New Game
Resume
Restart
Sound: Off
Full Screen
- Left: Left
- Right: Right
- Up: Up
- Down: Down
- A: X
- B: Z
- Start: Enter
- Select: Ctrl
Controller/Keyboard
Player 1
- Left: Num-4
- Right: Num-6
- Up: Num-8
- Down: Num-2
- A: Num-7
- B: Num-9
- Start: Num-1
- Select: Num-3
Controller/Keyboard
Player 2


Destination measures statistics team
Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Telephone: Stephen Harris 0161 600 1595
Official Statistics
Revised data on key stage 4 (KS4) and key stage 5 (KS5) students in education, employment and training destinations.
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The percentage of students progressing to further learning in the academic year 2013 to 2014 in:
This release gives data by specific student characteristics:
It also measures the percentage of students who do not progress to education, employment or training.
These statistics include data from independent schools which were not included in the provisional publication.
Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Telephone: Stephen Harris 0161 600 1595
Published: 21 January 2016


Large Formations, Command & Control
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Infantry, Tanks & Artillery
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Give the Clown a Crown
Andy Seo
July 31, 2017
vs. Career Averages
PPG: 27.1 vs. 21.6
RPG: 7.3 vs. 3.4
APG: 7.0 vs. 5.5
History repeats itself
Father time
CP3 joins The Beard (HOU)
Hayward joins IT (BOS)
PG joins Russ (OKC)
Why?
Mamba mentality
Just like how Kobe left Shaq


The application root is by default the same as $ROOT
, which is the directory containing your cloudy entry script file. However you may want to alter that by the use of config_path_base
to point to a higher directory, such as the case with Cloudy Packages.
$APP_ROOT
should point to the most logical top-level directory in the context where the cloudy script is used.
get_config_path
are made absolute using $APP_ROOT
.path_shorten
use $APP_ROOT
as the basis for prefix removal.


After graduating from Skidmore College I headed West to Los Angeles where I spent seven oddly exciting/excitingly odd years acting in commercials and working as Music and Marketing Director at Kingdom 2 Music. I spent nearly a decade writing web copy, newsletters, and press releases. Seeking to round out my marketing skillset, I then moved to St. Petersburg, FL to learn how to code at The Iron Yard.
I need to write every day, no matter what the form- copy, song, prose- and am thrilled to be able to add code to that list. I love the act of taking a blank white page and a series of ideas and turning that into a fully-functioning website, game, or app. I look forward to continuing to direct that passion toward countless projects to come- perhaps even yours.
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COMING SOON! Hop on over to read about the continuing adventures of my life as a "Writer of All Things". At the Daily Schwartz you'll find musings on everything from Angular 2 to the recent revival of "Sunday in the Park with George". You can check out video of a recent Staged Reading of my new musical "Moments Awake", you can read samples of my copy (press releases, newsletters, web copy), and you can see my attempts at rebranding popular websites. Yes, I do that for fun.
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Want to work together? Me too! Shoot me an e-mail or give me a call any time. I'll get back to you ASAP.


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Start your journey today with a great one-minute pitch.
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Compare these two runs …
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… Enough said, hopefully.


JANELLE COUGHLIN
Janelle W. Coughlin, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Obesity Behavioral Medicine Program and Associate Director of the Center for Behavior and Health. She is a licensed psychologist with clinical and research expertise in obesity and eating disorders. Her work in obesity includes development and delivery of in-person, telephonic, and internet-based behavioral lifestyle interventions, training and supervision of clinicians delivering these interventions in large-scale research trials (Weight Loss Maintenance, WLM; Practice-based Opportunities for Weight Reduction, POWER), and pre- and post-surgical psychiatric management of bariatric surgery patients. Dr. Coughlin is also interested in the treatment of eating disorders and has been involved in research assessing psychosocial and biological aspects of these conditions.


{% extends 'base.html' %} {% block title %}Astral Marines - Partol Sector Omega{% endblock %} {% block extracss %} h1, h2, h3, h4 { color: #f5a228; } a, .hex:hover .location a.permalink { color: #d89014; } img#hexmap { margin-left: -20px; } {% endblock %} {% block header %}
Patrol Sector Omega has its intrusions and enemy action, but it's not hot. The Firebase is just precautionary, and it's close enough to the LZ that resupply will never be a problem. The moss beds are splendid at sunset and the Lotus Eaters nearby are pacified. Just play some volleyball and relax. The same can't be said to the North - the glass Pyramids and Stilt Village are shown as friendly on the recon slides, but then what shot down a cutter that way a few cycles back? Something's brewing and the invaders can be behind every slime mold, invisible in spider holes beneath the moss or infiltrating the pacified villages, concealed by their crudely potent magics.
Gus posted this map on Google+ and asked for help filling in the hexes. This page is based on work I did for the Hexenbracken. Contributors: {{ authors }}.


Some things that can be customized are:
HTTP
method, url
, etcbody
.Generally, this customization can be done:
First, before providing us with examples, some parts of the structure will be explained that is related to it.
graph TD
IR[Incoming request]
OR[Outgoing request]
RI[Resource]
AI[Adapter#parseResponse]
BO[Builder#action]
AO[Adapter#action]
subgraph Incoming requests
IR --> AI
AI -->|Resource#Factory| RI
end
subgraph Outgoing requests
RO[Resource] --> AO
AO --> BO
BO --> OR
end
| Callee | Pipeline | Outgoing request: Adapter method involved | Outgoing request: Builder method involved | HTTP Verb used | Incoming response: Adapter method involved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource class | fetch | none | SimpleBuilder#fetch | GET | SimpleAdapter#parseResponse |
| Resource instance | save | none | SimpleBuilder#save | POST | SimpleAdapter#parseResponse |
| Resource instance | update | SimpleAdapter#fetch | SimpleBuilder#update | PATCH | none |
| Resource instance | delete | none | SimpleBuilder#delete | DELETE | none |
| ToOneRelation instance | set | ToOneAdapter#set | ToOneBuilder#set | PATCH | none |
| ToOneRelation instance | remove | ToOneAdapter#remove | ToOneBuilder#remove | DELETE | none |
| ToManyRelation instance | add | ToManyAdapter#add | ToManyBuilder#add | PATCH | none |
| ToManyRelation instance | remove | ToManyAdapter#remove | ToManyBuilder#remove | DELETE | none |


Adds a new event listener. The given handler function will be called in the following cases:
The eventType to listen for
The handler function that will be called when a matching event is dispatched. This function will retrieve the dispatched [[IEvent|event]] as a parameter
Indicates if this handler should be called during the capturing phase of an event chain. If and only if this is set to false will this handler be called during the bubbling phase of an event chain.
A number that indicates the priority of this event listener relative to other event listeners of the same type on this EventDispatcher instance. A higher number indicates that this listener will be called earlier.
An object describing the listener that has a [[EventListenerData.dispose|dispose()]] method to remove the listener.
Dispatches the given event. The dispatch consists of three phases:
If any of the event handlers call [[IEvent.stopPropagation|stopPropagation()]], we will skip all event handlers that occur on a target later in the event chain. If an event handler calls [[IEvent.stopImmediatePropagation|stopImmediatePropagation()]], we will also skip any event handlers on the same target in the event chain.
The event to dispatch
If one of the handlers that have been called during this dispatch called [[IEvent.preventDefault|event.preventDefault()]], this method will return false. If no handlers have been called or none of the handlers have called [[IEvent.preventDefault|event.preventDefault()]], this method will return true.
Please note: [[IEvent.preventDefault|preventDefault()]] can only be called on events that have their [[IEvent.cancelable|cancelable]] property set to true
Returns the time in seconds that the song is playing.
Returns the current state
Checks if an event listener matching the given parameters exists on this EventDispatcher instance.
Will only look for event listeners with this eventType
If set, will only match event listeners that have the same handler function
If set, will only match event listeners that have the same useCapture argument. Please note: if no useCapture argument was provided to addEventListener, it is set to false by default
True if one or more event listeners exist
After dispose has been called, this method returns true. Use this method to determine whether dispose() should be run again.
Loads all samples in a song, and sets a reference to the sample on all SampleEvents in each sequence.
Play a song at the given bpm.
Removes all event listeners that have a [[IEvent.type|type]] of the given eventType from this EventDispatcher instance, regardless of their [[EventListenerData.handler|handler]] or [[EventListenerData.useCapture|useCapture]] property.
Please note: if you remove an event listener during the dispatch of an event it will not be called anymore, even if it was supposed to be called in the same event chain
The [[IEvent.type|type]] of event to remove. If not provided, all event listeners will be removed regardless of their type.
Removes all event listeners that match the given parameters from this EventDispatcher instance.
Please note: if you remove an event listener during the dispatch of an event it will not be called anymore, even if it was supposed to be called in the same event chain
Only event listeners of that have this eventType are removed
Only event listeners that have this handler function will be removed
Only event listeners that have been added with the same useCapture parameter will be removed. Please note: if no useCapture argument is provided, only event listeners that have useCapture set to false will be removed.
Schedules all events from time to time+lookahead
Sets the state and dispatches an event.
Checks if an event listener with a [[EventListenerData.type|type]] of the given eventType exists on this EventDispatcher or any ancestor EventDispatcher instance.
The event type to check for
true if a matching listener is found
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The parent EventDispatcher instance. If this instance has no parent, this value will be set to null. The parent is used in the bubbling and capturing phases of events.
dispatchEvent for more information on the bubbling and capturing chain


The integration token to be used to send notifications to Hygieia.
If your Hygieia API do not require any authentication, leave this blank.


