THE GREEN MILE
Review by John Beachem
* * * *
Directed by: Frank Darabont Written by: Stephen King (novel), Frank Darabont
Allow me to point out one thing which some people in Hollywood seem to have forgotten. In order for a movie to be an Oscar contender, it doesn't have to be over three hours long. This is, in fact, one of those rare cases where one is happy that parts of the book were removed from the screenplay. That said, "The Green Mile" is still a great film, blending humor and drama in a nearly flawless manner.
Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is the head guard of a death row strip in the 1930s. He and several other guards, including his friend Brutus (David Morse) run the prison efficiently but not harshly. However, the presence of a sadistic guard named Percy (Doug Hutchison) is throwing the situation into disarray. Enter John Coffey (Michael Duncan), a mountain of a man who brings yet more confusion to the prison with his apparent powers of healing. Edgecomb finds himself unable to believe that Coffey could possibly have killed the two little girls he was convicted of murdering. Coffey soon endears himself to the other guards to such an extent that they are uncertain if they will be able to carry out his sentence.
To start with, let me say that this isn't a particularly original film. Several characters, such as Percy and one of the prisoners, who is called "Wild Bill" (Sam Rockwell) are nothing more than cardboard stereotypes. The films conclusion isn't particularly surprising, and the identity of the killer who framed John Coffey isn't remotely unexpected. However, this isn't supposed to be a murder mystery, and it's not supposed to be a shocker like "The Sixth Sense". This is supposed to be an uplifting story filled with brilliant acting. On both counts, it delivers.
The acting here is certainly the film's highpoint. Tom Hanks is great, as always, but the real standout performances here come from Michael Duncan and the always underrated David Morse ("The Negotiator", "The Long Kiss Goodnight"). Duncan's portrayl of Coffey is flawless, especially considering that he could have easily played him as a living cartoon character. If David Morse is not granted a nomination for best supporting actor, this will be a true travesty of justice, similar to Tom Sizemore being passed over last year for his performance in "Saving Private Ryan".
Another spotlight stealer here is one of the cast's smaller members, Mr. Jingles. Mr. Jingles is a small mouse who is adopted by one of the prisoners, and eventually by the entire block. Mr. Jingles's antics may seem out of place at times, but they do add some much needed humor during some of the more depressing scenes. One thing I found rather interesting was the presence of two wonderful actors in what were really nothing more than cameos. James Cromwell makes an appearance as the prison warden, and Gary Sinise makes a very, very brief appearance as Coffey's lawyer.
The film's biggest weakness is really the running time. At over three hours, even the best film can seem to drag. "The Green Mile", being quite good, but not the best film, seems to crawl along at a snail's pace. This movie certainly isn't appropriate for children as there are several grotesque scenes and some very adult content. Be forewarned, you had best get plenty of sleep before seeing this or you may find yourself drifting off. This is not to say that the film is dull, quite the contrary, but it's simply hard to stay focused for so long. Overall, I give "The Green Mile" a recommendation and four stars.
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Motorola is working on a Snapdragon 888-powered phone, but it may not the smartphone you would expect. Next year there will be a Moto G phone with a Snapdragon 800-series chipset. The G-series has been around for years and its focus has always been value-for-money.
Motorola returned to the flagship field after a few years absence, not with a Moto X phone, but with the Edge+. So, you would have thought that an Edge+ 2 or something will be the first Motorola with the new chip. And that is definitely coming too.
But a Moto G with a flagship chipset may shake up the market a bit – there has been a dearth of “flagship killer” style phone over the last couple of years.


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Adelaide media icon and FIVEaa’s Jane Reilly has announced she will retire next year.
Jane told David and Will on Friday’s FIVEaa Breakfast show:
“I love you dearly but I’ve decided that coming into 2020 I am hanging up the microphone… after 44 years.
“I walked in the doors of SAS Channel 10 back in 1975. I’ve been here for seven years. I’ve loved every minute of it except getting up early.
“I’m calling next year, my first year of retirement, my big gap year… no plans for next year I’m just going to freewheel, I’m going to misbehave, I’m going to have a lot of fun. I hope you will still let me back occasionally.”
Jane will remain on air for the next month.
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The goal of the Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS) Large Program is to use high-spatial resolution observations of a large number of molecular lines to promote a deeper understanding of the links between chemistry and planet formation in protoplanetary disks.
The four major goals of this project are:
- to assess the relationship between dust substructures and chemical substructures in disks
- to constrain the emitting heights of observed molecules and assess how well we probe planet forming layers
- to take astrochemistry studies into the planet forming disk regions and address the C/N/O/S ratios, deuterium fractionation, and organic compositions at scales down to 10 au, and
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Obfuscated Fizzbuzz
David Watson
A book
of Spoken Numeracy Games
by Janet Rees
Co-opted
into an interview question
For the numbers from 1 to 100
If the number is evenly divisible by 3 print fizz
If the number is evenly divisible by 5 print buzz
If the number is evenly divisible by 3 and 5 print fizzbuzz
Else print the number
by Imran Ghory
Made popular
by Jeff Atwood's
Coding Horror
The continuum
from obfuscation to clarity
Obfuscated FizzBuzz
Lambdas, closures, nested generator expressions
print(*((lambda x=x: ''.join(chr(c) for c in (102, 105)) + (2 * chr(122)) + ''.join(chr(c) for c in (98, 117)) + (2 * chr(122)) + '\n' if x % (30 >> 1) == 0 else ''.join(chr(c) for c in (102, 105)) + (2 * chr(122)) + '\n' if x % (6 >> 1) == 0 else ''.join(chr(c) for c in (98, 117)) + (2 * chr(122)) + '\n' if x % (10 >> 1) == 0 else str(x) + '\n')() for x in range(1, 101)))
Only a crazed lisp programmer could love
Byzantine FizzBuzz
Less than ten lines of python
from itertools import chain
all = list(range(1, 101))
divisible_by_3 = dict((x, 'Fizz') for x in filter(lambda x: x % 3 == 0, all))
divisible_by_5 = dict((x, 'Buzz') for x in filter(lambda x: x % 5 == 0, all))
divisible_by_3_and_5 = dict((x, 'FizzBuzz') for x in
filter(lambda x: x % 3 == 0 and x % 5 == 0, all))
remainder = dict((x, x) for x in [x for x in all
if not x in divisible_by_3
and not x in divisible_by_5
and not x in divisible_by_3_and_5])
all_dict = dict(chain(divisible_by_3.items(),
divisible_by_5.items(),
divisible_by_3_and_5.items(),
remainder.items()))
for x in all:
print(all_dict[x])
Only a crazed discrete math professor could love
Canonical Fizzbuzz
The simplest thing that could possibly work
for i in range(1, 101):
if i % 15 == 0:
print('FizzBuzz')
elif i % 3 == 0:
print('Fizz')
elif i % 5 == 0:
print('Buzz')
else:
print(i)
Is also susceptible to rote memorization
All three solutions
produce expected output and perform similarly
1 2 Fizz 4 Buzz Fizz 7 8 Fizz Buzz 11 Fizz 13 14 FizzBuzz 16 17 Fizz 19 Buzz Fizz 22 23 Fizz Buzz 26 Fizz 28 29 FizzBuzz 31 32 Fizz 34 Buzz Fizz 37 38 Fizz Buzz 41 Fizz 43 44 FizzBuzz 46 47 Fizz 49 Buzz Fizz 52 53 Fizz Buzz 56 Fizz 58 59 FizzBuzz 61 62 Fizz 64 Buzz Fizz 67 68 Fizz Buzz 71 Fizz 73 74 FizzBuzz 76 77 Fizz 79 Buzz Fizz 82 83 Fizz Buzz 86 Fizz 88 89 FizzBuzz 91 92 Fizz 94 Buzz Fizz 97 98 Fizz Buzz
But only the last is understandable and derivable
Trivial problems deserve canonical solutions.
Thank You!
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>https://github.com/davidthewatson/obfuscated_fizzbuzz


