It is a frequent pattern that we simulate a synchronous call to an external system with using a pair of asynchronous messages, one for the request and the other for the response. There are also cases where we would like to use synchronous protocols such as web service call to send a request and receive an acknowledgment right away, and then use another message (using same or different protocols) to get the real response later on.
The out-of-box MDW adapters for asynchronous message protocols such as JMS, WebSphere MQ and Tibco BUS can simulate synchronous calls using mechanisms supported by the underlying protocols (such as temporary response queues for JMS and MQ, request-reply mode of CenturyLink-built Bus Connectors). The composite synchronous adapter activities we are covering here supports more general types of synchronous calls using two messages, such as using web service for requests and acknowledgments, and using Tibco bus to receive responses.
MDW provides an abstract base class,
com.centurylink.mdw.workflow.adapter.CompositeSynchronousAdapterBase
,
to serve as the base of any composite synchronous adapters. The class
extends PoolableAdapterBase
and also implements SuspendibleActivity
,
so it can be roughly viewed as a combination of an adapter activity for sending requests and
an event wait activity for receiving responses. Out of box we also provide
one concrete subclass, CompositeWebServiceAdapter
, that supports
using MDW WebService as the protocol for sending requests.
We note that the responses are to be received through the listener/event handler mechanisms, so
the composite adapters themselves only need to deal with request protocols but not
response protocols.
CompositeWebServiceAdapter
can server as a code example for building
your own composite synchronous adapters.
The methods you are required to implement or commonly be overridden are
mostly the same as those for (simple) adapters, and please refer
to Using Adapter Activities for the documentation.
The following describes some of the differences and additions:
getTimeoutForResponse
, onSuccess
, etc.
canBeSynchronous()
is finalized and always
returns true, and the method canBeAsynchronous()
is finalized
and always returns false.
boolean processResponse(String responseMessage)
is provided so that custom business logic can be implemented when
receiving response messages. The default method binds the response message
to the response variable if it is configured, and it returns true.
When the method returns true, the engine will complete the activity and move on.
By default, the transition is determined based on the completion code specified
in the event wait registration. You can override that by using the method
this.setReturnCode()
.
If the method returns false, the activity will keep waiting for additional messages. The work flow does not transition away and the completion code is ignored.
The following attributes are defined in the base class and should be typically included in its subclasses, which typically add request protocol specific attributes:
Request Variable
: specifies a variable that holds the request messageResponse Variable
: specifies a variable that holds the response messageLog req/resp
: a boolean value indicating whether the request and
response messages should be logged in the document tableEvents
: configure events that are to be listened for receiving
responses. You must configure this attribute for receiving responses.
See Event Wait Activity documentation for its usage.Max tries
: maximum number of retries plus one (the original try) in case of
connection failures when sending request messages. Cannot be used in service processes.Retry Interval (sec)
: number of seconds till the next retries.Acknowledgment Timeout (sec)
: timeout in seconds for getting acknowledgment
after sending requests.
Only applicable for synchronous protocols such as web servicesResponse Timeout (sec)
: timeout in seconds for waiting for responses.Status after timeout
: the activity status after timeout.
See Event Wait Activity documentation for its description.Request XSD
: a URL pointing to the XSD or other documentation for request messages.
This is for documentation purpose only and is ignored by runtime engineResponse XSD
: a URL pointing to the XSD or other documentation for response messages.
This is for documentation purpose only and is ignored by runtime engineA service process is executed in a single thread, hence it typically
cannot handle asynchronous responses using event wait activities.
For composite synchronous adapters, MDW internally implements some special
logic to allow them be used in service processes.
Rather than using standard event registration mechanism, the adapter waits
for messages synchronously within the execute
method
of the activities (namely waiting within the thread). The standard
listeners are still used to receive responses, but a special external
event handler class needs to be configured to notify waiting threads:
com.centurylink.mdw.listener.NotifySynchronousAdapterHandler
, as in the sample
event handler specification:
com.centurylink.mdw.listener.NotifySynchronousAdapterHandler?EventName=TestEvent-{//MasterRequestId}
The events here are not registered in the typical place (database tables EVENT_INSTANCE
and EVENT_WAIT_INSTANCE
), rather in some memory data structure, and this special
event handler knows where to find the special event registrations and notifies waiting threads.
In summary, the following are main differences when using the adapters inside service processes:
com.centurylink.mdw.listener.NotifySynchronousAdapterHandler
or custom
event handlers extending this class and invokes its method notifyWaitingThread
to notify waiting threads.Max tries
.processResponse()
is ignored and treated as true, namely
it can expect exactly one response message (regular processes can handle multiple response messages
for a single request).ActivityException
(which should typically be caught by the event handler
starting the service processes), rather than following DELAY
transitions as for
regular processes.For regular processes, the stubbed response replaces acknowledgment, not
the real responses. You will need to send an external event to emulate the real
responses.
For service processes, the stubbed response replaces the real responses.
If you override onSuccess()
method to process acknowledgment,
be sure to call super.onSuccess()
first, otherwise the stub response
will be null.


