Interview with Dick Dolby (Freak/NFA)
FuZioN: Hi Dick, please introduce yourself.
Dick: I was one of NFA’s more productive members and apparently Co-Manager which surprised the hell outta me. I don’t even remember how I got into the group save that Deck the Ripper would sometimes ring me up to talk about stuff.
I was unemployed for the most part, having junked a crappy office job which gave me plenty of time to tinker with AMOS and then Blitz. I moved about a bit and made a few friends at a computer club in Scunthorpe as well as churning out the PD and jiffy trading. I even cracked a game once – someone actually posted me the original.
These days I run a couple of websites as well as doing web work for other people. As long as I don’t want to spend too much it’s an easy life.
FuZioN: How and when did you find the Amiga scene?
Dick: Probably via the small ads in the back of Amiga Format, where various dodgy geezers (Deck the Ripper, I'm looking at you) would advertise for contacts. I remember getting one Elite contact who was obviously visiting a board somewhere, and suddenly I became a hot trader for everyone below me. Eventually Deck dragged me into NFA and I pretty much stayed there.
FuZioN: Name your first prominent memory from the Amiga scene.
Dick: The very first one I saw that wasn't in a shop somewhere. My friend K, who I've known since school, got a 1.2 A500 and I was blown away by stuff like Battlechess. I think at the time I still had a C64, and I know K sold his C64 setup to finance the move to the Amiga.
FuZioN: Were you a member of any other groups than NFA?
Dick: I think we tried to start something called 'Network 12' for all Amiga 1200 owners - packdisks with AGA utilities on them, stuff like that. It failed.
FuZioN: What inspired you to create THE WORD diskmag, even though there were an abundance of diskmags already out there?
Dick: Originally it was meant to be an internal NFA production, but someone leaked it, shoddy interface and all, and suddenly people were asking for the next issue. #1 and (I think) #2 were absolutely dire, I remember that much.
That's probably why you can't find them anymore (see www.nfa.org.uk). The interfaces were incredibly basic because, after all, who'd see them?
FuZioN: Apart from THE WORD, name some of your favourite projects that you produced with NFA
Dick: Balls! was a good one, not least because it made me some money, but the one people remember most was the Bodyshop AGA slideshows - a collection of nice booby pics on a disk or two in slideshow format.
Apparently even FAST said they liked them, while they were in the process of raiding some of NFA.
FuZioN: Name some of your favourite demoscene productions/groups.
Dick: Sanity, Silents and Scoopex all released outstanding stuff. The Sanity "World of Commodore" demo was my all time favourite, I think. Melon were (and still are) kings of style - there was nothing quite like their stuff. Makes you wonder what they were smoking.
There were a couple of apps that were absolutely amazing for the time: zGif was a GIF shower that was about 8k in size and incredibly fast, and Stonecracker was a compression algorithm that could decrunch over itself, saving loads of memory. I think I employed both of those on The Word eventually.
FuZioN: The Word was coded using good old AMOS. In three words, how would you sum up AMOS?
Dick: Easy. Clunky. Hackable.
FuZioN: Are you still in contact with any ex-NFA members or scene pals?
Dick: Phil!98, Bootblock, Aladdin Sane and Daniel Thornton are still in my ever-decreasing circle. K did a Word article on a Phoebe Cates fake image that got into print and he still comes over regularly, but that's about it.
More recently I spotted Budda/NFA on Twitter and got back in touch there.
FuZioN: Did you regularly frequent any BBSes? If so, which ones?
Dick: I was never into that part of it. I think I uploaded an issue of The Word to The Big Hard One, but that's about it.
FuZioN: Are you still running any classic Amigas? If so, what models?
Dick: This last year (2013) I’ve spent some of my disposable income on an A1200 which needs a lot of attention. It came with 8MB in the trapdoor and a butchered-in 3.5in HD. It’s really a matter of finding time to play with it, though.
FuZioN: Were you a regular disk swapper and if so, name (and shame) your favourite contacts?
Dick: I was, but I’ll be damned if I can remember anyone in particular.
FuZioN: Do you follow the PC demoscene at all?
Dick: I’m not as busy working as I used to be but I still haven’t looked into that. I’m more likely to just hit up YouTube and look for demo videos rather than download and run them myself.
FuZioN: You've created a site dedicated to NFA. Does this mean you regularly get nostalgic?
Dick: I’m hankering for the gold old days :)
FuZioN: What inspired you to create the NFA shrine?
Dick: Literally, the domain was up for sale and it seemed like a good idea at the time. I still need to track down a few more titles though.
FuZioN: What exactly does NFA stand for?
Dick: National Fireplace Association! Haha.. try this one instead :) : http://www.nfa.org.uk
FuZioN: What is your day job?
Dick: I’m a Web Developer. Aside from client work I run a few websites that use either Google AdSense or affiliate marketing to earn an income. It pays enough that I don’t have to depend on finding new clients all the time so I’m thankful for that.

Dick: I like to go camping and have hiked up Ben Nevis a couple of times. Sometimes I’ll just throw the tiny popup tent up in the back garden and sleep outside just for the hell of it.
I also do a lot of reading depending on what interests me at the time. I went through a lot of books on North Korea last year and have recently been catching up with Iain M. Banks’ – especially the Culture novels.
UK TV is a bit dire these days and I really don’t watch a lot of that. I spend more time watching Japanese and South Korean shows via the Internet – SBS’s Running Man is a firm favourite. I also (finally!) signed up to NetFlix so there’s that.
FuZioN: What music are you into?
Dick: Dub FX, Dub Mafia, Billy ze Kick.
FuZioN: This is your spam area.. feel free to advertise any web presence, be it Fbook/Twatter/URL/other.
Dick: Visit my website, you damned dirty apes! www.dickdolby.co.uk
FuZioN: Thanks for taking part in the interview mate. Any final words of wisdom?
Dick: Remember:
- Never waste food or money.
- Never mess with someone else's car, money or wife.
- Women are never satisfied. Men can put up with anything.


