Project: PalPay
Overview
This portfolio documents my contributions to PalPay, a software engineering project under the module, CS2103T Software Engineering. My Team and I were tasked to morph an existing software application into a functional desktop application, written in Java, to better suit our intended target issues and audiences.
PalPay is a financial tracking application activated through a Command-Line-Interface (CLI). Our intended target audience being computing students who lack a centralized platform for financial management and planning.
For the project, my main role was to develop the Transaction feature. This feature represents the fundamental user logging and tracking capabilities that other features of this application subsequently depends on.
Summary of contributions
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Code contributed: RepoSense
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Major enhancement: Implemented the
Transactions
tab and the features subsumed under it.-
What it does: Allows users to input and log their expenditure and income statements. PalPay will also display an overall transaction balance to give users an overall sensing of their financial habits.
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Justification: This feature fulfills the primary goal of the application which is to provide users a platform to store and log all their financial statements in a fast and intuitive manner.
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Highlights: This feature requires constant integration with all existing major features of PalPay (i.e.
out
Transaction to affectbudget
if certain conditions are met). This requires constant cross-examination with other features and reimplementation of the codebase to ensure optimal functionality. This also requires a broad familiarity with the entire code base at all points during the development phase.
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Minor enhancement:
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Implemented and handled code base throughout for Update feature and
UpdateTransactionDescriptor
to function with all different major features. -
Handled parser checks for the
Amount
variable for incorrect or potentially program-breaking cases. (i.e. Maximum parsed amount can only contain a value of 999,999)
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Other contributions:
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Project management:
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Enhancements to existing features:
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Documentation:
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Reformatted the User Guide for a more sequential flow.
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Wrote the details for the following commands in the User Guide.
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In
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Out
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Update
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Delete
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Created UML diagrams to help in the explanation of
in / out
,update
anddelete
commands in the Developer Guide. -
Included Aspect cases under Design Considerations in the Developer Guide.
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Community:
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Reported bugs and suggestions for other teams in the module. (Examples: T13-1 #223, T13-1 #222, T13-1 #221, T13-1 #220, T13-1 #219, T13-1 #216)
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Contributions to the User Guide
Given below are snippets of sections I contributed to the User Guide. They showcase my ability to write documentation targeting end-users. |
Logging Expense : out
Have you recently made an expenditure that requires logging down? PalPay accepts all expenditure inputs through the out
command. Inputting an out
command will decrease the overall balance value. Your expenditure statements, just like the income statements, have the added option to be tagged under one or more categories. You can do so by including the [c/CATEGORY]
parameter in your command line. All uncategorized incomes will be tagged under the GENERAL
category.
Command Syntax
Format: out $/AMOUNT n/DESCRIPTION d/DATE [c/CATEGORY]…
Important Details
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Note that
out
Transactions differ fromin
Transactions in the display amount. Thein
entries are characterized by the positive value within their display box whilst theout
entries are characterized by the negative values in their display box. The difference can be observed in the example usage below. -
An
out
command will affect the remaining amount ofBudget
entries with similar categories within the same time period (Refer to Example 3).
Example Usages
Example 3
out $/100 n/pants d/02012020 c/clothes
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Expenditure logging
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Inputs an expenditure of "$100" with description set to "pants" and date set on "02/01/2020".
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The income includes "clothes" under the
CATEGORY
field.Figure 1. Expenditure Logging Example 3
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Budget with similar categories and time period.
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Entry 3 of the Budget tab has
clothes
under itsCATEGORY
field. -
Entry 3 of the Budget tab has a deadline set to "01/01/2021".
Figure 2. Budget with 'clothes' category
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Expenditure added
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The expenditure is added to the bottom of the Transaction tab.
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The added expenditure has a date set to
02/01/2020
. -
The added expenditure is tagged under the
clothes
category.Figure 3. Sample Expenditure 3 Added
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Budget entry updated
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The remaining amount of entry 3 of the Budget tab has decreased from "$1000" to "$900".
Figure 4. Budget entry updated
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Example Commands:
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out $/100 d/01012019 n/milk c/food c/drinks
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out $/29 d/29022020 n/taxi c/transport
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out $/12 d/31122019 n/burger
Updating Finance : update
Did you make a mistake in one of your entries? Perhaps you over counted that expenditure you made. PalPay provides you with an update
feature which helps you change specific fields within your entries.
Command Syntax
The update
feature has different implementations for different entry types. The conditions for the update
feature is as follows.
Format (Transactions): update TYPE+INDEX [$/AMOUNT] [d/DATE] [n/ITEM] [c/CATEGORY]…
Format (Budget): update TYPE+INDEX [$/AMOUNT] [d/DATE] [c/CATEGORY]…
Format (Ledger): Cannot be updated
Format (Projections): Cannot be updated
Important Details
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update
requires at least one field to be updated. (e.g.update t1 $/20 d/10102019 n/milk
andupdate t1 $/10
will both be accepted). -
You can only update an existing transaction, budget or projection. Nothing will be updated if the entry of "index"
INDEX
does not exists. -
Ledger
andProjection
do not have an update function. If you need to change specific fields within a ledger or projection entry, you should delete the target entry and recreate a new entry with your desired fields. -
You cannot change an
in
Transaction to anout
Transaction or vice versa. -
Changing an expenditure’s (
out
Transaction) category field to that of a Budget’s entry will reflect changes on that particular Budget entry as well. (Further explained in Example 3 below).
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Note
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Changing the categories of an out Transaction entry with similar categories to that of a Budget entry will reflect changes on the budget’s remaining amount in version 2.0.
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Example Commands:
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update t1 $/20 n/coke c/drinks d/12122019
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update b2 $/300
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update t4 $/30 d/12102019
Contributions to the Developer Guide
Given below are snippets of sections I contributed to the Developer Guide. They showcase my ability to write technical documentation and the technical depth of my contributions to the project. |
Transaction: in
/ out
The Transaction
abstract class allows user to input income and expense statements. Both in
and out
transactions requires the mandatory Amount
, Description
and Date
fields to be appended. There is an optional Category
field which can accept one or more input depending on the user specifications.
The in
transactions will increase the BankAccount
balance amount whilst the out
transactions will reduce the BankAccount
balance amount.
In
Transactions represent the income statements inputted into Palpay.
Out
Transactions represent the expenditure statements inputted into Palpay.
Current Implementation
The sequence diagram below illustrates how PalPay handles the command input in $/200 n/coke d/10102019
. The arguments are parsed into the logic component where the subsequent model objects are created.
InCommand
The in
and out
transaction follows the same logic flow after they are parsed.
The difference between in
and out
transactions is that the handleBalance()
method called in the BankAccount
results in an addAmount
operation for the inTransaction
and a subtractAmount
operation for the OutTransaction
class.
Example
Given that the BankAccount
balance initially starts with 0 dollars.
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in
Transaction of$1000
will increase theBankAccount
balance from $0 to $1000. -
out
Transaction of$250
will subsequently decrease theBankAccount
balance from $1000 to $250. -
The Activity Diagram shown below will provide a visual representation of the two routes a Transaction object can take.
Design Considerations
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To prevent repetitive code implementation, the
Transaction
abstract class is used to facilitate income and expenditure logging.Transaction
is an abstract class which contains the default constructor and commonly used variables.InTransaction
andOutTransaction
extends theTransaction
class as they typically store an amount, date, description, and a set of categories. A code snippet of theTransaction
abstract class is shown below.
public abstract class Transaction {
protected Amount amount;
protected Date date;
protected Description description;
protected final Set<Category> categories = new HashSet<>();
public Transaction(Amount amount, Date date, Description description) {
this.amount = amount;
this.date = date;
this.description = description;
}
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The balance in
BankAccount
and the balance inLedger
are considered two separate identities, both being encompassed under theUserState
class. Therefore user operations that deal withBankAccount
implements theBankAccountOperation
interface, while operations that deal withLedger
implements theLedgerOperation
interface.-
This allows us to achieve polymorphism by overloading methods in
Model
to handle the different operations correctly. -
This reduces code coupling as there are different models to handle different balance amounts.
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A
Transaction
entry can affect aBudget
which has similar categories and is within the same time period. The activity diagram bellow will further clarify this flow.-
Only
Out
Transactions can affectBudget
. -
The activity diagram below shows how and when a
Transaction
object affectsBudget
.
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Update Existing Entry Feature: update
This feature currently allows users to update Transaction
or Budget
entries. The user is unable to perform this feature on Ledger
operations. The rationale for this will be further explained in Aspect 2: Update can not edit Ledger Operations. The user is currently unable to perform this feature on Projection
operations as it will be further implemented in future updates.
Current Implementation
Design Considerations
The update
feature allows one or more fields of a Transaction or Budget to be updated. (e.g. update t1 $/2
and update t1 $/2 d/10102019
will both work as intended).
More often than not, users do not need to change an entire Transaction or Budget entry. This will minimize inputs from users if they do not require every single parameters of a Transaction or Budget to be changed.
Aspect 2: Update can not edit Ledger Operations
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Alternative 1 (current choice): Update Command does not work with
Ledger
operations.-
Pros: Intuitive implementation and execution for the user.
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Cons: Requires excessive user operations.
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The user has to first delete the
Ledger
operation that he/she wishes to change, followed by inputting theLedger
operation with the amended fields back into PalPay.
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Alternative 2: Update Command to also work with
Ledger
operations.-
Pros: Requires only one user command to append or change
Ledger
entries. -
Cons: Results in convoluted implementation and user experience. This will also hinder future permeability of the
Split
feature.-
Ledger
operations such assplit
includes many repeated fields (i.e. multiplePersons
andshares
list). -
Will require several conditional user inputs to differentiate between the various repeated entities that the user wishes to amend.
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Future Enhancements
Update feature for Projections
Currently the update feature has not been implemented for Projection
operations. In future iterations of PalPay, the update feature should work seamlessly with Projection
operations, similar to that of Transaction
and Budget
operations
The activity diagram below will provide a visual representation of the possible user routes using the update
command after this enhancement has been implemented.
update


