THE TIGGER MOVIE A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2000 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): ***
In Disney's THE TIGGER MOVIE, Tigger is busily searching for a tree, but not just any tree. Hoping to be united with other tiggers, he's looking high and low in the Hundred Acre Wood in hopes of discovering his family tree.
In a world in which every kid's movie works hard to morph into a full-fledged family movie by blending Woody Allen adult humor with STAR WARS special effects, THE TIGGER MOVIE is a delightful throwback to a simpler time -- a time when every kid's movie didn't feel obligated to throw in vague sexual innuendoes and transparent bathroom humor and a time when the animation didn't look like it was prepared on computers sophisticated enough for nuclear weapons simulation.
This charming little picture, based on the beloved A. A. Milne children's books, sets itself a modest goal of entertaining a crowded room full of squirming youngsters and attains it admirably.  The more amazing part of the simple story is the pleasant effect that it has on the adults. Without a single line that they can call their own, the old fogies in the audience will find themselves just as touched by these wonderfully sweet characters.
Granted, not a lot happens in the movie, but the drawings are handsome and the characters compelling and lively. Tigger, voiced by Jim Cummings, who also does the voice of Winnie the Pooh, does what tiggers do best, which is lots of bouncing. A high-spirited and good-spirited character, Tigger is a character who deserves his own movie.
Tigger's a funny guy who says some of his precious old lines ("TTFN: Ta-Ta For Now.") and some new ones. Among the latter, a particularly good example has Tigger describing his little buddy Roo as "lacking in the perpendicular."
The gorgeous animation uses picture book images rather than realism in the drawing. This gives the movie a lush look that reminds you of illustrated books from your childhood. The movie sometimes comes back to the book itself and lets the drawings on the pages come alive.
Among the show's other delights is a song-and-dance dream sequence featuring rows of tiggers performing in everything from chorus lines to synchronized swimming.
The message of the film is an old-fashioned one lifted straight out of the WIZARD OF OZ: There's no place like home. Tigger realizes that his friends are his family. Like the rest of the movie, it's a sweet and simple theme, which is delivered with understated delicacy.
THE TIGGER MOVIE runs just 1:16. It is rated G and has nothing to offend or frighten anyone of any age.
My son Jeffrey, age 10, gave the film *** and remarked that it would be great for all ages. He couldn't think of anything he didn't like about it. His cousin William, age 5, loved the picture, giving it ****. His favorite part was when the avalanche hit. William's sister, Liana, age 3, doesn't talk much. At her first theatrical movie, she was clearly fascinated. On the edge of her seat through most of the picture, she stared in big-eyed delight at it.
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DROWNING MONA **1/2 (out of four stars) A review by Jamey Hughton
Starring-Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck and William Fichtner Director-Nick Gomez Canadian Rating-PG Released by Destination Films - 03/00
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`Drowning Mona', an oddball black comedy cocooned inside of a murder mystery, is the second star-laden comedy feature to be released this week.  Both movies fail to reach the initial promise indicated by their hilarious cast and premise, but one of those two components still buoys the bubbly `Drowning Mona' to a docile altitude that makes it difficult to dislike.
First off, let's discuss the premise. A `horrible tragedy' has blindsided the denizens of Verplanck, New York - a small town labeled as the `Yugo capital of the world'. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), possibly the most reprehensible woman to ever live, has driven her Yugo off a cliffside and drowned in the Hudson River. Upon closer inspection, it appears that Mona's brake-line was tampered with and her fateful plunge into the water was no accidental incident. But everyone in town is a suspect, because even Mona's closest relatives thought she was a miserable wench.
I know. It sounds pretty grim. But then there's the real fundamental element of `Drowning Mona': the cast, which foams relentlessly with comic talent and adds a cheery loft of innocent gullibility to the shady proceedings. Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) and daughter Ellen (Neve Campbell) are among the only mentally competent residents in town - save for Ellen's sweety-pie fiancee Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck). William Fichtner (`Go') is Mona's careless husband Phil, who is having a secretive affair with Rona the waitress (Jamie Lee Curtis), while one-handed son Jeff (newcomer Marcus Thomas) ceaselessly pesters Bobby about their mutual landscaping business.  While you may believe the film has its bearings set on a scathing black comedy, the strangely innocent appeal of the multi-talented cast dilutes the darkened formula while emitting a sunny charm. Resistance of succumbing to the saccharine sweetness of `Drowning Mona' is futile.
There is plenty of frustration and lost chances afoot as well. As written by Peter Steinfeld, `Drowning Mona' has its share of lame, unfunny comic tedium. There's even a scene in which we are intended to feel sympathy for the Mona, which generates an awkward and cumbersome sensation of guilt for the viewer. Steinfeld's script could have certainly used some `There's Something About Mary'-esque edge and a dash more of maniacal energy, but the film still has its moments. Like air pockets of hilarity across a deserted terrain, these wry little instances of clever humor maintain the giddy playfulness of `Drowning Mona'. It wasn't funny half the time, but I was still chuckling throughout. Just pin this guilty pleasure on the diverse cast, who - from the outrageously brash Midler to the jubilantly nonchalant Fichtner - are white trash in top-form.
Director Nick Gomez shoots the film much like a smaller, independent feature - not surprising, given that is his regular field. This approach is effective, although it lacks the pizzazz to carry a comic ensemble piece of this caliber overall. Another saving grace is Steinfeld's use of well-distributed punchlines. For instance, when the police have just informed Jeff that his mother has driven off a cliff while driving his car, his immediate response is `What was she doing with my car?' In a zany, off-kilter sort of way, this type of subtle lunacy is what keeps the leaky foundation of `Drowning Mona' afloat. It's not the intriguing murder-mystery portion or the zestful tidbits of black comedy... the charming little touches help thread this film together. It's interesting that, in the midst of a puzzling homicide and other gruesome developments, all you can remember is that a character uses `Wheel of Fortune' as foreplay, and another puts ketchup on pickles. That's `Drowning Mona' for you.
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This track was produced as part of the ENCODE Transcriptome Project and shows the starts and ends of full-length mRNA transcripts determined by Gene Identification Signature (GIS) paired-end ditag (PET) sequencing using RNA extracts from different sub-cellular localizations in different cell lines. Short tags used in GIS-PET sequencing provide signatures of the 5' start and the 3' end of individual mRNA transcripts, thus demarcating the first and last exon, and contain enough coding information to map the tags uniquely to the genome, in turn making it possible to identify unconventional fusion transcripts. These 5' and 3' paired-end tags extracted by restriction enzyme are ligated together to form a ditag for sequencing, where the 3' end includes two adenine bases from the polyA tail thereby reducing the relative amount of unique sequence. The RNA-PET information provided in this track is composed of two different PET length versions based on how the PETs were extracted using different restriction enzymes. The cloning-based PET method (18 bp and 16 bp for each of the 5' and 3' ends) is an earlier version (Ng et al., 2006). While the cloning-free PET approach (27 bp and 25 bp for each of the 5' and 3' ends) is a recently modified version which uses Type III restriction enzyme EcoP15I to generate a longer length of PET (Ruan and Ruan, 2012), which results in a significant enhancement in both library construction and mapping efficiency. Both versions of PET templates were sequenced by Illumina platform at 2 x 36 bp paired-end sequencing. See the Methods and References sections below for more details.
