I graduated from university in the summer of 2011 and my first job did not carry a huge paycheck. In fact I started working for a small startup (in Lund, Sweden) that could barely afford to pay me. The job however was really interesting and it seemed like a good time to take a risk. In the autumn of 2012 the startup got some venture capital and I started getting a more "normal" salary.
There was quite a buzz around Precise Biometrics in Lund at that time Apple was just about to buy Authentec and the biometric market was in my opinion about to explode so I took my first real salary and invested it in Precise Biometric. After I made the investment I started hanging around in different online forums and educated myself as to what I had bought(In more resent investments I made I try to do it the other way around read first buy second). It was reading about Precise I started learning about Fingerprint Cards.
The more I read the more obvious it seemed that Fingerprint Cards was the better and safer bet. On Valentines day 2013 (2013-02-14) I sold my Precise and bought Fingerprint. The price I bought them for was 22.15 SEK (4.43 SEK if compared with after split). My main reasons for buying the stock back then was:
Once I had bought my first shares and earned my first 50% (the rise up past 30 SEK was almost instant) I became even more infatuated by the stock. I bought more shares for 34 SEK and for 50 SEK and in September of 2013 for 81 SEK...
Then the stock started falling, and fell back down to around 50 SEK which in my opinion was really strange since the company kept publishing news about "design wins" and in any way I looked at it everything seemed to be going great. So I invested a bit more. But at this point I was a bit worried, what did the see that I was missing?
September 11th 2014 the news about the trial against Johan Carlström for insider trading. The stock droped like a stone at the bottom it was down 40% in one day. All of my profit was gone and I was sitting with my finger hovering above the "sell" button. But I never pressed it. Instead I took a step back and asked myself: What possible inpact could this have on the company. I identified one major risk and that was that potential customers might feel that Fingerprint Cards was not serious. I took this risk into account but decided that the market was heavily overreacting so instead of selling I bought
By the end of 2014 I had investeed almost 90% of my financial assets in Fingerprint Cards and this was to be honest a bit more than I was comfortable with from a risk managemanet perspecitve. So when the stock started moving upwards in March I started to downsize my position. During 2015 I more or less followed thee rule: Every time the stock doubled I sold a portion of my position. In retrospect it would of course have been better to keep it all and sell it att 670 SEK then buy it back for half that.
Since May the stock has taken a quite brutal beating. When it fell bellow 100 SEK (post split price) I had the same feeling as when it fell from 80 to 50 back in 2013. I felt that it was completly unmotivated and that given repurchase program and all the money the company was making it seemed impossible for it to go down much more. So I started buying again and bought (in relation to my personal economy) a fair amount in the interval 97-104 SEK.
I found it perplexing that changing CEO would have such a huge effect on the valuation of the company. Especially since it looked to me like the basis for the decision to switch was offensive. Noone was unhappy with Jörgen but they had managed to find an even better alternative. At least that was my take on it.
Then the stock fell some more and then brexit happend and BAM Fingerprint was traded in the low 70s. That was according to my calculations equivalent of a PE below 10 for the current year. That was not a reasonable to me so I found myself once again 90% invested in Fingerprint cards. Writing these words I have started downsizing again and are at the moment around 75% and I intent to let a few more go in the range 115-120 SEK.
I try to keep the reasons I had for taking a position in mind and be vary if any of them changes. So let's review the reasons I hade for buying:
There is some serious debate going on regarding this. Some analysts are saying that the competion is getting harder fast and that it will be hard for Fingerprint Cards to keep it's margins. I personally do not see it quite that way. To me it seems that the competition is struggeling. Synaptics are having issues with performance but I think their relationship with Samsung is strong enough for them to keep them as a customer. Goodix has issues with their IP-portfolio, this discourages potetial customers.
The norwiegan companies Idex and Next are revenue wise 18 month behind Fingerprint, this makes it much harder for them to make the investments necessary to keep up with the market.
In conclusion, based on the information I have available I have a hard time beliving that any of the compettetors will knock out Fingerprint. Sure they might take a portion of the market but I think Fingerprint will keep it's place as market leader. I also think that it is healthy Fingerprint in the long run with some competition, this will force them to keep develop new products and keep pushing the edge of biometric identification forwards.
Maybe I would phrase it differently if I wrote it today but the geist it of it still rings true today. Their sensor is the fastest on the market. Their energy consumption seems to be the best. There has been far fewer reports of people cracking teir sensors (none that I know of regarding their sensors with live detection). This last fact might partly be due to it being much cooler to break in to an iPhone or a Samsung phone than a Vivo.
To me it still does. There are no suits against to my knowledge and they are filing for new patents on a regular basis.
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There seems to be a lot going on in this department. Their work with Zwipe and Mastercard has great potential and it seems to be happening. Personally I have three paymentcards in my wallet and I replace each of those cards at least twice for each time I buy a phone. This might be partly due to me switching bank as soon as I am offered better terms somewhere else. But still, this market should be at least as large as the smartphone market within a few years.
The threat I see against this market is the smartphone. A possible route to putting sensors in the cards could be to discard the cards and pay with the phone instead. But I think Visa and Mastercard will work against this happening. It will be much harder for them to controll all payments if they move in to the cloud.
I am not super optimistic about the internet of things. At least not in the next five years. The problem being solved by the internet of things has not quite been invented yet. I am more or less certain that it will happen but I do not think that anyone knows how it will look quite yet and I am not sure if there will be fingerprint sensors everywhere.
In this department I see the benefit to the industry. It is easier for the consumer to not keep track of keys and you can adjust seats to personal settings as soon as someone grabs the door. The downside to this market is size, there are not nearly as many cars being made as smartphones or payment cards. And even if each car is fitted with more than one sensor I have a hard time imagening it growing to the same size.
A good thing about cars is that they have much longer lifecycles meaning that if you have managed to become an integrated component in a car you should have a steady easily visible revenue stream for multiple years.
When I started investing in Fingerprint Cards they did not make any money. Now they do, they make quite a lot of money, this opens up a lot of opportunities. They are able to make acquisitions and can invest mmore in research and development as well as sales. This should help them keep their position as market leader.
There are of course threats and unkowns that might make this a bad or even really bad investment. I will try to map out a few of the things I try to keep an eye on.
Even if Fingerprint Cards stay in the lead when it comes to fingerprint sensors there is no natural law saying that fingerprint sensors will be the solution of choice for ever.
Tomorrow there might be some new more secure, faster, easier and cheaper tech that solves the same problems. It might be iris-scanners or DNA-scaning or a small robot that automatically calls your grandmother and asks if this really is you. I have no idea and that is exactly the point. But technology is a fast moving field so I try to keep track of new potentail options. Who knows I might find the next Fingerprint ;)
Even if I at the moment am quite happy with the market situation I watch it closely and try to keep track of what other actors and the market are doing.
This post is in no way meant to be a recomendation, I have no idea in what direction the price will go when the stock exchange opens on Monday morning. Do your own homework before making any investments!


