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Montgomery County is the largest county or county-equivalent in the State of Maryland based on the 2014 registration data.
Montgomery county is probably the most difficult to administer county, but the number of polling places and number of poll workers will need to improve before voters experience a higher level voting experience. In both 2012 and 2014 the county ranked in the bottom half in voters per polling place and voters per poll worker.


rotten > Library > Crime > Corporate Crime > Enron
Enron
This sham corporation, dedicated to Mammon, was headed by a CEO whose close personal friend was President George W Bush. Although Bush denied it in a 2001 interview:
"He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994, and she did name him the head of the Governor's Business Council, and I decided to leave him in place just for the sake of continuity. And that's when I first got to know Ken and worked with Ken, and he supported my candidacy."
As a matter of fact, Enron contributed a grand total of $550,000 to Bush over an eight-year period. That made Enron the single largest contributor to Bush's political career.
Enron's ostensible business model involved selling electrical power and energy commodities, and gleaning a percentage from the transactions. Of course, their primary source of income ultimately turned out to be graft.
Timeline
| 10 Sep 2000 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay personally contributes $290,000 to George W Bush's presidential campaign. |
| 3 Jan 2001 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay is named as a member of President George W Bush's transition team. |
| 17 May 2001 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay meets with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Milken, and 12 other California Republicans at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. There they share (according to Enron emails) "an insider's conversation of what's going on with the energy situation." Later, during his campaign for governor, Schwarzenegger claims he is unable to remember anything about the meeting, including whether he even met Ken Lay. |
| 30 Jun 2001 |
The White House admits that political adviser Karl Rove was involved in administration energy policy meetings, while at the same time holding stock in energy companies including Enron. |
| 15 Oct 2001 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay telephones Commerce Secretary Don Evans. |
| 28 Oct 2001 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay telephones Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. |
| 29 Oct 2001 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay telephones Commerce Secretary Don Evans, asking him to dissuade Moody's from downgrading Enron's credit rating. |
| 8 Nov 2001 |
Arthur Andersen receives a federal subpoena for Enron documents. |
| 2 Dec 2001 |
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. |
| 3 Dec 2001 |
Enron lays off 4,000 employees. |
| 22 Jan 2002 |
A former Enron employee testifies that she saw people shredding documents after the investigation was announced. |
| 23 Jan 2002 |
Enron CEO Ken Lay resigns as CEO. |
| 25 Jan 2002 |
The body of former Enron vice chairman John Clifford Baxter is found in his car. His suicide note is released in April. |
| 1 Feb 2002 |
The Department of Justice instructs the White House to preserve any and all Enron documents. |
| 4 Feb 2002 |
Ken Lay resigns from Enron's board of directors. |
| 17 Jul 2003 |
Without admitting any wrongdoing, Enron agrees to pay the state of New Jersey $109,000 to settle claims that the corporation had made 30 illegal state campaign contributions in 1999. |
| 9 Apr 2004 |
At 4:00 a.m., New York police officers responding to a complaint that an emotionally disturbed person was "pulling on people's clothes and shouting aloud with intent to annoy" found themselves face to face with none other than the former Enron CEO, Jeffrey Skilling. Skilling was standing on the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street: highly intoxicated, uncooperative, and making accusations at passers-by. "You're an FBI agent and you're following me," he was reported as shrieking. He ran up to several patrons in a Manhattan bar and "pulled open" their clothes. Police took Skilling to the New York Presbyterian Hospital for observation. |
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motiph [options] <alignment file> <tree file>
<motif file>
Scan a DNA multiple sequence alignment for occurrences of given
motifs, taking into account the phylogenetic tree relating the
sequences. Any sequences containing nothing but gaps are removed from
the alignment.
motiph
supports several evolutionary models that it uses to compute
the score for aligning the motif to each possible region of the
multiple alignment.
Read about the algorithm for more details.
The name of a file containing a DNA multiple alignment in ClustalW format. Alternatively, if the --list option is used, this file may contain a list of alignment files. In this case each of the alignment files will be scanned for each of the motifs.
The name of a file containing a phylogenetic tree in Phylip Newick format. This tree may contain additional species not represented in the alignment.
The name of a file containing MEME formatted motifs.
Output is created as a table in HTML (.html) and text (.txt) formats. Each line in the table represents a match of the motif to a "window" in the alignment. Matches to the motif and its reverse complement are listed separately. The output columns contain the motif name, the alignment name, the start position of the match in the alignment, the end position of the match, the match score, the match p-value, the match q-value, and the matched portion of the first sequence in the alignment, respectively.
Output is also created in GFF format (.gff) and in CISML (.xml) format.
| Option | Parameter | Description | Default Behavior | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Options | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --bg | mutation rate | The mutation rate for sites in the background model. | A background mutation rate of 1 is used. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --bfile | background file | Read background frequencies from
background file. The file should be in
MEME background file format.
If the argument is the keyword motif-file , then the frequencies will be taken from
the motif file. If both strands are being scored, the background model
will be modified by averaging the frequencies of letters and their reverse complements. |
Use frequencies embedded in the application from an old version of the NCBI non-redundant DNA database. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --fg | mutation rate | The mutation rate for sites in the foreground model(s). | A foreground mutation rate of 1 is used. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --gap | skip|fixed|wildcard|minimum|model | Specifies the gap handling strategy.
|
Behaves as if --gap skip had been specified. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --gap-cost | cost | Specifies the costs for gaps when using the fixed gap handling strategy. | A gap cost of zero is used. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --hb | Use the Halpern-Bruno modification to the evolutionary model. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --list | Treat the second required input as a list of alignments, rather than a single alignment. | The second required argument is treated as a single alignment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --max-stored-scores | storage | Set the maximum number of scores that will be stored. Keeping a complete list of scores may exceed available memory. Once the number of stored scores reaches the maximum allowed, the least significant 50% of scores will be dropped. In this case, the list of reported motifs may be incomplete and the q-value calculation will be approximate. | The maximum number of stored matches is set to 100,000. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --model | single|average|jc|k2|f81|f84|hky|tn | The evolutionary model to use.
|
Behaves as if --model f81 was specified. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --motif | ID | Use only the motif identified by ID. This option may be repeated. | All motifs are used. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --no-qvalue | Do not compute a q-value for each p-value. The q-value calculation is that of Benjamini and Hochberg (1995). | The program computes q-values. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --norc | Do not score the reverse complement DNA strand. | Both strands are scored. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --output-pthresh | p-value threshold | The p-value threshold for displaying search results. If the p-value of a match is greater than this value, then the match will not be printed. If both the --output-pthresh and --output-qthresh options appear on the command line, whichever appears later on the command line will be applied. | The p-value threshold is set to 1e-4. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --output-qthresh | q-value threshold | The q-value threshold for displaying search results. If the q-value of a match is greater than this value, then the match will not be printed. | No q-value threshold is applied. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --pseudocounts | pseudocount | A pseudocount to be added to each count in the motif matrix, weighted by the background frequencies for the nucleotides (Dirichlet prior), before converting the motif to probabilities. | A pseudocount of 0.1 is added. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --pur-pyr | ratio | The ratio of the purine transition rate to pyrimidine transition rate. This parameter is used by the Tamura-nei model. | The ratio is set to 1.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --seed | n | Seed for random number generator. | The seed is set to the current time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --text | Limits output to plain text sent to standard out. This mode allows the program to search an arbitrarily large database, because results are not stored in memory. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --transition-transversion | ratio | The ratio of the transition rate to the transversion rate. This parameter is used by the Kimura 2-parameter, F84, HKY, and Tamura-nei models. | The ratio is set to 0.5. |
The algorithm is as follows:
A = a multiple alignment T = a phylogenetic tree M = a motif frequency matrix B = the background frequencies of the four bases in A U = a background evolutionary model with equilibrium frequencies B // Build evolutionary models. for j in positions of M { E[j] = an evolutionary model with equilibrium frequencies from the jth position of M } // Build matrix of all possible scores for i in all possible alignment columns { for j in positions of M { foreground = site_likelihood(E[j], A[:][i], T) background = site_likelihood(U, A[:][i] T) score_matrix[i][j] = log_2(foreground / background) } } // Calculate p-values of all possible scores for motif sized windows // windows in the alignment. pvalues = get_pv_lookup(score_matrix, B) // Calculate score for each motif sized window in the alignment. for i in columns of A { score = 0 for j in positions of M { index = calculate the index of A[:][i + j] in the array of all possible alignment columns score = score + score_matrix[index][j] } print pvalues[score] }
The core of the algorithm is a routine (site_likelihood
)
for scoring a particular column of the multiple alignment using a
given evolutionary model and a given phylogenetic tree. The alignment
site provides the observed nucleotides at the base of the tree, and we
sum over the unobserved nucleotides in the rest of the tree,
conditioning on the equilibrium distribution from the evolutionary
model at the root of the tree (Felsenstein Pruning Algorithm). The
tree must be a maximum likelihood tree, of the kind generated by DNAml
from Phylip or by FastDNAml. Branch lengths in the tree are converted
to conditional probabilities using the specified evolutionary
model.


