Cable Exec Prods High Court on Racial-Bias Standard
by JACK RODGERSWASHINGTON (CN) — A lawyer for a black media mogul shut out by Comcast pushed the Supreme Court on Wednesday to advance their racial-discrimination claims.
“We’re not trying to create any more Bob Johnsons.” That is what Byron Allen says one Comcast executive told him during negotiations for the cable company to carry some stations under his company Entertainment Studios Networks. Johnson is the owner and founder of Black Entertainment Television.
“All that should be required at the pleading stage is motivating factor,” said Allen’s attorney, Erwin Chemerinsky, of the University of California, Berkeley.
“Whatever is the conclusion with regard to who ultimately has the burden of persuasion doesn’t change the pleading stage,” Chemerinsky added.
Though a federal judge in California dismissed Allen’s complaint, the Ninth Circuit reversed after finding it plausible that race was a motivating factor in the denial of Allen’s contract.
Representing Comcast, Gibson Dunn attorney Miguel Estrada said the proper standard is a “but-for” causation, meaning that Allen must prove that he would have gotten a contract but for his race. He said Allen is relying only on conclusory statements lacking in fact, which are not enough to support conclusions of prejudice.
Assistant to the Solicitor General Morgan Ratner, who argued for the government at the hearing in support of Comcast, gave justices a hypothetical situation.
“Someone applies to be an associate of a law firm,” Ratner said. “They get a letter back where they think there’s some sort [of] racial language in there, and they letter also says, ‘and, also, we’re not hiring you because you never went to law school.’ If that person files a complaint complaining about the racial aspect of that denial, I don’t think any court would say that there was any plausible way that that person was going to be hired as a law firm associate, regardless of their race, because they weren’t a lawyer to start with.”
Ratner said in this example, race could have been considered in the law firm’s decision, but the consideration had no ultimate effect on the result.
Justice Stephen Breyer aired some misgivings meanwhile on the hypothetical.
“It’s true it wouldn’t be a consideration where the applicant was a white person,” he aid. Indeed, it couldn’t have been. And if the applicant is a black person, it could be. So this says — the statute says you should treat a white person and a black person alike.
Estrada argued that motivating-factor standards only edged their way into consideration after the Civil Rights Act of 1991. He said congressional amendments were made to this provision after the law was passed, but the failure to include a motivating-factor standard means that Congress intended to preserve the but-for standard.
Justice Sonya Sotomayor said she felt it would be enough to show cause if the company could prove with facts in their complaint that there was a racially motivated decision.
“I go back to the chief justice’s initial point, which is, if I come forward and show that race was a motivating factor, it can also be the but-for,” Sotomayor said. “Until a defendant is deposed and discovery is held, then that becomes an issue for the trier of fact of whether or not that motivating factor was a but-for cause. So, I think as long as you have enough in your complaint to show racial animus and a reasonable inference can be drawn that that’s a but-for cause, I think a plaintiff has done more than enough.”
But Estrada said the pleading stage demands more. “A plaintiff is required to allege facts, not conclusory recitation of the elements of the offense, that plausibly give rise to the inference,” he said.
Chemerinsky, who also represents the National Association of African American-Owned Media, said the federal anti-discrimination rule is clearly stated and lacks the words “because” or “based on.”
“Statutory language matters,” Chemerinsky said. “But this court has never created a requirement for but-for causation in the absence of such language. Section 1981 uses no such words.”
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Roll.e is a telepresence robot system. It can be equipped with a smartphone, camera or FPV system (first person view). Controllable remotely it was designed for business, educational, but also fun.
The idea is to build an economic and open source robot that can be used for conference calls, research, mapping or a better interaction in remote communication.
Before starting the project, I did a long search to understand what might be the real applications in everyday life.
The telepresence robot system existed for several years, allows people who are unable (for health reasons or simply to problems of time, space and money) to travel or attend an event. There are many studies that have been carried out, here an example:, here an example:
http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_evans_and_chad_jenkins_meet_the_robots_for_humanity
There are several examples of amateur robot, equipped with cameras, they are used to
reach places inaccessible to humans, here an example:
http://2015.officinerobotiche.it/myzharbot/
With the increasing use of teleconferencing systems, many companies are producing increasingly more innovative systems, here an example:
Roll.e is controlled with a web interface; the Python script and Arduino IDE coding the communication between the board and the Interface.
The Raspberry Pi 2 read the “controls” and send them to the main board and shield to control the “tower” and the robot. The video is transmitted by cam to web page.
STRATEGY
I believe that the product is very desirable for the market, but we must reduce production costs and dimensions. I know that building a system on a single product would not work, for this reason I think it would be interesting to collaborate with other firms or project (drones, models for diving).
The economical strategy can be the following. Keep software and hardware open source, so no income will come from those ones. We can from the other side sell an already made product in case people don’t want to do it by itself. We can also charge for advanced components (hardware / software) that can be implemented in the Robot. If I can involve other projects the system would have a good chance to work.
I see it as an instrument that can be implemented according to the need of designers and users. I think that can be used as many proposes:
- Remote Travelling: travel and visit remote places
- Mapping tool: creation of 3dimentional Models
- Science Research: recollection data, by equiping it with sensors
- Interactive Sanitary Therapy: psychological therapy; Support to other medical therapy
- Interactive Education
- Security/Surveillance
- And much more...
During the academy, the design of my project is developed according to the knowledge acquired. The final form of the robot I meet many degrees of aesthetic appeal and practicality.
The soft and thin lines, make it pleasing to the eye, while the webcam is able to "humanize" a little (even if I wanted to put two webcams). This, to attrack the younger market audience.
Mobility is the key part of this project, for this reason the robot is equipped with two DC Motors (to move and steer the cart, Recovered from a broken printer), using gears system in PLA 3d printed and two servo, to move the “tower” camera ( PLA 3d printed). The systems will be powered by 5V and 12 V. At the base of the tower it is possible to connect different types of devices: my first idea involves the use of 3d cam and the FPV system, but probably for now I will be using a smartphone or a simple Cam to reduce costs. The shell is made with composite system and the internal structure in PLA 3d Printed .
Mechanical cost: 35/40 € (including sheel)
The structure and the robot body has been made during the week of composite assignment:
The first step was revise and made a new 3D Model of my Robot Roll.e to make the mold on a polyurethan panel ( 600x800x100 mm of which profits 500x600x60 mm).
I split the body into two parts to facilitate the process of composite and I started to draw the mold: knowing the height of the tool (3,5 cm from the mandrel to final tool) I could draw some inclined walls, in this way the machinery does not come in contact with the model when milling (similar to the process of molding and casting assignment).
I Imported the .stl file in the Meshcam software and I set the two milling process which are the Roughing (tip 8 mm flat-head) and the Finishing (tip 3.2 round-head).
Roughing Settings:
- toolpath diameter: 8 mm endmill;
- feed rate : 1100 mm;
- plunge rate: 500;
- spindle speed: 12000 rpm;
- stepover: 5 mm.
- depth per pass: 4 mm.
Finishing Settings:
- toolpath diameter: 3,2 mm ballmill;
- feedrate: 1100 mm;
- plunge rate: 500 mm;
- spindle speed: 12000 rpm;
- stepover: 1,2 mm.
- depth per pass 1 mm.
- After the software has calculated the cam, I have saved the two .iso files and have them imported into the milling software Isons.
- I cleaned the CNC before to put and anchor the polyurethan block because every mm under the material may be a mistake during the process.
- I set the X,Y (0,0) and the Z-axis home coordinates values and I modified the gcode to start the milling process.
- After the Roughing and Finishing process i had lightly sanded to complete finishing.
Wet lay-up is a molding process that combines layers of reinforced fiber with liquid resin to create a high quality laminate. This process involves the positioning of reinforcement material into or against a mold in layers. These layers are then impregnated with a liquid resin system, either with a brush and roller, to ensure a good wet-out of the reinforcement material. The step is repeated until reinforcement thickness is achieved. Curing can be performed at room temperature or under heat, depending on the selection of the resin system. This can be accomplished with the use of a vacuum bagging process.
Equipment, Components and Material:
- Peel Ply-Plastic Laminate;
- Holes-Breather;
- Bleeder;
- Linen Fabric 200 g/sqm of Bcomp°;
- Air-Vacuum Bag;
- Epoxy resin and Hardener (2:1);
- Release and Wax;
- Gelcoat and Reagent (100:2);
- Brush and Roller;
- Protection: eye, mouth/nose and hands.
The ideal ratio between resin and fabric it's 30% resin and 70% fabric. In this specific case, considering the textile material (linen) the ratio considered is 50% resin and 50% linen. The specific weight of linen is 200 grams/square meter. The three layers total area is approximately 0.3 square meter. So, the linen weight is approximately 60 grams. 60 grams of resin are required and considering the ratio 2:1 (resin:hardener) the hardener weight is 60/2 grams equal to 30 grams.
