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Last night, Kid CuDi Tweeted verbatim: "mark my words, INDICUD will be the greatest album ever made. Know that I'm not lying." As unbelievable as the claim might seem, we can't dismiss the possibility out of hand—Just What I Am, the currently-charting lead single and only known cut off the set, scored and impressive 4.2 average rating from our discerning readership. But does King Wizard, the new song release premiered yesterday via Complex, sound like it belongs on the greatest album ever made? That's for you, not I to decide—but I will say that the record sounds like vintage CuDi, with the Midwest hip-popster delivering defiant rapped bars and a hazy, sung hook over his own stark, plodding electronic production. If you think Scott Mescudi's two for two thus far, keep it locked; while Universal Motown has yet to assign the album a drop date, we'll be sure to keep you supplied with the latest on the forthcoming, artist-produced set.
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This chapter is based on research funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Re-thinking Crime and Punishment. It argues that crime dramas are just as influential as crime news in shaping public understanding of sentencing. Sentencing issues have relatively low media priority. Crime is more dramatic and appealing to audiences than punishment. Even avid consumers of media crime can avoid reflecting on punishment because of the way crime narratives are typically structured. This makes securing public approval for alternatives to prison more difficult. This research and chapter is widely cited and contributed to storylines about the value of community based sentencing in three soap operas.
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I am sam - Unregistered May 13, 2012 2:34 PM awesome stuff! knew he would do it on his home track!!British rider, British team winning at home. Couldnt get much better 11 agree 7 disagree
Don-R May 13, 2012 2:50 PM Brilliant ride from Sam, and great to see him notch up that first win on home turf. The first of many to come, I'm sure. Reply Report abuse 8 agree 3 disagree
tomcol - Unregistered May 13, 2012 5:08 PM Brilliant, well done Sam. Was only a matter of time. First of many thats for sure. 4 agree 1 disagree
Liam48 May 13, 2012 5:21 PM It was a long time coming!He now has that monkey off his back, now the championship battle is on... well done Sam! Reply Report abuse 1 agree 1 disagree
Sump Rat 86 May 13, 2012 5:58 PM Congratulations to Sam Lowes, Great ride, great win.now to win the championship.Well done Parkesy much better result than at Monza. Reply Report abuse 1 agree 1 disagree
boney - Unregistered May 13, 2012 6:30 PM As far as i know, Bogdanka PTR is a Polish team.Good Job Sam! 1 agree 2 disagree
Sick Cylinder - Unregistered May 13, 2012 10:31 PM Congrats to Lowes for his win and also to Kenan and Jules for making him push so hard and making it a great race.@boney - PTR who prepare the bikes and transport them etc are a British outfit.PCXmac - you are obviously a big Kenan fan. Personally I am a fan of all the riders - I haven't seen any evidence over the last few years to suggest that the PTR bikes have a speed advantage. This season I think Kenan has been riding quite conservatively and very intelligently due to his injury.Also very impressed with Jules Cluzel - adapting quickly to the bike. Disappointed with Broc Parkes who pre-season I thought would be a bigger threat. 7 agree 0 disagree
Denis - Unregistered May 14, 2012 3:13 PM Boney, PTR are very much a British team and Bogdanka are the title sponsor of the team 0 agree 0 disagree
Gordon - Unregistered May 14, 2012 8:58 PM Well done Sam i would love to see The Smiths Triumph Team Get involved in the world supersport series cause they definetly showed they could run with the big boys Glens bike was not to full world supersport spec either they just made a few tweeks to get their wild card entry Congratulation to the Smiths Triumph Team 1 agree 1 disagree
Snell - Unregistered May 15, 2012 10:36 AM at least give a me reason why you disagree 0 agree 1 disagree


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This night I am sad. My eyes gaze the gathering galaxy Seated upon the sky spread Selfishly seek a shooting star. I seek it so bad Such sight my thought asking My tea cold beside a frigid bread I moan on the mowed green grass. I love stars Shooting star much more Sparkling sparkles, glittering glitters A little mighty awe Twinkling littles lively and true. For a good night rest I need it bid me... And at my voice crest I started humming For this nightly night, Echoes of darkness A shooting Star.


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SARASOTA OPERA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 2ND ANNUAL DIVAS & DUDES 5K RACE Sarasota, FL – May 14, 2011 will mark the 2nd Annual Sarasota Opera Divas and Dudes 5k Race to benefit the Sarasota Youth Opera Program. The race will begin at 8 AM at the north end of Payne Park (corner of 301 and Adams Lane) with registration beginning at 7:00 AM however pre-registration is encouraged. Charlotte County based Zoomers Running Club have agreed to partner with Sarasota Opera and handle the course plot, timings and overall race results to insure 100% accuracy. Medals will be awarded to the top three male and female winners in each of the fifteen age categories. Additional special awards and prizes courtesy of Gulf Coast Awards, New Balance, Fleet Feet, Fit 2 Run, and Inspired Gear will be awarded to winning runners in varying categories. The pre-registration fee of $20 - $25 the day of the race - includes an event t-shirt, goodie bags with prizes from GNC, Fit 2 Run, Chipotle, Starbucks, First Watch and other local vendors. Complimentary post- run snacks will be provided by Whole Foods. You can find more information and pre-register online at www.sarasotaopera.org, www.zoomersrun.com, or www.active.com.


