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 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Luke 6:22-23
Do you want to know how to depress the devil? Just follow the instructions in that last verse. When persecution comes, when friends or family criticize you because you lay hands on the sick and believe in healing, and when coworkers call you a fanatic because you love Jesus and aren't afraid to say so, rejoice!
Shout hallelujah and leap for joy!
I tell you that will discourage the devil to no end. He's expecting that persecution to hurt you.  I'm not saying you should enjoy the persecution itself. But you can learn to overlook the discomfort of those things by focusing your attention on the reward that's coming and the fact that Jesus said you are blessed.
The Apostle Paul certainly knew how to do that. He was an expert on rejoicing in the midst of persecution. Satan was constantly stirring up trouble for him. But do you know what he said about all that persecution? He said it was not even worth considering compared to the glory that was about to be revealed. If Paul could rejoice in the midst of beatings, stonings, shipwrecks, imprisonment and almost every other kind of persecution, you can too!
Just do what he did. When he was told by the Holy Ghost that bonds and afflictions awaited him, he said, "But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24).
 Get caught up in pleasing the Lord. Get caught up in finishing your course with joy. Get caught up in the glorious hope that's ahead. For that hope is enough to make anyone--under any circumstances--leap for joy!
Scripture Reading: Acts 16:16-35


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Version 1.6¶
Release date: 2017-07-13
This release contains a number of features and fixes reported since the release of pgAdmin4 1.5
Features¶
Issue #1344 - Allow the Query Tool, Debugger and web browser tabs to be moved to different monitors as desired
Issue #1533 - Set focus on the first enabled field when a dialogue is opened
Issue #1535 - Teach dialogues about Escape to cancel, Enter to Save/OK, and F1 for help
Issue #1971 - Retain column sizing in the Query Tool results grid when the same query is re-run multiple times in a row
Issue #1972 - Prompt the user to save dirty queries rather than discard them for a more natural workflow
Issue #2137 - On-demand loading for the Query Tool results
Issue #2191 - Add support for the hostaddr connection parameter. This helps us play nicely with Kerberos/SSPI and friends
Issue #2282 - Overhaul the query history tab to allow browsing of the history and full query text
Issue #2379 - Support inserting multiple new rows into a table without clicking Save for each row
Issue #2485 - Add a shortcut to reset the zoom level in the runtime
Issue #2506 - Allow the user to close the dashboard panel
Issue #2513 - Add preferences to enable brace matching and brace closing in the SQL editors
Bug fixes¶
Issue #1126 - Various FTS dictionary cleanups
Issue #1229 - Fix default values and SQL formatting for event triggers
Issue #1466 - Prevent attempts to debug procedures with variadic arguments
Issue #1525 - Make $ quoting consistent
Issue #1575 - Properly display security labels on EPAS 9.2+
Issue #1795 - Fix validation for external and range types
Issue #1813 - List packages in PPAS 9.2-9.4 when creating synonyms
Issue #1831 - Fix server stats display for EPAS 9.2, where inet needs casting to text for concatenation
Issue #1851 - Reverse engineer SQL for table-returning functions correctly
Issue #1860 - Ensure default values are honoured when adding/editing columns
Issue #1888 - Fix various issues with pgAgent job steps and schedules
Issue #1889 - Fix various issues with pgAgent job steps and schedules
Issue #1890 - Fix various issues with pgAgent job steps and schedules
Issue #1920 - Ensure saved passwords are effective immediately, not just following a restart when first saved
Issue #1928 - Fix the handling of double precision[] type
Issue #1934 - Fix import/export to work as expected with TSV data
Issue #1999 - Handle warning correctly when saving query results to an unmounted USB drive
Issue #2013 - Increase the default size of the Grant Wizard to enable it to properly display privileges at the default size on smaller displays
Issue #2014 - To fix unexpected behaviour displayed if user stops debugging on package/procedure fire_emp
Issue #2043 - Properly handle trigger functions with parameters
Issue #2078 - Refresh the SQL editor view on resize to ensure the contents are re-rendered for the new viewport
Issue #2086 - Allow editing of the WITH ADMIN option of role membership
Issue #2113 - Correct the validation logic when modifying indexes/exclusion constraints
Issue #2116 - Enable dialogue help buttons on Language and Foreign Table dialogues
Issue #2142 - Fix canceling of Grant Wizard on Windows
Issue #2155 - Fix removal of sizes from column definitions
Issue #2162 - Allow non-superusers to debug their own functions and prevent them from setting global breakpoints
Issue #2242 - Fix an issue in NodeAjaxControl caching with cache-node field and add cache-node field in Trigger & Event trigger node so that whenever the user creates new Trigger Function we get new data from server in NodeAjaxControl
Issue #2280 - Handle procedure flags (IMMUTABLE STRICT SECURITY DEFINER PARALLEL RESTRICTED) properly in RE-SQL on EPAS
Issue #2324 - Fix the PostGIS Datatypes in SQL tab, Create / Update dialogues for Table, Column, Foreign Table and Type node
Issue #2344 - Fix issue with ctrl-c / ctrl-v not working in Query Tool
Issue #2348 - Fix issue when resizing columns in Query Too/View Data where all row/colums will select/deselect
Issue #2355 - Properly refresh the parent node when renaming children
Issue #2357 - Cache statistics more reliably
Issue #2381 - Fix the RE-SQL for for views to properly qualify trigger function names
Issue #2386 - Display and allow toggling of trigger enable/disable status from the trigger dialogue
Issue #2398 - Bypass the proxy server for local addresses on Windows
Issue #2400 - Cleanup handling of default/null values when data editing
Issue #2414 - Improve error handling in cases where the user tries to rename or create a server group that would duplicate an existing group
Issue #2417 - Order columns in multi-column pkeys correctly
Issue #2422 - Fix RE-SQL for rules which got the table name wrong in the header and DROP statement
Issue #2425 - Handle composite primary keys correctly when deleting rows in the Edit Grid
Issue #2426 - Allow creation of ENUM types with no members
Issue #2427 - Add numerous missing checks to ensure objects really exist when we think they do
Issue #2435 - Pass the database ID to the Query Tool when using the Script options
Issue #2436 - Ensure the last placeholder is included when generating UPDATE scripts for tables
Issue #2448 - Ensure that boolean checkboxes cycle values in the correct order
Issue #2450 - Fix error on the stats tab with PG10. Also, rename the 10.0_plus template directory to 10_plus to match the new versioning
Issue #2461 - Allow users to remove default values from columns properly
Issue #2468 - Fix issue where function create script won’t compile
Issue #2470 - Fix an intermittent error seen during result polling
Issue #2476 - Improvements to the Query Results grid including improvements to the UI and allow copy/paste from sets of rows, columns or arbitrary blocks of cells
Issue #2477 - Ensure text editors render in an appropriate place on the results grid
Issue #2479 - No need for the menu icon to link to the homepage, as pgAdmin is a SPA
Issue #2482 - Use a more sensible name for Query Tool tabs
Issue #2486 - Ensure the feature tests use the correct test settings database
Issue #2487 - Maintain a client-side cache of preference values, populated using an async call
Issue #2489 - Fix clipboard handling with large datasets
Issue #2492 - Ensure the initial password is properly hashed during setup in web mode
Issue #2498 - Properly handle bytea[], and ‘infinity’::real/real[]
Issue #2502 - Properly handle bytea[], and ‘infinity’::real/real[]
Issue #2503 - Handle missing/dropped synonyms gracefully
Issue #2504 - Update MatView and pgAgent modules to work with recent integer/numeric changes
Issue #2507 - Ensure revoked public privileges are displayed in the RE-SQL for functions
Issue #2518 - Fix encoding issue when saving servers
Issue #2522 - Improve speed of Select All in the results grid
Issue #2527 - Fix deletion of table rows with the column definition having NOT NULL TRUE and HAS NO DEFAULT VALUE
Issue #2528 - Allow breakpoints to be set on triggers on views
Issue #2529 - Resolve a number of issues with domains and domain constraints
Issue #2532 - Refresh nodes correctly when there is a single child that is updated
Issue #2534 - Fix handling of CREATE TABLE OF <type>
Issue #2535 - Fix clear history functionality
Issue #2540 - Ensure the save password option is enabled when creating a server


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A device that creates music using movements and luminosity
The goal of this project is to make and use a DIY tool to “see” or “show” the environment in a different way. For our initial research question, our team was interested in the concept of turning light into a playable instrument. What do iridescent lights sound like versus sunlight? The question that led us forward in our design was “How can we use sounds to help people explore the lights around them?”, “How does lighting change the mood?”