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Episodes
First Episode: The Perfect Steak
We learn the science of the perfect steak - and how to cook it using a home vacuum cleaner and a blowtorch.
The Fife Diet - Part 1
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Locally-sourced foods: saviour of the planet or big hippie fad? We attempt a week on the “Fife Diet”, eating only foods from the Scottish county of Fife, to find out. Part 1: to Fife!
The Fife Diet - Part 2
Locally-sourced foods: saviour of the planet or big hippie fad? We attempt a week on the “Fife Diet”, eating only foods from the Scottish county of Fife, to find out. Part 1: to Fife!
Blowtorches!
Are kitchen blowtorches highly specialised kitchen tools, or useless substitutes for a real blowtorch? We pit a kitchen blowtorch against a plumber’s blowtorch … against a hairdryer.
Mythbusting: Herbal Teas
Alex doesn’t believe that Camomile, Ginkgo or Valarian herbal teas work. So he’s testing them, with the aid of Guitar Hero, World of Warcraft, and a LOT of tea…
Normal Person vs … Gordon Ramsay
Can geek Johnnie cook Gordon f—ing Ramsay’s Brussel f—ing sprout souffle? We put the sweariest of all celeb chefs to the test.
Health Grills
We test a Health Grill. Scientifically. No, wait, that’s not right. Sureallistically. That’s it.
Mythbusting: Preheating Ovens
We investigate cooking myths - do you really need to preheat your oven or is it just a waste of energy?
Normal Person vs … Nigella Lawson
Normal People test celebrity chef recipes once again, as Alex takes on Nigella’s Double Apple Pie. Will it be scrumptious or scary?
Digital Thermometers - tested!
Digital Thermometers - total cooking revolution or big techie waste of time? Hugh attempts to convert the others to the Joy of Probes…
Blenders!
Will it blend? Or will it just splash FAIL around our kitchen? Kamikaze Cookery tests three stick blenders, investigates the wonderful world of soups and foams, and more.
Normal Person Vs… Jamie Oliver
We’re on a mission - to see whether celebrity chef recipes are any use to normal people. This week - Paul, Jamie Oliver, and a lot of pasta dough…
Mini-Episode: More Sous-Vide
Following on from The Perfect Steak, Hugh talks about other things we can cook sous-vide.
The Perfect Steak
We learn the science of the perfect steak - and how to cook it using a home vacuum cleaner and a blowtorch.
“why use high-quality ingredients and corrupt them with chemistry?”
So, I guess you’ll only be serving raw food from now on, Mr Benno? Without salt?
(Longer blog post about sous-vide in day-to-day life coming soon - I’m on deadline on another project, which is delaying things.)
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It seems to me that a lot of our disfunctional food culture problems stem from one simple assumption: that if you love food, you’ll love cooking (and, arguably, vica versa).
Jamie Oliver seems to believe that the only way to get anyone to eat healthily is to teach them to make (very long, complicated) recipes from scratch. UK and US foodie culture in general seem to hold that if you love food, you’ll automatically also love its manufacture.
Which, on the face of it, is a very odd assumption.
I love good furniture. I’m perfectly happy to spend Â£400 on an office chair if it’s the best available. But that doesn’t mean I’ve got any interest in engineering or upholstery.
I know plenty of people who are very into their computer games who can’t program their way out of a paper bag, and wouldn’t know a spline from a NURB.
There are thousands of wine buffs, but few of them own their own vineyard. And home-brewers are a very distinct beardy subsection of beer lovers.
And indeed, the idea that you have to cook all the time to love food would seem very odd in many parts of the world. Take Singapore, for example, a country which is obsessed with food to a scary degree. My understanding is that very few Singaporeans cook for themselves on a day-by-day basis. Instead, they eat out - usually at mall food courts which serve food better than most UK restaurants for about Â£2 for a firey hot main meal.
Likewise, my mother’s a very good cook and, whilst she’d probably deny it, a pretty keen foodie. But these days she lives in an apartment with a shonky electric cooker and about three pots. Why? Because in Luxembourg just about everyone who doesn’t have a family just eats out, most or all of the time, at pretty darn cheap and extremely high-quality restaurants.
This seems to be the norm in most of the world. If you think of China you think of food stalls serving just-killed snake (OK, maybe that’s just me). Japan’s a total food culture, but that’s why they leave it up to the experts. I don’t know too much about African food culture, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that it’s very similar.
But in the UK and also the US, we have the idea that if you don’t cook for yourself, you’re not interested in food.
Now that’s just wierd. Ok, I happen to like both food and the process of making it - I enjoy learning about new techniques for flavour combination, I’ll happily sit there with a whisk for 10 minutes making exactly the right consistency of whipped egg, and I’ve painstakingly developed a reasonable repetoire of knowledge about the chemistry and physics of how raw food becomes a cooked meal. But I can’t see any reason why that’s necessarily the case for everyone who likes food.  Why does enjoying a salad mean you like memorising ratios for emulsions?
There’s a lot of comment about the fact that the US, UK, and other similarly-encultured countries have an epidemic of obesity and unhealthy eating. Perhaps that’s because we refuse to give people who don’t actually enjoy cooking another healthy choice? Instead, we seem to say that if you want to eat well, you have to master a difficult, time-consuming and often tedious skill.
Why isn’t Jamie Oliver complaining about the quality of shopping center food courts?
Why isn’t there a Government commission into producing really fuckin’ excellent microwavable meals? It’s not impossible. Why aren’t there grants for reasonably-priced restaurants? If you want people to eat well, it would make sense to put some money into giving them good food.
And why do we, as foodies, persist in looking down our noses at anything that isn’t made from scratch? Why doesn’t anyone review ready meals? Let’s face it, the quality level of any product is partially determined by the feedback they get. If there was a Michelin equivalent for takeaways, you’d better believe there would be some shit-hot chippies out there. Where’s the effort toward criticising, improving, developing anything that isn’t home-cooking or an expensive restaurant? Even when some shops, like Marks and Spencers, do make an effort to produce good pre-prepared meals, we tend to treat them as things to be ashamed of eating.
It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Sure, a lot of people enjoy cooking and enjoy eating, and that’s great. But why do we persist in yoking the two together? Isn’t that unfair to people who just want to have something good to eat?
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This article speaks to me on a personal level, despite the rather shocking lack of research demonstrated about post-apocalyptic scenarios. “Never in any apocalyptic scenario in any movie I have seen - and I have seen them all - does anyone try to live off the land”, says Tanya Gold. Presumably the orignal 1970s Survivors or the 1981 BBC version of The Day of the Triffids don’t count. Or The Chrysalids or The Kraken Wakes for that matter. Or any of the Fallout series–what do you think all of those Brahmin were for? Or Strange Company’s own Rogue Farm, which even had a farm in the title.
p. So, despite the fact that Tanya Gold clearly knows next to buggerall about post-apocalyptic literature, she raises some interesting points. Could any of us survive in a wood after the collapse of civilization? For those of you who aren’t quite as obsessed with post-apocalyptic scenarios as I am, there are still important questiosn here. Pheasant is delicious, as we all know, but how many of you are actually willing to twist its head off with your own hands, and pull out its organs?
p. One of the things I like about society is that there’s always somebody willing to do the crappy jobs so I don’t have to. Tonight I’m going to raise a glass to butchers. Thanks, butchers.
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It’s that time of year - the time when the KKC team start thinking about episode ideas. We’re intending to begin shooting a single episode in the fairly near future, with Season 1 coming later in the year.
With that in mind - give us ideas! Ideas for episodes! Ideas for stuff you want to see us investigate! Ideas for celebrity chefs you want to see us test! Ideas for insane cookery techniques We Must Try!
Don’t worry about whether you think we can do it on our budget (although cheap ideas certainly are appreciated). Just splurge it out. What do you think we should be doing/eating/cooking/testing/showing/burning/exploding?
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(While I’m waiting for my blogging mojo to return, have this enlightening report from a few years back:)
I spent a considerable portion of today going around Real Shops™, which was fantastic. The shop staff at these small, independent establishments were invariably friendly, chatty and helpful, and neither Wal*Mart, Starbucks, Macdonalds or News Corporation got a penny out of me.
In a random Spanish-themed spice shop on Leven Street I picked up a phialbottle of ‘Da Bomb’; a habenero-based hot sauce described on the label as “Beyond Insanity”. It further claims to be “One of the hottest sauces on earth! Pure habanero pepper enhanced with habanero infused flavor[sic] create a sauce measured at 119,700 Scoville units”.
This reminds me of the time when Alex (not that Alex, a different one) bet that I couldn’t drink neat Tabasco sauce. I did, and I won, and while I survived the experience I won’t be doing that again unless there’s some very good reason. This stuff is somewhere between 25 to 50 times as hot as regular Tabasco0.
It’s been one of those evenings. I’ve had a nice relaxing day, I’ve had a few drinks, and I bought intriguing food items which clamour to be tried. So I tested the hotsauce. A note of clarification: by ‘tested’ I mean that I removed the various warning labels from the bottle, wiped my fingertip lightly over the (dry) top end of the bottleneck, and licked my finger.
Yaaaaaaagh.
After half an hour of lying on my back gargling about half a litre of milk1, I now feel competent enough to present this LiveJournal entry of my experiences. (And I have (hic) a sho(hic)cking case of (hic)hiccups. Excu(hic)se me.)
Yaaaaaaaagh.
“It is theorised” (Wikipedia tells me) “that the pain induced by capsaicin causes the human body to release endorphins”. I’m sorry, but just no. Endorphins are strongly associated in my mind with the high following sex, or some other pleasant experience. The sensation of lava-in-the-mouth is not one I plan on ever associating with anything I ever might want to do again2.
YaaaaaAAAAGH! heeeehhhhhh
“Symptoms of [capsaicin] overdose include difficulty breathing, blue skin, and convulsions and uncontrollable, painful nipple erections”, Wikipedia further tells me4, and I must admit that my chest has gone all tingly. I feel obliged also to observe that “The Uncontrollable, Painful Nipple-Erections” wbaenfarb.
I just spent half an hour gargling milk in order to relieve the agony. I’m not sure if I should be more concerned that the entire event was self-inflicted or that the resultant liquid I was swallowing (because there’s nowhere else to put milk once you’ve gargled it) was essentially chilli-fried bovine lactic secretions.
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fn0. Assuming that the Scoville scale is linear; I don’t know for certain and I have more important things in my mouthon my mind just now.
fn1. Capsaicin is insoluble in water, but can be soluble in dairy products; this is why you shouldn’t drink water after a hot curry, and why Lassis are sold in any reputable Indian restaurant.
fn2. Although, strangely, I’m strongly tempted to try it again, to see if the results are replicable, in the interests of Science, of course3.
fn3. Oh, the things I do for Science. Science, my harsh mistress. I’m going to stop now before people start extrapolating.
fn4.
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We often get praise for our sarcastic, British attitude to food. Well, sometimes, anyway. OK, that one time.
But we’re not the only sarcastic British people who eat. Indeed, we’re not even the most sarcastic British non-Breatharian people on the Great Intertubes.
I commend to your attention, for example, “Very Good Taste”’s post on teamaking . The writer, Andrew, has recently moved to Canada, and whilst I understand he’s actually rather enjoying it, like any decent Brit he’s not letting that stand in the way of a good rant. And this is a very good rant.
If you want to hear about some sublimely silly tea-making gadgetry (yes, OK, I did kinda want one), read and enjoy.
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Ok, that’s our CAPTCHA upgraded. With any luck it’ll keep the spammers out for a while.
Sorry about that pile o’ spam, and thanks for keeping going with all the great comments and suggestions whilst the Viagra was piling on.
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I hope everyone had a good Burns’ Night. It’s another one of those festivals I’ve never really understood. We don’t have a Shakespeare night or an Orwell night or a Joss Whedon Night. Instead, we celebrate a faintly-mediocre poet who couldn’t spell. A poet whose sole contribution to society was to sell out millennia of rich Scottish history and culture for personal gain, and the direct cause of the fact that the entire planet now thinks that we’re a race of skirt-wearing offal-munchers who can’t talk properly. I hope that, at least, the readers of this blog are aware that there is much more to Scottish culture than just Rabbie Burns.
p. This week, the demigodlike A A Gill tells us that ``cynicism is the luxury of a gluttonously overindulged society”, and that in these belt-tightening times, the world turns en masse to simpler, non-ironic pleasures, such as steak. Cynicism dead?  And there’s a subtler implication that gastro-pretension is on the way out too, which raises questions for the future of molecular gastronomy.
p. Molecular gastronomy is, it has to be said, a very indulgent practice, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but indulgence is going out of style. It’s shortly going to be terribly declasse to flaunt the fact that you have enough money to pay someone to slow-braise an entire pig for eighteen hours so that it’s just right. And when that day comes, I will be waiting with my slow-cooker, my collection of 1970s cookbooks, and a smug grin. They always come back to me in the end.
p. Perhaps the rot has begun already. I bought a bag of ratte potatoes at the Farmer’s Market this week. Theyr’e a very waxy kind of new potato, brilliant for boiling, but not all that useful for much else. The chap on the stall told me that “the Michelin chefs” (all of them, as a group, apparently) mash them in a 1:1 ratio with butter. I gave him a look and observed that, if I’d wanted mash, I would have bought different potatoes.
p. Seriously. Fifty per cent butter? That’s expensive. My initial thought wasn’t that it’s nice for them as can afford it, but just that it’s a terrible waste of good butter when you could just use potatoes suitable for mashing instead.
p. I’m still going to give it a go, of course, but only on a couple of the smaller spuds. It’s going to be an experiment, not a meal.
p. What does everyone else think? Does the credit crunch sound the death knell for innovative cuisine? Is it such a bad thing if it does? Or is a steak maybe not the harbinger A A Gill thinks it is?
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I’m currently thinking out a big post on the difference between enjoying food and enjoying cooking, which will probably arrive next week. In the meantime, though, I’ve been making some revelatory discoveries - convenience foods which are actually good!
The entire thing started when I discovered the Freshly Frozen Company’s boil-in-the-bag lamb shanks, which they claim to have been “slow cooked”, and which arrive vacuum sealed in a temperature-safe bag. Hmm. Cooked slowly in a sealed bag then frozen. Could it be…
Yep, I’m pretty sure that this stuff is basically sous-vide lamb shank, available to buy and eat whether you’ve got a water bath or not. And it’s gorgeous.  I’d prefer a slightly larger shank, and there’s generally too much sauce, but honestly, for zero-hassle food, this is pretty staggering - and you can microwave it in about 16 minutes.
They aren’t full of terrifying additives either - just xanthan gum, a couple of modified starches, and an acidity regulator I don’t recognise but looks to do roughly the same job as Sodium Citrate.
(Buy ‘em from Sainsburys in the UK - anyone know a US supplier?)
Second up, a friend of mine recommended porridge as an excellent way to start the day. My historical hatred of the stuff seems to have faded, and I was getting a bit tired of breakfasts consisting of two eggs and whatever cold meat was in the fridge (largely because eating two eggs and a pack of ham every day is expensive), so I ventured out to see what Progress had wrought.
And I discovered one of the best-designed convenience foods ever.
See, Quaker Oats have apparently been moving with the times. And since their product line is pretty simple (In that it’s “oats”), they’ve obviously had time to think about their market. Enter… the oat packet.
Small waxed packet of oats. Tear it open, dump into a bowl, fill the packet with milk (yes, it’s waterproof and designed to be exactly the right size so that you don’t need to find a measuring container), dump that in the bowl too, and microwave for just under 3 minutes.
Hot, filling, tasty breakfast. Incredibly filling, actually - to the point where I’ve nearly forgotten to eat lunch a couple of times since starting eating them. No additives at all apart from soya lecitin, which apparently stops it all boiling over in the microwave (they actually tell you this on the packet - handy tip!). 20 packs for Â£2.95.
Stonking.
And finally, that old favourite of penniless grad students and film directors - ramen. I became rather familiar with ramen a few years ago when I decided for various complicated reasons to cut wheat out of my diet for a bit. However, not all ramen are created equal.
A knowledgable friend of mine tells me that the quality of ramen can easily be determined by the number of different packets of sauce and flavouring you get with the noodles. One packet - bad. (Mmm, Supernoodles). Two packets - OK. Four packets? Well, that’s Indomie.
Mostly offering Indonesian-style dishes like Nasi Goreng, I was absolutely stunned at the taste of these 30p ramen when I discovered them a month or so ago.
They’re pretty heavy on the MSG, so if you dislike that you’re not going to be a fan, but otherwise they’re incredible. Fry an egg and some vegetables to go with them, and you’ve got a dish that you probably couldn’t tell came from a ramen packet. In five minutes. For a decent lunch. For 30p.
There’s some damn good convenience food out there these days. Anything you’d recommend? Or are there things out there you’d recommend that we avoid at all costs, instead?
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Aargh, we seem to be under heavy assault from the viagra spammers. I’m (more or less, technically) on holiday this week, so a decent fix will have to wait a few days, but I’ll keep picking ‘em up.
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“If in peacetime we tell every Airman how to do everything, how can we possibly expect, in wartime, we will suddenly be able to take the initiative and prevail in highly contested combat?” –Secretary Heather Wilson
Join USIn January 2016, leaders at Travis Air Force Base (AFB) issued a grand challenge: how do we leverage our Airmen’s ingenuity and the technical expertise in Silicon Valley to bring tomorrow’s capabilities to the Warfighter today? From this challenge, the Travis AFB Innovation Office was formed- a volunteer group that connects the military's operational experts with industry and academia's problem-solvers. These partnerships bolstered innovation efforts within the Air Force, created a forum to solve base-level capability gaps, and allowed for the discovery of previously unknown opportunities. Ultimately, it enhanced mission effectiveness across the enterprise.
The Travis AFB Innovation Office fostered a grassroots movement which incorporated operational experts into the design and development processes. Through an iterative solution framework, they were able to agiley respond to the Warfighters' needs. This model gained the attention of the Air Mobility Command (AMC) commander. In April of 2017, the AMC commander chartered Phoenix Spark- an intiative to further grassroots innovation. As the inaugural Phoenix Spark Cell, Travis AFB is the role model for future Spark programs. By continuously learning as an organization, inspiring a culture of innovation, and empowering Airmen to lead at every level, Phoenix Spark is delivering tomorrow’s innovative capabilities to the warfighter today.
Implementing advances in 3D-Printing, Robotics, and Data Analysis; Positioning the Air Force at the cutting edge of technology.
Encouraging experimentation and embracing failure as learning opportunities; Expanding the boundaries of what is possible.
Building relationships with private and public organizations; Learning and growing through these partnerships.
Enhancing the knowledge of each Airman; Providing the capability to overcome challenges as they arise on the frontline.