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Watch PBS Arts from Minnesota: H.M.S. Pinafore on October 14 at 9pm EST
Gilbert and Sullivan's blockbuster is loved for its dynamite songs, gleefully entertaining story and saucy satire. The Guthrie Theater's modern twist infuses the memorable melodies with fresh musical arrangements from big band swing to classic pop and new show-stopping choreography. Go behind the scenes with costuming, musical staging, set building and learn more about the Guthrie Theater. You can also watch the full performance here.
Performed by the Guthrie Theater and produced by tpt National Productions. Funding for H.M.S. Pinafore was provided by the Minnesota State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008; the Blythe Brenden Fund of the Ted and Dr. Roberta Mann Foundation; Russell B. Hagen and Family; and the Margaret and Angus Wurtele Family Foundation.
Also, discover the Minnesota Arts Scene at TPT.
Joe Dowling (Artistic Director, Guthrie Theater) arrived at the Guthrie in 1995, and since that time has directed more than 35 productions, including landmark productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Stoppard and Friel. Under Mr. Dowling's leadership, the Guthrie has enjoyed tremendous growth, including the 2006 opening of a new Guthrie on banks of the Mississippi River.


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- Hamilton legs out single, suffers sore groin April 18, 2015The Reds' lineup could be shorthanded some more after leadoff hitter and center fielder Billy Hamilton left Saturday's 5-2 loss to the Cardinals with a sore right groin muscle.Mark Sheldon
- Elbow looks good, results not as much for Bailey April 18, 2015Homer Bailey smoothly overcame the arduous rehabilitation process required after a significant arm surgery. The Reds starting pitcher, activated from the disabled list Saturday to make his 2015 debut, could not overcome his track record vs. the Cardinals.Mark Sheldon
- Leaked tasked with outdueling Wainwright, solving Reds April 18, 2015The Cardinals and Reds will close out their three-game series with an edition of Sunday Night Baseball at Busch Stadium. Ace Adam Wainwright will start for St. Louis against Cincinnati's Mike Leake. Wainwright has pitched 17 straight scoreless innings vs. the Reds dating back to 2013, including 15 scoreless innings over his two starts last season.Mark Sheldon
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- Bailey can't stop Cardinals' charge in St. Louis April 19, 2015The Cardinals continued their recent dominance of the Reds on Saturday, this time spoiling Homer Bailey's season debut with a steady offensive attack that lifted them to a 5-2 win in front of a sellout Busch Stadium crowd.Jenifer Langosch and Mark Sheldon
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- Early duel with Cardinals turns ugly April 18, 2015Yadier Molina's three-run double off Reds ace Johnny Cueto in the seventh inning broke open a tie game and sent the Cardinals on their way to a 6-1 victory in Friday night's series opener at Busch Stadium.Jenifer Langosch and Mark Sheldon
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Read what other Viator.com travelers think about the Florence Shopping Tour to Prada and the Mall Fashion Outlets. What they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved, it's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
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This was fun and I did get some great deals.. Very easy and made new "friends for the day"
If what you want is to shop for Italian Designer clothes, Bags and shoes then you will be in heaven! If it was longer it would be even better!
The Prada store is amazing!!! and the Mall has all your favourite designers...but personally the prada store was the highlight.. I would have preferred less time at the mall and more time at prada!
The whole thing went without any problems! The trip to the Prada outlet was well worth it! I would do it again.
If you love to shop and love bargains this is the tour for you. I got amazing things at substantial discounts. Gucci was under 50 percent off retail prices.
Well organised with convenience of having the bus pick us up from meeting point to the destinations. I would say shopping time at the mall was too rushed. Prada was good though. All in all, a quick non fuss way to travel to the fashion outlets.
If you want to hit the outlets, this is definitely the way to do it. A small, air-conditioned coach gets you to the Prada outlet, and The Mall and leaves you sufficient time at each to shop. And I think it's a much better solution than taking the public busses from Florence to The Mall. A quick, efficient and comfortable way to get from Florence to some of the best shopping I have seen in a LONG time!
It was fun. Wish that had little bit more time in Prada outlet...
Good amount of time for shopping in both Prada Outlet and The Mall. Everything was straightforward and the driver was on time. Couldn't ask for more ease and convenience for an outlet shopping day!
great trip, though 'the mall' wasnt good for menswear. was 90% womens and nothing was very nice. armani was like a jumble sale space (prada) was great! thought limited sizes in shoes, was hard to find a UK11+ and no Dolce & Gabbana, apparently thats another 15 mins drive away from the mall id like a trip just to prada for half a day rather than both
Trips to the malls were well timed Had enough time at the stores and was not rushed
Vinayak S
Wonderful trip. Great Shopping! Would recommend for shopaholics!
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Have done the trip 3 times in the past, great bargins to be found if you like good quality designer goods at half the price.Great shopping day out .
Aseel A
Very well organizd tour and right on time when it came to the pick up and drop off.
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First time we saw an outlet in Italy. Prada was incredible while the mall offered reaaalllly good merchandise. Shopping time not enough.


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Once you adopt them they all ct the same and have the same generic dialogue as one-another.It just comes to down to personal preference based on their pasts.
Anyone know if your two adopted kids will ever interact with each other? Or are they supposed to behave just like two independent kids who never speak to each other? That's what I'm getting now.
