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University of Nevada, Reno, Alumni Association Records
The University of Nevada, Reno, Alumni Association Records includes minutes and correspondence of the Alumni Council and the Executive Committee, budget reports, planning material, reports of assorted alumni committees, homecoming programs, and Golden Reunions, 1977-1993. Included are the records of the Alumni Relations, which works closely with the Association in support of a variety of programs, including homecoming.
University of Nevada, Reno. Alumni Association (Creator, Organization)
The University of Nevada Alumni Association was organized in 1894/95 and encourages the relationship between the university and its alumni to promote the welfare of the institution. Working closely with the Association is the Alumni Relations office, which acts as a liaison between the association and the University, it supports of a variety of programs, including homecoming. The Association's activities include regional chapters, support for student activities, and alumni continuing education. The Association was also instrumental in the restoration of Morrill Hall, the earliest building on campus, in 1974.
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The University of Nevada Alumni Association was organized in 1894/95 and encourages the relationship between the university and its alumni to promote the welfare of the institution. The Association's activities include regional chapters, support for student activities, and alumni continuing education. The collection includes minutes and correspondence of the Alumni Council and Executive Committee, various alumni committees, homecoming programs and reunions.
Arranged chronologically within subjects.
Transferred by the Alumni Relations Office in 1997.
See also University of Nevada, Reno. Alumni Association Records: AC 0088, AC 0294, AC 0343, NUB 24/05/01; NUB 60/01, NUB 60/10, NUB 60/10/08-NUB 60/10/09, NUB 60/11/06, NUB 60/11/07.
Photographs transferred to University Archives photo archives as collection number UNRA-P3376.
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University of Nevada, Reno, Alumni Association Records, AC 0390. University Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
University of Nevada, Reno, Alumni Association Records, AC 0390. University Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno. https://archive.library.unr.edu/public/repositories/3/resources/960 Accessed February 01, 2023.


