The EventManager is the central point of Doctrine's event listener system.
Listeners are registered on the manager and events are dispatched through the manager.
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addEventListener(string|array $events, object $listener) : void
string|array
The event(s) to listen on.
object
The listener object.
addEventSubscriber(\Doctrine\Common\EventSubscriber $subscriber) : void
dispatchEvent(string $eventName, \Doctrine\Common\EventArgs|null $eventArgs = null) : boolean
string
The name of the event to dispatch. The name of the event is the name of the method that is invoked on listeners.
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The name of the event.
array
The event listeners for the specified event, or all event listeners.
hasListeners(string $event) : boolean
string
boolean
TRUE if the specified event has any listeners, FALSE otherwise.
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Each trial of the task has several parts and requires you to make two responses.
As shown in the diagram below, before each trial begins you will see an asterisk, then you will see a word written at the center of the screen.
Your job is to remember that word, because you will be tested on it at the end of trial.
After a few seconds a colored rectangle will appear on the screen.
Your job is to report the color of that rectangle as quickly and accurately as possible, using the buttons indicated in the diagram below.
'A' = red           'S' = blue           'J' = green           'K' = yellow
After another short delay, you will see a word on the screen with instructions to indicate whether it is the same or a different word from the WORD you were asked to remember at the beginning of the trial.
Press the number '1' if it is the same as the word from beginning of the trial. Press '0 (zero)' if it is a different word


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The KKW Beauty founder treated her followers to a tutorial and discussed her previous painful experiences with industrial tape
by Tiffany WallisKim Kardashian demonstrates how her new SKIMS body tapes work with a tutorial on social media on Tuesday.
Using a topless model, the Kardashian shows fans how to use her collection of nude-coloured body tapes for tricky outfits that boast plunging necklines and threaten to expose more than what you bargained for.
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She announces: "Hey guys, I’m in my closet and I’m going to show you how to tape up your boobs with the boob tape because it’s something that I have used for so many years."
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SKIMS tonal body tape has a slight stretch to it to allow ultimate hold underneath and comes in three shades of nude.
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After securing the tape smoothly on the skin, the businesswoman dresses the model with a chic blazer to prove the invisible appearance on the tape that lies underneath.

The global icon then shares a series of throwback images of when she used either duct tape or gaffer tape to strap her boobs down in some of her most memorable outfits.
The snaps show Kim wearing fashion ensembles with very low necklines and plunging designs as she captions each with an explanation of her painful wardrobe hack.
In one photo, Kim jokes she was in such a rush that her cleavage looked lopsided due to uneven tape application.
Meanwhile in another shot, she reveals she used black tape, but admits it flattened the center part of her boob.


{{Infobox prepared food | name = Moambe | image = | caption = Chicken moambe with French fries | alternate_name = Palm butter, palm cream | country = | region = | creator = | course = | type = Stew or sauce | served = | main_ingredient = Palm nuts | variations = | calories = | other = }}
Moambe, mwambe, nyembwe, palm butter, or palm cream is the name of a sauce or a dish prepared with a sauce usually made from the pericarp (not the seeds) of palm nuts, the fruit of the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) tree, in western Middle Africa.
Dishes made with the sauce often include peanuts, peanut sauce, or peanut butter. The meat usually used in the dishes is chicken but other meats such as beef, fish, mutton, or any wild game meat such as crocodile or venison are used as well. Moambe or Nyembwe Chicken is considered a national dish of three African countries.
It is sometimes said{{Who|date=May 2012}} that the name refers to the number of ingredients in the dish but it actually derives from the word for palm butter.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}<ref>Cf. Lingala mwambe, "eight," and mwǎmba, "palm butter"</ref>
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In Gabon, the sauce is usually called nyembwe from the Myene word for palm oil.<ref name="Gabon">"Oiling the Wheels of the Economy." Gabon. Winter 2007. p. 19. Retrieved 10 March 2009</ref> The most important dish using nyembwe is Nyembwe Chicken (French: poulet [au] Nyembwe or poulet [au] Gnemboue) which is considered a national dish of Gabon.<ref name="Gabon"/>
In the Republic of the Congo, the sauce is called moambé or mwambe. Moambe Chicken is considered a national dish of the country.
In western regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mwambi or mwambe ({{lang-ln|mwǎmba}}) is the name given to the sauce of palm oil or peanuts. Poulet à la Moambé, "chicken in a moambe sauce", is also considered the Congo's national dish.<ref>Travel: 192-Part Guide to the World Part 41 Congo (Kinshasa)</ref>
In Angola the dish is called "muamba" and is considered a national dish as well. It is usually served with funge, a manioc purée, and can be made with fish on occasions.<ref>Hamilton,Cherie. Cuisines of Portuguese Encounters New York: Hippocrene Books, 2001. p. 219</ref>
The palm nuts are boiled and then pounded. The pulp is mixed with water, sieved and boiled again. Canned palm soup base, also called sauce graine or noix de palme may be substituted. The chicken and fish is slowly stewed in palm oil.
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Subclass for analyzing particle data.
@author: Zach Hafen @contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>@status: Development
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LOSData
(data_p, **kw_args)[source]¶ Bases:
galaxy_dive.analyze_data.generic_data.GenericData
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(data_key, sl=None, data_storage=<object object>)¶ Get the data from within the class. Only for getting the data. No post-processing or changing the data (putting it in particular units, etc.) The idea is to calculate necessary quantities as the need arises, hence a whole function for getting the data.
Parameters: Returns: Requested data.
Return type: data (np.ndarray)
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(data_key, data_method=<object object>, *args, **kwargs)¶ Get post-processed data. (Accounting for fractions, log-space, etc.).
Parameters: Returns: Requested data, including formatting.
Return type: processed_data (np.ndarray)
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get_selected_data
(*args, **kwargs)¶ Wrapper for getting masked data.
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handle_data_key_error
(data_key)¶ Method for attempting to generate data on the fly.
Parameters: data_key (str) – Type of data to attempt to generate data for.
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Parameters: Returns: [ method( **used_args ) for used_args in all_variations_of_used_args ]
Return type: results (list)
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length_scale
¶ Property for fiducial length scale. By default, is 1. However, a more advanced subclass might set this differently, or this might change in the future.
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mask_data
(*args, **kwargs)¶ Wrapper for masking data.
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metallicity_scale
¶ Property for fiducial metallicity scale. By default is z_sun However, a more advanced subclass might set this differently, or this might change in the future.
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shift
(data, data_key)¶ Shift or multiply the data by some amount. Note that this is applied after logarithms are applied.
data : data to be shifted data_key : Data key for the parameters to be shifted Parameters are a subdictionary of self.kwargs ‘data_key’ : What data key the data is shifted for
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velocity_scale
¶ Property for fiducial velocity scale. By default is 1. However, a more advanced subclass might set this differently, or this might change in the future.
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--- layout: post esbma_id: unknown title: Fiddling with ReactiveUI and Xamarin.Forms date: 2014-10-06 10:00:00 ---
I'm no expert at ReactiveUI. I'm just fiddling around in the back row of a session here at Xamarin Evolve. :-)
I want an instance of my DataGrid control that is bound to a collection of objects. And I want the display to automatically update when I change a property on one of those objects.
For the sake of this quickie demo, I'm gonna add a tap handler for a cell that simply appends an asterisk to the text of that cell. That should end up causing a display update.
