User guide
Joda-Money is a small Java library providing classes to store, format and parse amounts of money. This is a brief user guide to the features available.
Main classes
There are two main classes which are both based on BigDecimal:
- Money - an amount in a single currency where the decimal places is determined by the currency
- BigMoney - an amount in a single currency where there is no restriction on the scale
For example, the currencies of US dollars, Euros and British Pounds all use 2 decimal places, thus a Money instance for any of these currencies will have 2 decimal places. By contrast, the Japanese Yen has 0 decimal places, and thus any Money instance with that currency will have 0 decimal places.
Instances of BigMoney may have a scale that is positive or zero. Negative scales are normalized to zero.
Conversion between a Money and a BigMoney can be performed using the methods toBigMoney() and toMoney(). The latter optionally takes a rounding mode to handle the case where information must be lost.
Both classes implement the BigMoneyProvider interface. This allows many different classes, including user supplied classes, to interoperate with Joda-Money. In application code, the best advice is to use the concrete types. However, utility and framework code will typically use the interface. The formatting code is a good example of this.
Currency information
Joda-Money includes its own currency class as the implementation in the JDK is too restrictive. The data for the Joda-Money class is provided by two configuration files.
The file org/joda/money/CurrencyData.csv holds a basic list of valid currencies. The columns are as follows:
- ISO-4217 currency code - three letters, mandatory
- ISO-4217 numeric code - from 1 to 999, set to -1 if no numeric code
- Number of decimal places in common usage - the supplied data is based on various sources
If you place a file on the classpath named META-INF/org/joda/money/CurrencyDataExtension.csv then the data it contains will augment and replace the base data. The extension file has the same format as the base file.
The file org/joda/money/CountryData.csv holds a mapping from ISO-3166 country code to currency. The columns are as follows:
- ISO-3166-1 country code - two letters, mandatory
- ISO-4217 currency code - three letters, mandatory
If you place a file on the classpath named META-INF/org/joda/money/CountryDataExtension.csv then the data it contains will augment and replace the base data. The extension file has the same format as the base file.
(Note that in previous versions, these data files had different names and different formats.)
Formatting
Formatting is based around the MoneyFormatterBuilder class. The builder is used to create a suitable format which is then converted to an immutable MoneyFormatter instance. The format may contain localized aspects which can be use by calling withLocale() on the formatter. This returns a new formatter as it is immutable.
The symbol information for formatting is currently provided by the JDK.


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DRAMATICS
A musical melodrama of never ending love stories. It is a treat to admirers of shero shayari. This act will take you to the ages of the maharaja, along with "bhule bisre geet".
VENUE:
11th March,2016(Day 1)
Main Stage
Timings:5.30 pm-6.00 pm
The historical theatrical play of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement. But in the act without voice, creating a wonderful story for the audience to enjoy and cherish
VENUE:
12th March,2016(Day 2)
Main Stage
Timings:6.30 pm
For the ones who enjoy proper theatre, with unlimited props to use, and whole stage to utilize the participants completely immersed into the character. This event is a treat to watch for the ones who love the drama.
Team Size: 8 to 24 (including musicians)
Time Limit: 15-25 minutes(empty stage to empty stage)
Judging criteria: Acting, Voice (sync, modulation, diction), Screenplay, Script, Crowd interaction and overall impact(rhythm, music, presentation)
Music instruments : atmost 3 membrane instruments, Harmonium, Manjeera.
Rules and Regulations:
• The team size represents the number of people registered as a team. Only these shall be allowed to perform the street play.
• Minimum of 8 actors are to be included in the team.
• No electrical appliances shall be allowed during the performance, whether inside or outside the circle of performance.
• Only live music is allowed. Teams will have to bring their own instruments - no instrument shall be provided. • Language of the performance should be Hindi/English or both. However short sub passages in other languages are allowed.
• Any kind of fluid, live animals, flame, heavy object or any material which has a possibility of damaging the stage is not allowed.
• Teams will be penalised if they exceed the time limit.
• Plays can be based on any theme but since performance is being held at public venues, any content directed against a certain political group or religious community is strictly prohibited.
• Obscenity (at the discretion of judges) of any kind is not allowed and may lead to disqualification.
• Any kind of plagiarism and profanity will lead to immediate disqualification.
• The decision of the judges will be final and binding.
VENUE:
12th March,2016(Day 2)
Main Stage
Timings:1.30 pm-4.30 pm
This act would remind everyone of great Charlie Chaplin, who had created a bench mark in the genre of humour. This act is a full package of emotions, expressions and timing, giving everyone a laughter therapy.
VENUE:
12th March,2016(Day 2)
Main Stage
Timings:5.30 pm- 6.00 pm
Pure nautanki, just like bandar-madari ka khel.. Here you will see tragedy, laughter, and a lot more, along with a social message, to spread some awareness. The best way to raise the voice of the society, to the society. YMCA welcomes you to put your best foot forward to do the good work by spreading awareness..#NUKKAD style.Team Size: 8 to 24 (including musicians)
Time Limit: 15-25 minutes(empty stage to empty stage)
Judging criteria: Acting, Voice (sync, modulation, diction), Screenplay, Script, Crowd interaction and overall impact(rhythm, music, presentation)
Music instruments : atmost 3 membrane instruments, Harmonium, Manjeera.
Rules and Regulations:
• The team size represents the number of people registered as a team. Only these shall be allowed to perform the street play.
• Minimum of 8 actors are to be included in the team.
• No electrical appliances shall be allowed during the performance, whether inside or outside the circle of performance.
• Only live music is allowed. Teams will have to bring their own instruments - no instrument shall be provided. • Language of the performance should be Hindi/English or both. However short sub passages in other languages are allowed.
• Any kind of fluid, live animals, flame, heavy object or any material which has a possibility of damaging the stage is not allowed.
• Teams will be penalised if they exceed the time limit.
• Plays can be based on any theme but since performance is being held at public venues, any content directed against a certain political group or religious community is strictly prohibited.
• Obscenity (at the discretion of judges) of any kind is not allowed and may lead to disqualification.
• Any kind of plagiarism and profanity will lead to immediate disqualification.
• The decision of the judges will be final and binding.
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COM6015 Development of Secure Software
| Summary |
This module covers the security analysis as well as the secure development of software-based systems both on an architectural as well as a system
level. The main goal of this module is to teach the foundations of secure software design, secure programming, and security testing.
The module requires a solid understanding of software development in general and, in particular, of at least one programming language (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, F#, or C) and basic software development tools such as an IDE (e.g., Eclipse, VS Code), a revision system (e.g., git), or build systems (e.g., Maven, Gradle, npm, FAKE). Moreover, an understanding of database and Web applications is required. The labs require a basic command of Linux in general and the command line (shell) in particular. |
| Session |
Spring 2018/19 |
| Credits |
15 |
| Assessment |
- Assessment will be 70% Exam and 30% Coursework
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| Lecturer(s) |
Dr Achim Brucker |
| Resources |
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| Aims |
This unit aims to:
- Provide students with the fundamental understanding of how secure software-based systems are developed and to
provide first hand experience in the security analysis and the secure development of sotware-based systems.
- Provide the student with the fundamental understanding of the threat landscape of software-based systems;
- Provide the student with experience in detecting and assessing vulnerabilities and threats in the context of software-based systems;
- Provide the student with fundamental understanding of how secure software is developed;
- Provide experience in analysis and development approaches for secure system software.
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| Objectives |
By the end of the unit, a candidate will be able to:
- Understand and explain a Secure Software Development Lifecycle;
- Understand threat modelling and apply it to assess the security risk of software architectures;
- Understand the principles of secure software architectures and be able to compare weaknesses and strength wrt security and
privacy of different architectures;
- Understand software vulnerabilities, and be able to explain their causes and to assess their impact for a specific system, their
causes, and impact;
- Understand to develop secure software using defensive programming techniques and apply them to own development
projects;
- Understand the principles of static and dynamic security testing and verification techniques and be able to assess which
method to use for a given system, e.g., based on the threat assessment and development technologies.