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ARK2D
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It's a Circle! It's computationally expensive to render circles because it's one more point per smoothness. More...
#include <Circle.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| Circle () | |
| Circle (T x, T y, T r) | |
| virtual T | getMinX () |
| virtual T | getMaxX () |
| virtual T | getCenterX () |
| virtual T | getMinY () |
| virtual T | getMaxY () |
| virtual T | getCenterY () |
| virtual T | getWidth () |
| virtual T | getHeight () |
| virtual T | getRadius () |
| virtual void | setRadius (T radius) |
| virtual void | setX (T x) |
| virtual void | setY (T y) |
| virtual void | setLocation (T x, T y) |
| virtual void | setLocationByCenter (T x, T y) |
| virtual void | setXByCenter (T x) |
| virtual void | setYByCenter (T y) |
| virtual void | adjustX (T x) |
| virtual void | adjustY (T y) |
| virtual void | setLocationByAlignment (T x, T y, signed int alignX, signed int alignY) |
| virtual bool | contains (T x, T y) |
| virtual bool | collides (Shape< T > *s) |
| virtual void | resolve (Shape< T > *s) |
| virtual void | render () |
| virtual | ~Circle () |
| Public Member Functions inherited from ARK::Geometry::Shape< T > | |
| Shape () | |
| virtual bool | isOffscreen () |
| virtual bool | isOffscreen (signed int minX, signed int minY, signed int maxX, signed int maxY) |
| virtual bool | isPartlyOffscreen () |
| Rectangle< T > * | asRectangle () |
| Circle< T > * | asCircle () |
| Polygon< T > * | asPolygon () |
| virtual | ~Shape () |
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| Static Public Member Functions inherited from ARK::Geometry::Shape< T > | |
| static bool | collision_circleCircle (T x1, T y1, T r1, T x2, T y2, T r2) |
| static bool | collision_circleCircleVec (T *result, T x1, T y1, T r1, T x2, T y2, T r2) |
| static bool | collision_cubeCube (T x1, T y1, T z1, T w1, T h1, T d1, T x2, T y2, T z2, T w2, T h2, T d2) |
| static Vector3< T > | collision_cubeCubeVec (T x1, T y1, T z1, T w1, T h1, T d1, T x2, T y2, T z2, T w2, T h2, T d2) |
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| static bool | collision_rectangleLine (T x1, T y1, T w1, T h1, T x2, T y2, T x3, T y3) |
| static bool | collision_rectangleLine_pos (T *result, T x1, T y1, T w1, T h1, T x2, T y2, T x3, T y3, bool filled) |
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| static bool | collision_circleRectangle (T x1, T y1, T r1, T x2, T y2, T w2, T h2) |
| static bool | collision_lineLine (T x1, T y1, T x2, T y2, T x3, T y3, T x4, T y4) |
| static bool | collision_lineLine_pos (T *result, T x1, T y1, T x2, T y2, T x3, T y3, T x4, T y4) |
| static bool | collision_polygonLine (Polygon< T > *one, T x1, T y1, T x2, T y2) |
| static bool | collision_polygonPolygon_resolve (T *result, Polygon< T > *one, Polygon< T > *two) |
| static bool | collision_polygonPolygon (Polygon< T > *one, Polygon< T > *two) |
| static bool | collision_polygonRectangle (Polygon< T > *one, T x, T y, T w, T h) |
| static bool | collision_polygonRectangle (Polygon< T > *one, Rectangle< T > *rect) |
| static bool | collision_polygonRectangle_pos (T *result, Polygon< T > *one, Rectangle< T > *rect) |
| static bool | collision_polygonCircle (Polygon< T > *one, T x1, T y1, T r1) |
It's a Circle! It's computationally expensive to render circles because it's one more point per smoothness.
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Before Change
def test_zipalign_binary(self):
with self.distribution() as dist:
with self.android_binary() as android_binary:
task = self.prepare_task(args=["--test-sdk-path={0}".format(dist)],
build_graph=self.build_graph,
build_file_parser=self.build_file_parser)
target = android_binary
self.assertEqual(task.zipalign_binary(target),
os.path.join(dist, "build-tools", target.build_tools_version, "zipalign"))
After Change
task = self.create_task(self.context())
task.execute()
def test_zipalign_binary(self):
with distribution() as dist:
with self.android_binary() as android_binary:
self.set_options(sdk_path=dist)
task = self.create_task(self.context())
target = android_binary
self.assertEqual(task.zipalign_binary(target),
os.path.join(dist, "build-tools", target.build_tools_version, "zipalign"))


