The Turning
Our rating: one lava lamp (out of five).
By Scott Hamilton & Chris Holland
There's only one conceivable reason for watching The Turning, and that's the same reason the film was released on video: it features, however briefly, the unclad mammaries of Gillian Anderson. Anderson, otherwise known as Agent Dana Scully from TV's incredibly popular X-Files, did her early dues-paying as a young actress in this goofy and depressing small-town drama.
The Turning is based on a play called "Home Fires Burning," and it's obvious that the source material was meant to be presented on stage: there are lots of scenes in which characters do nothing in particular besides sit around and talk. Contrast this to other movies in which characters sit around and talk, but do it in interesting locales or while doing something that doesn't look silly on stage, like driving a car.
At any rate, the story focuses on Clifford Harnish (Michael Dolan), a young man who returns to his home town of Pocahontas, Virginia, after an absence of four years. Cliff has apparently been hanging out with Neo-Nazis, because his new mission in life is to rebuild his family while wearing swastikas. Unfortunately, his arrival coincides with the day his parents' divorce is made final. When he discovers his mother, Martha (Tess Harper), sinking into an alcoholic depression and his father's new life with a different woman (played by Karen Allen), Cliff decides to take matters into his own hands.
Believing Glory, Dad's new girlfriend, to be the cause of the divorce, Cliff decides to terrorize her into leaving his father, Mark (Raymond J. Barry). Cliff arrives at her house and slips in under false pretenses. He warns her to stay away from Mark, and tells her to show up at the lake the next morning, where Mark and Cliff will be fishing, to break off the relationship in Cliff's presence.
Instead, Glory decides to expose Cliff in Mark's presence (a decision no one in real life would make, considering she had ample opportunity to talk to Mark before the fishing trip), and Mark must then decide how to reconcile his love for his son with his repulsion for the psychotic hate-monger that Cliff has become. Lots of dramatic speeches result, including one scene in which everybody seems to be holding everybody else at gun point -- with only one gun in the room.
But we can tell that our discerning readers really don't care about the psycho plot of this sick coming-home drama; they want to read about Gillian Anderson and what does or doesn't appear on screen. The tape we screened was released by a small distributor named Leo Films and featured two previews, one for a low budget sci-fi John Woo rip-off, the other for what looked like the Australian version of Thelma and Louise. The cover proudly declares that The Turning features Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame, complete with logo. The tape's box art prominently features Ms. Anderson, to the exclusion of any other actors who were in the film, and shows her unbuttoning the top button of her dress.
So, what part does she play in the movie? You may have noticed that she was not mentioned in our plot synopsis above. This was apparently her first movie work, as she is listed in the credits as "And Introducing Gillian Anderson." She plays April, a waitress at a local diner. We would estimate her screen time at less than ten minutes.
The question then becomes: is watching this movie worth a glimpse of Scully's secondary sexual characteristics? Alas, not by a long shot. The movie was shot in a real town, and the production looks very authentic, which is why the pretentious and circuitous dialogue stands out as being so fake. No one in this real situation would act like these characters, or say the things these characters say. And the ending is particularly bad; it left us feeling unfulfilled. If you must rent it, do so, but don't say we didn't warn you.
(Note: To dispel the notion that we are total sexist pigs, we are actively looking for some embarrassing early work David Duchovny may have done. Unfortunately, it seems he did most of his early work wearing a dress and heels, so finding anything that would be comparatively embarrassing is a real chore. We would also point to our equal-opportunity embarrassment of the cast of Mad About You.)
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Libbitcoin
Transcript By: Bryan Bishop
Category: Conference
Libbitcoin: A practical introduction
or: libbitcoin’s bx tool: Constructing a raw transaction
James Chiang
https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1171352496247365633
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/Download-BX
Introduction
I am going to talk about libbitcoin. It’s an alternative implementation of Bitcoin Core. There’s a few alternatives out there, like btcd and then bcoin. Libbitcoin is written in C++ and it’s the oldest alternative implementation that is out there. I’d like to show a few examples of what you can do with libbitcoin. I’d like to show how it is designed and give you a sense for its architecture an dalso show some design tradeoffs compared to the original implementation.
My involvement started out with writing on the wiki documenting the different libraries. My journey in bitcoin started with libbitcoin. Since the library is structured in such a modular way, it was actually easy for me to understand the protocol just by reading the details.
Agenda
I’ll talk about libbitcoin and libbitcoin explorer which allows you to do wallet generation, wallet management, key generation, and also serves as a client to the RPC server. Then I’ll look at the server itself, and finally the node.
Introduction to libbitcoin
This is the libbitcoin project. Here’s the dependency graph. There’s libbitcoin-explorer, libbitcoin-server, -node, -client, -protocol, -network, -database, -consensus, secp256k1, -network, -protocol, -client, -explorer. The lead developer is Eric Voskuil. He’s here today. The project was originally initiated by Amir Taaki. It is the oldest alternative implementation to Bitcoin Core. It’s not a fork. The codebase is not related, with the exception of libsecp256k1. It of course implements the same protocol, we hope.
libbitcoin principles
Our primary principles are modularity, legibility, it’s designed to be performant. And it’s also designed to be scalable.
Alternative implementations
Why do we need alternative implementations? Eric has a nice writeup about the genetic purity fallacy. The argument usually goes, Bitcoin Core is so complex, that it’s impossible to get two separate implementations that behave identically. So therefore we should only have one implementation. But that’s not entirely true. For one, there is no way we can have only one true client. Every client can diverge from the previous version, so there can’t really just be one true client version or implementation. There are many reasons why a client might diverge from one user to another.
One of the other arguments was about “systemic risk” like protocol divergence. If theoretically you had a more vibrant ecosystem implementation, then the risk of divergence is less because if only 10% of the nodes are experiencing a system partition, that’s better than all of the clients failing at the same time because then it would be even more confusing to figure out whether it’s a problem worth fixing to average users.
Explorer demo: HD wallets
libbitcoin-explorer is not just an RPC client that is different from the CLI client found in Bitcoin Core. It actually has a lot of the core library functionality in it. It has wallet commands, transaction commands, and other utilities. They are exposing parts of libbitcoin system library in the explorer tool itself. It also has a few server call methods, chainstate methods, transaction fetch or index, broadcast. It’s like a hybrid tool that lets you do different things.
I’ll show an example to make this more clear. I’d like to start with HD key generation and derivation. I think Bryan gave an HD wallets talk so I won’t go into too much detail. This is the flow of making an HD wallet.
I’m just running a shell script that calls the bx tool, which is installed on my computer locally. This is a jupityr notebook. I’m show Bryan showed a few things from here.
Say you want to restore a wallet. If you want to restore a wallet, you kind of need to know which addresses you generated and which ones received coins. When we restore a wallet, we take the mnemonic and we generate keys. Then we request from the server whether these addresses have a history. From that, we can tell, assuming that these keys are generated and used sequentially, then we can figure out which HD derivation state was of the wallet the last time it was used before recovery. But we won’t know if receive addresses were handed out that are not yet used on the network, but still handed out to users.
The next example is constructing a payment channel with bx. A payment channel is just a few transactions with certain output scripts. I’m trying to get this example into the Mastering Lightning book from Andreas Antonopolous. It’s a great example for showing how easy it is to create a channel with only a couple lines of code.
libbitcoin server
In bitcoind, RPC is designed as a local client interface. The server does the signing and everything else. But in libbitcoin, the server is meant to serve as a public index of data on the blockchain. It uses the zeromq messaging framework. It uses the libsodium authentication-encryption scheme. The idea is that zeromq allows us, this is a messaging framework designed for distributed systems and microservices. It allows us to scale the server horizontally quite nicely.
Client zeromq dealer socket
In this example, I have the zeromq socket at the top, and the zeromq dealer socket on the other side. I want to show what happens when one side is offline or backed up. The client is trying to send messages to the server, and the server is either slow or offline. The zeromq socket then blocks on the client side. Messages don’t get lost, but they get blocked. Then the server comes online, and then the send socket on the client side is no longer blocking.
But what if the messages are queueing on the server side because the client is a slow receiver? The messages queue on the server side, the server has to figure out how to manage that or when to drop messages.
What if there are multiple zeromq servers to connect to? The client automatically distributes the requests round-robin style. Every connection to a server has an independent send and receive queue on the client side.
libbitcoin zeromq router socket
What happens when one client creates a higher load than other clients? There’s a fair queueing algorithm in zeromq to make sure that no one client gets an extraordinarily high share of requests and thereby potentially DoSing the service.
Internally, we also use zeromq to distribute work to the workers. You can configure how many server workers you want. That’s all configured through zeromq.
Bitcoin Core uses zeromq but only as a subscription service, not to do RPC.
libbitcoin v4: websockets interface
libbitcoin v4 is not released yet. It’s in progress. What’s happening here is we’re building an HTTP server on top of the zeromq interface. The websocket support, the json/rpc interface, basically just forward the request to the underlying zeromq querying interface. The robustness of this server-client message handling that we saw before is maintained.
Address index: wallet client
libbitcoin also indexes by address. It was always debated whether Bitcoin Core should have an address index. This is the case in libbitcoin. I actually use this. I was restoring my wallet. I took my mnemonic backup phrase, I generated a derivation path, and for every key I queried the server to see if that key has a history so that I can figure out to which bip32 derivation path I generated keys. This is possible in libbitcoin because of this address index.
Address index: payment server
Say I’m generating a payment invoice. I want to know when this key in the invoice is appearing in the unconfirmed transaction set. I can subscribe to that address, and I can get a notification when it gets into the mempool and then a second notification once it gets confirmed. This is all possible because we have an address index.
libbitcoin: network (p2p)
libbitcoin’s node includes a nice p2p module. This encapsulates the functionality to maintain connections on the bitcoin p2p network. This doesn’t include transaction propagation, but ping-pong and the most basic messaging protocols you need to keep a p2p connection alive. What you see here are the different classes and how they are encapsulated. You can manually configure peers to connect to. There’s an inbound session and an outbound session.
libbitcoin database
libbitcoin implements its own database, interestingly enough. Let’s spend a minute talking about how it works. I think it’s a neat design. The libbitcoin database is basically just a hashtable that lives in a memory mapped file. You tell the operating system that there’s a file that I want the operating system to manage and map to memory. Depending on what parts of the hashtable you want to access, this data may or may not reside in memory.
One point I’d like to show is the ability to write in parallel simply because the only part that is guarded is the allocation. If I have a new transaction or block that comes in, I allocate space for that block, but in a previous allocation I continue to run or write there. This lets us write in parallel to the database. This is useful for block sync where I’m downloading blocks in parallel and these can all be written to the database. The writing stage can be parallelized, which is nice.
libbitcoin v4: continuous parallel block download
In libbitcoin v3, the initial block download is synchronous. I think Eric has been working on this for over a year now. Since we can parallel-wise store blocks to the libbitcoin database, the continuous parallel block download is a nice optimization. We can request blocks from our peers in parallel, we can drop peers that are slow. Once the blocks are connected, we can do the full contextual validation from the genesis block.
WIP: libbitcoin v4
Here’s the things in v4. There’s an HTTP server being implemented by Neill. This includes websockets and JSON-RPC and it’s partially compatible with Bitcoin Core. There’s also improved initial block download (IBD) (continuous parallel block download), and Neutrino filter support.
Okay, that’s my presentation. Thank you Anton for having us. I think it’s important that we have alternative implementations, that we know they exist, and that we use them. I think this contributes to a more healthy development environment for bitcoin.
See also
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/building-on-bitcoin/2018/libbitcoin/


