Kanji Timer
From Aegisub Manual
The kanji timer makes it easy to copy timed karaoke from one set of already karaoke timed lines to another set of yet untimed lines. Primarily intended for adding karaoke to Japanese songs.
Here is a video demonstration of the kanji timer in action: Download demonstration video (XviD MP3 AVI, 5 min 20 sec, 12 MB)
Before you start
The kanji timer attempts to pair syllables in one (timed) input line with a given style with syllables in a corresponding (untimed) line with another style. In other words, the timed input lines should all have same style ("romaji" for example) and the untimed ones another ("kanji" for example). Having more timed source lines than untimed destination ones or vice versa can confuse the tool, but it's usually possible to un-confuse it, see below. In order to correctly pair source lines with destination ones, both sets must be in the same order in the grid. For example, this works:
Timed line 1 Untimed line 1 Timed line 2 Untimed line 2
And so does this:
Timed line 1 Timed line 2 Untimed line 1 Untimed line 2
But this does not (pairs lines wrong):
Timed line 1 Timed line 2 Untimed line 2 Untimed line 1
Using the kanji timer
The kanji timer dialog looks like this:
The first thing you need to do is to select which styles are used for the timed input lines and the untimed output lines respectively. This is done in the upper right corner of the dialog; the top dropdown is the source style and the bottom one is the destination. When you've done this, click the start button.
Now, you'll see the first syllable of the first source line highlighted in the source text field, and a suggestion for the destination syllable highlighted in the destination field. What you do now is "group" each source syllable with one or more kanji (or other syllables) in the destination. This is done using the following keyboard shortcuts:
- Enter - accept the highlighted grouping (and go to next line if all syllables are grouped).
- Right arrow - increase the destination highlight length.
- Left arrow - decrease the destination highlight length.
- Up arrow - increase the source highlight length.
- Down arrow - decrease the source highlight length.
- Backspace - un-groups (or unlinks) the last accepted syllable and lets you try to group it again (useful if you make a mistake).
Things to note
- Don't use the mouse to change the highlights; it confuses the tool a lot. Use the keyboard shortcuts instead, they're much faster.
- The destination line can already be k-timed, but if it is, the kanji timer will overwrite those timings.
- Empty syllables will be copied alone, or will be combined with the surrounding syllables if those are to be combined.
- Any ASS override tags appearing before each \k will be copied directly without modification, but tags after each \k is currently not copied at all.
- If you have more source than destination lines or vice versa, you can use the "Skip source line" or "Skip destination line" to make sure the pairing of source/destination lines is correctly done.


Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
Serves
Serves 4
Marinating the meat makes all the difference so don't be tempted to skip that step. If you want a lighter curry, swap some of the cream for natural yoghurt.
Put the chicken breasts in a large bowl and mix with the ginger, garlic, chilli, salt, pepper, coriander, lime juice and 1 tablespoon of the oil. Set aside for at least 5 minutes to allow the flavours to develop.
Heat a heavy-bottomed shallow pan and, when hot, add the chicken. Cook for 8-10 minutes until the chicken is browned on all sides.
Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in a large pan and cook the onion and red chilli for 5-6 minutes until golden brown. Add the turmeric and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the cream and cook gently for a couple of minutes.
Add the chicken to the creamy sauce and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. Check for seasoning, and add lemon juice to taste.
Garnish with fresh coriander and serve immediately with rice or naan bread.


hyper-resource
HyperResource is an affective way of moving data between your server and clients when using Hyperloop and Rails.
Motivation
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To co-exist with a resource based REST API
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To have ActiveRecord type Models shared by both the client and server code
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To be ORM/database agnostic (tested with ActiveRecord on Postgres and Neo4j.rb on Neo4j)
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To fit the 'Rails way' as far as possible (under the covers, HyperResource is a traditional REST API)
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To keep all Policy checking and authorisation logic in the Rails Controllers
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To allow a stages implementation
Staged implementation
HyperResource is designed to be implemented in stages and each stage delivers value in its own right, so the developer only needs to go as far as they like.
A record can be of any ORM but the ORM must implement: “`ruby record_class.find(id) # to get a record record.id # a identifier record.updated_at # a time stamp record.destroyed? # to identify if its scheduled for destruction
when using relations controller
record.touch # to update updated_at, identicating that something about that record changed # for example it has been added to a relation “`
Stage 1 - Wrap a REST API with Ruby classes to represent Models
The simplest implementation of HyperResource is a client side only wrapper of an existing REST API which treats each REST Resource as a Ruby class.
# in your client-cide code
class Customer
include ApplicationHyperRecord
end
# then work with the Customer class as if it were an ActiveRecord
customer = Customer.new(name: 'John Smith')
customer.save # ---> POST api/customer.json ... {name: 'John Smith' }
puts customer.id # 123
# to find a record
customer = Customer.find(123) # ---> GET api/customer/123.json
puts customer.name # `John Smith`
Stage 2 - Adapt your Models so the client and server code share the same Models
HyperResource supports ActiveRecord associations and scopes so you can DRY up your code and the client an server can share the same Models.
module ApplicationHyperRecord
def self.included(base)
if RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'
base.include(HyperRecord)
else
base.extend(HyperRecord::ServerClassMethods)
end
end
end
class Customer
include ApplicationHyperRecord
has_many :addresses
unless RUBY_ENGINE == 'opal'
# methods which should only exist on the server
end
end
customer = Customer.find(123) # ---> GET api/customer/123.json
customer.addresses.each do |address|
puts address.post_code
end
Stage 3 - Implement a Redis based pub-sub mechanism so the client code is notified when the server data changes
class ApplicationController
include Hyperloop::Resource::PubSub
def my_action
# available methods for pubsub
publish_collection(base_record, collection_name, record = nil)
publish_record(record)
publish_scope(record_class, scope_name)
subscribe_collection(collection, base_record = nil, collection_name = nil)
subscribe_record(record)
subscribe_scope(collection, record_class = nil, scope_name = nil)
pub_sub_collection(collection, base_record, collection_name, causing_record = nil)
pub_sub_record(record)
pub_sub_scope(collection, record_class, scope_name)
end
end
EXAMPLE
Implementation
How to install.…


