Pumpkin is at “kitty camp” this time of year.
Every year during the election, Pumpkin heads off to kitty camp at Kroner Animal Care, Debbie Quivey, director of the Athens County Board of Elections, said. Elections make him nervous, Quivey said, with all of the people and equipment streaming in and out of the office around Election Day. Because of Pumpkin, many students make their way past the Board of Elections to catch a glimpse of him basking in the sunlight on his bed near the window.
How many students make it to the polls because of Pumpkin is a mystery, but he is only one factor of many that affect students registering to vote in Athens as well as those getting in their vote in their hometown.
Students are the only group that has the right to choose between two places, Quivey said.
Sarah Poggione, a professor of political science and an associate dean at Ohio University, said this can affect where students decide to vote.
“There are some options that folks can think about in terms of their residency, and that disproportionately affects young people here in Athens,” Poggione said. “They really may be more connected to the local politics in their home community in some ways ... They might really consider Athens their home community. They could potentially have a big impact on outcomes.”
Although the Board of Elections doesn’t keep specific records on how many students vote each year, Quivey said she has noticed trends over the years of working in the office.
“Students always come out and vote heavy during a presidential (election),” Quivey said. “Now, that didn’t happen here last year because of the pandemic because the students were not here.”
According to a previous Post report , overall voter registration in Athens County this year only slightly declined from the 2020 election, with 38,960 voters registered this year and 39,342 registered in 2020. However, around 2,000 more voters were registered in 2019: 40,919, according to the Ohio Board of Elections website, before the COVID-19 pandemic sent OU students home and added a complex layer to elections in 2020.
Poggione believes more students who may have voted in Athens during a typical school year were more likely to vote in their hometowns because of the pandemic.
“They might have had a different relationship to Athens, and that's going to mean that registration will need to change if they're planning on voting and considering voting here in Athens this time around,” Poggione said.
In off years in which there is not an election for president or governor, Quivey said she sees fewer students voting, though some do get in on select local elections.
“Here in the city of Athens, they do vote for City Council and At-Large and, sometimes, the students will get involved, but I don't see a big turnout with them in an election like this,” Quivey said.
However, where Quivey does see a large turnout of students is those looking for Pumpkin at the front window at the Board of Elections. Students stop by frequently for pictures of him, she said, and many will stop in and pet him — only if he allows, though, Quivey said.
“He’s very temperamental,” Quivey said with a laugh. “We are at his beck and call. He has an attitude. When he wants to interact with you, he will.”
Quivey said she has no way of knowing how many people come out and vote because of Pumpkin, but she does think he might affect the medium they choose to vote through.
“I think a lot of students will come in and early vote so they get to see him rather than to go to the polls,” Quivey said.
Pumpkin does serve as a very visible reminder to vote, beckoning students on Court Street with his big golden eyes, ginger fur and uniquely inquisitive expression.
“I think that seeing him in the (Board of Elections) window can remind people to either register to vote, early vote, or make a plan for voting on Election Day,” Grant Perry, the president of the Ohio University College Democrats, or OUCD, and a senior studying political science and geography, said in an email. “A few weeks ago I was walking down Court on my way to campus and saw him sitting in the window and it reminded me to stop in and early vote.”
Campus political organizations also have an effect on voter registration to some extent, whether they encourage their members to register to vote or hold general drives to get people registered. Organizations like the OUCD and Ohio University College Republicans, or OUCR, encourage their members to vote in Athens to support local candidates.
OU College Democrats hosted a campus-wide voter registration day with other organizations in September, Perry said. Also, some members of the organization worked with Allison Russo’s campaign for the 15th District in this year’s special election to help register voters as well.
“We have had more students register to vote this year than in the past through our events,” Perry said in an email. “Our organization, in partnership with the Allison Russo campaign, (has) registered more voters than usual.”
OUCR encourages students to vote at its meetings, Ciera Kent, a sophomore studying nursing and the communications director for OUCR, said.
“We always have registration stuff on the tables when people come in,” Kent said, “Especially for people that are out of state and, in state, we can always change that address and everything for them.”
Both groups encourage their members to vote in Athens because of the effect those votes can have both locally and state-wide.
“The decisions made at the municipal level here in Athens, the state level, and the federal level by our Congressional 15th representative play a major role in our lives during our time in Athens,” Perry said in an email.
The size of the area doesn’t mean elections here don’t have a big impact, Kent said.
“It's really important to get our voice out there, especially because we have such influential people here,” Kent said.
Ohio University Moderates, or OUM, also encourages its members and others to vote, Ryan Gwin, the president of the group and a junior studying elementary education, said. The organization has had social media campaigns encouraging students to vote as well as highlighted local upcoming elections.
Unlike the party-specific political groups, OUM doesn’t endorse any specific candidates. It doesn't necessarily encourage students to vote in Athens but, rather, wherever they feel most comfortable placing their vote, Gwin said.
Emily Sudnick, greeting Pumpkin, the Board of Elections on Court Street’s Resident Cat.
“We understand that students may have a big election in their hometown as well,” Gwin said.
Gwin personally votes in his home district in Northeast Ohio, he said, but if there was an impactful enough race, he would switch his registration to Athens, which has yet to happen.
For many students in Athens, the location of voting can simply come down to convenience.
“Last year was the first time I voted, and I voted here just because I was in town,” Holly Pearson, a senior studying management, said. “If I was at home, I'd vote at home. So, it's really just wherever I am at the time.”
The same stands for Taylor Deleruyelle, a junior studying biology. Although it mostly comes down to the convenience, she said, she also feels like her familiarity with her hometown plays a factor.
“I know what's going on there,” she said.
The older a person is, the more likely it is they will have voted in an election, Poggione said. Nationwide in the 2020 presidential election, Poggione said, more people in the college student age bracket voted than in the 2016 presidential election. Student-aged individuals also participate in a growing amount of activism.
This probably isn’t because of support for a particular political candidate, Poggione said.
“I think there might be a little bit more evidence that it's really these younger voters were mobilized by sets of issues that they are concerned about: racial justice, environmental issues, voting equality, a number of different things,” Poggione said. “If it's really those issues that are driving them, those issues are still really relevant right now. So, that could really argue that we might see a real change, that this is not just a temporary blip associated with one candidate or one particular campaign but perhaps a much stronger, more permanent change.”
One of the biggest indicators of whether a person votes or not is if they have voted before, Poggione said, and with more young people registering and voting in 2020, this trend could continue into future elections.
Also what is likely to continue is the growing impact of the younger generations' activism affecting the political sphere, Poggione said, especially when candidates are encouraged to address certain issues.
“We could see different kinds of candidates that are really addressing issues that those voters care about — more likely to run both for primary campaigns but also then succeed and do better in general elections,” Poggione said. “We could see the parties and all candidates be more likely to address some of those key issues.”
The lasting impact of college-aged individuals' activism could affect candidate agendas, Poggione said, and have a lasting impact beyond election season as well.
Poggione also believes Pumpkin could have an impact on helping students become more familiar with the Board of Elections, serving as a reminder for them to get out and cast their ballot, however they choose to do so.
After election season, Pumpkin will once again return to his perch in the Board of Elections window to be adored by his loving fans throughout Athens and beyond.
Quivey said he was dubbed a “Democat” because of his love for Penny Brooks, a Democrat and the former deputy director of the Board of Election who died in 2020. She took Pumpkin back to the Board of Elections with Quivey after a student, who was in an argument with her boyfriend who threatened to kick the cat out on the street, asked the two women to take him.
“He absolutely adored Penny,” Quivey said. “We could tell that he mourned her and looked for her and, since she's been gone, he has made up with me a lot more.”
Going into the election season, Quivey hopes to see a higher voter turnout and said that each year, the Board of Elections gets a much larger number of people registered than who make it out to vote.
“It's a privilege, and it's our right to vote,” Quivey said. “I wish more students would vote in off years.”


