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Welcome to Vienna and the Department of Musicology
Before planning your trip to Vienna, check out our recommendations and tips for your stay. For more information and directions, please visit Maps.
Directions from Airport to Vienna City Center
After arriving at Vienna International Airport in Schwechat, the best way to get to Vienna is via bus or train.
- CAT - City Airport Train
- With a journey time of only 16 minutes, the City Airport Train is the fastest way to travel to the city center at the underground station Landstraße (orange line U3 and green line U4). Single tickets cost €12.00, return journey is €21.00.
- Other Rail Connections
- If you are not in a hurry, you can take the railway S7, which arrives at the underground station Landstraße (orange line U3 and green line U4) as well. It takes approximately 30 minutes to get there and the fare for a one-way ticket is €4.10.
- Bus - Vienna Airport Lines
- Every 30 minutes, a bus takes you to various downtown stations, two of which are potentially useful for your trip: Morzinplatz/Schwedenplatz (red line U1 and green line U4) and Westbahnhof (orange line U3 and brown line U6). The journey takes about 20 to 40 minutes. Buses to Morzinplatz/Schwedenplatz run 24 hours a day. Single tickets are €8.00.
Accommodation
There are various hotels nearby the Department of Musicology located at the Campus of the University of Vienna.
Our recommendations range from classic hotels to modern apartments and student dorm, but all of the accommodations are reasonably priced.
- The Harmonie Vienna
- The family-owned hotel The Harmonie Vienna carries the Austrian Ecolabel, awarded by the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism. It is only a 8-minute walk away from the campus and located close to the main attractions of Vienna such as the old town and St. Stephen's Cathedral. The metro, bus and tram stations are located close to the hotel.
- Hotel Stadthalle
- The eco-friendly Hotel Stadthalle is the first hotel with a zero-energy balance in Austria, using 130 m2 of solar panels to heat up the hot water supply, ground water heat pumps and three wind turbines. The rooms are individually designed and equipped with a working desk. The hotel garden and lavender roof are most inviting.
- 25hours Hotel
- The 25hours Hotel provides a unique hotel experience in the 7th district near the biggest museums in Vienna.
Each room is delicately designed and features combinations of vintage and modern furniture. Contemporary Italian
food is served at the on-site restaurant and the rooftop bar offers beautiful panoramic views of the city.
- Benediktus Haus
- The bed-and-breakfast style Benediktushaus im Schottenstift is embedded in the large historical buildings complex
of the abbey right in the heart of Vienna. The rooms are very quietly-situated and look out onto one of the tree-lined
courtyards of the monastery. Radios and TVs are deliberately left out of the rooms' equipment, but free Wi-Fi is provided,
of course.
- Schottenpoint
- Located in a classic Viennese building, the Schottenpoint Hotel offers tradtional hotel rooms with TV, minibar
and carpeted floors. For breakfast, a rich buffet is served every morning. The Votive Church and the underground station Schottentor are only a few steps away.
- Youth Hostel Myrthengasse
- The Youth Hostel Myrthengasse with 260 beds is situated in a quiet and traffic free pedestrian zone in the center of Vienna. Many attractions and shopping areas are within walking distance and underground, bus and tram stations are nearby. The rooms have 2-6 bunkbeds and are equipped with showers, some of them also with toilets. The breakfast buffet is included.
- Hotel Lehrerhaus
- Hotel Lehrerhaus is a traditional low budget accommodation and in walking distance to the campus as well as the historic center, the Ringstraße and important museums. All rooms quietly overlook the courtyard. The hotel provides no breakfast, but offers the possibility for self-catering by buying food and beverages from the supermarket inside the hotel building. A coffee machine, toaster, fridges, etc. are at your disposal.
- Booking.com and Airbnb
- Of course, it is also possible to look for alternative accommodations via Booking and Airbnb. You can find many inexpensive hotels and apartments, which are located in the city center.


Like many server applications, Catalina installs a variety of class loaders
(that is, classes that extend java.lang.ClassLoader
) to allow
different portions of the container, and the web applications running on the
container, to have access to different repositories of available classes and
resources. This mechanism is used to provide the functionality defined in
the Servlet API Specification, version 2.3 (public draft 1) -- in particular
sections 9.4 and 9.6.
The remainder of this document provides an overview diagram of the parent - child relationships between each class loader that is created, more detailed information about the content and use of each class loader, and some additional relevant notes.
In a Java2 environment, class loaders are arranged in a parentage tree. Normally, when a class loader is asked to load a class (or get a resource), it delegates the request upwards first, and only searches its local repositories if the parent class loader(s) cannot find the requested class or resource. The model for web applications differs slightly from this, as discussed further below.
The class loaders that Catalina uses are organized as follows, where the parent class loader is above the child class loaders:
Bootstrap | System | Common / \ Catalina Shared / \ Webapp1 Webapp2 ... / / Jasper1 Jasper2
The usage of and repositories contained in each class loader are described further below:
java.*
classes. Depending on how your particular JVM
is organized, this may actually be more than one class loader, or
may not exist at all. It is generally not referenced directly.CLASSPATH
environment variable, and
contains classes that must be visible to both the Catalina internal
classes and to web applications. The standard Catalina startup scripts
assemble the following repositories for the system class path:
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
- The Bootstrap class
that is used to initialize the Catalina server, and the class
loader implementation classes it depends on.$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar
- The Javac
compiler used to compile the servlets generated from JSP pages
(if present on your system).$CATALINA_HOME/common/classes
directory (if it exists), and all JAR files in the
$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
directory (if it exists). The
latter group normally includes the following:
jndi.jar
- The Java Naming and Directory Service API
classes (loaded only if not already included in
the JDK, as they are with JDK 1.3).naming.jar
- The JNDI implementation used by
Tomcat 4 itself.servlet.jar
- The servlet and JSP API classes.$CATALINA_HOME/server/classes
directory (if it exists), and all JAR files in the
$CATALINA_HOME/server/lib
directory (if it exists). Because
these classes are loaded from a separate class loader, which is not visible
to the Webapp class loader, they are not visible
to web applications.$CATALINA_HOME/classes
directory
(if it exists), and all JAR files in the $CATALINA_HOME/lib
directory (if it exists). All of the classes in these repositories will
be visible to all web applications, so they may be used to share
information between web apps.
(NOTE - this behavior is specific to Tomcat 4.0, and
will not necessarily be portable to other containers.)WEB-INF/classes
directory (if it exists), plus all JAR files
in the WEB-INF/lib
directory, for this web app. Because of
the parentage hierarchy, web applications can indirectly see (and therefore
load classes from) the Shared, Common,
System, and Bootstrap class loaders,
but not from the Catalina or
JasperX class loaders.$CATALINA_HOME/jasper
directory, which normally
includes the Jasper compiler classes and the XML parser that they require.
Because the parent of this class loader is the WebappX
class loader for this application, the JSP compiler can see all of the
JavaBean and other classes that are part of this application, but the
application classes cannot see anything loaded from here (and, in
particular, will not have access to the XML parser loaded by this
class loader.As you can see from the above descriptions, the contents of any
CLASSPATH
environment variable already existing in your server
is totally ignored. If you want to make a JAR file available to all web
applications, you must place a copy of this file in the
$CATALINA_HOME/lib
directory so that it becomes part of the
Shared class loader's repositories.
When a servlet (or JSP page) within a web application references a class
for the first time (either by using the new
operator or by
calling the Class.forName()
method), the following processing
occurs to locate and load the requested class:
loadClass()
method of the WebappX class
loader is called to load the specified class.java.*
),
it is loaded directly by the System class loader.ClassNotFoundException
.delegate
property is set to
true
(which is not the default), we will ask our
parent class loader to load this class before looking locally. This is
the standard Java2 delegation model, but prevents a web application from
overriding a class from the Shared class loader with its
own copy from WEB-INF/classes
or a JAR file in
WEB-INF/lib
.WEB-INF/classes
directory (if it exists), and then the JAR
files in WEB-INF/lib
.ClassNotFoundException
is thrown, as required by the Javadocs for a class loader.A similar pattern is followed when you call Class.getResource()
or Class.getResourceAsStream()
to access resources that are
co-resident with your classes.
Certain web application components (such as the Jasper JSP page compiler servlet, require additional information related to class loading to operate successfully. To avoid creating dependencies between the Jasper and Catalina code bases, this information is exposed as a set of servlet context attributes that are initialized when the web application is started. The following context attributes are created:
Previously, the Jasper page compiler was loaded in the
Shared class loader, along with the XML parser that it
requires. This had the side effect of causing this XML parser to be visible
to all web applications, through the inheritance hierarchy. However, this
causes problems if the JAR files of the selected XML parser are sealed (as are
the JAR files in the JAXP 1.1 reference implementation, for example) -- any
attempt to load your own XML parser (such as Xerces) from
WEB-INF/lib
would cause "package sealing violation" errors to be
thrown.
Now that the XML parser required by Jasper is loaded from the JasperX class loader, rather than the Shared class loader, this problem no longer occurs. However, any web application that relied on an XML parser being made available by Catalina will fail, because this is no longer true by default. If your web application requires an XML parser, you have three choices:
WEB-INF/lib
directory of your web application.$CATALINA_HOME/lib
directory so that they are available to all web applications. Note that
this is likely to introduce "package sealing violation" problems again,
so this option is only practical if your applications do not require
JSP pages.For more information about class loaders in general, see the Java Language Specification, and the Javadocs for the following classes:
java.lang.ClassLoader
java.net.URLClassLoader
The implementation class for all Catalina internal class loaders is
StandardClassLoader
. Required and available optional packages
are described using the Extension
class. For more information,
see the source code and/or Javadocs for the following classes:
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader
org.apache.catalina.loader.Extension


