Watch Chvrches’ intense rendition of ‘Death Stranding’ live on ‘The Late Late Show With James Corden’
From the Scottish band's contribution to the video game of the same name
Chvrches have delivered a fierce rendition of their latest track ‘Death Stranding’, performing it live on The Late Late Show With James Corden.
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The intense track is the band’s collaboration to ‘Death Stranding: Timefall’ the soundtrack album of the video game Death Stranding, which is released today (November 8).
The album also features songs from Major Lazer x Khalid, Au/Ra x Alan Walker, The Neighbourhood, Flora Cash, MISSIO and The S.L.P.
“We were really excited about the opportunity to work with [Hideo] Kojima because we have been fans of his work for a long time,” said Chvrches of the game’s creator when the track was revealed last month.
“He has always been such a visionary in the gaming world and we were honoured to be involved in the project. The concept of ‘Death Stranding’ is so unique and really felt to us like it was challenging people to care about the world they create — in the game and otherwise. We wrote this song specifically for ‘Death Stranding’, thinking of the themes of the game and what it is trying to say to people.”
This comes after Chvrches admitted to being huge fans of Kojima in 2018.
“In fact, Hideo Kojima call me. We’re massive Metal Gear Solid fans and the guy’s a god. He’s an icon in the video games industry,” said Chvrches’ Martin Doherty.


Data Science for Social Good Europe 2018
Optimising Tourism in Tuscany
The focus of our study is the world-famous region of Central Italy, halfway between Rome and Milan - Tuscany. Home of the beautiful Dome of Florence and the leaning tower of Pisa. With a population of roughly 3.5 million, Tuscany is one of the most popular tourist destinations on earth. It is estimated that around 30 million tourists visited Tuscany in 2017. With this popularity, it is no surprise that tourism accounts for 7% of the region’s GDP, contributing greatly to its economic prosperity and job creation.
This record does not come without challenges though. Severe overcrowding leads to resource depletion, over-usage of infrastructure, and loss of cultural authenticity. Moreover for the locals overcrowding can also have adverse effects, such as increased cost of living and decreased quality of life.
Against this backdrop, Tuscany is seeking a better tourism strategy that balances economic prosperity with social and environmental sustainability for its territories and its citizens. New methods combining data mining, machine learning, and data science are beginning to be used to understand the impact of mass tourism on cities and to find solutions to overtourism.
Data Science for Social Good Europe is a yearly summer initiative bringing together data scientists from all over the world to use such techniques to tackle challenges with a social impact. This past summer 2018, a team of data science fellows conducted research and provided data-driven insights on tourist behaviours and mobility patterns to inform actionable policy aimed at optimal spatial-temporal spread of tourists.
This website aims to provide a tool that can improve the management of crowds and the quality experience for tourists and residents alike.


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Projects
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Printing Experiments 12_16
Locals 11_16
Chains 10_16
Inner Thoughts 10_16
Promises to Myself 9_16
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LEN_TRIM(3) - [CHARACTER:WHITESPACE] Character length without trailing blank characters
result = len_trim(string [,kind])
elemental integer(kind=KIND) function len_trim(string,KIND)character(len=*),intent(in) :: string integer(kind=KIND),intent(in),optional :: KIND
o STRING is of type character o KIND is a scalar integer constant expression specifying the kind of the returned value. o The return value is of type integer and of kind KIND. If KIND is absent, the return value is of default integer kind.
LEN_TRIM(3) returns the length of a character string, ignoring any trailing blanks.
o STRING : The input string whose length is to be measured. o KIND : Indicates the kind parameter of the result.
The result equals the number of characters remaining after any trailing blanks in STRING are removed.
If the input argument is of zero length or all blanks the result is zero.
Sample program
program demo_len_trim implicit none character(len=:),allocatable :: string integer :: i ! basic usage string=" how long is this string? " write(*,*) string write(*,*)UNTRIMMED LENGTH=,len(string) write(*,*)TRIMMED LENGTH=,len_trim(string)Results:! print string, then print substring of string string=xxxxx write(*,*)string,string,string i=len_trim(string) write(*,*)string(:i),string(:i),string(:i) ! ! elemental example ELE:block ! an array of strings may be used character(len=:),allocatable :: tablet(:) tablet=[character(len=256) :: & & how long is this string? ,& & and this one?] write(*,*)UNTRIMMED LENGTH= ,len(tablet) write(*,*)TRIMMED LENGTH= ,len_trim(tablet) write(*,*)SUM TRIMMED LENGTH=,sum(len_trim(tablet)) endblock ELE ! end program demo_len_trim
how long is this string?
UNTRIMMED LENGTH= 30 TRIMMED LENGTH= 25 xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx UNTRIMMED LENGTH= 256 TRIMMED LENGTH= 25 13 SUM TRIMMED LENGTH= 38
Fortran 95 . KIND argument added with Fortran 2003.
Functions that perform operations on character strings, return lengths of arguments, and search for certain arguments:
fortran-lang intrinsic descriptions (license: MIT) @urbanjost
o ELEMENTAL: ADJUSTL(3), ADJUSTR(3), INDEX(3), SCAN(3), VERIFY(3) o NONELEMENTAL: REPEAT(3), LEN(3), TRIM(3)
| Nemo Release 3.1 | len_trim (3) | July 22, 2023 |


| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| menu | Menu | undefined | The menu items to display. See Menu Interface page to get more information. |
| mode | Modes (EXPANDED | EXPANDABLE | MINI) | Modes.NORMAL | Defines the menu width mode. |
| role | Role | undefined | Defines the current user role to hide or disable menu items with roles definition. |
| iconClasses | string | undefined | Defines the default icon classes for menu items. can be overridden in Menu |
| toggleIconClasses | string | undefined | Defines the icon classes for the menu parents toggle elements. |
| search | string | undefined | Defines search text to filter displayed menu items. |


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This demo shows how to pass the data from Python to JS. The small overview plot to the right has been connected to the large plot. Try selecting a rectangle on either of them.
{% endblock %}


Pull data into your apps and push data out using webhooks
Integrate with external platforms using integrations
Choose from a number of triggers to start your automation
Use data from previus automation steps
Create new records based on an event
Choose from a library of actions and tell you app what to do
Send an email if a trigger is activated
Add a time delay to your automations
Add conditional logic to your automations
Test your automation blocks and pinpoint any faults
Bind data from your tables to your actions, such as email


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This table gives the code points and characters shown in several font encodings for {{language}}. Conversions to Unicode appear for each entry.
Hint: hover over the Unicode conversions for the hex code points (UTF-16).


Extension for crosshair—vertical and horizontal line highlight—in hyperterm
Install HyperTerm and add hyperterm-crosshair
to plugins
in ~/.hyperterm.js
.
You can also add a key to the config object in hyperterm.js
to control the opacity of the highlight.
``` config: {
// some settings
// hyperterm-crosshair settings hypertermCrosshair: { opacity: 0.2, } } ```
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(CS/SS 241a) Introduction to SISL:
Topics in Algorithmic game theory
Adam Wierman,
John Ledyard,
Jason Marden.
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(CS 244) Game-Theoretic Artificial Intelligence, Amy Greenwald.
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(ECEN 4018/5018) Game Theory and Multiagent Systems , Jason Marden.
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Multi-agent Learning (Learning Dynamics).
Ann Nowé, Tom Lenaerts.
Computational Modeling Lab,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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(CS-500) Multiagent Reinforcement Learning.
Rutgers University,
Spring 2007,
Michael L. Littman, Enrique Munoz de Cote.
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(INFOMAA-2009) Previous edition of this course, in 2008-09 given by
Frank Dignum, Loris Penserini, and Hado van Hasselt.


LATAM opens new lounge at Miami International
by Robert CurleyA 10,000-square-foot premium lounge for elite-level travellers on Brazilian airline LATAM is now open at Miami International Airport.
The lounge, which opened on November 8 in MIA’s Terminal J, features bilingual staff, decor inspired by the Amazon rainforest, dining and work/co-working areas, and food and drink service (including self-serve chocolate mousse, fruit, and yogurt stations).
The bathroom area has two showers, and the business centre is equipped with Mac computers. There is also a meeting space, which, according to get.com “overlooks a bustling terminal down below”.
The lounge is open to both arriving and departing passengers. Opening hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 0530 0130, and Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, 0400 a.m. to 0130.
LATAM has been operating a temporary lounge at MIA while the new facility was under construction. The new lounge is co-located with Avianca’s VIP lounge.
LATAM business class, Oneworld Sapphire and Emerald members, Oneworld business-class, Lufthansa first, Austrian Airlines business class, Swiss first class, Air France first class, Caribbean Air first class, and El Al first class passengers can use the lounge.
Government approval was recently received for a $5 billion makeover of the airport, to allow for growth to an estimated 77 million annual travellers by 2040.


| Action | Keys |
|---|---|
| Move cursor position | Arrows |
| Backspace | Backspace |
| Enter | Enter |
| Delete | Delete |
| Next field | Tab |
| Previous field | Shift + Tab |
| PF[1..12] | F[1..12] |
| PF[13..24] | Shift + F[1..12] |
| Attn | Esc |
| SysReq | Shift + Esc |
| Reset | Ctrl |
| Roll Down | PageUp / Fn + UpArrow |
| Roll Up | PageDown / Fn + DownArrow |
| Clear | Pause / F4 |
| PA1 | Alt + Insert / F1 |
| PA2 | Alt + Home / F2 |
| PA3 | Shift + PageUp / F3 |
| Indicator | Description |
|---|---|
| row: X / column: Y | Row and column where the cursor is positioned First row and column is 1 |
| / | Shows whether keyboard input is enabled or not |
| / | Click to hide or show credentials while recording. |
| Displayed when mainframe application triggers an alarm This will blink for 5 seconds and is accompanied by an audio alert |
|
| This icon is displayed to advertise the user when current protocol does not support mouse interactions. | |
| Allow using a selected part of the screen as input by label NOTE: Input by label will be disable for VT protocols |
|
| Allow using a selected part of the screen as text wait condition | |
| Allow using a selected part of the screen in a Response Assertion |


0
plyers name
player name
0
1
0
1
0
1
1
Save
click here or hit space
If someone wants to vote
(or press g to skip this vote)
Welcome to the Game, read
the rules
or simply click Start Game
Save and Load Games
Name:
Save
Load
Config
players
players total
1
2
3
4
Player 1
Human
ai player
Player 2
Human
ai player
Player 3
Human
ai player
Player 4
Human
ai player
amount of voting cards
max steps
voting timeout
max x
max y
num buildings
interface mode
arrows
fields
Start Game
Player :
has won the game
although he gave up
Draw : noone realy won!


