The name Death Cab for Cutie must put a lot of potential listeners off. It’s a shame, they produce a massive amount of consistently great music.
Not Cool Enough to be a Mac Person →
Odd new Microsoft commercial, which purports to show a real person named Lauren trying to find a new 17-inch laptop for under $1000. She goes into “the Mac store” and comes out disappointed, because — and this is true — the only sub-$1000 laptop comes with a 13-inch display. But then she says, “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person.” One can only assume that it’s intended as an anti-elitist insult, but the bottom line is that Microsoft is explicitly reinforcing the idea that Macs are cool, which strikes me as a very odd tactic. The theme of the commercial seems to be “PCs: Computers for Losers”.
So Lauren comes out of the Apple store, can’t get what she wants under her budget then concludes that her problem is that she’s not cool enough?
Analogy: I have $2, I want a burger with two meat patties, lettuce and tomato.
Noise generates pink and white noise. At first it can feel a little harsh but quickly starts to sound just like relentless, light rain. It’s meant to block out outside noise and help you concentrate, it works for me. Pink noise is the default and the way to go, white noise makes me feel like I’m going deaf.
Laptop as a Desktop
I’ve noticed a trend over the last few years of laptop computers being chosen over desktop computers regardless of where or how they’ll be used. When people first started getting computers in their homes no one had laptops. It was rare to even see a laptop 10 years ago.
Now they’re everywhere.
The head designer at a print shop I worked at during university used a 17”, $4000 laptop that not once, during my 6 months stay there, moved from her desk. For half the price she could have had an iMac with a 24” display and more power.
I was surprised to find out that many of my classmates who took notes in a notebook had laptops at home they never brought to class.
I rented a ute from a car rental shop down the street from me a few weeks ago. In their office sat a small laptop hooked up to an ethernet cable, printer, external keyboard, mouse and hard drive.
My girlfriend owns a laptop who’s greatest journey has been a move from one part of her desk to another. She didn’t choose the laptop, it got given to her but when she decided she wanted to upgrade her instinct was laptop, despite the years worth of evidence she doesn’t need a portable computer.
I don’t understand it. Desktops are more powerful, have bigger screens, are easier to expand, more comfortable to operate and still cost less. The premium you pay for a laptop covers one thing: portability, if you’re never going to move it, save your money, get a better desktop.
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This should be great. Anisley is one of my favourite twitterers and Kottke.org is one of my favourite websites. I’m looking forward to seeing what comes of this.
How to be Jason Bourne →
A series of excerpts from the book Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life:
“I’m looking at islands in the north, around Iceland, because no one will think of looking for anyone there,” Spencer said, his thick lips spreading into a self-satisfied smile. “If I can get some other B people [billionaires] to go there with me, we can build underground homes and use geothermal energy.”
It’s a gimmicky title but judging by the excerpts, it sounds great. The problem with books (or websites or guides or classes) on this subject is that they’re based heavily on secrets which cease to be secrets once they’re published internationally. A St Kitts passport might have worked wonders a few years ago but what happens when tens of thousands of American citizens start applying for them?
Where The Wild Things Are →
I don’t understand why the internet’s drooling all over Where The Wild Things Are, it doesn’t look particularly fun, beautiful or interesting to me at all.
Real Zombies in an Animated World
Which brings me to the problem with this campaign. Who on earth would become a Comcast enthusiast? Who hangs out at a Comcast Web site and rearranges pretend furniture? Or, put more broadly: What sane person forms a loving attachment to a cable behemoth?
Slate on Comcast’s meaningless and somewhat creepy dream big commercial.
The marketing department and rest of the company work in opposition.  Consumers hate the company. Nothing but bad experiences come to mind when thinking of the company. What’s the solution?  Finish it with ‘DREAM BIG’, a slogan contrived and meaningless in any situation let alone when related to a cable provider.

Breathtakingly beautiful photograph from Tim Lucas taken in the Los Angeles sunset. As much as I try it is impossible to recreate this same gradient in an image editor, impossible!
EventBox is the non-HUD Twitter app I’ve been looking for. It has an incredible amount of configuration options which is great because I don’t care about Growl notifications, unread counts or the HUD component. As well as Twitter it handles a few other social networks side by side: Flickr and Facebook most notably.
It’s in beta so can be a little buggy, the text isn’t easy to read and I don’t like the way everything requires a read/unread status. I read everything from Twitter but definitely not from Facebook where I couldn’t care less if I’ve seen the update or not.
I spent yesterday and this morning building Day Dream a new Tumblr theme. This one should have much wider appeal than Downpour, my first attempt at Tumblr theme creation (its now available on the Theme Garden). I’ve submitted Day Dream to the garden but it takes them a while, in the mean time you can download it from its Github repository.
Pokemon Corporate Branding →
Bulbasaur Plant Chemicals, Magneton Chip Manufacturers, Magmar Central Heating and more. All of them work so well. I love stuff like this. Via cubicle17.
AFL 2009 Commercial →
Brilliant commercial for the new season starting this weekend. I bought my Lions season tickets yesterday. Similar to this also brilliant Nike Football commercial.
In This Economy
I like to think of the financial crisis not as a disaster but as a correction.
During times of prosperity our means increase and we indulge in luxuries we couldn’t previously afford. Often the luxuries are beyond even our new found means because of the false promise of further prosperity.  Recede one step backwards over a year and it feels like a crisis, despite the 10 steps forward you’ve taken during the 10 years previous.
If businesses can’t afford staff that do nothing, social media consultants fail to get contracts for the contrived, pointless job they do or car manufacturers struggle to sell the same bland, overpriced, void-of-any-innovation machines they’ve been pedalling for the last 30 years, so what?
 It pushes people to live back within their means and change their opulent lifestyle that existed on borrowed money.
If all the financial crisis does is force everyone into a simpler, less ostentatious lifestyle then I welcome the recession.
The Byron at Byron Bay, a beautiful resort in a beautiful location. The feature is a gorgeous 25 metre pool. There’s an ocean swim and triathlon coming up in Byron Bay, I’d love to stay there but it’s a bit beyond my budget at over $350/night. Photo courtesy of Panedia.
Sidenote: Clicking on the majority of images on Valhalla Island will pop up a high resolution version using FancyZoom.
Adjective Noun Pairs
I’ve been thinking about adjective noun pairs that are used almost exclusively together. It’s hard to find a noun that’s only used when it’s being described by one particular adjective but it’s easier to find an adjective that’s almost only used to describe one noun. Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- Avid Photographer
- Moot Point
- Cold-blooded Killer
- Robust API
- Gaping Void
- Canonical Example
Reason
It was a tough task picking just one song from the sublime cinematic soundtrack to the short film Glory at Sea. Music so beautiful it’s completely wasted on the film.
Let’s all make an effort to become appropriately afraid of insects, that is, not at all when it comes to anything not poisonous. Losing it when a cricket or cockroach crosses your path is irrational behaviour. There’s nothing they can do to hurt you, start treating them like anything else that can’t.


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Sensor Development
By Yida Wang
There are three type sensors in YingXao:
- DHT22 (humidity and temperature)
- SI1145 (sunlight)
- Capacitive Moisture Sensor (moisture level)
We were initially planned to use the DHT11 as our humidity and temperature sensor, but because the DHT11 failed to read data more than 50% of the time,
we decided to switch to its successor, the DHT22. This sensor comes with a dedicated Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC) thermistor to measure temperature
and an 8-bit microcontroller to output the digital value of temperature and humidity. The DHT22 is able to measure temperature from -40°C to 80°C and relative
humidity from 0% to 100% with an accuracy of ±1°C and ±1% [2].