So I've only done GHB about four times in my life, but the last two have convinced me to steer clear of it.
I'm not sure why I experience the type of experience that I'm about to explain; my friends report back with amazing stories and promote it with nothing but good things to say about G, but to me, frankly, it's horrifying.
The first two times I did it were pretty fun. I took about a cap both times and had a beer or two on top of that, and that's all. A relatively tame night for some of my friends, but I had never done it before and wanted to have a good night. I don't remember too much but basically it was like being drunk without the sloppiness.
The third time was the first time that I had a hellish experience. I can list a few things I did WRONG this time around, so I wasn't surprised afterwards that it went badly. Basically, I was partying with one of my most crazy/party-boy friends and I had been doing a plethora of different drugs and drinking quite a bit for hours. We ended up at a weird house party, some big mansion on a hill with people who looked like some real fiends hanging out there. We drank, did coke, smoked weed, drank more and raged on through the night. Some people even smoked meth but I definitely avoided THAT room.
Anyways- I was on the porch outside and a dude and his girlfriend were taking some GHB and offered me a cap with water. I knew I had been drinking a lot but strangely I didn't feel too drunk and I felt like, 'hey, if they're gonna do it, I can give it a go'. I took it and I felt fine for about half an hour. Then I just straight up passed out in a room full of people who were being loud and partying still. When I woke up later, unbeknownst to me how long I was out, I felt very strange. I felt the fear.
I took myself out of the room and into an empty room with a couch to figure out how I was actually feeling.  I honestly felt like the world was ending. I couldn't explain why I felt this way, but I did. I knew it was the G and I thought that maybe I was having a nightmare when I was passed out and somehow I woke up while it was still happening.
I convinced myself that was the case, but it didn't help stop this horrible sensation that the entire UNIVERSE was caving and the most horrible tragedy was occurring with a gravitational pull towards my brain. There were no words to describe my fear and depression at that moment. I couldn't even move I was so terrified. After about 20 minutes of sitting there, experiencing what I could only describe as a waking nightmare, it faded and I was fine. That was the first bad experience.
The second one was similar, but this time around I had been partying MUCH less. I did however drink about 7 beers before I took the GHB this time around. I took whatever the dose was that my friend gave me, something like 2…. ml? Don't quote me on that, but it was basically the recommended dose for a good time.
I was i the club, girls were loving me, I was being funny and dancing well, I was feeling great and everyone was awesome in my eyes. Then I had a quick moment where I could have sworn some girl said something to me that was like hearing the devil speak to you. I don't remember what she said but it was like a momentary vision of hell, yet again, but I snapped back quickly.
Then we all went back to the house and I smoked weed with my friends. On a side note, my crazy ex-girlfriend (and roommate!) was there and at this point she had been drunk and wanted to fight me, so that put a damper on things. We got in the car and she drove us home. On the way home, I suddenly got the feeling that I had done something terrible to her, and when I say terrible, I mean that in my mind I really thought I destroyed her very being and ruined her life. All from our fight. I actually, genuinely believed this. I begged for her forgiveness and was so terrified yet again, in the same way as that other time on the couch. I didn't even have any idea that it was in my head this time - I believe it. Then I passed out.
That experience was strange because this was a few hours after I had taken the G and it felt like the weed triggered it again or something.  And in the scariest way.
I've always been pretty sensitive to many different drugs and I've got a pretty wild/racing mind so I am not surprised about my experience being somewhat strange, and I don't know why exactly my G experiences have turned out so scary but I think I am going to hang up my hat with G.
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Sequential Structures
Sequential processing are steps performed in sequence, one after another. A spreadsheet computation from top-to-bottom is a sequential process.
Reliability Example Suppose we wish to estimate the reliability of a system comprised of many indetical parts iused in multiple places in a design, for instance rivets on an airplane wing. Using a Bernoulli model (which you will see in your statistics class) we can estimate the collective reliability of the system (all the parts work as desired). The reliability is expressed as the fraction of time that no parts have failed, if the fraction is small we would want to either improve part reliability, or ensure redundancy so the system can function with broken parts.
Let be the probability a single component is good and be the total number of components in the system that work together in a "series" context. The reliability, or the percentage of time that none of the components have failed is given by the Bernoulli equation:
Suppose we want a script to read in a component probability and count, and estimate system reliability -- we can apply our problem solving protocol and JupyterLab to do so, and the task will be mostly sequential
Step 1 Problem Statement Estimate the reliability of a component in an instrument relative to a group of components using a Bernoulli approximation.
Step 2 Input/Output Decomposition Inputs are the reliability of a single component and the number of components working together in a system, output is estimate of system reliability, governing principle is the Bernoulli equation above.
Step 3 By-Hand Example SUppose the system is a small FPGA with 20 transistors, each with reliability of 96-percent. The entire array reliability is
Step 4 Algorithm Development Decompose the computation problem as:
- Read reliability of a single component
- Read how many components
- Compute reliability by bernoulli model
- Report result
Step 5 Scripting Written as a sequence we can have
component = float(input('Component Reliability (percentage-numeric)?'))
howmany = int(input('Number of Components (integer-numeric)?'))
reliability = 100.0*(component/100.0)**howmany
print('Component Reliability: ',round(component,1))
print('Number of Components : ',howmany)
print('System Relability is : ',round(reliability,1),'%')
Component Reliability (percentage-numeric)? 96
Number of Components (integer-numeric)? 20
Component Reliability: 96.0
Number of Components : 20
System Relability is : 44.2 %
Step 6 Refinement We have tested the script with the by-hand example, no refinement really needed here, but lets apply to new conditions
component = float(input('Component Reliability (percentage-numeric)?'))
howmany = int(input('Number of Components (integer-numeric)?'))
reliability = 100.0*(component/100.0)**howmany
print('Component Reliability: ',round(component,1))
print('Number of Components : ',howmany)
print('System Relability is : ',round(reliability,1),'%')
Component Reliability (percentage-numeric)? 99
Number of Components (integer-numeric)? 20
Component Reliability: 99.0
Number of Components : 20
System Relability is : 81.8 %
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Computational and Inferential Thinking Ani Adhikari and John DeNero, Computational and Inferential Thinking, The Foundations of Data Science, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND) Chapters 3-6 https://www.inferentialthinking.com/chapters/03/programming-in-python.html
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Learn Python the Hard Way (Online Book) (https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/) Recommended for beginners who want a complete course in programming with Python.
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LearnPython.org (Interactive Tutorial) (https://www.learnpython.org/) Short, interactive tutorial for those who just need a quick way to pick up Python syntax.
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Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths (2016) ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Henry Holt and Co. (https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365)
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Theodore G. Cleveland, Farhang Forghanparast, Dinesh Sundaravadivelu Devarajan, Turgut Batuhan Baturalp (Batu), Tanja Karp, Long Nguyen, and Mona Rizvi. (2021) Computational Thinking and Data Science: A WebBook to Accompany ENGR 1330 at TTU, Whitacre College of Engineering, DOI (pending)https://<IP_ADDRESS>/engr-1330-webroot/engr-1330-webbook/ctds-psuedocourse/site/
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Learn Python in One Day and Learn It Well. Python for Beginners with Hands-on Project. (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book -- Kindle Edition by LCF Publishing (Author), Jamie Chan https://www.amazon.com/Python-2nd-Beginners-Hands-Project-ebook/dp/B071Z2Q6TQ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=learn+python+in+a+day&qid=1611108340&sr=8-3
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Learn Python the Hard Way (Online Book) (https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/) Recommended for beginners who want a complete course in programming with Python.
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How to Learn Python for Data Science, The Self-Starter Way (https://elitedatascience.com/learn-python-for-data-science)
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Flowcharts (QA/QC Perspective) https://asq.org/quality-resources/flowchart
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Learn to see microscopically
Rudolf Virchow
Neuroscience
Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system. It is a multidisciplinary branch of biology. Over the years the scope of neuroscience has broadened with new approaches. The study of the nervous system makes use of a wide range of techniques.
In this area –as in many others in biology-, the images analysis is a concept that defines a group of techniques with different objectives that may vary depending on the field of study: Morphometry, Stereology, or 3D reconstruction.
There exist several medical specialties that specifically address the diseases of the nervous system. These specialties also refer to clinical disciplines involving diagnosis and treatment of these diseases. The microscopic observable alterations of some mechanisms of the nervous system are the main focus of research in some neuropathology studies.
Microscopy Images
The images to be studied in these areas are obtained through microscopes. The microscopes are intruments that allow us to see objects that can not be seen by the naked eye. The most common, and also the first to be invented, is the optical microscope. It uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small subjects.
The electron microscopes use a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination. The two major types of electron microscopes are Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM’s) and Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM’s). They both have series of electromagnetic and electrostatic lenses to focus a high energy beam of electrons on a sample.
Another interesting microscope is the confocal that uses an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph. In this conventional fluorescense microscope the entire sample is supersatured with light from the illumination source. Due to the conservation of the intensity of light, all parts of the sample will be excited and the fluorescence detected by a photodetector or camera.
M3DSlicer
Microscopy for 3DSlicer
In a first stage of the project, the software application 3DSlicer will be used for the visualization and segmentation of microscopy images. Since this application is composed of numerous modules, extensions and datasets among others, a new extension for the sementation of microsocopy images has been developed.
Natural Neuronal Networks
We refer to biological neural network. A series of neurons interconnected that once activated defines a recognizable linear pathway.
The axon terminals are connected via synapses to dendrites on other neurons. and they can be seen as the simplified version of a natural neuron. These nodes connections between artificial networks can be seen as a simplified version of the synapse, they can transmit signals from one to another.
A paradigm of automatic learning and processing inspired by the way the biological nervous system works.
Artificial Neuronal Networks
We refer to computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks. Yes, the ones of the animal brains. Such systems "learn" tasks from examples.
An ANN is a system based on a collection of connected units or nodes. These nodes are called artificial neurons and they can be seen as the simplified version of a natural neuron. These nodes connections between artificial networks can be seen as a simplified version of the synapse, they can transmit signals from one to another.
A paradigm of automatic learning and processing inspired by the way the biological nervous system works.


