Man 'booted the s**t' out of car causing thousands of pounds worth of damage
Alison Brown said that the drivers side handle had been ripped off and all of the panels of the car had been kicked in as well
by Katie BellisA mum has shared her horror of waking up to find that someone had smashed her car to pieces in an apparent fit of rage.
Alison Brown was fast asleep at her home in Porthcawl on December 2 when she suddenly had a knock at her front door in the early hours of the morning.
Standing outside was the police, who had been called by a member of the public after receiving reports of someone going beserk on a white Suzuki Swift.
Alison said: "When I went outside I could see that the car was destroyed. The damage is horrendous.
"The amount of anger used on the car is really scary and it is still scary thinking about it now.
"It looks like someone has crashed into the car. I just want this person to be found before he does it on someone else's car or even worse does it to someone."
Alison added that the damage to her car was made all the worse as she had only bought it in July.
The motor has since been taken to a garage, with the 52-year-old set to lose her no claims discount on her insurance.
She said: "It's my excess that I will have to pay and it's my insurance policy that will now go up because of this.
"This will affect me financially in years to come. I am still scared and I am just finding it hard really."
A post on social media from Alison's daughter Rebecca is urging people to get in touch if anyone has any information.
"You can see where they’ve held the top of the car to boot the s**t out of it. Its un-drivable and the doors are so damaged they won’t open. Its the only car that has been targeted.
"Anyone who might have any information or CCTV we can view please get in touch," she said.
Police confirmed it was investigating the incident - which took place on South Road, Porthcawl, between 1.30am and 1.40am on Monday 2nd December.
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Engineering
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| 2003–2004 |
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and implementing a network in a new building
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security policies and their implementation for the company
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Windows 95, and Windows NT Workstation and Server operating
systems in a dynamic, ``start-up company'' atmosphere with about
30 employees
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systems
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clients (Web, Java, and Microsoft Access), database design, and
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Systems Research Programmer II |
University of Michigan College of Engineering |
Ann Arbor, MI |
- I was the sole full-time system administrator for the three
UNIX-based massively parallel computers at the University of
Michigan's Center for Parallel Computing: a 16 processor Silicon
Graphics PowerChallenge; a 48 node IBM SP2; a 32 processor
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
For fans of golf – or any sport, for that matter – THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE will capture the interest if not the imagination. The philosophy spouted by the caddy Bagger Vance (Will Smith) frequently goes too far, but sport has always been a metaphor for life and the pursuits inherent in life. And certainly the golf exhibition match at the center of the narrative is one of the best things about the film.
Based on Steven Pressfield's novel, THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE chronicles the attempt of an erstwhile rich Southern belle, Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron), to save her dead father's golf resort from the ravages of the Great Depression. A cadre of rich Savannah businessmen wish to purchase the resort for a song, but Adele thinks on her feet of an exhibition she hopes will attract the star golfers of the time – Bruce McGill as Walter Hagen, and Joel Gretsch as Bobby Jones. Hoping in a small way to thwart her, the men call for the involvement of a third golfer, someone local. After a few names are passed over, a young golf fanatic named Hardy Greaves (J. Michael Montcrief) suggests `Captain Junuh.' This man Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) is the one we see near the film's start; he's racing into the slaughter of a World War One battle, where it seems he is the sole survivor. To be brief, Junuh loses himself. Traumatized, he disappears for a decade, failing to return to Adele, who happens to be his intended. After several scenes during which Hardy and Adele attempt to convince the down-and-out Junuh to play in the match, perhaps even to recapture the position he won as a young man – the best golfer in the South – Junuh decides to give it a swing.
So the stage is set for the two-day exhibition, $10,000 for the prize, with the bigger stake being, of course, Junuh's soul.
Will Smith nicely underplays the mysterious caddy of the film's title. Vance appears suddenly and speaks with such nonchalance and self-assurance that Junuh hires him without knowing anything of his background. Though the rhetoric he spreads is sometimes pure corn, Smith is able to keep his character likable if not believable. A problem with the title character is that he is too much without a history, and we never know him well enough to view him as a real human. On the other hand, director Robert Redford and screenwriter Jeremy Leven never elevate him into the realm of magic; Bagger is apparently not some genie sidekick that has no life aside from the wishes of his master.
At the heart of the argument that this film is mediocre is its failure to create a spirit of enthusiasm and magic. I have seen THE NATURAL – starring Redford, by the way, as Roy Hobbs – and THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE is no THE NATURAL. Yes, Redford was older and more experienced than Matt Damon when Redford played the main character in Bernard Malamud's mythic baseball opus. But Damon often seems plastic in this role. Is he trying too hard to portray a man shell-shocked out of his former easy manner? Does his trouble result from playing opposite Theron as Adele: a good actress herself trapped with an underdeveloped character? It's hard to tell. But clearly the film lacks the several enchanting moments that a sports drama needs to succeed.
Bruce McGill is good as the semi-slimy Walter Hagen, a spoiled sports figure ahead of his time. Further, the handsome Joel Gretsch is very convincing as the Renaissance man Bobby Jones, his determination clear in his glare. And a nice discovery is J. Michael Montcrief as Hardy Greaves, the young narrator. Hardy supplies both comic relief and the innocence necessary to make the golf-as-way-of-life hokum even a little believable. Jack Lemon is Hardy as a senior golfer, who opens and closes the film; too bad Lemon is underused in the frame, though his voice is welcome in many parts of the long story.
Cinematography is strong in THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE. The exteriors are beautiful, the golf course, the woods, even the haze of the battlefield in the brief warfare scenes. A couple of shots smack of computer generation, as when we assume the viewpoint of Junuh's golf ball as it sails toward the green. And I could swear the bank of a lake looked plastic and unnatural as well. These vantages are not bad, but neither do they make more convincing the events that the story tries so hard to make astounding.
In the end the film is mildly satisfying, and would be a nice choice for a rental. As a sports movie I would place it on a par with another athletic flick out now, REMEMBER THE TITANS, and well ahead of Keven Costner's baseball debacle, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME.
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Japan Tobacco halves price of reduced-risk cigarette starter kit
TOKYO: Japan Tobacco is halving the price of starter kits for its Ploom S reduced-risk cigarettes, as it struggles to compete against rival Philip Morris International.
Japan is the world's biggest market for "heat not burn" products, which emit less smoke than conventional cigarettes, as regular e-cigarettes with liquid nicotine are banned.
From Dec 1, the recommended retail price of the kit, including the smoking device which heats tobacco sticks, micro USB cable and AC adapter, will be ¥3,480 (US$31.90) from ¥7,980, Japan Tobacco said on Tuesday (Nov 12).
In October, the company said fewer people than it expected were trying out and switching to Ploom S, amid strong competition from Philip Morris' IQOS, cutting its annual profit outlook.
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| HorayProbe (GameObject probe, IProbeOutput output) | |
| Instantiate a new HorayProbe. More... | |
| void | PopulateData (ref UltrasoundScanData data) |
| Populates an UltrasoundScanData with scan data for this frame. More... | |
Protected Attributes | |
| readonly HorayOrganCuller | culler |
| Used to determine which GameObjects can possibly appear in the image. | |
| readonly GameObject | probeGameObject |
| The GameObject representing the physical location of the probe. | |
| readonly IProbeOutput | output |
| The IProbeOutput providing data to an IImageSource. | |
Private Member Functions | |
| void | ScanPointsForOrgans (ref UltrasoundScanData data, IList< GameObject > organList) |
| Checks all points in an UltrasoundScanData point array against a list of possible organs that can be contained in those points. More... | |
| void | EstablishScanningPlane (ref UltrasoundScanData data) |
| Set up the data object with empty UltrasoundPoints representing the points that need to be scanned. More... | |
| float | IntensityAtPoint (float pulseIntensity, HorayMaterialProperties organProperties) |
| Calculate the intensity for a point, given the intensity of the simulated pulse and the tissue property at that point. More... | |
| float | PulseIntensityAfterPoint (float previousPulseIntensity, HorayMaterialProperties previousOrgan, UltrasoundProbeConfiguration config) |
| Since the pulse will lose energy after interacting with tissue at a point, we will need to recalculate the pulse intensity after processing each UltrasoundPoint. More... | |
| Vector3 | WorldSpaceFromProjectedPosition (Vector2 positionInPlane, UltrasoundProbeConfiguration config) |
| Helper method to calculate a Vector3 (WorldSpace) from a Projected Position in local space. More... | |
Simulate the functionality of an Ultrasound probe using HORAY: HOmogenious RAYcasting.
| HorayProbe.HorayProbe | ( | GameObject | probe, |
| IProbeOutput | output | ||
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Instantiate a new HorayProbe.
| probe | The GameObject that represents the scanning array. |
| output | An IProbeOutput to pass information to. |
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Set up the data object with empty UltrasoundPoints representing the points that need to be scanned.
