sqliteminor: Usage¶
Instantiate an Object:
The sqliteminor object needs a connection (conn) object, which provides a connection to an sqlite database, and the name of a table in the sqlite database.
The conn can be created directly or optionally with an sqlitemgr object.
In Python, the sql statements used to work with an sqlite database table are executed with a cursor. Once the sqliteminor object has a conn, it creates its own cursor which it uses internally to run sql statements against a database.
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import sqlite3
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conn = sqlite3.connect
("path/to/db/") -
sm = SQLiteMinor
(conn, "my_table") - or
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sm = SQLiteMinor
()
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- Set or re-set the conn and table:
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sm.conn = conn
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sm.table = "my_new_table"
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The rest of this document supposes a table -- called "trees" -- in a hypothetical database containing data about various kinds of trees, as represented by the chart below. The names of each column are given with a data type(s) for each:
- Working with an sqlite database with Python, the above table would initially be created with the
following statement:
cursor.execute
("CREATE TABLE trees(tree_id INT, name TEXT, tree_type TEXT, age INT, sample_date DATE)")
add() -- Add a Row of Data to a Database Table:
- Pass in a tuple with the data to be added.
- The tuple must have its members placed in it in the order in which the columns of the
table are arranged, left to right. Or, the data should be placed in the tuple in the same order as the CREATE TABLE
statement shown above:
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row_data = (19, "Apple", "deciduous", 20, '2017-07-14')
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sm.add
( row_data)
- This method returns the number of rows added (this number should always be 1).
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read_all(select_column="*") -- Get All Rows from the Table:
- The
select_column
argument specifies which columns to return with the row data that is retrieved. To specify particular column-data of returned rows, pass one or more names of the columns in a list. The default argument is an asterisk -- * -- which means return all the columns in the row.- The
search_scope
argument can have one of two possible arguments: "has-any" or "has-all". has-any specifies that the search returns any rows which have any or all of the search values passed in (if more than one search value) withsearch_value
. has-all specifies that only rows which have all of the search values passed in are returned.rows = sm.read_all
()- Returns a list with all rows in the table. Each row's data is grouped into a tuple.
The list is empty if there are no rows in the database.
print rows
#prints the raw data in rows- or
for row in rows:
print row[0], " -- ", row[1], " -- ", row[2], " -- ", row[3], " -- ", row[4]
read_range(frm, to, col, select_column="*") -- Retrieve a range of rows based on the contents of a specific row:
- The
select_column
argument specifies which columns to return with the row data that is retrieved. To specify particular column-data of returned rows, pass one or more names of the columns in a list. The default argument is an asterisk -- * -- which means return all the columns in the row.- Example, get all the rows whose tree_id is between 2 and 10 (see chart above):
rows = sm.read_range
(2, 10, tree_id)- Returns a list with the retrieved rows in the table. (This will also include rows with tree_id 2 and 10, if present).
Each row's data is grouped into a tuple.
The list is empty if there are no rows in the database.
- Returns None (<type 'NoneType'>) if there was a problem.
print rows
#prints the raw data in rows- or
for row in rows:
print row[0], " -- ", row[1], " -- ", row[2], " -- ", row[3], " -- ", row[4]
read_head(n=5, select_column="*") -- Retrieve the first n rows from the table:
- Pass the number (n) to the method, or the default is 5.(see chart above):
- The
select_column
argument specifies which columns to return with the row data that is retrieved. To specify particular column-data of returned rows, pass one or more names of the columns in a list. The default argument is an asterisk -- * -- which means return all the columns in the row.rows = sm.read_head
(10)- or
rows = sm.read_head
()- Returns a list with the first n rows in the table.
The list is empty if there are no rows in the database.
- Returns None (<type 'NoneType'>) if there was a problem.
.
read_tail(n=5, select_column="*") -- Retrieve the last n rows from the table:
- Pass the number (n) to the method, or the default is 5.(see chart above):
- The
select_column
argument specifies which columns to return with the row data that is retrieved. To specify particular column-data of returned rows, pass one or more names of the columns in a list. The default argument is an asterisk -- * -- which means return all the columns in the row.rows = sm.read_tail
(10)- or
rows = sm.read_tail
()- Returns a list with the last n rows in the table.
The list is empty if there are no rows in the database.
- Returns None (<type 'NoneType'>) if there was a problem.
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read_search_rows(target_column, search_value, search_scope="has-any", select_column="*") -- Retrieve rows whose data in the specified column (target_column) contains a search value (search_value):
- The
select_column
argument specifies which columns to return with the row data that is retrieved. To specify particular column-data of returned rows, pass one or more names of the columns in a list. The default argument is an asterisk -- * -- which means return all the columns in the row.- The
search_scope
argument can have one of two possible arguments: "has-any" or "has-all". has-any specifies that the search returns any rows which have any or all of the search values passed in (if more than one search value) withsearch_value
. has-all specifies that only rows which have all of the search values passed in are returned.
- (The following examples use an asterisk -- * -- in the search_value to
specify whether the argument passed in should only be at the beginning, anywhere, or at the end of the specified column of each row.)
- Example, get all the rows whose 'name' column has "el" in it (see chart above):
1. rows = sm.read_search_rows
("name", "el" ) #gets all rows whose data in the 'name' column matches "el" exactly- (Should return)
- [ ] (empty)
2. rows = sm.read_search_rows
("name", "el*") # gets all rows whose data in the 'name' column matches "el" at the beginning
# -- note asterisk at the end of the search_value argument.
- (Should return)
- [(5, u'Elm', u'deciduous', 100, datetime.date(2017, 2, 11)), (11, u'Elder', u'deciduous', 40, datetime.date(2017, 2, 11))]
3. rows = sm.read_search_rows
("name", "*el") #gets all rows whose data in the 'name' column matches "el" at the end --
# note the location of the asterisk at the beginning of the argument passed in for the search_value.
- (Should return)
- [(15, u'Common Hazel', u'deciduous', 30, datetime.date(2017, 5, 2))]
4. rows = sm.read_search_rows
("name", "*el*") #gets all rows whose data in the 'name' column matches "el" anywhere.
# -- note the asterisks on either side of the search_value argument.
- (Should return)
- [(5, u'Elm', u'deciduous', 100, datetime.date(2017, 2, 11)), (11, u'Elder', u'deciduous', 40, datetime.date(2017, 2, 11)), (15, u'Common Hazel', u'deciduous', 30, datetime.date(2017, 5, 2)), (18, u'Guelder Rose', u'deciduous', 900, datetime.date(2017, 2, 11))]
- Returns a list with the last n rows in the table.
- The list is empty if there are no rows in the database.
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read_by_date_part(self, part, column, search_val, select_column="*") -- A method for specifically searching by dates. Retrieve one or more rows whose date has the passed-in day, month or year.
- The
part
argument This specifies which part of the date to search by. There can be one of three values: "day", "month" or "year".- The
column
is the actual name of the column which contains the date.- The
search_val
is the numerical value for the day (calendar date), month or year.- The
select_column
argument specifies which columns to return with the row data that is retrieved. To specify particular column-data of returned rows, pass one or more names of the columns in a list. The default argument is an asterisk -- * -- which means return all the columns in the row.
- Example, get all the rows whose
column
is called 'sample_date', which has '02' (February) for itspart
, and whose whosesearch_val
is 'month'. (see chart above):rows = read_by_date_part('month', 'sample_date', '02')
- (Should return row numbers)
- [5, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18]
- Returns a list with the retrieved rows in the table.
Each row's data is grouped into a tuple.
The list is empty if there are no rows in the database.
- Returns None (<type 'NoneType'>) if there was a problem.
print rows
#prints the raw data in rows- or
for row in rows:
print row[0], " -- ", row[1], " -- ", row[2], " -- ", row[3], " -- ", row[4]
update(self, target_column, new_val, reference_column, reference_column_value) -- Update one or more rows in a database table.
This method uses asterisks as described above. See
read_search_rows
for complete details on how to use them in searching row data.- Returns a number of how many rows were deleted.
- Returns None (<type 'NoneType'>) if there was a problem.
