PLEDGE, THE (director: Sean Penn; screenwriters: Friedrich Dürrenmatt (book)/Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski; cinematographer: Chris Menges; editor: Jay Cassidy; cast: Jack Nicholson (Jerry Black), Benicio Del Toro (Toby Jay Wadenah), Aaron Eckhart (Stan Krolak), Helen Mirren (Doctor), Robin Wright Penn (Lori), Vanessa Redgrave (Annalise Hansen), Patricia Clarkson (Margaret Larsen), Mickey Rourke (Jim Olstand), Sam Shepard (Eric Pollack), Tom Noonan (Gary Jackson), Michael O'Keefe (Duane Larson), Harry Dean Stanton (Floyd Cage), Pauline Roberts (Chrissy), Michael O'Keefe (Policeman); Runtime: 124; Warner Brothers; 2001)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
"The Pledge," adapted from a novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmattis, is the third and the finest of the three films Sean Penn (The Crossing Guard/The Indian Runner) has directed. It's a grim tale filled with nostalgia, tenderness, and grief. Jack Nicholson gives a subdued and arguably his best performance ever as a sixtysomething, retired Reno, Nevada, homicide detective, Jerry Black, who aims to go fishing for his retirement but instead continues working a case started on his last day on the job, of a grisly child rape-murder mutilation, because he promised the victim's mother that he would get the killer. He swears this on a cross the child victim made. The only reason he goes out to the parents' turkey farm to tell them the tragic news, is because no one else in the sheriff's department feels comfortable enough to do it.
The film is set just outside Reno, in the beautiful mountain towns where poverty and harsh living conditions loom for those who care to see beyond what the tourist sees as idyllic conditions. The story revolves around a police investigation to get the killer of the little 7-year-old Ginny Larsen, but the investigation quickly closes when the snowmobiler youngster who found the body tips the police off about an agitated Indian (Benicio Del Toro) he spotted in the crime vicinity and the Indian when brought in for questioning confesses and then kills himself. The film then becomes more about the aging loner detective and about his psychological composure, as he has a strong hunch that the Indian wasn't the killer; but, his interest in the case is frowned upon by his fellow officers who moments ago were praising him, at his retirement reception, to the skies for his career work. His successor is Stan (Aaron Eckhart), who is a brash young man and of a totally different generation; he's aggressive in getting a confession, seducing the Indian to confess by sidling up to him and cajoling him to tell him what he wants to hear. Stan once thought Jerry was a great cop and looked up to him, but now along with the police chief, Eric (Shepard), thinks Jerry has lost it and is just a drunken clown who can't handle not working and being in on the macho action.
Jerry is so obsessed with this murder that comes on his last day on the job, that he decides to dedicate himself to catching the killer on his own without help from his former colleagues. He begins by locating a policeman in another district and finds that the little girl victims all fit the same profile. He takes a drawing that Ginny made of a giant giving her presents, that was hung in her school, as he believes this drawing clearly shows the killer as a tall white male, driving a station wagon, and is luring her by offering the girl presents. To reaffirm what the drawing might mean he visits a psychologist (Mirren), who can only speak of the drawing in hypothetical terms. But she spots that since his retirement, he's going bonkers because something is weighing heavily on his mind: as he hears voices, nervously chain-smokes, and is sweating a lot because he's in an agitated state. He also visits a father (Rourke) who's daughter has been missing for 3 years, and reconfirms his own grief over the victim and that all the victims wore a red dress.
On a whim he buys a mountain gas station from Floyd (Stanton), and uses that as his place to observe the comings and goings of any suspects. In town he befriends a battered waitress, Lori (Robin Wright Penn, the director's wife), who has an 8-year-old daughter named Chrissy. She also has a restraining order against her husband and when he batters her again, she moves in with the pensive and sensitive Jerry. The arrangement blossoms as Jerry enjoys taking care of them and acting fatherly to the little girl. But when Jerry's suspicions lead him to believe that a smiling part-time minister and snow-plow driver, Gary Jackson, is his man, he sets a trap for him using Chrissy as bait; this obsession with the case leads to Jerry's downfall.
Penn is to be commended for his nuanced shooting of the film and his confident way of telling the story through a retired detective who is becoming mentally unbalanced, and in the ambiguous ending that makes the viewer resolve the story as he thinks it should be. The last shot of Nicholson mumbling to himself in the already gone to seed filling station, is a striking reminder of how an artist can become so obsessed by his work that he might lose sight of his own life. Penn has directed a superb film, that is interestingly photographed and brings out fine performances from this sterling cast. Many cast members gave cameo performances that fit the grey mood of this very emotionally felt film. It's one of the better murder mystery stories made, one that is more a psychological study of the detective than of the killer. It is more pertinent as a character study than as a murder investigation.
REVIEWED ON 6/26/2001 GRADE: A
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Previous:
Flask intro: A very simple Flask app
Flask, part 2: Values in routes; using an API
Code for this chapter is here.
In the previous Flask chapters, we wrote some HTML directly into the Flask app script. This is very awkward. Naturally, Flask provides a better way to store the HTML (and CSS) you will want your Flask functions to generate.
Folder structure for a Flask app¶
A proper Flask app is going to use multiple files — some of which will be template files. The organization of these files has to follow rules so the app will work. Here is a diagram of the typical structure:
my-flask-app
├── static/
│ └── css/
│ └── main.css
├── templates/
│ ├── index.html
│ └── student.html
├── data.py
└── students.py
Everything the app needs is in one folder, here named my-flask-app.
That folder contains two folders, specifically named static and templates.
The static folder contains assets used by the templates, including CSS files, JavaScript files, and images. In the example, we have only one asset file, main.css. Note that it’s inside a css folder that’s inside the static folder.
The templates folder contains only templates. These have an
.html
extension. As we will see, they contain more than just regular HTML.
In addition to the static and templates folders, this app also contains
.py
files. Note that these must be outside the two folders named static and templates.
Attention
The templates will not work if this folder structure is not exactly as described above. Your app folder can be named anything (not only my-flask-app), but the static and templates folders must be named and organized as shown above. The static folder can contain multiple folders and files. The names of files are up to you.
Get started with templates¶
Let’s first imagine a situation where we are going to need a lot of pages that all have the same layout.
For example, we might want to build an app that includes all the U.S. presidents. Each president will have their own page, like this:
We do not want to build 45 pages by hand. We happen to have all the presidential data in a spreadsheet. Can we make one HTML template and be done?
Yes!
Here is an excerpt from that template:

{{ pres['President'] }}

{{ pres['President'] }}, the {{ ord }} president of the
United States, was born on {{ pres['Birth-date'] }}, in
{{ pres['Birthplace'] }}. He was {{ pres['Age-when-took-office'] }}
when he took office on {{ pres['Took-office'] }}. Member:
{{ pres['Party'] }} Party.

That might look slightly intimidating, but notice that inside each double-pair of curly braces is a key (in square brackets) that tells you exactly which information item will appear there. So, for Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born on 2/12/1809, in LaRue County, Kentucky. He was 52 when he took office on 3/4/1861. Member: Republican/National Union Party.
The spreadsheet was converted to a list of Python dictionaries — one dictionary per president. The dictionary for Lincoln looks like this:
{'Presidency': '16', 'President': 'Abraham Lincoln', 'Wikipedia-entry':
'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln', 'Took-office': '3/4/1861',
'Left-office': '4/15/1865', 'Party': 'Republican/National Union', 'Home-state':
'Illinois', 'Occupation': 'Lawyer', 'College': 'None', 'Age-when-took-office':
'52', 'Birth-date': '2/12/1809', 'Birthplace': 'LaRue County, Kentucky',
'Death-date': '4/15/1865', 'Location-death': 'Washington, D.C.', 'Image': 'pr16.jpg'}
How does a Flask app use a template?¶
In the previous chapter, Flask, part 2, you saw this route function:
@app.route('/user/<name>')
def user(name):
personal = f'
Hello, {name}!
'
instruc = '
Change the name in the browser address bar \
and reload the page.
'
return personal + instruc
Let’s transform that so it uses a template.
Put the HTML into a template (note the double curly braces
{{ }}
around name):
Hello, {{ name }}!

