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Compact Linear Fresnel Reflectors are CSP-plants which use many thin mirror strips instead of parabolic mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto two tubes with working fluid. This has the advantage that flat mirrors can be used which are much cheaper than parabolic mirrors, and that more reflectors can be placed in the same amount of space, allowing more of the available sunlight to be used. Concentrating linear fresnel reflectors can be used in either large or more compact plants.[16][17]
In 2010, the International Energy Agency predicted that global solar PV capacity could reach 3,000 GW or 11% of projected global electricity generation by 2050—enough to generate 4,500 TWh of electricity.[40] Four years later, in 2014, the agency projected that, under its "high renewables" scenario, solar power could supply 27% of global electricity generation by 2050 (16% from PV and 11% from CSP).[2]
Solar contractors face many decisions when it comes to finding the best solar design. One important consideration is determining whether to use module-level power electronics (microinverters or DC optimizers). Once costly specialty products, module-level power electronics have made great strides in the last decade and are rapidly growing in popularity. And there's good reason for…
The most common type of residential solar is called solar PV. The PV stands for "photovoltaic," and a solar PV system is a electrical system that consists of solar panels, an inverter, a meter, and a few other components (mounting, cabling, etc.). A solar PV system requires little to no maintenance for years, and if you're in a place with the right amount of sunlight, you can end up saving money, while also going green.
Stop getting twisted!! Gold Plated Contacts Heavy 30 amp Per conductor slip ring total 180 amps....Great for even heavy 12 volt environment wind generators as used in our Cat 5 and Freedom II Dual PMA Turbines This rotating connector will be great for the wind generator. The current can be split up in DC applications by using two conductors to cut down on the resistance. If you have application specific questions feel free to ask me before buying. Has 3 mounting holes in collar and long wires for easy installation Shared Specifications Wires 6 Current 0~30A Voltage 600 VDC/VAC Max speed 250RPM Overall diameter 30mm Length 66mm Contact Material Precious Metal:gold-gold Contact Resistance <2mOhm Housing Material Plastics Torque 0.06N.
In terms of ocean energy, another third-generation technology, Portugal has the world's first commercial wave farm, the Aguçadora Wave Park, under construction in 2007. The farm will initially use three Pelamis P-750 machines generating 2.25 MW.[44][45] and costs are put at 8.5 million euro. Subject to successful operation, a further 70 million euro is likely to be invested before 2009 on a further 28 machines to generate 525 MW.[46] Funding for a wave farm in Scotland was announced in February, 2007 by the Scottish Executive, at a cost of over 4 million pounds, as part of a £13 million funding packages for ocean power in Scotland. The farm will be the world's largest with a capacity of 3 MW generated by four Pelamis machines.[47] (see also Wave farm).
The market for renewable energy technologies has continued to grow. Climate change concerns and increasing in green jobs, coupled with high oil prices, peak oil, oil wars, oil spills, promotion of electric vehicles and renewable electricity, nuclear disasters and increasing government support, are driving increasing renewable energy legislation, incentives and commercialization.[10] New government spending, regulation and policies helped the industry weather the 2009 economic crisis better than many other sectors.[24][197]
What is a small wind turbine? Anything under, say, 10 meters rotor diameter (30 feet) is well within the "small wind" category. That works out to wind turbines with a rated power up to around 20 kW (at 11 m/s, or 25 mph). For larger wind turbines the manufacturers are usually a little more honest, and more money is available to do a good site analysis. The information in this article is generic: The same applies to all the other brands and models, be they of the HAWT (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine) or VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine) persuasion.
In 2016, the city bought its way out of a contract providing energy derived from fossil fuels and arranged to get its power from a 97-unit windfarm in Adrian, Texas, about 500 miles away in the Texas Panhandle. Georgetown doesn't own the farm, but its agreement allowed the owners to get the financing to build it. This spring, Georgetown is adding power from a 154-megawatt solar farm being built by NRG Energy in Fort Stockton, 340 miles to the west of the city.
Climate change concerns coupled with high oil prices and increasing government support are driving increasing rates of investment in the sustainable energy industries, according to a trend analysis from the United Nations Environment Programme. According to UNEP, global investment in sustainable energy in 2007 was higher than previous levels, with $148 billion of new money raised in 2007, an increase of 60% over 2006. Total financial transactions in sustainable energy, including acquisition activity, was $204 billion.[64]
Gary W. had no power lines near by. The electric company told him it would cost $10,000 a pole. He chose to purchase our medium sized system, The Homestead, one the most popular we sell. For an investment of under $20 Grand, he now lives where he wants, he is not tethered to the power company, and he does not have to worry about black outs or disconnection notices for late payments.
From the end of 2004, worldwide renewable energy capacity grew at rates of 10–60% annually for many technologies. In 2015 global investment in renewables rose 5% to $285.9 billion, breaking the previous record of $278.5 billion in 2011. 2015 was also the first year that saw renewables, excluding large hydro, account for the majority of all new power capacity (134 GW, making up 53.6% of the total). Of the renewables total, wind accounted for 72 GW and solar photovoltaics 56 GW; both record-breaking numbers and sharply up from 2014 figures (49 GW and 45 GW respectively). In financial terms, solar made up 56% of total new investment and wind accounted for 38%.
A wind turbine is made up of two major components and having looked at one of them, the rotor blade design in the previous tutorial, we can now look at the other, the Wind Turbine Generator or WTG's which is the electrical machine used to generate the electricity. A low rpm electrical generator is used for converting the mechanical rotational power produced by the winds energy into usable electricity to supply our homes and is at the heart of any wind power system.
Biofuels include a wide range of fuels which are derived from biomass. The term covers solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels.[73] Liquid biofuels include bioalcohols, such as bioethanol, and oils, such as biodiesel. Gaseous biofuels include biogas, landfill gas and synthetic gas. Bioethanol is an alcohol made by fermenting the sugar components of plant materials and it is made mostly from sugar and starch crops. These include maize, sugarcane and, more recently, sweet sorghum. The latter crop is particularly suitable for growing in dryland conditions, and is being investigated by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics for its potential to provide fuel, along with food and animal feed, in arid parts of Asia and Africa.[74]
Solar energy is a flexible energy technology: it can be built as distributed generation (located at or near the point of use) or as a central-station, utility-scale solar power plant (similar to traditional power plants). Both of these methods can also store the energy they produce for distribution after the sun sets, using cutting edge solar + storage technologies.
We've had our system running for about 6 months now, whole process took a little over 2 months, other than submitting a form to our HOA and reviewing/signing some docs, Brio took care of the whole thing. The system works great, one month after it was running our power bill with Duke went to $0! Even in the summer when it's usually really high, honestly we were kinda skeptical but it's worked as promised. We're in NC and mainly worked with Brendan, he explained everything clearly and has been very responsive whenever we had questions.... read more
DOE selected six companies for its 2007 Green Power Supplier Awards, including Constellation NewEnergy; 3Degrees; Sterling Planet; SunEdison; Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power; and Silicon Valley Power. The combined green power provided by those six winners equals more than 5 billion kilowatt-hours per year, which is enough to power nearly 465,000 average U.S. households. In 2014, Arcadia Power made RECS available to homes and businesses in all 50 states, allowing consumers to use "100% green power" as defined by the EPA's Green Power Partnership.[86][87]
Small-scale turbines are expensive (one manufacturer says a typical system costs $40,000 to $60,000 to install), though some of that outlay can be offset by federal and local tax credits. Experts recommend that you buy one certified by the Small Wind Certification Council. Turbine manufacturers include Bergey Wind Power, Britwind and Xzeres Wind; look on their websites for local dealers.
Grid parity, the point at which the cost of photovoltaic electricity is equal to or cheaper than the price of grid power, is more easily achieved in areas with abundant sun and high costs for electricity such as in California and Japan.[80] In 2008, The levelized cost of electricity for solar PV was $0.25/kWh or less in most of the OECD countries. By late 2011, the fully loaded cost was predicted to fall below $0.15/kWh for most of the OECD and to reach $0.10/kWh in sunnier regions. These cost levels are driving three emerging trends: vertical integration of the supply chain, origination of power purchase agreements (PPAs) by solar power companies, and unexpected risk for traditional power generation companies, grid operators and wind turbine manufacturers.[81][dead link]
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Most small wind turbines do not perform quite as well as their manufacturers want you to believe. That should come as no surprise at this point. What may be surprising is that even the turbines of the more honourable manufacturers that are honest about performance fall short, more often than not. The likely cause is turbulence and improper site selection.
The conversion of the rotational mechanical power generated by the rotor blades (known as the prime mover) into useful electrical power for use in domestic power and lighting applications or to charge batteries can be accomplished by any one of the following major types of rotational electrical machines commonly used in a wind power generating systems:
Despite these diverse developments, developments in fossil fuel systems almost entirely eliminated any wind turbine systems larger than supermicro size. In the early 1970s, however, anti-nuclear protests in Denmark spurred artisan mechanics to develop microturbines of 22 kW. Organizing owners into associations and co-operatives lead to the lobbying of the government and utilities and provided incentives for larger turbines throughout the 1980s and later. Local activists in Germany, nascent turbine manufacturers in Spain, and large investors in the United States in the early 1990s then lobbied for policies that stimulated the industry in those countries.
flywheel energy storage, pumped-storage hydroelectricity is more usable in stationary applications (e.g. to power homes and offices). In household power systems, conversion of energy can also be done to reduce smell. For example, organic matter such as cow dung and spoilable organic matter can be converted to biochar. To eliminate emissions, carbon capture and storage is then used.
"New Wind May Be Cheaper than Old, Reliable Coal" • Wind farms have cost less to build and operate than coal-fired power plants for some time. The trend of lower costs for renewables has crossed a threshold: it is sometimes cheaper to build a brand new wind facility than keep an old coal plant burning, according to Lazard Ltd. [Casper Star-Tribune Online]
Renewable energy, after its generation, needs to be stored in a medium for use with autonomous devices as well as vehicles. Also, to provide household electricity in remote areas (that is areas which are not connected to the mains electricity grid), energy storage is required for use with renewable energy. Energy generation and consumption systems used in the latter case are usually stand-alone power systems.
Worldwide growth of photovoltaics has averaged 40% per year from 2000 to 2013[35] and total installed capacity reached 303 GW at the end of 2016 with China having the most cumulative installations (78 GW)[36] and Honduras having the highest theoretical percentage of annual electricity usage which could be generated by solar PV (12.5%).[36][35] The largest manufacturers are located in China.[37][38]


