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GDP vs Child Survival
Income per Person vs Life Expectancy
Fertility Rate vs Life Expectance.


"If it bleeds it leads." 15 Minutes
By Ross Anthony
"15 minutes" is a title way too small for its film -- like a cork meant to damn the Nile. This is the most intense production of the year. "Hannibal" scary? Forget it -- comparatively speaking. Director John Herzfeld brews up a fervent stew of hard as brass conflict, gruesome homicides, tasteful sprinkles of humor, rock solid dialogue, tight-as-gears direction, solid performances, grinding sound track, and whirling cinematography. Powerful, simply powerful.
Unfortunately, a few implausibles abate the punch - but not enough to stop this rumbling steamroller of a film. Never a dull, boring moment - ever.
Two Europeans thugs come to the States to collect their money from a fellow thief and comrade. When they learn he's spent it all, the mean thug kills the friend with a kitchen knife while the Hollywood-loving thug videotapes the murder. It's gruesome and it's vile and it's angry. This film is not for the weak of stomach. Realizing that the friend's wife witnessed the crime, the mean one kills her too. Again the somewhat comedic Capra-wannabee tapes. Here lies the first implausibility. That mean thug would smash that camera against the wall -- this would be consistent with his rage and motivation to destroy all evidence of his crime. A smashed camera wouldn't have effected the play of the rest of the story.
Those are the two bad boys; the good guys have a duo of their own. Bobby De Niro laps up the press as poster cop and "friend" of "Top Story" TV tabloid host Kelsey Grammer. Edward Burns plays a crackerjack Arson Investigator - a fireman with a gun. The give and take between this cop and firefighter team splendidly constructs the spine, heart and soul of the film.
A second implausibility arises when the two bad guys begin to argue over ownership of their master plan. It's conceivable of course that this would happen, but the manifestation and timing of the event rides an altogether different grain from the rest their interplay.
Both thugs are strong performers. "You think I came to America to work?" When the mean thug delivers that line ... you just know he's not very well tempered. De Niro endears the viewer to his character by first teasing, then assisting his unlikely partner, "You remind me of a puppy I used to have." His prep for a proposal moment further cements our sympathies ... however the actual proposal scene plays prominently cliche in this gritty original film.
"15 Minutes" starts out like an independent picture, but eventually explodes into an all out Hollywood production that takes you up with it and slams you down. Excellent dynamics and direction ... this film will do very well at the box office.
15 Minutes. Copyright © 2001. Rated R. * Starring Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes, Karel Roden, Oleg Taktarov, Vera Farmiga, John DiResta, James Handy, Darius McCrary. * Written by Directed by John Herzfeld. * Produced by David Blocker and John Herzfeld at Industry/New Redemption/Tribeca a New Line Presentation.
Grade..........................A-
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- __init__(self)
- get = method(self, **kwargs)
- Gets volume information for a single volume.
Args:
projection: string, Restrict information returned to a set of selected fields.
Allowed values
full - Includes all volume data.
lite - Includes a subset of fields in volumeInfo and accessInfo.
source: string, String to identify the originator of this request.
volumeId: string, Id of volume to retrieve. (required)
- list = method(self, **kwargs)
- Performs a book search.
Args:
orderBy: string, Sort search results.
Allowed values
newest - Most recently published.
relevance - Relevance to search terms.
filter: string, Filter search results.
Allowed values
ebooks - All Google eBooks.
free-ebooks - Google eBook with full volume text viewability.
full - Public can view entire volume text.
paid-ebooks - Google eBook with a price.
partial - Public able to see parts of text.
projection: string, Restrict information returned to a set of selected fields.
Allowed values
full - Includes all volume data.
lite - Includes a subset of fields in volumeInfo and accessInfo.
source: string, String to identify the originator of this request.
langRestrict: string, Restrict results to books with this language code.
printType: string, Restrict to books or magazines.
Allowed values
all - All volume content types.
books - Just books.
magazines - Just magazines.
maxResults: integer, Maximum number of results to return.
q: string, Full-text search query string. (required)
startIndex: integer, Index of the first result to return (starts at 0)
download: string, Restrict to volumes by download availability.
Allowed values
epub - All volumes with epub.
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Email Spec
A collection of RSpec matchers and Cucumber steps to make testing emails go smoothly.
This library works with ActionMailer and Pony. When using it with ActionMailer it works with DelayedJob, ActiveRecord Mailer, and action_mailer_cache_delivery.
