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--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: We're Cubs Fans, We Panic author: display_name: Corey Fineran login: Corey email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: '' author_login: Corey author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>excerpt: "\n\nThings haven't been so great since the All-Star Break. The Cubs have lost three games in a row and are in danger of being swept by the Astros. Usually when Zambrano takes the hill, he is the losing streak-buster. But when the only run the team scores is your own solo homerun, it's tough to the win. \n\nI can't comment much on the last two games. Both nights, we have had friends that we haven't seen in a while over to our outdoor bar. The game has been on, but I haven't paid attention to these last two games as closely as I normally do. All I know is that " wordpress_id: 136 wordpress_url: http://ivyenvy.wordpress.com/?p=136 date: '2008-07-20 08:05:32 +0000' date_gmt: '2008-07-20 13:05:32 +0000' categories: - The Cubs tags: - All-Star Break - Astros - Carlos Zambrano - Panic - Ryan Dempster - W Flag comments: - id: 72 author: Abracadabra author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>author_url: '' date: '2008-07-21 14:32:20 +0000' date_gmt: '2008-07-21 19:32:20 +0000' content: |- Well, we started the season losing two straight before winning to avaid the sweep, and we ended the month with the most wins in April in team history. Go Cubs! ---
Things haven't been so great since the All-Star Break. The Cubs have lost three games in a row and are in danger of being swept by the Astros. Usually when Zambrano takes the hill, he is the losing streak-buster. But when the only run the team scores is your own solo homerun, it's tough to the win.
I can't comment much on the last two games. Both nights, we have had friends that we haven't seen in a while over to our outdoor bar. The game has been on, but I haven't paid attention to these last two games as closely as I normally do. All I know is that we are two games into the "second half" and our lead has been cut in half by two teams that, in my opinion, on paper do not appear to be as strong as the North Siders.
I am trying to not panic. There is still a lot of baseball to be played. But that 1977 collapse seems entirely possible for this year. That 92% chance of getting into the playoffs is down to 85% and only a Cubs fan could say "Those odds scare me".
But as for today, the Cubs need Ryan Dempster (10-4) to get his first win on the road for the season. My "W" Flag has not been flown in over a week and it's starting to collect dust.


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SoftBank's Yahoo Japan, Line Corp announce merger
Japanese telco SoftBank Corp on Monday announced plans to merge its internet unit Yahoo Japan with messaging app operator Line Corp as it scoops up troubled internet companies to bulk up against rivals like Rakuten Inc .
TOKYO: Japanese telco SoftBank Corp on Monday announced plans to merge its internet unit Yahoo Japan with messaging app operator Line Corp as it scoops up troubled internet companies to bulk up against rivals like Rakuten Inc .
SoftBank said in a statement that Yahoo Japan, which last month changed its name to Z Holdings , will merge with Line in a deal to be completed by October 2020.
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WHO, together with several partner agencies, has succeeded in delivering fresh supplies of emergency medicines and equipment to the beleaguered Liberian capital of Monrovia, where fighting has left at least 1,450 persons wounded. Of particular concern is that under the chaotic conditions, a recent outbreak of cholera in Monrovia could quickly spread.
On Monday, a WHO team confirmed the presence of cholera in the BTC district of Monrovia. Forty-seven cases have also been reported at the IDP compound in Greystone.
A WHO consignment of emergency medicine was airlifted by helicopter from Freetown to Monrovia. The WHO country representative in Liberia is working closely with the Ministry of Health, partner UN agencies and three local nongovernmental organizations to distribute the new supplies to hospitals and health centres in Monrovia and re-organize emergency services.
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FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! A film review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1994 Scott Renshaw
Starring: Otto Sander, Horst Buccholz, Nastassja Kinski, Bruno Ganz, Willem Dafoe, Peter Falk. Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Ulrich Zieger & Richard Reitiger. Director: Wim Wenders.
Wim Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE was one of my favorite films of 1988. As corny as it might sound, I found it to be one of those rare transcendental film experiences, a beautiful and poetic tale of love and human wonder that left me feeling uplifted. I was unsure of how to approach the idea that Wenders was making a sequel to this singular film, but I crossed my fingers and hoped for the best. Unfortunately, all the good will in the world was unable to salvage FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! Wenders seems to have been unclear as to what made WINGS OF DESIRE special, weighing down a simple story with self-importance and a ridiculously convoluted plot.
FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! returns Otto Sander to the role of Cassiel, one of many angels who drift through Berlin observing and listening in on thoughts. He is curious about the human experience, but reluctant to take the plunge risked by his former companion Damiel (Bruno Ganz). The decision is made for him when he becomes human to save the life of a young girl. Cassiel resolves to use his physical form to intervene for good where he was unable to do so before, but that resolution proves easier said than done. He falls into despair and loneliness, eventually coming to work for a suave black marketeer (Horst Buchholz). Cassiel struggles to redeem himself, all the while thwarted by a mysterious figure named Emit Flesti (Willem Dafoe).
Like WINGS OF DESIRE, FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! shows us the angels' world in black and white, and opens with loosely connected scenes of the angels smiling knowingly over human shoulders as they work and worry. But unless my memory fails me, those scenes go on far longer in FARAWAY, and they become extremely tedious. They include a cameo by Mikhail Gorbachev, thinking important thoughts about world peace, and a scene involving a dying man and an angel played by Nastassja Kinski where the overlapping dialogue created a nightmare for the subtitler. This prologue seemed to go on and on, and while it did provide information necessary later in the story, it could have been done much more efficiently. There are too many characters, many of whom are completely irrelevant to the story.
The film's second act is by far its most effective. The reluctantly human Cassiel copes poorly with his new state, lacking the love which motivated Damiel's transformation. The marvelously expressive Sander is great during these scenes, drifting into drunken despondency with genuine pain. Also intriguing is the relationship between Cassiel and Tony Baker, the German-born/ American-raised racketeer who takes him in. Horst Buchholz has an oily charm as Baker, and there's a lively cadence to his perpetual switching back and forth between German and English. Cassiel is most interesting when he's a fallen angel, with Baker the little devil on his shoulder.
Then, during the climax, it all falls apart again. Willem Dafoe, who as Emit Flesti ("time itself" backwards ... get it?) wanders through the film making ominous but opaque statements like, "Time is the absence of money," becomes thoroughly oppressive in the final half hour.  Peter Falk, who was so good in WINGS OF DESIRE as Damiel's guide to humanity, is simply comic relief here, although a scene involving the distraction of two security guards is very funny. WINGS OF DESIRE was whimsical, but never dopey, and FARAWAY has a real problem finding its tone.
Perhaps the most egregious sin in FARAWAY is a preachy epilogue that seems only tangentially connected to the film we just spent two and a half hours watching. WINGS OF DESIRE was a kind of message film, but the message was skillfully delivered; in the intervening five years, Wenders seems to have had all the subtlety sucked out of him. The moments that do work in FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! are mired in overplotting, and there's never any flow to the story. What's worse, it has tainted my memories of WINGS OF DESIRE.
I think I need to rent it tonight.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 fallen angels: 4.
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. THE NEWTON BOYS A film review by Bradley Null Copyright 1998 Bradley Null
Soon after we walked into the theater on opening night of "The Newton Boys," I feared we had made a mistake. It seemed that the Leonardo's fan club had gotten lost, and instead of marching like lemmings into another screening of "Titanic," these pre-ten girls had packed themselves into our cozy theater. The cries of "Oh baby" as soon as Matthew McConaughey appeared on screen, however, made me realize that they were simply looking for another cute young guy (or four) to gawk at.
The four young guys that our lovable preteens came to gawk at are McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, and Vincent D'Onofrio as Willis, Jess, Joe, and Dock Newton respectively. The Newton boys are you're stereotypical cowboys turned bank robbers who have decided that a home on the range isn't enough for them.
Willis leads his brothers into the outlaw business when he can't seem to find enough respect or success in society after he gets out of a penitentiary serving time for a crime he apparently did not commit. This thin excuse for turning to a life of crime also convinces Willis's brothers to follow him into the business.
If this setup sounds like you have seen it before, that is probably because you have. From the opening credits, modeled after title cards from early silent films and antique portraits, the film smells distinctly of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." In fact, at times Linklater seems to be shamelessly ripping off "Butch Cassidy" right down to the fiddle and banjo ridden score.
Although the movie sets itself up as just another 90's remake, with the Hollywood philosophy that every generation needs to remake classic films almost as good as the originals, it ultimately turns into something more. Unlike its prototype that ends with a freeze-frame on the impending early demise of Butch and Sundance, the last half of "The Newton Boys" dwells on the almost unheard of troubles of outlaws trying to get out of the game (although we have seen it in many Mafia films.)
It is at this point that we realize this film is a true story. (This is reaffirmed during the credits where we see interview footage of Willis and Joe Newton describing much of the movie we just saw.)
The fact that this story contains very little that we haven't already seen on the screen is of little consequence when we realize that this biographical picture imitating a similar biography from 30 years past is infinitely more interesting than the average cookbook action picture imitating whatever made money the year before. Come to think of it, I don't mind the banjos as long as they're not ripping off the soundtrack from "Titanic", or should I say "Braveheart"?
"The Newton Boys" is the latest from Richard Linklater, acclaimed independent director of "Slacker" and "Dazed and Confused." This outing is a big step up for Linklater though, with a $27 million budget which exceeds total expenditures on his first four films combined. But don't sweat for Linklater, Leonardo's fan club seems willing to fork over the price of a ticket for any movie with the word "boys" in the title.
RATING: ***1/2
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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater Producer: Anne Walker-McBay Writer: Richard Linklater, Claude Stanush, Clark Walker Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Julianna Margulies, Dwight Yoakam
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I use Adobe Photoshop CS2 (sorry, Adobe® Photoshop® software) for most of my image editing needs.
I don’t know much about color profiles and calibration. For my purposes, it’s enough that what I save looks like what I was editing, on my screen, and reasonably similar on other screens.
I had this out of the box when I used Photoshop under Windows, but after switching to OS X on a MacBook, it no longer “just worked” after installation. The colors when editing were more saturated than in the “Save for web” dialog, or indeed than in the saved image as displayed in my browser.
I finally got this solved yesterday, though color profilers and calibrators may cry.
Before
Left to right: image on Google Images in Firefox, image being edited, “Save to web” dialog.
It’s quite apparent that the colors of the image being edited do not match the original image or the exported image.
After
Left to right: image on Google Images in Firefox, image being edited, “Save to web” dialog.
Colors now match.
The solution
Asking about this issue on IRC, View > Proof Setup…
was mentioned. Setting this to “Monitor RGB” will display the image as it’ll look when exported. However, this is not a very persistent setting. Whenever you re-open the image, or another image, you’ll have to make the setting again, or View > Proof Colors
.
Having found this partial solution, I was better equipped to google it. Surviving color management in Photoshop CS2 helped me solve it more permanently.
In Edit > Color Settings…
, i changed the value for “RGB” under “Working Spaces” to “Monitor RGB - Color LCD”. The value for “LCD” under “Color Management Policies” was automatically set to “Off”.
And that seems to be it. When opening an image with another color profile, I am prompted whether I want to discard that color profile. If I do, or convert to the current color space, things look just the way they will when exporting the image.
Under “Color Management Policies”, there are checkboxes to get rid of the prompts, discarding the embedded profile silently.
Since it’s probably relevant, I should perhaps mention that my screen display profile (in the “Color” tab of the “Displays” prefpane) is set to “Color LCD”.
Again, I don’t know much about color profiles and such. If there is a better way to solve my problem, please let me know.
Update 2006-12-18
In the Photoshop CS3 beta, you also need to toggle off “Convert to sRGB” in the “Save for Web & Devices” dialog.
Update 2008-05-27
I set up a new computer and read through this post again, as well as all the comments.
So the solution in the post suggests discarding any color profiles. This means the picture in Photoshop proper will look as desaturated as the picture in the “Save for Web” dialog.
A solution that seems better is to convert to the current color profile: that way, both pictures will keep the vibrant colors, rather than both be desaturated:
I was unable to change the color management policy (to “convert”) until I clicked “More Options” and then changed the RGB working space to “Color LCD” (rather than “Monitor RGB – Color LCD”). This is on a MacBook Air; on an iMac, I set it to “iMac” (rather than “Monitor RGB – iMac”).