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History Undergraduate Theses
"Kinder, Küche, und Kirche": Women's Work in the Third Reich
Margarete CrellingFollow
Winter 3-9-2018
Undergraduate Thesis
Elizabeth Sundermann
Under dictator Adolph Hitler, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state. When World War II was declared on September 1, 1939, it was clear that the world would never be the same. The Nazi Party controlled nearly every aspect of German society with an iron fist, including religion, education, culture, and the role of women and family. Today, conversations and research about the Nazi regime during World War II often focus on the horrors of the Holocaust and its male perpetrators—Adolf Hitler, his officers, and troops. The important role women played in Germany during World War II is often overlooked or misrepresented by Nazi propaganda. It is imperative to compare the portrayal and expectations for German women during World War II to their actual participation in the war effort and Nazi politics in order to reveal the fuller story of women's role in the Third Reich.
Why was the role of women in the Third Reich so contradictory? In what ways did German women challenge their expected domestic roles? Nazi propaganda during the war encouraged German women to dutifully fulfill their roles as mothers and wives. The phrase "Kinder, Küche, und Kirche" or "children, kitchen, and church" was often used to describe the role of women in German society, and many accept this common portrayal as the extent of German women's roles during World War II. However, this research will reveal that women did more than fulfill the expected role of domestic housewives. Many devoted time and energy to the war effort through political and military involvement, while others resisted the Nazi regime through calculated espionage.
Crelling, Margarete, ""Kinder, Küche, und Kirche": Women's Work in the Third Reich" (2018). History Undergraduate Theses. 31.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/history_theses/31
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Q: Is there a type-erased function wrapper in the Standard Library that matches std::thread's constructor semantics? I need to create a non-template class¹ that needs to hold a callable and its arguments, in order to invoke them at a later point.
Since this class is modelling an async execution, I'd like to give it API and semantics matching the ones of std::thread / std::async:
class Async {
public:
    template <typename Function, typename... Args >
    explicit Async(Function&& f, Args &&... args)
    {
         // perform a (decay) copy of the args,
         // store f and the copy somewhere
    }

    void call()
    {
        // to be possibly called in a different thread;
        // call the function stored. no need to return the results
    }

private:
    // which data members?
};

The first thing that came into my mind is use a std::function<void()> as the only data member, and initialize it from a std::bind over the arguments.
However, this doesn't work: std::function and std::bind don't support move-only types, and std::bind simply does not work in terms of std::invoke (and it does a lot of extra magic, like recursively resolve bindings).
Am I missing some easy-to-reach solution available in the Standard Library to implement this, or should I deploy my own binder and type-erased function wrapper classes?

¹ Long story short: this class needs to inherit from a base class with virtual methods, so making this class a template class would cause the usual code bloat and clashes due to the duplication of virtual tables and virtual methods appearing everywhere.

A: template<class T> T&& wrap_pm(T&& t) { return std::forward<T>(t); }
template<class T, class U>
auto wrap_pm(U T::* p) -> decltype(std::mem_fn(p)) { return std::mem_fn(p); }

class Async {
public:
    template <typename Function, typename... Args >
    explicit Async(Function&& f, Args &&... args)
      : fut(std::async(std::launch::deferred,
                       [f=std::forward<Function>(f)](auto&&... args) mutable
                       {
                           wrap_pm(std::move(f))(decltype(args)(args)...);
                       }, std::forward<Args>(args)...))
    { }
    void call()
    {
        fut.get();
    }

private:
    std::future<void> fut;
};

I make no promises as to efficiency.

A: Technically std::packaged_task<void()> matches your requirements.  It is serious overkill, as it can interact with threading and can produce futures.
I have written a task that handles move-only invokation, it is pretty simple.  Getting the small buffer optimization right is harder.
class Async {
public:
  template <typename Function, typename... Args >
  explicit Async(Function&& f, Args &&... args) {
    task = [f=std::forward<Function>(f), args=std::make_tuple(std::forward<Args>(args)...)]()mutable{
      std::apply(std::move(f), std::move(args));
    };
  }

  void call() {
    task();
    task={}; // don't call twice
  }

private:
  std::packaged_task<void()> task;
};

where I used C++17 std apply.  Just reimplement it, use google to find an implementaton.