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| Content | ,Lectures will cover:
- (Web) Application Security
- Software Software Security
- Threat Modelling
- Secure Programming
- Security Testing
- Static code analysis
The lecture includes lab sessions that require an understanding of Linux systems and programming skills. |
| Pre-Requisite |
COM6014 Fundamental Security Properties and Mechanisms |
| Restrictions |
Not permitted for students that already have taken COM6501. |
| Teaching Method |
- The on-site parts of the module will be delivered as a combination of traditional lectures flipped classroom sessions, practical work. The
lectures will be supported by exercise sheets and reference material to be studied by the students independently;
- The on-line part of the module will replace the traditional lectures by short video lessons and the flipped classroom style sessions by
discussions in an online forum. Practical parts (labs) will be provided in such a form that students can either execute them on their own
computers or they will be made easily accessible over the internet;
- The flipped classroom sessions will engage the students in discussing software security aspects both bases on the exercise sheets, taught
materials, as well as reference material. This deepens the understanding of material discussed in the lecture and contributes to the business
and management aspects.
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| Feedback |
Students will receive feedback in the tutorial sessions in which solutions for the problem sheets are discussed as well as in the lab sessions. |
| Recommended Reading |
Online resources will be provided on MOLE and more specific readings will be recommended as part of the exercise sheets and lab exercises.
- Dafydd Stuttard and Macrus Pinto. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws. O'Reilly. 2011.
- R. J. Anderson. Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1st edition, 2001. ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>. The complete book is available at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html.
- Neil Daswani, Christoph Kern, and Anita Kesavan. Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know. Apress, Berkely, CA, USA, 2007.
- Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, and John Viega. 24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them. McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1 edition, 2010.
- Brian Chess and Jacob West. Secure programming with static analysis. Addison-Wesley Professional, first edition, 2007.
- Michael Felderer, Matthias Büchler, Martin Johns, Achim D. Brucker, Ruth Breu, and Alexander Pretschner. Security testing: A survey. Advances in Computers, 101:1–51, March 2016.
- M. Huth and M. Ryan. Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning About Systems. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA, 2004. ISBN 052154310X.
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Why do you love that music
- The mystery that has left artists, record labels, or researchers in wonder until now
Join Kamin and Yangyang, the Integrated Design and Management fellows at MIT, in an attempt to explore the pattern behinds worldwide hits like Ed Sheeran's Shape of You or Dua Lipa's New Rules.
For the first time in the history, we have studied people around the world what are they listening to, and how often do they listen to each song.
Dataset
Where do data come from
Spotify Global Top 200 Charts
Dec 23, 2016 - April 20, 2018
3,000 weekly charts
600,000 items
1,000 unique songs
Top 10 Most Streamed Songs
Ed Sheeran and Luis Fonsi are phenomena! They both have two songs on the list. One of the songs is even the same song with different remixes.
Shape of You
Ed Sheeran
Despacito – Remix
Luis Fonsi
New Rules
Dua Lip
Something Just Like This
The Chainsmokers
Despacito
Luis Fonsi
HUMBLE.
Kendrick Lamar
Perfect
Ed Sheeran
Congratulations
Post Malone
I Don't Wanna Live Forever
ZAYN
Mi Gente
J Balvin
Artists With the Most Songs on Charts
XXXTENTACION is the top artist here! From the list, electronic, hip-hop, and dance music definitely own the chart in 2017-2018.
What makes the song soar to the top of the chart?
Looking through audio features
Spotify analyzes and represents each song with 13 audio features that characterize the audio. Some are simple such as the tempo or duration – while some are more complex like how danceable or energetic the song sounds.
All audio features are fetched from Spotify API
To characterize songs, Spotify analyzes every song with 13 audio features. Some of the features, such as the tempo and duration, are intuitive; while the others are more complicated, like danceability and energy. With the data of audio features fetched from Spotify API, we are going to show you our exploration of the patterns behind the songs that you love the most!
Danceability
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
Danceability describes how suitable a track is for dancing based on a combination of musical elements including tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity. A value of 0.0 is least danceable, and 1.0 is most danceable.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
Dimitri Vegas & Like...
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Cardi B
Max
It's the Most...
Andy Williams
Min
What does it mean
The distribution of hit songs' danceability is left-skewed. Which mean the majority of songs that rock 2017 has high danceability.
Energy
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
Energy is a measure from 0.0 to 1.0 and represents a perceptual measure of intensity and activity. Typically, energetic tracks feel fast, loud, and noisy. For example, death metal has high energy, while a Bach prelude scores low on the scale. Perceptual features contributing to this attribute include dynamic range, perceived loudness, timbre, onset rate, and general entropy.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
Twenty One Pilots
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Linkin Park
Max
It's the Most...
XXXTENTACION
Min
What does it mean
The Energy's histogram is slightly more distributed than the Danceability's. Still, people lean towards energetic, fast, loud, and high energy songs.
Key
Audio Feature
What it is
The key the track is in. Integers map to pitches using standard Pitch Class notation. E.g. 0 = C, 1 = C♯/D♭, 2 = D, and so on.
What does it mean
We are skeptical about the result as it shows the most popular key is Db (1). I'm as the music produce never produce a song and rarely ever ran into the song in key Db. So, I pick a sample song to check whether the key analysis algorithm is accurate. The sample that I choose is The Dai Dai's หากค่ำคืน (Hak-Kam-Kuen) which is actually my song released in 2016. The song is actually in the key of F, but Spotify API identified as Bb. So I'm skeptical that the data may not be so accurate.
Loudness
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
The overall loudness of a track in decibels (dB). Loudness values are averaged across the entire track and are useful for comparing relative loudness of tracks. Loudness is the quality of a sound that is the primary psychological correlate of physical strength (amplitude). Values typical range between -60 and 0 dB.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
P!nk
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
MC Jhowzinho e MC...
Max
It's the Most...
XXXTENTACION
Min
What does it mean
As we learned the correlation between Loudness and Energy. We can guess that the histogram of Loudness would turn out similarly. Actually, it is even more left-skewed. As my music producer friends used to joke – the more loud, the more popular your song is going to be. So it is sadly true both statistically and from the real experience.
Mode
Audio Feature
What it is
Mode indicates the modality (major or minor) of a track, the type of scale from which its melodic content is derived. Major is represented by 1 and minor is 0.
What does it mean
The songs that made onto the chart are more classified as Major. Although, in this case, Mode is analyzed through only the melodic content in the track. It is still not true that people love happy songs more. As in various cases, minor music could sound happy even if people do not understand the lyrics. And it's even harder to judge if the song is Major or Minor by only the melody in the first place.
Speechiness
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
Speechiness detects the presence of spoken words in a track. The more exclusively speech-like the recording (e.g. talk show, audiobook, poetry), the closer to 1.0 the attribute value. Values above 0.66 describe tracks that are probably made entirely of spoken words. Values between 0.33 and 0.66 illustrate tracks that may contain both music and speech, either in sections or layered, including such cases as rap music. Values below 0.33 most likely represent music and other non-speech-like tracks.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
NF
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
XXXTENTACION
Max
It's the Most...
Ed Sheeran
Min
What does it mean
The majority of the songs have around 0.023-0.236 which is below 0.33. That's mean there's a high probability that they don't contain any rap or spoken words section in the songs. However, I'm skeptical how accurate the audio analyzer is as many hit songs in 2017 actually contain the rap section.
Acousticness
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
A confidence measure from 0.0 to 1.0 of whether the track is acoustic. 1.0 represents high confidence the track is acoustic.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
VÉRITÉ
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Mykola Dmytrovych...
