A few days ago I wondered why software can't be naturally pedagogical - that is, why can't it just naturally teach you how to use it, as you use it?
The answer, of course, is that software generally should try to teach you, because people do not separate learning from doing. Instead, users tend to learn as they go along: exploring the UI, experimenting, trying to work out how to print by clicking things with the mouse.
So why doesn't more software take this into account, and take the "silent cat" approach to teaching the user while they're using the software?
Here's a blast from the past: KPT Convolver (see the screenshot) was a great example of this principle done right - and done right, over 10 years ago! It didn't shove a tutorial down your throat while you were trying to get some work done; instead, it quite subtly revealed new features to you when it felt that you were ready for them.
While the product was rather experimental, it also seemed to uncannily know how much "new" functionality to reveal to you. This approach also encouraged you to experiment with any new feature that had just been revealed - the best way to learn by far. So, Convolver provided a natural progression path from beginner through to advanced, without your ever having to resort to reading the manual.
But in order to say less, and therefore make the user fill in the cognitive gaps, your product must have something to say in the first place: and this is why most software already "does the silent cat" (so to speak), but catastrophically so - the result being a UI which is difficult to learn.
So, to make software inherently learnable, you can't just apply a "quick fix" to an existing UI. You'd need to approach the whole design on the basis that you want the UI to teach the user as they go along. Once the software actually has something to say, and is saying it, then you can start to cut things back - selectively, intelligently - making sure that you never actually make the software impossible to learn or use.
In a way, Office 12 takes this approach, with its "task-based" contextual command tabs. To perform tasks like inserting page numbers, headers and footers, you simply choose them from an available gallery - in other words, the software is telling you pictorially how to use it, while you use it.
It'll be interesting to see if Office (and other Vista apps as they start to become available) errs towards "saying too much" in its UI, and ends up being more intrusive than helpful.