Change the name in the browser address bar and reload the page.

Save the template file as hello.html in the templates folder.
Edit the route function. Remove the HTML. Change the return statement — call the
render_template
function. That is how we get the template!@app.route('/user/<name>') def user(name): return render_template('hello.html', name=name)
We must import the
render_template
module, so add it to the line at the top of the Flask app script:from flask import Flask, render_template
When you import more than one module from flask, you can put them on one line, separated by commas.
Note
The template needs to be a complete HTML file, with all the usual elements such as HTML, HEAD, and BODY. See the complete example below.
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Hello HTML Templates</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='main.css') }}">

Hello, {{ name }}!

Change the name in the browser address bar
and reload the page.

Attention
In the HEAD above, in the LINK element, note the syntax for linking to a file in the static folder. The CSS file is just a normal CSS file, but it must be in the static folder for the Flask app.
Syntax for a path to a file in the static folder:
href="{{ url_for('static', filename='main.css') }}"
Syntax for a path to a file inside a folder in the static folder:
scr="{{ url_for('static', filename='images/foo.jpg') }}"
How are variables passed from app to template?¶
The templates in Flask are handled by the Jinja template engine, which comes with Flask when you first install it.
The render_template()
function both selects the template file to be used and passes to it any values or variables it needs.
return render_template('example.html',
name=name, phone=phone_number, state='FL')
We can pass as many variables as necessary to the template. In the example above, the template must contain variables for name, phone, and state. That is, these expressions must be somewhere in the template named example.html:
{{ name }}
{{ phone }}
{{ state }}
The value (on the right side of the equals sign) must come from the code in the Flask app file. In the example above, both name and phone_number must already have a value before the return render_template()
line. Note that 'FL'
is a string — we can pass in a string, integer, float, or Boolean.
It’s also possible to pass lists or dictionaries as values to a template. Here’s a line from the presidents app:
return render_template('president.html',
pres=pres_dict, ord=ord, the_title=pres_dict['President'])
The template file is named president.html, and the values depend on a Python dictionary, pres_dict
, that was defined earlier in the Flask app script. We can see the following expressions in the template’s HTML:
{{ ord }}
{{ pres['President'] }}
{{ pres['Birth-date'] }}
{{ pres['Birthplace'] }}
Why pres
and not pres_dict
? Because pres=pres_dict
. In the render_template()
function call, the dictionary pres_dict
is assigned to the template’s variable pres
. It is shorter and simpler for use in the template file.
If you need help understanding Python dictionaries, see the Dictionaries chapter. Dictionaries are incredibly useful for Flask templates!
In another template in the presidents app, base.html, we can see this expression in the HEAD element:
<title>{{ the_title }}</title>
Because of the_title=pres_dict['President']
, the HTML TITLE element will be filled in with the value of the dictionary item that has the key 'President'
.
Recall that the HTML TITLE is visible in the browser tab, as seen above.
Attention
If a template uses a lot of variables, it’s much shorter and easier to pass a dictionary to the template than to specify all the individual variables in the render_template()
function.
Walkthrough of the presidents app¶
Now we will examine this app so you can build one like it yourself.
☞ View the live presents app here.
☞ View the code for the presidents app.
Converting a CSV to a list of dictionaries¶
All the data we need about the U.S. presidents is in this CSV file.
Early in the Flask app in presidents.py, we create a list of dictionaries named presidents_list
from that CSV. Each item in the list is a dictionary. Each dictionary contains all the data about ONE president. That is, each dictionary is equivalent to one row from the original CSV. (This is covered in the CSVs chapter.)
We can use presidents_list
to:
Populate a template with all the data about a selected president.
Use a unique ID number — in the key
'Presidency'
— to determine which president has been selected. This will be used in the Flask route:@app.route('/president/<num>')
Create a list of pairs in which each pair consists of the unique ID and the name of the president it belongs to. This will be used to create an HTML list of all the presidents’ names, which are links to the Flask route.
Here is the top of the presidents.py script:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | from flask import Flask, render_template
from modules import convert_to_dict, make_ordinal
app = Flask(__name__)
application = app
# create a list of dicts from a CSV
presidents_list = convert_to_dict("presidents.csv")
|
The list is created on line 8, using a function in an external file named modules.py. The function convert_to_dict()
was imported from that file on line 2.
Tip
To store non-Flask functions in a separate .py file, you will import them by name from that file, as seen on line 2 in presidents.py. One more thing is required: In the folder that contains both presidents.py and modules.py there must also be a file named __init__.py. That file can be empty — but the name must be exactly as shown. More details here.
The route to one selected president¶
We will skip to the second route in the app and come back to the first one later.
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 | @app.route('/president/<num>')
def detail(num):
try:
pres_dict = presidents_list[int(num) - 1]
except:
return f"
Invalid value for Presidency: {num}
"
# a little bonus function, imported on line 2 above
ord = make_ordinal( int(num) )
return render_template('president.html', pres=pres_dict, ord=ord, the_title=pres_dict['President'])
|
Notice that the variable num
is passed in the route. This was explained in Flask, part 2. The value of num
determines which president we will see.
@app.route('/president/<num>')
Earlier, we saw that a URL for Abraham Lincoln ends with /president/16.
Recall that each president’s details are in a dictionary, and all the dictionaries are in a list. Recall that any list item can be accessed by its index (see Working with Lists).
However, the first index in a list is always 0.
To get George Washington, the first U.S. president, we need presidents_list[0]
. But the route URL will end with /president/1 — because his Presidency (in the CSV) is 1. Therefore:
pres_dict = presidents_list[int(num) - 1]
That line (line 27) assigns the dictionary for the one selected president to the variable pres_dict
. For the list index, int(num) - 1
changes num
from a string to an integer and subtracts 1, so that the dictionary for George Washington, first president, comes from list item 0. (And the dictionary for Abraham Lincoln, 16th president, comes from list item 15, etc..)
Attention
This would not work for every possible list of dictionaries. In some cases you would need to search for a dictionary key to match the value passed to the function from the route URL.
Line 27 is in a try
clause because it’s possible someone would manually change the URL to something invalid, such as /president/100. In that case, the except
clause would run, and the screen would show the text “Invalid value for Presidency: 100” styled as an H1 heading.
Line 31 is a bonus because it takes the value of num
(e.g. 1 for Washington or 16 for Lincoln) and converts it to an ordinal (e.g. 1st for Washington or 16th for Lincoln). The function make_ordinal()
is in modules.py.
Finally, line 32 is the render_template()
function we’ve seen before. The Flask template here is president.html. We know that pres_dict
is the single dictionary for the selected president, and we pass it to the template as the variable pres
because that’s shorter and simpler. We pass ord
to the template as ord
. For the HTML TITLE, we pass the value of pres_dict['President']
to the template as the_title
.
Summary: The route tells Flask, “When this URL is received, run the following function.” Then everything up to the final return
in the function is preparing the data that will be in the render_template()
function. We also have an except
clause, in case the route’s variable value is unusable.
The route to an index of presidents¶
Now we turn to the first route. This is the equivalent of an index, where the user selects a president. Then a request is sent to the server, and the page for that single president appears in the browser.
The web page needs to provide a list of links, one for each president.
To work, the partial URL for a president must contain the Presidency number. This was covered in the previous section — the URL for Abraham Lincoln, for example, ends with /president/16.
The link text is the president’s name. In the CSV, it is in the column named President.
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | pairs_list = []
for p in presidents_list:
pairs_list.append( (p['Presidency'], p['President']) )
# first route
@app.route('/')
def index():
return render_template('index.html', pairs=pairs_list, the_title="Presidents Index")
|
A list of pairs (number, name) is created before the route function. It’s outside the route function because it only needs to run once and create the pairs_list
list for the route function to use.
This is a simple route for the top page of the app:
@app.route('/')
Because pairs_list
already exists, the function has only one instruction: to return render_template()
. The render_template()
function specifies the template named index.html
(this is always the first thing inside the parentheses) and passes to it the pairs_list
(assigned to pairs
) and the string “Presidents Index” (assigned to the_title
).
The presidents templates¶
There are three templates in this app:
index.html
president.html
base.html
base.html¶
We begin with base.html because it is used by both of the other templates.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | <!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>{{ the_title }}</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='css/main.css') }}">

