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Q: Best solution to import and update millions of records every day on Heroku I have to execute some rake tasks which import and update millions of products each day with data coming from CSV files. I currently use Heroku Scheduler to run rake tasks but I found that is doesn't work properly. I have one task which import data, and then another task that update data.
My two issues are:

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*My rake task is crashing sometimes so it fails to import all data, I tried using begin and rescue for each sensitive parts of the code but it doesn't seem to do the job.

*The other issue is that the import task is run every day at 2 am and the update at 9 am. But sometimes the import task is not yet finished at 9am so the update task is never run.
What resource should I be using to do all of this big data stuff on Heroku? Maybe another solution such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud would be more adapted?

A: My first idea would be to import the CSV into a temp table in the database without any change or data transformation. That should be pretty fast with pure SQL.
Then I would create one background job for each line in the temp table (for example with Sidekiq). And each of those jobs should only import that specific line.
Running multiple background jobs in parallel should speed up the process significantly. Plus when one line raises an error and cannot be imported then other jobs are not affected and the background job queue then shows you exactly which job and therefore which line could not be imported and why.

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Windmill Point Lighthouse
On a small peninsula on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain near Alburgh, Vermont, stands stately Windmill Point Lighthouse. At this peaceful setting, just two miles south of the Canadian border, the waters gently lap against the shore.
Early view of Windmill Point Lighthouse
Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard
The point takes its name from a stone windmill built by the French, who settled the area in the 1740s. During the Revolutionary War, the radeau Thunderer sunk off Windmill Point in 1777, while carrying wounded British soldiers from the defeat the British had suffered at the Battle of Saratoga.
A private light was established at the point in 1830, but in 1838, Lieutenant Charles T. Platt of the U. S. Navy submitted the following recommendation for an improved light on Windmill Point and additional lights on Lake Champlain.
I find on my surveys of this lake, (and I may add from my own experience during the war,) that there are other points requiring beacon-lights, which the safety, with the rapidly increasing commerce of this lake, makes indispensably necessary; and to that end I have made the necessary examinations and surveys, and have fixed upon sites at the following points, viz: Windmill point, Vermont State, and Crown point, New York State. To make manifest the importance of establishing permanent lights at the above points, I will merely state that temporary lights have been kept at either point for the last eight years, and at the individual expense of the steamboat masters. These lights, however, are frequently found insufficient, and that, too, at a time when they are most required. For instance, during a strong wind, which is not unfrequently the case, accompanied with thick hazy atmosphere, a brilliant beacon-light would render safe the navigation at the aforesaid points, which, under existing circumstances, is often exposed to serious disasters from hidden rocks and the serpentine course of the channel.
With this view of the subject, I respectfully submit a plan and estimate for the location of a dwelling, with lantern on top, at each of the before-named points. The site fixed upon for the building at Windmill point, is thirty feet south of the remains of an old windmill at that place, and a short distance south of the line dividing the United States from Canada.
No action was taken on Platt's recommendation until 1853, when William D. Fraser of the Corps of Engineers solicited input from pilots and others interested in navigation on Lake Champlain regarding the need for additional lights. Based on the feedback he received, Fraser echoed Platt's request made fifteen years earlier that lighthouses should be built at Windmill Point and Crown Point. The estimated cost of each lighthouse was $8,000, and Congress supplied this amount for Windmill Point Lighthouse on August 3, 1854.
After title to the desired land on Windmill Point was cleared in May 1857, contractors Ellis and O'Neil of Malone and Champlain, New York constructed a forty-four-foot-tall octagonal tower using rough-hewn blue limestone from the quarry of Ira Hill on Isle La Motte. A sister to Point au Roche Lighthouse and the original Crown Point Lighthouse, Windmill Point Lighthouse was equipped with a sixth-order Fresnel lens, which shone a fixed white light at a focal plane of fifty-two feet, making it visible for thirteen miles. A passageway connects the tower to the Cape Cod style keeper's dwelling, made of rubblestone.
Windmill Point Lighthouse viewed from the water in 1900
Photograph courtesy National Archives
The first keeper of the lighthouse, which was built in 1858 and activated with the opening of navigation in 1859, was Clarinda Mott, who has the distinction of being the only female lighthouse keeper to have served in Vermont. Clarinda was born in Alburgh, the seventh of nine children born to Joseph and Clarinda Mott, and was fifty-five when she was placed in charge of the lighthouse.
Windmill Point Lighthouse is the northernmost of the Lake Champlain Lighthouses. By drawing a line between the light at Windmill Point and the light at Isle La Motte, a mariner could guide his vessel through a clear channel in the upper narrows of the lake, avoiding numerous reefs and rocks.
In 1891, a summer kitchen was added to lighthouse, an old barn was removed, and a new barn and a fence were built.
The fifth keeper of Windmill Point Lighthouse was Edward Hill, who was born at Isle la Motte Lighthouse where his father, Wilbur Hill, was serving as keeper. Edward Hill served at Windmill Point from 1908 until at least 1921. In 1931, the lighthouse was eplaced by an acetylene light displayed from a black steel skeletal tower with a white tank house at its base that was relocated from Crown Point, New York. The lighthouse property, minus the half-acre surrounding the skeletal tower, was transferred to the U.S. Customs Service for use in the battle against rum-runners on Lake Champlain during prohibition.
Windmill Point lighthouse was subsequently sold to the public and eventually purchased by Lockwood "Lucky" Clark in 1963, after he stumbled into the owner of the lighthouse while walking on the point with his wife. At that time, it was just another house. The modern enthusiasm for lighthouses was still years away.
Lucky told Emil Bayer, who had purchased the lighthouse in 1949 and resided in Connecticut, that he was welcome to come back and visit the lighthouse, and he did just that a few years later after his wife had passed away. During his stay over Memorial Day, Emil met Erika, Lucky's sister, and ended up marrying her in 1968.
Skeletal tower that replaced lighthouse
Although the Clarks had informal exchanges with the Coast Guard, they had never suggested moving the light back into the tower. Then, during the summer of 2001, Admiral Richard A. Bauman, who had climbed the steps in 680 U.S. lighthouses, visited Windmill Point, and the idea of restoring the light to the tower was born. For nostalgic and historical reasons, the return of the light to the tower is important, but it will also save the Coast Guard money. Tens of thousands of dollars would be required to replace or refurbish the skeleton tower, while moving the light would cost just a few thousand dollars, and the owners of the lighthouse are responsible for maintaining the tower.
Lucky and his son Rob spent many hours readying the lighthouse to receive the modern optic. Then, on August 7, 2002, National Lighthouse Day, Windmill Point Lighthouse was returned to service after seventy-plus years of darkness. The relighting was the first on Lake Champlain. Shortly thereafter, the light was also returned to the tower at Isle La Motte. Similar relightings have since occurred at several other lighthouses on the lake.
On November 15, 2013, a contractor hired by the Coast Guard arrived at Windmill Point to remove the historic sixty-six-foot-tall iron tower. When it sold off Windmill Point Lighthouse, the Coast Guard retained ownership of the skeletal tower and now had decided to dispose of it due to liability concerns. Rob Clark tried unsuccessfully to save the tower, but he at least succeeded in salvaging the base and upper portion of the tower. Using his skill as a welder, Rob combined the two pieces to create a shorter version of the tower that remains on the property as a reminder of the period when the light was not exhibited from the stone lighthouse. On October 16, 2018, the Coast Guard installed an LED beacon in the lantern room at Windmill Point.
Head Keepers: Clarinda Mott (1859 – 1862), Henry Brayton (1862 – 1867), Herbert C. Phelps (1867 – 1889), John D. Bowman (1889 – 1907), Edward W. Hill (1908 – at least 1921), Leonard Fuller (at least 1925 – at least 1930).
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Annual Report of the Lighthouse Board, various years.
"Bringing New England's Little Known 'West Coast' Lighthouses Back to Life," Jeremy D'Entremont, Lighthouse Digest, December 2002.
Lake Champlain Lighthouses, George Clifford, Clinton County Historical Association, 1999.
"The Lighthouses of Lake Champlain," Morris Glenn, The Keeper's Log, Winter 1994.
"Enlightening the public to 'monuments of maritime history'," Waterfront News, November 2002.
Located near the northern end of Lake Champlain, across from Rouses Point, New York.
For a larger map of Windmill Point Lighthouse, click the lighthouse in the above map.
From Highway 2 on the east side of the bridge at the northern end of Lake Champlain, Windmill Point Road leads to the lighthouse. As the right-of-way to the lighthouse is currently being contested in the courts by the owners of the lighthouse and nearby residents, people are discouraged from trying to drive to the lighthouse.
Views of the lighthouse from the New York Shore are also possible. From Highway 9 just south of Rouses Point, turn east onto Stony Point Road. Near the end of the road you will find a breakwater, which affords fair views of the lighthouse.
The lighthouse is privately owned. Grounds/dwelling/tower closed.
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Within an hour everyone had completed the Gung-Ho challenge and raised over £700 for charity. For some though, this wasn't enough; Chris Morris and our IT & Systems Manager Sam Halfpenny have recruited a team to join them in taking on the Timberhonger 10k Run on Saturday 14th July. Timberhonger is famed for being one of the most picturesque and challenging 10k runs in the UK and is part of the Bromsgrove Carnival that takes place at Sanders Park, Bromsgrove, B61 7JP. The team are hoping to raise a further £500 for Get A-Head through their JustGiving Page.
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Юма Султан, или Джума Султан (; р. , Монровия, Калифорния, США) — американский перкуссионист, известный своим кратким сотрудничеством с Джимми Хендриксом, который быстро понял, что не нуждается в Султане, так как инструмент просто запутывал игру, и поэтому Юма покинул его.