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Gareth Southgate says England places are up for grabs in Euros clash with Germany
Gareth Southgate admits players can still force their way into England's starting line-up for Tuesday's Euro 2020 last-16 tie against Germany at Wembley.
By Our Reporter
Wednesday, 23rd June 2021, 11:32 pm
Updated Wednesday, 23rd June 2021, 11:34 pm
Southgate promised to watch the conclusion of the so-called group of death with an open mind about his selection, but now will have to plan for a major test against Joachim Low's side.
Germany twice came from behind against Hungary to draw 2-2 and finish as Group F runners-up, earning a visit to Group D winners England. Whoever wins will meet Sweden or Ukraine in the quarter-finals in Rome.
The Germans finished ahead of Portugal on goal difference, after the holders had also drawn 2-2 with group winners France thanks to two Cristiano Ronaldo penalties. Portugal also go through and face Belgium on Sunday.
Kai Havertz of Chelsea scores Germany's first goal in the draw with Hungary which secured their Euro 2020 date with England next week
Asked if he knew his ideal starting line-up in the last-16, Southgate said: "For the last 12 months whenever I've written a team sheet down anything more than two days before a game it's changed, so at the moment, no.
"We'll see how everybody is once we get back to St George's and through the next couple of days of recovery and we'll go from there.
"I think what's clear is that there are some areas of the team that we've been able to build closer to what we think is full strength as the last sort of four weeks or so has gone on.
"Players have arrived late from European finals or (we've) been unable to get them on the pitch following injury or lacked fitness and I've always felt that we were going to have to grow into this tournament in terms of selection. That's why the squad has been so important."
Southgate called England's group win a "real collective performance" given a challenging backdrop that continued this week when Mason Mount and Ben Chilwell were forced into isolation.
Scotland's Billy Gilmour tested positive for coronavirus following Friday's match and the Chelsea duo were identified as contacts, much to the confusion and frustration of those around the England camp.
Given that issue, it was no surprise to see an England employee go over to Declan Rice and hand out masks as he spoke to West Ham team-mates Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal after the Czech Republic game on Tuesday.
"I think that we've been incredibly vigilant throughout really, so it's been a real anomaly what's happened with the two boys," Southgate said.
"But because of what's happened we've had to speak to the players again just to remind them, but frankly our protocols meant we've not come unstuck in the past.
"How we've come unstuck and others haven't is beyond comprehension for me, really.
"Just because there's some evidence of ours and yet clearly the situation with others has been a higher risk in terms of passing the virus on, so it feels particularly harsh for our two players.
"It's not helpful for us as a team, but devastating for the two boys that they're in a major championship and they've had to miss out on a big part of it in this way."
Southgate expects Mount and Chilwell to be the only missing parts as he starts a pivotal stretch of training with the group.
"The first thing is it's great to have a couple of days to be able to recover the players because a few of them have had quite a heavy load in the last week or so at the end of a very long season," he said. "We've got to make sure that we don't overdo the work on the training ground."
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Q: ActionBar has covered page's content I have RecyclerView as the page's content, then I added drawer navigation. The drawer navigation works just fine. But the page's content got move up a little, so that leaves some text covered by ActionBar. I tried using layout_marginTop to move it down a little, and it worked. But I'm not sure what's causing everything to ignore ActionBar's position.

Here's my XML file:
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    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".NothingActivity"
    tools:openDrawer="start">

    <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/recycler"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:scrollbars="vertical" />
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        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
            app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"
            android:elevation="4dp" />

        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/fragment_container"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer_menu"/>

</androidx.drawerlayout.widget.DrawerLayout>

A: you can try a small hack. You can add marginTop to your recyclerView which is equal to the height of your ActionBar (by default it's 56dp). This will shift your recyclerView below the ActionBar. You can add some extra margin if you want.
Hope it helps.

A: Change the order of Recyclerview and Toolbar, moreover delete fragment_container
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xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
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android:layout_height="match_parent"
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tools:openDrawer="start">

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    android:orientation="vertical">

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        app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"
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In this new online posting of the digital comic Kitty Catch, Kitty Plur and Mr. Sharkoctopus have set up a date to meet but kitty plur thinks that Mr. Sharkoctopus has other ideas in his head. This comic strip was created by Jamaal R. James for James Creative Arts And Entertainment Company.
The one thing about Monday that makes is funner than any other day is it says Monday, but somehow on Sunday it says what a fun day….but sunday isn't Monday. So today is Monday…..so have fun and enjoy the day and don't forget to play on this Monday.


For this blog entry I quote Zuckerman, narrator of Philip Roth's American Pastoral. Although Zuckerman is coming from a writer's perspective and the reality (or not) of ever really knowing his or her subject, I believe it can be taken to a larger audience. I find it a perfect ode to our codependent parts that yearn to get it right— to be perfect — regardless of the subject.
Check out my event page to find dates and cost for the Creative Codependence Series starting February 26. Look forward to seeing you there.
I will also be teaching an expanded Awakening to Boundaries with horses and Equine Guided Development facilitator Carla Webb in Abbotsford in late spring.
Dates, cost and venues will be posted on January 14. If you would like one of these events taught in your area just drop me an email and we shall see what we can do.
For more information about these workshops go to the Creative Codependence Workshop page or drop me an email.


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Azerbaijan, Caucasus
Azerbaijan's Rural Areas Lack Lawyers Following New Rule
After dismissing 90% of its lawyers, Azerbaijan's rural population is struggling to find legal help.
Lamiya Adilgizi Feb 7, 2018
After dismissing about 90 percent of the country's lawyers late last year, Azerbaijan has taken the first step toward what it says will improve the quality of legal help in the country. But the early results suggest that Azerbaijanis, especially outside the capital, will continue to struggle to find legal help.
On January 28, the Azerbaijan Bar Association held its first bar exam since 2014. About 1,900 applicants took the test and 607 got high enough scores to pass on to the next round, which will be based on personal interviews.
But critics complain this group will hardly replace the roughly 8,000 lawyers that authorities abruptly barred from practicing law late last year.
Until November, Azerbaijan had a two-tiered legal system in which vəkillər were licensed bar members and hüquqşünaslar were lawyers who had not passed the bar but could represent clients in non-criminal courts.
There were about 8,000 hüquqşünaslar, however, and only 934 registered vəkillər. That makes roughly nine lawyers per 100,000 people in Azerbaijan, a ratio 18 times lower than the European average. In a decree formalizing the new rules in November, President Ilham Aliyev instructed the bar association to "take appropriate measures to increase the number of lawyers in order to ensure citizens' rights to receive high-quality legal assistance."
The January bar exam was highly anticipated, as it was to be the first step in rectifying that gap. "The issue of lack of lawyers in the regions will be solved as a result of these opportunities," said Anar Bagirov, the head of the bar association, after the test was administered.
Many are skeptical. Lawyers surveyed by Eurasianet criticized the exam for being excessively focused on memorization. It also eliminated logic questions, which had been staples of previous bar exams.
One lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous so as not to jeopardize his chances in the next round, said that complaints were common after the exam. "Nearly 30 percent of the questions were based on figures. There was no chance to find an answer in reference to your logic or experience. The only way to pass was by memorizing and learning some unnecessary details by heart," the lawyer said.
The structure of the test also disadvantaged aspiring lawyers from the provinces, some worried.
Of those who took the exam, 63 percent were from Baku and 37 percent from outside the capital, according to data from the bar association. Of those who passed this stage of the exam, the regional diversity was "not bad," Sahib Mammadov, chairman of the Citizens' Labor Rights Protection League, a government-affiliated advocacy group, was quoted as saying by local media. "I hope that in the next interview, most of them will be able to pass to the next stage."
Of those who passed, about 200 were from outside Baku, Farhad Najafov, the head of the bar association's administration, told Eurasianet. "Two hundred lawyers will definitely fill in the gap in the provinces," he said.
Yet many of those 200 are likely registered outside Baku but working in the capital, said one lawyer who passed the first stage of the exam and asked to remain anonymous. "I am one of those 200 lawyers. But the fact is that I won't work in the province, I will work in Baku. Being registered to the province does not mean that those people have to go and work in the provinces," the lawyer said.
"This means that we are talking about only a handful lawyers for the provinces," said Ruslan Aliev, a lawyer who has advocated against the new regulations. Aliev said that the test seemed to emphasize questions of criminal and international law, with which rural lawyers have less experience.
"To my mind, only 5 percent of the successful lawyers might be from the provinces, which means about 40 lawyers maximum. That is a very low figure for the 60 regions of Azerbaijan."
It does appear that one early speculation about the government's move – that it was aimed at disqualifying opposition or human-rights lawyers – may have been premature.
One provision that appeared to disqualify independent lawyers, relating to documentation of their work history, was lifted in December, a move that opened the way for most of the human-rights lawyers who had been hoping to take the test.
However, the next stage of the exam – the interview – is more subjective. And independent lawyers complain that the bar association is controlled by the government and has been systematically disbarring human-rights lawyers.
For example, in recent months two lawyers were disbarred after defending political prisoners and opposition figures. "The attitude toward lawyers who appeared in political cases can be seen by what happened to Yalchin Imanov and Fakhraddin Mehdiyev," said Annagi Hajibayli, former head of the Azerbaijan Lawyers Association. "The bar association is not independent and their decisions are the decisions of the authoritarian government rather than the association itself."
Still, many independent lawyers remain hopeful that the commission will be fair to their colleagues and not blacklist human-rights lawyers.
"After such a hard exam, our fate will depend on the decision of a small group. We still hope that the bar association will be loyal to its promise and will be more democratic and approach its upcoming colleagues with more empathy," Aliev said.
Lamiya Adilgizi is a freelance Azerbaijani reporter.
Lamiya Adilgizi is a freelance Azerbaijani journalist.
US-Iran conflict catches Caucasus in the crossfire
Abkhazian leader resigns, new elections called


