Baldwin scores 27, leads Butler past Minnesota 64-56
by MARK AMBROGIINDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Butler senior guard Kamar Baldwin had been limited to 19 minutes in the first two games with a rib cartilage injury.
Tuesday night, Baldwin was finally able to cut loose, scoring 27 points in 35 minutes to lead the Bulldogs to a 64-56 victory over Minnesota on Tuesday night in the Gavitt Tipoff Games between Big East and Big Ten teams.
Baldwin made 10 of 24 shots and 5 of 6 free throws.
“I felt better in the second half,” Baldwin said of his comfort level. “In the first half, I was really nervous, honestly. As far as the injury, I was fine. I was taking what the defense allowed. I think I forced it a little bit too much at times. I just got to grow from that.”
Bryce Nze contributed 11 points and a team-high eight rebounds and Jordan Tucker scored 10 for the Bulldogs (3-0).
“Bryce did a good job early, getting rebounds,” Butler coach LaVall Jordan said. “Jordan did a good job late making free throws. Jordan was a little anxious in the first half. We moved him around to guard some bigger guys. I was proud of him.”
Daniel Oturu paced the Golden Gophers (1-2) with 24 points and 10 rebounds.
“Daniel was really good and he was sick, too,” Gophers coach Richard Pitino said. “He was throwing up at halftime. He was very effective and our guys figured out to get him the ball. He was demanding it.”
Payton Willis added 13 points for Minnesota.
“Our guys fought but we turned the ball over at an alarming rate,” Pitino said. “Butler is aggressive defensively. On the road, you have zero chance of winning if you turn the ball over 18 times. We played hard, we just got to play smarter.”
Butler shot 38% from the floor, while the Gophers made 33%.
“I thought we did a good job getting to their shooters,” Jordan said. “Their big guy (Oturu) is good. He’s hard to handle.”
Minnesota held a 35-33 rebounding edge.
The Bulldogs made just 3 of 14 3-pointers for 21%.
Butler used an 8-0 run to take a 46-39 lead with 7:40 to go. The Bulldogs pushed the lead 54-44 with 4:57 left, its largest lead of the game. The Gophers narrowed the deficit to 57-51 with 2:04 remaining but could not get any closer. Tucker was fouled on a 3-point shot and hit all three free throws with 59.7 seconds left to give Butler a 60-51 cushion.
“We talked in the pregame about just staying the course,” Jordan said. “Our guys did a good job helping each other. We made some loud mistakes when we did make them.”
Sean McDermott’s layup with 2 seconds left in the first half gave the Bulldogs a 29-26 lead.
Butler led by as many as eight points in the opening half at 19-11 with 6:30 left.
The Bulldogs shot 41% percent in the first half while the Gophers shot 36%.
KEY STAT
The Gophers committed twice as many turnovers (18-9) as the Bulldogs. Even bigger, Butler got 25 points off those turnovers compared to two for Minnesota.
BIG PICTURE
Minnesota: The Gophers again struggled from the 3-point line, shooting just 26 percent. Minnesota shot 25 percent in its 71-62 loss to Oklahoma at Sioux Falls, S.D. on Saturday.
Butler: The Bulldogs continue their home dominance in nonconference games, winning their 53rd consecutive game. Only Duke has a longer active streak.
UP NEXT
Minnesota: The Golden Gophers will play their third consecutive game away from home at Utah on Friday night.
Butler: The Bulldogs will play host to Wofford on Saturday in the first of two home games in the Hall of Fame Classic. The final two games will be played in Kansas City.
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ESP32 WiFi config
Description
A web-ble implementation of Bernd Giesecke's ESP32 WiFi configuration over BLE. Bernd's control app is Android only, while web-ble is being developed as a web standard, and is available currently (02/2020) on Chrome for OSX, Windows 10, and Android (click here for current implementation status).
The repository for this app is hosted on github here.
Usage
Press the "Connect" button at the top right corner. The app searches for BLE devices with a name that starts with "ESP32", and has a predefined service UUID. Select the desired device from the device selection menu, and press "Pair". Once paired, the app requests the credentials stored in the device's memory. Once recieved, the app populates the SSID and password fields from the data recieved from the ESP32 device. You can then edit the desired fields, and then press the "Configure device" button to send the new configuration to the ESP32. Two more buttons are also provided: "Erase" - to erase the current configured SSIDs and associated passwords, and "Reset" - to reset the device when needed. Once done with the configuration, click "Disconnect", and the stored SSIDs and credentials will be saved in the device's flash memory. Notice: In order to configure WiFi credentials over BLE, an ESP32 device must be prepared with beegee1962's app beforehand.


More complex resources are often built from simpler resources. It is
the responsibility of the dependency_tracker
to determine
whether any dependencies have been modified.
dependency_tracker(object, ..., dependency_tracker.return = "object")
| object | active_resource. See |
|---|---|
| ... | additional parameters to pass to the next layer in the resource parsing tower. |
| dependency_tracker.return. | What to return in this layer
of the parsing tower. The options are The last (default) choice, |
The parsed resource.
The dependency_tracker
is very good at its job and can track
arbitrarily nested dependencies (for example, if resource "foo"
needs resource "bar"
who needs resource "baz"
, etc.).
But beware! The dependency_tracker
won't tolerate circular
dependencies with anything except tears of anguish.
The local any_dependencies_modified
is injected by the
dependency_tracker
for use in the preprocessor or parser
of a resource. Note this is based off the dependencies last time
the resource was executed, since it is impossible to know a priori
what the dependencies will be prior to sourcing the resource's file.
The local dependencies
, a character vector of (recursive)
dependencies is also injected.
The local any_dependencies_modified
rarely needs to be
used by a preprocessor or parser. You should usually use
resource caching
instead.
The parameters must be named object
and ...
due to
this method's inclusion in a tower
.
active_resource
, resource_caching
,
tower
not_run({ # Imagine we are constructing a stagerunner from a sequence of functions. # However, some of those functions have been built by other resources. # Imagine the following structure. # (See github.com/robertzk/stagerunner for an explanation of stagerunners.) #=== /dir/runners/project1.R === list( "import data" = resource("importers/db"), # These are some functions "munge data" = resource("mungers/impute"), # built by the user "create model" = resource("models/lm"), # that live in other "export model" = resource("exporters/file") # files. ) #=== /dir/importers/db.R === conn <- resource("connections/dev") # A list representing a connection # setting to a development database. DBI::dbReadTable(conn, "some_table") #=== /dir/connections/dev.R #=== R console === d <- director("/dir") # Create a director object. d$register_preprocessor("runners/", function(director, source, any_dependencies_modified) { # `any_dependencies_modified` has been set by the dependency_tracker to # TRUE or FALSE according as /dir/runners/project1.R *or any of its # dependencies* has been modified. if (any_dependencies_modified || is.null(runner <- director$cache_get("last_runner"))) { # Construct a new stageRunner, since a dependency has been modified. source() } else { runner } }) d$register_parser("runners/", function(output) { # If it is a stageRunner, it must have been retrieved from the cache. if (stagerunner::is.stageRunner(output)) { return(output) } runner <- stagerunner::stageRunner$new(new.env(), output) # Cache the runner so it is available in the preprocessor next time. # As long as the /dir/runners/project1.R file remains untouched, we will # not have to bother re-sourcing the file and hence reconstructing the # stageRunner. director$cache_set("last_runner", runner) runner }) sr <- d$resource("runners/project1") # A fresh new stageRunner! sr2 <- d$resource("runners/project1") # Same one, since it used the cache. stopifnot(identical(sr, sr2)) # We can use base::Sys.setFileTime to pretend like we updated the # modified time of the /dir/connections/dev.R file, triggering # `any_dependencies_modified = TRUE`. Sys.setFileTime(file.path(d$root(), "connections", "dev.R"), Sys.time() - as.difftime(1, units = "mins")) sr3 <- d$resource("runners/project1") # Now it re-builds the runner. stopifnot(!identical(sr, sr3)) # A new runner! })


