FOUR ROOMS
A film review by Zach Douglas
Copyright 1996 Zach Douglas
Four rooms, four stories, four directors. The film is split four ways between directors: Aliison Anders (Mi Vida Loca), Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), and Quentin Tarantino (Re-writes for "It's Pat", Just Kidding). Tarantino (hereforth, "QT") has a bit more influence over the picture as a whole, as he was also an executive producer, and even directed the animated title sequence. It's difficult to review this much hyped movie without reviewing all four pieces separately. For the sake of time and space though, I'll try not to go too in depth on each since this may end up lengthy anyways.
By now you probably know it's "Ted (Tim Roth) the bell hops first night on the job" at the classic but run-down Mon Signor Motel. It's New Years eve and Ted is in for a wild night. Allison Ander's room is Ted's first stop in the segment "Strange Brew".   Alicia Witt, and Lili Taylor. Together they begin to throw the ingredients in the cauldron, but it seems one didn't bring what she was supposed to. I won't go into it, but they need Ted's help. I was disapointed with the story here, as it was pretty straight forward when I expected something more clever like a short film might deliver. Also, isn't this a comedy? THere was also a lack of humor if so. Anders uses some cute special effects and screen wipes, but I didn't really find them attractive. Roth's Ted is most annoying here as it takes a while to get used to him playing the part that would have been more suitable for Cosmo Kramer than Mr. Orange. Enough said about room one, I found it rather uninteresting, but at least we get it out of the way first for...
The second room, Alexander Rockwell's "Two Sides to a Plate". Ted is trying to deliver some ice to the drunken party in 409 (Was that long haired yuppy scum Lawrence Bender? Again! I think so!) but he ends up in a different sort of party. Sigfried (David Proval) has his wife Angela (Jennifer Bales) in the ol' Marvin Nash position - bound and gagged and at gunpoint. From there, Sigfried has some good old fashioned fun with Ted as he refuses to let him leave. He pops some pills and continues to booze while he gives his wife and Ted the third degree. The story takes a minor turn, but it's an interesting situation left just sitting there. I was confused as again, there wasn't a lot of humor yet there was also nothing in the story to make up for this shortfall, like some interesting conclusion we are driving toward. Jennifer Beals is very good even while bound and gagged, but Ted is again flinchy and awkward throughout the segment. I'd like to be a better critic and say more about what was wrong with the segment, but it seems to me that the story being told just wasn't good enough to be interesting regardless of the acting or the director's style. Oh well, got those two out of the way, two of Hollwood's most talked about new comers up next.
Third Segment, Robert Rodriguez (The 7000 dollar man) directs, "The Misbehavers". Word on the street was that Rodriguez's segment blew the other three out of the water. Yet I didn't find this entirely true. Rodriguez's story DOES have some structure to it though. The segment revolves around Antonio Banderas and his Wife (Tamlyn Tomita) attempting to go out for a night on the town while leaving the kids 'home alone'. Yes, that's right Home Alone. So Father politely demands that Ted watch over the kids (or else) and slips him a quick $500. Of course, all does not go well with the kids, and wacky wild mayhem ensues. This segment was a lot better than the other two. The characters get some good, quick definition early on, and the it's off to the races. The main problem here seems that Rodriguez's style is quite restricted by the setting and characters. He wants to do his trade mark super-stylistic camera work - but on what? We see a nice take of Ted sweeping shoes of the bed and also of Ted turning the key in the lock. Ooh, Exciting. Also, it's supposed to be wacky fun with the two misbehaving' kids, yet Rodriguez seems to forget they are kids. There are many things that go harshly against the grain here including the language and some violence. I found these things mildly funny, but mostly awkward and bewildering in this setting. Overall though, nice work with a memorable conclusion. Definitely not bad at all. Which leads us to wonderboy himself, Tarantino.
QT takes the reigns a bit early as he has a short transition piece where Ted calls up a manager to try and get some help (Why, if the manager isn't Shocked Lady/Shot Lady herself from Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction!).  This was probably my favorite part of the entire movie! Tomei is excellent, and you can tell that the dialogue has made that sudden change, a change over to...the Tarantino Zone. Even Ted is slightly calmed now, speaking fluent English. Ted finally get to speak with the manager. She tells him to take care of the hotel's only Hollywood client if it's the only thing he does right the rest of the night. Flamboyant Movie Star, Chester Rush (Played by QT himself, imagine that) is that big star. So Ted makes the trip to the penthouse to deliver some bizarre items that the party requested, and from there on out it's full-fledged Tarantinoverse. In the penthouse are Chester, and his apparent parasite/friends Norman and Leo (Paul Caldron and Bruce Willis respectively, both in Pulp Fiction - Caldron is Paul, and that's up to ya'll' if his name doesn't ring a bell) and also Angela from down the stairs (Jennifer Beals character! Perhaps Sigfried was RIGHT to have tied her up!)  Also, you seem to remember hearing bits of dialogue in another movie some how - was it in..another QT movie? I think it was. Chester curses a lot and cozies up to Ted while Norman sits quietly and Leo is on the phone arguing with his wife. Once the gang feels ready though, they let Ted in on the secret of why they want him to hang out with them - to help them reenact an old episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents! You could feel the anticipation (curiosity?) of the audience rise instantly at that point. Chester then must sell Ted on staying to help them out. I'm going to stop right there and let you watch the rest because it was truly a great 20-25 minutes for me and I don't want to spoil anything as it took all I could do to avoid hearing what happened myself before watching it (Many have seen the original Hitchcock episode, although I'm sure it's quite a bit different!).
I found this segment to be imperfect, but pretty damn entertaining. I'll admit I'm a big QT fan, and he really puts more of a stylistic stroke onto the canvas in his segment where the others couldn't seem to find enough room to do so (perhaps that is why QT made sure HE got to film in the roomy penthouse!). Some of the camera work is amazing as the camera slowly moves and turns while the actors just keep spitting out lines, and eventually when the camera comes to rest, the actors are all lined up on screen in perfect form, right where QT wants them to be. He also shoots an incredibly long take (5-6-7 minutes or more?) and even shoots a scene with the character's shadows talking. The dialogue is funny, but nothing near as memorable as in his other works thus far. There is a LOT of cursing which could be distraction. I guess QT figured he would get his quota in this new time frame somehow. QT's acting is slightly flawed as usual, but not terrible. Caldron also didn't win my respect as I thought they could have found someone else either inside or out of the Tarantinoverse for this role (and QT's also). Willis is so-so but and Beals is even better than before, but it doesn't really matter, as all the characters get better collectively throughout the segment to pull off the punch line.
The segment is much like a condensed Tarantino movie. There's the B.S. which is like a shot to numb you and make you forget whatever it was you were thinking about, then the anticipation that something is going to happen, and then it builds (slowly, slowly), and then something happens and in a big way, and then you have a nice stylish ending, role the theme music. It's got everything, just squeezed down a little smaller for the limited time frame.
Well, I covered what I could and the major points of what I thought worked or didn't. Overall, it's just not a very good film. But, taken in parts, it does have some interesting moments. I failed to mention earlier, another big minus for me was some grotesqueness/toilet humor in the first three segments. All three contained something that wasn't very pretty (bodily fluids, references to bodily fluids, other icky things). None of them were very funny either, and somewhat low-brow which also seemed to go against the grain at times. Again, the setting seemed to handcuff the first three directors the most and it's obvious from their other works that they are no where close to talentless, just perhaps not as adept at these shorter pieces.
On the good side, it's a very different movie. Even different than other experimental movies where different stories/directors are combined. Tomei and Beals displayed the most talent and the acting all in all wasn't bad. Bad and good aside, if you are a true Tarantino fan, I think you'll eat up his latest offering and perhaps find some merit in the other three where you can. If you aren't, I can only hope you find at least ONE room in the building that you can enjoy!
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Although it has been demonstrated that the fully coupled response to greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols have significant, though not complete, spatial pattern similarity, the mechanisms for pattern formation remain poorly characterized 1– 3 suggest that the spatial similarities in the fully coupled response to GHGs and aerosols, analyzed in a subset of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models, are strongly mediated by common patterns of ocean–atmosphere feedbacks that can be separated conceptually into a fast, atmosphere-only component and a slower, ocean–atmosphere coupled component. The degree of spatial similarity in the climate response to GHGs vs aerosols has significant implications for questions in the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change 4 and for our understanding of the transient climate response to heterogeneous vs homogeneous forcers 5. It is thus vital to characterize the fast and slow mechanisms via which the spatial patterns of response are produced.
We probe the fast, atmosphere-and-land-only component of the formation of the spatial patterns of response to present-day GHGs and aerosols in an atmospheric general circulation model—a crucial intermediate step toward understanding the fully coupled response. We find that, although the atmospheric distributions of the two forcers are largely uncorrelated, their surface energy flux perturbation patterns achieve roughly two-thirds of the anti-correlation seen in the fully coupled response. Rapid land temperature and precipitation responses also show strong pattern similarity. Our analysis highlights the common modes of atmospheric circulation and surface energy adjustment that are triggered by both GHG and aerosol forcings. These produce antisymmetric (i.e., symmetric, but of opposite sign) spatial patterns of surface sensible and latent heat flux variations in response to the two forcers, particularly over the summertime Northern Hemisphere oceans. Our results suggest that atmosphere and land surface processes are capable of achieving substantial within-hemisphere homogenization in the climate response to disparate forcers on fast timescales, with implications for detection and attribution of near-term climate change and for understanding and predicting the regional climate impacts of anthropogenic GHGs and aerosols on societally-relevant timescales.