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The Iliad
by Homer
Book 21: The Battle in the River Scamander
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1899
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: Greece
- Source: Homer. (1899). The Iliad. Boston, MA; B.H. Stanton.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 6.4
- Word Count: 6,023
- Genre: Epic
- Keywords: destiny, fate, glory, honor
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The Trojans fly before Achilles, some towards the town, others to the river Scamander: he falls upon the latter with great slaughter: takes twelve captives alive, to sacrifice to the shade of Patroclus; and kills Lycaon and Asteropeus. Scamander attacks him with all his waves: Neptune and Pallas assist the hero: Simois joins Scamander: at length Vulcan, by the instigation of Juno, almost dries up the river. This Combat ended, the other gods engage each other. Meanwhile Achilles continues the slaughter, drives the rest into Troy: Agenor only makes a stand, and is conveyed away in a cloud by Apollo; who (to delude Achilles) takes upon him Agenor's shape, and while he pursues him in that disguise, gives the Trojans an opportunity of retiring into their city.
The same day continues. The scene is on the banks and in the stream of Scamander.
And now to Xanthus' gliding stream they drove,
Xanthus, immortal progeny of Jove.
The river here divides the flying train,
Part to the town fly diverse o'er the plain,
Where late their troops triumphant bore the fight,
Now chased, and trembling in ignoble flight:
(These with a gathered mist Saturnia shrouds,
And rolls behind the rout a heap of clouds:)
Part plunge into the stream: old Xanthus roars,
The flashing billows beat the whiten'd shores:
With cries promiscuous all the banks resound,
And here, and there, in eddies whirling round,
The flouncing steeds and shrieking warriors drown'd.
As the scorch'd locusts from their fields retire,
While fast behind them runs the blaze of fire;
Driven from the land before the smoky cloud,
The clustering legions rush into the flood:
So, plunged in Xanthus by Achilles' force,
Roars the resounding surge with men and horse.

Swift through the foamy flood the Trojans fly,
And close in rocks or winding caverns lie:
So the huge dolphin tempesting the main,
In shoals before him fly the scaly train,
Confusedly heap'd they seek their inmost caves,
Or pant and heave beneath the floating waves.
Now, tired with slaughter, from the Trojan band
Twelve chosen youths he drags alive to land;
With their rich belts their captive arms restrains
(Late their proud ornaments, but now their chains).
These his attendants to the ships convey'd,
Sad victims destined to Patroclus' shade;
Then, as once more he plunged amid the flood,
The young Lycaon in his passage stood;
The son of Priam; whom the hero's hand
But late made captive in his father's land
(As from a sycamore, his sounding steel
Lopp'd the green arms to spoke a chariot wheel)
To Lemnos' isle he sold the royal slave,
Where Jason's son the price demanded gave;
But kind Eetion, touching on the shore,
The ransom'd prince to fair Arisbe bore.
Ten days were past, since in his father's reign
He felt the sweets of liberty again;
The next, that god whom men in vain withstand
Gives the same youth to the same conquering hand
Now never to return! and doom'd to go
A sadder journey to the shades below.
His well–known face when great Achilles eyed,
(The helm and visor he had cast aside
With wild affright, and dropp'd upon the field
His useless lance and unavailing shield,)
As trembling, panting, from the stream he fled,
And knock'd his faltering knees, the hero said.
"Ye mighty gods! what wonders strike my view!
Is it in vain our conquering arms subdue?
Sure I shall see yon heaps of Trojans kill'd
Rise from the shades, and brave me on the field;
As now the captive, whom so late I bound
And sold to Lemnos, stalks on Trojan ground!
Not him the sea's unmeasured deeps detain,
That bar such numbers from their native plain;
Lo! he returns. Try, then, my flying spear!
Try, if the grave can hold the wanderer;
If earth, at length this active prince can seize,
Earth, whose strong grasp has held down Hercules."
Thus while he spoke, the Trojan pale with fears
Approach'd, and sought his knees with suppliant tears
Loth as he was to yield his youthful breath,
And his soul shivering at the approach of death.
Achilles raised the spear, prepared to wound;
He kiss'd his feet, extended on the ground:
And while, above, the spear suspended stood,
Longing to dip its thirsty point in blood,
One hand embraced them close, one stopp'd the dart,
While thus these melting words attempt his heart:
"Thy well–known captive, great Achilles! see,
Once more Lycaon trembles at thy knee.
Some pity to a suppliant's name afford,
Who shared the gifts of Ceres at thy board;
Whom late thy conquering arm to Lemnos bore,
Far from his father, friends, and native shore;
A hundred oxen were his price that day,
Now sums immense thy mercy shall repay.
Scarce respited from woes I yet appear,
And scarce twelve morning suns have seen me here;
Lo! Jove again submits me to thy hands,
Again, her victim cruel Fate demands!
I sprang from Priam, and Laothoe fair,
(Old Altes' daughter, and Lelegia's heir;
Who held in Pedasus his famed abode,
And ruled the fields where silver Satnio flow'd,)
Two sons (alas! unhappy sons) she bore;
For ah! one spear shall drink each brother's gore,
And I succeed to slaughter'd Polydore.
How from that arm of terror shall I fly?

If ever yet soft pity touch'd thy mind,
Ah! think not me too much of Hector's kind!
Not the same mother gave thy suppliant breath,
With his, who wrought thy loved Patroclus' death."

Die then, my friend! what boots it to deplore?
The great, the good Patroclus is no more!
He, far thy better, was foredoom'd to die,
And thou, dost thou bewail mortality?
Seest thou not me, whom nature's gifts adorn,
Sprung from a hero, from a goddess born?
The day shall come (which nothing can avert)
When by the spear, the arrow, or the dart,
By night, or day, by force, or by design,
Impending death and certain fate are mine!
Die then,"—He said; and as the word he spoke,
The fainting stripling sank before the stroke:
His hand forgot its grasp, and left the spear,
While all his trembling frame confess'd his fear:
Sudden, Achilles his broad sword display'd,
And buried in his neck the reeking blade.
Prone fell the youth; and panting on the land,
The gushing purple dyed the thirsty sand.

So perish Troy, and all the Trojan line!
Such ruin theirs, and such compassion mine.
What boots ye now Scamander's worshipp'd stream,
His earthly honours, and immortal name?
In vain your immolated bulls are slain,
Your living coursers glut his gulfs in vain!
Thus he rewards you, with this bitter fate;
Thus, till the Grecian vengeance is complete:
Thus is atoned Patroclus' honour'd shade,
And the short absence of Achilles paid."
These boastful words provoked the raging god;
With fury swells the violated flood.
What means divine may yet the power employ
To check Achilles, and to rescue Troy?
Meanwhile the hero springs in arms, to dare
The great Asteropeus to mortal war;
The son of Pelagon, whose lofty line
Flows from the source of Axius, stream divine!
(Fair Peribaea's love the god had crown'd,
With all his refluent waters circled round:)
On him Achilles rush'd; he fearless stood,
And shook two spears, advancing from the flood;
The flood impell'd him, on Pelides' head
To avenge his waters choked with heaps of dead.
Near as they drew, Achilles thus began:
"What art thou, boldest of the race of man?
Who, or from whence? Unhappy is the sire
Whose son encounters our resistless ire."
"O son of Peleus! what avails to trace
(Replied the warrior) our illustrious race?
From rich Paeonia's valleys I command,
Arm'd with protended spears, my native band;
Now shines the tenth bright morning since I came
In aid of Ilion to the fields of fame:
Axius, who swells with all the neighbouring rills,
And wide around the floated region fills,
Begot my sire, whose spear much glory won:
Now lift thy arm, and try that hero's son!"
Threatening he said: the hostile chiefs advance;
At once Asteropeus discharged each lance,
(For both his dexterous hands the lance could wield,)
One struck, but pierced not, the Vulcanian shield;
One razed Achilles' hand; the spouting blood
Spun forth; in earth the fasten'd weapon stood.
Like lightning next the Pelean javelin flies:
Its erring fury hiss'd along the skies;
Deep in the swelling bank was driven the spear,
Even to the middle earth; and quiver'd there.
Then from his side the sword Pelides drew,
And on his foe with double fury flew.
The foe thrice tugg'd, and shook the rooted wood;
Repulsive of his might the weapon stood:
The fourth, he tries to break the spear in vain;
Bent as he stands, he tumbles to the plain;
His belly open'd with a ghastly wound,
The reeking entrails pour upon the ground.
Beneath the hero's feet he panting lies,
And his eye darkens, and his spirit flies;
While the proud victor thus triumphing said,
His radiant armour tearing from the dead:
"So ends thy glory! Such the fate they prove,
Who strive presumptuous with the sons of Jove!
Sprung from a river, didst thou boast thy line?
But great Saturnius is the source of mine.
How durst thou vaunt thy watery progeny?
Of Peleus, Æacus, and Jove, am I.
The race of these superior far to those,
As he that thunders to the stream that flows.
What rivers can, Scamander might have shown;
But Jove he dreads, nor wars against his son.
Even Achelous might contend in vain,
And all the roaring billows of the main.
The eternal ocean, from whose fountains flow
The seas, the rivers, and the springs below,
The thundering voice of Jove abhors to hear,
And in his deep abysses shakes with fear."
He said: then from the bank his javelin tore,
And left the breathless warrior in his gore.