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Sri sri krishna praemi maharaaj
Nidhayae bhakthi thath vaanaam kathayae cha mahaathmanaam \ Asmaakam pathayae thubyam praemikaaya namo namahaa \\ |
Praemika naatham smaraami sathguruvaryam || praemika ||ANUPALLAVI
Sri radhikaa ramana chinthana lolam – hariCHARANAM
Bavyagunaalaya baavukavathsalam
-The above song composed by Sri Sethalapathi Soundhara raaja bhaagavathar
Gurunaatha gurunaatha praemika naatha gurunaathaSRI PRAEMIKAENDRA SATHGURU MAHARAJKI !! JAI !!!
In this kaliyuga, among the various enlightened souls Paranoor Mahathma Sri Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal is one who has appeared to redeem the people from the sufferings.
Sri Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal was born on a Gokulaasthami (Sri Krishna's Birthday)day in a village called Saengannur in Tanjore district near Kumbhakonam (South India). Right from his very early childhood he was absorbed in divine thoughts and lived a very simple life. He was benefited by the study of Sri Vaishnava and Sri Shaiva. His life of austerity made him learn all about the epics and Bhagawat Gita. He spent his life in Dhyana right from the age of 12 years. The devotees used to call Swamiji as "SRI SRI ANNA"
He has established Schools of 'thought of bhakti' by training students in the discourse of Ramayana, Bhaagawatha and Bhagawat Gita for the same he instituted various centres in different parts of India and elsewhere. He has a good line of disciples who entertain people in Bhakti Maarga through lectures, Bhajans, etc.
He has reconstructed dilapidated temples, which were once propitiated by the Great Saints and arranged for daily Poojas and Aaradhanas. For this, he established a Sabha to administer the work.
His services and contributions in the Bhakti Marga are indeed laudable in this Kaliyuga to redeem the people of their miseries.
Sri Sri Anna is the founder president of Akila Bhaaratha Saadhu Sangam. The Akhila Bhaarata Saadhu Sangam is constituted for propagating Sri Krishna Bhakthi by conducting Saptaahams of Srimad Bhaagavatham in various parts of India and has established its centre in various towns, cities, etc. He has to his credit the honour of having occupied the Gyana Peedam (Also called Vyasa Peedam) for Hundreds of Bhagawatha Sapthaham all over the country. He conducts a number of benefit programs for the upliftment and maintenance of several temples.
Sri Sri Anna maintains several Ashrams in important places like Mathura- Brindavan, Pandharpur, Paranur, etc. and a Gosala near Madurai for the upkeeping and maintaining old cows that were otherwise sent for slaughtering.
Sri Sri Anna authored a number of Bhajans and more than Hundred books in Tamil and Sanskrit the latest being Veda Vigyanam. This book deals extensively with vedic periods as well as the four Vedas and Hindu Rituals. He has concluded the book by elucidating the moral standard to be followed by the humanity. He has published various books on Bhagawatham, Ramayanam and also numerous AudioCassettes on pravachan and bhajans.
Sri Sri Anna is publishing a monthly magazine called Bhaagawata Dharmam, which has a wide circulation.
Sri Sri Anna's discourses have been recorded and published in both audio and video tapes. His discourse on Ramayana, Mahabharata, Srimad Bhagawatham, Bhagwat Gita, 108 Divya Kshetras of Mahavishnu, Panduranga Charitra, etc. are like "Karnaamrutham" to every listener.


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Title: Compensatory Lengthening Subtitle: Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony Series Title: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Author: Darya Kavitskaya, Yale University Hardback: ISBN: 0415941601, Pages: 240, Price: $65.00 Abstract: The term compensatory lengthening (CL) refers to a set of phonological phenomena wherein the disappearance of one element of a representation is accompanied by a lengthening of another element. This study focuses on descriptive and formal similarities and divergences between CL of vowels triggered by consonant and by vowel loss. To account for the full range of existing compensatory phenomena as well as for the absence of certain logically possible outcomes, it is necessary to distinguish synchronic and diachronic aspects of CL. It is shown that both CL through consonant and through vowel loss arise via phonologization of inherent duration of vowels and neither involves any transfer of length or weight. Rather, intrinsic phonetic vowel durations are reinterpreted as phonologically significant upon a change in the conditioning environment or syllable structure. Though similar diachronically, CL through consonant and vowel loss function differently in synchronic grammars. Because of this split, purely phonological accounts are inadequate to predict the full typology of CL. It is proposed that the nature of the split is due to a difference in the relationship between trigger and target for the two types of CL. The book is intended for phonologists, as well as for general linguists. Lingfield(s): General Linguistics Phonetics Phonology Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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Event Type: Computer Class Age Group(s): Adults Date: 12/6/2012 Start Time: 10:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Description: Say goodbye to red eye and crooked horizons! This class will teach you how to digitally enhance your digital photos with a little TLC. Sample images can be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own photos to work with.
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Mrs. Newton asleep in a Conservatory Chair
James Tissot, 1836-1902
Oil on canvas
20 1/2 X 17 1/2 inches, 52 x 44.5 cm
Provenance: Leicester Galleries
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Commentary by Hilary Morgan
Some five years after Tissot's arrival in London in the summer of 1871, he met Kathleen Newton, a hauntingly beautiful Irish divorcée. Little is known of her personality, but as Jane Abdy writes, 'What Tissot's work tells us about Mrs. Newton is that he was obsessed by her gentle beauty and made her the subject of almost every painting for the six years of their liaison. ... they were deeply in love, and this is borne out by Tissot's despairing attempts to find her again through mediums and seances after herdeath, whenhecontinued to paint herfor two or three years as if she were still alive.' As Michael Wentworth notes, the arrival of Kathleen Newton into Tissot's life gave his art a focus:
As Tissot devoted himself to recording the beauty, and to some degree the psychology, of his mistress, there is often a direct physical confrontation with the spectator, who may be thought of as the artist himself, and what remains of narrative is now simply the result of the involvement of the viewer with the painted world.