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H D - S E N S E I
A view on Hi-def discs by Gary W. Tooze
A Fistful of Dollars (aka 'Per un pugno di dollari') [Blu-ray]
(Sergio Leone, 1964)
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NOTE: The Man With No Name Trilogy on Blu-ray Reviewed HERE
Review by Gary Tooze
Studio: Sony
Video: RHV (Ripley's Home Video)
Region: FREE NOTE: This Blu-ray is REGION FREE and will play on Blu-ray players around the world!
Feature Runtime: 1:39:54
Feature film disc size: 24.6 Gig
One single-layered Blu-ray
Case: Custom book-style case
Release date: October 7th, 2008
Video codec: VC-1
Italian TrueHD PCM 5.1, Italian 1.0, English: 1.0
Feature: Italian, English or none
• Documentary on Sergio Leone (1:48:50 - PAL - in Italian / no subtitles)
• On the Restoration (17:28 - PAL - in Italian / no subtitles)
• Trailer (in HD) 3:39 in Italian
NOTE There is more but it is both in PAL and Italian and I don't really know what it is.
Product Description: Clint Eastwood's legendary "Man With No Name" makes his powerful debut in this thrilling, action-packed "new breed of western" (Motion Picture Herald) from the acclaimed director of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More. Exploding with blistering shootouts, dynamic performances and atmospheric cinematography, it's an undisputed classic of the genre. A mysterious gunman (Eastwood) has just arrived in San Miguel, a grim, dusty border town where two rival bands of smugglers are terrorizing the impoverished citizens. A master of the "quick-draw,"the stranger soon receives offers of employment from each gang. But his loyalty cannot be bought; he accepts both jobs...and sets in motion a plan to destroy both groups of criminals, pitting one against the other in a series of brilliantly orchestrated setups, showdowns and deadly confrontations...
The Film:
A Fistful of Dollars is an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, a lifting of the themes and style of that samurai film that eventually ended with a settlement brought by a lawsuit from Kurosawa himself (for what it's worth, Kurosawa bestowed praise on Leone's film). Interesting to note is that the film that was once seen as borrowing from the works of another would be even more influential in the world of film for what new material its director and composer brought into it than what it would take from others. Minimalist characterizations, sparse conversations, highly-stylized shootouts, a surprising injection of comic relief, and a sentimental, almost melancholy presentation that brings a certain feeling of desolation and prolonged misery that is a byproduct of the amorality and anarchy that represented this part of the old West -- it's all part and parcel of Leone's vision that would set the tone for antiheroes to dominate the genre from here on out.
Eastwood, who had some success prior to this film in bit roles and on television in the popular Western series, "Rawhide", catapulted to stardom after the international release of the "Dollars" trilogy, and for good reason. Perhaps not since John Wayne himself had an actor so prominently evoked a feeling of screen presence, a man who says little, does much, and always seems to have the upper hand, even when the chips are down. His intelligence, charisma, and squinty-eyed looks made him a man worth watching, and someone you want to believe in. Though not the first choice for the part, it's hard to imagine any of the other considered actors (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, James Coburn -- three actors that Leone would use in later films) to be as commanding in the prolonged quiet and carry the same aura of calculated, measured dominance...
Excerpt from Vince Leo's review at Quipsters located HERE
Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.
Firstly - big thanks to Pasquale for altering me to the existence of this region free Blu-ray.
Great news - this is from a recent restoration made by Cineteca Nazionale and Ripley's Film. It looks very impressive in 1080P - and the film will celebrate its 35th birthday soon! Now, it's not perfect - there is noise - heavier than some may appreciate but detail and colors are far better than I have ever seen from this film before. Grain is present and overall it looks quite film-like to me. The features takes up a respectable 35 Gig on a dual-layered Blu-ray. No digital manipulation that I could see and you may view the expandable captures below to see the image in full 1080 resolution.
Audio & Music:
This Blu-ray offers a wonderful Italian TrueHD PCM 5.1 track that is a ton of fun. We have some aggressive moments and despite its lack of originality it's a great way to enjoy the film and Ennio Morricone's enchanting score (he is listed in the credits as Dan Savio). We have both Italian mono and English mono tracks available as well as Italian and English optional subtitles.
English-locked audiences lose here with the 1.5 hour Leone documentary being in PAL and Italian only (no subtitles). There are some other featurettes, one on the restoration, but they are also in PAL and Italian only. We do get an Italian trailer in HD running 3:39. There is also a nice, fairly thick book - but all in Italian and a leaflet with many pages appearing to have been signed by Sergio Leon (not printed on ?!?) and 10 great postcard-sized title card and posters.
I'm thrilled to pieces with this. One of the seminal Spaghetti Westerns - looking and sounding marvelous. What a treat. I didn't find it hard to order from DVD.IT but it did take its time crossing the pond. Still - I own it now and am so happy to have it in the collection. Hopefully more from the trilogy and other Leone works will come to 1080P soon. Great job RHV!
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#include <aws/chime/model/Bot.h>
#include <utility>

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class AmazonWebServiceResult;

