f in an undertone, 'important--unimportant--unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best. Some of the jury wrote it down 'important,' and some 'unimportant.' Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; 'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she thought to herself. At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out 'Silence!' and read out from his book, 'Rule Forty-two. ALL PERSONS MORE THAN A MILE HIGH TO LEAVE THE COURT.' Everybody looked at Alice. 'I'M not a mile high,' said Alice. 'You are,' said the King. 'Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen. 'Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: 'besides, that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.' 'It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King. 'Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.  'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice. 'There's more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,' said the White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; 'this paper has just been picked up.' 'What's in it?' said the Queen. 'I haven't opened it yet,' said the White Rabbit, 'but it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to--to somebody.' 'It must have been that,' said the King, 'unless it was written to nobody, which isn't usual, you know.' 'Who is it directed to?' said one of the jurymen. 'It isn't directed at all,' said the White Rabbit; 'in fact, there's nothing written on the OUTSIDE.' He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added 'It isn't a letter, after all: it's a set of verses.' 'Are they in the prisoner's handwriting?' asked another of the jurymen. 'No, they're not,' said the White Rabbit, 'and that's the queerest thing about it.' (The jury all looked puzzled.) 'He must have imitated somebody else's hand,' said the King. (The jury all brightened up again.) 'Please your Majesty,' said the Knave, 'I didn't write it, and they can't prove I did: there's no name signed at the end.' 'If you didn't sign it,' said the King, 'that only makes the matter worse. You MUST have meant some mischief, or else you'd have signed your name like an honest man.' There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really clever thing the King had said that day. 'That PROVES his guilt,' said the Queen. 'It proves nothing of the sort!' said Alice. 'Why, you don't even know what they're about!' 'Read them,' said the King. The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.' These were the verses the White Rabbit read:-- 'They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim. He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on, What would become of you? I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before. If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were. My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it. Don't let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.' 'That's the most important piece of evidence we've heard yet,' said the King, rubbing his hands; 'so now let the jury--' 'If any one of them can explain it,' said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn't a bit afraid of interrupting him,) 'I'll give him sixpence. _I_ don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.' The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'SHE doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to explain the paper. 'If there's no meaning in it,' said the King, 'that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know,' he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; 'I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. "--SAID I COULD NOT SWIM--" you can't swim, can you?' he added, turning to the Knave. The Knave shook his head sadly. 'Do I look like it?' he said. (Which he certainly did NOT, being made entirely of cardboard.) 'All right, so far,' said the King, and he went on muttering over the verses to himself: '"WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE--" that's the jury, of course--"I GAVE HER ONE, THEY GAVE HIM TWO--" why, that must be what he did with the tarts, you know--' 'But, it goes on "THEY ALL RETURNED FROM HIM TO YOU,"' said Alice. 'Why, there they are!' said the King triumphantly, pointing to the tarts on the table. 'Nothing can be clearer than THAT. Then again--"BEFORE SHE HAD THIS FIT--" you never had fits, my dear, I think?' he said to the Queen. 'Never!' said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.) 'Then the words don't FIT you,' said the King, looking round the court with a smile. There was a dead silence. 'It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first--verdict afterwards.' 'Stuff and nonsense!' said Alice loudly. 'The idea of having the sentence first!' 'Hold your tongue!' said the Queen, turning purple. 'I won't!' said Alice. 'Off with her head!' the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.   'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!' 'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, 'It WAS a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.  The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock Turtle. So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality--the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds--the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd boy--and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard--while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's heavy sobs. Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make THEIR eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. THE END End of Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND ***


Or enter the ID of a game started by a friend:
Rules:
- 2-8 players will sign into a game using the box above, each on a different device
- The players will watch a murder mystery TV show such as Poirot or Scooby Doo
- The show must have multiple suspects who may turn out to be guilty at the end
- Players will add suspects to the board, with their phone's camera
- Players buy and sell bets on the suspects' guilt
- When the credits roll, if a suspect is guilty, their bets will be turned into money
- Try to have as much money as possible at the end!
Advanced: Rule Clarifications and FAQ
Subreddit, Discord, Github
This game is an adaptation by @hamish_todd of a design/discovery
by Robin Hanson
More information on the game and its philosophy can be found here.


Davidson Fellipe
Meetups about Web Performance Optimization
Full list on meetup.com: Web Performance Meetup Groups


SYNOPSIS: The design theme for AIGA Philadelphia chapter's office was called SPACE. The main theme was a large collection of logos created by GDloft and other designers in vinyl applied on the windows of the SPACE. The AIGA Philadelphia chapter president wanted to apply all of the logos that were created in a digital and interactive way.
CAPTURING the new vibrant energy was the main concept for the interactive design. Since the physical space was new and the content within the SPACE was always changing, visitors were always filled with excitement. Utilizing motion capture and an interactive output allowed the project to absorb the excitement and give the energy back to the patrons.
MOTION was the main capture point of the interactive piece. Utilizing a webcam, a large TV, and a low powered computer, an image recognition and motion separation algorithm was made to capture the "excitement" of the room and display a randomly chosen logo (from the SPACE logo repository) at the screen. The logo continually changes and follows the pace of the physical activity in the building. In order to keep the pace of the logo shifting to a consumable level, the motion separation algorithm detects the average level of activities in the room and normalizes it.
Along with the design of the software itself, the designers and I had to focus on the physical execution of this project because the project was being treated as an exhibition. Details that I never had to focus on before, such as the placement of monitor, camera, and concealing the equipment had to be considered when installing the piece. Since the nature of the software followed close to a kiosk, configuring the operating system installed on the host computer had to be modified extensively so it did not create any disturbances in the experience. These kind of details made me imagine beyond the software world when designing for a good software experience in future projects.