This is analagous to setting up the view frustum in traditional 3D graphics.
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private |
Calculate the intensity for a point, given the intensity of the simulated pulse and the tissue property at that point.
| pulseIntensity | The current intensity of the simulated pulse emitted by the probe. |
| organProperties | The properties of the tissue at the point. |
| void HorayProbe.PopulateData | ( | ref UltrasoundScanData | data | ) |
Populates an UltrasoundScanData with scan data for this frame.
| data | The object into which to put the scan data. |
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private |
Since the pulse will lose energy after interacting with tissue at a point, we will need to recalculate the pulse intensity after processing each UltrasoundPoint.
| previousPulseIntensity | The intensity of the pulse that hit this point. |
| previousOrgan | The properties of the organ at this point. |
| config | The probe configuration. (Used for normalizing energy loss for higher res display) |
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Checks all points in an UltrasoundScanData point array against a list of possible organs that can be contained in those points.
The points are then appropriately shaded based on the material properties of those organs.
| data | An UltrasoundScanData populated with empty UltrasoundPoint objects. |
| organList | A list of GameObjects to check against. |
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private |
Helper method to calculate a Vector3 (WorldSpace) from a Projected Position in local space.
| positionInPlane | A Vector2 representing a point in the scanning plane. |
| config | The UltrasoundProbeConfiguration object, used for rotation and translation. |


AUX
: auxiliary verb
Definition
An auxiliary verb is a verb that accompanies the lexical verb of a verb phrase and expresses grammatical distinctions not carried by the lexical verb, such as person, number, tense, mood and voice.
In Estonian UD, auxiliaries are:
olema ‘be’ and in rare occasions saama ‘get’ are auxiliaries that form periphrastic tense forms;
modal verbs are võima, tohtima ‘may’, saama ‘can’, pidama ‘must’, näima ‘seem’, paistma ‘seem’, tunduma ‘seem’;
ei and ära ‘not’ in negative verb forms.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)
There are 17 AUX
lemmas (0%), 81 AUX
types (1%) and 1474 AUX
tokens (4%).
Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of AUX
is: 11 in number of lemmas, 10 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent AUX
lemmas: olema, ei, ole, pidama, võima, saama, ära, näima, saa, tunduma
The 10 most frequent AUX
types: oli, on, ei, olid, oleks, polnud, pole, olen, oled, võib
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: olema (AUX 878, VERB 118), ei (AUX 289, ADV 15), ole (AUX 91, VERB 7), pidama (AUX 70, VERB 24), võima (AUX 56, VERB 2), saama (VERB 91, AUX 28), ära (ADV 61, AUX 13), näima (AUX 11, VERB 7), saa (AUX 9, VERB 8), tunduma (VERB 13, AUX 7)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: oli (AUX 333, VERB 24), on (AUX 305, VERB 35), ei (AUX 281, ADV 8), olid (AUX 64, VERB 4), oleks (AUX 33, VERB 2), polnud (AUX 31, VERB 11), pole (AUX 30, VERB 10), olen (AUX 24, VERB 1), oled (AUX 26, VERB 1), pidi (AUX 19, ADP 3)
- oli
- on
- ei
- olid
- oleks
- polnud
- pole
- olen
- oled
- pidi
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of AUX
is 4.764706 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.545328).
The 1st highest number of forms (27) was observed with the lemma “olema”: Olgem, ole, oled, oleks, oleksid, oleksin, olema, oleme, olen, olete, olevat, olgu, oli, olid, olidki, oligi, olin, olla, olles, olnud, on, ongi, pole, polegi, poleks, polnud, polnudki.
The 2nd highest number of forms (16) was observed with the lemma “pidama”: pea, peab, peabki, pead, peaks, peaksid, peaksime, peaksin, peame, pean, peate, peavad, pidanud, pidi, pidid, pidigi.
The 3rd highest number of forms (11) was observed with the lemma “ole”: ole, oled, oleks, olen, olevat, oli, olid, olin, on, ongi, pole.
AUX
occurs with 9 features: et-feat/VerbForm (1474; 100% instances), et-feat/Mood (1436; 97% instances), et-feat/Voice (1169; 79% instances), et-feat/Tense (1160; 79% instances), et-feat/Number (972; 66% instances), et-feat/Person (972; 66% instances), et-feat/Polarity (377; 26% instances), et-feat/Connegative (40; 3% instances), et-feat/Case (9; 1% instances)
AUX
occurs with 21 feature-value pairs: Case=Ill
, Connegative=Yes
, Mood=Cnd
, Mood=Imp
, Mood=Ind
, Mood=Qot
, Number=Plur
, Number=Sing
, Person=1
, Person=2
, Person=3
, Polarity=Neg
, Tense=Imp
, Tense=Past
, Tense=Pres
, VerbForm=Conv
, VerbForm=Fin
, VerbForm=Inf
, VerbForm=Part
, VerbForm=Sup
, Voice=Act
AUX
occurs with 38 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act
(355 tokens).
Examples: oli, pidi, võis, näis, tundus, hakkas, oligi, nägi, paistis, pidigi
Relations
AUX
nodes are attached to their parents using 5 different relations: et-dep/aux (840; 57% instances), et-dep/cop (629; 43% instances), et-dep/root (3; 0% instances), et-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), et-dep/csubj:cop (1; 0% instances)
Parents of AUX
nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: VERB (802; 54% instances), ADJ (293; 20% instances), NOUN (231; 16% instances), PRON (82; 6% instances), ADV (43; 3% instances), PROPN (15; 1% instances), NUM (4; 0% instances), ROOT (3; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances)
1409 (96%) AUX
nodes are leaves.
50 (3%) AUX
nodes have one child.
4 (0%) AUX
nodes have two children.
11 (1%) AUX
nodes have three or more children.
The highest child degree of a AUX
node is 6.
Children of AUX
nodes are attached using 12 different relations: et-dep/punct (53; 54% instances), et-dep/conj (21; 21% instances), et-dep/advmod (6; 6% instances), et-dep/cc (6; 6% instances), et-dep/nsubj (3; 3% instances), et-dep/advcl (2; 2% instances), et-dep/obl (2; 2% instances), et-dep/aux (1; 1% instances), et-dep/compound (1; 1% instances), et-dep/compound:prt (1; 1% instances), et-dep/mark (1; 1% instances), et-dep/nsubj:cop (1; 1% instances)
Children of AUX
nodes belong to 8 different parts of speech: PUNCT (53; 54% instances), VERB (17; 17% instances), ADV (8; 8% instances), CCONJ (7; 7% instances), NOUN (7; 7% instances), ADJ (4; 4% instances), AUX (1; 1% instances), PRON (1; 1% instances)
AUX in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [ug] [uk] [u] [urj] [ur] [vi] [yue] [zh]


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Terminals are responsible for the graph edition :
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Terminals have various configuration options, such as the number of wires that can be connected to them, wether they are editable or not, or style informations about the wires that are connected. Check out this example to see some of those properties in action.
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To include the source files for Terminal and its dependencies, first load the YUI seed file, the WireIt seed file, and set the path to the WireIt build directory.
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Differences between relative, absolute and fixed positioning
Relative Positioning
When an element is given the property position: relative;
it remains
positioned according to the normal flow of the document. Initially, nothing will happen
unless an offset is applied. To apply an offset, you add the additional property of
either top
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of the document. Note: The property left
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In the example below, box two has been given a relative position and offset values of 20px from top and 20px from left. Notice how this has no affect on the position other elements. The offset value is relative to its original position in the normal flow (blue outline)
Absolute Positioning
When position: absolute;
is applied to an element, it is removed from the
normal document flow. It will be postioned relative to its closet positioned ancestor,
if any, otherwise relative to the initial containing block (i.e the html)
Example
In the example below, box two has been given an absolute position and offset values of
20px from top and 20px from left. The element is removed from the normal flow and the
other elements are positioned as if it didn't exist. Since the box is a inside a
<div>
container with position: relative
set on it, the
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When position: fixed;
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by the viewport or browser window. This can be used to create a "floating" element that
stays in the same position regardless of scrolling and is useful for navigation bars at
the top of a page.