Red Dead Redemption 2 on Lowest Settings Looks Like it Came From the Early 90s
by Luke PlunkettAlone in the Dark, is that you?
LowSpecGamer has done wonders with Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 now that it’s out on PC, going beyond simply sliding every visual option in the game to “lowest” to tinker with the game’s settings and messing with the way it loads its models.
The results are a game that looks like the best-looking PC release of 1992


National Marathon Champions for Serbia
Men (12 runnings)
16 Oct 2016 Novi Sad 2:38:59 Sinisa Radivojevic
18 Apr 2015 Beograd 2:35:17 Ivan Miškeljin-2
12 Oct 2014 Novi Sad 2:41:12.5 Ivan Miškeljin
13 Oct 2013 Novi Sad 2:46:29 Ognjen Stojanovic
14 Oct 2012 Novi Sad 2:38:55 Ivan Miškeljin
09 Oct 2011 Novi Sad 2:54:36 Zivan Milosevic
18 Apr 2010 Beograd 2:49:11 Saša Stolić
11 Oct 2009 Novi Sad 2:47:21 Goran Cegar
12 Oct 2008 Novi Sad 2:26:49 Predrag Mladenovic
21 Apr 2007 Beograd 2:34:05 Nikola Stamenic
08 Oct 2006 Novi Sad 2:39:19 Nebojša Milenkovic
Non-champion winners
2015 2:14:42 Silas Sang Kipngetich (KEN)
2014 2:39:34.0 Denis Korabylev (RUS)
2012 2:38:51 Jeff Cunningham (LUX)
2010 2:16:23 Johnstone Kibet Maiyo (KEN)
2007 2:11:53 John Maluni (KEN)
2006 2:13:39 Jaroslav Muchinschi (MDA)
Women (5 runnings)
16 Oct 2016 Novi Sad 3:01:06 Marijana Lukic-2
18 Apr 2015 Beograd 3:16:59 Marijana Lukic
12 Oct 2014 Novi Sad 3:38:01.0 Spehar Dragana
.... not held
21 Apr 2007 Beograd 2:35:46 Olivera Jevtic
08 Oct 2006 Novi Sad 3:27:47 Bojana Traljic
Non-champion winners
2015 2:33:14 Abebu Gelan Adugna (ETH)
2014 3:24:44.5 Olivera Circovic (SER)
2006 2:58:14 Svetlana Tkach (MDA)
Note: No women were entered in the 2008-2013 championships.
Most Titles
Men
(2006-date)
2
Ivan Miškeljin
2014-15
Women
(2006-date)
2
Marijana Lukic
2015-16
Note:
For 1918 thru 2002, Serbia was part of Yugoslavia
For 2003 thru 2005, Serbia was combined with Montenegro (SCG)
Click here for the list of champions for
Serbia-Montenegro.
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Testing is hard. We all know that. Testing distributed applications is just a nightmare. Like having Jason, Freddy Krugger and legions of zombies chasing you while you run barefoot, naked and of course, in the rain.
Why it’s so hard? Well, let’s look at it. We have Unit Testing, where we test that our code does what it has to do. Then, we have Integration Test, where we test that our code can connect and query other systems. Finally, we have System Test, where we want to test if our application works.
Questions you ask during Unit Testing:
- Does this method return this expected value?
- Does this method parse this XML properly?
- Does this method transform this object into this other one?
Questions you ask during Integration Test:
- Can my application connect to the database?
- Does this method return any data?
- Does this API call return the Json objects as I expect?
Finally, System Test:
- Can I log in?
- Can I sign up as a new user?
- When I delete this message, does it goes away?
And this last bit, this last bit it’s terribly hard because you have different systems and a frontend to deal with and not only that, you have to have a system that replicates production (and this is expensive and time consuming).
So, why testing is so hard? because there are many dependencies at many different layers that are very difficult to replicate (have I talked about firewalls? well, maybe I should)
Unit Testing can be done as a pre-building task. Cheap, easy.
Integration Test needs two system talking to each other: our code, and the system my code is connecting to. Not as cheap as it seems. Mocking up is a way of reducing the cost of running two (or more) systems. But don’t deceive yourself, when mocking you are unit testing.
System Test needs all the systems in place properly configured. Expensive.

So, how much effort I should put on testing? as much as you can. Read it again: as much as you can. It depends. Let’s put it like this, the more effort you put in proper testing, the less effort you will have to put when deploying to production.
Testing is hard, and with every release, with every problem we find in production we learn (like simulating dodgy firewalls), but you should take Testing like that: a learning exercise.
I’m planning to write a series of posts about Integration and System Testing. So, if you’re interested, bear with me!


for i in range(self.num_threads):
self.batch_ids_queue.put(False)
// Launch a Thread to wait for processing scripts to finish
threading.Thread(target=self.wait_for_threads).start()
def reset(self):
reset.
for i in range(self.num_threads):
self.batch_ids_queue.put(False)
// Launch a Thread to wait for processing scripts to finish
t = threading.Thread(target=self.wait_for_threads)
t.daemon = True
t.start()
def reset(self):
reset.


Frederick John Westgate
MIDDLETON - Frederick John Westgate, age 93, of Middleton, passed away on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in New Glarus, Wis. He was born on May 6, 1926, in Detroit, Mich., the son of Frederick Westgate Sr. and Muriel (Reid) Westgate. Fred married Mary A. Whitmore on Nov. 9, 1946, in Beaver Dam, Wis. He graduated from Denby High School and worked as a real estate salesman for many years.
Fred is survived by his daughters, Maureen (Larry) Wiseman, Joan (Richard) Leffler, Deborah Westgate and Julie Westgate; sister, Betty E Furbay; grandsons, Larry, Brian and Peter Kozloff; great-grandchildren, Kimberly, Nicholas, Elanor and Olivia Kozloff; three nieces; one nephew; and many dear relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his brother, Stewart Westgate; and great-grandson, Alex Kozloff.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Memorials may be made in Fred's name to Agrace HospiceCare. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.


Train a model to learn the coefficients of a cubic function.
Description
This model learns to approximate the coefficients of a cubic funtion used to generate the points shown below on the left.
See this tutorial for more details.
Input Data
Model Outputs


BillDesk provides unmatched and advanced security standards ensuring optimal performance and stability for your transactions.
Our 3-tier architecture is scalable as per your requirements. It enables switch to multiple carriers with strong connectivity to Visa/Master along with connectivity to pops.
A dedicated commercial grade infrastructure is designed to empower you with all the tools required for multi-channel payments. Our platform is managed by in-house teams and not using the public cloud.
We use a Tier III data centre which is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 27001 certified.
BillDesk’ robust technology platform is equipped with the most advanced tools and has the capability to handle large transaction volumes.
Our technology is always working and available to ensure best uptime performance with no single point of failure.
BillDesk robust platform exposes APIs for all functionalities - testing, payments, settlements, disputes, analytics, queries, refunds etc. Our APIs supports all technology platforms including Java, PHP, .NET, Ruby, Python.
We provide a mobile SDK for iOS and Android operating system that helps to implement an In-app payments experience within your mobile application.
Our platform can also expose APIs for automated IVR based payment processing solutions.
Apart from being channel independent, BillDesk design is focused on user interface and user experience. We keep navigation logical and the architecture simple.
Our Javascript libraries allows to collect card credentials on your page and ensures seamless payment experience for your customers without leaving your page.
Get integrated with BillDesk to start accepting all kind of payments from ready to use and simple interface across multiple options under single window.
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BillDesk is compliant with PCI DSS, ….others and
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BillDesk adheres to all card scheme regulations and standards for Visa, Mastercard.


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Tcl_NewBooleanObj creates a new Tcl_Obj, stores the boolean value boolValue in it, and returns a pointer to the new Tcl_Obj. The new Tcl_Obj has reference count of zero.
Tcl_SetBooleanObj accepts objPtr, a pointer to an existing Tcl_Obj, and stores in the Tcl_Obj *objPtr the boolean value boolValue. This is a write operation on *objPtr, so objPtr must be unshared. Attempts to write to a shared Tcl_Obj will panic. A successful write of boolValue into *objPtr implies the freeing of any former value stored in *objPtr.
Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj attempts to retrieve a boolean value from the value stored in *objPtr. If objPtr holds a string value recognized by Tcl_GetBoolean, then the recognized boolean value is written at the address given by boolPtr. If objPtr holds any value recognized as a number by Tcl, then if that value is zero a 0 is written at the address given by boolPtr and if that value is non-zero a 1 is written at the address given by boolPtr. In all cases where a value is written at the address given by boolPtr, Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj returns TCL_OK. If the value of objPtr does not meet any of the conditions above, then TCL_ERROR is returned and an error message is left in the interpreter's result unless interp is NULL. Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj may also make changes to the internal fields of *objPtr so that future calls to Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj on the same objPtr can be performed more efficiently.
Note that the routines Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj and Tcl_GetBoolean are not functional equivalents. The set of values for which Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj will return TCL_OK is strictly larger than the set of values for which Tcl_GetBoolean will do the same. For example, the value “5” passed to Tcl_GetBooleanFromObj will lead to a TCL_OK return (and the boolean value 1), while the same value passed to Tcl_GetBoolean will lead to a TCL_ERROR return.


