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Core
API Keys
You will need keys to work with the APIs.
- Application ID: Identifies your Application for analytics and quota limits.
- Campus Keys: A Token Key Moniker (TKM), Shared Secret, and Client String identifies the LearningStudio campus where your data comes from.
You can get an Application ID for your app and campus keys for our Sandbox Campus by creating an app on the PDN. Learn more here.
Introduction
LearningStudio Course APIs are REST-based services, and all calls must be authenticated with either an OAuth 1 signature or with an OAuth 2 user token. While not difficult to create your own tools for making these requests, the Core library simplifies the effort by automatically handling authentication.
This library uses the Authentication library, so you need to provide the same configuration information as described there. However, Core will do the heavy lifting of generating and managing signatures and tokens for the requests.
Using Core
Setup
To begin, import the classes you'll be instantiating.
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.oauth.config.OAuthConfig;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.oauth.OAuthServiceFactory;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.core.BasicService;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.core.AbstractService.HttpMethod;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.core.Response;
Authentication
You'll need to provide your authentication details (keys, client string, etc) so the Core library can handle authentication. The OAuthConfig
class is a generic carrier for the configuration information for all authentication methods. You'll add the information you need using the following methods.
OAuthConfig config = new OAuthConfig();
config.setApplicationId(applicationId);
config.setApplicationName(applicationName);
config.setConsumerKey(tokenKeyMoniker);
config.setConsumerSecret(sharedSecret);
config.setClientString(clientString);
There are differences in what values are needed between the different OAuth methods. Generally, adding all five pieces of information is most flexible, but you can leave out the pieces you don't need. For example, if using OAuth 1 only (System to System calls), you don't need the Application Name or Client String.
The OAuthServiceFactory
object instantiates the appropriate service for the authentication method you want to use. When using core, you only need to create the Factory and pass it to the Core library.
OAuthServiceFactory oauthFactory = new OAuthServiceFactory(config);
Requests
Next, you'll instantiate the Core library's BasicService
, which handles all the work of making an API call. When creating the object, pass the OAuth Factory as the only parameter:
BasicService learningStudioService = new BasicService(oauthFactory);
Before making an API call, set the service to the OAuth method you'll use. If using OAuth 2 for a user token, pass the user's username, and if using Password grant type, also send the password.
// OAuth 1
learningStudioService.useOAuth1();
//OAuth 2 Assertion Grant Type
learningStudioService.useOAuth2("{username}");
//OAuth 2 Password Grant Type
learningStudioService.useOAuth2("{username}", "{password}");
Finally, use the doMethod
method to make the request. This method has the following signature:
Response doMethod(HttpMethod method, String relativeUrl, String body) throws IOException
Response doMethod(Map<String,String> extraHeaders, HttpMethod method, String relativeUrl, String body) throws IOException
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httpMethod |
Any of GET , POST , PUT , or DELETE , depending on the operation you're performing. Required for all requests. |
relativeUrl |
The URI of the API endpoint you're calling; this is only the "path" portion of the request. Required for all requests. Example: /me/courses |
body |
The body of the API request. Required for POST and PUT operations only. |
extraHeaders |
An associative array of any additional headers you need to send with the request. The key should be the header name, and the value the header value. This is used primarily by the other LearningStudio libraries. Example: array("Content-Type"=>"application/json") |
Results
When you call doMethod
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String getContentType() |
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String getContent() |
Returns the text-based body of the response from the API. It is returned as a string of either JSON or XML, and is not parsed into a native object. |
byte[] getBinaryContent() |
Returns the binary-based body of the response from the API, if isBinaryContent() returns true . |
boolean isBinaryContent() |
Returns either true or false as to whether the body of the API response is binary data (for example, if downloading a document or threaded discussion attachment). |
| About the API Request | |
Map<String, List<String>> getHeaders() |
Returns the headers used in the request. |
String getMethod() |
Returns the HTTP method that was used. |
int getStatusCode() |
Returns the HTTP Status Code from the API request. Example:200 , 201 , 400 , etc. |
String getStatusMessage() |
Returns the HTTP Status message from the API request. Example:Created or Not Found . |
String getUrl() |
Returns the URL that was called to make the request. |
boolean isError() |
Returns either true or false as to whether there was a problem with the API request. |
Example
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.oauth.config.OAuthConfig;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.oauth.OAuthServiceFactory;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.core.BasicService;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.core.AbstractService.HttpMethod;
import com.pearson.pdn.learningstudio.core.Response
import java.io.IOException;
public class BasicServiceExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String applicationId = ""; // Identifies your Application
String applicationName = ""; // No spaces for best results (e.g., MyAppName)
String tokenKeyMoniker = "";
String sharedSecret = "";
String clientString = "";
String userName = "";
String apiUrl = ""; // e.g., /users/{userID}
OAuthConfig config = new OAuthConfig();
config.setApplicationId(applicationId);
config.setApplicationName(applicationName); // Needed only for OAuth 2 Assertion
config.setConsumerKey(tokenKeyMoniker);
config.setConsumerSecret(sharedSecret); // Needed only for OAuth 1 & OAuth 2 Assertion
config.setClientString(clientString); // Needed only for OAuth 2
OAuthServiceFactory oauthFactory = new OAuthServiceFactory(config);
BasicService learningStudioService = new BasicService(oauthFactory);
learningStudioService.useOAuth2(userName);
Response lsResponse = null;
try {
lsResponse = learningStudioService.doMethod(HttpMethod.GET, apiUrl, null);
}
catch(IOException e) {
// process exception
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
if(lsResponse.isError()) {
int httpStatusCode = lsResponse.getStatusCode(); // 404
String httpStatusMessage = lsResponse.getStatusMessage(); // Not Found
System.out.println(httpStatusCode + " " + httpStatusMessage);
}
else {
String contentType = lsResponse.getContent(); // application/json
String contentString = lsResponse.getContent(); // { ... }
System.out.println(contentType + ": " + contentString);
}
}
}


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r""" ============================================================== Compressed Sparse Graph Routines (:mod:`scipy.sparse.csgraph`) ==============================================================
.. currentmodule:: scipy.sparse.csgraph
Fast graph algorithms based on sparse matrix representations.
Contents ========
.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/
connected_components -- determine connected components of a graph laplacian -- compute the laplacian of a graph shortest_path -- compute the shortest path between points on a positive graph dijkstra -- use Dijkstra's algorithm for shortest path floyd_warshall -- use the Floyd-Warshall algorithm for shortest path bellman_ford -- use the Bellman-Ford algorithm for shortest path johnson -- use Johnson's algorithm for shortest path breadth_first_order -- compute a breadth-first order of nodes depth_first_order -- compute a depth-first order of nodes breadth_first_tree -- construct the breadth-first tree from a given node depth_first_tree -- construct a depth-first tree from a given node minimum_spanning_tree -- construct the minimum spanning tree of a graph reverse_cuthill_mckee -- compute permutation for reverse Cuthill-McKee ordering maximum_bipartite_matching -- compute permutation to make diagonal zero free structural_rank -- compute the structural rank of a graph NegativeCycleError
.. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/
construct_dist_matrix csgraph_from_dense csgraph_from_masked csgraph_masked_from_dense csgraph_to_dense csgraph_to_masked reconstruct_path
Graph Representations ===================== This module uses graphs which are stored in a matrix format. A graph with N nodes can be represented by an (N x N) adjacency matrix G. If there is a connection from node i to node j, then G[i, j] = w, where w is the weight of the connection. For nodes i and j which are not connected, the value depends on the representation:
- for dense array representations, non-edges are represented by G[i, j] = 0, infinity, or NaN.
