More OpenGL from Python
My talk, Flying High : Hobbyist OpenGL from Python, was accepted for EuroPython 2010, \o/. I don't want to reveal the best bits of my talks, but to whet people's appetite, this is some of what my initial preparation involved.
One thing I'm keen on talking about is algorithmic generation of interesting geometry. This is an area in which the flexibility and expressiveness of Python can really shine.
I started with a quick Shape class, to model the vertices and faces of an arbitrary polyhedra (3D shapes with flat faces and straight edges):
Position = namedtuple('Position', 'x y z') class Shape(object): def __init__(self, vertices, faces, color): self.vertices = [Position(*v) for v in vertices] self.faces = faces self.color = color
Each face of the shape is represented as a list of integer indices into the vertex list. The 'faces' attribute is a list of all faces. The color attributes is just a 4 element tuple: (r, g, b, alpha). This class can now be instantiated by factory functions to form particular 3D shapes, such as red cubes or blue tetrahedrons:
def Cube(edge, color): verts = [ (-edge/2, -edge/2, -edge/2), (-edge/2, -edge/2, +edge/2), (-edge/2, +edge/2, -edge/2), (-edge/2, +edge/2, +edge/2), (+edge/2, -edge/2, -edge/2), (+edge/2, -edge/2, +edge/2), (+edge/2, +edge/2, -edge/2), (+edge/2, +edge/2, +edge/2), ] faces = [ [0, 1, 3, 2], # left [4, 6, 7, 5], # right [7, 3, 1, 5], # front [0, 2, 6, 4], # back [3, 7, 6, 2], # top [1, 0, 4, 5], # bottom ] return Shape(verts, faces, color)
A class called 'Glyph' will convert a Shape instance into the set of ctypes arrays that need to be passed to OpenGL:
The real Glyph class also creates arrays for color, and array indexes as well as vertices.
Finally, we have a renderer, whose 'draw' method is invoked by our window draw event. This iterates through all items in our world that have a Glyph attribute, drawing each of them:
def draw(self, items): for item in items: gl.glPushMatrix() gl.glTranslatef(*position) # TODO: orientation gl.glVertexPointer(3, gl.GL_FLOAT, 0, item.glyph.glVerts) gl.glColorPointer(4, gl.GL_FLOAT, 0, item.glyph.glColors) gl.glDrawElements( gl.GL_TRIANGLES, # draw disjoint triangles len(glyph.glIndices), # number of vertices to draw gl.GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT, # type of indices glyph.glIndices) # index array gl.glPopMatrix()
So we add a couple of interpenetrated Cube() shaped items into our world:
white = (1, 1, 1, 1) red = (1, 0, 0, 1) world.add( GameItem( position=Position(0, 0, 0), shape=Cube(2, white), glyph=Glyph(), )) world.add( GameItem( position=Position(1, 1, 0), shape=Cube(1, red), glyph=Glyph(), ))
and running the program renders them:
The flat shading is because we have no lighting yet. That gets fixed soon.
Each cube is being drawn by a separate call to glDrawElements. This is fine for small numbers of items, but for performance we'll want to compose our geometry into single arrays that can be rendered by a single call to glDrawElements. To do this, we create a CompositeShape object, that contains several Shapes, and exposes 'vertices' and 'faces' attributes just like a regular Shape, which aggregate the geometry of all their subordinate Shapes.
class CompositeShape(object): def __init__(self): self.children = [] def add(self, child, offset=None): if offset is None: offset = Position(0, 0, 0) self.children.append((child, offset)) @property def vertices(self): return (vert + offset for shape, offset in self.children for vert in shape.vertices)
(The real CompositeShape class also defines 'faces', which is elided here.) Instances of CompositeShape can be passed directly to our unmodified Glyph class, allowing us to construct complex geometries out of many individual parts, but now they are all rendered in a single OpenGL API call.
A new factory function creates a fancy CompositeShape called a CubeCluster, consisting of many randomly-positioned small cubes, each one colored by its position in (r, g, b) space. These are surrounded by a sprinkling of black cubes, a large translucent cube-shaped skin:
and buried deep at the centre of the CubeCluster is some sort of mysterious structure:
So using this code, I get 60fps on modest hardware (my 2005 end-of-line Thinkpad T60, an ATI Radeon X1400) while rendering either:
- 800 independently moving and rotating items, each a simple cube (8 vertices, 8 colors, no normals, 36 indices = 12 triangles) for a total of 9600 triangles.
or
- 1 composite item comprising 9,000 cubes, (108,000 triangles)
or any linear interpolation between these two extremes. (Update: see improvement on this noted in the final paragraph.)
I've done nothing to try and tune the performance, in particular I'm updating and rendering every single item every frame, and I'm not using vertex buffers, so I suspect my geometry is being sent over the bus to the GPU every frame. So presumably this can be still be much improved.
Next I add some basic lighting, so that our cubes don't look so flat shaded. Lighting needs to know normals, the vector at right angles to a face, so that it can figure out how how strongly each face is illuminated. So our Glyph needs to start generating an array of normals for each vertex.
def get_normal(face, vertices): v0 = vertices[face[0]] v1 = vertices[face[1]] v2 = vertices[face[2]] a = v0 - v1 b = v2 - v1 return b.cross(a) class Glyph(object): def get_glnormals(self, shape): face_normals = (get_normal(face, shape.vertices) for face in shape.faces) normals = (normal for face, normal in zip(shape.faces, face_normals) for index in face) return gl_array(gl.GLfloat, normals, self.num_glvertices * 3)
This generation of normals also affects the generation of vertex positions, colors and indices, since vertices can no longer be shared between different faces of a cube, because a single vertex position now requires a different normal for each face.
Generating normals made me think more about when I should or should not be using indexed vertex arrays, as opposed to simple contiguous arrays of vertices. My current thoughts on the matter are summarised on this stackoverflow question. If you know a bunch about OpenGL, I'd appreciate you heading over there and setting me straight.
Adding normals increased the vertex count required to draw the same geometry quite considerably, from 8 vertices for a single cube, up to 24. The colors array increases in size correspondingly. Surprisingly, this didn't decrease framerate too much (we went from drawing 9,000 cubes at 60fps down to 8,000.) However, then I converted colors from being floats (eg. white=(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0), four components for rgb and alpha)) to using unsigned bytes (e.g. white=(255, 255, 255, 255).) This boosted performance noticeably, so now we're up to drawing 12,000 cubes at 60fps, with normals and lighting.

Update: The code that generated the above screenshots is in a Mercurial repo at:\ http://code.google.com/p/flyinghigh-opengl-from-python/
Only the "code" directory is of any interest (the rest is just a dumping ground for my thoughts related to the text of the talk.) There is a hastily-created README in the code directory.
In particular, note that the code may spend a while generating geometry on startup, before displaying anything. This startup time has been fluctuating wildly, as I add new ideas, then refine them to be reasonably performant. To improve performance or startup time, you might want to take a look in the 'flyinghigh/populate_world.py' module and comment out the creation of some of the GameItem instances that are passed to world.add().
Feedback, ideas and questions all welcome.


