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WWOOF stands for World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
WWOOF is a worldwide movement linking volunteers with organic farmers and growers to promote cultural and educational experiences based on trust and non-monetary exchange, thereby helping to build a sustainable, global community.
As a volunteer (or WWOOFer as we call them) you will live alongside your host helping with daily tasks and experiencing life as a farmer.
As a host farm you will open your home to receive visitors from your own country or abroad who want to connect with the land and support the organic movement.
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Why WWOOF?
WWOOF specialises in linking people who are passionate about healthy food, healthy living and a healthy planet. Join us, show your support for the organic movement and start learning (or sharing) ways of living a more sustainable life. As a member you will be plugged into an international network of like-minded people, with staff on the ground in 60+ countries ready to offer local advice and support.
How do I start WWOOFing?
First you need to decide where in the world you want to go! You can see the complete list of destinations on the locations page. Sign up as a volunteer on the WWOOF and then you can start contacting hosts to arrange your visit. If you want to visit more than one country you will need to sign up as a volunteer in each country you plan to visit. Also, you are responsible for obtaining your Visa and paying for your own transportation & personal expenses. We do not make arrangements for you, instead you will make contact with the hosts yourself.


Complete 2020 NHRA national event category schedule announced
NHRA has released the event-by-event class schedule, a matrix that displays which special features and classes from all of its series will compete at which NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events in 2020.
by NHRA.com staffNHRA has released the event-by-event class schedule, a matrix that displays which classes and special features will compete at which NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national events in 2020.
The schedule covers all Pro and Sportsman classes as well as the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod, Mickey Thompson Tires Top Fuel Harley, and SAMTech NHRA Factory Stock Showdown series.
2020 NHRA National Event category schedule matrix
For the first time, Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car will be contested four-wide at both the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals and NGK Spark Plugs Four-Wide Nationals.
Also for the first time Super Street will be contested at the 60th Annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals. In addition, Super Stock and Stock class racing for Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals and AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals will be contested at Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Regional/Divisional events to provide more racers the opportunity to compete for a class Wally.
| National Event | Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Regional/Divisional Event | Categories |
| Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals | Gainesville Raceway (March 5-8) | Super Stock/Stock |
| Denso Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals | The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (April 9-11) | Super Stock/Stock |
| Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals | No Problem Raceway (Feb. 28-March 1) | Stock |
| AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals | Thunder Valley Raceway Park (Oct. 9-11) | Super Stock |
Category quotas will be made available on NHRARacer.com and NHRAeventreg.com prior to online entry website opening on Nov. 27 for the 60th Annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals.
Individual 2020 series and class schedules
NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series
E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by J&A Service
Mickey Thompson Tires NHRA Top Fuel Harley Series
NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series


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https://github.com.matthewnewell/basketball_hacker
Software training for kids just in case they don’t go pro.
Basketball Hacker is a set of ruby exercises with basketball releated themes.
Along the way, your lil baller learns the fundamentals of object orienterd programming, the ruby programming language, and test driven development.


Compare machine learning approach and standard search
This service was trained on part of the Cranfield Collection data. The collection contains questions paired with answers about aerodynamics.
Input
Get a random question about
aerodynamics
This service was trained on part of the Cranfield Collection data. The collection contains questions paired with answers about aerodynamics.
You can compare the machine learning approach (Retrieve and Rank) and the standard search results (Solr).


Person of interest sought after body found in trunk
by Associated PressCHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania State Police are seeking a person of interest after a man was found shot to death in the trunk of his car in Franklin County.
Police day 37-year-old Demetrios Kalathas of Chambersburg was reported missing on Friday and his body was discovered in his car’s trunk in a Lion’s Club parking lot on Sunday. He had been shot multiple times.
Police are seeking 36-year-old Justin Hockenberry of Orrstown because they say they believe he may have information related to the homicide.
Hockenberry is wanted on felony charges unrelated to the deadly shooting.


Before Change
s = self.get_explained_variance_ratio()
if n is None:
n = len(self.learning_results.explained_variance_ratio)
// Determine right number of components for signal and cutoff value
if isinstance(threshold, float):
if not 0 < threshold < 1:
raise ValueError("Variance threshold should be between 0 and"
" 1")
After Change
s = self.get_explained_variance_ratio()
n_max = len(self.learning_results.explained_variance_ratio)
if n is None:
n = n_max
elif n > n_max:
_logger.info("n is too large, setting n to its maximal value.")
n = n_max
// Determine right number of components for signal and cutoff value
if isinstance(threshold, float):
if not 0 < threshold < 1:
raise ValueError("Variance threshold should be between 0 and"
" 1")


I've been pondering this a while, and if someone were to make a Soulknife-esque "psionist", while sticking to the base classes, how would it turn out?
For a bit of reference, a psionist is a character with abilities akin to telekinesis and a soulknife forms blades with his mind.
I think a sorceror build and concentrate on taking any missile style spells.
magic missile isaac's any of the blade spells
Just a thought. _________________ The secret to eternal youth is simply in your imagination.


Dependency management for grown ups
Sprouting a package manager seems to be a rite of passage for programming languages. Perl has CPAN. PHP has PEAR and PECL. Python has setuptools
/distribute
and PyPI. Ruby has RubyGems. Node.js has npm
. Go has goinstall
. Haskell has Cabal. I’m sure there are more but I’m tired of searching and I made my point.
They each bring to the table a subtly different command-line grammar, novel new rules for dependency resolution (“~>
”, for example) and a new set of repositories to fail. Different grammars are annoyances. RubyGems’ “~>
” syntax is ugly but important (it allows a version greater-than or equal-to the specified version but only within the same minor series). The new repositories are, for better and worse, unsupervised by the Debian maintainers or any equivalent body.
The fatal flaw in every single case is the systemic inability of each of these package managers to fully describe the dependencies of their packages. The nokogiri
gem is a a typical representative case through no fault of its own. It depends on libxslt1-dev
and libxml2-dev
and to complicate matters further, those are the Debian/Ubuntu names for packages known as libxslt-devel
and libxml2-devel
in the Red Hat world.
I will not be endorsing a utopian future in which Debian and Red Hat have unified their package naming scheme such that RubyGems could programmatically specify and satisfy these dependencies in a portable manner. I will also not be rallying everyone to create Debian packages and RPMs, run apt
and yum
repositories, and generally do everything twice. Finally, I realize it would be a waste of breath calling everyone to standardize on one package format and manager.
A new tool appears to be the only pragmatic way forward and others seem to agree. The curious thing is the recent introduction of several promising contenders that each fall short for exactly the same reason. Ruby’s Bundler and RVM as well as Python’s pip
/virtualenv
all isolate sets of packages and generate dependency lists from their isolated installations.
A bundle, an RVM gemset, and a pip
/virtualenv
requirements.txt
file are each an incomplete list of dependencies, plagued by the same systemic inability to fully describe dependencies that plague the package managers on which they’re based. What makes these better than the language’s package format? [1]
The answer is invariably the installation isolation they can each provide. Isolation begets precision and precision enables confident, rapid deployment. In all of these cases, the isolation is sabotaged by the underlying package manager and fails to provide complete isolation for a set of dependencies. You really want isolated environments on the same box? UNIX has had a way to do this since 1979. It’s called chroot
(2). [2]
The pragmatic new tool isn’t Bundler, RVM, pip
/virtualenv
, or anything else with language-blinders on. It’s configuration management. This is a natural, responsible extension of your Gemfile
, .gems
or requirements.txt
with the added bonus of completeness. It can take the form of a well-written shell script, a Puppet manifest, a Chef recipe, or the equivalent in your configuration management tool of choice. All that really matters is that you maintain it.
Typical configuration management comes in client-server architectures but that’s not necessary to dip your toe in. Both Puppet and Chef support a standalone mode where manifests/recipes are read from a local file.
Take for example the following Puppet manifest which implements the Nokogiri example from above for CentOS and Ubuntu. Other operating systems can be added easily or the whole thing can be trimmed down if you only use one. For greatest predictability, versions should be specified rather than left to latest
.
$build = $operatingsystem? { "centos" => ["autoconf", "automake", "gcc", "glibc-devel"], "ubuntu" => "build-essential", } $xml = $operatingsystem ? { "centos" => "libxml-devel", "ubuntu" => "libxml2-dev", } $xslt = $operatingsystem ? { "centos" => "libxslt-devel", "ubuntu" => "libxslt1-dev", } package { $build: ensure => latest; "ruby": ensure => latest; "ruby-dev": ensure => latest, require => Package[$build]; "rubygems": ensure => latest, require => Package["ruby-dev"]; $xml: ensure => latest; $xslt: ensure => latest; "nokogiri": ensure => latest, provider => gem, require => Package["rubygems", $xml, $xslt]; }
Run the file with puppet apply example.pp
.
The bottom line
The language-specific choices out there provide incomplete dependency management and false sense of isolation. Complete dependency management can be had through Puppet, Chef, or any other configuration management software. Complete isolation can be had through virtualization, chroot
(2) or cgroups
on newer kernels, or by using DevStructure.
Language-specific package managers may be here to stay but that’s no reason to let complete dependency management slip away. Learn about configuration management. Your deploys will thank you.
Disclosure: I’m one of the founders of DevStructure.


