AP Top News at 11 p.m. EDT
Thursday, April 20, 2000
100,000 Rally for Elian in Havana
HAVANA (AP) -- About 100,000 chanting, flag-waving government supporters
massed today in front of the U.S. mission, venting anger at a U.N. human rights
censure and at delays in the return of Elian Gonzalez. The enormous crowd,
called to the protest by the government, spilled out along Havana's waterfront,
from a newly erected protest stage outside the U.S. Interests Section. President
Clinton said today that the boy should be promptly reunited with his father, now
that a federal court has ruled that Elian must stay in the United States until
the court decides whether he should get an asylum hearing. A hearing was set for
May 11.
Document: S.Korea Executed 2,000
DOKCHON, South Korea (AP) -- According to declassified U.S. military
documents and witnesses, South Korean soldiers and police, observed at times by
U.S. Army officers, executed more than 2,000 political prisoners without trial
in the early weeks of the Korean War. Supreme commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur
became aware of at least one of the mass shootings, according to documents
originally classified ''top secret.'' The new information, detailed in reporting
by The Associated Press and a Korean researcher, substantiates what some
historians have long believed: Large numbers of South Korean leftists arrested
by the right-wing regime were secretly killed.
Service Marks Columbine Anniversary
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- Coloradans fell silent while a church bell tolled 13
times in memory of the first anniversary of the nation's deadliest school
shooting. The bell tolled 13 times at 11:21 a.m. today, the precise moment two
teen-agers opened fire in Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. At private
ceremonies and public remembrances all day and into the night today, students,
staff, survivors and strangers came together to mark the moment that Dylan
Klebold and Eric Harris began the bloodbath, killing 12 students and a teacher
and wounding 26 before taking their own lives.
Ex-Cops Sentenced in Alcohol Killing
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Six former Mexico City policemen convicted of the robbery
and murder by alcohol poisoning of an American student have been sentenced to up
to 98 years in prison. Frederick McPhail, 27, was found in his parked car
Chapultepec Park in Mexico City in November 1998. For their roles in the death,
Francisco Leon Gonzalez received 99 years in prison and Lucio Tapia Galindo
received 85 years, the daily newspaper Reforma reported Thursday. The two were
active police officers at the time of the crime. Three accomplices received
sentences of 79 years, while a fourth received 68 years, Reforma said.
Survey: Overweight Need More Exercise
ATLANTA (AP) -- The vast majority of overweight adults trying to shed pounds
aren't getting enough exercise, the government said today. A 1998 national
survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 53.8 percent
of American adults reported being overweight and that half of them were trying
to lose weight. Most of those trying to lose weight -- 62.7 percent -- were
exercising, but only 28 percent said they exercised 30 minutes a day at least
five days a week, the minimum government recommendation.


configuration now does not have a default value.
Therefore, it was removed from section § 5.4 Default
Value Definitions.
forms
, the expectation for Consumers and Things in
handling the operation type
writeallproperties
is clarified.
saref:TemperatureSensor
to
semantically annotate the Thing with an extension
class.Changes from Third Public Working Draft are described in the Candidate Recommendation
The editors would like to thank Michael Koster, Michael Lagally, Kazuyuki Ashimura, Ege Korkan, Daniel Peintner, Toru Kawaguchi, María Poveda, Dave Raggett, Kunihiko Toumura, Takeshi Yamada, Ben Francis, Manu Sporny, Klaus Hartke, Addison Phillips, Jose M. Cantera, Tomoaki Mizushima, Soumya Kanti Datta and Benjamin Klotz for providing contributions, guidance and expertise.
Also, many thanks to the W3C staff and all other current and former active Participants of the W3C Web of Things Interest Group (WoT IG) and Working Group (WoT WG) for their support, technical input and suggestions that led to improvements to this document.
Finally, special thanks to Joerg Heuer for leading the WoT IG for 2 years from its inception and guiding the group to come up with the concept of WoT building blocks including the Thing Description.


Installation¶
Required dependencies¶
Python (3.8 or later)
Openseespy (3.3 or later)
numpy
xarray
Instructions¶
The easiest way to install is to use python package index pip.
pip install ospgrillage
For users wishing to develop/contribute, install as follows:
git clone https://github.com/MonashSmartStructures/ospgrillage.git
cd ospgrillage
pip setup.py install -e
For users wishing to use jupyter notebook, install as follows:
1. Install virtualenv package using pip: pip install --user virtualenv
1.1 Create virtual env: python -m venv ospg
2. Activate virtual env: ospg\Scripts\activate
3. Install Jupyter lab: python -m pip install jupyterlab
4. Install kernels for linking with jupyter: pip install ipykernel
5. followed by: ipython kernel install --name "opsg" --user
6. Install ospgrillage: pip install ospgrillage
7. And run in the new env: jupyter-lab
The following instructions are for jupyter notebook but with virtual environment created via conda:
1. Create a new environment: conda create --name ospg python=3.9
2. Now activate the new env: conda activate ospg
3. Install jupyter-lab: conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab
4. Install the kernels for linking with jupyter: pip install ipykernel followed by: ipython kernel install --name "opsg" --user
5. Install ospgrillage: pip install ospgrillage
6. And run in the new env: jupyter-lab
Installing dependencies¶
Dependencies are automatically installed when using pip
.
The dependencies can be seen in the setup.cfg file in the project repository.
Tests¶
The module comes with a pytest
protocol for each sub module py
file, which users can run pytest
in the root directory of the module
to tests all modules.
python -m pytest


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The department was formed in the Spring Semester of 2016, and is just getting underway with new initiatives and activities. We work closely with colleagues throughout the library, and will continue expanding and refining our goals over the coming year. For a preview of our planned activities, check out our goals. The DS team includes seven full-time library staff members, student workers, and a connected network of collaborators in the library and around campus. Our primary activities are aimed to support new forms, media and methods through data curation and management, engaging with developing methods, digital humanities, and project-based work, and with new publishing models, especially open access publishing.
The Digital Scholarship Fellowship is a year-long collaborative program for undergraduates that integrates digital tools, theory, and methods. No prior experience is needed to apply--this fellowship is primarily a learning experience for enthusiastic and driven scholars. The eight students selected to become DS fellows will participate in biweekly workshops that run throughout the year, on topics such as web design; project and information management; data analysis; accessibility; and digital tools for text analysis. They will also work together to develop and build a digital scholarship project of their own. At the end of the academic year, each fellow will have the opportunity to participate in a paid summer internship related to digital scholarship in the Philadelphia area.
Read more about the program here...
Organizing, storing, and keeping track of research materials and data is a growing area of concentration in the Digital Scholarship group.
From consultation to collaboration, we will work with you to make decisions about new methods and approaches.
Whether you want to make your previously published materials more discoverable or start your own publication, the Digital Scholarship Team is here to support you in your endeavors.
Laurie likes Philadelphia and mapping and is happy to talk about any idea or project.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Deborah specializes in mapping & GIS. She also works with social science data and is the liaison librarian for Urban Studies. Contact her with questions about mapping and geospatial data.
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Scott specializes in statistical text analysis, machine learning, and data visualization. Contact him with questions about using new technologies and large collections of data for humanities research and teaching.
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<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Kenny manages the operations of ScholarlyCommons, a repository for the scholarly output of researchers at Penn. He specializes in digital publishing and open access. Contact Kenny if you’re interested in contributing to ScholarlyCommons, or if you would like to find out more.
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bemacs passes the whole command line to the Barry's Emacs application for processing.
Barry's Emacs then parses the command line into its component parts, called arguments. Having parsed the command line Barry's Emacs determines the package for the command line. The default package is called emacs. This can be overridden by using the -package switch.
| Windows | Unix | Description |
|---|---|---|
| /package=package-name | -package=package-name | This causes emacs to execute the MLisp command package-name-com. If package-name-com is not yet defined then emacs loads the MLisp module named package-name.mlp. |
Emacs will automatically load a packages definition from an MLisp module named package from the file package.mlp. That module must contain atleast one function definition for the MLisp function package-com.
It is the job of the package to process the command line. Emacs has already parsed the command line into its component parts. Use the following functions to access the components of the command line:
If the package does not use one of these functions then Emacs will call visit-file for each argument that is not a qualifier.
BEmacsServer supports a full command line. BemacsServer can be used directly if required. BEmacsServer supports the following command line options:


Press release
The inspections looked at whether the curriculum was suitably balanced and whether students were prepared for life in modern Britain.
Ofsted has today published its report into Grindon Hall Christian School in Sunderland following an inspection that took place on 26 to 27 November 2014.
The school is judged to require special measures after receiving an inadequate grade for its overall effectiveness as well as for its leadership and management, the behaviour and safety of its pupils and for its sixth form provision. For the quality of teaching, achievement of pupils and its early years provision, the school is judged to require improvement.
Grindon Hall is one of 4 schools in the North East of England that Ofsted inspected at the same time last term. The main focus of these inspections, which followed a direction from the Secretary of State for Education, was to establish whether the curriculum at each of these schools was suitably broad and balanced and whether leaders were ensuring that students were being adequately prepared for life in modern Britain.
In 2 of these schools, Emmanuel College in Gateshead and Bede Academy in Blyth, inspectors found no concerns. The letters following these inspection visits are published on the Ofsted website.
The inspection report for the third school, Durham Free School, was published at the start of this week. This school was also judged to require special measures and judged to be inadequate against every criteria.
In judging Grindon Hall to require special measures, Her Majesty’s Inspectors found school leaders had not acted with sufficient urgency to address weaknesses identified from recent serious safeguarding incidents that took place during the summer term and, as a result, some pupils told inspectors they did not feel safe.
Inspectors found that the curriculum was not adequately preparing pupils for life in modern Britain and that pupils were not being taught to develop appropriate levels of respect or tolerance for those from other faiths and communities.
Since the school was previously inspected in March 2014 and judged to require improvement, inspectors found there had also been a sharp decline in the proportion of students achieving 5 or more GCSEs at A* to C grade including English and mathematics. Children in the primary phase were making poor progress, especially in writing, where progress is amongst the lowest in England at key stage 2. Inspectors also found that leaders had not acted to address the issues identified in the March inspection and were relying too much on an external consultant to write the school improvement plan.
The principal of Grindon Hall has written to Ofsted, copied to the media, to make a number of serious allegations about the conduct of the inspection team and the manner of their questioning of pupils.
These allegations, which were not brought to the attention of Her Majesty’s Inspectors during the course of the inspection, are now subject to Ofsted’s formal complaints procedures and will be thoroughly investigated in accordance with Ofsted’s published policy.
However, it is important to assure the public, parents, pupils and other schools that we have undertaken a detailed examination of the evidence base, interviewed each of the 3 Her Majesty’s Inspectors who carried out the inspection and have held a separate meeting between the principal and Ofsted’s North East Regional Director in respect of these allegations. To date, we have found no evidence to indicate that inspectors failed to act with care and sensitivity and to ask age-appropriate questions when they spoke to pupils, as they are trained to do.
Ofsted is also aware that allegations have been made in the last 48 hours about the conduct of Her Majesty’s Inspectors who inspected Durham Free School and a suggestion that findings on whether pupils were being prepared for life in modern Britain were based on comments made to inspectors by a single pupil. The school did not raise any of these issues with Ofsted at any point either during the inspection visit or during the various moderation and pre-publication stages, despite having had every opportunity to do so. For the record, Ofsted would like to make clear that in reaching their conclusions about the effectiveness of the school’s work in preparing students for life in modern Britain, inspectors considered a wide range of evidence. Discussions with students formed just a part of the evidence that was gathered.
Inspectors found that senior staff at Durham Free School had allowed a culture to develop where it was acceptable for racist words and sexually derogative and homophobic terms to be used. Leaders were failing to properly tackle or challenge this type of language and behaviour.


Package
Command: vagrant package
This packages a currently running VirtualBox environment into a re-usable box. This command cannot be used with any other provider. A future version of Vagrant will address packaging boxes for other providers. Until then, they must be made by hand.
Options
-
--base NAME
- Instead of packaging a VirtualBox machine that Vagrant manages, this will package a VirtualBox machine that VirtualBox manages.NAME
should be the name or UUID of the machine from the VirtualBox GUI. -
--output NAME
- The resulting package will be saved asNAME
. By default, it will be saved aspackage.box
. -
--include x,y,z
- Additional files will be packaged with the box. These can be used by a packaged Vagrantfile (documented below) to perform additional tasks. -
--vagrantfile FILE
- Packages a Vagrantfile with the box, that is loaded as part of the Vagrantfile load order when the resulting box is used.
A common misconception is that the --vagrantfile
option will package a Vagrantfile that is used when vagrant init
is used with this box. This is not the case. Instead, a Vagrantfile is loaded and read as part of the Vagrant load process when the box is used. For more information, read about the Vagrantfile load order.


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HTMLEntities
Summary
Pure Swift HTML encode/decode utility tool for Swift.
Includes support for HTML5 named character references. You can find the list of all 2231 HTML5 named character references here.
HTMLEntities
can escape ALL non-ASCII characters as well as the characters <
, >
, &
, "
, ’
, as these five characters are part of the HTML tag and HTML attribute syntaxes.
In addition, HTMLEntities
can unescape encoded HTML text that contains decimal, hexadecimal, or HTML5 named character references.
API Documentation
API documentation for HTMLEntities
is located here.
Features
- Supports HTML5 named character references (
NegativeMediumSpace;
etc.) - HTML5 spec-compliant; strict parse mode recognizes parse errors
- Supports decimal and hexadecimal escapes for all characters
- Simple to use as functions are added by way of extending the default
String
class - Minimal dependencies; implementation is completely self-contained
Version Info
Latest release of HTMLEntities
requires Swift 4.0 and higher.
Installation
Via Swift Package Manager
Add HTMLEntities
to your Package.swift
:
import PackageDescription
let package = Package(
name: "<package-name>",
...
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/Kitura/swift-html-entities.git", from: "3.0.0")
]
// Also, make sure to add HTMLEntities to your package target's dependencies
)
Via CocoaPods
Add HTMLEntities
to your Podfile
:
target '<project-name>' do
pod 'HTMLEntities', :git => 'https://github.com/Kitura/swift-html-entities.git'
end
Via Carthage
Add HTMLEntities
to your Cartfile
:
github "Kitura/swift-html-entities"
Usage
import HTMLEntities
// encode example
let html = ""
print(html.htmlEscape())
// Prints ""
// decode example
let htmlencoded = ""
print(htmlencoded.htmlUnescape())
// Prints ""
Advanced Options
HTMLEntities
supports various options when escaping and unescaping HTML characters.
Escape Options
allowUnsafeSymbols
Defaults to false
. Specifies if unsafe ASCII characters should be skipped or not.
import HTMLEntities
let html = "
\"café\"
"
print(html.htmlEscape())
// Prints "
"café"
"
print(html.htmlEscape(allowUnsafeSymbols: true))
// Prints "
\"café\"
"
decimal
Defaults to false
. Specifies if decimal character escapes should be used instead of hexadecimal character escapes whenever numeric character escape is used (i.e., does not affect named character references escapes). The use of hexadecimal character escapes is recommended.
import HTMLEntities
let text = "한, 한, ế, ế, 🇺🇸"
print(text.htmlEscape())
// Prints "한, 한, ế, ế, 🇺🇸"
print(text.htmlEscape(decimal: true))
// Prints "한, 한, ế, ế, 🇺🇸"
encodeEverything
Defaults to false
. Specifies if all characters should be escaped, even if some characters are safe.  Specifies if named character references should be used whenever possible. Set to false
to always use numeric character references, i.e., for compatibility with older browsers that do not recognize named character references.
import HTMLEntities
let html = ""
print(html.htmlEscape())
// Prints “”
print(html.htmlEscape(useNamedReferences: true))
// Prints “”
Set Escape Options Globally
HTML escape options can be set globally so that you don’t have to set them everytime you want to escape a string. The options are managed in the String.HTMLEscapeOptions
struct.
import HTMLEntities
// set `useNamedReferences` to `true` globally
String.HTMLEscapeOptions.useNamedReferences = true
let html = ""
// Now, the default behavior of `htmlEscape()` is to use named character references
print(html.htmlEscape())
// Prints “”
// And you can still go back to using numeric character references only
print(html.htmlEscape(useNamedReferences: false))
// Prints ""
Unescape Options
strict
Defaults to false
. Specifies if HTML5 parse errors should be thrown or simply passed over.
Note: htmlUnescape()
is a throwing function if strict
is used in call argument (no matter if it is set to true
or false
); htmlUnescape()
is NOT a throwing function if no argument is provided.
import HTMLEntities
let text = "한"
print(text.htmlUnescape())
// Prints "한"
print(try text.htmlUnescape(strict: true))
// Throws a `ParseError.MissingSemicolon` instance
// a throwing function because `strict` is passed in argument
// but no error is thrown because `strict: false`
print(try text.htmlUnescape(strict: false))
// Prints "한"
Acknowledgments
HTMLEntities
was designed to support some of the same options as he
, a popular Javascript HTML encoder/decoder.
License
Apache 2.0


- Ph.D Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Reserach Interests: Electron Microscopy, 2D Materials, Quantum Materials
Hovden Lab
- M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2020
- B.S. in Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2016
Kourkoutis Electron Microscopy Group
- sukhsung -at- umich.edu
- Google Scholar, Github


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Leo Symbol
The symbol for Leo is often seen as a simplified image of a lion with a head presented through the circle and the body with a tail to follow. This puts an emphasis on its tail, and all tails speak of the past and the debts we still have to repay. This is an interesting observation considering the fact that Leo represents us in our past lives. The symbol for Leo is actually a script form of the Greek letter “lambda”, the first letter of the Greek word leon, which means “lion”.
Leo Ruler
The sign of Leo is ruled by the ruler of the sky – the Sun. It holds 99% of our entire solar system and we are inside its outer sphere even though we see it as a distant celestial body. This speaks of its importance in any culture, history or astrological approach among us, on Earth. While planets are related to deities and their roles, the Sun seems to be linked to one of the myths through the lion as if it wasn’t that important at all. The truth is, the Sun is too important for humankind to label it, to capitalize it or to understand it as anything different from life itself. How can we explain the influence of the Sun, when it represents us in our purest form of light?
We often don’t realize that the most important thing in this symbol is its dot in the center. It symbolizes the ultimate Unity, the point in which we all become one, with each other and with the Universe. This symbol is an ancient Egyptian sign for the Sun or their god Ra, in the hieroglyphic writing system. In its history, this symbol was used as an alchemical symbol for gold, and with it for perfection of any kind. The symbol itself denotes the spirit represented through a circle, surrounding the seed of potential.


| Last 12 Month | System | Availability % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network | 99.0% | |||
| ERP | 98.0% | |||
| Data Warehouse | 98.0% | |||
| Web Site | 98.0% | |||
| 98.0% | ||||
| HR | 96.0% | |||
| Problem Tracking | 93.0% |
| CPU | Today | Overall | |||
| Storage | Last 12 months | Today | |||
| Network | Last 12 months | Today |
| Year-to-Date | Metric | % of Target | Actual | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenses YTD | $984.0K | |||
| Customer Satisfaction | 97/100 | |||
| Level 1 Problems | 88 |
| Project | Milestone | Days Until/ Past Due |
Due Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERP Upgrade | Full system test | 10/24/14 | ||
| Add services data to DW | ETL coding | 10/10/14 | ||
| Upgrade mainframe OS | Prepare plan | 10/17/14 | ||
| Disaster recovery site | Install hardware | 10/20/14 | ||
| Budgeting system | Hire team | 10/02/14 | ||
| Web site face-lift | Move into production | 10/22/14 | ||
| Project | Status | Approved | Sched.Stat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Professional service module | Pending available staff | X | 09/22/2014 |
| 2 | Upgrade MS Office | Cost-benefit analysis | 01/11/2014 | |
| 3 | Failover for ERP | Preparing proposal | 01/30/2015 | |
| 4 | Upgrade data warehouse HW | Evaluating options | X | 01/02/2015 |
| 5 | Executive dashboard | Vendor assessment | 05/02/2015 |