Buttercup Gold and Other Stories
by Ellen Robena Field
“Nature’s Violet Children”
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1894
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Field, E.R. (1894) Buttercup Gold and Other Stories Bangor: C. H. Glass
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 5.0
- Word Count: 553
- Genre: Fairy Tale/Folk Tale
- Keywords: 19th century literature, children's literature, short stories
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Once on a sunny hill in the woods grew a little colony of violets. They had slept quietly through the long winter, tucked up snug and warm in the soft, white snowblankets that King Winter had sent Mother Nature for her flower babies. Jack Frost had gone pouting over the hills because the little sunbeams would not play with him, and spoiled his fancy pictures. The tiny raindrops knocked at the door of Mother Nature’s great, brown house; and the birds called to the flowers to wake up.
So the violets raised their strong, hardy leaves, lifted up their dainty heads, and were glad because spring had come. While they were so happy, a little girl came to the woods in search of wild flowers. “How pretty those violets are,” she said. “I wish I could stay and watch the buds open, but I will take some of them with me and keep them in water, and they will remind me of this sunny hill, and perhaps they will blossom.”
Then the violets were frightened and whispered, “Please don’t take us!” But Ruth did not hear them, and she pulled stem after stem till her small hands were quite filled. Then she said goodbye to the pretty place, and the little violets said goodbye, too.
When Ruth got home, she put the buds into a vase of water, and set them in an open window where they could see the blue sky and feel the kisses of the sunbeams. But the poor little violets drooped for a time, they were so homesick, and whispered to each other, “Let us give up and die!” A beautiful canary in a cage over their heads sang “cheer up! chirrup,!” but they would not listen to him at first.
By and by they said, “Why do you sing that to us? How can we be happy away from our beautiful home?”
Still the bird sang “cheer up! chirrup! The sun is smiling at you and I am singing to you. We are trying to make you glad. How nice it would be if you would only blossom and make some one happy instead of hanging your heads and trying to die.  If some one would leave the door of my cage open, I would spread my wings and fly out of the window, far away to the green woods and the blue sky. But while I am here, I may as well sing and be glad. Cheer up! chirrup!”
“Perhaps he is right,” said the buds, and they lifted up their heads and began to grow. One bright spring morning Mother Nature passed by the window and gave them each a lovely violet cap. Then they were, glad, and Ruth was happy, too, because her buds had blossomed.
The cheery canary sang his sweetest carol to them, and the whole day was bright because Mother Nature’s little violet children had tried their best to be happy and so had made others happy, too.
As the great red sun went down into the west, he heard the happy bird still singing “cheer up! chirrup!”


The Latest: Iraq official: Protester dies in bridge clashes
by The Associated PressBAGHDAD — The Latest on Iraq’s anti-government protests (all times local):
8:35 p.m.
Iraqi security and medical officials say a protester has been killed by a direct hit to the head from a tear gas cannister amid fresh clashes on a strategic Baghdad bridge.
The officials said 32 others were wounded Sunday, hours after protesters retook control of half of Ahrar Bridge. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Ahrar Bridge leads to the other side of the Tigris River near the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of Iraq’s government.
Security forces had deployed on the other side of the bridge and erected concrete barriers to keep protesters from pushing into the area.
Demonstrators had taken control of these bridges earlier this month but were later repelled when security forces took harsh suppressive measures.
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11:30 a.m.
Anti-government protesters in Iraq have closed some roads in response to a call for a strike from an influential cleric.
The protesters are also trying to expand their presence in the Iraqi capital further after seizing control of a strategic square in central Baghdad.
Protesters in Baghdad’s sprawling Sadr City neighbourhood on Sunday blocked roads in an effort to keep employees from getting to their workplaces, snarling traffic in some areas.
The roadblocks are in response to a call by influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for a voluntary strike.
Protesters are also trying to reach the Ahrar bridge, after seizing part of the Sanak bridge and the strategic Khilani square in central Baghdad, as they continue to try to get to the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of government.
The Associated Press


The alter method can be used if you want to insert or remove rows and columns using external buttons. The below example uses the onChange method to implement a custom remove row button. Move your mouse to see it.
You can programically select a cell using the selectCell method. The below button implements it.
This is advanced usage example of Handsontable. Check out the main page for more demos.


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NUMSA plans secondary strike in S.Africa's aviation industry after SAA talks go nowhere
by ReutersJOHANNESBURG — A union that called a strike at South African Airways said on Sunday it was consulting with workers on a secondary strike across the industry after talks with the state-run carrier ended without a deal.
“This secondary strike will have the impact of shutting down the entire aviation sector,” National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) spokeswoman Phakamile Hlubi-Majola told reporters.
Consultations were underway with workers at organizations including the Civil Aviation Authority, Mango Airlines, SA Express, Airports Company South Africa and Comair, she said. (Reporting by Emma Rumney, editing by Louise Heavens)


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First up, Robin Hunicke of Electronic Arts on new trends in gaming practices:
Started doing AI research, then moved into gaming, then commercial gaming, then.... who knows?
Early theories: people are fun, so if people make computers, computers are fun. But they're not always. Games *are* fun. AI is also fun (for AI researchers).
The Sims: fundamentally about people, simulation and AI. If you take something that's fun on the PC that's about people, it'll be fun on the Wii.
She then worked on BoomBox: all about smashing down blocks. Also involves sharing levels and sending them between friends. Sharing makes games better.
Helpful vocabulary for thinking about games in commercial or academic contexts:
A problem: the dynamics are unpredictable, and as a designer it's very difficult to control these.
"Why kill games to make digital games" by taking away the things that make games fun when we turn them digital. Games like dolls, charades, tag, spin the bottle, soccer... some are exploratory, some rule-based - all involve groups and socialising. Games involve competition, mock violence, lies, love, family.
Game: start somewhere, do an activity for a while, get a reward and move on. Repeat.
Some forms of gaming aren't progressive, they're nonlinear.
Gameplay sits between "where I'm going" and "who I'm being".
Aesthetics from recently popular games:
Game mechanics are hard. Nintendo DS says "these games are small, but you'll have a different experience playing them". Simplifying complex situations into a smaller more accessible form makes them fun and magical.
Facebook is an extremely compelling game: chatty, slocial, automatic, selective, quick, repetitive, rewarding. Addition of friends leads to a reward.
The aesthetic of Facebook: "I am a person living a fun life, and I am loved".
Game design is an art form. Games feel good because they make you feel like your actions matter, and all apps can do this.
And now, Guy Vardi from Oberon Media talking about casual gaming:
Focusing on PC and online casual games with this talk.  "Snacks are not dinner".
67% play casual games 4_ times per week, 47% play every day, 66% play for 1 hour or more.
(All biased by the fact it's PC, I'd wager - I'd be surprised if mobile users were giving games this much attention)
Given the cost of a working hour in the US, this makes casual gaming the second largest drain on the US economy after the sub prime crisis :)
People spend more time on online video games than watching video clips or social networking - though is this explicitly about *casual* video games? Lots of media are moving to casual content: movies to youtube clips, music from albums to tracks, games from video to casual.
References Kart Rider and Desktop Tower Defense.
Evolution of models: retail -> shareware -> online -> social networks
Quickly shows slide of game segmentation, which looked massively similar to some of the Nokia customer segmentation I've seen...
Next, Paul Barnett, creative director for EA Mythic:
Acts as a go-between between studio vision and production staff.
They deal with "lots of people online doing stuff". What can you do with this? Social networking. User-generated content.
Paul deals with "entertainment games that make real money", as opposed to some internet businesses. It makes so much money that they don't really understand it.
His job combines "History of cinema" and "vegas casinos". Computer games are not like the film industry, it's a lie perpetuated by the games industry wanting to be cool (I've seen a similar thing with internet and TV). Like films, games often go over-budget and mess up.
Cinema went through major changes - e.g. the addition of sound, or colour. At one point they thought colour might be a fad! TV was supposed to kill film. Movies flourish, despite all the threats technology has brought. Why: they had generational thinking (rich people who'd seen it all before); guaranteed model (customers pay to watch films).
Equate this to the games industry: they get 50 changes every 5 years, not 5 every 50. They have no generational thinking (most staff are newbies - the ones who are successful BUILD ROCKETS TO THE MOON AND NEVER COME BACK). For all the money they have and data they've collected, they don't know: what platform will be dominant; what game will be dominant; how to monitise games.
Online games are fantastic because they are fun. Single player games are pretty mapped out - we know then pretty well and the boundaries are set. There's much more opportunity in online.
Two game designer types: "experiencers" who can value and explain anything they've seen, but are lousy at making intuitive leaps; and "designers who design for designers", who are very clever and speak gibberish and make ununderstandable stuff. You just have to believe these people, occasionally they make astounding things but they're bonkers.
Casinos are heavily themed - they draw you in, welcome you, teach you how to behave, manage the casino and keep unwanted people out, and lead you through the experience. Casinos copy each other and change slightly, relentlessly.
Casino thinking doesn't work online because many of the ideas. How do you expand online gaming? Make the games industry less insular and inward-looking. If you want to be brilliant, stop acting like casinos and start doing new stuff - not copying and changing slightly.
Next, Bruno Bonnell of Infogrames about robotics and the leisure industry:
Spent 25 years in videogames. What is the next tech wave to expect? "The robolution": smart objects, a room in the house which can interact and deliver experiences. We're going beyond console+screen interface, but it's a long way away.
You want to interact with an object simply. The largest personal robot today is a smart vacuum cleaner - but people play with it. They give it a name, talk to it, ask it politely to clean.
"The computing industry is just the brain of the robotics industry"
Gaming designers had to reinvent themselves for new interfaces like the Wii.


