Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses progressive JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming).
Under the hood, Nest makes use of Express, but also, provides compatibility with a wide range of other libraries, like e.g. Fastify, allowing for easy use of the myriad third-party plugins which are available.
In recent years, thanks to Node.js, JavaScript has become the “lingua franca” of the web for both front and backend applications, giving rise to awesome projects like Angular, React and Vue which improve developer productivity and enable the construction of fast, testable, extensible frontend applications. However, on the server-side, while there are a lot of superb libraries, helpers and tools for Node, none of them effectively solve the main problem - the architecture.
Nest aims to provide an application architecture out of the box which allows for effortless creation of highly testable, scalable, loosely coupled and easily maintainable applications.
Scaffold the base project with CLI:
$ npm i -g @nestjs/cli
$ nest new project-name
Install the starter project with Git:
$ git clone https://github.com/nestjs/typescript-starter.git project
$ cd project
$ npm install
$ npm run start
$ git clone https://github.com/nestjs/javascript-starter.git project
$ cd project
$ npm install
$ npm run start
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Various constants used by BaseTen
SSL certificate policy.
Certificate policy is unspecified.
Untrusted certificates are allowed.
Untrusted certificates are denied.
A trust panel will be displayed to the user.
Property kind.
Kind is unspecified.
The property is an attribute.
The property is a relationship.
SSL connection mode.
SSL mode is unspecified.
SSL is required.
SSL has been disabled.
A secure connection will be attempted at first.


Description:
Subtracts a constant from a register and subtracts with the C flag and places the result in the destination register Rd.
Operation:
(i)Rd ← Rd - K - C
Syntax: Operands: Program Counter:
(i) SBCI Rd,K 16 ≤ d ≤ 31, 0 ≤ K ≤ 255 PC ← PC + 1
16-bit Opcode:
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Status Register and Boolean Formula:
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Set if there was a borrow from bit 3; cleared otherwise
S: N ⊕ V, For signed tests.
V:
Set if two's complement overflow resulted from the operation; cleared otherwise.
N: R7
Set if MSB of the result is set; cleared otherwise.
Z:
Z
Previous value remains unchanged when the result is zero; cleared otherwise.
C:
Set if the absolute value of the constant plus previous carry is larger than the absolute value of Rd; cleared otherwise.
R (Result) equals Rd after the operation.
Example:
; Subtract $4F23 from r17:r16 subi r16,$23 ; Subtract low byte sbci r17,$4F ; Subtract with carry high byte
Words: 1 (2 bytes)
Cycles: 1


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The WOD (World Ocean Database) data is a collection of data from various
sources, combined into a single format with uniform treatment.
The WOD 2009 page
has detailed information about the repository, observations, and datasets.
The programs in this directory convert from the packed ASCII files
found in the repository into DART observation sequence (obs_seq) file format.
There are 2 sets of available files - the raw observations, and
the observations binned onto standard levels. The recommended
datasets are the ones on standard levels. The raw data can
be very dense in the vertical and are not truly independent
observations. This leads to too much certainty in the updated
values during the assimilation.
Data from the WOD09 can be downloaded interactively from links on this page. One suggestion is to pick the 'sorted by year link' and download the files (you can select multiple years at once) for each data type for the years of interest. Make sure to select the standard level versions of each dataset.
UCAR/NCAR users with access to the DSS data repository can download WOD09 files from here. A UCAR DSS userid is required to access this page. The files to use are named "yearly_*_STD.tar".
Requested citation if you use this data:
Johnson, D.R., T.P. Boyer, H.E. Garcia, R.A. Locarnini, O.K. Baranova, and M.M. Zweng, 2009. World Ocean Database 2009 Documentation. Edited by Sydney Levitus. NODC Internal Report 20, NOAA Printing Office, Silver Spring, MD, 175 pp. Available at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD09/pr_wod09.html.
The data is distributed in a specialized packed ASCII format. In this directory is a program called wodFOR.f which is an example reader program to print out data values from the files. The program wod_to_obs converts these packed ASCII files into DART obs_sequence files.
As with most other DART directories, the work directory contains a quickbuild.csh script to build all necessary executables.
This namelist is read from the file input.nml. Namelists start with an ampersand '&' and terminate with a slash '/'. Character strings that contain a '/' must be enclosed in quotes to prevent them from prematurely terminating the namelist.
&wod_to_obs_nml wod_input_file = 'XBTS2005', wod_input_filelist = '', wod_out_file = 'obs_seq.wod', avg_obs_per_file = 500000, debug = .false., timedebug = .false., print_qc_summary = .true., max_casts = -1, no_output_file = .false., print_every_nth_cast = -1, temperature_error = 0.5, salinity_error = 0.5, / ! temperature error is in degrees C, salinity error in g/kg.
| Item | Type | Description |
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| wod_input_file | character(len=128) | The input filename when converting a single file. Only one of the two namelist items that specify input files can have a valid value, so to use a single filename set the list name 'wod_input_filelist' to the empty string (' '). |
| wod_input_filelist | character(len=128) | To convert one or more files in a single execution create a text file which contains each input filename, in ascii, one filename per line. Set this item to the name of that file, and set 'wod_input_file' to the empty string (' '). |
| wod_out_file | character(len=128) | The output file to be created. Note that unlike earlier versions of some converters, this program will overwrite an existing output file instead of appending to it. The risk of replicated observations, which are difficult to detect since most of the contents are floating point numbers, outweighed the possible utility. |
| avg_obs_per_file | integer | The code needs an upper limit on the number of observations generated by this program. It can be larger than the actual number of observations converted. The total number of obs is computed by multiplying this number by the number of input files. If you get an error because there is no more room to add observations to the output file, increase this number. Do not make this an unreasonably huge number, however, since the code does preallocate space and will be slow if the number of obs becomes very large. |
| print_every_nth_cast | integer | If a value greater than 0, the program will print a message after processing every N casts. This allows the user to monitor the progress of the conversion. |
| print_qc_summary | logical | If .TRUE. the program will print out a summary of the number of casts which had a non-zero quality control values (current files appear to use values of 1-9). |
| debug | logical | If .TRUE. the program will print out debugging information. |
| timedebug | logical | If .TRUE. the program will print out specialized time-related debugging information. |
| max_casts | integer | If a value greater than 0 the program will only convert at most this number of casts from each input file. Generally only expected to be useful for debugging. A negative value will convert all data from the input file. |
| no_output_file | logical | If .TRUE. the converter will do all the work needed to convert the observations, count the number of each category of QC values, etc, but will not create the final obs_seq file. Can be useful if checking an input file for problems, or for getting QC statistics without waiting for a full output file to be constructed, which can be slow for large numbers of obs. Only expected to be useful for debugging. |
| temperature_error | real(r8) | The combined expected error of temperature observations from all sources, including instrument error, model bias, and representativeness error (e.g. larger or smaller grid box sizes affecting expected accuracy), in degrees Centigrade. Values in output file are error variance, which will be this value squared. |
| salinity_error | real(r8) | The combined expected error of salinity observations from all sources, including instrument error, model bias, and representativeness error (e.g. larger or smaller grid box sizes affecting expected accuracy) in g/kg (psu). Values in output file are error variance, and use units of msu (kg/kg), so the numbers will be this value / 1000.0, squared. |
types_mod time_manager_mod utilities_mod location_mod obs_sequence_mod obs_def_mod obs_def_ocean_mod obs_kind_mod
The code for setting observation error variances is using fixed values, and we are not certain if they are correct. Incoming QC values larger than 0 are suspect, but it is not clear if they really signal unusable values or whether there are some codes we should accept.
This converter is currently being used on WOD09 data, but the standard files generally stop with early 2009 data. There are subsequent additional new obs files available from the download site.
The fractional-time field, and sometimes the day-of-month field in a small percentage of the obs have bad values. The program currently discards these obs, but it may be possible to recover the original good day number and/or time of day. There is a subroutine at the end of the wod_to_obs.f90 file which contains all the reject/accept/correction information for the year, month, day, time fields. To accept or correct the times on more obs, edit this subroutine and make the necessary changes.
DART software - Copyright UCAR. This open source software is provided by UCAR, "as is", without charge, subject to all terms of use at http://www.image.ucar.edu/DAReS/DART/DART_download