Something like this code snippet:
Main.SingleTap += (object sender, CellCoords e) => { T r = Rows [e.Row]; ColumnInfo ci = Columns[e.Column]; var typ = typeof(T); var ti = typ.GetTypeInfo(); var p = ti.GetDeclaredProperty(ci.PropertyName); if (p != null) { var val = p.GetValue(r); p.SetValue(r, val.ToString() + "*"); } };
Actually, that looks complicated, because I've got some reflection code that figures out which property on my object corresponds to which column. Ignore the snippet above and think of it like this (for a tap in column 0):
Main.SingleTap += (object sender, CellCoords e) => {
WordPair r = Rows [e.Row];
r.en += "*";
};
Which will make more sense if you can see the class I'm using to represent a row:
public class WordPair { public string en { get; set; } public string sp { get; set; } }
Or rather, that's what it looked like before I started adapting it for ReactiveUI. Now it needs to notify somebody when its properties change, so it looks more like this:
public class WordPair : ReactiveObject
{
private string _en;
private string _sp;
public string en {
get { return _en; }
set { this.RaiseAndSetIfChanged (ref _en, value); }
}
public string sp {
get { return _sp; }
set { this.RaiseAndSetIfChanged (ref _sp, value); }
}
}
So, basically I want a DataGrid which is bound to a ReactiveList
So my DataGrid subclass of Xamarin.Forms.View has a type parameter for the type of the row:
public class ColumnishGrid<T> : Xamarin.Forms.View where T : class
And the ReactiveList<T> is stored in a property of that View:
public static readonly BindableProperty RowsProperty =
BindableProperty.Create<ColumnishGrid<T>,ReactiveList<T>>(
p => p.Rows, null);
public ReactiveList<T> Rows {
get { return (ReactiveList<T>)GetValue(RowsProperty); }
set { SetValue(RowsProperty, value); } // TODO disallow invalid values
}
And the relevant portions of the code to build a Xamarin.Forms content page look like this:
var mainPage = new ContentPage { Content = new ColumnishGrid<WordPair> { ... Rows = new ReactiveList<WordPair> { new WordPair { en = "drive", sp = "conducir" }, new WordPair { en = "speak", sp = "hablar" }, new WordPair { en = "give", sp = "dar" }, new WordPair { en = "be", sp = "ser" }, new WordPair { en = "go", sp = "ir" }, new WordPair { en = "wait", sp = "esperar" }, new WordPair { en = "live", sp = "vivir" }, new WordPair { en = "walk", sp = "andar" }, new WordPair { en = "run", sp = "correr" }, new WordPair { en = "sleep", sp = "dormir" }, new WordPair { en = "want", sp = "querer" }, } } };
The implementation of ColumnishGrid contains the following snippet, which will be followed by further explanation:
IRowList<T> rowlist = new RowList_Bindable_ReactiveList<T>(this, RowsProperty); IValuePerCell<string> vals = new ValuePerCell_RowList_Properties<string,T>(rowlist, propnames); IDrawCell<IGraphics> dec = new DrawCell_Text (vals, fmt);
In DataGrid, a RowList is an interface used for binding some data type that represents a whole row.
public interface IRowList<T> : IPerCell { bool get_value(int r, out T val); }
A RowList It could be an array of something (like strings), using the column number as an index. But in this case, I am using a class, with each property mapped to a column.
A ValuePerCell object is used anytime DataGrid needs, er, a value per cell (like the text to be displayed):
public interface IValuePerCell<T> : IPerCell { bool get_value(int col, int row, out T val); }
And ValuePerCell_RowList_Properties is an object which does the mapping from a column number (like 0) to a property name (like WordPair.en).
Then the ValuePerCell object gets handed off to DrawCell_Text, which is what actually draws the cell text on the screen.
I skipped one important thing in the snippet above, and that's
RowList_Bindable_ReactiveList. Since I'm storing my ReactiveList
RowList_Bindable_ReactiveList handles the latter, so it has code that looks like this:
obj.PropertyChanged += (object sender, System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventArgs e) => {
if (e.PropertyName == prop.PropertyName)
{
ReactiveList<T> lst = (ReactiveList<T>)obj.GetValue(prop);
_next = new RowList_ReactiveList<T>(lst);
if (changed != null) {
changed(this, null);
}
_next.changed += (object s2, CellCoords e2) => {;
if (changed != null) {
changed(this, e2);
}
};
}
};
And finally, the code which listens to the ReactiveList itself:
public RowList_ReactiveList(ReactiveList<T> rx) { _rx = rx; _rx.ChangeTrackingEnabled = true; _rx.ItemChanged.Subscribe (x => { if (changed != null) { int pos = _rx.IndexOf(x.Sender); changed(this, new CellCoords(0, pos)); } }); }
DataGrid uses a chain of drawing objects which pass notifications up the chain with a C# event. In the end, the DataGrid core panel will hear about the change, and it will trigger the renderer, which will cause a redraw.
And that's how the word "give" ended up with an asterisk in the screen shot at the top of this blog entry.


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We each had taken 150 mg of pure MDA. The differences from MDM are striking: MDA is more hallucinogenic with noticeable closed eye imagery, is a much greater aesthetic enhancer, especially of people and of music; is more euphoric; more 'drug-like', a heavier and more obviously body-involved trip. Tactile sensation is more powerful, erotic and noticeable on MDA. Physical effects are more up-front: gastric upset, pupil dilation, water retention, limbic arousal. On the whole, we find MDA a more enjoyable and interesting trip; longer lasting and more sexual/sensual. Our favorite characteristic is that one retains an interesting psychedelic ideation on MDA, rather then the feeling-oriented, but rather idealess thinking of MDM.
That evening we were very taken with the musical enhancement -- we are both avid listeners -- and had found MDM to actually interfere with our enjoyment of music. MDA goes especially well with second-rate classical music: the lushness and color of Strauss, Lizst, Rimsky-Korsakov, Smetana and other ethnic and minor romantic composers are very compatible with the sensual fantasy aspects of MDA. We were playing Smetana, 'The Moldau', a tone poem about the major river in Czechoslovakia.
During the past several weeks, I had had several episodes of allergic reaction which were unusual for me. Possible causes included the spring weather and flowers, gardening, adjustment to the West Coast, and six months of regular DMT use. While the music was playing, I noticed increased allergic symptoms. This is unusual on MDA, which as Andrew Weil points out, is one of the most powerful allergy suppressors around, and so it has always affected me in the past.
Along with the allergic response, I began to note the familiar 'Goddess-possession' phenomenon which we had first encountered on MDA-LSD trips, and which led us to our first profound trips and contact experiences. This time it was subtle, perhaps because no LSD was involved. At the same time, a series of flashes, 'false memories' or 'past life' reminiscences occurred, having to do with rivers and my riverine ancestry, triggered by the content of the music.
This is a characteristic of MDA experience which we had not encountered on MDM, where memories are more personal and less archetypal/symbolic. With MDA memories one can become caught up in an associative web of ancestral material.
During this whole period, I had continuing allergic symptoms. Zarkov felt fine and was having a great time. This dichotomy is even more noticeable since Zarkov is usually the one with allergy problems.  We have noted on several occasions that allergic reactions had preceded profound contact trips.
About hour 4, I decided to try smoking some DMT. My blood pressure and pulse were only slightly elevated, but I still felt restless and uneasy. The week before I had reset an MDM trip with DMT. The DMT seemed to have had a calming and healing effect.