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public class Decipher
extends java.lang.Object
| 构造器和说明 |
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Decipher(byte[][] w) |
| 限定符和类型 | 方法和说明 |
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void |
AddRoundKey(int currentroundnum,
byte[][] state)
Add round key to state with specific rule, just implement this on original state.
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java.lang.String |
decryptstate(byte[][] state)
Decrypt a block state.
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byte[][] |
InvMixColumns(byte[][] state)
Inverse mix every column of state with specific rule
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byte[][] |
InvShiftRows(byte[][] state)
Inverse shift every row of state with specific rule,just implement this on original state.
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void |
InvSubBytes(byte[][] state)
do an inverse substitution using s_box.
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java.lang.String |
statetostring(byte[][] state)
transfer a byte[][] state to string type.
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public void AddRoundKey(int currentroundnum, byte[][] state)
state
- the 4x4 byte[][] state you want to add round key.public java.lang.String decryptstate(byte[][] state)
state
- the 4x4 byte[][] state you want to decrypt.public byte[][] InvMixColumns(byte[][] state)
state
- the 4x4 byte[][] state you want to mix.public byte[][] InvShiftRows(byte[][] state)
state
- the 4x4 byte[][] state you want to make inverse shifting rows.public void InvSubBytes(byte[][] state)
state
- the 4x4 byte[][] state you want to inverse substitute.public java.lang.String statetostring(byte[][] state)
state
- the 4x4 byte[][] state you want to transfer.


--- title: "We're Open!" date: "2020-07-15 00:00:00 -06:00" categories: - whats-blooming layout: "post" blog-banner: "whats-blooming-now-summer.jpg" post-date: "July 15, 2020" post-time: "12:00 PM" blog-image: "2020-07-15-wbn.jpg" published: true ---
We're now open to the public! Don't let July pass you by without visiting the Garden.
This semi-woody twining vine is native to floodplain forests, marshes, and swamps of the Southeastern United States.
This truly is an ice breaker plant! Try NOT to start a conversation while looking at this cute miniature specimen.
These mesmerizing beauties flower all summer long.
These flowers add happiness to any garden.
This common name is deceiving, although it is in the same family as Yucca, it is not a true Yucca. We still love it the same though!
Before you head out, don't forget to make a reservation!