With these questions in mind, we created a working system that is an extensive modification of the Instructable project — Ultrasonic Piano Pi Piano with Gesture Controls.
We decided to add a light sensor onto the ultrasonic pi piano in order to sense the surrounding illuminations in the environment. The luminasity data is used to change the instrument of the piano: lower luminasity corresponds to a more somber instrument, such as cello; higher luminasity corresponds to a more cheerful instrument, such as violine and Xylophone.
And challenges we faced during the project
The base code of the Instructable project we were able to find is written in Rust, a programming language that none of us knew how to use. Its syntax is similar to C++, but it is also a language that we were not familiar with. This add difficulties to the "hacking" part of our project, but we was managed to figure out the code in a short period of time and add more functionailities to the piano.
Raspberry Pi has a serious bug in its I2C implementation which can (a) prevent I2C communication with some devices and (b) lead to data corruption, according to Advamation.
Some sensors do not use clock-stretching and thus can be used on Raspberry Pi. There are a few Rust libraries that implemented I2C to use with some of the popular sensors such as accelerometer. However, STL2561 light sensor is not one of them. With the I2C bug and unfamiliarity with Rust, we have to find other ways to implement the light sensor.
Solve the "cross-interference" problem by tinkering the design
We followed the intial design of the box from the Instrutable tutorial. After playing around with it, we realize holding one's hand on top of a sensor can trigger the nearby sensors to produce sound as well.
Each ultrasonic sensor project upwards in a 30 degree cone. After some calculation we found that with the current box design of the prototype, interference between sensors can occur when user's hand is within 40 cm range.
Through some trigonometry, a laser-cutter, and a little trial-and-error, we prototyped a new design: an arch.
We found that pressed cardboard performs the best when bended and can maintain its structure at the same time.
Finishing up by sanding and spray painting the case
Fit everything into the case, pull power cord and audio output cord through the hole at the back


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7 Functions
7.1 What is a function?
Functions let us repeat several operations with a single command. This is useful when we want to apply the same process exactly to different inputs, as we only need to define the process (i.e. write the code) once rather than for each input. In fact, almost everything we’ve already covered today is a function.
Functions provide:
- A name we can remember and invoke it by
- A relief from the need to remember individual operations
- A defined set of expetected inputs and outputs
- Rich connections to a larger programming environment
7.2 Function structure
All functions in R follow a set structure. They require a name
, a list of inputs called an arglist
, and the desired processes defined in the body
.
We can see how existing functions in R are defined by typing the function name in the console without brackets, or by highlighting the function name and pressing F2
. Here is the definition of the upper.tri()
function:
## function (x, diag = FALSE)
## {
## d <- dim(x)
## if (length(d) != 2L)
## d <- dim(as.matrix(x))
## if (diag)
## .row(d) <= .col(d)
## else .row(d) < .col(d)
## }
## <bytecode: 0x00000232384ee738>
## <environment: namespace:base>
7.3 Define our own function
Now lets define our own function. There is already a function called sum()
in R, but addding two numbers together is a simple process and serves as a useful example. Here we define a function called mySum()
that will return the sum of two input values a
and b
.
Functions can be as simple or complex as required.
Converting temperature values between different units of measure is possible with the use of formulas. Rather than having to apply the formula each time we want to make the conversion, defining it as a function would make things much easier.
Now we can define a function for converting temperatures in fahrenheit to kelvin:
Now lets test it:
## [1] 273.15
###################
### CHALLENGE 8 ###
###################
Write your own function to convert temperatures from kelvin to celsius.
Hint: to convert from kelvin to celsius subtract 273.15
7.4 Nesting functions
The real power of functions comes from the ability to mix, match, and combine them into ever larger chunks to get the effect we want. In fact, the vast majority of functions in R
make use of nested functions. If we look at the upper.tri()
function again, we can see that it uses a combination of as.matrix()
, row()
, and col()
.
## function (x, diag = FALSE)
## {
## d <- dim(x)
## if (length(d) != 2L)
## d <- dim(as.matrix(x))
## if (diag)
## .row(d) <= .col(d)
## else .row(d) < .col(d)
## }
## <bytecode: 0x00000232384ee738>
## <environment: namespace:base>
###################
### CHALLENGE 9 ###
###################
Using the two functions we've defined to convert fahrenheit to kelvin, and kelvin to celsius, define a function that converts fahrenheit to celsius.
7.5 Applying functions to datasets
Here we define a function that calculates the average age in a dataset (in our case, the titanic dataset).
Now to test it:
## [1] 29.69912
Now we can add an additional argument to the function so that we can find the average age by gender:
calcAgeAverage <- function(dat,
sex = "female"){
ageAverage <- mean(dat[dat$Sex == sex, ]$Age,
na.rm = TRUE)
return(ageAverage)
}
And test it:
## [1] 27.91571
## [1] 30.72664
## [1] 27.91571
####################
### CHALLENGE 10 ###
####################
Define the function to calculate the average age for specific classes of a single sex. Hint: Look up the function %in%, which will allow you to subset by multiple classes.
7.6 Challenge Answers
###################
### CHALLENGE 8 ###
###################
kelvin_to_celsius <- function(temp){
celsius <- temp - 273.15
return(celsius)
}


SPELLBOUND (1945) A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 1999
As I had said in one of my previous reviews, from time to time I'm faced with interesting movie watching phenomenon, quite opposite from "guilty pleasures". There are film authors who are great and who are supposed to be worshipped, but sometimes I just can't help it - I don't like their work and later I feel guilty about it. The movies are technically all right, they have all the necessary ingredients, but they simply don't look the way a true masterpiece should. I often encounter such phenomenon when I watch films by John Ford, but there are other cases. Among those cases are also classic thrillers by Alfred Hitchcock, the great master of suspense. More often than not, those alleged masterpieces failed to meet expectations created by the established critics and film scholars. Of course, that doesn't mean that they are bad or substandard; actually, many of them are very good, but their flaws are often overlooked, mostly out of irrational respect towards great Hitchcock. One of the illustrations of such phenomenon is SPELLBOUND, his 1945 thriller, often hailed as the first major Hollywood film to deal with psychoanalysis.
The plot of the film begins in Green Manors, psychiatric institution dedicated to the treatment of mental disorders via psychoanalysis. Among the staff is Dr. Constance Petersen (played by Ingrid Bergman), beautiful but emotional cold psychiatrist. Her barren love life is going to improve thanks to Dr. Edwards (played by Gregory Peck), young psychiatrist who is going to become new head of the institution. Two of them fall madly in love with each other, but Constance and her colleagues soon discover some oddities in Dr. Edwards' behaviour. Constance confronts him and discovers that her lover is actually impostor, mentally disturbed amnesiac who used to be Dr. Edwards' patient and later took his identity after being involved in some mysterious and traumatic incident which, presumably, left real Dr. Edwards dead. Against her better and professional judgement, guided only by the feelings towards stranger who has initials "J.B." as the only trace of identity, Constance decides not to report him to police. Instead, she tries to treat his condition by helping him to remember his true identity and what really happened.
