Scally was created as an open source CSS framework during my time at Westfield Labs.
It extended and nicely packaged up the CSS framework that I'd been developing and using over many years as a UI developer.
The name…
Bits and pieces to construct UI.

An all-singing all-dancing UI Toolkit à la Twitter Bootstrap or Foundation.
Scally doesn't try to be all things to all men, it does one job and one job well, then gets out of your way.
@csswizardry Maybe frameworks have gone too far. Look at Bootstrap, it's not a framework, it's a theme off the shelf.
— Allan Moreno (@heyallanmoreno) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry bloat/ubiquitous design, usually. I like to start with something smaller first and build upon it, which is why I made Cardinal.
— Chris Bracco (@cbracco) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry 1) I need to understand what the author has in mind; 2) Sites are too unique.
— Margus Holland (@margusholland) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry Not built in a way that matches the designs I'm working to, not worth the hassle of unpicking someone elses decisions
— Mark Skinner (@MarkSkinner_) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry I think it’s because designing a framework under one set of conditions is hard enough; designing for all is impossible.
— Robin Rendle (@robinrendle) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry most projects are unique
— Matĳs Brinkhuis (@matijs) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry they're always far too opinionated, even when they're not.
— Martin Wright (@wrightmartin) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry Usually they do so much more than I actually need and there’s a lot of overhead of extra/un-needed code.
— Val Head (@vlh) March 13, 2014
@csswizardry Just the thought of having lots of styles that I may not use.
— Martin Bean (@martinbean) March 13, 2014
Writing CSS is easy, architecting it isn’t.
DRYness / Abstraction / Efficiency
(Very brief)
bower install scally
app
│
└───assets
│
└───bower_components
│
└───scally
Or download zip from GitHub repo.
Core / Layout / Components / Utilities
Campaign Monitor: Core / Components
Scally: Core / Layout / Components / Utilities
style.scss
@charset "UTF-8";
/* ============================================================================
@MASTER STYLESHEET
========================================================================= */
/**
* Scally, being an OO framework, works in keeping with the open/closed
* principle. Any custom styles *SHOULD NOT* be added or modified in Scally
* directly. This also allows the framework to be updated seamlessly.
*
* Contents:
*
* Your settings.........your project-specific settings.
* Scally framework......the entire Scally framework including your overrides.
* Your styles...........all your project-specific styles.
*
* N.B. the above order and the order within the Scally framework section must
* always be followed.
*/
/* Your settings
========================================================================= */
/**
* Your project-specific settings.
*
* N.B. define first so they can be used throughout your styles.
*/
@import "settings";
/* Scally framework
========================================================================= */
/**
* By default everything is imported. But if you want to be selective and you
* definitely should, so your CSS is as lean as possible, then only import what
* you want. The Core section is however mandatory.
*
* Any settings you find set in Scally that you do not wish to keep, simply
* redefine above/below the relevant `@import`. This means that if Scally, for
* example, sets your `$font-size` at `16px` and you wish it to be `14px`,
* simply redeclare it above the relevant `@import`, like so:
*
$font-size: 14;
@import "bower_components/scally/core/settings/typography";
*
* If you want to use a Scally setting to override something then you need to
* define the override below the `@import`, like so:
*
@import "bower_components/scally/core/settings/colours";
$colour-text-base: $colour-brand;
*
* If you try to redeclare above the `@import` your Sass won't compile as you
* don't have access to the Scally setting at the point of compilation.
*
* All non-Core settings need to be overridden above the `@import`, like so:
*
$u-arrow-size-base: 14;
$u-arrow-colour: orange;
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-arrow";
*
* Scally ignores its own settings in favour of using your own, so you can
* completely modify how Scally works without ever having to alter the
* framework itself.
*
* N.B. the order specified below must always be followed or Scally will
* break and if you're not using Bower or you customise where Bower installs
* then you'll need to update the `@import` paths accordingly.
*
* Contents:
*
* CORE
* LAYOUT
* COMPONENTS
* UTILITIES
*/
/**
* CORE.
*
* N.B. this is all mandatory for the Scally framework.