S-Meter Plugin
The source code of this plugin is available here .
The S-Meter plugin demonstrates how to receive a copy of the data being processed in the DSP Pipeline for analysis and visualization.
As in the previous example, a reference to the DSP Pipeline is obtained using an importing constructor:
[ImportingConstructor]
SMeter([Import(typeof(IPluginHost))] IPluginHost host)
{
pipeline = host.DspPipeline;
}
When the visual panel is created, the plugin subscribes to two events,
the DspPipeline.StatusChanged
and
DspPipeline.ProcessedAudio.SamplesAvailable
:
public UserControl CreatePanel()
{
panel = new SMeterControl { Name = "S-Meter" };
pipeline.StatusChanged += StatusEventhandler;
pipeline.ProcessedAudio.SamplesAvailable += SamplesAvailableEventHandler;
return panel;
}
StatusChanged
is used to disable the S-Meter when the radio is stopped,
and SamplesAvailable
is where processed audio data actually becomes
available.
The SamplesAvailable
event is fired on the real-time signal processing thread.
S-Meter cannot do its own data processing on this thread, it just stores the data
in a buffer and passes the buffer to the main thread for processing and display.
The event handler for this event is shown below. Note that the sampling rate and
data block size, and even the number of channels, are not known in advance.
The plugin reads the Format
property to find out the current data parameters.
private void SamplesAvailableEventHandler(object sender, SamplesAvailableEventArgs e)
{
if (!pipeline.ProcessedAudio.IsAvailable) return;
//make a copy of the data
//the data may come in different formats, get only what is needed
var format = pipeline.ProcessedAudio.Format;
int stride = format.Channels * (format.IsComplex ? 2 : 1);
int count = e.Count / stride;
float[] data = new float[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) data[i] = e.Data[e.Offset + i * stride];
//tell the main thread to process and display the data
context.Post(s => ProcessData(data), null);
}
Here is the method that performs data processing. It computes signal power, smooths the values over the time, and updates the meter display about 10 times a second:
private void ProcessData(float[] data)
{
if (!pipeline.ProcessedAudio.IsAvailable) return;
//calculate the value to display
foreach (var v in data) value += 0.0007f * (v * v - value);
value = Math.Max(0, value);
//the block size is not known in advance
//count the samples and update the control 10 times per second
sampleCount += data.Length;
if (sampleCount > pipeline.ProcessedAudio.Format.SamplingRate / 10)
{
//if previous stages apply any gain, subtract it from the reading
float dB = Dsp.ToDb(value) - pipeline.ProcessedAudio.Format.TotalGain;
panel?.ShowValue(Math.Max(-100, Math.Min(0, dB)));
sampleCount = 0;
}
}


| Class and Description |
|---|
| BookingHistoryItem
A class whose objects represet a booking history item (a single booking).
|
| Customer
A class whose objects represent customers
that inherits from user.
|
| Employee
A class represeting an employee
that inherits from user.
|
| Film
A class represeting a film.
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| InvalidFilmInputException |
| Main
The main class for our cinema booking management application, Cine UCL.
|
| User
A class represeting a general user
to act as the parent class for employee and customer.
|


Policy Challenges for A Globally Integrated Innovation, Production and Market Platform
“Cloud computing” is much more than simply a new set of technologies and business models. It is rapidly emerging as the platform that will underpin the next generation of digital products and services. Cloud Computing is transforming how consumers, companies, and governments store information, how they process and exchange that information, and how they utilize computing power. Consequently, it opens a new set of policy discussions while at the same time underlining the importance of old debates.
Discussions of policy in an era of “cloud computing” will continue the debate about classic questions: the terms of market access for services and the rules for privacy, security, IP and more. However, the Cloud must be understood as at once a competitive service, a dynamic enhanced utility, an ICT infrastructure/platform and innovation eco-system, a marketplace, and a production environment. The pervasive, disruptive multi-role character of “cloud computing” demands that a new array of vital questions be opened.
First, though, what exactly is Cloud Computing? Firms are marketing a wide variety of services as “Cloud Solutions,” leading - often deliberately - to some confusion. If broadly used to include all online services, the term loses meaning and risks obfuscating the critical policy issues at play.
Put simply, Cloud Computing delivers computing resources - data storage, computation and networking - to users at the time, to the location and in the quantity they wish to consume, with costs based only on the resources used. In its simplest form “Cloud” transforms computing resources from a capital expense to an operational expense. Users simply procure from providers the “amount of computing” they want without needing to invest in their own computing infrastructure.
Cloud Computing depends on the ability to abstract applications and software platforms from the underlying physical hardware and computing resources on which they depend. As an example a company storing customer data in Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Service never needs to know - and is never informed about - which physical server or servers the data is stored. This “Virtualization” enables greater flexibility in how workloads are managed, and how datacenters are constructed, since providers can dynamically add, remove or modify hardware resources without having to reconfigure the services that depend on them. The use of “Virtualization” is not new in the technology industry - having originated in the 1960s - but when combined with very sophisticated systems management software today’s “Cloud Fabric” environments enable truly global scale computing environments.
Cloud Computing changes the location of data processing or - more correctly - makes the location of data processing irrelevant - technically if not in policy terms. In traditional models of computing, data and applications are local - usually running on a personal computer (PC) for consumers and in private data centers for firms. The location of data storage and application execution is pre-determined by the design of the system. With the Cloud model applications can be run - and data stored - anywhere within the global cloud environment - which may encompass many data centers in multiple physical locations. The execution and storage locations are no-longer pre-determined by design but are now automated real-time decisions based on the availability of computing resources at any particular time.
The competitiveness of Cloud Computing service provision critically depends on providers’ ability to build out capacity at a scale far greater than any individual user or firm could afford and to fully automate the allocation of these computing resources. Aggregate demand can then be amortized over this highly scalable - and automated - infrastructure and sold back to the user at a much lower - per unit resource - cost than users could provide themselves.
Cloud Computing is, in our view, an “enhanced-dynamic” utility, having some characteristics of infrastructure and some of competitive service. Cloud computing is frequently referred to as a “utility” service, sharing many of the characteristics of other utilities such as contractual levels of availability, reliability, and consumption-based pricing. It is also ‘utility-like’ in the sense that Cloud providers are large companies operating at a significant scale, serving small users as well as giant corporations. Yet, Cloud Computing does differ from traditional utilities in several critical respects. Cloud providers compete aggressively with differentiated service offerings, service levels and technologies. Cloud services can be completely customized to the needs of the largest commercial users. Consequently, we have often referred to Cloud Computing as an “enhanced utility”.
But Cloud computing is much more than just an “enhanced utility”. It is a utility that can be configured and customized depending on user needs. In a very real sense Cloud computing is - in our terminology - a dynamic utility.
Cloud Computing is much more than simply a new set of technologies and business models. It is rapidly emerging as the platform that will underpin the next generation of digital products and services. Cloud Computing is transforming how consumers, companies, and governments store information, how they process and exchange that information, and how they utilize computing power.
Cloud Computing is also rapidly becoming a major source of product, service and business process innovation and - importantly - is unique in being both the production environment and market platform for these innovations. It is this combination of roles - Innovation ecosystem, production environment and market place - combined with the transnational nature of the platform itself that makes the Cloud Computing historically unique. This uniqueness poses significant challenges for pre-existing approaches to policy in a number of important areas.
For advanced industrial countries, Cloud Computing provides new opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, and promises substantial efficiency gains. The Cloud platform also opens significant new global market opportunities for developed economy producers and technology suppliers. For developing countries, Cloud services also open up new possibilities to enter international markets and find niches in global value networks but Cloud also creates a number of very substantial challenges.
As with the previous computing platforms - mainframes, PCs, and networks of PCs - Cloud computing is becoming a baseline for national and corporate IT infrastructure against which other forms of infrastructure and service delivery must be measured. In this respect it is likely that Cloud Computing will become an important component of national critical infrastructure. Control of Cloud infrastructure will matter to national governments.
Cloud Computing offers unprecedented new levels of configurability for diverse groups of users. Services are dynamically configured to the needs of each user with a single unified, usually global-scaled, architecture. Cloud providers’ scale and cost merits are available to all types of users, from individuals to multinational corporations. The tradeoff between the economic advantages of global scale infrastructure and the desire for governments to have policy influence over this critical market place, innovation and production environment will tax policy makers and historic approaches to global market regulation.
Critical to Cloud Computing is the abstraction of end-user applications from the underlying hardware. Put simply, application software is not tied to any particular server or physical hardware; instead, it can utilize the massive scalability and resiliency of the underlying global-scale datacenters to deliver the same services to one user or several million users. In general, users do not know or care about where the datacenters are or how they are configured. Policy makers will - however - care about where value is created and extracted in this global network.
The emergence of the Cloud Platform - which is at once Innovation Ecosystem, Production environment and Marketplace - will drive a convergence of policy making from each of these - previously distinct - domains. Prior policy norms focusing on free trade and open access to global markets will not be able to ignore the fact that national governments will care greatly about control over the innovation and production benefits of the Cloud Computing platform in addition to dependency issues for Cloud enabled critical infrastructure.
Resolving the tension between the economies that are home to the major global cloud providers and their desire to be free to sell Cloud Services around the world and the - justified - concerns of other economies to retain control over this important driver of economic growth will require significant creativity on the part of the global policy making community.
This article was originally prepared as a briefing paper for The Transatlantic Policy Network’s (TPN) Transatlantic Week 2011 Conference in Washington DC and was written jointly with John Zysman - Professor of Political Science, University of California Berkeley, and Co-Director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.