Summary
In summary only relative positioning keeps element in the normal flow. Using either absolute or fixed positioning removes the element from the normal flow and other elements will behave as if it didn't exist. You can then position the element how you want including making it overlap with other elements
The real difference between absolute and fixed is an element with an absolute position will positioned relative to it's containing block (nearest positioned ancestor), if there is no positioned ancestor, then the viewport will be the containing block. An element with a fixed position however, remains stationary in the viewport window in all cases and is not affected by scrolling. This is particularly useful for navigation bars.


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THE PELICAN BRIEF A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1993 James Berardinelli
Rating (Linear 0 to 10): 5.1
Date Released: 12/17/93 Running Length: 2:21 Rated: PG-13 (Violence, profanity)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Culp, James B. Sikking, John Lithgow Director: Alan J. Pakula Producers: Alan J. Pakula and Peter Jan Brugge Screenplay: Alan J. Pakula based on the novel by John Grisham Music: James Horner Released by Warner Brothers
THE PELICAN BRIEF is the second John Grisham novel to make the book-to-movie transition. Like its predecessor THE FIRM, it disappoints, which isn't such a big surprise considering the pedestrian story upon which it is based. Instead of wondering why Grisham's work doesn't translate well to the screen, maybe someone should take a step back and consider whether his page-turners are worth filming in the first place.
 At Tulane University, law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) has a theory about who's responsible for the killings. Using the resources of the school library and several semi-public court case files, she develops what is later dubbed as "The Pelican Brief." Initially regarded as a wild theory, the short document comes under scrutiny when readers of Darby's work start getting murdered--beginning with her Constitutional Law professor, and lover, Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard). As the nameless thugs close in, Darby turns to WASHINGTON POST writer Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) for help. Naturally, this makes Grantham as much of a target as Darby, and the pair end up on the run.
In the book THE PELICAN BRIEF, the particulars are different from those of THE FIRM, but the basic premise is very similar. Grisham apparently has one basic story that he likes to dress in different clothes. That's all right, and it makes for quick, brainless reading, but neither of the movie versions has worked. Paradoxically, THE FIRM's biggest failing is in straying too far from the written version while THE PELICAN BRIEF's flaw is in remaining too faithful.
As scripted and directed by Alan J. Pakula, THE PELICAN BRIEF is a straightforward visual re-telling of Grisham's book. With few changes, it follows the basic storyline, and includes a number of complications and secondary characters which seem superfluous on screen. The final result is an unnecessarily-long thriller that contains far more talking than action. Pakula's direction is lackluster, showing little of the style that permeated his two most impressive pictures, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and PRESUMED INNOCENT.
Character depth and development are virtually nonexistent. Grisham's book isn't a tremendous achievement in this area, but at least we get some insight into what various people are thinking. With that element absent in the movie, no one attains more than a two-dimensional status, and much of the entertaining in-fighting and political wrangling is lost to the viewer. John Heard's Gavin Verheek is a perfect example. In the book, we get to know him. In the movie, he's in about five scenes before meeting his fate.
The supporting cast is impressive, with names like Robert Culp, John Heard, Sam Shepard, and John Lithgow all turning in solid performances. Likewise, Denzel Washington brings a calm self-possession, bordering on arrogance, to the role of Gray Grantham. This may be the only film character to approach the level of the book version, and much of it can be credited to Mr. Washington's work.
Julia Roberts' Darby Shaw, however, is an unmitigated disaster. Ms. Roberts simply doesn't have the range required for the role, as becomes painfully obvious when she's supposed to express terror at a car bombing. That particular scene, as well as several others requiring deep emotional responses, presents a fair approximation of her acting limitations. One of the reasons for the failure of the basic premise in THE PELICAN BRIEF--that Darby could uncover the truth while everyone else fumbles around--is that the lead actress does nothing to make us believe the possibility.
Ultimately, probably the biggest problem with THE PELICAN BRIEF is that it's a letdown. After all the running around (and there's a lot of that), all the gory deaths (there are a few of them), and all the anemic plot twists, the payoff is virtually nonexistent. Instead of the rousing conclusion expected from a screen thriller, THE PELICAN BRIEF fades away into an anticlimax.
Those who read the book have no need to see the movie, unless it's to satisfy the curiosity of how the conjurations of the imagination materialize through the filter of Pakula's interpretation. Those who haven't read the book will find material to catch their interest, but it's uncertain how long this ill-paced production will hold that attention.
So, after the disappointments of THE FIRM and THE PELICAN BRIEF, we now await the cinematic rendition of THE CLIENT, hoping that for Grisham's books, the third time will be a charm.
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Two weeks ago my best friend Lucy came home from college with her fiance. They had apparently picked up some really lovely hash from a close friend and were hell-bent on having me try it. An experienced toker, but a newbie to hash, I was geared up for the event.
The two love-birds picked my silly self up on Friday night at 7:30 and we hightailed it back to Lucy's parents' home. They call the place 'Maple Shade Farm' due to the huge trees and large anount of land they live on, and my goodness if it isn't magical. We goofed around for a few hours and then Lucy and I slid outside to have some bonding time. We set ourselves up in the front porch instead of the conventional back porch (where we usually toke) and packed a small bowl of hash and spoke a wee bit about all the crazy times we'd had before we actually sparked it.
The first hit: incredibly smooth and tasty...no burning in the back o' the throat like with pot, at times. Two or three tokes later it dawned on me how light I felt. Not only physically, like with MDMA, but also as a human being, just very pleasant and fairy-like. When I smoke pot I get this mother earth mojo going where I feel like I'm attatched to the planet by roots, and like I exist on a much more down-to-earth plane than the rest. With the hash, I felt like I was made of air and floating very peacefully above the mayhem involved with being alive.
The next thing to strike me as very different from pot was how clearly I saw things. I'm talking about details here, children. I could see every flower on the trees in the front yard, every single blade of grass in the lawn, and every little leaf on every one of the mammoth maples. The colors were vivid, but not distressing, and I had this crazy notion that I was an intricate part of the whole living environment. That's probably due to the fact that I'm in love with nature, but who really knows for sure? At any rate, my vision skipped around and focused clear and strong on small patches of the scenery, adored it, and then moved on.
Overall, I'd have to say that hash made me in love with the world and in tune with it. It was so beautiful, and I think if everyone could have that feeling once, this would be a much friendlier place to live in.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Technology used
- Front end is done in angularjs.
- Front end uses ui-route, angular-chart.js, bootstrap
- Backend is done with nodejs, mongodb
Steps
- The data in xls sheet is uploaded into mongodb using mongoimport
- Using mongo queries, the required data is fetched
- Then it is displayed in angularjs using charts library
Contact
- Ramesh<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- Twitter id @raga2560


"""
This module contains different types of devices belonging to the `AlarmDecoder`_ (AD2) family.
* :py:class:`USBDevice`: Interfaces with the `AD2USB`_ device.
* :py:class:`SerialDevice`: Interfaces with the `AD2USB`_, `AD2SERIAL`_ or `AD2PI`_.
* :py:class:`SocketDevice`: Interfaces with devices exposed through `ser2sock`_ or another IP to Serial solution.
Also supports SSL if using `ser2sock`_.
.. _ser2sock: http://github.com/nutechsoftware/ser2sock
.. _AlarmDecoder: http://www.alarmdecoder.com
.. _AD2USB: http://www.alarmdecoder.com
.. _AD2SERIAL: http://www.alarmdecoder.com
.. _AD2PI: http://www.alarmdecoder.com
.. moduleauthor:: Scott Petersen<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"""
import time
import threading
import serial
import serial.tools.list_ports
import socket
import select
from builtins import bytes
from .util import CommError, TimeoutError, NoDeviceError, InvalidMessageError
from .event import event
have_pyftdi = False
try:
from pyftdi.pyftdi.ftdi import Ftdi, FtdiError
import usb.core
import usb.util
have_pyftdi = True
except ImportError:
try:
from pyftdi.ftdi import Ftdi, FtdiError
import usb.core
import usb.util
have_pyftdi = True
except ImportError:
have_pyftdi = False
try:
from OpenSSL import SSL, crypto
have_openssl = True
except ImportError:
class SSL:
class Error(BaseException):
pass
class WantReadError(BaseException):
pass
class SysCallError(BaseException):
pass
have_openssl = False
[docs]class Device(object):
"""
Base class for all `AlarmDecoder`_ (AD2) device types.