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Data Structure and Algorithms
Algorithm is a step-by-step procedure, which defines a set of instructions to be executed in a certain order to get the desired output. Algorithms are generally created independent of underlying languages, i.e. an algorithm can be implemented in more than one programming language.
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McCann 34, allegedly tricked his way into a family home in Greater Manchester on May 5.

The 17-year-old girl told how she feared becoming McCann's "sex slave" before she jumped out of a first-floor window and limped to a relative's house.
In a video-taped police interview played in court, the teenager described how her attacker had initially grabbed her, put his hand over her mouth and told her to "shut up".
She said: "I managed to wriggle out of it. He pulled me down onto the floor. That's when he must have knocked me out. His knife must have cut me in a few places.
"I was shouting 'mum, mum, mum', but at this point he had the knife.
"My mum was like 'what are you doing?', trying to stop him."
McCann allegedly tied up the mother for being "gobby" and ordered her not to move.
The teenager claims he took cocaine and swigged vodka before repeatedly sexually assaulting her and her brother.
She said: "When I did not do what he said he kept putting the knife up to me.
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 I thought, I'm not having this."
She added: "We kept being held hostage, being abused at knifepoint. It's scary. It's awful."
The court has heard how the girl fractured her heel when she jumped out of a window naked to escape.
McCann, from Harrow, west London, denies 37 charges relating to 11 women and children.


Rothsay, Minnesota
World’s Largest Prairie Chicken
The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.
by Tony DunnellPrairie chickens were once abundant in North America, with millions clucking and pecking their way across the prairies as the first settlers arrived. But by the 1930s, hunting pressure and habitat loss had driven them almost to extinction. So when the tiny town of Rothsay (pop. 479) was designated the “Prairie Chicken Capital of Minnesota,” the local community decided to put up a statue.
Prairie chickens are quirky birds. Among their peculiarities are their elongated head feathers, which when raised look like ears, and their tendency to dive into deep snow to keep warm in the winter. But by far their most famous trait is their mating ritual, known as booming, during which the males inflate the orange air sacs on the sides of their neck, snap their tails, and make a loud “whoo-whoo” booming sound as they try to impress the ladies while squabbling with rival males.
The statue in Rothsay was unveiled on June 15, 1976, a year after Rothsay was declared (self-proclaimed?) the “Prairie Chicken Capital of Minnesota.” Designed and built by Art Fosse with help and funding from the local community, it shows a greater prairie chicken in the act of booming, its air sacs inflated and head thrust forward in a display of avian potency.
It also happens to be the largest prairie chicken statue in the world. Whether it actually has any challengers to that particular title is unknown, but perhaps doubtful. Still, at 13 feet high, 18 feet long and weighing 9,000 pounds, this is one chicken you wouldn’t want to mess with.
Know Before You Go
The World’s Largest Prairie Chicken is located in Rothsay on the west central plains of Minnesota. You’ll find it on I-94 between Fergus Falls and Moorhead, about 200 miles northwest of Minneapolis. There’s a small park with a view of the surrounding plains near the chicken, where people can picnic and read a few signs with information about the area.
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Create a new ResultSet attached to the given database, using the given sql text.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 34 def initialize db, stmt @db = db @stmt = stmt end
Closes the statement that spawned this result set. Use with caution! Closing a result set will automatically close any other result sets that were spawned from the same statement.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 105 def close @stmt.close end
Queries whether the underlying statement has been closed or not.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 110 def closed? @stmt.closed? end
Returns the names of the columns returned by this result set.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 120 def columns @stmt.columns end
Required by the Enumerable mixin. Provides an internal iterator over the rows of the result set.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 96 def each( &block ) while node = self.next yield node end end
Query whether the cursor has reached the end of the result set or not.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 48 def eof? @stmt.done? end
Obtain the next row from the cursor. If there are no more rows to be had,
this will return nil
. If type translation is active on the
corresponding database, the values in the row will be translated according
to their types.
The returned value will be an array, unless SQLite3::Database#results_as_hash
has been set to true
, in which case the returned value will be
a hash.
For arrays, the column names are accessible via the fields
property, and the column types are accessible via the types
property.
For hashes, the column names are the keys of the hash, and the column types
are accessible via the types
property.
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# File req/sqlite3/lib/sqlite3/resultset.rb, line 65 def next row = @stmt.step return nil if @stmt.done? if @db.type_translation row = @stmt.types.zip(row).map do |type, value| @db.translator.translate( type, value ) end end if @db.results_as_hash new_row = HashWithTypes[*@stmt.columns.zip(row).flatten] row.each_with_index { |value,idx| new_row[idx] = value } row = new_row else if row.respond_to?(:fields) row = ArrayWithTypes.new(row) else row = ArrayWithTypesAndFields.new(row) end row.fields = @stmt.columns end row.types = @stmt.types row end


System Architect Symbol details for "Agent By Devolvement"
AA/nature (Generalization Node)
- Base Class:
"Authorised Agent"
- Definitions Used:
-
Authorised Agent (Class)
ABD/party (Generalization Node)
- Base Class:
"Agent By Devolvement"
- Definitions Used:
-
Agent By Devolvement (Class)
Agent By Devolvement (Class)
- Description:
"Agent" whose authority derives from the devolvement of the authority of another.
- Comment:
A hospital registrar acts through the devolved authority of the consultant.
Agent By Licence (Class)
- Description:
"Agent" who has permission to perform some activity or activities.
- Comment:
Example: driving licence.
Agent For First Party (Class)
- Child Diagrams:
-
Agent For First Party (
UML Class)
- Description:
"Authorised Agent" not representing a third party "Agent".
- Comment:
This represents all situations where there is a direct relationship between the parties to the
agreement and the agreement itself.
Agent For Third Party (Class)
- Child Diagrams:
-
Agent For Third Party (
UML Class)
- Description:
-
"Authorised Agent" appointed or authorised to represent or act for another "Agent" .
- Comment:
-
This covers the use of Proxy, an "Agent" acting for another "Agent".
The authority for the proxy may or may not be the same as the represented "Agent". For example, the
parent or guardian of a juvenile is a proxy by law, not by the authority of the child.
Authorised Agent (Class)
- Description:
"Agent" whose actions are subject to another's authority and control.
- Comment:
-
The type of control would include permissions (may do), obligations (must do) and interdictions
(must not do).
An "Agent" who invests authority in another shares some liability for the actions of those to whom
it gives authority.
An example of an "Authorised Agent " would be Dr. Smithers given the authority by the NHS XYZ Trust
to run the Medical Clinical Directorate.