- Example, update all of the rows whose "tree_type" column matches exactly a value of "evergreen"
to a value of "coniferous"
(see chart above):
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number_rows_updated = sm.update
( "tree_type", "coniferous", "tree_type", "evergreen")
- Example, update all of the rows whose "name" column has a substring "thorn" somewhere in its name
to a value of "shrub" in its "tree_type" column:
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number_rows_updated = sm.update
( "tree_type", "shrub", "name", "*thorn*") # note the asterisks on both sides of search_value.
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delete(self, reference_column, ref_column_value, search_scope="has-any") -- Delete one or more rows in a database table.
- The
search_scope
argument can have one of two possible arguments: "has-any" or "has-all". has-any specifies that the search returns any rows which have any or all of the search values passed in (if more than one search value) withsearch_value
. has-all specifies that only rows which have all of the search values passed in are returned.This method uses asterisks as described above. See
read_search_rows
for complete details on how to use them in searching row data.
- Returns a number of how many rows were deleted.
- Returns None (<type 'NoneType'>) if there was a problem.
- Example, delete all of the rows whose "tree_type" column has a value of "evergreen"
(see chart above):
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number_rows_deleted = sm.delete
( "tree_type", "evergreen") # number_rows_deleted should = 5.
- Example, delete all of the rows whose "name" column has a substring "thorn" somewhere in its name:
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number_rows_deleted = sm.delete
( "name", "*thorn*") # number_rows_deleted = 3.
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Get the results of the Method Call using the result and status members:
- Did the method call succeed or fail? Check the result:
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sm.result
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print sm.result
# sm.result will either be 'OK' if successful or 'FAIL' if not.
- ... if sm.result is 'FAIL', any error message from a caught exception will be in sm.status:
sm.status
print sm.status
# if 'FAIL', sm.status will contain a message about what happened.-
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Compositional Freebase Questions
Compositional Freebase Questions[1] is a dataset for measuring compositional generalization in semantic parsing, which targets the task of parsing natural language questions into SPARQL queries executable on Freebase. It includes multiple train/test splits with maximally divergent examples in terms of compounds, generated using the Distribution-Based Compositionality Assessment (DBCA) method, while maintaining a low divergence in terms of primitive elements (atoms). In these splits, the test set is constrained to examples containing novel compounds, i.e., new ways of composing the atoms seen during training. This dataset contains 239357 English question-answer pairs, which encompass 49320 question patterns and 34921 SPARQL query patterns.
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Like fictitious play and Bayesian learning, calibration tries to predict the future based on past play. A sequence of binary forecasts is calibrated if in all periods where the occurrence of 1 is predicted with p is actually confirmed by the empirical frequency distribution. In 1997-1999 it was proven that for any desired degree of accuracy ε > 0 there exist random forecasting rules that are ε-calibrated for all paths of play. In this period is was also proven that if all players use a calibrated forecasting rule and play best responses, the empirical frequency of play converges to the set of correlated equilibria.
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SECRET CEREMONY A film review by Ralph Benner Copyright 1996 Ralph Benner
A list of loony tune movies out of the 60s wouldn't be complete without Joseph Losey's SECRET CEREMONY. The 11th Hour psycho craze had already started ebbing by the time prostie Elizabeth Taylor and unhinged, rich waif Mia Farrow pretended to be mother and daughter, with Robert Mitchum sniffing around as a nubilphile stepdaddy. But the shock of Liz -- double chinned, teeth eaten away by the booze, in Woolworth black pajama-like blouse and skirt, legged in diamond-shaped mesh stockings -- on her way to St. Mary Magdeline Church to pray after apparently fellating a john and then heading towards the church's cemetery to drop flowers on her daughter's grave, with wacky Mia trailing her, delusionally believing Liz is her own mother come back from the dead,is just too irresistibly bad not to get suckered in.
Adapted by George Tabori from an award-winning short story by Argentinean Marco Denevi, SECRET CEREMONY was at first a vehicle for Ingrid Bergman, who wanted to make in South America. Difficulties with rights and other factors intervened, and it's our loss, because, one surmises, Bergman probably wanted a stab at "magic unrealism," which is the territory the original story seem to be headed. Under Tabori, and Losey's dullard's cool, it has become a crash course on pseudo Henry Jamesion schizophrenia, molestation and a mother's love gone bonkers. Throw in Dames Peggy Ashcroft and Pamela Brown as "slightly Jewish" dyke kleptos for good measure and it all becomes a comedic 60s freakfest. We'll never know what Bergman would have allowed; with Liz, any pretensions toward refinements were put on the back burner and what's cookin' is a meal of mockery, debasement and sexual peccadilloes. She serves up one deliciously bad entree after another: every moment she's in she's so over-seasoned that watching her could cause a fast track to the toilet. But she's a shitcan kind of actress anyway -- blowing out lines and facial reactions that only the trisulfide of matches could dissipate.  You can't quite be sure if Lousy, I mean Losey allowed Liz her various bad accents, her awful inflections and readings, because it would be best to leave well enough alone -- this movie being one of the few in which the world's most famous movie star never caused any trouble -- or if he thought that what's transpiring is supposed to this terribly funny. There is, to be sure, intentional satire: Liz has the queenly first name of Leonora, but we hee-hee at her last: Grabowski. She's a blond when prostituting but in natural dark when washing out her mouth and on a bus on her way to church. The quintessence of self-ridicule is when, roughly twenty minutes into the movie, Mia, calling Liz "mummie," serves breakfast. Stuffing her face with sausages and croissants, belching afterwards, it's got to be Liz deprecating, because if it were anything else, we'd all die from the embarrassment.
After we get to know famous actors' acting styles, in most cases we end up unavoidably "seeing" their duplication of technique; we see in their performances a laziness, a reliance on what worked in the past, using tricks and methods we reluctantly accept out of fondness. And no celebrated star as actress has been more guilty of laziness than Liz. Out of the MGM School of Acting, Liz knows how to hits her marks and play scenes, as opposed to playing a sustained characterization. I don't think she has ever been totally successful as an adult character, not even in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, in which she has about a half dozen of cinema's greatest bitchouts. Part of this has to do with her lack of training, part of it her own limitations, part of it directors afraid of her fame and its accompanying power. Most of it has to do with Liz's own use of fame: she does what she pleases because she is Liz. Her string of flops after WOOLF? -- including SECRET CEREMONY -- are no one's fault but hers; she took the millions and in the process lost millions of viewers. People got tired of seeing her in roles she was too old for (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN) and too young for (BOOM!), and most especially got fed up with her variations of Martha: in BOOM!, SECRET CEREMONY and, though she's as her most zesty and audience-pleasing vulgar, X, Y AND ZEE. She got so lazy as an actress that she accepted herself in movies she clearly shouldn't have done: HAMMERSMITH IS OUT, the abominable DIVORCE HIS; DIVORCE HERS, NIGHT WATCH, THE MIRROR CRACK'D. Even if it's a dressup fantasy, ASH WEDNESDAY has a few scenes in which the old Liz magic of "scene playing" is on display: looking more beautiful than one can imagine, she dances with butched up (well, as butch as possible) Helmut Berger and you can really feel her apprehensions. To her credit, Liz has never been afraid of doing the controversial: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER, WOOLF?, as well as the way off offbeat stuff -- REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, SECRET CEREMONY and THE DRIVER'S SEAT. She was onto something daring, onto modern madness in SEAT, about a woman bent on having someone kill her, but she needed a director who knew what a movie should look like, and how to frame the subject. (It's appalling, but that's what makes it watchable.) For SECRET CEREMONY, Losey decided to let Liz look as seedy as the story and as seedy as he looked (see pictures of him in Michel Ciment's CONVERSATION WITH LOSEY), and while more effective today because the movie's a curiosity piece, he'd have gotten more out of his star had he curbed her swaying delineation: she's all over the place, grabbing bits of Martha's shrew for this scene, faking two or three accents for that scene, going for a displaced glamour when everything else fails. She looks fat, but seems the smallest, most inconsequential against skinny Mia.