16.4 Container Widgets
The
Tkinter module supplies widgets whose purpose is
to contain other widgets. A Frame instance does
nothing more than act as a container. A Toplevel
instance (including Tkinter's
root window, also known as
the application's main window) is a top-level
window, so your window manager interacts with it (typically by
supplying suitable decoration and handling certain requests). To
ensure that a widget parent, which must be
a Frame or Toplevel instance,
is the parent (also known as master) of another widget
child, pass
parent as the first parameter when you
instantiate
child.
16.4.1 Frame
Class
Frame represents a rectangular area of the screen
contained in other frames or top-level windows.
Frame's only purpose is to
contain other widgets. Option borderwidth defaults
to 0, so an instance of Frame
normally displays no border. You can configure the option with
borderwidth=1 if you want the frame
border's outline to be visible.
16.4.2 Toplevel
Class Toplevel
represents a rectangular area of the screen that is a top-level
window and therefore receives decoration from whatever window manager
handles your screen. Each instance of Toplevel can
interact with the window manager and can contain other widgets. Every
program using Tkinter has at least one top-level
window, known as the root window. You can instantiate
Tkinter's root window explicitly
using root=Tkinter.Tk(
); otherwise Tkinter instantiates its
root window implicitly as and when first needed. If you want to have
more than one top-level window, first instantiate the main one with
root=Tkinter.Tk( ).
Later in your program, you can instantiate other top-level windows as
needed, with calls such as
another_toplevel=Tkinter.Toplevel(
).
An instance T of class
Toplevel supplies many methods enabling
interaction with the window manager. Many are platform-specific,
relevant only with some window managers for the X Windowing System
(used mostly on Unix and Unix-like systems). The cross-platform
methods used most often are as follows.
Makes T display normally, even if
previously T was iconic or invisible.
T.geometry([geometry_string])
|
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T.geometry( ), without
arguments, returns a string encoding
T's size and position:
widthxheight+x_offset+y_offset,
with width,
height,
x_offset, and
y_offset being the decimal forms of the
corresponding numbers of pixels.
T.geometry(S),
with one argument S (a string of the same
form), sets T's size and
position according to S.
Makes T display as an icon (in Windows, as
a button in the taskbar).
T.maxsize([width,height])
|
|
T.maxsize( ), without
arguments, returns a pair of integers whose two items are
T's maximum width and
height in pixels.
T.maxsize(W,H),
with two integer arguments W and
H, sets
T's maximum width and
height in pixels to W and
H, respectively.
T.minsize([width,height])
|
|
T.minsize( ), without
arguments, returns a pair of integers whose two items are
T's minimum width and
height in pixels.
T.minsize(W,H),
with two integer arguments W and
H, sets
T's minimum width and
height in pixels to W and
H, respectively.
T.overrideredirect([avoid_decoration])
|
|
T.overrideredirect( ),
without arguments, returns False for a normal
window, True for a window that has asked the
window manager to avoid decorating it.
T.overrideredirect(x),
with one argument x, asks the window
manager to avoid decorating T if, and only
if, x is true. A top-level window without
decoration has no title. The user cannot act via the window manager
to close, move, or resize such an undecorated top-level window.
T.protocol(protocol_name,callable)
|
|
By calling protocol with a first argument of
'WM_DELETE_WINDOW' (the only meaningful protocol
on most platforms), you install callable
as the handler for attempts by the user to close
T through the window manager (for example
by clicking on the X in the upper right corner on Windows and KDE).
Python then calls callable without
arguments when the user makes such an attempt.
callable itself must call
T.destroy( ) in order
to close T, otherwise
T stays open. By default, if
T.protocol has not been
called, such attempts implicitly call
T.destroy( ) and thus
unconditionally close T.
T.resizable([width,height])
|
|
T.resizable( ), without
arguments, returns a pair of integers (each 0 or
1) whose two items indicate if user action via the
window manager can change
T's width and height,
respectively.
T.resizable(W,H),
with two integer arguments W and
H (each 0 or
1), sets the user's ability to
change T's width and
height according to the truth values of W
and H. With some releases of
Tk, resizable, when called
without arguments, returns a string such as '1
1' rather than a pair of integers such as
(1,1). To remove this uncertainty, use:
resizable_wh = T.resizable( )
if len(resizable_wh) != 2: resizable_wh = map(int,
resizable_wh.split( ))
resizable_w, resizable_h = resizable_wh
Returns 'normal' if T
is displaying normally, 'withdrawn' if
T is invisible, 'icon'
or 'iconic' (depending on the window manager) if
T is displaying as an icon (e.g., in
Windows, only as a button in the taskbar).
T.title( ), without
arguments, returns a string that is
T's window title.
T.title(title_string),
with one argument title_string, sets
T's window title to
string title_string.
Makes T invisible.
The following example shows a root window with an
Entry widget that lets the user edit the
window's title and buttons to perform various root
window operations.
import Tkinter
root = Tkinter.Tk( )
var = Tkinter.StringVar( )
entry = Tkinter.Entry(root, textvariable=var)
entry.focus_set( )
entry.pack( )
var.set(root.title( ))
def changeTitle( ): root.title(var.get( ))
Tkinter.Button(root, text="Change Title", command=changeTitle).pack( )
Tkinter.Button(root, text="Iconify", command=root.iconify).pack( )
Tkinter.Button(root, text="Close", command=root.destroy).pack( )
Tkinter.mainloop( )
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Interface ICommandDispatchContext
Context information used during command dispatch and execution to track and correlate commands
Namespace: AzureFromTheTrenches.Commanding.Abstractions
Assembly: AzureFromTheTrenches.Commanding.Abstractions.dll
Syntax
public interface ICommandDispatchContext
Properties
| Improve this Doc View SourceAdditionalProperties
Audit item enrichers are able to add properties into this dictionary so that they are available for audit across the dispatch process
Declaration
IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object> AdditionalProperties { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.Collections.Generic.IReadOnlyDictionary<System.String, System.Object> |
CorrelationId
The correlation ID for the current context
Declaration
string CorrelationId { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.String |
Depth
On first dispatch of a command (for example in a Web API controller) depth will be 0. If the handler for that command then dispatches another command depth will be 1. Etc. This is accurate unless a handler dispatches commands in parallel. I.e. if a handler dispatches a set of commands and awaits for them all as a batch e.g. Task.WhenAll(setOfDispatchTasks). In which case while the depth will be incremented and decremented reliably (it will unwind correctly to 0) it can no longer be used to ascertain command dispatch chain depth.
However depth > 0 is always an accurate way to ascertain whether or not we are in the root command which is the core frameworks usecase.
Declaration
int Depth { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.Int32 |
Methods
| Improve this Doc View SourceCopy()
Return a copy of the context
Declaration
ICommandDispatchContext Copy()
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| ICommandDispatchContext | A new copy |
Decrement()
Decrement the command depth tracker
Declaration
int Decrement()
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.Int32 | The depth |
Increment()
Increment the command depth tracker
Declaration
int Increment()
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.Int32 | The depth |