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Some Handwriting Evidence
Here, once again, is the sole example of John Ramsey's handwriting that's ever been made public, what looks like a copy of a legal deposition. (Click on it to enlarge):
Here's an analysis I put together, comparing exemplars from this document with exemplars from the "ransom note":
To make things more interesting, I also put together the following display, in which characters from John's deposition are intermingled with characters from the note:
I challenged people on some of the JonBenet forums to sort John's exemplars from those in the note, but no one ever came up with the correct solution. If you study John's deposition carefully, you should be able to solve it, but it won't be easy.
To compare Patsy's hand with that of John and the note writer, I added some of her exemplars to the above display. They're on the right hand side of every line but line 4:
Looks to me as though her exemplars are notably different from the others, but I'll leave that to you to judge.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the Italian handwriting examiner Fausto Brugnatelli posted a somewhat similar set of comparisons. I became aware of his website only after I had done some of my own comparisons from the same document. Here is the link to his website, still up after all those years. The Brugnatelli site also contains a copy of the "ransom" note, for those of you interested in making a detailed comparison of your own. [Added 10-10-13: Brugnatelli's website has moved. His comparisons can now be found here. (John's exemplars are on the left.)]
Before concluding, I want to make it clear that I do not believe it possible to identify John as writer of the note simply on the basis of similarities of this sort. Nor does Brugnatelli make any such claim. Just because two sets of writing are similar, that does not tell us they have to have been written by the same person. In fact I seriously doubt that it's possible to point the finger at anyone solely on the basis of a handwriting comparison, as so many have attempted to do with Patsy.
The point I'm making in putting these comparisons together is not that this is proof John wrote the note, but strong evidence telling us it was a huge mistake to rule him out. While the striking similarities documented here can't prove he wrote it, there is no way they can be dismissed as irrelevant, which is what the so-call "experts" (some of them appointed by John himself) decided to do.
Posted by DocG at 12:18 PM
Mark Soukup July 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Patsy killed JonBenet deliberately. No one else was involved. There was no staging for police. Everything that was done was done by Patsy for Patsy as part of a psychotic fantasy revolving around an imagined relationship with a supernatural being, the fear of judgment by that God and the fear of death. What people mistakingly take as staging for police had symbolic meaning known only to Patsy. This includes the ransom note. There were two aspects to what was done to the body: the ligatures were suspension devices, the body was posed and viewed and then taken down, placed in the small room, wrapped and the duct tape applied to set the kidnapping scene up in Patsy's mind. The ransom note is full of the ideas that swirled in Patsy's mind that night and plagued her for many years.
The goal was not to kill JonBenet but to make an Angel out of her.
Patsy herself said after the funeral "JonBenet is in Heaven with God awaiting her mother's arrival and it won't be long." Patsy put JonBenet in that heaven to complete the fantasy and in her mind assure her life after death.
As the dedication in DOI says:
Wherever we go ...
Whatever we do ...
[We're gonna go through it together ...]
My own conclusion is that not much can actually be made of the handwriting exemplars because either JR or PR would try to disguise their writing. I see differences between the RN and both parent's exemplars. I also see a similarity here and there.
I know from my own experience that my own signature will at times look as if it's been signed by someone else. Much depends on the position of the hand, relative to the paper, whether one sits or stands, the stability of the surface being used to write on, etc. (I do not sit at a desk, therefore do not sign in the same position and in the same relation to the paper every time)
So, for me, I'm willing to accept your theory as one possible solution of the case. The thing is, for your theory to hold together, JR can't simply be a possible author, he must in fact be the author.
I agree that JR should not have been ruled out, but there is plenty of room for reasonable difference of opinion as to who the author is -both for experts and the rest of us.
What do you make of the statement analysis that has been done on the RN?
DocG August 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM
I think it futile to attempt to accuse John solely on the basis of either handwriting or content analysis. What makes him guilty are the facts I outlined in my first two posts, supplemented by my analysis of the meaning of the note, which tells us that John and only John could have profited from it (assuming Patsy hadn't called 911).
To claim on the basis of statement analysis that Patsy must have written the note is silly almost beyond belief. It's hard to imagine that a phrase such as "foreign faction" was even in her vocabulary. The note is laden with technical and other typically male terminology, such as "monitor," "countermeasures and tactics," "constant scrutiny," etc. Also John not Patsy is the one who loves to use percentage figures.
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The second night of CBS documentary concluded by all experts present the note was written by a WOMAN! What are YOUR credentials on the subject?
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Regardless of who wrote it, the note is addressed to John. If John responds as directed, he's the one who goes to the bank. He's the one who's absent from the house until he returns with the money. Patsy and Burke are the ones who remain at home. Patsy has an opportunity to do what...to remove the body? Why does Patsy want John to get out of the house? Or..why does John want to get out of the house? Any plausible theory must address these potentialities. Why does the writer dangle the carrot of a possible early release of the daughter if John responds quickly?
DocG February 1, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Yes, yes of course. You are on the right track. Exactly! These are essential questions that must be asked. But it's also essential to see the big picture -- and place yourself in the mind of the criminal.
If Patsy wrote the note to get John out of the house, what then? What would she have done about Burke? Removing the body on her own, during the day, would have been tremendously risky. Someone could have seen her driving away from the house for no good reason, and someone could easily have spotted her dumping the body.
But even more to the point: Patsy is the one who called 911 while the body was still IN the house. If her plan was to use the note to get John out of the house, then why wouldn't she just refuse to call the police and try to talk John into leaving to pick up the ransom as the "kidnappers" instructed him to do? And if John were innocent, and insisted that she call the police, why on Earth would she have agreed to do that?
