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Manually putting files in the Album Covers folder
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anonymous
Can I manually put album covers into the Album Covers folder? What is the naming format?
I ask because I have jpegs of album covers for all my mp3s, but prefer to not embed the cover into each mp3 file and waste space.
--cosmeg
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anonymous
Seriously, I don't see why we cannot do this. I tried once downloading artwork off of Amazon and then renaming it (and adding a renamed plist file to go with it), but it didn't work. Has anyone figured this out?
Wincent, if you are out there, can you PLEASE address the album covers issue? Just make a drag and drop editor for album covers or something while Amazon is unavailable.
I realize that I paid only $5 for Synergy in the first place. Wincent priced it too low, considering how good the idea is. My call to Wincent: I will pay $15 (and maybe more) to get my album covers back.
We all remember the move from Australia, and the software-up-to-date probem with Panther. But the time has come for a fix for the album covers issue, and not just updates with new buttons. Or beta release Synergy Advance!
Barky
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anonymous
Just to clarify what I'm looking for, I just want to know if *I* can do something in the interim to get things to work. (And I'll be willing to do a little legwork if necessary.) While "a drag and drop editor for album covers or something" would ultimately be nice, that's not what this question is about.
--cosmeg
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anonymous
Actually, I went back and was able to do it--I must have screwed something up the last time.
All you really need to do is follow the labelling convention Wincent uses--look in library/application support/synergy and you'll find the album covers. Download a picture off of Amazon (or scan it), export it as a tiff, follow the naming convention and you should be set to go. I'm not sure if you need the associated plist file (probably). All I did was copy a plist file and renamed it to follow the album cover file--I didn't change the contents.
I am not sure, but I think the file format has to be tiff, but you can try jpegs on your own.
Barky
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anonymous
You do not need to include the plist file. The indexing system is not case sensitive (remember to take out all spaces) but it does want some of the punctuation marks in there--I just loaded in Cud's delightful When In Rome, Kill Me--and Synergy would not recognize the file without the comma in "Rome, Kill" since it listed that way in the iTunes library. However, I also put in The Cure's "Galore: The Singles 19XX-19YY" and it required the dash but did not grumble when I took out the colon (OSX didn't like the colon).
So, I take back all of my grumbling about a drag and drop editor; this is really easy. But I still could use a real upgrade, and I'm willing to pay real money for it!
Barky
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anonymous
Thanks for the help barky, but could you describe the naming convention? (My Album Covers folder is empty.)
--cosmeg
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anonymous
Sure--it's easy.
As I said in my earlier post, there are a few things to consider:
1) not case sensitive 2) no spaces EVER 3) some punctuation is required if included in the tags used by iTunes. Commas, dashes, apostrophes, parentheses--but, evidently, not colons (OSX doesn't like them?). Periods still go in (I had a title that was "The Best of..." and the ellipsis was required for it to work), as do accents. 4) seem to need to be tiff files. I have not tried it as jpegs, but... 5) the plist files (which you don't have, since your albums folder is empty, but I have a bunch) seem to be reference files so that you can "Buy Now" from Amazon. No need for you to include.
Anyway, here is the naming convention. Track for which there IS an album name listed in iTunes: Artist-ManicStreetPreachers,Album-GenerationTerrorists.tiff ^^^^^^so, Artist-XXXXX,Album-XXXXXXX.tiff--the comma has to be in there, as do the dashes.
For a song listed WITHOUT an album: Artist-JohnnyCash,Song-IWalkTheLine.tiff
I think that's it. I am using the last version (not the one that came out today, 2/6/04). It should work for you, too.
I have spent about 1.5 hours adding covers to my collection. It's a sickness.
Hope you enjoy,
Barky
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anonymous
Fantastic, thanks for all the help Barky. Everything is working great (I'm using an older version too right now).
Interestingly enough, jpeg images *do* seem to work, but only if they are named with a .tiff extension.
As for the colon issue, it is the path delimiter from the classic Mac OS (like "/" is in unix and "\" is under Windows). So for obvious reasons filenames can't contain a colon.
Quote: I have spent about 1.5 hours adding covers to my collection. It's a sickness.
I have "cover.jpg" files in each of my album folders and I might try to whip up a perl script to manually populate this Album Covers folder, but that is probably more easily said than done.
Thanks again,
--cosmeg
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: Interestingly enough, jpeg images *do* seem to work, but only if they are named with a .tiff extension.
Eek. That's a bug. Jpegs are supposed to work, and with a ".jpg" extension!
The comments about the naming conventions are pretty much spot on so far. Here's a description of the naming algorithm as it currently stands. It all depends on which ID3 tags you have defined for a given song:
In each of the following cases, replace the "XXXX" with the info from the appropriate ID3 tag:
If Album and Artist are defined, use: Artist-XXXX,Album-XXXX
Otherwise, if Song and Artist are defined, use: Artist-XXXX,Song-XXXX
Otherwise, if Album is defined, use: Album-XXXX
Otherwise, if Song is defined, use: Song-XXXX
Then we get rid of whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines) and path separators ("/" and ":"), and add our ".tiff" extension, and that's it.
As one of the posters above commented, no need for the plist file. That's just for Amazon integration.
The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does the job fairly well in most cases (compilation albums are a notable exception, where you often end up with a different file for every song on the album). You just have to be sure that your file names match up exactly with the information in your ID3 tags, otherwise Synergy won't find them.
For Synergy Advance, I plan much more sophisticated album cover management, which will make painful manual exercises such as this unnecessary, as well as enabling a lot of other cool stuff.
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brutesentiment
For those who would like a 'drag and drop' feature, they can do such a thing within iTunes.
Just open the 'Artwork' window, and find songs that have no artwork. You can then drag any image (jpeg, tiff, etc) to that window and Presto! Synergy now looks for this artwork and uses it if it's there.
You can even select multiple songs, and drag and drop one piece for an entire album that way.
The downside is that the artwork is saved within the id tags of each song, so the space it takes up can grow quickly. If you use jpegs rather than tiffs, this can be minimized, but if you have a full iPod, this may not be the method for you.
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anonymous
you can use fetch art to add most album covers to itunes, which synergy will find.
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Deckard
Quote: The downside is that the artwork is saved within the id tags of each song, so the space it takes up can grow quickly. If you use jpegs rather than tiffs, this can be minimized, but if you have a full iPod, this may not be the method for you.
Which begs the question: Why does Synergy convert images to .tiff files at all? They take up so much more space, and if they're imbedded in the file, the added space they use can mount quickly. Until Synergy uses Amazon's .jpg files by default or at least gives the option to, I'm not interested in trying it. Perhaps it does already, and the .tiff format is just default behavior, but I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere.
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: Which begs the question: Why does Synergy convert images to .tiff files at all?
Because it's the most "native" image format in Cocoa. I'm going to use jpegs by default in Synergy Advance.
[On a side note, the larger size of tiffs hasn't presented much a problem for me in this day and age of 250 gig hard drives, but I can understand that some users are much more sensitive about this, hence the change in Synergy Advance.]
Sorry that you don't want to try out Synergy. You are missing out!
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anonymous
If only my powerbook and ipod had cheap 250gig hard drives
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: If only my powerbook and ipod had cheap 250gig hard drives
My one and only machine is a PowerBook with a 40 gig drive, and I don't have an iPod. My Synergy Album Covers folder takes up 129 meg on the drive (a third of one percent). I admit that I only have a small music library: 447 songs, 27 albums, just under 2 gig.
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anonymous
Wow! It surprises me you have such a small music library considering you developed Synergy.
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: Wow! It surprises me you have such a small music library considering you developed Synergy.
My machine back home was a desktop machine with about 400 gigs of disk space; I used to collect a lot of media, music included. I had more music than I could ever realistically hope to listen to.
But a twist in my life meant that I wound up overseas without a computer in September last year, and eventually got the PowerBook with the 40 gig drive. So not only does that mean that I can't have a large music library, even if I did, I'd be listening to it through the tiny laptop speakers... such is life. I am hoping that I can save the money to get a proper desktop machine at the end of the year (well, hoping that Apple will finally announce and ship new G5s; dual 3Ghz machines or something like that).
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anonymous
Quote: So not only does that mean that I can't have a large music library, even if I did, I'd be listening to it through the tiny laptop speakers... such is life.
First thing I'd do is buy a decent pair of headphones, or some computer speakers!
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Bill
Is there any way to put in a wild card? I have a lot of live and rare stuff that I don't have a album name or i use that date of the concert (album-live*wildcard*.tiff). I'd like to use a file name that allowed the picture to show up when ever a particular word showed up in the album or artist no matter what the other fields have in them.
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: Is there any way to put in a wild card? I have a lot of live and rare stuff that I don't have a album name or i use that date of the concert (album-live*wildcard*.tiff). I'd like to use a file name that allowed the picture to show up when ever a particular word showed up in the album or artist no matter what the other fields have in them.
Something like this is going to be under the "Advanced" preferences tab of Synergy Advance, except instead of simply wildcards it will allow you to use a more sophisticated regex syntax.
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anonymous
I prefer to manually add artwork to my files in iTunes, but instead of displaying that cover Synergy attempts (& fails) to download one from Amazon (So all I get is the Synergy icon).
Is there a way to get Synergy to display the cover art that is already stored on the music file? rather than downloading from Amazon.
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Greg Hurrell
Synergy currently (version 1.4) does the following:
1. Checks to see if it has already downloaded art. 2. If no art has been downloaded, checks iTunes for art. 3. If iTunes doesn't have art, searches on Amazon.
If the wrong art has been downloaded and you've subsequently added the correct art to iTunes you'll have to delete the incorrect art.
Version 1.5 will have a new preference setting where you can tell it to:
(a) Check iTunes and Amazon for album art; or: (b) Check only iTunes.
The search order will still be the same (1, 2, 3), but the difference is that when you have it set to "Check only iTunes" it will never do step 3.
The floater will also display more feedback about what's happening; it will indicate whether it is searching for art, or no art found etc, instead of just showing the Synergy icon.
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anonymous
Quote: The floater will also display more feedback about what's happening; it will indicate whether it is searching for art, or no art found etc, instead of just showing the Synergy icon.