What is Hubble.golf?
Hubble.golf is the authoritative source for the aspiring professional golfer. "All things golf!"
Hubble.golf is the authoritative source for the aspiring professional golfer. "All things golf!"
Planning a professional season.
By separating professional events, we were able to bring map filtering capabilities to golfers. Significantly saving time for when planning a season.
Our main feature was listing our events chronologically and pointing to them on an interactive map. That way travel could be taken into account when planning.
Most importantly we gave golfers a way to save their tournaments to look back on later and have a roadmap to use for travel.
Save tournaments on separate lists to compare.
Go to the tournament's official page to register.
When your season is official, you can share it with your peers.
Providing more services for the players.
Tour Manager's can host tournaments on our app and get important data on attendies.
Professional Golfers can make their schedule public for their fans to follow. Also they can connect to other players, owners, and service providers alike.
Beyond tournaments, players can connect to services on the road such as medical, physical training, and housing.


- saveInfo() - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.CreateRecipeActivity
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Function that saves the users text that they have entered.
- saveInfo() - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ViewFullRecipeActivity
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- saveRecipe(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.StorageHandler
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Saves the passed recipe into external storage.
- saveRecipeCache(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.StorageHandler
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Saves the passed recipe into cache.
- scrollView1 - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.id
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- scrollView2 - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.id
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- search - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.menu
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- search_users - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.menu
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- SearchActivity - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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Class that allows the user to search for other recipes.
- SearchActivity() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SearchActivity
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- SearchHandler - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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- SearchHandler() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SearchHandler
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- searchIngredients(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.NetworkHandler
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Allows for a search of recipes based on ingredients on hand
- SearchKeyword - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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- SearchKeyword() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SearchKeyword
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- searchRecipes(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.NetworkHandler
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Searches for a recipe based on keywords.
- searchResults - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.id
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- SearchUsersActivity - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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Class that allows the user to search for other users.
- SearchUsersActivity() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SearchUsersActivity
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- send_email - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.menu
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- send_to_friend - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.menu
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- SendEmailActivity - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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- SendEmailActivity() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SendEmailActivity
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- SendToFriendActivity - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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- SendToFriendActivity() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SendToFriendActivity
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- setCurrentRecipe(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.GlobalApplication
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Sets the current Recipe.
- setCurrentuser(User) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.GlobalApplication
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Sets the current user.
- setEmailAddress(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.User
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- setImage(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.CreateRecipeActivity
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Function that sets the image for the recipe.
- setImage(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ViewFullRecipeActivity
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- setInfo(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.CreateRecipeActivity
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Function that takes the info of the recipe being edited and puts in into
the text fields.
- setInfo(Recipe) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ViewFullRecipeActivity
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Function that takes the info of the recipe being edited and puts in into
the text fields.
- setMeasurement(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.Ingredient
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- setName(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.Ingredient
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- setPassword(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.User
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- setPhoneNumber(int) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.User
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- setQuantity(int) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.Ingredient
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- setScreenName(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.User
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- setUpListView() - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.AddIngredientsActivity
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Function that sets up the list view that contains the ingredients.
- setUpListView() - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ManagePantryActivity
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Function that sets up the list view that contains the ingredients.
- setUpSpinner() - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.AddIngredientsActivity
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Function that sets up the ingredient measurement spinner.
- setUpSpinner() - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ManagePantryActivity
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Function that sets up the ingredient measurement spinner.
- setUserName(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.User
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- showMessage(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.AddIngredientsActivity
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Shows a message to the user in the current activity
- showMessage(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.CreateRecipeActivity
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Function that displays a message to the user in the current activity
- showMessage(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ViewFullRecipeActivity
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Function that displays a message to the user in the current activity
- showMessage(String) - Method in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.ViewRecipesActivity
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Function that shows the user a message in the current activity
- sign_up - Static variable in class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.R.menu
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- SignUpActivity - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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Class that allows the user to sign up for our service.
- SignUpActivity() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.SignUpActivity
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- StorageHandler - Class in ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook
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Class that handles the local storage of files on the device.
- StorageHandler() - Constructor for class ca.ualberta.cs.oneclick_cookbook.StorageHandler
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Amount of delay between tabs being opened
Lists will be automatically opened when selected
Enable a simple dark version of the app
Should new tabs be opened as 'Active'
Enable Bulk URL Opener context menus


About Air Quality Standards in India
Air quality is measured with the Air Quality Index, or AQI. The AQI works like a thermometer that runs from 0 to 500 degrees. However, instead of showing changes in the temperature, the AQI is a way of showing changes in the amount of pollution in the air.
What is in the air?
The air in our atmosphere is mostly made up of two gases that are essential for life on Earth: nitrogen and oxygen. However, the air also contains smaller amounts of many other gases and particles. AQI tracks five major air pollutants:
- Ground level ozone
- Carbon monoxide
- Sulfur dioxide
- Nitrogen dioxide
- Airborne particles, or aerosols
Information about Pollutants
Detailed informationof each of the major pollutant that we observed in air and what are their ill-effects.
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Breathing air with a high concentration of CO reduces the amount of oxygen that can be transported in the blood stream to critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, which are possible indoors or in other enclosed environments, CO can cause dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and death.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
The main effect of breathing in raised levels of nitrogen dioxide is the increased likelihood of respiratory problems. Nitrogen dioxide inflames the lining of the lungs, and it can reduce immunity to lung infections. This can cause problems such as wheezing, coughing, colds, flu and bronchitis. Increased levels of nitrogen dioxide can have significant impacts on people with asthma because it can cause more frequent and more intense attacks. Children with asthma and older people with heart disease are most at risk.
Ozone (O3)
Breathing ozone can trigger a variety of health problems including chest pain, coughing, throat irritation, and airway inflammation. It also can reduce lung function and harm lung tissue. Ozone can worsen bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma.
Particulate Matter 10
Exposure to high concentrations of PM10 can result in a number of health impacts ranging from coughing and wheezing to asthma attacks and bronchitis to high blood pressure, heart attack, strokes and premature death.


{# delete-store.html is used to delete a store #} {%- extends "childs/delete-component.html" %} {% import "base/macros.html" as macros %} {% block delete_h1 %}Delete Store {{ store.country_code }} {{ store.number }} - {{ store.name }}{%- endblock delete_h1 %} {% block main%}


Stretch background image using CSS3 background-size: cover; and background-size: contain;, in IE8 too. Reacts to resize events for responsive backgrounds and galeries!
background-size: cover;
background-size: contain;
Instructions - Downloads


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Is there a lean module for working with rational numbers? There are some messages here about a type 'rat'/ℚ, but the lean repository doesn't show anything.
See data/rat.lean
in the mathlib repository.
Last updated: Apr 24 2020 at 19:02 UTC


You the create button. You deserve a break for your hard work.
Double check AD to make sure this user hasn't been created already, or change the user name.