Here is a still from the film adaptation of Pebblehead's The Stupid Milk.  But which is which? You will have to see the film to find out.


Model Studies continues from where my earlier series The New Painting (2000-2004) ends.
Even more pronouncedly than the previous series, Model Studies is not about personal stories nor a documentary about someone's life. The images have been constructed for visual reasons. My attention is attached to light, colours, the rythm of the masses, and to subject matters with classical notions. The figure often turns her back to the spectator. This gesture invites to a peaceful contemplation, not to a confrontation.
Elina Brotherus Paris, February 2005


Class PointLight
- java.lang.Object
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- com.jme.light.Light
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- com.jme.light.PointLight
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- All Implemented Interfaces:
Savable
,java.lang.Cloneable
public class PointLight extends Light
Represents a point light. A point light emits light from a given position into all directions in space. E.g a lamp or a bright effect. Point light positions are in world space.In addition to a position, point lights also have a radius which can be used to attenuate the influence of the light depending on the distance between the light and the affected object.
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Nested Class Summary
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Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.jme.light.Light
Light.Type
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Constructor Description PointLight()
Creates a PointLightPointLight(Vector3f position)
Creates a PointLight at the given positionPointLight(Vector3f position, float radius)
Creates a PointLight at the given position, with the given radiusPointLight(Vector3f position, ColorRGBA color)
Creates a PointLight at the given position and with the given colorPointLight(Vector3f position, ColorRGBA color, float radius)
Creates a PointLight at the given position, with the given color and the given radius
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method Description PointLight
clone()
void
computeLastDistance(Spatial owner)
Used internally to compute the last distance value.float
getInvRadius()
for internal use onlyVector3f
getPosition()
Returns the world space position of the light.float
getRadius()
Returns the radius of the light influence.Light.Type
getType()
Returns the light typeboolean
intersectsBox(BoundingBox box, TempVars vars)
Determines if the light intersects with the given bounding box.boolean
intersectsFrustum(Camera camera, TempVars vars)
Determines if the light intersects with the given camera frustum.boolean
intersectsSphere(BoundingSphere sphere, TempVars vars)
Determines if the light intersects with the given bounding sphere.void
read(JmeImporter im)
void
setPosition(Vector3f position)
Set the world space position of the light.void
setRadius(float radius)
Set the radius of the light influence.void
write(JmeExporter ex)
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Methods inherited from class com.jme.light.Light
getColor, getName, isEnabled, isFrustumCheckNeeded, isIntersectsFrustum, setColor, setEnabled, setFrustumCheckNeeded, setIntersectsFrustum, setName
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Field Detail
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position
protected Vector3f position
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radius
protected float radius
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invRadius
protected float invRadius
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Constructor Detail
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PointLight
public PointLight()
Creates a PointLight
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PointLight
public PointLight(Vector3f position)
Creates a PointLight at the given position- Parameters:
position
- the position in world space
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PointLight
public PointLight(Vector3f position, ColorRGBA color)
Creates a PointLight at the given position and with the given color- Parameters:
position
- the position in world spacecolor
- the light color
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PointLight
public PointLight(Vector3f position, ColorRGBA color, float radius)
Creates a PointLight at the given position, with the given color and the given radius- Parameters:
position
- the position in world spacecolor
- the light colorradius
- the light radius
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PointLight
public PointLight(Vector3f position, float radius)
Creates a PointLight at the given position, with the given radius- Parameters:
position
- the position in world spaceradius
- the light radius
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Method Detail
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computeLastDistance
public void computeLastDistance(Spatial owner)
Description copied from class:Light
Used internally to compute the last distance value.- Specified by:
computeLastDistance
in classLight
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getPosition
public Vector3f getPosition()
Returns the world space position of the light.- Returns:
- the world space position of the light.
- See Also:
setPosition(com.jme.math.Vector3f)
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setPosition
public final void setPosition(Vector3f position)
Set the world space position of the light.- Parameters:
position
- the world space position of the light.
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getRadius
public float getRadius()
Returns the radius of the light influence. A radius of 0 means the light has no attenuation.- Returns:
- the radius of the light
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setRadius
public final void setRadius(float radius)
Set the radius of the light influence.Setting a non-zero radius indicates the light should use attenuation. If a pixel's distance to this light's position is greater than the light's radius, then the pixel will not be affected by this light, if the distance is less than the radius, then the magnitude of the influence is equal to distance / radius.
- Parameters:
radius
- the radius of the light influence.- Throws:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
- If radius is negative
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getInvRadius
public float getInvRadius()
for internal use only- Returns:
- the inverse of the radius
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getType
public Light.Type getType()
Description copied from class:Light
Returns the light type- Specified by:
getType
in classLight
- Returns:
- the light type
- See Also:
Light.Type
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intersectsBox
public boolean intersectsBox(BoundingBox box, TempVars vars)
Description copied from class:Light
Determines if the light intersects with the given bounding box.For non-local lights, such as
directional lights
,ambient lights
, orpoint lights
without influence radius, this method should always return true.- Specified by:
intersectsBox
in classLight
- Parameters:
box
- The box to check intersection against.vars
- TempVars in case it is needed.- Returns:
- True if the light intersects the box, false otherwise.
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intersectsSphere
public boolean intersectsSphere(BoundingSphere sphere, TempVars vars)
Description copied from class:Light
Determines if the light intersects with the given bounding sphere.For non-local lights, such as
directional lights
,ambient lights
, orpoint lights
without influence radius, this method should always return true.- Specified by:
intersectsSphere
in classLight
- Parameters:
sphere
- The sphere to check intersection against.vars
- TempVars in case it is needed.- Returns:
- True if the light intersects the sphere, false otherwise.
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intersectsFrustum
public boolean intersectsFrustum(Camera camera, TempVars vars)
Description copied from class:Light
Determines if the light intersects with the given camera frustum. For non-local lights, such asdirectional lights
,ambient lights
, orpoint lights
without influence radius, this method should always return true.- Specified by:
intersectsFrustum
in classLight
- Parameters:
camera
- The camera frustum to check intersection against.vars
- TempVars in case it is needed.- Returns:
- True if the light intersects the frustum, false otherwise.
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write
public void write(JmeExporter ex) throws java.io.IOException
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read
public void read(JmeImporter im) throws java.io.IOException
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clone
public PointLight clone()
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[gecode-users] Advisor documentation ?
Martin Mann
mmann at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Sat May 16 00:55:31 CEST 2009
Hi, me again...
Another thing I struggled on was the goal/use/usage of the Advisor
concept and more over its classes and sources.
Unfortunately, the tutorial does not cover the setup of custom
propagators yet. (Beneath: The Tutorial is really great and eases work a
lot! Thanks for that!)
Is there another description beneath the paper in the publications list
"Advisors for Incremental Propagation"? I only had a short look into the
pdf so far but no deeper reading yet. Will come next.
But the paper does not cover the implementational details where and how
to implement an Advisor for a propagator nor how to set it up.
Is there some kind of documentation ongoing or a simple example to start
with?
Last but not least: is it planned to have a chapter in the tutorial
about writing a custom propagator? Think this would be something read by
a lot of people but I see that writing a good tutorial is very time
consuming...
Thanks a lot,
Martin
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Links Associated with Project 3
The right way to link to home page!
First Servlet for Project 2
MVC Demo
Project 3 properties servlet
Request Servlet Project 3


{% extends "base.html" %} {% block forms_active %}class="active"{% endblock %} {% block title %}Show all forms{% endblock %} {% block content %}
Form Index
The listing of form parts and repeating groups below describes the consistent structure and naming convention IRSx uses to represent nonprofit tax filings. Click on a form part or a repeating group named below to see the invidividual line items, their database table and names, and the line number and description given to them in the IRS' metadata. For more, see the about page.
Jump to: Header/ReturnHeader990x Forms 990 990EZ 990PF Lettered Schedules: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, R
{% for form in forms %}{{form.sked_name}}
{% for part in form.parts %}Repeating group: {{ group }}
{% endfor %}