- AcceptedFragment - Class in ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.fragment.exchange
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Fragment for filtering book list that has the status of Accepted
- AcceptedFragment() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.fragment.exchange.AcceptedFragment
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- acceptRequest(String, String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.BookController
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As the current user (book owner), accept a request on your book made by another user
- acceptRequest(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.model.user.OwnedBook
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Locally accepts a request for this book from a given user.
- addBook(View) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.myBook.AddNewBookActivity
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Adds a book to the database from the input obtained from the user
and sets a user as one of the owners for that book.
- addBook(View) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.myBook.EditBookActivity
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Adds a book to the database and sets a user as one of the owners for that book.
- addBook(Book) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.BookController
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Adds a book to the database if it does not exist
- addChatRoom(String, String, String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.ChatController
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Adds new chat room to both me and the person I want to message.
- addFragment(Fragment, String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.adapter.TabsAdapter
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Add fragment.
- addImage(Bitmap) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.ImageController
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Add an image to the database and get its unique id for later retrieval
- addLocationMessage(String, LocationMessage) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.ChatController
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- addMyOwnedBook(OwnedBook) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.BookController
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Adds an owned book to the current user's collection of owned books
- AddNewBookActivity - Class in ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.myBook
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Activity to add an instance of a book with title, author, and ISBN, optionally image,
to the database
- AddNewBookActivity() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.myBook.AddNewBookActivity
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- addPhoto(View) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.SignUpActivity
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Adds photo from camera
- addPhotoCamera() - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.EditMyProfileActivity
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allows camera input of an image to be added
asks for permission if needed
- addPhotoCamera() - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.activity.myBook.AddNewBookActivity
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Adds photo from camera
asks for permission if not granted already
- addRequest(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.model.user.OwnedBook
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Locally adds a request for this book from a given user.
- addTextMessage(String, TextMessage) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.ChatController
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- AllTabFragment - Class in ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.fragment.library
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Fragment for listing all own books
- AllTabFragment() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.fragment.library.AllTabFragment
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- App - Class in ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria
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- App() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.App
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- authenticate(String, String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.controller.UserController
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Logs the current user in
- authenticate() - Method in class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.OwnedBookTests
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- AvailableFragment - Class in ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.fragment.library
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Fragment for filtering own book list that has the status of Available/Requested
- AvailableFragment() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.CMPUT3012019T02.alexandria.fragment.library.AvailableFragment
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SOYLENT GREEN (1973) A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 2001
Science fiction as a genre was often belittled as "escapist" by cultural establishment. However, judging by the way science fiction appeared in late 1960s and early 1970s, that genre was anything but escapist. Instead of allowing viewers to indulge themselves in optimistic visions of another worlds and thus forget depressing reality, Hollywood science fiction films of pre-Lucas era often did quite the opposite - visions of the future were such that the turbulent and often bleak 1970s reality looked good in comparison. Interestingly enough, many of such films not only withstood the test time but also became indisputable classics of the genre. One of such films is SOYLENT GREEN, directed in 1973 by Richard Fleischer.
The plot of the film is based on the novel MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! by Harry Harrison and set in New York in the year 2022 AD As a result of decades of industrial pollution, greenhouse effect caused constant heatwave and mass extinction of plants and animals. Humans, on the other hand, continue to grow in numbers and New York has population of 40 million - mostly utterly impoverished people forced to sleep in crammed stairways and dependant on synthetic food called "Soylent". Tiny minority of rich and powerful people, on the other hand, can afford such luxuries as running water, strawberries and "furniture" in the form of sex slaves that come with such luxurious apartments. William R. Simonson (played by Joseph Cotton), one of directors of Soylent Corporation, belongs to such privileged group until he is killed in his apartment, presumably by a burglar. Murder investigation is conducted by Thorn (played by Charlton Heston), police detective who lives in a tiny apartment with his research assistant a.k.a. "Book" Sol Roth (played by Edward G. Robinson), an old man who entertains him with the stories about the time when the Earth used to be green. Unlike his superiors who want to wrap up the case quickly, Thorn decides to investigate further, convinced that Simonson was the target of well-planned assassination. His decision is partially motivated by the desire to indulge himself, at least temporarily, in the privileged lifestyle and also because he is attracted to Shirl (played by Leigh Taylor-Young), Simonson's "furniture". When Thorn's investigation begins to bring results and draws him closer to the reason behind Simonson's murder, policeman himself becomes the target of assassins.
Today, in a world of CGI and rapidly changing technology, we are quite accustomed to the fact that science fiction films might start looking dated only a year or two after the initial release. SOYLENT GREEN was made almost three decades ago, yet it seems like a movie that could be made today. The only reason to treat SOYLENT GREEN as "dated" is in the fact that the bleak future depicted in it becomes less certain with each passing year. By the year 2022 Earth and its population might indeed be in worse shape than they were in 1973, yet the pollution, global warming, overpopulation and other apocalyptic trends didn't materialise in dimensions sufficient to justify bleak visions of the film. So, Harry Harrison (who wasn't exactly happy with the film), screenwriter Stanley R. Greenberg and director Fleischer got it wrong. But that doesn't mean that they failed to create convincing and powerful vision of the future that even might become reality at some date later than indicated in the film.
Like many other dystopic science fiction films of 1970s and early 1980s, SOYLENT GREEN doesn't create futuristic atmosphere by presenting technology that doesn't exist in present, but relies instead on the lack of present-day technology that should indicate lower standards of living and decay of civilisation. In SOYLENT GREEN industrial, technological and cultural decay is presented in convincing fashion, through the details of people's every day life. Increased heat and humidity in the air through simple but effective camera techniques in outdoors scenes. Lack of trees means that there are no new books, and energy shortage mandates that only trucks can be used for transport instead of private-owned cars. Lack of living space means the lack of privacy and the lack of respect for individuals - when they die, they are disposed of instead of being buried, and all their belongings, concubines included, are about to be plundered without any question asked. In overpopulated society human life is cheap, and gun battles on overcrowded streets are bound to result with innocent people being killed by stray bullets.  All this is presented without any semblance of moralistic outrage, and some viewers can come to the conclusion that moralistic relativism is the only way a society can function under those conditions.
Because of this, otherwise great script loses much of its intended impact in the end. When the great secret is revealed at the end, protagonist's last words (the most quoted element of the film) are not directed to the people of 2022, but to the audience of 1973. His warning, however, is going to miss the mark in the context of his film. The outrage he is hoping to create simply won't happen in the impoverished world of 2022, which has lowered its moral standards to almost sub-human levels. Yet, the film makes a nice contrast between savage amorality of the world and humanism of the protagonist, indicated in memorable scenes of interaction with people he loves - his "book" and his new girlfriend.
Protagonist was played by Charlton Heston, one of greatest actors of American cinema. Same as in PLANET OF THE APES and OMEGA MAN - two other science fiction classics of the period - Heston brings humane dimension to the otherwise alien or reprehensible world through the character of tragic hero. His performance was, however, overshadowed by another acting giant - Edward G. Robinson. His character, which had to put the dark future world in the context of our present day, gave extra humanism to the film through the strength of Robinson's performance. Said performance, and especially the final scene, becomes even more powerful when we know that the role of Sol was Robinson's final appearance on the film. Other actors did solid job - Chuck Connors was good as villain, and Leigh Taylor-Young was more than pretty face. Fleischer directed this film with great skill, showing his abilities both in dramatic and action scenes. Unfortunately, original musical score by Fred Myrow is not as good as this film should deserve, but this is compensated with the good use of Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven in some very powerful scenes.
All in all, SOYLENT GREEN truly deserved its reputation of science fiction classic. As a science fiction film that relies more on viewers' intelligence than special effects, it represents something that is sorely missed in today's Hollywood. And we should only hope that its reputation wouldn't be diminished with uninspired remake like it had happened with many other great movies from that era.
RATING: 8/10 (+++)
Review written on August 3rd 2001
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Pregnant Danielle Armstrong announces gender of her first baby with childhood sweetheart
The former TOWIE star, 31, shared the news she's expecting a baby girl as she hosted a gender reveal party with her boyfriend
by Irishmirror.iePregnant Danielle Armstrong has announced the gender of her first child.
The former TOWIE star is expecting a little girl with her childhood sweetheart.
Danielle, 31, shared the exciting news as she hosted a lavish gender reveal party alongside her boyfriend, whose name she has never publicly revealed.
The reality star, who was joined at the party by her famous pal and former co-star Ferne McCann, posed up with a giant pink balloon with the words "it's a girl" printed on the front.
Danielle announced earlier this month that she's expecting her first baby.
She shared the news on Instagram by sharing a series of loved-up pictures of her and her beau together, including one of her holding up an ultrasound scan.
She wrote alongside them: "The Best Part Of Us Will Be You."
The picture also revealed the baby is due in May 2020.
While Danielle hasn't publicly revealed the identity of her boyfriend, she said back in September that she had found love with her "best friend of 22 years".
Telling her Twitter followers about the change in her romantic life, she said: "Life has a funny way of working out just when I decided to give up on love my friend of 22 years swept me off my feet.
"You don’t find love it finds you, it’s got a little a to do with destiny & fate, and what’s written in the stars #mybestfriend #love #happiness."
Danielle isn't the only former TOWIE star expecting a baby next year.
Lydia Bright and Lucy Mecklenburgh also have little ones on the way.
Danielle was previously in a long-term relationship with Daniel Spiller but ended things as they'd become "more like friends".
In the aftermath of the split, she jetted off on a girls' holiday with pal Ferne and was seen in Marbella cosying up to a mystery man who later confirmed was her partner.
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Overwatch 2 announced: New heroes, co-op story missions, and more
by Andy ChalkBlizzard finally made it official today during the BlizzCon opening ceremonies: Overwatch 2 is on the way.
Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan surprised the crowd with word that the new game will be playable at BlizzCon. In fact, the logos for the Overwatch PCs set up at the show all flipped over to the Overwatch 2 logo after the announcement—a very nice touch.
The new game will maintain all of the original heroes, maps, and modes, and will also feature a new 6v6 PvP mode called Push, in which two teams will race to make a robot push the map's objective to their opponent's. It will be available in Casual and Competitive modes, and will also be played in the Overwatch League.
But it will also feature "a ton of PvE content," including "a complete story experience," Kaplan said on stage. In Story Missions, players will take on the roles of Overwatch team members in four-player co-op missions against Omnic forces and "rising new threats around the globe." Hero Missions will offer a different type of co-op experience that will enable players to level up their characters and earn customization options that enable powerful new abilities, like changing Reinhardt's Fire Strike to ignite nearby enemies, or adding a chain reaction effect to Tracer's Pulse Bomb.
Unsurprisingly, Overwatch 2 will also see significant engine upgrades that will enable larger maps for co-op, as well as new enemies and factions, and even greater visual fidelity.
Take a look at some gameplay:
"Why a sequel? What does that mean to me as a player of the original game? Well, we thought about it, and for us as gamers, sequels make us nervous. So what we're hoping to do with Overwatch 2 is really redefine what a sequel means. I think some explanation is in order right now," Kaplan said on stage.
"For all original players of the current Overwatch game, you will get to play on all of the same maps as Overwatch 2 players, including all the brand new maps that are coming to Overwatch 2, and you'll get to play with all of the same heroes as Overwatch 2 players. It will be a shared multiplayer environment where no one gets left behind... We want to make sure that all Overwatch cosmetics come forward with you into Overwatch 2, so all your progress matters. Nothing lets left behind."
We'll update with more details about the new Overwatch as they become available: Kaplan said that a closer look at what's coming next will be shared tomorrow. Follow along with all our BlizzCon 2019 cover here, and check out some images down below.


