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We will be conducting a number of poetry workshops and symposiums throughout the year.
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WITNESS LIST State Affairs Committee March 24, 2003-2:30P HB 51 For: Smith, Tom "Smitty" (Public Citizen) Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) HB 298 Registering, but not testifying: For: Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Press Association and the Texas Daily Newspaper Association) Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self and Texas Eagle Forum) On: Bright, Ann (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department) Stiles, Frances (Texas Parks and Wildlife) HB 352 Against: Smith, Tom "Smitty" (Public Citizen) Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Baum, Walt (Association of Electric Companies of Texas) Fisher, Jon (Texas Chemical Council) Miksa, Mary (Texas Association of Business) HB 432 Against: Barr, James (Self and Texas Ticket Broker Association) Happel, Stephen (Texas Ticket Broker Association) Parry, Stephen (Texas Ticket Broker Association) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Brummett, Kim (Self) Brummett, William (Self) Chaump, Jr., Louis (Ticket City) Cohen, Randy (Ticket City) Dickey, Sandy (Self) Dunlap, Robert (Self) Fazeli, S.R. Ali (Self) Hentich, Andrew (Self) Irey, Julie (Ticket City) Kothlow, Clark Robert (Ticket City) Landry, John (Self) Randack, Jerry (Ticket Finders USA) Samee, Tariq (Ticket Connection) Smith, Bryson MaCall (Self) Smith, Taylor (Self) Smith, Woofer (Ticket Vault, Inc.) Stern, Marcus (Self) Stopnicki, Jack (Self) Toy, Christopher (Self) HB 475 For: Smith, Tom "Smitty" (Public Citizen) Registering, but not testifying: For: Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) HB 1015 Registering, but not testifying: For: Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Press Association and the Texas Daily Newspaper Association) Gerstenschlager, MerryLynn (Self and Texas Eagle Forum) Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) HB 1053 For: Hayes, Patricia (Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas) Metzger, Luke (Texas Public Interest Research Group (Tex PIRG)) Schneider, Rob (Consumers Union) Registering, but not testifying: For: Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Rummel, Leah (Texas Association of Health Plans) On: Thompson, Jay (Texas Association of Life and Health Insurers) HB 1109 For: Lynch, Chip (Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas) Scurlock, Steve (Independent Bankers Association of Texas) Registering, but not testifying: For: Sandberg, Eric (Texas Savings and Community Bankers Association) HB 1269 For: Moore, Thomas (Port of Corpus Christi) Against: Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Press Association and the Texas Daily Newspaper Association) Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Watler, Paul (Texas Association of Broadcasters) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause) HB 1342 For: Mann, James (Texas Pipeline Association) Against: Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Press Association) Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Watler, Paul (Texas Association of Broadcasters) Registering, but not testifying: For: Baum, Walt (Association of Electric Companies of Texas (AECT)) Nugent, Patrick (Texas Pipeline Association) Against: Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) On: Durso, Susan (Public Utility Commission of Texas) HB 1586 For: Carr, Snapper (Texas Municipal League) Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mann, James (Texas Pipeline Association) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Young, Leonard (San Antonio Water System) Against: Baggett, Donnis (Self and Texas Newspapers) Registering, but not testifying: For: Baum, Walt (Association of Electric Companies of Texas) Hartline, Rina (Center Point Energy) Nugent, Patrick (Texas Pipeline Association) Watler, Paul (Texas Association of Broadcasters) Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) On: Durso, Susan (Public Utility Commission of Texas) HB 1587 Registering, but not testifying: For: Agamalian, Brandon (City of Fort Worth) Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Press Association) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) On: Schloss, Hadassah (The Texas Building and Procurement Commission and The Open Records Steering Committee) HB 1719 For: Kasprzak, Dan (Self) Pierce, Denise (Texas Association of School Boards Council of School Attorneys) Against: Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Press Association) Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Watler, Paul (Texas Association of Broadcasters) Registering, but not testifying: For: Agamalian, Brandon (City of Fort Worth) Carr, Snapper (Texas Municipal League) Against: Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) HB 1792 Against: Marsdon, Julia (League of Women Voters of Texas) Rogers, Erin (Lone Star Sierra Club) On: James, Reggie (Consumers Union SW Regional Office) Registering, but not testifying: Against: Metzger, Luke (Texas Public Interest Research Group (Tex PIRG)) HB 2309 Against: Baggett, Donnis (Self and Texas Newspapers) Henson, Scott (ACLU of Texas) Mitchell, Kathy (Consumers Union) Registering, but not testifying: For: Hartline, Rina (Center Point Energy) Lee, Donald (Texas Conference of Urban Counties) Against: Cash, Wanda Garner (Self and Texas Press Association) Watler, Paul (Texas Association of Broadcasters) Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause Texas) HB 2376 On: Bow, Jonathan (State Office of Risk Management) Registering, but not testifying: On: Becker, Sara (State Office of Risk Management) Gilmore, Barnie (State Auditor's Office) SB 121 Registering, but not testifying: For: Hillier, King (Harris County Commissioners Court) Johnson, Dr. Glen (Community Health Choice, Inc.) Lee, Donald (Texas Conference of Urban Counties) Lemond, Jim (Self) Poindexter, Portia (Harris County Hospital District) Rummel, Leah (Texas Association of Health Plans) Woodford, Suzy (Common Cause)


Evaluation of Riparian Zones for Controlling Non-point Source Pollution in NE Kansas
EPA Grant Number: R829418E03Title: Evaluation of Riparian Zones for Controlling Non-point Source Pollution in NE Kansas
Investigators: Hutchinson, Stacy Lewis , Barden, Charles , Mankin, Kyle R. , Young, C. Bryan
Institution: Kansas State University , University of Kansas
EPA Project Officer: Winner, Darrell
Project Period: September 24, 2001 through September 23, 2003 (Extended to February 23, 2005)
Project Amount: $254,770
RFA: EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) (2000) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: EPSCoR (The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research)
Objective:
Non-point source (NPS) pollution has been called the nation's largest water quality problem, and its reduction is a major challenge facing society today. Lack of NPS or diffuse pollution control has resulted in approximately 40% of rivers, lakes, and estuaries being unfit for fishing and swimming. Understanding management techniques for the reduction of NPS pollution will help states comply with federal water quality laws and improve surface water quality. Establishment and maintenance of riparian buffer systems is an NPS pollution reduction tool that needs to be optimized.
Research objectives are 1) to evaluate and modify a comprehensive riparian buffer simulation model [REMM] for evaluation of ecosystem and NPS pollution control functions of buffer systems in Kansas, and 2) to design a field study based on the model sensitivity analysis to develop a complete field data set for calibrating and evaluating REMM in Kansas including the collection of pesticide and fecal bacteria data for future model algorithm development.
Approach:
This research will involve four major phases. First, a model sensitivity analysis will determine the importance of each major model parameter. This step will also examine whether REMM's theoretical description of buffer zone behavior is mathematically well posed. The second phase will consist of the design and implementation of a field study for model evaluation. Third, models will be developed and calibrated for the field site using accumulated data. Finally, model structure and performance will be evaluated. This step will analyze actual buffer behavior and compare to the simulated response.
Expected Results:
The proposed research addresses a water quality problem of nationwide importance that is critical to the economy and health of Kansas residents: reduction of non-point source pollution. Research in the southeast United States indicates that riparian buffer systems are effective at controlling NPS pollution. In order to economically transfer this knowledge to other regions of the nation in a timely manner, it is necessary to develop and calibrate a model for assessing buffers. REMM provides a comprehensive assessment of buffers, but has not been calibrated and evaluated for the Midwest region of the United States. The major accomplishment of this work will be the sensitivity analysis of REMM, which will guide future use and developments of the model. A preliminary model calibration and function evaluation for Kansas will be completed with the field data collected during the project period. Further funding will be sought to continue collection of field data to provide a more accurate model assessment. The outcome of this research will be a tool for use by the state to evaluate and design riparian buffer systems for control of sediment and nutrient NPS pollution.
Publications and Presentations:
Publications have been submitted on this project: View all 11 publications for this projectJournal Articles:
Journal Articles have been submitted on this project: View all 2 journal articles for this projectSupplemental Keywords:
non-point source pollution, riparian buffer, REMM., RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, Geographic Area, Waste, Water, TREATMENT/CONTROL, Ecosystem Protection/Environmental Exposure & Risk, Contaminated Sediments, Remediation, Environmental Chemistry, Chemistry, State, Technology, Risk Assessments, Monitoring/Modeling, Biochemistry, Environmental Monitoring, Ecology and Ecosystems, Environmental Engineering, environmental technology, environmental measurement, riparian buffer simulation model, biodegradation, non-point source pollution, contaminated sediment, remediation technologies, riparian buffers, biotechnology, engineering, human exposure, bioremediation of soils, Kansas (KS), assessment methods, water qualityProgress and Final Reports:
2003 Progress ReportFinal Report