Jazz: Recommended Listening
The following is a list of my all-time favorite jazz albums. I find these albums engaging to listen to as they present the iconic idosyncracies of the artists who recorded them while simultaneously providing genius performances. Furthermore, many of the albums serve some sort of higher purpose. That purpose takes on different forms, including demonstrations of culture, history, or musical innovation. Other than the fact that Miles Davis is listed first, the albums are presented in no particular order. The music of Miles Davis was my introduction to jazz; he was the first jazz artist I grew to appreciate. A few of these albums seemingly don't fit in the definition of jazz accepted by many listeners. Regardless, I've included them here because they embody important characteristics in jazz, such as breaking down boundaries in their respective genres.
"It's not the notes you play; it's the notes you don't play." -- Miles Davis
"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." -- Dizzy Gillespie
- Kind of Blue (1959), Miles Davis
- Bitches Brew (1970), Miles Davis
- Witches Stew (2017), Lettuce
- Nina Simone in Concert (1964), Nina Simone
- Bata Ketu: A Musical Interplay of Cuba and Brazil (1996), Michael Spiro and Mark Lamson
- We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960), Max Roach
- A Love Supreme (1965), John Coltrane
- Ancestral Recall (2019), Christian Scott
- Drums of Passion (1960), Babatunde Olatunji
- Moanin' (1959), Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- The African Beat (1962), Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble
- Drum Suite (1957), Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- Abbey is Blue (1959), Abbey Lincoln
- Heavy Weather (Bonus Track Version) (1977), Weather Report
- Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You) (2012), Arturo Sandoval
- Sonny Side Up (1959), Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins
- Aziza (2016), Aziza
- Live at the Village Vanguard (2015), Christian McBride Trio
- At the Pershing: But Not for Me (1958), Ahmad Jamal Trio
- My Spanish Heart (1976), Chick Corea
- Head Hunters (1973), Herbie Hancock
- We Like It Here (2014), Snarky Puppy
- Heavy Sounds (1967), Elvin Jones and Richard Davis
- Moon Rappin' (1969), Jack McDuff
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954), Clifford Brown and Max Roach
If you don't usually listen to Jazz but want to start listening, I recommend checking out Kind of Blue, Moanin', Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You), Live at the Village Vanguard, and At the Pershing: But Not for Me to get started. Of these five albums, the first two and last albums give some background context for a genre in the jazz realm known as Bebop. Live at the Village Vanguard extends the genre by modernizing the sounds but still shares many similarities with these albums. The music on Dear Diz is a different genre known as big band jazz (the band consists of roughly 10 to 20 band members, as opposed to three or four members in a bebop group). Arturo Sandoval is a Latin jazz trumpeter; this album is his expression of gratitude toward his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, who himself is a central bebop figure.
If you already decided that you don't like jazz but have read this far, chances are that you have some curiosity about it. I recommend listening to We Like It Here. This album fuses the sounds of jazz, rock, and hip-hop into a genre known as fusion. While it doesn't sound like "traditional" Jazz, it still embodies many of jazz's basic concepts.


To set the date range of backtests, call the SetStartDate
and SetEndDate
methods. The dates you provide are based in the algorithm time zone. By default, the end date is yesterday, one millisecond before midnight. In live trading, LEAN ignores the start and end dates.
SetStartDate(2013, 1, 5); // Set start date to January 5, 2013 SetEndDate(2015, 1, 5); // Set end date to January 5, 2015 SetEndDate(DateTime.Now.Date.AddDays(-7)); // Set end date to last week
self.SetStartDate(2013, 1, 5) # Set start date to January 5, 2013 self.SetEndDate(2015, 1, 5) # Set end date to January 5, 2015 self.SetEndDate(datetime.now() - timedelta(7)) # Set end date to last week


Umán, Yucatán
Photo of the main church in Umán, Yucatán City. 2021
Brief history about Umán
There are no exact data on the foundation of Umán. In pre-Hispanic times it was part of the Ah Canul
chieftain .
In 1825 Umán became part of the Camino Real Bajo Party, with its head in Hunucmá and in 1881 the
population
acquired the
category of town, forming part of the so-called Hunucmá party .
Food recomendations
Panuchos
They are made with corn masa (dough), cooked on a dry, hot cast iron skillet until slightly puffy,
then a slit is made in the tortilla and it is stuffed with refried beans, sealed, then lightly
fried.
It is then topped with tomatos, lettuce, a slice of cucumber, ground beef, chicken or turkey,
avocado and pickled
onions.
Ingredients
- Refried black beans
- 1 kg of corn dough
- 100g flour
- Oil or butter
- 1 head of lettuce
- Pickled purple onion
- Tomatoes
- Avocado
- Shredded roast turkey or chicken
Salbutes
They are similar to panuchos but without the refried beans inside the tortilla.
They are also fried and topped with the same ingredients though.
There are many variations of the toppings in salbutes, it can be pork (“Cochinita”, or “Castacan”),
beef (“salpicón”),
chicken, turkey, fish, shrimp, octopus, scrambled egg, or other stews or “guisados” such as relleno
negro, picadillo,
carne en salsa verde, even scrambled eggs or simply black beans.
Ingredients
- 1 kg of corn dough
- 100g flour
- Oil or butter
- 1 head of lettuce
- Pickled purple onion
- Tomatoes
- Avocado
- Shredded roast turkey or chicken
If you want to know more information about this city visit: http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM31yucatan/municipios/31101a.html