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BO.io.Potentiometer Class
Creates an interface to an analog input sensor. This may be a potentiometer (dial) or any other analog input that is connected to a single analog pin.
Constructor
BO.io.Potentiometer
-
board
-
pin
-
enableSmoothing
Parameters:
-
board
IOBoardA reference to the IOBoard instance that the servo is attached to.
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pin
PinA reference to the Pin the potentiometer is connected to.
-
enableSmoothing
BooleanTrue to enable smoothing, false to disable. Default is false.
Item Index
Methods
Properties
Events
Methods
addEventListener
-
type
-
listener
Parameters:
-
type
StringThe event type
-
listener
FunctionThe function to be called when the event is fired
clear
()
Resets the minimum, maximum, and average values.
dispatchEvent
-
type
-
optionalParams
Parameters:
-
type
EventThe Event object.
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optionalParams
ObjectOptional parameters passed as an object. return {boolean} True if dispatch is successful, false if not.
hasEventListener
-
type
Parameters:
-
type
StringThe event type return {boolean} True is listener exists for this type, false if not.
onPinChange
()
private
removeEventListener
-
type
-
listener
Parameters:
-
type
StringThe event type
-
listener
FunctionThe function to be called when the event is fired
setRange
-
minimum
-
maximum
Scale from the minimum and maximum input values to 0.0 -> 1.0. This is useful for sensors such as a flex sensor that may not return the full range of 0 to 1.
Parameters:
-
minimum
NumberThe new minimum range (must be less than the maximum).
-
maximum
NumberThe new maximum range.
Properties
average
Number
[read-only] Get the (pre-filtered) average value of the potentiometer.
maximum
Number
[read-only] Get the (pre-filtered) maximum value read by the potentiometer.
minimum
Number
[read-only] Get the (pre-filtered) minimum value read by the potentiometer.
preFilterValue
Number
[read-only] Get the value of the potentiometer before filters are applied.
value
Number
[read-only] The current value of the potentiometer.
Events
change
BO.io.PotEvent.CHANGE
The change event is dispatched when the potentiometer value changes.
Event Payload:
-
target
BO.PotentiometerA reference to the Potentiometer object
Example:
pot.addEventListener(PotEvent.CHANGE, onValueChange);
function onValueChange(event) {
console.log("value = " + event.target.value);
}


Westpac bows to the inevitable
by Houses and HolesI was mid incredulous post when the news came through:
Westpac’s chief executive Brian Hartzer will step down from Monday, with chairman Lindsay Maxsted to bring forward his retirement to the first half of 2020.
Additionally, non-executive director Ewen Crouch will not seek re-election at the upcoming annual general meeting.
The current chief financial officer Peter King will step in as acting CEO.
There was no other way. Judging by yesterday’s media about Westpac resistence, I wonder if the Government stepped in.
Houses and Holes
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
Latest posts by Houses and Holes (see all)
- Is Pauline Hanson or the world’s greatest tyranny the worry? - November 26, 2019
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Preparation time
1-2 hours
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Makes 16
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, yeast, sugar and salt until well combined.
Make a well in the centre of the mixture, then gradually add the water in a thin stream, stirring well with a wooden spoon, until the mixture comes together as a dough. (NB: You may not need to use all of the water.)
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead lightly for 8-10 minutes, or until smooth and elastic.
Transfer the kneaded dough to a clean, greased bowl and cover with a greased sheet of cling film. Set aside in a warm place to rise (prove) for at least one hour, or until the dough has doubled in size.
Meanwhile, in a separate bowl, cream together the butter and lard until well combined. Divide the mixture into four equal portions.
When the dough has proved, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for a further 1-2 minutes.
Roll out the dough into a 40cm x 20cm/16in x 8in rectangle, about 1cm/½in thick.
Turn the dough around so that the shortest edge is facing you. Spread one portion of the butter and lard mixture over the bottom two-thirds of the dough rectangle.
Fold the remaining one-third of the dough rectangle over onto the butter and lard mixture to cover the centre section of the dough rectangle. Fold the other end of the dough rectangle over the folded dough, so that the dough ends up three times its original thickness.
Roll the dough out again to a 40cm x 20cm/16in x 8in rectangle, about 1cm/½in thick. Repeat the process of spreading and folding with another portion of the butter and lard mixture.
Repeat the process twice more, until all of the butter and lard mixture has been used up and the dough has been rolled out a total of four times.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Roll the dough out again to a 40cm x 20cm/16in x 8in rectangle, about 1cm/½in thick. Cut the dough into 16 pieces and roll each into a round, flat bun shape.
Transfer the buns to a lightly oiled baking tray and set aside for 40-45 minutes, or until they have doubled in size again (leave enough space between them for expansion).
When the buns have risen, bake them in the oven for 15-18 minutes, or until they have risen further and are golden-brown and cooked through. Set aside to cool on a wire rack.
Serve each buttery warm, spread with butter and jam.


jeffreylancaster.github.io → Game of Thrones
The Lands of Ice and Fire
This work on HBO's Game of Thrones started it all. I was curious whether I could visualize the various narrative threads woven throughout the Game of Thrones HBO series; to do that, I had to create a custom dataset with episode and scene metadata, character data, and more. I've written on Medium about this project's background, initial thoughts, and early work.
This is a playground for that idea and others. Note: click on any visualization to view the live version or open it in a new tab.
So that map?
The narrative chart started this project for Game of Thrones.
Narrative chart
Scroll down and right. Hover over the map to view character journeys, episode names, and more. Note: map contains spoilers.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Screen Time
Some of the easiest things to visualize are representations of when characters are on screen and where those characters are.
When are characters are on screen?
Scroll down and right and hover.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Where do scenes take place?
Scroll right and hover.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
More specifically, where do scenes take place?
Scroll down and right and hover.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
When are "special" scenes?
Scroll right and hover.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
When do people die?
Scroll right and hover to see who killed whom and how they died.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
When do weapons show up?
Scroll right and hover.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
How many characters are on screen?
Scroll right or hover over a bar.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
What about continuous on screen time?
Scroll right or hover over a circle. Circles are color-coded by house.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Cumulative Time
It's also fairly trivial to count how long characters are on screen (in total or by season), how long they spend in certain locations, or the number of locations and time spent in each per episode.
How long are characters on screen?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
How long are characters in each season?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
How long is spent in each location?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
How long is spent in each more-specific location?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
What percentage of characters' time is in each season?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Mike Bostock's Normalized Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
How long are characters on screen relative to all time?
Hover. Based on takayuki's Treemap in d3 v4.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
How many locations are in each episode?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Andrew Reid's Horizontal Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
What percentage of time do characters spend in various locations?
Scroll down and right or hover. Based on Mike Bostock's Normalized Stacked Bar Chart.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Co-Occurrence
Which characters are on screen together?
Hover. Based on Mike Bostock's Les Misérables Co-occurrence.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
... or as a force-directed network?
Hover and drag. Based on heybignick's d3 v4 force-directed graph.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
... or as a chord diagram?
This chord diagram looks at character co-occurrences (two characters showing up in the same scene) across the show, the same data as above, just in a different representation.
Scroll down and right and hover. Based on HenryLau's chord diagram on JSFiddle.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Relationships
Which characters are connected?
Hover and drag.  Based on Mike Bostock's Labeled Force Layout.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Which characters are connected?
Hover and drag.  Based on an HBO infographic.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Which characters have sex?
Hover and drag. Based on an Cool Material infographic.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Actor Relationships
Which actors have been in movies with other Game of Thrones actors?
Scroll down. Data last pulled following Season 7.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
... or as a matrix?
Scroll down and right. Data last pulled following Season 7. Based on Mike Bostock's Les Misérables Co-occurrence.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Lands of Ice and Fire Geography
I hadn't yet done much with the list of locations shown during the opening sequence of Game of Thrones. For this, I really wanted to be able to show the places on a map of Westeros, Essos, Sothyros, and Ulthos. To do that, I built upon what others had done, but converted a .png to .svg to .geojson. More on that below.
Is there a pattern in the opening locations?
Drag and select. Based on heybignick's d3 v4 force-directed graph.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Could I show them in geographic space?
Select. Based on the A Song of Ice and Fire Wiki geography.
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
What about on a globe?
Drag and zoom. Adapted from Jason Davies' "Rotate the World".
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
The opening sequences could look like this?
Choose the episode you'd like to show. Adapted from Andrew Mollica's "World Tour along Flying Arcs".
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
... or this?
Choose the episode you'd like to show. Adapted from Andrew Mollica's "World Tour along Flying Arcs".
View in a new tab or click to view live version.
Where have various characters travelled?
Choose the character you'd like to show. Adapted from Andrew Mollica's "World Tour along Flying Arcs".
View in a new tab or click to view live version.