All scatter'd round the stream (their mightiest slain)
The amazed Paeonians scour along the plain;
He vents his fury on the flying crew,
Thrasius, Astyplus, and Mnesus slew;
Mydon, Thersilochus, with Ænius, fell;
And numbers more his lance had plunged to hell,
But from the bottom of his gulfs profound
Scamander spoke; the shores return'd the sound.
"O first of mortals! (for the gods are thine)
In valour matchless, and in force divine!
If Jove have given thee every Trojan head,
'Tis not on me thy rage should heap the dead.
See! my choked streams no more their course can keep,
Nor roll their wonted tribute to the deep.
Turn then, impetuous! from our injured flood;
Content, thy slaughters could amaze a god."
In human form, confess'd before his eyes,
The river thus; and thus the chief replies:
"O sacred stream! thy word we shall obey;
But not till Troy the destined vengeance pay,
Not till within her towers the perjured train
Shall pant, and tremble at our arms again;
Not till proud Hector, guardian of her wall,
Or stain this lance, or see Achilles fall."
He said; and drove with fury on the foe.
Then to the godhead of the silver bow
The yellow flood began: "O son of Jove!
Was not the mandate of the sire above
Full and express, that Phoebus should employ
His sacred arrows in defence of Troy,
And make her conquer, till Hyperion's fall
In awful darkness hide the face of all?"
He spoke in vain—The chief without dismay
Ploughs through the boiling surge his desperate way.
Then rising in his rage above the shores,
From all his deep the bellowing river roars,
Huge heaps of slain disgorges on the coast,
And round the banks the ghastly dead are toss'd.
While all before, the billows ranged on high,
(A watery bulwark,) screen the bands who fly.
Now bursting on his head with thundering sound,
The falling deluge whelms the hero round:
His loaded shield bends to the rushing tide;
His feet, upborne, scarce the strong flood divide,
Sliddering, and staggering. On the border stood
A spreading elm, that overhung the flood;
He seized a bending bough, his steps to stay;
The plant uprooted to his weight gave way.
Heaving the bank, and undermining all;
Loud flash the waters to the rushing fall
Of the thick foliage. The large trunk display'd
Bridged the rough flood across: the hero stay'd
On this his weight, and raised upon his hand,
Leap'd from the channel, and regain'd the land.
Then blacken'd the wild waves: the murmur rose:
The god pursues, a huger billow throws,
And bursts the bank, ambitious to destroy
The man whose fury is the fate of Troy.
He like the warlike eagle speeds his pace
(Swiftest and strongest of the Ærial race);
Far as a spear can fly, Achilles springs;
At every bound his clanging armour rings:
Now here, now there, he turns on every side,
And winds his course before the following tide;
The waves flow after, wheresoe'er he wheels,
And gather fast, and murmur at his heels.
So when a peasant to his garden brings
Soft rills of water from the bubbling springs,
And calls the floods from high, to bless his bowers,
And feed with pregnant streams the plants and flowers:
Soon as he clears whate'er their passage stay'd,
And marks the future current with his spade,
Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills,
Louder and louder purl the falling rills;
Before him scattering, they prevent his pains,
And shine in mazy wanderings o'er the plains.
Still flies Achilles, but before his eyes
Still swift Scamander rolls where'er he flies:
Not all his speed escapes the rapid floods;
The first of men, but not a match for gods.
Oft as he turn'd the torrent to oppose,
And bravely try if all the powers were foes;
So oft the surge, in watery mountains spread,
Beats on his back, or bursts upon his head.
Yet dauntless still the adverse flood he braves,
And still indignant bounds above the waves.
Tired by the tides, his knees relax with toil;
Wash'd from beneath him slides the slimy soil;
When thus (his eyes on heaven's expansion thrown)
Forth bursts the hero with an angry groan:
"Is there no god Achilles to befriend,
No power to avert his miserable end?
Prevent, O Jove! this ignominious date,
And make my future life the sport of fate.
Of all heaven's oracles believed in vain,
But most of Thetis must her son complain;
By Phoebus' darts she prophesied my fall,
In glorious arms before the Trojan wall.
Oh! had I died in fields of battle warm,
Stretch'd like a hero, by a hero's arm!
Might Hector's spear this dauntless bosom rend,
And my swift soul o'ertake my slaughter'd friend.
Ah no! Achilles meets a shameful fate,
Oh how unworthy of the brave and great!
Like some vile swain, whom on a rainy day,
Crossing a ford, the torrent sweeps away,
An unregarded carcase to the sea."
Neptune and Pallas haste to his relief,
And thus in human form address'd the chief:
The power of ocean first: "Forbear thy fear,
O son of Peleus! Lo, thy gods appear!
Behold! from Jove descending to thy aid,
Propitious Neptune, and the blue–eyed maid.
Stay, and the furious flood shall cease to rave
'Tis not thy fate to glut his angry wave.
But thou, the counsel heaven suggests, attend!

Thine is the glory doom'd." Thus spake the gods:
Then swift ascended to the bright abodes.
Stung with new ardour, thus by heaven impell'd,
He springs impetuous, and invades the field:
O'er all the expanded plain the waters spread;
Heaved on the bounding billows danced the dead,
Floating 'midst scatter'd arms; while casques of gold
And turn'd–up bucklers glitter'd as they roll'd.
High o'er the surging tide, by leaps and bounds,
He wades, and mounts; the parted wave resounds.
Not a whole river stops the hero's course,
While Pallas fills him with immortal force.
With equal rage, indignant Xanthus roars,
And lifts his billows, and o'erwhelms his shores.
Then thus to Simois! "Haste, my brother flood;
And check this mortal that controls a god;
Our bravest heroes else shall quit the fight,
And Ilion tumble from her towery height.

Mark how resistless through the floods he goes,
And boldly bids the warring gods be foes!
But nor that force, nor form divine to sight,
Shall aught avail him, if our rage unite:
Whelm'd under our dark gulfs those arms shall lie,
That blaze so dreadful in each Trojan eye;
And deep beneath a sandy mountain hurl'd,
Immersed remain this terror of the world.
Such ponderous ruin shall confound the place,
No Greeks shall e'er his perish'd relics grace,
No hand his bones shall gather, or inhume;
These his cold rites, and this his watery tomb."
He said; and on the chief descends amain,
Increased with gore, and swelling with the slain.
Then, murmuring from his beds, he boils, he raves,
And a foam whitens on the purple waves:
At every step, before Achilles stood
The crimson surge, and deluged him with blood.
Fear touch'd the queen of heaven: she saw dismay'd,
She call'd aloud, and summon'd Vulcan's aid.
"Rise to the war! the insulting flood requires
Thy wasteful arm! assemble all thy fires!
While to their aid, by our command enjoin'd,
Rush the swift eastern and the western wind:
These from old ocean at my word shall blow,
Pour the red torrent on the watery foe,
Corses and arms to one bright ruin turn,
And hissing rivers to their bottoms burn.
Go, mighty in thy rage! display thy power,
Drink the whole flood, the crackling trees devour.
Scorch all the banks! and (till our voice reclaim)
Exert the unwearied furies of the flame!"
The power ignipotent her word obeys:
Wide o'er the plain he pours the boundless blaze;
At once consumes the dead, and dries the soil
And the shrunk waters in their channel boil.
As when autumnal Boreas sweeps the sky,
And instant blows the water'd gardens dry:
So look'd the field, so whiten'd was the ground,
While Vulcan breathed the fiery blast around.
Swift on the sedgy reeds the ruin preys;
Along the margin winds the running blaze:
The trees in flaming rows to ashes turn,
The flowering lotos and the tamarisk burn,
Broad elm, and cypress rising in a spire;
The watery willows hiss before the fire.
Now glow the waves, the fishes pant for breath,
The eels lie twisting in the pangs of death:
Now flounce aloft, now dive the scaly fry,
Or, gasping, turn their bellies to the sky.
At length the river rear'd his languid head,
And thus, short–panting, to the god he said:
"Oh Vulcan! oh! what power resists thy might?
I faint, I sink, unequal to the fight—
I yield—Let Ilion fall; if fate decree—
Ah—bend no more thy fiery arms on me!"
He ceased; wide conflagration blazing round;
The bubbling waters yield a hissing sound.
As when the flames beneath a cauldron rise,
To melt the fat of some rich sacrifice,
Amid the fierce embrace of circling fires
The waters foam, the heavy smoke aspires:
So boils the imprison'd flood, forbid to flow,
And choked with vapours feels his bottom glow.
To Juno then, imperial queen of air,
The burning river sends his earnest prayer:
"Ah why, Saturnia; must thy son engage
Me, only me, with all his wasteful rage?
On other gods his dreadful arm employ,
For mightier gods assert the cause of Troy.
Submissive I desist, if thou command;
But ah! withdraw this all–destroying hand.
Hear then my solemn oath, to yield to fate
Unaided Ilion, and her destined state,
Till Greece shall gird her with destructive flame,
And in one ruin sink the Trojan name."
His warm entreaty touch'd Saturnia's ear:
She bade the ignipotent his rage forbear,
Recall the flame, nor in a mortal cause
Infest a god: the obedient flame withdraws:
Again the branching streams begin to spread,
And soft remurmur in their wonted bed.
While these by Juno's will the strife resign,
The warring gods in fierce contention join:
Rekindling rage each heavenly breast alarms:
With horrid clangour shock the ethereal arms:
Heaven in loud thunder bids the trumpet sound;
And wide beneath them groans the rending ground.
Jove, as his sport, the dreadful scene descries,
And views contending gods with careless eyes.
The power of battles lifts his brazen spear,
And first assaults the radiant queen of war:
"What moved thy madness, thus to disunite
Ethereal minds, and mix all heaven in fight?
What wonder this, when in thy frantic mood
Thou drovest a mortal to insult a god?
Thy impious hand Tydides' javelin bore,
And madly bathed it in celestial gore."
He spoke, and smote the long–resounding shield,
Which bears Jove's thunder on its dreadful field:
The adamantine Ægis of her sire,
That turns the glancing bolt and forked fire.
Then heaved the goddess in her mighty hand
A stone, the limit of the neighbouring land,
There fix'd from eldest times; black, craggy, vast;
This at the heavenly homicide she cast.
Thundering he falls, a mass of monstrous size:
And seven broad acres covers as he lies.
The stunning stroke his stubborn nerves unbound:
Loud o'er the fields his ringing arms resound:
The scornful dame her conquest views with smiles,
And, glorying, thus the prostrate god reviles:
"Hast thou not yet, insatiate fury! known
How far Minerva's force transcends thy own?
Juno, whom thou rebellious darest withstand,
Corrects thy folly thus by Pallas' hand;
Thus meets thy broken faith with just disgrace,
And partial aid to Troy's perfidious race."
The goddess spoke, and turn'd her eyes away,
That, beaming round, diffused celestial day.
Jove's Cyprian daughter, stooping on the land,
Lent to the wounded god her tender hand:
Slowly he rises, scarcely breathes with pain,
And, propp'd on her fair arm, forsakes the plain.
This the bright empress of the heavens survey'd,
And, scoffing, thus to war's victorious maid:
"Lo! what an aid on Mars's side is seen!
The smiles' and loves' unconquerable queen!
Mark with what insolence, in open view,
She moves: let Pallas, if she dares, pursue."
Minerva smiling heard, the pair o'ertook,
And slightly on her breast the wanton strook:
She, unresisting, fell (her spirits fled);
On earth together lay the lovers spread.
"And like these heroes be the fate of all
(Minerva cries) who guard the Trojan wall!
To Grecian gods such let the Phrygian be,
So dread, so fierce, as Venus is to me;
Then from the lowest stone shall Troy be moved."
Thus she, and Juno with a smile approved.
Meantime, to mix in more than mortal fight,
The god of ocean dares the god of light.
"What sloth has seized us, when the fields around
Ring with conflicting powers, and heaven returns the sound:
Shall, ignominious, we with shame retire,
No deed perform'd, to our Olympian sire?
Come, prove thy arm! for first the war to wage,
Suits not my greatness, or superior age:
Rash as thou art to prop the Trojan throne,
(Forgetful of my wrongs, and of thy own,)
And guard the race of proud Laomedon!
Hast thou forgot, how, at the monarch's prayer,
We shared the lengthen'd labours of a year?
Troy walls I raised (for such were Jove's commands),
And yon proud bulwarks grew beneath my hands:
Thy task it was to feed the bellowing droves
Along fair Ida's vales and pendant groves.
But when the circling seasons in their train
Brought back the grateful day that crown'd our pain,
With menace stern the fraudful king defied
Our latent godhead, and the prize denied:
Mad as he was, he threaten'd servile bands,
And doom'd us exiles far in barbarous lands.
Incensed, we heavenward fled with swiftest wing,
And destined vengeance on the perjured king.