Farrow is absolutely terrific as the deranged nubile with the nail-scratching-against-the-blackboard name of Cenci who may or may not be a vixen - a fruitcake bi-Peter Pan trapped in permanent adolescence. I can recall that when I first saw the movie, I was turned off by her; maybe I couldn't get passed the fact that she could never be Frank Sinatra's wife. (Ava Gardner's famous quip still resonates: "I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a little boy.") In fact, the marriage was in deep trouble during the movie's filming, so this could be one of those "lose myself" roles as form of protection; whatever it is, it works. She's a marvel at every turn: she's instant bananas when she sits down next to Liz on the bus; she's eerily uncomfortable to us when she's brushing Mummie's hair and could be attempting to put the make on her; and again she unnerves us when she joins Liz in a post-CLEOPATRA bathtub; she has just the right teasing ambiguity playing games with stepdaddy Mitchum; she's indescribably perfect feigning rape and pregnancy; she's flesh crawling when rubbing Liz's back; and she pulls out all the sedated dementia-in-full-bloom stops to achieve her finale -- not unexpected but very effective. If SECRET CEREMONY eventually becomes a cult classic -- and it could -- it will be Mia who gets the credit: here's a lunatic eager for sin.
In his leprechaun beard, great swagger (which Brown and Ashcroft have fun mimicking) and boozy W.F. Buckley face, Robert Mitchum's a rather subdued roue, a stepfather who casually dismisses incest as "a rather boring symptom of the private property system." He can never give a permanent address because he's always on the run from the law, chasing him down over his inability to keep his hands off female students. When Mitchum signed on to do the role of Albert, he said Losey and Tabori did "some weird things with that script. They were in trouble when I got there, and I don't think I improved the situation any." Yet he did: though Albert isn't in the original story, his inclusion - however Psyche 101, or powered as if on remote control - is part of Mia's Cenci's cause and effect of sexual precocity.
The craziness is the intended star, but it's the real house that steals the picture. Colder, mazier urban British digs would be difficult to find: construction starting in 1898, and completed five years later, its eclectic style is the result of several architects, and its most outstanding features, aside from the labyrinth of halls, rooms, nooks and crannies, are the Moorish style balconies and woodwork and the blue and aquamarine tiles that are in the interior and on the exterior. Scouting locations, Losey remembered the house because he'd often pass it when he'd take his son to a nearby school, and even production Richard MacDonald knew of it, though at first he thought it wasn't quite right for the picture's neurotic ambiance. Until, that is, he and Losey went to see it: having ironically been used for a time by a church organization to house the mentally ill, they found it a gold mine of possibilities. (They only had to clean up grounds, restore the William Morris wallpaper, the art nouveau objects, fixtures and add furniture. Mia's mother's bedroom and attached bath were sets but their designs were faithful to the house.) Notwithstanding Losey's claims, there's nothing about the sickies who live within the story that we'd care to believe as "realistic," but we can giggle our way through the psychoturgy by seeing these dementia peacocks perform their rituals as a result of the house's influence: they've been overtaken by the its maddening esoterics.
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| TEP: | 120 |
|---|---|
| Group: | Alliance Working Group |
| Type: | Informational |
| Status: | Draft |
| TinyOS-Version: | All |
| Authors: | Philippe Bonnet
David Culler Deborah Estrin Ramesh Govindan Mike Horton Jeonghoon Kang Philip Levis Lama Nachman Jack Stankovic Rob Szewczyk Matt Welsh Adam Wolisz |
| Draft-Created: | 17-April-2006 |
| Draft-Version: | 1.7 |
| Draft-Modified: | 2007-06-21 |
| Draft-Discuss: | TinyOS Alliance <tinyos-alliance at mail.millennium.berkeley.edu> |
Note
This memo documents a blueprint for an open alliance aroung TinyOS for the TinyOS Community and requests discussion and suggestions for improvement. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This memo is in full compliance with TEP 1.
This memo describes the goals and organization structure of the TinyOS Alliance. It covers membership, the working group forums for contribution, intellectual property, source licensing, and the TinyOS Steering Committee (TSC).
Formulate a legal and organizational framework for an alliance that can facilitate the continued advancement of the open embedded network ecosystem around TinyOS and support the activities, interactions, and development of the worldwide academic and industrial TinyOS community.
This memo defines a blueprint and conceptual foundation for an open alliance that fulfills the above charter. It defines the following ten aspects of the alliance:
- Mission
- Legal structure
- Organizational structure
- Membership criteria
- Working group processes
- Election process
- Intellectual property
- Source licensing
- Funding
- Work products
We (the Alliance) recognize that each of these aspects contributes to the whole, is inter-related and needs to be consistent overall. This document attempts to address them sequentially, recognizing that each depends on the others. It draws on lessons from several related organizations, although each of these also has significantly different goals from those set out in the charter.
Examining the structure and policies of these organizations helps determine what the Alliance can borrow from them, what it must do differently, and why. We (the Alliance) draw most strongly upon the IETF, even though that organization was focused around creating and standardizing protocols, rather than developing a code base. Its emphasis on rough consensus AND running code placed issues akin to those we face near the fore. We share the view that technical excellence is a primary goal and that the organization should be structured to sustain and overall cohesive architecture. In our case, it is represented by high quality reference implementations and standard APIs, as well as techical documents and protocols. We share an emphasis on broad participation centered on the contributions of individual members.
We encourage industrial involvement, industrial development, and industrial support. The organization is welcoming to companies, but it keeps financial support and marketing activities (while both important) at arms length from the technical process. We share the concept that proper behavior of participants and member companies is most strongly shaped by code of ethics, captured in organization rules and social norms, rather than threats of legal repercussions. The broader marketplace is a more effective enforcement body than any technical organization. Thus, we ask that participants declare relevant intellectual proprt (IP) that they are aware of, rather than force a strict accounting of potentially relevant IP. We encourage the development of open solutions that are implemented without the need for particular proprietary IP. In the IETF, this is addressed by the requirement of multiple interoperable implementations before standardization. If such implementations can be developed without legal issues, it is likely that other non-infringing implementations are possible. Like IETF, we seek a lean bureacracy and mostly volunteer organization.
From OSDL, we share the goal of developing a stable, high quality version of an open source system. This suggests that the alliance have a strong role in developing test suites and broadly accessible testbeds, as well as structures for sharing development resources. However, we avoid the OSDL structure of the scale of monetary contributions dictating technical oversite. We are not constrained by a GPL license structure, as is the OSDL.
From Apache, we draw the strong sense of a technical meritocracy centered on individual contributors. We seek to permit a loose enough consortium that there can be a lot of individual innovation, especially in areas of tools, devices, and new platforms. We also seek to retain the notion that credit should be given to authors. In Apache, giving the copyright to the Apache organization exchanges the value of the brand for technical contributions. For a broad alliance representing many universities and large companies, such a copyright scheme is likely to be an untenable barrier. Instead, we seek to provide a simple source license regime with technical tools for giving credit and strong social pressure to comply.
From Zigbee, we share the goal of providing marketing support for the accomplishments of the alliance and that we should seek to define standardized services, not just protocols. We recognize that the alliance serves a useful function in being a point of allocation for various namespaces, but that this important function should not be a tool for extracting financial contributions. We see the value of an IP pool to give confidence that the standard can be adopted without becoming entrapped later by IP terms, however, we also see that such a pool presents a very significant barrier. Moreover, it does not prevent members from obtaining IP to use it to their advantage with other members of the alliance. It also does not constrain non-members from obtaining blocking IP. It does discourage contributions that might pull IP into the pool. We prefer a process of declaration and multiple implementation. Section 7 goes deeper into how the Alliance manages the issues and complexities of IP in an open organization.
The mission of the TinyOS Alliance is to provide a forum to facilitate:
- the continued growth of a healthy TinyOS developer and user community with support for innovation as well as industry advancement,
- the development and maintenance of a stable, technically-sound base of TinyOS technology and surrounding tools through the creation of standard interfaces and protocols, vetted extensions, open reference implementations, technical documents, testing and verification suites, and educational materials,
- the contribution of innovative technology from a world-wide research community and the maturation and dissemination of these contributions, and
- the promotion of the technology, the community, and the impact of networked embedded systems.
The Alliance has a technical advisory function: guide the evolution of the TinyOS architecture, formulate and track progress of working groups, and provide an open and impartial process for technical documentation. It also has an organizational advisory function: manage industry interaction, legal and IP issues, evolution of the organization itself, membership issues and so on.
