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Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Rip Torn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Screenplay: Ed Solomon based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham
"MEN IN BLACK"
Mr Jones and Mr Smith wear black well, Tailor made suits and "sunnys" look swell, Two lone rangers who patrol human space, Searching for illegal aliens, terminating their unwelcome stay,
I don't mean Mexicans, and I don't mean Cubans, I do mean alien bugs which leave a sugar spectral trace, Who wear humans well, and make "Stretch and Wear" look swell, Poor Vincent D'Onofrio's face.
So the story is decent and somewhat compelling, Throw in some nifty guns and loud explosions, A puzzle on Orion's belt and a royal assassination, Where the answer to earth's salvation rests in "Meow".
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Consider the following module:
Require Import Ensembles.
Set Implicit Arguments.
(** A partial function is characterized by a domain, a codomain,
and a total function *)
Record partial_function (A B : Type) : Type := {
domain : Ensemble A ;
codomain : Ensemble B;
ap : A -> B;
domain_ok : forall a, In _ domain a -> In _ codomain (ap a)}.

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Knowledge Graph Completion¶
The purpose of Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) is to predict new triples on the basis of existing triples, so as to further extend KGs. KGC is usually considered as a link prediction task. Formally, the knowledge graph is represented by \(\mathcal{G} = (\mathcal{V}, \mathcal{E}, \mathcal{R})\), in which entities \(v_i \in \mathcal{V}\), edges \((v_s, r, v_o) \in \mathcal{E}\), and \(r \in \mathcal{R}\) is a relation type. This task scores for new facts (i.e. triples like \(\left \langle subject, relation, object \right \rangle\)) to determine how likely those edges are to belong to \(\mathcal{E}\).
KGC can be solved with an encoder-decoder framework. To encode the local neighborhood information of an entity, the encoder can be chosen from a variety of GNNs.
The decoder is a knowledge graph embedding model and can be regarded as a scoring
function. The most common decoders of knowledge graph completion includes
translation-based models (TransE), tensor factorization based models (DistMult,
ComplEx) and neural network base models (ConvE).
We implement DistMult
and ComplEx
in this library.
DistMult¶
DistMult is a tensor factorization based models from paper Embedding entities and
relations for learning and inference in knowledge bases.
For DistMult
, the equation is:
In DistMult, every relation r is represented by a diagonal matrix \(M_r \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}\) and a triple is scored as \(f(s, r, o) = e_s^T M_r e_o\).
In our implementation, the subject embedding, relation embedding and all entity
embeddings are given as the forward(...)
input. Then, we compute the score logits
for all entity nodes using multi-class loss such as BCELoss()
or the predition
scores of positive/negative examples using pairwise Loss Function such as SoftplusLoss()
and SigmoidLoss()
. More details about the KG completion loss please refer to graph4nlp.loss.KGLoss.
class DistMult(KGCompletionBase):
def __init__(self,
input_dropout=0.0,
loss_name='BCELoss'):
super(DistMult, self).__init__()
self.loss_name = loss_name
self.classifier = DistMultLayer(input_dropout, loss_name)
def forward(self, input_graph: GraphData, e1_emb, rel_emb, all_node_emb, multi_label=None):
if multi_label is None:
input_graph.graph_attributes['logits'] = self.classifier(e1_emb,
rel_emb,
all_node_emb) # [B, N]
else:
input_graph.graph_attributes['logits'], input_graph.graph_attributes['p_score'], \
input_graph.graph_attributes['n_score'] = self.classifier(e1_emb,
rel_emb,
all_node_emb,
multi_label)
# input_graph.graph_attributes['p_score']: [L_p]
# input_graph.graph_attributes['n_score']: [L_n]
# L_p + L_n == B * N
return input_graph
class DistMultLayer(KGCompletionLayerBase):
def __init__(self,
input_dropout=0.0,
loss_name='BCELoss'):
super(DistMultLayer, self).__init__()
self.inp_drop = nn.Dropout(input_dropout)
self.loss_name = loss_name
def forward(self,
e1_emb,
rel_emb,
all_node_emb,
multi_label=None):
# dropout
e1_emb = self.inp_drop(e1_emb)
rel_emb = self.inp_drop(rel_emb)
logits = torch.mm(e1_emb * rel_emb,
all_node_emb.weight.transpose(1, 0))
if self.loss_name in ['SoftMarginLoss']:
# target labels are numbers selecting from -1 and 1.
pred = torch.tanh(logits)
else:
# target labels are numbers selecting from 0 and 1.
pred = torch.sigmoid(logits)
if multi_label is not None:
idxs_pos = torch.nonzero(multi_label == 1.)
pred_pos = pred[idxs_pos[:, 0], idxs_pos[:, 1]]
idxs_neg = torch.nonzero(multi_label == 0.)
pred_neg = pred[idxs_neg[:, 0], idxs_neg[:, 1]]
return pred, pred_pos, pred_neg
else:
return pred
ComplEx¶
ComplEx is proposed in paper Complex Embeddings for Simple Link Prediction.
For ComplEx
, the equation is:
\(Re()\) denotes the real part of a vector.
How to Combine KGC Decoder with GNN Encoder¶
The code below provides an end-to-end KGC model using GCN
as encoder and DistMult
as decoder:
from graph4nlp.pytorch.modules.graph_embedding.gcn import GCN
from graph4nlp.pytorch.modules.prediction.classification.kg_completion import DistMult
from torch.nn.init import xavier_normal_
class GCNDistMult(torch.nn.Module):
def __init__(self, args, num_entities, num_relations, num_layers=2):
super(GCNDistMult, self).__init__()
self.emb_e = torch.nn.Embedding(num_entities, args.embedding_dim, padding_idx=0)
self.emb_rel = torch.nn.Embedding(num_relations, args.embedding_dim, padding_idx=0)
self.num_entities = num_entities
self.num_relations = num_relations
self.num_layers = num_layers
self.gnn = GCN(self.num_layers, args.embedding_dim, args.embedding_dim, args.embedding_dim,
args.direction_option, feat_drop=args.input_drop)
self.direction_option = args.direction_option
self.distmult = DistMult(args.input_drop, loss_name='BCELoss')
self.loss = torch.nn.BCELoss()
def init(self):
xavier_normal_(self.emb_e.weight.data)
xavier_normal_(self.emb_rel.weight.data)
def forward(self, e1, rel, kg_graph=None):
X = torch.LongTensor([i for i in range(self.num_entities)]).to(e1.device)
kg_graph.node_features['node_feat'] = self.emb_e(X)
kg_graph = self.gnn(kg_graph)
e1_embedded = kg_graph.node_features['node_feat'][e1]
rel_embedded = self.emb_rel(rel)
e1_embedded = e1_embedded.squeeze()
rel_embedded = rel_embedded.squeeze()
kg_graph = self.distmult(kg_graph, e1_embedded, rel_embedded, self.emb_e)
logits = kg_graph.graph_attributes['logits']
return logits


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Abstract: We describe how we used a data set of chorale harmonisations composed by Johann Sebastian Bach to train Hidden Markov Models. Using a probabilistic framework allows us to create a harmonisation system which learns from examples, and which can compose new harmonisations. We make a quantitative comparison of our system’s harmonisation performance against simpler models, and provide example harmonisations. 1
[1] R. Durbin, S. R. Eddy, A. Krogh, and G. Mitchison. Biological sequence analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
[2] J.-P. Rameau. Trait´ de l’Harmonie reduite a ses principes naturels. Paris, 1722. e `
[3] J. J. Fux. Gradus ad Parnassum. Vienna, 1725.