Figure: DHT22 Temperature-Humidity Sensor
Plants need the energy from the sunlight to produce the necessary nutrients.
However, sometime they absorb too much energy than they can use, and that will damage the critical proteins [3].
We are using SI1145 sunlight sensor from the Grove to help us detect different spectrums of the sunlight.
The SI1145 is a low-power, reflectance-based, infrared proximity, UV index and ambient light sensor with I2C digital
interface and programmable-event interrupt output. This sensor offers excellent performance under a wide dynamic range
and a variety of light sources including direct sunlight [4].
Figure: Grove - Sunlight sensor (UV-light, visible light and infrared light) - SI1145
Another important data we need from the plant is the moisture level of the soil. We need this information to determine the
amount of water for the plant. We decided to use the capacitive moisture sensor from the Grove. It is a soil moisture sensor
based on the capacitance changes. Compared with resistive sensors, capacitive sensors do not require direct exposure of the
metal electrodes, which can significantly reduce the erosion of the electrodes. Hence, we call it Corrosion Resistant [5].
Figure: Grove - Capacitive Moisture Sensor (Corrosion-Resistant)
Actuators
By Yida Wang
We have two main actuators in YingXao:
- Stepper Motors
- Liquid Pump
Figure: 28BYJ-48 - 5V Stepper Motor
Stepper Motors plays an important role in YingXao because it controls the rotation of the solar shield.
We need to choose a stepper motor that is able to rotate both clockwise and counterclockwise precisely
during sunlight operation of the plant. 28-BYJ48 Stepper Motors is the most commonly used stepper motor.
It has a 4-coil unipolar arrangement and each coil is rated for +5V hence it is relatively easy to control
with any basic microcontrollers [6].
Figure: Peristaltic Liquid Pump with Silicone Tubing - 12V DC Power
Besides the stepper motors that controls the solar shield for the sunlight of the plant, we also need a
water pump that can irrigate the plants. After testing with multiple water pumps, we found that Peristaltic
Liquid Pump with Silicone Tubing from Adafruit works the best for YingXao. Since this is a peristaltic type
water pump, the pump actually squishes the silicone tubing that contains the liquid instead of impelling it
directly like other common water pumps [7]. This liquid pump needs to be powered with 12V DC power, and it
can pump the water with 100 milliliters per minutes. It is the most suitable water pump we have found for YingXao.


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I went to college having only smoked pot twice in my life, both times with little success. I felt a bit more giggly than usual the second time I smoked, but I may have been tricking my brain into thinking, 'I smoked pot, I must be stoned, I have to act silly!' At college, I naturally fell in with the fellow cigarette smokers, who also happened to be the stoners. They convinced me to smoke with them a few times, and after getting pleasantly buzzed with them, I began to smoke more frequently. I didn't smoke as much when I got home from school in the summer of 2006, after my first year of college, as my nearest smoking buddy was an hour away, and I didn't care enough to find a dealer where I live.
I met J that summer, though. He was a frequent customer at my job, and we got along right away. We never had much of a chance to really talk at work, but I ran into him one afternoon when I was walking home. He asked me if I smoked, and I told him I did when I was offered the chance. I gave him my phone number and he told me he would call me sometime. He called me a little while later, and I agreed to head over to his apartment for a while to hang out. 'Prepare to be stoned,' he told me. I laughed to myself a little, thinking, 'Yeah, okay, I've been stoned before.' How naive I was....
The night started off slow. He, his friend, and I sat and watched TV and took resin hits for a while, not even getting me buzzed. It wasn't long before another of his friends showed up and announced that he had $80, and all of it was going to be spent on pot. The deal went down, and in no more than half an hour or 45 minutes, I was looking at the largest bag of pot I had ever seen.
'You're not going to smoke all of that tonight, are you?' I asked, completely disbelieving.
'Well, we're sure going to try,' J told me.
A good amount of weed was broken up and packed into a pipe that was passed around and repacked countless times. I was pretty stoned after a while, but my three companions were just getting started. J decided to take out one of his bongs, named Thor.  I was still intimidated by bongs and, frankly, uneducated as to how to properly use them, so I was nervous. It passed me a couple times, and each time, I took a weak hit off of it. The first couple times, the guys didn't notice, but it didn't take them too long to catch on.
'Wait a minute, I don't hear it bubbling when you have it!' one of the guys said.
Luckily the room was dark and none of them could tell I was blushing furiously. I explained that I had little experience with bongs, but they showed no mercy. They were going to watch me hit it, and make me try until I did it right. After one or two tries, I finally managed to draw a good amount of smoke up the neck of the bong and into my lungs. I had no idea how much to draw up, though, so I just dragged for what seemed like a good long while, managing to make water bubble satisfactorily.
 I was more stoned than I had ever been before, and it was both terrifying and awesome at the same time. I was mildly aware of all three guys telling me to clear the bong, as I hadn't yet, but I just kept telling them, 'I can't smoke any more. I can't or I'll die.' Eventually, they just gave up trying to get me to do so. Unfortunately for me, it meant I got the smoke blown at me. Oh well.
My perception was completely distorted. The guys sitting around me looked HUMONGOUS. All three of them seemed to tower over me, and as J was the only one I was somewhat familiar with, it was pretty scary. The red light bulb illuminating the room didn't help, either. It gave everything a menacing glow, and while I knew I was safe, I still felt threatened and shrank as small as I could where I was sitting. I must have had a look of terror on my face, because the three of them kept asking me if I was all right. I managed to convince them I was, but I needed a cigarette, so they stopped smoking for a while and we all had a cigarette. It didn't relax me much, but it helped a little. After the cigarette break, the three guys resumed smoking, now from a hookah. They tried to get me to join them, but I once again told them I couldn't smoke any more if I had wanted to.
I eventually decided that laying down would be my best option. I'm told I was out for three hours, but it felt like a much shorter time. I also don't think I fell asleep, because I could hear everything that was going on around me. Maybe I was just imagining everything I was hearing. I'll never know. It did feel like I just had my eyes closed, though.  At one point, they were wondering aloud if I had died, and I tried to tell them through telepathy that I was alright. It was very frustrating when I realized they couldn't hear my thoughts.
There was one vivid experience that I will always remember from that night, though, as it was simultaneously fascinating and horrible. At one point when I was lying down, I felt like my body had broken into each individual molecule that my body was made of, and that each molecule was both exploding AND imploding. It was as though my body was made of taffy, and I was continuously being pulled and stretched. I had my eyes closed, and could visualize this happen to my molecules, but I could also feel it happening. It was extremely strange, just this side of unpleasant. I wished at that moment that I had been with people I was closer to, because I felt like I needed someone to hold on to so my body wouldn't completely break down, but I didn't feel comfortable asking any of the guys I was with if they would lay down with me.
I have no idea how long that feeling stayed with me, but it felt like many, many hours. After it left me, I started to come back to reality and could sit up again. I was still very stoned, but I was back down to a level that I'd experienced before that night. It was welcome relief. I had J take me home not too long after I was able to sit up (I'd walked to his apartment, but I was in no condition to walk home by myself in the middle of the night). Luckily, my brain let down its defenses once I was home, and I fell into a deep sleep almost immediately after getting into my room. I woke the next morning a little bleary, but otherwise with no ill after-effects from the night before.
Although it was an interesting experience, it's one that I'm in no hurry to repeat.
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"SAMGAR-NEBO "be gracious, O Nebo! or a cup-bearer of Nebo, probably the title of Nergal-sharezer, one of the princes of Babylon(Jeremiah 39:3).


