Very Bad Things (1998) Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Stern, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven, Leland Orser, Joey Zimmerman, Tyler Malinger, Carla Scott, Russell B. McKenzie. Produced by Cindy Cowan, Diane Nabatoff and Michael Schiffer. Written and directed by Peter Berg. 100 minutes. Rated R, 3 stars (out of five stars)
Review by Ed Johnson-Ott, NUVO Newsweekly www.nuvo-online.com Archive reviews at http://us.imdb.com/M/reviews_by?Edward+Johnson-ott To receive reviews by e-mail at no charge, send subscription requests to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Actor turned writer/director Peter Berg says his mantra during the making of "Very Bad Things" was "Death before boredom." It shows. Extremely gruesome and packed with violence, "Very Bad Things" is most certainly not boring. The film has a relentless forward thrust, an energy that keeps the proceedings as involving as they are bloody, until it runs out of gas near the end.
The Tarantino-influenced black comedy, about a bachelor party gone horribly wrong, desperately wants to be a boy's club version of "Heathers, " but doesn't know how to get there. Berg hops all over the place, from humorous nihilism to blunt-edged social commentary. His finished product plays essentially as a messy curiosity, albeit a fascinating one.
It begins with a trip to Las Vegas. Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) is days away from marrying Laura (Cameron Diaz), a young woman obsessed with creating the perfect wedding ceremony. Determined to satisfy his fiancée, he continues working on wedding arrangements by car phone, even as his buddies urge him to relax and enjoy the ride to Las Vegas for his bachelor party.
Kyle's pal Robert (Christian Slater), a real estate agent and motivational book zealot, has assembled everything necessary for a night of gambling and debauchery; from liquor and cocaine to a beautiful hooker. Joining in the revelry is family-man Adam (Daniel Stern), his tightly- wound brother, Michael (Jeremy Piven), and Charles (Leland Orser), an introspective cipher.
Things go swimmingly until Michael, during an over-enthusiastic session of stand-up sex, accidentally impales the prostitute on a bathroom coat hook. The shaken men debate what to do, with Robert arguing for a quick disposal of the body in the desert. He dismisses all legal and moral issues, coolly stating "this is just a 105 pound problem that has to be moved from point A to point B." With strong reservations, the others agreed to the plan, only to have matters further complicated when a security guard arrives and spots the corpse. Ever the problem-solver, Robert uses a corkscrew on the guard, removing the witness and doubling the body count.
The rest of the story follows the men on their damage control mission, with as many plot twists and turns as the aforementioned corkscrew. Each man reacts to the group decision in different ways, ranging from crushing guilt to gallows humor. Meanwhile, Laura continues her steamroller preparations for a wedding that will happen, no matter what.
With an actor at the helm, it's not surprising that the impressive cast of "Very Bad Things" is given considerable room to stretch. Christian Slater and Cameron Diaz have the juiciest parts, with Slater entertaining as a character who is essentially an older version of the sociopath he played in "Heathers." Diaz is a hoot as the marriage-at-all-costs bride to be. Her steely determination reminded me of Debbie Reynolds' ceremony- fixated character from "In and Out," only much more ruthless.
Jeremy Piven is excellent as Michael, imbuing him with a great manic energy. The character is an explosion waiting to happen and Piven, known for his intense portrayals, perfectly captures Michael's hair-trigger emotions. Daniel Stern is less successful as Michael's brother, Adam, delivering a performance as a borderline hysteric that rarely varies in tone (incidentally, with all due respect to the intricacies of genetic coding, there is no way in hell those two guys could be brothers). As Charles, the sketchiest of the men, Leland Orser projects a jittery quality that keeps his character interesting.
Which brings us to the groom. Jon Favreau, who scored a hat trick with "Swingers," is an extremely appealing actor, but oddly bland here. Kyle would have been more effective had Favreau cut back on the mealy-mouth squishiness and given the guy a little more oomph. Of course, all of the actors faced a challenge with their roles. After all, how do you play characters who are supposed to be tragic, despicable and funny all at the same time?