Great! That will be a very useful addition.
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anonymous
this embedding of jpg's in mp3 files, is this allowed in the mp3 file format specification ? if so does someone know where i can find this spec. and if other file types can be embedded in mp3 ?
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: Version 1.5 will have a new preference setting
Just thought I'd better note here that this preference didn't make it into 1.5.
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anonymous
Is there no way to make synergy either use JPGs by default (i like having covers, but i dont like having a 120MB cover art folder) .... or at least making it store the covers somewhere else (like the appropriate album's folder, OR some other place (like another partition in another volume)? Im totally willing to manually edit something in the package if necessary...
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Greg Hurrell
Quote: Is there no way to make synergy either use JPGs by default (i like having covers, but i dont like having a 120MB cover art folder) .... or at least making it store the covers somewhere else (like the appropriate album's folder, OR some other place (like another partition in another volume)? Im totally willing to manually edit something in the package if necessary...
Synergy does use JPGs by default (or at least it has for some time now). If you want to store the covers somewhere else then replace the album covers folder with an alias or symlink. Do not replace the "Temporary Album Covers" folder, because, as the name suggests, it is temporary only and Synergy will delete it on exit anyway.
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anonymous
Is there a quick and easy way to transfer downloaded album art into iTunes?
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DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin WRITTEN BY: James Webb and Stephen Gaghan CAST: Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Tommy Lee Jones, Guy Pearce
MPAA: Rated R for scenes of war violence, and for language. Runtime: USA:128
REVIEWED BY: Alex Ioshpe
RATING: 4/10
As we see the terrible events that unfold before our eyes in the Middle East at the moment, Hollywood doesn't loose the oppertunity to get involved, by telling stories and expressing opinions.
This film centers on a relationship forged throughout the adult lifetimes of two Marine colonels, Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) and Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson). They fought side by side in Vietnam, where Childers saved Hodges' life by shooting an unarmed POW. That's against the rules of war but understandable, in this story anyway, under the specific circumstances. Certainly Hodges is not complaining. Years pass. Hodges, whose wounds make him unfit for action, gets a law degree and becomes a Marine lawyer. Childers, is now a respected and much-decorated hero that has served his country with his life and sould. Because of his excellent record, Childers is sent to Yemen to rescue the American ambassador (Ben Kingsley), cowering in the embassy under assault from violent demonstrators and snipers blasting from rooftops. Childers does what he has to do: evacuate the family and protect the men under his command. After three Marines die and the colonel thinks he sees ground fire, he orders his troops to shoot into the firing crowd.  Childers is immediately accused of ordering his men to fire on a crowd and murder of unarmed civilians. He persuades his old friend Hodges to represent him in the courtroom drama that occupies the second half of the film. Did Childers violate authorized U.S. military rules of engagement? Or are there simply no rules in war?
The answers to these stereotypical questions are obvious, but the inconsistent plot immediately raises all sorts of other questions. The murder of 83 "innocent civilians" has to result into something greater than a simple trial in the U.S. Where is the accusations from the Arab leaders? Where is the U.N.? The film ends without even telling the most interesting story: what happens on the international arena?
This film (in a way akin to films such as "A Few Good Men") has already been accused of breaking the rules of morality and ethics and even of racism. These accusations are pretty heavy, but also unfair. What director William Friedklin truly broke was the rules of decent filmmaking. One of the earliest apparent problems with 'Rules of Engagement' is its lack of credibility. The entire operation in Yemen may remind us about what happens in the Middle East right now, but is overdone, contrived and unrealistic - as if a chain of events had to happen in a particular manner in order for the plot to proceed. A lot of it is so cheesy that no one could possibly accept it as reality. That is precisely why it's not offensive. It is completely unobjective. Many stories are started and never finished. Many questions are asked, but never answered. A lot of parallels are referring to nothing. It seems that neither the director, producers or the screenwriter can make up their minds about the contents of their film. Is it about Arab mentality? America's foreign policies? America's role in the world? Corruption in the higher circles? It goes on and on. It consists of countless stories, but not a definable plot. It tries to be everything for everyone and ends up being nothing for no one.
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by Austen GoslinOne of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s funniest and most annoying guns, the 725 shotgun that seemed to have unlimited range, has been nerfed. The nerf came as part of a balance patch that developer Infinity Ward released on Friday morning. The patch also fixed several bugs in the game, added the Hardpoint mode to multiplayer, and gave players two free maps.
After the patch the 725 shotgun will have a bigger spread, both for hip fire and when aimed down sight, and most importantly reduced damage range. This should help stop its proliferation across multiplayer, and reduce the incident of players who were using it to get kills from across entire maps. Modern Warfare’s latest patch also significantly changes the way recoil works in the game. Being crouched or prone used to adjust the recoil players felt from guns, but that’s no longer the case. Claymores have also been adjusted to have a narrower trigger and damage area of effect.
This patch also adds Hardpoint mode to multiplayer. Hardpoint is an area defense mode where both teams are tasking with attempting to take over and control a specific location. As long as your team is in control and has members standing on the point, your team’s score will go up. This makes for a fast and chaotic mode that has been a favorite of the Call of Duty community.
Players will also get Modern Warfare’s two latest maps for free as part of this update. The Krovnik Farmland map is coming to the big-team Ground War game mode while Shoot House will be added to the smaller multiplayer modes.
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- Backend fixes to prevent crashes and improve stability across all platforms, include dev errors, and various performance fixes.
- Fix for a few bugs where some streaks and Field Upgrades were able to be flown out of bounds without penalty. General out of bound fixes were also added.
- Fix for a bug where a player being killed by an enemy with a Variable Zoom Scope would not see the zoom function in the killcam
- Fix for the Semtex warning audio being heard at the same volume whether in a building or outside
- In Headquarters, players were able to place a Tac Insert and respawn when their team owned the point. This has been fixed.
- Fix for various collision issues across maps
- Added UI that shows when XP events are active in playlists menus
- Sprint and Tactical Sprint speeds are now back to speeds in Beta
- Fix for a bug where the progress of the bomb defusal can be seen by the team that planted the bomb
- Fix for a bug that revealed players to UAVs when they fired their weapons, even if they had Ghost and a silencer equipped
- Fixed an issue where if multiple Personal Radars were active on a team, and are both marking the same enemy, only one player would see the enemy on their minimap.
Riot Shield:
Fixed an issue where the throwing knife and Thermite weren’t causing the shield to go on the player’s back when thrown. We’ve also fixed the issue where explosive splash damage wasn’t working consistently. We’ll continue to tune the Riot Shield in future updates.
Claymores:
Detonating an enemy claymore with bullets is now non-lethal when at full health. We’ve also reduced the trigger and damage radius and also reduced the damage width to better match the trigger width.
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Removed the ability for enemies to hear when they’ve been called out by the opposing team. We also adjusted the enemy callouts so they are never from your Operator. Enemy callouts now use a more restricted cone at the hip and even more restricted in ADS when calculating whether or not to trigger. We’ll continue to monitor this and make additional tweaks to Battle Chatter in future updates.
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Challenges/Rank/Progression
Daily Challenges and Active Missions are getting a full sweep of testing and fixes. We’ll have more updates to these systems in future updates.
- Fix for a bug where the Infiltrator challenge was not tracking properly
- Fix for launchers not giving XP when shooting down killstreaks
- Fix for a bug where planting or defusing 5 bombs in Cyber Attack or SnD was not tracking properly
- Camo challenge for “Kills After a Reload” didn’t give the player enough time to acquire a kill, so time has been increased
- Fix for a bug where your XP require to reach the next rank was higher than the value needed
Weapons
- 725 Shotgun: Increase to ADS and Hip Spread, reduced damage range
- M4A1 Assault Rifle: Reduced damage range, small recoil increase
- Assault Rifles: Increased hip spread to reduce effectiveness up close, less damage at long range for full auto 5.56 rifles
- SMGs: Increased move speed, increased ADS move speed, small reduction in sprint out time
- UZI SMG: Increased damage range
- MG34 LMG: Increased hip spread, damage range reduction, small ADS slow down
- M91 LMG: Increased hip spread, small damage range reduction
- PKM: Increased hip spread, medium damage range reduction
- Pistols: Increased move speed, reduced sprint out time, increased damage range
- Crouch and Prone no longer adjust recoil
Call of Duty League
Updated rulesets for CDL competitive modes in private match
Cyber Attack
Fix for a bug where a player could use lose their primary weapon and would be unable to see their viewmodel after being revived by a teammate
Ground War
- Fix for a bug where players would sometimes be unable to pick a spawn location
- Fix for a bug where a Tac Insert could cause players to spawn on the enemy home base
Special Ops
- Pick up Intel! – In the Operations, explore Verdansk to find additional backstory information of Verdansk and the Operators.
- Fix for scoreboards displaying incorrect data
- XP adjustments and general backend fixes
- Various fixes for out of bounds and parachute exploits
- Respawn timer no longer stays on screen after teammates are revived from bleedout
- Fix for issue where the Munitions were not usable after respawning via Gunship
- Fix for losing your weapons when picking up the core
- Achievements can now be unlocked in CP
- Fix for issue where players could spawn with their weapons in the downed state
- Picked up Munitions no longer carry over from match to match. Only the Munitions you purchase with points will.
- When respawning via the Gunship, you will no longer be given the Tank role
- Selecting an Allegiance Operator or Allegiance as a favorite faction will now properly assign the voice of the correct operator
- Operation Headhunter: Fix for a bug where players are not able to lock missiles onto the final boss helicopter
- Operation Crosswind: Adjusted stealth for gameplay
- Operation Paladin:
- Fix for a bug where there was no UI or indicator of where to go or how to finish the objective after defending the 3rd arms crate
- Fix for a bug where the default weapon was different than the weapon a player would hold if they were placed in Last Stand
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Real Betis’ Joaquin Sanchez becomes oldest player with La Liga hattrick at 38
by APBy: AP | Madrid | Updated: December 9, 2019 2:52:20 pm
Joaquin Sanchez has played more than 600 matches in his career, most of them with Real Betis. (Source: LA Liga/Twitter)
Veteran Real Betis winger Joaquin Sanchez needed only 20 minutes to score his first career hattrick on Sunday, becoming the oldest player with a treble in the Spanish league. The 38-year-old Sanchez scored in the second, 11th and 20th minutes at the Benito Villamarin Stadium, leading host Betis to a 3-2 win over Athletic Bilbao.