Apollo thus: "To combat for mankind
Ill suits the wisdom of celestial mind;
For what is man? Calamitous by birth,
They owe their life and nourishment to earth;
Like yearly leaves, that now, with beauty crown'd,
Smile on the sun; now, wither on the ground.
To their own hands commit the frantic scene,
Nor mix immortals in a cause so mean."
Then turns his face, far–beaming heavenly fires,
And from the senior power submiss retires:
Him thus retreating, Artemis upbraids,
The quiver'd huntress of the sylvan shades:
"And is it thus the youthful Phoebus flies,
And yields to ocean's hoary sire the prize?
How vain that martial pomp, and dreadful show
Of pointed arrows and the silver bow!
Now boast no more in yon celestial bower,
Thy force can match the great earth–shaking power."
Silent he heard the queen of woods upbraid:
Not so Saturnia bore the vaunting maid:
But furious thus: "What insolence has driven
Thy pride to face the majesty of heaven?
What though by Jove the female plague design'd,
Fierce to the feeble race of womankind,
The wretched matron feels thy piercing dart;
Thy sex's tyrant, with a tiger's heart?
What though tremendous in the woodland chase
Thy certain arrows pierce the savage race?
How dares thy rashness on the powers divine
Employ those arms, or match thy force with mine?
Learn hence, no more unequal war to wage—"
She said, and seized her wrists with eager rage;
These in her left hand lock'd, her right untied
The bow, the quiver, and its plumy pride.
About her temples flies the busy bow;
Now here, now there, she winds her from the blow;
The scattering arrows, rattling from the case,
Drop round, and idly mark the dusty place.
Swift from the field the baffled huntress flies,
And scarce restrains the torrent in her eyes:
So, when the falcon wings her way above,
To the cleft cavern speeds the gentle dove;
(Not fated yet to die;) there safe retreats,
Yet still her heart against the marble beats.
To her Latona hastes with tender care;
Whom Hermes viewing, thus declines the war:
"How shall I face the dame, who gives delight
To him whose thunders blacken heaven with night?
Go, matchless goddess! triumph in the skies,
And boast my conquest, while I yield the prize."
He spoke; and pass'd: Latona, stooping low,
Collects the scatter'd shafts and fallen bow,
That, glittering on the dust, lay here and there
Dishonour'd relics of Diana's war:
Then swift pursued her to her blest abode,
Where, all confused, she sought the sovereign god;
Weeping, she grasp'd his knees: the ambrosial vest
Shook with her sighs, and panted on her breast.
The sire superior smiled, and bade her show
What heavenly hand had caused his daughter's woe?
Abash'd, she names his own imperial spouse;
And the pale crescent fades upon her brows.
Thus they above: while, swiftly gliding down,
Apollo enters Ilion's sacred town;
The guardian–god now trembled for her wall,
And fear'd the Greeks, though fate forbade her fall.
Back to Olympus, from the war's alarms,
Return the shining bands of gods in arms;
Some proud in triumph, some with rage on fire;
And take their thrones around the ethereal sire.
Through blood, through death, Achilles still proceeds,
O'er slaughter'd heroes, and o'er rolling steeds.
As when avenging flames with fury driven
On guilty towns exert the wrath of heaven;
The pale inhabitants, some fall, some fly;
And the red vapours purple all the sky:
So raged Achilles: death and dire dismay,
And toils, and terrors, fill'd the dreadful day.
High on a turret hoary Priam stands,
And marks the waste of his destructive hands;
Views, from his arm, the Trojans' scatter'd flight,
And the near hero rising on his sight!
No stop, no check, no aid! With feeble pace,
And settled sorrow on his aged face,
Fast as he could, he sighing quits the walls;
And thus descending, on the guards he calls:
"You to whose care our city–gates belong,
Set wide your portals to the flying throng:
For lo! he comes, with unresisted sway;
He comes, and desolation marks his way!
But when within the walls our troops take breath,
Lock fast the brazen bars, and shut out death."
Thus charged the reverend monarch: wide were flung
The opening folds; the sounding hinges rung.
Phoebus rush'd forth, the flying bands to meet;
Struck slaughter back, and cover'd the retreat,
On heaps the Trojans crowd to gain the gate,
And gladsome see their last escape from fate.
Thither, all parch'd with thirst, a heartless train,
Hoary with dust, they beat the hollow plain:
And gasping, panting, fainting, labour on
With heavier strides, that lengthen toward the town.
Enraged Achilles follows with his spear;
Wild with revenge, insatiable of war.
Then had the Greeks eternal praise acquired,
And Troy inglorious to her walls retired;
But he, the god who darts ethereal flame,
Shot down to save her, and redeem her fame:
To young Agenor force divine he gave;
(Antenor's offspring, haughty, bold, and brave;)
In aid of him, beside the beech he sate,
And wrapt in clouds, restrain'd the hand of fate.
When now the generous youth Achilles spies.
Thick beats his heart, the troubled motions rise.
(So, ere a storm, the waters heave and roll.)
He stops, and questions thus his mighty soul;
"What, shall I fly this terror of the plain!
Like others fly, and be like others slain?
Vain hope! to shun him by the self–same road
Yon line of slaughter'd Trojans lately trod.
No: with the common heap I scorn to fall—
What if they pass'd me to the Trojan wall,
While I decline to yonder path, that leads
To Ida's forests and surrounding shades?
So may I reach, conceal'd, the cooling flood,
From my tired body wash the dirt and blood,
As soon as night her dusky veil extends,
Return in safety to my Trojan friends.
What if?—But wherefore all this vain debate?
Stand I to doubt, within the reach of fate?
Even now perhaps, ere yet I turn the wall,
The fierce Achilles sees me, and I fall:
Such is his swiftness, 'tis in vain to fly,
And such his valour, that who stands must die.
Howe'er 'tis better, fighting for the state,
Here, and in public view, to meet my fate.
Yet sure he too is mortal; he may feel
(Like all the sons of earth) the force of steel.
One only soul informs that dreadful frame:
And Jove's sole favour gives him all his fame."
He said, and stood, collected, in his might;
And all his beating bosom claim'd the fight.
So from some deep–grown wood a panther starts,
Roused from his thicket by a storm of darts:
Untaught to fear or fly, he hears the sounds
Of shouting hunters, and of clamorous hounds;
Though struck, though wounded, scarce perceives the pain;
And the barb'd javelin stings his breast in vain:
On their whole war, untamed, the savage flies;
And tears his hunter, or beneath him dies.
Not less resolved, Antenor's valiant heir
Confronts Achilles, and awaits the war,
Disdainful of retreat: high held before,
His shield (a broad circumference) he bore;
Then graceful as he stood, in act to throw
The lifted javelin, thus bespoke the foe:
"How proud Achilles glories in his fame!
And hopes this day to sink the Trojan name
Beneath her ruins! Know, that hope is vain;
A thousand woes, a thousand toils remain.
Parents and children our just arms employ,
And strong and many are the sons of Troy.
Great as thou art, even thou may'st stain with gore
These Phrygian fields, and press a foreign shore."
He said: with matchless force the javelin flung
Smote on his knee; the hollow cuishes rung
Beneath the pointed steel; but safe from harms
He stands impassive in the ethereal arms.
Then fiercely rushing on the daring foe,
His lifted arm prepares the fatal blow:
But, jealous of his fame, Apollo shrouds
The god–like Trojan in a veil of clouds.
Safe from pursuit, and shut from mortal view,
Dismiss'd with fame, the favoured youth withdrew.
Meanwhile the god, to cover their escape,
Assumes Agenor's habit, voice and shape,
Flies from the furious chief in this disguise;
The furious chief still follows where he flies.
Now o'er the fields they stretch with lengthen'd strides,
Now urge the course where swift Scamander glides:
The god, now distant scarce a stride before,
Tempts his pursuit, and wheels about the shore;
While all the flying troops their speed employ,
And pour on heaps into the walls of Troy:
No stop, no stay; no thought to ask, or tell,
Who 'scaped by flight, or who by battle fell.
'Twas tumult all, and violence of flight;
And sudden joy confused, and mix'd affright.
Pale Troy against Achilles shuts her gate:
And nations breathe, deliver'd from their fate.