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Amber Brown (HawkOwl) is a freelance software developer and the release manager of the Twisted project. She’s known for her Python 3 porting drives and modernisation of the Twisted codebase. She is a frequent speaker, keynoting DjangoCon AU ’15, PyCon CZ ’15, and speaking at PyCon Australia and Django Under The Hood.
Web frameworks like Django are designed around the traditional request-response cycle — a request comes in, a response is generated, and that is delivered to the client. In the day of “single page” applications, where only sections of the page are updated through requests, doing real-time can be clunky. Twisted, and things that build off it, like Django Channels, might be the way forward. What problems does this fix? How does this make the user experience better? What new issues arise when you're doing everything asynchronously? And how will this change in the future? are all topics we'll get in to.
Audrey Tang, a civic hacker who grew up among Tiananmen exiles, is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.
In the public sector, Audrey serves on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project.
In the private sector, Audrey works as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.
In the third sector, Audrey actively contributes to Taiwan’s g0v (“gov-zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government”.
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Jim Huang, CTO of South Star Xelerator, is now building open source based commercial solutions for information infrastructure and robotics. After involved in Android Open Source Project, Jim specialises in real-time and computation optimizations to construct Linux based robots fitting for the industrial requirements. In addition, Jim teaches system software programming in National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
系統軟體一般指編譯器、作業系統、虛擬機器，動態二進位轉換/編譯器一類所謂「比較硬」的軟體技術，往往需要搭配計算機架構 / 平行計算 / 網路架構 / GPU 等背景知識的熟稔，開發者必須破除典型以計算為主的思維，在系統層面觀察實際資料的流動，佐以軟硬體綜合規劃的方式去分析系統運作，從而改善效能。講者這四年在大學任教，就是帶著學生理解各式系統軟體，不乏「自幹」前述元件作為基礎訓練，過程中透過 Python 縮減系統驗證、自動化設計，以及視覺化的成本，希望藉由本議程分享相關經驗。
Paul Hildebrandt has been a Senior Engineer with Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) since 1996, and has worked in both Systems and Software engineering. His current title is Senior Software Engineer and Product Owner for the Playback tools among his primary duties is spending time working with the artists, understanding their needs, and designing tools to assist them. If he is lucky, he gets to write code.
Hildebrandt leads a team that is responsible for developing the digital asset manager, media player, dailies review system with a mobile interface, and other related tools. These tools are available on a variety of platforms including Linux, Mac, iOS, and Android. Among the Disney animated films that he has contributed are Zootopia, the Oscar® winning hits Big Hero 6, Frozen and Oscar®-nominated box office hits, Wreck-It Ralph, Tangled, Bolt, Treasure Planet, and Dinosaur. He is WDAS’ evangelist for PyCon and other Python sponsorships.
Prior to joining Disney, Hildebrandt spent eight years with Hughes Aircraft as a Senior Engineer working on commercial in-flight entertainment for airlines and the Stealth Bomber trainers. He also served as the electrical lead for a team that raced a solar car across Australia in the 1990 World Solar Challenge. The team finished in the top third.
Hildebrandt was born and raised in Anaheim, California. He received his BSEE with a focus on Computing from California Polytechnic University Pomona. He resides outside of Los Angeles with his wife and three boys.
Paul will take you through the process of making of a Disney movie. He will use examples from Zootopia to explain and illustrate the steps in making a movie and explain where technology, specifically Python, is involved.
The Walt Disney Animation Studios has a long history of creating acclaimed animated films and continues to be an industry leader with regards to artistic achievements, storytelling excellence, and cutting-edge innovations. Since the 1923 release of Snow White they’ve been pushing forward technology in the art of movie making. This push continues in the modern day with classics such as Oscar winning box office hits "Big Hero 6" and “Frozen” and Oscar nominated hits “Wreck-It Ralph”, “Tangled”, “Bolt”, “Treasure Planet”, and “Dinosaur”.
One of the most common questions we get when attending PyCon is “Why are you here?” People seem confused that technology, especially Python is used in the making of animated films.
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Steve is an engineer who tells people about Python and then gives them excuses to use it and great tools to use it with. He works on Python Tools for Visual Studio, contributes to many of Microsoft’s Python libraries, and is a core contributor and Windows expert for CPython.
He now works as a software engineer at Microsoft.
Do you know how to talk? Do you know how to write? Good! Those are how you tell people about your ideas, whether online, at conferences, in printed media, or in code. But when you talk or write, are you thinking about why? Are you intentional about your message, your medium, and your meaning? In this session, Steve will explore some of the things to think about whenever you sit down to write, stand up to speak, or open your laptop to code. Not everyone will be a better speaker or writer by the end, but you will be able to be a more intentional communicator.


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Given k populations (can be in thousands), what is the probability that a given subset of size t contains the true top t populations? This package finds this probability and offers three tuning parameters (G, d, L) to relax the definition.
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Recipe 2.9. Reading Data from zip FilesCredit: Paul Prescod, Alex Martelli ProblemYou want to directly examine some or all of the files contained in an archive in zip format, without expanding them on disk. Solutionzip files are a popular, cross-platform way of archiving files. The Python Standard Library comes with a zipfile module to access such files easily: import zipfile z = zipfile.ZipFile("zipfile.zip", "r") for filename in z.namelist( ): print 'File:', filename, bytes = z.read(filename) print 'has', len(bytes), 'bytes' DiscussionPython can work directly with data in zip files. You can look at the list of items in the archive's directory and work with the "data file"s themselves. This recipe is a snippet that lists all of the names and content lengths of the files included in the zip archive zipfile.zip. The zipfile module does not currently handle multidisk zip files nor zip files with appended comments. Take care to use r as the flag argument, not rb, which might seem more natural (e.g., on Windows). With ZipFile, the flag is not used the same way when opening a file, and rb is not recognized. The r flag handles the inherently binary nature of all zip files on all platforms. When a zip file contains some Python modules (meaning .py or preferably .pyc files), possibly in addition to other (data) files, you can add the file's path to Python's sys.path and then use the import statement to import modules from the zip file. Here's a toy, self-contained, purely demonstrative example that creates such a zip file on the fly, imports a module from it, then removes itall just to show you how it's done: import zipfile, tempfile, os, sys handle, filename = tempfile.mkstemp('.zip') os.close(handle) z = zipfile.ZipFile(filename, 'w') z.writestr('hello.py', 'def f( ): return "hello world from "+_ _file_ _\n') z.close( ) sys.path.insert(0, filename) import hello print hello.f( ) os.unlink(filename) Running this script emits something like: hello world from /tmp/tmpESVzeY.zip/hello.py Besides illustrating Python's ability to import from a zip file, this snippet also shows how to make (and later remove) a temporary file, and how to use the writestr method to add a member to a zip file without placing that member into a disk file first. Note that the path to the zip file from which you import is treated somewhat like a directory. (In this specific example run, that path is /tmp/tmpESVzeY.zip, but of course, since we're dealing with a temporary file, the exact value of the path can change at each run, depending also on your platform.) In particular, the _ _file_ _ global variable, within the module hello, which is imported from the zip file, has a value of /tmp/tmpESVzeY.zip/hello.pya pseudo-path, made up of the zip file's path seen as a "directory" followed by the relative path of hello.py within the zip file. If you import from a zip file a module that computes paths relative to itself in order to get to data files, you need to adapt the module to this effect, because you cannot just open such a "pseudo-path" to get a file object: rather, to read or write files inside a zip file, you must use functions from standard library module zipfile, as shown in the solution. For more information about importing modules from a zip file, see Recipe 16.12. While that recipe is Unix-specific, the information in the recipe's Discussion about importing from zip files is also valid for Windows. See AlsoDocumentation for the zipfile module in the Library Reference and Python in a Nutshell; modules tempfile, os, sys; for archiving a tree of files, see Recipe 2.11; for more information about importing modules from a zip file, Recipe 16.12. |