*/
// Main container
@import "bower_components/scally/layout/l-container";
// Grid
@import "bower_components/scally/layout/l-grid";
@import "bower_components/scally/layout/l-grid-pull";
@import "bower_components/scally/layout/l-grid-push";
// Side-by-side
@import "bower_components/scally/layout/l-side-by-side";
@import "bower_components/scally/layout/l-side-by-side-alt";
/**
* COMPONENTS.
*/
@import "bower_components/scally/components/button";
/**
* UTILITIES.
*/
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-clear-fix";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-arrow";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-list";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-list-block";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-list-inline";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-text";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-widths";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-table";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-drop-down";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-alignments";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-toggle-visibility";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-image-replacement";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-link-complex";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-link-disguised";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-link-no-underline";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-momentum-scrolling";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-float";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-new-block-formatting-context";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-flex-embed";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-gpu-accelerated";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-position";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-display";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-spacing";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-divider";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-columns";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-overflow";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-overlay";
@import "bower_components/scally/utilities/u-cursor";
/* Your styles
========================================================================= */
You can completely modify how Scally works without ever having to alter the framework itself. Simply redeclare the settings you wish to change above the relevant @import
in the master style sheet e.g.
$font-size: 14;
$font-family-base: Arial, sans-serif;
@import "bower_components/scally/core/settings/typography";
$colour-brand: #2aa198;
@import "bower_components/scally/core/settings/colours";
$text-input-and-select-text-color: $colour-text-base;
@import "bower_components/scally/core/base/forms";
A powerful fluid and nestable mobile first grid system
/* ============================================================================
@LAYOUT -> GRID
========================================================================= */
/**
* A powerful fluid and nestable mobile first grid system.
*
* Combine with the viewport specific width classes found in Utilities ->
* Widths to apply grid widths at specific viewports, for example:
*
<div class="l-grid__item u-one-half-from-lap u-one-third-from-desk">
*
* This would give you a grid item which is 100% width unless it is on a lap
* device, at which point it becomes 50% wide, or it is on a desktop device,
* at which point it becomes 33.333% width. See breakpoints set here: Core ->
* Settings -> Breakpoints.
*
* N.B. grid systems should be thought of as shelves. They contain content but
* are not content in themselves.  By setting up our grids separately to our components you can
* move components around a lot more easily than if they had dimensions
* applied to them; this makes our front-ends a lot more adaptable and quick
* to work with.
*
* N.B. you should never apply any styles to a grid item, they are for layout
* purposes only. Apply styling to content inside a grid item.
*
* @credit
* https://github.com/csswizardry/csswizardry-grids/blob/master/csswizardry-grids.scss
*/
/**
* Settings.
*/
/**
* Toggle on/off certain styles and treatments.
*/
$l-grid-apply-at-breakpoints: $default-breakpoints !default;
/**
* Gutter sizes.
*/
$l-grid-gutter-base: $spacing-base !default;
$l-grid-gutter-tiny: $spacing-third !default;
$l-grid-gutter-small: $spacing-half !default;
$l-grid-gutter-large: $spacing-base-plus-half !default;
$l-grid-gutter-huge: $spacing-double !default;
/**
* Box sizing.
*
* Here we set a variable assuming that `box-sizing: border-box;` is not set
* globally. If it has been previously been defined, the following variable
* will be overriden and will be set to `true`.
*/
$apply-friendly-box-model: false !default;
/**
* Grid container.
*
* 1. Negative `margin-left` to negate the columns gutters.
* 2. So it can work on inline elements e.g. `span`.
* 3. Dirty hack to remove browser generated whitespace between elements that
* render as `display: inline-block`.
*/
.l-grid {
@include to-rem(margin-left, -$l-grid-gutter-base); // [1]
display: block; // [2]
font-size: 0; // [3]
}
/**
* 1. Cause columns to stack side-by-side.
* 2. Space columns apart.
* 3. Full-width unless told to behave otherwise.
* 4. Align coloumns to the top of each other.
* 5. Reset font size to be the global default.
* 6. Required to combine fluid widths and fixed gutters.
*/
.l-grid__item {
display: inline-block; // [1]
@include to-rem(padding-left, $l-grid-gutter-base); // [2]
width: 100%; // [3]
vertical-align: top; // [4]
@include font-size($font-size); // [5]
@if $apply-friendly-box-model == false {
box-sizing: border-box; // [6]
}//endif
}
/**
* Modifier: gutterless.
*/
.l-grid--gutterless {
margin-left: 0;
> .l-grid__item {padding-left: 0;}
}
/**
* Modifier: gutter tiny.
*/
.l-grid--gutter-tiny {
@include to-rem(margin-left, -$l-grid-gutter-tiny);
> .l-grid__item {@include to-rem(padding-left, $l-grid-gutter-tiny);}
}
/**
* Modifier: gutter small.
*/
.l-grid--gutter-small {
@include to-rem(margin-left, -$l-grid-gutter-small);
> .l-grid__item {@include to-rem(padding-left, $l-grid-gutter-small);}
}
/**
* Modifier: gutter large.
*/
.l-grid--gutter-large {
@include to-rem(margin-left, -$l-grid-gutter-large);
> .l-grid__item {@include to-rem(padding-left, $l-grid-gutter-large);}
}
/**
* Modifier: gutter huge.
*/
.l-grid--gutter-huge {
@include to-rem(margin-left, -$l-grid-gutter-huge);
> .l-grid__item {@include to-rem(padding-left, $l-grid-gutter-huge);}
}
/**
* Modifier: reversed.
*
* Reversed rendered order of layout items, e.g. items 1, 2, 3, 4 in your
* markup will display in order 4, 3, 2, 1 on your page.
*/
.l-grid--reversed {
direction: rtl;
text-align: left;
> .l-grid__item {
direction: ltr;
text-align: left;
}
}
/**
* Modifier: vertical align middle.
*/
.l-grid--align-middle > .l-grid__item {vertical-align: middle;}
/**
* Modifier: vertical align bottom.
*/
.l-grid--align-bottom > .l-grid__item {vertical-align: bottom;}
/**
* Modifier: align right.
*/
.l-grid--align-right {
text-align: right;
> .l-grid__item {text-align: left;}
}
/**
* Modifier: align center.
*/
.l-grid--align-center {
text-align: center;
> .l-grid__item {text-align: left;}
}
/**
* Modifier: shrink wrap.
*
* Make it be the width of it's content.
*/
.l-grid--shrink-wrap > .l-grid__item {width: auto;}
Place any two elements side-by-side
/* ============================================================================
@LAYOUT -> SIDE-BY-SIDE
========================================================================= */
/**
* Place any two elements side-by-side, typically for an image- and text-like
* content.
*
* @credit
* http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/06/25/the-media-object-saves-hundreds-of-lines-of-code
*/
/**
* Settings.
*/
// Toggle on/off certain styles and treatments
// Make linear i.e. stack them
$l-side-by-side-apply-linear: true !default;
// At what breakpoint to make linear? Can be one of the main breakpoints or any
// interger
// N.B. served via a `max-width` media query
$l-side-by-side-apply-linear-when: palm !default;
// Gutter sizes
$l-side-by-side-gutter-base: $spacing-base !default;
$l-side-by-side-gutter-tiny: $spacing-third !default;
$l-side-by-side-gutter-small: $spacing-half !default;
$l-side-by-side-gutter-large: $spacing-base-plus-half !default;
$l-side-by-side-gutter-huge: $spacing-double !default;
/**
* 1. So it can work on inline elements e.g. `span`.
*/
.l-side-by-side {
display: block; // [1]
// Clear fix
&:after {
content: "";
display: table;
clear: both;
}
}
/**
* Left side.
*/
.l-side-by-side__left {
float: left;
@include to-rem(margin-right, $l-side-by-side-gutter-base);
/**
* Modifiers: gutter sizing.
*/
// Tiny
.l-side-by-side--gutter-tiny > & {
@include to-rem(margin-right, $l-side-by-side-gutter-tiny);
}
// Small
.l-side-by-side--gutter-small > & {
@include to-rem(margin-right, $l-side-by-side-gutter-small);
}
// Large
.l-side-by-side--gutter-large > & {
@include to-rem(margin-right, $l-side-by-side-gutter-large);
}
// Huge
.l-side-by-side--gutter-huge > & {
@include to-rem(margin-right, $l-side-by-side-gutter-huge);
}
/**
* Modifiers: reversed.
*
* Switch the sides i.e. left becomes right and right becomes left.
*/
.l-side-by-side--reversed > & {
float: right;
margin-right: 0;
@include to-rem(margin-left, $l-side-by-side-gutter-base);
}
// Reversed tiny gutter
.l-side-by-side--reversed.l-side-by-side--gutter-tiny > & {
@include to-rem(margin-left, $l-side-by-side-gutter-tiny);
}
// Reversed small gutter
.l-side-by-side--reversed.l-side-by-side--gutter-small > & {
@include to-rem(margin-left, $l-side-by-side-gutter-small);
}
// Reversed large gutter
.l-side-by-side--reversed.l-side-by-side--gutter-large > & {
@include to-rem(margin-left, $l-side-by-side-gutter-large);
}
// Reversed huge gutter
.l-side-by-side--reversed.l-side-by-side--gutter-huge > & {
@include to-rem(margin-left, $l-side-by-side-gutter-huge);
}
/**
* Modifier: flush.
*
* Remove the gutter.
*/
.l-side-by-side--flush > & {margin-right: 0;}
// Reversed flush
.l-side-by-side--reversed.l-side-by-side--flush > & {margin-left: 0;}
/**
* Modifier: remove.
*
* Turn off the side-by-side layout so the two elements stack on top of
* each other at the palm breakpoint (or whatever you specify) and provide
* bottom spacing between the two elements via the gutter size settings.
*
* Make optional as this uses a fair amount of CSS.
*
* N.B. we use a `max-width` media query for this which is something we
* wouldn't usually do as we build Mobile First however this is simply the
* most pragmatic way of accomplishing this. Also this layout module's
* default state is side-by-side, so its stacked state is the exception,
* rather than the rule.
*/
@if $l-side-by-side-apply-linear {
@include respond-to($l-side-by-side-apply-linear-when, max) {
.l-side-by-side--remove > & {
float: none;
margin-right: 0;
margin-left: 0;
@include to-rem(margin-bottom, $l-side-by-side-gutter-base);
}
/**
* Modifiers: bottom spacing sizing.
*/
// Tiny
.l-side-by-side--remove.l-side-by-side--gutter-tiny > & {
@include to-rem(margin-bottom, $l-side-by-side-gutter-tiny);}
// Small
.l-side-by-side--remove.l-side-by-side--gutter-small > & {
@include to-rem(margin-bottom, $l-side-by-side-gutter-small);}
// Large
.l-side-by-side--remove.l-side-by-side--gutter-large > & {
@include to-rem(margin-bottom, $l-side-by-side-gutter-large);}
// Huge
.l-side-by-side--remove.l-side-by-side--gutter-huge > & {
@include to-rem(margin-bottom, $l-side-by-side-gutter-huge);}
/**
* Modifier: flush.
*
* Remove the bottom spacing.
*/
.l-side-by-side--remove.l-side-by-side--flush > & {margin-bottom: 0;}
}
}// endif
}
/**
* Right side.
*
* 1. Create a new block formatting context (NBFC).
* 2. Avoid shrink-wrap behaviour of table-cell.
*/
.l-side-by-side__right {
display: table-cell; // [1]
width: 10000px; // [2]
}
A generic container that wraps all major layout pieces to keep layout consistent.
/* ============================================================================
@LAYOUT -> CONTAINER
========================================================================= */
/**
* The main container that wraps all major layout pieces so that we keep all
* layout consistent. The container is responsive in that it will be a fluid
* width using '%' up until it hits it's maximum width. And it's center
* aligned by default.
*/
/**
* Settings.
*/
/**
* Toggle on/off certain styles and treatments.
*/
// Apply at these breakpoints
$l-container-apply-at-breakpoints: $default-breakpoints !default;
// From the above choose what you want to apply it too
$l-container-apply-breakpoints-for-default: false !default;
$l-container-apply-breakpoints-for-full-bleed: false !default;
$l-container-apply-breakpoints-for-not-centered: false !default;
/**
* Widths.
*/
$l-container-width: 92% !default;
$l-container-minimum-width: 220 !default;
$l-container-maximum-width: 1600 !default;
.l-container {
width: $l-container-width;
@include to-rem(min-width, $l-container-minimum-width);
@include to-rem(max-width, $l-container-maximum-width);
margin: 0 auto;
// Print
@media print {
width: auto;
}
}
@if $l-container-apply-breakpoints-for-default {
@include generate-at-breakpoints('.l-container', $l-container-breakpoints) {
width: $l-container-width;
@include to-rem(min-width, $l-container-minimum-width);
@include to-rem(max-width, $l-container-maximum-width);
margin: 0 auto;
// Print
@media print {
width: auto;
}
}
}// end if
/**
* Modifier: full bleed.
*/
.l-container--full-bleed {
width: auto;
max-width: none;
}
@if $l-container-apply-breakpoints-for-full-bleed {
@include generate-at-breakpoints('.l-container--full-bleed',
$l-container-breakpoints) {
width: auto;
max-width: none;
}
}// end if
/**
* Modifier: not centered.
*/
.l-container--not-centered {
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
}
@if $l-container-apply-breakpoints-for-not-centered {
@include generate-at-breakpoints('.l-container--not-centered',
$l-container-breakpoints) {
margin-left: 0;
margin-right: 0;
}
}// end if
The Campaign Monitor application header
Scally version
40 lines
4kb minified & gzipped
Current version
14kb minified & gzipped (total weight) / 5kb (total weight of custom CSS)
The BEM naming convention follows this pattern:
.block {}
.block__element {}
.block--modifier {}
.block
represents the higher level of an abstraction or component..block__element
represents a descendent of .block
that helps form .block
as a whole..block--modifier
represents a different state or version of .block
.
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_Hardball_ (PG-13) * (out of ****)
If Biggie Smalls weren't dead already, certainly the sight and sound of Keanu Reeves murdering his hit "Big Poppa" not once, but twice in _Hardball_ would have done the job. For the rest of us, sitting through the schmaltzfest that is _Hardball_ amounts to a two-hour torture session that would make one long for the great beyond.
Watching Reeves lord over a boys' baseball team in a _Bad_News_Bears_-ish comedy is a horrifying enough prospect, but _Hardball_ is even more galling than what the misleading ad campaign sells it as: it's a teary, inspirational sports drama. But despite having the same early fall berth and also featuring a name star above its title, _Hardball_ is no _Remember_the_Titans_, the truly uplifting and moving blockbuster that starred Denzel Washington--for reasons that go far beyond the lopsided Keanu vs. Denzel argument.
First and foremost is the lead character of Conor O'Neill. Reeves' lackluster performance aside (more on that later), Conor, who begins the film as a compulsive gambler deep in debt to loan sharks, is hardly an interesting or appealing "hero." In exchange for a weekly check, a businessman friend (Mike McGlone) makes Conor coach an inner city little league team, the Kekambas. The usual would-be heartwarming hokum ensues: Conor learns that there's more to life than sports bets; the kids are inspired to win by Conor.
Or are they? Conor does a lot of things with the Kekambas, but one of them is certainly not coaching. The most he is shown doing during practice sessions is hitting balls to outfielders. He never gives anyone any pointers except that it's important to show up. Duh. As such the Kekambas' winning ways are completely their own doing, with very little to no help from Conor. It's staggering how director Brian Robbins and screenwriter John Gatins adapted a book (by Daniel Coyle) about little league coaching by completely erasing just about all trace of the practice.
So _Hardball_ becomes one of those films where the African-Americans make life better for the white man with little to no return, and the balance is thrown even further with one especially manipulative late-inning turn. But Robbins starts making mawkish far earlier than that; any occurrence that can make the slightest tug at a heartstring, such as a player not getting a team T-shirt, is accompanied by a maudlin score cue. The young cast is instructed to pout for maximum effect whenever not hammering home their characters' single defining quality, e.g. one player has to wear headphones and listen to "Big Poppa" while pitching (hence setting the stage for Reeves' rickety renditions); one kid who is actually too young to play nonetheless listens to Conor's sage advice by showing up for every game and practice.
Reeves has turned in awful performances for top-notch directors such as Francis Ford Coppola and Kenneth Branagh, so it's no shock that he doesn't do any better for a hack like Robbins. What is surprising is that Robbins appears to have given Reeves complete free reign, for Conor is prone to Keanu-isms that you see the star doing at awards shows and in interviews: the constant head bobbing, the arm-waving. Reeves is also still a block o' balsa when it comes time to show emotion, whether during the sappiness of the final stretch or in the afterthought of a romantic subplot between Conor and a schoolteacher (Diane Lane, wasted again). Yet as tempting as it is to pin _Hardball_'s failure on Reeves, fault must go to the shockingly untalented Robbins, who, after _Varsity_Blues_ and _Ready_to_Rumble_, continues his streak of wretched sports-tinged movies. It figures that "Hardball"'s big lesson is about the importance of showing up, for obviously the _Head_of_the_Class_ alum owes his directing career to being at the right place at the right time. Who the hell knows wherever and whenever that may have been, but it's certainly a moment in time cursed by true film fans everywhere.
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Laravel Homestead
- Introduction
- Installation & Setup
- Daily Usage
- Debugging & Profiling
- Network Interfaces
- Extending Homestead
- Updating Homestead
- Provider Specific Settings
Introduction
Laravel strives to make the entire PHP development experience delightful, including your local development environment. Vagrant provides a simple, elegant way to manage and provision Virtual Machines.
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. No more worrying about messing up your operating system! Vagrant boxes are completely disposable. If something goes wrong, you can destroy and re-create the box in minutes!
Homestead runs on any Windows, Mac, or Linux system, and includes the Nginx web server, PHP 7.3, PHP 7.2, PHP 7.1, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, Node, and all of the other goodies you need to develop amazing Laravel applications.
{note} If you are using Windows, you may need to enable hardware virtualization (VT-x). It can usually be enabled via your BIOS. If you are using Hyper-V on a UEFI system you may additionally need to disable Hyper-V in order to access VT-x.
Included Software
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Git
- PHP 7.3
- PHP 7.2
- PHP 7.1
- Nginx
- Apache (Optional)
- MySQL
- MariaDB (Optional)
- lmm for MySQL or MariaDB database snapshots
- Sqlite3
- PostgreSQL
- Composer
- Node (With Yarn, Bower, Grunt, and Gulp)
- Redis
- Memcached
- Beanstalkd
- Mailhog
- Neo4j (Optional)
- MongoDB (Optional)
- Elasticsearch (Optional)
- avahi
- ngrok
- Xdebug
- XHProf / Tideways / XHGui
- wp-cli
- Zend Z-Ray
- Go
- Minio
Installation & Setup
First Steps
Before launching your Homestead environment, you must install VirtualBox, VMWare, Parallels or Hyper-V as well as Vagrant. All of these software packages provide easy-to-use visual installers for all popular operating systems.
To use the VMware provider, you will need to purchase both VMware Fusion / Workstation and the VMware Vagrant plug-in. Though it is not free, VMware can provide faster shared folder performance out of the box.
To use the Parallels provider, you will need to install Parallels Vagrant plug-in. It is free of charge.
Because of Vagrant limitations, The Hyper-V provider ignores all networking settings.
Installing The Homestead Vagrant Box
Once VirtualBox / VMware and Vagrant have been installed, you should add the laravel/homestead
box to your Vagrant installation using the following command in your terminal. It will take a few minutes to download the box, depending on your Internet connection speed:
vagrant box add laravel/homestead
If this command fails, make sure your Vagrant installation is up to date.
Installing Homestead
You may install Homestead by cloning the repository onto your host machine. Consider cloning the repository into a Homestead
folder within your "home" directory, as the Homestead box will serve as the host to all of your Laravel projects:
git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git ~/Homestead
You should check out a tagged version of Homestead since the master
branch may not always be stable. You can find the latest stable version on the GitHub Release Page:
cd ~/Homestead
// Clone the desired release...
git checkout v8.2.0
Once you have cloned the Homestead repository, run the bash init.sh
command from the Homestead directory to create the Homestead.yaml
configuration file. The Homestead.yaml
file will be placed in the Homestead directory:
// Mac / Linux...
bash init.sh
// Windows...
init.bat
Configuring Homestead
Setting Your Provider
The provider
key in your Homestead.yaml
file indicates which Vagrant provider should be used: virtualbox
, vmware_fusion
, vmware_workstation
, parallels
or hyperv
. You may set this to the provider you prefer:
provider: virtualbox
Configuring Shared Folders
The folders
property of the Homestead.yaml
file lists all of the folders you wish to share with your Homestead environment. As files within these folders are changed, they will be kept in sync between your local machine and the Homestead environment. You may configure as many shared folders as necessary:
folders:
- map: ~/code
to: /home/vagrant/code
If you are only creating a few sites, this generic mapping will work just fine. However, as the number of sites continue to grow, you may begin to experience performance problems. This problem can be painfully apparent on low-end machines or projects that contain a very large number of files. If you are experiencing this issue, try mapping every project to its own Vagrant folder:
folders:
- map: ~/code/project1
to: /home/vagrant/code/project1
- map: ~/code/project2
to: /home/vagrant/code/project2
To enable NFS, you only need to add a simple flag to your synced folder configuration:
folders:
- map: ~/code
to: /home/vagrant/code
type: "nfs"
{note} When using NFS on Windows, you should consider installing the vagrant-winnfsd plug-in. This plug-in will maintain the correct user / group permissions for files and directories within the Homestead box.
You may also pass any options supported by Vagrant's Synced Folders by listing them under the options
key:
folders:
- map: ~/code
to: /home/vagrant/code
type: "rsync"
options:
rsync__args: ["--verbose", "--archive", "--delete", "-zz"]
rsync__exclude: ["node_modules"]
Configuring Nginx Sites
Not familiar with Nginx? No problem. The sites
property allows you to easily map a "domain" to a folder on your Homestead environment. A sample site configuration is included in the Homestead.yaml
file. Again, you may add as many sites to your Homestead environment as necessary. Homestead can serve as a convenient, virtualized environment for every Laravel project you are working on:
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my-project/public
If you change the sites
property after provisioning the Homestead box, you should re-run vagrant reload --provision
to update the Nginx configuration on the virtual machine.
Hostname Resolution
Homestead publishes hostnames over mDNS
for automatic host resolution. If you set hostname: homestead
in your Homestead.yaml
file, the host will be available at homestead.local
. MacOS, iOS, and Linux desktop distributions include mDNS
support by default. Windows requires installing Bonjour Print Services for Windows.
Using automatic hostnames works best for "per project" installations of Homestead. If you host multiple sites on a single Homestead instance, you may add the "domains" for your web sites to the hosts
file on your machine. The hosts
file will redirect requests for your Homestead sites into your Homestead machine. On Mac and Linux, this file is located at /etc/hosts
. On Windows, it is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
. The lines you add to this file will look like the following:
<IP_ADDRESS> homestead.test
Make sure the IP address listed is the one set in your Homestead.yaml
file. Once you have added the domain to your hosts
file and launched the Vagrant box you will be able to access the site via your web browser:
http://homestead.test
Launching The Vagrant Box
Once you have edited the Homestead.yaml
to your liking, run the vagrant up
command from your Homestead directory. Vagrant will boot the virtual machine and automatically configure your shared folders and Nginx sites.
To destroy the machine, you may use the vagrant destroy --force
command.
Per Project Installation
Instead of installing Homestead globally and sharing the same Homestead box across all of your projects, you may instead configure a Homestead instance for each project you manage. Installing Homestead per project may be beneficial if you wish to ship a Vagrantfile
with your project, allowing others working on the project to vagrant up
.
To install Homestead directly into your project, require it using Composer:
composer require laravel/homestead --dev
Once Homestead has been installed, use the make
command to generate the Vagrantfile
and Homestead.yaml
file in your project root. The make
command will automatically configure the sites
and folders
directives in the Homestead.yaml
file.
Mac / Linux:
php vendor/bin/homestead make
Windows:
vendor\\bin\\homestead make
Next, run the vagrant up
command in your terminal and access your project at http://homestead.test
in your browser. Remember, you will still need to add an /etc/hosts
file entry for homestead.test
or the domain of your choice if you are not using automatic hostname resolution.
Installing MariaDB
If you prefer to use MariaDB instead of MySQL, you may add the mariadb
option to your Homestead.yaml
file. This option will remove MySQL and install MariaDB. MariaDB serves as a drop-in replacement for MySQL so you should still use the mysql
database driver in your application's database configuration:
box: laravel/homestead
ip: "<IP_ADDRESS>"
memory: 2048
cpus: 4
provider: virtualbox
mariadb: true
Installing MongoDB
To install MongoDB Community Edition, update your Homestead.yaml
file with the following configuration option:
mongodb: true
The default MongoDB installation will set the database username to homestead
and the corresponding password to secret
.
Installing Elasticsearch
To install Elasticsearch, add the elasticsearch
option to your Homestead.yaml
file and specify a supported version, which may be a major version or an exact version number (major.minor.patch). The default installation will create a cluster named 'homestead'. You should never give Elasticsearch more than half of the operating system's memory, so make sure your Homestead machine has at least twice the Elasticsearch allocation:
box: laravel/homestead
ip: "<IP_ADDRESS>"
memory: 4096
cpus: 4
provider: virtualbox
elasticsearch: 6
{tip} Check out the Elasticsearch documentation to learn how to customize your configuration.
Installing Neo4j
Neo4j is a graph database management system. To install Neo4j Community Edition, update your Homestead.yaml
file with the following configuration option:
neo4j: true
The default Neo4j installation will set the database username to homestead
and corresponding password to secret
. To access the Neo4j browser, visit http://homestead.test:7474
via your web browser. The ports 7687
(Bolt), 7474
(HTTP), and 7473
(HTTPS) are ready to serve requests from the Neo4j client.
Aliases
You may add Bash aliases to your Homestead machine by modifying the aliases
file within your Homestead directory:
alias c='clear'
alias ..='cd ..'
After you have updated the aliases
file, you should re-provision the Homestead machine using the vagrant reload --provision
command. This will ensure that your new aliases are available on the machine.
Daily Usage
Accessing Homestead Globally
Sometimes you may want to vagrant up
your Homestead machine from anywhere on your filesystem. You can do this on Mac / Linux systems by adding a Bash function to your Bash profile. On Windows, you may accomplish this by adding a "batch" file to your PATH
. These scripts will allow you to run any Vagrant command from anywhere on your system and will automatically point that command to your Homestead installation:
Mac / Linux
function homestead() {
( cd ~/Homestead && vagrant $* )
}
Make sure to tweak the ~/Homestead
path in the function to the location of your actual Homestead installation. Once the function is installed, you may run commands like homestead up
or homestead ssh
from anywhere on your system.
Windows
Create a homestead.bat
batch file anywhere on your machine with the following contents:
@echo off
set cwd=%cd%
set homesteadVagrant=C:\Homestead
cd /d %homesteadVagrant% && vagrant %*
cd /d %cwd%
set cwd=
set homesteadVagrant=
Make sure to tweak the example C:\Homestead
path in the script to the actual location of your Homestead installation. After creating the file, add the file location to your PATH
. You may then run commands like homestead up
or homestead ssh
from anywhere on your system.
Connecting Via SSH
You can SSH into your virtual machine by issuing the vagrant ssh
terminal command from your Homestead directory.
But, since you will probably need to SSH into your Homestead machine frequently, consider adding the "function" described above to your host machine to quickly SSH into the Homestead box.
Connecting To Databases
A homestead
database is configured for both MySQL and PostgreSQL out of the box. For even more convenience, Laravel's .env
file configures the framework to use this database out of the box.
To connect to your MySQL or PostgreSQL database from your host machine's database client, you should connect to <IP_ADDRESS>
and port 33060
(MySQL) or 54320
(PostgreSQL). The username and password for both databases is homestead
/ secret
.
{note} You should only use these non-standard ports when connecting to the databases from your host machine. You will use the default 3306 and 5432 ports in your Laravel database configuration file since Laravel is running within the virtual machine.
Database Backups
Homestead can automatically backup your database when your Vagrant box is destroyed. To utilize this feature, you must be using Vagrant 2.1.0 or greater. Or, if you are using an older version of Vagrant, you must install the vagrant-triggers
plug-in. To enable automatic database backups, add the following line to your Homestead.yaml
file:
backup: true
Once configured, Homestead will export your databases to mysql_backup
and postgres_backup
directories when the vagrant destroy
command is executed. These directories can be found in the folder where you cloned Homestead or in the root of your project if you are using the per project installation method.
Database Snapshots
Homestead supports freezing the state of MySQL and MariaDB databases and branching between them using Logical MySQL Manager. For example, imagine working on a site with a multi-gigabyte database. You can import the database and take a snapshot. After doing some work and creating some test content locally, you may quickly restore back to the original state.
Under the hood, LMM uses LVM's thin snapshot functionality with copy-on-write support. In practice, this means that changing a single row in a table will only cause the changes you made to be written to disk, saving significant time and disk space during restores.
Since lmm
interacts with LVM, it must be run as root
. To see all available commands, run sudo lmm
inside your Vagrant box. A common workflow looks like the following:
- Import a database into the default
master
lmm branch. - Save a snapshot of the unchanged database using
sudo lmm branch prod-YYYY-MM-DD
. - Modify the database.
- Run
sudo lmm merge prod-YYYY-MM-DD
to undo all changes. - Run
sudo lmm delete <branch>
to delete unneeded branches.
Adding Additional Sites
Once your Homestead environment is provisioned and running, you may want to add additional Nginx sites for your Laravel applications. You can run as many Laravel installations as you wish on a single Homestead environment. To add an additional site, add the site to your Homestead.yaml
file:
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my-project/public
- map: another.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/another/public
If Vagrant is not automatically managing your "hosts" file, you may need to add the new site to that file as well:
<IP_ADDRESS> homestead.test
<IP_ADDRESS> another.test
Once the site has been added, run the vagrant reload --provision
command from your Homestead directory.
Site Types
Homestead supports several types of sites which allow you to easily run projects that are not based on Laravel. For example, we may easily add a Symfony application to Homestead using the symfony2
site type:
sites:
- map: symfony2.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my-symfony-project/web
type: "symfony2"
The available site types are: apache
, apigility
, expressive
, laravel
(the default), proxy
, silverstripe
, statamic
, symfony2
, symfony4
, and zf
.
Site Parameters
You may add additional Nginx fastcgi_param
values to your site via the params
site directive. For example, we'll add a FOO
parameter with a value of BAR
:
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my-project/public
params:
- key: FOO
value: BAR
Environment Variables
You can set global environment variables by adding them to your Homestead.yaml
file:
variables:
- key: APP_ENV
value: local
- key: FOO
value: bar
After updating the Homestead.yaml
, be sure to re-provision the machine by running vagrant reload --provision
. This will update the PHP-FPM configuration for all of the installed PHP versions and also update the environment for the vagrant
user.
Configuring Cron Schedules
Laravel provides a convenient way to schedule Cron jobs by scheduling a single schedule:run
Artisan command to be run every minute. The schedule:run
command will examine the job schedule defined in your App\Console\Kernel
class to determine which jobs should be run.
If you would like the schedule:run
command to be run for a Homestead site, you may set the schedule
option to true
when defining the site:
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my-project/public
schedule: true
The Cron job for the site will be defined in the /etc/cron.d
folder of the virtual machine.
Configuring Mailhog
Mailhog allows you to easily catch your outgoing email and examine it without actually sending the mail to its recipients. To get started, update your .env
file to use the following mail settings:
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=localhost
MAIL_PORT=1025
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
Once Mailhog has been configured, you may access the Mailhog dashboard at http://localhost:8025
.
Configuring Minio
Minio is an open source object storage server with an Amazon S3 compatible API. To install Minio, update your Homestead.yaml
file with the following configuration option:
minio: true
By default, Minio is available on port 9600. You may access the Minio control panel by visiting http://homestead:9600/
. The default access key is homestead
, while the default secret key is secretkey
. When accessing Minio, you should always use region us-east-1
.
In order to use Minio you will need to adjust the S3 disk configuration in your config/filesystems.php
configuration file. You will need to add the use_path_style_endpoint
option to the disk configuration, as well as change the url
key to endpoint
:
's3' => [
'driver' => 's3',
'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
'endpoint' => env('AWS_URL'),
'use_path_style_endpoint' => true
]
Finally, ensure your .env
file has the following options:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=homestead
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=secretkey
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_URL=http://homestead:9600
To provision buckets, add a buckets
directive to your Homestead configuration file:
buckets:
- name: your-bucket
policy: public
- name: your-private-bucket
policy: none
Supported policy
values include: none
, download
, upload
, and public
.
Ports
By default, the following ports are forwarded to your Homestead environment:
- SSH: 2222 → Forwards To 22
- ngrok UI: 4040 → Forwards To 4040
- HTTP: 8000 → Forwards To 80
- HTTPS: 44300 → Forwards To 443
- MySQL: 33060 → Forwards To 3306
- PostgreSQL: 54320 → Forwards To 5432
- MongoDB: 27017 → Forwards To 27017
- Mailhog: 8025 → Forwards To 8025
- Minio: 9600 → Forwards To 9600
Forwarding Additional Ports
If you wish, you may forward additional ports to the Vagrant box, as well as specify their protocol:
ports:
- send: 50000
to: 5000
- send: 7777
to: 777
protocol: udp
Sharing Your Environment
Sometimes you may wish to share what you're currently working on with coworkers or a client. Vagrant has a built-in way to support this via vagrant share
; however, this will not work if you have multiple sites configured in your Homestead.yaml
file.
To solve this problem, Homestead includes its own share
command. To get started, SSH into your Homestead machine via vagrant ssh
and run share homestead.test
. This will share the homestead.test
site from your Homestead.yaml
configuration file. You may substitute any of your other configured sites for homestead.test
:
share homestead.test
After running the command, you will see an Ngrok screen appear which contains the activity log and the publicly accessible URLs for the shared site. If you would like to specify a custom region, subdomain, or other Ngrok runtime option, you may add them to your share
command:
share homestead.test -region=eu -subdomain=laravel
{note} Remember, Vagrant is inherently insecure and you are exposing your virtual machine to the Internet when running the
share
command.
Multiple PHP Versions
Homestead 6 introduced support for multiple versions of PHP on the same virtual machine. You may specify which version of PHP to use for a given site within your Homestead.yaml
file. The available PHP versions are: "7.1", "7.2" and "7.3" (the default):
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/my-project/public
php: "7.1"
In addition, you may use any of the supported PHP versions via the CLI:
php7.1 artisan list
php7.2 artisan list
php7.3 artisan list
Web Servers
Homestead uses the Nginx web server by default. However, it can install Apache if apache
is specified as a site type. While both web servers can be installed at the same time, they cannot both be running at the same time. The flip
shell command is available to ease the process of switching between web servers. The flip
command automatically determines which web server is running, shuts it off, and then starts the other server. To use this command, SSH into your Homestead machine and run the command in your terminal:
flip
Homestead includes the Postfix mail transfer agent, which is listening on port 1025
by default. So, you may instruct your application to use the smtp
mail driver on localhost
port 1025
. Then, all sent mail will be handled by Postfix and caught by Mailhog. To view your sent emails, open http://localhost:8025 in your web browser.
Debugging & Profiling
Debugging Web Requests With Xdebug
Homestead includes support for step debugging using Xdebug. For example, you can load a web page from a browser, and PHP will connect to your IDE to allow inspection and modification of the running code.
To enable debugging, run the following commands inside your Vagrant box:
sudo phpenmod xdebug
# Update this command to match your PHP version...
sudo systemctl restart php7.3-fpm
Next, follow your IDE's instructions to enable debugging. Finally, configure your browser to trigger Xdebug with an extension or bookmarklet.
{note} Xdebug causes PHP to run significantly slower. To disable Xdebug, run
sudo phpdismod xdebug
within your Vagrant box and restart the FPM service.
Debugging CLI Applications
To debug a PHP CLI application, use the xphp
shell alias inside your Vagrant box:
xphp path/to/script
Autostarting Xdebug
When debugging functional tests that make requests to the web server, it is easier to autostart debugging rather than modifying tests to pass through a custom header or cookie to trigger debugging. To force Xdebug to start automatically, modify /etc/php/7.#/fpm/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini
inside your Vagrant box and add the following configuration:
; If Homestead.yml contains a different subnet for the IP address, this address may be different...
xdebug.remote_host = <IP_ADDRESS>
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
Profiling PHP Performance Using XHGui
XHGui is a user interface for exploring the performance of your PHP applications. To enable XHGui, add xhgui: 'true'
to your site configuration:
sites:
-
map: your-site.test
to: /home/vagrant/code/web
type: "apache"
xhgui: 'true'
If the site already exists, make sure to run vagrant provision
after updating your configuration.
To profile a web request, add xhgui=on
as a query parameter to a request. XHGui will automatically attach a cookie to the response so that subsequent requests do not need the query string value. You may view your application profile results by browsing to http://your-site.test/xhgui
.
To profile a CLI request using XHGui, prefix the command with XHGUI=on
:
XHGUI=on path/to/script
CLI profile results may be viewed in the same way as web profile results.
Note that the act of profiling slows down script execution, and absolute times may be as much as twice as real-world requests. Therefore, always compare percentage improvements and not absolute numbers. Also, be aware the execution time includes any time spent paused in a debugger.
Since performance profiles take up significant disk space, they are deleted automatically after a few days.
Network Interfaces
The networks
property of the Homestead.yaml
configures network interfaces for your Homestead environment. You may configure as many interfaces as necessary:
networks:
- type: "private_network"
ip: "<IP_ADDRESS>"
To enable a bridged interface, configure a bridge
setting and change the network type to public_network
:
networks:
- type: "public_network"
ip: "<IP_ADDRESS>"
bridge: "en1: Wi-Fi (AirPort)"
To enable DHCP, just remove the ip
option from your configuration:
networks:
- type: "public_network"
bridge: "en1: Wi-Fi (AirPort)"
Extending Homestead
You may extend Homestead using the after.sh
script in the root of your Homestead directory. Within this file, you may add any shell commands that are necessary to properly configure and customize your virtual machine.
When customizing Homestead, Ubuntu may ask you if you would like to keep a package's original configuration or overwrite it with a new configuration file. To avoid this, you should use the following command when installing packages to avoid overwriting any configuration previously written by Homestead:
sudo apt-get -y \
-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" \
-o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" \
install your-package
Updating Homestead
You can update Homestead in a few simple steps. First, you should update the Vagrant box using the vagrant box update
command:
vagrant box update
Next, you need to update the Homestead source code. If you cloned the repository you can run the following commands at the location you originally cloned the repository:
git fetch
git checkout v8.2.0
These commands pull the latest Homestead code from the GitHub repository, fetches the latest tags, and then checks out the latest tagged release. You can find the latest stable release version on the GitHub releases page.
If you have installed Homestead via your project's composer.json
file, you should ensure your composer.json
file contains "laravel/homestead": "^8"
and update your dependencies:
composer update
Finally, you will need to destroy and regenerate your Homestead box to utilize the latest Vagrant installation. To accomplish this, run the following commands in your Homestead directory:
vagrant destroy
vagrant up
Provider Specific Settings
VirtualBox
natdnshostresolver
By default, Homestead configures the natdnshostresolver
setting to on
. This allows Homestead to use your host operating system's DNS settings. If you would like to override this behavior, add the following lines to your Homestead.yaml
file:
provider: virtualbox
natdnshostresolver: off
Symbolic Links On Windows
If symbolic links are not working properly on your Windows machine, you may need to add the following block to your Vagrantfile
:
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
v.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root", "1"]
end


