Package reference¶
Includes all documentation that is relevant to the usage of the library. Documentation for development is not included.
fwks.__main__¶
Main subprogram of the FWKS module. This function allows to call the fwks submodule and perform operations including installation of library, testing the dependencies, running models and deploying them as applications.
fwks.dataset¶
Contains implementation of datasets and methods to prepare data for later processing. Includes classes meant to find the list of files and load them, forming all required data sources.
Dataset contains data sources. Data source may be a set of recordings, metadata and so on, indexed by integers
(as a list or ndarray). Dataset uses a set of adapters to extend the capabilities by loading from diverse paths,
preparing other versions of data beyond simple set of recordings etc. fwks.dataset.adapters.LoaderAdapter
loads instances from
specific path and supplies basic loader functions and fwks.dataset.adapters.MapperAdapter
extends the dataset by creating derivatives of the data.
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class
fwks.dataset.
PlainAdapter
(root, accepted_sr=16000, throw_on_mismatch=True, n_channels=1)[source]¶ Default LoaderAdapter. Loads data from a single directory. Every WAVE is loaded as a source recording and matches text files are treated as transcriptions.
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class
fwks.dataset.
ClarinAdapter
(root, accepted_sr=16000, throw_on_mismatch=True, n_channels=1)[source]¶ Loads data from Polish Clarin dataset.
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class
fwks.dataset.
MixturesMapper
(n_mixtures)[source]¶ Takes clean recordings and produces mixtures of random selection of recordings for separation.
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class
fwks.dataset.
Dataset
(noise_gen=None, sr=16000)[source]¶ Dataset represents a collection of recordings, transcripts and other data constituting corpora for building and evaluation of the models. This class should aggregate all data that is required for those tasks. Adapters specify the way in which to load and prepare the recordings.
Dataset most often does not store the clean recordings, instead relying on storing the transformed representation. The transform is fetched from the model specification. In this way, the datasets are never complete without the accompanying model, which specifies what is the interpretation of the data.
Dataset can be seen as key-value mapping between forms of data and the corpora proper. Each value is a collection of items, each item is a piece of data corresponding to other items from each key at the same index. E.g. dataset contains a collection of 320 clean recordings in STFT form in form of a numpy array with shape (320, _, _) and a list of transcriptions, length of list being 320 and each item in the list is another list of strings, each string being a single word.
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class
fwks.dataset.
SyntheticDataset
(fn='fundamental_freqs', how_much=320, how_long=160000, what_is_generated=None, sr=16000)[source]¶ Synthetic dataset represents a collection of data that is generated without underlying files. The data serves best for testing the models or training a specific kind of transform. This cannot generate realistic speech in general.
fwks.installer¶
FWKS installer module.
Makes sure everything is distributed and compiled for FWKS to use. FWKS has some binary dependencies and in order to fully use it, the dependencies should be installed in proper way. Installer is a tool that may help in the process (it is however not automatic).
fwks.metricization¶
This modules contains metric and objects that perform the measurements of the models
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class
fwks.metricization.
PER
(remove_symbols=None, mdl_symbol_map=None, dset_all_phones=None)[source]¶ Phoneme error rate
fwks.model¶
Library for all types of models. Model is a single, serializable instance of a pipeline that fulfills particular processing job, either from preprocessed or raw data, mostly the latter.
Models define the mode of training.
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class
fwks.model.
AcousticModel
(stages, name=None, symbol_map=None, callbacks=None, num_epochs=250, checkpoint_path=None)[source]¶ Class of acoustic models
Builds a model that either: a) maps the sound to another representatioon; b) predicts a sequence of events from the audio
fwks.stage¶
Main set of building blocks for the models. The classes are to be extracted and documented
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class
fwks.stage.
RandomSelectionAdapter
(valid_percentage=0.1, test_percentage=0.1)[source]¶ Divide recordings fully randomly. This is generally the default selection adapter
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class
fwks.stage.
SpeakerSelectionAdapter
(valid_percentage=0.1, test_percentage=0.1)[source]¶ Inherits: SelectionAdapter
Then group according to speakers Then divide speakers in such a way as to fulfill the percentages
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class
fwks.stage.
CZT
(win_size=512, hop=128, z=1.0, w=None, real=False)[source]¶ Uses windowing… z=1.0, w=np.exp(1j * 6.28 / 512)
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class
fwks.stage.
Window
(size, hop, win_func=None)[source]¶ Divide recording into uniform overlapping windows Those can form a basis to different transforms Can apply windowing function
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class
fwks.stage.
EqualLoudnessWeighting
(kind)[source]¶ IEC 61672:2003 Based on: https://gist.github.com/endolith/148112
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class
fwks.stage.
PCENScaling
(sr=16000, hop=128, time_constant=0.4)[source]¶ Per Channel Energy Normalization http://www.justinsalamon.com/uploads/4/3/9/4/4394963/lostanlen_pcen_spl2018.pdf Also based on librosa for parameters
sps.lfilter with [b] [1, b-1] is used to smooth, it is generally an exponential decay filter
fwks.tasks¶
Module responsible for scheduling the computations. Each type of task may be configured and then run in sequence. Useful for creation of batches of jobs.
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fwks.tasks.
make_training_task
(noise=None, evaluation_metrics=None, evaluation_selection=None)[source]¶ Factory of basic model training tasks


A hash in Ruby is a collection of key-values pairs. Whereas a Ruby array requires an integer for indexing, a hash allows any object type. A perfect metaphor for how hashes function are to imagine a dictionary: you pass a key (e.g. the word 'Aardvark') and a value will be returned (e.g. 'a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.'). Hash-like data structures are often referred to as dictionaries in other languages.
An object in Javascript (JS) is a collection of properties, or name-value pairs. If a property's value is a function, then the property is referred to as a method.
Now that we've covered the numerous similarities between Ruby hashes and JS objects, how are they different? Perhaps the largest difference is data encapsulation of JS objects/Ruby Hashes. JS doesn't restrict access to properties, whereas Ruby has a degree of data encapsulation by not allowing simple access to internal instance variables.


Yes. The "listener object" is the object that has listener methods, possibly in addition to many other methods.
An event listener is an object that "listens" for events from a specific GUI component (which is also an object.) An event in Java is represented as an object. When the user generates an event, the Java system creates an event object. The event object is then sent to the listener that has been registered for the GUI component.
When an event is generated by the GUI component, a method in the listener object is invoked to respond to the event. In order to respond to events, your program must have done two things:
In the picture, the component is the "close button" of a frame. The event is a click on that button. An Event object is sent to the registered listener when the user clicks on the button. This is done by the Java system, which manages the GUI components. It is up to the listener to do something.


Netflix’s animated movie ‘Klaus’ appears to make a knock at ‘Frozen’ but the director says it’s purely coincidence
by Kirsten Acuna- Netflix’s animated movie “Klaus” is now available to stream.
- There’s a moment early on where a character calls a boy named Kristoff ugly for no apparent reason.
- Some may think it’s a knock at Disney or “Frozen.” One of the main characters in the franchise shares the same name and Disney has a sequel to the movie out next week.
- Director Sergio Pablos told Insider that’s not the case. The character names were in the film’s first draft before 2013’s “Frozen” ever came out.
- They considered changing the name of Olaf, but since the name is never said aloud in the movie and only appears in the credits, it was left in.
- Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories.
If you tune into watch Netflix’s first full-length original animated movie “Klaus” this weekend, you may hear a few familiar names that may make you pause.
Thirty-four minutes into the film postman Jesper (played by Jason Schwartzman) reads a letter from a child he offhandedly refers to as “little, ugly Kristoff.” Later in the film, there’s another character named Sven. Director Sergio Pablos also voices a character named Olaf. All three are names of main characters from “Frozen.”
This moment may take you out of the movie for a second if you’re a big “Frozen” fan and make you wonder if Netflix just made a knock at Disney.
Netflix
Despite the similarities, Pablos, who used to animate for Disney, tells Insider they’re not making a joke about “Frozen.”
“Actually no,” Pablos told Insider. “‘Frozen’ came out after we had written the first draft. Those characters were already named.”
Pablos first started working on the story about a spoiled postman befriending a toy man back in 2010. Disney’s “Frozen” came out three years later in 2013 and, at the time, became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.
Since then, the names Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf became household names by children and adults alike. It’s something Pablos considered while working on “Klaus” after the global rights for the film were acquired in 2017.
“I actually proposed several times to change the name of Olaf to something else after ‘Frozen’ came out. We could easily call him a different thing,” said Pablos.
“But the crew had grown accustomed to them so we ended up [leaving it]. No one ever pronounces his name on screen. I think it’s only credited, so we were like, ‘OK just leave it that way,'” he added.
Though “Klaus” takes place in the far reaches of the North in the fictional town of Smeerensburg, it was based off of the landscape of Norway, Sweden. The film embraces Scandinavian culture and even includes a young girl who speaks Sámi.
 So that’s pretty much what happened,” said Pablos of the three names appearing in “Klaus.” “But there is no attempt at a wink or anything like that.”
“Klaus” is currently streaming on Netflix.


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Performance Improvement:
To test few properties and methods during page onload event.
Expected:
Check for the "PASSED" below.