This work represents a very personal image of Kathleen Newton, and is very different in feeling from his larger finished works of the period in its demonstration of his French roots. It is a free oil sketch and demonstrates Tissot's skill in applying paint while working spontaneously from life. He first of all applied an ochre glaze to the prepared white canvas, and then sketched with broad brushstrokes onto this ground, using the background as part of the finished surface. The impasto of the white brush strokes are in contrast to the thinly glazed darker colours, and the technical skill with which he has painted the knee under the dress with the minimum brushstrokes, shows him to be a supremely sophisticated artist.
This work relates to other images of the same date. The wicker armchair in which Kathleen Newton is sitting was amongst Tissot's favourite studio props. A similar view of the conservatory at 17 Grove End, SaintJohn's Wood, can be seen in a trial proof for an engraving entitled 'Femme a la Fenetre' (circa 1875, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale.)
A similar later sketch, painted circa 1881 to 1882 is in the Musée Baron Martin.
Abdy, Jane. Tissot, his London Friends and Visitors. In London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1984. James Tissot, (catalogue of the exhibition)
Isetan Museum of Art. James Tissot, (catalogue of the exhibition by Michael Wentworth). Japan, Tokyo, 1988.
P>Morgan, Hilary, and Nahum, Peter. Burne-Jones, The Pre-Raphaelites And Their Century. Peter Nahum, 1989. Catalogue number 134.
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Updyke is on trial for the poisoning of the two oak trees at Toomer's Corner in downtown Auburn. Jury selection began today and is likely to continue into tomorrow's session.
Asked by Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker if they had heard or read anything about the case, all but one elderly woman raised their juror placards.
About five jurors acknowledged that they were convinced of Updyke's guilt.
After group sessions, attorneys began individual questioning of jurors before breaking for lunch.
Updyke came to court cleanly shaven, no longer sporting a bushy beard. In most previous appearances, Updyke wore a crimson tie; today, he donned a grey shirt, dark tie and khaki pants.
His wife Elva sat behind the defense table. Updyke visited with her frequently during breaks.
Updyke looked like he had lost weight in recent months. As the indictment was read by the judge, Updyke closed his eyes and breathed heavily. He seemed to be mumbling words to himself.
Later, he appeared more alert, attentively watching jurors as they answered questions.


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May it Please Your Excellency:
The very long sickness I have undergone as well as my wife, having forced me to spend all I had, obliged me to put out of my mind all thoughts of prosecuting my Military designs, whereby I could scarce have got a living for myself alone. I am therefore determined to settle in this State, if I can meet with any encouragement. I intend too presenting to the Honorable Assembly a petition to be named French Interpreter to the State and to your Excellency. If I am happy enough to meet with your approbation, which I do most earnestly solicit as well as the honor of your protection near the General Assembly in favor of my demand, the affluence of French vessels, and of the natives of France to North America, which will even much increase when War will be over, will render that place necessary and indispensable. The Virginians have felt that necessity long ago, and have appointed a German who understands both languages, French interpreter with a very good pay; besides it would save your Excellency of being troubled with French petitions and letters from the Captains of the ships, who would then address themselves to me first.
Moreover I have the honor of informing your Excellency that I keep now the school at New Bern where I do teach the Greek, Latin and French languages, with arithmetic, the principles of Mathematics, Geography and Book-keeping. I believe myself well qualified for this profession, tho' I never exerted it before, having been educated in the University of Paris, where I studied for two
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can solve problems when certain variables
are integer-valued. Give IntCon
, a vector of the x components
that are integers:
[x,fval,exitflag] = ga(fitnessfcn,nvars,A,b,[],[],... lb,ub,nonlcon,IntCon,options)
is a vector of positive integers that
contains the x components that are integer-valued.
For example, if you want to restrict x(2)
and x(10)
be integers, set IntCon
to [2,10]
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This example shows how to find the minimum of Rastrigin's function restricted so the first component of x is an integer. The components of x are further restricted to be in the region .
Set up the bounds for your problem
lb = [5*pi,-20*pi]; ub = [20*pi,-4*pi];
Set a plot function so you can view the progress of ga
opts = gaoptimset('PlotFcns',@gaplotbestf);
Call the ga solver where x(1) has integer values
rng(1,'twister') % for reproducibility IntCon = 1; [x,fval,exitflag] = ga(@rastriginsfcn,2,[],[],[],[],... lb,ub,[],IntCon,opts)
Optimization terminated: average change in the penalty fitness value less than options.TolFun and constraint violation is less than options.TolCon. x = 16.0000 -12.9325 fval = 424.1355 exitflag = 1
ga converges quickly to the solution.
There are some restrictions on the types of problems that ga
solve when you include integer constraints:
No linear equality constraints. You must have Aeq = []
and beq = []
. For a possible workaround, see No Equality Constraints.
No nonlinear equality constraints. Any nonlinear constraint
function must return []
for the nonlinear equality
constraint. For a possible workaround, see Example: Integer Programming with a Nonlinear Equality Constraint.
Only doubleVector
population type.