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My roommate and I purchased a gram of 20x salvia extract off the internet. He had smoked a 10x extract before, and had a negative experience, but was eager to try it again. He was a highly seasoned tripper/roller with over three years of experience and I was an amateur tripper at the time. I was in a poor mental state when the package arrived, and I decided I wasn't fit to be tripping as hard as we had heard we would, so I abstained from it until I was feeling better.
My roommate, A, along with my suitemate, E, decided to give it a whirl. They borrowed a friend's bong and each sat for the other, E going first. He tripped way hard, and began laughing uncontrollably until he was majorly drooling. He then went to the bathroom and tried to urinate (it got all over the place) and 'woke up' in the middle of my room walking around. A few minutes later, after E could compose himself, he sat for A, who took a good two hits and collapsed before taking the third one. He stayed stationary in his seat, and didn't really do much other than looking around and laughing. Soon after the experience, he couldn't remember what he hallucinated, but he eventually remembered that he saw an orange t-shirt hanging out of an open drawer, and when the salvinorin hit him, he became the t-shirt. After he returned to us, they both felt exhausted and went to sleep. This was around 2 or 3 in the afternoon.
A few days later, I made the spontaneous decision to try it at about 12:00am. I was feeling better psychologically and expected to have a really cool crazy (but not necessarily scary) trip. We setup two chairs in the closet, one for me and one for A to sit while tending me. He held the bong for me while I lit the bowl. We had a dube tube (a plastic bottle stuffed with drier sheets, used to filter smoke out and leaving a fresh scent when smoking in the room, tee hee) and I managed to exhale one hit through it. The second hit was way huge, but I blacked out just long enough to exhale.
When I awoke, I had no clue who I was or where I was. But that was not important. What was important was that the universe around me, space and time, was being cut into molecularly-thin strips and hung on white wire clothes hangers for sale at some sort of market. I could feel some sort of dimensional blade enter the base of my spine and slide all the way down, and when I tried to move, it prevented me. When I turned my eyes to look at my arms, I saw the slices in space separating it into many layers.
My vision was distorted: shadows had a sort of purple aetherial quality to them. When tripping on shrooms once in the past, I had described this phenomenon as Einstein's theoretical aether. I looked across at A, who was looking at me and grinning hugely. When I finally could muster the energy to speak, all I could whisper was 'What's happening to me??','What's happening?' to which he replied 'Sallllviaaa.' As I came down (the experience lasted from 3 to 5 minutes) I began to slowly recall who and where I was. I kept asking 'What's happening to me?' Until A finally answered 'Dude, you smoked a bowl of 20x salvia.'  I had absolutely forgotten. As I regained my senses, I did all I could do to get confortable by stripping down and going to sleep. As I laid down, I noticed some slight open-eye visuals, like those that come with shrooms or 2C-I.
I woke up after 8 hours very well rested. I realized that I knew salvia wouldn't be an easy, fun high, a lesson a group of my friends learned the hard way when they all thought they were going to kill each other. When I made the decision to partake, I had a high respect for salvia as a hallucinogen. I mean, A said it was not something to play around with, and he's the local war-hardened veteran.  And for that, I recognise it as a teacher.
In retrospect, the feeling I felt was like the realization that I was being grown for sale, such as cattle. I relate this to the scene in The Matrix where we see the huge walls of pink pods containing the hard-wired humans generating enectrical energy energy for the robotic world. I also think that the course of the trip came from me seeing some wire coat hangers before releasing that second rip.
For me, Salvinorin-A isn't psychadelic in the sense that tryptamines and phenethylamines are. When I trip off shrooms, DMT, or SC's, I see things, my thoughts are very abstract, I get heavy body sensations, but as far as hallucinations, I may see things that aren't there, but never have I experienced anything as heavy or full-blown as salvia 20x.  They're still afraid to this day to even see the stuff. If you decide to smoke a salvia extract, you need to approach it with the mindset that it's not just a cool fun ride.  Not to say that it's not enjoyable. I mean, you can't eat only sweet foods ;)
This experience with salvia did NOT act in the same way as other psychadelics. This is also why I say it is not the same kind of drug as, for example, shrooms or DMT. The nomenclature I use differentiates between 'psychadelic' drugs (shrooms, lsd, dmt, 2c-i) and 'hallucinogenic' drugs (salvia, so far, also perhaps ether or n2o). That doesn't mean that psychadelics aren't hallucinogenic, but that I don't find hallucinogens necessarily psychadelic. But that's just my name for the game.
Concerning my mental health:
As I wrote in another experience, I am potentially bipolar. I'm very sure, but I haven't been diagnosed by a professional as of yet. People who are mentally unstable/unwell should normally not do psychadelic drugs. For me, it's the opposite. They seem to help me keep a grip on reality where my sober mine plays tricks on me.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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ensembl-hive
2.4
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An object that maintains counters for jobs in different states. This data is used by the Scheduler.
| protected Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::_text_with_status_color | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::avg_input_msec_per_job | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::avg_msec_per_job | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::avg_output_msec_per_job | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::avg_run_msec_per_job | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::batch_size | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::behaviour | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::check_blocking_control_rules | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::determine_status | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::done_job_count | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::estimate_num_required_workers | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::failed_job_count | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::friendly_avg_job_runtime | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::get_or_estimate_batch_size | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::hive_capacity | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::inprogress_job_count | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::input_capacity | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::job_count_breakout | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::min_batch_time | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::num_running_workers | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::output_capacity | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::ready_job_count | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::recalculate_from_job_counts | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::refresh | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::seconds_since_last_fetch | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::seconds_since_when_updated | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::semaphored_job_count | ( | ) |
Undocumented method
| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::status | ( | ) |
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| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::sync_lock | ( | ) |
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| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::toString | ( | ) |
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| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::total_job_count | ( | ) |
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| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::unikey | ( | ) |
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| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::update | ( | ) |
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| public Bio::EnsEMBL::Hive::AnalysisStats::when_updated | ( | ) |
Undocumented method


