for a specified URL
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func terms(for url: URL) -> [TermCount]
Parameters
url
The document URL in the index to locate
Return Value
An array of the terms and corresponding counts located in the document. Returns an empty array if the document cannot be located.
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A search result
See moreDeclaration
Swift
@objc(DFSearchIndexSearchResult) public class SearchResult : NSObject
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Start a progressive search
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func progressiveSearch( query: String, options: SKSearchOptions = SKSearchOptions(kSKSearchOptionDefault) ) -> ProgressiveSearch
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A progressive search container
See moreDeclaration
Swift
@objc(DFSearchIndexProgressiveSearch) public class ProgressiveSearch : NSObject
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Perform a search
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func search( _ query: String, limit: Int = 10, timeout: TimeInterval = 1.0, options: SKSearchOptions = SKSearchOptions(kSKSearchOptionDefault) ) -> [SearchResult]
Parameters
query
A string containing the term(s) to be searched for
limit
The maximum number of results to return
timeout
How long to wait for a search to complete before stopping
Return Value
An array containing match URLs and their corresponding ‘score’ (how relevant the match)
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Flush any pending commands to the search index. A flush should ALWAYS be called before performing a search
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func flush()
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Reduce the size of the index where possible.
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func compact()
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Remove any documents that have no search terms
Declaration
Swift
@objc public func prune(progress: ((Int, Int) -> Void)?) -> Int


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Shit for art explodes on scene
Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: Clove
"The canned faeces of Piero Manzoni, one of Italy's most controversial
artists, were bought by the gallery from a sale at Sotheby's."
Neat. But the motives of the artist remain cloudy: "At least 45 of the original
90 cans have exploded, however. This is exactly what Manzoni intended. Soon
after he created the cans he told a friend "I hope these cans explode in the
vitrines of the collectors."
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FBI renegs on paying informant
Wire Services | Submitted by: tx13
"A former FBI informant sued the federal agency, claiming it abandoned him
after he infiltrated a violent drug cartel in Mexico. Arizona resident
Avery "Skip" Ensley, 56, sued in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Friday.
He and his wife, Karen, allege the FBI did not pay more than $1 million from
asset seizures against the Arrellano Felix syndicate."
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NC spends settlement on tobacco, not health
Charlotte Observer | Submitted by: wingnut
The State of North Carolina won $4.6B from tobacco companies because of
health issues suffered by their residents, but none of that has gone
to remedy any of the health problems suffered there. Instead, the little
money that has gone out, was used to make the tobacco farmers more
competitive. Other states aren't doing what they promised either, diverting
the money to whatever pet projects are handy.
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British Bobbies or Keystone Kops?
Independent | Submitted by: Ann Onymous
"Britain's detectives are failing to catch and convict many criminals because
they are not good enough, according to one of the country's most senior police
officers. Sir David Phillips, the president of the Association of Chief Police
Officers and Chief Constable of Kent, believes investigators are too often
good "all-rounders", but are unable to overcome the ploys used by criminals
and their lawyers because they lack specialist training."
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Suspect blood sent back into circulation
Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: Spookbabe
"People who got hepatitis C through tainted blood products will be outraged.
It is one thing to get hepatitis C through mistakes, but it is another to know
that hepatitis C blood was knowingly introduced into a system that the Red
Cross itself says can never be 100 per cent safe."
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Enlarged penises make Swazi women groan
Tiscali World Online | Submitted by: Dick Elangeni
It's just a short quick article, but with this sentence one must question
journalistic intentions: "Male students are among his customers seeking
a 'super shaft' to service the 'sugar mamas' who keep them in style."
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Twins born after pregnant woman shoots self in head
online.ie | Submitted by: KC
A story with everything, trailer park murder followed by suicide and
subsequent birth of twins: "A pregnant woman in is in a critical condition
after gunning down her grandfather, and then apparently shooting herself
in the head, police said. Her twins were born by Caesarean and were also
in a critical condition."
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The $67,000 fruit
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: ian m.
"A single rare lychee weighing about half an ounce fetched a record price of
about $67,000 at an auction Sunday in Zengcheng, a city in southern China's
Guangdong province, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday...
The lychee, a small fruit with bumpy skin and juicy white flesh, was produced
by a rare tree named Xiyuangualu."
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U.S. Government can't spell
Wire Services | Submitted by: Dustin Prewitt
"Computerized databases at the FBI, CIA, Immigration and Naturalization
Service and other agencies bulge with lists of suspected terrorists. Some of
the names identify actual terrorists. Others are aliases, misspellings,
alternative spellings or misidentifications of putative bad guys. And without
extensive fieldwork, there is no way to tell them apart."
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Diva ignites
BBC | Submitted by: Phatlor
Soprano Susan Chilcott has escaped unharmed after her dress caught fire on
stage at London's Royal Opera House... The source of the blaze was a candle
used by the character Hermann to burn a love letter."