Proceedings:
- I Lightly sanded the mold and clean;
- I cut three pieces of linen of the size of the mold (1 with the texture of fabric at 45 ° to reinforce the composite);
- I also cut Breather, Bleeder and Peel Ply of the size of the mold (the Breather 3 time the dimension of the mold) ;
- I Put 2 Coats of Epoxy resiner and Hardener mixture (2:1 ratio) to completely cover the mold;
- I put 4 Coats of Wax Mold Release each 30 min;
- I put 3 Layer of Linen fabric and Epoxy resin mixture using brush and roller(quickly), making sure to evenly distribute and cover all parts of the mold( I used some small piece of linen to adjust empty areas);
- Then I covered using Peel Ply, Bleeder and Breather (where there will be the valve of the air-vacuum I bent breather to have greater absorbing part)in this order;
- At this point I put it all in the Air-Vacuum bag, I closed the valve anche the bag and I turned on the air pump to created the vacuum;
- after a night the model was ready to be removed, but The release did not work very well and I had to break the mold;
Unfortunately the model didn't come as I wanted, I think that during the process wet lay up, I used too little resin; Furthermore the release wax did not work very well, despite the many layers I used.
For this reason I had to work a lot to fix the the model:
- I cut the edges and sanded many times to reduce the imperfections;
- When I got an acceptable and uniform result I put 2 coat of Gelcoat mixture;
- I Lightly sanded the mold and clean and the end, I have the "body" or "shell" of my robot;
- After this I used the drill to open the hole on the sheel, for the passage of wires and the positioning of the screws stiffening;
The design of the mechanical part was not difficult: I used the software Rhino and I used an open software Gearotic 2.0 to generate Gears.
The key points of this design were: studying the joints of all elements (I did some test prints to see how the PLA is dilated extrusion, especially in the system of gear motors craft I invented with only two gear and the pieces that connected to servo motors allow movement of the tower.
I adjusted files and exported .slt and open every single the file with the software Cura. Basic settings I used:
- QUALITY -
LAYER HEIGHT (mm): 0,2
SHEEL THICKNESS (mm): 0,8
- FILL -
BOTTOM/TOP THICKNESS (mm): 0,8
FILL DENSITY (%): 15
- SPEED AND TEMPERATURE -
PRINT SPEED (mm/s): 120
PRINTING TEMPERATURE (°C): 185
BED TEMPERATURE (°C): 0,8
- SUPPORT -
SUPPORT TYPE : TOUCHING BUILDPLATE
PLATFORM ADHESION TYPE : BRIM
- FILAMENT -
FILAMENT DIAMETER (mm) : 1,75
FILAMENT FLOW (%) : 100
- MACHINE -
MACHINE NOZZLE SIZE (mm) : 0,4
- RETRACTION -
RETRACTION SPEED (mm/S) : 40
RETRACTION DISTANCE (mm) : 4,5
- QUALITY (Advanced) -
INITIAL LAYER THICKNESS (mm) : 0,2
INITIAL LAYER LINE WIDTH (%) : 100
- SPEED (advanced) -
TRAVEL SPEED (mm/s): 150
BOTTOM LAYER SPEED (mm/s): 20
Finished printing the pieces in pla, I assembled all the parts, Including two bases that have been mounted to the internal boards.
The shell is a bit 'distorted and I'was not had the all 4 wheels on the ground at the same time.
To solve this problem, I cuted using the laser cutter a piece of wood, in this way I could straighten the body.
Solved this problem, I did 2 day of test, to control everything. All works perfectly!!!
The movement of the robot is similar to a tank: to facilitate the movement just add two belts. for the prototype I chose to use regular 4 wheels, but I made a few adjustments:
I added the double-sided scotch spongy and a layer of rubber to increase friction of the rear wheels and I added Scotch adhesive smooth, to facilitate the slip of the front wheels.
Rhino and STL for milling "Shell":
Rhino model and 3ds:
- NEW ROBOT.3dm -mesh- (NEW ROBOT.rar -surface/polysurface-)
STL for print "Mechanical":
Programs: Rhinoceros, Cura, Meshcam.
Machinery: Delta Wasp 40 70, VREL CO2 ME-1300.
Using a simil Arduino based on Fabkit 0.4 I adapted the board to my needs. Then I did the shield to control motors dc and servos control, designed by me. I draw in Eagle the boards and I milled them using Roland monoFab SRM-20 milling machine. Then I soldered each components. I wrote the C code in Arduino IDE and I flashed the board. I used and improved the interface created during the interface assignment. I decided to buy a Raspberry Pi 2 (following the advice of Neil during a revision) to transmit the video at web page and I programmed a script that would allow me to control the robot using a web page (output).
Here I found a problem: the communication of Raspberry has a logic of 3.3 V (although it can be supplied with 5V) while the main board has (simil Arduino) a 5V logic.
For this reason I decided to build a logic converter, but I found schemes in internet and I realized that to build it would have paid more than getting a board already done: I decided to buy it.
I made a simil Arduino based on Fabkit 0.4
Board Components:
- FTDI Communication
- 2 Unpolarized Capacitors 1206 0.1 uf
- Unpolarized Capacitor 1206 1 uf
- Electrolytic capacitor 10 uf
Board cost: 8,12 €
To write the bootloader I used the IDE from Arduino. It's necessary choose on Tools > Board > Arduino Pro or Pro mini (3.3V, 8) before and press the Reset Button when you are making the booloader
Drawing the shield in eagle, I realized the need to protect the PCBs, for this reason I decided to design a shield that connects "face to face" with the main board: in this way the components are protected inside. To simplify the programming of the microcontroller board and the connection to the dc motors and servo, I also put sockets on the back of the shield
To control direction and speed of rotation of the motors I used two H bridge. I studied the datasheet of the components to understand how this works: it is possible to reverse the polarity (and therefore the rotation) using an internal switch. The component also allows the entrance the 12 V necessary for the functioning of the dc motors.
Shield Components:
- 2 H Bridge
- 6 PCB connector CMM5-2
- 3 Female Header 8 pin
- 2 Electrolytic Capacitor 10 uf ]
- Unpolarized Capacitor 1206 0.1 uf
- Resistor 1206 0
- Voltage regulator ncp1117 sot 223
Shield cost: 8 €
The control of the robot will be with wire(only for the prototype): in a second fase, I would add a wifi shield control.
milled, soldered and checked with the tester the boards, I could do the first tests with the codes: I realized that unfortunately some pins were defective (they could not get consistently instructions) for this reason I was forced to use two jumpers (luckily I had planned the double face shield, this did not result in changes on the board).
Then I had another problem: I read many forums arduino and I talked with some colleagues, everyone told me the servo motor operates using PWM pin, but instead I found out that they need to analog read pin, fortunately, the change has been very easy to do.
Having available all parts of the "circuit" I was able to wire the entire system according with datasheets and my scheme. To make this easier, I screwed inside the robot base of support for all cards.
Unfortunately, the many errors are due to the little time and some of my distractions, but in the end everything was adjusted and worked perfectly.
It was an excellent opportunity to study some issues that I have always loved.
Eagle:
- fabkit_modif.sch (fabkit_modif.rar)
- fabkit_modif.brd (fabkit_modif.rar)
PNG:
Programs: Eagle, Photoshop, IDE Arduino.
Machinery: Roland SRM-20.
During the course and the assignments I learned how to code with Arduino IDE and (really beginner) with Python. For the final project I wanted to take another step forward.
I decided to buy a Raspberry Pi 2 (following the advice of Neil during a revision) to use a webcam as input and I programmed a script that would allow me to control the robot using a web page (output).
The Python script and Arduino IDE coding the communication between the board and the Interface. The Raspberry Pi 2 read the “controls” and send them to the main board and shield to control the “tower” and the robot. The video is transmitted by cam to web page.
with the "design" the sketch to program the microcontroller of the main board. I used Arduino IDE:
I started using Arduino IDE and I wrote the C code; I programmed the microcontroller to read (using serial port) the signals coming from the interface:
if (Serial.available()) { command = Serial.read(); }
and I imposed on each individual signal a basic command:
(Forward command example) if (command == 'U'){
analogWrite(hbridge_in1,250); //input1 dc motor n°1
analogWrite(hbridge_in2,0); //input2 dc motor n°1
analogWrite(hbridge_in3,250); //input1 dc motor n°2
analogWrite(hbridge_in4,0); //input2 dc motor n°2
}
Using (the many) online forums of Raspberry and studying short tutorials on youtube (during the explanation, I linked ones I used mainly) I configured the board and I did a python script that can read the commands from the web and send them to the main board microcontroller.