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From The National Cancer Institute
IV Vitamin C
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/vitamin-c-pdq#section/_3
Have any preclinical (laboratory or animal) studies been conducted using high-dose vitamin C?
Laboratory studies and animal studies have been done to find out if high-dose vitamin C may be useful in preventing or treating cancer.
Laboratory studies
Many laboratory studies have been done to find out how high-dose vitamin C may cause the death of cancer cells. The anticancer effect of vitamin C in different types of cancer cells involves a chemical reaction that makes hydrogen peroxide, which may kill cancer cells.
Laboratory studies have shown the following:
Treatment with high-dose vitamin C slowed the growth and spread of prostate, pancreatic, liver, colon, malignant mesothelioma, neuroblastoma, and other types of cancer cells.
Combining high-dose vitamin C with certain types of chemotherapy may be more effective than chemotherapy alone:
Ascorbic acid with arsenic trioxide may be more effective in ovarian cancercells.
Ascorbic acid with gemcitabine may be more effective in pancreatic cancercells.
Ascorbic acid with gemcitabine and epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) may be more effective in malignant mesothelioma cells.
Another laboratory study suggested that combining high-dose vitamin C with radiation therapy killed more glioblastoma multiforme cells than radiation therapy alone.
However, not all laboratory studies combining vitamin C with anticancer therapies have shown benefit. Combining dehydroascorbic acid, a particular form of vitamin C, with chemotherapy made it less effective in killing some kinds of cancer cells.
Studies of high-dose vitamin C have been done in animal models (animals given a disease either the same as or like a disease in humans).
Some of the studies showed the vitamin C helped kill more cancer cells:
High-dose vitamin C blocked tumor growth in animal models of pancreatic, liver, prostate, sarcoma, and ovarian cancers and malignant mesothelioma.
High-dose vitamin C combined with chemotherapy in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer showed that the combination treatment shrank tumors more than chemotherapy treatment alone.
Another study showed that vitamin C made a type of light therapy more effective when used to treat mice injected with breast cancer cells.
A study in a mouse model of ovarian cancer showed that combining intravenous high-dose vitamin C with the anticancer drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel made them more effective in treating ovarian cancer.
However, other animal studies have shown that vitamin C interferes with the anticancer action of certain drugs, including the following:
Mouse models of human lymphoma and multiple myeloma treated with combinations of vitamin C and chemotherapy or the drug bortezomib had more tumor growth than mice treated with bortezomib alone.
Have any clinical trials (research studies with people) of high-dose intravenous (IV) vitamin C been conducted?
Several studies of high-dose vitamin C in patients with cancer have been done in recent years, including the following:
Studies of vitamin C alone
Intravenous (IV) vitamin C was studied in patients with breast cancer who were treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The study found that patients who received IV vitamin C had better quality of life and fewer side effects than those who did not.
A study of IV vitamin C and high doses of vitamin C taken by mouth was done in patients with cancer that could not be cured. Vitamin C was shown to be a safe and effective therapy to improve quality of life in these patients, including physical, mental, and emotional functions, symptoms of fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, and appetite loss.
Vitamin C has been shown to be safe when given to healthy volunteers and cancer patients at doses up to 1.5 g/kg, while screening out patients with certain risk factors who should avoid vitamin C. Studies have also shown that Vitamin C levels in the blood are higher when taken by IV than when taken by mouth, and last for more than 4 hours.
Studies of vitamin C combined with other drugs
Studies of vitamin C combined with other drugs have shown mixed results:
In a small study of 14 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, IV vitamin C was given along with chemotherapy and treatment with a targeted therapy. Patients had very few bad side effects from the vitamin C treatment. The nine patients who completed the treatment had stable disease as shown by imaging studies.
In another small study of 9 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, patients were given chemotherapy in treatment cycles of once per week for 3 weeks along with IV vitamin C twice per week for 4 weeks. These patients had disease that did not progress for a period of months. The combined treatment was well tolerated and no serious side effects were reported.
In a 2014 study of 27 patients with advanced ovarian cancer, treatment with chemotherapy alone was compared to chemotherapy along with IV vitamin C. Patients who received IV vitamin C along with chemotherapy had fewer serious side effects from the chemotherapy.
Patients with acute myeloid leukemia, refractory metastatic colorectal cancer, or metastatic melanoma treated with IV vitamin C combined with other drugs had serious side effects and the disease got worse.
More studies of combining high-dose IV vitamin C with other drugs are in progress.
Have any side effects or risks been reported from high-dose vitamin C?
Intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid has caused very few side effects in clinical trials. However, high-dose vitamin C may be harmful in patients with certain risk factors.
In patients with a history of kidney disorders, kidney failure has been reported after ascorbic acid treatment. Patients with a tendency to develop kidney stones should not be treated with high-dose vitamin C.
Case reports have shown that patients with an inherited disorder called G-6-PD deficiency should not be given high doses of vitamin C, due to the risk of hemolysis (a condition in which red blood cells are destroyed).
Since vitamin C may make iron more easily absorbed and used by the body, high doses of the vitamin are not recommended for patients with hemochromatosis (a condition in which the body takes up and stores more iron than it needs).
Have any drug interactions been reported from combining high-dose vitamin C with anticancer drugs?
A drug interaction is a change in the way a drug acts in the body when taken with certain other drugs. High-dose vitamin C, when combined with some anticancer drugs, may cause them to be less effective. So far, these effects have been seen only in some laboratory and animal studies. No clinical trials have been done to further research these drug interactions in humans.
See Question 5 and Question 6 for more information on combining vitamin C with anticancer drugs.
Combining vitamin C with an anticancer drug called bortezomib has been studied in cell cultures and in animal models. Bortezomib is a targeted therapy that blocks several molecular pathways in a cell, causing cancer cells to die. Several studies showed that vitamin C given by mouth made bortezomib less effective, including in multiple myeloma cells. A study in mice transplanted with human prostate cancer cells, however, did not show that giving the mice different doses of vitamin C by mouth made bortezomib therapy less effective.
An oxidized form of vitamin C called dehydroascorbic acid has been studied in cell cultures and in animals with tumors. Several studies have found that high doses of dehydroascorbic acid can interfere with the anticancer effects of several chemotherapy drugs. Dehydroascorbic acid is found in only small amounts in dietary supplements and in fresh foods.
Is high-dose vitamin C approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the use of high-dose vitamin C as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition
Other Studies on IV Vitamin C
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4. Verrax J, Calderon PB. Pharmacologic concentrations of ascorbate are achieved by parenteral administration and exhibit antitumoral effects. Free radical biology & medicine. 2009;47(1):32-40. Epub 2009/03/04.
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7. Robitaille L, Mamer OA, Miller WH, Jr., Levine M, Assouline S, Melnychuk D, et al. Oxalic acid excretion after intravenous ascorbic acid administration. Metabolism: clinical and experimental. 2009;58(2):263-9. Epub 2009/01/22.
8. Lee YJ, Shacter E. Oxidative stress inhibits apoptosis in human lymphoma cells. The Journal of biological chemistry. 1999;274(28):19792-8. Epub 1999/07/03.
9. Chen Q, Espey MG, Sun AY, Pooput C, Kirk KL, Krishna MC, et al. Pharmacologic doses of ascorbate act as a prooxidant and decrease growth of aggressive tumor xenografts in mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008;105(32):11105-9. Epub 2008/08/06.
10. Padayatty SJ, Katz A, Wang Y, Eck P, Kwon O, Lee JH, et al. Vitamin C as an antioxidant: evaluation of its role in disease prevention. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2003;22(1):18- 35. Epub 2003/02/06.
11. Hoffer LJ, Levine M, Assouline S, Melnychuk D, Padayatty SJ, Rosadiuk K, et al. Phase I clinical trial of i.v. ascorbic acid in advanced malignancy. Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology / ESMO. 2008;19(11):1969-74. Epub 2008/06/12.
11. Yeom CH, Jung GC, Song KJ. Changes of terminal cancer patients' health-related quality of life after high dose vitamin C administration. Journal of Korean medical science. 2007;22(1):7
12. Vollbracht C, Schneider B, Leendert V, Weiss G, Auerbach L, Beuth J. Intravenous vitamin C administration improves quality of life in breast cancer patients during chemo-/radiotherapy and aftercare: results of a retrospective, multicentre, epidemiological cohort study in Germany. In vivo. 2011;25(6):983-90. Epub 2011/10/25.
13. Drisko JA, Chapman J, Hunter VJ. The use of antioxidants with first-line chemotherapy in two cases of ovarian cancer. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2003;22(2):118-23. Epub 2003/04/04.
14. Padayatty SJ, Riordan HD, Hewitt SM, Katz A, Hoffer LJ, Levine M. Intravenously administered vitamin C as cancer therapy: three cases. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne. 2006;174(7):937-42. Epub 2006/03/29. Page | 6
15. Chen P, Yu J, Chalmers B, Drisko J, Yang J, Li B, et al. Pharmacological ascorbate induces cytotoxicity in prostate cancer cells through ATP depletion and induction of autophagy. Anti-cancer drugs. 2012;23(4):437-44. Epub 2011/12/30.
16. Casciari JJ, Riordan NH, Schmidt TL, Meng XL, Jackson JA, Riordan HD. Cytotoxicity of ascorbate, lipoic acid, and other antioxidants in hollow fibre in vitro tumours. British journal of cancer. 2001;84(11):1544-50. Epub 2001/06/01.
17. Du J, Martin SM, Levine M, Wagner BA, Buettner GR, Wang SH, et al. Mechanisms of ascorbateinduced cytotoxicity in pancreatic cancer. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2010;16(2):509-20. Epub 2010/01/14.
18. Sullivan G, Chen Q, Chen P, Chapman J, Levine M, Drisko J. Prospective Randomized Phase I/IIa Pilot Trial to Assess Safety and Benefit Administering High-Dose Intravenous Ascorbate in Combination with Chemotherapy in Newly Diagnosed Advanced Stage III or Stage IV Ovarian Cancer. 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology; November 9-12, 2011; Cleveland, Ohio2011.
19. Monti DA, Mitchell E, Bazzan AJ, Littman S, Zabrecky G, Yeo CJ, et al. Phase I evaluation of intravenous ascorbic acid in combination with gemcitabine and erlotinib in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. PloS one. 2012;7(1):e29794. Epub 2012/01/25.
20. Chen P, Chalmers B, Drisko J, Chen Q. Pharmacologic Ascorbate Synergizes with Gemcitabine in Pre-Clinical Models of Pancreatic Cancer 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology; November 9-12, 2011; Cleveland, Ohio2011.
21. Ma Y, Drisko J, Polireddy K, Chen Q. Synergistic Effects of Ascorbate with Carboplatin against Human Ovarian Cancer In Vitro and In Vivo 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology; November 9-12, 2011; Cleveland, Ohio2011.
22. Abdel-Latif MM, Raouf AA, Sabra K, Kelleher D, Reynolds JV. Vitamin C enhances chemosensitization of esophageal cancer cells in vitro. Journal of chemotherapy. 2005;17(5):539-49. Epub 2005/12/06.
23. Kurbacher CM, Wagner U, Kolster B, Andreotti PE, Krebs D, Bruckner HW. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) improves the antineoplastic activity of doxorubicin, cisplatin, and paclitaxel in human breast carcinoma cells in vitro. Cancer letters. 1996;103(2):183-9. Epub 1996/06/05.
24. Fromberg A, Gutsch D, Schulze D, Vollbracht C, Weiss G, Czubayko F, et al. Ascorbate exerts antiproliferative effects through cell cycle inhibition and sensitizes tumor cells towards cytostatic drugs. Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology. 2011;67(5):1157-66. Epub 2010/08/10.
25. Heaney ML, Gardner JR, Karasavvas N, Golde DW, Scheinberg DA, Smith EA, et al. Vitamin C antagonizes the cytotoxic effects of antineoplastic drugs. Cancer research. 2008;68(19):8031-8. Epub 2008/10/03.
26. Drisko J. Intravenous Vitamin C and Other IV Therapies in Cancer Care. Confronting Cancer as a Chronic Disease: Primary Care Takes a 360-degree May 20-23, 2010; San Diego, California2010.
27. Levine M, Espey MG, Chen Q. Losing and finding a way at C: new promise for pharmacologic ascorbate in cancer treatment. Free radical biology & medicine. 2009;47(1):27-9. Epub 2009/04/14.
28. Chen P, Stone J, Sullivan G, Drisko JA, Chen Q. Anti-cancer effect of pharmacologic ascorbate and its interaction with supplementary parenteral glutathione in preclinical cancer models. Free radical biology & medicine. 2011;51(3):681-7. Epub 2011/06/16.
29. Riordan HD, Casciari JJ, Gonzalez MJ, Riordan NH, Miranda-Massari JR, Taylor P, et al. A pilot clinical study of continuous intravenous ascorbate in terminal cancer patients. Puerto Rico health sciences journal. 2005;24(4):269-76. Epub 2006/03/31.
30. Padayatty SJ, Sun AY, Chen Q, Espey MG, Drisko J, Levine M. Vitamin C: intravenous use by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and adverse effects. PloS one. 2010;5(7):e11414. Epub 2010/07/16. Page | 7
31. Auer BL, Auer D, Rodgers AL. Relative hyperoxaluria, crystalluria and haematuria after megadose ingestion of vitamin C. European journal of clinical investigation. 1998;28(9):695-700. Epub 1998/10/10.
32. Mashour S, Turner JF, Jr., Merrell R. Acute renal failure, oxalosis, and vitamin C supplementation: a case report and review of the literature. Chest. 2000;118(2):561-3. Epub 2000/08/11.
33. Curhan GC, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ. A prospective study of the intake of vitamins C and B6, and the risk of kidney stones in men. The Journal of urology. 1996;155(6):1847-51. Epub 1996/06/01.
34. Curhan GC, Willett WC, Speizer FE, Stampfer MJ. Intake of vitamins B6 and C and the risk of kidney stones in women. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN. 1999;10(4):840-5. Epub 1999/04/15.
35. Canavese C, Petrarulo M, Massarenti P, Berutti S, Fenoglio R, Pauletto D, et al. Long-term, lowdose, intravenous vitamin C leads to plasma calcium oxalate supersaturation in hemodialysis patients. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. 2005;45(3):540-9. Epub 2005/03/09.
36. McAllister CJ, Scowden EB, Dewberry FL, Richman A. Renal failure secondary to massive infusion of vitamin C. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 1984;252(13):1684. Epub 1984/10/05.
37. Lawton JM, Conway LT, Crosson JT, Smith CL, Abraham PA. Acute oxalate nephropathy after massive ascorbic acid administration. Archives of internal medicine. 1985;145(5):950-1. Epub 1985/05/01.
38. Riordan HD, Jackson JA, Riordan NH, Schultz M. High-dose intravenous vitamin C in the treatment of a patient with renal cell carcinoma of the kidney. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. 1998;13:72-3.
39. Campbell GD, Jr., Steinberg MH, Bower JD. Letter: Ascorbic acid-induced hemolysis in G-6-PD deficiency. Annals of internal medicine. 1975;82(6):810. Epub 1975/06/11.
40. Rees DC, Kelsey H, Richards JD. Acute haemolysis induced by high dose ascorbic acid in glucose- 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. Bmj. 1993;306(6881):841-2. Epub 1993/03/27.
41. Barton JC, McDonnell SM, Adams PC, Brissot P, Powell LW, Edwards CQ, et al. Management of hemochromatosis. Hemochromatosis Management Working Group. Annals of internal medicine. 1998;129(11):932-9. Epub 1998/12/29.
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I think one of the things my daughter loves about Christmas is the countdown. Of course Christmas morning gift opening is the best for her but getting there can be fun too. Today is December 1st and and I almost didn't make it. December came up quick.
To make the numbers on each card, I traced some numbers I printed.
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I taped the cards in a tree shape on the side of the fridge using washi tape.
I used my usual Christmas color of blue tape instead of red.
Since these are cards and not envelopes or boxes, I have a separate list of activities we can choose to do each day.
Having a calendar to count down the days until Christmas gets the kids involved. It also reminds us adults how many shopping days are left to get those kiddos gifts. We told my daughter to circle the toys she would like in the toy catalog and wouldn't you know she circled just about every thing.
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Q: Angular pass parameters from html to component using ngx-smart-modal I am using ngx-smart-modal in my project to pass value from html to component when is open . According to official doc of ngx-smart-modal l can handle events directly from the view . but l have undefined parameters .
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      Primitive ClosingBracketsNoIdentifier { TypeFuncParamsPrimitive $1 $2}
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The info file states the shift/reduce conflict:
ClassBlock -> "{" ClassAttributes . ClassConstructor ClassFunctions "}"    (rule 52)
    ClassAttributes -> ClassAttributes . ClassAttribute    (rule 54)