The Edit Grid tool allows you to view the data that’s stored in a table or view, and to edit the content if technically possible.
The header of the grid will show the name of each column, together with the data type. A column that’s part of the primary key will additionally be marked with [PK].
Important: In order to edit the data, each row in the table must be uniquely identifiable. This can be done using the OID, or a primary key. If none of them exist, the table is read only. Note that views can’t be edited and are read only by design; updatable views (using rules) are not supported at this time.
To change the value of a field, you select that field and enter the new text. The Store toolbar button allows the data to be written back to the server. The row will be written automatically, if you select a different row.
To enter a new row into the table, you enter the data into the last row that has a row number marked with an asterisk. As soon as you store the data, the row will get a row number, and a fresh empty asterisk line is created.
If an SQL NULL is to be written to the table, simply leave the field empty. If you store a new row, this will let the server fill in the default value for that column. If you store a change to an existing row, the value NULL will explicitly be written.
To enter a newline into a field, press Ctrl-Enter.
If you want pgAdmin III to write an empty string to the table, you enter the special string ‘’ (two single quotes) in the field. If you want to write a string containing solely two single quotes to the table, you need to escape these quotes, by typing ‘’
To delete a row, press the Delete toolbar button.
The Refresh toolbar button allows to reread the contents of the table, refreshing the display.
You can select one or more rows, and copy them with Ctrl-C or the Copy toolbar button to the clipboard.
The Sort/Filter toolbar button will open the View Data Options dialog.
The context menu can also be used to quick-sort or quick-filter the data set. When a cell in the grid is right-clicked, the following options allow the user to selectively view the data:
Note: If a column is already selected for sorting, it’s position in the sort list will remain the same, only the direction will be changed.
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This week’s top stories: trick enables RCS for all, Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL reviewed, more
by Kyle BradshawIn this week’s top stories: a simple trick can enable RCS on any Android phone, our reviews of the Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL arrive, Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Wear 3300 for Wear OS, and more.
The world of messaging on Android has been set ablaze over the past week, as a group of redditors discovered a trick that can enable RCS, the tech underpinning of Google’s “Chat” initiative, on any Android phone, on any carrier. Using this Google Messages app trick, you can enable RCS on your phone in a matter of minutes, without root.
It’s more than likely that Google will shut down this Android trick to enable RCS in Messages given that carrier partners are getting sidestepped. That said, it provides a taste of what the future of Chat messaging looks like in an ideal world. New features include typing indicators with read receipts, high-resolution photos, sending over Wi-Fi and mobile data, larger group conversations, and business messaging.
We’re not sure how long this RCS trick will be possible in Google Messages, however. Midway through the week, without warning, many devices (OnePlus phones especially) had their RCS connection fail entirely, but this issue quickly resolved itself.
The Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL officially hit store shelves and pre-orderers doorsteps last week, but with the various complaints early reviewers had for the phones, many remained skeptical. Our Ben Schoon and Damien Wilde each spent a great deal of time getting to know the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, respectively, and published their reviews this week.
Google is four years into making its own self-branded Android smartphones and, for the most part, they’re all great devices with one or two glaring flaws. Unfortunately, even after four years, Google’s Pixel 4 is another device with that same problem, but at the end of the day, it’s also the best experience you can get on an Android smartphone – for a limited time only.
Halloween was this week, and the latest version of Google Photos on Android got into the spirit by adding a fun little Easter Egg that appears when you search for the word “Halloween.”
This Halloween Easter Egg takes advantage of Google Photos’ search capabilities on mobile. Entering that query sees a pumpkin roll in from the left side of your screen. Stopping at the center, it winks before lighting up and rolling away. The treat also doubles as a reminder that you can naturally browse your photo library.
In exciting Wear OS news, Qualcomm appears to be developing a wearable variant of their Snapdragon 429 processor from 2018, as the “Snapdragon Wear 3300.” The new SoC would bring the Snapdragon Wear hardware line five years forward, and gives us hope for Wear OS’s future.
The current Snapdragon Wear 3100 is still based on the same platform as the Snapdragon Wear 2100. That 2016 chipset was based on the Snapdragon 400 processor designed for mobile phones which was actively used in 2013. Qualcomm clearly refuses to try using something brand new in its wearable processors, but a 5-year jump would be a welcome upgrade.
Over a month ago, it was revealed that Fitbit was up for sale, and our Abner Li noted that such a sale created a fantastic opportunity for Google. Midway through the week, it was uncovered that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had made an offer for Fitbit. Finally, on Friday, the deal was finalized, with Google purchasing Fitbit for $2.1 billion.
Addressing privacy concerns, Osterloh says that, with wearables, Google will “be transparent” about the data they collect and why that data is collected. Google will not sell personal data to anyone and Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads either. Fitbit users will also be given the choice to review, move, or delete their data.
Our Stephen Hall and Abner Li spent a great deal of time diving into the ins and outs of the Fitbit deal and what it means for Wear OS on this week’s Alphabet Scoop.
The rest of this week’s top stories follow:
Android |
- [Update: Wider rollout] EMUI 10 beta road map confirms update heading to over 30 models from November
- Motorola Razr folding phone allegedly appears in the wild following render leaks
- [Update: US rollout begins] November 2019 security patch already rolling for the Samsung Galaxy S10
- [Update: Rolling out now] Android 10-based MIUI 11 road map revealed w/ Poco F1 update date
- [Update: Displays] Here’s the first official-looking image of Motorola’s folding Razr phone
- More Motorola Razr images leak w/ specs: Snapdragon 710, 2,730 mAh battery, more
Android TV |
- Nvidia Shield TV (2019) Review: Smaller, cheaper, still the best streaming device
- Where to buy Nvidia Shield TV (2019) and Shield TV Pro, and which is right for you
- Nvidia Shield TV Pro costs $199 w/ Android TV, AI upscaling, Tegra X1+, more
- [Update: Fix rolling out] Android TV screensaver bug pushes ‘Chromecast built-in’ off-screen
- Apple TV app arrives on Android TV by way of some Sony models
Apps & Updates |
- [Update: Rolled out] New Google Home app for Android, iOS adds centralized ‘Feed’
- Google testing drastically redesigned Assistant Updates feed
- OnePlus Launcher update adds step counter, ability to disable app drawer
- YouTube Music rolling out desktop PWA with keyboard shortcuts
- Google.com rolling out refreshed design for account switcher on web
Google Chrome |
- [Update: Flags] Google is developing a ‘heavy ad’ blocker for Chrome [Gallery]
- Google addresses ‘misconceptions’ about Chrome’s encrypted DNS push
Google Nest |
- Google Home, Home Mini now support stereo speaker pairing
- Google Home 2.15 preps Nest Wifi support, Google Wifi migration, Stadia settings [APK Insight]
Google Pixel |
- Google Pixel 3 vs Pixel 4 comparison: Should you upgrade?
- ‘Googler-only’ November OTA rolls out to some Pixel 3 devices
- Here are 4K desktop versions of some of Google’s wallpapers from Pixel phones
- The Google Recorder will head to older Pixel devices in future software update
- How to use the Astrophotography mode on the Pixel 4 [Video]
- Pixel 4’s astrophotography unofficially ported to original Google Pixel, Pixel 2
Google Stadia |
- Google reaching out to Stadia pre-orderers for research study
- Family Link preps for Google Stadia, revealing new details [APK Insight]
- Destiny 2 adds Stadia login option, hints at ‘Stadia Player Portal’
- Google talks native Stadia games, minimizing latency, and roadmap in deep dive [Video]
Wear OS |
- Xiaomi teases upcoming Wear OS smartwatch for November w/ Apple Watch design
- Xiaomi Mi Watch shows off Snapdragon Wear 3100, UI for China in latest teasers
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF EARTH PRESSURES ON RETAINING STRUCTURES by Allen Lee Sehn
Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in
Civil Engineering
APPROVED: At Mae
J. Michael Duncan
A
G. Wayne Clough
Robert D. Krebs Thomas L. Brandon
August, 1990
Blacksburg, Virginia


A section can be added with <tc:section/>
tag.
A section can have a title. It is added with the label
attribute.
This text is the content of a section.
A section can contain one or more sections. In this example, the sections are cascaded to level six.
Level two. The section "Cascading" is level one.
Level three.
Level four.
Level five.
Level six.
Sections can have an image, a Bootstrap Icon or FontAwesome icon (todo: included by your application) in the header.
You can manually set a level for a section header. For the following section the level is set to '5'.


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Pagination, similar to Breadcrumbs, are a user-interfacer method of providing contextual pathing to a user. Pagination can be numbered as a method of breaking up articles or content into discrete sections, or it can be "Previous" or "Next" for a single continuous article broken into multiple pages. Using the wrong signals in pagination can lead to confusion for the user.