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This is the third project of a series of UX projects from the Treehouse UX program. In this project, I designed a website called Wooshmail that allows users to create email marketing campaigns, browse through available email templates, and analyze the performance of their campaigns. I needed to design it in a way that was user-friendly and intuitive enough for beginners, but powerful enough for advanced users.
Role: Research, strategy, design
Team: Solo project
Length: May to June 2020
Tools: Adobe XD, Illustrator, After Effects
Wooshmail is a mock email marketing campaign website that needed two user flows, “Admin” and “Basic” roles. The Admin role is for business owners and advanced users who manage the entire email marketing for their business, and make the final calls. Basic users have a more restricted set of features available to them, and need their work to be reviewed by Admin users. They are looking to create and improve the experience for both flows, as their audience consists of mostly small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Most small business owners want an easy way to keep in contact with their customer base. The common issue is that the process can be clunky and confusing, as many tend to be older and are not very tech-savvy. The issue becomes more compounded as they try to use complicated editing tools, understand niche marketing phrases, or even try to navigate these sites.
One other issue is also that there are various existing competitor sites such as Mailchimp, Mailerlite, and Constant Contact - all of which have a similar set of features. This makes it difficult for prospective users to decide which service to use, since they all seem to be the same.
I sought to answer the question: How can we make a email campaign site straightforward enough for any small business owner to use?
At first, I looked into understanding not only the issues that small business owners face, but also what the product itself is. I started by:
Approaching the iteration, I wanted to keep each page consistent with each other, aside from the template editing page, so that there is unifying theme. I ended up sketching out two ideas per page, and as I was sketching I kept in mind that this app should be intuitive for users within that age range.
I tried to find as many examples from competitors like Mailchimp, Constantcontact, and Mailerlite as I could, but this was a challenge because I’ve never used those apps, let alone have an account to see how it works for myself. I also designed the add recipients and send mail pages similar to a regular email client, so that it would feel more familiar for those who have not used an email marketing client before.
As I usually do when I transition from sketching to wireframing, I combined the best ideas from both sketches into the wireframes. Admittedly, due to my inexperience with these types of mail clients, I ran into a potential flaw in my design for the add recipients pages because I misunderstood the requirements. I ended up redesigning part of it by changing the preview mail section into an add recipient groups section so that I didn’t need to entirely redo the design, which I think worked out well.
I added details above the email template image in the send email page to serve as a confirmation page and help users make sure that all of their entered info looks correct before sending. I also made both Admin and Basic pages similar, to keep a level of consistency in the site despite the difference in available features between each role.
I conducted user tests after selecting 10 users, and asked them to test out the wireframe version of the prototype. The group was split into two testing groups, one testing the Admin and the others testing the Basic user flows.
I went with a balance between mostly primary colors - red, blue, and yellow, with a hint of green within turquoise and creamy mint green. I featured the cool colors more to keep a sense of professionalism and used the other colors as accents. Red was used to create a sense of urgency when used in features such as the “new campaign” and “go back to campaigns” buttons, and in the graphs in the analytics page.
The template editor page is a dark cool theme to create contrast in comparison to the other pages, but also to make it easier on the eyes when users are editing their templates.
I chose to go with rounded edges for elements on the page, such as buttons, dialogs, and images. I felt that this conveys softness and friendliness to the users, and reflecting how easy and straightforward it should be to use the site. I also handmade the icons in the campaign and template editor pages to communicate what each tool does without the user needing to read the text.
Create a new campaign from a selection of pre-made templates, free to edit and customize to exactly the way you want.
Picked out a template and want to make it yours? Use the template editor to drag and drop content, edit text, and customize it for your campaign.
Ensure your audience gets your message with recipient lists and scheduled sending. The review page helps you double-check that your email looks as you expect, and the sent page confirms that your message was sent.
Take a look at your campaign stats all in one page. Share the data with your team, print it out for later viewing, or edit your campaign to optimize your results.
Just starting out? Don’t worry. We have steps for basic users that walk them through how to Wooshmail.
As a basic user, it’s always good to get a second opinion before sending. Admins and collaborators can take a look at your email draft and directly share feedback with you.
Admittedly, this project was difficult for me to understand in the beginning, as I had never used a B2B email marketing website before. However, I was able to take advantage of this by looking at the problem from the perspective of users trying to use a site like this for the first time. I used this to try to confirm my understanding of the problem and design user flows that would work well for both new and experienced users. As a result, I feel like I have a better understanding of how to design for a B2B client, how campaign sites like these work, and how to design for two different types of users for the same site.
Next time, I would definitely try to do better research on email marketing websites. I would even go as far as creating accounts on these sites and try them myself to get a better understanding of how they work. This would let me gain more confidence and confirmation in my designs. I would also make the differences between Admin and Basic sites more apparent, as both sites look very similar currently.
Regarding user testing, I would create more specific and targeted questions to ask my users as they test, so that I know where exactly to revisit or make changes to. With the mockup designs, I would take the time to try various color palettes to see what looks and fits best with the site, since I feel that there is quite a bit of white space on the template gallery page. And finally, if I had more time, I would create mockups for more pages to make the site look more cohesive and complete.


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Detailed information on how to add quantitative and or gel-related data into skeleton mzTab files can be found in the PRIDE Converter wiki at http://code.google.com/p/pride-converter-2/wiki/PrideConverter2.
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By design, PRIDE Converter keeps intermediate work files called report files in the same directory as the source file(s). If such a report file is already present, PRIDE Converter will try to reload it so that the conversion process can be continued from where it was previously stopped. If report files are not present or are invalid, they will be created. You can force PRIDE Converter to ignore previous report files by clicking on the "Force generation of new report file" checbox.
During conversion PRIDE Converter tries to correct malformatted protein accessions. If separate target and decoy databases were used the option "Search database contains decoy sequences" should be disabled.
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By default, users will be shown a form that will only provide single-file selection dialogues but users who wish to do multiple file batch conversion can switch to an alternative view, which will allow them to select multiple files of each type (source, mzTab, spectra, etc).
When converting multiple files at once, a warning message will be displayed to the user indicating that some metadata will be copied across all files while some will not. The information that will be common across all files will include: sample annotations, post-translational modifications (PTM), protocol and instrumentation description and any other experiment-level annotations. Software processing, which can include file-specific software settings, score thresholds and false discovery rates will be taken from the individual report files associated with each input file to be converted.
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Multi-million euro Cork tourism plan opposed by environmentalists
A €7m tourism project off the Cork coast is being opposed by Friends of the Irish Environment over concerns about wildlife in the area.
Fáilte Ireland plans to invest €7m into Dursey Island off the Beara peninsula in West Cork. the area is a key part of the Wild Atlantic Way. The project includes a new two-way cable car system and a visitor centre.
Friends of the Irish Environment have opposed the plans, saying that wildlife and the wild coastal landscape would be adversely affected.
Director of the organisation Tony Lowes has said that these projects can seriously affect wildlife.
"The main problem is a particular bird species, the choughs, which are in decline. They've declined on this island by 30% since the last survey in 2003 and the only reason for that, the only thing that has changed is the number of tourists."
Birdwatch Ireland has cited the 30% decline of chough numbers in their latest survey, with the Friends of the Irish Environment group saying that the most visited part of the island is also the main foraging and breeding area for the bird species.
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09.07.17
When David Descutner and his wife, DeLysa Burnier, drove across the Hocking River into Athens on a Saturday night in 1979, they did so in a borrowed car with no plans to stay long.
In fact, Descutner admits, he “wasn’t all that crazy” about the town in the first place. But Burnier had a doctoral degree to complete, and Descutner was taking a job as an assistant professor in the meantime.
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Interim Executive Vice President and Provost, David Descutner gives an interview on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 in Cutler Hall.
Nearly 40 years have passed, and Descutner now holds one of Ohio University’s top positions: interim executive vice president and provost. The town that he once showed indifference to has since become his home.
“I like the local culture here,” Descutner said. “The sense of art and history, community involvement, politics … there’s a lot of people who live here who aren’t associated with the university who are some of the coolest, most interesting people I’ve ever met, and that, of course, makes life here easy to live.”
