task.h
GitHub: event/task.h event/task.cc
TaskState
namespace event { enum class TaskState : uint8_t { ready = 0, running = 1, expiring = 2, cancelling = 3, unstarted = 4, done = 5, }; }
TaskState::ready
The Task has not yet started.
NEXT STATES:
TaskState::running
The Task is currently running, its deadline has not expired, and it has not been cancelled.
NEXT STATES:
-
expiring
: consumer callsexpire()
-
cancelling
: consumer callscancel()
-
done
: producer calls any method from thefinish()
family
TaskState::expiring
The Task is currently running, but it has exceeded its deadline. It SHOULD acknowledge the expiration, but it MAY run to completion.
NEXT STATES:
-
cancelling
: consumer callscancel()
-
done
: producer calls any method from thefinish()
family
TaskState::cancelling
The Task is currently running, but it has been cancelled. It SHOULD acknowledge the cancellation, but it MAY run to completion.
NEXT STATES:
TaskState::unstarted
The Task exceeded its deadline or was cancelled before
start()
could be called.
NEXT STATES:
TaskState::done
The Task has completed. This does not mean it was successful: check
its outcome with
event::Task::result()
.
NEXT STATES: N/A (terminal)
Task
namespace event { class Task { public: Task(); ~Task(); void reset(); TaskState state() const noexcept; bool is_running() const noexcept; bool is_finished() const noexcept; void on_cancelled(DispatcherPtr /*nullable*/ dispatcher, CallbackPtr callback); void on_cancelled(CallbackPtr callback); void on_finished(DispatcherPtr /*nullable*/ dispatcher, CallbackPtr callback); void on_finished(CallbackPtr callback); void expire() noexcept; void cancel() noexcept; base::Result result() const; bool result_will_throw() const noexcept; bool start(); void add_subtask(Task* task); void finish(base::Result result); void finish_ok(); void finish_cancel(); void finish_exception(std::exception_ptr eptr);Task(const Task&) = delete;Task(Task&&) = delete;Task& operator=(const Task&) = delete;Task& operator=(Task&&) = delete;}; }
RC. Task is used by asynchronous and/or concurrent functions as an
output parameter for returning a base::Result, with the side effect of
notifying the caller of completion in the process. Task is commonly used
in conjunction with an
event::Manager
.
Task supports deadlines. Deadlines can be used to abort operations
that get stuck waiting on a resource, e.g. because a networked host is
down. Task deadlines are strictly advisory: the async operation must
check for them. Deadlines are normally enforced by
event::Manager::set_deadline()
.
Task also supports asynchronous cancellation: the caller can call
Task::cancel()
, and the
asynchronous callee can observe this request and cancel the long-running
operation. As with deadlines, cancellations are strictly advisory: the
async operation must check for them.
Compare and contrast with C++11's
std::future
+
std::promise
:
std::future
supports arbitrary value types, but has no
concept either of deadlines or of cancellation, and does not support
callback notifications (only blocking or polling).
CAUTION: Consumers must ensure that Tasks are
neither destroyed nor reset()
until the respective producers are done with the Task.
Effectively, this means limiting oneself to "observer" methods until the
Task reaches the done
state.
CAUTION: Producers must ensure that they do not
call any methods on a Task that is in the
done
state.
This means not touching the Task after
start()
returns false, nor
touching it after calling any method in the
finish()
family.
Task::Task()
Constructs a Task. The only constructor is the default constructor,
which places the Task in the
ready
state.
Task::~Task()
Destroys a Task.
PRECONDITION: state is
ready
or
done
Task::reset()
Returns a finished task to the default-constructed
ready
state, allowing it to
be reused.
PRECONDITION: state is
ready
or
done
Methods for Consumers, Producers, and Observers
Task::state()
Returns an atomic snapshot of the current state of the Task.
Task::is_running()
Returns true iff the Task is in the
running
state, i.e.
it has been started, its deadline has not expired, AND it has not been
cancelled.
Example use:
while (!done) { if (!task->is_running()) { task->finish_cancel(); return; } ...; // incremental long-running operation }
Task::is_finished()
Returns true iff the Task is in the terminal state,
done
.
Task::on_cancelled()
Registers a Callback to execute if the Task reaches the
expiring
state, the
cancelling
state, or
the unstarted
/
done
states with a
DEADLINE_EXCEEDED
or CANCELLED
result.
- If this Task is already in one of those states, then this method will call its argument immediately.
-
If a DispatcherPtr is provided and is not
NULL
, then the callback will be scheduled on the provided Dispatcher instead of being called directly.
Task::on_finished()
Registers a Callback to execute when the Task reaches the
done
state.
-
If this Task is already in the
done
state, then this method will call its argument immediately. -
If a DispatcherPtr is provided and is not
NULL
, then the callback will be scheduled on the provided Dispatcher instead of being called directly.
Methods for Consumers
Task::expire()
Marks the task as having exceeded its deadline.
-
Changes
ready
tounstarted
with pending resultDEADLINE_EXCEEDED
; -
Changes
running
toexpiring
; OR - Has no effect otherwise.
NOTE: This method is not normally called directly.
Instead, it is normally invoked by
event::Manager::set_deadline()
or
event::Manager::set_timeout()
.
Task::cancel()
Requests that the Task be cancelled.
-
Changes
ready
tounstarted
with pending resultCANCELLED
; -
Changes
running
tocancelling
; -
Changes
expiring
tocancelling
; OR - Has no effect otherwise.
Task::result()
Returns the result of the Task. If the Task finished with an exception, rethrows the exception.
PRECONDITION: state is
done
Task::result_will_throw()
Returns true if result()
will throw an exception.
PRECONDITION: state is
done
Methods for Producers
Task::start()
Marks the Task as started.
PRECONDITION: state is
ready
or
unstarted
Task::add_subtask()
Registers another Task as a subtask of this Task.
PRECONDITION: state is
running
,
expiring
,
cancelling
, or
done
-
If this Task reaches the
expiring
,cancelling
, ordone
states, then all subtasks will be cancelled. - If this Task is already in one of those states, then this method will cancel its argument immediately.
Task::finish()
Marks the task as finished with a result.
PRECONDITION: state is
running
,
expiring
, or
cancelling
Task::finish_ok()
Convenience method for finishing with an OK
result.
PRECONDITION: state is
running
,
expiring
, or
cancelling
Task::finish_cancel()
Convenience method for finishing with a
DEADLINE_EXCEEDED
or a CANCELLED
result:
-
If the state is
expiring
, finishes withDEADLINE_EXCEEDED
; -
Otherwise, finishes with
CANCELLED
.
PRECONDITION: state is
running
,
expiring
, or
cancelling
Task::finish_exception()
Marks the task as finished with an exception.