    "[+]"          shift, and enter state 85
            (reduce using rule 61)

    "[-]"          shift, and enter state 86
            (reduce using rule 61)

Rule 61 is this one:
ClassConstructor :
   {- empty -} { ClassConstructorEmpty }

I am not really sure how to solve this problem. I tried using precedence rules to silence the warning, but it didn't work out as I expected.

A: Below is a simplified grammar which exhibits the same problem.
To construct it, I removed

*

*all actions

*the prefix "Class" from all nonterminal names

I also simplified most of the rules. I did this as an illustration of how you can construct a minimal, complete, verifiable example, as suggested by the StackOverflow guidelines, which makes it easier to focus on the problem while still permitting an actual trial. (I used bison, not happy, but the syntax is very similar.)
Block      : "{" Attributes Constructor Functions "}"
Attributes : {- empty -} | Attributes Attribute
Constructor: {- empty -} | "constructor"
Functions  : {- empty -} | Functions Function
Attribute  : "[+]" "attribute"
Function   : "[+]" "function"

Now, let's play parser, and suppose that we've (somehow) identified a prefix which could match Attributes. (Attributes can match the empty string, so we could be right at the beginning of the input.) And suppose the next token is [+].
At this point, we cannot tell if the [+] will later turn out to be the beginning of an Attribute or if it is the start of a Function which follows an empty Constructor. However, we need to know that in order to continue the parse.
If we've finished with the Attributes and about to start on the Functions, this is the moment where we have to reduce the empty nonterminal Constructor. Unless we do that now, we cannot then go on to recognize a Function. On the other hand, if we haven't seen the last Attribute but we do reduce a Constructor, then the parse will eventually fail because the next Attribute cannot follow the Constructor we just reduced.
In cases like this, it is often useful to remove the empty production by factoring the options into the places where the non-terminal is used:
Block      : "{" Attributes "constructor" Functions "}"
           | "{" Attributes Functions "}"
Attributes : {- empty -} | Attributes Attribute
Functions  : {- empty -} | Functions Function
Attribute  : "[+]" "attribute"
Function   : "[+]" "function"