When using the action_mailer_cache_delivery library you must use this fork: github.com/liangzan/action_mailer_cache_delivery
If you are testing emails in conjunction with an automated browser solution, like Selenium, you will want to use action_mailer_cache_delivery in your test environment. (This is because your test process and server processes are distinct and therefore need an intermediate store for the emails.) DelayedJob and ActiveRecord Mailer will also work but you generally don’t want to include those projects unless you need them in production.
Setup
script/plugin install git://github.com/bmabey/email-spec.git
Gem Setup
gem install email_spec # Gemfile group :test do gem 'email_spec' end
Cucumber
To use the steps in features put the following in your env.rb:
# Make sure this require is after you require cucumber/rails/world. require 'email_spec' # add this line if you use spork require 'email_spec/cucumber'
This will load all the helpers that the steps rely on. It will also add a Before hook for Cucumber so that emails are cleared at the start of each scenario.
Then:
rails generate email_spec:steps
This will give you a bunch of steps to get started with in step_definitions/email_steps.rb
By default, the generated file will look for email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>You can either change this by editing the current_email_address method in email_steps.rb, or by simply specifying the target email in your features:
Scenario: A new person signs up Given I am at "/" When I fill in "Email" with<EMAIL_ADDRESS>And I press "Sign up" And<EMAIL_ADDRESS>should receive an email # Specify who should receive the email
RSpec
First you need to require email_spec in your spec_helper.rb:
require "email_spec"
You will then need to include EmailSpec::Helpers and EmailSpec::Matchers in your example groups. If you want to have access to the helpers and matchers in all of your examples you can do the following in your spec_helper.rb:
Spec::Runner.configure do |config| config.include(EmailSpec::Helpers) config.include(EmailSpec::Matchers) end
Otherwise, you will need to include them in the example groups you wish to use them:
describe "Signup Email" do include EmailSpec::Helpers include EmailSpec::Matchers ... end
Usage
Cucumber
Scenario: A new person signs up Given I am at "/" When I fill in "Email" with<EMAIL_ADDRESS>And I press "Sign up" And I should receive an email When I open the email Then I should see "confirm" in the email body When I follow "confirm" in the email Then I should see "Confirm your new account"
For more examples, check out examples/rails_root in the source for a small example app that implements these steps.
RSpec
Testing In Isolation
It is often useful to test your mailers in isolation. You can accomplish this by using mocks to verify that the mailer is being called in the correct place and then write focused examples for the actual mailer. This is a simple example from the sample app found in the gem:
Verify that the mailer is used correctly in the controller (this would apply to a model as well):
describe "POST /signup (#signup)" do it "should deliver the signup email" do # expect<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"Jimmy Bean") # when post :signup, "Email" =><EMAIL_ADDRESS>"Name" => "Jimmy Bean" end end
Examples for the signup method in UserMailer:
describe "Signup Email" do include EmailSpec::Helpers include EmailSpec::Matchers include ActionController::UrlWriter before(:all) do @email =<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"Jojo Binks") end it "should be set to be delivered to the email passed in" do @email.should<EMAIL_ADDRESS>end it "should contain the user's message in the mail body" do @email.should have_body_text(/Jojo Binks/) end it "should contain a link to the confirmation link" do @email.should have_body_text(/#{confirm_account_url}/) end it "should have the correct subject" do @email.should have_subject(/Account confirmation/) end end
Using the helpers when not testing in isolation
Don’t. :) Seriously, if you do just take a look at the helpers and use them as you wish.
Original Authors
Ben Mabey, Aaron Gibralter, Mischa Fierer
Please see History.txt for upcoming changsets and other contributors.


Using Nest Wallet¶
Screenshots¶
Here's a quick image of Nest Wallet in action-
Downloading¶
Binary distributions can be found here.
Select the appropriate file for the target platform (Windows, Mac, Linux).
Windows and Mac binaries are provided in .zip
format, while Linux binaries are provided in .tar.gz
format.
Installing¶
Installing on Windows¶
Extract the .zip
file (TurtleCoin-Nest-x.xx-Windows.zip
).
Installing on Mac¶
Extract the .zip
file (TurtleCoin-Nest-x.xx-Mac.zip
).
Installing on Linux¶
Extract the .tar.gz
file (TurtleCoin-Nest-x.xx-Linux.tar.gz
).
tar -xzf TurtleCoin-Nest-x.xx-Linux.tar.gz
Synchronizing the Blockchain¶
Nest Wallet automatically synchronizes from a Public Node, ensuring that you quickly sync with the network and that excessive storage is not used up.
If you would rather sync from a local copy of the blockchain, select Local blockchain
before opening your wallet.
Using Nest Wallet¶
Windows¶
Run the TurtleCoin-Nest.exe
executable from the extracted files.
Mac¶
Double click the app TurtleCoin-Nest.app
from the extracted files.