Before to his appointment as dean of University College in 2003, Descutner served in various capacities in the School of Interpersonal Communication — known today as the School of Communication Studies — working his way up the ladder from instructor to interim director.
“I think the absence of distance between everyday life and university leadership is one of the things that makes this more of a community and less of a university."David Descutner, interim OU president
After a brief period of retirement, Descutner was made interim chair of social medicine for the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine by the school’s dean, Kenneth Johnson. It was during that time that former OU President Roderick McDavis announced his impending departure, leading the Board of Trustees to offer Descutner a new position: interim president of the university.
“It was a complete shock to me,” Descutner said of the offer. “And I would not have considered doing it had I not been at the college of medicine for a year.”
Descutner served as interim president from February to June, laying the foundations for the transition between McDavis and Duane Nellis, who was announced as the university’s new president in February and took office in June.
His short time in office, however, was not without tough decisions to be made. His support of the charges brought against 70 demonstrators arrested in Baker Center clashed with the wishes of university senates, who passed resolutions demanding the charges be dropped. When OU professor Andrew Escobedo was found to have sexually harassed several female students, it was up to Descutner to initiate the dismissal process.
Despite these challenges, Descutner views his time in higher education as a “privilege” that has provided him with “limitless opportunities.”
“I think the absence of distance between everyday life and university leadership is one of the things that makes this more of a community and less of a university,” he said. “And I think it’s a high quality university.”
Descutner’s own college days, he’ll readily admit, were anything but smooth sailing.
“Well, I’ll start by saying I’m glad there weren’t camera phones,” he laughed. “I had a very rough time. I was a first-generation student. I was a baby of five ... but I was not planning on going to college. Nobody I knew was going to college.”
Born in the small coal mining town of Crucible, Pennsylvania — population 725 as of the 2010 U.S. census — Descutner’s early prospects for higher education were lackluster at best. His father was a high school graduate, while his mother stopped her education after the eighth grade.
A talent for tennis and a lucky break with a coach that sent him down the path to college. With his parents’ encouragement and a small loan in hand, Descutner set out for Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania.
“And I did all the wrong things.” he said. “ I didn’t go to class. I didn’t meet my professors … I was a little thug.”
After a “horrible” first semester yielded a 2.3 GPA and a bad rap with authority, his professors brought him back from the brink, introducing him to the prospect of grad school and convincing him to join the university’s debate team, despite his notion that it was “totally uncool.”
The difficulties he faced during his own college career have created a special place in Descutner’s heart for first-generation students.
“One-third of our students are first-generation on this campus,” Descutner said. “First-generation students struggle more than other students do … so that has really created an endless well of empathy for me when it comes students who are struggling. It’s not because they can’t do it. It’s because they haven’t figured out how it is they can do it.”
Providing aid to those in need has been a personal mission for both Descutner and Burnier, who are involved in numerous charitable and scholarship foundations, both locally and across state lines. Local involvement with organizations like the Athens Foundation and United Campus Ministries has supplemented their financial contributions at OU, the University of Illinois and Descutner’s alma mater, Slippery Rock.
The couple has had an especially deep connection to The Gathering Place, a local drop-in center devoted to caring for adults struggling with mental illness.
“We got to know, over the years, the men and women who were there,” Descutner said. “And it was a good example of profound care, and encouraging people who are suffering all sorts of difficulties to participate in the world, to work, and more importantly, to be a citizen. So that was very cool. That was sort of my first exposure to that kind of community work.”
When Descutner was named interim executive vice president and provost in place of Pam Benoit — who accepted a job at the University of Alabama at Birmingham — Nellis had only kind words for his second-in-command.
“David Descutner has provided invaluable service to Ohio University for nearly four decades, most recently in his role as interim president,” Nellis said in a university-wide email when the announcement was made. “He has been a tremendous asset to me, personally, as I embarked upon the beginning of my tenure as OHIO’s 21st president. It only makes sense to continue working closely with David as I continue to transition into my new role.”
As it currently stands, the university is working to establish a search committee that will “handle all subsequent steps” in the process to find the next executive vice president and provost, OU Spokesman Jim Sabin said. Though such a committee has not yet been created, Sabin said the position would likely be filled in the summer or early fall 2018.
Descutner himself will have limited involvement in the process itself — only to the extent that he would help form the committee, he explained. But he does have a bit of advice for his successor.
“Be prepared to learn a heck of a lot from President Nellis,” Descutner said. “And be looking forward to working with the deans and the staff here.
As for what’s next, Descutner laughs at the prospect of “re-retiring.”
“I’m going to step down and consider going back into the College of Medicine,” he said. “I’ve been told that they’d have me back.”
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Nodal
This section contains references to multiple surface-acquisition Fairfield RG16 three-channel nodal datasets. All data are in Fairfield's custom SEGD format.
- 94 nodes deployed in December 2016. The station locations are here.
- 50 nodes deployed in August 2017. The station locations are here.
- 152 nodes deployed in April 2019. The station locations are here.
- 50 nodes deployed in August 2019. The station locations are here.
Downhole Geophone
The following is downhole geophone data collected by Schlumberger. The format is a standard SEGY and the units are bits. To convert to acceleration (m/s2) multiply by 2.333 x 10-7. Click the link for a script of wget commands to pull the data. To retrieve data only for time windows corresponding to seismic events in the Schlumberger catalog, please use this link.
Silixa
The following data were recorded by Silixa. The fiber data is contained in custom SEGY files whose duration is about fifteen seconds. Click the link for a script of wget commmands to pull the data.


Rush Hour (1998)
Director: Brett Ratner Cast: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Pena, Tzi Ma, Julia Hsu Screenplay: Jim Kouf Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman, Arthur M. Sarkissian Runtime: 97 min. US Distribution: New Line Cinema Rated PG-13: action violence, language
By Nathaniel R. Atcheson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>It's hard to imagine sitting through anything starring Jackie Chan and not finding at least some kind of guilty enjoyment from the proceedings. This has happened recently, as American audiences have gotten some of his five-year old hits on the big screen. Some of his films are mediocre, and some of them are well-made fluff. Rush Hour is the first film I've seen of his (and I haven't seen a lot, so don't be too harsh on me) that actually strikes me as a film with a purpose. Sure, it's a buddy-cop movie in the spirit of Lethal Weapon, but it has all the components for a successful formula: big laughs and light action. It's a hugely appealing film, one that passes swiftly and leaves you feeling good.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that it also stars Chris Tucker.  I did find him excessive and grating in The Fifth Element, but I've found him likable in the numerous interviews I've witnessed. And he made me laugh really hard in Rush Hour. Here you have a superb combination of comic elements -- Chan, with his goofy, brilliant physical comedy, and Tucker, with his obnoxious and perfectly-timed verbal comedy. Rush Hour works effortlessly as an elaborate canvas for two skilled comedic artists.
The story, however, is pretty dumb. I almost let it bother me, but the film is too skillfully executed to dislike. I've gotten used to the idea that most action films are required to have dumb stories, but that doesn't stop me from wishing otherwise. Tucker plays James Carter (why did they pick that name?), a loud-mouthed cop who makes you wonder how he ever got the job. A bunch of bad Chinese guys come to the states and kidnap a young girl named Soo Yung (Julia Hsu), daughter of the Chinese consul in the United States. Chan plays Chinese cop Lee, who comes in from China to help with the case.
When the FBI assumes control, and Carter is assigned to look after Lee, the two engage in a culture clash. It's a well-intentioned culture clash, with all kinds of nifty themes to keep the audience from getting too offended. Naturally, our two heroes have become good friends, and their main goal is to save Soo Yung. For some reason, despite their progress, the FBI doesn't want them helping, and they are forced to work alone on the case, which ends up a destructive endeavor. Overall, none of this is very important. My irritation with the banality of the story was fairly intense through half the film, but by the end, I was successfully diverted.