 Everyone with a camera can be in porn, and most of them are.
— Jeff Stryker
Not so much a Porn trope, although it's certainly there.
Alice and Bob, deciding to spice up their relationship, film themselves having sex. Or take pictures of each other naked.
At some point, hilarity generally will ensue.
This, however, can also occur in drama — and be a motive for murder. Often done because the person needs the money, and if not actually the basis for murder, at the very least used for blackmail.
This is Truth in Television, and the most infamous cases are when famous people do it.
Comedic Examples:
open/close all folders
Advertising
- An Australian commercial for Dare Iced Coffee has a man being told by his girlfriend "We need to talk". His mind immediately flashes through a whole range of worst case scenarios, one of which is learning that the video they made has gone viral on the internet. The girl's comments leave no doubt as to what kind of video it is.
 They invite him in.
- A Volkswagen ad features a couple driving along when the man suddenly remembers that they just returned "that little...you know...home video" to the video store. The ad then touts the car's anti-lock brakes. The Stinger shows them returning to the video store, where people are watching it; the woman's voice (in the video) is asking, "We're going to erase this later, aren't we?"
Anime & Manga
- By accident the ADs of Chou-Hayaoki TV end up taping one of the main characters of The Weatherman Is My Lover during the Hot Springs Episode.
- The Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episode "Sex and the Daten City" sees Panty at risk of losing her newfound celebrity lifestyle when she screens her "debut film" (a sex tape) at a swanky premiere for another movie she and Stocking are in, which leaks to the public, leading to the Anarchy sisters traveling the world to destroy every last copy of the porn. They succeed, but Stocking keeps the last copy and uploads it online to get even with Panty for cutting her from their film entirely.
Comic Strips
- In Dykes to Watch Out For, Ginger dates a video artist who enjoys making these particular kinds of videos of their encounters. Naturally, Ginger's housemates Sparrow and Lois discover one of the tapes and give her a good ribbing about it.
Fan Works
- Fallout: Equestria: There are (or were) machines that allow ponies to record their memories into magical orbs that can later be viewed by a unicorn. Littlepip activates a memory orb and finds herself in a memory where Steelhooves is trying to convince Applejack to have sex while he's wearing the recording device. Applejack is not amused, and Littlepip really doesn't want to see such a memory. Applejack ends up leaving for a meeting without settling the matter. Later, Steelhooves gives Littlepip another memory orb, and she asks him first if it's a memory of him having sex with Applejack.

Films — Live-Action
- This is the basis of Road Trip; main character has to travel across the United States because he accidentally sent a VHS to his girlfriend which has him having sex with someone else.
- In Ruthless People, the sex tape is filmed by a pair of blackmailers trying to get someone arrested for murder. Thinking (by the screaming) that it was actually a murder, they take the tape straight to the chief of police. Unfortunately, it was him on the tape, and, accidentally blackmailed, he obeys their commands. Gets really bad when the cleverer of the two blackmailers takes the tape into a video shop to check it.
- Clark Griswald (in National Lampoon's European Vacation) tests his new videocamera by taping Mrs. Griswald in the shower. After swearing he's going to erase the tape later, she sings a "naughty" version of "Hey, Big Spender." Later, in Italy, Clark hands the camera to a stranger to videotape the family while standing in the Trevi Fountain and the stranger runs off with it. Something like a day passes and they see a screengrab from the "shower scene" on a billboard for a new "erotic movie". (She is not happy.)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. They're trying to make a professional porn, but are working with a shoestring budget and have quite a bit of unexpected emotional baggage to deal with.
- In "An Evening With Kevin Smith", he talks about borrowing and watching a sex tape made by and starring Jason Mewes. Yes. In an interview on Attack of the Show!, Smith actually said that this is his favorite kind of porn ever since he discovered "revenge porn" on the internet.
- In Bad Boys II, Marcus and Mike play the tape of a suspect's camera at an electronics shop. After useful info, it cuts to home-recorded sex. And while trying to shut it off, they accidentally make all the TVs of the store play it. (The following "broadcast" is even worse/funnier).
- In Machete, April and her mother June film these, although it's unclear how far they go. They mistake Machete for a new gardener and invite him to join them. It's unclear how far he goes, but he definitely kidnaps them and puts the video in a place where the evil father, Booth, can find it, to taunt him.
- In Bruce Almighty, Grace has wrangled Bruce into putting together a scrapbook, and he finds pictures from the vacation they took together, where she "looks kinda perky. Must have been cold.". Cue Grace trying to wrestle them out of Bruce's hand.
- Brazilian movie Cilada.com has the protagonist suffering this twice: first, it lasts less than a minute, and his girlfriend puts up online to retaliate on a public betrayal. Then in the ending, after he's humiliated in all ways possible but the relationship is put back together, she decides to record another video... and another problem happens.
- In War, Inc., Yonica's fiance was planning to make one of their honeymoon and then sell the resulting DVDs. Yonica was unaware of this and got really upset when she found out.
- This plays a key role in Flatliners, where the sins of one of the characters is recording these without the women's knowledge or consent.
- In the remake of Friday the 13th (2009), Bree lures Trent into the bedroom of the cabin they're staying at, strips both of them down, rides on top of him in a perfect cowgirl position, and video tapes him for much of their intercourse... all the way Jason begins his killing spree, and at one point, Jenna (Trent's girlfriend) bangs on the door to warn them, but Trent assumes she and the others are just messing with them.
- Subverted in the Paranormal Activity series:
- In the first film, Micah wants to make a sex tape with Katie, but she won't allow it. She doesn't mind him recording the aftermath.
- In Paranormal Activity 3, Dennis and Julie try to make one, but are interrupted by tremors from an earthquake. The tape ends up being important, as falling dust from the ceiling reveals the outline of the demon.