We follow an approach that starts small and grows the structure as needed. The focus should be on the working groups. Working groups are not limited to technical functions; they can be formed to promote developments, markets, etc. Beyond the working groups, the organization should remain lean, relying primarily on volunteers. We want to avoid creating a situation where the organization becomes focused on its own growth and pre-eminence at the expense of the larger community and technical agenda.
Technical directions should be driven by merit and overall soundness, and built on consensus.
The Alliance consists of a non-profit corporation with a Board of Directors, a small support staff (primarily volunteer or outsourced) and a Steering Committee. The Steering Committee oversees a collection of Working Groups, each with a Chair and Members.
In the steady state the Steering Committee will consist of the chairs of working groups plus a handful of elected members at large. Tenure of a position on the Steering Committee will consist of two years with opportunity for renewal. We want to see a vibrant, engaged, and constantly evolving leadership while allowing for long-term and committed members.
Initially the steering committee would be formed from working group chairs plus some subset of the Alliance working group members. This initial committee will be responsible for putting in place the membership and elections processes, which will then be utilized to form the regular Steering Committee.
The primary role of the Steering Committee (SC) is to oversee the Working groups (WGs). This means establishing WG policy, providing appeals process, managing WG creation/extinction, arbitrating between WGs, and supervising activities to resolve conflicting directions and moving the process towards overall architectural coherence.
The SC is also responsible for reviewing and approving all TinyOS Enhancement Proposals (TEPs) that working groups generate. WGs submit TEPs to the SC for review. The SC should appoint one contributing Alliance member not affiliated with the corresponding WG to review the TEP. This reviewer, who may or may not be a member of the SC, may solicit comments from the community at large, but must also thoroughly review the submitted TEP. WGs must address any issues/questions brought up either by the reviewer or by other community members. Once the reviewer approves the revisions, he/she presents the TEP to the SC for approval by rough consensus. Finally, TEPs that affect the organizational structure of the Alliance must also be approved by the Board.
Finally, the Steering Commitee will be responsible for determining the procedural elements of the Alliance. This includes election procedures, membership criteria, selection of venues, oversight of access to code repositories and Alliance web sites, and regular Alliance meetings that occur at least once a year.
The working groups form the core of the alliance. Each working group will have a chair who will be responsible for WG processes, reporting, meetings, and membership. Working groups and their functions are discussed in more detail in a later section.
The non-profit will require a Board of Directors responsible for corporate matters.
We desire to continue the TinyOS tradition of promoting broad membership. This means that we want to keep barriers to entry low in all respects: legal, financial, and organizational. As with IETF and Apache, we want to shape the organization as a meritocracy that encourages, promotes, and credits the contributions of its members. Companies have an essential role, but merit, not finances should dictate direction. Membership and influence should recognize the importance of adopters, not just developers.
The fundamental membership is individual, as individuals create work products, serve on working groups and committees, and vote. We have two forms:
- Member: Individual who joins the Alliance and participates at a
basic level, typically as consumer of technology.
Contributing Member: Individual who additionally joins working groups, attends meetings, or contributes code or other assets to the Alliance. Contributing members are elected to various posts and have voting rights.
There is no individual membership fee, but members will be responsible for nominal registration fees at Alliance meetings.
Corporations and organizations have institutional membership, which reflects their degree of effort.
- Institutional Member: A corporation or organization that joins the Alliance, agrees to appear on the Alliance web site and documents, and pays a nominal administrative fee. (Min. Annual $500 for small companies and non-profits, $1000 for larger)
- Contributing Institutional Member: Corporation or institutional organization that additionally provides financial support, resources, facilities, technical contributions, intellectual property, marketing support, or other meaningful contributions to the Alliance. Such institutions are featured prominently in the Alliance and have the opportunity to appoint individuals as contributing members. (Min. Annual $2000 for small companies and non-profits, $5000 for larger)
Rather than focusing on maximizing the financial contributions into the alliance, we are interested in maximizing the impact of the alliance in facilitating a healthy academic and industrial, research and production ecosystem around embedded network technology.
The organization will be able to accept direct financial and intellectual property contributions. The IP policy, described in Section 7, should encourage corporate participation while preserving focus on soundness, merit, and consensus building. Ultimately, we seek to promote a meritocracy that recognizess the contributions of the individuals, whether they be members of corporations, academic institutions, govermental institutions, or unaffiliated.
There will be two forms of working groups. LONG-STANDING groups are chartered to develop important areas or subsystems. For example, we expect longstanding groups on routing, management, platforms, testing, programming tools, and education. SHORT-TERM groups have a fixed mandate to tackle a particular topic. For example, there may be groups to develop a particular protocol, establish a policy or licensing format, or address a particular application capability.
There will be two means of Working Group formation: grass roots and charter. Grass roots groups are formed by individuals or groups who have a preliminary version of something important and want to make it part of TinyOS. They assemble and make a request to the SC with a proposed charter statement and chair. Chartered groups are formed by SC or Board of Directors to address a recognized need for an important area of development. The SC solicits members and chair with a particular charter in mind. WGs may be formed for organizational or marketing goals, as well as technical goals.
The typical output of a working group is technical documentation AND working code, including interface definitions and standard proposals. While this is the typical output, working groups are not constrained to this model, and can have a variety of purposes and work products. We seek to promote the development of standardized interfaces, protocols, services, and tools with high quality, open reference implementations of each. We seek to have these standards be implementable without relying on particular proprietary intellectual property. We are not interested in discouraging development of implementations that have excelled in various ways through proprietary IP, but standards should not require the use of such IP and should allow for multiple, interoperable implementations. The Steering committee will be engaged in ratification of standards by actively participating in the community review process and document evolution.
In general we want to promote the development, adoption and use of open technology. We want to avoid having the advancement of embedded networks getting trapped into proprietary IP. Accordingly, our IP policy builds heavily on the IETF model. We also want to avoid a high barrier to participation. Thus, we want to avoid demanding membership requirements that require extensive legal analysis and assessing deep strategic analysis before joining. In particular, IP pooling or broad IP assignment requirements are seen to too large a barrier and discourage the active participation of members. At the same time, we recognize that without such measures only, members cannot expect guarantees of IP rights. We also want to avoid sponging IP from others or worse, having members or non-members running ahead of the Alliance and creating blocking IP. In essence, all participants must operate with eyes open. The Alliance encourage an open process, open standards, and open source with a clear code of ethics, but leaves broader issues of enforcement to the outside market. Like IETF, we rely on disclosure of known IP of relevance, an open process, and a code of conduct. Working groups are encourage to create work products that do not rely on proprietary IP for implementation.
We also want to avoid requiring a member institution from having to conduct a complete inventory of IP holdings for potential relevance. This is impractical for Universities and large corporations. It is the responsibility of the members to disclose IP or relvance, whether it is their property or not, so that they Alliance members can make informed decisions and trade-offs.
Following the IETF, to establish a culture of openness, meeting discussions, presentations, and technical documents are non-confidential. This simple measure is a signficant step towards establishing the culture of openness and it avoids large legal and organizational hassles, as evident in OSDL.
As with the IETF, there will be a mechanism for contributing IP to the Alliance. This will be treated along with other forms of contribution in establishing member status.
Working Groups will be tasked to avoid forming standards and creating work products that fundamentally depend on proprietary IP, i.e., where the proposal can only reasonably be implemented using such IP. Members recognize that in making proposals, they are required by Alliance rules to disclose what IP they know to be relevant. In the rare cases where a working group determines that IP dependent proposals are sufficiently critical that they be pursued, such IP must be available on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms for the Steering Committee to be able to approve the action.
Of course, Intellectual Property in the TinyOS alliance is closely tied to source licensing terms, as dicussed in greater detail in Section 8. As part of Alliance rules, members agree to only contribute code that conforms to Alliance source license policy. As part of keeping barriers to participation low, GPL and code based on potentially viral licensing terms must be carefully compartmentalized, explicit, and not present in core software. It will typically involve development tools, such as the compilers and peripheral Linux-based devices.
In general, we want to provide a mechanism where individuals and companies can easily contribute source, can utilize what is available, and can gain recognition for their efforts. Following the TinyOS tradition, our source licensing policy will be most strongly aligned with BSD and its more modern variants. We recognize several inherent tensions and trade-offs in formulating the source license.
