January 17 St Anthony,
abbot
FIRST READING Ephesians 6:10-13.18
Brethren: Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on
the whole armour of God, that
you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For
we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities,
against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against
the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take
the whole armour of God, that
you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Pray
at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep
alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.
The word of the Lord
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 16
R. It
is you, O Lord, who are my portion.
Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the LORD, ‘You
are my Lord’. O LORD, it is you who are my portion and cup; you yourself who secure
my lot.
R. It
is you, O Lord, who are my portion.
I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel, who even at night directs my
heart. I keep the LORD before me always; with him at my right hand, I shall not
be moved.
R. It
is you, O Lord, who are my portion.
You will show me the path of life, the fullness of joy in your presence,
at your right hand, bliss for ever.
R. It
is you, O Lord, who are my portion.
ALLELUIA John 8:31-32
R. Alleluia. If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, says the Lord. R. Alleluia.
GOSPEL Matthew 19:16-26
At that time: Behold, one came up to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what
good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" And he said to him, "Why
do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you would enter
life, keep the commandments." He said to him, "Which?"  The young man said to him,
"All these I have observed; what do I still lack?" Jesus said to him,
"If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had
great possessions. And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say
to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I
tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter the
The Gospel of the Lord


Topics extraction with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization¶
This is a proof of concept application of Non Negative Matrix Factorization of the term frequency matrix of a corpus of documents so as to extract an additive model of the topic structure of the corpus.
The default parameters (n_samples / n_features / n_topics) should make the example runnable in a couple of tens of seconds. You can try to increase the dimensions of the problem be ware than the time complexity is polynomial.
Here are some sample extracted topics that look quite good:
Topic #0: god people bible israel jesus christian true moral think christians believe don say human israeli church life children jewish
Topic #1: drive windows card drivers video scsi software pc thanks vga graphics help disk uni dos file ide controller work
Topic #2: game team nhl games ca hockey players buffalo edu cc year play university teams baseball columbia league player toronto
Topic #3: window manager application mit motif size display widget program xlib windows user color event information use events x11r5 values
Topic #4: pitt gordon banks cs science pittsburgh univ computer soon disease edu reply pain health david article medical medicine 16
Python source code: topics_extraction_with_nmf.py
# Author: Olivier Grisel<EMAIL_ADDRESS># License: Simplified BSD
from time import time
from sklearn.feature_extraction import text
from sklearn import decomposition
from sklearn import datasets
n_samples = 1000
n_features = 1000
n_topics = 10
n_top_words = 20
# Load the 20 newsgroups dataset and vectorize it using the most common word
# frequency with TF-IDF weighting (without top 5% stop words)
t0 = time()
print "Loading dataset and extracting TF-IDF features..."
dataset = datasets.fetch_20newsgroups(shuffle=True, random_state=1)
vectorizer = text.CountVectorizer(max_df=0.95, max_features=n_features)
counts = vectorizer.fit_transform(dataset.data[:n_samples])
tfidf = text.TfidfTransformer().fit_transform(counts)
print "done in %0.3fs." % (time() - t0)
# Fit the NMF model
print "Fitting the NMF model on with n_samples=%d and n_features=%d..." % (
n_samples, n_features)
nmf = decomposition.NMF(n_components=n_topics).fit(tfidf)
print "done in %0.3fs." % (time() - t0)
# Inverse the vectorizer vocabulary to be able
feature_names = vectorizer.get_feature_names()
for topic_idx, topic in enumerate(nmf.components_):
print "Topic #%d:" % topic_idx
print " ".join([feature_names[i]
for i in topic.argsort()[:-n_top_words - 1:-1]])
print


Conceptual Model:
Entities and Attributes:
Profile:
- profileId (Primary key)
- profileActivationToken
- profileAvatar
- profileEmail
- profileHash
- profileMusic
- profileUserName
Room:
- roomId (Primary key)
- roomProfileId
Subscribe:
- subscribeRoomId (Foreign key)
- subscribeProfileId
- subscribeAvatar
Relationship:
- One profile can make many rooms.
- Many subscribers can be in one room.
- Many subscribers can make many rooms.
Entity Relationship Diagram:
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Whether you are using the ServiceAPI or your own web service built on the .Net SDK there a re a couple of things you can do to improve performance.
The object cache allows you to cache Records (and other objects) in memory, this removes the requirements to connect to the database next time this object is requested. This, is of course, most useful when certain Records are requested more than once. You can increase this to up to 99,999 for server applications (see below).
When downloading a document it first must be fetched from the document store. The streaming technique used means this should be fast enough but if not you can choose to cache the documents on the workgroup server itself, so if you run a workgroup server on the same machine as you host your web service the documents will be available locally and the web service will not request them from the document store. Configure document caching in Enterprise Studio (see below).
To use the server object cache make sure you have called SetAsWebService, like this:
TrimApplication.SetAsWebService("c:\\MY_WORK_PATH");
To fetch documents from the workgroup server cache:


When checked, Single Logout (SLO)
requests from CAS are processed: whenever the user logs out of CAS
(e.g. when logging out of another CAS-enabled application), the corresponding
Jenkins session will be destroyed and the local user logged out as well.
Note that for this to work, the CAS server must be able to communicate with
Jenkins using the service URL that was passed to it during login.


Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally or using your mouse-wheel. Click on an event icon or tape for details on the event. The arrow keys can also be used to navigate the timeline.
Just like Google Maps, Timeline can be used with zero software installation, server-side or client-side. And like Google Maps, you can populate Timeline with data by pointing it to an XML file (here is the data file for the timeline above). But Timeline is not limited to only that means of loading data; for instance, we have just added JSON support.
Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license.
This software is sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is maintained by the SIMILE project, in particular:


An interface should be used only to model a behaviour of a class: using an interface as a container of constants is a poor usage pattern.
This rule is deprecated, use {rule:squid:S1214} instead.


pycerberus contains some basic validators already. You can use them as they are or use them as a basis for more specialized validators. Below you find a list of all included validators.
Bases: pycerberus.api.Validator
Return all keys defined by this specific validator class.
Return a message for a specific key. Implement this method if you want to avoid calls to messages() which might be costly (otherwise implementing this method is optional).
Bases: pycerberus.validators.string.StringValidator
A validator to check if an domain name is syntactically correct.
Return all keys defined by this specific validator class.
Return a message for a specific key. Implement this method if you want to avoid calls to messages() which might be costly (otherwise implementing this method is optional).
Bases: pycerberus.validators.domain.DomainNameValidator
A validator to check if an email address is syntactically correct.
Please note that there is no clear definition of an ‘email address’. Some parts are defined in consecutive RFCs, there is a notion of ‘string that is accepted by a MTA’ and last but not least a fuzzy ‘general expectation’ what an email address should be about.
Therefore this validator is currently extremly simple and does not handle internationalized local parts/domains.
These things can be implemented in derived validators
Return all keys defined by this specific validator class.
Return a message for a specific key. Implement this method if you want to avoid calls to messages() which might be costly (otherwise implementing this method is optional).
Bases: pycerberus.api.Validator
Return all keys defined by this specific validator class.
Return a message for a specific key. Implement this method if you want to avoid calls to messages() which might be costly (otherwise implementing this method is optional).


patISEnt is a patient record importer for ISEmr. We have unified branding for all of our patient needs.


Learn how to make perhaps the most profound health and weight loss boosting lifestyle change you will ever make—transforming your body from carbohydrate dependency to become a fat burning beast. In his new book, Mark Sisson, bestselling author of The Primal Blueprint and publisher of the popular health site and blog MarksDailyApple.com, reveals his proven effective ketogenic eating strategy for losing weight and improving health.
Unlike other ketogenic plans, Sisson first teaches readers the real secret to rapid and sustained weight loss, which is in becoming "fat-adapted" before entering full nutritional ketosis. This process allows your body to learn to burn fat more efficiently, resulting in increased and sustained weight loss over the long-term.  Next, you’ll fine-tune with Intermittent Fasting and then foray into full ketogenic eating for a further weight loss boost and improved health. In this way, you will achieve the highest level of what Sisson calls metabolic flexibility—the key to health, weight control, and longevity.
With The Keto Reset Diet, you can eat to total satisfaction by enjoying rich, high-satiety foods, and even weather occasional slip-ups with high carb treats or undisciplined vacation binges and not go into a tailspin. Instead, you can quickly recalibrate back to fat-adaptation, and use keto as a lifelong tool to stay trim, healthy, energetic, and free from the disastrous health conditions caused by the high carb, high insulin producing modern diet. With step-by-step guidance, daily meal plans and a recipe section with over 100 delicious keto-friendly recipes, this is the definitive guide to help the keto-beginner or the experienced health enthusiast understand the what, why, and how to succeed with ketogenic eating.
Available in hardcover, ebook and audio book
October 3, 2017 everywhere books are sold


Estimates unsupervised outlier probabilities for multivariate numeric data with many observations from a nonparametric outlier statistic.
| Version: | 1.1.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.1.0), FNN, mclust, MASS |
| Suggests: | mvtnorm, GDAdata, bibtex, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2018-01-05 |
| Author: | Chris Fraley [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Chris Fraley <cfraley at tableau.com> |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://www.r-project.org |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Materials: | ChangeLog |
| CRAN checks: | probout results |
| Reference manual: | probout.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
The probout Package |
| Package source: | probout_1.1.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: probout_1.1.1.zip, r-release: probout_1.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: probout_1.1.1.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: probout_1.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel: probout_1.1.1.tgz |
| Old sources: | probout archive |
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=probout to link to this page.