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Jeff Sessions and Donald Trump met Sergey Kislyak in April 2016 at a VIP reception at the Mayflower Hotel in D.C. with approximately two dozen guests in attendance. The event was a cocktail meet-and-greet, followed by a foreign policy speech delivered by Trump. Kislyak sat in the front row and Trump called for improved Russia-U.S. relations.
Source: Huffington Post


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Abuse of Functionality
Abuse of Functionality is an attack technique that uses a web site's own features and functionality to attack itself or others. Abuse of Functionality can be described as the abuse of an application's intended functionality to perform an undesirable outcome. These attacks have varied results such as consuming resources (DoS), circumventing access controls, or leaking information. The potential and level of abuse will vary from web site to web site and application to application. Abuse of functionality attacks are often a combination of other attack types and/or utilize other attack vectors.
Examples
Some examples of Abuse of Functionality are:
- Abusing Send-Mail Functions
- Abusing Password-Recovery Flows
- Abusing functionality to make unrestricted proxy requests


InitNetwork()
Syntax
Result = InitNetwork()Description
This function must be called before any other function from the Network library.
Parameters
None.
Return value
Returns nonzero if the network was initialized correctly or zero if not.
Supported OS
All


Face Detecting and 3D Mask
This is a 3D mask demo using MediaPipe and TFJS.
Access a camera
Take a photo
Face Detecting and 2D Mask
This is a 2D mask demo using MediaPipe and TFJS.
Access a camera
Take a photo


