Mindfulness and self awareness are two emotional competencies that may present themselves as the same thing, but are actually quite distinct with their own purposes. It's when they are used together that they enable the most compelling and powerful emotional competency: self assessment.
 If you were to consider your whole being as a system, you can consider your everyday happenings and experiences as, "Inputs," or even, "Arguments". With mindfulness, you can observe what happens to your system when it is presented with an argument. With that observation as your baseline, you can train or program your own system to a new state of being.
Self awareness, for lack of better expression, is same but different. While mindfulness analyses the whole of the being deeply and extensively, self awareness is the constant monitoring in real-time, keeping yourself grounded and focused. It's hardening your being for the unpredictability of everyday, constantly querying whether your responses or actions are acceptable or appropriate. If mindfulness is about defining your functions (your responses to arguments or inputs), self awareness is parsing those arguments into those well-trained functions.
Hence, the relationship between mindfulness and self awareness is that they are distinct emotional competencies that share the property of being trainable and practical. They are applied deeply and broadly, and they work in tandem to fulfil self assessment. The core relationship built when both are used together is that one can build a repository of functions, analyse these functions' responses to arguments, and train these functions towards an improved end state. Repeating this process is continuous improvement, and response to the dynamic unpredictability of the world around us: by harnessing this relationship wisely, we are ready for anything.
Today I tried Body Scanning after reading the self awareness practices from this chapter. Lying down, I brought my mind into a neutral state and made observations about my physiological state. I found I had a bit of a headache, and found it was above my left eye. I felt well accustomed and well-trained in body scanning in its neutral state: I have listened extensively to mindfulness audio tracks to help me sleep deeply.
To observe the physiological effects of my body in a happy state, I recalled some of my happiest memories: those spent with my mother as a small child. The difference was utterly profound. I felt an elevated sense of awareness in my hands, on top of my hands and arms, elevated awareness on the bottom of my feet, and my legs were ready to have a "spring" in my step. I imagined myself by my mum's side, laughing and walking and exploring the world with her. I felt safe, energised, and eager to see what was next.  It was warm, and I was happy. My mum left this world in February 2016, but I certainly felt her presence during that mindful moment.
The self awareness practice was exhilarating, but frightening at the same time. I didn't realise just how much emotions affected the body until this experiment. From this, I have lot to reflect upon over the next few weeks.
I found this section grounding and empowering. It brought emotions which are in a fraught state of ambiguity and subjectivity into a neutral, objective state. Growing up, my dad always gave me the advice, "Separate your concerns." If you can distance who you are from your emotions, you can analyse things laid out in front of you carefully and calmly, without interference of emotions clouding your judgment. It's also a powerful mechanism to redirect people from criticising you over your emotional state - i.e. depersonalising arguments into problem solving collaboratively and efficiently. This helps me continue to be an optimistic person: assume positive intent from all. We all want to solve the same problems for the best outcome together. Let's do it with enthusiasm and optimism.


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Next, we have the signal to noise ratio, where we define the signal to noise ratio as the quotient between the voxelwise mean and the standard deviation. Here, we generally want to have a high signal to noise ratio, as a low signal to noise ratio can often be indicative of a scanner issue or an issue running the pipeline:
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Front-Trends 2017
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About Conference
Front-Trends is a 3-day conference based in Warsaw for web and mobile developers to discover the latest
trends, technologies, and ideas in front-end development. For over 7 years, Front-Trends has brought together people
from all over the world who are shaping the face of the internet and the future of human-technology interaction.
Statistics
- Venue - 24-26.05.2017 Warsaw
- Speakers - Europe, North America, Asia, Australia
- Talks - around 30 including lighting talks
- Attendees distribution - 53% Poland, 15% Americas & Asia, Germany 8%, UK 6%, Holland 4%, Spain 4%, Denmark 3.5%, Sweden
3.5%, Russia - 2.5%, Norway 1.5%
Una Kravets: The Power of CSS
We can make many Photoshop look-like effects just using css. Una showed us 10 effects written in css: modals, lightboxes,
tooltips, scroll indicators, carousels ect... They don't need JS. You can have the same results using target, data attributes,
siblings- and pseudo-selectors.
DEMO
Sam Bellen: I didn't know the browser could do that!
The start of art browser APIs currently supported mainly by Chrome and partialy in other browsers.
- Speech API (speech recognition)
- Geolocation API (requires user permission)
- Notification API (client-side)
- Push API (server-side)
- Battery Manager API
- Media Recorder API
Ally Long: Field-tested interfaces for the next billion 1/2
The next billion is the next big wave of people who is gonna come online.
- In Europe we have 80% already connected.
- In the USA it's about 75%.
- In Australia 85%.
- In Canada 88%.
- In Mexico and Brazil, it's only 50% connected.
- Africa is around 22%.
Ally Long: Field-tested interfaces for the next billion 2/2
Creating products for the next billion we need take into account.
- low-end android devices
- very poor internet connection
- people turn their phones off all the time
- people prefer touch screens > laptops
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- big and simple buttons, obvious actions
- everything is gonna be clicked
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Z.M. Gillenwater: Experimenting your way to a better product. 1/2
A/B testing - user decides. Booking.com process:
Z.M. Gillenwater: Experimenting your way to a better product. 2/2
- 1. Make observations, gather ideas
- 2. User center hypothesis: why, what, who, outcome?
- 3. Create tests. Start with the smallest change possible.
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- 6. Accept/reject the hypothesis.
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Jenna Zeigen: On How Your Brain is Conspiring Against You Making Good Software
Turns out, humans aren't particularly a good fit for programming. We are predictably irrational (Dan Ariely) - we employ tricks,
patterns and shortcuts to think fast, but this has downsides for our judgment. We constantly make errors called cognitive biases.
And if software is for people written by people, how do we make sure we don't carry these biases on to our code?
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Patrick Hamann: The First Meaningful Paint. 1/3
The First Meaningful Paint - new metrics, time when a page's primary content appeared on the screen and web fonts have loaded. Should be test
Patrick Hamann: The First Meaningful Paint. 2/3
Testing tools:
Patrick Hamann: The First Meaningful Paint. 3/3
How to optimize:
- Inline critical css - improve rendering (first meaningfull paint) significantly - unfortunately not cachable.
- Preload Api - heavy resources: logos, images, fonts
- HTTP/2 server push - send resources before server requests for them - requires server logic
- Async push
Kirupa Chinnathambi: Building a Progressive Web App. 1/3
Progressive web apps are apps that are:
- secure (https)
- fast (spa)
- can sent push notifications
- can appear in the home screen with an icon, a manifest, etc.
Kirupa Chinnathambi: Building a Progressive Web App. 2/3
PWA contains:
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- Manifest file - JSON file that provides information about your web app.
- Service workers - JS file. It acts as a proxy that sits between your web app, the browser, and the network, when available.
Kirupa Chinnathambi: Building a Progressive Web App. 3/3
- PWAs are just web apps thay provide a great user experience.
- Use progressive enhancement so everyone can use them.
- PWAs work great both inside and outside the browser.
- Sometimes they're the right solution, sometimes not, and that's okay.