- for dense masked representations (of type np.ma.MaskedArray), non-edges are represented by masked values. This can be useful when graphs with zero-weight edges are desired.
- for sparse array representations, non-edges are represented by non-entries in the matrix. This sort of sparse representation also allows for edges with zero weights.
As a concrete example, imagine that you would like to represent the following undirected graph::
G
(0) / \ 1 2 / \ (2) (1)
This graph has three nodes, where node 0 and 1 are connected by an edge of weight 2, and nodes 0 and 2 are connected by an edge of weight 1. We can construct the dense, masked, and sparse representations as follows, keeping in mind that an undirected graph is represented by a symmetric matrix::
>>> G_dense = np.array([[0, 2, 1], ... [2, 0, 0], ... [1, 0, 0]]) >>> G_masked = np.ma.masked_values(G_dense, 0) >>> from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix >>> G_sparse = csr_matrix(G_dense)
This becomes more difficult when zero edges are significant. For example, consider the situation when we slightly modify the above graph::
G2
(0) / \ 0 2 / \ (2) (1)
This is identical to the previous graph, except nodes 0 and 2 are connected by an edge of zero weight. In this case, the dense representation above leads to ambiguities: how can non-edges be represented if zero is a meaningful value? In this case, either a masked or sparse representation must be used to eliminate the ambiguity::
>>> G2_data = np.array([[np.inf, 2, 0 ], ... [2, np.inf, np.inf], ... [0, np.inf, np.inf]]) >>> G2_masked = np.ma.masked_invalid(G2_data) >>> from scipy.sparse.csgraph import csgraph_from_dense >>> # G2_sparse = csr_matrix(G2_data) would give the wrong result >>> G2_sparse = csgraph_from_dense(G2_data, null_value=np.inf) >>> G2_sparse.data array([ 2., 0., 2., 0.])
Here we have used a utility routine from the csgraph submodule in order to convert the dense representation to a sparse representation which can be understood by the algorithms in submodule. By viewing the data array, we can see that the zero values are explicitly encoded in the graph.
Directed vs. Undirected ----------------------- Matrices may represent either directed or undirected graphs. This is specified throughout the csgraph module by a boolean keyword. Graphs are assumed to be directed by default. In a directed graph, traversal from node i to node j can be accomplished over the edge G[i, j], but not the edge G[j, i]. In a non-directed graph, traversal from node i to node j can be accomplished over either G[i, j] or G[j, i]. If both edges are not null, and the two have unequal weights, then the smaller of the two is used. Note that a symmetric matrix will represent an undirected graph, regardless of whether the 'directed' keyword is set to True or False. In this case, using ``directed=True`` generally leads to more efficient computation.
The routines in this module accept as input either scipy.sparse representations (csr, csc, or lil format), masked representations, or dense representations with non-edges indicated by zeros, infinities, and NaN entries. """
'laplacian', 'shortest_path', 'floyd_warshall', 'dijkstra', 'bellman_ford', 'johnson', 'breadth_first_order', 'depth_first_order', 'breadth_first_tree', 'depth_first_tree', 'minimum_spanning_tree', 'reverse_cuthill_mckee', 'maximum_bipartite_matching', 'structural_rank', 'construct_dist_matrix', 'reconstruct_path', 'csgraph_masked_from_dense', 'csgraph_from_dense', 'csgraph_from_masked', 'csgraph_to_dense', 'csgraph_to_masked', 'NegativeCycleError']
bellman_ford, johnson, NegativeCycleError breadth_first_tree, depth_first_tree, connected_components structural_rank csgraph_from_dense, csgraph_to_dense, csgraph_masked_from_dense,\ csgraph_from_masked, csgraph_to_masked
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Terrific! This page is a simple experiment with D3.js and historical English football league data taken from the wonderful RSSSF. It shows the overall league position of a team over time. For example, with a 20-team top flight, first place in the second tier is 21st overall. Use the controls on the right to choose teams (no more than 10!) and the data range to view. (If you know how, then fork on GitHub at smcgivern/historical-league-positions.)
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Transform that removes all columns except
for those that are explicitly
specified as ones to keep
To specify only the columns
to remove, use
RemoveColumnsTransform |
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RemoveColumnsTransform
Remove the specified columns from the data.
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BaseDoubleTransform |
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ConvertToDouble
Convert any value to an Double
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DoubleMathFunctionTransform
A simple transform to do common mathematical operations, such as sin(x), ceil(x), etc.
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DoubleMathOpTransform
Double mathematical operation.
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Log2Normalizer
Normalize by taking scale * log2((in-columnMin)/(mean-columnMin) + 1)
Maps values in range (columnMin to infinity) to (0 to infinity)
Most suitable for values with a geometric/negative exponential type distribution.
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MinMaxNormalizer
Normalizer to map (min to max) -> (newMin-to newMax) linearly.
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StandardizeNormalizer
Normalize using (x-mean)/stdev.
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SubtractMeanNormalizer
Normalize by substracting the mean
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BaseFloatTransform |
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ConvertToFloat
Convert any value to a Float
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FloatMathFunctionTransform
A simple transform to do common mathematical operations, such as sin(x), ceil(x), etc.
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FloatMathOpTransform
Float mathematical operation.
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IPAddressToCoordinatesTransform
Uses GeoIP2 from http://www.maxmind.com
to convert IP addresses to (approximate) coordinates (latitude:longitude).
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class |
IPAddressToLocationTransform
Uses GeoIP2 from http://www.maxmind.com
to convert IP addresses to (approximate) locations.
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BaseIntegerTransform
Abstract integer transformation (single column)
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class |
ConvertToInteger
Convert any value to an Integer.
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class |
IntegerMathOpTransform
Integer mathematical operation.
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class |
IntegerToOneHotTransform
Convert an integer column to a set of one-hot columns.
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ReplaceEmptyIntegerWithValueTransform
Replace an empty/missing integer with a certain value.
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class |
ReplaceInvalidWithIntegerTransform
Replace an invalid (non-integer) value in a column with a specified integer
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class |
LongMathOpTransform
Long mathematical operation.
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class |
ParseDoubleTransform
Convert string writables to doubles
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| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
class |
AppendStringColumnTransform
Append a String to the
values in a single column
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class |
BaseStringTransform
Abstract String column transform
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class |
ChangeCaseStringTransform
Change case (to, e.g, all lower case) of String column.
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class |
ConcatenateStringColumns
Concatenate values of one or more String columns into
a new String column.