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The instance will not have an opportunity to flush file system caches nor file system meta data. If you use this option, you must perform file system check and repair procedures. This option is not recommended for Windows instances.


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. Even though it might seem repetitive, realize that multiple functions can exist in the controller.js and you can control which functions require access to myFactory
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— Sets the language definition found in the \App\Config\Settings class
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— Renders the shutdown exception
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— Prepares the application for loading a controller
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— Initializes the application console mode
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— Returns the singleton instance for this class
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— Executes the application


2021-06-14
Analysis addin:
- Fix problems with chart generation #46
2021-06-10
- Fix a critical bug in the consolidate and summarize addin
2021-06-01
Consolidate and summarize addin:
- Add support for reading (and saving) only fields needed in phenoptrReports.
Analysis addin:
- Preserve (or recreate) TMA information in the analysis output files.
- Only read cell seg fields needed for the analysis.
- Fix network file paths in
Script.R
.
Component levels report:
- Fix histograms to work with more than 11 components.
- Omit pairs plots with more than 10 components.
- Add correlation heatmaps for each file
Misc:
- Update to work with multi-schema phenotypes
- Fix report generation to work when paths contain spaces
- Require R 4.0.0 or higher for compatibility with latest rtree
2020-11-11
Consolidate and summarize addin:
- Reduce memory use to allow consolidation of larger files
Bug fixes:
- Nearest neighbor and count within summaries work correctly if detailed data is not requested.
- Correctly double-escape all backslashes in the slide id prefix.
- Improved error checks and error messages
2020-08-22
Analysis addin:
- Nearest neighbors and count within are computed per tissue category and for all cells in any included category (#39).
- Include expression-based phenotype columns and measured expression columns in count_within.txt and nearest_neighbors.txt (#36).
- Output has nicer names for expression-based phenotypes (#36).
Spatial map viewer addin:
- Fix “Save all” to work on a Mac
2020-05-18
Analysis addin:
- Remove summary lines from the Count Within worksheet, they are not correct (#35)!
Spatial map viewer addin:
- For the usual use where the client browser is running on the user’s computer, the “Save all” saves directly to the local file system without creating an intermediate zip file. This is faster and avoids transfer of a potentially large zip file.
Misc:
- Fix to work correctly with dplyr 1.0.0.
2020-04-23
Analysis addin:
- The Count Within worksheet includes summary counts across all tissue categories when multiple categories are reported.
- Fix chart report to run when “Total Cells” is the only phenotype defined (#32).
- Fix chart report to handle “All Cells” correctly.
- Fix H-Score report to always include every combination of Slide ID (or Sample Name) and Tissue Category.
- When computing mean expression for All tissue categories, don’t propagate NA. The All numbers reflect the valid tissue categories.
- Fix to work with latest
dplyr
.
Spatial map viewer addin:
- Don’t require Slide ID in the source cell data file.
2020-02-25
Analysis addin:
- Don’t require tissue segmentation in the inForm project (#4).
- Add the ability to compute H-Score for individual phenotypes (#30). When selected, additional H-Score worksheets and charts will be created in the output reports.
- When “Use regular expressions” is checked, the regular expression will match anywhere in the Slide ID, not just the prefix.
- Fill in missing tissue categories so all slides have all categories reported (#1).
- Report missing / invalid values consistently as #N/A, never as #NUM.
Merge addin:
- Fix a problem that caused data corruption when cell seg data is formatted with comma as decimal separator (#31).
Misc:
- Use the RStudio folder chooser when available, rather than the Windows native chooser. The RStudio chooser is nicer and gives access to network drives (#29).
2019-10-22
Analysis addin:
- Reverse the y-axis of heatmaps so that the identity runs from the top left to bottom right.
Spatial map viewer improvements:
- Add “touching cells” visualization and related data.
- When saving plots, the viewer optionally saves the associated data (#22).
- Spatial map viewer works correctly with inForm data containing field coordinates (vs slide coordinates) (#16).
Consolidate and summarize addin:
- Add a Slide ID column with value “None” if none is present.
Component levels report:
- Optionally export data from pairs plots as TSV files.
Misc:
- Now requires tidyr >= 1.0.0.
2019-08-07
Spatial map viewer improvements:
- Dramatic improvement in time to render the charts, especially with 2x2 fields.
Analysis addin:
- Save nearest neighbor and count within detail as tab-separated text files instead of CSV files. This allows the detail files to be used as input to a second run of the analysis addin.
- Improved heatmaps in Charts output:
- Maximum of eight heatmaps per page
- Split the facet titles so the full Slide or Annotation ID is visible
- Better
nearest_neighbor_summary
- Avoid warnings from
min
and max
and return NA
for all values when there are no examples of a phenotype (#20).
Unmixing quality report:
- Tables show components as ordered in the data, not in alphabetical order.
- Pixel intensity chart uses actual pixel intensity as labels on the x-axis, rather than log10 values.
Component levels report:
- Charts use actual pixel intensity as labels on the x-axis, rather than log10 values.
2019-07-02
Spatial map viewer improvements:
- Calculates nearest neighbors on the fly
- Works with data from
Consolidated_data.txt
(doesn’t need nearest_neighbors.csv
)
- Supports multiple positivity and expressions in phenotype selectors!
Component levels report:
- Allow the user to enter the quantile(s) to display on the histograms. If two or more quantiles are entered, include a signal-to-noise table in the report, showing the ratio of the highest quantile to the lowest.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a problem that caused the analysis addin to incorrectly report zero cells in a phenotype (#15).
2019-06-18
Spatial map viewer addin:
Analysis addin:
- Phenotype definitions may include valid expressions such as
~`Membrane PDL1 (Opal 520) Mean`>5
.
Bug fixes:
- Fix error during calculation of N/A and Total cell in cell seg summary report
2019-05-31
Bug fixes:
- Fix calculation of N/A and Total cell count in cell seg summary report (#13)
2019-05-10
Analysis addin:
- Add support for aggregation by a selectable column (#3). This allows reporting by Sample Name or Annotation ID as well as by Slide ID.
- Detailed output of nearest neighbors includes the Cell IDs of nearest neighbors as provided by
phenoptr::find_nearest_neighbors
.
- Recognize and correctly read inForm data which uses comma as the decimal separator. (Requires phenoptr >= <IP_ADDRESS>00; related to akoyabio/phenoptr#8).
- More robust
find_common_prefix
function works with empty and numeric Slide IDs.
Bug fixes:
- Fix the way the analysis addin handles special characters in Slide ID (#9).
- Fix file chooser to work on RStudio Server.
Analysis addin
- Optionally save nearest-neighbor and count-within details for each cell.
- Reverse the fill scale of the nearest neighbor heatmaps so red represents closer cells.
- Write session info to
session_info.txt
in the output directory.
Unmixing quality report
Component levels report
- Show a single quantile (99.9 percentile) in the signal histograms.
- Omit Autofluorescence from the pairs plots.
- Use a common scale on the individual plots within each pairs plot to avoid exaggerating small signals.
- Add “Guidance” section.
- Remove “Signal to noise” section.
Merge addin
- More forgiving handling of duplicated records. It now ignores the duplicates with a warning.
- Less noisy console output.
General
- Reports save temporary files in a subdirectory of the output directory (#5)
- File and directory choosers are cross-platform (#8)
2019-03-03
New features:
- Analysis app optionally creates tabular summaries and heatmap visualizations of nearest neighbor distance and count within radius for all phenotype pairs.
- Component levels report includes pair plots of component vs component for each source image.
Bug fixes:
- Component levels report
- Write CSV files to the export directory, not its parent.
- Fix height of “Pixel intensity by component” charts.
- Consolidate merged files
- Fix to recognize “Annotation ID” as the field name.
- Analyze consolidated data
- Update for dplyr 0.8 to fix #N/A values in Total lines of Cell Counts, Cell Percents and Cell Density sheets
- Clean up chart output
- “All” tissue category is last in charts which have it, same as “Total”.
- Fix “Cell Count” axis label
- Fix legend in H-Score chart - “name repair” in readxl version 1.2.0 created unexpected column names which were shown in the legend.
2019-01-25
New features:
- The “Merge cell seg files” addin now supports searching sub-directories for target files.
- The “Consolidate and summarize” addin remembers the last directory for subsequent selections.
- More informative error message if consolidation fails due to mis-matched data files.
Bug fix:
-
compute_density
works with “square microns” spelled as inForm does.
2018-12-04
New features:
- Component levels report shows signal levels of bright and dark pixels in multiplex images.
Misc:
- Unmixing quality report works when DAPI and AF components are not present.
-
consolidate_and_summarize_cell_seg_data
processes files pairwise for reduced memory requirements.
- Better error handling in
consolidate_and_summarize_cell_seg_data
.
- Removed
consolidate_and_split_cell_seg_data
2018-11-05
New features:
- New RStudio Addin - “Merge cell seg files” merges inForm output from individual fields, similar to the inForm Merge tab.
-
merge_cell_seg_files
function performs the merge.
Misc:
- Update the link to Phenoptics home page.
-
compute_mean_expression_many
ignores duplicate parameter definitions instead of stopping with an obscure error.
-
compute_density_from_cell_summary
doesn’t require a Phenotype
column in the cell seg summary data.
-
split_phenotypes
doesn’t require a Confidence
column in the source data.
-
split_phenotypes
recognizes whitespace as a phenotype separator.
2018-10-26
New features:
- New unmixing quality report.
- Mean expression sheet includes tissue category “All” with mean expression across all requested categories.
- Chart report includes count and density charts with truncated Y-axis if any count or density > 2000.
2018-10-22
New features:
- Add version number, date stamp and documentation link to generated script file #2
- Add H-Score chart to the generated charts
- Add Akoya logo to footer in chart report
Bug fixes:
- Fix order of slides in Mean Expression report
- Don’t crash cell seg summary report when a slide has only one phenotype
- Correctly report number of fields for data derived from a whole-slide scan