"""
# Generic device events
on_open = event.Event("This event is called when the device has been opened.\n\n**Callback definition:** *def callback(device)*")
on_close = event.Event("This event is called when the device has been closed.\n\n**Callback definition:** def callback(device)*")
on_read = event.Event("This event is called when a line has been read from the device.\n\n**Callback definition:** def callback(device, data)*")
on_write = event.Event("This event is called when data has been written to the device.\n\n**Callback definition:** def callback(device, data)*")
def __init__(self):
"""
Constructor
"""
self._id = ''
self._buffer = b''
self._device = None
self._running = False
self._read_thread = None
def __enter__(self):
"""
Support for context manager __enter__.
"""
return self
def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
"""
Support for context manager __exit__.
"""
self.close()
return False
@property
def id(self):
"""
Retrieve the device ID.
:returns: identification string for the device
"""
return self._id
@id.setter
[docs] def id(self, value):
"""
Sets the device ID.
:param value: device identification string
:type value: string
"""
self._id = value
[docs] def is_reader_alive(self):
"""
Indicates whether or not the reader thread is alive.
:returns: whether or not the reader thread is alive
"""
return self._read_thread.is_alive()
[docs] def stop_reader(self):
"""
Stops the reader thread.
"""
self._read_thread.stop()
[docs] def close(self):
"""
Closes the device.
"""
try:
self._running = False
self._read_thread.stop()
self._device.close()
except Exception:
pass
self.on_close()
[docs] class ReadThread(threading.Thread):
"""
Reader thread which processes messages from the device.
"""
READ_TIMEOUT = 10
"""Timeout for the reader thread."""
def __init__(self, device):
"""
Constructor
:param device: device used by the reader thread
:type device: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.devices.Device`
"""
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self._device = device
self._running = False
[docs] def stop(self):
"""
Stops the running thread.
"""
self._running = False
[docs] def run(self):
"""
The actual read process.
"""
self._running = True
while self._running:
try:
self._device.read_line(timeout=self.READ_TIMEOUT)
except TimeoutError:
pass
except InvalidMessageError:
pass
except SSL.WantReadError:
pass
except CommError as err:
self._device.close()
except Exception as err:
self._device.close()
self._running = False
raise
[docs]class USBDevice(Device):
"""
`AD2USB`_ device utilizing PyFTDI's interface.
"""
# Constants
PRODUCT_IDS = ((0x0403, 0x6001), (0x0403, 0x6015))
"""List of Vendor and Product IDs used to recognize `AD2USB`_ devices."""
DEFAULT_VENDOR_ID = PRODUCT_IDS[0][0]
"""Default Vendor ID used to recognize `AD2USB`_ devices."""
DEFAULT_PRODUCT_ID = PRODUCT_IDS[0][1]
"""Default Product ID used to recognize `AD2USB`_ devices."""
# Deprecated constants
FTDI_VENDOR_ID = DEFAULT_VENDOR_ID
"""DEPRECATED: Vendor ID used to recognize `AD2USB`_ devices."""
FTDI_PRODUCT_ID = DEFAULT_PRODUCT_ID
"""DEPRECATED: Product ID used to recognize `AD2USB`_ devices."""
BAUDRATE = 115200
"""Default baudrate for `AD2USB`_ devices."""
__devices = []
__detect_thread = None
@classmethod
[docs] def find_all(cls, vid=None, pid=None):
"""
Returns all FTDI devices matching our vendor and product IDs.
:returns: list of devices
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
if not have_pyftdi:
raise ImportError('The USBDevice class has been disabled due to missing requirement: pyftdi or pyusb.')
cls.__devices = []
query = cls.PRODUCT_IDS
if vid and pid:
query = [(vid, pid)]
try:
cls.__devices = Ftdi.find_all(query, nocache=True)
except (usb.core.USBError, FtdiError) as err:
raise CommError('Error enumerating AD2USB devices: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
return cls.__devices
@classmethod
[docs] def devices(cls):
"""
Returns a cached list of `AD2USB`_ devices located on the system.
:returns: cached list of devices found
"""
return cls.__devices
@classmethod
[docs] def find(cls, device=None):
"""
Factory method that returns the requested :py:class:`USBDevice` device, or the
first device.
:param device: Tuple describing the USB device to open, as returned
by find_all().
:type device: tuple
:returns: :py:class:`USBDevice` object utilizing the specified device
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.NoDeviceError`
"""
if not have_pyftdi:
raise ImportError('The USBDevice class has been disabled due to missing requirement: pyftdi or pyusb.')
cls.find_all()
if len(cls.__devices) == 0:
raise NoDeviceError('No AD2USB devices present.')
if device is None:
device = cls.__devices[0]
vendor, product, sernum, ifcount, description = device
return USBDevice(interface=sernum, vid=vendor, pid=product)
@classmethod
[docs] def start_detection(cls, on_attached=None, on_detached=None):
"""
Starts the device detection thread.
:param on_attached: function to be called when a device is attached **Callback definition:** *def callback(thread, device)*
:type on_attached: function
:param on_detached: function to be called when a device is detached **Callback definition:** *def callback(thread, device)*
:type on_detached: function
"""
if not have_pyftdi:
raise ImportError('The USBDevice class has been disabled due to missing requirement: pyftdi or pyusb.')
cls.__detect_thread = USBDevice.DetectThread(on_attached, on_detached)
try:
cls.find_all()
except CommError:
pass
cls.__detect_thread.start()
@classmethod
[docs] def stop_detection(cls):
"""
Stops the device detection thread.
"""
if not have_pyftdi:
raise ImportError('The USBDevice class has been disabled due to missing requirement: pyftdi or pyusb.')
try:
cls.__detect_thread.stop()
except Exception:
pass
@property
def interface(self):
"""
Retrieves the interface used to connect to the device.
:returns: the interface used to connect to the device
"""
return self._interface
@interface.setter
[docs] def interface(self, value):
"""
Sets the interface used to connect to the device.
:param value: may specify either the serial number or the device index
:type value: string or int
"""
self._interface = value
if isinstance(value, int):
self._device_number = value
else:
self._serial_number = value
@property
def serial_number(self):
"""
Retrieves the serial number of the device.
:returns: serial number of the device
"""
return self._serial_number
@serial_number.setter
[docs] def serial_number(self, value):
"""
Sets the serial number of the device.
:param value: serial number of the device
:type value: string
"""
self._serial_number = value
@property
def description(self):
"""
Retrieves the description of the device.
:returns: description of the device
"""
return self._description
@description.setter
[docs] def description(self, value):
"""
Sets the description of the device.
:param value: description of the device
:type value: string
"""
self._description = value
def __init__(self, interface=0, vid=None, pid=None):
"""
Constructor
:param interface: May specify either the serial number or the device
index.
:type interface: string or int
"""
if not have_pyftdi:
raise ImportError('The USBDevice class has been disabled due to missing requirement: pyftdi or pyusb.')
Device.__init__(self)
self._device = Ftdi()
self._interface = 0
self._device_number = 0
self._serial_number = None
self._vendor_id = USBDevice.DEFAULT_VENDOR_ID
if vid:
self._vendor_id = vid
self._product_id = USBDevice.DEFAULT_PRODUCT_ID
if pid:
self._product_id = pid
self._endpoint = 0
self._description = None
self.interface = interface
[docs] def open(self, baudrate=BAUDRATE, no_reader_thread=False):
"""
Opens the device.
:param baudrate: baudrate to use
:type baudrate: int
:param no_reader_thread: whether or not to automatically start the
reader thread.
:type no_reader_thread: bool
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.NoDeviceError`
"""
# Set up defaults
if baudrate is None:
baudrate = USBDevice.BAUDRATE
self._read_thread = Device.ReadThread(self)
# Open the device and start up the thread.
try:
self._device.open(self._vendor_id,
self._product_id,
self._endpoint,
self._device_number,
self._serial_number,
self._description)
self._device.set_baudrate(baudrate)
if not self._serial_number:
self._serial_number = self._get_serial_number()
self._id = self._serial_number
except (usb.core.USBError, FtdiError) as err:
raise NoDeviceError('Error opening device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
except KeyError as err:
raise NoDeviceError('Unsupported device. ({0:04x}:{1:04x}) You probably need a newer version of pyftdi.'.format(err[0][0], err[0][1]))
else:
self._running = True
self.on_open()
if not no_reader_thread:
self._read_thread.start()
return self
[docs] def close(self):
"""
Closes the device.
"""
try:
Device.close(self)
# HACK: Probably should fork pyftdi and make this call in .close()
self._device.usb_dev.attach_kernel_driver(self._device_number)
except Exception:
pass
[docs] def fileno(self):
raise NotImplementedError('USB devices do not support fileno()')
[docs] def write(self, data):
"""
Writes data to the device.