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| Version: | 2.9 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.0.0), data.table (≥ 1.10.4), stats, laeken |
| Published: | 2017-10-26 |
| Author: | Juris Breidaks [aut, cre], Martins Liberts [aut], Janis Jukams [aut] |
| Maintainer: | Juris Breidaks <rcsb at csb.gov.lv> |
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ON_AC_POWER(1) ON_AC_POWER(1) NAME on_ac_power - test whether computer is running on AC power SYNOPSIS on_ac_power DESCRIPTION on_ac_power checks whether the system is running on AC power (i.e., mains power) as opposed to battery power. OPTIONS None. EXIT STATUS 0 (true) System is on mains power 1 (false) System is not on mains power 255 (false) Power status could not be determined FILES /proc/apm APM status information file /proc/acpi ACPI status information directory AUTHOR This manual page was written by Steve Dodd<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and was updated by Thomas Hood. 9 March 2002 ON_AC_POWER(1)


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Blade (1998)
Grade: 35
"Blade" is an escapist film that combines action, horror and science fiction. Based on a comic book series, "Blade" is energetic and watchable. The special effects are excellent. The plot even has some depth. Still, it has the feel of a big budget, violent version of a Saturday Morning cartoon show, while Wesley Snipes demonstrates the emotional range of a gargoyle statue.
You might not be aware of this, but there are vampires living among us. They own all the cops. They hang out in designated nightclubs, where they dance in ecstacy under showers that spew blood. Apparently, they are all martial arts experts as well.
Snipes is Blade, who is half-human and half-some- special-version-of-vampire. Like Batman, he has gymnastic abilities, a tool chest full of weapons, and sullenly stalks his prey, which are vampires instead of criminals.  N'Bushe Wright serves as requisite perfect-ten love interest, although Snipes is too cool to make a play for her.
Those eager to accept "Blade" on its own terms will enjoy the movie. There is endless violence, lots of showing off, and the usual humorless action hero versus psychotic bad guy plot, with Life As We Know It at stake. Much of the budget goes for special effects. You've seen this movie before, and if you enjoyed it then, you'll like it again. If you are interested in seeing a superior version, try "Virtuosity" from 1995.
Perhaps the problem with "Blade" lies with the two main characters. Solemn Snipes is one tough dude, but his personality is limited. Therefore, the bad guys (in this case, vampires) must be colorful (i.e. eccentric) to retain interest. This is, after all, a comic book. While Dorff is an evil megalomaniac, he needs to be more over-the-top, like James Carrey from "Batman Forever", and be given more screen time. What "Blade" (and perhaps Snipes) doesn't realize is that the bad guys should be the real stars of the film.
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CASUALTIES OF WAR A film review by Randy Parker Copyright 1996 Randy Parker
RATING: **1/2 (out of ****)
(Review written in 1989)
"THE ACCUSED in Vietnam." You have to wonder if CASUALTIES OF WAR was sold on that high-concept pitch. Brian De Palma's shocking war drama is based on a horrifying true incident, in which a handful of soldiers abducted a teen-age Vietnamese girl and dragged her on a long-range reconnaissance mission.
Unlike THE ACCUSED, however, CASUALTIES OF WAR doesn't take the victim's point of view. Rather, it tells story of Private Eriksson, the only soldier in the platoon who has the guts and conscience to vehemently protest the violent crime.
Michael J. Fox turns in an impressive performance as the naive and idealistic newcomer, who after only three weeks in Vietnam, still thinks the war is just a game. That is, until he witnesses the brutal rape, which he is powerless to prevent. Eriksson's moments of moral outrage and of tenderness with the rape victim are heartfelt and stirring, which unfortunately can't be said of anything else in the movie.
Except for Thuy Thu Le, who will break your heart as the victim, the supporting actors get caught in a cross fire of cliches.  In nearly every film he's made, Penn has played an arrogant tough guy, and frankly, it's getting boring. Most of the characters, including Penn's, come across as unbelievable stereotypes.
A clumsy and heavy-handed screenplay, which telegraphs the big moments, also bogs down the film. According to the New York Times, screenwriter David Rabe is so unhappy with the way his words were translated to the screen that he's trying to disassociate himself from the film. Rabe objects to the simplistic dialogue and thinly drawn relationships, and so do I.
On the plus side, CASUALTIES OF WAR regains some solid footing from Brian De Palma's confident direction, which is unusually understated and for once doesn't call attention to itself. De Palma is careful not to allow the film to become sensational or melodramatic; this is no MISSISSIPPI BURNING.
Ultimately, CASUALTIES OF WAR fights a losing battle because it fails to justify the repugnant violence. The movie has very little payoff: it offers few, if any, new insights into Vietnam. We already knew that war is hell and can turn men into monsters. No kidding! De Palma needs something more enlightening to underscore such a grim, disturbing film. As is, CASUALTIES OF WAR may leave you asking: is this movie really necessary?
Cheers...
Randy
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Fixed bids make clients think that their project will be finished in a fixed period of time if their requirements don't change while developing the project. That is a big if!
Problem
The problem is that requirements change constantly, especially when you are working with startups. Startups usually are trying to create something new, something that has never been done before.
In this situation, it is normal that requirements change. As a software development team, you should welcome change. It means that you are building something that is up to date with the real world.
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Because of this, you are forced to define the requirements down to the detail.
You need to define what web pages you will build, what interactions they will have, what background jobs the system will run, what business expectations it will fulfill, performance requirements, browser requirements and many other requirements.
In a startup, this will be based on a lot of wrong assumptions. When you face reality (your users or the market) the assumptions will change. Therefore, the requirements will change.
Changes
A change means that:
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This table contains entries for TATA-box binding proteins for a variety of species in the UniProt database. Links are provided to view the original UniProt protein entries, and their display in InterPro.
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Triticum aestivum
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Methanosarcina acetivorans
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Triticum aestivum
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Methanosarcina acetivorans
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Methanosarcina acetivorans
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Halobacterium salinarium
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Halobacterium salinarium
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Halobacterium salinariumArchaea |
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Halobacterium salinariumArchaea |
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Halobacterium salinariumArchaea |
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Homo sapiens
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Homo sapiens
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Serie A outfit contact Wolves and Everton over January transfers - reports
The young star has made just three Premier League starts, with eight appearances off the bench - and has scored twice
by Brian Dick, https://www.facebook.com/blueswriterbriandick/?fref=tsBologna have contacted Wolves with a view to taking Patrick Cutrone back to Italy, according to reports.
The 21-year-old has had to wait for his opportunities since his £16million summer move from AC Milan.
He has made just three Premier League starts, with eight appearances off the bench - and has scored twice.
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BODY OF EVIDENCE A review in the public domain by The Phantom<EMAIL_ADDRESS>In his last review, the Phantom wrote of the importance of heeding the warnings of impending cinematic doom that we may find on the way to the opening credits of yet another quality-challenged horror or exploitation film. Occasionally the filmmakers or the studio will give us tantalizing hints of the extreme violence about to be done to our high expectations; but oftentimes we must rely on a combination of some of our less discerning film critics and the studio's publicity department to provide us with suitably frightening theatrical portents -- the cinematic equivalents of "Bridge Out" signs that we overlook at our own peril.
As is the case with BODY OF EVIDENCE, the subject of this review and the latest in a peculiarly Hollywood combination of sex, violence and litigation that reached its apex with Paul Verhoeven's now infamous BASIC INSTINCT. Even before it opened, the print ads for Dino De Laurentiis' latest attempt to recapture the box-office glory of his not-particularly-good masterpiece, the 1977 remake of KING KONG, gave us an inkling of what was to come. "BE WARNED: It's not for the prudish or faint-hearted" screamed Susan Granger's quote, used by Metro Goldwyn Mayer's publicity department perhaps in an attempt to mislead us into thinking that we would be seeing Bram Stoker's BODY OF EVIDENCE instead of good old Dino's. Since then, MGM has reconsidered the value of displaying prominently a reviewer's quote that warns people away from a film, rather than recommends it to them. On the brighter side, since no one has ever heard of Susan Granger (credited as a reviewer for WICC/American Movie Classics), her dire warnings seem to have had little effect on the all-important first weekend gross. "A slick thriller that embodies elements of WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, THE STORY OF O, and BASIC INSTINCT," reads David Ansen's quote, excerpted from his Newsweek review. This is better, at least from MGM's point of view, since it only serves to confuse people rather than warn them away from the film. But what must it do to those few people who had any respect for Mr. Ansen's critical sensibilities? After all, such shameless flaking for what is universally understood to be an extremely bad film can't be earning him any brownie points with the editors of his august publication. Ansen, after all, has never exactly been King of the Critics, but still: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, THE STORY OF O, and BASIC INSTINCT!? After reading that quote (and enduring BODY OF EVIDENCE), the Phantom spent quite a while trying to determine just what these four films had in common. At last it occurred to him: they were all filmed in color! But no, not even that: Marlene Dietrich wasn't making color films in the fifties (though in WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION she was sexier fully dressed and filmed in black and white than Madonna will ever be nude and pouring hot candle wax all over Willem Dafoe in glorious Technicolor).