В 1969 году Султана пригласил Джимми Хендрикс на фестиваль в Вудстоке в качестве перкуссиониста, а также он был задействован в его группе Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Султан принял участие в шоу  и в специальном шоу в Гарлеме, Нью-Йорк, несколькими неделями позже. У него было взято развёрнутое интервью для документальных фильмов «Jimi Hendrix» и . Также он записывался с такими исполнителями, как: , , , , Daoud Haroon, Asha Nan, Emmeretta Marks, Don Moore Band и Sankofa. В настоящее время он играет с группой Sankofa африканских исполнителей, группой Sons of Thunder и с Thom Buchanan.

В 2006 году  с Юмой Султаном получили грант Национального фонда искусств для сохранения принадлежащей Султану аудио и видео-документации авангардного джаза 1960-х и 1970-х годов. Коллекция может быть просмотрена на ресурсе www.jumasarchive.org.

В период 30 июля — 1 августа 2010 Юма принимал участие в Национальном рок-коне.

Избранная дискография
 1969: Manhattan Egos — Sonny Simmons — басы, конго
 1969: The Black Ark — Noah Howard — конго
 1971: The Cry of Love — Jimi Hendrix — перкуссия
 1971: Rainbow Bridge — Jimi Hendrix — конго, перкуссия
 1971: Things Have Got to Change — Archie Shepp — перкуссия в «Money Blues» (не указан)
 1972: Attica Blues — Archie Shepp — перкуссия
 1972: Live at the Village Vanguard — Noah Howard — перкуссия
 1973: Jimi Hendrix(Soundtrack) — перкуссия
 1975: Crash Landing — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 1977: Kwanza — Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre — перкуссия
 1994: Woodstock — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 1995: Voodoo Soup — Jimi Hendrix — перкуссия
 1997: First Rays of the New Rising Sun — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 1997: South Saturn Delta — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 1999: Live at Woodstock — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 2000: The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 2010: Valleys of Neptune — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 2010: The Juice Quartet Archives: Volumes 1,2, & 3 — Alan Glover — конго
 2010: West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 2010: Live at Woodstock (Deluxe Edition) — Джимми Хендрикс — перкуссия
 2011: Father of Origin — Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society — басы, ручные барабаны и перкуссия, ahoudt, деревянные флейты

Избранная фильмография и видеография
 1969: Джими Хендрикс:
 1970: Вудсток
 1992: Джими Хендрикс в Вудстоке
 1999: Джими Хендрикс: Жизнь в Вудстоке
 2000:  — Jimi Hendrix: The Man They Made God
 2010: Джими Хендрикс : Blues (Deluxe Version)
 2010:  — Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

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 Some History Lessons in Jazz From Players Past and Present статья в New York Times, 4 ноября 2011

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Feral house in Lorraine, France, built by Matali Crasset, is one of the retreat houses that has been built in this area. The entire project was started by the officials of the region who decided to ask various designers and architects to construct six camping villages. This amazingly beautiful Birdhouse cottage is the first in the series of four Feral Houses that will represent Matali Crasset's contribution.
Every retreat house needs to be connected to the surrounding area in a way. This one is so in many ways but most notably by its shape and materials used to build it. The house is a cube, much like most houses, but this one is turned so as to rest on one of its edges. This feature, along with the plank shaped entry, inspired the name of the house – the Birdhouse (Le Nichoir).
The house is made of very lightweight wood and steel and it is placed on poles that leave the forest floor intact. The interior is divided in two different levels and designed in a minimalist manner. The lower level features a sitting area with a storage space, while the upper level houses a sleeping loft. The terrace that leads to the entry is also large enough to serve as an outdoor gathering space, or a dining area. Its most prominent feature is a very fun porch swing. The house is obviously turned to the exterior. Its shape and placement make the interior important only in terms of usability, while the beauty is reserved for the nature around it.
As we said, this is only the first house in the series of four, others being named The Deer, The Chrysalis and The Mushroom, so there is definitely more to look forward to.