Not found
Oops! This page doesn't exist. Try going back to our home page.
You can learn how to make a 404 page like this in Custom 404 Pages.
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You can learn how to make a 404 page like this in Custom 404 Pages.


Owner Information
Name
[firstname lastname]
Address
[address]
City
[city]
Telephone
[telephone]
Edit Owner
Add New Pet
Pets and Visits
Name
[name]
Birth Date
[birthdate yyyy-MM-dd]
Type
[type]
Visit Date
Description
[date yyyy-MM-dd
[description]
Edit Pet
Add Visit


Collection module.
MIT. See LICENSE for full details.
A generic binary heap implementation.
| T | The type stored in the heap. |
| pred | A predicate that returns true if the first parameter is greater than the second. This predicate defines the sorting order between the heap items and is called during insertion and extraction. |
auto heap = new BinaryHeap!(int, "a > b"); heap.insert(1); heap.insert(3); heap.insert(2); assert(!heap.empty); assert(heap.count == 3); assert(heap.contains(2)); assert(heap.peek() == 3); assert(heap.extract() == 3); assert(heap.extract() == 2); heap.clear(); assert(!heap.contains(3)); assert(heap.empty); assert(heap.count == 0);
Construct a new binary heap.
By default the heap is allocated enough memory for 10,000 items. If more items are added, the heap can grow by doubling its allocation, ad infinitum. If the items within reduce to only use half of the current allocation the heap will half it. The heap will never shrink below the minimum capacity amount.
| size_t minCapacity | The minimum number of items to allocate space for. The heap will never shrink below this allocation. |
| AssertError | If the minimum allocated size is not big enough for at least one item. |
| OutOfMemoryError | If memory allocation fails. |
Get the number of items stored in the heap.
The number of items stored in the heap.
Test if the heap is empty or not.
true if the heap is empty, false if not.
Insert an item into the heap.
This method reallocates and doubles the memory used by the heap if no more items can be stored in available memory.
| T item | The item to insert into the heap. |
| OutOfMemoryError | If memory reallocation fails. |
Peek at the item on the top of the heap. This does not extract the item.
The item at the top of the heap.
| AssertError | If the heap is empty. |
Extract the value from the top of the heap and re-order the remaining items.
An item from the top of the heap.
| AssertError | If the heap is empty. |
| OutOfMemoryError | If memory reallocation fails. |
Check if a value is contained in the heap.
This is a simple linear search and can take quite some time with large heaps.
| T item | The item to find in the heap. |
true if the item is found on the heap, false if not.
Clears the heap.
This method reallocates the memory used by the heap to the minimum size if more is currently allocated.
| OutOfMemoryError | If memory reallocation fails. |


Martin Lewis busts parking ticket myths and confirms when you don't have to pay
Martin appeared on This Morning to discuss private parking tickets, telling one caller: “We did it on this show a few years ago, someone mis-heard, did a Facebook post about it that was then shared 300,000 times – and I've been trying to correct this one ever since.”
by James Rodger, https://www.facebook.com/jamesrodgerjournalistMartin Lewis has debunked a string of private parking ticket myths on when you don't have to pay.
Private parking fines are a very different beast to council-issued ones.
But after a Facebook post went viral saying you didn't have to pay, financial expert Martin went on TV to explain the actual rules.
The MoneySavingExpert founder is a financial guru full of handy tricks, tips and advice for consumers.
His MSE website is widely used by Brits - and Martin now has his own ITV1 show to boot.
He also routinely appears on a string of daytime TV favourites - from Good Morning Britain and This Morning to Lorraine.
Martin appeared on This Morning to discuss private parking tickets, telling one caller: “We did it on this show a few years ago, someone mis-heard, did a Facebook post about it that was then shared 300,000 times – and I've been trying to correct this one ever since.”
“Private parking tickets are invoices," Martin explained.
"So if they're unfair invoices you don't have to pay them.
"But I would always inform them that you believe they're unfair, if they have an appeals system go back through the appeals system.
"If they don't, write back and say it's unfair, and why you think it is."
But he also warned: "I would not ignore them, and I have never taken that stance."
How to contest a Parking Charge Notice?
Simply respond that you are refusing to pay.
DON'T say you are appealing the ticket, as this legitimises the ticket.
Also write "Without Prejudice" on the letter – then no information in the letter can be used against you.
What happens next?
If the company rejects your dispute, then you can escalate to the firm's trade member association.
You must have an official reference number from the company and their reasons for rejecting your dispute.
They will refer you to POPLA, the Independent Tribunal for Parking Fines.
Around 40 per cent of appeals are upheld in the favour of the public.
If you wish to dispute the ticket, then you have 28 days in which to dispute after the firm that issued the ticket has rejected your appeal.
I've been issued a Penalty Charge Notice - what should I do now?
If you have received a parking ticket, the person who issued it has determined that you have parked your car somewhere you’re not allowed to.
Firstly, you should work out if it's from the council, or a private company (these tend to look alike).
Once issued with a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) you will be expected to pay a penalty charge of £130 for a serious parking offence or £40-80 for a less serious offence - although this can vary by council.
You can reduce your fine by paying within 14-days.
I want to appeal my case:
If you think the PCN has been issued wrongly you must make your reasons known as soon as you can by writing to the address on the notice or getting in touch online.
Your appeal will then be reviewed and you will be made aware of the outcome.
You have 28 days to challenge a PCN.
If you do it within 14 days and your challenge is rejected, you may only have to pay 50 per cent of the fine.
If you're appealing your ticket, hold on to any photographs from the scene (e.g. unclear lines), letters you've received, mitigating circumstances and any statements if possible.
This also includes:
- A valid pay and display ticket
- A letter from someone who was with you saying what happened – write ‘Witness statement’ at the top of this
- A repair note, if your car broke down
Make sure you include:
- The date the ticket was issued
- Your address
- Your vehicle registration number
- The penalty notice number
To appeal your case, you'll need to prove your innocence.
You can appeal if the traffic signs were wrong, the council has made an error on the ticket, you've already paid the fine, the signs are misleading or confusing, you didn't own the vehicle at the time or you've been overcharged.
To start your appeal online, you'll have to enter your postcode at Gov.uk's 'Challenge a parking fine' page here.


public class TrafficManager
extends java.lang.Object
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
TrafficManager()
Construct a new TrafficManager.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
cacheInformation(StandardWorldModel world)
Compute pre-cached information about the world.
|
void |
clear()
Remove all objects from this manager.
|
TrafficArea |
findArea(double x,
double y)
Find the area that contains a point.
|
java.util.Collection<TrafficAgent> |
getAgents()
Get all TrafficAgents.
|
java.util.Collection<TrafficArea> |
getAreas()
Get all TrafficAreas.
|
java.util.Collection<TrafficBlockade> |
getBlockades()
Get all TrafficBlockades.
|
java.util.Collection<TrafficAgent> |
getNearbyAgents(TrafficAgent agent)
Get all agents in the same area or a neighbouring area as an agent.
|
java.util.Collection<TrafficArea> |
getNeighbours(TrafficArea area)
Get the neighbouring areas to a TrafficArea.
|
TrafficAgent |
getTrafficAgent(Human h)
Get the TrafficAgent that wraps a given human.
|
TrafficArea |
getTrafficArea(Area a)
Get the TrafficArea that wraps a given Area.
|
TrafficBlockade |
getTrafficBlockade(Blockade b)
Get the TrafficBlockade that wraps a given Blockade.
|
void |
register(TrafficAgent agent)
Register a new TrafficAgent.
|
void |
register(TrafficArea area)
Register a new TrafficArea.
|
void |
register(TrafficBlockade block)
Register a new TrafficBlockade.
|
void |
remove(Blockade block)
Remove a blockade.
|
void |
remove(TrafficBlockade block)
Remove a blockade.
|
public TrafficArea findArea(double x, double y)
x
- The X coordinate.y
- The Y coordinate.public java.util.Collection<TrafficArea> getNeighbours(TrafficArea area)
area
- The area to look up.public java.util.Collection<TrafficAgent> getNearbyAgents(TrafficAgent agent)
agent
- The agent to look up.public void clear()
public void register(TrafficArea area)
area
- The TrafficArea to register.public void register(TrafficAgent agent)
agent
- The TrafficAgent to register.public void register(TrafficBlockade block)
block
- The TrafficBlockade to register.public void remove(TrafficBlockade block)
block
- The TrafficBlockade to remove.public void remove(Blockade block)
block
- The Blockade to remove.public java.util.Collection<TrafficAgent> getAgents()
public java.util.Collection<TrafficArea> getAreas()
public java.util.Collection<TrafficBlockade> getBlockades()
public void cacheInformation(StandardWorldModel world)
register(TrafficArea)
and register(TrafficAgent)
.world
- The world model.public TrafficArea getTrafficArea(Area a)
a
- The area to look up.public TrafficBlockade getTrafficBlockade(Blockade b)
b
- The blockade to look up.public TrafficAgent getTrafficAgent(Human h)
h
- The human to look up.


