I worked with a small agile team doing rapid development on a LAMP stack application that provides peer assessment and practice questions for I.T. professionals studying for certification exams. Upon joining the team I quickly familiarized myself with PHP, having no prior experience, and began contributing immediately as a front-end/back-end developer. In a short time I helped migrate the user interface from static server-rendered pages to highly reusable and modular React components, introduced e-commerce and implemented a paywall around key features, and mentored and pair-programmed with colleagues to increase knowledge across all layers of the application.
As a technical lead on a development team, I performed thorough analysis and developed quality, maintainable software with special attention to performance, security, and ADA/usability standards. I provided direction on architecture and coding decisions, mentored new developers, managed tasks and timelines, and introduced new tools and technologies. I helped build and deliver a highly complex one-page web interface that enabled our call center staff to provide excellent, consistent customer service. I honed my technical and personal skills on a variety of other projects including external-facing websites and reporting applications.
I provided quality customer service to students and academic and administrative staff needing assistance with computers or other equipment. I researched and solved problems, documented steps and solutions, and helped inexperienced users learn and become comfortable with technology.
With little direction, I familiarized myself with business intelligence software and used it to develop reports that were used by management to improve efficiency in their teams.
I taught lessons to beginner violin and viola students.


I'm a self taught web designer, developer, co-founder and entrepreneur based in Georgia. I'm currently part of a small VR(Virtual Reality) development team in an upcoming start-up called Virtual-Dawn, developing awesome VR games. I'm also responsible for all of my company's web development needs. My passion is to use technology based solutions, to help solve real world challenges. Languages and Frameworks: Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap3, Angular.js, Meteor.js. Tools & expertise: Git, Responsive Web Design, Agile Methodologies, Unity5 3D, Photoshop, VR Level Design, and Unity Generalist.
See the Pen Tribute Page by Giorgi Tsipuria (@giobaski) on CodePen.
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We believe in an America that is constantly moving forward, not stagnating or receding in fear or anger. Our daily actions focus on healing the national political divide while defending the hard-earned rights of at-risk populations.
We spend a lot of time figuring out what easy actions will be the most impactful each day. We sort through the issues to bring the important things to you. All we ask is that you take action along with us.


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Did the team 1 bat their full amount of overs?Team 1 Final Score
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With a unique ability to control the speed of her own passage through time, Tracer zips and blinks around the battlefield, eluding attackers and sneaking past defenses. A perfect skirmisher hero, Tracer is fragile but hard to hit, keeping one step ahead of her attackers while she harasses and harries the enemy team. Tracer excels at getting behind enemy lines, but it is inadvisable to move her through chokepoints. Should she find herself blinking into an ambush, she can rewind time to her position and state a few seconds earlier, giving her a second chance. The developers consider Tracer to have one of the most unique play styles in Overwatch.
Over thirty years ago, Overwatch was founded to counter the threat of the robot uprisings around the world. Reinhardt, a highly decorated German soldier, was inducted as part of the original Overwatch strike team that put an end to the Omnic Crisis. After the conflict's resolution, Overwatch grew into a global institution, keeping the peace in a war-torn world. Reinhardt proved himself to be one of its most stalwart champions. Reinhardt's unique ethics and larger-than-life persona earned the admiration of his peers and superiors alike. Never afraid to speak his mind, he was Overwatch's most vocal supporter and, when necessary, its harshest critic, providing a constant reminder that Overwatch was meant to be a force for good.[3] He got on well with Torbjörn (who maintained his armor). Seven years before the present day, Reinhardt was part of an unsanctioned mission authorized by Strike Commander Jack Morrison to end the Kings Row Uprising in London, England. While preparing to board an aircraft, Reinhardt welcomed the team's newest member, Lena Oxton, to the team.[6] At some point he was stationed at Watchpoint: Gibraltar, where he got a tan.
Lúcio Correia dos Santos grew up in Rio de Janeiro, in a poor and crowded favela that was hit hard by the financial upheaval following the Omnic Crisis.[2] During his youth, Lúcio's first love was hockey, but he also found time to play football with the other kids in Rio.[3] As Brazil began the long process of recovery, Lúcio wanted to find a way to lift the spirits of those around him. He found his answer in music and its power to bring people together and even help them forget their troubles, if only for a short time. He performed on street corners, in block parties, and as he got older, at a string of legendary underground shows. But Lúcio's close-knit community was thrown into chaos when the multinational Vishkar Corporation secured a contract to redevelop large tracts of the city. Lúcio and his neighbors had been told that the development would improve their lives. However, that promise never became a reality. Vishkar imposed controls on the residents in the name of building a more orderly society: enforcing curfews, cracking down on what the company perceived as lawless behavior, and exploiting the populace as a cheap labor force. Lúcio wouldn't stand for it. He stole Vishkar sonic technology that had been used to suppress the people, and he converted it into a tool to rally them to action. In a popular uprising, they drove Vishkar out of their neighborhoods. Lúcio's leadership made him a star overnight and a symbol for positive social change. His music skyrocketed in popularity. Whereas he had once performed locally, he was now filling arenas across the world.[2] He built up a career doing live shows, and became something of a national icon in Brazil.