We may never know what "elements" Ansen was referring to. Phans who have seen all four films are encouraged to send their best guesses to the Phantom; he, in turn, will reply with his heartfelt sympathies for having endured Madonna's latest cinematic fiasco (perhaps on Mr. Ansen's ever-reliable recommendation) and a recommendation of his own: that they race to their nearest Blockbusters and rent Billy Wilder's classic adaptation of Agatha Christie's suspenseful, well-written, and thoroughly enjoyable play. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION is every bit as good as BODY OF EVIDENCE is bad; it is also worth seeing for the second or third time just as much as BODY OF EVIDENCE is worth avoiding for the first.
Having gotten his fellow critics' ill-considered reviews out of the way, the Phantom will now make some attempt to describe just how bad, how incompetent, how completely hilarious Madonna's latest film really is. Nothing you have seen or read can prepare you for the unceasing onslaught of just plain lousiness that Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, writer Brad Mirman, and director Uli Edel unleash upon their audience; truly, it is awe-inspiring to leave a theater thinking to oneself, "You know, BASIC INSTINCT wasn't that bad after all. A little goofy, maybe, and we sure could have done without seeing Michael Douglas' naked rear-end a half-dozen times, but at least Verhoeven had some idea what he was doing." (Phans, cinematic revisionism through Madonna-tinted glasses is the most dangerous kind, but even the Phantom found himself engaging in it before the candle wax had finished dripping all over Dafoe.)
The story revolves around Madonna's character, Rebecca Carlson, who is put on trial for the murder of the wealthy older man she had been rather friendly with right up until the moment he had a fatal heart attack. Was Rebecca simply too much for the old man? Was she herself the "lethal weapon" that caused his untimely (and rather embarrassing) death? As the crackerjack prosecutor Robert Garrett, Joe Mantegna sets out to prove just this. Naturally, Rebecca needs an equally crackerjack defense, and that she gets from Willem Dafoe as Frank Dulaney, a man who we know is doomed to buzz around the incandescent beauty of his client like a moth around an outdoor patio light.
But one immediate problem with the film is that even a dim and faltering patio light gives off more heat than either Madonna or Dafoe, both of whom are grievously miscast here. (Joe Mantegna is never miscast, but he does manage to sleepwalk though his role as Portland's least competent prosecutor. After having seen the film, the Phantom can hardly blame him, but oh how he must be kicking himself for turning down the chance to reprise his starring role in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS for the opportunity to be the best supporting actor in yet another Madonna turkey.) Dafoe, as the equally incompetent Frank Dulaney, does better with intellectual roles than those that require that he respond with unbridled enthusiasm when someone unzips his fly in an elevator; he is simply all wrong for Dulaney, who is first and foremost a character with very little common sense and not much more intelligence. (And $7.50 later, the Phantom considered the possibility that he himself might be perfect for the role; nothing like wasting one's money on a film like BODY OF EVIDENCE to make one doubt one's own common sense, intelligence, and at times, sanity.)
Madonna may have seen something in Rebecca that was just right for her, but a role in which Madonna does little more than act like Madonna is not what any of us need. Her role as Rebecca invites comparisons to Sharon Stone's similar role in BASIC INSTINCT, but Madonna does not, at this point, have Sharon Stone's looks; in fact, she doesn't really have Sharon Stone's talent, though she's probably a better singer, and she's certainly better at self-promotion. Madonna plays much better when she puts herself at the center of a fantasy -- her videos all have her play-acting in worlds where every element reflects back favorably on her, and in which she controls the words, the music, and the images we see -- not when she has to try to play a real person who interacts with other real people in the real world (or as real as the world ever gets in a film as loopy as BODY OF EVIDENCE). In this film, however, she doesn't even look particularly good: she's given an unflattering hair style, frumpy-looking clothes, terrible lighting, and bad direction.  Though even this is a bad comparison, as most mannequins are better dressed and almost never say anything as inane as "They've taken something good between two people in love and made it dirty."
To make matters worse, half the film is set in a courtroom, always a dangerous thing for a writer to do if he cannot, in fact, write intelligent dialogue. The dialogue in BODY OF EVIDENCE is about on the level of Matlock, and frequently it's much worse. As the trial gets under way, we quickly find that the judge (ably played by Lillian Lehman) appears to be in the same position we are: she's fed up with the way things are going, she most adamantly does not want to tolerate any more bad dialogue from either lawyer, and she's going to do everything in her power to see that her portion of the film ends as quickly as possible. Alas, it is only the audience who can hold the filmmakers in contempt, and even we cannot sentence them to repeated viewings of the hundreds of more intelligent, better acted, and better directed courtroom dramas that have been made over the years. (Including WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, as Mr. Ansen may know, a film with sparkling dialogue by Billy Wilder and crackling courtroom scenes that are reason enough for Brad Mirman to hide his head in shame.) Apparently the best the judge can do is look positively dyspeptic at frequent intervals and wonder how director Uli Edel could have fallen so far from his very solid 1989 adaptation of LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, and how we all could have fallen so far from Jennifer Jason Leigh's stunning performance in that film to Madonna's stunted one in this.  But also, alas, sans emotion and sans interest on our part. Though there is a lot of fumbling around in the film, there are two main scenes responsible for the film's notoriety: one in which Rebecca ties up Frank with his own belt and pours hot candle wax on him; and one in which she makes love to him in a parking garage, on top of a car, fully clothed, and while Dulaney is lying on top of broken glass. Dafoe is way outside his element in each scene, and Madonna approaches them as if she were following a particularly complicated chapter in the Time-Life Guide to Offbeat Sexual Practices. (Order now and we'll send you "How to Turn Off the Lights By Breaking the Bulb With Your Shoe Instead of Using the Switch Like People In a More Plausible Film Would" as our free gift to you.) The Phantom had hoped that Madonna might accidentally open the guide to home repairs and show us all how to replace bathroom tile or install a new dishwasher but, sadly, he was repeatedly disappointed. At least she looked like she was enjoying herself; Dafoe tended to look like someone who got talked onto a rollercoaster against his better judgment, just as the safety bars come down and the car begins its ascent. He knows he's in for something; he knows it won't be pleasant; and it's only the thought of the wholesale retribution to come that keeps him in the scene -- after all, tossing your agent out the window isn't even a felony in California.
We have all traveled a long and hard road from the heights of WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION to the depths of BODY OF EVIDENCE, from Marlene Dietrich to Madonna. It is conceivable that BODY OF EVIDENCE could be even worse than it is, but only if it weren't so unintentionally funny so very often; how it got to be in the sorry shape in which it is presented to us will likely never be known. For the Phantom's part, he still finds it hard to believe that so many reasonably talented people could together produce a film as mind-numbingly bad as BODY OF EVIDENCE, though Dino De Laurentiis' Midas touch should always be kept in mind. In the meantime, Billy Wilder's classic film awaits you at your local Blockbusters. No handcuffs; no hot candle wax; no contempt for the audience -- just top-flight acting, unparalleled writing, and Marlene Dietrich with all her clothes on. A film that looked good then looks even better now that we are able to see it through our Madonna-tinted glasses.