First of all I used Noob (the operating system install manager) to install the operating system on the Raspberry Pi SD card. I choose Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution optimized for the Raspberry Pi, as it's well documented and widely used.
As I work with a laptop and don't have any extra keyboard or monitor, my first task was to activate remote access. In order to do this, I enabled the SSH server from the Raspberry configuration menu. With the SSH server enabled it's possible to connect to a remote computer, accessing the bash shell as begining in front of the computer itself, withoutmonitor/keyboard or mouse.
So i installed Apache 2 (apt-get it) and discovered that the SFTP server was already running (it's a feature "included" in the SSH server) so i drop out the use of FTP for file trasfert&editing.
As soon as i have tried to modify the default index page i found my first problem: The linux permission. I lost a lot of time trying to figure out what to do. In the end I find this solution:
-Create a new user group (E.G. "upload")
-Add my user to the newborn group
-Use chown to set the www directory (aka the web base) has owned by the "upload" group.
(source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1562419&p=9774644#post9774644)
I had to repeat that also for the Cgi-Bin directory, the one in with python script may be executed.
I was not very sure if this is the better solution, but in this stage of my project development security issues were not so important. In the future I will have to learn about unix server management, but it's an hard task, and better time will come to do that.
So i got my personal pocket webserver online, and i was able to start coding. I studied python during fab-academy, but never approach to web development (the so called cgi scripts).
Fortunately in python there is a library (or better to say, a module) for everything, so i started making a first "try" script, to assure everything was working as i expected.
The idea is simple: There is an HTML page with a form that, using the "POST" method, pass some arguments to the python script with output them to the Fabkit, via serial port.
Add the www-data account to dialout group, to make the serial accessible for the python script
(source: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=40693)
Trick to use an image as a button in html: (source:http://stackoverflow.com/a/23016230) It would be better to use div instead of table to make the html front end, but I did not have much time.
When HTML ad Python exange data, using the get method, there is no need to worry about the sent string leght.Instead, when comunicating via serial port is mandatory to have fixed messages leght. This happens becouse of the buffer. When the MCU receive serial data it puts them into the buffer, a special portion of the RAM, so the user can use function like Serial.read on Arduino to get them in a variable whenever is needed.
Serial communication mean to send data byte per byte, one after another. So, for example, if we are sending the string "Ciao" we are actually sending a byte for the letter "C", one for the letter "i", ecc. If we read the buffer before the last character is received we will find a truncated string, so the command parsing will not work. A good way to avoid this is to check for a terminator character, such as the line feed, to be sure the string is fully received. A easier way (if we don't need to send long data) is to limit them to a certain amount of data, such as one single byte. In this case i choose the easy way, sending only a single byte with an integer number. This limits the possible combination to 256 (2^8) enough for this project's need. Each number have a meaning for the at-mega firmware, and it respond to an action.
Read example: When html post U, python send 1 via serial to the at-mega328 p (microcontroller), so the robots move forward
Movement - HTML Post Code- Arduino Code:
- Forward - U - 1
- Backwards - D - 2
- Turn Left - L - 3
- Turn Right - R - 4
.Turret handling.
- Spin right - CCW - 5
- Spin left - Cw - 6
- Tilt up - TU - 7
- Tilt down - TD - 8
- Reset - H - 9.
It was very interesting to study the communication between various systems of code, I hope to explore this topic.
After programming the main board with Arduino Ide using FabISP, I tested the Interface from PCs and smartphones to understand how much there was delay between command and execution.
Unfortunately I have not found a way to integrate an html page to send the video streaming and the another page html (with a "form" that uses "post" method) to send at python script the robots commands on a single page html.
Arduino IDE:
Python:
html interface and images:
Programs: IDE Arduino, Python, Html, Apache 2, Motion Camera.


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Life is a messy proposition.
Absolutes, it seems, only exist in the movies ˇ and thatÝs because audiences require a closure of some sort.
That is what makes You Can Count on Me so unusual. It is a movie that deals with life issues and in a manner that mirrors reality ˇ sloppy, flawed and inconclusive.
Sammy (Laura Linney) has been on her own since her parents were killed in a traffic accident.
As the film opens, Sammy is the lending officer at a small-town bank branch. She is a single mom with an 8-year-old son, Rudy (Rory Culkin).
Her younger brother, Terry (Mark Ruffalo), is a drifter and a screw-up. In need of money, he abandons his girlfriend and drops in on his big sister.
And the family dynamics begin. Sammy mothers Terry, brow beating him for not keeping in touch.
Sammy, meanwhile, has a lot on her plate. She is dating Bob (Jon Tenney) whom she may ˇ or may not ˇ love, and she is coping with a fussy new bank manager, Brian (Matthew Broderick), who at their first meeting, refuses to allow her to leave ˇ as is her custom ˇ from 3:15 to 3:30 so she can pick up her son at the bus stop and drop him off at the baby sitter.
 Terry takes this opportunity to get closer to his nephew.
Written and directed by Ken Lonergan, You Can Count on Me rivets your attention not only because of the top-rate performances by all involved ˇ especially Linney and Ruffalo ˇ but because we each can recognize some of ourselves in the interaction between the two: The long-held resentments, the fear of disapproval the self-doubts about a course of action.
On a whim, it seems, Sammy begins an affair with the married Brian. Linney superbly displays Sammy's mixed emotions as she goes through a grab-bag of feelings ˇ from exhilaration to guilt ˇ after one tryst with her boss.
RuffaloÝs Terry is really a good-hearted soul who just cannot do the right thing. He means no harm. Rather, he's merely a bit naive and even a bit idealistic.
When Rudy asks Terry about his father, the latter ˇ without consulting Sammy ˇ drives Rudy to the trailer where his father lives. There, the boy is rejected and denied, an action that so infuriates Terry that he gets into another fight and again winds up in trouble ˇ not only with the law ˇ but with Sammy.
Ruffalo plays Terry as a wounded animal, but one that has been mentally abused. It is a performance that garners sympathy and ultimately respect.
Broderick is clever in his supporting role as the anal boss who cannot understand why people continually question his authority or his decisions. Broderick, a childhood friend of LonerganÝs, takes what could have been a one-dimensional buffoon and transforms him into a comical individual whom you can laugh at and recognize from your own workplace.
You Can Count on Me ends as it begins, with life going on and nothing really getting resolved. Terry leaves to see how his former girlfriend in faring, while Sammy merely drives back to the bank for another day of work.
Even this description is inadequate to explain the emotional resonance that rings through You Can Count on Me. ItÝs a movie that doesn't tackle any big issues or even make any profound statements. It is merely a look at some regular people making the best of their situations from day to day.
And, just like us, for them some days are better than others. And if you want a better day, I strongly recommend you take the time to see You Can Count on Me.
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Module autohudhide
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| infos |
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activate ()
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Activates the system, if it has not been deactivated in the configuration
by settings autohudhide_activate to false.
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activate_internal ()
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Activates the system, without checking the configuration.
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get_info (player)
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Gets the info for the given player. If there is none, one will be created.
Parameters:
- player
The player for which to get the info.
Returns:
The info object for the given player.
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remove_info (player)
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Removes the info for the given player.
Parameters:
- player
The player for whom to remove the info.
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run ()
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Runs the update on all players.
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run_on_player (player)
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Runs the update on the given player.
Parameters:
- player
The player on which to run.
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update_healthbar (player, info)
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Updates the status of the healthbar for the given player.
Parameters:
- player
The player which to update.
- info
The info for the player.
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update_hotbar (player, info)
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Updates the status of the hotbar for the given player.
Parameters:
- player
The player which to update.
- info
The info for the player.
Tables
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infos
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The infos of players used for determining when to hide elements.
Fields
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activate_automatically
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If the system should be activated automatically.
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active
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If the system is currently active/has been activated.
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healthbar_autohide
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If the healthbar should be automatically hidde.
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healthbar_delay
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The delay after which the healthbar is hidden.
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hotbar_autohide
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If the hotbar should be automatically hidden.
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hotbar_delay
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The delay after which the hotbar is hidden.
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interval
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The interval in which the system is running.


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Take a look at the cars and trikes we’ve designed and fabricated since 2010- the year it all started. We took these cars to various national competitions and have won accolades. Till now, all of our cars were internal combustion engine cars. The world is changing and is taking a shift towards a more sustainable and greener future. We at IITG Racing embrace this change and are planning to shift our manufacturing to wholly electric in the next couple of years.
Meet the team of hardworking individuals who have made it possible here at IITG Racing since 2010. A young, talented, and above all, a super enthusiastic lot who are willing to learn new concepts and skills whenever an opportunity arises, and this exactly is what has made us achieve so much in such a short period. As Henry Ford rightly said, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success,” and that is what our team has believed in since the very first day.