Get information about the selected agency including the 9-digit ORI, geographic information, type of agency, and whether they report to NIBRS.
get_agency_info(agency, state = NULL, ori_only = FALSE, exact_match = TRUE)
| agency | A string or vector of strings with the name of the agency you want to lookup (capitalized is ignored). |
|---|---|
| state | A string or vector of strings of state names. If used, returns only agencies in that state. This is useful in cases where multiple agencies have the same name in different states and you only want specific states. |
| ori_only | If TRUE (not default), returns only the ORI and the agency_name columns. |
| exact_match | If TRUE (default), finds matches based on exact match of agency name. Else, uses `grep()` to find agencies with similar names to inputted agency. |
A data.frame with information about the agency - including ORI code and geographic information. The agency will have as many rows as agencies matched from the `agency` input.
get_agency_info("Oakland Police Department")#> ori agency_name agency_type_name state_name #> 905 CA0010900 Oakland Police Department City California #> 2506 FL0480800 Oakland Police Department City Florida #> 6607 MD0120200 Oakland Police Department City Maryland #> 6761 ME0060500 Oakland Police Department City Maine #> 8433 MO0959700 Oakland Police Department City Missouri #> 10049 NJ0024200 Oakland Police Department City New Jersey #> 14116 PA0580500 Oakland Police Department City Pennsylvania #> 15139 TN0240500 Oakland Police Department City Tennessee #> state_abbr division_name region_name region_desc county_name nibrs #> 905 CA Pacific West Region IV ALAMEDA FALSE #> 2506 FL South Atlantic South Region III ORANGE FALSE #> 6607 MD South Atlantic South Region III GARRETT FALSE #> 6761 ME New England Northeast Region I KENNEBEC TRUE #> 8433 MO West North Central Midwest Region II ST LOUIS FALSE #> 10049 NJ Middle Atlantic Northeast Region I BERGEN FALSE #> 14116 PA Middle Atlantic Northeast Region I SUSQUEHANNA FALSE #> 15139 TN East South Central South Region III FAYETTE TRUE #> latitude longitude nibrs_start_date #> 905 37.79965 -122.27459 NULL #> 2506 28.514435 -81.323295 NULL #> 6607 39.410545 -79.405556 NULL #> 6761 44.417012 -69.765764 12/01/2011 #> 8433 38.602047 -90.35826 NULL #> 10049 40.959648 -74.07486 NULL #> 14116 41.95525 -75.60348 NULL #> 15139 35.196993 -89.413803 07/01/1999get_agency_info("Oakland Police Department", state = "california")#> ori agency_name agency_type_name state_name state_abbr #> 905 CA0010900 Oakland Police Department City California CA #> division_name region_name region_desc county_name nibrs latitude longitude #> 905 Pacific West Region IV ALAMEDA FALSE 37.79965 -122.27459 #> nibrs_start_date #> 905 NULL


Coach Tony Sanchez out after 5 seasons at UNLV
LAS VEGAS (AP) - UNLV coach Tony Sanchez has been fired after five seasons in charge of the football program.
The school announced Monday that it is parting ways with Sanchez after this season, which wraps up with UNLV facing rival Nevada for the Fremont Cannon on Saturday. UNLV said it will immediately begin searching for a new coach.
Sanchez made the leap to the college ranks when he was hired by UNLV in December 2014 after six years as the coach at Las Vegas prep powerhouse Bishop Gorman High School. Sanchez is 19-40 at UNLV, including 3-8 this season.
UNLV credited Sanchez for his fundraising efforts that helped in the construction of the $34 million Fertitta Football Complex, which opened on campus this fall.
“We appreciate everything that Tony has done for our university and football program,” athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois said in a statement.
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Python Node Server Example¶
The following is a brief example of some impliemented node servers written in Python. The examples included are pulled from the Philips Hue Node Server and may not be current with the actual code used in that node server and is redacted a bit for clarity, but will serve as a solid jumping off point for defining the process by which a new node server can be developed.
Node Type Definition¶
Some may find it easiest to start by developing all the types of nodes that the node server may be controlling. As these are being defined in code, it may be best to also define them in the file that will eventually make up the profile.zip file. Documentation for profile files is available in the ISY Virtual Node Server API documentation.
Below is the definition for a Hue color changing light.
from converters import RGB_2_xy, color_xy, color_names
from functools import partial
from polyglot.nodeserver_api import Node
def myint(value):
""" round and convert to int """
return int(round(float(value)))
def myfloat(value, prec=4):
""" round and return float """
return round(float(value), prec)
class HueColorLight(Node):
""" Node representing Hue Color Light """
def __init__(self, parent, address, name, lamp_id, manifest=None):
super(HueColorLight, self).__init__(parent, address, name, manifest)
self.lamp_id = int(lamp_id)
def query(self):
""" command called by ISY to query the node. """
updates = self.parent.query_node(self.address)
if updates:
self.set_driver('GV1', updates[0], report=False)
self.set_driver('GV2', updates[1], report=False)
self.set_driver('ST', updates[2], report=False)
self.report_driver()
return True
else:
return False
def _set_brightness(self, value=None, **kwargs):
""" set node brightness """
# pylint: disable=unused-argument
if value is not None:
value = int(value / 100. * 255)
if value > 0:
command = {'on': True, 'bri': value}
else:
command = {'on': False}
else:
command = {'on': True}
return self._send_command(command)
def _on(self, **kwargs):
""" turn light on """
status = kwargs.get("value")
return self._set_brightness(value=status)
def _off(self, **kwargs):
""" turn light off """
# pylint: disable=unused-argument
return self._set_brightness(value=0)
def _set_color_rgb(self, **kwargs):
""" set light RGB color """
color_r = kwargs.get('R.uom56', 0)
color_g = kwargs.get('G.uom56', 0)
color_b = kwargs.get('B.uom56', 0)
(color_x, color_y) = RGB_2_xy(color_r, color_g, color_b)
command = {'xy': [color_x, color_y], 'on': True}
return self._send_command(command)
def _set_color_xy(self, **kwargs):
""" set light XY color """
color_x = kwargs.get('X.uom56', 0)
color_y = kwargs.get('Y.uom56', 0)
command = {'xy': [color_x, color_y], 'on': True}
return self._send_command(command)
def _set_color(self, value=None, **_):
""" set color from index """
ind = int(value) - 1
if ind >= len(color_names):
return False
cname = color_names[int(value) - 1]
color = color_xy(cname)
return self._set_color_xy(
**{'X.uom56': color[0], 'Y.uom56': color[1]})
def _send_command(self, command):
""" generic method to send command to hue hub """
responses = self.parent.hub.set_light(self.lamp_id, command)
return all(
[list(resp.keys())[0] == 'success' for resp in responses[0]])
_drivers = {'GV1': [0, 56, myfloat], 'GV2': [0, 56, myfloat],
'ST': [0, 51, myint]}
""" Driver Details:
GV1: Color X
GV2: Color Y
ST: Status / Brightness
"""
_commands = {'DON': _on, 'DOF': _off,
'SET_COLOR_RGB': _set_color_rgb,
'SET_COLOR_XY': _set_color_xy,
'SET_COLOR': _set_color}
node_def_id = 'COLOR_LIGHT'
As can be seen here, one method is defined for each of the commands that the node may run. The query method from the Node ABC is also overwritten to provide the desired functionality. An additional method called _send_command is also created. This is not called by the ISY directly, but is a helper used to send information to the Hue device. This method calls a method from a third party library that connects to the Hue lighting system.
Additionally, the _drivers, _command, and node_def_id properties are overwritten. This must be done by every node class as it instructs the node server classes on how to interact with this node. Custom formatters myint and myfloat are used to format the control values.