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AvaTax with Address Validation Checklist
Certification for Avalara AvaTax with Address Validation requires the delivery of all functional requirements shown below.
AvaTax Administration & Utilities integration
The AvaTax Administration section provides the user with configuration, setup and utility functions necessary to administer the AvaTax sales tax calculation and address validation functions.
Required
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Comment
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Address Validation – Disable address validation option
The user should be able to disable or enable address validations in the config screen.
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Address Validation – Filter AV by country
User must be able to choose the countries which will be used for Address Validation.
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Address Validation – return address validation results in upper case
Address Validation Touchpoints
There are two recommended touchpoints for address validation: on-demand or integrated checkout address validation. One or the other is required.
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Function
Comment
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On-demand address validation on customer record entry
Include a button on the customer record to validate the address. This method is recommended for ERP implementations.More information
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Integrated address validation in checkout workflow
Prompt user at address entry to continue/validate address prior to tax calculation. This method is recommended for E-commerce implementations. More information
Sales/Billing Document integration
Integrating with the Sales and/or Billing process involves making tax calculation and/or modifying a transaction.
Required
Function
Comment
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Send required header level data elements:
- Destination address
- Origin address
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Send optional line (detail) level data elements – Destination address
If items are being shipped to multiple destinations
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Send optional line (detail) level data elements – Origin address
If items are being shipped from multiple locations
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Address Validation should display a clean audit to limit errors and call volume to reasonable levels.
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Pass connector identifier information via the TaxSvc.Profile.Client property
Integrations must include information about the connector, such as name, version, and company name, as a signature to each transaction. EXAMPLE: TaxSvc.Profile.Client = “Dynamics AX,9.0,MyApp for AX by ACME INC,1.0”
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There should be no errors except those that would result from normal (but invalid) user input (i.e. invalid address data). Such errors must be logged/displayed appropriately to the application. If an invalid address is returned, the user should be prompted to change it, but the transaction should be allowed to proceed even if they accept the invalid address as being correct.
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Address validation calls should occur only when new addresses are entered or modified, as opposed to on-page-refresh, etc.


Life Is Beautiful.
Starring Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi Directed By Roberto Benigni Running Time: 1 hour 54 minutes.
(Miramax)
Only the Italians could create a love story set against the holocaust, and make it as wonderful and enjoyable as this. Benigni plays Guido, a Jewish bookstore owner who falls in love with Dora (Braschi.) However, this is during the period of Nazi Germany, and Guido, Dora, their son Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini) and Uncle (Giustino Durano) end up at a concentration camp. We follow their adventures there, as Benigni turns the camp into a 'game' to Giosue, an he tries to reunite himself with his wife.
This film is truly great.  From the jaunty comedy start to the heart breaking end, Benigni is full of warmth, charm and appeal. Having also written the screenplay himself, I imagine he performed the character just the way he wanted it, and it is perfect. Braschi isn't quite as strong as his wife, but she is still memorable, even if she does pale to the complete charm and energy of Benigni. Cantarini is an absolute delight, a wonderfully talented young actor who deserves to go on to much better things. He also gets an hugely up lifting scene at the end which has to be to be believed and cherished.
The screenplay is great, if a little underwhelming at first. This is mainly because the first hour or so is a big set up for the main plot. Consisting of little romantic vignettes, it's still a comic delight, and the change of tone from whimsical romance to the horrors of the holocaust is so well handled by Benigni, it's seamless. In fact, you could almost forget it's set against the holocaust, if the film was not to remind you of all the horrors, such as the gas chamber. But the film has a bubbly charm that nearly offsets this. It may feel strange laughing through the holocaust, but Benigni sure makes it feel good.
It's impossible to describe how enjoyable this film is. I could write paragraphs about how the energetic writing, directing, acting and even minor details such as the music and production design make this film a delight, but it wouldn't do the film justice. Benigni knows exactly what makes the audience tick, and exploits us completely. It's never too schmaltzy, it's never too depressing, it's just the right mix of whimsy and horror. The greatest achievement is that Benigni has created such as uplifting film about one of the scariest atrocities of the decade. Witty, surprising, fast paced and a triumph, Life is Beautiful is an instant classic. Do not miss out.
RATING=***** OUT OF *****
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About The Event
Cooking with the Pros is a mission-driven event dedicated to educating, entertaining and enriching its guests with programming and experiences to build a connection between fine food and community. The Biltmore Fashion Park will host this event with fund-raising elements incorporated to support local charities.
At the center of Cooking with the Pros is a three-stage competition featuring nine teams of celebrity chefs who take on some of the best professional athletes in a cook off. A celebrity panel of three judges will determine the winners.
The Biltmore’s lush courtyard will come alive with many free interactive activities including Macy’s cookware demonstrations, live music, master nutritionist Christina Jordan, food sampling, fashion pop ups and more.
Our beer & wine garden offers guests the opportunity to let their pallets travel the flavor spectrum with more than 20 beer and wine choices to sip and savor while doing good at the same time, 25% off all proceeds from the Beer & Wine Garden will go to Operation Project Peace.
Additional elements to this event include a VIP dinner with Chef Einav, autograph sessions at Macy’s, celebrity interviews, technology pavilion, speed painters with paintings auctioned to raise funds for local charities.
Cooking with The Pros – Saturday April 4th 2020. Meet and greet, autograph signing inside Macy’s from 8:00am– 9:00am. 3 rounds- 9 teams compete with one winner from each round, the 3 finalists compete for the top prize. All finalists will earn money for their charity. Partial proceeds are donated the charity of each teams' choice.
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Please check out our schedule to find out what excitements can be brought to your experience while supporting our amazing community.
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Autograph Signing at Macy's
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Courtyard Event Starts
Music provided 76th Street & Clandestine -
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Open Cook Introduction of Team & Judges
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Quality Education
Obtaining a quality education in African countries is one of UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. According to the United Nations, more than 265,000 children are out of school, and around 20% of them are in primary school age. Access to electricity is an important factor in order to achieve the SDG goal. This project studies the relationship between the country's access to electricity and the number of out–of–school children in primary and secondary school age.
Nigerian Women’s Health and Access to Electricity
This project presents data for Nigeria from World Bank and Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network, broken down by gender, access to infrastructure, and types of disease. The visualizations will highlight underserved populations and attempt to clarify additional health risks unique to women when access to electricity is poor.
Visualizing Africa’s path to renewable energy through the lens of SDG 16 - focusing on the critical link between good governance, renewable energy capacity and renewable energy potential.
SDG 16
Climbing the Energy Ladder – A Way out of Poverty?
I want to use the concept of the energy ladder to look at the relation between access to clean fuels and cooking technologies and SDG 1, poverty. To facilitate comparisons between the two I incorporate two approaches, a direct comparison of two indicators and a more holistic approach contextualizing poverty and development status.
How Does Electrification in Rural Africa Affect Years of Schooling?
Using a gender lens, this visualization explores how access to electricity in rural Africa affects years of schooling. When a rural household does not have access to electricity, they must rely on traditional fuel sources for domestic activities. According to the FAO, women bear the largest share of time and labor burdens associated with collecting fuel for domestic use. While there are several factors that affect the amount of education female's receive, household electrification has the ability to relieve time and labor burdens for rural women, allowing them to reallocate their time towards schooling.
Exploring Post-Harvest Food Loss and Electricity Access in Africa
Currently, post-harvest food loss, defined as crop losses in quality and quantity that occur between harvest and the moment of human consumption, is one of the main factors to food insecurity and hunger across Africa. This project explores the relationship between electricity access and points in the process with the greatest food loss in order to highlight areas that need the greatest attention.
How can acting on renewable energy potential improve the ease of doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa?
One of the biggest obstacles to effectively growing an economy is a lack of access to affordable electricity. Unfortunately, Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the harshest economic and electrification conditions. Luckily, there's an opportunity; in many of these countries, there's some of the highest renewable energy potential in the world. This visual essay explores current economic conditions and potential energy opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Exploring connections and trends in access to electricity, net migration and pupulation for Africa (2012-16)
At least 110 million of the 600 million people are still living without access to electricity in Africa live in urban areas. Access to electricity contributes to the quality of life. This project visualizes the possible connections and trends between the net migration, access to electricity and population. It also visualizes the trends in access to electricity and population distribution for urban and rural Africa.
Access to Electricity, Clean Cooking Technologies and Under Five Mortality Rate in Africa
According to the WHO, Africa remains the region were the risk of dying before completing five years of age remains the highest in the world. As part of the SDG agenda, the UN has set the goal of reducing the under five mortality rate to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births. The following project explores the relationship between access to electricity, clean cooking technologies, under five morality rate in Africa and how have they have changed over time.
Would dependable energy in health care facilities reduce maternal death rates in sub-Saharan Africa?
Through the lens of SDG-5 (Gender Equality), this visualization examines the importance of dependable energy in healthcare facilities and its role in reproductive care in sub-Saharan Africa. It also explores the direct correlation between maternal mortality rates and a lack of electricity in healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa Without dependable energy in healthcare facilities, women experience a range of complications including but not limited to, giving birth in the dark without access to facilities with electricity and lifesaving devices requiring energy. Initiatives that focus on investing in dependable energy in this area will have a direct impact in saving women's lives.


