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Queens Supreme Confusion
by Libby A. White
After viewing the first two episodes of Queens Supreme,
CBS' mid-season submission to the Friday night lineup (10:00
p.m.), I'm still wondering why the powers-that-be at CBS thought
it was a brilliant idea to begin the season with the second episode
and follow it up with the first. Perhaps they thought that Kristen
Johnston's (Third Rock from the Sun) guest appearance
as a furious, trying-to-be-ex-wife of Judge Jack Moran (played
by Oliver Platt) in the opening scene was the attention grabber
to set the season. Or perhaps they decided that being mysterious
about who is who and what's it all about would get viewers to
tune in at least one more time.
For
whatever reason, I had the following questions after the "first"
episode: 1) who is a judge and who is a law clerk ; 2) why do
people seem to hate (a new judge?) Kim Vicidomini (played by
Anabella Sciorra); and 3) what is wrong with Judge Moran? After
the second episode, the answers are clearer (more on that later).
However, I'm still wondering why Judge Moran and Judge Vicidomini
carry guns, why they seem to have a hard time keeping them out
of the hands of crazed people (more on that later), and if someone
will be shooting a gun into a ceiling or window every episode.
Queens Supreme has been touted as a "seriocomedy,"
that is, a comedy with serious overtones. The setting is the
Queens County Courthouse in New York City, staffed by four Supreme
Court Justices (that's what the lower court judges are called
there), two law clerks, and some security personnel who tend
to be rather free with their guns. Because Queens is the most
ethnically diverse community in the United States (according
to the producers), there is an inexhaustible supply of characters
and nationalities that could pass through the Queens courtrooms.
In addition to Judges Moran and Vicidomini, there is the senior
judge, Thomas O'Neill (Robert Loggia, reprising his usual role
of wise, reasonable, and sympathetic paternal figure) and Judge
Rose Barena (L. Scott Caldwell). The law clarks are Mike Powell
(James Madio, known best from "Band of Brothers") and
Marcy Harriel (Carmen Hui).
In the "first" episode,
after following Judge Moran's wife marching through the courthouse
as she tries to find him to sign the divorce papers, we meet
Jack Moran. Oliver Platt, a distant relative of Orson Welles
(there is a resemblance), plays the central character as a cynical,
lovable judge, trying to do good, but going, and acting, a little
nuts along the way. He escapes his wife by holing up in his courtroom,
attempting to force a hopelessly deadlocked jury to come to decision
in a case in which a smoker died of a heart attack, presumably
caused by the stress of trying to stop smoking.
The jury is deadlocked because
one of the six jurors, who is a heavy smoker himself, thinks
the "Butt Breakers" clinic negligently caused the heart
attack. Because the jury has been deliberating for three days,
the juror holdout is suffering from severe nicotine deprivation.
Judge Moran's order to the jury to come to a decision is the
catalyst for the smoker to disrupt the courtroom, steal the bailiff's
gun, and hold the jury, Judge, bailiff, and law clerk Mike as
hostages while he blissfully smokes away in the courtroom ("don't
mess with a man and his cigarette"). When tempers get a
little hot with the hostages, the juror shoots out a window.
At that point, Judge Moran decides to give his gun to the juror
as a measure of trust (now that's reality) and then argues the
juror's "case" to the jury to show him that he will
have a chance at redemption if he lets them go.  One of
the jurors turns to Judge Moran and remarks, "You're a better
lawyer than you were a judge."
The "second" episode
(directed by Tim Robbins) introduces the courtroom in Queens,
the main characters, and their relationships. We learn that Judge
Vicidomini is a novice political appointee, with an in at City
Hall. Judge Bornea is the most critical of her and her lack of
experience, suggesting that she "slept" her way to
the job. We also find out that City Hall, namely the Mayor, is
very unhappy with Judge Moran and wants him off the bench because
he has called the Mayor a "fascist," and because he
is too easy on criminal defendants and doesn't following sentencing
guidelines. The Bureau of Court Administration decides to suspend
Moran for these reasons and for his unorthodox behavior, which
includes: 1) singing "Trouble, Right in River City,"
from The Music Man, from the bench to illustrate that
just because an elderly woman exercises her First Amendment right
to speak (or sing), even if only to herself, does not mean she
is incompetent to run her business; and 2) appropriating an amputated
penis from a medical malpractice case so he can take a picture
of it with him and his law books.
 Judge Moran intervenes and shoots his gun into the
ceiling to scare the father into giving up. He does. Judge Vicidomini
also manages to settle the penis case, and then uses her connections
as a "Republican Italian" to convince the Mayor to
reinstate Moran as a judge.
Queens Supreme was conceived by the twin lawyer sons
of Queens County Supreme Court Justice Charles J. Thomas, Peter
and Daniel Thomas. While they propose to use real "war stories"
from their and others' experiences in the courtroom, they admit
to some artistic license, including the universal use of the
gavel (not used much in real life). So far, it appears perfectly
acceptable for judges to be as fully involved, if not more so,
than the lawyers in the presentation of evidence, questioning
of witnesses, and settling of cases. This makes sense for a show
that is focused on trial court judges. Otherwise the reality
of motion practice, preliminary hearings, deadly dull direct
and cross examinations, and judges who should act more as courtroom
referees than as players would not be too entertaining for the
average TV audience.
The action is fast, with quick
cuts to two or three-person conversations that are intense, but
often interlaced with wit and caustic humor, mostly provided
by Jack Moran. Oliver Platt has excellent timing and is already
well within his character's skin. He introduces just enough self-deprecation
and self-criticism to avoid being either too preachy or too irritating
in his humor. The remaining characters need more flesh and of
course, that will come with time, but the most interesting one
so far is the law clerk Mike who adds a certain zing to every
scene, perhaps because James Madio is so charismatic. There is
actually little time in the courtroom, which is a shame, since
courtroom scenes are great for showcasing oratory and analytical
skills, not to mention lessons in group dynamics. For a show
that is set in a courthouse, with the main characters as judges,
what they actually do for their living is not obvious.
The question is, will it last?
A well-known and respected cast, top producers (including Aaron
Spelling and Julia Roberts), and A List directors are
great ingredients for a successful run. But with any successful
show, the writers make all the difference. I'm already concerned
that the characters and stories will be one-dimensional, repetitive
and therefore, boring. The first two episodes had many of the
same ingredients: Judge Moran acting crazy, but then making sense;
Judge Vicidomini seemingly unsure, but then succeeding like a
veteran; normal people pulling guns on others because of stress
in the courtroom (and guns going off), and Judge Moran saving
the day; Judge Barnea criticizing Judge Vicidomini; Judge O'Neill
acting as the voice of reason; judges listening to their juries
through a bathroom vent; and finally, lawyers looking, and acting,
like idiots in the courtroom. It will be interesting to see if
the writers can go beyond these beginning themes and give "Queens
Supreme" some depth and breadth. If not, the initial challenge
of figuring out the first episode may, in hindsight, have been
the most entertaining part of the show.
Posted February 6, 2003
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mysql_real_escape_string SQL injection
Understanding how to safely use mysql_real_escape_string function
PHP provides mysql_real_escape_string() to escape special characters in a string before sending a query to MySQL. This function was adopted by many to escape single quotes in strings and by the same occasion prevent SQL injection attacks. However, it can create serious security flaws when it is not used correctly.
Escaped Characters
What exactly does mysql_real_escape_string function do? It prepends a backslash to every special character in the first parameter. Special characters considered are listed below.
Characters escaped by mysql_real_escape_string
0x00 (NULL)
Newline (\n)
Carriage return (\r)
Double quotes (")
Backslash (\)
0x1A (Ctrl+Z)
Correct Usage
Here is a classic and secure way to use this function as input sanitizer for string parameters.
User input (attack attempt).
a' OR 'a'='a
Sanitizing input.
$param = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['n']);
Query generated.
SELECT id FROM products WHERE name='a\' OR \'a\'=\'a'
Since the last example is secured against SQL injections, the query generated will return no result (except if a product is really named as the green segment). What is important to remember here is that you must always enclose the sanitized parameter between quotes when using mysql_real_escape_string() otherwize a SQL injection vulnerability will be created.
How Not To Use
Programmers should be really careful when using mysql_real_escape_string function to sanitize numeric parameters since they are habitually integrated in the query without quotes. The function discussed in this article does not verify data types; it simply escapes some special characters. Here is a code sample that shows how SQL injection could be achieved when mysql_real_escape_string is not correctly implemented.
Malicious user input - A numeric value is expected by the script.
9999 OR 1=1
Sanitizing input.
$productid = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET[id]);
Query generated.
SELECT name FROM products WHERE id=9999 OR 1=1
When the query is executed, all products' name are returned because the crafted parameter submitted by the attacker is considered as a part of the SQL segment.
Numeric Parameters and mysql_real_escape_string
As stated earlier in the article, the parameter sanitized by mysql_real_escape_string must be enclosed between quotes in order to avoid SQL injection (no matter the data type). MySQL Server (and other popular DBMS) supports single quotes around numeric values. Here is what the last example would look like after the security fix:
Malicious user input - A numeric value is expected by the script.
9999 OR 1=1
Sanitizing input.
$productid = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']);
Query generated - Attack voided.
SELECT name FROM products WHERE id='9999 OR 1=1'
The last query will return no name.
LIKE Operator Wildcards
There is one last thing to consider when using mysql_real_escape_string to sanitize data; the function does not escape SQL wildcards for LIKE operator. It might seem trivial but in fact it can have a considerable impact on the query's behavior. Since those characters are not escaped, they are considered as classic wildcards by the LIKE operator:
MySQL LIKE Wildcards (MySQL has only 2 wildcards)
% Matches an arbitrary number of characters (including zero character).

