One of the most effective ways of increasing your hit ratio is to increase the time-to-live (ttl) of your objects. But, as you're aware of, in this twitterific day of age serving content that is outdated is bad for business.
The solution is to notify Varnish when there is fresh content available. This can be done through three mechanisms. HTTP purging, banning and forced cache misses. First, let me explain the HTTP purges.
A purge is what happens when you pick out an object from the cache and discard it along with its variants. Usually a purge is invoked through HTTP with the method PURGE.
An HTTP purge is similar to an HTTP GET request, except that the method is PURGE. Actually you can call the method whatever you'd like, but most people refer to this as purging. Squid supports the same mechanism. In order to support purging in Varnish you need the following VCL in place:
acl purge {
"localhost";
"<IP_ADDRESS>"/24;
}
sub vcl_recv {
# allow PURGE from localhost and 192.168.55...
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
error 405 "Not allowed.";
}
return (lookup);
}
}
sub vcl_hit {
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
purge;
error 200 "Purged.";
}
}
sub vcl_miss {
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
purge;
error 200 "Purged.";
}
}
As you can see we have used to new VCL subroutines, vcl_hit and vcl_miss. When we call lookup Varnish will try to lookup the object in its cache. It will either hit an object or miss it and so the corresponding subroutine is called. In vcl_hit the object that is stored in cache is available and we can set the TTL. The purge in vcl_miss is necessary to purge all variants in the cases where you hit an object, but miss a particular variant.
So for example.com to invalidate their front page they would call out to Varnish like this:
PURGE / HTTP/1.0
Host: example.com
And Varnish would then discard the front page. This will remove all variants as defined by Vary.
There is another way to invalidate content: Bans. You can think of bans as a sort of a filter on objects already in the cache. You ban certain content from being served from your cache. You can ban content based on any metadata we have. A ban will only work on objects already in the cache, it does not prevent new content from entering the cache or being served.
Support for bans is built into Varnish and available in the CLI interface. To ban every png object belonging on example.com, issue the following command:
ban req.http.host == "example.com" && req.http.url ~ "\.png$"
Quite powerful, really.
Bans are checked when we hit an object in the cache, but before we deliver it. An object is only checked against newer bans.
Bans that only match against obj.* are also processed by a background worker threads called the ban lurker. The ban lurker will walk the heap and try to match objects and will evict the matching objects. How aggressive the ban lurker is can be controlled by the parameter ban_lurker_sleep. The ban lurker can be disabled by setting ban_lurker_sleep to 0.
Bans that are older than the oldest objects in the cache are discarded without evaluation. If you have a lot of objects with long TTL, that are seldom accessed you might accumulate a lot of bans. This might impact CPU usage and thereby performance.
You can also add bans to Varnish via HTTP. Doing so requires a bit of VCL:
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.request == "BAN") {
# Same ACL check as above:
if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
error 405 "Not allowed.";
}
ban("req.http.host == " + req.http.host +
"&& req.url == " + req.url);
# Throw a synthetic page so the
# request won't go to the backend.
error 200 "Ban added";
}
}
This VCL sniplet enables Varnish to handle an HTTP BAN method, adding a ban on the URL, including the host part.
The ban lurker can help you keep the ban list at a manageable size, so we recommend that you avoid using req.* in your bans, as the request object is not available in the ban lurker thread.
You can use the following template to write ban lurker friendly bans:
sub vcl_fetch {
set beresp.http.x-url = req.url;
}
sub vcl_deliver {
unset resp.http.x-url; # Optional
}
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
if (client.ip !~ purge) {
error 401 "Not allowed";
}
ban("obj.http.x-url ~ " + req.url); # Assumes req.url is a regex. This might be a bit too simple
}
}
To inspect the current ban list, issue the ban.list command in CLI. This will produce a status of all current bans:
0xb75096d0<PHONE_NUMBER>.377475 10 obj.http.x-url ~ test
0xb7509610<PHONE_NUMBER>.785875 20G obj.http.x-url ~ test
The ban list contains the ID of the ban, the timestamp when the ban entered the ban list. A count of the objects that has reached this point in the ban list, optionally postfixed with a 'G' for "Gone", if the ban is no longer valid. Finally, the ban expression is listed. The ban can be marked as Gone if it is a duplicate ban, but is still kept in the list for optimization purposes.
The final way to invalidate an object is a method that allows you to refresh an object by forcing a hash miss for a single request. If you set req.hash_always_miss to true, varnish will miss the current object in the cache, thus forcing a fetch from the backend. This can in turn add the freshly fetched object to the cache, thus overriding the current one. The old object will stay in the cache until ttl expires or it is evicted by some other means.


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The default is 64
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CTV, Jessica Allen apologize for her hockey remarks after Don Cherry's firing
TORONTO - CTV says it is apologizing to anyone who was offended by comments made by a correspondent on its show The Social following the firing of hockey commentator Don Cherry.
During the program on Tuesday, Jessica Allen said she doesn't "worship at the altar of hockey'' and found in her experience that those who did "all tended to be white boys who weren't, let's say, very nice.''
She added that "they were not generally thoughtful, they were often bullies.''
CTV said Allen's comments generated an extraordinary response. Many hockey parents expressed their anger.
"We would like to apologize to everyone who was offended by the remarks, and let you know that your feedback sparked much debate and introspection at The Social and CTV," the network said in a statement Thursday.
"We won't restrict our hosts from offering their opinions on an opinion show, but we will always listen to viewers when they offer theirs."
Allen also issued an apology, saying when she spoke she was referring to hockey players she knew personally when she was in high school and university. She said Cherry reminded her of those players.
"I regret saying that my experiences were personal instead of underlying that they were specific episodes from determined moments with particular individuals," she wrote.
"As a result, I offended many people. Not just our viewers, but parents, children, coaches, volunteers and hockey families everywhere. To you I apologize."
Earlier Thursday, the family of one of the 13 survivors of the April 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash said it would no longer speak with CTV because of Allen's comments.
Tom Straschnitzki, the father of Ryan Straschnitzki, who is paralyzed from the chest down, said if Cherry got fired for his comments, CTV should do the "right thing."
Earlier this week, Toby Boulet, whose son Logan died from injuries suffered in the crash, spoke out.
"How dare you! You do not know my son or the other sons on the Bronco bus. You are spreading assumptions on a national scope based upon your own personal experience. Do better CTV!" he said on Twitter.
Sportsnet fired Cherry this week following his comments on "Hockey Night in Canada," which many felt were critical of immigrants for not wearing Remembrance Day poppies.
Cherry used the phrase, 'You people,' during the "Coach's Corner'' segment Saturday night but has denied that he was singling out visible minorities.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 14, 2019.