Welcome to DASH’s documentation!¶
This is a listing of DASH classes that may be relevant for further development and understanding of code. This is by no means exhaustive or complete, but should give a highlight of how the demonstrator works.
Speech enhancement modules¶
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class
mono_model.
MonoModel
(path, scaling_factor=1, clip=0)¶ MonoModel wraps monophonic masking into a simple model usage within Runtime. This models loads its’ neural network from path and prepares it for fast evaluation. Model is assumed to accept plain absolute values of spectrum and return a soft mask for that spectrum. Masks are scaled and clipped before application to the data.
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initialize
()¶ Prepare the model - load all required data.
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process
(sample)¶ Accept a single multichannel frame. Discard all but one channel and perform masking on that channel.
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class
mvdr_model.
Model
(n, frame_len, delay_and_sum, use_channels, model_name, choose=None)¶ This class wraps the process of beamforming with MVDR and subsystemms requried for MVDR. It loads a model from prespecified path, uses the outputs of the model to determine dominant source and uses the dominant sources in updating covariance matrices of both noise and speech. Covariance matrix of speech is used to estimate direction of incidence of sound from the main source.
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gcc_phat
(sigl_fft, sigr_fft, max_delay, distance)¶ Method for computing angle for a pair of microphones, used to localize the source. Not used in the main pipeline.
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initialize
()¶ Initialize the model - preload and perform some dry runs o reduce latency
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process
(ffts)¶ Process the sample - accepts single time frame with multiple channels. Returns beamformed signal. Uses LSTM masking as a part of beamforming process.
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class
post_filter.
DAEPostFilter
(fname='storage/dae-pf.h5', n_fft=1024)¶ Postfilter for signal based on DAE. The DAE accepts a context of time, therefore class inherits BufferMixin. Class contains methods to train the postfilter.
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initialize
()¶ Call this before processing starts
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process
(sample)¶ Accept single mono sample, push to the rolling buffer and then process the buffer with the model. Input and output of model is log-power. Phase is reapplied at the end of processing,
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classmethod
train
(model_config, train_X, train_Y, valid_ratio=0.1, path_to_save='storage/dae-pf.h5', n_fft=512)¶ This should create a model from some training script… train_X should be padded by 16 from the beginning of the recording… n_fft - determines the size of the network
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Preprocessing modules¶
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class
audio.
Audio
(buffer_size=1024, buffer_hop=128, sample_rate=16000, n_in_channels=6, n_out_channels=1, input_device_id=None, output_device_id=None, input_from_file=None, play_output=True, save_input=False, save_output=False, record_name=None)¶ Class to record and play data
Application can create an instance of this class and pass it to models. The application can use it’s methods (or methods as callbacks) to fetch some more data for next iteration of a model. Class should utilize sliding buffer, so user needs only to read that buffer, STFT it and the processing is set up.
- Args:
buffer_size (int, optional): number of samples in a single output frame buffer_hop (int, optional): number of samples that gets removed from a buffer on a single read sample_rate (int, optional): sample rate [Hz] of recording n_in_channels (int, optional): number of input channels n_out_channels (int, optional): number of output channels input_device_id (int, optional): Index of input Device to use output_device_id (int, optional): Index of input Device to use input_from_file (str, optional): Path to the file from which read input,
if not provided, than it will be get input from input audio deviceplay_output (bool, optional): Play output to the speakers save_input (bool, optional): Save recorded input also to the file
stored in ‘records/inputs/’, default set to False- save_output (bool, optional): Save played output also to the file
- stored in ‘records/outputs/’, default set to False
record_name (str, optional): Name of the output file
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close
()¶ Close all threads
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get_input
()¶ Get values from the buffer, encode it and return
- Retruns:
- np.array of the shape (buffer_size, n_in_channels)
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open
()¶ Create and start threads
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write_to_output
(arr)¶ Decode values and pass it to the buffer
- Args:
- arr (np.array of shape(buffer_hop, n_out_channels)): Frames to be played
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class
audio.
PlayThread
(p, buffer, hop, sample_rate, channels, id=None, play=True, record_to_file=False, record_name=None)¶ Thread which pass data stored in the buffer to the speakers
- Args:
p (pyAudio): Python interface to PortAudio buffer (queue.Queue): Queue with byte string to be played hop (int): Number of samples to play in single read sample_rate (int): Sample rate [Hz] of playing channels (int): Number of channels to play id (int, optional): Index of output Device to use play (bool, optional): Play output to the speakers record_to_file (bool, optional): Save played output also to the file
stored in ‘records/outputs/’, default set to Falserecord_name (str, optional): Name of the saved file
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run
()¶ Method representing the thread’s activity
Wait until buffer is full, than play frames from the buffer until thread is stopped.
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stop
()¶ Stop thread, play what’s left in the buffer and close stream
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class
audio.
ReadThread
(p, buffer, hop, sample_rate, channels, id=None, from_file=None, record_to_file=True)¶ Thread which read data from microphones and pass it to the buffer
- Args:
p (pyAudio): Python interface to PortAudio buffer (queue.Queue): Queue where write byte strings hop (int): Number of samples to record in single read sample_rate (int): Sample rate [Hz] of recording channels (int): Number of channels to record id (int, optional): Index of input Device to use from_file (str, optional): Path to the file from which read input, if not
provided, than it will be get input from input audio device- record_to_file (bool, optional): Save played output also to the file
- stored in ‘records/outputs/’, default set to False
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run
()¶ Method representing the thread’s activity
Get data from microphones or from file and put it to the buffer
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stop
()¶ Stop thread and close stream
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class
runtime.
Runtime
¶ -
build
(audio_config, post_filter_config, model_config)¶ Builds and initializes all subcomponents, accepts dictionaries with parameters to the model classes as well as ‘mode’ parameter which chooses one of available classes. The models available are listed in MODEL_LIB and POSTFILTER_LIB in this module.
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main
(audio_config=None, post_filter_config=None, model_config=None)¶ Main processing loop, all processing should be there, all configuration should be elsewhere, training should be done in other files.
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pause
()¶ Stops processing for a while and awaits any other thread to restart it
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rebuild
(config)¶ Pick available configuration and rebuild the pipeline with that configuration
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utils.
BufferMixin
(buffer_size=[1, 257], dtype=<class 'numpy.float32'>)¶ Factory of classes that are rolling buffers of appropriate type
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class
utils.
Remix
(buffer_size, buffer_hop, channels)¶ Reconstruction of signal by overlap and add
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process
(sample)¶ Method to call the reconstruction.
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class
utils.
AdaptiveGain
(level=0.005, update_win=0.975, max_gain=10)¶ Signal is enhanced in AdaptiveGain up to max_gain times to match the prespecified power level. The current power level is a windowed measurement to avoid suddent bursts of gain.