Current standings in number of pLUX classifications
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All our animals come to us either as strays or from animal shelters. We are devoted to providing them with a peaceful, loving home for their entire lives.
Rita - our barn cat and resident mouser
Rosco - our dog
Sampson - our cockatiel. He keeps it lively indoors.
Henry - our horse. He helps with light farm work and leads walks on our trail.
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spocc
= SPecies OCCurrence data
At rOpenSci, we have been writing R packages to interact with many sources of species occurrence data, including GBIF, Vertnet, BISON, iNaturalist, the Berkeley ecoengine, and eBird. Other databases are out there as well, which we can pull in. spocc
is an R package to query and collect species occurrence data from many sources. The goal is to to create a seamless search experience across data sources, as well as creating unified outputs across data sources.
spocc
currently interfaces with nine major biodiversity repositories
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (via rgbif
) GBIF is a government funded open data repository with several partner organizations with the express goal of providing access to data on Earth’s biodiversity. The data are made available by a network of member nodes, coordinating information from various participant organizations and government agencies.
Berkeley Ecoengine (via ecoengine
) The ecoengine is an open API built by the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology. The repository provides access to over 3 million specimens from various Berkeley natural history museums. These data span more than a century and provide access to georeferenced specimens, species checklists, photographs, vegetation surveys and resurveys and a variety of measurements from environmental sensors located at reserves across University of California’s natural reserve system.
iNaturalist iNaturalist provides access to crowd sourced citizen science data on species observations.
VertNet (via rvertnet
) Similar to rgbif
, ecoengine, and rbison
(see below), VertNet provides access to more than 80 million vertebrate records spanning a large number of institutions and museums primarly covering four major disciplines (mammology, herpetology, ornithology, and icthyology). Note that we don’t currenlty support VertNet data in this package, but we should soon
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (via rbison
) Built by the US Geological Survey’s core science analytic team, BISON is a portal that provides access to species occurrence data from several participating institutions.
eBird (via rebird
) ebird is a database developed and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. It provides real-time access to checklist data, data on bird abundance and distribution, and communtiy reports from birders.
iDigBio (via ridigbio
) iDigBio facilitates the digitization of biological and paleobiological specimens and their associated data, and houses specimen data, as well as providing their specimen data via RESTful web services.
OBIS OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System) allows users to search marine species datasets from all of the world’s oceans.
Atlas of Living Australia ALA (Atlas of Living Australia) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities; it contains more than 50 million occurrence records.
The inspiration for this comes from users requesting a more seamless experience across data sources, and from our work on a similar package for taxonomy data (taxize).
BEWARE: In cases where you request data from multiple providers, especially when including GBIF, there could be duplicate records since many providers’ data eventually ends up with GBIF. See ?spocc_duplicates
, after installation, for more.
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Get data from GBIF
(out <- occ(query = 'Accipiter striatus', from = 'gbif', limit = 100))
#> Searched: gbif
#> Occurrences - Found: 737,289, Returned: 100
#> Search type: Scientific
#> gbif: Accipiter striatus (100)
Just gbif data
out$gbif
#> Species [Accipiter striatus (100)]
#> First 10 rows of [Accipiter_striatus]
#>
#> # A tibble: 100 x 87
#> name longitude latitude prov issues key datasetKey publishingOrgKey
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Acci… -104. 20.7 gbif cdrou… 1.81e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 2 Acci… -98.6 33.8 gbif cdrou… 1.81e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 3 Acci… -74.1 40.1 gbif cdrou… 1.81e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 4 Acci… -122. 38.0 gbif cdrou… 1.80e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
...
Get fine-grained detail over each data source by passing on parameters to the packge rebird in this example.
(out <- occ(query = 'Setophaga caerulescens', from = 'gbif', gbifopts = list(country = 'US')))
#> Searched: gbif
#> Occurrences - Found: 239,219, Returned: 500
#> Search type: Scientific
#> gbif: Setophaga caerulescens (500)
Get just gbif data
out$gbif
#> Species [Setophaga caerulescens (500)]
#> First 10 rows of [Setophaga_caerulescens]
#>
#> # A tibble: 500 x 108
#> name longitude latitude prov issues key datasetKey publishingOrgKey
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Seto… -80.3 25.7 gbif cdrou… 1.81e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 2 Seto… -80.3 25.8 gbif cdrou… 1.81e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 3 Seto… -81.4 28.6 gbif cdrou… 1.84e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 4 Seto… -77.3 39.0 gbif cdrou… 1.84e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 5 Seto… -83.2 41.6 gbif cdrou… 1.88e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 6 Seto… -74.0 40.8 gbif cdrou… 1.84e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 7 Seto… -80.8 35.5 gbif cdrou… 1.85e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 8 Seto… -97.2 26.1 gbif cdrou… 1.84e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 9 Seto… -80.3 25.8 gbif cdrou… 1.85e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> 10 Seto… -77.1 38.9 gbif cdrou… 1.84e9 50c9509d-… 28eb1a3f-1c15-4…
#> # ... with 490 more rows, and 100 more variables: networkKeys <list>,
#> # installationKey <chr>, publishingCountry <chr>, protocol <chr>,
#> # lastCrawled <chr>, lastParsed <chr>, crawlId <int>,
#> # basisOfRecord <chr>, taxonKey <int>, kingdomKey <int>,
#> # phylumKey <int>, classKey <int>, orderKey <int>, familyKey <int>,
#> # genusKey <int>, acceptedTaxonKey <int>, scientificName <chr>,
#> # acceptedScientificName <chr>, kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>,
#> # order <chr>, family <chr>, genus <chr>, genericName <chr>,
#> # specificEpithet <chr>, taxonRank <chr>, taxonomicStatus <chr>,
#> # dateIdentified <chr>, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters <dbl>,
#> # stateProvince <chr>, year <int>, month <int>, day <int>,
#> # eventDate <date>, modified <chr>, lastInterpreted <chr>,
#> # references <chr>, license <chr>, geodeticDatum <chr>, class <chr>,
#> # countryCode <chr>, country <chr>, rightsHolder <chr>,
#> # identifier <chr>, verbatimEventDate <chr>, datasetName <chr>,
#> # verbatimLocality <chr>, gbifID <chr>, collectionCode <chr>,
#> # occurrenceID <chr>, taxonID <chr>, catalogNumber <chr>,
#> # recordedBy <chr>, `http://unknown.org/occurrenceDetails` <chr>,
#> # institutionCode <chr>, rights <chr>, eventTime <chr>,
#> # occurrenceRemarks <chr>,
#> # `http://unknown.org/http_//rs.gbif.org/terms/1.0/Multimedia` <chr>,
#> # identificationID <chr>, informationWithheld <chr>,
#> # nomenclaturalCode <chr>, locality <chr>, vernacularName <chr>,
#> # fieldNotes <chr>, verbatimElevation <chr>, behavior <chr>,
#> # higherClassification <chr>, sex <chr>, lifeStage <chr>,
#> # establishmentMeans <chr>, infraspecificEpithet <chr>, continent <chr>,
#> # recordNumber <chr>, higherGeography <chr>, dynamicProperties <chr>,
#> # endDayOfYear <chr>, georeferenceVerificationStatus <chr>,
#> # county <chr>, language <chr>, type <chr>, preparations <chr>,
#> # occurrenceStatus <chr>, startDayOfYear <chr>,
#> # bibliographicCitation <chr>, accessRights <chr>, institutionID <chr>,
#> # dataGeneralizations <chr>, organismID <chr>,
#> # ownerInstitutionCode <chr>, datasetID <chr>, collectionID <chr>,
#> # habitat <chr>, georeferencedDate <chr>, georeferencedBy <chr>,
#> # georeferenceProtocol <chr>, otherCatalogNumbers <chr>,
#> # georeferenceSources <chr>, identificationRemarks <chr>,
#> # individualCount <int>
Get data from many sources in a single call
ebirdopts <- list(loc = 'CA') # search in Canada only
gbifopts <- list(country = 'US') # search in United States only
out <- occ(query = 'Setophaga caerulescens', from = c('gbif','bison','inat','ebird'),
gbifopts = gbifopts, ebirdopts = ebirdopts, limit = 50)
dat <- occ2df(out)
head(dat); tail(dat)
#> # A tibble: 6 x 6
#> name longitude latitude prov date key
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <date> <chr>
#> 1 Setophaga caerulescens -80.347459 25.743763 gbif 2018-01-20<PHONE_NUMBER>
#> 2 Setophaga caerulescens -80.342233 25.77536 gbif 2018-01-19<PHONE_NUMBER>
#> 3 Setophaga caerulescens -81.355815 28.569623 gbif 2018-03-14<PHONE_NUMBER>
#> 4 Setophaga caerulescens -77.254868 39.006651 gbif 2018-04-29<PHONE_NUMBER>
#> 5 Setophaga caerulescens -83.192381 41.627135 gbif 2018-04-28<PHONE_NUMBER>
#> 6 Setophaga caerulescens -73.965355 40.782865 gbif 2018-04-29<PHONE_NUMBER>
#> # A tibble: 6 x 6
#> name longitude latitude prov date key
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <date> <chr>
#> 1 Setophaga caerulescens -63.4497222 44.5938889 ebird 2018-11-08 <NA>
#> 2 Setophaga caerulescens -97.22659 49.8759422 ebird 2018-11-07 <NA>
#> 3 Setophaga caerulescens -97.227492 49.876486 ebird 2018-11-07 <NA>
#> 4 Setophaga caerulescens -79.3765 43.6799722 ebird 2018-11-06 <NA>
#> 5 Setophaga caerulescens -79.6037 43.516773 ebird 2018-11-03 <NA>
#> 6 Setophaga caerulescens -84.3526679 46.5101339 ebird 2018-11-03 <NA>
All mapping functionality is now in a separate package mapr (formerly known as spoccutils
), to make spocc
easier to maintain. mapr
on CRAN.
spocc
in R doing citation(package = 'spocc')