This process must be repeated for each type of node that is desired.
Node Server Creation¶
Once all the nodes are defined, the node server class can be created.
from polyglot.nodeserver_api import SimpleNodeServer, PolyglotConnector
# ... additional imports are redacted for clarity
class HueNodeServer(SimpleNodeServer):
""" Phillips Hue Node Server """
hub = None
def setup(self):
""" Initial node setup. """
super(SimpleNodeServer, self).setup()
# define nodes for settings
manifest = self.config.get('manifest', {})
HubSettings(self, 'hub', 'Hue Hub', manifest)
self.connect()
self.update_config()
def connect(self):
""" Connect to Phillips Hue Hub """
# get hub settings
hub = self.get_node('hub')
ip_addr = '{}.{}.{}.{}'.format(
hub.get_driver('GV1')[0], hub.get_driver('GV2')[0],
hub.get_driver('GV3')[0], hub.get_driver('GV4')[0])
# ... Connects to the hub and validate connection. Redacted for clarity.
def poll(self):
""" Poll Hue for new lights/existing lights' statuses """
# ... Connects to Hue Hub and gets current values for lights,
# stores in dictionary called lights. Redacted for clarity.
for lamp_id, data in lights.items():
address = id_2_addr(data['uniqueid'])
name = data['name']
lnode = self.get_node(address)
if not lnode:
# Add the light to the Node Server if it doesn't already
# exist. Sets the primary to the 'hub' Node.
# This automatically adds the light to the ISY.
lnode = HueColorLight(self, address,
name, lamp_id,
self.get_node('hub'), manifest)
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for val in data['state']['xy']]
brightness = round(data['state']['bri'] / 255. * 100., 4)
brightness = brightness if data['state']['on'] else 0
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# Redacted for clarity.
def long_poll(self):
""" Save configuration every 30 seconds. """
self.update_config()
# In this example, the configuration is autoatically saved every
# 30 seconds. Make sure your node server saves its configuration
# at some point.
This example class contains four methods that are not part of the abstract class. They are setup, connect, query_node, and _get_api. These functions will probably not appear in all node servers and are very specific to this one.
However, the setup method is a good way to handle any node server setup that must be done that is specific to your node server. In this example, the primary node, the Hue Hub, is created and a connection is attempted.
This class also stores an object called hub as an attribute. This objet is an instance of a class from the third party library used. This object is the actual connection to the Hue Hub. It may be best to follow a similar method when creating node servers so that the code that handles the connection is differentiated from the code that organizes the nodes.
The poll and long_poll methods from the abstract class are used in this example. The Hue Hub sends no event stream, so it must be polled for updates. This is done in the poll method. The long_poll method is utilized to ensure the configuration data is saved consistently. These methods do not need to be manually called anywhere as they are automatically invoked from the run loop every (approximately) 1 second and 30 seconds respectively.
Starting the Node Server¶
Finally, your program must be able to initialize itself and begin running the node server. In Python, it will very nearly look like this.
def main():
""" setup connection, node server, and nodes """
poly = PolyglotConnector()
nserver = HueNodeServer(poly)
poly.connect() # begin listening for Polyglot commands
poly.wait_for_config() # This is best practice to not start until
# Polyglot has begun communicating. This way,
# Polyglot will not miss messages sent from
# the node server.
nserver.setup() # setup method is specific to this example
nserver.run() # begin node server run loop
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Installing the Node Server¶
Once all of this has been coded and all the appropriate files (documented in the last section) have been created, the node server directory can be placed in the configuration directory in a subfolder called node_servers. Polyglot should then be restarted to trigger the discovery of new node server types. If there is an issue with your node server, it will appear in the log.
Custom Node Server Configuration File¶
You may specify a custom configuration file in the server.json file as such:
"configfile": "customfile.yaml"
This should be placed in the top level of configuration, for example right after “executable”. If no “configfile” is specified, Polyglot will look for “config.yaml” in the root node_server folder(the same location as the server.json). If either file is found, then the contents will be loaded into a dictionary for consumption. The poly.nodeserver_config variable holds this dictionary.
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write_nodeserver_config():
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indent = 4
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ADPerkinElmer¶
| author: | Mark Rivers (University of Chicago), John Hammonds, Brian Tieman (Argonne National Laboratory) |
|---|
Contents
Introduction¶
This is an areaDetector driver for the flat-panel amorphous silicon detectors from Varex Imaging (previously Perkin Elmer).
The driver is based upon the XISL library provided by Perkin Elmer. It only runs on Microsoft Windows computers. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.
This driver has been tested with the following detectors
- XRD0820 with XRD-FG PCI frame grabber
- XRD0822 with Gigabit Ethernet interface
- XRD1621 with XRD-FGX PCI frame grabber
- XRD1621 with XRD-FGe Opto PCI-Express frame grabber
- XRPAD with Gigabit Ethernet interface
This driver inherits from ADDriver. It implements nearly all of the parameters in asynNDArrayDriver.h and in ADArrayDriver.h. It also implements a number of parameters that are specific to the Perkin Elmer cameras. The PerkinElmer class documentation describes this class in detail.
Implementation of standard driver parameters¶
The following table describes how the PerkinElmer driver implements some of the standard driver parameters.
| Implementation of Parameters in asynNDArrayDriver.h and ADDriver.h, and EPICS Record Definitions in ADBase.template and NDFile.template | |
|---|---|
| EPICS record names | Description |
| NumImages | Controls the number of images to acquire when ADImageMode is Multiple or Average |
| AcquireTime, AcquireTime_RBV | When TriggerMode= When TriggerMode= When TriggerMode= When TriggerMode= |
| TriggerMode, TriggerMode_RBV | Sets the trigger mode for the detector. Options are:
See the Synchronization and triggering section below for more details about synchronization and triggering. |
| ImageMode, ImageMode_RBV | Sets the trigger mode for the detector. Options are:
|
PerkinElmer specific parameters¶
The PerkinElmer driver implements the following parameters in addition to those in asynNDArrayDriver.h and ADDriver.h.