TIMECODE (Screen Gems) Starring: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgaard, Saffron Burrows, Leslie Mann, Kyle MacLachlan, Richard Edson, Holly Hunter. Story: Mike Figgis. Producers: Mike Figgis and Annie Stewart. Director: Mike Figgis.  Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
Late in Mike Figgis' experimental drama TIMECODE, a young would-be film-maker pitches an idea to a Hollywood production company for a film shot on digital video, following four characters in real time in one uninterrupted take ... at which suggestion one of the production executives bursts into laughter and calls the idea "pretentious." It seems like Figgis is trying to have a little fun at his own expense, since that pitched idea is exactly the idea behind TIMECODE: four characters followed in real time, the screen divided into four quadrants to follow their individual stories. And it would be easier to buy Figgis' self-deprecation as genuine if he didn't then begin his closing credits with a caption describing exactly how the film had been made. "Look what an interesting and original film you've just watched," Figgis says to us out of one corner of his mouth, while the other mutters, "And it was all just a big pretentious joke."
Figgis has been on a kick in the last couple of years of trying to stretch cinematic boundaries, but it's too often too difficult to get past his art-for-art's-sake bluster. In TIMECODE, he takes a fairly mundane 90-minutes-in-the-life story and tries to spice it up with his four-play. One segment of his screen opens with a therapy session involving a woman named Emma (Saffron Burrows), describing her marital dissatisfaction. Eventually we learn that her husband is Alex Green (Stellan Skarsgaard), the aforementioned chuckling production executive. Alex is an addict and an alcoholic barely hanging on to awareness of his business, though he has enough time for an affair with aspiring actress Rose (Salma Hayek). Unfortunately, Rose's lover and sugar mama Lauren (Jeanne Tripplehorn) suspects that something is up, and spends the afternoon checking up on Rose after planting a microphone on her.
TIMECODE was essentially improvised around a loose plot structure, leading to a predictably ragged feel to the film. And while Figgis would probably emphasize that raggedness as a function of the film's realism and immediacy, it simply doesn't make for particularly engrossing viewing a lot of the time. At times TIMECODE is a satire of film industry poseurs, and occasionally a very funny one. Steven Weber does a great straight-faced description of a potential Matt Stone-Trey Parker project called TIME TOILET -- a comedy about a janitor who discovers a portal through time in a commode -- as having "educational value," all while a masseur (Julian Sands) caresses his earlobes. Then Figgis will turn up the volume on Burrows pining over her unhappy life, and we'll take a quick right turn into melodrama. Most intrusive of all is the use of a series of earthquakes as a device to shake up the lives of the characters. In a more conventional film, it might have been easier to forgive the obvious and repetitive symbolism.
I might have considered TIMECODE a thoroughly failed experiment if not for a development that briefly justifies the entire structure. During one stretch of the film, Tripplehorn listens in on a tryst between Rose and Alex that takes place behind the screen of a screening room while other executives watch audition clips of actresses playing a sex scene. In a conventionally edited film, the director might cut back and forth between the encounter and the jealous lover in her headphones, giving us only the moment of realization as a payoff. In TIMECODE, I was able to watch Tripplehorn throughout the scene, from her puzzled but intent face as the background noise from the screening room prevents her from hearing Rose, to the anguish that overwhelms her once it's impossible to deny the truth. Film too rarely allows us to watch actors do purely physical acting. I was so fascinated by Tripplehorn's wordless performance that I rarely took my eyes off of her quadrant of the screen, even when there was dialogue coming from elsewhere.
I'd gladly accept a structure like that in TIMECODE if it meant I could spend time following interesting supporting characters instead of blank-faced bores like Burrows' depressed Hollywood wife. Of course, I'd prefer it if a film-maker acknowledged the importance of developing character and story, rather than assuming falsely that improvisation is always the best way to get at the "truth" of a situation. No moment makes that fallacy more evident than a scene at a production meeting when a musician responds with a snicker to an Asian woman's introduction of herself as "Connie Ling." The snicker itself was a completely believable reaction; the woman's puzzled expression, as though she had never before in her life heard a joke about her name, strains all credulity. A director doing the job of directing might have taken that opportunity to coach the actress that anyone who grew up on Planet Earth would have been taunted mercilessly throughout her adolescence for having the name "Connie Ling," and therefore might not respond as thought the character had just been dropped from the sky that afternoon. Figgis, however, never intrudes on his experiment in realism, not even so it might make more real-world sense. All that remains is his self-congratulation at doing something entirely new, even if it ultimately feels mostly like a big pretentious joke.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 quadrantphenias: 5.
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With IronPython 1.0 out, I was thinking of some of the issues of supporting multiple languages in a runtime environment.
I'm not sure what the right strategy is. I'm not very drawn to IronPython, though maybe in time that will change. Out of laziness alone I'm not inclined to figure out the installation and version issues of running IronPython with Mono, and since I don't use Windows that's the only way I'd use IronPython.
But I'm also not that enchanted with multi-language runtimes. It's nice, but complex, and I seldom find myself wishing that I could use more complex systems. IronPython opens up a whole new world of complex (.NET) systems to me as a Python programmer. Which isn't what I was looking for. Now maybe a .NET user will now be able to use a simpler Python environment, but that isn't me.
But what about Parrot or HLVM? These are (or rather want to be) cross-language environments for dynamic languages, and could introduce an environment that is more interesting to me than .NET (or the similarly uninteresting JVM). Python people are always saying that they wish they could have CPAN. I should qualify that I am not always saying that I wish I had CPAN, but maybe those other people have some point.
But seriously? I'm just going to go to CPAN and pick out a nice module and start using it, just pretending it is a normal Python module? Is it just me, or does that sound absurd? I'm sure there's good things in CPAN, but I really am not looking for more complexity in my life, and that's all I see down that path.
It occurs to me that there's a different method of interoperation, but one that isn't being pursued. I've had a passing interest in Erlang, and came upon this article recently, which describes the Erlang concurrency model in a fairly simple way (and using only Java-ish code, no mention of functional programming or any of that).
Erlang processes generally communicate with other Erlang processes in a homogeneous environment (note: Erlang processes are not OS-level processes). But each process doesn't know a lot about other processes. There's no reason they all have to be written in the same language.
You avoid a lot of hard issues this way. You don't share data. Are strings mutable or immutable in your language? It doesn't really matter -- since you never share strings (or anything else). What does the object model or inheritance look like between languages? It doesn't really matter, since you don't really share objects. Private, public, protected? Doesn't matter. Things actually become less complex, not more complex.
You could do this now with OS processes and sockets, but most language runtimes aren't set up to deal with this kind of process model very well. Processes should be really light, lighter than any OS process or thread. It would be really helpful to have shared memory with copy-on-write, so that you don't actually have to duplicate all the data sent in messages. And there needs to be a common message format, plus library support in each language.
I'm not sure what all the implications of such a system would be. But I'm pretty sure it's a system that would actually be attractive to me -- not in a theoretical isn't-it-nice-that-exists sense (which is the only attraction I have to IronPython), but in a I-want-to-use-that sense. I don't want more options and more features; more is tiresome, I'm really just interested in better.
Erlang nodes actually don't have to be written in Erlang, they just need to speak the protocol. There are implementations of that protocol in (at least) C, Java, .NET and Python.
Technically, some data amongst processes in a given Erlang node can be shared, but that's an implementation detail (and all types in Erlang are immutable anyway). Erlang is a great little language, I've been playing with it for a few weeks... definitely worth trying at least once.
Running a Ruby on Rails App within a Python Paste/WSGI Environment could be "better", not just "more", but that would be a long way ...
Maybe running a Ruby component as part of the stack. Could happen with RubyCLR and IronPython...
I have had similar thoughts over the past few months. After playing around with Erlang, I simply cannot understand why you would handle concurrency any other way! Its such a joy compared to most of the alternatives, and I would absolutely love it if Python 2.6 or Python 3000 included a similar method of handling concurrency, and used Erlang's message passing format as well. I am actually very surprised that no one has mentioned something like this on the Python 3000 mailing lists yet... although I am not sure that Guido would buy into it.
IronPython is cool for a few reasons, but probably none that are relevant to you. The only way that it is relevant, is that hopefully more people will be using Python. :-)
- IronPython brings the power of dynamic introspection of live objects (etc) to .NET programmers
- It's easy for .NET programmers to embed Python as a scripting language into their applications (very easy generally)
- It is much easier (like much easier) to extend IronPython from C# than it is to extend CPython from C
- The .NET framework is actually quite cool to program with. If you are programming for Windows and want a native looking GUI, there isn't a comparable choice.
Using Perl modules from Python on a common runtime sounds truly excruciating. I would like to cut my teeth on writing a simple compiler, by developing a static extension language for Python using .NET and / or HLVM. Probably won't ever happen though... :-(
Hmmm... and another thing. I guess it is fairly obvious that the future lies in more CPU cores and more distributed processing.
This means that the whole concurrency thing has to be adressed by Python sometime, although that will be evolutionary I guess. It looks like the Erlang model is pretty cool. If my understanding is correct (which is unlikely), Erlang runs effectively as a 'process server' with lots of these inter-communicating 'processes'. Does the server run as a single OS process ? (So if you core dump everything dies, such is life.)
Yep, an Erlang "process" is internal to the Erlang runtime, or "Node", which runs as a single OS process. You can run as many Nodes as you like though on the same machine or on different machines and then have them talk to each other. At that point, the message passing between Erlang processes is transparent. If you send a message to another process, you don't need to know what Node the process is running on; the runtime takes care of all that. So you typically achieve fault-tolerance by running multiple Nodes on multiple physically seperate machines and use some of Erlang's supervision and monitoring functionality to recover gracefully if a Node manages to crash.
My reading on Erlang, and Joe Armstrong's thesis in particular was definitely a factor in getting me into the whole "small REST applications" mindset.
I've also spent a bit of time thinking about the parallels between Erlang's runtime and REST in general. I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying that the microapps stuff I've been doing was directly influenced by Erlang's design, but it definitely helped convince me that it was the right direction to be heading. Nothing's going to be quite as smooth as message passing within an Erlang runtime, but HTTP is similar in that it's independent of the language, allows for network transparency (nodes can be on the same machine or across an oceaon) and the JSON dicts that usually get sent around are looking an awful lot like Erlang tuples. If you think of a URL as something akin to an Erlang Pid, it gets really interesting.
The way that I've been composing microapps involves making requests asynchronously whenever possible and using a message queue app and event notification app. I guess to follow the Erlang model as closely as possible, we would want to avoid using GET. Instead, the client would POST a message onto the queue saying "I'd like you to send this piece of data to this URL", the event notification app would notify the server that there's been a new message added to its queue, which it would retrieve, process, and then POST to the client application's queue a response with the data requested and the client would get an event notification of an item added to its queue and go get it. It's an interesting approach and I've been playing with it for some apps that the latency doesn't matter as much. But for most stuff, synchronous GET requests are so much simpler and easier that it's worth blocking for them.
My own lack of interest in IronPython stems from a more fundamental objection: The main advantage to using IronPython to develop and deploy Python programs on Windows (instead of CPython) is the easy access to various .NET libraries.
Unfortunately, many of these libraries have licenses that preclude licensing a consuming app under the GPL (for which there may be very good business reasons). Without the ability to license my apps under the license of my choice, both any interest in using those libraries, and hence, any interest in using IronPython instead of CPython goes away.


My name is Brett Settle and this is my homepage. I am currently working as a Programmer Analyst II for the Ideker Lab at UCSD, and learning new technologies in my free time. While most of my projects are personal, there are several work-related repositories that I've kept with me through the years. If something interests you, let me know. I'm always looking for new projects or ways to improve old ones.
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The districts of the provinces were ruled by a shahrab and a mowbed (chief priest). The mowbed's job was to deal with estates and other things relating to legal matters. Sasanian rule was characterized by considerable centralization, ambitious urban planning, agricultural development, and technological improvements.
Below the king, a powerful bureaucracy carried out much of the affairs of government; the head of the bureaucracy was the wuzurg framadar (vizier or prime minister).
The priestly class of Zoroastrianism, the state religion, were also inextriably linked with political life and often figured prominently as advisors and leaders.
In general, mass slavery was never practiced by the Sassanids, but only as a system for houshold slaves or sometimes for debtors who had to use some of their time to serve in a fire-temple.
Certain protections existed: harming a slave was considered a crime, and not even the king himself was allowed to do it. The master of a slave was allowed to free the person when he wanted to, which, no matter what faith the slave believed in, was considered a good deed. A slave could also be freed if his/her master died.
Although in many ways this made being a slave almost preferable to living a life of a peasant, it came at the cost of personal autonomy. Although slaves could and did form families of their own, masters also were permitted to use female slaves to produce children.
Although Middle Persian was the native language of the Sasanians (who, however, were not originally from Pars), it was only a minority spoken-language in the vast Sasanian Empire. It became the administrative language of the empire, but it only formed the majority of Pars.
Besides Persian, Adhari along with one of its dialects, Tati, was spoken in Adurbadagan (Azerbaijan). Daylamite and Gilaki was spoken in Gilan, while Mazandarani (also known as Tabari) was spoken in Tabaristan.
In Khuzestan, several languages were spoken; Persian in the north and east, while Aramaic was spoken in the rest of the place. In Meshan, the Arameans, along with settled Arabs (known as Mesenian Arabs), and the nomadic Arabs, formed the Semitic population of the province along with Nabataean and Palmyrene merchants. Among them were Indian groups such as the Malays may also have been deported to Meshan, either as captives or recruited sailors. In Asoristan the majority of the people were Aramaic-speaking Nestorian Christians while the Persians, Jews and Arabs formed a minority in the province.
In the Caucasus, numerous languages were sproken including Georgian, various Kartvelian languages (notably in Lazica), Armenian, Caucasian Albanian, Scythian, Greek, and others were common.
Due to invasions from the Scythians and their sub-group, the Alans, into Azerbaijan, Armenia, and other places in the Caucasus, the places gained a larger, although small, Iranian population. Parthian, along with other Iranian dialects and languages was spoken in Khorasan, while to the further east in places which were not always controlled by the Sasanians, Sogdian, Bactrian and Khwarazmian was spoken. To the further south in Sistan, which saw an influx of Scythians during the Parthian period, Sistani was spoken. Kirman was populated by an Iranian group which closely resembled the Persians, while, farther to the east in Paratan, Turan and Makran, Balochi and non-Iranian languages were spoken.
In major cities such as Gundeshapur and Ctesiphon, Latin, Greek and Syriac were spoken by Roman/Byzantine prisoners of war. Furthermore, Slavic and Germanic were also spoken in the Sasanian Empire, once again due to the capture of Roman soldiers. Semitic languages including Himyaritic and Sabaean were spoken in Yemen.