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| X-Forwarded-For | <IP_ADDRESS> |
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| Content-Type | application/json |
| X-Forwarded-For | <IP_ADDRESS> |
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| Content-Type | application/json |
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What are some necessary technology standards that guide government websites and services in delivering the best results for end users?
Over the years, this question was left unanswered even as more and more websites and digital services were rolled out. As the web constantly evolves, so do user expectations. The Government must do the same if it wants to maintain the highest standards in digital service delivery.
A static site is the most basic website, and the easiest to build. It requires no server-side processing, serving only client-side content in the form of HTML pages (and optionally CSS and JavaScript) to users' browsers or mobile phones.
Isomer is an informational website generator created by the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). It provides templates for websites based on SGDS, allows users to easily edit website content, provides hosting and is compliant to applicable clauses in the Instruction Manual 8 (IM8), Design Service Standard (DSS) and Usability Checklist (UC).
Learn more about IsomerSimilar to static sites, dynamic websites serve client-side content. However, it uses a server and database to generate such client-side content on the fly before serving them to user devices.
For example, WordPress sites commonly make use of PHP programs together with MySQL as a database to serve dynamically-generated content to users. They also support user logins for content writers. For this reason, dynamic websites tend to be more complicated and costly to build.
Content Website Platform (CWP) is a common secured website building and serving platform. It provides a suite of standardised software for hosting content-based websites. It enables unclassified government websites to be centrally managed and operated in the public cloud.
Learn more about CWPA transactional website is a full-scale website that allows users to perform transactions, for example online banking or retail purchases. Government transactional sites typically allow users to interact with government services digitally, such as HDB or CPF.
Transactional sites are usually built by vendors, who are encouraged to leverage on SGDS to deliver the best user experience.
Download Design System packageA design system is a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled together to build any number of applications. It enable teams to build better products more quickly at scale by making design reusable.
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Dear Friend. My name is Mr. Felix Kambala, the manager credit and foreign bills of African Developement Bank Ltd Dakar Senegal Branch . I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number 14-255-2004/adb/t, Mr.Gerald Smith who died in a plane crash (EgyptAir Flight 990)which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31st,1999 with other passengers on board.You can view this web site for more story of the inccident http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html Since the death of this customer, I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$13,000,000.00(Thirteen Million Dollars) which has been with my bank for a very long time. On this note I decided to seek for whose name shall be used as the next of kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. In view of this I got your contact through my country?s foreign trade mission after I was convinced by providence that your name could be used as the next of kin.The request of the foreigner as a next of kin in this business is occasioned by thefact that the customer was a foreigner and a Senegalias cannot stand as the next of kin to a Foreign client I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect of providing a new bank account or we can use your old accountinformation,while the rest will be for me, thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement as I am almost due for retirement.Therefore, to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, we must engage the services of a lawyer to apply on your behalf to the bank as a relation to the deceased.I need you to indicate in your response, your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication and your complete bank information where the money will be remitted into for our mutual benefit. Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or e-mail the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fear as every modality and machinery for the success of this transaction have been put in place. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter strictly on email for security reasons. Trusting to hear from you. Your respectfully, Mr. Felix Kambala.


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How Old Are Your Ears?
As we grow older
we often lose
the extreme ends of
our hearing spectrum
So how many of the
following sounds can
you hear?
How old are your
ears?
OK if you
can hear 8000
Hz you are both alive
and not hearing
impaired
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racing the frequency
How high could you hear?
If you could hear
all of those frequencies
You are probably
under twenty years old
But that would not last
forever
Unlike other organs,
such as the liver or
skin The inner
ear does not have the capacity
to regenerate
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thousands of tiny
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called hair cells
These are
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different frequencies and
Sending the signal
to the brain where it is processed
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the continual explosion to the noise
and loud sounds
Can brake bend and
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If you aren't using the top bar button (via the show-button attribute), you can fire the custom event "show-myuw-help" event on the when you want the dialog to display (e.g. when your "help" button is clicked). If you need to control the exact positioning of the dialog, you can fire the "set-myuw-help-position custom event.
// Show the dialog
function showHelpDialog() {
var event = new Event('show-myuw-help');
document.dispatchEvent(event);
}
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function setDialogPosition() {
var event = new CustomEvent('set-myuw-help-position', {
detail: {
position: { // Include a "position" object only if you want to control the
top: '100px', // exact positioning of the dialog
left: '100px',
}
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There are 3 DEMOs, the first two are built with Basic JavaScript and a JavaScript library jQuery.
The third one is a DEMO of Ajax, but which we will not cover in this course, but you can play with optionally.
Hopefully we can have an advanced Interactive Web Design course in the future to cover it.
HOVER over main images over the DEMO titles to see instructions.
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The very purpose of this DEMO is to illustrate Ajax and API technique. The APOD you see here varies every day, since it is synchronized and updated automatically in real time retrieved from NASA. The techniques we used here to make this happen are Ajax and API, which are widely used.
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- United States Navy, various locations
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Business & Commerce
April 10, 2012 10:00 AM
2& 3
ON:
Palladino, Thomas Executive Director (also providing written testimony) (Texas Veterans
Commission), Austin, TX
Career & Tech Ed
ON:
Quinzi, Patty Legislative Counsel (also providing written testimony) (Texas AFT
(American Federation of Teachers)), Austin, TX
Charge #1
ON:
Rivero, Hector President (Texas Chemical Council), Austin, TX
For Improving Protection of Homeowners
ON:
Gay, Clifford Retired (Self), Rosenberg, TX
Guard & Reserve demobilizations
ON:
Little, Morgan Retired USN (also providing written testimony) (Reserve Officers
Association), Dripping Springs, TX
Interim Charge
ON:
Reeser, Michael Chancellor - TSTC (also providing written testimony) (Texas State
Technical College), Waco, TX
Interim Charge on State's approach to licensing & regulation
ON:
Greenberg, Sherri Director, Center for Politics & Governance, LBJ School (Self), Austin,
TX
Interim Charges
ON:
Hellyer, Brenda College Chancellor (also providing written testimony) (Texas Association
of Community Colleges), Pasadena, TX
Interim Study Charge 4
ON:
Pauken, Tom Chairman, TWC, Commissioner Representing Business (Texas Workforce
Commission), Austin, TX
Occupational Licensing
ON:
Levin, Marc Director, Center for effective Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation (also
providing written testimony) (Texas Public Policy Foundation), Austin, TX
Quarterly Report
ON:
Lloyd, Brian Executive Director (Public Utility Commission), Austin, TX
Steen, Alan Administrator TABC (also providing written testimony) (TABC), Austin, TX
1
WITNESS LIST
Business & Commerce
April 10, 2012 10:00 AM
Quarterly Update
ON:
Doggett, Trip CEO ERCOT (also providing written testimony) (ERCOT), Austin, TX
Kuntz, Jr., William H. (Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation), Austin, TX
Skills training in the construction industry & occupational licensing
ON:
Cunningham, Michael Executive Director (Texas State Building and Construction Trades
Council), Austin, TX
Texas Workforce Development
FOR:
Arnold, Joe Government Affairs Manager, BASF (also providing written testimony)
(Texas Association of Manufacturers), Austin, TX
Veterans
FOR:
Brennan, Jim President, AAUSA Electric Supply (Texas Coalition of Veterans
Organizations), Austin, TX
Work Force Training
FOR:
Quinten, Jim (Automotive Parts and Service Association), Austin, TX
Workforce
ON:
Setzer, David Executive Director - Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas (also
providing written testimony) (Local Workforce Boards), Arlington, TX
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ON:
Ellard, Andy (NFIB Texas), Dallas, TX
Stephenson, MacGregor Assistant Commissioner (Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board), Austin, TX
Workforce Training Programs
FOR:
Norman, R.D. Career & Technology I&S Teacher (TIVA), Madisonville, TX
Soto, Isabel College Student (SkillsUSA), Houston, TX
ON:
DePue, Richard Welding Inspector/Educator (also providing written testimony) (Texas
Industrial Vocational Association), Hollywood, FL
Providing written testimony:
On:
Dewey, John Board Member, SA Manufacturers Assoc. (San Antonio Manufacturers
Association (SAMA)), Schertz, TX
Workforce training programs in Texas
ON:
Martinez, Monica Managing Director, Curriculum, TEA (Texas Education Agency),
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Workforce/Training
ON:
Parker, Robert (Bob) President - Repcon Inc (also providing written testimony) (Craft
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So far in my collection of cheatsheets have we have looked at topics such as the Box Model and Selectors which are about about how the content boxes work and methods to select them. Now we are moving on to where we want to put the content boxes in our document now that we know how to select them.