PRECONDITION: state is
running
,
expiring
, or
cancelling


Geerts, J. P., Chersi, F., Stachenfeld, K. L., & Burgess, N. (2020). A general model of hippocampal and dorsal striatal learning and decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 202007981. [DOI]
Phillips, M. G., Lenzi, S. C., & Geerts, J. P. (2017). Cortical predictive mechanisms of auditory response attenuation to self-generated sounds. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(22). [DOI]
Pinotsis, D. A., Geerts, J. P., Pinto, L., Fitzgerald, T. H. B., Litvak, V., Auksztulewicz, R., & Friston, K. J. (2017). Linking canonical microcircuits and neuronal activity: Dynamic causal modelling of laminar recordings. NeuroImage. [DOI]
Jiang, J., Correa, C. M., Geerts, J., & van Gaal, S. (2018). The relationship between conflict awareness and behavioral and oscillatory signatures of immediate and delayed cognitive control. NeuroImage, 177, 11–19. [DOI]
Conference proceedings
Geerts, J.P., Burgess, N. & Stachenfeld, K.L. Probabilistic Successor Features Allow for Flexible Behaviour. International Conference on Learning Representations, BAICS Workshop Paper[PDF]
Geerts, J.P., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Probabilistic Successor Representations with Kalman Temporal Differences. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscienc, Berlin, Germany 2019[DOI][PDF]
Talks and posters
Geerts, J.P. Prediction and uncertainty in the hippocampus. Invited talk at Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience lab, UPF Barcelona, 2012
Geerts, J.P. Uncertainty and the hippocampal predictive map. Invited talk at Gershman lab, Harvard University, 2020
Geerts, J.P. Learning distributed Successor Representations using Kalman Filters. Invited talk at Mila NeuroAI reading group, Montreal, CA 2020
Geerts, J.P., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Probabilistic Successor Features allow for flexible behaviour. Spotlight Presentation at ICLR, 2020
Geerts, J.P., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Probabilistic Successor Representations allow for flexible behaviour. Poster at Cosyne, Denver, CO 2020
Geerts, J.P. A probabilistic approach to learning Successor Representations. Invited talk at Behrens lab, UCL / University of Oxford
Geerts, J.P., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Probabilistic Successor Representations with Kalman Temporal Differences. Poster at CCN, Berlin, Germany 2019
Geerts, J.P., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Value, Prediction and Uncertainty in Hippocampus and Striatum. Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience Retreat, Tutzing, Germany 2019
Geerts, J.P., Chersi, F., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Hippocampal and striatal localisation and navigation strategies. HBP Neural SLAM Workshop, Paris, France 2019
Geerts, J.P., Chersi, F., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Spatial reinforcement learning using allocentric and egocentric basis functions. Cosyne Coordinate Transforms Workshop, Lisbon, Portugal 2019
Stachenfeld, K.L., Geerts, J.P., Burgess, N., Behrens, T.E.J., Botvinick, M. & Gershman, S. Representation learning for exploration and generalization in RL. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, USA 2018. [Abstract]
Geerts, J.P., Chersi, F., Stachenfeld, K.L. & Burgess, N. Modelling hippocampal and striatal contributions to reward-based navigation. iNav Symposium, Mont Tremblant, CA 2018.[Poster]
Preprints
Dimitriadis, G., Neto, J. P., … Geerts, J. P., … Kampff, A. R. (2018). Why not record from every channel with a CMOS scanning probe? BioRxiv.[DOI]


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MOTS Finder
Find non-star-shaped MOTSs
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Implementation of a Newton-Kantorovich method to find MOTSs. More...
Classes | |
| class | _LinearExpansionEquation |
| Compute the linearized expansion equation and keep track of results. More... | |
| class | InsufficientResolutionOrRoundoff |
| Raised when resolution is too low or roundoff prevents convergence. More... | |
| class | NewtonKantorovich |
| Class implementing the Newton-Kantorovich steps. More... | |
| class | NoConvergence |
| Base for exceptions indicating failed convergence of Newton steps. More... | |
| class | StepLimitExceeded |
| Raised when convergence not achieved within the step count limit. More... | |
Functions | |
| def | newton_kantorovich (initial_curve, c=0.0, steps=50, step_mult=0.5, rtol=0, atol=1e-12, accurate_test_res=500, auto_resolution=True, max_resolution=1000, linear_regime_threshold=1e-2, mat_solver='scipy.solve', fake_steps=3, plot_steps=False, reference_curves=(), plot_deltas=False, verbose=False, disp=True, parallel=False, kw) |
| Do a Newton type search to find a MOTS. More... | |
Implementation of a Newton-Kantorovich method to find MOTSs.
This module contains the Newton-Kantorovich finder newton_kantorovich(), which is a high-level function to search for MOTSs based on an initial guess.
A basic description of the method can be found in [1], Appendix C, and in [2].
Examples
References
[1] Boyd, J. P. "Chebyshev and Fourier Spectral Methods. Dover Publications Inc." New York (2001).
[2] D. Pook-Kolb, O. Birnholtz, B. Krishnan and E. Schnetter, "The existence and stability of marginally trapped surfaces." arXiv:1811.10405 [gr-qc].
| def motsfinder.axisym.newton.newton_kantorovich | ( | initial_curve, | |
c = 0.0 , |
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steps = 50 , |
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step_mult = 0.5 , |
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rtol = 0 , |
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atol = 1e-12 , |
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accurate_test_res = 500 , |
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auto_resolution = True , |
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max_resolution = 1000 , |
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linear_regime_threshold = 1e-2 , |
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mat_solver = 'scipy.solve' , |
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fake_steps = 3 , |
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plot_steps = False , |
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reference_curves = () , |
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plot_deltas = False , |
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verbose = False , |
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disp = True , |
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parallel = False , |
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| kw | |||
| ) |
Do a Newton type search to find a MOTS.