[4] F. Pachet and P. Roy. Musical harmonization with constraints: A survey. Constraints, 6(1): 7–19, 2001.
[5] B. Schottstaedt. CCRMA, 1989. Automatic species counterpoint. Technical report, Stanford University
[6] R. A. McIntyre. Bach in a box: The evolution of four-part baroque harmony using the genetic algorithm. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, 1994.
[7] S. Phon-Amnuaisuk and G. A. Wiggins. The four-part harmonisation problem: a comparison between genetic algorithms and a rule-based system. In Proceedings of the AISB’99 Symposium on Musical Creativity, 1999.
[8] H. Hild, J. Feulner, and W. Menzel. HARMONET: A neural net for harmonizing chorales in the style of J.S. Bach. In R.P. Lippman, J.E. Moody, and D.S. Touretzky, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing 4, pages 267–274. Morgan Kaufmann, 1992.
[9] D. Ponsford, G. Wiggins, and C. Mellish. Statistical learning of harmonic movement. Journal of New Music Research, 1999.
[10] M. M. Allan. Harmonising Chorales in the Style of Johann Sebastian Bach. Master’s thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2002.
[11] T. Kawakami. Hidden Markov Model for Automatic Harmonization of Given Melodies. Master’s thesis, School of Information Science, JAIST, 2000. In Japanese.
[12] K. Sugawara, T. Nishimoto, and S. Sagayama. Automatic harmonization for melodies based on HMMs including note-chain probability. Technical Report 2003-MUS-53, Acoustic Society of Japan, December 2003. In Japanese.
[13] P. C. Woodland. Hidden Markov Models using vector linear prediction and discriminative output distributions. In Proc ICASSP, volume I, pages 509–512, 1992.
[14] J. D. Lafferty, A. McCallum, and F. C. N. Pereira. Conditional Random Fields: probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data. In Proc ICML, pages 282–289, 2001.


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George W. BushIn the past, many of his detractors have dismissed him as a "lightweight." A chump. A joke. Many of them still do. And it's easy to see where they got this impression.  And when he has to work off-the-cuff, his folksy demeanor makes him seem more like the store manager of a Radio Shack than the President of the United States.But George W. Bush is fully aware of how his enemies perceive him, and this is precisely how he wants them to react. His personality and mannerisms are actually the result of deliberate effort. This is not to say that it's all an act, but he does emphasize these elements of his personality for the benefit of the press and general public. And yet these affectations continue to be astonishingly effective; his act still manages to fool even his political opponents, who really ought to know better. After all, the basis of Bush's phenomenal political career has been people's underestimating him. As his political advisor Karl Rove said in 2002: "I can't explain why they underestimate him, but they do. Whatever the reason, I hope they keep doing it." Dubya has managed to cultivate the look and feel of a down-home good ol' boy. He acts like your wisecracking neighbor or maybe brother-in-law. This is no small accomplishment for someone who grew up with every possible advantage: born into a family of immense wealth and political influence, attended a prestigious prep school, then Harvard and Yale. George became a millionaire in his own right at a very early age; while he was playing in Little League, the boy personally owned a million shares of his father's oil company. And yet, implausible as it may sound for someone born into such tremendous wealth and privilege, Bush somehow manages to pass for middle class. A major factor in his success is Dubya's apparent mediocrity. The man is at best a lackadaisical administrator, a "big picture" guy who delegates all of the detail work to subordinates and only wants to be bothered with final yes-no decisions. He's a weak public speaker, underprepared for debates and press conferences, clearly uncomfortable citing specific facts, figures, and sometimes even proper names. The man also appears to be congenitally undignified, evidently incapable of going ten minutes without his trademark smirk or a full-blown shit-eating grin, regardless of the situation. All of which combines to make him seem much dumber than most elected officials. Even many of his most ardent supporters presume that Dubya possesses an I.Q. bordering on 100. But -- counterintuitive as it may seem -- this idea is actually comforting to his political base. These are people who would like nothing more than to believe that the problems of governance are easily solvable, if only we can somehow avoid overthinking them. One of Bush's biographers put it this way:
"There is a group of people who feel that '[the President of the United States should] be smarter than I am on just about every issue I can think of.' But there is also a large group of people who don't feel that way. They want the President, in this modern era, to be something they can relate to. Someone who they don't think is intellectually intimidating. Someone who isn't really lost in the big fog of intellectual ideas and the world of words." Ultimately, these voters are working from a gut feeling. Their assumption is that all we really need to clean up the mess in Washington is somebody possessing the courage of his convictions, and a healthy appetite for some old-fashioned hard work. And although neither of those criteria actually applies to George W. Bush, he manages to fake them well enough.
Yale, VietnamAs a young man, George discovered that he was perfectly suited to the "good old boy" network. He was funny, outgoing, and enjoyed socializing. He was good at telling jokes, and he had a knack for remembering people's names. So when he got to Yale, Bush joined Delta Kappa Epsilon, an Animal House-style fraternity known for hard partying. In time he became DKE's president. He was also inducted into the secret society Skull and Bones, following in the footsteps of both his father (Yale class of '48) and grandfather (class of '17).Bush had been admitted with an SAT score of 1206 (566 verbal, 640 math) which was low for Yale but perfectly respectable anywhere else. This would correlate to an approximate I.Q. of 129. In fact, a 1300 on the SAT would have been sufficient to join MENSA.  Nevertheless, many of Bush's critics have become fixated on his mediocre class ranking at college, since he wound up somewhere below the middle of the pack. They take this as evidence of his low-to-moderate intelligence. In doing so, they fail to recognize that we're talking about Yale here, not some diploma mill. Mediocre at Yale is pretty damn good; it requires brains. More importantly, they're assuming that George was working hard to get on the Dean's List. And that's just not likely. A Newsweek profile observed that young George "seems to have majored in beer drinking at the Deke House." Whenever he had some free time, Bush was spending it getting drunk and/or laid, when he wasn't busy playing competitive sports, and doing whatever the hell it is they do in those twice-weekly meetings at Skull and Bones. And besides, George had become acclimated to simply coasting through life. Experience taught him that there was no problem that couldn't be solved with a little money, or a couple of well-placed phone calls from his father George HW Bush. So why should he kill himself to get straight A's? It was just completely unnecessary. The basis for this outlook on life was never illustrated more clearly than when George was confronted with the specter of the Vietnam War. After Yale, Bush successfully dodged the draft by volunteering for a six-year hitch in the Texas Air National Guard. This required some serious string-pulling, but the Bushes had lots of friends in high places. Evidently hoping to avoid winding up in Southeast Asia, on his application George checked the box labeled do not volunteer under the heading "overseas assignment." Bush was immediately accepted into the Guard, where he got promoted in record time. He was also fast-tracked into the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, which involved skipping over a waiting list full of qualified applicants. And then for four years he did as little work as possible, just the minimum required to remain in the unit, which was based in Houston. Then in May 1972, with two years left on his enlistment, George headed off to Alabama and requested reassignment to an inactive postal unit there. This request was a little odd for an Air National Guardsman, seeing that the outfit had no airplanes. Bush's request was denied. But for some reason he decided to stick around Alabama for a few months and didn't return to his Houston post until he was required to receive an annual physical. Then, for some reason, Bush was grounded by his commander for "his failure to accomplish annual medical examination." Either he never showed up, or he flunked it. We don't know for certain because his military records are sealed, and can only be made public with the subject's assent. Bush has never chosen to make them available. The most plausible theory is that George ran into a problem with the compulsory drug testing. If he did show up for the physical, maybe he flunked the urinalysis. If he didn't show up, maybe it was out of fear of what the drug test would reveal. Whatever the reason, Bush never flew again. And he still had another two years to go on his enlistment. So he just sat around. In fact it's unclear exactly what, if anything, he did during those two remaining years. The only thing we know for sure: whatever it was involved neither flying planes nor getting shipped off to Vietnam.