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Kohli asks butterfingers India to get a grip on catching woes
For someone who often leads by example, India captain Virat Kohli is appalled by the team's sloppy fielding against West Indies and wants them to fix the problem in the build-up to next year's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.
NEW DELHI: For someone who often leads by example, India captain Virat Kohli is appalled by the team's sloppy fielding against West Indies and wants them to fix the problem in the build-up to next year's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.
India, who had dropped five catches in the series opener on Friday, spilled three more on Sunday to allow West Indies to level the series 1-1 in Thiruvananthapuram.
The unusually sloppy catching in Hyderabad prompted former all-rounder Yuvraj Singh to wonder if playing too much cricket was taking its toll on the players.
Some of the players said the low floodlights in Hyderabad made sighting the ball tricky at times. No such excuse was offered for the slip-ups in Thiruvananthapuram, where two catches went down in a single Bhuvneshwar Kumar over.
"Look, if you field like that, then no total is big enough. Last two games we've been below-par in the field," Kohli told broadcaster Star Sports after Sunday's defeat.
"In the first four overs we created enough pressure and then you drop two chances in a T20 game in one over, that's going to cost you. If they lose two wickets in one over, the pressure's on them.
"I think it's a game of margins and we need to understand where we went wrong. It's pretty evident. It's there for everyone to see and for us to improve on.
"I think fielding is something we need to be more brave about, and not worry about dropping catches."
Kohli himself set the standard when he pulled off a spectacular one-handed catch near the ropes to send back Shimron Hetmyer.
"It was one of those catches that just stuck in the hand," said Kohli.
"It came out of the lights a little bit, but I just committed to the ball and put both hands out, and luckily it came into my hand."
Mumbai hosts the third and final match on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)


The episode of Tunnel Vision in which Mr Key trudges through the sewers declaiming sewer- and tunnel-related prose will be broadcast tonight at 9.00 PM on ResonanceFM. At least, I think so. If through cataclysmic mishap you miss it, it will be repeated on Saturday 15th at 4.00 PM.
UPDATE : And if, through a second cataclysmic mishap, you miss the repeat, I understand that a podcast will be available from Sunday 16th. Check the Resonance podcasts page.


--- layout: post title: Serializable Exception in Java date: 2011-07-23 21:07:21.000000000 +02:00 type: post published: true status: publish categories: - Reviews tags: - java - wicket meta: _edit_last: '2' dsq_thread_id: '3817260921' _jetpack_related_posts_cache: a:0:{} author: login: admin email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>display_name: gerbrand first_name: Gerbrand last_name: van Dieijen ---
When you use Wicket as webfrontend framework to build your application, sooner or later you'll encounter the NotSerializableException. This is because Wicket will want to serialize any state you have into a HTTPSession. In Wicket, the first three pages are usually in memory too, so you could ignore the exception for a while, but of course this will fail immediately in case use want to use your webapplication in a clustered configuration. Not to mention you should never ignore Exceptions anyway.
The problem in solving such a Serializable exception is finding the field that is not Serializable. The stacktrace of java doesn't help much. Fortunatelly, after some searching I've found the solution, in the comment of blog posting: add the option -Dsun.io.serialization.extendedDebugInfo=true to the JVM startup parameters.
Now the stacktrace gives you the exact fieldname or expression that is causing the problems, as you can see in the example below:
2011-07-23 21:44:50,362 ERROR [http-8080-1] [] org.apache.wicket.util.lang.Objects - Error serializing object class nl.gerbrandict.forum.AdminPage [object=[Page class = nl.gerbrandict.forum.AdminPage, id = 2, version = 0]] java.io.NotSerializableException: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - field (class "org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager", name: "beanFactory", type: "interface org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory") - object (class "org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager", org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager@10fd8ce3) - custom writeObject data (class "org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor") - object (class "org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor", org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor@2c96cb51) - field (class "org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionAttributeSourceAdvisor", name: "transactionInterceptor", type: "class org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor") .. - field (class "nl.gerbrandict.forum.AdminModel", name: "person", type: "class nl.gerbrandict.forum.Person")
(note: not publishing the entire stack trace and using some sample dummy field/classnames).
Although I haven't tried, enabling this option in production is most likely a bad idea, because Serialization is already a pretty inefficient process without any debugging information enabled. In my case, I was using a PropertyModel somewhere, using non model as target object.


How it works
Simply make a request to
https://increment.build/
followed by an identifier of
your choice. It will return 1
and increment that number
every subsequent request.
❯ curl
https://increment.build/my-awesome-app
1
❯ curl
https://increment.build/my-awesome-app
2
❯ curl
https://increment.build/my-awesome-app
3
Switch to a different identifier to get a new counter starting from 0.
❯ curl
https://increment.build/my-awesome-app
4
❯ curl
https://increment.build/my-fancy-app
1
Save the result into an environment variable and use it to build your
product.
❯ export BUILD
= $(curl https://increment.build/my-fancy-app)
❯ echo $BUILD
2
Why do I need this?
-
If you give every build that you make it's own build number, you can
easily figure out which build caused trouble if problems arise.
-
Automatically incrementing the build number requires you to first
figure out what is the highest build number out there, which might
not be trivial.
-
As an iOS or Android developer, you are required to increase the
build number for each binary that you upload. If you forget it, the
binary will be rejected and you will have to compile and upload
again.
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You want to use continuous integration and don't want to commit
version code increases.
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How do I increment the build number of an Xcode project?
Move into the folder where your Info.plist is and execute this
command:
❯
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c
"Set :CFBundleVersion
$(curl
https://increment.build/my-awesome-app)"
Info.plist
-
How do I increment the version code of an Android
project?
In your build.gradle
, make the versionCode variable:
versionCode project.hasProperty('versionCode') ?
project.property('versionCode') as int : 1
then pass the version code like this:
❯ ./gradlew assembleRelease
-PversionCode=$(curl https://increment.build/my-awesome-app)
-
How do I increment the version codes of an Expo project?
This will increment both iOS build number and Android version code
based on separate counters!
❯ node -e
"a=require('./app.json');a.expo.ios.buildNumber=String($(curl
https://increment.build/my-app-ios));a.expo.android.versionCode=$(curl
https://increment.build/my-app-android);require('fs').writeFileSync('app.json',
JSON.stringify(a, null, 2))"
-
How do I increment the build number using Fastlane?
For iOS projects:
increment_build_number(
xcodeproj: './ios/MyAwesomeApp.xcodeproj',
build_number: sh('curl -s https://increment.build/my-awesome-app-ios')
)
For Android projects:
gradle(task: 'assemble', build_type: 'Release', properties: {
versionCode: sh('curl -s https://increment.build/my-awesome-app-android')
})
-
My current build number is already at 2498. How can I make
increment.build start from this number?
There is another endpoint for this. Simply append
/set/{your_number}
and your counter will jump to this
number.
❯ curl https://increment.build/my-awesome-app/set/2498
-
How can I get the current build number without incrementing
it?
You can simply append /get
to get the current build
number without incrementing it. Useful for building counters!
❯ curl https://increment.build/my-awesome-app/get
-
My cURL also prints the progress, not just the build
number!
Try to add the -s flag to prevent progress being printed:
❯ curl -s
https://increment.build/
-
There is no authentication! How do I prevent others from
incrementing my build number?
Just use an identifier that is really hard to guess! What about
increment.build/e447dacc-8323-4e29-aeeb-4bbbbf9b2628? No one will come up with that.
-
I incremented by accident. Can I go back?
You cannot decrease the counter. I recommend that you just don't
care - skipping build numbers is not the end of the world. If you
really want to go back, just use a new identifier.
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I don't trust you, you will one day serve me malicious code
instead of build numbers!
Good for you, the saying is that trust is good, control is better.
You can add a check that the response that you get from
increment.build is purely numeric.
export BUILD = $(curl https://increment.build/my-awesome-app)
re='^[0-9]+$'
if ! [[ $BUILD =~ $re ]] ; then
echo "error: Not a number" >&2; exit 1
fi
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Hacking ML-Ensemble¶
ML-Ensemble implements a modular design that allows straightforward development of new ensemble classes. The backend is agnostic to the type of ensemble it is being asked to perform computation on, and only at the moment of computation will ensemble-specific code be needed. To implement a new ensemble type, three objects are needed:
- An cross-validation strategy. This amounts to implementing an
- indexer class. See current indexers for examples.
- An estimation engine. This is the actual class that will run the
- estimation. The
BaseEstimator
class implements most of the heavy lifting, and unless special-purpose fit and/or predict procedures are required, the only thing needed is a method for indexing the base learners to each new features generated by the cross-validation strategy. See current estimation engines for examples.
- A front-end API. These typically only implements a constructor and an
add
method. Theadd
method specifies the indexer to use and parser keyword arguments. It is also adviced to differentiate between hidden layers and the meta layer, where cross-validation is not desired.