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The protesters took to the streets again and barricaded the road with burning tyres and rocks.
by Enver WesselsMBOMBELA – Elandshoek residents protested again from 17:30 to about 22:50 last night, according to TRAC spokesman, Solange Soares.
The protests were sparked by the death of a community member, Thomas Sibanyoni (42), in police custody after he was detained by police following a domestic dispute.
Angry residents blamed the police for Sibanyoni’s death and blockaded the road on Wednesday for about five hours.
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Soares confirmed that the road was not damaged after Wednesday’s protest action, which affected the Montrose and Schoemanskloof intersection.
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Original Survivor Fan Favorite Rudy Boesch Dies at 91
by Associated PressRudy Boesch, a retired tough-as-nails Navy SEAL and fan favorite on the inaugural season of Survivor, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91.
He died peacefully Friday night in hospice care in Virginia Beach, Virginia, surrounded by loved ones, said Steve Gonzalez, director of operations for the Seal Veterans Foundation.
Boesch joined the Navy in 1944 and became one of the first SEALs in 1962. He served two combat tours during the Vietnam War, earning a Bronze Star for heroism, and retired from the Navy in 1990 as a master chief petty officer. Before his retirement, Boesch was honored as “Chief SEAL,” or “Bullfrog.” The title marks his time as the longest-serving SEAL still on active duty. He remained involved after he left the Navy, serving on the board of directors of the UDT Seal Association.
“He was a legend in the Seal teams long before Survivor,” Gonzalez said. “Rudy was beloved by all and will be deeply missed.”
At 72, Boesch was the oldest contestant ever on the CBS show, taking third place the first year, 2000, on Survivor: Borneo. He proved so popular as a no-nonsense but loveable character that he was invited back for the eighth season, Survivor: All Stars.
During the first season, Boesch was a close ally of the winner, Richard Hatch.
Boesch’s wife of 53 years, Marjorie Thomas, died in 2008. They have three daughters. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced Saturday.