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Getting Started¶
In this section, we’ll run some “Hello world” primrose
jobs. However, rather than print a string, we’ll do some more useful tasks:
run a read-write job (i.e., read data from a source and write it to some sink; that is, an
Extract-Transfer-Load
job)run machine learning models, including clustering and classification
Your first primrose job¶
Once you have primrose
installed, you can now run a job. First you’ll need to create your own project directory, by
using the primrose
command line as follows:
primrose create-project --name <myprojectname>
This will create a directory with everything you need to get started. Just navigate into this directory to begin.
A read write job¶
Open config/hello_world_read_write.json
:
{
"implementation_config": {
"reader_config": {
"read_data": {
"class": "CsvReader",
"filename": "data/tennis.csv",
"destinations": [
"write_output"
]
}
},
"writer_config": {
"write_output": {
"class": "CsvWriter",
"key": "data",
"dir": "cache",
"filename": "tennis_output.csv"
}
}
}
}
There are two tasks:
read_data
: this run an instance ofCsvReader
which loads data fromdata/tennis.csv
into a pandas dataframe and sends the data to the next task:write_output
.write_output
: this receives the data (associated with a keydata
) and uses an instance ofCsvWriter
to write the data out tocache/tennis_output.csv
.
It might not be obvious that it is pandas under the hood but otherwise this configuration file should be relatively intuitive.
Running the job¶
To run the job, type
primrose run --config config/hello_world_read_write.json
You should see something similar to:
2019-07-23 21:15:09,075 INFO configuration.py __init__: Loading config file at config/hello_world_read_write.json
2019-07-23 21:15:09,081 INFO configuration.py check_sections: OK: all sections are supported operations
2019-07-23 21:15:09,081 INFO configuration.py check_config: OK: all class keys are present
2019-07-23 21:15:09,081 INFO configuration.py check_config: OK: all classes recognized
2019-07-23 21:15:09,081 INFO configuration.py check_config: OK: good necessary_configs
2019-07-23 21:15:09,082 INFO configuration_dag.py create_dag: Checking configuration DAG
2019-07-23 21:15:09,082 INFO configuration_dag.py create_dag: OK: good referential integrity
2019-07-23 21:15:09,082 INFO configuration_dag.py check_connected_components: OK: 1 connected component
2019-07-23 21:15:09,082 INFO configuration_dag.py check_for_cycles: OK: no cycles found
2019-07-23 21:15:09,082 INFO dag_runner.py __init__: Traverser is of class <class 'primrose.dag.config_layer_traverser.ConfigLayerTraverser'>
2019-07-23 21:15:09,083 INFO dag_runner.py filter_sequence: Taking nodes to run from default
2019-07-23 21:15:09,083 INFO dag_runner.py run: received node read_data of type reader_config and class CsvReader
2019-07-23 21:15:09,083 INFO csv_reader.py run: Reading data/tennis.csv from CSV
2019-07-23 21:15:09,109 INFO dag_runner.py run: received node write_output of type writer_config and class CsvWriter
2019-07-23 21:15:09,109 INFO csv_writer.py run: Saving data data to cache/tennis_output.csv
2019-07-23 21:15:09,115 INFO dag_runner.py run: All done. Bye bye!
That’s it. You have run a primrose job.
Examining the output¶
The first half of this output is a set of validation checks against the configuration. You can read more about these checks in DAG Configurations.
The Traverser
is some code that determines the order in which the primrose
nodes are processed.
Importantly, there are four output lines that show the actual work being done:
2019-07-23 21:15:09,083 INFO dag_runner.py run: received node read_data of type reader_config and class CsvReader
2019-07-23 21:15:09,083 INFO csv_reader.py run: Reading data/tennis.csv from CSV
2019-07-23 21:15:09,109 INFO dag_runner.py run: received node write_output of type writer_config and class CsvWriter
2019-07-23 21:15:09,109 INFO csv_writer.py run: Saving data data to cache/tennis_output.csv
You should now have a file cache/tennis_output.csv
that matches the input file data/tennis.csv
.
A Machine Learning Job: Clustering¶
Now, let’s do some machine learning. We’ll run a basic K-means clustering and plot the clusters.
Plotting the Graph¶
Before we examine the configuration, let’s plot the graph. type
primrose plot --config config/hello_world_cluster_simple_train.json --outfile graph.png
This will write an image to graph.png
Here we see a read_data
node feeding into a normalize_data
node feeding into a cluster_model
node. The output feeds to write_data
and also to cluster_plotter
.
Examining the configuration¶
With that background, let’s examine the configuration file. This is `config/hello_world_cluster_simple_train.json
{
"metadata": {
"explanation": ["this is a minimal Sklearn clustering example in training mode:",
" * read in some data from CSV",
" * sklearn.preprocessing.StandardScaler transform the data but no train test split!",
" * cluster with sklearn.cluster.KMeans",
" * predict on same training data, appending predictions column to data",
" * save enriched data to CSV",
" * plot clusters and save image to disk"]
},
"implementation_config": {
"reader_config": {
"read_data": {
"class": "CsvReader",
"filename": "data/unclustered.csv",
"destinations": [
"normalize_data"
]
}
},
"pipeline_config": {
"normalize_data": {
"class": "SklearnPreprocessingPipeline",
"operations": [
{"class":"preprocessing.StandardScaler", "columns": ["x1", "x2"], "args": {"with_mean": true, "with_std": true}}
],
"is_training": true,
"destinations": [
"cluster_model"
]
}
},
"model_config": {
"cluster_model":{
"class": "SklearnClusterModel",
"mode": "train",
"X": ["x1","x2"],
"model": {"class": "cluster.KMeans", "args": {"n_clusters": 6, "random_state": 42}},
"destinations": [
"write_data",
"cluster_plotter"
]
}
},
"writer_config": {
"write_data": {
"class": "CsvWriter",
"key": "data",
"dir": "cache",
"filename": "clustered_output.csv"
}
},
"dataviz_config": {
"cluster_plotter": {
"class": "ClusterPlotter",
"id_col": "cluster_id",
"filename": "clusters.png",
"title": "Results of KMeans(k=6)"
}
}
}
}
Most of it should be relatively intuitive but let’s walk through it.
read_data
uses a CsvReader
to read in some data. This fees to normalize_data
.
normalize_data
is a pipeline, a preprocessing step. This is going to run sklearn.preprocessing.StandardScaler
on the columns x1
and x2
, scaling to zero mean and unit standard deviation. It is in training mode.