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If you wanted to assign the output of the pipeline, use a=$(b | c) .
sum=find | wc -l
sum=$(find | wc -l)
The intention in this code was that sum
would in some way get the value of the command find | wc -l
.
However, |
has precedence over the =
, so the command is a two stage pipeline consisting of sum=find
and wc -l
.
sum=find
is a plain string assignment. Since it happens by itself in an independent pipeline stage, it has no effect: it produces no output, and the variable disappears when the pipeline stage finishes. Because the assignment produces no output, wc -l
will count 0 lines.
To instead actually assign a variable with the output of a command, command substitution $(..)
can be used.
None. This warning is triggered whenever the first stage of a pipeline is a single assignment, which is never correct.


You can select multiple pizza collection one by one. Then click on View Updated Cart to generate your new order list...
| Pizza Size | Crust | Topings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Name: | |
| 2 | Phone Number: | |
| 3 | Grand Total | Ksh |
| # | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Name: | |
| 2 | Phone Number: | |
| 3 | Aggregate Order Price | Ksh |
| 4 | Shipping Location | |
| 5 | Shipping Cost | Ksh |
| 6 | Grand Total | Ksh |
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Most of the projects I've worked on over the past few years can be seen at my Github Account as everything I've been doing is open source. What follows are some basic code samples of fun stuff I've been playing with recently.
More to come soon.


The "CSS" column indicates in which CSS version the property is defined (CSS1, CSS2, or CSS3).
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| bottom |
Specifies the bottom position of a positioned element |
2 |
| clear |
Specifies which sides of an element where other floating elements are not allowed |
1 |
| clip |
Clips an absolutely positioned element |
2 |
| display |
Specifies how a certain HTML element should be displayed |
1 |
| float |
Specifies whether or not a box should float |
1 |
| height |
Sets the height of an element |
1 |
| left |
Specifies the left position of a positioned element |
2 |
| margin |
Sets all the margin properties in one declaration |
1 |
| margin-bottom |
Sets the bottom margin of an element |
1 |
| margin-left |
Sets the left margin of an element |
1 |
| margin-right |
Sets the right margin of an element |
1 |
| margin-top |
Sets the top margin of an element |
1 |
| max-height |
Sets the maximum height of an element |
2 |
| max-width |
Sets the maximum width of an element |
2 |
| min-height |
Sets the minimum height of an element |
2 |
| min-width |
Sets the minimum width of an element |
2 |
overflow
|
Specifies what happens if content overflows an element's
box |
2 |
| overflow-x |
Specifies whether or not to clip the left/right edges of the content, if it overflows the element's content area |
3 |
| overflow-y |
Specifies whether or not to clip the top/bottom edges of the content, if it overflows the element's content area |
3 |
| padding |
Sets all the padding properties in one declaration |
1 |
| padding-bottom |
Sets the bottom padding of an element |
1 |
| padding-left |
Sets the left padding of an element |
1 |
| padding-right |
Sets the right padding of an element |
1 |
| padding-top |
Sets the top padding of an element |
1 |
| position |
Specifies the type of positioning method used for an element (static,
relative, absolute or fixed) |
2 |
| right |
Specifies the right position of a positioned element |
2 |
| top |
Specifies the top position of a positioned element |
2 |
| visibility |
Specifies whether or not an element is visible |
2 |
| width |
Sets the width of an element |
1 |
| vertical-align |
Sets the vertical alignment of an element |
1 |
| z-index |
Sets the stack order of a positioned element |
2 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| align-content |
Specifies the alignment between the lines inside a flexible container
when the items do not use all available space |
3 |
| align-items |
Specifies the alignment for items inside a flexible container |
3 |
| align-self |
Specifies the alignment for selected items inside a flexible container |
3 |
| flex |
Specifies the length of the item, relative to the rest |
3 |
| flex-basis |
Specifies the initial length of a flexible item |
3 |
| flex-direction |
Specifies the direction of the flexible items |
3 |
| flex-flow |
A shorthand property for the flex-direction and the flex-wrap properties |
3 |
| flex-grow |
Specifies how much the item will grow relative to the rest |
3 |
| flex-shrink |
Specifies how the item will shrink relative to the rest |
3 |
| flex-wrap |
Specifies whether the flexible items should wrap or not |
3 |
| justify-content |
Specifies the alignment between the items inside a flexible container
when the items do not use all available space |
3 |
| order |
Sets the order of the flexible item, relative to the rest |
3 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| hanging-punctuation |
Specifies whether a punctuation character may be placed outside the line box |
3 |
| hyphens |
Sets how to split words to improve the layout of paragraphs |
3 |
| letter-spacing |
Increases or decreases the space between characters in a text |
1 |
| line-break |
Specifies how/if to break lines |
3 |
| line-height |
Sets the line height |
1 |
| overflow-wrap |
Specifies whether or not the browser may break lines within words in
order to prevent overflow (when a string is too long to fit its containing
box) |
3 |
| tab-size |
Specifies the length of the tab-character |
3 |
| text-align |
Specifies the horizontal alignment of text |
1 |
| text-align-last |
Describes how the last line of a block or a line right before a forced line break is aligned when text-align is "justify" |
3 |
| text-combine-upright |
Specifies the combination of multiple characters into the space of a
single character |
3 |
| text-indent |
Specifies the indentation of the first line in a text-block |
1 |
| text-justify |
Specifies the justification method used when text-align is
"justify" |
3 |
| text-transform |
Controls the capitalization of text |
1 |
| white-space |
Specifies how white-space inside an element is handled |
1 |
| word-break |
Specifies line breaking rules for non-CJK scripts |
3 |
| word-spacing |
Increases or decreases the space between words in a text |
1 |
| word-wrap |
Allows long, unbreakable words to be broken and wrap to the next line |
3 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| @font-face |
A rule that allows websites to download and use fonts other than the "web-safe" fonts |
3 |
| @font-feature-values |
Allows authors to use a common name in font-variant-alternate for
feature activated differently in OpenType |
3 |
| font |
Sets all the font properties in one declaration |
1 |
| font-family |
Specifies the font family for text |
1 |
| font-feature-settings |
Allows control over advanced typographic features in OpenType fonts |
3 |
| font-kerning |
Controls the usage of the kerning information (how letters are spaced) |
3 |
| font-language-override |
Controls the usage of language-specific glyphs in a typeface |
3 |
| font-size |
Specifies the font size of text |
1 |
| font-size-adjust |
Preserves the readability of text when font fallback occurs |
3 |
| font-stretch |
Selects a normal, condensed, or expanded face from a font family |
3 |
| font-style |
Specifies the font style for text |
1 |
| font-synthesis |
Controls which missing typefaces (bold or italic) may be synthesized by
the browser |
3 |
| font-variant |
Specifies whether or not a text should be displayed in a small-caps font |
1 |
| font-variant-alternates |
Controls the usage of alternate glyphs associated to alternative names
defined in @font-feature-values |
3 |
| font-variant-caps |
Controls the usage of alternate glyphs for capital letters |
3 |
| font-variant-east-asian |
Controls the usage of alternate glyphs for East Asian scripts (e.g
Japanese and Chinese) |
3 |
| font-variant-ligatures |
Controls which ligatures and contextual forms are used in textual
content of the elements it applies to |
3 |
| font-variant-numeric |
Controls the usage of alternate glyphs for numbers, fractions, and
ordinal markers |
3 |
| font-variant-position |
Controls the usage of alternate glyphs of smaller size positioned as
superscript or subscript regarding the baseline of the font |
3 |
| font-weight |
Specifies the weight of a font |
1 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| @keyframes |
Specifies the animation code |
3 |
| animation |
A shorthand property for all the animation properties (except animation-play-state
and animation-fill-mode) |
3 |
| animation-delay |
Specifies a delay for the start of an animation |
3 |
| animation-direction |
Specifies whether or not the animation should play in reverse on alternate cycles |
3 |
| animation-duration |
Specifies how many seconds or milliseconds an animation takes to complete one cycle |
3 |
| animation-fill-mode |
Specifies a style for the element when the animation is not playing
(when it is finished, or when it has a delay) |
3 |
| animation-iteration-count |
Specifies the number of times an animation should be played |
3 |
| animation-name |
Specifies the name of the @keyframes animation |
3 |
| animation-play-state |
Specifies whether the animation is running or paused |
3 |
| animation-timing-function |
Specifies the speed curve of an animation |
3 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| box-sizing |
Tells the browser what the sizing properties (width and height) should
include |
3 |
| content |
Used with the :before and :after pseudo-elements, to insert generated content |
2 |
| cursor |
Specifies the type of cursor to be displayed |
2 |
| ime-mode |
Controls the state of the input method editor for text fields |
3 |
| nav-down |
Specifies where to navigate when using the arrow-down navigation key |
3 |
| nav-index |
Specifies the tabbing order for an element |
3 |
| nav-left |
Specifies where to navigate when using the arrow-left navigation key |
3 |
| nav-right |
Specifies where to navigate when using the arrow-right navigation key |
3 |
| nav-up |
Specifies where to navigate when using the arrow-up navigation key |
3 |
| outline |
Sets all the outline properties in one declaration |
2 |
| outline-color |
Sets the color of an outline |
2 |
| outline-offset |
Offsets an outline, and draws it beyond the border edge |
3 |
| outline-style |
Sets the style of an outline |
2 |
| outline-width |
Sets the width of an outline |
2 |
| resize |
Specifies whether or not an element is resizable by the user |
3 |
| text-overflow |
Specifies what should happen when text overflows the containing element |
3 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| break-after |
Specifies the page-, column-, or region-break behavior after the
generated box |
3 |
| break-before |
Specifies the page-, column-, or region-break behavior before the
generated box |
3 |
| break-inside |
Specifies the page-, column-, or region-break behavior inside the
generated box |
3 |
| column-count |
Specifies the number of columns an element should be divided into |
3 |
| column-fill |
Specifies how to fill columns |
3 |
| column-gap |
Specifies the gap between the columns |
3 |
| column-rule |
A shorthand property for setting all the column-rule-* properties |
3 |
| column-rule-color |
Specifies the color of the rule between columns |
3 |
| column-rule-style |
Specifies the style of the rule between columns |
3 |
| column-rule-width |
Specifies the width of the rule between columns |
3 |
| column-span |
Specifies how many columns an element should span across |
3 |
| column-width |
Specifies the width of the columns |
3 |
| columns |
A shorthand property for setting column-width and column-count |
3 |
| widows |
Sets the minimum number of lines that must be left at the top of a page when a page break occurs inside an element |
2 |
| Property |
Description |
CSS |
| mark |
A shorthand property for setting the mark-before and mark-after properties |
3 |
| mark-after |
Allows named markers to be attached to the audio stream |
3 |
| mark-before |
Allows named markers to be attached to the audio stream |
3 |
| phonemes |
Specifies a phonetic pronunciation for the text contained by the corresponding element |
3 |
| rest |
A shorthand property for setting the rest-before and rest-after properties |
3 |
| rest-after |
Specifies a rest or prosodic boundary to be observed after speaking an element's content |
3 |
| rest-before |
Specifies a rest or prosodic boundary to be observed before speaking an element's content |
3 |
| voice-balance |
Specifies the balance between left and right channels |
3 |
| voice-duration |
Specifies how long it should take to render the selected element's content |
3 |
| voice-pitch |
Specifies the average pitch (a frequency) of the speaking voice |
3 |
| voice-pitch-range |
Specifies variation in average pitch |
3 |
| voice-rate |
Controls the speaking rate |
3 |
| voice-stress |
Indicates the strength of emphasis to be applied |
3 |
| voice-volume |
Refers to the amplitude of the waveform output by the speech synthesises |
3 |