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This window lets you test the physical button wiring on your Pinscape unit.
The list of buttons shows each assigned button and its GPIO pin on the KL25Z, plus the on/off status of the pin. If you've wired the pin to a physical pushbutton, the pin status in the button list will display ON when you push the button. The pin will also light up on the KL25Z diagram to help you trace wiring if necessary.
If you need a reminder of the location of a button's assigned pin on the KL25Z, mover the mouse over the button's list entry. This will highlight the pin on the KL25Z diagram. Alternatively, moving the mouse over a pin on the KL25Z diagram will show the pin name.
The pin status reflects the simple electrical status of the pin. It simply shows whether or not the button is pushed. None of the extra processing, such as the Shift button or pulse timing, is used for this display. The intention is to let you see exactly what's going on at the basic wiring level without confusing matters with any of the software processing.
The keyboard and joystick button displays let you test the buttons' key assignments. These areas show the key presses being sent to the PC via the Pinscape unit's keyboard and joystick device interfaces. Unlike the physical pin status display, the keyboard and joystick displays show the "logical" status of the keys, so they're affected by the pulse timer on a "pulsed" button and by the "Shift" button, if you've assigned one.
 In contrast, the joystick button status area only shows the Pinscape unit's joystick buttons. It won't show buttons from any other joysticks you might have attached to your system. Likewise, the physical pin status display isn't affected by keys pressed on your keyboard or any other devices.


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Hi, my name is Thanos Psaridis (also nicknamed as Thanos Fisherman).
I'm a software engineer from Greece specializing in Android development and Java SE.
I'm a great fan of open source solutions and love making software by always following the latest development trends and libraries.
I'm also experienced in unix systems, bash scripting and Groovy language.
Some of my work is included here under the projects section which can also be found online on the Playstore and GitHub.
Hobbies include music, guitar (I love Jazz/fusion/funk/blues and beyond), A little bit of piano and percussion.


BLOOD RUN A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 2000
It doesn't look good when the film has the best scenes in the beginning. In the case of BLOOD RUN, 1994 erotic thriller by Boaz Davidson, the scene in the beginning is not only the best but also the only one worth watching, at least if male audience is concerned. The scenes of torrid sex between two young, rich and beautiful women don't last long, because one of the participants gets murdered. The investigation is given to Brad Kingsbury (played by David Bradley), violent, boozing police detective who also happens to be bad father. He quickly finds the suspect in Tanya Borgman (played by Anna Thomson), surviving member of the lesbian couple. However, beautiful and sexy Borgman soon shows that her sexual orientation isn't very strict, so Kingsbury succumbs to her seductive abilities, endangering his career and life in the process.
What distinguishes BLOOD RUN from myriad of other erotic thrillers is the fact that it looks like one of the most shameless rip-offs of BASIC INSTINCT. Director Davidson and scriptwriter Dennis Dimster tries to counter such impression with few shootout scenes more suitable for Hong Kong action films. However, such efforts are in vain, because plot and characters simply look too similar to those in Verhoeven's film. This is especially the case with Anna Thomson, who spares no effort in order to look identical to Catherine Trammel from BASIC INSTINCT, including the similar outfit, but nevertheless she fails in such task because of her too obvious cleavage. While (male) fans of Anna Thomson would probably enjoy this film, the rest of the audience should avoid this cheap knock-off and enjoy the original instead.
RATING: 3/10 (+)
Review written on October 3rd 2000
Dragan Antulov a.k.a. Drax Fido: 2:381/100 E-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>E-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>E-mail<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Filmske recenzije na hrvatskom/Movie Reviews in Croatian http://film.purger.com
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About
Eurya japonica
Keiichi Fukaya
- Senior Researcher, Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies
- Google Scholar
Education
- 2012 Ph.D. Hokkaido University, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Takashi Noda)
- 2009 M.Env.Sc. Hokkaido University, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Takashi Noda)
- 2007 B.Sc. Hokkaido University, Japan (Supervisor: Prof. Hiroshi Mukai)
Professional position
- 2021-current Senior Researcher, Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies
- 2018-2021 Research Associate, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies
- 2016-2018 Postdoctral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2013-2016 Project Assistant Professor, School of Statistical Thinking, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
- 2012-2013 Postdoctral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2012-2013 Visiting Researcher of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
- 2011 Predoctral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2)
- 2010 Global COE Research Assistant, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
- 2009 Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University
Awards
- 2022 Young scientists’ award (The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
- 2021 Miyadi award
- 2020 Population ecology young scientist award
- 2015 Matsuno environmental science award
- 2014 Excellent report award (Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting)
- 2014 Encouraging award of the Ecological Society of Japan (Suzuki award)
- 2013 Excellent report award (Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting)
- 2012 Incentive award for young researchers (Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Hokkaido Branch)
- 2010 Incentive award for young researchers (Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Hokkaido Branch)
- 2009 Excellent poster award (Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, animal population section)


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Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Serves 4
Dietary
Rich tomato sauce with soft aubergine, courgette and peppers - this vegetarian dish is a favourite with everyone.
Each serving provides 223kcal, 5.5g protein, 17.5g carbohydrate (of which 16g sugars), 12g fat (of which 2g saturates), 10g fibre and 0g salt.
Cut the aubergines into quarters lengthways, then cut the quarters into 2.5cm/1in slices. Cut the courgettes into 2.5cm/1in slices. De-seed the peppers and cut them into bite-sized pieces.
Score a cross in the base of each tomato and place them in a heatproof bowl. Pour over enough boiling water to cover and set aside for one minute. Drain and set aside until cool enough to handle, then peel away the skins. Cut them into quarters, scoop out the seeds and discard. Roughly chop the flesh.
Heat the oil in a flameproof casserole dish and add the onions. Cook over a gentle heat for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden-brown and very tender. Add the aubergines and courgettes, increase the heat slightly and cook for 2-3 minutes. Stir in the peppers, garlic, sugar, some salt and pepper and half the basil and mix well. Cover and cook over a very gentle heat for 20 minutes.
Add the tomatoes to the pan and cook for a further 10 minutes. Scatter with the remaining basil and serve.


Exercise 3.
Go to the data set Households by total money income [Microsoft Excel Document] 2 . The data set has been taken from [<IP_ADDRESS>] and simplified for the lesson.
Compare the estimated median income (dollar) of the White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic people from 2002 to 2020.
What visualization would be most appropriate to compare the estimated median income of the four racial groups?
Make at least two interpretations from the visualization(s) and report how the estimated median income of one racial group is different from others.


European Tour suspend Hong Kong Open due to civil unrest
Ongoing protests since June mean tournament rescheduled perhaps until next year
The European Tour has postponed next week’s Hong Kong Open due to the ongoing civil unrest in the city.
The protests began in early June over a now-shelved extradition bill to mainland China that many saw as Beijing’s creeping interference on legal and other rights guaranteed to Hong Kong when the former British colony returned under Chinese rule in 1997.
The movement has since expanded to include other demands, including direct elections for the city’s leaders and an independent investigation into alleged police brutality.
Several sporting events have been cancelled due to the unrest, including the PGA Tour-China’s Clearwater Bay Open and the Hong Kong Open tennis and squash tournaments, and the first event on the European Tour’s 2019-20 calendar has now become another casualty.
The tournament could be rescheduled for early next year and European Tour chief executive Keith Pelley said in a statement: “The decision has been taken due to the ongoing level of social unrest in Hong Kong.
“As the safety of our players, staff, stakeholders and everyone involved in each and every one of our tournaments around the world is our top priority, we feel this is the correct, but unfortunate, course of action.
“The European Tour thanks everyone at the Hong Kong Golf Association, the Hong Kong Golf Club and all persons associated with the Hong Kong Open for their hard work in endeavouring to stage the tournament and we look forward to hopefully returning early next year.”