Does anyone use the Metabans API here?
I wanted to test a bit with it, but if I use the example links (f.e.
http://metabans.com/api?options=mirror&requests
[0][action]=mbo_availability_account_name&requests[0][account_name]=phogue&requests[1] or encoded:
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About and FAQ
Why Involt?
Developing interactive product is multidisciplinary task. It's related to industrial design, programming, user experience and sometimes graphic design skills. Arduino is easy hardware prototyping platform but things get complicated when software is involved in project - even if there are many great tools and frameworks for app prototyping.
The key to Involt is to "make it simple" to prototype, iterate and quickly show results to users. Involt can be a huge boost in your design process, especially during RITE method (Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation).
Who is it for?
It's a tool "for designers by designers". Nowadays there is a huge focus on prototyping, iterating and user experience methodology. More designers are involved in development process. Sometimes it's hard to start without programmer, but thanks to Involt it's easier on early stages of ideation and prototyping your project. It's also good starting point for entry level Arduino users and students.
Why it's better than other solutions?
Quick research on the web shows that there are many great but not simple solutions, especially if you are not a programmer but for example - interaction/UX designer. You can write native app for target system or look for hybrid solutions like Node.js libraries or Cordova plugins and Evothings. They require programming skills (for their API) and are not "out of the box" solutions suitable for prototyping.
Involt took a step forward toward simplicity of prototyping. It's easier to use CSS than scripting interactions from scratch beacuse you are probably more familiar with it (HTML/CSS) and it's more flexible when developing the layout for end-user. Practically you are a few steps forward. Involt automatically handles all of the communication and connection so you have basic setup right after installation. Another powerful feature is the fact that for Bluetooth 2.0 the same app will work fine on both desktop and mobile.
Probably you ask yourself - why such a trivial idea didn't exist? I think there are two answers to that question. In my opinion, in most cases, for hardware/software developers it's more common and obvious to start with native code and working on final result after some certain steps where others do the design and ideation process... It's constantly changing and these changes can be seen in many startup companies. The second answer is the fact that such combination couldn't find proper context and usage (because of first answer).
Why shouldn't we have good prototyping tool for interactive products when there are so many app prototyping tools and now they are successfully used everywhere? I know and received feedback from many people who are interaction designers. They find this idea great because it offers new possibilities to express their ideas and it combines both working on layout with interactions in the easiest way possible, not the best in terms of performance - but the easiest. That's why we do prototypes - we do them to test if our idea is good and iterate to improve it. Then, at some point the real development comes by.
What's the future of Involt?
It depends on many things. I was looking for solution that will fit my needs. The first idea began during my studies at School of Form. I saw a huge opportunity in it and what is more important - I know that many people use it. I decided to continue the project as a tool for prototyping rather than another complex solution for programmers or another IOT service with "dashboard full of diagrams" (online support is not a bad idea but it requires a lot of changes). However, if you know JQuery and Javascript you can actually do anything you want. With each main update I want to implement new communication method and improve the overall experience. If popularity constantly grow I will consider development of more complex prototyping tool with graphic interface instead of HTML coding.
Some people asks me why HTML/CSS framework doesn't support online communication? It's obvious that it should! In my opinion it depends on context where you use Involt. The main goal of IoT solutions is to use them everywhere you want or have some informations in cloud-based service that uses gathered information or share it between users/other devices. Do we really need this features in prototype when everything will change multiple times and we use them for early tests? Of course, there are probably situations where it's required but I rarely see such protoypes. Technically pure IoT support will remove Involt dependencies and it will be possible in future, but... there are still many changes that online support requires from Involt.
It's important that dependency on Chrome or Cordova might be removed in future. Now node webkit supports Chrome Apps API and there are people who do Bluetooth LE implementation directly into web browsers.
I designed a layout. Will injecting Involt have impact on my project?
No problem in adding framework to existing project even if you use other frameworks as long as you have single page layout. You don't have to use Involt CSS stylesheet, just use the Involt syntax on existing HTML element while keeping its original appearance (keep in mind that some elements generates additional HTML elements to work correctly). If you have JQuery based app, you can just include Involt JQuery methods where you want to send or receive data. For hardware it can be a little bit more complicated, you need to adapt your project to Involt sketch and its functions. Luckily, Involt sketch is only dependent on Serial library so it shouldn't collide with your project (as long as your device by default have this kind of communication).
Limitations
- Involt based apps requires single page layout structure. Maybe it's not limiting but otherwise it will not work.
- Involt on desktop is built on top of Chrome Packaged Apps and Involt for mobile is Cordova based. All things related to their API apply to them (for example - Chrome Packaged App doesn't allow inline scripting).
- Project is based on web technologies but keep in mind that it does not support online communication so you can't develop working IoT solution(maybe in future).
- IOS and Bluetooth LE are not supported (for now).
- Arduino basic boards and derivatives from other companies works fine, I can't be sure for bluetooth devices if they work fine on particular system or smartphone... Please inform me if something is wrong with hardware you tested the project.
How can I help?
That's a good question! There are still many things to do with this project and I constantly learn new things. I will appreciate any help. Things that interest me the most:
- I will really appreciate if you send me name of hardware device or smartphone on which framework works (or not). I'm trying the project on everything I have but I want to create trusted devices list. Also compability with other frameworks and tools would be great.
- Suggestions in script behaviour and improvements. Especially the functions for receiving values from device to app (onReceive and onReceiveParse) are better with each version but they can be improved.
- Issues on Github
- A link about your completed and well designed Involt project so I could put it in future in case studies section.
- Suggestion for tutorials or things that must be more explained on the website.