Max
It's the Most...
Ozuna
Min
What does it mean
Not so many acoustic songs made onto the chart in 2017. Sorry!
Instrumentalness
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
Predicts whether a track contains no vocals. "Ooh" and "aah" sounds are treated as instrumental in this context. Rap or spoken word tracks are clearly "vocal." The closer the instrumentalness value is to 1.0, the greater likelihood the track contains no vocal content. Values above 0.5 are intended to represent instrumental tracks, but confidence is higher as the value approaches 1.0.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
Galantis
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Petit Biscuit
Max
It's the Most...
The Chainsmokers
Min
What does it mean
There's only one hit song that has the instrumentalness slightly higher than 0.5 – Petit Biscuit's Sunset Lover has 0.503 instrumentalness. And it's the electronic house song with a lot of vocoded "ooh" "aah" sound.
Liveness
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
Detects the presence of an audience in the recording. Higher liveness values represent an increased probability that the track was performed live. A value above 0.8 provides strong likelihood that the track is live.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
P!nk
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Steve Aoki
Max
Drip (feat. Migos)
Bruno Mars
Max
What does it mean
The histogram is heavily right-skewed. Most of the hit songs are not performed live (in the sense of live performance.) And as I looked into the outliner like Steve Aoki's All Night which has 0.919 liveness, it also is not the live performance. So I doubt the accuracy Spotify's algorithm.
Valence
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
A measure from 0.0 to 1.0 describing the musical positiveness conveyed by a track. Tracks with high valence sound more positive (e.g. happy, cheerful, euphoric), while tracks with low valence sound more negative (e.g. sad, depressed, angry).
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
Adele
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
The Beach Boys
Max
It's the Most...
Lil Uzi Vert
Min
What does it mean
The valence is pretty normally distributed here. Both negative and positive songs have their own place.
Tempo
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
The overall estimated tempo of a track in beats per minute (BPM). In musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece and derives directly from the average beat duration.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
Jax Jones
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Andy Williams
Max
It's the Most...
Mykola Dmytrovych...
Min
What does it mean
The tempo of hit songs is varied and distributed across the board. However, although the tempo analysis is quite accurate for most songs. I noticed they have difficulty analyzing the song without a clear percussive or drums beat, i.e., when it misclassified Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych's Carol of the Bells from 6/8 (or 3/4) to 4/4 time signature. That messed up the tempo analysis from around 52 to 46. Another example is Ziv Zaifman's A Million Dreams, again, the analyzer misclassified the time signature from 4/4 to 3/4, messing up from the tempo of 145 to 54. Somehow, the analyzer also messes up with the song with clear beats too with an understandable reason, like when it misclassified J Balvin's Machika from 107 to 212, which is understandable as it's almost double time.
Duration (ms)
Audio Feature
Mean
0.679
Max
0.679
Min
0.679
Standard Deviation
0.679
What it is
The duration of the track in milliseconds.
How do they sound
Stay (with Aless...
Rita Ora
Mean
Drip (feat. Migos)
Ed Sheeran
Max
It's the Most...
Kendrick Lamar
Min
What does it mean
The average duration of hit songs is 214,963 milliseconds or around 3.5 minutes and the standard deviation is around 45 seconds which is typical for most pop songs. Nothing special here.
Time Signature
Audio Feature
What it is
An estimated overall time signature of a track. The time signature (meter) is a notational convention to specify how many beats are in each bar (or measure).
What does it mean
Most hit songs have 4/4 time signature which is almost 99% in pop music. However, as I looked into the outliner, Sam Smith's Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, which is the only song classified as 1/4 time signature. The song is actually 4/4 but was performed rubato, or in a flexible tempo, slightly speeding up and slowing down to make the music sounds more flowing. This is common in orchestral or acoustic performance between piano and vocal like this song. That is why Spotify analyzer has a hard time correctly identify the time signature of this song.
Discussion
What is next
As we try to understand the correlation between each audio features and popularity, we first plot a scatterplot to see the strength and direction of the linear relationship between two variables. As a result, it does not show the strong indication of linear relationship, the computed coefficients of correlation may don't mean much. Nevertheless, here are top 3 audio features with the highest coefficient of correlation and coefficient of determination (for your amusement.)
Loudness 0.01256
Valence 0.01256
Danceability -0.01256
We were convinced that the dataset may be too small. We would love to compile a bigger dataset in the next step. In a meanwhile, your suggestions and feedbacks are all welcomed!
Scatter plot of Danceability vs. Streams


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Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.
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Tim Menzies (Ph.D., UNSW, 1995) is a full Professor in CS at North Carolina State University where he teaches software engineering, automated software engineering, and foundations of software science. He is the directory of the RAISE lab (real world AI for SE). that explores SE, data mining, AI, search-based SE, and open access science.
He is the author of over 250 referred publications and editor of three recent books summarized the state of the art in software analytics. In his career, he has been a lead researcher on projects for NSF, NIJ, DoD, NASA, USDA, as well as joint research work with private companies. For 2002 to 2004, he was the software engineering research chair at NASA's software Independent Verification and Validation Facility.
Prof. Menzies is the co-founder of the PROMISE conference series devoted to reproducible experiments in software engineering (http://openscience.us/repo). He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering, the Automated Software Engineering Journal the Big Data Journal, Information Software Technology, and the Software Quality Journal. In 2015, he served as co-chair for the ICSE'15 NIER track. In 2016, he serves as co-general chair of ICMSE'16. For more, see his vita (http://goo.gl/8eNhYM) or his list of publications https://goo.gl/qNQAIq) or his home page http://menzies.us.
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Sept 1: I'm now an author of a top 100 most cited/year papers in SE More...
Aug30: Paper accepted with minor revisions, EMSE journal, Negative Results about Effort Estimation More...
Aug26: Breakthrough in multi-objective optimization Sent to TSE More...
Aug26: Better topic modeling. Sent to ICSE'16 More...
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My name is Joe Dinius. I have spent the last 15+ years working as an autonomous systems engineer in the aerospace, automotive, and robotics industries; most of this time spent in research and development. While I cannot discuss what I have worked on professionally over the years, I have worked on a number of interesting side projects whose results and methodologies I share within this personal website.
I have setup this site to be a collection of posts related to ongoing work that I’m engaged in. Once a project reaches a sufficient level of maturity, I will create a writeup that presents the following:
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Nine-year-old’s awesome drum cover of Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’ goes viral – watch
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A nine-year-old girl’s impressive cover of Nirvana‘s ‘In Bloom’ has gone viral – check out the video below.
Drummer Nandi Bushell shared a clip of herself taking on the drum part to the 1992 ‘Nevermind’ single earlier this week (November 11). It has since amassed over 240,000 hits on YouTube and has been widely shared across social media.
Giving Dave Grohl a serious run for his money, the young musician – clearly feeling the music – is seen smashing the cymbals and screaming over Kurt Cobain’s vocals in the chorus.
“I can jam to Nirvana ‘In Bloom’ all day! I LOVE NIRVANA,” Bushell captioned the video. “Nirvana are in my top 5 bands so far. I just found out Dave [Grohl] also played with @jackblack in @tenaciousd, @foofighters and @queensofthestoneage!!!!”
She added that School Of Rock “is the best film in the world”.
Posting in the comments section, one viewer said: “Joy is evident – play ON, girl!” Another wrote: “Please, never ever stop rocking.”
As NPR report, Bushell shows of her drum skills in the recent Argos Christmas advert. She’s also performed with Lenny Kravitz and hung out with Questlove.
Back in Septemeber, Bushell uploaded her take on Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and has also covered the likes of Billie Eilish, Rage Against The Machine, Prince, The Police, and System Of A Down on her channel.