I smoked about 40 mg in 4-5 tokes.
As it came on, I asked the DMT entities for help and guidance.
I kept my eyes open until the visual changes became overwhelming. The whole room was being transformed into the characteristic DMT 'crysthanthemum' pattern. I closed my eyes and fell back into the trance.
The first thing I saw was the 'visible language'! The words, the shapes, the 'music' (the 'music' refers to the DMT auditory effects, not music in this reality and the stereo was off during this part of the trip) and the voices all carried the same message: 'Strong, safe, strong, safe; help, ok, ok, help; safe, safe, alright'! The 'elves' appeared. They sang/I saw/read/felt/heard. They are 'made out' of the visible language. The message is conveyed by the medium itself in several simultaneous sensory modalities. Vision, heard speech, read language, music, song, images and pictures all happen at once, so that the meaning is multi-dimensional.
For example, if one were to 'see' a cat in this state it would be communicated in many ways at once: one would see a picture or cartoon of a cat, made out of writhing, colorful strips or segments which are words -- 'cat, cat, cat, pussy, kitty, pussy, meow, tail, ears, cat, cat, kitty . . .' and the picture would be accompanied by a musical description of the cat (like 'Peter and the Wolf,' only more descriptive and precise) and by voices singing 'cat, cat, kitty, kitty, meow, puss, kittycat . . .' which would match the text.
This time I saw the 'elves' as multidimensional creatures formed by strands of visible language; they were more creaturely than I had ever seen them before. The message was changing from the initial 'ok, ok, safe, safe . . .'
The word changing suggests that this was a time-linear process. I don't think this is the case. I believe that during the trance the whole message and its variations were there at once, from the start. There is a different meaning to time in the DMT state and the notion of linear temporal order that we usualiy believe is not valid or useful. All the information is always immediately there and the idea of linearity comes from our linear habits of attention and the fact that we do not yet know how to see/hear/perceive several messages simultaneously and consciously, so we string them out for perceptual convenience.
The elves were dancing in and out of the multidimensional visible language matrix, 'waving' their 'arms' and 'limbs/hands/fingers?' and 'smiling' or 'laughing,' although I saw no faces as such. The elves were 'telling' me (or I was understanding them to say) that I had seen them before, in early childhood. Memories were flooding back of seeing the elves: they looked just like they do now: evershifting, folding, multidimensional, multicolored (what colors!), always laughing, weaving/waving, showing me things, showing me the visible language they are created/creatures of, teaching me to speak and read. (Are they are linguistic programs made manifest and personified? This throws an entirely new light on Terence McKenna's remark at Esalen about language being the 'most alien artifact' we have!)
Following is a paraphrase of the message content -- all conveyed in the multimedia way described earlier (to emphasize, the entire message was conveyed via 'visible language!')
They 'read-protect' their contact with children. 'No-no, bye-bye, uh-uh, don't tell,' is the phrase they used to keep me from remembering or telling the grown-ups.  My younger brother and I saw them when we were very young. They lived under the bed, they played with us, but they only came out when our parents weren't around. They showed us things, they showed us meaning and language. My brother say them more clearly (perhaps because he was younger) then I did. They taught us words - I read earlier than normal because of their help.
When I was frightened or anxious, I would crawl under the bed to where it was safe, because the 'elves' were there. 'Bye-bye, uh-uh, don't tell, we'll be back,' they used to sing.
'I've been seeing it all along,' I thought, 'the chysthanthemum pattern is the elves is the visible language is the message.' (however, true visions on DMT, like those on mushrooms, are different from these patterns, they are real, like seeing with 'normal' vision; more like a movie or a very vivid dream than like the pattern/cartoon/visible language.)
The personal reality of these creatures seems indisputable during the contact, but that interpretation runs into my normal skepticism when I am out of contact. Is the notion that these are beings merely the obvious interpretation of these phenomena by the human mind? Or is something else going on that we can only understand by interpreting it as an encounter with an alien being?
The visible language and the multidimensional nature of the forms seems so clear, but the relationship of these phenomena to me as an individual and to the human race in a species-history sense is less clear. I am always afraid of repeating the errors of misplaced concreteness (thinking the 'creatures' are 'real') and the dogmatic fallacy (thinking that I know what I saw). The most honest answer is that I don't know what I saw (do we ever?), but that the description above is my attempt to communicate some of what I thought I saw.
The encounter felt profound, exhilarating, and filled with warmth, excitement and protection. I was not afraid, but was comforted by the experience.
And, after the encounter had ended, I found my allergic symptoms had disappeared. I was no longer agitated, but felt calm.
The visible language phenomenon was most interesting -- I felt curious, excited, and peculiarly self-confident while experiencing it -- a childlike delight and a consuming desire to see and know more. I only saw part of what was going on, and I only remember part of what I saw, and I can communicate only a little of what I remember.
When, dear reader, you have similar experiences, try to see/perceive as much as you can, remember as much as you are able (take notes or talk into a recorder) and attempt to write down your trip. It is hard to do, the results are always less than you hope, but we must all try to express these things if we are ever to build a descriptive consensus or even a start at understanding!
Stay High and Stay Free,
Gracie and Zarkov
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In this example, we will explore a licensing system, with a Licensor, Licensee, and a License. The Licensor grants the Licensee a License, which they can use the review a product. However, the Licensee may not publish their review of the product until the review has been Approved or Commissioned. To help ensure compliance, the Licensee must pay some amount of money to obtain the license, which will be returned to them upon publishing the approved or commissioned review.
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their review of the product, and the Licensee will receive both the money from the commission as well as the fee they paid for the License. The code in the file License.obs
contains several tasks, each labeled // TODO TASK #: ...
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You do not have to do the tasks in any particular order, but they are numbered by anticipated difficulty, with lower numbers being less time consuming.
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transaction pay(Licensee@Owned this, Money@Owned >> Unowned money);
Below are the declarations for the various tokens: License
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state Unknown;
state Valid;
License@Unknown(Licensor@Unowned issuer, int feeAmount);
transaction checkToken(License@Unknown >> Valid this, Licensor@Unowned licensor);
transaction getFeeAmount(License@Unowned this) returns int;
}
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state Unknown;
state Valid;
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transaction checkToken(Approval@Unknown >> Valid this, Licensor@Unowned licensor);
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state Unknown;
state Valid;
state Completed;
Commission@Unknown(Licensor@Unowned issuer, Money@Owned >> Unowned _payment);
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SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1996 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ***
[This is one of my golden oldies reviews - written years ago when I was just getting started and never posted. I stand by the conclusions, but in most cases many details are missing that I would normally include today.]
So are you searching for a good movie for the whole family? Does your household have preteens in it who have outgrown the little kid movies, but still would like to see shows that are exciting and that can inspire them? Do you like shows that not just for preteens, but the whole family can enjoy?
Let me take a little different approach in this review. Think of it as a questionnaire. Do you like movies where
o the characters are intelligent o the script is bright o people don't have to talk in 4 letter words to make points o kids to be heroes do not have to be in sports o it is okay to show kids from non-broken homes o it is okay to show kids who are healthy, not reformed o it does not have to have stupid sub-plots o parents can be wholesome yet still be interesting o you can show an adult at their place of work and show them happy o you can have classic showdown scenes yet have real surprises o you can have no violence and not be boring
If you were able to answer in the affirmative to most of these questions, I recommend SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER and give it ***. Even if you know nothing about the game of chess, I still recommend it to you. Knowing chess will improve your enjoyment only slightly of the film and is not necessary.
