Patterns in Evolution
Notes
Evolution through Natural Selection is Not Random=- The response of species to environmental challenges and opportunities is not random
- Convergent Evolution=
- Different species often must adapt to similar environments
- Evolution toward similar characteristics in unrelated species is called convergent evolution
- Analogous structures, such as wings on birds and insects, are common examples of convergent evolution
- Divergent Evolution=
- When closely related species evolve in different directions, they become increasingly different through divergent evolution
- Coevolution is the process in which two or more species evolve in response to changes in each other
- Bursts of evolutionary activity are followed by long periods of stability
- This pattern is described by the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which states that episodes of speciation occur suddenly in geologic time and are followed by long periods of little evolutionary change
- The diversification of one ancestral species into many descendent species is called adaptive radiation


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In our last installment, we learned the basics of how to use DictionaryAdapter to use an interface to access loosely structured data. This time, we’re going to show a somewhat more complex scenario than simple properties. Consider the following:
static void Main(string[] args) { var dict = new Dictionary<string, object>() { { "UserId", 1234567 }, { "UserName", new Dictionary<string,object>() { { "UserFirstName", "Tim" }, { "UserLastName", "Rayburn" } } } }; }
As you can see, we’ve nested dictionaries this time, where the UserName key has a value of another dictionary, with two keys itself. The simplest model for this is to simple add another interface, IUserName, which represents this nested data. Here is a look at that code:
public interface IUserData { [Key("UserId")] int Id { get; set; } [Key("UserName")] IUserName Name { get; set; } } public interface IUserName { [Key("UserFirstName")] string FirstName { get; set; } [Key("UserMiddleName")] string MiddleName { get; set; } [Key("UserLastName")] string LastName { get; set; } }
So lets see how DictionaryAdapter (it’s called DA by its friends, which if you’re still reading at this point you clearly are) … so lets see how DA handles this scenario. We’d hope that something like this would work:
static void Main(string[] args) { var dict = new Dictionary<string, object>() { { "UserId", 1234567 }, { "UserName", new Dictionary<string,object>() { { "UserFirstName", "Tim" }, { "UserLastName", "Rayburn" } } } }; var data = new DictionaryAdapterFactory().GetAdapter<IUserData>(dict); Console.WriteLine(data.Name.FirstName); }
Does it? Nope. Why? Let’s look at the details:
System.InvalidCastException was unhandled Message=Unable to cast object of type 'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Object]' to type 'Part2.IUserName'. Source=Part2.Part2.IUserData.DictionaryAdapter StackTrace: at Part2.UserDataDictionaryAdapter.get_Name() at Part2.Program.Main(String[] args) in C:\source\BlogPosts\DictionaryAdapterIsLove\Part2\Program.cs:line 32 at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String[] args) at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[] args) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly() at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart() InnerException:
I have to give credit where credit is due, this make pretty darned clear what the problem is. Our nested dictionary is not, itself, being wrapped so when DA tries to retrieve it and cast it to IUserName it, obviously, cannot.
That’s great Tim … but how do I fix that?
Enter behaviors. Dictionary adapter has an abstraction over anything that modifies how it does its work called Behaviors. You can create behaviors for all sorts of things, but one of them is Property Getting. To modify this behavior you need to do two things:
If we take a peek at IDictionaryPropertyGetter you will see the following definition:
public interface IDictionaryPropertyGetter : IDictionaryBehavior { object GetPropertyValue(IDictionaryAdapter dictionaryAdapter, string key, object storedValue, PropertyDescriptor property, bool ifExists); }
As you can see this isn’t terribly complex. But you’ll also notice that it implements IDictionaryBehavior, so lets take a peek at that shall we?
public interface IDictionaryBehavior { int ExecutionOrder { get; } }
Again, not very complex at all. So we need a class that will implement both of these, and which will examine the propertyDescriptor parameter to determine if the requested Type is itself an interface which is not assignable from the type of storedValue but that storedValue is assignable from IDictionary. If those conditions are met, we can create another DictionaryAdapter to adapt to the new interface. Here is a simple example of that class :
public class NestedDictionaryGetterBehavior : IDictionaryPropertyGetter { public object GetPropertyValue(IDictionaryAdapter dictionaryAdapter, string key, object storedValue, PropertyDescriptor property, bool ifExists) { if (property.PropertyType.IsAssignableFrom(storedValue.GetType())) { return storedValue; } if (property.PropertyType.IsInterface && IsDictionary(storedValue.GetType())) { return dictionaryAdapter.This.Factory.GetAdapter(property.PropertyType, storedValue as IDictionary); } return storedValue; } public int ExecutionOrder { get { return 0; } } private bool IsDictionary(Type type) { return typeof(IDictionary).IsAssignableFrom(type); } }
As you can see, some code, but not lots of code. Our example should skip the first if statement and go into the second one, returning the new DictionaryAdapter. Now we need to do step 2, modify our original request to the Factory to add our behavior. Here is what the code looks like once we’ve done that:
static void Main(string[] args) { var dict = new Dictionary<string, object>() { { "UserId", 1234567 }, { "UserName", new Dictionary<string,object>() { { "UserFirstName", "Tim" }, { "UserLastName", "Rayburn" } } } }; var data = new DictionaryAdapterFactory() .GetAdapter(typeof(IUserData), dict, new DictionaryDescriptor().AddBehavior(new NestedDictionaryGetterBehavior())) as IUserData; Console.WriteLine(data.Name.FirstName); Console.ReadLine(); }
Now, that gets a little tedious to do every time, and I can assure you that Craig Neuwirt hates tedious. As such, DictionaryAdapter will look for any attributes on your interface which implement IDictionaryBehavior and add them for you automatically. So with a very simple refactoring of our class:
public class NestedDictionaryGetterBehavior : Attribute, IDictionaryPropertyGetter
We can then modify our interface:
[NestedDictionaryGetterBehavior] public interface IUserData { [Key("UserId")] int Id { get; set; } [Key("UserName")] IUserName Name { get; set; } }
And move back to a very simple DictionaryAdapterFactory request:
var data = new DictionaryAdapterFactory().GetAdapter<IUserData>(dict);
And I think that’s enough for this time.