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browsin' provides users with an efficient way to search streaming movies and shows based on their subscriptions. Simplicity of the software and speed were top priorities for our team on this project. We decided to implement React as a front-end and Ruby on Rails.
In my Dev Bootcamp eight-day project, I was responsible for the search controller allowing multiple queries across the database. There were a few days I dreamed at night about Regex, but I'm okay now. Additionally, I wrote in React and used Javascript, jQuery and Ajax to round it out.
Mano-a-Many helps friends stay friends when they find themselves needing to share a bill at a restaurant or pick up coffee for the office. Users can keep track of what they owe their friends, and how much their friends owe them. For larger groups, users can consolidate everything down to a few transactions.
We had five-days to complete a challenging implementation of some complex mathematics. The site needed a simple interface that helped users understand how we arrived at the solution. I wrote most of the front-end including AJAX calls to make the UX as smooth as possible.


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Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
What metric?
Semi-supervised Learning
Generative Models
Active Learning
Hinton & Salakhutdinov (2006)
The real question is: What do we want from a representation?
(No one knows.)
(More on denoising autoencoders in a bit!)
(Sometimes add pooling.)
Locally connected, pooling, conrast normalization, etc, trained on Youtube. Big.
Locally connected, pooling, conrast normalization, etc, trained on Youtube. Big.
Erhan, et al. (2010)
Generative Model: \(~p(x)\)
For example, generating pictures.
Discriminative Model: \(~p(y|x)\)
For example, classifying pictures.
Sampling:
Give us an image.
Probability Density:
Is this a reasonable image?
Equivalent.
"The cat sat..." predict the next word.
NADE
RNNs
(Neural net: Everything is a 1!!!!!!!!)
(Hard counterexamples are hard; not actually generative.)
"Partition Function"
(Samples from Bengio, et al. (2013))
Goodfellow, et al. (2014)
Goodfellow, et al. (2014)
Radford, et al. (2015)
Kingma & Welling (2013)
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Moves dot backwards until either the beginning of the buffer is reached, or an unmatched open parenthesis is encountered, or the beginning of a line is encountered at parenthesis level zero, that is, a line without an unmatched ")" existing between that position and the starting position of dot).
The definition of a parenthesis is derived from the syntax table for the current buffer.
expression is the number of parentheses to skip before applying the match.
Default binding: none
See also:
(backward-character repeat-count) ^B
Moves dot backwards repeat-count characters. If repeat-count is omitted, 1 is assumed. End-of-line and tab each count as one character. You cannot move back further than the beginning of the buffer.
You can also use prefix-argument to specify how far to move back.
Examples: two ways to move backwards 22 characters
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Loaded from the paragraph.ml package.
Moves to the beginning of the current or previous paragraph. Blank lines, Scribe and DSR/RNO command lines which separate paragraphs are not considered parts of paragraphs.
Paragraphs are defined by the variable paragraph-delimiters.
Default binding: ESC-)
See also:
Moves dot backward until an unmatched open parenthesis or the beginning of the buffer is found. This can be used to quickly skip over Lisp S-expressions.
The definition of a parenthesis is derived from the syntax table for the current buffer.
expression is the number of parentheses to skip before applying the match.
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(backward-word repeat-count) ESC-f
Moves dot backward to the start of the prefix-argument times repeat-count word. If repeat-count is omitted, 1 is assumed. If dot is not currently in the middle of a word, the command skips all intervening punctuation. It then skips over the words, leaving dot positioned after the last character of the word.
A word is defined by the current syntax table.
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Moves dot to the beginning of the current sentence, or if dot is not in a sentence, moves dot to the beginning of the previous sentence.
A sentence is defined by the regular expression search string contained in the variable sentence-delimiters.
Default binding: ESC-a
See also:
A function that returns what Emacs thinks is the baud rate of the communication line to the terminal. The baud rate is (usually) 10 times the number of characters transmitted per second.
baud-rate does not return anything reasonable under GUI interfaces.
Default binding: none
Moves dot to just before the first character of the current buffer.
Default binding: ESC-<
See also:
Moves dot to the beginning of the line in the current buffer that contains dot; that is, to just after the preceding end-of-line or the beginning of the buffer.
Default binding: ^A
See also:
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Default binding: ESC-,
See also:
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For example, if you want ESC-= to behave the way ESC-X print does, then typing ESC-x bind-to-key print ESC-= will do it. The binding will be in effect in all buffer except those with an identical local binding. If a key sequence specifies a keymap that does not exist, then the keymap is automatically generated.
The <keys> parameter can use the symbolic key names that Emacs supports:
See the User Guide for details of the symbolic keynames
Default binding: none
See also:
An MLisp function which returns 1 if dot is at the beginning of the buffer.
Default binding: none
See also:
An MLisp function which is 1 if dot is at the beginning of a line.
Default binding: none
See also:
This command return an output-array describing the bounds of the input-array that is its argument. The output-array is a two dimensional array. Its first index ranges from 1 to 2 and the second from 0 to the number of dimension of the input-array.
Element 1,0 in the output-array is the number of dimension of the input-array. Element 2,0 is the total size of the array.
Elements 1,1 to 1,n are the lower bounds of the input-array, where n is the number of dimensions. Elements 2,1 to 2,n are the high bounds of the input-array.
Example:
The following MLisp code inserts into the current buffer an analysis of the input-array.
(setq output-array (bounds-of-array input-array)) (setq dims (fetch-array output-array 1 0)) (setq i 1) (insert-string (concat "Array has " dims " dimensions\n")) (insert-string "low\thigh\n") (while (> i dims) (insert-string (concat (fetch-array output-array 1 i) "\t" (fetch-array output-array 2 i) "\n" ) ) )Default binding: none
See also:
(breakpoint "function-name" value)
Sets the breakpoint flag on the specified function. If the flag is set non-zero for a particular function, and the variable breakpoint-hook contains the name of a function, just before the function is executed, the breakpoint function will be invoked.
Default binding: none
See also:
- list-breakpoints
- breakpoint-hook variable
An MLisp function that returns the number of characters in the current buffer.
Default binding: none


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Steps to install Ruby on Rails using Ruby Version Manager (RVM) in Debian, Ruby, Rails
Install Ruby on Rails using RVM - Debian
Difficulty: 1
Time: 30 minutes
Ruby on Rails is a well-known open source stack for web application development. With the Ruby Version Manager, you can easily manage multiple Ruby application environments and switch between them in the most efficient way. This article will assist on how to install Ruby on Rails in Debain VPS using RVM.
Prerequisites
- RVM (Ruby Version Manager)
- SQLite
- MySQL (Optional)
- Apache2 (Optional)
Install RVM
- Run the following commands to install RVM:
sudo apt-get install libgdbm-dev libncurses5-dev automake libtool bison libffi-dev
sudo curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
- Run the following commands to install dependencies:
sudo curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | gpg --import -
sudo curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm install ruby
ruby -v
- Ruby tends to install the contents for all the packages. Type the following command to inhibit this:
sudo echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc
- Install the bundler.
gem install bundler
- To prevent any dependencies of Rails libraries, install NodeJS by typing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
Install Rails
- Run the following command to install Rails:
gem install rails
This will take some time to create the environment.
- Type the following command to check you Rails version:
rails -v
- Create the project directory for your Rail project by typing the following command:
sudo mkdir –p /usr/local/src/rail_project
- Move to the newly created directory and grant all the required access using the following commands:
cd /usr/local/src/rail_project
sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/src/rail_project
rails new HelloWorld
cd HelloWorld
rails server
Ensure the Rails server is running.
- Bind the Rails application using the following command:
rails server --binding=[your public IP]
The new application is ready and you can access it by visiting your_public_IP_or_domain:3000 (3000 is default port).
Conclusion
In this article, you learned the steps involved in setting up Ruby on Rails using RVM for the web application in Debian distribution.