N33b 'fraud': CBN Director to testify against Mompha
by https://www.facebook.com/CheerfulpraiseBy Robert Egbe
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a suspected money launderer, Ismaila Mustapha, also known as Mompha, following his arraignment for alleged N33billion fraud.
Mompha pleaded not guilty to a 14 counts of money laundering, unauthorised forex trade and failure to comply with the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The charge was filed against the internet celebrity and the second defendant, Islamob Global Investments Ltd, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The EFCC arrested Mompha on October 19 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
He was remanded in the commission’s custody following a court order.
Last Thursday, the internet celebrity sued the anti-graft agency for N5million alleging wrongful detention.
At his arraignment on Monday, EFCC counsel Rotimi Oyedepo told Justice Mohammad Liman that Mompha laundered the funds through Ismalob Global Investment Ltd, between 2015 and 2018.
Following his plea, the prosecutor prayed the court to remand the defendant in prison custody. He applied for a trial date.
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Defence counsel Mr. Gboyega Oyewole (SAN) did not oppose the prayer, but he observed that Mompha had been in custody for 42 days already, according to him, unlawfully.
Oyewole said the defence had already filed a bail application.
Oyedepo agreed that he had been served with the bail application. He prayed for a short date to respond.
The prosecutor further applied for a summons to be issued to several witnesses, including a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Director of Trade and Exchange, Mr Ahmed B. Umar.
The judge granted his prayer.
Following the submissions of the parties, Justice Liman fixed Friday, 29, for hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial.
The EFCC claimed that the funds were laundered in tranches of N18,059,353,413 billion and N14,946,773,393.00 billion.
The commission further alleged that both defendants, not being a financial institution, or an authorised foreign exchange dealer, negotiated a foreign exchange transaction in the sums of N9.416million, N20 million, N10,437,400.00, N10miillion, N2.46million, N10miillion, N100million, N61million, N100million, N40.7million and N42million.


Former judo champ ‘honored’ to win top Japanese award
RIYADH: There was no shortage of big names on the loaded card for the WWE Crown Jewel event at King Fahd international Stadium on Thursday night, but there can be few bigger than Ric Flair.
The 70-year-old WWE hall of famer, nicknamed Nature Boy, said he was delighted to be in Saudi Arabia, a place where many wrestlers dream of competing.
“There’s always mixed emotions when you go somewhere you’re not familiar with but this has been a phenomenal experience, speaking for myself personally but also being with the 40 people that I’m traveling with, and the wrestlers — they love it here,” said Flair.
“This is my first trip here — I couldn’t come the first time because I’ve been ill — and I’m really excited about it. I can just tell by...talking to the fans that they’re very excited about it, too.” He added that everybody he had met in Saudi Arabia had been very nice.
The experience made the veteran wrestler reflect on how far the sport has come, and what it offers fans.
“It’s unimaginable to me, as someone who’s been in it for 47 years, to see where it’s come from when I started; it’s eclipsed everything,” he said. “I think it’s the finest example and brand of sports entertainment there is, more so than football, basketball and baseball.
“They see the good, they see the bad, they have emotion — it’s just fabulous. And now that we’re able to share this with (Saudi Arabia and the Saudi) people, I hope they’re enjoying it as much as we are.”


Christopher Fowler is the award winning author of many novels and short story collections. Suffolk readers will probably know him best as the author of the popular Bryant & May mystery novels, which record the adventures of two golden age detectives investigating impossible London crimes. He is also a five-time British Fantasy Award winner.
Fowler’s standalone novels include The Sand Men, Nychtophobia and Hell Train. His books have been optioned by everyone from Guillermo Del Toro (Spanky) to Jude Law (Psychoville). His latest book The Book of Forgotten Authors is a foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves, and it already looks to be popular among our readers.
1. Who were your literary influences as you were growing up?
I often think I started backwards, exploring experimental works from J. G. Ballard and B. S. Johnson when I should have been reading the classics, but in many ways I’m glad I left the classics until I was old enough to appreciate them. I thought I had to love all canonical literature because of its status, but quickly realised I had no connection to much of it. I preferred War and Peace to Pride and Prejudice, loved Mervyn Peake and Dickens, but saw no demarcation line between comics and classics.
2. When you published Full Dark House in 2003, did you think that Bryant & May had the potential for a series?
Not for a second. The book was turned down by my then publishers, but a Transworld editor told me it could be a series. Then I saw that I could write any kind of crime or mystery novel I wanted so long as I used the same characters. I’ve written without them many times, in novels like Psychoville and Disturbia, because I enjoy writing standalones too.
3. What do you think is their appeal? On the face of it they are not obvious heroic types…
That was precisely their appeal. I wanted not anti-heroes but non-heroes, the kind of quirky, unworldly academics my mother knew. I love the idea that a complex investigation is being undertaken by a team utterly ill-equipped to handle it!
4. One of the themes that comes across strongly in your books is your love for London, whether it is of old theatres or hidden places. Do you spend a lot of time researching and walking around London?
I was born in central London and although I periodically live in other countries I always return. You can research from books but nothing beats walking around the city and talking to its inhabitants. I’m pretty good at using London well, i.e. going out to lots of events without spending a fortune. London is prohibitively expensive, but there are ways of getting around the problem. The young are very good at spotting great things to do. Tonight I’ll probably go to the Cinema Museum and meet friends –it’s on my long list of hidden London gems.
5.  Was this something you had in mind for some time before writing it?
I only had to look up at my shelves to wonder why so many incredible writers had vanished from sight. As a child I haunted libraries like some kind of reading-addicted ghost, and kept a notebook of names to investigate, so writing the book came organically.
6. Do you have a message for your many readers in Suffolk Libraries?
Yes – you are appreciated. Reading can save your life, and certainly got me through some bad times. Writing is heroic, lonely and often unrewarding work, but writers have a secret: We own the well. Librarians, booksellers and readers are the pipelines that deliver succour.
7. Is there anything you can share with us about your current work in progress?
At any given moment I’m either writing a book or testing out an idea. I’ve just completed a fantasy epic called The Foot on the Crown, there are three more Bryant & May novels in the pipeline starting with Hall of Mirrors, and I’m about to start on the second novel from my pseudonym, LK Fox.
8. You have been interviewed many times. Is there one thing you can tell us that your readers may not know about you?
I’m a really good cook!