Soccer great Alfredo Di Stefano held the previous record at the age of 37.
Betis’ rival Sevilla was later held by 10-man Osasuna to a 1-1 draw, failing to keep pace with league leaders Barcelona and Real Madrid. Sevilla stayed in third place, three points behind the Spanish powerhouses, which have a game in hand against each other on Dec. 18.
Sanchez came into the match against Athletic with three goals in the season before doubling his tally on Sunday. He scored with a shot from near the penalty spot, then hit a well-placed curling shot into the far corner, and completed the hat trick from inside the area following a breakaway.
 I don’t think it’s going to happen again,” Sanchez said. “I’ve never been a goal-scorer throughout my career, so I’m really proud to be able to get three goals against a rival like Athletic. Considering my age, it’s not an easy thing to do.”
He came close to adding a fourth in second-half stoppage time, but his close-range strike was saved by Athletic goalkeeper Unai Simon.
“It was a shame he missed his chance for the fourth goal, it was probably his easiest opportunity to score,“ Betis coach Rubi said. “He keeps showing how good he is despite his age.”
Sanchez has played more than 600 matches in his career, most of them with Betis.
He also played for Valencia, Malaga and Italian club Fiorentina. Sanchez played with Spain’s national team from 2002-07, including in two World Cups and a European Championship. It was the third straight league win for Betis, which moved to 11th place with 22 points.
Athletic, sixth with 26 points, was coming off three straight league victories. Inaki Williams and Yuri Berchiche scored the visitors’ goals in Seville. Betis had won only one of its last 11 league matches against Athletic.
SEVILLA HELD
Sevilla took the lead with an 11th-minute goal by Munir El Haddadi, but Ezequiel “Chimy” Avila equalized for Osasuna just before halftime.
Host Osasuna held on despite playing a man down from the 61st as Oier Sanjurjo was sent off with a second yellow card.
Sevilla forward Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez had a first-half goal disallowed for offside, and a second-half penalty kick awarded to Sevilla for a foul on him was reversed by video review.
Sevilla hadn’t conceded in three straight matches.
Osasuna forward Marc Cardona had to be substituted in the first half with a head injury. Osasuna said the player was conscious but would undergo further tests in hospital.
GETAFE CHASING EUROPE
Striker Angel Rodriguez scored a second-half winner seven minutes after coming off the bench to give Getafe a 1-0 win at Eibar.
The win left the Madrid club in fifth place, immediately behind the final qualification spot for the Champions League. Getafe finished fifth last season and qualified for the Europa League.
Three goals were disallowed by video review, two for Getafe and one for Eibar, which has lost four in a row and dropped to 16th place, two points from the relegation zone.
REAL SOCIEDAD STALLS
Real Sociedad missed a chance to move closer to the top after a 0-0 draw at Valladolid.
The result left fourth-place Sociedad with 27 points, seven behind leaders Barcelona and Real Madrid.
It was the third straight match without a win for 14th-place Valladolid, which is six points from the relegation zone. The team owned by former Brazil forward Ronaldo hasn’t scored a goal in four consecutive league games.
The weekend results left Atletico Madrid seventh, and out of the European qualification spots. Diego Simeone’s team drew 0-0 at Villarreal on Friday.
On Saturday, Real Madrid and Barcelona won their homes matches to stay tied at the top with 34 points. Madrid defeated Espanyol 2-0, while Barcelona routed Mallorca 5-2 with a hat trick by Lionel Messi.
LEGANES NOT LAST
Leganes beat Celta Vigo 3-2 at home for its second league win of the season.
The result lifted the southern Madrid club out of the last place. It has the same nine points as last-place Espanyol but is ahead on goal difference.
Celta, which played a man down from the 71st, remains inside the drop zone on 13 points.
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Step 3: Build the schema
The schema is now part of the main build for the system as it sits in the API project folder so it will include:
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Your original interface class should now be refactored to accept the schema-generated datatypes as paramater types and not your original java datatypes. This is because the Group Manager component will extract the schema-generated datatypes from the message bean and will pass these as the parameters to your service interface. You will get a type mismatch if you will have not modified your interface, e.g. Original interface to FortuneCookie service is
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Gecode::IntVarArray Class Reference
[Variable arrays]
Inherits Gecode::VarArray< IntVar >.
Inherited by Gecode::BoolVarArray.
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Integer variable array.
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SUBROUTINE SLAG2( A, LDA, B, LDB, SAFMIN, SCALE1, SCALE2, WR1, $ WR2, WI ) * * -- LAPACK auxiliary routine (version 3.1) -- * Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of California Berkeley and NAG Ltd.. * November 2006 * * .. Scalar Arguments .. INTEGER LDA, LDB REAL SAFMIN, SCALE1, SCALE2, WI, WR1, WR2 * .. * .. Array Arguments .. REAL A( LDA, * ), B( LDB, * ) * .. * * Purpose * ======= * * SLAG2 computes the eigenvalues of a 2 x 2 generalized eigenvalue * problem A - w B, with scaling as necessary to avoid over-/underflow. * * The scaling factor "s" results in a modified eigenvalue equation * * s A - w B * * where s is a non-negative scaling factor chosen so that w, w B, * and s A do not overflow and, if possible, do not underflow, either. * * Arguments * ========= * * A (input) REAL array, dimension (LDA, 2) * On entry, the 2 x 2 matrix A. It is assumed that its 1-norm * is less than 1/SAFMIN. Entries less than * sqrt(SAFMIN)*norm(A) are subject to being treated as zero. * * LDA (input) INTEGER * The leading dimension of the array A. LDA >= 2. * * B (input) REAL array, dimension (LDB, 2) * On entry, the 2 x 2 upper triangular matrix B. It is * assumed that the one-norm of B is less than 1/SAFMIN. The * diagonals should be at least sqrt(SAFMIN) times the largest * element of B (in absolute value); if a diagonal is smaller * than that, then +/- sqrt(SAFMIN) will be used instead of * that diagonal. * * LDB (input) INTEGER * The leading dimension of the array B. LDB >= 2. * * SAFMIN (input) REAL * The smallest positive number s.t. 1/SAFMIN does not * overflow. (This should always be SLAMCH('S') -- it is an * argument in order to avoid having to call SLAMCH frequently.) * * SCALE1 (output) REAL * A scaling factor used to avoid over-/underflow in the * eigenvalue equation which defines the first eigenvalue. If * the eigenvalues are complex, then the eigenvalues are * ( WR1 +/- WI i ) / SCALE1 (which may lie outside the * exponent range of the machine), SCALE1=SCALE2, and SCALE1 * will always be positive. If the eigenvalues are real, then * the first (real) eigenvalue is WR1 / SCALE1 , but this may * overflow or underflow, and in fact, SCALE1 may be zero or * less than the underflow threshhold if the exact eigenvalue * is sufficiently large. * * SCALE2 (output) REAL * A scaling factor used to avoid over-/underflow in the * eigenvalue equation which defines the second eigenvalue. If * the eigenvalues are complex, then SCALE2=SCALE1. If the * eigenvalues are real, then the second (real) eigenvalue is * WR2 / SCALE2 , but this may overflow or underflow, and in * fact, SCALE2 may be zero or less than the underflow * threshhold if the exact eigenvalue is sufficiently large. * * WR1 (output) REAL * If the eigenvalue is real, then WR1 is SCALE1 times the * eigenvalue closest to the (2,2) element of A B**(-1). If the * eigenvalue is complex, then WR1=WR2 is SCALE1 times the real * part of the eigenvalues. * * WR2 (output) REAL * If the eigenvalue is real, then WR2 is SCALE2 times the * other eigenvalue. If the eigenvalue is complex, then * WR1=WR2 is SCALE1 times the real part of the eigenvalues. * * WI (output) REAL * If the eigenvalue is real, then WI is zero. If the * eigenvalue is complex, then WI is SCALE1 times the imaginary * part of the eigenvalues. WI will always be non-negative. * * ===================================================================== * * .. Parameters .. REAL ZERO, ONE, TWO PARAMETER ( ZERO = 0.0E+0, ONE = 1.0E+0, TWO = 2.0E+0 ) REAL HALF PARAMETER ( HALF = ONE / TWO ) REAL FUZZY1 PARAMETER ( FUZZY1 = ONE+1.0E-5 ) * .. * .. Local Scalars .. REAL A11, A12, A21, A22, ABI22, ANORM, AS11, AS12, $ AS22, ASCALE, B11, B12, B22, BINV11, BINV22, $ BMIN, BNORM, BSCALE, BSIZE, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, $ DIFF, DISCR, PP, QQ, R, RTMAX, RTMIN, S1, S2, $ SAFMAX, SHIFT, SS, SUM, WABS, WBIG, WDET, $ WSCALE, WSIZE, WSMALL * .. * .. Intrinsic Functions .. INTRINSIC ABS, MAX, MIN, SIGN, SQRT * .. * .. Executable Statements .. * RTMIN = SQRT( SAFMIN ) RTMAX = ONE / RTMIN SAFMAX = ONE / SAFMIN * * Scale A * ANORM = MAX( ABS( A( 1, 1 ) )+ABS( A( 2, 1 ) ), $ ABS( A( 1, 2 ) )+ABS( A( 2, 2 ) ), SAFMIN ) ASCALE = ONE / ANORM A11 = ASCALE*A( 1, 1 ) A21 = ASCALE*A( 2, 1 ) A12 = ASCALE*A( 1, 2 ) A22 = ASCALE*A( 2, 2 ) * * Perturb B if necessary to insure non-singularity * B11 = B( 1, 1 ) B12 = B( 1, 2 ) B22 = B( 2, 2 ) BMIN = RTMIN*MAX( ABS( B11 ), ABS( B12 ), ABS( B22 ), RTMIN ) IF( ABS( B11 ).LT.BMIN ) $ B11 = SIGN( BMIN, B11 ) IF( ABS( B22 ).LT.BMIN ) $ B22 = SIGN( BMIN, B22 ) * * Scale B * BNORM = MAX( ABS( B11 ), ABS( B12 )+ABS( B22 ), SAFMIN ) BSIZE = MAX( ABS( B11 ), ABS( B22 ) ) BSCALE = ONE / BSIZE B11 = B11*BSCALE B12 = B12*BSCALE B22 = B22*BSCALE * * Compute larger eigenvalue by method described by C. van Loan * * ( AS is A shifted by -SHIFT*B ) * BINV11 = ONE / B11 BINV22 = ONE / B22 S1 = A11*BINV11 S2 = A22*BINV22 IF( ABS( S1 ).LE.ABS( S2 ) ) THEN AS12 = A12 - S1*B12 AS22 = A22 - S1*B22 SS = A21*( BINV11*BINV22 ) ABI22 = AS22*BINV22 - SS*B12 PP = HALF*ABI22 SHIFT = S1 ELSE AS12 = A12 - S2*B12 AS11 = A11 - S2*B11 SS = A21*( BINV11*BINV22 ) ABI22 = -SS*B12 PP = HALF*( AS11*BINV11+ABI22 ) SHIFT = S2 END IF QQ = SS*AS12 IF( ABS( PP*RTMIN ).GE.ONE ) THEN DISCR = ( RTMIN*PP )**2 + QQ*SAFMIN R = SQRT( ABS( DISCR ) )*RTMAX ELSE IF( PP**2+ABS( QQ ).LE.SAFMIN ) THEN DISCR = ( RTMAX*PP )**2 + QQ*SAFMAX R = SQRT( ABS( DISCR ) )*RTMIN ELSE DISCR = PP**2 + QQ R = SQRT( ABS( DISCR ) ) END IF END IF * * Note: the test of R in the following IF is to cover the case when * DISCR is small and negative and is flushed to zero during * the calculation of R. On machines which have a consistent * flush-to-zero threshhold and handle numbers above that * threshhold correctly, it would not be necessary. * IF( DISCR.GE.ZERO .OR. R.EQ.ZERO ) THEN SUM = PP + SIGN( R, PP ) DIFF = PP - SIGN( R, PP ) WBIG = SHIFT + SUM * * Compute smaller eigenvalue * WSMALL = SHIFT + DIFF IF( HALF*ABS( WBIG ).GT.MAX( ABS( WSMALL ), SAFMIN ) ) THEN WDET = ( A11*A22-A12*A21 )*( BINV11*BINV22 ) WSMALL = WDET / WBIG END IF * * Choose (real) eigenvalue closest to 2,2 element of A*B**(-1) * for WR1. * IF( PP.GT.ABI22 ) THEN WR1 = MIN( WBIG, WSMALL ) WR2 = MAX( WBIG, WSMALL ) ELSE WR1 = MAX( WBIG, WSMALL ) WR2 = MIN( WBIG, WSMALL ) END IF WI = ZERO ELSE * * Complex eigenvalues * WR1 = SHIFT + PP WR2 = WR1 WI = R END IF * * Further scaling to avoid underflow and overflow in computing * SCALE1 and overflow in computing w*B. * * This scale factor (WSCALE) is bounded from above using C1 and C2, * and from below using C3 and C4. * C1 implements the condition s A must never overflow. * C2 implements the condition w B must never overflow. * C3, with C2, * implement the condition that s A - w B must never overflow. * C4 implements the condition s should not underflow. * C5 implements the condition max(s,|w|) should be at least 2. * C1 = BSIZE*( SAFMIN*MAX( ONE, ASCALE ) ) C2 = SAFMIN*MAX( ONE, BNORM ) C3 = BSIZE*SAFMIN IF( ASCALE.LE.ONE .AND. BSIZE.LE.ONE ) THEN C4 = MIN( ONE, ( ASCALE / SAFMIN )*BSIZE ) ELSE C4 = ONE END IF IF( ASCALE.LE.ONE .OR. BSIZE.LE.ONE ) THEN C5 = MIN( ONE, ASCALE*BSIZE ) ELSE C5 = ONE END IF * * Scale first eigenvalue * WABS = ABS( WR1 ) + ABS( WI ) WSIZE = MAX( SAFMIN, C1, FUZZY1*( WABS*C2+C3 ), $ MIN( C4, HALF*MAX( WABS, C5 ) ) ) IF( WSIZE.NE.ONE ) THEN WSCALE = ONE / WSIZE IF( WSIZE.GT.ONE ) THEN SCALE1 = ( MAX( ASCALE, BSIZE )*WSCALE )* $ MIN( ASCALE, BSIZE ) ELSE SCALE1 = ( MIN( ASCALE, BSIZE )*WSCALE )* $ MAX( ASCALE, BSIZE ) END IF WR1 = WR1*WSCALE IF( WI.NE.ZERO ) THEN WI = WI*WSCALE WR2 = WR1 SCALE2 = SCALE1 END IF ELSE SCALE1 = ASCALE*BSIZE SCALE2 = SCALE1 END IF * * Scale second eigenvalue (if real) * IF( WI.EQ.ZERO ) THEN WSIZE = MAX( SAFMIN, C1, FUZZY1*( ABS( WR2 )*C2+C3 ), $ MIN( C4, HALF*MAX( ABS( WR2 ), C5 ) ) ) IF( WSIZE.NE.ONE ) THEN WSCALE = ONE / WSIZE IF( WSIZE.GT.ONE ) THEN SCALE2 = ( MAX( ASCALE, BSIZE )*WSCALE )* $ MIN( ASCALE, BSIZE ) ELSE SCALE2 = ( MIN( ASCALE, BSIZE )*WSCALE )* $ MAX( ASCALE, BSIZE ) END IF WR2 = WR2*WSCALE ELSE SCALE2 = ASCALE*BSIZE END IF END IF * * End of SLAG2 * RETURN END