No custom creation function (CreationFcn
crossover function (CrossoverFcn
option), mutation
function (MutationFcn
option), or initial scores
option). If you supply any of these, ga
their settings.
uses only the binary tournament
selection function (SelectionFcn
option), and overrides
any other setting.
No hybrid function. ga
any setting of the HybridFcn
ignores the ParetoFraction
, DistanceMeasureFcn
, InitialPenalty
and PenaltyFactor
The listed restrictions are mainly natural, not arbitrary. For example:
There are no hybrid functions that support integer
constraints. So ga
does not use hybrid functions
when there are integer constraints.
To obtain integer variables, ga
special creation, crossover, and mutation functions.
You cannot use equality constraints and integer constraints in the same problem. You can try to work around this restriction by including two inequality constraints for each linear equality constraint. For example, to try to include the constraint
3x1 – 2x2 = 5,
create two inequality constraints:
3x1 –
2x2 ≤ 5
3x1 –
2x2 ≥ 5.
To write these constraints in the form A x
≤ b
, multiply
the second inequality by -1
–3x1 + 2x2 ≤ –5.
You can try to include the equality constraint using A
= [3,-2;-3,2]
and b
= [5;-5]
Be aware that this procedure can fail; ga
difficulty with simultaneous integer and equality constraints.
Example: Integer Programming with a Nonlinear Equality Constraint. This example attempts to locate the minimum of the Ackley function in five dimensions with these constraints:
, x(3)
and x(5)
are integers.
norm(x) = 4
The Ackley function, described briefly in Resuming ga From the Final Population, is difficult to minimize. Adding integer and equality constraints increases the difficulty.
To include the nonlinear equality constraint, give a small tolerance tol
allows the norm of x
to be within tol
of 4
Without a tolerance, the nonlinear equality constraint is never satisfied,
and the solver does not realize when it has a feasible solution.
Write the expression norm(x) = 4
as two "less than zero" inequalities:
norm(x) - 4
≤ 0
-(norm(x) - 4)
≤ 0
Allow a small tolerance in the inequalities:
norm(x) - 4 - tol
≤ 0
-(norm(x) - 4) - tol
≤ 0
Write a nonlinear inequality constraint function that implements these inequalities:
function [c, ceq] = eqCon(x) ceq = []; rad = 4; tol = 1e-3; confcnval = norm(x) - rad; c = [confcnval - tol;-confcnval - tol];
Set options:
StallGenLimit = 50
— Allow
the solver to try for a while.
TolFun = 1e-10
— Specify
a stricter stopping criterion than usual.
Generations = 300
— Allow
more generations than default.
PlotFcns = @gaplotbestfun
Observe the optimization.
opts = gaoptimset('StallGenLimit',50,'TolFun',1e-10,... 'Generations',300,'PlotFcns',@gaplotbestfun);
Set lower and upper bounds to help the solver:
nVar = 5; lb = -5*ones(1,nVar); ub = 5*ones(1,nVar);
Solve the problem:
rng(1,'twister') % for reproducibility [x,fval,exitflag] = ga(@ackleyfcn,nVar,[],[],[],[], ... lb,ub,@eqCon,[1 3 5],opts); Optimization terminated: stall generations limit exceeded and constraint violation is less than options.TolCon.
Examine the solution:
x,fval,exitflag,norm(x) x = -3.0000 0.8233 1.0000 -1.1503 2.0000 fval = 5.1119 exitflag = 3 ans = 4.0001
The odd x
components are integers, as specified.
The norm of x
is 4
, to within
the given relative tolerance of 1e-3
Despite the positive exit flag, the solution is not the global optimum. Run the problem again and examine the solution:
opts = gaoptimset(opts,'Display','off'); [x2,fval2,exitflag2] = ga(@ackleyfcn,nVar,[],[],[],[], ... lb,ub,@eqCon,[1 3 5],opts);
Examine the second solution:
x2,fval2,exitflag2,norm(x2) x2 = -1.0000 -0.9959 -2.0000 0.9960 3.0000 fval2 = 4.2359 exitflag2 = 1 ans = 3.9980
The second run gives a better solution (lower fitness function
value). Again, the odd x
components are integers,
and the norm of x2
is 4
, to
within the given relative tolerance of 1e-3
Be aware that this procedure can fail; ga
difficulty with simultaneous integer and equality constraints.
Integer programming with ga
involves several
modifications of the basic algorithm (see How the Genetic Algorithm Works). For integer programming:
Special creation, crossover, and mutation functions enforce variables to be integers. For details, see Deep et al. [2].
The genetic algorithm attempts to minimize a penalty function, not the fitness function. The penalty function includes a term for infeasibility. This penalty function is combined with binary tournament selection to select individuals for subsequent generations. The penalty function value of a member of a population is:
If the member is feasible, the penalty function is the fitness function.
If the member is infeasible, the penalty function is the maximum fitness function among feasible members of the population, plus a sum of the constraint violations of the (infeasible) point.
For details of the penalty function, see Deb [1].
[1] Deb, Kalyanmoy. An efficient constraint handling method for genetic algorithms. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 186(2–4), pp. 311–338, 2000.
[2] Deep, Kusum, Krishna Pratap Singh, M.L. Kansal, and C. Mohan. A real coded genetic algorithm for solving integer and mixed integer optimization problems. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 212(2), pp. 505–518, 2009.


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Rice acknowledges that many of his "guests" have troubled pasts but downplays their threat to anyone other than themselves. "We serve a lot of hurting people," he says. As for the sex offenders, Rice considers three to be a surprisingly low number. "The fact is, anyone can use our address," he says. "Maybe they did stay here a night or two. Who knows? But the authorities can always come and look if they want."