To prevent a wildcard match you must escape the corresponding character with a backslash. Here is how it can be done:
User input.
john's ca_
Sanitize data (also escape all MySQL wildcards).
$val = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['p']);
$val = str_replace("%", "\%", $val);
$val = str_replace("_", "\_", $val);
Generated query (search all products where the description contains exact match of user input).
SELECT * FROM products WHERE description LIKE '%john\'s ca\_%'
Even if most of the time you should escape wildcards characters, there are some cases where you may want the user to use them. Just keep in mind that in those situations, the user could build input strings difficult to match and it might have some performance impact on LIKE operator (available soon). This is not a critical issue, however if an attacker tries to slow down the application or make a DDOS it might be easier with a control over wildcards characters.
Alternative Solutions
Using mysql_real_escape_string is without a doubt a simple way to secure an application against SQL injections, however it is far from the perfect world. Every time this function is used to sanitize data, it calls MySQL's library function. It is not a big deal but if you make a large number of calls to mysql_real_escape_string it will slow down your database server. Moreover if you mistakenly call the function twice on the same data you will end up with incorrect information in your database.
For those reasons, it is suggested to adopt alternative solutions such as parameterized statements or stored procedures as explained in the article about preventing SQL injections in PHP (article available soon).


Arctic is a small, simple, light-weight Domain Specific Language for making user interfaces in haXe targetting Flash 8 & 9.
Run
haxelib install arctic
to install the latest version of Arctic.
Hello world in Arctic looks like this:
import arctic.Arctic; import arctic.ArcticView; import arctic.ArcticBlock; class HelloWorld { static public function main() { new HelloWorld(flash.Lib.current); } public function new(parent : ArcticMovieClip) { // To make a screen, first build the data structure representing the contents var helloWorld = Arctic.makeSimpleButton("Hello world", remove, 50); // Then construct the arctic view object on the given movieclip arcticView = new ArcticView( helloWorld, parent ); // And finally display var root = arcticView.display(true); } public function remove() { // Clear out the screen arcticView.destroy(); } public var arcticView : ArcticView; }
Save this as HelloWorld.hx
(or have a look at
examples/HelloWorld.hx) and compile with haxe -lib arctic -swf HelloWorld.swf -main HelloWorld
.
The result is a flash movie which has a button in the top-left corner with the
text "Hello world" 50 pixels high. When you click that, the button is removed, and
the program ends.
User interfaces in Artic are built from blocks. In the example above, the
only block used is a button, which is constructed by the Arctic.makeSimpleButton
function. This is a helper function, which returns an ArcticBlock
. This block is
then given to an ArcticView
along with the MovieClip where we want to show the block.
The display
call renders the view on the MovieClip.  Normally, you
don't need to use that MovieClip for anything.
When the button is clicked, the function given as the second parameter to makeSimpleButton
is called. This in turns calls the class member remove
, which destroys the MovieClips that the ArcticView
code made, and thus the screen is cleared again.
Notice that we use ArcticMovieClip rather than MovieClip in the code above.
This is because the MovieClip is different in Flash 8 and 9, so Arctic provides
an alias to make the code work in both Flash 8 and 9. Try to compile the code
with -swf-version 9
and see yourself.
The blocks in Arctic are designed to be combined similar to lego bricks. Technically, each block is an entry in a haXe enum. There are a number of different blocks available - hopefully enough to build interesting user interfaces. Let's center the button horizontally by using a layout block, in this case a ColumnStack. Change the red line to
var helloWorld = ColumnStack( [ Filler, Arctic.makeSimpleButton("Hello world", remove, 50), Filler ] );
and recompile. Now the button is centered horizontally. Notice that Arctic
also handles resizing of the canvas for you: Try to resize the Flash window, and
see how the button is constantly centered. (If you don't want Arctic to handle
resizing for you, just pass false
in the arcticView.display
call.)
A ColumnStack takes an array of blocks, and puts them next to each other horizontally. In the example above, we use three blocks: A Filler, the button like before, and another Filler. A Filler block is a special, empty block that stretches itself to take up as much space as is available. By surrounding the button with fillers, the effect is that the ColumnStack grows to fill the entire width available, such that each filler takes up half the extra space available. The result is that the button is centered.
If you want to right align the button, just remove the last Filler.
Besides ColumnStack, Arctic also has LineStack which stacks blocks on top of each other vertically. The LineStack will also add a scrollbar in case there is not enough room for all blocks. (The ColumnStack does not do that yet, so if there is not enough space in the width, the right most blocks will just be outside the screen. This might change in a future version of Arctic.)
So if we change the code to
var helloWorld = LineStack( [ Filler, ColumnStack( [ Filler, Arctic.makeSimpleButton("Hello world", remove, 50), Filler ] ), Filler ] );
and recompile, the result is a button which is centered in the middle of the screen.
Let's spice our example up with some more content. We can add some text at the top using the Text block:
var helloWorld = LineStack( [ Text("Some text in HTML is nice"), Filler, ColumnStack( [ Filler, Arctic.makeSimpleButton("Hello world", remove, 50), Filler ] ), Filler ] );
Flash only supports a tiny subset of HTML, but it does allow us to choose fonts and colors. The default font in Flash is not very nice, so there is a helper Arctic.makeText which will wrap a string with an Arial font in given size and color - in this case 16 pixels high and blue color:
var helloWorld = LineStack( [ Arctic.makeText("Some text in HTML is nice", 16, "#0000ff"), Filler, ColumnStack( [ Filler, Arctic.makeSimpleButton("Hello world", remove, 50), Filler ] ), Filler ] );
We can also add a rounded background color using the Background element:
var helloWorld = Background(0xdddddd, LineStack( [ Arctic.makeText("Some text in HTML is nice", 16, "#0000ff"), Filler, ColumnStack( [ Filler, Arctic.makeSimpleButton("Hello world", remove, 50), Filler ] ), Filler ] ) , 100.0, 20);
The 100.0 value in the last line means that the background is fully opaque, and the 20 value means that the background is rounded 20 pixels.
The function parameter is a function which serves two purposes: First, it provides a way to get the contents of the input box, which is illustrated above. Secondly, it also serves as a validator function, which can be used to check that the contents typed conform to some syntax. If the contents are not as required, return false, and the user is notified by a red color.var value = ""; var gui = LineStack( [ Filler, TextInput("Write something here", 400, 20, function (s) { value = s; return true; }), Arctic.makeSimpleButton( "Click me!", function () { trace(value); } ) ] ); var arcticView = new ArcticView( gui, flash.Lib.current); arcticView.display(true);
Doing layout in Arctic can sometimes be tricky - especially in nested layouts. To help you learn do layout using Arctic, it is good to know how it works behind the scenes: First, Arctic figures out how much space to use for the layout by asking the size of the parent MovieClip. That's why it is sometimes a good idea to use adjustSize or setSize on that clip first, in case there is nothing in it.
Next, Arctic recursively builds the blocks from the top downwards, passing the size of the rectangle for that block along. Each time it encounters a layout block, such as a ColumnStack, a LineStack or a Grid, it does a two-pass algorithm. First, the minimum size and resizing behaviour of each block in the stack or grid are determined. This is used to determine how much free space is available to distribute to each column and/or row. In the next phase, Arctic will spread the available surplus space to the blocks that resize evenly.
So, Arctic does layout on rectangles only. Each block has a corresponding minimum rectangle size, and might resize horizontally or vertically or both, in terms of layout. Fillers resize in the direction of their nearest containing block, such as a LineStack or ColumnStack. Dragable resize in the directions their flags dictate. Border, Background, GradientBackground, Button, and similar elements inherit their nested block's resizing behaviour. ConstrainHeight and ConstrainWidth never resize in the corresponding direction, even if they contain a resizing element.
To debug layout trouble, try wrapping the problematic blocks and their parents with Background() elements in various colors. If something is resizing too much, you can try to use a ConstrainHeight or ConstrainWidth to make it better. If alignment is off, you might need something like a LineStack([Filler, block]) wrapper to position things correctly.
If you need to align blocks to a baseline of a font, or something like that, you'll have to do a CustomBlock, or use Fixed and Border elements with exact pixel offsets to do the trick.
arctic/ArcticBlock.hx
file, which lists and documents all
available blocks in Arctic. Be sure to also have a look at arctic/Arctic.hx
to see which helpers are available. These also serve as great examples of
how to use Arctic.
To see more examples of how to do more advanced things, be sure to read
the code of the examples in the examples
directory.
To make user interfaces work in both Flash 8 and 9 can be cumbersome, because of the
slight API changes between these two versions. Arctic provides a helper class,
ArcticMC
, which can help avoid a lot of #if flash9 ... #else flash ... #end
blocks in your code.