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Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny 2008
I had the good fortune to attend the Academic IT Festival over the weekend, in Cracow, Poland. Pictured below is the audience listening to Chad Fowler, Ruby and Rails guru, who I had the pleasure to discover is also a really nice and interesting guy.
The festival is organised by a large group, including former Resolver legends Jan and Konrad, and covers a diverse array of IT and related topics. It is the largest event of its type in Central Europe. Some talks were in English, some in Polish, by an absolutely stellar line-up of luminary speakers, including Joe Armstrong, creator of Erland; Gilad Bracha, co-creator of Java; plus yours truly. See 'one of these things is not like the others.'
There's some photos up here, and I'll publish my own updated Test-Driven Development talk here later today.
Update: There's photos and the talk slides are finally online, over here somewhere...


June 15
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6
When I first learned to cast my cares on the Lord, I was down in south Texas preaching a meeting that nobody was coming to. I'm telling you, people were staying away from that meeting by the thousands; and after a service or two with just the preacher, one or two others and me in attendance, I was starting to sweat it. But the Lord said, "Cast that care on Me," so I did.
I started walking around grinning and whistling. I told the devil, "I'm not going to frown or have one worried thought. I came here to preach and that's what I'm going to do, and it's God's business whether anyone shows up or not. I couldn't care less!"
I went around so happy I felt downright foolish. The devil said, "What's the matter with you?   I think it's because he's never been to seminary. He can't tell a landslide from a flop."
But I told the Lord, "I have my care rolled over on You, and if nobody shows up but that one dear old woman, she's going to be the most preached-up old woman in the state of Texas because I'm going to preach just the same as if there were a crowd."
I didn't realize then what was happening, but that carefreeness put me in a noncompromising position with the devil. He couldn't get to me anymore. He couldn't get me in fear and unbelief anymore. He couldn't pressure me and get me to compromise because I didn't care. I'd given all my care to God!
 If you are, just make this confession of faith:
I'm a believer. I'm not a doubter. The Word works in me; and at this moment, I humble myself under the mighty hand of God. I cast all my care over on Him. From this moment forward, I refuse to worry. Instead, I will pray. I will use my faith and believe, and He'll exalt me over the problem and over the devil. For I belong to Jesus and He cares for me! Scripture Reading: Psalm 55:16-22