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Reasons Swift Should Be Your iOS Language
Intro:
Introduced with iOS 8 in June 2014 at WWDC, Apple’s developer conference, Swift is Apple’s brand new language for creating apps. Now in its second iteration, and made Open Source in December 2015, Swift is not just designed to be a simpler language, helping apps run faster and be more secure, but could also be one of the primary coding languages across other platforms in the future.
As a language, Swift enables developers to build their apps alongside interactive Playgrounds, helping them to see the results of the lines of code they write side-by-side. With computer programming skills being seen as more important than ever, part of the appeal of Swift is that it’s a comparatively easy language to learn and code in. This was by design.
As a language, work on Swift began in the summer of 2010 by an Apple programmer called Chris Lattner. Chris spent a year and a half working on the language, with the eventual collaboration of many other programmers at Apple.
This post outline the reasons why yiu should choose swift as iOS language.
1. It’s faster
Where Swift currently falls behind Objective-C is its compiler. If we look at writing a simple JSON parser in Swift and the equivalent parser in Obj-C, the following would likely be true:
• The Swift parser would contain fewer lines of code than the Obj- C parser
• The Obj-C parse would compile considerably quicker than the Swift parser
• Once compiled, the Swift parser would execute quicker than the Obj-C parser
Currently, the Swift compiler within Xcode takes longer. This isn’t linked to the number of lines of code, but the use of functional programming paradigms, which are gaining popularity in Swift. Once compiled however, Swift apps will execute faster than Objective-C, thanks to the compiler optimisations that can be made with Swift.
Swift also uses roughly half the amount of files to work with, compared to Objective-C. With Objective-C, you need a header file (.h) and an implementation file (.m), with Swift however, you just need a single .swift file. This makes it less confusing for developers that aren’t accustomed to working with header and implementation files.
2. It’s safer
As Apple says on its developer site1 : ‘Swift eliminates entire classes of unsafe code. Variables are always initialized before use, arrays and integers are checked for overflow, and memory is managed automatically. Syntax is tuned to make it easy to define your intent — for example, simple three- character keywords define a variable ( var ) or constant ( let ).’ This, in addition to removing null pointers, one of the common programming errors and routes of bugs, means apps are less likely to crash, helping to improve the user experience. “Swift uses variables to store and refer to values by an identifying name. Swift also makes extensive use of variables whose values cannot be changed. These are known as constants, and are much more powerful than constants in C. Constants are used throughout Swift to make code safer and clearer in intent when ￼you work with values that do not need to change.” Excerpt From: 2 Apple Inc. “The Swift Programming Language (Swift 2.1).” iBooks.
3. It’s easier to learn
In a discussion with Daring Fireball host and Apple commentator, John Gruber and Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig said: ‘Swift is, we think, the primary programming language that developers should be taught programming in, actually. I mean, if you’re going to learn computer science, Swift is a fantastic learning language.’
Apple has been open with the fact that Swift was designed to be easier for people to learn, opening up coding to a wider group of skill sets. For someone with programming experience, even the complex coding within Swift is relatively easy to learn. For most people though, learning Swift is just a matter of learning its features and syntax, then practicing them. Thankfully, the official Swift documentation is easy to follow, making it easy to understand the language and how to test drive the code.
4. Playgrounds let you see the impact of your code in real-time
When developing apps using Apple’s Xcode and Swift, there’s the option of using Playgrounds, a secondary window that enables developers to test the code they’ve written and display results in real time. This is helpful for newbies learning the language and seasoned developers testing an advanced algorithm for their current project.
5. It is better at memory management
Building great apps is much harder than people may think. Creating an app is one thing, but creating one that doesn’t eat battery or use up memory, requires more expertise. Memory management issues can be harder to pin point as there won’t always be obvious bugs. Instead, memory management issues tend to manifest themselves through obscure bugs like repeat notifications or random crashes. First introduced in 2010 with Xcode 4.2, with iOS 4.0, Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is able to track and manage an app’s memory usage. ARC has been a core part of memory management for iOS and OS X projects, since iOS 5.0. It is one of the features that has been carried over from Objective-C to Swift. In most cases, this means that memory management “just works” in Swift. There is still some work to be done here, however. Currently, the Clang static analyser, which flags up potential memory leaks, dead stores, unused variables, etc. isn’t compatible with Swift. As a tool which is built into Xcode, Clang is a useful tool for spotting potential memory issues at compile time. Whilst “just works” with Swift is often true, there are times when additional optimisations are required, which is precisely where Clang would help.
6. Now that Swift is Open Source
Being Open Source opens up Swift to the potential that it can be used across a number of different platforms and for backend infrastructure. Open Sourcing Swift means that Apple will be able to get feedback from the community to make improvements on a regular, ongoing basis. By going Open Source independent developers, development teams and academics, across the world, can all contribute to the success of the language. Various frameworks, libraries and web servers/web components can be developed by this community, all at no cost to Apple. These projects can then be used by other developers to create an unlimited number of products, making Swift more important outside of the Apple developer community.
7. It’s the top language on GitHub
A week after officially going Open Source in December 2015, Swift jumped to the top of the most popular languages on GitHub. GitHub is the go-to source for open source language development, so the fact that Swift quickly jumped to the top, and has stayed there since, is a good indication of its popularity. As Swift matures over the next few years, we can expect to see it being used by an ever increasing array of platforms. Whilst this is positive, it doesn’t mean that large companies will change their current language to Swift. Swift is the newest kid on the block, so it will take time to get adoption by larger companies outside of the development of new iOS apps.
8. It’s interoperable with Objective-C
Objective-C and C were the languages that native iOS apps were largely written in, prior to the introduction of Swift. Swift is interoperable with both, meaning developers can build on their existing apps, using Swift. This means that developers don’t have to do a full re-write. One of the most important aspects of interoperability is that it enables developers to work with Objective-C APIs when writing Swift code. This means that APIs don’t need to be rewritten to work with Swift and that apps will continue working. As it is interoperable, developers are able to slowly replace older code in apps, with Swift code, without breaking the app (though this is possible, if the coding isn’t done properly). Migration provides an opportunity to revisit an existing Objective-C app and improve its architecture, logic and performance by replacing pieces of it in Swift.
9. Swift will be server side language
Though Swift is currently just for iOS and OS X, there is a huge appetite within the developer community to use it for servers and backend development. According to Federighi4, “IBM, for instance, jumped all over Swift for building their mobile apps, and almost immediately they were coming back to us with, “We really want to use this on the server. How can we get this on the server?” Of course, it’s not just IBM, as Federighi explained to John Gruber, Apple’s iCloud team is already keen to use it for iCloud, “And our own iCloud team has been completely champing at the bit to be able to apply it in many, many of the things they do. So, I think it’s going to be one of the first break-out uses of Swift. And of course these days there are so many mobile applications that are part mobile app, part server code. And in a lot of cases, at the very least you want to share your knowledge, but very often you want to share parts of code, parts of your model layer, some of your utility libraries, and having Swift enabling you to do that is going to be huge for a lot of our community.”
Whether Swift’s use on the server takes off or not depends on what the development community does with the language. Already, developers are busy making cool projects, such as:
• Swifter: a small HTTP server engine, written in Swift
• SwiftCGI: a modular Microframework that encourages a functional approach to developing web apps in Swift.
• Perfect : an enterprise-grade web server and web toolkit for the Swift programming language.
We can also expect to see other current Objective-C projects being converted to Swift, such as CocoaHTTPServer and HTTPKit in the near future.
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| Caution | |
|---|---|
This is not an official Boost library, it is a library under construction, the code is fully functional and robust, but interfaces, library structure, and function names may be changed without notice. |
#include <boost/math/special_functions/bessel_iv.hpp> namespace boost { namespace math { template <typename T> inline T bessel_iv(T v, T x) inline float cyl_bessel_if(float nu, float x) inline double cyl_bessel_i(double nu, double x) inline long double cyl_bessel_il(long double nu, long double x) }} // namespaces
#include <boost/math/special_functions/bessel_kv.hpp> namespace boost { namespace math { template <typename T> inline T bessel_kv(T v, T x) inline float cyl_bessel_kf(float nu, float x) inline double cyl_bessel_k(double nu, double x) inline long double cyl_bessel_kl(long double nu, long double x) }} // namespaces
#include <boost/math/special_functions/bessel_ik.hpp> namespace boost { namespace math { template <typename T> int bessel_ik(T v, T x, T* I, T* K) }} // namespaces
Modified Bessel functions of fractional order (i.e. order νis any real number) are much harder to compute than modified Bessel functions of integer order. Though recurrence relations are the same, the difficulty lies in the initial values.
The function domains are Iν(x): (0, ∞
),
Kν(x): (0, ∞
).
To get the initial values, we first normalize ν to [0,
∞
) with the help of reflection formulas.
Let μ = ν -
[ν + 1/2] where [x] is the floor
function, then μ is the fractional part of ν
such that |μ| <= 1/2 (we need this for convergence
later). The idea is to calculate Kμ(x), Kμ+1(x)
and use them to obtain Iν(x), Kν(x).
The algorithm is proposed by Temme [18], which needs two continued fractions as well as the Wronskian.
The continued fractions are computed using the modified Lentz's method [13]. Their convergence rates depend on x, therefore we need different strategies for large x and small x.
x > v, CF1 needs O(x) iterations to converge, CF2 converges rapidly
x <= v, CF1 converges rapidly, CF2 fails to converge
when x ->
0
When x is large (x > 2), both continued fractions converge (CF1 may be slow for really large x). Kμ, Kμ+1 can be calculated by
where
S is also a series that is summed along with CF2, see [19].
When x is small (x <= 2), CF2 convergence may fail (but CF1 works very well). The solution here is Temme's series:
where
fk and hk are also computed by recursions (involving gamma functions), but the formulas are a little complicated, readers are refered to [18]. Note Temme's series converge only for |μ| <= 1/2.
Kν(x) is then calculated from the forward recurrence, so is Kν+1(x). With these two values and fν, Wronskian yields Iν(x) directly without backward recurrence.
| Note | |
|---|---|
Analogous to |
The test driver calculates relative errors and the following table lists some typical values.
| Function | float | double | long double |
|---|---|---|---|
bessel_iv(x) |
~ 10-8 , 10-7 | ~ 10-16 , 10-15 | ~ 10-18 , 10-17 |
bessel_kv(x) |
~ 10-8 , 10-7 | ~ 10-16 , 10-15 | ~ 10-18 , 10-17 |
The accuracy may be sensitive to data type precision. For example, the relative
errors of I-10.0003(0.01) and K-5.5(100)
are about 10-3 and 10-1 when float
is used. But they reduce to 10-12 and 10-16 for double
,
and 10-16 and 10-17 for long double
.
| Copyright © 2006 Xiaogang Zhang |


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OK, so after my foraging into WatiN, I really wanted to push things a bit further and begin to look at other ways of automating UI testing. This is when I was pointed in the direction of Cucumber.
Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format. [Thanks to cukes.info for the blurb :)]
To install Cucumber i have had a nightmare following many many different guides. the way i installed it works as follows:
- Download the one click ruby installer from here [I installed the 1.91 version]
- install Ruby [the path I installed to was c:/ruby19] as this does not come with the new installer
- Download the Ruby Development kit from here
- Extract the location of the Ruby development kit to the ruby install path [for me c:/ruby19]
- The last change i had to make was to update the Ruby development kit to show the path for my ruby installation
- C:\Ruby19\devkit\msys\1.0.11\etc\fstab
- This just required changing c:\ruby to c:\ruby19 in the paths
- Start > All Programs > Ruby 1.9.1-p243 > Start Ruby With Console to open the command line tool
- We need to add gemcutter.org to our list of Ruby Gem sources
- Do this by typing
- gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org/
- Install Cuke4Nuke gem
- Do this by typing
- gem install cuke4nuke
- Install the Win32Console gem to get colour reports in the windows console window
- Do this by typing
- gem install win32console
- Save a copy of WAC to work out console colour problems. Download it here
- I saved this to an easy path - c:/wac.exe
To check all is working, open a command line and type
Cuke4Nuke
If all is working well then you will see a list of help commands
My product didn't install correctly at this point due to location of ruby files. So i had to make a few changes as detailed. Please note that this is my installation paths and the paths should be changed to your versions:
- My console ANSI file was not reporting the correct encoding
- C:\Ruby19\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\win32console-1.2.0-x86-mingw32\lib\Win32\Console\ANSI.rb
- I added the following to the first line of this file
- The change detailed above then reports an error in a ruby18.dll
- removing this files solves this error
- C:\Ruby19\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\win32console-1.2.0-x86-mingw32\lib\Win32\console.so
Hopefully when you run a command line and type Cuke4Nuke the help options will show
Next post will be a sample application that can be run via Cuke4Nuke


Software Downloads
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polevault package¶
Submodules¶
polevault.config module¶
Helper functions to deal with configuration files
-
class
polevault.config.
OrderedDictYAMLLoader
(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶ Bases:
yaml.loader.Loader
A YAML loader that loads mappings into ordered dictionaries.
-
polevault.config.
load_config_ini
(full_path, default=True)[source]¶ Load configuration file with the option of ignoring the DEFAULT section.
Parameters: - full_path (str) – File path to the configuration file.
- default (bool, optional) – Whether to allow the python ConfigParser to expand the contents of the DEFAULT section into the other sections. (the default is True, which expands copies all the attributes inside the DEFAULT section into the other sections inside which they don’t exist already.)
Returns: config – The configuration dictionary resulting from parsing the configuration file. It is a collections.OrderedDict dictionary so that the order of the sections and attributes is preserved in the resulting dictionary.
Return type: collections.OrderedDict
-
polevault.config.
merge_default
(config)[source]¶ Merge the values of the DEFAULT item into the other items.
Merge a dictionary that has an item with a “DEFAULT” key, if that item is itself a dictionary, then merge that item’s subitems with all the other items in the dictionary that are also themselves dictionaries.
The purpose is to mimic the behaviour of the [DEFAULT] sections of .ini or .conf files when using .json or .yaml files, or when using OrderedDict or dict data structures.
Parameters: config (dict or OrderedDict) – The dictionary that is to have its “DEFAULT” key merged with the other keys. Returns: The merged version of the dictionary as an OrderedDict, or the original config (be it a dict or an OrderedDict) if it had no “DEFAULT” key to begin with, or it was not a dict or an OrderedDict. Return type: OrderedDict or dict
polevault.encryption module¶
Abstract away the usage of encryption libraries.