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- TemperatureMeasurement - Class in testapp
- TemperatureMeasurement(byte[]) - Constructor for class testapp.TemperatureMeasurement
- TemperatureType - Enum in testapp
- TemperatureUnit - Enum in testapp
- temperatureValue - Variable in class testapp.TemperatureMeasurement
- testapp - package testapp
- ThreeTuple<A,B,C> - Class in org.bluez.datatypes
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Generic 3 value tuple.
- ThreeTuple() - Constructor for class org.bluez.datatypes.ThreeTuple
- timestamp - Variable in class testapp.BloodPressureMeasurement
- timestamp - Variable in class testapp.TemperatureMeasurement
- Toe - testapp.TemperatureType
- toPrimitives(Byte[]) - Method in class com.welie.blessed.bluez.AbstractBluetoothObject
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Convert Byte[] to byte[] array.
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.BluetoothBytesParser
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.bluez.BluezAdapter
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.bluez.BluezDevice
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.bluez.BluezGattCharacteristic
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.bluez.BluezGattDescriptor
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.bluez.BluezGattService
- toString() - Method in enum com.welie.blessed.bluez.DiscoveryTransport
- toString() - Method in class com.welie.blessed.ScanResult
- toString() - Method in class testapp.BloodPressureMeasurement
- toString() - Method in class testapp.HeartRateMeasurement
- toString() - Method in class testapp.PulseOximeterContinuousMeasurement
- toString() - Method in class testapp.PulseOximeterSpotMeasurement
- toString() - Method in class testapp.TemperatureMeasurement
- Transfer1 - Interface in org.bluez.obex
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File generated - 2018-07-25.
Based on bluez Documentation: obex-api.txt.
Service: org.bluez.obex
Interface: org.bluez.obex.Transfer1
Object path:
[Session object path]/transfer{0, 1, 2, ...}
Supported properties:
string Status [readonly]
Inform the current status of the transfer.
Possible values: "queued", "active", "suspended",
"complete" or "error"
object Session [readonly]
The object path of the session the transfer belongs
to.
string Name [readonly]
Name of the transferred object. - Transport - com.welie.blessed.bluez.DiscoveryFilter
- TryAcquire() - Method in interface org.bluez.MediaTransport1
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From bluez documentation:
Acquire transport file descriptor only if the transport
is in "pending" state at the time the message is
received by BlueZ. - TwoTuple<A,B> - Class in org.bluez.datatypes
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Generic 2 value tuple.
- TwoTuple() - Constructor for class org.bluez.datatypes.TwoTuple
- Tympanum - testapp.TemperatureType
- type - Variable in class testapp.TemperatureMeasurement
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QuantLib: a free/open-source library for quantitative finance
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| Type | type () const |
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| Date | dateAt (Size index) const |
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| Date | lastDate () const |
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| std::vector< Date > | dates_ |
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Fibrenew International Ltd. - Franchising Opportunity
Legal/Operating Name:
Fibrenew International Ltd. - Franchising Opportunity
Alternate Name:
Fibrenew Industries Ltd.
Fibrenew USA Ltd.
Mailing Address:
PO Box 117BLACK DIAMOND, Alberta
T0L 0H0
Location Address:
102-450 1st Ave NEBLACK DIAMOND, Alberta
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Company Profile
Fibrenew is the market leader in the restoration of leather, plastic and vinyl. We are a home based, mobile service franchise that caters to 6 major markets: aviation, automobile, commercial, marine, medical and residential.
There is leather, plastic and vinyl everywhere that becomes damaged through normal wear and tear or accidents. Fibrenew offers consumers and businesses a ‘green’ alternative to the replacement of damaged leather, plastic and vinyl. Our technicians are called upon to restore rips, fades, stains, cracks, scratches and holes on items in homes, vehicles, boats, planes and businesses. Every day this saves hundreds of items from ending up in landfills, and our repair process and techniques also save our customers time and money.
With so many potential revenue streams across multiple markets along with a high demand for our services, our company and franchisees have grown and thrived through every rise and fall of the economy since 1987. That really speaks to the fact that there is always a need for our services.
Over the past 29 years, we have built and refined a robust franchise business system. This includes the research and development of our proprietary product line, highly specialized techniques as well as rock-solid support, operations and marketing systems. The strength of our business model, the quality of our products and services and our enthusiasm for what we do all contribute to the success of more than 240 Fibrenew franchises around the world.
Fibrenew franchisees come from all walks of life. The diversity of backgrounds and past careers is widely varied. Though there are a few criteria that franchise owners must meet in order to be successful with Fibrenew: Cannot be color blind, enjoys working with their hands (manual job, hand dexterity required), confident with networking & marketing sales, physically fit (ability to lift/move furniture, bending often) and is trainable/coachable.
See more at: http://www.fibrenew-franchising.com
Request Information: https://www.fibrenew-franchising.com/request-info/
Full profile
Full profile
Contact information
Company description
811420 - Reupholstery and Furniture Repair
811430 - Footwear and Leather Goods Repair
Product / Service / Licensing
Fibrenew is the market leader in the restoration of leather, plastic and vinyl. We are a mobile service that caters to the aviation, automobile, marine, commercial and residential markets. And one of the fastest growing franchising opportunity. Come and join us!
 While I was confident that my insurance would take care of this I was very concerned about matching the existing color of the siding if they were going to replace a few pieces of the siding.My insurance company recommended Fibrenew and I am very glad they did. They were able to fix the holes in my existing siding and was able to match the colour perfectly. Most impressive of all was the hole in the front of the house, Fibrenew was able to fix to a perfect colour and texture match. All holes were fixed perfectly and no matter what angle the sun hits my house at, you cannot tell where the holes were.
All of this work was done quickly and now those spots that were patched are the strongest parts of my siding.
I am writing this because I am really impressed! Without any hesitation, I would recommend Fibrenew to anybody looking for vinyl siding repairs.
D. Evans, Calgary, AB
Success stories:
We engaged Fibrenew's services on two very expensive claims. One involved a torn leather sofa valued at $8,000 and the other consisted of a torn leather sofa and love seat with a value of $9,000. Invisible mending was out of the question and therefore, we would have to normally estimated reupholstering costs exceeding $5,000.Fibrenew repaired all three items for a fraction of the cost of replacement or reupholstery and both customers called our office to express their complete satisfaction with the work performed: in fact, one customer then hired Fibrenew to restore the leather in their personal vehicle.
The next time you encounter this type of claim, Fibrenew gives you the alternative to reupholstering and saves greatly on replacement cost.
Dale Ittas, Atlas Van Lines
Testimonial:
The Technician we had was amazing; he was friendly and professional. He repaired our leather couch and it looks brand new! Family who saw it afterwards could not believe the incredible repair work. The Technician took the time to explain the repair work required, our choices and the steps to completing the work. He also went through caring for the repaired area afterwards. I would definitely use Fibrenew again and highly recommend them to anyone looking to have leather repaired. Thank you so much!Lori, Oakville, ON
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Contacts
Contact information
Description
Company description
811420 - Reupholstery and Furniture Repair
811430 - Footwear and Leather Goods Repair
Products, services and licensing
Product / Service / Licensing
Fibrenew is the market leader in the restoration of leather, plastic and vinyl. We are a mobile service that caters to the aviation, automobile, marine, commercial and residential markets. And one of the fastest growing franchising opportunity. Come and join us!
 While I was confident that my insurance would take care of this I was very concerned about matching the existing color of the siding if they were going to replace a few pieces of the siding.My insurance company recommended Fibrenew and I am very glad they did. They were able to fix the holes in my existing siding and was able to match the colour perfectly. Most impressive of all was the hole in the front of the house, Fibrenew was able to fix to a perfect colour and texture match. All holes were fixed perfectly and no matter what angle the sun hits my house at, you cannot tell where the holes were.
All of this work was done quickly and now those spots that were patched are the strongest parts of my siding.
I am writing this because I am really impressed! Without any hesitation, I would recommend Fibrenew to anybody looking for vinyl siding repairs.
D. Evans, Calgary, AB
Success stories:
We engaged Fibrenew's services on two very expensive claims. One involved a torn leather sofa valued at $8,000 and the other consisted of a torn leather sofa and love seat with a value of $9,000. Invisible mending was out of the question and therefore, we would have to normally estimated reupholstering costs exceeding $5,000.Fibrenew repaired all three items for a fraction of the cost of replacement or reupholstery and both customers called our office to express their complete satisfaction with the work performed: in fact, one customer then hired Fibrenew to restore the leather in their personal vehicle.
The next time you encounter this type of claim, Fibrenew gives you the alternative to reupholstering and saves greatly on replacement cost.
Dale Ittas, Atlas Van Lines
Testimonial:
The Technician we had was amazing; he was friendly and professional. He repaired our leather couch and it looks brand new! Family who saw it afterwards could not believe the incredible repair work. The Technician took the time to explain the repair work required, our choices and the steps to completing the work. He also went through caring for the repaired area afterwards. I would definitely use Fibrenew again and highly recommend them to anyone looking to have leather repaired. Thank you so much!Lori, Oakville, ON


I highly recommend you look at the the Udacity class by Sebastian Thrun. The free videos are very helpful in explaining the concepts and go through implementations of many of the filters
All the code for this website is available on Github and I appreciate pull requests.


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Kinray LLC
Disclaimer: Most OTC drugs are not reviewed and approved by FDA, however they may be marketed if they comply with applicable regulations and policies. FDA has not evaluated whether this product complies.
Active Ingredients (in each teaspoon = 5.4 g)
Psyllium Powder 3.4 gms (approximately)
Purpose
Fiber Laxative / Fiber Supplement
Uses
Fiber Laxative
- effective in treating occasional constipation and restoring regularity
Fiber Supplement
- daily fiber supplement
- for lowering cholesterol to promote heart health. Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that includes 7 grams of soluble fiber per day from psyllium powder, as in this product, may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol. One Adult dose of this product has 2.4 gms of this soluble fiber. Consult a doctor if you are considering use of this product as part of a chloesterol-lowering program.
Warnings
Choking
- Taking this product without adequate fluid may cause it to swell and block your throat or esophagus and may cause choking. Do not take this product if you have difficulty in swallowing. If you experience chest pain, vomiting or difficulty in swallowing or breathing after taking this product, seek immediate medical attention
Allergy alert
- The product may cause allergic reaction in people sensitive to inhaled or ingested psyllium.
Ask a doctor before use if you have
- a sudden change in bowel habits that persists over a period of 2 weeks
- abdominal pain, nausea, or vomiting
Stop use and ask a doctor if
- constipation lasts more than 7 days
- rectal bleeding occurs
- These may be signs of a serious condition.
Keep out of reach of children
In case of overdose, contact a doctor or a Poison Control Center right away
Directions
Mix this product (child or adult dose) with at least 8 ounces (a full glass) of water or other fluid. Taking this product with enough liquid may cause choking. Do not take if you have difficulty in swallowing. See choking warnings. Stir briskly and drink promptly. if mixture thickens, add more liquid and stir.
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LAXATIVE USE |
DIETARY SUPPLEMENT FIBER USE |
Adults 12 years & older
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1 rounded teaspoon (5.4 g) in 8 oz. of liquid at the first sign of irregularity. Can be taken up to 3 times daily
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1 rounded teaspoon (5.4 g) in 8 oz. of liquid 3 times daily.
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Children 6 years to under 12 years
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1/2 the adult dose in 8 oz. of liquid, up to 3 times daily
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consult a doctor
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Children under 6 years
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consult a doctor
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consult a doctor
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- 1.
- Put one dose into an empty glass
- 2.
- Mix this product (child or adult dose) with at least 8 ounces (a full glass) of water or other fluid.
- 3.
- Taking this product without enough liquid may cause choking. See choking warining.
- 4.
- Stir briskly and drink immediately. If mixture thickens, add more liquid and stir. An additional glass of liquid is recommended.
Bulk forming fibers like psyllium may affect how well other medicines work. If you are taking a prescription medicine by mouth, take this product at least 2 hours before or 2 hours after the prescribed medicine. As your body adjusts to increase fiber intake, you may experience changes in bowel habits or minor bloating.
New Users: Your doctor can recommend the right dosage of this product to best meet your needs. In general, start by taking one dose a day. Gradually increase to three doses per day, if needed or recommeded by your doctor.
Other information
- DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT IF PRINTED SEAL UNDER CAP IS BROKEN OR MISSING.
- store at room temperature
- keep tightly closed to protect from humidity
- each teaspoon contains: potassium 30 mg; sodium 5 mg
Inactive Ingredients
citric acid, and maltodextrin
Product Label