Literature
- Part of the plot of Ian McEwan's novel Amsterdam revolves around scandalous photographs of a character crossdressing in the company of someone else's wife, and the potential for blackmail. When the photographs are revealed by the crossdresser's rival, nobody is very shocked or offended by them, and people are more inclined to praise him for acting out his fantasies. However, the character's chances of becoming Prime Minister are still ruined, so the rival succeeds nonetheless.
- In Star Island, Cherry Pye made s sex tape and had it leaked onto the Internet as a publicity stunt a few years ago. Bang Abbott actually watched it, but found it disappointingly boring even by amateur standards.
Live-Action TV
- Friends:
- Joey and his date walks in on a set that Chandler and Monica had obviously put together for this purpose - she leaves horrified. This was while Joey was the only one who knew of their relationship. He berates Chandler for making it more and more difficult to keep their secret, and storms out in a huff. Then he sticks his head back in the door to deliver his parting shot:
"But let me just say: The camera? Nice!" *two thumbs up*- In another episode a tape Ross and Rachel made (by accident: Ross was trying to practice flirting) is discovered. Rachel managed to get pregnant from this exact encounter, and the two are arguing about which of them made the first move. The video contains the seduction, so the friends end up watching its clothed portion to put the matter to rest. As the episode's closing gag, Ross and Rachel watch the non-clothed portion in private... only to turn it off in horror when they see how bad they look during the act.
- In "The One with the Prom Video", Monica discovers that the end of said video is a Home Porn Movie, featuring her parents.
- It seems everybody in Friends made one. In yet another episode, somebody finds a videotape with Monica's ex Richard and another girl they assume to be Monica (They couldn't see her face clearly). Monica finds out and, on viewing the tape it turns out it wasn't her.
- In an episode of Mad About You, Paul and Jamie accidentally send their "home movie" back to the video store instead of the actual rental tape. The same thing happened in a 1999 Volkswagen commercial, with people in the video store watching on the in-store monitor.
- In an episode of Desperate Housewives, Lynette's kids start to watch a videotape belonging to a neighboring couple, which Lynette frantically stops when she sees what kind of movie it is. The neighbors are embarrassed it got out of their house... because their more recent movies have higher standards of production.
- Subverted in an episode of The Drew Carey Show, in which there's a video tape that appears to be a Home Porn Movie made by Drew Carey and his girlfriend. At the end of the episode, the contents of the tape are revealed: while their initial intention was in fact to record a sex act, his girlfriend via the camera notices how much weight she'd put on since she began dating Drew.
- In Rules of Engagement, Adam and Jennifer tape themselves only to be disgusted by how they look on camera. Adam becomes obsessed and starts watching the tape over and over, trying to analyse flaws with his technique until Jennifer tapes over it with her yoga workout.
- In The Office (USA), Michael invites a few co-workers over for dinner and takes them into the bedroom on the house tour. He apparently neglected to remove the video camera pointed at the bed.
- Brothers & Sisters. Said clip ends up getting shown at a birthday party.
- Mosley (about Sir Oswald Mosley). The mistress of the title character takes a photograph of Mosley naked at the beach. When Mosely dumps her after she becomes pregnant she gives the photo to his political opponents, endangering his political career.
- Patrick in Coupling has a tape of every single woman he's ever slept with - which it turns out includes all the female characters. They're all kept in a cupboard, which is of course stacked floor-to-ceiling. Susan is infuriated when she finds out that not only did Patrick accidentally tape over her, but that neither he nor her current boyfriend Steve were able to realize it wasn't her in the video until she pointed it out.
- Jane, on the other hand, finds the tape of herself with Patrick and helpfully tapes over it with constructive criticism of Patrick's performance.
- Dennis on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia makes home porn videos. Without the women's knowledge. And they all focus on him.
- On Smallville Emil Hamilton and Tess Mercer of all people make one while Kissing Under the Influence. They are not happy when it's found the next day.
- Variant in Sex and the City- Carrie is friends with a man who makes a long term "art project" of sleeping with models and filming it without their knowledge. When Samantha is hepped to this, and said friend shows interest in her, she assumes he thinks he's a model. When they finally do have sex, she asks where the camera is and even though he explains he only does it for models, he agrees to give Samantha the same treatment.
- When untrue rumors get out about Samantha's boyfriend Smith being gay, they make one of these and deliberately leak it on the internet—to preserve her reputation rather than his.
- Bobby and Jules in Cougar Town have one. Jules is particularly proud of how great she looked at nineteen.
- Jenna in 30 Rock regards this as an important step in her relationship with Paul. This makes sense given that her personality is "Hollywood Attention Whore taken Up to Eleven."
- How I Met Your Mother:
- Barney has an outright camera fetish. He records nearly all of his sexual encounters, and has cameras running in his apartment twenty-four seven, just in case. At one point, he has a nightmare Imagine Spot about being able to have sex with a group of gorgeous strippers but not being allowed to tape it.
- Barney spends one later episode hunting down a homemade sex tape that Marshall and Lily made. It's at first stated to not even exist, although it's eventually revealed that it is, in fact, real.
- Married... with Children had a Banned Episode (not shown until over ten years after it was made) where on Marcy's advice Al and Peggy go to a motel to spice up their love life, only to find out the motel recording guests having sex. Realizing they could sue over this gets them in the mood.
- On Glee, Puck and Lauren want to make a sex tape to make Lauren famous, but their teacher advises them not to since they're under-age and it would be child pornography. Plus, she can say from experience that it never works out how you intend it to.
- Brittany purposely leaks her and Santana's sex tape to prove to Santana that she's nor truly willing to do anything for fame. Santana is not impressed.
- Inverted on World's Dumbest... during one of the many times John Enos and Loni Love play lovers. In such segment, Loni asks John if he, "Wants to watch our movie", to which he excited says, "Fuck yeah! That camera angle makes my junk look huge!" Loni reveals she meant their wedding movies. After watching home movies of their wedding (basically just wedding clips with their faces superimposed over the brides and grooms), Loni then asks, "So, now you wanna watch that other movie?" John smiles sheepishly, before pulling out a camcorder, saying, "Fuck that... let's make one instead!" Both Loni and John take off in excitement.
- On ER, Doug and Carol make one of these shortly after reconciling. Amazingly, in an aversion of what often happens in this scenario, it does not end up being viewed by anyone else who shouldn't see it.
- Implied in The George Lopez Show when George puts on a tape for Angie's birthday and she worriedly asks if it's "from our trip to the lake, because the kid's can't see that!"
- Dave on Happy Endings hooks up with a women's lacrosse coach who records them having sex then uses it to coach Dave on his technique.
- Invoked on just about every other episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Someone will say something that may or may not be an actual double entendre and Jake will respond "Title of your sex tape!"
- On The Good Place Mindy St. Claire secretly recorded Eleanor and Chidi having sex during one of their stays in The Medium Place.
- Without a Trace. Martin Fitzgerald half-jokingly suggests to girlfriend Samantha Spade that they make one of these so as to reveal their relationship to their co-workers.
Music
- "Cry Me A River" , the Justin Timberlake song, has a video where JT does this, with the aim of getting back at a woman who is very clearly meant to be Britney Spears.
- "Get Naked" on Tommy Lee's rap album complains about the money being made off his sex tape with Pamela Anderson.
Webcomics
- Sticky Dilly Buns: The trope shows up more than once in the variant "collection of stills" version:
- Zii collects pictures of past sexual conquests on her phone, including pairs of men she's drawn into threesomes. (Which is indeed the kind of behavior that readers have long since come to expect from her in the predecessor comic, Ménage à 3.) The more ethical Ruby finds these very appealing, but immediately comments on the problem of consent.
- Despite that moral code, Ruby can't resist photographing Dillon teaching Ray the art of kissing for acting purposes. She later nervously admits to this, and is pleased when everyone just tells her that she has a good eye for such photography which is typical of most of the cast, and amusing from Ray himself, who would do anything to get on as an actor.
- Likewise, Ramona photographs Dillon when he's explaining the art of oral sex and illustrating with a popsicle.
- Dillon too has a collection of snaps of attractive men on his phone, though most of them are probably relatively innocent images of clothed men in public — but taken more or less surreptitiously.
Web Original
- Trying to make money with homemade porn is a worse idea than you think, according to Ian Fortey of Cracked.
Western Animation
- King of the Hill has Hank and Peggy walk into Boomhauer's bedroom to see a videocamera pointed at the bed and hooked up to the tv. They assume it's for home videos and pretend to be news casters on the bed with it.
- Subverted in The Simpsons- Bart finds a tape marked "Homer and Marge Get Dirty", and plays it for Lisa hoping to traumatize her. It turns out its just footage of the two carving pumpkins.
- Not quite home, but on Sealab 2021, when Stormy asked the ASHDTV to show him porno bloopers, it showed him one featuring Debbie and, based on context clues, Hesh. Debbie was more offended that the guys didn't think her breasts were real.
- In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko Heffer and Filbert find a video made by the Bigheads called "Toads In Love".
- The Adventure Time "The Pit" has several parts where it's shown Jake has made a sex-tape for his girlfriend, Rainicorn.
- Also doubling as a serious case of Getting Crap Past the Radar, one episode of The Grim Adventuresof Billy And Mandy has Billy tell Mandy that Grim "drank your juice, and broke your computer and watched my mom and dad's special DVD"
Dramatic Examples:
Anime & Manga
- GE - Good Ending has one of the protagonist's friends involved in one. Not played for laughs as it was filmed without her consent.
- A chapter of the Lupin III manga has Lupin discovering his faked Jekyll & Hyde condition while viewing one of these. This was replaced when the episode received an anime adaptation in "Crude Reproduction, Perfect Frame".
- Literal Gorn variant, though downplayed. Greg of A Cruel God Reigns takes several nudes of Jeremy after beating him and before raping him.
Film—Live Action
- Backfires spectacularly in Trainspotting, to the point where it leads directly to the death of one of the main characters.
Literature
- "The Porn Stars" in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted (2005). They started out making the movie as a labor of love and to make money. By the time they're finished, they've realized how artificial their relationship has become.
- A very dark version appears in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Lisbeth takes a hidden camera to her guardian's house, knowing he's going to molest her and planning to use the tape as blackmail. However, instead he knocks her unconscious, ties her up and brutally rapes her. She of course still has the tape and uses this for blackmail... after knocking him out on the next visit and tattooing "I am a rapist pig" on his stomach.
- As early as 1938, the Sir Henry Merrivale crime novel The Judas Window by Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) had a plot point in which a female character was blackmailed using sexual photos of her taken with her consent by an ex-boyfriend.
- In Reconstructing Amelia, The Magpies, an unauthorized club of girls at the Grace Hall private school, take nude photos of themselves as part of a group activity and put them up online so people can vote on them. The fact that all of them are underage makes this especially problematic, and Kate, the mother of the title character, is absolutely flabbergasted when she finds out that the mother of at least one of the girls was aware of what was going on and was okay with it.
Live-Action TV
- Julie was blackmailed with one of these on The O.C..
- In Bones, Brennan and Booth are the death of a highschool boy on a private school campus, who was the son of the Venezuelan ambassador. They discover a sextape with showing him and another student, and they confront her with it. Horrified, she claims that it was filmed by the victim using a hidden camera, and that she had no knowledge of its existence. However, upon further inspection they realize that, within the film, she looked directly at the camera. Turns out she actually seduced him (and filmed it with another student helping) with the intention of blackmailing him and his father. However, the boy was going to turn them in to the headmaster, so they murdered him.
- Soap being an Affectionate Parody of Soap Operas, naturally featured one of these.
- Speaking of which, this is a standard Soap Opera trope—many adulterous couples find that their liaison has been taped, either (a) by one of the lovers, with the intent of blackmailing the other, (b) deliberately done by a third party, again with the intent of blackmailing one or both, or (c) inadvertently. When it's inevitably discovered, the finder of course, uses it to blackmail one or both
- An especially cruel version on All My Children, when Gloria taped her tryst with her lover Craig and threatened to show it to his wife Dixie unless he gave her money.
- A savvier version from the same show when Arlene blackmailed her son-in-law Alec into an affair and taped their trysts as an insurance policy, warning him that if he killed her, the police would find the tape and know his motive. Sure enough, he tried, assuming she was bluffing. . .and it was found.
- A rare funny version from this genre on General Hospital. When Emily Quartermaine made a documentary for the annual nurses ball, she left her camera in the conference room, unaware that it was still on. A nurse and her boyfriend sneaked into the room for a quickie. When the documentary was played at the ball. . .
- Kings had a story where the princess is blackmailed with the photographic variety.
- In an episode of Drop Dead Diva, Kim and Parker fight to get his son's teacher his job back after it's revealed he and his wife made a few of these before he became a teacher when they were in dire financial straits.
- Done in an episode of Criminal Minds. When a woman finds in her husband's cell phone nude pictures of their daughter, he explains that this is some sexting done by the daughter (presumably to her boyfriend) and that she sent those to her father in law by mistake. He's lying by the way.
- Sort of happens in Lost, when Jack catches Sawyer and Kate cuddling post-coitus on a security camera. If he'd been through a few minutes sooner, he would have gotten a real eyeful...
- Veronica Mars had a hidden camera sex tape filmed without her or her boyfriends knowledge in his dorm room. It is then leaked to the internet. It causes major problems, and causes her ex-boyfriend Logan to beat her current boyfriend Piz senseless as Logan assumes he made it on purpose.
- The video shows up in the follow-up film, although the footage is different (for rating reasons).
- Shows up several times on Midsomer Murders usually as blackmail material followed by murder.
- The L Word: On one occasion, Jenny and Niki tape themselves having sex.
- In a third-season episode of Defiance, Berlin has sex with Tommy while recording the whole thing on a camera (the same camera she uses for her propaganda videos). Tommy is a bit worried, but Berlin points out that there's no risk, since the Internet hasn't been around in decades.
 It later turns out that her parents were part of a major underground porn operation in the town and were using the tapes to extort various people. This included the original Executioner, who is Sarah's real father.
- Hemlock Grove: Andreas and a Croatian mob girl get the bright idea of shooting a porn movie while they're both conspiring to rip off her boss. This obviously comes back to bite them both when he discovers the tape, and uses it to convince Peter that Andreas has crossed them both and become a liability.
- Several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit revolve around this trope, including one in which a man drugs women and records himself raping them and another where a woman's secret recording of herself with a man is used to rebut her claim of rape.
Visual Novels
- In Shining Song Starnova, a sex tape starring Haruka, the second most popular member of the idol group Quasar, gets leaked online during Akis route. The resulting scandal damages Quasars reputation and leads to Haruka getting fired.
Web Comics
- Lisa of Venus Envy was publicly outed as a lesbian and had her reputation destroyed when she was involved in something like this.
- In Misfile, when nude photos of a girl start circulating around the school, it is treated as a very serious problem, and the legal implications (that under-18 sex is extremely illegal) are brought up, though we are informed that the girl in question is 18.


