500 Cities CDC Health Care Survey Data
CDC Link
Kaggle Link
Region
Fig 5. This column chart shows how the different regions responded to the survey questions.
There is minimal distinction between the regions.
This also clearly shows that momre people participate in preventative action than engage in unhealthy behaviors or have negative health effects.
Subregion
Fig 6. This column chart shows how the different subregions responded to the survey questions.
There is minimal difference between these subregions.
Prevention by State
Fig 7. This column chart shows how each state responded to the prevention questions.
There is a noticable difference between the states. The range from state to state is 10% of the population.
Unhealthy Behaviors by State
Fig 8. This column chart shows how each state responded to the unhealthy behavior questions. There is a variance from the states.
There are also less people to have responded that they engage in unhealthy behavior than those that responded that they participate in preventative actions.
Negative Health Outcomes by State
Fig 9. This column chart shows how each state responded to the health outcome questions. There is variance from state to state.
There are less people to have answered that they have experienced negative health outcomes than to engage in unhealthy behaviors or preventative actions.


AMONG GIANTS (M). (Fox Searchlight/Twentieth Century Fox) Director: Sam Miller Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, James Thornton, Lennie James, Andy Serkis, Rob Jarvis, Alan Williams, Sharon Bower, Steve Huison Running time: 94 minutes.
Simon Beaufoy, writer of The Full Monty, knows the depressing working class areas of northern England quite well, and he returns to this familiar background for the setting of his latest film. However, Among Giants is a decidedly inferior film, lacking the charm, warmth, gritty honesty, and winning humour that made that modest film a crowd pleaser.
Actually written before The Full Monty, Among Giants deals with a team of unemployed painters who land a covert contract to paint a series of electricity pylons spanning the Yorkshire hills during the summer. It's a job of high risks, uncertain payments and plenty of challenges. The foreman of this motley group is the hard-as-nails Ray (Pete Postlethwaite, from The Usual Suspects, etc). Ray is divorced and shares a house with his younger work mate Steven (James Thornton). Their friendship is shaken up by the arrival of Gerry (Rachel Griffiths), a nomadic Australian who has spent most of her adult life backpacking around the world. On a whim, Ray hires the feisty Australian to work as part of the crew.
Romance slowly develops between Ray and Gerry, much to the consternation of Steve. This odd couple romance is the least credible part of the film, and, despite the solid performances of the two leads, it never really works or sets the screen on fire. This mismatched pair also engage in a bit of gratuitous full frontal nudity for a scene set in an abandoned water tower that is far from erotic. Gerry's sudden and uncharacteristic decision to settle down and establish roots with Ray is also unconvincing, and never totally works.
Among Giants is a fairly conventional and shallow film that is at its best when exploring the camaraderie between the work crew as they undertake the challenge of painting 150 steel towers in a couple of months. Beaufoy's script is also at its best as it explores the humour, mateship and sense of identity that unites the working class in this bleak post-Thatcher Britain.
Among Giants is not a film for those who suffer from vertigo as there are many scenes set high above the ground. At times Witold Stok's camera whirls with dizzying speed through the countryside. Director Sam Miller hails from a television background, and he handles his first feature film in a fairly straight forward and uninspired fashion.
The solid cast try hard, and bring a bristling energy to the material. Postlethwaite in particular seems uncomfortable in the role of a romantic lead. Newcomer Thornton delivers a sympathetic performance as Steven and establishes himself as an actor to watch in the future.
But, otherwise, this unspectacular and often pedestrian romantic drama seems little more than a high class, big budget television movie.
** greg king http://www.netau.com.au
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Coronation Street legend Vicky Entwistle killed off in emotional Holby City scenes
Vicky played Janice Battersby in Coronation Street
by Charlotte RodriguesCobbles legend Vicky Entwistle appeared in Holby City this week, but sadly her character was killed off in the emotional episode.
In Tuesday night's edition of the BBC medical drama (November 12 2019), Vicky played cancer patient Sandra Jackson.
In upsetting scenes, Elliot was going over Sandra's results and asked if she wanted to continue without her husband, Frank, there.
She told Elliot that she preferred Frank not to hear it as it was killing him as much as it was her.
Elliott broke the news that her chemotherapy wasn't working and the cancer was spreading, but he also informed her there was a surgery that could be performed.
Sandra was told she could have an operation to remove as much of the tumour as possible and have chemotherapy afterwards.
During her time in the hospital, she also had a heart to heart with Jac about their children.
Jac suggested to Sandra that there was an alternative surgery that would get rid of the cancer, but it was more risky.
If the surgery was successful, she was to have a 90% chance of living another five years and wouldn't need chemotherapy.
Sandra was told there was a high risk she wouldn't survive the surgery, though, but she wanted it so she could be around for her family and didn't want to have to go through having chemotherapy again.
Before going into surgery, Sandra told Jac that her first grandchild was due next week and she told her family she would be there to meet them.
But sadly during the surgery there were complications and Sandra passed away.
Viewers were shocked to see Vicky and devastated by the scenes.
Coronation Street fans will remember Vicky played Janice Battersby from 1997 until 2011.
She first came in as a machinist at Underworld factory, but soon her husband Les, daughter Toyah and stepdaughter Leanne moved to the cobbles.
Janice and Les split after she had an affair with Dennis Stringer. She left the street in 2011 to travel the world with boyfriend Trevor Dean.
Since leaving Corrie, Vicky has had various other roles including playing Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables in the West End.
She entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2013 with Les Battersby actor, Bruce Jones, for the twelfth series.
Last year she appeared in Channel 4's Ackley Bridge as Sandra Turner.
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JTable
class provides support
for printing tables.
The JTable
printing API includes methods
that allow you to implement
both basic and advanced printing tasks.
For common printing tasks, when you need to simply print a table,
use the print
method directly.
The print
method
has several forms with various argument sets.
This method prepares your table, gets a corresponding Printable
object,
and sends it to a printer.
If the default implementation of the Printable
object
does not meet your needs, you
can customize the printing layout
by overriding the getPrintable
method
to wrap the default Printable
or even replace it altogether.
The easiest way to print your table is to call the print
method
without parameters. See the code example below.
try { boolean complete = table.print(); if (complete) { /* show a success message */ ... } else { /*show a message indicating that printing was cancelled */ ... } } catch (PrinterException pe) { /* Printing failed, report to the user */ ... }
print
method
with no parameters, a print dialog is displayed, and then your table
is printed interactively in the FIT_WIDTH
mode
without a header or a footer.
The code example below shows the print
method signature
with the complete set of arguments.
boolean complete = table.print(JTable.PrintMode printMode, MessageFormat headerFormat, MessageFormat footerFormat, boolean showPrintDialog, PrintRequestAttributeSet attr, boolean interactive, PrintService service);
print
method with all arguments,
you explicitly choose printing features such as a printing mode,
a header and a footer text, printing attributes, a destination print service,
and also whether to show a print dialog or not,
and whether to print interactively or non-interactively.
To decide which parameters suit your needs best,
see the description of available features below.
The JTable
printing API provides the following features:
SwingUtilities.invokeLater
method.
Therefore, to ensure correct printing behavior,
you should be sure that your own code
refrains from modifying the table during printing.
Alternatively, you can print your table non-interactively. In this mode, printing begins immediately on the event dispatch thread and completely blocks any events to be processed. On the one hand, this mode securely keeps the table against any changes until printing is done. On the other hand, this mode completely deprives the user of any interaction with the GUI. That is why printing non-interactively can only be recommended when printing from applications with non-visible GUI.