The Party AnimalAfter he just sort of wandered away from military service, Bush's partying lifestyle resumed with a vengeance and it continued to cause him trouble. According to a friend, he and George spent a lot of their free time boozing it up at parties:
"We did drink... we drank what people gave us to drink... And if we went to a party and they were serving liquor, then we would drink it, and we would drink it until it was gone." Sometime around Christmas in 1972, George drove home drunk with his teenaged brother Marvin and plowed into a neighbor's garbage can. When daddy said he wanted to have a talk, George tried to pick a fight with his old man, challenging him to go a few rounds "mano a mano" outside. As Bush well knew, there's really no better place for a drinking man than college. So that's where George headed next. In 1973 he enrolled in Harvard Business School and spent the next two years earning his MBA. He spoke fondly of the institution in his 1999 autobiography, declaring: "Harvard gave me the tools and the vocabulary of the business world." In 1974, George spent Superbowl Sunday at a party hosted by Hunter S. Thompson. When asked decades later if he remembered whether Bush had used any drugs at his party, Thompson replied:
"I can't be expected to remember what every drug-addled yuppie hanger-oner who wanted to get close to me during a football game twenty-five years ago digested. There were so many dope fiends milling about, I don't remember what some Yalie named Bush, whose father was a factotum in the Nixon Administration, was doing. But he strikes me as the sort of person I would have thrown out of the room. A rich, beer-drunk yahoo with a big allowance who passes out in your bathtub. ... I don't want to become the Deep Drug Throat. ... I won't do it." Bush continued his life of hard drinking and was finally arrested for drunk driving in October 1976, this time with his teenaged sister Dorothy in the car. But it would be another decade before he finally realized that alcohol was a problem for him. Despite episodes like these, Bush continued abusing alcohol for another decade before finally quitting cold turkey in 1986. But even though he acknowledges that he could never seem to stop after just one drink, George has always maintained that his problem was nothing more than simple overindulgence:
"I don't think I was clinically an alcoholic; I didn't have the genuine addiction. I don't know why I drank. I liked to drink, I guess." Years later, Bush reflected on his substance abuse days for a New York Times reporter:
"The signal we ought to send to our children is that in spite of what happened in the '60s and '70s, we have learned some lessons. And the lessons ought to be: don't be using drugs and alcohol." Today Bush regrets ever drinking, cannot trust himself with any amount of alcohol, and hoped in vain that his children would avoid it.  Evidently Bush believes that an effective way of discouraging young people from abusing drugs or alcohol is to stonewall whenever the topic comes up. A few years ago he advocated this technique to a Newsweek reporter:
"I wouldn't tell your kids that you smoked pot unless you want 'em to smoke pot. I think it's important for leaders, and parents, not to send mixed signals. I don't want some kid saying, 'Well, Governor Bush tried it.'" The man certainly practices what he preaches. Bush categorically refuses to answer questions about allegations of past drug abuse, especially persistent rumors about him having used cocaine.
The BrainiacIn 1978, George made a halfhearted stab at politics when he ran for an open Congressional seat. Maybe he didn't know what else to do, other than try to follow in daddy's footsteps. But Bush's heart wasn't really in it. Ultimately, it just didn't matter to him whether he would represent West Texas in the House of Representatives. And although he liked campaigning and showed an aptitude for it, his Democratic opponent mopped the floor with him.Bush's rookie mistakes didn't help. At a candidate forum early on in the race, Bush told the crowd: "Today is the first time I've been on a real farm." That didn't exactly impress the rural voters. And his decision to show himself jogging around a track in one of his television spots only underscored how out-of-touch he was with the common man. Almost nobody jogged in West Texas. And in the debates, Bush tried his best to come off sounding smart and serious. He made references to complicated economic policies. Difficult as it may be to believe now, many voters in the 1978 campaign were turned off by George W. Bush's overt intelligence. They figured him for some kind of brainiac. George's opponent pegged him immediately as a spoiled rich kid from New England. A faux Texan. A Yankee carpetbagger. In contrast, the Democrat assumed the role of the earnest-but-friendly local boy. He constantly harped on George's elitist upbringing, as evident in this radio ad:
"In 1961, when Kent Hance graduated from Dimmitt High School in the 19th congressional district, his opponent George W. Bush was attending Andover Academy in Massachusetts. In 1965, when Kent Hance graduated from Texas Tech, his opponent was at Yale University. And while Kent Hance graduated from University of Texas Law School, his opponent -- get this, folks -- was attending Harvard." The Democrat began telling crowds: "Yale and Harvard don't prepare you as well for running for the 19th Congressional district as Texas Tech does." It really got to Bush. He complained to a local newspaper about being pigeonholed as the outsider:
"We've been attacked for where I was born, for who my family is, and where my money has come from. I don't think that's fair." Although he was gaining on the Democrat near the end, Bush lost the race. But the experience taught him everything he would someday need to mount an effective campaign. He discovered that voters aren't looking the smartest candidate, or the guy with the most experience. They want somebody who makes them comfortable. Somebody who's one of them. A regular guy. He filed away all of that information in his head, and then turned to business.