She would certainly have refused to call them, using the threats in the note as an excuse, and if John insisted they be called nevertheless, then why wouldn't HE have picked up the phone and made that call? The fact that Patsy is the one who called 911, and NOT John, is crucial. If they were in on it together, the last thing they would have wanted to do was make that call. And if John were innocent, and Patsy wrote the note, the last thing she would have wanted would be to make that call. She would certainly have refused, but it wouldn't have mattered, because John was a big boy, the CEO of a billion dollar company, and certainly capable of picking up the phone and dialing 911 on his own.
This tells us that John and only John could have written the note. Meaning Patsy must have made the call in all innocence, convinced her daughter had been kidnapped. And this is by far not the only reason we have for suspecting John, because there are many things about his behavior and his testimony that make him suspicious.
So we have no choice but to see the contents of the note from that perspective, and once we do, it's possible to recreate the plan behind it. The note is addressed to John and even says at once point that "it is up to you, John." Thus John could easily have convinced Patsy that it was he who was responsible for dealing with the kidnappers. He could probably have talked her into taking Burke and going to stay with friends, for their own safety, while he left to collect the ransom. Or he could have given her a sedative and then, when the moment was right, gone down to the basement to sneak the body into the trunk of his car before driving off to the bank. He could then have waited until night to drive off "to deliver the ransom" while actually going to some remote spot to dump the body, and all the other evidence, under cover of darkness.
I have recreated in some detail what I believe to have been John's plan here: http://solvingjonbenet.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-purpose-of-note.html
As you can see, this covers ALL the bases and explains the note in literally every detail. It is a plan that only John could have carried out.
Kaye February 17, 2016 at 3:07 AM
I'm so late coming into this convo, but to your theory on John being the one to leave and leaving PR and BR in the house, mind you, this is a snap theory, but what if he had someone coming back to finish the job? I know that's a stretch and with the police presence around the house it would have been farfetched, but say the police weren't called, the note was followed to letter. John, who we are assuming is the murderer here, hired someone to do the job. Gave them a key, et all. The person enters the home, kills JBR but something causes him to leave the house. Maybe he thought he heard someone else waking, maybe he through he had made too much noise. Maybe the plan was to kill JBR first, leave the note, and then later when JR leaves to get the money, he comes back and finishes the job. Makes it look like a tragic accident, JR loses his wife and children while out trying to "save" one of them.
I realize how farfetched this theory sounds, but it's just plausible enough to work.
Also, a while back, I watched this video on Youtube where the poster did a review of everyone associated with the Ramseys' around the time of the murder. One of the theories was the housekeeper's husband, also a handyman. I can't remember all the details but the video made a convincing argument as far as that man being a POI.
DocG February 21, 2016 at 10:33 PM
If John had hired someone to do the job, the note would not have been written on paper from a notepad in the house. The accomplice would have brought it into the house with him.
As for the housekeeper's husband, he was investigated, along with his wife and a great many others. The bottom line is that no intruder theory makes sense, regardless of whom you might want to suspect. See the first two posts on this blog.
What do you particularly make of the letter" f," apart from a couple, nearly all in the ransom note are crossed midway the same as patsy. Yet John's" f "appear to be crossed very low down in his own hand.
DocG January 9, 2014 at 12:13 PM
Looks to me like the note was modeled on a computer font, which would have enabled the writer to avoid giving himself away by unconsciously forming letters in his habitual manner. I think it's this tactic that must have thrown off the "experts"" who ruled him out. For my reasons, see http://solvingjonbenet.blogspot.com/2012/08/ruled-out-part-3-courier-new.html
Actually, looking again at the note, I see that most of the "f"s are formed as capital "F"s, similar to the F we see in the world "oF," as seen in the example of John's writing.
Read your book and has started me thinking along a different line. I originally thought Burke the culprit. But if John did write the note, it makes sense now that he used "small foreign faction". There had to be a purpose for that term, and I think--as stated below--that it was to intimidate and frighten Patsy to the extent that she would take Burke to Michigan. That would have been the gallant act for John--protecting the rest of his family while he stays and faces the kidnappers alone. (If Mel Gibson could do it, then so could he.) You did point out that he was the only one that had showered that morning. A small detail no one else seemed to pick up on.
Why was John ruled out as the author of the note?
Addressing the note to himself, he made it clear to the finder of the note that the instructions were for himself and that he should handle the situation.
Using a "small foreign faction", could have possibly intimidated Patsy more than a lone kidnapper and kept her (that could have been the hope) from calling 911. Thus giving John the excuse to encourage her to take Burke and flee to Michigan. It would also have pressured her to stay tight lipped about the incident in order to assure Jonbenet's return to the family.
This would have given John time to dispose of the child's body in a pretense of delivering the ransom to the kidnapper. Then he could have stated that the kidnappers reneged on their promise or he could have claimed they killed Jonbenet and left her body for him to find.
If John can't be ruled out as author of the note, it sets up a whole new scenario of events and possibilities.
Why John was ruled out is in itself one of the great mysteries of this case. We have no way of knowing, because the exemplars he provided to the authorities have never been made public. John has claimed to be right handed, yet the legal document we have from him looks as though it was written with the left hand (because of the back slant -- though I understand back slant is often found among right handers as well).
For me the biggest clue is the strong indication that John based the writing of the note on a computer font. This may well have thrown off the unimaginative "experts" who were dutifully looking for obvious similarities and not finding them.
Doc, have you noticed on the 911 call that Patsy sounds in my opinion frightened for her life. I know she must have been scared for JB but I hear a definite fear for herself, quite often when people call 911 and think they might get cut off they immediately say their address, as Patsy did. It is my belief that she was afraid of John. Maybe he had already threatened her, but the way she is saying "hurry, hurry hurry" in the end makes me wonder. I also believe she locked him out of the house on several occasions, thus the pry marks and kicked in window. How can a grown man lose his keys to his own house over and over along with his garage door opener??? And who gets naked to crawl through a window???
Very interesting observations! And yes she did mention something about John breaking into the house a few times, which does sound kind of suspicious. As far as getting naked, that whole story is a joke. Amazing that anyone bought it.