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Disease Outbreak Reported
The Ministry of Health has reported that 115 cases of plague have occurred between 7 June and 4 July in Mutarara District, Tete Province, a plague endemic zone. No deaths have been reported. An outbreak last occurred in this area în late 1994 when 216 cases were reported. The Ministry of Health has taken appropriate measures to control this outbreak.


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Iím listening to the set that DJ Nitro was spinning when I did my first ever hit of DMT... that shit is both the best and worst experience of my life!!!
it completely shattered me within 15 seconds of inhaling. I heard a buzzing for like 10 seconds that got louder and louder for those 10, then it got ear shattering for the next 5, but that was secondary to what I was seeing...
We all know what caricature is, those shitty drawings that I can have done of I at the mall or something... ya know the ones with the funny features that are exagerateís of my body.
It looked like when I held the world up to my face on a laminate piece of paper... all of the sudden as the world gets closer to my face for those next 5 seconds, I start to notice that Iím no longer staring at just the world, but everything about it has something below the surface... and it scares me.  I feel incredibly wasted by that fact I am shredded to bits by what comes next. I then start to see everything for what it really is and not what Iíve been seeing it as; that shitty 2D image... now I see everything in 4-D -- prepare to be frightened more!
Now Iím in this world of complete chaos. And for me it seems that this chaos is caused by how unfamiliar it is to me. Itís like being a rich white kid and going directly to the west side of Chicago, or to be in LA in the middle of a shootout while an earthquake and a riot go on around me, but Iím also in a burning building while a volcano is erupting next door.
Now the ecstasy part of this experience is that I can see all of these real things and inevitably change my life because of this new vision of the world, all without having to experience them. And I know for the entirety (all 15 minutes) of the trip that I am safe. That everything will be ok, that eventually the world will go back to 'normal' again, but it doesnít. Iím only 1 minute into the *trip*. But it isnít a trip, itís much more of an 'experience' than that. It is more real than anything that has ever happened to me.
And Iím not quite sure how to explain the next 15 to 20 minutes of my life. I donít think anyone CAN explain it. It simply is beyond the ability to be recognized by the human brain.
'the alieness nature of DMT is utter-alieness'
that sums it all up.
But in words that can be understood, but it is such a disappoint to what is in actuality going on in my mind; the entire universe is then analyzed on the same level that I analyzed that 1 small piece of my life.  I am going to be here for a while, and that becomes the next big fear in my life that I may never come back from this reality. I may be stuck seeing everything for what it really is and that might very well kill me.
 He just dies 2 years later from the stress of living without rules and confines... but he has the best 2 years of his life, because he is free.
That is the nature of DMT to me. That is what I learned from DMT.
I now see everything in life in the way I saw it before, but now I see it as if looking at a piece of laminate paper with life on it. I now know that something is going to be beneath the surface of life now. Everything I touch is now different to me. I canít sleep at night because my dreams are too incredible to even understand. So complex is life now that sometimes I just laugh at how beautiful everything is... it makes me feel like the first time I took Ecstasy. I fell asleep after I took the pill and I woke up to what can be described as the most in love I have ever been with life. For the first time in life I finally understood what everything really should mean to me.
It kinda goes back to what Alexander Shulgin said about MDMA the time he took it in the mountains... he turned around and couldnít look at the mountains because it would make him cry to see something so beautiful. I am crying right now while typing this. Iím so torn in my life. I think drugs have done such great things for me. Theyíve really shaped the kind of person I want to be... theyíve also hindered me in the search of how to become that person. I mean, I love them. Iím addicted to them. And I know that I must quit. But Iím scared because I really do receive great gifts from them. Iím so much more open than I used to be.
I will talk to anyone now. And I never fear telling someone how I feel anymore. Iím so much a different person than I used to be, and I like that.  But it seems drugs may also stand in the way of that. I think that some drugs may be ok to continue to use and also not hinder me in this path to becoming a man. Iím not sure which ones they may be.
I know that coke in any form that Iíve been doing it is not going to help me in any way. I know that one has to go. I know that heroin is a beautiful thing; far to beautiful to be doing, especially when youíd sell your family for heroin and it wouldnít phase you in the slightest to hear em say that if you were a heroin user. Youíd nod in simple agreement. I think heroin isnít a good thing at all, NOONE can control it. It may allow one some degree of control, but only enough to fool oneself into thinking one has control.
Acid and Mushrooms will never leave my side. I have learned so many things from LSD and Psylocibin and their analogues that itís unbelieveable the things I have discovered on them. I am indeed a better person not because I use them, but because of the ways that I discover life can be lived while on these wonderful tools.
Ecstasy has already been described here, obviously itís got perks, but I take it enough that I donít get depressed for 2 days... itís more like a week of downward spirals, until then and after a week itís a big climb back to normalcy. At which time I do it again.
That needs to stop.
Now Iíve reached the 3rd minute of my trip...
Now you see why I think DMT cannot be, nor would you ever want to read about, explained.
Iíve left out about<PHONE_NUMBER>2163712 trillion ideas which have flashed in my head. And I could recall from memory EVERY SINGLE ONE.
They are stuck with me, and life is different both for the better and for the worse because of it.
Most of the visuals were not visuals, but a changing reality.. not something I saw but something that actually was...
In short:
A room full of 1000 people quickly died down to 3... me, a girl in a fairly costume (was she really there?), and the arms of DJ nitro... people kept coming out of the walls and they'd tell me something that would frighten my to near tears, if not tears in most cases.
The rip lasted 15 minutes, and faded into an acid like visual experience...
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Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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Hey👋🏽, Kya likhu?🤔 Hmm. Happy Birthday!🎊 You really annoy me yk🤭 but koi na I love you.💙 Hmm. Khush rho bas😄, smile krte rho, meko bohot pasand h wo.😘 Hmm. Did you know that the particles🌠 that make up your body🦾 were created 13.8 billion years ago?🤓 Since then, they've been wondering in space🌌 and time⌚ just trying to find the perfect form.🐵 Hmm. It took them almost 14 billion years😵 to take your form🤯. Elegant na?✨ Can you imagine🔮 how small the odds🎲 are ki hum dono same time pe paida honge?😂 3-4 saal bhi idhar udhar hote📆 toh we'd not have met😶. Hmmm... It took them 14 billion years⏳ to make this breathtaking✨ and wise beauty that you're🥺. Just take a moment and let this sink in😌. It's just so exciting🤩 and enlightening✨. Hmm. Kya seekhne ko mila isse?🤨 Hmm? "Good things take time⌚, as they should"🌻, and I'm ready to wait.😘 We've waited 13 billion years to experience whatever we're experiencing right now.😂 Thoda aur wait bas ig. Hmmm.😌 I love you Chubby!💙 Have faith in yourself💚 and get over those bitter experiences☔ from the past.  Just be grateful. Sab accha hoga🐣, confidence rakhne ka khud pe🤓 ( and mere pe bhi thoda sa 😬). Hmm. Chalo, Happy Birthday!🎂 Khush rehna, self-doubts nhi, regrets nhi just hope✨, faith, honesty and hardwork🔥. I'm here for you. I'm yours. Gussa nhi hote😬. Hmm.🤭 I don't want to talk to anyone else I don't want any other friend. I 🍕 you. Take care. Be kind.🌻