The NTLM hash algorithm is much simpler than the LM hash. It takes the
password, hashes it using the MD4 algorithm, then stores it (Riley & Johansson, 2005).
It does not break up the password into chunks, the password is case-sensitive, and can
support very long passwords (127 characters on Windows 2000 and later systems) (Lam,
LeBlanc, & Smith, 2004).


Annotation Query Format
Your query should return four standard columns (case sensitive): * time: Time since UNIX Epoch in milliseconds. (required) * title: The title for the annotation tooltip. (required) * text: Text for the annotation. (optional) * tags: Tags for the annotation. (optional) MySQL: SELECT ROUND(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(time_column) * 1000) AS time, text_column AS text, tag_column AS tags, title_column AS title FROM yourtable ORDER BY time ASC PostgreSQL: SELECT ROUND(extract(EPOCH FROM time_column) * 1000) AS time, text_column AS text, tag_column AS tags, title_column AS title FROM yourtable ORDER BY time ASC


Pair accused of beating 14-year-old girl over clothes she was wearing to school
by WFTX Digital TeamPASCO COUNTY, Fla. -- Deputies have arrested a man and woman who admitted beating a 14-year-old girl with a belt and punching her in Spring Hill.
According to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report, a witness saw a man grabbing a teenager by her hair and throwing her into his vehicle, causing her head to hit the dashboard. The witness followed the vehicle to a location, where the victim ran to the witness for help.
The witness took the victim to a safe place and called authorities.
Deputies interviewed 45-year-old Christopher White, who admitted that "he lost his cool" and struck the victim approximately 25 times with a leather belt.
41-year-old Angela O'Brien also admitted to deputies that she slapped the girl in the face, causing injuries.
Both suspects were arrested for Child Abuse.


Which concepts did you find most difficult?
The Javascript is definitely the most challenging at this stage. 'Closures' are a new concept for me - but I can see how they could be useful.
The Javascript is definitely the most challenging at this stage. 'Closures' are a new concept for me - but I can see how they could be useful.
I am still a bit confused by which technology to use where, and sorting out which syntax is used for each is still something I have to look up, rather than it being on my finger tips. I can't say that I am confused by touch-typing, but it has been far more of a challenge to me than I expected. Years of bad habits, I guess!
I feel that I have a basic understanding of most concepts - still a long way to go to become proficient.
I'm loving it all - just wish I was better at it.


Verifies that specified messages exist in queue
| attribute | desc | example |
|---|---|---|
contains |
Messages list verifying mode. Supported values: EXACT, EXACT_IN_ANY_ORDER. |
Optional. Default: EXACT
|
verifyAs |
Content verifier to use. Built-in verifiers: json, xml.
May be extended by passing addContentVerifiers parameter to
MqPlugin constructor.
|
Optional. Default: json
|
jsonUnitOptions |
";"-separated list of
JsonUnit Options to override defaults.
Applicable only when verifyAs="json" .
|
Optional. Default: -
|
layout |
How to layout list of messages in report. Supported values: horizontally, vertically. |
Optional. Default: vertically
|
To verify single message short form of the command may be used:
expected message template may be specified without nested e:message
tag.
Expected message template could be specified in file via from
attribute.
The vars
attribute could be used to conveniently provide context variables for message template.
To verify that queue is empty the e:check
command with empty tag body could be used.
To override global JsonUnit configuration for specific check
the jsonUnitOptions
attribute could be used.
Expected message list may be specified via nestede:message
tags. Each message template may be
specified either as e:message
tag body or in a file via from
attribute.
The vars
attribute could be used to conveniently provide context variables for message template.
contains
attribute could be used to specify message order restriction.
By default e:mq-check
command waits until exact specified message list will appear in a queue in
exact provided order. To ignore order set contains="EXACT_IN_ANY_ORDER"
.
The headers
attribute could be used for message headers verification.
Extracting actual headers from the message is the MqTester implementation
responsibility.
id
= some-id
and contentEncoding
= UTF-8
:
In case of message list verifying the headers
attribute may be applicable
to e:message
tag.
An implementation of io.github.adven27.concordion.extensions.exam.core.ContentVerifier
interface
is responsible for actual message body verifying. There are following built-in implementation:
ContentVerifier.Json
Enabled by default or by verifyAs="json"
Uses JsonAssert.assertJsonEquals
for verification.
ContentVerifier.Xml
Enabled by verifyAs="xml"
.
Uses DiffBuilder.compare
for verification.
ContentVerifier.Default
Fallback verifier. Enabled if no verifier are found for specified verifyAs
attribute.
Uses jUnit Assert.assertEquals
for verification.
Additional verifier implementations may be provided by addContentVerifiers
parameter of
MqPlugin constructor.
xml
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Preparation time
30 mins to 1 hour
Cooking time
over 2 hours
Serves
Serves 8-12
This popular Italian Christmas dish of pork loin stuffed with herbs, dried fruit and mortadella makes a stunning centrepiece to a festive meal.
Preheat the oven to 220C/450F/Gas 7. Season the pork with salt and pepper and rub it into the pork, along with the lemon zest.
Place the parmesan, pork mince, chicken livers, onions, sage, rosemary, thyme, bread, pine nuts and sultanas, in a large bowl and mix.
Spread the filling on top of the loin and roll onto one side. Cover with two slices of mortadella and then roll halfway along.
Pull in the other side of the lion, add the rest of the filling, then press down and put on four slices of mortadella. Roll to secure and tie with kitchen string. Rub with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Place the whole carrots and onion, the wine, Vin Santo and 125ml/4fl oz of water in the bottom of baking tray and place the pork on top.
Cook in the oven for 30 minutes and then turn the oven down to 150C/300F/Gas 3 for three hours.
For the rosemary and garlic sautéed potatoes, heat a large frying pan and add the oil. Once hot, add the potatoes and cook for a couple of minutes. Add the rosemary and garlic and cook until the potatoes are crisp and cooked through.
To serve, place the pork and potatoes in the centre of the table and let people help themselves.


| BBS+ Signature Scheme | June 2020 | |
| Lodder & Looker | Informational | [Page] |
BBS+ is a short group digital signature that allows a set of messages to be signed with a single key. The scheme permits a signer and signature holder to be two separate parties. The holder creates a Pedersen commitment which is combined with other messages by the signer to complete a blind signature which can be un-blinded by the holder. Lastly, BBS+ also supports an efficient Zero-Knowledge Signature Proof of Knowledge construction where a holder can selectively disclose any subset of signed messages to another party without revealing the signature or the hidden messages.¶
A signature scheme is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that is used to protect authenticity and integrity of communication. Only the holder of a secret key can sign messages, but anyone can verify the signature using the associated public key.¶
Signature schemes are used in point-to-point secure communication protocols, PKI, remote connections, etc. Designing efficient and secure digital signature is very important for these applications.¶
This document describes the BBS+ signature scheme. The scheme features many important properties:¶
The signature is over a group of Pedersen commitments--signatures can be created blinded or un-blinded.¶
The signature is encoded as a single group element and two field elements.¶
Verification requires 2 pairing operations.¶
Simple signature schemes require the entire signature and message be disclosed during verification. BBS+ allows a fast and small zero-knowledge signature proof of knowledge to be created from the signature and the public key. This allows the signature holder to selectively reveal any number of signed messages to another entity (none, all, or any number in between).¶
These properties allow the scheme to be used in applications where privacy and data minimization techniques are desired and/or required.¶
A recent emerging use case applies signature schemes in verifiable credentials. One problem with using simple signature schemes like ECSDA or ED25519 is a holder must disclose the entire signed message and signature for verification. Circuit based logic can be applied to verify these in zero-knowledge like SNARKS or Bulletproofs with R1CS but tend to be complicated. BBS+ on the other hand adds, to verifiable credentials or any other application, the ability to do very efficient zero-knowledge proofs. A holder gains the ability to choose which claims to reveal to a relying party without the need for any additional complicated logic.¶
The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL, when they appear in this document, are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].¶
The following terminology is used throughout this document:¶
The secret key for the signature scheme¶
The public key for the signature scheme containing all information needed to perform cryptographic operations.¶
The short form of the public key or deterministic public key.¶
The set of messages that are blinded from the signer during a blind signing.¶
The set of messages that are known to the signer during a blind signing.¶
The total number of messages that the signature scheme can sign.¶
The set of message indices that are retained or hidden in a signature proof of knowledge.¶
The set of message indices that are disclosed in a signature proof of knowledge.¶
The input to be signed by the signature scheme.¶
The generator corresponding to a given msg.¶
A generator for the blinding value in the signature.¶
The digital signature output.¶
The signature blinding factor held by the signature recipient.¶
The blind digital signature output.¶
A pedersen commitment composed of 1 or more messages.¶
A cryptographic nonce¶
Zero-Knowledge Signature Proof of Knowledge.¶
A non-interactive zero-knowledge proof from fiat-shamir heuristic.¶
The domain separation tag, the ASCII string "BLS12381G1_XMD:BLAKE2B_SSWU_RO_BBS+_SIGNATURES:1_0_0" comprising 52 octets.¶