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This is a conversion of the log4js framework to work with node. I’ve mainly stripped out the browser-specific code and tidied up some of the javascript.
Out of the box it supports the following features:
NOTE: from log4js 0.5 onwards you’ll need to explicitly enable replacement
of node’s console.log functions. Do this either by calling
log4js.replaceConsole()
or configuring with an object or json
file like this:
npm install log4js
Minimalist version:
var log4js = require("log4js");
var logger = log4js.getLogger();
logger.debug("Some debug messages");
By default, log4js outputs to stdout with the coloured layout (thanks to masylum), so for the above you would see:
See example.js for a full example, but here’s a snippet (also in fromreadme.js):
var log4js = require("log4js");
//console log is loaded by default, so you won't normally need to do this
//log4js.loadAppender('console');
log4js.loadAppender("file");
//log4js.addAppender(log4js.appenders.console());
log4js.addAppender(log4js.appenders.file("logs/cheese.log"), "cheese");
var logger = log4js.getLogger("cheese");
logger.setLevel("ERROR");
logger.trace("Entering cheese testing");
logger.debug("Got cheese.");
logger.info("Cheese is Gouda.");
logger.warn("Cheese is quite smelly.");
logger.error("Cheese is too ripe!");
logger.fatal("Cheese was breeding ground for listeria.");
Output:
[2010-01-17 11:43:37.987] [ERROR] cheese - Cheese is too ripe!
[2010-01-17 11:43:37.990] [FATAL] cheese - Cheese was breeding ground for listeria.
The first 5 lines of the code above could also be written as:
var log4js = require("log4js");
log4js.configure({
appenders: [
{ type: "console" },
{ type: "file", filename: "logs/cheese.log", category: "cheese" },
],
});
You can configure the appenders and log levels manually (as above), or
provide a configuration file
(log4js.configure('path/to/file.json')
), or a configuration
object. The configuration file location may also be specified via the
environment variable LOG4JS_CONFIG (export LOG4JS_CONFIG=path/to/file.json
). An example file can be found in test/log4js.json
. An
example config file with log rolling is in
test/with-log-rolling.json
. By default, the configuration
file is checked for changes every 60 seconds, and if changed, reloaded.
This allows changes to logging levels to occur without restarting the
application.
To turn off configuration file change checking, configure with:
To specify a different period:
For FileAppender you can also pass the path to the log directory as an option where all your log files would be stored.
If you have already defined an absolute path for one of the FileAppenders in the configuration file, you could add a “absolute”: true to the particular FileAppender to override the cwd option passed. Here is an example configuration file:
{
"appenders": [
{
"type": "file",
"filename": "relative/path/to/log_file.log",
"maxLogSize": 20480,
"backups": 3,
"category": "relative-logger"
},
{
"type": "file",
"absolute": true,
"filename": "/absolute/path/to/log_file.log",
"maxLogSize": 20480,
"backups": 10,
"category": "absolute-logger"
}
]
}
Documentation for most of the core appenders can be found on the wiki, otherwise take a look at the tests and the examples.
See the wiki. Improve the wiki, please.
There’s also an example application.
Contributions welcome, but take a look at the rules first.
The original log4js was distributed under the Apache 2.0 License, and so is this. I’ve tried to keep the original copyright and author credits in place, except in sections that I have rewritten extensively.


My Kids
I have two of the most adorable and well behaved children ever born. This is a picture of them doing something they love....eating cupcakes!
Coding
This one is still a work in progress but I'm sure that eventually it will be 100% true. I'm already begining to like the parts I understand!
Pizza
"A Pizza Maid"
To softly whisper, "...lovely Lisa..."
brings dreams of lips so full and red.
Which rhymes, of course, with "Garlic Bread".
And Lisa assonates with "Piece a Pizza."
If you do not speak as good
as proper speaking people should.
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After Verithanam Thalapathy Vijay to create a Sambavam? - Tamil News - IndiaGlitz.com
Thalapathy Vijay's latest release 'Bigil' is said to have become the highest-grossing Tamil film in 2019 in most territories barring a few. One of the highlights of the film is the "Verithanam" song sung composed by A.R. Rahman and sung by the mass hero after a long time. Now unconfirmed sources reveal that Vijay is also singing a mass song in the underproduction 'Thalapathy 64' for which Anirudh is scoring the music.
The sources say that the song that Vijay will be singing for 'Thalapathy 64' will start with the word "Sambavam". A few reports also state that this could be the title of the film too. Anyway the project is progressing fast and whether the song features in it or if that is the title will be known much sooner.
'Thalapathy 64' directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj has the powerful duo Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi locking horns as the hero and villain while Shantanu Bhagyaraj, Antony Varghese Pepe, Malavika Mohanan, Andrea Jeremiah, Gouri Kishan and Brigida play other important roles.
Trending News
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Thala Ajith's new get up is double 'Valimai' and sets internet on fire
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Popular hero's brother joins Thalapathy 64!
Samantha announces date, year and time of birth of her baby
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Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) said, "When the Imam is delivering the Khutba, and you ask your companion to keep quiet and listen, then no doubt you have done an evil act."
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| 111, 112 | Keynote talks, Highlight sessions, Teaser sessions, Interactive sessions, Poster sessions |
| 109, 110, Air Dome A, B | Exhibition |
| Air Dome C | Competition |
| Lobby | Interactive demonstration, Registration, Korean tea culture experience, Traditional clothes experience |
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| Grand Ballroom | Plenary talks, Opening ceremony, Lifetime talks, Special forums, RSJ-IAC lunch, RSJ tutorial, Competition winner talk, Workshops |
| 204~205, 206~208 | Workshops, Oral sessions |
| 203 | Workshops, SICE Luncheon Seminar, Forum |
| Emerald | Lounge, Video presentation, RAS luncheons |
| 209 | Preview room |
| 210~211 | IROS2016 secretariat |
| VIP Room | VIP lounge |
| Office | RAS secretariat |
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This class is presented in partnership between the Delaware Libraries and Zip Code Wilmington.
This is a general overview of a broad subject, starting from the basics
Should help you understand what you want to learn more about, and if programming could be a career path for you.
I don't know everything, and neither will you.
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Because JavaScript is notorious for being the world's most misunderstood programming language. While it is often derided as a toy, beneath its deceptive simplicity lie some powerful language features. JavaScript is now used by an incredible number of high-profile applications, showing that deeper knowledge of this technology is an important skill for any web or mobile developer.
Strings in JavaScript are sequences of characters. More accurately, they are sequences of Unicode characters, with each character represented by a 16-bit number. This should be welcome news to anyone who has had to deal with internationalization.
If you want to represent a single character, you just use a string of length 1.
To find the length of a string, access its length property:
"hello".length; // 5
There's our first brush with JavaScript objects! Did we mention that you can use strings like objects too? They have methods as will that allow you to manipulate the string and access information about the string:
"hello".charAt(0); // "h"
"hello, world".replace("hello", "goodbye"); // "goodbye, world"
"hello".toUpperCase(); // "HELLO"
JavaScript distinguishes between null, which is a value that indicates a deliberate non-value (and is only accessible through the null keyword), and undefined, which is a value of type undefined that indicates an uninitialized value — that is, a value hasn't even been assigned yet. We'll talk about variables later, but in JavaScript it is possible to declare a variable without assigning a value to it.
If you do this, the variable's type is undefined. undefined is actually a constant.JavaScript has a boolean type, with possible values true and false (both of which are keywords.) Any value can be converted to a boolean according to the following rules:
false, 0, empty strings (""), NaN, null, and undefined all become false.All other values become true.