Scientists design built-in controls for mini-chemical labs on a chip
| Source: | Saint Louis University |
| Summary: | In a miniaturized laboratory, microfluidic systems can conduct chemical experiments on a chip through a series of small connected tubes the size of a hair. |
Since the 1990s, scientists have been exploring the possibilities of miniaturized chemical "laboratories" on a chip, which have potential as point-of-care diagnostics, analysis kits for field research and someday even conducting chemical tests on other planets.
In a normal lab, chemists use beakers to mix chemicals and study reactions. In a miniaturized laboratory, microfluidic systems can conduct chemical experiments on a chip through a series of small connected tubes the size of a hair.
This technology currently is in use, most notably in the medical field, which creates organs-on-a chip for research. However, the technology's potential has not fully been reached because the chemical reactions are controlled by large equipment that is often external to the chip.
In a recent study published in Nature, researchers from Saint Louis University along with colleagues from Northwestern University and Normandie Universite shared their discovery of a way to program built-in controls in a microfluidic network.
"We took our inspiration from electronics, in which a chip's controls are self-contained," said Istvan Kiss, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University. "When we started the research in this field, we said 'Why don't we build tiny little reactors, sub-millimeter-sized. We used only a small number of reactors, so directing the flow was easy with simple, tiny tubes. But now, to advance the technology, we need the chip to be a bit more complicated, with many reactors and tubes in between, to operate more like a circuit."
To solve this problem, researchers combined network theory and fluid mechanics and created controls operated entirely on the chip.
Together with Yifan Liu, Ph.D., graduate research assistant at SLU and other colleagues, Kiss designed a network with a nonlinear relationship between the applied pressure and flow rate, which can be used to switch the direction of liquid flow simply by changing the input and output pressure.
Taking a cue from a counterintuitive theory about traffic patterns, the scientists found that shortcuts aren't always the fastest way from point A to point B. A phenomenon known as Braess's paradox has demonstrated — in traffic patterns, electronics, springs — that sometimes having more pathways to travel actually slows down traffic rather than speeds it up.
"We've built a network that shows that paradox," Kiss said. "As we studied how water molecules go around obstacles, it created a 'valve.' Water molecules are diverted from their paths. At low flow rates, they go towards the obstacles, while at high flow rates, they go the opposite way."
"When we close a shortcut channel, it results in a higher, rather than lower, total flow rate. We're interested in how such changes in flow rates and directions will eventually change the chemical reactions in the reactors."
This technology could be used to create portable lab testing systems as well as to design new applications, such as health monitoring wearables or deployable space systems.
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Wipe data/factory reset
, press the Power button to select that option.
- On the following screen, repeatedly press the Volume Down button until the
Yes - delete all user data
option is what is selected.
- Then press the Power button to hard reset the tablet.
- Once booted and up'n'running, insert your SD Card again.
PocketBook Touch HD2
.acsm files
ACSM files are Adobe Digital Edition links to DRM protected epubs. The following procedure requires you to have installed a Digitial Editions account on your PocketBook beforehand.
- Connect your PocketBook to your computer using the USB cable - this may work using Dropbox or the like, but I haven't bothered ... :-)
- Copy the
*.acsm
file to the Digital Editions folder
.
- Disconnect your PocketBook - make sure that Linux/Windows have had a chance to write the file to the PocketBook.
- Open the ACSM file on your PocketBook - it will now go ahead and fetch the epub file ...
Hubsan Drone
Left Stick
- Press to turn on headless mode (blue LEDs blinks).
- Press again to disable.
- Long press enters stunt mode (3 beeps only). Use right hand throttle to perform stunt. After performing stunt it flips back to regular mode.
Right Stick
- Press, beeps, enters expert mode.
- Press again to exit.
- Press and hold to take photo - red LEDs will flash.
Right Aileron Trim
- Hold to start or stop video recording - red LEDs will flash.