This feeds into cluster_model
which uses sklearn.cluster.KMeans
with k=6 (and seed=42) to cluster the data.
That feeds to a CSvWriter
and to a ClusterPlotter
. the plotter creates a scatterplot with title “Results of KMeans(k=6)” and saving to clusters.png
.
Here is the output:
Congratulations. You have now machined-learned in primrose
!
A Machine Learning Job with Model Caching: Classification¶
In this last example, we will train another Sklearn classifier model. However, here, we cache the trained model so that it can be used against a new dataset at a later stage—i.e., in separate primrose
job—in either predict
or eval
mode.
The dataset we are using is Tom Mitchell’s play tennis example to illustrate decision trees:
Here, we run two separate primrose
jobs: 1) train, and 2) predict (or eval). Each job has its own configuration file.
config/hello_world_classifier_train.json
reads the tennis
dataset, does a train test split, runs a Sklearn decision tree model in mode predict
, and writes both the TransformerSequence
(set of transformation performed on the features) and the model
to a local cache using dill
:
...
"encode_and_split": {
"class": "EncodeTrainTestSplit",
"is_training": true,
"target_variable": "play",
"training_fraction": 0.65,
"seed": 42,
"destinations": [
"decision_tree_model",
"write_encoder"
]
}
...
"write_encoder": {
"class": "DillWriter",
"key": "transformer_sequence",
"dir": "cache",
"filename": "hello_world_encoder.dill"
},
"write_model": {
"class": "DillWriter",
"key": "model",
"dir": "cache",
"filename": "hello_world_model.dill"
}
A separate configuration file, config/hello_world_classifier_predict.json
is designed to make predictions using the cached model. (Ideally, we would use a different dataset but we are using the same tennis dataset here for simplicity. )
In this configuration, we read the data and the two cached objects:
"reader_config": {
"read_data": {
"class": "CsvReader",
"filename": "data/tennis.csv",
"destinations": [
"encode_and_split"
]
},
"read_model": {
"class": "DillReader",
"filename": "cache/hello_world_model.dill",
"destinations": [
"decision_tree_model"
]
},
"read_encoder": {
"class": "DillReader",
"filename": "cache/hello_world_encoder.dill",
"destinations": [
"encode_and_split"
]
}
},
run through the model with mode: predict
:
"decision_tree_model": {
"class": "SklearnClassifierModel",
"sklearn_classifier_name": "tree.DecisionTreeClassifier",
"mode": "predict",
"grid_search_scoring": null,
"cv_folds": null,
"destinations": [
"write_output"],
"model_parameters": {}
}
and, finally, write out the predictions
"writer_config": {
"write_output": {
"class": "CsvWriter",
"key": "predictions",
"dir": "cache",
"filename": "hello_world_predictions.csv"
}
}
Try running it yourself. First, run
primrose run --config config/hello_world_classifier_train.json
and inspect the files in the cache
folder.
Now run the predict job:
primrose run --config config/hello_world_classifier_predict.json
and find the predictions in the cache
folder.
You can also inspect and run the config/hello_world_classifier_eval.json
configuration file which produces a number of evaluation metrics to the log file.
You are now set up to design realistic primrose
runs in a production setting.
Next¶
Learn more about primrose
configurations: DAG Configurations


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Armageddon
A movie review by Monika Huebner Copyright 1998 Monika Huebner
Director: Michael Bay Cast: Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare and others
The end of the world - many times invoked (in vain) by Jehova's Witnesses - now finally seems to loom over mankind.  NASA hopes to destroy it by drilling a hole in its surface and explode an atomic bomb in it. For this job they hire Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), a drilling expert with an international reputation, to take his team to the asteroid and solve the problem once and for all. Time is running out because the approaching object was discovered late only when all of a sudden showers of meteorites rained down on the USA and caused considerable damage. The newly asigned astronauts can't waste much time on training, they just have to pass a physical. And the race against time commences.
CHAOS IN SPACE would have been a good name for the movie, but ARMAGEDDON of course sounds more dramatic. After DEEP IMPACT this is the second movie this year dealing with the subject of celestial bodies colliding with our planet. But compared to DEEP IMPACT this movie's motto is: Think Big. The asteroid about to hit Mother Earth is the size of Texas. The asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago and left a 200 km wide crater is thought to have been 10 to 20 km in diameter. An object the size of Texas is likely to make a much bigger hole. Our solar system hasn't suffered collisions of this kind since it emerged in this remote corner of the galaxy.
But let's suspend disbelieve on this issue. It's a very dramatic idea that would have made a thrilling movie loaded with special effects. The special effects are quite stunning, and the audience doesn't have to wait till the last minute. New York is knocked flat and a few other sights outside the USA are doomed as well, for balance's sake. The movie starts with a bang. It's believable that the asteroid is discovered only when it's already quite near Earth. Near collisions with asteroids have happened in recent years as everybody can verify with NASA.
   Or perhaps they were never allowed to play out their fantasies with action dolls. Sorry, but I guess to really enjoy those scenes you simply need a Y-chromosome.
Bruce Willis is in his element for the first time since the DIE HARD series. And he doesn't have to deal with mere trifles like skyscrapers, airports or major cities. He can be a true heroe and save the Earth. His adversary is just a dead rock instead of a group of vicious terrorists, but who cares. The asteroid gives him at least as much trouble as all the terrorists in the DIE HARD movies. Just one question: what's next? Saving the solar system or the whole galaxy? It doesn't get much bigger than that, but then he may soon be too old for the tough hero part anyway. So let's not begrudge him the triumph over the forces of nature. He uses his opportunity to be mucho macho. His daughter doesn't have much to say, but with a father like that she probably should be content to sit adoringly at his feet and do whatever he bids.
The rest of the team remains liveless. Some of them are living targets anyway. Killing off a few less important heroes adds to the suspense. Steve Buscemi can't save the day. The only bright spot in the movie is Peter Stormare as Russian cosmonaut Lev Andropov who for the last 18 months lived a solitary life on a Russian space station and therefore is a bit strange. Thus he provides the humor for this noisy action flick by messing up his new American friends with his bizarre ideas. He's the best choice for this wacky part, even if you can't help asking yourself why a brilliant actor like him accepts a part in this kind of project.