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Rating: A-/ ***Warning- This is more of a comprehensive discussion of the film Spider than a actual review. Spoilers should be expected.*** First off, I adore Ralph Fiennes. I really just love the guy. I think he's one of the best (if not actually the best) actors of today. I just rediscovered the greatness of Cronenberg's psychoanalytic thriller Spider, I'm going to use this opportunity to talk about why I think Spider was one of Fiennes' best performances and one of his most daring film endeavors. I'm also going to discuss what made Spider so great and look at the layers of meaning the psychology of this film provides. Let this be my last warning; this is going to be a spoiler laden post. If you haven't seen this film yet and want to, avoid this review like the plague. Thank you.
When we first meet Spider (Ralph Fiennes) as he gets off a train, he seems very small and vulnerable, one of society's undisputed outcasts. Nicotine-stained fingers, raggedy old coat, stubbly, bewildered face- he looks like he wishes he cold just sink into the ground and disappear. We can also see clear as day that not all is right with him psychologically, as he continually mutters incomprehensibly to himself (turn on your subtitles!) and doesn't seem totally cognizant of his surroundings. He's definitely out of his element, and rightfully so- Spider has just been released from an insane asylum that he was committed to since childhood, and is being placed in the care of Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave,) a crusty old woman who owns a halfway house for the mentally disturbed.
The house could use a spruce-up and Mrs. Wilkinson could use some work on her bedside manner. She treats the patients like naughty children who constantly need to be berated and told off. Spider begins reexamining events that placed him in the care of the state by becoming an 'observer' of his childhood, following his boy self around the familiar streets of his youth and sitting in on conversations between people that occurred at that time, and some that didn't. This is where the brilliance of this movie lies, for as soon as we are introduced to his parents (Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne) we are immediately placed in the shoes of an unreliable narrator. While his mum is long-suffering, beautiful, and kind, his father Bill is a philandering alcoholic and all around jerk who Spider competes with for the affections of his mother.
In a series of events that young Spider couldn't possibly have been present for, we find that Dad is screwing a local floozy named Yvonne (also played by Miranda Richardson) and that they kill Spider's saintly mother when she catches them making it in the garden shed. These scenes, and the subsequent scenes where Yvonne takes Mrs. Cleg's place as Spider's new 'mother,' are ludicrously over-the-top and almost cartoonish in nature. Juxtaposed with the hyperrealistic scenes where Spider himself is present, these parts seem to make no sense unless you take them at face value- that Spider is making them up. That they came out of the mind of a naive, inexperienced, and mentally ill man who has spent most of his life in an institution.
Yvonne (despite being played by the same actress who played the mother) is slutty, coarse, and rendered with make-up and costume design to be actually fairly unattractive. The infinitely well-meaning Mrs. Cleg is superior in every way to this common street whore; of this Spider is convinced. So he sets out to murder Yvonne by turning the gas stove on as she sleeps, only to find he has murdered his mother and 'Yvonne' as he knows her never existed. Yes, maybe he was jokingly flashed by a woman similar to his incarnation of Yvonne (in fact, 'Flashing Yvonne' is played a by a whole different actress than Richardson, Allison Egan) and his mind did the rest of the work. Building upon this event he created the ultimate harlot, the woman who would stand by as his dad killed his mom and insist he call her 'mother.'
So what do I think? I think Spider's oh-so-virtuous mother became alcoholic and bitter, creating 'Yvonne' in his mind and causing him to believe that his dad murdered his mom and replaced her with an uncaring, promiscuous duplicate. Spider obviously has the hots for his mom on some subconscious level, brushing her hair and watching her put on make-up adoringly and eyeing her as she tries on a slinky nightgown. She became boozy and hard due to her marital problems with her husband and his love of going to the Dog and Beggar and drinking. Someone had to be blamed, and the issue had to be put in more black-and-white terms so Spider could understand it.
There's only one thing about this movie that confuses me, and that's the scene where Spider's in a restaurant looking at a picture of a green Yorkshire field. Suddenly he's standing in a field identical to the one in the picture, hanging out with a couple of old men who don't particularly seem to have their mental faculties. I think that he met the men at the asylum (I believe one of these guys was the one wielding a piece of broken glass in the flashback.) He imagined them in a grassy field and used some of the dialogue he had heard from them in the scenario. I'm also very curious whether Spider realized what he had done to his mother (he does refrain from braining Mrs. Wilkinson, who he imagines as Yvonne, with a hammer) or whether the big reveal was just a tip-off to the audience and Spider is as lost as ever.
I don't think it should be surprising to you that Ralph Fiennes is incredible in this movie. He shows a gift for portraying debilitating mental illness with a nuanced sleight of hand that is not generally present in these kinds of performances. So that's it. I've explained why I think Spider is one of the more complex psychological thrillers I've seen in my life, and I've offered some explanation to the meaning of the events presented in this movie. Liked this discussion? Have any thoughts? Want me to write another like it? Stop by and tell me in the comments!
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
November 5, 2015 indiefan20	Leave a comment
Despite the huge Dennis Lehane kick I've been on lately, I was unsure about reading his 2003 novel 'Shutter Island' because I wasn't a big fan of the Leo DiCaprio film. While I still highly question the realism of the twist ending, I'm as utterly in love with Lehane's writing as ever, and this is a slightly different offering from him, an entertaining riff on Gothic mid-20th century pulp fiction that pulsates barely contained malice. I just wish I hadn't watched the movie first, since nothing was as big a surprise to me as one might hope for.
Teddy Daniels, an emotionally traumatized, serious U.S. Marshall and veteran of the second World War grieving the loss of his wife Dolores in an apartment fire a few years prior, arrives at Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane searching for an escaped patient, Rachel Solando. Solando was incarcerated for the fillicide of her three children and has seemingly vanished into thin air, leaving nothing but a few puzzling hand-written codes in her wake. Teddy comes onto Shutter Island, the foreboding location of Ashcliffe Hospital by ferry with his good-humored partner, Chuck Aule.
A place that houses only society's most dangerous and volatile inmates, eerie hints of ongoing human experimentation, a doozy of a hurricane heading their way and threatening to total the control panel and release the crazies from their cells- what could go wrong? Poor Teddy is continually haunted by visions and nightmares of the most macabre variety, spooky reminders of the wife he lost and the uncertainty surrounding her death, He's not well… and things are going to get a whole lot worse…
Teddy is a tough cookie, but the island begins to not-so-slowly get under his skin, and soon the bereaved paranoiac begins to believe that everyone, and everything, is out to get him. There's a ton of historical context to this novel, from flashbacks of World War II concentration camps, to Cold War-era anxiety, to the ongoing stigmatization of mental illness. However, none of these things are pedantically pushed upon the reader and the novel as a whole is a fast-paced, exhilarating read.
The setting is fascinating (especially for a self-proclaimed fan of the macabre and Gothic like me) and the characters are easy to picture in one's head with Lehane's adept descriptive passages. I wouldn't go so far as to call this book horror- more of a dark psychological thriller with tons of sinister build-up and uncertainty going on, as well as some extremely strange dream sequences that unsettlingly (but accurately) portray Teddy's troubled psyche. There's a very important message beneath all this weirdness, a commentary on the horrors that spring up from denying escalating mental illness in a loved one, an all-too-common occurrence in the recent past.
'Shutter Island' isn't perfect, and it isn't as riveting as some of Lehane's work. As I stated at the beginning, the end twist seems so improbable that it almost ruined the movie for me. I would go so far as to say it doesn't really make sense under close scrutiny. Dennis Lehane's dialogue can be a bit unrealistic at times (while being utterly plausible at others,) especially when he tries to hard to make a particular point, and Teddy's conversation with the bile-spitting, expletive-screaming warden is one such instance where a little bit of editing and subtle toning-down of the subject matter could have done wonders.
Of the three Lehane novels I've read ("Gone, Baby, Gone," "Mystic River," and this book, "Shutter Island,") I recommend you read the one you haven't seen the movie for first. I was kind of bummed to already see the twist for this and "Mystic River" coming, while "Gone, Baby, Gone" was a riveting experience unmarred by already seeing the characters and the situations pictured in my head by the movie. I don't think this is a very believable book when you examine it under a microscope (the other two are much more plausible in terms of plot,) but it's just as exciting and entertaining as the others, plus there's the Gothic backdrop that offers some dark spookiness to to the author's repertoire.
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October 26, 2015 indiefan20	Leave a comment
Coincidentally, Tim Burton's grim, macabre musical tragedy ties in with an important moment in my life; "Sweeney Todd" was the first review I ever wrote. I can't seem to recover this piece of my early teenhood, but I'm happy to say I've grown enormously as a critic since my gawky adolescence, and while I have a long way to go, well… who doesn't? It's been a rewarding and worthy journey, albeit with many frustrating pitfalls along the way.
Anyway, what can I say? I love "Sweeney." Always have. I know it isn't the most popular film with the critics, but I think of it as the last great film Tim Burton has done in recent times. I'll be perfectly frank… I enjoyed the Burtster's take on "Alice in Wonderland." Guilty pleasure, folks, don't judge me. "Big Eyes" was a mistake one that should not be repeated. Who would have known Tim Burton would be the one to get a terrible performance out of Christoph Waltz? Guys, is that even possible?
While "Alice in Wonderland" was gaudy entertainment, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is a dark morality tale, with, in my opinion, a genuine sense of artistry behind it. There was a barber and his wife… and it took only a bit of sleight hand by a corrupt judge (the suitably villainous Alan Rickman) to tear that happy couple apart forever. Now the barber (Johnny Depp,) sent away for a crime he didn't commit, is a sadistic sociopath bent on revenge.
His wife (Laura Michelle Kelly) is out of the picture, having been driven crazy by the judge's lascivious appetites, and their once infant daughter Joanna (Jayne Wisener) is Turpin's young, beautiful prisoner. Lovestruck sailor boy Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower) concocts a plan to rescue Joanna, but the barber, Benjamin Barker, or Sweeney Todd as he is now called, seems more concerned with getting gory revenge on the judge that ruined his life than protecting his daughter's welfare.