There are some big laughs in "Very Bad Things," although not as many as there could have been.  The potential impact is muted by the film's constant shifts in tone. One moment we're watching a character break down in heartfelt grief and shame over his actions, the next moment we're listening to one-liners about dismembered bodies. Berg punches so many contrasting emotional buttons that the whole system finally short circuits. The film's closing shot, intended to either provoke reflection or provide one last sick laugh, drew no response whatsoever from me. By that point, I just wanted to go home.
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Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, is a useful tool for: installing, upgrading and managing applications on a Kubernetes cluster. Helm packages are called charts. We will be installing and managing JupyterHub on our Kubernetes cluster using a Helm chart.
Charts are abstractions describing how to install packages onto a Kubernetes cluster. When a chart is deployed, it works as a template engine to populate multiple yaml files for package dependencies with the required variables, and then runs kubectl apply to apply the configuration to the resource and install the package.
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Note
If you previously installed Z2JH using Helm 2, it is worth noting that Helm 3 includes several major breaking changes. See the Helm 3 FAQ for more information.
For migrating from Helm v2 to v3, checkout the official Helm guide.
While several methods to install Helm exist, the simplest way to install Helm is to run Helm’s installer script in a terminal:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash
The minimum supported version of Helm in Z2JH is 3.2.0.
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Helm 3 uses the same security mechanisms as other Kubernetes clients such as kubectl.
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import WeChatArticle from 'wearticle/src/class/WeChatArticle.js'
WeChatArticle
Direct Subclass:
This class is for a typical WeChat article. Takes an URL to that article. e.g. http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5NxzEg0N18v-AuOB_RmSDw
In most cases you don't really need to use this class. Use NormalizedWeChatArticle if you need normalization on articles.
All content-based properties are only available after WeChatArticle#fetchAndParse.
Example:
import { WeChatArticle } from 'wearticle'
const article = new WeChatArticle('http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5NxzEg0N18v-AuOB_RmSDw')
await article.fetchAndParse()
console.log(article.toString())
// -> WeChatArticle ("关于 ¡Hola!" by "Holateens")
Constructor Summary
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public constructor(url: String) source
Take the url. Just note the article won't be actually loaded and parsed before you call WeChatArticle#fetchAndParse manually.
You could see if this article is parsed or not, by using WeChatArticle#isParsed.
Params:
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public account: * source
public author: String source
The author. Only exists when it does have an author field.
To get a must-have author name, use WeChatArticle#getAuthorName.
public content: String source
The original content fetched from WeChat public platform. Actually from
#js_content
part of the whole raw HTML.
public description: * source
public headPicUrl: * source
public sourceUrl: * source
Private Members
private _media: * source
Public Methods
public getAuthorName(): String source
Returns author's name if the author does specify an author name on the article, or the name of the Official Account if not.
public getContent$(): $ since 0.2.0 source
Returns a cheerio $ of the content.
To tell the truth, this $ is not a fully functional $. It's actually a
function delegates cheerio instance in some way. You can only use $(selector)
there, and even can't use a context.
public getMedia(): Array since 0.4.0 source
Get an array of media in the article. Useful when you need to deal with it. An empty array will be returned in case there is no media.
Currently we only parse images, so it will be an array of ArticleImage. See its documentation for reference.
Parse media only when you try to get them.
public isParsed(): Boolean source
See if this article has been loaded & parsed.
Load & parse with WeChatArticle#fetchAndParse.
public updateContent() since 0.4.0 source
Update content with your modified $
. Don't forget to do this.


dparser: Port of 'Dparser' Package
A Scannerless GLR parser/parser generator. Note that GLR standing for "generalized LR", where L stands for "left-to-right" and
R stands for "rightmost (derivation)". For more information see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLR_parser>. This parser is based on the Tomita
(1987) algorithm. (Paper can be found at <http://acl-arc.comp.nus.edu.sg/archives/acl-arc-090501d3/data/pdf/anthology-PDF/J/J87/J87-1004.pdf>).