The TradierBrokerageModel
uses the ImmediateSettlementModel for margin accounts and the DelayedSettlementModel with the default settlement rules for cash accounts.
// For US Equities with a cash account: security.SettlementModel = new DelayedSettlementModel(Equity.DefaultSettlementDays, Equity.DefaultSettlementTime); // For Equity Options with a cash account: security.SettlementModel = new DelayedSettlementModel(Option.DefaultSettlementDays, Option.DefaultSettlementTime); // For remaining cases: security.SettlementModel = new ImmediateSettlementModel();
# For US Equities with a cash account: security.SettlementModel = DelayedSettlementModel(Equity.DefaultSettlementDays, Equity.DefaultSettlementTime) # For Equity Options with a cash account: security.SettlementModel = DelayedSettlementModel(Option.DefaultSettlementDays, Option.DefaultSettlementTime) # For remaining cases: security.SettlementModel = ImmediateSettlementModel()


About
Rich is currently a Team Lead (Sr. Engineering Manager) at Elastic helping the Enterprise Search team make it easy for developers to build search experiences. He is a hands-on technical manager who enjoys working on deep technical problems, delivering quality software, and coaching engineers and managers.
Previously, Rich was Director of Engineering at Constant Contact, responsible for the development of Constant Contact’s flagship web-based email editor used by hundreds of thousands of small businesses to create beautiful, effective marketing emails. Rich also managed the Contacts platform, a Ruby on Rails application that manages billions of customer email contacts and processes millions of API requests per day.
Career Objective
To use his talents as a passionate software engineer and technical leader to help people solve problems and build great products.
Skills and Achievements
- Invented, designed, architected, managed, released, supported, and maintained a test automation product that earned millions of dollars in revenue for shareholders, helped hundreds of QA engineers test their software more efficiently, and played a key role in Oracle acquiring the Empirix web business unit.
- Consulted at customer sites, presented at technical conferences, and pitched products to C-level executives.
- Authored requirements, functional specs, design specs, prototypes, wireframes, and sequence diagrams.
- Over 10,000 hours of coding experience in languages such as Java, Ruby, and JavaScript.
- Closed thousands of customer support issues.
- Reverse-engineered and performance-tested hundreds of web apps.
- Designed, implemented, published and maintained concise, clear product APIs.
- Developed and released software using many languages and technologies, including: Java, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (ES5/ES6), React, JQuery, Eclipse RCP, GraphQL, Docker, and AWS.
- Released features and products ranging in size and complexity from single engineers working a few hours, to tens of engineers working for 3 years.
- Initiated and delivered major rewrites of multiple highly complex, business-critical applications.
- Directed software teams from 1 to 50 engineers, across frontend, backend, documentation, and design.
Side Projects (just a few)
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Hacking the Brain conference talk (2015)
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Mutating HipChat with AWS, GraphQL, and React just for fun (2018)
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BrowserUp startup (2018)
Personality
- Rich’s peers and managers describe him as enthusiastic, optimistic, empathetic, and rational.
- Works effectively with any customer, employee, personality type, manager, and time zone, both remotely and on-site.
- Proven capacity to lead projects and teams through turbulent organizational change, including two corporate acquisitions.
- Perseverant; worked two jobs (paid support and volunteer development) to earn his first full-time developer role.
- Delivers tough, effective feedback when required.
- Has been seen typing at talking speed.
- “I can see the big picture, and I can focus on details. I can spot spelling mistakes and crooked pixels. I can fix legacy code. I can parse logs to find a needle in the haystack. I willingly take on the dirty, unglamorous jobs so the team can focus on the rest.”
Career History
- 1992 - Started writing BASIC code on a 386 at age 12.
- 1995 - Launched my first software business and sold my first shareware app.
- 1997 - Developed the first web-based defect tracking system at Amano Cincinnati, Inc.
- 2002 - Graduated from WPI with High Distinction and a BS/CS.
- 2002 - Joined Empirix as a Support Engineer.
- 2004 - Promoted to Developer.
- 2006 - Promoted to Lead Developer, acting as Architect.
- 2008 - Promoted to Development Manager.
- 2008 - Acquired by Oracle. Designated as Key Employee during acquisition phase.
- 2010 - Promoted to Senior Development Manager at Oracle.
- 2013 - Promoted to Director of Development.
- Managed 3 products and 20 developers across US, India, and China.
- Left my team after 11 years to start over in a new industry.
- 2013 - Joined Constant Contact as Engineering Manager
- 2018 - Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager
- 2019 - Promoted to Director of Engineering
- Managed 2 major application platforms, 4 managers, and 50+ engineers.
- Left Constant Contact to join a fully distributed software development company.
- 2020 - Joined Elastic as Team Lead
- Currently managing a small team of engineers building Enterprise Search.


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1975
Born in South Orange, New Jersey
1988
Performed "Who's Lovin You?" on Amateur Night at the Apollo
1993
Co-starred in Sister Act 2
1996
"The Score" debuted and earned The Fugees 2 Grammys
1998
Began her solo career with the debut of the critically acclaimed album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"


- Description
- Register a content provider on a URL template and supplementary
arguments.
- Parameter Template
- A URL template. If the input is malformed or too
complex, an ::com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException may be raised.
- Parameter Arguments
- Any supplementary arguments required by this
XContentProvider, represented as a single string. If the
input is malformed, an
::com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
may be raised.
- Parameter ReplaceExisting
- If true, and if the given Template conflicts
with an already registered instance, the old registration is replaced
by the new one. If false, and if the given Template conflicts with an
already registered instance, the new registration is not performed,
and null is returned.
- Returns
- Either this XContentProvider, or another,
specially adjusted version of this XContentProvider (this
flexibility allows for different implementation strategies), or null
if the given Template conflicts with an already registered instance
and ReplaceExisting is false. Note that the returned
XContentProvider must still be registered at the content
provider manager!
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- Thread Safety
- Must only be called from the main thread.
Resource locking is handled internally.
Shared access to this class is required.
This function may block the calling thread.
◆ GetContentPrefix()
Gets the current content prefix of this class.
The content prefix is a string that is prepended to the path
argument of vlk::Content<T>::LoadContent(const std::string&, const std::string&)
when loading content from the disk. By default, the content prefix is "content/".
- Thread Safety
- May be called from any thread.
Resource locking is handled internally.
Shared access to this class is required.
This function may block the calling thread.
◆ GetMetadata()
template<typename T >
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| key | The name of the metadata field to look up. |
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- The value of the metadata field for the given content or an empty string if either the content or the key were not found.
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template<typename T >
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Loads content from the disk.
This function calls the template functions vlk::ConstructContent(const std::string)
and vlk::DestroyContent(T*)
internally. These functions must be specialized before they can be invoked.
This function will also load metadata from a corresponding meta file if one is found. See the guide on metadata files for information on how to write one.
This function sends a LoadEvent
if the content is loaded successfully.
- Parameters
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| alias | The alias to assign the content once loaded. This string will be used as the key to retrieve the content with vlk::Content<T>::GetContent(const std::string&) . |
- Returns
- true if the content loads successfully, false otherwise.
- Thread Safety
- Must only be called from the main thread.
Resource locking is handled internally.
Unique access to this class is required.
This function may block the calling thread.
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Changes the content prefix for this class.
The content prefix is a string that is prepended to the path
argument of vlk::Content<T>::LoadContent(const std::string&, const std::string&)
when loading content from the disk. By default, the content prefix is "content/".
- Parameters
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- Exceptions
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- Thread Safety
- May be called from any thread.
Resource locking is handled internally.
Unique access to this class is required.
This function may block the calling thread.
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template<typename T >
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Unloads and destroys content.
This function calls the template function vlk::DestroyContent(T*)
internally. This function must be specialized before it can be invoked.
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- Returns
- true if the content unloads successfully, false otherwise.
- Thread Safety
- Must only be called from the main thread.
Resource locking is handled internally.
Unique access to this class is required.
This function may block the calling thread.
- See also
- vlk::Content<T>::LoadContent(const std::string&, const std::string&)
The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:


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Volume IV Paperbacks
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Volume IV Release Day!
It’s finally here. Circlets and Seekers is available now on all the popular digital platforms!
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Volume IV Cover Reveal
On Tuesday, August 14th the second Alora’s Tear trilogy begins. Today, enjoy the magnificent work of Isis Sousa and the back cover text for Volume IV, Circlets and Seekers. I’m excited to share the book with all of you, next week.
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Kit - SteelSeries Arctis 7
The future is wireless (or so they keep saying). My current PC gaming setup is now part of that future with the SteelSeries Arctis 7 headset. These headphones boast the same 40mm speaker drivers as the pro model by SteelSeries, a high quality retractable microphone, and lag-free audio, all in a subtle design free of the gaudy LEDs and faux robotic nonsense that mars most gaming peripherals.
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Kit - Recommendations and Reviews
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Volume IV Title
This summer, the second trilogy in the Alora’s Tear series begins. For today, let’s start with the title to book four.
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Site Design 2018
Welcome to the redesigned BarhamInk.com, the new home for Alora’s Tear and other writings by me, Nathan Barham. For most people, the take away is this: it’s fast! Like, really fast. Even if you’re on a limited mobile connection, BarhamInk.com should be one of the fastest sites you visit on any given day. And despite the speed increase, all of the content, features, and capabilities from the old site are still here (plus a lot more). If you’ve been following the book series since its debut in 2014 or if you’ve been following my writing on Apple, gaming, and other interests, you’ll notice more changes.
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Critically Speaking
While rebuilding BarhamInk.com, I came across the now defunct podcast Critically Speaking which I hosted with Scott Boren. The full 42 episode run of the show is still available at ShoutEngine if for some reason, you’re interested in listening.
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Apple Software is like Windows Hardware
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Guest Post on Helheimen Design
My brilliant cover artist, Isis Sousa, asked me to write a guest post for her blog concerning the work we did on Volume III. Now, when I say we, I mean she, since the real magic happens on her side, while I pester her about the details: a slightly different shade here, a smirk instead of a smile, a new armor texture, none of which I could implement myself (seriously, it would be awful), but all of which she somehow manages to get just right before we are finished.
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Equilibrium
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 I am not your ally, nor are you mine. You are a scourge that needs silencing and a pestilence in need of a cure. Stop this nonsense immediately and stand with the rest of us — for something — not against something in a thinly veiled attempt to justify your hate.
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Official Facebook Page
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Signed Copies on Etsy
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The Social Pressures of being "Right"
Do you like Apple’s Retina MacBook?  Maybe you like the look of Tesla’s upcoming Model 3 or use your iPad Pro as a full-fledged computer.
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Bicycles and Backdoors
Steve Jobs famously called the computer a “bicycle for the mind,” an extension of ourselves that would not only make life easier, but improve it. And although the idea began with the Macintosh, the device closest to this particular Jobs ideal didn’t arrive in earnest until the iPhone.
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Vellum
As part of the publication process for The Elf and the Arrow, one of my goals was to simplify and streamline the publication process—especially when it comes to the eBook version. When Fragments was published, I had racked up an unacceptable amount of time spent tinkering with HTML in Sigil or Text Wrangler in hopes that I could get the digital version of the book looking just the way I wanted it. In the end, even after days of reading and rewriting code for the eBook, the final product still fell short of my intent. I still think the digital versions of Fragments are the best I could possibly make at the time, and I stand by them, taking pride in the final product.
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Fragments Review - Amy Sanderson
Over on her wonderfully titled blog, Not All Those Who Wander, Amy Sanderson (author of Sanguine) posted what—to my knowledge—is the first public review of Fragments.
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Guesting on TBR Podcast
This week, I was lucky enough to be a guest on The Brooks Review podcast. Ben’s a great host, and I was delighted to be on the show. We talked mostly about the self-publishing process, some of its chief difficulties, and tips for writing framed around my background in secondary education. If you haven’t listened to the show before, it has a lot going for it. I recommend the pilot episode, in which Ben describes the direction and philosophy behind it all.
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The Writing Process
When I’m not writing books, I spend my days teaching about them. One of my favorite courses each year is Creative Writing (obvious!). Every once in a while a student will ask how I go about my own writing. I’ve collected a few notes here to that effect. Following this list certainly doesn’t guarantee your writing will be good, or even that mine is. These are just some of the patterns I used to get from hundreds words to hundreds of thousands (Yes, Fragments is technically tens of thousands, 57,000 if you’re looking for any level of accuracy, but it’s not the only book, now is it?). Here they are.
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Violence and Bioshock Infinite
Minor Spoilers for Bioshock Infinite’s opening section
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The Ties that Band
This article first appeared in The Magazine, Issue 8.
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Mass Effect's Ending
Spoilers
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UI and Achievements
Shards of glass rain down from overhead, spattering and clinking in the glow of roiling flames. Beneath your feet, the ground shakes, jostling your view. Beyond the shrapnel and blurring vibrations, a trusted friend hangs on the edge of the precipice. Someone you’ve spent hours helping, training, and conversing with. At one point, it even seemed the two of you might have a romantic interest in one another, only to discover that you make a better team without the baggage of such entanglements. Now she hangs, fingers scraping helplessly through the debris of the collapsing environment, struggling for purchase.
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There are Far Worse Terms Than Cinematic
What is a cinematic experience? For one, it’s a marketing term used on game boxes all the time. It conjures all sorts of images regarding action, intensity, and drama. That’s why they keep using it. A high rate of positive connotation is as good a reason as any for a marketer to repeatedly use a word or phrase. They want you to feel good about the purchase you’re about to make, and what better way than convincing the buyer that they will have a cinematic experience while playing the game?
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Toasted vs Ghosted (or Why Stealth?)
Two guards, one with a machine gun at the ready, the other pulls lazily on the bent remains of a cigarette, smoke trailing above him. Beyond, three cameras, all of which will alert the rest of the security team. Crouching in the shadows between a row of shipping crates and traffic cones you weigh the options.
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Murderfest of the Flies
In the extensive piece on Jonathan Blow for The Atlantic, Taylor Clark explores more than any one commentary could possibly cover. If you want to get lost in scathing critique of the mainstream gaming industry for several thousand words, I encourage you to read it. Also, Braid spoilers abound, so proceed with caution if you haven’t played and/or finished it yet (I haven’t).
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Who are Apple Stores for?
So let’s say that you’re an Apple fan. You’ve followed the company for years, watching keynote presentations the moment the link becomes available, obsessing over the most recent product rumors, even writing about the company on a regular basis. Now, let’s also say you find yourself with some extra time on your hands and one of the incredibly popular Apple Retail Stores nearby. Do you take the opportunity to go into the store and bask in the physical incarnation of the company in whose products you are so interested? Or do you instead, kick back with a cup of coffee at the Starbucks across the street?