Flide
Dune
Garantimo
Sencilla
AMG Poster
A D.I.Y ice sled made of folded polypropylene sheets. Inspired by children who use plastic bags as sleds.
Easy, economic and fun!
2nd year studio 2019
Laundry care product family
Refreshing,cleaning,sterilizing and preparing.
A mobile monetary app in collaboration with Garanti BBVA
Lunch kit to provide natural food experience
Natural, simple and chic.
Alternative Music Days
Posters and social media posts


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| static unsigned long long | flip_A1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_D1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_E1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H1 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_D2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_E2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H2 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_D3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_E3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H3 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A4 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B4 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C4 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F4 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G4 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H4 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A5 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B5 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C5 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F5 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G5 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H5 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_D6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_E6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H6 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_D7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_E7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H7 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_A8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_B8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_C8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_D8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_E8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_F8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_G8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_H8 (const unsigned long long discs_player, const unsigned long long discs_opponent) |
| static unsigned long long | flip_pass (const unsigned long long P, const unsigned long long O) |


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In this project, we're going to design an app and build a prototype version using either Scratch or WoofJS.
1) First you need to come up with an idea for your app. The best place to start is to think about who you are making the app for, what your app's users will need, and how you can design your app around your users' needs.
2) Then you need to decompose the needs of your app user. This means breaking down all the needs of your app's users into smaller parts. Make a list of every feature, screen, or other element you will need to code. The more detailed your plan, the easier making your app will be!
3) Once you have your decomposition done, it's time to start designing the screens for your app. To start designing in Scratch, remix this project. Or you can design your app using WoofJS.
4) Once you have your screens laid out, focus on implementing the highest priority features from your decomposition list first. You may find that you have to break some things into even smaller sub-steps to code one by one.
5) Even before your app is finished, it is important to get user feedback on it. When people use your app, ask them to give you feedback to help you improve your designs and code.


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Flocks of visiting Jehovah's Witnesses start bumper weekend in Ballarat
by Melanie WhelanALMOST 2000 Jehovah's Witnesses have been exploring Ballarat's key tourist spots ahead of a global convention in Melbourne.
Delegates had Ballarat Wildlife Park, Sovereign Hill and Lake Wendouree, travelling in 34 coaches, on their itineraries for the pre-event tour.
Melbourne's Marvel Stadium is expected to host 50,000 witnesses from 71 countries for the International Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses from Friday to Saturday. It is set to top the stadium's biggest AFL crowd this year with 48,278 fans flocking to the Essendon-North Melbourne clash on Good Friday.
The Ballarat visits kick off a blockbuster weekend for the city ahead of a bumper sporting Saturday - Melbourne Renegades host a Women's Big Bash League hit-out at Eastern Oval on what is also Ballarat Cup Day. SpringFest festivities return to Lake Wendouree on Sunday.
Melbourne Convention Bureau chief Julia Swanson said pre and post-conferencing tours were increasingly popular. Almost four in 10 delegates visit regional Victoria and the Goldfields was a popular choice due to its proximity to the state's capital.


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Melt the butter with the oil in a saucepan. Place the onion and garlic into the pan and cook gently for 2-3 minutes.
Add the rice and wine to the pan, bring to the boil and cook until the wine is absorbed.
Add the hot stock to the pan and simmer for 8-10 minutes.
Add the goats' cheese, cream, lemon zest and herbs to the pan, stir well and season with pepper only. Cook for a further 2-3 minutes, or until the rice is al dente.
To serve, transfer the risotto to a warmed serving bowl.


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They don't taste like salmon!
Salmon cookies don't taste on bit like salmon. Why not just buy regular cookies, then? Because Salmon cookies are made using the invasive Atlantic Salmon scourging our beloved Pacific.
NASA is not about the ‘Adventure of Human Space Exploration’…We won’t be doing it just to get out there in space – we’ll be doing it because the things we learn out there will be making life better for a lot of people who won’t be able to go. To go places and do things that have never been done before – that’s what living is all about. Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us. Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.


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I am Pursuing Master’s degree in Computer Science at Northeastern University and seeking
Full-Time opportunities.
Excited about Big data! Learning python, java and Web technologies.
Interned as a Data Engineer at Zipcar for 5.5 months
Worked as a Mainframe developer with Tata Consultancy Services for 6.5 years
Languages: SQL, Python, Scala, Java, COBOL, REXX, JCL, HTML
Technologies: VSAM, CICS, CSS, JavaScript, Angular JS, jQuery, Node.js, Bootstrap, MapReduce, Hadoop, Big Data, Spark
Software: PyCharm, JIRA,AWS (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EMR, S3, Athena), Hue, Changeman, IntelliJ Idea, Webstorm, TWS, TOM, SMARTTEST, INTERTEST, IBM Debugger
Databases: Oracle, DB2, IDMS, MongoDB, MySql, Hive
Certifications: DB2 735 SQL Procedures, DB2 10.1 Fundamentals, Six Sigma Green Belt
Zipcar, Inc.
Data Engineer Coop (July 2018 - Dec.2018)
• Developed Scala-Spark programs to interact with various AWS services for ingesting data from different
sources(including 3rd party vendors) into Zipcar S3 storage.
• Developed python code to manipulate data stored on AWS S3.
• Supported the mainstream workflows running on EMR production/staging and dev clusters.
• Involved in system upgradation activities for spark EMR cluster.
• Participated in intra team Hackathon for analyzing call-center transcripts to identify call purpose categories.
• Involved in beta testing of apps before releases.
• Documented ingest procedures, analyzed Database tables and created relationship diagram to portray interaction
between tables
Tata Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd, Pune, MH, India (TCS)
I.T Analyst (June 2014 - Dec.2016)
Morgan Stanley
• Analysed, designed, developed, enhanced, tested and reviewed mainframe application code.
• Led a team of 6 for a year with a Client (Morgan Stanley) satisfaction Index of 93%.
• Won several awards as a team and as an individual contributor.
Systems Engineer (June 2012 - June 2014)
Morgan Stanley
• Created a mainframe tool in REXX for unit testing of stored procedures translating into annual savings of approx $10,000.
• Certified Six Sigma Green belt for process excellence in creating utility tool (for testing stored procedures).
• Mentored a colleague and co-created a utility tool using REXX to fetch test accounts in development environment which
translated into an annual saving of approx. $11,000.
• Mentored a colleague for Six Sigma Green belt certification.
Asst. Systems Engineer (June 2010 - Apr. 2012)
Rite Aid Corp
• Developed, tested and reviewed COBOL programs for extracting, formatting and transmitting data from one database to
another as a part of database conversion project.
• Awarded Appreciation Note for successful completion of project within strict deadlines.
ConAgra Foods
• Provided maintenance and support to ConAgra Milling business application and Finance application built in Mainframe.
• Led a team of 3 to support the Finance application module.