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PX4 Firmware
PX4 Autopilot Software http://px4.io
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#include <wqueue_test.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| WQueueTest () | |
| ~WQueueTest () | |
| int | main () |
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| static px4::AppState | appState |
Private Member Functions | |
| void | do_lp_work (void) |
| void | do_hp_work (void) |
Static Private Member Functions | |
| static void | hp_worker_cb (void *p) |
| static void | lp_worker_cb (void *p) |
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| work_s | _lpwork |
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References _lpwork, _lpwork_done, and lp_worker_cb().
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Referenced by do_lp_work(), and main().
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Definition at line 94 of file wqueue_test.cpp.
References _hpwork, _hpwork_done, _lpwork, _lpwork_done, appState, px4::AppState::exitRequested(), hp_worker_cb(), lp_worker_cb(), and px4::AppState::setRunning().
Referenced by PX4_MAIN(), and ~WQueueTest().
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Referenced by main(), and wqueue_test_main().


{% extends "layout.html" %} {% set ptitle = "Have you paid the amount of tax under dispute?" %} {% block page_title %} {{ ptitle }} - Tax Tribunals Prototype {% endblock %} {% block body_end %} {{ super() }} {% endblock %} {% block content %} {% include "includes/phase_banner_beta.html" %} Back Step 4 of 7 {{ ptitle }} If you can't pay because it will cause you financial hardship, you can still continue your appeal. {{ ptitle }} Yes No Not applicable - no amount is under dispute Save and come back later {% endblock %}
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FireMiner99 is learning HTML, CSS and Javascript. You can see his website at
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FireMiner99 is also on YouTube at FireMiner99 YouTube
and lastly FireMiner99 is on Scratch at Rocker29 Scratch .
rsmith220 is a retired educator who has worked with many areas of the Computer World
- Computer Education
- Computer Maintenance and Repair
- Computer Programming in BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, Visual Basic
- Graphic Design
- Network Management
Collaboration helps both of us look at programming in different ways