How does the platform work?
At the heart of Project Malmö is the ability to create "Missions" which are essentially descriptions of tasks which, in broad terms, consists of the:
- Minecraft environment (world) such as the blocks, items, weather and enemies,
- Observations that an agent receives as it traverses the Minecraft environment,
- Reward handlers which define what "good" and "bad" agent behavior is, or, in other words, implement reward functions, and finally,
- Quit producers that define when a mission ends.
Project Malmö provides a simple API (a set of useful function) for creating tasks; however, for most development, a commonly used file format which can easily be extended and is compatible with many programming languages, namely XML, is used.
One Missions are created using a programming language of your choice, agents can begin interacting with the environment and try to complete the mission successfully by sending commands to Minecraft and receiving rewards and observations.
The backend on the Minecraft side uses the well known tool in the modding community, MinecraftForge, and communication between agents and Minecraft uses sockets and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formatted objects.
How do I get up and running?
For playing around with Project Malmö, a release version of the platform should suffice. However, for contributing changes to the platform and creating Missions with functionality not already provided by Malmö, a full build will be needed.
To get up and running with a Release version visit the GitHub Repo, scroll down to the README and follow the instructions under Getting Started.
For a full build, you can visit Linux Build , OSX Build , or Windows Build as appropriate for the build instruction.
Note
The Download Link on the Right Pane downloads a copy of the GitHub Repository as a .zip. This works for a build. However, if you would like a release, please visit the GitHub page and follow the instructions in the readme there.
Most of the steps in the instruction should be quite straightforward. Should you face any difficulties, have a look at the Troubleshooting Wiki page on GitHub for solving some common problems; however, if you do not see your problem discussed there, do post an issue on GitHub or a message on the Gitter chat room if there are other problems you are facing.
As suggested in the readme, to get familiar with the interface once all the installation is done and things seems to work, you can go through the Tutorial which is currently based on Python. At this point, it is probably good to note that while the platform works with other programming languages, currently most of it is focused on Python simply because many AI and Machine Learning frameworks use Python and it works well as a scripting language with a gentle learning curve, which is especially useful when creating Missions.
The Documentation is also be very useful. More specifically, for getting more familiar with the agent side of things, such as the functions Malmö provides for agents to perform actions and receive observations, take a look at the API Documentation. On the other hand, for the Mission Generation side of things, take a look at the XML Schema Documentation.


Master Selsia:
Eliminate the Crimson Lady and retrieve the Giants' Research Documents.
We must not allow secrets concerning our race to fall into other hands.
The Crimson Lady is being guarded by Timak Orcs and Timak Orc Archers at the Timak Outpost.
Slay the Timak Orcs and Timak Orc Archers and you will no doubt find her.
This is not an easy task, but I believe in you...
Good luck to you!


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We recommend using Grafana to visualize your data from Heroic.
There is a Heroic Datasource available for Grafana. You can find instructions on how to install and use this plugin in the README.


Xlsxir v1.5.1 API Reference
Modules
Extracts and parses data from a .xlsx
file to an Erlang Term Storage (ETS) process and provides various functions for accessing the data
An Agent process named Codepoint
which temporarily holds the codepoint value of the last column letter of the most recently extracted cell. Provides functions to create the process,
update the codepoint value being held, retrieve the currently held codepoint and ultimately kill the process
Converts an ISO 8601 date format serial number, in char_list
format, to a date formatted in
Erlang :calendar.date()
type format (i.e. {year, month, day}
)
Converts a datetime formatted as a decimal number that represents the fraction
of the day in char_list
form, to an elixir naive datetime
An Agent process named Index
which holds state of an index. Provides functions to create the process, increment the index by 1, retrieve the current index
and ultimately kill the process
Holds the SAX event instructions for parsing sharedString data via Xlsxir.SaxParser.parse/2
Holds the SAX event instructions for parsing style data via Xlsxir.SaxParser.parse/2
Holds the SAX event instructions for parsing worksheet data via Xlsxir.SaxParser.parse/2
Provides SAX (Simple API for XML) parsing functionality of the .xlsx
file via the Erlsom Erlang library. SAX (Simple API for XML) is an event-driven
parsing algorithm for parsing large XML files in chunks, preventing the need to load the entire DOM into memory. Current chunk size is set to 10,000
An Erlang Term Storage (ETS) process named :sharedstrings
which holds state for data parsed from sharedStrings.xml
. Provides functions to create the process, add
and retreive data, and ultimately kill the process
An Erlang Term Storage (ETS) process named :styles
which holds state for data parsed from styles.xml
. Provides functions to create the process, add and retreive data,
and ultimately kill the process. Also includes a temporary Agent process named NumFmtIds
which is utilized during the parsing of the styles.xml
file to temporarily
hold state of each NumFmtId
contained within the file
An Agent process named TableId
which temporarily holds the table id of an ETS process. Provides functions to create the process, assign a table id, retrieve the current table id
and ultimately kill the process
Provides validation of accepted file types for file path, extracts required .xlsx
contents to ./temp
and ultimately deletes the ./temp
directory and its contents
An Erlang Term Storage (ETS) process named :worksheet
which holds state for data parsed from sheet#{n}.xml
at index n
. Provides functions to create the process, add
and retreive data, and ultimately kill the process


Freecell Solver version 3.16.0, has been released. Freecell Solver 3.16.0 is available in the form of a source archive, from the download page. Freecell Solver is an open source framework (library and some command line applications), for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.
This new release took about a month to prepare, and also contains less profound changes than the previous release, but still quite a lot to look for. It features the -l micro-finance-improved and -l qualified-seed presets, which improve upon the average solution length (at the expense of speed). The --flares-choice flag was added and one can specify --flares-choice fcpro to choose based on the length of the Freecell Pro moves. Another additional flag is --flares-iters-factor which multiplies the time the flares run at by a factor for a speed/solution-length trade-off.
Finally, the individual flares are now recycled and their memory is reused when they are no longer needed which yields a RAM optimisation in certain cases.
More information about all these can be found in the distributed documents of Freecell Solver.
In addition to all that, a new screencast of PySolFC solving Freecell using Freecell Solver is now available on YouTube. Make sure you expand the details for all the credits of the software and other material that was used for its creation.
Enjoy and happy holidays.