WITNESS LIST Finance Committee February 2, 1999-9:00A Aerospace Commission On: Clowers, Shirley (South Texas Spaceport Initiative), Harlingen Cunningham, Walter (Texas Aerospace Commission (TAC)), Houston Moser, Thomas L. (TAC), Austin Dept. of Economic Development On: Bridwell, Tucker (Texas Department of Economic Development (TDED)), Austin Holland-Branch, Patrici (TDED), El Paso Hunter, Rep. Bob (TDED Office of Defense Affairs & Strategic Planning), Abilene Langdale, Mark (TDED), Austin Registering, but not testifying: On: Criner, Walter H. (TDED), Houston Garza, Javier (TDED), Laredo Richardson, George (TDED), Littlefield Sauvignet, Henry E. (TDED), Austin Sweeten, Randy (TDED), McAllen Szurek, Marion (TDED), San Angelo Teel, David (TDED), Austin Thrasher, Rick (TDED), Austin Dept. of Housing & Community Affair On: Aldrich, David (TDHCA), Austin Bethel, Donald R. (TDHCA), Austin Cabello, Homero Jr. (Office of Colonia Initiatives), Austin Cedillo, Ruth (TDHCA), Austin Denton, Ann V. (CEHE, The Enterprise Foundation), Austin Ehrle, Will (TX Manufactured Housing Assoc.), Austin Fariss, Eddie (TDHCA), Austin Guzman, Sam (TDHCA), Austin Henneberger, John (TX Low Income Housing Info. Service), Austin Lee, Randy M. (Stewart Title Guaranty Co.), Austin Mintz, David (TX Apartment Assoc.), Austin Ocanas, Reymundo (TX Assoc. of Community Dev. Corp.), Austin Schwartz, Jonas (United Cerebral Palsy of TX), Austin Stiner, Daisy A. (TDHCA), Austin Registering, but not testifying: On: Hamid, Ash (Sunset Comm.), Austin Stewart, Brent (TDHCA), Austin Dept. of Transportation On: Heald, Charles W. "Wes" (TxDOT), Austin Laney, David M. (TxDOT), Austin McBeth, John M. (Texas Transit Assoc.), Bryan Registering, but not testifying: On: Dossett, James D. (TxDOT), Austin Smith, Frank J. (TxDOT), Austin Lottery Commission On: Atkins, Billy (TX. Lott. Comm.), Austin Cloud, Linda (TX Lott. Comm.), Austin Miers, Harriet (TX Lott. Comm.), Austin Vito, Frank N. (State Auditor's Office), Austin Registering, but not testifying: On: Clowe, C. Tom Jr. (TX Lott. Comm.), Waco Sadberry, Anthony (TX Lott. Comm.), Austin