Classical Test Theory & Reliability
Test-Retest
Parallel Form
Internal Consistency
Quantifying uncertainty (i.e. standard error of measurement)
Validity
Content
Criterion-Related
Construct
Identify a need for this test
Identify a purpose for this test
No test exists
People aren't static, so tests need to be revised
What else should we be thinking about when we're conceptualizing a test?
Does it matter?
Now that we know why, we have to know how
We need a set of rules for assigning numbers in measurement - scaling
In psychology, scales are instruments used to measure traits, states, or abilities
Nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio
Examples?
Testtaker indicates their response to an item by selecting among strengths
Examples: Stealing
Likert-Type are common rating scales
Scores from test could be summed (summative) directly; factor analysis or item response theory could be used
“Downloading movies is the same as stealing”
| Strongly Agree | Agree | Neither Agree/Nor Disagree | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
Are the distances the same betwen the choices?
What might affect are choices?
Paired comparsions - choose between two options scored based on some criteria
Comparative scaling - items are arranged based on some criteria and categorical scaling - items into two or more categories
Guttman scale - items written in a sequential manner such that someone higher on the trait will agree with the strongest statements through the mildest statments
Let's brain storm 10 nouns
Could use Thurstone's equal-appearing scale (p 250 - 251)
I am skeptical ... what do you think?
Selected-response vs constructed response
Types
Multiple-choice
Binary-choice
Matching
Each item will have a stem, correct chioce, and distractors
Only one correct choice
Grammatically parallel alternatives
Alternatives of similar length
Alternatives that fit grammatically with the stem
Include as much information in the stem as possible to avoid repetiiton
Avoids ridiculous distractors
Is not excessively long
There are more than just true/false for binary-choice items
Matching bank should have more answers choices than items and/or be used more than once
Guessing is a problem in an achievement setting
Always forcing a choice in a non-achievement setting
Completion items are fill-in-the blank responses
Short-answer items require a response of a few sentences
Essay items are long short-answer items demonstrating deeper, more thorough knowledge
More deeply probe a specific portion of a construct, require more time
Subjectivity in scoring essays
What reliability statistic would we report here?
Cumulative model - sum up the items on the test
Class scoring - based on pattern of responses placed with similar testtakers
Ipsative scoring - score on a scale within a test compared to score on another scale on same test
Edwards Personal Preference Schedule - measures relative strength of different psychological needs
Could look at both the cumlative scores on seperate scales and the pattern of these scores, profile analysis
Many different ways to analyze items
Can focus on
Difficulty of item
Reliability of item
Validity of item
Discrimination of item
Proportion of testtakers that get the item correct
Higher the item difficulty, the easier the item
item-endorsement index
Can calculate average item difficulty for the test
Optimal value = $\frac{\text{Pr(Guess)} + 1}{2}$
Administer an item to 10 students and 4 students get the item correct
What is the item's difficulty?
If the item was a multiple choice with 5 distractors, what is the optimal item difficulty?
Internal consistency of the test
Software often calculates changes in a reliability index (e.g. coefficient alpha) when item is deleted
Examine factor loadings
Calculate item-reliability index = $s_i * r_{i,\text{ttscore}}$
| Item 1 |
| 1 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
Assume correlation between item 1 and total test score is 0.7
Item-validity index = $s_i * r_{i,\text{crit}}$
Point-biserial correlations - Are testtakers with higher abilities more likely to get the item correct?
IRT's discrimination parameter
Item discrimination index
Discretize total test scores into upper and lower 27%
Calculate number of "high" scores that got item correct and number of "low" scores that got item correct
Calculate difference
Examine distractor functioning
Example in R
Guessing
Bias in favor of one group - differential item functioning
Test length and duration of testing session
Think Alouds
Expert Panels
Interviews
Qualitative Methods
On what basis should we revise our items?
Too easy or too hard items?
Items with similar difficulty that are measuring the same concept?
Items with negative point-biserial correlations?
Items that on a second/third read through seem unrelated to the construct?
Items with low factor loadings?
Based on IRT?
We settle on our revisions
Administer revised version to new sample
This becomes our comparsion group, our standardization sample
Tests need to be revised when the domain has significantly changed
Content of the items is not understood or changed
Test norms are no longer adequate
Theory underlying the domain has changed
Reliability and validity of the instrument can be improved
Cross-validation - revalidation of a test on a seperate, independent sample of testtakers
Item validities should shrink during this process (validity shrinkage)
Co-validation - test validation conducted on two or more tests with the same sample of testtakers
Creating norms, co-norming
Cheaper, reduces sampling error by norming on the same sample


What are your kids learning when you're not looking?
Jan 21, 2009
It was an honour, once again, to be asked to present alongside Terry Freedman for the BCS Education and Training Expert Panel at BETT this year. Our previous presentations had looked at the e-strategy, web 2.0 and personalised learning through technology, so how to follow that? We’ve both become increasingly interested in the area of informal learning through technology, ie that beyond the formal school curriculum, an area which we’d touched on briefly last year but had failed to do justice to, so that looked like a good area to focus on, especially as it would provide an interesting contrast to much of the curriculum based resources on sale outside the seminar theatre.
Terry had gleaned some statistics from his wide ranging reading, had some results from his own social networking survey and a few illuminating case studies. I’d done a fair bit of reading round the subject over the past few months, which remains a fascinating one, and had dusted down my statistical background to number-crunch the results of our own google based survey from the end of last term, which collected close on 1000 unique, valid responses. Although our sample was far from representative, it was interesting to see some of the differences between the ways boys and girls use technology, as well as the enthusiasm with which children engage with technology for communication and entertainment. We concluded with a few thoughts on the implications of our findings for work in schools: moving children from communication to collaboration and from consumers to creators of culture.
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About Sigma Chi
The Men of Sigma Chi Mu Epsilon, all have two major goals in mind; to better the Greek life at the University of Massachusetts from within, and to live our lives by the very principles established by the Seven Founding Fathers of Sigma Chi. Our interests in athletics, academics, business, science, engineering, and more will create a chapter with extraordinary talents; the range of individual interests is beneficial in creating a fraternity that will prosper with diversity in planning. The current members of the Sigma Chi Mu Epsilon chapter show passion in their pursuits We have members in many different majors, including the health sciences, business, and engineering. Our members are also active members in the UMass community, participating in many clubs and organizations such as ROTC. The diversity of our fraternity will only grow and continue to expand as we do in the Greek community.