What's this all about?
Display
Everything is a box and the type of box applied to an element is specified by the display property.
- Block
- Inline
- Inline-Block
- Flex
- Grid
- None
Block
display:block;
Stacks open other boxes with a new line for each block
Can specify width and height
Inline
display: inline;
Flows with the documents content (not taking a new line)
Cannot specify width and height
Inline-Block
display: inline-block;
This is a mix of inline and block (not that you would have guessed from the name and flows with the documents content without creating line breaks
Can specify width and height
Flex
display: flex;
Flexbox is what you will use for 1D layouts (a row or column) such as nav menu bars
Flex is very flexible with many options and deserves a special page all to itself which I will do next and link back here!
Grid
display: grid;
This is what you will use for 2D layouts such as organising the page (and so easy to make changes for responsiveness)
Grid is also so fantastic that it deserves a special page all to itself which I will also do next and link back here!
None
display: none;
This removes the element from the flow of the document..and unlike changing it to invisible the space it takes up is also removed instead of staying as a blank spot
Positioning
Display is used to position the box for the element in the body of the document and Position is used to specify where an element is positioned within it's container box.
Position values are:
- Static
- Relative
- Fixed
- Absolute
- Sticky
The elements are then positioned using top, right, bottom and left values (can also use clip)
Static
position:static;
Static is the default position and goes with the flow of the page and ignores top, right, etc.
Relative
position:relative;
The element is positioned relative to its normal position using top, bottom, right, or left.
Other content is not adjusted to fit any gap by moving this element
Fixed
position:fixed;
The element is positioned relative to the viewport and stays in the same place even when the page is scrolled.
It does not leave a gap from where it was originally positioned
Absolute
position:absolute;
The element is positioned relative to the nearest positioned ancestor.
The ancestor cannot be using the default static position but must explicitly set a position for this to work
Sticky
position:sticky;
The element is positioned based on the users scroll position.
It toggles between relative and fixed, is relative until a given offset is met in viewport and then is sticky (like the menu on this page if you are using a monitor).
Z-Index
When elements are positioned they can overlap.
Z-index is used to specify the stack order of elements (higher value on top and can also use -1)
Float
Float and Clear go hand in hand with each other.
The float property specifies how an element should float and the clear property specifies what elements can float beside the cleared element and on which side.
float: left;
clear: left;
It’s simplest use is to wrap text around images....but this was before flex and grid came along so will see on older sites but probably not on any newer projects
Float values are:
- left
- right
- none
- inherit
Clear values are:
- left
- right
- both
Clearfix
If an element is taller than the element containing it, and it is floated, it will overflow outside of its container.
One way to fix it is with this:
.clearfix { overflow: auto; }
... and it works well as long as you are able to keep control of your margins and padding (else you might see scrollbars). Instead it is much better to do it this way:
.clearfix::after {
content: "";
clear: both;
display: table;
}
Overflow
When the size of a box is set with absolute values the content may not fit within the allowed size and will overflow.
overflow: auto;
The overflowing content is hidden and scroll bars are shown
overflow: hidden;
overflow: visible;
The overflowing content is shown outside the box (default value)
overflow-x: scroll;
The overflowing content has a scroll bar for the x-axis (Don't forget to set white-space: nowrap;
overflow-y: scroll;
The overflowing content has a scroll bar for the y-axis
As you can see overflow can also be specified for the x-axis and y-axis seperately using the value scroll or auto


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Reactive Swift: Progress HUD Extension and Order of Events
A blocking progress HUD to show a network or any other asynchronous activity may not be the most elegant solution, but sometimes it just gets the job done. Using ReactiveSwift you can use a SignalProducer
extension to quickly show & hide a HUD for any reactive operation:
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Hint: you can use a similar extensions to alert the user of any error or log network requests for debugging purposes.
However, recently I stumpled upon a strange behaviour in a project: the HUD would show, but never hide, even though the network request completed successfully. This is always my worst nightmare when using any blocking UI elements. There is nothing the user can do than kill the app.
The problem occurred after I added caching to several requests, and after investigating I found out that the problem only occurs if the request is served from the cache where I used SignalProducer(value: myCachedResponse)
to return the response.
Printing out the events of on()
I noticed a strange order:
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🤯 Not really what I was expecting. Turns out, it is the expected behaviour though (see https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift/issues/115) as the SignalProducer
completes before it is started. Still weird and not really well documented at all (unfortunately, like so many other ReactiveSwift
things).
Knowing this oddity, I simply changed my code to show the HUD on starting
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Dili is on the North coast of Timor Leste (formally East Timor).
Anchorage at Dili :© Pol Palacios
Position 08°33'S, 125°34'E.
See the main Timor Leste Formalities for details of all clearance procedures.
The harbour is very well protected from south easterlies but slightly exposed to the north westerlies during the monsoon season (November - late March).