The [In]teractive [S]cientific [C]omputing [I]nterface
INSCI-notebook is the backbone of the INSCI environment. You can use this library to completely customize the function of your own notebook environment as compared to the regular INSCI environment. For developers looking to get started writing INSCI notebooks directly, see the main INSCI repository for more on the project as a whole. INSCI-notebook is a pluggable library made using Typescript. INSCI-notebook doesn't depend on any large and/or slow libraries or frameworks, and achieves it's light weight by depending upon only a few smaller libraries:
INSCI-notebook is available from npm:
npm install insci-notebook
INSCI-notebook implements a plugin framework so that third-party developers can easily add to the features of the library. Plugins are defined using the experimental decorator feature in typescript, which can be enabled by setting "experimentalDecorators":true
. Here's an example plugin/App scenario:
/* ExamplePlugin.ts */
import {Cell, Plugin, IPlugin} from 'insci-notebook';
/*
* We can optionally implement the IPlugin so that an IDE's intellisense
* could show methods that can be overriden. This is optional.
*/
@Plugin
class ExamplePlugin implements IPlugin{
constructor(){
console.log("Plugin Initialized");
}
onSelectCell(cell: Cell): void{
console.log("Cell with type " + cell.type + " selected!");
}
}
/* App.ts */
import 'ExamplePlugin.ts';
import {Notebook} from 'insci-notebook';
class App{
constructor(){
const nb: Notebook = new Notebook(document.querySelector("#nb-container") as HTMLElement);
// ExamplePlugin is loaded when the notebook initializes.
}
}
Of course, here we're assuming that an App instance is created somewhere else, for example an index.ts
or some other entrypoint. The full plugin API is in the documentation.
INSCI-notebook itself is developed and maintained by Amit Prasad. See the main INSCI repository to see how the library is implemented in it's primary usecase.
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JUDICIAL RIGHTS
Section 11. All those provisions of the act or resolution admitting this State to the Union, or providing for such admission, which reserve to the United States judicial rights or powers are consented to fully by the State and its people; and those provisions of such act or resolution which preserve judicial rights and powers for the State are hereby accepted and adopted, and such rights and powers are hereby assumed, to be exercised and discharged pursuant to this constitution and the laws of the State. [Ren Const Con 1968 and election Nov5, 1968; ren and am Const Con 1978 and election Nov7, 1978]
Cross References
Admission Act provisions, see §§12, 13.
Case Notes
Referred to: 44 H. 634, 650, 361 P.2d 390.


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There's been quite a bit of talk about Code Generators lately. Now, personally, I think some kinds of code generation are great, if somewhat misused sometimes. However, I got a chuckle this weekend out of Paul DiLascia's ".NET GUI Bliss" article on MSDN Magazine, where he says "An important corollary is that code generators are bad".
What I find even funnier is that I agree with both Paul and John on the topic.... there are places where code generation is the right approach, and places where just avoiding code altogether is even better. Paul's example of UI design is probably a great example of this (the code-only model of the Winforms Designer actually has serious disadvatanges... but that's a story for another time).
P.S.: I fully agree with John's observations on OOP and reuse.


REGEX_REPLACE(text, search, replacement, caseInsensitive) → string
Replace the pattern search with the string replacement in the string text, using regular expression matching.
For more details about the rules for characters and sequences refer REGEX_TEST().
If the regular expression in search is invalid, a warning will be raised and the function will return null.
REGEX_REPLACE("the quick brown fox", "the.*fox", "jumped over") // jumped over
REGEX_REPLACE("the quick brown fox", "o", "i") // the quick briwn fix