Alderwoman Kacie Starr Triplett, whose 6th Ward encompasses Washington Avenue and the New Life shelter (view map), says the petition puts her in an awkward position. "I'm sensitive to the concerns of my constituents, but at the same time you have to ask: Where would these people go if the shelter is closed? Right now, the city doesn't have the resources to provide for them."
In 2005 Mayor Francis Slay launched a ten-year plan to eliminate chronic homelessness in St. Louis by providing permanent housing to the poor as well as creating four drop-in "safe havens." To date, only two of those drop-in shelters have opened, and neither provides beds. By comparison, Rice's shelter usually sleeps 100 people in the summer and double that in the winter.
It remains to be seen if the petition asking the city's Board of Public Service to strip Rice of his permits will work. "It looks like the ordinance is available to petitioners," says BPS president Marjorie Melton. "That said, no one has presented a similar petition in my five years here. I've talked to people in the office who've been here twenty years, it's the first they've heard of it."
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A team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers has discovered that common intestinal bacteria appear to promote tumor growths in genetically susceptible mice, but that tumorigenesis can be suppressed if the mice are exposed to an inhibiting protein enzyme.
The research, said lead author Eyal Raz, MD, a professor of medicine at UC San Diego, could portend an eventual new form of treatment for people with familial adenomatous polyposis or FAP, an inherited condition in which numerous initially benign polyps form in the large intestine, eventually transforming into malignant colon cancer.
The research appears online May 9 in the journal Nature Medicine.
Raz, with colleagues at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Wonkwang University in the Republic of Korea, looked at interactions between the vast numbers of bacteria typically found in the gastrointestinal tract and the tract's mucosal lining. Ordinarily, the bacteria and tract establish a kind of homeostasis. "In a normal host, these bacteria actually serve important roles, such as supporting cell production," said Raz. "But in susceptible hosts, the presence of these bacteria turns out to be detrimental."
Specifically, Raz and his co-authors found that mice with an engineered mutation that closely mimics FAP in humans leaves the mice notably vulnerable to inflammatory factors produced by ordinary bacterial activity. The constant inflammation enhances expression of an oncogene called c-Myc. Very quickly, the mice develop numerous tumors in their intestines and typically do not survive past six months of age.
In humans, FAP can be equally devastating. It is a genetic condition in which patients at a young age begin to develop hundreds to thousands of polyps in their intestine. By age 35, 95 percent of individuals with FAP have polyps. The polyps start out benign, but ultimately become malignant without treatment. Current treatmen
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I've been hearing recently about a number of Marvel artists with exclusive contracts, who have been asked if they wouldn't mind bringing those contracts to an end a little bit early.
Exclusive contracts guarantee creators certain amounts of work at certain page rates, along with health benefits and other perks that come with regular employment. As a result such creators are usually expected to work on the bigger selling titles to justify the extra costs. But sometimes those costs can be a little too much.
No one would go on the record about the current situation, and it was hard to find any specific corroborating evidence. That's until Ariel Olivetti chose to talk about Marvel and the American comics industry to an Argentinian magazine published recently.
Here are certain highlights, translated (do let us know if you can offer a better translation)
You were working until now Iron Man 2.0, which was cancelled and a lot of readers didn't expect to be ended…
Luckily it finished.
Don't you like the story?
The scripts were awful at the end, at first it worked well with the other story that Marvel was publishing
Fear Itself.
Yeah, that story. But later it went to hell. Then invented an archivillian that made no sense. The scripts were backwards, the writer married in the middle, leaving everybody stuck, they put an replacement writer who was worse. The editor kicked the replacement writer off and he wrote the scripts. A disaster that thankfully ended.
In the penultimate issue I could draw ten pages and nothing more, because the script never came. So I had a week to deliver the rest and the script was not finished yet. And in the final issue I draw five pages nothing more. I got the script and they said, "How many pages you can do for next Friday?". And we had five days, five pages. Because I color directly, How would you do it? It's impossible. So they called in other guys and you will see for yourself. The last issues of Iron Man 2.0 are a disaster. There is one woman who is blonde, then in the other frame is a brunette. It is impossible that in a week all the artists could agree and say "Man, the blouse you have to draw is red, and the girl who was drinking tea, I did drinking beer. "
How strange to hear this from a publisher as big as Marvel and old …
McDonalds is also great and the burgers are disgusting. At one time Marvel worked like a little clock, but it melted down 2 or 3 years ago and in the middle of this (Iron Man) they fired about 15 staff. So it was a mess.
And this series is not the only one that closed.
No, they cancelled a number.
For 2012 What are your plans?
To be honest, I have nothing. I have an exclusive contract for 2 more years at Marvel and the last number I finished Iron Man 2.0 two weeks ago and I am not insisting much but they didn't give me more work either. So, within two weeks, if they not give me work I will exercise my right to contract and tell them "I need money, and you have to pay me even if I don't work" So I do not know, they do not know yet, they're looking for work for me but they don't know what to give me.
Today it was announced that Ariel Olivetti will be drawing The War That Time Forgot for the new title GI Combat (previously Men Of War) at DC Comics. The last time DC announced a Marvel exclusive creator on one of their books, it didn't actually happen. This time… I think it will.
A Marvel source asked me to note that some of what Ariel said was untrue and speculation on his part as to the inner workings of editorial at the company and that Marvel editors do not write scripts.