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Utils Module¶
Misc utilities.
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requests_client.utils.
proxy_bypass_append
(host)[source]¶ Adds the given host to os.environ[‘no_proxy’] if it was not already present. This environment variable is used by the Requests library to disable proxies for requests to particular hosts.
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"In this International Criminal Court, the girl soldiers will not be invisible."
Child soldier in Congo
F.l. former prosecutor of the ICC Luis Moreno Ocampo and f.r. current prosecutor Fatou Bensouda
Former child soldier Emmanuel Jal in discussion with Angelina Jolie
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WALK THROUGH THE FLAT AND LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
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Malia's framed picture under the night stand in her bedroom
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Look alike of public viewingThe next day brings many new things, breakfast with Antonia and her first European meal. Antonia shows her The Hague. Malia finds a postcard with the picture "Starry Night", The first thing she buys in Europe. In a restaurant, she shares with Antonia her affinity for this picture. Read more . . .
ON APARTMENT DOOR FROM INSIDE THE FLAT Malia enters the flat. She pushes open the apartment door. She looks down the hall. The hall is in the afternoon light. Dust particles dance in the sunlight. Malia enters slowly. ON THE FRONT OF HER FACE. She turns around and closes the door. She carries a half-full shopping bag on her right side. (On the bag is a drawing of two laughing blonde children with apples. One child holds an apple in his hand, the other bites heartily into it.) ON THE BAG Malia slowly turns around and leans against the door with relief. The quiet apartment stands in evident contrast to the noisy city life she has just left on the other side of the door. ON THE FRONT OF MALIA'S FACE. Malia sighs and closes her eyes. From outside, the road noise can be heard, but slowly all sounds are swallowed around her until the soundscape is similar to being underwater. It feels friendly and calm at first, but then the audience feels a gradually strengthening claustrophobic muteness. You can see her breathing, but cannot hear her breathing or her heartbeat. Malia opens her eyes and stares past the camera down the hallway. The noises disappear completely until its fully silent.  A distinct, loud clicking noise on the parquet can be heard. It gives the feeling of a heavy tread of a large animal. As it comes closer, you can hear its claws on the wooden floor. Malia stares down the hallway. As if it were completely normal, the creature slowly comes around the corner. It pushes his bony body forward with uneven steps. It turns its head and looks over at Malia. From its micro facial expressions, the audience can understand that it recognizes Malia. It progresses silently and very slowly to the corridor wall, it turns and steps back like a lion wandering along its cage bars. It fixes Malia firmly with its empty eyes, then slowly and unevenly slumps around the far corner. One has the feeling it limps slightly. (It exudes extreme evil, yet is plagued by a certain inner uncertainty, its personality mirrors the darkness of Malia's frightened state.) One hears it continue with difficulty in the direction of the bathroom.
 Malia stands there, petrified. Her view is fixed on the hallway's corner, as though she is waiting for the creature to reappear. CLOSE TO MALIA'S FACE. Her Forehead is sweaty. She opens her mouth as though to scream, but covers her mouth with her hand and holds it in. AT THE LEVEL OF THE SHOPPING BAG, WITH MALIA. (ON THE BAG, THE BLOND SMILING CHILDREN) Malia pushes herself with the bag against the door. She opens the door and walks out. She closes it firmly behind her, mechanically, as though in a trance. ---BEGINNING OF THE PLAN SEQUENCE--- FLYING IN FRONT OF MALIA BACKWARDS. Malia is quickly walking down the stairs towards the front door. Still no sound. MOVING BACK FROM THE HOUSE TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET. Malia hesitates and stays in the doorway of the house. She gasps and breathes heavily. While the camera leaves the entrance of the house, the entire ambient sound comes back Gradually. First, human voices and laughter, then the bicycle bells, live music, and traffic noise. As if the volume has been changed abruptly from mute to sound. Finally, you can hear Malia breathing. Malia closes her eyes briefly. Malia begins to walk across the street, towards the camera in the direction of the canal. THE CAMERA MOVES TO THE RIGHT, KEEPING A CONSTANT DISTANCE FROM MALIA, IN A CIRCULAR MOTION AROUND HER, CROSSING THE ROAD TOWARDS HER HOUSE. THE END POSITION IS MALIA FROM BEHIND IN A LONG SHOT WITH VIEW OF THE CANAL IN FRONT OF HER. IT BASICALLY SWITCHES POSITIONS WITH MALIA. Malia goes to the canal. She stops and stares at the water. SLOWLY MOVING TOWARDS MALIA UNTIL OVER MALIA'S SHOULDER. A small motorboat moves past her from right to left. An elderly man controls the outboard motor. A young woman sits in the boat, breast-feeding a baby. A young boy sits next to her and plays guitar. Malia watches. (Intention: The hustle and bustle of normal city life help Malia to suppress her fear.) Malia turns to the right and discovers what for the viewer is initially invisible, a small bench about 5 meters away, overlooking the canal.Read more . . .