George At WorkPeople like to assume that George got rich from oil speculation. It's a simpler and more inspiring explanation than the truth. He did launch an oil business, Arbusto Energy, in 1978. But it was a financial disaster from the very beginning and never turned a profit. Fortuitously, it got swallowed up in a 1982 merger with another energy company named Spectrum 7. The merger was engineered by a couple of Bush family friends. For some reason they opted to rescue the son of the Vice President of the United States from his own financial catastrophe and make him the CEO of the merged entity.Four years later, Spectrum 7 was itself floundering underneath $3 million in debt.  George was given a fat wad of stock options and a $120,000 annual salary, but no actual work to do. Technically, Bush's official capacity was as a member of the company's audit committee, charged with overseeing the major deals and transactions to ensure that everything was on the up-and-up. But as the son of the U.S. President, Bush's true function was to act as a lure for investment money. His task was schmoozing business contacts and outside investors, interested in converting cash into a friendly acquaintanceship with the President's offspring. And he was good at it. Hi, my name is George Jr. My Daddy lives in the White House. Let me show you around. This investment capital really helped prop up Harken as it was secretly bleeding money out of every orifice. As a matter of fact, Harken was hiding massive debts through shell companies and byzantine practices masterminded by the now-infamous accounting firm of Arthur Anderson. One such deal was the putative "sale" of Aloha Petroleum to Intercontinental Mining and Resources Ltd in 1989. In actuality, IMR Ltd was just another company owned by three members of Harken's board. And the terms of the sale were extremely sketchy: although IMR agreed to pay an exorbitant $12 million for Aloha Petroleum, they wouldn't be required to make any payments for three years. Nevertheless, Harken immediately booked an $8 million profit. The technical term for that is fraud. But you can't really blame George for that, can you? It wasn't like he was serving on the corporation's audit committee or anything... oh wait, he was. In fact, Bush signed off on the Aloha Petroleum deal. This deception helped maintain the illusion that Harken was -- what's the word? -- solvent for several months after it had actually run out of money. A few weeks before the house of cards finally came tumbling down, Bush engaged in a little insider trading and sold off $848,560 in Harken stock. Then he waited eight months to notify the SEC of his sale. After Harken's stock price fell into the toilet, the SEC finally figured out something was wrong and began poking around. At which point, George offered up this lame excuse:
"In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures." But George's daddy was still President of the United States, and the SEC headed by Bush family friends, so they took no action.
BaseballSometime during Harken's fraud-ridden implosion, George realized that his true calling wasn't managing the business end of things, but rather being its public face. In April 1989, Bush invested $500,000 of borrowed money in the Texas Rangers. In return, he received an annual salary of approximately $200,000 and the title of Managing General Partner. It meant that he represented the investors, but everybody pretty much treated him as though he were the sole owner.Unlike some major-league baseball owners, Bush avoided day-to-day operations. He stayed out of personnel and staffing issues. He didn't make strategy. He didn't handle player trades. All of that stuff was left to other people. He attended the games, arranged for promotional events, even had baseball cards printed up with his own face on them. The team's general manager described Bush's role this way:
"George was the front man. George was the guy that you met when you wanted to be introduced to Ranger baseball. He was the spokesperson. He dealt with the media, he dealt with the fans, and it was obvious to us right from the start that that's what he was made for... George chose to sit right next to the dugout, with the fans, every day... I mean, it's 100 degrees down there. He's there from before the game, half an hour before the game, didn't leave his seat except to go to the bathroom, cheering for the ball club, signing autographs, listening to hecklers, accepting well-wishes from season-ticket customers." George absolutely loved it. And why not? It was the ultimate dream job, it was business but it was also fun. Then somebody suggested that he run for governor. But Bush was unwilling to give up baseball.  When the presiding commissioner suddenly resigned, George called him to see if he could get his support to assume the post. When the man suggested that Bush pursue politics, George replied: "I think I'd rather be commissioner than governor." While he lobbied franchise owners for support, Republican party officials kept trying to convince Bush that he ought to run for office. George talked it over with one of his oldest friends, Roland Betts. When Bush was Yale chapter president of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Betts served as DKE's rush chairman. And they had both been investors in Spectrum 7. Now they were both partners in the Texas Rangers. According to the book Fortunate Son, Bush confided to his friend:
"You know, I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office." Several months later, it become clear that somebody else was going to become baseball commissioner. So he finally acquiesced to running for governor.
Politics, AgainBush was determined that this wouldn't be a repeat of his failed Congressional bid. And he believed that he had solved the problems that plagued him in 1978. Even though he was still a wealthy, well-connected, white guy with an Ivy League education, Bush was certain that voters would relate to him the way they couldn't before.He was still rich, but now he could pretend to have made his fortune wildcatting for oil. And at least he spent his money like a Texan. He owned a ranch of sorts outside the town of Crawford, although it was actually more weekend getaway than working ranch... nevertheless it fit the image. Whereas before Bush had been typecast as the Rich Foreigner from New England, he now had roots in the community. He would sell himself as a Texas tycoon, a family man with a wife and kids, and coated with a thick patina of working-class sensibilities. And this time George put into practice the lesson he learned from his 1978 campaign. He knew it was both unnecessary and counterproductive to project an image of extraordinary intelligence. It was all about likeability. So Dubya did just enough homework to hold his own in the debates and otherwise just winged it. His strategy hinged on using his personal charisma to compensate for any intellectual failings. Bush won, of course, making him the second most powerful elected official in the state of Texas. (Technically, the Lieutenant Governor wields more actual power. The Governor is just the guy whose face is in all the newspapers.) At which point he finally had to quit his job as managing partner of the Texas Rangers. And although he moved into the governor's mansion, his heart remained with the ball club. As one Texas journalist recalled:
"In the governor's office, he had a whole set of cabinets of autographed baseballs. It's kinda hard to find a book in the office, but there was always baseball and that would always make for conversation. And if he came into this office right now, he'd very quickly give you a nickname ... mine was 'Sammy Sosa' -- a player that he actually traded away when he was in Texas." When his partners finally sold the Rangers in June 1998, George's percentage was worth $14.9 million. Not bad for a $600,000 total investment. When the deal was announced, Dubya boasted to a local newspaper: "I think when it is all said and done, I will have made more money than I ever dreamed I would make." Finally all that pennypinching paid off.