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Before you begin to design elements, you need to know what elements will need to be designed! While some elements—icons and headlines with body copy—are universal, many aren’t. Even more important, your elements are not random visuals. They serve a purpose, wether to increase sales or donations, increase the average time on a page, or get newsletter signups. Therefore, you need to know what elements to design and their key functions. Both pieces of information come from the Information Architecture phase. So, before you start designing, make sure you have your wireframes!
Once you have a list containing all the elements that are on the site (from your wireframe) and you have a visual direction based on the mood deck and style tile, you can start designing those elements. Focus on the actual elements, not on their placement within the artboard. You can rearrange them later. I’ve included links to examples of element collages below. As for the number of elements: a lot, experiment. Multiples of each element…actually, multiples of multiples. This phase is about quantity and exploration of ideas. Don’t forget, your elements should be based on the choices you made in the style tiles!
Finally, create your elements on an artboard in either Figma, Sketch, Studio, or Xd. Your artboards should be 2300×1440 pixels. This will allow you to proportionally scale it to fit an 11×17 inch tabloid size piece of paper in landscape. The 2300×1440 pixel dimension is also the size of larger laptops or smaller desktop screens, so make your elements with that scale in mind. You will most likely need to create multiple artboards.
To help you visualize what an Element Collage is, I’ve found a few examples. However, please keep in mind that most of the examples are the final version presented to the client. Yours should not be neat and orderly…unless that is your natural working method.


Hi, at the begining of 2016 I've created a dashboard in the emoncms.org adding a Text widget with an external meteo Iframe.
Now this iframe is not working anymore also re-creating the object.
Differently am html "open img" is working, I suppose that iframe is not supported anymore with emoncms.
Has something changed ? Browsing on the forum I haven't seen any specific info to solve this issue.
Any suggestion ?
TIA
Massimo
Re: Emoncms.org site doesn't support iframe anymore [SOLVED]
SOLVED
The problem is due to the used browser setting and not to emoncms site.
Firefox by default is set to block "mixed contents" when you use an https request (emoncms site works with https protocol). To unblock it just click on hit use an http protocol)
On other browser you can set it a in slightly different way (IE, Chrome)


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Helen Geller"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end."
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Albert Einstein"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."
Helen Keller"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.
Abdul Kalam better known as A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India.In his book India 2020, Kalam strongly advocated an action plan to develop India into a "knowledge superpower" and a developed nation by the year 2020. He regarded his work on India's nuclear weapons programme as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.Gandhi was a prolific writer. One of Gandhi's earliest publications, Hind Swaraj, published in Gujarati in 1909, is recognised as the intellectual blueprint of India's independence movement. The book was translated into English the next year, with a copyright legend that read "No Rights Reserved".For decades he edited several newspapers including Harijan in Gujarati, in Hindi and in the English language; Indian Opinion while in South Africa and, Young India, in English, and Navajivan, a Gujarati monthly, on his return to India. Later, Navajivan was also published in Hindi. In addition, he wrote letters almost every day to individuals and newspapers.
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of the German Reich, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was central to the Holocaust.
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.At age 22, Keller published her autobiography, The Story of My Life (1903), with help from Sullivan and Sullivan's husband, John Macy. It recounts the story of her life up to age 21 and was written during her time in college.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.


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Navigation¶
Controllers are in charge of navigation. They communicate with each other using the
Navigate protocol. Navigate has two methods push()
and next()
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The push method transitions to a new view adding it to the stack of existing views in a new context. As contexts end the views will be popped of the stack returning to the previous views.
The next nethod transitions to a new view by unwinding the stack and then adding the view.
In this simplified example:
const TeamsController= Controller.extend({
goToTeam(team) {
TeamController(this.io)
.next(ctrl => ctrl.showTeam({ id: team.id }));
},
createTeam() {
CreateTeamController(this.io)
.next(ctrl => ctrl.createTeam());
}
});
The TeamsController’s goToTeam() method passes the current context this.io
into the TeamController. TeamController is being use here as you would use a protocol. This returns a
Navigation delegate with the next and push methods. Both methods take a function that will be
passed an instance of the controller. We are calling the showTeam method on the TeamController
and passing in the the team id that we want shown.
The createTeam method is very simular. It is calling the createTeam method on the CreateTeamController, but it does not need to pass along any data.
This example uses push:
const EditTeamController = Controller.extend({
addPlayer() {
const io = this.io;
ChoosePlayerController(io)
.push(ctrl => ctrl.choosePlayer())
.then(players => {
if (players) {
TeamFeature(io).addPlayers(players, this.team);
}
});
}
});
Here we are asking ChoosePlayerController to push the choosePlayer view on top of us. Push returns a promise that will be resolved with the context has ended. The user will then select a player and the chosen player will be returned to us when the promise resolves. If the user did select a player, we call the TeamFeature protocol to add the player to our team.


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League - Term 3 - 2020 Team Ladder from 29/07/2020 to 29/07/2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Team | Points | Score Ratio | Games |
| 1 | Whip The Spyder | 16 | 118.6% | 3 |
| 2 | Todd Squad | 14 | 96.9% | 3 |
| 3 | Thats Cooked | 12 | 103.8% | 3 |
| 4 | Corona-via-us | 12 | 99.2% | 3 |
| 5 | T Shizzle Gang | 6 | 81.5% | 3 |
This report ranks teams. The report has been limited to games from 29/07/2020 to 29/07/2020.
League - Term 3 - 2020 Teams vs Teams from 29/07/2020 to 29/07/2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Whip The Spyder | Todd Squad | Thats Cooked | Corona-via-us | T Shizzle Gang |
| Whip The Spyder | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | |
| Todd Squad | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/1 | |
| Thats Cooked | 0/2 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 2/2 | |
| Corona-via-us | 0/1 | 1/2 | 0/1 | 2/2 | |
| T Shizzle Gang | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/2 | 0/2 |
Teams vs Teams shows how each team performs against each other team. For example, to see how Whip The Spyder did against Todd Squad, read across the first row to the second column. This score, 1/2, is the number of times Whip The Spyder scored higher than Todd Squad, compared to the total number of times they played each other.
League - Term 3 - 2020 Solo Ladder from 29/07/2020 to 29/07/2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Player | Team | Average Score | Average Rank | Score Ratio | Games | ||
| 1 | SPYDER | Thats Cooked | 10465 | 2.0 | 157% | 3 | ||
| 2 | Packiing | Corona-via-us | 10948 | 3.0 | 153% | 3 | ||
| 3 | ZoneCub | Whip The Spyder | 10402 | 4.3 | 141% | 3 | ||
| 4 | Vexim | Corona-via-us | 10025 | 4.0 | 140% | 3 | ||
| 5 | Invictus | Todd Squad | 10295 | 4.3 | 138% | 3 | ||
| 6 | KingTim | Todd Squad | 9588 | 6.0 | 130% | 3 | ||
| 7 | LSP | T Shizzle Gang | 8435 | 6.3 | 130% | 3 | ||
| 8 | M2Skyros | Whip The Spyder | 8675 | 5.7 | 115% | 3 | ||
| 9 | Whippet | Thats Cooked | 7392 | 7.7 | 112% | 3 | ||
| 10 | Young | Thats Cooked | 7054 | 7.5 | 106% | 4 | ||
| 11 | Kovat | Whip The Spyder | 7808 | 7.0 | 104% | 3 | ||
| 12 | Camsta | Todd Squad | 7341 | 9.0 | 98% | 3 | ||
| 13 | Dusty51 | T Shizzle Gang | 6278 | 9.0 | 94% | 3 | ||
| 14 | Whip The Spyder | 7325 | 8.3 | 92% | 3 | |||
| 15 | Reign | Thats Cooked | 6234 | 9.8 | 91% | 4 | ||
| 16 | LazerLim | T Shizzle Gang | 5718 | 10.0 | 88% | 3 | ||
| 17 | Canno | Todd Squad | 5921 | 9.8 | 84% | 5 | ||
| 18 | El Mayo | Corona-via-us | 5524 | 10.7 | 75% | 3 | ||
| 19 | Echo | Thats Cooked | 5632 | 11.3 | 75% | 4 | ||
| 20 | Hemlock | T Shizzle Gang | 2860 | 13.0 | 45% | 4 | ||
| 21 | Wookie | Corona-via-us | 3087 | 13.3 | 40% | 3 |
This report ranks individual players. Tag Ratio is the number of people you shot divided by the number of people that shot you. Score ratio is your score in each game divided by the average score for that game. TR x SR is tag ratio multiplied by score ratio. The report has been limited to games from 29/07/2020 to 29/07/2020. Players are ranked on their average score ratio.
League - Term 3 - 2020 Games for 29/07/2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | Team | Score | Pts | Team | Score | Pts | Team | Score | Pts | |||
| 7:09 PM | Todd Squad | 41358 | 6 | Whip The Spyder | 37968 | 4 | Thats Cooked | 37708 | 2 | |||
| 7:27 PM | Todd Squad | 41518 | 6 | Corona-via-us | 37447 | 4 | T Shizzle Gang | 31027 | 2 | |||
| 7:44 PM | Whip The Spyder | 47988 | 6 | Thats Cooked | 31866 | 4 | T Shizzle Gang | 25765 | 2 | |||
| 8:01 PM | Whip The Spyder | 52420 | 6 | Corona-via-us | 45550 | 4 | Todd Squad | 30596 | 2 | |||
| 8:19 PM | Thats Cooked | 37709 | 6 | Corona-via-us | 27033 | 4 | T Shizzle Gang | 26335 | 2 |
This is a list of games. Each row in the table is one game. Across each row, you see the teams that were in that game (with the team that placed first listed first, and so on), and the score for each team.