The yacht anchorage is on the port side of the main wharf, located at approximately S8° 33.10’ and E125° 34.5’. Take particular note of the small reef in the centre of the yacht anchorage area. Beware of a poorly marked drying patch and an unmarked wrecks in the harbour. The holding is good in the soft mud once the anchor is dug in. The inadequate ground tackle and long floating lines of some local boats can also cause a hazard in bad weather.
Dili Bay Moorings
In the order of 20-25 permanent moorings are located in Dili Bay for use by visiting yachts at times when they are not being used by Darwin Dili Rally yachts (some fees may apply). These moorings were installed in 2012 and are inspected and refurbished annually. Sail Timor-Leste makes no warranty as to their fitness for purpose and yachts which use the moorings do so at their own risk.
Dili Beach Security
The anchorage is located directly in front of the Maritime Police Offices, which oversees security. Dinghies should be beached as close as possible to Maritime Police Offices.
Local guides are very helpful and can be trusted to look after the boat is leaving to explore ashore fo a few days. Jim, who runs a charter business here, can advise.
Although Dilli is the best harbour, Atauro Island and Com are also very attractive.
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The report has cited the BJP’s filings with the EC as the source of this information.
by DECCAN CHRONICLE.New Delhi: The Congress on Friday launched a scathing attack on the BJP, accusing it of receiving donation from a company accused of buying properties from a Dawood Ibrahim aide.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala cited a media report claiming that the saffron party took a large donation from a firm currently under investigation by the ED for carrying out transactions with and buying properties from the late Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and a close aide of Dawood.
Surjewala tweeted, “BJP’s donation saga gets murkier — #Electoral Bond Scam to donations from accused of ‘terror funding’! Why did BJP receive crores in donation from a Co. accused of buying properties of Iqbal Mirchi, a Dawood Ibrahim aide? Is this not ‘treason’ Amit Shah?”
A report on a news website claimed that the BJP took a large sum of money from RKW Developers Ltd, the company which the ED is probing for its alleged connection with Mirchi.
The report has cited the BJP’s filings with the EC as the source of this information.
It said the RKW donated Rs 10 crore to the saffron party in 2014-15. The report also said that a company, Sunblink Real Estate, facing the ED charges of buying Mirchi’s properties, is linked via a common directorship to another company, which made Rs 2-crore donation to the BJP.


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Hi,
I'd like to do a bit of development on emonhub, which git repository should I use?
I've found:
https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonhub
... last commit 2 days ago (one branch "emon-pi").
https://github.com/TrystanLea/emonhub
... with 6 non-stale branches.
https://github.com/pb66/emonhub
... 6 branches (all more than 1 year old - so I assume not these, but they're referenced from the README.md here https://github.com/TrystanLea/emonhub )
https://github.com/emonhub/emonhub
... (3 non-stale branches)
I also wasn't sure what the relationship/compatability was between these hub versions, and different emoncms versions (hosted or otherwise).
BTW, things I'm thinking of doing (in rough order of likelihood of accomplishing):
. Inputs from arbitrary external commands
. Inputs via Unix domain sockets
. Input in pre-formatted JSON
. Readings on-demand (2 way serial)
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
Hi Tim,
pb66/emonhub dates back to the very early emonhub days and is no longer used.(should be deleted)
TrystanLea/emonhub is Trystan's personal repo which he has been developing on until recently forking to openenergymonitor/emonhub.
openenergymonitor/emonhub is the yet unreleased "emon-pi" version from Trystan's repo, it is derived from the "experimental" branch of emonhub/emonhub
emonhub/emonhub is the "official" home, or at least for the standard version it is. Most if not all users are currently running emonhub/emonhub "development" branch.
Currently the emonhub/emonhub/development is the stable and recommended version. "experimental" is a large (but incomplete) step towards the next emonhub, it has substantial differences including threaded interfacers and data routing which provide bidirectional interfacers for control and selective "routes" for data. It is not intended for use, purely POC for several new ideas.
compatibility wise emonhub/emonhub is compatible with emoncms.org and current local, full and low-write versions, it is included on the emonSD image. The emoncms v8.5 "nodes" input and "emon-pi" emonhub are discussed further on the software.md and userguide.md of the emonpi repo
Paul
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
Thanks Paul.
I started hacking on the emonpi branch in the meantime, as it looked a bit more flexible, I'll post back here once I've got something done.
Although I find openenergymonitor a useful project, working out what's going on is frequently a challenge. There is a wiki, but it's very incomplete, and stuff is otherwise scattered over (mainly) the forums, and it's a challenge to find out info. When I do find information, it's a challenge to work out whether it's outdated or not.
Having administered wikis myself, I know there's an initial effort to get sufficient data into them, but once that's there, it'd hopefully become self-sustaining, and probably save a lot of bandwidth on the forums, and make getting developers into the project a lot easier.
I've spoken to a couple of (competent) users, who said they'd taken a look at it, but it all looked to complex and difficult to work out what was going on (and complex to setup), so they decided to buy something off-the-shelf instead.
Which is a shame!
Tim.
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
Hi Paul,
I've pushed code which includes code to use external system commands as data sources to here:
https://github.com/tim-seoss/emonhub
Any comments / thoughts welcome...
If it's of interest, would you like me to re-base against a different repo?
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
Thanks for sharing, it's a really interesting idea. I am currently revising emonhub and I will try and factor this in.
It wouldn't easily fit in with the current emonHub version and the experimental branch isn't going to be released without major rework, the concept is good but the structure needs changing to make it more streamline and intuitive to use and develop.
A brief look at the SMA-bluetooth repo gave me the impression that there was other data available. although I like the generic "command and parse" type interfacer, I also wonder if a specific SMAbluetooth interfacer could be useful.
Paul
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
Let me know if you'd like me to port to another branch.
Regarding, sma-bluetooth, the maintainer was about to push up a significant amount of changes so I just did this execute and parse solution. I did think instead about getting sma-bluetooth to work with an http submission to emonhub, or possibly a domain socket - might look at that next week if I get a chance!
The sma-bluetooth code would certainly be useful for many people with SMA inverters ("sunnyboy" etc.) with an emonpi I suppose - but I did see one bug report on ARM for it, and I've not tried it on anything other than 32bit Intel myself...
Next on my list will be to port my json hack over to a newer emonhub, and clean it up. At first glance it looked like it would be easier to do it in a clean way on the experimental branch than with the older stuff (BICBW).
Are there any other threads I should look at regarding getting more metadata (e.g. feed descriptions, units etc.) into emoncms?
Tim.
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
I think the direct "execute and parse" method is probably the better way in principle but I' not familiar with the bluetooth protocol or devices.
In theory the "execute and parse" could be factored in to the core emonhub interfacer or more accurately made more accessible to other interfacers as the existing code effectively already executes a read and parses the results behind the scenes
Much like the sma-bluetooth repo emonhub is about to under go a transition so I don't think the existing version should be altered at this late stage, it's stable and very much like the "oemgateway" it replaced. You are more than welcome to develop for or from the experimental version as Trystan has done, as although i am changing the structure quite significantly the intention is to make adding interfacers much easier so porting should be quite straightforward.