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class |
ConvertToString
Convert any value to a string.
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class |
MapAllStringsExceptListTransform
This method maps all String values, except those is the specified list, to a single String value
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class |
RemoveWhiteSpaceTransform
String transform that removes all whitespace charaters
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class |
ReplaceEmptyStringTransform
Replace empty String values with the specified String
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class |
ReplaceStringTransform
Replaces String values that match regular expressions.
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class |
StringListToCategoricalSetTransform
Convert a delimited String to a list of binary categorical columns.
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class |
StringListToCountsNDArrayTransform
Converts String column into a bag-of-words (BOW) represented as an NDArray of "counts."
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class |
StringListToIndicesNDArrayTransform
Converts String column into a sparse bag-of-words (BOW)
represented as an NDArray of indices.
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class |
StringMapTransform
A simple String -> String map function.
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| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
class |
StringToTimeTransform
Convert a String column to a time column by parsing the date/time String, using a JodaTime.
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class |
TimeMathOpTransform
Transform math op on a time column
Note: only the following MathOps are supported: Add, Subtract, ScalarMin, ScalarMax
For ScalarMin/Max, the TimeUnit must be milliseconds - i.e., value must be in epoch millisecond format |
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
class |
GazeteerTransform
A gazeteer is a work lookup table
based on a word list.
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class |
MultiNlpTransform
A multi NLP transform takes in 1 or more bag of words transforms as a pipeline
and runs them in sequence.
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class |
TokenizerBagOfWordsTermSequenceIndexTransform
This transform takes in a list of words
and outputs a single vector where that vector is of size
number of words in the vocab.
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Typhoon Engine
0.1
Multi-Platform Game Engine
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#include <LayerStack.h>
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| typedef std::vector< Layer * > | LayerVec |
| Typedefs. | |
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| typedef unsigned int | LayerIndex |
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| LayerStack () | |
| void | PushLayer (Layer *layer) |
| void | PushOverlay (Layer *overlay) |
| void | PopLayer (Layer *layer) |
| void | PopOverlay (Layer *overlay) |
| LayerVecIt | begin () |
| Range-for support. | |
| LayerVecIt | end () |
Layerstack manager Handles application layering
| TyphoonEngine::LayerStack::LayerStack | ( | ) |
Constructor/destructor
| void TyphoonEngine::LayerStack::PopLayer | ( | Layer * | layer | ) |
Removes a layer from the stack NOTE: Ownership transferred to callee! Parameters: layer - pointer to layer to remove
| void TyphoonEngine::LayerStack::PopOverlay | ( | Layer * | overlay | ) |
Removes an overlay from the stack NOTE: Ownership transferred to callee! Parameters: overlay - pointer to layer to remove
| void TyphoonEngine::LayerStack::PushLayer | ( | Layer * | layer | ) |
Pushes a layer into the stack on top of previous layers NOTE: LayerStack owns layer and frees memory on destruction Parameters: layer - pointer to layer to insert
| void TyphoonEngine::LayerStack::PushOverlay | ( | Layer * | overlay | ) |
Pushes an overlay into the stack ALWAYS on top of layers and above the previous overlay NOTE: LayerStack owns layer and frees memory on destruction Parameters: overlay - pointer to layer to insert


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The conundrum of personalized data
Posted on July 7, 2020
There's been a lot of debate regarding data ownership and the use of harvested private data. I think we all enjoy personalized products, especially when we discover something new and exciting. The problem arises when the data starts to be tied to our real identity and sold to 3rd parties. To exemplify what I'm referring to, I've organized a small tier list based on products I use:
Tier 1
Products and services that are not tied to a real identity nor respond to real world events and use data to enhance the product/service. Those products/services generally do not seek you have you spend large amounts of money.
Prime example, Spotify. You're free to sign up to Spotify with a 10 minute mail address. Spotify gives you music, and it recommends more music as you keep listening.
The data is reinvested in the customer.
Note: I am aware that they've been involved in some more questionable debacles in the past two years or so. I'm talking more about how hypothetically a tier 1 service would look like.
Tier 2
Products and services that are not tied to a real identity nor respond to real world events in any significant way and use data to enhance the product/service. Those products/services generally try to keep you on that platform so you can spend more money on that platform.
Steam is a great case. Steam sells games and wants to sell more games (also one VR headset). Steam wants you to keep spending money so they use that data to recommend you games and keep you on hook for sales. These types of platforms may occasionally take proactive action to real world events, such as themed sales and donations.
The data is reinvested in the platform.
Tier 3
Products and services that are tied to a real identity or to real world events and use data to enhance the product/service. Those products/services generally try to keep you on that platform so you can spend more money and more time on that platform. Primarily ad based.
I was going to use facebook as an example but I haven't used it in years so I'll use youtube instead. Youtube tries to maximize the time you spend watching videos so they can serve you more ads. They may also have options to spend money on the platform itself (youtube premium). These types of platforms drastically respond to real world events, changing codes of conduct and often banning people. These platforms often track users even outside the platform and try to hoard as much data as possible (such as physical related data like location and location history).
Data is invested into 3rd party advertisers, the user is the product.
I think most people are fine with Tier 1 and more Tier 2 types of services, especially if the data is handled with proper care and anonymized. The problem appears with Tier 3 products that end up being invasive and often enough influencing people. This problem is increased by an order of magnitude once you start involving politics and politicizing issues.
Possible Solutions
There can be multiple ways this problem is approached, such as governmental intervention and regulations. Since governments don't exactly have a great track record when it comes to dealing with tech, I'd personally go for decentralization and containerization. Have google not use your gmail data for your Maps recommendations. Stop the borderline surveillance and tracking of people once they leave the platform. Allow the creation of localized forks of the product. Give incentive to people to be products, like Brave does. You can see ads in exchange for a percentage of the money generated by that ad.
In terms of actual technologies that can be used for this, I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader. I'm not a network/infrastructure engineer, but personally I'm a fan of blockchain and containers. The idea of forking an existing product after it stops being what you want it to be or when you want to make some personal adjustments to it, like to a github project, is very appealing, despite the fact it can often seem infeasible.
As for us users, we can also take steps towards a more decentralized internet. Stop using one account for everything. Don't sign in with a facebook/google account, set up a new account, and use a password manager to generate a strong and unique password. Even if the product gets compromised, you can minimize your risk this way.


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Christian Weyer asks why Services Without Components is broken on Windows XP. I don't know the exact details of it, but I do know a few things I found out after lurking a while.
Keep in mind that last time I took a look at this was a few months ago, so it might have changed, but I highly doubt it.
Transaction support for SWC is configured through the IServiceTransactionConfig interface. Now, the original interface, with an IID of {772b3fbe-6ffd-42fb-b5f8-8f9b260f3810} is indeed supported on WinXP, and it sort of works. Or at least, it looks like it. [1]
However, it turns out, if I may say so myself, that someone made a bad versioning decision for .NET server, and went against all the COM versioning practices used before. In .NET Server, IServiceTransactionConfig supports 1 other method: ConfigureBYOT().