Denotes the concatenation of octet strings a and b.¶
Terms specific to pairing-friendly elliptic curves that are relevant to this document are restated below, originally defined in [I-D.irtf-cfrg-pairing-friendly-curves]¶
elliptic curve groups defined over finite fields. This document assumes that E1 has a more compact representation than E2, i.e., because E1 is defined over a smaller field than E2.¶
subgroups of E1 and E2 (respectively) having prime order r.¶
a subgroup, of prime order r, of the multiplicative group of a field extension.¶
G1 x G2 -> GT: a non-degenerate bilinear map.¶
points on G1 and G2 respectively. For a pairing-friendly curve, this document denotes operations in E1 and E2 in additive notation, i.e., P + Q denotes point addition and x * P denotes scalar multiplication. Operations in GT are written in multiplicative notation, i.e., a * b is field multiplication.¶
The cryptographic hash function that takes as an arbitrary octet string input and returns a point in G1 as defined in [I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]. The algorithm is BLS12381G1_XMD:BLAKE2B_SSWU_RO, i.e use Blake2b-512 as part of expand message digest, apply the isogeny simplified SWU map to compute a point in G1 using the random oracle method. The domain separation tag value is dst.¶
The cryptographic hash function that takes as an arbitrary octet string input and returns a point in G1 as defined in [I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]. The algorithm is BLS12381G2_XMD:BLAKE2B_SSWU_RO, i.e use Blake2b-512 as part of expand message digest, apply the isogeny simplified SWU map to compute a point in G2 using the random oracle method. The domain separation tag value is dst.¶
returns the canonical representation of the point P as an octet string in compressed form. This operation is also known as serialization.¶
returns the canonical representation of the point P as an octet string in uncompressed form. This operation is also known as serialization.¶
returns the point P corresponding to the canonical representation ostr, or INVALID if ostr is not a valid output of point_to_octets. This operation is also known as deserialization. Consumes either compressed or uncompressed ostr.¶
returns VALID when the point P is an element of the subgroup of order r, and INVALID otherwise. This function can always be implemented by checking that r * P is equal to the identity element. In some cases, faster checks may also exist, e.g., [Bowe19].¶
//TODO¶
This document is organized as follows:¶
The remainder of this section defines terminology and the high-level API.¶
Section 2 defines primitive operations used in the BLS signature scheme. These operations MUST NOT be used alone.¶
Section 3 defines security considerations.¶
Section 4 defines the references.¶
Section 5 defines test vectors.¶
The following comparison assumes BBS+ signatures with curve BLS12-381, targeting 128 bit security.¶
For 128 bits security, ECDSA with curve P-256 takes 37 and 79 micro-seconds to sign and verify signature on a modern computer. BBS+ 680 and 1400 milliseconds to sign and verify a single message. However, ECDSA can only sign a single message whereas BBS+ can sign any number of messages at the expense of a bigger public key. To sign and verify 10 messages takes 3.7 and 5.4 milliseconds, and 22.3 and 24.4 milliseconds for 100 messages.¶
The signature size remains constant regardless of the number of signed messages. ECDSA and ED25519 use 32 bytes for public keys and 64 bytes for signatures. In contrast, BBS+ public key sizes follow the formula 48 * (messages + 1) + 96, and 112 bytes for signatures. However, A single BBS+ signature is sufficient to authenticate multiple messages. We also present a method that only needs 96 bytes for the public key at the expense of a some computation before performing operations like signing, proof generation, and verification.¶
This section defines core operations used by the schemes defined in Section 3. These operations MUST NOT be used except as described in that section.¶
The core operations in this section depend on several parameters:¶
A pairing-friendly elliptic curve, plus associated functionality given in Section 1.4.¶
H, a hash function that MUST be a secure cryptographic hash function, e.g. Blake2b-512. For security, H MUST output at least ceil(log2(r)) bits, where r is the order of the subgroups G1 and G2 defined by the pairing-friendly elliptic curve.¶
PRF(n): a pseudo-random function similar to [RFC4868]. Returns n pseudo randomly generated bytes.¶
The KeyGen algorithm generates a secret key SK deterministically from a secret octet string IKM.¶
KeyGen uses HKDF [RFC5869] instantiated with the hash function H.¶
For security, IKM MUST be infeasible to guess, e.g., generated by a trusted source of randomness. IKM MUST be at least 32 bytes long, but it MAY be longer.¶
Because KeyGen is deterministic, implementations MAY choose either to store the resulting SK or to store IKM and call KeyGen to derive SK when necessary.¶
KeyGen takes an optional parameter, key_info. This parameter MAY be used to derive multiple independent keys from the same IKM. By default, key_info is the empty string.¶
SK = KeyGen(IKM)¶
Inputs: - IKM, a secret octet string. See requirements above.¶
Outputs: - SK, a uniformly random integer such that 0 < SK < r.¶
Parameters: - key_info, an optional octect string. if this is not supplied, it MUST default to an empty string.¶
Definitions: - HKDF-Extract is as defined in [RFC5869], instantiated with hash H. - HKDF-Expand is as defined in [RFC5869], instantiated with hash H. - I2OSP and OS2IP are as defined in [RFC8017], Section 4. - L is the integer given by ceil((3 * ceil(log2(r))) / 16). - "BBS-SIG-KEYGEN-SALT-" is an ASCII string comprising 20 octets.¶
Procedure:¶
SkToDpk algorithm takes a secret key SK and outputs a corresponding short formed public key.¶
SK MUST be indistinguishable from uniformly random modulo r (Section 2.2) and infeasible to guess, e.g., generated using a trusted source of randomness. KeyGen (Section 2.3) outputs SK meeting these requirements. Other key generation approaches meeting these requirements MAY also be used; details of such methods are beyond the scope of this document.¶
DPK = SkToDpk(SK)¶
Inputs: - SK, a secret integer such that 0 <= SK <= r¶
Outputs: - DPK, a public key encoded as an octet string¶
Procedure:¶
The SkToPk algorithm takes a secret key SK and the number of messages that can be signed and outputs the corresponding public key PK.¶
SK MUST be indistinguishable from uniformly random modulo r (Section 2.2) and infeasible to guess, e.g., generated using a trusted source of randomness. KeyGen (Section 2.3) outputs SK meeting these requirements. Other key generation approaches meeting these requirements MAY also be used; details of such methods are beyond the scope of this document.¶
PK = SkToPk(Sk, count)¶
Inputs: - SK, a secret integer such that 0 <= SK <= r - count, an integer¶
Outputs: - PK, a public key encoded as an octet string¶
Procedure:¶
DpkToPk converts the short form of the public key to the long form just like SkToPk.¶
PK = DpkToPk(DPK, count)¶
Inputs: - DPK, the short form of the public key - count, an integer¶
Outputs: - PK, a public key encoded as an octet string¶
Procedure:¶
KeyValidate checks if the public key is valid.¶
As an optimization, implementations MAY cache the result of KeyValidate in order to avoid unnecessarily repeating validation for known keys.¶
result = KeyValidate(PK)¶
Inputs: - PK, a public key in the format output by SkToPk.¶
Outputs: - result, either VALID or INVALID¶
Procedure:¶
Sign computes a signature from SK, PK, over a vector of messages.¶
signature = Sign((msg\_i,...,msg\_n), SK, PK)¶
Inputs: - msg_i,...,msg_n, octet strings - SK, a secret key output from KeyGen - PK, a public key output from either DpkToPk or SkToPk¶
Outputs: - signature, an octet string¶
Procedure:¶
Verify checks that a signature is valid for the octet string messages under the public key.¶
result = Verify((msg\_i,...,msg\_n), signature, PK)¶
Inputs: - msg_i,...,msg_n, octet strings. - signature, octet string. - PK, a public key in the format output by SkToPk.¶
Outputs: - result, either VALID or INVALId.¶
Procedure:¶
The PreBlindSign algorithm allows a holder of a signature to blind messages that when signed, are unknown to the signer.¶
The algorithm takes generates a blinding factor that is used to un-blind the signature from the signer, and a pedersen commitment from the generators in the signers public key PK and a vector of messages.¶
(s', commitment) = PreBlindSign((msg\_i,...,msg\_U),h0, (h\_i,...,h\_U))¶
Inputs: - msg_i,...,msg_U, octet strings of the messages to be blinded. - h0, octet string. - h_i,...,h_U, octet strings of generators for the messages to be blinded.¶
Outputs: - s', octet string. - commitment, octet string¶
Procedure:¶
BlindSign generates a blind signature from a commitment received from a holder, known messages, a secret key, and generators from the corresponding public key.¶
blind\_signature = BlindSign(commitment, (msg\_i,...msg\_K), SK, h0, (h\_i,...,h\_K))¶
Inputs: - commitment, octet string receive from the holder in output form from PreBlindSign - msg_i,...,msg_K, octet strings - SK, a secret key output from KeyGen - h0, octet string. - h_i,...,h_K, octet strings of generators for the known messages¶
Outputs: - blind_signature, octet string¶
Procedure:¶
UnblindSign computes the unblinded signature given a blind signature and the holder's blinding factor. It is advised to verify the signature after un-blinding.¶
signature = UnblindSign(blind\_signature, s')¶
Inputs: - s', octet string in output form from PreBlindSign - blind_signature, octet string in output form from BlindSign¶
Outputs: - signature, octet string¶
Procedure:¶
BlindMessagesProofGen creates a proof of committed messages zero-knowledge proof. The proof should be verified before a signer computes a blind signature. The proof is created from a nonce given to the holder from the signer, a vector of messages, a blinding factor output from PreBlindSign, and generators from the signers public key.¶
nizk = BlindMessagesProofGen(commitment, s', (msg\_i,...,msg\_U), h0, (h\_i,...,h\_U), nonce)¶
Inputs: - commitment, octet string as output from PreBlindSign - s', octet string as output from PreBlindSign - msg_i,...,msg_U, octet strings of the messages to be blinded. - h0, octet string. - h_i,...,h_U, octet strings of generators for the messages to be blinded. - nonce, octet string.¶
Outputs: - nizk, octet string¶
Procedure:¶
BlindMessagesProofVerify checks whether a proof of committed messages zero-knowledge proof is valid.¶
result = BlindMessagesProofVerify(commitment, nizk, nonce)¶