This function performs scaled Newton steps to solve the nonlinear problem of finding a MOTS.
| initial_curve | (ExpansionCurve subclass) Initial guess for the trial surface. The current resolution of the horizon function in this curve will be used for solving the linear problem for each step. The specific type of this curve determines the parameterization of the curve. Also, this curve knows its geometry, so the metric does not need to be supplied here. |
| c | (float, optional) The target expansion. Default is 0 , i.e. we're trying to find MOTSs. If nonzero, constant expansion surfaces are found. |
| steps | (int, optional) Maximum number of Newton steps to take. Default is 50 . |
| step_mult | (float, optional) Factor to multiply the Newton steps with. |
| rtol | Float indicating when to stop taking more steps. If the maximum expansion (or its deviation from c ) divided by the maximum expansion of the initial evaluation is less or equal to rtol , we consider the Newton steps to have converged. Default is 0 . |
| atol | Float indicating the absolute expansion below which we stop taking more Newton steps. Default is 1e-12 . |
| accurate_test_res | Number of samples to check the expansion at to decide upon convergence. If 'twice' , uses two times the curve's resolution. If zero or None , convergence is only checked at the collocation points and auto_resolution has no effect. Default is 500 . |
| auto_resolution | Boolean indicating whether the resolution should be increased if insufficient resolution is detected. Default: True . |
| max_resolution | Maximum resolution to increase to. Failure to converge at this resolution will terminate the search. Default: 1000 . |
| linear_regime_threshold | Float indicating the absolute (see atol ) expansion below which we take full Newton steps to accelerate convergence. Default is 1e-2 . |
| mat_solver | (string, optional) Matrix solver method to use. Default is 'scipy.solve' , which is a fast solver with floating point accuracy. See ..ndsolve.solver.ndsolve() for more information. |
| fake_steps | Number of additional steps taken when the solution has converged at the collocation points but not yet between them. After these steps, the resolution is increased (or the search terminated). |
| plot_steps | (boolean, optional) Whether to plot each Newton step. Default is False . |
| reference_curves | (iterable, optional) Iterable of (curve, options) pairs to be plotted together with each step for comparison. The options part should either be a label string or a dict with options to be passed to plot_curve . |
| plot_deltas | (boolean, optional) Whether to plot the individual pseudospectral solutions of the linear problems. Default is False . |
| verbose | Whether to print status information during the Newton search. Default is False . |
| disp | Whether to raise NoConvergence (or subclasses) when the desired tolerance could not be reached in the number of steps or resolution. Default is True . |
| parallel | Whether to evaluate the equation using multiple processes in parallel. If True , uses all available threads. If an integer, uses that many threads. Default is False , i.e. don't compute in parallel. |
| **kw | Remaining keyword arguments are set as attributes on the solver object. They are documented as public class attributes of NewtonKantorovich. |


Routes is primarily used to connect states to urls, the route API is almost identical to the ngRoute api with a few additional features.
Through parameter converters, routes can be much more specific.
E.g. if only numeric id's should be allowed the num
converter can be used to only
let numeric values pass.
While states can be activated through routes by using the route
property.
If multiple routes should lead to the same state a route can simply define the state
property as well.
Decorators can be registered to alter routes before they update events are broad casted.
This allows for altering the outgoing route objects.
demo.js
The following example shows a small application with four states.
In addition to the states two extra alternative routes has been configured,
one for the about
state and one for the contact
state.
Each state is configured in the root and all targets the same view called 'main'.
It also configures a parameter converter than is used to only accept parameters within a given numeric range.
Finally it defaults to the route /404
if none of the defined routes are matched.
home.html
In the home.html
template we have added a number of extra links to the page.
Since we are activating states though their alternative routes we can't use the sref
directive here since that would obviously pick the primary route of each state.
So instead the links are hardcoded.
There are two valid links as well as two invalid ones. Clicking the valid ones will correctly
bring us to the desired states, however if we click the invalid ones we go to the 404
page.
Configuring alternative routes can be used to provide short-hand routes or keep old routes that has been replaced in an application active.
In both cases a redirection might be more suited however, which is achieved though the same API.


Boost.Range |
A Range is a concept similar to the STL Container concept. A
Range provides iterators for accessing a half-open range
[first,one_past_last)
of elements and provides
information about the number of elements in the Range. However, a Range has
much fewer requirements than a Container.
The motivation for the Range concept is that there are many useful Container-like types that do not meet the full requirements of Container, and many algorithms that can be written with this reduced set of requirements. In particular, a Range does not necessarily
The operations that can be performed on a Range is dependent on the traversal category of the underlying iterator type. Therefore the range concepts are named to reflect which traversal category their iterators support. See also terminology and style guidelines. for more information about naming of ranges.
The concepts described below specifies associated types as metafunctions and all functions as free-standing functions to allow for a layer of indirection.
X |
A type that is a model of Single Pass Range. |
a |
Object of type X . |
A range X where boost::range_iterator<X>::type
is a model of
Single Pass Iterator
| Iterator type | boost::range_iterator<X>::type |
The type of iterator used to iterate through a Range's elements. The iterator's value type is expected to be the Range's value type. A conversion from the iterator type to the const iterator type must exist. |
| Const iterator type | boost::range_iterator<const X>::type |
A type of iterator that may be used to examine, but not to modify, a Range's elements. |
| Name | Expression | Return type |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning of range | boost::begin(a) |
boost::range_iterator<X>::type if
a is mutable, boost::range_iterator<const X>::type
otherwise |
| End of range | boost::end(a) |
boost::range_iterator<X>::type if
a is mutable, boost::range_iterator<const X>::type
otherwise |
| Expression | Semantics | Postcondition |
|---|---|---|
boost::begin(a) |
Returns an iterator pointing to the first element in the Range. | boost::begin(a) is either dereferenceable or past-the-end.
It is past-the-end if and only if boost::distance(a) == 0 . |
boost::end(a) |
Returns an iterator pointing one past the last element in the Range. | boost::end(a) is past-the-end. |
boost::end(a)
is at most amortized linear time, boost::begin(a)
is
amortized constant time. For most practical
purposes, one can expect both to be amortized constant time.
| Valid range | For any Range a , [boost::begin(a),boost::end(a)) is
a valid range, that is, boost::end(a) is reachable from boost::begin(a)
in a finite number of increments. |
| Completeness | An algorithm that iterates through the range [boost::begin(a),boost::end(a))
will pass through every element of a . |
Extending the library for UDTs
Implementation of metafunctions
X |
A type that is a model of Forward Range. |
a |
Object of type X . |
A range X
where boost::range_iterator<X>::type
is a model
of Forward Traversal Iterator
X |
A type that is a model of Bidirectional Range. |
a |
Object of type X . |
boost::range_iterator<X>::type
iterator must meet all of the requirements
of Bidirectional Traversal Iterator.
A range X
where boost::range_iterator<X>::type
is a model
of Random Access Traversal Iterator
<boost/range/concepts.hpp>
. These classes may be
used in conjunction with the Boost Concept
Check library to insure that the type of a template parameter
is compatible with a range concept. If not, a meaningful compile
time error is generated. Checks are provided for the range
concepts related to iterator traversal categories. For example,
the following line checks that the type T
models the
ForwardRange concept.
function_requires<ForwardRangeConcept<T> >();An additional concept check is required for the value access property of the range based on the range's iterator type. For example to check for a ForwardReadableRange, the following code is required.
function_requires<ForwardRangeConcept<T> >(); function_requires< ReadableIteratorConcept< typename range_iterator<T>::type > >();The following range concept checking classes are provided.