CLASSIC CINEMA 101: Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO (1958) A review excerpt by Joe Barlow Copyright 1999 Joe Barlow
The easiest way to identify a master filmmaker is to observe how well his or her work holds up to multiple viewings. All too often a story's luster fades quickly--even a movie beloved during the initial screening can feel stale and formulaic the second time around. The rare film which actually demands more attention on subsequent viewings is to be cherished indeed.
Vertigo may not be Alfred Hitchcock's best film, but it's probably his richest--the one that keeps calling us back for further analysis, the one hardest to release from our minds after the end credits roll. The story, adapted from the French novel D'Entre Les Morts (From Among the Dead), is certainly one of cinema's most compelling, as famous for its magnificent construction as its actual entertainment value. A rich masterpiece of macabre obsession, Vertigo is not so much a movie as a web that entangles and ensnares both the characters and audience.
John "Scottie" Ferguson (played by Hitchcock regular James Stewart, in the last film they would make together) is a detective who leaves the force after a near-fatal misstep during a rooftop chase leaves him with an incapacitating fear of heights. Having little to occupy his time, Scottie answers a plea for help from an old college friend, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore). Elster confides to Scottie that his (Elster's) wife, Madeleine, may be in danger:
GAVIN: "I'm afraid some harm may come to her." SCOTTIE: "From whom?" GAVIN: "Someone dead."
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President Trump’s Alma Mater Introduces Bitcoin (BTC) and Crypto Classes
by Daily Hodl StaffWhile President Trump has scorched Bitcoin with his anti-crypto remarks, his alma mater is joining other esteemed universities in offering classes on the revolutionary technology.
Wharton, the business school of the University of Pennsylvania and the world’s oldest collegiate business school, is offering its first student-organized course on cryptocurrency technology.
The seven-week series, entitled “Managing Disruptive Change: Cryptocurrencies,” explores the technology’s recent history and related businesses that use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to transfer money and value, redesign payment rails and business transactions, and reimagine monetary systems.
It promises high-profile guest lecturers on a rotating professor/practitioner structure to blend theory with instruction from industry leaders. According to the course description, instructors have three main objectives.
- Provide students with a framework for analyzing current topics in business by connecting different aspects of academia to business practice.
- Help students contextualize cryptocurrency into a greater academic and practical framework.
- Enable students to learn from the teachings of industry experts and take those lessons with them into their academic and professional lives.
At the end of the course, students will have to turn in a 2,000-word paper written by groups of 4-5 participants. They can choose from various topics.
Examples of topics could include, but are not limited to:
- The crash of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in 2011.
- Technology / innovation companies utilizing cryptocurrencies (Ripple, Coinbase, Circle)
- Central Bank investigations into government-issued digital currencies (Sweden, Uruguay)
- Analysis of laws and regulations pertaining to cryptocurrencies
Katherine Devore, one of 60 students currently enrolled, gives the course a thumbs up, reports The Daily Pennsylvanian.
“I would recommend this course, especially to anyone who is interested in going into the payment industry or anyone interested in blockchain. I feel like a lot of what we want to see in terms of courses is reflected in what we think employers are asking for and where our careers are going to go and where our interests lie.”
Starting on November 22, enrollment opens for Coursera’s Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies offered by Wharton Online. You can check it out here.


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About Me
Hello there, name is Abner Toribio-Vazquez, I’m an aspiring web developer. I have an AS Degree in Business Administration with a background in sales. I did sales among many other things for a few years, but I felt disconnected from my work, I didn't feel like I was working towards something that I was passionate about, and so in late 2020, I decided to change career paths and signed up for the coding bootcamp at UNC Chapel Hill. I am still undergoing the process of learning web development but I have high hopes for what lies ahead.
Here are some of the technologies I'm familiar with.
- HTML & CSS
- Javascript & Jquery
- NodeJS
- Bootstrap & Tailwind
- MySql and Sequelize
- MongoJS


Follow these steps after selecting Binance in step 4 of the tutorial in the introduction:
$ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open API key: wL1waeOC7VD447skCFeiat9pP3r1uKXfYomGg43uyCOgzl8xsI9SZsX97AXP4zWv API secret: ****************************************************************
demo
for the testnet or real
for the production environment.
$ lean cloud live "My Project" --push --open Environment (demo, real): demo


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Experience
QC Analyst
Arian Zist Jam, Tehran (Iran)
Responsible for checking outgoing products to ensure that they are free of defects and produced according to internal specifications and external guidelines.
Ensure all aspects of quality are managed according to company standards, including maintaining QC records for tests undertaken.
Develop new products and redesign cosmetics products.
Research Chemist
Andisheh Gostar, Tehran (Iran)
Research on synthesis of calcium silicate as a main material for dental composite.
Developing, troubleshooting and validating synthesis methods.
Carry out analysis of dental composites and related materials within agreed timescales.
Carry out administrative tasks relating to analytical work, including sample receipt and booking in of samples into the lab.
Teacher Assistant
School of Chemistry – University of Tehran
Facilitated learning of chemistry course through student-centered laboratory experiments.
Project Manager (Volunteer)
Iranian Hemophilia Society
Provided Status reports to Management and internal teams on a monthly basis.
Planned, scheduled and estimated project activity times and budget.
Provided management expertise in the operation of the Fundraising efforts.


