The sun stood halfway down from its noonday high by the time the cart reached the farmhouse. It was not a big house, not nearly so large as some of the sprawling farmhouses to the east, dwellings that had grown over the years to hold entire families. In the Two Rivers, that often included three or four generations under one roof, including aunts, uncles, cousins, and nephews. Tam and Rand were considered out of the ordinary as much for being two men living alone as for farming in the Westwood.
Here most of the rooms were on one floor, a neat rectangle with no wings or additions. Two bedrooms and an attic storeroom fitted up under the steeply sloped thatch. If the whitewash was all but gone from the stout wooden walls after the winter storms, the house was still in a tidy state of repair, the thatch tightly mended and the doors and shutters well-hung and snug fitting.
House, barn, and stone sheep pen formed the points of a triangle around the farmyard, where a few chickens had ventured out to scratch at the cold ground. An open shearing shed and a stone-dipping trough stood next to the sheep pen. Hard by the fields between the farmyard and the trees loomed the tall cone of a tight-walled curing shed. Few farmers in the Two Rivers could make do without both wool and tabac to sell when the merchants came.
When Rand took a look in the stone pen, the heavy-horned herd ram looked back at him, but most of the black-faced flock remained placidly where they lay, or stood with their heads in the feed trough. Their coats were thick and curly, but it was still too cold for shearing.
“I don’t think the black-cloaked man came here,” Rand called to his father, who was walking slowly around the farmhouse, spear held at the ready, examining the ground intently. “The sheep wouldn’t be so settled if that one had been around.”
Tam nodded but did not stop. When he had made a complete circuit of the house, he did the same around the barn and the sheep pen, still studying the ground. He even checked the smokehouse and the curing shed. Drawing a bucket of water from the well, he filled a cupped hand, sniffed the water, and gingerly touched it with the tip of his tongue. Abruptly he barked a laugh, then drank it down in a quick gulp.
“I suppose he didn’t,” he told Rand, wiping his hand on his coat front. “All this about men and horses I can’t see or hear just makes me look crossways at everything.” He emptied the well water into another bucket and started for the house, the bucket in one hand and his spear in the other. “I’ll start some stew for supper. And as long as were here, we might as well get caught up on a few chores.”
Rand grimaced, regretting Winternight in Emond’s Field. But Tam was right. Around a farm the work never really got done; as soon as one thing was finished two more always needed doing. He hesitated about it, but kept his bow and quiver close at hand. If the dark rider did appear, he had no intention of facing him with nothing but a hoe.
First was stabling Bela. Once he had unharnessed her and put her into a stall in the barn next to their cow, he set his cloak aside and rubbed the mare down with handfuls of dry straw, then curried her with a pair of brushes. Climbing the narrow ladder to the loft, he pitched down hay for her feed. He fetched a scoopful of oats for her as well, though there was little enough left and might be no more for a long while unless the weather warmed soon. The cow had been milked that morning before first light, giving a quarter of her usual yield; she seemed to be drying up as the winter hung on.
Enough feed had been left to see the sheep for two days—they should have been in the pasture by now, but there was none worth calling it so—but he topped off their water. Whatever eggs had been laid needed to be gathered, too. There were only three. The hens seemed to be getting cleverer at hiding them.
He was taking a hoe to the vegetable garden behind the house when Tam came out and settled on a bench in front of the barn to mend harness, propping his spear beside him. It made Rand feel better about the bow lying on his cloak a pace from where he stood.
Few weeds had pushed above ground, but more weeds than anything else. The cabbages were stunted; barely a sprout of the beans or peas showed, and there was not a sign of a beet. Not everything had been planted, of course; only part, in hopes the cold might break in time to make a crop of some kind before the cellar was empty. It did not take long to finish hoeing, which would have suited him just fine in years past, but now he wondered what they would do if nothing came up this year. Not a pleasant thought. And there was still firewood to split.
It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning. Before long he was warm enough to put his coat aside. When the pile of split wood grew big enough, he stacked it against the side of the house, beside other stacks already there. Most reached all the way to the eaves. Usually by this time of year the woodpiles were small and few, but not this year. Chop and stack, chop and stack, he lost himself in the rhythm of the axe and the motions of stacking wood. Tam’s hand on his shoulder brought him back to where he was, and for a moment he blinked in surprise.
Gray twilight had come on while he worked, and already it was fading quickly toward night. The full moon stood well above the treetops, shimmering pale and bulging as if about to fall on their heads. The wind had grown colder without his noticing, too, and tattered clouds scudded across the darkling sky.
“Let’s wash up, lad, and see about some supper. I’ve already carried in water for hot baths before sleep.”
“Anything hot sounds good to me,” Rand said, snatching up his cloak and tossing it round his shoulders. Sweat soaked his shirt, and the wind, forgotten in the heat of swinging the axe, seemed to be trying to freeze it now that he had stopped work. He stifled a yawn, shivering as he gathered the rest of his things. “And sleep, too, for that. I might just sleep right through Festival.”
“Would you care to make a small wager about that?” Tam smiled, and Rand had to grin back. He would not miss Bel Tine if he had had no sleep in a week. No one would.
Tam had been extravagant with the candles, and a fire crackled in the big stone fireplace, so that the main room had a warm, cheerful feel to it. A broad oaken table was the main feature of the room other than the fireplace, a table long enough to seat a dozen or more, though there had seldom been so many around it since Rand’s mother died. A few cabinets and chests, most of them skillfully made by Tam himself, lined the walls, and high-backed chairs stood around the table. The cushioned chair that Tam called his reading chair sat angled before the flames. Rand preferred to do his reading stretched out on the rug in front of the fire. The shelf of books by the door was not nearly as long as the one at the Winespring Inn, but books were hard to come by. Few peddlers carried more than a handful, and those had to be stretched out among everyone who wanted them.
If the room did not look quite so freshly scrubbed as most farm wives kept their homes—Tam’s pipe-rack and The Travels of Jain Farstrider sat on the table, while another wood-bound book rested on the cushion of his reading chair; a bit of harness to be mended lay on the bench by the fireplace, and some shirts to be darned made a heap on a chair—if not quite so spotless, it was still clean and neat enough, with a lived-in look that was almost as warming and comforting as the fire. Here, it was possible to forget the chill beyond the walls. There was no false Dragon here. No wars or Aes Sedai. No men in black cloaks. The aroma from the stewpot hanging over the fire permeated the room, and filled Rand with ravenous hunger.
His father stirred the stewpot with a long-handled wooden spoon, then took a taste. “A little while longer.”
Rand hurried to wash his face and hands; there was a pitcher and basin on the washstand by the door. A hot bath was what he wanted, to take away the sweat and soak the chill out, but that would come when there had been time to heat the big kettle in the back room.
Tam rooted around in a cabinet and came up with a key as long as his hand. He twisted it in the big iron lock on the door. At Rand’s questioning look he said, “Best to be safe. Maybe I’m taking a fancy, or maybe the weather is blacking my mood, but . . . ” He sighed and bounced the key on his palm. “I’ll see to the back door,” he said, and disappeared toward the back of the house.
Rand could not remember either door ever being locked. No one in the Two Rivers locked doors. There was no need. Until now, at least.
From overhead, from Tam’s bedroom, came a scraping, as of something being dragged across the floor. Rand frowned. Unless Tam had suddenly decided to move the furniture around, he could only be pulling out the old chest he kept under his bed. Another thing that had never been done in Rand’s memory.
He filled a small kettle with water for tea and hung it from a hook over the fire, then set the table. He had carved the bowls and spoons himself. The front shutters had not yet been closed, and from time to time he peered out, but full night had come and all he could see were moon shadows. The dark rider could be out there easily enough, but he tried not to think about that.
When Tam came back, Rand stared in surprise. A thick belt slanted around Tam’s waist, and from the belt hung a sword, with a bronze heron on the black scabbard and another on the long hilt. The only men Rand had ever seen wearing swords were the merchants’ guards. And Lan, of course. That his father might own one had never even occurred to him. Except for the herons, the sword looked a good deal like Lan’s sword.
“Where did that come from?” he asked. “Did you get it from a peddler? How much did it cost?”
Slowly Tam drew the weapon; firelight played along the gleaming length. It was nothing at all like the plain, rough blades Rand had seen in the hands of merchants’ guards. No gems or gold adorned it, but it seemed grand to him, nonetheless. The blade, very slightly curved and sharp on only one edge, bore another heron etched into the steel. Short quillons, worked to look like braid, flanked the hilt. It seemed almost fragile compared with the swords of the merchants’ guards; most of those were double-edged, and thick enough to chop down a tree.