The problem is, it's not that they redefined the interface. Worse, they renamed it. So, in previous PSDK headers we had the following definition for IServiceTransactionConfig:
MIDL_INTERFACE("772b3fbe-6ffd-42fb-b5f8-8f9b260f3810")
IServiceTransactionConfig : public IUnknown
{
public:
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE ConfigureTransaction(
/* [in] */ CSC_TransactionConfig transactionConfig) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IsolationLevel(
/* [in] */ COMAdminTxIsolationLevelOptions option) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE TransactionTimeout(
/* [in] */ ULONG ulTimeoutSec) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE BringYourOwnTransaction(
/* [string][in] */ LPCWSTR szTipURL) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE NewTransactionDescription(
/* [string][in] */ LPCWSTR szTxDesc) = 0;
};
Notice, however, there's no ConfigureBYOT() method, even though the PSDK docs mentioned it was there.
What we have now are two interfaces: IServiceTransactionConfigBase, and IServiceTransactionConfig, which inherits from the first one.
There's the rub. What is now named IServiceTransactionConfigBase is exactly what used to be called IServiceTransactionConfig, and has the same GUID; they just renamed it, and created a new interface with the same name as the old one with a new GUID which is only supported in .NET Server. The definitions for these new interfaces are:
MIDL_INTERFACE("772b3fbe-6ffd-42fb-b5f8-8f9b260f3810")
IServiceTransactionConfigBase : public IUnknown
{
public:
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE ConfigureTransaction(
/* [in] */ CSC_TransactionConfig transactionConfig) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IsolationLevel(
/* [in] */ COMAdminTxIsolationLevelOptions option) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE TransactionTimeout(
/* [in] */ ULONG ulTimeoutSec) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE BringYourOwnTransaction(
/* [string][in] */ LPCWSTR szTipURL) = 0;
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE NewTransactionDescription(
/* [string][in] */ LPCWSTR szTxDesc) = 0;
};
MIDL_INTERFACE("59f4c2a3-d3d7-4a31-b6e4-6ab3177c50b9")
IServiceTransactionConfig : public IServiceTransactionConfigBase
{
public:
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE ConfigureBYOT(
/* [in] */ ITransaction *pITxByot) = 0;
};
The reason this is terrible is because it breaks source code, even if it doesn't break binary code. If you compile your application agains the old headers, everything will [sort of] work fine on XP, even if you can't use ConfigureBYOT(), since it doesn't exist. (which is fine by me, btw). However, if you recompile it against the new headers, suddently it doesn't work on XP, because it picks up the GUID for the new definition of IServiceTransactionConfig, only existing on .NET Server (so QueryInterface() now fails). [2]
What they should have done, was leave IServiceTransactionConfig alone, and define a new interface with a new name, called IServiceTransactionConfigEx or IServiceTransactionConfig2 or whatever, which is what the common COM versioning rules of thumb are.
Up to a couple of months ago, this wasn't documented anywhere, and the PSDK docs still said that IServiceTransactionConfig, even with the new ConfigureBYOT() method, was supported on XP (which was now a lie, thanks to the GUID change). Not only that, but IServiceTransactionConfigBase is not documented anyway, either.
I just looked at the docs for the February 2003 Platform SDK documentations, and it seems this has been corrected. CoEnterServiceDomain() and friends are now documented as being supported on Windows Server 2003 only. And, in fact, the SWC support in the .NET Framework 1.1 will only work in WS 2003.... the ServiceDomain class won't even instantiate in XP. I was told in very certain terms that the public message from now on would be that SWC was NOT supported on XP.
[1] I have a feeling far more is broken below... I had a few issues with aborting transactions explicitly within a service domain last I fooled around with this...
[2] I haven't installed yet the latest PSDK, so I don't know if this blunder has been fixed...


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Tutorial 10. Event-Driven Synchronization¶
In linear_up_walker , since the output surface is created in user-provided system memory, there is no need to call ReadSurface to access those data after enqueue. However, we still need to know when the GPU task is finished, and the output is complete. An event-driven synchronization method is used here
unsigned long time_out = -1;
cm_result_check(sync_event->WaitForTaskFinished(time_out));
// Destroys a CmTask object.
// CmTask will be destroyed when CmDevice is destroyed.


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If you or someone else is in danger, do not wait: call the police for help on 000. Their job is to ensure your safety and to investigate if a crime has been committed. Even if it is not a crime, the police and other services can help protect you.
You can contact the police at any time to report abuse that has happened to you, even if it happened months or years ago. If you want the police to charge the person with a crime, you will need to make a ‘statement’ that describes what happened. The police will type what you told them, investigate it and decide whether there is enough evidence to charge the person with a criminal offence.
A number of specialist support services exist which can provide services such as:
1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)
A 24 hour national sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line for any Australian who has experienced, or is at risk of, family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
LIFELINE (13 11 14)
A national number that can help put you in contact with a crisis service in your state, available to anyone experiencing a personal crisis or thinking about suicide.
RELATIONSHIPS AUSTRALIA (1300 364 277)
Provides support groups and counselling on relationships, and for abusive and abused partners.
ABORIGINAL FAMILY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE (1800 019 123)
Provides support for Aboriginal victims of crime who would like information on their rights, how to access counselling and financial assistance.
TRANSLATING & INTERPRETING SERVICE (131 450)
Provides free access to a telephone or on-site interpreter in your own language, available 24 hours, every day of the year.
While it is normal to feel nervous about seeking support, these services will help you understand if you feel nervous and can help you feel comfortable talking to them.
Remember: you have a right to get support and help. The abuse is not your fault.
Victorian Legal Aid
Phone 1300 792 387, Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.
You can call Victorian Legal Aid for free information about family violence intervention orders and how they can help you. If they can’t help you directly, they will refer you to other organisations that can.
Your local community legal service may be able to give you legal information and advice, and potentially also advice and representation at court. Most services are free.
The Women’s Legal Service Victoria provides free confidential legal information, advice representation and referral to women.
Djirra helps Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims of family violence and sexual assault and works with families and communities affected by violence.
You can also find a private lawyer near you through the Law Institute of Victoria’s Legal Referral Service. All law firms included in the Legal Referral Service provide a free 30-minute interview. If you book an interview, write your questions down beforehand, so you get as much out of the free 30 minutes as possible. If you discuss getting further help from the lawyer, make sure you know how much it will cost.
An intervention order is intended to protect you from experiencing violence from another person. It includes conditions that can prevent a person from:


You've landed on my website. This is where I'll be sharing content I create and let you know a little bit about myself. On the Watch page, you'll find some of my recent YouTube videos, as well as links to access my YouTube account. On the Look page, you'll see some of the photography I have done. On the About Me page, you'll find out more information about me and how you can get in touch with me. Feel free to look around.


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To calculate the results of an election, there must be a list of candidates and a list of votes. Both lists should be entered into the box below, with a separator of "~~~" between the sections. An example election between pets is automatically loaded.