public class ClientPlayerAPI
extends SpotifyEndpoint
These endpoints allow for viewing and controlling user playback. Please view the official documentation for more information on how this works. This is in beta and is available for premium users only. Endpoints are not guaranteed to work
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
ClientPlayerAPI(SpotifyAPI api)
These endpoints allow for viewing and controlling user playback. Please view the official documentation
for more information on how this works. This is in beta and is available for premium users only. Endpoints are not guaranteed to work
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
SpotifyRestAction<com.adamratzman.spotify.models.CurrentlyPlayingContext> |
getCurrentContext()
Get information about the user’s current playback state, including track, track progress, and active device.
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SpotifyRestAction<com.adamratzman.spotify.models.CurrentlyPlayingObject> |
getCurrentlyPlaying()
Get the object currently being played on the user’s Spotify account.
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SpotifyRestAction<java.util.List> |
getDevices()
Get information about a user’s available devices.
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SpotifyRestActionPaging<com.adamratzman.spotify.models.PlayHistory,com.adamratzman.spotify.models.CursorBasedPagingObject> |
getRecentlyPlayed(java.lang.Integer limit,
java.lang.String before,
java.lang.String after)
Get tracks from the current user’s recently played tracks.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
pause(java.lang.String deviceId)
Pause playback on the user’s account.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
resume(java.lang.String deviceId)
Resumes playback on the current device, if deviceId is not specified.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
seek(long positionMs,
java.lang.String deviceId)
Seeks to the given position in the user’s currently playing track.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
setRepeatMode(ClientPlayerAPI.PlayerRepeatState state,
java.lang.String deviceId)
Set the repeat mode for the user’s playback. Options are repeat-track, repeat-context, and off.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
setVolume(int volume,
java.lang.String deviceId)
Set the volume for the user’s current playback device.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
skipBehind(java.lang.String deviceId)
Skips to previous track in the user’s queue.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
skipForward(java.lang.String deviceId)
Skips to the next track in the user’s queue.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
startPlayback(java.lang.String album,
java.lang.String artist,
PlaylistURI playlist,
java.lang.Integer offsetNum,
java.lang.String offsetTrackId,
java.lang.String deviceId,
java.lang.String tracksToPlay)
Start or resume playback.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
toggleShuffle(boolean shuffle,
java.lang.String deviceId)
Toggle shuffle on or off for user’s playback.
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SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> |
transferPlayback(java.lang.String[] deviceId,
boolean play)
Transfer playback to a new device and determine if it should start playing.
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getApi, getCache
public ClientPlayerAPI(SpotifyAPI api)
These endpoints allow for viewing and controlling user playback. Please view the official documentation for more information on how this works. This is in beta and is available for premium users only. Endpoints are not guaranteed to work
public SpotifyRestAction<java.util.List> getDevices()
Get information about a user’s available devices.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_READ_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
public SpotifyRestAction<com.adamratzman.spotify.models.CurrentlyPlayingContext> getCurrentContext()
Get information about the user’s current playback state, including track, track progress, and active device.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_READ_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
public SpotifyRestActionPaging<com.adamratzman.spotify.models.PlayHistory,com.adamratzman.spotify.models.CursorBasedPagingObject> getRecentlyPlayed(java.lang.Integer limit, java.lang.String before, java.lang.String after)
Get tracks from the current user’s recently played tracks.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_READ_RECENTLY_PLAYED scope
limit
- The number of objects to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.before
- The timestamp (retrieved via cursor) not including, but before which, tracks will have been played. This can be combined with limitafter
- The timestamp (retrieved via cursor) not including, after which, the retrieval starts. This can be combined with limitpublic SpotifyRestAction<com.adamratzman.spotify.models.CurrentlyPlayingObject> getCurrentlyPlaying()
Get the object currently being played on the user’s Spotify account.
Requires either the SpotifyScope.USER_READ_PLAYBACK_STATE or SpotifyScope.USER_READ_CURRENTLY_PLAYING scopes
public SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> pause(java.lang.String deviceId)
Pause playback on the user’s account.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
deviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> seek(long positionMs, java.lang.String deviceId)
Seeks to the given position in the user’s currently playing track.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
positionMs
- The position in milliseconds to seek to. Must be a positive number. Passing in a position
that is greater than the length of the track will cause the player to start playing the next song.deviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> setRepeatMode(ClientPlayerAPI.PlayerRepeatState state, java.lang.String deviceId)
Set the repeat mode for the user’s playback. Options are repeat-track, repeat-context, and off.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
state
- mode to describe how to repeat in the current contextdeviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> setVolume(int volume, java.lang.String deviceId)
Set the volume for the user’s current playback device.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
volume
- The volume to set. Must be a value from 0 to 100 inclusive.deviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> skipForward(java.lang.String deviceId)
Skips to the next track in the user’s queue.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
deviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> skipBehind(java.lang.String deviceId)
Skips to previous track in the user’s queue.
Note that this will ALWAYS skip to the previous track, regardless of the current track’s progress.
Returning to the start of the current track should be performed using ClientPlayerAPI.seek
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
deviceId
- The device to play onClientPlayerAPI.seek
public SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> startPlayback(java.lang.String album, java.lang.String artist, PlaylistURI playlist, java.lang.Integer offsetNum, java.lang.String offsetTrackId, java.lang.String deviceId, java.lang.String tracksToPlay)
Start or resume playback.
Note: Only one of the following can be used: album, artist, playlist, or tracksToPlay. Else, you will not see expected results.
Note also: You can only use one of the following: offsetNum or offsetTrackId
Specify nothing to play to simply resume playback
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
album
- An album id or uri to playartist
- An artist id or uri for whom to playplaylist
- A playlist id or uri from which to playtracksToPlay
- Track ids or uris to play. these are converted into URIs. Max 100offsetNum
- Indicates from where in the context playback should start. Only available with use of album or playlist
or when tracksToPlay is used.offsetTrackId
- Does the same as offsetNum but with a track id or uri instead of place numberdeviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> resume(java.lang.String deviceId)
Resumes playback on the current device, if deviceId is not specified.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
deviceId
- The device to play onpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> toggleShuffle(boolean shuffle, java.lang.String deviceId)
Toggle shuffle on or off for user’s playback.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
deviceId
- The device to play onshuffle
- Whether to enable shuffling of playbackpublic SpotifyRestAction<kotlin.Unit> transferPlayback(java.lang.String[] deviceId, boolean play)
Transfer playback to a new device and determine if it should start playing.
Requires the SpotifyScope.USER_MODIFY_PLAYBACK_STATE scope
deviceId
- The device to play onplay
- Whether to immediately start playback on the transferred device


We support two families of fonts. You can use any material icon or you can use one of the below icons (prefixed with jar_). You can add new icons in @streamjar/ui-shared.
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Custom Icons
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I stole this idea from Cadence. To
quote:
Why is this called "weblog" and not "blog"?
A weblog means a personal blog rather than a corporate one. It's a retro word for a retro person.
Put in simple terms, this is purely meant to signal that this is a collection of genuine thoughts instead of an
SEO-infested abomination.