Inputs: - commitment, octet string in output form from PreBlindSign - nizk, octet string in output form from BlindMessagesProofGen - nonce, octet string¶
Outputs: - result, either VALID or INVALID.¶
Procedure:¶
A signature proof of knowledge generating algorithm that creates a zero-knowledge proof of knowledge of a signature while selectively disclosing messages from a signature, a vector of messages, vector of indices, the signer's public key, and a nonce.¶
spk = SpkGen(PK, (msg\_i,...,msg\_L), (i,...,R), signature, nonce)¶
Inputs: - PK, octet string in output form from SkToPk, DpkToPk - msg_i,...,msg_L, octet strings - i,...,R, integers - signature, octet string in output form from Sign - nonce, octet string¶
Outputs: - spk, octet string¶
Procedure:¶
(A, e, s) = signature¶
if subgroup_check(A) is INVALID abort¶
if KeyValidate(PK) is INVALID abort¶
b = commitment + h0 * s + h_i * msg_i + ... + h_L * msg_L¶
r1 = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
r2 = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
e~ = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
r2~ = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
r3~ = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
s~ = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
r3 = r1 ^ -1 mod r¶
m~ = [ R]¶
for i in 0 to R: m~[i] = H(PRF(8*ceil(log2(r)))) mod r¶
A' = A * r1¶
Abar = A' * -e + b * r1¶
d = b * r1 + h0 * -r2¶
s' = s - r2 * r3¶
C1 = A' * e~ + h0 * r2~¶
C2 = d * r3~ + h0 * s~ + h_i * m~_i + ... + h_R * m_R¶
c = H(Abar || A' || h0 || C1 || d || h0 || h_i || ... || h_R || C2 || nonce)¶
e^ = e~ + c * e¶
r2^ = r2~ - c * r2¶
r3^ = r3~ + c * r3¶
s^ = s~ - c * s'¶
m^_i = m~_i - c m_i¶
spk = (A', Abar, d, C1, e^, r2^, C2, r3^, s^, (m_i,...,m¶
return spk¶
SpkVerify checks if a signature proof of knowledge is VALID given the signer's public key, a vector of revealed messages, the proof, and the nonce used in SpkGen.¶
result = SpkVerify(spk, PK, (msg\_i,...,msg\_D), nonce)¶
Inputs: - spk, octet string. - PK, octet string in output form from SkToPk, DpkToPk. - msg_i,...,msg_D, octet strings. - nonce, octet string.¶
Outputs: - result, either VALID or INVALID.¶
Procedure:¶
if KeyValidate(PK) is INVALID¶
(A', Abar, d, C1, e^, r2^, C2, r3^, s^, (m_i,...,m¶
(w, h0, h_i,...,h_L) = PK¶
if A' == 1 return INVALID¶
X1 = e(A', w)¶
X2 = e(Abar, P2)¶
if X1 != X2 return INVALID¶
c = H(Abar || A' || h0 || C1 || d || h0 || h_i || ... || h_R || C2 || nonce)¶
T1 = Abar - d¶
T2 = P1 + h_i * -m^_i + ... + h_D * -m_D¶
Y1 = A' * e^ + h0 * r2^ + T1 * c¶
Y2 = d * r3^ + h0 * s^ + h_i * m^_i + ... + h_R * m^_R + T2 * c¶
if C1 != Y1 return INVALID¶
if C2 != Y2 return INVALID¶
return VALID¶
All algorithms in Section 2 that operate on points in public keys require first validating those keys. For the sign, verify and proof schemes, the use of KeyValidate is REQUIRED.¶
Some existing implementations skip the subgroup_check invocation in Verify (Section 2.8), whose purpose is ensuring that the signature is an element of a prime-order subgroup. This check is REQUIRED of conforming implementations, for two reasons.¶
For most pairing-friendly elliptic curves used in practice, the pairing operation e (Section 1.3) is undefined when its input points are not in the prime-order subgroups of E1 and E2. The resulting behavior is unpredictable, and may enable forgeries.¶
Even if the pairing operation behaves properly on inputs that are outside the correct subgroups, skipping the subgroup check breaks the strong unforgeability property [ADR02].¶
Implementations of the signing algorithm SHOULD protect the secret key from side-channel attacks. One method for protecting against certain side-channel attacks is ensuring that the implementation executes exactly the same sequence of instructions and performs exactly the same memory accesses, for any value of the secret key. In other words, implementations on the underlying pairing-friendly elliptic curve SHOULD run in constant time.¶
As discussed in Section 2.2, the IKM input to KeyGen MUST be infeasible to guess and MUST be kept secret. One possibility is to generate IKM from a trusted source of randomness. Guidelines on constructing such a source are outside the scope of this document.¶
Secret keys MAY be generated using other methods; in this case they MUST be infeasible to guess and MUST be indistinguishable from uniformly random modulo r.¶
BBS+ signatures are nondeterministic, meaning care must be taken against attacks arising from signing with bad randomness, for example, the nonce reuse attack on ECDSA [HDWH12]. It is recommended that the nonces used in signature proof generation are from a trusted source of randomness.¶
BlindSign as discussed in 2.10 uses randomness from two parties so care MUST be taken that both sources of randomness are trusted. If one party uses weak randomness, it could compromise the signature.¶
When a trusted source of randomness is used, signatures and proofs are much harder to forge or break due to the use of multiple nonces.¶
The security analysis models hash_to_point and hash_pubkey_to_point as random oracles. It is crucial that these functions are implemented using a cryptographically secure hash function. For this purpose, implementations MUST meet the requirements of [I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve].¶
In addition, ciphersuites MUST specify unique domain separation tags for hash_to_point. The domain separation tag used in Section 1.4 is the RECOMMENDED one.¶
Contexts can be used to separate uses of the protocol between different protocols (which is very hard to reliably do otherwise) and between different uses within the same protocol. However, the following SHOULD be kept in mind:¶
The context SHOULD be a constant string specified by the protocol using it. It SHOULD NOT incorporate variable elements from the message itself.¶
Contexts SHOULD NOT be used opportunistically, as that kind of use is very error prone. If contexts are used, one SHOULD require all signature schemes available for use in that purpose support contexts.¶
Contexts are an extra input, which percolate out of APIs; as such, even if the signature scheme supports contexts, those may not be available for use. This problem is compounded by the fact that many times the application is not invoking the signing, verification, and proof functions directly but via some other protocol.¶
The ZKP protocols use nonces which MUST be different in each context.¶
BBS+ signatures can be implemented on any pairing-friendly curve. Using BLS12-381 the signature achieves close to 128-bit security, and is the recommended curve at this time.¶
This document does not make any requests of IANA.¶
BLS12-381¶
The cipher-suites in Section 4 are based upon the BLS12-381 pairing-friendly elliptic curve. The following defines the correspondence between the primitives in Section 1.3 and the parameters given in Section 4.2.2 of [I-D.irtf-cfrg-pairing-friendly-curves].¶
E1, G1: the curve E and its order-r subgroup.¶
E2, G2: the curve E' and its order-r subgroup.¶
GT: the subgroup G_T.¶
P1: the point BP.¶
P2: the point BP'.¶
e: the optimal Ate pairing defined in Appendix A of [I-D.irtf-cfrg-pairing-friendly-curves].¶
pointtooctets and octetstopoint use the compressed serialization formats for E1 and E2 defined by [ZCash].¶
subgroup_check MAY use either the naive check described in Section 1.3 or the optimized check given by [Bowe19].¶
//TODO¶


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THREE SEASONS (director: Tony Bui; cast: Don Duong (Hai), Nguyen Ngoc Hiep (Kien An), Tran Manh Cuong (Teacher Dao), Harvey Keitel (James Hager), Zoe Bui (Lan), Nguyen Huu Duoc (Woody), 1999)
Saigon is a different place from the days of the Vietnam war, when we defended the corrupt government of the South against the attacking communist forces from the North, and lost that unpopular war-- a war that heatedly divided our country, as well. To go back and see what that city is like now, should be interesting, especially since there is very little media coverage of Saigon that reaches main street America. The 26-year-old director, whose family escaped Vietnam when he was a two year old to live in California, has gone back to find his roots and observe his people and see how they live today.
This rather sentimental elegy to his country, plays much like a travelogue, bent on painting a pretty picture of the country despite the sad tale it tells of four diverse, gentle souls, whose symbolic fictionalized venture will prove to be very touching, as we follow them around Saigon and observe them as their lives sometimes interact with each other.
What the film lacks is a real poet's cutting edge and tension, and what is also astonishingly absent, is a view of the political situation. But what is even more astonishing, is the complete lack of anger from those who are poor, whose lives are so polarized from the very rich.
There is little risk taken here by the director, who has shot a purposefully fictionalized account of Vietnam, showing only that it is being swallowed up by capitalism and its own passivity. But he is not blaming anyone for what happened. Forgiveness, he implies, is the basis of Vietnam's onward existence. The Coca-Cola signs and the luxurious hotels serve only as reminders that this country is being overtaken by commercialism and greed, nevertheless the director seems content to film his picturesque view of the city, as is, of these materialistic intrusions appearing without any kind of analysis as to why. The pastel colors of the film and the brightness of the city, allow even the squalid slum section of town to appear to be picture perfect.
All four of the main characters the story follows, are victims of the country's past war, who are now trying to cope with their situation by understanding what it is that they are now feeling that weighs heavily in their heart.
The film opens on the site of an opulently lush lake with Kien An (Nguyen Ngoc Hiep), who is part of an all-female work force hired to pick white lotus blossoms on the temple estate of an embittered recluse. He is passing himself off as a poet and some kind of wise man, who can feel the beauty of nature in his soul. This first story relates to the beauty found in the spring weather as observed for the harvesting of the lotus.
After gathering their crop, where the women sing traditional songs, they go to Saigon and sell their flowers on the streets. Competition arises for Kien An, as vendors of plastic scented imitations do a better business than she does.
When she sings a different song from the other women's, the boss recognizes it as a song from his happy youth, when he was so filled with enthusiasm for life, until he developed leprosy and lost all his fingers, and retreated from life by hiding in the shadows, embarrassed that children made fun of him when they saw him.