:param data: data to write
:type data: string
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
try:
self._device.write_data(data)
self.on_write(data=data)
except FtdiError as err:
raise CommError('Error writing to device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
[docs] def read(self):
"""
Reads a single character from the device.
:returns: character read from the device
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
ret = None
try:
ret = self._device.read_data(1)
except (usb.core.USBError, FtdiError) as err:
raise CommError('Error reading from device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
return ret
[docs] def read_line(self, timeout=0.0, purge_buffer=False):
"""
Reads a line from the device.
:param timeout: read timeout
:type timeout: float
:param purge_buffer: Indicates whether to purge the buffer prior to
reading.
:type purge_buffer: bool
:returns: line that was read
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`, :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.TimeoutError`
"""
def timeout_event():
"""Handles read timeout event"""
timeout_event.reading = False
timeout_event.reading = True
if purge_buffer:
self._buffer = b''
got_line, ret = False, None
timer = threading.Timer(timeout, timeout_event)
if timeout > 0:
timer.start()
try:
while timeout_event.reading:
buf = self._device.read_data(1)
if buf != b'':
self._buffer += buf
if buf == b"\n":
self._buffer = self._buffer.rstrip(b"\r\n")
if len(self._buffer) > 0:
got_line = True
break
else:
time.sleep(0.01)
except (usb.core.USBError, FtdiError) as err:
raise CommError('Error reading from device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
else:
if got_line:
ret, self._buffer = self._buffer, b''
self.on_read(data=ret)
else:
raise TimeoutError('Timeout while waiting for line terminator.')
finally:
timer.cancel()
return ret
[docs] def purge(self):
"""
Purges read/write buffers.
"""
self._device.purge_buffers()
def _get_serial_number(self):
"""
Retrieves the FTDI device serial number.
:returns: string containing the device serial number
"""
return usb.util.get_string(self._device.usb_dev, 64, self._device.usb_dev.iSerialNumber)
[docs] class DetectThread(threading.Thread):
"""
Thread that handles detection of added/removed devices.
"""
on_attached = event.Event("This event is called when an `AD2USB`_ device has been detected.\n\n**Callback definition:** def callback(thread, device*")
on_detached = event.Event("This event is called when an `AD2USB`_ device has been removed.\n\n**Callback definition:** def callback(thread, device*")
def __init__(self, on_attached=None, on_detached=None):
"""
Constructor
:param on_attached: Function to call when a device is attached **Callback definition:** *def callback(thread, device)*
:type on_attached: function
:param on_detached: Function to call when a device is detached **Callback definition:** *def callback(thread, device)*
:type on_detached: function
"""
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
if on_attached:
self.on_attached += on_attached
if on_detached:
self.on_detached += on_detached
self._running = False
[docs] def stop(self):
"""
Stops the thread.
"""
self._running = False
[docs] def run(self):
"""
The actual detection process.
"""
self._running = True
last_devices = set()
while self._running:
try:
current_devices = set(USBDevice.find_all())
for dev in current_devices.difference(last_devices):
self.on_attached(device=dev)
for dev in last_devices.difference(current_devices):
self.on_detached(device=dev)
last_devices = current_devices
except CommError:
pass
time.sleep(0.25)
[docs]class SerialDevice(Device):
"""
`AD2USB`_, `AD2SERIAL`_ or `AD2PI`_ device utilizing the PySerial interface.
"""
# Constants
BAUDRATE = 19200
"""Default baudrate for Serial devices."""
@staticmethod
[docs] def find_all(pattern=None):
"""
Returns all serial ports present.
:param pattern: pattern to search for when retrieving serial ports
:type pattern: string
:returns: list of devices
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
devices = []
try:
if pattern:
devices = serial.tools.list_ports.grep(pattern)
else:
devices = serial.tools.list_ports.comports()
except serial.SerialException as err:
raise CommError('Error enumerating serial devices: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
return devices
@property
def interface(self):
"""
Retrieves the interface used to connect to the device.
:returns: interface used to connect to the device
"""
return self._port
@interface.setter
[docs] def interface(self, value):
"""
Sets the interface used to connect to the device.
:param value: name of the serial device
:type value: string
"""
self._port = value
def __init__(self, interface=None):
"""
Constructor
:param interface: device to open
:type interface: string
"""
Device.__init__(self)
self._port = interface
self._id = interface
# Timeout = non-blocking to match pyftdi.
self._device = serial.Serial(timeout=0, writeTimeout=0)
[docs] def open(self, baudrate=BAUDRATE, no_reader_thread=False):
"""
Opens the device.
:param baudrate: baudrate to use with the device
:type baudrate: int
:param no_reader_thread: whether or not to automatically start the
reader thread.
:type no_reader_thread: bool
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.NoDeviceError`
"""
# Set up the defaults
if baudrate is None:
baudrate = SerialDevice.BAUDRATE
if self._port is None:
raise NoDeviceError('No device interface specified.')
self._read_thread = Device.ReadThread(self)
# Open the device and start up the reader thread.
try:
self._device.port = self._port
self._device.open()
# NOTE: Setting the baudrate before opening the
# port caused issues with Moschip 7840/7820
# USB Serial Driver converter. (mos7840)
#
# Moving it to this point seems to resolve
# all issues with it.
self._device.baudrate = baudrate
except (serial.SerialException, ValueError, OSError) as err:
raise NoDeviceError('Error opening device on {0}.'.format(self._port), err)
else:
self._running = True
self.on_open()
if not no_reader_thread:
self._read_thread.start()
return self
[docs] def close(self):
"""
Closes the device.
"""
try:
Device.close(self)
except Exception:
pass
[docs] def fileno(self):
return self._device.fileno()
[docs] def write(self, data):
"""
Writes data to the device.
:param data: data to write
:type data: string
:raises: py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
try:
self._device.write(data)
except serial.SerialTimeoutException:
pass
except serial.SerialException as err:
raise CommError('Error writing to device.', err)
else:
self.on_write(data=data)
[docs] def read(self):
"""
Reads a single character from the device.
:returns: character read from the device
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
ret = None
try:
ret = self._device.read(1)
except serial.SerialException as err:
raise CommError('Error reading from device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
return ret
[docs] def read_line(self, timeout=0.0, purge_buffer=False):
"""
Reads a line from the device.
:param timeout: read timeout
:type timeout: float
:param purge_buffer: Indicates whether to purge the buffer prior to
reading.
:type purge_buffer: bool
:returns: line that was read
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`, :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.TimeoutError`
"""
def timeout_event():
"""Handles read timeout event"""
timeout_event.reading = False
timeout_event.reading = True
if purge_buffer:
self._buffer = b''
got_line, ret = False, None
timer = threading.Timer(timeout, timeout_event)
if timeout > 0:
timer.start()
try:
while timeout_event.reading:
buf = self._device.read(1)
# NOTE: AD2SERIAL apparently sends down \xFF on boot.
if buf != b'' and buf != b"\xff":
self._buffer += buf
if buf == b"\n":
self._buffer = self._buffer.rstrip(b"\r\n")
if len(self._buffer) > 0:
got_line = True
break
else:
time.sleep(0.01)
except (OSError, serial.SerialException) as err:
raise CommError('Error reading from device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
else:
if got_line:
ret, self._buffer = self._buffer, b''
self.on_read(data=ret)
else:
raise TimeoutError('Timeout while waiting for line terminator.')
finally:
timer.cancel()
return ret
[docs] def purge(self):
"""
Purges read/write buffers.
"""
self._device.flushInput()
self._device.flushOutput()
[docs]class SocketDevice(Device):
"""
Device that supports communication with an `AlarmDecoder`_ (AD2) that is
exposed via `ser2sock`_ or another Serial to IP interface.
"""
@property
def interface(self):
"""
Retrieves the interface used to connect to the device.
:returns: interface used to connect to the device
"""
return (self._host, self._port)
@interface.setter
[docs] def interface(self, value):
"""
Sets the interface used to connect to the device.
:param value: Tuple containing the host and port to use
:type value: tuple
"""
self._host, self._port = value
@property
def ssl(self):
"""
Retrieves whether or not the device is using SSL.
:returns: whether or not the device is using SSL
"""
return self._use_ssl
@ssl.setter
[docs] def ssl(self, value):
"""
Sets whether or not SSL communication is in use.
:param value: Whether or not SSL communication is in use
:type value: bool
"""
self._use_ssl = value
@property
def ssl_certificate(self):
"""
Retrieves the SSL client certificate path used for authentication.