Helena Bonham Carter gives the most artful performance as the equally homicidal Mrs. Lovett, who owns a pie shop known far and wide for it's disgusting grub (as well as questionable sanitation) and forms a deal with Sweeney converting the men the insane barber kills with his razor into delicious meat pies, satiating his bloodlust while — surprise! business soars.
I've heard some people criticize Bonham Carter and Depp's singing voices — saying they are not up for the job of a musical — but I did not consider their relative inexperience a problem. "Sweeney Todd" is stylized and moody and very, very gory, so expect blood spraying literally all over the set in various scenes. The psychology behind the character's motivations — and their justifications for the atrocities the choose to commit —is interesting and I love the music. Catchy tunes are a prerequisite in a movie like this, and "Sweeney Todd" has the goods in terms of an addictive score.
Helena Bonham Carter acts with her eyes and the dark makeup shadowing her peepers makes her look perpetually like a work of expressionist art. Depp is slightly less compelling, playing the ultimate emo enraged (however justifiably) with how his life turned out. The only character I truly found myself empathizing with was the little boy (payed by Edward Sanders) who believed with an wide—eyed earnesty and breathtaking innocence that he would look after and protect Mrs. Lovett, and she him.
The rest? Fuck them. Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett were morally reprehensible and foul; Joanna and Anthony were a little too much like starcrossed Disney lovers who walked into the wrong movie. Though I had a nagging feeling throughout that Joanna was exploiting the foolishly naive Anthony's affections in order to get the hell out of dodge. She would be his prize, another kind of slavery, but anything was better than remaining in Judge Turpin's lecherous possession.
"Sweeney Todd"'s plot isn't realistic at all (there's a kind of unintentional hilarity in the way that, despite endless hint —dropping and an almost identical appearance, Turpin refuses to acknowledge Sweeney's true identity —who is he, Clark Kent pulling the glasses on his face and the wool over the Judge's eyes?)
My brother (ever the source of dry wit) quipped that when it came to Judge Turpin, 'it was hard not to feel sorry for someone who was so like a potato in IQ.' Not all villains have to be evil geniuses, but damn, that was kind of ridiculous, Turpin had to have gotten into a position of power by some method other than fucking people over. Apparently intelligence wasn't one of them.
"Sweeney Todd" is a highly enjoyable film even while being morbid and tragic on a grand scale. The stylized storytelling and violence keeps it from being too tough a watch. The acting's fine, the story's cool, but the music? That's really something to stay for. Tim Burton has his moments, and this is one of them. Those with weak stomachs might want to steer clear of this enthusiastically gory flick.
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The Other by Thomas Tryon
May 10, 2015 indiefan20	1 Comment
Being an identical twin can be murder. Just ask Niles Perry, a well-mannered thirteen-year-old whose twin brother Holland possesses a sadistic streak and a penchant for causing deadly 'accidents.' Niles both loves, fears, and is in intense awe of his enigmatic brother, but all is not what it seems in Thomas Tryon's Gothic psychological horror novel.
I had a rocky start with this novel, because I kept on wondering how Niles could not suspect his brother of wrongdoing. I was relieved to find, however, that the (cleverly wrought) twist midway through the book rendered these concerns obsolete. If Niles seems outrageously naïve, that just makes the revelation all the more effective.
Novelist Thomas Tryon evokes the homey mystique of a 30's Connecticut farming town. Pequot Landing, as it so happens, is an idyllic place to grow up for children who are independent and reasonably well-adjusted, because of the freedom such a locale offers (kids can go wherever they want and do whatever they want, within reason,) but the stifling gossip of the town ladies also makes it important to tread carefully while within earshot of anyone who might decide they want your family problems as fodder for discussion.
For the Perry's, for which insanity seems to run in the family, the continual stream of hearsay is never-ending. If you can get by Tryon's penchant for long, elaborate, needlessly wordy sentences, 'The Other' might prove to be your new favorite creepy-cool summer read. You might be surprised that despite the fact that it was published in 1971, it's aged quite well and doesn't seem watered-down in terms of horror by jaded modern standards.
There are deaths a-plenty in "The Other," and the one that bothered me most (even more than the particularly taboo murder at the end) was the demise of elderly widow Mrs. Rowe. Damn it she just wanted to have some tea and lemonade with the local children! Why must the lonely old bird be treated so? :_(
"The Other" makes you think about what people do to keep their loved ones out of the mental health system, and how that initial act of mercy can prove to be destructive later on. Doesn't the boys' Russian grandmother, Ada, know her grandson is a raving lunatic? Of course she does. But she refuses to anticipate the consequences of keeping such a boy at home with her, and her naiveté is punished tenfold.
I've heard of people whose family members continually lashed out at them; people who's loved ones had to be locked in their room at night. In the end, the decision lies with the caregiver, but sometimes it's not only easier, but kinder just to let go. This is an extreme version of a situation many people deal with- the seemingly impossible challenge of loving and caring for a severely emotionally disturbed child.
Ultimately, I think Tryon is too hard on old Ada. Yes, it was her 'game' that led to much of the insanity in the first place. But she is only human. And If the game had never came to be? What? Tragedy may have been avoided, but sociopathy and madness still ran thick in the Perry's blood. While Ada's final act seemed somewhat out of character, it was a decision born of extreme desperation, not evil or cruelty.
Although I found Niles annoying throughout (though he seemed surprisingly less so after I found out the twist,) I thought 'The Other' was a chillingly rendered, deliciously Gothic read. I love those kind of Gothic stories involving family secrets and sequestered craziness, so this was right up my alley. Now I want to rent the movie.
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Soulmate (2013)
November 10, 2014 indiefan20	1 Comment
Note to self- Do. Not. Buy. Into. the. Controversy. Given more attention already than it deserves because of a suicide attempt scene that was edited and eventually cut the by the British censors, "Soulmate" is a tepid supernatural soap opera centered around a woman's all-consuming love for an angst-ridden spirit.The filmmaker, Axelle Carolyn, can't be bothered to let any mirth or light into this painfully self-serious and grim production.
Audrey (Anna Walton, who does a pretty decent job considering) is a bereaved Englishwoman whose husband Tristan (Richard Armitage)'s untimely death drives her to an ill-advised suicide attempt. Emotionally fragile, she abandons her worried sister and parents to take up residence in a Welsh cottage to wait her grief out. No sooner has she moved there than she begins to hear strange noises emanating from a locked room in the house.
The town-peoples' refusal to offer any explanation for the strange sounds lead Audrey to seek out the entity behind the racket, who turns out to be a ghastly pale but still dapper spirit who died years before of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Small world. Not long after Audrey meets Douglas (Tom Wisdom,) the ghost, she begins to fall for his unearthly charms. But will the unusual romance result in Audrey giving herself to Douglas in death? And what exactly are the locals hiding?
First of all, the concept of a woman contemplating killing herself so she can lay a ghost bothers me. It's not a feminist, nay, even a moral issue. But have you ever heard of a person's bed being haunted by two apparitions fucking in that cold dark space between life and death? No, because it's stupid. The whole concept fails at everything. Even if there was a possibility that deceased spirits could harness their ghostly genitals to copulate with each other, it doesn't work in a film, because it sounds so silly.
Telekinetic brooding lovesick ghosts don't really appeal to me. Moreover, I just didn't really care about any of the characters. None of them seemed particularly real to me. The acting was fine, there was just something lacking that probably could have been built on in the film's conception. Audrey isn't a reprehensible or even an unpleasant character, but there's no reason to root for her (beyond the hope that she will find a better way to deal with her depression than ending her life.) None whatsoever. Moreover, I didn't find the lonely and despair-driven poltergeist Douglas all that compelling. He just is. Yeah, he's haunting the house. Big whoop.
This might be a minor complaint, but I would think anyone who's ever been halfway serious about suicide would know that you don't slit your wrists in a bathtub when your sister's scheduled to come home at any minute. A self-inflicted wound like that, however gruesome, takes time to kill you. Audrey decision to go all "Goodbye, cruel world" with her sister going out for a brief amount of time (when it's highly probable that Audrey's already on suicide watch) makes me wonder if she even really wanted to die at all, which is apparently what we're supposed to believe.
"Soulmate" isn't really a bad film, just overbearingly mediocre. There are, however, a few tense moments and atmosphere to spare. I recommend the more well-known alternative "The Others" for a really spooky Gothic chiller. It might be particularly behoove you to skip it if you are currently in a self-destructive state of mind or are vulnerable to that kind of imagery, especially since Netflix instant has the uncut (no pun intended) wrist-slitting sequence. It's not worth an nervous breakdown, honest.
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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
November 6, 2014 indiefan20	2 Comments
This is one of those rare cases where the book can not compare artistically with its movie adaptation. Sure, John Ajvide Lindqvist's "Let the Right One In" has more detail, and even works to a certain extent. But I actually think the movie was improved somewhat by being stripped down to its bare essentials, and eliminating extraneous subplots. The book is a pretty good read, but it hardly seems to be in league with the masterpiece the Swedish film version was.
Twelve-year-old Oskar Eriksson is a bullied misfit kid who wants to get back in a big way at his cruel tormentors. He is a overlooked resident of Blackeberg, whose surrounding areas have been plagued by a series of ritualistic killings. Oskar is fascinated by the sense of unease and the corresponding murders and even keeps a scrapbook containing clips of violent crimes. Neither Oskar's fragile mother or his alcoholic, divorcee dad seem to notice Oskar is harboring a Antisocial streak. But when you're afraid to go to school every day, life can do that to you.
Then Oskar meets Eli, a strange, thin, androgynous child who encourages him to fight back against his bullies. Eli's frail façade hides an insatiable bloodlust, but Oskar finds himself strangely drawn to her. How far will Oskar go to protect Eli's secret? "Let the RIght One In" is a compelling take on vampire lore, but I think it tries too hard to scientifically explain vampirism. Some things are better left unsaid.
The book also offers descriptions of what it feels like to be bitten by a vampire and to turn into a vampire, which is pretty cool. However, it also contains too many characters and feels unnecessarily long. Some passages better explain things left ambiguous in the film, like the role of Eli's caretaker, Hakan, or the relationship between Oskar and his dad.