We want to give credit where credit is due. Fundamentally, the community moves forward by contributing valuable technology and standing upon each other's shoulders, not on their feet. Credit and respect drive a virtuous cycle of technical advance. We do have several examples where companies, or even resarch institutions, have gained substantial benefit from the work of others while presenting it as their own. This concern is partially addressed by GPL, where if you build upon the work of others you are obliged to put it back in the open. Apache addresses this issue by requiring accreditation of the Apache foundation. However, this is connected with a stiff membership requirement of signing the copyright to Apache. Participants make that sacrifice when they view the brand appeal associated with the Apache meritocracy as of sufficient value to warrant the arrangement. Apache is also a loosely affiliated consortium of relatively localized projects, typically in very well established technical areas. Our situation is different because we have many contributors to a cohesive whole and many of these contributors are at leading research institutions where copyright must rest with the host institution. Moreover, much of the work is at the leading edge of technology.
We recognize that the TinyOS "brand" is of value and will be increasingly so as the Alliance becomes more formal. We do not want it tainted with its use as a marketing tool on inferior technology. Thus, we want to connect the use of the TinyOS term with membership, contribution, and conformance to Alliance rules and guidelines.
We have the additional wrinkle that we are dealing primarily with embedded technology, which may have no visible user interface. And, we have limited resources so carrying additional footprint for legal conformance is unattractive.
Furthermore, many of our contributors are from organizations that have very precisely defined sets of acceptable source licensing terms. As much as having a common license throughout the Alliance would make it easy for everyone to know the specific terms, getting diverse institutions to agree to common language is impractical. We do, however, want to have as few distinct licenses with a little variation as possible. Fortunately, we are seeing convergence in licenses, after several years of proliferation.
To address these matters, the Alliance has a preferred source license based on the BSD framework, (the "new" BSD license approved by the Open Source Initiative [BSD] ) and a small set of accepted licenses, some of which have been gradfathered in with the existing code base. Contributions can be made using one of those accepted licenses, with the member organization name changed appropriately. Organizations can submit additional proposed licenses to the Steering Committee. In order to avoid the debate of what constitutes "open source," the Steering Committee will generally only consider licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for inclusion in the core. However, being an OSI-approved license is not a sufficient condition for approval within the Alliance. If a contributor wishes to use a completely new license, it can submit the license to the OSI first.
We will not require that the Alliance hold copyright of submitted source code, but that it conform to Alliance guidelines. These include guidelines for adding copyrights to existing sources.
We will utilize the available development tools to facilitate the generation of a list of contributors associated with any particular instantiation of TinyOS components into an overall system, application, or distribution. We will provide tools for registering contributors, copyrights, and applicable source licenses on line, for ease of reference.
Alliance rules will set guidelines for giving credit to contributors in documentation, source, tools, web sites and so on. We want to recognize the individuals and their host institutions, as well as the Alliance. But we do not want to create a bureacratic nightmare that deters adoption, nor do we want to turn the Alliance into a policing organization. Harsh and threatening legal terms that have no credible means of enforcement create a adversarial culture with little practical advantage. Instead, the Alliance will utilize cultural norms and reputation as mechanisms for enforcing proper creditation. We will develop tools that make compliance relatively easy, reward those that do so, and provide a complaint mechanism to identify misuse.
In taking this approach, we focus on needs of reference mplementations of standardized interfaces and protocols. The Alliance is not the only vehicle for producing a hardened, tested, certified code base. To do so would require the Alliance host a large technical staff, as OSDL does. Comapanies may do so, or produce implementations with enhanced performance, reliability, or efficiency using their own proprietary technology. The Alliance encourages such innovation while promoting standardized interfaces that allow such technology to interoperate.
Initially, we expect that there are no full time employees in the Alliance and that funding needs are limited to such items as lawyer's fees, web site costs, and insurance. If the Alliance eventually requires full time support personnel, the funding structure will have to be re-visited.
As with the IETF, individuals are responsible for their own costs, which primarily involve meetings, travel, and generation of work products. The Alliance is predominantly a volunteer organization. Membership participation will involve attendance at Alliance meetings. Registration fees will be charged to cover costs associated with adminstration of the meetings.
To maintain the focus on technical excellence and meritocracy, we want to avoid the heavy-handed quid-pro-quo seen in many industrial consortiums where funding determines influence. The best use of funds and the best form of influence is direct contribution to the work products of the Alliance. To keep the structure of the Alliance and its operations minimalist and lean, membership focuses on desired impact and recognition, rather than control. We want the best way to influence the direction of the Alliance to be to contribute technical work and demonstrate leadership, rather than try to control what individuals can or cannot contribute.
Companies and institutions are encouraged to contribute financial and in-kind support. It will be essential that companies provide initial funding to create the legal structure and to establish basic IT capabilities to host the web site and working groups. Institutional members will pay an annual membership fee. In some cases, a contributing corporate member may provide in-kind services such as lawyers' time used to draw up or comment on by-laws. Targeted contributions will be solicited and encouraged. In this case the donator need not become a contributing corporate member, e.g., in those cases where such a membership may be prohibited or unwanted. The costs of meetings, such as the TinyOS technology exchange, will be covered through registration fees and not by institutional membership fees.
The broad mission of the Alliance calls for a broad range of work products.
Foremost among these are a set of TEPs documenting systems and protocols as well as TEPs that provide guidance and knowledge to the community. Technical documentation will have robust and open reference implementations for the community to use, refine, improve, and discuss. These reference implementations will not preclude alternative, compatibile implementations which may have additional features or optimizations. The Alliance Working Groups will periodically produce periodic releases of these reference implementations for the community to use and improve.
The Alliance will support community contributions of innovative extensions and systems by providing a CVS repository to store them. In order to keep these contributions organized for users, the Steering Committee may nominate one or more people to caretake the repository by setting minimal guidelines for the use of the directory structure and migrating code as it joins the core or falls into disuse.
To make these technological resources more accessible and useful to a broad embedded networks community, the Alliance will be dedicated to providing a set of educational materials. This includes introductory tutorials, documentation of core systems, simple and complex example applications, and user guides.
In addition to educational sample applications, whose purpose is to teach new developers about the internals and workings of the technology, the Alliance will develop and make available several end-user applications and tools. The goal is to improve the accessibility of the technology to end-users while demonstrating its effectiveness. Historical examples of such applications include Surge and TinyDB. An important part of this effort is good documentation for users who are not expert programmers, as well as tools and graphical environments.
By focusing on consensus building and technical excellence, the Alliance seeks to avoid being a forum for political and economic positioning. It will achieve this by focusing on working groups and the contributions of individuals, while not taking strong positions on the benefits or drawbacks of different approaches. The diverse requiremements of sensornet applications mean that having a suite of solutions, rather than a single one, is often not only desirable but essential.
Over the past five years, low-power embedded sensor networks have grown from research prototypes to working systems that are being actively deployed. Furthermore, there is a vibrant research community that actively works to deploy these systems and collaborate with industry, making advances quickly accessible and usable. A great catalyst to this growth has been the presence of a large community around a shared, free code base.
The time has come to create an organizational structure to allow the effort to grow further. As sensornets become more widespread, contributions and advancements will be from an increasingly broad demographic of users, and bringing them all together will speed progress and improve the potential benefit these systems can bring to society. This focus on bringing disparate groups together lies at the heart of the Alliance. Rather than depend on strong requirements, it depends on broad collaboration and participation, placing a minimalist set of expectations that will encourage the exchange of ideas and technology.


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Having tried 2c-t-7 on four other occasions, I decided last night to dose the remaining forty milligrams I had in my fridge. The last time I had also taken 40 mg and found it to be at just the right level for me. So I measured it out and drank it down. The taste was hardly noticed mixed with some oj. I must also mention that i had been drinking earlier and i find that few beers helps it kick in quicker than normal.
After about an hour I felt the slow climb begin and experienced transient nausea untill i reached about t+2 and my vision began to go. Shadows begin to move across the walls in waves and I begin to get familiar MDMA like body rushes. Mentally I begin to slowly drift towards a very calm and peaceful mind set. Everything seems so at peace and I find myself obsorbed in radiating lines of color that expand out across my vision.