What is the maximum depth for the series of recursive calls that can be made?
n
(where n
is a parameter passed to the function)If it were only one, how could we implement something like Fibonacci function?
It can not be a fixed number, as it depends on the application and the input parameter values.


All files should be plain text files. Information in each file is given in rows, one for each lecturer, project, or student (depending on the file).
The items in a row of a file are separated by spaces or tabs(so remember not to include spaces or tabs in any of your IDs).
Each row of the projects file defines the parameters of a project. There are three main pieces of information per project:
Each row should define a unique project (no duplicate IDs across rows) and all lecturer IDs should correspond to a row of the lecturers file.
The projects file will have three columns in every row.
knot_theory 3 CHENThe example above defines three projects, two of which are offered by CHEN and one of which is offered by WILLIAMS.
prime_numbers 2 CHEN
real_analysis 4 WILLIAMS


When you work with us, you are apart of a team of committed collaborators. All aspects of software development process are integrated, interactive and agile
Our approach unifies design, development and product management to create exceptional products.
We start each project by understanding your business goals, the user's needs
and the product requirements.
Then we help them translate into effective and elegant solutions.


There are two types of resources in Quatropolis: money and influence. Each can be used to vote on issues, but different players acquire and spend them in different ways at the beginning of each cycle.
After everyone has received their resources for the cycle, an issue card is revealed, which will have some impact on Quatropolis' four states (rent, public amenities, property tax, and population), and thus be favorable or disfavorable depending on players' objectives. It is up to the players to debate the issue and attempt to win over the others!
Before voting occurs, players who aren't allowed to spend money on elections (the landlord and the tenant) have the option to give their money to those who can (the city official and the private corporation), if they think those powers will use the resources in ways that help them.
Finally, everyone votes on the issue at hand in a semiblind vote. A majority of resources spent on one side or the other wins, and the game states are updated accordingly.
From the beginning, we knew we had to make intentional decisions about how we used our time. We knew we wanted to make major improvements to the physical game prototype itself, but we also wanted to revisit some of the fundamentals of gameplay and redesign the game's aesthetic - and since print shops and game production sites require turnaround time, we couldn't do everything we wanted in just a few weeks.
We ended up taking a middle ground: we invested most of our time in improving gameplay and aesthetic design, but were able to produce a prototype close to the quality we were looking for by making and purchasing pieces ourselves à la carte (and rushing a Kinko's order!).
One of the biggest challenges we faced was making sure that we had correctly accounted for all the possible states of the game, to avoid any unwinnable states or other undesirable behavior, in the context of limited testing opportunities.
Because our game currently takes an hour to play - and doing so for the first time takes even longer - it was difficult to find volunteers willing to playtest our game all the way through. Instead, we were forced to test different "playable slices" on different groups of people. Combined with the playtesting we did in P2, we did feel like we had enough information to make the decisions we needed to make about game mechanics, but it would have been much better if we could have found volunteers who we didn't know who were willing to sit through the entire game during week 9 of the quarter in particular.
Our team had a strong vision for the types of conditions under which our game would truly shine. Our game has great potential for strategic play - we observed this when Kylie, a past collaborator, made some interesting strategic decisions during a playtest - but it is hard to do so without more familiarity with the game than any of our other playtesters had. In addition, we had limited time, attention, and emotional investment during our playtests. This made it hard to necessarily feel like we were getting the right kind of feedback from our testing. It was also hard to be sure which feedback we got was relevant to the onboarding process, and which was relevant to the fundamental game mechanics. We ultimately solved this problem by triaging feedback, but testing with more familiar audiences and under conditions more similar to ideal gameplay would have been helpful.
Class of 2018, B.S. Computer Science
Gameplay Mechanics Lead
Coterm, M.S. Computer Science
Research and Documentation Lead
Class of 2019, B.S. Computer Science
Graphical Design Lead


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The domestic dog is a member of genus Canis (canines) that forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant carnivore. The dog and the extant gray wolf are sister taxa, with modern wolves not closely related to the wolves that were first domesticated, which implies that the direct ancestor of the dog is extinct. The dog was the first domesticated species and has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.


■The Golden Retriever was originally bred in Scotland in the mid-19th century.
■The Golden Retriever is a medium-large.
■Males stand between 22 to 24 in (56 to 61 cm) at the withers; females are between 20 to 22 in (51 to 56 cm).
●yellow (considered from cream to fox-red)
■COAT : strongly built breed with a dense, water-repellant wavy coat.
■COLOR : As indicated by their name, their coats occur in light golden to dark golden colours.
■JAWS : The muzzle is balanced and well chiseled.
■BODY : Golden retrievers have muscular bodies with great endurance, owing to their origins as hunting and gundogs.
■TEMPERAMENT : The temperament of the Golden Retriever is a hallmark of the breed, and is described in the standard as "kindly, friendly and confident".
●Golden Retrievers make good family pets.
■GROOMING: Golden Retrievers require regular grooming and occasional baths.
■HEALTH AND LIFE SPAN : The average lifespan for a Golden Retriever is about 11 to 12 years.
■FOOD STYLE: Look for a commercial dog FOOD that lists meat or meat meal such as chicken,turkey,beef,lamb or fish as the first ingredients.
●CANCER is the breed's biggest killer, causing 61.4% of American Golden deaths
●hip and ELBOW DYSPLASIA affect one-fifth of dogs.
●Eye diseases are also possible in the breed; CATARACTS are the most common eye disease.


This is Words and Buttons Online — a collection of interactive #tutorials, #demos, and #quizzes about #mathematics, #algorithms and #programming.
Ok, here's an idea. Let's say you want to have a nice diagram with both graphics and numbers. Something between a picture and a table. The usual way to make it would be to draw numbers on an image and display that. But there is an alternative route. You can first turn your picture into a table, and then populate this table with your data.
Here is a canvas. It starts from a test table. Click the “canvas to textarea” button and the text area will get populated by the table's source code. There will appear an example of the table below the area, too. Click the “add text to the test card” and the color names will appear on the test card. These will be real HTML test. You can copy them right from the image. Since it's really not an image but a table. Something in between anyway.
You can load your own picture, or paste one from the clipboard by pressing Ctrl+V, but the text adding thing would not work with it anymore.
This technique lets you chimerize tables and images just right but, on the downside, this is a terribly inefficient way to encode pictures. I'm planning to use on this site for plots and diagrams. I already had a need for that and went for drawing simple plots with canvas' turtle graphics which is a little tedious. But if turtle graphics appears to be more economical, I might still stick to that.
After all, Words and Buttons is all about instant-loading self-sufficient small pages.
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As each transaction occurs it’s encoded into a block of digital data and uniquely signed or identified.Each block is connected to the one before and after it — creating an irreversible, immutable chain. Blocks are chained together, preventing any block from being altered or a block being inserted between two existing blocks. A blockchain is a database that is shared across a network of computers. Once a record has been added to the chain it is very difficult to change. To ensure all the copies of the database are the same, the network makes constant checks. Blockchains have been used to underpin cyber-currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In basic terms blockchain is like a digital ledger. "Blockgeeks" have a good analogy, picture a spreadsheet that exist on all the computers across the world that is updated instantly. It is consistently checked and is hard to hack as it exist in no one central place.
Immersive technologies are modes of altering, replicating, or enhance reality. An umbrella term, this includes augmented, virtual, and mixed realities. Immersive technologies have promised a great deal of widespread improvement across the energy industry, but a lack of audience and an unwillingness to take risks has prevented large-scale uptake. Recent hardware developments and changing public and industry attitudes are now altering attitudes, and we would expect to see far more of these different tech solutions in the next few years. Augmented reality is a technology that combines a user’s view of the real world with additional digital assets to provide a combination of virtual and real. When a user uses immersive technology they accept the virtual reality as the true reality.
Robots are any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, and operation of robots. Most robots today are used to do repetitive actions or jobs considered too dangerous for humans.
Robots have core principles:


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Parser for Duckling, the open source project.
We use Duckling for parsing and extracting date, time, numbers, currency etc. We will expect Duckling to be running as an http service, and provide means to connect from the implementation here.
Import classes:
import json
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
import attr
import pytz
import requests
from pytz.tzinfo import BaseTzInfo # type: ignore
from dialogy.constants import EntityKeys
from dialogy.plugin import Plugin, PluginFn
from dialogy.types.entity import BaseEntity, dimension_entity_map
from dialogy.workflow import Workflow
@attr.s(kw_only=True)
class DucklingParser(Plugin):
Plugin for extracting entities using Duckling.
Once instantiated, a duckling_parser
object will interface to an http server, running Duckling.
This object when used as a plugin, transforms the List[Dict[str, Any]]
returned from the API to a BaseEntity.
Plugin signature:
access(Workflow) -> (str, int)
datetime.timestamp()
.mutate(Workflow, List[BaseEntity]) -> None
List[BaseEntity]
into Workflow
.Attributes:
0.05
)"http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8000/parse"
)dimensions
[Read]
We support:
- Numeral
- Time
- People
- This isn’t part of the standard, we have a private fork to support this.
Do note, passing more dimensions is not free. Duckling would search for extra set of patterns just because
those dimensions were expected.
dimensions: Optional[List[str]] = attr.ib(default=None)
locale
The format for expressing locale requires language code and country name ids. [Read]
about sections that define ISO-639-codes for languages and
ISO3166 alpha2 country code for country codes.
Examples: "en_IN"
, "en_US"
, "en_GB"
.
locale: str = attr.ib(default=None)
timezone
pytz
Timezone. This is especially important when services are deployed across different geographies
and consistency is expected in the responses. Get a valid value from a list of tz database timezones.
Example: "Asia/Kolkata"
timezone: Optional[str] = attr.ib(default=None)
timeout
There are certain strings which tend to stall Duckling: example. In such cases, to prevent the overall experience to slow down as well, provide a certain timeout value.
timeout: Optional[float] = attr.ib(default=0.05)
url: The address where Duckling’s entity parser can be reached.
url: str = attr.ib(default="http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8000/parse")
headers: Dict[str, str] = {
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"
}
def __set_timezone(self) -> Optional[BaseTzInfo]:
Set timezone as BaseTzInfo from compatible timezone string.
Raises:
pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError: If self.timezone
is not in list of tz database timezones.
Returns: [BaseTzInfo]
If timezone is an unsafe string, we will handle a pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError
exception
and pass a friendly message.
if isinstance(self.timezone, str):
try:
return pytz.timezone(self.timezone)
except pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError as unknown_timezone_error:
raise pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError(
f"The timezone {self.timezone} is invalid"
" check valid types here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones"
) from unknown_timezone_error
return None
def __create_req_body(
self, text: str, reference_time: Optional[int]
) -> Dict[str, Any]:
create request body for entity parsing
Args:
dimensions = self.dimensions
Payload Description
text - example: “3 people tomorrow”
reftime - Resolve relative time like “yesterday”, “next month”, etc.
Make your own reference time using the current timestamp using: int(datetime.now().timestamp() * 1000)
These are the seconds since the Unix epoch
payload = {
"text": text,
"locale": self.locale,
"tz": self.__set_timezone(),
"dims": json.dumps(dimensions),
"reftime": reference_time,
}
return payload
@staticmethod
def mutate_entity(entity: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
Mutate entity obtained from Duckling API.
The purpose is to simplify BaseEntity initialization by calling BaseEntity.from_dict(**entity)
.
Args: entity (Dict[str, Any]): An entity returned from Duckling’s API.
Returns: Dict[str, Any]: Updated keys and structure.
range describes the span of string from which the entity was found.
entity[EntityKeys.RANGE] = {
EntityKeys.START: entity[EntityKeys.START],
EntityKeys.END: entity[EntityKeys.END],
}
type of an entity is same as its dimension.
entity[EntityKeys.TYPE] = entity[EntityKeys.DIM]
This piece is a preparation for multiple entity values. So, even though we are confident of the value found, we are still keeping the structure.
if EntityKeys.VALUES in entity[EntityKeys.VALUE]:
del entity[EntityKeys.VALUE][EntityKeys.VALUES]
entity[EntityKeys.VALUES] = [entity[EntityKeys.VALUE]]
Pulling out the value of entity’s grain. The value of grain helps
us understand the precision of the entity. Usually present for Time
dimension
expect “year”, “month”, “day”, etc.
if EntityKeys.GRAIN in entity[EntityKeys.VALUE]:
entity[EntityKeys.GRAIN] = entity[EntityKeys.VALUE][EntityKeys.GRAIN]
elif entity[EntityKeys.VALUE][EntityKeys.TYPE] == EntityKeys.INTERVAL:
entity[EntityKeys.GRAIN] = entity[EntityKeys.VALUE][EntityKeys.TO][
EntityKeys.GRAIN
]
del entity[EntityKeys.START]
del entity[EntityKeys.END]
del entity[EntityKeys.VALUE]
return entity
def reshape(
self, entities_json: List[Dict[str, Any]]
) -> Optional[List[BaseEntity]]:
Create BaseEntity
from a list of entity dicts.
Args: entities_json (List[Dict[str, Any]]): List of entities derived from Duckling’s API.
Raises: NotImplementedError: Raised when dimensions not supported by the project are used. KeyError: Expected keys in entity dict don’t match the Entity class.
Returns: Optional[List[BaseEntity]]: A list of Entity objects.
entity_object_list: List[BaseEntity] = []
try:
for entity in entities_json:
if entity[EntityKeys.VALUE][EntityKeys.TYPE] == EntityKeys.INTERVAL:
cls = dimension_entity_map[entity[EntityKeys.DIM]][EntityKeys.INTERVAL] # type: ignore
duckling_entity = cls.from_dict(self.mutate_entity(entity))
duckling_entity.set_value()
entity_object_list.append(duckling_entity)
elif entity[EntityKeys.VALUE][EntityKeys.TYPE] == EntityKeys.VALUE:
cls = dimension_entity_map[entity[EntityKeys.DIM]][EntityKeys.VALUE] # type: ignore
duckling_entity = cls.from_dict(self.mutate_entity(entity))
duckling_entity.set_value()
entity_object_list.append(duckling_entity)
else:
Raised only if an unsupported dimension
is used.
raise NotImplementedError(
f"Entities with value.type {entity['value']['type']} are"
" not implemented. Report this"
" issue here: https://github.com/Vernacular-ai/dialogy/issues"
)
except KeyError as key_error:
Being vary of structural changes in the API or entity dicts. Under normal circumstances this error shouldn’t be raised.
raise KeyError(
f"Missing key {key_error} in entity {entity}."
) from key_error
return entity_object_list
def get_entities(
self, text: str, reference_time: Optional[int] = None
) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
Get entities from duckling-server.
Assuming duckling-server is running at expected url
. The entities are returned in
json
compatible format.
Args:
Raises:
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: Duckling cannot be reached at self.url
requests.exceptions.Timeout: Duckling request times out.
ValueError: The status code of the response is not 200.
Returns: Optional[List[Dict[str, Any]]]
body = self.__create_req_body(text, reference_time)
response = requests.post(
self.url, data=body, headers=self.headers, timeout=self.timeout
)
if response.status_code == 200:
The API call was successful, expect the following to contain entities. A list of dicts or an empty list.
return response.json()
Control flow reaching here would mean the API call wasn’t successful. To prevent rest of the things from crashing, we will raise an exception.
raise ValueError(
f"Duckling API call failed | [{response.status_code}]: {response.text}"
)
def plugin(self, workflow: Workflow) -> None:
Insert Entity objects into the workflow.
Args:
Raises: TypeError: If access and mutate functions are not callable.
access = self.access
mutate = self.mutate
input_ = Union[str, List[str]]
if not isinstance(access, Callable): # type: ignore
raise TypeError(
"Expected `access` to be Callable,"
f" got access={type(access)} mutate={type(mutate)}"
)
if not isinstance(mutate, Callable): # type: ignore
raise TypeError(
"Expected `mutate` to be Callable,"
f" got access={type(access)} mutate={type(mutate)}"
)
entities = []
if access and mutate:
input_, reference_time = access(workflow)
try:
if isinstance(input_, str):
entities.append(
self.get_entities(input_, reference_time=reference_time)
)
elif isinstance(input_, list) and all(
isinstance(text, str) for text in input_
):
for text in input_:
entities.append(
self.get_entities(text, reference_time=reference_time)
)
else:
raise TypeError(f"Expected {input_} to be a List[str] or str.")
entities_flattened = [
entity for entity_list in entities for entity in entity_list
]
if entities_flattened:
shaped_entities = self.reshape(entities_flattened)
mutate(workflow, shaped_entities)
else:
mutate(workflow, [])
except ValueError as value_error:
raise ValueError(str(value_error)) from value_error
def __call__(self) -> PluginFn:
return self.plugin


ciddView Technical Support
This is some technical support for the ciddView AJAX setup that allows the web display of images that CIDD dumps. The code is checked in under apps/cidd/src/ciddView in the RAL CVS repository.
To get it going, do the following on a machine that has a web server running with PHP available :
[1] Check out the code and get CIDD to dump *.jpg images into the subdirectory "images" (this directory is usually a link). This typically involves running CIDD like :
CIDD -u -p CIDD.real.dump -i real
Or :
CIDD -u -p CIDD.cti.dump -i cti -h -1,1.5,4,6.5,9,11,14,16,19,21,24
For 3D fields. The latter is usually cron-driven with "cidd.run_once_and_exit: 1" in the param file. Other typical CIDD param file entries might be :
cidd.html_mode: 1
cidd.image_dir: images (You will probably need a more complete path)
cidd.image_ext: jpg
cidd.add_valid_time_to_filename: 0
cidd.add_gen_time_to_filename: 0
cidd.add_height_to_filename: 0 (Should be 1 for the 3D case)
cidd.image_convert_script: ls
cidd.series_convert_script: ls
cidd.print_script: ls
[2] Once CIDD is dumping images, edit the ciddView.php file and change the names of the fields, zoom states, heights etc. - there are comments in there that will tell you what to do. You may also have to edit make_prod.php as well, if you are presenting 3D data.
[3] Link ciddView.php to index.html with the command :
ln -s ciddView.php index.html
Then point a browser at this directory. It should be OK after a couple of debugging runs. The browser needs to have javaScript enabled and be reasonably recent.
Please do be careful about making changes to the code without a running system to test if things are working after the changes you make! The distributed processing nature of this system means that breaking it can lead to some difficult debugging - especially if the browser is IE, which does not have as well developed debugging tools as other browsers at the time of writing.
Niles Oien copying from Frank Hage, January 2006.
Return to ciddView page