The note did threaten his daughter's decapitation if he cooperated with the police. I suppose a tightened garrote could have suggested a similarity to that promise.
John Mark Karr authored the note. His handwriting and use or word phrases within the ransom note prove it. He killed JonBenet accidentally when he failed to release the garrote around her neck. He got enjoyment breaking in to homes and doing things like this right under the parents noses
COMPARING the ransom with the deposition, what I find clear is that on the deposition not every 'I' is dotted. THE INSTALLER WAS NOTIFIED as an example. But in the ransom, every i is dotted, every t is crossed and every sentence has a period. They are from two different writers.
Someone with is so careful about writing, that doesn't write very big or very small, is likely a woman with a fair intelligence. Most men are quite careless in writing a note.
The beginning of the ransom is nervously written while the later section is not.
Another point. When people appreciate something or respect something, they tend to write it bigger. In the ransom, almost everything is the same size. The signature, the VICTORY, JOHN, but RAMSEY appears biggest. If someone hated JOHN, it would have been smaller. This person is a RAMSEY and didn't hate John, not especially love him. My guess is the ransom was written by the mother. Maybe the husband started writing it and she took over after a few lines. This is a give away: UN HARMED. Its separated by a space. Likely she was already dead.
I would like to point out that the fancy "a" used in the letter is not consistent. On the second page, of the original ransom letter, words "situation, talking, and Law" are all spelled with a regular "a." This tells me that the person writing this letter does not typically use the fancy "a" in their writing... it was forced. Additionally, the letter appears to be written using both the left hand and switched to the right hand. I can see this by the way the "t, f, h" swoops on the bottoms. Some are to the left and some swoop to the right.
The letter was definitely written by Patsy. Patsy swoops the ends of her "t, f, h" and uses the regular "a" in her usual handwriting patterns.
I believe that Patsy found her daughter had been being molested by her husband, possibly other men, and became jealous instead of concerned. This has happened with other mothers. It appears Patsy was all about being the most beautiful and special. When she found out, she probably lost it. The autopsy reviled at least a few years of vaginal trauma as well so this had been going on for awhile.
Dr.G. September 14, 2017 at 10:17 PM
Any thoughts about the suitcase below the window? It could easily have been planned as both the carrier of JonBenet's body and the ransom cash. In other words, if the police had not been called, John could have left the house to deliver the ransom with suitcase in hand, and if somehow seen by someone would state that he was delivering the ransom when, in fact, he was disposing of the body inside. Weren't there fibers from JonBenet's clothing found in the suitcase? If so, had John already attempted to place her body inside and perhaps realized it did not fit?
Simply devastating compared to any "Patsy" match offered up by any "expert".
Finding out the news and hired TV experts get it exactly incorrect is expected. After all, if they actually helped solve it their mega million dollar story would go away.
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Poizner's independent run has a red tint
by Dan Morain October 16, 2018 Updated June 23, 2020
Insurance Commissioner candidate Steve Poizner. speaking to CPAC in 2010. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons.
Insurance commissioner candidate Steve Poizner is shunning partisanship in his bid to become the first no-party-preference candidate to win statewide office in California. But he is raising much of his campaign money from donors who gave to him when he ran for governor as a Republican.
Insurance commissioner candidate Steve Poizner is shunning partisanship in his bid to become the first no-party-preference candidate to win statewide office in California. But to pay for his campaign, the former Republican has turned to people he knows best when it comes to raising money: Republicans.
Poizner dropped his Republican registration before embarking on the current campaign. He's not alone. GOP registration has fallen below 25 percent of the California electorate.
"I really, really want to stay out of partisanship," he said. "If I can win, that will open the door to lots of other people who will run for office. That will be a great thing."
The wealthy tech entrepreneur has given his campaign more than $1 million and has raised another $1.233 million from campaign donors.
Of that latter sum, at least $224,000 or 18 percent has come from contributors who gave to his 2010 run for governor, when he ran as a Republican, a review of his campaign finance reports show.
Poizner was a Republican when he was elected as insurance commissioner in 2006, and in 2010 when he ran to the right of billionaire Meg Whitman, who won the primary but lost the general election to Jerry Brown.
In the 2010 primary, Republican Congressman Tom McClintock of Elk Grove endorsed Poizner, cutting a television ad in the 2010 primary: "This time, let's have a governor from the Republican wing of the Republican Party—Steve Poizner."
Among the donors who have given to his current race and his 2010 run for governor are former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, Los Angeles investor Bradford Freeman and vintner Don Sebastiani.
In the current race, Poizner has accepted $5,000 from Edward Atsinger III, head of the Camarillo-based Salem Media Group, a leading conservative media company, and $1,000 from Howard Ahmanson Jr. Ahmanson and Atsinger long have been major donors to conservative candidates in California.
"The reason why my donors are mainly Republican donors is because those are the ones who I know," Poziner said. "But I am super-clear with all my donors. I am an independent. You might not like that. I'm running as an independent because it is a good fit for that office."
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Sen. Ricardo Lara, a Bell Gardens Democrat running against Poizner, said the GOP donors "show who he really is."
"Democrats know this is potentially a new Republican strategy, running candidates as independent to see if they can win statewide," Lara said.
In 2018, Poizner is going so far as to decline to say whether he's voting for Republican John Cox or Democrat Gavin Newsom for governor.
"I'm not supporting anybody for any position. I haven't really gone there in my own head. I don't want to get involved in anything partisan. I really don't," Poizner said.
In 2010, Cox, then living in Florida, contributed $1,000 to Poizner for governor, though he has donated nothing to the insurance commissioner candidate in his latest run.
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NORTH MAIN STREET: 3500 block, reported at 8:32 a.m. May 14.
PINECREST DRIVE: 5400 block, reported at 10:55 a.m. May 15. Copper piping/water lines valued at $3,000 reported taken.
RICHFIELD AVENUE: 5900 block, reported at 2:52 p.m. May 15. Computers and jewelry valued at $8,185 reported taken.
HEATHER STREET: 5500 block, reported at 7:38 p.m. May 15.
NORTH MAIN STREET: 3000 block, reported at 10:04 p.m. May 15. Cash valued at $225 reported taken.
HARDWICK LANE: 5600 block, reported at 9:50 a.m. May 13. Electric wheelchair, washer and dryer valued at $4,280 reported taken.
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O Desemprego friccional ou desemprego natural, resulta da constante mobilidade da mão de obra e da força de trabalho.