If you have a blocking warning that says that this app comes from an unknown developer, right-click on the app, then click Open > Open
.
Linux¶
./TurtleCoin-Nest.sh
Creating a Wallet¶
Upon opening Nest Wallet, you will be greeted with a screen.
On the screen will be written Create a new wallet
.
Under it will be a box into which you can type something.
Type what you want the name of your wallet to be. For example, trtl
.
Next to it will be another box. In it, type a password to protect your wallet, and then confirm it.
You will need to enter it every time you open the wallet. Make sure to choose a strong one!
Once done, press CREATE
.
Opening a Wallet¶
Upon opening Nest Wallet, you will be greeted with a screen.
On the screen will be written Open an existing wallet
.
Under it will be a box.
Click on the box, File Explorer should open up. Navigate to where your xxx.wallet
file is saved and open it.
Next to it, enter the password you set while making the wallet.
Once done, click OPEN
.
Viewing Wallet Address¶
Upon opening your wallet, your wallet address will be in the middle of the wallet screen. Press the button next to it to copy it to your clipboard.
Exporting Keys¶
Each TurtleCoin wallet is, essentially, just a pair of keys (View Key and Spend Key) from which the public address is derived.
It is very important to export these keys and back them up somewhere that is safe and secure (meaning somewhere reliable/permanent that no one else can access).
In the event of a lost or corrupted wallet file, computer crash, etc., the View Key and Spend Key are the only way to restore a wallet and recover the funds it holds.
DO NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE. Anyone who has these can access your funds and has complete control over your wallet.
To back up your View Key and Spend Key, follow these steps-
- Click on
Backup wallet
- Copy(click on
Copy to clipboard
to do it quickly) and safely store thePrivate View Key
andPrivate Spend Key
. You can register the wallet with trtlbot++.
Viewing Wallet Balance¶
Upon opening your wallet, your balance will be on the top of the wallet screen.
Sending TurtleCoin Transactions¶
Upon opening your wallet, in the bottom right will be written TRANSFER
.
To send a transaction, enter the recipient's address under Recipient address
and the amount you want to send under Amount
.
Because transactions on the TurtleCoin blockchain are privatized, in some situations a payment ID is necessary for the recipient to be able to determine where the payment came from, for instance when depositing to an exchange or other service.
Usually the service/recipient will generate and provide the required payment ID.
To include a Payment ID, simply enter it under (optional) Payment ID
.
Changing Mixin and Fee¶
Currently, it is not possible to change the mixin (set to 4) or fee (set to 1 TRTL). This may be possible in the future.
For now remember, that 1 TRTL ontop of what you're sending will be deducted. So don't send your full balance!
### Saving the Wallet
To safely close the wallet, simply close it as you normally would; by clicking the X
at the top right/left, depending on your OS.
Recovering Your Wallet¶
Private View and Spend Keys¶
If you want to recover your wallet with your Private View and Spend Key, it is relatively easy.
Upon opening Nest Wallet, in the boxes under Import wallet from keys
-
- enter the name you want to give your wallet
- enter the password you want to encrypt your wallet with
- enter your View and Spend key in the bottom two boxes
Once done, click IMPORT
. The wallet will be restored and begin syncing with the blockchain.
25 Mnemonic Seed¶
View this guide for steps on recovering your wallet with your 25 word mnemonic seed.


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Popular Music Genres Introduction
Dec 16, 2019
There are so many different types of music like Jazz, R&B, Blues etc. If you listen each one of these music several times, you may know what’s it like, but also, you don’t know why. So the motivation of this article is to describe popular music genres in a academic way. I’ll try to introduce each common music genre specifically. Some typical examples would be better. This is an interesting work. Keep doing.
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Interspeech 2019 Voice Conversion Paper Review
Oct 10, 2019
For Interspeech 2019, this year there are two sessions about Voice Conversion(VC). In this post, I would mostly review VC-related papers in session ’ Neural Techniques for Voice Conversion and Waveform Generation’, which is mainly about speaker information transformation. It is interesting that StarGAN becomes very popular this year. All the three papers about StarGAN tries to improve performace by modifying its architecture or training strategy. Also is One-shot Learning VC (three papers) which convert source speech to arbitrary target speaker with very limited target speaker corpus. One of them uses VAE while other two methods use PPG. There are also three VC works named on Tomoki Toda which all based on VAE framework. (W.I.P)


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'We've Got to Be Careful’ With Crypto Regulation, Says QUOINE Co-Founder
by Gabriel RubinsteinnSpeaking during an on-stage panel at BlockShow Asia 2019, QUOINE co-founder Mike Kayamori said he has always been in favor of crypto regulation, but has begun changing his mind: "Crypto is evolving, and the government can't try to regulate things it still doesn't understand.”