In the candidate section, each candidate is listed on a new line. In the vote section, each vote contains a preference for each candidate in the order the candidates are listed in the candidate section. "1" indicates the first preference, "2" indicates the second preference, and so on. Each preference is separated by commas, and each vote is on a new line. For example, a vote of "2,3,1" would give first preference to the candidate listed third, second preference to the candidate listed first, and third preference to the candidate listed second. Make sure that each vote has a preference for each candidate.
Edit the candidates and votes as necessary for your election, and press the "Import Data" button to confirm the data before selecting an electoral system. The data in the box can be changed at any time, but you'll need to confirm your changes.


Electricity Production over 2013-2017
Power consumption accelerated again in 2017 (+2.6%)
Electricity consumption globally increases at a faster pace than other energy vectors due to electrification of energy uses. Most of the 2017 increase in global electricity consumption occurred in Asia. As in 2016, the electricity consumption growth in China, amid an industrial recovery and despite strong energy efficiency improvements, contributed to more than half of the world electricity consumption rebound. Power demand also grew in Japan for the first time since 2013, in India, Indonesia and South Korea.
Electricity consumption in the United States, which had remained broadly stable since 2011 due to energy efficiency improvements, declined for the second year in a row in 2017, whereas it rose in Canada.
It remained stable in the European Union (increase in Italy, Poland, Germany and Spain, decline in the UK) and grew in Turkey.
Electricity consumption also increased significantly in Iran and in Egypt.


In the opening scene of Miyazaki Hayao's animated feature Princess Mononoke, we witness a battle between young Prince Ashitaka and a giant demon warthog that is attacking his village. In the act of successfully killing the animal, he receives a wound to his arm. In a meeting with the village elders, he learns from a wise woman that the wound is certainly fatal. It is only a matter of time. His only hope is to travel to the forest home of the demon warthog to find out what has driven it to hate and kill humans.
Thus begins a quest that is thematically related to many legends and fairy tales, going back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. A young protagonist, usually an adolescent like Ashitaka, goes on a voyage to save either himself, herself or their people. This voyage--in many ways a rite of puberty--leads to self-discovery and a happy ending.
Although Miyazaki is known as Japan's Walt Disney, it would be a mistake to assume that Princess Mononoke resembles the sort of saccharine product Disney studios offer up today. In many ways it is a throwback to the darker vision of a Disney past, when his films had the power to both frighten and enchant.
Ashikata departs to the East on his steed, a loyal elk in true fairy-tale fashion, the rumored homeland of the demon hog. The only clue to what drove the animal wild and turned it into a demon is the iron ball that is discovered in its corpse. The wise woman of the village tells him that if he discovers the source of the iron ball, he will likely understand the root of his own suffering as well.
After a journey across mountains and through forests, he finally arrives at the source of the iron ball. It is Irontown, ruled by Princess Eboshi. Miyazaki's Irontown is a realistic depiction of one of those towns that existed everywhere on the cusp of the introduction of capitalist property relations in the 16th century. Its citizens work in a foundry turning iron ore into guns and bullets. Eboshi dreams of ruling the world. By bringing together wage labor and raw materials, she will achieve mastery over all her enemies, including the feudal Samurai warriors who are constantly attacking her heavily fortified industrial compound. She is symbolic of an emerging Japanese bourgeoisie, whose artisan-based workshop is a mere sprout in the surrounding feudal countryside. Out of such sprouts, capitalism could emerge anywhere, but for geographical reasons was allowed only to emerge in Western Europe and Japan. In the first instance because Western Europe was able to cannibalize the New World, in the second because Japan took advantage of its insular features to resist the cannibals.
Her only other enemy are the animals and spirits of the nearby mountain, where the town's miners are systematically destroying trees in order to get at the iron ore under the ground. Periodically animals, including the warthog of the opening scene, attack the miners and the soldiers who defend them. That is what the iron ball turns out to be, a bullet that both gravely wounded the warthog and led to Ashikata's own struggle against death.
Eboshi's main worry, however, is San, the teenaged girl who lives with white wolves in the forest. She is Princess Mononoke, who has the ability to talk to the animals. Her parents abandoned her in the forest when she was an infant, where she was adopted by the wolf goddess Moro, her mother now. During one of her raids on Eboshi's fortress-factory, San is saved from death by Ashikata who takes her unconscious body back into the forest. During the rescue, he is wounded himself. Using the restorative powers of a pond deep within the forest, San brings Ashikata back to health. However, the original wound he received from the warthog has not disappeared. Its black magic will prove difficult to overcome. The partnership of Ashikata and San against the destruction of the forest, set against their unsteady progress toward friendship and possibly love, will eventually overcome this black magic.
Besides the three central characters--Princess Mononoke, Ashikata and Eboshi--the most vivid character of all is the forest itself with its animals and spirits. Miyazaki is one of the great animation artists of the 20th century, whose landscapes still depend heavily on manually produced cels, although he is not above using computers when appropriate. Every scene in Princess Mononoke is framed by a breathtaking natural tableaux, typically tree-covered mountains that arch toward a brilliant sun and clouds, with birds coasting lazily across the sky. Although the scenes of nature usually occupy less than a minute, they are essential to the esthetic pleasure of the film and its underlying theme: nature has transcendent if not divine status. To kill it in a wanton fashion is evil. On one level, Miyazaki's environmentalism has much in common with the "deep ecology" that has sprung up over the past 2 decades. It depends heavily on spiritual and religious understandings of the connection between humanity and nature.
Key to understanding the underlying beliefs of Princess Mononoke is the continuing strength of Shintoism in Japan, the pre-Buddhist indigenous beliefs. The core of Shintoist mythology revolves around tales of the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, the ancestress of the Imperial Household. In the beginning, according to Japanese mythology, a certain number of kami or divine powers simply emerged, and a pair of kami, Izanagi and Izanami, gave birth to the Japanese islands, as well as to the kami who became ancestors of the various clans. Amaterasu, the ruler of Takama no Hara; the moon god Tsukiyomi no Mikoto; and Susanoo (Susanowo) no Mikoto, the ruler of the nether regions, were the most important among them.
Shintoist beliefs remain strong in Japan today, although there is no organized Shintoist religion as such. Perhaps best way to understand the persistence of precapitalist mythology in a highly advanced industrial country is to imagine by analogy that Mexico had been an island able to resist Spanish conquistadores. At some point, the native Aztec feudal aristocracy emerges into a capitalist class, but never loses touch with the pantheistic beliefs of its racial origins. Among them is a belief in the sacredness of nature, something that is obviously inimical to unfettered capitalist growth.
The concern about "absence of the sacred" not only permeates Miyazaki's film, it also is strong among some of the ideological leaders of the recent Seattle protests. Green idealists such as Jerry Mander and Vandana Shiva decry the soulless pursuit of profit by the modern corporation. Salvation would seem to be a return to the simple life of pastoral villagers and nomads, who view themselves as part of nature and not above it.