But just removing Constructor isn't enough here. In order to start parsing the list of Functions, we need to first reduce an empty Functions to provide the base case of the Functions recursion, so we still need to guess where the Functions start in order to find the correct parse. And if we wrote the two lists as right-recursions instead of left-recursions, we'd instead need an empty Attributes to terminate the recursion of the Attributes recursion.
What we could do, in this particular case, is use a cunning combination of left- and right-recursion:
Block      : "{" Attributes "constructor" Functions "}"
           | "{" Attributes Functions "}"
Attributes : {- empty -} | Attributes Attribute
Functions  : {- empty -} | Function Functions
Attribute  : "[+]" "attribute"
Function   : "[+]" "function"

By making the first list left-recursive and the second list right-recursive, we avoid the need to reduce an empty non-terminal between the two lists. That, in turn, allows the parser to decide whether a phrase was an Attribute or a Function after it has seen the phrase, at which point it is no longer necessary to consult an oracle.
However, that solution is not very pretty for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that it only works for the concatenation of two optional lists. If we wanted to add another list of a different kind of item which could also start with the [+] token, a different solution would be needed..
The simplest one, which is used by a number of languages, is to allow the programmer to intermingle the various list elements. You might consider that bad style, but it is not always necessary to castigate bad style by making it a syntax error.
A simple solution would be:
Block      : "{" Things "}"
Things     : {- empty -} | Things Attribute | Things Function | Things Constructor
Attribute  : "[+]" "attribute"
Constructor: "constructor"
Function   : "[+]" "function"

but that doesn't limit a Block to at most one Constructor, which seems to be a syntactic requirement. However, as long as Constructor cannot start with a [+], you could implement the "at most one Constructor" limitation with:
Block      : "{" Things Constructor Things "}"
           | "{" Things "}"
Things     : {- empty -} | Things Attribute | Things Function
Attribute  : "[+]" "attribute"
Constructor: "constructor"
Function   : "[+]" "function"


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This plugins allows the use of inline keyframes and font-faces. It directly resolves them while rendering and only returns the correct reference.

## Installation
```sh
yarn add alef-plugin-embedded
```
You may alternatively use `npm i --save alef-plugin-embedded`.

## Usage
Make sure to read the documentation on [how to use plugins](http://alef.js.org/docs/advanced/Plugins.html).

```javascript
import { createRenderer } from 'alef'
import embedded from 'alef-plugin-embedded'

const renderer = createRenderer({
  plugins: [ embedded() ]
})
```

## Example
#### Input
```javascript
{
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  },
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}
```
#### Output
```javascript
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}
```