--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: See the Human’s Lifes From a Tree(从一棵树上看人生) author: Leask author_login: leask author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>author_url: https://leaskh.com wordpress_id: 730 wordpress_url: http://leaskh.wordpress.com/2005/07/04/see-the-human%e2%80%99s-lifes-from-a-tree%e4%bb%8e%e4%b8%80%e6%a3%b5%e6%a0%91%e4%b8%8a%e7%9c%8b%e4%ba%ba%e7%94%9f date: '2005-07-04 14:41:32 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-04 14:41:32 +0800' categories: - Life tags: [] comments: - id: 49 author: Jully author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2006-06-05 00:37:19 +0800' date_gmt: '2006-06-05 00:37:19 +0800' content: "一直在追求心灵的一方净土" - id: 50 author: Leask author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-14 09:54:49 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-14 09:54:49 +0800' content: "补写一句，希望 xiaoxiao 可以得到他的“树”。i'm work'g on it." - id: 51 author: Leask author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-14 09:43:50 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-14 09:43:50 +0800' content: "看到 xiaoxiao 的留言，感动中，感概中...So do u~and So do u all.xiaoxiao，你拜托的J公司的网站我已经做完了一个DEMO版本已经发到你的邮箱，有时间查收一下。页面是用PNG图片组织的，不是用HTML表格，为的是更好展示版面的样式，如果这个项目可以谈下来我会重新用HTML做一次。具体等你回国时候再谈吧。夏安。" - id: 52 author: Xiao author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-13 17:03:44 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-13 17:03:44 +0800' content: "一点也不稚气，而且sas翻译地也非常好！你们两个简直有默契！我感到自己已经慢慢的迈入并向往成人的树了，但是并不完全是文中的树，我更多地希望实现自身的价值和所追求的梦想，并把落脚的树分享与我的父母和以后的家庭。我相信人的成功是需要运气的，运气可能降临的快也可能很慢，但运气只会降临到那些尝试了或不断去尝试的人。鄙视那些光想不做，夸夸其谈的人。希望思夏一直坚持自己的梦想，敢想敢做！坚持不懈。" - id: 53 author: "啦啦" author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-10 18:45:55 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-10 18:45:55 +0800' content: "稚气高中的时候我也写过类似的文章..但是没有思夏写的深刻.." - id: 54 author: Unknown author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-07 05:59:51 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-07 05:59:51 +0800' content: "呵呵！没想到在那些尚幼稚的言语当中已经包含了那么深的思想！服了你！也许以前的你正如你说的是个不善观察的小孩，但是至少是个喜欢思考的小孩！加油，真觉得你的文章写得很不错的！希望天天看到你新鲜的文字呵呵~~" - id: 55 author: "昱霏" author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-06 15:33:58 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-06 15:33:58 +0800' content: "文字与图都给人一种感动，来自自然的一种蜕变。" - id: 56 author: "随风" author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-05 07:10:32 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-05 07:10:32 +0800' content: "同是推广部的战友，过来拥抱一下，已留下我的脚印!!" - id: 57 author: "莹" author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2005-07-04 16:43:44 +0800' date_gmt: '2005-07-04 16:43:44 +0800' content: "呵呵··不错哦··" ---
分享一篇以前写的文章。高中时期的。
高中是我最喜欢写作的时候，那个时候语文老师给予我很大的鼓舞。
虽然记忆中和她有很多思想和态度上的冲突。
从一棵树上看人生
我不是一个善于观察的人，所以错过了生活中的很多点点滴滴。校园中里里外外都是花草树木，被我认真看过的却找不到一棵。
然而有一次却让我无意之中在一棵树上看到了这样一个有趣的片段。一只花蝴蝶在一旁的花丛中飞了好一会，采了不少花粉。好像是因为累了，小蝴蝶飞往一棵树上要停下来休息。可刚停在一棵小树上，一阵风吹过吹动了小树。小蝶耐不住突如其来的动荡被震飞了。小蝶飞了一会儿又落到了那棵树上，可又一阵风吹过，小蝶又一次被吓飞了。就这样，风中柔弱的，被吹得摇摇摆摆的小树没有能给小蝶一个可供休息的环境。在好几次的受惊与失望后，小蝶一气之下飞走了，远远地飞离了那一棵让它一次又一次受委屈的小树久久没有回头。正当这个时候风停了，只剩下那一棵小树静静地呆在那儿。
可惜的是小蝶再也没有回来，在某种意义上讲这一刻的平静已经失去了价值。
突然间很有感触。我想，我们人类也常常会这样。对成功的追求付诸于努力和尝试的人很多，而在努力过后未等到成功的到来就悲欢失望，甚至放弃的人也不少。
人们常常在成功前放弃，放弃一切一直以来的努力成果。他们往往没有意识到，历经了无数的风风雨雨、艰难险阻后自己离成功已经很近，甚至乎只剩下最后一步，成功的果实就已在把握之中，可惜的是有这一份勇气再迈出最后一步的人并不多。
对于疲倦的小蝶来说，平静的小树是一个宁静舒适的休息环境，是它所希望拥有的一种幸福。在人们心中，“树”的存在是形形式式的。对于一个小孩子来说，他的“树”是糖果或古怪的小玩意；对于一个学生来讲，他的“树”可能是优异的成绩或老师的赞赏；对于成年人，“树”往往是房子、车子、票子!!
每一个人心中都有一棵这样的“树”。朋友，当你在努力追求这一棵“树”时遇到困难和挫折的时候，别忘了本文中的小蝶；也许成功的光芒已经依稀可见，鼓足勇气再迈一步吧。
English Edition:
See the human’s lifes from a tree
I’m not a person who always pays attention to everything around the world; therefore I miss a lot of beautiful views in my life. There are many beautiful plants inside or outside of school, but I can’t find one was observed by me carefully.
At one time, I saw an interesting view happened in the tree accidentally. A beautiful butterfly flew around the flower for a long time, plucking not a little pollen. It seemed that it was tired, it landed on a tree to stop to have a rest when a wind blew and moved the tree. The butterfly flew away from the tree at once because of the sudden shaking. After a while, it landed on the tree again. But there was a blowing again, the butterfly was frightened to flow away once more. After the shaking, the butterfly found that the infirm tree wasn’t the suitable place for it to rest. It was frightened and felt the disappointment. It flew far away from the tree at last, without turning back. At this time, blowing had stopped, the tree still stood there alone, quietly.
It was a pity that the butterfly never came back again. On a certain meaning, the quietude at this moment had lost the value.
Through this view, I know something. I think, humans always will be like that. Many people try their best to the hanker for success; they always feel the disappointment during the course. Even worse, they will give it up.
Men always can’t receive frustration. They never realize that there is only an easy distance of success after their hard working for such a long time. Even, success is by their sides, nearly they will get it, but, it’s a pity that they always can’t endure until the success comes.
To the tired butterfly, the tree was a quiet, comfortable place for it to have a rest, the very thing that the butterfly needed. In people’s minds, “Tree” is defined differently. It always stands for the things that men seek after. To the children, “Tree” are the sweets or the interesting bauble; to the students, the “Tree” may be the good result in the exam or the praises from the teacher; to the adults, the “Tree” always are the houses, cars and money!!
There is such a “Tree” in everybody’s mind. My dear friend, when you are knocked down by the setback, never say die, you should know, every failure is a stepping-stone to success, maybe success is on its way, you will get the “Tree” you want soon!
PS：感谢sas英化本文(Translate by sas)。
以前的文字很稚气，但是这篇文章的内容却一直鼓舞我，时至今天。有时候一个发现，一种感觉，会深深影响我们以后的生活。
最后上传今天的天空Photo，明净得让人感动，好单纯，好美。大气折射带来的余霞乖乖地呆在天边。


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Fortnite 'Hide and Seek' missions leak ahead of weekly update
Source: Epic Games
Fortnite Chapter 2 is officially here, and with it comes a significant change to the way players will be leveling up their Battle Pass. While Missions will still be in the game, players will no longer be competing for Battle Stars. Instead, the goal is to get normal XP. With a larger focus on XP and less grinding, players should be able to level up their Battle Pass even faster, earning a variety of rewards on the way.
Unlike Season X's mission setup, there will be no time prestige missions, and the focal point is simply completing tasks as you play the game. Instead of having to complete the same mission with added difficulty, now you'll just be unlocking new missions as you complete the ones already available to you. The fifth week of Fortnite Chapter 2 isn't live until Thursday morning, but that didn't stop the missions for the week leaking a bit early.
Twitter user iFireMonkey — who is well-known for datamining various Fortnite secrets — uncovered the following list.
This week features some particularly easy challenges that will mostly just have you searching various locations for items or harvesting material. You can check out the full list of challenges below, and remember, the challenges won't be live until 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Nov. 14.
Hide and Seek Missions
- Land at Frenzy Farms, Slurpy Swamp, Sweaty Sands (0/3).
- Harvest 500 wood, 400 stone, 300 metal (0/3).
- Eliminations at Frenzy Farms or Sweaty Sands (0/3).
- Search chests at Pleasant Park or Lazy Lake (0/7).
- Consume foraged items (0/10).
- Deal damage to opponents with a pickaxe (0/100).
- Hit 5 consecutive weak spots while harvesting (0/1).
- Hit headshots (0/10).
- Visit landmarks in a single match (0/5).
- Eliminations in different matches (0/5).
- Search the hidden "I" found in the Hide and Seek screen (0/1).
As is the case every season, we'll have challenge guides ready for any challenges that might be extra difficult. In the meantime, head out and start collecting some XP!
Related: How to find the hidden 'I' in Hide and Seek Loading Screen
The Hide and Seek missions will drop Thursday at 9:30 AM EDT.