| Parameter Definitions in PerkinElmer.h and EPICS Record Definitions in PerkinElmer.template | ||
|---|---|---|
| Description | EPICS record names (preceeded with $(P)$(R)) | EPICS record types |
| Number of software frame buffers to use | PENumFrameBuffers, PENumFrameBuffers_RBV | longout, longin |
| Initialize the detector | PEInitialize | bo |
| Trigger record for soft trigger mode | PETrigger | bo |
| Frame number from the hardware frame buffer for this image. Values go from 1 to 8. | PEFrameBuffIndex | longin |
| Image number for this image in the software frame buffer array. | PEImageNumber | longin |
| Gain selection in units of pF capacitance. Choices are 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, and 8. | PEGain, PEGain_RBV | mbbo, mbbi |
Synchronization mode. Choices are:
|
PESyncMode, PESyncMode_RBV | mbbo, mbbi |
| Offset corrections | ||
| Number of frames to collect and average when collecting offset frames | PENumOffsetFrames | longout |
| Current offset frame being collected when collecting offset frames | PECurrentOffsetFrame | longin |
| Acquire offset frames | PEAcquireOffset | busy |
Set whether offset image is to be used. Choices are Disable (0) and Enable (1). |
PEUseOffset | bo |
Report whether offset image has been collected and is available for use. Choices
are Not available (0) and Available (1). |
PEOffsetAvailable | bi |
An offset that is added to the image when the offset correction is performed. CorrectedImage = RawImage - OffsetImage + OffsetConstant. This constant should be used to prevent the CorrectedImage from having any negative pixel values, which would otherwise be clipped to 0. For efficiency this value is actually subtracted from the offset image as soon as it is collected, so it is then effectively added to each image when offset correction is done. This results in 2 restrictions:
|
PEOffsetContant, PEOffsetContant_RBV | longout, longin |
| Gain corrections | ||
| Number of frames to collect and average when collecting gain frames | PENumGainFrames | longout |
| Current gain frame being collected when collecting gain frames | PECurrentGainFrame | longin |
| Acquire gain frames | PEAcquireGain | busy |
Set whether gain image is to be used. Choices are Disable (0) and Enable (1). |
PEUseGain | bo |
Report whether offset image has been collected and is available for use. Choices are:
|
PEGainAvailable | bi |
| File name for gain correction file | PEGainFile | waveform |
| Save gain corrections to a file | PESaveGainFile | bo |
| Load gain corrections from a file | PELoadGainFile | bo |
| Bad pixel corrections | ||
| Set whether bad pixel correction is to be used | PEUsePixelCorrection | bo |
| Report whether pixel correction file has been set and is available for use | PEPixelCorrectionAvailable | bi |
| File name for pixel correction file | PEPixelFile | waveform |
| Directory where gain and pixel correction files should be stored | PECorrectionsDir | waveform |
| Load pixel corrections from a file for use | PELoadPixelCorrections | bo |
| Skip frames settings | ||
| Set whether to skip initial PENumFramesToSkip frames from the detector on each acquisition. This can be used to discard the first frame which may contain data from before acquisition was started. | PESkipFrames, PESkipFrames_RBV | bo, bi |
| Sets the number of initial frames from the detector to skip on each acquisition if PESkipFrames=1. | PENumFramesToSkip, PENumFramesToSkip_RBV | longout, longin |
| Trigger output control | ||
Controls which signal appears on the trigger output connector. Choices are:
|
PETrigOutSignal, PETrigOutSignal_RBV | mbbo, mbbi |
| Trigger output EP length | PETrigOutEPLength, PETrigOutEPLength_RBV | longout, longin |
| Trigger output EP first frame | PETrigOutEPFirstFrame, PETrigOutEPFirstFrame_RBV | longout, longin |
| Trigger output EP last frame | PETrigOutEPLastFrame, PETrigOutEPLastFrame_RBV | longout, longin |
| Trigger output EP delay 1 | PETrigOutEPDelay1, PETrigOutEPDelay1_RBV | longout, longin |
| Trigger output EP delay 2 | PETrigOutEPDelay2, PETrigOutEPDelay2_RBV | longout, longin |
| Trigger output DDD delay | PETrigOutDDDDelay, PETrigOutDDDDelay_RBV | longout, longin |
Trigger output edge. Choices are:
|
PETrigOutEdge, PETrigOutEdge_RBV | mbbo, mbbi |
Unsupported standard driver parameters¶
The PerkinElmer driver does not support the following standard driver parameters because they are not supported in the PerkinElmer library:
- Readout region (ADMinX, ADMinY, ADSizeX, ADSizeY)
- Type/Color (NDDataType, NDColorMode)
- File (None of the file parameters in NDFile)
- No Hardware shutter control
Synchronization and triggering¶
The Perkin Elmer detectors support a number of acquisition modes which are controlled by the TriggerMode, SyncMode, and AcquireTime records. This is a simplified discussion, and the reader should consult the XIS software manual and the detector hardware manuals (e.g. 1621 hardware manual) for details.
The number of frames to be acquired is always controlled by the ImageMode=(Single, Multiple, or Continuous) and NumImages (if ImageMode=Multiple) records, regardless of the values of the TriggerMode, SyncMode, and AcquireTime records.
It is important to realize that the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of frames even when the EPICS Acquire record is 0. The rate of this frame stream depends on the value of the TriggerMode:
- TriggerMode=
Free Running
The frame rate is the maximum that the detector supports. - TriggerMode=
Internal
The frame rate is controlled by an internal clock whose period is set to AcquireTime. - TriggerMode=
External
The frame rate is controlled by the frequency of the external trigger pulses. - TriggerMode=
Soft Trigger
The frame rate is controlled by the rate at which the PETrigger record is processed.
When SyncMode=Framewise and acquisition is started by setting Acquire=1
then the first frame that the EPICS driver collects is the next frame in
that frame stream. NOTE: this means that this frame probably started
exposing before Acquire was set to 1. This may not be desirable since
motors may have still been moving, or a shutter not yet opened. When
acquiring a sequence of images (ImageMode=Multiple) this would only
affect the first image in the sequence, which might be acceptable.
However, if doing a step-scan with ImageMode=Single it would affect
every image in the scan. There are two ways to handle this. One is to
use SyncMode=Framewise and set PENumFramesToSkip=1. This is quite
inefficient since on average it will have an overhead of AcquireTime/2,
and a worst case overhead of AcquireTime. A better approach is to set
FrameSync= DDD No Clear
, which adds a small overhead to each frame
(~0.1-0.2 seconds), but ensures that the exposure is started after
Acquire is set to 1.
TriggerMode=Free Running¶
In this mode the AcquireTime is ignored, and the detector runs at the maximum possible frame rate and a fixed minimum exposure time. SyncMode should be set to Framewise in this mode.
TriggerMode=Internal¶
In this mode the behavior depends on the setting of SyncMode.
- If SyncMode=
Framewise
then the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of images with a frame rate determined by the AcquireTime record, up to the maximum frame rate the detector is capable of. When Acquire is set to 1 then this driver begins acquiring the images and doing callbacks to plugins. This is the fastest way to run the detector with a user-programmable acquisition time. However, it suffers from the limitation described above that the first frame after Acquire is set to 1 actually was being exposed before Acquire was set to 1. This may not be desired, particularly when ImageMode=Single. NOTE: the XRPAD detectors cannot use this mode because they are limited to a single internal frame rate and the AcquireTime record has no effect in this mode. - If SyncMode=
DDD No Clear
then the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of images at the maximum possible frame rate. However, when Acquire is set to 1 this driver sends a software trigger to the detector. This causes the hardware to discard the next frame when it arrives and to start a new exposure with an exposure time of AcquireTime. When the frame completes then the driver sends the next software trigger in the frame callback function. When running in this mode there is no limitation on the first frame containing data from before Acquire was set to 1. It does have the limitation that there is additional overhead per frame, so the maximum frame rate is reduced. On the XRD1621 this overhead is ~0.2 second in 2048x2048 mode, and ~0.1 seconds in 1024x1024 mode. This mode is recommended when running with ImageMode=Single. If running with ImageMode=Multiple then this mode should be used if the first frame limitation described above is a problem. If the limitation ofDDD No Clear
mode on frame rate is more important than the limitation ofFramewise
mode on the first frame then one should use SyncMode=Framewise
.
TriggerMode=External¶
In this mode the behavior also depends on the setting of SyncMode.
- If SyncMode=
Framewise
then the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of images with a frame rate determined by the time between external trigger pulses, up to the maximum frame rate the detector is capable of. When Acquire is set to 1 then this driver begins acquiring the images and doing callbacks to plugins. This is the fastest way to run the detector with an external trigger. However, it has some potential problems. First, if the time between external triggers is not constant then the exposure time of the frames will be different. This can lead to serious data quality issues because the offset correction will not be correct. If the time between trigger pulses is constant then there is still a potential data quality problem if the offset images were not collected with exactly the time acquisition time, for example if they will collected with an TriggerMode=Internal and a slightly different acquisition time. Of course this is not an issue if the offset images are acquired with the same external trigger period used for the data images, but this may be difficult to arrange in practice. - If SyncMode=
DDD No Clear
then the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of images at the maximum possible frame rate. However, when an external trigger pulse is received this causes the hardware to discard the next frame when it arrives and to start a new exposure with an exposure time of AcquireTime. This mode thus allows acquiring for a fixed exposure time on each external trigger, rather than the time until the next trigger is received. This means that offset images can be simply collected with TriggerMode=Internal and the same AcquireTime. This mode does have the limitation that there is additional overhead per frame, so the maximum frame rate is reduced. The overhead is the same as described above for TriggerMode=Internal
, SyncMode=Framewise
.