The vectorization transformation can be rather complicated, involving several
potential alternatives, especially for outer-loops but also possibly for
innermost loops. These alternatives may have significant performance impact,
both positive and negative. A cost model is therefore employed to identify the
best alternative, including the alternative of avoiding any transformation
altogether.
The Vectorization Plan is an explicit model for describing vectorization
candidates. It serves for both optimizing candidates including estimating their
cost reliably, and for performing their final translation into IR. This
facilitates dealing with multiple vectorization candidates.
VPlan-based vectorization involves three major steps, taking a “scenario-based
approach” to vectorization planning:
- Legal Step: check if a loop can be legally vectorized; encode constraints and
artifacts if so.
- Plan Step:
- Build initial VPlans following the constraints and decisions taken by
Legal Step 1, and compute their cost.
- Apply optimizations to the VPlans, possibly forking additional VPlans.
Prune sub-optimal VPlans having relatively high cost.
- Execute Step: materialize the best VPlan. Note that this is the only step
that modifies the IR.
In what follows, the term “input IR” refers to code that is fed into the
vectorizer whereas the term “output IR” refers to code that is generated by the
vectorizer. The output IR contains code that has been vectorized or “widened”
according to a loop Vectorization Factor (VF), and/or loop unroll-and-jammed
according to an Unroll Factor (UF).
The design of VPlan follows several high-level guidelines:
- Analysis-like: building and manipulating VPlans must not modify the input IR.
In particular, if the best option is not to vectorize at all, the
vectorization process terminates before reaching Step 3, and compilation
should proceed as if VPlans had not been built.
- Align Cost & Execute: each VPlan must support both estimating the cost and
generating the output IR code, such that the cost estimation evaluates the
to-be-generated code reliably.
- Support vectorizing additional constructs:
- Outer-loop vectorization. In particular, VPlan must be able to model the
control-flow of the output IR which may include multiple basic-blocks and
nested loops.
- SLP vectorization.
- Combinations of the above, including nested vectorization: vectorizing
both an inner loop and an outer-loop at the same time (each with its own
VF and UF), mixed vectorization: vectorizing a loop with SLP patterns
inside , (re)vectorizing input IR containing vector code.
- Function vectorization .
- Support multiple candidates efficiently. In particular, similar candidates
related to a range of possible VF’s and UF’s must be represented efficiently.
Potential versioning needs to be supported efficiently.
- Support vectorizing idioms, such as interleaved groups of strided loads or
stores. This is achieved by modeling a sequence of output instructions using
a “Recipe”, which is responsible for computing its cost and generating its
code.
- Encapsulate Single-Entry Single-Exit regions (SESE). During vectorization
such regions may need to be, for example, predicated and linearized, or
replicated VF*UF times to handle scalarized and predicated instructions.
Innerloops are also modelled as SESE regions.
- Support instruction-level analysis and transformation, as part of Planning
Step 2.b: During vectorization instructions may need to be traversed, moved,
replaced by other instructions or be created. For example, vector idiom
detection and formation involves searching for and optimizing instruction
patterns.
Transforming the Loop Vectorizer to use VPlan follows a staged approach. First,
VPlan is used to record the final vectorization decisions, and to execute them:
the Hierarchical CFG models the planned control-flow, and Recipes capture
decisions taken inside basic-blocks. Next, VPlan will be used also as the basis
for taking these decisions, effectively turning them into a series of
VPlan-to-VPlan algorithms. Finally, VPlan will support the planning process
itself including cost-based analyses for making these decisions, to fully
support compositional and iterative decision making.
Some decisions are local to an instruction in the loop, such as whether to widen
it into a vector instruction or replicate it, keeping the generated instructions
in place. Other decisions, however, involve moving instructions, replacing them
with other instructions, and/or introducing new instructions. For example, a
cast may sink past a later instruction and be widened to handle first-order
recurrence; an interleave group of strided gathers or scatters may effectively
move to one place where they are replaced with shuffles and a common wide vector
load or store; new instructions may be introduced to compute masks, shuffle the
elements of vectors, and pack scalar values into vectors or vice-versa.
In order for VPlan to support making instruction-level decisions and analyses,
it needs to model the relevant instructions along with their def/use relations.
This too follows a staged approach: first, the new instructions that compute
masks are modeled as VPInstructions, along with their induced def/use subgraph.
This effectively models masks in VPlan, facilitating VPlan-based predication.
Next, the logic embedded within each Recipe for generating its instructions at
VPlan execution time, will instead take part in the planning process by modeling
them as VPInstructions. Finally, only logic that applies to instructions as a
group will remain in Recipes, such as interleave groups and potentially other
idiom groups having synergistic cost.


Do not accept file names or paths from users.
Accepting file names or paths from users can result in attackers coercing your application into accessing arbitrary files and resources.
You should never accept a file name or path from a user under any circumstances.
If user control over file paths or file names is not absolutely necessary, remove the responsible code from the application. If you need to store a file from a user, store it in a database or other non-filesystem data store. Keep the name the user provided as a reference to the file, but do not use it as any form of canonical name.
If the functionality is critical to the proper working of the application, then validate the input for directory traversal and canonicalization attacks:
Check File Names. Ensure that file paths only refer to files within your application's virtual directory hierarchy if that is appropriate. When checking file names, obtain the full name of the file by using the System.IO.Path.GetFullPath method.
Check File Paths. If you use MapPath to map a supplied virtual path to a physical path on the server, use the overloaded Request.MapPath method that accepts a bool parameter so that you can prevent cross-application mapping:
try
{
string mappedPath = Request.MapPath( inputPath.Text,
Request.ApplicationPath, false);
}
catch (HttpException)
{
// Cross-application mapping attempted
}
The final false parameter prevents cross-application mapping. This means that a user cannot successfully supply a path that contains ".." to traverse outside of your application's virtual directory hierarchy. Any attempt to do this results in an exception of type HttpException.
Adapted from Microsoft patterns & practices guidance.


ANTONIA AND JANE A film review by Frank Maloney Copyright 1992 Frank Maloney
ANTONIA AND JANE is a film directed by Beeban Kidron, produced by George Faber, and written by Marcy Kahan. The cast includes Imelda Staunton and Saskia Reeves. It is unrated, but includes some profanity and nudity.
ANTONIA AND JANE is probably more like MY DINNER WITH ANDRE than just about any other film I've ever seen, yet even that comparison would have to be qualified at length. Critics have suggested some kinship with THELMA & LOUISE, but that also conceals as much as it reveals about the excellences of this fine film, which was originally shown on the BBC in 1990 and is currently enjoying its U.S. premiere in Seattle at the Metro Cinemas. Seattle first discovered this film at the International Festival of Films by Women Directors in 1990. It is a funny, meaningful film about women's friendships.
The two women are a pair 30-year-old Britishers, one, Antonia (Saskia Reeves), upper-crusty and beautiful, the other, Jane (Imelda Staunton), frumpish, bookish, Jewish, and no clothes sense whatsoever. She's also given to attracting some very odd boyfriends. Antonia and Jane go back a long way, share some interesting details, and make each other very insecure. They meet once a year for dinner, apparently to torture themselves.
The movie's positive qualities include a tart and sardonic sense of humor, a gift for slight exaggerations that strain but never quite rupture our credulity. The men in the two women's lives are pretty pathetic creatures--I mean I don't mind a movie that says men are dickheads, but these turkeys are bare human. Perhaps this is merely a facet of the film's very British sense of the absurd. Certainly, something is bound to be lost on purely American audiences--the class undertones, for example.
I have to say that I don't take ANTONIA AND JANE as seriously as I took ANDRE, which seemed to be real people talking about real, if fantastic and wonderful, things and ideas, or THELMA AND LOUISE, which was ultimately more challenging and upsetting in what it concludes about the choices facing women in our society. By contrast ANTONIA AND JANE appears to a bit on the fluffy side, rather like Henry Jaglom's essays on women. (I know, I praised EATING in this forum a few months and I still stand by that praise, but that film is flawed by its own class prejudices, too.)
The main fault of the movie is its brief 75-minute running time. It was made to fit into a TV schedule. Pity there wasn't some additional shot for the theatrical version to flesh out some of the transitions and changes. Or to extend the story.
We do learn to care for these people, who at first seem somewhat off-putting. Just as they become real people, not merely unexplored neuroses on the hoof, poof! the film's over. We'd like to see more of them, basically. What we do is a successful, but modest, relationship, coming-of-postponed-age comedy, a witty film that says interesting about friendship, things that can apply to any friendships regardless of gender. Certainly, my first thought on leaving the theater was a desire to call an old friend from whom I have been estranged for the last twelvemonth.
I am delighted to recommend ANTONIA AND JANE, but matinee prices will probably suffice.
-- Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
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Today we look at how firms price their products when they have market power (that is to say, how most firms in reality price their products).
Today we will be working on practice problems. Answers will be posted later on that page.
It is tempting to explain many differences in prices for apparently the same product as a matter of price discrimination — firms are charging different customers different prices for the same good. However, it might be upon closer inspection that the prices are different because they are not the same good, or more importantly, that different varieties of the good cost different amounts to produce. Perhaps one color is more expensive to produce?
Consider two products below. Product 1 has lower marginal costs to produce \((MC_1)\) than Product 2 \((MC_2)\). Naturally, with market power, the firm will charge different prices for them \(p_1\) and \(p_2\), after always setting \(MR=MC\) and raising the price up to the (identical) demand for each product.
The only way to tell the difference between price discrimination and price differences due to costs in competitive markets (without actually being able to observe the firm’s marginal cost) is to find something that changes the price elasticity of demand without changing the cost. Price discrimination implies that a firm with market power sets its price based on the elasticity of demand and the marginal cost of producing. Price in a competitive market depends only on marginal cost. (This is related to the distinction we discussed in Chapter 9 about how firms with market power react differently than competitive firms to rota- tions in demand.)
The only true test between price discrimination (the same good being sold at different prices) and mere price differences (due to cost differences) in competitive markets, without being able to directly observe a firm’s marginal costs (something that is hard to do) is to consider changes in price elasticity of demand that does not change costs. This is similar to the third case described in the appendix in class 4.1, where a competitive market and a firm with market power see a change in price elasticity of demand: the competitive market sees no change in price or quantity, but the firm with market power that is price discriminating will lower its price as demand becomes more elastic.
See chapter 10.6 on advanced pricing strategies such as block-pricing and two-part tariffs.