TITANIC A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1997 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ****
TITANTIC, writer and director James Cameron's much anticipated and sometimes ridiculed $200,000,000 epic, arrives shortly into the theaters so the question naturally arises, whether the film is worth it? As a business proposition, it seems hard to see how it can ever break even, but as a movie it is nothing short of wonderful.
If you've already neatly categorized it as yet another disaster movie a la VOLCANO or THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, think again. The movie is both a great love story told with the disaster as a backdrop and a portrayal of one of the world's most memorable disasters made real and personal by seeing it through the eyes of two young lovers. In either case, it is filmmaking at its best.
When we entered the press screening, my wife asked the publicity rep if there would be an intermission since the film runs three and a quarter hours long. He said no but that the time would go by so fast she'd never notice the length. Amazingly, he was right. TITANIC is one of the few long films that doesn't suffer because of it.
The lush picture, filmed by Russell Carpenter in 70mm, opens in the present with two diving subs exploring the wreck of the Titanic on the bottom of the ocean. Fortune hunter Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) leads the expedition looking for the world's most valuable diamond necklace that went down with the ship, known back then as "the ship of dreams." The necklace's hundred-year-old former owner, Rose DeWitt Bukater (Gloria Stuart), finds Brock to tell him her story.
Although almost all of the movie happens in flashback, one of the engineers shows the elderly Rose exactly how the ship was sunk. Using a computer simulation, the movie takes the time to explain what will happen later, which adds immensely to making a lucid story out of what would have otherwise been hopelessly confusing.
After twenty minutes, the story makes its jump to the past as the Titanic leaves on her maiden voyage. In a classic movie theme, the two parts of the ship, first class and steerage (third-class) exist in sharp contrast. The strength of the script is the way it paints the differences between rich and poor without excessive moralizing.
Entering the ship on its day out is Rose along with her millionaire fiance, Cal Hockley, played with perfect snobbishness by Billy Zane. And thanks to a last minute winning poker hand, an itinerant artist named Jack Dawson gets himself into a little shared cabin in third class. Even with her own promenade deck, Rose feels trapped on the ship, what with an upcoming marriage to a man she loathes. In contrast, Jack can barely contain his euphoria at being on board.
After Jack saves Rose from committing suicide, they start a brief but impassioned love affair. Never tawdry and rarely explicit, their romance has the power to sweep the audience into the story. Leonardo DiCaprio in his best performance ever plays Jack with confidence and charisma. In so many ways, small and large, he makes all the right decisions in his approach to the part. When he confronts Cal, for example, he remains composed and polite and yet subtly undermines every one of Cal's supercilious put-downs.
Kate Winslet gives a wonderfully captivating performance as young Rose. The chemistry between these two Academy Award nominees, him for WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE and her for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, is nothing short of astonishing. From the scene where he embarrasses her by repeatedly asking if she loves her finace to the beautiful one of them hanging off the ship's bow to the one where she embarrasses him by asking him to paint her nude, they dazzle the screen with a pair of mesmerizing performances. If the film breaks after an hour and a half, which is how long Cameron wisely waits to have the iceberg show up, you will still get one of the best films of the year.
Peter Lamont's sets are more than authentic. One scene, for example, starts with the planning-to-retire captain, played with insouciance by Bernard Hill, having his tea on deck. It then shifts to the ship's massive gears and then to the bright-hot boiler room filled with sweating muscular men shoveling in the coals. The handsome interior common rooms of the ship resemble a palace more than an ocean liner.
Easily the most fascinating part of the story is what happens after the iceberg hits and before the battle with the water begins in earnest. At first, since the iceberg tears a series of little gashes in the hull, not some big gaping hole, the passengers view the hit as more of curiosity than anything else. What a lark. We've struck an iceberg. Now let's get back to our brandy and cigars.
The ship's musicians play like troopers through it all, even after the panic sets in. After all, they see it as their duty to calm the passengers. When the musicians are about to die, they politely thank each other for the pleasure of being able to play together, and they mean it. Their civility borders on insanity, but it is touching nevertheless.
The story is so rich that my description has merely touched the surface. There are more than enough characters to love and to hate, and all of the casting is dead-on.
Special effects work best when their presence becomes almost undetectable. In TITANIC, for which he created a nine-tenths scale model of the entire ship, Cameron strove for accuracy at all costs. The most dramatic moment in the film happens when the ship breaks in two, and the front section becomes vertical in the water. People are flung like ants either into the water to be shortly frozen to death or into other parts of the ship to be crushed immediately.
Besides being romantic and dramatic, the script includes liberal doses of humor. From the many deliciously subtle verbal put-downs to the physical comedy, as when Jack teaches Rose to spit like a man, the show elicits laughter in addition to perhaps a few tears.
"It's good-bye for a little while," a less than confident father tells his little girl since it was indeed women and children first. "This boat's for mommies and children. There'll be a boat in a little while for daddies." Basically there was a design decision to have fewer than half of the necessary life boats -- it made the decks look too crowded otherwise.
Perhaps the sinking is best summarized by one of the Guggenheim's on-board the ship. In the dining room with the lifeboats gone and the ship certain to sink, he is offered a life jacket by one of the crew. "No thanks," the elegantly attired Guggenheim replies. "We're dressed in our best and would prefer to go down like gentlemen. But we would like a brandy."
TITANIC runs 3:14. It is rated PG-13 for tastefully and delicately presented sex and nudity and would be fine for kids twelve and up.
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My Cultural Blog Post
I'm an introvert. There I said it.  The DBC experience scares me because of this. It's also the reason I choose DBC to begin with. To grow as a person and a developer, I must interact with other developers. I feel like DBC's focus on being a professional person first and then a programmer sold me. I've always learned best by doing and I can see myself coming out at the end of this, not just a better programmer, but a better person.
My initial impression about DBC was that of skepticism. I've been self learning programming in a wide verity of frameworks for several years now and I've always felt like I couldn't punch through the barrier that would take me on to being a professional full time programmer. It seems like I cause more bugs than I solve problems some times. How could DBC take me and make me employable in just 9 weeks.
Shereef's story about how he started Dev Bootcamp really resonated with me. I'm an IT guy and I have been for years. Much like Shereef's friend, I too felt stuck in a career where I couldn't do much more or be creative. I first heard Shereef's story when I stumbled upon the Dan Rather report where Shereef told the story. My wife said, "That sounds just like you". She pushed me to accept that I needed to do this and she has been so supportive. Some times it takes someone believing in you to convince you of your potential.
I plan on taking full control of my education at DBC. I plan on being social to the max. I plan on working long hours. I plan on helping others wherever my current knowledge will allow me to do so. I plan on making this a once in a lifetime experience that will be with me forever. I can't afford anything less. I can't go back to being just an IT guy. I can't NOT be creative. I have to build. I have to contribute.
My expectations for DBC have not changed over the last several months. I do believe my expectations of myself have though. I'm tired of being a fixed mindset introverted person. Stuck believing that I can't be some better version of myself. I fully expect that I will be a better person at the end of this.
I'm nervous, scared, excited, and overwhelmed. I feel like I'm somewhere in the middle of the "Two Fears" that Shereef talked about. There are things I feel confident in and there are others that I don't. I'm excited to be immersed in coding. I'm scared I will fail. I'm scared I will succeed. I'm nervous others won't like me. I'm scared I'm to old to fit in with the younger crowd.
I could go on for days but I don't have time. There is so much to do. Shereef's video only made me more sure of my decision. DBC or bust!


