Type Dialog
Use the Type dialog to register a custom data type.
The Type dialog organizes the development of a data type through the following
dialog tabs: General, Definition, and Security. The SQL tab displays the
SQL code generated by dialog selections.
Use the fields in the General tab to identify the custom data type:
- Use the Name field to add a descriptive name for the type. The name will be
displayed in the pgAdmin tree control. The type name must be distinct from
the name of any existing type, domain, or table in the same schema.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Owner to select the role that will own the
type.
- Select the name of the schema in which the type will reside from the drop-down
listbox in the Schema field.
- Store notes about the type in the Comments field.
Click the Definition tab to continue.
Select a data type from the drop-down listbox next to Type on the Definition
tab; the panel below changes to display the options appropriate for the selected
data type. Use the fields in the panel to define the data type.
There are five data types:
- Composite Type
- Enumeration Type
- Range Type
- External Type (or Base Type)
- Shell Type
If you select Composite in the Type field, the Definition tab displays the
Composite Type panel:
Click the Add icon (+) to provide attributes of the type. Fields on the
General panel are context sensitive and may be disabled.
- Use the Member Name field to add an attribute name.
- Use the drop-down listbox in the Type field to select a datatype.
- Use the Length/Precision field to specify the maximum length of a
non-numeric type, or the total count of significant digits in a numeric type.
- Use the Scale field to specify the number of digits to the right of the
decimal point.
- Use the drop-down listbox in the Collation field to select a collation (if
applicable).
Click the Add icon (+) to define an additional member; click the trash icon to
the left of the row to discard a row.
If you select the Enumeration in the Type field, the Definition tab
displays the Enumeration Type panel:
Click the Add icon (+) to provide a label for the type.
- Use the Label field to add a label, which must be less than 64 bytes long.
Click the Add icon (+) after each selection to create additional labels; to
discard a label, click the trash icon to the left of the row.
If you select External, the Definition tab displays the External Type
panel:
On the Required tab:
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the Input function field to add an
input_function. The input_function converts the type’s external textual
representation to the internal representation used by the operators and
functions defined for the type.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the Output function field to add an
output_function. The output_function converts the type’s internal
representation used by the operators and functions defined for the type to
the type’s external textual representation.
On the Optional-1 tab:
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Receive Function field to
select a receive_function. The optional receive_function converts the type’s
external binary representation to the internal representation. If this
function is not supplied, the type cannot participate in binary input.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Send function field to
select a send_function. The optional send_function converts from the internal
representation to the external binary representation. If this function is not
supplied, the type cannot participate in binary output.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Typmod in function field tab
to select a type_modifier_input_function.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Typmod out function field tab
to select a type_modifier_output_function. It is allowed to omit the
type_modifier_output_function, in which case the default display format is the
stored typmod integer value enclosed in parentheses.
- Use the optional Internal length to specify a value for internal
representation.
- Move the Variable? switch to specify the internal representation is of
variable length (VARIABLE). The default is a fixed length positive integer.
- Specify a default value in the optional Default field in cases where a
column of the data type defaults to something other than the null value.
Specify the default with the DEFAULT key word. (A default can be overridden
by an explicit DEFAULT clause attached to a particular column.)
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Analyze function field to
select a function for performing type-specific statistics collection for
columns of the data type.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Category type field to help
control which implicit cast will be applied in ambiguous situations.
- Move the Preferred? switch to Yes to specify the selected category type is
preferred. The default is No.
On the Optional-2 tab:
- Use the drop-down listbox next to the optional Element type field to specify
a data type.
- Use the optional Delimiter field to indicate the delimiter to be used
between values in the external representation of arrays for this data type.
The default delimiter is the comma (,). Note that the delimiter is associated
with the array element type, not the array type itself.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Alignment type to specify the storage
alignment required for the data type. The allowed values (char, int2, int4,
and double) correspond with alignment on 1, 2, 4, or 8 byte boundaries.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to optional Storage type to select a strategy
for storing data.
- Move the Passed by value? switch to Yes to override the existing data type
value. The default is No.
- Move the Collatable? switch to Yes to specify column definitions and
expressions of the type may carry collation information through use of the
COLLATE clause. The default is No.
If you select Range in the Type field, the Definition tab displays the
Range panel. Fields on the Range panel are context-sensitive and may be
disabled.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Sub-type to select an associated b-tree
operator class (to determine the ordering of values for the range type).
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Sub-type operator class to use a
non-default operator class.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Collation to use a non-default collation
in the range’s ordering if the sub-type is collatable.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Canonical function to convert range
values to a canonical form.
- Use the drop-down listbox next to Sub-type diff function to select a
user-defined subtype_diff function.
If you select Shell in the Type field, the Definition tab displays the
Shell panel:
A shell type is a placeholder for a type and has no parameters.
Click the Security tab to continue.
Use the Security tab to assign privileges and define security labels.
Use the Privileges panel to assign privileges for the type; click the Add
icon (+) to grant privileges:
- Select the name of the role that will be granted privileges on the type from
the drop-down listbox in the Grantee field.
- Click inside the Privileges field. Check the boxes to the left of one or
more privileges to grant the selected privilege to the specified user.
- The current user, who is the default grantor for granting the privilege, is displayed in the Grantor field.
Click the Add icon (+) to assign additional privileges; to discard a
privilege, click the trash icon to the left of the row and confirm deletion in
the Delete Row popup.
Use the Security Labels panel to define security labels applied to the type.
Click the Add icon (+) to add each security label selection:
- Specify a security label provider in the Provider field. The named provider
must be loaded and must consent to the proposed labeling operation.
- Specify a security label in the Security Label field. The meaning of a given
label is at the discretion of the label provider. PostgreSQL places no
restrictions on whether or how a label provider must interpret security
labels; it merely provides a mechanism for storing them.
Click the Add icon (+) to assign additional security labels; to discard a
security label, click the trash icon to the left of the row and confirm deletion
in the Delete Row popup.
Click the SQL tab to continue.
Your entries in the Type dialog generate a SQL command (see an example below).
Use the SQL tab for review; revisit or switch tabs to make any changes to the
SQL command.
Example
The following is an example of a sql command generated by user selections made
in the Type dialog:
The example shown demonstrates creating a data type named work_order. The data
type is an enumerated type with three labels: new, open and closed.
- Click the Info button (i) to access online help.
- Click the Save button to save work.
- Click the Cancel button to exit without saving work.
- Click the Reset button to restore configuration parameters.


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Laracon EU (III)
At the end of the first day the legend Fabien Potencier took the stage. If you don’t know who he is, he’s a developer by passion, he started to build websites with PHP5 in 2004 and created the Symfony framework to help SensioLabs, his company, leverage the power of PHP for its customers.
As expected his talk was all about Symfony.
Symfony is all about standardization and interoperability. The Symfony foundation is largely based on existing standards like HTTP, but it also leverages existing best-practices and design patterns like dependency injection. Learn more about the fundamental philosophy of Symfony and why embracing these core concepts is good for PHP as a whole.
After all the talk about standardization there was a really interesting Q&A. Mostly about general PHP stuff and some decisions and the Symfony roadmap.
This is how great Laracon EU is, we’re here not just to talk about Laravel. Mostly we’re were to talk about PHP in general. Actually I talked to a lot of people and most don’t even use Laravel that much. But we all love it and learn from it.