Regards the 'metadata' I don't think you will find much on this yet. Basically Trystan is currently assuming emoncms and emonhub are co-installed and therefore emoncms is accessing the emonhub.conf directly. I prefer not to go that route so that emoncms can be remote, multiple emonhubs can be linked to a single emoncms (or vice versa). emonhub also uses alot of checks and verification so altering the conf's contents directly doesn't mean emonhub will use those changes but emoncms won't know that.
My preferred route is for emonhub to provide emoncms with "the latest settings" when any changes are detected (and at startup ?), this way any verification and default values will be imposed universally and passed to emoncms as verified and current.
I'm waiting to see what emoncms v8.5 looks like when the emonpi is released to evaluate how the utilisation of the nodedata (metadata) is implemented with a view to submitting a request for a emoncms api for emonhub to call with updated settings and meanwhile I'm embracing the full functionality of the ConfigObj modules Validator so the [nodes] spec will be defined and managed behind the scenes by emonhub.
Paul
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
I can't understand... I have to use packetgen and I find a version of emonhub which support it.
now with dev branch I received stange value istead the int value that I see on packetgen page.
with repo do you suggest me?
thanks
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
If you search this forum for "packetgen hack" you will find some discusions on the topic, the "hack" guide is located in the low-write emoncms documentation and should work fine with the standard emonHub no problem but probably not the emon-pi variant without some rework.
Paul
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
thanks, I resolved, I was unable to find the second link.
Re: emonhub hacking - which git?
Hi Paul,
Can I help at all getting the changes I made "upstreamed"?
Cheers,
Tim.


Notice: Undefined index: order in /var/www/html/emoncms/Theme/basic/menu_view.php on line 97
I have built a couple of EmonCMS servers on Ubuntu Server 14.04 and I keep having the same problem with the menu. The menu is dropping down and obscuring things on the page below the menu. Above the menu are a couple of error notices:
Notice: Undefined index: order in /var/www/html/emoncms/Theme/basic/menu_view.php on line 97
Notice: Undefined index: order in /var/www/html/emoncms/Theme/basic/menu_view.php on line 97
These lines seem to be pushing the menu down a couple of lines. And you can't see these notices very well because the text is the same color as the background. You have to select the text and the highlight colors allow you to see the text.
I looked at the line # and file in question.
// Menu sort by order
function menu_sort($a,$b) {
return $a['order']>$b['order'];
}
I am not a PHP programmer but it seems that "order" has not been defined yet. Like most languages, you can't use a variable that has not been created yet.
So I am curious as to the problem here. Everything still seems to work but the menu is just messed up. It would be great to fix this so that the menu doesn't cover the top of the page.
I am attaching a screenshot.
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
Check in all you non default modules in the file modulename_menu.php
You need to have the order parameter there, the value (10) can be any you want, like here in bold:
$menu_dropdown_config[] = array('name'=> dgettext($domain, "Inputs"), 'icon'=>'icon-signal', 'path'=>"input/view" , 'session'=>"write", 'order' => 10 );
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
All of the modules have something similar there. So I figure that is not the problem or I am confused.
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
@JRFeeney, which optional modules do you have installed on your system? not all the optional modules have been updated to have the order field needed in v9.0 yet.
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
I do not believe I have any optional modules installed. I am currently just using what was installed using these instructions.
https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/blob/9.0/docs/LinuxInstall.md
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
On that page, in the "Install emoncms add-on modules" section, did you install any of those modules?
Paul
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
Yes. I installed all of them. I didn't know they were optional. I figured the add-ons were necessary.
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
I guess everyone is as confused as I am about this.
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
@JRFeeney, If you added all extra Modules, please check the file notify_menu.php in the Notify Module, it is missing
HTH
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
I updated this morning my emoncms 9.0 to version 9.2 and I'm getting this error now as well (not in 9.0). The only new module that was installed is the device module which has the order defined. Any idea how to resolve this issue ?
Re: Notice: Undefined index: order
It worked!!!
Since I am not a php programmer, it is not apparent to me where this goes.
, 'order' => 10
So I assumed that it went at the end of this array definition.
$menu_dropdown[] = array('name'=> dgettext($domain, _("Notify")), 'path'=>"notify" , 'session'=>"write", 'order' => 10);
Now I can see the rest of the page where the report buttons are.
Thanks!!!!


Put the eggs in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water by 1 inch. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and gently simmer 10 minutes. Drain and rinse under cold water until cool; set aside.
Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the chickpeas and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until the chickpeas are lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Add the pepitas and cook, stirring, until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes; let cool.
Make the dressing: Whisk the yogurt, 2 tablespoons water, the vinegar, chives and the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a small bowl; season with salt and pepper.
Peel and roughly chop the hard-boiled eggs. Toss the greens, sprouts and radishes in a large bowl; season with salt and pepper. Top each serving of salad with the chickpeas and pepitas, eggs and sliced avocado. Drizzle with the dressing and top with more chives.


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Directed by Kinka Usher. Cast: Ben Stiller, William H. Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush, Wes Studi, Tom Waits, Claire Forlani, Eddie Izzard, Jenifer Lewis, Lena Olin. 1999 - 121 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for comic violence and profanity). Reviewed August 7, 1999.
I'm not sure who director Kinka Usher is, but thanks to him and screenwriter Neil Cuthbert, the superhero comedy, "Mystery Men," is the most depressing cinematic experience of the year. Not the worst ("Inspector Gadget" and "Wing Commander" narrowly edge it out on that disreputable title), but easily the most dreary and saddening, as we are forced to watch a cast of fabulous actors, usually appearing in smart independent films, flounder within a movie that gives none of them an actual distinctive character to work with or, for that matter, anything at all to do, aside from be continuously humiliated by the absolute inanity of the screenplay.
An obvious take-off of "Batman" and "Superman," "Mystery Men" sets us smack dab in the middle of Champion City, as if it was a rejected set from Joel Schumacher's version of Gotham City. When the city's reigning superhero, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear), is kidnapped by arch-nemesis Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush), it is up to a squadron of loser superheroes to save him, all of which have their own separate power or talent (if you can even call it that). There's Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), the Shoveler (William H. Macy), and the Blue Raja (Hank Azaria, wielding lethal forks and spoons upon the enemy). Saving the likes of Captain Amazing, however, is going to take more than three rejects, so coming to their aide are three more wannabe superheroes--Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell),a teen who claims he can become invisible "only when nobody is looking"; the Spleen (Paul Reubens), who knocks people out with his rancid flatulence; and the Bowler (Janeane Garofalo), equipped with a see-through bowling ball that holds her beloved father's skull inside. Are these six characters enough to overcome Casanova Frankenstein? Do dogs bark? Do cats meow? Do pigs snort? I rest my case.