SWIVELS TO RIGHT AND FIXES ON MALIA WALKING TOWARDS THE WOODEN BENCH ON HER RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CANAL. DURING THIS MOVEMENT IT GLIDES OVER THE CANAL TO THE OPPOSITE SITE, CONSTANTLY FIXING ON MALIA.  Malia goes to the bench and sits down. A bakery can be seen behind Malia. Teeming springtime life in The Hague surrounds her. Everything looks new and fresh. (For example, an old woman is watering the flowers in front of her window above the bakery, a child rides a toy car with his family, a couple strolls hand-in-hand, a postman drops letters at the house next door, a cat sleeps next to a flowerpot, a boy feeds pigeons, etc.) (Intention: The world intensifies around Malia into artificiality. All elements of a busy street on a spring day are emphasized and exaggerated. The world becomes like a circus. All the elements of a busy street are piling up visually. So for example there is not one loving couple but two or three. There are jugglers walking through the scene. Lots of kids playing, holding balloons or skating. Street musicians everywhere... etc.) A cyclist passes behind Malia, ringing his bell loudly, and she looks back over her left shoulder with interest. She notices an older, elegantly dressed woman in a pink suit, pearl necklace and hat (similar to Queen Elizabeth) on the street, on the sidewalk in front of the bakery, walking her well-groomed poodle on a rhinestone leash. The woman ties the poodle to a bike standing in front of the bakery.
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The poodle sits down and looks patiently at the bustle of the street. The lady goes to the bakery. Malia looks alternately back past the camera to the canal. She is interested and amazed at this strange dog, who is also watching the comings and goings, and sniffing at people who pass. After a few moments, the woman returns with a bag from the bakery. Malia looks away to avoid making eye contact. The woman and her dog depart to the left. Malia looks after them, carefully, so as not to be noticed. THE CAMERA STARTS TO MOVE SLOWLY BACKWARD UNTIL IT COMES TO A STOP ON A VIEW OF MALIA AND ANTONIA. From left, the camera catches a view of Antonia, who has now sat down a little distance from Malia on the bench. She smiles at Malia. You feel she does not want to scare her. (Throughout the following dialogue, the circus-like state around Malia gradually reduces to a normal intensity. Intention: Malia comes back to reality.)
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ANTONIA How fortunate that I saw you. What are you doing here?
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MALIA (pleased) I was shopping.
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Antonia leans forward slightly and looks at the grocery bag at Malia's feet.
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ANTONIA Want to cook or shall we order something to eat?
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MALIA I wanted to cook something.
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Overview
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Returns the an MKHTMLNode with the body tag at the top of the tree.
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What do these exactly mean? Why can't I see either of them on my soldier even I am 100 colonel but I am able to see other 100 colonels BBlog rank and BBlog service stars?
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I just got promoted to rank 145, to see my BBlog rank and BBlog service stars does it mean that I have to get another rank promotion in points when in fact I am already at max rank?
Yes, it continues counting your score into ranks and displays them.
I just got promoted to rank 145, to see my BBlog rank and BBlog service stars does it mean that I have to get another rank promotion in points when in fact I am already at max rank?
Yes, it continues counting your score into ranks and displays them.


- threads are constructs for a single computer
- events are constructs for a single CPU
Seasoned engineers are using a mix of threaded, event-based, and alternative concurrency approaches like Actors and, experimentally, STM.
[They] aren’t up at night feverishly rewriting their systems in Node. They’re doing what they’ve always done: measuring, testing, benchmarking, thinking hard, keeping up with the academic literature that pertains to their problems. That’s what scaling in the large necessitates.
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In order to simplify the publication of content and have this site automatically build whenever I publish a change to Git, I have set up a script and integrated my GitHub repository with Travis CI. By doing so, I can simply focus on the content, and using the scripts that I wrote, the site will build and publish itself. Because I have a cron job setup on the dylanmtaylor.com domain, every change I push to Git is automatically pulled and deployed almost instantaneously, so that my content is up to date.
The setup for this is actually pretty simple, although it took me a few tries to figure it out – first and foremost, there is now no longer a build.sh in the repository’s main directory. This file was previously used to manually build and copy the files for Jekyll as well as clear memcached’s cache when I rebuilt the site so that nginx would always be serving the latest content. The lines that were in that file were manually copied to a .travis.yml file which will build the site automatically and push the changes to GitHub as me, with a “built from [commit]” line as the commit message. Before building the site, the script downloads and installs the ruby development libraries into the Travis build environment and installs jekyll using Ruby gems.
Once the build environment is setup properly, the script will build all the non-blog static content by running my build-site.py, which is custom Python code and then run commands very similar to the build.sh script which I was manually running previously. Then, using a secure string, Travis will use a GitHub token associated with my account and push the built content to GitHub. This is then pulled automatically onto dylanmtaylor.com using the aforementioned cron job.