namespace Utils
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namespace Json
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namespace Model
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He was 100% trained. "You're ready!" the guy said…He finished his job and then had 20 hours sleep in a good mood. (9 year-old Tom)
Tom was referred for inclusion in a Therapeutic Story Writing group by the school pastoral manager because of his lack of confidence. Tom was a bright Year 5 boy who, although polite and helpful, presented as quiet and shy in the classroom. Tom's class had a number of pupils with additional needs relating to social, emotional and mental health needs including some with verbally aggressive behaviour. Managing conflict and being "top dog" was a common theme for boys within the class and Tom was felt to be isolated from his peers, finding it difficult to form firm friendships.
Tom was included in a Therapeutic Story Writing Group with 5 other Year 5 pupils, four boys and a girl. The group was facilitated by two adults, including the school pastoral manager.
During the first session Tom presented in the group as in the classroom. He was polite and immediately able to engage in conversation with the adults. However, Tom was much quieter with the other pupils and whilst engaging in all the activities he appeared to lack confidence. For example, Tom wanted to take part in the final mime game acting out other pupils' stories but could not think of an idea and was reluctant to ask for help. In the end he opted out of the activity.
Over the ten weeks Tom wrote a story about "Crinkles the assassin cat". This was a fantastic tale of adventure and personal growth which captured the attention of the other pupils in the group. As the weeks progressed other pupils would regularly ask about Crinkles, or "Crinks" as he became known and showed a genuine interest in Tom's story. This validation of his story was a positive experience for Tom who visibly grew in confidence in the group.
In his first adventure Crinkles was feeling sad. He was alone "with his rusty sword" and was "never forgiven" for not knowing about the "pirate dogs invading cat cove". This sense of being on the edge reflected Tom's current situation in the class group. However, things changed quickly and by weeks two and three Crinkles began to show that he could be trusted to save the day: "I'm going to get you out of there!" whispered Crinkles. As the character of Crinkles developed and grew in confidence so did Tom.
Crinkles became Crinks, he rescued characters caught by the robber rats, he recovered stolen money or "cat bongers", built houses for his friends and travelled abroad. Crinks truly became the hero of his own story. He was no longer on the edge of the action but leading it and getting a positive response while doing so.
In week 8 Tom wrote a story called "Crinks the baby; part 8" in which he described where Crinks had come from: "In the year 1000 some woman, by the name of Jess Crinks the cat, was having a baby. He described how "ten years ago he was ten years old. He wanted to be an assassin. At school he had people trying to strangle him" but then, "twenty years later… He was an assassin!" Tom often referred to how long things had taken in his story; there was a sense of having had to wait a long time for his character's dream of becoming an assassin to come true.
In the final week, the story of Crinks took a turn and Crinks the assassin became Crinks the wizard. This story told of how Crinks had needed to have a lot of persistence over time to reach his goals, training through the night. The story was very positive. Crinks got a hoverboard and had to test his powers at wizard training but finally he is told "you're ready!" The final story of Crinks ends with the words "He finished his job and then he had 20 hours sleep in a good mood."
Tom's confidence blossomed throughout the group and he formed friendships with other boys within the group as well. After the first week Tom would take part in the acting out game at the end of the session and in week 8 even managed to laugh at himself when he tripped up during a mime. Staff in school reported that Tom was happier and more confident around school. He spent time with his new friends on the playground, and, like Crinkles, was no longer on the edge of the group. The other boys were also more able to manage their emotions and get along together. These changes were observed to last across the course of the academic year and beyond by the pastoral manager.
Case study presented by Dr Rachel Dann, Durham Educational Psychology Service
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Oreshura Season 2: Everything You Need to Know About It!!
Plot of Oreshura Season 2
Cast of Oreshura Season 2
Release Date for Oreshura Season 2
Season 2 Trailer for Oreshura
Oreshura is a gentle tale written with Yuji Yuji and illustrated by Ruroo. From January to March 2013, A-1 Pictures released four manga adaptations and a fiction adaptation.
The storey depicts the difficult situation of a teenage high school student who has been abandoned by his mother and father and is being fostered by her aunt. His arduous journey from his admission of disdain for relationships to the discovery of love in his life.
In a bittersweet romantic finale, Oreshura is shown covered up in the soup. The Oreshura season two will be close to its fate, as expected by its followers and as perplexed by them.
Eita Kido is a high school student whose goal is to graduate with high enough grades to earn a scholarship that will allow him to go medical school.
Eita refuses to have anything to do with love in his life because his parents are divorced, have found other partners, and have placed him in the custody of his aunt. Masuzu Natsukawa, the school's No. 1 magnificence, invites him to have a domestic stroll with her one day. Season 2 news may be found here.
Eita Kidou is a rambunctious high-school adolescent who aspires to be at the top of his class, but unlike most kids his age, he despises the concept of love.
His life appears to be average, and he spends the most of his time with Chiwa Harusaki, a childhood friend. But one day, his life is turned upside down when Masuzu Natsukawa, the most desired girl in school, professes her love for him. It simply diverts his attention away from his studies, and he wonders why she chose him out of all the others.
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Masuzu wants to stage a courtship when it's published, and her original goal is to fool the people around them into thinking they're dating. Recognizing that Eita may no longer accept her proposition, she blackmails him by threatening to reveal one of his secrets and tactics to the entire school. Eita accepts and agrees to be a part of the full deed.
His ex-girlfriend, Himeka, swiftly discovers this and decides to move in. When things look like they can't get much worse, Eita's fiance learns the whole storey and joins the fight. Eita now has to cope with not only the concerns of one fictitious relationship, but also with all of the issues that have arisen as a result of his connections with three other girls.
Kidou Eita
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Himeka Akishino is a Japanese actress.
For the time being, humanity have forgotten about Oreshura season two. It is expected that favourable news about the debut round in spring 2022 will be available soon.
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It's possible that Oreshura's fans may soon be able to see a preview of the second season, as the first was widely acclaimed throughout the universe.
Season 2 of Oreshura does not yet have a trailer. When we acquire a trailer, we'll let you know.
That's everything you need to know about Oreshura season 2. I hope you enjoyed this article. Please stay tuned for additional information!
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Pyston 0.6.1 released, and future plans
January 31, 2017 January 31, 2017 Kevin Modzelewski
Hello all, we're happy to release Pyston version 0.6.1, the latest version of our high-performance Python JIT. v0.6.1 contains performance enhancements over 0.6, bringing Pyston to 95% faster than CPython on standard benchmarks.
On the other hand, this is the last release that Dropbox is sponsoring. We wanted to take some time to talk about what that means, both about the space of Python performance, and about the Pyston project specifically.
What's happened
It's hard to break down the change in cost-benefit analysis, but here are some factors that went into our decision:
We spent much more time than we expected on compatibility
We similarly had to spend more time on memory usage due to it being a bigger concern than expected
Dropbox has increasingly been writing its performance-sensitive code in other languages, such as Go
Our personal take is that the increase on the "cost" side could potentially be considered typical, whereas the decrease on the "benefit" side was probably a larger driver. It's hard to say, though, since if we had managed to build things twice as fast the calculus would have been different.
We are quite proud that, over the last three years, we've been able to achieve meaningful speedups while maintaining a higher level of compatibility than other solutions: we are the first alternative Python runtime to be able to run Dropbox faster.
As for numbers, on the just-released v0.6.1, we are 95% faster on standard Python benchmarks. On web-workload benchmarks that we created, we are 48% faster. On Dropbox's server, we are 10% faster.
We think it's worth mentioning that the 10% speedup on Dropbox code is just a small fraction of what we think is possible with our approach. We've spent most of our time working on compatibility and memory usage and have not had time to optimize this particular workload.
Where we go from here
Marius and I are no longer spending our time working on Pyston and are transitioning to other projects. The project itself remains open source and available, and we are investigating ways that the project can continue, either in whole or in part. We are also looking into upstreaming parts of our code back to CPython, since our code is now based on theirs.
We're proud of what we've done and we are looking forward to going into more detail about the technical details in the near future. We also take some small consolation in having helped map out what Python performance-versus-compatibility tradeoffs may be valuable.
In the end, we are happy that we attempted this, are excited about the many potential ways that our work on Pyston could still be useful, and are happy to refocus ourselves on domains with more immediate needs.
Pyston 0.6 released
November 11, 2016 November 23, 2016 Marius Wachtler
We are excited to announce the v0.6 release of Pyston, our high performance Python JIT.
In this release our main goal was to reduce the overall memory footprint. It also contains a lot of additional smaller changes for improving compatibility and fixing bugs.
Memory usage reductions
One of the big items which reduced memory usage was moving away from representing the interpreter instructions in a tree and instead storing them as an actual bytecode. Now, each instruction follows each other in memory and does not involve pointer-chasing.
We are also much more aggressive in freeing unused memory now. For example for very hot functions which we compiled using the LLVM JIT (our highest tier) we now free the code which the baseline JIT emitted earlier-on. Additional bigger improvements were accomplished by making our analysis passes more memory efficient and fixing a few leaks.
This is a chart compares the maximal resident set size of several 64bit linux python implementations (lower is better) on a machine with 32GB of RAM.
While max RSS is not a very accurate memory usage number for various reasons, like not taking into account that pages can be shared between processes and only measuring peak usage, we think it shows nevertheless a very useful insight about how much (up to 2x) Pyston 0.6 improved over 0.5.1.
While we are happy that we were able to reduce the memory usage quite significantly in a few weeks we are not yet satisfied with it and will spend more time on reducing the memory usage further and developing better tools to investigate it. We have several ideas for this – some of the bytecode related ones are summarized here.
This release contains a lot of fixes for compatibility issues and other bugs. We also spent time on making it easier to replace CPython with Pyston, such as by more closely matching its directory structure and following its 'dict' ordering. We can now, for example, run pip and virtualenv unmodified, without requiring any upstream patches like other implementations do.
Aside: NumPy performance
NumPy hasn't been a priority for us, but from time to time we check on how well we can run it. We've focused on compatibility in the past, but for this post we took a look into performance as well. We don't have any NumPy-specific optimizations, so we were happy to see this graph from PyPy's numpy benchmark runner:
As you can see, we closely match CPython's performance on NumPy microbenchmarks, and are able to beat it on a few of the smaller ones. Our current understanding is that we are doing better on the left two benchmarks because they run much more quickly — in about 1000x less time than the right three. These shorter benchmarks spend a significant amount of time transitioning into and out of NumPy, which Pyston can help with, whereas the right three benchmarks are completely dominated by time inside NumPy.
As a side note, we the Pyston team don't want to be in the business of picking what NumPy workloads are important. If you have a program that you think shows real-world NumPy usage, please let us know because we would love to start benchmarking real programs rather than simple matrix operations.
As always, you can check out our online speed center for more details on our performance and memory usage.
We would like to thank all our open source contributors who contributed to this release, and especially Nexedi for their employment of Boxiang Sun, one of our core contributors.
Dong-hee Na
Krish Munot
Long Ang
Lucien Chan
SangHee Lee
Pyston 0.5.1 released
July 14, 2016 Marius Wachtler
We are excited to announce the v0.5.1 release of Pyston, our high performance Python JIT.
This minor release passes all SciPy tests and is on average about 15% faster than 0.5.0. In addition several bug fixes and compatibility improvements got merged.
Performance related changes:
We released recently a blog post about our baseline JIT and inline caches. This release brings a lot of improvements in this area, some of the changes are:
the number of ICs slots is now variable. Before we specified for every IC how many slots it has and how large they should be (all slots in a IC had the same size). This often led to higher memory usage than necessary. We changed it now to a fixed size of memory which will than get filled with variable size slots whenever a new slot is required and there is space left in the IC. In addition this makes our IC size estimates in the LLVM tier more accurate because they are now based on the number of bytes we required in the bjit tier.
the interpreter reuses the stack slots (internally called vregs) assigned to temporary values which are only live in a basic block. This reduces stack usage which saves memory and made Pyston faster.
better non null value tracking, stack spilling, duplicate guard removal and much more temporary values will get held in registers
the bjit and ICs can now use callee-save register which removes a lot of spilling around calls
added a script which allows to inspect jited code directly from `perf report`.
usage with `make perf_<testname>`
our codegen and analysis passes now work on the vreg numbers which allows us to use arrays as internal data structures instead of hash tables which makes the code easier to understand and faster
faster reference counting pass in the code generator of the LLVM tier
Performance comparison:
startup performance benchmarks:
This benchmarks show that the startup time improved significantly. Part of this comes from the numerous bjit improvements mentioned above (the chart also contains a direct comparison between the bjit performance of the different releases).
steady state benchmarks:
There are still a lot of low hanging fruit and we still have a huge amount of ideas for (performance) improvements for future releases.
The next months we will use to make Pyston ready for usage at dropbox – this is going to be very exciting 🙂
Finally, we would like to thank all of our open source contributors who have contributed to this release, and especially Nexedi for their employment of Boxiang Sun, one of our core contributors who helped greatly with the SciPy support.
Cullen Rhodes
baseline jit and inline caches
June 30, 2016 Marius Wachtler
Creating an implementation for a dynamic language using just in time compilation (JIT) techniques involves a lot of compromises mainly between complexity of the implementation, speed, warm-up time and memory usage.
Especially speed is a difficult trade-off because it's very easy to end-up spending more time optimizing a piece of code and emitting the assembly than we will ever be able to save by executing faster than executing it in a less optimized way.
This causes most JIT language implementations to use an approach of different tiers – approaches to running the code and different amount of optimizations done depending on how often the specific piece of code gets executed. Thereby reducing the chance that more time will get spend transforming the code in to a more efficient representation than it would take to execute it in a less efficient representation.
baseline just in time compiler
We noticed that our interpreter is interpreting code quite slowly while the LLVM tier takes a lot of time to JIT (even with the object cache which made it much faster) so it was obvious that we either have to speed the interpreter up or introduce a new tier in between.
There are well-known problems with our interpreter, mainly it's slow because it does not represent the code in a contiguous block of memory (bytecode) but instead it involves a lot of pointer chasing because we reuse our AST nodes. Fixing this would be comparable easy but we still thought that this will only improve the performance a little bit but will not give us the performance we want.
About a year ago we introduced a new execution tier instead, the baseline jit (bjit). It is used for python code which is executed a medium number of times and therefore lives between the interpreter and the LLVM JIT tier. In practice this means most code which executes more than 25 times will currently end-up in the bjit and if it gets executed more than about 2500 times we will recompile it using the LLVM tier.
The main goal of the bjit is to generate reasonable machine code very fast and making heavy use of inline caches to get good performance (more on this further down).
It involved a number of design decisions (some may change in the future) but what we currently ended up with:
reuse our inline cache mechanism
it transform the bjit from only being able to remove the interpretation overhead (which is quite low for python – it depends on the workload but probably not more than 20%) to a JIT which actually is able to improve the performance by a much larger factor
generate machine code for a basic block at a time
only generating code for blocks which actually get executed reduces the time to generate code and memory usage at the expense of not being able to do optimizations across blocks (at the moment)
highly coupled to the interpreter and using the same frame format
making it very easy and fast to switch between the interpreter and bjit at every basic block start
we can fallback to the interpreter for blocks which contain operations which we are unable to JIT or for blocks which are unreasonable to JIT because the may be very large and generating code for them would cost too much memory
makes it easy to tier up to the bjit when we interpret a function which contains a loop with a large amount of iterations
does not use type analysis and all code it generates makes no assumptions about types
this makes it always safe to execute code in the bjit
type specific code is only inside the ICs and always contains a call to a generic implementation in case the assumptions don't hold
all types are boxed / real python objects
it collects type information which we will use in LLVM tier to generate more optimized code later on if the function turns out to be hot
if an assumption in the LLVM tier turns out to be wrong we will deoptimize to the interpreter/bjit
Inline Cache
the inline cache mechanism is used in the LLVM tier and in the baseline JIT and is currently responsible for most of the performance improvements over the cpython interpreter (which does not use this technique). It removes most of the dynamic dictionary lookups and additional branching which a "normal" python interpreter often has to do. For every operation where we can use ICs we will provide a block of memory and fill it with a lot of nops and a call to the generic implementation of the operation. Therefore the first time we execute the code we will call into the generic implementation but it will trace the execution of the operation using the arguments supplied. It then fills in the block of memory a more optimized type specific version of the operation which we can use the next time we will hit this IC slot if the assumptions the trace made still hold.
Here is a simple diagram of how a IC with two slots could look like:
A simple example will make it easier to understand what we are doing.
For the python function:
def f(a, b):
return a + b
The CFG will look like this:
Block 0 'entry'; Predecessors: Successors:
#0 = a
#1 = b
#2 = #0+#1
return #2
We will now look at the IC for #2 = #0+#1
For example if we call f(1, 1) for the first time the C++ function binop() will trace the execution and fill in the memory block with the code to do an addition between two python int objects (it uses a C++ helper function called intAddInt()):
Notice the guard comparisons inside the first IC slot, they make sure that we will only use the more optimized implementation of the operation if it's safe to do so (in this case the arguments have the same types and the types did not get modified since the trace got created) and otherwise jump to the next IC slot. Or if there is no optimized version call the generic implementation which is always safe to execute.
Most code is not very dynamic which means filling in one or two slots with optimized versions of a operation is enough to catch all encountered cases.
For example if we later on call f("hello ", "world") we will add a new slot in the IC:
We use ICs for nearly all operations not only for binary ones like the example showed. We also use them for stuff like global scope variable lookup, retrieving and setting attributes and much more (we also support more than two slots). Not all traces call helper functions like we have seen in the example some are inlined in the slot.
Pyston will overwrite slots if they already generated slots turn out to be invalid or unused because they assumption of the trace don't hold anymore. Some code (luckily this is uncommon) is highly dynamic in this cases we will try to fill in the slot with a less aggressive version if possible – one which makes less assumption. If not possible we will just always call the generic version (like cpython always does).
The code we emit inside the ICs has similar trade offs to the bjit code – mainly it needs to get emitted very fast. We prefer generating smaller code instead of faster one because of the fixed size of the inline cache. It's better to generate a smaller version which allows us to embed more slots if necessary and trashes the instruction cache less.
lots of ideas for improvements
Both the inline cache mechanism and the bjit have a lot of room for improvements. Some of the ideas we have are:
directly emit the content of some of the IC slots of the bjit in the LLVM tier as LLVM IR which makes it accessible to a powerful optimization pipeline which emits much better code with sophisticated inlining and much more
generating better representation for highly polymorphic sides
smarter (less) guards
introducing a simple IR which allows us to do some optimizations
better register allocation
allow tracing of additional operations
removal of unnecessary reference counting operations
the whole trace generation requires writing manual c++ code (called 'rewriter' inside the code base) which makes them quite hard to write but with the benefit of giving us total control of how a slot looks like. In the future we could try find a better trade-off by automatically generating them from the c++ code or LLVM IR when possible
We've already made a lot of improvements in this area, stay tuned for a 0.5.1 blog post talking about them 🙂
May 25, 2016 May 25, 2016 Kevin Modzelewski
Today we are extremely excited to announce the v0.5 release of Pyston, our high performance Python JIT. We've been a bit quiet for the past few months, and that's because we've been working on some behind-the-scenes technology that we are finally ready to unveil. It might be a bit less shiny than some other things we could have worked on, but this change makes Pyston much more ready to use.
Pyston is now using reference counting.
Refcounting
Reference counting ("refcounting"), is a form of automatic memory management. It's usually viewed as slower and less sophisticated than using a tracing garbage collector (a "GC"), the predominant technique in modern languages. All past versions of Pyston contained tracing garbage collectors, and much of our work from 0.4 to 0.5 was tearing it out in favor of refcounting.
Why did we do this? In short, because CPython (the main Python implementation) uses refcounting. We used a GC initially to try to get more performance. But applying a tracing GC to a refcounting C API, such as the one that Python has, is risky and comes with many performance pitfalls. And most challengingly, Pyston wants to support the large amount of code that has been written that relies on the special properties that refcounting provides (predictable immediate destruction). We found that we had to go to greater and greater lengths to support these programs, and there were also cases where we wouldn't be able to support the applications in their current form.