“I got it a long time ago,” Tam said, “a long way from here. And I paid entirely too much; two coppers is too much for one of these. Your mother didn’t approve, but she was always wiser than I. I was young then, and it seemed worth the price at the time. She always wanted me to get rid of it, and more than once I’ve thought she was right, that I should just give it away.”
Reflected fire made the blade seem aflame. Rand started. He had often daydreamed about owning a sword. “Give it away? How could you give a sword like that away?”
Tam snorted. “Not much use in herding sheep, now is it? Can’t plow a field or harvest a crop with it.” For a long minute he stared at the sword as if wondering what he was doing with such a thing. At last he let out a heavy sigh. “But if I am not just taken by a black fancy, if our luck runs sour, maybe in the next few days we’ll be glad I tucked it in that old chest, instead.” He slid the sword smoothly back into its sheath and wiped his hand on his shirt with a grimace. “The stew should be ready. I’ll dish it out while you fix the tea.”
Rand nodded and got the tea canister, but he wanted to know everything. Why would Tam have bought a sword? He could not imagine. And where had Tam come by it? How far away? No one ever left the Two Rivers; or very few, at least.  He had a lot of questions to ask once they had settled at the table.
The tea water was boiling fiercely, and he had to wrap a cloth around the kettle’s handle to lift it off the hook. Heat soaked through immediately. As he straightened from the fire, a heavy thump at the door rattled the lock. All thoughts of the sword, or the hot kettle in his hand, flew away.
“One of the neighbors,” he said uncertainly. “Master Dautry wanting to borrow . . . ” But the Dautry farm, their nearest neighbor, was an hour away even in the daylight, and Oren Dautry, shameless borrower that he was, was still not likely to leave his house by dark.
Tam softly placed the stew-filled bowls on the table. Slowly he moved away from the table. Both of his hands rested on his sword hilt. “I don’t think—” he began, and the door burst open, pieces of the iron lock spinning across the floor.
A figure filled the doorway, bigger than any man Rand had ever seen, a figure in black mail that hung to his knees, with spikes at wrists and elbows and shoulders. One hand clutched a heavy, scythe-like sword; the other hand was flung up before his eyes as if to shield them from the fight.
Rand felt the beginnings of an odd sort of relief. Whoever this was, it was not the black-cloaked rider. Then he saw the curled ram’s horns on the head that brushed the top of the doorway, and where mouth and nose should have been was a hairy muzzle. He took in all of it in the space of one deep breath that he let out in a terrified yell as, without thinking, he hurled the hot kettle at that half-human head.
The creature roared, part scream of pain, part animal snarl, as boiling water splashed over its face. Even as the kettle struck, Tam’s sword flashed. The roar abruptly became a gurgle, and the huge shape toppled back. Before it finished falling, another was trying to claw its way past. Rand glimpsed a misshapen head topped by spike-like horns before Tam struck again, and two huge bodies blocked the door. He realized his father was shouting at him.
“Run, lad! Hide in the woods!” The bodies in the doorway jerked as others outside tried to pull them clear. Tam thrust a shoulder under the massive table; with a grunt he heaved it over atop the tangle. “There are too many to hold! Out the back! Go! Go! I’ll follow!”
Even as Rand turned away, shame filled him that he obeyed so quickly. He wanted to stay and help his father, though he could not imagine how, but fear had him by the throat, and his legs moved on their own. He dashed from the room, toward the back of the house, as fast as he had ever run in his life. Crashes and shouts from the front door pursued him.
He had his hands on the bar across the back door when his eye fell on the iron lock that was never locked. Except that Tam had done just that tonight. Letting the bar stay where it was, he darted to a side window, flung up the sash and threw back the shutters. Night had replaced twilight completely. The full moon and drifting clouds made dappled shadows chase one another across the farmyard.
Shadows, he told himself. Only shadows. The back door creaked as someone outside, or something, tried to push it open. His mouth went dry. A crash shook the door in its frame and lent him speed; he slipped through the window like a hare going to ground, and cowered against the side of the house. Inside the room, wood splintered like thunder.
He forced himself up to a crouch, made himself peer inside, just with one eye, just at the corner of the window. In the dark he could not make out much, but more than he really wanted to see. The door hung askew, and shadowed shapes moved cautiously into the room, talking in low, guttural voices. Rand understood none of what was said; the language sounded harsh, unsuited to a human tongue. Axes and spears and spiked things dully reflected stray glimmers of moonlight. Boots scraped on the floor, and there was a rhythmic click, as of hooves, as well.
He tried to work moisture back into his mouth. Drawing a deep, ragged breath, he shouted as loudly as he could. “They’re coming in the back!” The words came out in a croak, but at least they came out. He had not been sure they would. “I’m outside! Run, father!” With the last word he was sprinting away from the farmhouse.
Coarse-voiced shouts in the strange tongue raged from the back room. Glass shattered, loud and sharp, and something thudded heavily to the ground behind him. He guessed one of them had broken through the window rather than try to squeeze through the opening, but he did not look back to see if he was right. Like a fox running from hounds he darted into the nearest moon-cast shadows as if headed for the woods, then dropped to his belly and slithered back to the barn and its larger, deeper shadows. Something fell across his shoulders, and he thrashed about, not sure if he was trying to fight or escape, until he realized he was grappling with the new hoe handle Tam had been shaping.
Idiot! For a moment he lay there, trying to stop panting.  At last he crawled on along the back of the barn, dragging the hoe handle with him. It was not much, but it was better than nothing. Cautiously he looked around the corner at the farmyard and the house.
Of the creature that had jumped out after him there was no sign. It could be anywhere. Hunting him, surely. Even creeping up on him at that very moment.
Frightened bleats filled the sheep pen to his left; the flock milled as if trying to find an escape. Shadowed shapes flickered in the lighted front windows of the house, and the clash of steel on steel rang through the darkness. Suddenly one of the windows burst outward in a shower of glass and wood as Tam leaped through it, sword still in hand. He landed on his feet, but instead of running away from the house he dashed toward the back of it, ignoring the monstrous things scrambling after him through the broken window and the doorway.
Rand stared in disbelief. Why was he not trying to get away? Then he understood. Tam had last heard his voice from the rear of the house. “Father!” he shouted. “I’m over here!”
In mid-stride Tam whirled, not running toward Rand, but at an angle away from him. “Run, lad!” he shouted, gesturing with the sword as if to someone ahead of him. “Hide!” A dozen huge forms streamed after him, harsh shouts and shrill howls shivering the air.
Rand pulled back into the shadows behind the barn. There he could not be seen from the house, in case any of the creatures were still inside. He was safe for the moment, at least. But not Tam. Tam, who was trying to lead those things away from him. His hands tightened on the hoe handle, and he had to clench his teeth to stop a sudden laugh. A hoe handle. Facing one of those creatures with a hoe handle would not be much like playing at quarterstaffs with Perrin. But he could not let Tam face what was chasing him alone.
“If I move like I was stalking a rabbit,” he whispered to himself, “they’ll never hear me, or see me.” The eerie cries echoed in the darkness, and he tried to swallow. “More like a pack of starving wolves.” Soundlessly he slipped away from the barn, toward the forest, gripping the hoe handle so hard that his hands hurt.
At first, when the trees surrounded him, he took comfort from them. They helped hide him from whatever the creatures were that had attacked the farm. As he crept through the woods, though, moon shadows shifted, and it began to seem as if the darkness of the forest changed and moved, too. Trees loomed malevolently; branches writhed toward him. But were they just trees and branches? He could almost hear the growling chuckles stifled in their throats while they waited for him. The howls of Tam’s pursuers no longer filled the night; but in the silence that replaced them he flinched every time the wind scraped one limb against another. Lower and lower he crouched, and moved more and more slowly. He hardly dared to breathe for fear he might be heard.
 Frantically he clawed over his shoulder with his free hand for some hold on the attacker.
“Don’t break my neck, lad,” came Tam’s hoarse whisper.
Relief flooded him, turning his muscles to water. When his father released him he fell to his hands and knees, gasping as if he had run for miles. Tam dropped down beside him, leaning on one elbow.
“I wouldn’t have tried that if I had thought how much you’ve grown in the last few years,” Tam said softly. His eyes shifted constantly as he spoke, keeping a sharp watch on the darkness. “But I had to make sure you didn’t speak out. Some Trollocs can hear like a dog. Maybe better.”