I love English. Sure, English is impossibly inconsistant on the surface, but its rules are there – they are deep and hidden. Rather than saying English is nonsensical, its safer to say that one must speak English with devotion for decades to understand its secrets. As an example: Take the prepositional phrase, “get on.” What does that mean?
Let me tell you a story about Al Capone:
As a child, Al Capone got on the bus every day to go to school.
His mom got on him about his grades, so he worked hard.
He even got on student government.
As an adult, he got on with everyone… except the law.
He eventually got on the police’s “Public enemy” list.
They got him on tax evasion.
He almost got off in appeals court, but spent 11 years in prison.
He didn’t leave prison until he after he got on a guerney.


This page outlines using the picker with jQuery. The jQuery-provider.js
file must be included after
the
main picker code. jQuery is no longer a requirement and is here for backwards compatibility.
It's highly recommend to use the native methods as jQuery will be dropped completely in the future.
The events are slightly different with jQuery. Using the native methods events return as event.detail.[date|oldDate|etc]
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With jQuery, you will access those values e.[date|oldDate|ect]
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This is the simplest setup you can have with Bootstrap and Font Awesome 5. The picker defaults to FA 5 Solid icons, however you can overwrite the defaults globally.

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Undergraduate in Computer Science at the University of California: San Diego
Saif Chaudhry is a candidate for Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California: San Diego, with a concentration on Software Engineering


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| enum | AntialiasedElement { aeAxes = 0x0001, aeGrid = 0x0002, aeSubGrid = 0x0004, aeLegend = 0x0008, aeLegendItems = 0x0010, aePlottables = 0x0020, aeItems = 0x0040, aeScatters = 0x0080, aeErrorBars = 0x0100, aeFills = 0x0200, aeZeroLine = 0x0400, aeAll = 0xFFFF, aeNone = 0x0000 } |
| enum | PlottingHint { phNone = 0x000, phFastPolylines = 0x001, phForceRepaint = 0x002, phCacheLabels = 0x004 } |
| enum | Interaction { iRangeDrag = 0x001, iRangeZoom = 0x002, iMultiSelect = 0x004, iSelectPlottables = 0x008, iSelectAxes = 0x010, iSelectLegend = 0x020, iSelectItems = 0x040, iSelectOther = 0x080 } |
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The QCP Namespace contains general enums and QFlags used throughout the QCustomPlot library
Defines what objects of a plot can be forcibly drawn antialiased/not antialiased. If an object is neither forcibly drawn antialiased nor forcibly drawn not antialiased, it is up to the respective element how it is drawn. Typically it provides a setAntialiased function for this.
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61. as-Saff: The Ranks
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All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, and He is the Mighty, the Wise.
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O ye who believe! Why say ye that which ye do not ?
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It is most hateful in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not.
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Lo! Allah loveth them who battle for His cause in ranks, as if they were a solid structure.
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And (remember) when Moses said unto his people: O my people! Why persecute ye me, when ye well know that I am Allah's messenger unto you ? So when they went astray Allah sent their hearts astray. And Allah guideth not the evil-living folk.
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And when Jesus son of Mary said: O Children of Israel! Lo! I am the messenger of Allah unto you, confirming that which was (revealed) before me in the Torah, and bringing good tidings of a messenger who cometh after me, whose name is the Praised One. Yet when he hath come unto them with clear proofs, they say: This is mere magic.
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And who doeth greater wrong than he who inventeth a lie against Allah when he is summoned unto Al-Islam ? And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.
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Fain would they put out the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light however much the disbelievers are averse.
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He it is Who hath sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may make it conqueror of all religion however much idolaters may be averse.
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O ye who believe! Shall I show you a commerce that will save you from a painful doom ?
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Ye should believe in Allah and His messenger, and should strive for the cause of Allah with your wealth and your lives. That is better for you, if ye did but know.
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He will forgive you your sins and bring you into Gardens underneath which rivers flow, and pleasant dwellings in Gardens of Eden. That is the supreme triumph.
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And (He will give you) another (blessing) which ye love: help from Allah and present victory. Give good tidings (O Muhammad) to believers.
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O ye who believe! Be Allah's helpers, even as Jesus son of Mary said unto the disciples: Who are my helpers for Allah ? They said: We are Allah's helpers. And a party of the Children of Israel believed, while a party disbelieved. Then We strengthened those who believed against their foe, and they became the uppermost.
-- Sura 61 --


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Object containing the default message to be shared by sms. More...
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Object containing the default message to be shared by sms.
Create an sms object, fill in the message field, and add the object to the JRActivityObject.sms property in your JRActivityObject. The given message string is supplied to the MFMessageComposeViewController class when the user wants to share your activity via sms.
If your sms message contains URLs that you would like shortened to an http://rpx.me/ (with which you can track click-throughs), add the exact URL(s), as NSString*s, to the urls array. The library will contact the Engage servers to obtain shortened URLs and replace any instance of the url in your sms message.
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Returns a JRSmsObject initialized with the given message and URLs that you wish to be shortened to the http://rpx.me/ format.
| message | The desired message text of the sms. If you want to include urls that are shortened to an http://rpx.me/ url, they should be added to the urls array. Once the call to get the shortened URLs is completed, the library will replace all occurrences of each url with its corresponding shortened url. This value can be edited by the user once the MFMessageComposeViewController is displayed | |
| urls | The array of urls that JREngage will shorten to an http://rpx.me/ url. Once the call to get the shortened URLs is completed, the library will replace all occurrences of each url with its corresponding shortened url. To avoid blocking the UI, if the user tries to share via sms before the call is returned, the original urls will remain. The URLs must be an NSString* representation of a well-formed URL, with a scheme and host. They cannot be an empty string or nil |
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The desired message.
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An array of URLs that will be shortened to the http://rpx.me domain so that click-through rates can be tracked.