The almost laughably unfunny jokes in "Mystery Men" is cause enough to question the intelligence of its thought-to-be superb cast. Let's take a look at the actors, while we're at it: Ben Stiller ("There's Something About Mary," "Your Friends and Neighbors"), Janeane Garofalo ("Romy and Michele's High School Reunion," "The Truth About Cats and Dogs"), William H. Macy ("Fargo," "Boogie Nights"), Greg Kinnear ("As Good As It Gets"), Geoffrey Rush ("Shine"), and Paul Reubens ("Pee Wee's Big Adventure"). If that weren't enough, Claire Forlani, a standout in "Meet Joe Black," is painfully wasted (as is everyone else, of course) as the only 'normal' character in the whole film, a diner waitress and potential love interest to Stiller. Heavy usage of highly euphoric, mind-alterting substances had to have been used in order for these actors to sign on to this $85-million movie that looks like a $5-million direct-to-video effort. Either that, or they turn out to not have any taste in films after all...nah! Drugs definately played a large part in the casting process.
So-called comedy flies at a rapid rate throughout the film, but the problem is none of it is the least bit funny, only groan-inducing and lame. Supposedly, 60-70% of the dialogue was improvised on the spot by the actors, which leads me to believe that not only was the script bad, but the cast realized this and tried to fix it with their stand-up comedy abilities. Improvisation on the spot must be one of their weak spots, unfortunately, since very rarely does anyone say anything clever, and even then it is a throwaway line that is all but forgotten about a second afterwards. "Mystery Men" proves that no matter how good the actors may be, they cannot salvage a film if they aren't even given the chance to develop their own individual personalities.
'Excruciating' would be the perfect word to describe physically watching this movie. Every element on every level is inept in every respect, and the non-stop, stylized comic-book action sequences and idiotic dialogue is akin to watching an Akiva Goldsman-written fourth "Batman" sequel. If anything, an empty water bottle came in quite handy while I was watching the film, for if I couldn't have handled it in my hand, played with it, tore off the paper wrapping, etc., I would have been in dire danger of dozing off.
If there is a bright spot to be found at all in "Mystery Men," beyond the unbearable filmmaking stench of desperation, it is Janeane Garofalo, who is fun to watch in every movie she's in. She ultimately is not very fun to watch here, simply because the rest of the movie is so nauseatingly awful, but she does have a few good lines and shines just by appearing on the screen. Like everyone else, though, there was no character to work with, and Garofalo's only distinctive quality was that she was actually hip and snappy. In other words, far to kewl to be hanging out with the rest of those nitwits.
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Implemented a semiautomatic camera calibration algorithm based on single view camera image
Designed a intuitive way to reconstruct a 3D scene from an image
Constructed a 3D modeling environment supports creating, editting, saving, reading and rendering 3D scene
Release the software as a product with an USB-Dongle based licence
Developed a API to model and calibrate a real word object for a virtual-reality environment
Developed a template-matching algorithm to estimate the pose of a real word object in real time
Developed a camera calibration algorithm based on chess-board
Recognize and track multiple laser dots using SVM
Designed and constructed a tracking system exchanging data via Network
Optimized the driver of board hardware on Real-Time Linux
Improved a whole distributed real-time system by optimizing its scheduling strategies
Involved in a linux kernel module development
Tested and debugged the network-based data exchange core of a distributed simulation engine
Developed some plugins and modules for a distributed simulation engine
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Implemented a automatic image pairing and stitching algorithm based on an image set
Developed a image blending algorithm by pixel-wise adjusting the brightness and contrast
Developed a API to monitor RFID sensors and locate them
Proposed a mathematical model of a commercial medical CT
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Achieved a better reconstruction quality than the most advanced commercial CT from the same data set
Single view image based real scene 3D reconstruction software
3D model calibration and pose estimation
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3D CT Reconstruction Framework Development
Human Airway Segmentation from 3D CT Image
Phase Aberration Correction for Ultrasound Image Reconstruction
3D Computer Vision, Machine Learning in the field of 3D/2D medical image reconstruction and pattern recognition.
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Hinahina often grows on the beach above the high water line. . The leaf clusters and flowers of hinahina are often twisted into open-ended garlands. . The Hawaiian word momi means pearl, and the shiny oval shells are also called momi o kai, . Pepeiao is the Hawaiian word for ear, while 'elepani means, elephant.
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A hibiscus flower worn behind the left ear means the woman is attached, but if it is behind the right ear she is still searching for her true love. Hawaiian Hibiscus .
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Hawaiian chiefs had traditionally clashed over land and the resources of the sea, . The word aloha means many things: hello, good-bye, peace, and, perhaps most . wear a flower tucked behind one ear and perhaps a lei around their neck .
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Correction, Hawaiian woman wears flowers all the time but when it comes to what sign it is, wearing flower on the left ear means she is single. Wearing flower in .
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The blooming flora of Hawaii is so profuse, flowers even grow on rocks. . woman to wear a hibiscus bloom above her left ear if she is engaged in a relationship; .
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Elephant ear plants have been in cultivation for over 28,000 years as a food crop in . Modern agricultural crops have supplanted colocasia in Hawaii and the . Colocasias are not known for their flowers (inflorescences, actually) because they . in 2 years (in very wet soils) by means of short, above-ground stolons ... quite .
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The word hua means fruit. During the flowering stage, when male and female flowers are present, hand pollination is necessary, usually at dusk or night, when .
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SamoaIts People and their Customs.
. from San Francisco on the Australian steamers, which call at Hawaii for several hours, . A flower is never more than a minute in the hands of a native, either man or . (which grows everywhere) placed over their ear or on the top of their head. . The taste of the beverage at first is by no means tempting, but it leaves a not .
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Brands adapting to slow fashion
As people move towards green alternatives, boutiques sense big business opportunity
by Vedika ShivamWith sustainability becoming the buzzword in the fashion industry, a self-sustaining approach seems to be the way forward for brands and boutiques across the globe.
Here are some homegrown clothing startups in the city paving the way towards a greener future.
Timri
A boutique store based in the heart of Indiranagar, their clothes are made and designed in-house. They work with weavers from around the country to produce fine products out of bio-natural fibres. This fashion venture specialises in contemporary separates such as dresses, tops, jackets and pants. They also claim to be an inclusive label and undertake customisation for all ages and genders.
“Fashion can be made sustainable by conscious consumption and creation,” says Kusum Rohra from Timri.
Ethic Attic
A Fair Trade certified organisation, they produce their own products and also curate products from 25 other brands that are trying to make a favourable impact on planet and society. Their fabrics are woven by women from self-help clusters; all their products further one of the 17 sustainable development goals of the UN. They are based out of Indiranagar.