 The heavy-handed symbolism in her story relates to how this country can't face its true self anymore, blaming itself for the disease it caught.
The next story is even cornier, as the romantic Hai (Don Duong), a cyclo driver, falls in love with Lan (Zoe Bui), a $50 a trick prostitute. Hai courts the snobbish whore in his cyclo, giving her rides from the luxury hotels in which she does her business back to her slum area apartment.
When Hai wins $200 in a cyclo race, he then pays for her services, and the haughty Lan turns out to be a frightened girl, who is confused and unsure of herself. Another symbolic message, this time relating to their country and how it must learn to love itself without being gobbled up by foreigners. The season is summer and it is extremely hot.
Next we have a street urchin peddler of trinkets, Woody (Nguyen Huu Duoc), a boy of eight or nine, who tries to sell a lighter to James Hager (Harvey Keitel) in the Apocalypse Now Bar. He is an ex-marine looking for the grown daughter he fathered, but has never seen, while stationed in Saigon during the war.
The kid's suitcase is stolen, and he spends the remainder of the film searching in the rain for the thief stealing everything he possesses that is of value, who he thinks is Harvey. Again, these characters are symbolic-- Harvey, for our country to put a closure on the past; and for the kid, to get in off of the monsoon rain and become strong in spirit, because he is the future of the country.
Everything gets tidied up in nice little packages by the film's end and every one walks away enchanted, and this very picturesque take on Saigon, that seems to be a love affair the director is having with his ancestral country, turns out to be an irksome charmer to behold. It lacks what it thinks it has: poetic vision. There is not much substance in its lyrics, and its beauty can only be taken as skin deep. When we think about what this film was saying, there is not much there that is perceptive enough to add something worthwhile to its lugubrious tale. The plain truth is, that there was just nothing striking said during this well-crafted film to hold our attention. It was mostly an arty kind of mush, fed to a Western audience that is dying to see something nice about Vietnam, even if that something can't get past being sentimental jive. The clichéd story had too many coincidences and improbabilities in it, and an incomplete picture of how this city now functions, for its story to be considered as being relevant to the topic it covered, except by those who are pleased and willing to see something about Vietnam that lets them forget about the war and the terrible conflicts it brought to both countries.
REVIEWED ON 7/11/99 GRADE: C
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I began my coding journy after many years toiling away at a job I resented going to. After too many mornings curssing the alarm clock I decieded to take a leap. I had taken a few intro to code classes in the past and found it very interesting. Thus began my enrollment into Eleven-Fifty Academy.
Eleven-Fifty was one of the more difficult challenges I faced in my life, but it was a deeply rewarding one. It allowed me to find a place that I could grow and cultivate my interests.


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Sets up the application
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Save the new user and redirect them to the settings wizard


Tracy Borman is a historian and author of many books, particularly focussing on the Tudor period. Tracy’s most recent book is The Private Lives of the Tudors: uncovering the secrets of Britain’s greatest dynasty. She is also Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces.
1. Where did you first develop your interest in history and particularly the Tudors?
According to my parents (neither of whom are great history fans), my love of the subject comes from my paternal grandfather. He was always transcribing articles from local journals and newspapers about the history of his locality, and also took a real interest in parliamentary records. He died long before I was born, so I’m sad that I never got to meet him. I think we would have had a lot to talk about!
My interest in the Tudors is thanks to an inspirational teacher. Mrs Jones taught me A Level history and she had pictures of the Tudors all over her classroom so that we could see who she was referring to. That helped to bring things to life, but the real difference that Mrs Jones made was to make me realise that history is about real people with real emotions and often very personal motivations, rather than just grand political strategies and seismic events.
This transformed the way I studied the subject and still influences me to this day - particularly with my latest book, The Private Lives of the Tudors, which is all about how the life these iconic monarchs lived behind closed doors influenced their actions in public. For example, Henry VIII is often depicted as a tyrant during his later years, but when you discover what he was going through in private, you have a whole new sympathy for him!
2. You work from an office at Hampton Court which sounds very glamourous. What is it like having a royal palace as a workplace?
I can’t pretend that, as a Tudor historian, it’s anything other than completely wonderful - and a huge privilege - to work in the greatest surviving Tudor palace in the world. Even though a great deal of my working day is spent in meetings or behind a computer, the fact that I’m in a palace makes all the difference.
One of my favourite parts of the job is getting to go through the doors marked ‘Private’. Even though a lot of them have something like a store room or broom cupboard on the other side, it still gives me a thrill to go to a part of the palace that not many other people get to see.
3. You have written about huge historical figures like Elizabeth I and Thomas Cromwell. Is it a challenge as a historian to find a new angle or are we discovering new information all the time?
It is true that for popular subjects such as the Tudors, the challenge can be to find something that is genuinely new to say. But I am passionate about going back to the original sources for my research, and the archives always turn up something unexpected.
Of course, the dream is to find that piece of evidence that unlocks a great historical mystery - such as whether Elizabeth really was the Virgin Queen, or who murdered the Princes in the Tower. But even the minutiae of history is fascinating and can transform people’s perception of a person or event.
For example, while researching Thomas Cromwell, I went through his account books. They might not sound very interesting on the surface, but they provided a startling new insight into the character of the man: how he liked to spend his leisure time, which books he had in his library, how much he spent every year on wine (a great deal!) and even the fact that he kept what was only described as a ‘strange beast’ in his back garden. It is details such as these that, when pieced together, really bring historical characters to life.
4. If it was possible to somehow meet one historical figure from the past who would it be and what would you like to ask them?
It is so difficult to narrow it down to just one! But I think it would have to be Cromwell, and I would ask him if he really was behind the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
5. What is on your list of books to read at the moment?
For research, I have a large pile of books about Henry VIII as he will be the subject of my next non-fiction book.
For pleasure, I always read historical novels. I have recently discovered SJ Parris and I’m looking forward to reading the sequel to Prophecy. Having hugely enjoyed Robyn Young’s new novel, Sons of the Blood, I am going to look through her back list for more books to devour.
But the most eagerly anticipated book on my list has to be the third and final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall series. Even though I know Cromwell’s fate, I’m still somehow hoping for a happy ending!
6. Do you have a message for your many readers in Suffolk Libraries?
I would like to warmly thank all my readers at Suffolk Libraries for the interest that they have shown in my books. I am a passionate supporter of libraries: from active local libraries such as those in Suffolk, to national institutions such as the British Library, where I do the bulk of my research and writing.
Libraries are an invaluable part of the community so I hope that they will secure all the funding and support that they need to keep them thriving long into the future.
7. You are visiting Suffolk for the Lavenham Literary Festival in November. Can you give us a small taster of what to expect?
I will be giving the audience the Tudors as they’ve never seen them before - and I have to warn them now: it won’t always be a pretty sight! My talk will explore the lives that each of these famous monarchs lived behind closed doors, and there will be quite a few surprises along the way.
Without exception, every single one of the Tudor monarchs changes dramatically when you look at how they lived their lives away from the glare of the public court. I can’t wait to return to beautiful Lavenham and be part of its fantastic literary festival. I know that I’ll be in for a treat.
Tracy is visiting Suffolk in November to speak at the Lavenham Literary Festival. For further details on Tracy’s visit or the rest of the programme visit the Lavenham Literary Festival website.


We have different coffee available in our book cafe so just visit and order cafe avaible.
This is only an example of frappe we have in our book cafe so just visit and order.


Simple examples
A svg file:
<svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 32 32"> <svg:g> <svg:circle cx="2" cy="4" r="2"/> <svg:rect x="8" y="2" width="24" height="4"/> </svg:g> </svg:svg>
A html file:
<html lang=en[ <head[ <meta charset=UTF-8> <title"Html example"> ]> <body[ <h1`Title`> <p`Paragraph with <em`inline tag`>.`> ]> ]>
A server html file with processing instructions:
<html lang=en[  <body[ <%php"ECHO 'Hello GS!';"> ]> ]>
GS benefits over XML and HTML
Syntax overhead
GS is sensibly optimized in minified form:
- Tag names are not repeated in the close tag.
- Quotes are not required for single word values.
- In XML, a value for boolean attributes is not required.
Mixed content and DOM instantiation overhead
<div[ <p `<em`consecutive`> <span`words`>`> ]>
XML and HTML do not differentiate insignificant white spaces for human readability (indentations) and significant spaces in text nodes.
In this example the space between the em
and span
tags is semantically needed whereas space between div
and p
is not.
That's why when the DOM is instantiated, white space only text nodes are always built but most are useless and consume unnecessary time and memory.
In GS, authors use different body type nodes:
- In the list body type
[]
, white spaces are never significant and never be instantiated (as in JSON) - In the mixed body type
``
, all characters sequence between nodes<>
define a significant text node.
Note: in GS this example can also be written with a list node []
and a simple text node ""
:
<div[ <p [  " "  ]> ]>
Mixed-content and editors auto-formatting
Text editor automatic re-formating and re-indenting features are really useful. But these features don't work perfectly for XML and HTML due to undifferentiated text type nodes:
- pure white spaces,
- text that can be re-indented (like paragraphs),
- and text nodes where spaces must be preserved (like code fragment in
pre
tags in html).
In XML, this issue is resolved with the declarative and inelegant xml:space="preserve"
attribute, but its inheritable behavior is contrary to the modularity
principle and is source of regressions (those who edit big xml files like xsl where some parts must never be re-indented well known this issue...)
Since HTML4 is a DSL, editors must know each tag name
and the issue is partially worked around (as long as authors don't intend to override standard html tags with the white-space
css property).
In HTML5 with web-components the DSL principle is no more applicable and the issue become more important because there is no way to explicitly specify the break-space behavior:
<ml-gsml-compare format="xml">
<svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 32 32"> <svg:g> <svg:circle cx="2" cy="4" r="2"/> <svg:rect x="8" y="2" width="24" height="4"/> </svg:g> </svg:svg>
 </ml-gsml-compare>
This html fragment with a web-component is issued from this page (see the first example). The

tag
in the <ml-gsml-compare>
web-component is useless but is added just for blocking the auto text indentation in editors!