Three Beta-Carboline Containing Plants As Potentiators of Synthetic DMT and Other Indole Psychedelics
a technical note from the underground by Gracie and ZarkovWARNING: This paper is aimed at the serious student and/or researcher of psychedelic substances. Unlike many of our more popularly oriented articles and papers we do not intend it for our recreationally inclined friends on the psychedelic underground. Given the diets and drug habits of most contemporary "heads", the use of MAO inhibitors could easily result in serious physical complications (LIKE DEATH). Additionally, these states are so intense that unless you are crazy enough to regard 50mg of DMT or 7.5 grams of potent stropharia mushrooms as the beginning of a good time, these mixes are definitely NOT FOR YOU.
The content of this technical note will, we hope, provide researchers interested in the beta-carboline/tryptamine combinations with some "hard empirical facts" combined with our musings. Hopefully, these will spawn new ideas for further experiments in this very exciting and very confusing area of psychedelic research.
SUMMARY
The purpose of this paper is to summarize our current work with three beta- carboline, Harmala alkaloid-containing plants, i.e.,Passiflora incarnata (passion flower) Peganum harmala (syrian rue) Banisteriopsis caapi (principal ingredient in yage)Specifically, we wish to report on the phenomena and comparitive activity when extracts of each of these plants are smoked in conjunction with DMT.SOURCES OF THE PLANT MATERIAL
The passion flower was purchased as dried, whole, chopped plant material from an herb store. The seeds of the syrian rue were purchased from a specialty seed service. No attempt was made to ascertain the origin of the plant material. The Banisteriopsis caapi was obtained from a private plantation in Hawaii. The caapi arrived cut into lengths of about one foot long, and ranged in diameter from about one quarter of an inch to one half inch. The original plant specimens had been collected in the Amazon by the grower.EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES
We used the same extraction technique for all three plants. We had developed this technique for smoking the passion flower to potentiate Psilocybin mushrooms (see below) and wished to have the data from this set of expriments to be comparable. The technique was a two-stage extraction. The first extraction used was a boiling alcohol (we used vodka) and water infusion followed by a second extraction using boiled distilled water. Each infusion was boiled for several hours. A "slow cooker" is ideal for this. In the case of the caapi, the bark was peeled off in strips first. For the syrian rue, we first ground the seeds very fine. For both the passion flower and the caapi, the second extract was essentially clear and seemed unnecessary. However, in the case of the syrian rue, the second extract was a bright cloudy yellow which may indicate harmine in solution.The plant material was strained and compressed after each extraction. The liquids from the from the two extractions were combined and dried using low heat on the slow cooker. The result was a brown caramally mass for both the passion flower and the caapi. The weight was about 20% of the original for the passion flower and the rue, and about 45% for the caapi. Except in the case of the passion flower, we cannot see any clear advantages of extraction over that of smoking the original plant material due to the relatively minor concentration of the amount needed to smoke. A plain water infusion would also seem to be just as effective in removing the harmine and would result in less of the other plant components being extracted.
The syrian rue extract was the most interesting. It actually had long, thin, yellowish crystals in a brownish, red, hard, clear matrix which was not at all gooey like the other two extracts. This is not surprising given the assumed concentration of beta-carboline alkaloids. Based on our rough averaging from a variety of sources, our up-front beta-carboline concentration estimates for the plant materials were as follows:
Plant % beta-carbolines Ratio (Syrian rue=1) ----- ----------------- -------------------- Rue 2.0% - 4.0% 1 Caapi 0.1% 20 Passion flower 0.05% - 0.1% 40USAGE
In each case we smoked the extract until we had reached subjectively the same high. As with our previous work with the passion flower extract, smoking significant amounts above this did not seem to get one any higher, but just intensified the physical symptoms and one felt increasingly sick. So far, only with the passion flower have we experimented with an oral dose. Oral infusions of the other plants are planned for our fall 1985 series of experiments.The plant material is smoked with a match, lighter or torch in such a way to promote the boiling of the material, rather than burning it. This seems to yield the most effective high. The highly concentrated rue extract lends itself nicely to smoking in a "hash oil" pipe with the flame heating the bowl on the outside.
THE HIGH
The high is not particularly psychedelic or hallucinogenic. One feels calm. This calming effect is particularly noted by an observer as a significant change in facial expression and tone of voice. The limbs become heavy and lethargic and visibly tremble. Hypersalivation occurs, particularly at the back of the mouth, making for a particularly smooth smoke. A slight irritation of urethra and anus is sometimes reported. At higher dosages, dizziness and nausea sets in with very little increase in the high. Closed eye imagery is at best hypnagogic. That is to say, faint, moving outlines can be discerned with closed eyes. If one has a particularly vivid imagination, ghostly outlines of figures can be discerned. The more literal minded just see shifting blobs of light and dark. No one who has experienced DMT or high dose mushrooms would ever call them visions.The high comes on and stabilizes after about 5 to 10 minutes from smoking. As mentioned before, it is very difficult to get higher by smoking more. If one stops at this point, the most noticable thing would be a calm and unapprehensive state. We take particular note of this diminishing of apprehensions since we are always apprehensive before we smoke DMT so its dimunition or absence is very noticable.
The passion flower is mentally the foggiest high, but curiously has the strongest "antidepresant" effect. This may be related to the overall mix of alkaloids in the passion flower (see below). The syrian rue was the clearest, cleanest high with the caapi being, subjectively in between. The caapi had the least "antidepressant" effect.
Sage ratios of the original plant material smoked for subjectively reaching the same level of high is roughly estimated as follows:
Plant Dosage Ratio ----- ------------ Rue 1 Caapi 12 Passion flower 20The dosage ratio is based on the mass of the original plant material. That is to say, to get as high as smoking one ounce of syrian rue, would require smoking 12 onces of caapi, or over two kilograms of passion flower.Curiously, although various field researchers estimate beta-carboline dosage in native brews to range between 300 to 500mg, in our dosage we only needed dosages in the 50mg range. As noted above, increasing the dosage did not increase the high but only aggravated the physical symptoms. Even when tryptamines were taken later in addition, increasing the dosage past this point did not significantly alter the combined trip. It was as if there was some "switch" in the brain which, with sufficient beta-carbolines, was set from "off" to "on" and no further action could take place. We do not rule out the possibility of a second 'switch' as the 300-500mg range that we might have missed.
TRYPTAMINE COMBINATIONS
For comparison purposes, each of the plant materials was smoked according to the above method. Approximately 10 minutes after this plant-material-high stabilized, 15mg of DMT was smoked. One of us would go through the entire procedure while the other kept notes and timings.The following consistent effects were observed:
- The overall impact of the trip was heightened far above the normally only threshold effects of a 15mg dose of DMT. Subjectively, the dose felt more like 35-45mg or roughly tripled in intensity.
- The overall length of the DMT 'flash' and subsequent patterns was lengthened. The 'flash' of visions which is normally 2 to 3 minutes at a 40mg dosage, was about 6 minutes with the beta-carboline predosing at 15mg of DMT. The total period of intense closed eye imagery, normally less than 5 to 7 minutes (including the flash) was extended uniformly to about 9 minutes with an additional 10 minute slowly decreasing tail of closed eye patterns.
- The auditory effects were so pronounced as to be almost overwhelming on several occasions. In fact, the auditory effects were stronger than even extremely high dose trips where we had smoked 50 to 70mg of DMT all at once. The initial sounds, the so-called 'carrier wave' or opening buzz that has been described as 'tearing plastic' was greatly amplified. The DMT 'music' which we describe as a xylophone-type sound which accompanies the visions was extremely loud and seemed to keep coming on to the point where it became disturbing on several trips.
- The basic 'jeweled dome' or 'chrysanthemum' pattern, seen after the 'vision flash' was fractured or separated. Instead of a uniform circular pattern, there seemed to be distinctive left and right halves of the pattern with a new, hard to describe pattern in the middle. The overall effect of the patterns seemed to us more mushroom-like, although we would be hard pressed to give a detailed explaination of why we felt this way.
- Similarly, the visions seemed to unfold in a more leisurely fashion. Again, we were reminded of the mushroom. While the DMT effect still hits fast and hard, the rushed 'million things at once' feeling of DMT smoked alone is quite muted.
- The colors of the pattern are also shifted as compard to DMT alone. Again, since we can't accurately describe colors in the first place, it is hard to pin down, but it could be characterized as less primary or jewel-like, with fewer or less saturated colors than DMT alone.
- Finally, when one comes out of the vision state, the 'woozey' feeling is quite pronounced for an additional 10 minutes or so. This feeling was very reminicent of the mushroom 'knock-down'.
The content of the visions was also altered. There were fewer "alien, self- transforming, elf-machines" and more visions of recognizable things. Strange animals and hooded figures marched on a bas relief procession. Griffin-like monsters rhythmically changed into beautiful naked women and back. The feeling tone was serious, unlike the playfulness or cheerful even though quite terrifying hilarity of the "self-transforming elf machines" experienced on DMT alone. The intensity was altered. We hesitate to say increase, since DMT is intense by itself, but the change in feeling tone, the more serious, almost personally directed information of the trance, subjectively made the trip more intense. On one trip, one of us made ocntact with a highly serious, palpable entity whose message could be quite simply summarized as "Are you sure you want to get into this? This is far more extreme than what you have done before. It is the path to destruction of gnosis!"
Subjectivelly, we preferred the syrian rue to potentiate DMT. It gave the cleanest, most intense high. While we have never taken true Ayahuasca, detailed discussion of some of the trip's contents with someone who has significant experience with that brew, confirmed that the trip content was like a short ayahuasca trip.
The passion flower was the least desirable potentiator. (Probably due to low harmine content in proportion to the total bet-carboline content.) The amount needed for effective tryptamine potentiation left us foggy and somewhat sick. Furthermore the MAO effects lingered for two to three days. The caapi's effects were, again, in between.
Anomalous Observations
This brings us to a curious set of observations. First, although the literature would indicate that the harmine MAO inhibition should be reversed in about five hours, the effects from all of the smoked plant material continued for at least 24 to 48 hours. That is to say, clear potentiation was noticed after this amount of time had elapsed. We hypothesize that this effect is due primarily to beta-carbolines other than harmine present in the plant material which, while qualitatively weaker as MAO inhibitors, may have a duration of effect which is much longer. However, we have reason to believe that something additional, due to tryptamines, may be happening.Once we had taken 7.5 grams of very potent dried Stropharia. We were interested in making contact with the 'voice in the head' phenomenon. We potentiated the mushrooms by each smoking about 750 grams (!) of passion flower (reduced as described above) starting about 30 minutes after eating the mushrooms. The potentiation was quite overwhelming. After smoking about one quarter of the plant material, each fresh lungful brought on, within seconds, powerful "starburst" and "intersecting lightning bolt" hallucinations which, with eyes opened, obscured a well-lit room. The voice phenomenon was loud and clear and very unsettling (the content of the trip has been described in High Frontiers, Issue 2). Before the trip we had attempted on several occasions to invoke the voice phenomenon with the same mushrooms at dosages of up to 10 grams, to no avail. But, even more curiously, effects such as clear instance of MAO inhibition, voices in the head, visions (with both closed and opened eyes) and finally at the end of the period, clear potentiation of another psychedelic (LSD) occurred at discrete short intervals over a period of 14 days! We realize that this sounds unbelievable, however it did happen. It is our opinion that particular long-term effects can be initiated by large combined doses of tyrptamines and beta-carbolines that cannot be adequately explained using current models of brain chemistry.
Additionally, since that rather harrowing trip, the mushroom "voice" has been inescapable even on dosages as low as approximately one gram. As less spectacular long-term effects, we have also noticed this "locking in" or tuning-in effect with the beta-carboline/DMT combination. That is, effects that were previously elusive on DMT alone became easy to invoke once they have occurred in the combination.
NOTE: We understand from conversations with other investigators that this approach of first taking the mushrooms and then smoking the beta-carboline material when mushroom effects begin to come on to be the most efficacious approach.
Another curious observation is the "9 minute barrier". So far, we have not been successful in causing the DMT imagery to last longer than 9 minutes, irrespective of the dosage, or the type of underlying predose plant material. To make matters more interesting in our experiments with DMT and MDA (which is also a mild MAO inhibitor) the DMT effects are again lengthened to about 9 minutes. Yet ayahuasca produces a trip which lasts for several hours. At present we have no explaination, especially since much of the active components in the orally consumed brews are inactivated in the stomach and intestines or not absorbed.
In experiments in which we have predosed ourselves with DMT and then taken another psychedelic several hour later, we have noted very discernible (MDA) to dramatic (mushrooms or LSD) effects when the second substance is taken as much as 8 hours after the DMT. Again, this is hard to explain since the total DMT experience should only last about one hour. However, when we smoked DMT and after the flash smoked the beta-carboline plant material we were unable to cause any clear DMT imagery. What did happen was an immediate feeling of depression, almost exactly opposite the effect on mood of DMT.
One final hard-to-explain phenomenon. On about one quarter of the trips, after coming out of the trance and with our condition stabilized (or at least so we felt) about 20 minutes after smoking DMT, we experienced a rush of "information" into our minds with no other psychedelic effects. That is to say, without any visual, physical or auditory shift, we suddenly possessed, in our minds, a complex, detailed and lengthy thought with no idea where it had come from and the conviction that it had not existed in our heads, even in fragments, an instant before. The content of each of these thoughts was bizarre and had to do with directions on how to accomplish activities that are normally regarded as supernatural, impossible and/or crazy. Furthermore, the content of the thought was encouraging us to attempt these feats! While we have no first hand experience with schizophrenics (other than some Berkeley street people) our reading of the literature caused us to conclude that this type of phenomenon would be considered a clear instance of schizophrenic thinking.
Beta-Carbolone Potentiation of LSD
We have also experimented with potentiation of LSD by beta-carboline containing plants. Generically, the effects follow the same patterns. Subjectively, the dose feels three to four times more potent than it actually is. The closed eye imagery is greatly enhanced with circular highly visible bright imagery visible on only 25 [sic] micrograms. On higher doses (150-200 micrograms) there was a feeling of an ancestral presence (we have never felt an outside presence on LSD alone in over several hundred acid trips but we have found it quite common when LSD is combined with another psychedelic).The closed-eye patterns were "almost visions". That is to say they were clearer than hypnagogic imagery but not as overwhelming or clear as DMT visions. The visuals were more like clear dream imagery. The mood elevation was quite astounding. At one point one of us shouted "You couldn't possibly have a bad trip on this stuff." There were no mood swings and the buoyant elation slowly receded to baseline over the course of the trip.
Tentative Conclusions and Suggestions for Further Research
To restate the obvious, indole psychedelics taken in a state of MAO inhibition are much more intense and qualitatively different than when taken alone. We believe that these combinations offer numerous fruitful avenues for further research.Additionally, we find the syrian rue seeds to be a convenient, concentrated and easily obtainable source of beta-carbolines that can serve as a substitute for the more exotic, difficult to obtain, Banisteriopsis caapi.
Clearly, our next area of research should be in the area of "synthetic Ayahuasca". That is, trying to perfect an orally administered mixture of syrian rue and synthetic DMT that qualitatively behaves like the South American plant brews.
Additional work should be done with the smoked mixtures to investigate the "9 minute barrier" and to provide more qualitative mixtures for some future beta-carboline/tryptamine cookbook.
Finally, we hope that the information in this article might be correlated with the work of other researchers to suggest entirely new areas for research and to provide explainations for some of these phenomena.