What is the ECharts Theme Online Build Tool?
"Theme" is an abstract style of ECharts charts, used to unify the styles of multiple charts. Using Online Build Tool, you can intuitively generate the theme Config file and use customized theme styles in ECharts.
You can still use setOption
to override or set the theme style.
ECharts officially provides theme: default
、infographic
、shine
、roma
、macarons
、vintage
, etc.. Available for download here.
Import & Export
In order to facilitate secondary modification, our theme building tool supports importing and exporting Config items. The exported JSON file can be used only in this tool, but not in ECharts directly.


Canvas
ProgressBarGenerator v0.2.0
Initial image design by Tenta for HeatPhoenix.
Generator script and styles by FlyingKatsu.
Check GitHub for a list of known issues
Controls and Settings
Canvas Controls
Download canvas as image, clear/restore data, adjust canvas size and color.
Section Data
A section has a title and a set of goals.
A goal has a name, progress value, goal value, and optional image.
Styling
Format the font, color, and shape for each section.
Positioning
Adjust the position and spacing of elements for each section.


This display is adapted from Figure 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine article, Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy. The chart was originally created in response to reader correspondence, and was later updated to include follow up data in conjunction with a second article, Effect of Avoidance on Peanut Allergy after Early Peanut Consumption.
This interactive version allows the user to select from 10 outcomes on the y-axis. Selections for sex, ethnicity, study population, skin prick test stratum, and peanut specific IgE at 60 and 72 months of age can be interactively chosen to filter the data and display subgroups of interest. Figure options (e.g. summary lines, box and violin plots) can be selected under the Overlays heading to alter the properties of the figure. Per Protocol population is shown by default. The Intent to Treat population includes all randomized partcipants and can be shown by selecting both Per Protocol and non-Per Protocol participants.
This page was created for the Immune Tolerance Network by the Rho Center for Applied Data Visualization using d3.js (1,2) and webcharts.js.
For more information about the LEAP study and to access to the full set of figures with underlying data and analysis code, please log into ITN TrialShare. Creating a TrialShare account is free and simple. Click here to get started. The graphic shown here was updated using webcharts version 1.4.0; the original chart was created using v0.1.3 and can be found on Trialshare.


The creature will teach the villagers valuable skills to survive scientific mishaps like the reanimation of angry creatures by "mad" scientists. Villagers not so great.... well simply awful at the following skills. Franc will ensure that villagers can do the following:
When evading villagers Franc employ several effective techniques that I will teach the villagers for both survival and tracking purposes. The tenants of these techiniques are as follows:
Franc can teach villagers how to resist their opposition i.e. (a monster). You will learn to employ some basic techniques to protect yourself and your fellow villager. the village code of conduct should be as listed below
Once Franc has you it is likely that you will be imediatly and brutally "eliminated". Other Creatures may think it interesting to hold you captive. In that ridiculously unlikely sceniario you the villager should conisder the following logic


Hakim Ziyech blasts unbelievable free-kick goal vs Chelsea (Video)
by TSD StaffChelsea had high hopes heading into its Champions League match against Ajax on Tuesday, given that the game was at Stamford Bridge, and the Blues were in good form, playing well.
But the young stars of Ajax can never be counted out, as they proved last year during their miraculous run up to the final.
It’s unlikely that Chelsea overlooked its opponent, but they sure weren’t prepared, as Ajax jumped out to a 4-1 lead at one point. The third goal was absolutely ridiculous, and a thing of beauty.
Watch Hakim Ziyech blast a free kick from a tough angle, with the ball ricocheting off the post, then hitting Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga and finding the back of the net.
Sick.


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Before Change
class SumLazyTensor(LazyTensor):
def __init__(self, *lazy_tensors, **kwargs):
lazy_tensors = list(lazy_tensors)
for i, lazy_tensor in enumerate(lazy_tensors):
try:
lazy_tensors[i] = lazify(lazy_tensor)
except TypeError:
After Change
class SumLazyTensor(LazyTensor):
def __init__(self, *lazy_tensors, **kwargs):
try:
lazy_tensors = tuple(lazify(lt) for lt in lazy_tensors)
except TypeError:
raise TypeError("All arguments of a SumLazyTensor should be LazyTensors or Tensors")
batch_shape = _mul_broadcast_shape(*[lt.shape for lt in lazy_tensors])
lazy_tensors = tuple(lt.expand(batch_shape) for lt in lazy_tensors)
super(SumLazyTensor, self).__init__(*lazy_tensors, **kwargs)
self.lazy_tensors = lazy_tensors


Notebook for
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Citation (APA): Rowling, J.K. (2018). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Chapter 2 - In Memoriam
Highlight (yellow) - Location 367
Albus Dumbledore was never proud or vain; he could find something to value in anyone, however apparently insignificant or wretched,
Chapter 5 - Fallen Warrior
Highlight (yellow) - Location 1013
‘Harry, the time for Disarming is past!  At least Stun if you aren’t prepared to kill!’
Highlight (blue) - Location 1014
‘We were hundreds of feet up! Stan’s not himself, and if I Stunned him and he’d fallen he’d have died the same as if I’d used Avada Kedavra! Expelliarmus saved me from Voldemort two years ago,’
Highlight (yellow) - Location 1021
Expelliarmus is a useful spell, Harry, but the Death Eaters seem to think it is your signature move, and I urge you not to let it become so!’Lupin was making Harry feel idiotic, and yet there was still a grain of defiance inside him. ‘I won’t blast people out of my way just because they’re there,’said Harry. ‘That’s Voldemort’s job.’
Highlight (yellow) - Location 1160
‘No, I think you’re like James,’ said Lupin, ‘who would have regarded it as the height of dishonour to mistrust his friends.’ Harry knew what Lupin was getting at: that his father had been betrayed by his friend, Peter Pettigrew.
Chapter 24 - The Wandmaker
Highlight (yellow) - Location 6505
His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. He had learned control at last, learned to shut his mind to Voldemort, the very thing Dumbledore had wanted him to learn from Snape. Just as Voldemort had not been able to possess Harry while Harry was consumed with grief for Sirius, so his thoughts could not penetrate Harry now, while he mourned Dobby. Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out … though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love …
Chapter 33 - The Prince's Tale
Highlight (yellow) - Location 9212
‘No,’ said Snape, his black eyes on Fleur and Roger’s retreating figures. ‘I am not such a coward.’‘No,’ agreed Dumbledore. ‘You are a braver man by far than Igor Karkaroff.
Highlight (pink) - Location 9316
‘I have spied for you, and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe.  ‘Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?’‘For him?’ shouted Snape. ‘Expecto patronum!’ From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe: she landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office and soared out of the window.  ‘After all this time?’‘Always,’ said Snape.
Chapter 35 - King's Cross
Highlight (yellow) - Location 9603
That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children’s tales, of love, loyalty and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.
Highlight (blue) - Location 9717
It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
Highlight (pink) - Location 9781
‘Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.
Highlight (pink) - Location 9788
‘Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?’
Chapter 36 -The Flaw in the Plan
Highlight (yellow) - Location 10010
‘Severus Snape wasn’t yours,’ said Harry. ‘Snape was Dumbledore’s, Dumbledore’s from the moment you started hunting down my mother. And you never realised it, because of the thing you can’t understand. You never saw Snape cast a Patronus, did you, Riddle?’ Voldemort did not answer. They continued to circle each other like wolves about to tear each other apart. ‘Snape’s Patronus was a doe,’ said Harry, ‘the same as my mother’s, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children. You should have realised,’ he said, as he saw Voldemort’s nostrils flare, ‘he asked you to spare her life, didn’t he?’‘He desired her, that was all,’ sneered Voldemort, ‘but when she had gone, he agreed that there were other women, and of purer blood, worthier of him –’


Given a package with a weight limit limit
and a list weights
of item weights, implement a function get_indices_of_item_weights
that finds two items whose sum of weights equals the weight limit limit
. Your function will return an instance of an Answer
tuple that has the following form:
(zero, one)
where each element represents the item weights of the two packages. The higher valued index should be placed in the zeroth
index and the smaller index should be placed in the first
index. If such a pair doesn’t exist for the given inputs, your function should return None
.
Your solution should run in linear time.
Example:
input: weights = [ 4, 6, 10, 15, 16 ], length = 5, limit = 21
output: [ 3, 1 ] # since these are the indices of weights 15 and 6 whose sum equals 21
A brute-force solution would involve two nested loops, yielding a quadratic-runtime solution. How can we use a hash table in order to implement a solution with a better runtime?
Think about what we can store in the hash table in order to help us to solve this problem more efficiently.
What if we store each weight in the input list as keys? What would be a useful thing to store as the value for each key?
If we store each weight’s list index as its value, we can then check to see if the hash table contains an entry for limit - weight
. If it does, then we’ve found the two items whose weights sum up to the limit
!