The Road to the White HouseHe seemed like a longshot. Six years as Governor of Texas. Nobody believed that he would even win his party's nomination. After all, he was up against a slew of distinguished candidates with far more experience. The early money was on Senator John McCain, an actual Vietnam vet who'd spent five and a half years in a Viet Cong POW camp.But the polls and the focus groups didn't lie: Dubya was preferred by the Republican party faithful. He was a born-again Christian, pretty much the ideal qualification you need to win the Bible belt. And his relative inexperience turned into an advantage when he started pushing the ridiculous idea that he was a Washington outsider. He tried to exploit that fiction to deflect accusations that he had a low I.Q.:
"I think it comes from a certain sense of elitism in this country that says if you haven't spent your entire adult life in Washington, you can't possibly be smart enough to be President." The more he got picked on about his intelligence or his brief record of serving in public office, George began comparing himself to the greatest human being of the 20th century (as far as Republicans are concerned):
"I remember what they did to Ronald Reagan. They belittled him and said, 'Oh, he can't possibly be smart enough to be President. He is simply an actor.' The man turned out to be a great President." But just in case any supporters were still harboring doubts, Bush selected Dick Cheney as running mate after he won the nomination. Cheney had a long career in Washington. He served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, spent the '80s in the House of Representatives, and was Secretary of Defense for Dubya's pop. In fact, the press even dubbed Cheney "Mr. Experience." Regardless of Cheney's qualifications, world leaders -- especially the Europeans -- were flabbergasted by the Republican party's nominee for President. George was not exactly what you would call well-traveled. Campaign staffers claimed that he had taken "more than a dozen" trips outside the U.S., although they admitted that the vague figure included "many, many" trips to Mexico and Canada. Bush made a month-long excursion to China while his father was stationed there, which the New York Times summed up as "trying to date Chinese women (unsuccessfully) during a visit to Beijing in 1975." He had visited Israel and Egypt with the National Governors Association, and also the African country of Gambia. Later on in the campaign, Bush staffers claimed that he has also visited England, Scotland, and Italy, as well as vacationed in France and Bermuda. This was not very impressive to the people of Europe, who have to cross international borders just to take their kids to Legoland. Which is why Condoleezza Rice was assigned to Bush, to tutor him in the subtleties of foreign relations and world geography. Even so, things continued to get worse on the campaign trail. He referred to the citizens of Greece as "Grecians" and could not name the Prime Minister of India on two nonconsecutive occasions. When a journalist from Slovakia asked what the candidate knew about his country, Dubya replied:
"The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas." Unfortunately, that leader was actually Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of Slovenia, not Slovakia. Close but no cigar. Later, in a television interview with Boston NBC affiliate WHDH, George got in way over his head when the reporter started needling him on details.  Suddenly it's time to regurgitate a bunch of names that nobody's ever heard of? Book knowledge has got nothing to do with real leadership. But when Bush tried to turn the tables on the little smartass, it didn't go well:
Many people mistook episodes like this as indications of Dubya's inability to do his homework. Critics charged that he obviously possessed subnormal intelligence and/or a diminutive attention span and/or a crucial misunderstanding of what it takes to be President. Once again, the underlying problem here is the assumption that Bush believed that the Foreign Leaders of the World game was an important factor for voters. And Bush knew it wasn't. So he didn't waste his time trying to memorize a long list of names that nobody really cared about. The average person isn't a policy wonk; they couldn't name the new Prime Minister of India, and they didn't care if George could either. Then people started asking themselves whether George's experience in Texas was really sufficient to prepare him for the Oval Office. As governor, Dubya had envisioned the role of the chief executive as being the guy with the final say. Bush didn't propose policies. He didn't research anything. His staff would bring a policy issue to his attention, narrowed down to two competing options. Then they would deliver a five-minute oral argument for each sides and tell the governor which alternative they supported. And then he would make the either-or decision, right on the spot. This is how he ran things. During one of the debates with Vice President Al Gore, Bush was given a hypothetical situation:
This concept of the chief executive being the guy who gathers the brain trust whenever something goes haywire is illustrative of Bush's philosophy of government. It should be reactive, not active. Your typical liberal might respond with something like, "I intend to hold daily meetings on the state of the economy, where we track exactly this kind of thing and take measures the minute they're needed." But Bush believes that government should do as little as possible. It's supposed to handle major crises but otherwise stay out of everyone's hair. That was pretty easy to do as governor. Running Texas isn't really a full-time job. When Bush kept bringing up his legislative successes as governor, we were supposed to be impressed. It's kind of anticlimactic when you learn that the Texas legislature only meets for 140 days, and even then they only hold a session every other year. Otherwise they're on hiatus. That really tends to lighten the workload. Governor Bush's typical workday included a two-hour afternoon break for napping, exercise, or playing video games.
The ElectionIn October, George's brother Jeb started making public declarations. Coincidentally enough, Jeb also happened to be governor of a southern state. And he began making predictions that would later fuel many a conspiracy theory. Jeb's exact words were: "I told my brother we are going to take Florida."  There the vote margin between Bush and Gore was much smaller than the inherent margin of error, making it impossible to say definitively who had actually "won" the state. But the election laws had made no provision for such a situation, so the final outcome was left in the hands of Republican party apparatchiks. And since Bush was ahead of Gore by a pussy hair, the election officials appointed by brother Jeb made every effort to declare the contest over before the Democrats could do anything to change it. Since Bush had already been declared the winner, even if only provisionally, there was no way in hell that the Republicans were willing to roll the dice again. There was just no possible upside, only downside. In contrast, the Democrats had no possible downside in another roll of the dice, so they insisted on recounts. Legal battles raged for weeks. The Florida state Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Democrats, but the U.S. Supreme Court overruled them in a 5-4 decision. Thus the recounts were halted, Gore conceded, and Bush was declared the winner. In the final tally, Bush won by garnering 50.5% of the Electoral College votes. That's pretty slim. And the popular vote spread was, uh, even slimmer. He beat Gore by a measly -0.51%, meaning that 540,520 more voters actually chose Gore over Bush. This negative margin of victory has only one precedent: the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes, who received 200,000 votes fewer than his opponent. When a congressional commission selected Hayes, voters gave him the nickname "Rutherfraud." During the transition, Dubya delegated the job of Cabinet interviews and selections to Cheney and headed back to his ranch in Crawford. There he had more important things to attend to, such as... well, it's actually kind of hard to imagine something more important than selecting your Cabinet. But let's just ignore that. Maybe the Democrats were expecting too much. During the campaign, Bush had pledged to restore civility and meaningful bipartisanship to the governance of the nation. So they probably figured that it would only be fitting for Dubya to acknowledge his razor-thin mandate by selecting at least a handful of Democrats to serve in high-ranking Cabinet positions. Instead, he appointed exactly one -- Norman Mineta, former Commerce secretary under Clinton, now the Secretary of Transportation. Very inspiring. Bush also nominated some diehard conservatives to other important posts, including John Ashcroft for Attorney General. Ashcroft was no friend to liberal causes. The man was a born-again Christian who held extremely puritanical views toward most everything: pornography, abortion, the drug war... Plus, he was just nuts. Evidently he believes that calico cats are in league with the Devil. And he thinks it's worthwhile to cover up Greco-Roman statuary in the Justice Department building so that he doesn't have to look at a naked breast on his way to work. When asked about his pathetic nod toward bipartisanship, especially given the circumstances of the election, Bush seemed to indicate that appointing the lone Democrat was a truly magnanimous gesture:
"I believe the reason I'm standing here is because of the agenda I articulated during the course of the campaign, and I intend to take that agenda, that I tried to spell out as clearly as I could to the American people, to the halls of Congress." Yeah, it could have been that, or maybe he was standing there as a result of the electoral equivalent of a coin toss. It was one of those.
Dubya's close friend, Kenny BoyOne of the very first things the administration did was convene a series of meetings with a bunch of high-level industry representatives to get their input on a new national energy policy. One key participant was Enron Corporation, a company with very long ties to George W. Bush and extremely well-represented in his administration. The Texas energy company's CEO, Ken Lay, had actually taken part in the transition process, helping to select members for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the government oversight board which regulates the energy industry. Also, several Enron officers wound up with cabinet-level positions, as well as appointments to less visible posts in his administration.Bush and Enron and Ken Lay go way back. In addition to $113,800 for his Presidential campaign, the company and its CEO contributed a total of $146,500 to Bush's 1994 gubernatorial campaign. Covering their bases, they also gave a piddling $19,500 to the incumbent, Democrat Ann Richards. After the Enron scandal hit the fan, Bush attempted to mislead people into believing that he never had any particularly close relationship with Lay. The way Dubya explained it, Kenny Boy "was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994" who he barely even remembered meeting. Later somebody dug up a special birthday greeting that Governor Bush had mailed to Kenny Boy in 1997:
Dear Ken: So when George claimed to have nothing but hazy recollections of Mr. Lay, he wasn't exactly being forthright. Or loyal, for that matter. But that's just what happens when one of your closest friends turns out to be a crook.