WITNESS LIST
Intergovernmental Relations
April 6, 2011 9:30 AM
AGAINST:
Allen, Joe, B. Attorney (Allen Boone Humphries Robinson, LLP), Houston, TX
ON:
Grant, Julian (Office of Attorney General), Austin, TX
Holcomb, Doug (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ahmad, Janet (Self), San Antonio, TX
Hentschel, Nancy (Self), Sugar Land, TX
Igo, Shanna (Texas Municipal League), Austin, TX
Against:
Cohen, Howard (Schwartz. Page & Harding, LLD), Houston, TX
Collins, Sharlene Attorney (Armbrust & Brown), Austin, TX
Frederick, Amy (Blake Magee Company), Austin, TX
Hefner, Mary Ann Chair, Legislative Planning Committee (Association of Water Board
Directors), Kingsland, TX
Littlefield, Sue Attorney (Armbrust & Brown PLLC), Austin, TX
Norman, Scott (Texas Association of Builders), Austin, TX
Savoy, Philip (Murfee Engineering Co), Austin, TX
Short, Jim (Houston Real Estate Council), Fulshear, TX
On:
Huff, Melanie (Secretary of State), Austin, TX
AGAINST:
Ahmad, Janet (Homeowners for Better Building), San Antonio, TX
Alexander, Robert (Tx Legis Action Comm of Comm Assns Inst), Houston, TX
Hentschel, Nancy (Self), Sugar Land, TX
Jones, Harvella (The Texas and National Homeowners Advocate Group), Richmond, TX
Lent, Robin (HOA Reform Coalition), Spring, TX
Walshak, Lynn (HOA Reform Coalition), Houston, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Adams, Sylvia (Self), Houston, TX
Downey, Authur, J. (Texas Neighborhoods Together), San Antonio, TX
Leck, Ashlei (Texas Association of Builders), Austin, TX
Silva, Yvonna (Self), Houston, TX
Smith, David VP Legislative Affairs (Texas Neighborhoods Together), Plano, TX
FOR:
Perez, Art (University Medical Center of El Paso), El Paso, TX
1
WITNESS LIST
Intergovernmental Relations
April 6, 2011 9:30 AM
Sosa, Edward (El Paso County Hospital District), El Paso, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Yanas, Chris (Teaching Hospitals of Texas), Austin, TX
FOR:
Spurlock, Michael (Housing Authority of the City of El Paso), El Paso, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Pearson, Dan (El Paso Water Utility), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bone, Barry, M. VP Real Estate (TXI Operations LP), Dallas, TX
Howard, Robert (Bluebonnet Electric Coop), Austin, TX
Joseph, John, M. (TXI Operations, L.P.), Austin, TX
Richardson, Jody (TXI Operations LP), Austin, TX
On:
Hrncir, John (City of Austin), Austin, TX
FOR:
Sosa, Edward (El Paso County Hospital District), El Paso, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Finch, Dan (Texas Medical Association), Austin, TX
Salinas, Nelson Government Affairs Manager (The Texas Association of Business),
Austin, TX
Yanas, Chris (Teaching Hospitals of Texas), Austin, TX
ON:
Brown, Brian (Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP), Austin, TX
Fleming, John (Texas Mortgage Bankers), Austin, TX
Hutchings, Sealy (Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner), Austin, TX
Pettijohn, Leslie Commissioner (Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner), Austin, TX
Ruby, Doug (Texas Property Tax Lienholders Association), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Heasley, John (Texas Bankers Association), Austin, TX
Against:
Silva, Yvonna (Self), Houston, TX
2
WITNESS LIST
Intergovernmental Relations
April 6, 2011 9:30 AM
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Kalisek, Lauren (Travis County WCID No. 17), Austin, TX
On:
Green, Tim (Aqualand Development), Austin, TX
FOR:
Ehrig, Bobby (Self), Bulverde, TX
Harris, Shilo, A. (Self), Floresville, TX
Schlitz, Michael Sergeant First Class (retired) (Self), San Antonio, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ahmad, Janet (Self), San Antonio, TX
Hentschel, Nancy (Self), Sugar Land, TX
Igo, Shanna (Self), Austin, TX
Lent, Robin (Self), Spring, TX
Walshak, Lynn (Self), Houston, TX
Zion, Mark Executive Director (Texas Public Power Association), Austin, TX
On:
Soliz, Norma Senior Director of Regulatory Regulations (CPS Energy), San Antonio, TX
FOR:
Lee, Don Executive Director (Texas Conference of Urban Counties), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jim General Counsel (County Judges & Commissioners Assn of Tx), Austin, TX
Guerra, Thomas Bexar County Government Relations Manager (Bexar County
Commissioners Court), San Antonio, TX
Igo, Shanna (Self), Austin, TX
Jones, Chris (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas), Austin, TX
Jones, Max Administrative Assistant (Travis County Commissioners Court), Austin, TX
Mendez, Mark Assistant County Administrator (Tarrant County Commissioners Court), Ft.
Worth, TX
Pardue, Craig (Dallas County), Dallas, TX
Roark, Mark (Limestone County Sheriff's Office), Groesbeck, TX
Simpson, Terry County Judge (San Patricio Co. & Co. Judges and Comm. Assoc), Sinton,
TX
Sisk, Cathy Director, Legislative Relations (Harris County), Houston, TX
Sugg, Paul (Texas Association of Counties), Austin, TX
Wilson, Dennis (Sheriff's Assoc. of Texas), Austin, TX
3
WITNESS LIST
Intergovernmental Relations
April 6, 2011 9:30 AM
On:
Irvine, Tim Chief of Staff and General Counsel (Texas Department of Housing and
Community Affairs), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jim (County Judges & Commissioners Assn of Tx), Austin, TX
Lee, Don Executive Director (Texas Conference of Urban Counties), Austin, TX
Mendez, Mark Assistant County Administrator (Tarrant County Commissioners Court), Ft.
Worth, TX
Norman, Lee County Judge (Garza County), Post, TX
Simpson, Terry County Judge (San Patricio Co. & Co. Judges and Comm. Assoc), Sinton,
TX
Spieker, Dianna Tom Green Co Treasurer (County Treasurer's Association of Texas), San
Angelo, TX
Sugg, Paul (Texas Association of Counties), Austin, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Barnett, Mike (Texas Association of Realtors), Austin, TX
Igo, Shanna (Self), Austin, TX
Lee, Don Executive Director (Texas Conference of Urban Counties), Austin, TX
Robinson, Jim Chief Appraiser (Harris County Appraisal Dist & TAAD Legislative
Committee), Houston, TX
On:
Brown, Brian (Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP), Austin, TX
FOR:
Love, Roland (Texas Land Title Association), Dallas, TX
AGAINST:
Hentschel, Nancy (Self), Sugar Land, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Lee, Randy (Stewart Title Guaranty Co.), Austin, TX
Robinson, Jim Chief Appraiser (Harris County Appraisal Dist), Houston, TX
FOR:
Kirkland, Pam Purchasing Manager, City of Richardson (Texas Public Purchasing Assn),
Richardson, TX
AGAINST:
Hentschel, Nancy (Self), Sugar Land, TX
4
WITNESS LIST
Intergovernmental Relations
April 6, 2011 9:30 AM
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jim General Counsel (County Judges & Commissioners Assn of Tx), Austin, TX
Igo, Shanna (Self), Austin, TX
Patterson, T.J. (City of Fort Worth)
Simpson, Terry County Judge (San Patricio Co. and Co. Judges & Comm. Assoc), Sinton,
TX
FOR:
Jones, Harvella (The National Homeowners Advocate and the National HAGS Coalition),
Richmond, TX
AGAINST:
Ahmad, Janet (Homeowners for Better Building and HOA Reform Coalition), San
Antonio, TX
Alexander, Robert (Texas Community Association Advocates), Houston, TX
Hentschel, Nancy (Self), Sugar Land, TX
Lent, Robin (HOA Reform Coalition), Spring, TX
Walshak, Lynn (HOA Reform Coalition), Houston, TX
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Leck, Ashlei (Texas Association of Builders), Austin, TX
Silva Adams, Sylvia (Self), Houston, TX
Smith, David VP Legislative Affairs (Texas Neighborhoods Together), Plano, TX
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Trump Must Pay $2 Million to Settle Claims Against Foundation
by MATT REYNOLDS(CN) – A New York state court has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to settle claims that he used money from his charitable foundation for his personal, business and political interests during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
New York Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla’s Thursday order appears to resolve claims that Trump used the foundation as a front for campaign events during the 2016 election cycle and that the foundation lacked oversight.
A supposed fundraiser in Iowa for military veterans in January of that year was actually a campaign event, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a complaint against the president and the foundation he founded in 1987. The campaign contributed $2.8 million to the Trump Foundation, but the campaign, not the foundation, organized and planned the event.
In her decision, Judge Scarpulla said that Trump had breached his fiduciary duties to the foundation and that as a result of the financial mismanagement, “waste occurred to the foundation.”
“Mr. Trump’s fiduciary duty breaches included allowing his campaign to orchestrate the fundraiser, allowing his campaign, instead of the foundation, to direct distribution of the funds, and using the fundraiser and distribution of the funds to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign,” Scarpulla wrote in the 7-page decision.
The attorney general’s office says that as part of the settlement of claims against Trump and its directors, including his children Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, the Trump Foundation will be shut down and its remaining assets given to eight charities.
The $1.78 million in liquid assets will be directed to Army Emergency Relief, Children’s Aid Society, City Meals-on-Wheels, Give an Hour, Martha’s Table, United Negro College Fund, United Way of Capital Area, and US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“The president will be subject to ongoing supervision by my office, and the Trump children had to undergo compulsory training to ensure this type of illegal activity never takes place again,” James said in a statement. “My office will continue to fight for accountability because no one is above the law – not a businessman, not a candidate for office, and not even the President of the United States.”
James’ office entered into four stipulation agreements with Trump. Last year, the president agreed to dissolve the foundation under court supervision.
The attorney general initially asked for the court to order Trump to pay $2.8 million in damages. But Scarpulla said that although the money from the Iowa fundraiser was “disbursed by Trump’s campaign staff, rather than by the foundation,” that Trump should pay $2 million instead.
“Taking into consideration that the funds did ultimately reach their intended destinations, i.e., charitable organizations supporting veterans, I award damages on the breach of fiduciary duty/waste claim against Mr. Trump in the amount of $2,000,000, without interest,” the judge wrote.
The judge also declined to order the president to pay punitive damages.
An attorney for the foundation did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment.
Copyright © 2019 courthousenews.com


You can connect gfsh
via HTTP or HTTPS to a remote cluster and manage the cluster using gfsh
commands.
To connect gfsh
using the HTTP protocol to a remote cluster:
- Launch
gfsh
. See Starting gfsh. When starting the remote cluster on the remote host, you can optionally specify
--http-bind-address
and--http-service-port
as Geode properties when starting up your JMX manager (server or locator). These properties can be then used in the URL used when connecting from your local system to the HTTP service in the remote cluster. For example:gfsh>start server --name=server1 --J=-Dgemfire.jmx-manager=true \ --J=-Dgemfire.jmx-manager-start=true --http-service-port=8080 \ --http-service-bind-address=myremotecluster.example.com
This command must be executed directly on the host machine that will ultimately act as the remote server that hosts the HTTP service for remote administration. (You cannot launch a server remotely.)
On your local system, run the
gfsh connect
command to connect to the remote system. Include the--use-http
and--url
parameters. For example:gfsh>connect --use-http=true --url="http://myremotecluster.example.com:8080/geode/v1" Successfully connected to: Geode Manager's HTTP service @ http://myremotecluster.example.com:8080/geode/v1
See connect.
gfsh
is now connected to the remote system. Mostgfsh
commands will now execute on the remote system; however, there are exceptions. The following commands are executed on the local cluster:-
alter disk-store
-
compact offline-disk-store
-
describe offline-disk-store
-
help
-
hint
-
sh
(for executing OS commands) -
sleep
-
start jconsole
(however, you can connect JConsole to a remote cluster when gfsh is connected to the cluster via JMX) -
start jvisualvm
-
start locator
-
start server
-
start vsd
-
status locator
*
-
status server
*
-
stop locator
*
-
stop server
*
-
run
(for executing gfsh scripts) -
validate disk-store
-
version
*
You can stop and obtain the status of remote locators and servers whengfsh
is connected to the cluster via JMX or HTTP/S by using the--name
option for thesestop
/status
commands. If you are using the--pid
or--dir
option for these commands, then thestop
/status
commands are executed only locally.-
To configure SSL for the remote connection (HTTPS), enable SSL for the http
component
in gemfire.properties or gfsecurity-properties or upon server startup. See
SSL for details on configuring SSL parameters. These
SSL parameters also apply to all HTTP services hosted on the configured JMX Manager, which can
include the following:
- Developer REST API service
- Pulse monitoring tool