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Note: All of these tools run only in the browser. No data is transmitted or stored off of your device.


Why Self-isolate
It's crucial we all play our part in defeating the coronavirus (COVID-19). By effectively self-isolating when we should, we protect ourselves, our families, friends and local communities and break the chains of transmission.
Self-isolation is about protecting others and slowing down the spread of coronavirus. It's very important that anyone who has the virus, or might have been exposed to it, limits the number of people they come into contact with for 10 days. This is the most effective way of preventing coronavirus from spreading.
Around 1 in 3 people that have COVID-19 are asymptomatic, this means they don't have coronavirus symptoms and feel healthy. If you're asked to Self-isolate, follow the advice even if you feel well. This helps keep you, your loved ones, and your community safe.
How COVID-19 is spread
COVID-19 spreads from person to person through small droplets, aerosols and through direct contact. Surfaces and belongings can also be contaminated with COVID-19 when people with the infection cough or sneeze or touch them. The risk of spread is greatest when people are close to each other, especially in poorly ventilated indoor spaces and when people spend a lot of time together in the same room.
People who have COVID-19 can infect others from around 2 days before symptoms start, and for up to 10 days after. They can pass the infection to others, even if they have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, which is why they must stay at home.
People who live in the same household as someone with COVID-19 are at higher risk of developing COVID-19. They could spread the disease to others even when feeling well, which is why they too must stay at home.
Law and penalties about Self-isolation
It's a legal requirement to Self-isolate if you test positive or are told to Self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace. You could be fined if you do not Self-isolate.
Benefits of Self-isolation
Self-isolating will reduce the spread of coronavirus and help prevent family, friends and the community from contracting coronavirus, as well as helping to protect the NHS.
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Wireframes:(Web, Tablet, Mobile)
As you can see by the wireframe illustrations, the page is built around a central project box that responds to the browser. I think the main point to get across here, is that whether you're on a mobile or on a computer, there is the same amount of clutter, almost none. The attempt is to make the design fit equally across all platforms. The header is stabilized to the left up top, but it doesn't need to respond because it's rather unassuming and it naturally fits well at all pixel widths.  I think I need some Javascript and CSS animation to deal with them. The page can also be split by halves (top and bottom) and are built to incorporate some more involvment in the top half, but I forgot to mark that out on the wireframes.