In the film, Oskar had a certain innocence and vulnerability that mad him very compelling, despite the indisputable fact that he was a very troubled little boy. The child actor gave that innocence creditability. In the book, Oskar is mostly creepy, someone you don't want to meet in a dark alley despite his youth and small stature. In this novel, Oskar harbors a fantasy of seeing someone executed in an electric chair and even sets some desks in his classroom on fire (okay, his bullies' desks, but still, that's a big safety hazard!)
Oskar still certainly isn't a completely unsympathizable character, but maybe you have more of a propensity to feel for him when you aren't looking into that troubled little mind of his. Eli, however, is as compelling as ever, and you get a better sense of who she is the novel, as well as get a more complex look into the grey areas in between the elements of her ambiguous gender.
There's is some interesting further development of the side characters, but mostly the wealth of detail on the supporting players seems a little 'meh.' Despite my quibbles, this book may be still worth reading if you want a more complete picture of a story that proves the vampire genre is not dead. The murderous, predatory class of vampires, not the sparkling one.
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
July 14, 2014 indiefan20	1 Comment
Hands down, the craziest book I have ever read, an unnerving combination of Lord of the Flies and The Butcher Boy that never fails to appall and shock. You will hate Frank Caldhaume, the narcissistic, murderous, deluded, misogynistic teenager at the center of this slim volume, but at the same time you'll be slightly in awe of his gumption; his refusal to live any semblance of a normal life. Frank lives with his weak, disabled father on their own personal island in rural Scotland.
Frank is by no means an ordinary boy. By the age of ten, he disposed of his younger brother Paul and two cousins without a blink of an eyelash. He wanders the island, engaging in bizarre ritualistic activities that invariably end in the destruction of of the wildlife. He mounts animals' heads on stakes as sick trophies, and the eponymous 'Wasp Factory' is a contraption of singular brutality.
Frank's half-brother Eric is, so they think, safe and sound in a mental hospital. At the beginning of the book, Eric escapes, leaving a trail of burned and eaten dogs in his wake. Meanwhile, Frank copes with his unusual disability that has made it impossible to live a normal life, not that he'd want to, mind you. Cheeky freak, Frank is.
The only two complaints I have with this book were that it ended rather abruptly, and also (though this was a minor quibble) the circumstances between the Frank Caldhaume's murders were highly unlikely. I may have thought Frank was a despicable human being, but he made a dynamite narrator. He was brilliant, merciless, and cuttingly articulate. Many aspects of the book were horribly disturbing, but that would not dissuade me from recommending this great book, a brilliant first novel and a penetrating psychological thriller.
One scene in one chapter particularly turned my stomach and made me put down the book in disgust. However, there are moments of black humor that leaven the murky darkness. The telephone conversations between psychopathic Frank and madman Eric, in particular, had me laughing out loud. Frank is not your everyday, mundane protagonist, and you (and he, presumably) would not have it any other way.
The twist at the end of the novel is so relentlessly unmitigatedly weird that I was tempted to do a double take of the words on the page. Iain Banks had quite an imagination, but what a twisted, pitch-black psyche it was. I DEFINITELY will be seeking out more books by this author, with a sincere hope that they will be every bit as tweaked and creative as this one. A glowing recommendation, weak stomachs need not apply.
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The Living & the Dead (2006)
Not your first pick for Mother's Day, The Living and the Dead is morbid and horrifying, and I mean that, strangely, as a compliment. It is a family drama, a psychological thriller, a tragedy, an art film, all these things at once, and and despite it's flaws, it doesn't overextend.
The film opens with Lord Donald Brocklebank (Roger Lloyd-Pack), a worn-down, silent shell of an old man, pushing an empty wheelchair through a quiet room. The image delivers the same feeling as a dark grey painting, lonely and despondent. He watches, lip quivering, as an ambulance pulls into his massive estate. Cut back an undetermined amount of time. Donald stands straighter. He maintains a kind of pride that must come with being one of the British elite, but he is grieving. He has a lot to grieve about.
His wife, Lady Nancy Brocklebank, is terribly sick and probably won't be with him much longer. The bills are piling up, and they will soon lose their mansion. His son James (Leo Bill, in an over-the-top performance that works), dashes around the house with little clear purpose.
James is in his mid-to-late twenties. He is stuck in a kind of permanent childhood, the kind of childhood that is made up of nightmares, not whimsy. Although Simon Rumley, the director, describes him as "mentally challenged," I suspect paranoid schizophrenia.
James is by far my favorite character in the film. He is a complicated movie creation, and his emotional limitations do not hold back his complexity or ambiguity as a person. Donald treats James with the casual cruelty that is most likely inflicted on the mentally ill more often than we think, condescending to him, forbidding him to use the phone or answer the door. James is desperate to prove to his father that he is an independent adult and plans to do so by taking care of his mother.
His father understandably rejects the idea. In an matter of days, James will have locked the door, shut out the nurse, skipped his pills, and may have destroyed the lives of those closest to him. Soon, as his lucidity deteriorates, the viewer begins to wonder if the past events were only in James' head. This is a film for a patient audience — it's a while before anything happens and the reality of the events is questionable.
The atmosphere is palpable, and the characters are well developed. There are many plot holes and unanswered questions throughout the film, as the story itself seems on the edge of reality, with its Gothic features and abstract images.
People have had different opinions on whether James is "good" or "bad." He is a disturbing character, to be sure. He is not a sex maniac, mad slasher, or stony-faced killer, but an exceptionally childlike and deeply disturbed man. This movie might make you feel differently about a crime, in the paper, in which mental illness was a factor. Despite naysayers, The Living and the Dead is an emotional bombshell and thought-provoking film.
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"Tideland," Terry Gilliam's fantastical horror brain child, is an undeniably original, unmistakably repulsive journey into the life and mind of one troubled little girl (Jodelle Ferland.) To say it outstays it's welcome it an understatement, the film clocks at over two hours and leaves an undeniably bad taste in one's throat. The characters are hard to comprehend, much less like or understand.
All this would be bad enough without the bizarre intro by Terry Gilliam, who vaguely informs us that children 'bounce back' from situations such as these and tells us 'don't forget to laugh.' But what is there to laugh at in a disgusting horror show such as this? it's as if Dave Peltzer of 'A Child Called It' fame had promised us a knee-slapping good time.
Between the role of Jeff Bridges as the girl's junkie father, who sits down in a chair to shoot up, dies, and spends the majority of the movie in various states of decomposition, our prepubescent heroine trading 'silly kisses' and sexual curiousness with a mentally retarded man (Brendon Fletcher,) and Daddy (prior to his death) instructing his daughter to prepare heroin for him, I found very little to laugh at in this revolting freak show.
The fact that Gilliam expects us to laugh and see this whole travesty through the eyes of a child speaks volumes on the man's mental stability. What does he think we are? Animals. Sub-human cretins who are all-too-eager and willing to laugh at the mental and psychological destruction of a child? Apparently, if Gilliam should have his way, we will be laughing at child endangerment through the eyes of that child, oblivious to the adult consequences of such atrocities. Mmm-kay.
After her harpy mother (Jennifer Tilly) O.D.'s Jeliza-Rose (Ferland), ten or eleven or so, is swept away from the squalid tenement she calls home by her druggie father (Bridges,) and tries her best to adjust to her new home in her father's childhood house on the massive prairie, far away from anything. When Dad dies, Jeliza-Rose acts much as if he was alive, talking to his corpse and exploring the prairie, where she meets local freak Dell (Janet McTeer) and her brain-damaged brother, Dickens (Fletcher.)
Dell, who as it happens, bangs the stuttering grocery delivery boy (Dylan Taylor) in exchange for food, takes a liking to Jeliza-Rose and invites her and her doll heads (Jeliza-Rose frequently talks through her collection of severed doll's heads, did I mention that?) to live in her and Dickens' family home.
"Tideland" often references Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland,' as Jeliza-Rose 'falls down the rabbit hole' from one bizarre situation to another. Although technically well-made in many respects, "Tideland" is yucky, overlong, and had me begging for it to end by the halfway point.
Jodelle Ferland turns in pretty good performance as Jeliza-Rose (although I found her Southern accent exaggerated) and Brendan Fletcher gives a decent supporting performance as Dickens (who, through no fault of his own, reminded me a bit of Ben Stiller's 'Simple Jack') but overall the film is a fail. I would recommend you watch "Alice" by Jan Svankmajer as a dark take on "Alice in Wonderland" rather than this. It is less sickening and doesn't make you feel like you're watching for hours on end, but hey, that's just me.
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Saudi king arrives in Tokyo for four-day visit
Mon, Mar 13, 2017 - 7:05 AM
Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived in Tokyo on Sunday, making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the oil-rich nation in nearly five decades.
PHOTO: EPA
[TOKYO] Saudi Arabia's King Salman arrived in Tokyo Sunday, making the first visit to Japan by a monarch from the oil-rich nation in nearly five decades.
The 81-year-old king, who was greeted by Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito at Haneda airport, will meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday and as he kicks off the Japanese leg of a broader tour of Asia.
King Salman, who will visit 83-year-old Emperor Akihito on Tuesday, is travelling with a lavish entourage estimated at over 1,000 people.
Some 1,200 rooms at Tokyo's luxury hotels have been booked by the delegation for the three-night stay through Wednesday, according to local media, which has also reported that hundreds of limousines have been brought into the capital to accomodate the visitors.
Saudi Arabia is the largest provider of oil exports for Japan, which relies on Middle East for energy to power the world's third largest economy.
SEE ALSO: S Korea accuses Japan of 'lukewarm' stand on N Korea
Japan hopes to use the visit to widen its relations with Saudi Arabia and help the country's efforts to diversify its economy, including exploring ways to increase Japanese investments in non-energy sectors such as manufacturing, according to officials.
King Salman's arrival marks the first visit to Japan by a Saudi leader since the 1971 visit to Japan by then-King Faisal.
King Salman himself, however, last visited Japan in 2014 as a crown prince.
The king is on a month-long tour of Asia, which has already taken him to Malaysia and Indonesia.
After Japan, he is scheduled to visit China and the Maldives.
Maldivian opposition parties on Friday raised objections to the planned visit and warned that they would stage protests over reports that Saudi business interests were buying an entire atoll in the politically-troubled Indian Ocean republic.
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In a gorgeous berry jam pink, the file is 12x16" so you can make a poster print or just shrink it down. Enjoy - and remember to keep calm!