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Some queries make for hard work for MySQL. Using statement based replication often means whatever hard work was done by the master, needs to be re-done by the slave.
Assume the following situation: we have a very large table, and need to UPDATE some rows, on a certain condition. The condition does not utilize an index. For example:
UPDATE logs SET
Instead of DELETE FROM... WHERE (complicated)
do
SELECT FROM... WHERE (complicated)
DELETE FROM WHERE IN (primary keyy from previous result)


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Mental health awareness in your pocket
Edge is a modernized, mental healthcare application that focuses on assisting users affected by stress, anxiety, and depression.
Moods
You can track how your are feeling throughout the month by just adding your mood everyday.
Journal
You can log your days, vent on something, or to simply write your experiences for safekeeping.
Tasks
Accomplish various activities to ease yourself from negative emotions and earn coins to unlock minigames.


End user computing trends, predictions, and best practices for 2020 (VB Live)
by VB StaffPresented by Nutanix
Desktop as a service (DaaS) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is disrupting end user computing, with companies like Google and Microsoft getting into the mix. For a look at the latest developments in VDI and DaaS, emerging use cases and more, don’t miss this VB Live event.
A decade ago IT leaders launched a major initiative: continuous datacenter modernization to reduce complexity, improve simplicity, and lower costs. In 2020, the hyperconnected world means that IT departments need to add one more consideration to the mix.
Just like consumers have begun to expect instant gratification, from Amazon to Postmates, business users and their customers are increasingly demanding to be delighted at every turn. Users expect instant access to services; they want ten clicks to launch an IT service or purchase to be turned into a single click; they want days or weeks of waiting to be reduced to just minutes to optimize and update environments; and they want multiple consoles, services, and platforms be merged into a single pane of glass.
In response, the role of IT has changed dramatically, and so has the technology. The next 10 years will be all about the hybrid cloud, driving agility and helping companies infinitely scale their computing resources efficiently and securely, and supporting end-user computing (EUC) environments. That includes both virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions, which are rapidly replacing physical desktops and laptops in many workplaces.
Virtual desktops can be deployed from an on-prem data center leveraging an installed broker, or from an external (public or managed/hosted private) cloud via a managed broker. These solutions enable your organization to deliver new applications to your employees using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, more easily support bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and choose-your-own device (CYOD) initiatives and increase security from end to end.
This is the year to launch an EUC deployment or refresh the technology stacks for existing EUC to deliver a better end-user experience and expand EUC benefits to more users, but there are significant hurdles to scale in 2020.
That includes poor user experience when scaling, with EUC projects not meeting end-user requirements or experiencing performance problems. End-users are frequently frustrated by failures, lack of disaster recovery, and malware and other security threats. Initial pilots can also take a long time, and scaling to production takes even longer, making updates to the environment slow, and often frustrating both your end users and your IT department.
On the IT side, there’s often significant overhead, and personnel costs can be high. Your IT specialists might be spending hundreds of hours every quarter managing infrastructure, and scaling costs can be unpredictable.
How do you tackle these challenges going into 2020, to leverage EUC, VDI, and DaaS solutions? Centralized management of your desktop fleet is a huge asset for both your IT department and your demanding users, making it significantly easier to manage a large number of desktops within your organization, meet user expectations, and, when you do it right, reduce the need for specialized IT resources on your staff, boost efficiency, and lower costs.
To learn about the best practices required when launching or updating your EUC deployment in 2020, how to prepare your IT department for the next evolutions in DaaS and VDI technology, and more, don’t miss this VB Live event!
Don’t miss out!
Key takeaways:
- Tips and advice for VDI and DaaS success in 2020
- How DaaS and VDI is evolving, and how to prepare your IT department
- Pros and cons for Desktop-as-a-Service vs.VDI
- Best practice for DaaS in public clouds and on-premises
Speaker:
- Ruben Spruijt, Senior Technologist Nutanix and former CTO at Frame


Priest Dustin:
Welcome to the Temple of Einhasad, my young friend. Here, priests pass on the divine knowledge granted to us by the goddess of light.
Of course, that power must only be used for healing and protection, despite the example of those who would use it for war. Swear to abide by the teachings of our faith and I will teach you all I know.
Learn skills.
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Ask about Skill Enchanting.
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A now page is an occasionally updated summary of what I'm working on and what I'm thinking about. See atoms for a more frequently changing stream.


if
statements that can be replaced with a switch
statement.
The result of transformation is usually shorter and clearer.
Example:
void test(String str) { if (str.equals("1")) { System.out.println(1); } else if (str.equals("2")) { System.out.println(2); } else if (str.equals("3")) { System.out.println(3); } else { System.out.println(4); } }
After quick-fix is applied, the result will be:
void test(String str) { switch (str) { case "1" -> System.out.println(1); case "2" -> System.out.println(2); case "3" -> System.out.println(3); default -> System.out.println(4); } }
This inspection only reports if the language level of the project or module is 7 or higher.
Use the text field below to indicate the minimum number of if
branches with condition
an if
statement should have to be reported.
A terminal else
branch (without if
) is not counted.
Use the first checkbox below to have this inspection suggest switch
statements on
primitive and boxed numbers and characters.
Use the second checkbox below to have this inspection suggest switch
statements on
enum
constants.
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statements which can't introduce a NullPointerException
.


Touch ID on iPhone
Touch ID is available on any iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, or iPad mini 3 or later. If you have it enabled on your device, you can use your fingerprint to unlock your RVN Wallet and authorize transactions instead of entering your passcode. You will still be required to enter your passcode periodically for increased security.
If Touch ID is not enabled on your device, you can enable it in your device's settings under "Touch ID & Passcode".
Fingerprint Authorization on Android
Many Android devices feature a fingerprint reader. You can use your fingerprint to unlock your RVN Wallet and authorize transactions instead of entering your passcode. You will still be required to enter your passcode periodically for increased security.
In order to use this feature in the RVN Wallet, fingerprint authorization must be enabled on your device. See the phone manufacturer's manual for more information.
What is the fingerprint/touch ID spending limit?
The Touch ID option in the RVN Wallet’s Security Center allows you to conveniently unlock your RVN Wallet and send money up to a set limit using your fingerprint.
Security experts have proved it is possible to lift fingerprints from a stolen device and use them to trick that device's fingerprint reader into unlocking the device, thus this is not a strong security solution.
To ensure the majority of your funds are safe in the event your phone is stolen, the RVN Wallet sets a limit to the amount of money that can be sent with only a fingerprint. If you or anyone else tries to send more than that limit (accumulative), your wallet passcode will be required.
You can change the limit by choosing Fingerprint Authorization Limit in the RVN Wallet settings.
NOTE: Before enabling this in the RVN Wallet, make sure that you have enabled Touch ID in your iOS device settings or the Fingerprint Authorization on your Android device. Review your phone manufacturer’s manual for more information on this.
If Touch ID or Fingerprint Authorization has been enabled on your device settings, follow these steps to enable Touch ID in the RVN Wallet:
Tap on Menu in the main screen.
Select Security Settings.
Choose Touch ID.
Tap the switch button to enable Touch ID for RVN Wallet.
Tap on the link for Touch ID Spending Limit Screen.
Enter your PIN.
Select from one of the limit options provided on the screen. When done, tap the arrow in the top left to return to the settings menu.


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Boston Housing - Predict MEDV
CRIM
per capita crime rate by town
ZN
proportion of residential land zoned for lots over 25,000 sq.ft
INDUS
proportion of non-retail business acres per town
CHAS
Tract Bounds River
Otherwise
Charles River dummy variable
NOX
nitrogen oxides concentration (parts per 10 million)
RM
average number of rooms per dwelling
AGE
proportion of owner-occupied units built prior to 1940
DIS
weighted mean of distances to five Boston employment centres
RAD
index of accessibility to radial highways
TAX
full-value property-tax rate per \$10,000.
PTRATIO
pupil-teacher ratio by town
BLACK
1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town
LSTAT
lower status of the population (percent)
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The PlotDevice Quicktime library adds movie (and audio) support to PlotDevice. You can use it to
grab image frames from a movie and display them in PlotDevice or manipulate them with Core Image. Furthermore, you can use the library to play audio in
PlotDevice, make audio selections, and control the volume and rate from your script.
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Put the downloaded quicktime folder in ~/Library/Application
Support/PlotDevice/ or in the same folder as your script so PlotDevice can find the library.
Then import the library in your script:
quicktime = ximport("quicktime")
The library has a movie() command that opens a movie from a given location. You can open any type of movie you could normally open with the Quicktime application:
movie(path)
The command returns a Movie object with a number of useful properties:
The returned movie object has two methods to grab image frames:
movie.frame(time)
movie.frames(n=10, start=0, stop=None)
The frame() method returns a MovieFrame object with image data at the given time (in seconds) in the movie. The frames() command returns a list of n MovieFrame objects between the given start and stop time (in seconds). The start and stop parameters are optional.
A movie frame object has the following properties:
Displaying frames in PlotDevice is really very easy. The following script loops through all the frames in an animation:
movie = quicktime.movie("twisted_world.mp4") size(movie.width, movie.height) speed(50) def draw(): frame = movie.frame(FRAME*0.1) image(None, 0, 0, data=frame.data, width=frame.width)
The Quicktime library and the Core Image library play really well together. A MovieFrame object returned from movie.frame() or the movie.frames() list can be passed to the canvas.layer() method in Core Image. Then you can apply all sorts of filters and effects to it:
coreimage = ximport("coreimage") quicktime = ximport("quicktime") movie = quicktime.movie("twisted_world.mp4") frame = movie.frame(1.0) canvas = coreimage.canvas(movie.width, movie.height) l = canvas.layer(frame) l.filter_zoomblur() canvas.draw()
The library has an audio() command that opens a sound from a given location. You can open any type of sound you could normally open with the Quicktime application:
audio(path)
The command returns an Audio object with a number of useful properties:
The returned audio object also has a number of methods that control the playback:
audio.play()
audio.stop()
audio.pause()
audio.is_playing()
audio.reset()
The audio.is_playing() method returns True as long as the sound is playing in PlotDevice. While the sound is playing you can adjust its volume and rate. It will begin playing at its time property. The audio.reset() method resets the volume, time and rate to the default values (0, 0 and 1 respectively).
The library does not have any functionality to export audio from PlotDevice.
Sometimes you may want to work with a selection of a movie instead of the whole movie, or a one-second sample of the audio that you are going to loop. For these purposes, both the Movie and the Audio object have a selection() method:
media.selection(start=0, stop=None)
It returns a new movie or a new audio object ranged between the given start and
stop time. For example, here’s how to create a short loop from an audio fragment:
audio = quicktime.audio("modron_cube.mp3") audio = audio.selection(start=0, stop=7.2) speed(100) def draw(): if not audio.is_playing: audio.play()