You can perform this conversion explicitly using the Boolean() function:
Boolean(""); // false
Boolean(234); // true
However, this is rarely necessary, as JavaScript will silently perform this conversion when it expects a boolean, such as in an if statement (see below.) For this reason, we sometimes speak simply of "true values" and "false values," meaning values that become true and false, respectively, when converted to booleans. Alternatively, such values can be called "truthy" and "falsy", respectively.
Boolean operations such as ∓& (logical and), || (logical or), and ! (logical not) are supported;
New variables in JavaScript are declared using the var keyword:
var a;
var name = "simon";
If you declare a variable without assigning any value to it, its type is undefined.
An important difference between JavaScript and other languages like Java is that in JavaScript, blocks do not have scope; only functions have scope. So if a variable is defined using var in a compound statement (for example inside an if control structure), it will be visible to the entire function. However, starting with ECMAScript Edition 6, let and const declarations allow you to create block-scoped variables.
JavaScript's numeric operators are +, -, *, / and % — which is the remainder operator (which is the same as modulo.) Values are assigned using =, and there are also compound assignment statements such as += and -=. These extend out to x = x operator y.
x += 5
x = x + 5
You can use ++ and -- to increment and decrement respectively. These can be used as prefix or postfix operators.
The + operator also does string concatenation:
"hello" + " world"; // "hello world"
If you add a string to a number (or other value) everything is converted in to a string first. This might catch you up:
"3" + 4 + 5; // "345"3 + 4 + "5"; // "75"
Adding an empty string to something is a useful way of converting it to a string itself.
Comparisons in JavaScript can be made using <, >, <= and >=. These work for both strings and numbers. Equality is a little less straightforward. The double-equals operator performs type coercion if you give it different types, with sometimes interesting results:
123 == "123"; // true
1 == true; // true
To avoid type coercion and make sure your comparisons are always accurate, you should always use the triple-equals operator:
123 === "123"; // false
1 === true; // false
There are also != and !== operators.
JavaScript also has bitwise operations. If you want to use them, they're there
JavaScript has a similar set of control structures to other languages in the C family. Conditional statements are supported by if and else; you can chain them together if you like:
var name = "kittens";
if (name == "puppies") {
name += "!";
} else if (name == "kittens") {
name += "!!";
} else {
name = "!" + name;
}
name == "kittens!!"
JavaScript has while loops and do-while loops. The first is good for basic looping; the second for loops where you wish to ensure that the body of the loop is executed at least once:
while (true) {
// an infinite loop!
}
var input;
do {
input = get_input();
} while (inputIsNotValid(input))
JavaScript's for loop is the same as that in C and Java: it lets you provide the control information for your loop on a single line.
for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
// Will execute 5 times
}
The && and || operators use short-circuit logic, which means whether they will execute their second operand is dependent on the first. This is useful for checking for null objects before accessing their attributes:
var name = o && o.getName();
if(o && o.getName()){
var name = o.getName()
}
Or for setting default values:
var name = otherName || "default";
JavaScript has a ternary operator for conditional expressions:
var allowed = (age > 18) ? "yes" : "no";
The switch statement can be used for multiple branches based on a number or string:
switch(action) {
case 'draw':
drawIt();
break;
case 'eat':
eatIt();
break;
default:
doNothing();
}
If you don't add a break statement, execution will "fall through" to the next level. This is very rarely what you want — in fact it's worth specifically labeling deliberate fallthrough with a comment if you really meant it to aid debugging:
switch(a) {
case 1: // fallthrough
code here;
case 2:
eatIt();
break;
default:
doNothing();
}
The default clause is optional. You can have expressions in both the switch part and the cases if you like; comparisons take place between the two using the === operator:
switch(1 + 3) {
case 2 + 2:
yay();
break;
default:
neverhappens();
}
JavaScript objects can be thought of as simple collections of name-value pairs. As such, they are similar to:
The fact that this data structure is so widely used is a testament to its versatility. Since everything (bar core types) in JavaScript is an object, any JavaScript program naturally involves a great deal of hash table lookups. It's a good thing they're so fast!
The "name" part is a JavaScript string, while the value can be any JavaScript value — including more objects. This allows you to build data structures of arbitrary complexity.
There are two basic ways to create an empty object:
var obj = new Object();
And:
var obj = {};
These are semantically equivalent; the second is called object literal syntax, and is more convenient. This syntax is also the core of JSON format and should be preferred at all times.
Object literal syntax can be used to initialize an object in its entirety:
var obj = {
name: "Carrot",
"for": "Max",
details: {
color: "orange",
size: 12
}
}
Attribute access can be chained together:
obj.details.color; // orange
obj["details"]["size"]; // 12
The following example creates an object prototype, Person, and instance of that prototype, You.
function Person(name, age) {
this.name = name;
this.age = age;
}
// Define an object
var you = new Person("You", 24);
We are creating a new person named "you" (that was the first parameter, and the age..)
Once created, an object's properties can again be accessed in one of two ways:
obj.name = "Simon";
var name = obj.name;
And...
obj["name"] = "Simon";
var name = obj["name"];
These are also semantically equivalent. The second method has the advantage that the name of the property is provided as a string, which means it can be calculated at run-time though using this method prevents some JavaScript engine and minifier optimizations being applied. It can also be used to set and get properties with names that are reserved words:
obj.for = "Simon"; // Syntax error, because 'for' is a reserved word
obj["for"] = "Simon"; // works fine
Arrays in JavaScript are actually a special type of object. They work very much like regular objects (numerical properties can naturally be accessed only using [] syntax) but they have one magic property called 'length'. This is always one more than the highest index in the array.
One way of creating arrays is as follows:
var a = new Array();
a[0] = "dog";
a[1] = "cat";
a[2] = "hen";
a.length; // 3
A more convenient notation is to use an array literal:
var a = ["dog", "cat", "hen"];
a.length; // 3
Note that array.length isn't necessarily the number of items in the array. Consider the following:
var a = ["dog", "cat", "hen"];
a[100] = "fox";
a.length; // 101
Remember — the length of the array is one more than the highest index.
If you query a non-existent array index, you'll get a value of undefined returned:
typeof a[90]; // undefined
If you take the above into account, you can iterate over an array using the following:
for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
// Do something with a[i]
}
This is slightly inefficient as you are looking up the length property once every loop. An improvement is this:
for (var i = 0, len = a.length; i < len; i++) {
// Do something with a[i]
}
A nicer-looking but limited idiom is:
for (var i = 0, item; item = a[i++];) {
// Do something with item
}
Here we are setting up two variables. The assignment in the middle part of the for loop is also tested for truthfulness — if it succeeds, the loop continues. Since i is incremented each time, items from the array will be assigned to item in sequential order. The loop stops when a "falsy" item is found (such as undefined).
This trick should only be used for arrays which you know do not contain "falsy" values (arrays of objects or DOM nodes for example). If you are iterating over numeric data that might include a 0 or string data that might include the empty string you should use the i, len idiom instead.
You can iterate over an array using a for...in loop. Note that if someone added new properties to Array.prototype, they will also be iterated over by this loop. Therefore this method is "not" recommended.