With a strong cast including Max Pomeranc as chess whiz Josh Waitzkin, Joe Mantegna as his wise but not too pushy dad Fred, Joan Allen as his mom Bonnie, Ben Kingsley as the expert Bruce Pandolfini, and a great Laurence Fishburne as the local park chess king Vinnie. A sweet and heartwarming show.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show.  Totally unbearable.
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Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite surprisingly just confirmed by Samsung
by James RogersonSamsung Galaxy S10 Lite surprisingly just confirmed by Samsung
It's real and it's really called the S10 Lite
A 'Lite' alternative to the Galaxy S10 (pictured) is seemingly on the way (Image credit: Future)
We’ve heard a number of rumors about a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite model and throughout we’ve suggested that it might actually launch as the Samsung Galaxy S11 Lite. But it seems we were wrong, as Samsung has just mentioned the Galaxy S10 Lite by name.
Specifically, it submitted documentation for a phone with the model number SM-G770F to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), as spotted by SamMobile.
Now, that model number has been attached to Galaxy S10 Lite rumors in the past, but the real giveaway is an included screenshot of the handset’s ‘About Phone’ screen, clearly showing the name 'Galaxy S10 Lite'.
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So while Samsung hasn’t officially confirmed the handset yet, this more or less guarantees both that it exists and that – bafflingly - it will launch as the S10 Lite.
We weren’t sold on that name because there’s already a Samsung Galaxy S10e, which is essentially an S10 Lite in all but name. Plus, the S10 range is feeling fairly crowded, and launched early 2019, almost half a year before these leaks even started.
On top of all that, the rumored specs for the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, which include a high-end Snapdragon 855 chipset, a triple-lens rear camera, a 6.7-inch screen and a 4,500mAh battery, don’t sound particularly ‘Lite’, as they're more impressive than the S10e.
With all that in mind the handset would surely make much more sense as a lighter take on the Samsung Galaxy S11, which is likely to launch in early 2020. But apparently it’s not that. Oh well, this wouldn’t be the first poorly named smartphone.
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12.6 More on HTML and URL EscapesPerhaps the most subtle change in the last section's rewrite is that, for robustness, this version also calls cgi.escape for the language name, not just for the language's code snippet. It's unlikely but not impossible that someone could pass the script a language name with an embedded HTML character. For example, a URL like: http://starship.python.net/~lutz/Basics/languages2reply.cgi?language=a<b embeds a < in the language name parameter (the name is a<b). When submitted, this version uses cgi.escape to properly translate the < for use in the reply HTML, according to the standard HTML escape conventions discussed earlier: <TITLE>Languages</TITLE>
Syntax

a<b

 Sorry--I don't know that language

 The original version doesn't escape the language name, such that the embedded <b is interpreted as an HTML tag (which may make the rest of the page render in bold font!). As you can probably tell by now, text escapes are pervasive in CGI scripting -- even text that you may think is safe must generally be escaped before being inserted into the HTML code in the reply stream. 12.6.1 URL Escape Code ConventionsNotice, though, that while it's wrong to embed an unescaped < in the HTML code reply, it's perfectly okay to include it literally in the earlier URL string used to trigger the reply. In fact, HTML and URLs define completely different characters as special. For instance, although & must be escaped as & inside HTML code, we have to use other escaping schemes to code a literal & within a URL string (where it normally separates parameters). To pass a language name like a&b to our script, we have to type the following URL: http://starship.python.net/~lutz/Basics/languages2reply.cgi?language=a%26b Here, %26 represents & -- the & is replaced with a % followed by the hexadecimal value (0x26) of its ASCII code value (38). By URL standard, most nonalphanumeric characters are supposed to be translated to such escape sequences, and spaces are replaced by + signs. Technically, this convention is known as the application/x-www-form-urlencoded query string format, and it's part of the magic behind those bizarre URLs you often see at the top of your browser as you surf the Web. 12.6.2 Python HTML and URL Escape ToolsIf you're like me, you probably don't have the hexadecimal value of the ASCII code for & committed to memory. Luckily, Python provides tools that automatically implement URL escapes, just as cgi.escape does for HTML escapes. The main thing to keep in mind is that HTML code and URL strings are written with entirely different syntax, and so they employ distinct escaping conventions. Web users don't generally care, unless they need to type complex URLs explicitly (browsers handle most escape code details internally). But if you write scripts that must generate HTML or URLs, you need to be careful to escape characters that are reserved in either syntax. Because HTML and URLs have different syntaxes, Python provides two distinct sets of tools for escaping their text. In the standard Python library:
The urllib module also has tools for undoing URL escapes (unquote, unquote_plus), but HTML escapes are undone during HTML parsing at large (htmllib). To illustrate the two escape conventions and tools, let's apply each toolset to a few simple examples. 12.6.3 Escaping HTML CodeAs we saw earlier, cgi.escape translates code for inclusion within HTML. We normally call this utility from a CGI script, but it's just as easy to explore its behavior interactively: >>> import cgi >>> cgi.escape('a  c & d "spam"', 1) 'a  c & d "spam"' >>> s = cgi.escape("1<2 hello") >>> s '1<2 hello' Python's cgi module automatically converts characters that are special in HTML syntax according to the HTML convention. It translates <, >, &, and with an extra true argument, ", into escape sequences of the form &X;, where the X is a mnemonic that denotes the original character. For instance, < stands for the "less than" operator (<) and & denotes a literal ampersand (&). There is no un-escaping tool in the CGI module, because HTML escape code sequences are recognized within the context of an HTML parser, like the one used by your web browser when a page is downloaded. Python comes with a full HTML parser, too, in the form of standard module htmllib, which imports and specializes tools in module sgmllib (HTML is a kind of SGML syntax). We won't go into details on the HTML parsing tools here (see the library manual for details), but to illustrate how escape codes are eventually undone, here is the SGML module at work reading back the last output above: >>> from sgmllib import TestSGMLParser >>> p = TestSGMLParser(1) >>> s '1<2 hello' >>> for c in s: ... p.feed(c) ... >>> p.close( ) data: '1<2 hello' 12.6.4 Escaping URLsBy contrast, URLs reserve other characters as special and must adhere to different escape conventions. Because of that, we use different Python library tools to escape URLs for transmission. Python's urllib module provides two tools that do the translation work for us: quote, which implements the standard %XX hexadecimal URL escape code sequences for most nonalphanumeric characters, and quote_plus, which additionally translates spaces to + plus signs. The urllib module also provides functions for unescaping quoted characters in a URL string: unquote undoes %XX escapes, and unquote_plus also changes plus signs back to spaces. Here is the module at work, at the interactive prompt: >>> import urllib >>> urllib.quote("a & b #! c") 'a%20%26%20b%20%23%21%20c' >>> urllib.quote_plus("C:\stuff\spam.txt") 'C%3a%5cstuff%5cspam.txt' >>> x = urllib.quote_plus("a & b #! c") >>> x 'a+%26+b+%23%21+c' >>> urllib.unquote_plus(x) 'a & b #! c' URL escape sequences embed the hexadecimal values of non-safe characters following a % sign (usually, their ASCII codes). In urllib, non-safe characters are usually taken to include everything except letters, digits, a handful of safe special characters (any of _,.