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The Opposite of Sex Directed by Don Roos
A film review by Chris Loar
The posters advertising THE OPPOSITE OF SEX declare "You'll Laugh. You'll Cry. You'll Be Offended." Frankly, this misrepresentation is probably the most offensive thing about this film, which poses as a cynical portrait of an unscrupulous teen on the run while striking a tone no more jaded than your average Disney picture. I don't mind light feel-good fare, but there's something cloying about this tease -- I like sentiment to advertise itself as such, rather than hiding behind an ink cloud of fashionable detachment. That said, OPPOSITE is entertaining enough: it features a nice turn by Christina Ricci (who's transformed herself from a hilariously ironic Wednesday Addams into a hilariously ironic late-teen vamp -- sort of a low-calorie version of Linda Fiorentino's Wendy Kroy) and a slight but clever script by director Don Roos.
As the film opens, Ricci's character, Dedee Truitt, sets the tone by spitting on her stepfather's grave -- at the funeral, no less -- and things go generally downhill from there. Dedee runs away from her Louisiana home and her crazed mother, planning to crash with her half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan, as noble and injured as ever). Bill teaches high school and lives comfortably from the money he's inherited from his long-time companion Tom; noble and generous to a fault, he gives Dedee the run of the house. He comes to regret this move in short order, since Dedee's first act as houseguest is to seduce Bill's lover, Matt (Ivan Sergei) -- and, when she turns up pregnant, to take off for California, dragging with her Matt, Tom's ashes, and $10,000 in cash. Bill's troubles are compounded when another of the prodigious Matt's lovers, Jason (Johnny Galecki) tells the police and the press that Bill's sexually assaulted him. Suspended from work and heartbroken, Bill takes off for California to find Matt and Dedee, with Tom's sister Lucia (Lisa Kudrow) in tow, and with Sheriff Carl Tippett (Lyle Lovett) in hot pursuit.
All this may sound like standard comic fare, and sure enough, it is. What we have here is a more or less formulaic film posing as a quirky independent feature; it dresses itself up in faux cynicism, and leans on some amusing self-referential voice-overs to distinguish itself. It shouldn't have bothered; what value is there to be found is almost buried beneath the gimmicks and tricks. Its primary virtue is, in fact, something so simple as a first-rate cast. Ricci, as I've said, is all grown up now, but her character isn't; she's still a kid inside a grownup persona, and Ricci delivers that nuance perfectly. This is also the best work we've seen from Lisa Kudrow; with a few tweaks to her FRIENDS persona, the ditz is gone, replaced by a somewhat twitchy, uptight schoolmarm. And Donovan and Lovett, though sorely underused and slightly miscast, are as appealing as ever.
It's sad to see this talent working so hard on such an unworthy project. It's not just that it isn't terribly original; I could live with that. It's also that it feels sloppy and tacked-together; that it offers up silly stereotypes of gay men, then apologizes for them with preachy asides; that it hauls in flat, wooden characters to tie up subplots that had no business there in the first place.
So perhaps it's not the film's fundamental inoffensiveness that bothers me. It's rather that the film is too obviously and casually offensive, all to no purpose. Offense can be interesting; I'm a believer in throwing rocks at sacred cows. But this film can't muster up the energy to really upset anybody; telling us that teens are sometimes angry and often display a cynicism they haven't really earned isn't exactly news. And where it is offensive, it's unintentional and to no effect, giving us rather tired portraits of queened-out gay men and bitter, frigid women. So and watch Ricci blossom, Kudrow mature, and Sergei stand around looking pretty. But don't expect a satisfying story; you'll be courting disappointment.
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It’s hip to be square.
– Huey Lewis & the News
I was always a square peg in a round hole. My father, an engineer by trade, expected me to excel in math and I did, but eventually I became drawn to the arts and painting.
I pursued my artistic passions studying painting at Rhode Island School of Design. There I incorporated my intellectual sensibilities into my artwork. My work encompassed urban landscapes as vast macro-organism. A constant attempt at reconciling opposites; the artificial with the organic, the rational with the intuitive.
It was difficult to find my niche as a painter, and I decided to start fresh in a studio apartment in Chicago. Efficiently utilizing the space I created a digital studio by balancing my computer on a drawing board propped on my couch-bed. There I hammered away, teaching myself design and applying what I learned by building my personal website.
As a designer, I am able to meld the intellectual with the artistic. Not satisfied with just the design component, I took it upon myself to learn how to code. Web design affords me the opportunity to build my designs and watch my creations come to life. I am always looking to harmonize my intuitive and rational natures in my life and work. Some see it as squaring the circle. I see it as jamming a square peg into a round hole.


QWaylandWlShellSurface Class
The QWaylandWlShellSurface class provides desktop-style compositor-specific features to a surface. More...
| Header: | #include <QWaylandWlShellSurface> |
| qmake: | QT += waylandcompositor |
| Since: | Qt 5.8 |
| Inherits: | QWaylandShellSurfaceTemplate |
Public Types
| enum | FullScreenMethod { DefaultFullScreen, ScaleFullScreen, DriverFullScreen, FillFullScreen } |
| enum | ResizeEdge { NoneEdge, TopEdge, BottomEdge, LeftEdge, ..., BottomRightEdge } |
Properties
- className : const QString
- shell : QWaylandWlShell * const
- surface : QWaylandSurface * const
- title : const QString
- 1 property inherited from QWaylandShellSurface
Public Functions
| QWaylandWlShellSurface() | |
| QWaylandWlShellSurface(QWaylandWlShell *shell, QWaylandSurface *surface, const QWaylandResource &res) | |
| virtual | ~QWaylandWlShellSurface() |
| QString | className() const |
| void | initialize(QWaylandWlShell *shell, QWaylandSurface *surface, const QWaylandResource &resource) |
| void | sendConfigure(const QSize &size, ResizeEdge edges) |
| void | sendPopupDone() |
| QWaylandWlShell * | shell() const |
| QSize | sizeForResize(const QSizeF &size, const QPointF &delta, ResizeEdge edges) |
| QWaylandSurface * | surface() const |
| QString | title() const |
Reimplemented Public Functions
| virtual Qt::WindowType | windowType() const override |
- 1 public function inherited from QWaylandShellSurface
- 4 public functions inherited from QWaylandCompositorExtension
- 5 public functions inherited from QWaylandObject
Public Slots
| void | ping() |
Signals
| void | classNameChanged() |
| void | pong() |
| void | setDefaultToplevel() |
| void | setFullScreen(FullScreenMethod method, uint framerate, QWaylandOutput *output) |
| void | setMaximized(QWaylandOutput *output) |
| void | setPopup(QWaylandSeat *seat, QWaylandSurface *parentSurface, const QPoint &relativeToParent) |
| void | setTransient(QWaylandSurface *parentSurface, const QPoint &relativeToParent, bool inactive) |
| void | shellChanged() |
| void | startMove(QWaylandSeat *seat) |
| void | startResize(QWaylandSeat *seat, ResizeEdge edges) |
| void | surfaceChanged() |
| void | titleChanged() |
- 1 signal inherited from QWaylandShellSurface
Static Public Members
| QWaylandWlShellSurface * | fromResource(wl_resource *resource) |
| QWaylandSurfaceRole * | role() |
Additional Inherited Members
- 1 protected function inherited from QWaylandCompositorExtension
Detailed Description
The QWaylandWlShellSurface class provides desktop-style compositor-specific features to a surface.
This class is part of the QWaylandWlShell extension and provides a way to extend the functionality of an existing QWaylandSurface with features specific to desktop-style compositors, such as resizing and moving the surface.
It corresponds to the Wayland interface wl_shell_surface
.
Member Type Documentation
enum QWaylandWlShellSurface::FullScreenMethod
enum QWaylandWlShellSurface::ResizeEdge
This enum type provides a way to specify an edge or corner of the surface.
| Constant | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
QWaylandWlShellSurface::NoneEdge | 0 | No edge. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::TopEdge | 1 | The top edge. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::BottomEdge | 2 | The bottom edge. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::LeftEdge | 4 | The left edge. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::TopLeftEdge | 5 | The top left corner. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::BottomLeftEdge | 6 | The bottom left corner. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::RightEdge | 8 | The right edge. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::TopRightEdge | 9 | The top right corner. |
QWaylandWlShellSurface::BottomRightEdge | 10 | The bottom right corner. |
Property Documentation
className : const QString
This property holds the class name of the QWaylandWlShellSurface.
Access functions:
| QString | className() const |
Notifier signal:
| void | classNameChanged() |
shell : QWaylandWlShell * const
This property holds the shell associated with this QWaylandWlShellSurface.
Access functions:
| QWaylandWlShell * | shell() const |
Notifier signal:
| void | shellChanged() |
surface : QWaylandSurface * const
This property holds the surface associated with this QWaylandWlShellSurface.
Access functions:
| QWaylandSurface * | surface() const |
Notifier signal:
| void | surfaceChanged() |
title : const QString
This property holds the title of the QWaylandWlShellSurface.
Access functions:
| QString | title() const |
Notifier signal:
| void | titleChanged() |
Member Function Documentation
QWaylandWlShellSurface::QWaylandWlShellSurface()
Constructs a QWaylandWlShellSurface.
QWaylandWlShellSurface::QWaylandWlShellSurface(QWaylandWlShell *shell, QWaylandSurface *surface, const QWaylandResource &res)
Constructs a QWaylandWlShellSurface for surface and initializes it with the given shell and resource res.
[virtual]
QWaylandWlShellSurface::~QWaylandWlShellSurface()
Destroys the instance of QWaylandWlShellSurface. The destructor is virtual.
[static]
QWaylandWlShellSurface *QWaylandWlShellSurface::fromResource(wl_resource *resource)
Returns the QWaylandWlShellSurface object associated with the given resource, or null if no such object exists.
void QWaylandWlShellSurface::initialize(QWaylandWlShell *shell, QWaylandSurface *surface, const QWaylandResource &resource)
Initializes the QWaylandWlShellSurface and associates it with the given shell, surface, and resource.
[slot]
void QWaylandWlShellSurface::ping()
Sends a ping event to the client. If the client replies to the event the pong signal will be emitted.
[signal]
void QWaylandWlShellSurface::pong()
[static]
QWaylandSurfaceRole *QWaylandWlShellSurface::role()
void QWaylandWlShellSurface::sendConfigure(const QSize &size, ResizeEdge edges)
Sends a configure event to the client, suggesting that it resize its surface to the provided size. The edges provide a hint about how the surface was resized.
void QWaylandWlShellSurface::sendPopupDone()
Sends a popup_done event to the client to indicate that the user has clicked somewhere outside the client's surfaces.