[gecode-users] Schedule Branching Recommendations
Filip Konvička
filip.konvicka at logis.cz
Tue Aug 28 15:10:04 CEST 2007
Hi Christian,
> as you might have guessed, Gecode has nothing built in that is not used. So
> far, we had no need to have first class references to propagators. That
> entails that communication with a propagator currently is not possible.
> That's another thing we knew would come up some day, but so far there was no
> need. If you see a little clearer of what you want, we will try to come up
> with something that does the job.
>
> Actually, I believe the only thing that's needed are first-class references
> to a propagator that you can store somewhere (this is not totally
> straightforward as these references must be updated during cloning and the
> current architecture for cloning takes advantage of the fact that there are
> no references to propagator but at a single well-defined location). But
> that's something we could easily squeeze in for 2.0.
>
I should have been more specific here - I was not asking whether it is
possible now, using the current library, but wheter it is possible at
all. I'm definitely not asking you to add anything to Gecode now,
because I don't know exactly what I will need, nor whether it would be
generally useful. I was just thinking of what could be possible in
version 8.0 :-)
As for first-class references to propagators - that's why I thought I'd
do it the other way round: the message queue could be a part of the
space, accessible both from branching during commits and in the
propagator as well. This does not require changes in the library, and
will be sufficien for my needs (should I find out that I really need
it). Of course, this is not good design, as the propagators/branchings
need to know the space's type (though some generalization is possible at
this level too).
> Another small point, branching descriptions are not copied: they act as a
> closure to a space and are hence maintained by the search engine
> independently of cloning.
>
I did not think of them being copied during cloning, but rather as a
part of some computation-path-structure reorganization (I don't know
whether a branching description is ever copied...I thought that perhaps
some std::vector or the like could be used internally by the library).
Thanks!
Filip
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Schulte, http://www.imit.kth.se/~schulte/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filip Konvicka [mailto:filip.konvicka at logis.cz]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:09 AM
> To: cschulte at kth.se
> Cc: users at gecode.org
> Subject: Re: [gecode-users] Schedule Branching Recommendations
>
>
>
>
>> Hi Filip,
>>
>> well, well. Let me just summarize some facts:
>>
>> - Your idea will work but, as you say yourself, is not going to win any
>> software design beauty contest. It might be good to tinker, but for
>> Gecode itself a design will be needed that does not require to change
>> a space (that's typically a user's model) when using a propagator
>> cum branching.
>>
>>
>
> :-D
>
> Yes, I realize that the approach is not generally applicable and is not
> "clean" at all, and I am looking forward for your general solution!
>
>
>> - The idea that this data is just a cache is very helpful. Indeed, we
>> use the very same idea to great advantage in many propagators that
>> ship with Gecode: do not copy the data just reconstruct it when needed,
>> and if the data is already there keep it up to date while doing
>> propagation. If the data becomes to messy, just flush the cache (data)
>> an reconstruct it.
>>
>>
>
> This I understand, and this is also one of the things that make Gecode
> so nice for me.
>
>
>> - Invoking the status method of a space will always compute a fixpoint,
>> regardless of recomputation or not (as does the attempt to clone a
>> space). This also entails that when the status method of a branching
>> is called, the home is at fixpoint (stable).
>>
>> - Invoking a commit method however will not compute a fixpoint: the very
>> idea of making recomputation efficient relies on this.
>>
>> - You might be able to speed up branching considerably if you take
>> advantage
>> of branching descriptions. They must store information to actually
>> perform
>> a commit operation (as the space is typically not at fixpoint, see
>> above).
>> You have the possibility to add additional information to the branching
>>
>
>
>> description that assists in maintaing your data.
>>
>>
>
> I think that in most cases, the branching descriptions can be really
> small and fast to copy. Currently I don't think I'd use it for
> maintaining the data.
>
> I was thinking about one more thing - whether it is possible to
> communicate with existing propagators to extend the constraints on the
> fly. In the case of scheduling constraints, this could be adding tasks
> to a resource for example. Again, I think this could be done in commit,
> I'm just not sure whether it's possible to somehow access the
> propagators. One way I thought of is having some dedicated "spare"
> variables (probably quite clean, but not much flexible and quite
> costly); another approach that I think could work is implementing a
> (probably one-way) "message queue" for the communication. I realize that
> in this case, a variable would have to be associated with the queue that
> would wake up the propagator when needed.
>
>
>> The idea to maintain the data as a cache is orthogonal to these facts.
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>>
> It certainly does. Thanks very much, Christian!
>
> Cheers,
> Filip
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Donald Trump jeered as president attends UFC 244 amid protests at Madison Square Garden
The president was cageside as Nate Diaz takes on Jorge Masvidal for the BMF at UFC 244
by Martin Domin, https://www.facebook.com/mirrorfightingDonald Trump was booed as he took to his seat at UFC 244 in New York on Saturday night.
The president is cageside at Madison Square Garden to watch Nate Diaz take on Jorge Masvidal at the famous combat arena.
He took his seat shortly before the main card started at 10pm local time and was met by a chorus of jeers.
Hours earlier, a group of protesters began lining the streets in order to ensure they were there to greet the president.
It was reported earlier this week that Trump, who has promoted boxing and mixed martial arts fights in the past, would attend the fight.
And he entered the area with a huge entourage and security detail and took his seat right in front of the action.
On his way to his seat, Trump was greeted by former boxing world champion Roberto Duran who will be in Masvidal's corner later tonight.
Diaz and Masvidal clash for the Baddest Motherf***** belt which will be presented to the winner by WWE legend and movie star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
And journalists reported long delays as they attempted to check in with reporters asked to leave their equipment to be checked by sniffer dogs before returning.
And protesters made their presence felt with a long banner which read "#outnow!".
Trump is a long-time friend of UFC president Dana White who spoke during the Republican's 2016 election campaign.
White told the Washington Times last year: "That guy gave us our start when nobody would talk to us. No arenas wanted us.
"Donald Trump has never done anything remotely negative to me ever — except try to compete with me. I’m not going to say anything negative about him and I never have.”