Meanwhile, Nirvana have been given permission to proceed with a lawsuit against Marc Jacobs, after a judge turned down the fashion house’s request to dismiss the complaint.


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4: Apollo [b5e], Imperial Empire, with 11 workers, 63 lt. xbowmen,
4: four hvy. wagons, arrived from Riverwind [ae6c], accompanied by:
4: Lutra [a4w], Imperial Empire, with 13 paladins, 40 pikemen
4: Hera [g3f], Imperial Empire, with 20 soldiers, 40 pikemen
4: Thor [r4g], Imperial Empire, with ten soldiers, 39 pikemen
4: Eos [a2t], Imperial Empire, with ten workers, 48 lt. xbowmen
4: Khaki Blazer [w4j], Imperial Empire, with 17 soldiers,
4: seven pikemen, 35 lt. foot
4: Banian [e7n], Imperial Empire, duke, the High Priest of the Church
4: of Eres [151], with five soldiers, ten angels
4: Dunlop [j5s], Mandor Confederacy, prisoner
5: Apollo [b5e], Imperial Empire, with 11 workers, 63 lt. xbowmen,
5: four hvy. wagons, went west, accompanied by:
5: Lutra [a4w], Imperial Empire, with 13 paladins, 40 pikemen
5: Hera [g3f], Imperial Empire, with 20 soldiers, 40 pikemen
5: Thor [r4g], Imperial Empire, with ten soldiers, 39 pikemen
5: Eos [a2t], Imperial Empire, with ten workers, 48 lt. xbowmen
5: Khaki Blazer [w4j], Imperial Empire, with 17 soldiers,
5: seven pikemen, 35 lt. foot
5: Banian [e7n], Imperial Empire, duke, the High Priest of the Church
5: of Eres [151], with five soldiers, ten angels
5: Dunlop [j5s], Mandor Confederacy, prisoner
15: Trokad [m3d], Mandor Confederacy, with six soldiers, arrived from
15: Riverwind Pit [p88].
15: Trokad [m3d], Mandor Confederacy, with six soldiers, went north.
30: Overcrowding causes zero peasant deaths.
Routes leaving Dragonrock:
North, forest, to Black Forest [bb54], 8 days
East, to Ocean [bc55], Crystal Sea, impassable
South, mountain, to Dragonrock [bd54], 10 days
Garrison [dq2l], garrison, uncontrolled, with eight peasants
West, forest, to Black Forest [bc53], 8 days
Garrison [jt5r], garrison, uncontrolled, with two peasants,
two workers
Down, mine-shaft, to Riverwind Pit [p88], 0 days
Inner locations:
Riverwind [ae6c], city, 1 day
Tenka Arms [t70], inn, 20% damaged
Riverwind Mk II [a45], castle, defense 40


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| Home > Documentation > Developing > Tutorials > Developing Web services > RESTful Web Services > Developing a simple RESTful Service |
This tutorial will take you through the steps required in developing, deploying and testing a RESTful Web Service in Apache Geronimo. After completing this tutorial you should be able to understand how to develop simple JAX-WS compliant RESTful web services in Apache Geronimo using Eclipse development environment.
This application may not necessarily demonstrate why we used RESTful Web Services instead of SOAP Web Services. This tutorial only provides details about some common issues involved in developing RESTful services in Apache Geronimo.
To run this tutorial, as a minimum you will be required to have installed the following prerequisite software.
Details on installing eclipse are provided in the Development environment section. This tutorial takes you through the following steps:
Firstly we need to configure our JAX-WS engine to be Apache CXF instead of Axis2 when using Geronimo with Tomcat. Users who are using Geronimo with Jetty don't need to worry about JAX-WS Engine as CXF is the default web services engine in Geronimo+Jetty.
For Geronimo+Tomcat users, consult this page to configure your JAX-WS engine as Apache CXF (Configuring JAX-WS engine)
Axis2 1.3 has/had a bug with the issue related to HTTP Content-Type header. This bug was fixed in Axis2 1.4 yet Geronimo 2.1.1 uses Axis2 1.3
The project is now ready for further RESTful Web Services developments.
This completes the development of Web Services implementation code.
Now let us walk through the code that we just developed.
There isn't much to do in this part for deploying RESTful Web Services except that we need to expose our ConverterService as servlet and CXF automatically generates the required files.
This completes the setting up of Deployment Descriptor and Deployment Plan.
Now, we will look into the steps involved in deploying and testing our web service without any clients.
This is just a tip of iceberg in RESTful Web Services. There's still a lot to explore in RESTful services.
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BMW M ("M" for "Motorsport") was initially created to facilitate BMW's racing program, which was very successful in the 1960s and 1970s. As time passed, BMW M began to supplement BMW's vehicle portfolio with specially modified higher trim models, for which they are now most known by the general public. These M-badged cars traditionally include modified engines, transmissions, suspensions, interior trims, aerodynamics, and exterior modifications to set them apart from their counterparts. All M models are tested and tuned at BMW's private facility at the Nürburgring racing circuit in Germany.
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class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Disease dynamics ] .author[ ### Christopher Moore ] --- # Diversity of disease models There are many different models of disease dynamics, given the *enormous* diversity of pathogen, vector, and host life histories. (Notice that we are only considering the dynamics of the host and not the pathogen.) As some examples: -- I. Susceptibles become infected, and remain infected for their lives -- II.  Susceptibles become infected, fight off the disease, and become resistant to subsequent infection -- IV. Some diseases include a latent period before making the infected infectious -- V. Some diseases can exist post-infected "carriers" that are no longer harmed, but can be indefinitely infectious -- VI. Some diseases are maternally inherited -- VII. Some diseases include vectors --- # Diversity of disease models There are many different models of disease dynamics, given the *enormous* diversity of pathogen, vector, and host life histories. (Notice that we are only considering the dynamics of the host and not the pathogen.) As some examples: I. Susceptibles become infected, and remain infected for their lives (**SI model**) II.  Susceptibles become infected, fight off the disease, and become resistant to subsequent infection (**SIR model**) IV. Some diseases include a latent period before making the infected infectious (**SEIR model**) V. Some diseases can exist post-infected "carriers" that are no longer harmed, but can be indefinitely infectious (**Carrier state model**) VI. Some diseases are maternally inherited (**MSI, MSIR, etc. model**) VII. Some diseases include vectors --- # Diversity of disease models There are many different models of disease dynamics, given the *enormous* diversity of pathogen, vector, and host life histories. (Notice that we are only considering the dynamics of the host and not the pathogen.) As some examples: I.  Susceptibles become infected, and remain infected for their lives (**SI model**) II.  Some diseases can exist post-infected "carriers" that are no longer harmed, but can be indefinitely infectious (**Carrier state model**) VI. Some diseases are maternally inherited (**MSI, MSIR, etc. model**) VII. Some diseases include vectors --- # Susceptible-infected (SI) model The simplest disease model includes 2 state variables to represent a **s**usceptible portion of the population and an **i**nfected portion of the population. -- First, let's assume that the host popualtion is *constant* over time. We can generally write down a system of equations to describe the dynamics: -- `$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\mathrm{d}S}{\mathrm{d}t} &= f_1(S, I) \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} &= f_2(S, I) \end{aligned}$$` -- But also describe the simplest form with a transmission coefficient representing the probability that an infected contacts a susceptible and be transmitted: `$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\mathrm{d}S}{\mathrm{d}t} &= -\beta SI \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \beta SI \end{aligned}$$` --- # Susceptible-infected (SI) model Let's exame the effect of transmission coefficient, `\(\beta\)` on disease dynaimcs. Graphically solve the model with different values of `\(\beta\)` and plot your results of infecteds as a times series with different values of `\(\beta\)` on the graph. `$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\mathrm{d}S}{\mathrm{d}t} &= -\beta SI \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \beta SI \end{aligned}$$` --- # Susceptible-infected (SI) model ```r SI <- function(t, y, parameters) { S <- y[1] I <- y[2] beta <- parameters[1] dS <- -beta*S*I dI <- beta*S*I return(list(c(dS, dI))) } SI.init <- c(S = 0.99, I = 0.01) SI.times <- seq(from = 0, to = 25, by = 0.1) betas <- seq(from = 0, to = 1, by = 0.05) cols <- colorRampPalette(c("red", "blue"))(length(betas)) for (i in 1:length(betas)){ SI.parms <- c(beta = betas[i]) SI.out <- ode(y = SI.init, times = SI.times, func = SI, parms = SI.parms) if (i == 1) { plot(x = SI.out[,1], y = SI.out[,3], ylim = c(0, 1), type = "l", col = cols[i]) } else { lines(x = SI.out[,1], y = SI.out[,3], col = cols[i]) } } ``` --- # Susceptible-infected (SI) model ![](Wk10_Disease_files/figure-html/SITimeSeries-1.png) --- # Susceptible-infected (SI) model Notice that we are working in *proportion of a constant population*. This means `\(S\)` can be expressed in terms of `\(I\)` and vice versa becuase `\(N = S + I\)`, AND we are setting `\(N = 1\)`. This means that `\(1 = S + I\)`. -- In terms of our equation, that means we can substitute for `\(S\)` or `\(I\)` and solve. This is done as eq. 1 in the book that shows that `$$\frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} = \beta SI$$` can be written as `$$\frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} = \beta I(1 - I)$$` -- That's logistic! --- class: inverse, middle, center ![oprah](https://i.imgflip.com/288hiy.jpg) --- # Susceptible-infected (SI) model With vital rates, where `\(\mu\)` is the birth rate and `\(\nu\)` is the death rate. `$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\mathrm{d}S}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \mu N -\frac{\beta SI}{N} - \nu S \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \frac{\beta SI}{N}- \nu I \end{aligned}$$` -- Notice that the death rate is the same for susceptibles and infecteds. We could also include an infedted death rate. E.g., `$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\mathrm{d}S}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \mu N -\frac{\beta SI}{N} - \nu S \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \frac{\beta SI}{N}- \gamma I \end{aligned}$$` --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model We now add a state variable for a portion of the population who has **r**ecovered from being infected. -- We also need to add a parameter for the rate of recovery; let's say `\(v\)`. -- `$$\begin{aligned} \frac{\mathrm{d}S}{\mathrm{d}t} &= -\beta SI \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}I}{\mathrm{d}t} &= \beta SI - vI \\ \frac{\mathrm{d}R}{\mathrm{d}t} &= vI \end{aligned}$$` --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model Vandermeer and Goldberg describe the significance of the relationship between the two important parameters, recovery and transmission rates, `\(v\)` and `\(\beta\)`, respectively. -- From the SI model, `\(\frac{v}{\beta}\)` was a critical ratio that determined whether the equilibrium for infecteds will be 0 or 1. -- In the SIR model, the `\(I\)` derivative can be arranged algebraically where `\(\frac{\beta}{v}\)` acts as a threshold as to wether the infected portion will increase or decline. It's realted to `\(R_0\)`, a universal parameter known as the **the basic reproductive ratio** defined as *the average number of secondary infected cases arising from an average primary case in an entirely susceptible population*. In other words, it's the rate of infection per recovery rate. --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model  --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model Vandermeer and Goldberg describe the significance of the relationship between the two important parameters, recovery and transmission rates, `\(v\)` and `\(\beta\)`, respectively. From the SI model, `\(\frac{v}{\beta}\)` was a critical ratio that determined whether the equilibrium for infecteds will be 0 or 1. In the SIR model, the `\(I\)` derivative can be arranged algebraically where `\(\frac{\beta}{v}\)` acts as a threshold as to wether the infected portion will increase or decline. It's realted to `\(R_0\)`, a universal parameter known as the **the basic reproductive ratio** defined as *the average number of secondary infected cases arising from an average primary case in an entirely susceptible population*. In other words, it's the rate of infection per recovery rate. Create a time series for an SIR model. Pretend the suscetible population is Colby (roughly 2000 people on campus) and one person returns from winter break with a pathogen that is transmitted with a probability of 0.5. Create a time series to show how the infected Mules change over time for recovery rates both of 0.1 and 0.5. What and when are the peaks (maximum `\(I\)`) for each? --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model `\(I\)` is the red line and `\(v = 0.1\)`: ![](Wk10_Disease_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-2-1.png) ```r max(SIR.out[,3]) # prop. I ## [1] 0.4782124 SIR.out[,1][which(SIR.out[,3] == max(SIR.out[,3]))] # Days ## [1] 22.9 ``` --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model `\(I\)` is the red line and `\(v = 0.5\)`: ![](Wk10_Disease_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-4-1.png) ```r max(SIR.out[,3]) # prop. I ## [1] 5e-04 SIR.out[,1][which(SIR.out[,3] == max(SIR.out[,3]))] # Days ## [1] 0 ``` --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model ### `\(\frac{\beta}{v} > 1\)` ![](Wk10_Disease_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-6-1.png) --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model ### `\(\frac{\beta}{v} < 1\)` ![](Wk10_Disease_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-7-1.png) --- # Susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model <video width="500" height="500" controls="controls" loop> <source src="Wk10_Disease_files/SIR.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> --- # Nice model, Chris, but how'bout those data?


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I approached Mark to come up with a solution for us, which ended up being Studyware, a small homework solution for students. Our goal was to provide a free digital resource that would be useful to students and that would also create a value proposition for instructors and students, and give us an advantage over competitors. We wanted a repeatable design so that other products could offer something similar. Mark developed a very customer-centric design and helped us come up with all our processes. He had a tremendous volume of these, 25 to 45 a year under serious time constraints. Mark always worked very closely with QA; he would come in and work hand in hand with the QA manager, build the test plans, literally be fixing things on the fly.
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Samsung announces Galaxy Note10+ Star Wars Edition with Galaxy Buds and a red S Pen
by Manuel VonauThe third and last installment of the latest Star Wars trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker, is slated to hit cinemas on December 20, and the hype is growing. Samsung and Disney (Lucasfilm, to be specific) have already announced that they're working on campaigns together, and today, the Korean company seems to have decided to join the dark side of the force: It introduced a Galaxy Note10+ Special Edition dedicated to Kylo Ren, coming with a unique lightsaber-red S Pen and a bunch of extras in the box.
Other than the red stylus, the phone features similarly colored power and volume buttons and a bezel just as red running around the camera array. The matte black rear also sports a Sith badge and a Star Wars logo beneath Samsung's. The software of this special Galaxy comes with Star Wars-themed content such as "wallpapers, shutdown animations, icons, and sounds."
In the retail box, you'll also get a similarly Sith-themed edition of the Galaxy Buds, a metal collectible badge, as well as a unique case for the phone.
The carrier-unlocked Star Wars Edition will be available in our galaxy in limited quantities starting December 13. In the United States, Amazon, Samsung, and select Best Buy and Microsoft stores will carry the package for $1,300. Internationally, the device will hit Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UAE, and the UK.
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UK weather forecast: Temperature to drop to freezing 0c this week as cold snap bites
The cold weather is expected to bring snow and frost, according to the Met Office
by Matthew Dresch, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/matthew-dresch/Temperatures are set to plummet this week as the 'Scandinavian shiver' freezes the UK.
It's set to drop to as low as 0C in parts of Scotland tomorrow morning and on Friday evening, according to the Met Office .
Across the country, Brits will see temperatures between 2C and 4C as the early winter takes hold.
Fog and mist is also expected today, potentially spoiling Bonfire Night fireworks displays.