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Currys PC World kicks off Black Friday 2019 with early bird offers
The first offers are now live with the tech giant dropping its prices on Nintendo Switch bundles, Dyson V8 vacuums, LG smart 4K HD TVs and more
by Chantelle SymesterBack Friday is officially on November 29.
But that hasn’t stopped a whole host of top retailers setting out their stalls and showing off their sales goods with some cracking early bird offers.
Currys PC World has been teasing massive price drops since last week, hinting at offers that will be hard to match.
And earlier this week, the tech giant was briefly selling a new Apple iPad for £4!
The pricing glitch was caused by a system error and meant shoppers received an astonishing £285 discount.
The deal appeared in online baskets when ahoppers used the discount code FREECASE - designed to offer customers a free £30 case when they bought the 9.7 inch 2018 Apple iPad (32GB).
The iPad usually carries a price tag of £319 – although it has now been reduced to £289 in the early bird Black Friday sale.
And now Currys PC World has unveiled the first of many ‘Why Wait’ deals that are available for shoppers to snap up online at currys.co.uk and in stores across the UK.
The price cuts include plenty of incredible products across all major categories including home entertainment, kitchen appliances and computing.
The early deals are perfect for anyone eager to get their Christmas shopping sorted and avoid the chaos of Black Friday.
Top brands like Dyson, Nintendo, LG and more feature in the deals, which will continue throughout November.
Highlights for the first wave of discounts include £100 off the Dyson V8 Cord-free vacuum cleaners, now £299 and £45 off the best-selling Nintendo Switch with Pokemon Sword or Shield game bundles, now £279.
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Speaking about the decision to go early with deals this year, Zeena Hill, Go To Market Planning Director for Dixons Carphone said: “Each year, Black Friday continues to prove itself as a key shopping date for customers.
"At Currys PC World, we’re pleased to give shoppers an opportunity to purchase amazing technology at great prices now, ahead of the rush on 29th November.”
Best Currys Black Friday deals
Nintendo Switch & Pokémon Sword or Shield game - £279 (save £44.99)
HP Pavilion 14-ce3506sa 14" Laptop - Intel® Core™ i3, 128 GB SSD, Silver - £349 (save £180)
LG GSL961PZBV American-Style Fridge Freezer - Stainless Steel - £849 (save £450)
KITCHENAID Artisan Stand Mixer (Black) - £279 (save £20)
DYSON V8 Absolute Cordless Bagless Vacuum Cleaner (Nickel & Iron) - £299 (save £100)
LG OLED55B9PLA 55" Smart 4K Ultra HD HDR OLED TV with Google Assistant - £1,099 (save £500)
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Reference API Usage¶
Blender has many interlinking data types which have an auto-generated reference api which often has the information you need to write a script, but can be difficult to use.
This document is designed to help you understand how to use the reference api.
Reference API Scope¶
The reference API covers bpy.types
, which stores types accessed via bpy.context
- The user context
or bpy.data
- Blend file data.
Other modules such as bmesh
and aud
are not using Blenders data API
so this document doesn’t apply to those modules.
Data Access¶
The most common case for using the reference API is to find out how to access data in the blend file.
Before going any further its best to be aware of ID Data-Blocks in Blender since you will often find properties relative to them.
ID Data¶
ID Data-Blocks are used in Blender as top-level data containers.
From the user interface this isn’t so obvious, but when developing you need to know about ID Data-Blocks.
ID data types include Scene, Group, Object, Mesh, Screen, World, Armature, Image and Texture.
for a full list see the sub-classes of bpy.types.ID
Here are some characteristics ID Data-Blocks share.
- ID’s are blend file data, so loading a new blend file reloads an entire new set of Data-Blocks.
- ID’s can be accessed in Python from
bpy.data.*
- Each data-block has a unique
.name
attribute, displayed in the interface. - Animation data is stored in ID’s
.animation_data
. - ID’s are the only data types that can be linked between blend files.
- ID’s can be added/copied and removed via Python.
- ID’s have their own garbage-collection system which frees unused ID’s when saving.
- When a data-block has a reference to some external data, this is typically an ID Data-Block.
Simple Data Access¶
Lets start with a simple case, say you want a python script to adjust the object’s location.
Start by finding this setting in the interface Properties Window -> Object -> Transform -> Location
From the button you can right click and select Online Python Reference, this will link you to:
bpy.types.Object.location
Being an API reference, this link often gives little more information then the tool-tip, though some of the pages include examples (normally at the top of the page).
At this point you may say Now what? - you know that you have to use .location
and that its an array of 3 floats
but you’re still left wondering how to access this in a script.
So the next step is to find out where to access objects, go down to the bottom of the page to the References section, for objects there are many references, but one of the most common places to access objects is via the context.
It’s easy to be overwhelmed at this point since there Object
get referenced in so many places - modifiers,
functions, textures and constraints.
But if you want to access any data the user has selected
you typically only need to check the bpy.context
references.
Even then, in this case there are quite a few though if you read over these - most are mode specific.
If you happen to be writing a tool that only runs in weight paint mode, then using weight_paint_object
would be appropriate.
However to access an item the user last selected, look for the active
members,
Having access to a single active member the user selects is a convention in Blender: eg. active_bone
,
active_pose_bone
, active_node
… and in this case we can use - active_object
.
So now we have enough information to find the location of the active object.
bpy.context.active_object.location
You can type this into the python console to see the result.
The other common place to access objects in the reference is bpy.types.BlendData.objects
.
Note
This is not listed as bpy.data.objects
,
this is because bpy.data
is an instance of the bpy.types.BlendData
class,
so the documentation points there.
With bpy.data.objects
, this is a collection of objects so you need to access one of its members.
bpy.data.objects["Cube"].location
Nested Properties¶
The previous example is quite straightforward because location
is a property of Object
which can be accessed
from the context directly.
Here are some more complex examples:
# access a render layers samples
bpy.context.scene.render.layers["RenderLayer"].samples
# access to the current weight paint brush size
bpy.context.tool_settings.weight_paint.brush.size
# check if the window is fullscreen
bpy.context.window.screen.show_fullscreen
As you can see there are times when you want to access data which is nested in a way that causes you to go through a few indirections.
The properties are arranged to match how data is stored internally (in blenders C code) which is often logical but not always quite what you would expect from using Blender.
So this takes some time to learn, it helps you understand how data fits together in Blender which is important to know when writing scripts.
When starting out scripting you will often run into the problem where you’re not sure how to access the data you want.

- Use the Python console’s auto-complete to inspect properties. This can be hit-and-miss but has the advantage that you can easily see the values of properties and assign them to interactively see the results.
- Copy the Data-Path from the user interface. Explained further in :ref:`Copy Data Path <info_data_path_copy>`
- Using the documentation to follow references. Explained further in :ref:`Indirect Data Access <info_data_path_indirect>`
Copy Data Path¶
Blender can compute the Python string to a property which is shown in the tool-tip, on the line below Python: ...
,
This saves having to use the API reference to click back up the references to find where data is accessed from.
There is a user-interface feature to copy the data-path which gives the path from an bpy.types.ID
data-block,
to its property.
To see how this works we’ll get the path to the Subdivision-Surface modifiers subdivision setting.
Start with the default scene and select the Modifiers tab, then add a Subdivision-Surface modifier to the cube.
Now hover your mouse over the button labeled View, The tool-tip includes bpy.types.SubsurfModifier.levels
but we want the path from the object to this property.
Note that the text copied won’t include the bpy.data.collection["name"].
component since its assumed that
you won’t be doing collection look-ups on every access and typically you’ll want to use the context rather
then access each bpy.types.ID
instance by name.
Type in the ID path into a Python console bpy.context.active_object
.
Include the trailing dot and don’t hit “enter”, yet.
Now right-click on the button and select Copy Data Path, then paste the result into the console.
So now you should have the answer:
bpy.context.active_object.modifiers["Subsurf"].levels
Hit “enter” and you’ll get the current value of 1. Now try changing the value to 2:
bpy.context.active_object.modifiers["Subsurf"].levels = 2
You can see the value update in the Subdivision-Surface modifier’s UI as well as the cube.
Indirect Data Access¶
For this example we’ll go over something more involved, showing the steps to access the active sculpt brushes texture.
Lets say we want to access the texture of a brush via Python, to adjust its contrast
for example.
Start in the default scene and enable ‘Sculpt’ mode from the 3D-View header.
From the toolbar expand the Texture panel and add a new texture. Notice the texture button its self doesn’t have very useful links (you can check the tooltips).
The contrast setting isn’t exposed in the sculpt toolbar, so view the texture in the properties panel…
- In the properties button select the Texture context.
- Select the Brush icon to show the brush texture.
- Expand the Colors panel to locate the Contrast button.
Right click on the contrast button and select Online Python Reference This takes you to
bpy.types.Texture.contrast
Now we can see that
contrast
is a property of texture, so next we’ll check on how to access the texture from the brush.Check on the References at the bottom of the page, sometimes there are many references, and it may take some guess work to find the right one, but in this case its obviously
Brush.texture
.Now we know that the texture can be accessed from
bpy.data.brushes["BrushName"].texture
but normally you won’t want to access the brush by name, so we’ll see now to access the active brush instead.So the next step is to check on where brushes are accessed from via the References. In this case there is simply
bpy.context.brush
which is all we need.
Now you can use the Python console to form the nested properties needed to access brush textures contrast, logically we now know.
Context -> Brush -> Texture -> Contrast
Since the attribute for each is given along the way we can compose the data path in the python console:
bpy.context.brush.texture.contrast
There can be multiple ways to access the same data, which you choose often depends on the task.
An alternate path to access the same setting is…
bpy.context.sculpt.brush.texture.contrast
Or access the brush directly…
bpy.data.brushes["BrushName"].texture.contrast
If you are writing a user tool normally you want to use the bpy.context
since the user normally expects
the tool to operate on what they have selected.
For automation you are more likely to use bpy.data
since you want to be able to access specific data and manipulate
it, no matter what the user currently has the view set at.
Operators¶
Most key-strokes and buttons in Blender call an operator which is also exposed to python via bpy.ops
,
To see the Python equivalent hover your mouse over the button and see the tool-tip,
eg Python: bpy.ops.render.render()
,
If there is no tool-tip or the Python:
line is missing then this button is not using an operator and
can’t be accessed from Python.
If you want to use this in a script you can press Control-C while your mouse is over the button to copy it to the clipboard.
You can also right click on the button and view the Online Python Reference, this mainly shows arguments and their defaults however operators written in Python show their file and line number which may be useful if you are interested to check on the source code.
Note
Not all operators can be called usefully from Python, for more on this see using operators.
Info View¶
Blender records operators you run and displays them in the Info space. This is located above the file-menu which can be dragged down to display its contents.
Select the Script screen that comes default with Blender to see its output. You can perform some actions and see them show up - delete a vertex for example.
Each entry can be selected (Right-Mouse-Button), then copied Control-C, usually to paste in the text editor or python console.
Note
Not all operators get registered for display, zooming the view for example isn’t so useful to repeat so its excluded from the output.
To display every operator that runs see Show All Operators