So we decided to bite the bullet and convert to refcounting, with the goal of getting better application compatibility.
We are very happy to announce: we can run NumPy, unmodified.
Specifically: on their latest release (v1.11), we run their entire test suite with one test failure, for which they've accepted our patch. For their latest trunk, we have three test failures. We do need to use a modified version of part of their build chain (Cython), and we are currently slower on the test suite than CPython.
Regardless, we are very happy with this result, especially because we will continue to improve both the compatibility and performance.
There are quite a few non-refcounting features that made it into this release as well:
Frame introspection of exited frames
Generator cleanup
Support for more C API functions, such as custom tracebacks
and many more small fixes than we can list here
These are a large part of our progress on NumPy, and they also help us run other tricky libraries such as py.test, lxml, and cffi. We've also greatly reduced the number of modifications that we maintain to the Python standard libraries and C extensions. Overall, refcounting was a big investment, but it's bought us compatibility wins that we would have had a very hard time getting otherwise.
Unfortunately, since performance wasn't our goal for this release, we did slide backwards a bit. v0.5 is about 10% slower than v0.4 was, largely due to the change to refcounting. We are okay with the regression since we explicitly focused on compatibility for the last six months, and our refcounting implementation still has many available optimizations.
As a side note, the "conventional wisdom" is that refcounting should have been even slower compared to using a GC. We attribute this mainly to the compatibility restrictions that hampered our GC implementation.
There is a lot of low-hanging performance fruit available to us right now which we have been explicitly avoiding while we finished refcounting. Now would be a great time to consider contributing since we have more ideas than we can implement ourselves. This is especially true when it comes to NumPy performance.
Currently, we take about twice as long to run the NumPy test suite as CPython does. We don't know how this will translate to performance on real NumPy programs, but we do know that much of the slowdown falls into two categories: the first is NumPy hits code paths that are otherwise-rare in Pyston and are currently unoptimized. The second is a bit more subtle: NumPy frequently calls from C code back into the Python runtime, which is expensive for us because it doesn't benefit from our JIT (in addition to being previously-rare). We have techniques inside Pyston to handle these situations and invoke our JIT from C code, and we'd like to start exposing that so that NumPy and other libraries can use it.
We apologize — again — for the lengthy release cycle. We didn't expect refcounting to take this long, and we even knew that it would take longer than we expected. We're planning on doing another blog post to talk about what the difficulties were with it and go into more of the technical details of our refcounting system.
Moving forward, our plan for 0.6 is to focus on performance. We would love help from the community on identifying what is important to make performant. We could work on making the NumPy test suite fast, but it may not end up translating to real NumPy workloads.
We're at the point that trying out Pyston should be easy; it won't benefit all workloads, but it should be easy to drop it in and see if it does. To test it out, try
docker run -it pyston/pyston
or check out our readme for other options for obtaining Pyston. To try NumPy, use the "pyston/pyston-numpy" image instead.
We have quite a few optimization ideas lined up, and the pressure has been strong to delay the 0.5 release "just one more week" so that we have time to include some of them. Expect to see an 0.5.1 release that improves performance.
Refcounting brings Pyston one step closer to being a drop-in replacement for CPython. There is still much more work to do, but we feel like with refcounting we've reached a threshold where we'd like to start getting Pyston into peoples' hands. It's still very much beta software, so there are many rough edges and unoptimized casses. But we want your feedback on what's working and what's not.
Finally, we would like to thank all of our open source contributors who have contributed to this release, and especially Nexedi for their employment of Boxiang Sun, one of our core contributors who helped greatly with the NumPy support.
Boxiang Sun
Rudi Chen
@LoyukiL
Tony Narlock
Felipe Volpone
Daniel Milde
Krish Monut
Jacek Wielemborek
Pyston talk recording
November 24, 2015 December 2, 2015 Kevin Modzelewski
Hi all, two weeks ago we gave a talk about the current status of Pyston, including some technical details about our JIT strategy and its motivation. I'm glad many of you could make it! For those who couldn't, we now have the talk uploaded, check it out:
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For a list of common questions about our project, please see our FAQ.
We are very excited to release Pyston 0.4, the latest version of our high-performance Python JIT. We have a lot to announce with this release, with the highlights of being able to render Dropbox webpages, and achieve performance 25% better than CPython (the main Python implementation) on our benchmark suite. We are also excited to unveil our project logo:
A lot has happened in the eight months since the 0.3 release: the 0.4 release contains 2000 commits, three times as many commits as either the 0.2 or 0.3 release. Moving forward, our plan is to release every four months, but for now please enjoy a double-sized release.
While not individually headline-worthy, this release includes a large number of new features:
Unicode support
Support for weakrefs and finalizers (__del__), including proper ordering
with-statements
exec s in {}
Mutating functions in place, such as by setting func_code, func_defaults, or func_globals
Import hooks
Set comprehensions
Much improved C API support
Better support for standard command line arguments
Support for multi-line statements in the REPL
Traceback and frame objects, locals()
Together, these mean that we support almost all Python semantics. In addition, we've implemented a large number of things that aren't usually considered "features" but nonetheless are important to supporting common libraries. This includes small things such as supporting all the combinations of arguments builtin functions can take (passing None as the function to map()) or "fun" things such as mutating sys.modules to change the result of an import statement.
Together, these new features mean that we support many common libraries. We successfully run the test suites of a number of libraries such as django and sqlalchemy, and are continually adding more. We have also started running the CPython test suite and have added 153 (out of 401) of their test files to our testing suite.
We also have some initial support for NumPy. This isn't a priority for us at the moment (our initial target codebase doesn't use NumPy), but we spent a small amount of time on it and got some simple NumPy examples working.
And most importantly, we now have the ability to run the main Dropbox server, and can render many of its webpages. There's still more work to be done here — we need to get the test suite running, and get a performance-testing regimen in place so we can start reporting real performance numbers and comparisons — but we are extremely happy with the progress here.
One thing that has helped a lot in this process is our improved C API support. CPython has a C API that can be used for writing extension modules, and starting in the 0.2 release we added a basic compatibility layer that translated between our APIs and the CPython ones. Over time we've been able to extend this compatibility to the point that not only can we support C extensions, but we also support running CPython's internal code, since it is written to the same API. This means that to support a new API function we can now use CPython's implementation of the function rather than implementing it on top of our APIs.
As we've implemented more and more APIs using CPython's implementation, it's become hard to continue thinking of our support as a compatibility layer, and it's more realistic to think of CPython as the base for our runtime rather than a compatibility target. This has also been very useful towards our goal of running the Dropbox server: we have been able to directly use CPython's implementation of many tricky features, such as unicode handling. We wouldn't have been able to run the Dropbox server in this amount of time if we had to implement the entire Python runtime ourselves.
We've made a number of improvements to Pyston's performance, including:
Adding a custom C++ exception unwinder. This new unwinder takes advantage of Pyston's existing restrictions to make C++ exceptions twice as fast.
Using fast return-code-based exceptions when we think exceptions will be common, either due to the specifics of the code, or due to runtime profiling.
A baseline jit tier, which sits between the interpreter and the LLVM JIT. This tier approaches the performance of the LLVM tier but has much lower startup overhead.
A new on-disk cache that eliminates most of the LLVM tier's cost on non-initial runs.
Many tracing enhancements, producing better code and supporting more cases
New CAPI calling conventions that can greatly speed up calling CAPI functions.
Converted some builtin modules to shared modules to improve startup time.
Added a PGO build, and used its function ordering in normal builds as well.
Conspicuously absent from this list is better LLVM optimizations. Our LLVM tier has been able to do well on microbenchmarks, but on "real code" it tends to have very little knowledge of the behavior of the program, even if it knows all of the types. This is because knowing the types of objects only peels away the first level of dynamicism: we can figure out what function we should call, but that function will itself often contain a dynamic call. For example, if we know that we are calling the len() function, we can eliminate the dynamic dispatch and immediately call into our implementation of len() — but that implementation will itself do a dynamic call of arg.__len__(). While len() is common enough that we could special-case it in our LLVM tier, this kind of multiple-levels-of-dynamicism is very common, and we have been increasingly relying on our mini tracing JIT to peel away all layers at once. The result is that we get good execution of each individual bytecode, but the downside is that we are currently lacking good inter-bytecode optimizations. Our plan is to integrate the per-bytecode tracing JIT and the LLVM method JIT to achieve the best of both worlds.
We updated our benchmarks suite to use three real-world libraries: our suite contains a benchmark based on each of pyxl, django, and sqlalchemy. Benchmark selection is a contentious topic, but we like these benchmarks because they are more typical of web servers than existing Python benchmark suites.
On these benchmarks, we are 25% faster than CPython (and 25% slower than PyPy 4.0.0). We have a full performance tracking site, where you can see our latest benchmark results (note: that last link will auto-update over time and isn't comparing the same configurations as the 25% result).
We also have a number of exciting developments that aren't directly related to our code:
We switched from a Makefile build system to a CMake-based one. This lets us have some nice features such as a configure step, faster builds (by supporting Ninja), and down the road easier support for new platforms. This was done by an open source contributor, Daniel Agar, and we are very thankful!
We have more docs. Check out our wiki for some documentation on internal systems, or tips for new contributors. Browsing the codebase should be easier as well.
We have a logo!
We had 184 commits from 11 open source contributors. A special shoutout to Boxiang Sun, who has greatly helped with our compatibility!
We have a pre-built binary available to download on Github (though please see the notes there on running it). Pyston is still in a pre-launch state, so please expect crashes or occasional poor performance, depending on what you run it on. But if you see any of that, please let us know either in our Gitter channel or by filing a Github issue. We're excited to hear what you think!
If you are in the Bay Area, we are having a talk + meetup at the Dropbox SF office at 6:30pm on November 10th. We only have a few spaces left, so please RSVP if you are interested. More details at the RSVP link.
We have a lot of exciting things planned for our 0.5 series as well. Our current goals are to implement a few final features (such as inspection of stack frames after they exit), to continue improving performance, and to start running some Dropbox services on Pyston. It's an exciting time, and as always we are taking new contributors! If you're interested in contributing, feel free to peruse our docs, check out our list of open issues, or just say hi!