I throw in some music in the third and fourth hours and it sounds
wonderful. Closing my eyes the music effects how the visuals flow and unfold. The texture of different surfaces also causes changes in color. My body feels awesome: almost as good as MDMA but more calm and relaxed. The visuals from this stuff are equal to if not better than those of 400 mcg of good LSD but no mindfuck.
Overall the experience lasted around six hours. Smoking pot
throughout the trip definately intensifies the visuals. 2C-T-7 is probably one of my favourite drugs and is great for introspection. I find it's body load to be negligible compared to the benefits. I would recommend this substance for exploration.
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Keychron Keyboard
With lockdown continuing in the UK, and working from home, I decided to look once more at the mechanical keyboard market.
I had been using the Logitech K350 on Windows without any issues, but for whatever reason, I wasn’t able to use this nicely on the Mac - I’d often get drop outs or lag, where what I was typing wasn’t picked up, or was lost completely 1.
In the mean time, I’d been using a Windows Dell keyboard - a cheap and cheerful keyboard that did the job, and I actually wasn’t getting RSI by using it! So even though it’s not ergonomic, I was able to use it successfully without getting any wrist pain.
Keychron K1
I looked around - if I could get a Mac specific mechanical keyboard, that would be good. This lead to Keychron, who do Mac specific mechanical keyboards. After looking around their site for a bit, I decided on a Keychron K1, a low profile, Bluetooth keyboard. The intention was that if the Dell keyboard wasn’t causing RSI, then a low profile keyboard may well be fine.
It arrived pretty quickly considering the global pandemic and I was able to use it over the Christmas break.
I went with the Blue Switches, as I’ve found that the tactile keys of the Cherry/Gateron Blue’s are the best for me, though it does make the keyboard far noisier than normal! I don’t have an issue with this and as I’m working from home, it rarely annoys anyone else (though I do have to mute my mic when on Teams and using it!)
Keychron K8
After using the low profile keyboard for a while, I found that I was missing the key travel of a full size keyboard. I was bottoming out the keys far more quickly (hardly surprising!)
Because of this, I ended up purchasing the Keychron K8 keyboard, as I purchased during the Christmas period, which gave me a discount and selling the K1.
The K8 is almost the same, but has normal size keys, which means I’m able to type without issues. Using it for a period of time, I’m happily typing and not getting the feeling that the keyboard is to shallow.
I also purchased a wrist rest from Amazon, as I didn’t want to suffer any RSI, and I thought the wrist rest would help. Using both the K8, wrist rest and a Logitech MX Vertical, everything seems to be OK.
Conclusions
The Keychron K8 is ideal. I had concerns about using a keyboard with a numpad, but after a brief period of adjustment, I got used to it, and it just meant I’d bring my USB power numpad out the drawer if I needed it.
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However, it appears from a post on Mac Power Users that this might be related to Time Machine starting and working - which makes sense, as using a MacBook Air without Time Machine enabled it seems to work perfectly. ↩


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Encryption, digital money, anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero knowledge, reputations, information markets, black markets, collapse of governments.
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The Four Million
by O. Henry
"Between Rounds"
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1906
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: O. Henry, The Four Million (Doubleday, Page & Company; New York: 1906) Henry, O. (1906). The Four Million. Doubleday, Page & Company; New York.
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- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 5.2
- Word Count: 2,255
- Genre: Realism
- Keywords: fate, fiction, short story
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The May moon shone bright upon the private boarding–house of Mrs. Murphy. By reference to the almanac a large amount of territory will be discovered upon which its rays also fell. Spring was in its heydey, with hay fever soon to follow. The parks were green with new leaves and buyers for the Western and Southern trade. Flowers and summer–resort agents were blowing; the air and answers to Lawson were growing milder; hand–organs, fountains and pinochle were playing everywhere.
The windows of Mrs. Murphy's boarding–house were open. A group of boarders were seated on the high stoop upon round, flat mats like German pancakes.
In one of the second–floor front windows Mrs. McCaskey awaited her husband. Supper was cooling on the table. Its heat went into Mrs. McCaskey.
At nine Mr. McCaskey came. He carried his coat on his arm and his pipe in his teeth; and he apologised for disturbing the boarders on the steps as he selected spots of stone between them on which to set his size 9, width Ds.
As he opened the door of his room he received a surprise. Instead of the usual stove–lid or potato–masher for him to dodge, came only words.
Mr. McCaskey reckoned that the benign May moon had softened the breast of his spouse.
"I heard ye," came the oral substitutes for kitchenware. "Ye can apollygise to riff–raff of the streets for settin' yer unhandy feet on the tails of their frocks, but ye'd walk on the neck of yer wife the length of a clothes–line without so much as a 'Kiss me fut,' and I'm sure it's that long from rubberin' out the windy for ye and the victuals cold such as there's money to buy after drinkin' up yer wages at Gallegher's every Saturday evenin', and the gas man here twice to–day for his."
"Woman!" said Mr. McCaskey, dashing his coat and hat upon a chair, "the noise of ye is an insult to me appetite. When ye run down politeness ye take the mortar from between the bricks of the foundations of society. 'Tis no more than exercisin' the acrimony of a gentleman when ye ask the dissent of ladies blockin' the way for steppin' between them. Will ye bring the pig's face of ye out of the windy and see to the food?"
Mrs. McCaskey arose heavily and went to the stove. There was something in her manner that warned Mr. McCaskey. When the corners of her mouth went down suddenly like a barometer it usually foretold a fall of crockery and tinware.
"Pig's face, is it?" said Mrs. McCaskey, and hurled a stewpan full of bacon and turnips at her lord.
Mr. McCaskey was no novice at repartee. He knew what should follow the entrée. On the table was a roast sirloin of pork, garnished with shamrocks. He retorted with this, and drew the appropriate return of a bread pudding in an earthen dish. A hunk of Swiss cheese accurately thrown by her husband struck Mrs. McCaskey below one eye. When she replied with a well–aimed coffee–pot full of a hot, black, semi–fragrant liquid the battle, according to courses, should have ended.
But Mr. McCaskey was no 50–cent table d'hôter. Let cheap Bohemians consider coffee the end, if they would. Let them make that faux pas. He was foxier still. Finger–bowls were not beyond the compass of his experience. They were not to be had in the Pension Murphy; but their equivalent was at hand. Triumphantly he sent the granite–ware wash basin at the head of his matrimonial adversary. Mrs. McCaskey dodged in time. She reached for a flatiron, with which, as a sort of cordial, she hoped to bring the gastronomical duel to a close. But a loud, wailing scream downstairs caused both her and Mr. McCaskey to pause in a sort of involuntary armistice.
On the sidewalk at the corner of the house Policeman Cleary was standing with one ear upturned, listening to the crash of household utensils.
"'Tis Jawn McCaskey and his missis at it again," meditated the policeman. "I wonder shall I go up and stop the row. I will not. Married folks they are; and few pleasures they have. 'Twill not last long. Sure, they'll have to borrow more dishes to keep it up with."
And just then came the loud scream below–stairs, betokening fear or dire extremity. "'Tis probably the cat," said Policeman Cleary, and walked hastily in the other direction.
The boarders on the steps were fluttered. Mr. Toomey, an insurance solicitor by birth and an investigator by profession, went inside to analyse the scream. He returned with the news that Mrs. Murphy's little boy, Mike, was lost. Following the messenger, out bounced Mrs. Murphy—two hundred pounds in tears and hysterics, clutching the air and howling to the sky for the loss of thirty pounds of freckles and mischief. Bathos, truly; but Mr. Toomey sat down at the side of Miss Purdy, millinery, and their hands came together in sympathy. The two old maids, Misses Walsh, who complained every day about the noise in the halls, inquired immediately if anybody had looked behind the clock.
Major Grigg, who sat by his fat wife on the top step, arose and buttoned his coat. "The little one lost?" he exclaimed. "I will scour the city." His wife never allowed him out after dark. But now she said: "Go, Ludovic!" in a baritone voice. "Whoever can look upon that mother's grief without springing to her relief has a heart of stone." "Give me some thirty or—sixty cents, my love," said the Major. "Lost children sometimes stray far. I may need carfares."