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Other Functions¶
These functions serve as utilities that help the user with activities such as conversions and tensor products. They are used within and in tandem with the gate and matrix functions.
Table of Contents
Convert2Ket¶
convKet(d,decimal_qudit)
A function which enables qudit conversion from decimal form to ket form.
>>> convKet(4,1)
[0, 1, 0, 0]
Convert2Decimal¶
convDec(d,ket_qudit)
A function which enables qudit conversion from ket form to decimal form.
>>> pq.convDec(4,[0,1,0,0])
1
StateMatrix¶
stateMat(d,qudit1,qudit2)
A function which facilitates conversion of the states of two qudits in Ket form to a state matrix.
>>> stateMat(4,[0,1,0,0],[1,0,0,0])
[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
IdentityTensorProduct¶
tensorIGt(d,gate_symbol)
A function to output the tensor product of an identity matrix with either of Hadamard (H), X, or Z gates.
>>> tensorIGt(2,'H')
array([[ 0.70710678, 0.70710678, 0. , 0. ],
[ 0.70710678, -0.70710678, 0. , 0. ],
[ 0. , 0. , 0.70710678, 0.70710678],
[ 0. , 0. , 0.70710678, -0.70710678]])


The shortlist for the 2017 Waterstones Children’s Prize has been announced today. Winners in the categories of Illustrated Books, Younger Readers and Older Readers, as well as an overall winner, will be announced on Thursday 30 March.
The books on the shortlist have been described by Waterstones managing director James Daunt as “wonderful books of great power and imagination. They show children’s publishing to be as inventive and inspiring as ever, and to have a pointed relevance that seems never more important in the shaping of ideas and attitudes.”
Illustrated Books
Super Stan, by Matt Robertson
“Life can be hard when your little brother is a superhero. The whole world thinks Super Stan is amazing - but no one notices his big brother, Jack. But sometimes, even a superhero needs a little help. And when a superhero is in trouble, only a super big brother can save the day.”
The Journey, by Francesca Sanna
“With haunting echoes of current affairs, this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war.”
The Bear Who Stared, by Duncan Beedie
“There once was a bear who liked to stare. Bear doesn’t mean to be rude, he’s just curious - but nobody likes being stared at and it soon gets Bear into trouble. Luckily there is a goggly-eyed frog to set Bear straight!”
There’s a Tiger in the Garden, by Lizzy Stewart
“When Grandma says she’s seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn’t believe her.  Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So, even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there’s absolutely, definitely no way there could be a tiger in the garden. Could there?”
Tiger in a Tutu, by Fabi Santiago
“Set in Paris, with a dancing tiger as the star, this is an uplifting tale of following your dreams and pursuing your talent, no matter what, and about making friends. Max isn’t like other tigers - he is a tiger with a dream! He longs to pirouette and plié, to leap and spin. He wants to be a dazzling dancer, shining on the stage! Little dancers will love to see Max triumph and get his moment in the spotlight.”
Life is Magic, by Meg McLaren
“Magician Monsieur Lapin is auditioning assistants and Houdini the rabbit is the obvious choice - he loves magic and knows how to take care of everyone and everything in the theatre. So one night when things go wrong, Houdini tries to carry on with the show - and unfortunately that spells rabbit-shaped disaster for his human magician.”
Younger Readers
Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk
“Annabelle has lived in Wolf Hollow all her life: a quiet place, still scarred by two world wars. But when cruel, manipulative Betty arrives in town, Annabelle’s calm world is shattered, along with everything she’s ever known about right and wrong. When Betty accuses gentle loner Toby - a traumatised ex-soldier - of a terrible act, Annabelle knows he’s innocent. Then Betty disappears. Now Annabelle must protect Toby from the spiralling accusations and hysteria, until she can prove to Wolf Hollow what really happened to Betty.”
Beetle Boy, by M. G. Leonard
“Darkus’s dad has disappeared, but his new friend, a giant beetle called Baxter, is some consolation. Together, boy and beetle set out to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance. But Lucretia Cutter, a fashion designer with a penchant for beetle jewellery, is dead set against their success.”
Time Travelling with a Hamster, by Ross Welford
“On Al Chaudhury’s twelfth birthday his beloved Grandpa Byron gives him a letter from Al’s late father. In it Al receives a mission: travel back to 1984 in a secret time machine and save his father’s life.
“Al soon discovers that time travel requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, setting his school on fire and ignoring philosophical advice from Grandpa Byron. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer…”
The Girl of Ink & Stars, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
“When Isabella’s friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search party. As a mapmaker’s daughter, she’s equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars, eager to navigate the island’s forgotten heart. But beneath the mountains a legendary fire demon awakens, and her journey is fraught with danger.”
Cogheart, by Peter Bunzl
“When 13-year-old Lily’s inventor father vanishes after a Zeppelin crash, Lily’s determined to hunt down the truth behind his disappearance, helped by Robert, the local clockmaker’s son, and her wily mechanical fox Malkin. But shadowy figures are closing in and treachery lurks among the smoky spires of London - along with a life-changing secret.”
Captain Pug: the dog who sailed the seas, by Laura James & Églantine Ceulemans
“Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He’s had jam tarts for breakfast. He’s wearing a smart sailor suit. There’s just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!”
Older Readers
Hour of the Bees, by Lindsay Eagar</cite>
“This powerful debut novel delicately blurs the line between truth and fiction as Carol unravels the fantastical stories of her mentally ill grandfather.
“When she and her family move to his deserted ranch in order to transfer him to a care home, Carol struggles to cope with the suffocating heat and the effects of her grandfather’s dementia. Bees seem to be following her around, but the drought means this is impossible. She must be imagining things. Yet when her grandfather chooses her as the subject for his stories - tales of a magical healing tree, a lake, and the grandmother she never knew - Carol sees glimmers of something special in what her parents dismiss as Serge’s madness.
“As she rethinks her roots and what she thought she knew about her family, Carol comes to the realisation that Serge’s past is quickly catching up with her present.”
Anna and the Swallow Man, by Gavriel Savit
“Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. But Anna Lania is just 7 years old when the Germans take her father and suddenly, she’s alone.
“Then she meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall. And like Anna’s missing father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna is entranced. Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous.”
The Wildings, by Nilanjana Roy
“A small band of cats lives in the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi. Miao, the clan elder, a wise grave Siamese; Katar, a cat loved by his followers and feared by his enemies; Hulo, the great warrior tom; Beraal, the beautiful queen, swift and deadly when challenged; Southpaw, the kitten whose curiosity can always be counted on to get him into trouble.
“Unfettered and wild, these and the other members of the tribe fear no one, go where they will, and do as they please. Until, one day, a terrified orange-coloured kitten with monsoon green eyes and remarkable powers lands in their midst - setting off a series of extraordinary events that will change their world forever.”
Orangeboy, by Patrice Lawrence
“Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through. Not any more. Not since Mr Orange.
“Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise - he’ll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. So far, it’s been easy, but when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. They’re after the mysterious Mr Orange, and they’re going to use Marlon to get to him. Marlon’s out of choices - can he become the person he never wanted to be, to protect everyone he loves?”
Paper Butterflies, by Lisa Heathfield
“June’s life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one - and a secret one. Not even her father knows about it. She’s trapped like a butterfly in a net. But then she meets Blister, a boy in the woods. And in him, June recognises the tiniest glimmer of hope that perhaps she can find a way to fly far, far away from home and be free. Because every creature in this world deserves their freedom - but at what price?”
The Sun is also a Star, by Nicola Yoon
“Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is 12 hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.
“Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store - for both of us.
“The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?”