Iron Man 2.0 editor until being made redundant, Alejandro Arbona declined to comment.
Nick Spencer, writer of Iron Man 2.0 did the same. The credits show Nick wrote up to issue 9 and then provided plots for subsequent issues.
Josh Fialkov then scripted an issue and told Bleeding Cool "I worked on issue 9, and just about every word I wrote was in the final comic" but he then had to leave for personal family reasons.
Will Pfiefer then joined scripting duties and told Bleeding Cool "Obviously, I don't know what was communicated between Ariel and the Marvel office. All I can tell you is that I was hired to write the script, based on Nick Spencer's plot, for the last half of issue 10 and issues 11 and 12. The deadlines were tight, to say the least, and I was usually sending in a few pages at a time. (Not the rarest thing in modern comics, as you probably know.) The plot didn't change much, though obviously it was tweaked and fleshed out in the script process."
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Rainbows United's creditors have overwhelmingly approved the nonprofit's reorganization plan, a major step in its emergence from bankruptcy.
Next up is a 10 a.m. Wednesday hearing before U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Nugent to seek confirmation of the plan and its provisions.
"We're very much looking forward to Wednesday," said Steve Cox, the Rainbows board chairman.
"It's not the final step in the process, but it's a key step that lets us get back to operating a facility focused on the kids and moving forward. It's a tremendous obstacle to get behind us.
"We are very grateful that the community has chosen to support the plan and for its overwhelming support."
According to a court document filed Friday by Ed Nazar, Rainbows' bankruptcy attorney, only one creditor voted to reject the plan: Rusty Eck Ford, with a claim of $1,481.
However, Emprise Bank and its financial partners in two loans to Rainbows for $3.8 million did not cast a vote on the plan.
That bank vote was the subject of some legal wrangling earlier this month when Equity Bank, a participant in a pre-petition $2.3 million Rainbows loan, indicated that it wanted to oppose the plan.
In response, Emprise asked Nugent earlier this month to allow it and its loan partners to vote separately on the plan, a motion denied by the judge on March 11.
So Tom Page, Emprise president, said the bank elected not to vote "since we did not have unanimous opinion on the plan."
The reorganization plan calls for the 30-year payment of the $2.1 million balance of the pre-petition Emprise loan, according to the Friday filing, with a variable interest rate opening at 5.75 percent.
The Rainbows sale of property at 340 S. Broadway and 251 S. Whittier will be used to pay off a $1.5 million post-petition operations loan from Emprise and its partners.
And the plan calls for the repayment of the $2.3 million owed the Internal Revenue Service over five years.
Rainbows, which serves children with special needs and their families, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July after the nonprofit's board of directors discovered "financial irregularities" in the group's financial reports.
A day after filing for bankruptcy, Rainbows United said that it would sell two buildings, lay off staff members and reduce services as part of its reorganization plan.
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That's only a slight increase from last year's number of 58,500 attendees but it's important to note that this year PAX 2009 had a limited amount of tickets to sell due to concerns of overcrowding and safety from the show's venue at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. All the previously alloted tickets were sold out a few days before the show opened. However, after the convention center saw how well PAX 2009 was handling the large crowds, they gave show organizers the thumbs up to sell a limited number of Saturday and Sunday day tickets, both of which quickly sold out.
In a quick phone chat today with Penny Arcade's Robert Khoo he told us that next year they hope to allow more people to attend the show due to some expansion plans that are taking shape around the convention center. And then there's PAX East, which is scheduled to be held in Boston in late March. Khoo told us it's still too early to say how many people will attend that event but that he's been surprised at the number of people who actually plan to come to both PAX shows in 2010.


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Nathan Hale and the British Army Forces are trying to end the Chimera's occupation of 3/4's of Europe and end their disease. It includes 5 soldiers, to take on 5 chimera, the Chimera can be very big, so I made one Angel, the rest are advanced Hybrids. There is a car on fire and four pieces of cover, all the guns are customisable.