Ocorre durante o período de tempo em que um ou mais indivíduos se desempregam de um trabalho para procurar outro. Também poderá ocorrer quando se atravessa um período de transição, de um trabalho para outro, dentro da mesma área, como acontece na construção civil. Esse tipo de desemprego é caracterizado por indivíduos que se encontram temporariamente fora do mercado de trabalho. É um movimento considerado normal, pois o período entre a saída de um emprego, e a subsequente recolocação em outro, não se dá de forma tão rápida, há sempre o período de busca do novo emprego. Essa forma de desemprego é permanente na economia, porém ocorre em prazos curtos, ou seja, é um fenômeno de curto prazo.

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Creating workflows
==================

Pipelines or workflows can be created by writing a Python script:
::

	from nlppln import WorkflowGenerator

	with WorkflowGenerator() as wf:
		txt_dir = wf.add_input(txt_dir='Directory')

		frogout = wf.frog_dir(dir_in=txt_dir)
		saf = wf.frog_to_saf(in_files=frogout)
		ner_stats = wf.save_ner_data(in_files=saf)
		new_saf = wf.replace_ner(metadata=ner_stats, in_files=saf)
		txt = wf.saf_to_txt(in_files=new_saf)

		wf.add_outputs(ner_stats=ner_stats, txt=txt)

		wf.save('anonymize.cwl')

This workflow finds named entities in all Dutch text files in a directory. Named
entities are replaced with their type (PER, LOC, ORG). The output consists of
text files and a csv file that contains the named entities that have been replaced.