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Good. Then I will prepare the Mandragora Essence using forty of the roots you have brought. The extra roots are of no use to you anyway, so I will take them.
Here, take this. It is completed Mandragora Essence. Although it is not clear but red, the quality does not fall so far short.


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Be sure to keep your Shticker Book with you at all times - this is your guide to Toontown! Your Shticker Book holds your Toontown map, keeps track of your gags and jellybeans, and helps you keep track of your ToonTasks. It’s also where you’ll find your Cog Radar. Open your Shticker Book any time by clicking the icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
Toon Tip:
Press the "F8" button on your keyboard to open Shticker Book more quickly.
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BREAKING: Fuel tanker explodes at Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway old toll gate, two die
by Samson FolarinSamson Folarin
Two people have been confirmed dead after a petrol tanker exploded at the old toll gate end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, around Sango, Ogun State.
The PUNCH learnt that the fire started around 12.05am.
The spokesperson for the state fire service, Muinat Adeleke-Ashimi, who spoke for the acting Director, Margaret Adeseye, said two bodies were found around 4am.
SEE ALSO: Court remands father for raping 17-year-old daughter
She said, “The petrol tanker skidded off the road, which resulted in the fire. Our men arrived at the scene at 12.14am.
“The fire was extinguished around 4am when two casualties were found — a male and a female.
“We are presently damping the fire.”


Apple is piloting extended AppleCare+ eligibility of up to one year
Source: Apple
What you need to know
- A report suggests Apple is testing extending its AppleCare+ eligibility from 60 days up to a year.
- Currently, users who wish to apply AppleCare+ to a device after purchase must do so within 60 days of purchase.
- A pilot rolled out to 50 Apple Store in the U.S. this week.
A report suggests that Apple is rolling out a pilot program to test extending the eligibility period of AppleCare+ up to one year.
According to MacRumors the pilot will allow users to add AppleCare+ to their device between 61 days and a year after purchase.
Currently, users who wish to add AppleCare+ to their device must do so within 60 days of purchase, the new scheme would allow customers to do this up to one year after purchase. To qualify, customers would have to book a Genius Bar appointment, where a technician would run diagnostics and also carry out a visual inspection.
MacRumors claims that the extended eligibility was first rumored to be two years, however, another source has confirmed it to be one.
A pilot has rolled out to 50 U.S. stores, as well as 29 in Canada.
MacRumors contacted a participating Apple Store that confirmed existence of the pilot program. It applies to the iPhone for certain, and likely extends to the iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and other devices. We don't want anyone to be disappointed, so keep in mind that the pilot is subject to change.
Most AppleCare+ programs provide extended warranty to devices and include accidental damage cover which requires users to pay a fee for a replacement device on up to two occasions. The news comes in the wake of the revelation that Apple reportedly does not make any profit from its repair service. In its answers to questions posed by a government antitrust committee, Apple claimed that every year since 2009, cost and expenditure has outstripped revenue generated by repairs.
The pilot and possible full implementation could be a welcome additional service to users who purchase devices but cannot afford to add AppleCare+ at the time.