The examples below will who you how to call FlashHelp Context Sensitively from a HTML Page. Before getting started I would read the Help file that I have created for this project which you can find Here.
Here is the syntax used:
Click Here to Test
Here is the syntax used to display the Search tab:
Click Here to Test
Or the syntax used to display the Index tab:
Click Here to Test
Here is the syntax used:
First", HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 7)'>Click Here to Test
Click Here to TestHere is the syntax used:
SecondWindow", HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 1)'>Click Here to Test
Click Here to Test


{% extends "console/console.html" %} {% block console_body %} {% include "console/components/notifications/breadcrumbs.html" with base_page="Settings" base_page_url="/settings" current_page="Data Collection" %} {% endblock console_body %}


Winnipeg 'Shorts Guy' gets much-welcomed wardrobe change with Bomber win
by Tim Salzen, Ticker Producer/News WriterWINNIPEG – Thanks to the Blue Bombers' decisive Grey Cup win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday, a die-hard Winnipeg fan finally gets to wear pants for the first time in 18 years.
In January CTV News first shared with you the story of Chris Matthew. In 2001, he was wearing shorts when the Bombers were getting set to battle the Stampeders in the 89th Grey Cup. He promised his friends he'd keep wearing shorts until they won the championship.
Thanks to the team’s 33-12 win over Hamilton, Matthew is finally due for a wardrobe upgrade and told CTV News he has plans to go shopping.
On Sunday, he made good on his promise to change his look. Matthew was in Calgary Sunday to cheer the team on and he got to see them win in person.
As the video clip of him putting on an old pair of grey camo sweat pants began to circulate on social media, would-be fashion critics had plenty of comments on his fashion choice.
Matthew says he didn’t have a lot of pants to choose from. Those were his only pair that still fit.
In a Monday morning interview with CTV News, Matthew said now that he can wear pants again, he’ll need to shop for a new pair or two.
“I did have one pair that I wore just to funerals, but that pair is a little too dressy. I’ll probably have to buy a new pair of jeans or two,” Matthew said.
He said his wife is happy the Bombers’ victory means the end of his pledge, even though she’d grown accustomed to it over the last 18 years.
“She’s happy because now if we need to go somewhere that pants are required, we can actually go there,” Matthew said.
READ MORE:
A Grey Cup win could end 17-year streak without pants for Bombers fan
Blue Bomber fan's 17-year-old vow has him wearing shorts in extreme conditions


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| ETA (driving): 8 min |
| Credit? Y |
| Cash? Y |
| Budget: < $5 |
| Wi-fi? Y |
| Hours M-F: 7am-7pm Weekend: 10am-6pm |
MMM!!! So Yummy!!! This place never gets as good as it gets!!! I love Froyo and I really LOVE the fact that Yogurtland has real yogurt from real cows!!! Next, I put 4 flavors of yogurt which are: Dutch Chocolate, Cookies n' Creme, Oatmeal Cookie(Never Tried Before), and Fudge Brownie(Personally My Favorite Here!!!)! Then, I chose my toppings on my yogurt which are: Chocolate Chips, and Raisin Bran(Just to have a little fruit)! Finally, I dig in the Deliciousness, and it is DELICIOUSNESS!!! I always know that this place is to DIE FOR!!! And this was my first time here!
They always have different seasonal flavors like mexican hot chocolate, which is a big plus for me. Variety is super important when it comes to sustenance. There is sooo much out there, you just have to try as much as possible. Overall, this place is great for everyone. It is supposed to be healthier for you than ice cream, but with all the bonuses I don't think that statement is applicable. So lets just enjoy the yummyness that it brings!
Best frozen yogurt on the planet! This location often has the coffee flavor, which is sooooo good! Two things that are tough with this location though is the parking (when there is an event - forget it - parking is non-existent) and the fact that the music is blaring, so you can't even hear the staff. Their voices are barely above a whisper. They either have to speak up, or they need to turn down the music just a bit. Seriously, it's louder than Abercrombie and Fitch in that place. I wouldn't deduct any stars for that though, since it's not the yogurt's fault!