Printable
API
and the total number of pages is not known ahead of printing time.
MessageFormat
parameters. These parameters allow the header and footer to be localized.
Read the documentation for the
MessageFormat
class, as some characters, such as single quotes, are special
and need to be avoided.
Both headers and footers are centered.
You can insert a page number by using {0}.
MessageFormat footer = new MessageFormat("Page - {0}");
Since the total number of pages in the output is not known before printing time, there is no way to specify a numbering format like "Page 1 of 5".
PrintMode.NORMAL
PrintMode.FIT_WIDTH
In the NORMAL
mode
a table is printed at its current size. If columns do not fit a page, they
spread across additional pages according to the table's
ComponentOrientation
.
In the FIT_WIDTH
mode a table has a smaller size, if necessary,
to fit all columns on each page. Note that both width and height are scaled
to provide an output of the same aspect ratio.
In both modes rows spread across multiple pages sequentially with as many
rows on a page as possible.
JTable
printing API you do not need
to take care of layout and pagination. You only need to specify appropriate parameters
to the print
method such as printing mode and footer text format
(if you want to insert the page number in the footer).
As demonstrated earlier, you can specify the page number in your footer by including
"{0}"
in the string given to the MessageFormat
footer parameter. In the printed output,
{0} will be replaced by the current page number.
TablePrintDemo1
.
The entire code for this program can be found in
TablePrintDemo1.java
.
This demo's rich GUI is built automatically by the
NetBeans IDE GUI builder.
Here is a picture of the TablePrintDemo1
application.
NORMAL
mode.
Note when you clear the Interactive checkbox, a message appears that warns the user
about the disadvantage of printing non-interactively.
You can find the printing code in the PrintGradesTable
method.
When called, this method first obtains the set of selected options
from the GUI components and then calls the print
method as follows.
boolean complete = gradesTable.print(mode, header, footer, showPrintDialog, null, interactive, null);
print
method is then used to show either
the success message or the message saying that the user cancelled printing.
Another important feature is the table printing API's use of table renderers. By using the table's renderers, the API provides a printed output that looks like the table on the screen. Look at the last column of the table on the screen. It contains custom images denoting the passed or failed status of each student. Now look at the printed result. You can see that the check and X marks look the same.
Here is a picture of the TablePrintDemo1 printed result in the FIT_WIDTH
mode.
TablePrintDemo2
example is based on the previous demo
and has an identical interface. The only difference is in the printed output.
If you look at the TablePrintDemo1's printed result more attentively,
you may notice that the check and X marks are fuzzy.
The TablePrintDemo2
example shows
how to customize the table
to make the images more distinguishable in the table printout.
In this demo, the overridden getTableCellRendererComponent
method
finds out whether the table is being printed
and returns clearer black and white images.
If the table is not being printed,
it returns colored images that you can see on the screen.
Click the Launch button to run TablePrintDemo2 using Java™ Web Start (download JDK 6). Alternatively, to compile and run the example yourself, consult the example index.
isPaintingForPrint
method defined in the JComponent
class
allows us to customize what we print
compared with what we see on the screen.
The code of the custom cell renderer, taken from
TablePrintDemo2.java
, is listed below. This code chooses which images to use
depending on the value returned by the isPaintingForPrint
method.
/** * A custom cell renderer that extends TablePrinteDemo1's renderer, to instead * use clearer black and white versions of the icons when printing. */ protected static class BWPassedColumnRenderer extends PassedColumnRenderer { public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) { super.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column); /* if we're currently printing, use the black and white icons */ if (table.isPaintingForPrint()) { boolean status = (Boolean)value; setIcon(status ? passedIconBW : failedIconBW); } /* otherwise, the superclass (colored) icons are used */ return this; } }
Here is a picture of the TablePrintDemo2 printed result in the FIT_WIDTH
mode.
TablePrintDemo3
example is based on the two previous demos.
This example shows how to provide a customized Printable
implementation
by wrapping the default Printable
with extra decoration.
This demo has a similar interface but the Header and Footer checkboxes
are disabled since the customized printable object
will provide its own header and footer.
Click the Launch button to run TablePrintDemo3 using Java™ Web Start (download JDK 6). Alternatively, to compile and run the example yourself, consult the example index.
FIT_WIDTH
mode.
TablePrintDemo3.java
.
In this demo, a custom subclass
of the JTable
class is used
called FancyPrintingJTable
.
This FancyPrintingJTable
class overrides
the getPrintable
method
to return a custom printable object that wraps the default printable
with its own decorations and header and footer.
Here is the implementation
of the getPrintable
method.
public Printable getPrintable(PrintMode printMode, MessageFormat headerFormat, MessageFormat footerFormat) { MessageFormat pageNumber = new MessageFormat("- {0} -"); /* Fetch the default printable */ Printable delegate = super.getPrintable(printMode, null, pageNumber); /* Return a fancy printable that wraps the default */ return new FancyPrintable(delegate); }
FancyPrintable
class is responsible
for wrapping the default printable object into another printable object
and setting up the clipboard image.
When an instance of this class is instantiated, it loads the images
needed to assemble the clipboard image,
calculates the area required for the clipboard image,
calculates the shrunken area for the table,
prints the table into the smaller area, and assembles and prints the clipboard image.
Pay attention to the flexibility of the code that assembles the clipboard image with respect to the page size. The code takes into account the actual page dimensions and puts together the auxiliary images, stretching some of them as necessary so that the final clipboard image fits the actual page size. The picture below shows the auxiliary images and indicates how those images form the final output.
JTable
class
that allow you to print tables.
| Method | Purpose |
|---|---|
|
boolean print() boolean print(printMode) boolean print(printMode, MessageFormat, MessageFormat) boolean print(printMode, MessageFormat, MessageFormat, boolean, PrintRequestAttributeSet, boolean) boolean print(printMode, MessageFormat, MessageFormat, boolean, PrintRequestAttributeSet, boolean, PrintService) |
When called without arguments, displays a print dialog,
and then prints this table interactively in the FIT_WIDTH mode
without a header or a footer text.
Returns true if the user continued printing
and false if the user cancelled printing.
When called with a full set of arguments, prints this table according to the specified arguments. The first argument specifies the printing mode. Two MessageFormat arguments specify header and footer text.
The first boolean argument defines whether to show a print dialog or not.
Another boolean argument specifies whether to print interactively or not.
With two other arguments you can specify printing attributes and a print service.
Whenever a PrintService argument is omitted, the default printer will be used.
|
| Printable getPrintable(PrintMode, MessageFormat, MessageFormat) | Returns a Printable for printing a table.
Override this method to get a customized Printable object.
You can wrap one Printable object into another to get various layouts.
|
| Example | Where Described | Notes |
|---|---|---|
TablePrintDemo
|
How to Use Tables | Demonstrates basic features in table printing
such as displaying a print dialogue, and then printing interactively
in the FIT_WIDTH mode
with a page number as a header.
|
TablePrintDemo1
|
This page | Demostrates the basics of table printing and provides a rich GUI. Allows the user to specify a header or a footer text, select the printing mode, turn the print dialog on or off, and select printing interactively or non-interactively. |
TablePrintDemo2
| This page | Based on the TablePrintDemo1, this example has an identical interface. This demo shows how to customize the table so that the printed result looks differently compared to the table being shown on the screen. |
TablePrintDemo3
|
This page | This demo shows advanced table printing features such as wrapping the default table printable into another printable to get a different layout. |