War on TerrorHeading into August 2001, Bush spent less than two-thirds of his days actually working. Then the White House staff announced that he was about to head off to Crawford for a 31-day vacation. It would have been the single longest holiday in Presidential history, but after the news media started sharing this fact with the public, Dubya's people scaled it back by a week so he wouldn't take the record from President Richard Nixon (30 consecutive days).It was on August 6, 2001 that Bush received a top-secret briefing memo describing various attempts by al Qaeda to bring their jihad to America. The paper was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." Which is good. At least they were thinking about it. One month later, the World Trade Center attacks caused an immediate shuffling of national priorities. What had been a back-burner problem in August was now America's exclusive focus. After the U.S. bombed the shit out of Afghanistan and routed the Taliban, the White House started making noises about the need to clean house in the Middle East. War with IraqDubya had actually been planning to go after Saddam Hussein for years. As a matter of fact, almost two years before the Pentagon/WTC attacks, George gave an interview to the BBC in November 1999 which laid out his plans for his father's antagonist during the Gulf War:
Aside from providing a convenient pretext, the invasion had little or nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks. Bush's motive was strictly personal. Saddam Hussein had attempted to assassinate his father. Or, as he put it: "After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad at one time."
at presentNow that Iraq has been conquered and everybody's forgotten about the administration's ties to the Enron scandal, life in Washington has returned to normal. Bush is spending more and more time on his ranch in Crawford while Vice President Cheney and others manage day-to-day operations.And although Dubya is gearing up for the 2004 campaign cycle, you can bet he's spending more and more time thinking about how he's going to snag the commissioner's post in major league baseball. Now there's a job a guy could really sink his teeth into.
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EVAN HARMON
Still immersed in my infatuation with software development, I couldn't be more excited to have found such a perfect niche for myself. I'm currently a DevOps engineer at a logistics software company called RevLogical which also operates Retail Rebel. I spend as much time as I can immersing myself in the developer community in Kansas City, going to meetups and conferences. I also run a meetup called KC Tech Book Club where we read books on technology and software development. For fun I like to get outside hiking, camping, and mountain biking when my mountain biking injuries do not prevent me from doing so!
Multi-user Java Spring Boot web app for sharing household items with neighbors, friends, and family including an email notification service via Spring Mail and user-uploaded item images via AWS S3 API. Persistence via MySQL, Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate ORM with robust form validation. Authentication and authorization via Spring Security with CSRF protection, password hashing and salting. Front end with Thymeleaf and Bootstrap for responsive UI on both desktop and mobile. Contact me for a demo user account to try it out. Deployed on an Ubuntu 18.04 Digital Ocean VM with a LAMP stack, Apache reverse proxy, secure phpMyAdmin installation, and TLS/SSL certificate for HTTPS.
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I don't see a way I could not have tried Salvia Divinorum. As soon as I learned of its existence my curiosity was hooked. I am the typical new age punk amateur shaman flake.
I ordered 30 gm's of leaves, 1 gm of 15x, and 1 fl oz. of extract. I received a large envelope in the mail. I was not ready to have a full experience with it. It was a work night, and I had been smoking pot. Thoughts occurred to me about how short life is, and that a sentient being should jump at the chance to expand their knowledge.
I decided to try a quid just to say hello. I took a shower, lit some incense, and abstained from eating (skipped dinner). Some time was spent clarifying my intentions also. A couple of grams of plain leaves soaked in water with some Copenhagen for flavor. So after about an hour of that I notice some strange sensations, slight visual change, hot and cold flashes. The weed really seemed to be interfering with the process. I was in the middle of fixing an unbooting computer at that point also. I was aware during this whole experience that these were less than ideal circumstances. I was still not convinced at this point that this is actually Salvia Divinorum. I had also heard of people with virtual immunity to Salvia Divinorum.
It became apparent to me that my visual and cognitive worlds were in an altered state at approximately 1 1/2 hours into the experience. My thoughts felt ordered, but with an 'alien' theme, and mild visual disturbance unlike anything else I have experienced. So far not a 'trip', and not a particularly desirable state of being. I must state again that the pot and the computer felt like major obstacles in allowing the Salvia Divinorum to clearly reveal itself to me. I have ingested Shrooms, Morning Glory, and LSD in the past. I am using those substances as a reference as a far as their ability to significantly alter my waking perception. At this stage I feel like I am on the verge of tripping in an uncomfortable sort of way. The giddiness felt in the stomach prior to some psychedelic experiences was not present. I decided to leave it at that for the night. After all I had only been chewing the stuff for a little while compared to the Indians.
I decided to have that dinner I had put off. Preheating my oven was necessary for a frozen lazagna. I returned from the kitchen, and saw the large Salvia leaf left over from the quid making. I decided to smoke the single plain leaf in my waterpipe. When crumbled it was one hit worth. I sat on my living room, lit and thoroughly inhaled it. I felt a silent buzzing, and electrical vibrations. My vision took on a gray silvery tone, blurred at the edges of the peripheral. I felt an immediate connection with a female in her late 20's early 30's in the prime of her life. She was behind me pulling on my face. My face and neck were lead and were being pulled in some crazy direction. It felt as if my body was moving, but my face and head were not. I could clearly feel the harmonic intensity of this, and smoking more would have taken me across the threshold.
I began to smell smoke. I thought is this the smell of it. My god what have I done? Opened the gates of hell? I stood up and I heard someone say, 'Don't leave, don't leave.' I began to sober up real quick walking into the kitchen, smoke pouring from the oven. It hadn't been cleaned after a spill the last time it was used. No fire just smoke. Still with that pre-teleportation gravity buzz. There is a feeling I get with any experience that sufficiently moves my reality. It's this fuzzy sort of vulnerable infantile state that marks a transition in the return to the fully 'real' of our waking world. That was present just as with other psychedelic experiences I have had. I left it at that for the evening. I felt fine the next day, and was in a good mood.
I post this to add the knowledge of one first hand experience. No moral to the story really. I'm convinced now that Salvia Divnorum is powerful. Plain leaves chewed and smoked works well. The Salvia builds up in the system, and threshold level is easier to achieve. I really wasn't looking for an indecipherable out of body experience. That's how people get hurt.  I feel like she wanted me to stay, and come back. For what end I am not aware at this point.