Kayamori said he’s “always been a pro-regulation person,” but there is cause for being careful. “Politicians have their own agenda," he said. "I am still in favor of crypto regulation, but [it] needs to be done very carefully."
Crypto regulation has been one of the hottest topics at BlockShow Asia 2019, with almost every speaker offering their own take on the topic. Regulation has the powerful capacity to affect the whole industry.
During the same panel, crypto content creator Lark Davis said, "When some countries like Nepal, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia banned crypto a while ago, I thought it was so bad for a technology pretending to be global. But now there are some very good initiatives from governments in places such as France, Switzerland, Japan."
Only time will tell how it all shakes out.


Testing xpcc#
xpcc has seen some significant changes in the past and the level of maturity varies between "does not compile" and "very reliable".
There are different explicit and implicit test strategies in place for testing xpcc.
Manual tests#
When some new drivers were developed the developer often (not always!) tests the new driver with some real hardware (eval board) and a real peripheral at least on one platform with one compiler. The results on different platforms (AVR instead of ARM) and different hardware (eval board) may vary, although by design should not.
Mostly, these tests are only conducted when the development takes place.
Manual integration tests#
xpcc is the major platform for all programming efforts of the Robot Association Aachen (Roboterclub Aachen, RCA) at RWTH Aachen University. Some parts of xpcc run on real robots in real competitions. The maturity of these parts at least for RCA's hardware can be expected to be very high. This includes:
- The XPCC communication protocol
- The target platforms used in the specific season, e.g.
- STM32F407 in seasons 2014ff, but only under very specific test conditions, e.g.
- external 8 MHz oscillator
- core running at 168 MHz
- only using UART0, not UART1
- the hardware drivers build in the robots (e.g. CAN, VL6180, ...)
The test coverage is unknown but the system has proved to be reliable under conditions of the competition. Nevertheless, some unforseen problems may still occur at any time. Always fasten your seatbelt.
Continous integration#
xpcc on Github uses TravisCI for CI. A set of test jobs is run with every commit. These include release tests and unit tests.
Release test#
xpcc covers many different platforms and a huge number of chips. To make sure that at the code at least compiles for all platforms a TravisCI test job is in place as part of the Continous Integration. This only tests compiling on the TravisCI Linux virtual machine. Compiling may fail with different compilers and on different hosts.
To check if simple programs compile for a large set of microcontrollers call
scons check=devices
The test programs that are compiled are located in xpcc/release/tests
and differ for each platform.
To compile all examples from xpcc/examples
, run
scons check=examples
This does not include actually running the examples.
To compile device checks and examples simply run
scons check
Unit tests on hosted#
Some parts of xpcc which do not access hardware directly (like communication protocols, mathematical and logical functions) are tested with a xpcc specific unit test framework.
Tests can be found in the test
direcotry of each component, e.g. xpcc/src/xpcc/math/filter/test
. These test check for logic errors in the components. They are compiled for the targed hosted
(your computer) and run to check the expected result against a predifined and expected result. The test coverage of these tests vary.
Every new software component is expected to have these checks in place when contributed to xpcc.
Unit tests for hosted can be run with
scons unittest
Unit tests on target#
A very unique feature of the xpcc unit test framework is that the unit tests can be run on the target platform. This matters because in most cases xpcc is used for cross compiling and the target platform differs at least in one of the following features:
- compiler
- gcc/clang for x86 vs. arm-none-eabi-gcc vs. avr-gcc
- word size
- 64 bits vs. 8 bits or 32 bits
- presence of a FPU
- i7 vs. AVR vs. ARM Cortex-M4f
To cross-compile the set of unit tests for STM32 run
scons unittest target=stm32
This will create a binary xpcc/build/unittest_stm32/executable.elf
that can be manually programmed to STM32 F4 Discovery board. After reset, the unit tests are run and the result of the test is echoed to the serial console (USART2 in case of the STM32 F4 Discovery Board, see runner.cpp for details). The test runner is created from xpcc/templates/unittest/runner_stm32.cpp.in
and located in xpcc/build/unittest_stm32/runner.cpp
These tests are not automatically run and must therefore be run and interpreted manually from time to time.
All platform and hardware drivers still lack these kind of tests, including external stimuli and waveform verification.
scons unittest target=atmega scons unittest target=atxmega
Conclusions and Outlook#
xpcc has a varity of testing strategies in place, is being used on a regular basis by Roboterclub Aachen e. V., receives updates and bug fixes frequently and test coverage is constantly improved.