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First meeting, creating super simple HTML page with an image and some stylings
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Canvas basics, drawing in a canvas. Variables and for loops
Creating objects, game loop, listening to key presses and updating the snake's position on the screen
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THE REPLACEMENTS
Review by John Beachem
* * * *
Directed by: Howard Deutch Written by: Vince McKewin
Just like back in 1987, the players of the professional football league (PFL?) are on strike. With only four games left in the season, and three wins needed to make the playoffs, the owner of the Washington Sentinels (Jack Warden) has decided to hire on replacement players to finish the season. They will be chosen and led by his old friend and former head coach, McGinty (Gene Hackman). McGinty decides to go with former college star Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves) as his QB, and a host of misfits as his starting players. His new players include: an ex-con; a SWAT team member; a sumo wrestler; two bodyguards named Jackson; a retired Welsh soccer player; a deaf man; and a janitor from a convenience store. Of course, the cheerleaders have also gone on strike (for some reason), and only their leader, Annabelle (Brooke Langton), remains. She decides to hire dancers as replacement cheerleaders, but the dancers neglect to mention that they are actually lap dancers. McGinty has to whip the players into shape and get them to win three of the next four games. Only two problems are facing him: one is that Falco has lost all his confidence since he lost the Sugar Bowl several years prior; and two is that the former players, led by QB Martel (Brett Cullen), are making things more than a little difficult for his players. Will McGinty and his team prevail? Will the sun rise tomorrow?
After reading that very generic sounding plot, these are probably a few of the questions running through your mind: Is "The Replacements" cliched? Is it formulaic? Is it coated by a nice, thick layer of cheese? And, most importantly, is it funny? The answers respectively are: yes, yes, yes, and oh god yes. In a summer thus far packed with humorless comedies ("Scary Movie", "Nutty Professor II"), Howard Deutch's ("The Odd Couple II") "The Replacements" is the only movie so far that had both the audience and me laughing so hard we couldn't breath. This is rather strange considering that the movie was released in August, that nesting ground for bad movies everywhere. One of the things that makes "The Replacements" such a rare comedy (particularly in this horrible year) is that it manages to keep the laughs coming nearly throughout its entire running time. In fact, the only times the laughs stop coming are when Keanu Reeves is alone on screen, with anyone, and the movie starts to get sappy and sentimental. Fortunately, Deutch never allows these moments to go on for too long, and you can always rest assured another hilarious scene is right around the corner.
In any screwball comedy like this, acting is not going to be all that important. Of course, in any movie with Gene Hackman, you're going to get some great acting regardless. Only Hackman could make some of the cheesy lines he gets sound great. For example, coming out of anyone else's mouth, a line like: "He doesn't have it all, he doesn't have heart. You do." would be ear-gratingly bad. Coming from Hackman, you don't even notice how cheesy it is. The problem is that standing next to Hackman you've got Keanu Reeves, the black hole of acting himself. Thankfully he does a decent enough job (for him anyway) and doesn't get in the way too often. The film's main strengths lie with the supporting cast. Granted, none of the supporting characters are developed in any way, but that really doesn't matter in a movie like this. You're not going to see a movie like "The Replacements" for deep, involved character development (at least I hope you're not). So if you put that aside and just have a good time, you should really get a kick out of some of these characters. The two that really stood out in my mind were Rhys Ifans' ("Notting Hill") Scottish kicker, Gruff; and John Favreau's ("Swingers") completely insane SWAT team member, Daniel Bateman. Even if the rest of the movie were terrible, it would still be worthwhile just to see these two having a great time. John Madden and Pat Summerall show up playing two announcers named John Madden and Pat Summerall (hey, sometimes there are roles you are just born to play).
As much as I love both football and movies, it seems Hollywood is usually incapable of blending the two together. Let's think back here. The last attempted football movie was Oliver Stone's atrocious "Any Given Sunday", which managed to fail on every level. There was "Rudy", back in 1993, but while it succeeded as a dramatic film, it's hard to classify that one as a football movie. We've seen previous attempts at comical football movies with films like 1991's abysmal "Necessary Roughness" and Adam Sandler's somewhat amusing, though hardly hilarious "The Waterboy". What did these previous attempts lack that "The Replacements" contains? Simple enough, it contains not one, but several hilarious scenes which will stick in your mind for quite some time: A bar room brawl, the first training session, the two Jacksons talking to Martel about Falco's car, and a musical number in a prison cell which is just too funny to be described to name a few. If a movie can make that many of its scenes stick in your mind long after its viewing, then you know you got your money's worth.
The movie contains a few references only hardcore football fans would probably recognize. My favorite one was watching the pen happy John Madden be put to the test by one of Falco's bungled plays (if you're a football fan you know what I mean by that. If you're not a football fan, why are you thinking about seeing this movie?). The film's soundtrack isn't exactly the kind of music I care for, ranging from hard rock to oldies, but that doesn't mean it's inappropriate to the movie. I'd better warn all the parents out there (something I don't ordinarily do), while the film may carry a PG-13 rating, the football violence can be a bit much, there's a significant amount of swearing, and the scenes involving the new cheerleaders can be a bit, um, much. "The Replacements" runs 118 minutes, though it doesn't feel anywhere near that long. I'd recommend it to fans of football movies and comedies. If you happen to be a fan of both, you should have a blast. I give the movie a well earned four out of five stars. By the way, the movie does leave us with a great moral. Pain heals, chicks dig scars, and glory lasts forever.
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Last weeks I have been working a bit in Sextante to integrate it in the next estable version of gvSIG (1.12).
In addition to many new features, last Sextante version allows to make any action from the Toolbox, not only execute algorithms but also create new models or scripts. For gvSIG users it is possible as well to execute its geoprocess like Sextante algorithms. Changes were needed in both sides so if you want to check it you will need to make checkout of trunk in both projects.
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Kannur is a coastal city in the south Indian state of Kerala. It was once an ancient trading port. Enduring monuments such as 16th-century St. Angelo Fort, once occupied by European colonial forces, show the city’s significant role in the spice trade. Housed in a former palace, the Arakkal Museum highlights Kerala's one Muslim royal family. The palm-fringed sands of Payyambalam Beach run along Kannur’s western shore.
Palakkayam Thattu is one of the alluring places to visit in Kannur near the Western Ghats because of the verdant greenery and dizzying height of about 3350 feet above the sea level. It also happens to be one of the most visited hill stations in the state of Kerala. Populated by dense forests and several hillocks, the quaint hamlet is a favoured destination for avid trekkers. Palakkayam Thattu is a natural paradise with astounding tranquillity and sereneness which is perfect for long weekend destinations overlooking the lavish foliage from the top of the mountains. If you are looking for an escape from the everyday hustle and bustle of your life, then this Keralan hill-station is the right place.
The Payyambalam Beach is considered as one of the unspoiled beaches in Kerala, adorned with golden sand and foamy white waters of the Arabian Sea. With its peaceful and inviting aura, the Payyambalam beach is an ideal destination for visitors to spend a long holiday. You can literally unwind and rejuvenate yourself amidst the palm trees and casuarinas that make the shore more alluring by casting various shades of greenery. Being one of the most famous tourist places in Kannur, it lets you relish amazing nature walks, boating, swimming, and other thrilling adventure activities along with the 4 km long rhythmic dance of the turquoise waters of the sea.
Considered as one of the most historic sites in Kannur, the St. Angelo Fort was constructed by the first Portuguese viceroy of India. The fort is triangular in shape appears as a massive yet magnificent structure standing at the helm of the ruthless sea. The laterite walls made of stone lend it an even more imposing air and it is a must-visit destination for architecture students. The sea wall segregating the fort from the sea provides breathtaking views of the Mopilla Bay. Visit the fort for taking a relaxing walk in the complex and enjoy stunning views of the Arabian Sea.