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}
```

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How To Maintain Perspective in The Limitless Realm of Digital Recording
By Renato Repetto on December 18, 2015
As we find ourselves moving fast along the digital highway, there has never been a more important time to cultivate a disciplined approach to our craft. While advances in technology are pivotal to the progress of science and industry, what part do they play in the working of art?
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The post-war economic boom of the 1950s marked the beginnings of the on-demand culture we live in today. It brought about a new wave of consumer-oriented technologies designed to whet the insatiable appetite of the homo consumens. With industrial society geared toward mass production and consumption, no longer was technical progress measured by the refinement of technology, but the degree to which it was convenient, accessible, and enticing to the end user.
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The disposable nature of today's technology is characterized by our preference for innovation over genuine improvement. While improvement generally takes the shape of a gradual and continual process (Kaizen), it is the dramatic and sudden nature of innovation, which makes it such a powerful marketing tool. For example, if the latest version of a popular technology omitted new features for the sake of refining the original concept, many would be disappointed. As a result we have seen corporations build obsolescence into their products to satisfy the neophilic desires of the modern consumer. Our newfound lust for novelty is the driving force behind innovation for innovation's sake.
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THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
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ARE WE OVER CONNECTED?
As technology continues to bring us all closer together, we may be at risk of becoming over-connected. If we all share the same references and consume the same content, would a homogenized culture still be capable of producing the 'great originals' like Shakespeare, Milton and Homer? American Writer and Jazz Journalist Ted Panken believes that "Individuality is harder to come by" among today's musicians due to the increased accessibility of information. Could it be that through the act of disconnecting from the noise of society we are in turn reconnecting with ourselves?
"Progress and art don't necessarily go hand-in-hand. It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that art is getting better, just because technology is getting better." –Ed Fries
For the modern-day performer, the digital revolution has liberated them from the shackles of traditional methodologies and convention. It has given them the freedom to express their boundless creativity without the need to adhere to the limitations inherent in primitive technologies. But where there are constraints, there is creativity. After having conducted extensive research into the relationship between freedom and creativity, British psychologist and author Philip Johnson-Laird concluded that "What is not constrained is not creative."
If we consider that the last 30 years of music technology have been about the removing of constraints, are we really making progress? Once we understand that convenience often comes at the expense of integrity, we can begin to be selective about what we let into our world.
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Een tredecime (van Latijn: tredecimus, de dertiende) is in de muziektheorie het interval in een diatonische toonladder tussen een eerste toon en de daarboven liggende dertiende. Een tredecime omvat twaalf toonafstanden, en is een samengesteld interval opgebouwd uit een sext en een rein octaaf. Het interval tussen bijvoorbeeld de tonen c en a' is dus een tredecime. Men zegt dat de a' een tredecime boven de c ligt. Ook wordt de tweeklank die bestaat uit twee tonen die een tredecime uit elkaar liggen, als tredecime aangeduid. De tweeklank c-a' is een tredecime, of de tonen c en a' vormen een tredecime.

Varianten
In overeenstemming met de sext in de tredecime, worden tredecimen nog onderscheiden in grote, kleine, verminderde en overmatige tredecimen.

Grote tredecime
Een grote tredecime is opgebouwd uit een grote sext plus een rein octaaf. Men duidt een grote tredecime wel afgekort aan met M13.
 Voorbeeld: Het interval tussen c' en a" is een grote tredecime.

Kleine tredecime
Een kleine tredecime is opgebouwd uit een kleine sext plus een rein octaaf. Men duidt een kleine tredecime wel afgekort aan met m13.
 Voorbeeld: Het interval tussen c' en as" is een kleine tredecime.

Verminderde tredecime
Als de sext in een tredecime verminderd is, heet ook de tredecime verminderd.
 Voorbeeld: Het interval tussen cis' en as" is een verminderde tredecime.

Overmatige tredecime
Als de sext in een tredecime overmatig is, heet ook de tredecime overmatig.
 Voorbeeld: Het interval tussen c' en ais" is een overmatige tredecime.

Tredecime in jazzmuziek
De tredecime wordt in de jazzmuziek aangeduid met het cijfer '13' in het akkoordsymbool. Het betreft doorgaans een leadnote (een melodienoot), die als toegevoegde kleuring volgt uit de tertsopeenstapeling 3,5,7,9,11,13.
Voorbeeld 1: het akkoord C7/9/+11/13 is opgebouwd uit de tonen C,E,G,Bes,D,Fis,A, waarbij de A als tredecime een toevoeging aan het akkoord is.
Voorbeeld 2: het akkoord Cm7/9/11/13 is opgebouwd uit de tonen C,Es,G,Bes,D,F,A, waarbij de A als tredecime een toevoeging aan het akkoord is.
Daarbij dient de 13 niet verward te worden met de toevoeging 6. De 6 (sext) is een statische toon die vaak plaatsvindt indien er geen 7 in het akkoord zit. De 13 (tredecime) is een niet-statische, spannende toon die juist in combinatie met de 7 optreedt en daarmee enigszins dissoneert.
Voorbeeld 3a: een C6 akkoord is opgebouwd uit de tonen C,E,G,A, waarbij de A als sext is toegevoegd.
Voorbeeld 3b: een C7/13 akkoord is opgebouwd uit de tonen C,E,G,Bes,A, waarbij de A als tredecime is toegevoegd.

Zie ook
 Akkoord
 Bohlen-Pierce-schaal
 Lijst van intervallen

Interval (muziek)

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Q: Vb.net Custom Class Property to lower case I am trying to create a settings class.
The Property Test() is a list of strings.
When I add a string such as: t.test.Add("asasasAAAAA")
I want it to autmatically turn lowercase.
For some reason it is not. Any Ideas?
p.s.
using t.test.Add(("asasasAAAAA").ToLower) will not work for what I need.
Thank you.
Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Dim t As New Settings
        t.test.Add("asasasAAAAA")
        t.test.Add("aBBBBBAAAAA")
        t.test.Add("CCCCCsasAAAAA")
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class Settings
    Private strtest As New List(Of String)

    Public Property test() As List(Of String)
        Get
            Return strtest
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As List(Of String))
            For i As Integer = 0 To value.Count - 1
                value(i) = value(i).ToLower
            Next

            strtest = value
        End Set
    End Property
End Class

ashakjs

A: That's the reason: set accessor of your property is actually never called.
when you use t.test.Add("asasasAAAAA") you are actually calling a get accessor, which returns a list, after that specified string is added to this list, so .ToLower function is never called.
Simple way to fix this:
Dim list as New List(Of String)
list.Add("asasasAAAAA")
list.Add("aBBBBBAAAAA")
list.Add("CCCCCsasAAAAA")
t.test = list

Alternatively, you can implement your own string list (easiest way - inherit from Collection (Of String)), which will automatically convert all added string to lower case.

A: What you are trying to do and what you are doing don't match. To do what you want, you need to create your own collection class extending the generic collection - or provide a custom method on your settings class which manually adjusts the provided string before adding it to the local (private) string collection.
For an example of the second option, remove the public property of the settings class which exposes the list of string and use a method like the following:

Public Sub Add(ByVal newProp As String)
  strtest.Add(newProp.toLower())
End Sub


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Q: Unable to change the case of a letter in Zsh The code in my Zsh
#!/bin/zsh
q=$1

open "http://mathworld.wolfram.com/$q.html"

I put the input to the app
triangle

I get an error at Wolfram, since the first letter must be a big one.
How can you change the case for the first letter in the variable q?

A: # q=triangle
# echo ${(C)q}
Triangle

See Parameter Expansion Flags.


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Keynote Speaker - Ms. Kristin Baldwin
Ms. Kristin Baldwin
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Science, Technology, and Engineering), U.S. Air Force