Fashion Fridays: 5 stunning winter coats
Kim XO, helps to keep you looking good on Fashion Fridays on the Black Press Media Network
This Fashion Friday celebrity stylist Kim XO Appelt fills you in on her favourite coats for this winter.
Although Kim XO is based in Kelowna, B.C., she has followers from all over the globe which is why is episode includes coats for those living in diverse temperatures that might not see the chilly winters the Okanagan does.
From a light silk bomber jacket to warm and cozy teddy coats, Appelt has a jacket that will keep you stylish this season.
Watch the video below to find out more.
Appelt is a personal and celebrity stylist with years in the fashion industry and has become a go-to expert on all things fashion.
From Jen Laporte of Disney’s Freaky Friday to Kaitlyn Bristowe of The Bachelorette season 11, to Okanagan food blogger Tori Wesszer, Appelt has been key in celebrity styling.
She produces new videos every week to help her thousands of YouTube subscribers turn a shabby look into run-way chic. She also has a strong social media following with more than 58,000 followers on Instagram.
Her passion to help clients find their own style, and her ability to see trends and pull together key pieces, have led the way to a successful styling career.
How to walk in high heels? What’s the best way, to tie your Converse shoes? How to pull off a baseball cap? Appelt has you covered.
Trained in New York, Appelt has styled both local television personalities and A-list celebrities through her company Style by Kim XO.
“As a style expert and an influencer, I work with select designers and brands to assist them in promoting their brand,” Appelt said. “My services include private launch parties, fashion shows and brand placement.”
Be sure to look for Kim XO every Fashion Fridays on the Life channel on all Black Press Media websites.
And in case you missed it:
Fashion Fridays: Things a stylist would remove from your closet


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4-time World Champion challenges CM Punk to WrestleMania match
by Danny HartSeth Rollins has been very outspoken about wanting to face CM Punk since the former WWE Champion made his debut on FS1 show WWE Backstage last week.
In response, Punk said he did not join the show to “shoot your little angles” and gave his opinion that the four-time World Champion is making himself look like a “fool” by tweeting about him all the time.
Speaking to Wrestlezone’s Kevin Kellam on 101WKQX Chicago, Rollins continued the war of words by saying Punk “couldn’t bust a cherry in a fruit fight”, while he also suggested that the former MMA fighter was “a little keyboard warrior-ish” with his comments on WWE Backstage.
“I want to make some money, so if CM Punk wants to talk all of the smack in the world, I’ve invited him a million times to come to my ring, to my domain on live television where you can’t hide behind anything, no desk in LA. Let’s do this thing, man. Let’s fight. Let’s fight it out like men.”
Although Punk has repeatedly said he is not actively pursuing an in-ring return, Rollins explained that he has recently targeted “The Best In The World” because he wants to go one-on-one against him in the main event of WrestleMania.
“For me, the only place the match happens is WrestleMania in the main event. That’s the only reason I’m picking a fight with him, I’ve got no other interest than that. If he’s interested, it’s out there. Any time you’re ready, let’s go.”
Now you can rate RAW, SmackDown and NXT matches on Sportskeeda !


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Borderlands 3 Class Documentation
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#include <BL3_GbxWeapon_classes.hpp>
Static Public Member Functions | |
| static UClass * | StaticClass () |
| Static Public Member Functions inherited from UWeaponSimpleMotionControlBase | |
| static UClass * | StaticClass () |
| Static Public Member Functions inherited from UWeaponSkeletalControlBase | |
| static UClass * | StaticClass () |
| Static Public Member Functions inherited from UObject | |
| static FChunkedFixedUObjectArray & | GetGlobalObjects () |
| template<typename T > | |
| static T * | FindObject (const std::string &name) |
| static UClass * | FindClass (const std::string &name) |
| template<typename T > | |
| static T * | GetObjectCasted (std::size_t index) |
| static UClass * | StaticClass () |
Additional Inherited Members | |
| Public Member Functions inherited from UObject | |
| std::string | GetName () const |
| std::string | GetFullName () const |
| bool | IsA (UClass *cmp) const |
| void | ProcessEvent (class UFunction *function, void *parms) |
| void | ExecuteUbergraph (int EntryPoint) |
| Static Public Attributes inherited from UObject | |
| static FUObjectArray * | GObjects |
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inlinestatic |
| struct FRotator ActiveRotation |
| struct FSimpleMotionState ActiveRotationState |
| struct FVector ActiveScale |
| struct FSimpleMotionState ActiveScaleState |
| struct FVector ActiveTranslation |
| struct FSimpleMotionState ActiveTranslationState |
| struct FName BoneName |
| struct FRotator IdleRotation |
| struct FSimpleMotionState IdleRotationState |
| struct FVector IdleScale |
| struct FSimpleMotionState IdleScaleState |
| struct FVector IdleTranslation |
| struct FSimpleMotionState IdleTranslationState |
| struct FSimpleMotionState RecoveryRotationState |
| struct FSimpleMotionState RecoveryScaleState |
| struct FSimpleMotionState RecoveryTranslationState |
| TEnumAsByte<EBoneModificationMode> RotationMode |
| TEnumAsByte<EBoneControlSpace> RotationSpace |
| TEnumAsByte<EBoneModificationMode> ScaleMode |
| TEnumAsByte<EBoneControlSpace> ScaleSpace |
| TEnumAsByte<EBoneModificationMode> TranslationMode |
| TEnumAsByte<EBoneControlSpace> TranslationSpace |
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{% extends "base.html" %} {% block body %}
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle FriendFeed's real-time features — every active user of FriendFeed maintains an open connection to the FriendFeed servers. (For more information on scaling servers to support thousands of clients, see The C10K problem.)
See the Tornado documentation for a detailed walkthrough of the framework.
Download: tornado-0.1.tar.gz
tar xvzf tornado-0.1.tar.gz
cd tornado-0.1
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
The Tornado source code is hosted on GitHub.
Tornado has been tested on Python 2.5 and 2.6. To use all of the features of Tornado, you need to have PycURL and a JSON library like simplejson installed. Complete installation instructions for Mac OS X and Ubuntu are included below for convenience.
Mac OS X 10.5/10.6
sudo easy_install setuptools pycurl==<IP_ADDRESS> simplejson
Ubuntu Linux
sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pycurl python-simplejson
Here is the canonical "Hello, world" example app for Tornado:
import tornado.httpserver
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
self.write("Hello, world")
application = tornado.web.Application([
(r"/", MainHandler),
])
if __name__ == "__main__":
http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
http_server.listen(8888)
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
See the Tornado documentation for a detailed walkthrough of the framework.
You can discuss Tornado and report bugs on the Tornado developer mailing list. {% end %}


Manifest
public final class Manifest: Codable
An interface for a package’s manifest.
-
The current environment that the
Manifest
is being used in.Declaration
Swift
public static var environment: Environment = .commandline
-
Gets the current project’s manifest.
Declaration
Swift
public static var current: Manifest
-
A custom path to the manifest. This property gets set to
./Package.swift
when the static.current
property is used.Declaration
Swift
public let path: String?
-
Data that acts as the manifest file.
Declaration
Swift
public private(set) var data: Data?
-
Declaration
Swift
public init(path: String)
-
Declaration
Swift
public init(data: Data)
-
Declaration
Swift
public required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws
-
Declaration
Swift
public func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws
-
Gets the contents of the project’s manifest as
Data
.Throws
Errors that occur if there is a badly formed URL or the manifest is not found.Declaration
Swift
public func contents()throws -> Data
Return Value
The manifest’s contents.
-
Gets the contents of the project’s manifest as an
NSMutableString
.Throws
Errors that occur if there is a badly formed URL or the manifest is not found.Declaration
Swift
public func contents()throws -> NSMutableString
Return Value
The manifest’s contents.
-
Gets the contents of the project’s manifest as a
String
.Throws
Errors that occur if there is a badly formed URL or the manifest is not found.Declaration
Swift
public func contents()throws -> String
Return Value
The manifest’s contents.
-
Rewrites the contents of the package’s manifest.
Throws
ManifestError.badURL
if the URL to the manifest cannot be created.Declaration
Swift
public func write(with string: String)throws
Parameters
string
The data to rewrite the manifest with.
-
Rewrites the contents of the package’s manifest.
Throws
ManifestError.badURL
if the URL to the manifest cannot be created.Declaration
Swift
public func write(with string: NSMutableString)throws
Parameters
string
The string to rewrite the manifest with.
-
Rests the manifest to its orginal state when the project was created without extraneous comments or whitespace.
Throws
Errors when reading or writing the manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func reset()throws
-
Get all the elements in
Package.dependencies
array from the project’s manifest.Throws
Errors that occur when creating a RegEx pattern or reading or writing the manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func dependencies()throws -> [Dependency]
Return Value
Package.dependencies
-
Get an element in
Package.dependencies
array from the project’s manifest.Throws
Errors that occur when creating a RegEx pattern or reading or writing the manifest.
Declaration
Swift
public func dependency(withURL url: String)throws -> Dependency?
Parameters
url
The URL of the dependency to fetch.
Return Value
Package.dependencies
-
Gets the name of the
Package
declaration in the project’s manifest.Throws
Errors that occur when creating a RegEx pattern or reading or writing the manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func name(equals name: String? = nil)throws -> String
Parameters
name
A new name for the
Package
declaration. Ifnil
is passed in, the name remains the same.Return Value
The value passed into the manifest’s
Package
initializer. -
Gets the value of the
Package.pkgConfig
property.Throws
Errors that occur when creating a RegEx pattern or reading or writing the manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func packageConfig()throws -> String?
Return Value
Package.pkgConfig
-
Sets the value of the
Package.pkgConfig
property in the project’s manifest.Throws
Errors that occur when creating a RegEx pattern or reading or writing the manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func packageConfig(equals string: String?)throws
Parameters
string
The new value for
Package.pkgConfig
.
-
Keys for encoding a
Manifest
instance.Declaration
Swift
public typealias CodingKeys = ManifestCodingKeys
-
Gets a single
Product
instances from the current manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func product(as type: ProductType = .library, withName name: String)throws -> Product?
Parameters
type
Wheather the product is an
executable
orlibrary
(default).name
The name of the product to fetch.
-
Get all the elements in
Package.providers
from the project’s manifest.Throws
Errors that occur when creating a RegEx pattern or reading or writing the manifest.Declaration
Swift
public func providers()throws -> [Provider]
Return Value
Package.providers
-
Gets the contents of the package’s
Package.resolved
file as a data structure.Throws
ManifestError.badPath
if the path to the.resolved
file is malformed.Declaration
Swift
public func resolved()throws -> Resolved
Return Value
The contents of the packages
.resolved
file. -
Gets the data from the package’s
.resolved
file about a package with a given name.Throws
Errors that occur when fetching the data.Declaration
Swift
public func package(withName name: String)throws -> Pin?
Parameters
name
The name of the package to fetch.
Return Value
The package’s pin data.
-
Gets the data from the package’s
.resolved
file about a package with a given repository URL.Throws
Errors that occur when fetching the data.Declaration
Swift
public func package(withURL url: String)throws -> Pin?
Parameters
name
The URL of the package to fetch.
Return Value
The package’s pin data.
-
Gets the targets declared in the project’s manifest.
Throws
Errors that occur while fetching the manifest contents or create the regex for maching the targets.Declaration
Swift
public func targets()throws -> [Target]
Return Value
The project’s targets parsed into data structures.
-
Gets a target declared in the project’s manifest.
Throws
Errors that occur while fetching the manifest contents or create the regex for maching the targets.
Declaration
Swift
public func target(test: Bool = false, withName name: String)throws -> Target?
Parameters
test
Wheather the target to fetch is a test target or not.
name
The name of the target to fetch.
Return Value
The project’s targets parsed into data structures.