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Source Control, Build, Test
I believe that the three fundamental practices of Software Engineering are: source control, build and test.
To be more specific these practices mean:
- Source Control. All artifacts required to build and deploy the software are in source control and developers are committing to the repository frequently (> 1 per day). This is straight forward, provided that an adequate tool is chosen and a simple branching strategy is adopted. The branching strategy maintains a "trunk" where main development occurs, and branches when a release is made. Maintenance of the release occurs in the branch.
- Build. The build requires single action to execute, is run after each source control check-in and takes less than 10 minutes to execute. This is straight forward to achieve but requires discipline and constant minor maintenance. A continuous integration tool should be used to run the build.
- Test. A comprehensive set of automated unit and automated acceptance tests are in place, which are run automatically as part of the build. In practice this means adopting Test Driven Development [Beck] to develop unit tests. For automated acceptance testing no general method has yet been developed.
I have worked on a number of projects which adopted these practices to a greater or lesser extent. My experience is that the greater the adoption of these practices the "less painful" the project has been to work on. None of the projects I have worked on has fully implemented all three practices. Most often we have failed to fully implement automated testing.
This is because automated testing is difficult.


This “easy API” is built on lower level R API function calls provided by this package, (please check the other tutorial and manual) but with a more user friendly interface that provides
## download a file
a$project("wgs")$file("17.vcf")$download()
## upload a file
a$project("wgs")$upload("sample.tgz")
We defined several different objects easy to manipulate, including Auth, Project, Task, File, Upload, Member, etc, each comes with their own methods to access the server, send request and get a response.
To understand the cascading style, you has to under stand the structure of the SBG platforms.
So our cascading visually represent this relationship and structure, if you are familiar with SBG platform, you will find this interface very easy to understand.
To understand the API better, you can also check the original SBG developer hub documents
This cheat sheet provide main API designed for end users, please note “single” is not real project name, just means the cascading method expecting a single returned object not a list, so you name better has a single hit or you pick the one you want from the list. Remember the logic structure and relationship of those concept will help you remember the API easily. For example, a project has members so of course you can run member() method on project object.
For a searching function that need name or id, when both are empty, they will return every object (file, project, pipeline, task, member) in a list. These function usually has optional parameter called ignore.case
and exact
used for matching, when exact = FALSE
you can use pattern to grep objects.
The cheat sheet only show some most used arguments, please check their help function to read more details.
a <- Auth()
a$billing()
a$project_new(name = , description = , billing_group_id = )
a$project(repos = c("public", "my", "project"), project_name = , project_id = )
## to save some typing
p <- a$project("single")
p$delete()
p$member(name = , id = )
p$member_add()
p$member_update()
p$member_delete()
p$file(name = , id = )
p$file("single")$download()
p$upload(file = , metadata = )
p$pipeline(name = , id = )
p$pipeline_add()
p$task(name = , id = )
p$task_run()
p$task("single")$abort()
p$task("single")$monitor(time = )
So you can do a cascading like this, it reads like “I want download the file sample1.tgz in project API under account a”
a$project("API")$file("sample1.tgz")$download("~/Desktop/")
Please play the main function yourself, we are not covering all the function in this tutorial. Also some users may notice the object actually has lower level API binding as well for example, you can call a$pipeline_list_project()
but those are used internally not supposed to be used by end users. user can just call a$prject("public")
I will go through the same tutorial again, but this time use a more simpler cascading API.
First thing you do is to get your authentication token following this tutorial, then create a Auth object which will be our master object for request and actions.
By default we are using SBG US platform API URL “https://api.sbgenomics.com/1.1/”, you can also pass another URL, for example, NCI cancer cloud API URL.
Now let’s use some fake auth token and load the library.
## == Auth ==
## auth_token : aef7e9e3f6c54fb1b338ac4ecddf1a56
## url : https://api.sbgenomics.com/1.1/
Billing group specify how your computation charges, when you first registered, you should have some free credit, with billing group called something like “Free Account”. Or maybe your company/organization purchased a license, you should have other billing group attached as well
To show how many billing group you belong too, just call billing function
b <- a$billing()
b
Let’s first list all projects you have under your account
a$project()
You can search it by name
or by id
, note: id
is unique, but name
may have multiple hits, by default, we are using exact matching, only return it when it has single hits. There are two additional parameters to control it exact
and ignore.case
.
a$project(name = "my first") # return one matching
Maybe you want to create another project called “API” just for testing, but make sure you pass the required field name
, description
and billing_group_id
.
a$project_new(
name = "API", description = "API tutorial",
billing_group_id = b[[1]]$id)
To save your typing/lines for cascading style, I want to save the project I am gonna use for this tutorial to a Project object first.
## get the project we just created
p <- a$project("API")
To list all files in that project and search for a file, it’s also easy
a$project("my first")$file()
a$project("my first")$file("illumina", exact = FALSE)
Get the file we are going to upload and get the metadata ready as well.
fl <- system.file("extdata", "sample1.fastq", package = "sbgr")
## create meta data
fl.meta <- list(
file_type = "fastq",
seq_tech = "Illumina",
sample = "sample1",
author = "tengfei")
To upload the file to the project, just call upload
method from project object, it will initialize the multiparts automatically, checking each part and complete the call when finished. You will see the progress bar.
p$upload(fl, metadata = fl.meta)
Initialized
|=============================================================================| 100%
== File ==
id : 55c90c73e4b01cacdc4fbf64
name : sample1.fastq
size : 16
-- metadata --
file_type : fastq
seq_tech : Illumina
sample : sample1
author: tengfei
To check if it’s uploaded successfully, just check the file on the server to see if it exists or not.
p$file(basename(fl))
Metadata is designed with fixed fields in the GUI with fixed enum types for some fields, like file_type, to check what’s fixed, please do
Metadata()
## -- Metadata --
## file_type : NA
## qual_scale : NA
## seq_tech : NA
## sample :
## library :
## platform_unit :
## paired_end : NA
Metadata()$file_type
## An object of class "FileTypeSingleEnum"
## [1] NA
## Slot "levels":
## [1] "text" "binary" "fasta" "csfasta"
## [5] "fastq" "qual" "xsq" "sff"
## [9] "bam" "bam_index" "illumina_export" "vcf"
## [13] "sam" "bed" "archive" "juncs"
## [17] "gtf" "gff" "enlis_genome" NA
## [1] "text" "binary" "fasta" "csfasta"
## [5] "fastq" "qual" "xsq" "sff"
## [9] "bam" "bam_index" "illumina_export" "vcf"
## [13] "sam" "bed" "archive" "juncs"
## [17] "gtf" "gff" "enlis_genome" NA
To add more metadata items, you can pass more named list entries, and to keep original turn on parameter append
.
Read more about metadata please visit SBG developer hub page
To delete a file, just call delete
method on a File object. for example.
p$file(basename(fl))$delete()
p$pipeline()
It’s a new project, there is no pipeline yet, there are several other ways to check out available pipelines for public, my pipeline and pipelines in particular project.
## project pipelines
a$project("my first")$pipeline()
## all public pipeline
a$pipeline()
## my pipeline
a$pipeline("my")
## particular project
a$pipeline(project_name = "my first")
Let’s look for a pipeline about “FastQC”, from public repos
f.pipe <- a$pipeline(pipeline_name = "FastQC")
f.pipe
Cool, we got a unique hit, let’s copy the FastQC pipeline to the new project
p$pipeline_add(pipeline_name = f.pipe$name)
To confirm
f.pipe <- p$pipeline(name = "FastQC")
f.pipe
Please call detail
function to check the required inputs, here I quote the SBG API introduction
f.pipe$details()
f.pipe$details()$inputs
f.pipe$details()$nodes
To run the pipeline, we need to provide task details, we know we want to input our upload sample file as input node here. So we need to link our file id with the input node id.