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Cells were grown according to the approved ENCODE cell culture protocols. Two different GIS RNA-PET protocols were used to generate the full-length transcriptome PETs: one is based on a cloning-free RNA-PET library construction and sequencing strategy (Ruan and Ruan, 2012), and the other is a cloning-based library construction (Ng et al., 2005) and recent Illumina paired-end sequencing.
Method: The cloning-free RNA-PET libraries were generated from polyA mRNA samples and constructed using a recently modified GIS protocol (Ruan and Ruan, 2012). High quality total RNA was used as starting material and purified with a MACs polyT column to obtain full-length polyA mRNAs. Approximately 5 µgrams of enriched polyA mRNA was used for reverse transcription to convert polyA mRNA to full-length cDNA. Specific linker sequences were ligated to the full-length cDNA. The modified cDNA was circularized by ligation generating circular cDNA molecules. The 27 bp tag from each end of the full-length cDNA was extracted by type III enzyme EcoP15I digestion. The resulting PETs were ligated with sequencing adaptors at both ends, amplified by PCR, and further purified as complex templates for paired-end sequencing using Illumina platforms.
Data: The sequenced RNA-PETs resulted in reads of 27 bp and 25 bp corresponding to the 5' and 3' end of each cDNA, respectively. Redundant and noisy reads were excluded from downstream analysis. Strand-specific orientation of each PET was determined using the barcode built into the sequencing template. The oriented RNA-PET was mapped onto the reference genome allowing up to two mismatches. The majority of the PETs mapped to known transcripts. A small portion of misaligned PETs, defined as discordant PETs, mapped too far from each tag, with wrong orientations, or to different chromosomes. These discordant PETs indicated the existence of some transcription variants that could be caused by genomic structural variants such as fusions, deletions, insertions, inversions, tandem repeats, translocations or RNA trans-splicing etc.
Method: The cloning-based RNA-PET (GIS-PET) libraries were generated from polyA RNA samples and constructed using the protocol described by Ng et al., 2005. Total RNA in good quality was used as starting material and further purified with a MACs polyT column to enrich polyA mRNA. Approximately 10 µgrams of polyA enriched mRNA was reverse transcribed resulting in full-length cDNA. The obtained full-length cDNA was modified with specific linker sequences and ligated to a GIS-developed (pGIS4) vector. The resulting plasmids form a complex full-length cDNA library, which was cloned into E. coli. The plasmid DNA was then isolated from the library, followed by MmeI (a type II enzyme) digestion to generate a final length of 18 bp/16 bp ditags from each end of the full-length cDNA. The single ditag (or PET) was then ligated to form a diPET structure (a concatemer with two unrelated PET linked by a linker sequence) to facilitate Illumina paired-end sequencing.
Data:Sequencing of clone-based RNA-PETs resulted in paired reads of 18 bp and 16 bp corresponding to the 5' and 3' end of each cDNA, respectively. The redundant reads were filtered out and unique reads were included for analysis. PET sequences were then mapped to (GRCh37, hg19, excluding mitochondrion, haplotypes, randoms and chromosome Y) reference genome using the following specific criteria (Ruan et al., 2007):
PETs mapping to 2-10 locations are also included and may represent duplicated genes or pseudogenes in the genome. A majority of the PETs mapped to known transcripts or splice variants. A small portion of misaligned PETs, defined as discordant PETs, mapped either too far from each other, in the wrong orientation, or to different chromosomes. The presence of discordant PETs indicates that some transcriptional variants exist. These variants could be caused by genomic structural variants such as fusions, deletions, insertions, inversions, tandem repeats, translocation or RNA trans-splicing etc.
PETs were clustered using the following procedure. The mapping location of the 5' and 3' tag of a given PET was extended by 100 bp in both directions creating 5' and 3' search windows. If the 5' and 3' tags of a second PET mapped within the 5' and 3' search window of the first PET then the two PETs were clustered and the search windows were adjusted so that they contained the tag extensions of the second PET. PETs which subsequently mapped with their 5' and 3' tags within the adjusted 5' and 3' search window, respectively, were also assigned to this cluster and the search window was readjusted. This iterative process continued until no new PETs fell within the search window. This process is repeated until all PETs were assigned to a cluster.
The total count of PET sequences mapped to the same locus but with slight nucleotide differences may reflect the expression level of the transcripts. PETs that mapped to multiple locations may represent low complexity or repetitive sequences.
To assess overall PET quality and mapping specificity, the top ten most abundant PET clusters that mapped to well-characterized known genes were examined. Over 99% of the PETs represented full-length transcripts, and the majority fell within 10 bp of the known 5' and 3' boundaries of these transcripts. The PET mapping was further verified by confirming the existence of physical cDNA clones represented by the ditags. PCR primers were designed based on the PET sequences and amplified the corresponding cDNA inserts either from full-length cDNA library (cloning-based PET) or from isolated total RNA (cloning-free PET) for sequencing confirmation.
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The GIS RNA-PET libraries and sequence data for transcriptome analysis were generated and analyzed by scientists Xiaoan Ruan, Atif Shahab, Chialin Wei, and Yijun Ruan at the Genome Institute of Singapore.
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Ng P, Tan JJ, Ooi HS, Lee YL, Chiu KP, Fullwood MJ, Srinivasan KG, Perbost C, Du L, Sung WK, et al., Multiplex sequencing of paired-end ditags (MS-PET): a strategy for the ultra-high-throughput analysis of transcriptomes and genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006;34:e84.
Ng P, Wei CL, Sung WK, Chiu KP, Lipovich L, Ang CC, Gupta S, Shahab A, Ridwan A, Wong CH, et al., Gene identification signature (GIS) analysis for transcriptome characterization and genome annotation. Nat Methods. 2005;2:105-111.
Ng P, Wei CL, Ruan Y, Paired-end diTagging for transcriptome and genome analysis. Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2007 Jul 21.12.
Ruan Y, Ooi HS, Choo SW, Chiu KP, Zhao XD, Srinivasan KG, Yao F, Choo CY, Liu J, Ariyaratne P, et al., Fusion transcripts and transcribed retrotransposed loci discovered through comprehensive transcriptome analysis using Paired-End diTags (PETs). Genome Res. 2007;17:828-838.
Ruan X and Ruan Y, Genome wide full-length transcript analysis using 5' and 3' paired-end-tag next generation sequencing (RNA-PET). Methods Mol Biol. 2012;809:535-62.
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It was a normal friday and I had nothing to do, and decided (after much concideration) to take some small amount of AMT. I've taken this substance serveral times before so I feel that I can handle the effects very well. My experiences with psychedelics have always been good, never had a bad trip because I felt I have control over my feelings and mentality. And during times when I feel bad inside I never take anything, because that could mess things up more.  I live with a roommate that was out drinking beer at the moment, so I was alone.
 At around 9pm (t+2.00) i decieded to take some more AMT and smoke
some hits of hasch from my bong. The amount of AMT I took that time was really low, it was around 20mg. I didn't want to take anymore because I've read reports on erowid.org that have gone really bad after they've 'boosted' their trip with 50mg or something like that.