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Letters to the editor Nov. 19
by Reader LettersLetters to the editor — Roy, Presseau, Asmuss, Coates, Parenteau
Climate change no longer a problem
At last, climate change will no longer be a problem. No more preoccupied mass hysteria from the doomsday sayers.
Why? Once Trudeau has completely decimated the Canadian economy with disastrous agricultural trade missions and disastrous resource sector policies and insurmountable debt through deficit budgeting, our only preoccupation will be trying to afford the very basic necessities of life.
Robert A. Roy
Saskatoon
The West must work with our government
Most people and especially politicians know that negatives win votes.
For a number of months prior to the election, negatives were spewed. It worked so well that the West voted one way, but failed to send any representatives to Ottawa, nor to elect the leader to be prime minister.
Now the West wants Ottawa to work for them, to achieve what they want.
Shouldn’t that be that the West works with Ottawa?
In any case, it is hoped that success will be achieved in whatever is demanded.
John Presseau
Saskatoon
Debates intended to be fairly represented
It has been brought to our attention that an Oct. 8 article in The StarPhoenix (Liberal, NDP candidates unhappy about Conservative skipping debates) states that Corey Tochor did not attend the 100 Debates on the Environment event in Saskatoon-University on Oct. 3, locally organized by the Saskatchewan Environmental Society, because “the organizers of the environment debate had endorsed candidates, making it a ‘foregone conclusion.’ ”
For the record, the Saskatchewan Environmental Society did not endorse any candidates. The event’s national partner, GreenPac, did endorse 16 candidates including some Conservatives, but none in the Saskatoon-University riding.
We sent repeated invitations to Mr. Tochor for the debate, clearly indicating that it was planned as a non-partisan event. Mr. Tochor did not respond to any of our invitations, nor did he indicate that he had scheduling conflicts on the evening of the event or that he had concerns about the event.
It is unfortunate that he did not participate in the debate. It was well attended, the audience was very respectful and all candidates had equal opportunities to state their positions.
Margret Asmuss, President, Saskatchewan Environmental Society
Prud’homme
City of Saskatoon flag poles
Let’s just get rid of the flag poles. And, sooner would be better than later, before there is another new department with numerous new people hired at city hall to deal with the issue of which flag is deemed suitable and which is not.
There are more serious issues to be dealt with by our city than flags.
Olga E. Coates
Saskatoon
Political statement negates claim
In the Nov. 4 StarPhoenix, Sean Polreis states that The StarPhoenix is “… no place for political agenda” and in his second paragraph he makes quite the political statement saying, “… a politician I personally did not want as prime minister.”
Sean, that’s quite the “political“ statement you made there.
Don Parenteau
Saskatoon
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Sinogram Synthesis using Deep learning for Sparse CT Reconstruction
Swapnil Vekhande Fall 2018 ECE 5554 Computer Vision: Class Project Virginia Tech
Abstract
Computed tomography (CT) is a widely used medical imaging modality for showing anatomical structures such as lung and bones. But, the radiation dose could pose dangers of cancer to the patient.
However, reducing radiation dose is inevitably leads to increased Signal-to-Noise ratio(SNR) causing misdiagnosis in CT images.
In this project I propose Deep Learning to process Sparse CT projection data while preserving adequate image quality which could aid reducing radiation dose in CT imaging.
Teaser figure
Introduction
Concerns about radiation dose with CT examination has also been increasing due to potential risk of cancers. Researchers are trying to preserve the quality of images with low dose. Analytical interpolation methods used for this have inherent limitation. On the other hand, neural networks are known for learning the distribution of grey scale intensities in image. Therefore, Effective interpolation of Sparse CT projection data while preserving adequate image quality could be achieve for CT imaging using UNET.
Here, I have developed 2D Unet as well as 3D Unet for reconstruction of sparse up-sampled Sinograms. The 3D architecture is shared in Figure 2. In 2D Unet I am trying to get the local linear interpolation for various image patches of size 48 * 48.
Approach
Analytical interpolation currently used in Medical Imaging is prone to errors. Recently Deep Learning based methods have shown lot of promise in interpolating the missing data [1]. In this project, we are applying state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network models to reconstruct full-view Sinogram from limited projection data. This is classical ill-posed inverse problem in imaging. We will be using FBP for final image reconstruction. We will be using Titan X GPU for accelerated processing of Tensorflow or Keras libraries.
Experiments and results
We have this facility in the X-ray Systems lab of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department. We have the data gathered using the Xradia for various body parts.
There are 1500 projections at various resolutions from -90 degrees to +90 degree. The projection data is first normalized and sinograms are created. The normalized data will be used for training the neural network. We plan to minimize loss functions like root mean square error. Once the model is trained we will test the model on sparse data which has missing projection data. The network is supposed to accurately predict the missing data. The final results will be compared with analytical interpolation methods as well as with the ground truth
Training data was sparse up-sampled linearly interpolated sinogram as shown below.
Validation set is as follows:-
Qualitative results
RMSE for output Sinogram is 0.3261437607563291.
Images are noise free so Correlation coefficient is same as SNR=0.84917601
The loss functions L2-norm ans structural similarity behaved as follows:-
Conclusion and Future Work
I am still trying to rectify the results for UNet 3D. At the same time I am working to get the 2D Unet patch predictions correct. I will continue working on the same over the next semester.


When you've given up on human companionship but you're not ready to give up the fun of a dating app, you need PetSpiration!
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Happy times for Kerry Lee at Cheltenham as Diva strikes Gold
by Sporting LifeHappy Diva made up for being brought down in the same race last year by winning the BetVictor Gold Cup at Cheltenham for Kerry Lee.
The mare was travelling well when brought down four out last year but she didn't suffer such misfortune this time around under Richard Patrick.
As the field dropped away one by one in testing conditions, Happy Diva travelled strongly into contention and jumped the last well to put herself in pole position.
Brelan D'As and Slate House emerged as major threats at the last, though, and while the latter fell when in contention the former laid down a stern challenge.
However, Happy Diva wasn't for passing up the hill and she held on to win by a neck from Brelan D'As.
There were eight lengths back to long-time front-runner Warthog in third, with Belami Des Pictons fourth.
Magic Saint and Count Merible were fifth and sixth.
Lee said: "They are the most fantastic, loyal owners (Will Roseff and family) and it means so much to come and win on the big day for them. When they have a good day, they celebrate and when they have a bad one, they say there is always another one.
"Richard has ridden her through her entire chase career and he rides her a home at lot. Jordan Devlin has done all the work on her and we knew she would come on for Wetherby, but we didn't think she would come on quite this much.
"With a circuit to go, I thought Richard had her absolutely perfectly positioned and I couldn't have been happier to be honest.
"You don't get too carried away with a horse like that as you know what is round the corner sometimes.
"Richard has been with me three years now. He came on as a conditional and he is a very good, balanced rider and he is excellent on the big stage. Nerves don't matter to him, unlike me.
"We got done in the Grand Annual by a horse owned by Mr (JP) McManus (owner of Brelan D'As) and I was pleased to reverse the placings in that respect. Hopefully he might send me a horse now."
Paul Nicholls was satisfied with the Brelan D'As' effort in second place.
He said: "In my mind I knew he was always going to get the trip. It was a really good run and I'm thrilled with him."


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Wrapper class for resource bundles. Property files are used to store resource strings, which are the only types of resources available. Property files can inherit properties from other files so that a base property file can be used and a small number of properties can be over-ridden by another property file. For example you may create an english version of a resource file named "resource.properties". You then decide that the British English version of all of the properties except one are the same, so there is no need to redefine all of the properties in "resource_en_GB", just the one that is different.
The basename is the name of the property file without the ".properties" extension.
Properties will be cached for performance.
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found/loaded.public static ProjectResourceBundle getBundle(java.lang.String projectName, java.lang.Class caller, java.lang.String resourceName, java.util.Locale locale) throws java.util.MissingResourceException
projectName
- The name of the project to which the class belongs.
It must be a proper prefix of the caller's package.caller
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This is used to get the package name to further construct
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projectName
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java.util.MissingResourceException
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projectName
- The name of the project to which the class belongs.
It must be a proper prefix of the caller's package.caller
- The calling class.
This is used to get the package name to further construct
the basename as well as to get the proper ClassLoader.resourceName
- The name of the resource without the
".properties" extensionlocale
- The localeextendsBundle
- If non-null, then this ExtendMessages will
default to extendsBundle.
java.util.MissingResourceException
- if projectName is not a prefix of
the caller's package name, or if the resource could not be
found/loaded.public static ProjectResourceBundle getBundle(java.lang.String projectName, java.lang.String packageName, java.lang.String resourceName, java.util.Locale locale, java.lang.ClassLoader loader, java.util.ResourceBundle extendsBundle) throws java.util.MissingResourceException
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The normal curve, used by us as an approximation to discrete distributions, can be thought of as a distribution in its own right provided we allow the possible values to be the entire real line. In this chapter we will develop methods for working with random variables whose possible values are an interval of numbers.
The interval of possible values might be finite or infinite, but even a finite interval has uncountably many numbers in it. So we will use calculus to find probabilities and expectations. You will see that almost all the results we developed for discrete distributions have continuous analogs.
It is worth noting that not all distributions fall neatly into the two categories "discrete" and "continuous". Some are a bit of both. We will see examples of such distributions later in the course. For now, we will focus on the continuous case.


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[2]
the hitachi should be able to do 99 % of what i did with my dewalt .