ARMAGEDDON will probably make people happy who thought that there wasn't enough action in DEEP IMPACT. Go find a theater with a big panorama screen and a digital sound system that is turned up till the seats vibrate. Don't see it on video. With the benefit of a big screen and great sound gone ARMAGEDDON is just an embarrassment. The noisily promoted movie lives up to the promises of its makers only in terms of volume.
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The Konvoy credentials plugin makes it easy to use external identity providers with kubectl. When using the plugin, kubectl initiates an authentication session in your browser and stores identity tokens locally. When a token expires, the plugin starts a new authentication session and refreshes the token.
The easiest way to get started is to download the plugin binary and a cluster generated kubectl configuration file. If you are using Kommander and add a new cluster, come back to this page to download an updated kubeconfig.
Download both files to your computer. The plugin is a binary and must be marked as executable on Linux and MacOS. To do so, run the following command:
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kubectl --kubeconfig /path/to/downloaded/config get pods -A
You can also set the KUBECONFIG environment variable so you do not have to type --kubeconfig every time you run the command.
export KUBECONFIG=/path/to/downloaded/config
If this cluster is managing authentication for external clusters, deployed by Kommander, you must set the correct kubectl context. The generated kubeconfig contains contexts for each cluster managed by Kommander.
You can list each context using the config get-contexts command:
kubectl --kubeconfig /path/to/downloaded/kubeconfig config get-contexts
To select a different context, use the config use-context command:
kubectl --kubeconfig /path/to/downloaded/kubeconfig config use-context context-name
For more information on using and managing kubeconfig files, refer to this documentation
The following commands can be pasted directly into a terminal. These instructions configure your global kubeconfig, located at ${HOME}/.kube/config.
At this point you can start using kubectl. Try running a simple kubectl command:
kubectl get pods -A
This opens a browser window and lets you authenticate. If you are using a remote terminal, a link is displayed that you can copy and paste into a local browser window.


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STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE (SPECIAL EDITION) A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1997 James Berardinelli
RATING (0 TO 10): 9.0 Alternative Scale: **** out of ****
United States, 1997 (original 1977) Release date: 5/25/77 (wide) Special Edition Release date: 1/31/97 (wide) Running Length (special edition): 2:09 MPAA Classification: PG (Mild violence) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, voice of James Earl Jones Director: George Lucas Producer: Gary Kurtz Screenplay: George Lucas Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor Music: John Williams U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
When one examines the roster of the tens of thousands of motion pictures produced since the late 1800s, not many stand out as trailblazers. One of the few inarguable members of that select cadre is George Lucas' soaring 1977 space opera, STAR WARS (or, as it has since become known, STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE). Not only is this film a rousing adventure, but, upon its initial release, it revived science fiction as a viable movie medium, and, most importantly, began a special effects revolution that is still going on. Industrial Lights and Magic, the premiere special effects house of the '80s and '90s, was born as a result of STAR WARS, and its manifest contributions to the industry have included everything from making the Starship Enterprise fly to breathing life into the dinosaurs of JURASSIC PARK. It's impossible to estimate the full ramifications of STAR WARS, but that single movie has surely influenced much about the making and marketing of motion pictures over the last two decades.
When STAR WARS was first released on the Wednesday before Memorial Day in 1977, it arrived in theaters with good reviews and excellent advance word. It didn't take long for it to become a phenomenon (although, admittedly, 1997's publicity for the SPECIAL EDITION dwarves that of the original 1977 release). It was a true family film -- perfect for kids and parents, a throwback to the space serials of the past and a look ahead to what the future might hold. Adults appreciated Lucas' masterful, magical movie-making. Children loved all the strange creatures. Suddenly, STAR WARS was everywhere; there were bed sheets, lunch boxes, trading cards, action figures, comic books, picture books, posters, records, and just about anything else you could imagine.
The STAR WARS fad, such as it was, lasted into the early '80s, and the original film received two additional theatrical runs. Then it was on to the small screen. But watching the movie on videotape, which has been the exclusive viewing experience of just about anyone under the age of twenty, isn't the same as seeing it in a packed theater. Now, however, with the advent of the original movie's twentieth anniversary and the promise of new films in another two years, STAR WARS is as hot as it has ever been. Those predicting anything less than a financial windfall for the SPECIAL EDITION don't have the world's pulse.
Every year, a handful of movies are re-released to commemorate an anniversary. All of these feature new, clean prints. Some have re- mixed soundtracks. A few, such as LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, VERTIGO, and THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, have been painstakingly restored. But Lucas wanted more than this for STAR WARS. He didn't just want to re-create the original theatrical experience, he wanted to improve upon it. So, in addition to cleaning up the print and re-mixing the soundtrack into a digital format, he has used state-of-the-art special effects to change the film's look. This includes adding more than four minutes of never- before-seen footage. And, while the new scenes don't appreciably improve the movie, they're fun to see, especially for anyone who has memorized every detail from the original. More importantly, although the newer, flashier effects subtly alter the STAR WARS experience, they do not degrade it.
By now, the heroes -- Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3P0 (Anthony Daniels), and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) -- are household names. Equally well-known are the villains -- Governor Tarkin (Peter Cushing) and, of course, the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader (David Prowse; voice courtesy of the inimitable James Earl Jones). These characters, familiar types with enough unique personality traits to brand them as individuals, have become so universally recognized that the mere mention of their names almost anywhere in the world will spur a reaction.
Another thing that's instantly recognizable about STAR WARS is its music. When George Lucas first approached John Williams for an epic score, little did he imagine that the result would sell millions of copies and spawn a disco-era radio hit. Few motion picture themes are as well-known and often-played as that of STAR WARS. Even the music from E.T., the current highest-grossing film, doesn't leap as readily to mind. Williams' evocative, grandiose score provides the perfect compliment to the STAR WARS visual experience.
At its heart, STAR WARS is about Luke's quest to join the battle against evil. He doesn't want to be just another bystander while the struggle for freedom goes on all around him -- he wants to be a participant. And, when two droids carrying a secret message from a beautiful rebel princess fall into his hands, his chance arrives. Amidst of the dunes of Luke's home planet of Tatooine, the young man meets the aging Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who teaches of the mysterious Force, a mystical energy field that binds together all things in the universe. Obi-Wan convinces Luke to join the droids and him on a mission to rescue the princess.  Their destination: the dreaded Imperial Death Star, a confrontation with the evil Darth Vader, and motion picture immortality.