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Jupyter Notebooks on Kubernetes
Prerequisites
Summary
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Run Jupyter Notebooks locally using Docker
- Run JupyterHub on Kubernetes using Kubeflow
How Jupyter Notebooks work
The Jupyter Notebook is an open source web application that allows users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text for rapid prototyping. It is often used for data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and more. To better support exploratory iteration and to accelerate computation of Tensorflow jobs, let's look at how we can include data science tools like Jupyter Notebook with Docker and Kubernetes.
How JupyterHub works
The JupyterHub is a multi-user Hub, spawns, manages, and proxies multiple instances of the single-user Jupyter notebook server. JupyterHub can be used to serve notebooks to a class of students, a corporate data science group, or a scientific research group. Let's look at how we can create JupyterHub to spawn multiple instances of Jupyter Notebook on Kubernetes using Kubeflow.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Run Jupyter Notebooks locally using Docker
In this first exercise, we will run Jupyter Notebooks locally using Docker. We will use the official tensorflow docker image as it comes with Jupyter notebook.
docker run -it -p 8888:8888 tensorflow/tensorflow
Validation
To verify, browse to the url in the output log.
For example: http://localhost:8888/?token=a3ea3cd914c5b68149e2b4a6d0220eca186fec41563c0413
Exercise 2: Run JupyterHub on Kubernetes using Kubeflow
In this exercise, we will run JupyterHub to spawn multiple instances of Jupyter Notebooks on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubeflow.
NAMESPACE=kubeflow kubectl get svc -n=${NAMESPACE} NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE ... jupyter-0 ClusterIP None <none> 8000/TCP 132m jupyter-lb ClusterIP <IP_ADDRESS> <none> 80/TCP 132m
To connect to the Kubeflow dashboard locally:
kubectl port-forward svc/ambassador -n ${NAMESPACE} 8080:80
Then navigate to JupyterHub: http://localhost:8080/hub
[Optional] To connect to your JupyterHub over a public IP:
To update the default service created for JupyterHub, run the following command to change the service to type LoadBalancer:
cd ks_app ks param set jupyter serviceType LoadBalancer cd .. ${KUBEFLOW_SOURCE}/scripts/kfctl.sh apply k8s
创建一个新的Jupyter Notebook 实例
- 浏览器打开hub
- 登入
- 点击Start My Server
按钮
- 选择 images
- CPU 内存限制
Distributed TensorFlow with Kubernetes and TFJob
Thankfully, with Kubernetes and TFJob things are much, much simpler, making distributed training something you might actually be able to benefit from.
Before submitting a training job, you should have deployed Kubeflow to your cluster. Doing so ensures that the TFJob custom resource is available when you submit the training job.
- 在集群中部署Kubeflow
- TFJob 自定义资源
Overview of TFJob distributed training
So, how does TFJob work for distributed training? Let's look again at what the TFJobSpecand TFReplicaSpec objects looks like:
TFJobSpec Object
Field
Type
Description
ReplicaSpecs
TFReplicaSpec array
Specification for a set of TensorFlow processes, defined below
TFReplicaSpec Object
Note the last parameter IsDefaultPS that we didn't talk about before.
Field
Type
Description
TfReplicaType
string
What type of replica are we defining? Can be MASTER, WORKER or PS. When not doing distributed TensorFlow, we just use MASTER which happens to be the default value.
Replicas
int
Number of replicas of TfReplicaType. Again this is useful only for distributed TensorFLow. Default value is 1.
Template
PodTemplateSpec
Describes the pod that will be created when executing a job. This is the standard Pod description that we have been using everywhere.
IsDefaultPS
boolean
Whether the parameter server should be using a default image or a custom one (default to true)
In case the distinction between master and workers is not clear, there is a single master per TensorFlow cluster, and it is in fact a worker. The difference is that the master is the worker that is going to handle the creation of the tf.Session, write logs and save the model.
As you can see, TFJobSpec and TFReplicaSpec allow us to easily define the architecture of the TensorFlow cluster we would like to setup.
Once we have defined this architecture in a TFJob template and deployed it with kubectl create, the operator will do most of the work for us. For each master, worker and parameter server in our TensorFlow cluster, the operator will create a service exposing it so they can communicate.
It will then create an internal representation of the cluster with each node and it's associated internal DNS name.
For example, if you were to create a TFJob with 1 MASTER, 2 WORKERS and 1 PS, this representation would look similar to this:
{ "master":[ "distributed-mnist-master-5oz2-0:2222" ], "ps":[ "distributed-mnist-ps-5oz2-0:2222" ], "worker":[ "distributed-mnist-worker-5oz2-0:2222", "distributed-mnist-worker-5oz2-1:2222" ] }
Finally, the operator will create all the necessary pods, and in each one, inject an environment variable named Tf_CONFIG, containing the cluster specification above, as well as the respective job name and task id that each node of the TensorFlow cluster should assume.
For example, here is the value of the TF_CONFIG environment variable that would be sent to worker 1:
{
"cluster":{
"master":[
"distributed-mnist-master-5oz2-0:2222"
],
"ps":[
"distributed-mnist-ps-5oz2-0:2222"
],
"worker":[
"distributed-mnist-worker-5oz2-0:2222",
"distributed-mnist-worker-5oz2-1:2222"
]
},
"task":{
"type":"worker",
"index":1
},
"environment":"cloud"
}
As you can see, this completely takes the responsibility of building and maintaining the ClusterSpec away from you. All you have to do, is modify your code to read the TF_CONFIG and act accordingly.
Modifying your model to use TFJob's TF_CONFIG
Concretely, let's see how you would modify your code:
Grab the TF_CONFIG environment variable
tf_config_json = os.environ.get("TF_CONFIG", "{}")
Deserialize to a python object
tf_config = json.loads(tf_config_json)
Grab the cluster specification from tf_config and create a new tf.train.ClusterSpec instance with it
cluster_spec = tf_config.get("cluster", {})
cluster_spec_object = tf.train.ClusterSpec(cluster_spec)
Grab the task assigned to this specific process from the config. job_name might be "worker" and task_id might be 1 for example
task = tf_config.get("task", {})
job_name = task["type"]
task_id = task["index"]
Configure the TensorFlow server
server_def = tf.train.ServerDef(
cluster=cluster_spec_object.as_cluster_def(),
protocol="grpc",
job_name=job_name,
task_index=task_id)
server = tf.train.Server(server_def)
checking if this process is the chief (also called master). The master has the responsibility of creating the session, saving the summaries etc.
is_chief = (job_name == 'master')
Notice that we are not handling the case where job_name == 'ps'. That is because TFJob
will take care of the parameter servers for us by default.
As for any distributed TensorFlow training, you will then also need to modify your model to split the operations and variables among the workers and parameter servers as well as create on session on the master.
Exercises
1 - Modifying Our MNIST Example to Support Distributed Training
1. a.
Starting from the MNIST sample we have been working with so far, modify it to work with distributed TensorFlow and TFJob. You will then need to build the image and push it (you should push it under a different name or tag to avoid overwriting what you did before).
cd 7-distributed-tensorflow/solution-src
build from tensorflow/tensorflow:gpu for master and workers
docker build -t ${DOCKER_USERNAME}/tf-mnist:distributedgpu -f ./Dockerfile.gpu .
builld from tensorflow/tensorflow for the parameter server
docker build -t ${DOCKER_USERNAME}/tf-mnist:distributed .
1. b.
Modify the yaml template from module 6 - TFJob, to instead deploy 1 master, 2 workers and 1 PS. Then create a yaml to deploy TensorBoard to monitor the training with TensorBoard. Note that since our model is very simple, TensorFlow will likely use only 1 of the workers, but it will still work fine. Don't forget to update the image or tag.
Validation
kubectl get pods
Should yield:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
module6-ex1-master-m8vi-0-rdr5o 1/1 Running 0 23s
module6-ex1-ps-m8vi-0-0vhjm 1/1 Running 0 23s
module6-ex1-worker-m8vi-0-eyb6l 1/1 Running 0 23s
module6-ex1-worker-m8vi-1-bm2ue 1/1 Running 0 23s
looking at the logs of the master with:
kubectl logs
Should yield:
[...]
Initialize GrpcChannelCache for job master -> {0 -> localhost:2222}
Initialize GrpcChannelCache for job ps -> {0 -> module6-ex1-ps-m8vi-0:2222}
Initialize GrpcChannelCache for job worker -> {0 -> module6-ex1-worker-m8vi-0:2222, 1 -> module6-ex1-worker-m8vi-1:2222}
2018-04-30 22:45:28.963803: I tensorflow/core/distributed_runtime/rpc/grpc_server_lib.cc:333] Started server with target: grpc://localhost:2222
...
Accuracy at step 970: 0.9784
Accuracy at step 980: 0.9791
Accuracy at step 990: 0.9796
Adding run metadata for 999
This indicates that the ClusterSpec was correctly extracted from the environment variable and given to TensorFlow.
Once the TensorBoard pod is provisioned and running, we can connect to it using:
PODNAME=$(kubectl get pod -l app=tensorboard -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')
kubectl port-forward ${PODNAME} 6006:6006
From the browser, connect to it at http://<IP_ADDRESS>:6006, you should see that your model is indeed correctly distributed between workers and PS:
After a few minutes, the status of both worker nodes should show as Completed when doing kubectl get pods -a.
Solution
A working code sample is available in solution-src/main.py.
TFJob's Template
TensorBoard Template


Whether you’re becoming a homeowner for the first time or you’re a repeat buyer, buying a house is a financial and emotional decision that requires the experience and support of a team of reliable professionals.
Below are steps you should follow to get yourself a home that fits all your criteria. Click the options below to view the steps in detail.
In the maze of forms, financing, inspections, marketing, pricing, and negotiating, it makes sense to work with professionals who know the community and much more. Those professionals are the local Realtors who serve your area.
Most first-time buyers need to finance their home purchase, and a consultation with a mortgage lender is a crucial step in the process. Find out how much you can afford before you begin your home search.
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PCombineInfo = ^TCombineInfo;
TCombineInfo = record
SrcAlpha: Integer;
DrawMode: TDrawMode;
CombineMode: TCombineMode;
CombineCallBack: TPixelCombineEvent;
TransparentColor: TColor32;
end;
TCombineInfo contains blending and combine related properties, similar to what is contained in TBitmap32. This structure is used in routines which does not have a single source bitmap, which would normally provide this information (for example a special overloaded version of Rasterize).