However, a deeper reading of Princess Mononoke would yield a somewhat different view. Prince Ashikata's message is not that Irontown should be destroyed, only that it find a way to co-exist with nature. In addition, the artisans of Irontown are depicted as plucky and resourceful, not simple wage slaves who hate their work. The most skilled workers there, who are designing a more powerful rifle directly under Eboshi's supervision, are lepers whom she has rescued from outer society's fears and superstitions.
In a perceptive Oct. 24, 1999 Los Angeles Times profile of Miyazaki, Charles Solomon notes that in contrast to the sneering Clayton in "Tarzan" or the brutal Shan Yu in "Mulan":
"Eboshi is not a straightforward villain. Like the Japanese people after World War II, the workers in Iron Town are trying to survive in a troubled world; they don't mean to destroy their environment.  Miyazaki asked.  But what if a really good person becomes a real estate developer?'"
The questions posed by Princess Mononoke and the Seattle protests will remain with us as long as the world is organized on the basis of profit and private property. Some people opposed to the system will long for simpler, precapitalist foundations while others will argue that progress and material well-being can only be ensured by relentless exploitation of natural resources. Marxism has often found itself struggling to define itself within the two poles.
Perhaps Engels' characterization of the Iroquois confederacy and other precapitalist societies might be a guide to understanding resolving this apparent dilemma:
"The power of this primitive community had to be broken, and it was broken. But it was broken by influences which from the very start appear as a degradation, a fall from the simple moral greatness of the old gentile society. The lowest interests -- base greed, brutal appetites, sordid avarice, selfish robbery of the common wealth -- inaugurate the new, civilized, class society. It is by the vilest means -- theft, violence, fraud, treason -- that the old classless gentile society is undermined and overthrown. And the new society itself, during all the two and a half thousand years of its existence, has never been anything else but the development of the small minority at the expense of the great exploited and oppressed majority; today it is so more than ever before."
Clearly, what Marxists should aim at is the marriage of the values of communal society--including its reverence of nature--with the scientific and technological advances that modern class society has made possible. The proper term for this is socialism.
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* If you want to have long tags (with spaces) you can simply set the keyCodes and delimiter options to
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The ministry said last week that 59 “foreign terrorists” have been deported to their home countries since November 11, when a new deportation push was started.
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“Turkey is no one’s open air prison or hotel,” said ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli, adding that Turkish authorities would deport all of the suspects.


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| MPI_CART_SHIFT(comm, direction, disp, rank_source, rank_dest) | |
| IN comm | communicator with Cartesian structure (handle) |
| IN direction | coordinate dimension of shift (integer) |
| IN disp | displacement (> 0: upwards shift, < 0: downwards shift) (integer) |
| OUT rank_source | rank of source process (integer) |
| OUT rank_dest | rank of destination process (integer) |
int MPI_Cart_shift(MPI_Comm comm, int direction, int disp, int *rank_source, int *rank_dest)
MPI_CART_SHIFT(COMM, DIRECTION, DISP, RANK_SOURCE, RANK_DEST, IERROR)
Depending on the periodicity of the Cartesian group in the specified
coordinate direction, MPI_CART_SHIFT provides the identifiers for a
circular or an end-off shift. In the case of an end-off shift,
the value MPI_PROC_NULL may be returned in rank_source or
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INTEGER COMM, DIRECTION, DISP, RANK_SOURCE, RANK_DEST, IERROR
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The direction argument indicates the coordinate dimension to be traversed by the shift.
The dimensions are numbered from 0 to ndims-1, where ndims is the number of dimensions.
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The communicator, comm, has a two-dimensional, periodic, Cartesian
topology associated with it. A two-dimensional array of REALs is stored
one element per process, in variable A. One wishes to skew this array,
by shifting column i (vertically, i.e., along the column) by
i steps.
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....
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The Game (R) *** 1/2 "What do you give the man who has everything?" A few days of living hell, apparently, and it is exactly that, concentrated into two hours, which director David Fincher serves moviegoers in The Game, a wonderfully unsettling and suspenseful thriller that launches PolyGram's new film distribution wing with a bang. Michael Douglas is in his element as wealthy businessman Nicholas van Orton: cold, calculating, and looking out for no one but himself, Nicholas is exactly the type of sinful-guy-due-for-a-comeuppance Douglas has built his career on playing, and, predictably, Douglas nails the role perfectly. When Nicholas's brother Conrad, a.k.a. "Connie" (Sean Penn, in a role meant for Jodie Foster), gives him an invitation to a mysterious game as a birthday present, the seeds of Nicholas's destruction are planted. After extensive testing at the offices of Consumer Recreation Services, the company in charge of the Game, Nicholas soon finds himself in one life-threatening situation after another, which leads him to wonder if he is indeed just playing a game (albeit a really twisted one) or if someone really wants him dead. It is that question of illusion versus reality that propels the intricate, unpredictable, if implausible storyline cooked up by writers John Brancato and Michael Ferris. Unlike too many mystery-thrillers, the writing and directing remains one step ahead of the audience; just when one is led to think one way, something twists our beliefs in the other, creating a chilling atmosphere of uncertainty. This is not surprising coming from Fincher, who established himself as a master of mood with the unflinchingly dark Alien3 and Se7en. However, in those films, mood bogged down the pace, thus stripping away the necessary urgency; a similarly slow pace would have been deadly to The Game, whose implausibilities would not hold up if there were time for close scrutiny. The Game finds Fincher in a uncharacteristic--and highly effective--faster gear, sweeping the audience away on an unrelenting rollercoaster of plot twists and paranoia which always stays true to the material's mean streak. Apparently not content to be a well-crafted funhouse ride, Brancato and Ferris throw in a psychological angle to the proceedings which is not satisfactorily developed. Nicholas's birthday is his 48th, which happens to be the age when his father took a fatal jump off of the roof of his mansion. The trauma of witnessing his father's suicide at a young age haunts Nicholas, and supposedly it shaped him into the man he's become, but it is never clear in what way. Not that anyone really cares--Nicholas is such an unsavory character that it's hard to sympathize with him as a person, and why would we want to? Part of the fun in watching The Game is seeing this unsympathetic character being dragged through the mud over and over again. The attempt at audience empathy is at odds with the film's unremittingly nasty nature. A lesson is supposed to have been learned at the end of The Game, but I'm not at all sure what exactly that is. But that hardly matters; what does is that for a little over two hours, David Fincher takes the audience on a breathless, harrowing ride whose considerable pleasures are measured in dread and discomfort.
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Let's say you're a king or queen that has a special announcement for your loyal subjects to hear and rejoice upon... how do you communicate it? Simple! You gather all your underlings into a large courtyard outside your castle walls while you stand in all your glory high above them relaying the good news. This serves the purpose of communicating to hundreds of people at once, while simultaneously demonstrating your utter magnificence and allowing you to appear literally larger than life.
Fictional and actual royal families, along with other people of significance, have been using this method for centuries to spread the word. Surprisingly, in the fictional world at least, the royalty is never at a loss for poor sods to fill the courtyard below, even if they are less-than-popular. Of course, if that's the case, expect The Hero and his crew to stage a very appropriate interruption of the events.