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Once you have everything set up, change to the directory doc/src/sgml and run one of the commands described in the following subsections to build the documentation. (Remember to use GNU make.)
To build the HTML version of the documentation:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake html
This is also the default target. The output appears in the subdirectory html.
To create a proper index, the build might process several identical stages. If you do not care about the index, and just want to proof-read the output, use draft:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake draft
To build the documentation as a single HTML page, use:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake postgres.html
We use the DocBook XSL stylesheets to
convert DocBook
refentry
pages to *roff output suitable for man
pages. The man pages are also distributed as a tar archive,
similar to the HTML version. To create the man
pages, use the commands:
cd doc/src/sgml gmake man
If you want to use JadeTex to produce a printable rendition of the documentation, you can use one of the following commands:
To generate PostScript via DVI in A4 format:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake postgres-A4.ps
In U.S. letter format:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake postgres-US.ps
To make a PDF:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake postgres-A4.pdf
or:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake postgres-US.pdf
(Of course you can also make a PDF version from the PostScript, but if you generate PDF directly, it will have hyperlinks and other enhanced features.)
When using JadeTeX to build the PostgreSQL documentation, you will probably need to increase some of TeX's internal parameters. These can be set in the file texmf.cnf. The following settings worked at the time of this writing:
hash_extra.jadetex = 200000 hash_extra.pdfjadetex = 200000 pool_size.jadetex = 2000000 pool_size.pdfjadetex = 2000000 string_vacancies.jadetex = 150000 string_vacancies.pdfjadetex = 150000 max_strings.jadetex = 300000 max_strings.pdfjadetex = 300000 save_size.jadetex = 15000 save_size.pdfjadetex = 15000
Occasionally text is too wide for the printed margins, and in extreme cases, too wide for the printed page, e.g. non-wrapped text, wide tables. Overly wide text generates "Overfull hbox" messages in the TeX log output file, e.g. postgres-US.log or postgres-A4.log. There are 72 points in an inch so anything reported as over 72 points too wide will probably not fit on the printed page (assuming one inch margins). To find the SGML text causing the overflow, find the first page number mentioned above the overflow message, e.g. [50 ###] (page 50), and look at the page after that (e.g. page 51) in the PDF file to see the overflow text and adjust the SGML accordingly.
You can also create a printable version of the PostgreSQL documentation by converting it to RTF and applying minor formatting corrections using an office suite. Depending on the capabilities of the particular office suite, you can then convert the documentation to PostScript of PDF. The procedure below illustrates this process using Applixware.
Note: It appears that current versions of the PostgreSQL documentation trigger some bug in or exceed the size limit of OpenJade. If the build process of the RTF version hangs for a long time and the output file still has size 0, then you might have hit that problem. (But keep in mind that a normal build takes 5 to 10 minutes, so don't abort too soon.)
Applixware RTF Cleanup
OpenJade omits specifying a default style for body text. In the past, this undiagnosed problem led to a long process of table of contents generation. However, with great help from the Applixware folks the symptom was diagnosed and a workaround is available.
Generate the RTF version by typing:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake postgres.rtf
Repair the RTF file to correctly specify all styles, in
particular the default style. If the document contains
refentry
sections, one must also replace
formatting hints which tie a preceding paragraph to the current
paragraph, and instead tie the current paragraph to the
following one. A utility, fixrtf, is
available in doc/src/sgml to accomplish
these repairs:
doc/src/sgml$ ./fixrtf --refentry postgres.rtf
The script adds {\s0 Normal;} as the zeroth
style in the document. According to
Applixware, the RTF standard would
prohibit adding an implicit zeroth style, though Microsoft Word
happens to handle this case. For repairing
refentry
sections, the script replaces
\keepn tags with \keep.
Open a new document in Applixware Words and then import the RTF file.
Generate a new table of contents (ToC) using Applixware.
Select the existing ToC lines, from the beginning of the first character on the first line to the last character of the last line.
Build a new ToC using Tools->Book Building->Create Table of Contents. Select the first three levels of headers for inclusion in the ToC. This will replace the existing lines imported in the RTF with a native Applixware ToC.
Adjust the ToC formatting by using Format->Style, selecting each of the three ToC styles, and adjusting the indents for First and Left. Use the following values:
Work through the document to:
Adjust page breaks.
Adjust table column widths.
Replace the right-justified page numbers in the Examples and Figures portions of the ToC with correct values. This only takes a few minutes.
Delete the index section from the document if it is empty.
Regenerate and adjust the table of contents.
Select the ToC field.
Select Tools->Book Building->Create Table of Contents.
Unbind the ToC by selecting Tools->Field Editing->Unprotect.
Delete the first line in the ToC, which is an entry for the ToC itself.
Save the document as native Applixware Words format to allow easier last minute editing later.
"Print" the document to a file in PostScript format.
Several files are distributed as plain text, for reading during the installation process. The INSTALL file corresponds to Chapter 15, with some minor changes to account for the different context. To recreate the file, change to the directory doc/src/sgml and enter gmake INSTALL. This will create a file INSTALL.html that can be saved as text with Netscape Navigator and put into the place of the existing file. Netscape seems to offer the best quality for HTML to text conversions (over lynx and w3m).
The file HISTORY can be created similarly, using the command gmake HISTORY. For the file src/test/regress/README the command is gmake regress_README.
Building the documentation can take very long. But there is a method to just check the correct syntax of the documentation files, which only takes a few seconds:
doc/src/sgml$ gmake check


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Questions, Hosting and IT 2006!
I recently found a great documentary, about 9/11, entitled “Loose Change 9/11“. It is easily the most powerful about the event, much more so than Fahrenheit 9/11. In fact I would even argue, that if this documentary had of aired during the U.S. presedential election, I would have bet on a different result. Backed up by trusted resources such as the BBC which confirmed at least 8 of the 19 highjackers are alive and well. Filled with outrageous facts, it sets the scene for either a highly competent Bush regime that new what it was doing, or the worst domestic tragedy that happend under maladministration. Either way the American people have serious questions to ask, which I hope in time will get the aired in time. Maybe George W. is taking a leaf out of Charlie Haugheys book? That is that corruption can be a force for the good of the public, and my rich friends?
Also I would like to unreservedly apologize that this site has been down
for so long. The thing is my ex-hosting provider, which I won’t even
honor with a link, was an incompetent mess. I have now moved to an Irish
company, Hosting365.ie, which gives me freephone support all for a
little extra money. Also their premises is in Dublin, which means I can
call in at any time and I get the protection of Irish Law (even though
we know its a mess [e.g. Mr.A child abuser being set free], I still
think we have an alright civil liberties protection, even though I know
nothing about law, so I am most likely misguided, anyhoo!) of course not
without paying the 21% VAT, which needs to be lowered might I add.
This isn’t my usual tech babble I know, but I’ll end this post with the
news that I am BETA testing the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Edition 2006
[maemo.org]. It rocks so hard, I can’t even begin to say…… First of
theirs GoogleTalk built in, with support for SIP (might be from Gizmo).
Notwithstanding that, their are cool native applications such as
MaemoPad Plus [Sketch/Notes] and MaemoMapper [GPS+ Google Maps]. Somehow
they have squeezed more battery life out of this gadget, and now you can
create a swap on the memory card, meaning its, I’d say (pure
speculation, obviously) 80% more efficient. Warning to people who
actually use the 770 for important stuff, don’t upgrade until Nokia has
released it, as it is very buggy, with applications crashing [somewhat]
alot. Wait until all of us in the know, report those pesky bugs! But a
real geek can see through the flaws and see the Nokia 770 for what it
is, a truly cool Internet tool.


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Tanegashima v0.0.11 Tanegashima
Pushbullet general objects.
Summary
Functions
Get Pushbullet access token
Convert Poison struct to Tanegashima(Pushbullet object) struct
Types
t :: %Tanegashima{accounts: term, blocks: term, channels: term, chats: term, clients: term, contacts: term, cursor: term, devices: term, grants: term, profiles: term, pushes: term, subscriptions: term, texts: term}
Functions
Specs
to_struct(module, Poison.Parser.t) ::
{:ok, t} |
{:error, term}
Convert Poison struct to Tanegashima(Pushbullet object) struct.


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reveal.js enables you to create beautiful interactive slide decks using HTML. This presentation will show you examples of what it can do.
Slides can be nested inside of each other.
Use the Space key to navigate through all slides.
Nested slides are useful for adding additional detail underneath a high level horizontal slide.
That's it, time to go back up.
Not a coder? Not a problem. There's a fully-featured visual editor for authoring these, try it out at http://slides.com.
Press ESC to enter the slide overview.
Hold down alt and click on any element to zoom in on it using zoom.js. Alt + click anywhere to zoom back out.
Presentations look great on touch devices, like mobile phones and tablets. Simply swipe through your slides.
Hit the next arrow...
... to step through ...
... a fragmented slide.
You can select from different transitions, like:
None -
Fade -
Slide -
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Concave -
Zoom
reveal.js comes with a few themes built in:
Black (default) -
White -
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Simple
Serif -
Blood -
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Moon -
Solarized
Set data-background="#dddddd"
on a slide to change the background color. All CSS color formats are supported.

Different background transitions are available via the backgroundTransition option. This one's called "zoom".
Reveal.configure({ backgroundTransition: 'zoom' })
You can override background transitions per-slide.