BMW upgrades entire petrol model range in India to conform to BS VI emission norms
The petrol portfolio is already BS VI compliant while, the diesel portfolio will be converted ahead of stipulated timelines, BMW India said in a statement.
by PTIGerman luxury carmaker BMW on Wednesday said it has upgraded its entire petrol vehicle range in India to conform to BS VI emission regulations.
The automaker said it is now working to upgrade its diesel range to conform to stricter emission norms which kick in the country from April, 1 next year.
The petrol portfolio is already BS VI compliant while, the diesel portfolio will be converted ahead of stipulated timelines, BMW India said in a statement.
The company’s Chennai-based plant has started local production of BS VI diesel variants of the 5 Series and 6 Series Gran Turismo and is also gearing up to roll out new X1, it added.
“The complete petrol portfolio is already BS VI compliant while the diesel portfolio will be converted ahead of stipulated timelines. BMW Group Plant Chennai has started local production of BS VI diesel variants of the BMW 5 and the BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo,” BMW India said in a statement.
The production of BS VI version of the BMW X1 will also begin soon, it added.
“Early start of BS VI production is a strategic call we are taking to meet the unprecedented demand for our new products,” BMW Group India President and Chief Executive Officer Rudratej Singh said.
Beginning next year, the company will increase prices of BS VI models by up to 6 per cent, he added.


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Package org.drip.sample.simmsettings
ISDA SIMM Calibration Parameter Settings
- Author:
- Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
-
Class Summary Class Description CommodityParameters20 CommodityParameters20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Single/Cross Currency Commodity Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.CommodityParameters21 CommodityParameters21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Single/Cross Currency Commodity Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.CommodityParameters24 CommodityParameters24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Single/Cross Currency Commodity Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.CommodityRiskConcentrationThreshold20 CommodityRiskConcentrationThreshold20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Commodity Risk Concentration Thresholds.CommodityRiskConcentrationThreshold21 CommodityRiskConcentrationThreshold21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Commodity Risk Concentration Thresholds.CommodityRiskConcentrationThreshold24 CommodityRiskConcentrationThreshold24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Commodity Risk Concentration Thresholds.CreditNonQualifyingParameters20 CreditNonQualifyingParameters20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Single/Cross Currency Credit Non-Qualifying Bucket Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.CreditNonQualifyingParameters21 CreditNonQualifyingParameters21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Single/Cross Currency Credit Non-Qualifying Bucket Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.CreditNonQualifyingParameters24 CreditNonQualifyingParameters24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Single/Cross Currency Credit Non-Qualifying Bucket Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.CreditQualifyingParameters20 CreditQualifyingParameters20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Single/Cross Currency Credit Qualifying Bucket Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.CreditQualifyingParameters21 CreditQualifyingParameters21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Single/Cross Currency Credit Qualifying Bucket Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.CreditQualifyingParameters24 CreditQualifyingParameters24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Single/Cross Currency Credit Qualifying Bucket Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.CreditRiskConcentrationThreshold20 CreditRiskConcentrationThreshold20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Credit Risk Concentration Thresholds.CreditRiskConcentrationThreshold21 CreditRiskConcentrationThreshold21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Credit Risk Concentration Thresholds.CreditRiskConcentrationThreshold24 CreditRiskConcentrationThreshold24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Credit Risk Concentration Thresholds.Equity20 Equity20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Single/Cross Currency Equity Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.Equity21 Equity21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Single/Cross Currency Equity Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.Equity24 Equity24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Single/Cross Currency Equity Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.EquityRiskConcentrationThreshold20 EquityRiskConcentrationThreshold20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Equity Risk Concentration Thresholds.EquityRiskConcentrationThreshold21 EquityRiskConcentrationThreshold21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Equity Risk Concentration Thresholds.EquityRiskConcentrationThreshold24 EquityRiskConcentrationThreshold24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Equity Risk Concentration Thresholds.FX20 FX20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 FX Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.FX21 FX21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 FX Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.FX24 FX24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 FX Bucket Risk Weights, Correlations, and Systemics.InterestRate20 InterestRate20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Single/Cross Currency Interest Rate Tenor Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.InterestRate21 InterestRate21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Single/Cross Currency Interest Rate Tenor Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.InterestRate24 InterestRate24 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.4 Single/Cross Currency Interest Rate Tenor Risk Weights, Systemics, and Correlations.InterestRateConcentrationThreshold20 InterestRateConcentrationThreshold20 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.0 Interest Rate Concentration Thresholds.InterestRateConcentrationThreshold21 InterestRateConcentrationThreshold21 demonstrates the Extraction and Display of ISDA SIMM 2.1 Interest Rate 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- Heuristic strategy: place words that are have either more vowels of consonants based on the letters
remaining in the rack_tiles
- determine_vowel_consonant_move(self, rack_tiles, all_words)
- for every letter in rack_tiles determine the amount of vowels and consonants.
for every word in all_words determine the amount of vowels and consonants.
sort the lists with vowels and consonants on highest value.
if there are more more vowels in the count of rack_tiles return a list with the vowel words first.
else return a list with the consonants words first.
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:param all_words: List of possible words.
:return: a list with words orders by consonants and vowel amount.
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- dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
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Guidance and further information to help you analyse the data that we report in the school and college performance tables.
These documents will help you use the school and college performance tables .
Published: 29 April 2016
Updated: 16 March 2017
From: Department for Education