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{% extends 'core/page.html' %} {% block title_head %} Machine Learning {% endblock %} {% block title_body %} Machine Learning {% endblock %} {% block body %}
Machine learning is about pattern matching. Using a "training set" of publications that have been labelled as "relevant" or "irrelevant" to a given topic, a machine-learning algorithm can be trained to identify relevant publications, based on the pattern of words in the titles and/or abstracts of these publications.
Machine learning is not perfect. Like humans, a machine-learning algorithm can make mistakes. We can quantify these mistakes by testing the performance of the trained algorithm on a "test set" of publications that have also been labelled as "relevant" or "irrelevant" (different publications than those in the "training set"). When we do this test, we can see that there is a trade-off between "precision" and "recall". Precision is the proportion of publications that the algorithm predicts to be relevant that are truly relevant. Recall is the proportion of publications that are truly relevant that the algorithm predicts to be relevant.
| Topic | Model | Recall | Precision | Positives | True Positives |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{ model.topic|capfirst }} | {% if model.target_recall == 0.95 %}"High recall" {% elif model.target_recall == 0.75 %}"Medium recall" {% elif model.target_recall == 0.50 %}"Low recall" {% endif %} | {{ model.test_recall|floatformat:"4" }} | {{ model.precision|floatformat:"4" }} | {{ n_predicted }} | {{ n_relevant|floatformat:"0" }} |
By selecting a model with high recall, you will get more "false positives" (irrelevant publications that the algorithm predicts to be relevant), but you will also get fewer "false negatives" (relevant publications that the algorithm predicts to be irrelevant). By selecting a model with low recall, you will get fewer irrelevant publications to sort through (and thus you will save time), but you will also lose some relevant publications. You should select a model based on the amount of time you have and your preference for either high precision or high recall. Please note that publications are shown in order of decreasing predicted relevance. Therefore, the same publications (those with the highest predicted relevance) are shown on the first pages of the bibliographies for all models (low, medium, and high recall).
In Table 1, the number of publications that are likely to be truly relevant are in the column called "True Positives". Thus, in the first row in the table, the model predicts that {{ n_predicted_example }} publications are relevant ("Positives"). Of these publications, {{ n_relevant_example|floatformat:"0" }} are likely to be truly relevant, based on the precision of the model (true positives = positives x precision). However, this is only an estimate, based on the performance of this model on the test set. This model is not likely to perform identically on the test set and the new set of unassessed publications.
{% endblock %}


How to join Max Raid Battles in Pokémon Sword and Shield
Source: iMore
One of the highlight features of Pokémon Sword and Shield is Max Raid Battles, tasking a small group of four trainers to take on a Dynamax or Gigantamax Pokémon with the ability to catch it afterward (if successful). These Max Raid Battles require you to team up with friends or computer-controlled trainers, but it's easy to get started. Here's how to get involved.
Products used in this guide
- Sharp and deadly: Pokémon Sword ($60 at Amazon)
- Protect and serve: Pokémon Shield ($60 at Amazon)
How to join Max Raid Battles
To join Max Raid Battles, you need to locate a Pokémon Den, which can be found in the Wild Area. If no Pokémon is currently located at your nearest Den, you can summon one using a Wishing Piece. These items can be sold by Watt Traders in the Wild Area, costing 3,000 each. You can choose to throw a Wishing Piece into a Pokémon Den once you've approached one. You won't see what Pokémon will spawn in battle beforehand, but the type of Pokémon will depend on the current weather.
- While you're in the Wild Area, look around and then run towards a Pokémon Den with a magenta beacon coming out of it. (The light means a Pokémon is currently in this Den.)
- When you're standing next to a Pokémon Den, Press A to interact with it. Source: iMore
- A page will pop up with a silheouette of the Pokémon. This page will also list the Pokémon type and difficulty via a star rating.
- The first Pokémon in your party defaults as the one you'll use in battle. If it's type isn't strong against the Pokémon in the den you'll want to select Switch Pokémon. Otherwise, skip to step 7. Source: iMore
- Select a Pokémon from your Boxes that would be better suited for the battle. You can see the Pokémon's level and typing on the right side of the screen.
- Click Select to varify that you want to use this Pokémon. Source: iMore
- If you want to battle with nearby friends click Invite Others. If you want to play with computer-controlled NPCs, click Don't Invite Others. If possible, it's better to fight with friends who understand the type system. Otherwise, the NPCs you fight with don't always choose the best Pokémon for the battle.
- The game will search for other gamers to play with. Click Ready to Battle! to let the game know you are ready. Note that once you click this, you cannot go back. A green check mark will appear next to your name. If each of the players joining doesn't have a check mark, then the battle won't start. Source: iMore
- Select Start Battle.
- After other trainers have joined, the battle will begin. If no trainers are able to join, this notice will pop up. Press Yes to continue to the battle. Source: iMore
- Now the battle begins. Good luck trainers! Fight hard and use Super Effective moves to win quickly. You need to defeat the Pokémon within a certain number of turns or else you'll be blown out of the den.
- If you are defeated, you can always reenter the den and attempt to beat the Pokémon again. Just note that at some point, the dens reset so this specific Pokémon won't be there forever. Source: iMore
Once you're in a Max Raid Battle
Source: iMore
Once the battle starts, things get a little crazy.  The aim of this game is to knock out the Pokémon, but you, too, can utilize the power of Dynamax in battle. To keep things balanced, only one trainer can Dynamax a single Pokémon for three turns, so choose which trainer and Pokémon should do so carefully.
Each trainer gets a single turn as is the case in a normal Pokémon battle, though the enemy Dynamax or Gigantamax Pokemon has a few tricks up its sleeve (shields and multiple attacks per turn) to make your lives that little bit more difficult. And you need to be efficient here since the game will boot you out of the Max Raid Battle if you do not knock out the Pokémon before your turn limit is reached. An efficient yet effective strategy is key.
Once you've won the fight, you'll have the opportunity to catch the Pokémon!
Some helpful Max Raid Battle tips
Struggling to be successful in Max Raid Battles? See if these tips will turn the tide of battle in your favor:
- Try and match your strongest Pokémon type to available Max Raid Battles. Have a strong fire-based team? Go with a grass-type raid over a water-type one.
- Max Raid Battles become vastly more difficult as you move up the skill level system. Start low to get the hang of them before attempting more difficult battles.
- Using items in Max Raid Battles will cost you a turn as they would in any battle. Remember: you have a set amount of turns between you to win.
- Let the trainer with the strongest Pokémon and best effective moves to Dynamax.
- Even if you don't catch the Pokémon at the end of a Max Raid Battle, you'll still receive rewards.
Top equipment picks
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Pokémon Sword features new Pokémon to tame and a legendary Pokémon exclusive to this version, though you'll be able to enjoy Max Raid Battles all the same.
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WHO ARE WE?
We are the University of Cincinnati's League of Legends club, or UCLoL for short. We were founded in the Spring of 2013 at a small table in TUC and began as a simple facebook group. We then were approved to be an official part of Riot's Collegiate Program and have since shot off. We've held events from online inhouses, to full blown tournaments, and small scale social events and competitions. We also have competed in competitive events in both the collegiate and general LoL e-sports community. Throughout the year, we will continue to strive to represent the friendly and competitive spirit of the University of Cincinnati as best we can, both at home and abroad. The overall goal of this group is to create a place where men and women at the University of Cincinnati can make friends, share stories, meet new people, improve their skills through competition of all kinds, and help create something bigger than any one of us. We are both a community and an organization. We are both social and competitive. We are UC League of Legends. Come be a part of us!! We have Bi-weekly meetings on Campus, generally on Mondays. Meeting Times and Locations are posted on our social media sites, so be sure to check out our facebook page and group to remain in the loop! We will always have the most recent announcements posted under the Announcements Tab on our website.
LIST OF STAFF:
President: Chris Postell (noobswillownu) Vice President: Austin Jutte (TheGreatGrizzly) Treasurer: Richard Baxter (TabooNoise) Secretary: Nicholas Restifo (Satsujinki13) Social Events Planner: Nicholas Gramke (IncendiarySpade) Competitive Events Planner: Juanita Dickhaus (Astrixa)
Want to get involved?
Casting Program - Led by Austin Jutte Event Helper Program - Led by John Opdycke and Kase Corstanje Ranked UC Program - Led by Will Kammerer Questions? Contact us at ucleagueoflegends@gmail.com