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1 class LoanProduct |
2 include DataMapper::Resource |
3 property :id, Serial, :nullable => false, :index => true |
4 property :name, String, :nullable => false, :index => true, :min => 3 |
5 property :max_amount, Integer, :nullable => false, :index => true |
6 property :min_amount, Integer, :nullable => false, :index => true |
7 property :max_interest_rate, Integer, :nullable => false, :index => true, :max => 100 |
8 property :min_interest_rate, Integer, :nullable => false, :index => true, :min => 0 |
9 property :installment_frequency, Enum.send('[]', *([:any] + INSTALLMENT_FREQUENCIES)), :nullable => true, :index => true |
10 |
11 property :max_number_of_installments, Integer, :nullable => false, :index => true, :max => 1000 |
12 property :min_number_of_installments, Integer, :nullable => false, :index => true, :min => 0 |
13 |
14 #This property is defined in init.rb after app load as Loan may not have loaded by the time this class initializes |
15 # property :loan_type, Enum.send('[]'), :nullable => false, :index => true |
16 property :valid_from, Date, :nullable => false, :index => true |
17 property :valid_upto, Date, :nullable => false, :index => true |
18 |
19 has n, :loans |
20 |
21 validates_with_method :min_is_less_than_max |
22 validates_is_unique :name |
23 validates_is_number :max_amount, :min_amount, :max_interest_rate, :min_interest_rate |
24 validates_with_method :check_loan_type_correctness |
25 |
26 def self.from_csv(row, headers) |
27 obj = new(:name => row[headers[:name]], :min_amount => row[headers[:min_amount]], :max_amount => row[headers[:max_amount]], |
28 :min_interest_rate => row[headers[:min_interest_rate]], :max_interest_rate => row[headers[:max_interest_rate]], |
29 :min_number_of_installments => row[headers[:min_number_of_installments]], :max_number_of_installments => row[headers[:max_number_of_installments]], |
30 :installment_frequency => row[headers[:installment_frequency]].downcase.to_sym, |
31 :valid_from => Date.parse(row[headers[:valid_from]]), :valid_upto => Date.parse(row[headers[:valid_upto]]), :loan_type => row[headers[:loan_type]]) |
32 [obj.save, obj] |
33 end |
34 |
35 def self.valid(date=Date.today) |
36 LoanProduct.all(:valid_from.lte => date, :valid_upto.gte => date) |
37 end |
38 |
39 def check_loan_type_correctness |
40 if Loan.descendants.collect{|x| x.to_s}.include?(loan_type) |
41 return true |
42 else |
43 return false |
44 end |
45 end |
46 |
47 def self.is_valid(id) |
48 return false unless product = LoanProduct.get(id) |
49 if product.valid_from<=Date.today and product.valid_upto>=Date.today |
50 return product |
51 else |
52 return false |
53 end |
54 end |
55 |
56 def min_is_less_than_max |
57 if max_amount and min_amount and max_amount < min_amount |
58 [ false, "Minimum amount cannot be greater than maximum amount" ] |
59 elsif max_interest_rate and min_interest_rate and max_interest_rate < min_interest_rate |
60 [ false, "Minimum interest rate cannot be greater than maximum interest rate" ] |
61 elsif valid_from and valid_upto and valid_upto < valid_from |
62 [ false, "Valid from date cannot be greater than valid upto date" ] |
63 else |
64 return true |
65 end |
66 end |
67 end |
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JavaScript Basics
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How does JavaScript compare to HTML and CSS?
While HTML and CSS define the layout and look of a webpage, JavaScript provides the functionality of a page by providing the logic and intelligence for any animated components of the site as well as any components that a user can interact with. JavaScript can be used to retrieve, submit process and manipulate data and information, as well as solve complex calculations, perform repetitive tasks, make decisions and provide the user with feedback when necessary.
Explain control flow and loops using an example process from everyday life
Flow Control is reference to the organization (or flow) of the JavaScript script/code. As JavaScript works through the script it will run each code segment when required, and only when certain conditions were met. Flow control provides the ability to make a decision on which code segment to run – think of it as like a set of instructions; if there was no flow control or instructions the script wouldn’t know which code segment to run, when to run or if it should be run at all. Similarly loops are also a key part of JavaScript’s decision making process. Loops will perform a particular function over and over until a particular condition is met, once that condition is met the loop will stop and proceed to the next event in the script (if there is one).
We all use flow control and loops in our day to day life to make decisions on how proceed and what to do next.
A simple example is making a bowl of cereal for breakfast:
• Do I have a bowl?
    o If no, get a bowl from the cupboard.
    o Check again - if yes, check for milk.
• Do I have any milk?
    o If no, get milk from fridge.
    o If yes, then you can then choose which cereal you would like.
• What cereal would you like?
    o Wheat Bix, Muesli, Coco Pops – choose one.
    o Get selected cereal from cupboard.
• Pour selected cereal in bowl until desired amount:
    o Check - do you have the desired amount of cereal?
      If not, keep pouring cereal into bowl.
      Repeat check (loop) until desired amount of cereal is in the bowl.
    o Once you have the desired amount of cereal, add milk.
• Pour milk in bowl until you have the desired amount.
    o Check - do you have the desired amount of milk?
      If not, keep pouring milk.
      Repeat check (loop) until desired amount of milk is in the bowl.
• Once you have the desired amount of cereal.  Eat breakfast.
As you can see from the example above, there is a flow and order to the way we make decisions and act – there is no point pouring milk into a bowl if we haven’t even gotten a bowl from the cupboard!
Explain the difference between accessing data from arrays and objects.
An Array can be thought of as a table that contains various types of data – similar to that found in in Excel spreadsheet where you have columns and rows that each contain a different piece of information/data; some text, a number, a formula or a link to another document. Arrays are similar in that they can also hold strings, numbers, functions, objects and even other arrays! To access a spreadsheets data you would reference the cell that contains that data (eg cell D5). In its simplest form arrays are similar in that you reference the array ‘cell’ that contains the data you want to access. This is done by using bracket notation, you simply refer to the name of the array and then the ‘cell’ number – however keep in mind that the first set of data stored in the array will be at position 0. For example: exampleArray[3]. This will access the forth object store in the array. Objects are similar in that they also store a range of data types, these are usually broken down into properties (variables) and methods (functions). Accessing an object’s data is done by referencing the object, and then the property or method you wish to interact with. This is done by using dot notation, for example you have an Object called Person with a variable called Name (that will have a name associated with it). To access the Name property, you would access it in the following way: person.name. Bracket Notation can also be used to access a property of an object under certain conditions, for example if there is a space in the property name eg person[“first name”].
Explain what functions are and why they are useful.
Functions are a set of code that can be reused over and over again to perform the same action when required or to weigh up options and make a decision. For example maybe you want to calculate the sum of two numbers a user inputs. Each time the user requests the sum of the two numbers a function will run that will get the two numbers inputted by the user, calculate the sum, and then display the result. This function can be reused over and over again. We use functions in our everyday life as well, for example drinking a cup of water. Each time we want to take a drink, we reach out to the cup, bring it to out mouth, drink the water, and then put the cup back down. We will do this same process over and over again, but will only call on this ‘function’ when needed (ie when we want to drink some water) Functions are useful as they cut down on repetition of code as they allow the user to write one set of code that can be accessed at any time to perform an action or make a decision. A function can be called and used by other functions as well as individually.