The workflow creation functionality in ``nlppln`` is provided by a library called
`scriptcwl <https://github.com/NLeSC/scriptcwl>`_. For a more detailed explanation
of how to create workflows, have a look at the
`scriptcwl documentation <http://scriptcwl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_.

Setting workflow inputs
#######################

Wokflow inputs can be added by calling ``add_input()``:
::

	txt_dir = wf.add_input(txt_dir='Directory')

The ``add_input()`` method expects a ``name=type`` pair as input parameter.
The pair connects an input name (``txt_dir`` in the example) to a CWL type
(``'Directory'``). An overview of CWL types can be found in the
`specification <http://www.commonwl.org/v1.0/Workflow.html#CWLType>`_.

Check the `scriptcwl documentation <http://scriptcwl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/workflow_inputs.html>`_
to find out how to add optional workflow inputs and default values.

Adding processing steps
#######################

To add a processing step to the workflow, you have to call its method on the ``WorkflowGenerator`` object.
The method expects a list of (key, value) pairs as input parameters. (To find out what inputs a step
needs call ``wf.inputs(<step name>)``. This method prints all the inputs
and their types.) The method returns a list of strings containing output
names that can be used as input for later steps, or that can be connected
to workflow outputs.

For example, to add a step called ``frog-dir`` to the workflow, the
following method must be called:
::

    frogout = wf.frog_dir(dir_in=txt_dir)

In a next step, ``frogout`` can be used as input:
::
    saf = wf.frog_to_saf(in_files=frogout)
    txt = wf.saf_to_txt(in_files=saf)

Etcetera.

Listing steps
#############

To find out what steps are available in ``nlppln`` and to get copy/paste-able
specification of what needs to be typed to add a step to the workflow you can
type:
::

	print(wf.list_steps())

The result is:

.. code-block:: none

	Steps
  	apachetika............... out_files = wf.apachetika(in_files[, tika_server])
  	basic-text-statistics.... metadata_out = wf.basic_text_statistics(in_files, out_file)
  	chunk-list-of-files...... file_list = wf.chunk_list_of_files(chunk_size, in_files)
  	clear-xml-elements....... out_file = wf.clear_xml_elements(element, xml_file)
  	copy-and-rename.......... copy = wf.copy_and_rename(in_file[, rename])
  	docx2txt................. out_files = wf.docx2txt(in_files)
  	download................. out_files = wf.download(urls)
  	freqs.................... freqs = wf.freqs(in_files)
  	frog-dir................. frogout = wf.frog_dir(in_files[, skip])
  	frog-filter-nes.......... filtered_nerstats = wf.frog_filter_nes(nerstats[, name])
  	frog-single-text......... frogout = wf.frog_single_text(in_file)
  	frog-to-saf.............. saf = wf.frog_to_saf(in_files)
  	ixa-pipe-tok............. out_file = wf.ixa_pipe_tok(language, in_file)
  	language................. language_csv = wf.language(dir_in)
  	liwc-tokenized........... liwc = wf.liwc_tokenized(in_dir, liwc_dict[, encoding])
  	lowercase................ out_files = wf.lowercase(in_file)
  	ls....................... out_files = wf.ls(in_dir[, recursive])
  	merge-csv................ merged = wf.merge_csv(in_files[, name])
  	normalize-whitespace-punctuation metadata_out = wf.normalize_whitespace_punctuation(meta_in)
  	pattern-nl............... out_files = wf.pattern_nl(in_files)
  	rename-and-copy-files.... out_files = wf.rename_and_copy_files(in_files)
  	replace-ner.............. out_files = wf.replace_ner(metadata, in_files[, mode])
  	saf-to-freqs............. freqs = wf.saf_to_freqs(in_files[, mode])
  	saf-to-txt............... out_files = wf.saf_to_txt(in_files)
  	save-dir-to-subdir....... out = wf.save_dir_to_subdir(inner_dir, outer_dir)
  	save-files-to-dir........ out = wf.save_files_to_dir(dir_name, in_files)
  	save-ner-data............ ner_statistics = wf.save_ner_data(in_files)
  	textDNA-generate......... json = wf.textDNA_generate(dir_in, mode[, folder_sequences, name_prefix, output_dir])
  	xml-to-text.............. out_files = wf.xml_to_text(in_files[, tag])