{% block content %}
{% endblock %}

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We already covered the code in lines 7 and 10 (earlier in this chapter):
Line 7: The value for the template variable
the_title
comes from therender_template()
function.Line 10: The value inside quotes following
href=
is necessary for a functioning path to files inside the static folder.
What’s new: The Jinja directives on lines 18 and 19. These two commands, specific to the Jinja template language, designate the start and end of a block. The block in this case is named content. This same block name will be used in the other two templates in the presidents app.
Note
The block can be named something else (other than content). Up to you. Also, you can use more than one block in a template — but each block in a template must have its own unique name.
What is a block for? It is a place to insert other content.
Read on …
index.html¶
Right away, look at lines 3 and 20 below. Those are the same Jinja directives used in base.html — but here, they enclose the block to be inserted into base.html.
It works because of line 1 below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | {% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}

A presidential Flask example

Click any president’s name.

{% for pair in pairs %}

{{ pair[1] }}

{% endfor %}

{% endblock %}
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Because of line 1, when the render_template()
function calls the template index.html, the first thing that happens is: line 1 fetches base.html and constructs a complete page from the two templates.
You’ll see the same thing in the president.html template, again using base.html.
The other Jinja code in index.html is used to build a list of links. This was described under The route to an index of presidents above.
First, the two Jinja directives on lines 15 and 17 designate the start and end of a for-loop. It is a Python for-loop, as you might realize when you see that it begins with for pair in pairs
— but note, there is no colon.
Second, what is happening inside the for-loop? The list named pairs
contains a tuple for each president. In each tuple are two values, a number and a name. Values in a tuple can be used with indexes, like values in a list. So pair[0]
is the first value in the current tuple (a number), and pair[1]
is the second value (a president’s name).

{{ pair[1] }}

The for-loop writes a new LI element each time the loop runs.
The LI contains one A element.
The value of the HREF attribute is this string:
"{{ url_for( 'detail', num=pair[0] ) }}"
The value inside
{{ }}
writes, for example:/president/16
.Because
pair[1]
holds a president’s name, that name is the link text.The result of the loop looks like this:

George Washington

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe
 ...
You might have wondered why the second route in presidents.py starts like this:
@app.route('/president/<num>')
def detail(num):
I wanted to demonstrate that the value of the HREF attribute must call the function, which here is detail()
and not president()
.
When the HTTP request is http://localhost:5000/president/16, the function detail()
receives the string value 16 as num
.
The value of num
retrieves the matching dictionary and returns it — with the template — as the HTTP response, and the browser displays the selected president’s page.
president.html¶
The detail page contains the most Jinja templating code, because it is writing all the values from one president’s dictionary (pres
) into the HTML:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 | {% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}

{{ pres['President'] }}

{{ pres['President'] }}, the {{ ord }} president of the United States, was born on {{ pres['Birth-date'] }}, in {{ pres['Birthplace'] }}. He was {{ pres['Age-when-took-office'] }} when he took office on {{ pres['Took-office'] }}. Member: {{ pres['Party'] }} Party.
{% if pres['Death-date'] == pres['Left-office'] %}
He died in office on {{ pres['Death-date'] }}.
{% elif pres['Left-office'] != 'Incumbent'%}
He left office on {{ pres['Left-office'] }}.
{% endif %}
His occupation before the presidency: {{ pres['Occupation'] }}.
His college: {{ pres['College'] }}.
{% if pres['Location-death'] != "NA" %}
He died in {{ pres['Location-death'] }}, on {{ pres['Death-date'] }}.
{% endif %}

View Wikipedia entry for {{ pres['President'] }}.

Return to the list to select a different president.