STAR WARS borrows from numerous sources, but the most obvious inspirations are the serialized adventures of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Arthurian legends, Greek mythology, and Akira Kurosawa's THE HIDDEN FORTRESS. There are also multiple nods to Westerns and the dogfights of World War II movies. But, like all great craftsmen, Lucas has managed to fashion this material in a manner that not only honors the original sources, but makes it uniquely his own. Hacks rip off other movies; artists synthesize and pay homage to their inspirations. Compare INDEPENDENCE DAY to STAR WARS and the difference will become apparent.
During its original period of theatrical release, STAR WARS' special effects were described as everything from "eye popping" to "mind blowing". And, indeed, for their time, they were. (Keep in mind that KING KONG's rather cheesy visuals had won the Academy Award just two months before STAR WARS was released.) In fact, they're not bad even by today's standards. But "not bad" wasn't good enough for Lucas, and his vision of what they should have been fills the screen in the SPECIAL EDITION. This is most notable during three key sequences: Luke and Ben's entry into the city of Mos Eisley, Han's heretofore unseen hanger bay meeting with Jabba the Hut, and the final attack on the Death Star. However, in scenes both with and without effects improvements, STAR WARS is just as compelling and invigorating a movie experience today as it was when it first came out, and the new stuff blends in seamlessly with the old.
Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal STAR WARS' blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling. Like some indefatigable King of the Hill, it stands alone and triumphant, regardless of the many imitators that assail its position. As is true of CITIZEN KANE, CASABLANCA, and GONE WITH THE WIND, STAR WARS will endure long after its creators are gone. And watching this new edition today is like coming home after a long journey and finding everything just as you remember it -- if not better.
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ALBarcodeFormatOptions
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I'm leaving Ulm again for my parents' tomorrow. I'm going to do house-sitting together with my brother while Mam and Dad are enjoying their well-deserved holiday in Spain. I'm travelling by train and I think I'll take my laundry with me (3 sets of bedclothes and clothes for 2 weeks, among other things), so any extra luggage has to be light and compact. Of course, I'll have to take some of my knitting projects with me (screw the RSI!). The problem is: I can't decide neither on the number of projects, nor on which projects I should choose. So I'm trying to lay down some rules:
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TurnBaseImpl(Player activePlayer)
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protected PowerUpCard |
askPowerUpToHuman(java.util.List<PowerUpCard> availableChoiches)
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bindDataSource(TurnDataSource turnDataSource)
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performCoreActions()
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After NSA encryption-cracking revelation, can we trust Internet security?
News that the NSA can break or bypass a variety of digital encryption tools has researchers second-guessing the strength of Internet security products they previously trusted, and wondering exactly who else, besides the feds, may be listening in.
In the latest revelation about the NSA's activities, The Guardian, the New York Times, and ProPublica suggest that the organization gained access, less by technical savvy, but by coercion, strong-arming companies that work with data, by "getting their voluntary collaboration, forcing their cooperation with court orders or surreptitiously stealing their encryption keys or altering their software or hardware."
Encryption might still work in some form, but the revelation indicates that there are many vulnerabilities that the entire cryptography community so far missed. Researchers are now fearful of compromised elements in products they would previously have sworn were secure.
For instance, it's troubling to experts that the NSA has been working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST sets the public standard — writes the modern cookbook for how cryptography should work, according Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins. Cryptographers rely on NIST to know which "recipes" they can trust. But if, according to new reports, the NSA is worked to set these standards to their advantage, products built along those guidelines could be weaker than the security community previously thought.
Say we're building a house, Green told NBC News. "We have good boards and pretty good nails but the glue is compromised," he said. "The NSA is giving us bad glue," he said, and it's hard to tell which glue the bad glue is. (Green goes into more detail in a blog post, here.)
Many researchers had guessed that the NSA had some nifty decryption tricks up its sleeve, Green said. So he and his colleagues were surprised to learn one of the agency's key tactics. "Instead of breaking the encryption algorithms, they're going around making everyone's products worse," he told NBC News.
Which raises the question: If the NSA is listening in, who else is, too? Green agrees that it is plausible that other governments or even organized crime rings may be able to take advantage of the back doors the NSA has left in. Joan Feigenbaum, professor of computer science at Yale University wrote in an email to NBC News that it is "plausible" that other entities beyond the NSA are listening in, but without more information about "exactly what's going on," it is hard to know who or how.
Based on the information available so far, the flaws are hard to catch because it's hard to tell what techniques the NSA using — "We don't know if the NSA can crack specific algorithms, or if they're only going after vulnerabilities in software."
One way to find out? More whistle-blowing, Bruce Schneier, a vocal privacy researcher argues. In a Guardian post on Thursday, he declares: "We need to know how exactly how the NSA and other agencies are subverting routers, switches, the Internet backbone, encryption technologies and cloud systems." Schneier calls on engineers and designers like Edward Snowden who have been tapped for help by the NSA to go public, and speak out.
Feigenbaum is convinced that "our information and communication environment has been compromised," and agrees with Schneier: Increased transparency from members of the cryptography community itself will be key to finding and fixing flaws.
For their part, big companies like Google and most recently Facebook have attempted to come clean(er) about their requests from the government. Facebook, the most recent one to do so, has indicated that it had fielded up to 12,000 requests from the U.S. government, "including both criminal and national security requests," in the first six months of 2013.
As for specialists in the field, the people who promote the idea that Internet security is, in fact, secure, the outlook is grim. There's going to be a lot less trust in the security industry — especially in the short term, Green said.


This command undoes the last action if it was an action that modified the file. If the last action was not a file modification command then all actions up to, but not including, the last file modification are undone. Using the Undo Changes command can be a lot faster than undoing every single action using the Undo command, particularly if there are a lot of display changes and you just want to undo the last change.
Remember that HexEdit keeps track of display changes for each window open on a file. If you undo a file modification in one window the file modification change is reflected in all other windows open on the file. This means that all display changes in the other windows have to be undone back to the point of the file change, in order to keep the display consistent with the file contents.