The debate between the right to bear arms and whether the government has the right to limit and restrict the usage of firearms hit a boiling point in the past decade. With the rise of mass shootings around the U.S., many Americans are searching for solutions to gun violence while many others, gun owners in particular, are fighting to protect their second amendment rights.
Ohioans felt the painful sting of mass shootings more than once this decade. While these tragedies may be the most visible in the news and everyday life, far more lives are lost through the use of a gun by suicide or homicide every year.
At the state and local levels of Ohio’s government, steps are being taken to respond to mass shootings either with gun control proposals or vocal opposition to any such legislation.
By the numbers
Crime often gets boiled down to a statistic, but the victims of firearm related deaths are just like the victims of any other crime or tragedy. Each death or injury is a person with a story or has a family who is in mourning.
It is extremely difficult to determine the number of firearms in the state because Ohio, like most, doesn't require gun owners to register their firearms. In fact, only four states and the District of Columbia mandate registration of some or all firearms.
According to a study done by CBS news, Ohio ties for 23rd with Oregon among the most heavily armed states — there are 11.4 guns for every 1,000 Ohio residents. That's 131,990 registered firearms among 11,570,808 people.
CBS News was able to accomplish this study by combining data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, along with data from the 2013 U.S. Census.
Between 2009 and 2018, about 13,000 Ohioans lost their lives by suicide, homicide or accident while using a firearm, according to a study done by the Ohio Alliance for Innovation and Public Health, or the OAIPH.
The study points out that counties containing Ohio’s largest cities and counties in southern and eastern Ohio see the largest rates of firearm deaths per 100,000 residents. Rates of homicides were generally higher in counties with big cities while rates of suicides were higher in Southeastern Ohio.
Adams County had the highest overall rate in the region and in the state with 20.23 firearm deaths per 100,000 residents while Athens had one of the lowest with 8.18. This study happened before two of the more recent mass shootings in Dayton and Cincinnati.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, or GVA, a mass shooting is when four or more people are shot or killed, not including the perpetrator. GVA, which is a non-profit that catalogs every incident of gun violence in the United States, said Ohio had 64 mass shootings with a total of 77 people killed and 257 injured between 2014 and 2018.
Toby Hoover, the founder and former director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence and a victim of gun violence, said she has been waiting a long time for gun violence to be addressed. She said 2020 may finally be the year.
“You go through a lot of years and a lot of elections, and nobody ever mentions (gun violence), but we’ve finally reached a point where this is a top issue,” Hoover said.
"Do Something"
“Do Something” was the infamous chant of an angry crowd at a vigil in Dayton in response to a speech given by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
Within days of the mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon District, which killed 10 people, including the shooter, the chant became a rallying cry, as there was an increase in activism both in Dayton and around Ohio, Nan Whaley, Dayton’s mayor, said.
Since then, Gov. DeWine has helped to draft STRONG Ohio, a Senate bill aimed at curbing gun violence through moderate proposals. The bill is sponsored by Senator Matt Dolan, R-Chagrin Falls.
Dan Tierney, DeWine’s press secretary, said the goal of this bill is to create a set of proposals that are unique to Ohio and build upon existing systems, such as Ohio’s pink slip laws and background check system.
Tierney said the bill is hoping to address firearm sales that happen through private retailers, which he says make up about 20% of sales compared to the other 80%, which are through federal dealers.
This proposal does not make it mandatory for all private gun sales to go through a background check, what is often referred to as “universal background checks.” Instead, it offers a route for private retailers to request a background check from their customers while also providing legal protections to these sellers if their customer ends up committing a crime.
Advocates of stricter gun control laws, alongside gun owners, have been skeptical of STRONG Ohio, Whaley said.
“It's not as far as I’d like to go,” Whaley said. “I think the real measure would be having universal background checks and a stronger red flag law, but I know it is a step in the right direction.”
Whaley has been working as a partner with DeWine on the plan since the Dayton mass shooting. While she supports STRONG Ohio and believes it is a good first step, the mayor also is supporting a ballot-proposed ballot initiative for 2021, which would institute universal background checks.
Hoover said her organization is in favor of universal background checks, like those proposed in the ballot initiative, but is opposed to STRONG Ohio because she said it does not do enough.
The ballot initiative is being proposed by Ohioans for Gun Safety, a grassroots gun control activism group that would require an unlicensed person wishing to sell or transfer a firearm to another person to conduct the transfer through a licensed gun dealer running a background check.
Whaley believes that both proposals will be an “uphill battle,” either getting the majority of Ohioans to vote for the ballot initiative, or getting the Republican-controlled state legislature to support the bill.
“I do have hope because it is one of the governor’s number one priorities,” Whaley said.
Sanctuary Counties
Gun control has always been a divisive issue in the country, so it's not surprising that many in Ohio who feel strongly about their right to bear arms are working to try and stop any efforts to restrict gun ownership. The largest response to these proposals actually comes at the local level among some of Ohio’s 88 counties.
Recently, counties like Vinton, Meigs, Pike and Jackson, among others in the state, have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries through resolutions. Even though they hold no legal significance, the resolutions are clearly a response to recent efforts to pass gun control.
These resolutions declare that a city or county will refuse to enforce any new gun control laws passed by the state or federal government. These resolutions are not enforceable because counties and cities do not have the power to tell law enforcement agencies what to do when enforcing a state or federal statute.
Hoover said resolutions like this are dangerous because there is the potential of a county prosecutor or sherriff choosing not to take action.
“You could end up with loss of life because they didn’t enforce something,” Hoover said.
Athens County is a county that is straddling the middle of the second amendment sanctuary debate. The county recently passed a resolution declaring its support for the second amendment, Lenny Eliason, a commissioner for Athens County, said.
Eliason said the reasoning behind passing it was to get ahead of other proposals that were being brought to the commissioners from citizens. They wanted to get ahead of these and declare their support for the second amendment in their own way. Ohio is a Dillon Rule State, meaning counties do not have any power, except those the state legislature grants to it, Eliason said.
“Declaring the county a second amendment sanctuary has no purpose or ability to be in effect,” Eliason said. “We don’t have any ability to tell the sheriff's department what laws to enforce or the county prosecutor what laws to prosecute.”
© Copyright 2019, The Post, Athens, OH


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USAGE:
gsw_SA_CT_plot(SA,CT,p_ref,isopycs,title_string)
DESCRIPTION:
Produces a plot of Absolute Salinity - Conservative Temperature
profiles. The diagram also plots the Conservative Temperature freezing
point for p = 0 dbar assuming the seawater is completely saturated with
dissolved air and user defined potential density contours. This
function uses the computationally-efficient 75-term expression for
specific volume in terms of SA, CT and p (Roquet et al.,2015).
Note that the 75-term equation has been fitted in a restricted range of
parameter space, and is most accurate inside the "oceanographic funnel"
described in McDougall et al. (2003). The GSW library function
"gsw_infunnel(SA,CT,p)" is avaialble to be used if one wants to test if
some of one's data lies outside this "funnel".
INPUT:
SA = Absolute Salinity [ g/kg ]
CT = Conservative Temperature [ deg C ]
p = sea pressure [ dbar ]
( i.e. absolute pressure - 10.1325 dbar )
Optional:
p_ref = reference sea pressure for the isopycnals [ dbar ]
(i.e. absolute reference pressure - 10.1325 dbar)
If it is not suppled a default of 0 dbar is used.
isopycs = isopycnals, can be either an array of isopynals or the
number of isopynals to appear on the plot. If it is not
supplied the programme defaults to 5 isopynals.
title_string = title text to appear at the top of the plot.
SA & CT need to have the same dimensions.
p_ref should be a scalar, (i.e. have dimensions 1x1).
isopycs can be either 1x1 or 1xN or Mx1
EXAMPLE:
SA = [34.7118; 34.8915; 35.0256; 34.8472; 34.7366; 34.7324;]
CT = [28.8099; 28.4392; 22.7862; 10.2262; 6.8272; 4.3236;]
p = [ 10; 50; 125; 250; 600; 1000;]
p_ref = 1000
isopycs = [24:0.5:33];
gsw_SA_CT_plot(SA,CT,p_ref,isopycs,'\it{S}\rm_A - {\Theta} diagram')
AUTHOR:
Rich Pawlowicz [<EMAIL_ADDRESS>]
Note. This function was extracted and adapted from Rich Pawlowicz's
ocean toolbox.
Modified:
Paul Barker & Trevor McDougall
VERSION NUMBER:
3.05 (21st May, 2015)
REFERENCES:
IOC, SCOR and IAPSO, 2010: The international thermodynamic equation of
seawater - 2010: Calculation and use of thermodynamic properties.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Manuals and Guides No. 56,
UNESCO (English), 196 pp. Available from the TEOS-10 web site.
McDougall, T.J., D.R. Jackett, D.G. Wright and R. Feistel, 2003:
Accurate and computationally efficient algorithms for potential
temperature and density of seawater. J. Atmosph. Ocean. Tech., 20,
pp. 730-741.
Roquet, F., G. Madec, T.J. McDougall and P.M. Barker, 2015: Accurate
polynomial expressions for the density and specific volume of seawater
using the TEOS-10 standard. Ocean Modelling, 90, pp. 29-43.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.04.002
This software is available from http://www.TEOS-10.org