You can hire your own Santa sleigh for Christmas parties in Liverpool this year
The big red sleigh even comes with its own Christmas present props
by Gemma JaleelThe Christmas tree is up, the fairy lights are hung and tinsel is covering every inch of your house.
Surely there is nothing more you can add to make the setting even more festive?
Well, if you're hosting a Christmas party for all the family and want to impress, then you can hire your very own Santa sleigh.
The professionally-built, full-size red sleigh comes complete with rope lights, fur throw and even Christmas present props. Just imagine the selfies.
Owner Gerrard Aindow told the ECHO: "It’s a lovely thing. I collected it from Inverness last year and completely refurbished it - it's a proper show stopper."
The sleigh, which is £150 to hire for 24 hours, is the ideal addition to any Christmas party, display or even grotto and will be available throughout November and December.
Christmas in Liverpool 2019
Winter is upon us and Christmas cheer has already begun in Liverpool as stores begin to fill with decorations and early gift ideas. Here are some of the most festive events happening in Liverpool this year:
- A Christmas cinema is coming to the Palm House
- There is an elf trail coming to Allerton Manor
- The Liverpool Ice Festival is returning to the Pier Head
- Santa's Grotto is returning to Dobbies
- The date is set for Liverpool ONE's Christmas launch
- Families can sing-along with Santa at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
For all the latest on Christmas in Liverpool, join our festive Facebook group here.
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Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
Serves
Serves 2–4
Dietary
Aubergine gets an umami hit from miso and freshly made ricotta. Perfect for vegetarians at a barbecue.
Heat a griddle pan or barbecue to a high heat and colour the elephant garlic head on all sides. Wrap in foil and place on a cool part of the barbecue or in an oven preheated to 120C/100C Fan/Gas ½.
To make the ricotta, place the milk in a saucepan with the herbs, olive oil and a pinch of salt. Bring to the boil, then whisk in the lemon juice. Remove from the heat and wait for the milk to split. Pour into a colander lined with cheesecloth over a large bowl and allow to drain.
To make the aubergine. mix the miso paste with the sesame oil and 2 tablespoons of water, until smooth. Brush each aubergine half with the miso mixture. Cook on the barbecue or on a hot griddle pan for 5–10 minutes on each side, basting with the miso, until cooked through and charred.
To make the dressing, place the grated garlic, lime juice and zest, chilli, vinegar and herbs in a pestle and mortar and season with salt and pepper. Squeeze the garlic out from the head and mix with the dressing.
To serve, arrange the ricotta on a serving plate with the aubergine. Drizzle with the dressing and serve.


Source code for pyxtal.database.collection
from pymatgen.core.structure import Molecule
import json
import os.path as op
[docs]class Collection:
"""Collection of molecular data.
Used for obtaining pymatgen objects from a small database file.
Example of use:
>>> from pyxtal.database.collection import Collection
>>> test=Collection('molecules')
>>> test['H2O']
Molecule Summary
Site: O (0.0000, 0.0000, 0.0000)
Site: H (0.2774, 0.8929, 0.2544)
Site: H (0.6068, -0.2383, -0.7169)
>>> list(test)
['H2O', 'CH4']
Args:
name: the type of collection to get. Defaults to "molecules"
"""
def __init__(self, name='molecules'):
"""Create a collection lazily.
Will read data from json file when needed.
A collection can be iterated over to get the Atoms objects and indexed
with names to get individual members.
Attributes:
name: str
Name of collection.
data: object
Pymetgen molecule object
filename: str
Location of json file.
"""
self.name = name
self._data = {}
self.filename = op.join(op.dirname(__file__), name + '.json')
with open(self.filename,"r") as f:
self.content = json.load(f)
def __getitem__(self, name):
self._read(name)
return self._data
def __iter__(self):
for dct in self.content:
yield dct['name']
def _read(self, name):
if self.name == 'molecules':
"""
read the data by name and convert it to pymatgen format
"""
for dct in self.content:
if dct['name'].lower() == name.lower():
pos = dct['xyz']
symbols = dct['elements']
self._data = Molecule(symbols, pos)
elif self.name == 'clusters':
for dct in self.content:
if dct['name'] == int(name):
self._data = dct
[docs] def show_names(self):
for dct in self.content:
print(dct['name'])


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This is an
Algolia sample
allowing to scan a delivery, find and notify the recipient.
View code on GitHub.
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This blog is based on Andrew NG Sequence Models coure and Colah's blog on LSTM
Traditional NNs are not equipped to handle sequential events. We see that most of the events do happen sequentionally in our life like keyboard next word prediction is based on the previous consecutive typed words.
RNN address this issue whenever context is part of the modelling
They have loops in them, allowing information to persist
A recurrent neural network can be thought of as multiple copies of the same network, each passing a message to a successor. Consider what happens if we unroll the loop:
An unrolled recurrent neural network.
Essentially what its doing:
Any instance of the hidden state takes input from its layer and from the previous hidden state
Thus able to get information passed to the current layer acting as memory
The final output of the RNN(consisting memory of all previous sequence) is passed to the traditional NNs to classify etc
1. Short Term Memory
In case of long context like "I grew up in France… I speak fluent French."Recent information suggests that the next word is probably the name of a language, but if we want to narrow down which language, we need the context of France, from further back.
Unfortunately, as that gap grows, RNNs become unable to learn to connect the information.
The reason for this is Vanishing Gradient as the sequence becomes long and long-term dependencies needs to be handled. Lets Explore these in details below
1.1 BPTT (Backpropagation Through Time)
1.2 Vanishing Gradients


FreeText3D()
Syntax
FreeText3D(#Text3D)Description
Free the specified text.
Parameters
#Text3D The text to free. If #PB_All is specified, all the remaining texts are freed.
Return value
None.
Remarks
Once the text is freed, it may not be used anymore.
All remaining text are automatically freed when the program ends.
See Also
CreateText3D()
Supported OS
All