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The packages where the cl-simd symbols are present.
The generic SSE pack type.
Same as (sse-pack integer)
.
Same as (sse-pack single-float)
.
Same as (sse-pack double-float)
.
Declaring variable types using the subtype appropriate for your data is likely to lead to more efficient code (especially on ECL). However, the compiler implicitly casts between any subtypes of sse-pack when needed.
Printed representation of SSE packs can be controlled by binding *sse-pack-print-mode*
:
:int
, :float
or :double
, specifies the way SSE packs are printed. A NIL
value (default) instructs the implementation to make its best effort to guess from the data and context.
Expands to a lisp array type that is efficiently supported by AREF-like accessors. It should be assumed to be a subtype of SIMPLE-ARRAY
. The type expander signals warnings or errors if it detects that the element-type argument value is inappropriate or unsafe.
Creates an object of type sse-array
, or signals an error. In non-displaced case ensures alignment of the beginning of data to the 16-byte boundary. Unlike make-array
, the element type defaults to (unsigned-byte 8).
On ECL this function supports full-featured displacement. On SBCL it has to simulate it by sharing the underlying data vector, and does not support nonzero index offset.
Intel Compiler, GCC and MSVC1 all support the same set of SSE intrinsics, originally designed by Intel. This package generally follows the naming scheme of the C version, with the following exceptions:
Underscores are replaced with dashes, and the _mm_
prefix is removed in favor of packages.
The e
from epi
is dropped because MMX is obsolete and won`t be supported.
_si128
functions are renamed to -pi
for uniformity and brevity. The author has personally found this discrepancy in the original C intrinsics naming highly jarring.
Comparisons are named using graphic characters, e.g. <=-ps
for cmpleps
, or />-ps
for cmpngtps
. In some places the set of comparison functions is extended to cover the full possible range.
Scalar comparison predicates are named like ..-ss?
for comiss
, and ..-ssu?
for ucomiss
wrappers.
Conversion functions are renamed to convert-*-to-*
and truncate-*-to-*
.
A few functions are completely renamed: cpu-mxcsr
(setf-able), cpu-pause
, cpu-load-fence
, cpu-store-fence
, cpu-memory-fence
, cpu-clflush
, cpu-prefetch-*
.
In addition, foreign pointer access intrinsics have an additional optional integer offset parameter to allow more efficient coding of pointer deference, and the most common ones have been renamed and made SETF-able:
mem-ref-ss
, mem-ref-ps
, mem-ref-aps
mem-ref-sd
, mem-ref-pd
, mem-ref-apd
mem-ref-pi
, mem-ref-api
, mem-ref-si64
(The -ap*
version requires alignment.)
Floating-point arithmetic intrinsics have trivial IEEE semantics when given QNaN and SNaN arguments. Comparisons have more complex behavior, detailed in the following table:
| Single-float | Double-float | Condition | Result for NaN | QNaN traps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
=-ss ,=-ps |
=-sd ,=-pd |
Equal | False | No |
<-ss ,<-ps |
<-sd ,<-pd |
Less | False | Yes |
<=-ss ,<=-ps |
<=-sd ,<=-pd |
Less or equal | False | Yes |
>-ss ,>-ps |
>-sd ,>-pd |
Greater | False | Yes |
>=-ss ,>=-ps |
>=-sd ,>=-pd |
Greater or equal | False | Yes |
/=-ss ,/=-ps |
/=-sd ,/=-pd |
Not equal | True | No |
/<-ss ,/<-ps |
/<-sd ,/<-pd |
Not less | True | Yes |
/<=-ss , |
/<=-sd , |
Not less or equal | True | Yes |
/<=-ps |
/<=-pd |
|||
/>-ss ,/>-ps |
/>-sd ,/>-pd |
Not greater | True | Yes |
/>=-ss , |
/>=-sd , |
Not greater or equal | True | Yes |
/>=-ps |
/>=-pd |
|||
cmpord-ss , |
cmpord-sd , |
Ordered, i.e. no NaN args | False | No |
cmpord-ps |
cmpord-pd |
|||
cmpunord-ss , |
cmpunord-sd , |
Unordered, i.e. with NaN args | True | No |
cmpunord-ps |
cmpunord-pd |
Likewise for scalar comparison predicates, i.e. functions that return the result of the comparison as a Lisp boolean instead of a bitmask sse-pack:
| Single-float | Double-float | Condition | Result_for_NaN | QNaN_traps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
=-ss? |
=-sd? |
Equal | True | Yes |
=-ssu? |
=-sdu? |
Equal | True | No |
<-ss? |
<-sd? |
Less | True | Yes |
<-ssu? |
<-sdu? |
Less | True | No |
<=-ss? |
<=-sd? |
Less_or_equal | True | Yes |
<=-ssu? |
<=-sdu? |
Less_or_equal | True | No |
>-ss? |
>-sd? |
Greater | False | Yes |
>-ssu? |
>-sdu? |
Greater | False | No |
>=-ss? |
>=-sd? |
Greater_or_equal | False | Yes |
>=-ssu? |
>=-sdu? |
Greater_or_equal | False | No |
/=-ss? |
/=-sd? |
Not_equal | False | Yes |
/=-ssu? |
/=-sdu? |
Not_equal | False | No |
Note that MSDN specifies different return values for the C counterparts of some of these functions when called with NaN arguments, but that seems to disagree with the actually generated code.
This module extends the set of basic intrinsics with the following simple compound functions:
neg-ss
, neg-ps
, neg-sd
, neg-pd
, neg-pi8
, neg-pi16
, neg-pi32
, neg-pi64
:
implement numeric negation of the corresponding data type.
not-ps
, not-pd
, not-pi
:
implement bitwise logical inversion.
if-ps
, if-pd
, if-pi
:
perform element-wise combining of two values based on a boolean condition vector produced as a combination of comparison function results through bitwise logical functions.
The condition value must use all-zero bitmask for false, and all-one bitmask for true as a value for each logical vector element. The result is undefined if any other bit pattern is used.
N.B.: these are functions, so both branches of the conditional are always evaluated.
The module also provides symbol macros that expand into expressions producing certain constants in the most efficient way:
0.0-ps 0.0-pd 0-pi for zero
true-ps true-pd true-pi for all 1 bitmask
false-ps false-pd false-pi for all 0 bitmask (same as zero)
In order to provide better integration with ordinary lisp code, this module implements a set of AREF-like memory accessors:
(ROW-MAJOR-)?AREF-PREFETCH-(T0|T1|T2|NTA)
for cache prefetch.
(ROW-MAJOR-)?AREF-CLFLUSH
for cache flush.
(ROW-MAJOR-)?AREF-[AS]?P[SDI]
for whole-pack read & write.
(ROW-MAJOR-)?AREF-S(S|D|I64)
for scalar read & write.
(Where A = aligned; S = aligned streamed write.)
These accessors can be used with any non-bit specialized array or vector, without restriction on the precise element type (although it should be declared at compile time to ensure generation of the fastest code).
Additional index bound checking is done to ensure that enough bytes of memory are accessible after the specified index.
As an exception, ROW-MAJOR-AREF-PREFETCH-* does not do any range checks at all, because the prefetch instructions are officially safe to use with bad addresses. The AREF-PREFETCH-* and *-CLFLUSH functions do only ordinary index checks without the usual 16-byte extension.
This code processes several single-float arrays, storing either the value of a*b, or c/3.5 into result, depending on the sign of mode:
(loop for i from 0 below 128 by 4
do (setf (aref-ps result i)
(if-ps (<-ps (aref-ps mode i) 0.0-ps)
(mul-ps (aref-ps a i) (aref-ps b i))
(div-ps (aref-ps c i) (set1-ps 3.5)))))
As already noted above, both branches of the if are always evaluated.
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Setting up local OSSEC , Monitoring
Difficulty: 4
Time: 45 Minutes
This article explains installation of a local OSSEC on Debian or Ubuntu.
You need sudo
privileges to complete all steps.
For sending mail from a local SMTP server, you need to install Postfix.
You need to download the OSSEC tarball and a file with its cryptographic checksum to verify that you are installing valid software. We'll generate MD5 and SHA1 checksum and compare with those in the checksum file.
Verify the md5sum of the compressed tarball.
ossec-hids-2.8.1.tar.gz: OK md5sum: WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted
ossec-hids-2.8.1.tar.gz: OK sha1sum: WARNING: 1 line is improperly formatted
During installation, OSSEC prompts for the SMTP server. To find the correct SMTP server, follow these steps.
Use the dig
command to query your provider's mail exchange resource record.
Many sections display, but we're interested only in ANSWER SECTION
.
For example, if you run the command using fastmail.com
:
The valid SMTP servers for providers are shown under ANSWER SECTION
.
;; ANSWER SECTION: fastmail.com. 3600 IN MX 10 in1-smtp.messagingengine.com. fastmail.com. 3600 IN MX 20 in2-smtp.messagingengine.com.
in1-smtp.messagingengine.com
or in1-smtp.messagingengine.com
as the SMTP server.
You can install OSSEC in many modes including server, agent, local, or hybrid mode. We'll install it in local mode.
If you receive an error for the tar
command, run sudo yum install tar
.
When prompted, choose your language or use the default, and press Enter.
The following displays:
OSSEC HIDS v2.8 Installation Script - http://www.ossec.net You are about to start the installation process of the OSSEC HIDS. You must have a C compiler pre-installed in your system. If you have any questions or comments, please send an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>(or daniel.cid@gmail.com). - System: Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-55-generic - User: root - Host: ubuntu -- Press ENTER to continue or Ctrl-C to abort. -
For all the question, press enter to accept the default in Question number 3.1 it will prompt you for you email address and then SMTP server ip/host.Enter your email address and SMTP server that you saved using "dig" command.
A successful installation displays the following:
Thanks for using the OSSEC HIDS. If you have any question, suggestion or if you find any bug, contact us at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or using our public maillist at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>( http://www.ossec.net/main/support/ ). More information can be found at http://www.ossec.net --- Press ENTER to finish (maybe more information below). ---
Next, verify that the email credentials given by us and one that OSSEC auto-configured are correct. Email settings are in ossec.confm
, which resides in /var/ossec/etc
.
Switch to root user.
Move to the configuration file directory.
Open ossec.conf
in a text editor.
<global> <email_notification>yes</email_notification><EMAIL_ADDRESS><smtp_server>mail.coolexample.com.</smtp_server><EMAIL_ADDRESS></global>
Next, change settings for OSSEC and its directory structure.
The OSSEC root directory (/var/ossec
) can be accessed only with root privileges.
/var/ossec/etc
contains the main configuration file./var/ossec/rules
contains predefined rules./var/ossec/bin
contains commands used to manage OSSEC./var/ossec/logs/ossec.log
contains logs of the errors.The main configuration file is located at /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf
. The first configuration option is the email configuration you specified while installing. You can change if required at this place as explained in email verification steps
<global> <email_notification>yes</email_notification><EMAIL_ADDRESS><smtp_server>mail.coolexample.com.</smtp_server> <email_from>ossec@ossec_server</email_from> </global>
To change the number of email messages per hour, you can add the following line:
"N" is the number of emails. Make sure that the <email_from>
address contains a valid domain, as some third-party email provider may drop it otherwise.
If you do not receive emails as expected, you can check logs at /var/ossec/logs/ossec.log
<syscheck>
section starts like this:
<syscheck> <!-- Frequency that syscheck is executed - default to every 22 hours --> <frequency>79200</frequency>
By default, the sytem check runs every 22 hours. You can change it.
To enable alerts for a new file creation, add this line:
The section then looks like this:
<syscheck> <!-- Frequency that syscheck is executed - default to every 22 hours --> <frequency>79200</frequency> <alert_new_files>yes</alert_new_files>
Next is a list of system directories that OSSEC monitors as follows:
<!-- Directories to check (perform all possible verifications) --> <directories check_all="yes">/etc,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin</directories> <directories check_all="yes">/bin,/sbin</directories>
To enable real time monitoring, add report_changes="yes" realtime="yes"
to each line.
<!-- Directories to check (perform all possible verifications) --> <directories report_changes="yes" realtime="yes" check_all="yes">/etc,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin</directories> <directories report_changes="yes" realtime="yes" check_all="yes">/bin,/sbin</directories>
You can add more directories to monitor here. For example, to add /home/user_name
and /var/www/
, add the following line:
The restrict
setting specifies which formats to monitor.
Local rules are located in /var/ossec/rules/local_rules.xml
.
Next file to be modified is the in /var/ossec/rules
directory. Only two files local_rules.xml
and ossec_rules.xml
is of our use. The former file is used to add local rules and latter for default rules definitions.
You will need sudo privileges to access these files.
When a file is added to monitored directory, the rule 554 is fired. By default it does not send alert on fire so you will need to change the settings. Rule 554 looks like.
<rule id="554" level="0"> <category>ossec</category> <decoded_as>syscheck_new_entry</decoded_as> <description>File added to the system.</description> <group>syscheck,</group> </rule>
When level is set to "0" no alert is sent. We will raise the alert level. Copy the rule to local_rules.xml and modify it.
Open the file /var/ossec/rules/local_rules.xml
in any editor and add the new rule at the end within the group tag
<rule id="554" level="7" overwrite="yes"> <category>ossec</category> <decoded_as>syscheck_new_entry</decoded_as> <description>File added to the system.</description> <group>syscheck,</group> </rule>
Save and close the file. Now restart the OSSEC
You receive an email message when it restarts.
If you add a file to the directory to be monitored by OSSEC or if you update or delete a file, you should receive alerts.
You don't receive real time notification for adding a file but only for modification or deletion. Alerts of file additions go after full system check, which is handled by frequency check time in ossec.conf
.
If you don't receive email messages, check your spam folder or logs in /var/ossec/logs/ossec.log
This article gives you the overview of basic settings more advance setups and configuration are possible.