Hitchcock, sometimes accused of creating films solely around single scene, had a very good script here, written by Ben Hecht and based on the novel by Francis Beeding. The plot of SPELLBOUND revolved about genuine and very intriguing crime mystery, and its originality was due to the use of someone's mental condition as the main element of the plot. Hitchcock also used that mental condition in order to create some really effective and suspenseful scenes. On the other hand, scenes that were most remembered from this movie - dream sequence by Salvador Dali and the showdown at the end - had nothing to do with such mental condition. The bravery with which Hitchcock had used psychoanalysis for the first time in Hollywood was compromised with rather simplistic approach towards such subject. According to Hitchcock, psychological problems that require professional help could be cured simply if person acknowledges their existence. Of course, we know that this is not the case, and even Hitchcock in his later films used much more complex approach when he dealt with psychoanalysis.
The acting in this film is good. Ingrid Bergman is very believable, both as emotionally detached professional and as woman blinded by love. Unfortunately, her character is done great disservice with the script that failed to properly explain her transformation from former into latter; Hitchcock as director didn't help either, since he didn't make that change gradual. Also, many feminists would probably be up in arms because this film implicitly treats professional women as inherently unstable and therefore inferior to their male colleagues. Gregory Peck as her partner has somewhat better role that inspired many similar characters in psychological thrillers - good looking guys who hide sinister secrets behind their attractive surface. But, those who played supporting roles did the most impressive acting job in SPELLBOUND. Michael Checkov was excellent as Dr. Brulov, old mentor and friend of Constance. Leo G. Carroll was also very good as Dr. Murchison, and Bill Goodwin had a brief but very good appearance as sympathetic house detective.
All in all, SPELLBOUND is more than solid, although still overrated psychological thriller. Its true importance lies not in its quality, but in the roads Hitchcock paved for future filmmakers in it.
RATING: 7/10 (+++)
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Dependency Injection
CommandLineUtils allow you to use dependency injection to inject dependencies into command constructors at runtime. This gives you the ability to avoid tight coupling between the commands and the services which they depend on. CommandLineUtils has a standard set of services which are available to inject and also allow you to register and inject your own services.
Using dependency injection
To inject services into a command constructor, you need to specify the services to be injected as parameters for the public constructor of the command.
In the example below, the IConsole
implementation is injected into the constructor and stored in a field named _console
. Later in the program, this is used to write output to the console:
[Command(Name = "di", Description = "Dependency Injection sample project")]
[HelpOption]
class Program
{
private readonly IConsole _console;
static Task<int> Main(string[] args) => CommandLineApplication.ExecuteAsync<Program>(args);
public Program(IConsole console)
{
_console = console;
}
private int OnExecute()
{
_console.WriteLine("Hello from your first application");
return 0;
}
}
Using the standard services
CommandLineApplication makes a number of services available by default for injecting into your command constructors. There are the standard services which you can inject:
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
CommandLineApplication |
Injects the CommandLineApplication instance. |
IConsole |
Injects the IConsole implementation. |
IEnumerable<CommandOption> |
Injects the definitions for the options passed to the command. |
IEnumerable<CommandArgument> |
Injects the definitions for the arguments passed to the command. |
CommandLineContext |
Injects the CommandLineContext which contains information abount the execution context of the command. |
IServiceProvider |
... |
| Command parent type | When using sub-commands, you can inject the type of the parent command into the constructor for a sub-command. |
Using your own services
You can register your own services by using the ConstructorInjectionConvention and making use of the Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
NuGet package to contruct services.
In the example below, we have defined a service named IMyService
with a single method named Invoke
:
interface IMyService
{
void Invoke();
}
The implementation of this service is done in MyServiceImplementation
, which will write a string to the console. Also, note that an instance of IConsole
is injected into the MyServiceImplementation
constructor.
class MyServiceImplementation : IMyService
{
private readonly IConsole _console;
public MyServiceImplementation(IConsole console)
{
_console = console;
}
public void Invoke()
{
_console.WriteLine("Hello dependency injection!");
}
}
You can register your own services by creating an instance of ServiceCollection
and adding the services to the collection. A service provider is then created by calling the BuildServiceProvider
method:
var services = new ServiceCollection()
.AddSingleton<IMyService, MyServiceImplementation>()
.AddSingleton<IConsole>(PhysicalConsole.Singleton)
.BuildServiceProvider();
Note
Take note that standard services which need to be injected into your custom services, such as IConsole
which needs to be injected into the MyServiceImplementation
constructor, needs to be added to the service collection as well.
Next, you can call add the constructor injection convention by calling UseConstructorInjection
, passing the service provider which was previously created.
var app = new CommandLineApplication<Program>();
app.Conventions
.UseDefaultConventions()
.UseConstructorInjection(services);
Below is the full source code for the custom services example. Notice that instance of IMyService
which will be injected into the Program
constructor thanks to the dependency injection.
[Command(Name = "di", Description = "Dependency Injection sample project")]
[HelpOption]
class Program
{
public static int Main(string[] args)
{
var services = new ServiceCollection()
.AddSingleton<IMyService, MyServiceImplementation>()
.AddSingleton<IConsole>(PhysicalConsole.Singleton)
.BuildServiceProvider();
var app = new CommandLineApplication<Program>();
app.Conventions
.UseDefaultConventions()
.UseConstructorInjection(services);
return app.Execute(args);
}
private readonly IMyService _myService;
public Program(IMyService myService)
{
_myService = myService;
}
private void OnExecute()
{
_myService.Invoke();
}
}


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Oscar Sudi Stranded After Deadly West Pokot Landslide
by Stephanie WangariKapseret MP Oscar Sudi on Saturday, November 23, requested the government for help after he and some of his colleagues got stuck on the way to the scene of the landslide in West Pokot County.
The legislator, who was accompanied by Sigor MP Peter Lochakapong, Marakwet East MP Kangogo Bowen and Tiaty MP William Kamket, got stranded after the bridge was swept away by the landslide.
"We are appealing for humanitarian support and that of the government to at least secure us with means of transport to the scene," part of the post by the MP read.
He went on to urge the national and county governments to help the affected families move from vulnerable grounds to safe zones.
"Well-wishers are invited to offer clothing, food, shelter, health services among other needs," he wrote.
Further, he stated that West Pokot Governor John Lonyang'apuo was also stranded in Sebit, Surkwen.
"The places that are mostly affected are Nyarkulian in Tapach Ward, Penon in Batei Ward and Muino in Weiwei Ward," he added as he sent his message of condolence to the families affected.
On Saturday, November 23, more than 20 people were buried alive in the West Pokot tragedy.
The death and destruction reported in the two wards have been occasioned by heavy rains that have been continuously pounding the area.
Apollo Okello, the area county commissioner, confirmed the incident to Kenyans.co.ke on Saturday, November 23, that he had also received reports of landslides in four different areas of the county.


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When someone needs some... uh... (coughHELPcough) help coming up with an, er... what's the word... (coughIDEAcough) an idea, someone else may be particularly unsubtle about giving the answer. Or an insult or snide comment is made, but is not intended to be heard by someone standing nearby (coughJACKASScough). It's also useful for calling attention to someone's (cough Blatant Lies Cough).
Hey, I heard that!
Anyway, other things that can be hidden between coughs or sneezes are names, as in, "I'm not going to name names but there's one person in this group who's a real pain coughALICEcough," or even entire sentences. Occasionally subverted by repeating the hidden words for clarification, implying that the insult was garbled by a genuine cough and the cougher really just has no respect for the person in question.