There seems to be at least one every summer, that oddball little thriller that comes out of nowhere to provide considerably more jolts and laughs than the average $100 million-budgeted blockbuster. In 1997, there was the ultra-spooky "Mimic." Last year, "Disturbing Behavior" offered an amusingly demented take on the teen horror genre. And this summer, we have "Lake Placid," a frequently hilarious gross-out that features A-list stars such as Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda on the trail of a giant crocodile which has invaded the waters of Maine.
Yes, even the title is a joke. The mysterious serene body of water where most of the action takes place is actually named Black Lake. "They wanted to call it Lake Placid," sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson) explains. "But somebody said that name was already taken." The screenplay by TV's David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "Chicago Hope") delights in such goofiness. "Never been to Maine before?" Fish and Game officer Jack Wells (Pullman) asks paleontologist Kelly (Fonda). "I have good hygiene," she answers. "I'm not welcome."
Kelly has been summoned from her job at a New York museum to help hunt for clues as to why a diver was decapitated while probing the depths of Black Lake, although her intense dislike of timber and ticks -- and her talent for falling out of trucks and tumbling into the water at inopportune moments -- hardly makes her a natural candidate for the job. She also has a very low tolerance for gore and accuses Keough of playing upon that. "Don't throw heads at me!" she shrieks when he leaves the remains of one of the creature's victims at her feet.
The tensions at the lake are further heightened by the arrival of Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), a nutty millionaire who believes crocodiles are "divine conduits" and swims with them for some sort of spiritual reinforcement. Cyr is immediately unwelcome and when he insists on going along on an expedition, Keough suggests a perfect accessory for the trip. "I brought a porkchop along for luck -- maybe you could hang it around your neck," the sheriff tells him.
But though the crackling dialogue suggests a screwball comedy, "Placid" stays true to its drive-in movie roots, providing several vicious attacks (the first appearance of the monster is particularly startling) and some genuine suspense along with the humor. As in any creature feature, people regularly go wandering off into the brush when they hear strange sounds or incorrectly assume they've taken care of a problem, only to have it jump up and bite them in the butts. "Placid" was directed by Steve Miner whose "Warlock," with Julian Sands and Lori Singer, was a similarly clever (albeit far less slick) variation on shocker conventions.
Though Pullman can't do much except look squinty-eyed and stoic, Fonda, Platt and Gleeson, the marvelous character actor who played the title role in director John Boorman's "The General" a few months back, appear to be loving every minute of this nonsense. A scene-stealing Betty White pops in and out of the picture as a salty-tongued senior who knows more than she's willing to let on.
Best of all, Kelley and Miner manage to squeeze it all into a lightning-paced 82 minute package.  And how can you not like a movie that explains the appearance of an Asian-Pacific crocodile in the U.S. by having a character remark that "someone in Hong Kong must have flushed him down the toilet"? James Sanford
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fun getLocation(): Unit
get location of user. this service using 3 methods for fetch location. (Mobile, GPS, Sensor)


Does the following relation define a partial ordering on the indicated set?
CHOICES[CHOICESINDEX]
A relation is a partial ordering if it is antisymmetric and transitive.
Is the relation antisymmetric on the set? That is, for any two elements A and B of the set, if (A, B) is in the relation, then (B, A) is NOT in the relation?
Is the relation transitive on the set? That is, for any three elements A, B, and C, if (A, B) is in the relation and (B, C) is in the relation, then is (A, C) also in the relation?


| 1. CSS Regions (spec, code, tests) | Thought leadership, finish what started, aligns with expertise | Driver (spec, impl) |
| 2. CSS Exclusions (spec, code, tests) | Thought leadership, finish what started, aligns with expertise | Driver (spec, impl) |
| 3. CSS Shaders (spec, code, tests) | Thought leadership, finish what started, aligns with expertise | Driver (spec, impl) |
| 4. Progress Events (Image only) | finish what started, impactful and immediate win | Driver (spec, impl) |
| 5. CSS Transforms in SVG (spec, code, tests) | finish what started, aligns with expertise | Driver (spec, impl) |
| 6. Compositing (spec, code, tests) | Follow thru on verbal commitment, aligns with expertise | Driver (spec, impl) |
| 7. CSS Variables | Highly visible feature with broad developer impact | Support (specifics TBD) |
| 8. Shadow DOM | Highly visible feature with broad developer impact | Support (specifics TBD) |
| 9. Animation | Area “begging” for thought leadership, aligns with Adobe expertise, possible tooling opportunities | Driver (specifics TBD) |
| 10. WebKit Perf Bots | WebKit eng improvement, tactical collaboration w/ Google | Support |
| 11. WebKit Dynamic Analysis | WebKit eng improvement, tactical collaboration w/ Google | Support |
| 12. WebKit Code Coverage | Thought leadership WebKit engineering improvement | Driver (on us for design, impl, docs, adoption) |
| 13. WebKit Unit Tests | WebKit engineering improvement | Support or Driver |


Searching inside yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness(and World Peace)
Chapter 3 - Extending the Benefits of Mindfulness beyond Sitting
What did you learn from your mindfulness conversation?
For my little experiment this week I asked my neighbour over for coffee with the idea of not telling her what I was going to do. My neighbour and I have a great friendship and we enjoy a catch up over coffee. However much a good listener I think myself to be, this week was an opportunity for me to really test my ability at being patient. I practised listening without judgement as she talked nodding and encouraging as she talked. It really wasn't that hard to do I also found that I like to hear what others have to say and observe them openly. I find I learn a lot about a person this way. As the book suggested talking continuously for three minutes was a hard for mr to maintain. I found when it was my turn to talk I rather enjoyed being heard.
Which of the three techniques will you use to sustain you practice?
As the author suggests "sustaining a mindfulness practice often lasts only a few months. It's like starting an exercise regime."
For myself I find this to be true. Weekly life at home is luckily very structured. Even though I manage home work, and mindfulness for 2 minutes a day is great but I would like to increase this time. I am up early most mornings so adding this to my regular routine is welcomed.


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Targeted mass shooting in backyard kills 4, injures 6; suspects at large
A search is on for the gunmen who killed four and injured six others in a "targeted" mass shooting in a Fresno, California, backyard Sunday night, authorities said.
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About 30 people were at the Fresno home for a "quiet" and "peaceful" family party to watch football before it turned into a "mass casualty event," Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall said at a news conference Monday.
Just before 8 p.m. local time, at least two suspects, both armed with pistols, walked into the backyard "and began immediately firing into the crowd," Hall said.
About 16 men were in the backyard at the time, he said, and 10 of those 16 men were struck by bullets.
The CEO of the Fresno Center, Pao Yang, said two of the victims who died were well-known singers in the Hmong community.
 "Our community is in mourning."-
The four people killed were all men, ages 23, 31, 38 and 40 years old, according to the chief.
The suspects never entered the home, where the rest of the partygoers were, according to police. Witnesses described only seeing flashes of light from the gun, the chief said.
Children were inside the home but none of them were hurt, authorities said. The house was not struck.
The unknown suspects fled on foot, said Hall.
He described the mass shooting as a "targeted act of violence against this residence" and said some people at this home may have been involved in a disturbance earlier this week. While the attack seemed targeted, the gunmen appeared to fire at random, Hall said.
There is no indication that anyone at the home was affiliated with a gang, Hall said, adding, "at this point we have not ruled gang involvement out."
Authorities are "investigating several leads" and the Fresno Police Department is forming an Asian gang task force, according to Hall. Fresno Police Capt. Anthony Martinez said the shooting was in a district with a lot Hispanic families and Southeast Asian families, especially those from the Hmong community.
"That entire neighborhood was victimized when this took place," Martinez said.
Fresno Mayor Lee Brand said in a statement, "Those responsible for this horrific crime will face the full force of justice. The City of Fresno will not tolerate this type of violence in any of our neighborhoods."
Two of the injured victims remain in the hospital and are in stable condition, Hall noted.
ABC News' Marilyn Heck and Alex Stone contributed to this report.