When you realize that the story is dumb and deserves no thought, it becomes clear that Rush Hour is composed of only a few prominent elements: the performances of the two leads, and the direction. Director Brett Ratner is best described as competent, for though he doesn't mess anything up and make the film needlessly confusing and tricky, he adds almost no interest to the story. It's paced well, which is a plus, but there's no style in his direction. It also would have been nice if he had been a little more consciousness of the silly story, rather than play it straight.
Nonetheless, Chan and Tucker are the stars, and they carry the mediocre script with ease. Chan is very funny when he's speaking English (the outtakes at the end are really entertaining), and though there aren't a lot of action sequences (the ones that are present are clearly present to showcase Chan's talents), he makes the best of all of his dialogue. He's just a likable guy to watch, and Rush Hour caters to that quality. Tucker, on the other hand, is a surprise: I expected him to be irritating, but he's not. He's funny, his lines are funny, the faces he makes are funny, and the way he uses his screeching-tires voice is funny.
And, because of these two talented men, Rush Hour is funny. It's a film that is everything it aspires to be; it doesn't skimp on the story and direction as much as it simply diminishes the importance of those elements. Let's face it: you're going to see this film to watch two comedians in action. And since these comedians are so good at what they do, there's basically no way you won't like the film. I certainly liked the film, and I approached it with a solid sense of uncertainty. Chan met my expectations, and Tucker exceeded them -- these two guys are worth watching in anything.
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| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| Accelerometer |
Interface for Acceleration sensors
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| BaseMotor |
Base motors interface.
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| Calibrate | |
| ColorIdentifier | |
| DCMotor |
Interface for a regular DC motors.
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| DirectionFinder |
Abstraction for compasses and other devices than return the heading of a robot.
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| Encoder |
Abstraction for the tachometer built into NXT motors.
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| Gyroscope |
Abstraction for Gyroscope defines minimal implementation
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| LampController |
Interface for a light sensors that also includes a lamp (usually LED) to provide illumination.
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| LightDetector |
A platform independent implementation for sensors that can detect white light levels.
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| RangeFinder |
Abstraction for a range finder sensor that returns the distance to the nearest object
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| RangeScanner |
Abstraction for a single range scanning sensor, rotating platform with a range finder,
or a complete robot, that obtains a set of range readings at a set of angles to#
the robot's heading.
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| RegulatedMotor |
Interface for encoded motors without limited range of movement (e.g.
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This interface defines a listener that is notified of the tachometer when the motor starts and stops rotating.
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| SampleProvider |
Abstraction for classes that fetch samples from a sensors and classes that are able to process samples.
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| Tachometer |
Abstraction for a Tachometer, which monitors speed of the encoder.
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| Color |
Representation of a color, used by color sensors and color detectors.
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| RangeFinderAdapter | |
| RangeReading |
Represent a single range reading
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| RangeReadings |
Represents a set of range readings.
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Sword and Shield Introduce an Even Rarer Form of Shiny Pokémon
by Alistair JonesIn all my years of playing Pokémon, I've encountered just one shiny. The odds of such a meeting are already so small (1:4096) that, in 20 years, my shiny-hunting efforts amount to a single brown Liepard, a creature that's about to become even more worthless thanks to the discovery of a whole new, ultra-rare variant.
In a tweet yesterday, well-known dataminer Kaphotics showed off a snippet of code from Sword and Shield, saying "Shiny Pokémon rarity has been split." While the odds of finding a shiny remain the same, there are now two different types. If you're relying on breeding or random encounters, one in every 16 shinies will have square or diamond-shaped sparkles, rather than the traditional star-shaped ones. According to Kaphotics, that puts the odds of finding a square shiny at 1:65536.
If you're obsessed with hunting these ultra-rare creatures, however, there is a better way. Using the chain method (fighting the same Pokémon over and over again) will invert the odds, making 15 of every 16 shinies a square. Finding them will still be a slog, but it's one that's likely to prove fruitful for those most dedicated.


Project Phoenix
September 6, 2019
After a long hiatus, I’m revisiting one of my very very old projects…. the Yoruba Watch face app which is actually a watch face and a mobile app with a home screen widget.
Dynamic Feature Modules 101
June 25, 2019
At Zola Electric, we have started the process of splitting our app into dynamic features. As a result of this, we’ve been forced to have serious conversations about the structure of our app’s code and question a lot of our design decisions. The first step of the process - determining what features we wanted - was a bit easy for us because the code had already been grouped by features, but we found areas where we needed to rethink some of our implementation. This article (Dagger Multibinding in Dynamic Feature Modules) by Annyce explains one of such areas, where we had to update our process of handling Multibinding with Android Jobs.
I’m going to walk through the steps involved with converting one of the modules and all the pain points experienced. This doesn’t not take into account all of the decisions we had to make but gives a high level overview of the process for anyone looking to get started.
Leveling Up as an Android Dev (Part 2)
May 13, 2019
Here’s the second (and last) article in the series of Leveling Up as an Android Dev. This article covers more about the other levels, what to expect and stories from experts in the Android Dev community.
Leveling Up as an Android Dev (Part 1)
April 23, 2019
Chances are you were already a Software Engineer before switching to Android Development. You might also have learnt your first line of Kotlin solely in the bid to become an Android Developer. Regardless of how you started developing for Android, at some point, you’ll need to start thinking about advancing to the next stage in your career.
In this article, you’ll see the evolution of an Android developer - from Junior, to Intermediate, to Senior and then to Team Lead and beyond. You will learn about what to expect at each stage and gain more insight into how to level up to the next stage.
Behind The Scenes: DevFest Lagos app
Feb 27, 2019
DevFests are annual developer conferences organized by Google Developer Groups (GDGs) around the world. As a co-organizer for GDG Lagos, I worked with three organizers and other amazing volunteers to organize DevFest Lagos in November last year where we hosted 2000 people to a full day of technical talks from live and remote speakers.
Migrating to Kotlin Android Extensions
Jan 28, 2019
At Zola Electric, we recently migrated completely off ButterKnife to Kotlin Android Extensions and this article shows the common use-cases we had.
Better than the whiteboard?
Nov 15, 2018
There is no one way to conduct a technical interview. People have often used the dreaded whiteboard interviews, take-home coding assignments and even reviewed existing code on Github. There is a lot of backlash against the whiteboard coding interview, understandably so, as that rarely portrays the day-to-day responsibility of the applicant.
Creating reusable AlertDialogs with Custom Views in Anko
Apr 30, 2018
One of the features Anko is most notable for is simplifying the process of creating layouts programmatically. Anko also offers some variations of some views such as the AlertDialog. The indeterminateProgressDialog()
displays an AlertDialog with a progress dialog while a selector()
displays an AlertDialog with a list of text items. Even with all these, sometimes we still need to create dialogs with custom views, and we might need to use those dialogs in multiple screens in our app.
No Nougat, don’t do that: Winter is Coming ❄
Mar 30, 2018
We’ve been on the journey to upgrade our Android app, ZOLA, to Android O and we’ve finally made it to Android N. Thankfully, we have one more API level to go. We were making this journey all the way from API Level 23.
Adaptive Icons: Winter is Coming ❄
Jan 30, 2018
We might all have heard about the impending day of judgement, when new and existing Android apps will be required to target API level 26 or higher. While there are some shiny new developer things in Android O — downloadable fonts, adaptive icons etc., there are also some not so shiny things.
Book Review: “Remote: Office Not Required”
Nov 30, 2017
I recently read Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. I thought it’d be great to see if I was working remotely the right way and pick up tips to improve if I wasn’t. I’ll be sharing a few thoughts from the book in this article. The two most important things which stood out to me and constantly reoccurred throughout all the chapters, sometimes indirectly, were trust and communication.
Our entire software team is structured around these as we don’t have constant remote surveillance. Everyone trusts the other to show up everyday and pick up the phone.


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There’s a value in the property of a function. Will it change after bind
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```js run function sayHi() { alert( this.name ); } sayHi.test = 5;
! let bound = sayHi.bind({ name: “John” });
alert( bound.test ); // what will be the output? why? /! ```


Boulogne is a major port approximately 15nm south west of Calais. It is no longer a ferry port but is still busy with fishing vessels. Inspite of the destruction caused during World War 11, the medieval town walls and castle survived.