A Technology Interface represents a point of access where technology services offered by a Node can be accessed.
A Technology Interface specifies how the technology services of a Node can be accessed by other Nodes. A Technology Interface exposes a Technology Service to the environment.
A Technology Interface specifies a kind of contract that a component realizing this interface must fulfil.
A Technology Interface may be part of a Node through composition, which means that these interfaces are provided by that Node, and can serve other Nodes. A Technology Interface can be assigned to a Technology Service, to expose that service to the environment.
The name of a Technology Interface should preferably be a noun.
Technology. Active Structure.
Client software, Management Interface.


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Section 2.18 Printing
Skills Addressed in this Lesson:
Print a document
Subsection 2.18.1 Tasks
From Main Menu, press w to open the keyword menu.
To print a document, press p for print.
Press s for printer settings.
Space to move through the list of printer setup options.
Change settings as necessary. However, most settings should be fine as they are.
The printer port may need to be changed. The port choices are bluetooth, infra-red, serial, USB, or file. Press space with dots3 4 to toggle to the printer port you are using.
Space to continue through the list of options. You may need to change the printer type. If you do, press y for "yes" on this option. Then press enter.
Use the thumb-keys to space to the type of printer you have. Press enter.
Press e with space when you are finished changing the settings. When asked to confirm the changes, type y for yes.
Now from the keyword options menu, press p for print. When asked if you want to print or setup the printer, press p for print.
Enter on the folder and then the file that you want to print.
Respond with y when asked if the printer is ready.
Hopefully your document will print.
Subsection 2.18.2 Quiz
True or False:
Bluetooth is an option for printing.
The type of printer cannot be changed.
Enter with o will take you to the options menu.
Space with c will clear the calculator.
You can print from within the keyword menu.
Press b from Main Menu to get to the book reader.
Enter with dot1 will make the voice volume softer.
It is not possible to use the internet with the BrailleNote.
The back and advance thumb-keys will move back and forward by line.
Use backspace to delete the last character that was written.


PronType
: pronominal type
French uses the following values for `PronType’: definite (Def), indefinite (Ind), negative (Neg), personal (Prs), relative (Rel) and interrogative (Int).
Not all relative and interrogative pronouns are marked so far.
Treebank Statistics (UD_French)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 7 different values: Art
, Dem
, Ind
, Int
, Neg
, Prs
, Rel
.
73729 tokens (19%) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
167 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType
.
39 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType
.
The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/DET (58663; 15% instances), fr-pos/PRON (15064; 4% instances), fr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances).
DET
58663 fr-pos/DET tokens (97% of all DET
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET
and PronType
co-occurred: Number=Sing (45386; 77%), Definite=Def (42234; 72%), Gender=Masc (30834; 53%).
DET
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Art
(52145; 89% of non-emptyPronType
): le, la, les, l’, un, une, des, de, d’, lDem
(2160; 4% of non-emptyPronType
): cette, ce, ces, cetNeg
(105; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): aucun, aucune, aucunesPrs
(4253; 7% of non-emptyPronType
): son, sa, ses, leur, leurs, notre, mon, nos, ma, votreEMPTY
(1630): plusieurs, tous, quelques, tout, chaque, toutes, toute, certains, the, du
PRON
15064 fr-pos/PRON tokens (86% of all PRON
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON
and PronType
co-occurred: Person=3 (9776; 65%), Gender=EMPTY (8723; 58%), Number=Sing (7937; 53%).
PRON
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Dem
(1541; 10% of non-emptyPronType
): c’, ce, cela, celle, celui, ceux, celui-ci, celles, ça, celle-ciInd
(3; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): quiconqueInt
(1; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): QueNeg
(11; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): personnePrs
(10137; 67% of non-emptyPronType
): il, se, s’, elle, ils, lui, nous, je, le, l’Rel
(3371; 22% of non-emptyPronType
): qui, dont, où, qu’, que, lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles, ouEMPTY
(2422): on, en, y, un, une, tout, qui, eux, rien, autres
| Paradigm que | Int | Rel |
|---|---|---|
| _ | qu', que | |
| Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | que, qu' | |
| Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | qu' | |
| Number=Sing|Person=3 | Que |
PronType
seems to be lexical feature of PRON
. 97% lemmas (29) occur only with one value of PronType
.
NOUN
2 fr-pos/NOUN tokens (0% of all NOUN
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN
and PronType
co-occurred: Number=Sing (2; 100%).
NOUN
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Art
(2; 100% of non-emptyPronType
): Fédération, InstitutEMPTY
(73203): ans, ville, pays, partie, monde, nom, région, commune, fois, temps
Relations with Agreement in PronType
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in PronType
:
PRON –[conj]–> PRON (24; 86%),
PRON –[reparandum]–> PRON (2; 100%).
Treebank Statistics (UD_French-ParTUT)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 8 different values: Art
, Dem
, Ind
, Int
, Neg
, Prs
, Rel
, Tot
.
3980 tokens (22%) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
143 types (4%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType
.
68 lemmas (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType
.
The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/DET (2984; 17% instances), fr-pos/PRON (983; 5% instances), fr-pos/ADV (12; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances).
DET
2984 fr-pos/DET tokens (100% of all DET
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET
and PronType
co-occurred: Definite=Def (2094; 70%), Number=Sing (2087; 70%).
DET
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Art
(2384; 80% of non-emptyPronType
): les, le, la, l’, une, un, des, d’, deDem
(266; 9% of non-emptyPronType
): des, cette, ce, ces, cet, de, d’, telles, duInd
(104; 3% of non-emptyPronType
): toute, aucune, quelques, tout, autres, certaines, certains, aucun, chaque, plusieursInt
(1; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): quelPrs
(182; 6% of non-emptyPronType
): son, sa, votre, leur, notre, ses, mon, leurs, nos, vosTot
(47; 2% of non-emptyPronType
): tous, toute, toutes, tout
| Paradigm un | Art | Dem |
|---|---|---|
| Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | un | de, du |
| Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | des | des, de |
| Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing | une | |
| Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur | des | des, de |
| Definite=Ind|Number=Plur | des | |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Sing | une | |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3 | une |
PRON
983 fr-pos/PRON tokens (100% of all PRON
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON
and PronType
co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (713; 73%).
PRON
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Dem
(132; 13% of non-emptyPronType
): ce, c’, cela, ceux, celle, ceci, ça, -ce, celle-ci, celuiInd
(32; 3% of non-emptyPronType
): chacun, tous, Nul, Quiconque, autre, autres, beaucoup, rien, aucune, certainsInt
(1; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): QuelPrs
(623; 63% of non-emptyPronType
): nous, je, il, vous, s’, se, on, ils, y, ellesRel
(194; 20% of non-emptyPronType
): qui, que, qu’, dont, où, laquelle, lequel, auxquelles, quoi, auxquelsTot
(1; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): tous
| Paradigm tout | Tot | Ind |
|---|---|---|
| tous | tous |
PronType
seems to be lexical feature of PRON
. 96% lemmas (46) occur only with one value of PronType
.
ADV
12 fr-pos/ADV tokens (2% of all ADV
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADV
and PronType
co-occurred: Polarity=EMPTY (12; 100%).
ADV
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Neg
(12; 100% of non-emptyPronType
): nonEMPTY
(653): pas, plus, y, également, ainsi, moins, tout, bien, lors, très
ADJ
1 fr-pos/ADJ tokens (0% of all ADJ
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ
and PronType
co-occurred: Gender=Masc (1; 100%), Number=Sing (1; 100%).
ADJ
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Dem
(1; 100% of non-emptyPronType
): telEMPTY
(1148): européen, présent, présente, dangereuses, grande, structurels, autres, possible, telle, communautaire
Relations with Agreement in PronType
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in PronType
:
DET –[det]–> DET (3; 75%),
PRON –[conj]–> PRON (2; 100%),
PRON –[expl]–> PRON (1; 100%).
Treebank Statistics (UD_French-Sequoia)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 5 different values: Art
, Dem
, Int
, Prs
, Rel
.
9278 tokens (15%) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
165 types (2%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType
.
86 lemmas (1%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType
.
The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/DET (8343; 14% instances), fr-pos/PRON (903; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADV (32; 0% instances).
DET
8343 fr-pos/DET tokens (93% of all DET
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET
and PronType
co-occurred: Definite=Def (6372; 76%), Number=Sing (6152; 74%).
DET
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Art
(7947; 95% of non-emptyPronType
): le, les, la, l’, une, un, des, de, d’, quelquesDem
(383; 5% of non-emptyPronType
): cette, ce, ces, cetInt
(13; 0% of non-emptyPronType
): quel, quelles, quelle, quelsEMPTY
(622): son, ses, votre, sa, leur, plusieurs, leurs, notre, nos, aucune
PRON
903 fr-pos/PRON tokens (36% of all PRON
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON
and PronType
co-occurred: Reflex=EMPTY (903; 100%), Person=EMPTY (842; 93%), Gender=EMPTY (724; 80%), Number=EMPTY (637; 71%).
PRON
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Dem
(97; 11% of non-emptyPronType
): cela, ceci, ceux, celle-ci, celle, celles, celui, celui-ci, ça, ceux-ciInt
(19; 2% of non-emptyPronType
): Qu’, Que, qui, quoi, QU’Prs
(51; 6% of non-emptyPronType
): eux, lui, moi, elle, vous, nous, Toi, ellesRel
(736; 82% of non-emptyPronType
): qui, que, ce, dont, où, qu’, un, laquelle, 1, rienEMPTY
(1573): il, nous, se, je, s’, vous, elle, ils, c’, y
| Paradigm qui | Int | Rel |
|---|---|---|
| qui | qui |
PronType
seems to be lexical feature of PRON
. 96% lemmas (75) occur only with one value of PronType
.
ADV
32 fr-pos/ADV tokens (1% of all ADV
tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType
.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADV
and PronType
co-occurred: Polarity=EMPTY (32; 100%).
ADV
tokens may have the following values of PronType
:
Int
(32; 100% of non-emptyPronType
): comment, pourquoi, où, combienEMPTY
(2112): pas, n’, ne, plus, aussi, moins, très, bien, également, alors
Relations with Agreement in PronType
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in PronType
:
PRON –[nmod]–> PRON (14; 78%),
PRON –[conj]–> PRON (3; 100%),
PRON –[dep]–> PRON (3; 75%),
PRON –[fixed]–> PRON (2; 67%),
PRON –[acl:relcl]–> PRON (1; 100%).
PronType in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]