In 1981, party clown Arthur Fleck lives with his mother, Penny, in Gotham City. Gotham is rife with crime and unemployment, leaving segments of the population disenfranchised and impoverished. Arthur suffers from a disorder that causes him to laugh at inappropriate times, and depends on social services for medication. After a gang attacks him in an alley, Arthur's co-worker, Randall, lends him a gun.
In 1981, party clown Arthur Fleck lives with his mother, Penny, in Gotham City. Gotham is rife with crime and unemployment, leaving segments of the population disenfranchised and impoverished. Arthur suffers from a disorder that causes him to laugh at inappropriate times, and depends on social services for medication. After a gang attacks him in an alley, Arthur's co-worker, Randall, lends him a gun.


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We achieve these goals by partnering with corporate and academic sponsors who endorse the purchase of laboratory coats emblazoned with the sponsors’ logos. We then distribute these coats to qualifying under-resourced schools, along with other materials intended to aid educators in taking on a hands-on approach to scientific instruction.
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Enrichment Analysis and Cytoscape
- Enrichment based on nodes in a network
- All current enrichment apps do ORA
Apps for enrichment analysis
- EnrichmentTable
- Now a core app. Provides basic enrichment functionality.
- stringApp
- Enrichment data downloaded with STRING networks.
- BinGO
- Original enrichment app for Cytoscape. Creates a term network.
- ClueGO
- Most popular Cytoscape app. Will also do comparative enrichment. Creates a term network.
- EnrichmentMap
- Visualizes enrichments of terms as an enrichment map, a network representing overlaps among enriched terms.
Apps for enrichment analysis
EnrichmentTable
- Core app (included in the release) in Cytoscape 3.10.
- Uses g:Profiler to calculate the enrichment
- Includes chart visualizations
- Can have whole-genome background or current network background
- Selection in Enrichment Table will select nodes in network
Apps for enrichment analysis
stringApp
- Second most downloaded Cytoscape app
- Enrichment bundled with stringApp
- Includes chart visualizations
- Can have whole-genome background or select any network as a background
- Can do enrichment of clusters in a network
- Selection in Enrichment Table will select nodes in network
Apps for enrichment analysis
BinGO
- Original enrichment app/plugin for Cytoscape
- Provides the ability to import alternative ontologies and annotations
- Provides a nice network-display showing the terms, enrichment, and connectivity
Apps for enrichment analysis
ClueGO
- Most downloaded Cytoscape app
- Can import alternative ontologies and annotations
- Produces nice network of terms, including visualization of multiple clusters
- Can change background, but must provide separate reference set to do so
Apps for enrichment analysis
EnrichmentMap
- Accepts enrichment data from other apps (stringApp and EnrichmentTable) and pipelines to produce a "map" of terms and term relationships
- Can also take data from GSEA for ranked gene analysis


Teeling may sell Limerick zinc asset
by By Geoff PercivalIrish mineral exploration company Arkle Resources is considering selling its interest in the highly-rated Stonepark zinc project in Limerick.
The zinc prospect is co-owned by the John Teeling-chaired explorer and Canadian resources company Group Eleven.
Arkle owns a 23.44% stake in Stonepark, but has started a formal strategic review of its ownership in a bid to maximise shareholder value after seeing interest in the asset.
Earlier this year Arkle - which was previously known as Connemara Mining - suggested the possibility of at least diluting its share of Stonepark, partly due to it refocusing most of its efforts on gold exploration.
“There is significant interest in the Stonepark zinc project, we believe because of the high grade and relatively shallow position of the established inferred resource and its strategic location adjacent to the far larger Pallas Green zinc-lead deposit,” said Arkle chief executive Patrick Cullen.
“In 2017, when the original partners Teck Ireland sold their majority stake, we elected to maintain our share and contribute accordingly. The board believes now is an excellent time to review that decision; zinc prices remain robust well above the $2,000 per tonne range, and there is interest in Stonepark,” Mr Cullen said.
He also said that recent drilling work has revealed the potential for further discoveries.
“We also believe there is significant upside potential for a major discovery along the Pallas Green corridor,” Mr Cullen said.


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Video: Donald Trump attends UFC 244, gets booed by New York crowd
by Anton TabuenaDonald Trump is in attendance at UFC 244, with the US President walking to his seat prior to the start of the pay-per-view portion of the event. Trump got notoriously booed attending a World Series game, but he did get mixed reactions from the crowd during this MMA event.
As he was slowly walking to his seat, Trump was heavily booed by the crowd.
It wasn’t all boos though, there were also some noticeable cheers as he got to his seat, specifically when he started waving to some people.
Dana White has been very vocal about his support of the President, even being part of his campaign a few years back. The show’s headliner fighting for a “BMF” belt, Jorge Masvidal has also voiced support for Trump this week, saying he’s a “cool” and “bad motherf—ker.”
“I think real recognize real,” Masvidal said. “No matter what your views are on Trump as a president, the guy’s a bad (expletive), man. The money that he’s made, the obstacles that he’s conquered. He’s a bad (expletive) in his own way. No matter what your political views are.”
“Trump’s a cool (expletive).


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interface XStandaloneDocumentInfo |
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- Base Interfaces
XStandaloneDocumentInfo
┗ XDocumentInfo
| XDocumentInfo |
- (referenced interface's summary:)
- provides access to the user fields for the information regarding the
document
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- Usage Restrictions
- deprecated
- Deprecation Info
- Use XDocumentProperties instead.
- Description
- makes it possible to load document information from
a resource specified by a URL and to store it into a resource also
specified by a URL
Only the document information part of the resource is transferred.
Instead of DocumentInfo not the whole document will be opened.
Note: Without specifying the source or target of this info (the document)
nothing can work and will be handled as void (for reading) or ignored (for writing).
After specigiying the source/target by using this interface,
the interface XDocumentInfo (which must be implemented on same
object then this one!) provides access to the info properties.
- See also
- DocumentInfo, StandaloneDocumentInfo, XDocumentInfo
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loads the document information from a file referred by an URL
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stores the document information into a file referred by a URL
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- loads the document information from a file referred by an URL
After an unsuccessful call the contents of the document
information are undefined (void).
This method only works for storage file formats.
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Only the document information part of the document is overwritten.
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{% trans "Please correct the errors below." %}
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qm guest exec
Execute a specific command via a guest agent.
More information: home page
- Execute a specific command via a guest agent:
qm guest exec vm_id command arg1 arg2 ...
- Execute a specific command via a guest agent asynchronously:
qm guest exec vm_id arg1 arg2 ... --synchronous 0
- Execute a specific command via a guest agent with a specified timeout of 10 seconds:
qm guest exec vm_id arg1 arg2 ... --timeout 10
- Execute a specific command via a guest agent and forward input from STDIN until EOF to the guest agent:
qm guest exec vm_id arg1 arg2 ... --pass-stdin 1