Hi! I'm Edison Li
Software Engineer, SDR, Make School c/o 2022
Based In San Fransisco, California
About Me
I come from a non-traditional background starting as a self-taught programmer in high school, I went to and won many hackathons gaining a great deal of prize money. That’s what made me really interested in the tech industry and lead to my first internship after one of the judges offered me the position. After that internship I decided that I wanted to work as a software engineer or in sales/marketing because of the excitment I get from creating a software product that can make an impact. I made a commitment to leave public school during the middle of my 10th grade year to go to silicon valley and learn more about software development under my brother. Since then I worked in many early-stage startups which I learned a variety of skills from, began my work experience in software development, and trained to become a SDR at an bootcamp.
Technical Skills
Full Stack and Mobile Development:
- JavaScript
- Kotlin
- HTML
- CSS
- React.js
- React Native
- Node.js
- Swift
- Php
Data Science and Machine Learning:
- Python
- Go (Golang)
- Java
- Keras
- OpenCv
- TensorFlow
Experince
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Software Engineer Intern at Media Mobilize
Built and updated version of their newsletter website call "Daily Pnut" with a new modern design using wordpress and php. Integrated a refferal system into their other site "Sports Newsletter". Created python scripts to scrape sponsorships/partner brands on other newsletter sites that exported as a csv file.
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Full-Stack Mobile Developer Intern At BitBroker Labs
Developed several react native applications at Bitbroker Labs. Also built up the bitbroker labs site and various backend + machine learning systems at Bitbroker Labs. Tech used: HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, React Native, Django, Flask, Python, Tensorflow, Pytorch.
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Web Developer At Tutr Co
Worked on designing and building Tutr Co's first version of their mentoring product, Mentorly, and brought it to an audience of 2000+ site visitors. Tech used: Java, C++, Kubernetes, Docker, Sketch, Figma, Webflow
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Mobile App Developer Intern At Mixcity
Built components for Mixciti's React Native application and setup the database system at Mixciti. Worked on the creation of Mixciti's iOS and Android applications. Tech used: HTML, CSS, Javascript, React Native, Django, Python, SQL, Postgres, Google Cloud
Projects
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Skin Cancer iOS App (achieved accuracy 80% accuracy compared state of art 53% using dermatoscope technique)
A Hackathon Project - Consumer Skin Cancer Recognition IOS App my team and I built. All the training data is from dermstoscope imaging. Thus, our project is meant for non-clinical use but for individuals who notice a lesion and would like a quick yet accurate diagnosis via dermatoscope attachment to smartphone either for personal use or for one-time use at local pharmacies such as a CVS. While the model can run on normal close-up smartphone images, lighting will be nonideal and the image may be blurry, providing less accurate results. There are other applications in smartphone app stores that focus on this more layman imaging.
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CarGO a car rental application (Java, Spring Boot, SmartCar, Gradle)
A REST API that allows clients to manage a pool of registered cars under the SmartCar API and temporarily license them to accounts. Made for the HackMobility hackathon on July 20-21, 2019.
View Project -
GoSearch (Python, Selenium, Keras, Java, Spring Boot, Maven, JavaScript, React Native)
An application that uses public data from social media to generate day-to-day recommendations to users based on their interests. Built as a collection of microservices facilitated by REST. Made for the yuuvis® hackathon on July 27-28, 2019.
The user client (a mobile application)
The backend and scraper -
Lane Line Detection For Autonomous Vehicle Video Feed (Python, OpenCV)
A program that uses OpenCV to identify lane lines in videos of a self driving car. It makes a copy of each frame of the video then grayscale, reduces noise, and smooth the copy to makes a region of interest the shape of a triangle so it can use a red line detection algorithm to identify the the lane lines and latest merges the copy and the original colored frames together.
View Project


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A collection of programs for a MPI with mpi4py workshop. Under each file there is a description and a list of routine used with "new" ones in green
*tgz file containing all of the files listed below.
Hello world
Blocking Send and Receive
Blocking Send and Receive Character Data
Blocking Send and Receive with probe to find size
Nonblocking Send and Receive with wait
Nonblocking Send and Receive with wait
Broadcast of an array of integers and a string
This program shows how to use MPI_Scatter and MPI_Gather. Each processor gets different data from the root processor by way of mpi_scatter. The data is summed and then sent back to the root processor using MPI_Gather. The root processor then prints the global sum.
This program shows how to use MPI_Scatter and MPI_Reduce Each processor gets different data from the root processor by way of mpi_scatter. The data is summed and then sent back to the root processor using MPI_Reduce. The root processor then prints the global sum.
This program shows how to use MPI_Alltoall. Each processor send/rec a different random number to/from other processors.
This program shows how to use MPI_Gatherv. Each processor sends a different amount of data to the root processor. We use MPI_Gather first to tell the root how much data is going to be sent.
This program shows how to use Alltoallv Each processor gets amounts of data from each other processor. It is an extension to example P_ex07.py. In mpi4py the displacement array can be calculated automatically from the rcounts array. We show how it would be done in "normal" MPI. See also P_ex08.py for how this can be done
Pass a "token" from one task to the next with a single task reading token from a file.
An extensive program. We first create a new communicator that contains every task except the zeroth one. This is done by first defining a group, new_group. We define new_group based on the group associated with mpi_comm_world, old_group and an array, will_use. Will_use contains a list of tasks to be included in the new group. It does not contain the zeroth one. The new communicator is sub_comm_world.
There are other ways to create communicator but this is one of the more general methods.
Next, we have break of the task not in the communicator to call the routine get_input. This routine will do input from a file ex10.in. The file contains a list of integers. The task will send the integer to the first task in the new communicator.
The remaining tasks which are port of sub_comm_world call the routine pass_token. Pass_token "just" receives a value from the previous processor and passes it on to the next.
There is a minor subtlety in pass_token. We are using both our new communicator and MPI_COMM_WORLD. The tasks that are port of the new communicator use it to pass data. We note that the task that is injecting values into the stream is not part of the new communicator so it must use MPI_COMM_WORLD. Thus we do a probe on WORLD, which is actually MPI_COMM_WORLD looking for a message. When we get it we send it on using the new communicator.
This program shows how to use mpi_comm_split
Split will create a set of communicators. All of the tasks with the same value of color will be in the same communicator. In this case we get two sets one for odd tasks and one for even tasks. Note they have the same name on all tasks, new_comm, but there are actually two different values (sets of tasks) in each one.
This program shows how to use Scatterv. Each processor gets a different amount of data from the root processor. We use MPI_Gather first to tell the root how much data is going to be sent.
This is a bag-of-tasks program. We define a manager task that distributes work to workers. Actually, the workers request input data. The manager sits in a loop calling Iprobe waiting for requests for work.
In this case the manager reads input. The input is a list of file names. It will send a entry from the list as requested. When the worker is done processing it will request a new file name from the manager. This continues until the manager runs out of files to process. The manager subroutine is just "manager"
The worker subroutine is "worker". It receives file names form the manager.
The files in this case are outputs from an optics program tracking a laser beam as it propagates through the atmosphere. The workers read in the data and then create an image of the data by calling the routine mkview.plotit. This should worker with arbitrary 2d files except the size in mkview.plotit is currently hard coded to 64 x 64.
We use the call to "Split" to create a seperate communicator for the workers. This is not important in this example but could be if you wanted multiple workers to work together.
To get the data...
curl http://hpc.mines.edu/examples/laser.tgz | tar -xz
makefile for the Fortran and C examples that work with some of the python examples. Also will download the data for the simple.py example.
| File | Comment |
| ccalc.c | parallel |
| stc_03.c | parallel |
| pcalc.py | parallel |
| stp_00.py | serial |
| stp.py | parallel |
| tiny.in | tiny input file |
| small.in | small input file |
| st.in | regular input file |
We have a finite difference model that will serve to demonstrate what a computational scientist needs to do to take advantage of Distributed Memory computers using MPI.
The model we are using is a two dimensional solution to a model problem for Ocean Circulation, the Stommel Model. It has Wind-driven circulation in a homogeneous rectangular ocean under the influence of surface winds, linearized bottom friction, flat bottom and Coriolis force.
Solution: intense crowding of streamlines towards the western boundary caused by the variation of the Coriolis parameter with latitude.
For a description of the Fortran and C versions of this program see:
http://geco.mines.edu/prototype/Show_me_some_local_HPC_tutorials/stoma.pdf
http://geco.mines.edu/prototype/Show_me_some_local_HPC_tutorials/stomb.pdf
The python version, stp.py, follows this C version except it does a 1d
decomposition.
The C version is 1500x faster than the python version.
pcalc.py and ccalc.c are similar except they create a new communicator that contains N-1 tasks. These tasks do the calculation and pass data to the remaining task to be plotted. Thus we can have "C" do the heavy calculation and python do plotting.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from mpi4py import MPI
# A very simple send/recv example from the page:
# http://mpi4py.scipy.org/docs/usrman/tutorial.html
# See this page for other examples.
#
# Shows auto pickling of data.
comm = MPI.COMM_WORLD
rank = comm.Get_rank()
if rank == 0:
data = {'a': 7, 'b': 3.14}
comm.send(data, dest=1, tag=11)
elif rank == 1:
data = comm.recv(source=0, tag=11)
print(data)
These are not MPI programs but graphics programs based on the
mkview.py can be called as a standalone program or plotit can be imported. This routine is used in the bag of tasks program simple to generate plots.
surface.py is the basis of the plotting routine in the plot_extra procedure in wtire_grid.py.
pwrite.py is a small MPI program designed to be run in conjunction with either ccalc.c or pcalc.py. If you are using mpiexec to lanuch your programs these might be launched together using one of the commands:
mpiexec -n 5 ./ccalc : -n 1 ./pwrite.py < cut.in mpiexec -n 5 ./pcalc.py : -n 1 ./pwrite.py < cut.in
pcalc.py and ccalc.c are versions of the finite difference program discussed above. pcalc.py and ccalc.c create a new communicator that contains N-1 tasks. These tasks do the calculation and pass data to the remaining task to be plotted. The remaining task is pwrite.py.
write_grid.py contains three procedures write_each, write_one, write_extra, plot_extra. These are different output routines for the finite difference code discussed above.
Write_one, write_extra, and plot_extra all work the same way. They collect data to a single task a line at a time using a combination of Gather and GatherV. For a give line, each processor tells the writing processor how much, if any of the line it holds using the Gather. The the Gatherv is used to actually transfer the data. For write_one and write_extra each line is printed as it is gathered. The routine plot_extra collects the whole grid before plotting it. Write_each opens a file with the name based on the task id. Each task writes its portion of the grid to its file.
A slurm test script for the P*py examples. It runs on Mio at Mines and using the Intel version of MPI an mpi4py.