Hint
Consider what built-in function you need to use to obtain the absolute value
How do you compare the results from the two built-in functions?


At
that
time
it
was
also
hoped
that
a
clarification
of
humanity
s
basic
mysteries
the
origin
of
the
Library
and
of
time
might
be
found
It
is
verisimilar
that
these
grave
mysteries
could
be
explained
in
words
if
the
language
of
philosophers
is
not
sufficient
the
multiform
Library
will
have
produced
the
unprecedented
language
required
with
its
vocabularies
and
grammars
For
four
centuries
now
men
have
exhausted
the
hexagons
There
are
official
searchers
inquisitors
I
have
seen
them
in
the
performance
of
their
function
they
always
arrive
extremely
tired
from
their
journeys
they
speak
of
a
broken
stairway
which
almost
killed
them
they
talk
with
the
librarian
of
galleries
and
stairs
sometimes
they
pick
up
the
nearest
volume
and
leaf
through
it
looking
for
infamous
words
Obviously
no
one
expects
to
discover
anything
.


UpCASE is an open source web application for building and maintaining language resources. It provides a wide range of options for viewing, evaluating, manipulating and enriching text collections. UpCASE is conceived as a multifunctional webapp where users can upload text documents (plain, pdf or scanned and ocr'ed). While being able to search over the uploaded text, users can correct, annotate and export it into different formats.
UpCASE comprises the experiences of years of work on Romansh texts and lexical resources. In several earlier projects we have developed web-based editing tools for collaborative OCR correction and annotation and a framework for collaborative lexicon creation and maintenance. UpCASE combines the key features of these projects, namely collaborative corpus construction, enrichment and maintenance (for more info on previous projects please check the link list below).
UpCASE is continuously being developed on GitHub. Under the following link you can try out a prototype as applied to the Romansh Chrestomathy (RC) compiled by Caspar Decurtins. The RC is meant to be the starting point of Biblioteca Digitala, a collection of Romansh texts.
Other projects on Romansh:


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#include "uw-mac-DACAP-alter.h"
#include <mac.h>
#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <rng.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
Go to the source code of this file.
Classes | |
| class | DACAPModuleClass |
Variables | |
| static const double | prop_speed = 1500.0 |
| packet_t | PT_DACAP |
| DACAPModuleClass | class_module_dacap |
| anonymous enum |
Enumeration that represent the possible state of the protocol.
Definition at line 55 of file uw-mac-DACAP-alter.cpp.
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static |
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static |
Definition at line 50 of file uw-mac-DACAP-alter.cpp.
| packet_t PT_DACAP |
Definition at line 47 of file data_link/uwdacap/initlib.cpp.


I am a web developer and graphic designer based out of the New York City area.
I am passionate about the design and development of simple, yet beautiful apps from concept to finish. I value clean compositions with just enough character to tell their own story.
I constantly push myself to visualize ideas from a unique perspective, and enjoy dreaming up creative solutions to bring them to life.
When I'm not coding, you'll usually find me having fun outdoors. I enjoy going on hikes, taking photos, and am always down for a round of golf. I also love learning new things, and am a firm subscriber to the philosophy that we are always students.


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The relationship among HTML, CSS, and DOM is analogous to a shirt design. HTML represents physical elemnts of the shirt such as whether or not it will have long, short, or no sleeves, a collar, buttons, etc. CSS would represent the designs on the shirt such as the colors or graphical images. DOM would be like the tag on the shirt saying what it is made out of and where the materials were sourced from. So if you want to see what a website is made out of, you would open DOM.
Boxifying is an essential component of HTML web design whereby images and texts are arranged on a web page within the framework of boxes. When developers are given a design, they break it up into boxes and develop each box.
The box model uses the boxed outcomes of boxifying to compartmentalize a website into individual boxes.


{% extends "notifications/email/base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block subject %}
{% blocktrans %}
Event created
{% endblocktrans %}
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
{% blocktrans %}
Event {{event}} was created for the court {{court}}.
{% endblocktrans %}
{% endblock %}


This value reperesents the total pack depth of discharge (that is, the total percent of the battery that has been discharged to this point). This value does not account for any Drift.


--- layout: post tags: [AutoFixture] date: 2009-05-11 20:25:42 UTC title: "Anonymous Sequences With AutoFixture" --- {% include JB/setup %}
When writing unit tests you often need to deal with sequences and collections, populating lists with anonymous data as part of setting up a Fixture.
This is easy to do with AutoFixture. While you can obviously create a simple loop and call CreateAnonymous from within the loop, AutoFixture provides some convenient methods for working with sequences.
Equivalent to the CreateAnonymous method, the Fixture class also includes the CreateMany method that creates a sequence of anonymous variables. CreateManyAnonymous might have been a more concise and consistent name for the method, but I felt that this was a bit too verbose.
This will create an IEnumerable<string>:
Fixture fixture = new Fixture(); var strings = fixture.CreateMany<string>();
Obviously, you can create sequences of whatever type you want, as long as AutoFixture can figure out how to create instances of the type:
var myInstances = fixture.CreateMany<MyClass>();
Being able to create sequences of anonymous data is nice, but sometimes you need to add multiple anonymous items to an existing list (particularly if that list is a read-only property of your SUT).
To support that scenario, the Fixture class also has the AddManyTo method that can be used like this:
var list = new List<MyClass>(); fixture.AddManyTo(list);
This simply creates many anonymous MyClass instances and adds them all to the list. Once more, AddManyAnonymousTo might have been a more precise name, but again I chose a less verbose alternative.
If you want more control over how the instances are created, a more explicit overload of AddManyTo gives you that.
var list = new List<int>(); var r = new Random(); fixture.AddManyTo(list, () => r.Next());
The above examples adds many random numbers to the list of integers, since the second parameters is a Func<T> used to create the instances.
By default, these methods all create 3 anonymous variables when called, since 3 is a good equivalent for many. If you want a different number of instances to be created, you can modify the RepeatCount property.
fixture.RepeatCount = 10; var sequence = fixture.CreateMany<MyClass>();
The above example will create an IEnumerable<MyClass> with 10 anonymous MyClass instances, while this will add 7 anonymous instances to the list variable:
var list = new List<MyClass>(); fixture.RepeatCount = 7; fixture.AddManyTo(list);
AutoFixture provides some convenient methods for creating and managing collections of anonymous data. While it may seem simple (and it is), in a future post I will demonstrate how it can save you quit a bit of infrastructure code, and enable you to write unit tests that are shorter, more concise and more maintainable.


{% extends 'registration/base.html' %} {% block content %}
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Box-and-whisker plot uses simple glyphs that summarize a quantitative distribution with five standard statistics:
Data is from the Michelson–Morley experiment. This example periodically randomizes the values to demonstrate transitions.


Each of the analysis methods had its own way of estimating and reporting the phase. Since we recommend using more than one method, some unified way of treating phases was necessary.
First to note is that, phases now are always reported in the range from 0 to period:
phase ϵ [0,period)
so it should roughly coincide with the time of the peak.
It differs from some mathematical approaches in which phase was from –period/2,period/2, but it is more natural and easier to interpret. If you start recording your data in 12:12LD conditions (so period is 24h) from time 0, and observe peaks in data at time 4, 28, 52, then the phase would be 4 (for example like for CCA1). If your data peaks at 18, 42, 66, 90, then your phase would be 18 (for example like for TOC1).
But what if the data starts at 30h or was analysed with data window from 30. Since, the data are periodic, and the period is already estimated, it is possible to back calculate the data to the 0. For example for data that peaks at 31, 55, 79, 103, BioDare will report phase as 7 relative to 0 (if period was 24h).
This way of reporting phase is called: Phase relative to zero
in the screen that presents results of period analysis.
Another option is: Phase relative to data window
. Simply it reports where the data peaks
relative to the beginning of the data window.
Using the examples from the above for CCA1 and TOC1,
if the data were analysed with data window starting at 20, the phases will be 8 for CCA1
(cause the first peak is at time 28 which is 8 hours apart from the data window) and 22 for TOC1.
So which one you should use. It depends :)
Generally, the data window is chosen for technical reasons,
in order to select the longest data subset of decent quality (for example escaping the first few hours
cause of the transition effect or cutting the last few cause of the noise).
In such a case,
the start of data window has no "biological" or "external" meaning and reporting phase relative to it will be pointless,
as it will change from experiment to experiment.
At the same time, if you use offset
parameter correctly, the 0 in data has some significance like
subjective dawn, or drug addition, so reporting phase relative to 0 is like reporting phase relative to that external event.
However, if your data or analysis window starts late, for example at 80 hours, then the phase had to be back calculated to 0, and any errors in period estimate were contributing to that backcalculation (with exception of FFT NLLS). In that case, using data window that starts at 72 hours (so it stills, coincides with the external ZT), allows us to avoid those errors and still report phase relative to the external event.
To sum up:
Phase can be reported in absolute
(simple hours) or circadian units
. Circadian unit is 1/24 of the free running period and it allows
comparison of peaking times independently of the period. For example if WT has period of 24h and peak time (phase) at 6, while the toc1 mutant
has period of 20h and peak time at 5, then both lines have the same phase in circadian units (6) as they peak at 1/4 at their respective oscilation circle.
But how the phase is calculated, there are 4 possible options,
In the phase by fit method, one cosine function having period matching the estimated data period is fitted to the data. Fitting procedure finds phase and amplitude parameters of the cosine that follows the data the most closely, and reports those values as phase and amplitude. Such phase value is well defined, but it may not coincide with the peaks in the data if the signals are not symmetrical. Because of that caution should be taken when comparing the phases of timeseries with completely different waveforms.
Phase by first peak, as the name suggests finds, reports the phase as the time at which the first peak is found (potentially back calculated to 0). However, the fit produced by a method is used to find the peak not the original input data.
Phase by average peak, finds all the peaks in the produced fit, averages their times (with the respect to cyclic nature of the data) and report the averaged value.
Phase method specific reports the phase using the original approach to phase estimation for the given algorithm:
Amplitude depends on the estimation method for the phase:


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Example PhpStorm Third Party Plugins
This page lists some example PhpStorm plugins created by third party developers.
Symfony
Symfony plugin is a free plugin for Symfony framework developers.
There are lots of futures included into this plugin, such as Symfony-specific completion and navigation for symbols, templates, service container, Doctrine, translations, routes, forms, events, and more.
- Official Symfony plugin Web Site
- GitHub
- Symfony Development using PhpStorm Tutorials
- Symfony plugin in PhpStorm Plugins Repository
Magicento
Magicento is a paid PhpStorm plugin for Magento developers. Free limited version is available. Features include: Goto for factories and template paths, autocomplete for factories, xml files and class names, documentation for xml nodes, evaluation of PHP code inside Magento environment, and much more to come!
YiiStorm
YiiStorm is a plugin for PhpStorm IDE that is adding code navigation enhancements for Yii framework based projects. Features are: Going from render and renderPartial to the view file. Includes controllers, partials and widgets. Supports all ways of specifying a view: themes, smarty .tpl views and external actions; Going from model name in relations() to the model class; Going from the $this->widget(‘path.to.widget.Class’) call to the widget class; Going from controller actions() to action class.


--- layout: post title: KaizenConf , so far, has been about… date: '2008-11-01T06:17:00.001Z' tags: [conferences, kaizenconf] modified_time: '2008-11-01T06:17:07.831Z' blogger_id: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4015568221071268916.post-4711546786077667643 comments: true blogger_orig_url: http://serialseb.blogspot.com/2008/11/kaizenconf-so-far-has-been-about.html ---
I probably forget many, but my brain is obscured by the level of discussion and contribution that happens here. None of the PDC / TechEd events compare to the thrill you get when surrounded by extremely opinionated and excited people. I’m in geek heaven.


Preparation time
overnight
Cooking time
over 2 hours
Serves
Serves 4
Slow cooking duck ensures the meat is beautifully tender with crisp skin. Served with rich, spiced lentils and creamy mash, this is comfort food at it's most luxurious.
Preheat the oven to 140C/120C Fan/Gas 1.
For the honey-glazed confit duck, put the salt, thyme, rosemary and garlic into a bowl and mix. Add the duck legs, cover with the mixture and marinate in the fridge for 24 hours.
Rinse the duck legs to wash off the salt mixture. Place in an ovenproof lidded saucepan or casserole and add the duck fat and bay leaves. Bring to a simmer over a medium heat. Cover with the lid and transfer to the oven for 2½ hours.
For the spiced lentils, add the butter and oil to a frying pan. Once hot, add the bacon lardons and cook until golden-brown and crisp. Add the onion and cook for 2 minutes, then add the garlic, carrot, celery and spices and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Stir in the lentils and red wine and bring to the boil, cook until the wine has reduced in volume by half, then add the stock and cook for 25-30 minutes, or until the lentils are tender. Finish with the sherry vinegar and fresh coriander.
For the mashed potato, place the potatoes in a large pan of salted water and bring to the boil, cook for 15-20 minutes or until tender.
Drain the potatoes then mash well or pass through a potato ricer. Stir in the milk, cream and butter and mix until smooth.
To serve, heat a frying pan and add the butter. Once hot, add the drained duck legs and colour on both sides. Add the honey to the pan and glaze the duck with the pan juices.
Put a spoonful of lentils on each serving plate and place a duck leg on top. Serve the mashed potato alongside. Finish with the warm jus or reduced stock.


Shared-memory APIs.
More...
Go to the source code of this file.
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| int | qshm_init (const char *keyfile, int keyid, size_t size, bool recreate) |
| | Initialize shared-memory.
|
| |
| int | qshm_getid (const char *keyfile, int keyid) |
| | Get shared memory identifier by keyfile and keyid for existing shared memory.
|
| |
| void * | qshm_get (int shmid) |
| | Get a pointer of shared memory.
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| |
| bool | qshm_free (int shmid) |
| | De-allocate shared memory.
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| |
Shared-memory APIs.
- Note
[your header file]
struct SharedData {
(... structrue definitions ...)
}
[shared memory creater]
int shmid =
qshm_init(
"/some/file/for/generating/unique/key",
's',
sizeof(
struct SharedData),
true);
if(shmid < 0) {
printf("ERROR: Can't initialize shared memory.\n");
return -1;
}
struct SharedData *sdata = (SharedData *)
qshm_get(shmid);
if(sdata == NULL) {
printf("ERROR: Can't get shared memory.\n");
return -1;
}
[shared memory user]
int shmid =
qshm_getid(
"/some/file/for/generating/unique/key",
's');
if(shmid < 0) {
printf("ERROR: Can't get shared memory id.\n");
return -1;
}
struct SharedData *sdata = (SharedData *)
qshm_get(shmid);
if(sdata == NULL) {
printf("ERROR: Can't get shared memory.\n");
return -1;
}
void * qshm_get(int shmid)
Get a pointer of shared memory.
int qshm_init(const char *keyfile, int keyid, size_t size, bool recreate)
Initialize shared-memory.
int qshm_getid(const char *keyfile, int keyid)
Get shared memory identifier by keyfile and keyid for existing shared memory.
Definition in file qshm.c.
◆ qshm_init()
| int qshm_init |
( |
const char * |
keyfile, |
|
|
int |
keyid, |
|
|
size_t |
size, |
|
|
bool |
recreate |
|
) |
| |
Initialize shared-memory.
- Parameters
-
| keyfile | seed for generating unique IPC key |
| keyid | seed for generating unique IPC key |
| size | size of shared memory |
| recreate | set to true to re-create shared-memory if already exists |
- Returns
- non-negative shared memory identifier if successful, otherwise returns -1
Definition at line 91 of file qshm.c.
◆ qshm_getid()
| int qshm_getid |
( |
const char * |
keyfile, |
|
|
int |
keyid |
|
) |
| |
Get shared memory identifier by keyfile and keyid for existing shared memory.
- Parameters
-
| keyfile | seed for generating unique IPC key |
| keyid | seed for generating unique IPC key |
- Returns
- non-negative shared memory identifier if successful, otherwise returns -1
Definition at line 127 of file qshm.c.
◆ qshm_get()
| void * qshm_get |
( |
int |
shmid | ) |
|
Get a pointer of shared memory.
- Parameters
-
| shmid | shared memory identifier |
- Returns
- a pointer of shared memory
Definition at line 149 of file qshm.c.
◆ qshm_free()
| bool qshm_free |
( |
int |
shmid | ) |
|
De-allocate shared memory.
- Parameters
-
| shmid | shared memory identifier |
- Returns
- true if successful, otherwise returns false
Definition at line 167 of file qshm.c.


KNIT was initially established as the Faculty of Technology in the year 1976 by Kamla Nehru Memorial Trust. It was taken over by the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh in 1979 with a view to developing a full-fledged Engineering Institute in the Eastern UP region better known as the Awadh region. Later, in the year 1983 it was registered as a separate society and renamed as the Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology. The Institute is one of the leading technical Institutions of the region and is responsible for producing top-grade engineers with skill sets comparable with the best in the world. Being fully aware of its social responsibilities and the addressing the issue of application of technology to industry, it also renders the testing and consultancy services to the neighboring industries and various other agencies. The Institute is presently Autonomous College Of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, formerly Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow


My SiteBy Bane Srdjevic11/16/2014 |
My site has been an interesting experience. While I did discover that I am much more suited to logic based programming and need to take some extra special time to work on HTML and CSS, it has been interesting in that the whole time I was supposed to be working on my current site, I found myself planning and creating a new site for myself. It's a lot more complex than the fairly static one I have up right now, but when it's done it'll be something special.
Until the grand unveiling, however, the current site I've had up has been a great exercise in learning about what does into a website and what makes it tick. I've been doing some research on Jekyll and Bootstrap, for example, and learning what I can from them, but I honestly think the kind of websites I want to build in my free time won't be run on those frameworks. I want more malleability, and those set too many things in stone. No, for the things I will be doing for fun I will absolutely be coding it on my own. I just need some more practice with CSS animations and a touch more knowledge about jQuery.
But looking at other student's sites has been a great experience. Each person has their own tastes and flavors when it comes to design, an the cumulative product has become a tapestry. I like both the super simple designs as well as the really elaborate ones with pictures and flashing colors and everything else that goes with it. And I liked giving people feedback and asking them questions.
What's intersting now though is that I feel a lot more comfortable using the inspect element feature in browser, and I'm getting a lot of great ideas for site design from some of my favorite sites. I think it's absolutely great that CSS and HTML are pretty much open source for whoever visits the site. It's a very progressive thing, and I can't wait to add some of my work to it.
Anyways, HTML and CSS are my weakness, I am sure of that, but I'll get better at them with time. That's how it goes with everything, and I'll just have to put a little extra work into perfecting those two.