AMERICAN PIE ***1/2 (out of five stars) A review by Jamey Hughton
Starring-Jason Biggs, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Klein, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Tara Reid, Natasha Lyonne and Eugene Levy Director-Paul Weitz Rated 18A Released July 1999 Universal
More MOVIE VIEWS by Jamey Hughton at: http://Welcome.to/MovieViews
All those who were offended by There's Something About Mary should not tread in the waters of American Pie, a gratuitously sexual rollercoaster ride of raunch. And while this uproariously funny, gross-out summer movie is basically an exercise in bad taste, it also demonstrates a surprising sweetness in the end.
American Pie is the latest entry to the offensive teenage-targeted fare this season. I must question the studio that releases a movie like this. The producers are aiming these films at the 15-24 crowd, but while pushing the limit of possible sex and violence in an R-rated film. Some have even been narrowly avoiding the dreaded NC-17, a rating the MPAA gives when the adult content surpasses even that of a Restricted movie. American Pie was threatened with an NC-17, but after snipping a few scenes from the finished product, it was given an R. But at least this new addition is not as careless and unforgiving as something like South Park. It is sick, perverse, and ultimately disgusting - not to mention extremely funny.
American Pie is about four desperate teenagers who make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night. Jim (Jason Biggs), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Oz (Chris Klein) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) are a quartet of high school students in their senior year who think sex is something they must experience to be successful in their lives ahead. Jim inquires what it feels like when you reach third base, to which one of his friends replies: `Like warm apple pie...'. Of course, this prompts the scene unfairly exposed in the trailers, in which Jim and a freshly baked pie have a very intimate moment in the kitchen corner. There are many moments, such as this, in which director Paul Weitz uses a game-plan similar to the one frequently displayed in Mary: to cause the audience to break down laughing in disgusting disbelief. American Pie is a hard-fought effort that has replenishing rewards if you manage to stick with it.
I loved the young cast in this movie. Consider the subject matter that these actors have dealt with, obviously suggestiveness never rivaled in any of their previous projects, and you should appreciate their performances. Biggs is more than enjoyable, and Chris Klein (who recently played a similar jock in Election) is obviously a young talent on the rise. But in a teen-dominated movie, the best performance comes from comedian Eugene Levy (of television's SCTV), who is unexpectedly brilliant as Jim's uneasy father. Scenes in which the familiar father-son conversations are brought to interesting new levels are the funniest moments to be found in American Pie. After Levy discovers Jim's new use for apple pie, he tells him, `I did a fare share of that sort of thing when I was your age. But I never used baked goods.' It is performances such as his, and Bill Murray's in Rushmore, that are often unfairly dismissed when awards are handed out.
There are some less-than-original aspects of the film. A bathroom incident involving Finch and a bottle of Ex-Lax is something we've seen before. If Weitz is planning to take after the Farrelly brothers, then this is a decidedly unwise move: the same prank was pulled in the brother's Dumb and Dumber, and used to greater effect. Secondly, the characters are forced into a half-hearted climax that seems more artificial than amusing. But at one point, in which we discover that American Pie does have a heart of it's own, Biggs asks his buddies why he's going through so much pressure for something that's `not very important anyway.' And so we realize that while the film is expressive about a subject that is hardly appropriate, it still manages to be mature. In it's own way.
(C) 1999, Jamey Hughton
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- remaining - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Model.HeuristicPathTree.Node
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- REQUEST_FILE_READ_EXTERNAL - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Helper.Constants
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- REQUEST_TUTORIAL - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Helper.Constants
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- ResolverAStarThread - Class in com.example.sulemaia.Thread
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Class to control all the app flow when the A Star Algorithm is being executed.
- ResolverAStarThread(HeuristicPathTree.Node[][], ArrayList<String>, long, iAStar, int) - Constructor for class com.example.sulemaia.Thread.ResolverAStarThread
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First Best algorithm constructor.
- ResolverFirstBestThread - Class in com.example.sulemaia.Thread
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Resolver class for the thread and execution of First Best Algorithm.
- ResolverFirstBestThread(HeuristicPathTree.Node[][], ArrayList<String>, long, iFirstTheBest, int) - Constructor for class com.example.sulemaia.Thread.ResolverFirstBestThread
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First Best algorithm constructor.
- ResolverUniformCostThread - Class in com.example.sulemaia.Thread
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Class to control all the app flow when the Uniform Cost algorithm is being executed.
- ResolverUniformCostThread(HeuristicPathTree.Node[][], ArrayList<String>, long, iUniformCost) - Constructor for class com.example.sulemaia.Thread.ResolverUniformCostThread
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Constructor of the whole resolver for the Uniform Cost Thread.
- resource - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Adapter.CharacterEditorAdapter
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- resource - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Adapter.CharacterSelectorAdapter
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- resource - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Adapter.DialogCharacterEditorAdapter
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- resource - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Adapter.DialogCharacterInformationAdapter
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- resource - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Adapter.MainActivityAdapter
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- RESULT_FOR_CHARACTER_EDITOR - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Helper.Constants
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- RESULT_FOR_FIELD_INFORMATION - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Helper.Constants
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- RIGHT - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Activity.ExpansionDetails.ButtonActions
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- RIGHT - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Fragment.UniformCost
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- RIGHT - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Thread.ResolverAStarThread
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- RIGHT - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Thread.ResolverFirstBestThread
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- RIGHT - Static variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Thread.ResolverUniformCostThread
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- rvCharacters - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Activity.CharacterSelector
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- rvEditor - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Activity.CharacterEditor
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- rvItems - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Dialog.CustomCharacterEditorDialog
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- rvWorldElements - Variable in class com.example.sulemaia.Activity.MainActivity
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Russian Lullaby
by kudejarE–Type — Russian Lullaby
Listen to: https://umusicswe.lnk.to/E-typeYD Music video by E-Type performing Russian Lullaby. (C) 1995 Universal Music AB http://vevo.ly/NgDrOSwww.youtube.com
Воскресные шведы
E–Type — Russian Lullaby
Listen to: https://umusicswe.lnk.to/E-typeYD Music video by E-Type performing Russian Lullaby. (C) 1995 Universal Music AB http://vevo.ly/NgDrOSwww.youtube.com
Воскресные шведы