Another way of iterating over an array that was added with ECMAScript 5 is forEach():
["dog", "cat", "hen"].forEach(function(currentValue, index, array) {
// Do something with currentValue or array[index]
});
If you want to append an item to an array simply do it like this:
a.push(item);
Arrays come with a number of methods. See also the full documentation for array methods
a.toString()
//Returns a string with the toString() of each element separated by commas.
a.toLocaleString()
//Returns a string with the toLocaleString() of each element separated by commas.
a.concat(item1[, item2[, ...[, itemN]]])
//Returns a new array with the items added on to it.
a.join(sep)
//Converts the array to a string — with values delimited by the sep param
a.pop()
//Removes and returns the last item.
a.push(item1, ..., itemN)
//Adds one or more items to the end.
a.reverse()
//Reverses the array.
a.shift()
//Removes and returns the first item.
a.slice(start[, end])
//Returns a sub-array.
a.sort([cmpfn])
//Takes an optional comparison function.
a.splice(start, delcount[, item1[, ...[, itemN]]])
//Lets you modify an array by deleting a section and replacing it with more items.
a.unshift(item1[, item2[, ...[, itemN]]])
//Prepends items to the start of the array.
Along with objects, functions are the core component in understanding JavaScript. The most basic function couldn't be much simpler:
function add(x, y) {
var total = x + y;
return total;
}
This demonstrates a basic function. A JavaScript function can take 0 or more named parameters. The function body can contain as many statements as you like, and can declare its own variables which are local to that function. The return statement can be used to return a value at any time, terminating the function. If no return statement is used (or an empty return with no value), JavaScript returns undefined.
The named parameters turn out to be more like guidelines than anything else. You can call a function without passing the parameters it expects, in which case they will be set to undefined.
add(); // NaN
You can't perform addition on undefined
You can also pass in more arguments than the function is expecting:
add(2, 3, 4); // 5
added the first two; 4 was ignored
That may seem a little silly, but functions have access to an additional variable inside their body called arguments, which is an array-like object holding all of the values passed to the function. Let's re-write the add function to take as many values as we want:
function add() {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0, j = arguments.length; i < j; i++) {
sum += arguments[i];
}
return sum;
}
add(2, 3, 4, 5); // 14
That's really not any more useful than writing 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 though. Let's create an averaging function:
function avg() {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0, j = arguments.length; i < j; i++) {
sum += arguments[i];
}
return sum / arguments.length;
}
avg(2, 3, 4, 5); // 3.5
This is pretty useful, but introduces a new problem. The avg() function takes a comma separated list of arguments — but what if you want to find the average of an array? You could just rewrite the function as follows:
function avgArray(arr) {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0, j = arr.length; i < j; i++) {
sum += arr[i];
}
return sum / arr.length;
}
avgArray([2, 3, 4, 5]); // 3.5
But it would be nice to be able to reuse the function that we've already created. Luckily, JavaScript lets you call a function and call it with an arbitrary array of arguments, using the apply() method of any function object.
avg.apply(null, [2, 3, 4, 5]); // 3.5
The second argument to apply() is the array to use as arguments; the first will be discussed later on. This emphasizes the fact that functions are objects too.
JavaScript lets you create anonymous functions.
var avg = function() {
var sum = 0;
for (var i = 0, j = arguments.length; i < j; i++) {
sum += arguments[i];
}
return sum / arguments.length;
};
This is semantically equivalent to the function avg() form. It's extremely powerful, as it lets you put a full function definition anywhere that you would normally put an expression. This enables all sorts of clever tricks.  This is particularly useful for dealing with tree structures, such as those found in the browser DOM.
function countChars(elm) {
if (elm.nodeType == 3) { // TEXT_NODE
return elm.nodeValue.length;
}
var count = 0;
for (var i = 0, child; child = elm.childNodes[i]; i++) {
count += countChars(child);
}
return count;
}
This highlights a potential problem with anonymous functions: how do you call them recursively if they don't have a name? JavaScript lets you name function expressions for this. You can use named IIFEs (Immediately Invoked Function Expressions) as shown below:
var charsInBody = (function counter(elm) {
if (elm.nodeType == 3) { // TEXT_NODE
return elm.nodeValue.length;
}
var count = 0;
for (var i = 0, child; child = elm.childNodes[i]; i++) {
count += counter(child);
}
return count;
})(document.body);
The name provided to a function expression as above is only available to the function's own scope. This allows more optimizations to be done by the engine and results in more readable code. The name also shows up in the debugger and some stack traces, which can save you time when debugging.
Note that JavaScript functions are themselves objects — like everything else in JavaScript — and you can add or change properties on them just like we've seen earlier in the Objects section.


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Robber uses bondage gear in sex shop holdup
AZ Central | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"An armed robber tied up the clerks at an adult novelty store with some of the bondage gear displayed on the shelves. ... The clerks were immobilized for several hours with an erotic device called a 'waist chain,' which immobilizes the hands at the waist, said Williams." Utilization of available resources -- good thinking.
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Mother appalled by twins' homicidal urges
Cincinnati Enquirer | Submitted by: Matthew E.
"[T]he 32-year-old mother of five went to police with a secretly recorded audiotape of her twin sons allegedly plotting to kill two siblings. ... She also points out their alleged confessions to police, recent theft of her three Ginsu-type kitchen knives and previous statements that they would kill anyone who 'messed with' them. There's also the hole they started to cut through the wall of their trailer -- an escape route they had planned to use after killing their brothers, ages 10 and 15, Rice said. That would have allowed them to avoid activating a security system she recently had installed to stop them from running away from home."
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80,000-volt jacket perfect for female perps
Wired | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"A new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock. Dubbed 'exo-electric armor,' the No-Contact Jacket looks like an ordinary fashionable women's coat. But an inner layer of conductive fiber carries a low-amp charge that delivers a nasty but non-lethal shock to anyone who messes with its wearer. ... The jacket is designed for women only. Its small size and narrow armholes are intended to prevent men from using it as an offensive weapon. Whiton conceded that women could use it offensively, and that it would be hard for police to arrest anyone wearing one."
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Maybe SARS came from weird Chinese delicacies
Toronto Star | Submitted by: Bob
"Researchers from the University of Hong Kong examined 25 animals representing eight species in a live animal market in southern China and found the virus in all six masked palm civets they sampled, as well as in a badger and a raccoon dog. Klaus Stohr, chief SARS virologist at the WHO, said today it was impossible to tell from the study whether any of the animals spread the virus to humans or whether they caught the virus from people."
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Long night for somebody
Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"The three defendants and the sixth suspect punched and kicked the 18-year-old in the face and body and forced him to kiss and lick the feet of the woman who accompanied them... The woman drove the group to the Park Place apartments on Atlantic Avenue in Hoffman Estates.  The 18-year-old was burned with a cigarette on one hand and on the back of his neck, then forced to burn his other hand with a cigarette... The group then drove to Hilldale Golf Club in Hoffman Estates, where the 18-year-old was forced to lie across a small stream while the others walked on him." Then they made him run home naked.
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CIA quietly trying to set the record straight
BBC | Submitted by: Lydia
"The review is being conducted by four retired senior intelligence analysts. It will look at the work of the Central Intelligence Agency and other American intelligence bodies in the run-up to the war. ... [T]he inquiry comes as the Bush administration finds itself under ever increasing pressure to explain why it has been unable to provide evidence on the ground in Iraq to back up its very precise claims about weapons of mass destruction made before the war."
 The Prime Minister thinks the Jan O. Karlsson can continue as a member of the Swedish government, but reportedly only if the Mr. Karlsson 'sorts this out.'"
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Toilet cam mistaken for bomb
CNN | Submitted by: Ronnenberg
"A party ship cruising around Manhattan on Thursday night was forced to dock after a crew member found wiring that he feared might be attached to an explosive device. The device, found in a bathroom on the ship, turned out to be a videocamera, said police who boarded the vessel to investigate."
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Bank robber craps on courtroom floor
signonsandiego.com | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"Charles Fowler Jr., 30, forced a 15-minute courtroom evacuation yesterday after suddenly, without warning, pulling down his jail-issued trousers and squatting in front of the bench. 'What's he doing?' San Diego Superior Court Judge Kerry Wells inquired. 'He's, uh, relieving himself, your honor,' a bailiff responded."