-), and / by default). You can also specify a string of safe characters as an extra argument to the quote calls to customize the translations; the argument defaults to /, but passing an empty string forces / to be escaped: >>> urllib.quote_plus("uploads/index.txt") 'uploads/index.txt' >>> urllib.quote_plus("uploads/index.txt", '') 'uploads%2findex.txt' Note that Python's cgi module also translates URL escape sequences back to their original characters and changes + signs to spaces during the process of extracting input information. Internally, cgi.FieldStorage automatically calls urllib.unquote if needed to parse and unescape parameters passed at the end of URLs (most of the translation happens in cgi.parse_qs). The upshot is that CGI scripts get back the original, unescaped URL strings, and don't need to unquote values on their own. As we've seen, CGI scripts don't even need to know that inputs came from a URL at all. 12.6.5 Escaping URLs Embedded in HTML CodeBut what do we do for URLs inside HTML? That is, how do we escape when we generate and embed text inside a URL, which is itself embedded inside generated HTML code? Some of our earlier examples used hardcoded URLs with appended input parameters inside  hyperlink tags; file languages2.cgi, for instance, prints HTML that includes a URL:  Because the URL here is embedded in HTML, it must minimally be escaped according to HTML conventions (e.g., any < characters must become <), and any spaces should be translated to + signs. A cgi.escape(url) call, followed by a string.replace(url, " ", "+") would take us this far, and would probably suffice for most cases. That approach is not quite enough in general, though, because HTML escaping conventions are not the same as URL conventions. To robustly escape URLs embedded in HTML code, you should instead call urllib.quote_plus on the URL string before adding it to the HTML text. The escaped result also satisfies HTML escape conventions, because urllib translates more characters than cgi.escape, and the % in URL escapes is not special to HTML. But there is one more wrinkle here: you also have to be careful with & characters in URL strings that are embedded in HTML code (e.g., within  hyperlink tags). Even if parts of the URL string are URL-escaped, when more than one parameter is separated by a &, the & separator might also have to be escaped as & according to HTML conventions. To see why, consider the following HTML hyperlink tag: <A HREF="file.cgi?name=a&job=b&=c§=d<=e">hello When rendered in most browsers I've tested, this URL link winds up looking incorrectly like this (the "S" character is really a non-ASCII section marker): file.cgi?name=a&job=b&=c&S=d<=e The first two parameters are retained as expected (name=a, job=b), because name is not preceded with an &, and &job is not recognized as a valid HTML character escape code. However, the &, §, and < parts are interpreted as special characters, because they do name valid HTML escape codes. To make this work as expected, the & separators should be escaped: hello Browsers render this fully escaped link as expected: file.cgi?name=a&job=b&=c§=d<=e The moral of this story is that unless you can be sure that the names of all but the leftmost URL query parameters embedded in HTML are not the same as the name of any HTML character escape code like amp, you should generally run the entire URL through cgi.escape after escaping its parameter names and values with urllib.quote_plus: >>> import cgi >>> cgi.escape('file.cgi?name=a&job=b&=c§=d<=e') 'file.cgi?name=a&job=b&amp=c&sect=d&lt=e' Having said that, I should add that some examples in this book do not escape & URL separators embedded within HTML simply because their URL parameter names are known to not conflict with HTML escapes. This is not, however, the most general solution; when in doubt, escape much and often.
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Artificial
Intelligence or simply AI is defined as intelligence exhibited by
machines; It brings together work from the fields of philosophy,
psychology, and computer science and contributes to and has drawn on
brain science and linguistics to solve problems and to perform
specific tasks in numerous fields and industries such as in
education, finance, medicine, education, transportation, and much
more.
Education
There have been a rise
of intelligent tutoring systems, or ITS, in higher education.
Advancements in natural language processing, combined with machine
learning, have also enabled automatic grading of assignments as well
as a data-driven understanding of individual students’ learning
needs. Open Online Courses, which allows students from around the
world to take classes online. Data sets collected from these large
scale online learning systems have also enabled learning analytics,
which will be used to improve the quality of learning at scale.
Examples of how learning analytics can be used to improve the quality
of learning include predicting which students are at risk of failure
and analyzing student engagement.
Finance
Several large financial
institutions have invested in AI engines to assist with their
investment practices.Several products are emerging that utilize AI to
assist people with their personal finances. For example, Digit is an
app powered by artificial intelligence that automatically helps
consumers optimize their spending and savings based on their own
personal habits and goals.
Medicine
AI systems help scan
digital images, e.g. from computed
tomography, for typical appearances and to highlight conspicuous
sections, such as possible diseases. A typical application is the
detection of a tumor.
Companion robots for the
care of the elder
Recently, the AI
research branch of Google launched its Google
Deepmind Health project, which is used to mine medical records in
order to provide better and faster health services
Entertainment
apps
like spotify, Pandora, and Netflix provides
personalized music and videos recommendations that
you’re likely to be interested in
based on the interests you’ve expressed and judgments or
choices
you’ve made in the past. They
monitor the choices made
and inserts
them into a learning algorithm .initiatives
such as Google
Magenta, conducted by the Google
Brain team, want to find out if an artificial intelligence can be
capable of creating compelling art
Transportation
Today's cars now have
AI-based driver assist features such as self-parking and advanced
cruise controls. AI has been used to optimize traffic management
applications, which in turn reduces wait times, energy use, and
emissions by as much as 25 percent.
Toys
and games
One of the instances of
AI that most people are probably familiar with, video game AI has
been used for a very long time—since the very first video games, in
fact. But the complexity and effectiveness of that AI has increased
exponentially over the past several decades, resulting in video game
characters that learn your behaviors, respond to stimuli, and
react in unpredictable ways.
Companies like Mattel
have been creating an assortment of AI-enabled toys for kids as young
as age three. Using proprietary AI engines and speech recognition
tools, they are able to understand conversations, give intelligent
responses and learn quickly
Online Customer Support
Artificial
intelligence is implemented in chat bots or automated online
assistants that can be seen on web pages. It can avail for
enterprises to reduce their operation and training cost. Data that is
gathered from AI helps business connect with customers faster and
improve how to engage with them. Messenger bots improve main
attributes of customer service, they respond instantly and are always
available and knowledgeable. Many websites now offer
customers the opportunity to chat with a customer support
representative while they’re browsing—but not every site actually
has a live person on the other end of the line. In many cases, you’re
talking to a rudimentary AI. Many of these chat support bots amount
to little more than automated responders, but some of them are
actually able to extract knowledge from the website and present it to
customers when they ask for it.


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In this article, we will explain the revolutionary consensus mechanism behind Slimcoin: Proof of burn.
If you need a super-short explanation, you can go to the tl;dr section at the end. Readers that are familiar with Bitcoin’s Proof of Work and why it works can skip the first two sections.
Why a consensus method is necessary?
To understand what is Proof of Burn, first we must understand why cryptocurrencies use a “consensus method”.
First, the basics: The blockchain is the main database of a cryptocurrency. It contains all valid transactions.
All nodes - all participants that run a full-featured client software - save the blockchain on their hard disks. It’s called a “blockchain” because the transactions are grouped in blocks. A block is written when the nodes agree to a set of transactions that the nodes regard as valid.
But how do the nodes agree which transactions should be saved into a block? There is no central authority that validates the transactions, so this work must be done by the nodes in a collaborative way.