Ms. Kristen J. Baldwin, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics), the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Ms. Baldwin provides guidance, advocacy, and policy for the Air Force's annual $2.6 billion science and technology program and $1 billion developmental prototyping and experimentation program, conducted at 40 research sites worldwide. She provides engineering and technical management direction on digital engineering, cyber resilient weapons, corrosion control, capability development planning, and the functional management of more than 14,000 military and civilian scientists and engineers. In addition, she is responsible for providing technical advice and counsel to the Air Force Acquisition Executive on a broad range of engineering and technical management areas. As part of this role, she oversees the Air Force's international science and technology outreach via various bi-lateral and multi-lateral engagement fora, including the NATO Science and Technology Organization and the NATO Air Force Armaments Group.
Before this appointment, Ms. Baldwin served as the Deputy Director for Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. She was the Department of Defense (DoD) lead for maintaining technology advantage by mitigating exploitation and vulnerabilities of critical missions, programs, technologies, and the industrial base. Ms. Baldwin oversaw program protection policy and related hardware and software assurance, anti-tamper, and critical technical information protection practices.
A member of the Senior Executive Service since 2007, Ms. Baldwin has also served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering; and Deputy Director, Software Engineering and System Assurance. Before joining the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Ms. Baldwin served as a science and technology advisor in the Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans. She began her career at the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal.
Ms. Baldwin is a recipient of the Meritorious Presidential Rank award in recognition of exemplary service, and the National Defense Industrial Association Lt Gen Thomas R. Ferguson, Jr., Systems Engineering Excellence Award. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master of Systems Management from the Florida Institute of Technology.
HPCMP Director - Dr. Jerry Ballard
HPCMP Director
Director, DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program
Information Techology Laboratory
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Dr. "Jerry" Ballard is the Director for the Department of Defense (DOD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He provides strategic direction and leadership for the high-end computing portfolio investments of the HPCMP program for DOD HPC systems.
The HPCMP provides the supercomputing capabilities, high-speed network communications, software applications, and high-performance computing expertise for the DOD science and technology, test and evaluation, and acquisition engineering communities, enabling scientists and engineers to solve the DOD's most mission-critical challenges.
Dr. Ballard began his career in 1989 as a Research Computer Scientist in the Environmental Laboratory of what was formerly known as the Waterways Experiment Station. In his more than 30 year career, he has managed research across a wide range of military engineering and civil works technical areas while serving as Associate Technical Director and Chief of the Computational Science and Engineering Division in the ERDC's Information Technology Laboratory. Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Ballard was named Associate Director for Software Applications, DOD HPCMP in 2021. He serves customers across the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DOD, Department of Homeland Security, and other government agencies.
Dr. Ballard has a bachelor's in computer science and a master's degree in mathematics, both from Mississippi College. He received his doctorate in computational engineering from Mississippi State University.
Dr. Ballard has received numerous awards, the most recent being a U.S. Army ERDC Outstanding Achievement in EEO in 2021 and the USACE Innovation of the Year Award in 2020. He has authored and co-authored numerous technical publications
HPCMP Chief Technology Officer - Dr. Ben Parsons
HPCMP Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Ben Parsons
DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program
Dr. Benjamin Parsons is the Chief Technology Officer for the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), a multi-Service/Agency program that provides an enabling high-performance computing ecosystem to the DoD Science and Technology, Test and Evaluation, and Acquisition Engineering communities managed by ERDC/ITL. The $290 million annual program provides supercomputing resources, a high-speed network (Defense Research and Engineering Network), parallel software, and advance HPC support to address the DoD's and Services' mission critical priorities.
In his role Dr. Parsons leads the HPCMP in advanced technology, ensuring that the latest advancements in computer systems are properly managed and provided to solve a diverse set of DoD problems. With the ending of transistor scaling, Dr. Parsons is working to ensure that the HPCMP is positioned to embrace heterogenous hardware by exploring emerging architectures and understanding their impact. An additional focus of Dr. Parsons is understanding how cloud technologies can enhance the HPCMP's hardware portfolio. Recent improvements to cloud technology has opened to door to high performance workloads leading to potential impact on HPCMP problems.
Prior to assuming his current position Dr. Parsons worked as a computer engineer in ITL's Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC). In that role Dr. Parsons split his time between research projects and center management. Some notable research projects include an early implementation of Spark, an emerging data analytics framework, on HPC and developing Deep Neural Network based surrogate models for high fidelity physics simulations. In his management capacity Dr. Parsons managed the integration and acceptance of Onyx, at the time the DoD largest unclassified supercomputer. He also served as chief architect, of a data-centric procurement, a fundamentally new way to approach DSRC architecture.
He earned a bachelor's in computer engineering from Purdue University. His doctoral work was also completed at Purdue with a dissertation focusing on HPC communication patterns, and was funded by DoD's SMART program.
Dr. Parsons lives in Clinton Mississippi with his wife and three children.
HPCMP Resource Manager - Mr. Michael Ausserer
HPCMP Resource Manager
Mr. Michael Ausserer
Michael F. Ausserer serves as the Associate Director for Resource Management in the DoD High Performance Computer Modernization Program Office. He is assigned to the Research Collaboration and Computing Directorate, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He manages the allocation of over 8 billion high performance computing core-hours to over 800 research projects and 2,500 users. He leads the selection and oversight of Frontier projects, the program's resource-intensive, high-visibility research projects. In addition, he is responsible for gathering and validating DoD-wide supercomputing requirements.
Mr. Ausserer is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He served on active duty in the US Air Force for 22 years in a wide variety of assignments including helicopter pilot, research and development engineer and acquisition program manager. After working in private industry, Mr. Ausserer returned to the Air Force as civil servant with the USAF Research Laboratory. At AFRL his assignments have included serving as the AFRL deputy CIO, the AFRL Deputy Chief of Staff, Sensors Directorate Cyber Strategist and Deputy Director of the Research Collaboration and Computing Directorate. He has held senior program management positions in 3 major program offices and on 2 center-level enterprise resource planning efforts.
Mr. Ausserer has an MS degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland and is a graduate of AWC, ACSC, SOS and the DoD CIO program at NDU. He is a registered professional engineer and has level 3 APDP certifications in Program Management and Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering.
AFRL/RC Director - Mr. Michael Hanke
AFRL/RC Director
Mr. Michael Hanke
Director, Research Collaboration & Computing Directorate (RC)
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Mr. Michael P. Hanke is the Director, Research Collaboration & Computing Directorate (RC), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He leads four divisions with over 260 government and on-site contractor personnel that execute a combined annual budget of more than $60M. The mission of the directorate is to deliver secure, relevant high-performance computing, collaboration, and information technology (IT) capabilities to all AFRL organizations. He also serves as the AFRL Chief Information Officer, the Air Force (AF) Authorizing Official for Science and Technology (S&T) systems, and the AF S&T Principal to the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
Mr. Hanke entered the Air Force in 1984 after being commissioned through Officer Training School, following graduation from the University of Michigan. When he separated from active duty he simultaneously joined the Air National Guard and entered USAF civil service. Mr. Hanke's military and civilian career led him through a variety of challenging operational, acquisition, S&T, and MAJCOM headquarters assignments. His broad experience includes technical leadership roles in IT, telecommunications, embedded control systems, landing gear/mechanical systems, propulsion systems, airworthiness assessment, systems security engineering, and lifecycle systems engineering.