With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, stories and articles that report an increase in issues pertaining to people’s mental health and psychosocial wellbeing seem to be on the rise. Unsurprisingly, early data from our ongoing tourism workforce survey, which has so far received 206 responses, also reveal a similar trend among tourism workers in Nepal.
When we asked participants a few questions around their mental and psychological well-being, here is how they responded:
Participants were asked to respond to “yes” or “no” to questions that talked about the above effects.
What’s interesting is the fact that over 95% of our respondents reported facing at least one of the above mentioned problems in their present lives. This is consistent with what we learnt during our in-person interviews.
However, despite almost all the workers reporting some form of effect on their mental health and psychosocial wellbeing, only a small fraction reported of having sought support through pyschosocial counseling.
WHAT MEASURES CAN BE TAKEN?
Saila dai, a shop-owner who has devoted nearly thirty years in the tourism sector, is terrifed about his future.
Read his full story here.
The above observations can be seen as an indication of the “social stigma” surrounding psychological health in Nepali society. While a majority of our respondents have reported of having to live with mental stress, very few have taken steps to deal with the situation.
Interventions that provide psychosocial support to tourism workers, such as destressing and healing programs to cope with the stress and tensions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are recommended. Additionally, schemes that discourage foreign independent tours (FIT) by mandating the hiring of guides and porters in trekking and mountaineering expeditions can help re-employ the tourism workforce, also working to boost workers’ morale. Finally, the government should also consider programs and schemes which recognize the heroic efforts of guides, porters, and other tourism workers.
By recognizing the fact that mental well-being of tourism workers as a public health problem that needs to be paid attention to, and designing mechanisms (or adopting some of the recommendations), the government has an opportunity to play a strong role – and also send a positive message – in helping support the recovery of the thousands of people who have devoted their entire lives to such an important industry in Nepal.


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Project: Wireshark
Description: QuickCall examples
Category: library
Class: Community
1 QuickCall Library in project://di_wireshark_com
loadCaptureFile
Load a pcap file on the system. Requires valid URI.
| Argument |
Description |
| filePath |
Where do you want to save the data.
Example: file:/C:/stc.pcap |
getPacketIds
This will return the packet IDs for a specified range so user can lop through packet details
Return: list of packet IDs
| Argument |
Description |
| startIndex |
Wireshark index where you want to start.
Example: 1 |
| count |
Total number of index values you want returned.
Example: 100 |
getBasicDataFields
This returns the basic fields used to validate L2/L3 information in the headers
Return: MAC, IPv4 (source and destination)
| Argument |
Description |
| index |
Valid index found in the PCAP output |