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Nikola Tesla
Timeline
1859:
Nikola Tesla is born.
He was born based on Slavonic rites.
His birth records show he was born on July 28th.
1875:
Tesla Enrolls In College. In 1875, Tesla enrolled to a Polytechnic based on a military scholarship.
He was a disciplined student and achieved the highest grades possible while passing various exams.
1881:
Tesla Begins His Career As Chief Electrical Engineer
In 1881, he moved to Budapest in Hungary, to work for a telegraph company.
Upon arriving, he noticed that the Budapest Telephone Exchange company was not in operation, so he worked at draftsman in another company.
1881:
Tesla Submits Some Of His First Patents.
In March 1885, he met with an attorney known as Lemuel Serrel, to help in the submission of various patents.
1887:
Tesla Re-imagines The Electric Motor. In 1887, Tesla came up with an induction motor that was operated by alternating current, a form of power that was becoming common in Europe and the USA.
This type of power provided various benefits, especially in long-distance power transmission.
In particular, the motor was operated by a polyphase current, which produced a rotating magnetic field to operate the motor.
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Nikola Tesla: Timeline


Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.


Play Bee: A sport, a new racing sport involving bees flying over an island. Race to beat your friends to the finish line. First one to the other side wins!


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Thoughts on Trust in Remote Teams
Working remotely adds an entirely new kind of challenge to already complicated workplace relationships. Human relationships hinge in part on trust and trust can be difficult to establish digitally. How much you can you really learn about someone you’ve never met? Can you rely on someone you’ve only seen once?
Working in a remote team forces you to take a leap of faith beyond a traditional office relationship. At the end of the day there are a shadowy cabal of people you must rely on to help build a product, sign your checks and keep you employed.
To overcome this gap at Zapier we try a few different things to build trust systems into digital relationships. First, we have fun. Fun builds feelings of mutual camaraderie in a team. Our Slack channel and Async - our internal communication tool - all lean towards laid back. You can drop a funny GIF into chat, you can make jokes to blow off steam and you’re encouraged to just communicate with your coworkers.
We default to transparency, meaning that our communication channels are open - visible as often as possible to everyone. No one is left out of the loop, no one is punished for not being “there” at the right time in asynchronous communication. When your team spans so many timezones you simply can’t afford to place emphasis on “when.”
These kind of things bridge the gap in a relationship that’s almost purely digital. They’re stop gaps that enable us to feel connected with people who may even be on the other side of the world. The best way that Zapier helps solidify these relationships are during our retreats.
Retreats: A Camp for Adults
Instead of dividing everyone into sterile and physically separate hotel rooms the Zapier team lives together under one roof for upwards of a week. We cook together, clean together and hack together. From top to bottom each person is sharing in the responsibility of the companies’ success.
Everyone is suddenly on every team. Wild ideas become concrete projects in an afternoon. It’s fantastic to see a company bloom so vividly together. When you spend so much time apart the energy when everyone comes together is palpable. It feels, in some ways, like a camp for adults. Work becomes play - enjoyable, stimulating and done as much for the fun of it as anything else.
Its arguable that Zapier is at a sweet spot in size - big enough to build a community but small enough to maintain a culture and that’s why these retreats work. But I believe that these retreats can be scaled, and maintain the magic for even larger teams. A larger team may even need it more as the web of trust becomes stretched by each new member. When you rely on each other directly you strengthen digital relationships into tangible relationships that can be maintained even in the absence of regular face to face time.
Trust is the Most Valuable Currency
Building structures that encourage and grow trust networks is a critical part of remote working. It starts at hiring, where you select for candidates you can rely on. It’s grown by communication that’s friendly and transparent. Maintaining those relationships must be an active goal that is sometimes best serviced by just simply being together.
Working remotely is a way to build teams that aren’t restricted by the arbitrary limitations of geography, teams that are able to offer a more balanced work-life experience. It isn’t however without challenges. But they are challenges that should be met face on. To deny that is to fail to rise to the occasion in a time where fully remote operations are just taking off. I firmly believe the future of knowledge workers is remote and that it is a social responsibility to excel at building the structure that will support future teams. Finding ways to strengthen trust within a team is a huge part of that and one that we’re only just beginning to understand.


You must now log into your system as a user who must already hold SYSADM and/or SYSCTRL authority. Create a database called 'security' from the DB2 Command Window as shown on the right pane.
By default, the database creator is granted DBADM, SECADM, DATAACCESS and ACCESSCTRL authorities during database creation.


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Come and indulge in the finest experience!
Don't let my appearance intimidate you! I am the friendliest lion ever! Get ready to taste the mouthwatering delicacies, finest cuisine of madagascar And Alex's special pizza!
Fresh Juices or Rich Wine, I know the proportion just right!
We had lunch here a few times while on the island visiting family and friends. The servers here are just wonderful and have great memories it seems. We sat on the ocean front patio and enjoyed the view with our delicious wine and lunch. Must try!
Hello. Please give our thanks to the Manager(s) and others for the wonderful room and bottle of sparkling wine for our Anniversary stay. We had an amazing time. The room was so comfortable, the food at Echo absolutely spectacular (we ate two meals there)
The food was absolutely wonderful, from preparation to presentation, very pleasing. We especially enjoyed the special bar drinks, the cucumber/cilantro infused vodka martini and the K&P Aquarium was great (even took photos so we could try to replicate at home).


WAEC releases 2019 Nov/Dec results
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of private candidates who sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).
Per a release issued by WAEC, some 102, 278 candidates comprising of 51, 935 males and 55, 488 females registered for the exams.
Out of the total number, 5, 145 absentees were recorded.
Results of some 753 candidates have been withheld for allegedly engaging in various forms of examination malpractices, one of which is bringing mobile phones into the exams hall.
According to the examination body, these withheld results will be released or cancelled after the Council completes investigations into the alleged malpractices.
The WAEC cautioned the general public to be wary of persons who pose as representatives of the Council with the capability of changing or upgrading results at a fee.
“We wish to assure all stakeholders that the Council’s results database is well secured, as such all forged results can be detected by the confirmation/verification system which has been made available to institutions and organizations,” the Council stated.
Various institutions and organizations are therefore advised to access the confirmation or verification service online through the Council’s website.