Salutations!
Feel free to navigate this site to view my working experience, web development projects I've been involved in, and other facts about me
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three.js
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This can take the form of, but is not limited to, extending the enemy's ability cooldown (so they can attack less often), or speeding up or negating one's ability cooldown (so one can attack more often). This kind of ability can be a Game-Breaker if not regulated fairly.
In a Combatant Cooldown System, an ability like this can be used to achieve an equivalent of a Stun Lock.
Compare Reduced Mana Cost for another way abilities in games can be managed.
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- In Path of Exile, Flicker Strike and Cold Snap have cooldowns that can be bypassed by using a Frenzy or Power Charge, respectively. Cue builds based around spamming these skills.
- Reduced recharge is an uncommon and prized equipment bonus in Titan Quest. Keeping it low allows the player character to constantly cast spells with impunity, buff themselves, and/or debuff enemies. The Nature mastery additionally has a skill that reduces recharge time on all other (non-item-granted) skills, making it potent on skill-heavy builds.
- Grandia II uses a Combatant Cooldown System and every character has access to a "special" basic attack, which deals far less damage than the "combo" attack and the spells, but resets the target's global cooldown, potentially preventing them from acting at all.
- Final Fantasy:
- Many titles, beginning with Final Fantasy IV, use an Active Time Battle system in which characters cool down at different rates. Several Standard Status Effects speed, slow, or stop the rate of cooldown: namely, Haste, Slow, and Stop.
- Final Fantasy X has the attacks Delay Attack and Delay Buster, which increase the amount of time until the targeted enemy can take its next action, and Quick Hit, which has a much faster cooldown than a standard attack.
- Mega Man Battle Network: Here, cooldowns appear in form of the Custom Gauge, the gauge that will fill itself and, when full, lets you access the Custom Screen to load Battle Chips, after which the gauge will be reset to 0 and fill itself again. There exist chips that lets you manipulate this gauge, and each of them operate exactly as their names describe:
- Slow Gauge slows down the filling of the gauge. Commonly used when you just like to take your time for your tactics, or, if you use Custom Sword or Custom Volt, chips that get stronger as the gauge fills and, when used, reset the gauge to 0.
- Fast Gauge makes the gauge fill faster, allowing you to get chips faster. Full Custom is its stronger counterpart; using it instantly fills the gauge to full.
- Golden Sun:
- After Djinn are used to summon a spirit, they need to recover and are unavailable for use, becoming available one at a time per turn, in the order they were used. The Mercury Djinni Eddy resets one Djinn per character in a single turn.
- The Jupiter Djinni Kite gives one character an extra turn on the turn after it's used.
- The Bonus Boss Valukar can use your own summons against you, after which your Djinn will need to recover. Thankfully he often uses this ability without waiting for strong, multi-Djinn summons to be available.
- In the second and third games, some enemies have abilities that put Djinn in the recovery state one or two at a time. One of the (many) reasons the Dullahan is so feared is because he can force every Djinn on every character into recovery (an ability shared with the Final Boss), not only massively lowering their stats, but also depriving them of Summon Magic, group healing and revive spells.
- In Child of Light, every character in combat enters a "preparation phase" between them selecting a move and using it, and if they are attacked during this phase, the attack is interrupted and they are moved further down the cooldown meter. A lot of the tactical elements of combat arise from attacking enemies in their preparation phase to interrupt them, and knowing when to defend instead of attack if you think an enemy will interrupt you before you can finish preparing.
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time's Fury Gauge denotes how many actions they can take in battle, with the character needing to stand still for it to refill (attacking expends Fury, moving prevents it from refilling). Some skills allow the player to limit Fury use by certain percentages and amounts to pile on more hits.
- In the multiplayer for Titanfall 2, the Monarch-class Titan has an ability called "Rearm", which immediately cancels the cooldown on two of her other abilities, Rocket Salvo and Energy Syphon. Naturally, Rearm has a longer cooldown than either of those abilities, and fortunately, you cannot activate Rearm if neither ability is on cooldown.
- Zombidle: Each skill's cooldown starts as soon as the skill is triggered, counting down at the same time the skill duration counts down. The cooldown is initially far longer than the duration time, but crafting Pearl Necklaces increases the skill duration time, and amassing enough will eventually cause the skill's duration to surpass the cooldown time. This is by far no easy task, since Pearl Necklaces require nine of a rather rare item to create, and you need at least 108 Pearl Necklaces in order to extend all skill timers past their cooldowns.
- Elsword:
- Add's skill EMP Shock can induce cooldown extension on his enemies' skills.
- Time Tracer's buff skill Seal of Time can shorten the cooldown of his and his allies' skills by a few seconds when used. It is limited in that it can't shorten the cooldown of other buff skills, including itself.
- As Diabolic Esper (Time Tracer's advancement), he can learn a passive skill Time Control that gives him the chance of reducing the cooldown time of his skills whenever he uses his skills.
- Blade Master's skill Giga Drive: Limiter is a Super Mode that lets him spam active-level skills (those that don't dim the screen) by turning the cooldowns of those skills into 1 second.
- Part of Elesis' Chivalry system is that, one of its modes, Knight of Gale, affects all of the Gale-specific skills, reducing their MP cost and cooldown drastically.
- Deadly Chaser's passive Intense Showtime lets him having decreased cooldown time and MP on his skills when he enters his Berserk Mode.
- Elemental Master's Element Study passive skill lowers general cooldown for all her skills.
- Lord Knight's Intense Strike passive strengthen his active skills at the cost of increasing their cooldown time.
- Code Empress' Nasod Recharge passive skill gives her a chance to reset all of her skills' cooldowns by using a skill.
- Do note that all of the above have no effect on Hyper Active skills, which are very strong but have 3 minute cooldown.
- In Granblue Fantasy, some characters (such as Arriet) and enemies have access to skills that manipulate the "Skill Intervals" or cooldowns of your skills, either raising them or lowering them.
- GrandChaseDimensionalChaser:
- Myung Hwarin has Supernatural Power, which decreases the skill cooldown of up to two targets by 60%, alongside their SP cost. This comes with the cost of the skill itself not being affected by cooldown reduction, though.
- Dio has Sun Eater, which inflicts a curse which if removed, pushes back the target's skill cooldowns by up to 10 seconds.
- The "Leadership" skill in Pirates of the Caribbean Online is a temporary buff that reduces the cooldown on yours and your shipmate's other skills, including cannon reload times. Those under the effects of it receive a glowing effect on their skill bar, alerting them that they can open fire to their hearts content for the next few seconds.
- In World of Warcraft, in addition to cancelling the current casting, all Counter Spell type abilities also place the spell on cooldown for 5 seconds to prevent the target from simply trying to cast it again.
- Star Trek Online:
- The tactical captain ability "Tactical Initiative" halves the remaining cooldown on any tactical bridge officer ("boff") powers.
- The science captain ability "Subnucleonic Beam" increases the target's boff power cooldowns, in addition to wiping out active buffs. Intelligence boffs can use a variant of this power with an Area of Effect.
- Certain duty officers ("doffs") have the ability to reduce cooldowns. The popular "aux2batt build" uses three Technician doffs to reduce all currently active cooldowns to the global minimum each time Auxiliary Power to the Emergency Battery is triggered, effectively doubling the rate at which you can trigger boff powers.
- Dragon Nest has a few buffs (such as the Acrobat's Spirit Boost or the Mystic's Fast Forward) that shorten party members' cooldowns while they're active. In addition, some skills can be crested for cooldown reduction, and a few can even be crested for cooldown reset chance. In addition, both Acrobat specialisations can shorten or reset their ultimate skill's cooldown.
- Final Fantasy XIV has the Astrologian, Which sometimes has the ability to make the cooldowns of an ally shorter provided they aren't cast till the buff lands. Several enemies also have the slow debuff, which uses Warmup Manipulation to lengthen cast times.
- Plants vs. Zombies 2:
- The Plant Food item can be given to seed packs that are still in cooldown to quickly reset the cooldown. Best used for those plants with long cooldown time such as Wall-Nut or Cherry Bomb.
- Downplayed with Imitater; its main function is to have 2 of the same plant in your plant slots so you can plant a certain plant more quickly, not directly interfering with the plant's actual cooldown but effectively halving your cooldown time.
- A variant can be done with Grapeshot and Cherry Bomb. Both of them explode a 3x3 area for an instant kill (with the former producing 8 damaging bouncy projectiles), so having both of them also halves the cooldown time for a devastating 3x3 area attack. If combined with Imitater, the recharge time becomes a third of the usual.
- Dawn of War: Most hero units' ability cooldowns can be reduced by around 20 percent with the Veteran and Hero upgrades.
- The Imperial Command Squad has a variation: it can have one general and up to four Psykers/Priests/Commissars (five if the general dies and is replaced), having multiples of the same unit doesn't affect the global cooldown (so you can cast the same ability up to five times in a row before the actual cooldown sets in).
- If an Eldar Farseer is attached to a Seer Council, her cooldowns are shortened (stacking with the Hero and Veteran upgrades).
- Every Incubus added to a Dark Eldar Archon's retinue reduces his abilities' cooldowns by 10%.
- The Dark Eldar have the Rekindle Rage soul power, which resets a single unit's cooldowns (does not work with the soul powers' cooldowns, obviously).
- Some characters in Dawn of War II have abilities that completely negate the cooldown of others for a short period.
- In Dawn of War III, Ronahn's Long Shot ability recharges faster while he is inside a patch of stealth cover.
- Warcraft III: The Tauren Chieftain's Reincarnation ability brings him back to life every 4 minutes. The expansion's campaign gives Cairne Bloodhoof an improved version that lowers it to 2 minutes (if you felt it worthwhile instead of his other, equally empowered abilities).
- League of Legends: Cooldown Reduction is a character stat provided by some items in the game that reduces the amount of time your skills take to refresh. It's capped at 40%. Various champions also have additional cooldown mechanics tied into their skills, oftentimes assassins refreshing an ability on a kill.
- Defense of the Ancients: All-Stars and Dota 2:
- The item "Refresher Orb" can be used to instantly set most cooldowns to zero, albeit with a few exceptions (for example, you can't get refresh another Refresher). It's most often used by heroes with powerful, long-cooldown ultimate abilities so they can use them twice.
- Boush the Tinker's ultimate ability, Rearm, resets his cooldowns similarly to the Refresher Orb above after a short channelling time. For this reason, he most often builds items that have powerful active abilities, which he can use a lot more often than other heroes. This is balanced by its hefty mana cost.
- Dota 2 adds the Octarine Core, which among other things grants a 25% reduction on cooldowns.
- Heroes of the Storm:
- Gazlowe's trait allows him to collect scrap from destroyed structures and his own turrets. The scrap restores some of his mana and lowers all of his cooldowns.
- Illidan lowers all of his cooldowns every time he lands a basic attack. He has a set of medium-cooldown skills that are actually supposed to be spammed. Playing him correctly involves sticking to your target and adding as many AAs as possible between your abilities. Mephisto has a similar mechanic, but lowers them while landing spells instead of AAs.
- Ana's Nano-boost gives an ally massively reduced cooldown speed for its duration. It also boosts ability damage and restores mana, making it most effective when used on Mages.
- Some characters have access to Rewind, a level 20 talent that instantly resets the cooldowns of your basic abilities. Alarak gets Hasty Bargain, a variation that lets him refresh his powerful abilities at the cost of permanently lowering his damage each time he uses it.
- A few heroes have cooldown resets on some abilities. Li-Ming is based entirely around this, resetting all of her cooldowns (including her Heroic) whenever she scores a kill or assist.
- Awesomenauts: Many 'Nauts have access to cooldown reduction items. Some even have conditional ones that can massively lower or even remove the cooldown.
- Battlerite has cooldown management as a core part of its gameplay, so this trope naturally comes into play often:
- In general, many characters have Battlerites that reduce their cooldowns, either all the time or when certain conditions are met.
- Oldur has this among his Time Master abilities. His Ultimate reduces the target's cooldowns by 25%. His heal spell has a cooldown that's reduced for each nearby ally, and an optional Battlerite causes the target of his heals to have their cooldowns reduced by 6%.
- The Matron in Evil Genius can bestow a buff upon your other henchmen that lets them regenerate their special abilities quickly.
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- Weapons' charging time can be shortened by posting a crew member in weapon system room. There is also a ship augment which further reduces the delay and another which makes every weapon active at the time of FTL jump charged up right after the jump. Charge time for artillery weapons can be shortened by pumping more power into them.
- Putting more power into teleporters doesn't make them more or less effective, it simply reduces the amount of ionization after each use.
- One augment, an aptly-named "battery charger", halves the time a back-up battery remains unusable after running out.
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown's Enemy Within expansion lets you gene-splice soldiers with a neural feedback gene; if an alien attacks them with psionic powers, all of the alien's abilities are put on cooldown. A different variation of this exists in form of MEC Trooper conversations: taking too much damage during a mission causes a soldier to be wounded, which can result in lenghty hospital stays that can last up to 8+ days. However, you can still put any wounded soldiers through a MEC conversion, which only lasts 3 days, allowing you to get them back to action much quicker if you don't mind losing their genemods. This can be especially useful on harder difficulty levels where high-ranked soldiers are hard to come by due to their vastly lowered survivability.
- Divinity: Original Sin II: The "Skin Graft" Polymorph skill is only usable once per battle but clears all of the user's active cooldowns.
- Dragon Age: Inquisition offers each class a way to lower cooldowns for abilites using certain passives.
- Warrior have the "Flow of Battle" passive to reduce cooldowns for each of their critical hits.
- Mages have the "Clean Burn" passive that lowers cooldowns for each spell they cast, or Gathering Storm which lowers cooldowns each time they start a basic attack combo. Clean Burn is noted to be a massive Game-Breaker when combined with a Knight Enchanter's Spirit Blade ability, which has no cooldown of its own, and Gathering Storm can also be potent when used with some form of attack cancelling.
- Rogues can become Artificers to get the "Opportunity Knocks" passive, reducing cooldowns for every critical hit the whole parry lands.
- Mass Effect
- In Mass Effect, the soldier and vanguard classes have an ability that refreshes all ability cooldowns. Unfortunately, your companions like to use it at the beginning of combat before they've down anything.
- Mass Effect 3 has a version of Limited Loadout that provides either a buff or penalty to your power cooldowns depending on how much weight in weapons you're lugging around.
  This Game-Breaker was thus Nerfed in Fallout: New Vegas to a flat amount instead of a full refresh.
- Tales of Maj'Eyal has a number of ways to manipulate cooldowns. The Stun and Brainlock status effects put random talents onto cooldown and prevent cooldowns from counting down while the effect lasts. There are a number of skills and effects that will make cooldowns decrement faster, others that will instantly refresh coolsdowns of certain skills, and artifacts and item properties that reduce the normal cooldown time of specific skills.
- Pillars of Eternity has a number of feats that reduce cooldowns on the character, as well as some offensive spells to increase cooldowns on the enemy.