Gift card scam targets Expedia customers
by Diane Wilson, Tonya SimpsonThere is a new warning about a scam using a popular travel booking site to steal thousands of dollars from unknowing customers.
The Better Business Bureau says thieves are posing as Expedia employees and taking advantage of travelers looking for help.
It starts when someone books travel online through the real website then later they need to change or confirm the booking. They search online then call the number they find but instead of reaching real Expedia representatives, they are calling a number set up by scammers. The person who answers the phone claims the refund site is down and the customer needs to buy gift cards to get a refund or pay change fees.
Expedia says it is working to cut down on the fake numbers and make the company's real customer service number easier to find. Mallory Wojciechowski with the BBB says it's important to pay attention to where you find a phone number before you dial.
"If you are looking to contact Expedia, or in any other situation where you're looking to contact somebody, don't just rely on what pops up on google, go directly to the company's website, find a phone number there or an email address and contact them that way," said Wojciechowski.
Troubleshooter Takeaway
Trustworthy companies will never ask for a gift card as payment. And you should never have to pay to get money back.


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The underlying sequence /yr/ occurs over a morpheme boundary in combinations involving Locative case suffix /-ruj/ which can be added to verbs (to form Locative relative clauses) as well as to nouns. The /y/ is regularly deleted, though occasionally retained. Deletion is seen in /wu-ga-ruj/ 'in/at the nest’ from //uG-ay-ruj// and in /wuru=lha-'-ruj/ '(the place) where they were standing' from //wuru=lha-y-ruj// (P-14 might be merged with P-26, below.)
It is not clear whether stem-final /w/ before /r/ is also deleted. In theory, such a combination could occur when a noun like /gandhaw/ 'bittern (bird sp.)' is followed by /-ruj/ However, there are very few nouns (and no verbs) ending in /w/ some of them having other variants not ending in /w/ and for semantic reasons informants rejected Locative case forms of them.
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Stereotype Threat
Women in Computer Field
Jan 28, 2015
As a woman, can I really be a successful programmer?
Before I came to California, I never ever thought of programmer as a career for me. Unconsciously, like many other people, I deeply believed that men were much better working with computer and technology.
Therefore, it took me a long time to decide to study programming language and algorithm last year. It had been more than a year since I moved to California in March, last year, and I knew that being an engineer was awesome. However, I did not want to take a risk studying totally different subject from what I have learned which was English literature and linguistics. Now, I found that one of the reasons I thought about computer science in that way was 'stereotype threat.'
I know the stereotype threat "software engineer is considered as a men profession" affected to my performance and thinking process.Even before trying studying, I was worried about my ability to learn programming and get a job. When I started study, though it was hard to everyone to learn new things, I wanted to give up. Whenever I got stuck, rather thinking "this problem is difficult," I thought that I was not good at studying computer science.
I found the same worry I have from twitter feed a few days ago.
As ane says, sometimes it is very hard to overcome the stereotype threat and we tend to think too much of it. However, Emma's reply is simple, "become an engineer." That's simple response, but very important.
Recently, Silicon Valley companies hire more women engineers and encourage women to study computer science. The stereotype is not strictly believed. Therefore, my challenge is, just keep going to be an engineer, not feeling frustrated by stereotype that is in my mind.  When we show the world that there are excellent women engineers like us and there are more women in tech companies, this stereotype threat will be reduced and disappear eventually.