Miscellaneous methods¶
Allocation and de-allocation functions¶
In general, allocating arrays requires one to know the size of all dimensions of the array, whereas de-allocating requires you to know the all but the inner dimension size.
- void
allocate_1d_array
(real_simulation *&pDouble, int dim1)¶
Function to allocate 1d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 1d array.dim1
: First dimension of 1d array.
- void
deallocate_1d_array
(real_simulation *&pDouble)¶ Function to de-allocate 1d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 1d array.
- void
allocate_2d_array
(real_simulation **&pDouble, int dim1, int dim2)¶
Function to allocate 2d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 2d array.dim1
: First dimension of 2d array.dim2
: Second dimension of 2d array.
- void
deallocate_2d_array
(real_simulation **&pDouble, int dim1)¶ Function to de-allocate 2d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 2d array.dim1
: First dimension of 2d array.
- void
allocate_3d_array
(real_simulation ***&pDouble, int dim1, int dim2, int dim3)¶ Function to allocate 4d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 3d array.dim1
: First dimension of 3d array.dim2
: Second dimension of 3d array.dim3
: Third dimension of 3d array.
- void
deallocate_3d_array
(real_simulation ***&pDouble, int dim1, int dim2)¶
Function to de-allocate 3d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 3d array.dim1
: First dimension of 3d array.dim2
: Second dimension of 3d array.
- void
allocate_4d_array
(real_simulation ****&pDouble, int dim1, int dim2, int dim3, int dim4)¶ Function to allocate 4d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 4d array.dim1
: First dimension of 4d array.dim2
: Second dimension of 4d array.dim3
: Third dimension of 4d array.dim4
: Fourth dimension of 4d array.
- void
deallocate_4d_array
(real_simulation ****&pDouble, int dim1, int dim2, int dim3)¶
Function to de-allocate 4d dynamic arrays.
- Parameters
-
pDouble
: rvalue to pointer of 4d array.dim1
: First dimension of 4d array.dim2
: Second dimension of 4d array.dim3
: Third dimension of 4d array.
Parse functions¶
- template<class
T
>
voidparse_string_to_vector
(std::basic_string<char> string_to_parse, std::vector<T> *destination_vector)¶ Function to parse strings containing lists to std::vectors.
Parses any string in the format {a, b, c, d, …} to a vector of int, float, double. Only types that can be cast to floats are supported for now. This is due to the usage of strtof(); no template variant is used as of yet. The input string is allowed to be trailed by a comment leading with a semicolon. Items are appended to the passed vector.
- Template Parameters
-
T
: Arbitrary numeric type that has a cast to and from float.
- Parameters
-
string_to_parse
: Input string of the form “{<item1>, <item2>, <item3>, … } ; comment “.destination_vector
: Pointer to an (not necessarily empty) vector of suitable type.
- void
parse_string_to_nested_int_vector
(std::basic_string<char> string_to_parse, std::vector<std::vector<int>> *destination_vector)¶
Function to parse strings containing 2d integer lists to std::vector<std::vector<int>>. Sublists do not need to be of the same length.
- Parameters
-
string_to_parse
: Input string of the form “{{<item1.1>, <item1.2>, <item1.3>, …}, {<item2.1>, <item2.2>, …}, … } ; comment “.destination_vector
: Pointer to an (not necessarily empty) std::vector<std::vector<int>>.
Signal processing functions¶
- void
cross_correlate
(const real_simulation *signal1, const real_simulation *signal2, real_simulation *r, int length, int max_delay = 1000)¶ Method to the compute cross correlation between two signals up to a maximum delay.
- Parameters
-
signal1
: Pointer to first signal.signal2
: Pointer to second signal.r
: Pointer to cross-correlation array. Should be have memory allocated twice the max_delay size.length
: Size of both signal1 and signal2.max_delay
: Maximum delay for which to compute the cross correlation.


Intro
The Butterflies are your Guides.
Pictures marked by Blood are Doors, focus on them.
You have Seven Days for your Journey Good Luck.
Key Mapping
Move mouse to look around
F1 - Developer Console
WASD - Forward,Back,Left,Right
Space - Jump
Shift - Run
C - Crouch
F - Flashlight
RightMouse - Zoom
Command List
showtime : shows the elapsed time in seconds
scene : loads the scene
listscenes : list available scenes
credits : Show Game Credits
print : Print the text to the screen
flicker : Activate Flashlight Flickering
quit : Quit the Game
stop : Back to Main Menu
start : Start the Game
screenshots : Take a Screenshot
fps : Shows frames per second
turnlights : Switch all lights
save : Save your game to disk
load : Load your game from disk
cmdlist : Shows a list of commands
empty : Get help with a specific command
listsave : print a list of your save files
clear : Clears Console
starttip : type cmdlist for a list of commands
bloodmoon : turns the moon a bloody red
evileyes : activate evil eyes for statues
zoom : brings your sight closer to the scene
intro : Read the Game Introduction
checklist : Game Dev Feature Checklist
fade : fade in and out of black canvas
pause : pause the game
delete : remove a savegame
timescale : set timescale
butterflies : set number of butterflies manual
sensitivity : set mouse sensitivity
speed : set movement speed
fov : set camera fov
viewport : set camera viewport tilt
whispers : start / stop whispers
position : print position
version : print version number
resetpsyche


Patch Error
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 12:10 pm
Haven't found a post about this so ill just dump it here! (sorry if its wrong section)
This shows up when I try to launch (launcher.exe)
Contacting update server...
--
Downloading evidyon.exe - 663 KB
ERROR! Unable to download updates at this time. If you are running Vista, this could be due to the permissions for the directory in which Evidyon is installed being set to read-only.
But I can still run the game and play when I use the evidyon.exe
"this could be due to the permissions for the directory in which Evidyon is installed being set to read-only."
sounds a bit wierd since I got all my games under programs etc, and I haven't had a problem like this.
This shows up when I try to launch (launcher.exe)
Contacting update server...
--
Downloading evidyon.exe - 663 KB
ERROR! Unable to download updates at this time. If you are running Vista, this could be due to the permissions for the directory in which Evidyon is installed being set to read-only.
But I can still run the game and play when I use the evidyon.exe
"this could be due to the permissions for the directory in which Evidyon is installed being set to read-only."
sounds a bit wierd since I got all my games under programs etc, and I haven't had a problem like this.