TriggerMode=Soft Trigger¶
In this mode the behavior also depends on the setting of SyncMode.
- If SyncMode=
Framewise
then the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of images with a frame rate determined by the time between software triggers from the PETrigger record, up to the maximum frame rate the detector is capable of. When Acquire is set to 1 then this driver begins acquiring the images and doing callbacks to plugins. This is the fastest way to run the detector with a software trigger. However, it has the same potential problems as TriggerMode=External
and SyncMode=Framewise
described above. In the case of software triggers the problem may be even more important if the time between software triggers has significant variation. - If SyncMode=
DDD No Clear
then the detector hardware is constantly acquiring a stream of images at the maximum possible frame rate. However, when a software trigger is received this causes the hardware to discard the next frame when it arrives and to start a new exposure with an exposure time of AcquireTime. This mode thus allows acquiring for a fixed exposure time on each software trigger, rather than the time until the next software trigger is received. This means that offset images can be simply collected with TriggerMode=Internal
and the same AcquireTime. This mode does have the limitation that there is additional overhead per frame, so the maximum frame rate is reduced. The overhead is the same as described above for TriggerMode=Internal
, SyncMode=Framewise
.
It is important that the offset images are collected with the same
SyncMode as the data. If the offset images are collected with
SyncMode=Framewise and the data are collected with SyncMode= DDD No
Clear
then the offset correction will not be correct, even if both are
collected with the same AcquireTime. When using SyncMode= DDD No Clear
it is fine to collect the offset and data images with different values
of TriggerMode. For example the offset images could be collected with
TriggerMode= Internal
and the data images collected with TriggerMode= External
.
Configuration¶
The PerkinElmer driver is created with the perkinElmerConfig command, either from C/C++ or from the EPICS IOC shell.
int PerkinElmerConfig(const char *portName, int IDType, const char* IDValue,
int maxBuffers, size_t maxMemory,
int priority, int stackSize )
For details on the meaning of the parameters to this function refer to the detailed documentation on the PerkinElmerConfig function in the PerkinElmer.cpp documentation and in the documentation for the constructor for the PerkinElmer class.
Example st.cmd startup file¶
The following startup script is provided with ADPerkinElmer.
errlogInit(20000)
< envPaths
dbLoadDatabase("$(TOP)/dbd/PerkinElmerApp.dbd")
PerkinElmerApp_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)
# Prefix for all records
epicsEnvSet("PREFIX", "13PE1:")
# The port name for the detector
epicsEnvSet("PORT", "PEDET1")
# The queue size for all plugins
epicsEnvSet("QSIZE", "20")
# The maximim image width; used for row profiles in the NDPluginStats plugin
epicsEnvSet("XSIZE", "2048")
# The maximim image height; used for column profiles in the NDPluginStats plugin
epicsEnvSet("YSIZE", "2048")
# The maximum number of time seried points in the NDPluginStats plugin
epicsEnvSet("NCHANS", "2048")
# The maximum number of frames buffered in the NDPluginCircularBuff plugin
epicsEnvSet("CBUFFS", "500")
# The search path for database files
epicsEnvSet("EPICS_DB_INCLUDE_PATH", "$(ADCORE)/db")
# Create a PerkinElmer driver
# PerkinElmerConfig(const char *portName, IDType, IDValue, maxBuffers, size_t maxMemory, int priority, int stackSize)
# IDType = 0 Frame grabber card, IDValue="", use first frame grabber or directly connected GigE detector
# = 1 GigE detector by IP address (e.g. <IP_ADDRESS>)
# = 2 GigE detector by MAC address (e.g. 00005b032e6b, must be lower-case letters)
# = 3 GigE detector by detector name (e.g. 8#2608). Can get network detector names with asynReport(10)
# This is for the first PCI/PCIExpress frame grabber detector in the system
PerkinElmerConfig("$(PORT)", 0, "0", 0, 0, 0, 0)
# This is for the second PCI/PCIExpress frame grabber detector in the system
#PerkinElmerConfig("$(PORT)", 0, "1", 0, 0, 0, 0)
# This is for a GigE detector at IP address <IP_ADDRESS>
#PerkinElmerConfig("$(PORT)", 1, <IP_ADDRESS>, 0, 0, 0, 0)
# This is for a GigE detector at MAC address 00005b032e6b
#PerkinElmerConfig("$(PORT)", 2, 00005b032e6b, 0, 0, 0, 0)
# This is for a GigE detector with name 8#2608
#PerkinElmerConfig("$(PORT)", 3, 8#2608, 0, 0, 0, 0)
asynSetTraceIOMask($(PORT), 0, 2)
# Setting this to 9 to enable ASYN_TRACEIO_DRIVER and see XIS calls
#asynSetTraceMask($(PORT),0, 9)
dbLoadRecords("$(ADPERKINELMER)/db/PerkinElmer.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=cam1:,PORT=$(PORT),ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
# Create a standard arrays plugin, set it to get data from Driver.
NDStdArraysConfigure("Image1", 3, 0, "$(PORT)", 0)
# Set NELEMENTS to at least the total number of pixels in the detector. The following is a little larger than 4096 x 4096
dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/NDStdArrays.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=image1:,PORT=Image1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1,NDARRAY_PORT=$(PORT),TYPE=Int16,SIZE=16,FTVL=SHORT,NELEMENTS=17000000")
# Load all other plugins using commonPlugins.cmd
< $(ADCORE)/iocBoot/commonPlugins.cmd
set_requestfile_path("$(ADPERKINELMER)/perkinElmerApp/Db")
iocInit()
# save things every thirty seconds
create_monitor_set("auto_settings.req", 30, "P=$(PREFIX)")
#asynSetTraceMask($(PORT),0,0xff)
MEDM screens¶
The following show the MEDM screens that are used to control the PerkinElmer detector. Note that the general purpose screen ADBase.adl can be used, but it exposes many controls that are not applicable to the PerkinElmer, and lacks some fields that are important for the PerkinElmer driver.
PerkinElmer.adl
is the main screen used to control the PerkinElmer
driver.
Performance measurements¶
The following measurements were done to demonstrate the performance that can be obtained with the areaDetector PerkinElmer driver.
- XRD1621 detector with the XRD-FGe Opto PCI-Express frame grabber
- Can stream data continuously to local disk at 15 frames/s at 2048x2048 (120 MB/s) and 30 frames/s at 1024x1024 (60 MB/s). These tests were done on a Windows 7 64-bit machine with 2 disk drives (SAS, 15K RPM, RAID 0).
- XRD0822 detector with a GigE interface
- Can stream data continuously to local disk at 25 frames/s at 1024x1024 (50 MB/s) and 50 frames/s at 512x512 (25 MB/s). These tests were done on a Windows 7 64-bit laptop with a local disk drive.
Restrictions¶
The following are some current restrictions of the PerkinElmer driver:
- Prior to R2-4 the driver only supported a single frame-grabber or directly connected GigE detector. This restriction was removed in R2-4.


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尽人事，听天命。
Do what you love, and connect the dots.