We received a little budget and I started building a stable, this time with full blocks there were made without cement - a work of art. Around that time, 3m long aluminium plates were imported from Australia. They were very light and didn’t require heavy construction to hold them so I used them as the roof of the shed. One of our neighbors built an outhouse and didn’t want to cut the plates so he ended up with a 3m high structure. When construction was finished we moved the horse and the goats there. Now the chickens could occupy the two rooms and we finished the chick-run. We also increased the size of our goat-herd and also got a male-goat that got to serve all the goats in the village, which provided additional income. Our children grew on goats’ milk and cheese and it seems they’ve gotten something from the male-goat as they all grew up to be just as stubborn.
In February 1947 Roni was born. We looked for someone to perform the circumcision and ended up with the doctor who served us at his home. We welcomed our guests to our home on the hill, serving them tea with 14 thin glasses we bought for the occasion. Over time Roni ended up breaking all of them.
In march, we were getting ready for the Purim ball in the town-hall and we wanted to dress up as dark-skinned folks. Everyone was young and wore costumes. We left Roni in his crib and Alma to look after him. Occasionally I would step outside the hall (that was 500m away and not much else around) to listen in case he was crying. At midnight we returned home and we could hear his screams as we approached. He managed to take off his nappies and stained the entire bed, however we couldn’t touch him as we were covered in soot. The water I heated outside wasn't warm yet and when his mother breastfed him, he suckled a bit off the soot which affected him to this day.
Spring came and we decided to cultivate our rock-filled plot on the hill. One Friday morning I took a ride with HaZorea’s milk-car (that also took ours) to the Youth farm at Kfar Hasidim to bring cauliflower seedlings. I only got the bag of seedlings in the afternoon and I carried the heavy bag on my back onto the main road. Traffic was always sparse and on this day it completely dried out. In those days anyone would pick a hitchhiker but this time there was no car at all.  Nothing helped - we loaded the bag on top of the driver’s cabin and me on top of that. We later spent the entire night planting the cauliflower to the moonlight, she grew beautifully and we succeeded in the mission.
Times were hard and every day the Haganah fought the British, the Arabs fought us and the Irgun blew up the building, amongst them the King David Hotel. We managed to accomplish a lot. Roni grew and already stood in his crib. On a night when a battle took place in Mishmar HaEmek, Buki decided to be born. I was on guard duty up the hill and every time I passed by the house I checked the situation. Shoshana informed me it’s time for her to head to the hospital in Afula. I comforted her asking her to hold on until morning as there was no way to get there but it didn’t help. I remembered a pickup truck that was “recruited” (confiscated) in HaZorea. I rode the horse, gunshots all around me to ask for permission to borrow the truck and take her to the hospital. Permission was granted under the condition two armed guards will accompany her. I volunteered to be one, leaving Roni sleeping alone at home (I wonder if he remembers it), and the other should have been Haim the blacksmith but his wife Rachel refused to allow him to go. Time was pressing so I went alone along with the driver. We couldn’t drive through Mishmar HaEmek due to the fights so we took a detour through Kiryat Amal. When we arrived at the hospital, I left her at the entrance to the maternity ward and quickly rushed back home to Roni. We agreed that after the birth she will deliver a message via the bus driver to the Kremer at the bakery. A taxi driver from Haifa who used to buy eggs from us promised to bring her and the baby home when times come.
However we didn’t get either a message nor did the taxi show up. But Shoshana did manage to find her home. She gave birth the same night I dropped her at the hospital, and after 3 days she was discharged as they had many wounded men to attend. She heard a rumor of two casualties near Kiryat Haroshet and feared it was me and the driver (later we learned these were two engineers from Mekorot). But because of the incident no one wanted to drive her to that area. Eventually a taxi driver pitied her and agreed to bring her to Yagur where the bullet-proof bus from Haifa would stop for her. She didn’t have money for the taxi-fare and luckily the driver agreed to let it go just so he could get away from there. The bus arrived with our neighbor Fritz and gave her money for the ride and that’s how she arrived home. Because of the gunshots we evacuated her and the baby to a neighbor’s basement. On top of that, another neighbor was supposed to come wash the diapers but couldn’t make it so I heated the water outside when the gunshots quieted down and Shoshana washed them. That night I had guard duty again.
It was very difficult to build a farm without money, loans and budgets were very scarce. We were fortunate to be able to do many things ourselves. The British made life even more difficult - one day they’re in our favour and the other they’re against us. Armed cars of the Arab Legions patrolled the main roads. Somebody put a roadblock not far from HaZorea and as I watched from the guard tower, two British sappers came to demolish it. They laid down the charges and pulled the string but nothing happened. One of them came closer to check and then it exploded. Another time, one of our neighbors bought heavy glasses for his chicken battery cages but again a roadblock near the bakery. This time the British waited for the bus and commanded the passengers to get off and dismantle it. Along the way they broke his glass.
We worked during the day and guarded during the night, not stopping for a moment. Many new immigrants arrived and we built a transit camp from tin-plates alongside the road. As the farm itself didn’t require too much work (and didn’t provide much income either), I worked in construction and that helped us sustain ourselves and buy materials to keep building the farm.
A truce was reached with the aid of the UN and the British left. With the approval of the UN, the British divided the desert-land into two parts and we got the smaller part, filled with swamps. We still didn’t have electricity so one day a friend told us he heard over the radio that we now have a state of our own. But now all the surrounding countries wage a war against us- Palstenians, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria. There were approx. 600,000 Jews living in Israel and more Jews came from all around the world to help us fight. The war was bloody, several villages were abandoned and then reconquered. All the men were enlisted to the army, sometimes up to 30 days, putting a heavy burden on the wives who left alone to take care of the farms and the children. After many casualties the Arabs asked the UN help to reach a cease-fire and the war of independence ended.
Yokneam has grown and we developed a cultural life with celebrations in the townhall and festivities in the fields. Every Saturday morning we would take the children for a walk in the mountains or we traveled through the field to Kfar Yehoshua to visit Shoshana’s adopting parents who acted as the children’s grandchildren. We would celebrate the Passover dinner with them in either our place or theirs: We would load the cart with blankets and ride through the fields and late at night when we rode back the children would sleep, all snuggled in the back. We kept in touch with the family in Haifa and visited them occasionally. Over time more farms were added on the hill and we weren’t so isolated anymore. In 1948 we finally got electricity installed. When I refused to have the power line to my neighbors through my plot as I feared it would make cultivation more difficult the engineer told me I should move to the Negev and get electricity in the next decade, I eventually yielded. Electricity made life much easier.
We fought the Arabs but also the soil. When we got our plot in Yokneam, there were many fundamental things we didn’t know and no one told us. The land between the mountains and the Kishon river was a big deep swamp without any drainage and was uncultivated most of the year. We improved it over the years by putting a lot of effort and money digging drainage trenches but still the cultivation period was only between May and October. And so we decided to turn to livestock farming.
We became slaves to the animals for the next 40 years. As the children were young we couldn’t go on vacation as there was no would milk the cows for us and the chickens came cycle after a cycle. But we were happy. We felt we’re building the country and fulfilling the pioneers’ dream, as Jews in Europe weren’t allowed to own lands (and become farmers). We would walk with the plough and a rifle over our shoulder to defend against murderous Arab raids. The settlement would accept only married couples as a single person would not have been able to withhold the burden. So one must find a partner willing to share the labour and the agonies without resentment and carry the burden in the toughest conditions. Shoshana and I were devoted to the zionist ideal of building the country, hold the land, give up on the luxurious and not whine. We were orphans but we completed one another for almost 60 years. We made all the decisions together - regarding both the farm and the children.
During the 50s there was massive immigration from Africa (Yemen, Marrocco, Aljir, Tunisia), heavy recession, food ration, scarcity and unemployment but we continued building new villages and towns. The spirit was high and everyone wanted to be involved. Over time the Arabs were driven off the land and we started cultivating the land more vigorously. Back then we still worked the field collectively for security reasons, but also due to lack of equipment. The garage started to develop when the Americans implemented the Marshal plan and provided heavy gear left from the war: tracked tractors, soil dispensers and so on. The first combine harvester arrived and we no longer need to borrow tools from outside the village. In the assembly it was decided to split the plots to the different members, but it was a very challenging task as many of the plots were very wet and nobody wanted them. The produce increased and we bought a truck, no longer needing to rely on HaZorea’s truck.
The Relationships in Yokneam were good and we would meet with friends on Saturday evenings. We celebrated all the holidays (in the town hall that was originally built as a garage with permission from the British) and everyone participated, baked cakes, wore costumes in Purim and marched the fields in Shavuot. Our financial state was reasonable as well, we had plenty of food but being modest we didn’t buy many clothes and other luxurious things.
We had a dairy center where the men would meet twice a day and exchange thoughts and opinions, a grocery store where the women would meet and chat, infirmary with a doctor and a nurse, a union bank and a bakery with daily fresh bread and a petrol wagon delivering oil to the farms. The local farmer association "Agra" provided all our needs - from food for the cattle, a technical warehouse and mediations with different establishments regarding the land and loans. Everyone knew each other’s problems and help was always assured. The children began to grow and nurseries, kindergartens and later a school opened. There were no cars in the village so one could walk freely without the fear of being run over. Life was calm without a telephone or television. Our guilty pleasure was buying Halva with chocolate and taking the horse-ridden wagon to visit our adopting families in Kfar Yehoshua on Saturdays. We kept in touch with them even after the parents passed away. Helmut & Edith, Shoshana’s sister, moved to Kiyrat Amal, making it easier to visit them. Even if the public transportation wasn’t well developed yet, it was easy to hitchhike, even on top of a bus or a truck. Everyone was willing to help.
The situation in Israel was always difficult and looking for funds, the young government asked for a “village ransom” to which we contributed the jewels to support the finance of the army.The biggest difficulty was to enlist to a 30 days army reserve duty and leave the wife with the little children and the growing farm.Before we got electricity we didn’t have a fridge nor a fan. I placed a water sprinkler on the roof and whenever it got too hot we opened the valve and that cooled down the houser a bit.I later used the same technique on the chicken coops, when we uncaged the chickens.In the khamsins (heat waves) we always had a high mortality rate, losing up to 30 chickens a day.We drank from Jarrah (a clay jug with a small spout that could keep water cool for up to a week).The living conditions were harsh but we were young and paid no heed. We toiled and by evening were exhausted and slept well.I sometimes wonder how we managed to do everything and still have time to read books by the kerosene light.
One time I returned from the field at midday to check on the chickens only to realise that one of the hens had prolapsed (had her insider inverted and pushed out). There was not much to do with but mercy-killing it and since there was no fridge, the meat was to be used straight away. Unfortunately, Shoshana has taken the children to visit their relatives and I had to rush back to the fields. I quickly skinned it, gave the bones to the dog to chew while I used a manual meat-grinder to pulp the chicken and mixed it with 6 eggs. I sat down to eat this big “chicken-burger” for lunch and then hurried back to work. As I said, my appetite was always insatiable.
At first we had a few goats that supply milk and cheese for the household but the herd grew quickly. A state-sponsored guide visited us several times and helped us improve the goat house and the goats’ produce. We ended up being certified as “top farm”. He also suggested we would join the goat breeder’s association - Aziza (a wordplay on the Hebrew word for a goat - "Ez"). We kept a male goat that served many farms and selling lambs gave nice additional income. All of our children grew on goat’s milk and lambs’ meat. All our goats had names. One day I noticed a goat named Simcha (“Happiness”) had a hard tumor in part of her udder. I sent the family to visit their aunt Edith in Kiryat Amal while I stayed to operate on the goat. I tied her down, took a bottle of Alcohol and had a big gulp. Without anesthesia I opened the udder using my (unused) shaving razor blade and took out the hard and big tumor. I squeezed half a tube of penicillin in and sewed back the cut, smearing the rest of the udder on the outside. She healed well and kept producing milk (from her other udders) and gave birth to many off-springs. A state-sponsored vet came to visit and saw the scar and after hearing the story confessed that he would never have dared to do it.
As time went by we raised calves who mature to become cows. The cowshed was the second brick building I built myself. The cows ate large quantities so we also need a barn to store the hay for the winter, which I also built. Later we built a bigger chicken coop and additional rooms to the house, with the help of Shoshana and our four children. As more settlers joined the village the guard duty became less of a burden. After receiving the Reparations money from the Germans I bought myself a tractor. One day I drove a tractor with a cart to the field and filled it up with hay. As I was about to head back I realised I had a flat tyre in one of the cart’s wheels. Without other options I planned to leave the cart in the field and go fetch a spare tyre, but as I tried to disconnect the cart by pulling the pin holding it to the tractor, it fell and hit my head. I saw the blood trickling on my shirt and when touching the side of my head, I could feel the raw flesh and I feared my brain was spilling out. Without a second thought I tore a strip of cloth off the tractor’s seat and wrapped it around my header (later I tried doing it again but without the adrenalin rush it just wouldn’t tear). I drove back to the village straight to the infirmary.
I sat patiently in the queue until the nurse approached me and asked for the reason for my visit. I pointed to my make-shift bandage and she gently unwrapped my head. Seeing what was underneath she quickly wrapped it back and hurried to get me a transport to the hospital in Haifa. I learned that fortunately my brain was spilling, but my ear was hanging on a thin shred of flesh. The doctor managed to sew it back and asked me to stay the night for an observation but I told him I should probably rush home to catch the last bus before the Sabbath as I still had to milk the cows in the evening. I ran outside and managed to catch the bus at the last moment. Relieved, I sat at the front bench behind the door and as I told the driver my story he got careless and bumped in a traffic sign that sprayed me with broken glasses. I did manage to go home eventually though. The hearing in that ear was impaired as the canal healed twistedly and over the year my hearing in the other ear deteriorated and I used a hearing aid. Many years later, the doctor offered to examine the stitched ear and realised that the twisted canal can be easily fixed with modern technology, and happily my hearing was restored.