After 4-5 hits from the bong I returned to my business in waiting for the AMT to go into trip-mode. I think it was around 10.00pm (t+3.00) when I walked to the kitchen to get myself something to drink and that is where it all started to go really bad. The effects of the hasch had really come on and I was really confused. The hallucinations were everywhere, but that was not any problem. I felt like there was a really long delay between my mind sending signals to the body to move. If I wanted to move my arms, they moved after 2-3 seconds (atleast that is what i thought). At this moment I didn't know what to think, I almost didn't know my name. I tried to do things that I've read when you have a bad trip.
I sat in my bed with a blanket wrapped around me, trying to repeat my name and my occupation. Just talked to myself. Trying to relax, but I couldn't. The speedy part in AMT was still in effect and it was hard just trying to relax. I recognized my apartment, I knew it was mine, but I was so confused I really couldn't tell where I was. When I stood still for like a second I felt this void in my mind. A feeling I can't really describe, but it felt like I was trapped in time. Like time had frozen. So I had to move, watching movement around me. I turned on the TV, turned on a radiochannel only playing 70's soul/disco and 80's pop (almost happy music all the time). I wanted to turn this trip around, but suddenly
I felt that this was not an option I had.
At around 10.30pm (t+3.30) I decided to get out for a walk. There's a nice island around 200 meters from my apartment, and I like being there. Just watching the boats passing and watching the beautiful sky, getting relaxed. Before I left I took 30mg of Tryptizol - a SSRI with a calming effects - just to cool me down and feel a bit of joy. I get this from my doctor because I could have a neurologic disease which I inherited from my mother. Its calming effects was what I was after, because I've taken it before after my AMT-trips and felt restored to baseline. (No headache and such nasty aftereffects that AMT can bring).
During my walk to the island I had to keep looking to the side of myself because when I moved forward I could suddenly get that feeling that time stood still and I didn't move (even though i did). I had my headphones on me listening to calming music and they were of great help, but at times I had to take them off because the confusing state I was in. Repretive music just helped that void feeling.
People I past during my walk to the island was scary. I was really paranoid when they all looked at me. I felt like I was shouting 'HELLO! I AM THE GUY WHO'S HAVING A BAD TRIP!' and they looked at me really suspicus. But I wasn't saying anything, it was just normal paranoia. I began to get into thoughts about death, about being a neurotic, about not being able to understand. When I got to the island I tried to walk through some bushes standing there, and I didn't know that I was going to wrong way. I tried to go through the bushes until I couldn't move so I decided to take another route. At last I found a place I sometimes sit at, and sat down, trying to relax. But I couldn't. I sat there for 5 minutes and went home.
Back at home I really had to talk to someone, I was so scared even though I knew that I was taking a drug that was psychedelic.  It was now around 11.30pm (+4.30h) and I called a good friend of mine who was still awake and I told him I felt bad, and we just talked about normal stuff which I couldn't understand. I was really spaced out and wondered if I had really lost my mind for real. But it was nice to have someone to talk to, though that when I talked I didn't know what I was talking about. My mouth had gone into some automatic talking mode. I just wanted everything to go back to baseline.
After a while talking to him for a while my roommate comes home and I had to explain for him that I was having a bad trip. He was a bit drunk but understood me in some way and respected that I was feeling bad. My friend on the phone had to go and my roommate took over his role as caretaker. I had to hug him and feel that he existed, because just being close to another person in my current condition was a good feeling. After a while he fell asleep and I went to my bed and laid down to draw some paintings. On the paper I wrote some sentences like, 'I'm confused', 'HELP! HELP! HELP', 'this is a warning, next time -> down', 'i got all the questions, but i get no answers'. But it was really relaxing.
It was now around 12.30pm (t+5.30) and I began to feel a bit better, and it was a very calming feeling, to begin the slide down to baseline. I began to understand things again, could talk to people and understand them. It was aruond then I got the thought that 'I'm a human again, and feel that being normal is one of the best feelings that exist'.

At 5am (t+10.00) I took some sleeping pills to get to sleep and they got into effect at 7am (t+12.00) and i fell asleep, and slept really good (atleast for 5 hours). During the next day I went to the movies and back home, and slept. And during the night from sunday to monday I felt strange I my head, I couldn't sleep, I had to analyze everything, I began to feel the same feeling I had during the trip (just so afraid to have a flashback). So I took some Tryptizol and managed to sleep again...
It's now 72 hours since I took AMT and I've got around 24 hours of sleep. I have a bit of a headache but nothing serious. I'm still a bit scared that a flashback may occure, though it's not that strong. I feel alot more social than I did before. I can talk to people without my social phobic scare me away. Being normal is quite nice :).
I learned a lesson this weekend, and that is that your mental health is just as important as your physical one. Taking too much of a psychedelic substance can do nasty things with me. I wont take too much, I will be satisfied of what I get when tripping, I will wait for the effects to kick in before taking anything more. I wont think 'oh damn, i'm not feeling anything'. I will wait. I will respect the drug I take. It does powerful things that I can't even imaging. and I WONT.. take it too often.
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‘Restore land to Zilla Grandhalaya soon’
E.A.S. Sarma sends e-mail to Chief Secretary
by Special CorrespondentFormer bureaucrat E.A.S. Sarma has urged Chief Secretary Nilam Sawhney to direct the district administration to identify an alternative land for the CRPF battalion near the Prahalada Prayer Hall and hand over the land belonging to Visakhapatnam Zilla Grandhalaya (VZG).
In an e-mail sent to Ms. Sawhney, Mr. Sarma said that about one acre of land at a central location in the city was allotted to the VZG for construction of a library building.
“The VZG has adequate funds to set up the library. However, some political leaders misguided the government and tried to grab the land. In the wake of vehement opposition from people, the government finally dropped the idea of alienating the land to private parties and agreed to restore it to the VZG,” Mr. Sarma pointed out.
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Meanwhile, the local authorities allowed the CRPF to temporarily use the premises. “We have been requesting the government to allot an alternate land to CRPF and allow the VZG to take up the construction of a library building there,” Mr. Sarma said in his e-mail.
Lamenting that VZG was operating from a congested rented building, Mr. Sarma wanted that the amounts collected as cess were transferred by the local authorities to the VZG immediately.


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Basic Computer Science - You should have a good grasp on theorertical concepts like binary and hexadecimal systems, data structures and algorithms and abstraction among other things.
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Programming - You need to be familar with the nooks and crannies of languages like C and C++. On top of that, good coding practices are something you have to follow for it is not okay to write inefficient software.
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Assembly - You should know about and have written code in Assembly before. If not, read a book or watch a video, then come back to this section.
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Memory - You need to know about the structure of computer memory, how data is written onto it and a lot more when you’re going to be writing code.
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UNIX/ Linux Experience - There’s a clear reason why we prefer Linux as our primary development environment. Therefore you need to be aware of how to harness the full power of the terminal as it is going to save you a lot of time.
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Emulators and Virtualizers - Tools like QEMU, VirtualBox and Bochs are something you should know about beforehand for they provide a buffer between your host and test system.
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Version Control - Writing OS code is tough and there are going to be so many iterations to your code that it’ll be hard to keep track of what change happened when and what works. You are just one typo away from system crash. Infact, Linus Torvalds built Git for the exact same reason while working on Linux. Therefore knowledge of version control is important and always has been.
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The Concepts - You need to dive deeper into how Operating Systems work before trying to build one. This going to require through knowledge of CPU architecture, compiler development, etc.
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Ability to Read the Manual - Get ready to read a whole lot of documentation because no one has the time to answer already answered questions.