Located 50° 44'95"N, 01° 34'11"E (harbour entrance)
The entrance is possible at all states of the tide and in most weather.
There is a marina on the west side of the river, opposite Quai Gambetta. If staying for a week or more, there is a more peaceful berth is in the locked Bassin Napoleon.
There is an exposed anchorage in the northern part of the outer harbour, Rade Carnot.
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weren't so dark on monitors without brightness up all the way. that's the only flaw i find in that design,
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Previously, a 3rd party solution was used to capture photos of damaged vehicles after an accident to create a repair estimate.
After using this solution for several years, our business partners were receiving a large volume of complaints about the difficulty customers were experiencing using the product.
Our team conducted qualitative user testing with real customers in our Claims Lab to assess the problems with the 3rd party solution.
Our primary findings found that customers had difficulty understanding what photos were required and why, how to capture the VIN on their vehicle, and understanding if they were successful in uploading their photos.
From this initial assessment, we worked to create potential solutions that were presented both to our business partners and the 3rd party vendor. After this, our business partners tasked me with designing an in-house solution.
Since the nature of this product centered on understanding how customers interact with it through the camera, we actually printed physical copies of the design to have participants imagine their experience with the product.
After several iterations and rounds of low-fidelity testing, final screens were created and put into production.
While the designed solution has only been in production a short time, testing in production is pointing to an improved completion rate for digital estimates.
Our business partners have noted a decrease in calls to adjusters requesting help completing the flow.


There's something so facinating about signposts.
They point in new and misterious directions.
They point to where you've been and where you will go.
They challenge certainties and they stimulate curiosity.
I remember seeing this last year in Portland and being totally amazed, and a little intimidated by it. I went back to the hotel and started looking for all the places it mentioned and seeing where they were and how could I get there.


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1. which of the following is not a computer languege?
HTML.
ATOM.
C#.
JAVASCRIPT.
2. what is Jquery used for?
defining varriables.
storing integers.
a folder for storing methods.
its a javascript functions.
3. Which of the following is not a data type?
Boolean.
Variable.
String.
Undefined.
4.Whats the other name for JavaScript?
ECMAScript.
Vue.
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code database network.
coding delivery network.
chaining data network.
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Types
Types are the fundamental building block of visions, representing “logical” abstractions of a sequence. This logical abstraction is distinct is often distinct from the underlying in-memory implementation.
To make this distinction more concrete we can imagine the sequence ['Apple', 'Orange', 'Pear']
.
At a logical level these are of the type Fruit
while under the hood each element is represented by the machine as String
.
Types have two basic capabilities:
Type membership testing
Type relations
Membership
Type membership is an important component of every visions type, membership checks answer the question “is my sequence of a type?” In practice this looks like
>>> import visions as v
>>> test_series = pd.Series(['Apple', 'Orange', 'Pear'])
>>> test_series in v.String
True
>>> test_series in v.Integer
False
See also
Relations
Types also have special knowledge about their relations with other types. A relation represents a mapping between types. Let’s take the example of an integer
>>> import visions as v
>>> v.Integer.relations
[IdentityRelation(Generic -> Integer),
InferenceRelation(Float -> Integer),
InferenceRelation(String -> Integer)]
As we can see, there are three relations defined on the integer type. Each represents a mapping from another type to integer. This characteristic is generally true for all visions types; given two types, A, and B, relations defined on B represent mappings from A to B.
By defining relations in this way types are effectively decoupled from each other.
See also


Java Vault Connector is a connector library for Vault by Hashicorp written in Java.
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The goal of this iPython notebook is to become familiar with using space-time numbers to describe events. This will be done for three different observers. The first case will cover the fact that the observers happen to be at different locations. How does one handle different ways to represent the numbers used to characterize events? One observer will be set in constant motion. We will work out the equivalence classes that cover observers in motion. The final case will look at equivalence classes that may happen due to gravity.
Here is an animation of a mini billiard shot.
The cue ball hits the 8 ball, then into the corner pocket it goes. Observer A is yellow, our proverbial reference observer. I promise to do nothing with her ever. Observer B in pink is at a slightly different location, but still watching from the tabletop. Eventually, he will be set into constant motion. We can see about what Observers agree and disagree about. Observer C is in purple and at the end of a pipe cleaner above the tabletop. His observations will be ever-so-slightly different from Observer A due to the effects of gravity and that will be investigated.
A number of simplifications will be done for this analysis. All but two frames will be used.
Get rid of the green felt. In its place, put some graph paper. Add a few markers to make any measurement more precise.
The image was then printed out so a precise dial caliper could be used to make measurements. Notice that observer A is ~2.5 squares to the left and 3+ squares below the 8 ball in the first frame.
Can the time be measured precisely? In this case, I will use the frames of the gif animation as a proxy for measuring time. I used the command "convert billiard_video.gif Frames/billiards_1%02d.png" to make make individual frames from the gif. The two frames are 147 and 158. The speed of the fastest cue break is over 30 miles per hour, or as a dimensionless relativistic speed is 4.5x10-8. If small number are used for the differences in space, then the difference between time should be scaled to be in the ten billion range. So that is what I did: call the first time 1,470,000,000 and the second one 1,580,000,000. The ball is then moving around 20mph. I could have found out the frames per second, and calculated the correct speed from there. The three observers do not need to coordinate to figure out the same origin in time, so I chose B and C to start a billion and two billion earlier respectively.
This explains how I got numbers related to an 8 ball moving on a table. Now to start calculating with the goal of getting the square. I have written a test of tools called "Q_tool_devo" that allow for numerical manipulations of something I call "space-time numbers". Essentially they are quaternions, a 4D division algebra, written in a funny way. Instead of writing a real number like 5.0, a doublet of values is used, say (6.0, 1.0) which can then be "reduced" to (5.0, 0) and is thus equivalent to the standard real number 5.0. To create a space-time number, feed it eight numbers like so:
%%capture
import Q_tools as qt;
Aq1=qt.Q8([1470000000,0,1.1421,0,1.4220,0,0,0])
Aq2=qt.Q8([1580000000,0,4.2966,0,0,0.3643,0,0])
q_scale = qt.Q8([2.2119,0,0,0,0,0,0,0], qtype="S")
Aq1s=Aq1.product(q_scale)
Aq2s=Aq2.product(q_scale)
print(Aq1s)
print(Aq2s)
When scaled, the expected values are seen, the x value at around 2.5, the y value above 3 and zero for z. Event 2 is 9.5 and 0.8 $j_3$ meaning in real numbers, -0.8. There is also the qtype "QxS", a way of keeping track of what operations have been done to a space-time number. After all, all space-time numbers look the same. Keeping the qtype around help avoid combining differing qtypes.
Calculate the delta quaternion between events one and two:
Adq=Aq2s.dif(Aq1s).reduce()
print(Aq2s.dif(Aq1s))
print(Adq)
The difference is nearly 7 in the x1 direction, and 4 in the j3, which if real numbers were being used would be the positive x and negative y. The qtype "QxQ-QxQ.reduce" shows that both initial components were multiplied by a scalar value, the difference taken, then reduced to its real number equivalent form.
Distances are found using a square.
Adq2=Adq.square()
print(Adq2)
print(Adq2.reduce())
This is a case where the non-reduced form is more convenient. The time squared is about 60 quadrillion while the change in space squared is slightly over 64. Classical physics is full of such imbalances and the non-reduced form helps maintain the separation.