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I’m a PhD candidate at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, researching artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotics and its application to autonomous driving. I obtained an Informatics Engineering and Software Engineering Dual Degree at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and a MSc in Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with a José Cuena award.
The projects I’m working on now can be found in my GitHub account.
In addition to research, I’m also a teaching assistant for some courses (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) for third-year students at the same uni related to my research interests. I have also developed a course for Platzi platform called Object Detection and Segmentation with Tensorflow. More info about it is in the teaching section. I have also given some talks about my work.
I have participated in Google Summer of Code program six years in a row. The first one was in 2018 as a Student Intern working with JdeRobot Robotics and Artificial Intelligence association and the following five as a mentor in several artificial intelligence related projects, Detection Studio, Behavior Studio and Deep Learning Studio with the same association, where I still collaborate. These projects and others have led to publications.
For more information about my professional career visit the cv section.
I am open to research collaborations, teaching courses, talks… Drop me an email to get in touch :)
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Pius IIDespite being a dissolute sinner with bastard children all over Europe, Pope Pius II left two major historical documents to commemorate his papacy - the very first papal autobiography and the papal bull, Execrabilis (sadly this is not Latin for "shitty"), which officially states that the Pope is the one and only supreme authority in the whole wide Catholic Church and could not be second-guessed by anyone else, period.Despite the fact Execrabilis was a transparent power grab, this theological breakthrough is still in effect today and it's the reason why you can't impeach a pope for such offenses as enabling and then illegally covering up thousands of cases of priests molesting young boys. Just to pick a purely hypothetical example. Pius II was born in Central Italy with the name Enea Silvia de' Piccolomini in 1405, one of 18 children. As a young man, he was quite the libertine, fathering the first few of what would eventually be a dozen illegitimate children. Although he had deep and powerful spiritual feelings, they were outweighed by his deep and powerful urge to stick his crozier into any available narthex, as the kids say. Pius was an accomplished poet and writer, eventually rising to the rank of poet laureate of the Holy Roman Empire. Although he was deeply involved in church business, he avoided the priesthood because - unlike some of his predecessors - he took the idea of a vow of celibacy seriously and didn't think he could manage to restrain his carnal impulses, in which he was said to revel. One of his most famous works was a Latin novel called De Duobus Amantibus, the Tale of Two Lovers, an erotic story that became a bestseller after Enea's ascension to the papacy. The story lays out a painfully long and chaste courtship between a man and the married woman he loves, before the two finally consummate the act in an act of passion that was described with a memorable amount of detail... but only if you keep in mind that the author later became the pope.
Lucretia was wearing a light robe which clung to her body without a wrinkle, concealing neither her breasts nor her hips, and displayed her limbs exactly as they were. Her throat was snowy white, her eyes shone with the radiance of the sun; her glance was happy, her face animated, and her cheeks like lilies mixed with crimson roses.  She was deep-bosomed, and her breasts swelled out on either side like two pomegranates, so that one longed to touch them. The eroticism of the story is frankly overrated, even by the standards of the day, but its authorship made it notorious. At times, Enea's protagonists engage in protracted acts of metaphor which are barely recognizable as sex - "They spread their sails for Cythara; and when Venus wearied of the journey, Ceres refreshed her, and Bacchus." But Enea wasn't always so oblique. His protagonist, Euryalus, bemoans his plight to his drinking buddies, depressed that his one true love is married to another man: "When again shall I bite those coral lips, or feel again that tremulous tongue murmuring in my mouth, or ever handle those breasts?" Whatever else one may conclude from the story, it's clear that Enea wasn't naturally disposed to restraint. In 1439, Enea became involved with an antipope (Felix V), who had broken from the church over political considerations and a desire for self-aggrandizement. He ran an alternate papacy out of Switzerland for a couple of years before everyone realized that nothing particularly interesting ever happens in Switzerland and abandoned the project. Felix was excommunicated, but Enea emerged from the fiasco relatively unscathed. He reconciled with Rome in 1445 and was finally prevailed on to become a priest and abandon his wanton ways (overtly, at least). Thanks to his political connections, he became a bishop almost immediately and acted as a diplomatic envoy to Roman emperor for several years before becoming a cardinal. In 1458, amid the miasma of arcane Renaissance politics, Enea became Pope Pius II, beating out a field of competitors for the pontificate that included a scheming French cardinal named Guillaume. Pius, who became the first pope ever to write a memoir, recorded the memorable details of the conclave that eventually elected him: A large group of cardinals gathered in the latrines. Here, as if in a secret, private meeting place, they worked out a plan to elect Guillaume pope, binding themselves with oaths and written pledges. (...)  According to Pius, the tide turned against the toilet-mongering cardinals when Pius himself gave a speech whose brilliance so transfixed the members of the assembly that they couldn't budge from their seats, offer an objection, spit or even blink. This account may be a trifle exaggerated, but Pius did end up winning the election. The politicking didn't end when Pius became pope. In the great tradition of the papacy, Pius decided to throw a crusade. Unfortunately, no one came. The intention of the crusade was to liberate the parts of Europe under Turkish Muslim rule. To facilitate this, he attempted to create a new version of the Knights Templar to lead the effort, the Knights of Our Lady of Bethlehem, but there is no record that the organization ever existed (unless as a secret society undertaking a vast global conspiracy). Insult led to injury. When Pius summoned the princes of Christendom to discuss his crusade, hardly anyone showed up. Those who bothered to attend were not enthused about the concept, mostly because they all had different opinions about who should be in charge. A few thousand troops were finally offered, after much handwringing, but they neglected to report for duty. The imperial papacy had apparently come to an end. This infuriated Pius, who in part blamed the interference of the various ecclesiastical councils that had been tools during 500 years of political intrigue, which had ultimately destabilized the papacy and contributed to the various antipope movements. In response, Pius issued his papal bull, Execrabilis, which ruled that the pope was the ultimate authority in the Catholic Church and could be gainsayed by no one. The decree was a lot more colorful than a typical papal bull, condemning the councils as "pestiferous poison" and "detestable". Although the papacy hadn't quite seen the end of political turmoil, Execrabilis (which means "accursed") eventually became the rule of law, setting a precedent that future popes would cite as their mandate to ignore the opinions of all their underlings, priests, bishops, cardinals and the lowly lay people. (Although the declaration only decrees that the pope is superior to any council of bishops, some later interpreted the bull as voiding all such councils, whether or not they have the sanction of the pope. This has been used as an argument against the Vatican II reforms, but it's a stretch.) When the Crusade fell apart, Pius made a sporting effort to convert the Islamic Sultan to Christianity, but that effort failed as well. Finally, in one last effort to muster some enthusiasm, Pius resolved to lead the Crusade himself. He marched out to where his troops were supposed to gather and died without ever seeing his army. In the end, Pius was destined to be remembered as a lover, not a fighter. He probably would have preferred it that way.
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PrimeNG is available at npm, if you have an existing application run the following command to download it to your project.
npm install primeng --save
PrimeNG is distributed in commonjs format, a module manager of your choice is required and this guide provides samples for SystemJS, WebPack and Angular CLI.
UI components are configured as modules, once PrimeNG is downloaded and configured, modules and apis can be imported from 'primeng/primeng' shorthand in your application code.
import {AccordionModule} from 'primeng/primeng'; //accordion and accordion tab
import {MenuItem} from 'primeng/primeng'; //api
Importing from primeng/primeng will load all other components as well, to only import a specific component pattern would result in a smaller bundle size.
//import {ComponentModule} from 'primeng/components/componentname/componentname';
//import {InterfaceName} from 'primeng/common/api';
import {AccordionModule} from 'primeng/components/accordion/accordion';
import {MenuItem} from 'primeng/components/common/api';
Majority of PrimeNG components (95%) are native and there are some exceptions having 3rd party dependencies. In addition, components require font-awesome for icons.
The css dependencies are as follows, note that font-awesome should be loaded before PrimeNG css and theme can be changed with your choice.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="YOUR_PATH/font-awesome.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/node_modules/primeng/resources/themes/omega/theme.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/node_modules/primeng/resources/primeng.min.css" />
Here is the list of components with 3rd party dependencies.
| Component | Dependency |
|---|---|
| Schedule | FullCalendar and Moment.js |
| Editor | Quill Editor |
| GMap | Google Maps |
| Charts | Charts.js 2.1.x |
| Captcha | Google Recaptcha |
Various components utilize angular animations to improve the user experience, starting with Angular 4 animations have their own module so you need to import BrowserAnimationsModule to your application. If you prefer not to use NoopAnimationsModule instead.
npm install @angular/animations --save
import {BrowserModule} from '@angular/platform-browser';
import {BrowserAnimationsModule} from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
@NgModule({
imports: [
BrowserModule,
BrowserAnimationsModule,
//...
],
//...
})
export class YourAppModule { }
Angular CLI is the official CLI tool for Angular. We strongly suggest using Angular CLI when starting an Angular project.
Add PrimeNG and FontAwesome as a dependency
"dependencies": {
//...
"primeng": "^4.1.0",
"font-awesome": "^4.7.0"
},
Configure required styles at the styles section, example below uses the Omega theme.
"styles": [
"../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css",
"../node_modules/primeng/resources/primeng.min.css",
"../node_modules/primeng/resources/themes/omega/theme.css",
//...
],
That is all, you may now import PrimeNG components, for a working example visit the PrimeNG CLI QuickStart sample at GitHub.
Angular2 Seed is an alternative modular starter project, there is an official entry at the project wiki describing how to use PrimeNG with seed.
The official quickstart example of Angular uses System.JS and we have extended it to add PrimeNG. Visit the PrimeNG-Quickstart at GitHub for an example.
There is also a webpack version of the The official quickstart example of Angular and we have extended it to add PrimeNG. Visit the PrimeNG-Quickstart-Webpack at GitHub for an example.


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Here's how to set your default web documents that the web server will load should you not specify a specific file (e.g. default.html or index.html). By default Apache sets index.html as your default document, but since I used Cold Fusion as well I wanted Apache to automatically load up index.cfm as well when a directory was called. TO his end locate your conf directory, usually found under c:program filesApache GroupApacheconf and look for the file httpd.conf. About halfway down you should see a set of lines similar to this:
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# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
DirectoryIndex index.html
Now simply append index.cfm, making sure that there is a space between the two file names. This should look as such now:
#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cfm
All you need to do now is stop and restart your web server for the changes to take effect. There you go the server will now first look for index.html and then index.cfm. Your web server should now be less likely to show a directory listing!