The title sequence is made using several full-screen bitmap images. In earlier games I’ve constructed images by carefully splitting them apart into 8x15 chunks, but this is clumsy and artistically limiting. Instead, I simply wrote a small program to process 1-bit images and convert them into a sequence of hex literals I can paste into Octo. The drawing routine that consumes them looks like this:
: draw-bitmap
clear
v0 := 0 # x
v1 := 0 # y
v2 := 0 # byte
v3 := 1 # constant
loop
sprite v0 v1 1
i += v3
v2 += 1
v0 += 8
if v0 == 64 then v1 += 1
if v0 == 64 then v0 := 0
if v1 != 32 then
again
;
Since I don’t have to do any load or store operations in the loop, I can just steadily increment i
. Each byte is drawn as an 8x1 sprite, with 8 such sprites per row. I liked the vertical wipe animation this approach produces, but if I wanted to draw as fast as possible I would probably rearrange the data so that I can draw columns as 2 8x15 slices and an 8x2 slice (if necessary), or for maximum uniformity draw columns of 8x8 tiles. It’s possible to produce a variety of simple transition effects by drawing portions of the screen in different orders.
note: I later refined this image packing utility into ImagePack, found in the tools directory.
Note that bitmaps like this are expensive! A single 32x64 pixel image will take up more than 1/16th your total supply of RAM. Since I only display the title sequence once at the beginning of the game, I reused that memory for scratch buffers in the main game engine. The platformer sequences modify level data in-place, but I need to be able to reset levels if the player makes a mistake. Thus, I start by making a copy of the level data, overwriting part of the title sequence:
: copy-level
v8 := 0
loop
# set i to base of current level
...
i += v8
load v7
i := level-buffer # overlaid with 'title2'
i += v8
save v7
v8 += 8
if v8 != 32 then
again
;
The first time I wrote this routine it was unpleasantly slow, but there was an easy way to speed it up- using load and store to do block copies through the 8 lowest registers. If we’re going to put up with the oddities of Chip8 memory operations at least we can find places they actually work to our advantage from time to time! Incidentally if we harness this and the fact that load and store increment i
automatically we can write a very tight loop for initializing memory:
: zero-buffer
i := buffer
v8 := 0
loop
save v7 # 'stamp' with v0-v7
v8 += 8
if v8 != BUFFER_SIZE then # assume the size is a multiple of 8
again
;
Finally, I used a rather unsavory trick for my text-drawing routine. The string data indexes into the sprite data (for compactness), so I have to juggle i
between two locations. i
can’t be backed up and won’t fit in a V-register, so we’re stuck. Or are we?
: draw-text
v1 := 2 # x
v2 := 1 # y
v3 := 0 # byte
# v4 contains length
loop
: text-addr i := 0 # self-modify to alter
i += v3
load v0
i := font
i += v0
sprite v1 v2 5
v1 += 5
if v1 == 62 then v2 += 6
if v1 == 62 then v1 := 2
v3 += 1
if v3 != v4 then
again
;
Code to call this routine looks like this:
v0 := 0xA3
v1 := 0x78
i := text-addr
save v1
v4 := 19
draw-text
I stuff the halves of an i := XXX
instruction into v0
and v1
and clobber those two words of the routine’s code before calling it. Remember, folks- the only difference between machine code and a data structure is your frame of mind. Calculating these constant payloads by hand is a bit tedious and I may look into providing Octo with some syntactic sugar.
note: this lead to the addition of :unpack and :next.
Most of the rest of the game implementation is fairly mundane. Like with the bitmap images and string/font preparation I discussed earlier I made use of a number of small utility programs to prepare data for consumption by the game engine. Overworld boards were drawn as bitmaps like this (blown up 4x):
And then converted into a sequence of bytes representing columns of 8 4x4 passable or impassable tiles:
: board0
0x28 0xEB 0x0A 0x7A 0x02 0xEF 0x28 0x2A
0x6A 0x4A 0x5A 0x42 0x7A 0x0A 0x6E 0x28
A series of 4 tables keep track of which board is adjacent in each cardinal direction from the current one. Here’s what the whole game map might look like if it was mashed together onto a grid sequentially:
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A FICTION OF LAW !
100 years of legal- fiction.
"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more money than a thousand men with guns." Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Remember Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men, or James Stewart
in Anatomy of a Murder, or the "take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the law of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice." (The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I). What Arthur C. Clarke, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and Isaac Asimov were to science fiction, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Richard North Patterson and Steve Martini are to legal fiction today. In the words of best-selling legal author William Bernhardt:
Glancing through the bestseller charts, we note the regular
presence of many genre practitioners and an overwhelming percentage of novels belonging to
the legal-fiction category occupying, in some weeks, up to half the charts. Every
succeeding year sees major new talents breaking into print, a further indication, if any
is needed, of the genre's robust health and unflagging energy. Despite a veritable
plethora of new titles, the general standards of quality always appear to be on the
increase. Why are so many lawyers dabbling in fiction? The question is a timely one in
light of the current rash of legal suspense novels. In the words of John Grisham:
Again the startling publishing success of the lawyer-procedural
since the late 1980's also can be related to massive changes in the historical conditions,
which underpin the production and consumption of suspense fiction. The collapse of the
Soviet Union, the disintegration of the eastern block and the end of the cold war made the
old-style NATO spy thrillers obsolete. Legal fiction stepped into this vacant niche in the
market, placing the thrills now in a domestic rather than an international setting and
capturing what commentators identified as "a new national mood of introspection
brought on by the loss of the ideological certainties associated with the old twin-
superpower world system." Each of these authors referred to in this compilation have
contributed to the field of legal fiction, explored the world of law and lawyers, bringing
their own viewpoint and unique insight to what seems an almost boundless arena. What
should strike the legal-fiction lover is the enormous variety of theme, style and content
these authors have shown in their works. Lawyer books might seem to all have the same
cover art, but between the covers there is a world of difference, from the flamboyance of
Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason to the shrewdness of John Masterman's Ernst Brendel and
from the dark world of Michael Nava's Henry Rios to the brighter world of John Mortimer's
Horace Rumpole.
THE PIONEERS
Goethe in Germany; Flaubert, Maupassant, Moliere, Jules Verne,
Balzac, Dumas, Gaston Leroux, Maurice Le Blanc and Proust in France; Chaucer, R. L.
Stevenson, John Evelyn, Henry Fielding, William Cowper, De Quincey, Thackeray, Sir Thomas
More, John Galsworthy, Charles Dickens (whose Bleak House is a recognized classic
within and outside the legal- fiction genre) and Walter Scott in England; James Fennimore
Cooper, Wallace Stevens and Henry James in United States; Leo Tolstoy in Russia; Bankim
Chandra Chartterjee and Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai in India: although all studied to
become lawyers, none of their works dealt in depth about the law, lawyers or justice.
Wilkie Collins, a Barrister in England in the late 19th
century, was the first to use the combination of law and fiction to spectacular heights.
However, few would consider him a popular cultural icon today. The works of Collins dealt
in depth with various legal issues. Unlike Post or Gardner, there was no 'The Protagonist'
in Collins work. The protagonist was the theme, rather than the character. No Name
(1862) dealt with the rights of illegitimate children, Armadale (1866) on
prostitution and abortion and Evil Genius (1886) on divorce and child custody. Women
in White and The Moonstone were good mysteries. However, Collins' works were
never considered as belonging to the legal-fiction genre during that period. Again Anna Katherine Green explored the ways of the law,
lawyers and justice in The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story (1872). Melville
Davisson Post's The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason (1896) is the first
acknowledged legal-fiction work, a grand collection of short stories. Post was a lawyer, a
politician, a judicial reformist and above all an author par excellence. Randolph
Mason, the protagonist of most Post short stories, was a skilled, unscrupulous lawyer who
used his knowledge of law to defeat the ends of justice. Mason assisted criminals by
cynically employing his familiarity with legal loopholes. However, in The Corrector of
Destinies we find a reformed Mason who acts more in the interest of the written law. The
Man of Last Resort is another good Mason work. However, the genre started to truly develop only in the second
decade of the twentieth century. Francis Noyes Hart in The Bellamy Trial (1926)
gave us the first novel-length courtroom drama, which was based on the famous Hall-Mills
case. The locale is a courtroom throughout, and the novel derives much of its immediacy
and conviction from being told through the consciousness of a young woman on a first
reporting assignment and a more cynical, experienced reporter who falls in love during the
eight days of the trial. During the trial sensations occur--a key witness commits suicide,
a dilatory witness, in compromising circumstances, appears at the last moment; the
solution is finally revealed only in a letter the judge receives in his chamber,
culminating in what is the best feature of crime novels, the format of a court procedure.
Theodore Dreiser in An American Tragedy (1923) gave us a detailed and harrowing
account of trial action involved in the murder trial of Clyde Griffiths, accused of a
rowboat drowning of his wife to marry a rich social heiress, known in trial as Miss X. The
book is loosely based on the 1906 trial and conviction of Chester Gillette for the murder
of Grace Brown. Raymond Postgate gives an in-depth study into the factors influencing jury
deliberations in The Verdict of Twelve. Postgate gives a detailed biography of six
of the twelve jurors, who must decide whether a middle-aged lady has committed the murder
of her nephew. Each juror brings a set of personal attitudes and problems,which prevents
them from considering evidence objectively, and responds emotionally rather than
realistically. The jury deliberations form the core of the novel with an unconventional
twist in the tail ending. John Buchan, a doyen among mystery writers of the time,
also tried his hand at legal fiction. After becoming a Barrister in 1900, he later became
a prolific crime writer, writing among many other works, the excellent The Thirty-Nine
Steps. In The Power- House; Buchan introduced Sir Edward Leithen, a man of
contemplation rather than that of action. Good Leithen works include John Macnab, The
Dancing Floor and Sick Heart River. Prolific crime writer G.K Chesterton also
gave us some memorable stories in legal fiction, but they never rose above the mystery
genre. More famed as the creator of Father Brown, Chesterton also penned the
stories of Basil Grant, a retired judge, who solves mysteries in tandem with his brother
Rupert, but these have fallen into oblivion. Good stories include " The Tremendous
Adventure of Major Brown" and "The Singular Speculation of the House Agent"
and others, which have been collected in a wonderful collection, Club of Queer Trades.
It was only in the late thirties and the early forties that legal
fiction developed as a special category in the genre of crime fiction.
THE THIRTIES TO FIFTIES
Erle Stanley Gardner
Arthur Train, an Assistant Attorney of New York County, saw
stories in the procession of human comedies and tragedies that passed through the criminal
court building. His first collection of short stories, McAllister and his Double,
contained four stories of a young attorney John Dockbridge. However, Train is best
remembered for his most famous character, Ephraim Tutt, a Lincolnesque lawyer with his
frock coat, stovepipe hat and fondness for stogies. The early Tutt stories all followed a
formula, the statement of the problem, the seeming impossibility of the triumph of justice
over the technicalities of law and Mr. Tutt's solution to the problem. Tutt is a figure
from American folklore, the shrewd Yankee on the side of the underdog. Great Tutt works
include The Hermit of Turkey Hollow, Adventures of Ephraim Tutt, Tut Tut Mr.
Tutt and Tutt for Tutt.
Henry Cecil was a contemporary of Gardner. However, Cecil was
more interested in legal issues and loopholes in the law than in courtroom dramas or in
flamboyant lawyers. Cecil had a good eye for detail, and though he was very knowledgeable
about law and the legal system he was never pedantic. His two main characters, Ambrose Low
and Colonel Brian, are shown as con men who never commit anything
illegal but twist the loopholes in the law to their advantage. Tell You What I'll Do,
No Bail for the Judge and According to Evidence (where Low gets a man acquitted
of murdering a murderer) are fascinating examples of Cecil's creativity. Brief to
Counsel and Not Such an Ass provide light reading into the day-to-day working
of the English legal system.
Harold Q. Masur is yet another famous lawyer-writer and
the creator of the flamboyant lawyer detective Scott Jordan. Though Jordan can be compared
to Perry Mason in the sense that both are lawyer detectives, Jordan tales generally eschew
the elaborate courtroom dramas that are the hallmark of Mason stories. Masur draws on his
legal background to provide plot springboards, which turn on some interesting aspect of
law that Jordan encounters during practice. Narrated in the first person, Jordan books are
tightly plotted, well clued and frequently surprising in denouement. The Big Money, The
Legacy Lenders and the short story collection The Name is Jordan are the best
among the Jordan works. Though not featuring Jordan, The Attorney is a classic tale
of a sensational sex-murder case which focus on the complexities of the criminal trial
system and legal ethics and is a must-read for the legal-fiction lover.
Edgar Lustgarten, a British criminologist and lawyer, started
his writing career in the early 1930's. Lustgarten realistically portrays lawyers, judges
and witnesses while maintaining suspense till the end. A Case to Answer is a
masterfully written narrative of a trial of a young man for the murder of a prostitute. Game
for Three Losers deals with an elaborate plot of blackmail involving a highly regarded
Member of Parliament. It portrays a legal system where innocents are not protected and
even worse, may be tried along with the guilty. Prisoner at the Bar, The Judges
and the Judged are other good works of this author reflecting not only an incisive wit
but also a probing criticism of the law.
Craig Rice (pseudonym for Georgina Randolph) the first dame in
legal- fiction is best remembered for the Chicago lawyer John J. Malone whom we first
encounter in 8 Faces at Three where the victim is found in a room where all the
clocks have stopped at three. Malone is no Perry Mason or Mr. Tutt, except in his success
in the courtroom, a setting we are never shown. Short and pudgy, with a red face and hair
always in need of combing, Malone wears a suit with a perpetual slept-in look, his
shirtfront and vest covered with cigar ash. However Malone's compelling interest in life
is justice. He will reveal the guilty party in the story and then proceed to defend him in
the coming trial. Other regulars in Malone novels include Jake and Helene Justuses and Von
Flanagan, a homicide detective. The basic format of Rice novels involves a statement of
the problem in an imaginative opening scene told from the viewpoint of the victim or chief
suspect and then shifts to introduce Malone. The success of Malone even prompted Rice to