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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass leaving memories that become legend, then fade to myth, and are long forgot when that Age comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Dhoom. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
Born among black, knife-edged peaks, where death roamed the high passes yet hid from things still more dangerous, the wind blew south across the tangled forest of the Great Blight, a forest tainted and twisted by the touch of the Dark One. The sickly sweet smell of corruption faded by the time the wind crossed that invisible line men called the border of Shienar, where spring flowers hung thick in the trees. It should have been summer by now, but spring had been late in coming, and the land had run wild to catch up. New-come pale green bristled on every bush, and red new growth tipped every tree branch. The wind rippled farmers’ fields like verdant ponds, solid with crops that almost seemed to creep upward visibly.
The smell of death was all but gone long before the wind reached the stone-walled town of Fal Dara on its hills, and whipped around a tower of the fortress in the very center of the town, a tower atop which two men seemed to dance. Hard-walled and high, Fal Dara, both keep and town, never taken, never betrayed. The wind moaned across wood-shingled rooftops, around tall stone chimneys and taller towers, moaned like a dirge.
Stripped to the waist, Rand al’Thor shivered at the wind’s cold caress, and his fingers flexed on the long hilt of the practice sword he held.  A faint odor in the swirl of air made his nose twitch, but he did not connect the smell with the image of an old grave fresh-opened that flashed through his head. He was barely aware of odor or image at all; he strove to keep his mind empty, but the other man sharing the tower top with him kept intruding on the emptiness. Ten paces across, the tower top was, encircled by a chest-high, crenellated wall. Big enough and more not to feel crowded, except when shared with a Warder.
Young as he was, Rand was taller than most men, but Lan stood just as tall and more heavily muscled, if not quite so broad in the shoulders. A narrow band of braided leather held the Warder’s long hair back from his face, a face that seemed made from stony planes and angles, a face unlined as if to belie the tinge of gray at his temples. Despite the heat and exertion, only a light coat of sweat glistened on his chest and arms. Rand searched Lan’s icy blue eyes, hunting for some hint of what the other man intended. The Warder never seemed to blink, and the practice sword in his hands moved surely and smoothly as he flowed from one stance to another.
With a bundle of thin, loosely bound staves in place of a blade, the practice sword would make a loud clack when it struck anything, and leave a welt where it hit flesh. Rand knew all too well. Three thin red lines stung on his ribs, and another burned his shoulder. It had taken all his efforts not to wear more decorations. Lan bore not a mark.
As he had been taught, Rand formed a single flame in his mind and concentrated on it, tried to feed all emotion and passion into it, to form a void within himself, with even thought outside. Emptiness came. As was too often the case of late it was not a perfect emptiness; the flame still remained, or some sense of light sending ripples through the stillness. But it was enough, barely. The cool peace of the void crept over him, and he was one with the practice sword, with the smooth stones under his boots, even with Lan. All was one, and he moved without thought in a rhythm that matched the Warder’s step for step and move for move.
The wind rose again, bringing the ringing of bells from the town. Somebody’s still celebrating that spring has finally come. The extraneous thought fluttered through the void on waves of light, disturbing the emptiness, and as if the Warder could read Rand’s mind, the practice sword whirled in Lan’s hands.
For a long minute the swift clack-clack-clack of bundled lathes meeting filled the tower top. Rand made no effort to reach the other man; it was all he could do to keep the Warder’s strikes from reaching him. Turning Lan’s blows at the last possible moment, he was forced back. Lan’s expression never changed; the practice sword seemed alive in his hands. Abruptly the Warder’s swinging slash changed in mid-motion to a thrust. Caught by surprise, Rand stepped back, already wincing with the blow he knew he could not stop this time.
The wind howled across the tower . . . and trapped him. It was as if the air had suddenly jelled, holding him in a cocoon. Pushing him forward. Time and motion slowed; horrified, he watched Lan’s practice sword drift toward his chest. There was nothing slow or soft about the impact. His ribs creaked as if he had been struck with a hammer. He grunted, but the wind would not allow him to give way; it still carried him forward, instead. The lathes of Lan’s practice sword flexed and bent—ever so slowly, it seemed to Rand—then shattered, sharp points oozing toward his heart, jagged lathes piercing his skin. Pain lanced through his body; his whole skin felt slashed. He burned as though the sun had flared to crisp him like bacon in a pan.
With a shout, he threw himself stumbling back, falling against the stone wall.
“And what was that fool move, sheepherder?” Lan grated. “You know better by now, or should unless you have forgotten everything I’ve tried to teach you. How badly are you—?” He cut off as Rand looked up at him.
“The wind.” Rand’s mouth was dry. “It—it pushed me! It . . . It was solid as a wall!”
The Warder stared at him in silence, then offered a hand. Rand took it and let himself be pulled to his feet.
“Strange things can happen this close to the Blight,” Lan said finally, but for all the flatness of the words he sounded troubled. That in itself was strange. Warders, those half-legendary warriors who served the Aes Sedai, seldom showed emotion, and Lan showed little even for a Warder. He tossed the shattered lathe sword aside and leaned against the wall where their real swords lay, out of the way of their practice.
“Not like that,” Rand protested. He joined the other man, squatting with his back against the stone. That way the top of the wall was higher than his head, protection of a kind from the wind. If it was a wind. No wind had ever felt . . . solid . . . like that. “Peace!  ” Lan shrugged as if that explained everything. “How long before you leave, sheepherder? A month since you said you were going, and I thought you’d be three weeks gone by now.”
Rand stared up at him in surprise. He’s acting like nothing happened! Frowning, he set down the practice sword and lifted his real sword to his knees, fingers running along the long, leather-wrapped hilt inset with a bronze heron. Another bronze heron stood on the scabbard, and yet another was scribed on the sheathed blade.  Any sword, much less one with a blademaster’s mark. He was a farmer from the Two Rivers, so far away, now. Maybe far away forever, now. He was a shepherd like his father—I was a shepherd. What am I now?—and his father had given him a heron-marked sword. Tam is my father, no matter what anybody says. He wished his own thoughts did not sound as if he was trying to convince himself.
Again Lan seemed to read his mind. “In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.”
Scowling, Rand ignored the Warder’s words. It was no one’s business but his own. “I want to learn how to use this. I need to.” It had caused him problems, carrying a heron-marked sword. Not everybody knew what it meant, or even noticed it, but even so a heron-mark blade, especially in the hands of a youth barely old enough to be called a man, still attracted the wrong sort of attention. “I’ve been able to bluff sometimes, when I could not run, and I’ve been lucky, besides. But what happens when I can’t run, and I can’t bluff, and my luck runs out?”
“You could sell it,” Lan said carefully. “That blade is rare even among heron-mark swords. It would fetch a pretty price.”
“No!” It was an idea he had thought of more than once, but he rejected it now for the same reason he always had, and more fiercely for coming from someone else. As long as I keep it, I have the right to call Tam father. He gave it to me, and it gives me the right. “I thought any heron-mark blade was rare.”
Lan gave him a sidelong look. “Tam didn’t tell you, then? He must know. Perhaps he didn’t believe. Many do not.” He snatched up his own sword, almost the twin of Rand’s except for the lack of herons, and whipped off the scabbard. The blade, slightly curved and single-edged, glittered silvery in the sunlight.
It was the sword of the kings of Malkier. Lan did not speak of it—he did not even like others to speak of it—but al’Lan Mandragoran was Lord of the Seven Towers, Lord of the Lakes, and uncrowned King of Malkier. The Seven Towers were broken now, and the Thousand Lakes the lair of unclean things. Malkier lay swallowed by the Great Blight, and of all the Malkieri lords, only one still lived.
Some said Lan had become a Warder, bonding himself to an Aes Sedai, so he could seek death in the Blight and join the rest of his blood. Rand had indeed seen Lan put himself in harm’s way seemingly without regard for his own safety, but far beyond his own life and safety he held those of Moiraine, the Aes Sedai who held his bond. Rand did not think Lan would truly seek death while Moiraine lived.
Turning his blade in the light, Lan spoke. “In the War of the Shadow, the One Power itself was used as a weapon, and weapons were made with the One Power. Some weapons used the One Power, things that could destroy an entire city at one blow, lay waste to the land for leagues. Just as well those were all lost in the Breaking; just as well no one remembers the making of them. But there were simpler weapons, too, for those who would face Myrddraal, and worse things the Dreadlords made, blade to blade.
“With the One Power, Aes Sedai drew iron and other metals from the earth, smelted them, formed and wrought them. All with the Power. Swords, and other weapons, too. Many that survived the Breaking of the World were destroyed by men who feared and hated Aes Sedai work, and others have vanished with the years. Few remain, and few men truly know what they are. There have been legends of them, swollen tales of swords that seemed to have a power of their own. You’ve heard the gleemen’s tales. The reality is enough. Blades that will not shatter or break, and never lose their edge. I’ve seen men sharpening them—playing at sharpening, as it were—but only because they could not believe a sword did not need it after use. All they ever did was wear away their oilstones.
“Those weapons the Aes Sedai made, and there will never be others. When it was done, war and Age ended together, with the world shattered, with more dead unburied than there were alive and those alive fleeing, trying to find some place, any place, of safety, with every second woman weeping because she’d never see husband or sons again; when it was done, the Aes Sedai who still lived swore they would never again make a weapon for one man to kill another. Every Aes Sedai swore it, and every woman of them since has kept that oath. Even the Red Ajah, and they care little what happens to any male.
“One of those swords, a plain soldier’s sword”—with a faint grimace, almost sad, if the Warder could be said to show emotion, he slid the blade back into its sheath—“became something more. On the other hand, those made for lord-generals, with blades so hard no bladesmith could mark them, yet marked already with a heron, those blades became sought after.”
Rand’s hands jerked away from the sword propped on his knees. It toppled, and instinctively he grabbed it before it hit the floorstones. “You mean Aes Sedai made this? I thought you were talking about your sword.”
“Not all heron-mark blades are Aes Sedai work. Few men handle a sword with the skill to be named blademaster and be awarded a heron-mark blade, but even so, not enough Aes Sedai blades remain for more than a handful to have one. Most come from master bladesmiths; the finest steel men can make, yet still wrought by a man’s hands. But that one, sheepherder . . . that one could tell a tale of three thousand years and more.”
“I can’t get away from them,” Rand said, “can I?” He balanced the sword in front of him on scabbard point; it looked no different than it had before he knew. “Aes Sedai work.” But Tam gave it to me. My father gave it to me. He refused to think of how a Two Rivers shepherd had come by a heron-mark blade. There were dangerous currents in such thoughts, deeps he did not want to explore.
“Do you really want to get away, sheepherder? I’ll ask again. Why are you not gone, then? The sword?  You have quick wrists, good balance, and you don’t make the same mistake twice. But I do not have five years to give over to teaching you, and you do not have five years for learning. You have not even one year, and you know it. As it is, you will not stab yourself in the foot. You hold yourself as if the sword belongs at your waist, sheepherder, and most village bullies will sense it. But you’ve had that much almost since the day you put it on. So why are you still here?”
“Mat and Perrin are still here,” Rand mumbled. “I don’t want to leave before they do. I won’t ever—I might not see them again for—for years, maybe.”  “Blood and ashes! At least they just think I’m crazy not to go home with them. Half the time Nynaeve looks at me like I’m six years old and I’ve skinned my knee, and she’s going to make it better; the other half she looks like she’s seeing a stranger. One she might offend if she looks too closely, at that. She’s a Wisdom, and besides that, I don’t think she’s ever been afraid of anything, but she . . . ” He shook his head. “And Egwene. Burn me! She knows why I have to go, but every time I mention it she looks at me, and I knot up inside and . . . ” He closed his eyes, pressing the sword hilt against his forehead as if he could press what he was thinking out of existence. “I wish . . . I wish . . . ”
“You wish everything could be the way it was, sheepherder? Or you wish the girl would go with you instead of to Tar Valon? You think she’ll give up becoming an Aes Sedai for a life of wandering? With you? If you put it to her in the right way, she might. Love is an odd thing.” Lan sounded suddenly weary. “As odd a thing as there is.”
“No.” It was what he had been wishing, that she would want to go with him. He opened his eyes and squared his back and made his voice firm. “No, I wouldn’t let her come with me if she did ask.” He could not do that to her. But Light, wouldn’t it be sweet, just for a minute, if she said she wanted to? “She gets muley stubborn if she thinks I’m trying to tell her what to do, but I can still protect her from that.” He wished she were back home in Emond’s Field, but all hope of that had gone the day Moiraine came to the Two Rivers. “Even if it means she does become an Aes Sedai!” The corner of his eye caught Lan’s raised eyebrow, and he flushed.
“And that is all the reason? You want to spend as much time as you can with your friends from home before they go? That’s why you’re dragging your feet? You know what’s sniffing at your heels.”
Rand surged angrily to his feet. “All right, it’s Moiraine! I wouldn’t even be here if not for her, and she won’t as much as talk to me.”
“You’d be dead if not for her, sheepherder,” Lan said flatly, but Rand rushed on.
“She tells me . . . tells me horrible things about myself”—his knuckles whitened on the sword. That I’m going to go mad and die!—“and then suddenly she won’t even say two words to me. She acts as if I’m no different than the day she found me, and that smells wrong, too.”
“You want her to treat you like what you are?”
“No! I don’t mean that. Burn me, I don’t know what I mean half the time. I don’t want that, and I’m scared of the other.  ”
“I told you she needs to be alone sometimes. It isn’t for you, or anyone else, to question her actions.”
“ . . . without telling anybody where she was going, or when she’d be back, or even if she would be back. She has to be able to tell me something to help me, Lan. Something. She has to. If she ever comes back.”
“She’s back, sheepherder. Last night. But I think she has told you all she can. Be satisfied. You’ve learned what you can from her.” With a shake of his head, Lan’s voice became brisk. “You certainly aren’t learning anything standing there. Time for a little balance work. Go through Parting the Silk, beginning from Heron Wading in the Rushes. Remember that that Heron form is only for practicing balance. Anywhere but doing forms, it leaves you wide open; you can strike home from it, if you wait for the other man to move first, but you’ll never avoid his blade.”
“She has to be able to tell me something, Lan. That wind. It wasn’t natural, and I don’t care how close to the Blight we are.”
“Heron Wading in the Rushes, sheepherder. And mind your wrists.”
From the south came a faint peal of trumpets, a rolling fanfare slowly growing louder, accompanied by the steady thrum-thrum-THRUM-thrum of drums. For a moment Rand and Lan stared at each other, then the drums drew them to the tower wall to stare southward.
The city stood on high hills, the land around the city walls cleared to ankle height for a full mile in all directions, and the keep covered the highest hill of all. From the tower top, Rand had a clear view across the chimneys and roofs to the forest. The drummers appeared first from the trees, a dozen of them, drums lifting as they stepped to their own beat, mallets whirling. Next came trumpeters, long, shining horns raised, still calling the flourish. At that distance Rand could not make out the huge, square banner whipping in the wind behind them. Lan grunted, though; the Warder had eyes like a snow eagle.
Rand glanced at him, but the Warder said nothing, his eyes intent on the column emerging from the forest. Mounted men in armor rode out of the trees, and women on horseback, too. Then a palanquin borne by horses, one before and one behind, its curtains down, and more men on horseback. Ranks of men afoot, pikes rising above them like a bristle of long thorns, and archers with their bows held slanted across their chests, all stepping to the drums. The trumpets cried again. Like a singing serpent the column wound its way toward Fal Dara.
The wind flapped the banner, taller than a man, straight out to one side. As big as it was, it was close enough now for Rand to see clearly. A swirl of colors that meant nothing to him, but at the heart of it, a shape like a pure white teardrop. His breath froze in his throat. The Flame of Tar Valon.
“Ingtar’s with them.” Lan sounded as if his thoughts were elsewhere. “Back from his hunting at last. Been gone long enough. I wonder if he had any luck?”
“Aes Sedai,” Rand whispered when he finally could. All those women out there . . . Moiraine was Aes Sedai, yes, but he had traveled with her, and if he did not entirely trust her, at least he knew her. Or thought he did. But she was only one. So many Aes Sedai together, and coming like this, was something else again. He cleared his throat; when he spoke, his voice grated. “Why so many, Lan? Why any at all? And with drums and trumpets and a banner to announce them.”
Aes Sedai were respected in Shienar, at least by most people, and the rest respectfully feared them, but Rand had been in places where it was different, where there was only the fear, and often hate. Where he had grown up, some men, at least, spoke of “Tar Valon witches” as they would speak of the Dark One. He tried to count the women, but they kept no ranks or order, moving their horses around to converse with one another or with whoever was in the palanquin. Goose bumps covered him. He had traveled with Moiraine, and met another Aes Sedai, and he had begun to think of himself as worldly. Nobody ever left the Two Rivers, or almost nobody, but he had. He had seen things no one back in the Two Rivers had ever laid eyes on, done things they had only dreamed of, if they had dreamed so far. He had seen a queen and met the Daughter-Heir of Andor, faced a Myrddraal and traveled the Ways, and none of it had prepared him for this moment.
“Why so many?” he whispered again.
“The Amyrlin Seat’s come in person.” Lan looked at him, his expression as hard and unreadable as a rock. “Your lessons are done, sheepherder.” He paused then, and Rand almost thought there was sympathy on his face. That could not be, of course. “Better for you if you were a week gone.” With that the Warder snatched up his shirt and disappeared down the ladder into the tower.
Rand worked his mouth, trying to get a little moisture. He stared at the column approaching Fal Dara as if it really were a snake, a deadly viper. The drums and trumpets sang, loud in his ears. The Amyrlin Seat, who ordered the Aes Sedai. She’s come because of me. He could think of no other reason.
They knew things, had knowledge that could help him, he was sure. And he did not dare ask any of them. He was afraid they had come to gentle him. And afraid they haven’t, too, he admitted reluctantly. Light, I don’t know which scares me more.
“I didn’t mean to channel the Power,” he whispered. “It was an accident! Light, I don’t want anything to do with it. I swear I’ll never touch it again! I swear it!”
With a start, he realized that the Aes Sedai party was entering the city gates. The wind swirled up fiercely, chilling his sweat like droplets of ice, making the trumpets sound like sly laughter; he thought he could smell an opened grave, strong in the air. My grave, if I keep standing here.
Grabbing his shirt, he scrambled down the ladder and began to run.