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MultiBackground is a lightweight and flexible jQuery plugin for creation and manipulation of powerful and beautiful backgrounds. It supports various background types such as a solid color, gradient, image, pattern, video, google maps etc. Furthermore it allows some background types to react to events, such as scrolling, which results in various interesting effects like parallax. It is supported by most major browsers and mobile devices.
The background technique is straightforward & pretty simple and can be used for background for almost any type of content.
One of the best features is support for multiple background layers of different types (see the examples section).
The plugin is originally designed and written by www.tonybogdanov.com and has it's own GitHub page available here.
The plugin is supported by the latest versions of all major browsers. However, you are always encouraged to test it yourself before heavily relying on the plugin.
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In order to use the plugin you need to include the plugin and all of it's requirements in the page you are going to use it. The plugin should be included after all requirements:
<script type="text/javascript" src="../plugin/requirements/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../plugin/jquery.multibackground.min.js"></script>
Heads up!
A MouseWheel override feature was introduced in version 1.1.1, which will achieve much smoother animations and parallax effects while scrolling, but may also be incompatible with some third party plugins (especially scrolling ones). Check the documentation for more info.
The feature has been removed in version 1.1.6.


Lunch Checker
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Note: The div should be populated with content in response to this event. The img tags will have data-src instead of src, so don't be surprised that you don't see any images.


Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The Mudville Nine's star player is their only hope for winning the game.
Poetry is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic qualities to create a deeper meaning.
The Mudville Nine's star player is their only hope for winning the game.
Included here are selections from A Child's Garden of Verses, a collection of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1900.
The Heart of Happy Hollow is a short story collection by Paul Laurence Dunbar that focuses on the experiences of African-Americans after the conclusion of the Civil War.
This anthology collects poetry and other writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
The Legends are a variety of romantic tales.
This book collects poems and limericks by British writer Edward Lear and includes selections from several 19th century anthologies.
This collection includes poems written by Emily Brontë and originally published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell.
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time and Eternity.
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time and Eternity.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is a collection of poetry by Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman ever to be published.
Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, also compoosed logic puzzles, riddles, and satirical poems. This collection includes several that were including in longer works and those intended to stand alone.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.
Spanning the Atlantic, this collection brings together classic poetry from two traditions.
Songs of the Wind on a Southern Shore, and other Poems of Florida is a collection of George E. Merrick's poetry celebrating the natural beauty of Florida.
Shakespeare's sonnets is a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.
An unexpected house guest arrives on Christmas night.
A child’s nursery rhyme involving multiplication.
The speaker describes the beauty and emotion of Cocoanut Grove.
The author describes a sunset on the coast.
A poem describing the beauty of Florida at sunrise.
The speaker describes and reflects upon the scenery of a Florida beach.
The speaker describes the state of Florida, a land of beauty, hard work, and promise. It seems a place where the future begins.
The author describes the pursuit of the mythical Fountain of Youth.
The author marvels at the flat nature of his surroundings.
The author is witness to a mockingbird's supper.
The author marvels at the natural beauty of the Florida Landscape.
The poet reflects on the world at noon, while laying back and dozing.
The author imagines the many miles his orange buds have traveled to go from the Florida sun to snow covered New Jersey.
A poem about the orange tree.
The author contemplates the cyclical and temporary nature of life.
A robin has a meal under an orange-tree.
A poem about waiting for a train at the Live Oak, Florida Junction written in the 1800s.
The author describes a much revered flower that decorates the landscape of Florida.
The author discusses the stature and symbolism of soon to be constructed Statue of Liberty in New York City.
This poem explores the growth of a baby bird and its discovery of the world it lives in.
"O! Nothing earthly save the ray"
"From childhood's hour I have not been"
"It was many and many a year ago,"
"Hear the sledges with the bells—"
"The ring is on my hand"
In these rapid, restless shadows, Once I walked at eventide,
"Lo! Death has reared himself a throne"
"Once it smiled a silent dell"
"Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary"
"For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,"
"Lo! 'tis a gala night"
"The skies they were ashen and sober;"
"The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see"
"Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,"
"Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow"
"Take this kiss upon the brow!"
"BY a route obscure and lonely,"
The speaker questions science and what she takes away from others by her “dull realities.”
"Thou wast all that to me, love,"
The author laments the loss of his mother.
"In visions of the dark night"
"Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!"
"Gaily bedight,"
"Not long ago, the writer of these lines,"
"Elizabeth, it surely is most fit"
"Of all who hail thy presence as the morning—"
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,"
"Beneath the vine-clad eaves, Whose shadows fall before"
"I dwelt alone"
"I saw thee once—once only—years ago:"
"'Twas noontide of summer,"
"Helen, thy beauty is to me"
"Thou wouldst be loved?—then let thy heart"
"Beloved! amid the earnest woes"
"Dim vales–and shadowy floods–"
"Thank Heaven! the crisis—"
"How often we forget all time, when lone"
'Tis said that when, The hands of men, Tamed this primeval wood,
"Thy soul shall find itself alone"
"The happiest day–the happiest hour"
"IN the greenest of our valleys"
There are some qualities–some incorporate things,
"I saw thee on thy bridal day–"
"At midnight in the month of June,"
"At morn—at noon—at twilight dim—"
"Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal"
"So sweet the hour, so calm the time,"
"A dark unfathom'd tide, Of interminable pride—"
"Romance, who loves to nod and sing,"
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
"In youth I have known one with whom the Earth"
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell, "Whose heart-strings are a lute;"
"In spring of youth it was my lot"
"Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!"
Lamentation for the loss of a loved one.


Command Reference
Blitz3D Documentation Version No: 1.88 - what's new?
Please visit the online manual for the most up to date documentation.Credits
Original 2D documentation by Shane R. Monroe.
Original 3D documentation by Mark Sibly and Simon Harrison.
Revised maths section by Floyd.
BlitzDocs V1.0 system by Simon Harrison.


Its streams and functional programming for the poor
say bye bye to loops, nested loops, mutable variables, ...
Extract the 40 first lines starting with ERROR from the specified list
even though it's nothing but a fluent style wrapper
IDEA lambda style display
the real code
use a method
Find all opensource plugins which are compatible with the current version of SQ
when apply code is static
when apply code depends only on a instance properties
create an ordered collection of the developers of the opensource plugins in the specified collection which name starts with an a (case insensitive)
PluginA ---- PluginB ---- PluginC ---- PluginD | | | | | | | | DevA() ---- DevB() ---- DevC() ---- DevC() \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / --------------------\ /--------------------- | DevAll[]
| process input | immutable output | Optional output |
|---|---|---|
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filter
transform, transformAndConcat cycle, append |
toList, toSet, toArray
toSortedList, toSortedSet toMap, index, uniqueIndex |
first, last
firstMatch, anyMatch |
What you should known to avoid bad usage of FluentIterable
all filter/map/flatmap operations are lazy evaluated
Ouput of toList, toSet, toMap are immutable objects
Guava create lots of (short-lived) objects
So, try and don't add to the stack with your objects
(added in Guava 10 so we should already use it!)
Rubustness principle: Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept
forget testing null, use Optional.isPresent
never use Optional.get without Option.isPresent first
elegant default value
use Optional.orNull if null is your default value
fluent method calls
or throwing exceptions


Elements are the smallest building blocks of React apps.
An element describes what you want to see on the screen:
Unlike browser DOM elements, React elements are plain objects, and are cheap to create. React DOM takes care of updating the DOM to match the React elements.
Note:
One might confuse elements with a more widely known concept of "components". We will introduce components in the next section. Elements are what components are "made of", and we encourage you to read this section before jumping ahead.
Let's say there is a <div>
somewhere in your HTML file:
We call this a "root" DOM node because everything inside it will be managed by React DOM.
Applications built with just React usually have a single root DOM node. If you are integrating React into an existing app, you may have as many isolated root DOM nodes as you like.
To render a React element into a root DOM node, pass both to ReactDOM.render()
:
embed:rendering-elements/render-an-element.js
It displays "Hello, world" on the page.
React elements are immutable. Once you create an element, you can't change its children or attributes. An element is like a single frame in a movie: it represents the UI at a certain point in time.
With our knowledge so far, the only way to update the UI is to create a new element, and pass it to ReactDOM.render()
.
Consider this ticking clock example:
embed:rendering-elements/update-rendered-element.js
It calls ReactDOM.render()
every second from a setInterval()
callback.
Note:
In practice, most React apps only call
ReactDOM.render()
once. In the next sections we will learn how such code gets encapsulated into stateful components.We recommend that you don't skip topics because they build on each other.
React DOM compares the element and its children to the previous one, and only applies the DOM updates necessary to bring the DOM to the desired state.
You can verify by inspecting the last example with the browser tools:
Even though we create an element describing the whole UI tree on every tick, only the text node whose contents have changed gets updated by React DOM.
In our experience, thinking about how the UI should look at any given moment, rather than how to change it over time, eliminates a whole class of bugs.