Preparation time
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Cooking time
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Serves
Serves 4
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
First make the chive cream sauce. Boil the cream in a saucepan for two minutes or until it has thickened slightly.
Remove from the heat and whisk in the mustards, horseradish and lemon juice and taste for seasoning, adding a little more salt or lemon juice as necessary. Keep the sauce warm but do not let it boil again or the flavours of the mustard and horseradish will be spoilt.
To prepare the salmon, check that it has been properly trimmed and is boneless. If there are any bones remaining, remove with a pair of tweezers. Cut the salmon into four equal portions. Season each piece with salt and pepper and then dredge lightly with flour.
For the horseradish crust, mix together the horseradish and egg yolk. Dip the topside of each piece of salmon into the horseradish/egg-yolk mixture, making sure that each fillet is generously coated.
Mix together the breadcrumbs and parsley and then dip each piece of fish into the breadcrumbs. Shape the crust by pressing this mixture onto the fillets gently but firmly, with your hands.
To cook the salmon, heat the oil in a heavy based frying pan until very hot. Add the fillets, crust side down, with the butter and cook for three minutes or until the breadcrumbs are beginning to crisp up nicely. Turn the fillets over and finish off the cooking in the oven for five minutes.
To serve, add the chives, to the sauce. Place each fillet on a warm plate, laying it on a bed of buttered, cooked vegetables if you wish (spinach is a great choice) and surround with a little of the sauce.