{% endblock %}
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This template inserts itself into base.html because of lines 1, 3 and 33. Those are Jinja block directives, already discussed above.
In index.html you saw a Python for-loop in Jinja. Here you can see conditional statements — if and elif. This is especially powerful because we can read the values from the dictionary pres
and change what is written into the HTML depending on (for example) whether the president has died or is still living.
Line 14 checks whether the value of Death-date
is the same as the value of Left-office
. If so, this president died in office.
Line 16 checks whether the value of Left-office
is Incumbent. If not, then this president has left office, and a sentence will be inserted. If so, then no sentence will be inserted.
Line 18 ends the if-else sequence. This is required.
Line 23 checks the value of Location-death
. If the value is not NA, then this president has died, and a sentence will be written. Otherwise, no sentence is written here.
Line 25 ends the if-else sequence. This is required.
Resources¶
For answers to any questions about writing templates or using the Jinja template language:
Jinja documentation — All the commands for the Jinja template syntax are here.
Flask documentation for
render_template()
.
Summary¶
Using Flask to ingest a URL and return a templated web page requires us to consider the data source (a CSV in the presidents app), the layout of the page, and the variables we need to send to the page.
A Flask route function can be long or short, and if it returns
render_template()
it needs to send not only the name of the template but also the variables required by that template.In templates, partial URLs are written in very particular ways to work with the Jinja template engine. These include all URLs that lead to assets inside the static folder, such as images, CSS files, and JavaScript files.
Any link that corresponds to a route that includes a variable requires particular Jinja syntax, as seen in index.html.
Jinja directives can be used to insert Python commands into a template. These include for-loops and conditionals (if, elif, else). You might notice this resembles PHP syntax.
Templates can be modular. In the presidents app, base.html contains HTML for the top and bottom segments of two different pages. The middle segment is inserted by either index.html or president.html.
Note
Data sources other than CSV files — including databases — can be used with Flask.
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It has been an insane three weeks for my wife and I and I am just now getting back to writing and following Twitter again.
Coaching has changed my life. I am the varsity soccer coach for our school and I had the opportunity to take our team to a tournament with schools from all over Korea and Japan. We ended up winning the tournament (one of the team goals this year) but there was also a lot of good time talking with players about school, soccer, food…you name it.
The most poignant moment came when one my seniors called me out during a halftime meeting.
We were in the finals and our first half was a little rough. During halftime, many of my players looked angry, so I asked what was wrong (thinking they would be working things out with one another).
Jona (in white), a senior on the team, told me that the game wasn’t fun because all I had been doing for the past few games was telling them constantly what they had been doing wrong. He also said a few guys on the team (underclassmen) had been down because I had ridden them pretty hard in one particular game.
I didn’t expect that at all. Our midfield and defense weren’t working well together and I expected the conversation to focus more on that…not on how I was acting.
It made me think about my attitude in the classroom versus on the field. In the classroom, I’m a teacher…I’m supportive and encouraging to kids that don’t “get it.” I wouldn’t ever dream of telling a student they keep blowing assignments or tasks and that they’d better get their head straight. Why do I do that on the field?
One [cop-out] answer might be that I’m an American and American coaches are big and loud. Another might be that I see coaching and teaching as two different venues that need different personalities…and in one sense, that’s true. I do feel more free to “ride” players a little more vocally or to call someone out on the field. But, my players are still students and I need to teach them the game…I can’t expect more than what I’ve taught, and that’s something I forgot this season.
I’m grateful for the relationships we form each year. I’m very proud of all my students and very proud of my team this year. I’m more proud, though, of the leadership shown by Jona and that he was willing to call me out and speak for his teammates. It was a simple statement and correction that changed the way I think about coaching.
Needless to say, the second half was much quieter from the bench and we went on to win. The victory, however, was built on trust and open communication…and that’s a sweeter feeling than anything.
—-
Jona Park is a senior graduating this year. He plans on attending and playing soccer at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL next fall.
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[gecode-users] Values from Float vars
Vincent Barichard
Vincent.Barichard at univ-angers.fr
Fri Aug 2 17:31:44 CEST 2013
Hi,
You can get the min, max or mean with the min(), max() or med() member
functions of a FloatVar.
You can set another float variable with the rel() function :
rel(home, x, FRT_EQ, FloatVal(y.min()));
I hope it will be usefull to you.
Best,
Vincent
2013/8/2 Federico Campeotto <campe8 at nmsu.edu>
> I'm currently working on a CP-model for a project that involves geometric
> operations on vectors, points in R^3, etc..
> I would like to know if there is a way to obtain the min/max value of a
> float variable that is constrained in a float expression or relation as in
> the following example.
>
> /// Note: FloatVarArray& T
> /// First we constrain the float vars of the array T to be equal to some
> rescaled integer values...
> FloatVar float_x ( home, -255.0, +255.0 );
> FloatVar float_y ( home, -255.0, +255.0 );
> channel ( home, int_x, float_x );
> channel ( home, int_y, float_y );
> ...
> FloatVar div_var ( home, 100, 100 );
> div ( home, float_x, div_var, T[ 0 ] );
> div ( home, float_y, div_var, T[ 1 ] );
> ...
>
> /// Then we perform some operations (e.g., subtracting two vectors of
> points in R^3)...
> FloatVarArray p1 ( home, 3, -255.0, +255.0 );
> FloatVarArray p2 ( home, 3, -255.0, +255.0 );
> FloatVarArgs p3 ( home, 3, -255.0, +255.0 );
>
> for ( int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
> rel ( home, p1[ i ] == T[ i ] );
> rel ( home, p2[ i ] == T[ i ] );
> }
>
> rel ( home, v[0] == p2[0] - p1[0] );
> rel ( home, v[1] == p2[1] - p1[1] );
> rel ( home, v[2] == p2[2] - p1[2] );
> …
>
> /// Note: FloatVarArgs x, FloatVarArgs temp( prot, 3, MIN, MAX )
> /// FloatVar sum ( home, MIN, MAX ), FloatVar sqr_rt ( prot,
> MIN, MAX ),
> sqr ( home, x[ 0 ], temp[ 0 ] );
> sqr ( home, x[ 1 ], temp[ 1 ] );
> sqr ( home, x[ 2 ], temp[ 2 ] );
> rel ( home, sum == temp[ 0 ] + temp[ 1 ] + temp[ 2 ] );
> sqrt ( home, sum, sqr_rt );
>
> If we finally print the values for the variables in the vectors v and x we
> obtain restricted ranges.
> Eventually we would like to calculate some real values obtained from such
> vectors (e.g., the value of
> a certain physics formula given by the current labeling).
> Is there a way to obtain the current min,max or the mean value of such
> restricted domains?
> It is also possible to set such current min, max, mean value to another
> real variable?
>
> Thanks,
> Federico Campeotto
>
>
>
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>
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THE KING OF MASKS (Bian Lian, China, 1996) *** 1/2 Directed by Wu Tianming. Written by Wei Minglung. Produced by Mona Fong & Ho Titus. Photography, Mu Dayuan. Original Music, Zhao Jiping. Cast: Zhu Xu (Wang), Zhou Ren-ying (Doggie), Zhao Zhigang (Master Liang), et al. A Shaw Brothers production (Hong Kong). A Samuel Goldwyn Co. release. In Mandarin, subtitled in English. 101 minutes. Not rated (if so, G)
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Master Wang is an elderly street performer who does amazing sleight of hand. He turns his head around and, in a flash is wearing a mask, then another, then yet another...  How the film does it is no secret: clever editing. It is so quick that you may wonder whether such an impressive performance really did exist.
Wang's wife left him long ago.  In his less-than-modest houseboat he has been plying the rivers of Sichuan (the Yang-Tze and its tributaries) alone save for "The General," his clever monkey who passes the hat around. Wang's performances attract crowds of admirers, yet bring in pitifully few coins, especially since these are times of floods, economic crises and hunger.
He is a lovable, beautifully mannered man who loves his profession passionately. His huge sorrow is that after he's gone, there will be no one to take over. A hard-to-find, first-rate pupil is needed. Young, suffering girls, flock to him to offer their services, for nothing. Mothers try to sell their daughters. But it won't do. Wang's successor, by tradition and by divination has to be male.
A bright-looking boy, about 8, does catch Wang's eye and ear. His father (who will turn out to be his tyrannical owner) will sell him for ten silver dollars. Wang buys him at a discount, half price., and names him "Doggie."
The kid turns out to be the ideal choice. She calls the old man "Granpa," and happy Wang feels that the child is his grandson. But after a series of events and episodes, all of them intelligently, colorfully and appealingly done, Doggie turns out to be a girl. Past his initial irritation and disappointment, Wang makes his peace with Doggie, a mutual affection keeps growing touchingly. Intelligent, fast-learning, able, devoted and charming she becomes an invaluable companion, assistant and part of the show.
Of course things cannot keeping coming up roses. Doggie accidentally set fire to the boat, feels guilty and vanishes. But she resurfaces, sad, hungry, unkempt. Which leads to a series of believable complications, a kind of domino theory that results in Wang being jailed and accused of crimes -- falsely, and by corrupt police authorities. We yearn for a happy ending and a reunion of the old man and the child -- and don't get disappointed. But it is all done with such realism and imagination that we are very far from feel-good movie clichés.
There is, from the film's start, a third major character, also a performer. Master Liang (a role held by a star of Chinese Opera) who plays female roles in opera. (That's where this art form and Shakespeare meet, since men play women). He is an immensely admired celebrity. Huge audiences attend over and over the operas he is in. Crowds mob him in the streets. Chauffeur-driven Liang is chic, wealthy, has a palatial home and fans among the rich, powerful and famous.
He is an admirer of Wang, whom he vainly tries to entice to the Opera, for sums that Wang has trouble imagining. But intelligently and with feeling, Liang accepts Wang's refusal. He also urges him to find a successor.
When Chang is facing execution, the coalition of Liang and Doggie save him. But not before Liang's initial efforts fail. That's when he states that actors (and artists) are adulated, "but don't really count"
This wonderful, splendidly acted movie has poignancy, seriousness as well as much humor.It is only lightly and discreetly political as it shows (in passing) the old days of haves and have-nots as well as the sexism which, presumably, is no longer part of today's China.
Above all it is a song of human warmth and dedication to art. Its camera work is beautiful, with striking colors --and colorfulness. The sets, a feast for the eye, include temples, gigantic statues carved in hillsides, perfectly lit interiors and exteriors, fascinating (and exotic to Western eyes) scenes of Opera performances. A fine musical score is divided into fine "European" style music (strings predominate) and lovely Chinese.sounds
The pristine print I saw has crystal-clear sound and subtitles (fewer than usual are needed) which are exceptionally large and easy to read.
KOM's maker is non-conformist Wu Tianming. Already a director, he was given the headship of a studio (Xian) in the early 1980s, nurtured new talent, and raised his studio's income from last to first place, even though some of the films he produced (Red Sorghum, etc.) infuriated conservative authorities.
At the time of the Tienanmen Square disaster (1989), he was visiting the United States. There, he strongly disapproved the Chinese Government's action. His criticism resulted in his staying, prudently, in this country for close to five years, during which he taught film and lectured in several unversities. He also opened a video store in Los Angeles. Wu is back home again.
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Principles, Practices, & Project Management
Using Jekyll
Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. The term “static” means there’s no database i.e. content is “static” which is “not changing”. It takes a template directory that has raw text files and then spits out a complete, ready-to-publish website, suitable for a web server. Jekyll is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which means you can use it to host your project’s website from GitHub’s servers for free. Yuo can visit their official site here: Jekyllrb.com
Website Structure
Posts
All of my posts are written in a combination of HTML (structure code) and Markdown as the”shorthand”. I used a series of templates to make my website as “DRY” as possible. It’s by using these variables, that I eliminate the use of hard-coding a post’s HTML every single time. The markdown posts are turned into HTML documents by Jekyll upon regeneration. My understanding was to build tools once and then use those same tools over and over again.
This is “what Jekyll is doing” when I write a new post:
Sees “post” markdown file -> formats that info with “post” template -> inserts that into default page template -> which also inserts header and footer as well
I also learned a lot about CSS (cascading style sheets), which allows me to change appearance of the site (font weights/type, color of text and background, borders on images, and layout with responsiveness (does it adapt to screen shape/size)
For my CSS styling code, I’ve only had to tweek minor details, mostly with bordering styles. I ended up sticking with the minima Jekyll theme out of the box for the rest of the website.
Gitlab Archive System
I started by creating a local git repository of my project (bprentice_website)
After Fab Academy created the shared repository for Sarah and I, they gave a specific structure to follow with the 418/439 folders (#418-Brandon, #439-Sarah).
I first PULL-ed down the repository Fab Academy made (mentioned above), and then set the REMOTE ORIGIN to the gitlab repository. Before completing this, I first had to set up a secure relationship between my local repository and the Fab Academy’s gitlab repository with ssh-rsa keys.
Development on a Local Machine
After doing some work on assignments/making changes on my website, I memorized the following steps to follow when sending it to the remote repository on Fab Academy’s Gitlab account. These steps show all of the commands/ procedures performed on my Terminal in order to continuously PUSH all of my future assignments that will need uploaded:
Step 1: git status (shows you what has been added, deleted, or modified)
Step 2: git add . (adding all new or modified files to git staging “area”….staged to be commited).
Step 3: git commit -m “relevant message” (commit changes to git history with a relevant, meaningful comment)
Step 4: git push (to my personal gitlab fablab repository)
Everything is committed locally at this point in bprentice_website
Moving on to the shared repository
Step 5: git pull (This pulls the most recent commit made on the remote gitlab repository, in case Sarah has made recent changes to her own site folder)
Step 6: Copy contents of _site folder (from bprentice_website) into fablabiu1/…/418 (shared fablab repository with Sarah
Step 7: Repeat steps 1-4, only this time under the directory of the shared repository folder that Sarah and I use together (fablabiu1). Once pushed, there is a short wait for the server to rebuild site.
Final Project Proposal
Fabricated Alarm Clock Circuit
This idea started as a previous activity I did with students inside a Mobile Fab Lab that I manage/teach from (Link to my program in the footer below). For this activity, I purchased a simple through-hole circuit kit to be soldered together by students and then come up with some sort of casing to enclose it with. The chip was already programmed so for the 5 days that I would have the selected students, they would build a fun, engaging project that could be practical in their everyday lives.
I was very intrigued at first when researching what the Fab Academy program can teach me with fabrication. Starting off, I know I didn’t have much of a background when it came to making my own circuit boards and programming them. This is why I thought of this being the perfect oppurtunity to expand my knowledge on the topics while also expanding one of my existing lessons, giving my students and I more possibities with this kind of hands-on activity.