Someone who is being especially snarky may just say "cough" instead of actually coughing.
Sometimes the cough doesn't hide any words, but indicates complete disbelief at what the cougher is hearing. Rarely, it may be a genuine, instinctive response to something the cougher finds truly egregious.
Rarely related to the Incurable Cough of Death.
*Cough* Examples *Cough*:
- A commercial for Ricola throat lozenges plays with the "coughing to convey disbelief" variant. A politician is speaking at a press conference, but one of his aides keeps loudly coughing whenever he makes a promise. After getting a Death Glare from his boss, the aide leans over to the microphone and meekly asks if anyone has a Ricola he can use.
- The English dub of Lupin III (Red Jacket) has Zenigata pulling this twice in a row towards the chief commissioner of the French police department after he turned down Zenigata's request to put a team together to catch the international criminal Lupin because France regards him as a sort of a national icon. Though he didn't know that the chief commissioner was Lupin in disguise.
Zenigata: {as he is about to leave the room} *sneeze*Penis*sneeze*! Must've caught a cold or something... *sneeze*Asswipe*sneeze*!
- The Ocean Group's dub of Dragon Ball Z has Yamcha doing this over one of King Kai/Kaiosama's jokes.
- Jaden's reaction in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX to Dr. Crowler catching a tennis ball in the eye: "*cough* Cyclops! *cough*"
- There's a scene in Box Office Poison where a hated comics publisher speaks at a convention and he gets this from the audience.
- Major Havoc: *cough* Bitch.
- In an issue of the Initiative (post-Civil War), while a group of heroes-in-training is headed to Camp Hammond, a mention is made of Hank Pym, who will be waiting there (except not really). Prodigy, one of the people in the bus, immediately responds with "*cough* Wifebeater".
- During a meeting in Dilbert the original Pointy-Haired Boss wants to find out why all his division's projects fail, what they all have in common. While the employee sitting at whichever side he isn't looking to is pointing right at the boss, Alice goes for a sneeze-cover: "Haaa-itsyou!" "Gesundheit."
- In The Merging Tonks and Harry have a chat in the Magical Menagerie.
"So you just swooped in and took control of a group of snakes that now pretty much worship you and will follow your every command?"
"Uhh, yeah?"
Tonks gave a loud cough that sounded awfully close to "Dark Lord" but he just ignored her. - In Though He Slew the Basilisk Ron complains that his father was pulled off of an investigation of biting snuff boxes to help look for Sirius Black.
"What?"
Harry burst into a coughing fit that sounded remarkably like flying cars. Ron went pink. - In The Butterfly Effect Harry breaks Draco's wrist by pushing him off his broom with accidental magic as punishment for taking Neville's Remembrall. Later Harry, Ron and Hermione visit Neville in the hospital wing.
 Ron asked suspiciously.
"Oh mine was a much more serious break, coming from a curse like that," Malfoy said smugly.
"Bullshit," Neville coughed under his breath. - Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Wizards:
Liam Dantes: As Head of the Wizengamot why did you not exercise your authority to push for a new trial for Black once you suspected he might be innocent?
Dumbledore: I would have once he was recaptured. Once he got away, I had the Kiss order rescinded, but giving him a new trial would've had to wait until he was back in custody so that he could be questioned with Veritaserum and the truth learned once and for all.
 - In Rebellion Rita Skeeter pesters Harry about his unwilling inclusion in the Triwizard Tournament.
"Well, having a fourth champion makes it news, and you're the youngest champion, and the least experienced of the three champions."
Kara's sneeze sounded a whole lot like "bullshit." - In The Western Sky - Series 2 Hermione is forced to return headship of House Black to the formerly dead Sirius Black. Luna decides to pass headship of House Potter to Hermione so the change will be on their terms and not Madame Marchbanks'.
Luna: And [Harry] cares for politics even less than I do - as long as I don't give it to someone utterly unsuitable....
Sirius: Cough*Malfoy*Cough. - The Real Us:
Harry leaned back in his chair, taking another drink of his Butterbeer. "Myself and Hermione gained our Potions grade of 'Outstanding', so naturally, we were in Potions. Ron's 'Dreadful' means that he wasn't qualified, but again, thanks to Molly's interference and threats, he was included in the class. Personally, I think it's because she needed him to learn how to brew certain potions that would help him later in life."
Hermione coughed 'Amortentia', but other than that, she didn't comment on Ron's potions capability. - The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: In its sequel Picking Up the Pieces, when Night says they'll need to make it to the Griffish Isles without anyone getting airsick, he coughs Xvital's name, doubling as a Call-Back to her airsickness in the first story.
- Magical Metamorphosis:
"[Cedric]'s not an idiot," Hermione snapped at him, "you just don't like him because he beat Gryffindor at Quidditch. I've heard he's a really good student - and he's a Prefect."
"You only like him because he's handsome," Ron almost sneered.
"Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!" Hermione retorted.
Ron coughed "Lockhart!" into his hand. - The (Edit) War for Ashs Freedom to not be Betrayed has this when Darkern goes into a rant about Ash never winning anything, with Arceus coughing about the Orange league and Battle Frontier arcs.
- Universe Falls: In "Straight to Video", Dipper starts geeking out over getting a new mystery novel to read in a care package from his and Mabel's mother, and Mabel teases him by coughing out the word "Dork!"
- In Disney's Brother Bear recently-turned-bear Kenai is trying to convince moose brothers Rutt and Tuke that he's actually human. Tuke coughs his opinion of Kenai. But Rutt seriously can't understand him, and Kenai knows exactly what he's saying.
Kenai: I was transformed into a bear... magically. I-I was lifted into the sky by my brother-Tuke: Uh-huh... *cough* Crazy *cough* !Rutt: Eh, gesundheit.Tuke: Ah, no, *cough* a fruitcake *cough*.Rutt: Hey, are you okay?Tuke: *cough* Ah, no! *cough* *cough* That bear *cough* *cough* over there *cough*! *cough* He's crazy! *cough*
- Used by Naveen in The Princess and the Frog to call Tiana a "killjoy" and a "stick in the mud".
- In Doug's 1st Movie, the nerds Roger hires repeatedly insult him this way. He never catches on.
- Bring It On has a character mercilessly skewer a "loser sneezer" for their employment of such a tired joke.
- Animal House. During the Disciplinary Council meeting, the Delta fraternity members protested the Kangaroo Court proceedings by coughing while saying "bullshit".
- Val Kilmer coughs "bullshit" when Tom Cruise is describing his upside-down hijinks (with a Russian MiG, pervs!) in Top Gun.
- In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, when Prince John tries to blame all his misdeeds on the Sheriff, the entire audience at the wedding coughs "Bullshit!" in unison.
- Also inverted in Wild Wild West, in which the coughing is pointedly absent:
Gordon: Someone, who will remain nameless - *turns and shouts in the opposite direction* JIM WEST! - decided to jump over the wire, thereby providing us with that exhilarating romp through the cornfield, and that death-defying leap into the abysmal muck!
- Dumb and Dumber when Harry wants to know how Lloyd got 25 extra bucks.
Lloyd: Few baseball cards, a sack of marbles, *coughs* Petey.Harry: Petey?  Lloyd, wh- he- wha- Petey didn't even have a head!
- Subverted by Jamie in Friends with Benefits, when Dylan is afraid to climb the Hollywood sign:
Jamie: (cough) Pussy. Oh, sorry. PUSSY!
- Now You See Me:
Daniel: (shows his tarot card) The Lovers.Henley: (cough) Three minutes.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron: When Thor and Tony start arguing over whose girlfriend is cooler, Maria Hill lets out a *cough* "Testosterone! Excuse me."