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The Alignment Problem
I recently read a book entitled “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian. The book motivates the readers by pointing out Google’s open source blog (“Learning the meaning behind words.”) out by saying that today’s computers cannot understand human language.
Both electronic and hard copies are available on amazon.
As we discussed earlier in our previous posts, we can categorize machine learning methods into three groups: 1) unsupervised learning, 2) supervised learning, and 3) reinforcement learning. The model Google trained over many newspapers and the Internet was based on “unsupervised learning.” Indeed, the model tried to find numerical representations (vectors) for words. Based on these vectors, the relationship between “Beijing” and “China” should be similar to “Tehran” and “Iran,” etc.
In November 2015, Tolga Bolukbasi, his advisor, and Adam Kalai from Microsoft research found out the following phenomena:
$$ \text{doctor-man+woman=nurse} $$
And:
$$ \text{shopkeeper-man+woman=housewife} $$
Something should be fixed here. This book is about machine learning and human values, including formal/informal interviews over four years.
Neural networks were first proposed in 1944 by Warren McCullough and Walter Pitts, two University of Chicago researchers who moved to MIT in 1952 as founding members of what’s sometimes called the first cognitive science department. In 1958 Frank Rosenblatt built a machine called Perceptron with a camera. The device could differentiate between a bunch of flashcards with small squares located either on the right or left. The perceptron’s initial weights were random, and the outputs were nonsense. Whenever the machine guesses wrong, Rosenblatt adjusts the weights (i.e., $200\times 200 =400$ features and weights). Minsky and Papert in 1969 published a book named “Perceptrons” and showed that Rosenblatt’s machine couldn’t perform some essential operations like differentiating odd versus even squares in a card. They said the machine needs a further layer. Minsky said: “There have been several thousand papers published on perceptrons up to 1969. Our book put a stop to those.”
Late 1980 and early 1990, Yann Lecun, Hinton’s former postdoc, designed a machine to identify handwritten digits 0 to 9 (remember this is a supervised learning problem).
At the time, it was understood that we could learn anything via multiple layers of neural networks with enough training data and computer resources.
Hinton later emphasized that: “our labeled data are thousands of times small.”
In 2005 Amazon launched the “Mechanical Turk” service that helps to build massive datasets with human labor.
Between 2007 and 20010 Fei-Fei Li, a Professor at Princeton, generated a mountain of labeled images, ImageNet, on a scale of millions.
Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever 2012 built a neural network with 650,000 artificial neurons arranged into eight layers and 600 million adjustable weights and ranked first in Stanford’s ImageNet challenge.
Alex was able to use GPUs to train these machines with parallel computations.
In 2015 Jacky Alice noticed a photo labeling feature from Google that labeled him and his friend not as humans because of their skin tone. A day after, Google completely removed the feature, and still, some labels are hard to write. The issue was not due to the algorithm (i.e., stochastic gradient descent). It was because of the data we feed to machines. Even in the film and photography industry, “Shield Cards” were used for decades as color-balance benchmarks, and Shirley Page’s white family heavily influenced it. Kodak company resolved the issue due to complaints from furniture and chocolate companies between 1960 and 1970 and not necessarily based on human rights movements. In 2014 Moritz Hard argued how big data are unfair as we have small examples for minorities. These training data are usually called Shirley cards of 21st century.
In 2007 a group from UMass Amherst released Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) from online news articles. In 2014, Hu Han and Anil Jain analyzed the dataset and found $77%$ male and $83%$ white. The dataset contains more than twice as many images of George W. Bush as all Black women combined. Buolamwini from MIT considered the limitations of this dataset and the government’s IJB-A dataset. She and Gebru developed a new one from the parliaments of 6 nations (precisely balanced in skin and gender), and it’s arguably the most diverse machine-learning dataset assembled to date.
Similar biases also exist in language models, as we discussed earlier word embedding. In 2015 Amazon’s recruiting system used a word embedding-based design to rank candidates. The model gave negative scores for the word “women” and all-women colleges, for instance. Engineers noticed that the model was assigning positive scores to seemingly all vocabulary choices—for example, words like “executed” and “captured”—more prevalent among male resumes than female ones. Tolga Bolukbasi and Adam Kalai developed a word embedding where the default model was returning doctor − man + woman as a nurse, the system now said the physician. The Mechanical Turk workers had reported that 19% of the original model’s gender analogies reflected gender stereotypes; of the new, debased model’s analogies, only 6% were judged to reflect stereotypes. Bolukbasi from Google later argued that it is possible that a system that deletes the gender dimension entirely —even for such fundamentally gendered terms as “he” and “she”— may result in fairer outcomes.
A group later developed a test: (“Meredith,” “Heather,”) or a pleasant word (“lucky,” “gift”). A prevalently Black name (“Latonya,” “Shavonn”) or an unpleasant word (“poison,” “grief”). (“White name”) or an unpleasant word. People were quick in the first two but slow in the last question. A team of computer scientists at Princeton—postdoc Aylin Caliskan and professors Joanna Bryson and Arvind Narayanan— found that the human reaction time is due to the distance between words.
Indeed, uncareful deployment of these models might produce a the feedback loop from which recovery becomes ever more complex or requires ever-greater interventions.
Chapter 2: Fairness
Heidi Burgess is working on justice and fairness. Burgess writes. “Human behavior is subject to some degree of predictability.
In 2016 Burgess and her team published “Machine Bias”: “There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals”. Despite initial problems with predictors and their impact on the software’s accuracy, COMPAS was able to predict pretty among different groups.
Over time, the public discussion shifted from privacy to fairness, and everything that used to look like a privacy problem suddenly looked like a fairness problem.”