Intro and setup
This is a simple explanation of how to write a manuscript in RStudio. Writing a manuscript in RStudio is not ideal, but it has gotten better over time. It is now relatively easy to add citations to documents in RStudio.
**The goal is not think about formatting, and citations, but to write the manuscript and add citations on the fly with a nice visual help. **
This tutorial explains how to link Zotero (a reference manager) to your project folder and how to easily add citations.
In this tutorial I assume you have Zotero installed.
You will need to have the zotero extension betterBibtex installed and I will
use RStudio, with the packages knitr, shiny and other basic tooling in place.
To search and insert citations in a file you will need to install the package
citr
install the latest dev-version from github or the stable version from cran.
Why would I write my manuscript in RStudio?
The main reasons to write in RStudio ( and not in f.i. Word ) are reproducibity, and version control. Writing in plain text as you do in RStudio makes it very easy to keep track of your work with version control and the plain files are easily shared. Working from RStudio also allows you to combine the code and text in one document. This is called literate programming. Literate programming makes it incredibly easy to share your code (it’s in the document) and compiling the document runs the code again, ensuring reproducibility.
I use RStudio projects so everything important to a project is in the same folder and the working directory is automatically correct. I create a new RMarkdown document
Earlier workflows
It was always possible to intersperse code and text in R, previously people used the Sweave
package to combine code and text. You had to write the text in Latex and markup the code. Latex prints very pretty, but in raw form it is horrible to read, as you can see in the example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lingmacros}
\usepackage{tree-dvips}
\begin{document}
\section*{Notes for My Paper}
Don't forget to include examples of topicalization.
They look like this:
{\small
\enumsentence{Topicalization from sentential subject:\\
\shortex{7}{a John$_i$ [a & kltukl & [el &
{\bf l-}oltoir & er & ngii$_i$ & a Mary]]}
{ & {\bf R-}clear & {\sc comp} &
{\bf IR}.{\sc 3s}-love & P & him & }
{John, (it's) clear that Mary loves (him).}}
}
I copied this from a example page.1
The output looks beautiful, but it’s damn near unworkable in plain text. And even worse, mistakes are easily made and very hard to find (since you don’t know where the trouble started, and the error messages are quite cryptic).
From latex / Sweave to RMarkdown
Markdown is a very simple markup language that is readable for humans and can be translated into html / latex / word / etc by computers. In stead of \section{name fo the section} we can just use a pound symbol (a.k.a. hashtag: #) to mark a heading. One pound for a heading 1, 2 for heading 2 etc. The difference between markdown and RMarkdown is R-code in the text. There are plenty good tutorials out there so I will only give you one2 and a search online will give you more.
Citations
Citations connect your paper to the past, linking your research to earlier research. It is essential that people can find the correct paper or book you are referring to. For that reason (and vanity I think) there are many styles of citations. I’ve used the APA and Chicago style in the past and there are probably about 500. Every single one has different rules; cite inline by author name and year, or by number, etc.
If you resubmit your paper to a journal with a different citation style you have to rewrite every citation in the manuscript. Because we have better things to do, there are reference managers that automatically use the correct styling. And that change all the references in the text. I have used this in Word and LibreOffice in the past. But changing styles works a bit different in plain text formats such as markdown and latex. In general you cite research by a key that refers to a bibliography. In the build process the keys are replaced with the citations in the style that you want, so that the endproduct has the correct citations. This is also implemented in Latex and RStudio. In general the workflow is as follows:
- add the citations in the correct ‘language’ (bibtex) to your document or to a different document and provide a link to.
- Use keys that refer to the correct entry in the bibtex.
- The citation manager inserts the correctly styled reference in the correct location while it writes the final version.
You write and cite like this:
“The ggplot2 package is used to plot images in layers<EMAIL_ADDRESS>The key (a at-sign and name) refers to a bibtex entry. For example:
@book{wickham_ggplot2_2009,
address = {New York, NY},
title = {Ggplot2},
isbn = {978-0-387-98140-6 978-0-387-98141-3},
language = {en},
timestamp = {2017-02-19T10:19:27Z},
urldate = {2015-11-09},
url = {http://ggplot2.org},
publisher = {{Springer New York}},
author = {Wickham, Hadley},
year = {2009},
note = {04749},
file = {ggplot2 - hadley wickham.pdf:C\:\\Users\\roel\\AppData\\Roaming\\Zotero\\Zotero\\Profiles\\aw40nx7l.default\\zotero\\storage\\AADU9XVP\\ggplot2 - hadley wickham.pdf:application/pdf}
}
Which will resolve to (if you use APA formatting):
The ggplot2 package is used to plot images in layers (Wickham, 2009).
Bibtex files creation
Now, making your own bibtex files is a serious pain in the backside. So we don’t do that. We also don’t try to remember all the keys, but first about the creation of the bibtex file.
I don’t want to keep track of the correct way to cite sources, that is just a waste of time. We have excellent reference managers for this goal. I use Zotero. I just throw the pdfs in the correct folder and Zotero finds the correct metadata using the pdfs DOI (digital object identifier). This is how it looks on my computer
I use the extension betterbibtex, that adds extra functionality to Zotero. In this case it also takes care of synchronizing the bibtext file that you export to the folder you’re working in and the corresponding collection in Zotero. (see further on).
I export the collection from zotero into the rstudio folder.
The RMarkdown document
If you open a new rmarkdown document from the RStudio console a basic document with metadata is already opened. The top of your manuscript should contain metadata such as the title output and in this case we also need to append it to show where to find the bibliography.: For example we make a html document called sample_Document with a bibliography based on a document bibliography.bib found in the same folder.
---
title: "Sample Document"
output: html_document
bibliography: bibliography.bib
---
While writing the manuscript we cite like so
For more information about citations and bibliographies look at the RStudio website3
Choosing a citation style in the manuscript
update 2017-03-15 Michael Koontz explains how to add a citation style to your document in short:
- search for a citation style https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/find/master (f.i. APA)
- find the correct file and click on raw
- copy the link to the citation style file in the yaml
--- title: "Sample Document" output: html_document bibliography: bibliography.bib csl: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/citation-style-language/styles/master/apa.csl ---
Making citing easier with the help of CITR
Then use the citr package https://github.com/crsh/citr. Citr works quite nicely, but unfortunately it has recently acquired default behavior that is frankly annoying. If Zotero is active (open in a window on your computer), citr will ignore the bibliography you mentioned in the top of the document and just try to read in the entire zotero library. (which will fail on my computer) I had to change a setting to change this.4.
Loading citations:
Adding a citation to a document:
This adds the correct citation as you can see
Conclusion
This piece became a bit longer then anticipated but I discovered new behavior of citr
, so there’s that.
All in all RStudio / R and related tools can become the complete workbench for reading in data, cleaning and analyzing, and also writing the manuscript.
For practical examples of reproducible work see this book5
References
- http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/latex-example.html [return]
- http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/lesson-1.html [return]
- http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_bibliographies_and_citations.html [return]
- you have to change
options(citr.use_betterbiblatex = FALSE)
adding this to .Renviron works [return] - https://www.practicereproducibleresearch.org/ [return]