Hello, there. I’m Alberto Cerqueira. I’m a systems architect from São Paulo, passionate about the world, technology, programming, astronomy and books.


Syntax:
nth-value n form => object
Arguments and Values:
n---a non-negative integer; evaluated.
form---a form; evaluated as described below.
object---an object.
Description:
Evaluates n and then form, returning as its only value the nth value yielded by form, or nil if n is greater than or equal to the number of values returned by form. (The first returned value is numbered 0.)
Examples:
(nth-value 0 (values 'a 'b)) => A (nth-value 1 (values 'a 'b)) => B (nth-value 2 (values 'a 'b)) => NIL (let* ((x<PHONE_NUMBER>7238947423879243432432432) (y<PHONE_NUMBER>2) (a (nth-value 1 (floor x y))) (b (mod x y))) (values a b (= a b))) =><PHONE_NUMBER>,<PHONE_NUMBER>, true
Side Effects: None.
Affected By: None.
Exceptional Situations: None.
See Also:
Notes:
Operationally, the following relationship is true, although nth-value might be more efficient in some implementations because, for example, some consing might be avoided.
(nth-value n form) == (nth n (multiple-value-list form))


Contribution Pixel Messages
The slowest updating display: 52x7 pixels in one year.
 It has an additional rule: When you manage to connect left and right boundary with a uni-colored line (must not be straight) little explosions will free your way.
Go to TetrasAll Pages
Showcase of all my github pages. Wait - this is the very page you are on. Inception.
Go to AllPagesSchüttelreimsuche
A Schüttelreim is a double rhyme that exchanges the first consonants of the two words to find a rhyme pair.
Go to SchüttelreimsucheWortpfadfinder
Make your way through the letters to find the longest and most unique word before the others.
Go to WortpfadfinderTagl-Mithril
A small library providing the composition of tagl and mithril.
 Gather childnames you and your partner like. The app is hosted on heroku. It's frontend is using mithril and is connected to the backend via the vertx event-bus.
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Prototype for a web-app to find ecologically beneficial construction materials.
Go to Baustoff


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Trust is something very essential to us humans and we commonly acquire it by presenting a "proof". The way how we interpret the proof though is not as efficient as we know it. Take our eyes for example, we commonly


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Bug 125770: [CSS Regions][CSS Shapes] ASSERTION FAILED: m_segmentRanges.size() < m_segments.size()


devicely, a python package for reading, timeshifting and writing sensor data¶
The devicely package is made for reading, writing and de-identifying health sensor data from several sensors:
Empatica E4 is a wearable device that offers real-time physiological data acquisition such as blood volume pulse, electrodermal activity (EDA), heart rate, interbeat intervals, 3-axis acceleration and skin temperature.
Biovotion Everion is a wearable device used for the continuous monitoring of vital signs. Currently, it measures the following vital signs: heart rate, blood pulse wave, heart rate variability, activity, SPO2, blood perfusion, respiration rate, steps, energy expenditure, skin temperature, EDA / galvanic skin response (GSR), barometric pressure and sleep.
1-lead ECG monitor Faros 180 from Bittium is a one channel ECG monitor with sampling frequency up to 1000 Hz and a 3D acceleration sampling up to 100Hz.
Spacelabs (SL 90217) is an oscillometric blood pressure (BP) monitor which can be used to automatically track a person’s BP in specificed time intervals.
TimeStamp for Android allows you to record the timestamp of an event at the time it occurs. It also allows you to create specific tags such as “Running” or “Walking” and timestamp those specific activities.
Shimmer Consensys GSR is a device that is used to collect sensor data in real time and it contains sensors such as GSR / EDA, photoplethysmography (PPG), 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis magnetometer & integrated altimeter.
Muse S is a consumer grade headband consisting of 4 electrodes electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, 3-axis accelerometer (ACC), gyroscope, and photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors.
devicely makes it easy to read sensor data and access it in common formats such as dataframes.
We provide a custom reader class for each sensor which has three core methods: read, timeshift and write. The timeshift method changes the time of measurement, thereby automatically helping to de-identify the data.
After timeshifting, you can write the data in the original data format. Now you have one more safety measure in place that will facilitate data sharing.


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What this is
A simple page put together using HTML
Why this is
To learn HTML
Where to find the tutorial
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Grant County woman involved in one-vehicle crash dies one week later
by Brandon ArbuckleBEETOWN, Wis. - A Cassville woman is dead Friday after being involved in a one-vehicle crash last week.
According to a news release from the Grant County Sheriff's Office, Deputies were sent to Highway 81 near Rattlesnake Road in the township of Beetown after receiving a report of a one vehicle crash that happened at about 7:34 a.m.
Authorities said Julie Kuenster, 60, of Cassville, was driving on the highway in her 2009 Chevy Aveo when she left the roadway onto the gravel shoulder. Kuenster overcorrected the vehicle and slid counterclockwise across the highway.
The driver's rear passenger side of the vehicle hit a guardrail end and violently spun in the other direction. Kuenster's vehicle went head first into a rock wall embankment.
Deputies said she was wearing her seat belt and that the vehicle's airbags also deployed. Kuenster was trapped inside the car and later extricated by officials. The vehicle was removed from the scene.
Kuenster was taken to a hospital for life-threatening injuries before being transported to UW Hospital in Madison via Med Flight.
After being in the hospital for a week, Kuenster died from the injuries she suffered in the crash.
Grant County deputies said this was the 10th person killed in a crash in the county this year.