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| Clone | Demo | Repo | Tech stack | Repo Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2048 | https://2048-three.vercel.app/ | https://github.com/AreebKhan619/2048 | React | |
| 2048 | https://demo.matsz.dev/2048/ | https://github.com/mat-sz/2048 | React, TypeScript, Redux | |
| Airbnb | https://abod-bnb.web.app/ | https://github.com/abodmicheal/React-projects/tree/master/Abodbnb | React, Firebase | |
| Amazon |
https://amazonna.netlify.app/ https://youtu.be/MSctN0MOdt0 |
https://github.com/emmanuelhashy/amazon-clone | React, Firebase | |
| Amazon Prime | https://prime-clone-e1de6.firebaseapp.com/ | https://github.com/peeyush14goyal/AmazonPrime-ReactJS-Clone | React | |
| Apple Music | https://appo-music.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/oriravid/Appo-Music | React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL | |
| Battleship Game | https://battleboats.ito.wtf/ | https://github.com/hairarrow/btship | TypeScript, React | |
| Clubhouse | https://jam.systems/ | https://github.com/jam-systems/jam | React, WebRTC | |
| Codecademy | https://codecademyclone.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/shanoysinc/Codecademy-clone | React | |
| Discord | http://ericellb.github.io/React-Discord-Clone | https://github.com/ericellb/React-Discord-Clone | React, Node, Express, Socket-IO, MySQL | |
| Discord | https://valkyrieapp.xyz | https://github.com/sentrionic/Valkyrie | React, NestJS, TypeScript, Socket-IO, PostgreSQL | |
| Disney+ | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-disneyplus/blob/master/.gh-assets/screenshare-4.png?raw=true | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-disneyplus | React Native, expo | |
| Dribbble | http://driwwwle.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/itsnitinr/driwwwle | MERN, react | |
| Dribbble | https://v.redd.it/a8lhmpjho0051/ | https://github.com/diazabdulm/rumbbble | MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, | |
| https://odinclone.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/lucaskenji/odinclone-app | MERN | ||
| https://github.com/KristianWEB/fakebooker-frontend#screenshots | https://github.com/KristianWEB/fakebooker-frontend | react, graphql, mongodb | ||
| Gmail | https://github.com/rodydavis/gmail_clone#screenshots | https://github.com/rodydavis/gmail_clone | Flutter | |
| Google Drive | https://mydrive-demo.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/subnub/myDrive | React, Node.js, mongoDB | |
| Google Keep |
https://googlekeep-anselm94.herokuapp.com/login https://github.com/anselm94/googlekeepclone/blob/master/docs/mobile-add-todo.gif |
https://github.com/anselm94/googlekeepclone | React, GraphQL, Golang, SQlite | |
| Google Keep | https://vue-keep-sepia.vercel.app/ | https://github.com/wobsoriano/vue-keep | Vue, Typescript, Firestore | |
| Google Keep | https://google-keeps-clone.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/kimlimjustin/google-keep-clone | Django, JS | |
| Google Forms | http://google-forms-clone.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/kimlimjustin/google-form-clone | Django, JS | |
| Google Photos | https://photos-clone.web.app/ | https://github.com/mani-barathi/Google-Photos-Clone | React, Redux, Firebase | |
| Hackernews | https://hackernews-redesign.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/RocktimSaikia/hacker-news-redesign | React | |
| Hackernews | https://news.python.sc/ | https://github.com/sebst/pythonic-news | Python, Django | |
| IMDB | https://imdb-react-clone.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/djohal/imdb-replica-react | React, Redux, Firebase | |
|
https://www.instaclone.net/login https://github.com/Sandermoen/instaclone/blob/master/screenshots/NgmjOVkZ4L.gif |
https://github.com/Sandermoen/instaclone | Reactjs, Express, Nodejs, Mongodb, Socketio | ||
| https://github.com/vipulasri/JetInstagram/blob/master/art/jetinstagram.gif | https://github.com/vipulasri/JetInstagram | Jetpack Compose | ||
| iOS Homescreen | https://ios-homescreen.now.sh/ | https://github.com/erickbogarin/ios-homescreen | React, Next.js, Emotion | |
| Jira | https://i.ibb.co/W3qVvCn/jira-optimized.jpg | https://github.com/oldboyxx/jira_clone | React, Typescript | |
| MacOS Calculator | https://chamoda.com/react-calculator/ | https://github.com/chamoda/react-calculator | React | |
| MacOS Notes app | https://hubert-wyszynski.github.io/notes-app/ | https://github.com/hubert-wyszynski/notes-app | React | |
| Medium | https://next-realworld.now.sh/ | https://github.com/reck1ess/next-realworld-example-app | React, Next.js | |
| MS Paint | https://jspaint.app | https://github.com/1j01/jspaint | Node.js | |
| Netflix |
https://azazel5.github.io/NetflixClone/ https://github.com/Azazel5/NetflixClone/blob/master/flixdemo.gif |
https://github.com/Azazel5/NetflixClone | React, Redux | |
| Netflix | https://netflix-clone-dd230.web.app/ | https://github.com/abodmicheal/React-projects/tree/master/Single-Channel-Messanger | React, Firebase | |
| Netflix | https://github.com/karlhadwen/netflix/blob/master/netflix-preview.png | https://github.com/karlhadwen/netflix | React, Firebase | |
| Netflix | http://spaceflix.herokuapp.com/#/ | https://github.com/ehecker/spaceflix | Ruby, React, Redux, PostgreSQL, AWS | |
| Netflix | https://expo-netflix.calebnance.now.sh/ | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-netflix | React Native, expo | |
| Netflix | https://roseflix-rosebilag.vercel.app/ | https://github.com/rosebilag/roseflix/ | React, TypeScript, MongoDB | |
| Nike | https://github.com/saeed9321/Nike-Website-clone/blob/main/screen-capture.gif | https://github.com/saeed9321/Nike-Website-clone | Express, MongoDB | |
| Omegle | https://start-a-conversation.firebaseapp.com/ | https://github.com/NickMandylas/start-a-conversation | React, Firebase, Twilio | |
| Orkut | https://orkutnostalgia.netlify.app/ |
https://github.com/GShadowBroker/orkut-clone-client https://github.com/GShadowBroker/orkut-clone-server |
ReactJS, GraphQL, Apollo, PostgreSQL | |
| PayTM | https://github.com/flutter-devs/flutter_paytm_clone#demo | https://github.com/flutter-devs/flutter_paytm_clone | Flutter | |
| https://trusting-euler-8aafb8.netlify.app/ |
https://github.com/machadop1407/pinterest-clone-frontend https://github.com/machadop1407/pinterest-clone-backend |
GraphQL, ReactJS, NodeJS, Mysql | ||
| https://redditsyncr.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/dustinkiselbach/reddit-refactor | React, Typescript | ||
| https://asperitas.now.sh/ | https://github.com/d11z/asperitas | Node.js, React, NoSQL | ||
| TikTok-Reddit | https://reddit-tiktok.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/hedgecox/Reddit-TikTok-Clone | React | |
| Twitch | https://twitchclone.vercel.app/ | https://github.com/alissonsleal/twitch-clone/ | React, Next.JS, Typescript | |
| skribbl.io | http://skribbl-env.eba-4374ebsp.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/ | https://github.com/nabinchaulagain/skribbl-clone | React, Socket.io, Express | |
| Slack | https://mattermost.com/ | https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-webapp | React | |
| Slack | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-slack/blob/master/screenshots/screenshare-3_v1.jpg?raw=true | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-slack | React Native, Expo | |
| Snapchat |
https://towhidkashem.github.io/snapchat-clone/ https://youtu.be/aRS88v-duKg |
https://github.com/TowhidKashem/snapchat-clone | React, Redux, Typescript, Cypress, Jest, Enzyme | |
| Spotify | https://github.com/JL978/spotify-clone-client/blob/master/demo/Authed.gif | https://github.com/JL978/spotify-clone-client | React | |
| Spotify | https://github.com/matpandino/spotify-ui-clone/blob/master/.github/spotify-clone.jpg | https://github.com/matpandino/spotify-ui-clone | Electron, React, Typescript | |
| Spotify | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KOHOJDGaLeumGqQenzCeeShPqIudCJBX/view | https://github.com/aashrafh/Oud | React | |
| Spotify | https://tune42-spotify.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/Tune42/spotify-clone | React | |
| Spotify | https://expo-spotify.calebnance.now.sh/ | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-spotify | React Native, Expo | |
| Spotify | https://github.com/osamaq/spotify-lite#screenshots | https://github.com/osamaq/spotify-lite | React Native | |
| Spotify + Soundcloud + YouTube | https://www.kord.app | https://github.com/bundit/kord-app | React, Redux, Express, PostgreSQL | |
| Stackoverflow | https://clone-of-stackoverflow.vercel.app/ | https://github.com/salihozdemir/stackoverflow-clone | ReactJs, NextJs, Express, MongoDB | |
| Stackoverflow | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A0B3JPUUY2snG8MLZpyz2LWhvThG2epn/view | https://github.com/Mayank0255/Stack-Overflow-Clone | MySQL, Express, React | |
| Tetris Game | https://hinsxd-tetris.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/hinsxd/react-tetris | React, Typescript | |
| Tetris Game | https://tetris20.netlify.app/ | https://github.com/shanoysinc/Tetris | Typescript | |
| Tiktok | https://youtu.be/iYqDUjvsS3o | https://github.com/emmanuelhashy/tik-tok-clone | React, Firebase | |
| Tiktok | https://youtu.be/sMKg6ILYgv0 | https://github.com/salvadordeveloper/TikTok-Flutter | Flutter, Firebase | |
| Tiktok-Reddit | https://henrybalassiano.github.io/Tik-Tok-Clone/ | https://github.com/HenryBalassiano/Tik-Tok-Clone | React | |
| Trello |
https://trellis-app.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/ayushagg31/Trellis/blob/master/images/Trellis.gif |
https://github.com/ayushagg31/Trellis | React, Redux, Node, Express, MongoDB | |
| Trello | https://codesource.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Trelloclone.webm | https://github.com/Dunebook/Trelloclone | Angular 10 | |
| Trello | https://tiquetapp.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/FLiotta/Tiquet | React, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL | |
| Trello | https://tberghuis.github.io/trello-board-clone/ | https://github.com/tberghuis/trello-board-clone | React | |
| trello |
https://rupmalya-trello-clone.herokuapp.com/signin https://youtu.be/59oQ01VEm30 |
https://github.com/RupmalyaK/trello-clone | Express, MongoDB | |
| trello | https://project-manager1.herokuapp.com/ | https://github.com/arturmolenda/project-manager | React, Redux, Node, Express, Socket.io, MongoDB | |
|
https://twitter-geek.netlify.app/#/ https://github.com/RisingGeek/twitter-clone/blob/master/demo/feed.png |
https://github.com/RisingGeek/twitter-clone https://github.com/RisingGeek/twitter-clone-backend |
React, Redux, NodeJS, MYSQL | ||
| https://twitterclone2.netlify.app/login.html | https://github.com/Dunebook/Twitterclone | HTML, CSS, JQuery | ||
|
https://tclone.netlify.app/ https://github.com/muzam1l/tclone/raw/master/docs/tclone-demo2.gif |
https://github.com/muzam1l/tclone https://github.com/muzam1l/tclone-api |
MERN | ||
| https://twitterapp-clone.netlify.app/home |
https://github.com/Ali-hd/Twitter-Clone https://github.com/Ali-hd/TwitterClone-Backend |
React, express, mongo, aws, socket.io | ||
| Uber | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-uber/blob/master/screenshots/screenshare-3.png?raw=true | https://github.com/calebnance/expo-uber | React native, expo | |
| Uber | https://youtu.be/ya1lsXS2Wvw | https://github.com/Santos-Enoque/uber_clone_with_flutter | Flutter | |
| Unsplash | https://github.com/junipdewan/react-unsplash#react-unsplash | https://github.com/junipdewan/react-unsplash | React | |
| Vimeo | https://bimeo.herokuapp.com/#/ | https://github.com/TarikGul/vimeo_clone_full_stack_project | React, Redux, Ruby. PostgreSQL | |
| https://codesource.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot_20201029-171635-1-709x1536.png | https://github.com/Ekeminie/whatsapp_ui | Flutter | ||
| https://medium.com/p/5479d83baaa4 |
https://github.com/Urigo/WhatsApp-Clone-Client-Angular https://github.com/Urigo/WhatsApp-Clone-server |
Angular, Express, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Typescript | ||
|
https://youtu.be/3TYfkvf4u4M https://clone-massenger.herokuapp.com/signinsignup |
https://github.com/RupmalyaK/whatsapp-MERN | MERN | ||
| Workflowy | https://deepnotes.in/ | https://github.com/mukeshsoni/deepnotes-editor | ReactJS, DraftJS | |
| Youtube |
https://utubeclone.netlify.app/ https://youtu.be/wHLurtOnmyM |
https://github.com/manikandanraji/youtubeclone-frontend https://github.com/manikandanraji/youtubeclone-backend |
React, Redux, Express, Sequelize |


TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. GS1 Related B. GS2 Related POLITY 1. Plotting social progress INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1. Raja Mandala: Commonwealth in the time of Brexit HEALTH ISSUES 1. Tuberculosis cases: Govt announces steps to check under reporting C. GS3 Related ECONOMICS 1. Crude oil futures surge to Rs 3,630 per barrel 2. One year of demonetisation: Digital transactions fail to gather steam after initial surge ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY 1. Climate meet begins: India pushes developed countries to deliver D. GS4 Related E. Prelims Fact F. UPSC Prelims Practice Questions G. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
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Category: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
1. Raja Mandala: Commonwealth in the time of Brexit
Context:
Importance of commonwealth for India
Key Points:
- With the upcoming visit of Prince of Wales to India, India and the UK have an opportunity to think afresh about the future of the Commonwealth
- In the past an archaic anti-colonial view has distorted India’s view of the commonwealth
- And it was no surprise then that the Indian leadership stayed away from the last three Commonwealth summits in Malta, Colombo and Perth for one reason or another.
- He is coming to India to invite PM Narendra Modi to attend the Commonwealth Summit in London in April 2018
- The London Summit of the 52-nation forum, formally called the “Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting” is significant for many reasons
Significance of the summit
- Charles is likely to take over from Queen Elizabeth as the head of the organisation
- As the largest country in the Commonwealth, India will have a key role in formalising this transition
- An even more important change is Britain’s r impending separation from the European Union
- After the separation, the UK is making a big push to reconnect with its historic partners in the Commonwealth and the Anglosphere
- The UK wants commonwealth should have greater role in resolving contemporary global problems like climate change, urbanisation and sustainable development
India’s Concern:
- The political conservatives in India, who dismiss the Commonwealth as a relic from the past, may not find Charles too persuasive
- Delhi’s lack of interest in the Commonwealth in recent decades was reinforced by the preoccupation
with
(1) Managing the complex relationships with its immediate neighbours (2) Reordering its ties with the major powers
(3) And becoming part of regional institutions like the Association of the South East
Nehru and Common wealth:
- Despite considerable opposition from the Indian National Congress and many others, Nehru decided to join the Commonwealth.
- Nehru understood that the Commonwealth and British connection gave India a measure of flexibility in a world engulfed by the Cold War
- It allowed him to maintain a substantive political and economic link to the West even as he refused to become part of its alliance system
Importance of Commonwealth for both India and the UK
- For a Britain that is reinventing itself politically after Brexit, the Commonwealth has become an important forum to recalibrate London’s international relations
- For a rising India, the Commonwealth is the most natural theatre to demonstrate its credibility as a “leading power”
The way forward
- The question today, then, is no longer about whether India and Britain should resurrect the Commonwealth, but how
- Modi’s consultations with Charles this week should be the first step towards a revival of the Commonwealth at the London summit next April
1. Tuberculosis cases: Govt announces steps to check under reporting
Directions given by the Union health minister:
- The union health ministry has asked private hospitals to notify it all cases of the disease reported in their facilities
- The government is aiming to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025
- The aim is to check under-reporting of tuberculosis, which has been flagged as a major area of concern by UN health agency World Health Organisation (WHO)
Other steps by the government
- The ministry will also set up two 24X7 call centres — in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh — so that patients can avail all information related to the disease by calling up these toll free numbers
- The ministry has also roped in the Indian Medical Association for further sensitisation of the health institutions
Key Facts:
- According to a report by the WHO, despite the reduction, India topped the list of seven countries accounting for 64% of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis cases worldwide in 2016
- India along with China and Russia accounted for almost of half of the 490,000, multi drug-resistant TB (MDR- TB) cases registered in 2016
1. Crude oil futures surge to Rs 3,630 per barrel
Key Points:
- Crude oil futures rose 83 per cent to Rs 3,630 per barrel as speculators widened their positions amid a firm trend overseas.
- At the Multi Commodity Exchange, crude oil for December delivery was trading higher by Rs 30 or 0.83 per cent at Rs 3,630 per barrel in 62 lots.
- On similar lines, crude for delivery in current month was trading higher by Rs 29 or 0.81 per cent at Rs 3,608 per barrel in a business turnover of 1,416 lots.
- Analysts said rise in crude oil futures was largely in tandem with a firm trend in global market where prices hit their highest levels since July 2015 as markets tightened, while Saudi Arabia’s crown prince cemented his power over the weekend through an anti-corruption crackdown that included high profile arrests.
- Meanwhile, the US benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude prices surged 12 cents or 0.22 per cent to $55.76 a barrel, and Brent crude climbed 20 cents to $62.27 a barrel.
2. One year of demonetisation: Digital transactions fail to gather steam after initial surge
Key Points:
- After an initial surge in digital payments, largely attributed to a shortage of cash in the banking system, digital transactions have seen a dip.This indicates a slow reversal in the usage of digital platforms
- This is despite doubling of point of sale (PoS) machines in merchant establishments across the country
- Mobile wallets have also seen a dip in volumes and value of transactions after the initial surge
- Unified Payment Interface (UPI), the payment platform of NPCI — promoted by RBI — had a slow takeoff even after the launch of BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money), which uses the UPI platform. The value of transactions through UPI are much below one percent of the total electronic payments in the country
- Bankers and analysts said a complete switch back to pre-November 8 trends has not happened. It shows the possibility that there has been some behavioral change in transactions patterns
- At a modest 11 percent, the country’s electronic personal consumption expenditure (ePCE) rate is a far cry from some leading economies with ePCE rates upwards of 60 percent
True reality:
- With over 800 million debit cards and over 30 million credit cards in the market, almost every household in India now has access to a digital payment
- This has not yet translated into digital transactions
- At 3 times growth in payment volumes and over 3.5 times growth in transactions, consumers are beginning to enjoy the benefits of the debit card beyond its use as an ATM withdrawal instrument
- The year after demonetisation was driven by innovation, mainly new mobile applications allowing merchants to receive digital payments via UPI, Link Based, Bharat QR Scan & Pay to mPOS
GST & digitization
- GST has given the much-needed boost to the digitization initiative
- It will now be difficult to make cash deals anymore with digital trails of every transaction
Way forward
- Both the government and the regulators need to continue the initiatives taken by them
- Principle-based policies, regulation versus current approach of product or entity based regulations, seamless access to payments network and other critical payments infrastructures like UPI and RTGS will make sure that incentives continue to grow for digital transactions
Category: ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
1. Climate meet begins: India pushes developed countries to deliver
Context
- FIJI set the stage for the fresh edition of the climate change conference, urging the world to commit itself to a 1.5 degree celsius limit on global warming, rather than a two-degree target, as it moves towards finalising the rule-book for the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement.
- The two-week conference, an annual year-end affair, is being held under the shadow of the decision of the USA administration to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, a move that severely undermines the goals and objectives of that agreement.
- On the opening day of the conference, however, there were no overt references to the US decision, even though that was the big subject of discussion in informal conversations.
- The US is participating in the conference, since its withdrawal cannot become effective until 2020, but its delegation remained silent on the opening day.
- India and other “like-minded developing countries” are a group of about 25 nations made an early intervention on Monday in a fresh bid to force the developed countries to deliver on their commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, the precursor to the Paris Agreement, which still has three years to go before expiring in 2020.
Doha developments:
- Amendments made to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol in Doha in 2013 extended the mandate of developed countries to take targeted cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions till 2020.
- The earlier mandate was to make emission cuts between 2005 and 2012.
- The Doha amendments are yet to become operational because they haven’t been ratified by enough countries.
- Ratification of the Doha amendments was not included in the agenda of the current conference, which India and some other countries objected.
- They argued that the conference must decide on a deadline, possibly sometime next year, for every country to ratify the Doha amendments.
- The developed countries are trying to avoid their responsibilities under the Kyoto Protocol.The Kyoto Protocol is not yet dead.There is still plenty that can be done within Kyoto Protocol provided there is intention to do so.
- Developing countries will continue to press for early operationalisation of the Doha amendments so that we can see some action being taken in the pre-2020 period as well.
- Fiji, the host and president of the conference, agreed to consider the suggestion by India and other countries, and appointed a facilitator to hold consultations .