Issue: DEFSTRUCT-DEFAULT-VALUE-EVALUATIONReferences: CLtL p.308-10 & 86-003 p.4
Category: CLARIFICATION
Edit history: Revision 1 by Skona Brittain 05/13/88
Problem Description:
There is some confusion over whether default initialization
forms for defstruct slots get evaluated, when they are not needed
because a keyword argument was supplied to the constructor function.
As a consequence of this confusion, there is confusion over whether
there can be a type-mismatch error between the specified type of the slot
and the type of the default value.
On page 308, it says "The default-init is a form that is evaluated
each time a structure is to be constructed; the value is used as the
initial value of the slot. If no default-init is specified, then the
initial contents of the slot are undefined and implementation-dependent."
On the next page, however, it says that the default-init is evaluated if
the keyword argument is not supplied and the converse, although not stated,
is intended and informally implied.
Proposal (DEFSTRUCT-DEFAULT-VALUE-EVALUATION:IFF-NEEDED):
Clarify that the converse is true. i.e that the default-init is not evaluated
if the keyword argument is supplied.
In the quote from page 308, delete the second sentence and replace
"a structure is to be constructed; the value is" by "its value is to be".
To section 19.3, add a clarification,
such as the following from Guy's issues file:
"The default value in a defstruct slot is not evaluated
unless it is needed in the creation of a particular structure
instance. If it is never needed, there can be no type-mismatch
error, even if the type of the slot is specified, and no warning
should be issued."
Test Case:
In the following sequence, only the last call is an error.
(defstruct person (name 007 :type string))
(make-person :name "James")
(make-person)
Rationale:
It is inefficient, and inconsistent with the rest of the language, for the
default initialization form to be evaluated when it is not needed.
Consequently, when it's not needed, such type-mismatch errors should not be
detectable in general.
Any existing confusion should be clarified by this proposal.
Current Practice:
KCL does not evaluate the default initialization form unless it is needed;
even when it is needed, the type checking is not done at all.
Cost to Implementors:
If there are any implementations that currently behave differently from
the proposed way, then they need some slight modification.
Cost to Users:
None.
Benefits:
Clarity and portability. In particular, clarifying that the unaesthetic
situation mentioned in the next section is allowed should be reassuring.
Aesthetics:
It appears slightly unaesthetic to have a default value that violates a
type specification.
Discussion:
Although this issue was mentioned in Guy's original issues file, it has
not been officially discussed since.
!
Additional notes:
Several members of the cleanup committee endorsed this proposal.
JonL added:
You can add to the "Current Practice:" section:
LUCID does not evaluate the default initialization form unless it is
needed; even when it is needed, the type checking is not done at all.
However, at structure definition time, if an initial value form is
constanp and doesn't satisfy the :type specification, a warning message
is printed.
Oddly enough, Lucid's interpreter ensures that SETF's of slots obey the
:type specifier, even though init-forms aren't checked. Furthermore, in
safety levels 2 or higher, the compiled code will do minimal "memory-
integrity" type checking for SETF's (which is what I suspect the various
special-purpose microcoded machines do); however except for low-level numeric
types, this is rarely equivalent to what a full type check would do.
I have long suggested that there should be at least one mode of operation
such that all :type information is checked when setting values into structure
slots (setf as well as initialization). Some have suggested that this mode
could be "when running interpretively, or when when compiled with the highest
degree of SAFETY and lower degrees of SPEED." However, since the wording of
CLtL p310 suggests that the :type slot options is merely a DECLARE, and since
some vendors effectively ignore any and all declarations [except for SPECIAL],
then this suggestion hasn't reached proposal stage yet.


Everyone thinks halving automatically = new ATH like it has b4, but the thing they don't take into account that wasn't present during past ATHs, is the ability to short
White vertical line represents 1st time u could short. Look what happened. You'd be a fool not to facto...


[gecode-users] number of propagators
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Mon May 26 08:36:29 CEST 2008
That's a feature and not a bug. The result of propagation is deterministic,
the order of how propagators are executed is not. Different order can the
result in a different number of propagations.
The order can differ because some propagators normalize their variables (for
example, linear, distinct, etc). Typically, normalization involves ordering
variables according to their addresses in memory (which is platform
dependent). Performing operations on differently ordered variables then will
also schedule propagators in different orders.
Hope that helps
Christian
--
Christian Schulte, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Alejandro Arbelaez
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:08 PM
To: users at gecode.org
Subject: [gecode-users] number of propagators
Hi,
I've been trying some gecode examples on different machines, a macbook-pro
2.4Ghz under ubuntu 7.01 (i386), gcc version 4.0.1 and a Intel Xeon 2.33
Ghz under Mandriva 2008 (x86_64), gcc version 4.2.3. Of course I'm running
the same gecode version in both machines (gecode-2-1-1)
Despite of I'm getting the same search tree, the number of propagations is
different for some instances of some problems, for instance:
-------- Mandriva
magic-square -c-d 1 -a-d 1 order 7
initial
propagators: 19
branchings: 1
Summary
runtime: 3.040 (3040.000000 ms)
solutions: 1
propagations: 7435467
failures: 481301
clones: 481365
commits: 962666
peak memory: 1214 KB
-----Ubuntu
magic-square -c-d 1 -a-d 1 7
Initial
propagators: 19
branchings: 1
Summary
runtime: 3.870 (3870.000000 ms)
solutions: 1
propagations: 7430108
failures: 481301
clones: 481365
commits: 962666
peak memory: 609 KB
-----Mandriva
partition -a-d 1 -c-d 1 13
Initial
propagators: 58
branchings: 1
Summary
runtime: 0.710 (710.000000 ms)
solutions: 0
propagations: 2397328
failures: 49734
clones: 49733
commits: 99466
peak memory: 569 KB
----ubuntu
partition -c-d 1 -a-d 1 13
Initial
propagators: 58
branchings: 1
Summary
runtime: 1.813 (1813.487000 ms)
solutions: 0
propagations: 2397273
failures: 49734
clones: 49733
commits: 99466
peak memory: 285 KB
---Mandriva
partition -a-d 1 -c-d 1 15
Initial
propagators: 66
branchings: 1
Summary
runtime: 8.060 (8060.000000 ms)
solutions: 0
propagations: 26991030
failures: 546230
clones: 546229
commits: 1092458
peak memory: 682 KB
-----ubuntu
partition -c-d 1 -a-d 1 15
Initial
propagators: 66
branchings: 1
Summary
runtime: 20.200 (20200.376000 ms)
solutions: 0
propagations: 26995378
failures: 546230
clones: 546229
commits: 1092458
peak memory: 342 KB
Can someone explain me this behavior.
Thanks in advance,
Alejandro
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Last week I had a dissertation workshop where I presented a rough draft of my chapter on Social Annotation. I was feeling pretty vulnerable about it. Not only is the draft in its infancy, but it also combines a few disciplines that aren’t typical for projects in English studies.
To give some background—I’m developing a digital annotation tool that has a multi-color highlighter for teaching purposes. I’m hoping that the colors will help students to engage their immediate and embodied responses to reading, which happen prior to their articulation in language. Basically, I’m hoping that using colors will allow readers to mark their reactions to reading by assigning certain reactions to specific colors. The point, for me, is to explore alternative kinds of annotation, particularly annotation that short circuits verbalized forms of response. My paper on this project (which will be fully drafted once I use the tool in the classroom) interweaves my narrative of the tool’s technical development with discourses on educational technology and neuroscience. I’m trying to show the ways that current annotation tools track or quantify student data, and how looking at reading from a neuroscientific lense, particularly from the perspective of embodied cognition, opens up the way we understand students’ engagement with text. To better display this engagement, I created the highlighter with really low color opacities that facilitates layering. I imagine that different readers will highlight with different colors over the same piece of text. My idea is that the color-highlighter’s layering capability will create a kind of “heatmap” of the text, which manifests in new color combinations. This palimpsest of readings will (I hope) show student reactions in contrast.
Most of the feedback I got from the group was really useful. There were comments about the structure, foregrounding the experimental nature of the project, and rethinking how I interweave my development notes (which everyone agreed should be included). There were also specific terms and concepts I need to clarify, like embodiment (what do I mean by “prediscursive” and what kind of affect theory is this) and color frameworks.
The most challenging comment was about stakes. One of the workshop participants went on at length about needing to explain why this tool is useful. Here were some of the questions:
-
What do I want out of this tool?
-
What am I doing that’s different from using actual highlighters in books?
-
Why should instructors care which neurons are firing?
-
Why is the student’s affective experience important?
-
Who is my audience? Which conversations do I want to insert myself into?
I tried to answer some of these questions in the moment. Mainly my answer for the “why” is that if we [English scholars] don’t guide this conversation it will be guided for us, by the tech companies. If we [the educators] don’t think about how our tools work we will use them uncritically, and our students will become a source of data collection rather than aesthetic production. I have some language to this effect in the introduction, but I guess it’s understated. I also tend to assume that everybody thinks like me and already knows that edtech is evil.
But then, afterward, I got to thinking about it. And how absurd it is that I was asked to defend the utility of my work. Nobody else in the workshop is being asked these questions—at least not that I have noticed. Only my project, the sole technical project, has this burden. Why should I have to explain myself, when my colleagues, who are mostly doing non traditional work on archives, melancholia, music, composition studies, ventriloquisim, aren’t being asked to do the same?
Even though the majority of my classmates’ projects aren’t “traditional,” there’s an implicit agreement that the exploratory nature of their scholarship is inherently important. Their choices about objects of study or methods aren’t questioned. Why should I have to explain my decisions? Why can’t I just tell you what I’m thinking?


Facebook, Instagram restored after it goes down for thousands globally on Thanksgiving Day
by Cox Media Group National Content Desk— Thanksgiving Day is noted for sharing photographs and exchanging warm greetings on social media.
But this year's sharing got off to a rocky start Thursday, as Facebook and Instagram users reported issues posting on both platforms for a few hours.
Facebook told CNN that it fixed an issue just after 3 p.m. that had left many unable to use the popular site.
According to the website Downdetector, reports of Facebook being down spiked shortly after 9 a.m. EST.
According to Downdetector’s outage map, most of the Facebook outages were in the Northeast between New York and Boston, with pockets in the Midwest including Chicago also affected. Major metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami also had reports of no service.
The heaviest Instagram outage reports came out of the Northeast United States, London and Brazil.
Some users attempting to log in to Facebook received an error message that reads: “Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes.”