Met Office forecaster Alex Deakin said: "Where the winds are light across central areas it's likely to turn quite misty and murky over parts of the Midlands and eastern England.
"It will turn quite chilly, temperatures well down into single figures. It will be a misty murky start (on Tuesday morning).
"A frosty start to Wednesday but a bright start. Many eastern areas and much of Scotland looking dry and bright through Wednesday we will see some sunshine but its not going to be warm, temperatures in single figures in most places."
He added that a 'colder feel' is expected for the rest of the week.
Temperatures will peak at 13C today, before dipping down to 2C tonight and falling to 0C tomorrow morning.
This evening will be largely dry with clear spells but there will be cloud and patchy rain for a time in East Anglia and south-east England.
It will be dry with clear spells after midnight except for one or two showers around coasts, with frost developing in the north.
Tomorrow will be mostly dry with sunny spells in the morning, especially in the east.
There will be more cloud in the west with a few showers in Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland, England and Wales.
In the afternoon rain will spread into northern and western parts but it will be mostly dry in the south-east.
Thursday will be cloudy with rain in Northern Ireland and northern parts of England and Wales.
It is expected to be bright with showers in southern England and Wales.
Friday will be bright in the north-west as showers hit the south and east.
Met Office five-day weather forecast
Today:
A murky start for the southeast but this clearing during the morning. Still some rain and showers, mainly in the East, with drier and brighter weather in western parts. Windy for a time over parts of England and Wales.
Tonight:
A few showers around northern and eastern coasts as well as around Irish Sea coastal areas. Cold inland with a local frost likely, particularly in central and northern parts.
Wednesday:
A cold day with some sunshine at first in the east but soon clouding over here. Outbreaks of rain developing in the west, gradually moving east and northeast later.
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:
Showers for many on Thursday; heavy rain likely in northeast England. Brighter and drier for many on Friday before further rain spreads east on Saturday. Cold generally with night frosts.


So, you got really excited and want to make a community token! That’s great and we want you to do it. There’s a few things to consider, and I want to help you understand it as best as I can.
Faucets and Sinks
In general all tokens have faucets and sinks. A faucet is how the token enters the ecosystem and a sink is how it leaves it. If no one uses your token it won’t have any value. If lots of people use your token but it’s overflowing with a lot of new tokens it still won’t have value. The goal is to find a healthy balance.
How do I find that balance? Well, that’s a really hard question and there’s no one answer that will work for everything. The first two questions to me are:
What should the max supply be?
How much should enter the ecosystem initially?
In general the value of a currency should match the value of goods and services in the ecosystem.
Number of tokens * Token value = Goods + Services
If goods + servies go up in value and the amount of tokens stay the same then value of each token will go up. If the value of goods and services go up and the token supply goes up the token value might remain constant.
It’s a tricky balance. But I like to think in terms of USD. Then I think how much USD is this community project going to be worth in X years and then I issue that many tokens as a max supply. You might want a weaker currency value. You might want a stronger currency value. If you want it to be less than a dollar than make the max issuable higher. If you want it to be more than a dollar make the max issuable lower or just don’t issue as many.
Now, when you start a project and there’s 15 users you need fewer tokens. After a few years when there 15000 users you’re likely to want more. So, you need to think not just about the final state of the token, but you need to consider the initial state of the token.
FOMO and scarcity are an important part of the token value. I strongly suggest that you make slightly less token supply available than what you think will be consumed. That way the token is likely to go up in value.
But how do you know what that is? This is a best guess kinda thing. If you’re nervous air on the side of caution and add more tokens later. But if you’re selling onion ice cream with your token and you know not many people will want it you’ll want a supply of like 7.
Where does the token value come from
Aggy’s rule of value:
10% of the value of a token comes from the distribution of it.
90% of the value comes from the desirability of the sinks for it!
What does that mean? It means that issuing a token and distributing it is the easy part. Making it have value is the hard part. You have to get people that want to hold it. It is part of a good or service. You can play a game with it. You can get a service with it. You can trade it for a limited wigit. Just having a token and distributing it won’t make it worth anything. You have to make people want to both buy your token and turn it in to get something they perceive has value to them.
Security tokens vs other tokens
I’m not an attorney. I work with one, and I’m familiar with the space, but I’m not your legal council. That said, if you’re planning on offering shares in a company, promises of profit, or you’re selling vaporware with the promise to build something later with the token sale money those are definately securities. It’s ok to be a security, but you’ll need a registered company and either full registration or an exemption filed with the SEC if you’d like to raise money for your security in the US.
Other types of tokens may end up being a security because non-securities can still be bundled in a way to actually be a security, and this shit is complex, but if you’re selling something that’s clearly a product or service it has a much larger possibility that it’s exempt from the securities registration. That means you can launch an ICO, raise however much you can, and not worry about securities law (if you’ve made sure you’re in the clear).
What’s left with token creation?
To make a token on steem-engine.com go to steem-engine.com and click tokens. Then click create. (If you don’t have 100 ENG you’ll have to click buy ENG first or buy some on the market at a small discount).
Now you have to give it a token name, and then choose a symbol up to 10 characters long. You have to give it a URL. Make sure to include the https:// part in your URL. We just had a discussion around max supply… so hopefully you have some ideas for that. Lastly, you have to decide decimal precision.
Decimal precision is how many decimal points your token will care about. Bitcoin is 8 so you can trade 0.00000001 btc. Steem is 3 so you can trade 0.001 steem. If you suspect your token will be used in a lot of micro transactions or you have an incredibly small supply you may want to have 8 for decimal precision.
Gearing up to start!
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting excited for releasing tokens into the wild. Hopefully you’ll get one started yourself. Next up I’m going to talk about some parameters for Scotbot! Stay tuned!
This page is synchronized from the post: ‘Scot and Scotbot Part II: Considerations When Creating a Community Token! Faucets and Sinks.’


(Originally published on the OUBS Blog)
There are a lot of financial stakeholders and the following could be a good list.
- Internal a) Managers: stewardship (the need to protect the organisationâ€™s possessions); planning; control; decision making. b) Employees c) Owners
- External a) Funding bodies and owners b) Owners c) Lenders of money d) Suppliers of goods and services e) Customers and clients f) Governments agencies g) The general public
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The inputs-outputs model is used a lot to describe that managers need to transform resources (inputs) into goods and services (outputs) that result in outcomes (happy customers, profits, satisfied users, and so on). These inputs and outputs all have monetary values.
You can split up inputs into:
- Tangible assets (resources you can see and touch) a) short-term, day to day, e.g. cash, consumables, materials b) long-term, e.g. equipment, vehicles, land, buildings
- Intangible assets (people and know-how)
Internal budgetary information tracks input consumption and output performance for both planning and reporting back. You can use standard planning and feedback budget pro forma.
You also to do external stakeholder accounting which is done through balance sheets, profit statements / profit and loss accounts, cash flow statements. Traditionally the sources for finance for inputs are called liabilities (fixed and current, while current means under a year repayable), and what the business spends money on is called its assets (long term assets = fixed assets; short term assets = current assets).
Balance sheets reveal to stakeholders where the financial resources in an organisation have come from and how they are used at a particular time.
The profit and loss statement is not made up of cash transactions alone (e.g. server only deducted 50% per year). Cash flow statements just record cash in and out.
The profit and loss accounts reveal the difference between income and expenditure, the gross profit and operating profit, how resources were used and what happened to any profit or surplus.
Annual reports provide information explaining organisationsâ€™ results and also evidence of the veracity of their financial statements.


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Millions of children are dying every day from hunger and diseases that are made worse by undernutrition.  The statistics are discouraging, but Feed God’s Hungry Children knows that even the smallest gift of compassion can change lives one child at a time. You can make a difference in the world and give hope to these hopeless children. Please consider supporting the good work of Feed God’s Hungry children today, and you can know that you will be part of a much better tomorrow.