Note how these are defined under templates/template.html and dont need to be repeted on each and every page


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There are thousands of people who claim that they were kiddapped by aliens. Some people tell they're seeing ghosts, vampires and such. Some of us believe them and some of us do not. What I want to do is simply to collect them all and let people see and share their ideas about these strange stories.
I hope i can make people see a different point of view in our lives.
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# View list of available artisan commands
> php artisan make:model -h
# View options for the command
> # php artisan make:model --migration --controller Blog
> php artisan make:model --mc Blog
# with that, Laravel created for us a Model, the Controller of that model
# and the migration which we should modify first before runing the Migration


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Hey,
I'd like to know how the female voice in the youtube tutorial is made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jlyIZEN-2yQ#!
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Taken from our internal forum.
BrainFooLong wrote:
If you interested, here it is:
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An small SwiftNIO based web framework.
Welcome to our Todo-Backend demo. It lives here: Todo MVC
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An interface that can encapsulate multiple related mockspresso components into a single plugin.
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abstract fun apply(builder: Mockspresso.Builder): Mockspresso.Builder


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case let immediately precedes the candidate pattern in both versions. Confusingly though, when using if case let, the value comes after the = operator. So
if case let Puppy.mastiff(droolRating, weight) = fido {
is equivalent to:
switch fido {
case let Puppy.mastiff(droolRating, weight):
// tell fido he's a good doggo
case let is a shortcut that lets you bind all subsequent associated values with just variable names. But you can write each let individually, just before the variable name:
if case Puppy.mastiff(let droolRating, let weight) = fido {
// does that pup need an extra treat?
Provide a single name to create a tuple of all associated values at once:
if case let Puppy.mastiff(characteristics) = fido {
// how cute is this doggo, exactly?
The ? is syntactic sugar to only match non-nil optionals:
if case let Puppy.mastiff(droolFactor, weight) ? = potentialPup {
// oh thank goodness, a puppy
Omit let entirely if you don't need the associated values:
if case Puppy.mastiff = fido {
// just hand me the pupster
if case let Puppy.mastiff(droolRating, _) = fido, droolRating > 8 {
// you're going to need a new couch
guard case let Puppy.mastiff(droolRating, _) = fido, droolRating < 10 else {
// that dog is not coming in the house
for case let Puppy.mastiff(droolRating, weight) in rescuePups where droolRating > 5 && weight > 15.0 {
// I'll take the chubby, soggy ones please
Use ? to iterate over just non-optional values, even when doubly nested in associated values:
for case let SocialMedia.instagram(linkInBio?)? in pups.map(\.socialMedia) {
// all the links please
Really helpful if you need one non-optional assignment amidst a bunch of optional ones:
if let rescueCenter = nearest(), case let puppies = rescueCenter.puppies, puppies.count < 10 {
// better hurry or might not get enough
Other more in-depth articles:


Selected American and British Poems
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"The Barefoot Boy"
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1893
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Whittier, J. G. (1893). The Works. New York: Houghton and Mifflin.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 3.8
- Word Count: 619
- Genre: Poetry
- Keywords: coming of age, youth
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Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan!
With thy turned–up pantaloons,
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With thy red lip, redder still
Kissed by strawberries on the hill;
With the sunshine on thy face,
Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
From my heart I give thee joy,—
I was once a barefoot boy!
Prince thou art,—the grown–up man
Only is republican.
Let the million–dollared ride!
Barefoot, trudging at his side,
Thou hast more than he can buy
In the reach of ear and eye,—
Outward sunshine, inward joy:
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy!
Oh for boyhood's painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor's rules,
Knowledge never learned of schools,
Of the wild bee's morning chase,
Of the wild–flower's time and place,
Flight of fowl and habitude
Of the tenants of the wood;
How the tortoise bears his shell,
How the woodchuck digs his cell,
And the ground–mole sinks his well;
How the robin feeds her young,
How the oriole's nest is hung;
Where the whitest lilies blow,
Where the freshest berries grow,
Where the ground–nut trails its vine,
Where the wood–grape's clusters shine;
Of the black wasp's cunning way,
Mason of his walls of clay,
And the architectural plans
Of gray hornet artisans!
For, eschewing books and tasks,
Nature answers all he asks;
Hand in hand with her he walks,
Face to face with her he talks,
Part and parcel of her joy,—
Blessings on the barefoot boy!
Oh for boyhood's time of June,
Crowding years in one brief moon,
When all things I heard or saw,
Me, their master, waited for.
I was rich in flowers and trees,
Humming–birds and honey–bees;
For my sport the squirrel played,
Plied the snouted mole his spade;
For my taste the blackberry cone
Purpled over hedge and stone;
Laughed the brook for my delight
Through the day and through the night,
Whispering at the garden wall,
Talked with me from fall to fall;
Mine the sand–rimmed pickerel pond,
Mine the walnut slopes beyond,
Mine, on bending orchard trees,
Apples of Hesperides!
Still as my horizon grew,
Larger grew my riches too;
All the world I saw or knew
Seemed a complex Chinese toy,
Fashioned for a barefoot boy!
Oh for festal dainties spread,
Like my bowl of milk and bread;
Pewter spoon and bowl of wood,
On the door–stone, gray and rude!
O'er me, like a regal tent,
Cloudy–ribbed, the sunset bent,
Purple–curtained, fringed with gold,
Looped in many a wind–swung fold;
While for music came the play
Of the pied frogs' orchestra;
And, to light the noisy choir,
Lit the fly his lamp of fire.
I was monarch: pomp and joy
Waited on the barefoot boy!Cheerily, then, my little man,
Live and laugh, as boyhood can!
Though the flinty slopes be hard,
Stubble–speared the new–mown sward,
Every morn shall lead thee through
Fresh baptisms of the dew;
Every evening from thy feet
Shall the cool wind kiss the heat:
All too soon these feet must hide
In the prison cells of pride,
Lose the freedom of the sod,
Like a colt's for work be shod,
Made to tread the mills of toil,
Up and down in ceaseless moil:
Happy if their track be found
Never on forbidden ground;
Happy if they sink not in
Quick and treacherous sands of sin.
Ah! that thou couldst know thy joy,
Ere it passes, barefoot boy!


Next meetup: November 25th 2015
With great load comes great scaling responsibility. If we need to scale then hopefully it means we're doing something right. The problem is how to scale without increasing complexity and re-writing the application. In this talk, Ben will discuss how he scales Katacoda.com, an online learning platform for developers. Ben will show how to deploy Node.js applications with Docker. Once deployed, Ben will highlight how to scale the processes and take advantage of container based deployments.
A talk about an in-development javascript to c++ transpiler which currently kind of works and implements closures, numbers, objects, functions and strings. Watch it compile and run hello world, and beat node in an EPIC FIB() BENCHMARK! Be compelled by the power of tern.js to figure out what you think you're actually writing!
A short talk on DB DiaYAML, which is a journey-to-work and weekend project for drawing simple database diagrams. It's not particularly a serious project but it scratches an itch I had and has a nice MVP feel to it. There's a blog post about it at http://keyboardwritescode.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/weekend-project-db-diayaml.html