Angular library to help your build dual-screen experiences for foldable or dual-screen devices.
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What data we host
We are open to hosting any type of data that's useful for speech recognition and related tasks, that needs a stable URL where it can be downloaded from. We may think more carefully in cases where the data is very large (e.g. tens of gigabytes or more).Submitting your data
The process of adding data to OpenSLR is as follows. First you might want to quickly check with us whether the data you want to contribute is something we want to host; you can email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or<EMAIL_ADDRESS>If we think it's a good idea, you can prepare a .tar.gz file containing a directory with your data in it.
The format of submitted data
The directory that you transfer to us as a .tar.gz file should not contain subdirectories; it should just contain the files you want to host and two special files calledinfo.txt
and
about.html
whose format we'll explain below. Here is an example of such a directory:
# ls /var/www/openslr/resources/6 about.html data_voip_cs.tgz data_voip_en.tgz info.txtNote: the .tgz files inside it are the actual files that we're offering for download (and there is no limitation on their names or file-type, except for the no-subdirectories rule). What you would transfer to us is a .tar.gz file containing /var/www/openslr/resources/6, i.e. the four files you see in the listing above. This information is used to automatically populate the web-page at http://www.openslr.org/6/.  Some of the fields are mandatory and must appear only once: the
name
,
summary
, category
and license
fields.
The name
field gives
the name of your resource, which shouldn't be too long. The summary
is a short-sentence-length description of the resource.
The category
will normally be either
"speech", "text" or "software" but it can have other values too.
The license
line should be concise; it can just summarize the
license, which we assumed is explained more fully in the download itself or in
the about.html
file. There
may be multiple instances of the file
field; each one corresponds to one
of the files in the directory you sent us. The text after the filename in the file
field is optional; if your resource only contains one file it may not be necessary.
The alternate_url
field is optional and if it occurs, may be repeated;
the text after the URL is optional.
The about.html
file is generic HTML which will be included in the "about this resource"
section of the automatically generated webpage. Just send us a first guess and you can edit it later
if needed. In our example, the about.html
file looks like this:
This data is transcribed telephone converation data, in English and Czech. <p> The data collection process and development of these training scripts was partly funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the grant agreement LK11221 and core research funding of Charles University in Prague. <p> You can cite the data using the following BibTeX entry: <pre> @inproceedings{korvas_2014, title={{Free English and Czech telephone speech corpus shared under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license}}, author={Korvas, Mat\v{e}j and Pl\'{a}tek, Ond\v{r}ej and Du\v{s}ek, Ond\v{r}ej and \v{Z}ilka, Luk\'{a}\v{s} and Jur\v{c}\'{i}\v{c}ek, Filip}, booktitle={Proceedings of the Eigth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)}, pages={To Appear}, year={2014}, } </pre> Once you have your .tar.gz file containing theinfo.txt
,about.html
files and your actual data, you can transfer it to us (we'll have to discuss the exact mechanism if it's too big to fit in email) and we'll check it and put it on the site.


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To make IB globally famous we need to make a platform where people from all around the world engage with us by using our product. By purchasing our service. I think this is missing piece of IB. which can engage million people with IB for life time. Because It's people self reference book. People own wikitionary. It will be "life time user engage" app
Objective of this webpage is to give you overall picture about trait and future of this application. I believe i did, through state above. I believe you people also see the bigger picture like mine.
This is the first baby of mine. I am a business graduate. So it requires touch of real engineer. It requires touch of "greatness of IB", to be adult. Super adult. Super brand. Which eventually make this app billion dollar application. if you people believe.
A little perspective, Andra and Telegana is kind of "land of engineers". I feel like here people are very sincere by default(birth). If those people get such kind of platform they will love this. They will go for it. Because that will change the way they learning
I believe our SVK sir think 10 step clearly ahead than general people. I strongly believe things fall into place. I believe sir will love this.
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When I about to leaving (january) India I was sad.  This sentence was most convincing in my life. That day was happiest day in my life. I love to be here. So I generate a Idea for IB, made a app for IB. This app will be "Life time user engage app". I believe million of people will engage with IB through this app. Million of people will know this company through this app
I feel like, most of the people are very wise in IB, like Ranjith Bro. You people are every way perfect. I wanted to stay longer in Bangladesh not only for exam but also study lot of book. Hence I didn't study much before. I believe If I study lot of book I will be wise like you people. I came to BD but I didn't study. Rather try to generate Idea, Make a structure of my Idea, Implement my idea. I feel like this idea can help million of people(including me) to be sincere, wise, engaged and super learner. Eventually company will make million $.
Ignore my casual English.
It's definitely will be "life time user engaging App"


This section describes the battle-backbone toolchain that helps you automate your workflow
When developing a large application an automated development workflow is important for early tests and continous improvement. It helps a team make development faster and increase code quality while being performant. Automating repetitive tasks lets you focus on the parts that matter. battle-backbone comes with an automation workflow that covers common tasks and can be extended easily.
battle-backbone uses Grunt as an automation system. Grunt is a JavaScript task runner used by a lot of projects for many different workflows. It provides a small but flexible core API that is extended using plugins.
This tasks compiles the CoffeeScript from the src/
folder into
the build/
folder. It will also copy all non-CoffeeScript files
such as images or templates.
The build/
directory gets cleaned every time this task is triggered.
Minifies and concatenates the JavaScript in the
build/
folder into the dist/
directory.
It uses a require.js configuration that is generated during runtime and makes sure all existing models and services are included in the distribution build.
index.js
file. That also includes
stylesheets and template files.loader.js
.
This way a single request is sufficient to load all required libraries and frameworks.
The build task combines the compile and optimize. Your CoffeeScript will be compiled first and the JavaScript is then minified for production.
If you run grunt
without a task name it will start the
default task. The default task compiles your CoffeeScript
and starts two servers afterwards:
localhost:35729
that provides a live reload script.
To use it, just include it in your HTML/PHP file:
<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
Whenever something in the src/
folder changes the compile
task will
be triggered and your browser reloads the page automatically.
Minifies and concatenates the JavaScript from the
src/
folder into the dist/
folder.
It uses a require.js configuration that is generated during runtime and makes sure all existing models and services are included in the distribution build.
index.js
file. That also includes
stylesheets and template files.loader.js
.
This way a single request is sufficient to load all required libraries and frameworks.
If you run grunt
without a task name it will start the
default task. The default task starts two servers:
localhost:35729
that provides a live reload script.
To use it, just include it in your HTML/PHP file:
<script src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
Whenever something in the src/
folder changes browser reloads the page automatically
and you can see your changed immediately.
build.js
file that generates it.