Astronauts start spacewalks to fix cosmic ray detector
Nasa has described the work as a heart bypass.
Astronauts have begun an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks to fix a cosmic ray detector at the International Space Station.
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and US astronaut Andrew Morgan ventured out on Friday with dozens of tools and four new pumps for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Nasa considers these spacewalks the most difficult since the Hubble Space Telescope repairs a few decades ago.
Unlike Hubble, the spectrometer was never meant to undergo space surgery. After more than eight years in orbit, its cooling system is almost dead.
The astronauts will go out at least four times this month and next to revitalise the instrument.
Nasa has described the work as a heart bypass.
The spectrometer is searching for elusive antimatter and dark matter. It has already studied 148 billion cosmic rays.


Vermont's Killington Resort opens
by EndPlayKILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Ski season is officially underway in the Northeast with the opening of Killington Resort in Vermont.
Killington opened at 11 a.m. on Sunday for pass holders.
The resort plans to open to the general public on Monday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. Killington says only intermediate and advanced terrain is open and snowmaking may be going on throughout day.
Sunday is also the last day of the resort's bike park operations for the season.


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A Weather Forecasting system built by applying regression through a Fully Connected Neural Network which has been implemented through the Keras library in Python. Delhi Weather data of past 10 years was used for training and testing.
A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Web Application project which provides the user an estimate of positive and negative tweets for a user given twitter handle. The backend of the project has been implemented in Python through the usage of Tweepy, Textblob and Flask Framework. The front end has been designed in Angular JS.
A chatbot plugin made for the NIIT University Website to help answer the queries put forward by prospective applicants to the University.
An Android Application made for Gre Examination preparation based on the Barron’s high frequency word list. The application made use of the Android Text to Speech library to faciliate learning.
An Android Application made for the NIIT University Placement Cell. The app provided a centralised portal for communication between the students and the Placement Cell.
An Arduino Powered bot which uses an Ultrasonic Sensor to scan the
environment and plot its 2-D graph in MATLAB on the connected computer. The project aimed to study the
possibility of robotic vision using Ultrasonic waves.
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The Project aimed to portray the use of Tesla coils in transmitting power between the Primary and Secondary Tesla coil. A LED connected to the secondary coil acted as the load with the power coming from the primary Tesla coil.
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https://kidandpc.wordpress.com/ : A tech blog built using the wordpress platform.
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If given a choice to choose between the status quo and "The road not taken", I would prefer to take "The road not taken". I aspire to become an entrepreneur and disrupt the status quo.


Weedsday Playlist: Multimedia Artist Emily Eizen Shares 5 Songs for Your Next Smoke Sesh
Puff, puff pass and press play to this week's Weedsday playlist.
by MagneticEmily Eizen is a queer multimedia artist working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, photography, modeling, and performance. Her ‘60s psychedelic inspired works showcase the beauty, freedom and diversity Eizen considers essential to establishing equity in the cannabis space and beyond. Emily’s portfolio and commissions highlight her ability to adapt to different styles and aesthetic across spectrums of gender and sexuality, defying convention.
With her connection to music, performance and cannabis, we asked her to make us a Weedsday playlist that has iconic stoner acts like Lana Del Rey and Tame Impala.
“I Wanna Be Down” by Brandy
Every smoke sesh playlist needs at least one ‘90s R&B throwback. “I Wanna Be Down” by Brandy is a nostalgic bop about being young and in love. I loved Brandy as a kid (especially as Cinderella). This song also features verses from powerful female emcees Mc. Lyte, YoYo, and Queen Latifa.
“Doin’ Time” by Lana Del Rey
This Lana cover of a Sublime classic is exactly what summer 2019 needed — perfect for cruising down the beach on roller-skates with some sativa. The music video is a whole mood in which Queen Lana embodies 1960s LA culture at its peak.
“New Person, Same Old Mistakes” by Tame Impala
Tame Impala is a band that really changed my life. I got into their music right when I fell in love with cannabis — those early highs that made music sound like you were hearing it for the first time. The message of this song is so powerful to me. It is about how things change so fast and we grow into new people, but if we don’t fix our inner self, problems will always follow us.
“Tea Leaf Dancers” by Flying Lotus
Another must for any stoner playlist is a really trippy song. Play this jam at the height of your high, (headphones recommended) for a sense-tingling euphoric vibe.
“Bart Simpson” by Princess Nokia
This song really embodies what it feels like to be a young girl creative in the educational system. This line pretty much describes me in any school environment, which is why I had to go my own way and make my own path as an artist.


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Write a function that receives an array of integers and returns an array consisting of the product of all numbers in the array except the number at that index.
For example, given
[1, 7, 3, 4]
your function should return
[84, 12, 28, 21]
by calculating
[7*3*4, 1*3*4, 1*7*4, 1*7*3]
In the above example, the final value at index 0 is the product of every number in the input array except the number at index 0.
Can you do this in O(n)
time with O(1)
space without using division?
Run the test file by executing python test_product_of_all_other_numbers.py
.