你好呀，我是阿驰，一个喜欢研究咨询心理学的年轻人。
Hi, I am Chi, a youth loves studying counselling psychology.
我六年前想读哲学专业，五年前开始寻找"什么是好的教育"，一年前为了探索心理学与舞蹈相结合的可能，选择了认知神经科学方向的硕士项目。闲暇时间，我到传媒行业、社会创新行业和学术科研行业探索了一番。
Well, six years ago I loved philosophy; five years ago I looked for the definition of "good education"; one year ago I tried to combined psychology and dance together and choose Cognitive Neuroscience as my study track. In my spare time, I explored the fields of journalism, entrepreneurship and academic research.
当我从学前教育学系毕业的时候，我为我自己当年的困惑找到了答案："好的教育"应该是提供一个合适的平台——这个平台能够促进学生之间的相互学习、能够让学生获得有经验者/专业人士的指导，能够让学生看见自己的成长与成就。
When I graduated from the School of Early Childhood Ecuation in Shanghai, I found my answer to "how is the good education look like": providing an appropriate platform where students can learn from each other, be exposed to the guidance from experienced and excerpts, and visualise their accomplishments.
当我决定投身于咨询心理学时，我决定为我的同伴和我自己创造这样的有效学习机制。于是，2020年初，基于我的微信公众号阿驰附近，我创办了华人心理咨询师专业成长小组和豆瓣心理咨询专业成长小组。
As I made my mind to devoted myself into Counselling Psychology, I decided to offer myself and my peers such an effective platform. So, at the beginning of 2020, I founded a peer support group for Chinese novice counsellors around the world, which named CP Group.
截止至2020年5月1日，已有数十人表达了想要加入小组的意愿。小组成员会在小组中与同伴分享自己在专业学习中的Aha时刻，举行定期的学术和职业专题研讨，并为处于困境的伙伴提供支持。如果你也是心理咨询和助人行业的从业者，我期待你的加入。
By May 1, 2020, tens of students showed their interests in joinin this group. As a group member, he/she shares their Aha moments in their studying process, launches panel discussions about academic/professional life, and supports the peers who are in struggle. Let's studying counselling psychology with credible peers.
很高兴能跟现在的一切相遇:）
I am glad that I finally connect my dots today:)


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If you have auto sync enabled, the DataSync will automatically upload your eliminations scores when they are saved in the scoring system.
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Approximately three people still haven't read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code : Mark Liberman , David Lupher , and reportedly at least one other person (as yet unidentified).*
Regrettably, neither Barbara nor I are able to claim that the third non-reader is one of us. What can I say by way of excuse for this? I found the book was on sale really cheap in CostCo when we were about to leave on a trip to Europe. I bought it for the long, long flights that lay ahead of us, without knowing much about it except that it was supposed to be an intellectual mystery with cryptography and symbology and stuff and the blurbs said it was great. I didn't open it, I just grabbed one off a pallet of about 500 copies. Barbara was between mysteries at the time, so she grabbed it from me and rapidly read it over the next couple of days before we even left for the airport. I asked hopefully what it was like. She scowled and said something about the Hardy Boys. My heart sank; I understood her to mean it was pathetic but possibly of interest to the 11-year-old market.  Unfortunately I had no better idea of what to do with my time, so I opened The Da Vinci Code .
I am still trying to come up with a fully convincing account of just what it was about his very first sentence, indeed the very first word, that told me instantly that I was in for a very bad time stylistically.
The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word renowned . Here is the paragraph with which the book opens. The scene (says a dateline under the chapter heading, 'Prologue') is the Louvre, late at night:
Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing the gilded frame, the seventy-six-year-old man heaved the masterpiece toward himself until it tore from the wall and Saunière collapsed backward in a heap beneath the canvas.
I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative. So this might be reasonable text for the opening of a newspaper report the next day:
Renowned curator Jacques Saunière died last night in the Louvre at the age of 76.
But Brown packs such details into the first two words of an action sequence — details of not only his protagonist's profession but also his prestige in the field. It doesn't work here. It has the ring of utter ineptitude. The details have no relevance, of course, to what is being narrated (Saunière is fleeing an attacker and pulls down the painting to trigger the alarm system and the security gates). We could have deduced that he would be fairly well known in the museum trade from the fact that he was curating at the Louvre.
The writing goes on in similar vein, committing style and word choice blunders in almost every paragraph (sometimes every line). Look at the phrase "the seventy-six-year-old man". It's a complete let-down: we knew he was a man — the anaphoric pronoun "he" had just been used to refer to him. (This is perhaps where "curator" could have been slipped in for the first time, without "renowned", if the passage were rewritten.) Look at "heaved the masterpiece toward himself until it tore from the wall and Saunière collapsed backward in a heap beneath the canvas." We don't need to know it's a masterpiece (it's a Caravaggio hanging in the Louvre, that should be enough in the way of credentials, for heaven's sake). Surely "toward him" feels better than "toward himself" (though I guess both are grammatical here). Surely "tore from the wall" should be "tore away from the wall". Surely a single man can't fall into a heap (there's only him, that's not a heap). And why repeat the name "Saunière" here instead of the pronoun "he"? Who else is around? (Caravaggio hasn't been mentioned; "a Caravaggio" uses the name as an attributive modifier with conventionally elided head noun "painting". That isn't a mention of the man.)
Well, actually, there is someone else around, but we only learn that three paragraphs down, after "a thundering iron gate" has fallen (by the way, it's the fall that makes a thundering noise: there's no such thing as a thundering gate). "The curator" (his profession is now named a second time in case you missed it) "...crawled out from under the canvas and scanned the cavernous space for someplace to hide" (the colloquial American "someplace" seems very odd here as compared with standard "somewhere"). Then:
A voice spoke, chillingly close. "Do not move."
On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly.
Only fifteen feet away, outside the sealed gate, the mountainous silhouette of his attacker stared through the iron bars. He was broad and tall, with ghost-pale skin and thinning white hair. His irises were pink with dark red pupils.
Just count the infelicities here. A voice doesn't speak —a person speaks; a voice is what a person speaks with . "Chillingly close" would be right in your ear, whereas this voice is fifteen feet away behind the thundering gate. The curator (do we really need to be told his profession a third time?) cannot slowly turn his head if he has frozen; freezing (as a voluntary human action) means temporarily ceasing all muscular movements. And crucially, a silhouette does not stare! A silhouette is a shadow. If Saunière can see the man's pale skin, thinning hair, iris color, and red pupils (all at fifteen feet), the man cannot possibly be in silhouette.
Brown's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad. In some passages scarcely a word or phrase seems to have been carefully selected or compared with alternatives. I slogged through 454 pages of this syntactic swill, and it never gets much better. Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International, and airline magazines are thin, and two-month-old Hollywood drivel on a small screen hanging two seats in front of my row did not appeal, that's why. And why did I keep the book instead of dropping it into a Heathrow trash bin? Because it seemed to me to be such a fund of lessons in how not to write.
I don't think I'd want to say these things about a first-time novelist, it would seem a cruel blow to a budding career. But Dan Brown is all over the best-seller lists now. In paperback and hardback, and in many languages, he is a phenomenon. He is up there with the Stephen Kings and the John Grishams and nothing I say can conceivably harm him. He is a huge, blockbuster, worldwide success who can go anywhere he wants and need never work again. And he writes like the kind of freshman student who makes you want to give up the whole idea of teaching.