The message needn't be all that positive either. Perhaps the king wishes to appear sympathetic to the country's recent outbreak of The Plague or maybe the almighty emperor wishes to fire up his troops before going off to war. No matter the reason, it seems that leaders can't help but stick to the good, old castle balconies when it comes to the presentation.
Since it pertains primarily to royalty and nobility, this trope creeps up quite often in fantasy-related material, but can be found anytime a leader has a castle, fortress, tower, or similarly large structure. In non-fantasy settings, expect such a scene to show up when Putting on the Reich.
Compare Rousing Speech.
Examples:
- Gankutsuou: General Morcerf does this during a military coup; definitely a Putting on the Reich version.
- One Piece:
- Shortly after Luffy is given his first bounty, we see Vice-Admiral John Giant giving one of these to an assortment of marines, about how they must wipe out any pirate- IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE!!
- At the end of the Alabasta arc, Vivi gives her coming-of-age speech to the people of Alabasta from the balcony of the royal palace. However, she sneaks out partway through to say goodbye to the Straw Hats.
- Gaara, from Naruto Shippuden, gives his Rousing Speech Allied Shinobi Forces from a balcony.
- Mother Keeper: Graham gives one to the members of Chaos Tide in order to have them join forces with Cosmos (and presumably the cocytus) to take down Eden once and for all.
- King Smurf in The Smurfs comic book story of the same name (and its Animated Adaptation) delivers one from the balcony of his newly-finished royal palace, thanking his "loyal" subjects for its completion. However, only one Smurf remains standing to give applause to the speech, saying "Long live King Smurf".
- The French comic ''Robin Dubois" (a Robin Hood spoof) has the sheriff's wife run out of eggs and tomatoes (and seeing as she was planning to make a tomato omelette...). The sheriff goes to the balcony and asks the village at large for their opinion on a new income tax. He manages to save two eggs, and suggests tomato sauce will do fine.
- In the Star Trek fanfic The First Tile, Monarch Kalidon of the Trill (the position should have been only symbolic, but that turns out not to be the case) calls one of these after a brief civil war on the planet using it to not only denounce his father's policies, and declare some badly needed reform, but to reinstate the unfairly ousted Prime Minister Kareel Odan.
- Gihren Zabi gives one in the fourth chapter of Mobile Suit Gundam Alpha, about the inner superiority of Zeon. His wife didn't seem to like it.
- Aladdin: The Sultan, when announcing the wedding of Jasmine and "Prince Ali". Al is then pushed out into the balcony and in front of the cheering crowd, for extra embarrassment.
- The Lion King (1994): While not a balcony in the strictest sense, Simba is presented to the entire animal kingdom in such a manner.
- Shrek: Lord Farquaad is a fan of this. Possibly because no one could see him at all if he weren't elevated so far over everyone's heads
- Joseph: King of Dreams: Pharaoh announces Joseph's promotion from imprisoned slave boy to the second-most-powerful man in the world from a balcony.
- In Minions, one of the eponymous characters is crowned King of England and gives a nonsensical speech like this.
- Baahubali 2: The Conclusion: Queen Mother Sivagami announces the death of Amarendra, and names his newborn son Mahendra as the new king.
- Bananas: Has such a scene.
- The Beautician and the Beast: Used as a parody of Evita
- The Expendables: General Garza, when speaking to his soldiers.
- The Great Dictator: The "Look up, Hannah", with Charlie Chaplin laying a brick bat not just on Naziism but nationalism itself.
- The Lord of the Rings
- In 'The Two Towers'', Saruman makes such a speech from Orthanc to his army before they march for Helm's Deep.
- Denethor in The Return of the King subverts this, telling the Gondorian army to flee for their lives when Sauron's army is at the gates of Minas Tirith. (Not so much from a balcony as over the top of the highest level of the city, but it serves the same purpose.)
- Monty Python's Life of Brian:
- The trope is played with in the "You are all individuals" scene. He speaks to the people he wants not to follow him from his window.
- Pontius Pilate pays it straight when he addresses the people of Jerusalem.
- Moon over Parador: Features an example of this.
- The Princess Bride: Prince Humperdink announces Buttercup as his bride-to-be from a balcony.
- Quo Vadis: Nero watches the Imperial Troops march from his balcony and exchange salutes.
- Star Wars:
- Revenge of the Sith: While it doesn't take place on a balcony, Palpatine's speech to the Senate announcing the rise of The Empire serves the same function.
- General Hux does this from a podium in The Force Awakens, as part of the intentional First Order/Nazi visual parallel.
- The Wall: Pink's opening speech in the "In the Flesh?" segment qualifies in pretty much every sense of this trope.
- The Three Stooges: The classic short You Nazty Spy!! satirizes Hitler's and Mussolini's use of it.
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: This is President Snow's preferred approach to public appearances.
- Water (1985). The Cascaran Liberation Front (all two of them) try singing to the masses to make them turn away from signing up with American oil company Spenco. No-one pays much attention until an American executive, annoyed at their bad singing, offers a hundred bucks to anyone who nails them. An attempt to escape from the balcony by jumping onto a pair of bicycles doesn't end well.
- In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, John Lithgow, portraying Earth scientist Dr. Emilio Lazardo who is possessed by alien villain Lord John Warfan gives such a speech to his men before taking off to invade their home world in another dimension. He constantly mugs in the style of Benito Mussolini (making you wonder which personality knew about that) including a rousing call to arms:
Warfan: "Where are we going?"Lectroids: "Planet Ten!"Warfan: "When?"Lectroids: "Real soon!"
- In This Other Eden, set in a small Irish town following the War of Independence, a controversial modern-art statue of a local IRA hero is blown up, sparking a riot. Crispin Brown, a Hibernophilic Englishman looking to settle in the area, gives an impassioned speech for peace from the balcony of the town hall.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Hitler scene, where Hitler is hiding out as Mr. Hilter, has the titular character running in the North Minehead by-election and addressing, from a balcony, a cast of one man and three children. His speech is welcomed with canned applause.
- The first scene of BBC's Merlin has Uther Pendragon doing one of these about the execution of a sorcerer. Several major characters who live in the castle watch from behind him or windows, while Merlin and a large cast of extras watch from below.
- Uther does this almost whenever he's executing someone.
- Lampshaded by the Doctor in the Doctor Who story Terror of the Zygons when he points out that it takes more than a Loch Ness Monster to rule Earth.
"But you can't rule a world in hiding. You've got to come out onto the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle."
- Davey Havok gives some sort of speech to rally his followers in AFI's "Miss Murder" video.
- The Wizard of Id: The King of Id often addresses his subjects from the balcony. One of them often shouts a snarky comment back at him.
- Evita: Appropriately used to mirror Real Life, one of the songs is even entitled "On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada".
- A speech is attempted by Prince-and-soon-to-be-crowned-King Charles in King Charles III to an already assembled crowd at Buckingham Palace... but the crowd is there protesting Charles' hugely unpopular decision to dissolve Parliament. None of the protesters can hear him over the general din of the protest-ing, even when Charles tries using a megaphone.