Epilogue: Eulogy
Shimon Shmuel was born to a small jewish family who traded in textile in Berlin, 1920. He was a good student and knew to recite poems in German and French which he remembered to his last days and showed no tolerance to antisemites, a thing which led to a broken arm after punching a boy in the nose for teasing him. He worked and helped his family and he, together with his two-years-younger brother, Hillel, scoured the basements shafts for lost coins. Since their gaze was fixed on the earth, their head kept bumping on the window sills. Reaching the age of 14, Shimon was sent by his youth club "HaBonim" to the agricultural training camp "Gut Winkel" which was owned by Shokner and in spite he initially wanted to work with actual farming, he spent most of his time in the workshop where he learned to shoe horses, fix wooden barrels and dismantle tractors (and put them back together afterwards). After two years he moved to a farm operated by teenagers in Griessen, 500 kilometers from Berlin. In this farm many tricks were played, such as impersonating as the gestapo for newcomers. Once he made a bet on the amount of pancakes he can eat, which eventually led to a slap in the face from Ilana, who stood over the hot pan and at another time he made a bet he could cycle all the way to Berlin in less than a day. He eventually won the bet and made one of his rarest visits to this family.
On December 1937 Shimon sold his bicycle and brought his parents a fat duck as good-bye present before going to Israel. His parent, who still believed life in Germany will improve were very sad and his uncle asked him to reconsider, arguing that Israel is a desert wasteland with no water and endless wars with the local population but Shimon did not heed and eventually took the train to Trieste where a boat named "Jerusalem" was about to set sail. As all the teenagers in the training farms, Shimon too was adopted by an Israeli family and that's how he came to live with the Ruchni family in Kfar Yehoshua. At the first day he amazed the father of the family, sowing oatmeal with an ease (actually he brought a grinding stone and made sure his harvester was sharp before he started) and thanks to the jam recipes he brought with him the villager's jam was not burnt for the first time. The life in Kfar Yehoshua were lived to the full - with work in the morning and the evening, studying at noon and guarding at night. Shimon, who supervised the guards and made sure they are alert visited all the post every night and that's how he came to meet Shoshana, his future wife. Their wedding was modest, with wild flowers sewn to the bride's gown and cakes the neighbors prepared and in spite the happiness was great, the party ended rather early as the friends went to sleep in preparation for the next day's chores.
Not long after the second world war began. The British army asked for volunteers and so Shoshana became a nurse, first in Egypt and later in Italy and Shmuel was recruited to the jewish battalion and was sent to dig trenches in Amariya next to Alexandria (Egypt). Later he was sent to unload supplies from boats to a base in Tobruk (Libya) which provided gears for the British army in the whole of Africa. Shimon, who already knew English by reading "Gone with the wind" with Shoshana was promoted to a rank of sergeant. After a while, the regiment moved to Kalamata (Greece) but the encountered enemy forces and the british army began his retreat. With no available space on the trucks, Shimon lay on the canvas roof and held the rails tightly for eleven hours, after which he required assistance as his entire body ached. on the night of their surrender, Shimon and his friends ran into a Yugoslavian truck stocked with money. They filled the pockets, used some for heating and buried the rest under a tree. Years to come, Shimon return to the place, but found a big highway instead of tree and the treasure was lost.
The POWs were sent to do various jobs in Germany. Speaking German helped Shimon as he took care of his men and the other POW who were with him. When a coal cart flipped over, Shimon propsed to flip it back in exchange for a day off for his friends (they rolled the cart on temporary rails he place at the end of the slope). When they met jewish prisoners, the British soldiers gave away their sandwiches. The SS soldier raged and turned to hit the jewish prisoners but they German soldier who looked for the POWs confronted them and threw their bats and whips to the river. When the war was over, Shimon, who suffer from malnutrition as the rest of the prisoners, was sent to Britain for rehabilitation and after a couple of month he was sent back to Palestine. With the discharge money Shimon and Shoshana could buy a small plot of land in the new village of Yokneam, where they built their home on top of hill, filled with rocks, thrones and an ever-lasting daily wars with snakes and scorpions who had a special kin for cribs. They worked the swampy fields in the valley and raised melons and fodder. Later, with the aid of the German payments they expanded their farm with four cows at first and later more cows and a chicken coop. His many tales from the farm include how he ate a whole chicken, removed a tumor from a goat's udder and he nearly lost his ear when a cart slipped over his head.
For more then four decades Shimon and Shoshana operated their farmed and raised four children. In 1991 they decided to retire and began travelling the world with their children and grandchildren. This tradition continued even after Shoshana has succumbed to cancer in 1998. In the late of 2011 Shimon's health began to deteriorate and he moved to live in proximity to his daughter Marganit. On 26.6.2012 Shimon Shmuel passed away, leaving two boys, two girls, thirteen grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and collection of teddy bear he received as gifts from all around the world. Shimon was loved by all and was known for his witty tales and jokes, his tricks, technical skill, resourcefulness and optimism which inspired many in the course of the years.
Appendices
Letter to Hillel, 1953
Happy birthday! I’m writing you this letter, dear brother, just to show you we haven’t forgotten your birthday. We slaughtered a goose to celebrate the event and baked a cake and drank wine to be happy on your day even though we’re far away from you and couldn’t share the wonderful meal we had.  We only ask you would come to welcome us in the morning by the road as we will bear gifts -silver and gold, furs, precious stones, vegetables, meat, fruits, some cattle, horses and and sheep, not the mentions the chickens, agricultural machinery, a fridge and electric oven, and on top of all of that - a power generator. In the meantime, may your family have peace. May god bring you good rain, as we had, and plenty of vegetables you can pick from the mud.
Yours, Shimon
An Invitation (Letter to Hillel Shmuel, 1954)
The Shmuel family of Yokneam is honoured to invite the Shmuel family of Menahemia to the wedding of their son, Roni, with his Betrothed Ruhama that will take place June 5th 1954 at the host of his parents. Due to his tender age we will have to postpone the wedding for a few years but we will still be delighted to see (regardless of the wedding) on the said date to Judith’s birthday party. If, for whatever reason you cannot attend, please at least send the children. We shall wait to pick them up on Friday 9 o’clock’s bus. In case no want would arrive on the bus we shall expect all of you throughout the day. There’s no need to bring or send any additional clothes for the children as we got plenty. They could stay here over the Shavuot holiday and Shoshana will bring them back home.
Postcard to Shoshana, June 13th, 1943
Darling!
For a long time I did not hear anything from you but hope that you are well like I am. How are you going on? What about Hillel? Edith’s baby? Please write me a letter like I received them before. Long and nice. We are living in the hope soon everything shall be over. Thousand kisses and love for you forever.
 One time while spending a holiday in London I tried to do away with her by pushing her in front of a coming bus. Alas, I failed to notice the bus was driving on the left side of the road and so she was saved Another time we took a cruise and at the breakfast buffet I piled myself an immodest stack of bacon but just as I was about to return to the table, the boat's captain stood in my way and ask me to hand him the plate. I was afraid that I was in trouble, but instead he simply carried the plate for me to the dining table. We chatted a little and I asked if he is authorised to marry people. He explained that yes, as we're in international water. "In that case", I asked him, "would it be possible for you to divorce us?" He was taken by surprise but after giving it some thought he answer that yes, he believes he can approve our divorce. Unfortunately, so it seems, the butcher that married us, in Kfar Yehoshua back in 1940, wasn't certified to conduct wedding and therefore we weren't legally married and couldn't legally divorce. We decided to stay together for a bit longer.
Teddy
During the 50s we used to take the children once a year to a fun day - visiting the zoo in Tel Aviv and riding the carousel. One time we also took them to a toy shop and allowed each child to buy their toys. We planned for a big expense as we recently received the Reparations money from the Germans in compensation for the death of our parents and we thought the children are entitled to some of it as they didn’t have grandparents. They only had toys of our own making such wooden horses or rug-dolls but we wanted to let them buy from their own choosing. They were very modest and picked small things as they weren’t used to spending money. The youngest of the bunch picked a thumb-sized teddy-bear he named Amosi he named after his friend, the neighbor's son. It sat in the pocket of his shirt everywhere he went but when he started going to school the teddy disappeared and we never saw him again. Over the years, and especially after we retired and toured the world, we looked for the bear or anyone like him in different toy shops but we couldn’t find anyone like Amosi who can turn his head and move his arms and legs.
As I turned 80s, I found the perfect bear at a shop at Stein Am Rhein. It also had a small pin on his back to secure him to the shirt inside the pocket. We got him and I immediately placed him in my shirt. I asked the elderly women we met if he’s going to grow and at first they didn’t know what I was talking about because of my dark shirt but I pointed him out to them and they laughed. “No”, they said “As long as he won’t eat vegetables, he will stay small”.
But thus began the troubles, which were scenes I re-enacted to the entertainment of my guests: how can we get him across the border as he doesn’t have a passport. We smuggled him home but the next day he was placed in jail for trespassing. We contacted the German and Swiss embassy to issue documents for him but they replied they don’t have a bear department. Left with no choice, grandchild #10 (out of the 13 granchilden I numbered) issued him an Israeli passport and got him out of jail. The first thing he got was a “bed” that grandchild #11 brought him. Next- #13 brought him a small television so he wouldn’t get bored. #6 brought the cousins from America (a bear and lady-bear from McDonalds) to act as his parents and very quickly two more relatives arrived and the family grew.
Everyone who heard of Teddy’s arrival added something to the scene, such as a stone- carving from Tel Hazor or a picture of three bears in a cave. Teddy and his family got a corner on the cupboard and every day the scene changed. At first we needed to cross the language barrier as Teddy from Stein Am Rhein spoke German while the Mcdonalds-tribe bears spoke English. It took a while until they all spoke in Hebrew, with Ulpan. After acclimatizing the real troubles began: Teddy didn’t have any discipline and he did whatever he wanted. He climbed on the pictures and everyone looked for him. He laughed and his parents got upset, but the relatives tried to make peace. But there were also good days when mama-bear spoiled him and papa-bear would take him on the shoulders. When my family would visit me every Saturday evening and gather around the table the first question they would ask was “What has Teddy done this time and tried to interpret the scene the bears reenacted.
Addendum: After Shimon passed away the stuffed-bear collection was donated to the Israel's Children Museum
Short Stories
A farmer from a small and faraway village was required to appear at the IRS to sign some papers. He woke up early in the morning, before the rooster called, harnessed the horse to the wagon, took the sandwiches his wife made him the night before and headed out, for the first time going farther than 10 miles from his village. The road was long and eventually he arrived at the IRS office just a few moments before they closed at sunset. He signed the documents and asked for direction to the nearest hotel where he could rest for a few hours before starting his journey back. Upon arriving at the hotel he noticed the dining room and decided to take a chance and try their fine dining. He ate like a king and stopped only when he was about to burst, reluctantly leaving the soup after only tasting a spoonful. At night, in the next room a guy lad was suffering from horrendous stomach ache. A doctor was called to diagnose and he instructioned the concierge that an anema could ease the pains. As he was about to leave, he mentioned that two strong men should be able to hold the contorting patient. It was by mistake that the men turned to the wrong room and while the two men held the struggling poor farmer, the concierge provided the treatment as instructed. After a short while the farmer got up and without saying a word set off on his way back home. When he arrived in the evening, his neighbors came to hear his stories about the big city and he told them about the high buildings, the horse-less wagons and about the hotel and the dinner. “One thing one must know”, he noted, “you will finish the soup, one way to the other!”
A rabbi was approached by a Jew who complained he cannot handle his ten children. Finance, God willing, is not an issue but the children are noisy, fight all the time and wreak such havoc the house is never quiet. The rabbi thought about it for a moment and then replied: “I don’t know the solution to your problem as the lord still hasn't blessed me with ten children but he did bless me with a clever and cheerful goat that might help reign in your children”. The Jew was happy to take the goat and hurried back home. The week wasn’t over before he returned the goat and complained- “This goat is a menace! There’s not a single item in the house she hasn’t broken! Not a single cupboard she has opened and trashed! Not a girl she hasn’t chased nor a boy that hasn’t received a bite in bottom from this devilish goat! She’s loud, messy and wreaks more chaos than all the children combined! Take her back and let peace be upon Israel!”. The rabbi apologised deeply and took back the goat. A week has passed and the rabbi met the Jew on his way to the butcher and asked how things are at home. The Jew replied “Ah! Now that the goat is out and things are back to normal - the house is quiet, tidy and pleasant to be in”. The rabbi wondered “And aren’t the children fighting?” and the Jew replied “they fight, that’s the nature of children, but the house is filled with joy and there’s no dull moment!”
A guy comes to the rabbi and asks to know the gender of his unborn child. The rabbi assures him it's going to be a boy and the prove his confidence he writes his predicition in a small note he places inside a book. After the guy leaves happily, the rabbi returns to the book and swap the note with another one, this one says "girl" Seeing this, the rabbi's wife asks why did he decide to change his prediction and he explained - "If it is indeed a boy, he won't bother to come back" "And if it's a girl?" "Well, we'll then go back to check the note and see that it's the memory that failed and I have indeed predicted correctly..."
A farmer one found a technique to train his horse to work without eating. Every day he would ration the horse’ meals smaller and smaller and after two weeks he didn’t feed the horse at all, he decided to call it a success. Unfortunately, the horse died and the farmer went bankrupt before he managed sign the patent for his technique.
“Sagt der Scheich zum Emir:
Erst zahlen wir, dann gehen wir;
Sagt der Emir zum Scheich:
Zahlen wir nicht und gehen wir gleich!”
(Old German rhyme: The Sheikh told the Emir: First we pay, then we leave. The Emir told the Sheikh: Let’s not pay and just go!”)