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Mauricio Pochettino's next job options
Mauricio Pochettino is out of work after being sacked by Tottenham on Tuesday evening.
The Argentinian paid the price for poor domestic form in 2019, even though they played in the Champions League final less than six months ago.
Here, the PA news agency takes a look at what might be in store next for Pochettino.
Taking a sabbatical
It would be a surprise to see Pochettino head straight into another job, especially as he floated the idea earlier this year of taking a sabbatical when he eventually left Spurs. He is almost certainly going to head back to his house in Barcelona and will want time to reflect on his time in London and take a rest – this is his first time out of work since becoming a manager. Taking six months out will help recharge his batteries and take him nicely to the summer, when some elite jobs are likely to become available.
Bayern Munich
Pochettino was one of the favourites to take over at Bayern Munich, even before he was dismissed by Spurs. The Bundesliga giants are clearly willing to overlook the fact they hammered Pochettino's side 7-2 in the Champions League earlier this season and are keen for him to replace Niko Kovac. Hans-Dieter Flick is in interim charge, but is likely to make way and it is a job Pochettino may fancy. He would have money to spend, would inherit a young and exciting squad, and would find winning silverware almost a formality.
Real Madrid
Wanted by Real Madrid last summer, there was always a sense that the Bernabeu job was the one thing that would tempt Pochettino away from Spurs. He said as recently as last week that he wants to manage in Spain and has also previously stated that he would find it hard to turn Madrid down. There is no current vacancy, of course, as Zinedine Zidane remains in charge, but things can quickly change at the Spanish club and Pochettino may just want to hang fire in case it comes up.
Manchester United
Jose Mourinho's appointment as Pochettino's successor at Tottenham is dripping in irony, considering it seemed a given it would be the Argentinian who replaced Mourinho at Manchester United last season. United made Pochettino their number one target when Mourinho was axed, but the brilliant caretaker spell of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer changed their thinking. However, the Norwegian has not gone on to totally convince since being given the permanent position, and Pochettino's availability will not have gone unnoticed by the Old Trafford board.
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Personal Projects
Paper Replications
Replication studies are scarce in formal academic work, but their role is essential (for more info read this one-page econ). I wanted to improve my coding skills and help mitigate this issue by replicating the tables and figures of the papers bellow.
Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
The pdf below contains the replicated figures and tables and the GitHub link contains the Stata code that automatically produces
the LaTeX tables and pdf figures.