The cheesecake is a dessert of American origin made of a biscuit base covered with a layer of soft cheese mixture and topped with fruit or jam. The variants of this famous dessert are legion, both baked and un-baked. There are some with gelatin and some without, and there are versions with cream, mascarpone, ricotta, Philadelphia cream cheese, and many more. Even regarding the toppings there are various options: you can finish off your cheesecake with fresh fruit or with jam. Our version is baked, made with Philadelphia cream cheese and fresh fruit. Try it!
Melt the butter and mix it with the chopped up biscuits. Line a cake tin with baking parchment. Spread the biscuit mixture over the bottom of the tin. Put in the fridge to rest. Preheat the oven to 170°C. Beat the cream cheese with the sugar, then add the egg, flour and milk. Take the biscuit base, spoon over the cream cheese mixture and level it off. Bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool, then decorate with fresh fruit.
Don't add butter to your cream cheese mixture: there's plenty in the biscuit base!
One of the most famous cheesecakes is 'Key Lime Pie', a fresh and summery dessert from Florida.


Term rewriting methods are used for solving the persistency problem of parameterized data type specifications. Such a specification is called persistent if the parameter part of its algebraic semantics agrees with the semantics of the parameter specification. Since persistency mostly cannot be guaranteed for the whole equational variety of the parameter specification, the persistency criteria developed here mainly concern classes of parameter algebras with "built-in" logic.