2019 Holden Acadia LT long-termer: Welcome!
by Rob MargeitIntroducing our latest long-termer, the 2019 Holden Acadia. Along with our editorial team, we’ll hand the keys over to the wider CA staff as well, gaining valuable insights from those who don’t usually spend their working lives testing and assessing cars. Sometimes, it’s these insights that prove the most valuable.
So strap in for the ride-along as we measure whether the Acadia is a worthy flagship of the Holden range and whether it should be on your consideration list.
Read the related article: 2019 Holden Acadia LT long-term review: Introduction
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Priyanka Chopra tops Salman Khan as most searched Indian celebrity in the world
by Entertainment DeskBollywood star Priyanka Chopra is the most searched Indian celebrity in the world, followed closely by actor Salman Khan.
A recent study by a US based agency has confirmed that Chopra was the most searched Indian celebrity on social media, with interest peaking in December, when she tied the knot with singer Nick Jonas, reported Business Insider.
The Sky is Pink star’s name was searched 2.74 million times between the period October 2018 and October 2019, with a monthly search volume of 4.2 million. Khan was searched 1.83 million times across the globe.
Chopra and her Jonas Brother star husband Nick Jonas are all set to celebrate their first wedding anniversary on December 1. She is currently in India for the shooting of her Netflix film, The White Tiger.
The actor shared a post on Instagram last week comparing her work patterns while filming for her American show Quantico and The White Tiger. Both the pictures showed her holding pen and paper in her hand. She captioned the images, “Then and now. Same but different.”
The film is an adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s prize-winning novel of the same name. It follows the extraordinary journey of a self-made man from being a tea-shop worker in a village to a successful entrepreneur in a big city.
Chopra will also voice the character of Elsa in the Hindi version of the Disney film, Frozen 2. Her cousin Parineeti Chopra has lent her voice for the character of Elsa’s sister Anna. However, the actor’s latest film The Sky Is Pink got a mixed response from critics and under-performed at the box office.


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Scientific visualization is a method to display the results of computer simulations and/or experimental measurements. In this paper, we present the visualization of results of a simulation of transport properties of a moderately dense gas.
In this work we display the results of the simulation showing the positions of the particles in the simulation, including the effects of periodic boundary conditions using the dynamics_view module. The distribution of energy, force and density, through the system as the system evolves is also displayed using a color map. An input menu allows for the selection of parameters to be displayed such as velocities, forces and potential energy.
Keywords: Scientific Visualization, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, AVS
The method of molecular dynamics (MD) has been applied to a wide variety of problems and is well established as a very useful tool for studying the microscopic and macroscopic properties of atoms and molecules. While this extremely useful technique has been extensively applied in the investigation of liquid properties[1], only infrequently has it been used to investigate properties in the gas phase and then primarily at elevated densities[2,3,4]. The decrease in collision frequency with density is the primary reason for the dearth of simulations at low densities, as it gives rise to two (related) problems. The evolution of particle dynamics is driven by collisional interactions which implies that macroscopic quantities of interest will evolve more slowly at reduced densities where collisions are less frequent, and, the reduced collision frequency implies that particle correlations will persist for longer time periods thereby decreasing the sampling efficiency of phase space.
Computing the evolution of particles in a potential field is a common technique covering atomic and molecular systems in the gas or liquid phases. Numerical determination of the atomic positions and velocities for use in determining the statistical thermodynamics and related dynamic properties of an atomic or molecular assembly is accomplished by solving;
This produces configurations in phase space, as a function of time. Thermodynamic properties such as the virial, or the transport coefficients can be constructed from the position and velocity information for each particle. For most systems, the forces acting on the particles can be determined from the gradient of a scalar potential function. For the simulations done in this work, the interaction potential is the Lennard-Jones potential.
These two parameters allow one to define reduced units (denoted by * ) in terms of and , see [1] for details.
The focus of this research has been on gas dynamics and transport properties. The approach has been to use a computer simulation to describe the evolution of the particles through phase space. This is but a specific case of a more general problem, that of visualizing particle simulations. The AVS module developed is a general purpose dynamics viewer called dynamics_view, which is suitable for visualizing a wide variety of particle simulations. The module takes as input, the number of particles in the simulation and their positions and velocities. The module outputs both a field and a geometry, thus the module can display both space filling and localized properties. In addition, numerous widgits provide a great deal of flexibility in visualizing the system. The module is designed to display identical particles interacting via a Lennard-Jones potential but the modular design should allow easy adaptation of other force fields or varying particle sizes. This is an exploratory visualization project. By focusing on the microscopic building blocks, particle positions and velocities, it is hoped that more complex, multiparticle properties can be built up and visualized. Functionality of dynamics_view Module
There are four basic tasks performed by this module: computation of a grid spanning the unit cell, computation of field values on this grid, display of the particle geometry, and display of particle velocity streamers.
The grid is an isotropic 3-dimensional rectilinear field with uniformly spaced data points. The number of grid points is specified by the user through a type in widget with a fixed cell length of 1. Currently the grid completely spans the unit cell, this is accomplished by adding an additional ``dummy'' grid point and invoking periodic boundary conditions to set it's value. The quantity to be computed and displayed at these mesh points is selected by a widget. The current choices are the potential energy, force magnitude and the number density. Since many simulations employ a cutoff for the potential, the module provides a widget to input this value (in reduced units). The force calculated is the magnitude of the force experienced by a LJ test particle situated on the grid point, taking into account the cutoff. The particle density is computed by binning the particles into bins centered on the grid points.
Spheres, with radius specified through a type in widget, are used to display the particle positions. In addition, the spheres are colored by velocity from blue, the coldest (slowest), to red, the hottest (fastest). The minimum and maximum speeds used to color code the particles are computed and displayed on a widget thus allowing the user to change the color range as desired. Finally a streamer, displayed by a series of disjoint lines, indicating previous positions is attached to each particle. This line is also color coded by velocity, which can vary over the length of the tail. The tail length, in time steps, is once again under user control through a type in widget.
Three views of the potential energy field in the unit cube are displayed in Fig1. For the upper cubes, orthogonal slicer modules are used to make two slices through the field, the colors range from blue for the most negative potential regions to red for the regions of highest potential, the zero of the potential appears yellow-green. The cell in the upper left hand corner shows just the field values, while the upper right hand picture shows the particles superimposed on the field. Note that the volume bounds module, with the bottom grid turned on has been included as an aide to the eye. The bottom cell in fig1 uses the isosurface2[5] module to show the zero equipotential surface, this surface was then color coded with the magnitude of the force, from blue (lowest) to red (highest).
Fig2 shows the velocity tails or streamers, attached to the spheres for data from a simulation of 32 particles with = 0.005 and 0.1 at T* = 0.8 The module tube has been used to make the tails more visible. This visualization displays a velocity field and a convenient way to trace trajectories. Fig2 is one snapshot, however, in practice a series of time slices would be read in and driven (e.g. with animate integer) to give a dynamic view of particle evolution. Note, as expected, the lower density shows particle tails that are, for the most part, straight lines and a solid color (indicating no change in velocity), although in the foreground you can see a three body collision has just taken place. The streamers give both the history of the trajectory and the history of the velocity changes. The higher density cell on the right shows streamers that are qualitatively different, the trajectories are more erratic and show much more color variation. Note that the particles displayed in this cell are drawn with a radius of 0.25 as opposed to those in the lower density which are represented by spheres of radius of 0.5
The final figure, Fig3, shows the variation in the potential energy field as one goes from a lower, = 0.01 to a higher density, = 0.10, gas. The same color map is usd for both pictures but the figure on the left is drawn with a sphere radius of 0.5 while the spheres on the right have been reduced to 0.35 to make the grid more visible.
Fig1 This figure shows three views of the unit cube.
This figure shows three views of the unit cube with the potential energy field displayed. The cell in the upper left hand corner shows just the field values, while the upper right hand picture includes the particles superimposed on the field. The final cell shows the zero equipotential surface color coded by the magnitude of the force.
Fig2 This visualization gives you a velocity field and an easy way to trace trajectories using velocity tails or streamers, attached to the spheres.
Fig3 This figure shows the variation in the potential energy field as one goes from a lower, = 0.01 to a higher density, = 0.10, gas.