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STEP 5: Creating a randomGroovoid Function
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This example is similar to the previous example in that it uses JavaScript once again to randomly select one of the many Groovoids that are built into the Beatnik Player's soundbank. Each time you reload this page, a new randomly selected Groovoid will play. Because the selection is truly random, you may sometimes get the same Groovoid selected twice in a row.
If you look at the source code listing below, you will see that a function called randomGroovoid has been defined. This function is being called with the parameter "Background-" which instructs the function to randomly select a Groovoid that starts with "Background-" as a prefix. The Beatnik soundbank contains 13 such background-style Groovoids. They are designed to loop and are perfect as subtle grooves that play softly in the background.
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<SCRIPT SRC="music-object.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript><!-- // function randomGroovoid (groovoidPrefix) { var groovoidNames = new Array ( 'UI-BeepClick1','UI-Chimes','UI-Choice1','UI-Click1','UI-Click2', 'UI-Click3','UI-Click4','UI-Click5','UI-Click6','UI-Click7', 'UI-Click8','UI-Click9','UI-Click10','UI-Click11','UI-Click12', 'UI-Click13','UI-Click14','UI-Click15','UI-Click16','UI-Click17', 'UI-Click18','UI-CarriageReturn','UI-FunnyBeep','UI-Load1', 'UI-MouseOver1','UI-MouseOver2','UI-MouseOverDrone1', 'UI-Notification1','UI-Notification2','UI-Notification3', 'UI-OpenOrClose1','UI-OpenOrClose2','UI-OpenOrClose3', 'UI-Question','UI-SimpleClick1','UI-SimpleClick2','UI-SystemBeep', 'UI-TeletypeBurst2','UI-TypeOneKey','Hits-BlastOff','Hits-Kicker1', 'Hits-Kicker2','Hits-Kicker5','Hits-LudwigVan','Hits-Magic', 'Hits-MysteryChime','Hits-SportsOrganCharge','Hits-ZoomAndHit', 'Fanfare-Arrival','Fanfare-Cascade','Fanfare-CorpSting1', 'Fanfare-Finished','Fanfare-Horserace','Fanfare-Mars', 'Fanfare-Majesty','Fanfare-Presenting','Fanfare-Sports', 'Background-Beeps','Background-Clock','Background-Dubby', 'Background-Funky','Background-Groove2','Background-InfoPulse', 'Background-Latin','Background-News','Background-Piano', 'Background-SimpleTyping','Background-Smooth', 'Background-StillWaiting','Background-Teletype', 'Misc-CashRegister','Misc-ThruPhoneRing' ); if (typeof groovoidPrefix == 'undefined' || groovoidPrefix == null || groovoidPrefix == '') { return groovoidNames [Math.round (Math.random () * (groovoidNames.length - 1))]; } else { var matches = new Array (), totalMatches = 0 ; for (var groovoidNo = 0; groovoidNo < groovoidNames.length; groovoidNo++) { if (groovoidNames [groovoidNo].indexOf (groovoidPrefix) == 0) { matches [totalMatches] = groovoidNo; totalMatches++; } } if (totalMatches == 0) { return ''; } else if (totalMatches == 1) { return groovoidNames [matches [0]]; } else { return groovoidNames [matches [Math.round (Math.random () * (totalMatches - 1))]]; } } } Music.magicEmbed ( 'SRC="stub.rmf" ' + 'GROOVOID="' + randomGroovoid ('Background-') + '" ' + 'AUTOSTART=TRUE ' + 'DISPLAY=SONG ' + 'MODE=INFO ' + 'LOOP=TRUE ' + 'VOLUME=100' ); // --></SCRIPT> |
The randomGroovoid function achieves its random selection by having knowledge of all the Groovoids that are available in the Beatnik soundbank. The full list of Groovoids is being stored in the groovoidNames array variable defined inside the function. The function is then being called as part of the Music.magicEmbed function call, and the randomly selected Groovoid which is returned by the randomGroovoid function goes into forming the EMBED tag that gets passed into the Music.magicEmbed function.


{% extends "layouts/base.html" %} {% block content %}
Vagrant CI, keeping Vagrant stable every step of the way.
Welcome to the CI for Vagrant, a tool for building and distributing virtualized environments. In order to maintain the level of stability that users of Vagrant have come to expect, this CI system will run a wide range of tests against all commits to the Vagrant project.
Here is a brief overview of the pages you may be interested in:


About
This site contains all the assignments and material of the Computational Astrophysics / Data Analysis Course 2020 taught at the University of Guanajuato (DCI, León).
This course is taught by Alma González, PhD. The official repository can be found here.
Running the contents...
This repo makes use of Mybinder. To run the contents you can simply click the following button.


| Data characteristics | Multivariate time series ,demographic data | Type of building(s) | Residential | Date | 2010-2011 |
| Type of attributes | Real and integer numbers , string | Number of buildings | 251 | Duration | One year/One month |
| Level of detail | Whole building, some Appliances | Location of buildings | England | Sampling frequency | two minutely/five minutely |
At the moment the dataset is not publically available. But data mainteners are going to make it accessible via internet in near future. Also a detailed report including sampling information and several graphs can be downloaded from here
Power (W)
Dwelling Type
Age of the building
Number of rooms
Mumber of heatable rooms
Dimensions
Conservatory
Floor/Wall/Roof construction
Window area/proportion
Wall construction
Wall insulation
Number of fire places


The desktop app is a command line tool that you need to install, using npm. An in-depth guide on how to do this is located on the PhoneGap install page.
The mobile app removes the headache of code-signing and compiling. You can instantly view and test your work on your mobile device, saving you time.
Get the PhoneGap Developer App for the platforms you are developing on.
Using the desktop app, open a PhoneGap project and start a local server. Now grab your mobile device and enter the IP address of your desktop server. When the two are paired, magic will happen and you will see your app on the mobile device!
Now that you have paired your devices, as you change the source code the mobile app will instantly show your latest changes. With access to device APIs not available in web browsers, you don't have to sacrifice the confidence that your app will work as you intended on the devices you are targeting.


Property: trace
Syntax
var exp = new ApgExp(pattern, "d"); var result = exp.exec(input); var html = exp.trace.toHtml();
If the debug mode flag is set, then exp.trace is the APG trace object. exp.trace can be used to display the path of the parser through the parse tree. If the debug property is not set, exp.trace is undefined.
Example
See the debug mode example.


package utilities
Type Members
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class
GetAQAnnotations extends AnyRef
This function converts a Dataset[CATAnnotation] to a Dataset[AQAnnotation].
This function converts a Dataset[CATAnnotation] to a Dataset[AQAnnotation]. A bare-bones AQAnnotation (with no properties) can be generated by only passing a Dataset[CATAnnotation]. If properties (name-value pairs from the CATAnnotation other column) are desired, you have the option of specifying an Array of names (from these name-value pairs). Additionally, you have the option of specifying if the values for these properties should be lower-cased and/or url decoded.
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class
GetCATAnnotations extends AnyRef
This function converts a Dataset[AQAnnotation] to a Dataset[CATAnnotation].
This function converts a Dataset[AQAnnotation] to a Dataset[CATAnnotation]. If specific properties (name-value pairs to set in the CATAnnotation other column) are desired, you have the option of specifying an Array of names (for these name-value pairs). Additionally, you have the option of specifying if the values for these name-value pairs that should be url encoded.
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class
Hydrate extends AnyRef
This function will retrieve the text for each AQAnnotation in the passed Dataset[AQAnnotation], populate the text property with this value in the AQAnnotation, and return a Dataset[AQAnnotation] with the text property populated.
This function will retrieve the text for each AQAnnotation in the passed Dataset[AQAnnotation], populate the text property with this value in the AQAnnotation, and return a Dataset[AQAnnotation] with the text property populated. Keep in mind that for 'text/word' annotations the orig column will already be populated with the 'original' text value so this may not be needed. However, if you are working with sentence annotations (and other similar annotations) this could prove to be very helpful.
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class
HydrateXML extends AnyRef
This function will retrieve the xml for each AQAnnotation in the passed Dataset[AQAnnotation], populate the xml property with this value in the AQAnnotation, and return a Dataset[AQAnnotation] with the xml property populated.
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class
XPath extends AnyRef
This function will calculate the xpath expression for each Original Markup (OM) AQAnnotation in the passed OM Dataset[AQAnnotation], populate the xpath property with this value in the AQAnnotation, and return a Dataset[AQAnnotation] with the xpath property populated.


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Some Risk Management Models don't require a Portfolio Construction model to provide PortfolioTarget
objects, allowing them to directly monitor the portfolio holdings and liquidate positions when neccessary. To see which pre-built Risk Management models don't need the Portfolio Construction model to provide PortfolioTarget
objects, see Supported Models.
You can add one or more Risk Management Models to your algorithm and it will operate normally. The following example initializes a classic algorithm with framework risk management models:
public override void Initialize() { AddRiskManagement(new MaximumDrawdownPercentPerSecurity(0.05m)); AddRiskManagement(new MaximumUnrealizedProfitPercentPerSecurity(0.1m)); }
def Initialize(self): self.AddRiskManagement(MaximumDrawdownPercentPerSecurity(0.05)) self.AddRiskManagement(MaximumUnrealizedProfitPercentPerSecurity(0.1))


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Practical Quantum Cryptography Devices:
how to make them and how to break them
Sarah Kaiser
• Institute for Quantum Computing
www.sckaiser.com/talks/macquarie_seminar_2016
Long story short:
What is Quantum key distribution (QKD)?
Current challenges for QKD
QKD in space
Hacking QKD hardware
What is next for QKD?
Commercial QKD devices
id Quantique
QuintessenceLabs
MagiQ
SeQureNet
Hacking QKD Hardware