His key assignments have included Technical Director for the Logistics Directorate (A4), Air Force Materiel Command, and Director of Engineering for the Fighters and Bombers (F/B) Directorate Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC), where he led several organizational transformation initiatives to improve system lifecycle management across numerous mission areas. These initiatives revitalized systems engineering for the Nuclear Enterprise, shepherded an engineering staff of 600+ through a complex organizational merger, and implemented streamlined airworthiness assessment processes across the F/B directorate. Mr. Hanke also served as the Director of Engineering for the AFLCMC Program Development and Integration Directorate where he utilized key change management tools to smoothly reorganize the engineering staff to more effectively provide technical support to critical development planning activities. In that assignment, he also directed a team to document a robust Early Systems Engineering (ESE) process and initiated efforts to enhance the process through Model-Based Systems Engineering tools and techniques to enhance Analysis of Alternative activities. That led to his selection as the Chief Engineer for the AF Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) office where he spearheaded several initiatives to begin implementation of Digital Enterprise capabilities to support the ESE community that includes the AF Futures, SDPE, AFRL and other AF pre-program of record organizations. He was promoted to the grade of Senior Scientific and Technical Manager as the AFRL/RC Director in May 2019.
Mr. Hanke retired from military service in 2006 after completing 22 years of active duty/Air National Guard service. During that time, he was recalled to active duty and deployed overseas for Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM to direct the design and implementation of robust communication and IT systems to support critical contingency warfighter needs.
1984 Bachelor of Science, Electrical & Electronics Engineering (with distinction), Univ. of Michigan
1998 Master of Science, Systems Engineering (Minor: Computer Engineering), Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH
2007 Air War College
2010 Defense Leadership and Management Program Graduate
Career Summary
May 1979 - June 1983, Co-op Electrical Engineer, Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, CA
January 1985 - May 1988, Wideband Communications Engineer (2Lt-1Lt), 485th Engineering and Installation Group (485 EIG), Griffiss AFB, NY
June 1988 - July 1989, Supervisor, Narrowband Communications Branch (1Lt-Capt), 485 EIG, Griffiss AFB, NY
August 1989 - February 1995, Lead Integrated Controls Engineer, Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC), Engineering Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB), OH
March 1995 - October 1999, Landing Gear & Mechanical Systems IPT Lead, C-17 System Program Office (SPO), ASC, WPAFB, OH
November 1999 - September 2001, Propulsion IPT Lead, F-16 SPO, ASC, WPAFB, OH
October 2001 - August 2002 and March - August 2003, Chief, Communications Plans (Lt Col), HQ USAFE, Ramstein AB, GE
August 2002 - February 2003 and September 2003 - August 2004, Chief Flight Systems Engineer, Mobility Systems Wing, ASC, WPAFB, OH
September 2004 - April 2006, Director of Engineering, Development and Fielding Systems Group, Operational Support Systems Wing, Electronic Systems Center, WPAFB, OH
May 2006 – February 2010, Technical Director, Logistics Directorate, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, WPAFB, OH
March 2010 – February 2015, Director of Engineering, Fighters and Bombers Directorate, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC), WPAFB, OH
February 2015 – August 2017, Director of Engineering, Program Development and Integration Directorate, AFLCMC, WPAFB, OH
August 2017 – May 2019, Chief Engineer, Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), WPAFB OH
May 2019 – today, Director, Research Collaboration & Computing Directorate, AFRL, WPAFB OH
Major Awards and Decorations
ASC/EN Director's Award for Excellence
Air Force Exemplary Civilian Service Awards
Notable Achievement and Special Act Awards
Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters
Army Achievement Medal
National Defense Service Medal with bronze star
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Acquisition Professions Development Program Certifications
Systems Planning, Research and Development Engineering - Level III
Science Technology Manager - Level III
Information Technology - Level III
Program Management - Level I
(Current as of December 2021)
HPCMP Associate Director for PET - Mr. Ronald Hedgepeth
HPCMP Associate Director for PET
Mr. Ronald Hedgepeth
Associate Director, Productivity Enhancement and Training (PET)
Ronald Hedgepeth is the Productivity Enhancement and Training (PET) Associate Director of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS.
The program provides productivity enhancement, technology transfer, and training services to meet the computational science expertise that enables DoD scientists and engineers to conduct a widerange of focused development, research, and test activities.
Mr. Hedgepeth served as ERDC Acting, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO). He was responsible for assisting the ERDC CIO in managing the execution of the ERDC's IT program with policy and strategic planning. He formulized and developed the ERDC Cloud Computing Environment (CCE).
Prior to being in the ERDC CIO Office, Mr. Hedgepeth served as ERDC Program Manager for the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information System (PEO-EIS) Army Logistics Program. This is a joint program falling within the DoD mission area of mobility and transportation for DoD passengers and cargo during war and peace. It automates the process of planning, organizing, coordinating, and overall unit-related deployment activities supporting the DoD's total deployment process.
Mr. Hedgepeth served as Technical Program Manager for the Portal Information Environment (pIE) for the HPCMP. He led a code development team and IT operations.
Mr. Hedgepeth is a past recipient of the DoD Achievement Medal for Civilian Service Award, ERDC Operational Support Award, the Commander's Award for Civilian Service, and 2 DoD Superior Civilian Service Awards.
Hedgepeth received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Mississippi College. He also earned his Master's in Project Management at George Washington University. He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps with Level II certification in Program Management. He earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification at University of California Berkeley.
HPCMP Associate Director for Networking - Mr. Ralph McEldowney
HPCMP Associate Director for Networking
Mr. Ralph McEldowney
Associate Director for Networking
Mr. Ralph A. McEldowney serves as the Associate Director for Networking for the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). In this capacity, he is responsible for the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN). DREN is the premiere high performance wide area network supporting the DoD Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), and Acquisition Engineering communities. Mr. McEldowney is responsible for a staff of nearly 60 Government employees and contractor staff, the management of more than 200 DREN sites across 34 US states and the District of Columbia, and a $40M annual budget.
Mr. McEldowney provides program management oversight for the DREN 3 and DREN 4 contracts, both 10-year Firm Fixed Price contracts valued at $750M and $495M respectively. The recently awarded DREN 4 contract will create a new wide area network with enhancements in bandwidth, performance and security for DoD research, test and engineering data in-transit across the country. Transition to the new network is expected to complete in late 2022. Mr. McEldowney assumed his current role in April 2012.
Mr. McEldowney has over 35 years of Air Force civilian service with 27 years of experience supporting the DoD HPCMP in a variety of roles and responsibilities such as program management and team leadership; technology evaluation, acquisition and integration; system and network administration; and supervisory responsibilities. Prior to serving as the Associate Director for Networking, Mr. McEldowney served on the staff of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) as Chief of the Advanced Technologies Section at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. In this capacity, he was responsible for the acquisition and integration of next-generation technologies for the AFRL DSRC, including high performance computers, high capacity storage, and high performance networking.
Prior to his roles with the DoD HPCMP, Mr. McEldowney served as an Air Force computer engineer in various capacities for the Aeronautical System Center (ASC), 88th Communications Group (CG), Acquisition Logistics Division (ALD), and HQ Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC), all at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