There is a reason for gatekeeping in the OS Dev community for this is not a beginner task rather a huge undertaking. This is not the way you learn programming but something you do after years of experience. Therefore it is okay to postpone this project until you have checked off all the points in the above list.


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Triage Import Export Schema (TIES)¶
Overview¶
The Triage Import Export Schema (TIES) specifies a data interchange format for bidirectional sharing of data. The schema captures object items, relationships, and assertion information via a generic and flexible approach.
At its highest level, it consists of:
An array of exported multimedia object items (videos, images, documents) and associated metadata, not including the raw multimedia data
An array of groups of related object items
An array of analyst annotations relating to object items included in the export
An array of supplemental descriptions relating to object items included in the export
Relationships between object items, annotations, and supplemental descriptions
An array of key/value pairs containing user-defined metadata
License¶
Copyright 2019 Noblis, Inc
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
The above license applies to all of the Triage Import Export Schema (TIES) source code in the TIES repository.
Java Reference Implementation¶
Javadoc¶
Gradle¶
dependencies {
compile('org.noblis:ties-lib:0.9.1')
}
Maven¶
<dependency>
<groupId>org.noblis</groupId>
<artifactId>ties-lib</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>
Python Reference Implementation¶
The TIES Python reference implementation can be installed using pip:
pip install ties-lib==0.9.1
Git Repository¶
To clone the TIES Git repository:
git clone https://github.com/Noblis/ties-lib.git
Contents of the Git Repository¶
docs - github.io files
documentation - project documentation
examples - example JSON instance files
java - Java reference implementation
python - Python reference implementation
schemata - JSON schema files
scripts - Jenkins CI scripts


Joselyn Dumas goes hard on Ghana Jesus
by Qwame BenedictActress Joselyn Dumas has become the lastest person to bare teeth at Kumawood actor Justice Hymns aka Mmebusem but now known popularly as Ghana Jesus.
Her comments come after the President of Brian Jones Outreach Ministries BrianAmoateng asked that Mmebusem stop the nonsense act he is putting out mimicking Jesus Christ in his comedy videos.
“Enough of this nonsense. I don’t support this….Christian Youth of Ghana, our God cannot be mocked in the name of comedy….” he posted
While commenting under Brian’s post, Joselyn Dumas wrote:
“Thank you. We are now condoning blasphemy All in the name of comedy smh.”
See screenshot below:
Comments gathered beneath the post showed most Christians are not happy about Mmebusem’s move.


Objectives
- Learn about Kubernetes Pods.
- Learn about Kubernetes Nodes.
- Troubleshoot deployed applications.
Kubernetes Pods
When you created a Deployment in Module 2, Kubernetes created a Pod to host your application instance. A Pod is Kubernetes abstraction that represents a group of one or more application containers (such as Docker or rkt), and some shared resources for those containers. Those resources include:
- Shared storage, as Volumes
- Networking, as a unique cluster IP address
- Information about how to run each container, such as the container image version or specific ports to use
A Pod models an application-specific “logical host” and can contain different application containers which are relatively tightly coupled. For example, a Pod might include both the container with your Node.js app as well as a different container that feeds the data to be published by the Node.js webserver. The containers in a Pod share an IP Address and port space, are always co-located and co-scheduled, and run in a shared context on the same Node.
Pods are the atomic unit on the Kubernetes platform. When we create a Deployment on Kubernetes, that Deployment creates Pods with containers inside them (as opposed to creating containers directly). Each Pod is tied to the Node where it is scheduled, and remains there until termination (according to restart policy) or deletion. In case of a Node failure, identical Pods are scheduled on other available Nodes in the cluster.
Summary:
- Pods
- Nodes
- Kubectl main commands
A Pod is a group of one or more application containers (such as Docker or rkt) and includes shared storage (volumes), IP address and information about how to run them.
Pods overview
Nodes
A Pod always runs on a Node. A Node is a worker machine in Kubernetes and may be either a virtual or a physical machine, depending on the cluster. Each Node is managed by the Master. A Node can have multiple pods, and the Kubernetes master automatically handles scheduling the pods across the Nodes in the cluster. The Master's automatic scheduling takes into account the available resources on each Node.
Every Kubernetes Node runs at least:
- Kubelet, a process responsible for communication between the Kubernetes Master and the Nodes; it manages the Pods and the containers running on a machine.
- A container runtime (like Docker, rkt) responsible for pulling the container image from a registry, unpacking the container, and running the application.
Containers should only be scheduled together in a single Pod if they are tightly coupled and need to share resources such as disk.
Node overview
Troubleshooting with kubectl
In Module 2, you used Kubectl command-line interface. You'll continue to use it in Module 3 to get information about deployed applications and their environments. The most common operations can be done with the following kubectl commands:
- kubectl get - list resources
- kubectl describe - show detailed information about a resource
- kubectl logs - print the logs from a container in a pod
- kubectl exec - execute a command on a container in a pod
You can use these commands to see when applications were deployed, what their current status is, where they are running and what their configuration is.
Now that we know more about our cluster components and the command line, let’s explore our application.
A node is a worker machine in Kubernetes and may be a VM or physical machine, depending on the cluster. Multiple Pods can run on one Node.


E-Mission: Data driven carbon emission reduction
This app is designed to collect information for a research study at the
University of California, Berkeley. The study is being led by K. Shankari under the
supervision of Prof. Susan
Shaheen.
The goal of the study is to understand people’s travel behavior and mode usage
as people commute to trip generators. We will use this information to provide
you with a personalized carbon footprint for travel that can be compared with
the average carbon footprint of our users. In addition, we will use the
aggregate data to recommend structural changes and incentives that can be used
to change the mode share to one that is less carbon intensive.
We understand that location data can be sensitive, and we have taken several
precautions related to the security of your data. In particular:
- All communication with our server is encrypted.
- We divide our endpoints into ones that expose personally identifiable
information (PII) (such as your personal carbon footprint) and ones which
expose aggregate information (such as the carbon footprint of UC Berkeley). All
endpoints which expose PII have a “user” field in the request that is used for
authentication.
- We use your gmail ID for authentication in order to avoid the risks
associated with storing passwords. If you wish to remain completely anonymous,
you can create a separate gmail address only for this app.
- The trip data is associated with unique user IDs, not with the gmail addresses. The mapping from the userIDs to the gmail addresses is done through a separate table. The lead researcher (Shankari) is the only person who has access to the database, for both the trip and user access tables. Other researchers will only have access to data from the trip database, exported by the lead researcher, but without the identifying gmail addresses.
- The server on which the web app is running is protected by a firewall which only exposes the Secure Shell (SSH) and HTTPS ports - the database cannot be accessed directly from outside the host. The SSH server on the host is configured to only support public key authentication, and the only user with access to the private key for the server is the lead researcher (Shankari).
Note, however, that we integrate with a third party app - Moves - to collect the data. Moves has its own policies on data collection, privacy and storage. We communicate with Moves over SSL, using an access token for authentication.
Please note that Moves was recently acquired by Facebook, so data collected by
Moves is searchable by Facebook. You do not have to provide your Facebook ID to
use either Moves or E-Mission, so there is no explicit link between the data
collected and your Facebook identity. We communicate with Moves over SSL,
using an access token for authentication.