I didn’t read five chapters this week, and that’s partially because of the hidden chapter in all tech books. I believe the hidden chapter is a bug, but in documenting it I hope to make it in to a feature.
Tech publishing firms deals with different issues than other publishers. Tech books have small audiences which leads to higher prices per book as the economy of scale is the only thing that makes a paperback a possibly profitable prospect. (Though most books make very little. The secret of publishing is making small bets on unknowns and then creating and maintaining audiences for authors who find an audience with their first book.)
Tech authors aren’t paid much relative to the compensation they can receive if they work as consultants. I don’t have any info to compare their wage to authors in other sections of the bookstore, but anyone who has enough expertise to write a good tech book also has enough expertise to find better paying work elsewhere.
They also have to strike a difficult balance, being entertaining without being overly verbose, being informative without dulling the reader into a coma. I have been routinely surprised at how well written the prose is in tech books, and it comes from a high attention to detail on the authors part, as well as the early readers of the book, who are generally uncompensated.
To prepare a book for printing the publisher must work in rigid formats which preserve layouts and encourage migraines. There may be some editing staff that review the prose, but the publishing industry has scaled down heavily on copy-editors and other related quality assurance staff as the industry has digitized.
This is all to say, mistakes are made in tech books. They are to be expected.
However, a small mistake can have large ramifications for a coder just learning a new technology. I’ve been working through Rails 3 In Action written by Ryan Bigg and published by Manning Books. This morning at six, after a night of insomnia, I began working through the third chapter. My PDF was generated earlier this week, or it was delivered to me at the least, and I assumed that any known errata would already be incorporated. It turns out this is not the case.
Instead, I had an issue with using a version of Cucumber that had come out since the book was released and breaks the functionality of the code I was working through. The error got me confused, and I decided to take a rest. After a two hour nap and some veggie huevos rancheros, I tried my hand at it again. I figured out that my issue was related to using the wrong version of Cucumber. I tried a few things to fix the version issue on my current commit, but ended up having to revert to an earlier checkin with git. And that troubleshooting process took me a couple of hours where I would have actually worked through the material.
I believe that troubleshooting problems is an important skill to have. Mistakes in tech books encourage the reader to learn how to troubleshoot. But they also encourage frustration. I wish that there were a good, simple solution to ironing out errors from tech books, even those errors that are introduced by changing technology. From my understanding, Pragmatic Programmers has much better errata reporting system then Manning Books. Reducing the errors by using print-on-demand and continuous development helps a lot, but it will never be a silver bullet.
Those hours you take to troubleshoot something that should work, but doesn’t, are the missing chapter in most tech books. Try to look at them as value-added content. And publishers, please try to keep the missing chapters in the second half of your books.


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--- title: 'sed memo: output boilerplate around each line in a file' date: 2011-10-03 13:47:43.000000000 +03:00 categories: - memo - tech tags: - boilerplate - csplit - input - line - memo - sed - tip - unix status: publish type: post published: true meta: geo_accuracy: '4584' geo_longitude: '23.716647' geo_public: '1' geo_address: "Αθήνα, Ελλάς" _edit_last: '600927' geo_latitude: '37.979180' _wpas_done_twitter: '1' author: login: kouk email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>display_name: Konstantinos Koukopoulos first_name: '' last_name: '' excerpt: !ruby/object:Hpricot::Doc options: {} ---
Given three files xx0{0,1,2}
the following sed script will first output the contents of file xx00
and then for each line in the input it will output xx01
, the line and xx02
. The substition on line 5 is optional and can be expanded to include more commands or removed completely.
[sourcecode]
1 r xx00
1 !r xx02
$ !r xx01
x
1 d
s/foo/baz/
[/sourcecode]
The filenames are the default output filenames of the csplit command which could be helpful in related scenarios to the above.
Also it would be easy to add a footer to the above script, but I did not need it personally at this time.


When I first heard of the Ėracetam family of drugs I was extremely intrigued by a nootropic that proported to have no crash, no addictive potential, and relatively few side effects. It was like a drug that completed the human brain.
It especially sparked my interest because it could be purchased cheaply without a prescription. After researching the racetams for several months I decided to take the plunge down the nootropic rabbit hole with aniracetam, a fat-soluble piracetam derivative that also acts as an ampakine. Plus it has the nickname draganon which, letís be honest, is a pretty bad-ass name for a ďdietary supplementĒ.
First Time:
For my first time I took a 750mg capsule of aniracetam along with 2 grams of lecithin. To be honest, based on reports I had heard from others I did not expect much to happen. But about 20 minutes after downing the capsule I got hit with a very strange mind clearing perceptive state. Its effects were mild but not in any way subtle. Small peripheral noises like television commercials would jump out at me and startle me a bit. This doesnít happen to me anymore but that is most likely because I have become accustomed to the aniracetam headspace.
I went to a bonfire with some friends that night. I remember one of my friends calling me before the bonfire looking for a ride. I expected my friend Jís voice based on the phone number. Instead my other friend A said hello and my mind simply couldnít process the information that A was talking to me not J, especially since I had a thing for A at the time. This situation really wasnít out of the ordinary since my friends call from each othersí phones all the time, but I could not put together a string of coherent sentences for the life of me piecing together a series of uhhhs, yeahs, and okays instead.
Once I stopped paying attention to the effects of the drug, I could function normally in a social setting. The night was relaxing and finished without much different from the norm.
Dosage:
I know now that 750mg of aniracetam is a massive overdose for me. I get serious brain fog if I take over a half a capsule (maybe about 400mg is my upper limit) though about 250-300mg seems to be ideal for me.
I found that the effects from aniracetam last anywhere from 4 to 6 hours (with a peak around 2-3 hours in) depending on level of activity, whatís in my stomach, and how recently I have taken it last. I found that if I down the aniracetam on an empty stomach that I get minimal effects and that if I eat a meal (or even a small snack with a high fat content like a brownie or a cookie) beforehand then the effects are increased by an order of magnitude. There is perhaps some tolerance build up for me and I find it best taken every other day or every few days for the best results.
Effects and Effectiveness:
Id suppression: Though I would not consider aniracetam to be anorectic in any way, it seems to make desires for anything (food and sex especially) fade into the background. Itís not that I donít have physical desires, itís more like I have better things to do than eat or look at porn. On several occasions while on aniracetam I found myself ignoring the desire for food and when the drugís effects wore off I got intensely hungry and felt burnt out because I had not eaten in 10 hours.
Increased visual acuity: the visual effects from aniracetam are similar to the effects that I get from weed, though with a much clearer head, though it is a bit different. I would describe the visual effects like my brain is processing more incoming information than before; I canít see better (Iím near-sighted and colour-blind), but I can see more of the picture at one time. It is almost like less of my field of view is in my peripheral vision and more is in my main field of view. Things look more interesting and more beautiful, in nature especially.
Increased auditory perception: I found that my appreciation for music is not only increased, but greatly increased on aniracetam.  Minute details in music such as background guitars or other obscure sound effects are brought out and magnified. Itís almost as if you can visualize the music rolling out of the speakers. Each and every instrument has its own stage and every musical element can be singled out and separately perceived, or the music as a whole can be experienced. It is similar to the auditory effects of weed though much more subtle.
Use as a study/work aid: Normally I have trouble holding any train of thought for an extended period of time. I probably have attention deficit disorder but I never went to a doc to get diagnosed. Aniracetam by itself does not significantly increase by attention span, but when it is coupled with caffeine I can work for hours on end. I combined aniracetam once with about 5-10mg of methylphenidate (Ritalin) and turned into a goddamn machine for about 6 hours doing about 30 hours worth of work in a fraction of the time.
One way I devised to test the effectiveness of the cognitive enhancing effects of the substance was a test against myself comparing Sudoku times on aniracetam and sober. I found to my disappointment that, on average, aniracetam did not decrease the average time to complete a sodoku puzzle.
While I have not found my performance at Sudoku to be increased on aniracetam, I have found that my ability to articulate thoughts and speak are improved significantly. German (my second language) flows as if it were my native language and there isnít a search for vocabulary that I normally have when trying to speak or thing in German. Thoughts and ideas just flow freely without much effort at all.
Substance potentiation: caffeine usually has a minimal effect on me but when 100mg of caffeine is combined with about 300mg aniracetam. I find myself focused, energetic, and alert. The potentiation effects of the racetams have been documented extensively with piracetam which is often used by MDMA users to get their ďrollĒ back. I have never tried MDMA on aniracetam myself but I have combined aniracetam with caffeine, methylphenidate, LSA, JWH-018, JWH-250, JWH-081, and JWH-019 and can say without a doubt that the effects of each is increased significantly (Iíd say multiplied by about 1.5x). I wouldnít say that any of the effects of each substance is clearer or changed but rather a smaller dose is needed to achieve the same effects.
One of the quirkier parts of aniracetam I found is that it makes me a God at ping pong. Normally I play about average, winning about an even number of matches with my friends, but on aniracetam I destroy them consistently. Iíve won 21 to 7 on aniracetam and this is unheard of when playing sober. I donít know if my reaction times are decreased or if my hand eye coordination is improved but for some reason my ping pong ability on aniracetam is improved significantly. I havenít tested this with any other sports but I would suspect the results to be similar.
Aniracetam is an interesting substance. I find it recreational more than anything. When on aniracetam I am content just sitting and staring at the sky watching clouds roll by where it would be difficult for me to sit still for an extended period of time without seeking some kind of mental or physical stimulation. There is no crash (though I crash much harder than normal when coming down from stumulants like caffeine or methylphenidate) and a somewhat potent mood lift. Mad props to the guy who invented this stuff.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Day 1
- MVC architecture
- What is MVC architecture?
- How it works.
- Need for framework.
- Introduction to Yii framework
- What is Yii
- Installation of Yii
- Folder structure and files in Yii
- Sample Application
- Sample Application Development.
Day 2
- Fundamentals
- Entry script
- Application
- components
- module
- Conventions
- URL management
- Code Generations
- GII tool
- creating actions
- creating access rules
- creating models
- creating views
- creating forms
Day 3
- Working with database
- DB connectivity
- Active record
- Query builder
- Relational active record
Day 4
- Theming and extensions
- Applying the theme
- Custom themes
- Extensions
- Error handling and testing
PHP Framework Usage Statistics
What is Yii
- Yii is Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework
- Acroynym for, "Yes It Is!".
- Founder Qiang Xue, who started the Yii project on January 1, 2008
- On December 3, 2008, Yii 1.0 was formally released to the public.
- DRY design.
- MVC
- DAO, Query Builder, Active Record, DB Migration
- Form input and validation
- Authentication and authorization
- Skinning and theming
- Internationalization (I18N)
- Error handling and logging
- Automatic code generation
- Extension library
http://www.example.com/index.php?r=post/show&id=1
Lets do some practical experiment
Questions ?
Ask Google
"No one knows better then Google"