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Lens of Theme & Unification
The recurring theme throughout the story of Shin Megami Tensei 1 is the idea of rebirth both on an individual level and on a societal level. The English translation of “Shin Megami Tensei” is “the rebirth/reincarnation of the real/true goddess.”
The story starts in modern-day Tokyo where recent killings are slowly revealed to be an increasingly large amount of rampaging demons. The first act ends when Tokyo is nuked to kill all the demons, but after you magically escape the blast and get transported 30 years later you find the world to be in a post-apocalyptic state, a battleground between the lawful and chaotic factions, God and his angels versus Satan and his demons. Depending on which, if any, faction you favor you can get one of three different endings which will decide how you remake the world: chaotic, lawful, or neutral if you reject both sides of the conflict and prefer a balance of both. In the neutral ending, which is treated as the “true” ending by the fans, you restore balance to the world, leaving the people to rebuild the world without the influence of God or Satan.
One of the main mechanics in the game that are copied by many of its successors in its genre is the idea of the demons that you convince to help you throughout the game can be combined together and reborn, stronger and better than before in order to help you in battle. Many of the characters you meet throughout the game die and are reborn/reincarnated throughout the story, with one of the most obvious examples being its Jesus allegory and law-aligned party member, Yoshio, whose soul was ripped out by a bad guy early in the game, but is resurrected by God to be his new messiah, but might later be killed by you if you choose to go down the neutral path. But don’t feel too bad for him because the last thing that is said to you during the end-credits of the neutral path is that everyone who tragically died in the game will be reborn: “They will all come back and be reborn, just like I was. The destruction is finally over and the time for creation and rebuilding has begun!”
The concept of being reborn is one of the central recurring themes of this game. This theme is demonstrated in the many characters who are revived throughout the stories, through the game mechanics of combining demons, allowing them to be reborn stronger and better than ever, and even in the world, the story takes place in. Even though a nuclear apocalypse has happened and those who survived are fighting over the ruins, there is still a chance to start again and make a world even better than the last one. No matter how bad things get or how impossible it looks to get back from where we are, there is always a chance of starting again and coming back better than before.


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I Produce Better Songs Compared To The “Borla” Songs Ghanaian Artists Produce – Ras Kuku
by vanessa nordziGhanaian Reggae/dancehall and Afro beats musician, Kojo Kurankye, known in showbiz as Ras Kuuku, has taken a swipe at Ghanaian musicians and referred to their tracks as trash.
Speaking in an interview with Dr. Cann on Happy FM’s “Showbiz Xtra” Ra’s Kuku stated” People patronize my song because when they compare my music to the ‘borla’, they prefer mine. A lot of songs are ‘borla’ songs because they do not have any impact on our thoughts unlike my songs”.
According to Ras Kuku, even though most songs produced by our Ghanaian artists are not good, he believes there are few artistes who are producing good songs and as such they need much support from the music industry.
“I believe Iwan and Obibini are very good artistes who need support from the industry. Their songs are of good content”. He added.
He advised key industry players, the media and public to not wait till there is a negative hype about these good musicians before supporting their music.
Ras Kuuku is currently promoting his new Reggae album titled “Kuntunkununku” which consists of 15 tracks.


Allen leads W. Illinois over Central Christian (MO) 113-62
MACOMB, Ill. (AP) - Dre’Shawn Allen had 17 points off the bench to lift Western Illinois to a 113-62 win over Central Christian College (MO) of the ACCA on Saturday night.
C.J. Duff had 15 points for Western Illinois (1-4), which ended its season-opening four-game losing streak. Ben Pyle added 14 points. Anthony Jones had 12 points for the hosts.
It was the first time this season Western Illinois scored at least 100 points.
Andre Johnson had 12 points and nine rebounds for the Saints. Andrew Johnson added 12 points.
Western Illinois faces Ball State on the road on Tuesday.
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authors: ["Neil Chue Hong"]
title: The Good and the Bad of It
tags: ["Assessment", "University College London"]
---
We've come to the end of a hot, slightly sweaty, two days of learning in UCL and have just done a straw poll of participants of the good and bad points of this bootcamp. Something that was trialled at UCL was asking participants to sign up in small (3-4 people) teams drawn from their local research group. In total, we had a little over 40 learners and 10 helpers. We also taught the version control portion using EasyMercurial (thanks to Chris Cannam from SoundSoftware).
Here's what we learned...
Good
- Beginner friendly
- Easy learning curve
- Now know how to use SQL
- Doesn't matter what programming language I used in the first place
- Version control for the win
- Taught functional programming rather than object-oriented
- Material backed up by anecdotes and evidence
- Good at giving thoughts rather than skills
- Can go back and share with other members of the group
- Killed my fear of version control
- Give tips on good programming practices
- Anything new was given with the why as well as the what
- Introduction to systematic testing
- Best balance of typing, testing and listening
- Good ratio of helpers to students
- Greg's digressions keep your mind active
- Learned feedback technique of using coloured sticky notes
- Test driven development
- Quoted Alan Turing (programs are just a type of data)
- Working in pairs
- Live coding (realtime typing)
- Being forced to use python
- Psychological aspects, and how it relates to programming
- Always good to reinforce the learning of things you've heard before
- Interaction with participants at workshops — both in workshop and in pub
- Website is a good resource
- Insight (for a sysadmin) of how the researchers I support work
Bad
- Can't afford to buy all the books referenced
- Too early a start [9am start both days in central London]
- Too much to take in
- Not enough functional programming
- Lower level than group is used to
- Need coffee at the start of the morning [which we didn't have on day 2]
- Problems with the wireless network
- Need biscuits in the afternoon
- No handouts [though SWC does this because best practice suggests you shouldn't give out handouts at the start]
- Lack of air conditioning
- Too short (not enough days) [SWC experience shows that 5 days F2F didn't work, will have online followups]
- Not clear when you should be furiously catching up on typing
- Greg's too fast
- Helpers not physically interspersed amongst tutors
- Room too small
- Not enough desks / table arrangements
- Couldn't find nose on list of required software
- No documentation on how to get nose running on a windows system
- No toilets / running water on the same floor [we broke the toilets and the lift!]
- Microphone would have been good
- Recommending Cygwin rather than VMware or Virtualbox [but people want to come out with a working setup...]
- Implied endorsement of bittorrent for illegal activities (plus smartass comments)
What does this tell us? Probably that the teaching environment has a much bigger impact than you might expect, and that we should do all we can to fix it upstream. Also that Greg talks and types too fast!
We're going to have plenty of chances to see how these good and bad points change as we go on to the next workshops — collecting the evidence so that we can understand how to teach people better.