CKRefreshControl 0.0.1 Reference
CKRefreshControl
Open source 100% API-compatible replacement for UIRefreshControl
, supporting iOS 5.0+
Using it is as simple as this:
UITableViewController *controller;
CKRefreshControl *refreshControl = [CKRefreshControl new];
[refreshControl addTarget:self action:@selector(doRefresh:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventValueChanged];
controller.refreshControl = (id)refreshControl;
API Compatible
CKRefreshControl has exactly the same public API as UIRefreshControl. Thus, your code can treat either one as an instance of the other. Just use CKRefreshControl instead of UIRefreshControl everywhere, and you’ll magically get iOS 5 support.
We take advantage of this to provide excellent iOS 6 compatibility. When running on an iOS 6 device, [CKRefreshControl init]
actually returns a UIRefreshControl
instance. No CKRefreshControl is ever initialized, and everything will work exactly as if CKRefreshControl did not even exist.
You can even use the +appearance
proxies introduced in iOS 5.0; CKRefreshControl will appropriately forward the customizations to UIRefreshControl on iOS 6.
There is only one minor inconvenience. The [UITableViewController setRefreshControl:]
method in iOS 6 accepts a UIRefreshControl *
parameter. Although CKRefreshControl is API compatible with UIRefreshControl, it is not a subclass (so it can be used on iOS 5). Thus, the compiler does not know that CKRefreshControl can be used as a UIRefreshControl. Thus, you must add an explicit cast to avoid a compiler warning. This is completely safe.
Appearance
CKRefreshControl intentionally does not mimic the iOS 6 UIRefreshControl look and feel. Instead, it was designed to look more like the other pull-to-refresh controls commonly used in iOS 5 apps. Thus, whether the user is running iOS 5 or iOS 6, they get an interface that fits in with other apps on the device.
Despite the difference in interface between iOS 5 and iOS 6, CKRefreshControl supports the same properties UIRefreshControl does.
Why the name?
CKRefreshControl was originally part of our internal “CanvasKit” library, used in building Instructure’s iOS apps.
But does it work?
Yes! Instructure is using it in shipping code with no problems. That said, if you find a bug, please let us know and we’ll make it work.
License
CKRefreshControl, and all the accompanying source code, is released under the MIT license. You can see the full text of the license in the accompanying LICENSE.txt file.