SinglePassRangeConcept
checks for Single Pass Range
ForwardRangeConcept
checks for Forward Range
BidirectionalRangeConcept
checks for Bidirectional Range
RandomAccessRangeConcept
checks for Random Access Range
Range Terminology and style guidelines
© Copyright Thorsten Ottosen 2008.
Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)


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dplyr used to offer twin versions of each verb suffixed with an underscore. These versions had standard evaluation (SE) semantics: rather than taking arguments by code, like NSE verbs, they took arguments by value. Their purpose was to make it possible to program with dplyr. However, dplyr now uses tidy evaluation semantics. NSE verbs still capture their arguments, but you can now unquote parts of these arguments. This offers full programmability with NSE verbs. Thus, the underscored versions are now superfluous.
tally_(x, wt, sort = FALSE) count_(x, vars, wt = NULL, sort = FALSE) add_tally_(x, wt, sort = FALSE) add_count_(x, vars, wt = NULL, sort = FALSE) distinct_(.data, ..., .dots, .keep_all = FALSE) do_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) funs_(dots, args = list(), env = base_env()) group_by_(.data, ..., .dots = list(), add = FALSE) group_indices_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) filter_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) slice_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) summarise_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) summarize_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) mutate_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) transmute_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) arrange_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) select_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) rename_(.data, ..., .dots = list()) select_vars_(vars, args, include = chr(), exclude = chr()) rename_vars_(vars, args)
| x | a |
|---|---|
| wt | (Optional) If omitted, will count the number of rows. If
specified, will perform a "weighted" tally by summing the
(non-missing) values of variable |
| sort | if |
| vars | Various meanings depending on the verb. |
| .data | A data frame. |
| .keep_all | If |
| dots, .dots, ... | Pair/values of expressions coercible to lazy objects. |
| args | Various meanings depending on the verb. |
| env | The environment in which functions should be evaluated. |
| add | When |
| include, exclude | Character vector of column names to always include/exclude. |
Unquoting triggers immediate evaluation of its operand and inlines
the result within the captured expression. This result can be a
value or an expression to be evaluated later with the rest of the
argument. See vignette("programming")
for more information.


Sharing Code Snippets
Sharing code is important, and blogging about it should be easy and beautiful. That’s why Octopress is packed with features to make blogging your code a breeze. Though Jekyll comes with support for Pygments syntax highlighting, Octopress makes it way better. Here’s how.
- A Sass port of Solarized syntax highlighting created specifically for Octopress.
- Gist code embedding - by Brandon Tilly.
- Insert code snippets from your filesystem with a download link.
- Easy inline code blocks with
<figure>
and<figcaption>
and optional download links. - Pygments caching - a Jekyll community plugin.
- Table based line numbers added with javascript.
Solarized Highlighting
Solarized has a beautiful syntax highlighting color scheme, but reproducing it requires a highly sophisticated highlighting engine. Pygments (the highlighter Jekyll uses) processes code snippets into styleable HTML, but it isn’t nearly as powerful as the highlighting engine in Vim for example. In order to port Solarized theme to octopress, I processed its test files with Pygments and styled the output with Sass while comparing them to the Vim rendered versions.
Check out the test page to see the results.
Github Style Code Blocks
With the backtick_codeblock
filter you can use Github’s lovely back tick syntax highlighting blocks.
Simply start a line with three back ticks followed by a space and the language you’re using. Tab in four spaces
for your code snippets, and then finish your code block with three more back ticks.
Note: Back tick code blocks are only supported in HTML and Markdown. With the Textile markup language, use the codeblocks instead.
Syntax
Example
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This is a nice, lightweight way to add a highlighted code snippet. For features like titles and links you’ll want to look at the codeblock or include_code liquid tags.
Gist Embedding
All you need is the gist’s id and you can easily embed it in your page. This actually downloads a cache of the gist and embeds it in a <noscript>
tag for RSS
readers and search engines, while still using Github’s javascript gist embed code for browsers.
Syntax
{% gist gist_id [filename] %}
Example
{% gist 996818 %}
If you have a gist with multiple files, you can include files one at a time by adding the name after the gist id.
{% gist 1059334 svg_bullets.rb %}
{% gist 1059334 usage.scss %}
This plugin was developed by Brandon Tilly but I have fixed some bugs and made some improvements to it for Octopress.
Include Code Snippets
Import files on your filesystem into any blog post as embedded code snippets with syntax highlighting and a download link.
In the _config.yml
you can set your code_dir
but the default is source/downloads/code
. Simply put a file anywhere under that directory and
use the following tag to embed it in a post.
Syntax
{% include_code [title] url %}
Example 1
{% include_code javascripts/test.js %}
Example 2 (with optional title)
{% include_code Testing include_code javascripts/test.js %}
This includes a file from source/downloads/code/javascripts/test.js
. By default the <figcaption>
will be the filename, but you can add a title before the filepath if you like.
Demo of Example 2
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Inline Code Blocks
With this plugin you can write blocks of code directly in your posts and optionally add titles and links.
Syntax
{% codeblock [title] [url] [link text] %}
Example 1
{% codeblock %}
Awesome code snippet
{% endcodeblock %}
Example 2
# Including a file extension in the title enables highlighting
{% codeblock Time to be Awesome - awesome.rb %}
puts "Awesome!" unless lame
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May 1, 2019
For the purpose of increasing the stormwater remediation fee.
ARTICLE 13. PUBLIC WORKS
TITLE7. WATERSHED PROTECTION AND RESTORATION PROGRAM
13-7-103. Stormwater remediation fee.
(b) Base rate. The base rate of the stormwater remediation fee for one equivalent residential unit shall be [$85] $89.25 per year. FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 2020, AND FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR THEREAFTER, THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE SHALL SET THE STORMWATER REMEDIATION FEE AT A RATE SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE PURPOSES SET FORTH IN § 4-11-119(C)(c) Purposes. The revenue paid into the Watershed Protection and Restoration Special Revenue Fund shall be dedicated to and appropriated for those purposes set forth in the Environment Article, § 4-202.1(h)(4), of the State Code, including the payment or reimbursement of debt service on bonds, notes or other obligations that finance stormwater management projects and the pledging of such revenue and fund to secure the repayment of this debt service. OF THIS CODE AND MAY INCREASE THE FEE IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 5.00% OF THE THEN CURRENT FEE. ANY INCREASE IN AN AMOUNT GREATER THAN 5.00% SHALL BE SET BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL BY ORDINANCE.