The blockchain technology already prevents that some node could create money out of thin air. But there could be dishonest nodes that tried to use a coin twice - this is called a double spend. For example, they could buy an item in an online shop and inmediately try to send the same coins to an exchange. This way they could fool the shop owner and the exchange owner and get both things - the bought item and the money.
To prevent double spends, the nodes must come to an agreement which transactions are valid and which are not.
On a first glance, we could let the nodes vote for which transactions are included into a block, with each node having one vote. But there is a problem: A malicious participant could create thousands of nodes and manipulate the vote.
Proof of work: Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism
So we need a vote mechanism that is not manipulable by creating more nodes.
In Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies, a mechanism called Proof of work is used.
We could describe the process the following way: The nodes (miners) compete to write a block into the blockchain. To include a block, their computers must first do some work: they must solve a difficult cryptographic puzzle. The node that first solves it gets the right to write the block, and gets a reward for it to incentive this work. This process is colloquially called mining.
If you want to double spend, you must have the computing power to write several blocks in a row. Only this way, you can be sure that both of your transactions are included in the blockchain.
For this to happen, you must have a lot of computing power - you can only be sure to write several blocks in a row if you have more than half of the computing power of all nodes of the network (this is the infamous 51% attack). Double-spending attacks are prevented because it is prohibitively costly to buy the “mining” power to achieve this.
Proof of burn: Proof of work without energy waste
The important thing to understand is that the raw computing power is not important to prevent manipulation by double spending. What is important is the cost of the computing power. It must be costly for an attacker to achieve the power to mine several blocks in a row.
So in Proof of work, the right to mine blocks is tied to a monetary cost for the miner. The more a miner pays for computing equipment that is able to solve the cryptographic puzzle (mining rigs), the more chances he has to get the right to mine blocks.
But what if we can have the same effect in a more direct way?
We can mimic this cost letting the nodes “destroy” or “burn” coins, if they want to get the right to write blocks. That is the principle behind Proof of Burn. We call it also minting, because no real work is done. Remember: all what’s important is the cost of the mechanism.
That sounds crazy. But the brilliant mind that has invented Proof of Burn, Iain Stewart, has provided us an analogy: Burnt coins are mining rigs!
That means: The act of burning coins can be compared to the act to buy a mining rig. In Proof of Burn, every time you burn coins, you buy a virtual mining rig that gives you the power to mine blocks. The more coins you burn, the bigger that virtual mining rig.
That’s exactly how Slimcoin’s Proof of Burn mechanism works:
If you burn coins, you not only get the right to compete for the next block. A mining rig is something more durable, and so are Slimcoin’s virtual mining rigs. You burn coins and this rises your chance to get blocks for a long time - at least for a year.
Now, to prevent early adopters from benefitting too much or attacking the system , the power of burnt coins decays every time a block is mined. It doesn’t decay much, so don’t be afraid - you will have a lot of time. But this also mimics mining: Mining rigs eventually become obsolete because there is better technology available. So miners, to stay competitive, will have to renew their equipment sometimes. The same is true for Proof of Burn: if you want to maintain your minting power, you must burn coins periodically.
Like in Proof of Work, the block rewards are high enough to allow the participants to make a financial gain (profit) from minting. You won’t get back your investment in one hour or one day, but with some patience, in most situations you’ll eventually get significantly more coins that the ones you burnt.
Proof of burn has the advantage over Proof of Work that it does consume much less energy. So Slimcoin is your coin of choice if you ever have worried about Bitcoin’s environmental cost. But Proof of Burn has also advantages over Proof of Stake, another consensus method that minimizes energy use. We will cover this point in a later post.
 The more coins you burn, the more powerful the mining rig. Every virtual mining rig gives you the right to mine for a long time, just like real mining rigs. But they eventually lose their power - just like mining rigs that get obsolete because of Moore’s law.


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STM8S Standard Peripheral Libary
2.2.0
|
Functions | |
| void | AWU_DeInit (void) |
| Deinitializes the AWU peripheral registers to their default reset values. More... | |
| void | AWU_Init (AWU_Timebase_TypeDef AWU_TimeBase) |
| Initializes the AWU peripheral according to the specified parameters. More... | |
| void | AWU_Cmd (FunctionalState NewState) |
| Enable or disable the AWU peripheral. More... | |
| void | AWU_LSICalibrationConfig (uint32_t LSIFreqHz) |
| Update APR register with the measured LSI frequency. More... | |
| void | AWU_IdleModeEnable (void) |
| Configures AWU in Idle mode to reduce power consumption. More... | |
| FlagStatus | AWU_GetFlagStatus (void) |
| Returns status of the AWU peripheral flag. More... | |
|
inline |
Enable or disable the AWU peripheral.
| NewState | Indicates the new state of the AWU peripheral. |
| None |
Definition at line 231 of file stm8s_awu.h.
|
inline |
Deinitializes the AWU peripheral registers to their default reset values.
| None |
| None |
Definition at line 173 of file stm8s_awu.h.
|
inline |
Returns status of the AWU peripheral flag.
| None |
| FlagStatus | : Status of the AWU flag. This parameter can be any of the FlagStatus enumeration. |
Definition at line 296 of file stm8s_awu.h.
|
inline |
Configures AWU in Idle mode to reduce power consumption.
| None |
| None |
Definition at line 281 of file stm8s_awu.h.
|
inline |
Initializes the AWU peripheral according to the specified parameters.
| AWU_TimeBase | : Time base selection (interval between AWU interrupts). can be one of the values of AWU_Timebase_TypeDef. |
| None |
Contains the different values to write in the APR register (used by AWU_Init function)
Contains the different values to write in the TBR register (used by AWU_Init function)
Definition at line 188 of file stm8s_awu.h.
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inline |
Update APR register with the measured LSI frequency.
| LSIFreqHz | Low Speed RC frequency measured by timer (in Hz). |
| None |
Definition at line 255 of file stm8s_awu.h.


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waitron
- A client for windowchef(1)
waitron
[-hv] command [args...]
waitron
is the client for windowchef(1). It sends a given command to
windowchef(1) as an X client message. As a result, waitron
doesn't print
anything on stdout
.
-h
Print usage.
-v
Print version information.
POSITION
topleft | topright | bottomleft | bottomright | middle
BOOL
true values: true
| t
| yes
| y
| 1
false values: false
| f
| no
| n
| 0
DIRECTION
up
| down
| left
| right
| north
| south
| west
| east
POINTER_ACTION
nothing
| focus
| move
| resize_corner
| resize_side
POINTER_MODIFIER
alt
| super
MOUSE_BUTTON
any
| none
| left
| middle
| centre
| center
| right
middle
, centre
, and center
are synonyms and have the same behaviour.
window_move
x yMove the focused window y pixels horizontally and y pixels vertically.
window_move_absolute
x yMove the focused window to the position given by x and y.
window_resize
x yResize the focused window based on the relative pixel values x and y.
window_resize_absolute
width heightResize the focused window up to width and height.
window_maximize
Hide the border and maximize the focused window on the current monitor. Execute it again after maximizing to revert the state of the window.
window_unmaximize
If the currently focused window is maximized in any way (fully, vertically, horizontally, monocled), return it to normal state.
window_hor_maximize
Horizontally maximize the focused window on the current monitor, preserving its y component. Leaves a gap at the left and right of the monitor that can be configured. Execute it again after maximizing to revert the state of the window.