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driving_2004.dta
By the end of this tutorial you should be able to complete the following tasks in Stata:
Identify key areas of the Stata interface
Open a data file
Summarize and tabulate data
Create and save a log file
Open, view, and save a data file
How to get help with Stata
do {something} ... with {variable(s) x}...if {something is true..}, options
| command | description |
|---|---|
log using logfile1.log |
open and log using logfile1.log |
log close |
close log |
use dataset.dta, clear |
open dataset dataset.dta , clear out old one |
describe var1 var2 ... |
charcteristics of var1 , var2 , etc. |
browse var1 var2 ... |
open data browser, display var1, var2 .. |
lookfor text1 |
search for text1 in variable names/descriptions |
tabulate var1 |
make a frequency table of var1 . |
tabulate var1 var2 |
make a cross-tabulation of var1 and var2 . |
summarize var1 |
descriptive statistics for var1 . |
summarize var1 , detail |
detailed descriptive statistics for var1 . |
help command |
open help files for command . |
| operation | command |
|---|---|
| and | & |
| or | \(|\) (vertical bar, on same key as “/”) |
| equal to | == |
| not equal to | != |
| greater than | > |
| less than | > |
| greater than or equal to | >= |
| less than or equal to | <= |
tab bac10 if gdl==1 & sl70plus == 0
bac10
but only if gdl
equals one and sl70plus
equals 0tab bac10 if year >=2000
bac10
for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, etc.tab bac10 if year !=2000
:
bac10
for every year but 2000tab bac10 if year < 2008 & year > 2005
bac10
2006 and 2007tab bac10 if year < 2008 | year > 2005
bac10
is less than 2008 OR greater than 2005 (all years!)Start by opening Stata. You should have a window that looks something like this (on a PC):
You should now have the Stata window open. There is a set of pull down menus as well as 4 smaller windows: Review, Variables, Results, and Command.
Also especially helpful are the following buttons:
If you want to record anything that you do in a Stata session so that you can look at results or commands later, you need to open a log-file. A log-file is simply a record of all the commands you enter into Stata and the output from those commands. The key is to make sure you have a log file open at the beginning of a Stata session, and to close it once you have finished, and before you close Stata.
There are three ways you can open a log file:
Go to the FILE dropdown menu, choose Log, choose Begin.
You should see a “Begin Logging Stata Output” dialog box. Browse to
a directory where you can store your log file and type in the
following file name in the File Name space: lab1.log
Click on the log icon at the top of the Stata workspace (right of the print button). When you click on the log button, the “Begin Logging Stata Output” dialog box pops up. Name your log file as above.
You can open a log file by typing the following in the Stata command
window: log using lab1.log, replace
The , replace
is optional. If you add it as an option, your
new file will overwrite your old one. Or, you can add , append
to
add it to the bottom of your old log file.
Tip: Use extension .log, NOT the default .smcl. This will make it easier for you to edit, cut and paste your log in any text editor.
Now that you have a log file open, we can start our STATA session.
Stata data files end with the extension .dta
, and they can only be
read by Stata. You can import text files and excel files into Stata, and
you can export .dta
files into text files or Excel files, but we’ll
cover this later.
There are three ways to open a data file:
Outside Stata, double click on the data file you want to open
Use the FILE/OPEN drop down menu in Stata and open the data set
that you copied into your folder. Note that in
the command window, the use
command appears. We’ll use that one
later.
Type use filename.dta, clear
into the command window within Stata
Download driving_2004.dta
, from Teams and open it. This is a data
file of driving laws, vehicle accidents, and fatalities in the United
States in 2004.
You should now see the list of variables appear in the Variables window, with the variable name, variable label, and some other information.
Let’s take a more detailed look at the variables in the dataset.
In the command window type: describe
At the top of the output you will see some overall features of the file,
including the number of variables. Below that you will see a list of
every variable, including the variable name, the “storage type” (byte,
float, int, etc.) and the variable label. If you see –more–
at the
bottom of your screen, press the space bar to continue scrolling.2
To learn more about the variables and the organization of the data, use
the browse
command. Type: browse
(or click on the “browse” button).
Another approach is to add a variable list to the browse command. Type the following:
browse year sl70plus bac10 bac08 gdl
Again, note that you can also double click on the variable names so you don’t have to type them all!
This command directs you to a spreadsheet inside Stata where the data appears. This looks a lot like an Excel spreadsheet!
Note the following:
Each observation appears on a separate row of the spreadsheet, which represents data from a certain year and a certain state. For example the first row is for state 1 (Alabama) in 1980. If you move along the row, you can see other characteristics about Alabama in 1980.
Each variable appears in a separate column, and the name of the variable is at the column heading.
How many observations are there? What type of data set is this?
Let’s look at the variables that are included in the data set. There is an efficient way to find the names of variables you are interested in. Suppose you are interested in a variable related to alcohol laws. Type in:
lookfor alcohol
This will give you a list of all the variables that have “alcohol” in
either their variable name or variable label. In this case, two
variables appear - bac10
and bac08
.
You can also experiment with all possible combinations of the col, row,
and cell options, and add the nofreq
option to suppress the number of
observations. Use help for details:
help tab
When you are analyzing variables, you will want to think carefully about whether you should be looking at row percentages, column percentages, or cell percentages.
First, work through the above steps. Then, work through the 7 questoins below.
How many states have graduated drivers license laws (GDLs)? How many states have speed limits of 70 mph or higher (including no speed limit)?
What percentage of states with GDLs and with low speed limits (below 70 mph) have blood-alcohol limits of 0.10 (the more lenient level)? Note that some states have blood-alcohol limit for a fraction of a year. If so, consider having a limit of 0.10 in place for part of the year as having a limit
What is the mean fatality rate per 100 million miles across all states? What is the standard deviation?
What was the fatality rate (deaths per 100 million miles) in Vermont? (Vermont is state 46)
Generate a variable \(Y\) equal to one if a state has a fatality rate per 100 million miles that is above the mean, and zero otherwise. What is \(E(Y)\)?
Write a joint probability distribution table for the following two
random variables: \(X\), a random variable equal to one if a state has
a speed limit of 70 or greater and zero otherwise (see sl70plus
),
and \(Y\), the random variable developed in the previous part.
Look up the command correlate
in the help files: What is the
correlation coefficient between nighttime fatalities per 100,000
population and weekend accidents per 100,000 population? Why might
this correlation be so strong?
This lab draws heavily on Anne Fitzpatrick’s (UMass-Boston) excellent materials.↩
If you are tired of dealing with the “more” issue, you can enable set more off
into the command window to enable continuous scrolling for your session. If you’re just done with it, try set more off, perm
to enable continuous scrolling for this and all future sessions.↩