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I am making a Thanksgiving day special with all the Twitter turkeys everyone drew tonight for the Pre-Turkey Twitter Tweet Meet in St. Johns. I will make puppets with Popsicle sticks. It will be kind of like the Twitter Thanksgiving Turkey Parade.
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Class and defined type names may be broken up into segments called namespaces. Namespaces tell the autoloader how to find the class or defined type in your modules.
Important note: Earlier versions of Puppet used namespaces to navigate nested class/type definitions, and the code that resolves names still behaves as though this were their primary use. This can sometimes result in the wrong class being loaded. This is a major outstanding design issue (issue #2053) which will not be resolved in Puppet 3. See below for a full description of the issue.
Syntax
Puppet class and defined type names may consist of any number of namespace segments separated by the ::
(double colon) namespace separator. (This separator is analogous to the /
[slash] in a file path.)
class apache { ... }
class apache::mod { ... }
class apache::mod::passenger { ... }
define apache::vhost { ... }
Optionally, class/define names can begin with the top namespace, which is the empty string. The following names are equivalent:
apache
and::apache
apache::mod
and::apache::mod
- etc.
This is ugly and should be unnecessary, but is occasionally required due to an outstanding design issue. See below for details.
Autoloader Behavior
When a class or defined resource is declared, Puppet will use its full name to find the class or defined type in your modules. Names are interpreted as follows:
- The first segment in a name (excluding the empty “top” namespace) identifies the module. Every class and defined type should be in its own file in the module’s
manifests
directory, and each file should have the.pp
file extension. - If there are no additional namespaces, Puppet will look for the class or defined type in the module’s
init.pp
file. - Otherwise, Puppet will treat the final segment as the file name and any interior segments as a series of subdirectories under the
manifests
directory.
Thus, every class or defined type name maps directly to a file path within Puppet’s modulepath
:
| name | file path |
|---|---|
apache |
<modulepath>/apache/manifests/init.pp |
apache::mod |
<modulepath>/apache/manifests/mod.pp |
apache::mod::passenger |
<modulepath>/apache/manifests/mod/passenger.pp |
Note again that init.pp
always contains a class or defined type named after the module, and any other .pp
file contains a class or type with at least two namespace segments. (That is, apache.pp
would contain a class named apache::apache
.)
Relative Name Lookup and Incorrect Name Resolution
In Puppet 3, class name resolution is partially broken — if the final namespace segment of a class in one module matches the name of another module, Puppet will sometimes load the wrong class.
class bar {
notice("From class bar")
}
class foo::bar {
notice("From class foo::bar")
}
class foo {
include bar
}
include foo
In the example above, the invocation of include bar
will actually declare class foo::bar
. This is because Puppet assumes class and defined type names are relative until proven otherwise. This is a major outstanding design issue (issue #2053) which will not be resolved in Puppet 3, as the fix will break a large amount of existing code and require a long deprecation period.
Behavior
When asked to load a class or defined type foo
, Puppet will:
- Attempt to load
<current namespace>::foo
- If that fails, attempt to load
<parent of current namespace>::foo
- If that fails, continue searching for
foo
through every ancestor namespace - Finally, attempt to load
foo
from the top namespace (AKA::foo
)
A concrete example:
class apache::nagios {
include nagios
...
}
When asked to include nagios
, Puppet will first attempt to load apache::nagios::nagios
. Since that class does not exist, it will then attempt to load apache::nagios
. This exists, and since the include function can safely declare a class multiple times, Puppet does not complain. It will not attempt to load class nagios
from the nagios
module.
Workaround
If a class within another module is blocking the declaration of a top-namespace class, you can force the correct class to load by specifying its name from the top namespace (as seen above). To specify a name from the top namespace, prepend ::
(double colon) to it:
class apache::nagios {
include ::nagios # Start searching from the top namespace instead of the local namespace
...
}
In the example above, Puppet will load class nagios
from the nagios
module instead of declaring apache::nagios
a second time.
Aside: Historical Context
Relative name lookup was introduced in pre-module versions of Puppet. It reflects an outdated assumption about how modules would be used.
Proto-Modules
Before modules were introduced, users would create module-like blobs by putting a group of related classes and defined types into one manifest file, then using an import statement in
site.pp
to make the group available to the parser.
# /etc/puppet/manifests/apache.pp
class apache { ... } # Manage Apache
class ssl { ... } # Optional SSL support for Apache
class python { ... } # Optional mod_python support for Apache
define vhost ($port) { ... } # Create an Apache vhost
# /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
import apache.pp
include apache
include ssl
Namespacing for Redistribution
As proto-modules got more sophisticated, their authors wanted to share them with other users. The problem with this is visible above: many modules were likely to have a
python
orssl
class, and thelighttpd
module probably had avhost
define that clashed with the Apache one.The solution was namespacing, which would allow different proto-modules to use common class and defined type names without competing for global identifiers.