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{% extends 'contents/_base.html' %} {% block title %}Call for Proposals{% endblock %} {% block meta_description %}Overview on how to submit a proposal to PyCon Taiwan 2018.{% endblock meta_description %} {% block content %} {% url 'page' path='speaking/recording' as speaking_recording_url %} {% url 'page' path='speaking/talk' as speaking_talk_url %} {% url 'page' path='speaking/tutorial' as speaking_tutorial_url %} {% url 'page' path='speaking/unconference' as speaking_unconference_url %} {% url 'signup' as signup_url %} {% url 'user_dashboard' as dashboard_url %}
The Call for Proposals is now open. PyCon 2018 Taiwan is accepting talks and tutorials!
All talks will be recorded, edited then uploaded to pyvideo.org by the PyCon Taiwan committee, unless the speaker requests otherwise. See more info about the recording release.
All speakers are required to buy their own conference tickets (Everyone Pays).
You need to sign up a new account on tw.pycon.org. With an activated account, you can fill up the speaker profile and create new proposals through the My PyCon page.
We encourage you to submit the proposal as early as possible. You are welcomed to submit multiple proposals.
We accept a broad range of Python related proposals, from reports on academic to commercial projects and case studies. Basically, if you are reading these words, you should go submit your proposal!
We encourage speakers to talk about your own Python package or application, your experience of learning Python or hosting a Python community etc. Talks on advanced topics are highly welcomed as well. For your inspiration, our committee has suggested that they’d love to see talks on following topics: A.I, Community, Data Analytics, IoT, Machine Learning, FinTech, Testing.
Most talks are 30 minutes long. However, we offer a limited number of 45-minute slots for important topics which we think the audience can benefit significantly more from a more extensive treatment. Note that the talk time length includes setup and Q&A time.
Talks can be given in either English, Chinese or Taiwanese.
We have redesigned the proposal form to make it better for speakers to organize their idea. Find more at How to Propose a Talk?.
Similar to talks, we don’t pose limitations on tutorial topics. Tutorials are half or full day long, equivalently to 3 or 6 hours of teaching. The guideline for tutorial submission is based on the guideline for talks, so make sure you have read How to Propose a Talk? On top of that, We have some special requirements for tutorial submission, please refer to How to Propose a Tutorial? for more information.
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After the Call for Proposal ends, and before the announcement of acceptance, the PyCon TW 2018 Proposals Review Committee is going to review the proposals and give scores and provide useful feebacks. The process consists of three phases:
Between the stage-1 and stage-2 review, you can see the feedbacks from the reviewer. You may modify your proposal according to reviewers’ comments or feedbacks. If you want to make your change obvious to the reviewers, you can point out the ID of the comment, and mention about what you’ve modified according to the comment in the "Supplementary" section, e.g. "#4: Updated the time management for xxx phase"
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LDK-Prototyper Configuration
Select the hierarchy dataset you want to load.
The hierarchy data loads very quickly here in the LDK Prototyper, but you can simulate a slower load time, e.g. if you want to make sure your "loading..." message or animation is rendering correctly.
Simulate the flow of realtime sample and subject changes to see how your lens responds to realtime events.


{%load static%} {% url 'home:about' as about_url %} {% url 'home:contact' as contact_url %} {% url 'home:home' as index_url %} {% url 'home:portfolio' as portfolio_url %} {%url 'home:register' as register_url%}
{%include 'marble/base/head.html'%}Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Quisque sit amet efficitur nih. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus interda et malesuada parturient.
Quisque sit amet efficitur nih. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus interda et malesuada parturient.
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--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: Something To Root For author: display_name: Kurt login: Kurt email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: '' author_login: Kurt author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>wordpress_id: 7773 wordpress_url: http://ivyenvy.com/?p=7773 date: '2012-08-22 11:55:52 +0000' date_gmt: '2012-08-22 16:55:52 +0000' categories: - The Cubs - Stats tags: - Josh Vitters - Brett Jackson - 100 losses - '1966' comments: - id: 5519 author: Mike Slezak author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2012-08-22 13:30:47 +0000' date_gmt: '2012-08-22 18:30:47 +0000' content: I have several outstanding wagers with friends involving this proposition. Go Cubs! - id: 5520 author: Kurtis Tucker author_email: '' author_url: '' date: '2012-08-22 14:00:01 +0000' date_gmt: '2012-08-22 19:00:01 +0000' content: Hopefully Andrew Round will forgive me for ending in a preposition instead of the proper "Something for which to root". ---
Normally I would save my stat negativity for the scary stat of the week, but the numbers worked out that this should be shared before the start of Wednesday's game against the Brewers. The Cubs' current record is 47-75 for a .385 winning percentage. Should the Cubs play their final 40 games at a similar winning percentage it will give them 15 wins and 25 losses (that's a .375 WP, 16 wins would be a .400 WP) giving them exactly 100 losses—a mark they haven't reached since 1966 when they finished with 103 losses and their worst ever record.
If you're a little worn out trying to be interested in B-Jax trying to strike out less and Vitters' defensive trial by fire, here's a new milestone to root for. That the Cubs don't lose 100 games, improve over the final stretch of 40 games and keep the losses to two digits. Go Cubs.


Before Change
if fast_dev_run == "temp":
with pytest.raises(MisconfigurationException, match="either a bool or an int"):
trainer = Trainer(**trainer_options)
elif fast_dev_run == -1:
with pytest.raises(MisconfigurationException, match="should be >= 0"):
trainer = Trainer(**trainer_options)
else:
After Change
if fast_dev_run == "temp":
with pytest.raises(MisconfigurationException, match="either a bool or an int"):
Trainer(**trainer_options)
elif fast_dev_run == -1:
with pytest.raises(MisconfigurationException, match="should be >= 0"):
Trainer(**trainer_options)
else:


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Actions
Components can also trigger methods from the templates by listening to any valid event type. The most common events would be click
, input
, keydown
, keyup
, mouseenter
, but MDN has a list of all of the browser event types available.
Events
An example action to clear the name property.