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Hello friends, my name is Edgar as some of you know, I am 33 years old and I have 3 kids, I am from a small town in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca is full of culture, famous for great an delicious food including: Tamales, Mole, and of course Tacos.
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I move to Seattle over 10 years ago and started working in the restaurant business, for the last 5 years I been working in a famous place in the waterfront of the city and every day, I meet a lot of people from many different countries.
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I love football, Seattle is a big sports city and it is really hard not to pat attention to the home team, specially in game day. I also like to play video games almost every night and work in my computer. One one my goals in life is to learn how to code, for couple of years I have hear about CodeFellows and so far, I am amaze with the program and what I have learn so far, I feel happy about the decision I made and I’m doing my best to succeed for a better future for me and my family.
- Oaxaca Cathedral
- Squares and Markets: Zócalo and Mercado Benito Juárez
- Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman
- Monte Alban
- The Basilica of Our Lady of Solicitude
- The Rufino Tamayo Museum
- Museo Casa Juarez: Fir for a President
- The Ex-monastery of Santiago Apostol
- San Jeronimo and Santa Maria del Tule
- Cultural Centre of Oaxaca
Next I have a top 10 places to visit in Oaxaca, for your next vacations:


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He does freelance work, writes for CSSTricks, worked at Delta Data Software as a front-end developer, and is continuously working on personal projects to up his game.
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Notzon II (Alamo Area COG) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Alfred Johnson (CTCOG) Bobby Mitchell (City of Wills Point) Frances Monk (Self) Glynn Knight (East Texas COG) Jack Steele (Hous-Galv Area Council) Sandra Pickett (Self) Tom Manison (Hous-Galv Area Council) Walter Diggles (DETCOG) On: Kim Kirchoff (Tx Assn of Reg Councils) Sheila Jennings (Tx Assn of Reg Councils) HB 980Committee Substitute (Wolens) On: Bret Bray (Tx Dept. of Transp.) HB 1083 For: Rep. Maxey (Self) Registering, but not testifying: On: Andrea Cowan (Comptroller's Office) Jeanine Pollard (Self) HB 1319 For: Daniel Burns (Self) Rep. 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Note: This version can be used when it's impractical to measure the weight of the glaze in the bucket. Here, after weighing a syringeful of glaze, you add a certain amount of water to the glaze (the amount is up to you; hopefully it won't decrease the specific gravity more than desired). Stir the glaze well, and then weigh a syringeful of glaze again. Enter the desired specific gravity, and the program will calculate how much more water you need to add to reach that specific gravity.


Sprott Resource restarts Chilean mine after shooting death, guard injury
by The Canadian PressTORONTO — Sprott Resource Holdings Inc. says it is restarting operations at its Chilean copper cathode mine after an incident on Sunday resulted in a security guard being severely injured and another person being shot to death.
The Toronto-based company says the guard at the Minera Tres Valles mine was investigating damage at a security gate on Sunday morning when he was confronted on mine property by several individuals who are not employed there.
A spokesman says mining operations were halted out of respect for the deceased and to ensure safety but, based on discussions with community leaders, are expected to resume on Monday and Tuesday.
The mine site violence is not believed to be linked to ongoing civil unrest that has resulted in massive demonstrations against the government in Chile.
The Minera Tres Valles mine is located about 300 kilometres northeast of the capital of Santiago.
The mine, which has both underground and open pit works, began operation in 2011 and was sold to Chile's Vecchiola Group in 2013, according to its website. Sprott Resource, a unit of the Sprott Group of Companies, bought a 70 per cent interest in the mine for US$40 million in 2017.
"We are deeply saddened by the outcome of this tragic incident and extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families of those involved," said Sprott Resource interim CEO Michael Harrison.
"We are fully co-operating with the ongoing investigation and offering support to our employees at the mine site."


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Given the abundance of information across the web Team Bravo has committed to the development of a web platform that allows interested parties, such as journalists and media analysts, to quickly and efficiently dissect the prevalence of a topic within the news cycle.
The product aims to aggregate and analyze multiple high volume information outlets such as news portals and social media sites and present the user with an easy to digest overview.
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Android software development is the process by which new applications are created for devices running the Android operating system. Google states that[3] "Android apps can be written using Kotlin, Java, and C++ languages" using the Android software development kit (SDK), while using other languages is also possible. All non-JVM languages, such as Go, JavaScript, C, C++ or assembly, need the help of JVM language code, that may be supplied by tools, likely with restricted API support.
Some languages/programming tools allow cross-platform app support, i.e. for both Android and iOS. Third party tools, development environments and language support have also continued to evolve and expand since the initial SDK was released in 2008.
In addition, with major business entities like Walmart, Amazon, Bank of America etc. eyeing to engage and sell through mobiles, mobile application development is witnessing a transformation
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BASED ON A REAL STORY.
According to a story on MSN.com, "At least seven taxi drivers in Ishinomaki, northeast Japan, have reported experiencing a 'phantom fare' in the wake of the devastating 2011 tsunami and earthquake. In each instance, the story is similar. A taxi driver in northeast Japan picks up a passenger in the area. He starts the meter and asks for the destination, to which the customer gives a strange response. Either then, or sometime later, the driver turns around to address the man or woman-but the passenger has vanished.


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So Peter responds to my
earlier
question on his MC++ comments. You know what? I completely agree with him. MC++ is
extremely cool, but it also can be a complete drag to use if you're not already pretty
well versed in both your C++ and and way .NET works.
But I'm also confident things will change in the future as more people come to realize
they want (or need) the extra power and flexibility offered by MC++. And I'm also very excited
about the commitment the VC++ team at Microsoft have shown to the language and wanting to improve the
situation.