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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE A film review by Ralph Benner Copyright 1995 Ralph Benner
From the very start, with the Victorian calligraphy as the background for the blooming flowers during the credits, to the first scenes inside an opera house, with Gounod's "Faust" being performed, to the next set of views touring a splendidly highbrow 1870s New York mansion overflowing with a decor of velvet, art and stuffed mannequins as people, viewers are gasping at the implausibility: Can this really be a Martin Scorsese picture? Based on Edith Wharton's 1921 Pulitzer prize-winning novel about ill-conceived and hypocritical American upper-class adoption of European sophistication, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE at first glances might seem the atmospheric product of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. Hard to believe, but Scorsese equals them: made in honor of one of his favorite movies THE HEIRESS, and designed by Dante Ferretti, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE looks like a gilded age vision by Luchino Visconti, John De Cuir or John Box, and there's an undeniable resemblance to Ingmar Bergman's FANNY AND ALEXANDER. Like Bergman's feast, Scorsese's is so fancy and rich in detail--everything's splashed as layouts from Architectural Digest and Gourmet magazines--that you could get woozy and may have to hit the smelling salts. (Because Bergman packed in so much demonstrative warmth, some of us regretted not taking along the Vivirin.) But in perhaps the only touch of modernity that Scorsese risks in this his most audacious movie is that he allows the unrequited love between Wharton's soon-to-be-married Newland Archer and the rumored-to-be-loose Countess Ellen Olenska to not only sadden but also anger us. This isn't just a story or picture about stifling customs of denial or high society values; it's a story and picture about our hypocrisy over values--relinquishing ourselves to others' demands of imperatives we don't believe in.
Though David Lean was first in bringing E. M. Forster to the screen, with the pumped-up nothingness of A PASSAGE TO INDIA, most viewers rightly believe that Ivory and Merchant have more successfully brought the genteel sage to film in A ROOM WITH A VIEW, MAURICE and HOWARDS END. I've read in some national magazines that Scorsese's among the first to bring Wharton to viewing audiences, but this isn't so: the honorable ETHAN FROME was delivered three months prior, and came and went in a flash. (Maybe because Liam Neeson needed a co-star with at least as much of passion.) Wharton's THE OLD MAID was a 1935 award-winning play adapted by Zoe Atkins,and later a 1939 soaper starring Bette Davis. And deep into forgotten movie trivia is Wharton's 1922 THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON, made into a film that featured dialogue titles by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and there was a forgettable stage version of AGE starring Katharine Cornell and Franchet Tone. But Scorsese picked the right Wharton material as his first foray into the genre of American period piece: his two lovers are ruled by a snobbery of class not too much unlike the sociopaths and goons who rule over their victims in his charged-up modern Americana. The central difference, of course, is that there are no bloody corpses as pornography, though one could argue the lavish spreads of settings and food in AGE are rather porno-ish in their arbitrariness. Yet that's part of the appeal of Wharton: as much as she's criticizing the social dictums by which her characters are forced to live, she's trapped them in orgies of addicting lushness. And Wharton herself more than most: she was born into and lived the exceedingly pampered life of high social class New York. (Like Mark Twain before her and F. Scott Fitzgerald after, she did much of her writing in the comfort of her bed. Once, when she discovered that a hotel room bed did not face the light, she flew into a "fit of hysterics.") She was both protege of and travelling companion to Henry James, who is the most obvious influence on her as a writer: she picked up the exactitude of James's prose style, as well as interlacing her narratives with biting commentary, just as James did, especially in his THE BOSTONIANS, the seminal work out of which THE AGE OF INNOCENCE might have sprung. (Ironically, James Ivory directed the movie version of the pungently observed BOSTONIANS, and turned it into an undertaker's adaptation--all laid out and ready for burial.) Wharton, who was actually born in France and was the first woman win a Pulitizer Prise and receive an honorary degree from Yale, would perform readings, often at her chateau in Hyeres, of her works-in-progress in front of James and French novelist Paul Bourget, both of whom specialized in the psychological.
The gamble for Scorsese is that he didn't give in to what the movie audience is longing for--the coming together of Countess Olenska and Newland Archer. (Newbold is, by the way, Wharton's middle name.) Had he done so, only the purists would have howled, because our feelings of distrust for the dictates of others are blood-raw right now. That's why the conclusion gets to us in ways we're not prepared for: we can feel the pain in what the two doomed lovers are forced not to do--that there would be no real shame in flaunting disregard, especially in that divorce was already legally sanctioned by the state at the time. Wharton's caution, one that Scorsese is surprisingly subtle in delivering, is that the waste is even more hurting because these lovers are conspired against to prevent what the conspirators realize is much more than a flirtation. Olenska and Archer become victims to false propriety; they suspect it, the conspirators definitely know it, and we are left to suffer it. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is a march to folly, and in his only truly fine scenes, coming at a bon voyage dinner and at the end, Daniel Day-Lewis, as Newland, forces us to grieve for his loss, his own lack of courage. The audience in the theatre fell dead-silent as Newland, bracing himself with his cane as if it's his only fortitude, makes his decision, and for seconds afterwards no one moved.
When casting was announced, no one assumed Daniel Day-Lewis was wrong for the part of Archer, but there were rumblings about Michelle Pfeiffer as Olenska and Winona Ryder as Archer's soon-to-be-wife May Welland. It's the snot in those who bitched: somehow the prestigious Day-Lewis belongs in period costume, and Pfeiffer, despite being in DANGEROUS LIAISONS, and Ryder, despite being in BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA and LITTLE WOMEN, might not. But the tables turned and it's Day-Lewis who isn't quite suited for this story. No one can call him bad, but he's mostly unaffecting--until, of course, the ending. He seems disassembled--parts of him are there in a corner, weak and prissy and always it seems on the verge of tears; parts of him seem disbelievingly mansion-sized self-assured; parts of him simply don't make sense--like defending Countess Olenska in the first third of the story and then later denying himself the pleasures of his conquest. (We're talking about a 1870s New York City, which even then was a thriving metropolis, so did no snob ever utilize the city's largeness as a cloak of privacy?) Some of his scenes with Pfeiffer bring to mind Jeremy Irons' Charles Smithson in THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Day-Lewis can be all of many things, and all at once, because he's one of the few very physically thin actors who imparts evolutionary credence; his frame has the uncanny ability to transmogrify itself. (In close-up, he's got a jutting jaw that we can sometimes get lost in.) Not yet the equivalent of Olivier, he is the other side of the Atlantic's version of our Dustin Hoffman.  The smart set's still raving about his Tomas in Philip Kaufman's THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, in which he plays, of all things, a sex-obsessed brain surgeon-turned-window washer. He pours on the illicit naughty boy charm so thickly that it would be understand ably easy to assume he's sexy. Not quite; he's a vacuum--using his brows and the whites of his eyes and a day or two's growth of beard against his dark skin and his slinkiness to project the image of sexuality. Behind the facade is something limp: he's like a young Bradford Dillman, with just a hint of a satyric Rip Torn--only beautified. That women peel off their clothes for him as soon as he bats his moody eyes is fantasy, and it's charming in a feathery way, but what's missing is the heat of his seductions--they're as cold as UNBEARABLE's atmosphere. (He confirms the maxim that sometimes sex is best when it's confined to our imagination.) Wearing a top hat and heavily starched collars with more comic aplomb than any actor since Fred Astaire, he was a scream in an unexpected take-off as E.M. in Forster's own A ROOM WITH A VIEW. (A minority view--no one I kno w agrees.) While recognizing the torture in his greatness as Christy Brown in MY LEFT FOOT, I'm simply not a good enough human being to have been able to sit through its entirety. Yet what I derived out of what I saw is what has come to fore in Day-Lewis in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS and now here in AGE.  Though only the meteorologists earned their pay for MOHICANS (and 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE: when have two movies in the same year ever been so misty, foggy, cloudy, rainy, hazy?), Day-Lewis, in long hair and plentiful goodness, reminds us of Jeffrey Hunter's emblematic Christ in KING OF KINGS; he even resembles Hunter throughout the picture. It was during MOHICANS that I started to feel unsettled about Day-Lewis, and the way in which Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus defer to him here in AGE--and it starts with the very first shot of him--I don't think it's at all too early to consider that, in what may be his "artistry," he's becoming the movies' most accomplished con. David Strathairn would have been my choice for Newland.
Scorsese admitted in interviews that he in fact did defer a bit to Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer. He mentioned that in the time between leaving their dress rooms and arriving on set, a transformation had occurred, that he began to believe his actors were the very parts they were playing, that he began to speak to them in hushed Whartonian tones. If Day-Lewis wallows in it too much, Pfeiffer keeps her wits about her and does to us what she didn't quite succeed in doing in DANGEROUS LIAISONS--get us to believe she belongs in antique melodrama. Her voice is the key, I think: it has that slightly pitched quality that happens to women of leisure, women who resign, though maybe not privately accept, that they're chattel to be displayed as pretty possessions. Ten years ago, Meryl Streep would have played this part but her voice, so theatrically calibrated, would have betrayed the novelist. (Even if unintentional, Pfeiffer honors Streep by pirating Sarah Woodruff's curly do.) Olenska has a bit of Wharton in her, in that the novelist was likewise strapped by a loveless marriage, and in Olenska is a homage to one of James' leading ladies in THE BOSTONIANS--Verena, the young, red-haired feminist spitfire. But Pfeiffer borrows from neither: this is her own portrait of a woman accepting defeat by convention and patronage. It's a performance built by mystery; there's no way for us to gauge her inner-feelings about the events by which she's stoically forced into acquiescence. (Only once does the performance lose focus: in a living room, she's smoking but the cigarette doesn't appear to be lit and when she exhales, no smoke comes out.) In DANGEROUS LIAISONS, as the sickly pale-faced Mme. de Tourvel, enduring medicinal therapies rented from Ken Russell's THE DEVILS, she seemed nearly out of her league against Glenn Close's venomous Marquise. Sublimely controlled as she dons her war paint, Close out-Sondergaards Gale Sondergaard and not even John Malkovich's devilishly puffed-up, wantonly vain Vicomte can altogether match her merciless glaze. (Wouldn't Close make a fab Madame Ming?) Next to John Gielgud, no performer has stolen scenes with more graceful arrogance and confidence. As a result, save for a scene or two, Pfeiffer is just about thrown right out of the picture. You begin to feel a strange, unwarranted sympathy for her; you tend to want to forget she's even in the picture. She didn't have to do anything in TEQUILA SUNRISE except look beautiful, and she does, and she gives her lines a crisp, singular reading. She did the same in MARRIED TO THE MOB, aided by the funny Mercedes Ruehl. Looking sensationally sexy in THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS she does a terrific "My Funny Valentine," and she sure knows how to rummage through her purse for and light up her Parisian Opals and she does a great slip off her feet into Jeff Bridges's arms as they're dancing to "Moonglow" on a hotel room balcony. (The semi-downer ending, though, makes us ask, "Why bother?") I had some sympathy for her in BATMAN RETURNS: in spite of the trash the costumers put her in, and acknowledging that she has a wicked whiplash, she's stuck in the horror of one unplayable scene after another. How she managed to keep her self-respect is beyond me. (The most clever thing about that bumme r is the Queen's Coat that the Penguin wears; when he's walking around the cemetery where his parents are buried, he looks like something out of a novel by Dickens.)
Out of Dickens as well, and crossed with Aunt Pittypat from GWTW, Miriam Margolyes gives the audience its best laugh as moneybags Mrs. Manson Mingott. Unfortunately looking none too well, the late Alexis Smith is New York's numero uno grand dame. Had she been aided by the right kind of and more sensitive makeup artist, she'd have passed for Wharton. (This small part quite a contrast to Miss Smith's last TV role--as Rebecca's former school teacher who still has enough sexual power to charge Sam's batteries in CHEERS.) Chubby in the face, Mary Beth Hurt is nearly unrecognizable as Mrs. Beaufort. As her philandering cad of a husband, Stuart Wilson could be doing a tribute to Rod Steiger's Komarovsky from DOCTOR ZHIVAGO And it takes a while to get our bearings and recognize him and remember when last we might have seen him: as Major Clark, who impregnates Sarah Layton, in THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN. Last, but not least (because of the rest of the supporting cast is very good), there's Winona Ryder. The breathless May will only succeed if Ryder can pull off the coup de theatre. If we hate the character for doing it, whether we know it's coming or not, then Ryder can only be applauded. The act is not only one of desperation, but the pinnacle of despised entrapment.
In MAUGHAM, biographer Ted Morgan writes that W. Somerset "was exasperated by the rightness and exactness of everything Edith Wharton said." He was particularly out of joint by her usage of the word "no," for he "had never heard a more frigid syllable of disapproval." Maugham snarled, "Her manner was that of a woman to whom a man has made proposals offensive to her modesty, but which good breeding tells her it will be more dignified to ignore than to make a scene about." Indeed, the very essence of Wharton as social prisoner and writer: she was on the side of the expression of love and sex but never had much guts to engage in either. Perhaps Wharton was poisoned by her mother's frigidity, which might also have helped make her the anti-feminist she appeared to be, in that she opposed education of women for high professions, didn't exercise her right to vote, nor bothered to invite other women to social parties she threw. Maybe she was further poisoned by her supposed love affair with bisexual Morton Fullerton. (A recent biographer suggests Wharton was both homophobic and anti-Semitic, an d disapproved of such writers as Joyce and Lawrence; one wonders if she was truly aware of Henry James' predilections.) It's this Victorian vengeance in her writing that's regretful and sad--and painful for audiences watching AGE: she's compulsive about punishing her fictional lovers. (She punished them in ETHAN FROME, too.) Scorsese caught this, but he didn't do it alone: TIME critic Jay Cocks ferreted out the Wharton upbraidings and helped shape them into a screenplay that not only envenoms denied passions but also exalts the power of words. This is what's surprisingly wonderful about the movie: in the past we've come to expect that we're going to get short-changed when moviemakers bring the classics to screen--images over words or vice versa, debatable truncation. It's thrilling to not only hear the text captured with this much respect, but to see the images come close to matching the era is almost unnerving: included are reel life versions of Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" and winter scenes by Richard Hartmann and Childe Hassam. And there's a happy marriage of editing and text: Thelma Schoonmaker (who gets her name plastered as an advertisement within the movie) lays on montages of messages and invitations that enhance the art of personal writing. (Experts in communication believed that on-line services might resurrect this art form; it turns out that e-mail & uploads have degenerated into "it sucks" brevity.) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is so respectful of Wharton that her running commentary is voiced over by Joanne Woodward, caught as if parenthetical privacies whispered for our ears only. The only damn thing wrong with this feast is that after it ended, I felt like sneaking into a Weight Watchers meeting.
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Belgian pear syrup
A delicious syrup that can be eaten on bread and used in a multitude of recipes.
- ⏲ Prep time: 30 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 6 hours
Ingredients
- 7 pears (Quality doesn’t matter; you can argue that overripe pears are better because they have more sugar content.)
- 3 apples
- a small handfull of dates, raisins, dried apricots or prunes (optional — you can experiment with these; they can bring out some nice flavors.)
- 150 grams sugar
- 1 glass of water
- find sieve or cheese cloth
- glass jar
Directions
- Wash the outside of the fruit with water and cut it in 8 medium sized pieces. You don’t have to core or deseed the fruit; everything can go in the pot.
- Place the fruit in a large pan with a thick bottom so you get even heat. I suggest you place the pears on the bottom, since they don’t burn as fast. Add the glass of water.
- If you are using them, add the dried fruits at this point.
- Put the heat as low as possible and let it all slowly stew for 3 hours, stirring every now and then.
- At this point, you can boil your glass jars to sterilize them. Place the sterilized jars on a clean, dry towel.
- When the fruit is done cooking for 3 hours, grab your sieve or cheese cloth, and place it over a bowl, run your fruit through it until you have extracted all the clear liquid. You can discard the pulp.
- Quickly rinse the pot with water until clean and add the fruit liquid back. Place back on the stove.
- Add the sugar. Add a bit less sugar if you also used dried fruits.
- Cook for another 2 hours. After that, stir every so often, Be careful with the stirring; if you stir too often, it might caramelize too quickly.
- After two to two and a half hours, your syrup should be nearly done.
 A good way to test the viscosity is to drop a little bit on a cold plate or on your countertop to see how it is at room temperature.
- When you are happy with the viscosity, pour the syrup into your sterilized jars and immediately seal them.
Contribution
- Yiusa, eth
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Recipe tags:
syrup
fruit
belgian


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