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MACSNPdb is an open-access SNP database comprising ~80.88 million high-quality non-redundant SNPs called from 20 macaques that may assist researchers to investigate interspecies genetic divergence between macaques. MACSNPdb allows users to browse and retrieve individual, sepcific and non-redundant SNPs. In particular, users can retrieve non-synonymous SNPs that may have deleterious effects on protein structure or function within macaque orthologs of human disease and drug-target genes. MACSNPdb also integrates gene functional annotation information including GO term, KEGG pathway, Pfam and InterPro domains.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31501871 and 31530068), the Start-up Fund of Chengdu University<PHONE_NUMBER>), the Key Research Fund on Sciences and Technologies for Joint Academic Institute and Local Enterprises of Sichuan (2018JZ0008), and partly funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2012017yjsy153).
Database developer Lianming Du<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and Zhenxin Fan<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Jul 16, 2018
May 8, 2018
| Individuals | 20 |
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| Species | 10 |
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| Non-redundant SNPs | 80 879 499 |
| Group-specific SNPs | 5 079 706 |
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| SNPs in CDS | 522 465 |
| Nonsynonymous SNPs | 220 098 |


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Every day the young woman sees the old woman selling roses. In the morning the old woman stands by the brownstones across the street, but in the afternoon she is gone. Occasionally the young woman sees someone stop to buy a rose. She wonders if the old woman ever thinks to ask who the rose is for.
Today, when the young woman needs her, the old woman isn’t there. The young woman buys her coffee and walks to the cemetery with no gift. Not that it matters. He never bought her roses. He never brought her gifts, or sent a Christmas card, or even called.
When she was younger she thought he did. She got a doll, some shoes, a dress, and some earrings. She never knew all her mother did for her, until she got older and realized she had only seen his pictures and had never heard his voice.
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Years later, she got a call from him on a sunny morning. She almost didn’t go to the coffee shop the next day. She did, though. She sat down and didn’t say “hello,” until he said “hi.”
He reached to pay the whole bill, but she said “I can pay for myself.”
Just as she stood to leave, he said “I have three months.”
“What?”
“Terminal cancer. The doctors can’t do anything.”
She sat down for another coffee. This time she let him get the bill.
***
For two months and a week she got coffee with a stranger every morning. He told her about traveling in the south in his younger days and about how late in life he ended up in a boring office job.  She didn’t tell him when her cat died the night before. He asked if she had been crying, and she said “No.”
She had many questions for him, but she was too afraid to ask them. She did one day, but she didn’t like the answers.
“I was young and stupid.”
He tried to reach for her hand, but she didn’t let him. She stood and left money for her coffee.
She didn’t go to the coffee shop for three mornings, but on the fourth morning he was there waiting for her. They sipped coffee in silence for a while. She told him about her new cat, but not about the man she went out with that Friday night.
***
Three days ago she got a call from another stranger.
“He didn’t wake up this morning,” he said.
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She missed the funeral.
***
This morning, for the first time she stops at his grave, but she doesn’t have a rose, just her coffee.
She kisses her hand and touches the gravestone.
“Good bye,” she says.
Originally published at Coup d'Etat, Winter 2013-14
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"MAGOG "region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of the bow. The Latin father Jerome says that this word denotes “Scythian nations, fierce and innumerable, who live beyond the Caucasus and the Lake Maeotis, and near the Caspian Sea, and spread out even onward to India.” Perhaps the name “represents the Assyrian Mat Gugi, or ‘country of Gugu,’ the Gyges of the Greeks” (Sayce’s Races, etc.).
"MAGOG "region of Gog, the second of the “sons” of Japheth (Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5). In Ezekiel (38:2; 39:6) it is the name of a nation, probably some Scythian or Tartar tribe descended from Japheth. They are described as skilled horsemen, and expert in the use of the bow. The Latin father Jerome says that this word denotes “Scythian nations, fierce and innumerable, who live beyond the Caucasus and the Lake Maeotis, and near the Caspian Sea, and spread out even onward to India.” Perhaps the name “represents the Assyrian Mat Gugi, or ‘country of Gugu,’ the Gyges of the Greeks” (Sayce’s Races, etc.).


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The picture represents the fact that i like to read. I read many types of books but my favourite ones are romace novels, selfhelp books, crime and mystery novels. These are such different genres but i still enjoy them equally.
I like to read books because it allow you to experience multiple realities. It is a great way to unwind when you have free time. It also dares you to grow because you learn a lot when reading, be it new vocabulary or new ideas, at the end of each reading session you come out more knowledgable than you were at the beginning of the session.
Reading also helps us remember. Reading isn’t only about discovering the new. It’s also a vehicle for reflection. Many bibliophiles can trace their love of reading back to a cherished memory, such as being read to by a parent or discovering the first book they ever loved (Winnie the Pooh, Dr. Seuss or Enid Blyton). Re-reading those favorite books, or reading about familiar places, times and people helps us recall the details of our own lives. It reminds us who we are, where we are and how we came here.
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Education to me is the greatest investment. Education does not only come through the school system but also through reading books and different life experience. My interest is mainly in technology and that us why all the courses i have done are IT related. The schools I attended include:
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Travelling is such a great experience epecially when with friends and family. You get to experience different cultures, taste food from different places and make great memories. I think jet lag and tiredness of travelling is part of the charm. some of the benefits of traveling are improving health by cutting down stress, it makes you smarter by picki up new languages and traveling makes you feel like an adventurer.
Cooking is important to me because it gives you a senese of independence. it might be a small task but everyone needs this skill to survive on their own. i like to cook mostly with my sisters because it is fun and we get to tell each other stories and formulate new recipies. This simple action helps us bond.
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Called once when the Python plugin starts up. It is safe to assume
that when this callback is invoked, all the plugins have been
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Called when the debugger attaches to a new process (either by starting it, attaching to an already running process; process
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Rastafari cultural symbols are recognizable throughout the world and as a social and political movement, it has had an influence on language, music, film, and popular culture in Jamaica and beyond. We see its symbols represented all over the world, although we rarely have a good understanding of what they mean beyond the One Love that it expresses. This class is designed to give students a greater sense of the importance of the Rastafari philosophy beyond the outward symbols the world has adopted.
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The Mystery of Cloomber
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter XVI: “At the Hole of Cree”
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1889
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Doyle, A. C. (1889). The Mystery of Cloomber.London, England: Ward and Downey.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 9.5
- Word Count: 4,020
- Genre: Mystery
- Keywords: 19th century literature, british literature, mystery, sir arthur conan doyle, the mystery of cloomber
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It was dark enough when we started to make it no easy matter to find our way across the moors, but as we advanced it grew lighter and lighter, until by the time we reached Fullarton’s cabin it was broad daylight.
Early as it was, he was up and about, for the Wigtown peasants are an early rising race.
Mordaunt, in his desire for privacy, would have demurred at this arrangement, but I pointed out to him that we had no idea what was in store for us, and the addition of a strong, able-bodied man to our party might prove to be of the utmost consequence.