“But Trollocs are just . . . ” Rand let the words trail off. Not just a story, not after tonight. Those things could be Trollocs or the Dark One himself for all he knew. “Are you sure?” he whispered. “I mean . . . Trollocs?”
“I’m sure. Though what brought them to the Two Rivers . . . I never saw one before tonight, but I’ve talked with men who have, so I know a little. Maybe enough to keep us alive. Listen closely. A Trolloc can see better than a man in the dark, but bright lights blind them, for a time at least. That may be the only reason we got away from so many. Some can track by scent or sound, but they’re said to be lazy. If we can keep out of their hands long enough, they should give up.”
That made Rand feel only a little better. “In the stories they hate men, and serve the Dark One.”
“If anything belongs in the Shepherd of the Night’s flocks, lad, it is Trollocs.  But that’s the end of my knowledge, except that they cannot be trusted unless they’re afraid of you, and then not far.”
Rand shivered. He did not think he would want to meet anyone a Trolloc was afraid of. “Do you think they’re still hunting for us?”
“Maybe, maybe not. They don’t seem very smart. Once we got into the forest, I sent the ones after me off toward the mountains without much trouble.” Tam fumbled at his right side, then put his hand close to his face. “Best act as if they are, though.”
“You’re hurt.”
“Keep your voice down. It’s just a scratch, and there is nothing to be done about it now, anyway. At least the weather seems to be warming.” He lay back with a heavy sigh. “Perhaps it won’t be too bad spending the night out.”
In the back of his mind Rand had just been thinking fond thoughts of his coat and cloak. The trees cut the worst of the wind, but what gusted through still sliced like a frozen knife. Hesitantly he touched Tam’s face, and winced. “You’re on fire. I have to get you to Nynaeve.”
“In a bit, lad.”
“We don’t have any time to waste. It’s a long way in the dark.” He scrambled to his feet and tried to pull his father up. A groan barely stifled by Tam’s clenched teeth made Rand hastily ease him back down.
“Let me rest a while, boy. I’m tired.”
Rand pounded his fist on his thigh. Snug in the farmhouse, with a fire and blankets, plenty of water and willowbark, he might have been willing to wait for daybreak before hitching Bela and taking Tam into the village. Here was no fire, no blankets, no cart, and no Bela. But those things were still back at the house. If he could not carry Tam to them, perhaps he could bring some of them, at least, to Tam. If the Trollocs were gone. They had to go sooner or later.
He looked at the hoe handle, then dropped it. Instead he drew Tam’s sword. The blade gleamed dully in the pale moonlight. The long hilt felt odd in his hand; the weight and heft were strange. He slashed at the air a few times before stopping with a sigh. Slashing at air was easy. If he had to do it against a Trolloc he was surely just as likely to run instead, or freeze stiff so he could not move at all until the Trolloc swung one of those odd swords and . . . Stop it! It’s not helping anything!
As he started to rise, Tam caught his arm. “Where are you going?”
“We need the cart,” he said gently. “And blankets.” He was shocked at how easily he pulled his father’s hand from his sleeve. “Rest, and I’ll be back.”
“Careful,” Tam breathed.
He could not see Tam’s face in the moonlight, but he could feel his eyes on him. “I will be.” As careful as a mouse exploring a hawk’s nest, he thought.
As silently as another shadow, he slid into the darkness. He thought of all the times he had played tag in the woods with his friends as children, stalking one another, straining not to be heard until he put a hand on someone’s shoulder. Somehow he could not make this seem the same.
Creeping from tree to tree, he tried to make a plan, but by the time he reached the edge of the woods he had made and discarded ten. Everything depended on whether or not the Trollops were still there. If they were gone, he could simply walk up to the house and take what he needed. If they were still there . . . In that case, there was nothing for it but to go back to Tam. He did not like it, but he could do Tam no good by getting killed.
He peered toward the farm buildings. The barn and the sheep pen were only dark shapes in the moonlight. Light spilled from the front windows of the house, though, and through the open front door. Just the candles father lit, or are there Trollocs waiting?
He jumped convulsively at a nighthawk’s reedy cry, then sagged against a tree, shaking. This was getting him nowhere. Dropping to his belly, he began to crawl, holding the sword awkwardly before him. He kept his chin in the dirt all the way to the back of the sheep pen.
Crouched against the stone wall, he listened. Not a sound disturbed the night.  Nothing moved in the farmyard. No shadows flickered against the lit windows of the house, or in the doorway. Bela and the cart first, or the blankets and other things? It was the light that decided him. The barn was dark. Anything could be waiting inside, and he would have no way of knowing until it was too late. At least he would be able to see what was inside the house.
As he started to lower himself again, he stopped suddenly. There was no sound. Most of the sheep might have settled down already and gone back to sleep, though it was not likely, but a few were always awake even in the middle of the night, rustling about, bleating now and again. He could barely make out the shadowy mounds of sheep on the ground. One lay almost beneath him.
Trying to make no noise, he hoisted himself onto the wall until he could stretch out a hand to the dim shape. His fingers touched curly wool, then wetness; the sheep did not move. Breath left him in a rush as he pushed back, almost dropping the sword as he fell to the ground outside the pen.  Shakily he scrubbed the wetness from his hand in the dirt.
Fiercely he told himself that nothing had changed. The Trollocs had done their butchery and gone. Repeating that in his mind, he crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he would envy an earthworm.
At the front of the house he lay close beside the wall, beneath the broken window, and listened. The dull thudding of blood in his ears was the loudest sound he heard. Slowly he reared up and peered inside.
The stewpot lay upside down in the ashes on the hearth. Splintered, broken wood littered the room; not a single piece of furniture remained whole. Even the table rested at an angle, two legs hacked to rough stubs. Every drawer had been pulled out and smashed; every cupboard and cabinet stood open, many doors hanging by one hinge. Their contents were strewn over the wreckage, and everything was dusted with white. Flour and salt, to judge from the slashed sacks tossed down by the fireplace. Four twisted bodies made a tangle in the remnants of the furnishings. Trollocs.
Rand recognized one by its ram’s horns. The others were much the same, even in their differences, a repulsive mélange of human faces distorted by muzzles, horns, feathers, and fur. Their hands, almost human, only made it worse. Two wore boots; the others had hooves. He watched without blinking until his eyes burned. None of the Trollocs moved. They had to be dead. And Tam was waiting.
He ran in through the front door and stopped, gagging at the stench. A stable that had not been mucked out in months was the only thing he could think of that might come close to matching it. Vile smears defiled the walls. Trying to breathe through his mouth, he hurriedly began poking through the mess on the floor. There had been a waterbag in one of the cupboards.
A scraping sound behind him sent a chill to his marrow, and he spun, almost falling over the remains of the table. He caught himself, and moaned behind teeth that would have chattered had he not had them clenched until his jaw ached.
One of the Trollocs was getting to its feet. A wolf’s muzzle jutted out below sunken eyes. Flat, emotionless eyes, and all too human. Hairy, pointed ears twitched incessantly. It stepped over one of its dead companions on sharp goat hooves. The same black mail the others wore rasped against leather trousers, and one of the huge, scythe-curved swords swung at its side.
It muttered something, guttural and sharp, then said, “Others go away. Narg stay. Narg smart.” The words were distorted and hard to understand, coming from a mouth never meant for human speech. Its tone was meant to be soothing, he thought, but he could not take his eyes off the stained teeth, long and sharp, that flashed every time the creature spoke. “Narg know some come back sometime. Narg wait. You no need sword. Put sword down.”
Until the Trolloc spoke Rand had not realized that he held Tam’s sword wavering before him in both hands, its point aimed at the huge creature. It towered head and shoulders above him, with a chest and arms to dwarf Master Luhhan.
“Narg no hurt.” It took a step closer, gesturing. “You put sword down.” The dark hair on the backs of its hands was thick, like fur.
“Stay back,” Rand said, wishing his voice were steadier. “Why did you do this? Why?”
“Vlja daeg roghda!” The snarl quickly became a toothy smile. “Put sword down. Narg no hurt. Myrddraal want talk you.” A flash of emotion crossed the distorted face. Fear.  It took another step, one big hand coming to rest on its own sword hilt. “You put sword down.”
Rand wet his lips. Myrddraal! The worst of the stories was walking tonight. If a Fade was coming, it made a Trolloc pale by comparison. He had to get away. But if the Trolloc drew that massive blade he would not have a chance. He forced his lips into a shaky smile. “All right.” Grip tightening on the sword, he let both hands drop to his sides. “I’ll talk.”