Pass the interval time (in seconds) this will check status of a task, print finish when it’s finished.
f.task$monitor(30)
Or simple call details
method
f.task$details()
f.task <- p$task(id = "fed9279b-8677-4eef-9c16-9135a457f53f")
f.task$download("~/Desktop/")
Ok, the full script is something like
library("sbgr")
token <- "aef7e9e3f6c54fb1b338ac4ecddf1a56"
a <- Auth(token)
## get billing info
b <- a$billing()
## create project
a$project_new(
name = "API", description = "API tutorial",
billing_group_id = b[[1]]$id)
p <- a$project("API")
## get data
fl <- system.file("extdata", "sample1.fastq", package = "sbgr")
## create meta data
fl.meta <- list(
file_type = "fastq",
seq_tech = "Illumina",
sample = "sample1",
author = "tengfei")
## upload data with metadata
p$upload(fl, metadata = fl.meta)
## check uploading success
f.file <- p$file(basename(fl))
## get the pipeline from public repos
f.pipe <- a$pipeline(pipeline_name = "FastQC")
## copy the pipeline to your poject
p$pipeline_add(pipeline_name = f.pipe$name)
## get the pipeline from your project not public one
f.pipe <- p$pipeline(name = "FastQC")
## check the inputs needed for running tasks
f.pipe$details()
## Ready to run a task? go
f.task <- p$task_run(
name = "my task",
description = "A text description",
pipeline_id = f.pipe$id,
inputs = list("177252" = list(f.file$id)))
f.task$run()
## or you can just run with Task constructor
f.task <- Task(
auth = Auth(token),
name = "my task",
description = "A text description",
pipeline_id = f.pipe$id,
project_id = p$id,
inputs = list("177252" = list(f.file$id)))
## Monitor you task
f.task$monitor(30)
## download a task output files
f.task <- p$task("my task")
f.task$download("~/Desktop/")
## Abort the task
f.task$abort()


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There are plenty of reasons why you might seek out a psychiatrist NYC, and there are a few things you should know before you do. Checking out a doctor before you make an appointment is the key to ensuring that you have a comfortable and safe experience. Your mental health is very important, so it makes sense to take just a few minutes out of your busy schedule to consider all of the following points.
Before you go looking for a doctor, it is important to know the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist. It's pretty amazing how so many people don't know the difference. The terms are used interchangeably, but they are not actually the same thing. A psychiatrist a an actual physician who has chosen mental health as his or her field of expertise. They can treat patients and even prescribe medication for them should they need it. A psychologist may have a Ph. D and be called a doctor, but they are not actually a physician and did not go to medical school.
Sometimes your general practitioner may refer you to a psychiatrist because they feel that you may need certain medications or a diagnosis that this type of physician can give you. Even though you may trust your general practitioner, it is still a good idea to check into any referral they give you. You will especially want to make sure that your insurance plan, if you have one, is taken by the referred doctor.
Speaking of insurance, if you have it, look through your directory and make sure it will cover the therapist you want to go to.  This is something to keep in mind when choosing who to go with.
If the referral is for your child, ensure that the person you are taking them to has some kind of experience in treating and diagnosing children. Some psychiatrists only work with adults, while others only work with children. Child psychiatry is very different from the adult kind, so it is a good idea to get a specialist who has this type of experience.
Before you book an appointment, always check up on the therapist and make sure they have a good reputation. You can go online and check for any formal complaints that may have been filed against them. You can also check review sites and see if they have good or bad reviews from past or present patients.
After your first session with your new therapist, they will give you a schedule for future appointments. They may recommend once a week, twice a week, or other schedules depending on your situation. You will once more have to check your insurance plan to ensure it will cover this many sessions, or else you may potentially have to pay out of your pocket for anything beyond what is covered.
A psychiatrist NYC should be a well-trained and reputable doctor who can help you or your loved one with any mental health issues that may arise. Before booking an appointment, do a little research and make sure your insurance covers such treatment. Doing so will ensure you get better and healthier faster.


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cps_2016.dta
labtemplate.do
Today we’re going to keep working with cps_2016.dta
, which
contains information from the 2016 Current Population Survey.
By the end of this lab, you should be able to complete the following tasks in Stata:
| command | description |
|---|---|
codebook var1 |
Look at key details for var1 |
clonevar var1 = var2 |
Make a new variable, var1 that duplicates var2 (including labels!) |
_pctile hourwages,per(99) |
Calcualte the 99th percentile of hourly wages, and store as a local variable |
ret list |
Show locally stored variables (handy!) |
What happens when our dependent variable is binary? We can use it anyway! Using OLS with a binary dependent variable is called a linear probablity model. There is lots of debate about whether (and when) this is an okay idea, as it can lead to predcitions that are below zero or greater than 1, and it violates homoskedasticity assumptions. We can fix the latter by estimating heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, and the general consensus seems to be that usually, we’re okay using a LPM. (Though we can do better!)
What about interpretation? We intrepret coefficients are in percentage points (not percents!)
Consider the following to see:
\(Married_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1 age_i + \beta_2 educ_i + u_i\)
\(\beta_1\) means that a 1-year increase in age is associated with a \(\beta_1\) percentage-point change in the probability of being married.
For great slides on this (and a deeper dive), check out this resource!
Open Stata, start a new do-file (or bring in a template). Make sure you add code to start (and end) a log.
Open cps_2016.dta
and restrict the sample to adults (age 18+) who are married (spouse present or absent). Drop anyone who reports “NIU” (not in universe) for labor force status. Confirm that you have 73,950 observations
Check work hours, weeks of work, and wage income for any weird recodes (that is, replace any 999999 values with missing values) generate the following variables, and ensure you have the correct means. You may want to use the codebook
command to help (i.e. codebook uhrsworkly
)
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
wkswork1 | 73,950 34.0054 23.5977 0 52
uhrsworkly | 51,921 40.19379 11.33071 1 99
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
incwage | 73,950 38947.58 64901.47 0 1259999
Generate a binary variable female
equal to one if sex == 2
. Estimate the impact of female
on wage income among married individuals. What is the interpretaion on the coefficient?
If our objective is to measure the impact of gender on wage income among married individuals, is sample selection bias likely to be important? Why? Is measurement error likely to be important, why or why not? If so, what is the likely impact of measurement error on your estimated coefficients?
Create a binary variable lf
equal to 1 if an individual is in the labor force, and 0 otherwise. Estimate the impact of gedner on labor force status. What is the interpretation of the coefficient? Estimate the impact of
What is the impact of being in the labor force on wage income? Based on this and the previous question, what is the implication for the direction of omitted variable bias when you estimated \(incwageNZ = \beta_0 + \beta_1 female + u\)? without controlling for it?
Re-estimate, including a control for lf
: \(incwageNZ = \beta_0 + \beta_1 female + \beta_2 lf + u\). Was your estimate correct?
Now, add your cleaned variable for usual hours worked to estimate \(incwageNZ = \beta_0 + \beta_1 female + \beta_2 lf + \beta_3 uhrsworkly + u\). What is the interpretation of each coefficient?
Why does your regression not include all 73,850 people? What type of bias might this introduce?
Is measurement error likely to be important, and if so, for which variables? What is the likely impact of measurement error on your estimated coefficients?
Generate a new variable uhrsNZ
that recodes all missing work hours values as zeros. You can expedite this with the clonevar
command. Re-estimate the impact of gender, labor force status and uhrsNZ
on wage income. What is the interpretation on each coefficient? Why did it change?
Now, re-estimate but exclude lf
: \(incwageNZ = \beta_0 + \beta_1 female + \beta_3 uhrsworkly + u\). How do your results change? Conditional on including female
and uhrsworkly
, does it make sense to include lf
?
Calculate log wages based on incwageNZ.
Estimate the impact of gender on wage income, including a control for uhrsworkly
. How does the sample size change, and why? What is the interpretation on each coefficient?
Calculate hourly wages, based on the cleaned variables. What is mean hourly wages for men and women?
Estimate the impact of gender on hourly wages for those with non-zero hourly wages, controlling for weekly work hours. Repeat then repeat to include all adults (Replace hourly wages with 0 for non-earners) How does the impact of gender on earnings compare?
Are there outlier wages? Exclude observations that exceed the 99th percentile in wages and re-estimate both equations. How does this affect your results?
Is measurement error likely to affect your dependent variable? Why or why not? If so, what are the implications?


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This packages your Scratch project into a single HTML file that can run on its own. The HTML file will be pretty big because it contains the entire Scratch engine as well as the assets used in the projects.
Also, because they're handled by Scratch GUI, which isn't included here, variable and list monitors won't show; the ask box has also been replaced with a simple JavaScript prompt. The project will automatically start, and there are no green flag or stop sign buttons to click on. The username block will report whatever you set as the "Username value."
Most of the time is spent minifying the Scratch engine; maybe I could speed this up by doing that for you, oh well.
*With Quick HTMLification, the HTML file won't include the Scratch engine; instead, it'll link to the unminified files on llk.github.io. You can use it to preview what the output will look like, or if there's a maximum file size and the Scratch engine already makes it too big.
Libraries used: uglify-es, scratch-vm, download.js


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SBSE Challenge Track
Call for Participation
The SBSE Challenge Track, held in coordination with the SSBSE Symposium, is an exciting opportunity for SBSE researchers to demonstrate the efficacy of their methods on real-world software. Participants target one of a selected suite of open source development projects and apply SBSE methods; the principal criterion is to produce interesting results.
Entrants will compete for cash prizes totaling €1000. Thanks to the CREST Centre for their generous sponsorship of this competition.
The deadline for submissions is May 25th 2017.
The winner will be announced at SSBSE 2017, which is collocated with FSE and will take place in Paderborn, Germany, Sept 9-11th 2017.