IPC
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)Updated: 2007-06-28
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
ipc - System V IPC system callsSYNOPSIS
int ipc(unsigned int call, int first, int second, int third, void *ptr, long fifth);
DESCRIPTION
ipc() is a common kernel entry point for the System V IPC calls for messages, semaphores, and shared memory. call determines which IPC function to invoke; the other arguments are passed through to the appropriate call.User programs should call the appropriate functions by their usual names. Only standard library implementors and kernel hackers need to know about ipc().
CONFORMING TO
ipc() is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.NOTES
On a few architectures, for example ia64, there is no ipc() system call; instead msgctl(2), semctl(2), shmctl(2), and so on really are implemented as separate system calls.SEE ALSO
msgctl(2), msgget(2), msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semctl(2), semget(2), semop(2), semtimedop(2), shmat(2), shmctl(2), shmdt(2), shmget(2)COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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public class AbstractJDBCHashMap<K,V,T extends JDBCHashedTable>
A base class for a JDBC table backed hash map that iterates in insertion order by using an ever increasing sequence number on entries. Iterators supports remove() but entries are not really mutable and do not support setValue() method from MutableMap.MutableEntry.
You should only use keys that have overridden Object.hashCode and that have a good hash code distribution. Beware changing the hashCode() implementation once objects have been persisted. A process to re-hash the entries persisted would be necessary if you do this.
Subclasses must provide their own mapping to and from keys/values and the database table columns, but there are inherited columns that all tables must provide to support iteration order and hashing.
The map operates in one of two modes.
loadOnInit=true where the entire table is loaded into memory in the constructor and all entries remain in memory, with only writes needing to perform database access.
loadOnInit=false where all entries with the same key hash code are loaded from the database on demand when accessed via any method other than via keys/values/entries properties, and thus the whole map is not loaded into memory. The number of entries retained in memory is controlled indirectly by an LRU algorithm (courtesy of LinkedHashMap) and a maximum number of hash "buckets", where one bucket represents all entries with the same hash code. There is a default value for maximum buckets.
All operations require a databaseTransaction to be started.
The keys/values/entries collections are really designed just for iterating and other uses might turn out to be costly in terms of performance. Beware when loadOnInit=true, the iterator first sorts the entries which could be costly too.
This class is not thread safe.
TODO: consider caching size once calculated for the first time. TODO: buckets just use a list and so are vulnerable to poor hash code implementations with collisions. TODO: if iterators are used extensively when loadOnInit=true, consider maintaining a collection of keys in iteration order to avoid sorting each time. TODO: revisit whether we need the loadOnInit==true functionality and remove if not.
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
static class |
AbstractJDBCHashMap.Companion |
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
static AbstractJDBCHashMap.Companion |
Companion |
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
AbstractJDBCHashMap(T table,
boolean loadOnInit,
int maxBuckets)
A base class for a JDBC table backed hash map that iterates in insertion order by using
an ever increasing sequence number on entries. Iterators supports remove() but entries are not really mutable and
do not support setValue() method from MutableMap.MutableEntry.
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| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
addKeyToInsert(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.statements.InsertStatement insert,
java.util.Map.Entry<? extends K,? extends V> entry,
java.util.List<kotlin.jvm.functions.Function0> finalizables)
Implementation should marshall the key to the insert statement.
|
void |
addValueToInsert(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.statements.InsertStatement insert,
java.util.Map.Entry<? extends K,? extends V> entry,
java.util.List<kotlin.jvm.functions.Function0> finalizables)
Implementation should marshall the value to the insert statement.
|
void |
clear() |
boolean |
containsKey(java.lang.Object key) |
boolean |
containsValue(java.lang.Object value) |
java.util.Set |
entrySet() |
V |
get(java.lang.Object key) |
java.util.Set<java.util.Map.Entry> |
getEntries() |
java.util.Set<K> |
getKeys() |
boolean |
getLoadOnInit() |
int |
getMaxBuckets() |
int |
getSize() |
T |
getTable() |
java.util.Collection<V> |
getValues() |
boolean |
isEmpty() |
K |
keyFromRow(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.ResultRow row)
Implementation should return the key object marshalled from the database table row.
|
java.util.Set |
keySet() |
V |
put(K key,
V value) |
V |
remove(java.lang.Object key) |
int |
size() |
V |
valueFromRow(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.ResultRow row)
Implementation should return the value object marshalled from the database table row.
|
java.util.Collection |
values() |
public static AbstractJDBCHashMap.Companion Companion
public AbstractJDBCHashMap(T table, boolean loadOnInit, int maxBuckets)
A base class for a JDBC table backed hash map that iterates in insertion order by using an ever increasing sequence number on entries. Iterators supports remove() but entries are not really mutable and do not support setValue() method from MutableMap.MutableEntry.
You should only use keys that have overridden Object.hashCode and that have a good hash code distribution. Beware changing the hashCode() implementation once objects have been persisted. A process to re-hash the entries persisted would be necessary if you do this.
Subclasses must provide their own mapping to and from keys/values and the database table columns, but there are inherited columns that all tables must provide to support iteration order and hashing.
The map operates in one of two modes.
loadOnInit=true where the entire table is loaded into memory in the constructor and all entries remain in memory, with only writes needing to perform database access.
loadOnInit=false where all entries with the same key hash code are loaded from the database on demand when accessed via any method other than via keys/values/entries properties, and thus the whole map is not loaded into memory. The number of entries retained in memory is controlled indirectly by an LRU algorithm (courtesy of LinkedHashMap) and a maximum number of hash "buckets", where one bucket represents all entries with the same hash code. There is a default value for maximum buckets.
All operations require a databaseTransaction to be started.
The keys/values/entries collections are really designed just for iterating and other uses might turn out to be costly in terms of performance. Beware when loadOnInit=true, the iterator first sorts the entries which could be costly too.
This class is not thread safe.
TODO: consider caching size once calculated for the first time. TODO: buckets just use a list and so are vulnerable to poor hash code implementations with collisions. TODO: if iterators are used extensively when loadOnInit=true, consider maintaining a collection of keys in iteration order to avoid sorting each time. TODO: revisit whether we need the loadOnInit==true functionality and remove if not.
public boolean isEmpty()
public V remove(java.lang.Object key)
public boolean containsKey(java.lang.Object key)
public java.util.Set<K> getKeys()
public java.util.Set keySet()
public java.util.Collection<V> getValues()
public java.util.Collection values()
public java.util.Set<java.util.Map.Entry> getEntries()
public java.util.Set entrySet()
public V put(K key, V value)
public boolean containsValue(java.lang.Object value)
public int getSize()
public int size()
public void clear()
public V get(java.lang.Object key)
public K keyFromRow(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.ResultRow row)
Implementation should return the key object marshalled from the database table row.
See example implementations in class JDBCHashMap
.
class JDBCHashMap
public V valueFromRow(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.ResultRow row)
Implementation should return the value object marshalled from the database table row.
See example implementations in class JDBCHashMap
.
class JDBCHashMap
public void addKeyToInsert(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.statements.InsertStatement insert, java.util.Map.Entry<? extends K,? extends V> entry, java.util.List<kotlin.jvm.functions.Function0> finalizables)
Implementation should marshall the key to the insert statement.
If some cleanup is required after the insert statement is executed, such as closing a Blob, then add a closure to the finalizables to do so.
See example implementations in class JDBCHashMap
.
class JDBCHashMap
public void addValueToInsert(org.jetbrains.exposed.sql.statements.InsertStatement insert, java.util.Map.Entry<? extends K,? extends V> entry, java.util.List<kotlin.jvm.functions.Function0> finalizables)
Implementation should marshall the value to the insert statement.
If some cleanup is required after the insert statement is executed, such as closing a Blob, then add a closure to the finalizables to do so.
See example implementations in class JDBCHashMap
.
class JDBCHashMap
public T getTable()
public boolean getLoadOnInit()
public int getMaxBuckets()


Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on cosmetic uses.
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Do you buy cosmetic after watching advertisment
What motivates your purchasing process in terms of cosmetics?
Any comments or suggestions on how we can improve to get more feedback?


An Aspiring web developer with a background in economics and finance. An individual who is constantly looking to enhance his coding skills and utilise them to bring about change.
Tasked with dispensing pre-ordered purchases from T Galleria or website portals. Responsible for timely delivery of purchases to gate hold rooms. Replenishment of stock and back-of-house maintenance.
Tasked with assisting the sales team in issuing quotations, invoices and processing sales and purchase orders. Liaise with customers and vendors via e-mail and phone calls to ensure that the Aged Receivables and Aged Payables are within the company's threshold limit. Required to report the Sales team's performance on a weekly basis. Assigned to liaise with insurance companies and car dealerships to process the purchasing of motor insurance
A platform for gastronomy aficionados and critics to share reviews and ratings on eateries and restaurants. In doing so, information about culinary feats and new entrants to the food industry will be disseminated with greater convenience, allowing the community to be better informed.
Go somewhereAn app to assist new gym-goers with the transition to adopting a healthier lifestyle. With detailed workout programs & video exercise guides, users may customise their workouts based on their desired intensity, workout goals and fitness levels.
Go somewhereApart from being a web developer, I enjoy most of my time working out.


A functioning compass using an Arduino to recreate the compass from the films Pirates of the Caribbean.
A python script that pulls live ADS-B data and alerts staff with an ETA of arriving product.
A large pergola designed for my parents' patio.
An overview of material covered in the Embedded Computer Systems course in Fall 2019.
Updates on a 3D printed roller coaster project.
A concept for a pirate themed frozen yogurt stand.


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One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
by Clayton Hensley on September 30, 2015
Differences, indifferences, conspiracies, transparencies, oh run softly sweet Thames but it erupts so violently churning mad into, what is the origin of a river? The fish that squirms in your hands and slips with a plop— er versinkt im Ozean— your sticky hand. You lost it! That was a good one too, would have made a great trophy! Atrophy. I can't go to the store like this. Your red right hand. You haven't eaten. Look into these empty soup cans and watch yourself, yes, there! in the bottom. You have the uncountenance of a tomato. Red right hand.
Hush!  (Don't try to open, just listen. These boulders that were my eyes).
Other voices. From behind the door. Other rooms.
-It's just unacceptable. I mean at first it was understandable, but now it's just unacceptable.
-What else can we do for him? You'd think he'd at least make an effort. You know when Dave came over the other day he wouldn't even shake his hand?
-You mean shaking someone's hand would be making an effort?
-What?
-Shaking someone's hand. You consider that him 'making an effort.'
-Well no I guess not. I just mean he won't even
-Did you shake Dave's hand?
-I patted him on the back.
-But you didn't shake his hand?
-What are you defending the little prick now?
-No. God no.  It's like all he wants to do is lay in bed all day.