If you have questions
The main researcher conducting this study is K. Shankari, a graduate student in
department of EECS at University of California, Berkeley. If you have
questions, you may contact K. Shankari at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>If you
have any questions or concerns regarding your rights as a subject in this
study, you may contact the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Human
Participants at<PHONE_NUMBER> or access their website at
http://cphs.berkeley.edu/.
Acknowledgements
Shankari is honored to have been supported by the Jim Gray Fellowship for the
duration of this project. Jim
Gray, who did pioneering work on the management of large amounts of data,
disappeared while sailing in San Francisco Bay in 2007. We like to think that
this work, which aims to use large amounts of data to understand and influence
travel patterns, is something that he would have found interesting.


QPT 1.0.3 Release Notes
QPT release 1.0.3 addresses 18 issues, described below.
Release notes for the previous release are available here.
This is a somewhat half-baked release because we had some unexpected database work
that took our attention away from QPT for most of the semester. You will see a few
new features and should notice that the UI is generally smoother, and you will see
half-complete features that hint at things to
come. For instance, you can select multiple visits in the plan visualizer, but
can't drag them (yet). You can also open a plan directly from the web, but you
cannot specify a template that way (yet). There should be a follow-on release
early in 07A to complete these features.
This is a major update that will require you to re-install the entire QPT application
including the application launcher, so please read the instructions below! If you
have never installed QPT, please see Running QPT.
Upgrading to QPT 1.0.3
Step 1. Update the OSGi Launcher.
First you need to update the OSGi application launcher. These instructions assume
that you had previously installed launcher.jar
in ~/.ocs
:
$ cd ~/.ocs
$ rm launcher.jar
$ curl -O http://sbfmaps.cl.gemini.edu:9999/runtime/launcher/launcher.jar
...
$ cd
If you don't have curl
, use your web browser or wget
:
$ wget http://sbfmaps.cl.gemini.edu:9999/runtime/launcher/launcher.jar
Step 2 - Uninstall and Re-install the QPT application.
$ launcher -a:qpt -u
$ launcher -h:sbfmaps.cl.gemini.edu -i:qpt -v
You are now upgraded and can start QPT via
$ launcher -a:qpt
As always, please direct questions and comments to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and cc: the QC groups if
appropriate.
New and Notable
[IN PROGRESS: QPT-50, 84] Enhanced Selection Handling
The user interface's handling of selected objects had been greatly improved and is
now more consistent and predictable. Basically, when you click on something, all related
objects in other views will be selected, including multiple selections when
appropriate. For example, if you click on a candidate observation with mutiple split
visits scheduled, all visits will be selected in the Visits view and in the
visualizer. Problem marker selection seems to work intuitively now.
The Properties view has been enhanced to support this as well; if multiple objects are
selected, the properties view will show the properties these objects have in common.
This remains work in progress, but hopefully you will find that the UI feels more
solid.
[IN PROGRESS: QPT-40, 159] GQPT Weighting
A preliminary weighting algorithm has been added. It appears as a new column called
"Score" in the Candidate Observations list. The scores themselves are meaningful
only in the sense that a higher number reflects a higher scheduling score based
on the candidate's flags and priority; a score of 3000 does not mean that the
observation is twice as important as one with a score of 1500.
You can sort on this column if you want to experiment with this scoring system,
or simply ignore this column if it's not useful, and send me an email if
you have a specific complaint. This is very much work in progress.
[IN PROGRESS: QPT-157] New Candidate Observation Flags
Candidate observations are now annotated with the following additional flags. These
were intended mostly for use by the automatic plan filling algorithm, but may be
useful for queue coordinators as well. They appear in the Properties view but do not
affect the candidates' visual appearance in the Candidate Observations view.
SETS_EARLY
indicates that the target sets within the first three
hours of the night. This flag is an intrinsic property of the plan and will be the
same for all variants.
PARTIAL
indicates that the target is partially blocked;
i.e., there is not enough time left in the current variant to schedule all remaining
steps, but there is at least enough time available for setup + step 1. This flag
will likely change from variant to variant.
[QPT-118, 119] Cloning and Re-Ordering of Variants
The Variants view now has additional toolbar buttons to allow the user to clone
and re-order variants. Cloning a variant will add an identical copy called "Copy of
..." to the list (note that you may need to scroll down to see it). The up and
down arrows allow you to re-order variants.
[QPT-121, 170] PI Priority and Science Band in Candidate List
The Candidate Observation view now has a new column called P for PI Priority,
with single-letter values L
, M
, H
, and
T
(for Low, Medium, High, and ToO). There is also an "SB" column
for Science Band, which is from 1 through 4 (with 4 being the bad weather queue).
Other Minor and Self-Explanatory Changes
- [QPT-192] Target names in plan document are now truncated with elipsis at 20 characters.
- [QPT-191] Problem markers are now filtered by the current variant.
- [QPT-165] Elevation warning/error are now at 80° and 85°
- [QPT-156] An elevation of > 85° is no longer considered a hard constraint
violation when calculating schedulability.
- [QPT-158] Fix functor/model versioning problem. This was an internal issue
related to the Update Software command.
- [QPT-154] Published plan now uses unambiguous language in its title. "Night
of July 15 → 16", for example.
- [QPT-153] QPT now remember your site. Whenever you create a new plan, QPT will
default to the last site you used.
- [QPT-155] Browser title bar now contains the UTC date.
- [QPT-49] Visits grabbed off-center no longer jump when you begin dragging.
JIRA Release Manifest
Release Notes - Queue Planning Tool - Version 1.0.3
Bug
- [QPT-50] - Initial click doesn't always select row in table views
- [QPT-184] - RiseTransitSet fails for targets that never rise above airmass 2
Improvement
- [QPT-49] - Fix drag offset problem
- [QPT-84] - Improve marker selection
- [QPT-118] - Allow re-ordering of variants
- [QPT-119] - Allow copying of variants
- [QPT-121] - Show PI Priority in candidate list
- [QPT-153] - QPT Should Guess your Site
- [QPT-154] - Improve Date Displays in Published Plan
- [QPT-155] - UTC Date in Browser Title Bar
- [QPT-156] - Exclude > 85° from elevation constraint calc
- [QPT-157] - Add PARTIAL flag
- [QPT-158] - Fix functor/model versioning problem
- [QPT-159] - Add preliminary scoring function
- [QPT-165] - Change elevation warning to 80, error to 85+
- [QPT-170] - Add SB to candidate list
- [QPT-191] - Problems should be filtered by variant
- [QPT-192] - Truncate target names in report table


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A recursive counter for StructuredProperty deserialization. Deserialization has some complicated rules to handle StructuredPropertys that may or may not be empty. The simplest case is a leaf counter, where the counter will return the index of the repeated value that last had this leaf property written. When a non-leaf counter requested, this will return the max of all its leaf values. This is due to the fact that the next index that a full non-leaf property may be written to comes after all indices that have part of that property written (otherwise, a partial entity would be overwritten. Consider an evaluation of the following structure: -A -B -D -E -C With the properties being deserialized in the order: 1) a.b.d = z 2) a.c = y 3) a.b = None 4) a = None 5) a.b.e = x 6) a.b.d = w The counter state should be the following: a | a.b | a.b.d | a.b.e | a.c 0) 0 0 0 0 0 1) 1 1 1 0 0 2)@1 @1 1 0 1 3)@1* @1* 1 0 1 4)@1* @1* 1 0 1 5)@1* @1* 1 1 1 6)@3 @3 3 1 1 Here, @ indicates that this counter value is actually a calculated value. It is equal to the MAX of its sub-counters. Note that in the * cases, our counters actually fall behind. We cannot increase the counters when this happens because child properties have not yet been fully populated. In theses cases, we'll have to do a series of increments to catch up the counters following None deserializations.