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Q: WildFly 26.1.2.Final Jakarta EE 9.1 - Running longer than expected Just upgraded to WildFly 26.1.2.Final on Preview EE 9.1 Distribution.
All works fine but I always get:
There is or more management operations running longer than expected,
it may negatively impact the performance of the server. Check the
Management Operations view to display the active operations.

I use:

PrimeFace (Elite) 11.0.7 JSF Mojarra 3.0.0.SP04 & OmniFaces 3.13.4
WildFly 26.1.2.Final (Jakarta 9.1), Weld 4.0.2 & CDI 3.0 Java OpenJDK
18.0.2.1, Kotlin 1.7.10, Gradle 7.5.1, MongoDB 5.0.7 IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, macOS Monterey 12.5.1

Just interested. TIA


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// Copyright (c) 2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
// Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

#ifndef FLURBO_RPCSERVER_H
#define FLURBO_RPCSERVER_H

#include "amount.h"
#include "rpcprotocol.h"
#include "uint256.h"

#include <list>
#include <map>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string>

#include <boost/function.hpp>

#include <univalue.h>

class CRPCCommand;

namespace RPCServer
{
    void OnStarted(boost::function<void ()> slot);
    void OnStopped(boost::function<void ()> slot);
    void OnPreCommand(boost::function<void (const CRPCCommand&)> slot);
    void OnPostCommand(boost::function<void (const CRPCCommand&)> slot);
}

class CBlockIndex;
class CNetAddr;

class JSONRequest
{
public:
    UniValue id;
    std::string strMethod;
    UniValue params;

    JSONRequest() { id = NullUniValue; }
    void parse(const UniValue& valRequest);
};

/** Query whether RPC is running */
bool IsRPCRunning();

/**
 * Set the RPC warmup status.  When this is done, all RPC calls will error out
 * immediately with RPC_IN_WARMUP.
 */
void SetRPCWarmupStatus(const std::string& newStatus);
/* Mark warmup as done.  RPC calls will be processed from now on.  */
void SetRPCWarmupFinished();

/* returns the current warmup state.  */
bool RPCIsInWarmup(std::string *statusOut);

/**
 * Type-check arguments; throws JSONRPCError if wrong type given. Does not check that
 * the right number of arguments are passed, just that any passed are the correct type.
 * Use like:  RPCTypeCheck(params, boost::assign::list_of(str_type)(int_type)(obj_type));
 */
void RPCTypeCheck(const UniValue& params,
                  const std::list<UniValue::VType>& typesExpected, bool fAllowNull=false);

/*
  Check for expected keys/value types in an Object.
  Use like: RPCTypeCheckObj(object, boost::assign::map_list_of("name", str_type)("value", int_type));
*/
void RPCTypeCheckObj(const UniValue& o,
                  const std::map<std::string, UniValue::VType>& typesExpected, bool fAllowNull=false);

/** Opaque base class for timers returned by NewTimerFunc.
 * This provides no methods at the moment, but makes sure that delete
 * cleans up the whole state.
 */
class RPCTimerBase
{
public:
    virtual ~RPCTimerBase() {}
};

/**
 * RPC timer "driver".
 */
class RPCTimerInterface
{
public:
    virtual ~RPCTimerInterface() {}
    /** Implementation name */
    virtual const char *Name() = 0;
    /** Factory function for timers.
     * RPC will call the function to create a timer that will call func in *millis* milliseconds.
     * @note As the RPC mechanism is backend-neutral, it can use different implementations of timers.
     * This is needed to cope with the case in which there is no HTTP server, but
     * only GUI RPC console, and to break the dependency of pcserver on httprpc.
     */
    virtual RPCTimerBase* NewTimer(boost::function<void(void)>& func, int64_t millis) = 0;
};

/** Register factory function for timers */
void RPCRegisterTimerInterface(RPCTimerInterface *iface);
/** Unregister factory function for timers */
void RPCUnregisterTimerInterface(RPCTimerInterface *iface);

/**
 * Run func nSeconds from now.
 * Overrides previous timer <name> (if any).
 */
void RPCRunLater(const std::string& name, boost::function<void(void)> func, int64_t nSeconds);

typedef UniValue(*rpcfn_type)(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

class CRPCCommand
{
public:
    std::string category;
    std::string name;
    rpcfn_type actor;
    bool okSafeMode;
};

/**
 * Flurbo RPC command dispatcher.
 */
class CRPCTable
{
private:
    std::map<std::string, const CRPCCommand*> mapCommands;
public:
    CRPCTable();
    const CRPCCommand* operator[](const std::string& name) const;
    std::string help(const std::string& name) const;