:returns: path to the certificate path or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.X509`
"""
return self._ssl_certificate
@ssl_certificate.setter
[docs] def ssl_certificate(self, value):
"""
Sets the SSL client certificate to use for authentication.
:param value: path to the SSL certificate or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.X509`
:type value: string or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.X509`
"""
self._ssl_certificate = value
@property
def ssl_key(self):
"""
Retrieves the SSL client certificate key used for authentication.
:returns: jpath to the SSL key or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.PKey`
"""
return self._ssl_key
@ssl_key.setter
[docs] def ssl_key(self, value):
"""
Sets the SSL client certificate key to use for authentication.
:param value: path to the SSL key or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.PKey`
:type value: string or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.PKey`
"""
self._ssl_key = value
@property
def ssl_ca(self):
"""
Retrieves the SSL Certificate Authority certificate used for
authentication.
:returns: path to the CA certificate or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.X509`
"""
return self._ssl_ca
@ssl_ca.setter
[docs] def ssl_ca(self, value):
"""
Sets the SSL Certificate Authority certificate used for authentication.
:param value: path to the SSL CA certificate or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.X509`
:type value: string or :py:class:`OpenSSL.crypto.X509`
"""
self._ssl_ca = value
def __init__(self, interface=("localhost", 10000)):
"""
Constructor
:param interface: Tuple containing the hostname and port of our target
:type interface: tuple
"""
Device.__init__(self)
self._host, self._port = interface
self._use_ssl = False
self._ssl_certificate = None
self._ssl_key = None
self._ssl_ca = None
[docs] def open(self, baudrate=None, no_reader_thread=False):
"""
Opens the device.
:param baudrate: baudrate to use
:type baudrate: int
:param no_reader_thread: whether or not to automatically open the reader
thread.
:type no_reader_thread: bool
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.NoDeviceError`, :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
try:
self._read_thread = Device.ReadThread(self)
self._device = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
if self._use_ssl:
self._init_ssl()
self._device.connect((self._host, self._port))
if self._use_ssl:
while True:
try:
self._device.do_handshake()
break
except SSL.WantReadError:
pass
self._id = '{0}:{1}'.format(self._host, self._port)
except socket.error as err:
raise NoDeviceError('Error opening device at {0}:{1}'.format(self._host, self._port), err)
else:
self._running = True
self.on_open()
if not no_reader_thread:
self._read_thread.start()
return self
[docs] def close(self):
"""
Closes the device.
"""
try:
# TODO: Find a way to speed up this shutdown.
if self.ssl:
self._device.shutdown()
else:
# Make sure that it closes immediately.
self._device.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
except Exception:
pass
Device.close(self)
[docs] def fileno(self):
return self._device.fileno()
[docs] def write(self, data):
"""
Writes data to the device.
:param data: data to write
:type data: string
:returns: number of bytes sent
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
data_sent = None
try:
data_sent = self._device.send(data)
if data_sent == 0:
raise CommError('Error writing to device.')
self.on_write(data=data)
except (SSL.Error, socket.error) as err:
raise CommError('Error writing to device.', err)
return data_sent
[docs] def read(self):
"""
Reads a single character from the device.
:returns: character read from the device
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
data = None
try:
read_ready, _, _ = select.select([self._device], [], [], 0)
if (len(read_ready) != 0):
data = self._device.recv(1)
except socket.error as err:
raise CommError('Error while reading from device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
return data
[docs] def read_line(self, timeout=0.0, purge_buffer=False):
"""
Reads a line from the device.
:param timeout: read timeout
:type timeout: float
:param purge_buffer: Indicates whether to purge the buffer prior to
reading.
:type purge_buffer: bool
:returns: line that was read
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`, :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.TimeoutError`
"""
def timeout_event():
"""Handles read timeout event"""
timeout_event.reading = False
timeout_event.reading = True
if purge_buffer:
self._buffer = b''
got_line, ret = False, None
timer = threading.Timer(timeout, timeout_event)
if timeout > 0:
timer.start()
try:
while timeout_event.reading:
read_ready, _, _ = select.select([self._device], [], [], 0)
if (len(read_ready) == 0):
time.sleep(0.01)
continue
buf = self._device.recv(1)
if buf != b'':
self._buffer += buf
if buf == b"\n":
self._buffer = self._buffer.rstrip(b"\r\n")
if len(self._buffer) > 0:
got_line = True
break
else:
time.sleep(0.01)
except socket.error as err:
raise CommError('Error reading from device: {0}'.format(str(err)), err)
except SSL.SysCallError as err:
errno, msg = err
raise CommError('SSL error while reading from device: {0} ({1})'.format(msg, errno))
except Exception:
raise
else:
if got_line:
ret, self._buffer = self._buffer, b''
self.on_read(data=ret)
else:
raise TimeoutError('Timeout while waiting for line terminator.')
finally:
timer.cancel()
return ret
[docs] def purge(self):
"""
Purges read/write buffers.
"""
try:
self._device.setblocking(0)
while(self._device.recv(1)):
pass
except socket.error as err:
pass
finally:
self._device.setblocking(1)
def _init_ssl(self):
"""
Initializes our device as an SSL connection.
:raises: :py:class:`~alarmdecoder.util.CommError`
"""
if not have_openssl:
raise ImportError('SSL sockets have been disabled due to missing requirement: pyopenssl.')
try:
ctx = SSL.Context(SSL.TLSv1_METHOD)
if isinstance(self.ssl_key, crypto.PKey):
ctx.use_privatekey(self.ssl_key)
else:
ctx.use_privatekey_file(self.ssl_key)
if isinstance(self.ssl_certificate, crypto.X509):
ctx.use_certificate(self.ssl_certificate)
else:
ctx.use_certificate_file(self.ssl_certificate)
if isinstance(self.ssl_ca, crypto.X509):
store = ctx.get_cert_store()
store.add_cert(self.ssl_ca)
else:
ctx.load_verify_locations(self.ssl_ca, None)
ctx.set_verify(SSL.VERIFY_PEER, self._verify_ssl_callback)
self._device = SSL.Connection(ctx, self._device)
except SSL.Error as err:
raise CommError('Error setting up SSL connection.', err)
def _verify_ssl_callback(self, connection, x509, errnum, errdepth, ok):
"""
SSL verification callback.
"""
return ok


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Submodules¶
spikelearn.visuals.visuals module¶
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spikelearn.visuals.visuals.
pretty_neurons
(spike_vector=None, show_spikes=True, sigma=0, n_neurons=8, rate=1, tmax=10, spacing=1, palette='Set2', bin_fill=None, alpha_multiplier='auto', alpha_power=0.5, binpalette='plasma', bin_sep=None, fig_kwargs=None)[source]¶ Plots multiple point processes in parallel lines.
Parameters: - spike_vector (array-like (n_neurons, max_n_spikes)) – Each row contains the spike times of one unit, and will be plotted in one line. May contain NANs, which are ignored.
- show_spikes (bool, default True) – Which to show spikes or only smoothed activity. If True and sigma > 0, plot will be empty.
- sigma (int) – Width of gaussian kernel to smooth spike-series.
- n_neurons (int) – Number of units to be generated. Is overwritten by spike_vector
- rate (float) – Firing rate of each generated unit. Active only if spike_vector is None
- tmax (float) – Maximum time until which to simulate activity, in seconds. Active only if spike_vector is None
Other Parameters: - spacing (float, default 1) – Vertical distance between each baseline
- palette (string) – If len>1, names a Seabon color_palette If char (len==1), is the color of all neurons
- bin_fill (tuple, (int, int)) – Position (x,y) of bin to be color-filled. According to the value of the binning.
- alpha_multiplier (float or ‘auto’) – How much to multiply each bin fill alpha value. ‘auto’ selects a number such that the maximum is one.
- alpha_power (float) – How much to exponentiate each bin’s firing rate to get the alpha. Smaller values approximate big values and decrease difference.
- bin_sep (int) – How much vertical separators to use in the bin separation.
- binpalette (str) – Which palette to Note: It does not correspond to bin filling, only to vertical separators.