Submitting to the Challenge Track
In order to participate, you should:
- Focus your investigation on one of the selected programs (see below).
- Report your findings in a six-page paper.
- Submit the challenge paper on or before the deadline (May 25th, 2017).
- If your paper is accepted, present your findings at SSBSE 2017 in Paderborn, Germany, 9-11th September 2017.
It is not mandatory for submissions to the SBSE Challenge track to implement a new tool or technique. However, we do expect that applying your existing or new tools/techniques to one of the challenge programs lead to practically interesting results.
The criteria for paper acceptance are the following:
- Application of an SBSE technique to one of the programs below.
- Technical soundness.
- Readability and presentation.
Challenge Programs
Participants are invited to investigate and report upon one of the following open source projects. You are free to focus on any particular version or a comparison of different versions; you can also choose to analyse, test, improve, or apply any other SBSE-based activities to either parts or the whole of a project, including source code, documentation, or any other related resources (bug database, versioning histories, online discussions, etc) that can be found freely available online.
A wiki with links for some artefacts of the challenge’s systems is available here. Note that this wiki is being crowdsourced by challenge’s enthusiasts and has not been officially validated by the challenge chairs.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a large open-source productivity suite, implemented in several languages including C++, with a total of 8MLOC. The project incorporates three levels of regression testing.
SQLite
SQLite is arguably the most popular database in the world. It is designed for efficiency, simplicity, and can be deployed as a single C source code file. The project incorporates 338KLOC and three separately developed test suites.
Guava
https://github.com/google/guava
Guava is a widely adopted and extensive Java collections library developed by Google. It includes over 252KLOC and its test suite includes a thorough set of performance tests.
Please note that Guava was also used in the SBSE 2015 Challenge, and you should ensure that your work is not simply a duplication of previous effort. Details of that year’s papers and presentations can be found in the SSBSE 2015 programme.
Flask
Flask is a very popular minimalist web framework for Python, with 9KLOC. It comes with a full test suite.
Your Paper
Your paper should describe your method and findings. It should provide a brief introduction to the problem being addressed, the program that you used, your technique or tool, followed by your results, their implications, and your conclusions.
Submission Details
The papers must be at most 6 pages long in PDF format and should conform at time of submission to the SSBSE/Springer LNCS format and submission guidelines. They must not have been previously published, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or other conference. Please submit your challenge paper to EasyChair on or before the Challenge track deadline (May 25th 2017). At least one author of each paper is expected to present the results at SSBSE 2017. Papers for the Challenge track are not required to follow the double blind restrictions. All accepted contributions will be published in the conference electronic proceedings.
Further Information
Details are available via the SSBSE website.
If you have any questions about the challenge, please e-mail the Challenge Track chairs:


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In Linux world, disk as storage device, it is detected by Linux kernel typically as “/dev/sda”, “/dev/hdd”. The tools like “fdisk” is used to create partions, and create filesystem on the partition, then mount the partition to the root file system. The disk space is ready to be used.
There is a serious problem though: if the files stored in the disk keep growing, the space will be all used eventually, disk becomes full. Before LVM, the only solution is to add another disk, and mount to a different mount point in the file system. This could be a problem, if the current running program is not aware of new mounting point.
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper target that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. It adds a layer between physical disk and file system, and supports the dynamic growing of LVM.
As shown in the above diagram, there are three key enties in LVM:
Physical Volume (PV)
Physical Volume can be either hard disks, hard disk partitions, or Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) of an external storage device. Volume management treats each PV as being composed of a sequence of chunks called physical extents (PEs). It can be cretaed by using command “pvcreate”. “pvdisplay” can be used to show the current PVs.
Volume Group (VG)
Volume Group is a set of same-sized PVs which act similarly to hard disks in a RAID1 array. VGs are usually laid out so that they reside on different disks and/or data buses for maximum redundancy. It can be created by using “vgcreate”, and “vgdisplay” can be used to show the current VGs. Also there is tool like “vgextend” to expand VG.
Logial Volume (LV)
Logical Volume is created from VG, and can be acting raw block devices just like disk partitions: creating mountable file systems on them, or using them as swap storage. It can be created by using “lvcreate”, “lvextend” to expand the size and “lvdisplay” can be used to show the current LVs.
Another way to look the relations:
Rcently my little server hosting cross reference search, its disk usage is getting close to full. So I added one 1T hard drive. See below steps I took to provision the new disk into service:
First check what are existing VG, LVs.
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo vgdisplay
[ sudo ] password for weng:
--- Volume group ---
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read /write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 2.27 TiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 596104
Alloc PE / Size 579961 / 2.21 TiB
Free PE / Size 16143 / 63.06 GiB
VG UUID tOmV6f-q8jm-jcf8-J9bX-CONX-wUSN-DdRozv
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
LV UUID WfqdYQ-655I-SDGT-eA7r-cXzL-lMvF-K94sP6
LV Write Access read /write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 2.20 TiB
Current LE 577918
Segments 3
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/swap_1
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
LV UUID bly5P8-Y4Pj-kQnf-2sB8-SHBF-ikDn-yUUBuC
LV Write Access read /write
LV Status available
# open 2
LV Size 7.98 GiB
Current LE 2043
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:1
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$
Check the new disk /dev/sdb
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB,<PHONE_NUMBER>016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total<PHONE_NUMBER> sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size ( logical/physical) : 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size ( minimum/optimal) : 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Create LVM partition on /dev/sdb and create PVs
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xdd30f6ba.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
Using default value 1
First sector (2048-1953525167, default 2048):
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-1953525167, default<PHONE_NUMBER>):
Using default value<PHONE_NUMBER>
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB,<PHONE_NUMBER>016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total<PHONE_NUMBER> sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdd30f6ba
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048<PHONE_NUMBER> 976761560 83 Linux
Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): L
0 Empty 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris
1 FAT12 27 Hidden NTFS Win 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 85 Linux extended c7 Syrinx
5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS data
6 FAT16 42 SFS 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / .
7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT 4d QNX4.x 88 Linux plaintext de Dell Utility
8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt
9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access
a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O
b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor
c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs
e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a5 FreeBSD ee GPT
f W95 Ext' d ( LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a6 OpenBSD ef EFI ( FAT-12/16/
10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/PA-RISC b
11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor
12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary
16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys af HFS / HFS+ fb VMware VMFS
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fc VMware VMKCORE
18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fd Linux raid auto
1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid fe LANstep
1c Hidden W95 FAT3 75 PC/IX be Solaris boot ff BBT
1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix
Hex code ( type L to list codes) : 8e
Changed system type of partition 1 to 8e ( Linux LVM)
Command ( m for help ) : p
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB,<PHONE_NUMBER>016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total<PHONE_NUMBER> sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size ( logical/physical) : 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size ( minimum/optimal) : 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdd30f6ba
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048<PHONE_NUMBER> 976761560 8e Linux LVM
Command ( m for help ) : w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB,<PHONE_NUMBER>016 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382818 cylinders, total<PHONE_NUMBER> sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size ( logical/physical) : 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size ( minimum/optimal) : 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdd30f6ba
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048<PHONE_NUMBER> 976761560 8e Linux LVM
eng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb1
Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$
Add PVs into VG to Extend VG
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 2
Metadata Sequence No 5
VG Access read /write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
VG Size 2.27 TiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 596104
Alloc PE / Size 579961 / 2.21 TiB
Free PE / Size 16143 / 63.06 GiB
VG UUID tOmV6f-q8jm-jcf8-J9bX-CONX-wUSN-DdRozv
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo vgextend weng-ubuntu-vg /dev/sdb1
Volume group "weng-ubuntu-vg" successfully extended
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo vgextend weng-ubuntu-vg /dev/sdb1
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 3
Metadata Sequence No 6
VG Access read /write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 2
Open LV 2
Max PV 0
Cur PV 3
Act PV 3
VG Size 3.18 TiB
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 834571
Alloc PE / Size 579961 / 2.21 TiB
Free PE / Size 254610 / 994.57 GiB
VG UUID tOmV6f-q8jm-jcf8-J9bX-CONX-wUSN-DdRozv
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$
Extend LVM
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo lvextend -L +950G /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root
Extending logical volume root to 3.16 TiB
Logical volume root successfully resized^M
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo lvextend -L +45G /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root
Extending logical volume root to 3.17 TiB
Logical volume root successfully resized
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
LV UUID WfqdYQ-655I-SDGT-eA7r-cXzL-lMvF-K94sP6
LV Write Access read /write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 3.17 TiB
Current LE 831358
Segments 4
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:0
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/swap_1
VG Name weng-ubuntu-vg
LV UUID bly5P8-Y4Pj-kQnf-2sB8-SHBF-ikDn-yUUBuC
LV Write Access read /write
LV Status available
# open 2
LV Size 7.98 GiB
Current LE 2043
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:1
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/weng--ubuntu--vg-root 2.2T 2.0T 131G 94% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 764K 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /run/shm
cgroup 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 228M 28M 189M 13% /boot
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$
Resize LVM
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ sudo resize2fs /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root
resize2fs 1.42 ( 29-Nov-2011)
Filesystem at /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 142, new_desc_blocks = 203
The filesystem on /dev/weng-ubuntu-vg/root is now 851310592 blocks long.