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| Packages that use XMLString | |
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| org.apache.xml.dtm | |
| org.apache.xml.dtm.ref | |
| org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.dom2dtm | |
| org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.sax2dtm | |
| org.apache.xml.utils | Implementation of Xalan utility classes. |
| org.apache.xpath | Implementation of XPath; for the most part, only classes meant for public use are found at this root level of the XPath packages. |
| org.apache.xpath.functions | Implements XPath functions -- each function is derived from Function, FunctionOneArg, Function2Args, etc, with number-of-arguments checking being applied mainly at compile time -- this package only implements XPath functions, XSLT functions are found in the "templates" package. |
| org.apache.xpath.objects | Implementation of XPath polymorphic type objects -- this package will grow as XPath objects are expanded to support XML Schema data types. |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xml.dtm |
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| Methods in org.apache.xml.dtm that return XMLString | |
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XMLString |
DTM.getStringValue(int nodeHandle)
Get the string-value of a node as a String object (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model for the definition of a node's string-value). |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref |
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| Methods in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref that return XMLString | |
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XMLString |
DTMDocumentImpl.getStringValue(int nodeHandle)
Get the string-value of a node as a String object (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model for the definition of a node's string-value). |
abstract XMLString |
DTMDefaultBase.getStringValue(int nodeHandle)
Get the string-value of a node as a String object (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model for the definition of a node's string-value). |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.dom2dtm |
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| Methods in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.dom2dtm that return XMLString | |
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XMLString |
DOM2DTM.getStringValue(int nodeHandle)
Get the string-value of a node as a String object (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model for the definition of a node's string-value). |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.sax2dtm |
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| Fields in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.sax2dtm declared as XMLString | |
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private static XMLString |
SAX2DTM2.EMPTY_XML_STR
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| Methods in org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.sax2dtm that return XMLString | |
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XMLString |
SAX2DTM2.getStringValue(int nodeHandle)
Override SAX2DTM.getStringValue(int) |
XMLString |
SAX2DTM.getStringValue(int nodeHandle)
Get the string-value of a node as a String object (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model for the definition of a node's string-value). |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xml.utils |
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| Classes in org.apache.xml.utils that implement XMLString | |
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class |
XMLStringDefault
The default implementation of the XMLString interface, which is just a simple wrapper of a String object. |
| Methods in org.apache.xml.utils that return XMLString | |
|---|---|
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.concat(java.lang.String str)
Concatenates the specified string to the end of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLString.concat(java.lang.String str)
Concatenates the specified string to the end of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryDefault.emptystr()
Get a cheap representation of an empty string. |
abstract XMLString |
XMLStringFactory.emptystr()
Get a cheap representation of an empty string. |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.fixWhiteSpace(boolean trimHead,
boolean trimTail,
boolean doublePunctuationSpaces)
Conditionally trim all leading and trailing whitespace in the specified String. |
XMLString |
XMLString.fixWhiteSpace(boolean trimHead,
boolean trimTail,
boolean doublePunctuationSpaces)
Conditionally trim all leading and trailing whitespace in the specified String. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryDefault.newstr(char[] string,
int start,
int length)
Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer. |
abstract XMLString |
XMLStringFactory.newstr(char[] string,
int start,
int length)
Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryDefault.newstr(FastStringBuffer fsb,
int start,
int length)
Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer. |
abstract XMLString |
XMLStringFactory.newstr(FastStringBuffer string,
int start,
int length)
Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryDefault.newstr(java.lang.String string)
Create a new XMLString from a Java string. |
abstract XMLString |
XMLStringFactory.newstr(java.lang.String string)
Create a new XMLString from a Java string. |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.substring(int beginIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLString.substring(int beginIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.substring(int beginIndex,
int endIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLString.substring(int beginIndex,
int endIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.toLowerCase()
Converts all of the characters in this String to lower
case using the rules of the default locale, which is returned
by Locale.getDefault . |
XMLString |
XMLString.toLowerCase()
Converts all of the characters in this String to lower
case using the rules of the default locale, which is returned
by Locale.getDefault . |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.toLowerCase(java.util.Locale locale)
Converts all of the characters in this String to lower
case using the rules of the given Locale . |
XMLString |
XMLString.toLowerCase(java.util.Locale locale)
Converts all of the characters in this String to lower
case using the rules of the given Locale . |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.toUpperCase()
Converts all of the characters in this String to upper
case using the rules of the default locale, which is returned
by Locale.getDefault . |
XMLString |
XMLString.toUpperCase()
Converts all of the characters in this String to upper
case using the rules of the default locale, which is returned
by Locale.getDefault . |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.toUpperCase(java.util.Locale locale)
Converts all of the characters in this String to upper
case using the rules of the given locale. |
XMLString |
XMLString.toUpperCase(java.util.Locale locale)
Converts all of the characters in this String to upper
case using the rules of the given locale. |
XMLString |
XMLStringDefault.trim()
Removes white space from both ends of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLString.trim()
Removes white space from both ends of this string. |
| Methods in org.apache.xml.utils with parameters of type XMLString | |
|---|---|
int |
XMLStringDefault.compareTo(XMLString anotherString)
Compares two strings lexicographically. |