"Hello folks, My name is Parth, and I live in Kitchener, Ontario; with the help of python and significant machine learning models I help companies and individuals to make their applications and website staggering."
My name is Parth, and I will share what I have learned throughout my career. I have done my Bachelor of Engineering in the Information Technology field. Recently, I've done a Post-graduation in Information Technology business analysis at Conestoga College Doon Campus; and have great experience in the Computer science field. I have hands-on practice on various projects in the Computer science field during bachelors.I have an excellent command in Data Science, Machine learning and the Internet of things field. Moreover, in my post-graduation, I have learnt a bundle of techniques to improve any business and business process by analyzing different KPIs.
As per my aspect the most important thing, I have learnt during my post-graduation is business communications and insight.
Education
Conestoga College
Post-Graduation
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Informtion Technology Business Analysis - Operation
Prototyping & Wireframe
UML Tools
Use Case
Microsoft Office
SQL Database
Adoption Scrum, Kanban and Agile Methodologies
Creation Persona
Root Cause Analysis
Enterprise Resource Planning
Converting Raw Data into Meaningful Information using PowerBI
Business Process Analsyis using various Tools and Techniques
Stake Holder Communication
Elicitation Techniques
SWOT Analysis
Metrics Analysis using Hootsuite
Sardar Patel College of Engineering
B.Engineering
Aug 2015 - May 2019
Information Technology
Data Structures and Algorithms
Programming Language: C, C++, Python, Java, C#.
Java and Advance Java (JSP / Servlet, Spring framework, Hibernates )
Python for Data Science and Machine Learning
Python for Web scrapping
Python for Automation and Internet of Things
Basic concept of IoT
Arduino
Database and Distributed Database
Web Security
Data Compression
Django and Flask framework of Python
Data Mining
Website Development (HTML, html5,Javascript, css, bootstrap, Angular js, Node js)
Database Design
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Python (Basic, Django, Machine learning, Data Science)
This project predicts the expected amount on which client of a car company would buy a car. Here, I've used the regression algorithm to predict purchase amount and the neural network to make my prediction and model more accurate. In this project, the model takes age, monthly salary, yearly income and credit card debt to predict. Here, the model uses the Tensorflow library for conducting a neural network.
Technology Used: Python, Python's Pandas Framework, Scikit learn, Neural network, TensorFlow, Numpy, seaborn and matplotlib for data visualization, and regression algorithm to predict purchase amount.
I have developed an IoT based device on Women Safety and Health monitoring as a Final year project.
Also, create one android based application in which users can connect with the device via Bluetooth.
This is a wearable device, and users can send a distress signal in a problematic situation. Here users can send signals via one-click on registered loving person mobile. Here latitude and longitude of the user send via SMS, and every 2 min registered person gets SMS via the user's updated location.
Android application helps women to track their health-related data like Heartbeat, body temperature and blood pressure. Here this data helps women to check symptoms on some dieses.
This android application is built using Java and SQL lite to store some login information and store some health history of individual users.
I developed this project within 4 months, where I create one report based on this project and build a working prototype during this period.
In my third year of bachelor’s, I have developed one python-based program which helps the user to do some essential activity on the computer using Hand gesture.
Here user can control some basic activity like drag and drop of file and icon, zoom in and zoom out of images, next and previous slide in presentation, start and stop of presentation, play, pause and fast, forward of music.
In this project, I used Image Processing as a technology. Here OpenCV library helps me to perform image processing operation in my project.
I used .net framework as a frontend to create desktop-based application, and this application directly points to my python script which run in background.
Here user must wear some coloring gloves, color can be anything. So, program detect this color and do some task according to user gesture.
I completed this project within 3 months and create one report and canvas based on this project.
This project is built using python programming language and use OpenCV library to perform some image processing operation.
In my 6th semester of Bachelors, I developed one website as a course project.
I developed freelancing website using JSP and Servlet technology.
In this website user or company can upload their projects and developer can see this project list.
If one developer found that he/she can do this project, they can bid on this project, and also they need to write some explanation about why they want to do this project.
After biding on project, company able to see bidder’s profile and give their project to appropriate developer.
Here user needs to login on website and provide some details for background check. Moreover, user can login on website via google credential.
Here I choose java technology for building this website. HTML is use to create webpage and JSP and Servlet is use to apply some logical operation on website. MySQL is use as a database, which store all the login information of users and information about project and bidding.
I developed this website in 2 weeks and presented it in my class.
I have done the mentioned projects under the certification course of python data science and machine learning course.
I used python as a programming language and Sklearn library for some exploratory data analysis in all these projects.
The Seaborn library helps to visualize data.
Python's pandas' library helps me to perform some data framing in these projects.
Analysis of 911 Data Set
In this project, I applied some normal data manipulation techniques to remove some redundant data.Generally, I build this project to learn some data cleaning activities. I use the Panda library for data framing and use some predefine function to remove redundancy from data like for regression. You can only use some numeric value, so here all the textual information is redundant so you can either remove that or convert in some numerical form. Checkout on GitHub
Analysis of Advertisement Data
In this project, I used logistic regression for data analysis.Here, the company wants to analyze features of use to know whether or not a particular user clicks on that website.Here the Logistic regression library helps me to apply exploratory analysis.
Checkout on GitHub
E-commerce data analysis using Linear Regression
This project is built for one clothing company, which sells clothes online and instore both.Here the company has a website and mobile application both, from where users can buy clothes.The company wants to decide whether they must focus on mobile application or website for better user experience.By applying linear regression on some historical data, I found that the company should expand the user experience.
Checkout on GitHub
Data Classification using k-nearest Neighbors
In this project, I applied the K-nearest algorithm to the predefined data set. The motive behind this project is to learn the basics of the k-nearest algorithm function on a large data set.
Checkout on GitHub


Steps to view attached USB serial in RPI
2013-11-11
- in case of DYLOS air quality monitor /dev,based on http://www.linfo.org/dmesg.html
bash dmesg | grep -i tty
Now to use this for data logging and GSM data transmission for data logging python script from this replay is used#3 http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=105148.0
import serial import time ser = serial.Serial(‘/dev/ttyUSB0’, 9600, timeout=60) time.sleep(60) logfile = open(‘test.csv’, ‘a’) while 1: line = ser.readline() now = time.strftime(“%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S:00.000000+0530”, time.localtime()) a = “%s,%s” % (now,line) print a logfile.write(a) logfile.flush() logfile.close() ser.close()
To make the RPi run automatically this script for every reboot, followed this well-written tutorial http://blog.scphillips.com/2013/07/getting-a-python-script-to-run-in-the-background-as-a-service-on-boot/ the steps were
added this line to the first line of python script
#!/usr/bin/env python
then moved this file to the location of /usr/local/bin/myservice here myservice folder has to be created
give execute command for the file
chmod 755 pythonscript.py
then create a file in /etc/init.d as pythonscript.sh and add following codes in it
#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: myservice # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Put a short description of the service here # Description: Put a long description of the service here ### END INIT INFO # Change the next 3 lines to suit where you install your script and what you want to call it DIR=/usr/local/bin/myservice DAEMON=$DIR/pythonscript.py DAEMON_NAME=pythonscript # This next line determines what user the script runs as. # Root generally not recommended but necessary if you are using the Raspberry Pi GPIO from Python. DAEMON_USER=root # The process ID of the script when it runs is stored here: PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMON_NAME.pid . /lib/lsb/init-functions do_start () { log_daemon_msg “Starting system $DAEMON_NAME daemon” start-stop-daemon --start --background --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile --user $DAEMON_USER --startas $DAEMON log_end_msg $? } do_stop () { log_daemon_msg “Stopping system $DAEMON_NAME daemon” start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE --retry 10 log_end_msg $? } case “$1” in start|stop) do_${1} ;; restart|reload|force-reload) do_stop do_start ;; status) status_of_proc “$DAEMON_NAME” “$DAEMON” && exit 0 || exit $? ;; *) echo “Usage: /etc/init.d/$DEAMON_NAME {start|stop|restart|status}” exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
give execute command for this file
chmod 755 pythonscript.sh
now test it with this command
sudo /etc/init.d/pythonscript start
it will show
[ ok ] Starting system dylos_csv_ser daemon:.
now give this command
sudo /etc/init.d/dylos_csv_ser.sh stop
it give this error [….] Stopping system dyloscsvser daemon:start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 2794: No such process No process in pidfile ‘/var/run/dyloscsvser.pid’ found running; none killed.
Check any pesky mistake in the python script python script has to run with this command it self
cd into the python script directory then run ./pythonscript.py it has to run other wise problem is in python script, mine was due to a space in front of the python (Hrrrrrrah) interpreter in the python script
#!/usr/bin/env python
after changing this all are fine
Another tips to rename files in linux
mv file1 file2
have to careful it can replace the file, can see more option in http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-rename-file/
that is it, python script is in daemon and keep automatically work after rebooting.
For GSM based transmission of DYLOS reading, use http://misc.flogisoft.com/phone/gammu_send_sms