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_The_Little_Vampire_ (PG) ** (out of ****)
"But it's only a kids' movie." That's the likely response to any criticisms leveled at _The_Little_Vampire_, a fantasy-adventure-comedy that is unmistakably made for the younger set--who, I have no doubt in my mind, will react positively to the film. Yes, the movie is clean. Yes, the movie will hold the tots' attention.  I don't think so.
Jonathan Lipnicki plays Tony Thompson, who along with his mother (Pamela Gidley) and father (Tommy Hinkley), has just moved from America to the Scotland countryside. Tony's problems fitting in at school are made worse by his recurring dreams about vampires--the reasons for which become clear one night when he is visited by Rudolph (Rollo Weeks), the little vampire of the title. The two quickly become best friends, and soon Tony finds himself helping Rudolph and his family--father Frederick (Richard E. Grant), mother Frida (Alice Krige), sister Anna (Anna Popplewell), and older brother Gregory (Dean Cook)--locate the missing piece of an amulet that could grant them their greatest wish: to become human again.
Sounds all nice and cute, which it probably was in Angela Sommer-Bodenburg's original novels. But something has been lost in the translation. While the effects, photography, and costuming (though Rudolph is made to look like a miniature member of the '80s band a-ha) are decent, Karey Kirkpatrick and Larry Wilson's script has a fair share of irritating plot holes (just exactly why is Tony able to have psychic visions?), and the comic sequences are rendered annoying by director Uli Edel's (yes, the same Uli Edel who last directed the 1993 Madonna fuckfest _Body_of_Evidence_) heavy hand. Case in point: a subplot involving a weirdo vampire hunter (Jim Carter).
What proves most ruinous, however, are the performances that range from phoned-in to barely-there. The central performance falls in the latter category. Four years after stealing scenes in the not-for-kids _Jerry_Maguire_, the now-10-year-old Lipnicki is given his first starring vehicle with _Vampire_, and the moppet proves far from up to the task. Adult actors certainly can't coast by on cuteness alone, and that goes tenfold for child stars, whose smiles and giggles can get really annoying really quickly. The case of the bespectacled Lipnicki is even worse, for his cuteness factor is rapidly diminishing; now that the size of his body is about caught up with that of his head, there's nothing distinctively "cute" about him. One's left to focus on whatever acting ability is there, and between his robotic line readings and stone face--which, it seems, can only be smiling or sullen--one would be hard-pressed to find any.
One would also have difficulty finding much of anything in _The_Little_Vampire_ that will appeal beyond the target kid audience. For some parents, that will be enough, but shouldn't a so-called "family film" truly have something of worth to offer to everyone of every age?
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MODULE: amiq_ofc_python_server PROJECT: Amiq Open-Source Framework for Co-Emulation
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(port, buffer_size, max_connections, delim)[source]¶ Through this class a python server can be created that receives request as a list of “string” items and processes them, sending back a response.
It is an abstract class, as compute_response function needs to be defined by the user.
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compute_response
(items_to_process)[source]¶ The compute_response() function is abstract, as the user must define how the items are processed. This function should return a list of string processed items.
@param self: The server that contains the compute_response() function @type self: amiq_ofc_python_server @param items_to_process: The list of items (formatted as string) that must be processed @type items_to_process: list<string>
@return: This function should return a list of string processed items. @rtype: list<string>
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@see self.delim
@param self: The server that contains the split_message_by_delim() function @type self: amiq_ofc_python_server @param message: The message containing the request from the client that needs to be separated into individual items @type message: string
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PATHS OF GLORY (director/writer: Stanley Kubrick; screenwriter: Jim Thompson/Calder Willingham/ from a Humphrey Cobb novel; cinematographer: Georg Krause; cast: Kirk Douglas (Colonel Dax), Ralph Meeker (Corporal Paris), Adolphe Menjou (General George Broulard), George Macready (General Paul Mireau), Wayne Morris (Lieutenant Roget), Ralph Meeker (Corp. Paris), Richard Anderson (Major Saint-Auban), Joe Turkel (Private Arnaud), Christiane Kubrick (German Singer), Jeffrey Hausner (Proprietor), Peter Capell (Colonel Judge), Emile Meyer (Priest), Bert Freed (Sergeant Boulanger), Kem Dibbs (Private Lejeune), Timothy Carey (Private Ferol), Fred Bell (Shell Shock Victim), Harold Benedict (Capt. Nichols), John Stein (Capt. Rousseau), 1957)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Stanley Kubrick's first big financed A film and first film with a major Hollywood star. Kirk Douglas who liked the script, thinking it would give him a chance to work on a quality film with a strong social message, thereby getting his production company to back it. Kubrick prior to this film was a photographer for LOOK magazine and directed the low-budget films "The Killers" (46) and "Killer's Kiss" (55). The film is based on a true event and was filmed in Germany, with the German extras playing the French soldiers in the trenches.
The film must have ruffled many feathers, because it was banned in France for about 20 years. The U.S. army refused to show it on its theater release date. It was also banned for a time in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany. This antiwar film, one of the best ever made, much like Renoir's masterpiece "The Grand Illusion," does a great job of criticizing the role of the French military higher-ups in WW1. The movie turns most of its attention to the action taking place in a military courtroom court-martial and the interplay between the officer's political manuevering for power. It culminates in the unjustified court-martial for cowardice of three randomly picked soldiers, showing how callow the military is for taking these soldier's lives in so arbitrary a fashion. Its battle scenes played like a documentary, with striking attention turning to details of life in the trenches and how the men stood up after being confined to such dark and squalid circumstances, contrasted with how the staff officers live in the luxury of chateaus. Kubrick's masterpiece was more cynical and gritty than Renoir's very poetic and humane indictment of war. One reason why this was so, was because it hit harder at those who were its subjects and as a result many country's reacted so vehemently as to officially oppose the film.
It should also be pointed out, that the ambitious Kubrick rewrote the original script to give the film a more traditional Hollywood upbeat ending to it, much to Kirk Douglas's surprise and disapproval. Kubrick, reportedly, wanted the film to be a box office success and was willing to forgo artistic integrity. The controversial ending might be termed a cop-out by many, while others found its sentimentalities quite appropriate and cynical enough.
The two did not get along well on the set, but that did not stop Douglas from years later requesting the very talented Kubrick to direct "Spartacus (60)," the last Hollywood type of film Kubrick ever directed. Incidentally, in my opinion, the major flaw in Paths of Glory wasn't the taut script, which was lucid and hard-hitting, but it was in Kirk Douglas's egomaniacal performance (though a strong performance and the best one in Kirk's career). But, as forceful and necessary as Kirk's performance was, it still allowed the film to become centered around him, rather than on the universality of the story unfolding in its very natural and engrossing way about the horrors, evils, and insanity of war.
Kubrick aimed for a critique both of war and of class systems. He accomplished this by pessimistically and cynically showing how the privilege class cares only about themselves and how its power is corrupting.
The action picks up in France in 1916. We are told that World War I has dragged on for two years and that it became a stalemate of fortified trenches and heavy casualties.War began between Germany and France on August 3, 1914. Five weeks later, the German army had come within 18 miles of Paris. There the battered French miraculously rallied their forces at the Marne River, and in a series of unexpected counterattacks, drove the Germans back. The Front was stabilized and shortly afterward developed into a continuous line of heavily fortified trenches zigzagging their way five hundred miles from the English Channel to the Swiss frontier. By 1916, after two grisly years of trench warfare, the battle lines had changed very little. Successful attacks were measured in hundreds of yards - and paid for in lives by hundreds of thousands.
The film opens with the French General Staff deciding from the safety of their luxurious chateau far off enemy lines that it is time to attack the `Ant Hill' tomorrow. The object of the attack is an impregnable and fortified hilltop held by the Germans, without any strategic value.The two cunning and detestable generals- the commanding staff general, General George Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), who asks the field general, Paul Mireau (George Macready), to take this impossible suicide mission, despite knowing it will kill most of the men. At first, Mireau says he can't do it, he will lose too many men. But then Broulard says that a promotion awaits, there will be consideration for another star. Mireau then consents and arrogantly visits the troops in the trenches, accompanied by his ass-kissing aide, Major Saint-Auban (Anderson). He manages to slap a shell shocked soldier (Bell) while rallying the troops, saying there is no such a thing as shell shock, as he transfers him out of his outfit, not wanting cowards.
The general confers with the company commander of the 701st, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), a criminal trial lawyer in civilian life, and appeals to Dax's patriotism to go through with the attack. After Dax says it is not possible to do, Mireau says, "Show me a patriot and I'll show you an honest man." Dax replies, quoting from Samuel Johnson, "Patriotism... is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Finally, Dax is convinced to lead the attack when he is threatened with loss of command. He then becomes subservient to the general and says he doesn't want to desert his men.
The attack the next morning is a colossal failure, as the men who do attack are mostly killed. It is made worst by a commanding officer's cowardice, Lieutenant Roget (Wayne Morris), who never orders his men to leave the trenches, leaving the first line of soldiers without backup. Mireau watches the battle begin from the safety of his chateau, drinking a toast to France as the battle begins. Mireau soon becomes upset at the men for not taking the Ant Hill and for stopping their attack, and orders the artillery commanders to fire on his own troops, which they refuse to do, even when threatened with court-martial. They ask for that command to be a written one.
The next day Mireau meets with Broulard and requests that a 100 men be randomly chosen as scapegoats and executed as a lesson for cowardice in battle. This is to serve as a lesson for the rest of the troops, he warns. Broulard suggests that they make it 12 men. But Mireau, not to be undone in the generosity of the moment, says let's make it 3 and have the 701st's three commanding officers choose one from each outfit. Broulard says we better get a court-martial for them and make it legal. Dax when he hears of this insanity, asks to be the accused's defense counsel and is granted that right.
Dax will meet the men chosen to die, as he goes to their cell. They are Corporal Paris (Meeker), Private Arnaud (Turkel), and Private Ferol (Carey). All of them express shock at what has happened to them and how they were chosen. Corporal Paris was chosen by Lieutenant Roget because the officer murdered Lejeune (Dibbs) on patrol and Paris knew that. Arnaud, a former medal-awarded hero, was chosen by a random drawing of lots. The weepy Ferol was selected because his captain believed he was a "social undesirable." Since the trial is fixed, the men are found guilty and are given a last meal in their cells, which they think is drugged. They are also visited by the priest (Meyer), who hears their confessions and offers what Arnaud calls sanctimonious pat answers for what has happened to them. Being drunk from the meal's wine, he attacks the priest but is knocked down by Paris, causing him to be placed on a stretcher when the men are executed in the morning.
Dax had told Broulard about the artillery commanders charging Mireau with ordering his own men fired upon the night before the execution, giving him the written statements of all the witnesses who will confirm that this happened. But the general refused to stop the execution, instead he waited for after the execution to tell Mireau that there will be an investigation about that matter so the military name is not stained. Later, he calls Dax in and informs him that he can have Mireau's position.  Dax angrily reproves the generals on their despicable and inhumane actions and is forever shut out of the privileged military club.
As Dax leaves the general, he comes across the men in a tavern where a young German woman (his wife Christiane) is forced to sing as the men act like brutes. When she starts to sing and tears roll down her face, they eventually become quiet and are moved to softly sing with her. Dax is told by his sergeant (Freed) that orders have come and that it is time for he and his men to return to the front. Dax tells him to give the men a few minutes.
The film is direct and powerful. It wouldn't have been banned for so long if it didn't hit home with its hard message. There is no doubt about its message being man's inhumanity to man, that war is insane, of military incompetence, of class differences resulting in special privileges for some, of hypocrisy, and that power is corrupting.
It is magnificently shot, as the trenches are frighteningly real and incomprehensible to understand until seen. Kirk Douglas is overwhelming in his stabilizing role, in my opinion too much so. But, nevertheless, his anger is warranted, as he is the emotional glue that holds the film together and gives humanity some measure for hope. Though I came away from the film feeling no hope. I was cynical of everyone's motives, including Dax's. After all, he still led the men to their slaughter, even when knowing this would be so. To call him a hero, as the ending of the film implies by its crass sentimentality, as it shows him going back to the front, left me cold. A real hero, someone who is brave and beyond reproach, would have become a pacifist after that incredulous suicide battle plan and mock trial. He would have walked away from the war. Adolphe Menjou and George Macready came through with outstanding performances, each one an incarnation of Machiavellian evil.
There is much to chew on idea-wise, despite how simple the film might appear on first viewing it, and thereby lies its true greatness, as it seems to make a timeless argument against war; and, as in most Kubrick films, it is not dated, in fact, it seems to get better with age.
REVIEWED ON 1/22/2000 GRADE: A+
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Mono(httpcfg) Mono(httpcfg) NAME httpcfg - Mono Certificate Management for HttpListener SYNOPSIS httpcfg [options] certificate DESCRIPTION This tool is used to manage the certificates used by the HttpListener embeddable server class when the HttpListener is configured as an HTTPS server instead of an HTTP server. You must select one of the possible actions: add, delete or list. When adding a certificate (-add), you must provide the following informa‐ tion: a certificate (with the -cert flag) a Private Key file (with the -pvk argument, the filename is typically "key") and a port number (with the -port flag). When deleting a certificate (-del or -delete) you need to provide the port number. PARAMETERS -add Adds a new certificate/private key combination for being used at a given port by the HttpListener API. -del, -delete Deletes the certificates associated for the port specified (must be specified separatedly). -list List all known certificates. -port PORT Specifies the port to add certificates to, or remove certificates from. -pvk FILE Specifies the Private Key file. -cert CERT Specifies the certificate file to use. EXAMPLES httpcfg -add -port 8081 -pvk myfile.pvk -cert MyCert For more details on creating the certificate file and the private key, see the following web page: http://www.mono-project.com/UsingClientCertificatesWithXSP FILES The certificates are stored in the ~/.mono/httplistener directory AUTHOR httpcfg was written by Gonzalo Paniagua. COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2006 Novell. MAILING LISTS Visit http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list for details. WEB SITE Visit http://www.mono-project.com for details SEE ALSO makecert(1), signcode(1), cert2spc(1) The private key format: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/pvk.html Mono(httpcfg)