stockd.defs.bar
- struct Bar;
- Defines BAR structure
- DateTime time;
- Time of BAR
- double open;
- Open price
- double high;
- Highest bar price
- double low;
- Lowest bar price
- double close;
- Close price
- ulong volume;
- Volume traded
- this(DateTime time, double open, double high, double low, double close, ulong volume = 0);
- Params:
- double[] ohlc();
- Returns just price values as OHLC array
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{% extends "base.html" %} {% block title %}Brigade Calendar{% endblock %} {% block description %}Events happening across the Code for America Brigade Network{% endblock %} {% block subhero_title %}Brigade Calendar{% endblock %} {% block subhero_description %}
Events happening across the Code for America Brigade Network
{% endblock %} {% block page_id %}events{% endblock %} {% block in_page_nav %} {% endblock %} {% block hero_right %} {% endblock %} {% block content %}Brigades have an opportunity to participate in days of action and to come together at shared events. Check out the upcoming events and mark your calendar!
The Code for America Summit is a two-day virtual experience that brings changemakers into one room―public servants, advocates, technologists, and organizers break through some of the governments’ biggest challenges by removing barriers and expanding government access to serve all Americans. Summit offers dozens of keynotes, breakout sessions, and workshops. For 2021, Summit will focus on four tracks: Design + Delivery; Civic Innovation + Data; Operations + Management; and Technology + Policy.
This annual event brings together public servants, people with technology skills, and community organizers, to show that government can work in the digital age if we all build it together.
Brigade Congress is the primary in-person meeting centered on the Code for America Network, bringing together Brigade leaders, government and community partners, and civic tech professionals from across the country.
Due to COVID-19, Brigade Congress 2021 will be held online. More details will be posted to the event's web page as the date approaches.


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| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| ResultListener<T> |
Represents an event listener that reports information about the completion of a request.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| Address |
Provides textual address information for a
Location . |
| AutoSuggest |
Represents the base class for suggested places and searches.
|
| AutoSuggestPlace |
Represents an
AutoSuggestPlace which contains information about a
suggested Place . |
| AutoSuggestQuery |
Represents an
AutoSuggest with suggested completion of the given string |
| AutoSuggestSearch |
Represents an
AutoSuggestSearch which contains information about a
refined search link. |
| Category |
Represents a category with which a
Place can be associated. |
| CategoryFilter |
Represents a filter used when performing a search for popular places within a specific geographic
area.
|
| ContactDetail |
Represents detailed information about a contact for a
Place . |
| CreateLink |
Represents a
CreateLink which contains information to POST media content (image, review). |
| DiscoveryLink |
Represents a discovery-related API link, used to retrieve a
DiscoveryResultPage . |
| DiscoveryRequest |
Represents an extended
Request used to retrieve a DiscoveryResultPage object by
way of Places search services. |
| DiscoveryResult |
Represents a base class for a
DiscoveryResult found in a DiscoveryResultPage . |
| DiscoveryResultPage |
Represents a paginated collection of results from a request.
|
| EditorialMedia |
Represents editorial content about a
Place . |
| ExploreRequest |
Creates a
ExploreRequest using a specified location context and category filter. |
| ExtendedAttribute |
Represents additional detailed information about a
Place . |
| GeocodeRequest | Deprecated
As of release 3.6.
|
| GeocodeRequest2 |
GeocodeRequest2 represents an extended Request used to retrieve Location
data by way of Geocoder search services. |
| GeocodeResult |
Represents the result of a geocode request.
|
| HereRequest |
The
HereRequest answers the questions "Where am I?" and
"What's right here where I am standing?" The search results consist of a list of places with
addresses that lie within the vicinity of the search location. |
| ImageMedia |
Represents image content related to a
Place . |
| Link |
Represents a
Link indicating that the application must make another request to
retrieve the desired resource. |
| Location |
Represents the physical location of a
Place . |
| Media |
Represents the base class for additional rich content about a
Place . |
| MediaCollectionPage<T> |
Represents a base class for a paginateable collection of
Media objects of a specific
type. |
| MediaCollectionPageRequest<T> | |
| Place |
Represents a set of data about a physical place.
|
| PlaceLink |
Represents discovery information about a
Place . |
| PlaceRequest |
Represents an extended
Request used to retrieve a Place object by way of Places
search services. |
| RatingMedia |
Represents rating content about a
Place . |
| Ratings |
Represents a summary of user-supplied ratings for a
Place . |
| ReportingLink |
Represents a
ReportingLink for getting options for reporting on content if it contains inappropriate content. |
| Request<T> |
Represents a base class for a search request.
|
| ReverseGeocodeRequest |
The
ReverseGeocodeRequest represents an extended Request used to retrieve
Address data by way of Geocoder search services. |
| ReviewMedia |
Represents review content about a
Place . |
| SearchRequest |
The
SearchRequest processes text string queries based on the user's input to find
specific places. |
| SupplierLink |
Represents a
SupplierLink which contains meta-information about a supplier. |
| TextAutoSuggestionRequest |
Represents an extended
Request used to retrieve a List of search terms by way of
Places search services. |
| TextSuggestionRequest | Deprecated
Deprecated as of release 3.3.
|
| UserLink |
Represents a
UserLink which contains additional attributes to describe a user. |
| ViaLink |
Represents a
ViaLink to an external website of the supplier of content. |
| Enum | Description |
|---|---|
| AutoSuggest.Type |
Represents values describing supported
AutoSuggest types for a text suggestion. |
| Category.Global |
Represents a set of fixed category filters on the resources of the Places search service.
|
| DiscoveryResult.ResultType |
Represents values describing possible
DiscoveryResult types. |
| ErrorCode |
Represents values describing possible search request errors.
|
| Media.Type | |
| RichTextFormatting |
Represents values describing possible formats for rich text content.
|
| TextAutoSuggestionRequest.AutoSuggestFilterType |
Represents values describing AutoSuggest response's result filter types that can be
used to filter the AutoSuggest response.
|


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About Ping Pong
Created by:
memetibryan
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Let's Play!
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Making It a Series
Aug 8, 2014Series: Hugo 101
I obviously have a lot to talk about with Hugo, so I decided I wanted to make this into a series of posts, and have links at the bottom of each post automatically populated with the other posts in the series. This turned out to be somewhat of a challenge, but doable with some effort… hopefully someone else can learn from my work.
This now brings us to Taxonomies. Taxonomies are basically just like tags, except that you can have any number of different types of tags. So you might have “Tags” as a taxonomy, and thus you can give a content tags with values of “go” and “programming”. You can also have a taxonomy of “series” and give content a series of “Hugo 101”.
Taxonomy is sort of like relatable metadata to gather multiple pieces of content together in a structured way… it’s almost like a minimal relational database. Taxonomies are listed in your site’s metadata, and consist of a list of keys. Each piece of content can specify one or more values for those keys (the Hugo documentation calls the values “Terms”). The values are completely ad-hoc, and don’t need to be pre-defined anywhere. Hugo automatically creates pages where you can view all content based on Taxonomies and see how the various values are cross-referenced against other content. This is a way to implement tags on posts, or series of posts.
So, for my example, we add a Taxonomy to my site config called “series”. Then
in this post, the “Hugo: Beyond the Defaults” post, and the “Hugo is Friggin’
Awesome” post, I just add series = ["Hugo 101"]
(note the brackets - the
values for the taxonomy are actually a list, even if you only have one value).
Now all these posts are magically related together under a taxonomy called
“series”. And Hugo automatically generates a listing for this taxonomy value
at /series/hugo-101 (the taxonomy value gets
url-ized). Any other series I make will be under a similar directory.
This is fine and dandy and pretty aweomse out of the box… but I really want to automatically generate a list of posts in the series at the bottom of each post in the series. This is where things get tricky, but that’s also where things get interesting.
The examples for displaying Taxonomies all “hard code” the taxonomy value in the template… this works great if you know ahead of time what value you want to display, like “all posts with tag = ‘featured’”. However, it doesn’t work if you don’t know ahead of time what the taxonomy value will be (like the series on the current post).
This is doable, but it’s a little more complicated.
I’ll give you a dump of the relevant portion of my post template and then talk about how I got there:
{{ if .Params.series }}
{{ $name := index .Params.series 0 }}

This is a post in the
{{$name}} series.