The original 'dparser' package documentation can be found at <http://dparser.sourceforge.net/>. This allows you to add mini-languages to R (like
RxODE's ODE mini-language Wang, Hallow, and James 2015 <doi:10.1002/psp4.12052>) or to parse other languages like 'NONMEM' to automatically translate
them to R code. To use this in your code, add a LinkingTo dparser in your DESCRIPTION file and instead of using #include <dparse.h> use
#include <dparser.h>. This also provides a R-based port of the make_dparser <http://dparser.sourceforge.net/d/make_dparser.cat> command called
mkdparser(). Additionally you can parse an arbitrary grammar within R using the dparse() function, which works on most OSes and is mainly for grammar
testing. The fastest parsing, of course, occurs at the C level, and is suggested.
Downloads:
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Linking:
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Introduction
The notary services in the real world, like a notary public verification, are highly useful to provide independent verification of important documents. Having a document notarized with a notary Public’s seal is the same as swearing under oath in court - you’re attesting that the facts contained in the document are true.
What is traditionally needed for a document to be notarized?
To have a document marked with the notary public’s seal, you will need to do the following:
- Two pieces of identification (government issued photo ID and another one with at least your name)
- Verbal agreement in front of the notary that you understand and can attest to the facts of the document
- Signing the document with the notary as a witness
- The notary will then affix their stamp to the document
- The document is now notarized
Blockchain technology
Bitcoin ushered in the breakthrough technology of the blockchain. For many years the problem was to establish trust between two parties without an independent, reputable third party present. This was a roadblock for many industries and there was always a need to have a centralized middleman, waiving fees for their service as a witness (think Uber, AirBnB, notary services).
One of the core functionalities of the blockchain involves historical immutability – the inability to change past records once they’ve been verified. This breakthrough solution in the digital space has immense value and it is beginning to propagate across many industries.
In this workshop, you will learn how to build a notary system using NEM blockchain features to timestamp and verify notarizations.
Text adapted from Psyder, Aerin. Apostille Tutorial. NEM blog, 2017.


# Crichton, Admirable Source Configuration Management # Copyright 2012 British Broadcasting Corporation # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # # {% load myfrontend %} {% get_releases_for_filter releases %}
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Core Courses
Provide some core major and minor coures outlines/syllabi in Sun Yat-sen University
Major
- Mathematical Analysis
Term 1. Elementary functions (including exponentials and logarithms), limits, rates of change, the derivative and its properties, applications of the derivative and differential calculus of functions of one variable. Term 2. The definite integral, Riemann sums, antiderivatives and integration by substitution and by parts. Area between curves, and volume by slices, washers, and shells. Term 3. Integration rules, integrating rational functions, and improper integrals. Infinite series, convergence and divergence tests (limit comparison and alternating series tests). Divergence theorem and the theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes.
- Geometry Algebra
Term 1. The relationship between the algebraic and geometric points of view. Linear equations, vector spaces, linear dependence, bases and coordinate systems; Linear transformations and matrices; similarity; eigenvectors and eigenvalues; diagonalization. Term 2. Orthogonality, projections, spectral theory for symmetric matrices, the singular value decomposition, the QR decomposition, least-squares, the condition number of a matrix.
- Probability Theory
Term 1. Probability measures, random variables as measurable functions, expectation, independence, characteristic functions, limit theorems, applications.
- Mathematical Statistics
Term 1.Sufficiency, conditionality, and likelihood; Theory of Hypothesis Testing: Neyman-Pearson lemma. Maximum likelihood and related theory; Interval Estimation: confidence intervals and significance intervals; location and scale models, conditional intervals. Introduction to Decision Theory: loss and risk functions; minimax and Bayes rules; prior and posterior analysis.
- Applied Regression Analysis
Term 1. Binomial regression; the role of the linear function. Goodness-of-fit, goodness-of-link, leverage. Generalized linear models. Other topics in regression modelling. Model diagnostics. Model selection, Cp/AIC and crossvalidation, stepwise, lasso. Multiple comparisons.
- Computational Statistics
Term 1. Introduction to and application of computational methods in statistical inference. Monte Carlo evaluation of statistical procedures, exploration of the likelihood function through graphical and optimization techniques including EM. (metropolis, Gibbs sampler, data augmentation, hybrid Monte Carlo)
- Advanced Computer Language Programming
Term 1. Introduction to the modern programming software: object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing. Emphasis is on good programming style and the built-in facilities of C/C++.