TAR
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: March 2012
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
tar - manual page for tar 1.23SYNOPSIS
tar [OPTION...] [FILE]...DESCRIPTION
GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive.EXAMPLES
- tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
- # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
- tar -tvf archive.tar
- # List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
- tar -xf archive.tar
- # Extract all files from archive.tar.
- Main operation mode:
- -A, --catenate, --concatenate
- append tar files to an archive
- -c, --create
- create a new archive
- -d, --diff, --compare
- find differences between archive and file system
- --delete
- delete from the archive (not on mag tapes!)
- -r, --append
- append files to the end of an archive
- -t, --list
- list the contents of an archive
- --test-label
- test the archive volume label and exit
- -u, --update
- only append files newer than copy in archive
- -x, --extract, --get
- extract files from an archive
Common Options:
- -C, --directory=DIR
- change to directory DIR
- -f, --file=ARCHIVE
- use archive file or device ARCHIVE
- -j, --bzip2
- filter the archive through bzip2
- -J, --xz
- filter the archive through xz
- -p, --preserve-permissions
- extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)
- -v, --verbose
- verbosely list files processed
- -z, --gzip
-
filter the archive through gzip
Operation modifiers:
- --check-device
- check device numbers when creating incremental archives (default)
- -g, --listed-incremental=FILE
- handle new GNU-format incremental backup
- -G, --incremental
- handle old GNU-format incremental backup
- --ignore-failed-read
- do not exit with nonzero on unreadable files
- --level=NUMBER
- dump level for created listed-incremental archive
- -n, --seek
- archive is seekable
- --no-check-device
- do not check device numbers when creating incremental archives
- --no-seek
- archive is not seekable
- --occurrence[=NUMBER]
- process only the NUMBERth occurrence of each file in the archive; this option is valid only in conjunction with one of the subcommands --delete, --diff, --extract or --list and when a list of files is given either on the command line or via the -T option; NUMBER defaults to 1
- --sparse-version=MAJOR[.MINOR]
- set version of the sparse format to use (implies --sparse)
- -S, --sparse
- handle sparse files efficiently
Overwrite control:
- -k, --keep-old-files
- don't replace existing files when extracting, treat them as errors
- --skip-old-files
- don't replace existing files when extracting, silently skip over them
- --keep-newer-files
- don't replace existing files that are newer than their archive copies
- --no-overwrite-dir
- preserve metadata of existing directories
- --overwrite
- overwrite existing files when extracting
- --overwrite-dir
- overwrite metadata of existing directories when extracting (default)
- --recursive-unlink
- empty hierarchies prior to extracting directory
- --remove-files
- remove files after adding them to the archive
- -U, --unlink-first
- remove each file prior to extracting over it
- -W, --verify
- attempt to verify the archive after writing it
Select output stream:
-
--ignore-command-error ignore exit codes of children
- --no-ignore-command-error
-
- treat non-zero exit codes of children as error
- -O, --to-stdout
- extract files to standard output
- --to-command=COMMAND
- pipe extracted files to another program
- Handling of file attributes:
- --acls
- Save the ACLs to the archive
- --atime-preserve[=METHOD]
- preserve access times on dumped files, either by restoring the times after reading (METHOD='replace'; default) or by not setting the times in the first place (METHOD='system')
- --delay-directory-restore
- delay setting modification times and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction
- --group=NAME
- force NAME as group for added files
- --mode=CHANGES
- force (symbolic) mode CHANGES for added files
- --mtime=DATE-OR-FILE
- set mtime for added files from DATE-OR-FILE
- -m, --touch
- don't extract file modified time
- --no-acls
- Don't extract the ACLs from the archive
- --no-delay-directory-restore
- cancel the effect of --delay-directory-restore option
- --no-same-owner
- extract files as yourself (default for ordinary users)
- --no-same-permissions
- apply the user's umask when extracting permissions from the archive (default for ordinary users)
- --no-selinux
- Don't extract the SELinux context from the archive
- --no-xattrs
- Don't extract the user/root xattrs from the archive
- --numeric-owner
- always use numbers for user/group names
- --owner=NAME
- force NAME as owner for added files
- -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions
- extract information about file permissions (default for superuser)
- --preserve
- same as both -p and -s
- --same-owner
- try extracting files with the same ownership as exists in the archive (default for superuser)
- -s, --preserve-order, --same-order
- sort names to extract to match archive
- --selinux
- Save the SELinux context to the archive
- --xattrs
- Save the user/root xattrs to the archive
Device selection and switching:
- -f, --file=ARCHIVE
- use archive file or device ARCHIVE
- --force-local
- archive file is local even if it has a colon
- -F, --info-script=NAME, --new-volume-script=NAME
- run script at end of each tape (implies -M)
- -L, --tape-length=NUMBER
- change tape after writing NUMBER x 1024 bytes
- -M, --multi-volume
- create/list/extract multi-volume archive
- --rmt-command=COMMAND
- use given rmt COMMAND instead of rmt
- --rsh-command=COMMAND
- use remote COMMAND instead of rsh
- --volno-file=FILE
- use/update the volume number in FILE
Device blocking:
- -b, --blocking-factor=BLOCKS
- BLOCKS x 512 bytes per record
- -B, --read-full-records
- reblock as we read (for 4.2BSD pipes)
- -i, --ignore-zeros
- ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF)
- --record-size=NUMBER
- NUMBER of bytes per record, multiple of 512
Archive format selection:
- -H, --format=FORMAT
- create archive of the given format
- FORMAT is one of the following:
- gnu
- GNU tar 1.13.x format
- oldgnu
- GNU format as per tar <= 1.12
- pax
- POSIX 1003.1-2001 (pax) format
- posix
- same as pax
- ustar
- POSIX 1003.1-1988 (ustar) format
- v7
- old V7 tar format
- --old-archive, --portability
- same as --format=v7
- --pax-option=keyword[[:]=value][,keyword[[:]=value]]...
- control pax keywords
- --posix
- same as --format=posix
- -V, --label=TEXT
- create archive with volume name TEXT; at list/extract time, use TEXT as a globbing pattern for volume name
Compression options:
- -a, --auto-compress
- use archive suffix to determine the compression program
- -I, --use-compress-program=PROG
- filter through PROG (must accept -d)
- -j, --bzip2
- filter the archive through bzip2
- -J, --xz
- filter the archive through xz
- --lzip
- filter the archive through lzip
- --lzma
- filter the archive through lzma
-
--lzop
- --no-auto-compress
-
- do not use archive suffix to determine the compression program
- -z, --gzip, --gunzip, --ungzip
- filter the archive through gzip
- -Z, --compress, --uncompress
- filter the archive through compress
Local file selection:
- --add-file=FILE
- add given FILE to the archive (useful if its name starts with a dash)
- --backup[=CONTROL]
- backup before removal, choose version CONTROL
- -C, --directory=DIR
- change to directory DIR
- --exclude=PATTERN
- exclude files, given as a PATTERN
- --exclude-backups
- exclude backup and lock files
- --exclude-caches
- exclude contents of directories containing CACHEDIR.TAG, except for the tag file itself
- --exclude-caches-all
- exclude directories containing CACHEDIR.TAG
- --exclude-caches-under exclude everything under directories containing
- CACHEDIR.TAG
- --exclude-tag=FILE
- exclude contents of directories containing FILE, except for FILE itself
-
--exclude-tag-all=FILE exclude directories containing FILE
- --exclude-tag-under=FILE
-
- exclude everything under directories containing FILE
- --exclude-vcs
- exclude version control system directories
- -h, --dereference
- follow symlinks; archive and dump the files they point to
- --hard-dereference
- follow hard links; archive and dump the files they refer to
- -K, --starting-file=MEMBER-NAME
- begin at member MEMBER-NAME in the archive
- --newer-mtime=DATE
- compare date and time when data changed only
- --no-null
- disable the effect of the previous --null option
- --no-recursion
- avoid descending automatically in directories
- --no-unquote
- do not unquote filenames read with -T
-
--null -T reads null-terminated names, disable -C
- -N, --newer=DATE-OR-FILE, --after-date=DATE-OR-FILE
-
- only store files newer than DATE-OR-FILE
- --one-file-system
- stay in local file system when creating archive
- -P, --absolute-names
- don't strip leading `/'s from file names
- --recursion
- recurse into directories (default)
- --suffix=STRING
- backup before removal, override usual suffix ('~' unless overridden by environment variable SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX)
- -T, --files-from=FILE
- get names to extract or create from FILE
- --unquote
- unquote filenames read with -T (default)
- -X, --exclude-from=FILE
- exclude patterns listed in FILE
File name transformations:
- --strip-components=NUMBER
- strip NUMBER leading components from file names on extraction
- --transform=EXPRESSION, --xform=EXPRESSION
- use sed replace EXPRESSION to transform file names
- File name matching options (affect both exclude and include patterns):
- --anchored
- patterns match file name start
- --ignore-case
- ignore case
- --no-anchored
- patterns match after any `/' (default for exclusion)
- --no-ignore-case
- case sensitive matching (default)
- --no-wildcards
- verbatim string matching
- --no-wildcards-match-slash
- wildcards do not match `/'
- --wildcards
- use wildcards (default)
- --wildcards-match-slash
- wildcards match `/' (default for exclusion)
Informative output:
- --checkpoint[=NUMBER]
- display progress messages every NUMBERth record (default 10)
- --checkpoint-action=ACTION
- execute ACTION on each checkpoint
- --index-file=FILE
- send verbose output to FILE
- -l, --check-links
- print a message if not all links are dumped
- --no-quote-chars=STRING
- disable quoting for characters from STRING
- --quote-chars=STRING
- additionally quote characters from STRING
- --quoting-style=STYLE
- set name quoting style; see below for valid STYLE values
- -R, --block-number
- show block number within archive with each message
- --show-defaults
- show tar defaults
- --show-omitted-dirs
- when listing or extracting, list each directory that does not match search criteria
- --show-transformed-names, --show-stored-names
- show file or archive names after transformation
- --totals[=SIGNAL]
- print total bytes after processing the archive; with an argument - print total bytes when this SIGNAL is delivered; Allowed signals are: SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGINT, SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2; the names without SIG prefix are also accepted
- --utc
- print file modification dates in UTC
- -v, --verbose
- verbosely list files processed
- --warning=KEYWORD
- warning control
- -w, --interactive, --confirmation
- ask for confirmation for every action
Compatibility options:
- -o
- when creating, same as --old-archive; when extracting, same as --no-same-owner
Other options:
- -?, --help
- give this help list
- --restrict
- disable use of some potentially harmful options
- --usage
- give a short usage message
- --version
- print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control may be set with --backup or VERSION_CONTROL, values are:
- none, off
- never make backups
- t, numbered
- make numbered backups
- nil, existing
- numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
- never, simple
- always make simple backups
Valid arguments for the --quoting-style option are:
- literal shell shell-always c c-maybe escape locale clocale
DEFAULTS
*This* tar defaults to: --format=gnu -f- -b20 --quoting-style=escape --rmt-command=/sbin/rmt --rsh-command=/usr/bin/rshAUTHOR
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tar is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tar programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info tar
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- EXAMPLES
- Common Options:
- Operation modifiers:
- Overwrite control:
- Select output stream:
- Device selection and switching:
- Device blocking:
- Archive format selection:
- Compression options:
- Local file selection:
- File name transformations:
- Informative output:
- Compatibility options:
- Other options:
- DEFAULTS
- AUTHOR
- REPORTING BUGS
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO
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THE CONTENDER (2000) / ***
Directed by Rod Lurie, from his screenplay. Starring Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges. Running time: 125 minutes. Rated AA for coarse language by the MFCB. Reviewed on October 28th, 2000.
By SHANNON PATRICK SULLIVAN
One of the most pertinent issues to arise out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal was the question of what information the public has the right to know about its elected officials. Some argue that personal dealings reflect strongly on one's ability to serve their office, while others maintain that public figures should be evaluated solely on the basis of public performance.
Given the hot-button nature of the subject, it was inevitable that it would make the transition to Hollywood and the big screen. The first such film out of the gate is "The Contender", written and directed by Ron Lurie. Although it is by no means an exact parallel of the Lewinsky affair, raising some different concerns and ignoring others (would Clinton have come under such scrutiny if Lewinsky had not been an intern in his employ, for example?), "The Contender" follows it in broad strokes by putting a public official on both public and political trial because of alleged sexual improprieties in her past.
When his vice-president dies midway through his term of office, United States President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) finds himself in the position of having to choose a successor. Jack Hathaway (William L Petersen) seems the obvious choice, having recently been labelled a hero by the media for his (failed) effort to save a drowning woman. Furthermore, Hathaway is a good friend of Evans' Republican nemesis, Shelly Runyon (Gary Oldman), who will chair the House committee charged with approving Evans' choice. But Evans, determined to put a woman into the second-most powerful position in the government, opts instead for Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen), a former Republican now sitting for the Democrats.