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/weng--ubuntu--vg-root 3.2T 2.0T 1.1T 66% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 764K 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /run/shm
cgroup 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 228M 28M 189M 13% /boot
weng@weng-ubuntu:/scratch$


miRNA-circRNA Network
Network
A network is created based on a user selected miRNA. CircRNAs with at least one MRE binding site to the miRNA are candidates for inclusion in the network. Adjustable filters on circRNA-miRNA pareto score and mean circRNA expression (in at least one tissue) are included to focus on circRNAs with stronger predicted interaction with the miRNA. In the example figure, circRNAs with pareto score ≥ .80 and mean SRPBM ≥ 1 in at least one tissue are included. In addition to interactions between the selected miRNA and candidate circRNAs, circRNA-circRNA interactions are also displayed. These interactions are weighted based on Spearman correlation. Users can adjust the correlation threshold to draw edges between circRNAs with Spearman correlation higher than a specified value. Hovering over individual nodes displays circRNA IDs and parental gene information, while hovering over edges shows the miRNA-circRNA interaction and its corresponding pareto score.
Table
The table view provides more detailed information about the circRNAs in the network. This includes parental gene, tissue specificity, number of MRE binding sites, MRE per kb, pareto score, and mean expression for each tissue. Users can click on individual circRNAs to display barplots of mean expression levels for each tissue.
Heatmap
The heatmap is linked to the network and plots circRNA mean log2 expression for each tissue. The rows in the heatmap correspond to circRNAs in the network and the columns are tissues. The colorbar on the left side of the heatmap highlights tissue specific circRNAs, while the colorbar on top corresponds to the tissues themselves. Both the circRNAs and tissues are clustered using Ward's method and their corresponding dendrograms are displayed.


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When a character's major, overriding goal — one that takes priority over all others — is to go home again. "Home" can be as specific as the character's house, or as general as his/her home planet. Usually comes as a result of being Trapped in Another World, going Down the Rabbit Hole, or being a Fish out of Water. Sometimes leads to The Homeward Journey.
As a part of a Downer or Bittersweet Ending, the character may find that he/she can't go home again. Or maybe they go home, only to find that it really doesn't feel like home anymore. In a happier variant of that ending, the character can go home but chooses to stay, or discovers a new home that is as good as, or better than the original.
If the protagonist is a pet animal, see Tropey, Come Home.
This is what forms the backbone of Plot #4: Voyage and Return. For a similar concept that follows Plot #1: The Quest, see The Homeward Journey.
Examples
- The beginning of Fushigi Yuugi has the girls go back and forth between "this world is awesome, I wanna see more of it!" to "no way, I want to go home now". This becomes the conflict between Miaka and Yui.
- Digimon has aspects of this.
- This is the driving force and main conflict for the Genesect Army in Pokémon: Genesect and the Legend Awakened. Unfortunately, they were resurrected from 300 million year-old fossils and thus can never really go home.
- The heroes' goal in Secret Wars (1984).
- This was the entire raison d'etre of the DC Comics villain Superboy-Prime - to return to his homeworld of Earth-Prime (aka our earth), where super-beings only exist in comic books. (Of course, once he gets there, he discovers that his parents and girlfriend have been following his exploits in those comic books - including the tortures, mutilations, and twelve-digit body-count that he racked up. Not exactly a hugs-and-happiness homecoming.)
- Quoted word-for-word in Gotham City Sirens; Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn and Catwoman have all gone their separate ways for Christmas, going back to the only places that could even tenuously be called "home" for any of them (Ivy to the rainforest, Catwoman to Wayne Manor, and Harley to her actual birth-home, complete with biological family). They each view these places with different levels of fondness, Ivy loves the forest, Catwoman tenderly reminisces about who used to live in the Manor, and Harley is completely and finally fed up with her family, but they all leave these places and return to their shared apartment to spend the rest of the holiday together since "there's no place like home."
- Very much the case for the four in With Strings Attached. While they (mostly) love the magic that's been dumped on them, they sure as hell would rather play with it on Earth than on C'hou. And they SURE as hell don't want to be forced into the role of adventurers.
- When the events of The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World roll around some ten weeks later, they plan to do whatever it is they're supposed to do as quickly as possible so they can get home before too much time goes by on Earth. Of course, once they discover that they've actually been in a giant telepathic MMORPG, they're even more ready to get home as quickly as they can manage.
- Kate and Humphrey in Alpha and Omega.
- The Lion King (1994): Simba.
- In Planet 51, Chuck frequently complains he may never see his world again in order to guilt trip Lem into helping him.
- The Wizard of Oz and the book it was adapted from, have Dorothy's main objective being to get back home. In the movie, Dorothy taps her ruby slippers and utters, "There's no place like home!"
- Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part III follow a time-displaced teenage Marty McFly's efforts to return to his own time period, The '80s.
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: E.T. arrives on Earth and needs to go back home. He expresses this in his Signature Line "E.T. phone home."
- The ultimate goal of Maximus in Gladiator.
- In Labyrinth, it's rescue Toby, THEN get home.
- Flynn in TRON.
- Heartbreakingly invoked in Forrest Gump. During the Vietnam War, Forrest befriends Bubba, a man who loves to go shrimp fishing and plans on buying a boat to do so once the conflict ends. When Bubba is shot and lies dying in front of Forrest, he says his last words, which reflect what every soldier really thinks about overseas:
Bubba: I wanna go home...
- In Big, Josh, who undergoes an Overnight Age-Up, has this has a twofold goal: first, find the magical fortune-telling machine that transformed him, then get back to his childhood home.
- Nerd joke: "There's no place like <IP_ADDRESS>."note
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz puts Dorothy on The Homeward Journey, but near the end of the book, Glinda tells Dorothy about the Silver Shoes. "All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go." So Dorothy declares her desire, saying, "Take me home to Aunt Em!"

Dorothy: That is because you have no brains. No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home. - In The Odyssey, the protagonist has been unable to return home to Ithaca for 20 years of warfare and increasingly lonely wandering. Even when the goddess Calypso wants to make him her immortal sex buddy, all he wants is to see his mortal family again.
- Referenced in a well-known sonnet from the collection Les Regrets by Joachim du Bellay (1525-1560), who felt homesick for France while serving as a cardinal's secretary in Rome: "The seat my fathers built pleases me more than the Roman palaces with their bold front, more than hard marble I like the fine shale, more the Gallic Loire than the Latin Tiber, more my little Liré than the Palatine Mount, more than the sea breeze I like the Angevin sweetness." The opening words, Heureux, qui comme Ulysse ("Happy (is he), who like Ulysses") have also been used as as the title of a film starring Fernandel, who takes an old horse to the Camargue to set it free.
- Stardust
- Another Neil Gaiman novel, Neverwhere, also uses this.
- In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ford Prefect uses this as a method of coercion: "In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth." Ford hits the barman with an "incomprehensible sense of distance" and very much gets his point across.
- This is Bobby Pendragon's original motive upon learning he was a Traveler. This changes about a third of the way through the series.
- A World Without Heroes follows the story of the main character, Jason, who is doing everything in his powers to get home.
- Older Than Dirt: In the Ancient Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe, the main character goes into self-imposed exile from Egypt during a time of political upheaval and ends up settling somewhere in the Levant. He becomes quite wealthy and starts a family, yet unhesitatingly jumps for it when offered the opportunity to return to Egypt. It wasn't just a question of living the rest of his life in a foreign country: being buried by foreigners, using "strange" funeral customs instead of Egyptian mummification and priestly spells, was regarded as an unhappy fate. Or at least, that's the message of what may have been a piece of government propaganda.
- Jonathan Thomas Meriwether (aka "Jon-Tom") spent most of Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series desperately wishing to return to his home dimension. When he finally could, he decided to take some of what he considered the best bits of it and return to his friends and love interest in his adopted dimension.
- Subverted in Piers Anthony's Virtual Mode series, where Colene, who had little to keep her in her home dimension, spent the entire series trying to get to her love interest Darius' dimension.
- The Hunger Games: Katniss Everdeen in the first book. Inverted in the second. Mad crushingly depressing in the third.