Changelog
1.7.1
Bugfixes
- Revert "move
jquery
to peerDependencies
from dependencies
"
1.7.0
Features
- Adding dateCells option (#1723)
- Added keepEmptyValues option (#1558 + #1901)
- added "changeViewMode" event; also adds the current
viewMode
to events (#1953)
- adds
updateViewDate
option (#1982)
- Added hiding week day names functionality (#2087)
- Allow customizing day cell value (#2043)
Bugfixes
- originalEvent object needs preventDefault fn (#1824)
- Fix jQuery selector from premature selection of span element in inline/embedded calendar's month selection (#1859 + #1886)
- Use date arithmetic to allow dates with times other than 00:00:00 (#1483)
- Multiple general fixes (#1883 + #1893)
- Visibility fix for nav arrows (#1916)
- Do not trigger change or changeDate on initialization (#1912)
- Fix: Close datepicker on touchstart (#1924)
- Fix data-date-dates-disabled attribute to accept a comma-separated list (#1946)
- Fix maxViewMode and navigation switch click (#1951)
- Add support jQuery 3. Bootstrap 2 still available (composer.json) (#1958)
- fix(parseDate) use insensitive regex to support +15d with capslock (#1910)
- Refactoring timedelta aliases (dateAliases) (#1965)
- Fix RTL layout (#1973)
- Remove listen
changeDate
after destroy DateRangePicker (#1968)
- add tests for setDatesDisabled function (#1983)
- resolves bug on days when DST is added. (#2009)
- XHTML fixes (#1998)
- update grunt and other dev-dependencies (#2111)
- Use display:table-cell instead of display:block for today, clear and title (#2121)
- moved assumeNearbyYear to correct location (#2140)
- move
jquery
to peerDependencies
from dependencies
(#2163)
- Use default arrow values (#2176)
Locales
New
- en-ZA (#1798)
- en-ZNZ (#1799)
- en-IE (#1800)
- ar-tn (#1863)
- Added Sinhala (si) locale (#2025)
- Occitan locale (#2024 + #2026)
- [l10n]Add breton translation (#2028)
- Added Tajik language (#2117)
- Add Uzbek latin and cyrill locales (#2152)
- add Bengali (Bangla) language (#2171)
- Added Hindi locale (#2199)
Bugfix
- km/kh (#1812)
- Capital letters in Polish translation (#1890)
- Add missing monthsTitle in cs (#1900)
- Update bootstrap-datepicker.da.js (#1936)
- Fix typo in month name (#2040)
- Added missing basque language properties (#2066)
- Added weekStart to slovenian translation (#2067)
- add monthsTitle for ru (#2092)
- Change danish (da) date format to match the rest of the locales (#2048)
- Fix Tamil Language file with proper locale code (#2141)
- Revert strange changes, +monthsTitle (#2153)
- updated Tajik (cyrillic) translation file (#2167)
- Romanian uses dd/mm/yyyy format for dates (#2173)
- Missing latvian translation (#2204)
Docs
- Fix typo in index.rst (#1882)
- Update CDNjs info in README.md (#1933)
- [Doc] Keyboard navigation is not supported for embedded / inline type (#2002)
- Removed reference to stefan petre (#2031)
- Improve defaultViewDate documentation (#2052)
- Add notes about multiple dates and examples for update method (#2060)
- Add Code Of Conduct (#2095)
- Update install instructions on README.md (#2160)
1.6.2 - 1.6.3 - 1.6.4
Bugfix
- Backported jquery 3 fix from #1958
1.6.1
Bugfixes
- add specific class for disabled dates back (Fixes #1785)
- [fix] Allow keyboard navigation for non-input fields (Fixes: #874)
- fix kazakh mothShort
- Fix bug when clicking on a day that is highlighted today in the next month
- dates read out are 12am UTC
- Fix show by component (with disabled attribute)
1.6.0
Features
- Changes nonpunctuation to accept unicode characters
- Add "assumeNearbyYear" option
- Decade and century picking
- Added timedelta aliases. (Fixes #785)
- add getter methods for date limits
- Replace arrow entities for glyphicon + template + libs snippets (Fixes: #610 #833 #1007)
- added class .disabled to dow header
- Rename "remove" to "destroy" and create alias
Bugfix
- Month/year view keyboard navigation
- fix changeMonth, changeYear not triggered when selecting day from prev/next month
- Fix default arrows for BS2 and screenshots (for docs)
- Extend beforeShowMonth event functionality to work like beforeShowDay and beforeShowYear
Locale changes
- Correct date format for ko locale
- Add en-AU (Australian English) locale
Repository
- Add CSS sourcemap
- [BS3 Less] Remove unused variables and cleanup
- Added timezone aware tests
- remove .idea-folder from npm
1.5.1
Bugfixes
- Fix calculation for new position when datepicker goes offscreen when inside a container (Fixes: #1619)
- Fix datepicker title not centered when displaying calendar weeks (Fixes: #1625)
- Fixing looping when calling dp inside change event (Fixes: #1628)
- Add scrollTop to position if container is not body (Fixes: #1616)
- Use document scrollTop instead of body scrollTop when using the body container
- Fix focus for disabled week days (Fixes: #1365, #1187, #1648)
- Fixes enableOnReadOnly bug when datepicker is of type component
Translations
- Added missing translations for slovak translation. (Fixes: #1521)
- Added missing date format for norwegian (nb) locale (Fixes #1690)
- Armenian translation short names
- adding Today translation, default date format for the lithuanian translation
Docs
- Document data-api on container
- Added docs for the different stylesheet files. (Fixes #1459)
Repository
- Enable travis container builds for faster builds
1.5.0
Features
- Added down key as datepicker show trigger
- immediateUpdates option (updates input when a year or month is selected)
- Highlight days of week
- maxViewMode option
- Include "main" property in package.json
- Require.js support. (Fixes: #280)
- Allow overriding
$.fn.show
and $.fn.hide
(Fixes: #1424)
- Adding border-radius variable for LESS (Fixes: #1429)
- Add support for dropdown border variables
- Add the posibility to have a title on the picker (Fixes: #1410)
- Implement
beforeShowYear
(Fixes: #1226)
- Add commonjs support
- Trigger 'hide' event when clicking outside datepicker
- Add css-classes for range-start and range-end
- Update hover effect for "buttons" (matches Bootstrap 3.3.5 mixin)
- Custom formatting options
Bugfixes:
- Scrolling on mobile device closes datepicker
- Use $.on() instead $.bind()
- Fixed right-click and edit-menu paste
- Ported prototype fix for Prototype Compability
- Fixed issue with startview year
- Fixed padding inconsistency with twitter bootstrap 3
- prevents the click event from bubbling to any user defined click handlers
- Added padding for .datepicker-dropdown
- Fixes the issue with a date change firing mulitple change events
- removed hard dependency on bootstrap (because of twbs-sass package)
- Clearing the date should reset to defaultViewDate
- Datepicker orientation mix up - top = bottom and bottom = top
- Fix cursor thead styles
- Fix date-reset issue when navigating to next with invalid date
- Using orientation:auto but date picker still appears above, cut off, when there plenty of space below.
- lots of orientation fixes
Locale changes:
- Remove unused eighth element on week arrays )
- Add Esperanto translation
- Better Polish language date shortcuts translation and default date format
- lowercase danish translation
- Add Mongolian localization
- update Hungarian translation
Docs:
- added day to end-date to avoid confusion about example
- added setDatesDisabled method to documentation
1.4.0
Features:
- implemented beforeShowMonth option
- Added option to disable touch keyboard input
- All datepicker methods are chainable
- Added a datesDisable option
- Added option to prevent date picker to show when input field receives focus
- adding option to define the container the datepicker will be appended to
- Backported some placement fixes for the container option
- Option default view date
- Add toggleActive option
- Added clear method
- Added version property to datepicker object
- Added option to not show datepicker on readonly field
Bugfixes:
- Removed blank space before the previous button when calendarWeeks is true;
- Fixed date deselection with single date picker
- Added case-neutral matching for text months
- Changed input-daterange to full width for bs3
- Fix placement for RTL languages
- fix for range picker when next date is before previous date
- Fix for moving box on first selection
- Do not show datepicker for readonly inputs
- Fix getUTCDate when datepicker has no selected date
- Only a linked today button should trigger the changeDate event
- Fixed bug with keyboard navigation when startdate/enddate was defined
- Right align calendar on right window edge conflict
- On "ENTER" keydown on picker, prevent the closest form to be submitted too
- fixed bower.json twitte bootstrap dependency
- Replaced named entities with decimal entities
- assigning plugin to a local variable to fix bug in noConflict
Repo changes:
- Added empty ignore option in bower.json.
- Added .editorconfig
- Reworked grunt tasks
Translations:
- Fix translation of French months
- Update cambodia translations
- added clear and weekStart to turkish translation
- Days/months should start lowercase in dutch
- Month/daynames should be lowercase in french
- Add 'clear' and 'format' to Ukrainian locale
- Added Montenegrin locale
Docs:
- added example for inputs option
- added missing documentation for embedded mode
- Add additional documentaion to update method
1.3.1
Repo changes:
- Automated screenshots have been added to the docs. These probably need to be documented so that contributors can add them when appropriate.
- Grunt support
- Missing description and keywords for Packagist
- Composer: Include translation files into deployment dir
- Add package name and version to npm package.json
Bugfixes:
- Remove font-family declaration for datepicker
- Don't deselect date unless datepicker is multidate
- Removed comment from compiled CSS.
- Don't clear input after typing date and hitting Enter when keyboard nav is disabled
- Fixing the ui displaying 'undefined nan' when typing dates in Firefox & IE
- Reset tooltip to a default empty value
- Fix colspan if calendarWeeks & clearBtn are true
- Removed fixed width and height in large and small group addon
- z-index calculation should not stop at first element
- Fix IE8 bug with Array#splice with one argument
Documentation:
- ghpages: jQuery js not being loaded when using HTTPS
- Adds clearBtn option to sandbox page
- Minor fixes (typo's, links,...)
Locale changes
Updated languages:
- Clear translation in czech
- Dutch translation
- Swedish translation
- Japanese translation
- Ukrainian translation fixes
- Add spanish clear, week start and format
- Added galician clear, week start and format
- Added missing clear localization value for polish translation
- Add clear zh-CN translation
- Fixed Albanian translation typo's
- Add missing clear and format localization value for Russian translation
- Updated Serbian translation
- Fixed Ukrainian iso code to uk instead of ua
- Updated greek translation
- Update Catalan and Spanish localizations
- Added missing armenian translations
New languages:
- Basque
- Khmer (Cambodia)
- Bosnian
- British english
- Armenian
- Faroese
- Swiss Italian and Swiss French
1.3.0
New features:
- Bootstrap 3 support. Added build files
build/build_standalone3.less
and build/build3.less
, and source files less/datepicker3.less
and css/datepicker3.css
(built from build_standalone3.less
).
- Multi-date functionality. This required rethinking several areas of the picker:
- The internals have been modified to be completely multidate-centric.
- Attributes and methods availabel on events have changed, but the old attributes and functions will still work.
- Keyboard navigation has been revamped, as it didn't work at all properly with multidate selection.
- The picker now explicitly supports "no selected date".
Non-API changes:
- Keyboard navigation has been changed. See
docs/keyboard.rst
.
- Empty pickers in a range picker setup will be populated with the first date selected by the user to make finding the next date easier.
Bug squashed:
- Jan 1, 1970 is now highlighted when selected
touchstart
added to document-bound picker-closing events (alongside mousedown
)
- Fixed a display bug with component add-on icons being vertically higher than they should have been.
- Input is refocused after clicking the picker.
changeDate
event is triggered when setDate
is called.
Locale changes:
- Added Ukrainian, Belgium-Dutch, Welsh, Galician, Vietnamese, and Azerbaijani
clear
for German, Danish, Italian, and Romanian
- Fixed
weekStart
and format
for Norwegian
weekStart
and format
for Georgian
- Tweaks for Latvian, French, Vietnamese, Swedish, and Croatian
- De-duplicated Ukrainian files from
uk
and ua
to just ua
Repository changes:
- Documentation has been moved from the base
README.md
file to the docs/
folder, and been re-written to use sphinx docs. The docs are now viewable online at http://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.org/. The gh-pages branch has been reduced to the sandbox demo.
- Changed the js file header to point at repo/demo/docs urls instead of eyecon.ro
- The css files are now the output of the standalone build scripts instead of
build/build.less
etc.
composer.json
now supports component-installer
- Added JSHint and JSCS configurations
1.2.0
New features:
- Google Closure Compiler Compatibility
- Smart orientation by default, and explicit picker orientation with the
orientation
option
- Text inside the picker is no longer user-selectable
- Packagist/Composer support (I think...)
- No longer depends on glyphicons for arrows
clearDate
event added, fired when the date is cleared
Bug squashed:
noConflict
fixed
- Fix for large years causing an infinite loop in date parsing
- Fixed cases where
changeYear
and changeMonth
events were not being triggered
component.js
moved to bower.js
- Falsey values for
startDate
and endDate
translate to -Infinity
and Infinity
, respectively (effectively, falsey values mean "no bounds")
- Fixed
autoclose
for non-input, non-component elements
- Fixed 50% param in
mix()
less function -- expands compatibility with less compilers
- Fixed
update
method to update the selected date
beforeShowDay
was getting UTC dates, now it gets local dates (all dates that developers are given should be in local time, not UTC).
startDate
and endDate
were a bit confused when given new Date()
-- they would not allow today to be selected (the range should be inclusive), they would change whether it was selectable based on local time, etc. These quirks should be fixed now. They both also now expect local dates (which will then be time-zeroed and converted to UTC).
- Fixed selected date not being automatically constrained to the specified range when
setStartDate
and setEndDate
were called.
- No longer uses jQuery's
.size()
(deprecated in favor of .length
)
changeDate
triggered during manual user input
change
event fired when input value changed, it wasn't in some cases
Locale changes:
- Added Arabic, Norwegian, Georgian
clear
for French
today
and clear
for Bahasa
today
and clear
for Portuguese (both pt
and pt-BR
)
format
for Turkish
format
and weekStart
for Swedish
format
and weekStart
for Simplified Chinese; today
, format
, and weekStart
for Traditional Chinese
- Fixed typo in Serbian latin (
rs-latin
)
- More appropriate use of Traditional Chinese habit in
zh-TW
1.1.3
Clicking the clear button now triggers the input's change
and datepicker's changeDate
events.
Fixed a bug that broke the event-attached format
function.
1.1.2
Botched release, no change from 1.1.1
1.1.1
Fixes a bug when setting startDate or endDate during initialization.
1.1.0
New features:
- Date range picker.
- Data API / noConflict.
getDate
and setDate
methods.
format
method for events; this allows you to easily format the date
associated with the event.
- New options:
beforeShowDay
option: a dev-provided function that can enable/disable dates, add css classes, and add tooltips.
clearBtn
, a button for resetting the picker.
Internal changes:
- Cleaner and more reliable method for extracting options from all potential sources (defaults, locale overrides, data-attrs, and instantiation options, in that order). This also populates
$.fn.datepicker.defaults
with the default values, and uses this hash as the actual source of defaults, meaning you can globally change the default value for a given option.
Bugs squashed:
- Resolved a conflict with bootstrap's native
.switch
class.
- Fixed a bug with components where they would be stuck with a stale value when editing the value manually.
- The
date
attributes on events are now local dates instead of internal UTC dates.
- Separate
Date
objects for internal selected and view date references.
- Clicking multiple times inside inputs no longer hides the picker.
Minor improvements:
- Better text color for highlighted "today" date.
- Last year in decade view now marked as "new" instead of "old".
- Formats now properly handle trailing separators.
Locale changes:
- Added Albanian, Estonian, and Macedonian
- Added
weekStart
for Russian
- Added
weekStart
and format
for Finnish
Potentially backward-incompatible changes:
- Options revamp:
- This fixes bugs in the correlation of some data-attrs to their associated option names. If you use
data-date-weekstart
, data-date-startdate
, or data-date-enddate
, you should update these to data-date-week-start
, data-date-start-date
, or data-date-end-date
, respectively.
- All options for datepicker are now properties on the datepicker's
o
property; options are no longer stored on the Datepicker instance itself. If you have code that accesses options stored on the datepicker instance (eg, datepicker.format
), you will need to update it to access those options via the o
property (eg, datepicker.o.format
). "Raw" options are available via the _o
property.
1.0.2
Small optimizations release
- Reduced the number of times
update
is called on initialization.
- Datepicker now detaches the picker dropdown when it is hidden, and appends it when shown. This removes the picker from the DOM when it is not in use.
- No longer listens to document/window events unless picker is visible.
v1.0.1
- Support for Bower
- Component pickers are now aligned under the input, not the add-on element.
- Japanese locale now has "today" and "format".
- "remove" method removes
.data().date
if the datepicker is on a non-input.
- Events on initialized elements are no longer blocked from bubbling up the DOM (jQuery.live et al can now catch the events).
- Component triggers now include
.btn
in addition to .add-on
.
- Updates to README contents.
v1.0.0
Initial release:
- format option
- weekStart option
- calendarWeeks option
- startDate / endDate options
- daysOfWeekDisabled option
- autoclose option
- startView / mnViewMode options
- todayBtn / todayHighlight options
- keyboardNavigation option
- language option
- forceParse option