Background
Today I was given a coding challenge by DBC to convert a sentence into pig latin. The rules for pig latin are that any words that start with a vowel are left alone, but words that start with a constant are changed. The change is removing all the constants ahead of the first vowel in the word and placing them at the end of the word, with an -ay attached at the very end.
Ex: hello world => ello-hay orld-way
When I first attempted to solve this problem, I had around 8-10 lines of code. But once I learned RegExp, I was able to solve it in one line. Below is the code with RegExp.def pig_latin
puts gets.chomp.split(" ").map {|word| word.gsub(/(\A[^aeiou]+)(.+)/,'\2-\1ay')}.join(" ")
end
Breakdown
So what is happening? lets start with the method gsub. gsub is a String method that takes a parameter to match and potentially replace characters in a string. The basic syntax of gsub is as follows: gsub(thing to match,thing to replace)
RegExp defines patterns, so by combining Regexp with gsub, I can manipulate characters to follow pig-latin's rules.The syntax for RegExp within the parameter is as follows:
/RegExp/,'to display'
RegExp also has something called capture groups which allow you to manipulate groups of characters by encapsulating the corresponding RegExp within parens, (). You can use multiple parens to manipulate multiple groups, and these groups are assigned autoincrementally. So for our previous example of how I solved pig-latin, we have two distinct capture groups: (\A[^aeiou]+) and (.+). After the , within '' the capture groups are assigned as \1 and \2 respectively. So you can manuver the order of these characters and whether or not a group of characters is displayed.


If set to true, the result of the function call will be
calculated similar to array formulas in a spreadsheet document. The
return value of the function call will usually be a sequence of
sequences containing the values of the resulting array. Example: If the
function ABS is called for a 3x2 cell range, the result will be a 3x2
array containing the absolute values of the numbers contained in the
specified cell range.
If set to false, the result of the function call will be
calculated similar to simple cell formulas in a spreadsheet document.
The return value of the function call will usually be a single value.
Of course, some functions always return an array, for example the
MUNIT function.
For compatibility with older versions, the default value of this
property is true.


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The Nigerian Inspirations On Coldplay’s “Everyday Life” Album
by Michael BamideleAfter a 4-year hiatus, British rock band Coldplay surprised the world with their eight studio album “Everyday Life” – a double album, with the first half titled Sunrise and the other Sunset. It was released on 22 November 2019.
The album has received positive reviews and can be regarded as one of the band’s best albums. The ingenious blend of sounds from different cultures solidifies the notion that music is indeed spiritual.
Everyday Life featured three tracks that were inspired and infused with Nigerian sounds; “Arabesque”, “Champion Of The World” and “Eko”.
- “Arabesque” – Three Generations Of The Anikulapo-Kuti
Arabesque is the co-lead single to the Everyday Life album. It was released on 24 October 2019 alongside Orphans. It features vocals by Belgian singer Stromae and horn sections by Femi Kuti and his band.
Arabesque features three generations of the Anikulapo-Kuti family:
Just before the outro, we get to hear a sample from Fela Kuti “Music is the weapon, music is the weapon of the future” the legendary Afrobeats pioneer chanted three times.
While Femi Kuti and his son, Made Kuti delivered an exquisite Afrobeat groove to the track.
- “Champion Of The World” – The Inspiring Story Of The father Of Igbo Church Music
“Champion of the World” was released on November 20th. The song is a tribute to Scott Hutchison, the lead singer of Frightened Rabbit who took his life in May 2018 after struggling with depression.
Interestingly, the song begins with an Igbo gospel hymn intro. The sample is from Harcourt Whyte’s song titled ‘Otuto Nke Chukwu N’ojija Aha Ya’.
[Intro: ‘Otuto Nke Chukwu’]
Gi nwa nke chukwu, gini ka ina ekwu
N’ihi ihe nile
Nke chukwu mere
The lyrics translate from Igbo to English as:
“You that is of God, what are we going to say?
For everything
God made it”
Harcourt Whyte has an inspiring story. His birth name is Ikoli Harcourt-Whyte. He was born in Abonnema in the old Niger Delta region in 1905.
In 1919, he was diagnosed with leprosy after symptoms were first noticed in 1918. In the early 1920s, he was sent to Port Harcourt General Hospital where he developed his talent in music and went on to form a vocalist band with forty other lepers.
In 1932, he was transferred to Uzuakoli Leprosy Hospital, Bende Division, Eastern Nigeria, where he met doctor-reverend-musician T.F. Davey from England. Whyte was encouraged by Davey, who took him on village survey tours to collect various traditional sounds.
In 1949, after 34 years of ill health, Whyte was finally cured and discharged by Davey as “clean”. Whyte dedicated much of his life to the betterment and education of lepers who suffered the same illness as he once did.
Whyte performed sacred compositions inspired by Methodist Church hymns and Wesleyan doctrinal philosophy. His works attracted wide interest and were popular throughout the Igboland, eventually earning him the title of “father of Igbo church music”.
During the civil war, Whyte’s songs were popular as a source of courage and hope.
- Èkó – Lagos And Tiwa Savage
Èkó is the third track on the second half of the album.
Èkó is the Yoruba name for Lagos, a state in southwest Nigeria. Èkó was the name the state bore before it was renamed Lagos by the Portuguese.
On the track, the chorus features a harmony between Coldplay’s band leader Chris Martin and Nigerian Afropop singer Tiwa Savage as the backing vocal.
Some lyrics from Èkó:
“Lagos a dream in the distance”
“In Africa
We dance in the water and hold
Each other so tight
In Africa
The mothers will sing you to sleep
And say, “It’s alright, child
It’s alright””
In an interview with Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1, Chris Martin talked about what inspired the album:
“It’s all about just being human. Every day is great and every day is terrible…It just feels kind of free. There’s so much life bursting out on the planet.
“[The album] is our reaction to the perceived negativity that’s everywhere. And there is a lot of trouble, but there’s also so much positivity and so much great life happening. So in a way, it’s just trying to make sense of things, saying what we feel and what we see.”


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Give pecan pie a flavour twist with cloves, cinnamon and star anise.
Make the pastry first. Sift the flour into a large bowl, add the butter and rub it in with your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Stir in the cloves and star anise.
Using a spatula, mix in the measured water a bit at a time until a dough forms. Bring it together using your hands. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
Lightly flour a work surface and roll out the pastry so that it’s large enough to line a 23cm/9in tart tin and overhang the sides by about 2cm/¾in.
Crumple a sheet of baking paper and use it to line the pastry case. Fill with baking beans, uncooked rice or chickpeas. Reduce the oven temperature to 150C/130C Fan/Gas 2 and bake for 8-10 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly, then remove paper and beans.
Increase the oven temperature to 190C/170C Fan/Gas Mark 5.
To make the filling, put the butter, syrup and sugar in a saucepan and heat gently until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat. Beat the eggs in a bowl until light and frothy. Gradually pour in the warm sugar mixture, folding it together with a spatula as you do so.
Chop half of the pecans and stir them into the egg mixture along with the cinnamon. Pour into the baked pastry case and arrange the remaining pecan halves on top. Bake in the centre of the oven for 12-15 minutes, until bubbling and golden-brown. Set aside to cool and firm up.
Trim off the excess pastry, then remove the pie from the tin and serve with vanilla ice cream or fresh cream, if you wish.