SCORM Cloud Plugin User GuideThanks for trying the SCORM Cloud plugin for Sakai. This plugin enables you to utilize SCORM content in your Sakai installation in a unique and useful way, with very minimal impact and hassle. The SCORM content, when uploaded, is hosted and played through the SCORM Cloud service provided by Rustici Software. Below, you'll see how to install, configure, and use the plugin.* To install the SCORM Cloud plugin for Sakai from the packaged binary files, you'll simply need to copy the following files/directories to the corresponding locations:
If you're installing from source, you'll want to unpack or download the source code into your Sakai source tree, such that the scorm-cloud folder is at the same level as folders like "assignment" and "gradebook". Then change into the scorm-cloud folder and execute the command "mvn clean install sakai:deploy". When this completes, you should be ready to add the tool to a site and configure the plugin. Once you've added the plugin to a particular site, there are two main steps to configure it. The first is ensuring that the right Sakai roles have the correct permissions for using the plugin, and the second is entering the some information related to the SCORM Cloud service. Setting permissions for various tools is a typical Sakai administration task, and the permissions associated with the SCORM Cloud plugin are no different, so we won't go into detail about how to set permissions, but we'll instead note the permissions that are unique to the plugin below.
Shown below is a screenshot of the interface for entering your credentials for use with the SCORM Cloud service. The configuration scope section refers to the concept noted above for installation-wide versus site-specific credentials. If set to installation-wide, these credentials will be used for all sites that utilize the SCORM Cloud plugin. Otherwise, these credentials will be used only for the current site. Once the plugin is configured, you can use it to include SCORM Resources in your site, using the resources tool, as shown below. Clicking on Upload SCORM Resource will take you to the Import screen. When creating a new SCORM resource, you just specify a SCORM content package in the file field, give the resource a title, and choose the options for associating with assignments. If the first option is activated, the resource will automatically compute and persist a score for the assignment to the gradebook. If you want a resource that can be accessed from anywhere, and not only when attached to an assignment, you'll want to select "Allow this content to be launched in any context". Otherwise, the content can only be launched in the context of an open assignment. Now you can treat this SCORM resource as any other resource type in Sakai, with the follwing caveat. If you chose "Do NOT allow this content to be launched outside of the context of an assignment" when importing the content, a user can only launch the content when the resource is attached to an assignment, and only when that assignment is still open for the user (i.e. the user can still submit the assignment). If you chose "Allow this content to automatically contribute to assignment grade" then any SCORM Cloud resources that have been attached to an assignment will equally contribute to an automcatically persisted grade for the assignment. An assignment has to have a gradebook entry for this to occur, so only point based graded assignments will have this behavior. Beyond the resources, assignment, and gradebook integration, the plugin also comes along with a tool which can be accessed by roles with the "scormcloud.admin" security permission. Within this tool, an adminstrative role can see a list of the resources, and more importantly, list the registrations (i.e. an instance of a student accessing a SCORM resource) associated with a particular resource, or search the entire list of registrations by user and assignment. There are a few actions you can perform on the list of registrations returned. Typically a registration's data is updated from the SCORM Cloud when exiting a resource, and when submitting an associated assignment. If for some reason one of these updates did not occur properly, you can use the "Update Results" button to update the selected registrations with data from SCORM Cloud. The reset button should be used to completely reset a registration, perhaps in the case when you would like to allow the user to retake a resource that may otherwise be unavailable to them (the availability in this context, once the resource has been launched, is specific to the rules of the actual content). Finally, the self explanatory delete button, will delete the registration. Note that updating, resetting, or deleting registrations here will not affect the grade that was persisted to the gradebook when the student last submitted the assignment. Finally, there are a few detailed reports made available via the SCORM Cloud that provide an interesting view of each registration. The Activity Report shows a comprehensive view of all the SCORM data specific to the registration.
Thanks for checking out the SCORM Cloud plugin for Sakai! We hope you find it useful! |


that us my story in life, it was my story in the past, and it'll my story in the future.The ability to never give up, and to always know where I want to go.I will not let anybody deter me from that goal, and I will never let amybody discorage me from achieve my goals.
that us my story in life, it was my story in the past, and it'll my story in the future.The ability to never give up, and to always know where I want to go.I will not let anybody deter me from that goal, and I will never let amybody discorage me from achieve my goals...
that us my story in life, it was my story in the past, and it'll my story in the future.The ability to never give up, and to always know where I want to go.I will not let anybody deter me from that goal, and I will never let amybody discorage me from achieve my goals.
that us my story in life, it was my story in the past, and it'll my story in the future.The ability to never give up, and to always know where I want to go.I will not let anybody deter me from that goal, and I will never let amybody discorage me from achieve my goals.
that us my story in life, it was my story in the past, and it'll my story in the future.The ability to never give up, and to always know where I want to go.I will not let anybody deter me from that goal, and I will never let amybody discorage me from achieve my goals.


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- getALine() - Method in class course.CurveSetting
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Accessor for raw score borderline for a letter grade of A.
- getAllAssignmentGrades() - Method in class user.student.StudentRecord
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Accessor for the entire Collection
of
AssignmentGrade
s for the student.
- getAllUsers() - Method in class admin.RoleManager
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Accessor for all User
s enrolled in a course.
- getAssignment() - Method in class assignment.AssignmentGrade
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- getAssignmentCategories() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
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Accessor fot the AssignmentCategory
's
for this Course
.
- getAssignmentCategories() - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
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- getAssignmentGrade(Assignment, User) - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
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Gets the grade the student earned on an assignment
- getAssignmentGrade(Assignment, User) - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
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- getAssignmentGrade(Assignment) - Method in class user.student.StudentRecord
-
Accessor for the student's grade on the specified Assignment
.
- getAssignmentGrades(Assignment) - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor for all AssignmentGrade
s for the specified
Assignment
.
- getAssignmentGrades(Assignment) - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
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- getAssignments() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor fot the Assignment
s for this Course
.
- getAssignments() - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
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- getAssignmentSubmission(Assignment, User) - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor for the AssignmentSubmission
of the given
User
and Assignment
.
- getAssignmentSubmission(Assignment, User) - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getAssignmentSubmissions(Assignment) - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor for the AssignmentSubmission
s for the given
Assignment
.
- getAssignmentSubmissions(Assignment) - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getAuthenticatedIdentities() - Method in interface admin.Subject
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- getBLine() - Method in class course.CurveSetting
-
Accessor for raw score borderline for a letter grade of B.
- getCategory() - Method in interface assignment.Assignment
-
- getCLine() - Method in class course.CurveSetting
-
Accessor for raw score borderline for a letter grade of C.
- getCourses() - Method in interface coursemanager.CourseManager.CourseEntries
-
- getCourses() - Method in interface coursemanager.CourseManager
-
- getCourseSnapshot() - Method in interface course.Course
-
Accessor for the course snapshot.
- getDLine() - Method in class course.CurveSetting
-
Accessor for raw score borderline for a letter grade of D.
- getFirstName() - Method in class admin.User
-
Accessor for the firstName
for this User
.
- getFLine() - Method in class course.CurveSetting
-
Accessor for raw score borderline for a letter grade of F.
- getGrades() - Method in interface assignment.Assignment
-
- getGradeSchema() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor fot the GradeSchema
for this Course
.
- getGradeSchema() - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getId() - Method in class admin.User
-
Accessor for an Identity
for this User
.
- getIdentities() - Method in class admin.User
-
Accessor for every Identity
for this User
.
- getLastName() - Method in class admin.User
-
Accessor for the lastName
for this User
.
- getLatePolicy() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor fot the LatePolicy
for this Course
.
- getLatePolicy() - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getLetterGrade(CurveSetting) - Method in class user.student.StudentRecord
-
Calculates and returns the letter grade of the student.
- getName() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor for the name of this Course
.
- getName() - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getPerms(User) - Method in class admin.RoleManager
-
Accessor for the Permissions
s a given User
has.
- getRawPercentageGrade() - Method in class user.student.StudentRecord
-
Calculates and returns the raw percentage grade of the student.
- getRoles(User) - Method in class admin.RoleManager
-
Returns all Role
s that a given User
has.
- getSnapshot() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Gets the current AbstractCourseSnapshot
.
- getStudentComment() - Method in class user.student.StudentRecord
-
Accessor for the comment written by the instructor about the student.
- getStudentRecord(User) - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor fot the StudentRecord
for this Course
.
- getStudentRecord(User) - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getStudentRecords() - Method in class course.AbstractCourse
-
Accessor fot the StudentRecord
s for this Course
.
- getStudentRecords() - Method in interface course.CourseAccessor
-
- getSubmissions() - Method in interface assignment.Assignment
-
- getUserInfo() - Method in class user.student.StudentRecord
-
Accessor for the personal User
information of the student.
- getUserRoleAssignments() - Method in class admin.RoleManager
-
Accessor for User
-Role
assignments.
- getUsers(Role) - Method in class admin.RoleManager
-
Returns all User
s with the specified Role
.
- GraderObject - Interface in util
-
Top level Object for the grader program.
- grades - Variable in class user.student.StudentRecord
-
Student's assignment grades.
- gradeSchema - Variable in class course.AbstractCourse
-
A GradeSchema contains a function to convert a raw score to a LetterGrade.
- GradeSchema - Class in course
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A GradeSchema contains a function to convert a raw score to a LetterGrade.
- GradeSchema() - Constructor for class course.GradeSchema
-
- grantRolePerm(Role, Permission) - Method in class admin.RoleManager
-
Grants a Permission
to the given Role
.