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Hi there
I have been quite busy these days, between Akademy and everything. So thought about writing a small blog entry with the status of the projects where I'm involved:
KBluetooth:
I'm sorry guys to announce it in that way, but KBluetooth is almost dead. I'll release a new version (0.5) trying to fix all the crashes we're having, and it will be everything from my part. I hope to release that version withing this week.
Kamoso:
We have ported kamoso to vlc1.1 (you can get the code from the proper branch), and it is working quite well. I'd like to release a new (last) stable version which won't crash when the application is closed. After it we'll concentrate our efforts in stabilizing the new code, getting it too work perfect with vlc 1.1.1.
KTuberling:
I did almost nothing for 4.5, but I'm planning to do some maintainer work for 4.6, closing bugs (yees! the pepperoni bug too), and I'll try to remove the "blinking", but I don't know how (yet) :p
BlueDevil:
Well, tonight (in 8/10 hours) you'll have news about this one :)
NetworkManager:
Yay! I'm planning to join the group of crazy developers that works on NetworkManager+KDE, the first task I'll try to accomplish is the removal of Solid::Control, for now, I'm reading code code and more code, and I'll do that until I'm able to paint a "virtual map" of what is currently implemented. I don't have a date for that.
See you in 8/10 hours with a surprise (a known one :p)
Cyap!


Creates a scoped value for the specified name, which must be a variable name. If the name is an instance variable, then the scope command returns a string of the following form:
@itcl object varName
If the name is not an instance variable, then it must be a common variable or a global variable. In that case, the scope command returns the fully qualified name of the variable, e.g., ::foo::bar::x.
If the name is not recognized as a variable, the scope command returns an error.
Ordinary variable names refer to variables in the global namespace. A scoped value captures a variable name together with its namespace context in a way that allows it to be referenced properly later. It is needed, for example, to wrap up variable names when a Tk widget is used within a namespace:
namespace foo { private variable mode 1 radiobutton .rb1 -text "Mode #1" -variable [scope mode] -value 1 pack .rb1 radiobutton .rb2 -text "Mode #2" -variable [scope mode] -value 2 pack .rb2 }
You should never use the @itcl syntax directly. For example, it is a bad idea to write code like this:
set {@itcl ::fred x} 3 puts "value = ${@itcl ::fred x}"


Co-Founder & Lead Developer
Hello, World! I am Rounak Singh, a student & Co-Founder of null. I have a deep passion for developing great apps that are useful for my users.
Co-Founder & Lead Developer
Hello, World! I am Somnath Mishra, a student & Co-Founder of null. I have a deep passion for developing great apps that are useful for my users.


You can install the released version of mkac from Github with:
library(tidyverse)
#> ── Attaching packages ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.2.1 ──
#> ✔ ggplot2 3.1.1 ✔ purrr 0.3.2
#> ✔ tibble 2.1.1 ✔ dplyr <IP_ADDRESS>
#> ✔ tidyr <IP_ADDRESS>00 ✔ stringr 1.4.0
#> ✔ readr 1.3.1 ✔ forcats 0.3.0
#> ── Conflicts ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
#> ✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
#> ✖ dplyr::lag() masks stats::lag()
library(mkac)
This package facilitates the investigation of two basic problems in the analysis of data collected over time:
The first question is attacked using the Mann-Kendall correlation, which is the Kendall correlation where the \(x\)-variable is time. This is a non-parametric correlation that does not assume linearity and is not damaged by outliers. See this Wikipedia page for details. It will thus detect non-linear but monotonic trends.
The Mann-Kendall correlation is based on the idea of “concordant” and “discordant” pairs. Suppose the variable measured over time is called y, and consider two values of y measured at different time points:
The names reflect whether or not the pair of observations is in the same order as time; a concordant pair shows an “uphill” trend, and a discordant pair a “downhill” trend:
The Mann-Kendall correlation is then obtained by considering all possible pairs of observations, and counting up the total number of concordant and discordant ones. The difference concordant minus discordant is then scaled to lie between -1 and 1. There are n(n-1)/2 pairs of observations, and an outlier only contributes only n-1 concordances or discordances to the total, no matter how much of an outlier it is, so outliers can have only limited influence on the Mann-Kendall correlation.
If the values of y are independent, there is standard theory that enables us to test the null hypothesis that the Mann-Kendall correlation is zero. However, data that are collected over time are often autocorrelated. Hamed and Rao obtain an approximation to the P-value of the Mann-Kendall test that applies when the observations are autocorrelated. The common case is of positive autocorrelation (when one value of y is high, the next value is more likely also to be high); the P-value for independent data is then too low and thus overstates the significance of the time trend. The Hamed-Rao adjustment is implemented in this package.
Consider world mean temperatures by year:
my_url="http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~butler/d29/temperature.csv"
temp=read_csv(my_url)
#> Warning: Missing column names filled in: 'X1' [1]
#> Parsed with column specification:
#> cols(
#> X1 = col_double(),
#> Year = col_date(format = ""),
#> temperature = col_double(),
#> year = col_double()
#> )
temp
#> # A tibble: 131 x 4
#> X1 Year temperature year
#> <dbl> <date> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 1 1880-12-31 13.7 1880
#> 2 2 1881-12-31 13.8 1881
#> 3 3 1882-12-31 13.7 1882
#> 4 4 1883-12-31 13.7 1883
#> 5 5 1884-12-31 13.7 1884
#> 6 6 1885-12-31 13.7 1885
#> 7 7 1886-12-31 13.7 1886
#> 8 8 1887-12-31 13.6 1887
#> 9 9 1888-12-31 13.7 1888
#> 10 10 1889-12-31 13.8 1889
#> # … with 121 more rows
ggplot(temp, aes(x=year, y=temperature)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth()
#> `geom_smooth()` using method = 'loess' and formula 'y ~ x'
This appears to show an upward trend, but with a lot of variability. Is that statistically significant?
kendall_Z_adjusted(temp$temperature)
#> $z
#> [1] 11.77267
#>
#> $z_star
#> [1] 4.475666
#>
#> $ratio
#> [1] 6.918858
#>
#> $P_value
#> [1] 0
#>
#> $P_value_adj
#> [1] 7.617357e-06
This says, for testing that the Mann-Kendall correlation is zero:
Because the temperatures are positively autocorrelated, the trend is strongly significant, but not as significant as it would be if the temperatures had been independent. I recommend using the adjusted P-value, but also looking at the effective sample size to see whether adjusting for autocorrelation actually made any difference.
Having found a significant trend, the next question is “how big is it”? This can be answered by looking at the Theil-Sen slope. This assumes linearity (which should be checked for reasonableness), but is not affected by outliers.
The pairwise slope between two observations is the difference in their values of y divided by the difference in time between them. Each pair of points has a pairwise slope, and the Theil-Sen slope is the median of all possible pairwise slopes. Thus an outlier observation has no influence on the Theil-Sen slope (it can affect n-1 of the n(n-1)/2 pairwise slopes, but even if it does, it will not affect the median of them at all).
The world mean temperatures do not have a linear trend, but the Theil-Sen slope will give us some kind of average rate of change:
The trend appears to be approximately linear up to about 1970, and approximately linear after that, but with a steeper trend. We might calculate and compare two separate Theil-Sen slopes, thus:
temp %>% mutate(time_period=ifelse(year<=1970, "pre-1970", "post-1970")) %>%
nest(-time_period) %>%
mutate(theil_sen=map_dbl(data, ~theil_sen_slope(.$temperature)))
#> # A tibble: 2 x 3
#> time_period data theil_sen
#> <chr> <list> <dbl>
#> 1 pre-1970 <tibble [91 × 4]> 0.00429
#> 2 post-1970 <tibble [40 × 4]> 0.0168
Theil-Sen slope is very nearly four times as big since 1970 vs. before, and even then, appears to be increasing with time.


Google
It is designed to make searching easy, and that's what it does. No distraction there, just Google logo in the middle of the page and the search input. If you need more google apps, there are links located in top right corner.
Lifehacker
Lifehacker is trying to show users a lot of interesting articules and make it easy to discover related stories. I like the stories, but I always get lost if I want to find something on Lifehacker.
Arstechnica
ArsTechnica presents the recent stories from the world of tech and science and in my opinion it is presented in a very nice and clear way.