The wolf-smile became a snarl, and the Trolloc lunged for him. Rand had not thought anything that big could move so fast. Desperately he brought his sword up. The monstrous body crashed into him, slamming him against the wall. Breath left his lungs in one gasp. He fought for air as they fell to the floor together, the Trolloc on top. Frantically he struggled beneath the crushing weight, trying to avoid thick hands groping for him, and snapping jaws.
Abruptly the Trolloc spasmed and was still. Battered and bruised, half suffocated by the bulk on top of him, for a moment Rand could only lie there in disbelief. Quickly he came to his senses, though, enough to writhe out from under the body, at least. And body it was. The bloodied blade of Tam’s sword stood out from the center of the Trolloc’s back. He had gotten it up in time after all.  His stomach churned, and he swallowed hard to keep from being sick. He shook as hard as he had in the worst of his fear, but this time in relief at still being alive.
Others come back, the Trolloc had said. The other Trollocs would be returning to the farmhouse. And a Myrddraal, a Fade. The stories said Fades were twenty feet tall, with eyes of fire, and they rode shadows like horses. When a Fade turned sideways, it disappeared, and no wall could stop them. He had to do what he had come for, and get away quickly.
Grunting with the effort he heaved the Trolloc’s body over to get to the sword—and almost ran when open eyes stared at him. It took him a minute to realize they were staring through the glaze of death.
He wiped his hands on a tattered rag—it had been one of Tam’s shirts only that morning—and tugged the blade free. Cleaning the sword, he reluctantly dropped the rag on the floor.  He did not see how they could ever clean the house well enough for it to be lived in again. The horrible stench had probably already soaked right into the timbers. But there was no time to think of that. No time for neatness. No time for anything, maybe.
He was sure he was forgetting any number of things they would need, but Tam was waiting, and the Trollocs were coming back. He gathered what he could think of on the run. Blankets from the bedrooms upstairs, and clean cloths to bandage Tam’s wound. Their cloaks and coats. A waterbag that he carried when he took the sheep to pasture. A clean shirt. He did not know when he would have time to change, but he wanted to get out of his blood-smeared shirt at the first opportunity. The small bags of willowbark and their other medicines were part of a dark, muddy-looking pile he could not bring himself to touch.
One bucket of the water Tam had brought in still stood by the fireplace, miraculously unspilled and untouched. He filled the waterbag from it, gave his hands a hasty wash in the rest, and made one more quick search for anything he might have forgotten. He found his bow among the wreckage, broken cleanly in two at the thickest point. He shuddered as he let the pieces fall. What he had gathered already would have to do, he decided. Quickly he piled everything outside the door.
The last thing before leaving the house, he dug a shuttered lantern from the mess on the floor. It still held oil. Lighting it from one of the candles, he closed the shutters—partly against the wind, but mostly to keep from drawing attention—and hurried outside with the lantern in one hand and the sword in the other. He was not sure what he would find in the barn. The sheep pen kept him from hoping too much. But he needed the cart to get Tam to Emond’s Field, and for the cart he needed Bela. Necessity made him hope a little.
The barn doors stood open, one creaking on its hinges as it shifted in the wind. The interior looked as it always had, at first. Then his eyes fell on empty stalls, the stall doors ripped from their hinges. Bela and the cow were gone. Quickly he went to the back of the barn. The cart lay on its side, half the spokes broken out of its wheels. One shaft was only a foot-long stump.
The despair he had been holding at bay filled him. He was not sure he could carry Tam as far as the village even if his father could bear to be carried. The pain of it might kill Tam more quickly than the fever. Still, it was the only chance left. He had done all he could do here. As he turned to go, his eyes fell on the hacked-off cart shaft lying on the straw-strewn floor. Suddenly he smiled.
Hurriedly he set the lantern and the sword on the straw-covered floor, and in the next instant he was wrestling with the cart, tipping it back over to fall upright with a snap of more breaking spokes, then throwing his shoulder into it to heave it over on the other side. The undamaged shaft stood straight out. Snatching up the sword he hacked at the well-seasoned ash. To his pleased surprise great chips flew with his strokes, and he cut through as quickly as he could have with a good axe.
When the shaft fell free, he looked at the sword blade in wonder. Even the best-sharpened axe would have dulled chopping through that hard, aged wood, but the sword looked as brightly sharp as ever. He touched the edge with his thumb, then hastily stuck it in his mouth. The blade was still razor-sharp.
But he had no time for wonder. Blowing out the lantern—there was no need to have the barn burn down on top of everything else—he gathered up the shafts and ran back to get what he had left at the house.
Altogether it made an awkward burden. Not a heavy one, but hard to balance and manage, the cart shafts shifting and twisting in his arms as he stumbled across the plowed field.  They would have been easier to drag, but that would leave a clear trail behind him, He intended to wait as long as possible before doing that.
Tam was right where he had left him, seemingly asleep. He hoped it was sleep.  Tam still breathed, but the fever was worse.
The touch roused Tam, but only into a hazy wakefulness. “Is that you, boy?” he breathed. “Worried about you. Dreams of days gone. Nightmares.” Murmuring softly, he drifted off again.
“Don’t worry,” Rand said. He lay Tam’s coat and cloak over him to keep off the wind. “I’ll get you to Nynaeve just as quick as I can.” As he went on, as much to reassure himself as for Tam’s benefit, he peeled off his bloodstained shirt, hardly even noticing the cold in his haste to be rid of it, and hurriedly pulled on the clean one. Throwing his old shirt away made him feel as if he had just had a bath. “We’ll be safe in the village in no time, and the Wisdom will set everything right. You’ll see. Everything’s going to be all right.”
That thought was like a beacon as he pulled on his coat and bent to tend Tam’s wound. They would be safe once they reached the village, and Nynaeve would cure Tam. He just had to get him there.


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Every time a new version is released I try to find the list of changes. I never succeed.
Why cant the post link to the changelog at hand? I can't find the changelog anywhere on the forums, or on the front page.
Its kind of messy and confusing to be honest. So if anyone can please point me to how I can find the changelog that'd be great.
Download 3.X.X -> Changelog
not so difficult right?
Post edited 1 x times, last by
http://getbblog.com/changelog
(edity by mod: removed /de/ for automatic choose of the language from the reader)
Or Site Menu > More > Changelog


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General discussion about Komodo. For useful links and more info click the pinned messages to the right. DON'T DM @jl777
100 messages
Before 05-Dec-19 12:00 AM
WhiteWidow28-Jul-18 09:49 AM
Done
Yassin28-Jul-18 09:52 AM
done!!
Seko28-Jul-18 10:23 AM
On Twitter are Scammer on road. @KomodoPlarform
Francis28-Jul-18 10:50 AM
Yes boys HUSH is in first place!!! Keep up the momentum
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Buddz199328-Jul-18 02:00 PM
Voted!
freakbros28-Jul-18 02:03 PM
Done
drvasco28-Jul-18 07:29 PM
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AkiraX28-Jul-18 11:05 PM
Thank you guys
Please vote for hush
Buddz199328-Jul-18 11:43 PM
We need 100 votes to achieve top 10
shak3nbak329-Jul-18 12:16 AM
In what way is HUSH related to KMD?
finrecon29-Jul-18 01:47 AM
@shak3nbak3 i don't know much but Hush has its own channel here under "Ecosystem (3rd party) " in #hush(edited)
grim_chiefer29-Jul-18 06:29 AM
Since when does KMD take 120 confirmations? Almost an hour to deposit.
Cryptoon29-Jul-18 06:47 AM
Since asic miners make it a lot easier to 51% attack equihash coins. Exchanges took it as a precaution
Not just kmd but all eauihash coins iirc
Francis29-Jul-18 08:03 AM
Guys please vote for KMD's sister coin HUSH to be listed on the https://sonox.io exchange. It requires no info, just a simple click and top 3 placement will give a "capital influx" to HUSH, helping KMD recognition too. There is only a 40 ish votes between us and first place... keep up the momentum, vote daily on as many different wifi/mobile data connections as you can an we could see that number 1 spot!! Much love xx
I wonder how Komodo want to increase blockchain speed without higher the 2mb blocksize or 59sec blocktime? how will this be done?
I´m just asking because I want to increase my KMD or DGB portfolio and I´m not sure which one is better. I own both, like them both and DGB seems even faster as KMD and is also very secure in a different way
Cryptoon29-Jul-18 10:19 AM
#dev-scalability
KomodoWorld29-Jul-18 10:22 AM
@Hagen-von-Coinje because KMD can use multiple chains instead of a single big one, the chains can do cross transfers with each other, they behave like one but with the load spread among many. Similar effect to sharding but without its problems, security issues, etc...