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In November 2018, U. Penn researcher Kamal Hamidieh published a paper about predicting critical temperature of superconducting material. His method focused on feature selection to achieve a high accuracy statistical model. This exercise demonstrates feature selection techniques using this dataset.
81 chemical properties were recorded for 21,263 superconductor materials, along with their critical temperature.
To begin, I read the description of the data which explained that multiple variations of the same chemical properties were recorded for each material. Pandas read_csv put the data into a DataFrame. The following column names were extracted, including the target critical_temp:
['number_of_elements', 'mean_atomic_mass', 'wtd_mean_atomic_mass', 'gmean_atomic_mass', 'wtd_gmean_atomic_mass', 'entropy_atomic_mass', 'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass', 'range_atomic_mass', 'wtd_range_atomic_mass', 'std_atomic_mass', 'wtd_std_atomic_mass', 'mean_fie', 'wtd_mean_fie', 'gmean_fie', 'wtd_gmean_fie', 'entropy_fie', 'wtd_entropy_fie', 'range_fie', 'wtd_range_fie', 'std_fie', 'wtd_std_fie', 'mean_atomic_radius', 'wtd_mean_atomic_radius', 'gmean_atomic_radius', 'wtd_gmean_atomic_radius', 'entropy_atomic_radius', 'wtd_entropy_atomic_radius', 'range_atomic_radius', 'wtd_range_atomic_radius', 'std_atomic_radius', 'wtd_std_atomic_radius', 'mean_Density', 'wtd_mean_Density', 'gmean_Density', 'wtd_gmean_Density', 'entropy_Density', 'wtd_entropy_Density', 'range_Density', 'wtd_range_Density', 'std_Density', 'wtd_std_Density', 'mean_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_mean_ElectronAffinity', 'gmean_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_gmean_ElectronAffinity', 'entropy_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_entropy_ElectronAffinity', 'range_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_range_ElectronAffinity', 'std_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_std_ElectronAffinity', 'mean_FusionHeat', 'wtd_mean_FusionHeat', 'gmean_FusionHeat', 'wtd_gmean_FusionHeat', 'entropy_FusionHeat', 'wtd_entropy_FusionHeat', 'range_FusionHeat', 'wtd_range_FusionHeat', 'std_FusionHeat', 'wtd_std_FusionHeat', 'mean_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_mean_ThermalConductivity', 'gmean_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_gmean_ThermalConductivity', 'entropy_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_entropy_ThermalConductivity', 'range_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_range_ThermalConductivity', 'std_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_std_ThermalConductivity', 'mean_Valence', 'wtd_mean_Valence', 'gmean_Valence', 'wtd_gmean_Valence', 'entropy_Valence', 'wtd_entropy_Valence', 'range_Valence', 'wtd_range_Valence', 'std_Valence', 'wtd_std_Valence', 'critical_temp']
This suggested I should first compute the correlation matrix. I performed minor transformations to make possible feature dependencies stand out better.
The correlation matrix showed strong relationships between groups on features. I selected these columns to try and maximize feature independence:
'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass' 'wtd_range_atomic_mass' 'wtd_std_atomic_mass' 'wtd_entropy_fie' 'wtd_range_fie' 'wtd_std_fie' 'wtd_mean_atomic_radius' 'wtd_mean_Density' 'wtd_mean_ElectronAffinity' 'wtd_mean_FusionHeat' 'wtd_range_ThermalConductivity'
To validate the choice, visualize these selected columns using seaborn pairplot. This showed there was still some feature dependence that was not large enough to appear on the correlation heatmap. I further reduced the feature set to these essential ones:
'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass' 'wtd_range_atomic_mass' 'wtd_std_atomic_mass' 'wtd_range_fie' 'wtd_std_fie' 'wtd_mean_atomic_radius' 'wtd_mean_Density' 'wtd_mean_FusionHeat' 'wtd_range_ThermalConductivity'
I produced Linear Regression models for both the full feature set and the reduced set to see the effect of feature selection. But first I split the dataset into two groups. 80% of the data was used to train the models and 20% was reserved for making test predictions.
I also made predictions with the training set. Test error is often a little higher than for training. If the difference is too large, a regularization term may be needed. However, if the training error is large, we can look at each feature's distribution in detail in a seaborn boxplot then decide how to proceed.
| Mean Squared Error | R^2 | |||
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| Training | Test | Training | Test | |
| All features | 308.52 | 308.32 | 0.737 | 0.735 |
| Feature subset | 3.023e-26 | 2.632e-26 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
The results show that feature selection produced a very good quality model that was not possible when fitting the full data set.