Again, the dog was less likely to give us trouble if we had its master to control it. My arguments carried the day, and the biped accompanied us as well as his four-footed companion.
There was some little similarity between the two, for the man was a towsy-headed fellow with a great mop of yellow hair and a straggling beard, while the dog was of the long-haired, unkempt breed looking like an animated bundle of oakum.
All our way to the Hall its owner kept retailing instances of the creature’s sagacity and powers of scent, which, according to his account, were little less than miraculous. His anecdotes had a poor audience, I fear, for my mind was filled with the strange story which I had been reading, while Mordaunt strode on with wild eyes and feverish cheeks, without a thought for anything but the problem which we had to solve.
Again and again as we topped an eminence I saw him look eagerly round him in the faint hope of seeing some trace of the absentee, but over the whole expanse of moorland there was no sign of movement or of life. All was dead and silent and deserted.
Our visit to the Hall was a very brief one, for every minute now was of importance. Mordaunt rushed in and emerged with an old coat of his father’s, which he handed to Fullarton, who held it out to the dog.
The intelligent brute sniffed at it all over, then ran whining a little way down the avenue, came back to sniff the coat again, and finally elevating its stump of a tail in triumph, uttered a succession of sharp yelps to show that it was satisfied that it had struck the trail. Its owner tied a long cord to its collar to prevent it from going too fast for us, and we all set off upon our search, the dog tugging and training at its leash in its excitement as it followed in the general’s footsteps.
Our way lay for a couple of hundred yards along the high road, and then passed through a gap In the hedge and on to the moor, across which we were led in a bee-line to the northward.
The sun had by this time risen above the horizon, and the whole countryside looked so fresh and sweet, from the blue, sparkling sea to the purple mountains, that it was difficult to realize how weird and uncanny was the enterprise upon which we were engaged.
The scent must have lain strongly upon the ground, for the dog never hesitated nor stopped, dragging its master along at a pace which rendered conversation impossible.
At one place, in crossing a small stream, we seemed to get off the trail for a few minutes, but our keen-nosed ally soon picked it up on the other side and followed it over the trackless moor, whining and yelping all the time in its eagerness. Had we not all three been fleet of foot and long of wind, we could not have persisted in the continuous, rapid journey over the roughest of ground, with the heather often well-nigh up to our waists.
For my own part, I have no idea now, looking back, what goal it was which I expected to reach at the end of our pursuit.
Could it be that the three Buddhists had had a craft in readiness off the coast, and had embarked with their prisoners for the East? The direction of their track seemed at first to favour this supposition, for it lay in the line of the upper end of the bay, but it ended by branching off and striking directly inland. Clearly the ocean was not to be our terminus.
By ten o’clock we had walked close upon twelve miles, and were compelled to call a halt for a few minutes to recover our breath, for the last mile or two we had been breasting the long, wearying slope of the Wigtown hills.
From the summit of this range, which is nowhere more than a thousand feet in height, we could see, looking northward, such a scene of bleakness and desolation as can hardly be matched in any country.
Right away to the horizon stretched the broad expanse of mud and of water, mingled and mixed together in the wildest chaos, like a portion of some world in the process of formation. Here and there on the dun-coloured surface of this great marsh there had burst out patches of sickly yellow reeds and of livid, greenish scum, which only served to heighten and intensify the gloomy effect of the dull, melancholy expanse.
On the side nearest to us some abandoned peat-cuttings showed that ubiquitous man had been at work there, but beyond these few petty scars there was no sign anywhere of human life. Not even a crow nor a seagull flapped its way over that hideous desert.
This is the great Bog of Cree. It is a salt-water marsh formed by an inroad of the sea, and so intersected is it with dangerous swamps and treacherous pitfalls of liquid mud, that no man would venture through it unless he had the guidance of one of the few peasants who retain the secret of its paths.
As we approached the fringe of rushes which marked its border, a foul, dank smell rose up from the stagnant wilderness, as from impure water and decaying vegetation—an earthy, noisome smell which poisoned the fresh upland air.
So forbidding and gloomy was the aspect of the place that our stout crofter hesitated, and it was all that we could do to persuade him to proceed. Our lurcher, however, not being subject to the delicate impressions of our higher organization, still ran yelping along with its nose on the ground and every fibre of its body quivering with excitement and eagerness.
There was no difficulty about picking our way through the morass, for wherever the five could go we three could follow.
If we could have had any doubts as to our dog’s guidance they would all have been removed now, for in the soft, black, oozing soil we could distinctly trace the tracks of the whole party. From these we could see that they had walked abreast, and, furthermore, that each was about equidistant from the other. Clearly, then, no physical force had been used in taking the general and his companion along. The compulsion had been psychical and not material.
Once within the swamp, we had to be careful not to deviate from the narrow track, which offered a firm foothold.
On each side lay shallow sheets of stagnant water overlying a treacherous bottom of semi-fluid mud, which rose above the surface here and there in moist, sweltering banks, mottled over with occasional patches of unhealthy vegetation. Great purple and yellow fungi had broken out in a dense eruption, as though Nature were afflicted with a foul disease, which manifested itself by this crop of plague spots.
Here and there dark, crab-like creatures scuttled across our path, and hideous, flesh-coloured worms wriggled and writhed amid the sickly reeds.  Never had I ventured into so pestilent and forbidding a place.
Mordaunt Heatherstone strode on, however, with a set purpose upon his swarthy brow, and we could but follow him, determined to stand by him to the end of the adventure. As we advanced, the path grew narrower and narrower until, as we saw by the tracks, our predecessors had been compelled to walk in single file. Fullarton was leading us with the dog, Mordaunt behind him, while I brought up the rear. The peasant had been sulky and surly for a little time back, hardly answering when spoken to, but he now stopped short and positively refused to go a step farther.
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“It’s no’ canny,” he said, “besides I ken where it will lead us tae’”
“Where, then?” I asked.
“Tae the Hole o’ Cree,” he answered. “It’s no far frae here, I’m thinking.”
“The Hole of Cree! What is that, then?”
“It’s a great, muckle hole in the ground that gangs awa’ doon so deep that naebody could ever reach the bottom. Indeed there are folk wha says that it’s just a door leadin’ intae the bottomless pit itsel’”
“You have been there, then?” I asked.
“Been there!” he cried. “What would I be doin’ at the Hole o’ Cree? No, I’ve never been there, nor any other man in his senses.”
“How do you know about it, then?”
“My great-grandfeyther had been there, and that’s how I ken,” Fullarton answered. “He was fou’ one Saturday nicht and he went for a bet. He didna like tae talk aboot it afterwards, and he wouldna tell a’ what befell him, but he was aye feared o’ the very name. He’s the first Fullarton that’s been at the Hole o’ Cree, and he’ll be the last for me. If ye’ll tak’ my advice ye’ll just gie the matter up and gang name again, for there’s na guid tae be got oot o’ this place.”