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The anime series, known in Japan as Nanatsu no Taizai, returns for its second season to see Meliodas, the Dragon's Sin of Wrath and leader of the team, facing a new foe in form of Zeldris, Comicbook.com reported.
According to the outlet, the show returned to tie up loose ends from the cliffhanger Season 1 finale where Zeldris appeared and called the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins by his real name. While anime viewers were a bit baffled by this conclusion, those who were able to read the manga know exactly why this character appeared.
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Based on the outlet's report, Meliodas and Zeldris share similar talents, including their leadership skills but differ when it comes to volatility. He has also become the strongest of the Ten Commandments.
Interestingly, the pilot episode of The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 provided a chance for its makers to retcon the last 10 minutes of Season 1's final episode.
In another report, Comicbook.com explained that everything that happened in the Season 1 finale had all been just a dream—Elizabeth's dream, to be exact.
For those who had forgotten, Season 1 ended with six members of the Seven Deadly Sins fighting the Holy Knight Hendrickson, who later ended up with a surprise return by stealing Meliodas' sword to raise the demon race. After that, the Sins and Elizabeth went on to a quest to locate their seventh member, Escanor, the Lion's Sin of Pride.
However, that was actually way off the actual story told in the manga, something that The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 appeared to have corrected during its premiere. With that said, it looks like the group is bound to face a new foe after all in the form of the Ten Commandments.


The stylus or needle is a crucial part of any cartridge because it is the part that rides on the record groove. In most cartridges particularly moving magnets, the stylus is user replaceable, hence your interest. In moving coil designs, the whole cartridge needs to be replaced or sent back to the factory for re-tipping.
The stylus unit is actually made up of three to four parts. There is the stylus itself which is made of a hard material typically diamond. It is mounted on the end of a short arm called a cantilever that can pivot as the stylus tracks and is moved by the record grooves. The cantilever is fastened to a grip, an appropriate term for a contraption that you hold to insert the stylus unit into the cartridge.
Styli come in a number of shapes and facets. The best styli try to duplicate the shape of the cutting stylus used to produce the original master disk. For these types of styli, you will see such terms as MicroLine or MicroRidge.
Another styli that is reserved for the higher priced models is the Linear Contact (LC). This type of stylus provides a vertical contact area several times more than that of the elliptical, thus enabling it to respond to minute grove modulations.
The elliptical stylus has two radii, with the front being wider than the side radius. Elliptical styli are available in several sizes, such as 0.2 x 0.7 mil, 0.3 x 0.7 mil and 0.4 x 0.7 mil. The first number is the side radius. The smaller the side radius, the better its music retrieval potential.
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