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2011 |
2011-01-05 |
COMM-USE |
N |
PMC3065811 |
21490743.0 |
10.1155/2010/754938 |
tloaa3v1 |
0.614459 |
|
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| 2 |
Kao_Y_2019 |
Association between continuity of care and emergency department visits and hospitalization in senior adults with asthma-COPD overlap |
Kao, Yu-Hsiang; Tseng, Tung-Sung; Ng, Yee-Yung; Wu, Shiao-Chi |
2019 |
2019-02-28 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7114593 |
30466799.0 |
10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.11.005 |
iwd0l05p |
0.561198 |
Myles_2012, Sukul_2017 |
To_T_2008 |
| 3 |
Morin_2020 |
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Lucas Morin; Jonas W Wastesson; Stefan Fors; Neda Agahi; Kristina Johnell |
2020 |
2020-04-19 |
BioRxiv |
N |
|
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10.1101/2<IP_ADDRESS>67645 |
f1br2h6p |
0.543324 |
Sukul_2017, Lim_D_2017, Myles_2012 |
|
| 4 |
Ramchand_2018 |
Elevated plasma angiotensin converting enzyme 2 activity is an independent predictor of major adverse cardiac events in patients with obstructive coronary artery disease |
Ramchand, Jay; Patel, Sheila K.; Srivastava, Piyush M.; Farouque, Omar; Burrell, Louise M. |
2018 |
2018-06-13 |
COMM-USE |
N |
PMC5999069 |
29897923.0 |
10.1371/journal.pone.0198144 |
3lg076wx |
0.543031 |
Lai_K_2018, Rossi_2020, Lin_S_2020 |
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| 5 |
Chen_2012 |
Pneumonia and pregnancy outcomes: a nationwide population-based study |
Chen, Yi-Hua; Keller, Joseph; Wang, I-Te; Lin, Ching-Chun; Lin, Herng-Ching |
2012 |
2012-10-31 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7093888 |
23021691.0 |
10.1016/j.ajog.2012.08.023 |
epodc6g3 |
0.506901 |
Rossi_2020, Muniz-Rodriguez_2020, Myles_2012, Khuri-Bulos_2018 |
|
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Cheng_2019 |
Efficacy of traditional Chinese medication Tangminling pill in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes |
Cheng, Jing; Zheng, Jia; Liu, Yanping; Hao, Panpan |
2019 |
2019-04-30 |
COMM-USE |
N |
PMC6488948 |
30948503.0 |
10.1042/bsr20181729 |
a334btay |
0.505506 |
Rossi_2020, Muniz-Rodriguez_2020, Gao_Y_2020 |
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Bernstein_2019 |
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Bernstein, Charles N.; Burchill, Charles; Targownik, Laura E.; Singh, Harminder; Roos, Leslie L. |
2019 |
2019-06-30 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7094443 |
30772341.0 |
10.1053/j.gastro.2019.02.004 |
64z45jli |
0.495294 |
Chen_2012, Rossi_2020, Myles_2012 |
Bénet_2017 |
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Shang_2012 |
Mortality among dentists in Taiwan, 1985–2009 |
Shang, Tung-Fu; Chen, Pau-Chung; Wang, Jung-Der |
2012 |
2012-10-31 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7135647 |
23089692.0 |
10.1016/j.jfma.2011.06.010 |
lr4l368z |
0.455758 |
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Dima_2018 |
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To_T_2008 |
Risk Factors for Repeat Adverse Asthma Events in Children After Visiting an Emergency Department |
To, Teresa; Wang, Chengning; Dell, Sharon; Fleming-Carroll, Bonnie; Parkin, Patricia; Scolnik, Dennis; Ungar, Wendy |
2008 |
2008-10-31 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7110952 |
18922500.0 |
10.1016/j.ambp.2008.04.008 |
qf8bgrvb |
0.402645 |
Myles_2012, Sukul_2017 |
|
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Shih_2015 |
Association between Use of Oral Anti-Diabetic Drugs and the Risk of Sepsis: A Nested Case-Control Study |
Shih, Chia-Jen; Wu, Yueh-Lin; Chao, Pei-Wen; Kuo, Shu-Chen; Yang, Chih-Yu; Li, Szu-Yuan; Ou, Shuo-Ming; Chen, Yung-Tai |
2015 |
2015-10-14 |
COMM-USE |
N |
PMC4604480 |
26463557.0 |
10.1038/srep15260 |
l7zpo59y |
0.374613 |
Rossi_2020, Myles_2012, Goka_2014, Lim_D_2017 |
Park_2018 |
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Kwok_2015 |
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2015 |
2015-05-04 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7165588 |
25940136.0 |
10.1111/ijcp.12646 |
ribybqfo |
0.351401 |
Rossi_2020, Goka_2014, Muniz-Rodriguez_2020, Myles_2012, Lim_D_2017 |
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2008 |
2008-01-25 |
PMC |
N |
PMC7117273 |
17884305.0 |
10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.08.014 |
xa8b1nuo |
0.320334 |
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Lai_K_2018 |
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Lai, Kuan-Ju; Kor, Chew-Teng; Hsieh, Yao-Peng |
2018 |
2018-11-05 |
COMM-USE |
N |
PMC6262420 |
30400636.0 |
10.3390/jcm7110416 |
4r5uijuz |
0.315852 |
Rossi_2020, Muniz-Rodriguez_2020, Angraal_2018, Russell_2020 |
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Setting up development environment
This guide will quickly step you through setting up the environment for developing new functionality for BatMass. All the downloads, setting up the IDE and up to building BatMass from scratch.
Setting up development environement for BatMass
You will only need this information if you want to develop your own plugins for BatMass or change its functionality in some way, if you're just a regular user you can skip this tutorial.
Don't be scared by the size of this tutorial, it just assumes that you know nothing about NetBeans and the NetBeans Platform. All the steps are simple.
Get the JDK (Java Development Kit)
BatMass is written in Java, so we'll need Java. Download and isntall JDK 7: e.g. from Oracle. It should work with OpenJDK as well.
The NetBeans platform
BatMass is built on top of the NetBeans platform (we will call it just the platform or NBP for simplicity). It's the same infrastructure that the NetBeans IDE is built on top of itself. This is an essential part of the setup, it is the platform that provides the Window system, the Loader, Automatic Updates and much more. All platform applications are developed against some version of the platform, which itself is just a collection of libraries (called Modules). Though it is possible to use the platform that comes with the NetBeans IDE, you'll likely encounter multiple errors due to incorrect dependency versions, so you'll need to get the platform version that we are providing.
Developing platform applications is much simpler with the NetBeans IDE as it provides a lot of wizards and other core functionality. It is possible to use ItelliJ as well, but we will not be covering this option, so go ahead and get the latest version of NetBeans (which is 8.1 as of this writing). You can select the Java SE version among all downloads.
- Download the platform files: from BatMass github repository.
- Unpack the downloaded archive, it contains four zip files
- Unpack the following 3 files to the same location, e.g.
/<path>/nbp
:netbeans-...-harness.zip
netbeans-...-ide.zip
netbeans-...-platform.zip
- Do not unpack
netbeans-8.1-...-platform-src.zip
- You should now have
/<path>/nbp/harness
,/<path>/nbp/ide
,/<path>/nbp/platform
- Start the NetBeans IDE.
- In the main menu: Tools -> NetBeans Platforms.
- Click Add Platform and select
/<path>/nbp
, the Platform Name text box on the right will show something like nb81, which means that the directory has been recognized as containing platform files. - Click Next, change the platform name to
nb-batmass
(This is very important!) as it is and click Finish. - You should now see the newly created platform in the list, like this:
- Change the tab to Harness and make sure to switch the radio button to Harness supplied with Platform.
- Change the tab to Sources and add the path to .zip file
netbeans-*-platform-src.zip
that came with your platform download.
You should now have the environment set-up to bebing development.
BatMass modules
BatMass itself is composed of multiple modules which are split into several module suits. A module suite in the platform terms is just a collection of modules groupped together all of which have access to some common set of dependencies. Each suite lives in its own github repository, clone them all to the to the same location:
-
BatMass - the main suite, most of development happens here
-
BatMassLibs - all the library dependencies reside in this suite. In
-
BatMassExternalSuite - contains separate functional pieces borrowed from the web or elsewhere. E.g. the color- picker used in the options lives here.
-
MSFTBX - this is the data access library. It provides pure-java implementations of mzXML, mzML, pep.xml, prot.xml files among some others as well. The API (interfaces) is bundled with it.
Although this repository contains a NetBeans platform module project, you'll also notice that it contains a regular IntelliJ IDEA project as well, which has artifacts configured to build a regular jar out of it.
mkdir /<some-path>/batmass-projects
cd /<some-path>/batmass-projects
git clone https://github.com/chhh/batmass.git
git clone https://github.com/chhh/batmass-libs.git
git clone https://github.com/chhh/batmass-ext.git
git clone https://github.com/chhh/MSFTBX.git
You now have all the source code and libraries necessary to build BatMass.
Building the projects
-
Start NetBeans IDE
-
Main Menu -> File -> Open Project
-
Holding down Ctrl select the 4 cloned projects, and open them (see image below)
-
Check the bottom right corner of the IDE for a progress bar, it might take a while to index the projects.
-
Right click
BatMass
project, selectProperties
in the context menu. -
Select
Libraries
in the Categories list on the left. -
Make sure that drop-down NetBeans Platform is set to
nb-batmass
as in the image below, if this shows some other platform, switch tonb-batmass
- If you see some errors in the Project Properties window (e.g. saying that some module lacks some dependencies, and the Resolve button is inactive), please contact us.
-
Check the selected platform for the other 3 projects as well.
We are ready to build the final product!
The build order is of importance. Automatic rebuilding of dependent module suits
was not set up to improve build performance.
Only the BatMass
project depends on others, so whenever you make changes to
BatMassLibs
, BatMassExternalSuite
or MSFTBX
you will need to manually
trigger a clean build
on them, and rebuild the BatMass
project after that.
- Right click
MSFTBX
project node in the Project Explorer and chooseclean build
- Now do
clean build
forBatMassLibs
andBatMassExternalSuite
- You can now
clean build
the mainBatMass
project - When the build is done, go to
Main menu -> Run -> Set main project
and selectBatMass
there. This will force the greenRun
button (F6 shortcurt) to always launch this project and not the currently selected one. - Run the project:
Main menu -> Run -> Run main project
If all is well and you can start the project, you should also be able to
create the installers for it. Right click BatMass
project, Package as -> Installers
. This is a time-consuming process, when done, you'll find the
installers for different platforms in batmass-projects/batmass/dist
.