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The Big Hit (1998) 1/2 * A movie review by Serdar Yegulalp Copyright 1998 by Serdar Yegulalp
CAPSULE: Dumb dud of an HK-clone action movie that isn't satirical enough to be funny. Walberg's fine; the rest is not.
The more I think about this movie, the more I hate it. THE BIG HIT is a loud, obnoxious, and doltish-supposed-to-be-funny attempt at a Hollywood Hong Kong shootsploitation movie that falls smack on its face on nearly every count.
Kirk Wong is the latest director (after Tsui Hark) to be dragged kicking and screaming into Hollywood. His first U.S. film, THE BIG HIT, plays like a cheap clone: it looks and smells like it was made by people who had *seen* a couple of HK action movies, but had no idea how to be *inspired* by one.
Mark Walberg is a hitman who works with his cohorts (Bokeem Woodbine and Lou Diamond Philips, both wasted) in the employ of a boss figure (played nicely by Avery Brooks, but with a little too much saliva around the corners of the mouth). They get into improbably complicated shootouts that, while exciting, have no more real intrinsic interest than a video game. Targets pop up, get wasted, get replaced. Reload. The movie also cheats pretty blatantly: one moment involving Wahlberg appearing as if by magic in an elevator had everyone groaning.
 He goes along with a kidnapping that's supposed to rake them in a ton of money. Only trouble is, the father of the girl they kidnapped is dead broke (like we couldn't see that coming) and is also the god-daughter of their own boss.
All of this is nothing but fodder, however. The movie is a dreary mess. Bokeem Woodbine's character is distinguished from the rest of the crew by his foul mouth and his compulsive masturbation. The father of the kidnappee threw all his money into a movie called "Taste the Golden Spray". One of the plot elements is an overdue copy of KING KONG LIVES. I am not leaving out very much here, nor do I think I want to.
Hong Kong movies are very adept at mixing and matching genres and tones without seeming like a compromise. I think part of that is because, at least when we deal with a movie of this caliber, there's never a moment when we know we're supposed to take it seriously.  Nobody made a decision early on about what kind of movie they really were making. If it was a parody, then we didn't need the shapeless and distasteful material about the future in-laws (a pair of snotty Jewish-parent stereotypes). If it was serious, then they should have wiped the slate clean and started from scratch.
THE BIG HIT is not even enjoyably ridiculous. It's the kind of movie you feel bad for renting with your beer, because you could have bought that much beer for the cost of the rental and had a better time. I suspect the only reason I didn't downgrade this film's rating even further was because I'd be wasting too much venom on it.
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1 ITEM NO.14 COURT NO.7 SECTION XVII S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Original Suit. No. 2/2015 STATE OF TAMIL NADU Plantiff(s) VERSUS STATE OF KARNATAKA & ANR. Defendant(s) (With office report) Date : 07-07-2017 This petition was called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.A. BOBDE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE L. NAGESWARA RAO For Petitioner(s) Mr.C. Paramasivam, Adv. Mr. K.V. Vijayakumar, AOR Mr. B. Balaji, Adv. (NP) For Respondent(s) Mr. F.S. Nariman, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mohan V. Katarki, Adv. Mr. S.C. Sharma, Adv. Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, AOR Ms. Kiran Bharadwaj, Adv. Mr. S. Wasim A Quadri, Adv. Mr. Shreekant N. Terdal, AOR UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R
Heard learned counsel appearing for the parties.
The central issue in this Suit is about pollution. We find that the States of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have fully set up the State Pollution Signature Not Verified Boards under the provisions of Water (Prevention and Digitally signed by CHARANJEET KAUR Date: 2017.07.07 17:18:24 IST Reason:
Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The Act casts a duty on the Central Pollution Board established under 2 Section 3 of the said Act “to coordinate the activities of State Boards and resolve disputes among them”.
Having regard to the scope and nature of the dispute, we consider it appropriate to refer the draft issues annexed to the Note which are framed in this Suit, along with the relevant case papers to the Central Pollution Board for formulating its opinion and submit its report to this Court. The Central Pollution shall hear the parties to the Suit and submit a report to this Court within six months from the date the parties appear before it. All the parties to the suit are directed to appear before the Central Pollution Board on 01.08.2017.
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faucetaddress[ pubkey], Will display central faucet address and your faucet contract address for your pubkey.
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Job Name: This sould be something meaningful (something like Walle Concert Materials). Inlcude the SAPUBs FM number if the job comes from an SAPUB stuff member.
Order Number: The order number is a five digit number from Clemson University's online marketplace. Most jobs won't have this.
Due Date: Every job must have a due date. If the client doesn't give you one, ask. If they still don't know, look at the production schedule and assign a due date (just make sure you tell the client).
 Or CB+D if you aren't taking the job on yourself.
Production Notes: These notes are just for CB+D, the client won't see them. Give us as much detail as you can about what the client is looking for and what types of communication you've had with them. The more you put here, the easier it is for everyone else (and the fewer paniced phone calls you'll receive).
Client Notes: Client notes are used to clarify things that might be confusing on the quote or invoice. These WILL show up on the quote and invoice the client recieves, so be professional.
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Approved On: When we recieved quote approval.
Attention: Mark the job as "Needs Attention!"
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Job ROI: Where did this job come from? Ricoh jobs have been refered from PrintSmart, SAPUBs jobs have come through the SAPUBs staff (make sure you put the FM number in the job name.
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Price Level: INTernal jobs are going to be paid by Clemson University students, faculty or staff members or their on-campus department/group. EXTernal jobs are for everyone else.
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Department Chartstring: (or Account Number) For jobs being paid by IDO, we must have this 23 digit number BEFORE we can start the job. Sometimes clients give us numbers with XXXX in them. That number tells the accounting department what category the spending falls under. We need them to fill those Xs in (if all else fails, use 7015 for "Printing-Internal" though).


The following configuration was performed on an OpenSuse 11.2 host system and VirtualBox version 4.0.12.
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Bootstrap has a fluid grid system that scales up to 12 columns as the device or viewport size increases. Google bootstrap grid to read and learn more.
This example creates three equal-width columns on small, medium, large, and extra large devices using the predefined grid classes. Those columns are centered in the page within the parent .container
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Three unequal columns
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Two columns with two nested columns
12 column grid
This means the HTML and CSS first sent to the browser are for mobile devices. Write the HTML markup in the order of appearance on mobile devices, then use the push/pull classes to rearrange things on larger devices
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A few Christians who love God with all their hearts and willing to serve Him. Many praying for the visitors.
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Ganiyu Akeem, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Assistant Corps Commander in Ota, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that 17 vehicles were also burnt in the accident that happened around 11.55 p.m. on Thursday night.
He said the incident happened when the lone tanker fell and spilled its inflammable content into the drainage channel.
He said the tanker ignited the fire that burnt many vehicles.
Akeem said 17 vehicles were affected, which included one tanker trailer, 10 articulated vehicles, three cars and three commercial buses.
NAN correspondents who visited the accident scene in the early hours of Friday report that Sango Toll Gate premises of the FRSC was also affected.
Also, Mr Adekunle Ajibade, an official of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), told NAN that the fuel-laden truck was heading to Lagos from Sango-Ota when it developed a gear fault and overturned in the process.
“The driver was trying to change the gear of the vehicle and lost control.