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* unspeakable desolation pouring down from the stars *
CHAPTER TEN
A WEEK OR SO after the young rapscallion had set off on his travels, I was astonished one morning to receive a letter from my Uncle Nobby. Like the rest of the family, I had assumed he was dead. Twenty years ago, weighed down by life's travails, he had stowed away on the steamship Corrugated Cardboard, bound for Tantarabim. Engulfed by storms, the ship went down ten miles off the coast of Sprague, with - according to the newspapers - no survivors. We had held a little memorial service for him, and donated his few possessions to the St Odo Rest Home for the Bewildered and the Fraught.
Yet there could be no mistaking the authorship of the letter: it was in Uncle Nobby's curiously ham-fisted handwriting, and the paper gave off the trademark reek of spam and hair-oil which made my uncle such a trying fellow to be within ten feet of.
Dear Agamemnon, it read, I have returned to the land of my birth after two decades of quite preposterous escapades. I am staying in the Bodger's Spinney Hotel, and would very much like you to join me for breakfast on Thursday the sixteenth. Come on horseback, for I will want to purchase your steed, and will pay you well. All the best, Uncle Nobby.
I decided not to alert any other members of my family to this intriguing happenstance. Nor did I inform milady: in any case, she was so far gone in her bafflement that she would not have known what I was talking about. I was rather worried about her two sisters, who would doubtless insist on a detailed explanation for my absence, but as chance would have it they were drowned in the duckpond on the very day the letter arrived.
That was the ninth: I had a week to prepare myself to confront Uncle Nobby. This at least gave me time to nip off to the village to buy a horse, and to take some riding-lessons. I am afraid that I was a rather clumsy pupil, despite the best efforts of Hengist Grudge, my instructor, and I must have cut an ungainly figure clopping along the woodland paths to Bodger's Spinney on the evening of the fifteenth. I put up at an inn overnight, a lewd and boisterous place, where my dignified bearing, metal skull-plate, and whimsical chit-chat met with ridicule from the assembled topers, gamblers, swindlers and ruffians, so that by the time I had given my horse his suppertime oat-tub and retired to my horrible room, I had a black eye, a fractured rib, and a nasty cut on my upper lip, not to mention innumerable bruises, aches, pains and abrasions, plus an impromptu tattoo - the name Enid in blood-bruised italics, set in an arrow-spliced heart - on my left forearm. Enid?
In the middle of the night, I awoke to find a maniac carousing at the foot of my bed. Convinced that it was an hallucination, I turned over and went back to sleep.
At dawn, I awoke in a state of rancour and disgust. Limping downstairs, I was presented with breakfast. Mercifully, the riotous ne'er-do-wells of the previous night were still abed, and I had only the landlord's smirking contempt to deal with. He placed before me a dish of tongue, pig's liver and saveloys, swimming in grease, and a rusty tankard filled to the half-way mark with watered-down milk and cabbage broth. My manners deserted me. I sent both dish and tankard clattering to the floor with a single sweep of my arm, picked up a hefty club, and bashed the landlord thrice about the midriff. Then, without paying my bill, I lurched off to the stables, mounted my horse, and rode away.
This was a mistake. I had gone only a few hundred yards when, looking behind me, I saw that I was being pursued by the landlord and a posse of cut-throats. That they meant me harm was not in doubt. I spurred on my horse, but he was aged and weak, and no match for the powerful stallions ridden by my pursuers. The distance between us was closing with every second, and I was so terrified at the thought of my imminent doom that I am afraid I piddled in my pantaloons.
Then, out of nowhere, a motorbike and sidecar came hurtling towards me, screeching to a halt just as the landlord and his crew were about to draw level. The horses - including mine - reared up, frightened, but rather than stampeding away, they seemed transfixed, snorting and whinnying pitifully, as if in thrall of some nameless and intangible menace. The motorcyclist dismounted, took from his pannier a pair of folding crutches, skipped lightly round to the sidecar, and helped his passenger to clamber out of it, manoeuvering him skilfully onto the crutches. When the motorcyclist removed the safety helmet from the lame man's head, we all let out gasps of astonishment. It was Father Ninian Gumbeetle SJ, the world-famous withered Jesuit!
The landlord and his cronies at once leapt down from their horses and prostrated themselves at the misshapen feet of the priest.
"Flee," he croaked, "Go now, while you can. I will deal with these worms. I sense that you are squeamish, and what I am about to do would turn your stomach. It is best that you begone."
Balancing himself carefully, he clapped his hands to shoo my horse on its way. I dared not look back. I do not know what unutterable retribution Father Gumbeetle visited upon the heads of my pursuers, but even now I often lie awake at night, deprived of sleep, turning over in my mind the hideous possibilities.
An hour later I tied up my horse outside the Bodger's Spinney Hotel and passed through creaking oaken doors into the lobby. I was peering around in my dreamy, myopic way, when a uniformed man accosted me.
"Yes?" he shouted.
"I'm looking for the breakfast room," I said, after doing a startled little jump.
"Why?" he yelled.
"I have an appointment," I explained, "With one of the guests."
"And?" screeched my interrogator.
And what?, I thought.
"And?" he insisted, even louder.
"And, um, I'd like you to show me where I might find him," I tried.
"And?" It was blood-curdling by now. I quaked.
"And, and ... look, would you like a tip?"
Now a second person appeared. He was older, dressed in an expensive suit, had double pneumonia, and wore some sort of chain of office. The uniformed man gave a little display of bows and scrapes to indicate that this man was his superior.
"What's going on here?" asked the latter.
"This man says he's got an appointment, sir."
"An appointment?"
"In the breakfast room."
"An appointment in the breakfast room?"
"With one of the guests."
"An appointment in the breakfast room with one of the guests?"
He turned to me.
"Let me get this clear," he said evenly, weighing his words, "You're saying that you have an appointment in the breakfast room with one of the guests?"
"Yes," I replied.
"Twinge," he said, turning to the uniformed man, "Get Captain Freakpit down here right away. You," he said to me, "had better wait in the dimly-lit room at the end of the corridor. No - don't protest! We'll get this sorted out without a hint of delay. Come with me."
I followed him to a dimly-lit room at the end of the corridor. We sat facing each other in complete silence. After a while he seemed to grow restive, and reached over to a little cabinet, from which he took a flag. Draping it over his knees, he rummaged in his pockets, produced a sewing kit, and began to darn the flag, looking up at me from time to time as if to check that I was still there. Eager as I was to break the silence, I couldn't think of anything to say.
Then we heard urgent footsteps approaching along the corridor, and after an unnecessary knocking at the door, Twinge entered the room. He looked shaken.
"It's Captain Freakpit, sir," he said, "He's hanged himself."