They work with unusual fabrics made from aloe vera, corn, soya, banana, lotus, eucalyptus, hemp, orange and rose petals. They use dyes made from natural products such as fruit peels, tree bark and flowers.
Indibox
Based in Jayanagar, this organisation makes fashion-forward but conscious clothing. They fuse Indian fabrics into western silhouettes to offer a variety of clothing from kurtas, shirts, dresses, jackets and saris to fusion and festive wear. Their organic fabric is sourced from weavers in remote villages.
Aarti Deshpande, founder of Indibox, says, “Re-use, recycle and remodel is the mantra we follow at Indibox and in our regular life.”
House of Primes
The city-based fashion and lifestyle house that believes in elevating artisans and evolving craft traditions. “From yarn to textiles to surface techniques implemented, 80 per cent of the process is completed in the homes of the artisans and the remaining 20 per cent happens in our studio in Bengaluru,” said Nupur, creative head of House of Primes.
Studio Moya
The city-based venture uses only natural products like cotton, leather from dead animals and other traditional leathers that are unspoilt by chemicals. They offer apparel for women, accessories and home decor items, made from hand-painted fabrics.
Pomogrenade
The ethical fashion brand locally sources fabrics and employs a fair trade manufacturing unit to produce clothes with little or no wastage. They try to make silhouettes that fit all body types.
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Readjoiner (Gonnella and Kurtz 2012) Readjoiner is a sequence assembler based on the assembly string graph framework (Myers 2005). It is faster and uses less memory than previous string graph-based assemblers.
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Himalyan Public School, Affiliated to CBSE, is located at Vill.Ramji Chak, P.O. Bataganj,P.S. Digh, Danapur, Patna (Bihar), Patna.The zenith which the school has been able to reach is largely due to the untiring effort and devotion of Shri Jay Prakash Verma whose services the school still enjoys as its Director. Some eminent educationists,who out of a sense of devotion to the cause of education, spare some time regularly, to guide the students. The school is headed by an eminent Principal,Vinay Chandra jha, who is an academician and sustains the students as a Father.
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Catch of the Day: Children in Germany Find World War II Ammunition While 'Fishing'
According to police, several kids have managed to retrieve ammunition and bullet fragments from a fish pond with the help of magnet.
The incident happened in Ohrdruf, a city in the state of Thuringia.
While “fishing” with a magnet, three children were shocked to realise that they'd caught several pieces of World War II ammunition and bullet fragments.
Local authorities secured the area.
Police cautioned against "such recreational activities" and urged people to immediately alert the police if suspicious object were found.
Fortunately, nobody was injured.
In June, around 3,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Berlin while a World War II bomb was defused in the centre of the German capital.
Earlier, almost 1,600 people were evacuated on 17 February in Paris due to an operation to deactivate a WWII bomb uncovered in the northern part of the city.


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Liquid-fill is a type of charts that are suitable for displaying single percentage data. ECharts liquid-fill Chart provides fancy presentation of percentage data through single but power configurations.
Now, let’s learn how to use it.
Step 1: Including JavaScript Files
ECharts liquid-fill chart is a plugin for ECharts, which means it is not included in the full version downloaded from official site. This ensures those who don’t need liquid-fill charts can have a smaller package size. When use it, you need to include echarts-liquidfill.js
after echarts.js
, the former of which can be downloaded at GitHub.

Step 2: Assign DOM Element As Chart Container
We need to assign a DOM element with width and height as chart container, just as we do with other chart types when using ECharts.

Use the DOM element to init chart.
var chart = echarts.init(document.getElementById('liquidfill-chart'));
Step 3: Configure The Chart
We set the chart series type
to be 'liquidFill'
to use it.
A simple configuration item may be:
var option = {
series: [{
type: 'liquidFill',
data: [0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3]
}]
};
chart.setOption(option);
Thus, we can get the liquid-fill chart at the beginning of this post.
If the chart doesn’t display as expected, you may check the following things:
- Whether JS files are loaded correctly;
- Whether
echarts
variable exists;- Whether there are error messages in Console;
- Whether the DOM element has width and height when init.
As you can see, we only assigned series type to be 'liquidFill'
, and set the data to be [0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3]
, which generate the four waves in the chart. Other parameters are all by default.
Even without much configuration, you may get an elegant liquid-fill chart with default parameters. And if you have specific demands, you may easily acheive them with our configuration. Here is how to customerize it.
Step 4: Customerize The Chart
ECharts liquid-fill chart supports highly customizable configuration, including color, radius, amplitude, wave length, phase, period, wave direction, shape, wave animation and so on. Full configuration please refer to API. Here, we are going to introduces some important parameters.
Shape And Animation
Besides the default 'circle'
shape, it also supports symbols like 'rect'
, 'roundRect'
, 'triangle'
, 'diamond'
, 'pin'
, and 'arrow'
. Even more, you can set it to be an SVG path to get some fancy effect.
By setting direction
to be 'left'
or 'right'
, we may assign the moving direction of the wave. Or, we can set it to be 'none'
for still.
Full configuration of the above is:
// run at: http://gallery.echartsjs.com/editor.html?c=xry0tUfcBe
var option = {
series: [{
type: 'liquidFill',
data: [0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3],
radius: '40%',
shape: 'diamond',
center: ['25%', '25%']
}, {
type: 'liquidFill',
data: [0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3],
direction: 'left',
radius: '40%',
shape: 'rect',
center: ['75%', '25%']
}, {
type: 'liquidFill',
data: [0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3],
radius: '40%',
shape: 'roundRect',
center: ['25%', '75%'],
backgroundStyle: {
borderColor: '#156ACF',
borderWidth: 1,
shadowColor: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4)',
shadowBlur: 20
},
outline: {
show: false
},
waveAnimation: false, // disable moving
}, {
type: 'liquidFill',
data: [0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3],
radius: '50%',
shape: 'pin',
center: ['75%', '75%'],
amplitude: 0,
waveAnimation: false,
outline: {
show: false
},
backgroundStyle: {
shadowColor: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4)',
shadowBlur: 20
}
}]
};
Configuration For A Single Wave
Besides the configuration of the waves as introduced above, each single wave can have configuration to be overwritten.
In this example, we set the second wave to be red, and changed its moving direction.
var option = {
series: [{
type: 'liquidFill',
data: [0.6, {
value: 0.5,
direction: 'left',
itemStyle: {
normal: {
color: 'red'
}
}
}, 0.4, 0.3]
}]
};
You may notice that an item of the previous data
is a number, but for those to be configured, they are an object containing value
.