adopt another pseudonym Ruth Malone. Trial By Fury and The Right Murder ranks best
among the Malone novels.
Henry Wade was a Justice of Peace and a County Alderman for
Buckingham shire in England. His experience as an Alderman is revealed in the exciting,
suspense thriller, Dying Alderman. In Missing Partners, Wade takes us to the
effects of miscarriage of justice on the victims of such miscarriage. Too Soon To Die
is an interesting thriller where the protagonist resorts to homicide and fake suicides to
escape from the exorbitant tax laws of England. On the whole Wade provides an enjoyable
evening read.
Cyril Hare (pseudonym for Alfred Alexander Clark) became a
county court Judge in 1950. But his series detective, Francis Pettigrew, is an aging and
unsuccessful lawyer who is barely making a living. He originally showed much promise and
aptitude for law, but a series of misfortunes have left him a bitter man. Hare's early
novels did not feature Pettigrew or Hare's legal expertise. Tragedy at Law is the
classic Hare work, which gave him recognition as a legal author. It is a lovingly detailed
story of a judge who falls onto the wrong side of the law when, while he is far from
sober, his car hits a pedestrian. Very near the end of the novel, a murder problem arises
and Pettigrew matches wits with the State and wins the case. Henry Cecil has acknowledged
this work as "a work of the highest class in detective fiction with a legal
background." Hare followed Tragedy at Law with With a Bare Bodkin, When the
Wind Blows and That Yew Tree's Shadow. Other regulars in Hare novels include
Inspector Mallett, who started as Hare's principal character in his earlier works but was
relegated to the status of a sidekick with the success of Pettigrew works. Pettigrew and
Hare both have gained an almost legendary status in the contemporary legal-fiction genre.
John Masterman, though a non-lawyer and a history teacher by
profession, is the creator of the famous Viennese law teacher and detective of
international repute Ernst Brendel. Brendel first stars in An Oxford Tragedy
considered a classic at the time of its publication in 1951. Brendel, who arrives in a
college to give a series of lectures, engages in a lively discussion of the nature of
crime and detection. Soon after the evening's discussion a teacher is found dead and
Brendel starts his investigation, which provides a thrilling read, filled with suspense
and mystery. In 1956 Brendel returned in another chilling mystery, The Case of the Four
Friends: Diversion in Pre- Detection, another minor classic. It is very difficult not
to like this erudite, sophisticated and compassionate Viennese lawyer. However, it is a
mystery why Masterman did not create other Brendel mysteries following the success of
these two works.
Henry C. Bailey was one of the acknowledged superstars of the
Golden Period of British mystery. Bailey is best remembered for the fictional lawyer
Joshua Clunk, a lawyer who strongly believes that end always justifies the means. Clunk is
a family-minded man and resorts to brain rather than brawn in conducting his
investigations. In The Great Game Clunk he deviously establishes doubt about police
evidence to secure an open verdict. In Slippery Ann, Clunk gets a client acquitted
but immediately initiates additional enquiry. Other novels include The Wrong Man, The
Little Captain and Shrouded Dead. In short, Bailey entertains.
Anthony Gilbert is the pseudonym of author Lucy Beatrice
Malleson. She is famous for creating one of most interesting fictional lawyer-detectives
of all time, "the criminal's hope and judge's despair" Arthur G. Crook, who has
for a change not even one success to his name. Crook is a colourful, cheeky, hardworking
middle-aged, cockney guy who, in spite of his diligence, occasionally lapses from standard
professionalism. His office (like many a screen detective's) is shabby and in shambles.
Crook is a regular 'hero to the rescue'. Though the regular plot is murder, the works are
never redundant. Good works include And Death Came Too, A Question of Murder, The
Visitor and Death Wears.
Dr. R. Austin Freeman's creation Dr. John Thorndyke, like
the author, is both a doctor and a lawyer. Thorndyke remains as one of the most convincing
scientific investigators in contemporary crime fiction. Accuracy of technical details,
precise scientific investigation, etc, are the hallmarks of all Thorndyke novels. The
medical-jurist's keen acumen both as a doctor and as a lawyer is revealed in all Thorndyke
novels, the classic one being The Cat's Eye. A Silent Witness and As A
Thief in the Night are rich in technical details. Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes is
based on the Druce- Portland case of 1907. Freeman's ability to ring the changes from one
Thorndyke case to the next is almost as remarkable a feat as his original conception of
this great medical jurist.
Richard Lockridge was a well-known, prolific crime writer. He
has left his mark in legal fiction also with the character Bernie Simmons, an Assistant
New York District Attorney. And Left for the Dead and Devious Ones are good
Simmons novels.
August W. Derleth created Judge Ephraim Peck, a shrewd,
elderly small town lawyer. As a crime writer or as a legal-fiction writer, Derleth's
career was overshadowed by the other big names in legal fiction during the period. Mischief
in the Lane, Murder Stalks the Wakely Family and Man on All Fours are best
among the Derleth works. Derleth's plots, though good, lack finesse and polish, and this
might account for the author's dismal performance as a legal-fiction author. Skip Derleth
and you have missed nothing.
C.W. Grafton embarked on one of detective fiction's most
original title patterns with the critically acclaimed The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope.
Following the lines of the old nursery rhyme Grafton could have completed a ten-volume
series about Kentucky lawyer Gil Henry. That he stopped with The Rat
Began to Gnaw the Rope and The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher, is regrettable
not because of such tantalizing titles but because Henry was one of the most promising
lawyer-detectives of the forties. The rapid plot movement and legal background recall Erle
Stanley Gardner, especially The Rope Began to Hang the Butcher, in which Henry's
fancy footwork would do Perry Mason proud. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is one of the
finest non-Henry, Grafton works where a lawyer defends himself of a not-unjustified
murder. Though the Henry novels are just two in number, Grafton has carved a niche in
popular legal- fiction folklore. However, today Grafton is better known as the father of
novelist Sue Grafton.
Marie Lowndes, another non-lawyer and a descendant of Joseph
Priestly and a prot�g�e of Robert Browning, drew on her knowledge of courts and lawyers
and of recent crimes to produce a series of carefully plotted crime and suspense novels. Lizzie
Borden, Motive and The Chink in the Armour traces the fallacies and
shortcomings of the Marriage laws, whereby women become subject to the most cruel and
degrading treatment at the hands of their spouses. Lizzie Borden and Letty
Lytton involve lengthy inquests and trials all based on actual court scenes. Marie
Lowndes provides an interesting read not only to the hardcore legal fiction lover but also
to the reader who enjoys popular fiction.
Waynan Jones (pseudonym for Norman Daniels) deserves
his place over here, not because he is a great legal author, but because he has created
the one and only super-hero lawyer in the wide world of fictional lawyers. He created a
crime fighter, The Black Bat, who was really an attorney, Tony Quinn. Black Bat is a Shadow
type of character. Good books include Murder Town, Murder Calls Black Bat, and Voice
of Doom. Waynan Jones is a welcome 'change' in this category of legal authors. And
speaking of comics, did you know that America's favourite teenager, Archie Andrews, of Archie
Comics eventually became a lawyer? (See, Riverdale: Fifteen Years Later). Other good lawyers-turned-authors of this period included James M.
Fox (pseudonym for J.M.W.Knipscheer), Benjamin Benson, Fergus Hume, Octavious Ray Cohen,
Dornford Yates, Roy Fuller and C.H.B.Kitchin. They are good authors of popular fiction
but, while none of their works can be included in the class of legal fiction, they will
provide good reading for the connoisseur of crime fiction.
THE SIXTIES TO EIGHTIES
The sixties and seventies showed a severe dearth of legal authors.
However it was in this period that one of the alll-time greatest works in legal fiction, To
Kill a Mockingbird, was written.  Atticus
Finch was immortalized by Gregory Peck, who won an Oscar as best actor in the screen
adaptation of the novel. Through the eyes of two children, Scott and Jem Finch, Harper Lee
explored the irrationality and hypocrisy of adult attitudes about race and class in the
Deep South of the thirties. A haunting and touching read, To Kill a Mocking Bird
remains one of the classic works of all time and it would be a crime to the book, if it
were just relegated to the status of legal fiction alone. Michigan Judge Robert
Traver's Anatomy of a Murder, a courtroom drama, about a man accused of killing
a man who raped his wife, had a controversial ending and was another acknowledged classic
in legal fiction written during this period. But apart from these works, good books in legal fiction were few
and were far between.
William Harrington was an attorney who made his mark in legal
fiction during this period and has continued his success into the nineties. He used his
legal expertise as a specialist in courtroom drama. Which The Justice, Which The Thief,
designed as a corrective to inaccurate media depictions of court room procedure, concerns
the trial of a man and a woman accused of armed robbery of a jewel store. The clarity of
the writing and the keen observation of people and institutions make this work a
semi-classic in the realm of legal fiction. This work was followed by Trial, which
deals with the politics of capital punishment, and Power, which are best sellers in
their own right. Harrington returned to another courtroom drama with Partners, rich
in ambiguity of the law and morality and the fact that truth and the appropriate verdict
on evidence do not always coincide. Harrington's other works include The Jupiter
Crisis, Scorpio 5 and Skin Deep, which are good thrillers but cannot fall into
the category of legal fiction.
George V. Higgins, a graduate of the Boston Law School in
Massachusetts and a former Attorney, has been associated with realistic dialogue,
intricate plotting, and a persistent digging into the political, social and criminal
landscapes of Greater Boston since the publication in 1972 of The Friends of Eddie
Coyle. A year later came The Diggers Game, a best seller. Higgins speaks in a
voice that rings with social conscience and aspires to the timbre of Dickens. Most books
feature lawyer and a sort- of detective Jerry Kennedy. Good works include Kennedy
for the Defence, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, Cogan's Trade and a Choice of
Enemies. Higgins was the acknowledged superstar in this field during this period.
However, since the eighties Higgins has more or less lost his charm as a legal author with
the arrival of Grisham, Turow and Martini. Nevertheless, good books which made bestseller
charts in spite of this hefty competition include The Agent and A Change of
Gravity.
Michael Gilbert, a London Solicitor, authored the critically
acclaimed masterpiece, Smallbone Deceased, which bridged the gap between classic
whodunits and legal fiction. Though Death of a Favourite Girl and Mr. Calder and
Mr. Behrens are other good works, they do not boast of the finesse of Smallbone
Deceased. On the whole Gilbert's novels are not only plausible but also possess an
unusual substance, not felt in many an author's works.
Eleazar Lipsky, during a twenty year running writing career,
authored many books including Murder One and The Devils daughter. In Murder
One, Lipsky presents New York Asst. DA Esau Frost, who prosecutes a prostitute accused
of murder. Behind-the-scenes courtroom action is a highlight of this novel. In The
Scientists Lipsky presents a situation where a scientist is accused of usurping credit
for the discovery of a wonder drug from a fellow scientist. (I believe this work to be the
first one dealing with patent right in the field of legal fiction). Malpractice is
an excellent courtroom drama on medical negligence. The People Against O'Hara and
Lincoln McKeever are other good works of this author who achieved enviable success
during this period.
Roderic Jeffries is a best-selling novelist and author of more
than 90 thrillers, most of them being of the whodunit type. However ,Jeffries' background
in law and lawyering has been skillfully narrated in three great courtroom dramas. In Evidence
of the Accused, two men, the husband and the lover are tried for the murder of a
wealthy socialite. Each confesses to the crime while the other is being tried. The ending
is a tour de force, which produces the murderer and leaves him free outside the
reach of law. Like Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution it keeps the
reader guessing till the very end and is a page- turner in the real sense of the term. In
an An Embarrassing Death, a person accused of murder undertakes his own defence
without help of any lawyer. Dead Against The Lawyers is yet another riveting
courtroom drama from this great lawyer-turned-whodunit storyteller. Among mystery writers who combine intelligence, wit and
cleverness, it is hard to beat Jane Langton, whose novels feature Homer Kelly,
attorney, scholar, and sometimes detective; they are not only entertaining but also
instructive and thoughtful. Homer Kelly is tall, ungainly, ill-dressed and brilliant as a
lawyer and a detective. In The Transcendental Murder Kelly investigates the murders
of local amateur experts on the transcendentalists. The Memorial Hall Murder has
Kelly investigating a crime among the Harvard Faculty. Kelly has traces of Perry Mason
here and there, but in the world of fictitious lawyers Kelly occupies a special position.
Jack Ehrlich was a writer who found his true metier as an
author of westerns. However, the author has made his contribution to the realm of legal
fiction also. In Revenge, Ehrlich put forward a unique theme. It briefly summarizes
two trials of the protagonist, one as an advocate and the other as the defendant. A good
read. In Court Martial, Ehrlich takes us into the world of Lt. Carl Richter ,a
fill-in trial officer of the US Air Force, who tries the case of an officer accused of
desertion. The Girl Cage is an interesting read into the plea of insanity regarding
the mental competency of the only witness in a murder case. The Drowning and The
Chantham Killing are other good works of this author.
Robert L. Fish is best known for Sir Percival Pugh, whom we
first encounter in The Murder League. Here three down-and-out elderly writers take
to murder to gain publicity and show that they still have'it' in them. Pugh is faced with
the difficulty of defending them. A good book with strong comic touches. This work was
followed by two sequels, Rub-a-Dub-Dub and A Gross Miscarriage of Justice.
In A Handy Death, attorney hank Ross defends a baseball player who is accused of
murder, when the victim dies of injuries suffered as a result of the accused's assault
eight years back. A good trial drama. Fish, I believe, is the only American author to
realistically portray the British legal system in his works. Fish also is credited with
creating the TV series Trials of O'Brien, which has been compiled in a short story
collection with the same tittle.
Michael Underwood is a Solicitor and crime writer who works
largely by undramatic means. This might seem a contradiction. Crime and especially murder,
is at first blush a strongly dramatic affair. But it is so only at first blush.
Underwood's legal background conveys not only the full tedium of the crime but also covers
a good deal of its sober progress from point to point. He does this by describing the
course of investigation, the course of legal process and finally the court room scenes,
which are all narrated in a wholly undramatic manner. Good works include The Unprofessional
Spy, Menaces, Menaces and Hand of Fate.
Evan Hunter is the author of A Matter of Conviction, The
Paper Dragon and Three Blind Mice. A Matter of Conviction is about juvenile