- Small island countries are the most vocal in supporting the 1.5 degree target, threatened as their existence is by the rising seas.
The Paris Agreement
- The Paris Agreement wants the world to prevent the rise in global temperature beyond 2 degree celsius from pre-industrial levels, though it acknowledges that the effort to contain the temperature rise to within 1.5 degree celsius must not be abandoned.
- In the next two weeks and the year ahead to do everything we can to make the Paris Agreement work and to advance ambition and support for climate action before 2020.
Way Forward
- A greater effort is needed from the developed countries and big emitters in reducing their emissions.
- Aiming for 1.5 degrees is a serious challenge. But it provides a mission to the countries and engages their capacity for ingenuity, for organisation and sheer hard work.
- And may be the target will be achieved when humanity’s capacity to innovate is unleashed.
- The latest scientific assessments indicated that the world was actually moving towards a 3 to 5 degree celsius temperature rise.
- A new report by WMO also showed that the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere had crossed 403 parts per million, the highest ever.
- Scientists believe that concentrations of 450 ppm would lead to catastrophic and irreversible damage to the earth.
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F. Practice Questions for UPSC Prelims Exam
Question 1. Consider the statements about classification MSME sector.
- In manufacturing, investments not exceeding Rs.25.00 Lakhs are considered as small enterprise.
- In services, investments not exceeding Rs.10.00 Lakhs are considered as small enterprise.
Which of the above statements is/are correct ?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- None
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Question 2. Consider the following statement with reference to Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsava
- Held at Arunachal Pradesh
- Main aim is to promote traditional folkdance and music
Choose the correct answer
- Only A
- Only B
- Both A and B
- Neither A nor B
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Question 3. Which ministry is responsible for implementation of Foreign Contribution of Regulation Act
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Home affairs
- Ministry of Corporate affairs
- None of the above.
Question 4. Doha Development Round is often in news. It relates to which of the following ?
- Talks regarding international monetary system
- Talks regarding refugee crisis
- Talks at WTO regarding world trade
- None
Question 5. Consider the statements :
- Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) is a for-profit organisation formed to create a platform for all the concerned parties.
- The portal will be accessible to the central government which will track down every transaction on its end.
Which of the following statements is/are correct ?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- None
G. UPSC Mains Practice Questions
GS Paper I
- Indianness is not confined to the sectarian prejudices of some of the self-appointed guardians of Indian culture. Illustrate with examples.
GS Paper II
- Under the Indian Constitutional and Legal framework, what constitutes Hate speech? How does it violate Fundamental Right to Equality enshrined under Article 14?
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Before Change
with Tracer(traceLogger):
// "unfix" any operator inputs that were frozen before
for o in self.fixableOperators:
o.inputs["fixAtCurrent"].setValue(False)
// Can"t change labels while we"re in the middle of a prediction
self._labelControlUi.labelListModel.allowRemove(False)
After Change
// First, do a regular save.
// During a regular save, predictions are not saved to the project file.
// (It takes too much time if the user only needs the classifier.)
self.shellRequestSignal.emit( ShellRequest.RequestSave )
// Enable prediction storage and ask the shell to save the project again.
// (This way the second save will occupy the whole progress bar.)
self.predictionSerializer.predictionStorageEnabled = True


import os
import sys
import json, socket, time
# This makes sure the path which python uses to find things when using import
# can find all our code.
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('..'))
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')))
# import qt modules (platform independant)
import ardrone.util.qtcompat as qt
QtCore = qt.import_module('QtCore')
[docs]class State(object):
"""
A class which manages the state of the SwarmController object.
This is the base class from which all states inherit.
As status messages are received, the state machine determines the next state and changes it accordingly.
"""
def __init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers):
# Variables
self.drones = drones
self.state_ids = (0,1,2)
# Assign pointers
self.drone_controllers = drone_controllers # NB - actually a tuple of pointers
self._coop = _coop
[docs] def transition(self,state_id):
"""
Carry out action to transition towards requested state.
"""
pass
[docs] def maintain(self):
"""
Carry out action to maintain state.
"""
pass
[docs] def check_exit(self):
"""
Check the exit conditions against swarm status.
If state requires changing then do so to the correct state.
"""
# Count for conditions which have been met
conditions_met_count = 0
# Check exit condition for each state against all exit conditions for the respective state
for state in self.state_ids:
for key in self.exit_conditions[state].keys():
#print ("checking condition against: %s" % key)
#print ("comparisson: %s" % ([self.exit_conditions[state][key],self._coop.swarm_status[key]]))
if self.exit_conditions[state][key] == self._coop.swarm_status[key]:
conditions_met_count = conditions_met_count + 1
# Check met conditions against total conditions, accept or reject exit as specified in state
if self.exit_conditional[state] == 'none':
pass
elif conditions_met_count == len(self.exit_conditions[state]):
self.next_state(state)
elif conditions_met_count > 0 and self.exit_conditional[state] == 'or':
self.next_state(state)
elif conditions_met_count == 0 or self.exit_conditional[state] == 'and':
pass
else:
print("Unexpected condition grouping - check_exit - SwarmStates")
def next_state(self,state_id):
if state_id == 0:
self._coop.change_state((SetupState(self._coop,self.drones,self.drone_controllers),0))
elif state_id == 1:
self._coop.change_state((TaskBad(self._coop,self.drones,self.drone_controllers),1))
elif state_id == 2:
self._coop.change_state((TaskGood(self._coop,self.drones,self.drone_controllers),2))
[docs]class SetupState(State):
"""
ID = 0
The SetupState is for when the drones are not verified as being ready for operations.
State entry requirements: none
State purpose: to WAIT until drones are hovering stably
State transition conditions:
State 0:
-
State 1:
height_stable == True for all drones
State 2:
-
"""
def __init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers):
# Initialise as per State base class
State.__init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers)
# Set exit conditions
self.exit_conditions = [{}, {'height_stable':True}, {}]
self.exit_conditional = ['none','and','none']
print("======In Setup State======")
def maintain(self):
for drone in self.drone_controllers:
drone.request_state(2)
def transition(self,state_id):
self.maintain()
self.check_exit()
[docs]class TaskBad(State):
"""
ID = 1
The GroundState state for when task is not being achieved.
State entry requirements: assets are ready.
State purpose: to achieved the task.
TASK - to move continuously around a loop without collision
State transition conditions:
State 0:
-
State 1:
-
State 2:
airprox == False && following_marker == True
"""
def __init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers):
# Initialise as per State base class
State.__init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers)
# Set exit conditions
self.exit_conditions = [{}, {},{'airprox':False, 'following_marker':True}]
self.exit_conditional = ['none','none','and']
# Ask each drone to hold current position
self._coop.send_routes(self._coop._navigator.hold_position_route(self._coop.swarm_status['position']),self.drones)
print("======Task not being achieved======")
def maintain(self):
self.check_exit()
pass # It's not hard to carry on doing something badly!
def transition(self,state_id):
if state_id == 0 or state_id == 1:
print("Trying to change from TaskBad state into a SwarmState which isn't sensible. No action taken - SwarmState")
if state_id == 2:
# Continue route for front-most drone only to increase separation
new_routes = self._coop._navigator.route(self._coop.swarm_status['position'])
self._coop.send_routes(new_routes,[self._coop._navigator.front_drone(),])
# Request drones to move into a state able to follow markers
for drone in self.drone_controllers:
drone.request_state(3)
# Check success
self.check_exit()
[docs]class TaskGood(State):
"""
ID = 2
The CooperativeController state for when the task is being achieved.
State entry requirements: task is being achieved.
State purpose: watch over situation to detect danger to both task and assets.
TASK - to move continuously around a loop without collision
State transition conditions:
State 0:
-
State 1:
airprox == True || following_marker == False
State 2:
-
"""
def __init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers):
# Initialise as per State base class
State.__init__(self,_coop,drones,drone_controllers)
# Set exit conditions
self.exit_conditions = [{}, {'airprox':True,'following_marker':False}, {}]
self.exit_conditional = ['none','or','none']
print("======Task being achieved======")
def maintain(self):
# Continue route
new_routes = self._coop._navigator.route(self._coop.swarm_status['position'],self.drones)
print("new routes: %s" %new_routes)
self._coop.send_routes(new_routes)
# Check State
self.check_exit()
# will want to control spacings here
def transition(self,state_id):
pass
# nothing yet - or ever?