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import static grails.async.Promises.*
11 Asynchronous Programming
Version: 3.2.11
Table of Contents
11 Asynchronous Programming
With modern hardware featuring multiple cores, many programming languages have been adding asynchronous, parallel programming APIs, Groovy being no exception.
The excellent GPars project features a whole range of different APIs for asynchronous programming techniques including actors, promises, STM and data flow concurrency.
Added in Grails 2.3, the Async features of Grails aim to simplify concurrent programming within the framework and include the concept of Promises and a unified event model.
11.1 Promises
A Promise is a concept being embraced by many concurrency frameworks. They are similar to java.util.concurrent.Future
instances, but include a more user friendly exception handling model, useful features like chaining and the ability to attach listeners.
Promise Basics
In Grails the grails.async.Promises
class provides the entry point to the Promise API:
To create promises you can use the task
method, which returns an instance of the grails.async.Promise
interface:
def p1 = task { 2 * 2 }
def p2 = task { 4 * 4 }
def p3 = task { 8 * 8 }
assert [4,16,64] == waitAll(p1, p2, p3)
The waitAll
method waits synchronously, blocking the current thread, for all of the concurrent tasks to complete and returns the results.
If you prefer not to block the current thread you can use the onComplete
method:
onComplete([p1,p2,p3]) { List results ->
assert [4,16,64] == results
}
The waitAll
method will throw an exception if an error occurs executing one of the promises. The originating exception will be thrown. The onComplete
method, however, will simply not execute the passed closure if an exception occurs. You can register an onError
listener if you wish to handle exceptions without blocking:
onError([p1,p2,p3]) { Throwable t ->
println "An error occured ${t.message}"
}
If you have just a single long running promise then the grails.async.Promise
interface provides a similar API on the promise itself. For example:
import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.*
import static grails.async.Promises.*
Promise p = task {
// Long running task
}
p.onError { Throwable err ->
println "An error occured ${err.message}"
}
p.onComplete { result ->
println "Promise returned $result"
}
// block until result is called
def result = p.get()
// block for the specified time
def result = p.get(1,MINUTES)
Promise Chaining
It is possible to chain several promises and wait for the chain to complete using the then
method:
final polish = { ... }
final transform = { ... }
final save = { ... }
final notify = { ... }
Promise promise = task {
// long running task
}
promise.then polish then transform then save then {
// notify end result
}
If an exception occurs at any point in the chain it will be propagated back to the caller and the next step in the chain will not be called.
Promise Lists and Maps
Grails' async API also features the concept of a promise lists and maps. These are represented by the grails.async.PromiseList
and grails.async.PromiseMap
classes respectively.
The easiest way to create a promise list or map is via the tasks
method of the Promises
class:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
def promiseList = tasks([{ 2 * 2 }, { 4 * 4}, { 8 * 8 }])
assert [4,16,64] == promiseList.get()
The tasks
method, when passed a list of closures, returns a PromiseList
. You can also construct a PromiseList
manually:
import grails.async.*
def list = new PromiseList()
list << { 2 * 2 }
list << { 4 * 4 }
list << { 8 * 8 }
list.onComplete { List results ->
assert [4,16,64] == results
}
The PromiseList class does not implement the java.util.List interface, but instead returns a java.util.List from the get() method
|
Working with PromiseMap
instances is largely similar. Again you can either use the tasks
method:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
def promiseList = tasks one:{ 2 * 2 },
two:{ 4 * 4},
three:{ 8 * 8 }
assert [one:4,two:16,three:64] == promiseList.get()
Or construct a PromiseMap
manually:
import grails.async.*
def map = new PromiseMap()
map['one'] = { 2 * 2 }
map['two'] = { 4 * 4 }
map['three'] = { 8 * 8 }
map.onComplete { Map results ->
assert [one:4,two:16,three:64] == results
}
Promises vs. WebPromises
Since Grails 3.2.7, there are two factory classes for Promise
instances. They are:
-
grails.async.Promises
- general purpose and not web specified -
grails.async.web.WebPromises
- designed for creating asynchronous responses.
Typically you use WebPromises
within a controller, and its behaviour differs because Grails will automatically turn the request into an Servlet 3.x async request to execute the tasks created by WebPromises
.
The Promises
factory class on the other hand is not web specific and will not create async requests.
This also means that within the body of the task for WebPromises
you can use controller methods such as render
etc. For example the following works with WebPromises
:
import static grails.async.web.WebPromises.*
class HelloController {
def sayHello(String message) {
task {
render "Hello $message"
}
}
}
However, the above will fail with the regular Promises
class.
In versions of Grails prior to 3.2.7, Promises used to allow the use of render and other controller methods, however this was unsafe as the request thread may have finished prior to the task executing leading to unexpected errors.
|
Promise Factories
The Promises
class uses a grails.async.PromiseFactory
instance to create Promise
instances.
The default implementation uses Project Reactor and is called org.grails.async.factory.reactor.ReactorPromiseFactory
, however it is possible to swap implementations by setting the Promises.promiseFactory
variable.
One common use case for this is unit testing, typically you do not want promises to execute asynchronously during unit tests, as this makes tests harder to write. For this purpose Grails ships with a org.grails.async.factory.SynchronousPromiseFactory
instance that makes it easier to test promises:
import org.grails.async.factory.*
import grails.async.*
Promises.promiseFactory = new SynchronousPromiseFactory()
Using the PromiseFactory
mechanism it is theoretically possible to plug in other concurrency libraries into the Grails framework. For this you need to override the two interfaces grails.async.Promise
and grails.async.PromiseFactory
.
DelegateAsync Transformation
It is quite common to require both synchronous and asynchronous versions of the same API. Developing both can result in a maintenance problem as typically the asynchronous API would simply delegate to the synchronous version.
The DelegateAsync
transformation is designed to mitigate this problem by transforming any synchronous API into an asynchronous one.
For example, consider the following service:
class BookService {
List<Book> findBooks(String title) {
// implementation
}
}
The findBooks
method executes synchronously in the same thread as the caller. To make an asynchronous version of this API you can define another class as follows:
import grails.async.*
class AsyncBookService {
@DelegateAsync BookService bookService
}
The DelegateAsync
transformation will automatically add a new method that looks like the following to the AsyncBookService
class:
Promise<List<Book>> findBooks(String title) {
Promises.task {
bookService.findBooks(title)
}
}
As you see the transform adds equivalent methods that return a Promise and execute asynchronously.
The AsyncBookService
can then be injected into other controllers and services and used as follows:
AsyncBookService asyncBookService
def findBooks(String title) {
asyncBookService.findBooks(title)
.onComplete { List results ->
println "Books = ${results}"
}
}
11.2 Reactive Programming with RxJava
Since Grails 3.2, you can use RxJava to write reactive logic in your Grails controllers that leverages the underlying containers asynchronous processing capabilities.
To get started simply declare a dependency on the plugin in build.gradle
:
dependencies {
...
compile 'org.grails.plugins:rxjava'
}
You can then return rx.Observable
as a return value from any controller and Grails will automatically apply the following steps:
-
Create a new asynchronous request
-
Spawn a new thread that subscribes to the observable
-
When the observable omits a result process the result using the respond method.
For more detailed instructions on how to use the RxJava plugin see the user guide documentation for the plugin.
11.2.1 Server Sent Events
Server-sent events (SSE) is a technology where a browser receives automatic updates from a server via HTTP connection. The Server-Sent Events EventSource API is standardized as part of HTML5 by the W3C.
The RxJava plugin adds support for SSE to Grails making it simple to write controllers that maintain continuous non-blocking communication with a JavaScript client.
For example:
def index() {
rx.stream { Subscriber subscriber -> (1)
for(i in (0..5)) {
if(i % 2 == 0) {
subscriber.onNext(
rx.render("Tick") (2)
)
}
else {
subscriber.onNext(
rx.render("Tock")
)
}
sleep 1000 (3)
}
subscriber.onCompleted() (4)
}
}
| 1 | Call the stream method passing a closure that accepts an rx.Subscriber to start sending events |
| 2 | Emit a one or many items using onNext |
| 3 | Call sleep to simulate a slow request |
| 4 | Call onCompleted to complete the request |
For more detailed instructions on how to use SSE and the RxJava plugin see the user guide documentation for the plugin.
11.2.2 RxGORM
RxGORM is new implementation of GORM that has the following goals:
-
Reactive
-
Non-blocking
-
Stateless
-
Simple
RxGORM, unlike the Asynchronous GORM implementation, aims to be truly non-blocking, down to the driver level.
The following is an example of RxGORM in action:
Book.get(id)
.subscribe { Book it ->
println "Title = ${it.title}"
}
You can combine RxGORM with the RxJava plugin to implement reactive responses from Grails controllers. For example:
def show() {
// returns an rx.Observable
Book.get(params.id?.toString())
}
For more information on how to use RxGORM, see the RxGORM user guide.
11.3 Events
Grails 3.0 introduces a new Events API based on Reactor.
All services and controllers in Grails 3.0 implement the Events trait.
The Events
trait allows the ability to consume and publish events that are handled by Reactor.
The default Reactor configuration utilises a thread pool backed event bus. You can however configure Reactor within application.yml
, for example:
reactor:
dispatchers:
default: myExecutor
myExecutor:
type: threadPoolExecutor
size: 5
backlog: 2048
11.3.1 Consuming Events