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A rough sketch of the effects of mescaline as I experienced them: Closed eye visuals, open eye tracers, lasers, dots, gleaming and blurring of lights and images. The sensation that everything is moving in synch or breathing. Irrational (and in my case, amusing) attribution of meaning to the mundane. Radically altered depth perception. Stimulation, energy, hilarity, and euphoria. Infinite curiosity. Delusions/irrational thoughts. Intensified emotion and perception. I was generally able to allay fear and enjoy the weirdness as opposed to freaking out. I was actually confused about reality only twice, upon seeing black and red mesh, as will be discussed later.  Anxiety as the trip fades.
It should be noted that I did not have any truly profound thoughts or revelations. This experience was entertainment. I feel this is partly because I wasnít trying to discover anything new, and partly because I am already spiritually satisfied at baseline. I did not feel the need to probe secrets in the dark, and I was choosing to interact with the outer world as opposed to internalizing all of my thoughts and sensations.
Previous to taking mescaline, I had limited experience with other hallucinogens(acid 2x, mushrooms 3x). Unfortunately, all of these experiences proved to be less than satisfactory. I had either gone to sleep or found myself profoundly disturbed (only once) and had not been able to enjoy or experience the full effects of the chemicals I had ingested.
I was 19 the last time I took a hallucinogen, and I am 23 now. Nonetheless, I was still excited for an opportunity to have a fun trip and a rich experience. I waited over the years and did not seek it out or accept any hallucinogens during this time because I wanted to be comfortable, in a good mental state, and with people I trusted. I think that was the right decision.
I took four liquid capsules with a friend GJ, who I like and trust a lot, at around 6:30 pm. He went home to shower and clean up, and I did the same at my house. We wanted to be clean and comfortable in order to minimize negative sensations/distractions. I noticed at about 7:30 that my hand-eye coordination was off as I was doing my makeup. I tried to dip a brush into my eye shadow and was just way off. I knew something was happening.
He was back to my house by 8. Our initial conversation was stilted, weird, and very, very simple. I had to think really, really hard every time I said something. After a while, everything just became absurd and insanely hilarious. I had no visuals, but I was stimulated physically and emotionally.
He became very distant and refer to things using definite and indefinite articles. He would just say 'it is very nice.' or 'that was kind of an impulse,', but wouldn't be clear about what he was referring to. This was frustrating. I was also having a lot of trouble talking and would say things like, 'breathing table Iím glad not'. Iím pretty sure that I was equally unintelligible. I was pretty just making sounds while thinking.
It was at this point, as we really started tripping hard that I got really hungry and we walked to an all night mexican drive/in. Talking was hard, walking was hard, and it was all fun. The sidewalk was slanted, which gave me a sense of vertigo I enjoyed very much.
As soon as we got home we sat for a few minutes, and I got intensely horny. I didnít want to do anything about it with or in front of him, so this was frustrating. Very frustrating. Luckily, we left again very shortly and started walking toward the river, which made that go away.
Noises in the street took on an ominous, echoey quality. It was a beautiful night and people were listening to their radios outside. The singing started to sound like the lonesome howling of ghosts. It seemed like it was trying to speak to us.
We kept walking (quickly) over old brick sidewalks underneath the shadows of trees, which made it feel treacherous and exciting. The shadows seemed like mysterious black holes we could fall into, though we knew they werenít, and accentuated the sense of vertigo. I felled propelled by an unknown force and was not tired at all from walking. This was undoubtedly due to the stimulant effects. The euphoria and psychedelic qualities of the drug were enough to keep our turbo charged minds and bodies busy and entertained.
There are train tracks by the river, and as we arrived, a train was passing. The feeling of watching trains is intense. The wind, the noise, the movement through space is overwhelming. I let the force of the train as suggested by my senses enter my body through proximity and got a killer rush out of watching it. GJ was scared by this. He stayed very far away. I think he did not trust himself and he thought I was going to run in front of the train.
We then crossed the tracks and took a walk on the edge of the forest by the river side. We were supposedly going to sit by the river, but could not find it in ourselves to stop. The sensation of constantly moving forward was just too good. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride.
During this walk on the edge of the dark and shadowy forest, I started to get some amazing visuals. It looked like the trees were covered in black mesh. This was very real to me and I thought we had stumbled onto a squatterís camp. It was not real. Continuing along, I shifted my attention to the river. The lights over the river were not dazzling in memory, but I was dazzled and confused by them.
The river bank is on a steep incline, so the trail was high above the water, but it seemed like the water actually rose to the edge of the trail and was at chest level. The water looked like it simply stopped at the edge of the trail, just short of drowning us. That was very, very cool. A while later I started getting some red visuals. Red points of lights, red lasers, red tracers, and red lines tracing around things.
Finally, we walked to the edge of the woods and the beginning of civilization. There was a construction site nearby, and the yellow and white lights on the machinery were twinkling at us and calling to us. I saw an actual red mesh fence, and my mind proceeded to place red mesh around everything. I knew there was a way out, but it looked like we might get lost finding an opening in all of that imaginary red mesh.
We walked up to the twinkling lights, which was machinery parked in a huge pit, and heard voices. Squatters. Someone was hanging around and we couldnít see them. I got scared that we were disturbing their camp. We walked back to the edge of the forest and found two huge craters seven feet in diameter and three and a half or four feet deep dug into the ground, with sticks around the edges and stairs leading down.
We walked a distance away and decided that if anyone was pissed off about us being there, he or she would have said so. We stopped then on the periphery of civilization and laid down by the riverís edge. I closed my eyes and saw awesome two dimensional kaleidoscope patterns in swirling and undulating muddy fluorescents. I could place any image I wanted in the kaleidoscope and it would implant itself as a repeating element in the pattern.
I did this for a while, adding more and more objects and letting otherís fade away, before GJ said he heard more voices and we left. We actually just cut across the construction site and started home, which was only four or so blocks from this end of the river. We stopped at the park on our way there and sat in the shadows of the trees.
I realized at this point that I was greatly attracted to shadows and wanted to always be inside of them. We watched people walking by, and they seemed to float like fish swimming through water. The park is really just a series of three even square blocks bordered by street on all four sides, so we were in a middle of a square city block, but it seemed more like we in the middle of a circle and I could not distinguish the angled corners at the edge of the block.
Moving my attention to the grass, it seemed to breathe and sway. I put my hands in it and I could feel the earth breathing. Sitting up, the grass seemed to flow like a river around us. The tree branches swayed as though performing a ballet. Everything seemed to be moving in synch. This was my favorite part of the trip. We called and ordered a pizza to be sent to the house. Then we prank called a radio station and asked them to deliver a pizza to the place with the breathing grass. I am still amused.
The pizza was really, really good, and my cats seemed to know they we were messed up. They decided it was hardcore cuddle time and I really loved looking at my beautiful tiny cat and petting her and making her happy. My apartment was a really boring place to trip though and nothing was breathing or swaying or performing ballet any more. With nothing to distract me, it seemed my baseline mood was insanely horny and uncomfortable. I did not like this.
We left the house again, and I soon had to pee. We were somehow amused by the idea of walking all the way back to the river to pee instead of returning to the house, which was only half a block away when we made this decision. On the way back GJ started freaking out about having spider webs all over his body. This was just because he was afraid, but he wasnít really afraid of the spider webs, he was afraid of disturbing whoever was squatting by the river and this fear had manifested itself as a fear of spider webs instead. I pointed out that there was a Johnny on the job at the construction site and no one would mind us using it, so he felt better and I got to urinate.
We were still tripping pretty hard, but it started raining at the site, which sucked because we couldnít sit or lay down in the wet grass and we had to get his guitar out of the rain. We had to get back home and there was nothing to really groove on, so it felt like wasted time. We started coming down, so we hung out in his dry, warm comfy car. I got insanely sexually aroused, once more during only minutes of inactivity. We then drove back to the river. We sat on the rocks and watched nature. I was beginning to feel anxious myself and by the time we left the trip was pretty much over.
It was probably 3 am. We got hot cocoa, I felt tired and tense, and I wanted to go chill out. GJ still wanted more activity, so we went to visit train tracks again and then watched a movie at his house. I kind of just wanted to sleep or zone out to the movie, anything but be trapped in my head.
The last thing I wanted to do was converse. GJ was still really talkative, and I was annoyed, so it seemed like I was talking out of one side of my head (because he really needed someone to BS with) and watching the movie with the rest of my head, which was a good compromise and a good way to deal with the anxiety. It made me feel good to think that I was handling it and everyone was happy, so it wasnít torturous anxiety like when you blow way too much coke.
Lying there made me really horny again, but I just focused on the movie. It took forever to sleep. I probably conked out at 6 am.
I loved this experience and would do it again. I would not want to take this drug without a lot of stimulation available. I think it is best, for me at least, to be in nature, because it will provide me with endless material to groove on.  Iím under the impression that this need is relatively unique to females. Iíd like to see how sex feels under the influence of mescaline. I also think itís a good thing to share what you are feeling and seeing with your buddy/ies as you go through this. You will enhance each otherís trip. I donít know if everyone gets anxiety toward the end like I did, but I would be prepared for it. Also, bring food, water, and lots of hot cocoa! I loved hot cocoa while tripping!
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Class Public methods
new(rpc, wallet, account)
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# File lib/nanook/wallet_account.rb, line 4 def initialize(rpc, wallet, account) @rpc = rpc @wallet = wallet @account = account # An object to delegate account methods that don't # expect a wallet param in the RPC call, to allow this # class to support all methods that can be called on Nanook::Account @nanook_account_instance = Nanook::Account.new(@rpc, @account) # Wallet instance to call contains? on to check account # is in wallet @nanook_wallet_instance = Nanook::Wallet.new(@rpc, @wallet) if @account account_must_belong_to_wallet! end end
Instance Public methods
create()
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# File lib/nanook/wallet_account.rb, line 23 def create wallet_required! rpc(:account_create)[:account] end
destroy()
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# File lib/nanook/wallet_account.rb, line 28 def destroy wallet_required! (rpc(:account_remove)[:removed] == 1).tap do |success| @known_valid_accounts.delete(@account) if success end end
method_missing(m, *args, &block)
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Any method of Nanook::Account can be called on this class too
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# File lib/nanook/wallet_account.rb, line 75 def method_missing(m, *args, &block) if @nanook_account_instance.respond_to?(m) @nanook_account_instance.send(m, *args, &block) else super(m, *args, &block) end end
pay(to:, amount:, id:)
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# File lib/nanook/wallet_account.rb, line 35 def pay(to:, amount:, id:) wallet_required! # Check that to: account is valid unless Nanook::Account.new(@rpc, to).exists? raise ArgumentError.new("To account does not exist (#{to})") end raw = Nanook::Util.NANO_to_raw(amount) # account is called source, so don't use the normal rpc method p = { wallet: @wallet, source: @account, destination: to, amount: raw, id: id } response = @rpc.call(:send, p) if response[:error] response[:error] else response[:block] end end