Date: 2018-09-02
Accepted
We need to record the architectural decisions made on this project.
We will use Architecture Decision Records, as described by Michael Nygard.
See Michael Nygard's article, linked above. For a lightweight ADR toolset, see Nat Pryce's adr-tools.
Date: 2018-09-02
Accepted
We want to maximise the usability of adr-viewer whilst maintaining flexibility in future for other output formats, e.g. a live webserver.
The entry point for this project will be a command-line utility called adr-viewer
. We will use the python click library to provide command-line options and documentation.
Click will be added as a dependency, and further improvements should consider the user experience of the command-line interface.
Date: 2018-09-09
Superceded by 4. Distinguish superceded records with colour
adr-viewer
presents all records with the same lightgreen
header, even though records may be in different states.
We will keep the lightgreen
colour for everything
No work necessary to support ADRs superceding eachother.
Date: 2018-09-09
Accepted
Supercedes 3. Use same colour for all headers
Amended by 5. Distinguish amendments to records with colour
adr-viewer
presents all records with the same lightgreen
header, even though records may be in different states.
Records marked as 'Superceded' will distinguish themselves from 'Accepted'
We must invest time thinking about the user experience for this visual indication - whether or not simply greying out is sufficient.
We must also offer a default display if logic for processing a custom linkage does not exist in this project.
Date: 2018-09-09
Accepted
Amends 4. Distinguish superceded records with colour
Architecture Decision Records may be amended
rather than superceded
if e.g. only a small part of the decision changes.
Amended records, although not officially supported as a distinct flag in adr-tools
, should be distinguished from records that are either Accepted or Superceded by.
We now have to map 4 kinds of status to different formatting options, which presents a refactoring opportunity.
Date: 2018-09-10
Accepted
This tool had, up until this point, made assumptions about how its users might interpret the information it presents (for example, using colour as the main mechanism of distinguishing record types)
Accessibility will now be a first-class concern of this project. All future design decisions should bear this in mind.
A base level of accessibility testing has been integrated using pa11y.
This project should be (at minimum) run through a screen reader and tested for usability.