-Part?
-I'm sorry at this point it's just unacceptable. He needs to try to get a job, something, you know. Something to get him out of this rut. (Then he can go back to giving people handshakes).  I'm saying maybe then he'll grow up). (Wow I didn't know handshakes were a sign of being a mature grown up).   (The issue is that he's being immature). (The issue is we (I) are (am) not going to support him).
-We've got to give him an ultimatum. It's getting ridiculous.
It's getting louder! The tick tick tick. Little legs scampering across the floor. Du! ungeheurer Ungeziefer. Please don't crawl into my bed. Will it? Will it crawl into my bed? It's hard to say. Please don't let it. Okay, okay, easy there, child. But you must do something— there be produced an old hag— plight me thy trouthe heere in myn hand, the nexte thyng that I requere thee, thou shalt it do, if it lye in thy myght. To learn what it is women want? Bah! What is the origin of that river? Remember it is still wet where it churns and your hand slick. Don’t try to impress me with your reading for the read man makes me wary as the unthinking and the thinking. His life is a crisis and every moment a reference. You. You’ve fooled me, child. That cut I made does not bleed but hisses as severed wires and smells of smoldering plastic. Tell me, can you love? Love? Whom? There's a spot in my head like the tip of an iron who's stirred great fires— Sir Tyro! He who prods at red coals which hiss with its contact and from within swell with heat, and as he pulls the iron from their depths— they erupt in flame! Oh! The skin does it blister and bubble in heat. Gone is Sir Tyro and you're doused in the waters of your river. There's a stray dog along its banks.
-Have you ever followed him?
-No. I don't think I want to know how he lives.
He goes into the alley-way behind a bar down-town. A man grossly pushes from the kitchen door whose fluorescent light scatters frantically about him and the steam from the street. He sets smoke to the yellow stained cigarette and there meets a man in a black suit emerging from the shadows (outer shadows hugging at the periphery of the way and building facades). He can see his figure, but only that, he wears a hat, through the smoke and through the wet night air.
-Your move, Mr. Brown. How long will we play these games?
-As long as it takes.
-What are you looking for?
-Answers.
-It depends on which way you want to hear it. Which way you want it told. Perhaps you’d like to know that you’re a product of lust and you were about to make the same mistake. That what you desire and call control is an illusion you find in chaos. You pretend you play a role but are terrified when you think and realize how much you’ve done without thinking. You gild myriad fractals haphazardly purged from the inevitable− your un-doing and call it beauty.
-And what about you? You killed her.
-I killed her?
-Yes. You killed her.
-Who am I? Think about it, Mr. Brown.
the dog stirs in the darkness. What was that?
-The truth is you depend on me. And I’ll have you grieve times over before it is through.
He holds up a small lace garment on the end of a pencil, the light intertwines in all its perforations.
-This was hers. Was it not?
It drops to the ground, flitting as it falls, each silken curve catching the breeze in its sensuous ballet. It lands neither gracefully nor abruptly but in its soggy pile joins the streetal amalgamate of indulgent filth.
Differences, indifferences, you'll know the same mort noire.
His fur is mangy and matted and he sniffs over the wet asphalt for something.
-Probably he's hungry.
-Probably...
His nose brushes past the muddy puddle that holds once lingerie.
-What are those little spots on the ground?
-Bottle caps. Bottleless caps.
Bottleless caps. Auch Essen oder nur Trinken? Nur Trinken für mich. Jawohl, was wollen Sie? Was habt ihr vom Fass? Nur Pils heute. Also, bitte schön.
Du musst gehen mein Freund. Du weißt dass, ja? Du musst hier weg gehen.
Warum? Ich bin noch komfortabel.
Es ist schlecht. Es ist richtig nicht gut. Du weißt dass, ja?
Ja. Ich glaube ich verstehe.
Wenn du stehst, wirst du nicht mehr bleiben, wirst du nicht mehr sein. Wann deine Füße nicht mehr laufen kann, wirst du fallen. Und du bist müde.
Ja. So trank ich und ging.
 Wake up! Träum nicht mehr. The voices of sleep, in your head, other voices, there are others. Behind the door. Other room. Leaving already? Please don't go.
I deceive only because I just don't know how to say.
-Why has he been like this?
-I don't know but I don't think I can handle it much more. He's not himself.
Not yourself not yourself not myself.
-Do you think you could find him a job? Pull him out of that rut? It'd do him good, I'm sure of that.

-Can I tell you something? I saw a dog the other day. A stray dog. He walked past me watching with mangy eyes those dreadful eyes watching as he past. I reached out to him. There was something in my hand. I wanted to give him something to eat. red right hand. He came up to me slowly never averting those dreadful eyes and it bothered me I couldn't hold eye-contact no matter how I tried— those boulders that were my eyes— but he just kept watching, just keeps watching. He took it from my hand and tucked his tail between his legs and I tried to follow him but I couldn't go as far as him I just couldn't go that far
-just tell him the truth?
(What was her name? Susan? Would you Wake for Susan? Would you weep for Susan? For all the Susans?)
-The truth?
are you happy?
-That just because she's (hushed) dead doesn't mean he should be?
All the Susans. I wish I could have handled her death as well as she did mine.
Ich sagte: Kam nicht zürück. Mein Freund. Bitte.
It's cold in my hand. ?. Shouldn't it be? Red right hand.
Mein Freund, bitte.
HHHHHHWWWHHHOO.
But it won't be for long.
I don't think I want to follow him any farther I just can't go that far though maybe she could have and maybe if she were here I'd go with her, maybe if he didn't hurt so badly I'd follow him. How much longer will we play this little game, Mr. Brown? Why does he go the way he does? Is it because someone has to? Is it because no one else does? He disappears into a dark that only darkens the more. But he knows where he is going. Through the mange through those eyes through the dark he knows where he's going. He knows there is a destination. There is a destination to which he goes. And maybe someone has to. But I stop in the half-light, weighted heavily, red right hand. How much longer, Mr. Brown?
Feuer frei.
A flash of light and I hear no sound.
There's that sick ether feeling in my stomach. Too much sleep. The light through the blinds through the window across the room fills it with gray and my skin burns against the sheet and the bed. I pull myself with infantile limbs from the hold to the window and let the light touch me. There's a silver ribbon, like a streamer, caught in the low branches of the tree there across the way and it oscillates there in the wind, and there's that certain spot in its movement where it catches the light and fills my eyes, fills the room, with this blinding glint whose apparition engrains itself in a way that is projected on the walls, the ceiling, the back of my eyelids when I look away. I lifted the blinds and cracked the window and took this first breath and took it deeply and I stretched out these feeble limbs and was washed in a warmth that ran down into my feet. Arise now, arise, thou great Noontide. There may yet come a moment for which you can answer.
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What Our Empty Spaces Might Know
by Carmen E. Brady on August 1, 2015
treat kissing as a means of pure communication, finding the hollows and ridges of someone else’s soft palate. the way their tongue sits. the airspace their words blow through. find the shape of every semi-vowel, every off glide and lap them up and pull them inside your mouth.
we can figure this out together.
maybe.
can you tell me how it would feel to wake up next to someone who was already awake?
i’ve never called anyone baby other than a baby. i think that’s the best thing about me.
i want bugs to crawl all over me.
i want you to find my self breathing still in the woods and learn to leave me alone.
i cover things with contact paper to let light in and keep sight out.
at one time i dreamed up a life i wanted. it glimmered. it’s obtainable still. i catch glimpses sitting in second story cafes. airplanes. municipal busses and when i laugh at work.
the window seats are the only things worth it.
would you sit right by me and listen to my words? or would you cut me off, call me baby, keep me quiet at parties?
i’ve been taught to keep quiet. i feel ashamed of everything i say.
i’m only saying this because i’m sitting here yearning to know what your mouth cells taste like with my mouth cells.
i think our systems know a lot.
it’s good to take a gamble.
i stopped by to use my lips to say good morning.
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1 Poem
by Romy Durrant on August 1, 2015
should I have given you my body
when I was bleeding
should I continue to give you my body
over winter
when I’m tender
I almost love you
we know because my body
contains you
feelings
passed to me
like steel balls
meet bath pearls
and gardenia steam
I have acclimatised
to these white hours
abstracted
my affections
to the point of despair
which layer is mine
is it skin
or warm water,
foaming
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Glitches
by Fabio Sassi on August 1, 2015
Gitch on Blue, 2015
Gitch on Yellow, 2015
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4 Poems
by Simon Kindt on August 1, 2015
Little ghost
grief can be milkor it can be two boys standing at a window
looking out at baby clothes
left hanging on the washing line for weeks
can be a kind of fraying in the breeze
can be little blankets
muslin sheets and little boots
hanging in the air
like little ghosts
At the truck-stop on the edge of town
we pull in with the gauge a line above emptyout of fuel and out of money
but Hercules gets out and fills the tank anyway.
The pump churns like a bad heart,
pulling blood from somewhere underneath our feet
and through the screen I watch
a thousand moths all hurl themselves
against the god-lights, fall away in rapture
then hurl themselves again.
Inside, a TV plays a rerun of The Green Berets.
Old John Wayne appears on screen, rifle in hand,
as Herc walks in like an empire of blood,
nods to the counter man,
counter-man nods back, Herc goes outside and sits and waits
for someone. And so we wait, long enough for old John Wayne
to press his mouth against a landscape,
to resurrect a myth then watch it burn again.
to become a gun, then a father,
then a mean drunk, then a gun again.
Long enough for old John Wayne
to swallow it and call it history,
to bleed a nation white,
Outside, a trucker pulls in and eyeballs Hercwho looks clean through the world
and sees a howling dark beneath it.
Or perhaps he sees himself.
Either way he nods to the trucker
and they disappear around the corner.

The boy always calls for someone, finds no one calling back.
Old John Wayne always follows, takes the hand of the boy
says "you're what this is all about."
Herc comes back then, fist full of bills and hard blank.He doesn’t look at me, doesn’t look at anything,
just unfolds a bill and slides it to the counter-man.
His whole body says it’s time for us to go
as the air swells up like blood.
Outside the morning breaks like a bad heart
bleeding red across the sky
while old John Wayne and the boy -
they walk into horizon.
John Wayne and the boy -
they are walking into nothing.
At the coast, Hercules, least mortal of us all, tells the sea what it means to die.
Do you know the problemwith all language?
How to speak of the dead.
“And so he died,
went down into the ground
or up into the air etc.”
But dying’s not a disappearing trick.
There’s no trapdoor out the body.
Death is the world under erasure.
Proof that there was never anyone inside.
You want a metaphor for dying?
Take everything you ever wrote
and burn it.
Then gather up and burn the ash.
Then burn the space that’s left behind.
Interlude (2) / notes from an incomplete drama / 3rd person omniscient
ACT 1
Iphicles and the boy called C are imagined here as field and presence which is to say they are two shapes unfolding from a single plane which is to say something like the ‘immanence of one within its other’ which is to say that C already holds the whole of Iphicles inside his mouth. In any case, the scene is ext and the sky is blue, blue, blue.C: What’s it like living with all those bones?
Iphicles: (question mark)
C: Over the fence I mean. In the cemetery.
 I think they probably look like roots. Or water.
Iphicles: (smaller sound)
C: I wonder sometimes what my daddy would look like in the ground. Or maybe just his hands.
Iphicles: (the colour red) (a kind of static)
ACT 2
SCENE 1
In the afternoon, C shows Iphicles a trick at the river. C lays belly down on the jetty, holds his hands beneath the water and starts to sing a gentle silverness. Within a minute a catfish has risen up and set its belly in his hands. C looks up. Smiles like a waking sky. Like an answer to the one big question. Iphicles thinks this is the most amazing thing he’s ever seen.