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These guys come in two forms, inline:
“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”
and block:
“For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.”
You can link between slides internally, like this.
There's a speaker view. It includes a timer, preview of the upcoming slide as well as your speaker notes.
Press the S key to try it out.
Presentations can be exported to PDF, here's an example:
Set data-state="something"
on a slide and "something"
will be added as a class to the document element when the slide is open.
Additionally custom events can be triggered on a per slide basis by binding to the data-state
name.
Reveal.addEventListener( 'customevent', function() {
console.log( '"customevent" has fired' );
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Hello and welcome to my home page! This is a space where I can document my journey toward becoming a web developer!
I'm originally from Muriwai, North-West of Auckland, and now reside in Kingsland, Auckland City. I have a Science Bachelors Degree majoring in Chemistry, and had been working in product development for two years before making the leap to web development here at Dev Academy. I'm making this leap because I decided to take control of my future and happiness and enter a field where I can take advantage of both my love for problem solving and my love for working in a fun, fast paced, innovative environment.


Dummy variables (or binary variables) are commonly used in statistical analyses and in more simple descriptive statistics. A dummy column is one which has a value of one when a categorical event occurs and a zero when it doesn’t occur. In most cases this is a feature of the event/person/object being described. For example, if the dummy variable was for occupation being an R programmer, you can ask, “is this person an R programmer?” When the answer is yes, they get a value of 1, when it is no, they get a value of 0.
We’ll start with a simple example and then go into using the function dummy_cols()
. You can also use the function dummy_columns()
which is identical to dummy_cols()
.
Imagine you have a data set about animals in a local shelter. One of the columns in your data is what animal it is: dog or cat.
| animals |
|---|
| dog |
| dog |
| cat |
To make dummy columns from this data, you would need to produce two new columns. One would indicate if the animal is a dog, and the other would indicate if the animal is a cat. Each row would get a value of 1 in the column indicating which animal they are, and 0 in the other column.
| animals | dog | cat |
|---|---|---|
| dog | 1 | 0 |
| dog | 1 | 0 |
| cat | 0 | 1 |
In the function dummy_cols, the names of these new columns are concatenated to the original column and separated by an underscore.
| animals | animals_dog | animals_cat |
|---|---|---|
| dog | 1 | 0 |
| dog | 1 | 0 |
| cat | 0 | 1 |
With an example like this, it is fairly easy to make the dummy columns yourself. dummy_cols()
automates the process, and is useful when you have many columns to general dummy variables from or with many categories within the column.
fastDummies_example <- data.frame(numbers = 1:3,
gender = c("male", "male", "female"),
animals = c("dog", "dog", "cat"),
dates = as.Date(c("2012-01-01", "2011-12-31",
"2012-01-01")),
stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
knitr::kable(fastDummies_example)
| numbers | gender | animals | dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | male | dog | 2012-01-01 |
| 2 | male | dog | 2011-12-31 |
| 3 | female | cat | 2012-01-01 |
The object fastDummies_example has two character type columns, one integer column, and a Date column. By default, dummy_cols()
will make dummy variables from factor or character columns only. This is because in most cases those are the only types of data you want dummy variables from. If those are the only columns you want, then the function takes your data set as the first parameter and returns a data.frame with the newly created variables appended to the end of the original data.
| numbers | gender | animals | dates | gender_male | gender_female | animals_dog | animals_cat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | male | dog | 2012-01-01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | male | dog | 2011-12-31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | female | cat | 2012-01-01 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
In some situations, you would want columns with types other than factor and character to generate dummy variables. For example, a column of years would be numeric but could be well-suited for making into dummy variables depending on your analysis. Use the select_columns parameter to select specific columns to make dummy variables from.
results <- fastDummies::dummy_cols(fastDummies_example, select_columns = "numbers")
knitr::kable(results)
| numbers | gender | animals | dates | numbers_1 | numbers_2 | numbers_3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | male | dog | 2012-01-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | male | dog | 2011-12-31 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | female | cat | 2012-01-01 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
The final option for dummy_cols()
is remove_first_dummy which by default is FALSE. If TRUE, it removes the first dummy variable created from each column. This is done to avoid multicollinearity in a multiple regression model caused by included all dummy variables. The “first” dummy variable is the one at the top of the rows (i.e. the first value that is not NA).
results <- fastDummies::dummy_cols(fastDummies_example, remove_first_dummy = TRUE)
knitr::kable(results)
| numbers | gender | animals | dates | gender_female | animals_cat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | male | dog | 2012-01-01 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | male | dog | 2011-12-31 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | female | cat | 2012-01-01 | 1 | 1 |


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Jeopardy James defeats rival to win Tournament of Champions
by CNN NewsourceHe'll take victory for $250,000, Alex.
"Jeopardy! James" Holzhauer won $250,000 as the winner of the game show's Tournament of Champions against Emma Boettcher and Francois Barcomb. He has now won more than $2.7 million on the show this year.
Boettcher famously ended Holzhauer's historic 32-game win streak in June, but the Jeopardy! celebrity lived up to his name in the end.
"I've said all along that Emma is an all-time great player, and I'm proud it took that level of competitor to defeat me," Holzhauer said. "Now the world sees that I wasn't just making excuses. But the whole point of the TOC is to play the best of the best, and Emma and Francois certainly proved that they belonged in the final three."
His winnings make him the third-highest winner in the show's history. Brad Rutter is the highest-winning game show contestant of all time with more than $4.6 million followed by Ken Jennings with $3.3 million.
Holzhauer's win ends an emotional week on Jeopardy! The show's longtime host Alex Trebek announced he was reentering treatment for pancreatic cancer right before Dhruv Gaur, a contestant on Monday's show, brought the host to tears with his final answer of the night.


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ORG_0000040 - architectural structure
Label
architectural structure
Alternate name
bauwerk
Sub class of
Definition
A material entity that is a human made strcuture with firm connection between its foundation and the ground.
Definition source
Example
Yankee Stadium, Stonehenge, The Shard, The Large Hadron Collider. The Great Wall of China
Editor’s note
Perhaps identical to the term in OMRSE
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Michael
Just recently stumbled onto the Synergy apps, something I've been looking for.
I was wondering if you are planning on making Synergy Advance run only in the menu bar? I'm trying to decide which app to register, but having an app in the dock that I really only use for the hotkey next track seems silly.
I currently use GrowlTunes for new track info, but when the show floater code is added into advance and if it uses any of the growl displays I might drop GrowlTunes.
Keep up the good work.
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Michael
OK, I saw the bug and picked up my copy... looking forward to .2 so I can get rid of the dock icon.
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Greg Hurrell
Yes, 0.2 is almost ready. It's been delayed by a few things (a hardware failure, some work that unexpectedly cropped up as a result of Apple's Intel announcement, and daily trips to the hospital) but it is very close to being wrapped up.
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Colour Brewer palette (discrete)
brewer_pal(type = "seq", palette = 1, direction = 1)
type |
One of seq (sequential), div (diverging) or qual (qualitative) |
palette |
If a string, will use that named palette. If a number, will
index into the list of palettes of appropriate |
direction |
Sets the order of colours in the scale. If 1, the default,
colours are as output by |
show_col(brewer_pal()(10)) show_col(brewer_pal("div")(5)) show_col(brewer_pal(palette = "Greens")(5)) # Can use with gradient_n to create a continous gradient cols <- brewer_pal("div")(5) show_col(gradient_n_pal(cols)(seq(0, 1, length.out = 30)))


Germany says two citizens detained in Hong Kong
SINGAPORE, Nov 15 — Two German citizens have been detained in Hong Kong and are receiving consular support, a source at the German foreign ministry said today.
The source said the German consulate in Hong Kong was in touch with lawyers and local authorities, giving no further details.
Hong Kong police said they had detained two foreign men during a “dispersal operation” against a group of protesters gathered in Tuen Mun, a town in the New Territories. Hong Kong has been convulsed by months of protests against perceived meddling by Beijing in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” formula guaranteeing freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland.
One of the foreign citizens, a 22-year-old, was arrested for illegal assembly and for breaching a ban on face masks, police said. A 23-year-old was arrested for illegal assembly.
Newspaper Bild earlier reported that two exchange students at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University had been detained in the region. The university could not be reached for comment. — Reuters