From a conversation in Komodo Slack These were 1024 independent chains and we have seen that there are no problems with blockchains, even if they have full 2MB blocks Our logic is that instead of s…
Hagen-von-Coinje29-Jul-18 10:29 AM
THX that sounds great. I really like these multiple chains concepts. What it does in the question of centralization is another question. DGB, as far as I know will using their singlechain concept, which might get in trouble in a few years, but they will work against that with bigger blocks. the decentralization might be better so?
jl777c29-Jul-18 10:51 AM
it seems that many chains is much more decentralized than a single big chain
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KomodoWorld29-Jul-18 11:13 AM
since users need only to run the blockchain they mostly use, it's more likely they will do so than if they had to download a single big chain
Hagen-von-Coinje29-Jul-18 01:13 PM
thats the unknown for a non expert like me. Are many chains really more decentralized as one single chain? From the outside I would say that this "ecosystem" must be "managed" or be "controlled" by someone
jl777c29-Jul-18 01:19 PM
it does rely on being notarized for the cross chain to work. other than that everyting is independent
Hagen-von-Coinje29-Jul-18 01:26 PM
hope everything works out well with these architectures, I´m invested in KMD, Icon, AELF, Aeon and Elastos to diversify a bit in the hope that everyone will succeed in their way.
$tefano.29-Jul-18 03:11 PM
pantos , komodo it's an advisor ?(edited)
Cryptoon29-Jul-18 04:06 PM
@jl777c is an advisor iirc
Token-Business.com29-Jul-18 04:57 PM
hello everyone
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WhiteWidow29-Jul-18 04:59 PM
Hi man
Token-Business.com29-Jul-18 05:04 PM
hi , i need some info about this coin
how much members komodo have
and is there any vendor list ?
ComputerGenie29-Jul-18 05:06 PM
vendor list ?
Like Walmart?
Token-Business.com29-Jul-18 05:06 PM
i mean merchant list ? how many merchants komodo have
ComputerGenie29-Jul-18 05:07 PM
about as many as Bitcoin
Token-Business.com29-Jul-18 05:07 PM
i accept some crypto in my store , and i would like to serve my service to komodo community
thats why i am asking
ComputerGenie29-Jul-18 05:09 PM
and for every you, there's 1000 people that quietly accept crypto; so, who knows?
GatewayBOT29-Jul-18 06:19 PM
[matrix] <polycryptoblog:matrix.org> Rocky : CoinPayment.net will allow you to accept into your store
A semi-professional team in Gibraltar will become the world’s first to pay their players in part with Cryptocurrency next season in a move announced by the club’s owner Pablo Dana, an investor in the digital currency Quantocoin.
signs of adoption..
hastrup29-Jul-18 08:11 PM
can somone give me i link to a place where i can instal agama whit linux commands
isn't even in the top 1000 anymore since buying new mining equipment
AkiraX30-Jul-18 12:55 AM
@ComputerGenie are you a komodo dev?
 It requires no info, just a simple click and top 3 placement will give a "capital influx" to HUSH, helping KMD recognition too. There is only a 700 ish votes between us and first place... keep up the momentum, vote daily on as many different wifi/mobile data connections as you can an we could see that number 1 spot!! Much love xx
it's signed with some strange name -> not mine id -> shall I still sign in on the back with my real name id ?
or's it's just fine ?
passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴30-Jul-18 12:14 PM
I used to use cards with true name, so just want to double check it's fine to have fake that on it and if I sign in on the back (not valid if not signed) the names on fron and back will be different
ComputerGenie30-Jul-18 12:17 PM
wants one in USD
Virginia (Peer2Group)30-Jul-18 12:18 PM
Hi @passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴 Do you mean if should you sign your card with your nickname or with your real name? The issuer is required by law to request user sign the card, but use your sense common, do what you do with another debit cards(edited)
@passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴 this card doesn't have any name on the front
Trax30-Jul-18 01:08 PM
does somebody know what's the Komodo utility ?
yorklab30-Jul-18 01:23 PM
KMD is needed for dPOW, 0 confirmation swaps, upcoming smart contracts, Jumblr in Agama wallet.
passcombo.com 🏴☠🏴30-Jul-18 01:27 PM
@Virginia (Peer2Group) I see it does have a name - like a generic one XXX Spark
just it will look suspicious when on the back it's different then on the front
but maybe the message "does not require ID " justifies it
I'm curious to try it next time I'm in EUR zone
need to buy some cheap KMD while I can
@pbca26 hey is the webwallet still there, I remember you worked on it?
pbca2630-Jul-18 02:53 PM
yes the same url on atomicexplorer
ca33330-Jul-18 03:10 PM
Hi Friends of Komodo, please all welcome @artemciy_dice - he is a senior DEV working with @artem.pikulin on exciting core-tech areas of Komodo. Its a pleasure and honour to welcome you onboard @artemciy_dice - if there is anything we can help with plz let us know! We wish you all the best and loads of fun/excitement in this new position. Thank you!


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[gecode-users] Question about branching
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Fri Feb 13 10:32:36 CET 2009
Hi Vincent,
would the following help: There will be two iterators Space::Propagators and
Space::Branchings that iterate over all propagators or branchings of a
space? Would be enough if they would just give const access?
Your patch is wrong. The update function does everything thats needed. Or
did you have a problem there?
Cheers
Christian
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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Vincent Barichard
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:03 PM
To: Christian Schulte
Cc: users at gecode.org
Subject: Re: [gecode-users] Question about branching
Hi,
Le mardi 10 février 2009 14:52:37 Christian Schulte, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> no there is no way to find the x, in particular as some branchings
> might not have an array of variables.
I wasn't sure but I suspected it.
>
> There is not even the notion of a current branching (there are two
> current
> branchings: one that is used for status() and the other that is used
> for
> commit() during recomputation).
>
> Branchings are designed to just implement a particular interface that's
it.
>
It is not completely clear for me. I will look more further in the code.
> Maybe you tell us what you want to do?
I have created a new variable type and I want to do backjumping on the
search tree. So I need to access to the variable of the BranchingDesc to
know if I must to skip the BranchingDesc or not. After reading your mail, I
decided to create sub-class of ViewValBranching and PosValDesc to get the
information I need. Here comes a piece of the code I wrote in my search
engine:
const BranchingDesc * bd;
int noAlt;
int noClosedDesc;
QBool::QBoolQuant quant;
do
{
bd = rcs.nextDesc< QBool::QBoolPosValDesc<2>
>(*this,noAlt,noClosedDesc);
if (bd == NULL) return NULL;
quant = static_cast<const QBool::QBoolPosValDesc<2>*>(bd)-
>quantifier();
} while (quant != QBool::QBoolVarImp::EXISTS);
delete cur;
cur = rcs.recompute<false>(d,*this);
EngineCtrl::current(cur);
Sometimes, the line:
" } while (quant != QBool::QBoolVarImp::EXISTS);"
changes, so I have to dynamically ask the variable of the BranchingDesc what
is its quantifier.
The problem here is that I have to assume that it is a
QBool::QBoolPosValDesc<2> BranchingDesc and to cast it.
I would like to test if it is a QBool::QBoolPosValDesc<2> and if it is the
case, to test its quantifier.
> Then, reflection will be gone (see my next mail as to why) and there
> is currently no way to get the actors (unless you iterate over the
> list of actors, check how the function propagators() counting the
> number of propagators is implemented).
I looked at propagators(), but It needs "pc" being public or protected in
order to use it in our subclass of Space.
Another thing, I am not sure it's a small bug or not, but I found that the
"co" field of SpeedLinBoolInt is not initialized during cloning. As a
result, the update function of Council<A> may not ends. I attached a patch
in the mail.
Thank you for your help.