SCENE 3
When C is gone from sight, the world comes back into a heaviness. Iphicles feels night falling over everything. He turns and climbs the stairs. In his room, he falls face down on his bed. Hugs nothing. The red noise in him swells. The house braces.
ACT 3
Iphicles: (unpunctuated howl)


Some ways to use PSPad without a PSN login
Some users have problems with the PSN login because either they don't want to perform a PSN login because of security concerns or because they receive some strange errors like "A connection to the server could not be established" from the official Sony login web-page. Please note: PSPad doesn't have at any time access to your PSN email address or password. PSPad is using the official PSN login web-page from Sony and PSPad only has access to your PSN Online-ID and your Account-ID after a successful login. These two data are stored encrypted on your device and nowhere else.
Why is the PSN login needed anyway? Well, since the PS4 firmware update 7.0 Sony decided to use the Account-ID for registering a Remote Play client with a PlayStation rather then using the Online-ID (PSN user name) like before. This Account-ID is a unique number which is an identifier for your PSN profile. Upon registering with your PlayStation this Account-ID must be sent to your console or it won't allow to register.
PSPad allows it to directly enter the Account-ID during the registration process by activating the "Advanced Settings", if you do so NO PSN login must be performed on PSPad. You can find below three methods of how you can query your Account-ID:
1. The most easiest way is to write me an email at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>All you need to tell me is your PSN Online-ID (your PSN user name/ nickname). However, as I really receive a lot of emails and handling all of them is sometimes not that easy you might want to try one of the two other options down below.
2. I have written a small program for Windows which allows it to query the Account-ID for a specific user which is available here. You must perform here a PSN login as well in order to query the Account-ID but the program is open-source and available here so you can verify easily by yourself that there isn't anything harmful happening. Some short instructions about the program can be found here.
3. You can go to a PC and open this web-page. Just follow all the instructions on that web-page. Please note, in the result of the trinket website your actual Account-ID is next to the user_id variable and should look something like this
'user_id': '4474834823397313449'
It consists ONLY of numbers. Thanks to CSystem77 for providing this script at trinket.io.
If you have successfully queried your Account-ID you can register with your PS5/ PS4 manually without performing a PSN login. In the Register view of PSPad just activate the "Advanced Settings" check "Register PS5 manually"/ "Register PS4 manually" and add the Account-ID in the textbox.


The $obj->getRequiredProperties()
Get a list of all the required properties that are needed for this class to properly run its rules.
TRUE $obj->propIsOutput(integer $propertyId)
Check if the property is used in the rules and so can be found from them. This is used in Api.getProperty() to avoid calling the methods in the class if the property that is being looked for cannot be found here.
void $obj->putProperties(string $userAgent, array $props2Vals, array $sought)
Merge the tree walk properties with the User-Agent string properties using the User-Agent rules


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There is a company looking for a new employee. What is the probability of choosing the best candidate among a set of applicants? Assume that the order of the candidates is entirely random and that once a person is rejected, he or she is rejected permanently. There is then a strategy that will choose the best candidate often -- or at least one of the top three candidates.
Briefly, the strategy is to discard the k first candidates and find the best candidate among the first k rejected candidates, x*. Then choose the first person after the kth candidate that is better than x*.
def strategy(candidate_values, k):
best_candidate_value_among_first_k = max(candidate_values[:k])
for candidate in candidate_values[k:]:
if candidate > best_candidate_value_among_first_k:
return candidate
#If best among first k candidates, we pick the last candidate.
else:
return candidate_values[-1]
A strategy one can use to obtain P(Z = 1), the probability of picking the best candidate, is to condition on another random variable Y, where Y denotes the event that the best candidate will be the ith interviewee. By using marginalization over Y, equation (1) is obtained.
Using the proposed strategy, P(Z = 1|Y = i) will be 0 for all i less than or equal to k The reason for this is that P(Z = 1|Y = i) is the probability that the strategy will pick the best candidate when the position of the candidate is known to be i. However, the strategy will never pick the right candidate as long as the best candidate is among the k candidates rejected. Therefore, the probability for P(Z = 1|Y = i) is 0 for all i less than i less than k + 1.
If we assume that the ith candidate is the best candidate, then the best candidate among the first i - 1 candidates must be among the first k candidates. Thus, P(Z = 1|Y = i) = k/(i - 1) is obtained.
By noting that the best candidate is uniformly distributed among the total of n candidates, one can see that P(Y = i) equals 1/n. Thus, equation (2) has been obtained. By using the linearity of sums, we obtain equation (3).
It can be shown that equation (3) will be less than or equal to the integral found in equation (4). Solving the integral yields equation (5).
With the result found in equation and (5), the desired result has been proven.
Compute mode here.
To find the mode of the strategy, we differentiate the result from equation (5) in equation (6), yielding the result in equation (11). Generally, the probability of choosing the best candidate given k is shown in LISTiNG 1.
N1 = 30
K1 = [k for k in range(1, N1)]
Y1 = [k / N1 * m.log(N1 / k) for k in K1]
This gives the plot in FIGURE 1
Insert plot for n = 30 and n = 40 here.
By studying the plot in FIGURE 1, it becomes clear that the probability of choosing the best candidate grows as k approaches 11 and 15, given n = 30 and n = 40, respeectively. After these, the probability of choosing the best candidate declines. This result corresponds nicely to what was found earlier, that the optimal value of k is n/e.
The interpretation is that the highest probability of choosing the best candidate is by interviewing 11 and 15 candidates, given that there are 30 and 40 candidates, respectively. Note that the analytically optimal value of k was 11.03 and 14.7. Rounding these off, we get 11 and 15. The probability of choosing the best candidate in these cases were approximately 36.8 %.
For this task, we run a thousand realizations. The value of n was fixed to 30, and k = 11; the optimal value found in b). The simulation used a random uniformly distributed variable in order to generate the various candidate values. We then found the number of times the best candidate was chosen, the number of times all candidates were interviewed, and the number of times one of the top three candidates were chosen.
The algorithm for choosing the best candidate is shown in LISTING 2. The algorithm was able to find the right candidate 367 times out of a thousand realizations.
best_candidate_value_given_strategy = strategy(candidate_values= candidate_values_array, k = k_optimal) best_candidate_value = max(candidate_values_array) if(best_candidate_value_given_strategy == best_candidate_value): correct_answers += 1The algorithm for checking if every candidate was interviewed, is shown in LISTING 3. This the same as choosing the last candidate. This may be the best candidate. The result is that the algorithm ended up interviewing all the candidates 422 times.
best_candidate_value_index = candidate_values_array.index(best_candidate_value_given_strategy) if (best_candidate_value_index == len(candidate_values_array) - 1): all_candidates_interviewed += 1The algorithm for checking if the chosen candidate is among the best three candidates, is shown in LISTING 4. The strategy was in the top three 569 times.
top_three_candidate_values = set() for j in range(3): max_value_index = candidate_values_array.index(max(candidate_values_array)) top_three_candidate_values.add(candidate_values_array.pop(max_value_index)) if (best_candidate_value_given_strategy in top_three_candidate_values): answer_in_top_three += 1We expected the strategy to choose the best candidate 368 times. However, it was off by 1, which seems unreasonably good. It would be interesting to know the variance to see if we were lucky or not.
In contrast to c), the value of n now considered as a uniformly distributed variable N taking the values contained in the interval [16,45]. The value of k, which could be any of the values in the interval [1,15], was found by running multiple realizations, based on the EQUATION X and the algorithm described in c). The result was that the optimal k was 10, based on FIGURE 3. The expected value of N is 30. Given the expected value of N was 30, we anticipated that the optimal k would be 11, as shown in b). The discrepancy might be a consequence of running too few realizations.
Using k = 10, we found the following result: 1. The strategy was able to find the right candidate 364.1 times of a thousand realizations. 2. The strategy was in the top three 374.6 times. 3. The strategy ended up interviewing all the candidates 590.4 times. These results were based on the average of each n. We found fewer correct candidates than in c), as expected, given that N is a random variable. However, the strategy ended up interviewing all candidates fewer times. It would be interesting to see if this was a coincident or not. The strategy also ended up choosing a candidate among the top three best candidates more often. This is perhaps expected due to the strategy choosing the best candidate less often.