Class KHRSwapchain
- java.lang.Object
-
- org.lwjgl.vulkan.KHRSwapchain
-
public class KHRSwapchain extends java.lang.Object
TheVK_KHR_swapchain
extension is the device-level companion to theVK_KHR_surface
extension. It introducesVkSwapchainKHR
objects, which provide the ability to present rendering results to a surface.
-
-
Field Summary
Fields Modifier and Type Field and Description static int
VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
A surface has changed in such a way that it is no longer compatible with the swapchain, and further presentation requests using the swapchain will fail.static int
VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
must only be used for presenting a swapchain image for display.static java.lang.String
VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_EXTENSION_NAME
The extension name.static int
VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_SPEC_VERSION
The extension specification version.static int
VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PRESENT_INFO_KHR
VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SWAPCHAIN_CREATE_INFO_KHRVkStructureTypestatic int
VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR
A swapchain no longer matches the surface properties exactly, but can still be used to present to the surface successfully.
-
Method Summary
All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method and Description static int
vkAcquireNextImageKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, long timeout, long semaphore, long fence, int[] pImageIndex)
Array version of:AcquireNextImageKHR
static int
vkAcquireNextImageKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, long timeout, long semaphore, long fence, java.nio.IntBuffer pImageIndex)
Acquires an available presentable image to use, and retrieves the index of that image.static int
vkCreateSwapchainKHR(VkDevice device, VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR pCreateInfo, VkAllocationCallbacks pAllocator, long[] pSwapchain)
Array version of:CreateSwapchainKHR
static int
vkCreateSwapchainKHR(VkDevice device, VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR pCreateInfo, VkAllocationCallbacks pAllocator, java.nio.LongBuffer pSwapchain)
Creates a swapchain.static void
vkDestroySwapchainKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, VkAllocationCallbacks pAllocator)
Destroys a swapchain object.static int
vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, int[] pSwapchainImageCount, long[] pSwapchainImages)
Array version of:GetSwapchainImagesKHR
static int
vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, java.nio.IntBuffer pSwapchainImageCount, java.nio.LongBuffer pSwapchainImages)
Obtains the array of presentable images associated with a swapchain.static int
vkQueuePresentKHR(VkQueue queue, VkPresentInfoKHR pPresentInfo)
Queues an image for presentation.
-
-
-
Field Detail
-
VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_SPEC_VERSION
public static final int VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_SPEC_VERSION
The extension specification version.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_EXTENSION_NAME
public static final java.lang.String VK_KHR_SWAPCHAIN_EXTENSION_NAME
The extension name.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SWAPCHAIN_CREATE_INFO_KHR
public static final int VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SWAPCHAIN_CREATE_INFO_KHR
VkStructureType- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PRESENT_INFO_KHR
public static final int VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PRESENT_INFO_KHR
VkStructureType- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
public static final int VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
must only be used for presenting a swapchain image for display. A swapchain’s image must be transitioned to this layout before callingQueuePresentKHR
, and must be transitioned away from this layout after callingAcquireNextImageKHR
.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR
public static final int VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR
A swapchain no longer matches the surface properties exactly, but can still be used to present to the surface successfully.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
public static final int VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
A surface has changed in such a way that it is no longer compatible with the swapchain, and further presentation requests using the swapchain will fail. Applications must query the new surface properties and recreate their swapchain if they wish to continue presenting to the surface.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
-
-
Method Detail
-
vkCreateSwapchainKHR
public static int vkCreateSwapchainKHR(VkDevice device, VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR pCreateInfo, VkAllocationCallbacks pAllocator, java.nio.LongBuffer pSwapchain)
Creates a swapchain.A
VkSwapchainKHR
object (a.k.a. swapchain) provides the ability to present rendering results to a surface. A swapchain is an abstraction for an array of presentable images that are associated with a surface. The swapchain images are represented byVkImage
objects created by the platform. One image (which can be an array image for multiview/stereoscopic-3D surfaces) is displayed at a time, but multiple images can be queued for presentation. An application renders to the image, and then queues the image for presentation to the surface. A native window cannot be associated with more than one swapchain at a time. Further, swapchains cannot be created for native windows that have a non-Vulkan graphics API surface associated with them.The presentation engine is an abstraction for the platform’s compositor or hardware/software display engine.
The presentation engine may: be synchronous or asynchronous with respect to the application and/or logical device.
Note
Some implementations may use the device’s graphics queue or dedicated presentation hardware to perform presentation.
The presentable images of a swapchain are owned by the presentation engine. An application can acquire use of a presentable image from the presentation engine. Use of a presentable image must occur only after the image is returned by
AcquireNextImageKHR
, and before it is presented byQueuePresentKHR
. This includes transitioning the image layout and rendering commands.An application can acquire use of a presentable image with
AcquireNextImageKHR
. After acquiring a presentable image and before modifying it, the application must use a synchronization primitive to ensure that the presentation engine has finished reading from the image. The application can then transition the image's layout, queue rendering commands to it, etc. Finally, the application presents the image withQueuePresentKHR
, which releases the acquisition of the image.The presentation engine controls the order in which presentable images are acquired for use by the application.
Note
This allows the platform to handle situations which require out-of-order return of images after presentation. At the same time, it allows the application to generate command buffers referencing all of the images in the swapchain at initialization time, rather than in its main loop.
Valid Usage
device
must be a validVkDevice
handlepCreateInfo
must be a pointer to a validVkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR
structure- If
pAllocator
is notNULL
,pAllocator
must be a pointer to a validVkAllocationCallbacks
structure pSwapchain
must be a pointer to aVkSwapchainKHR
handle
Host Synchronization
- Host access to
pCreateInfo.surface
must be externally synchronized - Host access to
pCreateInfo.oldSwapchain
must be externally synchronized
If
vkCreateSwapchainKHR
succeeds, it will return a handle to a swapchain that contains an array of at leastminImageCount
presentable images.The
VkSurfaceKHR
associated with a swapchain must not be destroyed until after the swapchain is destroyed.Like core functions, several WSI fuctions, including
vkCreateSwapchainKHR
returnERROR_DEVICE_LOST
if the logical device was lost. As with most core objects,VkSwapchainKHR
is a child of the device and is affected by the lost state; it must be destroyed before destroying theVkDevice
. However,VkSurfaceKHR
is not a child of anyVkDevice
and is not otherwise affected by the lost device. After successfully recreating aVkDevice
, the sameVkSurfaceKHR
can be used to create a newVkSwapchainKHR
, provided the previous one was destroyed.Note
After a lost device event, the
VkPhysicalDevice
may also be lost. If otherVkPhysicalDevice
are available, they can be used together with the sameVkSurfaceKHR
to create the newVkSwapchainKHR
, however the application must query the surface capabilities again, because they may differ on a per-physical device basis.- Parameters:
device
- the device to create the swapchain forpCreateInfo
- a pointer to an instance of theVkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR
structure specifying the parameters of the created swapchainpAllocator
- controls host memory allocationpSwapchain
- a pointer to aVkSwapchainKHR
handle in which the created swapchain object will be returned
-
vkDestroySwapchainKHR
public static void vkDestroySwapchainKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, VkAllocationCallbacks pAllocator)
Destroys a swapchain object.swapchain
and all associatedVkImage
handles are destroyed, and must not be acquired or used any more by the application. The memory of eachVkImage
will only be freed after that image is no longer used by the platform. For example, if one image of the swapchain is being displayed in a window, the memory for that image may not be freed until the window is destroyed, or another swapchain is created for the window. Destroying the swapchain does not invalidate the parentVkSurfaceKHR
, and a new swapchain can be created with it.Valid Usage
device
must be a validVkDevice
handle- If
swapchain
is notNULL_HANDLE
,swapchain
must be a validVkSwapchainKHR
handle - If
pAllocator
is notNULL
,pAllocator
must be a pointer to a validVkAllocationCallbacks
structure - Each of
swapchain
anddevice
that are valid handles must have been created, allocated or retrieved from the sameVkInstance
- All uses of presentable images acquired from
swapchain
must have completed execution - If
VkAllocationCallbacks
were provided whenswapchain
was created, a compatible set of callbacks must be provided here - If no
VkAllocationCallbacks
were provided whenswapchain
was created,pAllocator
must beNULL
Host Synchronization
- Host access to
swapchain
must be externally synchronized
- Parameters:
device
- theVkDevice
associated with the swapchainswapchain
- the swapchain to destroypAllocator
- controls host memory allocation
-
vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR
public static int vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, java.nio.IntBuffer pSwapchainImageCount, java.nio.LongBuffer pSwapchainImages)
Obtains the array of presentable images associated with a swapchain.If
pSwapchainImages
isNULL
, then the number of presentable images for swapchain is returned inpSwapchainImageCount
. Otherwise,pSwapchainImageCount
must point to a variable set by the user to the number of elements in thepSwapchainImages
array, and on return the variable is overwritten with the number of structures actually written topSwapchainImages
. If the value ofpSwapchainImageCount
is less than the number of presentable images forswapchain
, at mostpSwapchainImageCount
structures will be written. IfpSwapchainImageCount
is smaller than the number of presentable images forswapchain
,INCOMPLETE
will be returned instead ofSUCCESS
to indicate that not all the available values were returned.Valid Usage
device
must be a validVkDevice
handleswapchain
must be a validVkSwapchainKHR
handlepSwapchainImageCount
must be a pointer to auint32_t
value- If the value referenced by
pSwapchainImageCount
is not 0, andpSwapchainImages
is notNULL
,pSwapchainImages
must be a pointer to an array ofpSwapchainImageCount
VkImage
handles - Each of
swapchain
anddevice
must have been created, allocated or retrieved from the sameVkInstance
Note
By knowing all presentable images used in the swapchain, the application can create command buffers that reference these images prior to entering its main rendering loop.
The implementation will have already allocated and bound the memory backing the
VkImages
returned byvkGetSwapchainImagesKHR
. The memory for each image will not alias with the memory for other images or with anyVkDeviceMemory
object. As such, performing any operation affecting the binding of memory to a presentable image results in undefined behavior. All presentable images are initially in theIMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED
layout, thus before using presentable images, the application must transition them to a valid layout for the intended use.Further, the lifetime of presentable images is controlled by the implementation so destroying a presentable image with
DestroyImage
results in undefined behavior. SeeDestroySwapchainKHR
for further details on the lifetime of presentable images.- Parameters:
device
- the device associated withswapchain
swapchain
- the swapchain to querypSwapchainImageCount
- a pointer to an integer related to the number of format pairs available or queriedpSwapchainImages
- eitherNULL
or a pointer to an array ofVkSwapchainImageKHR
structures
-
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
public static int vkAcquireNextImageKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, long timeout, long semaphore, long fence, java.nio.IntBuffer pImageIndex)
Acquires an available presentable image to use, and retrieves the index of that image.Valid Usage
device
must be a validVkDevice
handleswapchain
must be a validVkSwapchainKHR
handle- If
semaphore
is notNULL_HANDLE
,semaphore
must be a validVkSemaphore
handle - If
fence
is notNULL_HANDLE
,fence
must be a validVkFence
handle pImageIndex
must be a pointer to auint32_t
value- If
semaphore
is a valid handle, it must have been created, allocated or retrieved fromdevice
- If
fence
is a valid handle, it must have been created, allocated or retrieved fromdevice
- Each of
swapchain
,device
,semaphore
andfence