“Yadāhaṁ dhammamassosiṁ,
bhāsamānassa satthuno;
Na kaṅkhamabhijānāmi,
sabbaññūaparājite.
When I heard the Teacher
speaking Dhamma,
I wasn’t aware of any doubt
in the all-knowing, unconquered one,
Satthavāhe mahāvīre,
sārathīnaṁ varuttame;
Magge paṭipadāyaṁ vā,
kaṅkhā mayhaṁ na vijjatī”ti.
… Meḷajino thero ….
the caravan leader, the great hero,
the most excellent of charioteers.
I have no doubt
in the path or practice.


DriveBuild
Research
You can find me on https://steinbrecher.bayern.Installation
Examples
FAQ
What are movement modes?
Movement modes control the behavior of vehicles in the simulation.
The mode MANUAL makes a vehicle strictly follow a list of points.
It drives from position to position as precise as possible recognizing target speeds and speed limits.
But it ignores any lanes, obstacles or other participants.
The mode AUTONOMOUS makes a vehicle request an user defined AI which has to control the vehicle on its own.
Therefore this mode allows to request data about the state of a vehicle, its sensors or (for checking additional test criteria) the environment.
The mode TRAINING is a combination of MANUAL and AUTONOMOUS.
In this mode a vehicle drives as it would be in mode MANUAL but it also makes requests to a dummy AI which can collect all kinds of data as in mode AUTONOMOUS.
Any control commands which the dummy AI sends are ignored by DriveBuild.
The mode _BEAMNG is a special type of TRAINING mode.
In contrast to the mode TRAINING this mode utilizes the BeamNG.AI which has perfect knowledge about all lanes and thus has perfect lane keeping capabilities.
So in this mode it is sufficient to specify a goal position where the vehicle has to head to.
Still a vehicle does not consider any obstacles or other participants.
The mechanism of collecting training data is the same as in mode TRAINING.


In the left-hand pane the OSCA node is displayed - it currently has no CAs defined. In the right-hand pane is the list of Actions that are available - the only possible Action is to enter Admin Mode. The central pane is used to display information about certificates and profiles (it will be populated once you have defined a CA).
Entry into admin mode requires a password - this is the password you set during the installaton of the snapin. You can change this password from within Admin Mode


Round
Current Player: 1
Dice:
Current Accumulated Score:
Total Score Player 1:
Total Score Player 2:
Final Score Player 1:
Final Score Player 2:


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#include <SearchDesc.h>
Collaboration diagram for WFAPI::SearchDesc:
Public Member Functions | |
| SearchDesc (const WFString &name, wf_uint32 headingID, wf_uint32 topRegionID, const WFString &imageName) | |
| virtual | ~SearchDesc () |
| const WFString & | getName () const |
| wf_uint32 | getHeadingID () const |
| wf_uint32 | getTopRegionID () const |
| const WFString & | getImageName () const |
| WFAPI::SearchDesc::SearchDesc | ( | const WFString & | name, | |
| wf_uint32 | headingID, | |||
| wf_uint32 | topRegionID, | |||
| const WFString & | imageName | |||
| ) |
Constructor.
| name | The name of the heading. | |
| headingID | The identification id of this heading. | |
| topRegionID | The specific top region for this heading, WF_MAX_UINT32 if not limited to a specific top region. | |
| imageName | The image for this heading. |
| virtual WFAPI::SearchDesc::~SearchDesc | ( | ) | [virtual] |
Destructor.
| wf_uint32 WFAPI::SearchDesc::getHeadingID | ( | ) | const |
Get the id.
| const WFString& WFAPI::SearchDesc::getImageName | ( | ) | const |
Get the image name.
| const WFString& WFAPI::SearchDesc::getName | ( | ) | const |
Get the name.
| wf_uint32 WFAPI::SearchDesc::getTopRegionID | ( | ) | const |
Get the topRegionID.


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The Commons Mobile App is a community maintained app that makes it easy to upload your pictures to Wikimedia Commons. The app can be installed on any Android device and uses your Commons user account to upload photos.
F-Droid page Google Play pageJoin one of the largest photo and multimedia communities in the world. Commons is not only the image repository for Wikipedia, but an independent project that seeks to document the world with photos, videos and recordings.
The community organizes many annual events and contests, such as Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. By using the app you can easily take pictures when you come across a landmark that might be missing a picture, requires a different angle, or has not been photographed for a while.
Join CommonsYou can upload your pictures anywhere you have time. For example during the bus ride home from a photo trip.
The app shows all the uploads you made to Commons. This is a great way to easily view your contributions.
The app lets you view nearby missing images. This way you help out Wikipedia to have images for all articles, and you will discover beautiful places close to you.
Assign categories to your photos, which makes them easier for other people to find.
Installing and using the app is easy:
The following guidelines will help you to understand what photos the community is looking for. There is flexibility in these guidelines and they don't cover all cases. If you are unsure, just upload your photo and discuss it with the community.


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BitShares blockchain implementation and command-line interface software
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This class represents an account on the object graphAccounts are the primary unit of authority on the graphene system. Users must have an account in order to use assets, trade in the markets, vote for committee_members, etc. More...
#include <account_object.hpp>
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| bool | has_special_authority () const |
| template<typename DB > | |
| const vesting_balance_object & | cashback_balance (const DB &db) const |
| bool | is_lifetime_member () const |
| bool | is_basic_account (time_point_sec now) const |
| bool | is_annual_member (time_point_sec now) const |
| bool | is_member (time_point_sec now) const |
| Public Member Functions inherited from graphene::db::abstract_object< account_object, protocol_ids, account_object_type > | |
| abstract_object () | |
| object_id< SpaceID, TypeID > | get_id () const |
| Public Member Functions inherited from graphene::db::base_abstract_object< account_object > | |
| std::unique_ptr< object > | clone () const override |
| void | move_from (object &obj) override |
| fc::variant | to_variant () const override |
| std::vector< char > | pack () const override |
| Public Member Functions inherited from graphene::db::object | |
| object ()=default | |
| object (uint8_t space_id, uint8_t type_id) | |
| virtual | ~object ()=default |
Public Attributes | |
| time_point_sec | membership_expiration_date |
| account_id_type | registrar |
| The account that paid the fee to register this account. Receives a percentage of referral rewards. More... | |
| account_id_type | referrer |
| The account credited as referring this account. Receives a percentage of referral rewards. More... | |
| account_id_type | lifetime_referrer |
| The lifetime member at the top of the referral tree. Receives a percentage of referral rewards. More... | |
| uint16_t | network_fee_percentage = GRAPHENE_DEFAULT_NETWORK_PERCENT_OF_FEE |
| Percentage of fee which should go to network. More... | |
| uint16_t | lifetime_referrer_fee_percentage = 0 |
| Percentage of fee which should go to lifetime referrer. More... | |
| uint16_t | referrer_rewards_percentage = 0 |
| string | name |
| The account's name. This name must be unique among all account names on the graph. May not be empty. More... | |
| authority | owner |
| authority | active |
| account_options | options |
| uint16_t | num_committee_voted |
| Pre-calculated for better performance on chain maintenance. More... | |
| account_statistics_id_type | statistics |
| flat_set< account_id_type > | whitelisting_accounts |
| flat_set< account_id_type > | blacklisting_accounts |
| optional< vesting_balance_id_type > | cashback_vb |
| special_authority | owner_special_authority = no_special_authority() |
| special_authority | active_special_authority = no_special_authority() |
| uint8_t | top_n_control_flags = 0 |
| optional< flat_set< asset_id_type > > | allowed_assets |
| uint32_t | creation_block_num = 0 |
| The block number when the account was created. More... | |
| time_point_sec | creation_time |
| The time when the account was created. More... | |
| set< account_id_type > | whitelisted_accounts |
| set< account_id_type > | blacklisted_accounts |
| Public Attributes inherited from graphene::db::object | |
| object_id_type | id |
Static Public Attributes | |
| static const uint8_t | top_n_control_owner = 1 |
| static const uint8_t | top_n_control_active = 2 |
| Static Public Attributes inherited from graphene::db::abstract_object< account_object, protocol_ids, account_object_type > | |
| static constexpr uint8_t | space_id |
| static constexpr uint8_t | type_id |
This class represents an account on the object graph
Accounts are the primary unit of authority on the graphene system. Users must have an account in order to use assets, trade in the markets, vote for committee_members, etc.
Definition at line 180 of file account_object.hpp.
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| authority graphene::chain::account_object::active |
The owner authority contains the hot keys of the account. This authority has control over nearly all operations the account may perform.
Definition at line 220 of file account_object.hpp.
| special_authority graphene::chain::account_object::active_special_authority = no_special_authority() |
Definition at line 268 of file account_object.hpp.
| optional< flat_set<asset_id_type> > graphene::chain::account_object::allowed_assets |
This is a set of assets which the account is allowed to have. This is utilized to restrict buyback accounts to the assets that trade in their markets. In the future we may expand this to allow accounts to e.g. voluntarily restrict incoming transfers.
Definition at line 283 of file account_object.hpp.
| set<account_id_type> graphene::chain::account_object::blacklisted_accounts |
Definition at line 250 of file account_object.hpp.
| flat_set<account_id_type> graphene::chain::account_object::blacklisting_accounts |
This is a set of all accounts which have 'blacklisted' this account. Blacklisting is only used in core validation for the purpose of forbidding accounts from holding and transacting in whitelisted assets. This account cannot update this set, and it will be preserved even if the account is transferred. Other accounts may add or remove their IDs from this set.
Definition at line 260 of file account_object.hpp.
| optional<vesting_balance_id_type> graphene::chain::account_object::cashback_vb |
Vesting balance which receives cashback_reward deposits.
Definition at line 265 of file account_object.hpp.
| uint32_t graphene::chain::account_object::creation_block_num = 0 |
The block number when the account was created.
Definition at line 286 of file account_object.hpp.
| time_point_sec graphene::chain::account_object::creation_time |
The time when the account was created.
Definition at line 288 of file account_object.hpp.
| account_id_type graphene::chain::account_object::lifetime_referrer |
The lifetime member at the top of the referral tree. Receives a percentage of referral rewards.
Definition at line 198 of file account_object.hpp.
| uint16_t graphene::chain::account_object::lifetime_referrer_fee_percentage = 0 |
Percentage of fee which should go to lifetime referrer.
Definition at line 203 of file account_object.hpp.
| time_point_sec graphene::chain::account_object::membership_expiration_date |
The time at which this account's membership expires. If set to any time in the past, the account is a basic account. If set to time_point_sec::maximum(), the account is a lifetime member. If set to any time not in the past less than time_point_sec::maximum(), the account is an annual member.
See is_lifetime_member, is_basic_account, is_annual_member, and is_member
Definition at line 191 of file account_object.hpp.
| string graphene::chain::account_object::name |
The account's name. This name must be unique among all account names on the graph. May not be empty.
Definition at line 209 of file account_object.hpp.
| uint16_t graphene::chain::account_object::network_fee_percentage = GRAPHENE_DEFAULT_NETWORK_PERCENT_OF_FEE |
Percentage of fee which should go to network.
Definition at line 201 of file account_object.hpp.
| uint16_t graphene::chain::account_object::num_committee_voted |
Pre-calculated for better performance on chain maintenance.
Definition at line 225 of file account_object.hpp.
| account_options graphene::chain::account_object::options |
Definition at line 222 of file account_object.hpp.
| authority graphene::chain::account_object::owner |
The owner authority represents absolute control over the account. Usually the keys in this authority will be kept in cold storage, as they should not be needed very often and compromise of these keys constitutes complete and irrevocable loss of the account. Generally the only time the owner authority is required is to update the active authority.
Definition at line 217 of file account_object.hpp.
| special_authority graphene::chain::account_object::owner_special_authority = no_special_authority() |
Definition at line 267 of file account_object.hpp.
| account_id_type graphene::chain::account_object::referrer |
The account credited as referring this account. Receives a percentage of referral rewards.
Definition at line 196 of file account_object.hpp.
| uint16_t graphene::chain::account_object::referrer_rewards_percentage = 0 |
Percentage of referral rewards (leftover fee after paying network and lifetime referrer) which should go to referrer. The remainder of referral rewards goes to the registrar.
Definition at line 206 of file account_object.hpp.
| account_id_type graphene::chain::account_object::registrar |
The account that paid the fee to register this account. Receives a percentage of referral rewards.
Definition at line 194 of file account_object.hpp.
| account_statistics_id_type graphene::chain::account_object::statistics |
The reference implementation records the account's statistics in a separate object. This field contains the ID of that object.
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| uint8_t graphene::chain::account_object::top_n_control_flags = 0 |
This flag is set when the top_n logic sets both authorities, and gets reset when authority or special_authority is set.
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| set<account_id_type> graphene::chain::account_object::whitelisted_accounts |
Optionally track all of the accounts this account has whitelisted or blacklisted, these should be made Immutable so that when the account object is cloned no deep copy is required. This state is tracked for GUI display purposes.
TODO: move white list tracking to its own multi-index container rather than having 4 fields on an account. This will scale better because under the current design if you whitelist 2000 accounts, then every time someone fetches this account object they will get the full list of 2000 accounts.
Definition at line 249 of file account_object.hpp.
| flat_set<account_id_type> graphene::chain::account_object::whitelisting_accounts |
This is a set of all accounts which have 'whitelisted' this account. Whitelisting is only used in core validation for the purpose of authorizing accounts to hold and transact in whitelisted assets. This account cannot update this set, except by transferring ownership of the account, which will clear it. Other accounts may add or remove their IDs from this set.
Definition at line 237 of file account_object.hpp.