- Gunless: During the heated discussion between Sean and Jack in the schoolhouse about whether Sean is a killer (or only a killer), Larry goes *cough* killer *cough* during a lull in the argument. Sean just looks at him in disbelief and says:
"Do you think I can't hear you when you do that?"
- John Tucker Must Die: While in detention, Beth mentions that she and John hooked up, which makes Heather respond:
*cough*slut*cough*
- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
"You only like him because he's handsome", said Ron scathingly.
"Excuse me, I don't like people just because they're handsome!" said Hermione indignantly.
Ron gave a loud false cough, which sounded oddly like "Lockhart!" - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix introduces Dolores Umbridge, whose favoured method of getting attention is pretending to cough before making a pointed comment. An awesome moment on McGonagall's part is her completely ignoring said coughs, before finally offering a throat lozenge.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire:
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Louise coughed. The cough suspiciously sounded like meathead.
- A lovely example of the disbelieving cough occurs in 1632, when the Scots cavalrymen who don't yet fully grasp what late-20th-Century firepower can do are stunned that the Americans want them to be ready to pursue an enemy force.
Alex MacKay: Pursuit? *cough, cough* Doesn't that, ahem, presuppose that you've already defeated the enemy?
- In The Golem's Eye from The Bartimaeus Trilogy, when Nathaniel ignores him, Bartimaeus coughs out "A-hem" and then "A-thaniel" to get his attention. (Nathaniel goes by "John Mandrake," as nobody is supposed to know a magician's real name.)
- An inversion of this trope is a Running Gag in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many adaptations of it. Whenever a guest says something he doesn't want to hear/reply to, Willy Wonka claims that he just can't understand them (specifically accusing Mike Teavee of mumbling), even though they are speaking clearly — or, at one point in the 2005 film adaptation, outright yelling at him.
 Tommy comments, "[The little kid] reminds me of someone. Let's see... a kid who just stands around and complains and insults people all the time? I just can't think who that reminds me of... (cough) Harvey note (cough)."
- In Studio C's sketch "One Angry Man", the defense in a criminal trial makes the case that the defendant was physically incapable of committing the crime. The judge coughs for a bit, and then states, without coughing, "You're a wimp."
- In episode 7, Season 3 of Happy Endings 'No Ho Ho', Dave and Pete have this exchange about Pete's gift to Penny.
- Dave: *cough* Big mistake! *cough*
Pete: What?
Dave: Nothing, I had something caught in my throat...and you're making a big mistake.
- In one episode of How I Met Your Mother, Marshall coughs out an entire sentence - a sentence about how he's insinuating something about Robyn and he isn't really coughing.
- Also:
Barney: *cough* Lesbian.
Robin: The cough is supposed to cover the "lesbian".
Barney: Nah, I'm trying to start a thing where the cough is separate. - Another time, Barney takes it to extremes when discussing Zoe's description of her cousin Honey (played by Katy Perry).:
 That girl is extremely attractive *cough* *cough* *cough*"
- Also:
- Veronica Mars specifically references the trope in the episode "Like a Virgin". After someone took a false purity test for Meg Manning (she "got" a 48, which for someone who hadn't even gone to second base with her boyfriend of years was delightful to the gossip hounds), she notes the many ways she's been teased, including "slut sneezing". Veronica, for some reason, doesn't get the reference, and Meg has to demonstrate by sneezing and saying "slut" as she does so. She seems embarrassed even by this, but does it again as if to reinforce how lame it is, and shrugs. We then see it in action when the other students do the "slut sneezing" while she's auditioning for the school musical.
- The Office (US) has Andy and Dwight get into a coughing conversation after their first day of work together.
 [Andy walks away and Dwight turns to the camera] Well, it looks like I got the best of that interchange. [Starts coughing uncontrollably.]
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer does this a lot.
- In the episode "Some Assembly Required":
Cordelia: Why are these terrible things always happening to me?

Forrest: (coughing) Mama's boy.
Riley: That's a nasty cough. You might need to spend the weekend in quarantine.
Forrest: Oh, no. I'm done coughing.- In a later episode, Buffy is tearing into the Watcher's Council about their actions. While she is on the topic of getting Giles re-instated as a Watcher, Giles throws out a *cough* "retroactive" when his salary is mentioned.
- And from the season after that, this exchange between an active vengeance demon and a former one:
Halfrek: Oh, [punishing men who wronged women] was just Anya's little raison d'etre. Most of us try to be a little more well-rounded.
Anya: "Well-rounded", huh? Is that how you explain your thing for bad-parents?
Halfrek: Oh, that's not a thing. The children need me.
Anya: *coughing* Daddy issues! - That '70s Show example:
Kitty: So, Laurie, who are you seeing up at the college?Laurie: Oh, I'm dating several.Eric: *cough* Slut!Kitty: Bless you.
- Another example:
Pastor Dave: Instead of LSD or PCP, I get high on G-O-D.Hyde: *cough* Virgin! - One episode of Boy Meets World has Shawn and a teacher doing this.
Shawn: *cough* Loser!Mr. Turner (the teacher present at the time): *cough* Detention!Shawn: *cough* Sorry!
- Happens once on Reba when Van says "*cough* baloney!" But because it's aimed at his wife, an argument ensues.
- Was something of a running gag in the early episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch whenever Mr. Kaft was announcing something. A random student would cough "Loser".
- Friends had it at least twice: when Monica's correcting the title Ross was buying at the comics shop as a kid ("Seeing what kinda trouble Spider-Man got into that week" "*cough* Wonder Woman") and once when an old hater of Rachel reacts to her table manners ("*sneeze* Typical")
- The Suite Life of Zack and Cody: When Cody was creating a laser for the science fair, Arwin "innocently" told him how to build it correctly. He wasn't supposed to tell him.
Arwin:Not *cough* quite! You *cough* need the puf*cough*fer gas!
- Also, in the episode "A Prom Story":
Zack: I've got something special with Maddie. I love her, and she loves me. She just...doesn't know it yet.Cody: *sneeze* Doofus!
- Also, in the episode "A Prom Story":
- Charles Ingram of the British Army once won (the original, UK version of) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with the help of a friend in the audience feeding him answers through coded coughs. Although these just took the form of numbers for the options, invariably for the many parodies this spawned he was shown to be using this trope.
- The Big Bang Theory
Amy: Your mother thinks you might be losing your mind over me. As a neurobiologist, I was curious.Sheldon: Well, rest assured I am in full possession of my faculties.Leonard: *Pretending to sneeze* Twenty-five cats!Sheldon's Mother: Oh, God bless you, dear.
- Morecambe and Wise did a sketch in which Eric was supposed to be a 'Memory Man' who could answer any question put to him, but Ernie had to feed him the first answer (Arsenal - a soccer team) disguised by a cough. This became a Running Gag in which any time someone coughed, Eric would shout "Arsenal!"
- Izzie Stevens of Grey's Anatomy says "sexual harassment!" in a sneeze when Mark Sloan refers to her as a "hot blonde."
- The Supernatural episode "After School Special" starts with a girl in high school getting taunted with "*cough* Slut *cough* Slut *cough* Slut *cough*...", which leads her to take out her anger on a less popular girl for showing her some sympathy, which leads to her death at the hands of the Bully Hunter ghost possessing the unpopular girl.
- In My Name Is Earl, a friend of Earl does this while calling him a snitch about three times without Earl catching on, so he just says it out loud. He then coughs for real and blames Earl for making him sick.