Private vs. Public
The implementation of namespaces relied on an assumption that turned out to be incorrect: that classes and defined types other than the module’s main class would (and should) mostly be used inside the module, rather than applied directly to nodes. (That is, they would be private, much like local variables.) Thus, namespacing was done by hiding definitions within other definitions:
class apache {
...
class ssl { ... }
class python { ... }
define vhost ($port) { ... }
}
The short names of the internal classes and defined types could only be used inside the main class. However, much like qualified variables, you could access them from anywhere by using their full (that is, namespaced) name. Full names were constructed by prepending the full name of the “outer” class, along with the
::
namespace separator. (That is, the full name ofssl
would beapache::ssl
,python
would beapache::python
, etc.)This was the origin of the relative name lookup behavior, as Puppet assumed that a class that had its own private
python
class would want to use that instead of the top-namespacepython
class.This Turned Out to be Pointless
Users and developers eventually realized several things about this arrangement:
- Using a class’s full name everywhere was actually not that big a deal and was in fact a lot clearer and easier to read and maintain.
- Public classes and defined types were more common than private ones and optimizing for the less common case was an odd approach.
- Even for classes and defined types that were only used within their module, there was little real benefit to be gained by making them “private,” since they were effectively public via their full name anyway.
Those realizations led to the superior module autoloader design used today, where a class’s “full” name is effectively its only name. However, the previous name lookup behavior was never deprecated or removed, for fear of breaking large amounts of existing code. This leaves it present in Puppet 3, where it often annoys users who have adopted the modern code style.
We plan to fix this in a future release, after a suitable deprecation period.


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[video] "12:01" A Postview, copyright p-m agapow 1997
A well-meaning but bumbling clerk (Silverman) takes a shine to one of the scientists (Slater) at his workplace but she is gunned down in front of him. Mysteriously, that night he is flung back in time to replay this day endlessly. He investigates a sinister experiment at the heart of both the murder and his time travel.
Previously, this Richard Lupoff story was filmed as a terrific and much blacker short feature, also called "12:01" (1990) and starring the wonderful Kurtwood "can you fly Bobby?" Smith. (Highly recommended, if you can get your hands on it.) It also bears a close resemblance to "Groundhog Day", of which it has been called the flipside (cv Leonard Maltin). As the two were released in the same year, it's difficult to see how much influence there could have been. But "12:01" (1993) seems to have snipped out the noir and nihilism of "12:01" (1990) and substituted the romanticism of "Groundhog Day" without the morality tale aspects.
Confused? Me too.
"12:01" (1993, that's this one, okay?) lumbers itself with enough liabilities it's a wonder it ever recovers. Jonathan Silverman (remember? "Weekend at Bernies"? 1 and 2?) attempts to scrap up enough charisma before the bank forecloses on his acting career. Helen Slater ("Supergirl") wrestles with blandness. Martin Landau as the head of the research laboratory is left to chew the scenery.  Serve lukewarm.
But while "12:01" never quite lives up to its predecessor, it manages some competence of its own. There is a consistent logic behind the time loop and Silverman's slow realisation of what is going on and his subsequent reaction are scripted with some care. (Some care. Some dumbness and also some care.) A modicum of pacing and a lack of the saccharine that (for me) ruined "Groundhog Day" helps make what could have been a disaster into a minor but diverting story.
Wonderful it ain't, but it passes muster. [**/ok] and one of the better episodes of "Space 1999" on the Sid and Nancy scale.
"12:01" Directed by Jack Sholder. >From a story by Richard Lupoff. Starring Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, Martin Landau, Nicolas Surovy. Released 1993.
------ paul-michael agapow (agapow@latcs1.oz.au), La Trobe Uni, Infocalypse "There is no adventure, there is no romance, there is only trouble and desire." [archived at http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~agapow/Postviews/]
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Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore,
My flashlight's from Taiwan,
My tablecloth's from Malaysia,
My belt buckle's from the Amazon.
You know, this shirt I wear comes from the Philippines
And the car I drive is a Chevrolet.
It was put together down in Argentina
By a guy making thirty cents a day.
Well, it's sundown on the union and what's made in the USA.
Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.
Well, this silk dress is from Hong Kong
And the pearls are from Japan.
Well, the dog collar's from India
And the flowerpot's from Pakistan.
All the furniture, it say "Made in Brazil",
Where a woman, she slaved for sure,
Bringing home thirty cents a day to a family of twelve –
You know, that's a lotta money to her.