Cheers,
Vincent
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| file | m4/interrupt.h |
| This file contains the API prototypes for configuring INTC for ARM Cortex-M4. | |
Macros | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_RESET_NUM_1 (1U) |
| List of Exceptions in M4. These exceptions are interrupts from 1 to 15 in Vector table. More... | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_NMI_NUM_2 (2U) |
| Exception for External NMI inputs. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_HARD_FAULT_NUM_3 (3U) |
| Exception for All fault conditions, if the fault handle is not enabled. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_MEM_MANAGE_NUM_4 (4U) |
| Exception for Memory management fault; access to illegal locations. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_BUS_FAULT_NUM_5 (5U) |
| Exception for Bus error. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_USUAGE_FAULT_NUM_6 (6U) |
| Exception for Program error. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_RESERVED_NUM_7 (7U) |
| Reserved. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_RESERVED_NUM_8 (8U) |
| Reserved. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_RESERVED_NUM_9 (9U) |
| Reserved. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_RESERVED_NUM_10 (10U) |
| Reserved. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_SVCALL_NUM_11 (11U) |
| Exception for Service system Call. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_DEBUG_MONITOR_NUM_12 (12U) |
| Exception for BP,WP or external debug req. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_RESERVED_NUM_13 (13U) |
| Reserved. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_PENDSV_NUM_14 (14U) |
| Exception for Pendable request for system device. | |
| #define | EXCEPTION_M4_SYSTICK_NUM_15 (15U) |
| Exception for System Tick Timer. | |
Functions | |
| void | Intc_Init (void) |
| This API is used to initialize the interrupt controller. This API shall be called before using the interrupt controller. This API will reset the Vector table to defualt value and unregister all registered interrupt. More... | |
| void | Intc_IntRegister (uint16_t intrNum, IntrFuncPtr fptr, void *fun_arg) |
| Registers an interrupt Handler in the interrupt vector table for system interrupts. More... | |
| void | Intc_IntUnregister (uint16_t intrNum) |
| Unregisters an interrupt. More... | |
| void | Intc_IntPrioritySet (uint16_t intrNum, uint16_t priority, uint8_t hostIntRoute) |
| This API assigns a priority to an interrupt and routes it to either IRQ or to FIQ. Priority 0 is the highest priority level Among the host interrupts, FIQ has more priority than IRQ. More... | |
| void | Intc_SystemEnable (uint16_t intrNum) |
| This API enables the system interrupt in INTC. However, for the interrupt generation, make sure that the interrupt is enabled at the peripheral level also. More... | |
| void | Intc_SystemDisable (uint16_t intrNum) |
| This API disables the system interrupt in INTC. More... | |
| uint8_t | Intc_IntDisable (void) |
| Read and save the stasus and Disables the processor IRQ . Prevents the processor to respond to IRQs. More... | |
| void | Intc_IntEnable (uint32_t status) |
| Restore the processor IRQ only status. This does not affect the set of interrupts enabled/disabled in the AINTC. More... | |
| void | Intc_IntClrPend (uint16_t intrNum) |
| This API clears the pending system interrupt in INTC. | |
| #define EXCEPTION_M4_RESET_NUM_1 (1U) |
List of Exceptions in M4. These exceptions are interrupts from 1 to 15 in Vector table.
Exception for RESET
| void Intc_Init | ( | void | ) |
This API is used to initialize the interrupt controller. This API shall be called before using the interrupt controller. This API will reset the Vector table to defualt value and unregister all registered interrupt.
| uint8_t Intc_IntDisable | ( | void | ) |
Read and save the stasus and Disables the processor IRQ . Prevents the processor to respond to IRQs.
| void Intc_IntEnable | ( | uint32_t | status | ) |
Restore the processor IRQ only status. This does not affect the set of interrupts enabled/disabled in the AINTC.
| status | The status returned by the IntDisable fundtion. |
| void Intc_IntPrioritySet | ( | uint16_t | intrNum, |
| uint16_t | priority, | ||
| uint8_t | hostIntRoute | ||
| ) |
This API assigns a priority to an interrupt and routes it to either IRQ or to FIQ. Priority 0 is the highest priority level Among the host interrupts, FIQ has more priority than IRQ.
| intrNum | - Interrupt number |
| priority | - Interrupt priority level |
| hostIntRoute | - The host interrupt IRQ/FIQ to which the interrupt is to be routed. 'priority' can take any value from 0 to 127, 0 being the highest and 127 being the lowest priority. |
'hostIntRoute' can take one of the following values
ROUTE_IRQ - To route the interrupt to IRQ
ROUTE_FIQ - To route the interrupt to FIQ
| void Intc_IntRegister | ( | uint16_t | intrNum, |
| IntrFuncPtr | fptr, | ||
| void * | fun_arg | ||
| ) |
Registers an interrupt Handler in the interrupt vector table for system interrupts.
| intrNum | - Interrupt Number |
| fptr | - Function pointer to the ISR |
| fun_arg | - Argument to the ISR |
Note: When the interrupt occurs for the sytem interrupt number indicated, the control goes to the ISR given as the parameter.
| void Intc_IntUnregister | ( | uint16_t | intrNum | ) |
Unregisters an interrupt.
| intrNum | - Interrupt Number |
Note: Once an interrupt is unregistered it will enter infinite loop once an interrupt occurs
| void Intc_SystemDisable | ( | uint16_t | intrNum | ) |
This API disables the system interrupt in INTC.
| intrNum | - Interrupt number |
| void Intc_SystemEnable | ( | uint16_t | intrNum | ) |
This API enables the system interrupt in INTC. However, for the interrupt generation, make sure that the interrupt is enabled at the peripheral level also.
| intrNum | - Interrupt number |


News
Rosehill Library launches opening hours consultation
Written by Alice Violett · Published Oct 23, 2019
Suffolk Libraries are asking people living in the Rosehill area their views on potential changes to the library’s opening hours.
Suffolk Libraries shortlisted for funding to develop ‘Happy Place’ project
Written by James Powell · Published Oct 21, 2019
A Suffolk Libraries project has been announced as one of ten finalists in the Nesta Challenges Tech to Connect competition.
Celebrate your favourite children's books at Waveney Kids' Book Festival
Written by Hannah Foulstone · Published Oct 10, 2019
Southwold and Beccles libraries will be hosting a variety of events and activities with the theme of books, writing and drawing for children of all ages this October half-term.
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Independent research quantifies social value of Suffolk’s libraries
Written by Leon Paternoster · Published Oct 2, 2019
Ground-breaking research shows the real impact Suffolk Libraries has on local life.
Thurston Library to temporarily close for upgrade work
Written by Hannah Foulstone · Published Oct 1, 2019
Thurston Library will be closed from Sunday 13 - Friday 18 October for an upgrade to the children's area and other improvements. It will reopen on Saturday 19 October.
'We should have it all year round!' Space Chase reading challenge ends on a high
Written by Hannah Foulstone · Published Oct 1, 2019
The Summer Reading Challenge has finished for another year. Over 8,000 children took part in Suffolk, reading a total of 96,167 books over the summer holidays.
Young library superfans raise funds for Southwold branch
Written by Hannah Foulstone · Published Sep 20, 2019
Enterprising Summer Reading Challengers Ivy and Bertie recently surprised staff at Southwold Library by raising £78 with their very own book sale.
Eight Suffolk libraries to host volunteer fairs for Suffolk Action Week
Written by Hannah Foulstone · Published Sep 18, 2019
The first Suffolk Action Week will take place from Monday 30 September - Sunday 6 October. Libraries across the county are getting involved by hosting events where potential volunteers can find out about opportunities in their local area.
Lesley’s Readers on BBC Radio Suffolk – book choice for October
Written by Alice Violett · Published Sep 17, 2019
This month Lesley will be discussing A Modern Family, by Helga Flatland.


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Top Boy star Michael Ward stars in dramatic new clip for crime drama Blue Story
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Top Boy star Michael Ward and Stephen Odubola are two best friends caught up in a violent gang war in new crime drama Blue Story
by Lewis Knight, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/lewis-knight/Be prepared for a whole new cinematic experience of gang wars in London.
Blue Story follows best friends Timmy (Stephen Odubola) and Marco (Michael Ward) as they are caught up in a painful and seemingly endless cycle of post code gang wars.
Having gone to the same Peckham high school together, everything changed when Marco was assaulted by a friend of Timmy's from primary school, forcing the him and Timmy onto rival sides in the classes.
In a world exclusive clip for Mirror Online, we see Top Boy star Ward, Odubola, and Karla-Simone Spence in the gritty new drama.
The film is based on the trilogy of short films of the same name by rapper, YouTube star, and director, Andrew Onwubolu aka Rapman, who also wrote the script for the film.
Blue Story is also produced by Belle, Kidulthood, and Adulthood producer Damian Jones.
Top Boy star Michael Ward has said of the film: "As an actor you want to be involved in big projects and I just felt that this was something big … the message is so powerful that a lot of people are going to want to be involved … It’s [a message] that doesn't just stretch across the country, it stretches across the globe! These are stories that can be translated across the world."
Will Timmy and Marco salvage their friendship or face tragedy in the gang war?
Blue Story is released in UK cinemas on November 22, 2019.
Are you a fan of Michael Ward? Let us know in the comments below.