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Three hours, and that's the best you could do?
USA Today | Submitted by: Mr. Orly
When she showed up at the hospital with two dead children, this Detroit mom
told the authorities she had been kidnapped and raped. Eventually, she
changed her story just a bit: she had left the kids in her black car, with the
windows rolled up, while getting her hair done.  Must have been one heck of a drive.
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Ah! Ancient chinese dildo!
Straits Times | Submitted by: george_lazenby
Seven ancient bronze dildoes have been uncovered from a Han Dynasty tomb in Xian, China. This is the first time so many of them have been unearthed from that era (206 BC - AD 25). Because the dildoes were cast from a mold, it suggests there were dildo-specialist artisans. Experts believe members of the royal court as well as aristocratic women used dildoes.
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Welsh were ethnically cleansed
Times | Submitted by: doshman
"The invading Anglo-Saxons either killed the Celts who originally occupied
all of England or put them to flight without pausing to take their pleasure
with the women. The result, researchers have discovered, is that the English
and Welsh have absolutely nothing in common. Genetically, that is."
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The technology of cocaine
Business 2.0 | Submitted by: Soylent
"The mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software. It
cross referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the phone numbers of
American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law enforcement officials.
The computer was essentially conducting a perpetual internal mole hunt of the
cartel's organizational chart. "They could correlate phone numbers,
personalities, locations -- any way you want to cut it," says the former
director of a law enforcement agency. "Santacruz could see if any of his
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Koh Lanta
We wanted to go to one of the islands while in Thailand, but couldn’t decide on which one. After looking at Koh Lanta online, it seemed like it would be a fun and relaxing place to spend a few days, so we booked three nights at Mook Lanta Resort. Those three nights turned into six and we scrapped plans for the east side of Thailand (Ko Phangan, etc.)!
To get to the island, we took a bus from Krabi town. There is a passenger fast boat in the high season, but not in the rainy/low season. It took around 2-3 hours, a lot of which is spent waiting for and on the two ferries. One ferry takes you from the mainland to Ko Lanta Noi. This is the smaller of the two islands, and doesn’t have touristy stuff on it. The next, and larger island, is Ko Lanta Yai.
At the resort we had our own little bungalow with a fan, private bathroom, and a porch with a hammock! The hammock was one of my favourite parts; I loved sitting out there with a book. I read a lot of books while we were in Lanta; it made me think that my reading goal for the year might not be as farfetched as I thought it would be!
The bungalows were all raised above the ground with an above-ground walkway between them. The resort was owned by a British couple, and it seemed like there were a ton of different British people staying there the whole time!
Breakfast also came with our room, so we had “English breakfast” every morning: eggs, bacon, and toast. Free coffee and tea all day as well!
For lunch and dinner there were some restaurants nearby that we ate at. However, since it is the low season, a lot of restaurants were closed (maybe half?). It would be interesting to see how different the island is during the high season. We wondered how some of the restaurants even managed to stay open, as we were often the only people that seemed to be in the restaurant the entire evening. It didn’t seem worth it to stay open for the few dollars they must have been making a day.
We rented a scooter for a couple of days and explored the whole south island. Most of the hotels and resorts are on the west side; there’s a long string of them down the coast. This is also where most of the beaches are.
There are only one or two gas stations here, most of the island is covered instead by these automatic gas machines like in the right-hand picture below. You just feed in a dollar or two and fill your tank!  We saw this a little bit elsewhere in Thailand, but it was all over here in Lanta.
The second day that we had our scooter, we drove all the way down the west coast to the national park at the bottom. There were lots of nice beaches, and not a whole lot of people! Our favourite beach was Kampiang Bay, which is fairly far south down the island.
We also found a couple of cool restaurants in the same area. We went for lunch at a place called Pad Thai Rock ’N Roll, where we had some really yummy pad thai. For dinner, we found this cool cafe, Drunken Sailors, where you sit on hammocks and bean bag chairs. It was a great atmosphere, and the food was delicious!
Another place we visited was Lanta Animal Welfare, which is an animal shelter on the island. They have taken care of all of the dogs on the island: spayed, neutered, given rabies vaccinations, etc. There hasn’t been a rabies case reported on the island in seventeen years! They also adopt out the dogs to people on the island, and even in other countries. They had tons of cats as well, which all wanted to be petted and get some attention! We went on a tour of the facilities as well, and got to meet some of the dogs and see what the volunteers do every day (they only get one day off a week).
Since it was the rainy season, we were expecting more rain; however, it only rained a couple times. Our roof was a bit leaky, so one night we had to get up and put a towel and a garbage bin under a drip so that all our stuff didn’t get wet! It was absolutely pouring the day that we left, but luckily we’d already made our way to the lobby area to wait for our bus back.


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