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Israeli Minister Not Ruling Out Military Operation in Gaza After Weekend Fire Exchange
Recently, the situation near the Gaza Strip border escalated, as Israeli fighter jets struck targets in Gaza in response to the recent rockets launched from near the border.
Israel "will be forced" to launch a military operation in Gaza unless the situation on the borders is normalized after the recent fire exchange with the Hamas movement, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said in an interview with ''Galei Tzahal'' (Israel's Army Radio).
"If there is no way out, we will also start a ground operation to destroy the Hamas rule [in Gaza]'', the Minister said.
On Sunday, Israeli cabinet ministers held a meeting concerning the recent military escalation in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the situation near the eastern, northern and southern borders of the country had become ''explosive'' and the government should continue to work ''in all directions'' to ensure security.
A total of 10 rockets have been fired from Gaza recently, including eight projectiles that have been intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system, the Israeli military reported. One of the rockets hit a residential building in the southern city of Sderot, but no civilians were injured.


jl777c
28-Jun-18 04:59 PM
wow,I lose internet for a few hours and my channel becomes about naming?
2
./komodod -ac* -> runtime fork that creates a new blockchain
now with millions of possible coin emissions possible
if enabled a CCid cluster can be created and a built in fungibility within the cluster activated
this is from a SINGLE burn protocol contract implemented in the CCid >= 3 case, which creates a cluster
VRSC forked komodo and added many vrsc unique for now -ac options, which in time will come back into komodod
now I know people love to debate names, since everybody can have a valid opinion since it isnt technical and you dont have to worry about segfaults or compiler bugs. But that takes it out of the technical domian, which this channel should stick to.
VRSC will be automatically spawning new chains (actually the miner will be doing this) and they are called autochains
so the name is *chain
(edited)
having one name to describe every possible thing will lead to a name that is overloaded
so no matter what single name is used, people will complain that it doesnt make sense in all the other cases. I try to avoid getting involved in things that dont have a deterministic conclusion as it can easily take infinite time
I suggest that marketing create a marketable name for each different type of usecase. Maybe we can even get press coverage for each different name (usecase) from the same ./komodod -ac* runtime fork ability
when I originally implemented this it was because I was too lazy to make N source code forks for all the different SuperNET assets, so I made -ac_name= option and called it assetchains
then I added ability to be mined as on-demand chains only made sense for infrequently used assets
then I added PoS/PoW and different coin emissions
then -ac_cc=1 with CC enabled
then VRSC added their options
then with MoMoM -ac_cc=<clusterid>
so it has just expanded and evolved as it has been the path of least resistance from a technical side to add new abilities
and what we havent released yet, but have announced are coin specific CC eval functions that allow to blockchain enforce any (and by any, I mean any) boolean evaluator. This might sound not so much, but when you can run native code to evaluate to a boolean, you can do things like evalpokerhand(op-return data of pokerhand, payoutvector)
then given a poker hand (signed in realtime) you can approve a blockchain payout of a pokerhand, blockchain enforced and not needing any multiple signers
The burn protocol was able to be implemented so quickly due to the fact that solving realtime poker being blockchain enforced has been the overall goal, with the assumption that most other decentralization problems will be easier to solve and likely some variation of a subset of the realtime poker solution
so we can have a bunch of game specific chains, what to call them? is there a single name for chains with a boolean eval function, or do we name each subset of chains that have something in common (card games, casino games, multiplayer games)?
this i leave to marketing to solve, it will be enough work to get all this tech working without having to worry about the perfect way to name it


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- exportfasta(db, filename)
- export the cooldb to fasta format
used for conversion to greengenes
the header is the actual sequence!
input:
db - the cooldb
filename - name of the output fasta file
- getcloseseqinfo(db, oseq, maxdist)
- get database info from all sequences in database close up to maxdist mismatches from oseq
input:
db - the initiated database file
oseq : sequence (ACGT string)
the sequence to find neoghbors of in the database
maxdist : integer
find only sequences with hamming<=maxdist
output:
info : list of strings
database entries of all close sequences
- getggids(db, biomname)
- load the closed reference biom table for the sequences in exportfasta
and convert the database to greengenesIDs.
input:
db - the cooldb used for the exportfasta
biomname - the biom table file obtained by running pick_closed_reference on the exportfasta file
output:
db - the new cooldb with the 'biomggid' field added
- getseqinfo(db, seq)
- get all known information for a given sequence (minimum length 89bp)
input:
db - from loaddb()
seq - the sequence to search for
output:
info - a list of known info about the sequence
- loaddb(dbname='./db/coolseqs.txt')
- preparealldbvals(db)
- calculate the amount of times each description appears
inputL
db
output:
db - with the added db.numtimes dict for each description
- savecoolseqs(expdat, cdb, seqs, description)
- save sequences to the cooldb database
input:
expdat : Experiment
seqs : list of sequence strings
a list of sequence strings (ACGT) to save
description : string
the description for these sequences to be put in coolseqs database
- savedb(db, filename)
- save the coolseqs database
for use after getggids to add the biomggid field to the database
input:
db - the coolseq database
filename - name of the output file to write
- saveseq(db, seq, taxonomy, filename, description, ggid=False, expdescription=False)
- "
Save a sequence into the database
input:
db - the initiated database file
seq - the sequence (ACGT)
ggid - the hashed id or False to calculate here
taxonomy - the taxonomy for the sequence
filename - the name of the biom table file
expdescription - description of the experiment (similar to filename if False)
description - text about the bacteria
output:
db - the modified database list (for immediate use - no need to reload)!
- testenrichment(db, allseqs=[], group=[], maxfval=0.1, freqs=[])
- test for database entries enriched in sequences from group compared to allseqs (all the sequences) or all the database
input:
db - the coolseq database
allseqs - a list of all the sequences or [] to compare to all the database
group - a list of subgroup of sequences to test vs allseqs
maxfval - the maximal fdr value
freqs - the mean frequency of each sequence, or [] to not use frequency weighing
output:
newplist - a sorted list of dict for annotaions which are below fdr ('description','pval','observed','expected')
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DELETE_MODULE
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 2014-05-10
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NAME
delete_module - unload a kernel module
SYNOPSIS
int delete_module(const char *name, int flags);
Note:
No declaration of this function is provided in glibc headers; see NOTES.
DESCRIPTION
The
delete_module()
system call attempts to remove the unused loadable module entry
identified by
name.
If the module has an
exit
function, then that function is executed before unloading the module.
The
flags
argument is used to modify the behavior of the system call,
as described below.
This system call requires privilege.
Module removal is attempted according to the following rules:
- 1.
-
If there are other loaded modules that depend on
(i.e., refer to symbols defined in) this module,
then the call fails.
- 2.
-
Otherwise, if the reference count for the module
(i.e., the number of processes currently using the module)
is zero, then the module is immediately unloaded.
- 3.
-
If a module has a nonzero reference count,
then the behavior depends on the bits set in
flags.
In normal usage (see NOTES), the
O_NONBLOCK
flag is always specified, and the
O_TRUNC
flag may additionally be specified.
The various combinations for
flags
have the following effect:
-
- flags == O_NONBLOCK
-
The call returns immediately, with an error.
- flags == (O_NONBLOCK | O_TRUNC)
-
The module is unloaded immediately,
regardless of whether it has a nonzero reference count.
- (flags & O_NONBLOCK) == 0
-
If
flags
does not specify
O_NONBLOCK,
the following steps occur:
-
- *
-
The module is marked so that no new references are permitted.
- *
-
If the module's reference count is nonzero,
the caller is placed in an uninterruptible sleep state
(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)
until the reference count is zero, at which point the call unblocks.
- *
-
The module is unloaded in the usual way.
The
O_TRUNC
flag has one further effect on the rules described above.
By default, if a module has an
init
function but no
exit
function, then an attempt to remove the module will fail.
However, if
O_TRUNC
was specified, this requirement is bypassed.
Using the
O_TRUNC
flag is dangerous!
If the kernel was not built with
CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD,
this flag is silently ignored.
(Normally,
CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
is enabled.)
Using this flag taints the kernel (TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD).
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned.
On error, -1 is returned and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
- EBUSY
-
The module is not "live"
(i.e., it is still being initialized or is already marked for removal);
or, the module has
an
init
function but has no
exit
function, and
O_TRUNC
was not specified in
flags.
- EFAULT
-
name
refers to a location outside the process's accessible address space.
- ENOENT
-
No module by that name exists.
- EPERM
-
The caller was not privileged
(did not have the
CAP_SYS_MODULE
capability),
or module unloading is disabled
(see
/proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled
in
proc(5)).
- EWOULDBLOCK
-
Other modules depend on this module;
or,
O_NONBLOCK
was specified in
flags,
but the reference count of this module is nonzero and
O_TRUNC
was not specified in
flags.
CONFORMING TO
delete_module()
is Linux-specific.
NOTES
The
delete_module()
system call is not supported by glibc.
No declaration is provided in glibc headers, but,
through a quirk of history, glibc does export an ABI for this system call.
Therefore, in order to employ this system call,
it is sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code;
alternatively, you can invoke the system call using
syscall(2).
The uninterruptible sleep that may occur if
O_NONBLOCK
is omitted from
flags
is considered undesirable, because the sleeping process is left
in an unkillable state.
As at Linux 3.7, specifying
O_NONBLOCK
is optional, but in future kernels it is likely to become mandatory.
Linux 2.4 and earlier
In Linux 2.4 and earlier, the system call took only one argument:
int delete_module(const char *name);
If
name
is NULL, all unused modules marked auto-clean are removed.
Some further details of differences in the behavior of
delete_module()
in Linux 2.4 and earlier are
not
currently explained in this manual page.
SEE ALSO
create_module(2),
init_module(2),
query_module(2),
lsmod(8),
modprobe(8),
rmmod(8)
Index
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-
- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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-
- ERRORS
-
- CONFORMING TO
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Private book ownership in the Catholically dominated Central Alps 1750–1800. A systematic study
based on inventories from the Tyrolean Pustertal and Stubaital
The project aims at investigating private book ownership in the Catholically dominated rural
areas of the Central Alps, or, putting it more precisely, in historic Tyrol in the 18th century. Referring
to comparable existing studies – for example by Hans Medick – mainly focusing on protestant-pietistic
regions, this study investigates inventories. Books mentioned in about 4,400 inventories from the
Pustertal/Val di Pusteria, today belonging to South-Tyrol (Südtirol/Alto Adige), Italy, and Stubaital will be gathered
in order to describe and systematically analyse private book ownership in the respective administrative
districts.
The main research questions are:
- Who owned books and which patterns can be observed regarding the book-owners? (gender,
age, socioeconomic background, profession)
- Which and how many books were in circulation/popular in the region? (religious or profane
content, authors, origin, value/price, effects of state/church censorship)
- Which differences and/or parallels come to light in comparison with the findings of existing
studies?
A study like this is pioneering work, not only for the area of historic Tyrol, but also for Austria, and even for the mainly Catholically oriented South of the German language area. The project therefore also makes a contribution to the European history of books and reading, hence, the cultural and social history of the 18th century, at the dawn of the age of modernity.
In cooperation with the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences
(ACDH-ÖAW), the inventories that have been systematically examined in this project will
subsequently be published in an XML-encoded online-database. Thus, substantial value is added by
creating easy access to source material that can be relevant for many aspects of further scientific
research as well as for an interested public.