that are valid handles must have been created, allocated or retrieved from the sameVkInstance
- If
semaphore
is notNULL_HANDLE
it must be unsignaled - If
fence
is notNULL_HANDLE
it must be unsignaled and must not be associated with any other queue command that has not yet completed execution on that queue
Host Synchronization
- Host access to
swapchain
must be externally synchronized - Host access to
semaphore
must be externally synchronized - Host access to
fence
must be externally synchronized
When successful,
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
acquires a presentable image that the application can use, and setspImageIndex
to the index of that image. The presentation engine may not have finished reading from the image at the time it is acquired, so the application must usesemaphore
and/orfence
to ensure that the image layout and contents are not modified until the presentation engine reads have completed.The presentation engine controls the order in which presentable images are made available to the application. This allows the platform to handle special situations. The order in which images are acquired is implementation-dependent. Images may be acquired in a seemingly random order that is not a simple round-robin.
If a swapchain has enough presentable images, applications can acquire multiple images without an intervening
QueuePresentKHR
. Applications can present images in a different order than the order in which they were acquired.If
timeout
is 0,vkAcquireNextImageKHR
will not block, but will either succeed or returnNOT_READY
. Iftimeout
isUINT64_MAX
, the function will not return until an image is acquired from the presentation engine. Other values fortimeout
will cause the function to return when an image becomes available, or when the specified number of nanoseconds have passed (in which case it will returnTIMEOUT
). An error can also causevkAcquireNextImageKHR
to return early.Note
As mentioned above, the presentation engine may be asynchronous with respect to the application and/or logical device.
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
may return as soon as it can identify which image will be acquired, and can guarantee thatsemaphore
andfence
will be signaled by the presentation engine; and may not successfully return sooner. The application usestimeout
to specify how longvkAcquireNextImageKHR
waits for an image to become acquired.Applications cannot rely on
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
blocking in order to meter their rendering speed. Various factors can interruptvkAcquireNextImageKHR
from blocking.Note
For example, if an error occurs,
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
may return even though no image is available. As another example, some presentation engines are able to enqueue an unbounded number of presentation and acquire next image operations such thatvkAcquireNextImageKHR
never needs to wait for completion of outstanding present operations before returning.The availability of presentable images is influenced by factors such as the implementation of the presentation engine, the
VkPresentModeKHR
being used, the number of images in the swapchain, the number of images that the application has acquired at any given time, and the performance of the application. The value ofVkSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR
::minImageCount
indicates how many images must be in the swapchain in order forvkAcquireNextImageKHR
to acquire an image if the application currently has no acquired images.Let
n
be the total number of images in the swapchain,m
be the value ofVkSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR
::minImageCount
, anda
be the number of presentable images that the application has currently acquired (i.e. images acquired withvkAcquireNextImageKH
R, but not yet presented withQueuePresentKHR
).vkAcquireNextImageKHR
can always succeed ifa <= n - m
at the timevkAcquireNextImageKHR
is called.vkAcquireNextImageKHR
must not be called whena > n - m
; in such a case, and iftimeout
isUINT64_MAX
,vkAcquireNextImageKHR
may block indefinitely.Note
For example, if the
minImageCount
member ofVkSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR
is 2, and the application creates a swapchain with 2 presentable images, the application can: acquire one image, and must present it before trying to acquire another image.If we modify this example so that the application wishes to acquire up to 3 presentable images simultaneously, it must request a minimum image count of 4 when creating the swapchain.
If
semaphore
is notNULL_HANDLE
, the semaphore must be unsignaled and not have any uncompleted signal or wait operations pending. It will become signaled when the application can use the image. Queue operations that access the image contents must wait until the semaphore signals; typically applications should: include the semaphore in thepWaitSemaphores
list for the queue submission that transitions the image away from theIMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
layout. Use of the semaphore allows rendering operations to be recorded and submitted before the presentation engine has completed its use of the image.If
fence
is not equal toNULL_HANDLE
, the fence must be unsignaled and not have any uncompleted signal operations pending. It will become signaled when the application can use the image. Applications can use this to meter their frame generation work to match the presentation rate.semaphore
andfence
must not both be equal toNULL_HANDLE
. An application must wait until either thesemaphore
orfence
is signaled before using the presentable image.semaphore
andfence
may already be signaled whenvkAcquireNextImageKHR
returns, if the image is being acquired for the first time, or if the presentable image is immediately ready for use.A successful call to
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
counts as a signal operation on semaphore for the purposes of queue forward-progress requirements. The semaphore is guaranteed to signal, so a wait operation can be queued for the semaphore without risk of deadlock.The
CmdWaitEvents
orCmdPipelineBarrier
used to transition the image away fromIMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
layout must havedstStageMask
anddstAccessMask
parameters set based on the next use of the image. ThesrcAccessMask
must includeACCESS_MEMORY_READ_BIT
to ensure that all prior reads by the presentation engine are complete before the image layout transition occurs. The application must use implicit ordering guarantees and execution dependencies to prevent the image transition from occurring before the semaphore passed tovkAcquireNextImageKHR
has signaled.Note
When the swapchain image will be written by some stage
S
, the recommended idiom for ensuring the semaphore signals before the transition occurs is:- The batch that contains the transition includes the image-acquire semaphore in the list of semaphores to wait for, with a wait stage mask that
includes
S
. - The pipeline barrier that performs the transition includes
S
in both thesrcStageMask
anddstStageMask
.
This causes the pipeline barrer to wait at
S
until the semaphore signals before performing the transition and memory barrier, while allowing earlier pipeline stages of subsequent commands to proceed.After a successful return, the image indicated by
pImageIndex
will still be in theIMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
layout if it was previously presented, or in theIMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED
layout if this is the first time it has been acquired.The possible return values for
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
depend on the timeout provided:SUCCESS
is returned if an image became available.ERROR_SURFACE_LOST_KHR
if the surface becomes no longer available.NOT_READY
is returned iftimeout
is zero and no image was available.TIMEOUT
is returned iftimeout
is greater than zero and less thanUINT64_MAX
, and no image became available within the time allowed.SUBOPTIMAL_KHR
is returned if an image became available, and the swapchain no longer matches the surface properties exactly, but can still be used to present to the surface successfully.Note
This may happen, for example, if the platform surface has been resized but the platform is able to scale the presented images to the new size to produce valid surface updates. It is up to applications to decide whether they prefer to continue using the current swapchain indefinitely or temporarily in this state, or to re-create the swapchain to better match the platform surface properties.
ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
is returned if the surface has changed in such a way that it is no longer compatible with the swapchain, and further presentation requests using the swapchain will fail. Applications must query the new surface properties and recreate their swapchain if they wish to continue presenting to the surface.
If the native surface and presented image sizes no longer match, presentation may not succeed. If presentation does succeed, parts of the native surface may be undefined, parts of the presented image may have been clipped before presentation, and/or the image may have been scaled (uniformly or not uniformly) before presentation. It is the application’s responsibility to detect surface size changes and react appropriately. If presentation does not succeed because of a mismatch in the surface and presented image sizes, a
ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
error will be returned.Before an application can present an image, the image’s layout must be transitioned to the
IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
layout. TheCmdWaitEvents
orCmdPipelineBarrier
that perform the transition must havesrcStageMask
andsrcAccessMask
parameters set based on the preceding use of the image. ThedstAccessMask
must includeACCESS_MEMORY_READ_BIT
indicating all prior accesses indicated insrcAccessMask
from stages insrcStageMask
are to be made available to reads by the presentation engine. Any value ofdstStageMask
is valid, but should be set toPIPELINE_STAGE_BOTTOM_OF_PIPE_BIT
to avoid delaying subsequent commands that don’t access the image.- Parameters:
device
- the device assocated withswapchain
swapchain
- the swapchain from which an image is being acquiredtimeout
- indicates how long the function waits, in nanoseconds, if no image is availablesemaphore
- isNULL_HANDLE
or a semaphore to signalfence
- isNULL_HANDLE
or a fence to signalpImageIndex
- a pointer to auint32_t
that is set to the index of the next image to use (i.e. an index into the array of images returned byGetSwapchainImagesKHR
).
-
vkQueuePresentKHR
public static int vkQueuePresentKHR(VkQueue queue, VkPresentInfoKHR pPresentInfo)
Queues an image for presentation.Valid Usage
queue
must be a validVkQueue
handlepPresentInfo
must be a pointer to a validVkPresentInfoKHR
structure- Any given element of
pSwapchains
member ofpPresentInfo
must be a swapchain that is created for a surface for which presentation is supported fromqueue
as determined using a call toGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceSupportKHR
Host Synchronization
- Host access to
queue
must be externally synchronized - Host access to
pPresentInfo.pWaitSemaphores
[] must be externally synchronized - Host access to
pPresentInfo.pSwapchains
[] must be externally synchronized
vkQueuePresentKH
R, releases the acquisition of the images referenced byimageIndices
. A presented images must not be used again before it has been reacquired usingAcquireNextImageKHR
.The processing of the presentation happens in issue order with other queue operations, but semaphores have to be used to ensure that prior rendering and other commands in the specified queue complete before the presentation begins. The presentation command itself does not delay processing of subsequent commands on the queue, however, presentation requests sent to a particular queue are always performed in order. Exact presentation timing is controled by the semantics of the presentation engine and native platform in use.
The result codes
ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
andSUBOPTIMAL_KHR
have the same meaning when returned byvkQueuePresentKHR
as they do when returned byAcquireNextImageKHR
. If multiple swapchains are presented, the result code is determined applying the following rules in order:- If the device is lost,
ERROR_DEVICE_LOST
is returned. - If any of the target surfaces are no longer available the error
ERROR_SURFACE_LOST_KHR
is returned. - If any of the presents would have a result of
ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
if issued separately thenERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR
is returned. - If any of the presents would have a result of
SUBOPTIMAL_KHR
if issued separately thenSUBOPTIMAL_KHR
is returned. - Otherwise
SUCCESS
is returned.
Presentation is a read-only operation that will not affect the content of the presentable images. Upon reacquiring the image and transitioning it away from the
IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR
layout, the contents will be the same as they were prior to transitioning the image to the present source layout and presenting it. However, if a mechanism other than Vulkan is used to modify the platform window associated with the swapchain, the content of all presentable images in the swapchain becomes undefined.- Parameters:
queue
- a queue that is capable of presentation to the target surface’s platform on the same device as the image’s swapchainpPresentInfo
- a pointer to an instance of theVkPresentInfoKHR
structure specifying the parameters of the presentation
-
vkCreateSwapchainKHR
public static int vkCreateSwapchainKHR(VkDevice device, VkSwapchainCreateInfoKHR pCreateInfo, VkAllocationCallbacks pAllocator, long[] pSwapchain)
Array version of:CreateSwapchainKHR
-
vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR
public static int vkGetSwapchainImagesKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, int[] pSwapchainImageCount, long[] pSwapchainImages)
Array version of:GetSwapchainImagesKHR
-
vkAcquireNextImageKHR
public static int vkAcquireNextImageKHR(VkDevice device, long swapchain, long timeout, long semaphore, long fence, int[] pImageIndex)
Array version of:AcquireNextImageKHR
-
-