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Mid/Side processing separates the the 'mid' signal
(which comes out of both the left and the right channel)
and the 'side' (which only comes out of the the side channels)
and effects them separately before being recombined.
Applies a Mid/Side seperation and recombination.
Algorithm found in kvraudio forums.
This is a base-class for Mid/Side Effects.
new
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Javascript
Declaring a variable in Javascript
In Javascript, we typically declare variables with eitherconst
,
for maintaining constant values, or let
, for being able to change the
value of the variable.
Both of these declarations are block scoped
, meaning they are only
accessible within the block they are declared in.
Printing out to the console
console.log()
. For example:
const name = "Cristi";
console.log( name );
Data types
To begin with, data types in Javascript are dynamic, meaning a variable can be used to hold many different data types.For example:
let x = 1; // x is a Number
let x = "Cristi"; // x is a String
Strings
They are a sequence of characters and can be identified by the use of single or double quotes:
let x = "String";
let x = 'Also a string';
Numbers
Unlike other languages, Javascript does not have two different types forint
and
float/double
. Whether or not they have decimals, they are all
part of Number
.
For example:
let x = 1; // without decimals
let x = 1.5; // with decimal
Booleans
They can either betrue
or false
.
Arrays
[]
and
their elements are separated by commas ,
. For example:
let array = [ "first", "second", "etc" ];
New elements can be added using array.push( element ). We use
array.pop() to remove the last element from the array ( in our example
it would be "etc"
).
Copying Array values
...
like so: array2 = [...array1]
Objects
{}
and are structured as
key-value pairs, separated by commas. Example:
let obj = {
name: "Cristi",
age: 9,
isHuman: true
}
Undefined and Null
In Javascript, variables without values are set toundefined
. undefined
and null
are the equal in value, but different in type, as null
is an
object
and undefined
is of type undefined
.
Type checking and conversion
typeof
operator, which returns
the the type of the given variable in a string
format. Example:
typeof 1 // returns "number"
typeof "1" // returns "string"
We can manually convert a variable of one type to another type using the constructor function
or by using some parsing functions. Example:
String( true );
String( 1 );
Number( "400" );
parseInt( "3" );
Comparing variables
Comparing two variables can be done with either==
or ===
,
the first one checking only if the left value is equal to the one on the right, while the
second variant checks if both the value and the type is the same on both sides:
"1" == 1 // true
"1" === 1 // false
1 == true // true
1 === true // false
Functions
Functions in Javascript can be declared by using thefunction
keyword.
function myFunction( parameter ) {
return "Hello " + parameter;
}
const greeting = myFunction( "Cristi" );
Functions can also be used as variables, like so:
const myVariableFunction = function() {
console.log( "Hello !" );
}
myVariableFunction();
Arrow Functions
const myArrowFunction = ( string ) {
console.log( string );
}
myArrowFunction( "Hello !" );
Callback Functions
Functions can also be passed by reference to other functions in order to be used later:
function sayHiLater ( anyFunctionReference ) {
anyFunctionReference( "Hello !" );
}
sayHiLater( myArrowFunction );
// We can also pass the parameter to use with the function
function interact ( genericInteraction, name ) {
console.log( genericInteraction( name ) );
}
interact( myArrowFunction, "Cristi" );
// We can also write our own function directly as a parameter
interact( ( string ) => "Greetings, " + string, "Alex" );
Node JS
What is Node JS ?
Node JS is a Javascript runtime for building server-side or desktop applications.
Running files with Node