Throwing the flag aside, the superior jumped out of his chair and dashed out of the room, making strangulated noises as if he were a seagull regurgitating food for its young. Twinge hared after him. Blinking, I decided to follow them, down the corridor, through the lobby, up a staircase, along a passage, through a connecting-room, up another staircase, along another corridor, up a step-ladder, through a hatch, into a storeroom, through a door, up yet another staircase, across a landing, up another ladder, into an attic, and there, swinging gently from the rafters, suspended by a length of Italian hemp, I saw, bug-eyed and purple, and quite, quite dead, not "Captain Freakpit", but my Uncle Nobby.
[Scrimgeour henceforth devotes several dozen pages to a mawkish valediction, of no interest whatsoever. Things liven up a bit when he pieces together his uncle's final days, hiding out in the hotel posing as Freakpit - a man he had murdered a fortnight earlier - and growing increasingly desperate as his many and various enemies close in. The author then spends an unwarrantable amount of time in fruitless conjecture as to why he, Scrimgeour, had been summoned to the hotel. Did his uncle have an important message for him? Had he left anything in his room which could shed light on the mystery? Just how much had he been intending to pay for the horse? This sort of drivel goes on for so long that one has to physically restrain oneself from plunging the book into a vat of boiling tar. Eventually, however, it perks up again when Scrimgeour rides off on his horse, heading for home...]
By mid-afternoon, my horse was growing tired, and I was ravenously hungry, and I veered off the path and made for the tiny hamlet of Mustard Parva. I hoped there to find a tavern more hospitable than the iniquitous den of the previous night. I halted outside a pretty little inn called The Rhinoceros & Buttercup, and, fixing a nosebag onto the horse, stepped warily inside. It was a vision of wonderment, a pocket of heaven on earth. My heart burst with bliss as I sat down at a dainty table. Beautiful women and handsome men thronged about me, humming angelic melodies, caressing me gently, and dabbing at last night's gashes and bruises with pads of cotton wool soaked in ointments, unguents and lotions. Plates piled high with ambrosial foodstuffs were set before me, and wherever I turned I was proferred gleaming goblets of sweet and delightful drinks. A dozen shimmering, winged creatures plucked on harps, creating an unearthly music. The place was festooned with exotic flowers, in pots and vases and hanging baskets, their rare and delicate perfumes combining to create a heady fragrance. I felt that by some strange accident I had entered upon paradise.
[Scrimgeor got a bit carried away with the adjectives in the above passage, but I thought you should get some idea of the awfulness of his prose, if only to appreciate how much I have spared you with my ruthless editing.]
Then the door crashed open, and a wretched, glowering man strode up to the bar and beat his fists upon it. The spell, if spell it was, was broken.
"I want a barrel of grog!" cried the man. Fear-struck, two of the handsome men immediately scurried down to the cellars to fetch what he wanted. He glared around at the company.
"Whose horse is that outside?" he yelled. I begged that he would not cast his eyes upon me, but my furious blushes gave me away. Coming close, thrusting his face into mine, foul-breathed, he roared, "It's yours, is it?
He let out a gurgling laugh and hoisted me to my feet. The barrel of grog was brought up from the cellars and he had it lashed to my poor horse's back.
"You lead the gee-gee," he said, "and follow me."
I had no choice but to obey, for he presented such a terrifying figure that I was sure any refusal would be met by inexplicable violence. In silence broken only by the pitiful clip-clop of my horse and by occasional belches from my tormentor, we headed away from Mustard Parva into the countryside. It began to rain.
An hour later, we came to a spinney, wherein a quartet of thin and demented outcasts were sprawled hopelessly upon a picnic-blanket, their hollow eyes fixed upon a hamper which had been heavily padlocked. They seemed oblivious to our arrival, until the ferocious-looking man shouted to them.

He took from his pocket a gigantic bunch of keys; only then did I notice that the piteous crew wore fetters, from which he now proceeded to free them, before unlocking the hamper. They fell upon the food like beasts, while their keeper dragged the barrel of grog off my horse and rolled it towards a titanic larch. He sat down and drew off a flagon's worth of grog, downing it in one. Then, as if he had only just remembered my presence, he flung a coin at me, and bid me leave, using words which delicacy forbids me from setting down here.
Sadly reflecting upon the misery of life, I was about to mount my horse when, taking a last look at the bestial picnickers, I was astonished to see a young man who I could have sworn was milady's hypochondriac son.
[That is not the worst thing Scrimgeour has to say about me in his Memoirs, so I shall let it pass.]
I looked again: it was him! As he shovelled great chunks of black pudding into his mouth, his eyes met mine. Dulled by whatever hateful calamity had befallen him, he seemed not to recognise me. Then, perhaps because I was staring at him so intently, with such astonishment, something flickered in his soul, and he raised himself up, spat out the sausage of coagulated pig's blood, and allowed himself a hesitant "Ag, Ag, Agamomenon?"
"It is you!" I cried.
"Aga. Ag? Agamemnon?"
He got it right that time. Sense was sifting back into his brain. While we stood like a couple of splinterheads batting our befuddled greetings back and forth, the keeper - or coachman, as I was later to learn was his proper title - was sinking ever more inevitably into a stupor. The grog from the Rhinoceros & Buttercup was, it seemed, laced with powerful narcotics which, having lulled the drinker into a peaceable slumber, would rattle him awake in two hours' time, and subject him to agitation, fits, breathlessness, hallucinations and death.
[Scrimgeour and I did not witness the coachman's end, more's the pity. He has taken these details from a letter I received from Mat some months later. She and Nat made a rapid recovery from their bell-ringing torments, and settled in Mustard Magna, where they took over the running of a phosphorous-candle workshop. Bam had gone completely off his head, she wrote, but they were caring for him, and hoped that he would make an eventual recovery. I never did find out what became of them all, but given the number of years that have passed, I suspect that the three of them are dead now, Mat and Nat and Bam, dead and gone and in their graves.]
I hauled the poor lad up onto my shoulders and carried him home.
[The above sentence is an abridgement of - wait for it - two hundred and forty four pages of Scrimgeour's tome. You would not believe the brain-numbing detail he thinks necessary to describe such a simple matter. Basically, he put me on the horse and led me through woodland glades, and the odd marsh, until we turned up at the mansion in time for supper.]
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OWASP is abbreviation for Open Web Application Security Project.
The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are.
1. SQL Injection
Reason
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Defense
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Defense
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Defense
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- Properly escape all untrusted data based on the HTML context
- Positive or “whitelist” input validation
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- Content Security Policy (CSP)
4. Parameter Manipulation (insecure direct object reference)
Reason
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Defense
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7. Forcible Browsing
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Defense
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8. Cross-site request forgery (XSRF)
Reason
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- Hacker must be able to make a XSRF URL, attack is blind
Defense
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- XSRF tokens, adding a secret, not automatically submitted, token to ALL sensitive requests
- Server generates a token on each page load and stores it, when submits the form, it check if the token matches
- Re-authentication
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Defense
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10. Unchecked Redirects
- URL redirects exploited by hacker
Defense
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- Server side validation, check redirect URLs, use a whitelist
Reference
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THE PIANO A film review by Roger A. Rubio Copyright 1994 Roger A. Rubio
Starring Holly Hunter, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel, and Anna Paquin Written and Directed by Jane Campion
I wanted to wait until after the Oscars to review this film, and I am glad that I did. I distinguish between the labels film and movie here with great caution, as this "piece" or "text," if you will, was a film, and *not* a movie. JURASSIC PARK was a movie; THE PIANO is a film.