Find info and technology surrounding the MTC Clipper Card here.
Find Out MoreClipperCardDevs is an informal group of developers gathering around resources and technologies to improve usage of the MTC Clipper Card. We are unofficial (NOT endorsed by MTC nor clippercard.com) but enthusiastic about making the lives of transit users easier.
Visit our Github Org!We aim to collect current technology to make development around the Clipper card easier.
We aim to communicate with MTC and lobby for pro-tech changes to policy and usage.
We aim to assist developers looking to integrate Clipper data into their applications.
We aim to release all our work open source. Visit our Github Org to take a look.
Feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns.


ABC
Grey Effect
Sepia Effect
Saturate Effect
Hue-Rotate
Invert
Opacity
Brightness
Contrast
Blur
drop-shadow


#include <ControlCenter.h>
ControlCenter is a class which aims to centralize all the main logic of this app. An instance of this class is required in order to work with the functionality of class Table in the most user friendly way
This class can execute a command based on a provided string - executeCommand
◆ ControlCenter()
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| bool ControlCenter::checkFormat |
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Checks whether a string has acceptable format. For this app, this means to end on '.csv' and have non-empty filename
- Parameters
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- Returns
- whether the file is from valid format or not
◆ closeFile()
| void ControlCenter::closeFile |
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Similar to other text editor's close file functionality, this method also:
- checks whether there's actually a file to be closed
- remind the user to save if it means that they would lose local changes otherwise - confirmAction
- Exceptions
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| invalid_argument | unsupported file format |
- Parameters
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| path | or filename of the file to be created |
◆ confirmAction()
| bool ControlCenter::confirmAction |
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no |
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Makes the user to confirm its most recent action. Usually used to warn the user that their action might have result, which does not satisfy the user themselves.
- Parameters
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| 2 | char parameters which should be considered as yes and no respectively |
◆ createEmptyFile()
| void ControlCenter::createEmptyFile |
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const std::string & |
filename | ) |
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private |
Creates an empty file with preset path or filename. Also warns the user if file with such a path or filename exists.
- Exceptions
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| invalid_argument | unsupported file format |
- Parameters
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| path | or filename of the file to be created |
◆ executeCommand()
| const std::string ControlCenter::executeCommand |
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const std::string & |
commandLine | ) |
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Given a command, this function tries to execute it. 3 Possible outcomes:
- command execution was successful, but had no purpose of giving feedback, so it returns empty string
- command execution was successful and it gives a feedback or displayable information related with the executed command
- command execution was not successful, so it throws an exception any or does not catch any thrown exception
- Exceptions
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| invalid_argument | Thrown to signal that the request failed |
◆ fileExist()
| bool ControlCenter::fileExist |
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const std::string & |
filename | ) |
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private |
Checks whether a file exist by providing its relative or absolute location
- Parameters
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- Returns
- whether the file exists or not
◆ loadFromFile()
| void ControlCenter::loadFromFile |
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const std::string & |
filename | ) |
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private |
Reads table cell values from csv file, where every rows means new table row and every comma means start of a new column. The information is saved into a local instance of class Table in this class
- Exceptions
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| invalid_argument | unsupported file format |
| invalid_argument | file not found |
| invalid_argument | process was interrupted, leading to it being unsuccessful |
- Parameters
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| path | or filename of the file to be created |
◆ saveToFile()
| void ControlCenter::saveToFile |
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const std::string & |
filename | ) |
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private |
Saves the current state of local instance of class Table to a file of wanted path or filename, where before processing to action, checks whether file with such a path or filename exists and if it does, informs the user and waits for its confirmation or disallowing of continuing the process.
- Exceptions
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| invalid_argument | unsupported file format |
| invalid_argument | Unexpected error while processing to write into the file. |
- Parameters
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| path | or filename of the file to be created |
◆ splitWithQuotes()
| std::vector< std::string > ControlCenter::splitWithQuotes |
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const std::string & |
commandLine | ) |
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private |
Given a string, this method splits it by whitespace where
- Quotes indicate that anything inside them should be considered as a whole. Does not include the quotes themselves.
- many white spaces in a sequence still count as one separator white space
- Exceptions
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| invalid_argument | Thrown whenever an invalid command is provided. This includes:
- Unsupported and unknown command
- Command with wrong count of arguments after it
- Odd count of quotes
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◆ stringToUpper()
| void ControlCenter::stringToUpper |
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std::string & |
str | ) |
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private |
Given a string, changes all lower case English chars inside into upper case
- Parameters
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| string | to be turned into upper case |
◆ currentTable
| Table ControlCenter::currentTable |
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private |
Holds an instance of class Table. All commands are based on the provided functionality by this object.
◆ filePath_
| std::string ControlCenter::filePath_ |
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private |
Holds the path to the last opened file
◆ upToDate
| bool ControlCenter::upToDate |
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private |
If a fail is opened, this variable checks whether local changes have been made without save
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Armadeddon (12) - UK Review
Following in the footsteps of Deep Impact, Armageddon is a high octane action story about a huge asteroid on a collision course with earth. A plan is devised to drill nuclear bombs into it's core and then remotely detonate them to destroy it. A team of the best oil drillers is formed (led by Bruce Willis) and trained for spaceflight, all in twelve days.  This motley crew, believe it or not are mankind's only hope.
Armageddon does not hang about in any way. Dizzying and spectacular action scenes bombard you right from the start. The opening scene of a meteor shower wrecking buildings and streets is something else. In true Bruckheimer fashion, this film is a pyromaniac's dream.
The acting all round is very good. Bruce Willis gives his very usual but very watchable performance and Steve Buscemi has all the best lines and provides some top comic relief.
However, on the downside, Armageddon is let down by being completely ludicrous. Deep sea oil drillers/social misfits become astronauts? Yeah, right. As you may have gathered, switching off the brain before you go into the theater will enhance your enjoyment a great deal as there are many scenes that are just too daft for words. Also it's very, very cheesy and some of us brits may find the over the top, patriotic ending hard to swallow.
Putting these criticisms aside, Armageddon still manages to be a thrilling film. The Bruckheimer formula of terrific action accompanied by pulse racing music should certainly win you over. To sum up, I felt Armageddon to be very similar to Independence Day. Utter cobblers but very thrilling cobblers.
8/10 Review by Chris Hill.
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- Login with email
- Login as guest
- Two factor authentication
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I've setup a basic dummy gmail account, but it may not work at some point
open docker-compose.yml find contact: (around line 113)
if using gmail be sure to set Allow access to less secure apps
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Features
- Multiple languages
- Registration as email
- Registration as guest
- Login with email
- Login as guest
- Two factor authentication
- Captcha
I've setup a basic dummy gmail account, but it may not work at some point
open docker-compose.yml find contact: (around line 113)
if using gmail be sure to set Allow access to less secure apps
open docker-compose.yml find contact: (around line 113)
if using gmail be sure to set Allow access to less secure apps
-<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- EMAIL_PASSWORD=somesecretpassword
- EMAIL_SERVER=smtp.gmail.com
- EMAIL_PORT=465


XtForm introduces the concept of a "validation strategy" which defines when to show/hide validation messages to the user. An example of a strategy could be "when the element is dirty and focused". Strategies remove this logic from the view itself allowing the framework to decide when to show/hide messages.
XtForm provides a few commonly used strategies out of the box.
| Strategy | |
|---|---|
| submitted | Only if form has been submitted |
| dirty | Only if the element in dirty |
| dirtyOrSubmitted | Only if the element is dirty or form submitted |
| focusedAndDirtyOrSubmitted | Both focused and (dirty or submitted) |
| dirtyAndFocusedOrSubmitted | Both (dirty and focused) or submitted |
There are configuration methods for creating custom strategies
angular.module('sample').config(function (xtFormConfigProvider) {
// Add custom validation strategy
xtFormConfigProvider.addValidationStrategy('customStrategy', function (form, ngModel) {
return ngModel.$invalid && (form.$submitted || ngModel.$dirty);
});
});
<form strategy="customStrategy">
...
</form>
// Set as default for all forms
angular.module('sample').config(function (xtFormConfigProvider) {
// Add custom validation strategy
xtFormConfigProvider.setDefaultValidationStrategy('customStrategy');
});


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