delinquency where three young men are accused of murder. The Paper Dragon is a
fascinating exploration into the world of writers and publishers and into the law of
copyright. Evan Hunter has continued his success into the nineties also, one of the few
authors of this period to achieve distinction in spite of the presence of genre
specialists Grisham and Turow. Lizzie takes us to the life of Lizzie Borden
(earlier explored by Marie Lowndes). Under the pseudonym Ed McBain Hunter created
Florida lawyer-sleuth Mathew Hope, who in Three Blind Mice defends a wealthy tomato
grower of murder of Vietnamese immigrants; in Mary, Mary he defends a school
teacher of murder. Ed McBain is more a nineties writer than Evan Hunter. This change of
name might well account for Hunter gaining success in the nineties. Gladly The Cross-
Eyed Bear is another good Hope novel.
Sara Woods is best remembered for her creation, the barrister,
Anthony Maitland, 'a barrister who never loses a case'. Her forty-eight
Maitland works are a fascinating study of the English legal system and explore the way
that barristers, solicitors and police try to see justice done within the sometimes
frustrating boundaries of the system, an insight into which is found in Wood's critically
acclaimed Bloody Instructions. Woods' books are more than Perry Mason-like accounts
of trials. Each case study builds logically to a courtroom climax. Case studies include
child custody battles as in Most Deadly Hate, art theft (Cry Guilty), libel (Enter
a Gentle Woman), and even amnesia as in Defy the Devil. On the whole Anthony
Maitland books are interesting mysteries that provide pleasant puzzles and an insight into
the law at work. They ought not to be read one after another as they can seem much alike
after a while, but as most things, as part of a mixed diet they are fine. Throughout his legal career--as a private attorney, county
prosecutor, state legislator and trial judge-- Joe L. Hensley has kept up a second
career as a mystery writer. Hensley's tone is quiet and low-keyed; his pace is unfrenetic
and unhurried and he has a nice talent for character drawing. The majority of his books
deal with the crusading Bington criminal lawyer Donald Robak. Hensley has little interest
in fireworks displays of legal ingenuity in the Gardner tradition, and his novels tend to
avoid the courtroom. The offenders vary from a female juvenile defender as in Minor
Murders to a disgraced former cop as in Outcasts. Hensley is at his best in Robak's
Cross, which has, for a change, more courtroom action than all Robak novels put
together.
Lawrence Block, the prolific thriller author, though he had no
formal training in law, has also tried his hand at legal fiction. He has created New York
lawyer Martin Ehrengraf, who can at best be referred to as the black sheep among fictional
lawyers. Randolph Mason might have been unscrupulous but he is no match for the
deviousness of Ehrengraf, whose philosophy and style of practice make Mason look like a
saint. He was featured in several stories including The Ehrengraf Method and in The
Ehrengraf Presumption. In The Ehrengraf Method, the protagonist arranges for
the release of his client, a serial killer, by the simple ploy of committing murder in the
same style when his client is in jail. In The Ehrengraf Presumption, the lawyer
gets the Client A off on a murder charge by framing B for the crime; then takes on B as a
client and gets him off by framing C. During this period, as I said earlier, legal-
fiction faced a lull, and the legal profession was held in contempt; and this might have
accounted for the success of Ehrengraf novels, which were a pure snub of the world of the
law and lawyers. And finally, there was Edward Grierson, a
lawyer-turned-writer who took to fiction but did not stick with legal fiction alone and
has won fame as an international thriller author of repute. However, his best work on law
is The Second Man, about the trials of a lady barrister, both in and out of
the court, and won for him the British Crime Writer award in 1956. Reputation for a
Song is a composed study of a domestic murder and a good courtroom drama. The suspense
is not in finding the identity of the murderer, but in finding whether he will hang. The
Massingham Affair and A Crime of One's Own are other good legal works of
Grierson. But, as I said, legal fiction faced a lull in this period. Good
books were rare and great authors, only a handful.
THE NINETIES & AFTER
The late 1970's and early 80's showed a slump in the field of
legal fiction. But in the late eighties the arrival of two youngsters into this field
transformed the face of legal fiction forever. John Grisham and Scott Turow
have made legal fiction the Ain thing@ in the field of popular crime fiction. The
publication of Turow's Presumed Innocent in 1987electrified the legal-fiction genre
and prompted even many a non-legal author to start writing about law and lawyers. A number
of women authors have also achieved stupendous success with the creative use of the law in
this period. In this category I have clubbed lawyer- writers and non-lawyer writers,
though the majority among them are lawyers-turned-authors. More than one hundred authors
have gained popularity as legal authors during this period.
John Grisham, as a young lawyer, took to fiction as a pass
time. His first work was the critically acclaimed A Time to Kill.  But it was with the success of his next work The Firm that
Grisham leapt into the league of best-selling authors. The book became a movie starring
Tom Cruise. It was the story of a young lawyer who single-handedly moves against the Mafia
that has a stranglehold over his Firm and its partners. The publication of The Chamber secured
critical acclaim to Grisham once again. It was a story of a young lawyer defending his
grandfather, an erstwhile member of the Ku-Klux clan accused of murder. The Rainmaker
dealt with the trials and difficulties of a young lawyer struggling to make a mark in his
profession. The Pelican Brief was another chiller thriller: what do you do if a
judge stands in the way of your winning the case?  It was a
story of a young woman (played wonderfully by Julia Roberts in the screen version) who
discovered this truth and the danger she faced in trying to bring the guilty to the book. The
Runaway Jury showed how the jury system could be manipulated so as to achieve the
verdict one desires. The book dealt with the case of a compensation claim against a
tobacco-manufacturing company for causing cancer to smokers. In the book heavy damages
were paid. It is ironic that soon after the release of this book an American Jury awarded
a huge compensation to the wife of a person who died of cancer caused due to smoking. The
Client, The Partner, The Testament, and The Brethren, though bestsellers, could
not boast of the legal-thrill, which was the hallmark of other Grisham works. However, the
publication of The Street Lawyer, a story about a lawyer who grows disgusted with
his money-oriented profession and turns to social interest litigation, provides an
interesting read. The author's next work, A Painted House, is expected to hit the
stands in early 2001.Grisham also wrote the screenplay for the movie The Gingerbread
Man. A gripping narration and a fast-paced theme are the secrets of Grisham's success.
Scott Turow's Harvard Law School training, recorded in One
L, a non-fiction description of his experiences as a first-year law student, has
provided a solid legal foundation for his novels. The result is five hard-hitting,
thought-provoking novels that go beyond the limitations of the mystery genre to face the
illusory nature of reality and what is meant by justice. Though Pleading Guilty, Laws
of Our Fathers and Personal Injuries have become best sellers, it is still his
first two books, Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof by which Turow is
identified. If Grisham based all his novels in Memphis, it was Kindle County that formed
the background of all of Turow's works. Presumed Innocent captures the
investigation scene, the suspense and the internal maneuverings of a headline trial where
the prosecuting attorney himself is accused of the murder of his mistress. Told in the
first person, from the viewpoint of Rusty Sabich, the accused prosecutor, it traces the
moral dilemma, confusion and ethical confrontation of Sabich and his lawyer Sandy Stern.
The result is a first class thriller, which later became a movie starring Harrison Ford.
Turow's next work, Burden of Proof, traced the personal trials of Sandy Stern, who
came home one day to find that his wife had committed suicide and showed how he balanced
his professional obligations and his personal tragedies. Turow's sense of courtroom
finesse and skill at misdirection is clearly revealed in these two thrillers and is a
must-read for every legal-fiction lover. Turow's latest novel, Personal Injuries,
centers on lawyer Rob Feaver, who bribes judges who decide his cases. Though not as
exciting as Presumed Innocent, Personal Injuries does provide a good read.
Incidentally Turow also has edited a short story collection, Guilty as Charged. Traditionally, legal fiction has been restricted to novels. But John
Mortimer has broken the shackles and introduced the short story into this realm.
Mortimer describes himself as a 'writer who does some barristering', though he has been a
defense lawyer since 1948. His creation Horace Rumpole is yet another example of the
creation becoming more famous than the creator. Rumpole can no doubt be referred to as
England's favorite defense barrister. He is a fearless tamer of judges (often addressing
them as 'old darling or 'sweetheart'), but always kept in order by 'She Who Must Be
Obeyed' (Rumpole's wife Hilda). Rumpole is known, not surprisingly, as a 'character.' His
exploits at the Old Bailey, an unsurpassable blend of eloquence, wit, cynicism and
experience, are collected in eleven wonderful short story collections including Rumpole
for the Defence, Rumpole a la Carte and The Trials of Rumpole. Critics have
praised Rumpole to the best mock-heroic fatty since Falstaff and as the nearest thing to
the Wodehousian perfection of Jeeves stories. Rumpole stories have won for Mortimer, the
prestigious British Academy Writer of the Year Award. Rumpole also became a television
series starring Leo McKern. In addition to the Rumpole series John Mortimer also has
written some great law dramas, including The Dock Brief, a touching story of an
unsuccessful barrister who finds it difficult to make ends meet, and also has edited Famous
Trials, a non-fiction work about great English criminal trials.
Steve Martini is an exception among legal authors in the sense
that he was an author before he became a lawyer. Martini's first novel ,The Simeon
Chamber, was followed by Compelling Evidence, starring attorney Paul Madriani,
about a highly charged murder trial, and has been translated into almost fifteen
languages. Following its success Martini wrote Prime Witness, another Madriani
thriller, and yet another bestseller. But it was Undue Influence, published in
1994, that won Martini international fame as a legal author. This book is an unputdownable
courtroom drama keeping the reader at tenterhooks till the very end. Martini, before
becoming a full-time novelist, was a journalist specializing in law issues. Later ,as a
lawyer, he also had the privilege of drafting numerous legislation for the California
Legislature. Martini has followed the success of Undue Influence with The List,
The Judge, The Attorney (featuring Madriani) and Critical Mass. His
latest book The Jury is expected to hit the stands in early 2001.
Richard North Patterson is a lawyer writer who stands along
with Grisham, Martini and Turow as best- selling legal authors, not only in Europe and
America but also in India. A former Assistant Attorney General of Ohio and a reputed trial
lawyer in Washington, he was also involved in the Special Prosecutor team covering the
Watergate Scandal.  However, his novels also bear a high
sense of righteousness and ethics. His first novel, The Lasko Tangent, won the
Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1979. The book was a result of his experiences as a trial lawyer
during the Watergate Scandal and is loosely based on the same. This was followed by The
Outside Man, Escape the Night and Private Screening. His works Degree of
Guilt and Eyes of a Child both feature attorney Christopher Paget of The
Lasko Tangent fame. Patterson was awarded the French Grand Prix de Littt'erateur
Polici'ere award in 1995. The Final Judgment, Silent Witness, No Safe Place,
Protect and Defend and Dark Lady are other good books by Richard North
Patterson.
Willam J. Coughlin was a late-comer to legal fiction. His
contributions to legal fiction are just five in number, written between 1988 and 1992,
before his death in 1993. In Her Honor Coughlin presented Kathleen Talbot a judge
who falls in love with an attorney whose case she is trying. A courtroom drama of the
first order, it also provides an in-depth study about the justifiability of euthanasia. In
The Presence of Enemies is a courtroom drama about the legacy of a multi-millionaire,
who left too much to his 'young fourth wife.' However, Coughlin is best remembered for
Detroit lawyer Charley Sloan, who first appears in the whodunit courtroom drama Shadow
of a Doubt, which has been referred to as the classic Coughlin. Death Penalty, Day
of Wrath, Heart of Justice and The Judgement are other good Coughlin works.
Sol Stein started his career in the mid-seventies but attained
popularity only in the early eighties. Stein is the creator of ace defense lawyer George
Thomassy, a very skilled advocate who gives the best for his clients, whether guilty or
not. In The Magician, Thomassy investigates the assault and battery committed on an
amateur magician while in Other People Thomassy defends a strong-willed rape
victim. The Touch of Treason is another good work.
Lisa Scottoline practiced as a trial lawyer in Philadelphia
before turning to full-time legal fiction. She had also served as a law clerk in the
Pennsylvania Circuit Court of Appeals. Her first novel, Everywhere That Mary Went,
was nominated for the Edgar Award, while her second novel, Final Appeal, won the
Edgar. Her great works include Rough Justice, Legal Tender and Running From the
Law. Mistaken Identity is another good work by Scottoline. It seems that she derived
her inspiration to write this novel, a story about a lawyer defending her twin accused of
murder, after meeting her half-sister, about whom Scottoline came to know about only very
recently. Scottoline is one of the few women legal authors who have attained best seller
status, the first since Craig Rice in the forties. People Magazine has called her
'the female Grisham.' Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Scottoline's latest work, A Moment of Truth, has just hit the best seller charts in
Europe and U.S. It is just a matter of time before Scottoline makes it as big as Martini
and Turow have in India.
A. W. Gray, through his pseudonym Sarah Gregory, has
won the title of 'another female Grisham' and has created the Texas sleuth and lawyer
Sharon Hays. Sharon Hays has appeared in more than four novels. Public Trust, The Best
Defense, Capitol Hill and In Self Defense are good books by Gregory. In In
Self Defense, Sharon defends the daughter of a multi-millionaire accused of killing
her father. To add masala, there is the presence of a psychotic killer who is bent
on killing Hays, all culminating in a good courtroom drama. In In Best Defense,
Sharon Hays defends a Hollywood actress accused of murdering an actor. A good read but is
reminiscent of certain whodunit type books of Agatha Christie. * I am a lawyer
practicing in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Along with my legal practice I am also studying a
post graduate course in Human Rights and in Business Law. As a student of law, I
represented my College, (Kerala Law Academy Law College, Kerala University,
Thiruvananthapuram, India) for several National and a few International Moot Court
Competitions. I am also a member of ILSA, the International Law students Association. I
enjoy popular legal- fiction and am a proud owner of all Grisham novels. I have read all
Turow works (I'm intending to start a collection soon) and also enjoy the Rumpole works
of John Mortimer. I also relish an occasional Martini and a rare Scot (ch) t-oline with a
Patterson on the side. |