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Zlatan tells US fans to 'go back to watching baseball' after quitting LA Galaxy
by AFPSwedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic confirmed his departure from the Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday, but gave no clue over his future plans or possible retirement.
The 38-year-old striker's departure from the Galaxy had been widely expected following the club's elimination from the Major League Soccer playoffs last month.
Ibrahimovic, who joined the Galaxy in the opening months of the 2018 campaign, announced the end of his Californian sojourn in a characteristically enigmatic post on Twitter.
"I came, I saw, I conquered. Thank you @lagalaxy for making me feel alive again," Ibrahimovic wrote. "To the Galaxy fans - you wanted Zlatan, I gave you Zlatan. You are welcome. The story continues...Now go back to watch baseball."
The Galaxy issued a Thank You Zlatan video showcasing some of the Swedish star's top moments at Galaxy.
"We would like to thank Zlatan for his contributions to the LA Galaxy and Major League Soccer," said LA Galaxy President Chris Klein.
"Since his arrival in 2018, Zlatan has positively influenced the sport of soccer in Los Angeles. We are grateful for his work ethic and passion. We thank Zlatan for his professionalism and immeasurable impact on the Los Angeles community and the soccer community in North America as a whole."
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Ibrahimovic has been strongly linked with a return to Italian club AC Milan, where he played for two seasons between 2010 and 2012, scoring 42 goals in 61 league appearances.
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber hinted last week that Ibrahimovic may make a return to Italy, telling ESPN in an interview the striker was being "recruited" by Milan.
Ibrahimovic has also reportedly been targeted by Serie A side Bologna, according to Italian daily Corriere dello Sport.
Although Ibrahimovic was unable to help Los Angeles Galaxy return to the pinnacle of Major League Soccer, the Swede has been one of the most successful foreign players ever to grace the league, scoring 53 goals in 56 regular


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agent
An Agent is a wrapper that makes it thread-safe to share object references across your application, without having to worry about concurrent access and destructive assignment.
It's an ideal companion for immutable data structures, but promises thread-safe access and modifications on mutable objects, too, provided that the user only manipulates state within an Agent's methods.
Installation
- Add the dependency to your
shard.yml
:
dependencies:
agent:
github: lbarasti/agent
- Run
shards install
Usage
Let's define an Agent wrapping a hash.
require "agent"
concurrent_hash = Agent.new({"a" => 1, "c" => 41})
We can now traverse the hash safely with Agent.get
.
concurrent_hash.get { |h| h["a"] } # => 1
Everything we do within the block passed to Agent#get
is guaranteed to be thread-safe and consistent.
To update the hash in a thread-safe fashion we call Agent#update
.
concurrent_hash.update { |h|
h["b"] = 12
h
} # => Agent::Result::Submitted
The block passed to Agent#update
will run asynchornously, but any calls following
it are guaranteed to see the updated version of the wrapped object - provided that the update was successfull.
concurrent_hash.get { |h| h["b"] } # => 12
If you want synchronously fetch and update the state of the agent, then Agent#get_and_update
will serve your purpose.
concurrent_hash.get_and_update { |h|
old_b = h["b"]
h["b"] = old_b + 1
{h["b"] , h}
} # => 13
Agent#get_and_update
expects a block of type
Hash(String, Int32) -> {Q, Hash(String, Int32)}
where Q
is a generic type and is the type of the returned value. This means you can return
any transformation of the current Agent's state and alter the state in a single pass.
Error handling and timeouts
Errors are handled within the Agent, and surfaced as Agent::Result::Error
values.
For example, if we try to fetch a value for a non existing key, the KeyError
exception turns into an Agent::Result::Error
.
concurrent_hash.get { |h| h["non-existing"] } # => Agent::Result::Error
If you'd rather deal with the exception yourself, check out the !
variant of Agent's getter methods.
concurrent_hash.get! { |h| h["non-existing"] } # raises Exception("Error")
In order to give responsiveness guarantees to the client's code, Agent's operations support timing out. The default timeout is 5 seconds, but you can pass a custom timeout on each operation.
concurrent_hash.get {
sleep 3.seconds # simulates a time consuming operation
}
concurrent_hash.get(max_wait: 1.second) { |h|
h["b"]
} # => Agent::Result::Timeout
concurrent_hash.get!(max_wait: 1.second) { |h|
h["b"]
} # raises Exception("Timeout")
Agents in multi-threaded runtime
As of Crystal 0.34.0, by default, your code will be compiled to run on a single thread. In this scenario, using Agents still makes sense if you access or modify objects from different fibers. If that's not the case, then the only perk of adopting Agents is that your code will be future proof.
To see how multi-threading and concurrency can break the correctness of your application, think about the behaviour of the following code, where we spawn 10 fibers, and each one concurrently updates the value of a counter 1024 times.
done = Channel(Nil).new(10)
counter = 0
(1..10).each {
spawn {
(1..1024).each {
counter += 1
}
done.send nil
}
}
10.times { done.receive }
puts counter # => ?
Or just check out this repository and run
crystal build -Dpreview_mt examples/breaking_counter.cr
CRYSTAL_WORKERS=4 ./breaking_counter
You'll notice unpredictable results in the final count.
We can fix this with an Agent
.
done = Channel(Nil).new(10)
counter = Agent.new(0)
(1..10).each {
spawn {
(1..1024).each {
counter.update { |x| x + 1 }
}
done.send nil
}
}
10.times { done.receive }
puts counter.get # => 1024 * 10
Now the final value for counter
will always equal 10240, no matter the number of runtime threads.
FAQ
How does this differ from Atomic(T)
(docs)?
Only primitive integer types, reference types or nilable reference types can be used with an Atomic type.
On the other hand, you can wrap any type in an Agent
.
Are Agent updates atomic, i.e. do either all the instructions in a block take effect or none of it does?
No, atomicity is not guaranteed. In particular, if an exception is raised within a given get / update block, then any side-effecting operation preceeding the exception will not be reverted.
Relying on immutable data structures and avoiding side-effects in Agent's get / update operations are good mitigations for the lack of atomicity.
My code uses immutable data structures such as these ones. Are these not thread-safe by definition?
Immutable data structures are thread-safe in the sense that you can safely access them from different fibers, but they are subject to the so-called lost update problem, where changes made by a fiber will not be recorded by another one - think of the case where multiple fibers close over the same variable, and then destructively assign values to such variable, concurrently.
You can dodge the lost-update bullet by making sure that all the updates to your immutable data structure happen in a single fiber, but that's not always possible or desirable. Furthermore, you might still have to implement custom logic to ensure transactionality - think of the scenario where a fiber wants to increment a counter by 1, but first has to fetch the current value of the counter. In a parallel¹ execution, the counter might change between the fetch and the set statement
¹ Things will be fine in a concurrent but not parallel execution, as the fiber will not yield control until after the update.
Development
Just check out the repository and run crystal spec
to run the tests.
Contributing
- Fork it (<https://github.com/lbarasti/agent/fork>)
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request
Contributors
- lbarasti - creator and maintainer


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Please reply to my private email address From: Mr Biney I Saac Private<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Attn:The Managing Director Am Mr. BINEY ISAAC I, I am in charge of Cargo section of ROCHASAB Security Banglamung Thailand. With due respect and regards I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us of the end of the transaction. During our investigation and auditing in this security company my department came across a consignment belonging to a deceased person who died on plane crash with this security company without any claim of the consignment in our custody either form his family or relation before our discovery to this development. Although personally, I kept this information secret within myself and partner to enable the whole plans and ides be profitable and successful during the time if execution, the said amount was US$5.6M (FIVE Million SIX Hundred thousand United State Dollars). As it may be interest to you to know, I got your impressive information through my good friend who works with chamber of commerce here in Thailand. Mean while all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonfire next of kin to the deceased, will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us and also benefit yourself to this great deal. In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant, we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eyebrow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this company. This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the security company and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by designation back account. I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 10% we be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the fine of transfer and also telephone bills, while 60% will be for me and by partners. Please, you have been advised to keep top secret as we are still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you. I will write application to rinsing out have the company and join business. And it will require us to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of this found according to percentages previously indicated and further investment either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in. All other necessary information will be sent to you when I heard from you I suggest you get back to me as soon as possible stating your wish in this deal<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Yours faithfully, Mr. Biney Isaac.