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Story: The song of the Springbok mothers
The song of the Springbok mothers
Title
The song of the Springbok mothers
Collection
Summary
What the Springbok mothers sing when they are soothing their Springbok children.
Comments
1) See also The Anteater, Springbok, Lynx and Partridge, 2) This story is found in Book VIII-29
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
June 1879
Categories
Keywords
song (of the Springbok mothers) , song (sung to soothe the Springbok children) , Early Race (the song of the Springbok mothers) , Springbok mothers (the song they sing to soothe their children)
Story Pages
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The Biggest Blunders I've Seen in Tech Interviews
I’ve been interviewing developers for seven years. I’ve seen some great candidates, and I’ve seen some horrible ones. Here are some of the worst mistakes I’ve seen — hopefully you can avoid them.
Mention how overqualified you are for the position.
I work in front-end development. It’s amazing how many designers and back-end developers we get in for interviews who think that front-end development is just something that people do on the side while focusing on real work like design and back-end development. I’ve had a few interviewees with multidisciplinary work experience mention that they’re overqualified for the position, but they still wanted to be considered for it. Want to guess how they turned out? In every case, they bombed the interview.
Imagine walking into a car dealership and asking to see their selection of trucks. The salesman immediately takes you over to a sports car and starts expounding on how great it is, even going as far as saying that the sports car is overqualified to be your truck because it’s a sports car. That’s how you sound when you say that your irrelevant experience is more important than what we asked for.
Doing a different job does not make you more qualified—it makes you less experienced. That’s not to say that there’s no carry-over between disciplines or that experience in another area has no value. But if we’re looking for something specific and you haven’t been doing it, don’t ever assume that what you’ve been doing is more advanced or important. If you’re truly overqualified, you won’t have to state it; if we’re worried about it, we’ll mention it. But if you say you’re overqualified and you’re not, you’ve shown you don’t respect or want to learn the new job, and you probably just lost your chance at it.
Show us how unenthused you are about the position.
I had a guy in for an interview right after a major election. In the interview, I very quickly found out that he had been trying to get elected as a United States senator. I also very quickly found out that development was the guy’s back-up plan — and one that he was not excited about using. The guy was glaring at me through the whole interview, and was very clearly humiliated to have lowered himself to be interviewed by me. He did not get the job.
In another interview, I had a guy who actually insulted the entire front-end field, saying he was only applying for the job in hopes of transferring to a “real” developer position later on. Yeah, he also said he was overqualified for the position because he knew a little PHP. And he also bombed the technical portion of the interview. But he’d lost the job before then.
If we don’t get the sense in the interview that you’re going to work hard at the job, you won’t get another chance to prove it to us. That’s a decision you need to make before you come in for the interview, and something you’ll need to prove to us, because most other applicants will be working hard to do just that.
I get it—sometimes you have to take a job you’re not the most excited about. But if you don’t give every job your all, you’ll have wasted any time you spend in them. Let’s say you take a job you’re not excited about, but you put in the effort and the hours and really excel at it. Worst case, after a year, you’ll have a list of great achievements and references for your career; best case, you find yourself promoted into a better position or put on better projects that will make the job a good one.
Babble endlessly.
I was in an interview and asked a particularly chatty candidate about his greatest accomplishments. Fifteen minutes later, he was talking at length about his co-workers’ coffee preferences and had yet to list an accomplishment. The team lead in the interview with me made up his mind and quietly got on Facebook, leaving me alone in an extremely awkward one-sided conversation. I had to cut half of the planned questions because he took so long answering them that we ran out of time — and he still didn’t answer most of the ones that were actually asked. Overall, a total disaster of an interview.
Now before you start thinking that I’m being petty here, we contacted people he used to work with and got the feedback that he was very nice and knowledgeable, but took forever to complete a task and was unproductive in meetings. I know correlation is not causation, but I had a pretty good feeling on that one.
There was another interview I did earlier on in my management career. The guy’s cover letter was three pages long and his resume five pages long, despite only being in the industry for four years. I decided to give the guy a chance anyway. About three minutes into the interview, I discovered that the resume and cover letter were indeed accurate predictors of how chatty he was. After 20 minutes of senseless rambling and pontification, the director in the interview with me excused herself, once again leaving me alone with the interviewee. (Why does this keep happening to me?)
Please don’t hear that we want terse one-word responses to all questions. We want to hear you talk—that’s the reason we’re conducting an interview rather than just giving you a test. But we want to hear you talk with relevance to the position. We want to hear you answer our questions just as thoughtfully as we selected the questions. And we want to know that you’ll be able to focus on your work and get it done quickly. Succinctly making your point goes a long way in making your answers more impressive.
Badmouth the people you used to work with.
(The names in the below story have been changed because I don’t want to get sued.)
“Well, Chris, you work at X Company?” I asked the applicant in front of me. “We have an employee who used to work there.”
“It’s not Bob, is it?” applicant Chris asked.
“Why do you ask?” I inquired.
Chris launched into an angry diatribe on how Bob didn’t work unpaid overtime on his last day at the company to finish up a project with a ridiculous deadline. Chris hated Bob. Just then, the door opened.
“Chris, this is my senior developer, Bob, who will be joining us for the interview.”
That actually happened. Chris did not get the job. Bob and I still laugh about that one.
It can be tempting to speak ill of your current or past companies—after all, you’re not leaving them because things are just too good there. This is a bad idea for a number of reasons.
First, as illustrated above, the development communities in cities are often smaller and more closely-knit than we think. After eleven years working in development in Kansas City, I know people at all of the major shops and have worked with a lot of them.
Second, your reaction to your current or past workplace is pretty indicative of how you’re going to react to unwanted change when we hire you. The fact is, there will be things you don’t like no matter how great the job is, and if we sense that you’re a chronic complainer, that can impact employee morale or even client relations.
You’re welcome to mention the negative things about your current or past employer, but do so gracefully and diplomatically. In fact, this can be even more beneficial than not mentioning them at all, as it shows you know how to restrain yourself and respect professional boundaries. Just don’t use an interview as an opportunity to vent your frustrations — that definitely will not help you.
Don’t proofread your anything.
No joke, I once got a resume where the guy misspelled PHP. If you can’t even spell the technologies you’re allegedly an expert in, that doesn’t speak well to your expertise.
My wife works in HR, so she reviews resumes too. She once saw one where a candidate mentioned her “critial eye for detail.”
I don’t think I need to elaborate too much on this one. If you’re not gifted in proofreading, get a friend to do it. But one way or another, you need to do it.
Insult people with real conditions.
I was interviewing a guy (who, by his own admission, was not great with people) and I asked him to tell me about a project that did not go as planned. His reply involved this:
“Oh man, the code on this site was so bad, the developers had to be bipolar or something.”
Hmm, so people with bipolar disorder can’t write good code. I don’t remember seeing that on the list of symptoms. I’m quite familiar with the list of symptoms because I happen to have bipolar disorder myself. And I’m a bit mystified by his statement, because I wasn’t interviewing him as a team lead or manager — I was interviewing him as the technical architect. It was literally my job to not write bad code.
But let’s humor him. Let’s apply this thinking to some other medical conditions:
“Oh man, the project manager ran that project so loose, he had to have irritable bowel syndrome or something.”
“Oh man, the back-end security on that site was hindering the user so much, the developer had to have lupus or something.”
“Oh man, the client’s appetite for leads was so low, she had to have had stage IV pancreatic cancer or something.”
Yeah, still not funny.
It’s 2017. I can’t believe I have to explain this. Medical conditions (and other conditions, like trauma, family situations, or even gender identity) are very real, and are sometimes very hard to deal with. When we interview you, we look out not only for ourselves, but for everyone on our teams, and for everything they could possibly have to deal with in the future.  There is no situation in which joking about someone else’s condition will help you get a job. Don’t do it.