Other posts in this series:

{{ $name := $name | urlize }}
{{ $series := index .Site.Taxonomies.series $name }}

{{ range $series.Pages }}

{{.Date.Format "Jan 02, 2006"}} -
{{.LinkTitle}}

{{end}}

{{end}}
So we start off defining this part of the template to only be used if the post has a series. Right, sure, move on.
Now, the tricky part… the taxonomy values for the current page resides in the .Params values, just like any other custom metadata you assign to the page.
Taxonomy values are always a list (so you can give things multiple tags etc), but I know that I’ll never give something more than one series, so I can just grab the first item from the list. To do that, I use the index function, which is just like calling series[0] and assign it to the $name variable.
Now another tricky part… the series in the metadata is in the pretty form you put into the metadata, but the list of Taxonomies in .Site.Taxonomies is in the urlized form… How did I figure that out? Printf debugging. Hugo’s auto-reloading makes it really easy to use the template itself to figure out what’s going on with the template and the data.
When I started writing this template, I just put {{$name}}
in my post template
after the line where I got the name, and I could see it rendered on webpage of
my post that the name was “Hugo 101”. Then I put {{.Site.Taxonomies.series}}
and I saw something like map[hugo-101:[{0 0xc20823e000} {0 0xc208048580} {0
0xc208372000}]]
which is ugly, but it showed me that the value in the map is
“hugo-101”… and I realized it was using the urlized version, so I used the
pre-defined hugo function urlize
to convert the pretty series.
And from there it’s just a matter of using index
again, this time to use
$name
as a key in the map of series…. .Site.Taxonomies is a map
(dictionary) of Taxonomy names (like “series”) to maps of Taxonomy values (like
“hugo-101”) to lists of pages. So, .Site.Taxonomies.series reutrns a map of
series names to lists of pages… index that by the current series names, and
bam, list of pages.
And then it’s just a matter of iterating over the pages and displaying them nicely. And what’s great is that this is now all automatic… all old posts get updated with links to the new posts in the series, and any new series I make, regardless of the name, will get the nice list of posts at the bottom for that series.
This is a post in the Hugo 101 series.
Other posts in this series:
- Aug 08, 2014 - Making It a Series
- Aug 08, 2014 - Hugo: Beyond the Defaults
- Aug 01, 2014 - Hugo Is Friggin' Awesome


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Before using titan, you will need to have Docker Desktop installed, with the ability to run Linux containers. If you are using a Linux System for local Titan use, consult the Documentation to determine if your distribution is supported. If you are running Titan for Kubernetes, consult the Documentation for more information on requirements, limitations, and configuration.
Windows is not currently supported due to limitations with Titan's current dependencies. The next major version will move to a new language and runtime that will eliminate these limtiations. Stay tuned!
Once you have downloaded and extracted the distribution, simply run
titan install
(for local docker use) or
titan context install -t kuberenetes
(for kuberenetes).
This will download the titan docker container
that will then run in the background. That's all you need to get started
with Titan!


Welcome to the Division of Computer Science and Engineering at LSU! The division resides in the newly formed School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in the College of Engineering.
| Location | Topic |
|---|---|
| New York | JavaScript & jQuery |
| San Fransisco | HTML & CSS |


The profile is an signed document that third parties can use to verify belongs to your identity. You must give consideration to what data you put into your profile and with whom you share it.
If you publish your profile to an Blockcore Vault, the profile will be public available.
To increase your privacy, only perform manual copy and sharing of your profile to friends and connections.


The Eiffel Tower's wrought-iron spire, the Arc de Triomphe standing sentinel above Paris's most glamorous avenue, the Champs-Elysees, the gargoyled Notre Dame cathedral and the art nouveau cafes spilling onto wicker-chair-lined terraces are indelibly etched in the minds of anyone who's visited the city - and in the imaginations of anyone who hasn't.
France's romanticised capital seduces every moment of the year. Paris' cache of artistic treatures, chic fashion sense, exquisite cuisine and majestic monumnets captivate locals and visitors alike.
In addition to big hitting museums including the world's largest, the Louvre, here are scores of smaller museums housing collections of every imageinable genre.


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8.3. Writing HTMLWithout doubt, the most commonly used markup language today is hypertext markup language (HTML), used for creating web pages. HTML consists of text with tags that define characteristics about the text. HTML is not hard to write, and you could use Emacs or any other editor to write the tags and the text. An HTML tag generally looks like this: <tagname>text being tagged</tagname> For your convenience, several modes are available for writing HTML in Emacs, including HTML mode, HTML helper mode, html menus, and a variety of SGML[1] tools including sgml mode and psgml mode. Of these tools, we've chosen to describe HTML mode, a variant of sgml mode, which is included in GNU Emacs, and HTML helper mode, which is a popular add-on. If you are writing XHTML, a stricter version of HTML that can be validated, you should consider XHTML mode, described briefly in this section, or psgml mode, covered later in the XML section of this chapter.
Serious web developers may want to investigate some of the cutting edge development going on to make Emacs even more powerful. Check out HTMLModeDeluxe (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HtmlModeDeluxe) and the Emacs WebDev Environment by Darren Brierton (http://www.dzr-web.com/people/darren/projects/emacs-webdev). Both of these tools support mmm mode (where mmm stands for "multiple major modes"). Using this feature, the cursor changes major mode depending on the section of the page you are editing. When you edit a script, the mode changes automatically to support that type of authoring. Both are excellent tools for building complex web pages. In the following sections, we are not going to teach you to write HTML. (For more information on writing HTML, see HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly) Rather, we're going to teach you the rudiments of using HTML mode and HTML helper mode to help you create HTML documents. 8.3.1 Using HTML ModeTo start HTML mode, type M-x html-mode (or simply open an HTML file). Most authors use a standard template when they write HTML. You may already have one. If you don't, HTML mode is happy to supply one for you. Simply start by typing C-c C-t (for sgml-tag) or by selecting Insert Tag from the SGML menu. If you enter the  tag that signifies the start of an HTML document, Emacs inserts a basic template in your buffer.
Note that Emacs automatically creates a first-level header that is equal to the title you entered. It also inserts a hyperlink so that readers can email you. Depending on your spam tolerance, you may want to delete that line. Also, Emacs is just guessing at your name and email address. You can set these explicitly by adding two lines to your .emacs file. Change Mr. Dickens' information to settings appropriate for you. (setq user-mail-address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>(setq user-full-name "Charles Dickens") You could approach HTML mode in a couple of ways. You could learn the key bindings for various tags, or you could simply use the sgml-tag command for everything. It depends how many bindings you want to learn. A mixed approach may be best, where you learn keystrokes for the most common tags and use sgml-tag for less common tags. Key bindings are intuitive in HTML mode. Like most specialized editing modes, many functions are bound to C-c C-something. We've seen C-c C-t to insert a tag. You won't be too surprised to find that to move forward to the next tag you type C-c C-f and to move back to the previous tag you type C-c C-b. To insert an <href> tag, type C-c C-h. You see what we mean. HTML mode is designed for writing HTML, not XHTML. XHTML is stricter, requiring all tags to have a closing tag. The common
 tag is a salient example. HTML authors would never use the closing tag
 that XHTML requires. HTML mode inserts a lone
 tag even when given a command, such as sgml-tag, that normally inserts a tag pair. If you want to write XHTML, use XHTML mode instead. Emacs starts this mode itself if your file contains a reference to an XHTML document type definition. Other than completion of tags, XHTML mode is very similar to HTML mode described here.[2]
Being able to hide the tags is a helpful feature. To hide HTML tags, type C-c Tab; use the same command to display the tags again. Let's say that we've inserted some of our dickens file into the dickens.html file we were just working with.
You can keep typing text, concentrating on what you're writing rather than being distracted by the markup. Emacs protects you from deleting tags when you're writing by making hidden text read-only. If you move the cursor onto a hidden tag, Emacs displays it in the minibuffer. Of course, the whole purpose of writing HTML is to display it in a web browser. Typing C-c C-v (for browse-url-of-buffer) opens the default web browser to view the web page you're writing. If you'd like to look at the file in a web browser each time you save, you can turn on a function called html-autoview-mode, invoked by pressing C-c C-s. When you save the file, Emacs automatically opens it in the default browser. <IP_ADDRESS> Character encoding in HTML modeWhat if you want to include special characters or characters from other character sets in your web page? The short answer is that you can enter a character's encoding explicitly. For example, to enter a capital U with an umlaut, you can type Ü. Many characters can also be represented as named entities, which are certainly easier to remember than numbers. For example, the named entity for a capital U with an umlaut is Ü. But HTML mode does provide more support than this. We'll take the simplest case first. Let's say you can create a character with your keyboard; for a common case, take the ampersand, a character that must be encoded since it has a special meaning in HTML. Type C-c C-n & Enter. Emacs inserts the entity for an ampersand, &. You can insert entities for a wide variety of keyboard characters this way. But let's say that you are inserting characters that are not on your keyboard. For example, perhaps you are in the U.S. writing up a list of contributors from Europe and many of their names have accent marks. The ISO Latin-1 character set will handle this. If you have a keyboard that already emits Latin-1 characters and Latin-1 is your default coding system for keyboard input, inserting such characters is relatively straightforward. Simply press C-c 8 to turn on a minor mode called SGML name entity mode. Emacs says sgml name entity mode is now on.[3] C-c 8 toggles this state. Type Latin-1 characters as you normally would and Emacs inserts the named entities associated with those characters.
For those of us with other keyboard encodings, however, there's a bit more to do. To get bindings to insert entities into your HTML file, we discuss two options. The first is ISO accents mode. This mode provides support, as the name implies, for accented text. Whether you're typing umlauts, cedillas, circumflexes, acute, or grave marks, ISO accents mode is up to the task. The other option is to use the C-x 8 prefix to insert a wide range of entities, including currency signs, mathematical symbols, and copyright signs (as well as all the accented characters ISO accents mode supports). <IP_ADDRESS>.1 Using ISO accents modeTo use ISO accents mode to insert entities in your file, type C-c 8 to turn on SGML name entity mode, then M-x iso-accents-mode Enter to turn on that mode. In ISO accents mode, certain characters (including /, ~, ', ", `, and ^) are interpreted as prefixes to create accented characters. SGML name entity mode captures these keystrokes and automatically inserts the appropriate HTML entity. For example, typing 'a produces the HTML entity for á, á. For specific key bindings, see Table 8-2. <IP_ADDRESS>.2 Using the C-x 8 prefixYou can also insert a wide range of entities using C-x 8 after you do some setup.[4] First enter SGML name entity mode by typing C-c 8. Next specify Latin-1 as your character set by typing C-x Enter k latin-1 Enter. You can then enter a large number of entities by typing commands prefixed with C-x 8. For example, to insert the entity for a yen symbol, type C-x 8 Y. Watch the minibuffer. The literal character will appear in the minibuffer as the entity is inserted. Both ISO accents mode and the C-x 8 prefixes allow you to type a single undo command (C-_) to translate the entity back into the literal character.
Table 8-2 provides a list of accented characters and the bindings that help insert them. Table 8-3 lists other named entities including punctuation marks and symbols.
Table 8-4 lists HTML mode commands.
8.3.2 Using HTML Helper ModeHTML helper mode, written by Nelson Minar and now maintained by Gian Uberto Lauri, offers great flexibility in writing HTML. You can enable various hand-holding features depending on your level of expertise and preferences. Why would you choose HTML helper mode over Emacs's own HTML mode? Although HTML mode makes it easy to write basic HTML, it provides little support for programmatic, interactive web pages. HTML helper mode supports ASP, JSP (and JDE, the Java Development Environment, discussed in Chapter 9), and PHP, to name a few more advanced features. If you're writing HTML in Emacs, you're likely to be a developer of such pages rather than a more text-oriented author. For this reason, HTML helper mode continues to be popular among Emacs users. Html helper mode is not part of Emacs by default. You can download it from its homepage at http://www.nongnu.org/baol-hth. Download the file into a directory such as ~/elisp, move to that directory, and then type: % tar xvzf html-helper-mode.tar.gz The system unpacks the tar file for you. (Of course, if you are installing on Windows, you can simply use WinZip to decompress and unpack the file.) The tar file contains several components, including:
<IP_ADDRESS> Starting HTML helper modeBefore you can start HTML helper mode, you have to load it into Emacs. (For a complete discussion of this topic, see "Building Your Own Lisp Library" in Chapter 11; we describe it briefly here.) Begin by typing M-x load-file Enter. Emacs asks which file to load and you enter ~/elisp/html-helper-mode.el and press Enter, adjusting the path to reflect the location where you installed html-helper-mode.el. You enter the mode by typing M-x html-helper-mode Enter. HTML helper appears on the mode line. Making HTML helper mode part of your startup is easier. Put the following lines in your .emacs file: (setq load-path (cons "~/elisp " load-path)) (autoload 'html-helper-mode "html-helper-mode" "Yay HTML" t) In the first line, insert the complete path for the directory in which html-helper-mode.el is located in quotation marks, replacing ~/elisp to the correct value for your system. The second line tells Emacs to load HTML helper mode automatically when you start Emacs. If you want to use HTML helper mode for editing HTML files by default, add this line to .emacs as well: (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html?$" . html-helper-mode) auto-mode-alist)) If you edit other types of files with HTML helper mode, you may want to add lines to include all the types of files you edit. Adding more lines is the easiest way. For example, to make HTML helper mode the default for PHP files, add this line to .emacs: (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.php$" . html-helper-mode) auto-mode-alist)) <IP_ADDRESS> A brief tour of HTML helper modeThe main reason people like HTML helper mode is that it provides easy menu access to a wide variety of options. Realizing that having a crowded menu with many submenus could overwhelm new users, the authors created an option called Turn on Novice Menu. Selecting this option from the HTML menu provides a barebones menu, as shown in Figure 8-1. Novice HTML writers can use these options to create a basic HTML document without worrying about what forms, JSPs, PHP, and the like mean. Figure 8-1. HTML helper mode's Novice menu (Mac OS X)Selecting Turn on Expert Menu from the HTML menu returns the larger menu with its numerous submenus, as shown in Figure 8-2. Figure 8-2. HTML helper mode's Expert menu (Mac OS X)<IP_ADDRESS> Inserting an HTML templateHTML helper mode inserts a template for you every time you create a new HTML file.
The template contains all the basic HTML elements. The entire document is surrounded by  tags. Then the head and the body are separated. Following an
 tag that tells the browser to insert a horizontal line, called a horizontal rule, the <address> tag leaves a place for the author to put in his or her email address. In these days of spam, it's unlikely you'll want to do that. (You can leave the <address> tag blank or delete it.) If you do want to include an email address, enter a line like this in your .emacs file (substituting your own email address, of course): (setq html-helper-address-string "<a<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"\>Charles Dickens")
Normally you begin filling out the template by entering title and a level-one header (these are often the same). You can then begin writing paragraphs of text. Before you start typing, press M-Enter. Emacs inserts