-
spikelearn.visuals.visuals.
raster_multiple
(spike_trains, time='time', yaxis='trial', xlim=None, col=None, row=None, rows=None, hue=None, hue_order=None, title=None, sharey=False, palette='deep', density=False, n_yticks=None, is_list=False, kde_kwargs=None, fig_kwargs=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Parameters: - spike_trains (DataFrame) – Each row contains identifier variables, and the time column should contain a single time or a list of times for each row. Note: if the format is list of times, the function will take longer, and this must be flagged at is_lista
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- rows (list, optional) – The order in which to plot the fields in the rows
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- hue_order (list, optional) – The order in which hues will get colored
- palette (list or str, optional) – list of colors or name of seaborn color_palette. Defaults to ‘Set3’
- density (bool or str, optional) – Whether to show the time density of spikes on top of each subplot. If str, selects column to groupby and plot multiple densities. If ‘hue’, plots a density for each color.
- n_yticks (int, optional, default: None) – Number of ticks on the vertical axis of each subplot
- is_list (bool, optional, default: False) – Flags the rows as containing list of times, instead of values. Making the transformation takes time, and it is preferable to do this transformation outside the plotting function. DEPRECATED, now only accepts list format
See also
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spikelearn.visuals.visuals.
raster_plot
(data, time='time', yaxis='trial', hue=None, hue_order=None, density=False, ax=None, palette='deep', is_list=True, kde_kwargs=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ data :
- time : string, optional, default: ‘time’
- DataFrame column index containing the times or time lists. If not ‘time’, the name of the column is added to the xlabel default label is ‘Time (ms)’, and it turns (‘Time ({})’).format(time)
- yaxis : string, optional, default: ‘trial’
- Variable that defines the vertical position of the row’s data.
- hue : string, optional
- Defines which variable is unique in each color
- hue_order : list, optional
- The order in which hues will get colored
- density : bool or str, optional
- Whether to show the time density of spikes on top of each subplot. If str, selects column to groupby and plot multiple densities. If ‘hue’, plots a density for each color.
- palette : list or str, optional
- list of colors or name of seaborn color_palette. Defaults to ‘Set3’
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Parameters: - listfile (string, path-to-file) – Path to a file containing the image names in its rows, in the order that they should appear on the video.
- outputfile (string) – The name of the output video. Obs: the name will be completed by .avi
- w, h (fps,) – Parameters of the video. defaults 3, 800, 600 Frame rate, width and height.
- type (string, default 'png') – Type of the images being transformed.
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Clive Owen plays Jack as a cool, detached wanna-be novelist, told to write a book on soccer. He is living with his uncouth girlfriend, Marion (Gina McKee), whom he only "half-loves." Marion is a store detective with vaguely romantic notions about writers. But Jack is virtually bankrupt on any story ideas - he needs inspiration. It finally comes when his gambler father (Nicholas Ball) advises him to take a job at the Golden Lion, a London casino. Jack is interviewed and gets the job, much to the disappointment of Marion who prefers for him to stay home and write, and sleep the same hours she does.
Jack is an expert on counting cards and counting money - he is quick, smart and clever, nothing can escape him. He also never gambles. As we are told in narration by Jake, Jack's literary alter-ego (the basis for the book he is writing on his own experiences), the croupiers are there to watch you lose. There is also the complete detachment expected from croupiers towards other clientele, or clients. Nevertheless, Jack's alter-ego takes over and breaks all the rules he so steadfastly held. He has a brief affair with Bella (Katie Hardie), a drug-addicted croupier, and parties with another croupier who is stealing from the casino. Jack also gets involved with a femme fatale, Jani De Villiers (Alex Kingston from TV's "E.R."), a regular player at the Golden Lion who sees, literally, a wealth of opportunities with Jack, if he complies to her plans.
"Croupier" never makes a wrong move in plotting or characterization, but its main strength is the character of Jack. My favorite films are usually the most subjective, and this is also true of "Croupier," which features Jack in every single scene. Every move he makes is seen from his point-of-view, or heard by the reliable use of narration. Jack is at firsthand unlikable, and perhaps untrustworthy, but slowly we start to sympathize with him, understanding that he is doing a job he does not like solely for creative inspiration. A great scene is when Marion reads the first few chapters of his book and says she does not like it, claiming it has no hope and that the character is a zombie. Jack counterattacks, asking her if her job as a store detective makes her happy.
If the film does not quite strike the vivid chord of film noir or neo-noir at its best, it is largely due to the casting of Alex Kingston as the conniving, sexual predator Janni. She is meant to be a seductress but is too homely and innocent to make the character convincing (imagine Anne Archer as a seductress and you may know what I mean). Don't get me wrong, I love Kingston, and her work in "E.R." is extraordinary, but she is better suited to less dangerous character parts.
One other minor gripe is that I wish I saw more of Marion - a character who understands Jack all too well. She knows what he thinks, how he behaves, and she is aware that she cheats on her with Bella, but she still loves him and wants to marry him. Marion is a complex character to be sure, if only there were more of her to do Jack's character real justice.
Otherwise, "Croupier" is an exciting, lean, and electrifying film - atmosphere and style are essential to noir landscapes and this film has it in spades. Clive Owen shows remarkable chaste and suaveness in Jack, exuding double the charisma and coolness fo someone like Pierce Brosnan. Finally, Owen shows us that Jack may think he knows every trick in the book when playing cards, but he also finds that life plays its own tricks as well.
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When a marketplace is created on the i-Elect Network, a corresponding i-Elect entity will be created, where all of the marketplace’s governance processes will occur. To facilitate open participation in these governance processes for all internet citizens, iNT allows holders to stake their tokens to a survey, poll or Election in exchange for voting shares in its i-Elect entity. Voting shares will be used to come to consensus on everything from an activities’s (survey, poll or Election) code of conduct, to the ways in which they choose to monetize, to how any revenue generated is utilized or distributed.
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The i-Elect Registry is based on an incentivized voting game developed by the Token-Curated Registry team at Consensys. At its core, a Token-Curated Registry (TCR) allows for a community of token holders to curate a list for a number of different purposes. Those purposes could include anything from access to a “clean pool” of resources, a guest list, content curation, fraud prevention, among many other uses that increase the quality of anything entering a list. This is accomplished through a deposit, challenge, vote and reveal process. The specific purpose of the i-Elect Registry is to democratize many of the decision making and governance processes to iNT holders. You can learn more about TCRs here.
Can a survey or poll implement their own token?
Yes, there are scenarios where a survey or poll can create its own token to provide some additional utility outside of governance purposes.
Who gets voting rights in a district?
The creator of the survey or poll has voting rights initially. As a result, they could set their bylaws so they retain complete control over the survey or poll. However, this would be disadvantageous for them if trying to develop a large and active survey or poll. But in some cases, it may be preferable.
i-Elect Network Token (iNT)
What is the i-Elect Network Token?
The i-Elect Network Token is an Ethereum-based token built using the ERC20 standard. This token was created to facilitate participation and coordination in the development of the i-Elect Network, and eventually the handoff of network governance to the community.
What is the value proposition of iNT?
The i-Elect Network Token is a multi-utility token required for application to the i-Elect Registry, an incentivized voting game to dictate access to a suite of supplementary services exclusive to network members. It’s also used to signal support or disapproval for proposals made by network participants, and will be staked to deposit pools to mint tokens providing survey-specific or poll-specific voting rights in corresponding i-Elect entities. The inherent value to any given person will differ depending on the extent of their desire to participate in the network as well as the mechanisms outlined in our whitepaper.
How does the iNT staking mechanism work?
A refundable deposit of iNT can be deposited to a survey’s or poll's corresponding i-Elect entity. By doing so, an individual is granted voting rights in the form of tokens that can only be used within that specific i-Elect entity. An individual can then use those tokens to propose and vote on anything ranging from a survey’s branding and design decisions, to what functionality is added via auxiliary modules, to the appropriate settings for any adjustable parameters of these modules, to the means in which any revenue collected by a survey or poll is to be distributed, and beyond.
Will staking iNT to a survey or poll provide passive rewards similar to proof of stake?
Unlike “proof of stake” and other reward based staking schemes, iNT does not provide a direct reward when staking your iNT to a survey or poll. These types of incentive structures would be up to governance participants proposing and voting for changes within an individual survey’s or poll's i-Elect entity.
Why can't spend iNT in a survey or poll?
We will never enforce the use of iNT for payments on the platform, we intend to allow for payment not only in ETH, but any other ERC20 by leveraging the 0x Protocol. For some background on the logic for this, refer to our blog post about the 0x integration.
What is the total supply of i-Elect Network Tokens?
A total of 1 billion tokens were minted by the i-Elect Genesis Contract. 198 million iNT are held by i-Elect founders, and are subject to a 2 year vesting schedule. The remaining 22 million iNT are reserved for advisors and the community rewards program.
Will there be a lockup period for tokens allocated to the founding team?