window_ver_maximize
Vertically maximize the focused window on the current monitor, preserving its x component. Leaves a gap at the top and bottom of the monitor whose width can be configured. Execute it again after maximizing to revert the state of the window.
window_monocle
Puts the window in the "monocled" state: full screen but with borders visible. Monocle mode respects gaps.
window_close
Closes the focused window.
window_put_in_grid
grid_width grid_height cell_x cell_y cell_width cell_heightMoves and resizes the focused windows accordingly to fit in a cell defined by the cell_x and cell_y coordinates, measuring cell_width in width and cell_height in height, in a virtual grid with width grid_width and height grid_height on the current monitor. cell_width and cell_height are expressed in grid cells. Gaps around the windows in the grid can be added along with monitor gaps.
window_move_in_grid
x yMove a gridded window by x and y grid spaces.
window_resize_in_grid
x yResize a gridded window by x and y grid spaces. Positive values grow, negative values shrink.
window_snap
POSITIONSnap the window on the screen in a position defined by POSITION.
window_cycle
Cycle through mapped windows.
window_rev_cycle
Reverse cycle through mapped windows.
window_cycle_in_group
Cycle through mapped windows that belong to the same group as the focused window.
window_rev_cycle_in_group
Reverse cycle through mapped windows that belong to the same group as the focused window.
window_focus
idFocus window by id. The id can be found using pfw(1) or lsw(1) from wmutils.
window_focus_last
Focus the window that was focused before the currently focused window.
window_cardinal_focus
DIRECTIONFocus the closest window in a direction, relative to the currently focused window. Does nothing if there is no window focused.
group_add_window
group_nrAdd the focused window to the group_nr group.
Group numbers start from 0 and end at GROUPS_NO - 1.
group_remove_window
Remove the focused window from its current group.
group_remove_all_windows
group_nrRemove all windows from the group_nr group.
group_activate
group_nrMap all windows that belong to the group_nr group.
group_deactivate
group_nrUnmap all windows that belong to the group_nr group.
group_toggle
group_nrToggle the group_nr group.
group_activate_specific
group_nrActivate group group_nr and deactivate the rest.
wm_quit
exit_statusQuit windowchef with exit_status exit_status.
wm_config
key [values...]See CONFIGURING.
Information about the current state of windowchef is available through X properties of the root window. Example:
xprop -root WINDOWCHEF_ACTIVE_GROUPS
Information about the current state of each managed window is available through X properties of the window. Example:
xprop -id 0x02c00009 WINDOWCHEF_STATUS
Here is a list of exposed properties:
WINDOWCHEF_ACTIVE_GROUPS
WINDOWCHEF_STATUS
group
is -1 if the window is not in a group.
state
can have one of the following values: normal
, maxed
, vmaxed
,
hmaxed
, monocled
.Configuring is done using the wm_config
command. Possible configuration keys
are:
border_width
widthSets the border width to width pixels.
color_focused
, color_unfocused
color Sets the border color to color for the focused and unfocused state respectively.
color is a hexadecimal value that may or may not start with 0x
prefix. Example: 0x1234ef
.
internal_border_width
width Make the first width pixels from the interior to the exterior of the
border of another color, so you get two borders.
The width of the external border is border_width -
internal_border_width
.
internal_color_focused
, internal_color_unfocused
color Like color_focused
and color_unfocused
, but for the internal
border.
gap_width
POSITION width Sets the window gap at POSITION to width. POSITION can be equal to
all
to set all gaps to POSITION.
grid_gap_width
widthSets the window gap value used in virtual grids to width.
cursor_position
POSITIONSets the position of the cursor when moving or resizing windows.
groups_nr
nrSets the number of groups to nr. If nr is less than the current number of groups, window that belong to groups whose numbers are greater than nr will be mapped to screen and assigned to the null group.
enable_resize_hints
BOOL If true, windowchef
will respect window resize hints as defined by ICCCM.
Most terminal emulators should have this feature.
enable_sloppy_focus
BOOLEnable sloppy focus.
sticky_windows
BOOLIf sticky_windows is true, new windows will be assigned to the last activated group automatically. Recommended for people who like using workspaces over groups.
enable_borders
BOOL If true, the border will be fully managed by the window manager. Border colors will
be set each time a window gets/loses focus. Setting it to false lets
the user manage the border of every window using external
tools.
(example: chwb2
from wmutils).
enable_last_window_focusing
BOOL If true, when the currently focused window is unmapped or closed, windowchef
will focus the
previously focused window. See the window_focus_last
command.
apply_settings
BOOLIf true, some settings will be applied on all windows instead of newly created windows. True by default.
replay_click_on_focus
BOOLIf true, when clicking on an unfocused with the intent to focus it, windowchef will also send the click event to the target window. If false, the window will receive the click event only if it's already focused.
pointer_actions
POINTER_ACTION POINTER_ACTION POINTER_ACTIONSets the action that should be done whenever the modifier key and the corresponding button are clicked at the same time on the window. There are 3 actions for three mouse buttons: left, middle and right.
pointer_modifier
POINTER_MODIFIERSet the modifier for pointer actions.
click_to_focus
MOUSE_BUTTONSet the mouse button that focuses the hovered window when clicked.
windowchef(1), sxhkd(1), wmutils(1), pfw(1), lsw(1), chwb2(1), lemonbar(1)
windowchef
issue tracker: https://github.com/tudurom/windowchef/issues
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Before starting the algorithm, we first introduce a few concepts related to commodity futures. Backwardation is defined as conditions when the futures price is below the current spot price and contango as conditions when the futures price is above the current spot price. The futures term structure curve is a representation of the backwardation/contango rate for the different maturities of futures contracts. This price gap between different maturity contracts is quantified as the roll return. The contango/backwardation rates are calculated by taking the price difference between the spot market price and the futures contract price. This difference can be expressed as a percentage over the time to expiration and then annualised to calculate an annual roll return.
\[R_t = \left[ln(P_{t,n})-ln(P_{t,d})\right]\times\frac{365}{N_{t,d}-N_{t,n}}\]Where \(P_{t,n}\) is the price of the nearest-to-maturity contract at time t. \(P_{t,d}\) is the price of the distant contract at time t. \(N_{t,n}\) is the number of days between time t and the maturity of the nearby contract and \(N_{t,d}\) is the number of days between time t and the maturity of the distant contract.