Congratulations! You just completed a successful mapathon and are excited for the possibilities for undertaking more mapping events. What then, should you do next? This document contains elements of an open mapping plan for Saint Lucia with a special focus on continuing technical proficiency and community development. This is envisioned as a six-month roadmap, but can easily be adjusted to suit the needs of the local community.
The OpenStreetMap community typically schedule at least four events a year, though we always have more.
Use the TeachOSM Tasking Manager to create bite-sized mapping jobs for future events: http://tasks.teachosm.org/
Begin taking steps to address data quality. It’s common for new mappers to enter roads that don’t connect properly, building corners that should be squared, and features improperly tagged. The following resources provide examples of validation and data quality procedures.
To square building corners, see the ‘Buildings’ section of the Bandung tracing guide: http://hotosm.github.io/tracing-guides/guide/Bandung-Indo.html
OpenStreetMap’s web-based iD editor is the easiest and most convenient way to get started mapping. But eventually, you will become quite proficient in OpenStreetMap mapping techniques and you will want to graduate to the Java OpenStreetMap Editor, aka JOSM. JOSM allows you to map quickly with keyboard shortcuts, a series of editing tools for common tasks and specialized plugins. Here is your guide to take your mapping skills to the next level.
Use TagInfo to know which tags are in common usage - http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/
Geobadges are micro-credentials for students or all ages: http://geobadges.org/
TeachOSM offers resources to teachers and instructors who want to use OpenStreetMap to teach geographic skills and reasoning - http://teachosm.org/
Here are some resources to promote future events with comparisons, establish bragging rights, and create printed maps.