- In Survivor: The Amazon, the camp has just burned down and Rob Cesternino is sharing his thoughts about it in a Confession Cam. Well, it's possible that the fire started due to the huge pile of wood stored at the campsite when Butch suddenly went on a mad quest to get as much firewood as possible, but no one can prove it for sure and Rob certainly wouldn't want to point any fingers as to who might be responsible for the fire... *cough* Butch! *cough*
- In the Doctor at Large episode "Mother and Father Doing Well", doctors Upton, Stuart-Clark, and Collier are trying to help fellow doctor Huw Evans' wife bluff her way through impersonating a nurse to be present when her husband has stitches put in a cut of his forehead. When she pours a tiny dribble of antiseptic into a glass gallipot at the instruction of Prof. Loftus, the surgeon (from whom they are trying to conceal the deception), Collier fakes a sneeze while shouting "MORE!"
- In Arrested Development, Michael Bluth hires a publicist to help improve the family's image, and one of her suggestions is for everyone to start getting jobs. When George Michael mentions that he does have a job, Tobias' response is a coughing "Kiss-ass!"
- Person of Interest. Sameen Shaw does the sneeze version to avoid saying Samaritan over an unsecure line.
- ER. Pissed off at being disciplined by Mark Greene, Jerkass resident Dave Malucci coughs "Tumor!", suggesting that Mark's recent brain cancer is impairing his judgement. Mark proceeds to suspend him for several days.
- Keating! The Musical, during "My Right Hand Man":
"And unemployment's only *cough* per cent!
- If you manage to run out the dialog in the "Stalemate Resolution Associate" scene of Portal 2, Wheatley starts coughing the word "button" at you. They've been discussing that button, out loud, for the last five minutes, so it's anyone's guess exactly what he's trying to accomplish by doing that. Take long enough, and this will eventually culminate in "*cough* *beat* Oh, just press the button, would ya?"
- In The Darkside Detective, when McQueen mentions that he's not been on the subway much because he prefers to take a cab, Dooley's reaction is a cough that sounds a lot like "snob".

- In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, if you have Rean totally bomb the exam in Chapter 3, Alisa will comment, "I was expecting a little better performance from a certain someone, though... *cough*Rean*cough*"
- Episode 4 of Scooby-Doo: First Frights has a recurring gag of the butler Costington coughing before making a remark at the expense of his boss Baron Baron Von Richenstoof, Shaggy, or Scooby.
- In Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Peter Venkman fake-coughs while referring to Walter Peck as "Preck".
Venkman: Did I cough at the wrong time?
- Done by the author in the commentary on Darths & Droids #744:
... fantasy borrows many tropes from modern day life as it is (*cough*Terry Pratchett*cough*).
- In Planet of Hats' take on "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", Kirk tells McCoy he can't marry the high priestess of a primitive culture that worships a computer hidden in an obelisk. Bones replies "<koff> The Paradise Syndrome <koff>."
- Matthew Buck from Bad Movie Beatdown gave his opinion to The Patriot like that.
*cough* Rule Britannia!
- Linkara has done this once or twice regarding his comic Revolution of the Mask, usually to imply that whatever comic cliche he's finding in the professional comic he's reviewing is not present in his own.
- In this parody of "Blame It" by Jamie Foxx, Barack Obama says, "Repubs blamin' me! *cough* O'Reilly."
 When the cop asks what was that, the Vort denies that he said anything.
- Concession, when Matt's in the Confessional;
"You don't go to my church, do you, child?""No, sir, my church doesn't have these confessional dealies. I go to Reverend White's church.""*cough* Pedophile *cough*"
- Warning! Readers Advisory's review of Necroscope, describing the plot: "...and *mumble* extradimensional vampire semen... *cough*"
- In MikeJ's review of Son of the Mask, he says that Bob Hoskins had ruined his career years before, just before sneezing into a DVD box of Super Mario Bros..
- In Zero Punctuation's review of Lollipop Chainsaw:
Yahtzee: But there are games with certainly worse combat and games with more offensive depictions of women; cough, Metroid: Other M, unconvincing cough.
- From one playthrough of Kingdom Hearts:
THD: *Cough* Xehanort!N Tom: Nasty cough you got.
- Death Note: The Abridged Series (Team Dattebayo):
L (to Light): *cough* last night *cough*
- Subverted in Death Note Abridged Parody Charleston VO:
Watari: *cough* Pussy! *cough* Bitch! *cough*. Ah, I'm sorry, my apologies.  But without the coughing.
 He then says, "(Cough) Racist!" and acts like he was just coughing.
- In his The Disaster Artist vlog, Dan Olson of Folding Ideas, who had previously done a two-part video excoriating the "Cremaster Cycle" of movies, describes certain movies as being "a boring slog for...an hour and a half. Two hours. Four hours. Six hours (cough)Cremaster(cough)."
- In Dave Knows Wrestling's episode on independent wrestling, Dave talks about the criticism that indie wrestling cheapens wrestling by using big moves and finishers as regular moves, and failing to sell them:
- The Simpsons:
- In "Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade", the third-grade teacher remarks that Bart came from Krabappel's class (coughSLUTcough).
- In "She Used to Be My Girl," one-shot character Chloe remarks that she's slept with numerous famous people, including coughCLINTONcough.
- The gag turns up in "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" when shock jock Jerry Rude asks Mr. Burns to reveal his first gay experience. Mr. Burns assumes that Jerry Rude meant "gay" as in "happy" and reminisces on his father taking him on a picnic when he was six, unknowingly making incestuous innuendos.
Jerry Rude: Oh, that sounds lovely. (cough) Queer. (cough) Queer. - King of the Hill: When Luanne was dealing with her irresponsible roommates.
"You know who else had anti-smoking laws? Who was it...oh, yeah -- Hitler!"*cough* Nazi! *cough*
- In an episode of Family Guy, it's exposed that Lois was once in a porno. At church, her peers do this trope, calling her things like "sinner" and "harlot". All except the last man, who says "*cough I'm actually sick*".
- South Park
- In Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society, the other girls use this method to call Bebe a slut in the cafeteria when they get jealous of her getting all the boys' attention because of her newly developed breasts.
- Subverted in Brickleberry:
Malloy: *coughs* Slut. Sorry, I had something in my throat before I said "slut".
- In the Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? episode "Gender", Robot and his friends mock their classmate Jamie for getting home economics as his elective by coughing before calling him a "girl".


| lav_matrix {lavaan} | R Documentation |
Utility functions for Matrix and Vector operations.
# matrix to vector lav_matrix_vec(A) lav_matrix_vecr(A) lav_matrix_vech(S, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vechr(S, diagonal = TRUE) # matrix/vector indices lav_matrix_vech_idx(n = 1L, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vech_row_idx(n = 1L, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vech_col_idx(n = 1L, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vechr_idx(n = 1L, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vechru_idx(n = 1L, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_diag_idx(n = 1L) lav_matrix_diagh_idx(n = 1L) lav_matrix_antidiag_idx(n = 1L) # vector to matrix lav_matrix_vech_reverse(x, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vechru_reverse(x, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_upper2full(x, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vechr_reverse(x, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_vechu_reverse(x, diagonal = TRUE) lav_matrix_lower2full(x, diagonal = TRUE) # the duplication matrix lav_matrix_duplication(n = 1L) lav_matrix_duplication_pre(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_duplication_post(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_duplication_pre_post(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_duplication_ginv(n = 1L) lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_pre(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_post(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_pre_post(A = matrix(0,0,0)) # the commutation matrix lav_matrix_commutation(m = 1L, n = 1L) lav_matrix_commutation_pre(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_commutation_mn_pre(A, m = 1L, n = 1L) # sample statistics lav_matrix_cov(Y, Mu = NULL) # other matrix operations lav_matrix_symmetric_sqrt(S = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_orthogonal_complement(A = matrix(0,0,0)) lav_matrix_bdiag(...) lav_matrix_trace(..., check = TRUE)
A |
A general matrix. |
S |
A symmetric matrix. |
Y |
A matrix representing a (numeric) dataset. |
diagonal |
Logical. If TRUE, include the diagonal. |
n |
Integer. When it is the only argument, the dimension of a square matrix. If m is also provided, the number of column of the matrix. |
m |
Integer. The number of rows of a matrix. |
x |
Numeric. A vector. |
Mu |
Numeric. If given, use Mu (instead of sample mean) to center, before taking the crossproduct. |
... |
One or more matrices, or a list of matrices. |
check |
Logical. If |
These are a collection of lower-level matrix/vector related functions that are used throughout the lavaan code. They are made public per request of package developers. Below is a brief description of what they do:
The lav_matrix_vec
function implements the vec operator (for
'vectorization') and transforms a matrix into a vector by stacking the
columns of the matrix one underneath the other.