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The new Lean (merged just yesterday) breaks mathlib
naturally
what should we do then?
the breakage is mostly just theorems that moved from here to there or vice versa
travis seems to disagree
$ cd /c/lean Kenny Lau@DESKTOP-F01EMD3 MINGW64 /c/lean $ git log -1 --pretty=oneline 92826917a252a6092cffaf5fc5f1acb1f8cef379 fix(library/module_mgr): ignore '\r' changes Kenny Lau@DESKTOP-F01EMD3 MINGW64 /c/lean $ cd /c/mathlib Kenny Lau@DESKTOP-F01EMD3 MINGW64 /c/mathlib $ git pull Already up-to-date. Kenny Lau@DESKTOP-F01EMD3 MINGW64 /c/mathlib $ winpty /c/lean/bin/lean --make C:\mathlib\tactic\mk_iff_of_inductive_prop.lean:50:9: error: unknown identifier 'drop_pis' [...]
I think travis uses the old lean
Travis uses the Lean version specified in leanpkg.toml.
which is 3.4.1
in that case I think we're fine
we can just make an update commit at some point
so I need to refrain from using 3.4.2? I really like the \r
fix though...
adapting to 3.4.2 isn't totally trivial, at least we have to import the removed things and remove any mathlib patches for the bugs
https://github.com/leanprover/lean/compare/17fe3de...master
changes
I'll just go back to 3.4.1 then
I can't find a 3.4.2 on lean repo
are you sure it's released?
It's not. The nightly is.
I build Lean myself
I'm ready to release 3.4.2, but maybe someone wants to port mathlib first and make sure everything works out. With the intended branch layout, that would happen on the master
branch while regular mathlib stays on the 3.4.1
default branch :) ...
oh man imagine when Lean 4 comes out
@Mario Carneiro I think coinductive was removed, and I think tactic/mk_iff_of_inductive_prop.lean
depends on it
The branch 3.4.2
in leanprover-community/mathlib
compiles with the latest nightly Lean.
For reference, here are the relevant commits to base Lean removing coinductive_predicates and removing relators and transfer.
All I did was copy the old coinductive_predicates
to meta
, merge the old relator
into logic/relator
, copy transfer
to tactics
, and then add the necessary import
statements. I think the only thing that was removed that hasn't been added back in this branch is the transfer-related stuff in library/data/dlist
since it only seemed to be used in the code in int
that was removed.
Looks good. @Sebastian Ullrich , I think we are go for launch
@Mario Carneiro I forgot to mention that the file tests/coinductive
currently uses #check
, #print
and admit
, which seems to be against mathlib style.
so I need to refrain from using 3.4.2? I really like the
\r
fix though...
What's the \r
fix?
@Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir It's a fix for an issue that windows users were having with unnecessary recompilation: see https://github.com/leanprover/lean/pull/1986
I've PR'd the 3.4.2 branch: https://github.com/leanprover/mathlib/pull/610
@Mario Carneiro The recent "feat(data/complex/basic): smul_re,im" commit has broken mathlib (travis). The issue is these lemmas in ring_theory.algebra
.
Fixed, thanks for pointing this out.
Some lines were removed from https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/blob/c91e6c2eb882b0fea4f4bdbba2b1c498cdf40da1/src/ring_theory/algebra.lean#L348-L355 which I think is good.
However, I don't like the names of https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/commit/72634d2c5ca048582107778aab164ac12aba0d40 because there is now •
in sight. Shouldn't these be called coe_mul_re
or something like that? Or they might also actually use the scalar multiplication, but maybe that imports too much high-level stuff?
I don't think complex
should ever use •
except in translating facts from modules
there should be a simp lemma that rewrites r • x : complex
to \u r * x
Ok, that's fine with me.
So maybe those removed lemmas should be replaced with those simp lemmas
But I still think that the current smul_re
doesn't follow the naming conventions.
given that there aren't going to be any theorems about smul
itself like this, I think it's fine, since it's still "morally" smul
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Mā niddābahulo ahu jāgarassu;
Mā taṁ alasaṁ pamattabandhu,
Kūṭeneva jinātu maccurājā.
Get up, Kātiyāna, and sit!
Don’t sleep too much, be wakeful.
Don’t be lazy and let the kinsman of the heedless,
the King of Death, catch you in his trap.
Seyyathāpi mahāsamuddavego,
Evaṁ jātijarātivattate taṁ;
So karohi sudīpamattano tvaṁ,
Na hi tāṇaṁ tava vijjateva aññaṁ.
Like a wave in the mighty ocean,
birth and old age sweep you under.
Make a safe island of yourself,
for you have no other shelter.
Satthā hi vijesi maggametaṁ,
Saṅgā jātijarābhayā atītaṁ;
Pubbāpararattamappamatto,
Anuyuñjassu daḷhaṁ karohi yogaṁ.
The teacher has mastered this path,
which transcends chains, and the fear of birth and old age.
Be diligent all the time
and dedicate yourself to practice.
Purimāni pamuñca bandhanāni,
Saṅghāṭikhuramuṇḍabhikkhabhojī;
Mā khiḍḍāratiñca mā niddaṁ,
Anuyuñjittha jhāya kātiyāna.
Free yourself from your former bonds!