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The username and private key credential used to authenticate with the ACS clusters master node. This is the private key paired with the SSH RSA public key provided when you create the ACS cluster (see Deploy a Docker container hosting solution using the Azure portal ).
The username and key credentials can be updated from Azure Portal. Find the Virtual Machine for your ACS cluster master node from the portal, and you can update the credential from SUPPORT + TROUBLESHOOTING >>> Reset password page.


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Downloader
public class Downloader : NSObject
extension Downloader: URLSessionDownloadDelegate
Downloader: A helper class to download files.
-
Downloads a file asynchronously.
Usage Example:
- Download MNIST files:
let semaphore = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0) let downloader = Downloader() var localURL: URL? downloader.download( fileAt: URL(string: "https://storage.googleapis.com/cvdf-datasets/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz")!, cacheName: "mnist", fileName: "train-images.gz" ) { url, error in guard let url = url else { if let error = error { print(error) } fatalError("Data not downloaded.") } localURL = url semaphore.signal() } semaphore.wait() // Use the URL here.
Declaration
Swift
public func download(fileAt remoteUrl: URL, cacheName: String, fileName: String, completionHandler: @escaping (URL?, Error?) -> Void)
-
Downloads a file synchronously.
Usage Example:
- Download MNIST files:
let localURL = Downloader.download( fileAt: URL(string: "https://storage.googleapis.com/cvdf-datasets/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz")!, cacheName: "mnist", fileName: "train-images.gz" ) // Use the URL here.
Declaration
Swift
static public func download(fileAt remoteUrl: URL, cacheName: String, fileName: String) -> URL?
-
Undocumented
Declaration
Swift
public func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask, didWriteData bytesWritten: Int64, totalBytesWritten: Int64, totalBytesExpectedToWrite: Int64)
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Undocumented
Declaration
Swift
public func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask, didFinishDownloadingTo location: URL)
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Undocumented
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Swift
public func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: Error?)