Old man Denny, hall room, fourth floor back, who sat on the lowest step, trying to read a paper by the street lamp, turned over a page to follow up the article about the carpenters' strike. Mrs. Murphy shrieked to the moon: "Oh, ar–r–Mike, f'r Gawd's sake, where is me little bit av a boy?"
"When'd ye see him last?" asked old man Denny, with one eye on the report of the Building Trades League.
"Oh," wailed Mrs. Murphy, "'twas yisterday, or maybe four hours ago! I dunno. But it's lost he is, me little boy Mike. He was playin' on the sidewalk only this mornin'—or was it Wednesday? I'm that busy with work, 'tis hard to keep up with dates. But I've looked the house over from top to cellar, and it's gone he is. Oh, for the love av Hiven—"
Silent, grim, colossal, the big city has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that no pulse of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still, nobody should take offence. We would call no one a lobster without good and sufficient claws.
No calamity so touches the common heart of humanity as does the straying of a little child. Their feet are so uncertain and feeble; the ways are so steep and strange.
Major Griggs hurried down to the corner, and up the avenue into Billy's place. "Gimme a rye–high," he said to the servitor.
Mr. Toomey retained Miss Purdy's hand on the steps. "Think of that dear little babe," said Miss Purdy, "lost from his mother's side—perhaps already fallen beneath the iron hoofs of galloping steeds—oh, isn't it dreadful?"
"Ain't that right?" agreed Mr. Toomey, squeezing her hand. "Say I start out and help look for um!"
"Perhaps," said Miss Purdy, "you should.
In the second floor front Mr. and Mrs. McCaskey came to the window to recover their second wind. Mr. McCaskey was scooping turnips out of his vest with a crooked forefinger, and his lady was wiping an eye that the salt of the roast pork had not benefited. They heard the outcry below, and thrust their heads out of the window.
"'Tis little Mike is lost," said Mrs. McCaskey, in a hushed voice, "the beautiful, little, trouble–making angel of a gossoon!"
"The bit of a boy mislaid?" said Mr. McCaskey, leaning out of the window. "Why, now, that's bad enough, entirely. The childer, they be different. If 'twas a woman I'd be willin', for they leave peace behind 'em when they go."
Disregarding the thrust, Mrs. McCaskey caught her husband's arm.
"Jawn," she said, sentimentally, "Missis Murphy's little bye is lost. 'Tis a great city for losing little boys. Six years old he was. Jawn, 'tis the same age our little bye would have been if we had had one six years ago."
"We never did," said Mr. McCaskey, lingering with the fact.
"But if we had, Jawn, think what sorrow would be in our hearts this night, with our little Phelan run away and stolen in the city nowheres at all."
"Ye talk foolishness," said Mr. McCaskey. "'Tis Pat he would be named, after me old father in Cantrim."
"Ye lie!" said Mrs. McCaskey, without anger. "Me brother was worth tin dozen bog–trotting McCaskeys. After him would the bye be named." She leaned over the window–sill and looked down at the hurrying and bustle below.
"Jawn," said Mrs. McCaskey, softly, "I'm sorry I was hasty wid ye."
"'Twas hasty puddin', as ye say," said her husband, "and hurry–up turnips and get–a–move–on–ye coffee. 'Twas what ye could call a quick lunch, all right, and tell no lie."
Mrs. McCaskey slipped her arm inside her husband's and took his rough hand in hers.
"Listen at the cryin' of poor Mrs. Murphy," she said. "'Tis an awful thing for a bit of a bye to be lost in this great big city. If 'twas our little Phelan, Jawn, I'd be breakin' me heart."
Awkwardly Mr. McCaskey withdrew his hand. But he laid it around the nearing shoulder of his wife.
"'Tis foolishness, of course," said he, roughly, "but I'd be cut up some meself if our little Pat was kidnapped or anything. But there never was any childer for us. Sometimes I've been ugly and hard with ye, Judy. Forget it."
They leaned together, and looked down at the heart–drama being acted below.
Long they sat thus. People surged along the sidewalk, crowding, questioning, filling the air with rumours, and inconsequent surmises. Mrs. Murphy ploughed back and forth in their midst, like a soft mountain down which plunged an audible cataract of tears. Couriers came and went.
Loud voices and a renewed uproar were raised in front of the boarding–house.
"What's up now, Judy?" asked Mr. McCaskey.
"'Tis Missis Murphy's voice," said Mrs. McCaskey, harking. "She says she's after finding little Mike asleep behind the roll of old linoleum under the bed in her room."
Mr. McCaskey laughed loudly.
"That's yer Phelan," he shouted, sardonically. "Divil a bit would a Pat have done that trick. If the bye we never had is strayed and stole, by the powers, call him Phelan, and see him hide out under the bed like a mangy pup."
Mrs. McCaskey arose heavily, and went toward the dish closet, with the corners of her mouth drawn down.
Policeman Cleary came back around the corner as the crowd dispersed. Surprised, he upturned an ear toward the McCaskey apartment, where the crash of irons and chinaware and the ring of hurled kitchen utensils seemed as loud as before. Policeman Cleary took out his timepiece.
"By the deported snakes!" he exclaimed, "Jawn McCaskey and his lady have been fightin' for an hour and a quarter by the watch. The missis could give him forty pounds weight. Strength to his arm."
Policeman Cleary strolled back around the corner.
Old man Denny folded his paper and hurried up the steps just as Mrs. Murphy was about to lock the door for the night.


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The alarm was raised shortly after 4am when a van was discovered on fire in the driveway of a house at Meadowbank Hill.
It is understood the fire quickly spread to neighbouring houses and a car parked nearby.
The houses were evacuated and no one was injured.
The fire was extinguished by local fire services and gardaí also attended the scene.
Two houses, a van and a car have been extensively damaged while smoke damage has been caused to two adjoining houses.
Local gardaí say it is not yet clear how the fire started and they await the results of a technical examination.
It is understood gardaí are not treating the fire as suspicious at this time.
A woman who lives three doors down from where the fire started said she was woken by her neighbour just after 4am.
“My neighbour came in and knocked for us to get up. I thought it was kids messing initially ringing the bell and then I saw my neighbour outside in her dressing gown and I knew something was up,” the woman told The Irish Times.
“We came out and the place was just ablaze. It was so frightening. The wind was pushing all the flames ...we were all scared as the fire was spreading to my other neighbour’s house and we couldn’t get him out of bed.
“There was huge sparks, thankfully no one was hurt.”
Local Fianna Fáil councillor Damien O’Reilly said firefighters worked “diligently throughout this morning”.
“I would like to thank them for all their hard work and would call on anyone with information in relation to the fire to contact local gardaí,” he said.


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Provides functionality to produce graphs of probability density functions and cumulative distribution functions with few keystrokes, allows shading under the curve of the probability density function to illustrate concepts such as p-values and critical values, and fits a simple linear regression line on a scatter plot with the equation as the main title.
| Version: | 1.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.0) |
| Published: | 2016-07-07 |
| Author: | Steven T. Garren [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Steven T. Garren <garrenst at jmu.edu> |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| CRAN checks: | fastGraph results |
| Reference manual: | fastGraph.pdf |
| Package source: | fastGraph_1.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: fastGraph_1.1.zip, r-release: fastGraph_1.1.zip, r-oldrel: fastGraph_1.1.zip |
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| Old sources: | fastGraph archive |
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The all new OnePlus 7T Pro Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus (Octa-core, 7nm, up to 2.96 GHz) with Qualcomm AI Engine. Equipped with 90hz Fluid display, a Triple Rear camera with Telephoto and Ultra wide angel lens, that can capture 4K video @ 30/60 FPS with modes like UltraShot, Nightscape, Portrait, Pro Mode, Panorama, HDR, AI Scene Detection, RAW Image. Face Unlock, HDR, Screen Flash, Face Retouching, In-built - Fingerprint.