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Introduction⌗
Multipass is simple a docker alternative from Canonical projects. It is a lightweight cross-platform VM manager, and is designed for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command.
A cloud-init can be used for post-install configuration, such as setup SSH public key or mounting a disk.
It is so fun 😜😜 and I love its' simplicity.
2022.05.15 : Installation⌗
Multipass is a lightweight virtual machine manager developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It allows you to easily create, manage, and launch virtual machines on your local machine or in the cloud, using a simple command-line interface.
Multipass provides a fast and efficient way to test and develop software on multiple operating systems without the need to set up and maintain a full-fledged virtualization infrastructure. It uses the lightweight KVM virtualization technology to create isolated environments that run independently of the host system.
With Multipass, we can quickly spin up new virtual machines, and customize the configuration of each virtual machine, such as CPU, memory, disk space, and network settings.
$ sudo snap install multipass --classic
$ sudo snap refresh multipass --channel stable
2022.05.16: Customized VM at launch with cloud-init
⌗
Multipass is great. With cloud-init
, it is getting better.
With cloud-init we can customize our virtual machine at launch when we create them with Multipass.
First, create a cloud-init.yaml
file with the content below:
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAD........./FAC8DD2xi2pZZc3Dnv/6iE= xx@pf
Next, create the VM and login to the shell.
$ multipass launch --name jimny --cloud-init cloud-init.yaml
$ multipass shell jimny
2022.09.28 : Advanced Setup with Multipass⌗
We can pre-configure all the actions every time a new VM instance is created via cloud-init
. Create a YAML file called cloud_init.yaml
below:
users:
- default
- name: xx
groups: sudo
shell: /bin/bash
sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL']
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-rsa <rsa keys in one line>
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
packages:
- nodejs
- python3
Then, create a new VM instance, login the shell, and checkfor Nodejs and python3 packages.
$ multipass launch -c 2 -m 2G -d 10G -n jimny --cloud-init cloud_init.yaml
$
$ multipass info jimny
$ multipass shell jimny
ubuntu@jimny:~$ apt list python3 nodejs
2022.09.29 : Multipass Local Privileged Mounts⌗
To access the host storage from the guest VM instance, we need to setup one-time configuration. First, find out the current configured value:
$ multipass get local.privileged-mounts
If it is false, then set the value to true:
$ multipass set local.privileged-mounts=true
Then, share the host’s local folder (c:\Temp) to guest VM. And check if it is successful.
$ multipass mount c:\temp jimny:temp
$ multipass info jimny
$ multipass umount jimny:temp
2022.10.01 : Multipass Images⌗
To show Multipass images:
$ multipass find --format json
{
"errors": [
],
"images": {
"18.04": {
"aliases": [
"bionic"
],
"os": "Ubuntu",
"release": "18.04 LTS",
"remote": "",
"version": "20220921"
},
....
....
....
}
$ multipass version --format json
{
"multipass": "1.10.1+win",
"multipassd": "1.10.1+win"
}
2022.10.24 : Multipass is Exposing SSH private key to everyone.⌗
It is so convenience to use the command ‘multipass shell jimny’ whenever we need to access to VM created.
But, how can we login without password? Where is the SSH private key?
Actually it is using SSH public key authentication for login to VM.
For my case, I’m using WSL, and the SSH private key is stored at C:\ProgramData\Multipass\data\ssh-keys\id_rsa
So, in theory, we can always do the following to login to any VM created by Multipass.
PS> ssh -i C:\ProgramData\Multipass\data\ssh-keys\id_rsa ubuntu@jimny
However, you will always hit with permission error. Not because of no permission, but everyone has a READ permission to the private key. To fix this, you need an administrator privilege to fix it:
C:\cd C:\ProgramData\Multipass\data\ssh-keys
C:\ProgramData\Multipass\data\ssh-keys> icacls id_rsa /inheritance:r /grant "$(whoami):F" /grant "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F"
Make sure it is executed successfully and you should be able to use the SSH private key for authentication.
PS> ssh -i C:\ProgramData\Multipass\data\ssh-keys\id_rsa ubuntu@jimny
Links⌗
- Multipass
- https://myseq.blogspot.com/2022/05/first-try-on-multipass.html
- https://myseq.blogspot.com/2022/05/customizing-vm-at-launch-with-cloud-init.html
- https://myseq.blogspot.com/2022/09/my-third-try-on-multipass.html
- https://myseq.blogspot.com/2022/09/multipass-local-privileged-mounts.html
- https://myseq.blogspot.com/2022/10/multipass-images.html
- https://myseq.blogspot.com/2022/10/multipass-private-ssh-key-is-exposing.html


Keras Layers as easy as I can make them
So now lets make a keras layers Neural Network with both decimal inputs and outputs
xTrainingData a random set of 4 (default) decimal numbers as X between the values 0.001 and 5
yTrainingTarget y calculated from 2X+3
Learning Rate:
Samples per batch : ,
Epochs (# of batches to run) :
Enter your own data below for your own x and y equation, or generate data based on the equation 2X+3
xTrainingData:
yTrainingTarget:
Interesting how different multipliers effect the learning rate. Larger 20x 70x 200x etc needs a smaller learning rate.
Test the data: --> For 2X+3 should equal about
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Loop increments or decrements a number from start to end. Each time
the number
is incremented or decremented the commands are executed. The loop
number is
placed in the system variable $LoopCount.
than end, the loop will count backwards.
/loop {1,3} {look $LoopCount.man}
This would send the text "look 1.man" "look 2.man" and "look 3.man"
to the
mud.
/loop {3,1} {look $LoopCount.man}
This does exactly the opposite. The number is decremented rather
than
incremented and would send the text: "look 3.man" "look 2.man" "look
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