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Class Pin
Inheritance
System.Object
Pin
Assembly: Mapsui.UI.Forms.dll
public class Pin : BindableObject, IFeatureProvider, IDisposable
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public Pin(MapView mapView)
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Adress (like street) of pin
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public bool RotateWithMap { get; set; }
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String holding the Svg image informations
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public string Svg { get; set; }
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public object? Tag { get; set; }
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public override bool Equals(object? obj)
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public bool IsCalloutVisible()
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Everton rejected chances to sign Haaland, Robertson and Maguire
Everton had the opportunities to sign Erling Haaland, Andrew Robertson, Harry Maguire and Jonny Evans but rejected them all, according to the club’s former director of football, Steve Walsh.
After building a formidable reputation for talent-spotting at Leicester City, Walsh moved to Everton in July 2016 after making a number of bargain signings for the Foxes.
Walsh was credited with unearthing talents such as N’golo Kante, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, and played a huge part in Leicester’s unlikely Premier League title win in 2016.
Much was expected him at Everton, with the backing of owner Farhad Moshiri, but Walsh could not replicate the success he had at the King Power and was sacked in May 2018.
The veteran scout claims that he is not to blame for the failures at Goodison Park and he actually lined up a number of excellent deals, but the club simply did not back his decisions.
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If the Toffees had gone with his suggestions, they could have picked up some of the most valuable players in Europe, for next to nothing, according to Walsh.
‘While I was at Everton, I offered them Andrew Robertson and Harry Maguire deals, when they were at Hull, and it was worth £20 million for the pair. Everton wouldn’t take them,’ Walsh told the Athletic.
‘I had a deal done for Jonny Evans too before he came to Leicester, but again they wouldn’t take him.
‘Erling Haaland, the striker with Salzburg, I had him and his dad at the club with a deal done for £3.4m (€4m). The club wouldn’t back me.’
Robertson has gone on to be a fixture in the Liverpool side which won the Champions League last season and Maguire is not the world’s most expensive defender after his £80m move to Manchester United from Leicester.
Haaland appears unstoppable in front of goal for Red Bull Salzburg and is likely to make a big-money move in the summer to one of the biggest clubs in Europe, with Manchester United hoping to tempt him to the Premier League.


Iason Heine:
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Oh my! A
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The lowdown on Manchester City’s Champions League opponents Shakhtar Donetsk
We look at what lies ahead in the Group C encounter.
Manchester City host Shakhtar Donetsk hoping to secure their place in the Champions League knockout stages on Tuesday.
Here, the PA news agency looks at what lies ahead in the Group C encounter.
Both sides can progress
Old rivals
Masters of the comeback
Shakhtar, who are second in the group with five points and level with third-placed Dinamo, have produced stirring fightbacks in both their away matches in this season’s competition. Against Atalanta they came from behind to win 2-1 with Manor Solomon scoring the clincher five minutes into added time. They were in deeper trouble in Zagreb, trailing 3-1 after 90 minutes, but a Junior Moraes strike and Tete penalty in injury time saw them snatch a 3-3 draw.
Serial winners
Brazilian stars
All of Shakhtar’s successes in the modern era have been based around a core of Brazilian players. Current City player Fernandinho rose to prominence there during an eight-year spell before joining City in 2013. Manchester United’s Fred, Chelsea’s Willian and Everton’s Bernard all played there earlier in their careers. Shakhtar’s current squad boasts 11 Brazilians, two of whom have now become Ukraine internationals in Marlos and Moraes. Moraes is a man City will need to watch having scored 14 goals in 14 league appearances this season, and two more from four in the Champions League. Marlos, however, is suspended for this one.


Fault Tolerance
As explained in Actor Systems each actor is the supervisor of its children, and as such each actor defines fault handling supervisor strategy. This strategy cannot be changed afterwards as it is an integral part of the actor system’s structure.
Fault Handling in Practice
First, let us look at a sample that illustrates one way to handle data store errors, which is a typical source of failure in real world applications. Of course it depends on the actual application what is possible to do when the data store is unavailable, but in this sample we use a best effort re-connect approach.
Read the following source code. The inlined comments explain the different pieces of the fault handling and why they are added. It is also highly recommended to run this sample as it is easy to follow the log output to understand what is happening at runtime.
Creating a Supervisor Strategy
The following sections explain the fault handling mechanism and alternatives in more depth.
For the sake of demonstration let us consider the following strategy:
import akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy
import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
override val supervisorStrategy =
OneForOneStrategy(maxNrOfRetries = 10, withinTimeRange = 1 minute) {
case _: ArithmeticException => Resume
case _: NullPointerException => Restart
case _: IllegalArgumentException => Stop
case _: Exception => Escalate
}
I have chosen a few well-known exception types in order to demonstrate the application of the fault handling directives described in Supervision and Monitoring. First off, it is a one-for-one strategy, meaning that each child is treated separately (an all-for-one strategy works very similarly, the only difference is that any decision is applied to all children of the supervisor, not only the failing one). There are limits set on the restart frequency, namely maximum 10 restarts per minute; each of these settings could be left out, which means that the respective limit does not apply, leaving the possibility to specify an absolute upper limit on the restarts or to make the restarts work infinitely. The child actor is stopped if the limit is exceeded.
The match statement which forms the bulk of the body is of type Decider, which is a PartialFunction[Throwable, Directive]. This is the piece which maps child failure types to their corresponding directives.
Note
If the strategy is declared inside the supervising actor (as opposed to within a companion object) its decider has access to all internal state of the actor in a thread-safe fashion, including obtaining a reference to the currently failed child (available as the sender of the failure message).
Default Supervisor Strategy
Escalate is used if the defined strategy doesn't cover the exception that was thrown.
When the supervisor strategy is not defined for an actor the following exceptions are handled by default:
- ActorInitializationException will stop the failing child actor
- ActorKilledException will stop the failing child actor
- Exception will restart the failing child actor
- Other types of Throwable will be escalated to parent actor
If the exception escalate all the way up to the root guardian it will handle it in the same way as the default strategy defined above.
You can combine your own strategy with the default strategy:
import akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy
import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
override val supervisorStrategy =
OneForOneStrategy(maxNrOfRetries = 10, withinTimeRange = 1 minute) {
case _: ArithmeticException => Resume
case t =>
super.supervisorStrategy.decider.applyOrElse(t, (_: Any) => Escalate)
}
Stopping Supervisor Strategy
Closer to the Erlang way is the strategy to just stop children when they fail and then take corrective action in the supervisor when DeathWatch signals the loss of the child. This strategy is also provided pre-packaged as SupervisorStrategy.stoppingStrategy with an accompanying StoppingSupervisorStrategy configurator to be used when you want the "/user" guardian to apply it.
Logging of Actor Failures
By default the SupervisorStrategy logs failures unless they are escalated. Escalated failures are supposed to be handled, and potentially logged, at a level higher in the hierarchy.
You can mute the default logging of a SupervisorStrategy by setting loggingEnabled to false when instantiating it. Customized logging can be done inside the Decider. Note that the reference to the currently failed child is available as the sender when the SupervisorStrategy is declared inside the supervising actor.
You may also customize the logging in your own SupervisorStrategy implementation by overriding the logFailure method.
Supervision of Top-Level Actors
Toplevel actors means those which are created using system.actorOf(), and they are children of the User Guardian. There are no special rules applied in this case, the guardian simply applies the configured strategy.