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""" Union-find data structure. """ # Copyright (C) 2004-2011 by # Aric Hagberg<EMAIL_ADDRESS># Dan Schult<EMAIL_ADDRESS># Pieter Swart<EMAIL_ADDRESS># All rights reserved. # BSD license.
"""Union-find data structure.
Each unionFind instance X maintains a family of disjoint sets of hashable objects, supporting the following two methods:
- X[item] returns a name for the set containing the given item. Each set is named by an arbitrarily-chosen one of its members; as long as the set remains unchanged it will keep the same name. If the item is not yet part of a set in X, a new singleton set is created for it.
- X.union(item1, item2, ...) merges the sets containing each item into a single larger set. If any item is not yet part of a set in X, it is added to X as one of the members of the merged set.
Union-find data structure. Based on Josiah Carlson's code, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/215912 with significant additional changes by D. Eppstein. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/UnionFind.py
"""
"""Create a new empty union-find structure.""" self.weights = {} self.parents = {}
"""Find and return the name of the set containing the object."""
# check for previously unknown object if object not in self.parents: self.parents[object] = object self.weights[object] = 1 return object
# find path of objects leading to the root path = [object] root = self.parents[object] while root != path[-1]: path.append(root) root = self.parents[root]
# compress the path and return for ancestor in path: self.parents[ancestor] = root return root
"""Iterate through all items ever found or unioned by this structure.""" return iter(self.parents)
"""Find the sets containing the objects and merge them all.""" roots = [self[x] for x in objects] heaviest = max([(self.weights[r],r) for r in roots])[1] for r in roots: if r != heaviest: self.weights[heaviest] += self.weights[r] self.parents[r] = heaviest
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Recipe
You can use Recipe
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SmokeRecipe
A very simple Recipe for smoke test that runs one epoch and one iteration with only 1 random sample.
SmokeRecipe()
LSTMRandomGridRecipe
A recipe mixing random and grid using LSTM Model only
LSTMGridRandomRecipe(num_rand_samples=1,epochs=5,training_iteration=10,look_back=2,lstm_1_units=[16, 32, 64, 128],lstm_2_units=[16, 32, 64], batch_size=[32, 64])
Arguments
- :param lstm_1_units: random search candidates for num of lstm_1_units
- :param lstm_2_units: grid search candidates for num of lstm_1_units
- :param batch_size: grid search candidates for batch size
- :param num_rand_samples: number of hyper-param configurations sampled randomly
- :param look_back: the length to look back, either a tuple with 2 int values, which is in format is (min len, max len), or a single int, which is a fixed length to look back.
- :param training_iteration: no. of iterations for training (n epochs) in trials
- :param epochs: no. of epochs to train in each iteration
MTNetRandomGridRecipe
A recipe mixing random and grid using MTNet Model only
MTNetGridRandomRecipe(num_rand_samples=1,
epochs=5,
training_iteration=10,
time_step=[3, 4],
long_num=[3, 4],
cnn_height=[2, 3],
cnn_hid_size=[32, 50, 100],
ar_size=[2, 3],
batch_size=[32, 64])
Arguments
- :param num_rand_samples: number of hyper-param configurations sampled randomly
- :param training_iteration: no. of iterations for training (n epochs) in trials
- :param epochs: no. of epochs to train in each iteration
- :param time_step: random search candidates for model param "time_step"
- :param long_num: random search candidates for model param "long_num"
- :param ar_size: random search candidates for model param "ar_size"
- :param batch_size: grid search candidates for batch size
- :param cnn_height: random search candidates for model param "cnn_height"
- :param cnn_hid_size: random search candidates for model param "cnn_hid_size"
RandomRecipe
Pure random sample Recipe. Often used as baseline.
RandomRecipe(num_rand_samples=1, look_back=2)
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num_rand_samples: number of hyper-param configurations sampled randomly.
-
look_back: The length to look back. It could be
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- A tuple with 2 int values, which is in format is (min len, max len). The
min len
value should also be larger than 1.
GridRandomRecipe
A recipe involves both grid search and random search. The arguments are the same with RandomRecipe
.
GridRandomRecipe(num_rand_samples=1, look_back=2)
BayesRecipe
A recipe to search with Bayes Optimization. You need to pre-install bayesian-optimization
before using the recipe.
BayesRecipe(num_samples=1, look_back=2)