This article is part of a series of articles about three.js. The first article is three.js fundamentals. If you haven't read that yet and you're new to three.js you might want to consider starting there.
There are many ways to optimize things for three.js. One way is often referred
to as merging geometry. Every Mesh
you create and three.js represents 1 or
more requests by the system to draw something. Drawing 2 things has more
overhead than drawing 1 even if the results are the same so one way to optimize
is to merge meshes.
Let's show an example of when this is a good solution for an issue. Let's re-create the WebGL Globe.
The first thing we need to do is get some data. The WebGL Globe said the data they use comes from SEDAC. Checking out the site I saw there was demographic data in a grid format. I downloaded the data at 60 minute resolution.
There's a few lines that are like key/value pairs followed by lines with a value per grid point, one line for each row of data points.
To make sure we understand the data let's try to plot it in 2D.
First some code to load the text file
async function loadFile(url) { const res = await fetch(url); return res.text(); }
The code above returns a Promise
with the contents of the file at url
;
Then we need some code to parse the file
function parseData(text) { const data = []; const settings = {data}; let max; let min; // split into lines text.split('\n').forEach((line) => { // split the line by whitespace const parts = line.trim().split(/\s+/); if (parts.length === 2) { // only 2 parts, must be a key/value pair settings[parts[0]] = parseFloat(parts[1]); } else if (parts.length > 2) { // more than 2 parts, must be data const values = parts.map((v) => { const value = parseFloat(v); if (value === settings.NODATA_value) { return undefined; } max = Math.max(max === undefined ? value : max, value); min = Math.min(min === undefined ? value : min, value); return value; }); data.push(values); } }); return Object.assign(settings, {min, max}); }
The code above returns an object with all the key/value pairs from the file as
well as a data
property with all the data in one large array and the min
and
max
values found in the data.
Then we need some code to draw that data
function drawData(file) { const {min, max, data} = file; const range = max - min; const ctx = document.querySelector('canvas').getContext('2d'); // make the canvas the same size as the data ctx.canvas.width = ncols; ctx.canvas.height = nrows; // but display it double size so it's not too small ctx.canvas.style.width = px(ncols * 2); ctx.canvas.style.height = px(nrows * 2); // fill the canvas to dark gray ctx.fillStyle = '#444'; ctx.fillRect(0, 0, ctx.canvas.width, ctx.canvas.height); // draw each data point data.forEach((row, latNdx) => { row.forEach((value, lonNdx) => { if (value === undefined) { return; } const amount = (value - min) / range; const hue = 1; const saturation = 1; const lightness = amount; ctx.fillStyle = hsl(hue, saturation, lightness); ctx.fillRect(lonNdx, latNdx, 1, 1); }); }); } function px(v) { return `${v | 0}px`; } function hsl(h, s, l) { return `hsl(${h * 360 | 0},${s * 100 | 0}%,${l * 100 | 0}%)`; }
And finally gluing it all together
loadFile('resources/data/gpw/gpw_v4_basic_demographic_characteristics_rev10_a000_014mt_2010_cntm_1_deg.asc') .then(parseData) .then(drawData);
Gives us this result
So that seems to work.
Let's try it in 3D. Starting with the code from rendering on demand We'll make one box per data in the file.
First let's make a simple sphere with a texture of the world. Here's the texture
And the code to set it up.
{ const loader = new THREE.TextureLoader(); const texture = loader.load('resources/images/world.jpg', render); const geometry = new THREE.SphereGeometry(1, 64, 32); const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({map: texture}); scene.add(new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material)); }
Notice the call to render
when the texture has finished loading. We need this
because we're rendering on demand instead of
continuously so we need to render once when the texture is loaded.
Then we need to change the code that drew a dot per data point above to instead make a box per data point.
function addBoxes(file) { const {min, max, data} = file; const range = max - min; // make one box geometry const boxWidth = 1; const boxHeight = 1; const boxDepth = 1; const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(boxWidth, boxHeight, boxDepth); // make it so it scales away from the positive Z axis geometry.applyMatrix4(new THREE.Matrix4().makeTranslation(0, 0, 0.5)); // these helpers will make it easy to position the boxes // We can rotate the lon helper on its Y axis to the longitude const lonHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); scene.add(lonHelper); // We rotate the latHelper on its X axis to the latitude const latHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); lonHelper.add(latHelper); // The position helper moves the object to the edge of the sphere const positionHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); positionHelper.position.z = 1; latHelper.add(positionHelper); const lonFudge = Math.PI * .5; const latFudge = Math.PI * -0.135; data.forEach((row, latNdx) => { row.forEach((value, lonNdx) => { if (value === undefined) { return; } const amount = (value - min) / range; const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial(); const hue = THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.7, 0.3, amount); const saturation = 1; const lightness = THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.1, 1.0, amount); material.color.setHSL(hue, saturation, lightness); const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material); scene.add(mesh); // adjust the helpers to point to the latitude and longitude lonHelper.rotation.y = THREE.MathUtils.degToRad(lonNdx + file.xllcorner) + lonFudge; latHelper.rotation.x = THREE.MathUtils.degToRad(latNdx + file.yllcorner) + latFudge; // use the world matrix of the position helper to // position this mesh. positionHelper.updateWorldMatrix(true, false); mesh.applyMatrix4(positionHelper.matrixWorld); mesh.scale.set(0.005, 0.005, THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.01, 0.5, amount)); }); }); }
The code is mostly straight forward from our test drawing code.
We make one box and adjust its center so it scales away from positive Z. If we didn't do this it would scale from the center but we want them to grow away from the origin.
Of course we could also solve that by parenting the box to more THREE.Object3D
objects like we covered in scene graphs but the more
nodes we add to a scene graph the slower it gets.
We also setup this small hierarchy of nodes of lonHelper
, latHelper
, and
positionHelper
. We use these objects to compute a position around the sphere
were to place the box.
Above the green bar represents lonHelper
and
is used to rotate toward longitude on the equator. The
blue bar represents latHelper
which is used to rotate to a
latitude above or below the equator. The red
sphere represents the offset that that positionHelper
provides.
We could do all of the math manually to figure out positions on the globe but doing it this way leaves most of the math to the library itself so we don't need to deal with.
For each data point we create a MeshBasicMaterial
and a Mesh
and then we ask
for the world matrix of the positionHelper
and apply that to the new Mesh
.
Finally we scale the mesh at its new position.
Like above, we could also have created a latHelper
, lonHelper
, and
positionHelper
for every new box but that would be even slower.
There are up to 360x145 boxes we're going to create. That's up to 52000 boxes. Because some data points are marked as "NO_DATA" the actual number of boxes we're going to create is around 19000. If we added 3 extra helper objects per box that would be nearly 80000 scene graph nodes that THREE.js would have to compute positions for. By instead using one set of helpers to just position the meshes we save around 60000 operations.
A note about lonFudge
and latFudge
. lonFudge
is π/2 which is a quarter of a turn.
That makes sense. It just means the texture or texture coordinates start at a
different offset around the globe. latFudge
on the other hand I have no idea