There are several ways to consume an event. As mentioned previously services and controllers implement the Events trait.
The Events
trait provides several methods to register event consumers. For example:
on("myEvent") {
println "Event fired!"
}
Note that if you wish a class (other than a controller or service) to be an event consumer you simply have to implement the Events
trait and ensure the class is registered as a Spring bean.
For example given the following class:
import grails.events.*
import javax.annotation.*
class MyClass implements Events {
@PostConstruct
void init() {
on("myEvent") {
println "Event fired!"
}
}
}
You can override doWithSpring
in your Application
class to register it as a Spring bean (or annotate it with Component
):
Closure doWithSpring() {
{->
myClass(MyClass)
}
}
11.3.2 Event Notification
The Events
trait also provides methods for notifying of events. For example:
notify "myEvent", "myData"
sendAndReceive "myEvent", "myData", {
println "Got response!"
}
11.3.3 Reactor Spring Annotations
Reactor provides a few useful annotations that can be used for declaratively consuming events in a Grails service.
To declare an event consumer use the Consumer
annotation:
import reactor.spring.context.annotation.*
@Consumer
class MyService {
}
Then to register to listen for an event use the Selector
annotation:
import reactor.spring.context.annotation.*
@Consumer
class MyService {
@Selector('myEvent')
void myEventListener(Object data) {
println "GOT EVENT $data"
}
}
11.3.4 Events from GORM
GORM defines a number of useful events that you can listen for.
Each event is translated into a key that starts with gorm:
. For example:
import org.grails.datastore.mapping.engine.event.*
...
on("gorm:preInsert") { PreInsertEvent event ->
println "GOT EVENT $event"
}
| These events are triggered asynchronously, and so cannot cancel or manipulate the persistence operations. If you want to do that see the section on Events & Auto Timestamping in the GORM docs |
11.3.5 Events from Spring
Spring also fires a number of useful events. All events in the org.springframework
package are prefixed with spring:
.
For example:
import org.springframework.web.context.support.*
import org.springframework.boot.context.event.*
...
on("spring:applicationStarted") { ApplicationStartedEvent event ->
// fired when the application starts
}
on("spring:servletRequestHandled") { RequestHandledEvent event ->
// fired each time a request is handled
}
11.4 Asynchronous GORM
Since Grails 2.3, GORM features an asynchronous programming model that works across all supported datastores (Hibernate, MongoDB etc.).
| Although GORM executes persistence operations asynchronously, these operations still block as the underlying database drivers are not asynchronous. Asynchornous GORM is designed to allow you to isolate these blocking operations onto a separate thread you can scale and control allowing your controller layer to remain non-blocking. |
Async Namespace
The Asynchronous GORM API is available on every domain class via the async
namespace.
For example, the following code listing reads 3 objects from the database asynchronously:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
def p1 = Person.async.get(1L)
def p2 = Person.async.get(2L)
def p3 = Person.async.get(3L)
def results = waitAll(p1, p2, p3)
Using the async
namespace, all the regular GORM methods are available (even dynamic finders), but instead of executing synchronously, the query is run in the background and a Promise
instance is returned.
The following code listing shows a few common examples of GORM queries executed asynchronously:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
Person.async.list().onComplete { List results ->
println "Got people = ${results}"
}
def p = Person.async.getAll(1L, 2L, 3L)
List results = p.get()
def p1 = Person.async.findByFirstName("Homer")
def p2 = Person.async.findByFirstName("Bart")
def p3 = Person.async.findByFirstName("Barney")
results = waitAll(p1, p2, p3)
Async and the Session
When using GORM async each promise is executed in a different thread. Since the Hibernate session is not concurrency safe, a new session is bound per thread.
This is an important consideration when using GORM async (particularly with Hibernate as the persistence engine). The objects returned from asynchronous queries will be detached entities.
This means you cannot save objects returned from asynchronous queries without first merging them back into session. For example the following will not work:
def promise = Person.async.findByFirstName("Homer")
def person = promise.get()
person.firstName = "Bart"
person.save()
Instead you need to merge the object with the session bound to the calling thread. The above code needs to be written as:
def promise = Person.async.findByFirstName("Homer")
def person = promise.get()
person = person.merge()
person.firstName = "Bart"
Note that merge()
is called first because it may refresh the object from the cache or database, which would result in the change being lost. In general it is not recommended to read and write objects in different threads and you should avoid this technique unless absolutely necessary.
Finally, another issue with detached objects is that association lazy loading will not work and you will encounter LazyInitializationException
errors if you do so. If you plan to access the associated objects of those returned from asynchronous queries you should use eager queries (which is recommended anyway to avoid N+1 problems).
Multiple Asynchronous GORM calls
As discussed in the previous section you should avoid reading and writing objects in different threads as merging tends to be inefficient.
However, if you wish to do more complex GORM work asynchronously then the GORM async namespace provides a task
method that makes this possible. For example:
def promise = Person.async.task {
withTransaction {
def person = findByFirstName("Homer")
person.firstName = "Bart"
person.save(flush:true)
}
}
Person updatedPerson = promise.get()
Note that the GORM task
method differs from the static Promises.task
method in that it deals with binding a new session to the asynchronous thread for you. If you do not use the GORM version and do asynchronous work with GORM then you need to do this manually. Example:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
def promise = task {
Person.withNewSession {
// your logic here
}
}
Async DetachedCriteria
The DetachedCriteria
class also supports the async
namespace. For example you can do the following:
DetachedCriteria query = Person.where {
lastName == "Simpson"
}
def promise = query.async.list()
11.5 Asynchronous Request Handling
If you are deploying to a Servlet 3.0 container such as Tomcat 7 and above then it is possible to deal with responses asynchronously.
In general for controller actions that execute quickly there is little benefit in handling requests asynchronously. However, for long running controller actions it is extremely beneficial.
The reason being that with an asynchronous / non-blocking response, the one thread == one request == one response relationship is broken. The container can keep a client response open and active, and at the same time return the thread back to the container to deal with another request, improving scalability.
For example, if you have 70 available container threads and an action takes a minute to complete, if the actions are not executed in a non-blocking fashion the likelihood of all 70 threads being occupied and the container not being able to respond is quite high and you should consider asynchronous request processing.
Since Grails 2.3, Grails features a simplified API for creating asynchronous responses built on the Promise
mechanism discussed previously.
Async Models
A typical activity in a Grails controller is to produce a model (a map of key/value pairs) that can be rendered by a view.
If the model takes a while to produce then the server could arrive at a blocking state, impacting scalability. You tell Grails to build the model asynchronously by returning a grails.async.PromiseMap
via the Promises.tasks
method:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
...
def index() {
tasks books: Book.async.list(),
totalBooks: Book.async.count(),
otherValue: {
// do hard work
}
}
Grails will handle the response asynchronously, waiting for the promises to complete before rendering the view. The equivalent synchronous action of the above is:
def index() {
def otherValue = ...
[ books: Book.list() ,
totalBooks: Book.count(),
otherValue: otherValue ]
}
You can even render different view by passing the PromiseMap
to the model
attribute of the render
method:
import static grails.async.Promises.*
...
def index() {
render view:"myView", model: tasks( one:{ 2 * 2 },
two:{ 3 * 3 } )
}
Async Response Rendering
You can also write to the response asynchronously using promises in Grails 2.3 and above and the WebPromises
class:
import static grails.async.web.WebPromises.*
class StockController {
def stock(String ticker) {
task {
ticker = ticker ?: 'GOOG'
def url = new URL("http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=${ticker}&f=nsl1op&e=.csv")
Double price = url.text.split(',')[-1] as Double
render "ticker: $ticker, price: \$price"
}
}
}
The above example using Yahoo Finance to query stock prices, executing asynchronously and only rendering the response once the result has been obtained. This is done by returning a Promise
instance from the controller action.
If the Yahoo URL is unresponsive the original request thread will not be blocked and the container will not become unresponsive.
11.6 Servlet 3.0 Async
In addition to the higher level async features discussed earlier in the section, you can access the raw Servlet 3.0 asynchronous API from a Grails application.
Servlet 3.0 Asynchronous Rendering
You can render content (templates, binary data etc.) in an asynchronous manner by calling the startAsync
method which returns an instance of the Servlet 3.0 AsyncContext
. Once you have a reference to the AsyncContext
you can use Grails' regular render method to render content:
def index() {
def ctx = startAsync()
ctx.start {
new Book(title:"The Stand").save()
render template:"books", model:[books:Book.list()]
ctx.complete()
}
}
Note that you must call the complete()
method to terminate the connection.
Resuming an Async Request
You resume processing of an async request (for example to delegate to view rendering) by using the dispatch
method of the AsyncContext
class:
def index() {
def ctx = startAsync()
ctx.start {
// do working
...
// render view
ctx.dispatch()
}
}


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