<input unicorn:model="name" type="text" id="text">
Hello {{ name|title }}
<button unicorn:click="clear_name">Clear Name</button>

# hello_world.py
from django_unicorn.components import UnicornView
class HelloWorldView(UnicornView):
name = "World"
def clear_name(self):
self.name = ""
When the button is clicked, the name property (and text input) will get set to an empty string.
Instance methods without arguments can be called from the template with or without parenthesis.
Passing arguments
Actions can also pass some types of arguments to the backend component.
{% verbatim %}

<input unicorn:model="name" type="text" id="text">
Hello {{ name|title }} 👋
<button unicorn:click="set('Bob')">Set as Bob</button>
<button unicorn:click="set()">Set default value of name argument</button>

{% endverbatim %}
# hello_world.py
from django_unicorn.components import UnicornView
class HelloWorldView(UnicornView):
name = "World"
def set(self, name="Universe"):
self.name = name
Set shortcut
Actions can also set properties without requiring an explicit method.
{% verbatim %}

<input unicorn:model="name" type="text" id="text">
Hello {{ name|title }} 👋
<button unicorn:click="name='Bob'">Set name as Bob</button>

{% endverbatim %}
# hello_world.py
from django_unicorn.components import UnicornView
class HelloWorldView(UnicornView):
name = "World"
Special methods
reset
Revert the component to its original state.

<button unicorn:click="reset">Reset the component</button>

refresh
Refreshes the component from its current state.

<button unicorn:click="refresh">Refresh the component</button>

Calling methods
Sometimes you need to trigger a method on a component from regular Javascript. That is possible with Unicorn.call()
. It can be called from anywhere on the page.

{% unicorn 'hello-world' %}
<button onclick="Unicorn.call('hello-world', 'set_name');">Set the name from outside the component</button>
{% endverbatim %}


Life (1999) Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Clarence Williams III, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael "Bear" Taliferro, Barry Shabaka Henley, Brent Jennings, Guy Torry, Lisa Nicole Carson, O'Neal Compton, Poppy Montgomery, Ned Vaughn, R. Lee Ermey, Nick Cassavetes, Anthony Anderson, Noah Emmerich, Rick James. Screenplay by Robert Ramsey, Matthew Stone. Directed by Ted Demme. 108 minutes. Rated R, 1.5 stars (out of five stars)
Review by Ed Johnson-Ott, NUVO Newsweekly www.nuvo-online.com Archive reviews at http://us.imdb.com/M/reviews_by?Edward+Johnson-ott To receive reviews by e-mail at no charge, send subscription requests to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>WARNING: This review contains obscenities and racist slang.
An early segment in the prison comedy "Life" shows Eddie Murphy's character entertaining his fellow inmates by spinning tales about the nightclub he dreams of opening. Huddled in their darkened barracks, the men sit enraptured as Murphy describes a grand, "Cotton Club" style setting and incorporates them into his fantasy. The camera moves from man to man, cutting from close-ups of the prisoners' faces to images of them, dressed to the nines, strutting their stuff in the neverland nightspot. It's a funny, sweet, wistful scene that shows the kind of movie "Life" could have been.
   Multiply the "shits," "niggers" and variants of the word "fuck" in the preceding sentences by about 200 and you'll have your very own copy of the script for this cinematic jewel. If you found this paragraph offensive; congratulations, you're a grown-up. If, however, you found the dialogue hilarious, then turn off "The Jerry Springer Show," find someone with a valid driver's license and haul it down to the picture show for some big fun, Cletus.
Told in flashbacks, "Life" covers 65 years in the lives of two men wrongfully convicted of murder, following them from 1932 Harlem to the Mississippi prison where they spend the bulk of their lives. Over the course of 108 sluggish minutes, we're treated to a few honest laughs, a few genuinely heartfelt moments, some terrific make-up, and loads of cussing and insult humor. Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence are talented enough to make some of this tripe work, but for the most part, "Life" is formulaic, obvious and very slow. In fact, the outtakes shown over the closing credits are funnier than anything in the movie, particularly the final one, which contains a terrific ad-lib from Murphy.
To be fair, I should note that most of the audience at the sneak preview I attended howled through the entire movie and a few people even applauded. Perhaps they caught something that I missed. As someone who finds insult humor lazy and annoying, I may have simply missed the subtle nuances of the script. Or perhaps this same audience would also be entertained by staring at shiny rocks. You make the call.
Had "Life" bothered to flesh out its characters, the shrieking between Murphy and Lawrence might have been easier to take, but at the end of the film, little has changed. Both men remain rough sketches, older and a bit softer, but still terribly underdeveloped. Had the tragedy of lives wasted by impulsive behavior and a racist legal system been better explored, the humor might have packed some punch. Periodically, the filmmakers add segments that truly are touching. The reaction of a convict to the death of his lover is presented starkly and with dignity (one audience member responded to the scene by loudly saying "Fag"). The passage of time is depicted eloquently with images of various inmates slowing fading out of the picture.
Understand, I'm not complaining because the film isn't a drama. But with performers as gifted as Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and a decades- spanning tale of the residents of an all-black prison in the deep South, "Life" had the potential to be both funny and substantial. As is, only one day after seeing the film, all I remember is a few good moments, some great outtakes, and a whole lot of obscenity-laced hollering.
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New statistics show the number of college and sixth-form students who stop taking English and maths after GCSE.
New figures published today expose for the first time the colleges and school sixth forms who have allowed tens of thousands of young people to drop English and maths - even though they had only just missed out on vital C grades in these key subjects at secondary school.
The statistics underline why the government has insisted that all post-16 education providers must teach English and maths to young people who failed to achieve C grades in their GCSEs .
The Department for Education introduced the key reform this term so that thousands more young people have the chance to leave school, college or training with a good grasp of English and maths.
From now on, all pupils who fail to have achieved a C grade or better in English or maths GCSE by the time they finish secondary school must continue to study the subjects in post-16 education until they get these qualifications.
Figures published today show for the first time that colleges and other post-16 education providers have previously allowed a huge number of students to drop the subjects after GCSE - including tens of thousands who had only just missed out on getting a C grade.
They reveal that:
This is in spite of employers who say that a C grade in these key subjects hugely improves young people’s job prospects.
In the 2013 CBI skills survey, just under a third of employers said they were dissatisfied with school and college leavers’ basic literacy and numeracy (32% and 31% respectively). Almost half of firms (48%) said they laid on basic remedial training for employees, up from 42% last year.
The statistics also follow this week’s international survey of adult skills from the OECD which showed the low standard of literacy and numeracy among 16- to 24-year-olds in England compared to their peers in other developed countries.
Of 222,117 young people (34%) who failed to achieve a C in their GCSE by age 16 in 2010:
Of 244,231 young people (37%) who failed to achieve a C in their GCSE by age 16 in 2010:
Schools Minister David Laws said:
English and maths are what employers demand before all other subjects - if young people want to get on in life, they must be able to show they have good literacy and numeracy.
Colleges and sixth forms should be clear with their students that these are essential subjects and must be continued.
But these figures expose the vast number of young people allowed to give up these subjects after so nearly achieving the level employers demand.
With just a bit more teaching, these students could have achieved the grades that would make all the difference to their job prospects.
The post-16 English and maths reform was proposed in 2011 by Professor Alison Wolf in her ground-breaking review of vocational education, and backed by Education Secretary Michael Gove.
She also recommended that the Department for Education publish statistics showing the percentage of young people each college or school helps achieve a C or better in English and in maths.
She said:
Good English and maths grades are fundamental to young people’s employment and education prospects. Individuals with very low literacy and numeracy are severely disadvantaged in the labour market.
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Lean Software Development: An
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Configuration Management
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Feature Branches?
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A grid binding plugin for Knockout.js that provides basic integration with the JqGrid plugin for jQuery.
Features include: Binding to an observable array of items, progressive enhancement of an existing table (using an extension of the jqgrid tabletogrid feature), selected item and mulit-select items binding, and templated column support.
The grid binding plug uses the markup of the table to internally derive an appropriate column model for jqgrid to work upon. The data-field attribute denotes the property of each array item to bind a column to, and its header text will carry into the rendered table. A th element is required for each column desired in the rendered table. Optionally, a template can be specified for any column by providing a binding template for the column inside of the tbody element. NB: any inline column widths/styles will be carried into jqgrids column model, and applied to the resultant grid.
The plugin provides additional support for carrying across metadata into the internal colModel that is used by jqgrid. This allows many of the colModel options to be used, although only those options that take a string parameter are currently supported.
To provide additional column model options, a data-* attribute can be applied to the th element for the appropriate column.
For example, in an instance where a column is used to represent, the following markup can be specified:
This will apply the sortType and datefmt options against the colModel for the 'created' column.