Supercar Hangman
(Makes and models of various supercars)
> Press any letter to guess the word below <
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Public Member Functions | |
| LevelController (GameController gameController) | |
| void | buildLevel (LevelState state) |
| Node | getPlayerInput () |
| Pane | getWrapper () |
| AbstractLevelRenderer | getLevelRenderer () |
| Canvas | getBackground () |
| AbstractLevel | getLevel () |
| void | onInputSubmit (SubmitObject submit) |
| BackgroundRenderer | getBackgroundLayer () |
The LevelController
keeps state of the current level and delegates render logic to the AbstractLevelRenderer
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Definition at line 39 of file LevelController.java.
| game.controller.LevelController.LevelController | ( | GameController | gameController | ) |
| void game.controller.LevelController.buildLevel | ( | LevelState | state | ) |
Builds a fully functional game level which is comprised of a renderer, a player input and level object
| state | the level to use for building the level |
Definition at line 65 of file LevelController.java.
| Canvas game.controller.LevelController.getBackground | ( | ) |
BackgroundRenderer
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| BackgroundRenderer game.controller.LevelController.getBackgroundLayer | ( | ) |
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| AbstractLevel game.controller.LevelController.getLevel | ( | ) |
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| AbstractLevelRenderer game.controller.LevelController.getLevelRenderer | ( | ) |
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| Node game.controller.LevelController.getPlayerInput | ( | ) |
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| Pane game.controller.LevelController.getWrapper | ( | ) |
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| void game.controller.LevelController.onInputSubmit | ( | SubmitObject | submit | ) |
this method is triggered, when a submit is entered to be validated.
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GluonTS N-BEATS Modeling Function (Bridge)
nbeats_fit_impl( x, y, freq, prediction_length, id, epochs = 5, batch_size = 32, num_batches_per_epoch = 50, learning_rate = 0.001, learning_rate_decay_factor = 0.5, patience = 10, minimum_learning_rate = 5e-05, clip_gradient = 10, weight_decay = 1e-08, init = "xavier", ctx = NULL, hybridize = TRUE, context_length = NULL, loss_function = "sMAPE", num_stacks = 30, num_blocks = list(1), widths = list(512), sharing = list(FALSE), expansion_coefficient_lengths = list(32), stack_types = list("G") )
| x | A dataframe of xreg (exogenous regressors) |
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| y | A numeric vector of values to fit |
| freq | A |
| prediction_length | Numeric value indicating the length of the prediction horizon |
| id | A quoted column name that tracks the GluonTS FieldName "item_id" |
| epochs | Number of epochs that the network will train (default: 5). |
| batch_size | Number of examples in each batch (default: 32). |
| num_batches_per_epoch | Number of batches at each epoch (default: 50). |
| learning_rate | Initial learning rate (default: 10-3 ). |
| learning_rate_decay_factor | Factor (between 0 and 1) by which to decrease the learning rate (default: 0.5). |
| patience | The patience to observe before reducing the learning rate, nonnegative integer (default: 10). |
| minimum_learning_rate | Lower bound for the learning rate (default: 5x10-5 ). |
| clip_gradient | Maximum value of gradient. The gradient is clipped if it is too large (default: 10). |
| weight_decay | The weight decay (or L2 regularization) coefficient. Modifies objective by adding a penalty for having large weights (default 10-8 ). |
| init | Initializer of the weights of the network (default: “xavier”). |
| ctx | The mxnet CPU/GPU context. Refer to using CPU/GPU in the mxnet documentation. (default: NULL, uses CPU) |
| hybridize | Increases efficiency by using symbolic programming. (default: TRUE) |
| context_length | Number of time units that condition the predictions Also known as 'lookback period'. Default is 2 * prediction_length |
| loss_function | The loss function (also known as metric) to use for training the network. Unlike other models in GluonTS this network does not use a distribution. One of the following: "sMAPE", "MASE" or "MAPE". The default value is "MAPE". |
| num_stacks | The number of stacks the network should contain. Default and recommended value for generic mode: 30 Recommended value for interpretable mode: 2 |
| num_blocks | The number of blocks per stack. A list of ints of length 1 or 'num_stacks'. Default and recommended value for generic mode: 1. Recommended value for interpretable mode: 3. |
| widths | Widths of the fully connected layers with ReLu activation in the blocks. A list of ints of length 1 or 'num_stacks'. Default and recommended value for generic mode: |
| sharing | Whether the weights are shared with the other blocks per stack. A list of ints of length 1 or 'num_stacks'. Default and recommended value for generic mode: |
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Rev Brian Casey called for police to act after we revealed caged Lewis Reid’s Twitter and Snapchat continues to tout cocaine for £80 a gram.
The clergyman, who led the funeral of tragic Chelsea, 16, at Springburn Parish Church in Glasgow, said: “The police need to investigate. It’s worrying.
"More focus should be put on the dealers than the addicts — it would be far more productive.
"Drugs are a massive problem in our area.”
We told how a pal of Reid, from Paisley, is thought to be running his 'Gucci' social media but it’s not known if he too is involved.
A message posted this week read: “Prop their £80 a gram. More weights call number if need about Glasgow/Pollok/Paisley all night. Save number.”
And a message on Twitter from Reid, of Paisley, advertises the Snapchat account and offers “1g for 40, 2 for 70, 3 for 100, 2g of prop £140.”
He even mocked cops with a crude “F*** the CID” spelled out in white powder.
Reid - nicknamed Gucci - is behind bars after admitting 22 offences between August 2018 and July.
Chelsea, from Glasgow, died in July after taking MDMA supplied by Reid.