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Dr. Dre's mom arrested for shooting at friend
KNBC-TV 4 Los Angeles | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"The mother of rapper Dr. Dre was under investigation for allegedly firing a gun at a friend in her home, authorities said Thursday. The friend was not injured but Verna Griffin, 54, was arrested and booked for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon... A motive for the alleged attack was not released."
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Psychiatrist becomes case in point
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: DJ Hi-C
"Members of the nation's largest psychiatric association discovered San Francisco's mentally ill homeless problem up close this week, as they stepped out of their annual convention and were surprised -- some say shocked -- by the legions of people living on the street. The worst, however, came when an official of the American Psychiatric Association, a Baltimore doctor known for being an advocate for the indigent mentally ill, was assaulted by an apparently homeless man with a history of psychiatric problems. Knocked unconscious by the seemingly random attack near Union Square on Sunday morning, the doctor spent the week recovering at San Francisco General Hospital."
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Flying While Arab settlement
BayArea.com | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
A [man] removed from a San Jose-bound Northwest Airlines flight three months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks merely because he looked Middle Eastern received an apology and monetary damages from the airline in a settlement announced Wednesday. ... [T]he pilot kicked him off the plane on Christmas Day, 2001, before it left Minneapolis because another passenger bound for the Bay Area believed Khan was dangerous. ... After being cleared by police, Khan was not allowed to reboard because of the pilot's objections. 'They said, "Either we kick you off the flight, or we put you back on the flight and the captain is not going to fly the plane,"' Khan recounted."
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School counselor poses nude for magazine, gets fired
AZ Central | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"A high school counselor who posed nude for an adult magazine has been placed on paid leave by the Tucson Unified School District. Nonie Reynolds appears under the name Chandler on four pages in a recent issue of Over 50's magazine, which features explicit photos as well as sexually graphic text."
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Drunk schoolkid arrested with machine gun
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"A White Center high school sophomore who brought a loaded machine gun to school in his backpack yesterday told authorities he needed it for protection outside of school after a drive-by shooting at his home a month ago. ... a school official noticed that the boy smelled of alcohol. The student was referred to the office of Vice Principal Jackie Lewis, who asked him whether he had any alcohol in his backpack."
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BBC exposť says Jessica Lynch rescue faked
Globe and Mail | Submitted by: optional
"The morale-boosting, too-good-to-be-true rescue of Pte. Jessica Lynch by U.S. special forces is put under close scrutiny by the BBC documentary War Spin: The Truth About Jessica, airing Sunday night on CBC Newsworld's Passionate Eye. The special uncovers major discrepancies in the Pentagon's Rambo-like interpretation of the rescue in Iraq and concludes the incident is one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived." This story is just not going to go away.
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Jury consults Bible, judge throws out sentence
news4colorado.com | Submitted by: Reid Fleming
"A judge on Friday threw out the death sentence for a man convicted of murder, ruling that jurors were improperly influenced by the Bible and passages describing God's view on punishment as they deliberated. ... In his ruling, Vigil noted that jurors were exposed to Bibles and Bible passages on punishment for murder while they were sequestered during deliberations."
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FDA releases bogus Viagra for Internet sale
WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Tim Howard
"The Food and Drug Administration mistakenly allowed 1,233 packages of counterfeit Viagra from Belize to enter the United States, which were sold to customers around the country on the Internet. The shipment arrived in the Port of Miami from Belize in April, and the FDA authorized Customs to release the imitation version of the popular anti-impotency drug. 'We made a wrong decision,' FDA spokesman Lawrence Bachorik said."
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British cripple arrested for teargassing robber
thisisbolton.co.uk | Submitted by: STAN THE MAN
"Wheelchair-bound Nicholas Ashworth, aged 22, sprayed his alleged attacker in the face with the CS spray. He then climbed out of his wheelchair and limped across the road as the man screamed in pain. ... Mr Ashworth said the attacker held a knife at his throat and threatened to stab him. When he refused to hand over his money the man pushed him across the road and into bushes on the other side of the carriageway. He said when he was threatened again he grabbed the CS canister and sprayed the man in the face. He said: 'I knew it was wrong and against the law but in my view I was acting in self defence. I thought the man was going to kill me.'"
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Nigerian liver baby born healthy
BBC | Submitted by: someantha
"A Nigerian woman has given birth to a child that developed outside of the mother's womb. The fetus was discovered within the woman's liver one week before she was due. Dr Bruce Howard told the Cape Argus newspaper said: 'We knew it was an extrauterine pregnancy but we didn't know it was in the liver until we started the operation on Tuesday morning.'"
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Maryland decriminalizes medical marijuana
Washington Post | Submitted by: uscfiend
"Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday became the nation's first Republican governor to sign into law a measure that relaxes criminal punishment for seriously ill people who use marijuana to relieve pain and other symptoms... It does not legalize the drug but provides that seriously ill people caught using marijuana for medical purposes cannot be jailed or be fined more than $100. The White House and some conservative supporters urged the governor to reject the bill, but Ehrlich cited his longtime support for the measure."
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Ahon the application to know, a sort of DIY (Do It Yourself) which will help you manage your projects
Ahnon links Selling Companies and Simple Users, therefore Selling Companies can easely sell theirs products to Simple Users
Besides Simple Users can create diaries and comments on others users diaries
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With Ahnon designs project will be easier than before


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Preparation time
30 mins to 1 hour
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Makes 6 individual beef Wellingtons
These individual beef Wellingtons can either be served hot as a main course with veggies, or cold as a picnic treat.
For the pastry, in a food processor, mix together the butter, lard, flour and salt until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add the lemon juice and enough cold water to bring the mixture together into a dough.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a large rectangle. With a short edge facing you, fold the bottom third up and the top third down. Rotate the dough by 90 degrees (a quarter turn) and repeat the rolling and folding. Wrap in cling film and place in the fridge for 20 minutes.
For the mushroom duxelle, heat a little garlic oil in a frying pan. Add the garlic and shallot and gently fry until the shallot is soft and translucent.
Drain the porcini mushrooms and squeeze out any excess water. Add them to a food processor and pulse until they resemble breadcrumbs.
For the pastry, repeat the rolling and folding process and return to the fridge for another 15-20 minutes.
For the mushroom duxelle, put the porcini mushrooms and chestnut mushrooms in the pan with the garlic and shallot. Simmer for 10 minutes, then add the thyme and wine. Season with salt and pepper and, when the mixture is reduced to a paste, set aside to cool.
For the beef, heat a heavy-based frying pan over a medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, season the steak and sear until just browned all over (you may need to do this in batches). Set aside to cool.
When the steak is cool, wrap each piece tightly in a slice of ham.
For the pastry, repeat the rolling and folding process one final time. Return to the fridge for 15 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
When chilled, on a lightly floured work surface roll out the pastry to a 30cm x 45cm/12in x 18in rectangle (around 5mm thick). Using a sharp knife, cut it into 6cmx15cm/2in x 6in rectangles and spread with the mushroom mixture. Place a piece of beef in the middle of each square and wrap tightly in the pastry, taking care to ensure the meat is completely encased. Crimp the seam of the pastry and tuck in the ends.
Brush with beaten egg, score the tops and bake for about 25 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden-brown. Serve hot or cold.


Pokemon Sword and Shield: Which starter should you pick?
by Gautam NathPicking a starter is always a confusing decision in every Pokemon game. For the first time since Generation 2, the starters and their evolution are Pure Grass, Fire and Water Types. None of the starters are too weak and if you want to succeed in all the Gyms and the League, it's best to have a well-rounded team.
It's also worth noting that Sword and Shield's Gym Leaders #4 and #6 are different. In Sword, the #4 Gym Leader is a Fighting Type and in Shield, he's a Ghost Type. #6 in Sword is an Ice Type and #6 in Shield is Rock Type.