LNL provides lighting for a variety of events with our inventory of professional grade equipment. We illuminate all sorts of events including full on dance parties, stage performances, live bands, receptions, outdoor gatherings, and large robotics competitions! The equipment we own includes a variety of conventional, LED, and arc lamp fixtures which enable our members to be creative in their lighting design! Highlights include several pairs of moving head spot and LED wash fixtures, wireless uplights, and over 100 conventional Source Four fixtures. We also have a variety of lighting consoles to control them, ranging from small analog consoles to large and complex consoles in the EOS and HOG families. Now if all that sounds like a bunch of jibberish, come help out at one of our events and we will be happy to explain everything. We also encourage you to checkout our upcoming workshops!
Learn moreLens and Lights does numerous sound events on campus! They range from smaller events like providing a wireless microphone for a speaker, to a Capella shows and music on the quad, to full blown robotics competitions like BattleCry at WPI. We have several different speakers, mics, consoles and more which we use to create the best event possible! If you've ever been interested in learning how sound can go from a device like your phone out to some of these larger speakers, feel free to stop by a sound event and we will show you the ropes (...and the cables)!
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Official cancels gift settlement given by parents
by Special CorrespondentSivakasi
Sivakasi Sub-Collector C. Dinesh Kumar on Thursday cancelled a gift settlement given by parents to four of their children for not taking care of them.
The Sub-Collector who also heads the Revenue Divisional level Tribunal under Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, issued the order after four of the five children refused to take care of the aged parents — M. Subbiah and Muthammal, 84.
A statement said that the couple had given a complaint to the tribunal on August 19 seeking cancellation of the gift settlement given by them to four of the five children. The couple had held seven acres of land.
However, even as the hearing was under way, the aged father passed away. “The children had refused to take care of the parents despite the father suffered a fracture on his hip,” the Sub-Collector said.
Meanwhile, as the children showed an indifferent attitude even during the hearing, the tribunal cancelled the gift settlement.
The tribunal also asked the children to hand over the property to the mother.


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| const VegaBumpCollection & | getInputBumps () const |
| std::vector< Real > | derivativesVolatility (Size j) const |
| std::vector< Real > | onePercentBump (Size j) const |
| const Matrix & | getAllOnePercentBumps () const |
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| bool | allComputed_ |
| std::vector< std::vector< Real > > | derivatives_ |
| std::vector< std::vector< Real > > | onePercentBumps_ |
| Matrix | bumpMatrix_ |
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Fitbit reports a 12per cent fall in revenue
Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc reported its first drop in revenue in five quarters on Wednesday as it faced intense competition from deeper-pocket companies such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , underscoring challenges for buyer Alphabet Inc's Google.
REUTERS: Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc reported its first drop in revenue in five quarters on Wednesday as it faced intense competition from deeper-pocket companies such as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , underscoring challenges for buyer Alphabet Inc's Google.
The company's net loss widened to US$51.9 million, or 20 cents per share, in the third quarter ended Sept. 28, from US$2.1 million, or 1 cent per share, a year earlier.
Revenue fell 11.7per cent to US$347.2 million.
(Reporting by Amal S in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)


Stormzy announces 2020 world tour
Stormzy has announced a 55-date world tour for 2020.
The grime star will start his Heavy Is The Head (h.i.t.h.) tour in Dubai in February, with his final concert due to be in Africa in October.
The tour will also mark his solo debut at London’s 02 Arena, where he is due to put on two performances, on September 3 and 4.
The dates will also mark the first time he has done a London-based solo gig since a performance at Brixton Academy in 2017.
Stormzy, real name Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr, will perform across Europe, and will also take to the stage in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
His African shows, his first on the continent, include a performance in his homeland, Ghana.
In early November, the 26-year-old announced the title of his second album (Heavy Is The Head), which will be released on December 13.
The 16-track record will include three previously released tracks – Wiley Flow, Crown and Vossi Bop – as well as unreleased songs such as Super Heroes, Handsome and Rachael’s Little Brother.
He has also collaborated with close friend Ed Sheeran and Nigerian singer Burna Boy on the track Own It.
In December he will perform at Capital’s Jingle Bell Ball, capping off a stellar year which also saw him headline the Glastonbury Festival.


Antoine Griezmann's former advisor pessimistic about his future at Barca
Griezmann has struggled to make a mark at Barcelona so far
by Sport ENEric Olhats, Antoine Griezmann's former representative, told RMC that he wouldn't have advised him to sign for Barcelona and doesn't think he has a promising future there.
"There's surely a cause and effect with his actions and the experience he's having at Barcelona at this moment. He's in a new situation, on the wing, and not playing at the top of the team. For that he needs to look for new reference points in his game."
The player's advisor said: "If he had been under my charge, I don't thinnk that he would have been so crazy to sign for Barcelona."
He added that he told Griezmann to succeed he should "play in a position that suited him, but I'm not Valverde, nor do I know what he planned for him or what he told him when he was going to sign. I'm a bit sad about the situation. I knew that it would be difficult for Griezmann. I feel they sold him a project where he was going to get a position fitting his qualities and linked with Messi, but things haven't gone as planned.
"I know that the problem isn't in his temperament or in his way of being, he will always try to be the most conciliatory possible. Maybe he needs to return to play in his previous position instead of on the wing."


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