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THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1997 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: Darker in tone than JURASSIC PARK, this sequel concerns another island that Ingen has populated with dinosaurs. The film has considerably more dinosaur effects, though most take place in the dark, possibly as an economy measure. The film has more action than its predecessor but less of a sense of wonder and amazement. The last half hour is great fun. Rating: high +1 (-4 to +4), 6 (0 to 10). New York Critics:
Steven Spielberg has fashioned a sequel to his supremely successful JURASSIC PARK that in many ways does what a sequel should do: it continues the story rather than remaking it. The film features the same terrific dinosaur effects, but this time around Spielberg changes the tone to make a darker and more somber exercise. At the same time has removed much of the anti-science sentiment of the previous film. But perhaps the most interesting touch is that since it is based on Michael Crichton's novel which borrows the title of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel, Spielberg has played up the similarities in plot to the Doyle novel and its 1925 film adaptation. THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK also borrows from KING KONG and GORGO. On the negative side the character it builds the story around is Dr. Ian Malcolm (played again by Jeff Goldblum). This was not a very good decision since while Goldblum had some good lines in the first film, his character was never very well developed and does not have the appeal to carry the sequel.
It is four years after the incidents of JURASSIC PARK. The entire experiment has been hushed up. Ian Malcolm has tried to tell his story to the world and has been made to look like a sensationalist kook. Meanwhile there has been a power struggle at John Hammond's company Ingen. Each faction wants control of an island that was a laboratory and breeding ground for the ill-fated park and where, unbeknownst to the world dinosaurs still live and breed. John Hammond has sent a team of four scientists to the laboratory island to document what is there. Ingen, now led by Hammond's nephew Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard) has sent a team to secure the island. The team leader is hunter and mercenary, Roland Tembo (Pete Postlethwaite). Tembo's team is composed of what are supposed to be crack mercenaries, but Tembo knows them to be unprepared for the situation they will be facing.  As with the earlier film David Koepp has adapted the Crichton novel. His film is mostly dark and somber until the last half-hour when finally the film cuts loose for some fun.
To make Goldblum's Ian Malcolm the tie to the previous film seems almost an act of desperation. Alan Grant or Ellie Sattler's characters had more appealing personalities. Malcolm was slickly obnoxious and remains so in this film. The worst fault of the script is its failure to create a character that that audience really cares about. In this film Pete Postlethwaite's villain is almost as appealing as the hero. Of course with dangerous dinosaurs on the loose, it is not clear the story really needed a human villain to start with.
In contrast to JURASSIC PARK, Spielberg has chosen to visualize this story in muted colors, often with light sources blurred. There is intentionally no natural scene that looks as beautiful as the helicopter landing in the last film. The new island is not to be confused with a paradise. The film has more time on the screen of dinosaur effects, but in many it is harder to make out details. Also curiously some of the effects sequences are cut short, as if they were not completed to save time. There will be a stegosaurus attack and the camera will flash to Goldblum who says something like "they're leaving," rather than showing them leave. Spielberg does have some feel for suspense, and this film includes one suspenseful sequence involving a glass window that is almost sure to be borrowed by other films in the future. John Williams has scored the film, but this is sure to be considered one of his lesser scores with some standard suspense music and no really memorable new themes.
The most impressive touch in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK is how successfully it pulled together the plots of both Crichton and Doyle. It delivers a few thrills, some nice dinosaur effects, and packed theaters. I rate it a high +1 on the -4 to +4 scale.
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