INDEPENDENCE DAY A film review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1997 Ted Prigge
Director: Roland Emmerich Writers: Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich Starring: Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Mary MacDonnell, Vivica A. Fox, Robert Loggia, Harvey Fierstein, Harry Connick Jr., Brent Spiner, Adam Baldwin
According to popular film opinion, a film's greatness is determined by time. Take for example "Casablanca." Great film, even today. It's still as powerful as it was when it came out and still as romantic and tragic. Another example would be "Star Wars," which had a very, very healthy box office gross despite the fact that we had all seen it about 3 billion times before. But as I rewatched "Independence Day" when it came out on video after being the number one hit of 1996, I kinda felt like it wasn't as cool as when I had first seen it. I had liked it when I saw it the first time (*** was my original view) and basically saw it as a good "escape film." But when I rewatched it, I felt cheated. Thus, the curse of the "event film."
"Independence Day" is like that kid who come out of nowhere and makes everybody happy at once (except for a couple kids - the critics, in this situation). But after a while, this kid becomes annoying and you just wait for the next one. Well, this kid is the "event film" in my little analogy. And when I rewatched "Independence Day," not only did it not look cooler at all on the big screen, but I felt insulted the whole time. There are too many gaping craters in the plot and you just aren't sure if it's comedy or hokey drama. One scene, you'll see a hilariously nebbish scene between Jeff Goldblum and Judd Hirsch; the next you'll see a bunch of military uptight guys walking around, saying corny lines. The worst is a scene between Brent Spiner and Bill Pullman where Spiner is sayinig something innocently funny but is barked like a junkyard dog by Bill Pullman who gives him the most unitentionally funniest speech since the end of "Glen or Glenda?"
Now this annoying kid's problem is that in the process of trying to make everyone like him all at once, he shows he has no balls. And "Independence Day" has no balls. It plays it safe everywhere. It throws in a ton of action that is borrowed from other superior films. The chase scene between the alien ship and Will Smith is straight out of "Star Wars." I mean, isn't that Devil's Den? And the aliens are about as anticlimactic as Demi Moore's breasts in "Striptease." They're these octopus men, boring freaking octopus men.  The aliens in "2001" were more interesting and you didn't even see them!
Basically the plot is straight from a B-Movie from the 50s: aliens come to earth and we wonder if they're hostile or peaceful. Okay, it's an interesting topic, but it's not handled greatly. Now they aren't and somehow a computer geek, Jeff Goldblum, figure out they're using our satellites as a countdown to destruction. Yep.  They also use the same kind of computer as we do, but that comes about later. The president (Bill Pullman), who's under attack for being a wimp, decides this would be a nice time to be belligerent, and he decides he'll stay in the White House which the aliens have covered. I don't care if it's Bob freaking Dole in the White House, get him out of there.   I think it's time for impeachment for this guy. He's more senile than Reagan on pot.
Then there's a cocky pilot (Will Smith) who is the only person to survive the counter-attack on the second day and becomes Moses in leading his children to the elusive Area 51 (the film's only sign of being brave). His girlfriend's a stripper sharing a subplot with "Striptease" in that she has to do it for her son. Come on, she has a fighter pilot boyfriend/soon-to-be fiance. I think she can quit that job and get a more respectable job at Long John Silvers. She's also the few, the proud, the lucky to survive the igniting of L.A. (as well as her dog, who narrowly survives).
There are some bright spots. They tossed in enough old film homages to keep me laughing. The best one is when Jeff Goldblum (nicely named David) turns on his computer and a picture of HAL comes up and says, "Good Morning, Dave." And they even played R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) at the beginning. And Judd Hirsch steals the film by actually acting great (he's a stereotype, but I just loved the man anyway). But there are no real subtle comic moments. Will gets way too many one-liners and he has no one to play off of (execept Jeff towards the end, and the two do great).
As I said, this film has no balls. It is just aiming for a crowd pleaser and that's what it is. But after a couple months, we all move on to the next "event" film while intaking little films and a couple indy ones for good measure. But at least the indy ones last for a lifetime. This one's short on batteries.
MY RATING (out of 5): **
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| Author: | Dag-Erling Smørgrav |
|---|---|
| Author: | Poul-Henning Kamp |
| Author: | Kristian Lyngstøl |
| Author: | Per Buer |
| Date: | 2010-06-02 |
| Version: | 1.0 |
| Manual section: | 7 |
The VCL language is a small domain-specific language designed to be used to define request handling and document caching policies for Varnish Cache.
When a new configuration is loaded, the varnishd management process translates the VCL code to C and compiles it to a shared object which is then dynamically linked into the server process.
The VCL syntax is very simple, and deliberately similar to C and Perl. Blocks are delimited by curly braces, statements end with semicolons, and comments may be written as in C, C++ or Perl according to your own preferences.
In addition to the C-like assignment (=), comparison (==, !=) and boolean (!, && and ||) operators, VCL supports both regular expression and ACL matching using the ~ and the !~ operators.
Basic strings are enclosed in " ... ", and may not contain newlines.
Long strings are enclosed in {" ... "}. They may contain any character including ", newline and other control characters except for the NUL (0x00) character.
Unlike C and Perl, the backslash () character has no special meaning in strings in VCL, so it can be freely used in regular expressions without doubling.
Strings are concatenated using the '+' operator.
Assignments are introduced with the set keyword. There are no user-defined variables; values can only be assigned to variables attached to backend, request or document objects. Most of these are typed, and the values assigned to them must have a compatible unit suffix.
You can use the set keyword to arbitrary HTTP headers. You can remove headers with the remove or unset keywords, which are synonym.
You can use the rollback keyword to revert any changes to req at any time.
The synthetic keyword is used to produce a synthetic response body in vcl_error. It takes a single string as argument.
You can force a crash of the client process with the panic keyword. panic takes a string as argument.
The return(action) keyword terminates the subroutine. action can be, depending on context one of
Please see the list of subroutines to see what return actions are available where.
VCL has if tests, but no loops.
The contents of another VCL file may be inserted at any point in the code by using the include keyword followed by the name of the other file as a quoted string.
A backend declaration creates and initializes a named backend object:
backend www {
.host = "www.example.com";
.port = "http";
}
The backend object can later be used to select a backend at request time:
if (req.http.host ~ "(?i)^(www.)?example.com$") {
set req.backend = www;
}
To avoid overloading backend servers, .max_connections can be set to limit the maximum number of concurrent backend connections.
The timeout parameters can be overridden in the backend declaration. The timeout parameters are .connect_timeout for the time to wait for a backend connection, .first_byte_timeout for the time to wait for the first byte from the backend and .between_bytes_timeout for time to wait between each received byte.
These can be set in the declaration like this:
backend www {
.host = "www.example.com";
.port = "http";
.connect_timeout = 1s;
.first_byte_timeout = 5s;
.between_bytes_timeout = 2s;
}
To mark a backend as unhealthy after number of items have been added to its saintmode list .saintmode_threshold can be set to the maximum list size. Setting a value of 0 disables saint mode checking entirely for that backend. The value in the backend declaration overrides the parameter.
A director is a logical group of backend servers clustered together for redundancy. The basic role of the director is to let Varnish choose a backend server amongst several so if one is down another can be used.
There are several types of directors. The different director types use different algorithms to choose which backend to use.
Configuring a director may look like this:
director b2 random {
.retries = 5;
{
// We can refer to named backends
.backend = b1;
.weight = 7;
}
{
// Or define them inline
.backend = {
.host = "fs2";
}
.weight = 3;
}
}
There are three directors that share the same logic, called the random director, client director and hash director. They each distribute traffic among the backends assigned to it using a random distribution seeded with either the client identity, a random number or the cache hash (typically url). Beyond the initial seed, they act the same.
Each backend requires a .weight option which sets the amount of traffic each backend will get compared to the others. Equal weight means equal traffic. A backend with lower weight than an other will get proportionally less traffic.
The director has an optional .retries option which defaults to the number of backends the director has. The director will attempt .retries times to find a healthy backend if the first attempt fails. Each attempt re-uses the previous seed in an iterative manner. For the random director this detail is of no importance as it will give different results each time. For the hash and client director, this means the same URL or the same client will fail to the same server consistently.
This uses a random number to seed the backend selection.
The client director picks a backend based on the clients identity. You can set the VCL variable client.identity to identify the client by picking up the value of a session cookie or similar.
The hash director will pick a backend based on the URL hash value.
This is useful is you are using Varnish to load balance in front of other Varnish caches or other web accelerators as objects won't be duplicated across caches.
It will use the value of req.hash, just as the normal cache-lookup methods.
The round-robin director does not take any options.
It will use the first backend for the first request, the second backend for the second request and so on, and start from the top again when it gets to the end.
If a backend is unhealthy or Varnish fails to connect, it will be skipped. The round-robin director will try all the backends once before giving up.
The DNS director can use backends in two different ways. Either like the random or round-robin director or using .list:
director directorname dns {
.list = {
.host_header = "www.example.com";
.port = "80";
.connect_timeout = 0.4s;
"<IP_ADDRESS>"/24;
"<IP_ADDRESS>"/25;
}
.ttl = 5m;
.suffix = "internal.example.net";
}
This will specify 384 backends, all using port 80 and a connection timeout of 0.4s. Options must come before the list of IPs in the .list statement. The .list-method does not support IPv6. It is not a white-list, it is an actual list of backends that will be created internally in Varnish - the larger subnet the more overhead.
The .ttl defines the cache duration of the DNS lookups.
The above example will append "internal.example.net" to the incoming Host header supplied by the client, before looking it up. All settings are optional.
Health checks are not thoroughly supported.
DNS round robin balancing is supported. If a hostname resolves to multiple backends, the director will divide the traffic between all of them in a round-robin manner.
The fallback director will pick the first backend that is healthy. It considers them in the order in which they are listed in its definition.
The fallback director does not take any options.
An example of a fallback director:
director b3 fallback {
{ .backend = www1; }
{ .backend = www2; } // will only be used if www1 is unhealthy.
{ .backend = www3; } // will only be used if both www1 and www2
// are unhealthy.
}
Backends can be probed to see whether they should be considered healthy or not. The return status can also be checked by using req.backend.healthy.
Probes take the following parameters:
A backend with a probe can be defined like this, together with the backend or director:
backend www {
.host = "www.example.com";
.port = "http";
.probe = {
.url = "/test.jpg";
.timeout = 0.3 s;
.window = 8;
.threshold = 3;
.initial = 3;
}
}
Or it can be defined separately and then referenced:
probe healthcheck {
.url = "/status.cgi";
.interval = 60s;
.timeout = 0.3 s;
.window = 8;
.threshold = 3;
.initial = 3;
.expected_response = 200;
}
backend www {
.host = "www.example.com";
.port = "http";
.probe = healthcheck;
}
If you have many backends this can simplify the config a lot.
It is also possible to specify the raw HTTP request:
probe rawprobe {
# NB: \r\n automatically inserted after each string!
.request =
"GET / HTTP/1.1"
"Host: www.foo.bar"
"Connection: close";
}
An ACL declaration creates and initializes a named access control list which can later be used to match client addresses:
acl local {
"localhost"; // myself
"<IP_ADDRESS>"/24; // and everyone on the local network
! "<IP_ADDRESS>"; // except for the dialin router
}
If an ACL entry specifies a host name which Varnish is unable to resolve, it will match any address it is com‐ pared to. Consequently, if it is preceded by a negation mark, it will reject any address it is compared to, which may not be what you intended. If the entry is enclosed in parentheses, however, it will simply be ignored.
To match an IP address against an ACL, simply use the match operator:
if (client.ip ~ local) {
return (pipe);
}
In Varnish 2.1.0 Varnish switched to using PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions. For a complete description of PCRE please see the PCRE(3) man page.
To send flags to the PCRE engine, such as to turn on case insensitivity add the flag within parens following a question mark, like this:
if (req.http.host ~ "(?i)example.com$") {
...
}
The following built-in functions are available:
ban(ban expression)
A subroutine is used to group code for legibility or reusability:
sub pipe_if_local {
if (client.ip ~ local) {
return (pipe);
}
}
Subroutines in VCL do not take arguments, nor do they return values.
To call a subroutine, use the call keyword followed by the subroutine's name:
call pipe_if_local;
There are a number of special subroutines which hook into the Varnish workflow. These subroutines may inspect and manipulate HTTP headers and various other aspects of each request, and to a certain extent decide how the request should be handled. Each subroutine terminates by calling one of a small number of keywords which indicates the desired outcome.
Called when VCL is loaded, before any requests pass through it. Typically used to initialize VMODs.
return() values:
Called at the beginning of a request, after the complete request has been received and parsed. Its purpose is to decide whether or not to serve the request, how to do it, and, if applicable, which backend to use.
The vcl_recv subroutine may terminate with calling return() on one of the following keywords:
Called upon entering pipe mode. In this mode, the request is passed on to the backend, and any further data from either client or backend is passed on unaltered until either end closes the connection.
The vcl_pipe subroutine may terminate with calling return() with one of the following keywords:
Called upon entering pass mode. In this mode, the request is passed on to the backend, and the backend's response is passed on to the client, but is not entered into the cache. Subsequent requests sub‐ mitted over the same client connection are handled normally.
The vcl_pass subroutine may terminate with calling return() with one of the following keywords:
You may call hash_data() on the data you would like to add to the hash.
The vcl_hash subroutine may terminate with calling return() with one of the following keywords:
Called after a cache lookup if the requested document was found in the cache.
The vcl_hit subroutine may terminate with calling return() with one of the following keywords:
Called after a cache lookup if the requested document was not found in the cache. Its purpose is to decide whether or not to attempt to retrieve the document from the backend, and which backend to use.
The vcl_miss subroutine may terminate with calling return() with one of the following keywords:
Called after a document has been successfully retrieved from the backend.
The vcl_fetch subroutine may terminate with calling return() with one of the following keywords:
Called before a cached object is delivered to the client.
The vcl_deliver subroutine may terminate with one of the following keywords:
Called when we hit an error, either explicitly or implicitly due to backend or internal errors.
The vcl_error subroutine may terminate by calling return with one of the following keywords:
Called when VCL is discarded only after all requests have exited the VCL. Typically used to clean up VMODs.
return() values:
If one of these subroutines is left undefined or terminates without reaching a handling decision, control will be handed over to the builtin default. See the EXAMPLES section for a listing of the default code.
If multiple subroutines with the the name of one of the builtin ones are defined, they are concatenated in the order in which they appear in the source. The default versions distributed with Varnish will be implicitly concatenated as a last resort at the end.
Example:
# in file "main.vcl"
include "backends.vcl";
include "ban.vcl";
# in file "backends.vcl"
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.http.host ~ "(?i)example.com") {
set req.backend = foo;
} elsif (req.http.host ~ "(?i)example.org") {
set req.backend = bar;
}
}
# in file "ban.vcl"
sub vcl_recv {
if (client.ip ~ admin_network) {
if (req.http.Cache-Control ~ "no-cache") {
ban_url(req.url);
}
}
}
Although subroutines take no arguments, the necessary information is made available to the handler subroutines through global variables.
The following variables are always available:
The following variables are available in backend declarations:
The following variables are available while processing a request:
The following variables are available while preparing a backend request (either for a cache miss or for pass or pipe mode):
The following variables are available after the requested object has been retrieved from the backend, before it is entered into the cache. In other words, they are available in vcl_fetch:
After the object is entered into the cache, the following (mostly read-only) variables are available when the object has been located in cache, typically in vcl_hit, or when constructing a synthetic reply in vcl_error:
The following variables are available while determining the hash key of an object:
The following variables are available while preparing a response to the client:
Values may be assigned to variables using the set keyword:
sub vcl_recv {
# Normalize the Host: header
if (req.http.host ~ "(?i)^(www.)?example.com$") {
set req.http.host = "www.example.com";
}
}
HTTP headers can be removed entirely using the remove keyword:
sub vcl_fetch {
# Don't cache cookies
remove beresp.http.Set-Cookie;
}
If the backend takes a long time to generate an object there is a risk of a thread pile up. In order to prevent this you can enable grace. This allows varnish to serve an expired version of the object while a fresh object is being generated by the backend.
The following vcl code will make Varnish serve expired objects. All object will be kept up to two minutes past their expiration time or a fresh object is generated.
sub vcl_recv {
set req.grace = 2m;
}
sub vcl_fetch {
set beresp.grace = 2m;
}
Saint mode is similar to grace mode and relies on the same infrastructure but functions differently. You can add VCL code to vcl_fetch to see whether or not you like the response coming from the backend. If you find that the response is not appropriate you can set beresp.saintmode to a time limit and call restart. Varnish will then retry other backends to try to fetch the object again.
If there are no more backends or if you hit max_restarts and we have an object that is younger than what you set beresp.saintmode to be Varnish will serve the object, even if it is stale.
The following code is the equivalent of the default configuration with the backend address set to "backend.example.com" and no backend port specified:
backend default {
.host = "backend.example.com";
.port = "http";
}
/*- * Copyright (c) 2006 Verdens Gang AS * Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Varnish Software AS * All rights reserved. * * Author: Poul-Henning Kamp<EMAIL_ADDRESS>* * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE * LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF * SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR * BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, * WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE * OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, * EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. * * The default VCL code. * * NB! You do NOT need to copy & paste all of these functions into your * own vcl code, if you do not provide a definition of one of these * functions, the compiler will automatically fall back to the default * code from this file. * * This code will be prefixed with a backend declaration built from the * -b argument. */ sub vcl_recv { if (req.restarts == 0) { if (req.http.x-forwarded-for) { set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = req.http.X-Forwarded-For + ", " + client.ip; } else { set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip; } } if (req.request != "GET" && req.request != "HEAD" && req.request != "PUT" && req.request != "POST" && req.request != "TRACE" && req.request != "OPTIONS" && req.request != "DELETE") { /* Non-RFC2616 or CONNECT which is weird. */ return (pipe); } if (req.request != "GET" && req.request != "HEAD") { /* We only deal with GET and HEAD by default */ return (pass); } if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) { /* Not cacheable by default */ return (pass); } return (lookup); } sub vcl_pipe { # Note that only the first request to the backend will have # X-Forwarded-For set. If you use X-Forwarded-For and want to # have it set for all requests, make sure to have: # set bereq.http.connection = "close"; # here. It is not set by default as it might break some broken web # applications, like IIS with NTLM authentication. return (pipe); } sub vcl_pass { return (pass); } sub vcl_hash { hash_data(req.url); if (req.http.host) { hash_data(req.http.host); } else { hash_data(server.ip); } return (hash); } sub vcl_hit { return (deliver); } sub vcl_miss { return (fetch); } sub vcl_fetch { if (beresp.ttl <= 0s || beresp.http.Set-Cookie || beresp.http.Vary == "*") { /* * Mark as "Hit-For-Pass" for the next 2 minutes */ set beresp.ttl = 120 s; return (hit_for_pass); } return (deliver); } sub vcl_deliver { return (deliver); } sub vcl_error { set obj.http.Content-Type = "text/html; charset=utf-8"; set obj.http.Retry-After = "5"; synthetic {" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">   <title>"} + obj.status + " " + obj.response + {"</title>
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"} + obj.response + {"