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Recording A Podcast
It sure can. Set one source menu to whatever voice over IP (VOIP) application you are using to record other side of the conversationton, and the other source menu to the microphone you are using to record yourself.
You also need to make sure that your VOIP application's output matches what you have set in your Sound System Preference. WireTap Studio will save both sides of the conversation as separate channels on the same recording.
What Is It?
A podcast is simply a recorded file, available on-demand for listeners to grab, and listen to at their leisure (often on an iPod). Thousands of people all over the world are creating podcasts, from celebrities to your next-door neighbor, on every topic imaginable. If you want to create a podcast of your own, Audio Hijack Pro will help get it done.
The Most Basic Podcast: A Man And His Mic The most basic podcast consists of one host talking, with nothing else. The setup for this is as basic as the show itself. Follow the steps below to set this up.
Basic Set Up
- Launch Audio Hijack Pro and create a new session.
- Select Audio Device in the first popup menu of the Input tab.
- Set the Input Device to the appropriate device, your microphone. You’ll also want to set an Output Device, either a pair of headphones (to avoid feedback) plugged in to the Built-In Output or Silence Output.
- Now, adjust the settings in the Recording tab as you desire. For a talk program, an MP3 file of 64 kbps (MP3 Low) will sound great. > You’ll probably also want to edit the Tags section for your show - this information will be visible to listeners once they download the file and play it in their MP3 player.
Once you’ve got Audio Hijack Pro set as above, you’re ready to go. Click the Hijack button, and then click Record and talk away. Everything you say will be recorded and if you need to, you can pause the recording by clicking Pause. When you’re done, click Record again to finish the recording. #### Click to hear a basic podcast recording
Adding In Music and/or Sound Effects Once you’ve mastered a basic podcast, you may wish to improve it by interspersing music or sound effects. You can play songs during your podcast, insert pre-recorded interviews, or just drop in sound effects - Audio Hijack Pro makes all this easy and fun.
To start, you’ll want to set everything up as above, then move over to the Effects tab of your session. Insert the Application Mixer plugin by clicking a cell (“Click here to insert effect”) and choosing it from the 4FX section. Select the Application from which you wish to pull audio, probably iTunes or QuickTime Player.
The Application Mixer plugin Now you’ll want to queue up audio in your source. Create an iTunes playlist for your music or open up windows in QuickTime for each sound effect you want to drop in. Click the Hijack button inside Application Mixer, and audio from your input device (your microphone) will be mixed evenly (by default) with the source selected in Application Mixer. You can also adjust the Crossfade slider as desired. If you want the AppMixer source to be the only audio source while it plays, use the crossfade buttons ( and ) to fade to the Application side as you start a song. When the song ends, click the Source arrow to fade back. If you’re using sound effects, just leave the crossfader at the default position. When you’re done inserting audio, click AppMixer’s Release button and resume talking with the microphone. Click to hear a more complex podcast recording [Note: On OS X 10.4, you can alternately use the AUAudioFilePlayer plugin, detailed in a previous post. This plugin allows for all audio to be self-contained in one application (Audio Hijack Pro), but at the time of this writing, almost 70% of users are still on Panther (OS X 10.3). If you’re interested and you’re running OS X 10.4 (Tiger), play with AUAudioFilePlayer and see if you like it more than Application Mixer. Otherwise, just follow the instructions above.] Chat It Up The other major way in which Audio Hijack Pro enables you to create rich podcasts is by allowing you to pull in audio from a voice chat client, such as Skype or iChat. By grabbing audio from a Skype conversation (we’ll use Skype for our example, but this all applies to iChat as well) as well as your own mic, Audio Hijack Pro enables you to record live interviews or conversations with remote users right into your podcast.
Once again, you’ll want to set up Audio Hijack Pro as above, to pull audio from your microphone. You need to make sure that Skype uses the same audio input you’re pulling from in Audio Hijack Pro. You can adjust this in Skype’s preferences window.
Start hijacking your session in Audio Hijack Pro, then set up the Application Mixer plugin in the Effects window by clicking a cell (“Click here to insert effect”) and choosing it from the 4FX section. Select Skype in the Application area, and leave the Crossfade in the default. Once you click the Hijack button in the AppMixer plugin, both halves of any Skype conversation will flow through Audio Hijack Pro.
You can now initiate a conversation in Skype, and record it as part of your podcast. While conversing, you’ll want the crossfade slider at the halfway point, but when you setup the call you may wish to leave it at Source (or leave AppMixer’s source unhijacked) to avoid including the various sound effects. Set up your call, talk to the other party, then Release AppMixer’s source when your done. When you’re finished with the entire podcast, end the full session hijacking, and you’re all set.
Click to hear a podcast recording with chat
Share It With The World
That’s really all there is to it, as far as the creation of the audio goes. Once you’ve got your podcast recording done in Audio Hijack Pro, you may wish to edit it in an audio editor, or it may be perfect already. Either way, you’ll definitely need to upload your file to a web server and create an RSS feed for it.
With RSS 2.0, you can include an enclosure (just like email) in the feed, so that subscribers will automatically download the audio file when the RSS feed updates. The Enclosure tag details where the file is located on the web. Here’s what it looks:
Our Test Feed
You can download our test RSS feed to take a look at. Once your own feed is created, you can test it with this validator. Put the RSS file online and link to it, and your listeners will be able to tune in. It’s Your Turn Now That’s a full wrap-up - now it’s time to make your own podcasts. With these instructions, you’ll be able to make rich, full podcasts that sound great. Your listeners are waiting!


'Well deserved win sees champions Ballygunner through to another Munster final
Ballygunner 0-17 - 0-9 Patrickswell
Ballygunner eased past Patrickswell to book their place in the Munster club final with 1,967 spectators seeing them prevail in a chilly Walsh Park.
Both sides struggled to find their range early on, with Ballygunner’s Pauric Mahony (free) the only scorer in the opening ten minutes.
Dessie Hutchinson added two quick points for the home side, whose experienced half-backs were the dominant line on the field. Hutchinson came close to a goal on 13 minutes but added another point soon after - 0-4 to no score at the end of the first quarter.
An Aaron Gillane free finally opened the ‘Well account on 20 minutes, with Mahony responding in kind and Hutchinson hitting another sweet point.
Diarmaid Byrnes’ long-range free and a good Gillane point made it 0-6 to 0-3 on 26 minutes, but Mahony snapped over a point in answer.
Patrickswell narrowed the gap with Gillane and John Flynn points, and one more Gillane free in injury-time made it 0-7 to 0-6 at half-time.
Michael Mahony resumed with a Ballygunner point and then took over, the midfielder stretching the Gunners’ lead with three more points from play - 0-11 to 0-6 they led on 43 minutes.
Gillane eventually opened the ‘Well account with a free on 44 minutes but Peter Hogan responded. Much like the first half, Ballygunner were in control: Barry O’Sullivan put six between them on 50 minutes, 0-13 to 0-7.
Pauric Mahony (free) and Shane O’Sullivan pushed the home side further in front; Jack Kelleher had Patrickswell’s second point of the half but six minutes left, but the Gunners led 0-15 to 0-8 and saw out the rest of the game with ease.
Scorers for Ballygunner: Pauric Mahony (4 frees) D. Hutchinson (0-5 each); M. Mahony (0-4); B. O’Sullivan, P. Hogan, S. O’Sullivan (0-1 each).
Scorers for Patrickswell: A. Gillane (3 frees)(0-5); J. Kelleher (0-2); D. Byrnes (free), J. Flynn (0-1 each).
BALLYGUNNER: S. O’Keeffe, E. Hayden, I. Kenny, B. O’Keeffe, S. O’Sullivan, P. Mahony (JC), B. Coughlan, P. Leavy, C. Sheahan, B. O’Sullivan, Pauric Mahony, M. Mahony, P. Hogan, T. O’Sullivan, D. Hutchinson.
Subs: K. Mahony for Hogan (58); JJ Hutchinson for T. O’Sullivan (60).
PATRICKSWELL: J. Gillane, S. O’Brien, N. Foley, T. Nolan, M. Carmody, D. Byrnes, P. Maher, J. Considine, C. Lynch (c), A. Gillane, T. O’Brien, J. Flynn, J. Kelleher, A. Carroll, K. O’Brien.
Subs: P. O’Brien for Carroll (41); L. Considine for T. O’Brien (47)
Referee: N. Wall (Cork).
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German Shepherds are medium to large-sized dogs.
- Scientific Name: German Shepherd
- Average Length: 60 to 65 cm
- Average Lifespan: 9 to 13 Years
- Habitat: In a house
The German Shepherd (German: Deutscher Schäferhund) is a breed of medium to large-sized working dog that originated in Germany.


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TO DELANI STUDIO
Amazing people are making amazing designs in a fun environment
When you work with us, you are part of a team of commited collaborators.All aspects of our software development process are intergrated,interactive and agile.
Our approach unifies design, development and product management to create exceptional products.
We start each project by understanding your business goals, the user's needs and the product requirements.
Then we help translate them into effective and elegant solutions.
Before we sign a contract or write a line of code our team will spend the necessary time needed to understand your product vision.
The out come of this scoping is a propasal of high-level statement of work.
based on your requirements, we can provide a complete offering or just the pieces you need.
DESIGN
Our design practice offers a full range of services
including brand
strategy, interaction and visual design
and user experience testing.
Throughout your project, our designers create and
implement visual design
and workflows,solicit user
feedback and work with you to make sure what gets build is what's
needed
DEVELOPMENT
All engineers are fluent in the latest enterprise, mobile and web development technologies. They collaborate with your team to write, and improve code on a daily basis, using proven practices such as test-driven development and pair programming.
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Dark
Ontario
Pyramid
Jimm
Carrey
Good
Scratch
Burned
Giraffe