Test Application
The following section shows the effects of the different directives in practice, where a test setup is needed. First off, we need a suitable supervisor:
import akka.actor.Actor
class Supervisor extends Actor {
import akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy
import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
override val supervisorStrategy =
OneForOneStrategy(maxNrOfRetries = 10, withinTimeRange = 1 minute) {
case _: ArithmeticException => Resume
case _: NullPointerException => Restart
case _: IllegalArgumentException => Stop
case _: Exception => Escalate
}
def receive = {
case p: Props => sender() ! context.actorOf(p)
}
}
This supervisor will be used to create a child, with which we can experiment:
import akka.actor.Actor
class Child extends Actor {
var state = 0
def receive = {
case ex: Exception => throw ex
case x: Int => state = x
case "get" => sender() ! state
}
}
The test is easier by using the utilities described in Testing Actor Systems.
import com.typesafe.config.{ Config, ConfigFactory }
import org.scalatest.{ FlatSpecLike, Matchers, BeforeAndAfterAll }
import akka.testkit.{ TestActors, TestKit, ImplicitSender, EventFilter }
class FaultHandlingDocSpec(_system: ActorSystem) extends TestKit(_system)
with ImplicitSender with FlatSpecLike with Matchers with BeforeAndAfterAll {
def this() = this(ActorSystem(
"FaultHandlingDocSpec",
ConfigFactory.parseString("""
akka {
loggers = ["akka.testkit.TestEventListener"]
loglevel = "WARNING"
}
""")))
override def afterAll {
TestKit.shutdownActorSystem(system)
}
"A supervisor" must "apply the chosen strategy for its child" in {
// code here
}
}
Let us create actors:
val supervisor = system.actorOf(Props[Supervisor], "supervisor")
supervisor ! Props[Child]
val child = expectMsgType[ActorRef] // retrieve answer from TestKit’s testActor
The first test shall demonstrate the Resume directive, so we try it out by setting some non-initial state in the actor and have it fail:
child ! 42 // set state to 42
child ! "get"
expectMsg(42)
child ! new ArithmeticException // crash it
child ! "get"
expectMsg(42)
As you can see the value 42 survives the fault handling directive. Now, if we change the failure to a more serious NullPointerException, that will no longer be the case:
child ! new NullPointerException // crash it harder
child ! "get"
expectMsg(0)
And finally in case of the fatal IllegalArgumentException the child will be terminated by the supervisor:
watch(child) // have testActor watch “child”
child ! new IllegalArgumentException // break it
expectMsgPF() { case Terminated(`child`) => () }
Up to now the supervisor was completely unaffected by the child’s failure, because the directives set did handle it. In case of an Exception, this is not true anymore and the supervisor escalates the failure.
supervisor ! Props[Child] // create new child
val child2 = expectMsgType[ActorRef]
watch(child2)
child2 ! "get" // verify it is alive
expectMsg(0)
child2 ! new Exception("CRASH") // escalate failure
expectMsgPF() {
case t @ Terminated(`child2`) if t.existenceConfirmed => ()
}
The supervisor itself is supervised by the top-level actor provided by the ActorSystem, which has the default policy to restart in case of all Exception cases (with the notable exceptions of ActorInitializationException and ActorKilledException). Since the default directive in case of a restart is to kill all children, we expected our poor child not to survive this failure.
In case this is not desired (which depends on the use case), we need to use a different supervisor which overrides this behavior.
class Supervisor2 extends Actor {
import akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy
import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
override val supervisorStrategy =
OneForOneStrategy(maxNrOfRetries = 10, withinTimeRange = 1 minute) {
case _: ArithmeticException => Resume
case _: NullPointerException => Restart
case _: IllegalArgumentException => Stop
case _: Exception => Escalate
}
def receive = {
case p: Props => sender() ! context.actorOf(p)
}
// override default to kill all children during restart
override def preRestart(cause: Throwable, msg: Option[Any]) {}
}
With this parent, the child survives the escalated restart, as demonstrated in the last test:
val supervisor2 = system.actorOf(Props[Supervisor2], "supervisor2")
supervisor2 ! Props[Child]
val child3 = expectMsgType[ActorRef]
child3 ! 23
child3 ! "get"
expectMsg(23)
child3 ! new Exception("CRASH")
child3 ! "get"
expectMsg(0)
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It’s been two weeks since FUSRP started! I didn’t have the chance to write my thoughts down until tonight.
For the first few weeks, we didn’t do anything that requires a lot of mathematical knowledge. We started by learning the models from lecture notes, playing around data, and reading papers. I like taking notes for the meetings and reading over lecture notes. It is nice to write things down on papers physically, and I can always refer back. It is a record of my works.
I found eyeballing the data to see if the graph shows a linear or exponential relation is a funny way to conduct data analysis (I used desmos for reference on linear function and exponential function and highlight segments of the graph on iPad – red for exponential, green for linear). It is definitely not the best or reliable way to analyze data, but it is a good beginning to understand the data that you have better.
One thing that I found inspirational from Monday’s meeting with Prof.Hilfinger was that “Sometimes you have to go with the flow, use your intuition to guess an approach, and justify it later”. For homework and assignments in courses, everything is perfectly planned with flawless simulations, so we can easily get ideal results that match with the theories by using mathematical or statistical tools. This is not the case for real-world problems. You will find yourself struggle to find the perfect approach, or justify why you would tackle the problem in a certain way. “Lose something while gaining other things” (有失必有得), interpolating data to fill out the gaps in samples might increase the variability or produce false assumptions of the relationship between the datapoints, but we gain equally spaced data to apply fourier transformation on.
There were many googling around this week. When I didn’t know how to do something on python with time series data, I just googled it and found potential solutions on stack overflow. What would I do without google? What was life like without a search engine? I could barely recall.
I understand, from these two weeks, that there are still many things that I can learn. Time series analysis, power spectrum, auto-correlation… I do enjoy data analysis so far, the process of discovering new tools and program them. Looking forward to the new adventure next week :)


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Adds an additional custom criteria to the current tie-breaking strategy. The given comparator must return 1, if the first association rule should be preferred, -1, if the second one should be preferred or 0, if no decision could be made.
comparator
- The comparator, which specifies which one of two item sets or
association rules should be sorted before the other one when
performing tie-breaking


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dnssec-signzone [-a] [-c class] [-d directory] [-e end-time] [-f output-file] [-g] [-h] [-k key] [-l domain] [-i interval] [-n nthreads] [-o origin] [-p] [-r randomdev] [-s start-time] [-t] [-v level] [-z] {zonefile} [key...]
dnssec-signzone signs a zone. It generates NSEC and RRSIG records and produces a signed version of the zone. The security status of delegations from the signed zone (that is, whether the child zones are secure or not) is determined by the presence or absence of a keyset file for each child zone.
Verify all generated signatures.
Specifies the DNS class of the zone.
Treat specified key as a key signing key ignoring any key flags. This option may be specified multiple times.
Generate a DLV set in addition to the key (DNSKEY) and DS sets. The domain is appended to the name of the records.
Look for keyset files in directory as the directory
Generate DS records for child zones from keyset files. Existing DS records will be removed.
Specify the date and time when the generated RRSIG records become valid. This can be either an absolute or relative time. An absolute start time is indicated by a number in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS notation;<PHONE_NUMBER>4500 denotes 14:45:00 UTC on May 30th, 2000. A relative start time is indicated by +N, which is N seconds from the current time. If no start-time is specified, the current time minus 1 hour (to allow for clock skew) is used.
Specify the date and time when the generated RRSIG records expire. As with start-time, an absolute time is indicated in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS notation. A time relative to the start time is indicated with +N, which is N seconds from the start time. A time relative to the current time is indicated with now+N. If no end-time is specified, 30 days from the start time is used as a default.
The name of the output file containing the signed zone. The default is to append .signed to the input file.
Prints a short summary of the options and arguments to dnssec-signzone.
When a previously signed zone is passed as input, records may be resigned. The interval option specifies the cycle interval as an offset from the current time (in seconds). If a RRSIG record expires after the cycle interval, it is retained. Otherwise, it is considered to be expiring soon, and it will be replaced.
The default cycle interval is one quarter of the difference between the signature end and start times. So if neither end-time or start-time are specified, dnssec-signzone generates signatures that are valid for 30 days, with a cycle interval of 7.5 days. Therefore, if any existing RRSIG records are due to expire in less than 7.5 days, they would be replaced.
Specifies the number of threads to use. By default, one thread is started for each detected CPU.
The zone origin. If not specified, the name of the zone file is assumed to be the origin.
Use pseudo-random data when signing the zone. This is faster, but less secure, than using real random data. This option may be useful when signing large zones or when the entropy source is limited.
Specifies the source of randomness. If the operating system does not provide a /dev/random or equivalent device, the default source of randomness is keyboard input. randomdev specifies the name of a character device or file containing random data to be used instead of the default. The special value keyboard indicates that keyboard input should be used.
Print statistics at completion.
Sets the debugging level.
Ignore KSK flag on key when determining what to sign.
The file containing the zone to be signed. Sets the debugging level.
The keys used to sign the zone. If no keys are specified, the default all zone keys that have private key files in the current directory.
The following command signs the example.com zone with the DSA key generated in the dnssec-keygen man page. The zone's keys must be in the zone. If there are keyset files associated with child zones, they must be in the current directory. example.com, the following command would be issued:
dnssec-signzone -o example.com db.example.com Kexample.com.+003+26160
The command would print a string of the form:
In this example, dnssec-signzone creates the file db.example.com.signed. This file should be referenced in a zone statement in a named.conf file.


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