 and positions the cursor between them. You can see from the ending paragraph tag that HTML helper mode is working toward XHTML compliance.
<IP_ADDRESS> Putting tags around a regionWhen editing HTML files, you often spend a lot of time marking up existing text. If you preface any of the tag commands with C-u, Emacs inserts the tags around a region rather than putting them at the cursor position.[7] To demonstrate, we'll start a new HTML file and insert text from our dickens file.
If you were really doing this properly, you'd type something like "A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 1 as the title and the first-level header. But for now, you just want to see how to mark up a region of existing text. Begin by marking the Dickens paragraph as a region and type C-u M-Enter.
<IP_ADDRESS> Using completionHTML helper mode supports completion. You type the beginning of a tag and press M-Tab (for tempo-complete-tag).[8] If there's more than one possibility, a window of possible completions appears. Let's say you are working on a bulleted list.
Note, however, that completion is sometimes case-sensitive. For example, typing <s M-Tab shows the following completions: <select <span class= <span style =   <samp> Notice that the  The distinction between upper- and lowercase shows that HTML helper mode is moving toward XHTML compliance, but hasn't quite arrived. XHTML requires that all tags be lowercase. On the positive side, note that the attribute is in quotation marks, another XHTML requirement. <IP_ADDRESS> Turning on promptingSome HTML tags require you to input certain attributes. For example, when you enter a hyperlink, you have to specify the URL of the link and the text that the user will select. If you type C-c C-a l (the lowercase letter "L") to enter a link, HTML helper mode inserts:  with the cursor on the second quotation mark so you can type in the URL. HTML helper mode offers additional help if you turn on prompting. Add this line to your .emacs file: (setq tempo-interactive t) Note that HTML helper mode prompts only for required attributes; if you want to input optional attributes, you have to add them by hand. Whether you consider prompting useful or intrusive is a matter of personal taste. If you are a beginning HTML author, prompting may help you remember to enter all the necessary information for each tag. If you find you don't like it, simply delete the line you added to the .emacs file. <IP_ADDRESS> Character encoding in HTML helper modeHTML helper mode supports entry of only the most common character entities. However, it does make it easy to insert these entities. Simply type C-c before the character in question. For example, type C-c < to enter the escape code for a less-than sign (<). Character entities are also available by selecting HTML Insert Character Entities. Table 8-5 lists bindings for inserting character entities in HTML helper mode.
Table 8-6 lists the key bindings for HTML helper mode. There are key bindings for advanced HTML features such as forms as well as for some of the HTML 3.0 features. Some tags would normally appear on different lines (for example, in the case of a list); in this table, they are shown on one line.
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General Information
- Breed Purpose
- Dual Purpose
- Comb
- Single
- Broodiness
- Seldom
- Egg Productivity
- Medium
- Egg Size
- Medium
- Egg Color
- blue
- Breed Temperament
- moderate
- Breed Size
- Large Fowl
The Legbar breed was the second autosexing chicken breed created in the early twentieth century by Reginald Crundall Punnett and Michael Pease at the Genetical Institute ofCambridge University (the other being the Cambar, which was created in 1929). The Legbar was created by crossing Barred Plymouth Rocks, Leghorns, Cambars, and in the case of the Cream Legbar, Araucanas. The Araucana blood in the Cream Legbar is reflected in its crest and blue to blue-green eggs.
The aim of the breeding project was to create an autosexing utility breed with the focus on egg laying, where male and female day old chicks could easily be sexed by their down colour. To achieve this Punnet and Pease used a crossing programme with excellent egg layers, the Leghorn and the Barred Plymouth Rock. The Barred Plymouth Rock was used to introduce the sex-linked barring gene ('barring' (B)) into the Leghorn. By crossing Brown Leghorn and Barred Plymouth Rock the Gold Legbar was created and standardised in 1945. The Silver Legbar followed in 1951. It had been created by crossing the Gold Legbar, White Leghorn and Silver Cambar. The Cream Legbar were standardised in 1958 but nearly died out in the 1970's as blue eggs were not in demand any more. They were created by crossing Gold Legbar with White Leghorn and creme-coloured Araucanas. The Araucanas introduced the dilute creme gene ('inhibitor of gold' (ig)), as well as the crest and the blue eggs into this variety.
Legbar egg
Legbar chicks
Legbar juveniles
Legbar hen
Legbar rooster
For more information on this breed and their owners' and breeders' experiences with them, see our breed discussion here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1163832/chicken-breed-focus-legbar/0_30