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Part of AadhaarAuth.request View In Hierarchy
| Method | __init__ | Constructor of AuthRequest (see source for more details). |
| Method | get_uid_hash | Undocumented |
| Method | validate | Check for whether the data is complete enough to be able to |
| Method | set_txn | Update the transaction id |
| Method | set_skey | Generate the session and set the Skey parameters. |
| Method | get_skey | Return the Skey |
| Method | set_data | Set the content of the data element using the pidxml |
| Method | get_data | Undocumented |
| Method | set_hmac | Computes the hmac. It stores a base64 encoded AES encrypted hash |
| Method | get_hmac | Undocumented |
| Method | set_pidxml_pins | Add the Pin element to the XML |
| Method | set_pidxml_biometrics | Generate the biometrics XML payload. Supports only FMR for now |
| Method | set_demo_attributes | Extract the configuration data for various demographic |
| Method | set_pidxml_demographics | Generate the demographics XML payload. |
| Method | get_demo_hash | Undocumented |
| Method | tostring | Generate the XML text that must be sent across to the uid |
| Method | analyze_xmls | Analyze the XML being sent to the server |
| Method | sign_request_xml | Sign the payload XML provided (or extracted from self._result) |
| Method | humanize_basic | Generate a readable string out of request. Simple version. It |
| Method | print_stats | The call in numbers |
| Method | execute | Execute the query specified in the configuration file. |
Set the configuration, flag to indicate whether this is biometrics or demographics, and additional addtributes
cfg: Config object (see fixtures/auth.cfg example) (default: None) biometrics: Whether this request is for biometrics or not (default: False) uid: uid of the requestor (default="") tid: terminal id (default: "public") txn: transaction id (default: "") lk: License key (if not specified, then config file entry is used) (default: "")


Version 0.18
(released on July 6, 2014)
Pybtex is now fully case-insensitive (like BibTeX). As a consequence, IEEEtran styles now work corretly.
Added --preserve-case optoin to pybtex-convert (by default all identifiers are converted to lower case).
An erorr is reported if two citations have the same key but different case, like in BibTeX. (Example: ddt1999 and DDT1999).
Fixed parsing unused bibliography entries with strings containing @ characters.
entry.max$ constant is now set to 250, global.max$ is set to 20000, like in BibTeX.
Added --strict option to pybtex-convert and pybtex-format (turns warning to errors).
Strict mode is now enabled by default when using pybtex as a library (exceptions are raised on all errors instead of just printing warnings to stderr).
Non-strict error handling is still enabled when using pybtex from the command line, for compatibility with BibTeX. Use --strict option if you don't like this.
Added missing pybtex-format manpage.
Version 0.17
(released on March 10, 2014)
- Added pybtex-format utility for formatting bibliography files as HTML, LaTeX, and other supported human-readable formats.
- Added --strict command line option to pybtex (all warnings become errors).
- Added alpha label style, and alpha and unsrtalpha formatting styles.
- Added support for url, eprint, doi, and pubmed fields in unsrt style.
- Names with hyphens are now abbreviated correctly ("Jean-Baptiste" becomes "J.-B.").
- width$ now uses cmr10 font metrics, like in BibTeX. Non-latin characters are also supported.
- Pythonic style engine now supports @preamble commands.
- Warning on missing fields are now more human-readable.
- When writing BibTeX files, put entry key on the same line with entry type. Fixes warnings in Jabref.
- When using multiple .bib files, macros defined in earlier files are available in subsequent ones (like in BibTeX).
- Fixed parsing .bst files with lines consisting of a single % character.
- Fixed sorting entries without author in author_year_title sorting style.
- Fixed broken CaseInsensitiveDict.get().
- CaseInsensitiveDict is now pickleable.
- Added support for registering plugins at runtime with pybtex.plugin.register_plugin() - useful for using pybtex as a library.
Many thanks to Matthias C. M. Troffaes for his numerous fixes and improvements!
Version 0.16
(released on March 17, 2012)
- BibTeX .bib and .bst parsers were completely rewritten. They are now much faster and more BibTeX-compatible.
- Syntax errors and undefined strings in .bib files now result in warnings instead of errors, like in BibTeX.
- Unused entries in .bib files are now skipped, like in BibTeX.
- The case of entry keys is now preserved (in previous versions they were converted to lowercase).
- Pythonic style engine now supports sorting.
- Pythonic style engine: fixed nested optional() blocks.
- Fixed parsing of some names with a Last part but no von part.
- Fixed processing of brace-level-one "special characters" in purify$ BibTeX built-in function.
- Added proper error messages on encoding errors in .bib files.
- The default encoding is now UTF-8 on all platforms.
- pybtex-convert now preserves the order of entries in BibTeX and BibTeXML files.
The following changes were contributed by Matthias C. M. Troffaes:
- Fixed first_of behavior when non-empty child is followed by a child that has a missing field.
- Fixed crossref lookups when key is not lower case.
- Completed unsrt and plain python styles: they now contain all entry types.
- Added doctree backend for rendering into a tree of docutils nodes.
- Added support for non-string backends.
Version 0.15
(released on February 1, 2011)
- Changed license from GPL-3 to MIT.
- Added support for setuptools plugins.
- BibTeX parser: fixed whitespace normalization in concatenated strings.
- BibTeX parser: when parsing multiple BibTeX files, macros defined in earlier files are now available to all subsequent files, like in BibTeX.
- BibTeX .bst interpreter now prints warnings on missing entries, like BibTeX, instead of raising a KeyError.
- call.type$ BibTeX built-in function now uses default.entry for unknown entry types, like in BibTeX.
- substring$ now accepts start=0 and returns an empty string.
- change.case$: fixed incorrect formatting of strings starting with special characters with "t" format.
- Fixed abbreviation of names starting with special characters or non-alphabetic characters.
- Fixed incorrect entry order and duplicated entries with \nocite{*}.
- Added more detailed error messages for already defined variables in .bst files.
Version 0.14.1
(released on September 30, 2010)
- Added missing custom_fixers directory to the tarball - needed only for converting the sources to Python 3.
Version 0.14
(released on September 20, 2010)
- BibTeX writer: fixed quoting " (double quote) characters.
- BibTeX parser now produces human-readable error messages on unread macros.
- Added error messages on missing data in .aux files.
- Improved performance on very long name lists.
- Added support for Python 3.
Version 0.13.2
(released on February 26, 2010)
- BibTeX parser: fixed a bug with parsing strings containing braces, like "Error in {DNA}".
Version 0.13.1
(released on February 18, 2010)
- Fixed ImportError: No module named kpathsea errors. One of the source files was missing from pybtex-0.13.tar.bz2 for some strange reason. Sorry about that. ;)
Version 0.13
(released on February 14, 2010)
- Implemented --min-crossrefs option.
- All command line options of the original BibTeX are not supported.
- Pybtex now respects BSTINPUTS, BIBINPUTS and TEXMFOUTPUT environment variables.
- BibTeX bibliography parser now strips excessive whitespace from fields, like BibTeX does.
Version 0.12
(released on November 21, 2009)
- Pybtex now works correctly with \input{filename} in LaTeX files.
- Added a proper change.case$ BibTeX function instead of a stub.
- Added -e/--encoding command line option.
- Fixed non-working --bibtex-encoding option.
- Added proper error messages on missing plugins, file IO errors, some BibTeX interpreter errors, etc.
- Fallback to backslash-encoding when printing messages to the console - to make them printable regardless of the locale.