“We shall go on with you or without you,” Mordaunt answered.   “We have no time to argue with you. Here’s a five-pound note. Let us have the dog, or, by Heaven, I shall take it by force and throw you in the bog if you hinder us.”
I could realize the Heatherstone of forty years ago when I saw the fierce and sudden wrath which lit up the features of his son.
Either the bribe or the threat had the desired effect, for the fellow grabbed at the money with one hand while with the other he surrendered the leash which held the lurcher. Leaving him to retrace his steps, we continued to make our way into the utmost recesses of the great swamp.
The tortuous path grew less and less defined as we proceeded, and was even covered in places with water, but the increasing excitement of the hound and the sight of the deep footmarks in the mud stimulated us to push on. At last, after struggling through a grove of high bulrushes, we came on a spot the gloomy horror of which might have furnished Dante with a fresh terror for his “Inferno.”
The whole bog in this part appeared to have sunk in, forming a great, funnel-shaped depression, which terminated in the centre in a circular rift or opening about forty feet in diameter. It was a whirlpool—a perfect maelstrom of mud, sloping down on every side to this silent and awful chasm.
Clearly this was the spot which, under the name of the Hole of Cree, bore such a sinister reputation among the rustics. I could not wonder at its impressing their imagination, for a more weird or gloomy scene, or one more worthy of the avenue which led to it, could not be conceived.
The steps passed down the declivity which surrounded the abyss, and we followed them with a sinking feeling in our hearts, as we realized that this was the end of our search.
A little way from the downward path was the return trail made by the feet of those who had come back from the chasm’s edge. Our eyes fell upon these tracks at the same moment, and we each gave a cry of horror, and stood gazing speechlessly at them. For there, in those blurred footmarks, the whole drama was revealed.
Five had gone down, but only three had returned.
None shall ever know the details of that strange tragedy. There was no mark of struggle nor sign of attempt at escape. We knelt at the edge of the Hole and endeavoured to pierce the unfathomable gloom which shrouded it. A faint, sickly exhalation seemed to rise from its depths, and there was a distant hurrying, clattering sound as of waters in the bowels of the earth.
A great stone lay embedded in the mud, and this I hurled over, but we never heard thud or splash to show that it had reached the bottom.
As we hung over the noisome chasm a sound did at last rise to our ears out of its murky depths. High, clear, and throbbing, it tinkled for an instant out of the abyss, to be succeeded by the same deadly stillness which had preceded it.
I did not wish to appear superstitious, or to put down to extraordinary causes that which may have a natural explanation. That one keen note may have been some strange water sound produced far down in the bowels of the earth. It may have been that or it may have been that sinister bell of which I had heard so much. Be this as it may, it was the only sign that rose to us from the last terrible resting-place of the two who had paid the debt which had so long been owing.
We joined our voices in a call with the unreasoning obstinacy with which men will cling to hope, but no answer came back to us save a hollow moaning from the depths beneath. Footsore and heart-sick, we retraced our steps and climbed the slimy slope once more.
“What shall we do, Mordaunt?” I asked, in a subdued voice. “We can but pray that their souls may rest in peace.”
Young Heatherstone looked at me with flashing eyes.
“This may be all according to occult laws,” he cried, “but we shall see what the laws of England have to say upon it. I suppose a chela may be hanged as well as any other man. It may not be too late yet to run them down. Here, good dog, good dog-here!”
He pulled the hound over and set it on the track of the three men. The creature sniffed at it once or twice, and then, falling upon its stomach, with bristling hair and protruding tongue, it lay shivering and trembling, a very embodiment of canine terror.
“You see,” I said, “it is no use contending against those who have powers at their command to which we cannot even give a name. There is nothing for it but to accept the inevitable, and to hope that these poor men may meet with some compensation in another world for all that they have suffered in this.”
“And be free from all devilish religions and their murderous worshippers!” Mordaunt cried furiously.
Justice compelled me to acknowledge in my own heart that the murderous spirit had been set on foot by the Christian before it was taken up by the Buddhists, but I forbore to remark upon it, for fear of irritating my companion.
For a long time I could not draw him away from the scene of his father’s death, but at last, by repeated arguments and reasonings, I succeeded in making him realize how useless and unprofitable any further efforts on our part must necessarily prove, and in inducing him to return with me to Cloomber.
Oh, the wearisome, tedious journey! It had seemed long enough when we had some slight flicker of hope, or at least of expectation, before us, but now that our worst fears were fulfilled it appeared interminable.
We picked up our peasant guide at the outskirts of the marsh, and having restored his dog we let him find his own way home, without telling him anything of the results of our expedition. We ourselves plodded all day over the moors with heavy feet and heavier hearts until we saw the ill-omened tower of Cloomber, and at last, as the sun was setting, found ourselves once more beneath its roof.
There is no need for me to enter into further details, nor to describe the grief which our tidings conveyed to mother and to daughter. Their long expectation of some calamity was not sufficient to prepare them for the terrible reality.
For weeks my poor Gabriel hovered between life and death, and though she came round al last, thanks to the nursing of my sister and the professional skill of Dr. John Easterling, she has never to this day entirely recovered her former vigour. Mordaunt, too, suffered much for some time, and it was only after our removal to Edinburgh that he rallied from the shock which he had undergone.
As to poor Mrs. Heatherstone, neither medical attention nor change of air can ever have a permanent effect upon her. Slowly and surely, but very placidly, she has declined in health and strength, until it is evident that in a very few weeks at the most she will have rejoined her husband and restored to him the one thing which he must have grudged to leave behind.
The Laird of Branksome came home from Italy restored in health, with the result that we were compelled to return once more to Edinburgh.
The change was agreeable to us, for recent events had cast a cloud over our country life and had surrounded us with unpleasant associations. Besides, a highly honourable and remunerative appointment in connection with the University library had become vacant, and had, through the kindness of the late Sir Alexander Grant, been offered to my father, who, as may be imagined, lost no time in accepting so congenial a post.
In this way we came back to Edinburgh very much more important people than we left it, and with no further reason to be uneasy about the details of housekeeping. But, in truth, the whole household has been dissolved, for I have been married for some months to my dear Gabriel, and Esther is to become Mrs. Heatherstone upon the 23rd of the month. If she makes him as good a wife as his sister has made me, we may both set ourselves down as fortunate men.
These mere domestic episodes are, as I have already explained, introduced only because I cannot avoid alluding to them.
My object in drawing up this statement and publishing the evidence which corroborates it, was certainly not to parade my private affairs before the public, but to leave on record an authentic narrative of a most remarkable series of events. This I have endeavoured to do in as methodical a manner as possible, exaggerating nothing and suppressing nothing.