It is my thesis that all the numbers in the square provide important information for comparing any pair of observers. Here are the input numbers for observers B and C:
Bq1=qt.Q8([2470000000,0,0.8869,0,1.8700,0,0,0])
Bq2=qt.Q8([2580000000,0,3.9481,0,0,0.1064,0,0])
Bq1s=Bq1.product(q_scale)
Bq2s=Bq2.product(q_scale)
Bdq=Bq2s.dif(Bq1s).reduce()
Cq1=qt.Q8([3470000000,0,1.1421,0,1.4220,0,1.3256,0])
Cq2=qt.Q8([3580000000,0,4.2966,0,0,0.3643,1.3256,0])
Cq1s=Cq1.product(q_scale)
Cq2s=Cq2.product(q_scale)
Cdq=Cq2s.dif(Cq1s).reduce()
print(Bq1s)
print(Bq2s)
print(Bdq)
print(Cq1s)
print(Cq2s)
print(Cdq)
No set of input numbers for two observers are ever the same. Two observers must be located in either a different place in time or a different place in space or both.
Bdq2=Bq1s.dif(Bq2s).reduce().square()
Cdq2=Cq1s.dif(Cq2s).reduce().square()
print(Adq2)
print(Bdq2)
print(Cdq2)
We are comparing apples to apples since the qtype, "QxS-QxS.reduce.sq", are the same. The first of the 8 terms are exactly the same, the I0. The reason is the delta time values were exactly the same. The first and third I2 are exactly the same because their delta values were identical even though they had different z values. A different physical measurement was made for Observer B. The match is pretty good:
(64.96 - 64.30)/64.60
The error is about a percent. So while I reported 4 significant digits, only the first two can be trusted.
The next experiment involved rotating the graph paper for Observer B. This should not change much other than the numbers that get plugged into the interval calculation.
BRotq1=qt.Q8([2470000000,0,0.519,0,1.9440,0,0,0])
BRotq2=qt.Q8([2580000000,0,3.9114,0,0.5492,0,0,0])
BRotdq2=BRotq1.product(q_scale).dif(BRotq2.product(q_scale)).reduce().square()
print(BRotdq2)
print(Bdq2)
No surprise here: the graph paper will make a difference in the numbers used, but the distance is the same up to the errors made in the measuring process.
What happens with the space-times-time term for these observers that have no relative velocities to each other? The space part always points in a different direction since the spatial origin is in a different location. If we consider the norm squared of the the space-times-time term, that would be $dt^2(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2)$. This is something observers with different perspectives will agree upon:
print(Adq2.norm_squared_of_vector().reduce())
print(Bdq2.norm_squared_of_vector().reduce())
print(Cdq2.norm_squared_of_vector().reduce())
print(BRotdq2.norm_squared_of_vector().reduce())
These are the same within the margin of error of the measurements.
This notebook is focused on space-time numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. Formally, they are rank 0 tensors. Yet because space-time numbers have four slots to fill, it is quite easy to mistakenly view them as a four dimensional vector space over the mathematical field of real numbers with four basis vectors. Different representations of numbers changes the values of the numbers that get used, but not their meaning. Let's see this in action for a cylindrical representation of a number. Instead of $x$ and $y$, one uses $R \cos(\alpha)$ and $R \sin(\alpha)$, no change for $z$.
What needs to be done with the measurements done in cylindrical coordinates is to convert them to Cartesian, the proceed with the same calculations.
import math
def cyl_2_cart(q1):
"""Convert a measurment made with cylindrical coordinates in angles to Cartesian cooridantes."""
t = q1.dt.p - q1.dt.n
r = q1.dx.p - q1.dx.n
a = q1.dy.p - q1.dy.n
h = q1.dz.p - q1.dz.n
x = r * math.cos(a * math.pi / 180)
y = r * math.sin(a * math.pi / 180)
return qt.Q8([t, x, y, h])
For polar coordinates, measure directly the distance between the origin and the billiard ball. Then determine an angle. This constitutes a different approach to making a measurement.
BPolarq1=cyl_2_cart(qt.Q8([2470000000,0,2.0215,0, 68.0,0,0,0]))
BPolarq2=cyl_2_cart(qt.Q8([2580000000,0,3.9414,0,1.2,0,0,0]))
BPolardq2=BPolarq1.product(q_scale).dif(BPolarq2.product(q_scale)).reduce().square()
print(BPolardq2)
print(Bdq2)
Yet the result for the interval is the same: the positive time squared term is exactly the same since those numbers were not changed, and the negative numbers for the space terms were only different to the error in measurement.
Give Observer B a Lorenz boost. All that is needed is to relocate Observer B in the second frame like so:
To make the math simpler, presume all the motion is along $x$, not the slightest wiggle along $y$ or $z$. Constant motion between the frames shown is also presumed.
What velocity is involved? THat would be the change in space, 2, over the time, a big number
vx = 2/Bdq.dt.p
print(vx)
This feels about right. The speed of observer B is about what a cube ball is.
Boost the delta by this velocity.
Bdq_boosted = Bdq.boost(beta_x = vx)
print(Bdq_boosted)
print(Bdq_boosted.reduce())
print(Bdq)
print(Bdq_boosted.dif(Bdq).reduce())
The last line indicates there is no difference between the boosted values of $y$ and $z$, as expected. Both the change in time and in space are negative. Moving in unison is a quality of simple boosts. The change in time is tiny. The change in space is almost 4, but not quite due to the work of the $\gamma$ factor that altered the time measurement.
Compare the squares of the boosted with the non-boosted Observer B
print(Bdq_boosted.square())
print(Bdq.square())
Time and space are mixing together for the boosted frame. There are two huge numbers for $I_0$ and $I_2$ instead of a big number and about 65. Are they the same? Compare the reduced squares:
print(Bdq_boosted.square().reduce())
print(Bdq.square().reduce())
The reduced intervals are the same. The space-times-time terms are not. The difference between the space-times-time terms can be used to determine how Observer B boosted in moving relative to Observer B (calculation not done here). Even with out going into detail, the motion is only along x because that is the only term that changes.
Software was written to systematically look at equivalences classes for a pair of quaternions. Three types of comparisons are made: linear, squared, and the norm.
qb = qt.EQ(Bdq, Bdq_boosted)
print(qb)
There are 9 equivalences classes in all. Let's visualize them a set of icons:
qb.visualize()
The figures in gray are location in time and 3 for space. The colorful set with parabolas are the squares, the interval being purple and off-yellow, space-times-time in green. The norm is in pink.
For the gray set, the events from Observer B are being compared with a boosted Observer B for motion that is only along the $x$ direction. We thus expect the $y$ and $z$ values to be exact as they are (down exact and here exact because $z=0$). The value of $x$ is boosted, so they are both right, but not the same value. But what about time? The report is for an exact match. The software was written to say two values were equivalent if they were the same to 10 significant digits. It is the 16th significant digit which is different.
The time-like interval is the same for Observer B and the boosted one, so the equivalence class is time-like-exact as expected. This graphics are icons to represent the class, not a reflection of the numbers used. The space-times-time terms are only different along $t x$ due to the boost along $x$.
The norm is included for completeness of simple operations, but I don't understand it at this time. It is marked as exact due to the dominance of the time term.
The video of the billiard balls shows there is a gravity field since the eight-ball drops into the pocket. Newton's law of gravity can be written as an interval:
$$d \tau^2 = \left(1 - 2\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right) dt^2 - dR^2/c^2 $$
More precise measurements of weak field gravity adds a few more terms (essentially equation 40.1 of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler):
$$d \tau^2 = \left(1 - 2\frac{G M}{c^2 R} + 2 \left(\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right)^2\right) dt^2 - \left(1 + 2\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right) dR^2 /c^2 $$
When the mass $M$ goes to zero or the distance from the source gets large, the result is the interval expected in flat space-time.
The space-times-times equivalence class as gravity proposal stipulates that for a simple gravitational source mass (spherically symmetric, non-rotating, uncharged) the square of a delta quaternion produces a space-times-time that is the same for different observers no matter where they are in a gravitational field. This can be achieved by making the factor for time be the inverse of the one for space (below, a dimensionless M is a stand-in for $\frac{G M}{c^2 R}$).
from sympy import symbols
M = symbols('M')
(1/(1 - 2 * M)).series(M, 0, n=5)
Even in the "classical realm", the space-times-time equivalence class as gravity proposal is different from Newtonian gravity. From my brief study of the rotation of thin disk galaxies, this term is not applied to such calculations. This now strikes me as odd. The Schwarzschild solution has this same term, the "first order in M/R", yet only the dt correction is used in practice. The rotation profile calculation is quite complex, needing elliptical integrals. An analytic solution like that would be altered by this well know term. It will be interesting in time to explore if the extra term has consequences.