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AN EXAMINATION OF A LECTURE DELIVERED BY THE REV. H. PERKINS On the religious
opinions and faith of the Latter-Day Saints, and some of his most prominent
errors and misstatements corrected.
ON Thursday, the seventh of May, A.D. 1840, I left Philadelphia, to visit my
friends in the state of New Jersey. No sooner had I reached Cream Ridge, Monmouth county,
than I was informed that the Rev. H. Perkins, a Presbyterian Priest, of
Allentown, N. J., had made an appointment to deliver a public lecture on
Sunday, May 10th, 1840, at four o’clock P.M., in Imlay’s Hill meeting
house, refuting the doctrine, or tenets believed by the Latter Day-Saints,
(Mormons.)
When the hour for meeting had come, several of my friends requested me to go
with them and hear what the Rev. gentleman had to say: accordingly I went. The
meeting was opened by singing and prayer. Mr. P. then arose and commenced his
Lecture in a very sanctimonious way, and with a long face, (Pharisee like,)
expressed his pretended desire that his auditors, together with himself, might
be guided by truth and charity.
Indeed, from the drawing of his words, and his apparently half crying tone of
voice, one who was not acquainted with the deception would have supposed he
was all piety from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet. During his
lecture, with a pretended sympathy for the poor deluded Mormons, as he called
them, and with this strange tone of voice, he described the awful delusions
palmed upon the public by the Mormons. Some few of his female auditors, who
sat near me, uttered some tremendous long sighs, as though they or some body
else were on the eve of making an everlasting leap into eternity, to be
tormented with the damned. In this theatrical way he endeavoured to work upon
the animal feelings of his auditors: this also being his most effectual way in
getting converts. And, of all the absurdity, contradiction, and nonsense, that
I [1] ever heard drop from the lips of a man who professes literary talents,
Mr. P’s. crowned the climax. And in consequence of his profession, and bold
stand, against the faith of the Latter- Day Saints, I took my pencil and wrote
all the heads of his discourse; also, several passages of Scriptures, that he
applied as testimony: and by request, I set myself at work to publish them for
the satisfaction of the people residing in the neighbourhood where this
lecture was delivered. I do not say that I shall give his words in full; but
the real sense and full extent of his assertions, I shall give. And if there
is not that connection, there might have been; the reader will pardon me, for
I wrote his assertions as he made them. But to proceed.
Text.—"..." Eze. xiii. 3.
Now Mr. P., you applied this text to the Mormons; and you also read the
chapter as far as the ninth verse; but you were very careful not to read the
tenth verse, which says those foolish prophets were to say peace, when there
was no peace. God knows, and so does every body, that ever heard the
Latter-Day Saints preach, that they do not cry peace and safety, when there is
no peace; but to the contrary, they warn men to repent of their sins, and embrace
the Gospel, and prepare for the second coming of Christ. It is known to every
one that was present at your Lecture, that you cried peace to the Methodists,
Baptists, and all others, whom you would call Orthodox Societies. Therefore
your text, very appropriately applies to yourself.
‘My brethren we have met to consider a new, and strange doctrine that has
come to our ears,—They (the Mormons,) have a new bible, if true, we ought to
know it.’
Now, Mr. P., I deny that we preach any new doctrine, because we preach
verbatim the same doctrine that Christ and the Apostles preached. As for its
being strange, it is what the Prophets have said concerning the coming forth
of the Book of Mormon, and the great work of the Lord in the last days. (See
Isa. xxviii. 21, and Isa. xxix. 14, Hoseah, viii. 12.)
We have no new bible, we are firm believers in the Old and New Testaments; we
do not call the Book of Mormon a bible: therefore, Mr. P., you are guilty of
falsehood.
"..."
Well done, Mr. P., who made you so wise as all this comes to? Those who
profess to be so wise as you do, [2] ought to study the Scriptures more
carefully, so as not to make such blunders. Let us see what the Apostles have
said on this subject.
"..."
Acts, ii. 17.
First, this Holy Spirit was poured out on the Apostles, on the day of
Pentecost; second, Peter quotes the prophecy of Joel to convince the Jews that
the apostles were not drunken; third, Peter adds his own words by way of
prediction, "..."
consequently he referred it to a generation then unborn, when all shall have
the spirit of prophecy; fourth, Peter promises this spirit on conditions of
repentance and baptism, to all that are afar off.
Every man who makes the Bible his study knows what the effects of that spirit
was, in the apostolic age of the world; and no man but a modern sectarian,
like Mr. P., would have ever dreamed that the effects of the spirit were to be
any different in the nineteenth century, from what they were in the days of
the apostles. Therefore, here is positive testimony that there is to be both
true prophets, and propheteses, in the last days. Peter and you are at war;
therefore, see ye to it. For my part I don’t want to have any controversy
with a man like Peter. Did you think, Mr. P. that your auditors were all
blind, and because you professed so much wisdom, you could palm any deception
upon them, no matter how absurd, without the least investigation? If you did,
you were mistaken, for there were present men of intelligence, who have
studied the Scriptures with care, and could instantaneously detect your
falsehoods.
Jeremiah, speaking of the last days said, all shall know the Lord, from the
least, unto the greatest. John says, in his Book of Revelations, that the
angel showed him things which were to come; and one thing he saw was that
those who had the mark of the beast, were to shed the blood of Saints and
Prophets.  It is also said in
John’s Revelations, that "..." Then, Mr. P., if you deny the spirit of prophecy,
you have neither the testimony of Jesus, nor the religion of heaven:
consequently, you are in the gall of bitterness, and the bonds of iniquity,
and woe be unto you if you repent not.
"..."
What if you did, is that any reason you should oppose [3] the Scriptures, and
make so many assertions that are diametrically opposed to them. Indeed, sir,
it is not Mormonism alone that is struggling beneath your infidel thrusts, but
it is the whole truth of Heaven.
"..."
If we do, God knows we have a good reason for it; for the prophets have
testified that such a Book should come forth in the last days, (see Isa. xxix.
11, and Eze. xxxvii. 17.) and God has raised up men of undoubted veracity, who
testify of these things to a certainty. If God sends forth another Book
containing his word, and testifies from the heavens to the truth of the same,
and causes it to be as well authenticated as any other revelations he has ever
given, it certainly would be equal in authority with the Bible; or what
authority has the Bible more than that?
"..."
We know they were according to your idea of the subject; for any thing like
the administration of angels, and immediate revelation from God, appears
strange to you, for you know nothing of any such things; but to the prophets
and apostles, it would not be strange.
"..."
This is another specimen of your intelligence. Please refer me to the
testimony you have to support such an assertion, either from sacred, or
profane history; then I will believe it. If your assertion be true, the
apostles had in their possession the tables of stone, written upon with the
finger of God; but perhaps you would say they had a transcript, or a
translation from them: then why did you say the original? We are told by
historians that the New Testament Scriptures were not compiled till two
hundred and fifty years after the birth of Christ. Again, the Gospel was
preached to both Jews and Gentiles, several years before the apostles wrote
their epistles in the Greek language: then how could they show the original,
when the original was not in existence. But perhaps you meant the Septuagint,
and if you did, you told a falsehood at any rate, for the Septuagint was
nothing but a translation from the Hebrew, the same as the Book of Mormon is a
translation from the Egyptian inscribed on the plates before mentioned. When
you prove your above assertion to be true, I will prove that the moon is made
of green cheese.
"..." [4]
Oh! What a wonderful thing this is! How many witnesses have you the testimony
of, who testify to the resurrection of Christ? I answer, only eight.* But no
doubt you will say above five
* We have the testimony of but eight of the Apostles.
hundred brethren saw him at once. Who wrote that account? Answer. Paul. Then
you have his testimony only for it. Did you ever see the apostles? You of
course will say no: then how do you know there ever were such men? You don’t
know it, except by immediate revelation.—You believe it from tradition, and
the testimony of the Fathers, so called, &c. Oh! then what a hard thing it is
that the Mormons believe from the testimony of twenty men from the wilderness,
as you say, who testify to a certainty: when you cannot produce one living
witness who can testify to an actual knowledge of the Bible. We know the Bible
to be true, because God hath revealed it in these last days, and we have
living witnesses who can testify to its truth. "..." (Jesus.)
"..."
One would think, sir, that you understood the art of gold beating and
engraving, when you say it requires a plate the eighth of an inch thick to
admit of engravings. This is too foolish to need any further comment. Every
school boy knows that the Egyptian language is a much shorter one than the
English; so much so, that one page of Egyptian Hieroglyphics, at the least
calculation, will make, when translated, five English pages.
Now with respect to the several bushels of plates that four men could not turn
over with a handspike;—Mr. P. where did you get that idea? Did you dream it
in the night while you were asleep; or did you come to the conclusion that you
would do evil that good may come, and tell as big a falsehood as you could?
Well done for Mr. P., you have told one at last that four men could not turn
over with a hand-spike. Surely you ought to have the premium.
"..." And he marvelled because of their
unbelief."..."thy faith hath made thee whole."..."Every prophet that God has ever sent confirmed his Revelations with
miracles."..."When we demand of them, (miracles,) what God has given in every other
instance, we are told that it is a wicked and adulterous generation that
seeketh a sign.
When the Devil sought a sign of Christ, saying, make bread out of a stone, he
rebuked him, saying, get thee behind me Satan. A set of wicked priests, namely
the Pharisees, came tempting him afterwards, and sought a sign: Jesus saith
unto them, "..."
Therefore, Mr. P., seeing that you have followed the example of your great
prototype, (the Devil,) and your predecessors, (the Pharisees,) in asking a
sign, I have no hesitation in believing that you are a child of the Devil. [6]
"..."
This is a matter of little or no consequence, for it will not effect our