Here is the same example if this html page was written in GS,

tag can be omitted because body node can be correctly typed in GS:
<ml-gsml-compare format=xml !"<svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 32 32"> <svg:g> <svg:circle cx="2" cy="4" r="2"/> <svg:rect x="8" y="2" width="24" height="4"/> </svg:g> </svg:svg>!">
In GS to explicitly allow text reformatting, a ~
is prepended to the text body ~""
,
the attribute value ~''
or the mixed body ~``
:

Comment restrictions and imbrication
<section [ <div [ <button onclick='count--;'> ]> ]>
To comment the button
tag in HTML and XML:

In GS:
<section [ <div [ <#button onclick='count--;'> ]> ]>
<section [ <div [ <#"button onclick='count--;'"> ]> ]>
Now, commenting the div
tag in HTML and XML is really hard. Comment each line is the simple but laborious way:

It's always easy in GS:
<section [ <#div [ <#button onclick='count--;'> ]> ]>
<section [ <#!"div [ <#"button onclick='count--;'"> ]!"> ]>
GS benefits over HTML
Generic parsing and serializing
As opposed to XML and JSON, the main html issue is the need for a dedicated and complex parser and serializer with many special edge cases.
GS offers a generic and simple syntax: parsers and serializers can easily be implemented in many languages. For example a GS event driven parser implemented in Typescript is less than 700 lines of code (11kb minified js), and a serializer is about 200 lines.
Are these HTML dedicated parsing rules useful for authors?
 <svg:g> <svg:circle cx="2" cy="4" r="2"/> <svg:rect x="8" y="2" width="24" height="4"/> </svg:g> </svg:svg> !">
GS benefits over XML
Stricter and unreadable escaping


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1
Human Resource Policies
Employee Welfare Schemes
FUNCTION: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
POLICY: EMPLOYEE WELFARE SCHEMES
PREPARED BY: PRABHA JAISWAL
APPROVED BY: BHARAT KAPOOR
DATE: 1
st
December, 2015
VERSION NO: HR/ EWS/ 01
–
A
Policy Number
HR/ EWS/ 01
Policy
Distribution
All Employees
Confidentiality
Confidential to DIPI employees only
Effective Date
December 2015
Applicability
Employee and Factory workers as specified in the policy
Policy content
A.
Gratuity Insurance Policy
Every employee who has completed the continuous service of five years in
DIPI is entitled for this benefit. The calculation is
done by following formula:
Gratuity = No. of year of service x Last drawn Salary (Basic+ D.A.) x 15 /26
B.
Mediclaim Policy
The employees who are not covered under ESI are covered under National
Mediclaim Policy the sum insured shall be as under.
Designation
Sum Insured
Managers
Rs 2,00,000
TL
Rs 1,50,000
Executive
Rs 1,00,000
C.
Employees’ Provident Fund Act, 1952
All the employees are covered under this Act.
Contributor
Contribution
Employee
12 %
Employer
13.36 %
–
20 per cent on Maximum Limits (under EPF Act)
–
Statuary requirements for employees contribution is 12 per cent
Benefits to Employee
–
Employees Provident Fund
–
Employee’s Pension Scheme
Contact
For any clarification regarding any aspect of the policy, kindly contact the GA and
HR Department.
Approval
Approved by-
Date:
1
st
December 2015
Director


It's old (Microsoft presented WCF first time in 2003)
Not much improvements in last yars
No longer preffered for REST API's over HTTP(S)
Mature technology (same as WPF)
Has no replacement which covers all use cases
Plenty of WCF apps in the wild
.NET Framework (Windows only)
.NET Core (client side in progress, server side later)
Mono (mostly works)
SOAP Web Services
.NET to .NET communication
Custom protocols (reuse WCF components)
JSON REST full service
High performance RPC framework
Message queue (if MSMQ is not required)
basicHttpBinding / basicHttpContextBinding
wsHttpBinding / wsHttpContextBinding
wsDualHttpBinding
wsFederationHttpBinding
netHttpBinding / netHttpsBinding
netTcpBinding / netTcpContextBinding
netNamedPipeBinding
netPeerTcpBinding
netMsmqBinding
webHttpBinding
msmqIntegrationBinding
udpBinding
Lets write some code...


Public Enterprises minister to meet striking unions at South Africa's SAA
South Africa's Public Enterprises minister will meet unions striking at its state-owned airline on Tuesday in an effort to resolve a strike over wages at the embattled South African Airways (SAA) that has entered its fifth day.
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's Public Enterprises minister will meet unions striking at its state-owned airline on Tuesday in an effort to resolve a strike over wages at the embattled South African Airways (SAA) that has entered its fifth day.
State-owned SAA has canceled hundreds of flights since the strike began on Friday, saying the stoppage is costing 50 million rand (US$3.36 million) per day and jeopardizing talks with lenders.
Irvin Jim, General Secretary for the National Union for Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), which called the strike alongside the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA), said the unions would meet with Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday to discuss the strike.
SACCA's deputy president Christopher Shabangu also confirmed the meeting saying it was "trying to find a solution to ending the strike".
The spokesman to minister Gordhan could not be reached for comment.
The strike has cast doubt on the survival of the airline, which hasn’t turned a profit since 2011 and is reliant on state bailouts.
SAA said on Monday its international flights were operating on schedule while some domestic passengers would face more cancellations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The unions have also threatened to shut down the entire aviation industry in Africa's most industrialized nation by extending industrial action beyond state-run airline.
The SAA is expected to give updates on the strike at 1100 GMT on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Tanisha Heiberg, editing by Louise Heavens)


Simple Redirects¶
What is Simple Redirects?¶
Simple Redirects provides URL redirect management for Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce.
By default, Magento has fairly limited flexibility with respect to URL redirect management. The
URL rewrite module Magento_UrlRewrite
, as well as related modules Magento_CatalogUrlRewrite
and Magento_CmsUrlRewrite
, provide the ability to redirect and rewrite URLs for products,
categories, and CMS pages, which is extremely useful for SEO purposes. However, there’s a lack of
functionality for simple rule-based redirects, which can be especially helpful when transitioning
to Magento from another platform like Shopify or BigCommerce.
Key Features¶
- Rule types:
Path
Query Parameter
Host
- Match types:
Exact match
Not exact match
Contains
Does not contain
Matches regex
Does not match regex
- Redirect types:
301
302
Priority levels 1-10


The following content come from the official website of the school
The Village School is a coeducational,
non-denominational college preparatory private school for Pre-K 2 through 12 grades located in the Energy Corridor of West Houston.
Village is also proud member of the Nord Anglia Education network of schools. Through open collaboration with people from varied cultures,
languages, and values, our students are encouraged and expected to make a positive impact on those around them. TIP: The village school itself is a good school, but RESIDENTIAL LIFE IS NOT WORTH HOW MUCH IT COSTS
COVID-19 & our dorm
As you can see from the first image, the students were highly concentrated in a small area waiting in line. This line would have been much longer since I came out very late while telling the RA about my coronavirus concerns. This would have been a serious health risk due to the fact that so many people were forced to be in a small area.
The second image shows a "required" meeting. Which just annouced things that can be completed express within a email but greatly increased the risk.
About Res Life
The boarding program(Residential Life) is a part of the village school, which offers students a place to rest.
With the residential life program, you can enjoy the following benefits:
The dorm is close to the high school building.However, You are not allowed to come back to the dorm during school hours or lunch
You can live with your friends.However, this is a case-by-case situation: if you like to socialize with a large group of friends, this feature will be a benefit for you. Else, the RL is an annoying place to stay.
You can use some school facilities, like the gym.
However, they only open at certain times, and it is usually crowdy.
Also, you may not use the playground whenever you want because sports games may take place there, and there are some security issues.
Some Bad Advertisements
According to the official website of the village school,
this program includes
meals each day
This only includes the cafeteria(Flik food) but the flavor of the food is usually not perferrable.
Also by becoming a boarding student, you lose your freedom of choice.
full access to all school facilities, The majority of the school facility are good, but day students also have the right to access. What are some examples that only RL students can access? Gym? No! Why? Seeabove!.It sounds like the RL students have a lot of rights but actually not.
laundry services,
Laundry service is included in the fee, but we can call laundry service by ourselves at better price and quality, provided by Tide if we live out.
academic and personal advising
The residential life student has no exclusive rights in academic advising. Oppositely, dorm parents usually are not able to offer advice in academics. People lose chances of getting other opportunities for help, such as homework help from the host family. Occasionally, there are some teachers come in the dorm and able to offer tutorial for students.
The excellent resource of our school: emotional counselor and college counseling are open to day students as well, and everyone gets equal opportunities.
Tuturials are offered often during office hours: after school 3:30 - 4:00 and is open to all students
Trips on weekends and school breaks.
Trips that are actually valueable for us is to the target, but if we live by ourselves, we can call uber instead of rushing into a bus.
Also, a seat on the bus should not be so costy.
Sometimes we have some big trips like the one to the houston space center, spring brake trip etc. but
it should not be as expensive as listed, as we are travel usually in an economy time and in a group.
According to the feed back of 2019-2020, the trip was not arranged in a way that people perfer.
If you like being active, travel with a huge group of friends and socialize, this trip is an good
for you. If you just want to chill down and relax, this is a jail.
300 kids was called to an empty space and given a small
volley ball space, only few students can play,
rest of the students did nothing.
In order to save money, the school has booked stopping flight and people wasted 2 days on flight.
airport transportation
This only applies to group activity. Need to wait for group, crowded.
and all needed technology
This is a lie! A COMPLETE LIE
The fact is: when you come into the school they will hand you a LG old phone, an 11 inch mini laptop and it is slow.