- Tropico 3: This is an ability your dictator character can perform. It can improve morale.
- The evil ending of Knights of the Old Republic. Amusingly, since the player character can't talk, Bastila is the one that actually makes the speech, despite the player being the new Dark Lord of the Sith.
- A stock cutscene in Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic.
- Gulcasa delivers one of these in Blaze Union at his coronation. The recipients of the speech—the remnants of the former Imperial Army and the nobility, who have never been exposed to his ideals—are initially ambivalent towards their new sovereign, thinking "at least it's impossible for this guy to be worse than our last emperor". Once Gulcasa is done talking, he has their complete and undying loyalty.
- In Yggdra Union, Gulcasa's rejection of Yggdra's demands for his unconditional surrender is also one of these, as he's standing atop the city ramparts and addressing the enemy army gathered beneath.
- John Hancock, the ghoul mayor of Goodneighbor in Fallout 4, likes delivering these to his community from time to time from the balcony outside his den in the Old State House.
- In Shadow Of War, Talion and Celebrimbor give a joint speech from atop the main Fortess's balcony every time a region is conquered. Every speech is actually somewhat terrifying, with Celebrimbor's voice superimposed over Talion's and the aggressive, almost manic tone they use to promise pain and suffering for their enemies. Given they're giving a speech to uruks, though, that may simply be playing to the crowd.
- Every time a siege begins, the defending orc Warlord will give one of these on the same balcony to assure his soldiers, and Talion, that he has no hope of actually winning.
- Giliath Osborne in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II does this to the nation of Crossbell at the tallest tower of Western Zemuria, the Orchis Tower, to announce the annexation of Crossbell to the Erebonian empire.
- In The Order of the Stick, this is how Redcloak announces to his goblin followers that they're no longer occupying Azure City, but are founding their own nation of "Gobbotopia."
- In The Gamer's Alliance, archmage Jemuel addresses his people from a balcony and announces a new glorious dawn for the Magicracy of Alent.
- The Simpsons: Mr. Burns does it a couple of times, such as when he gives the award to the Inanimate Carbon Rod in "Deep Space Homer".
Burns: Compadres, it is imperative that we crush the freedom fighters before the start of the rainy season! And remember, a shiny new donkey for whoever brings me the head of Colonel Montoya.
(Smithers whispers something in his ear)
Burns: What? Oh. And by that, I mean, of course, it's time for the worker of the week award! - In the Johnny Bravo episode "The Prince and the Pinhead", Johnny (taking a prince's place) addresses the masses simply by saying hello, asking what'd they do yesterday, then telling them to keep it up.
- Used several times in Avatar: The Last Airbender, as befits the the Fire Nation.
- When Admiral Zhao captures Aang, he makes a Balcony speech to his troops, complete with bombastic statements about Fire being the "Superior Element".
- When Azula and Zuko return to the Fire Nation, Li and Lo announce them to a crowd which is understandably thrilled to hear the war is practically won.
- When Firelord Ozai finally departs to do something, he announces to the Imperial Firebenders supporting him that he is now the PHOENIX KING!
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Defenders of Peace": Durd gives a Rousing Speech prior to testing his new superweapon from a balcony atop his fortified base.
- In the Thunder Cats 2011 episode "Omens Part One" King Claudus gives one in a huge amphitheatre dedicating some celebratory Gladiator Games to the memory of Panthro, and concludes leading his sons and Grune in raising their glasses to toast their Absent Friend, while the crowd cheers raucously.
- Benito Mussolini spoke and addressed the nation from a balcony, as, for example, when he announced victory in the war against Abyssinia and the creation of the "Italian Empire" from the balcony of the Palazzo di Venezia, May 9, 1936. Then the partisans hung him upside down...
- Evita: Along with her husband, President Juan Perón of Argentina, she famously used the balcony of Argentina's House of Government (see picture).
- The Pope: Uses his papal balcony for special events and celebrations.
- The balcony of Buckingham Palace was built for this purpose, most recently at Will and Kate's wedding.
- The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs had instead of a balcony a 'Window of Appearances' overlooking the main palace courtyard suitable for showering gold down on worthy officials and showing themselves to a worshipful populace.
 He tried to placate the crowd, dumbstruck, that they were, for the first time, booing him. He got about ten words out before the mob broke into the Presidential Palace and forced him to flee.
- Thanks to its design, Amalienborg Palace, the residence of the Danish monarchs, have four balconies (one for each of the four identical buildings facing the same square). The Monarch will usually employ this trope on his/her birthday, but it has also seen use to announce a new King, most recently when Christian X ascended to the throne in 1912. The following two monarchs, Frederik IX and Margrethe II, however, chose to give their Balcony speech on ascending to the throne, from the balcony at Christiansborg Palace.
- When he was the football coach at University of California-Berkeley (1947-1956), Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf would address fans from a balcony by one of the stadium gates after every home game.
- Agustín de Iturbide, the man who achieved the Independence for México, sat playing cards with his friends at his luxurious home when a large multitude marched through the streets and assembled under his balcony, proclaiming him as the Emperor of the newly created country. Iturbide came out to his balcony to address them, however contrary to stereotype, he first turned down the offer and his speech revolved around how Mexicans didn't need him to lead them, then finally agreed to let the congress decide the matter in the morning, which eventually led to his election as monarch.


Terminal
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The
SCPTerminal
object that is made available by the Stripe Terminal SDK exposes a generic interface for discovering readers, connecting to a reader, and creating payments.The
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@interface SCPTerminal : NSObject
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class Terminal : NSObject
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Before integrating the SDK, you should create an endpoint on your backend server that creates a new connection token via the Stripe Terminal API. The connection token is used by the SDK to connect to a reader.
An overview of the lifecycle of a connection token:
- When Stripe Terminal is initialized, the SDK attempts to proactively request an connection token from your backend server.
- The SDK uses the connection to connect to a reader.
- Subsequent calls to connect require a new connection token. If you disconnect from a reader, and then call connect again, the SDK will need a new connection token from your backend server.
We suggest making your application’s API client conform to this protocol.
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@protocol SCPConnectionTokenProvider
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protocol ConnectionTokenProvider
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Implement this protocol to handle updates from the Stripe Terminal iOS SDK.
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@protocol SCPTerminalDelegate <NSObject>
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protocol TerminalDelegate : NSObjectProtocol
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This class lets you set options that define reader behavior throughout a given reader-to-SDK connection session. Currently, the options are only applicable to the Verifone P400.
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@interface SCPConnectionConfiguration : NSObject
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class ConnectionConfiguration : NSObject
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The possible reader connection statuses for the SDK.
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enum SCPConnectionStatus {}
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The various log levels for the SDK.
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enum SCPLogLevel {}
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An object representing an action that can be canceled.
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@interface SCPCancelable : NSObject
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class Cancelable : NSObject
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Objects conforming to this protocol can be instantiated by decoding a JSON dictionary.
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@protocol SCPJSONDecodable <NSObject>
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protocol JSONDecodable : NSObjectProtocol