Allow me to digress so that I may describe what I believe a film to be and a movie to be (before I get any flames from die-hard JURASSIC fans). A movie is what I would consider to be pure entertainment with little or no artistic content (a la DIE HARD I & II, BACKDRAFT, E. T., etc.). A film is an artistic venture with little or no entertainment content (a la 8-1/2, L'ATALANTE, PERSONA, etc.). These are the two extremes, and as always with film in general, there are gray areas. THE PIANO is what I would consider to be, without a doubt, an attempt to make a film, and not a movie.
Now that that's out of the way, on with the review. I mentioned that THE PIANO was an attempt to make a film, and not necessarily a film in itself. These may be just semantics, but I truly believe this film to be an attempt, and nothing more. THE PIANO is a very image-oriented film, filled with symbolism but lacking in overt substance. I found this movie to be a very good-looking movie, but found little else in the story or the characters. I found myself influenced by AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE, a previous Jane Campion film, which, while not making me do cartwheels, was an altogether good film. THE PIANO made me feel like I was being pulled this way and that. I felt like Campion was saying all throughout the writing and making of this film "Let's try this" or "This might be good." It felt haphazard to me, in that the story didn't seem to go anywhere.
It had a beginning, middle, and end. A first, second, and third act. It had a setup, a number of confrontations, and a resolution. Everything a typical Hollywood screenplay would require. But what was the point? The cinematography was breathtaking, the acting was satisfactory, and the images were highly symbolic. But why? Most artistic films don't follow the established "norm" of the Hollywood screenplay, mostly because artistic films usually don't have much of a script. This is not to belittle art films. On the contrary, this absence of established norms is what provides for the freedom of expression and individuality; the means by which to make us think in a different perspective. THE PIANO gave me little to think about. Why did a film like this, which leans so heavily towards the artistic side of the medium, choose such a common Hollywood cliche format in which to tell its story?
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE had no big-name Hollywood stars in it, yet carried itself very well. THE PIANO has some relatively strong Hollywood heavyweights (Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter). Why the change? I personally got nothing from Holly Hunter's performance. I thought she was good, but not deserving of an Oscar. Anna Paquin was very cute, but I didn't think she should have gotten the Oscar either (based on merit; I liked that she got to upstage all the other actresses). Harvey Keitel, again, plays a weird individual (the only really ordinary part I have seen him play was in THELMA & LOUISE), and, as always, pulls it off convincingly. Sam Neill is the only "foreigner" in this group (to Hollywood, that is, barring Anna Paquin), and was satisfactory at best. But I hate to speak of such good actors in this way, because I don't believe they were given really challenging parts to play. One may argue with me on this point, citing a "brave performance" by Holly Hunter, but I believe Campion made a grave mistake in creating this character: she let us into her head. We had a piece of her real character with us throughout the rest of the picture. No amount of acting on any actress's part (including Hunter's) would convince me that I am learning anything new about this person through her sign language; I know she can speak; she doesn't have to use it. I know her real character; everything else becomes a facade. I would have liked it if she expressed herself through facial or more subtle physical expressions (when she is injured [no spoiler attempt intended], the only way I know that she is in great pain is through Anna Paquin and through Harvey Keitel, and through other unmentionable things (if I'm not to spoil the film); Hunter showed me nothing, which led me to think that anyone could have played that part). I believe I can recognize good use of subtlety to make a point, a la HOWARD'S END, but even that fine film made me wonder what the point of all this was.
Symbolism abounds in this film, which threw me from the telling of the story. Then the story kicked in, which threw me from the appreciation of the images. Torn between two places. What exactly was going on here? Images of death and rebirth in this film are well-known to the artistically inclined; maybe they were "neato" things to the Academy and they awarded THE PIANO its share of Oscars based on that. Unfortunately, the Academy always awards based on politics, popularity, and career longevity. Never, if ever, on merit. Anna Paquin is cute, Holly Hunter was due again, and everybody in the Academy seemed to be taken aback by the screenplay to THE PIANO. These are the only reasons I can think of to award Oscars to the categories they did. If they awarded on pure merit, I think the Academy would have been confused with this film. I unfortunately did not have the opportunity to know the artist's intentions beforehand (it's usually easier to review a film based on the intentions of its creator), so all I can do is raise questions. "What was the point" is not meant as a harsh indictment of THE PIANO; it is simply a question. Even artistic films have a point!
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Citizen Ruth (1996) ** out of ***** - Cast: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Burt Reynolds, Kelly Preston, David Graf, Alicia Witt, Tippi Hedren, Diane Ladd. Written by: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor. Directed by: Alexander Payne. Running Time: 105 minutes.
George Carlin once said that you can joke about anything. I believe that. Although it helps when the joke is funny. "Citizen Ruth" tries to poke fun at the abortion controversy raging in this country right now, and while the subject isn't exactly known for its comedic potential, it would have been possible for this film to be funny. But it's not. Mainly it comes across as awkward.
Laura Dern plays Ruth Stoops, an indigent woman who has major drug problems and has become pregnant for the fourth time. After being arrested, she faces felony charges for indangering the life of her fetus. The judge then comes to her and tells her to go and "take care" of her problem (which makes absolutely no sense based on the crime which she was charged). Eventually, organizations representing both sides of the issue are involved, and are playing a game of tug-a-war with Ruth's situation. Neither side really cares about Ruth herself, but are just using her to advance their agenda.
The character of Ruth Stoops needed to be sympathetic at some point for the audience to care about her, but it never happens. Whenever she's not trying to get high from paint or glue fumes, she's getting drunk, yelling, screaming, crying, falling down stairs, beating up young children, or punching herself in the stomach. It got to the point where the people who were exploiting her came off more favorably than she actually did.
There are just a couple of good things about the film. One is a scene involving a very perky pro-choice doctor and nurse. That scene made me laugh. The other is Burt Reynolds. I like Burt, and I'm glad to see him working. Other than that though, "Citizen Ruth" isn't very entertaining, and mostly comes off as an unpleasant viewing experience. [R]
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Commonwealth Bank Moree branch sponsors 2020 Moree Show
The drought won't stop the Moree Show from going ahead next year, as sponsorship for 2020 kicks off with a generous donation from the Commonwealth Bank.
The Moree branch has generously donated $500, as part of a nationwide community donation program, to Moree Show Society for the upcoming 2020 Moree Show.
Commonwealth Bank Moree branch manager Marla Kennedy said that she is pleased to be given the opportunity to support the Moree Show in times of such need.
"We're very excited to have the opportunity to support the Moree show, particularly in such a challenging time," she said.
"This drought takes its toll on us all, especially small towns like ours so it's great to be able to give back and support the great work of the Moree Show Society."
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Given that there was a chance that the Moree Show would not be able to run this year as a result of the drought, Moree Show Society president Brendan Munn said the committee was thrilled to welcome their first sponsorship donation for 2020 and look forward to putting on another top show for the community.
"The drought has hit us hard," he said.
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"This donation to kick things off from the staff at the Moree branch Commonwealth Bank is a great start and we are excited about them coming on board as sponsors for the 2020 Moree Show."
Moree Show Society would love to hear from other businesses interested in sponsoring the 2020 show.
The 2020 Moree Show is set for April 24 and 25.