- Discussed Trope in Robert Frost poem "The Death of the Hired Man" (Collected Poems). Silas the itinerant laborer has come back to the farm of Mary and Warren after some time away. Warren isn't thrilled about this, as Silas once went off and left him in the lurch with work to be done, but Mary recognizes that Silas is terribly ill and has really come to the farm to die. Silas has a well-to-do brother, but, as Mary and Warren come to realize, apparently their farm felt more like home to Silas than his estranged brother's house.
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in."
- Life On Mars
- And its Spinoff, Ashes to Ashes (2008).
- Lost
- Aside from the obvious "plane crash survivors wanting to go home" plot (which is resolved halfway through the series), a much more specific form of this trope comes in season 6:
The Smoke Monster: "I want the one thing that John Locke didn't. I want to go home." - Ian and Barbara in the first season of Doctor Who.
- Also Jo in Planet of the Daleks. She even turns down a chance to stay with a man in love with her because she wanted Earth.
- Gilligan's Island: The castaways finally get rescued in "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" and (quickly) get re-rescued in "The Castaways of Gilligan's Island."
- It's About Time: The astronauts, having been stranded in 1 Million B.C., fix the Scorpio E-X-1 and get back to the future midway through the series ("Twentieth Century Here We Come"). However, they take their friends Shad, Gronk, Mlor and Breer with them, and Hilarity Ensues as the cave family reacts to modern life.
- Quantum Leap
- The driving motivation of Star Trek: Voyager. Having been thrown to the other side of the galaxy in the pilot episode, they spend seven years and many adventures getting back to the Alpha Quadrant (specifically Earth).
- The Fantastic Journey (1977)
- Otherworld (1985), which had a very similar plot to The Fantastic Journey.
- Sliders. Ironically, the group made it back to their own world at the start of Season Two... but they mistakenly thought that they hadn't because the gate was oiled since becoming lost, so they left again.
- In the Supernatural episode "What Is And What Should Never Be" (S02, Ep20), Dean is willing to kill himself to get back to his reality.
- Many Blues traditionals have this as a theme. A well known example is "Sweet Home Chicago" by Robert Johnson from The Complete Recordings, where Johnson asks his sweetheart if she wants to come home with him to Chicago? "I Feel Like Going Home" by Muddy Waters (available on The Anthology (19471972)) expresses homesickness.
- "Man Of Constant Sorrow", a traditional about a man who wants to get back home after all the sorrow he experienced while being elsewhere. It was covered by Bob Dylan on his debut Bob Dylan.
- John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads - The Trope Namer is the song "Home! Sweet Home!" from the 1823 opera Clari, (or) the Maid of Milan, in which the singer desires to return home.
Mid pleasures and Palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home! - "Road Ladies" by Frank Zappa from Chunga's Revenge expresses homesickness of rock artists on the road.
- "I'm Going Home" by Arlo Guthrie from Alice's Restaurant.
Now my friends it's time to goAnd this love will live to growAnd I want you all to knowI'm going home
- "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd also expresses this feeling. It was written as a retaliation for a song," Alabama", by Neil Young that was critical of their homeplace.
- Breaking Benjamin: The line is featured in and one of the major themes of "Home", a song that is basically a wholesale reference to The Wizard of Oz
- "Guiding Me Home" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé from their album Barcelona.
Who will find me, take care and side with me?Guide me back safely to my homeWhere I belong, once more
- "Oh Susannah" by Stephen Foster is about a cowboy who came from Alabama "with a banjo on his knee" and is glad to be home again with his sweetheart.
- "Going Home" by The Rolling Stones from their album Aftermath
When you're three thousand miles awayI just never sleep the sameIf I packed my things right nowI could be home in seven hoursI'm goin' home, I'm goin' home
- "Kansas City" by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller is about a man going back home to Kansas City to meet his girl. It was later covered by The Beatles on Beatles for Sale.
- "Back In The USSR" from The Beatles' The White Album, where the protagonist is glad to be back home after a long and terrible flight.
- The traditional "Sloop John B.", covered by The Beach Boys on Pet Sounds, is about a sailor who wants to go home after a long voyage at sea which he considers to be the worst trip he's ever been on.
- "Drivin' Home For Christmas" by Chris Rea is about a man who is drivin' home to his family in time for the holidays and glad to do so.
- "Somehow I'll Find My Way Home" by Jon Anderson (Yes) and Vangelis is a Pep-Talk Song expressing the confidence that wherever life may take him he will nevertheless find his way back home.
- "Willesden Green" by The Kinks is a nod to many country songs being about the subject of homesickness.
- "Homeward Bound" by Simon & Garfunkel also expresses homesickness:
Homeward Bound, I wish I was homeward boundHome, where my thought's escapingHome, where my music's playingHome, where my love lies waiting silently for me
- The Sesame Street song "I Don't Want To Live On The Moon" expresses Ernie's sentiment that he wants to visit all kinds of places in the world, but doesn't want to stay there forever, as he likes his own home the best. The song is also made available on the Greatest Hits Album Sesame Street Platinum All Time Favorites.
- "Hickory Wind", a song Gram Parsons wrote for The Byrds' album Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, is about the sound that makes him think of his North Carolina home.
- Sigrid's "Home to You" is about her returning back home to her parents after traveling.
When I don't know what to say, when I don't know what to do
There's a room I need to sit in, surround by my favorite view
When I need a hand to hold, someone to tell the truth
Would it be okay if I came home to you?
- The Wiz, an all-African-American adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, naturally has Dorothy's goal involve finding her way back home from Oz. She expresses this longing in the song "Soon As I Get Home", which she sings before she leaves Munchkinland for the Emerald City, and the finale "Home" (quoted below), a Triumphant Reprise she sings in order for the Silver Slippers to help her return to her Aunt Em's farm.
When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing
I wish I was home, I wish I was back there, with the things I've been knowin...- The TV version of The Wiz plays around with the meaning of, "home". Dorothy initially desires to return to Omaha, Nebraska, where she spent her childhood until her parents died. However, her adventure helps her realize that her real home is where she can stay with people with whom she shares love. Subsequently, when the Wiz sets off for Omaha in her balloon, Dorothy instead decides to try and find a way to return to her Aunt Em's farm - Which doesn't take long, since the Good Witches Addaperle and Glinda fly in almost immediately to help her.
- In Leave It To Me!, Goodhue's goal is to get out of Russia and go back to his hometown of Topeka, Kansas.
- The musical adaptation of Big has this as Josh's ultimate goal; he gets briefly sidetracked when he falls in love, but eventually realizes that he's nowhere near ready to be an adult and desperately tries to get back.
- Half the quest in King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella is returning to her kingdom (the other half is finding a magic fruit to cure her father), and you can end the game without actually getting the fruit.
- One of the two driving forces for Sora's gang in Kingdom Hearts. The other is finding their lost friends.
- Pōchi, the heroine of Napple Tale, is Trapped in Another World after a novice Grim Reaper claims her by mistake. She can go home again if she collects missing pieces of herself that escaped when she crossed over, and that, of course, is exactly what she sets out to do.
- After being summoned to another world by magic the only wish of Chael, hero of the third Zenonia is to go home. The problem is he has to find a way back Earth on his own as no one in Midgard seems to know.
- The primary goal in Conker's Bad Fur Day is for Conker to find his way back home after losing his way when drunk one night.
- The primary motivation for Omega's attempts at growing stronger in Final Fantasy XIV is revealed that he wants to return to his home star, far and away from the world of Hydaelyn.
- Nero from Ciel nosurge and its sequel, Ar nosurge was forcibly ripped from her home dimension and into the game's, to be taken advantage of by the locals. She spends all of both games trying to return to her home dimension, no matter the cost—an entire planet, the future of all of a sentient species, or the lives of every living member. The game portrays her as a sympathetic victim of powers beyond her control, villainous and even evil as her actions are.
- Annyseed desperately wants to be human again. Or at least feel like part of the human race.
- Sul from Kiss Wood is Trapped in Another World and while said world does interest him (as it's a giant jungle and he loves plants) his niece is waiting for him.
- Heroes of Thantopolis Cyrus is helping Helene because she promised to bring him home.
- Done nicely in Kickassia. After The Nostalgia Critic banishes The Cinema Snob, he finds his room has turned into his old review room with his Catch Phrase echoing when he touches the table. He's far too gone with the need to be in power by this point, but just for a moment you can tell he desperately wants to go home.
- This is one of the Travelers' two major goals in Worm. They are from an alternate reality and want to find a way back. They eventually succeed, except for Noelle, who had become a Tragic Monster and had to be Mercy Killed, and Trickster, who betrayed them and was incarcerated in the Birdcage.
- In The Deep: This is ultimately why the Nektons are always exploring the ocean. Turns out, their ancestors were Lemurian.
- The Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
- Samurai Jack's main goal is to get back to his home time, though, of course, Failure Is the Only Option.


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