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FractalTree module¶
This module contains the function that creates the fractal tree.
-
FractalTree.
Fractal_Tree_3D
(param)[source]¶ This fuction creates the fractal tree. :param param: this object contains all the parameters that define the tree. See the parameters module documentation for details:
Returns: branches – A dictionary that contains all the branches objects. nodes (nodes object): the object that contains all the nodes of the tree. Return type: dict


• Codebreaker is a logic game in which a code-breaker tries to break a secret code created by a code-maker. The codemaker, which will be played by the application we’re going to write, creates a secret code of four numbers between 1 and 6.
• The codebreaker gets some number of chances to break the code (depends on chosen difficulty). In each turn, the codebreaker makes a guess of 4 numbers. The codemaker then marks the guess with up to 4 signs - + or - or empty spaces.
• A + indicates an exact match: one of the numbers in the guess is the same as one of the numbers in the secret code and in the same position. For example:
Secret number - 1234
Input number - 6264
Number of pluses - 2 (second and fourth position)
• A - indicates a number match: one of the numbers in the guess is the same as one of the numbers in the secret code but in a different position. For example:
Secret number - 1234
Input number - 6462
Number of minuses - 2 (second and fourth position)
• An empty space indicates that there is not a current digit in a secret number.
• If codebreaker inputs the exact number as a secret number - codebreaker wins the game. If all attempts are spent - codebreaker loses.
• Codebreaker also has some number of hints(depends on chosen difficulty). If a user takes a hint - he receives back a separate digit of the secret code.


GET SHORTY A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1995 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 8.8
United States, 1995 U.S. Availability: wide release 10/20/95 Running Length: 1:45 MPAA Classification: R (Profanity, violence) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Cast: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Bette Midler Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Producers: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher Screenplay: Scott Frank based on the novel by Elmore Leonard Cinematography: Don Peterman Music: John Lurie U.S. Distributor: MGM
The better you know movies, the more appreciation you'll have for the wit and energy of Barry Sonnenfeld's GET SHORTY. While it's quite possible for the cinematically unaware to enjoy this film--it's got a fair amount of readily-accessible comedy and action--this is a real treat for movie buffs. The story is as much about the love of motion pictures as it is about gangsters.
Scott Frank's script for GET SHORTY, which lifts huge chunks of dialogue directly from the book, captures the spirit of Elmore Leonard's work the way no previous adaptation has been able to (THE MOONSHINE WAR, STICK, CAT CHASER). This film is wry and sardonic all the way through, with the actors and director knowing exactly how to play each scene for maximum effect. GET SHORTY is much more a comedy than anything else, and a very funny one at that.
John Travolta, playing his second gangster in a row, is Chili Palmer, a loanshark on a mission to Los Angeles to recover $300,000 gained through an insurance fraud. Once near Hollywood, however, Chili, an avowed movie-lover (he has the lines from TOUCH OF EVIL memorized and can recognize RIO BRAVO from a sound byte), becomes seduced by the thought of producing a film. So he hooks up with schlock director Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman) and scream queen Karen Flores (Rene Russo). And when Chili starts to pitch an idea, none other than big time actor Martin Weir (Danny DeVito) shows interest. Nevertheless, even as things start looking up for Chili's movie, a host of gangsters try to muscle in on his action--one way or another.
Not since SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER has John Travolta been this cool. His comeback work in PULP FICTION may have been effective, but he's better here. Travolta has got Chili down cold, from the mannerisms to the look. With a fine supporting cast that includes Danny DeVito, Rene Russo, and the always-reliable Gene Hackman, Travolta is surrounded by talent. It would have taken a poor director to botch up this production.
 The script is smart, and makes few concessions to mentally challenged audience members. There's a lot going on beyond the obvious. Take role reversals, for example. As Chili is seduced from a criminal lifestyle by movies, his motion-picture colleagues are drawn away from film by the lure of the gangster experience. Ultimately, it turns out that the common denominator for success in either career is attitude--a quality which Chili possesses in abundance.
Those familiar with PULP FICTION may detect hints of that film here, and not just because of Travolta's presence. Much of the dialogue has the same kind of quirky, snappy quality as that which Tarantino writes. (Quentin is an admitted Leonard fan; in fact, his next directorial effort may be an adaptation of the author's RUM PUNCH.) There's one instance where tough gangsters discuss the meanings of "e.g." and "i.e." On another occasion, Chili lectures Martin on the importance of a stare.
The ending is a little reminiscent of that of THE PLAYER, with a couple of big name cameos. It's a clever way to conclude a wonderfully entertaining romp. GET SHORTY may indeed be 1995's PULP FICTION, but this less profane film is likely to find wider acceptance. It's certainly more mainstream, but, at least in this case, that's not a bad thing. With GET SHORTY, Sonnenfeld has shown that broad appeal doesn't necessarily equate with stupidity. That's a lesson Hollywood should learn.
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The concept of dynamic in .NET (DLR) has been around since Nov/Dec 2008.
dynamic student = new ExpandoObject();
student.FirstName = "Jeff";
student.LastName = "Lebowski";
public class SampleDynamicObject : DynamicObject { }
// ...
dynamic sampleObject = new SampleDynamicObject ();
// ...
public override bool TryGetMember(
GetMemberBinder binder, out object result)
public override bool TrySetMember(
SetMemberBinder binder, object value)
public override object TryInvokeMember(
InvokeMemberBinder binder, object[] args,
out object result)
Configuration in .Net applications can contain several lines in a file that reference <add key="name" value="stuff"/>
. Developers can put all kinds of data in these and getting them out is annoying.
<add key="Retries" value="5"/>
<add key="BuildDate" value="2012-02-13/>
var retries = config.Retries; // or config.Retries(10);
DateTime dt = config.BuildDate<DateTime>();
† More on this in a moment...
I'd like to talk to an API that lets me send work with an email service provider.
All the implementations I can find want me to use a crazy amount of static types.
PM> Install-Package Formo
Chris Missal, Headspring


REMOVED
The npm bundle command has been removed in 1.0, for the simple reason that it is no longer necessary, as the default behavior is now to install packages into the local space.
npm bundle
Just use npm install now to do what npm bundle used to do.
npm install
npm-bundle — npm@1.4.4


stockd.ta.atr
- class ATR;
- Average true range (ATR)
Ref:
stockcharts.com
Developed by J. Welles Wilder, the Average True Range (ATR) is an indicator that measures volatility.
As with most of his indicators, Wilder designed ATR with commodities and daily prices in mind.
Commodities are frequently more volatile than stocks. They were are often subject to gaps and limit moves,
which occur when a commodity opens up or down its maximum allowed move for the session. A volatility formula
based only on the high-low range would fail to capture volatility from gap or limit moves.
Wilder created Average True Range to capture this "missing" volatility. It is important to remember that ATR
does not provide an indication of price direction, just volatility.
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Use the chrome.usb module to interact with connected USB devices. This API provides access to USB operations from within the context of an app or extension. Using this API, apps and extensions can function as drivers for hardware devices.
chrome.usb


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Recipe 4.9. Getting a Value from a DictionaryCredit: Andy McKay ProblemYou need to obtain a value from a dictionary, without having to handle an exception if the key you seek is not in the dictionary. SolutionThat's what the get method of dictionaries is for. Say you have a dictionary such as d = {'key':'value',}. To get the value corresponding to key in d in an exception-safe way, code: print d.get('key', 'not found') If you need to remove the entry after you have obtained the value, call d.pop (which does a get-and-remove) instead of d.get (which just reads d and never changes it). DiscussionWant to get a value for a key from a dictionary, without getting an exception if the key does not exist in the dictionary? Use the simple and useful get method of the dictionary. If you try to get a value with the indexing syntax d[x], and the value of x is not a key in dictionary d, your attempt raises a KeyError exception. This is often okay. If you expected the value of x to be a key in d, an exception is just the right way to inform you that you're mistaken (i.e., that you need to debug your program). However, you often need to be more tentative about it: as far as you know, the value of x may or may not be a key in d. In this case, don't start messing with in tests, such as: if 'key' in d: print d['key'] else: print 'not found' or try/except statements, such as: try: print d['key'] except KeyError: print 'not found' Instead, use the get method, as shown in the "Solution". If you call d.get(x), no exception is thrown: you get d[x] if x is a key in d, and if it's not, you get None (which you can check for or propagate). If None is not what you want to get when x is not a key of d, call d.get(x, somethingelse) instead. In this case, if x is not a key, you will get the value of somethingelse. get is a simple, useful mechanism that is well explained in the Python documentation, but a surprising number of people don't know about it. Another similar method is pop, which is mostly like get, except that, if the key was in the dictionary, pop also removes it. Just one caveat: get and pop are not exactly parallel. d.pop(x) does raise KeyError if x is not a key in d; to get exactly the same effect as d.get(x), plus the entry removal, call d.pop(x,None) instead. See AlsoRecipe 4.10; the Library Reference and Python in a Nutshell sections on mapping types. |