Label
Label of liquid-fill charts have a nice effect that the text colors before wave and background are different. insideColor
can be used to set the text color before wave, and color
can be used to set the color before background.
var option = {
series: [{
type: 'liquidFill',
radius: '80%',
data: [0.5, 0.45, 0.4, 0.3],
label: {
normal: {
textStyle: {
color: 'red',
insideColor: 'yellow',
fontSize: 50
}
}
}
}]
};
Label displays percentage data by default. If you want to set it otherwise, you may use formatter
to do this. This is similar to other formatter of ECharts.
formatter
can be a string, in which '{a}'
, '{b}'
, '{c}'
will be replaced to be series name, data name, and data value.
For example:
var option = {
series: [{
type: 'liquidFill',
name: 'Liquid Fill',
data: [{
name: 'First Data',
value: 0.6
}, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3],
label: {
normal: {
formatter: '{a}\n{b}\nValue: {c}',
textStyle: {
fontSize: 28
}
}
}
}]
};
Besides, formatter
can also be a function. The following code provides the same effect as before.
formatter: function(param) {
return param.seriesName + '\n'
+ param.name + '\n'
+ 'Value:' + param.value;
}
Conclusion
In this post, we introduced how to use ECharts liquid-fill charts. Hopefully, you can be inspired by it and create more interesting works.
Full document please refer to GitHub. And you may go to ECharts Gallery to view more liquid-fill charts.


Box2DUtils Class
..\src\Box2DUtils.js:4
Box2DUtils is a set of utility-methods to help with common Box2D tasks.
Item Index
Methods
- injectBox2d static
- makeB2DBodyFromData static
Methods
injectBox2d
-
object
-
type
-
widthOrRadius
-
height
-
[density=1]
-
[friction=0.5]
-
[restitution=0.05]
-
[dynamic=true]
Whenever you want to create a custom object that is supposed to interact with the Box2D b2World, it is strongly recommended that you call this method in the constructor of your class, see the example below:
function Hero() { var self = this; // in the constructor or in a sub-method of the constructor boxledjs.Box2DUtils.injectBox2d(this, boxledjs.Box2DUtils.RECT, 100, 150, 1, 0.5, 0.05); // implement this method if you want to apply some special settings after // the body was created this.bxd.onBodyCreated = function(body) { self.onBodyCreated(body) }; } Hero.prototype.onBodyCreated = function(body) { // for example setting a fixed rotation or more steps body.SetFixedRotation(true); body.SetBullet(true); }
After the injection, the object will have a property called bxd, it holds the body and a sensors object, where you can check if 'top','left','bottom' or 'right' is currently touching anything.
Parameters:
-
object
ObjectThe object that the b2Body is injected to
-
type
StringThe type of the body, currently only 'rect' and 'circle' are supported.
-
widthOrRadius
NumberThe width of the body, or the radius in case of a circle.
-
height
NumberThe height of the body (ignored if circle).
-
[density=1]
Number optionalThe density of the body, this correlated to the Box2D-physics model.
-
[friction=0.5]
Number optionalThe friction of the body, this correlated to the Box2D-physics model.
-
[restitution=0.05]
Number optionalThe restitution of the body, this correlated to the Box2D-physics model.
-
[dynamic=true]
Boolean optionalDefines if the body is supposed to be a dynamic or static(non-moving) body.
makeB2DBodyFromData
-
objectData
-
world
Converts a set of object definitions into a Box2D b2Body for the world-simulation.
Parameters:
-
objectData
ObjectThe data as exported from Tiled to JSON.
-
world
B2WorldThe Box2D b2World to create the body in.


from __future__ import print_function, division
import numpy as np
import torch
from torch.nn import CrossEntropyLoss
[docs]class Evaluator(object):
""" Class to evaluate models with given datasets.
Args:
loss (torch.NN.CrossEntropyLoss, optional): loss for evaluator (default: torch.NN.CrossEntropyLoss)
batch_size (int, optional): batch size for evaluator (default: 64)
"""
def __init__(self, loss_func=CrossEntropyLoss(), batch_size=64):
self.loss_func = loss_func
self.batch_size = batch_size
[docs] def evaluate(self, model, data):
""" Evaluate a model on given dataset and return performance.
Args:
model (models.networks): model to evaluate
data (dataset.dataset.Dataset): dataset to evaluate against
Returns:
loss (float): loss of the given model on the given dataset
"""
model.eval()
match = 0
total = 0
recall = {'@2': 0, '@5': 0, '@10': 0}
loss = 0
device = None if torch.cuda.is_available() else -1
with torch.no_grad():
for batch in data.make_batches(self.batch_size):
context_variable = torch.tensor(batch[0])
responses_variable = torch.tensor(batch[1])
target_variable = torch.tensor(batch[2])
outputs = model(context_variable, responses_variable)
# Get loss
if len(outputs.size()) == 1:
outputs = outputs.unsqueeze(0)
loss += self.loss_func(outputs, target_variable)
# Evaluation
predictions = np.argsort(outputs.numpy(), axis=1)
num_samples = predictions.shape[0]
ranks = predictions[np.arange(num_samples), target_variable]
match += sum(ranks == 0)
recall['@2'] += sum(ranks <= 2)
recall['@5'] += sum(ranks <= 5)
recall['@10'] += sum(ranks <= 10)
total += num_samples
if total == 0:
accuracy = float('nan')
else:
accuracy = match / total
return loss, accuracy, {k: v/total for k, v in recall.items()}


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XF.Router
is an extended [Backbone.Router]. XF cares about creation of router instance, its starting, binding handlers and so on. Everything you just need to do is to pass your routes and handlers with starting options for the application:
// if the app boilerplate was created via XF Generator
// these lines cab be found in `index.js` file
var app = new MyApp({
// …
// other settings for the application
router: {
routes: {
'': 'home',
'search/:q': 'searchByQuery',
'item:id': 'showItemById',
'books/:cat(/:subcat)': 'showBooksCategory',
'news/*any': 'showNews'
},
home: function () {
},
searchByQuery: function (query) {
},
showItemById: function (id) {
},
showBooksCategory: function (cat, subcat) {
},
showNews: function (param) {
}
}
});
In the example above the handler home
for empty route was created. In case you want to define the starting route for the application or turn off HTML5 pushState (using pushState
support is turned on by default) you should pass the necessary starting parameters to XF.history
which actually is a link to Backbone.history.
var app = new MyApp({
// …
// other settings for the application
history: {
pushState: false,
root: 'books/fiction'
}
});
To force navigation to another url fragment a number of ways is available:
XF.router.navigate('books/fiction', {trigger: true})
XF.navigate('books/fiction')
is the syntax sugar for the first approach. {trigger: true}
set by defaultXF.trigger('navigate', 'books/fiction')
is much more preferable for consistency and integrity of the applicationAll elements with the attribute data-href
or href
will work on changing url fragment.
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