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Welcome to a JS Attribute Changing Bonanza (h1)
We can use JS to change attributes of elements on our page (div)
We can change any element, just by grabbing it via the DOM (p)
We can have multiple divs and change them all, or change them just by class. (class = change1)
Or by grabbing the ID (id = change2)
we could even change them by tag


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The Mandelbrot set is one of the most complex and beautiful mathematical objects known. Mandelbrot Explorer allows you to explore this often striking set using both touch and a traditional mouse. Additionally, a detailed explanation of the Mandelbrot set and how this application was implemented is available in How to explore the Mandelbrot set using HTML5.


In this post, I look at why surrendering our digital identities to BigTech is a bad idea (with some examples). I then examine some potential solutions to the digital identity problem and the shortcomings of those solutions. I conclude by proposing my own solution, albeit still a far from perfect one.
The doomsday scenario
Let’s say you run a restaurant business. You operate a chain of outlets across the country . You’re doing great business for a few years. Then, one fine day, all of a sudden, you’re hit with a termination.
You are informed that you need to close your business because you violated a law, with the following additional points
- You are not informed exactly what law you violated. You are only vaguely told that it is “something related to fire safety”, but not any more details.
- Not only are you supposed to close your business, you are not allowed to apply for a license for another business. Ever.
- In addition to losing your business, you also lose your ID documents (passport, driving license, etc). Now you cannot drive, travel or transact with your bank.
  The only problem is you don’t know what to fix. You check your outlets for fire hazard standards, you ensure that the emergency exits are all functioning according to specifications.
You approach the authorities, requesting more information. But all you receive in response is a vague automated reply that is no use.
Not only have you lost your business, with no hope of starting another one, your entire life that is not even related to the business is destroyed as well. Your identity has been snatched from you.
When digital identity providers are gatekeepers
That opening section seems impossible, doesn’t it? Unless you are in an authoritarian state, it is unlikely that you will be handed out such an extreme punishment without even a chance at redemption. However, this is exactly how it works in tech. Here’s a sampling of some situations where a mistake in the business can get your digital accounts in trouble:
- People have had their developer accounts terminated, not because of any violation, but mereley on grounds of association. Yes, you read that right: Accounts have been terminated merely on grounds of association.
- People have had their YouTube accounts permanently banned for flimsy reasons.
- Your domain registrar can suspend your domain based on suspicion (for example on suspicion that your domain is being used for phishing attacks)
These bans by themselves might not sound serious. Where it does get alarming is that these accounts are also tied to your digital identity. Did you notice that all the examples I provided above are Google accounts? When your Google Play or YouTube account is banned, so is your GMail account.
Think about what could happen if you suddenly lost access to your email account. Your email is the identity for all other services you use on the internet. Your bank, bill payment reminders, education services, password recovery mechanism, travel tickets, even governmental services - everything is tied to your email. It is the end of your digital identity.
I don’t know about you, but I like a lot of Google services. I use them day in and day out. The root of the problem here is not that the services are from Google. The problems are multi-fold.
- The identity provider (in this case Google) is also the gatekeeper of some services (in this example, YouTube, Google Domains or Google Play).
- The gatekeeper uses opaque algorithms to identify violations
- The gatekeeper does not have effective redressal mechanisms
- The gatekeeper is not regulated by law to improve the situation
Points 2 and 3 above relate to the false sense of “scalability”. See my related post in that topic.
Also, remember that this problem is not only about bans. What happens if Google disappears one fine day? What happens to your digital identity?
Finally, despite what the above examples might imply, this problem is not restricted to Google. It could just as well be any other bigtech.
Work-arounds that don’t really work
How do you protect yourself against this potential ban-hammer? There are some solutions but they are all not very effective:
Use a different Google account for business
This solution involves using a different Google account, separate from your personal one, specifically for the business. This simply does not work (see termination by association above). Google does not disclose how it identifies the association. It could be IP-based. It could be all e-mail addresses associated with the same person. It could be anything.
Use a non-Google account for your personal email.
This might work but it has some downsides.