Chapter 2: The Circuits
The following model of human consciousness employs a metaphor termed the bio-circuit and a psycho-stat. Each bio-circuit, sometimes referred as circuits, and a psycho-stats functions much the same as the channel selector and volume control on your home stereo. In our electro-colloidal processor we call a brain we have physical connections, the physical neurons that contains our memories and processes our thoughts and the information connections, the meaning that is stored in those connections. When we think a thought or react to some stimulus we use these circuits by default. We literally don't know things that we don't know and cannot do things we haven't learned. The bio-circuits are the programs which govern the thoughts and actions we employ in our daily life. The psycho-stats are the controls which allow acceleration or deceleration, the intensification and diminishing of the bio-circuits. Via the use of a psycho-stat we can emerse ourselves in a bio-circuit or turn the intensity down to just a trickle. We have a choice in how deeply we experience a circuit.It is our experience with others whom we share the CyberCraft metaphor that just knowing where one is on the map enables the CynerNaut to pilot their way to other circuits and manipulate the psycho-stats to make their lives more enjoyable.
The Model
What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves. This was stated emphatically by Dr. Lenard Orr. Because the human brain, like other animal brains, acts as an electro-colloidal computer, not as a solid state computer, it follows the same laws as other animal brains. That is, organically driven programs get into the brain as electro-chemical bonds, in discrete organic quantum stages.This is not to say that the human brain is a computer, but only that it acts something like a solid state computer. The computer model best fits current knowledge. Let's review just briefly what we know about solid state computers.
A solid state computer has two chief components, hardware and software. Of these the hardware portion is the physical part. It consists of five necessary parts: a device to process information, the Central Processing Unit (CPU), an input device to send instructions to the CPU, the keyboard, an output device for receiving messages from the CPU, the display or printer, a temporary storage area for the CPU, the memory, and a permanent information storage device, the floppy or hard disk.
In this hardware model the brain acts like a computer in that it receives, processes, transmits and files information. And like the solid state computer the devices or individual parts of the brain or computer are discrete and manipulatable either by electro-chemical processes or mechanical force. The discrete elements can be created, modified or destroyed easily in one place and at one time.
The other component is software. These are the instructions given to the computer to operate upon. They, (software is generally plural in nature), exist both inside and outside the computer simultaneously. While one can easily locate the hardware in space-time, the software is more ephemeral; it can be in many different places at one time. One can destroy the hardware while the software(s) live on unhampered.
Of the softwares there are two basic types of software, operating systems and applications. Operating systems, sometimes called monitors or master control programs, are the backbones of software. All applications travel through the backbones to their appointed ends. Applications are the individual instructions that cause the CPU to compute, to make decisions and move information around.
Brainware
'What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.' Today we have a better idea of how the brain works than ever before. I'll get to the hardware aspects in a later section. First I'm mostly concerned with the software aspects of the human brain.The brain software, or brainware, has three basic parts:
IMPRINTS These are the more-or-less hardwired (physically present electro-chemical connected) programs which the brain is genetically suited to accept ONLY at certain points in its development. These points are known, in ethology, as times of 'imprint vulnerability.' Imprinting is involuntary by nature.
CONDITIONING These are programs built onto the imprints. They are looser and fairly easy to change with counter-conditioning. Conditioning is relatively more voluntary than imprinting.
LEARNING This is even looser and 'softer' than conditioning. Learning is relatively more voluntary than conditioning.
Generally, the primordial imprint can always overrule any subsequent conditioning and/or learning. An imprint is a type of software that has become built in hardware, termed 'firmware' in computer jargon, being impressed upon tender neurons before they were fully developed, or modified at some point when they are singularly vulnerable. Imprinting is extremely difficult to change once the imprint has been made. Some think that imprinting is impossible to change, period.
Imprints are the non-negotiable aspects of our individuality. Out of the infinite possibilities of programs existing as potential brainware, the imprint establishes the limits, parameters, perimeters within which all subsequent conditioning and learning must occur.
Before imprinting the consciousness of the infant is a clean slate, it's 'formless and void'. Another analogue is the exploded or unconditioned consciousness the mystics call enlightenment. When the first imprint is made structure begins to take form. The emergent mind becomes trapped within this imprinting structure; it identifies with the structure. And in a sense it becomes the structure.
Each successive imprinting adds to and complicates the previous imprintings. Through part of this 'deep brainware' we experience life events which are interpreted in light of the existing imprintings.
Further, conditioning and learning add branches to this basic framework of imprintings. The total structure of this brain circuitry makes up our world map and our worldviews. In essence we experience our realities in reference to and in accordance with the software in our brains. The reality we know is one that is a construction established and maintained in our brains, our minds. In this mental-macrostructure the Thinker thinks and the Provers proves mechanistically, fitting all the information into previously existing frameworks.
Brainware Centers - The Bio-Circuits
RAW slightly modifies Dr. Timothy Leary's previous 8 bio-circuits. It's rather important to remember that the following descriptions are metaphors. They are something akin to the menu's representation of the meal. It's apparent that the menu isn't very tasty or nutritious. Please remember that each of the following Circuits can be affected either positively or negatively for any conceivable reason to any accidental or intended end.Lower Four Circuits
- The Oral Bio-Survival Circuit.
- The Anal Emotional-Territorial Circuit.
- The Time Binding Semantic Circuit.
- The 'Moral' Socio-Sexual Circuit.
Lower Four Circuit Map Circuit Imprint
SitesNames in other Psychologies Freud Jung Berne Sagan I Limbic Oral Sensation Natural Reptile II Thalamus Anal Feeling Adapted Mammal III Left cortex Latency Reason Adult Human IV Left neo-cortex Phallic Ignored Parent Ignored Personality Modes
- Circuit I
- Narcissistic - Soft Narcissist
Relationship to Mom/Body/Food- Circuit II
- Emotional - Hard Militant
Relationship to Pop/Family/Society- Circuit III
- Rationalistic Philosopher Relationship to Abstract/Speech
- Circuit IV
- Moralistic - Lover/Parent
Relationship to Sex/Lover/ParentCircuit One - Oral
Circuit One is the center which most closely approximates the perspectives we have about our bodies. Should a bodily threat occur we automatically and completely retreat into Circuit One operations. 'I didn't think about it, my body just moved,' the pugilist says. When such a retreat into Circuit One happens, all other centers are bypassed instantly. Circuit One is the first and oldest circuit to operate. Some call it the reptile brain. Its earmarks are complete automatic movement and unthinking reaction to a physical influence.At birth the first imprinting is that of Mother. Anything can be imprinted as Mother. Wild animals have been known to imprint such things as animals of other species, Ping-pong balls and Jeeps. Accidents, intrusions and intended events can all affect imprinting at this level. Additional imprinting can occur later in life when a bodily threat occurs. Areas of interest for Circuit One are the health fields, martial arts and any interest which stimulates or depresses the human body.
Sometimes this circuit gets out of control.  Then it is possible to imagine threats to the body that have no basis in reality. The results can be quite tragic.
Circuit Two - Anal
Circuit Two is the next imprinting stage. Once the child learns to move around it encounters others. The immediate Circuit Two imprinting involves authority. Typically this is symbolized by Father. The child first imprints its relationship with Mother, sharing bodies and food. The second imprinting is of its relationship to Father. Now there aren't two things in its universe, there are three. Along with the imprinting of Father is authority conditioning. If the child does something 'good' or 'bad' it learns that Mom and Dad can do something. From this triangle political situations arise. How quickly the child learns family politics!Authority effects personal elimination--potty training. Personal elimination requires more precise control of the body. Mom and Dad use their power and authority to condition the child's personal elimination. This circuit is normally extended out into the great big human world with rules, regulations, laws and politics. Bodily excretion is replaced with ink and electronic excretions. It's appropriate to refer to this as an anal stage. And it's not surprising that military and political personel refer to themselves with 'shit' or 'ass'.  Where authoritarian or political concerns arise the human mind retreats into Circuit two for instruction. Areas of interest for Circuit Two are of course authority structures, the family, the penal system, the military and politics in general.
Generally Circuit Two social problems are dealt with by threatening Circuit One, either with bodily incarceration or by threatening removal of bio-survival tickets (money).
Circuit Three - Semantic Time Binding
Circuit Three takes us out of the physical world into the abstract. Once the child learns to speak,it senses its relationship to symbols. It must learn to symbolize, to describe the abstract. Circuit Three is a center which utilizes and manipulates ideas, concepts, facts and figures.It's tempting to refer to Circuit Three as 'the Mind'. But it isn't. The primary expressive organ for this circuit is the mouth, the portal from which symbols, concepts and ideas tumble. In consensus reality WoMankind uses the artificial distinction of mind and body. The mind is the body and the body is the mind.
Korzybski said those who rule symbols rule us. Humans beings (domesticated) primates are symbol-using creatures.
If Moses, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammad, Jesus and St. Paul can be considered living influences, and they most certainly are for many, then it is because their 'signal', their meaning has been transmitted across time and space to our little corner of the world. Their meaning and purpose has been transmitted to us by symbol systems. These systems include words, artworks, music, rituals and unrecognized rituals, ie. 'games' through which culture is transmitted. Marx and Hitler, Newton and Socrates, Shakespeare and Jefferson, etc, continue to rule parts of humanity in the same way--through the semantic circuit. It then becomes plainly obvious that the symbol system conditions the information transmitted and thereby conditions the mind which receives conditioned information.
We are ruled even more, and even less consciously, by the inventors of the wheel, the plow, the alphabet(s), even the various engineers of roads throughout history. The founders, the religious engineers of the world religions rule us through their creations, conditioning our minds to accept their message and reject others.
Circuit Three is time binding in that it provides a reference from one point in time to another point. It is also used to subdivide and reconnect things, at pleasure. There seems to be no end of the busy analyze, synthesize, create, divide and rejoin, labeling and packaging of experience. This is the internal monologue which is then externalized into the continuum. On the historical level this is the time-binding aspect as one generation adds to or subtracts from the sum total of human knowledge and experience.
Since words contain both denotations (referents in the sensory-existential world) and connotations (emotional tones and poetic or rhetorical hooks), humans can be moved to action even by words which have no real meaning or reference in actuality. This is the mechanism of demagoguery, advertising, and much of organized religion.
Circuit Three can run away. The psy-stat turned way too high. Persons involved with the higher circuits (V-VIII) tell us that 'reason is a whore', ie. the semantic circuit is notoriously vulnerable to manipulation by the older, more primitive circuits. However the rationalist may resent this, it is always true in the short run. That is, it is always pragmatically true.
Circuit Three can become so idealistic, so revolutionary that a society cannot cope with the rapid change.  Whoever can scare people enough (produce sufficient bio-survival anxiety or sex guilt) can sell them quickly on any verbal map that seems to provide the needed relief from the anxiety. Once either threat is experienced Circuit Three is bypassed, and new symbols can be plugged into the human computer.
More will be said later about Circuit Three and its associations with what Richard Dawkins refers to as memes.
Circuit Four - Moral
Circuit Four is the next center of operation or mode of thought. This center is approximated by the sex hormones awakening in the teen's body.  This circuit could be called the Guilt Circuit since it is mostly used to control individuals, not enhance human life.Imprint vulnerability is acute. The first sexual signals to turn on the adolescent nervous system remain fixed for life, defining the individual's sexuality. They lurch about, the bewildered possessors of new bodies awakening to a new rhythm. Sex!
As any adult can tell, this time is delicate. Accidents do happen which lend to the general imprinting which may or may not contribute to a positive experience. Accidents which impinge upon this imprint are just as effective as fully intended ones. Yet time moves on. The individual's sexuality develops. Parents and peers all have a say in the conditioning. Schools play a part in the learning process with sex education. Society itself takes a guiding role in Circuit Four defining what is and is not acceptable in our activities.
Circuit Four can be used in two ways to regulate other circuits. A Circuit Three social concern can be alleviated by threatening Circuit Four.  A still more useful way to modify an individual's behavior is to threaten their children. Circuit Four is the Parent stage. Society both enhances and threatens the parent with beneficial social programs while hinting at removal of benefits and children.
Circuit Tasking
The task of the CyberNaut is to employ a psycho-stat to accelerate and decelerate all Circuits in such a way as to provide optimal protection from outside influences, liberate the circuit for newer, better working, and optimize the imprinting, conditioning and learning to ethical ends chosen by the CyberNaut. By using metaprogramming exercises for each circuit we can willfully fine tune each circuit so that our perspectives and actions closer match consensus reality. Or we may skillfully explore those areas which interest us the most.Conclusion
What the Thinker thinks the Prover proves. Whatever our perspective of our bodies, our reputations, or our philosophical stance and our sexuality we prove to ourselves that what we think is accurate. Fortunately we now know what affects the internal programming. That makes it much easier to modify our very beings for a more optimal life, more enjoyable existience.The above descriptions are of the lower four Circuits. The intent of the article was to inform. Much work needs to be done in the way of positively integrating these ancient centers for a better life. It's time we took control of the reins of our lives. Long have the medias, the political-religious propaganda machines, our peers and loved ones manipulated us toward goals previously selected. The task of the CyberNaut is to holistically and positively reimprint, recondition and relearn toward a purpose of their own.
Between the lower and upper circuits lays a period of doubt which we term Darkmoor.
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The ff-class attribute allows you to add a css class to an element. Values beginning with _ & # are special values for greater control.
In this example, if isImportant is truthy
In this example, if the url contains the hash #red, the class red will be added to the div. Notice this example has no Firebase emulator because changing the hash has no effect on firebase or the view-model.
_selected will add the class selected when the list item is selected. _not-selected will add the class not-selected when the list item is not selected. You are responsible to setup the css class rules to hide and show the proper row.
See ff-select attribute