The lav_matrix_vecr
function is similar to the lav_matrix_vec
function but transforms a matrix into a vector by stacking the
rows of the matrix one underneath the other.
The lav_matrix_vech
function implements the vech operator
(for 'half vectorization') and transforms a symmetric matrix
into a vector by stacking the columns of the matrix one underneath the
other, but eliminating all supradiagonal elements. If diagonal = FALSE,
the diagonal elements are also eliminated.
The lav_matrix_vechr
function is similar to the lav_matrix_vech
function but transforms a matrix into a vector by stacking the
rows of the matrix one underneath the other, eliminating all
supradiagonal elements.
The lav_matrix_vech_idx
function returns the vector indices of the lower
triangular elements of a symmetric matrix of size n, column by column.
The lav_matrix_vech_row_idx
function returns the row indices of the
lower triangular elements of a symmetric matrix of size n.
The lav_matrix_vech_col_idx
function returns the column indices of the
lower triangular elements of a symmetric matrix of size n.
The lav_matrix_vechr_idx
function returns the vector indices of the
lower triangular elements of a symmetric matrix of size n, row by row.
The lav_matrix_vechu_idx
function returns the vector indices of the
upper triangular elements of a symmetric matrix of size n, column by column.
The lav_matrix_vechru_idx
function returns the vector indices
of the upper triangular elements of a symmetric matrix of size n, row by row.
The lav_matrix_diag_idx
function returns the vector indices of the
diagonal elements of a symmetric matrix of size n.
The lav_matrix_diagh_idx
function returns the vector indices of
the lower part of a symmetric matrix of size n.
The lav_matrix_antidiag_idx
function returns the vector indices of
the anti diagonal elements a symmetric matrix of size n.
The lav_matrix_vech_reverse
function (alias:
lav_matrix_vechru_reverse
and lav_matrix_upper2full
) creates a
symmetric matrix, given only upper triangular elements, row by row. If
diagonal = FALSE, an diagonal with zero elements is added.
The lav_matrix_vechr_reverse
(alias: lav_matrix_vechu_reverse
and
lav_matrix_lower2full
) creates a symmetric matrix, given only the lower
triangular elements, row by row. If diagonal = FALSE, an diagonal with zero
elements is added.
The lav_matrix_duplication
function generates the duplication matrix
for a symmetric matrix of size n. This matrix duplicates the elements in
vech(S) to create vec(S) (where S is symmetric). This matrix is very
sparse, and should probably never be explicitly created. Use one of
the functions below.
The lav_matrix_duplication_pre
function computes the product of the
transpose of the duplication matrix and a matrix A. The A matrix should have
n*n rows, where n is an integer. The duplication matrix is not explicitly
created.
The lav_matrix_duplication_post
function computes the product of a
matrix A with the duplication matrix. The A matrix should have n*n columns,
where n is an integer. The duplication matrix is not explicitly created.
The lav_matrix_duplication_pre_post
function first pre-multiplies a
matrix A with the transpose of the duplication matrix, and then post multiplies
the result again with the duplication matrix. A must be square matrix with n*n
rows and columns, where n is an integer. The duplication matrix is not
explicitly created.
multiplies a matrix A with the
The lav_matrix_duplication_ginv
function computes the generalized
inverse of the duplication matrix. The matrix removes the duplicated elements
in vec(S) to create vech(S). This matrix is very sparse, and should probably
never be explicitly created. Use one of the functions below.
The lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_pre
function computes the product of the
generalized inverse of the duplication matrix and a matrix A with n*n rows,
where n is an integer. The generalized inverse of the duplication matrix
is not explicitly created.
The lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_post
function computes the product of a
matrix A (with n*n columns, where n is an integer) and the transpose of the
generalized inverse of the duplication matrix. The generalized inverse of the
duplication matrix is not explicitly created.
The lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_pre_post
function first pre-multiplies
a matrix A with the transpose of the generalized inverse of the duplication
matrix, and the post multiplies the result again with the transpose of the
generalized inverse matrix. The matrix A must be square with n*n rows and
columns, where n is an integer. The generalized inverse of the duplication
matrix is not explicitly created.
The lav_matrix_commutation
function computes the commutation matrix which
is a permutation matrix which transforms vec(A) (with m rows and n columns)
into vec(t(A)).
The lav_matrix_commutation_pre
function computes the product of the
commutation matrix with a matrix A, without explicitly creating the commutation
matrix. The matrix A must have n*n rows, where n is an integer.
The lav_matrix_commutation_mn_pre
function computes the product of the
commutation matrix with a matrix A, without explicitly creating the commutation
matrix. The matrix A must have m*n rows, where m and n are integers.
The lav_matrix_cov
function computes the sample covariance matrix of
its input matrix, where the elements are divided by N (the number of rows).
The lav_matrix_symmetric_sqrt
function computes the square root of a
positive definite symmetric matrix (using an eigen decomposition). If some of
the eigenvalues are negative, they are silently fixed to zero.
The lav_matrix_orthogonal_complement
function computes an orthogonal
complement of the matrix A, using a qr decomposition.
The lav_matrix_bdiag
function constructs a block diagonal matrix from
its arguments.
The lav_matrix_trace
function computes the trace (the sum of the
diagonal elements) of a single (square) matrix, or if multiple matrices are
provided (either as a list, or as multiple arguments), we first compute their
product (which must result in a square matrix), and then we compute the trace;
if check = TRUE
, we check if the (final) matrix is square.
Magnus, J. R. and H. Neudecker (1999). Matrix Differential Calculus with Applications in Statistics and Econometrics, Second Edition, John Wiley.
# upper elements of a 3 by 3 symmetric matrix (row by row) x <- c(30, 16, 5, 10, 3, 1) # construct full symmetric matrix S <- lav_matrix_upper2full(x) # compute the normal theory `Gamma' matrix given a covariance # matrix (S), using the formula: Gamma = 2 * D^{+} (S %x% S) t(D^{+}) Gamma.NT <- 2 * lav_matrix_duplication_ginv_pre_post(S %x% S) Gamma.NT


Today's photo the day is another image I made during our holiday to Uepi Island Resort in September 2009.
From time to time they have a shark feed hear, at the "Welcome Jetty". As someone who believes in protecting sharks, and also creating an appropriate understanding of them and their importance to the ocean's eco-systems, I must admit to being in 2 minds about shark feeds.
Uepi's policy on shark feeds, and the way they conduct them, is quite sincere. Their belief is that the shark feeds have helped to rebuild healthy shark stocks in the area, and it is also an environmentally friendly way of disposing of some kitchen waste (important given their remoteness). Given that there were 20-30 sharks on each feed, and regular sightings on many dives, I'd have to say they seem to have been successful in this.
They only allow 2-3 people in the water at a time, and those people must stay completely under the welcome jetty. The feed is tossed away from the jetty, and a distance to keep guests out of the melee (it is a true frenzy), but close enough to allow some photos. Many of the sharks will break off from the frenzy and circle around to take a look at us, but never were we threatened.