The reader has now the evidence before him, and can form his own opinions unaided by me as to the causes of the disappearance and death of Rufus Smith and of John Berthier Heatherstone, V.C., C.B.
There is only one point which is still dark to me. Why the chelas of Ghoolab Shah should have removed their victims to the desolate Hole of Cree instead of taking their lives at Cloomber, is, I confess, a mystery to me.
In dealing with occult laws, however, we must allow for our own complete ignorance of the subject. Did we know more we might see that there was some analogy between that foul bog and the sacrilege which had been committed, and that their ritual and customs demanded that just such a death was the one appropriate to the crime.
On this point I should be sorry to be dogmatic, but at least we must allow that the Buddhist priests must have had some very good cause for the course of action which they so deliberately carried out.
Months afterwards I saw a short paragraph in the Star of India announcing that three eminent Buddhists—Lal Hoomi, Mowdar Khan, and Ram Singh—had just returned in the steamship Deccan from a short trip to Europe. The very next item was devoted to an account of the life and services of Major-General Heatherstone, “who has lately disappeared from his country house in Wigtownshire, and who, there is too much reason to fear, has been drowned.”
I wonder if by chance there was any other human eye but mine which traced a connection between these paragraphs. I never showed them to my wife or to Mordaunt, and they will only know of their existence when they read these pages.
I don’t know that there is any other point which needs clearing up. The intelligent reader will have already seen the reasons for the general’s fear of dark faces, of wandering men (not knowing how his pursuers might come after him), and of visitors (from the same cause and because his hateful bell was liable to sound at all times).
His broken sleep led him to wander about the house at night, and the lamps which he burnt in every room were no doubt to prevent his imagination from peopling the darkness with terrors. Lastly, his elaborate precautions were, as he has himself explained, rather the result of a feverish desire to do something than in the expectation that he could really ward off his fate.
Science will tell you that there are no such powers as those claimed by the Eastern mystics. I, John Fothergill West, can confidently answer that science is wrong.
For what is science? Science is the consensus of opinion of scientific men, and history has shown that it is slow to accept a truth. Science sneered at Newton for twenty years. Science proved mathematically that an iron ship could not swim, and science declared that a steamship could not cross the Atlantic.
Like Goethe’s Mephistopheles, our wise professor’s forte is “stets verneinen.” Thomas Didymus is, to use his own jargon, his prototype. Let him learn that if he will but cease to believe in the infallibility of his own methods, and will look to the East, from which all great movements come, he will find there a school of philosophers and of savants who, working on different lines from his own, are many thousand years ahead of him in all the essentials of knowledge.
THE END


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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman has died after she was set on fire by her husband and his accomplices in Punjab province, the latest case of violence against women in the country, according to a media report on Monday.
Humaira, a resident of Kabirwala tehsil, was doused in petrol and set on fire by her husband and others on December 6.
She sustained severe burn injuries and was shifted to the Tehsil Headquarter Hospital. She died a day later on December 7, Dawn newspaper reported. Police in Jhang district registered a case on Monday. The motive behind the crime is not clear, the report said.
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People who believe this misconception think that trust in users (e.g., local people in an organization and/or remote users of a program or system) is a valid replacement for robust security controls. However, this idea breaks down whenever any person takes an action that violates this assumption, either intentionally (they are a bad actor) or unintentionally (they make a mistake).
In essence, this misconception is not following the principle of least privilege - people should get no more than the minimum permissions necessary to accomplish their tasks.Taking away any additional permission should break the system. A good way of building policies like this is to start from no permission (“deny by default”) and then add only necessary permissions (privileges, features, etc.) until the system works as required. Following this principle can avoid both malicious unauthorized access and accidents.
Example of trusting users too much in industry.
1) Look up news stories relating to the follies of trusting users.
2) Research additional tips you can implement to implement principle of least privilege and sanitize inputs.


Adam Price promises ‘green jobs revolution’ at Plaid Cymru manifesto launch
He described Brexit as ‘a wrecking ball’.
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has promised a “green jobs revolution” in Wales at his party’s General Election manifesto launch.
He said plans for a green industrial revolution include significant investment in rail and bus travel, three tidal lagoons, a barrage and a new offshore wind farm.
On Friday Mr Price said Plaid would invest £20 billion over the next 10 years from a national reconstruction fund, which would include the electrification of all mainline rail lines, creating tens of thousands of jobs.
Speaking from Coleg y Cymoedd college in Nantgarw near Cardiff, he said: “This transformative vision, central to the Welsh green jobs revolution we’re planning for the whole of Wales, is the biggest programme of reconstruction our nation has seen for generations, and not before time.”
Mr Price called on Wales to create its own national energy company, and said a new “green” industrial revolution would help tackle the threat of climate change.
He said: “Wales was the cradle of the first industrial revolution, but the sad truth known to all of us who live in Wales is that our country hasn’t reaped the benefits of our own wealth.
“We know that Wales has enormous potential.
“We are rich in natural resources and our people are talented and skilled.
“Just as we were the first time, we can be the cradle of another revolution, a green jobs revolution, creating tens of thousands of green collar jobs and seriously tackling the urgent climate emergency we face.”
To help fund its plans Plaid Cymru is calling for Westminster to allocate an extra 1% of GDP to its investment fund, allowing Wales to invest an extra £15bn.
It said it would also press the Treasury to raise Wales’ borrowing limit from £1bn to £5bn, to reach the £20bn total for its green jobs promise.
The party say the money would be invested into electrification of all mainline rail lines and Valleys railways, a metro system, and the construction of tidal lagoons in Swansea Bay, Cardiff, and Colwyn Bay.
Also included in the plans are an offshore windfarm near Ynys Mon, a barrage on the River Usk, and the construction of 20,000 green social houses.
Mr Price said his party would also fight to remain in the EU in a “final referendum”, saying: “We must defeat the negative, hope-crushing wrecking ball that is Brexit.
“And if you want the people to have their final say then we must encourage as many of them to say loudly and clearly in the days ahead this Brexit is not for us, it never was and never will be.”
He also used his speech to renew his call for Welsh independence, saying: “They say that our dream of an independent Wales is improbable, that our poverty is inevitable, well, this is the moment when the improbable beats what Westminster says is inevitable.”
The party say a Welsh Government led by Plaid Cymru after the 2021 Welsh Assembly election would produce a self-determination Bill, aimed at a referendum on independence before 2030.


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I know it's not the aim to get Visual Studio or Blend visible, but for heaven's sake, LET ME SEE WHAT YOU DO and increase your font size. Silly!


Pig Dice!
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1 dice
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Hold
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