DefaultPreemptionArgs holds arguments used to configure the DefaultPreemption plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
DefaultPreemptionArgs |
minCandidateNodesPercentage
*
int32
|
MinCandidateNodesPercentage is the minimum number of candidates to shortlist when dry running preemption as a percentage of number of nodes. Must be in the range [0, 100]. Defaults to 10% of the cluster size if unspecified. |
minCandidateNodesAbsolute
*
int32
|
MinCandidateNodesAbsolute is the absolute minimum number of candidates to shortlist. The likely number of candidates enumerated for dry running preemption is given by the formula: numCandidates = max(numNodes * minCandidateNodesPercentage, minCandidateNodesAbsolute) We say "likely" because there are other factors such as PDB violations that play a role in the number of candidates shortlisted. Must be at least 0 nodes. Defaults to 100 nodes if unspecified. |
InterPodAffinityArgs holds arguments used to configure the InterPodAffinity plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
InterPodAffinityArgs |
hardPodAffinityWeight
*
int32
|
HardPodAffinityWeight is the scoring weight for existing pods with a matching hard affinity to the incoming pod. |
KubeSchedulerConfiguration configures a scheduler
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
KubeSchedulerConfiguration |
parallelism
*
int32
|
Parallelism defines the amount of parallelism in algorithms for scheduling a Pods. Must be greater than 0. Defaults to 16 |
leaderElection
*
LeaderElectionConfiguration
|
LeaderElection defines the configuration of leader election client. |
clientConnection
*
ClientConnectionConfiguration
|
ClientConnection specifies the kubeconfig file and client connection settings for the proxy server to use when communicating with the apiserver. |
DebuggingConfiguration
*
DebuggingConfiguration
|
(Members of DebuggingConfiguration holds configuration for Debugging related features TODO: We might wanna make this a substruct like Debugging componentbaseconfigv1alpha1.DebuggingConfiguration |
percentageOfNodesToScore
*
int32
|
PercentageOfNodesToScore is the percentage of all nodes that once found feasible for running a pod, the scheduler stops its search for more feasible nodes in the cluster. This helps improve scheduler's performance. Scheduler always tries to find at least "minFeasibleNodesToFind" feasible nodes no matter what the value of this flag is. Example: if the cluster size is 500 nodes and the value of this flag is 30, then scheduler stops finding further feasible nodes once it finds 150 feasible ones. When the value is 0, default percentage (5%--50% based on the size of the cluster) of the nodes will be scored. |
podInitialBackoffSeconds
*
int64
|
PodInitialBackoffSeconds is the initial backoff for unschedulable pods. If specified, it must be greater than 0. If this value is null, the default value (1s) will be used. |
podMaxBackoffSeconds
*
int64
|
PodMaxBackoffSeconds is the max backoff for unschedulable pods. If specified, it must be greater than podInitialBackoffSeconds. If this value is null, the default value (10s) will be used. |
profiles
*
[]KubeSchedulerProfile
|
Profiles are scheduling profiles that kube-scheduler supports. Pods can choose to be scheduled under a particular profile by setting its associated scheduler name. Pods that don't specify any scheduler name are scheduled with the "default-scheduler" profile, if present here. |
extenders
*
[]Extender
|
Extenders are the list of scheduler extenders, each holding the values of how to communicate with the extender. These extenders are shared by all scheduler profiles. |
NodeAffinityArgs holds arguments to configure the NodeAffinity plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
NodeAffinityArgs |
addedAffinity
core/v1.NodeAffinity
|
AddedAffinity is applied to all Pods additionally to the NodeAffinity specified in the PodSpec. That is, Nodes need to satisfy AddedAffinity AND .spec.NodeAffinity. AddedAffinity is empty by default (all Nodes match). When AddedAffinity is used, some Pods with affinity requirements that match a specific Node (such as Daemonset Pods) might remain unschedulable. |
NodeResourcesBalancedAllocationArgs holds arguments used to configure NodeResourcesBalancedAllocation plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
NodeResourcesBalancedAllocationArgs |
resources
*
[]ResourceSpec
|
Resources to be managed, the default is "cpu" and "memory" if not specified. |
NodeResourcesFitArgs holds arguments used to configure the NodeResourcesFit plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
NodeResourcesFitArgs |
ignoredResources
*
[]string
|
IgnoredResources is the list of resources that NodeResources fit filter should ignore. This doesn't apply to scoring. |
ignoredResourceGroups
*
[]string
|
IgnoredResourceGroups defines the list of resource groups that NodeResources fit filter should ignore. e.g. if group is ["example.com"], it will ignore all resource names that begin with "example.com", such as "example.com/aaa" and "example.com/bbb". A resource group name can't contain '/'. This doesn't apply to scoring. |
scoringStrategy
*
ScoringStrategy
|
ScoringStrategy selects the node resource scoring strategy. The default strategy is LeastAllocated with an equal "cpu" and "memory" weight. |
PodTopologySpreadArgs holds arguments used to configure the PodTopologySpread plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
PodTopologySpreadArgs |
defaultConstraints
[]core/v1.TopologySpreadConstraint
|
DefaultConstraints defines topology spread constraints to be applied to
Pods that don't define any in |
defaultingType
PodTopologySpreadConstraintsDefaulting
|
DefaultingType determines how .defaultConstraints are deduced. Can be one of "System" or "List".
Defaults to "System". |
VolumeBindingArgs holds arguments used to configure the VolumeBinding plugin.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiVersion string |
kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1beta3 |
kind string |
VolumeBindingArgs |
bindTimeoutSeconds
*
int64
|
BindTimeoutSeconds is the timeout in seconds in volume binding operation. Value must be non-negative integer. The value zero indicates no waiting. If this value is nil, the default value (600) will be used. |
shape
[]UtilizationShapePoint
|
Shape specifies the points defining the score function shape, which is used to score nodes based on the utilization of statically provisioned PVs. The utilization is calculated by dividing the total requested storage of the pod by the total capacity of feasible PVs on each node. Each point contains utilization (ranges from 0 to 100) and its associated score (ranges from 0 to 10). You can turn the priority by specifying different scores for different utilization numbers. The default shape points are:
|
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerConfiguration)
Extender holds the parameters used to communicate with the extender. If a verb is unspecified/empty, it is assumed that the extender chose not to provide that extension.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
urlPrefix
*
string
|
URLPrefix at which the extender is available |
filterVerb
*
string
|
Verb for the filter call, empty if not supported. This verb is appended to the URLPrefix when issuing the filter call to extender. |
preemptVerb
*
string
|
Verb for the preempt call, empty if not supported. This verb is appended to the URLPrefix when issuing the preempt call to extender. |
prioritizeVerb
*
string
|
Verb for the prioritize call, empty if not supported. This verb is appended to the URLPrefix when issuing the prioritize call to extender. |
weight
*
int64
|
The numeric multiplier for the node scores that the prioritize call generates. The weight should be a positive integer |
bindVerb
*
string
|
Verb for the bind call, empty if not supported. This verb is appended to the URLPrefix when issuing the bind call to extender. If this method is implemented by the extender, it is the extender's responsibility to bind the pod to apiserver. Only one extender can implement this function. |
enableHTTPS
*
bool
|
EnableHTTPS specifies whether https should be used to communicate with the extender |
tlsConfig
*
ExtenderTLSConfig
|
TLSConfig specifies the transport layer security config |
httpTimeout
*
meta/v1.Duration
|
HTTPTimeout specifies the timeout duration for a call to the extender. Filter timeout fails the scheduling of the pod. Prioritize timeout is ignored, k8s/other extenders priorities are used to select the node. |
nodeCacheCapable
*
bool
|
NodeCacheCapable specifies that the extender is capable of caching node information, so the scheduler should only send minimal information about the eligible nodes assuming that the extender already cached full details of all nodes in the cluster |
managedResources
[]ExtenderManagedResource
|
ManagedResources is a list of extended resources that are managed by this extender.
|
ignorable
*
bool
|
Ignorable specifies if the extender is ignorable, i.e. scheduling should not fail when the extender returns an error or is not reachable. |
(Appears in: Extender)
ExtenderManagedResource describes the arguments of extended resources managed by an extender.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
name
*
string
|
Name is the extended resource name. |
ignoredByScheduler
*
bool
|
IgnoredByScheduler indicates whether kube-scheduler should ignore this resource when applying predicates. |
(Appears in: Extender)
ExtenderTLSConfig contains settings to enable TLS with extender
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
insecure
*
bool
|
Server should be accessed without verifying the TLS certificate. For testing only. |
serverName
*
string
|
ServerName is passed to the server for SNI and is used in the client to check server certificates against. If ServerName is empty, the hostname used to contact the server is used. |
certFile
*
string
|
Server requires TLS client certificate authentication |
keyFile
*
string
|
Server requires TLS client certificate authentication |
caFile
*
string
|
Trusted root certificates for server |
certData
*
[]byte
|
CertData holds PEM-encoded bytes (typically read from a client certificate file). CertData takes precedence over CertFile |
keyData
*
[]byte
|
KeyData holds PEM-encoded bytes (typically read from a client certificate key file). KeyData takes precedence over KeyFile |
caData
*
[]byte
|
CAData holds PEM-encoded bytes (typically read from a root certificates bundle). CAData takes precedence over CAFile |
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerConfiguration)
KubeSchedulerProfile is a scheduling profile.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
schedulerName
*
string
|
SchedulerName is the name of the scheduler associated to this profile. If SchedulerName matches with the pod's "spec.schedulerName", then the pod is scheduled with this profile. |
plugins
*
Plugins
|
Plugins specify the set of plugins that should be enabled or disabled. Enabled plugins are the ones that should be enabled in addition to the default plugins. Disabled plugins are any of the default plugins that should be disabled. When no enabled or disabled plugin is specified for an extension point, default plugins for that extension point will be used if there is any. If a QueueSort plugin is specified, the same QueueSort Plugin and PluginConfig must be specified for all profiles. |
pluginConfig
*
[]PluginConfig
|
PluginConfig is an optional set of custom plugin arguments for each plugin. Omitting config args for a plugin is equivalent to using the default config for that plugin. |
(Appears in: PluginSet)
Plugin specifies a plugin name and its weight when applicable. Weight is used only for Score plugins.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
name
*
string
|
Name defines the name of plugin |
weight
*
int32
|
Weight defines the weight of plugin, only used for Score plugins. |
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerProfile)
PluginConfig specifies arguments that should be passed to a plugin at the time of initialization. A plugin that is invoked at multiple extension points is initialized once. Args can have arbitrary structure. It is up to the plugin to process these Args.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
name
*
string
|
Name defines the name of plugin being configured |
args
*
k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime.RawExtension
|
Args defines the arguments passed to the plugins at the time of initialization. Args can have arbitrary structure. |
(Appears in: Plugins)
PluginSet specifies enabled and disabled plugins for an extension point. If an array is empty, missing, or nil, default plugins at that extension point will be used.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
enabled
*
[]Plugin
|
Enabled specifies plugins that should be enabled in addition to default plugins. If the default plugin is also configured in the scheduler config file, the weight of plugin will be overridden accordingly. These are called after default plugins and in the same order specified here. |
disabled
*
[]Plugin
|
Disabled specifies default plugins that should be disabled. When all default plugins need to be disabled, an array containing only one "*" should be provided. |
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerProfile)
Plugins include multiple extension points. When specified, the list of plugins for a particular extension point are the only ones enabled. If an extension point is omitted from the config, then the default set of plugins is used for that extension point. Enabled plugins are called in the order specified here, after default plugins. If they need to be invoked before default plugins, default plugins must be disabled and re-enabled here in desired order.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
preEnqueue
*
PluginSet
|
PreEnqueue is a list of plugins that should be invoked before adding pods to the scheduling queue. |
queueSort
*
PluginSet
|
QueueSort is a list of plugins that should be invoked when sorting pods in the scheduling queue. |
preFilter
*
PluginSet
|
PreFilter is a list of plugins that should be invoked at "PreFilter" extension point of the scheduling framework. |
filter
*
PluginSet
|
Filter is a list of plugins that should be invoked when filtering out nodes that cannot run the Pod. |
postFilter
*
PluginSet
|
PostFilter is a list of plugins that are invoked after filtering phase, but only when no feasible nodes were found for the pod. |
preScore
*
PluginSet
|
PreScore is a list of plugins that are invoked before scoring. |
score
*
PluginSet
|
Score is a list of plugins that should be invoked when ranking nodes that have passed the filtering phase. |
reserve
*
PluginSet
|
Reserve is a list of plugins invoked when reserving/unreserving resources after a node is assigned to run the pod. |
permit
*
PluginSet
|
Permit is a list of plugins that control binding of a Pod. These plugins can prevent or delay binding of a Pod. |
preBind
*
PluginSet
|
PreBind is a list of plugins that should be invoked before a pod is bound. |
bind
*
PluginSet
|
Bind is a list of plugins that should be invoked at "Bind" extension point of the scheduling framework. The scheduler call these plugins in order. Scheduler skips the rest of these plugins as soon as one returns success. |
postBind
*
PluginSet
|
PostBind is a list of plugins that should be invoked after a pod is successfully bound. |
multiPoint
*
PluginSet
|
MultiPoint is a simplified config section to enable plugins for all valid extension points. Plugins enabled through MultiPoint will automatically register for every individual extension point the plugin has implemented. Disabling a plugin through MultiPoint disables that behavior. The same is true for disabling "*" through MultiPoint (no default plugins will be automatically registered). Plugins can still be disabled through their individual extension points. In terms of precedence, plugin config follows this basic hierarchy
|
string
alias)(Appears in: PodTopologySpreadArgs)
PodTopologySpreadConstraintsDefaulting defines how to set default constraints for the PodTopologySpread plugin.
(Appears in: ScoringStrategy)
RequestedToCapacityRatioParam define RequestedToCapacityRatio parameters
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
shape
*
[]UtilizationShapePoint
|
Shape is a list of points defining the scoring function shape. |
(Appears in: NodeResourcesBalancedAllocationArgs, ScoringStrategy)
ResourceSpec represents a single resource.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
name
*
string
|
Name of the resource. |
weight
*
int64
|
Weight of the resource. |
(Appears in: NodeResourcesFitArgs)
ScoringStrategy define ScoringStrategyType for node resource plugin
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
type
*
ScoringStrategyType
|
Type selects which strategy to run. |
resources
*
[]ResourceSpec
|
Resources to consider when scoring. The default resource set includes "cpu" and "memory" with an equal weight. Allowed weights go from 1 to 100. Weight defaults to 1 if not specified or explicitly set to 0. |
requestedToCapacityRatio
*
RequestedToCapacityRatioParam
|
Arguments specific to RequestedToCapacityRatio strategy. |
string
alias)(Appears in: ScoringStrategy)
ScoringStrategyType the type of scoring strategy used in NodeResourcesFit plugin.
(Appears in: VolumeBindingArgs, RequestedToCapacityRatioParam)
UtilizationShapePoint represents single point of priority function shape.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
utilization
*
int32
|
Utilization (x axis). Valid values are 0 to 100. Fully utilized node maps to 100. |