- Trusting a private corporation with your identity has the same risks as giving it to Google. That private tech company could ban your account in the same way as Google and that private company could disappear from business, leaving you stranded.
Use your own domain and own email address
Again, this might work but it has some downsides.
- The history and migration problems described in the previous solution apply
- The cost and administrative effort involved in this solution are out of reach of most netizens.
Governments as digital identity providers
My proposed solution is that the responsibility of providing digital identity should be with Governments. They are already responsible for our physical identity documents. Passports, driving licenses, unique citizen numbers. This is just one more in the same vein.
Here are some ways in which this proposal is better than the existing solutions:
- Government issued identities are bound to be longer lived than a corporate-issued one
- At least in the democratic world, it is unlikely that you will be stripped of your identity without giving you a fair chance at redressal
- Governments change, but your identity will remain. In other words, unlike corporates, Governments rarely go out of business.
However, this is far from perfect.
- For one, this will be a new identity, so migrating your history to it will still be a challenge
- Governmental solutions are bound to be inferior in quality compared to corporate ones
- Ethical questions like surveillance are likely to come up when a Government is entrusted with digital identity.
Conclusion
We entrust too much in the hands of BigTech, including our whole identity in the digital world. Moving away is hard because of the inertia created by investment in the existing system. I proposed one solution that might work but does not address the inertia problem.
Do you have any solutions to this conundrum? You can comment using disqus below, or on twitter or LinkedIn.


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A bookmark associates a name with a file and a location within that file. Most operations with bookmarks are performed using the Bookmarks dialog:
For example, type a name and click the "Add" button to add a bookmark in the currently active file at the current cursor position. You can also perform other operations on bookmarks, such as deleting them, by selecting one or more in the list and clicking the "Delete" button.
To jump to a bookmark just select it in the list and click the "Go To" button, or just double-click it. If the file containing the bookmark is not open then it is opened and the cursor is positioned at the bookmark location. You are warned if the file is not found on disk or the bookmark is past the end of file.
You can validate all the bookmarks in the list by using the "Validate All" button. If you have bookmarks you want to retain that are in files that may not always be available (ie on a network drive or removeable media), you should select the "Keep network & removeable" check box.
Each bookmark has several attributes stored with it, which are displayed in the columns of the bookmarks dialog. To toggle any column on or off right-click on a column heading and select from the context menu.
The ability to sort the columns is useful for finding a bookmark for which you have forgotten the name. For example, if you can remember when you created it you can sort by the "Modified" column, or when you last jumped to it sort by the "Accessed" column.
Other Uses for Bookmarks
Bookmarks are also integrated with other parts of HexEdit. Here are some other ways they are used.
In the Find Dialog you can bookmark all search text occurrences using the "Bookmark All" button. You specify a bookmark prefix and HexEdit appends a number to this prefix to create a unique bookmark name for all found occurrences. This is useful if you want to remember all occurrences of some search text before making changes that might change some of them. Remember that you can also search several files using a search scope of "All open files".
Bookmarks for the current file can also be used in expressions in the hex and decimal jump tools. For example, you can type an expression such as "base+5" into a jump tool to jump to an address 5 bytes past the bookmark called "base" (assuming that bookmark exists in the current file).
If you want to use bookmarks in the hex jump tool remember to not use names for bookmarks that could also be a hex number (like "aaa"). Also remember that bookmark names are case-sensitive.
Other Bookmark commands
Often it is tedious to have to open the Bookmarks dialog to delete or add a bookmark. A quick way to do this is to use the Toggle Bookmark command. If the cursor is positioned at a bookmark then the bookmark is deleted, otherwise a new bookmark is created (with a name like "unnamed005"). You can use this very much like the toggle bookmark command in Visual Studio (it is mapped to Ctrl+F2 as in Visual Studio), but it has the added advantage that the bookmarks are not lost when you exit the program. If you do want to remove all "unnamed" bookmarks go to the Bookmarks dialog and sort by name the select and delete all bookmarks starting with "unnamed".
It is common to want to look at all bookmarks in a file by stepping through them. To this end the Next and Previous Bookmark commands are very useful. These are mapped to F2 and Shift+F2 as in Visual Studio and other programs.
To jump to a bookmark by name you can select from the drop-down list of the "Bookmark tool". By default this tool appears on the Navigation Toolbar. This tool is also updated as you move the cursor to show the closest bookmark above the current address.
To remove all bookmarks in the current file just use the Clear Bookmarks command. If you just want the bookmarks to be hidden but not deleted use the "Hide Bookmarks" toggle.
For further information see:
Bookmarks dialog to add, delete and jump to bookmarks
Toggle Bookmark command to create an unnamed bookmark or remove the current bookmark
Next Bookmark to go to the next bookmark in the file
Previous Bookmark to go to the previous bookmark in the file
Bookmark_tool to quickly jump to a bookmark in the current file
Clear Bookmarks to remove all bookmarks in the current file
Hide Bookmarks to stop the display of bookmarks without deleting them
Hex Find Page to mark all occurrences of a hex search
Text Find page to mark all occurrences of a text search


Bootbox.js is a small JavaScript library which allows you to create programmatic dialog boxes using Bootstrap modals, without having to worry about creating, managing or removing any of the required DOM elements or JS event handlers. Here’s the simplest possible example:
Compare that to the code you’d have to write without Bootbox:
Bootbox was originally created in 2011 with the sole purpose of wrapping JavaScript’s low level dialog methods with Bootstrap’s high level modal functionality. As such it is a small library focussed on providing basic programmatic dialogs with minimal fuss and overhead.
Bootbox is authored and maintained by Nick Payne (@makeusabrew). Thanks are also due to the contributors!
The library exposes three methods designed to mimic their native JavaScript equivalents. Their exact method signatures are flexible as each can take various parameters to customise labels and specify defaults, but they are most commonly called like so:
The only required argument is message, although you’re unlikely to want to ever call confirm or prompt without a callback argument otherwise you’ll have no way of determining what the user’s response was. Even when calling alert a callback is useful to determine when the user dismissed the dialog since our wrapper methods can’t & don’t block like their native counterparts: they are asynchronous rather than synchronous.
Each of these three methods calls a fourth public method which you too can use to create your own custom dialogs:
Please note: the ‘Example’ object used in the following examples simply displays a notification to help illustrate when each callback is invoked. It is nothing to do with Bootbox itself, but you may view its source if you’re interested in how it works.
The latest stable version of Bootbox is 3.3.0. You can download the minified library bootbox.min.js for use in production, or the uncompressed bootbox.js for use in development. I wouldn’t recommend hotlinking to either file as Github does not serve the correct mime type which may cause security warnings to be triggered based on your browser’s settings.
If you wish you may also see a full list of releases or download the latest copy of the entire repository (including build files and tests) in zip or tarball format. Realistically the only reason you should be using anything other than the 3.x.x series is if you are restricted by the version of Bootstrap you’re using—see the following section for full details.
All versions of Bootbox stand on the shoulders of two great giants: Bootstrap and jQuery. The exact version of Bootstrap depends on the version of Bootbox you’re using. This has become slightly more complex than I’d like but hopefully this handy table will clear things up (if it doesn’t then please tell me!):
| Bootbox version | Min. Bootstrap version | Max. Bootstrap version | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.x.x | 3.0.0 (probably) | - | Neither of these versions exist, but this is the rough plan… |
| 3.x.x Latest | 2.2.2 | 2.3.2 | Current release. Anything > Bootstrap 2.3.2 is untested |
| 2.x.x | 2.0.0 | 2.0.4 | As you can see, Bootstrap 2.1.x was never officially supported |
| 1.x.x | 1.3.0 | 1.4.0 | Don’t download this version of Bootbox—it’s old |
All versions of the library require at least jQuery 1.7.1, though 1.8.3 or above is recommended for the 3.x.x releases.
Once you’ve got your dependencies sorted, usage is fairly straightforward and much like any other JavaScript library you’ve ever used. The library creates a single global instance of a bootbox object:
When you’re up and running check out some examples or the documentation.
Bootbox is a free, open source project. As such you can help out in a number of ways from simply raising an issue to forking the project and submitting a pull request.
I’m particularly keen to improve the examples and make a proper start on the API docs, so pull requests contributing towards the gh-pages branch (which you’re looking at!) are extremely welcome.
Lastly—please just help spread the word!


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