- Mathematical Experiments and Mathematical Software
Term 1. Introduction to the engineering of computer applications in Matlab, emphasizing modern software engineering principles: decomposition, abstraction, matrix computation and visulization.
Minor
- Money and Banking
Term 1. Develops the structure of the bond market and examines how prices of bonds and interest rates are determined.
- Corporate Finance
Term 1. This course covers the foundations of corporate finance including the management of capital structure, financial forecasting, dividend policy, financial distress, cost of capital and capital budgeting.
- Fixed Income Securities
Term 1. This course is an introduction to options, futures and other derivative securities. Sharpens your analytical skills for understanding the economic forces that determine prices of financial assets, derivatives, and stocks.
- Investments
Term 1. Topics include criteria for making investment decisions, valuation of financial assets and liabilities, relationships between risk and return, capital structure choice, payout policy, the use and valuation of derivative securities, and risk management.
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Basic Web socket
Sample of basic WebSocket broadcast for Nginx WebSocket Proxy Demonstration
Web socket connection:
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El Chronicle
Daily Objectives
11 Jun 2019
There is a lot to do in El Chronicle. Here is a list of daily objectives you can try to complete.
Free Stuff
- Collect free gift from Event > Daily Check-in
- Get one free summon from Shop > Summon shop. This has a chance of pulling great loot, so pick 4 heroes you need equipment for and hopefully you get something good for 1 of them. You can pick a tank, assassin, a defensive supporter, and an offensive supporter.
- Collect any rewards from the day before such as PVP rank reward, guild rank reward etc. Do 3 PVP battles (costs 0 energy).
- Complete all the Inn > Request Center quests. These cost no energy and give great rewards.
- Make sure to go to the inn and the heroes lounge and use your 10 free greets a day on a hero. That’ll give you around 150 favor to earn that hero. Even the most expensive heroes can be won in 4 days with just freely greeting them.
- Check mail. GMs often give out free things.
- Check for any events going on. Sometimes you can find these going on that cost no energy and have great rewards. Such as Lulu special prizes for finishing stages, or a mini game, or an appearance.
Farming
Stuff you can do once daily to help you gain resources and items.
- Do all your daily quests found in Event > Achievement > Daily menu.
- Challenges. Missions, Blitz, and Domain Defense all provide great rewards but have a limit on how many times you can do it daily.
- Compete lets you in the Colosseum and Infinite Fortress. You want to rank as high as you can here to earn more
honor
andchampion points
. Which can be used to buy things in the shop. - Raid. You get a limited amount of free raid tickets a day depending on your level. First each hero has a question to finish each raid 3 times, so working on this will give you extra rewards. Second the higher level raids can earn you nice T4 equipment, so it’s a great place to gear up and even make a set. Third you earn
guild points
andraid points
which helps you earn gold and buy things in the shop. - Alchemy takes 24 hours to complete one cycle. Make sure to check it and get something going there.
- When you get to the stages
Forbidden Prison
,Floating Garden
,Grave of Bitter Grief
,Elixer Room
, and higher you will see challenges you can complete a max of 3 times a day. A lot of these challenges offer valuable materials and hero pieces and are worth doing 3x a day.


Get 8 Tile Sticker trackers plus a Google Nest Mini for $100 ($109 off)
by Taylor KernsTile just announced its new, button-shaped tracker, the Tile Sticker, about a month ago. As you've probably surmised, it's your standard Tile tracker, but smaller, and you can stick it to stuff. You can get a great deal on an eight-pack right now: it's $100, $60 off the normal price — and you'll get a free Nest Mini to boot.
The Tile Stickers will last about three years each, and can help you locate an item up to 150 feet away. They're waterproof, too, so you can stick 'em on stuff that goes outside. The Nest Mini is also pretty great, and normally runs $49 on its own — bringing the total savings for this bundle up to a sizable $109.
If you've got eight things to keep track of and could use another smart speaker, this is a great bargain. The bundle price is good until the end of the year, so you've got plenty of time to act on it. Mosey over to Tile's website to grab your set.
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