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There used to be a whole lot of Lorem Impsum text in here, but now I can just use this space to put myself over.
You look at me as if you're in a daze. It's like the feeling at the end of the page and you realize: you don't know what you just read.
I'm taking the Pluralsight GitHub course, and this is the sample website!
There used to be a whole lot of Lorem Impsum text in here, but now I can just use this space to put myself over.
You look at me as if you're in a daze. It's like the feeling at the end of the page and you realize: you don't know what you just read.


During my first year of high school, I found that one of our teachers was fascilitating a new robotics team. After participating in the FIRST Tech Challenge that year, one of my friends and I were named co-fascilitators for our sophomore robotics team. We did well in competition considering the lack of financial resources and time.


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As entering into cloud networking area, I’ve seen a lot of talking about large layer 2 (L2) network. To me, it’s one of key technology that applied in modern datacenter, meeting the fast growing cloud service needs. So I decide to post a series of blogs to present what’s the idea of large L2 network and how the datacenter architecture move to there. In this first post, I am gonna talking about why the world need a large L2 network.
New era of IT infrastructure
If you are working at technology industry, you must be aware of those public cloud companies, like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc. In the beginning, these public cloud companies provide IAAS (Infrastructure as Service) to let other companies rent their Virtual Machines. To achieve that, public cloud companies use all kind of virtualization technology (compute/storage/network virtualization) to make one physical sever can run several VMs.
This new business introduced new requirements for the network. Some basic requirements are BYOA (Bring Your Own Address) and live migration. The customers want to assign ip address to their VM, so it’s easy for them to manage their infrastructure. Also to improve availability, cloud provider must support live migrate their VM, as no network connection being interrupted, and customers don’t even notice their VM get migrated.
However, legacy network architecture is not able to support that new business requirement. To understand why legacy can’t make it, we have to first understand the legacy data center network architecture.
Legacy Network Architecture
In legacy network architecture, it has a bunch of mature technology to make sure one packet being delivered to another.
L2 switches handles LAN(Local Area Network) or VLAN(Virtual Lan) network.L2 switch forwards packets to the right port by looking up the MAC table which matches the destination mac address. If no matching mac address, L2 switch would broadcast packet to all ports. In real network world, usually there are redundant network path for network L2. One obvious problem is that if every switches broadcast packets when failing to look up its mac table, there would be circles, which can bring down whole network. STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) is created to solve this problem to eliminate cycles in a network.
If we thinking about a L2 network as small town, the locations within the town can be reached via the local road. However, people must take the highway to reach the another town or even another state. We can thinking about these highway as L3 network to handle cross LAN/VLAN traffic. L3 routers is like the interstate fork in the highway. Each router has a routing table showing what’s the next hop should the packet go like what the sign does in the highway. The way that whole network build the routing table is called L3 routing. The routing protocols include BGP, OSPF, IS-IS etc.
Problems of legacy network
Like we said, L2 network handles LAN network (like local roads in a town) and L3 network handles cross-lan/vlan traffic (like highways). This network architecture works perfectly for traditional network scenarios, like a company or school network. But for public cloud provider companies, it’s not capable of handling a few key scenarios. One important is VM live migration, which requires VM keeping all connections alive during migrating to anther physical sever, which can be anyware in the datacenter.
Think about in real life, when you move to another place within the same state, you life won’t be change too much. Because you still have all records in the government, like your ID, tax, insurance, etc. But if you move to another country, that won’t be same situation. You are gonna set up everything all over again. In traditional data center, VM moves to another VLAN is like move to different country. It must have a new ip address and update the mac address. As we know, we can’t keep the existing connection alive when the mac and ip address get updated.
So modern cloud datacenter needs to have a way to manage large volume of ip and mac address to ensure VMs being removed free as much as possible. However VLAN + STP can’t manage a large network more than 1k nodes. Like we mentioned before, one of L2 network is that circular forwarding in the switches. To prevent broadcast not eating too much network bandwidth, VLAN can’t manage too many nodes.
In real cloud datacenter, it requires at least 10k nodes in L2 to meet various cloud network scenarios. That’s why we called a large L2 network.
Summary
The legacy network architecture, VLAN+STP manages L2 network. VLAN limits the broadcast scope and STP breaks circular forwarding path within VLAN.VLAN can only mange less than 1k nodes, however in cloud world, it requires to have > 10k nodes L2 network, to meet VM live migration needs. And this is why we need large L2 network. In the next post, I will talk about what’s the solutions to build the large L2 network.


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I am asked periodically if I know of anybody using Capistrano with environments other than Rails. I’ve never had any concrete examples to give them—just rumors and hearsay. Never, that is, until this morning.
The Simplistic Complexity blog has an article from last month titled Automated PHP Deployment With Capistrano, which goes step-by-step through the process of setting up Capistrano for a PHP application, and then using Capistrano to deploy. It can be done!
Furthermore, googling for “java capistrano” returns (besides a few links to cafes in San Juan Capistrano) a few abstracts and articles of people using Capistrano in Java environments. I wish someone would do a blog article on it so I could link it up, but it is heartening to see Ruby sneaking into “enterprise” environments.