Well, it's sundown on the union and what's made in the USA.
Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.
Well, you know, lots of people complaining that there is no work.
I say, "Why you say that for
When nothing you got is US-made?"
They don't make nothing here no more.
You know, capitalism is above the law,
It say, "It don't count 'less it sell."
When it costs too much to build it at home,
You just build it cheaper someplace else.
Well, it's sundown on the union and what's made in the USA.
Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.
Well, the job that you used to have,
They gave it to somebody down in El Salvador.
Well, the unions are big business, friend,
And they're going out like a dinosaur.
Well, they used to grow food in Kansas,
Now they wanna grow it on the moon and eat it raw.
I can see the day coming when even your home garden
Is gonna be against the law.
Well, it's sundown on the union and what's made in the USA.
Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.

This world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
From Broadway to the Milky Way,
That's a lot of territory indeed.
And a man's gonna do what he has to do
When he's got a hungry mouth to feed.
Well, it's sundown on the union and what's made in the USA.
Sure was a good idea till greed got in the way.


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FELONY A film review by Friday Jones Copyright 1996 Friday Jones
Directed by somebody without a lick of talent AKA Ted A. Prior Image laserdisc $39.95 list
This is quite simply the worst movie I have subjected myself to in a long time. I thought it couldn't fail because of the dandy cast of character actors. But I was wrong. Very, very wrong. The film opens with a cameraman, Mr. Knight, going along with a police raid on a house being used as a drug drop. The actor chosen to play Mr. Knight was not a very good choice: he's so short that the 1" master video camera he carries looks to be bigger than his torso. And he staggers quite perceptibly while carrying it. Anyway, Knight manages to film the massacre of all the policemen by some thugs led by David Warner (groovy character actor #1). Knight also films Warner driving away, and even has the GALL to turn on his camera lights to make sure he gets the shot of him - and yet Warner never notices! What's the deal here? Does Knight have an invisibility shield or what? Mr. Warner proceeds to blow up the house, which goes kablooey in a rather interesting fashion - all the walls seem to fly off in one piece, leaving the frame standing. Is this a house specially built to explode or what? Anyway, Knight gets bunged up in the explosion, but has his assistant/buddy, who looks a little bit like Bruce Dern but isn't, promise to retrieve the all-important videotape. Already this film is exerting a paralyzing aura of utter boredom which is close to stultifying - but wait, it gets WORSE. Now David Warner is reporting to his boss, Lance Henriksen (groovy character actor #2) about how he managed to overlook the cameraman filming his illegal and heinous deeds. Mr. Warner does not seem to give a very good accounting for himself. He looks bored. Lance looks bored. I am bored. I actually fantasized about pushing a button on my laserdisc remote which could make the dialogue turn into what the actors were really thinking: Warner: "Boy this script is abominable. And for that matter, so is that shirt you're wearing, Lance." Henriksen: "I couldn't agree with you more - I hate this shirt. Let's go kill our agents for arranging for us to appear in this dreck." Warner: "Oh, what a charming idea. Then let's flay the scriptwriter alive and roll him (or her) in salt." Henriksen: "I'll bring the flensing knives." Warner: "I'll bring the amphetamines so they can't escape into unconsciousness." Warner & Henriksen: (together) "LET'S PARTY!" The above discussion would have been more interesting than the sum total of the film, believe me. Warner never does say why he didn't see the cameraman. An interesting discussion might have been about how Warner was blind as a bat but refused to acknowledge it. Anyway, bad ol' Henriksen wants the tape back. Now we cut to our two cops who are going to be the hero-type people. They are Charles Napier (groovy character actor #3) and Leo Rossi, who I do not know but certainly has an interesting accent. Mr. Rossi and Mr. Henriksen are prominently featured on the front cover on the disc, so I assume that Rossi is some sort of a groovy guy. We are now approximately seven minutes into the film, and I start leaning on the fast-forward button. Even while Charles Napier is talking, I am leaning. This film is really starting to get on my nerves. Mr. Knight in the hospital meets a pretty nurse (Ashley Laurence - groovy character actor #4) and naturally goes ga-ga over her. Who wouldn't? But while he's there, the two cops show up to question him about the disappearance of the vital tape and substitution of a blank one.  