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 Something similar happens to aging baseball pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) in the aptly named, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME.
Throwing what may well be his last game, his entire life flashes by him as he struggles with over-the-hill muscles to eke out one last valiant effort. He is "40 years old, arm weary and achy," says the game's announcer. This last game of his, perhaps, just perhaps, might even be one for the record books. Then again, maybe not. His arm gives out quickly these days, and he's been only 8-11 this season.
Some people stop to smell the roses. For Billy, it's a well-worn baseball mitt that has the aroma that excites his nose. Knowing that his last day on the mound has arrived, he even pauses in a packed stadium to gaze upward at the clouds that have graced his many days at the ballpark.
Earlier that day, he came to realize that his career was coming to an end. The owner of his team, the Detroit Tigers, told him that the team was being sold. He recommended that Billy retire because, otherwise, the new owners planned on trading him anyway. A Tiger all of his life, this was a devastating blow.
To add insult to injury, his girlfriend of the past 5 years, Jane Aubrey (Kelly Preston), told him that she was leaving him for a job in London.
"Billy, this ain't your day," his long-time friend and catcher Gus Osinski (John C. Reilly) tells him.
Directed with an inviting poignancy by Sam Raimi (A SIMPLE PLAN), the movie charms with its old-fashioned story of love. Costner, in one of his best performances in years, creates a character who earns our respect and our sympathy. In his subtly emotive turn as an aging superstar, he manages to make his pain palpable without ever letting things dissolve into schmaltz. Still, you may want to have your handkerchief at the ready since the story has the potential to reduce you to tears as it did several in our audience.
FOR LOVE OF THE GAME is more a love story than a sports story. Billy is in love with the game and with his girlfriend, but if forced to choose, Jane would up second. Structured as a series of flashbacks, Billy's life is told as he pitches his last game. A good sports movie becomes an even better study of a man and his two loves.
Jane, an innocent looking girl-next-door type, works at a New York fashion magazine writing articles such as "Scents and Sensibilities." Their affair has carefully structured rules so that they see each other when he's in town for a game, but they are otherwise free to see anyone they like. These rubrics end up causing them much grief.
The chemistry between the two lovers is genuine, and their attraction rises above the sexual. A typical conversation between them has her amazed at his knowing the exact number of games he has lost in his career. "You count them?" she asks with surprise. "We count everything in baseball," he remarks, showing that he thinks his profession is too pedantic. "That's all we do."
As they get to know each other better, her questions become more pointed, as she delves deeper into his psyche. "Have you ever got your heart broken?" she wants to know. "Yeah, when we lost the pennant in '87," he replies, not even realizing that she was speaking of love of another human being.
Lovingly filmed by John Bailey with the twinkling glow of New York at night and with the warm colors of a baseball game, the movie is invitingly sentimental and nostalgic. Paced with the same slow rhythms of a baseball game itself, which will either delight or annoy you, the picture never fails to entertain. It may not belong in quite the same league as THE NATURAL or FIELD OF DREAMS, but it's certainly a hit. Even if it may not quite be a home run, it's an awe-inspiring triple that'll have you cheering and maybe even weeping.
FOR LOVE OF THE GAME runs a little too long at 2:18. It is rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexuality. The movie would be fine for kids around 10 and up.
My son Jeffrey, age 10, was visibly bored during the movie. He gave it just a single *, complaining that it was too predicable and the flashbacks were too hard to follow. His friend John, age 11, gave it ** 1/2 but had trouble figuring out what was a flashback and what wasn't. John's twin, Steven, liked the movie and gave it ***. All of them felt a bit uncomfortable when the characters discussed with whom they were sleeping.
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You start with nothing, alone in an atmospheric wilderness populated by skittering little spiderbots, and by giant tripods with ominous laser scanners. To survive—and, more than that, to kill all the robots—you'll need to scavenge weapons, ammo and health kits from the various bunkers strewn about. Of course, some of the bunkers require keys, while others need to be smashed open with an axe. You open each bunker in a linear order, a little disappointingly, but getting to them involves some tense sneaking and/or frantic running.
While the robots, particularly the War of the Worlds-style tripod enemies, are pretty intimidating, this is not an especially difficult game. You can move much more quickly than any of the robots, and with infinite stamina, while it's fairly easy to avoid damage by the smaller spiderbots. But the sci-fi-meets-wilderness atmosphere is striking, the stealth is initially quite tense, and the robot animations remain impressively malevolent, even when you realise they're not that deadly.
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BLOW OUT (director/writer: Brian De Palma ; cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond; editor: Paul Hirsch; cast: John Travolta (Jack), Nancy Allen (Sally), John Lithgow (Burke), Dennis Franz (Manny Karp), Peter Boyden (Sam), John Aquino (Detective Mackey), Curt May (Frank Donahue), John McMartin (Lawrence Henry); Runtime: 107; Orion Films; 1981)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Brian De Palma is a commercial filmmaker who imitates other noted filmmakers but has not met with the same artistic success as a Hitchcock or a Coppola, ones he in particular gravitates towards; but, by adding his own brand of sleek cinematography and gratuitous violent action scenes to jazz his films up, he at least salvages some identity of his own. This film is mostly imitative of Michelangelo Antonioni's art-house film Blow-Up (1966) and somewhat of Francis Coppola's The Conversation (1974). But what Antonioni does, is make you wish to penetrate his film, he makes you think about what you are seeing. Coppola will challenge you to have a political view of what you are seeing. Their films are so well-received as art films because they go beneath the surface of things, they have something to say. While De Palma's films are all surface vehicles, there is nothing to think about. His films are pretty to look at and are good at simulating what an art film is, but they are more interested in being entertaining than anything else. Therefore, even if "Blow Out" pretends to be like the above mentioned films, it is in style only. This film will prove itself in the end to be without sufficient weight to be put in the heavyweight class. It's mired in the lightweight class, working as an effective film mostly because it has a sense of humor and Travolta is convincing as the unlikely hero fighting against political corruption.
It is a thriller set in Philadelphia, where Jack Terry (John Travolta) is a sound man on "B" horror movies. Jack worked two years for the police to wire undercover agents exposing corrupt policemen, but he quits because an agent he worked with got killed when he was spotted being miked. He is currently working with Sam (Boyden), knocking off as many as 5 cheap films a year. The running gag is that he needs a perfect scream for his current film, a Psycho-like one, with a shower slashing scene, and the actresses auditioned can't give a realistic one. You can guess where he gets a perfect realistic scream by the film's conclusion.
One night recording the outdoor sounds for his film, he witnesses a car go over the bridge railing and into the river below. Instinctively, he jumps in and saves the pretty woman, but the man in the car is already dead.
When he is at the hospital, he learns that the dead man was the governor of the state and that he's running for president, and that the girl in the car is a hooker named Sally (Nancy Allen-the then-wife of the director). One of the governor's aides (McMartin) asks him to cover it up that there was a girl in the car, since he was a family man and it wouldn't look right. This is an obvious reference to Teddy Kennedy's Chappaquidick political scandal.
When questioned by a hostile detective Mackey (Aquino), who knew him from his cop days, he tells the officer it wasn't an accident as reported to the newspapers, but that the tire was shot out. He knows this since he audiotaped the car crash and can clearly hear two bangs, one of which he is sure is a gunshot, while the other is the tire blowout.
Jack gets angry when he discovers there was a sleazy photographer, Manny (Dennis Franz), who happened to be there at the time of the accident and has taken pictures of it, which he sells to a magazine for a hefty fee. Jack gets the magazine photos and links his sound to the still photos. When completed, Jack is absolutely sure it was the gunshot from an assassin he heard. He goes to Mackey with this evidence, who says he doesn't believe him but will check out his tape anyway because that's his job. But the assassin Burke (John Lithgow) went to his studio and erased the tapes, so what he has given the police is nothing but a blank tape.
The film was taut and exciting to this point, but there are several breakdowns in the story, as it veers into the slasher film mode. Jack figures out that Sally and Manny worked together setting the presidential candidate up for a compromising photo. The attention of the film goes no deeper than seeing if he can get Sally to now help him prove it was a murder and if he can keep her alive. The film also asks, will the police believe him and can he stop the assassin? It unsuccessfully tries to work a conspiracy theory into the mystery.
De Palma has moved solidly into mundane territory, jettisoning ideas in favor of high-tech shots and thrilling action scenes. "Blow Out" has moved into the range of the unbelievable horror films, worrying more about special effects than about having an intelligent story.
The political agenda of the film, a reaction against the right-wing Reagan types, becomes apparent in the film's climactic scenes, where Jack is caught at the "Liberty Day" celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Liberty Bell. The action takes place in the crowded streets of Philly, as he has Sally miked just like he had the agent when he worked for the police. But, the right-wing fanatic Burke has fooled her into thinking he is the newspaper reporter (May) who is going to expose the cover up on TV and she meets him to give him the tapes. Politics is seen as being as corrupt and dirty as ever, even so soon after Watergate, as those involved in it are still capable of using any means possible to get elected.
This was not the gloomy theme the public wanted to see, as "Blow Out" was never popular in its day. It had received mixed reviews from the major film critics at the time, but the film, even though it was an uneven one, has caught the attention of some current film critics and film buffs, and is now established as a cult-favorite. I thought it was limited in scope but because of the flashy camerawork, the fine performances by both Travolta (his first major starring role) and Lithgow, and the many thrills it provided, it was easy to watch and just as easy to put out of my mind.
REVIEWED ON 11/1/2000 GRADE: B-
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Stumbled across this little guy digging in the ground, while spinning around - quite a funny sight! They are apparently not the easiest things to find, so I'm pretty pleased this one decided to come out and say hello :]
Painted button-quail (Turnix varius), male.