Defining "Data Science"
February 28, 2016
Increasing number of industries is being affected by “digital transformation – new business models facilitated by the ubiquitous availability of computing and telecommunication technologies. This “digital transformation” is to a large degree carried out by engineering / software centric “web” companies following technology practices that have little overlap with traditional enterprise IT.
“Data science” then roughly amounts to “analytics at web companies”. The particular setting of course has an impact on how the “analytics” are produced and consumed (primarily manifesting as greater degree of automation due to volumes of data and timescales to generate results ), yet due to the wide front of “digital transformation”, only some high level patterns can be discerned.
Specifically, “analytics” is the process where some manner of systematic measurements and observations are used as a presumably objective basis for making decisions, delivering process improvements or optimising (more or less abstract) performance metrics. The same theme is repeated with variations across a wide gamut of loosely associated disciplines. Exact definitions have proven notoriously elusive, with few convincing distinctions from the classical notions of rational or scientific inquiry other than through the domain of application.
Below is a very imperfect attempt at grouping together various academic sub-disciplines and professions (omitting actuaries) that could be broadly said to be involved in analytics. The association is through a subjective assessment of closeness of intellectual tradition.
Online advertising and website optimisation – online advertising has grown into a massive ecosystem over the last two decades providing revenue for the majority of online services. The nature of the medium is eminently accommodating of tracking and analytics, resulting in one of the more dramatic applications of “data science”. Most sophisticated solutions (e.g. Adwords) are deployed by inventory providers and aggregators, such as Google and Facebook. Live A/B testing is also prevalent among online businesses – something which is still a rarity in traditional enterprise. This is at present the biggest area of employment for “data scientists”.
Manufacturing quality control, statistical process control, lean manufacturing, six sigma – this is an area of analytics activity supporting manufacturing activities and has been progressively developed since at least 1930’s. Among the main objectives is monitoring and elimination of variability in manufacturing processes (e.g. part dimensions), ensuring that defect rates are thereby controlled.
Scientific management, management consulting, management accounting – the broad idea of application of “scientific” principles to industrial management is well over 100 years old – ubiquitous proliferation of plans, budgets, KPIs and management reports is part of this tradition. Very little attention is usually paid to natural statistical variation in many metrics. Also while many controlled experimental studies have been documented in this setting they have never become a part of the standard methodology.
Operations research, industrial engineering, revenue management, mathematical optimisation, management science. Operations research began as scientific study of military operations (e.g. convoy composition, bomber interception protocols, logistics) during the second world war and the principles have been exported to many other industries in the following years. Main tools include mathematical optimisation, stochastic processes. Mathematical optimisation is a somewhat standalone area of research with many close connections to both computer science and statistics.
Statistics, - really requires no introduction, perhaps the main focus of interest in applications has been analysis of government data, polls and surveys and support for evaluation of experimental results in life sciences and medicine.
Applied finance, financial engineering, algorithmic trading, HFT, risk management. There are close parallels between data science and quantitative finance in the 1980s and 1990s. This is not surprising, because in market execution is a key part of any model driven trading strategy, placing a premium on “hacking skills”. At present it is perhaps reasonable to view majority of “data scientists” as “quants” of digital advertising.
Engineering control, control theory, signal processing From fly-by-wire systems to cellular networks and synthetic aperture radar. Much less ambitious in scope than AI, but this systems work reliably and are by now absolutely ubiquitous.
Econometrics, mechanism design, causal inference (from observational data) – due to the difficulty and costs of real world experiments in economics, econometricians have developed tools and conceptual frameworks for causal inference with observational data. Furthermore mechanism design and the study of auctions have had significant impact on the design of online marketplaces.
Business intelligence, database / warehouse design, dashboards –business intelligence is primarily IT vendor driven activity to support management reporting in traditional enterprise with perhaps strongest intellectual links to the academic databases research community. Traditionally little attention has been paid to statistical aspects of “business intelligence” or how it is to be actioned.
Machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data mining – machine learning is a branch of computer science that initially focused on more tractable aspects of artificial intelligence, primarily by constructing models from example data using statistical methods rather than designing them by hand from general principles. Two large application areas are computer vision and natural language processing, including machine translation. By now the differences between theoretical machine learning and statistics communities is largely superficial, amounting to little more than preferences for different styles of analysis of statistical procedures. Machine learning research has also provided many of the tools used in analytics for online advertising and algorithmic trading. Data mining has originated from the databases research community and by now has mostly converged with machine learning in terms of both objectives and methodologies.
Analytics landscape is difficult to survey for no other reason that many movements have overlapped in time and areas of practice, resulting in a layering of ideologies and ideas perhaps impossible to decisively disentangle. It is, however, fair to say that the mixtures of ideas are not the same between economic sectors, allowing for an analysis or classification from this point of view.
While most “analytics” traditions claim to use “data” to produce good (or at least informed) decisions, the level at which they operate can vary enormously. At the lowest level, some processes are completely automated (e.g. many applications of engineering control, such as fly-by-wire systems). Other traditions best apply to low level manufacturing processes (SPC). On the other end, econometrics is often used to evaluate high level government policies and management consultants provide decision support at the board and executive level.
One should be wary of attempts to create an appearance of history for the term “data science” (as, e.g. in the Wikipedia article as of fall 2015). As with any two common words it is perhaps inevitable that they have been used together at some point in the past, but the uses going beyond 2008 - 2010 are of unclear relevance. A more compelling account of the history of data science was recently given by David DonohoDonoho, D. (2015). 50 Years of Data Science. Tukey Centennial Workshop, Princeton , considering it in the context of the broader evolution of the practice of data analysis.
While there is a good chance that “data science” will become an umbrella term for a partial rejoining of the many streams of analytics, separated in some cases by nearly a century, it is at present lacking a strong intellectual undercurrent. Indeed, quoting Gian-Carlo Rota:
“When pygmies cast such long shadows, it must be very late in the day.”


Story Synth currently has five different game formats, each with their own template you can use. Here’s an overview of each format, its influences, and a link to the template spreadsheet.
This format is inspired by Alex Robert’s game For the Queen (buy) (SRD).
Games following this format have:
Unlike For the Queen, there are no Queen cards to choose from and the final card is always last, rather than shuffled into the deck.
The default template has just one shuffled deck of prompts but Story Synth can handle multiple decks. Each deck (except the instructions) will be internally shuffled but the decks will be served in order (i.e. all of deck one, followed by all of deck two). This enables you to play games in the style of Avery Alder’s The Quiet Year (buy). Check out the Sequential Shuffled Decks template which shows off the multipack capabilities of the Shuffled format.
The broader format of ordered instructions followed by random prompts lends itself to a wide variety of games that stray far from For the Queen.
This format is inspired by Jason Morningstar’s game Find/Fix/Finish (buy).
This game has a shared timer and private prompts are sent to players at specific times. Players can pause, unpause, and restart the game at any point.
Unlike Find/Fix/Finish, there aren’t any decision points where a player can choose from different options and which result in different content later. There also isn’t space for links to reference material, though you could include them in the prompts.
This format is similar to the Timed format but prompts are tied to each turn instead of a timer and turns are manually advanced.
In each turn, each player will receive one public prompt (seen by all) and one private prompt (seen only by them).
This format is inspired by Randy Lubin’s game Dawn of the Monster Invasion (play online).
This format has:
Slot Machine Template Spreadsheet
This format has:


NetBID 2.0: Data-driven Network-based Bayesian Inference of Drivers
Documentation and Guided Analyses
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Overview
NetBID is a data-driven system biology pipeline, using data-driven network-based Bayesian inference approach to find drivers from transcriptomics, proteomics and phosphoproteomics data, where the drivers can be either transcription facotrs (TF) or signaling factors (SIG).
NetBID 2.0 is an upgraded version of NetBID 1.0 that has been published in Nature in 2018. NetBID 2.0 inherites all the main functions from NetBID 1.0, and provides many more functions and pipelines to perform advanced end-to-end analyses.
More data processing functions:
- Expression matrix pre-processing and quality assessment
- SJARACNe-based network construction
- Activity calculation of drivers and gene sets
- Discovery of differential expressed genes and differential activated drivers
- Generation of the master table for drivers
- For more data processing functions, please check NetBID2 PDF manual
More visualization functions:
- Unsupervised learning of samples, comparison between the predicted labels vs. the observed labels
- Display drivers with significance profiles and target genes
- Display selected drivers with more details and its sub-network structure
- For more visualization functions, please check NetBID PDF manual
More supporting functions:
- Gene/transcript ID conversion
- Gene function enrichment analysis & visualization
- Data and pipeline management
- For more supporting functions, please check NetBID PDF manual


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Lightning bolt strikes near Emirates plane in Christchurch
An onlooker has captured the moment a lightning bolt struck near a plane parked on the runway at Christchurch Airport in New Zealand.
The scene involving an Airbus A380 was seen at 15:30 (02:30 GMT) by a pilot from Garden City Helicopters.
"The view out our window onto the tarmac today!" the company wrote on Facebook. "The Emirates plane [was] waiting for the storm to pass."
MetService New Zealand had issued thunderstorm warnings for the area.
Parts of the Canterbury region suffered severe storms, with hailstones the size of eggs in places, local media report.
Local MP Andrew Falloon filmed large hailstones falling outside his office in Timaru.
MetService also tweeted that the area saw 700 lightning strikes in the space of two hours.
The weather warnings have now been lifted.


This is a simple chat system implemented using WebSockets. It works by sending packets of JSON back and forth with the server. Check out the source on Github.
This text and audio/video chat example is offered as-is for demonstration purposes only, and should not be used for any other purpose.
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One or more coded expressions that are executed one or more times depending on the outcome of a given conditional statement.
loop state·ment
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One or more coded expressions that are executed one or more times depending on the outcome of a given conditional statement.