    /**
     * Execute a method.
     * @param method   Method to execute
     * @param params   UniValue Array of arguments (JSON objects)
     * @returns Result of the call.
     * @throws an exception (UniValue) when an error happens.
     */
    UniValue execute(const std::string &method, const UniValue &params) const;
};

extern const CRPCTable tableRPC;

/**
 * Utilities: convert hex-encoded Values
 * (throws error if not hex).
 */
extern uint256 ParseHashV(const UniValue& v, std::string strName);
extern uint256 ParseHashO(const UniValue& o, std::string strKey);
extern std::vector<unsigned char> ParseHexV(const UniValue& v, std::string strName);
extern std::vector<unsigned char> ParseHexO(const UniValue& o, std::string strKey);

extern int64_t nWalletUnlockTime;
extern CAmount AmountFromValue(const UniValue& value);
extern UniValue ValueFromAmount(const CAmount& amount);
extern double GetDifficulty(const CBlockIndex* blockindex = NULL);
extern std::string HelpRequiringPassphrase();
extern std::string HelpExampleCli(const std::string& methodname, const std::string& args);
extern std::string HelpExampleRpc(const std::string& methodname, const std::string& args);

extern void EnsureWalletIsUnlocked();

extern UniValue getconnectioncount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp); // in rpcnet.cpp
extern UniValue getpeerinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue ping(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue addnode(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue disconnectnode(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getaddednodeinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getnettotals(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue setban(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listbanned(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue clearbanned(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

extern UniValue dumpprivkey(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp); // in rpcdump.cpp
extern UniValue importprivkey(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue importaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue importpubkey(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue dumpwallet(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue importwallet(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

extern UniValue getgenerate(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp); // in rpcmining.cpp
extern UniValue setgenerate(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue generate(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getnetworkhashps(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getmininginfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue prioritisetransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getblocktemplate(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue submitblock(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue estimatefee(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue estimatepriority(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue estimatesmartfee(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue estimatesmartpriority(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

extern UniValue getnewaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp); // in rpcwallet.cpp
extern UniValue getaccountaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getrawchangeaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue setaccount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getaccount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getaddressesbyaccount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue sendtoaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue signmessage(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue verifymessage(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getreceivedbyaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getreceivedbyaccount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getbalance(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getunconfirmedbalance(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue movecmd(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue sendfrom(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue sendmany(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue addmultisigaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue createmultisig(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listreceivedbyaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listreceivedbyaccount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listtransactions(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listaddressgroupings(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listaccounts(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listsinceblock(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue gettransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue abandontransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue backupwallet(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue keypoolrefill(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue walletpassphrase(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue walletpassphrasechange(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue walletlock(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue encryptwallet(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue validateaddress(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getwalletinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getblockchaininfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getnetworkinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue setmocktime(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue resendwallettransactions(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

extern UniValue getrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp); // in rcprawtransaction.cpp
extern UniValue listunspent(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue lockunspent(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue listlockunspent(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue createrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue decoderawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue decodescript(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue fundrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue signrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue sendrawtransaction(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue gettxoutproof(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue verifytxoutproof(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

extern UniValue getblockcount(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp); // in rpcblockchain.cpp
extern UniValue getbestblockhash(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getdifficulty(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue settxfee(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getmempoolinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getrawmempool(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getblockhash(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getblockheader(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getblock(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue gettxoutsetinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue gettxout(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue verifychain(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue getchaintips(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue invalidateblock(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);
extern UniValue reconsiderblock(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp);

bool StartRPC();
void InterruptRPC();
void StopRPC();
std::string JSONRPCExecBatch(const UniValue& vReq);

#endif // FLURBO_RPCSERVER_H

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The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is looking for volunteer summer interns to work on public interest issues involving technology.
CIS is a leading center for the study of the relationship between the public interest, law, and technology.
The summer interns will work with Jennifer Granick (Director of Civil Liberties) on her book related to government surveillance. Interns will research surveillance law and technology related to data collection, minimization and analysis. The ideal candidates would have a background in privacy enhancing technologies, network security, and/or surveillance law, and need not be a J.D. candidate. Excellent research and writing skills are required.
The summer interns work with Aleecia M. McDonald (Director of Privacy) on legal and public policy issues in online consumer privacy. Interns will have the opportunity to perform original academic research studies on selected topics in US and international public policy and law. Ideal candidates will have at least one of: excellent writing skills, prior human subjects research experience, basic statistical analysis skills, or basic computer programming skills. We require at least a two month commitment.
1) The summer interns will work with Giancarlo Frosio (Resident Fellow at CIS) on cutting edge issues dealing with intermediary liability of information service providers and users' platforms. Interns will monitor recent developments in the area and do general research that will be later embedded in a final report and blog posts, edit and write blog posts or coauthor them with other members of the CIS, contribute to the World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) project showcasing intermediary liability legislation and case law around the world, contribute to the organization of a conference and work on other projects dedicated to intermediary liability issues. The ideal candidates would have a background in law and familiarity with at least one non-US jurisdiction. Fluency in a language other than English will be highly appreciated, in particular Spanish, French, German, Chinese or Arabic. Outstanding writing and editing skills will be determinant to obtain the post.
2) The summer interns will work with Giancarlo Frosio (Resident Fellow at CIS) on cutting edge issues dealing with intermediary liability of information service providers and users' platforms. In particular, interns will contribute to the World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) project showcasing intermediary liability legislation and case law around the world. They will help design the WILMap new dedicated website, advise on structure, organization, additional features that may be included and migrate data from the old website. The ideal candidates would have experience designing websites that incorporate content from a large database of legal materials.
Qualifications: Second and third year law students are preferred, although undergraduates and graduate students will be considered as well. Students should have experience with computers and office software.
This is an unpaid volunteer position; upon request, the Center is willing to write letters of support for student funding programs.
Applications will be accepted until 5pm PST Monday February 17, 2014.


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Q: How do I tell RPM which software version to use? I'm trying to install the Subversion SWIG Python libraries so that I can use them with Trac.
The environment is RHEL5, and for some reason the RedHat repositories for yum are unavailable, so I had to install everything from RPMs.
I've installed all of the dependencies and Subversion itself (1.6.17), no hitch there.
However, since RHEL comes with Python 2.4.3 installed, and since it says in several places that upgrading it may cause problems with parts of the OS that rely on it, I've installed Python 2.7 in addition, and not instead.
Now, when I try to install the subversion-python RPM (subversion-python-1.6.17-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm), it uses the older Python version, and places all of the bindings there.
So the question is - how do I tell it to use the newer Python?
Things I've tried already:

*

*Replace the __python variable in /usr/lib/rpm/macros - when I run rpm -E%{__python} I get the correct version, but still no go.

*Copy the result directories (libsvn/* and svn/*) to the newer version - results in an error: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4 (now reverted).

Any ideas?

A: The packages from the repo are built for a specific Python version and cannot be changed. You will need to find different packages or install from source.

A: There's several external repositories you could use for this. One I have used myself to install Python 2.6 is this one:
http://xteams.oit.ncsu.edu/iso/docs/vision/fedoit
Just look for python26* for for all Python 2.6 packages available.
I don't know about Python 2.7 however... but I doubt you really need higher than 2.6 anyway.


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