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My assistant came running to me, looking all disturbed and worried. I wonder what could have gotten into him?
“Lord Sandy!,” he exclaimed loudly, while still paying appropriate respects.
“How can I help you, Ishmael?”
“I have an essay deadline for my Ethics class tomorrow.
“All of that is true. Is there something I can do about your ethics essay?”
“Well, yes. One of the questions is something I believe your majesty can enlighten us. Would you equip your country’s armed forces with nuclear weapons as deterrence or use a nuclear weapon against an enemy country?”
As a leader of a nation, it is no secret that most of all, I must protect and improve the rights, safety, and security of my people. The pride and independence of citizens of my nation. If another nation-state or a country comes to us with a fight or dares to threaten us, we shall match the foreign terror and threat with our own, until the said influence and caused are fully eradicated from my people’s minds and hearts. Yes, I would and will use nuclear weapons as a deterrence. If it ever comes to a necessity of a nuclear response against an enemy country, then we shall strike them down from above with all of our might and power.
I do wonder on those lonely nights, starving for some real human connection, longing for a true feeling flowing through my veins, just once. I wonder, am I an ethical person? Is it ethical for me to use nuclear weapons as a deterrence, putting the scare into the entire world of my arsenal? I want to ponder about that with my imaginary deontological and utilitarian friends.
From a deontologist’s point of view, nuclear deterrence policy goes strongly against moral principles, as it involves a conditional statement of using them in a specific situation, which by itself is wholly immoral. Usage of such a dramatic weapon will cause deaths of not thousands, maybe millions, but most assuredly of billions of people. All those lives will be lost, therefore for deontologists, which focus on the argument of the morality of the action itself, nuclear deterrence is simply wrong.
However, is it the right ethical framework to apply in this situation? If we are threatened by someone else with fewer deontological moral principles, the next sure thing coming for us is sure destruction. I I do not believe Deontologists’ Argument can keep a nation safe in the modern world, equipped with nuclear toys. What is also wrong with it is not only its absolutionist position regarding nuclear deterrence but also its focus on a hypothetical scenario of using nuclear weapons under possible conditions.
The mere fact that I would write a plan of defending myself with a nuclear arsenal in case of my nation got attacked with the same type of weapon is itself morally wrong. If a nation doesn’t have a nuclear deterrence policy set up, another nuclear power could easily overwhelm with a high chance of attacking the ones who cannot defend themselves with nukes. Having a nuclear deterrence policy, but with no actionable blueprint on what to do in case of a real attack also makes a nation weaker, therefore even more of a military target. II
This leads me to the realization that the Deontologist’s Argument would prevent me from equipping my country with nuclear weapons, even if it is meant for deterrence, for the protection of my people against external threats of a nuclear nature. As for a leader, this is unacceptable. What leader would blindly stick to the ethical argument that only works on a small scale and apply it to the security considerations of a whole nation? I must find another way.
Utilitarianism tells us that if any action leads to a consequence of maximizing the happiness and well-being of affected people, therefore it must be justified. It is the only ethical construct, in which we can safely and easily argumentative pro-war stances, such as viewing even the short-term negative effects as leading to the prosperity and good of a nation in the long-term run. My decision to equip my country with nuclear weapons would be wholly justified and approved from a utilitarian framework, as I am providing security to my nation.
However, it makes me think, about whether the utilitarian mindset and the utility should apply only to my countrymen or the whole world. Defending for ourselves is a positive for us, however, the heated geopolitical nature of nuclear deterrence policies might, directly and indirectly, result in much discomfort not only to my people, but to the whole world, such as economic restrictions, limitations on free trade, hostile relationships, and restricted travel. The utilitarian point of view on nuclear deterrence depends from which angle we will look.
History teaches us all. Recall the still ongoing debates over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many arguments share the utilitarian point of view, such that it was impossible to make Japan surrender unless there was an overwhelming destructive force pushed on them. They believe that the bombings themselves prevented massive casualties on both sides from the planned invasion of Japan. Kyushu was to be invaded in November 1945 and Hondo four months later. However, after many decades of discussing the event, other analyses have been brought up.
Many critics believe that the nuclear attack on Japan was inherently immoral and a war crime. III Further discussion on Japan’s armed forces and military strategies now lead us to believe that a simple naval blockade and an invasion by conventional warfare would have forced Japan to surrender with no conditions. IV Some critics of the bombings have even concluded that Japan was to surrender after the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria. V Did the utilitarian-backed usage of nuclear weapons result in the greater good? No, it has only resulted in tragic losses, inhuman treatment of the Japanese people, and a big crisis back at home, where the usage of nuclear weapons was widely condemned. VI
Many heinous acts could be viewed from a utilirianistic point of view as fully justified and ethical. However, standing here, I realize, that violence breeds violence, and it has to be this way. The actual usage of nuclear weapons as of means of attacking another country would be deemed highly unethical by deontology and utilitarianism, as both would result in great human suffering, which is incredibly tough to offset with any financial or political gains received by any of the sides.
On the other hand, nuclear deterrence for the sake of the security of a nation is fully justified and deemed ethical from a Utilitarinistic point of view, so I would equip my nation with such a force as a last-resort instrument against any foreign aggression. The usage of such an instrument, however, is something that cannot be found ethical, no matter from what lens you look. The destruction and human price paid are simply too high. Even if it is unethical, whether it comes to the point of retaliating against someone else’s aggression, I would be called an unethical leader. That is the price I will pay.


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