In the short term in both games, Grookey is probably the best starter to get for the first two Gyms. Grookey's final evolution Rillaboom has high HP, Attack, and Defense but it's surprisingly low on the Sp. Atk, Sp. Def and Speed.
Scorbunny and its final evolution Cinderace have high Attack and Speed but it's low on other stats. Sobble and its final evolution Inteleon, on the other hand, have the highest Special Attack stat among all of them.
All of these starters have abilities wherein if they are below 1/3 HP, their Type-based moves do more damage. This means that if a Cinderace is below 1/3 HP, its Fire-Type moves will be increased. When looking at it from this aspect, Inteleon is the clear winner.
In general, the power level of Sobble and its evolutions are the highest although they have their vulnerabilities. None of the other starters are too bad either. It also boils down to personal preference and what type you would like to train. Fire and Water Types in all Pokemon games have always had a higher power level than Grass Types.


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Advanced Functional Programming Languages
Stuff
- Instructor: Niki Vazou<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- TA: Ben Mariano<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Lectures
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Feedback
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Piazza
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- CHEATING: fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in any academic course or exercise in an attempt to gain an unfair advantage and/or intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic course or exercise.
- FABRICATION: intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in any academic course or exercise.
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- PLAGIARISM: intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic course or exercise.
Grading
- Questions (10%). In class participation and responses on questions.
- Homeworks (20%). Four comprehension, programming assignments.
- Tournament (10%). One tournament on a strategy game (like tic-tac-toe).
- Project (30%). Haskell implementation of a (semi-) realistic project.
- Final (30%). In class final.


Show case project for a potential employer. Displays now-playing list from TMDB.
Fetches/displays currently playing movie information from TMDB. Able to drill down detail of related movies as well. Works on iPhone/iPad devices and both orientations.
% carthage bootstrap --platform ios
Just run "NowPlayingTMDB" scheme from Xcode
Run Test with "NowPlayingTMDBTest" scheme from Xcode
Run Test with "NowPlayingTMDBUITest" scheme from Xcode
The movie detail screen commands different layout depending on the screen width.
Run
% bundle exec fastlane screenshots
and it will generate screenshots as listed above.
It was an optional requirement. You can see .travis.yml
and closed pull requests. Carthage folder is cached so it runs much faster after the first successful build with the same dependencies.
For all UI tests, network response is mocked via OHHTTPStubs
, thus getting reliable results every time.
Once offline capability is in the scope, we should add backing storage like CoreData
or Realm
. Decided unnecessary with the current requirement.
Having ViewModel layer would allow increasing the testability (At unit test level). Decided unnecessary with the current requirement.
I would like to introduce it with the backing storage, because that starts complicate the dataflow a little bit + CoreData
(with NSFetchedResultsController
) and Realm
(with RxRealm
) provides reliable pub-sub functionality.
Coordinator pattern would help decoupling routing functionality from ViewControllers. Decided unnecessary with the current scope.
Haven't used it myself yet. This time, wanted to try out the new Result
type introduced with Swift5 and went with URLSession
implementation. I hear good things about Moya
+ Alamofire
. Just looking at the documentation, it looks you can remove a lot of boilerplate you had to code here, while getting the benefit of Result
type alike.


JBColor.namedColor()
with unregistered key.
All keys must be registered with corresponding metadata in *.themeMetadata.json
.
Quick-fix offers navigation to all known *.themeMetadata.json
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Array Controller Caches Many disk arrays on the market today offer a large controller cache. This cache can help in several ways:
Write Caches Write caches are designed to cache the writes written to the controller and to post the I/O request to the disk driver. Posting the request means that the device driver believes that the I/O is completed. Posting the write allows the overhead associated with queuing the request and writing it to the individual disk to be masked. All the OS and the RDBMS see is an incredibly fast write.
Some disk array controllers like the Compaq SMART array have incorporated both mirroring and a battery backup into the write cache to ensure that the data is protected even in the event of a power outage. Use your own judgment about running a write cache on the redo log volumes. Read/Write Caches Controller read/write caches are similar to write caches (described in the preceding section) with the exception that during a read, the controller checks the cache first. If the data is in the cache, the data is returned immediately; if not, the request goes to disk. Although reading from cache may help in some situations, it is usually not a great advantage in an RDBMS environment because you already have an enormous read cache: the database block buffers. The chance is very small that an I/O written to the disk controller is in the read cache on that controller but is not in the SGA. Because you already have a highly optimized cache (SGA) in an RDBMS, it is unlikely that there will be a request to read data that has just been written. The chances are small that this data is in the disk cache but not in the SGA. However, you will reap the benefits of the write cache if you use fault-tolerant functions. The controller can mask the effects of extra I/Os that may be involved in your fault tolerant method. RAID TechnologyThe configuration of disks in an array is sometimes called a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) configuration. RAID technology has allowed systems to maintain very large amounts of storage at relatively low cost. SCSI drives have not only improved in performance and quality over the years, they have significantly dropped in price. The term RAID is also used to describ 1000 e the type of striping you use. Striping methods vary in both performance and space overhead. The type of configuration used in your system depends on your individual needs. Different configurations of striping and fault-tolerant striping are identified by RAID levels. Although you may see various RAID levels advertised by hardware manufacturers, there are really standards for only RAID levels 0 through 5 at this time. And because these standards are based on general concepts and are implementation specific, different implementations of RAID-5 (for example) may use different algorithms. The six RAID levels are described next. RAID-0RAID-0 is the base RAID level and is used to describe disk striping with no fault tolerance. RAID-0 drives simply have data striped over all the drives (see Figure 15.2).
RAID-0 is the highest performing and most economical of the RAID levels. The amount of data in the logical volume is equal to the sum of the amount of data on each disk drive. RAID level 0 causes no additional I/Os to be generated on behalf of the fault tolerant method. The downside of RAID-0 is that if a disk were to fail, the entire volume becomes invalid. Because the data in the logical volume is striped across all the disks, a loss of a single disk causes a loss of data throughout the logical volume. If a 14-disk volume were to fail, you must restore the data for all 14 disk drives. There is no way to back up and restore data for a single drive in a disk array. If you are looking for the highest performance and the best value possibleand are not worried about fault tolerancethis is the RAID level you should use. RAID-1The RAID-1 level is also known as disk mirroring. In RAID-1, all the data stored on a disk drive is duplicated on another disk in the array. Each time a write occurs to the logical disk, the data must be written to both physical disks before the logical write is considered completed. With disk mirroring, a single disk is mirrored to another disk; these disks can also be striped with other disks to form a larger logical volume (see Figure 15.3).
Because the mirroring is on a one-to-one basis, you can actually lose half the disks in your system (depending on which disks they are) and still be operational. With most disk array controllers, you can split the mirror across SCSI busses. This arrangement allows for the failure of an entire SCSI bus (for example, a cabinet failure) without affecting operation. With disk mirroring, you can use only half the disks in the system (the other half are used for the mirrors). In other words, if you use disk mirroring with two 2.1 gigabyte disks, you can use only 2.1 gigabytes of space. When writing, you get the benefit of only one disk in terms of performance because a logical write invokes two physical writes. You may see a benefit from reading from a mirrored drive. Some disk array controllers support split-reads, in which reads can occur simultaneously on different mirrored drives to different data. The disk with the heads closest to the requested data retrieves the data. Depending on the data access methods, this feature may or may not provide any benefits. If you can afford the cost of disk mirroring, RAID-1 is t dfb he best choice when fault tolerance is required. With disk mirroring, you achieve the highest level of protection as well as the fastest disk access possible for a fault-tolerant volume.
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