Which brings us to the question of the blurbs. "Dan Brown has to be one of the best, smartest, and most accomplished writers in the country," said Nelson DeMille, a bestselling author who has himself hit the #1 spot in the New York Times list. Unbelievable mendacity. And there are four other similar pieces of praise on the back cover. Together those blurbs convinced me to put this piece of garbage on the CostCo cart along with the the 72-pack of toilet rolls. Thriller writers must have a code of honor that requires that they all praise each other's new novels, a kind of omerta that enjoins them to silence about the fact that some fellow member of the guild has given evidence of total stylistic cluelessness. A fraternal code of silence. We could call it... the Da Vinci code; or the Dan Brown code.
_____________* The third non-reader was unknown when this post was first drafted, but it has since been edited, and as of today (May 2, 2004) I can confirm that Bill Poser and Danny Yee are both claiming not to have read The Da Vinci Code . Fair enough. So at least four people have not read it. I just wish one of them was me.
[Update -- Additional Language Log posts about Dan Brown's novels and related topics:
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Dan Brown still moving very briskly about
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Renowned author Dan Brown staggered through his formulaic opening sentence
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Learning the ropes in the trenches with Dan Brown
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Class to apply forward kinematics.
Definition at line 40 of file forward_kinematics.hpp.
◆ ForwardKinematics()
| ForwardKinematics::ForwardKinematics |
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◆ calculateNewHeading()
| double ForwardKinematics::calculateNewHeading |
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double |
goal_heading | ) |
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Calculate new heading required to reach the goal heading. (in radians)
- Parameters
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| goal_heading | double - robot's goal heading |
- Returns
- double - new heading required to reach the goal heading
◆ calculateNewSpeed()
| double ForwardKinematics::calculateNewSpeed |
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double |
goal_speed | ) |
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Calculate new speed required to reach the goal speed. (in meters/seconds)
- Parameters
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| goal_speed | double - robot's goal speed |
- Returns
- double - new speed required to reach the goal speed
◆ getR1()
| double ForwardKinematics::getR1 |
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Get turning raduis from centre of rear axle. (in meters)
- Parameters
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- Returns
- double - turning raduis from centre of rear axle (in meters)
◆ goalReached()
| bool ForwardKinematics::goalReached |
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double |
goal_heading, |
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double |
goal_speed |
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Boolean value for goal reached (True/False)
- Parameters
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| goal_heading | double - robot's goal heading |
| goal_speed | double - robot's goal speed |
- Returns
- bool
◆ setDTheta()
| void ForwardKinematics::setDTheta |
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double |
d_theta | ) |
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Set change in robot heading. (in radians)
- Parameters
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| d_theta | double - change in robot's heading. (in radians) |
- Returns
- void
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:


EMToken Protocol Reference
| Conforms to | EMAuthenticatable NSObject |
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| Declared in | EMToken.h |
name
required method
Gets the name of the token. The name of the token was defined when the token was created.
@property (copy, nonatomic, readonly) NSString *name
Return Value
The name of the token.
Declared In
EMToken.h
soft
required method
Returns YES
if the token’s credentials are software based
(i.e. the credentials are not stored inside a special hardware chip).
@property (nonatomic, readonly, getter=isSoft) BOOL soft
Return Value
YES
if this is a soft token, NO
otherwise
Declared In
EMToken.h
tokenSequenceNumber
required method
Gets the token sequence number that distinguishes this token among others the users has.
@property (nonatomic, readonly) NSInteger tokenSequenceNumber
Return Value
The token sequence number.
Discussion
The token sequence number is defined only for CAP tokens and is an unsigned value ranging from 0x00 to 0x63 (i.e. 0 to 99). For OATH tokens, the method always return 0xFF (i.e. 255).
Declared In
EMToken.h
userTokenId
required method
Returns the User Token Identifier (UTI).
@property (nonatomic, readonly) NSInteger userTokenId
Return Value
The user token id, -1 if none.
Availability
2.2
Discussion
The UTI is an unsigned value ranging from 0x00 to 0xFF (i.e. 0 to 255). It is generated by the provisioning server and is part of the credential pushed during provisioning. It is guaranteed that two tokens for the same end-user (on authentication server) and from the same EPS domain will never have the same UTI. See the Enrollment and Provisioning Server documentation for domains configuration description.
The UTI is defined only if the token has been created with Provisioning Protocol V3 or V5. When the token has been created with Provisioning Protocol V1 or V2 the method returns -1.
Declared In
EMToken.h
– changePinWithAuthInput:newPin:error:
required method
Performs a change PIN using a PIN authentication mode. If the EMTokenCapability of the token is
EMTokenCapabilityDUAL_SEED
then this operation changes the PIN
for both keys regardless of which key is currently selected. See EMTokenCapability.
- (BOOL)changePinWithAuthInput:(id<EMPinAuthInput>)oldPin newPin:(id<EMPinAuthInput>)newPin error:(NSError **)error
Parameters
oldPin |
Current Pin value. |
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newPin |
New Pin value. |
error |
If an error occurs, upon return contains an NSError object that describes the problem. If you are not interested in possible errors, you may pass in |
Return Value
YES
if the pin was changed, NO
if an error occurred.
Availability
3.2
Declared In
EMToken.h
– upgradeToMultiAuthMode:error:
required method
Performs upgrade token migration to support multi authentication mode. The migration is supposed to be performed from SDK version 2.3.0 or newer.
- (BOOL)upgradeToMultiAuthMode:(id<EMPinAuthInput>)pin error:(NSError **)error
Parameters
pin |
Current Pin value. |
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error |
If an error occurs, upon return contains an NSError object that describes the problem. If you are not interested in possible errors, you may pass in ‘NULL’. object containing the error information. Possible errors are: - EZIO_MOBILE_ERROR_DOMAIN_MULTI_AUTH_MODE , when upgrade lowplatformcoupling token to multi-auth mode which is not supported. - EMTokenMigrationErrorDomain , when token already migrated to support multi auth modes. |
Return Value
‘YES’ if the token migration was succeeded. ‘NO’ if an error occured.
Availability
3.2
Discussion
Warning: 1. It’s mandatory to perform token migration on a previously created token but also on new token before any token operation. 2. Pin value parsed here needs to be correct one, otherwise the token will no longer be valid.
Declared In
EMToken.h


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More to come. #holoswag


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There are no applications yet, only sample visualisation.
That's because the point of opening our data is to let others take it and build something useful, that we wouldn't have thought of.
What we can do is make it available in useful ways, so that external services are easier to build. Right now, the data is available in raw form, but with your help, we can improve this platform to deliver the data more usefully.
That said, we have a few visualizations to show off the potential of this dataset
Caveat: these graphs are at most as accurate and complete as the dataset they are built on.
This is a very simple barchart showing the number of cases processed by month between 2002 and 2012. The line shows the average yearly totals.
The map below shows the average age of offenders at each court on the map, over the 10-year period. Black is youngest (25 years old average), white is older (36 years old). Click on a circle to see that court's details.


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I try to make a note of when I am “in the news,” linking to media mentions of me, my work. But I don’t often write about when I am “on the syllabus,” which is probably something I enjoy even more.
I learned about my work being assigned and wrestled with in a couple of classes last week, and I appeared in some assignments: one formal and one informal.
On the informal end, “Audrey Watters quotations as de-motivational posters” seemed to be a brief thing on Twitter:
Sorry I am late to the party, but it took me a while to match the perfect quote with the perfect image :) pic.twitter.com/g2xc6HL470
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) September 17, 2018
Game on for “Dystopian edtech quotes over inspirational backgrounds meme” Unsplash photo by Johannes Plenio pic.twitter.com/HtEeAC2Doo
— Alan Levine ☠ (@cogdog) September 15, 2018
More formally, one of George Veletsianos’ students used my work in an “epic rap battle,” and frankly it is so amazing that I just might retire.


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