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Nowadays, more than ever, computers are a vital part of the art world. This course focused on presenting software development skills to art students.
During the course, the students learned to realize artistic ideas using the Javascript computer language, emphasizing visual and interactive applications. Finally, the students were introduced to various software engineering concepts and ideas while reviewing software art projects.
This website presents the students' final projects. Every project had to include visual and sound elements while being interactive and artistic. But most importantly, it had to be fun.
All the source code is available in the course's repository.
Lecturer: Jonathan Dortheimer
Students: Sheli Aviv, Alexander Smirnov, Gabi Abud, Galit Zeierman, Dana Gross-Golan, Hagar Ben Hillel Dauber, Hagai Livne, Yovel Gredy, Leora Kowen, Maya Gayer, Matan Shadmi, Matan Sagi, Noa Shimoni, Noa Natanson, Nitzan Tamir, Omri Samson, Idan Zichlinskey, Rom Maor, Raz Baran, Shiri Gordon, and Tom Hadar.
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PHP and C++ both support exceptions, and with the PHP-CPP library exception handling between these two languages is completely transparent. Exceptions that you throw in C++ are automatically passed on to the PHP script, and exceptions thrown by PHP scripts can be caught by your C++ code as if it was a plain C++ exception.
Let's start with a simple C++ function that throws an exception.
#include <phpcpp.h>
/**
* Simple function that takes two numeric parameters,
* and that divides them. Division by zero is of course
* not permitted - it will throw an exception then
*/
Php::Value myDiv(Php::Parameters ¶ms)
{
// division by zero is not permitted, throw an exception when this happens
if (params[1] == 0) throw Php::Exception("Division by zero");
// divide the two parameters
return params[0] / params[1];
}
extern "C" {
PHPCPP_EXPORT void *get_module() {
static Php::Extension extension("my_extension", "1.0");
extension.add("myDiv", myDiv, {
Php::ByVal("a", Php::Type::Numeric, true),
Php::ByVal("b", Php::Type::Numeric, true)
});
return extension;
}
}
And once again you see a very simple extension. In this extension a "myDiv" function is created that divides two numbers. But division by zero is of course not allowed, so when an attempt is made to divide by zero, an exception is thrown. The following PHP script uses this:
<?php
try
{
echo(myDiv(10,2)."\n");
echo(myDiv(8,4)."\n");
echo(myDiv(5,0)."\n");
echo(myDiv(100,10)."\n");
}
catch (Exception $exception)
{
echo("exception caught\n");
}
?>
The output of this script is as follows:
5 2 exception caught
The example shows how amazingly simple it is to throw exceptions from your C++ code, and to catch them in your PHP script. The PHP-CPP library will internally catch your C++ exception and convert it into a PHP exception, but this all happens under the hood. For you, the extension programmer, it is as if you're not even working in two different languages, and you can simply throw a Php::Exception object as if it was a regular PHP exception.
And this works the other way around too. If your extension calls a PHP function, and that PHP function happens to throw an exception, you can catch it just as if it was a normal C++ exception.
#include <phpcpp.h>
Php::Value callMe(Php::Parameters ¶ms)
{
// prevent that exceptions bubble up
try
{
// call the function that was supplied by the user
return params[0]();
}
catch (Php::Exception &exception)
{
return "Exception caught!\n";
}
}
extern "C" {
PHPCPP_EXPORT void *get_module() {
static Php::Extension extension("my_extension", "1.0");
extension.add("callMe", callMe, {
Php::ByVal("callback", Php::Type::Callable, true)
});
return extension;
}
}
This code calls for explanation. As we've mentioned before, a Php::Value object can be used just like a normal PHP $variable is used, and you can thus store integers, strings, objects, arrays, et cetera in it. But this also means that you can use it to store functions - because PHP variables can be used to store functions too! And that's exactly what we're doing here.
The callMe() function from this example extension receives one single parameter: a callback function that it will immediately call, and from which the return value is also returned by the callMe() function. If this callback somehow throws an exception, it will be caught by the callMe() function, and an alternative string will be returned instead ("Exception caught!").
<?php
// call "callMe" for the first time, and supply a function that returns "first call"
$output = callMe(function() {
return "First call";
});
// show output (this will be "First call")
echo("$output\n");
// call "callMe" for the second time, but throw an exception this time
$output = callMe(function() {
throw new Exception("Sorry...\n");
return "Second call\n";
});
// show output (this will be "Exception caught")
echo("$output\n");
?>
This PHP script uses our extension and calls the callMe() function two times in a row. First with a normal function that returns a string, but then with a function that throws an exception - which will be caught by the extension. The output is as you would expect.
First call Exception caught!


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Before that, he worked as a Nodejs and Phonegap developer in Eversun / AoV, while pursuing a degree in law at the University of San Agustin. He also worked freelance for a few years working with grad students developing software for their thesis. He has worked on a few projects online. He is currently on a career break to relax and focus on learning new things (data science, machine learning, systems engineering) and working on new things (react native, amazon lambda, unity engine).
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After finishing a Coursera Machine Learning course sans certificate, he is now applying his knowledge by participating in Kaggle competitions. He plans to work on building a portfolio on data science and machine learning while pursuing a nanodegree in Udacity in the near future.


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The Pair Programming Experience
June 22, 2015
Pair programming is the process of two developers working together to solve a programming challenge, each alternating between writing code ("driving") and providing direction ("navigating"). Particularly useful to get past a challenging roadblock, or when learning new techniques, pair programming pushes developers to communicate about why and what they are doing at a higher level than would be required during a solo session.
When working with a pair, it's essential that both members of the pair understand the code that has been written and the overal plan of attack for moving forward. Pairings usually start by reviewing the challenge and writing pseudocode for the solution. Creating pseudocode allows ideas to be flushed out before the actual coding begins. Often times ideas develop during this time and changes are made that would have taken much more time to discover once the code was being written.
My pair programming experience:
Every pairing experience is a little different and I've learned something uniquely valuable in each of them. I've found it partiuclarly rewarding to discuss with my pair how we would each solve the problem and then to bring a hybrid of our ideas to life. In the first few weeks, I felt like I was learning a lot from my pairings but that the code we were writing together was probably not as strong as the code that either of us would have written alone. What I'm finding now, as we become better at programming, better at communicating about code, and better at pairing, is that the solutions that come out of my pairings are becoming quite strong, because of the coming together of our respective strengths. Everyone is developing their own style of coding, and sharing as we go diversifies everyone's skills and, through the pairing dialogue, deepends everyones understanding of the underlying concepts.
Receiving feedback:
After a pairing session, each of the pairs gives the other feedback. Getting feedback is really helpful. I find giving feedback to help me think through not only how my pair did but what types of things I should keep in mind as well. I feel like as time passes we are learning to give eachother higher quality feedback and we are feeling more comfortable including constructive feedback, which is incredibly helpful to receive. It's really exciting to see new feedback pop up in my dashboard - I enjoy knowing what my pairs thought about our pairing and about my contribution.
Overall, I feel like the experience of pair programming and giving and receiving feedback is really accelerating my learning. I'm learning so much from other people sharing their thought process with me while they code and giving me feedback on the process I'm sharing.


Forecasts of STL objects are obtained by applying a non-seasonal forecasting method to the seasonally adjusted data and re-seasonalizing using the last year of the seasonal component.
# S3 method for stl forecast(object, method = c("ets", "arima", "naive", "rwdrift"), etsmodel = "ZZN", forecastfunction = NULL, h = frequency(object$time.series) * 2, level = c(80, 95), fan = FALSE, lambda = NULL, biasadj = NULL, xreg = NULL, newxreg = NULL, allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE, ...) stlm(y, s.window = 7, robust = FALSE, method = c("ets", "arima"), modelfunction = NULL, model = NULL, etsmodel = "ZZN", lambda = NULL, biasadj = FALSE, xreg = NULL, allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE, x = y, ...) # S3 method for stlm forecast(object, h = 2 * object$m, level = c(80, 95), fan = FALSE, lambda = object$lambda, biasadj = NULL, newxreg = NULL, allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE, ...) stlf(y, h = frequency(x) * 2, s.window = 7, t.window = NULL, robust = FALSE, lambda = NULL, biasadj = FALSE, x = y, ...)
| object | An object of class |
|---|---|
| method | Method to use for forecasting the seasonally adjusted series. |
| etsmodel | The ets model specification passed to
|
| forecastfunction | An alternative way of specifying the function for
forecasting the seasonally adjusted series. If |
| h | Number of periods for forecasting. |
| level | Confidence level for prediction intervals. |
| fan | If |
| lambda | Box-Cox transformation parameter. Ignored if |
| biasadj | Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If TRUE, point forecasts and fitted values are mean forecast. Otherwise, these points can be considered the median of the forecast densities. |
| xreg | Historical regressors to be used in
|
| newxreg | Future regressors to be used in
|
| allow.multiplicative.trend | If TRUE, then ETS models with multiplicative trends are allowed. Otherwise, only additive or no trend ETS models are permitted. |
| ... | Other arguments passed to |
| y | A univariate numeric time series of class |
| s.window | Either the character string ``periodic'' or the span (in lags) of the loess window for seasonal extraction. |
| robust | If |
| modelfunction | An alternative way of specifying the function for
modelling the seasonally adjusted series. If |
| model | Output from a previous call to |
| x | Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility. |
| t.window | A number to control the smoothness of the trend. See
|
stlm
returns an object of class stlm
. The other
functions return objects of class forecast
.
There are many methods for working with forecast
objects
including summary
to obtain and print a summary of the results, while
plot
produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals. The
generic accessor functions fitted.values
and residuals
extract
useful features.
stlm
takes a time series y
, applies an STL decomposition, and
models the seasonally adjusted data using the model passed as
modelfunction
or specified using method
. It returns an object
that includes the original STL decomposition and a time series model fitted
to the seasonally adjusted data. This object can be passed to the
forecast.stlm
for forecasting.
forecast.stlm
forecasts the seasonally adjusted data, then
re-seasonalizes the results by adding back the last year of the estimated
seasonal component.
stlf
combines stlm
and forecast.stlm
. It takes a
ts
argument, applies an STL decomposition, models the seasonally
adjusted data, reseasonalizes, and returns the forecasts. However, it allows
more general forecasting methods to be specified via
forecastfunction
.
forecast.stl
is similar to stlf
except that it takes the STL
decomposition as the first argument, instead of the time series.
Note that the prediction intervals ignore the uncertainty associated with the seasonal component. They are computed using the prediction intervals from the seasonally adjusted series, which are then reseasonalized using the last year of the seasonal component. The uncertainty in the seasonal component is ignored.
The time series model for the seasonally adjusted data can be specified in
stlm
using either method
or modelfunction
. The
method
argument provides a shorthand way of specifying
modelfunction
for a few special cases. More generally,
modelfunction
can be any function with first argument a ts
object, that returns an object that can be passed to forecast
.
For example, forecastfunction=ar
uses the ar
function
for modelling the seasonally adjusted series.
The forecasting method for the seasonally adjusted data can be specified in
stlf
and forecast.stl
using either method
or
forecastfunction
. The method
argument provides a shorthand way
of specifying forecastfunction
for a few special cases. More
generally, forecastfunction
can be any function with first argument a
ts
object, and other h
and level
, which returns an
object of class forecast
. For example,
forecastfunction=thetaf
uses the thetaf
function for
forecasting the seasonally adjusted series.
stl
, forecast.ets
,
forecast.Arima
.
plot(stlf(AirPassengers, lambda=0))