Mr. McEldowney is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC). Mr. McEldowney has served on the Executive Committee of the annual co-sponsored IEEE-CS and ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC), as SCinet (Network) Chair in 2009, Finance Chair in 2012, and SC General Chair in 2018. SC18 set records for attendance (13,035), exhibits revenue, and SCinet bandwidth (4 Tbps).
HPCMP Associate Director for Software - Dr. Scott A. Morton
HPCMP Associate Director for Software
Dr. Scott A. Morton
Associate Director for Software
Dr. Scott A. Morton from ERDC/ITL is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the Royal Aeronautical Society and is an Associate Director of the U.S. DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program with responsibility for Software across the program, including the Computational Research Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) Program, the Productivity Enhancement and Training (PET) Program, Institutes, and Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Government Off the Shelf (GOTS) software used in the program.
Prior to his current position, Scott was the CREATE Program Manager with responsibility for a suite of twelve physics-based software products for design, virtual test, development, and deployment of Air, Land, and Sea vehicles and weapons systems delivering capabilities to the U.S. Defense Industry in response to prioritized needs of the U.S. Armed Services. He also spent over 10 years as the CREATE Air Vehicles Project Manager and Principal Developer of the Kestrel Fixed Wing Aircraft Product. He received his BS from Parks College of St. Louis University in 1985, and his MS and PhD from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1996, respectively. Dr. Morton has specialized in the areas of high angle of attack aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, and computational stability and control in his 37+ year career.
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Plenary Presentations
Mr. Adam Enea: Chair, HPC UAG:
User Advocacy Group Update
Mr. Ronnie Hedgepeth: Associate Director for PET:
User Productivity & Enhancement Training (PET) Update
Dr. Frances Hill: Chair, HPC SAB
Scientific Advisory Board Update
Mr. Ralph McEldowney: Associate Director for Networking:
Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) 4 Update
Dr. Scott Morton: Associate Director for Software:
Computational Research & Engineering Acquisition Tools & Environments (CREATE) Update
Mr. Frank Witzeman: Associate Director for Centers (DSRC Directors):
Centers Update - AFRL, ARL, ERDC, Navy, & MHPCC
Advanced Materials Development
Xiaofeng Duan
Evolution of Small Silicon Carbide to 3C or 2H SiC Nanoparticles from Meteorites: A Theoretical Study
Abstract Presentation
Gary Kedziora
Reactive Simulation Methods in Biological Systems with NAMD and xtb
Deya Banisakher
Automatic Document Understanding for the Nuclear Domain
Climate / Weather / Ocean Modeling (CWO)
Chuyen Nguyen
Machine Learning Based Cloud Forecast Models and GPU Architectures in DoD HPC System
Rong-Shyang Sheu
Implementation of 4DWX Using Hybrid Computing Environments Featuring High-Priority Queue and the Persistent Services Framework
Computational Chemistry, Biology, and Materials Science (CCM)
Fate of Environmental Contaminants and Materials Research Through Computational Chemistry Approaches
Computational Electromagnetic & Acoustic Applications (CEA)
Daniel Dault
CREATE-RF Government Developed RF Modeling Tools
Jesse Foster
Investigations of ion beam quality form a pulsed power pinched diode using particle-in-cell simulations
George Gatling
Computing Jacobians for Electrical Impedance Tomography Using Python and the DoD HPC
Joe Rutherford
CREATE Programs and Cross-USG Radio Frequency Modeling Software
Maxim Sukharev
New Parallelization Strategy for Multiscale Electrodynamics at the Nanoscale
Shanka Wijesundara
HPC Computing in Support of Topside Signatures
Jennifer Abras
Machine Learning-Based Physics Inference from High-Fidelity Solutions: Vortex Core Data Extraction
Progress Towards Development of a Machine Learning-Based Automated Test System
Joseph Baum
Numerical Modeling of Liquid Dispersion by an Explosive Charge
Skyler Bryan
Unsteady CFD for Flow Noise Modeling
Matthew Harvazinski
Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis of the Wall Heat Flux in a Liquid Rocket
Yu Yu Khine
Analysis of the NEC Vector Engine for Legacy Hypersonic Codes
CFD Study of a Counter-Rotating Propeller eVTOL Concept
Andrew Lofthouse
Kestrel KCFD and FUN3D Results for the 4th AIAA High Lift Prediction Workshop
Adam Moses
Integrated Machine Learning for Combustion in HPC Applications
Jonathon Poggie
Predicting Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition with Direct Numerical Simulation
Joseph Werne
Ionospheric and Radio Frequency Propagation Modeling
Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM)
Joshua Crone
A General Framework for Multiscale Modeling in Computational Mechanics
Charles Gerlach
Implementation of Second-Order Combined Particle-Element Method (CPEM) in the Elastic-Plastic Impact Computations (EPIC) code
Allen Harvey
Expanding Excalibur's Accessibility for Ground Shock & Seismology
Nathan Hertlein
Non-Convexity in Topology Optimization: Analysis Using Deep Learning
Sarom Leang
From Setting Up Regression Tests to Application Deployment -- Lessons Learned in Securely Leveraging Containers Across HPCMP Systems
Bryan Vogel
Optimization of Machine Learning Pipelines with Singularity Containers on the HPC
Timothy Whitcomb
Containers, Portability, and Performance Assessment of Numerical Weather Prediction Applications
Datacenter Energy Usage
Siddarth Samsi
Towards Greener DoD HPC
Datacenter Optimization
Matthew Weiss
The MIT Supercloud Dataset and Workload Classification Challenge
Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Modeling for Aerodynamic Loads Predictions
Wesley Brewer
Scalable Interactive Autonomous Navigation Simulations on HPC
Development of a Virtual Cruise Guide Indicator (vCGI) for Rotorcraft
Bob Donnelly
Techniques in Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Domain Operations
Vijay Gadepally
Department of the Air Force AI Accelerator Challenge Problems
David McDaniel
HPCMP CREATE(TM)- AV Multiphysics Simulation Tools for Digital Transformation of Air Vehicle Acquisitions
Oliver Nina
Unsupervised Clustering and Feature Learning with HPC
Comparative Studies fo SAR and SAL ATR Performance on the DoD HPCs
Talya Stehley
Monitoring Power Usage of Codes
Ananta Tiwari
PerfPal: Making Performance Analysis of High-Fidelity Computer Codes Simple and Accessible to DoD Users
Sarah Adams
A Flow Control Concept for Aero-Optics using Numerical Simulations
Erica Wojcikiewicz
Numerical Analysis of Transonic Flow Over a Hemispherical Turret
Matthew Boyer
Towards Performant Integration of Machine-Learned Surrogates with Simulations on HPCs
Eric Dunn
Multistatic Radar Signature Computation with Xpatch® GPU
Andrew Hess
Evaluation of AMD GPUs and Their Applicability for CFD and ML Workloads
Harrison Hunter
Raytracing on the HPC: Performance Insights Gained from a Multiplatform Raytracing API
Alan Minga
Programming Best Practices for AMD's Zen Architecture
George Zagaris
Using Mint to Explore Performance Portability Strategies in HPCMP CREATE Kestrel
Towards High-Fidelity Simulation and Analysis of Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapon Systems using Large-Scale GPU Computing Systems
Andrew Pray
Scaling of CREATE-RF Tools for HPC Systems
John Farina
Make HPC easy(ier) with Dask
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In Table Top Racing: World Tour, your control 12 cars through lovingly crafted miniature routes - passing Sushi, Toy Robots and Baguettes. For each race you will receive coins, bonus coins and experience in the form of XP. The first two currencies bring you coins with which you can buy new cars or can tune existing vehicles. In this guide we will show you how you can farm more coins and also have a youtube video for you that shows a glitch that allows you to get more coins.
- Once you have 10,000 coins, you should definitely buy "Bling Wheels". To get your extra coins for weapons or counter-attacks on opponents. You need it not to charge because they work permanently.
- Use as many weapons as possible to attack. Particularly the acid bath-power-up is useful. Are you on the first position, miss the Power-up in many places. Driving many opponents on the oil slick, you get even combo bonuses.
- We have received many coins as we are always driven by power-up bubbles as long as we got the acid bath attacks. Drive through a bubble and miss the Power-up immediately if it is not to the oil-attack. Drive until it comes to the acid bath-power-up by the bubbles and can grab many coins.
- While you ascend further in the normal campaign, you should definitely check the special events. Drive one of those, you can get a particularly large number of coins. For some special events you have to buy special cars. If you already have a lot of coins, then you should do this in order to obtain even more trophies.
- Also, the multiplayer mode is particularly suited to get more coins. Create your own race and play with your friends. In these races you can also search the hidden coins and collect. They bring you even more money.
The YouTuber user HochNumberOneDahler has discovered a glitch for Table Top Racing: World Tour with which you can quickly farms more coins.