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Our MissionThe supervision program will promote the development of markets for consumer financial products and services that are fair, transparent, and competitive. "Holding both banks and nonbanks accountable to consumer financial laws will help create a fairer, more transparent market for consumers. It will create a better environment for the honest businesses that serve them. And it will help the overall economic stability of our country."
— Richard Cordray, Director of the CFPB
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CFPB has designed a supervision program to ensure that banks and nonbanks comply with federal consumer financial laws and to detect and assess the risks to consumers that arise from these businesses.
This consumer-centered approach to supervision is based on three main principles:
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act created the CFPB and gave it critical consumer protection oversight authority — promoting greater accountability for American consumers. With this authority, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has the ability to examine for and monitor compliance with federal consumer financial laws and regulations at both large banks and nonbank financial services companies.
The CFPB has primary authority to enforce federal consumer financial laws for banks and other depository institutions with total assets of more than $10 billion, and their affiliates, which collectively hold more than 80 percent of the banking industry's assets. The CFPB also has the authority to oversee nonbank compliance, regardless of size, in certain specific markets: mortgage companies (originators, brokers, and servicers, as well as providers of loan modification or foreclosure relief services); payday lenders; and private education lenders. For other nonbank markets, the CFPB can also supervise "larger participants" after defining them by rule.
CFPB supervision is a comprehensive, ongoing process of pre-examination scoping and review of information, data analysis, on-site examinations, and regular communication with supervised entities and prudential regulators, as well as follow-up monitoring. For most depository institutions supervised by the CFPB, periodic examinations will be conducted. For the largest and most complex banks in the country, the agency has implemented a year-round supervision program that will be customized to reflect the consumer protection risk profile of the organization. The agency has implemented a risk-based nonbank supervision program that will include conducting individual examinations and may also include requiring reports from businesses to determine what businesses need greater focus.
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The purpose of the CFPB's supervision program is to assess compliance with Federal consumer financial laws, obtain information about supervised entities' activities and compliance systems and procedures, and detect and assess risks to consumers and the consumer financial markets. In this way, the supervision program will promote the development of markets for consumer financial products and services that are fair, transparent, and competitive. Supervision team members are working to provide consistent supervisory coverage that will help level the playing field for all industry participants to create a fairer marketplace for consumers and the responsible businesses that serve them.
We have built — and continue to build — a diverse, talented, and highly qualified supervision and examination staff to execute on all of our important goals. Our team comes from a range of backgrounds and is stationed throughout the country. Supervision headquarters are in Washington, D.C., and we have regional offices in San Francisco (West), Chicago (Midwest), New York (Northeast), and Washington, D.C. (Southeast). Now, we need you!
As a Field Examination Manager you will plan and manage the work of a staff of consumer compliance examiners conducting examinations of financial institutions or financial services companies typically offering multiple product lines or services. You will also provide advanced technical support and expertise at a regional level to advise management on significant and sensitive policy, procedural, legal, and examination issues.
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As an Examiner, you will independently conduct complex examination work. You will develop, present, and discuss examination findings, recommendations, and required corrective actions with bank and nonbank entities' senior management. Independently develop and implement supervision strategies for regulated entities being examined.
As an Examiner at the CN-30, CN-40 or CN-51 band, you will participate as a member of a team in compliance examinations of financial institutions or financial services companies. You will participate in developing solutions to issues and problems with broad impact on consumers and the industry.
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The module modPMUX takes an array of Express primitives and outputs the value and index of the element that changed.
module modPMUX <src_file = "prim_mux.cxx"> { group+IPort2 &input[]; prim+OPort2 output <val_state=2>; int+OPort2 selectedItem <val_state=2>; cxxmethod+req update ( .input+read+notify+req, .output+write+nonotify, .selectedItem+write+nonotify ); };
The module modPMUX takes an array of Express primitives of differing types and outputs the value and index of the element that changed. The type of the output matches the primitive type of the element that has changed.
&input[]
The input array of primitives. This is an input of multiple individual primitive objects i.e., multiple connections to the input port. It does not process array objects, group objects or group arrays.
output
Output element that changed in the input. Type of output changes to the type of the changed element.
selectedItem
The index of the changed element.
n/a
n/a
xp_comm_proj/prim_mux/pmuxmods.v contains the modPMUX module V definition.
The low-level PrimitiveMUXMods library containing the module modPMUX does not specify a process. By default the express process will be used.
The module returns the first element in the array that has changed. If more than one element changes, only the first is reported.Authors
Brian Selle, Leon Thrane, Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Documentation - Ian Curington, Advanced Visual Systems Inc.Modifications
Paul G. LeverSee Also
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As part of my journey to become a better UX and UI Designer, learning new design tools becomes a necessary learning curve that one has to endure. Already being proficient in using Adobe's XD and Zeppelin and gaining some commercial experience using both sets of software too, there was another piece of software that other designer's were persuading me to learn called Figma. Figma on one hand, is similar to the aforementioned in the sense that - yes, you can design Wireframes, High Fidelity designs, design Vectors and make and share prototypes alike. However, Figma offers a feature that unlocks the boundaries that all of the other's cant escape from yet and that is responsive design using their new feature named Auto-Layer!
Please read on through this Case Study on recreating Google Chromes homepage using Figma - Thank You and please enjoy!
The vision for this case study was to establish a clear understanding on using Figma as a design tool to expand my knowledge in UI and UX Design. Focusing on:
The issue that designers have whilst using Design software, is although their designs are
very well structured, the software itself - in regards to Responsive Design is found to be either
non
existent or sub standard.
I intended to research a previously unexplored Design Software called Figma, having being influenced
by other designers
and intrigued from research conducted.
The aim was to add responsiveness to the usual break point design, so
that developers could
efficiently utilise on handover. It was discovered that although Figma did provide a tool called,
'Auto-Layer,' which
encapsulated containers into a more flexible container for a more fluid control over responsiveness,
it didn't cater
completely and therefore a single page design was not possible at the time of writing (2021), rather
the
same breakpoint design as before but with responsiveness.
Tasked with researching and developing new skills in using a new Design Software, naming Figma, to create an interactive responsive break point design. Research discovered that Figma does have a feature that can cater for such a task as an integral part of their Software, they named, "Auto Layer." As the name suggests it automatically adds a layer to the selected items, which when used correctly, encapsulates them into a fluid child-container. Which, by itself add's constraints and enforces it to behave responsively either in a column or row on user interaction. This revolutionises design, allows the designer to work efficiently and concentrate more on the things that matter and allows the developer more insight into what the designer wants. This does add a further dimension to designing, when this is also added to the parent container, this cohesively make the responsive design possible.
Hands on UX Researcher, Designer and Test Facilitator.
Hands on UX Researcher, Designer, Tester Facilitator for the Design.
Desk Research, prototyping and Hi-Def Design.
Two day's discovery and ideation, followed by two day's of rapid prototyping, one day final Product Design.
I began by researching the existing market on Design Software that included responsive design. After some investigation and analysis on 5 of the most popular Design Software available on the market to date (2021), surprisingly - only one product catered for responsive interactive design. More surprising was that this type of feature, first thought of in the a marketing sense, would have been part of the subscription feature, Figma's provided this as part of their free version.
Carrying out Desk Research on the contenders with relatable Software on the market today for Responsive Design, moreover, which offered the best experience over all and which had the aforementioned Responsive Design feature. Below are the discovered 4 main contenders following the Desk Research and which products had the greater Statistical Deviation following the customer reviews in terms of User Experience:
Following the Customer Review research for each of the four contenders the following was scrutinised from various forums and online product reviews:
Adobe XD whilst certainly the most successful for Longevity by consistently adapting and
updating their product and community base, an
equal amount of good and bad reviews
were discovered through out.
The Pros: Simplistic UI, Low
Learning
Curve, Sharing And Cross Platform Capabilities, 'Repeat Grid' Makes Designing In This