And this only happens in the first year.
The "technology" school give you is bad, NOT WORTH IT!
The following years nothing will be given to you and you still hand equal tuition.
What they give to you completely unable to payback what you pay them.
The majority of students purchase their own laptops.
as well as student health insurance.You can get better insurance by yourself.
Usually dorm parents are not able to offer as much help in medication as you might have expected.
Real Example: There was a student getting sick in the dorm, but the dorm parent asked her to drink coke.
The dorm is not a bad dorm, it just not worth how much it costs.
A loud environment is hard for a student to concentrate and study,
especially when people become aggressive and rude when you try to stop them.
Also, there is little studying atmosphere in the dorm,
it interrupts other students to study.
It can give one pressure and affect their grade.
The school put 8 persons in a room, and in most of the rooms, people scream and game.
When people game, they get really excited and cannot control their volumn.
Also people run and play basketball in the corridor.
Since people come from different countries, educational background is diverse that sometimes is hard for one to tolerant. It can cause conflict between students and make life in RL suffering.
8 persons in a room
This is NOT WE ARE PAYING FOR. People can see each other and it is crowded. It feels uncomfortable.
Although the dorm is not vary bad. JUST NOT WORTH IT!!!!!! Host family is obivously better option.
This is NOT "Home away from home". In host family you get your own room, at here you have to study in the common area.
The mailroom is inconvenient in the dorm, every time we have to “persuade” them to get access to the mail. The front desk doesn’t deliver mail properly, the arrival time of packages is unpredictable, mail gets a mess and delay.
If you care about the timeliness of your package you shop from either Amazon, Nike or anywhere else, the dorm is a bad choice for you.
It is much easier to get a detention in the res life than in high school. In the res life,
you get detention for coming back to dorm late, and in the morning if you are late to get out
of the dorm for even one minute. If those late 3 times you get a detention. Also, if your room is
not clean enough you get detention either. But in highschool you have to get 3 referrals to get a detention.
And RL detention is at 6 am and you will be waken up at 5, very hard and makes people tired.
The wifi is shared with highschool. You can get a better
wifi service if you live with host family. Also, wifi in our school is monitored, and you will be required to install
something in your device, everything you do is exposed to the school manager.
Some More Lies
Let's take a look at school website
Quoted from the school website:
" As part of the residential life program at The Village School,
your child will have extended opportunities to utilize The Village School’s innovative math and science programs, LIER!!!The resifential life program has no relationship to math and science program in the village highschool. Again, the "extended oppotunities" is a no-sense connection.
integrated with fine arts and technology, How is reslife related to art? This is a perfect description for highschool.
as part of our collaborative, diverse, nurturing family of learners. " Hows that happening? This ONLY APPLIES TO HIGH SCHOOL! For that, in other words, live with a group of disruptive students.
Gym = crowded. Only open at certain times.
Less Comparative to the LA fitness close by.
Also, the fee is included in the tuition even if you don't use it.
Attending a boarding school can enrich your child’s development in many ways,
from making lifelong friends with similarly motivated students, You can make more friends in highschool than in the rl.
If you enjoy to socialize in a crowded group of people, this is a benefit.
Else, RL is annoying to stay.
to taking part in
exciting field trips 2 times a year, go in a crowded group.
 What is "international experience"?
Advertised: The Village School’s four-story
dormitory for our residential life
students is
centrally located The reslife is not centrally located! IT IS ON THE SIDE OF THE SCHOOL
for convenient access to school facilities
and after-school activities.
Thank you, we still have to sign out in order to go anywhere. Also, after-school activity
does not need RL's help,
ALL STUDENTS CAN ACCESS
Also, high school is the most convinent place for accessing after-school activities.
After-school activity happens when we got off school, why do we need dorm though...
Student suites have four bedrooms and two bathrooms
with a shared study area in each.
common area is noisy.
Dorm parents control is inefficient.
Also, 8 persons in a room make allows each one less space.

The
large common spaces
This is not large. Also, it is usually loud.
on each floor allow for flexible use, such as
studying and relaxing,
Are you willing to study in a vegetable supermarket?
Are you willing to study when everyone is gaming.
well, no.
VERY ANNOYING!!!!!INTERNATIONAL GAME BAR
and have Wi-Fi among other amenities.
Each floor offers a kitchen, vending area and washer-dryers for student use.
The "kitchen"only have a microwave.
Only first floor have a vending machine.
Only second floor / 4th floor have 3 clothwashers. They are sometimes broken and get fixed slow.
The outside courtyard features
a grill station/outdoor kitchen Although it is broke and rarely people use that...
and entertaining area. It is just a piece of grass.
Wellness Resource
Advertised: The state-of-the-art 46,000 square foot athletic center
includes a Varsity athletic gymnasium
with a full size collegiate regulation main court
and two high school regulation cross courts
as well as a natatorium with a 25-yard competition pool.
In addition, the center has academic spaces,
Never seen academic center in the gym. On the second floor there is an art classroom.
All students have access to the room if they have class there. Otherwise, there is no spectial right for
anyone.
locker rooms,
coaches offices, fitness spaces and training room.
The athletic center is adjacent to the dormitory
and accessible for the residential students use.
RL STUDENTS NEVER CAN OPEN THE GYM DOOR AFTERSCHOOL.
Additional fees apply on training classes. Also there is sign-in and sign-outs procedure.
All students can access the resources. There is a nice change room in the gym,
which means quick, frequent access to the dorm is not necessary.
RL students have access to the pool. The fee is included in the tuition even if you don't go.
Also, it only opens at certain times, you need to adjust your schedule in order to use it.
Usually you need to line up in the gym.
Weekend Activities
Breakfast
Advertised: Breakfast is a highlight to start each day at The Village School.
Both day students and residential students dine together and enjoy the chef’s creations such as scrambled eggs,
buttermilk pancakes, French toast, bacon, sausage,
and breakfast potatoes
as well as
specialty offerings such as Asian eggs and rice,
breakfast tacos, an omelet bar and a make your own waffle bar. We also offer an assortment of bagels, cold cereals,
breakfast pastries, and a fresh fruit bar that includes low-fat yogurt.
Daily breakfast are almost identical.
Bakons are hard eat.
Lunch and Dinner
Advertised: At lunch and dinner, the salad bar features a bountiful display of fresh vegetables, condiments, and proteins. Our chef prepares homemade soups served daily, and a variety of accompaniments. Our popular deli station features a variety of sandwich selections and cheeses, with an assortment of breads, rolls, and wraps.
Students enjoy fresh sushi offered several days a week.
Entrée specialties include items such as
Norwegian salmon with saffron cream,
Asian sesame chicken, beef enchiladas,
pork and chicken pot stickers and shrimp jambalaya.
Vegetarian options such as vegetable ettoufe’, stuffed shells with marinara, and vegetable egg rolls, are offered daily at both lunch and dinner.
If you do not join res life, you have more colorful options to choose like the delicions sandwish, Chick-fil-A, cookie and Thai fppd sold
in the school store. You can buy them in an affordable price without paying extra. Reslife students are forced to pay for Flik dining, even if you don't want.
Sushi is not included in RL tuition.
Daily offer one of the entrees. RL tuition offer limited choice.
Let's See The Deal
Dorm Costing As House
The first year in dorm will cost you $72,000.And following years will cost $70,000per year.
So at total, you will spend $ in the dorm.
But a luxury homestay does not cost that much.
With the time your stay in dorm, you can stay in a good house for only $.
And you need insurance, an school-standard one will costs you about $ In total till you graduate.
You need to eat. Say you spend $15 on food per day. You will spend $.
Day Student tuition(high-school) is about $29,300 per year, for you, in total of $.


This record stores mdx metadata string.
Record Data — BIFF8 only
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4 |
Rt |
2 |
Record type; this matches the BIFF rt in the first two bytes of the record; =0885h |
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6 |
grbitFrt |
2 |
FRT cell reference flag; =0 currently |
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8 |
(Reserved) |
8 |
Currently not used, and set to 0 |
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16 |
St |
var |
Mdx metadata string; string |


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DZFFT
Routine Documentation— Input: INTEGER MODE
The value of MODE on input determines the operation performed by
DZFFT
.
On input:
- MODE=0 : only default initializations (specific to N) are performed; this is usually followed by calls to the same routine with MODE=1.
- MODE=1 : a real transform is performed. Initializations are assumed to have been performed by a prior call to
DZFFT
.- MODE=2 : (default) initializations and a real transform are performed.
- MODE=100 : similar to MODE=0; only initializations are performed, but first a plan is generated. This plan is chosen based on the fastest FFT computation for a subset of all possible plans.
— Input/Output: DOUBLE PRECISION X(N)
On input: X contains the real sequence of length N to be transformed.
On output: X contains the transformed Hermitian sequence.
CALL DZFFT(0,N,X,COMM,INFO) CALL DZFFT(1,N,X,COMM,INFO) DO 10 I = N/2+2, N X(I) = -X(I) 10 CONTINUE CALL ZDFFT(2,N,X,COMM,INFO) |


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PerfMon
This sample illustrates how to retrieve
PerfMon counter values from WMI. Note
that the accompanying MOF (perfmon.mof) must be compiled and loaded for this
sample to run correctly. The MOF file
contains class definitions of the performance counters to be read by the
sample.
Compiling the PerfMon MOF
The PerfMon MOF can be
compiled by doing the following:
1. At the command prompt, change directory to the
installation drive and directory of the PerfMon sample (e.g., D:\>Program
Files\WMI\samples\Scripting\WSH\VBScript\PerfMon):
CD “\Program Files\WMI\samples\Scripting\WSH\VBScript\PerfMon”
2. Once in the installation directory, compile the
PerfMon MOF using the WMI MOF compiler, MOFCOMP:
MOFCOMP perfmon.mof
Once the MOF is
compiled, the PerfMon script may be run and the results of the performance
counter query will be displayed.