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   "}; return (deliver); } sub vcl_init { return (ok); } sub vcl_fini { return (ok); }
The following example shows how to support multiple sites running on separate backends in the same Varnish instance, by selecting backends based on the request URL:
backend www {
.host = "www.example.com";
.port = "80";
}
backend images {
.host = "images.example.com";
.port = "80";
}
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.http.host ~ "(?i)^(www.)?example.com$") {
set req.http.host = "www.example.com";
set req.backend = www;
} elsif (req.http.host ~ "(?i)^images.example.com$") {
set req.backend = images;
} else {
error 404 "Unknown virtual host";
}
}
The following snippet demonstrates how to force a minimum TTL for all documents. Note that this is not the same as setting the default_ttl run-time parameter, as that only affects document for which the backend did not specify a TTL:
import std; # needed for std.log
sub vcl_fetch {
if (beresp.ttl < 120s) {
std.log("Adjusting TTL");
set beresp.ttl = 120s;
}
}
The following snippet demonstrates how to force Varnish to cache documents even when cookies are present:
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.request == "GET" && req.http.cookie) {
return(lookup);
}
}
sub vcl_fetch {
if (beresp.http.Set-Cookie) {
return(deliver);
}
}
The following code implements the HTTP PURGE method as used by Squid for object invalidation:
acl purge {
"localhost";
"<IP_ADDRESS>"/24;
}
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
error 405 "Not allowed.";
}
return(lookup);
}
}
sub vcl_hit {
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
purge;
error 200 "Purged.";
}
}
sub vcl_miss {
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
purge;
error 200 "Purged.";
}
}
VCL was developed by Poul-Henning Kamp in cooperation with Verdens Gang AS, Redpill Linpro and Varnish Software. This manual page was written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav and later edited by Poul-Henning Kamp and Per Buer.
This document is licensed under the same license as Varnish itself. See LICENSE for details.