Respect Most Efficient.
The Cons: No Security To Protect
The
Mock
Ups
When Sharing, No Tools For Animating Elements (Key Frames), Poor Video Quality When
Prototyping.
❌ No Fluid Design Feature.
Figma is a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool which is primarily web-based, with
additional
offline features enabled by desktop applications for macOS and Windows.
The
Pros: Low Learning Curve, Simplistic UI, Cross Platform aAnd Collaboration, Auto
Layout
Prototyping.
The Cons: Both Web And Software Are Memory
Load
Heavy,
No
Built In Animation Tools (Keyframes),
Converted CSS Code Is Below Standard.
✔ Fluid Design Feature Found!
InVision is a prototyping, collaboration and workflow tool.
The
Pros: Prototyping, Supports Gestures, Web Ready Transitions And Animations
Available, Cross Platform And
Collaboration, Plug-ins, Online Community,
Full Version Control
The Cons:Confusing And Complex UI,
Sharing Settings And Toolbar Are Not Always Intuitive, Poor HCI,
Element Inspector Is Not Always Precise.
❌ No Fluid Design Feature.
Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor by Serif.
The
Pros: Intuitive UI, Modern Gestures, Great Artistic Tools,
Cross
Platform
The Cons:Needs Paid Subscription To Export,
Poor Customer Support, Complicated And Clunky,
Steeper learning curve compared to other software.
❌ No Fluid Design Feature.
Based on discovery research findings I came up with three hypothesis to ensure successful
product
adoption. These covered:
After conducting some research and contemplation, it was decided that Google Chromes Homepage was the most simplistic and most familiar to users. This was because the majority of Internet users trended towards the browser and has done for the majority of time too. Overall that trend, at time of writing (2021), stood at 65.27% of the global share of the market! (Gs.statcounter.com 2021) To put that into context, more than 6 in 10 people use this browser over any other - a sure sign that its overall simplicity, familiarity, accessability and usability surpasses every other browser available today.
The chosen Software from the Desk Research Analysis, is named Figma. It is available as a free or paid online version or a downloadable version, all versions come with the, "Auto Layer," feature included. Research found that it is this same feature that should cater for the interactive, dynamic and responsive design described in the overarching aim of this case study.
On first thought, one must feel a little uncertain as far as responsive web design is concerned and past technology fails. As viewports resize, elements within the design resize and move around the grid too, from a row structure to a column based structure - here is where ones skepticism may increase, as this shift occurs in design more breakpoints are required. The need for an unbiased and full investigation on this new technology that could indeed change the way we design for the future, could indeed answer the over arching aim or not.
Design tools have optimised repetitive manual work, since the dawn of time. Nowadays we're experiencing new technology that allows us to focus more about the things that matter, that repeatedly go over slight adjustments if something needs to be added or removed from an element of a design. This is were my research discovered Auto Layer by Figma.
This feature allows frames to automatically resize according to their content, based on rules the designer sets. Objects could already respond to the Frame that contains them with Constraints, but now Frames can also react to objects within them through Auto Layout. For example, if one wanted to add content to a button. Before this technology was available, a designer would have to add width, padding and margins to their designs. Following the research, it was found that a designer can now effortlessly add an Auto layer to the button, which increases/decreases the constraints inside and outside of that element, depending on the work carried out - thus saving time and making the dynamic work.
Further research found that in order to make Auto Layer work, a group of elements must be selected, then Auto Layer can be selected, either by right clicking the option to do so or by selecting it in the options in Figma's GUI. Doing so, creates a Frame, this frame then became the parent container, naturally those inside would then become the children elements. Which would have been in the button above case - the button container and the text respectfully.
On application, it was quickly discovered that once Auto Layout was applied, many properties were converted. Padding, the spacing between children, the axis for lining up children, and the order of children are all guessed based on an average. If you apply to a group or a selection it becomes a frame. Any background layer disappears as frames can now have fill colors. Finally, text boxes that had a fixed size convert to auto, as Figma believe that’s what most people expect in an Auto Layout.
If you have Web Development experience, like myself, you may find that this is giving the designer the power to add a CSS Layout Module called Flexbox to their designs. Those that don't have Web Development experience, basically a Flexbox Layout module gives components on a web page a responsive structure enabling whole pages to have responsiveness as screen sizes decrease and increase, which in turn improves the structural integrity of a website/ application to be displayed on any device.
With research complete, it was time to design. The strategy I implicated was in a three phased project plan.
Phase 1 consisted of analysing the actual Google Home Page in developer mode. Then scrolling the various screen sizes responsively. Scrutinising any changes in layout and confines between objects on the page and and the containers constraints.
Phase 2 was implicated the recorded data into sketches or wireframes, including any breakpoints were shifts in layouts and positioning occurred.
Phase 3 was implicating the research found during the discovery stages with Figma and Auto Layer, adding this functionality into the designs to produce responsive interactive breakpoint designs, of which, replicated the Google home screen.
In order to replicate the re-design of the selected Google Home page, wireframes were produced, of which recorded the dimensions of the actual Google Home page at three main break points. Mobile Device (648px), Tablet (808px) and Desktop (1440px). The aim here was to record margins, padding and position of all the elements as the page was resized. This was to demonstrate, once the redesign was complete, whether using this responsive design handle would (a) resize and position elements within a reasonably amount of accuracy (within 10px) from the original specifications recorded and thus (b) answer the overarching aim of accurately make a responsive and interactive break point design.
A detail was discovered through the research, Auto Layer can only be applied to objects that have an equal amount of distance between one and other. It may look as though all of the navigation and search elements are equidistance from each other but when scrutinised on closer inspection they are not. This was noted so that either a work around or education could be enhanced in preparation for this eventuality when implicated this in the designs late
The main discoveries behind the Auto Layer feature is retaining that it can only be adapted if the elements you are wanting to apply it to have an equidistance between each other. For example, the top navigation in this case hasa left side which has two navigational links of the same font and constraints, so therefore this side can have an auto layer added onto it.
On the right hand side of the top navigation, there are the text links, which were designed just like the left hand side of the navigation. However, if you notice we also have a hamburger menu and the user profile too. Both of these have a different distance between each other, which as we know cant have the auto layer applied. To work around this, by uniforming the user profile and the menu option keeping them separate from the text links and setting constraints to the right and the top, resulted in this side now being sticky.
Wrapping both the left and the right hand sides in a frame, which constraints were set set to the left and right axis, resulted in a responsive navigation area. Basing the rest of the design around this responsive framework resulted in the design becoming responsive on interaction - a complete success!
Below is a link to the completed interactive a responsive break point design for this project. Clicking this link will take you to a secure page away from this website, were you can fully interact and test the responsive design for every breakpoint that Google use. Please note that this was not to redesign Goggles Home page and this holds no affiliation to Google in the slightest and was just to try and test Figma as a software and Auto Layer as a tool for responsive design.
Hopefully you liked what you seen, how the story unfolded and more importantly why the user experience was so important for potential development opportunities for the actual application and for the website design too.
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Maintain a database object
This tool allows to maintain the database in total, or only a selected table, or a selected index.
Maintenance comes in three flavors.
VACUUM
VACUUM will scan the database or table for rows, that are not in use any more. If a row is updated or deleted, the previous content isn’t replaced, but rather marked invalid. The new data is inserted freshly into the database.
Please press the Help button to see the PostgreSQL help about the VACUUM command to learn more about the options.
The output of the database server is displayed in the messages page as they arrive. If Verbose is selected, the server will send very detailed info about what it did.
While this tool is very handy for ad-hoc maintenance purposes, you are encouraged to install an automatic job, that performs a VACUUM job regularly to keep your database in a neat state.
ANALYZE
ANALYZE investigates statistical values about the selected database or table. This enables the query optimizer to select the fastest query plan, to give optimal performance. Every time your data is changing radically, you should perform this task. It can be included in a VACUUM run, using the appropriate option.
REINDEX
REINDEX rebuilds the indexes in case these have degenerated caused by unusual data patterns inserted. This can happen for example if you insert many rows with increasing index values, and delete low index values.
The RECREATE option doesn’t call the REINDEX SQL command internally, instead it drops the existing table and recreates it according to the current index definition.This doesn’t lock the table exclusively, as REINDEX does, but will lock write access only.