I actually managed to watch this scene all the way through, mainly because two bad guys dressed as doctors were drifting around and I was hoping for a fight in the hospital. No such luck. The hitmen shoot Knight's cabdriver and Knight takes off on foot, eventually getting trapped in an alley after being shot in the arm. He rolls around in the garbage in a manner I found strangely attractive. Would be that the makers of this film had been rolling around with him. Anyway, Mr. Knight is about to be sent to his richly-deserved reward when somebody blows away the assassins and zips off with Knight in a pickup truck. That person being - Joe Don Baker! (groovy character actor #5). Mr. Baker gives Knight a big chunk o' expository dialogue about the CIA, drug running, internal investigations, and Knight jumps out of the truck. Who could blame him? Meanwhile, Knight's Bruce Dern look-alike buddy has made a copy of the tape and sells it to Warner, only to be ambushed by a group of overweight men in suits. Who the suits were I have no idea - I'm still hittin' that fast-forward button about once every three minutes. The buddy gets a hole blown in him, but lives long enough to crawl to Knight's house, where he gracelessly expires. Knight jumps out a window (or rather, a stuntman who is at least six inches taller than the diminutive actor does) and is on the run, with the cops thinking he killed his buddy. Naturally, Knight runs to Ashley Laurence's house for protection. And wouldn't you? She assaults him (alas, not sexually) with a tennis racket. And then -- Then I give up. I don't care about the plot. I don't care about the characters.  I'd much rather watch all these people sit around and talk for two hours about movies and their lives and stuff than have to endure this film. If the director had a lick of sense he'd set up a camera in the caterer's truck and secretly film the actors as they ate - I'd rather watch Lance Henriksen CHEW than watch this movie. I'd rather watch Joe Don Baker FART. I'd rather watch David Warner get the giggles, and MILK come out of his NOSE, than even pop this disc in for a moment to double-check my plot points. I found myself gloating with every blow, pummel and scrape rained upon the heads of the cast, wishing that those self-same pains could be inflicted in real life on the casting director who put such good people into such a rotten film. Look, these actors could ad-lib a better movie than this!  Basically, I leaned on the fast-forward for the rest of the film, and determined that evil was defeated, good triumphed, and there was a window left open for a SEQUEL - NO, PLEASE NOOOOOO! 1 * (only for the cast!)
- The Irreverend Friday Jones *Visit The House Of Slack* http://www.cybercom.net/~friday
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As we’ll be using the browser as our demo environment, let’s see a couple of functions to interact with the user: alert
, prompt
and confirm
.
This one we’ve seen already. It shows a message and waits for the user to press “OK”.
For example:
js run alert("Hello");
The mini-window with the message is called a modal window. The word “modal” means that the visitor can’t interact with the rest of the page, press other buttons, etc, until they have dealt with the window. In this case – until they press “OK”.
The function prompt
accepts two arguments:
js no-beautify result = prompt(title, [default]);
It shows a modal window with a text message, an input field for the visitor, and the buttons OK/Cancel.
title
default
``smart header="The square brackets in syntax
[…]" The square brackets around
default` in the syntax above denote that the parameter is optional, not required.
The visitor can type something in the prompt input field and press OK. Then we get that text in the `result`. Or they can cancel the input by pressing Cancel or hitting the `key:Esc` key, then we get `null` as the `result`.
The call to `prompt` returns the text from the input field or `null` if the input was canceled.
For instance:
```js run
let age = prompt('How old are you?', 100);
alert(`You are ${age} years old!`); // You are 100 years old!
```warn header="In IE: always supply a
default" The second parameter is optional, but if we don't supply it, Internet Explorer will insert the text
“undefined”` into the prompt.
Run this code in Internet Explorer to see:
js run let test = prompt("Test");
So, for prompts to look good in IE, we recommend always providing the second argument:
js run let test = prompt("Test", ""); // <-- for IE
## confirm
The syntax:
```js
result = confirm(question);
```
The function `confirm` shows a modal window with a `question` and two buttons: OK and Cancel.
The result is `true` if OK is pressed and `false` otherwise.
For example:
```js run
let isBoss = confirm("Are you the boss?");
alert( isBoss ); // true if OK is pressed
```
## Summary
We covered 3 browser-specific functions to interact with visitors:
`alert`
: shows a message.
`prompt`
: shows a message asking the user to input text. It returns the text or, if Cancel button or `key:Esc` is clicked, `null`.
`confirm`
: shows a message and waits for the user to press "OK" or "Cancel". It returns `true` for OK and `false` for Cancel/`key:Esc`.
All these methods are modal: they pause script execution and don't allow the visitor to interact with the rest of the page until the window has been dismissed.
There are two limitations shared by all the methods above:
1. The exact location of the modal window is determined by the browser. Usually, it's in the center.
2. The exact look of the window also depends on the browser. We can't modify it.
That is the price for simplicity. There are other ways to show nicer windows and richer interaction with the visitor, but if "bells and whistles" do not matter much, these methods work just fine.