Jhāyāhi jināhi kātiyāna,
Yogakkhemapathesu kovidosi;
Pappuyya anuttaraṁ visuddhiṁ,
Parinibbāhisi vārināva joti.
Meditate and conquer, Kātiyāna,
you’re an expert in the path to sanctuary.
Attaining unexcelled purity,
you’ll be quenched, as a flame by water.
Pajjotakaro parittaraṁso,
Vātena vinamyate latāva;
Evampi tuvaṁ anādiyāno,
Māraṁ indasagotta niddhunāhi;
So vedayitāsu vītarāgo,
Kālaṁ kaṅkha idheva sītibhūto”ti.
… Kātiyāno thero ….
A lamp of feeble flame
is bent down by the wind, like a creeper;
just so, kinsman of Indra,
shake off Māra, without grasping.
Free of lust for feelings,
await your time here, cooled.


OSNews did it again today, but not only did they
announce Xfce 4.2.1 before it was
officially released, this time they did
the same for KDE's 3.4 release. Neither xfce.org nor kde.org contained any mention of a new release at the time the
announcements where published on OSNews. In today's open source world, the most difficult part
of release engineering seems to be preventing news sites from announcing releases before they
actually happen, in order to get a smooth release. This worked amazingly well with the Xfce
4.2.0 release, but not before I mailed several news sites that they should not post anything
until they get an official notice.
I finally got EnigMail working with native Mozilla on
NetBSD/i386 -current (latest Mozilla 1.5.1 from pkgsrc with
enigmail 0.82.2). I uploaded the XPI files here.
To install the XPI files, run Mozilla as root, open the directory that
contains the three XPI files in the browser and click on the files to
install them, in the following order: The IPC module, the enigmime
package and finally the enigmail package. Finally start Mozilla and
configure enigmail as mentioned on the EnigMail website.
 For example, if you are running NetBSD/alpha, you shouldn't use any optimizations to cc(1), because
gcc is still buggy on Alpha. And in general you should think twice before setting the optimization level above 2, because this might cause
several programs to segfault frequently or not run at all. Here are some lines from my mk.conf, which might help you
(they will honor all default values but -O*):
When trying to fix bugs in packages, it is helpful to append -Wall -Werror to COMMONCFLAGS, but beware: This might
break a lot of configure scripts (so, you have the chance to fix them too ;-). Another needful thing to have in your mk.conf is support
for sudo instead of the default su(1), so you may need not to type the root password everytime you install a
package as a user. Here are the lines from my mk.conf:
Another helpful thing to do, is to override the default MASTER_SITE with faster (local) mirrors. E.g. I have a local NetBSD mirror
(thats the tatooine.kosmos.all line, so don't simply copy&paste to your mk.conf :-),
from where pkgsrc should try to fetch the needed distfiles first and after that fails, it will try several other mirrors, and only if a distfile cannot
be found there, it'll try to fetch it from the MASTER_SITEs specified for the package. Here are the lines from my mk.conf:
Josh Tolbert <hemi at puresimplicity dot net> recently put together a lot of
stuff related to the NetBSD/dreamcast port and created an easy to install
NetBSD Dreamcast system along with a short introduction on how to
setup your Dreamcast and what need to be done to increase
the usuability of the NetBSD/dreamcast port (for now, focus on
wscons(4)
support for the Dreamcast framebuffer and getting POSIX threads to
work). Josh's How-To and all stuff needed to get NetBSD working on
your Dreamcast can found
here.


Student, Designer
Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Tel: +2347030044215
Ayanwale Oluwajuwon Olalekan - © Copyright 2021


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LiquidFun Build and Run Instructions
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You can use cmake to generate an Xcode project for LiquidFun's Testbed and Unittests on OS X.
Alternatively, you can download a pre-generated Xcode project from the release page. The Xcode project is free of host-specific dependencies.
These are the minimum required versions for building LiquidFun on OS X:
DISPLAY
environment variable for Xquartz, which enables sample applications to run correctly.When working directly with the source, you can generate the Xcode project using cmake. cmake version <IP_ADDRESS> or above is required to build this project on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). For example, the following generates the Xcode project in the liquidfun/Box2D directory.
cd liquidfun/Box2D cmake -G "Xcode"
liquidfun/Box2D/Box2D.xcodeproj
to open the project in Xcode.Scheme
, for example "Testbed-->My Mac 64-bit", from the combo box to the right of the "Run" button.Developers modifying the LiquidFun library can verify that it is still working correctly by executing the provided unit tests.
Use the run_tests.sh script to execute unit tests:
./liquidfun/Box2D/Unittests/run_tests.sh


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