Since we are analyzing the square, the delta quaternion would be the square root of with these two terms that use the dimensionless gravitational length:
$$ \begin{align*} dq &= \left(\sqrt{1 - 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R}} dt, \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R}}} dR/c \right) \\ dq^2 &= \left( \left(1 - 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right) dt^2 - \left(1 + 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R} + O(2)\right) dR^2/c^2, 2 ~dt ~dR/c \right) \\ &= \left( d\tau^2, 2 ~dt ~dR/c \right) \end{align*} $$
To be consistent with the weak gravity field tests and the algebraic constraints of the equivalence class proposal requires six terms not five:
(1/(1 - 2 * M + 2 * M ** 2)).series(M, 0, n=3)
Here are the delta quaternion and its square in a gravity field that will be consistent with all weak field gravitational tests.
$$ \begin{align*} dq &= \left(\sqrt{1 - 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R} + 2 \left(\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right)^2} dt, \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R} + 2 \left(\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right)^2}} dR/c \right) \\ dq^2 &= \left( \left(1 - 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R} + 2 \left(\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right)^2\right) dt^2 - \left(1 + 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R} + 2 \left(\frac{G M}{c^2 R}\right)^2+O(3)\right) dR^2/c^2, 2 ~dt ~dR/c \right) \\ &= \left( d\tau^2, 2 ~dt ~dR/c \right) \end{align*} $$
The second order term for $ dR^2 $ has consequences that are tricky to discuss. Notice that no mention has been made of metric, not field equations, nor covariant and contra-variant vectors. That is because numbers are tensors of rank 0 that are equipped with rules of multiplication and division. As discussed above, there are different representations of numbers like a Cartesian representation, a cylindrical representation, and a spherical representation. My default is to use the Cartesian representation because I find it simplest to manage.
The most successful theory for gravity, general relativity, does using metrics, covariant and contra-variant tensors, as well as connections that reveal how a metric changes in space-time. There are a great many technical choices in this process which have consequences. Einstein worked with a torsion-free connection that was metric compatible. One consequence is that dealing with fermions is an open puzzle. The process of getting to an interval is not simple. Twenty non-linear equation equations must be solved. This can be done analytically for only the simplest of cases. It is such a case, the Schwarzschild solution, that makes up most of the tests of general relativity (eq. 40.1 from MTW written above in isotrophic coordinates).
The reader is being asked to compare Einstein's apple of an interval to the first of four oranges. There is no overlap between the mechanics of the math, hence the apple versus orange. The forms of the expressions are the same: a Taylor series in a dimensionless gravitational length. Five of the coefficients of the Taylor series are identical. Those five coefficients have been tested in a wide variety of classical tests of weak gravitational fields.
The sixth term is not the same for the Taylor series expansion of the Schwarzschild solution in either isotrophic or Schwarzschild coordinates. It is not reasonable to expect the simple space-times-time equivalence constraint will solve the non-linear Einstein field equations.
The truncated series expansion will not be the final story. We could wait for experimentalist to determine 10 terms, but that is quite unreasonable (Personal story: I spend ~$600 to go to an Eastern Gravity Meeting just to ask Prof. Clifford Will when we might get the terms for second order Parameterize Post-Newtonian accuracy, and at the time he knew of no such planned experimental effort ~2005?). Given that gravity is o harmonic phenomena, there are six terms that match, and many other people have made the same speculation, it is a small leap to suggest that a positive and negative exponential to the dimensionless mass length may be the complete solution for simple systems:
$$ \begin{align*} dq &= \left(\exp\left({-\frac{G M}{c^2 R}}\right) dt, \exp\left(\frac{G M}{c^2 R} \right) dR/c \right) \\ dq^2 &= \left( \exp \left(-2\frac{G M}{c^2 R} \right) dt^2 - \exp \left( 2 \frac{G M}{c^2 R} \right) dR^2/c^2, 2 ~dt ~dR/c \right) \\ &= \left( d\tau^2, 2 ~dt ~dR/c \right) \end{align*} $$
The exponential interval does appear in the literature since it makes calculations far simpler.
Gravity is impressively weak. The distance of Observer C over Observer A is impressively small. The change in the interval should in practice be beyond measure.
\begin{align*} G&=6.67384\cdot 10^{-11} \frac{m^{3}}{kg s^2}\\ M&=5.9722 \cdot 10^{24} kg\\ c&=299792458 m / s \\ R&=6.371 \cdot 10^{6} m \end{align*}
GMc2R_for_Observer_A = 6.67384e-11 * 5.9722e+24 / (299792458 ** 2 * 6371000)
GMc2R_for_Observer_C = 6.67384e-11 * 5.9722e+24 / (299792458 ** 2 * 6371000.1)
print(GMc2R_for_Observer_A)
print(GMc2R_for_Observer_C)
Moving 10 centimeters is not much.
Do the "minimal" shift meaning the three terms of the Taylor series.
Adq_g = Cdq.g_shift(GMc2R_for_Observer_A, g_form="minimal")
Cdq_g = Cdq.g_shift(GMc2R_for_Observer_C, g_form="minimal")
print(Adq_g)
print(Cdq_g)
The squares could be calculated, but if the input values are the same, there will be no difference in any of the squares. This is consistent with expectations: a small number change in a small number cannot be noticed.
Observer C is a mere 10 centimeters away from Observer A. Let us make the distance so vast that the GMc2R value is zero.
Cdq_g_zero = Cdq.g_shift(0, g_form="minimal")
print(Adq_g)
print(Cdq_g_zero)
Get far enough away, and the effects of gravity may become apparent.
Adq_g_2 = Adq_g.square()
Cdq_g_zero_2 = Cdq_g_zero.square()
eq_g = qt.EQ(Adq_g_2, Cdq_g_zero_2)
print(eq_g)
eq_g.visualize()
The time-like interval is not exact. That is the effect of gravity. Yet these pairs of observers, A and C at an very great distance from A, all have exact space-times-time values as the quaternion gravity proposal demands.
Nearly all calculations in physics I have ever done involved vector spaces over a mathematical field like real or complex numbers. This iPython notebook used a fundamentally new and different toolset. Space-time numbers can always be made equivalent to the 4D division algebra of quaternions through the process of reduction. This new breed of numbers was applied to the simple case of an eight-ball moving along a pool table. Three observers watched the events unfold. Their raw data always was different because that is inherent in the definition of being a different observer. Yet by taking the difference between two events and squaring it, equivalence classes could be defined. If two observers agree on the first term of the square, that means the two observers are moving at a constant speed relative to each other. The other three terms can be used to figure out the motion. While this might be view as a novel approach to special relativity, nothing new is claimed.
If two observers are in an equivalence class because the difference between two events squared space-times-time values are exactly the same, this is a new proposal for how gravity works. There is no metric tensor, connection, nor field equations. Rather, the proposal is a twin of special relativity. In both cases it is the square that matters. The difference between the two is if the observers agree to the reduced real values, that is special relativity, where if they agree to the reduced imaginary values, that is space-times-time equivalence class as gravity.
Space-time numbers should feel odd. We expect numbers to be unique. Yet Nature plays unusual games with the numbers for particles such as boson versus fermion statistics. Space-time numbers may be rich enough to reflect these kinds of properties. This notebook represents a proof of concept.


An input that display and edit of a list of values translated in multiple languages.