But Hanson's candidacy is threatened when Runyon's investigators uncover photographs and witnesses suggesting that Hanson was at the center of a sex orgy while still in college. When Runyon confronts Hanson about the story during her televised hearings, Hanson refuses to confirm or deny its veracity, averring that it is none of the committee's -- or the public's -- business. It soon appears that Evans may have no choice but to bow to Runyon's wishes by dismissing Hanson and appointing a new vice-presidential candidate.
The first three-quarters of "The Contender" comprises a terrific political drama. Lurie puts into play several absorbing issues, from the obvious questions of whether Hanson's past indiscretions should have any bearing on her becoming vice-president, to the very role of women in politics. Although Lurie's Democratic leanings are hard to overlook, he maintains a reasonably even hand throughout.
Nonetheless, there has been some controversy in the press that Lurie edited "The Contender" to demonise Oldman's character. This simply is not borne out by the movie itself. Shelly Runyon is not a nice man, to be sure -- he is aggressive, manipulative and, it transpires, something of a hypocrite. But he is also a man with strong principles, and it appears that, by and large, he does in fact have the interests of the country at heart, or at least the interests of the way he believes the United States should be. In these days when there seems to be a perpetual fire sale on political belief, as elected officials waver back and forth over the issues for reasons that have nothing to do with their own opinions (if they even possess them), it is gratifying to encounter a man who is willing to stick to his views, even if those views are not necessarily ones we agree with. Oldman's vision of Runyon as the movie's "one true patriot" is not merely rhetoric.
Oldman paints such a vivid character in Runyon, though, that he largely overshadows his fellow castmembers. Despite the complexity of the issues surrounding them, neither Laine Hanson nor Jackson Evans are particularly well-conceived individuals, and neither Allen nor Bridges succeed in overcoming this flaw. Indeed, both characters suffer from the fact that they are defined by the issues, and the issues alone. They do not seem to exist in any sort of greater context.
We are never really convinced, for example, that Hanson really is suitable vice-presidential material. We are told she is, but where is the proof? Laine is on the defensive almost the entire movie, her characterisation revealed only in the way she reacts to others. Her moments of strength are reduced to sound bites. The result is that Allen's performance feels vague and half-formed. It is good on the surface, but lacks real depth. Bridges, meanwhile, never finds his stride as President Evans. He is sometimes buffoonish, sometimes deviously intelligent, and Bridges never manages to merge these aspects into a consistent portrayal. Instead of appearing multi-faceted, Evans seems to suffer from split personalities.
This weakness of character is indicative of the real problem with "The Contender", which becomes plain in its closing moments. This is a movie which is happy to raise issues, but shies away from making any real statements about them beyond the very obvious. After an engrossing ninety minutes of political intrigue, "The Contender" veers suddenly into prosaic speechifying and, worse, an inappropriate deux ex machina ending which sorely undercuts the integrity of the film. True, this plot device allows Lurie to lend a nice sense of closure to the movie. But it is entirely artificial; it eschews the powerful themes set up earlier in the film in favour of a tidy ending.
That said, it is difficult to ignore the potency of "The Contender" as a whole. I have been harsh on the movie, I admit, because I felt the ending was such a disappointing kowtow to cinematic convention. But even despite the mediocre characterisation of some of the leads, "The Contender", for the vast majority of its running time, makes for engrossing viewing. If a movie like this gives its audience pause to reconsider their own attitudes toward their political leaders, that can only be a good thing.
Copyright © 2000 Shannon Patrick Sullivan. Archived at The Popcorn Gallery, http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sps/movies/TheContender.html
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Annotation Type Bean
Can be used in the following locations:
- Bean classes and parent interfaces.
@Rest -annotated classes and@RestOp -annotated methods when anon()
value is specified.
See Also:
-
Optional Element Summary
Modifier and TypeOptional ElementDescriptionClass<?>[]
Bean dictionary.POJO example.Bean property excludes.boolean
Find fluent setters.Class<?>
Implementation class.Class<? extends BeanInterceptor<?>>
Bean property interceptor.Class<?>
Identifies a class to be used as the interface class for this and all subclasses.String[]
Dynamically apply this annotation to the specified classes.Class<?>[]
Dynamically apply this annotation to the specified classes.Synonym forproperties()
.Bean property includes.Class<? extends PropertyNamer>
Associates aPropertyNamer
with this bean to tailor the names of the bean properties.Read-only bean properties.Synonym forreadOnlyProperties()
.boolean
Sort bean properties in alphabetical order.Class<?>
Identifies a stop class for the annotated class.An identifying name for this class.The property name to use for representing the type name.Synonym forwriteOnlyProperties()
.Write-only bean properties.Synonym forexcludeProperties()
.
-
Element Details
-
dictionary
Class<?>[] dictionaryBean dictionary.The list of classes that make up the bean dictionary for all properties in this class and all subclasses.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- {}
-
example
POJO example.Specifies an example of the specified class in Simplified JSON format.
Examples are used in cases such as POJO examples in Swagger documents.
Example:
@Bean (example="{foo:'bar'}" )public class MyClass {...}Notes:
- Setting applies to specified class and all subclasses.
-
Keys are the class of the example.
Values are JSON 5 representation of that class. -
POJO examples can also be defined on classes via the following:
- A static field annotated with
@Example
. - A static method annotated with
@Example
with zero arguments or oneBeanSession
argument. - A static method with name
example with no arguments or oneBeanSession
argument.
- A static field annotated with
-
Supports VarResolver.DEFAULT (e.g.
"$C{myConfigVar}" ).
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
excludeProperties
Bean property excludes.Specifies a list of properties that should be excluded from
BeanMap.entrySet()
.Example:
// Exclude the 'city' and 'state' properties from the Address class. @Bean (excludeProperties="city,state" })public class Address {...}Notes:
-
xp()
is a shortened synonym for this value.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
-
findFluentSetters
boolean findFluentSettersFind fluent setters.When
true , fluent setters will be detected on beans.Example:
@Bean (findFluentSetters=true )public class MyBean {public int getId() {...}public MyBean id(int id ) {...} }Fluent setters must have the following attributes:
- Public.
- Not static.
- Take in one parameter.
- Return the bean itself.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- false
-
implClass
Implementation class.For interfaces and abstract classes this method can be used to specify an implementation class for the interface/abstract class so that instances of the implementation class are used when instantiated (e.g. during a parse).
Example:
@Bean (implClass=MyInterfaceImpl.class )public class MyInterface {...}- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- void.class
-
interceptor
Class<? extends BeanInterceptor<?>> interceptorBean property interceptor.Bean interceptors can be used to intercept calls to getters and setters and alter their values in transit.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- org.apache.juneau.swap.BeanInterceptor.Void.class
-
interfaceClass
Identifies a class to be used as the interface class for this and all subclasses.When specified, only the list of properties defined on the interface class will be used during serialization. Additional properties on subclasses will be ignored.
// Parent class @Bean (interfaceClass=A.class )public abstract class A {public Stringf0 ="f0" ; }// Sub class public class A1extends A {public Stringf1 ="f1" ; }// Produces "{f0:'f0'}" Stringjson = Json5Serializer.DEFAULT .serialize(new A1());Note that this annotation can be used on the parent class so that it filters to all child classes, or can be set individually on the child classes.
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- void.class
-
on
Dynamically apply this annotation to the specified classes.Used in conjunction with
BeanContext.Builder.applyAnnotations(Class...)
to dynamically apply an annotation to an existing class. It is ignored when the annotation is applied directly to classes.Valid patterns:
- Classes:
- Fully qualified:
"com.foo.MyClass"
- Fully qualified inner class:
"com.foo.MyClass$Inner1$Inner2"
- Simple:
"MyClass"
- Simple inner:
"MyClass$Inner1$Inner2" "Inner1$Inner2" "Inner2"
- Fully qualified:
- A comma-delimited list of anything on this list.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- {}
- Classes:
-
onClass
Dynamically apply this annotation to the specified classes.Identical to
on()
except allows you to specify class objects instead of a strings.See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- {}
-
p
Synonym forproperties()
.- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
properties
Bean property includes.The set and order of names of properties associated with a bean class.
The order specified is the same order that the entries will be returned by the
BeanMap.entrySet()
and related methods.This value is entirely optional if you simply want to expose all the getters and public fields on a class as bean properties.
However, it's useful if you want certain getters to be ignored or you want the properties to be serialized in a particular order.
Note that on IBM JREs, the property order is the same as the order in the source code, whereas on Oracle JREs, the order is entirely random.Example:
// Address class with only street/city/state properties (in that order). @Bean (properties="street,city,state" )public class Address {...}Notes:
-
p()
is a shortened synonym for this value.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
-
propertyNamer
Class<? extends PropertyNamer> propertyNamerAssociates aPropertyNamer
with this bean to tailor the names of the bean properties.Property namers are used to transform bean property names from standard form to some other form.
Example:
// Define a class with dashed-lowercase property names. @Bean (propertyNamer=PropertyNamerDashedLC.class )public class MyBean {...}See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- org.apache.juneau.PropertyNamer.Void.class
-
readOnlyProperties
Read-only bean properties.Specifies one or more properties on a bean that are read-only despite having valid getters. Serializers will serialize such properties as usual, but parsers will silently ignore them.
Example:
// Exclude the 'city' and 'state' properties from being parsed, but not serialized. @Bean (readOnlyProperties="city,state" })public class Address {...}Notes:
-
ro()
is a shortened synonym for this value.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
-
ro
Synonym forreadOnlyProperties()
.- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
sort
boolean sortSort bean properties in alphabetical order.When
true , all bean properties will be serialized and access in alphabetical order.
Otherwise, the natural order of the bean properties is used which is dependent on the JVM vendor.Example:
// Sort bean properties alphabetically during serialization. @Bean (sort=true )public class MyBean {...}See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- false
-
stopClass
Identifies a stop class for the annotated class.Identical in purpose to the stop class specified by
Introspector.getBeanInfo(Class, Class)
. Any properties in the stop class or in its base classes will be ignored during analysis.For example, in the following class hierarchy, instances of
C3 will include propertyp3 , but notp1 orp2 .public class C1 {public int getP1(); }public class C2extends C1 {public int getP2(); }@Bean (stopClass=C2.class )public class C3extends C2 {public int getP3(); }- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- void.class
-
typeName
An identifying name for this class.The name is used to identify the class type during parsing when it cannot be inferred through reflection.
For example, if a bean property is of typeObject , then the serializer will add the name to the output so that the class can be determined during parsing.It is also used to specify element names in XML.
Example:
// Use _type='mybean' to identify this bean. @Bean (typeName="mybean" )public class MyBean {...}See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
typePropertyName
The property name to use for representing the type name.This can be used to override the name used for the
"_type" property used by thetypeName()
setting.The default value if not specified is
"_type" .Example:
// Use 'type' instead of '_type' for bean names. @Bean (typePropertyName="type" )public class MyBean {...}See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
wo
Synonym forwriteOnlyProperties()
.- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
writeOnlyProperties
Write-only bean properties.Specifies one or more properties on a bean that are write-only despite having valid setters. Parsers will parse such properties as usual, but serializers will silently ignore them.
Example:
// Exclude the 'city' and 'state' properties from being serialized, but not parsed. @Bean (writeOnlyProperties="city,state" })public class Address {...}Notes:
-
wo()
is a shortened synonym for this value.
See Also:
- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-
-
xp
Synonym forexcludeProperties()
.- Returns:
- The annotation value.
- Default:
- ""
-