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48+8+16MP triple rear camera with telephoto lens + ultrawide angle lens | 16MP front camera with 4K video capture @ 30/60 FPS, ultrashot, nightscape, portrait, pro mode, panorama, HDR, AI scene detection, RAW image
16.94 centimeters (6.67 inch) 90Hz fluid display with 3120 x 1440 pixels resolution and 516 ppi pixel density
Memory, Storage & SIM: 8GB RAM | 256GB internal memory | Dual SIM (nano+nano) dual-standby (4G+4G)
Oxygen OS based on Android v10 operating system with 2.96GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus AI Engine octa-core, 7nm processor, Adreno 640
4085mAH lithium-ion battery
1 year manufacturer warranty for device and 6 months manufacturer warranty for in-box accessories including batteries from the date of purchase
Box also includes: Warp charge 30 power adapter, warp type-C cable (support usb 2. 0), quick start guide, welcome letter, safety information and warranty card, logo sticker, case, screen protector (pre-applied), sim tray ejector


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I've been using Piracetam for about three years and I've experienced a few things that I've not seen reported by others here, as well as many things that confirm what others have said.
My very first experience taking was unique, I took 1600MG, went down to a local tavern that makes an excellent Teriyaki fish and Ceaser.
It's an old cabin that has been there for 100 years, the wood is very aged and interesting. However, on this day I saw subtleties in the color and texture I had never noticed before.
Upon entering, we sat down and ordered some food, and I found to my amazement that I could follow five different conversations simultaneously and recall each of them verbatim.
I had a sense of heightened awareness of my surroundings that I had never experienced before, no wired sense or buzz, just an absolute sense of being tuned in and connected to what was going on around me.
Unfortunately, the intensity of the initial experience was never to be totally repeated, nonetheless, in general it does heighten my awareness.
Other than the effect of the initial dose being more pronounced in this way, I have not noticed any decline in effectiveness or a need to increase dosage in three years of taking it.
I've read about possible neural growth stimulation but I have never read any specific reference to auditory nerves. I don't know that Piracetam was the cause but I can't think of any other factor that changed.
I am 49, at 46 my hearing which was good to about 20 Khz in my youth had declined to where it was weak after 13 KHz and gone by 14 Khz. Given that I've done commercial sound reinforcement work and have a great love of music, often excessively loud, this is not surprising.
What is surprising is that over the years of using Piracetam, my hearing has improved to where I can now hear up to 17 Khz. I've never heard of high frequency hearing regenerating in an adult, I don't know that piracetam is responsible, but given its connection with nerve growth and no other identifiable agent it is at least possible which is why I am posting this detail. I am curious if anyone else has experienced something similar.
Also, curious about effect on IQ, I took an IQ test before I began using it, another three months later, and went from approximately 130 to 141 or so and it has remained at that level since. I didn't take the test between first starting and three months so I don't know how rapid that change was, but it's been flat after the first three months.
I've found that proper dosing is very critical for me and I suspect this is why so many individuals find relatively little benefit.
There is an optimal dose, below which the effects are minimal, above which the effects are even detrimental (makes me tired), but at that optimal dose the effects are considerable.
That dose isn't the same from day to day but I've learned to 'feel' where I'm at.
I'll take 800MG initially, another 800MG an hour later, until I feel things clear up, and then I won't take any more until I start to fade. Usually it's about two or three doses to get to that plateau and then two or three more to maintain it so in a day the total dose will be between 3200 and 4800MG. That's been consistent over three years.
Hope this info is helpful to someone.
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class Person {
var residence: Residence?
}
class Residence {
var numberOfRooms = 1
}
let john = Person()
let roomCount = john.residence!.numberOfRooms
// this triggers a runtime error
if let roomCount = john.residence?.numberOfRooms {
print("John's residence has \(roomCount) room(s).")
} else {
print("Unable to retrieve the number of rooms.")
}
// Prints "Unable to retrieve the number of rooms."
john.residence = Residence()
if let roomCount = john.residence?.numberOfRooms {
print("John's residence has \(roomCount) room(s).")
} else {
print("Unable to retrieve the number of rooms.")
}
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Datastream
getDailyApiAccessCount()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDatapoint(Integer, String, String)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getDatapoints(Integer, String, String, String, String, Integer, Boolean, Interval_type, int, String)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getDatastream(Integer, String)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getDatastreamId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Resource
getDatastreams(Integer)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getDatastreams()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getDatastreamsAllowed()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDatastreamsCount()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDeliverEmail()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDescription()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getDisplayActivity()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDisplayInformation()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDisplayStats()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getDisposition()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getDomain()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getElevation()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getEmail()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getEmail()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getEmailHash()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getEnvironmentId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getErrors()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getExpiresAt()
- Method in class Cosm.
Apikey
getExposure()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getFeed(int)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
Retrieve a Feed object from Cosm retrieves a Feed object by its identifier.
getFeed(int, Boolean)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
Get a feed object by its feed identifier
getFeed()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getFeedId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Resource
getFeeds(String, Content, String, String, String, Status, Order, Boolean)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
returns a list of feed objects based on a number of optional query parameters.
getFeeds()
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getFeeds()
- Method in class Cosm.
Group
getFeedsCount()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getFullName()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getGreen()
- Method in class Cosm.
Color
getGroup(String)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getGroupid()
- Method in class Cosm.
Group
getGroups()
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getIcon()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Datastream
getId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getLabel()
- Method in class Cosm.
Apikey
getLabel()
- Method in class Cosm.
Group
getLabel()
- Method in class Cosm.
Permission
getLabel()
- Method in class Cosm.
Unit
getLat()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getLat()
- Method in class Cosm.
Waypoint
getLocation()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getLogin()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getLon()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getLon()
- Method in class Cosm.
Waypoint
getMaxValue()
- Method in class Cosm.
Datastream
getMembers()
- Method in class Cosm.
Group
getMessage()
- Method in exception Cosm.
CosmException
getMinimumInterval()
- Method in class Cosm.
Permission
getMinValue()
- Method in class Cosm.
Datastream
getName()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getNotifiedAt()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getOrganisation()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getOwner()
- Method in class Cosm.
Group
getPermissions()
- Method in class Cosm.
Apikey
getPrivateAccess()
- Method in class Cosm.
Apikey
getPrivateFeed()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getProvisioningEnabled()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getReceiveForumNotifications()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getRed()
- Method in class Cosm.
Color
getReferer()
- Method in class Cosm.
Permission
getResources()
- Method in class Cosm.
Permission
getRoles()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getSourceIp()
- Method in class Cosm.
Permission
getState()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getStatus()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getStreamId()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getSubscribedToMailings()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getSymbol()
- Method in class Cosm.
Unit
getTags()
- Method in class Cosm.
Datastream
getTags()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getThresholdValue()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getTimeZone()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getTitle()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getTotalApiAccesCount()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
getTrigger(Integer)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getTriggers()
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getType()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getType()
- Method in class Cosm.
Unit
getUnit()
- Method in class Cosm.
Datastream
getUpdated()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getUrl()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getUser(String)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getUser()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getUser()
- Method in class Cosm.
Trigger
getUsers()
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getValue()
- Method in class Cosm.
Datapoint
getVersion()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getWaypoints(Integer, String, String, String, Integer, Boolean, Interval_type, String)
- Method in class Cosm.
Cosm
getWaypoints()
- Method in class Cosm.
Location
getWebsite()
- Method in class Cosm.
Feed
getWebsite()
- Method in class Cosm.
User
Group
- Class in
Cosm
Group()
- Constructor for class Cosm.
Group
GZIP
- Static variable in class Cosm.Client.
Base64
Specify that data should be gzip-compressed in second bit.
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This class allows you to execute code a maximum number of times or less with
a configurable delay between each execute, after all currently pending event
handlers have completed, using the
DeferredTimesCommand.addCommand(IncrementalCommand, int, int) method.
This class contains JavaScript string object methods that generate specific
HTML tags around a String. e.g. the JavaScript method big()
wraps a string into the <big> tag.


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Aves
Sparrow
Mammalia
Bat
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Aves
Ostrich
Penguin
Mammalia
Elephant


System.exit()
, Runtime.exit()
,
and Runtime.halt()
.
Invoking System.exit()
or Runtime.exit()
calls the shutdown hooks and terminates the currently running Java
virtual machine. Invoking Runtime.halt()
forcibly
terminates the JVM without causing shutdown hooks to be started.
Each of these methods should be used with extreme caution. Calls
to these methods make the calling code unportable to most
application servers.
Use the option to ignore calls in main methods.