Dapp Project Setup
In the previous post I went through the steps to configure my local development environment, so now would be a good time to start creating the project skeleton.
Creating a Next.js project
As a memory refresher:
Next.js is an open-source web development framework built on top of Node.js, enabling React-based web application functionalities such as server-side rendering and generating static websites.
React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library that is typically used to build web applications and their user interfaces rendered in the client’s browser.
On Terminal, I first changed into the directory where I wanted the new project to be housed. Feel free to replace ~/Development
with your preferred directory.
Then I ran the following command to create an app named final-static
. All of the project files would be generated inside the final-static
folder.
If you didn’t already have it, you would be asked to install the create-next-app
package first.
When the command completed, I changed into the newly created project directory.
The next step would be to install the dependencies using a package manager like npm
, yarn
, or pnpm
.
I tried both npm
and yarn
, and it appeared that yarn
worked better for my particular setup. Feel free to pick whichever works better for you:
You might also need to follow the prompts to troubleshoot any warnings or errors.
Setting up Tailwind CSS
When it comes to customizing web-based user interfaces, I like the full control you get with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), but honestly dread having to put in the sometimes counter-intuitive work just to get things to look good enough (let alone perfect).
If you are in the same boat as far as CSS is concerned, then you might also find Tailwind CSS helpful.
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you the building blocks you need to add styling and create good-looking designs the easy way.
Here’s the command I used to install the Tailwind dependencies:
Then, in order to create the configuration files needed for Tailwind to work with Next.js (namely, tailwind.config.js
and postcss.config.js
), I ran:
With said configuration files generated, I was able to make some preliminary updates.
To add custom template content paths in tailwind.config.js
:
The next thing I did was replacing the code in styles/globals.css
with the following:
Configuring Hardhat
One distinctive characteristic of decentralized applications (dapps) is the use of blockchain technology with smart contract functionality.
The blockchain platform of choice here is Ethereum. To support this, I went ahead and set up Hardhat.
Hardhat is a Solidity development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug Ethereum software.
Solidity is an object-oriented programming language for implementing smart contracts on various blockchain platforms — most notably — Ethereum.
I started by initializing a new Hardhat development environment from the root of the /final-static
project:
At the prompt, I selected:
When asked about the project root, I went with the default. Your directories would be different.
After saying “yes” to adding a .gitignore
, I got a possibly git-related error:
And therefore I deleted README.md
and ran the initialization again.
When the initialization completed, I quickly checked to make sure the following files and folders were successfully generated in the project root directory:
hardhat.config.js
The entirety of your Hardhat setup (i.e. your config, plugins, and custom tasks) is contained in this file./scripts/
A folder containing a script named sample-script.js that will deploy your smart contract when executed./test/
A folder containing an example testing script./contracts/
A folder holding an example Solidity smart contract.
Next, per Nader’s tutorial, I updated the configuration at hardhat.config.js
by replacing the auto-generated code with the following:
The above configured the local Hardhat development environment as well as the Mumbai testnet (commented out for now until I got ready for the test).
They are both Polygon (formerly Matic) networks.
Polygon makes Web3 more accessible. It is a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dapps with low transaction fees.
Let’s break things up here for now. In the next post, I will proceed to set up smart contracts.


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North American stock markets down slightly awaiting signals on trade, consumers
by The Canadian Press, StaffTORONTO -- North American stock markets fell slightly as investors continued to take a pause while waiting for signals about a trade deal and the strength of consumer spending.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 6.63 points at 16,999.19.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 54.80 points at 27,766.29. The S&P 500 index was down 4.92 points at 3,103.54, while the Nasdaq composite was down 20.52 points at 8,506.21.
The Canadian dollar traded for 75.27 cents US compared with an average of 75.17 cents US on Wednesday.
The January crude contract was up US$1.57 at US$58.58 per barrel and the January natural gas contract was up 1.1 cent at US$2.62 per mmBTU.
The December gold contract was down US$10.60 at US$1,463.60 an ounce and the December copper contract was down 2.6 cents at US$2.62 a pound.
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KNOCK OFF (M). (Tristar/Village Roadshow) Director: Tsui Hark Stars: Jean Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino Running time: 90 minutes.
Like the recent Chinese Box, most of the action in Knock Off takes place against the background of the hand-over of Hong Kong to China after a century of British rule. However, the lack of immediacy here doesn't seem to matter too much with this tired, unconvincing and rudimentary plot. Rather than a poignant love story set against a backdrop of the clash between cultures, Knock Offis a mindless and unconvincing B-grade spy thriller that offers fading action star Jean Claude Van Damme one final opportunity to salvage his career from the scrap heap.
Van Damme's status as an action hero reached its pinnacle with Time Copand the Die Hardclone Sudden Death. Since then it's been largely downhill, with a series of increasingly dull, mindless and gratuitously violent action films. The muscles from Brussels has placed his career in the hands of a number of influential Hong Kong action directors (John Woo, Ringo Lam, and Tsui Hark, but they have been unable to reverse his declining box office fortunes.
In Knock Off, Van Damme plays Marcus Ray, an exporter and wholesaler for an American jeans company, based in Hong Kong. He and his partner Tommy (Rob Schneider, from Judge Dredd, etc) accidentally find themselves mixed up in a terrorist scheme to smuggle small but very lethal bombs into the US. Sinister forces are planting the bombs, which burst into green flame, inside toys, clothes and other consumer goods and shipping them to America. Ray finds himself up against the CIA, the Triads and the Hong Kong police as he tries to unravel the complicated international plot.
This below par effort has been written by Steven E De Souza, who has previously written some of Hollywood's best action thrillers of the past decade - Die Hard, and Die Hard 2, etc. There's plenty of action scenes, but the film is undermined by Tsui Hark's cold, clinical choreography and visual flourishes. Hark, who previously directed our hero in the ludicrous Double Team, brings his own distinctive style to the film. He uses close-ups, a constantly moving camera, and lots of unusual angles to bring an illusion of kinetic energy to the material. Unfortunately, his unnecessarily flamboyant visual style somehow removes any genuine sense of excitement and suspense.
Van Damme's performance is more wooden and unconvincing than ever, and he seems uncomfortable with the more comic elements of the script. Even Schneider's desperate attempts to breathe some humour into proceedings with a series of throw away one liners fall flat.
Knock Offis a disappointing and muddled actioner that marks a new low in Van Damme's declining career. At this rate, Van Damme will join the ranks of those other faded action stars whose films now regularly disappear straight on to video (Dolph Lundgren, Rutger Hauer, etc).
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