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Story: Leopards and jackals
Leopards and jackals
Title
Leopards and jackals
Collection
Summary
The Jackal howls and begs the Leopard for springbok flesh for it to eat. The Jackal angers the Leopard which then kills it and places its body in a bush.
Comments
1) This story is found in Book II
Contributors
Date
1871
Categories
Keywords
Jackal (leopards and jackals) , Jackal (howls) , Jackal (begs the Leopard for springbok flesh) , Jackal ('whines with uplifted tongue') , Jackal (noises made by) , Jackal (doings of) , Jackal (actions of) , Jackal (habits of) , Leopard (leopards and jackals) , Leopard (doings of) , Leopard (actions of) , Leopard (habits of) , Leopard (puts the Jackal's body in a bush) , Leopard (kills Jackal) , Leopard (the Jackal begs for springbok from) , noise (leopards and jackals) , noise (made by animals) , noise (of the Jackal howling) , noise (of the Jackal whining with' uplifted tongue') , noise (made by a jackal) , springbok (leopards and jackals) , springbok (Jackal asks Leopard for its flesh)
Story Pages
354-355


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One Saturday night, without having drip of alcohol, a leaf of weed or a hit of anything but many caffeine pills, a friend of mine and I decided on trying a bit of some natural substances. After pursuing the aisles at our local convenient store, we stumbled onto something we knew might help relaxation. We decided on Kava Root, a $10.99 bottle with 400mg per pill, 100 pills.
We didnít expect the effects that we got.
After one hit out of a bong, we could feel the effects. It was a high not unlike pot, but ended almost immediately afterward. What we were left with was a sensation of relaxation and peace. We then proceeded to take down 3 pills orally with some Gatorade (his drink) and water (mine).
Through the course of the night we smoked 3 more bowls of the stuff out of a bong and took orally 7-10 more pills. For the most part, aside from a minor hallucination that I saw (the fan and TV were smiling at me for about 5 minutes out of the corner of my eye) the feeling of peace and relaxation we encountered from smoking stayed constant through the night, that is, until I went to bed.
With the lights off and my Walkman on, I tried to fall asleep. This happened for about an hour, when I woke up because I heard my door from my other room open. This was most likely because my friend was going to sleep. I turned my Walkman on again and started to drift back asleep when I heard something outside my room. I couldnít make out what it was saying, but it was a definite hallucination of someone whispering into my room.
This happened for about 10 minutes, with the voice turning into voices of different pitch and variance, until I finally got up to see what it was. I opened the door and saw nothing out of place, no monsters or daemons at my door, and certainly not my friend.
Content with the effects this experiment, I went back to a very restful nights sleep.
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.


Turkey says at least 8 killed by car bomb in northeast Syria
by The Associated PressANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A car bomb in northern Syria killed at least eight civilians and wounded 20 others Sunday in a town near the border with Turkey, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said.
The explosion struck a town south of the city of Tal Abyad, the ministry said. The city was captured last month by Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition forces from Kurdish-led fighters.
The ministry blamed Syrian Kurdish fighters for the attack, accusing them of “massacring innocent civilians.”
The attack came more than a week after a similar car bomb attack in central Tal Abyad killed 13 people.
Turkey invaded northeast Syria last month to push out Syrian Kurdish fighters near the border. The military offensive has since displaced around 200,000 people.
Ankara considers the Kurdish-led forces to be terrorists because of their links to Kurdish militants fighting inside Turkey.
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The Kurdish groups have called in Syrian government forces to halt Turkey’s advance.
Despite a shaky truce brokered by Russia, Syrian government forces have since clashed with Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition fighters.
Syrian government troops fought for a second day with Turkish-led forces in an area between the towns of Tal-Tamr and Ras al-Ayn, according to a war monitor, Syria’s state media and activists. At least four Syrian government soldiers were killed in the fighting Saturday.
A Turkish drone struck a village north of Tal-Tamr Sunday, Syria state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory reported intense clashes not far from Russian patrols.
Russia mediated a cease-fire whereby Syrian government forces deployed along parts of the border but also left Turkey in control of a stretch of land inside Syria.
The Associated Press


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Qt Quick 2 Surface Example
The Qt Quick 2 surface example shows how to make a simple 3D surface plot using Surface3D with Qt Quick 2.
The focus in this example is on generating a surface graph from height data, so in this section we skip explaining the application creation. For more detailed QML example documentation, see Qt Quick 2 Scatter Example.
Running the Example
To run the example from Qt Creator, open the Welcome mode and select the example from Examples. For more information, visit Building and Running an Example.
Adding Data to the Graph
This example shows two methods to set data to surface graph, using the HeightMapSurfaceDataProxy and ItemModelSurfaceDataProxy. First we go through setting the data using the height map specific data proxy. It is done with the code snippet below. The proxy itself is contained in a Surface3DSeries. Inside the HeightMapSurfaceDataProxy the heightMapFile
specifies the image file containing the height data. The value properties in the proxy define the minimum and maximum values for surface area width and depth. This example shows the terrain around Tycho crater at imaginary position from 67 to 97 and from 30 to 60. Note that on the graph the scale on the Y dimension exaggerates the height.
Surface3DSeries { id: heightSeries flatShadingEnabled: false drawMode: Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface visible: false HeightMapSurfaceDataProxy { heightMapFile: ":/heightmaps/image" // We don't want the default data values set by heightmap proxy. minZValue: 30 maxZValue: 60 minXValue: 67 maxXValue: 97 } onDrawModeChanged: checkState() }
The other method to set surface data used in this example is with model mapping. We do that by first defining a ListModel
containing the data for the surface:
ListModel { id: dataModel ListElement{ longitude: "0"; latitude: "0"; height: "124"; } ListElement{ longitude: "0"; latitude: "1"; height: "125"; } ListElement{ longitude: "0"; latitude: "2"; height: "124"; } ...
Then we set up a Surface3DSeries with a ItemModelSurfaceDataProxy:
Surface3DSeries { id: surfaceSeries flatShadingEnabled: false drawMode: Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface ItemModelSurfaceDataProxy { ...
We add the actual data to the itemModel
of the ItemModelSurfaceDataProxy. We also define the roles for columns, rows and values. In this example the row holds values for longitude, column for latitude and the value is for height.
... itemModel: surfaceData.model rowRole: "longitude" columnRole: "latitude" yPosRole: "height" }
Showing Data
In the main.qml
, we set up the Surface3D element to show the data and various UI elements to illustrate few interesting features.
First is the gradient to be used for the surface, which can be defined as seen in the following snippet. With the ColorGradient we set example colors from position 0.0 to 1.0.
ColorGradient { id: surfaceGradient ColorGradientStop { position: 0.0; color: "darkslategray" } ColorGradientStop { id: middleGradient; position: 0.25; color: "peru" } ColorGradientStop { position: 1.0; color: "red" } }
This element is set into the baseGradients
property in the theme
used in Surface3D:
theme: Theme3D { type: Theme3D.ThemeStoneMoss font.family: "STCaiyun" font.pointSize: 35 colorStyle: Theme3D.ColorStyleRangeGradient baseGradients: [surfaceGradient] }
Other interesting features can be controlled with buttons.
The first button is to toggle on and off the surface grid, for which we use the following code:
onClicked: { if (surfaceSeries.drawMode & Surface3DSeries.DrawWireframe) { surfaceSeries.drawMode &= ~Surface3DSeries.DrawWireframe; heightSeries.drawMode &= ~Surface3DSeries.DrawWireframe; } else { surfaceSeries.drawMode |= Surface3DSeries.DrawWireframe; heightSeries.drawMode |= Surface3DSeries.DrawWireframe; } }
Second button is for surface shading mode, which is controlled with this code:
onClicked: { if (surfaceSeries.flatShadingEnabled === true) { surfaceSeries.flatShadingEnabled = false; heightSeries.flatShadingEnabled = false; text = "Show Flat" } else { surfaceSeries.flatShadingEnabled = true; heightSeries.flatShadingEnabled = true; text = "Show Smooth" } }
Third button is for series visibility, which is controlled with this code:
onClicked: { if (surfaceSeries.drawMode & Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface) { surfaceSeries.drawMode &= ~Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface; heightSeries.drawMode &= ~Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface; } else { surfaceSeries.drawMode |= Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface; heightSeries.drawMode |= Surface3DSeries.DrawSurface; } }
Notice that the drawMode
and flatShadingEnable
properties are set for both series.
Fourth and fifth buttons are for controlling background features.
The last button is for switching between the two series, one of which uses HeightMapSurfaceDataProxy and the other one ItemModelSurfaceDataProxy. For this we use the following code:
onClicked: { if (surfaceSeries.visible === false) { surfacePlot.axisY.max = 500.0 surfaceSeries.visible = true heightSeries.visible = false middleGradient.position = 0.25 text = "Switch to Height Map Series" } else { surfacePlot.axisY.max = 250.0 surfaceSeries.visible = false heightSeries.visible = true middleGradient.position = 0.50 text = "Switch to Item Model Series" } }
We also set the maximum value to 500 in model proxy to make the surface flatter and 250 on height map proxy to show exaggerated height. At the same time the middle color position on the gradient is modified to match the value range change.
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