why it needs to be π * -0.135, that's just an amount that made the boxes line up
with the texture.
The last thing we need to do is call our loader
loadFile('resources/data/gpw/gpw_v4_basic_demographic_characteristics_rev10_a000_014mt_2010_cntm_1_deg.asc') .then(parseData) - .then(drawData) + .then(addBoxes) + .then(render);
Once the data has finished loading and parsing then we need to render at least once since we're rendering on demand.
If you try to rotate the example above by dragging on the sample you'll likely notice it's slow.
We can check the framerate by opening the devtools and turning on the browser's frame rate meter.
On my machine I see a framerate under 20fps.
That doesn't feel very good to me and I suspect many people have slower machines which would make it even worse. We'd better look into optimizing.
For this particular problem we can merge all the boxes into a single geometry. We're currently drawing around 19000 boxes. By merging them into a single geometry we'd remove 18999 operations.
Here's the new code to merge the boxes into a single geometry.
function addBoxes(file) { const {min, max, data} = file; const range = max - min; - // make one box geometry - const boxWidth = 1; - const boxHeight = 1; - const boxDepth = 1; - const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(boxWidth, boxHeight, boxDepth); - // make it so it scales away from the positive Z axis - geometry.applyMatrix4(new THREE.Matrix4().makeTranslation(0, 0, 0.5)); // these helpers will make it easy to position the boxes // We can rotate the lon helper on its Y axis to the longitude const lonHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); scene.add(lonHelper); // We rotate the latHelper on its X axis to the latitude const latHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); lonHelper.add(latHelper); // The position helper moves the object to the edge of the sphere const positionHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); positionHelper.position.z = 1; latHelper.add(positionHelper); + // Used to move the center of the box so it scales from the position Z axis + const originHelper = new THREE.Object3D(); + originHelper.position.z = 0.5; + positionHelper.add(originHelper); const lonFudge = Math.PI * .5; const latFudge = Math.PI * -0.135; + const geometries = []; data.forEach((row, latNdx) => { row.forEach((value, lonNdx) => { if (value === undefined) { return; } const amount = (value - min) / range; - const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial(); - const hue = THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.7, 0.3, amount); - const saturation = 1; - const lightness = THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.1, 1.0, amount); - material.color.setHSL(hue, saturation, lightness); - const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, material); - scene.add(mesh); + const boxWidth = 1; + const boxHeight = 1; + const boxDepth = 1; + const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(boxWidth, boxHeight, boxDepth); // adjust the helpers to point to the latitude and longitude lonHelper.rotation.y = THREE.MathUtils.degToRad(lonNdx + file.xllcorner) + lonFudge; latHelper.rotation.x = THREE.MathUtils.degToRad(latNdx + file.yllcorner) + latFudge; - // use the world matrix of the position helper to - // position this mesh. - positionHelper.updateWorldMatrix(true, false); - mesh.applyMatrix4(positionHelper.matrixWorld); - - mesh.scale.set(0.005, 0.005, THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.01, 0.5, amount)); + // use the world matrix of the origin helper to + // position this geometry + positionHelper.scale.set(0.005, 0.005, THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.01, 0.5, amount)); + originHelper.updateWorldMatrix(true, false); + geometry.applyMatrix4(originHelper.matrixWorld); + + geometries.push(geometry); }); }); + const mergedGeometry = BufferGeometryUtils.mergeGeometries( + geometries, false); + const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({color:'red'}); + const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(mergedGeometry, material); + scene.add(mesh); }
Above we removed the code that was changing the box geometry's center point and
are instead doing it by adding an originHelper
. Before we were using the same
geometry 19000 times. This time we are creating new geometry for every single
box and since we are going to use applyMatrix
to move the vertices of each box
geometry we might as well do it once instead of twice.
At the end we pass an array of all the geometries to
BufferGeometryUtils.mergeGeometries
which will combined all of
them into a single mesh.
We also need to include the BufferGeometryUtils
import * as BufferGeometryUtils from 'three/addons/utils/BufferGeometryUtils.js';
And now, at least on my machine, I get 60 frames per second
So that worked but because it's one mesh we only get one material which means we only get one color where as before we had a different color on each box. We can fix that by using vertex colors.
Vertex colors add a color per vertex. By setting all the colors of each vertex of each box to specific colors every box will have a different color.
+const color = new THREE.Color(); const lonFudge = Math.PI * .5; const latFudge = Math.PI * -0.135; const geometries = []; data.forEach((row, latNdx) => { row.forEach((value, lonNdx) => { if (value === undefined) { return; } const amount = (value - min) / range; const boxWidth = 1; const boxHeight = 1; const boxDepth = 1; const geometry = new THREE.BoxGeometry(boxWidth, boxHeight, boxDepth); // adjust the helpers to point to the latitude and longitude lonHelper.rotation.y = THREE.MathUtils.degToRad(lonNdx + file.xllcorner) + lonFudge; latHelper.rotation.x = THREE.MathUtils.degToRad(latNdx + file.yllcorner) + latFudge; // use the world matrix of the origin helper to // position this geometry positionHelper.scale.set(0.005, 0.005, THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.01, 0.5, amount)); originHelper.updateWorldMatrix(true, false); geometry.applyMatrix4(originHelper.matrixWorld); + // compute a color + const hue = THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.7, 0.3, amount); + const saturation = 1; + const lightness = THREE.MathUtils.lerp(0.4, 1.0, amount); + color.setHSL(hue, saturation, lightness); + // get the colors as an array of values from 0 to 255 + const rgb = color.toArray().map(v => v * 255); + + // make an array to store colors for each vertex + const numVerts = geometry.getAttribute('position').count; + const itemSize = 3; // r, g, b + const colors = new Uint8Array(itemSize * numVerts); + + // copy the color into the colors array for each vertex + colors.forEach((v, ndx) => { + colors[ndx] = rgb[ndx % 3]; + }); + + const normalized = true; + const colorAttrib = new THREE.BufferAttribute(colors, itemSize, normalized); + geometry.setAttribute('color', colorAttrib); geometries.push(geometry); }); });
The code above looks up the number or vertices needed by getting the position
attribute from the geometry. We then create a Uint8Array
to put the colors in.
It then adds that as an attribute by calling geometry.setAttribute
.
Lastly we need to tell three.js to use the vertex colors.
const mergedGeometry = BufferGeometryUtils.mergeGeometries( geometries, false); -const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({color:'red'}); +const material = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({ + vertexColors: true, +}); const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(mergedGeometry, material); scene.add(mesh);
And with that we get our colors back
Merging geometry is a common optimization technique. For example rather than 100 trees you might merge the trees into 1 geometry, a pile of individual rocks into a single geometry of rocks, a picket fence from individual pickets into one fence mesh. Another example in Minecraft it doesn't likely draw each cube individually but rather creates groups of merged cubes and also selectively removing faces that are never visible.
The problem with making everything one mesh though is it's no longer easy to move any part that was previously separate. Depending on our use case though there are creative solutions. We'll explore one in another article.