The FRSC commander said that seven fire-fighting trucks, three from Ogun and four from Lagos, were promptly mobilised to the scene.
“Thank God, we were able to stop the vehicles coming from Lagos at the Toll-gate on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in good time.
“We rescued one person and took him to Ota General Hospital.
“We also evacuated two corpses that were burnt beyond recognition and we took them in our ambulance to Ifo General Mortuary.


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MURDER BY CONTRACT (director: Irving Lerner; screenwriter: Ben Simcoe; cinematographer: Lucien Ballard; editor: Carlo Lodato; cast: Vince Edwards (Claude), Phillip Pine (Marc), Herschel Bernardi (George), Caprice Toriel (Billie Williams), Michael Granger (Mr. Moon), Cathy Browne (Hooker), Frances Osborne (Miss Wiley, ex-maid); Runtime: 81; Columbia/Orbit; 1958)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
This neglected low-budget B/W noir film from the 1950s is a beaut, an absolutely superb thriller. It reminds me so much of Jean-Pierre Melville's great existentialist character studies he presented in his noir films, such as in Le Samurai (67), where the point of the film remains less on the story and more on how the protagonist is suave and calculatingly dispassionate.
"Murder by Contract" is a gritty depiction of a handsome man, Claude (Vince Edwards), who makes a career move to go from making an honest but poor living to becoming a contract killer. He considers his work a business thing, instead of price cutting, he does throat cutting. The risk is high, but so is the profit. His only personal desire is to purchase a house by the Ohio River, something he could never afford, unless he worked all his life and saved. The one who recommends him for the job is a Mr. Brink, who is unseen throughout the story.
Entering Mr. Moon's (Granger) apartment, he introduces himself as someone Mr. Brink recommended, even though he has never done a contract killing before but convinces the reluctant Moon that he is a natural for this line of work. Moon makes him sweat for two weeks in his hotel room, as he tells him not to leave the room, he'll call him only one time for the job, if he's out he'll never call again. Claude exercises when he gets restless waiting for the call, trying to always be cool.
He does a series of minor killings until he becomes noted as a proficient contract killer, as we see him use his smarts to kill someone in a barber shop by pretending to be a barber, he pulls the life-support machine of another victim, and we see him return to Moon's apartment and knife him to death, on a contract for Mr. Brink. He will work as a hit man for anyone who'll pay him, as he develops a reputation for being efficient and cool under pressure.
Claude accepts an assignment for the huge sum of $5,000 to go out to Southern California and kill a federal witness in an upcoming mob trial. He soon learns that the witness is Billie Williams (Caprice Toriel), a woman piano player who is testifying against Mr. Brink. The two men who are his contacts in California, the surly Marc (Pine) and the affable George (Bernardi), want him to get the job done right away, as they fear if he goofs up, they'll get killed. But Claude takes his time, not concerned with the two week time period before she testifies. He wants to see the Pacific Ocean and the other sites in this sunny paradise, and he also follows the two men to see if they are being tailed. His only concern is that it is a woman who is the target, not because he cares about women, but because he considers them unreliable, they never stand still.
The job is tougher than Claude realized, as Billie's house is guarded by the police and she is so scared, she never leaves her house. But he questions a maid she just fired and learns that she watches TV all morning. He devises an explosive device attached to the high-voltage wires that will detonate as soon as she turns on the TV, but she uses a remote-control and the explosion doesn't kill her.
With just 48 hours to go, Claude comes up with another ingenious scheme, he has George shoot a flaming arrow into the outlying brush around her property, which distracts the police. When a woman opens the door to look out of curiosity, he kills her with a shot from a high-powered rifle, as he is perched on a hill above her house. But that woman turns out to be a policewoman sent in the last moment because Billie wants a woman around the house. He learns that from a hooker, as he kills some time waiting for the next train back east. It seems that the police tried to cover up the botched hit by telling the papers that she died, hoping it would convince the mob. Claude is ready to give up, saying the woman is a jinx, you can't go against a jinx or you end up dead.
In the suspenseful conclusion, the amoral Claude deals with the new situation in his third attempt to kill the witness, in the same professionally detached and coldly objective way he always deals with his problems.
This is a perfectly nuanced film, with the atmospheric noir cinematography by Lucien Ballard, plus a brilliantly appropriate one-man guitar musical arrangement heard in the background. The film also had a beautiful feel for who the character is and the situation he was in, as there were no phony contrivances, as everything about this film felt natural. They don't make noir films better than this. Interestingly enough, the director and screenwriter never went on to something even close to the quality this B film achieved, while this role deservedly catapulted Vince Edwards career into stardom.
REVIEWED ON 9/30/2000 GRADE: A+
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1 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea.
2 Aren’t all the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his descendants.


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Bistable perception
The little favicon I use for my webpage is a version of the rabbit duck illusion
This rabbit-duck’s source.; seen from one way it’s a rabbit, and seen from another it’s a duck. However it’s hard to impossible to see it as both at the same time. This phenomenon is often called bistable perception, where the percept that you see flips between two stable images. The duck rabbit example was introduced early on by Wittgenstein, who himself was unsure how to explain the illusion.
Bistability is, to me, one of the most interesting things in perception. A simpler example would be the Necker cube, which can be seen “popped in” or “popped out”.
If we look at the two cube images with “hidden lines”, we can see how each percept can come about. The cube can be seen as either facing forward and down, or forward and up. Not everyone sees each percept right away, but most people can “force” themselves to see alternatives if they try. I’m not sure what I exactly do when I force one or the other percept, but it’s clearly difficult and seems to take some sort of mental effort. We cannot force one of the percepts forever, and eventually the mental effort is “released” and the cube flips.
What’s the explanation for this flipping? We think of it from a Bayesian, or probabilistic inference, view of human vision. The goal of vision is to invert the image that hits our eyes; we don’t care about the photons that hit our retinal, we care about the objects out in the world. We want to infer what we see, and deal with noise and uncertainty in the image.
However, there’s a lot of ambiguity in the image that we see. Consider a simple example of perceiving a cube, below in (a). In this case there’s no alternative percepts, but consider why we don’t see any. This flat 2D image could have been made by any of the wireframe images in (c); any of these wireframe projections (shadows of the 3D object) could have produced the 2D image from (a).
Any of the wireframes from (c) are consistent with the image we get. However we only perceive the one image; why? The Bayesian solution to this problem is to use prior knowledge about the probability of the world. For above, we use the fact that a cube is just more likely than those other weird objects.
How does this help us understand bistability? Well, what if we cannot reduce our uncertainty between two, crisp, distinct, and non-overlapping interpretations of an image? If we could somehow average our interpretations, we might. But in this case we really can’t (what’s the average between a rabbit and a duck?). The flipping might be due to the two interpretations being highly uncertain, but our brain needs to treat one as correct at a given timeThere might be an ecological or affordance-based reason for this; if we act we need to at least pretend certainty. If we need certainty in our interpretation of space for acting, but we can’t reduce it, we push uncertainty across time rather than space. .
What’s interesting is if we change our prior we get different times spent on either interpretation. Sundareswara and Schrater (2005) experimentally manipulated people’s prior by changing the background for the cube, and found that the time spent in one interpretation was manipulated to “align” more often with the background.
The effect doesn’t feel symmetric to me, and you still flip back and forth. But the background definitely feels like it impacts the time in either, and how easy it is to get into either “interpretation”.
Bistability is one of the more interesting topics in perception for me because it directly discusses consciousness, but in a way that we can scientifically investigate. Why is our subjective experience the way it is? Investigations like these are ways to help answer that rather deep question.
July 15, 2017


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