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Juanes honored as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
14 Nov 2019, 11:45 by Karen Butler
Honoree Juanes performs "Seek & Destroy." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juanes performs "Gotas de Agua Dulce." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Left to right, Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Latin America and Iberian Peninsula Jesus Lopez and President & CEO of Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Gabriel Abaroa onstage. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juanes accepts his Person of the Year award from Chairman/CEO, Universal Music Latin America and Iberian Peninsula Jesus Lopez and President & CEO of Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Gabriel Abaroa. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juanes accepts his Person of the Year award. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juanes. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Fonseca. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Fonseca and Orianthi perform "Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Juan Luis Guerra performs "A Dios Le Pido." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Alejandro Sanz performs "Mala Gente." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Fito Paez performs "Fijate Bien." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Sebastian Yatra performs "Volverte A Ver." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Paula Fernandez performs "Para Tu Amor." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Alessia Cara performs "Querer Mejor." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Ozuna performs "La Camisa Negra." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Sofia Carson performs "Yerbatero." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Rosalia performs "Es Por Ti." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical duo Jesse & Joy perform "Me Enamora." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Morat performs "Fotografía." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician/actress Mon Laferte performs "La Paga." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Draco Rosa performs "La Vida Es Un Ratico." Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
President & CEO of The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Gabriel Abaroa speaks onstage. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Businessman Eduardo Hütt, honoree Juanes and President & CEO of The Recording Academy Deborah Dugan. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Honoree Juanes. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
President and CEO of The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Gabriel Abaroa (L) and President & CEO of The Recording Academy Deborah Dugan. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Honoree Juanes (2nd from right), Karen Martinez and their children Paloma Aristizabal (L), Dante Aristizabal (2nd from right), and Luna Aristizabal (R). Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Draco Rosa. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Lali. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Juan Ingaramo. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Pop duo Jesse & Joy. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Burning Caravan. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Andres Cepeda. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Fonseca. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Fer Casillas. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Rodrigo Crespo. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Actor Sofia Carson. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Emilio Estefan. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Rosalia. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Cami. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Paula Fernandes. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Mariah. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Andres Calamaro. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Actor Lincoln Palomeque. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Tony Succar (L) and guest. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Ivan Barrios (L) and guest. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Feid (C) arrives. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Honoree Juanes (L) and guest. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Karen Martinez and Juanes Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Draco Rosa (L) and his mother, Sonia Suarez. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Fonseca (R) and Juliana Posada. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Andres Cepeda (L) and Elisa Restrepo. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Harold Sanders. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical duo Lucía Galan and Joaquín Galan. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician/producer Gustavo Casenave and artist Vicky Barranquet. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juan Delgado (L) and guest. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Chef Yisus. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singers Pavel Nuñez (L) and Carlos Luis. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Left to right, producers Andres Torres, Tommy Mottola and Mauricio Rengifo. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Left to right, TV personalities Lili Estefan and Raul Molina. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
TV personality Lili Estefan. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Mily de Molina and TV personality Raul de Molina. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Puerto Candelaria. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer El Bebeto. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Puerto Candelaria. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Morat. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Hermanos Dawidson. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Septeto Acarey. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer De La Ghetto. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical artist Roberto Hernandez. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Jorge Castro. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
(L-R) Producers/musicians Xavier Semper and Edgar Semper of Mambo Kingz and producer DJ Luian arrive for the Latin Grammy Person of the Year gala honoring Columbian singer Juanes at the MGM Grand Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, November 13, 2019. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Actress/TV personality Karla Monroig and musician Tommy Torres. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Model Alejandra Azcárate. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Lena Burke. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical group Flor de Toloache. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Enrique Campus. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musical artist Borja Voces. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Actress/TV personality Francisca Lachapel. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician iLe. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician/actress Mon Laferte. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Model Clarissa Molina. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
TV personality/journalist Pamela Silva Conde. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
TV personality Jomari Goyso. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
TV personality/journalist Pamela Silva Conde. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Pablo López. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Model Alejandra Espinoza. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Journalist/TV personality Maity Interiano. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Actress Paz Vega. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician/director Fito Páez. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Roberto Musso. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
TV personality Chiquinquirá Delgado. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Thalia Mottola and music producer Tommy Mottola. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Elsa y Elmar. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Claudia Brant. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer/actress Dayandra Torres. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician/actress Aymee Nuviola. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Chipi Chacon. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Singer Milly Quezada. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician/actress Aymee Nuviola. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Alessia Cara. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Musician Andres Calamaro. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juanes performs "Gotas de Agua Dulce" onstage at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala honoring him in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Juanes accepts his Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year Award in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Honoree Juanes arrives for the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Honoree Juanes and his family arrive for the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala him in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Colombian entertainer Juanes was honored as the 2019 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year at a gala in Las Vegas Wednesday.
"Colombia, Colombia, Colombia. Colombia is the beginning and end of my life," he said before performing.
Among those taking part in the night of music and celebration were Juanes' family, actress Sofia Carson, and music artists Alejandro Sanz, Ivan Barrios, Tony Succar, Fonseca, Feid, Paula Fernandes, Orianthi, Emilio Estefan and Sebastian Vatra,
The sold-out event took place on the eve of the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony, which is to scheduled for Thursday.
The academy said in a press release that Juanes -- a 23-time Latin Grammy and two-time Grammy-winning performer -- was being recognized for "his creative artistry, unprecedented humanitarian efforts, support of rising artists, and philanthropic contributions to the world."
Moments from the Latin Grammy Person of the Year gala
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usage: job run -checkpoint_path <arg> Training output directory of the job, could be local or other FS directory. This typically includes checkpoint files and exported model -docker_image <arg> Docker image name/tag -env <arg> Common environment variable of worker/ps -input_path <arg> Input of the job, could be local or other FS directory -name <arg> Name of the job -num_ps <arg> Number of PS tasks of the job, by default it's 0 -num_workers <arg> Numnber of worker tasks of the job, by default it's 1 -ps_docker_image <arg> Specify docker image for PS, when this is not specified, PS uses --docker_image as default. -ps_launch_cmd <arg> Commandline of worker, arguments will be directly used to launch the PS -ps_resources <arg> Resource of each PS, for example memory-mb=2048,vcores=2,yarn.io/gpu=2 -queue <arg> Name of queue to run the job, by default it uses default queue -saved_model_path <arg> Model exported path (savedmodel) of the job, which is needed when exported model is not placed under ${checkpoint_path}could be local or other FS directory. This will be used to serve. -tensorboard <arg> Should we run TensorBoard for this job? By default it's true -verbose Print verbose log for troubleshooting -wait_job_finish Specified when user want to wait the job finish -worker_docker_image <arg> Specify docker image for WORKER, when this is not specified, WORKER uses --docker_image as default. -worker_launch_cmd <arg> Commandline of worker, arguments will be directly used to launch the worker -worker_resources <arg> Resource of each worker, for example memory-mb=2048,vcores=2,yarn.io/gpu=2 -localization <arg> Specify localization to remote/local file/directory available to all container(Docker). Argument format is "RemoteUri:LocalFilePath[:rw]" (ro permission is not supported yet). The RemoteUri can be a file or directory in local or HDFS or s3 or abfs or http .etc. The LocalFilePath can be absolute or relative. If relative, it'll be under container's implied working directory. This option can be set mutiple times. Examples are -localization "hdfs:///user/yarn/mydir2:/opt/data" -localization "s3a:///a/b/myfile1:./" -localization "https:///a/b/myfile2:./myfile" -localization "/user/yarn/mydir3:/opt/mydir3" -localization "./mydir1:."
When using localization option to make a collection of dependency Python scripts available to entry python script in the container, you may also need to set PYTHONPATH environment variable as below to avoid module import error reported from entry_script.py.
... job run # the entry point --localization entry_script.py:<path>/entry_script.py # the dependency Python scripts of the entry point --localization other_scripts_dir:<path>/other_scripts_dir # the PYTHONPATH env to make dependency available to entry script --env PYTHONPATH="<path>/other_scripts_dir" --worker_launch_cmd "python <path>/entry_script.py ..."
For submarine internal configuration, please create a submarine.xml which should be placed under $HADOOP_CONF_DIR.
| Configuration Name | Description |
|---|---|
| submarine.runtime.class | Optional. Full qualified class name for your runtime factory. |
| submarine.localization.max-allowed-file-size-mb | Optional. This sets a size limit to the file/directory to be localized in “-localization” CLI option. 2GB by default. |
yarn jar path-to/hadoop-yarn-applications-submarine-3.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar job run \ --env DOCKER_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/ \ --env DOCKER_HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=/hadoop-3.1.0 --name tf-job-001 \ --docker_image <your-docker-image> \ --input_path hdfs://default/dataset/cifar-10-data \ --checkpoint_path hdfs://default/tmp/cifar-10-jobdir \ --worker_resources memory=4G,vcores=2,gpu=2 \ --worker_launch_cmd "python ... (Your training application cmd)" \ --tensorboard # this will launch a companion tensorboard container for monitoring
1) DOCKER_JAVA_HOME points to JAVA_HOME inside Docker image.
2) DOCKER_HADOOP_HDFS_HOME points to HADOOP_HDFS_HOME inside Docker image.
3) --worker_resources can include gpu when you need GPU to train your task.
4) When --tensorboard is specified, you can go to YARN new UI, go to services -> <you specified service> -> Click ... to access Tensorboard.
This will launch a Tensorboard to monitor all your jobs. By access YARN UI (the new UI). You can go to services page, go to the tensorboard-service, click quick links (Tensorboard) can lead you to the tensorboard.
 \ --num_ps 2 \ --ps_resources memory=4G,vcores=2,gpu=0 --ps_launch_cmd "cmd for ps" \
yarn jar hadoop-yarn-applications-submarine-3.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar job show --name tf-job-001
Output looks like:
Job Meta Info: Application Id: application_1532131617202_0005 Input Path: hdfs://default/dataset/cifar-10-data Checkpoint Path: hdfs://default/tmp/cifar-10-jobdir Run Parameters: --name tf-job-001 --docker_image wtan/tf-1.8.0-gpu:0.0.3 (... all your commandline before run the job)
After that, you can run tensorboard --logdir=<checkpoint-path> to view Tensorboard of the job.
# Cleanup previous service if needed yarn app -destroy tensorboard-service; \ yarn jar /tmp/hadoop-yarn-applications-submarine-3.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \ job run --name tensorboard-service --verbose --docker_image wtan/tf-1.8.0-cpu:0.0.3 \ --env DOCKER_JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/ \ --env DOCKER_HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=/hadoop-3.1.0 \ --num_workers 0 --tensorboard
You can view multiple job training history like from the Tensorboard link:


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\(\Delta\mathcal{L}\) changes \(M_{\rm ext}\), allowed \(Q/M\) ratios
Deviations from GR at low-\(M\)
Only some deviations allowed.
\(\Delta M_{\rm ext}(Q)<0\)
Allows larger \(Q/M\) ratios
Multitude of string-theory-inspired
"[W]e argue the pendulum has swung far enough..."
Roughly: consistent-looking EFTs have no gravitational UV completion
Motivation
\(\Delta M\approx -T\Delta S\) provides evidence for new WGC
Universal relation supports
[Cheung, Remmen, Liu, 1801.08546]
\(\implies\partial_{\epsilon}M_{\rm ext}(Q,\epsilon)<0 \)
So,
\(\Delta S>0\) makes sense from
combinations consistent with macrostate \(M,\Qvec\) data
If \(\Delta \mathcal{L}\longleftrightarrow\) extra UV DOF, more ways of forming \(M,\Qvec\)
[Cheung, Remmen, Liu, 1801.08546] provided supporting quantitative, tree-level arguments
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Using modifydb in db-utils
The purpose of “modifydb” is to easily execute an SQL statement that updates a database. In order to be generic, you may need to update the source to include the appropriate driver. As written, it includes two drivers which may be selected via the “-driver” argument.
Here is a snippet from the source showing the inclusion of two drivers:
import (
"database/sql"
...
"github.com/mandolyte/db-utils"
_ "github.com/cznic/sqlite"
_ "github.com/lib/pq"
)
The first one is a native Go driver for SQLite and is still a work in progress. At this writing, it works fine for Linux (AMD architectures) and the Windows Linux Subsystem, but isn’t quite ready yet on Windows.
The second one is the standard Postgres driver.
To see the help, use the “-help” argument as shown below. Notice that the driver name is required, such as “postgres” or “sqlite”. Also required is the name of an environment variable containing the connect string.
The connect string format varies from driver to driver. Examples are shown later.
$ modifydb -help
Help:
Usage:
-debug
Show debug messages (default true)
-driver string
Driver name; required
-help
Show help message
-input string
Optional input CSV supplying parameters to SQL query
-parameters string
Comma delimited list of column numbers of input CSV in order needed;
first is 1, not zero
-query string
SQL statement filename
-urlref string
Environment variable with DB URL
Notes:
1. If the optional input CSV is supplied, then the rows will be used to supply
parameter values to the SQL statement.
2. The input CSV must be accompanied by a list of column numbers in the order
needed to correctly drive the SQL parameter substitution.
For example, if the WHERE clause is:
WHERE x = ? and (y = ? or z = ?)
and the values in the CSV for x, y, and z are found in columns
2, 12, and 3, then the parameters argument will look like this:
-parameters 2,12,3
3. The SQL statement will be executed one time for each row in the CSV.
4. The list of parameters is one-based like SQL, not zero based.
So first column is one, not zero
Optionally, a CSV input file may be provided to be used for substitution parameters. Which ones to use are specified by the “-parameters” argument. The notes in the help message have a bit more explanation.
Let’s say you want to create a table in the database, using:
CREATE TABLE edge (
id text key,
from_id text not null,
to_id text not null
)
Then a script to do this for SQLite might look like this:
DB=here.db
DN=sqlite
export DB DN
modifydb -query edge_create.sql -urlref DB -driver $DN
In the next example, suppose you have a CSV file that you want to insert into the table above. The SQL would look this:
insert into edge (id,from_id, to_id)
values (?, ?, ?)
Let’s say that the input CSV columns to use are the first three, in the same order needed by the insert statement. Then the command might look like this:
modifydb -query edge_insert.sql \
-input $HOME/data/hier/hier_edges.csv \
-parameters 1,2,3 \
-urlref DB -driver $DN
where the SQL filename is edge_insert.sql
;
the CSV filename is specified on the -input
argument;
and the columns to use as substitution parameters
are supplied on the -parameters
argument.
Hope you find this useful!