Source code can be viewed in the Github repository or browsed below:
| Superconducor Feature Selection |
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Apply techniques of Machine Learning course to sample data """ import numpy as np import pandas as pd import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression, RANSACRegressor from sklearn.metrics import mean_squared_error, r2_score SUPERCONDUCTOR_COLUMNS = ['number_of_elements', 'mean_atomic_mass', 'wtd_mean_atomic_mass', 'gmean_atomic_mass', 'wtd_gmean_atomic_mass', 'entropy_atomic_mass', 'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass', 'range_atomic_mass', 'wtd_range_atomic_mass', 'std_atomic_mass', 'wtd_std_atomic_mass', 'mean_fie', 'wtd_mean_fie', 'gmean_fie', 'wtd_gmean_fie', 'entropy_fie', 'wtd_entropy_fie', 'range_fie', 'wtd_range_fie', 'std_fie', 'wtd_std_fie', 'mean_atomic_radius', 'wtd_mean_atomic_radius', 'gmean_atomic_radius', 'wtd_gmean_atomic_radius', 'entropy_atomic_radius', 'wtd_entropy_atomic_radius', 'range_atomic_radius', 'wtd_range_atomic_radius', 'std_atomic_radius', 'wtd_std_atomic_radius', 'mean_Density', 'wtd_mean_Density', 'gmean_Density', 'wtd_gmean_Density', 'entropy_Density', 'wtd_entropy_Density', 'range_Density', 'wtd_range_Density', 'std_Density', 'wtd_std_Density', 'mean_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_mean_ElectronAffinity', 'gmean_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_gmean_ElectronAffinity', 'entropy_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_entropy_ElectronAffinity', 'range_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_range_ElectronAffinity', 'std_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_std_ElectronAffinity', 'mean_FusionHeat', 'wtd_mean_FusionHeat', 'gmean_FusionHeat', 'wtd_gmean_FusionHeat', 'entropy_FusionHeat', 'wtd_entropy_FusionHeat', 'range_FusionHeat', 'wtd_range_FusionHeat', 'std_FusionHeat', 'wtd_std_FusionHeat', 'mean_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_mean_ThermalConductivity', 'gmean_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_gmean_ThermalConductivity', 'entropy_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_entropy_ThermalConductivity', 'range_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_range_ThermalConductivity', 'std_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_std_ThermalConductivity', 'mean_Valence', 'wtd_mean_Valence', 'gmean_Valence', 'wtd_gmean_Valence', 'entropy_Valence', 'wtd_entropy_Valence', 'range_Valence', 'wtd_range_Valence', 'std_Valence', 'wtd_std_Valence', 'critical_temp'] df_super = pd.read_csv("superconductor.csv") # Quick view to verify we have the right file and reasonable data print (df_super.head()) df_super.describe() # Look at distributions of each attribute fig, axs = plt.subplots(ncols=17, nrows=5, figsize=(20, 10)) index = 0 axs = axs.flatten() for k,v in df_super.items(): sns.boxplot(y=k, data=df_super, ax=axs[index]) index += 1 plt.tight_layout(pad=0.4, w_pad=0.5, h_pad=5.0) plt.show() ''' Several features appear to be well distributed without outliers. Include target attribute 'critical_temp' Double check by generating boxplots for those features Re-arrange the feature list to put similar sounding column names together, to make them easier to follow ''' unskewed_indexes = [6, 7, 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 29, 30, 56, 65, 67, 69, 70, 76, 77, ] unskewed_columns = ['wtd_mean_fie', 'range_fie', 'wtd_range_fie', 'std_fie', 'wtd_std_fie', 'wtd_gmean_atomic_mass', 'range_atomic_mass', 'range_atomic_radius', 'std_atomic_mass', 'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass', 'wtd_entropy_atomic_radius', 'std_atomic_radius', 'wtd_std_atomic_radius', 'wtd_entropy_Density', 'wtd_entropy_FusionHeat', 'entropy_ThermalConductivity', 'range_ThermalConductivity', 'std_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_std_ThermalConductivity', 'wtd_entropy_Valence', 'range_Valence', 'mean_Valence', 'critical_temp', ] fig, axs = plt.subplots(ncols=5, nrows=4, figsize=(10, 10)) index = 0 plotpos = 0 axs = axs.flatten() for k,v in df_super.items(): if index in unskewed_indexes: sns.boxplot(y=k, data=df_super, ax=axs[plotpos]) plotpos += 1 index += 1 plt.tight_layout(pad=0.4, w_pad=0.5, h_pad=5.0) plt.show() ''' Correlation Analysis and Feature Selection of attributes and selected subset ''' # Heat map: Thresholded and centered on 0 as the lighest shade in the color map. Makes strong correlations stand out independent_columns = [ 'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass', 'wtd_range_atomic_mass', 'wtd_std_atomic_mass', 'wtd_entropy_fie', 'wtd_range_fie', 'wtd_std_fie','wtd_mean_atomic_radius', 'wtd_mean_Density', 'wtd_mean_ElectronAffinity', 'wtd_mean_FusionHeat', 'wtd_range_ThermalConductivity', 'critical_temp'] corr_matrix = df_super[independent_columns].corr() corr_matrix[np.abs(corr_matrix) < 0.7] = 0 highlist_extremes = {} plt.figure(figsize=(12,8)) sns.heatmap(corr_matrix, annot=True, cmap='coolwarm', center=0, fmt=".2f") plt.show() """ Visualize possible dependency of target column of selected attributes """ sns.pairplot(df_super[independent_columns], height=2.5, aspect=1); plt.show() ''' Pairplots showed some feature dependency that did not come out of the correlation matrix heat map. Reduce the feature set a little more ''' # Isolate one feature to test it alone X = df_super['wtd_entropy_Density'].values.reshape(-1,1) y = df_super['critical_temp'].values lr = LinearRegression() lr.fit(X, y) y_pred = lr.predict(X) # Metric: r^2 print (r2_score(y, y_pred)) ''' Low fitness means it should not be included ''' regression_columns = [ 'wtd_entropy_atomic_mass', 'wtd_range_atomic_mass', 'wtd_std_atomic_mass', 'wtd_range_fie', 'wtd_std_fie','wtd_mean_atomic_radius', 'wtd_mean_Density', 'wtd_mean_FusionHeat', 'wtd_range_ThermalConductivity', 'critical_temp'] ''' Split data into training and test sets, then evaluate linear regression model ''' X = df_super.iloc[:, :-1].values y = df_super['critical_temp'].values X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=0) # # 1. Use full feature set # lr = LinearRegression() lr.fit(X_train, y_train) y_train_pred = lr.predict(X_train) y_test_pred = lr.predict(X_test) # Metric: Mean Squared Error (MSE) print (mean_squared_error(y_train, y_train_pred)) print (mean_squared_error(y_test, y_test_pred)) # Metric: Coefficient of Determination, $R^2$ print (r2_score(y_train, y_train_pred)) print (r2_score(y_test, y_test_pred)) # # 2. Try with reduced set of independent_columns # X = df_super[regression_columns] y = df_super['critical_temp'].values X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=1) lr = LinearRegression() lr.fit(X_train, y_train) y_train_pred = lr.predict(X_train) y_test_pred = lr.predict(X_test) # Metric: Mean Squared Error (MSE) print (mean_squared_error(y_train, y_train_pred)) print (mean_squared_error(y_test, y_test_pred)) # Metric: Coefficient of Determination, $R^2$" print (r2_score(y_train, y_train_pred)) print (r2_score(y_test, y_test_pred)) |
Data is available at SuperCon, the Superconducting Material Database. Originally used in Kam Hamidieh; A Data-Driven Statistical Model for Predicting the Critical Temperature of a Superconductor. Computational Materials Science, Volume 154, Pages 346-354 (2018). [link]


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2019-05-06
This blog post is in the category of "write it down somewhere so I don't forget it" but it might be helpful to others.