int |
XMLString.compareTo(XMLString anotherString)
Compares two strings lexicographically. |
int |
XMLStringDefault.compareToIgnoreCase(XMLString str)
Compares two strings lexicographically, ignoring case considerations. |
int |
XMLString.compareToIgnoreCase(XMLString str)
Compares two strings lexicographically, ignoring case considerations. |
boolean |
XMLStringDefault.equals(XMLString anObject)
Compares this string to the specified object. |
boolean |
XMLString.equals(XMLString anObject)
Compares this string to the specified object. |
int |
XMLStringDefault.indexOf(XMLString str)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring. |
int |
XMLString.indexOf(XMLString str)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring. |
boolean |
XMLStringDefault.startsWith(XMLString prefix)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix. |
boolean |
XMLString.startsWith(XMLString prefix)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix. |
boolean |
XMLStringDefault.startsWith(XMLString prefix,
int toffset)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix beginning a specified index. |
boolean |
XMLString.startsWith(XMLString prefix,
int toffset)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix beginning a specified index. |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xpath |
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| Methods in org.apache.xpath that return XMLString | |
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XMLString |
Expression.xstr(XPathContext xctxt)
Cast result object to a string. |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xpath.functions |
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| Methods in org.apache.xpath.functions that return XMLString | |
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protected XMLString |
FunctionDef1Arg.getArg0AsString(XPathContext xctxt)
Execute the first argument expression that is expected to return a string. |
| Uses of XMLString in org.apache.xpath.objects |
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| Classes in org.apache.xpath.objects that implement XMLString | |
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class |
XString
This class represents an XPath string object, and is capable of converting the string to other types, such as a number. |
class |
XStringForChars
This class will wrap a FastStringBuffer and allow for |
class |
XStringForFSB
This class will wrap a FastStringBuffer and allow for |
| Fields in org.apache.xpath.objects declared as XMLString | |
|---|---|
private XMLString |
XRTreeFrag.m_xmlStr
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| Methods in org.apache.xpath.objects that return XMLString | |
|---|---|
XMLString |
XStringForFSB.concat(java.lang.String str)
Concatenates the specified string to the end of this string. |
XMLString |
XString.concat(java.lang.String str)
Concatenates the specified string to the end of this string. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryImpl.emptystr()
Get a cheap representation of an empty string. |
XMLString |
XStringForFSB.fixWhiteSpace(boolean trimHead,
boolean trimTail,
boolean doublePunctuationSpaces)
Conditionally trim all leading and trailing whitespace in the specified String. |
XMLString |
XString.fixWhiteSpace(boolean trimHead,
boolean trimTail,
boolean doublePunctuationSpaces)
Conditionally trim all leading and trailing whitespace in the specified String. |
XMLString |
XNodeSet.getStringFromNode(int n)
Get the string conversion from a single node. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryImpl.newstr(char[] string,
int start,
int length)
Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryImpl.newstr(FastStringBuffer fsb,
int start,
int length)
Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer. |
XMLString |
XMLStringFactoryImpl.newstr(java.lang.String string)
Create a new XMLString from a Java string. |
XMLString |
XStringForFSB.substring(int beginIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XString.substring(int beginIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XStringForFSB.substring(int beginIndex,
int endIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XString.substring(int beginIndex,
int endIndex)
Returns a new string that is a substring of this string. |
XMLString |
XString.toLowerCase()
Converts all of the characters in this String to lower
case using the rules of the default locale, which is returned
by Locale.getDefault . |
XMLString |
XString.toLowerCase(java.util.Locale locale)
Converts all of the characters in this String to lower
case using the rules of the given Locale . |
XMLString |
XString.toUpperCase()
Converts all of the characters in this String to upper
case using the rules of the default locale, which is returned
by Locale.getDefault . |
XMLString |
XString.toUpperCase(java.util.Locale locale)
Converts all of the characters in this String to upper
case using the rules of the given locale. |
XMLString |
XStringForFSB.trim()
Removes white space from both ends of this string. |
XMLString |
XString.trim()
Removes white space from both ends of this string. |
XMLString |
XString.xstr()
Cast result object to a string. |
XMLString |
XRTreeFragSelectWrapper.xstr()
Cast result object to an XMLString. |
XMLString |
XRTreeFrag.xstr()
Cast result object to an XMLString. |
XMLString |
XObject.xstr()
Cast result object to a string. |
XMLString |
XNodeSet.xstr()
Cast result object to an XMLString. |
| Methods in org.apache.xpath.objects with parameters of type XMLString | |
|---|---|
(package private) boolean |
NotEqualComparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings for non-equality. |
(package private) boolean |
EqualComparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings for equality. |
(package private) boolean |
GreaterThanOrEqualComparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings for greater than or equal. |
(package private) boolean |
GreaterThanComparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings for greater than. |
(package private) boolean |
LessThanOrEqualComparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings for less than or equal. |
(package private) boolean |
LessThanComparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings for less than. |
(package private) abstract boolean |
Comparator.compareStrings(XMLString s1,
XMLString s2)
Compare two strings |
int |
XStringForFSB.compareTo(XMLString xstr)
Compares two strings lexicographically. |
int |
XString.compareTo(XMLString xstr)
Compares two strings lexicographically. |
int |
XStringForFSB.compareToIgnoreCase(XMLString xstr)
Compares two strings lexicographically, ignoring case considerations. |
int |
XString.compareToIgnoreCase(XMLString str)
Compares two strings lexicographically, ignoring case considerations. |
boolean |
XStringForFSB.equals(XMLString obj2)
Compares this string to the specified object. |
boolean |
XString.equals(XMLString obj2)
Compares this string to the specified object. |
int |
XString.indexOf(XMLString str)
Returns the index within this string of the first occurrence of the specified substring. |
boolean |
XStringForFSB.startsWith(XMLString prefix)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix. |
boolean |
XString.startsWith(XMLString prefix)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix. |
boolean |
XStringForFSB.startsWith(XMLString prefix,
int toffset)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix beginning a specified index. |
boolean |
XString.startsWith(XMLString prefix,
int toffset)
Tests if this string starts with the specified prefix beginning a specified index. |
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