And if you’re wondering, he did not get the job.
Don’t restrain yourself on social media.
I had an applicant once—a referral from a coworker. The first thing I do when I get a resume is Google the applicant and see what I can find. Portfolio? Great, I’ll check it out. Social media? You’d better believe I’m going to check that out. In this case, the guy’s Twitter handle was — I kid you not — something along the lines of Lord Dickhead. I read a few of his Tweets, and the account was appropriately named. To make matters worse, most of the foul-mouthed Tweets were directed at his current employer. He didn’t get the job. He didn’t even get an interview.
Please remember, anything you put on the Internet is fair game for me to read and use in my assessment of you as a candidate. I’m trying to get a feel for who you are and what kind of teammate you’ll be, and I know that I may get a skewed view of you based on what you present in the interview. So, once again, you’d better believe I would jump at a chance to take a look at an unfiltered stream from you.
Now, I’ve heard horror stories of people who lost their jobs because they were holding a drink in one Facebook photo. We’re not that uptight. I fully realize that people have a right to speak freely on the Internet in a non-professional setting, and I probably won’t approve of everything they do (just like they probably wouldn’t approve of everything I do online). But if the severity or the frequency of the faux-pas posts gives me concern for how they’ll handle themselves in the workplace or how they’ll portray our company to the public, yes, I will take notice, and it could impact your chance of getting the job.
Just blocking everyone on all social media channels isn’t necessarily the best plan of action either. Yes, it hides all your embarrassing posts, but it also does nothing to help you. A good social media presence with thoughtful and relevant posts can greatly increase our interest in you as a candidate. And remember that just because your social media profiles are private does not necessarily mean that employers will never see them. The best course of action is to avoid putting damning information about yourself online, no matter the channel.


What To Do About Your Blossoming Beard The Next Time You Have A Job Interview
by By Kassia ByrnesIt’s a tale as old as hipster culture: to beard, or not to beard for job interviews? Actually, it’s probably an older question than that, but hipsters have made the glorious bushranger beard sexy again. But when is a beard unprofessional to the point of hurting your job prospects?
SEEK’s resident psychologist, Sabina Read, reckons there are four main points to consider before turning up to an interview with a glorious face full of hair.
1. What does your hair say about you?
Whether or not your beard is ok can really depend on the type of facial hair you’re rocking and what you need it to say about you as a candidate.
“Consider what your beard is saying to prospective employers,” suggests Sabina. “A scholarly full beard may convey wisdom and a handlebar moustache can point to a creative and whimsical personality”.
“On the flipside, a wizardly beard might suggest you lack pragmatism, while a trendy, stubble beard can express a lack of care if not well maintained.”
2. Always keep it well-groomed
“Whatever manner of beard you’re boasting, it’s important to ensure your whiskers are well-groomed,” Sabina says, and I’d have to agree. There’s a huge difference between the scraggy, uneven bear, and this guy:
“Do keep your beard trimmed and styled, and pay your barber a visit the day before your interview if you want to feel extra dapper. Cleanliness extends to your facial hair as much as your interview attire, so check your beard for crumbs or coffee remnants before announcing yourself at reception.”
3.  Is that going to end up being the main thing interviewers remember about you?
“No matter how majestic your beard, you want your skills and experience to be the ultimate focus of your interview,” Sabina explains. “Drawing too much attention to a glorious beard could be distracting to prospective employers. Don’t stroke it during your interview, no matter how intelligent it makes you feel”.
4. Make sure you seem like a match
As with a lot of your presentation, what’s acceptable can really depend on your industry. A creative office is far more likely to embrace a lush beard than, say, a law firm. You want to make sure you’re giving off ‘I will fit right into your office culture’ vibes.
“Prospective employers want to be able to imagine you slotting nicely into their team, so make it easy for them by assessing the likelihood of your beard’s acceptance,” advises Sabina.
“Yes, your splendid beard is destined to stand out, not blend in, but like other aspects of how you present yourself, it’s important to get a feel for the corporate culture of the organisation and decide if your beard will fit in around other beards in the office. It’s easy to check out the photos of current team members online if you need help identifying this.”
So yes, you can have a beard – under the right circumstances. And just to be clear, those mangy un-kept beards are pretty much never a good idea so don’t do that even with no job interview in sight. Just one person’s strong opinion.


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Army arrests suspected drug peddler with 60 wraps of cocaine
by Agency ReportThe 9 Brigade Command of the Nigeria Army, Ikeja Cantonment in Lagos State, on Saturday, paraded a hard drug peddler, Collins, caught with 60 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine.
The 30-year-old suspect was arrested in Festac Town.
The Commander of the Brigade, Brig. -Gen. Musa Etsu-Ndagi, told newsmen on Saturday that the suspect was arrested in the early hours of Friday.
Etsu-Ndagi said that the suspect was arrested by the men of the Exercise Crocodile Smile, adding that the exercise was already yielding results.
The commander added that the suspect would be handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for further investigation.
“You will recall that the Chief of Army Staff ( COAS) Lt.- Gen. Tukur Buratai, on November 19 flagged-off Exercise Crocodile Smile.
“The exercise is now yielding result; the suspect was arrested by the Operation Crocodile Smile troop and he confessed to committing the crime.”
The Commander advised drug dealers to desist from trading in such substances saying it was increasing crime in the society.
“I strongly advise drug dealers to desist from trading in substances of this nature because these are substances that actually exacerbate crime in society.
“When people take these substances, they become violent and will not know what they are doing anymore.”
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1 We heard a report that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is not even permitted among the Gentiles. The report is that one of you is sleeping with his father's wife.
2 And you are so arrogant! Should you not mourn instead? The one who did this must be removed from among you.
3 For, although I am absent in body but still present in spirit, I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were there.
4 When you gather together in the name of our Lord Jesus, and my spirit is there as well in the power of our Lord Jesus, I have already judged this person.
5 I have done this to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole loaf?
7 Cleanse yourselves of the old yeast so that you may be new dough, so that you may be unleavened bread. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
8 So let us then celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of bad behavior and wickedness. Instead, let us celebrate with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
10 In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters, since to stay away from them you would need to go out of the world.
11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother or sister in Christ but who is living in sexually immorality, or who is greedy, or is an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or is a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat a meal with such a person.
12 For how am I involved with judging those who are outside the church? Instead, are you not to judge those who are inside the church?
13 But God judges those who are on the outside:
"Remove the evil person from among you."


This example shows how to use a custom column command in Telerik Grid for ASP.NET MVC. Custom commands can be configured to call action methods by making server side or ajax requests. In this particular example the custom command is requesting JSON from an action method and displays it using Telerik Window for ASP.NET MVC
To define a custom column command use the following code
View: <%= Html.Telerik().Grid(Model) .Name("Grid") .Columns(columns => columns { columns.Command(commands => // Define a custom command commands.Custom() // Set the text of the button .Text("Customer Details") // Specify which fields from the bound data item to include in the route (pass as action method arguments) .DataRouteValues(route => route.Add(o => o.OrderID).RouteKey("orderID")) // Name of the custom command (used to differentiate between multiple custom commands) .Name("viewDetails") // Make ajax requests .Ajax(true) // Which action method to call .Action("ViewDetails", "Grid") )); } ) %> Controller: public JsonResult ViewDetails(int orderID) // this argument comes from the data item (defined via DataRouteValues) { // Get the order by the specified orderID var order = GetOrders() .FirstOrDefault(o => o.OrderID == orderID); return Json(new { customer = order.Customer }); }


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SocStock is an opensource dashboard for analyzing the effect of twittersentiment on the social media stockprices. While the current dashboard is showing data for apple stock, it can digest all social media stocks by changing the input.
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