	Workflows
  	anonymize................ ner_stats, out_files = wf.anonymize(in_files[, mode])

Setting workflow outputs
########################

When all steps of the workflow have been added, you can specify
workflow outputs by calling ``wf.add_outputs()``:
::

  wf.add_outputs(ner_stats=ner_stats, txt=txt)

In this case the workflow has two outputs, one called ``ner_stats``, which is a
csv file and one called ``txt``, which is a list of text files.

Saving workflows
################

To save a workflow call the ``WorkflowGenerator.save()`` method:
::

  wf.save('anonymize.cwl')

Other options when saving workflows are described in the `scriptcwl
documentation <http://scriptcwl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/saving_workflows.html>`_.
By default, ``nlppln`` saves workflows with embedded steps (``inline=True``).

Adding documentation
####################

To add documentation to your workflow, use the ``set_documentation()`` method:
::

	doc = """Workflow that replaces named entities in text files.

	Input:
		txt_dir: directory containing text files

	Output:
		ner_stats: csv-file containing statistics about named entities in the text files
		txt: text files with named enities replaced
	"""
	wf.set_documentation(doc)

Loading processing steps
########################

``nlppln`` comes with nlp functionality pre-loaded. If you need custom processing
steps, you can create them using `nlppln-gen <https://github.com/nlppln/nlppln-gen>`_.
To be able to add these custom processing steps to you workflow,
you have to load them into the ``WorkflowGenerator``. To load a single CWL file, do:
::

	wf.load(step_file='/path/to/step_or_workflow.cwl')

The ``step_file`` can also be a url.

To load all CWL files in a directory, do:
::

	wf.load(steps_dir='/path/to/dir/with/cwl/steps/')

Using a working directory
#########################

Once you need more functionality than nlppln provides, and start creating your
own processing steps, we recommend using a CWL working directory.
A CWL working directory is a directory containing all available CWL specifications.
To specify a working directory, do:
::

	from nlppln import WorkflowGenerator

  with WorkflowGenerator(working_dir='path/to/working_dir') as wf:
    wf.load(steps_dir='some/path/')
    wf.load(steps_dir='some/other/path/')

    # add inputs, steps and outputs

If you use a working directory when creating pipelines, nlppln copies all CWL files
to the working directory.

To copy these files manually, you can also use the ``nlppln_copy_cwl`` command on the
command line:
::

  nlppln_copy_cwl /path/to/cwl/working/dir

To copy CWL files from a different directory than the one containing the nlppln
CWL files, do:
::

  nlppln_copy_cwl --from_dir /path/to/your/dir/with/cwl/files /path/to/cwl/working/dir

If you use a working directory, please save your workflow using the ``wd=True`` option:
::

  wf.save('workflow.cwl', wd=True)

The workflow is saved in the working directory and then copied to you specified location.
Subsequently, the workflow should be run from the working directory.

Tips and tricks
###############

Create workflows you can run for a single file
----------------------------------------------

If you want to create a workflow that should be applied to each (text) file in a directory,
create a workflow that performs all the steps to a single file. Then, use this workflow
as a subworkflow that is scattered over a list of input files:
::

  from nlppln import WorkflowGenerator

  with WorkflowGenerator(working_dir='path/to/working_dir') as wf:
    wf.load(steps_dir='some/path/')

    in_dir = wf.add_input(in_dir='Directory')

    in_files = wf.ls(in_dir=in_dir)
    processed_files = wf.some_subworkflow(in_file=in_files, scatter='in_file', scatter_method='dotproduct' [, ...])

    wf.add_outputs(out_files=processed_files)

Having a workflow you can run for a single file makes it easier to test the workflow.

Test your workflow by running it for the largest or otherwise most complex file
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

By running your workflow for the largest or otherwise most complex file, you can
identify problems, such as excessive memory usage, early and/or before running it
for all files in your dataset. There may, of course, still be problems with other
files, but starting analysis with the largest file is easy to do.