score
*
int32
|
Score assigned to given utilization (y axis). Valid values are 0 to 10. |
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerConfiguration, KubeSchedulerConfiguration)
ClientConnectionConfiguration contains details for constructing a client.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
kubeconfig
*
string
|
kubeconfig is the path to a KubeConfig file. |
acceptContentTypes
*
string
|
acceptContentTypes defines the Accept header sent by clients when connecting to a server, overriding the default value of 'application/json'. This field will control all connections to the server used by a particular client. |
contentType
*
string
|
contentType is the content type used when sending data to the server from this client. |
qps
*
float32
|
qps controls the number of queries per second allowed for this connection. |
burst
*
int32
|
burst allows extra queries to accumulate when a client is exceeding its rate. |
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerConfiguration, KubeSchedulerConfiguration)
DebuggingConfiguration holds configuration for Debugging related features.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
enableProfiling
*
bool
|
enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/ |
enableContentionProfiling
*
bool
|
enableContentionProfiling enables lock contention profiling, if enableProfiling is true. |
(Appears in: KubeSchedulerConfiguration, KubeSchedulerConfiguration)
LeaderElectionConfiguration defines the configuration of leader election clients for components that can run with leader election enabled.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
leaderElect
*
bool
|
leaderElect enables a leader election client to gain leadership before executing the main loop. Enable this when running replicated components for high availability. |
leaseDuration
*
meta/v1.Duration
|
leaseDuration is the duration that non-leader candidates will wait after observing a leadership renewal until attempting to acquire leadership of a led but unrenewed leader slot. This is effectively the maximum duration that a leader can be stopped before it is replaced by another candidate. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled. |
renewDeadline
*
meta/v1.Duration
|
renewDeadline is the interval between attempts by the acting master to renew a leadership slot before it stops leading. This must be less than or equal to the lease duration. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled. |
retryPeriod
*
meta/v1.Duration
|
retryPeriod is the duration the clients should wait between attempting acquisition and renewal of a leadership. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled. |
resourceLock
*
string
|
resourceLock indicates the resource object type that will be used to lock during leader election cycles. |
resourceName
*
string
|
resourceName indicates the name of resource object that will be used to lock during leader election cycles. |
resourceNamespace
*
string
|
resourceName indicates the namespace of resource object that will be used to lock during leader election cycles. |
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RETURN TO PARADISE A film review by Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: Wow! Pretty tough to imagine this not being the best film I see this year. Three buddies committed a crime in Malaysia, two left the country, and one was caught. If neither of the free buddies go back to stand trial the caught man will hang. Whoever goes back will be volunteering for prison under horrible conditions. An intelligent film about very tough moral decisions and their consequences. Rating: 9 (0 to 10), high +3 (-4 to +4). A very heavy spoiler after the review discusses the issues this film raises. This is a very good film but some of its issues cannot be discussed without disclosing plot twists.
This is an adult film in the literal meaning. It is a film that does not sugar coat its view of reality. Things do not happen in this film because of wishful thinking the way they might in a Frank Capra film. RETURN TO PARADISE is a film without a safety net. It asks the right questions and does not provide the viewer with pre-digested answers. In A FEW GOOD MEN there are some interesting issues raised, but there are giant neon signs telling the viewer which side to sympathize with on the issues. Independently of the Jack Nicholson character's ideas, the script makes him an insulting male chauvinist. The film entirely sidesteps the issue of whether Nicholson might be correct about defense, he clearly is a villain. RETURN TO PARADISE also raises issues. But it is not a morality tale. It does not tell the viewer what the answers are. There are no neon signs.
Tony (David Conrad), Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), and Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix) are having a good time together in Malaysia. They are drinking beer, seeing the countryside, getting into trouble, and smoking cheap hashish. They throw out the hashish they have not used when Sheriff and Tony have to go home.
Flash forward two years. Sheriff is a limousine driver, and Tony is an architect. Lewis has spent the last two years in a Penang prison. Now the Malaysian government is going to hang Lewis as a drug dealer unless he can prove he was only a user. To do that he has to produce the people who shared the drugs with him. Informally the Malaysian government says that they will give a total of six years prison time to the one or two people who show up and will commute Lewis's term. Lawyer Beth (Anne Heche) is in New York and has the job of convincing Sheriff and Tony to go and take their prison sentences so Lewis will not be executed. But how does one weigh the greater evil when the prison is so bad that six years may be tantamount to a death sentence or perhaps be enough to permanently unhinge the prisoner.
Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix are perhaps better known as the leads of CLAY PIGEONS. Here they have a very different moral relationship but their fates are similarly connected. Anne Heche of SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS is the lawyer stuck with the task of getting two men to give up years of their lives to save the life of someone they hardly know. The script is based on the film FORCE MAJEURE by Pierre Jolivet. The original English language script was written by Bruce Robinson who wrote what I considered the best film I saw in the 1980s, THE KILLING FIELDS. And here he is connected with the best film I have seen thus far in the 1990s. Wesley Strict rewrote the script.
RETURN TO PARADISE is a rare film experience. It is an intelligent and adult look at people making hard choices in the real world. I give it a 9 on the 0 to 10 scale and a high +3 on the -4 to +4 scale.
Heavy spoiler.... Heavy spoiler....Heavy spoiler...
If this film were only about the heavy price Sheriff and Tony were being asked to pay to save Lewis's life, this would be a very good film. But it goes much beyond that. Unfortunately one only realizes the other issues of this film toward the end and I cannot discuss them in the main body of may review.
If one were to ask if freedom of the press is a good thing or a bad thing, I think most of us would vote in favor. We give the press a broad range of freedoms in this country in the hopes that it will help to topple dictators, or better yet never letting them get started. We do not want to let the government limit our freedom of expression, our First Amendment rights. If I were asked what is the downside of giving this much power to the press the first example that comes to mind is that we are giving the press the right to publish how to make dangerous devices. There have been issues in the past of magazines wanting to publish instructions for building your own atomic bombs. It is also very timely that this film comes out just as a media barrage is toppling a President. There are certainly good arguments that the press has overstepped its bounds.
Our First Amendment really hamstrings us in controlling dangerous information. There are laws that may let us use restraining orders, but deep down the First Amendment has given all the big guns to people who want to make information available, for better or for worse. In the case in RETURN TO PARADISE it was a lost cause from the beginning. The international press was going tell the world about Lewis's case. That would anger the Malaysian government and they would punish Lewis. Any nobility on the part of Sheriff and Tony would be misplaced. (And that really is something we rarely see in film. The ethical thing to do is rarely shown as being useless and pointless.) As soon as the press got hold of the story, it was out of the main characters' hands. Lewis was going to die, not because of his crime, but because the founding fathers felt the press had to be unrestrained.
Another issue is raised in the film, that that we are much more tolerant of drug use in this country than the rest of the world. The Malaysian judge has a very good point. In his country children are free from the risk of drugs. Malaysia has a much lower risk of crime. Our lax attitude on drug enforcement also has a heavy price. We walk a middle ground between either legalizing drugs or treating drug use as harshly as the Malaysians do. We are afraid to do the former and do not have the stomach to do the latter. And that middle ground of shadow tolerance is also what kills Lewis in this film.
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Thanks Pat!  I just posted my stab at a plugin for just this, initially based off your code. I've also posted it to the attachment_fu google group for comment.
rickMarch 03, 2008
It was done that way on purpose so you could do cool stuff like this. I figure it's easier to let you define this stuff in Rails, rather than coming up with my own slick DSL that's constantly being updated for everyone's edge cases.
Sweet! This is a nice tutorial for my beginner skills in Ruby. Got my custom errors messages for attachment_fu looking hot!
Luca G.SoaveMay 12, 2008
Hi Patrick,
Useful article here, as usual. I'm just moving first steps about attachment_fu, looking for a way to upload ":other" files type ... say opml files, do you have some exaples to manage something like :
has_attachment :content_type => ['text/x-opml', 'application/xml', 'text/xml', 'text/html', 'text/plain'], .... and eventually the ":storage => :db_file" way ?
Thanks Pat!  I just posted my stab at a plugin for just this, initially based off your code. I've also posted it to the attachment_fu google group for comment.
It was done that way on purpose so you could do cool stuff like this. I figure it's easier to let you define this stuff in Rails, rather than coming up with my own slick DSL that's constantly being updated for everyone's edge cases.
Cool, Rick. It's always nice to have options. :)
Sweet! This is a nice tutorial for my beginner skills in Ruby. Got my custom errors messages for attachment_fu looking hot!
Hi Patrick,
Useful article here, as usual. I'm just moving first steps about attachment_fu, looking for a way to upload ":other" files type ... say opml files, do you have some exaples to manage something like :
has_attachment :content_type => ['text/x-opml', 'application/xml', 'text/xml', 'text/html', 'text/plain'], .... and eventually the ":storage => :db_file" way ?
Thanks in advance.
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[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> $70k at peak to switch to an algo that many of us can't mine?
Have you people lost your minds?
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> it's not like you need a mars rover to mine verushash
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> or any other very specialized hardware, that is
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> no, but to do it with any usefulness you do need a CPU that takes a very specific instruction set (which many of us do not have)
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> do you have a better solution?
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> ummm
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> mine the chain we have?
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> are you mining?
[dscrd-chips] <0x03>
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> I was
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> why would I bother if the algo is going to change?
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> yea that doesn't mean crap if the chain is slow NOW
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> ehh brb
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> i need popcorn
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> lol, no need for popcorn
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> the chain being slow now is entirely meaningless
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> then why do you make a fuzz
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> oh yes there is need for popcorn
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> we're trying to fix this stalling of CHIPS and some had the idea that verushash could fix it
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> CHIPS is stalling for 3 simple reasons:
it's summer
greedy miners left
why should anyone run a sustained setup when the plan is to change it by the time tx fees become a sustainable income?
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> CHIPS is not really done and i don't see a lot of usage all of a sudden
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> so tx fees will take a while
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> i think CHIPS is stalling because reward is too low
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> not that it's summer, that's just timing
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> and I was willing to mine it for that while until the plan became one which would cost me in excess of $10k to get the same results when tx fees are sustainable
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> miners mine to make profit. if they lose money on mining, yeah, can't blame them
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> not that it's summer, that's just timing
No, that's 100% of the reason my hash shut down for a month
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> it's winter on the other side of the planet
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> there was exactly 0 extended conversation about stalls and algo changes until summer (specifically 9 straight days of 100+F) hit this side of the planet.
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> decreasing prices and lower rewards are more important, imo. anyways, whatever the reason is/was, we need it fixed. if people don't want to mine it because it is not worth it, we need to make it worth it to mine chips.
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> i remember blocks on demand was being talked about
[dscrd-chips] <jorian> could also be a solution
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> whatever may be the case, my pool is up and running and to what i've been told there has been measures taken to make sure it'll be mined "for a while" - whatever that may mean
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> so, i'm still in need of somebody with some sha256 asics to help me test my low diff port on the pool
(edited)
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> we need to make it worth it to mine chips
It was "worth it" to me until all of the talk about changing to verushash.
Now I'm at a point where there's no logic to buying more S9s, but instead buying more CPUs, bords, etc
In short, it's stalled because folks decided to change shit
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> @un Haiduc can you help with that
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> @0x03 help with what, exactly?
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> read above your last 'mini wall of text'
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> right above, actually
[dscrd-chips] <un Haiduc> at the point that 3 sentences is a 'mini wall of text', I'm not sure that any rational conversation can be had
That aside, all of my sha ASICs are currently in boxes awaiting move to our larger location since I no longer have a personal use for them
[dscrd-chips] <0x03>
[dscrd-chips] <0x03> have a nice day sir


From the Death Certificate
for Rose Emmaline* Schindler (nee Kurtzman)
Length of time in
community: 4 years
Female, white, widowed
Birth: August 12, 1858 [no location listed]
Age: 85 years 10 months 16 days
Occupation: household duties
Father: Frederick Kurtzman, born "don't
know"
Mother: "don't know; don' know"
Informant: Mrs. W. J. Lude, Rt. 4,
Burial: July 1, 1944;
Funeral Director: Bauer & Turner,
MEDICAL CERTIFICATION
Date of death: 28th day June 1944
Physician's Statement: I hereby certify that I attended the deceased
from 1-4-44 to 6-28-1944, that I last saw her alive on 6-28-1944, and that
death occurred on the date and hour stated above.
Immediate cause of
death: Pulmonary Edema;
duration--6-27-44
Due to: Cervical carcinoma; duration--1 yr
Due to
Arterialsclerosis; duration--years
Operation: no
Autopsy: no
Accident, suicide,
homicide: no
Signature: _________________,**
*Submitter's Notes:
* Her middle name is seen elsewhere
spelled EMALINE.
**This signature was difficult to read.
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