soul’s salvation either the one way or the other. You quoted the 12th
chapter of Zech. 1st. verse, "..." to prove your position. It does not say that the spirit of man was
formed at the time of his birth, or thousands of years before;—your
application was wrong.
"..." therefore
the writers of the Bible were mistaken in the ages of the Patriarchs, and
instead of Methusalah’s being 969 years of age, he was several thousand."..."And Jesus
himself began to be about thirty years of age."..."God formed Man out of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Man (not the spirit,)
became a living soul."..."They assert that baptism is as essential for salvation, as faith."..."Except, a
man be born of water, and of the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
God."..."There was but two of the Children of Israel that went out of Egypt, that
ever entered the Land of Canaan.
Here you are at war with the Bible. (See Numbers xiv. 29, Deut. chap. i.) [7]
"..."
Here you make another blunder; for Christ was both circumcised and baptised.
Paul said, neither circumcision, or uncircumcision, availeth any thing. Again,
we should have to exclude the female part of the community, from the right of
being baptised: for none but the males were circumcised.
"..."you that have followed me in the work of
Regeneration, shall sit on thrones;"..."The Apostles and Saints never spoke in tongues, except the people to whom
they spoke understood the language they spoke, and I challenge any Mormon to
prove that they did."..."For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue,
speaketh not unto men but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in
the spirit he speaketh mysteries."..."For greater is he that prophesieth,
than he that speaketh with tongues except he interpret, that the church may
receive edifying."..."Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue,
pray that he may interpret."..."But if there be no interpreter let him keep
silence in the church. (See Cor. 14th and 12th chaps.) Pray Mr. P., tell me
what this gift of interpretation was, or is for? Now Mr. P., you ridiculed the
idea of the Spiritual Gifts being in the Church in the present age of the
world: which is precisely what Peter, and Paul, have said concerning false
teachers, that were to come in the last days. "..."
Peter. "..." 2 Tim. iv. 3, 4. [8]
"..."
You quoted Matt. xvi. 18, to prove a continued succession of the Church of
Christ in its purity. You also stated that the rock, that Christ said he would
build his Church upon, was the confession of Peter. Christ said no such thing.
Peter had just received a Revelation from God, and Christ said upon this*
rock, I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it: but as soon as the people ceased to get revelation they ceased to be built
upon the rock.  Again, as soon as the human
family rejects the plan that Christ hath devised for salvation, and cease to
build upon the rock, then the Church will cease to exist on earth: is the only
logical conclusion that we can come to.
You next referred to Daniel, ii. 44, to prove your position; and you said that
it was fulfilled at the first coming of Christ. Now I say boldly, that it was
not fulfilled then, for the kings, or kingdoms that Daniel describes, and
which were represented by the ten toes of the Image, that Nebuchadnezzar saw
in his dream, was not in existence at the first coming of Christ: neither did
they exist till several hundred years after it. Every man that knows any thing
of the predictions of the Prophets concerning the kingdom of God spoken of by
Daniel, knows that it will not be fully established on earth till the second
coming of Christ. Daniel said this "..." "..." "..."
(See Dan. vii. chapter.) John speaking of this kingdom said, "..." In connection with this, John describes the
awful consummation of the wicked, and the binding of Satan, and the
establishment of peace on earth, the commencement of millennium, &c., all as
being in the last days.
Now it is evident from Daniel that God, in the last days, [9] is to commit a
dispensation of the Gospel to the children of men, (which was represented by
the stone cut out of the mountain,) that is to gather in the honest in heart,
that they may be prepared for the coming of Christ; at which time the kingdom
will be fully and completely established. John is plain on this subject;
"..." Paul says: "..." I might multiply quotations on this subject; but I forbear. (Read the Saviour’s
words on this subject.)
* The word This, is a demonstrative adjective pronoun, which precisely points
out the subject to which it relates. Does it relate to Peter, to Christ, or to
a communication that flesh and blood cannot communicate? Answer; to that which
flesh and blood cannot communicate.
You also referred to Isa. ix. 7, which is a rod for your own back, "..." Now I ask,
what is, or what was his governments? Answer; "..." Now this organized order of
government, which consisted of Apostles and Prophets, &c., does not exist on
earth except the Latter-Day Saints have it: and the fact that the
Presbyterians have not got it, proves to a demonstration that you have no part
or lot in the matter: consequently you must be numbered with those that have
the mark of the Beast. Your argument then falls to the ground, and your false
assertions are disclosed by the light of truth.
Isaiah, xxiv. 5, says, "..." It is evident from the reading
of the whole chapter, that the above relates to the last days. John says;
"..." Daniel says the same in amount.
The fact that the church was anciently organized with Apostles and Prophets,
&c. (See Cor. xii. chap. Eph. iv. chap.) and then the fact that this order has
not been in existence, for several hundred years, proves to a certainty that
the Church of Christ, in its organized form, has not been on earth for the
last several hundred years. As respects your Bonaparte comparison, it is too
silly for me to bother with.
"..."
 Oh! common sense
whither art thou gone? Oh! propriety whither art thou fled? O Tempora!! O
Mores!! Here we need battalions of interjections, to express our wonder and
astonishment at your ignorance. If God hath sent the Presbyterians, he [10]
will damn every person who rejects their testimony, after hearing them: for he
never has but one Church on earth at a time; that is his own. Now, Mr. P., if
you conscientiously believe the Mormons are wrong, and that they do not
testify the truth; why are you so uneasy; as though you were among nettles? or
why do you act like the Ephesian of old? who said, "..." Surely, if we are wrong you need not
fear. Your conduct shows to the world that there is dubity on your own mind
with regard to the truth of your own religion. If you are on the rock you need
not fear.
"..."
The Mormons are not compelled to do any such thing; but to the contrary, we
disfellowship every person that denies the Bible. We are firm believers in the
Bible, and for this reason we cannot give you the right hand of fellowship.
"..."
True; but Paul said there was but one Spirit of God, and that the effects of
it were Revelations, Prophecyings, Tongues, Healings, &c. All spirits that do
not produce these effects are not of God; therefore seeing that you have
denied the workings of miracles, and the other gifts of the Spirit, before mentioned, and say they are not necessary
now-a-days, you have not the Spirit of God; but a false spirit, and this we
know from the many falsehoods you have told.
"..."
How do you know that? Prove it, and I will believe it. Isaiah tells us of
great miracles that are yet to be performed. You, and the prophets for it.
(See Isa. xi. chapter.)
"..."
Mr. P., how do you know that God will do that? has he ever told you he would
do so?
"..."  "..."
There is another falsehood. [11]
"..."
Now Mr. P., if you did but know, it was the falsehoods, that have been put in
circulation by priests like yourself, that have caused the blood of Saints and
Prophets to flow in this nineteenth century: and perhaps your falsehoods, will
serve to enliven the spirit of mobocracy, and help to encourage the rabble and
cause the blood of more Saints to be shed, and cry to God for vengeance
against you, and all others engaged in telling falsehoods.
[PRAYER.] "..."
Well done! Mr. P., to crown the climax of all your falsehoods, you told the
Lord one. It is bad enough to lie to man; let alone lying to God. I challenge
you, or any other man, to meet a Latter-Day Saint, face to face, and prove one
item of the doctrine we believe to be false, or in opposition to the Bible.
To conclude, I say that Mr. Perkins is guilty of falsehoods, of the most
glaring kind, and except he repent, and acknowledge his wickedness, that he
may undeceive those, (if there were any,) who were deceived by his lecture,
God will curse him, and the cloud of iniquity, and falsehoods, will rest upon
his own head: so that he will shudder at the thought of standing in the
presence of God, on the day when the secrets of all hearts shall be made
manifest; and those whom he has deceived will annoy him in eternity: therefore
woe be unto him if he repent not. John says, "..."
Mr. P., in order to get from under these things, may say that I have
misrepresented his assertions; (I have plenty of witnesses to corroborate me,)
and no wonder if he should; for when a man’s refuge of lies is disclosed, it
makes him feel very uneasy, and he will get from under the yoke if he can. Some may think strange of my sharpness, and say that I have
not charity; but I can testify that I have the same kind of charity that Jesus
had for the Pharisees. (See Matthew, xxiii. chapter.)
I am determined hereafter, that no man shall get up before a congregation in
my presence, and lie so unaccountably about the truth of God; but that he
shall hear of it again. And if he does not want to be exposed, let him keep
truth on his side; for God hath sent me to proclaim the truth, and disclose
the refuge of lies. Therefore, I pray God, that the sword of truth may be
unsheathed, until it sweeps the refuge of lies from the earth.


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correct suburban fashion, on the high banks of
the noblle Hudson; but Yorkville had mystery
and interest of a richer flavour, commanding the
passageway to the Sound, bordering on the tur-
bulent waters of Hell Gate, and overlooking the
islands in the East River.
The boundaries of Yorkville have been vari-
ously described. From all accounts of nucleus
of the village seems to have llain along the olld
Post Road between Eighty-third and Eighty-
ninth Streets; while its expansions included the
district east of Fifth Avenue to the river from
Fifty-ninth to One Hundredth Street. The
nomenclature of the features of the East River
shore is romantic and suggestive. Kip's Bay
indented the eastern bank of the river at about
the location of the present ferry slips at Thirty-
fourth Street; it was here that the British landed,
when they took possession of the city, on Sep-
tember 15, 1776, while the quick-witted wife of
the owner of Incleberg prepared a feast for their
detention. Until 1851 the old farmhouse of
Jacob Kip, who gave his name to the bay, stood
on Second Avenue near Thirty-fifth Street.
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a link to an image of the article as it appearned in the New York Times.


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