Use ``create_chunked_list`` and ``ls_chunk`` to run a workflow for a subset of files
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sometimes running a workflow for all files in a directory takes too long, and you'd like
to run it for subsets of files. Using ``create_chunked_list``, you can create a JSON file
containing a division of the files in a directory in chunks. You can then create a workflow
that, instead of using ``ls`` to list all files in a directory, uses ``ls_chunk`` that
runs the workflow for a single chunk of files.

To create a division of the input files, do:
::

  python -m nlppln.commands.create_chunked_list [--size 500 --out_name output.json] /path/to/directory/with/input/files

The result is a JSON file named ``output.json`` that contains numbered chunks
containing 500 files each.

To run a workflow for a chunk of files, instead of all files in a directory, do:
::

  from nlppln import WorkflowGenerator

  with WorkflowGenerator(working_dir='path/to/working_dir') as wf:
    wf.load(steps_dir='some/path/')

    in_dir = wf.add_input(in_dir='Directory')
    chunks = wf.add_input(chunks='File')
    chunk_name = wf.add_input(name='string')

    in_files = wf.ls_chunk(in_dir=in_dir, chunks=chunks, name=chunk_name)
    processed_files = wf.some_subworkflow(in_file=in_files, scatter='in_file', scatter_method='dotproduct' [, ...])

    wf.add_outputs(out_files=processed_files)

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Superhero movies are a modern staple for the blockbuster moviegoing experience. They are flagpole events for movie theaters that are guaranteed to draw big box office numbers. Marvel has cemented themselves as the best studio for the superhero genre. Every year they produce at least two movies that seem to continually shatter box office records. In 2018, Marvel has two highly anticipated films slated for release; Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther. The former is the endgame for a cinematic event the MCEU has been building for a decade, so its clear why audiences are dying to see it. The anticipation around Black Panther is more culturally based. Aside from offering one of the coolest and most unique protagonist, the movie features a powerhouse cast that is predominantly black. From the story to the characters to the overall production, Black Panther delivers on all fronts and lands itself the title of one of Marvel's best films to date.
Following the death of his father, T'Challa returns to the his isolated and technologically advanced home of Wakanda. While enemies outside plot to infiltrate Wakanda and overthrow his throne, the Black Panther must prove his claim to the throne.
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The cast of Black Panther absolutely knocks it out of the park. Every actor delivers a powerhouse performance that does not seem to outshine any of the others. Chadwick Boseman (42, Marhsall) comfortably fits into the skin of a humble leader stepping into the shoes of a king, wanting to lead his people faithfully by his throne while still forging his own path. Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) continually proves that she is one of acting's most badass actress while still retaining a degree of delicate femininity. Luptia Nyong'o and Letita Wright fill out the supporting roles in Wakanda diplomacy, demonstrating that powerful women help support the throne in this thriving kingdom. Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Sicario) brings his stoic calmness to deliver a performance of a reserved warrior who has grown wary of the sameness he has seen from his leaders over the years. Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes, The Lords of the Ring) delivers a terrifying performance as one of the films antagonist that is almost as unreal as some of his motion capture performances.
It seems impossible to think that such a cast could have a stand out actor, but Michael B. Jordan has proven again that he is an actor that deserves to be reckoned with in the years to come. One criticism Marvel has continually received over the year is that their films typically have a one dimensional antagonist who just seems fixated on world domination or total annihilation. Jordan plays Erik, also referred to as Killmonger. His character is a sort of fallen angel from the isolated walls of Wakanda. His arc bears striking similarities to that of the biblical Cain and Abel story. Killmonger is less of a villian than he is an antagonist with extremely sympathetic motivations. That is exactly the type of rich character Marvel needs to continually bring into their movies, and the kind of chracter that showcases Michael B. Jordan's acting prowess.
Black Panther is another great chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ryan Coogler's sharp filmmaking skills deliver a compelling story with rich characters. The cast is absolutely impeccable, and Bosewick and jordan deliver a portagonist/antagonist combo that breaks the stale formula Marvel has been criticized for before. Not only is Black Panther a great blockbuster, its a cultural flagpole that transcends the superficial entertainment value blockbusters tend to lend themselves to. Black Panther opens everywhere this Friday, and is absolutely worth seeing.
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