Version 0.11
(released on September 7, 2009)
- Made text.lentgh$ and text.prefix$ BibTeX built-in functions treat braces and TeX special characters properly (like the original BibTeX functions do).
- Changed purify$ to replace ties and hyphens by spaces.
- Fixed a bug in substring$ with negative start values.
- Fixed .bst file grammar to allow underscores in identifiers.
- BibTeX name parser: ties are now treated as whitespace when splitting name parts.
- Implemented BibTeX-like text wrapping - the resulting .bbl output should now be byte-for-byte identical to that of BibTeX in most cases.
Version 0.10
(released on August 24, 2009)
- Added support for multiple bibliography databases.
- Pythonic bibliography formatter: added helper functions to simplify writing BibTeX-like name formatting styles in Python. Added a tool for automatic conversion of BibTeX {ll}{, ff}-like patterns into Python.
- BibTeX parser: added missing characters to the caracter set of the valid identifiers.
- BibTeX parser: a comma is now allowed between the last field and the closing brace.
- BibTeX name parser: when splitting name parts into words, whitespace at brace level > 0 is now ignored.
- BibTeX name parser: fixed parsing of single-word lowercase names and complex von names, like in "Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen".
- Fixed broken --label-style and --name-style options.
- Added (autogenerated) manpages.
- Added this changelog.
Version 0.9
(released on August 17, 2009)
- Implemented \citation{*}.
- Implemented crossrefs.
- BibTeX .bib parser now supports newlines inside strings.
- Fixed: .bib filename from .aux file was ignored.
- Fixed incorrect argument passing to codecs.open().
- Fixed incorrect whitespace handling in the name parsing code.
Version 20090402
(released on February 04, 2009)
- Fixed yet more encoding-related bugs.
- Cleaned up some old nasty code, updated the documentation, added more tests.
Version 20080918
(released on September 18, 2008)
- Added HTML backend. The pythonic bibliography formatter can now produce LaTeX, HTML, and plaintext.
- BibTeXML writer now indents the resulting XML.
- Removed the dependency on external elementtree.
- Improved the interface of the pybtex-convert script. It is just convert foo.bib foo.yaml now.
- Fixed several bugs in the BibTeX interpreter.
- Fixed several encoding-related bugs.
Version 20070513
(released on May 13, 2007)
- Added an interpreter for the BibTeX stack language. Pybtex now supports BibTeX style files.
- Added a YAML bibliography format (both input and output).
- Improved processing of names with {braces}.
- Added support for @preamble to both BibTeX parser and writer.
- Introduced an experimental pythonic template language to make bibliography formatting easier with a more functional-oriented approach.
- Added support for incollection entries to the experimentl pythonic bibliography style.
- cElementTree is now used for BibTeXML parsing, if present.
- Added some documentation files (finally).
Version 20060416
(released on April 16, 2006)
- Added BibTeX and BibTeXML formatters for bibliography databases. Added a database conversion tool.
- Improved name splitting in the BibTeX parser.
- Locale encoding is now used by default.
- Added richtext.Check class to simplify formatting of optional bibliography fields.
- Added support for booklet and inbook entry types to the experimentl pythonic bibliography style.
Version 20060402
(released on April 2, 2006)
- Added initial Unicode support and input/output encodings.
- Introduced output backends to make bibliography styles markup-independent. Added LaTeX and Plaintext backends.
- Improved BibTeXML parser, add support for pre-parsed names (<bibtex:first>, <bibtex:middle> and so on).
- Added default macros for month names to the BibTeX parser.
- Added an experimental richtext.Phrase (former Pack class (former Packer class)) class to make creating sentences and delimited lists easier.
- Added experimental support for pluggable name and label styles to the pythonic bibliogrphy formatter.
- Made Pybtex work on Windows by renaming aux.py to auxfile.py. Duh.
Version 0.1
(released on March 4, 2006)
Initial release. This version already has a basic BibTeX .bib parser, BibTeXML parser and a proof-of-concept pythonic bibliography formatter.


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Requests an array of a specific type of information from an application with which you have a dynamic data exchange (DDE) link. Use REQUEST with other Microsoft Excel DDE functions to move information from another application into Microsoft Excel.
Syntax
REQUEST(channel_num, item_text)
Important Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh requires system software version 7.0 or later for this function.
Channel_num is a number returned by a previously run INITIATE function. Channel_num refers to a channel through which Microsoft Excel communicates with another program.
Item_text is a code indicating the type of information you want to request from another application. The form of item_text depends on the application connected to channel_num.
REQUEST returns the data as an array. For example, suppose the remote data to be returned came from a sheet that looked like the following illustration.
REQUEST would return that data as the following array:
{1, 2, 3;4, 5, 6}
If REQUEST is not successful, it returns the following error values.
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Tip Use the ERROR.TYPE function to distinguish between the different error values.
Example
Suppose you had opened a DDE channel to Microsoft Word for Windows. WChan contains the number of the open channel. In Microsoft Excel for Windows, the following function returns the text specified by the bookmark named BMK1.
=REQUEST(WChan, "BMK1")
Related Functions
EXECUTE Carries out a command in another application
INITIATE Opens a channel to another application
POKE Sends data to another application
SEND.KEYS Sends a key sequence to another application
TERMINATE Closes a dynamic data exchange (DDE) channel previously opened with the INITIATE function
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g2 is a 2D graphics javascript library based on the command pattern principle. Its main goal is to provide a simple API for users who want to generate 2D web graphics occasionally. So the API is minimal and easy to understand. The library is tiny, fast and renderer agnostic.
Main features #
- Fast and lightweight graphics command queue builder.
- Addressing HTML canvas 2D context as the default renderer.
- Generating SVG output using an addon library.
- Method chaining.
- Support of cartesian coordinates.
- Viewport pan and zoom transformations.
- Low-level path commands with short names adopted from SVG.
- Higher level element commands.
- Maintaining a state stack for styling and transformations.
- Easy way to build custom symbol libraries.
- Tiny footprint by 5kB compressed (gzip).
- No dependency.
Minimal Example #
<canvas id="c" width="200", height="100"></canvas>
<script src="g2.js"></script>
<script>
const ctx = document.getElementById("c").getContext("2d"); // define context
g2().rec({x:40,y:30,b:120,h:40, // create g2 object, add rectangle
ls:"green",fs:"orange",lw:3}) // with style properties.
.exe(ctx); // draw to canvas.
</script>
![first](/img/g2-first.png
API Reference #
See the API Reference for g2 for details.
Also see the API Reference for g2.ext and the API Reference for g2.mec.
Also available under
- https://goessner.github.io/g2/api/g2.core
- https://goessner.github.io/g2/api/g2.ext
- https://goessner.github.io/g2/api/g2.mec
Cheat Sheet #
Check out the single page Cheat Sheet.
Also available under https://goessner.github.io/g2/api/sheet.pdf
GitCDN #
Use the link https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/goessner/g2/dist/g2.js for getting the latest commit as a raw file.
In HTML use ...
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/goessner/g2/dist/g2.js"></script>
Tests #
Tests are found on the Github Page
License #
g2 is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.


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