When I start my computer I run a Jupyter kernel from my home directory:
$ jupyter notebook
I am also a big fan of conda environments, essentially having an environment for any given research project.
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The Augusta Area Polyglot Programming Group was started to fill the need for a programming community in the Central Maine area. Two local programmers, James and Floyd, wanted to get together to learn more about their craft and the rest is history.
The group is designed to be hands on. Each meeting we pick a topic or a set of programming puzzles and work together to learn new skills. We leave no one behind and no question is is left unanswered. Programmers of all skill levels are welcome and we often have first time programmers and seasoned code slingers in the meetings. We cover all languages and programming paradigms.
For more information on what to expect at a meeting see our what to expect page.
Type polyglot definition into google and you get:
knowing or using several languages.
We wanted to stretch our programming skills so we decided to include all types of languages in our group activities. This way we are exposed to new types of the programming techniques and patterns.


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Provides the API to the abstract planner for portals, CLI tools, etc.
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All butter cornmeal crust:
- 150 gr all-purpose flour
- 100 gr fine cornmeal flour
- 125 sweet butter, torn into small pieces
- a pinch of salt
- 1 egg for egg wash
Mix all the ingredients except the egg together, roll out, and place in a deep dish pie pan or terra cotta gratin pan like I use. Make a fluted edge high enough to hold the filling. Brush with egg wash and let dry while preparing the filling
Sweet Potato and Quince FIlling
- sweet potatoes - two-3 very large potatoes- about 1.5 kilo or 3 lbs. Roasted until soft and peel removed
- 1 or 2 quince, apple, or pear. Roasted until soft and cored and peeled
- 1 can evaporated milk
- 2-3 eggs
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon of “The Secret” flavoring* or good vanilla extract
Mix all of the ingredients together and whisk or blend together until smooth. Pour into pastry crust and bake in an moderate oven at 350’ for 45-55 min until the filling is set and barely jiggly. Let cool or refrigerate overnight, serve with whipped cream, ice cream, or crème fraîche. Enjoy and give thanks!
*Steep some vanilla beans in armagnac, add some rum, and orange flower water. Let sleep together for awhile. Eh Voila- Le Secret!
Notes
Recipe for one pie
Recipe is from this website


BREAKING: Fire guts three buildings, four shops in Ogun
by Daud OlatunjiDaud Olatunji, Abeokuta
Three buildings and four shops located on Oke-Itoku Road in Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State were on Thursday gutted by fire.
An eyewitness told our correspondent that the fire started from one of the buildings in the area and later spread to the others.
The eyewitness explained that the fire started around 1:00 a.m. on Thursday before the residents of the buildings alerted men of the state fire service.
According to the source, it took the men of fire service about three hours before the fire was doused.
The cause of the fire could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
One of the victims, Nurudeen Olaleye said, he lost his university, Law school, call to bar, birth and other professional certificates to the inferno.
The legal practitioner appealed to the state government to come to their aid by cushioning the effects of their lost items.
He said, “I don’t live here. It was in the middle of the night that I was called upon that the house has been razed by fire. Several efforts were made to call upon men of the fire service but, it took about three hours before the fire service could put out the fire, that was why the impact of the fire is this much.
“People really lost valuables worth millions of naira. Personally, I also lost valuable items.
“I lost my certificate which I kept in my room, my birth certificate, university certificate, law school certificate and other certificates were lost to the fire incident .”
Another victim of the fire incident, Kudrat Oladipupo lamented that she left her shop last night and only got to know about the incident this morning.
She said “I got here and everything is gone. I couldn’t even take anything out. Only God knows what happened. We are appealing to the government to assist us. This is where we get money to feed.”


Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
Serves
Serves 4
Heat a frying pan with a lid until hot. Add the razor clams and wine and cover with the lid. Steam the razor clams for 1-2 minutes, or until they have opened. Discard any clams that have not opened. Pour the contents of the pan into a colander over a bowl.
Pull the razor clam flesh from the shells (discard the shells) and carefully wash to remove any grit. Remove the dark grey part (the stomach), found roughly running down the middle of each clam. Finely chop the razor clams.
To make the sauce vierge, place all but one tablespoon of the olive oil into a small pan over a low heat. Add the coriander seeds, shallots, garlic and chopped clams and cook for ten minutes, but do not boil.
Heat a separate frying pan until hot and add the remaining olive oil and the turbot fillets. Fry for 3-4 minutes on each side, or until just cooked through. Remove the turbot from the pan and place onto a plate to prevent them from cooking any further. Season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper and a little lemon juice.
To serve, remove the whole garlic clove from the sauce vierge, then stir in the chopped tomatoes, remaining lemon juice and parsley and return to the heat to warm through. Season, to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Place a turbot steak onto each serving plate and spoon the razor clam sauce vierge over the top.


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QuantLib: a free/open-source library for quantitative finance
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#include <ql/methods/finitedifferences/schemes/boundaryconditionschemehelper.hpp>
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| typedef OperatorTraits< FdmLinearOp >::array_type | array_type |
| typedef OperatorTraits< FdmLinearOp >::operator_type | operator_type |
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| BoundaryConditionSchemeHelper (OperatorTraits< FdmLinearOp >::bc_set bcSet) | |
| void | applyBeforeApplying (operator_type &op) const |
| void | applyBeforeSolving (operator_type &op, array_type &a) const |
| void | applyAfterApplying (array_type &a) const |
| void | applyAfterSolving (array_type &a) const |
| void | setTime (Time t) const |
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| BoundaryConditionSchemeHelper ()=default | |
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| OperatorTraits< FdmLinearOp >::bc_set | bcSet_ |
Definition at line 32 of file boundaryconditionschemehelper.hpp.
| typedef OperatorTraits<FdmLinearOp>::array_type array_type |
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| typedef OperatorTraits<FdmLinearOp>::operator_type operator_type |
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| void applyBeforeApplying | ( | operator_type & | op | ) | const |
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| void applyBeforeSolving | ( | operator_type & | op, |
| array_type & | a | ||
| ) | const |
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| void applyAfterApplying | ( | array_type & | a | ) | const |
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| void applyAfterSolving | ( | array_type & | a | ) | const |
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| void setTime | ( | Time | t | ) | const |
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