Tokens distributed to founders, early contributors, and advisors vest are subject to a vesting schedule. Founder and advisor tokens are allocated over a 24-month vesting period, with a 6-month cliff. Early contributor tokens are allocated over a 6-month vesting period, with a 3-month cliff.


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i count eight in the bedside table ideal for charging phone overnight.


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A survey on surface normal estimation in 3D point clouds
November 14, 2020 • Pratulya Bubna
Have you ever encountered a semi-rendered object in a game? Perhaps in a game you were able to see through inside a box, even though from outside it seemed a solid object? Well, that happens sometimes because of rendering tricks that gaming engines use.
This usually is the case as, intuitively enough, polygon surfaces that aren’t facing the camera, are not rendered; thereby, providing speed-ups in generating frames. Moreover, the saved computation resources can be spent optimizing the visible surfaces.
What determines a surface’s orientation is a normal to it at a point. In 3D computer graphics, it is of great utility to determine a surface’s orientation towards a light source. This piece of information helps in performing lighting computations, eg. shading and achieving other visual effects.
A normal to a surface at point P is a vector perpendicular to the tangent plane of the surface at P (see below-left image)
A point cloud from a dataset (say, PCPNet Dataset) represents a set of points sampled from an underlying surface. Inherent imperfections such as varying sampling density, noise, missing data, however lie in the point cloud data.
A point cloud is a set of data points in a space that represents a 3D shape or object. Each point has its set of X,Y,Z coordinates.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_cloud
Problem Statement: Given a point cloud, process it directly to infer the surface normals.
Note that this problem is different from processing a point cloud indirectly, where it is first converted to an intermediate representation, eg. mesh, and then processed.
More closely, the problem requires us to be able to infer the underlying surface from the point cloud representation, from which the normals can be estimated at the given points.
Given a geometric surface, it’s usually trivial to infer the direction of the normal at a certain point on the surface as the vector perpendicular to the surface at that point.
Making use of local surface properties such as normals and curvature as additional features for the point clouds has shown improvement in downstream tasks such as reconstruction, segmentation, denoising etc.
The traditional approaches to estimate normal at a point P involve fitting a surface to a patch of local neighborhood points around P
and then calculating the normal analytically. For instance, r-ball
neighborhood surrounding P
, and outputs the eigenvector with minimum eigenvalue as the normal at P
. In other words, normal at P
is in the direction of the vector representing least variance. (PCA finds an orthogonal basis that best represents data by finding eigenvectors in directions of maximum variances.)
Other approaches try fitting higher-order surfaces such as spherical surfaces, jets.
Given the orientation of a normal—a global property, techniques such as Poisson Surface Reconstruction can be used to reconstruct the mesh. However, most of the approaches tend to regress only the direction of the normal—a local property, and not the orientation. Orientation of the normals can be determined as a post-processing step though, using some approaches. Minimum Spanning Trees (MST) based approaches work on the intuition that parallel tangent plances in a neighborhoood should have similar normals, and thus propagate orientations using MST.
The fundamental problem with the traditional approaches is the sensitivity to the choice of hyperparameters such as the radius of the neighborhood, for one, which leads to problematic results at the borders (corners, edges). Even though a small radius might be preferred to appropriately constrain the neighborhood and output fine normal estimations, it is sensitive to outliers; thereby, leading to inaccurate estimations at the borders. On the other hand, a large radius would oversmoothen (average) the estimates at these sharp features.
To overcome such tradeoffs between robustness to noise and accuracy of fine details, SOTA approaches are utilizing data-driven methods.
To put it into persepective, normal estimation in point clouds is a regression problem and {L2
, RMSE
} loss can be utilized for training the deep learning architecture.
Some common datasets include PCPNet Dataset, NYU Depth V2, ScanNet.
Now, let’s look at some of the deep learning based approaches for estimating local 3D shape properties in point clouds:
k-dim
patch feature vectors to regress normals, curvature and/or both (in joint training)3DfMV
(MoE)
network and a scale selection manager essentially encourages specialization, allowing Nesti-Net to learn the neighborhood size that minimizes the normal estimation error, rather than averaging on multi-scales.
not
an end-to-end network. It involves a pre-processing step of computing MuPS features (4D vector)
before passing to the MoE network, which involves computing Fisher Vectors using GMM.L2
distance for each of the point on the patch from the center point to determine how aligned they are with the center, and outputs 0 or 1 based on a threshold. TODO: complete citations @me
know of any other interesting architectures? discussion section is below


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Neal’s Case Study¶
A month in the life a new cloud scientist¶
Project Overview¶
Neal is the lead scientist for a group of folks … yada yada yada
Neal has been using GEE and has been “Motivated” to use CHS. :-)
Study evaporation in a 10 degree by 10 degree AOI in the Delaware River Basin (drb)
Neal wants to review the ET project and apply lessons learned albeit on an accelerated path
Study changes in permafrost in Alaska
Constraints¶
must use CHS AWS
Stakeholders¶
Danny Howard
Bruce Wylie
Project Success Recipe¶
take one scientist with science problem/model
fold in one cloud Sherpa
add one cloud computer and one cloud bucket
bring to rapid boil
let stand and enjoy with German chocolate and dark red wine.
Neal’s Project Plan and WBS¶
Project Setup and Conceptualizing¶
Project Initiation - Neal¶
Develop Charter
Get Staffing Aligned
Initial low cost base infrastructure
compute - basic webserver and admin box - devops
storage - just planning at this stage
Apply for a CHS Custom Environment and Account [AWS Cloud]
Using Randy Sunne’s process = some approval gates will happen sigh
mapped to my projects budget - however that accounting stuff works
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Infrastructure Devops - Tony¶
create github
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create web host
create website
- DONE!!!
create kanboard
- WIP!!!
create mini-pangeo - to be done in CLASS
- WEEK 1
add users from student/neal’s team list
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post mini-pangeo instructions with usernames and password harmony
warn users about the ephemeral nature of the cloud
github is your friend
use any repository you feel comfortable
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Veget Project drb 10 degree tile¶
Define AOI¶
shapefiles
geojson files
visualize AOI on a map
Data Inputs¶
Data List¶
Public - pre-wrangled ARD Data Sets
NetAPP Local Assets to be pushed
precipitaion
MODIS NDVI
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Processing/Modeling¶
Data Outputs¶
Permafrost Project¶
Define AOI¶
shapefiles
geojson files
visualize AOI on a map
Data Inputs¶
Data List¶
Public - pre-wrangled ARD Data Sets
NetAPP Local Assets to be pushed
Data Wangling Strategy¶
Processing/Modeling¶
Data Outputs¶
Project Strategy¶
cloud immersive strategy - imposed by Tony Butzer
unique - because its a cattle versus pets approach
ephemeral - sounds scary - you mean things evaporate
github suddenly becomes even more important
does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
use self documenting code for everything - “yeah right”


UPDATE | Four killed in California backyard shooting, say police
Four people were shot dead and six others wounded while watching a football game in the backyard of a central California home on Sunday, police said.
Police were called to the scene after at least one person opened fire into a crowd of about 35 people gathered outside the house in Fresno, around 320km north of Los Angeles.
"Three people died on scene," Fresno deputy police chief Michael Reed told reporters, adding that a fourth was rushed to hospital in critical condition and succumbed to his injuries there.
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All four of the dead and the six treated for "non life-threatening" gunshot wounds were men aged between 25 and 35, Reed said.
"Our heart goes out to the families of the victims... this is senseless violence, he added.
"We are doing everything we can to bring the perpetrators to justice."
Reed said it was unclear how many perpetrators had been involved in the shooting and that there was "no indication" the incident was gang-related.
Police spokesperson Bill Dooley said officers were looking for surveillance footage and witnesses to track the suspects.
Choua Vang, who lives near the site of the attack, said that Sunday's incident was the second shooting in the area in as many weeks.
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Delhi HC denies bail to Chidambaram in INX Media money laundering case
He was arrested by the CBI on August 21 in the INX Media corruption case and was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the CBI case on October 22.
by Press Trust of IndiaThe Delhi High Court Friday denied bail to former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case.
Justice Suresh Kait had reserved the order on November 8 on the bail petition after hearing the arguments of counsel for Chidambaram and the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The ED had arrested him in the money laundering case on October 16.
He was arrested by the CBI on August 21 in the INX Media corruption case and was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the CBI case on October 22.
The case was registered by the CBI on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance granted to the INX Media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007, during Chidambaram's tenure as finance minister.
Thereafter, the ED had lodged a money-laundering case in this regard in 2017.