This directive also inherits from the ng-model controller and can be integrated to forms like any other input. Most directives frequently used conjointly with ng-model are also useable (such as ng-change, ng-required, ng-disabled, etc)
This directive is also designed to be power-user friendly: you can navigate through the values by using the Tab key and add new values with the Enter key. You can also paste values separated by line breaks. Give it a try !
ng-model
: the variable to bind tomode
: "lucca" for Lucca proprietary format (more formats will eventually be handled later on)
<luid-translations-list ng-model="myTranslatedList"><luid-translations-list>
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ng-model:
{{ luccaTranslations | json }}
Number of times ng-change
has been called : {{translationsListChangedCount}}
ng-model:
{{ luccaTranslations2 | json }}
Number of times ng-change
has been called : {{translationsListChangedCount2}}


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Don’t let your pride or greed get in the way
As a kid, I recall learning that pride and greed were two of the seven sins. However, this never truly resonated with me until I began to run a company. Both of them can be poisonous in the culture and actions of a company.
Pride, in its negative connotation of having an inflated sense of one’s personal status, is dangerous because it causes you to not reach out, not collaborate and not trust the judgment of those who might know better. Drop your pride to the floor and reach out to mentors for advice. Though it might feel uncomfortable, it will pay dividends later. Greed is dangerous because it is contrary to the concept of delivering value. The culture of the company should be on generating as much value for the customer as possible. Elements of greed will cause the company to be too inward looking and not focused enough on the customer. While it may lead to short-term profitability, the longer run prospects are bound to suffer. The company should only become wealthy to the extent that it helps its customers become even more wealthy.
Expectations management
I learned this idea very early on in all my dealings with clients and I’m sure it is an integral part of all businesses. Make sure that the service you deliver to clients is either equal or higher than the expectations the client has for the project. This doesn’t mean what you think they should expect or what is agreed upon on paper, it means what they actually expect. If there is any miscommunication or misalignment of expectations it will have an exponentially worse effect the longer it continues. This carries down to management as well. Make sure that you set the expectations of your team higher than those you set for the client.
Time management: Distractions and being Proactive vs. Reactive
As a CEO I was constantly being distracted with the concerns of my employees, clients, vendors and others. On some days I would be pinged every 5 minutes for something new. Distractions became very deadly and as I’ve learned from one study, once you’re distracted by something, it takes 20 minutes to get back to the exact train of thought you were on before getting distracted.
I put in place measures to insure that I would be able to manage my time better.
The result of constantly being distracted is a reactive approach to business. If I didn’t plan a single project / task for myself, I could still fill up 12 hours/day of work from being reactive; however, being reactive did not move the company forward. Instead I had to plan my days/projects ahead of time using a proactive approach. The reactive tasks always found a way to get done.
Get mentors!
This cannot be stated enough. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Any problem you face in business and in life has probably been dealt with by someone else before. Learn from the lessons and mistakes of others. Appreciate, acknowledge and respect their time and lessons they share with you. Pay forward by mentoring others and volunteering your time and knowledge as well.
On the flip side, don’t treat your own employees like mentors. This ties back to the “Look out for yourself” lesson. Listen to your team, take their concerns/ideas seriously, but also understand their perspective. They likely don’t have the same perspective, experience and knowledge as a mentor would have.
Conclusion
I hope you can learn from some of these lessons and avoid some of the mistakes I made. I would love to hear your feedback or critique. Cheers to building stronger businesses, healthier relationships, fulfilled lives and creating value for others in and outside the business world.


Method:
Make an XMLHttpRequest to the server for XML encoded rows of data. XML is
parsed with the browser's built-in parser (as provided by the
XMLHttpRequest object). HTML is generated by script iteration over the XML
DOM and the results are injected into the document using
innerHTML
. As in previous tests, the HTML table output is
optimized for rendering speed.
XML is just plain slow. From it's relatively large footprint on the wire (30% greater than un-optimized JSON) to the need to do complicated parsing to the performance of script iteration over the XML DOM, XML + JS is likely the worst performer of the set of possible combinations as it joins the worst bits of the JSON test combined with HTML's size disadvantages.
Generate server-side XML and process it client-side with script at your own risk.


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This class implements the Functional interface by combining the operation of three FunctionObjects and a domain Space.
Note that FunctionObject instances have persistent state and thus are not required to yield the same result when applied to the same data. Thus only FunctionObjects which do not change results on repeated evaluation at the same instance are usable in this construction.
Storage of intermediate results likely introduces inefficiencies. The use of this class is primarily for rapid prototyping or the implementation of functionals with no intermediate data between functional, gradient, and hessian evaluations. It is possible to get around this limitation by having these three FOs reference a common external object.
The functional evaluation is performed by a FunctionObjectScalarRedn which returns a Scalar value. The gradient computation is performed by a binary FunctionObject, which will be given the gradient (target) vector as the first input and the point x (data) vector as the second input. The hessian computation is performed by a ternary FunctionObject which will be given the target vector dy first, followed by the point x and direction dx .
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Former representative in the Louisiana House, and candidate for U.S. Senate, in addition to being a former Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan. More recently he has been bilking his contributors to pay his gambling debts, pleading guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion in December 2002. Duke can no longer hold public office.
| 13 Jul 1950 |
David Duke born, Tulsa OK. |
| 1967 |
Joins the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at the age of 17. |
| 1970 |
Founds the White Youth Alliance while a student at Louisiana State University. From a 1997 Interview with Duke by Stormfront: "I did picket one time, wore a swastika once in my life. I picketed William Kunstler at Tulane University and that's the only instance in my life that I ever did that." |
| 1971 |
Duke visits his father, an engineer who worked in the State Department, in Laos, for a number of months. He spends some of this time teaching English to Laotian officers. Starting from 1989 onward, Duke refashions this time as actual military missions behind enemy lines in speeches and fundraising materials. |
| 1974 |
Duke graduates from Louisiana State University with a BA in History. He had taken time off from his college career for various activist work involving Neo-Nazis. |
| 1974 |
Duke becomes National Director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| 23 Apr 1975 |
The Witchita Sun quotes David Duke as saying: "White people don't need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals." Later, Duke refutes this in a 1997 interview, although only sort of: "Whoever gave you that quote is totally inaccurate... No one is going to find any tape of me using the word nigger or talking in those kinds of terms.   |
| Nov 1978 |
David Duke publishes the Klan Code of Conduct: "Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests." |
| 17 Nov 1978 |
The Heritage Florida Jewish News quotes David Duke as proclaiming at a Clearwater Klan rally: "Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people...  |
| 1980 |
David Duke establishes the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), which he describes as a "white rights lobby organization". |
| Apr 1982 |
In an editorial in the NAAWP newsletter, David Duke asks: "Am I an alarmist? Is my vision unreal? All one has to do is look around this globe and see the Third World reality. Are whites holding every one of the nonwhite countries down, or are we in fact pumping billions of dollars into them along with every technological aid that the West can produce? And now the West itself is gradually being enveloped by nonwhite immigration. The exploding numbers of nonwhites are slowly wrapping formerly white nations in a dark human cocoon. Shall a butterfly emerge, or the beast that has haunted the ruins of every great white civilization that submitted to invasion by immigration and racial miscegenation?" |
| Mar 1985 |
In an interview, David Duke declares: "What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking -- you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation." |
| Nov 1989 |
David Duke elected to Louisana State Legislature. |
| 13 May 1990 |
In an interview published in the San Francisco Chronicle, David Duke declares: "The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures -- as a survival mechanism -- the only Nazi country in the world is Israel." |
| 19 Dec 1991 |
After losing the Louisiana gubernatorial election, David Duke exults: "I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote." |
| Nov 1998 |
My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding is published by Duke and sold through his website. 736 pages, $25.00. |
| 1 Nov 1999 |
In filing his 1998 tax return form, David Duke claims he made $18,831.00 when in fact he actually made $65,034.00. Naughty, naughty. He is convinced of tax evasion in 2002. |
| Nov 2000 |
Duke's home is raided by the FBI while he is in Moscow promoting the Russian version of his book. Duke begins staying in the Ukraine as a guest for the next two years, travelling throughout Europe and Russia and giving lectures and book tours. |
| 18 Dec 2002 |
Duke pleads guilty to tax evasion and fraud and is sentenced to 15 months in jail and a $10,000 fine. |