To calculate the roll return, first we sort the future chain by expiry and select the first two contracts as the nearest-to-maturity contract and the the distant contract.
for symbol, chain in self.chains.items(): contracts = sorted(chain, key = lambda x: x.Expiry) # R = (log(Pn) - log(Pd)) * 365 / (Td - Tn) # R - Roll returns # Pn - Nearest contract price # Pd - Distant contract price # Tn - Nearest contract expire date # Pd - Distant contract expire date near_contract = contracts[0] distant_contract = contracts[-1] price_near = near_contract.LastPrice if near_contract.LastPrice>0 else 0.5*float(near_contract.AskPrice+near_contract.BidPrice) price_distant = distant_contract.LastPrice if distant_contract.LastPrice>0 else 0.5*float(distant_contract.AskPrice+distant_contract.BidPrice) if distant_contract.Expiry == near_contract.Expiry: self.Debug("ERROR: Near and distant contracts have the same expiry!" + str(near_contract)) return expire_range = 365 / (distant_contract.Expiry - near_contract.Expiry).days roll_returns[symbol] = (np.log(float(price_near)) - np.log(float(price_distant)))*expire_range
In the next step, we will split the futures based on backwardation and contango. If the roll return is greater than 0, the term structure of commodity futures prices is downward-sloping and so that the market is in backwardation. Conversely, a negative roll return signals an upward-sloping price curve and a contangoed market.
positive_roll_returns = { symbol: returns for symbol, returns in roll_returns.items() if returns > 0 } negative_roll_returns = { symbol: returns for symbol, returns in roll_returns.items() if returns < 0 } backwardation = sorted(positive_roll_returns , key = lambda x: positive_roll_returns[x], reverse = True)[:quintile] contango = sorted(negative_roll_returns , key = lambda x: negative_roll_returns[x])[:quintile]
The algorithm buys 20% of commodities with the highest roll-returns and shorts the 20% of commodities with the lowest roll-returns and holds the long-short positions for one month.
for short_symbol in contango: sort = sorted(self.chains[short_symbol], key = lambda x: x.Expiry) self.SetHoldings(sort[1].Symbol, -0.5/count) for long_symbol in backwardation: sort = sorted(self.chains[long_symbol], key = lambda x: x.Expiry) self.SetHoldings(sort[1].Symbol, 0.5/count)


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There are more R packages than stars in the sky. But many of them are written without economics in mind. There are also just some things you miss about Stata, and being able to do them in R would make things so much easier!
This page will not attempt to list every potentially useful package under the sun, but will try to cover things that econs may find useful. Please do not add packages to this list if you don’t think there’s a reasonable chance they could be used in an economics paper.
Note that some included packages are not on CRAN and must be installed with devtools::install_github()
.
APIs for common data sources:
APIs for less-common data sources
Also useful:
-
ipumsr - not an API, but once you have your own IPUMS extract this will import it
Loading data into R
-
haven and readxl - Load in foreign data types from other main statistics packages (haven), or Excel (readxl). If those don’t cover your types maybe try foreign.
-
reshape2 - There are many different R reshape (wide-to-long and long-to-wide) functions. Base-
reshape
, melt
/cast
/dcast
, gather
/spread
, I like the new pivot_wider
/pivot_longer
functions in the dev version of tidyr
.
Cleaning data
-
dplyr (by itself or as part of the tidyverse package) - If you are coming to R from pretty much any other statistics package, especially Stata, you will find this a vastly easier and more familiar way to manipulate and clean data than base R. Also see tidyr and purrr for more useful, linked, functions, and dbplyr for working with on-disk databases.
-
data.table - Better performance on large data than
dplyr
, and has grouping naturally built in. Does require you to learn its rather-different syntax. See this handy guide comparing the two, and making the case for data.table
Take your pick.
-
lubridate - Makes working with date variables easier
-
stringr - Makes working with string data easier
-
forcats - Makes working with factor variables easier
-
dummies - Easy creation of dummy variables. Note you can generally avoid having to make dummy variables by just doing
factor(variableyouwantdummiesof)
in your regression.
-
vtable - Restores the “Variable browser” functionality of Stata.
Estimation
(alphabetized due to numerosity)
-
car - Contains all kinds of useful features, perhaps most notably
linearHypothesis
which does joint F tests following a regression, one of those “why is this not easier to do” R head-scratchers.
-
censReg - does anyone still do Tobit?
-
dynlm - Dynamic linear modeling for time series
-
estimatr - Regressions the way that economists would expect them to be done. Easily tacks on robust or cluster-robust SEs, weights, fixed effects. There are other ways to do cluster/robust SEs (
coeftest
from the lmtest
package, or the sandwich
package), but they’re all way harder. Downside: a little new so other packages don’t always play well with the output; stargazer
in particular - use huxreg
from huxtable
instead.
-
erer - Support for AIDS model estimation, plus marginal effects for various nonlinear models, most notably ordered probit/logit
-
forecast - Forecasting tools for time series
-
glmnet - Regularized regression
-
gravity - Estimation of gravity trade models
-
ivprobit - Guess what this package does
-
lfe - Focuses on complex fixed-effects models. Can be more powerful than
estimatr
in some contexts
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MCMCpack - Package for estimating MCMC models
-
mfx - Marginal effects for nonlinear models
-
mlogit - Estimates multinomial logit models, including McFadden alternative-specific models
-
plm - Standard panel data modeling options, including lags
-
quantreg - Quantile regression
-
randomForest - For random forests, naturally. Note this useful rundown comparing
randomForest
to other, potentially more modern, random forest packages.
-
tseries - A number of useful estimators and tools for working with time series
-
zoo - Even more useful time series tools
Graphs
-
ggplot2 (by itself or as a part of the tidyverse package) - It looks good, it’s not as hard as it seems. Just use it, okay? It looks so, so good. Plus there are about a million extensions of it to make just about any kind of graphics you can imagine.
Maps
-
ggmap - Mapping utility for use with
ggplot
.
-
mapdata - What, were you going to draw the thing yourself?
-
fiftystater - This package exists just for the purpose of making fifty-state US maps, specifically for the purpose of moving Alaska and Hawaii where you can see them
Producing Statistics Tables
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stargazer - Makes summary statistics tables and regression tables for text, HTML (which can be copy-pasted to Word), or LaTeX that look exactly like an economist would expect them to.
-
huxtable - A little harder to use than
stargazer
and doesn’t adhere to economics standards (you’ll probably at least be changing the significance stars), but works with some of the modern data/regression types that stargazer
won’t.
Writing documents
-
rmarkdown - For creating reproducible notebooks and presentations with your results


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You can apply for a Blue Badge online. You will need to send us documents to prove your eligibility and identity, and there is a £10 charge for successful applicants. It can take 6 to 8 weeks for your application to be assessed so you’ll need to apply in advance if you’re renewing.
You can also fill in the form by hand and return it to us by email or post (address listed at top of form), or by visiting a One Stop Shop.
If your application was unsuccessful, you can ask us to review the decision we made if you think we did not take all the relevant information into account. You can do this in writing and have 28 days from the date on the refusal letter.
You must display your badge clearly on the dashboard and may need to use your clock which should be set at the time you left your vehicle. Your Blue Badge should only be used in vehicles in which you are travelling.
If you lose your Blue Badge, you’ll need to report it and get a reference number. You can do this online at www.reportmyloss.com or by calling 101. Once you have the refence number you can apply online for a replacement Blue Badge. There will be a £10 charge for replacing Blue Badges.
You can also notify us by email or post
Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Post: Parking Services, PO Box 5197, Bath, BA1 0UF
Let us know if you think someone is using a Blue Badge they aren’t entitled to, or if they park in a disabled bay when they shouldn’t. You can do this by emailing<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or calling 01225 477133.
If you see someone parked in a bay without a valid blue badge, you’ll need to tell us:
If you think a Blue Badge is being misused, you’ll need to tell us:
If you’re a Blue Badge holder, you can ask us to put white lines for a disabled parking space near your home. The markings are advisory only and do rely on the goodwill of other drivers to leave the bay clear.
To apply you must meet some criteria:
You’ll need to complete an application form and will need to provide proof of address and a copy of the vehicle V5C document. Once we have your complete application we’ll let you know our decision in 6 weeks.
Apply for a disabled parking space
Return it to us by email or post (address listed at top of form), or by visiting a One Stop Shop.


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