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The idea behind the jaysire package is to allow users to write flexible behavioural experiments that run through a web browser, relying on the jsPsych javascript library to run the experiment itself. In this article, I’ll walk you through the process of creating a very minimal experiment using the package. The first step, as usual, is loading the package:
Because the jaysire package is a wrapper around the jsPsych library, the place to start is with jsPsych itself. The key idea in jsPsych is that your job is to provide a description of the experiment, referred to as a timeline. The timeline is an abstract description of what stimuli should be shown to participants, how responses are to be collected, what randomisation procedure to follow, and so on. Once you have specified the timeline, the jsPsych library takes care of all the low level actions like determining which trial will run next, where the data are stored and so on.
In its simplest form, a timeline is straightforward: it’s just a list of the trials that make up the experiment, listed in the order that they should be run. We’ll talk about fancier features like randomisation, loops, conditional branching etc later on, but for now let’s imagine that all we want to do is run a fixed sequence of trials in a fixed order.
That sounds pretty straightforward, but raises the natural question of “what is a ‘trial’, exactly?” Behavioural experiments can vary in all sorts of ways, and so the number of things that can be considered a “trial” in an experiment is limited only by your imagination. The way that jsPsych handles this is providing a system of plugins, where each plugin defines a different kind of experimental trial, and allows you to write your own plugins if you need to. Within the jaysire package, there is a function called trial_generic()
that allows you to create a trial using any plugin you like, but in most cases it is more convenient to use a more specific function because the arguments are better documented.
In most experiments, the first thing we want to do is present some instructions to the participant. jsPsych contains an “instructions” plugin that will present multiple pages of instructions to the participant, and there is a corresponding function in jaysire called trial_instructions()
that we can use:
instructions <- trial_instructions(
pages = c(
"Welcome! Use the arrow buttons to browse these instructions",
"Your task is to decide if an equation like '2 + 2 = 4' is true or false",
"You will respond by clicking a button",
"Press the 'Next' button to begin!"
),
show_clickable_nav = TRUE,
post_trial_gap = 1000
)
In this code, the pages
argument specifies four very short pages of text that will be displayed to the participants. By setting show_clickable_nav
to TRUE
, we are telling jsPsych to display a pair of buttons that participants can click to move forward or backward within the instructions. By default, these are labelled “Next” and “Previous”, but you can change this if you like. The third thing I’ve specified here is the post_trial_gap
, which is the length of time (in milliseconds) that the experiment will pause between the end of this trial (the instructions) and the start of the next one. During this “gap” period a blank screen is shown.
Our next job is to write some experimental trials! We’ll keep it simple in this first example, and create two variables trial1
and trial2
. In both cases we’ll present people with a piece of text, and then ask them to respond by clicking a button with the mouse. We can do this with the trial_html_button_response()
function. This function will use the “html-button-response” plugin within jsPsych. The plugin does exactly what you might expect given the name: it displays some HTML as the stimulus (in this case, just some regular text), and collects responses using buttons! Here’s the code to create trial1
:
trial1 <- trial_html_button_response(
stimulus = "13 + 23 = 36",
choices = c("true", "false"),
post_trial_gap = 1000
)
In this code the stimulus
argument specifies the text that will be displayed on screen to the participant, and the choices
argument specifies the labels that will be shown on the response buttons. Again, the post_trial_gap
argument is used to tell jsPsych how long to pause before starting the next trial. We can create trial2
in much the same way:
trial2 <- trial_html_button_response(
stimulus = "17 - 9 = 6",
choices = c("true", "false"),
post_trial_gap = 1000
)
In fact, the code for trial2
is so similar to the code for trial1
that it feels inefficient. There should be a way to create both trials at the same time, and indeed there is, which I’ll talk about that later.
Now that we have our trial objects, instructions
, trial1
and trial2
, our next taks is to bind together into a timeline. The build_timeline()
function allows us to do this:
all_trials <- build_timeline(instructions, trial1, trial2)
At this point we have a complete timeline for our simple experiment! Yay!
At the moment we have a complete timeline, but it is stored in an abstract form as the all_trials
variable. What we really want to do is “build” an experiment from this timeline: we want to write the files that will run the experiment, and save those files somewhere. That is the job of the build_experiment()
function. First, let’s specify the location of the experiment. Normally, we would build the experiment into a sensible location (e.g., somewhere inside an RStudio project), but for the purposes of this demonstration – which has to be reproducible on any computer, not just mine – I’ll use the temporary_folder()
function for this purposes:
exp_path <- temporary_folder()
exp_path
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmpdEmqdc/jaysire_anctp"
Now all we have to do is write the experiment into this folder build_experiment()
function, specifying the timeline
and path
arguments to tell R what to write and where to write it:
build_experiment(
timeline = all_trials,
path = temporary_folder(),
on_finish = save_locally()
)
#> Warning in dir.create(path): '/tmp/RtmpdEmqdc/jaysire_riae1' already exists
The other thing I’ve specified here is the on_finish
argument, which tells jsPsych what do to when the experiment ends. For our simple experiment, the only thing we want to do is save the data. To keep it simple, we’ll assume the experiment is going to be run on the same computer where the experiment is stored, and so I’ve used the save_locally()
function here.
When we run the build_experiment()
function, two subfolders within the exp_path
folder are created, one called “data” (which is initially empty) and another called “experiment”, which contains all the source files required to run the experiment. Here are the files we’ve just created:
list.files(exp_path, recursive = TRUE)
#> character(0)
To run the experiment on the local machine (and save the data to the “data” folder) all we have to do is call the run_locally()
function, specifying the location of the experiment to run:
run_locally(exp_path)
The complete code for this example is shown below:
library(jaysire)
instructions <- trial_instructions(
pages = c(
"Welcome! Use the arrow buttons to browse these instructions",
"Your task is to decide if an equation like '2 + 2 = 4' is true or false",
"You will respond by clicking a button",
"Press the 'Next' button to begin!"
),
show_clickable_nav = TRUE,
post_trial_gap = 1000
)
trial1 <- trial_html_button_response(
stimulus = "13 + 23 = 36",
choices = c("true", "false"),
post_trial_gap = 1000
)
trial2 <- trial_html_button_response(
stimulus = "17 - 9 = 6",
choices = c("true", "false")
)
build_experiment(
timeline = build_timeline(instructions, trial1, trial2),
path = temporary_folder(),
on_finish = save_locally()
)
You can check out a working version of the experiment here.