Since the shark feed was happening anyway (twice during our 10 day visit), I couldn't let the opportunity go to waste, and jumped in the water and took photos. Belinda also took photos with our other camera from the jetty. I'll post some of those images later.
This image shows the enourmous school of fish that congregates near the jetty - constantly. They did not appear troubled by the feeding of the sharks, although they did move to stay out of the way of being in the line of fire!
This image was from the first shark feed. I didn't have my mind around natural light photography, and the fast moving pace, so was shooting manual. In retrospect, I should've been in shutter priority mode (a mode I almost never use underwater). So many of the images weren't exposed well, or were blurry. This one has been corrected "in post" to get the colour exposure back.
On the second dive (I'll be sure to post images to the BlueBeyond Flickr gallery later), I had the right shutter priority mode, but wouldn't you know it, the water was much greener and had a lot sediment in it.
I'm still in 2 minds about shark feeds, but they do make great photographic opportunities!


 Snuggle up this winter in there and watch some movies! And then how about head outside to our SAUNA or sit around the outdoor fireplace!
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This is the most sound proof area in the house, often used as a hangover recovery space. It's a small and uninteresting room but does come with a double bed and a desk. It's also very quiet and has blackout curtains.
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--- layout: post title: Making CGI Rails Faster post_id: 260 categories: - tips & tricks date: 2005-01-21 06:29:00.000000000 -07:00 author: Jamis permalink: 2005/1/21/making-cgi-rails-faster.html ---
Rails’ preferred installation method is RubyGems, a convenient, powerful utility for installing Ruby libraries and applications. Unfortunately, that convenience comes at a price—loading a library via RubyGems adds some overhead. Recent releases of RubyGems have made some good progress in reducing that overhead, but it still exists.
Rails, being (by default) a gem-dependent application, incurs that overhead every time you load the app “clean” (ie, not under FCGI or such). For example, my in-progress financial package manager (Budget-Wise) took about 2.4 seconds just to load the login screen!
I found that by bypassing RubyGems altogether, the load time was cut by more than half, from 2.4 seconds to just over 1.1 seconds. If you run Rails in CGI mode and want an option for speeding your response time, consider making the following change to your environment.rb file:
# Require Rails gems.
#require 'rubygems'
#require_gem 'activerecord'
#require_gem 'actionpack'
#require_gem 'actionmailer'
#require_gem 'rails'
GEM_DIR = "/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems"
$:.push "#{GEM_DIR}/activerecord-1.5.1/lib"
$:.push "#{GEM_DIR}/actionpack-1.3.1/lib"
$:.push "#{GEM_DIR}/actionmailer-0.6.1/lib"
$:.push "#{GEM_DIR}/rails-<IP_ADDRESS>/lib"
require 'active_record'
require 'action_controller'
require 'action_view'
require 'action_mailer'
In other words—just comment out the part that requires the gems, and then manually add the necessary directories to your load path. Then, just require those libs you need explicitly.
The drawback: you have to change your environment.rb
file every time you upgrade any part of rails, but if that’s not an issue, you might find this a worthy enhancement to your development cycle. Of course, if you are using WEBrick or FCGI, this isn’t an issue at all since the gem require only happens once. You’ll only really be benefited if you use Rails in CGI mode.
Update (24 Jan 2005): Apparently, TextDrive is still using version 0.8.1 of RubyGems. Using RubyGems 0.8.4 gives you just about the same speed as requiring the libraries directly, so if you are using RubyGems 0.8.4, you do not need to apply the “optimization” described above. If, on the other hand, you don’t have the option of installing a newer version of RubyGems, consider making the following additional optimization, which cut the total load time for me down to less than 0.5 seconds. Create a file in your application’s lib
directory called rubygems.rb
, and put the following code in it:
raise LoadError, "place holder"
This prevents the ActionView library from requiring RubyGems, which it attempts to do explicitly in order to use the Builder gem. If RubyGems can’t be found, ActionView will load an alternative copy of the Builder library and continue on. Thus, adding the above place holder file just prevents RubyGems from being loaded at all, anywhere, by your app or by any of its dependencies.
Again, if you’re using 0.8.4 (or newer) of RubyGems, this is not an issue. (Thanks to Chad and Jim for pointing this out!)


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Summary
There are direct and indirect elements to search engine discovery and reconnaissance. Direct methods relate to searching the indexes and the associated content from caches. Indirect methods relate to gleaning sensitive design and configuration information by searching forums, newsgroups, and tendering websites.
Once a search engine robot has completed crawling, it commences in-dexing the web page based on tags and associated attributes, such as <TITLE>, in order to return the relevant search results [1]. If the robots.txt file is not updated during the lifetime of the web site, and inline HTML meta tags that instruct robots not to index content have not been used, then it is possible for indexes to contain web content not intended to be included in by the owners. Website owners may use the previously mentioned robots.txt, HTML meta tags, authentication, and tools provided by search engines to remove such content.
Test Objectives
To understand what sensitive design and configuration information of the application/system/organization is exposed both directly (on the organization’s website) or indirectly (on a third party website).
How to Test- Use a search engine to search for:
- Network diagrams and configurations
- Archived posts and emails by administrators and other key staff
- Log on procedures and username formats
- Usernames and passwords
- Error message content
- Development, test, UAT and staging versions of the website
Search operators
Using the advanced “site:” search operator, it is possible to restrict search results to a specific domain [2]. Do not limit testing to just one search engine provider as they may generate different results depending on when they crawled content and their own algorithms. Consider using the following search engines:- Baidu
- binsearch.info
- Bing
- Duck Duck Go
- ixquick/Startpage
- Google
- Shodan
- PunkSpider
Duck Duck Go and ixquick/Startpage provide reduced information leakage about the tester.
Google provides the Advanced “cache:” search operator [2], but this is the equivalent to clicking the “Cached” next to each Google Search Result. Hence, the use of the Advanced “site:” Search Operator and then clicking “Cached” is preferred.
The Google SOAP Search API supports the doGetCachedPage and the associated doGetCachedPageResponse SOAP Messages [3] to assist with retrieving cached pages. An implementation of this is under de-velopment by the OWASP “Google Hacking” Project.
PunkSpider is web application vulnerability search engine. It is of lit-tle use for a penetration tester doing manual work. However it can be useful as demonstration of easiness of finding vulnerabilities by script-kiddies.
Example To find the web content of owasp.org indexed by a typical search engine, the syntax required is:
site:owasp.org
To display the index.html of owasp.org as cached, the syntax is:
cache:owasp.org
Google Hacking Database
The Google Hacking Database is list of useful search queries for Goo-gle. Queries are put in several categories:- Footholds
- Files containing usernames
- Sensitive Directories
- Web Server Detection
- Vulnerable Files
- Vulnerable Servers
- Error Messages
- Files containing juicy info
- Files containing passwords
- Sensitive Online Shopping Info
Tools
[4] FoundStone SiteDigger: http://www.mcafee.com/uk/downloads/free-tools/sitedigger.aspx
[5] Google Hacker: http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/files.php/googlehacker.zip
[6] Stach & Liu’s Google Hacking Diggity Project: http://www.stach-liu.com/resources/tools/google-hacking-diggity-project/
[7] PunkSPIDER: http://punkspider.hyperiongray.com/
ReferencesWeb
[1] “Google Basics: Learn how Google Discovers, Crawls, and Serves Web Pages” - https://support.google.com/webmasters/an-swer/70897
[2] “Operators and More Search Help”: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en
[3] “Google Hacking Database”:http://www.exploit-db.com/goo-gle-dorks/
Remediation
Carefully consider the sensitivity of design and configuration informa-tion before it is posted online.
Periodically review the sensitivity of existing design and configuration information that is posted online.


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