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Sakiima did liv wid im pierens dem an im fuor iez uol sista. Dem did liv pan wahn rich man lan. Dem tach ous did de a di en a wahn lain a chrii.
Sakima lived with his parents and his four year old sister.
They lived on a rich man’s land.
Their grass-thatched hut was at the end of a row of trees.
@sakiima @did @liv wid im @pierens dem an im @fuor iez uɔl sista dem @did @liv @pan wan @rich man lan dem @tach ɔus @did de a di en a wã @lain a tʃɹiː
Wen Sakiima a did chrii iez uol, im get sik an im get blain. Sakiima a did wahn talentid bwaai pikni.
When Sakima was three years old, he fell sick and lost his sight.
Sakima was a talented boy.
@wen @sakiima a @did tʃɹiː iez uɔl im @get sɪk an im @get @blain @sakiima a @did wã @talentid @bwaai pikni
Sakiima du uoliip a tingz we ada siks iez uol bwaai pikni kudn du. Far instans, im kuda siddong wid di uol piipl dem fram di vilij an taak bout impuotant mattaz.
Sakima did many things that other six year old boys did not do.
For example, he could sit with older members of the village and discuss important matters.
@sakiima @du huɔliːp a tiŋz @we ada @siks iez uɔl @bwaai pikni kudn̩ @du @far @instans im @kuda @siddong wid di uɔl piːpl̩ dem @fram di @vilij an taːk bɔut impuɔtant @mattaz
Sakiima pierens dem did wok a di rich man yaad. Dem lef out orli inna di maanin an kom bak liet inna di iivlin. Sakiima stie wid im likl sista.
The parents of Sakima worked at the rich man’s house.
They left home early in the morning and returned late in the evening.
 Wan die im mada aks im se, “A we yu lorn dem song de fram, Sakiima?”
Sakima loved to sing songs.
One day his mother asked him, “Where do you learn these songs from, Sakima?”
@sakiima @did @lov fi sɪŋ saŋ wan dɪɛ im mada @aks im se a @we ju loɹn dem @song de @fram @sakiima
Sakiima ansa se, “Dem jos kom tu mi, mama. Mi ier dem inna mi ed an den mi sing dem.”
Sakima answered, “They just come, mother.  Im sista uda lisn tu im a sing im fievarit sang. Shi wuda tek taim rak tu di myuuzik an it wuda mek shi kaam dong.
Sakima liked to sing for his little sister, especially, if she felt hungry.
His sister would listen to him singing his favourite song.
She would sway to the soothing tune.
@sakiima laɪk @wen im sɪŋ fi im likl̩ sista @espeshali ef @shi @did fiːl @onggri im sista @uda lisn̩ tu im a sɪŋ im @fievarit saŋ @shi @wuda tek taɪm @rak tu di mjuːzik an it @wuda mek @shi @kaam doŋ
“Sing it agen an agen, Sakiima,” im sista wuda beg im se. Sakiima wuda du it an sing it uova an uova agen.
“Can you sing it again and again, Sakima,” his sister would beg him.
Sakima would accept and sing it over and over again.
sɪŋ it agen an agen @sakiima im sista @wuda @beg im se @sakiima @wuda @du it an sɪŋ it @uova an @uova agen
Wan iivlin wen im pierens dem kom bak uom, dem did kwaiyat-kwaiyat. Sakiima did nuo se sopm did rang.
One evening when his parents returned home, they were very quiet.
Sakima knew that there was something wrong.
wan @iivlin @wen im @pierens dem kom @bak uɔm dem @did @kwaiyat-kwaiyat @sakiima @did nuɔ se sopm̩ @did ɹaŋ
“A wa rang mama, papa?” Sakiima aks dem se. Sakiima fain out se di rich man son misn. Di man did fiil bad an laik im neva av nobadi.
“What is wrong, mother, father?” Sakima asked.
Sakima learned that the rich man’s son was missing.
The man was very sad and lonely.
a wa ɹaŋ @mama @papa @sakiima @aks dem se @sakiima faɪn @out se di @rich man @son @misn di man @did fiːl bad an laɪk im @neva @av @nobadi
“Mi kyan sing fiim. Im mait fiil api agen,” Sakiima tel im pierens dem se. Bot im pierens dem neva pie im no main. “Im a wahn rich-rich man. Yu a jos wahn blain bwaai pikni. Yu tingk se yu sang kyan elp im?”
“I can sing for him. He might be happy again,” Sakima told his parents.
But his parents dismissed him.
“He is very rich. You are only a blind boy.  Im likl sista bak im. Shi se, “Sakiima sang dem mek mi fiil beta wen mi onggri. Dem wi mek di rich man fiil beta tu.”
However, Sakima did not give up.
His little sister supported him.
She said, “Sakima’s songs soothe me when I am hungry.
The following day, Sakima asked his little sister to lead him to the rich man’s house.
di @neks dɪɛ @sakiima @aks im likl̩ sista fi kjaɹi im @go a di @rich man jaːd
Im stan op anda wahn big winda an staat fi sing im fievarit sang. Likl bai likl yu kuda si di rich man ed staat shuo chuu di big winda.
He stood below one big window and began to sing his favourite song.
Slowly, the head of the rich man began to show through the big window.
im @stan op anda wan @big @winda an staːt fi sɪŋ im @fievarit saŋ likl̩ baɪ likl̩ ju @kuda si di @rich man @ed staːt ʃuɔ tʃuː di @big @winda
Di woka dem stap we dem a du. Dem lisn tu Sakiima nais sang. Bot wan man se, “Nobadi kudn komfat di baas. Da blain bwaai pikni ya tingk se im kyan komfat im?”
The workers stopped what they were doing. They listened to Sakima’s beautiful song.
But one man said, “Nobody has been able to console the boss. Does this blind boy think he will console him?”
di @worka dem @stap @we dem a @du dem lisn̩ tu @sakiima naɪs saŋ bot wan man se @nobadi kudn̩ @komfat di baːs @da @blain @bwaai pikni ja tiŋk se im @kyan @komfat im
Sakiima di don sing im sang an ton roun fi lef. Bot di rich man ori op an se, “Du sing agen.”
Sakima finished singing his song and turned to leave.
But the rich man rushed out and said, “Please sing again.”
@sakiima di @don sɪŋ im saŋ an ton @roun fi lef bot di @rich man @ori op an se @du sɪŋ agen
Siem taim, tuu man kom a kyari sumadi pan wahn schrecha. Dem di fain di rich man son biit op an lef a ruod said.
At that very moment, two men came carrying someone on a stretcher.
They had found the rich man’s son beaten up and left on the side of the road.
sɪɛm taɪm tuː man kom a kjaɹi @sumadi @pan wan @schrecha dem di faɪn di @rich man @son @biit op an lef a ɹuɔd @said
Di rich man did api so til fi siim son agen. Im gi Sakiima a prezent kaaz im did komfat im. Im kyari im son an Sakiima go a aaspital so Sakiima kuda get bak im sait.
The rich man was so happy to see his son again.
He rewarded Sakima for consoling him.
He took his son and Sakima to hospital so Sakima could regain his sight.
di @rich man @did api @so @til fi siːm @son agen im @gi @sakiima a @prezent kaːz im @did @komfat im im kjaɹi im @son an @sakiima @go a @aaspital @so @sakiima @kuda @get @bak im saɪt


In Dreams (1999)
Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Annette Bening, Dennis Boutsikaris, Ken Cheeseman, Robert Downey Jr., Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea Screenplay: Neil Jordan, Bruce Robinson Producers: Stephen Woolley Runtime: US Distribution: DreamWorks Rated R: violence, language
Copyright 1998 Nathaniel R. Atcheson
The worst way to begin a year is with a massive disappointment. And yet, DreamWorks has delivered what will likely be one of the most disappointing films of 1999. Here we have In Dreams, a thriller directed by the immensely talented Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa). It has an extremely able cast, led by Annette Bening and supported by Aidan Quin, Robert Downey Jr., and Stephen Rea. It also has my favorite cinematographer, Darius Khondji (Seven, Alien Resurrection), and one of my favorite music composers, Elliott Goldenthal. And, it's been brought to us by DreamWorks, who have promised to bring out only quality entertainment.
I had forgotten that DreamWorks' first picture was The Peacemaker. They are capable of making lousy films, but In Dreams isn't lousy as much as it's plainly mediocre. And it's such a shame: not only is there limitless talent involved, but the film is actually quite good for well over an hour. It's a dark, intelligent film that seems to explore its possibilities; but, in the final forty-five minutes, it becomes implausible, silly, and almost unwatchably bad at times. The conclusion is moderately satisfying, but nothing can overcome the sloppy way it reaches its resolution.
Benning and Quinn play Claire and Paul Cooper; Claire is a woman who has "dreams" when she's wide awake -- dreams that seem to show her past events. Usually, these events are intertwined with crimes: in the beginning of the film, she sees a young girl being led through an orchid by an ill-adjusted man, and she thinks the girl has been kidnapped in real life. When her own daughter gets kidnapped, Claire realizes that the visions she has are actually visions of the future.
When the fate of her daughter is discovered, Claire loses her mind. She can't control the dreams, and it becomes clear that she has some kind of connection with the ill-adjusted man (who turns out later to be Robert Downey Jr.). A psychiatrist, Dr. Silverman (Stephen Rae), tries to evaluate her dreams, but no one really believes her. Eventually, after multiple suicide attempts, Claire is committed to a mental institution. And, as luck would have it, she's placed in the exact same room in which her psychotic male counterpart had lived during the early years of his life.
It really does sound like a silly story. Credit Jordan for making it seem so disturbing and intriguing for the first two-thirds of it. The background story for In Dreams revolves around a town that had been flooded twenty years before the events in the film take place; the early scenes, which explore the deep blue streets of the underwater town, are extremely eerie. Khondji and Jordan work well together to create a dark, silvery-blue mood throughout the film. There isn't a shot in the picture that doesn't look great -- the various settings (the Coopers' old house, the mental institution, etc.) are all very well photographed.
In addition, Annette Bening is exceptional in the lead role. She carries the film effortlessly, giving depth and personality to a character who might not have been very interesting on paper. Bening does a fantastic job of showing us Claire's descent into madness; it never seems overwrought or phony, and it's so believable that in one particular scene (in which she's trying to convince Dr. Silverman that her husband is going to be murdered) I became visibly agitated due to the effectiveness of her performance. Most of the supporting performances are less than noteworthy -- Quinn is reliable, as always, but Rae seems present only because Jordan always has him present.
The only other performance worth mentioning is that of Robert Downey Jr., and he is one of the reasons the film becomes so bad towards the end. Now, I do realize that it was up to Jordan to make sure that Downey Jr. didn't overact, but both men are responsible for the laughable absurdities that take place on screen in the final act of In Dreams. I was willing to overlook the fact that Claire seems to overcome her insanity to turn into a pseudo-action hero. I was willing to overlook the ridiculous way in which some of the characters act to serve the plot. But I can not overlook Downey Jr.'s performance, and the purely cliched mess of a character that he plays.
Hasn't the I'm-psycho-because-my-mother-made-me-do-it motif been done before? And why is it that all psycho killers have to have problems with their genders? Do they all speak like five-year-olds trapped in thirty-year-old bodies? In its final thirty minutes, In Dreams explores nothing but a truckload of cliches; I was too distracted to even immerse myself in the brilliant image on screen.  At the core, In Dreams is just another mediocre thriller. But it could have been something unusually good: the people involved are good at what they do, and the first hour is proof of that. But what happened with this sloppy conclusion? I would rather have never seen the end.
Psychosis Rating: 5/10
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