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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD A film review by Rob Furr Copyright 1995 Rob Furr
I sail against the wind quite often, it seems, when it comes to movies. I actually liked SUPER MARIO BROTHERS, for instance, which flopped, and I cannot stand the enormously successful EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a movie that I consider to be such an utter waste of celluloid that I openly advocate using all existing copies to heat homeless shelters in the New York area.
I'm apparently sailing against a light breeze when it comes to Sam Raimi's new movie, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. The overwhelming reaction looks to be "Well, it's all right, if you like that sort of thing," said in a disparaging tone of voice, while I stand off in the corner and say "It's all right, if you like that sort of thing" in an admiring tone.
From its opening frame, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD is clearly and obviously a spaghetti western. Like the movies that made Clint Eastwood a star and Sergio Leone a legend, this film is set in a region of the American west just south of Canaan and barely east of Hell. Biblical overtones abound; the town where the action is set is named Redemption, the primary antagonist is named Herod, and the only righteous man in sight is not only a preacher, but is offered all the kingdoms of the world during the course of the movie. Like Leone's movies, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD doles out its plot sparingly, and instead presents us with memorable scum and finely calculated pacing, and like Eastwood, the star of THE QUICK AND THE DEAD is left unnamed for most of the film's running time.
The plot of the film is as simply stated as that in THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. There is an annual gunfighter's contest held in the town of Redemption, it's sponsored by Herod, the gunfighter who rules Redemption with an iron fist, and, along with the assorted scum, Swedish fast-draw champions, and elegant fops with pearl-handled guns who have been drawn by the promise of a prize of $123,000 to the winner, a woman has come to compete, for an unknown reason. Almost all else follows from that basic concept; only one plot element is left out: Herod has a pet project, an old associate of his who abandoned the outlaw's life for that of a missionary. Herod has a theory; once a killer, always a killer, and the preacher is asked--forcibly--to compete in the contest.
That's it; a contest, a set of assorted killers, a reluctant gunfighter, and a cipher, and once the pieces are in place, the movie ticks along like the town clock that plays such an important role in the film. The key element of Leone's plots was always theme and variations, and Raimi has taken that idea and distilled it down as far as it will go. To my knowledge, no movies have ever included this many classical face-off in the street gunfights, and none have ever taken such pains to make sure each one is distinct and memorable. The pains are, in part, fruitless, because the middle of the movie does drag a bit, somewhere around the seventh time the clock rings the hour and someone gets shot, but the effort does show, and, for me at least, is apprecated.
The movie's weaknesses and strengths are the same: the actors. Sharon Stone is wonderful for the first ten minutes and horrible for five somewhere towards the end. Gene Hackman is pretty good throughout, but becomes wearing about halfway through, and only recovers when he picks up his gun again. Lance Hendricksen has several fine scenes, but loses believability as he departs the movie. The acting is uneven, to put it mildly. The cinematography and pacing cover most of the real difficulties up, but the fact that they need covering up detracts from the film.
To return to my thesis; it is my belief that this movie "is all right if you like this sort of thing." If you like spaghetti westerns, their simple plots and their spare characterization, their elegant construction and their dusty world, you'll enjoy THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, which is as typical of the form as any other movie ever lensed. If you don't like the spaghetti western, you won't.
Personally, I rate it as being a three-star three star movie (a moderately ambitious movie that fulfills most of its ambitions adequately. The Furr Scale rates movies on ambition as well as quality. ROBOCOP is a four-star three star movie; a wonderful example of non-epic moviemaking, while HEAVEN'S GATE is a one-star four star movie; a film that tried to be majestic, sweeping, grand, and failed utterly. EVIL DEAD II is a four-star one star movie, and DAVE is a two-star three star film. I rate films this way because comparing the rampant but hilarious idiocy of DUCK SOUP to the boring grandeur of THE LAST EMPEROR.)
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Typography for everybody! At the same time it’s impossible to create one ideal typographic engine. It doesn’t work this way. What we can do with it? We can easily create and maintain small, simple, full-tested and single responsible modules. After this we can compose bunch of these well done modules for every specific situation we need, and everybody will be happy with it’s own ideal text transformer. Check it out on GitHub!
Textr is good instrument to create modular tools to make your typography better. It can compose any functions that get text, transform it and return result of processing. For example, check out few: typographic-quotes, typographic-math-symbols, typographic-em-dashes and typographic-ellipses.
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Leeds United must stop unlucky Izzy Brown from showing what he’s capable of this weekend
The Chelsea loanee played just 11 minutes of football for Leeds United last season.
by Mathew NashLeeds United take on Luton Town at the weekend and will have to stop a familiar face if they are to be successful at Kenilworth Road.
Izzy Brown has been a hit with the Hatters since his loan move to the club from Chelsea in the summer.
That came after a fairly unhappy 12 months at Elland Road. It was always a gamble for Leeds to bring in the former Huddersfield Town loanee and it was a roll of the dice that did not pay off.
Brown arrived still recovering from a serious knee injury and his recovery from that injury was delayed by further hamstring trouble.
In the end, Brown played just 11 minutes of football for Leeds United and the lowlight of his time at Elland Road will be his skyed free-kick in the crucial stages of the club’s miserable play-off defeat to Derby County.
But his time at Leeds has at least helped him get back to full fitness and Luton are now reaping the benefits.
Brown has provided six assists in 15 appearances for the club this season and is one of their main sparks in attack.
He should be fit, having missed Luton’s last game before the international break with a knock, and will undoubtedly want to show Leeds what he can do when at his best.
Leeds fans will not begrudge him such success, as long as they come away with all three points.
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TL; DR
I used Jekyll with the Pixyll theme, with all my posts living within my blog’s GitHub repository.
We’re in a strange time in technology. Voicing your opinion online has never been easier. There are infinite resources to create a blog online, many claiming to be the best or claim to provide a productive workflow. How does one decide which to use?
There is not a one-size-fit-all
Unfortunately, this is true. Consider managing documents.
 The truth of the matter is you need to choose what’s best for you.
Why I settled on Jekyll
I’ve been tossing around the idea of abandoning my desktop environment. I currently use a custom built desktop computer which I have not been able to game on. In an effort to take a more minimal approach, I have started to back up a lot of my data into my GitHub. I have over 3 TB of space in my desktop, of which I personally use about 200 MB of, most of which is code I write.
I also like to write during my commute, so I would like a blog that can be worked on offline and then uploaded when I feel like the content is decent enough. I have been doing a lot of Javascript development lately, and one platform that caught my eye is Ghost. Ghost is a blogging platform that runs on NodeJS.
Due to the fact that I’m aiming to simplify my life, I don’t want to lose sight of my end goal (which is writing) by having to worry about how to configure, host and maintain my system. Similarly, I don’t want to have another place on the internet where my password is used, even if I rely on password managers.
Since I always interact with my git repositories, I figured that anything which could be maintained using Vim & Git is going to be a winner. Enter Jekyll.
The power of community
One thing which Jekyll has going for it is it’s extensive documentation and community. It’s very extensible and can very easily be tweaked. Combine it’s ability to be run on multiple environments along with integrating with GitHub Pages, and you have a combination that’s hard to beat (at least if you’re a developer who is unafraid of the terminal).


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