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I copied & pasted the VF camp out info. So this is it below...Also I attached the logo in a white back ground along with some other TOT logo's, banners ect. I'll talk to Gregg tomorrow about the coloring pages, he was about to eat dinner when I called. lol ttys Sister.
88 Janine
POSTED BY: VolksfrontVirginia on Sep 29, 2007 Volksfront Virginia Campout
On the weekend of November 2nd through the 4th (Friday through
Sunday respectively) a Volksfront-sponsored campout will be hosted in
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broader cause in the mid-Atlantic region as a whole. This is set to be
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atmosphere for those who are desirous of establishing some measure of
unity and communication amongst racialists in the area. This is an
open-invitation event, and all who have no pressing reason to believe
that they would not be welcome to attend are welcomed
and encouraged to do so. Needless to say it will be an excellent
opportunity for networking and establishing worthwhile lines of
communication. Progress for the whole of our race is made in such
ways....All interested parties are encouraged to send inquiries to Volksfront Virginia either via message (not by comment) or email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Blood, Soil & Faith,-Volksfront VirginiaRACE OVER ALL!
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In this post I'll cover modeling real world objects with ruby classes as well as how to store rand seed values that recreate random behavior wherever the ruby Rand class is used.
Perhaps you are analyzing the results of a simulation you were running and would like to know what initial conditions led to the outcome you're interested in, or perhaps you are just trying to recreate the behavior of any program that makes use of Ruby's class Random. In either case it is good to know how to save the seeds. I'll demonstrate one way to do this by creating two custom classes: Card and Dealer in order to simulate playing with a deck of cards and having a dealer shuffle them for you. The dealer's shuffle method will make use of ruby's random behavior through the pesuedo random number generator (PRNG) interface class called Rand.
class Card
attr_reader :suit, :card
def initialize(suit,card)
@suit = suit
@card = card
end
end
def deck_of_cards
suits = %w[Clubs Diamonds Hearts Spades]
cards = %w[Ace 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Jack Queen King]
deck=[]
for i in 0..3
for j in 0..12
deck << Card.new(suits[i],cards[j])
end
end
return deck
end
class Dealer
@@seed = []
def set_seed(num=nil)
if(num == nil)
srand() # set seed
saved_seed = srand() # save seed
@@seed << saved_seed
srand(saved_seed) #set seed again
return saved_seed
else
@@seed << num
srand(num)
end
end
def historical_seeds
return @@seed
end
def deal(deck,num,seed=nil)
set_seed(seed)
deck.shuffle.first(num).each { |c| p "#{c.card} of #{c.suit} "}; nil
end
end


My frist about me site
Using HTML and css
Simple website using Html5 And CSS
Status: Done
LPWN
A HTML ,CSS and Bootstarp site (Only frontend) Just for fun
Status: Done
Tindog
A tinder website made exclusively for Dogs.
A home page website which provides details of the application to the end user like the desscription of the website, from where we can download the application, a section that displays the feedback from the clients and different plans and subscriptions.
Status: Done
COOMING SOON
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M/A.
Status: Cooming Soon


China, US to disclose details of rare cooperation against fentanyl drug scourge
BEIJING: Drug law enforcement officers from China and the United States will jointly brief the media on Thursday on a fentanyl smuggling case, in an unusual disclosure of rare Sino-U.S. cooperation in cracking down on fentanyl crimes.
China's National Narcotics Control Commission and enforcement officers from both countries will give "detailed information" at a press conference in Xingtai city in northern Hebel province about a fentanyl smuggling case that was jointly uncovered by both sides, according to a notice circulated by the State Council Information Office.
Reporters will also be able to view a live broadcast of the trial at the Xingtai court, before the press conference.
Fentanyl is a cheap, relatively easy-to-synthesize opioid painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin that has played a major role in a devastating U.S. opioid addiction crisis.
U.S. officials say China is the main source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances that are trafficked into the United States, much of it through international mail. China denies that most of the illicit fentanyl entering the United States originates in China.
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Chinese President Xi Jinping in August of failing to meet his promises to crack down on the deluge of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues flowing into the United States. China labeled that "blatant slander".
The dispute over fentanyl comes with the United States in the middle of a major trade dispute with China.
China's National Narcotics Control Commission said in September that Sino-U.S. cooperation on investigating and prosecuting fentanyl-related substances was "extremely limited", even though counter-narcotics law enforcement departments from both sides had long maintained a good cooperative relationship.
The sudden show of cooperation announced on Tuesday coincides with intense bilateral negotiations over a phase-one trade agreement which Trump said he hoped to sign with Xi.
(Reporting by Ryan Woo; Editing by Mark Heinrich)


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[Summary] [Package List] [Test Cases]
| Tests | Errors | Failures | Skipped | Success Rate | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 354.013 |
Note: failures are anticipated and checked for with assertions while errors are unanticipated.
[Summary] [Package List] [Test Cases]
| Package | Tests | Errors | Failures | Skipped | Success Rate | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 354.013 |
Note: package statistics are not computed recursively, they only sum up all of its testsuites numbers.
| Class | Tests | Errors | Failures | Skipped | Success Rate | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change Layout | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 150.254 | |
| Change Profile | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 135.835 | |
| Login / Register | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 67.924 |
[Summary] [Package List] [Test Cases]