5. Theory¶
The theory for the models in this software are based directly on the work described in the reference for the NREL Cost and Scaling Model [1]. The NREL Cost and Scaling Model provides a simple cost and sizing tool to estimate wind plant cost of energy based on a small number of input parameters such as rotor diameter, hub height and rated power. The models here extract the financial calculators from the model as stand-alone modules.
Bibliography
| [1] | L. Fingersh, M. Hand, and A. Laxson. Wind turbine design cost and scaling model. NREL/TP-500-40566, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, December 2005. |


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nips nips2001 nips2001-194 nips2001-194-reference knowledge-graph by maker-knowledge-mining
Source: pdf
Author: Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
Abstract: Estimating the parameters of sparse multinomial distributions is an important component of many statistical learning tasks. Recent approaches have used uncertainty over the vocabulary of symbols in a multinomial distribution as a means of accounting for sparsity. We present a Bayesian approach that allows weak prior knowledge, in the form of a small set of approximate candidate vocabularies, to be used to dramatically improve the resulting estimates. We demonstrate these improvements in applications to text compression and estimating distributions over words in newsgroup data. 1
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[3] S. F. Chen and J. Goodman. An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling. Technical Report TR-10-98, Center for Research in Computing Technology, Harvard University, 1998.
[4] N. Friedman and Y. Singer. Efficient Bayesian parameter estimation in large discrete domains. In Neural Information Processing Systems, 1998.
[5] H. Jeffreys. An invariant form for the prior probability in estimation problems. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 186:453-461, 1946.
[6] P.-S. Laplace. Philosophical Essay on Probabilities. Springer-Verlag, 1995. Originally published 1825.
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[10] E. S. Ristad. A natural law ·of succession. Technical Report CS-TR-895-95, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 1995.


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Registrations
0800 hours
Inauguration
0900 hours
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Tech Talk
0920 hours
Hackathon Begins
1000 hours
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Lunch
1300 hours
Tea and Snacks
1700 hours
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Dinner
1900 hours
Breakfast (Day-2)
0800 hours
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Hackathon Ends (Day-2)
1000 hours
Prize Distribution
1200 hours


University of Minnesota
B.I.S. Economics / Statistics / Communications
I was instructed that I was supposed to go to college after high school; that's what was expected of me, so I gave a go at it. I got distracted and had a child, so, oops. I returned to the University many years later in an attempt to finish. Well, actually I couldn't get a job that paid me enough to live, so I thought I'd take out a few loans and try my hand at that again. I never took out any private loans, thank god; but the experience was as I've always remembered school. I'm usually the only person of color in the room.
I was able to wrangle a job out of the experience, for a time, until my fortuitiousness as a guinea pig ran out. None the less, I was able to form many positive relationships, and obtain informative experiences. I'm about 4 classes from completing my degree, but financial impairment constrains me.
Orono High School
You ever play Duck Duck Brown Duck?
I was one of five student of color in my graduating class. In kindergarden we use to play "duck duck brown duck." It was a traumatic experience to say the least. But I learned how to read, write, and do my arithmetics. And I was also taught how to think critically by the few teachers to dared to invest their time in me. From physics to history, I was a passionate student. Truly these experiences have made me who I am today.
If only I could turn this into money:
From GiantSteps to MakeItMSP, from the State Capital to Minneapolis' Fourth Precinct, I've been involved in the Minneapolis, and Minnesota Community. Everyone seems to appreciate my input, but converting this to a viable, healthy, job opportunity; this is why I approach Prime Academy. I want to capitalize on my network, but I need the credibility mentorship through Prime can give me.
Presently I sit on the Public Policy board for the MetroIBA
Casey from Software for Good as well as Jay Haas from Clockwork, are helping me develop MnActivist; slowly but surely.
I've started building a conversation with Andrew Wittenborg of the Minnesota High Tech Association.
I approached Nancy Lyons years ago at a Giantsteps conference, and have been surprising her ever since.
People know of me, but few actually know me. Sadly this is the product of a culturally broken and disconnected society. I would like to help this, but need help myself. This is why I seek entrance to Prime Academy and the doors it can help open for me.
Cultural Architect
DreamFreely
July 2010 - Present
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MnActivist
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MnActivist is a project that I began about 18 months ago out of a desire to both learn how to scrape data and aggregate municipal calenders. It has grown slowly, and while I'm not currently running the scripts; it has the capacity gather data for Minneapolis, St Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota Legislature, and more. I'm presently working recreationally with two mentors to both upgrade the platform to implement a Wordpress front-end, as well as with another local-notable to focus to service it provides, and to whom.
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RossBlog.Buzz
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A brother from another mother of mine is a veteran of the Iraq war. I helped him to publish his book, and built him a website upon which he is able to publish is poetry and other writings.
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Brady Perl
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Another dear brother from another mother of mine is a musician. After helping him work through the up's and down's of being an artist to a place of manageable stability, I helped him get into a studio where he is now recording his second album. I also helped get a website up for him, and working with others push his career forward.
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Social Somatics
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After feeling trapped by their previous developer I am helping Social Somatics to rehabilitate their web-presence, and prepare for an upcoming conference they are hosting.
- Linux
- Wordpress
- LaTeX
- Apache
- Nginx
- LXML
- Selenium
It started when I was asked to help manage a funk band; I needed to incorporate. Though to be honest, I always wanted to own my own business. We're continually finding our place in a world that isn't quite ready for us, but needs us none the less. From helping to get books published, websites made, cd's recorded, to continually contributing to our communities more precient conversations. DreamFreely chooses to believe in the possbility of a better tomorrow; and that's what we've done for the past 7 years: Communication + Unity!
Data Wrangler
thedatabank, gbc
July 2016 - March 2017
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CKAN Instance
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Built-out a CKAN instance which allowed for client data to be combined with census data for analysis.
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AWS 990 & Census Scrapers
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Using LXML & Python Natural Language Toolkit I obtained the IRS-990 data available from AWS, and parsed it for pertinent information used for lead generation. Additionally I built a series of scripts which allowed us to similarily parse, and search data made available by the American Community Survey.
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Twitter Profiler
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In needing to continually be up-to-date on client media interactions, I built a small webpage that collected client media traffice and made it available to the marketing department on a central page.
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Database Maintenance
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My core job was to maintain our client's databanks, which were held in a MSSQL server.
- Microsoft SQL Server
- CKAN Platform
- Python NLTK
- AWS EC2 & S3
I was scrolling though Twitter and saw Pollen retweet a job posting: Data Wrangler. I liked data; and wrangling sounded fun! Which to people like me it actually is: how can I write a script that will correct the errors in this data, and then be reused for a subsequent dataset? Solving that type of problem is incredibly fun for me.
Sadly as the job wore on, it was made apparent that I would not be compensated commensurately for my work; while my output only continued to expand. I built a platform upon which to aggregate their data, and create valuable vizualizations that included mapping and aggregating external data. I independently built tools for the other departments to optimize their workload. It was a wonderful learning experience, and fortified, for me, that tech was the field in which I needed to be.
Through thedatabank I also had an opportunity to participate in the first MnTechDiversity Pledge gathering. More on that in Networking.
Full-Stack Developer
GreatBiz Tools
October 2015 - June 2016
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Django
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I had been playing with Django for sometime. I was encouraged to learn Python from a friend, and my interest was in building a CMS. This was an entry-level opportunity that developed into learning about the full-stack of an application.
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Ansible
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There were three applications that needed to roped into one script for easy deployment. The task was on me to figure out how thi was done. And it got done. Ansible is a fascinating tool.
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Bootstrap & JS
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After getting my feet wet, I was tossed into the deep-end and was challenged to built a interactive toolset for tracking student metrics. Both BootStrap & jQuery were heavily relied upon to make the interactivity smooth and accessible to rudimentary users. I did not know much jQuery when I started the project, but I was able to learn how the DOM works by the end of it.
- Django
- Ansible
- PyCharm
- Command Line
After hanging around the Python Meetup group, and job opportunity was posted. I applied, but was not hired until they learned they would need more hands on deck. It was an incredible introduction to a CMS (Django) that I continue to build with today. Sadly, the money came in too fast, and my advice was not heeded. As a junior developer, my position became over-shadowed by my manager's friend who was eventually hired, and the support necessary became unavailable amidst the bro-culture that developed. I was forced to leave.