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Autonomous Collective Systems Lab
Arizona State University
| FSE | Fulton Schools of Engg. |
| SOLS | School of Life Sciences |
| GIS | Global Institute of Sustainability |
Robot capabilities
✓ Sense / Communicate within limited range
✖ Global Localization
✖ Environment Map
Kumar and Berman, IEEE-TRO (under review)
Kumar and Berman, SICOMP / Arxiv
Novomessor Cockerelli
Engineers: develop robust strategies for CT
Ant CT is Scalable, decentralized, and has no map
Biologists: understand CT in certain ant species
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Load trajectory nearly straight segment
CRN with 6 reactions $S_i \underset{r_{ij}}{\stackrel{r_{ji}}{\rightleftharpoons}} S_j$
$S_i \neq S_j$ are states from $S:=\{F,B,D\}$
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Each front ant pulls with force $F_p$, and each attached ant lifts with force $F_l$. $$\begin{align} F_{up} &=& (N_F+N_B)F_l \\ F_n &=& m_L g -F_{up} \end{align}$$ |
$$ \frac{d}{dt} \Exp(v_L) \approx c_g + c_F \Exp(N_F) + c_B \Exp(N_B) + c_{Fv} \Exp( N_F ) \Exp( v_L ) $$
where $$ \begin{align} c_g \eqdef -\mu g &,& c_B \eqdef \mu F_l/m_L \\ c_F \eqdef (K v_L^d + \mu F_l)/m_L &,& c_{Fv} \eqdef K/m_L \end{align} $$.
Ants are more likely to attach to front of moving load $r_{DF} > r_{DB}$
Devise a controller for covering multiple boundaries with provable target allocations
| Multi-Robot Task Allocation | Robotic Self-Assembly |
| Applications: Turbine inspection |
Get robots to allocate to multiple disk types, with
each type having a predefined target number of attachments
Example goal : Two types of disks,
✓ Sense and identify object types within limited range
✓ Sense whether other robot is bound or unbound
✓ Perform Correlated Random Walks (CRW)
✖ Prior data about disks
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A bound robot detects an unbound one and frees itself. |
$e_b~(\text{resp.} ~e_u)$: Probability rate at which free robot encounters bound (resp. unbound) zone
$p_b~(\text{resp.} ~p_u)$: Probability that a free robot will bind (resp. ask a bound robot to unbind)
Under designer's control
Describes the time evolution of species concentrations $$\mathbf{x} := \begin{bmatrix} r & U & B \end{bmatrix}^T$$
ODE System $$ \dot{\mathbf{x}} = r(p_u e_b B - p_b e_u U) \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 1 & -1 \end{bmatrix}^T , ~\text{with}~ \mathbf{x}_0 ~ \text{given}. $$
ODE has two equilibria of the form
$$ \mathbf{x}^* = (r^*,U^*,B^*), ~\text{with}~ B^* + U^* = B_0^* +U_0^*. $$
Trivial Equilibrium
If $r_0 +B_0 < B^*$, then we have
$(r^*,U^*,b^*) = (0, U_0 -r_0, B_0+r_0)$
caused by free robot depletion.
When $r_0 + B_0 > B^*$,
\begin{align}r^* &= (r_0 +B_0) (1- \frac{B^*}{B_0+U_0}) -(U_0-r_0) \frac{B^*}{B_0+U_0} \\
\frac{B^*}{U^*} &= \frac{p_be_u}{p_ue_b} \\
B^*+U^* &= B_0+U_0
\end{align}
with a unique solution.
When $r_0$ is very large, $r(t) \approx r(0)$, and we approximate the CRN by
\begin{align}
U \xrightarrow {p_b e_u r_0} B \\
B \xrightarrow {p_u e_b r_0} U
\end{align}
with time constant $\tau = \frac{1}{r_0(p_b e_u + p_u e_b)}$.
Given $\mathbf{x}_0, \mathbf{x}^*$ and $e_b/e_u$, the policy with
$$ (p_b, p_u) = \begin{cases} \left(\, \frac{e_bB^*}{e_uU^*} \frac{(1 + \delta)}{1 - \delta B^*/U^*}, 1\,\right) & \text{if } e_b B^* (1 + \delta) < e_u U^* f,\\ \left(\,1, \frac{e_u}{e_b} \frac{U^*}{B^*} \frac{1 - \delta B^*/U^*}{(1 + \delta)}\,\right) & \text{otherwise}, \end{cases} $$ where $f=1-\delta B^*/U^*$ converges fastest to equilibrium.
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Example of a single simulated trajectory of the control policy, allocating 300 robots allocating to 3 disks. The $(p_b,p_u)$ policy was chosen to achieve a mean $B/(B+U)$ allocation of $37.5\%$ shown as a dashed horizontal line. |
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Average of 10 simulated trajectories of the control policy, allocating 300 robots allocating to 3 disks. The $(p_b,p_u)$ policy was chosen to achieve a mean $B/(B+U)$ allocation of $37.5\%$ shown as a dashed horizontal line. |
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Effect of varying environmental parameters on robot allocations. Ten trials were generated for each disk size, and the average across the trials are shown with error bars indicating $\pm 1$ standard error of the mean. A dashed line of unity slope is shown for reference. The solid line represents the predicted curve based on the avoidance distance $a >0$. |
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Robots of communication/sensing radii $d$ and diameter $R$ attach using SCS.
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Robots attach at equidistant positions, but have odometric noise.
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Given the coverage scheme, robot details ($\dia,\conn$), and the boundary. Provide the designer with tools to:
Define the communication graph $\mathcal{G}$ as one with
For theoretical convenience, assume $\Rob{0}=-\dia$ and $\Rob{n+1}=s$ attach at endpoints of $\Bo$.
Suppose $\upos{i}$ are realizations of iid parents $\rvupos{i}$ each with pdf $\fpar(t)$ supported on $\Bo=\{t:0\leq t\leq s\}$.
Determine:
Extend the analysis in Part I to the cases when:
Determine the complexity of computing $\pcon$.
Consider point robots, for which CF is irrelevant
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Theorem ( Kumar and Berman ) The disconnected region can be expressed as the intersection of simplices $$ \unfav := \bigcap\limits_{\vvec \in \{0,1 \} ^{n+1}, \1^T \vvec \geq 1} \ssimp(\vvec), $$ where $$ \begin{align} \label{eqn:decomp} \ssimp(\vvec):= \{ \svec \in \ssimp : s_i \geq \conn ~\text{whenever}~ v_i =1 \}. \end{align} $$
$\ssimp(\vvec)$ forms a regular simplex of side $s-d\1^T\vvec$.
When parents $\rvupos{i}$ are each uniform on $\Bo$, we have $$ \pcon(\G) = 1 - \sum _{k=1} ^{\nmin} (-1)^{k-1} \binom{n}{k} {(1-\frac{kd}{s})^n } ~\text{where}~ \nmin = \lfloor \frac{s}{\conn} \rfloor. $$
Here, $\nmin$ is the minimum number of robots needed for connectivity.
When robots have diameter $\dia$, use $\ssimp_{CF}$ instead of $\ssimp$ $$ \ssimp_{CF} := \{ \svec \in \ssimp: s_i \geq d \}. $$
Define the $\PCON(\fpar)$ problem with
Theorem (Kumar and Berman, to appear) $\PCON(\mathrm{Uni})$ can be solved in $O(n \log n)$ time and $\Omega(n)$ time.
Proof : The upper bound comes from formula: $$ \pcon(\G) = 1 - \sum _{k=1} ^{\nmin} (-1)^{k-1} \binom{n}{k} {(1-\frac{kd}{s})^n } ~\text{where}~ \nmin = \lfloor \frac{s}{\conn} \rfloor. $$ The lower bound arises from the number of bits in $\pcon$ for which $s=4d/3$, so $\pcon \approx 1-n/4^n$, consuming $\Omega(n)$ bits.
Computing the volume of intersection between
are both $\PH$. We call this problem $\VHSP$.
Theorem (Kumar and Berman, to appear) $\PCON$ is $\PH$ for the following instances:
Proof : Reduction from $\VHSP$.
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