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This example requires the HDF5 library with MPI support and HDF5 for Lua.
The program diffusion_1d.lua
solves the 1-dimensional diffusion equation by finite differences.
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Update History
This preview only applies to the following applications and pages:
- Community pages and apps (added late May 2018)
- Communities catalog page and create community (added late March 2018)
- Edit Community (added late March 2018)
- Classic Home with Activity Stream (added late March 2018)
- Community Blog (added late February 2018)
- Community Wiki (added late February 2018)
- Community Ideation Blog - Applies within an Ideation Blog, not Ideation Blog list page (added late February 2018)
- Community Forum - Applies within a Forum, not Forum list page (added late February 2018)
- New Home page (added late February 2018)
- Files
- File viewer
- Profiles
- Contacts
- Search results page
- Meetings launch page, but not the meeting room
- Notification Settings
- Navigation bar for the above applications and pages
- Notificaiton Center for the above applications and pages
With this update we are adding some general styling updates:
- Community pages and apps are updated with new styling (except Activities)
- Another round of responsiveness page updates to support more narrow windows
You will also see some updates and enhancements to previously released apps and pages.
General
- Updates to consistently reference new pinned icon
- Updated periscope.js to include /communities/
- Improve consistency of commenting fields across community apps
- Enhance tags widget to only show a link for the alternate view option
- Fix some left navigation alignment issues
Community catalog page
- Fix tag styling on Safari
- Fix tags header alignment in left navigation
Files
- Fix overlapping file type icons
- Fix missing file type icons
- Improve readability of text in file and folder pickers
- Fix display of long text, such as organization name, in left navigation
- Fix issue with select all checkbox alignment
- Center New button over left navigation
- File viewer: Update tabs to match style guide
- File viewer: Update to show missing drop down arrow next to More tab
Forum
- Fix visual issue in Add Image dialog
Profiles
- Wrap text when the window is more narrow
Search
- Enhance community icons to be round
- Add updated Events icon
- Update styling of filter apply button
Wiki
- Improve layout of Move dialog
- Fix sizing issue on inserted images
- Remove shifting in the left navigation
With this update we are adding some general styling updates:
- Improved responsiveness for more narrow screens which limits the occurrence of horizontal scroll bars
- Updated styling of dialogs related to the rich text editor
- More easily customize the navigation bar via a set of centralized variables
You will also see some updates and enhancements to previously released styling.
General
- Updated style of close icon on dialogs
- Improved styling for keyboard focus
Files
- Fixed issue with Add Files dialog on Firefox
- Fixed styling issue with My Drive empty state
- Updated drop down arrow in File Viewer when viewing a community file
New Home page
- Updated to use IBM Plex font
Wikis
- Updated ability to resize wiki left navigation
- Rounded avatars in wiki comments
- Updated attachment and version tables
- Updated file type icons in attachments list
- Fixed alignment of arrows in Move page dialog
- For on-prem: Fixed wiki Save buttons
With this update we are adding styling to the following applications and pages:
- Communities landing page and create community (added late March 2018)
- Edit Community (added late March 2018)
- Classic Home with Activity Stream (added late March 2018)
You will also see some updates and enhancements to previously released styling.
General
- Update to not override styling added via the CK Editor, such as font-family, font-weight, and table borders
- Update for names to appear in black
- Update to show current selected sort as black
- Update to consistently style menus across apps
- Update Notification Settings URL in periscope.js
- Preview: Enhancement to customize the Like icon -- Incomplete, more work needed
- Enhanced Community application drop down to not cut off if the page does not have much content
- Enhanced Community headings to be consistent across pages and across apps
On-premisis
- Updates to fix styling of the navigation bar
Blog / Ideation Blog
- Enhanced archive list to be scrollable
- Update table sort headers
- Update search history field
- Update alignment of entries in the left navigation
- Update Notify Other People section
- Update tables inside posts
Files
- Update for Safari to show missing user field when sharing a file
Forum
- Update color in forum menus
- Update tags in Edit Forum popup
- Update background on lists in accpeted answers
- Update styling on add image popup
Profiles
- Update to comments in activity stream
Wiki
- Update spacing of tags
- Update long titles in left navigation to truncate
- Update meta data on comments
With this update we are adding styling to the following applications and pages:
- Community Blog (added late February 2018)
- Community Wiki (added late February 2018)
- Community Ideation Blog - Applies within an Ideation Blog, not Ideation Blog list page (added late February 2018)
- Community Forum - Applies within a Forum, not Forum list page (added late February 2018)
- New Home page (added late February 2018)
You will also see some updates and enhancements to previously released styling.
Community Wiki styling added
- Enhanced Add a Comment to be a button.
- Enhanced editor HTML Source and Rich Text tabs to be in the same location for blogs, wikis, and forums.
Community Blog & Ideation Blog styling added
Note: Only applies within a specific Ideation Blog and not to the page that lists multiple Ideation Blogs within the Community.
- Enhanced Add a Comment to be a button.
- Enhanced to simplify visuals in the Manage Blog navigation.
- Enhanced blog and ideation blog stream to clearly separate each blog post, improving readability.
- Enhanced to scale images in blog and ideation blog posts so you can see more without scrolling.
- Enhanced ideation blog to hide the vote link when frozen.
- Enhanced ideation blog to style the graduated flag like a ribbon.
- Enhanced editor HTML Source and Rich Text tabs to be in the same location for blogs, wikis, and forums.
Figure 1: Ideation Blog
Community Forum styling added
Note: Only applies within a specific Forum and not to the page that lists multiple Forums within the Community.
- Enhanced how Accpeted answers are displayed.
- Enhanced how pinned topics are displayed.
- Enhanced editor HTML Source and Rich Text tabs to be in the same location for blogs, wikis, and forums.
Figure 2: A Forum topic thread
New Home page, also known as Orient Me, styling added
- Enhanced to add outline to actual thumbnails to help when a file has a white background.
- Added the new file type icons when a file thumbnail is not available.
Enhancements to Profiles
- Enhanced Network widget with larger pictures and names.
- Enhanced Tags widget that scrolls in place, allowing you to more easily see the Things in Common widget.
- Rounded avatars on reporting structure page.
Updates to Files
- File extension .ico will now display the image file type.
- Update to hide stray line when Files is loading.
- Updated style of Files drag and drop.
- Updated file picker to not cut off messages.
- Updated display option icons with new ones.
- Updated File picker to show remove file action that was missing.
Enhancements to Notification Center
- Enhanced to make full height of the window so you can see more.
- Enhanced to scale images in comments so you can see more without scrolling.
- Enhanced to show "No comment provided" instead of empty quotes.
General updates
- Update buttons with the latest design which includes updated hover and focus states.
- Update dialogs with the latest design which includes removing the blue and gray bars from the top and bottom.
- Update checkboxes to show the brand color when checked.
- Update messages with the latest design which includes a white background and shadow.
- Update square avatars to be round and consistent across Connections.
- Update just in time and guided tours where ever visual updates are enabled.
- Updated people's names to be black to reduce disruption when reading.
General updates
- Update hover & focus on special buttons
- Update modal dialogs based on latest in design guide
- Keyboard focus updates
- Updated checkbox to pull brand-01 when checked
- Update button hover and focus based on design guide
- Add .ico as image file type
Files and File Viewer updates
- Fix icons in file viewer toolbar
- Fix share buttons in file viewer
- Hide random line on Files loading screen
- Update style of Files drag and drop
- Update Files focus on folder breadcrumbs
Profile updates
- Update focus on profile status update buttons
Initial release of the Visual Update 1 for IBM Connections application.
The IBM Collaboration Solution's Design team is crafting a new, modern, design language for IBM Connections in an effort to ensure that our solutions match the way we think, augment our performance, and grant us the confidence we need to get our jobs done.
We are opening up a preview of the new design, within IBM Connections. The new design creates a modern, airy, and less cluttered appearance by updating many items on a page, such as lists, forms, buttons, and icons. This preview applies to the following applications and pages:
- Files
- File viewer
- Profiles
- Contacts
- Search results page
- Meetings launch page, but not the meeting room
- Notification Settings
- Navigation bar for the above applications and pages
- Notificaiton Center for the above applications and pages
What is supported
The Visual Update 1 for IBM Connections is supported only for implementations where the application is installed and configured directly from the IBM Connections App Catalog and in which all of the following criteria are met: (1) Only the Verse Theme (Default) is enabled (2) No additional customizations are configured. Implementations added manually through an organization extension, combined with additional customizations, and/or contained code which was modified from its original state will not receive support considerations.
Due to the preview nature of the application, PMRs will not be accepted and resolved by IBM. Questions and support requests, however, can be posted directly on the support forum located here. IBM will not assist with making modifications to the open source code provided for this application nor modifications created to add additional customizations in lieu of the Visual Update 1 for IBM Connections.
While the application is in preview, bi-directional language support will not be included. Visual updates will apply only to applications stated in official communications and will not extend to custom widgets added to Connections. IBM plans to regularly add new Connections applications to the visual update and will share communications accordingly.
Getting support
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