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Immerse Yourself in the World of L'Occitane BoutiquesEntering a L'OCCITANE store instantly teleports you to Provence. The skincare brand from Manosque invites the whole world to discover, via their collections, a little piece of this unique region. Let's visit !By Caroline TaretTweetCreated in 1976 by Olivier Baussan, L'OCCITANE en Provence opened its first store in 1981 in Voix, a few kilometers from the village of Forcalquier. Thirty years later, the brand is present in 85 countries; the first overseas store opened in Hong Kong in 1995 and the 2,000th store was inaugurated in Pisa in spring 2012. A genuine ambassador of Provence lifestyle, L'OCCITANE creates more than just products, it invites people on a true journey to the heart of nature and Provence. The interior design of L'OCCITANE boutiques is inspired by Provence. Inside, a genuine local atmosphere is favored with open spaces dotted with furniture and objects evoking Provence of yesterday, but also of today. Traditional terracotta tiles on the floor and wooden furniture recreates the warm and friendly atmosphere of Provencal farmhouses. Stalks of lavender and bunches of "Immortelle" flowers remind visitors of the importance of the ingredients sourced in Provence and Corsica for the creation of their unique products. Since 2009, Olivier Baussan's brand is also inspired by the greenhouses in whose shelter plants grow. Tall plates of glass flanked by wrought-iron poles decorate the stores, like a window on to Provence. Another important influence (and one that can't be ignored in Provence!) is the market: it's impossible to spend a few days in the region dear to Pagnol and Giono without coming across a square filled with canopied stands presenting local fruit and vegetables, herbs and freshly cut flowers. Like these ephemeral arrangements, the boutique shelves display the brand's products as well as their ingredient. But what charms the most in this fit out are the little objects: each boutique features woven baskets, and the copper still destined for distilling essential oils, a determining accessory in the history of L'OCCITANE, as reveal the founder's photos of the brand in 1976 at the wheel of his Citroën Deux Cheveaux in the Provence countryside. An agricultural and human adventure that continues today since L'OCCITANE calls on local producers and distillers for the fabrication of all their products, like for example Philippe Soguel, distiller at the Bleu Provence distillery in Nyons who after lavender and lavandin this summer is preparing to distill verbena. As for the façade, the boutiques are dressed in yellow, a reference to the ochers of Provence, that we find in the Luberon region and particularly around the village of Roussillon. Despite their assertive style, the L'OCCITANE boutiques adapt to the architecture of each city while maintaining an identity, whether they open their doors in Tokyo or New York. Next adventure in Zurich: the Bahnhofstrasse will soon have its little piece of Provence. Boutiques in ProvenceCorsicaDesignProvenceLOccitane en Provence boutiquesDecorationPhotography L'OccitaneL'Occitane en Provence boutiquesDecorationPhotography L'Occitane
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Motivation | hypothyroid and losing weight | May 08 2012 10:28 (UTC) |
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Jnparker, my mum has it too and when my hair started falling out and I started to feel tired a lot, she suggested I get it checked. Even then when my results showed I was borderline, my doc wouldn't give me the mess. Said to wait 2 more months, I said give me the bloody mess now!! Plus I would get memory fog and constipation too. Everything just works at a slower pace. Get it checked and put your mind at ease:) | |||
Motivation | hypothyroid and losing weight | May 08 2012 10:24 (UTC) |
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I have been hypothyroid for 10 years. Recently I was up to 100mcg cos I was pregnant and hardly gained any weight. But 6 weeks after having my baby, my dosage has been reduced to 75mcg which was my original dose and I have gained 9lbs!! blood test showed I was slightly over active. But I am finding it harder to lose the weight and am constantly retaining water. | |||
Motivation | Lost 42lbs!!!! Yay me!!! | May 08 2012 10:19 (UTC) |
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Wow!! Congratulations, that's an outstanding achievement. Well done, you:) | |||
Weight Loss | Burn but afraid to eat?.. | May 08 2012 10:15 (UTC) |
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A banana and a couple of almonds. Just enough of everything to give you a boost!! | |||
Weight Loss | Weight gain a week before period? | May 08 2012 10:11 (UTC) |
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I'm on mine at the moment and belly is so bloated!! Usually I put on about 3 lbs but I can go up by 7. I'm not drinking enough fluids either as i have a rotten cold. I should be but hey, I don't expect a loss this week. | |||
Weight Loss | Space for one more?? | May 05 2012 21:44 (UTC) |
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Thanks! | |||
Health & Support | How much weight can you retain from edema? | May 05 2012 18:16 (UTC) |
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I usually put on 5lbs in a week. It really gets me down especially when I'm on a diet!! | |||
Health & Support | Thyroid Cancer Struggles | May 05 2012 18:14 (UTC) |
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Hi, I'm sorry to hear that. I have hypothyroidism and have had it for 10 years. I'm 34 years old. My mum had her thyroid 'killed' off as it was very over active so she is also on meds. My brother also has hypothyroidism. I don't have any advice regarding your situation so I apologise for that. My weight tends to fluctuate a lot regardless how much I eat and it really frustrates me especially when it's been 2 weeks of exercise and healthy eating and no weight loss!!!! Anyway I hope you find a plan which works for you. | |||
Health & Support | Mourning Stargirl213.... | May 05 2012 18:06 (UTC) |
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I never knew star girl as I just joined today but this is so sad. I hope her family find the strength to carry on. |


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Calculate line-height of an HTML element (IE6 compatible)
Calculate line-height of an HTML element (IE6 compatible)
This was created for provide a well-tested module for calculating line-height in pixels for trunkata, a line-based truncation library for HTML.
is available via the following:
npm install line-height
bower install line-height
component install line-height
For npm
and component
, you can load it in as follows:
var lineHeight = require'line-height';
For bower
and http
, you can use vanilla JS
window.lineHeight; // `line-height` is defined on `window` in camelCase
or you can use AMD
require'line-height' funtion lineHeight /* code */ ;
or CommonJS syntax (see npm
Once you have the module loaded, you can get the line-height
of any node in the DOM.
// Calculate the `line-height` of the body lineHeightdocumentbody; // 19 // Calculate the `line-height` of an h2 var h2 = documentcreateElement'h2';documentbodyappendChildh2;lineHeighth2; // 29 // Calculate how many lines tall an element is var div = documentcreateElement'div';divinnerHTML = '
1

2
';lineHeightdiv / divoffsetHeight; // 2, how trunkata performs its calculations
provides a single function.
lineHeightnode;/** * Calculate the `line-height` of a given node * @param {HTMLElement} node Element to calculate line height of. Must be in the DOM. * @returns {Number} `line-height` of the element in pixels */
line-height: normal
In a large amount of browsers, the computed style for an element's line-height
is normal
by default.
If it is specified by any other means (e.g. ancestor has a line-height
or the element has a line-height
specified), it is either a CSS length.
To solve this problem, we create a vanilla element of the same nodeName
(e.g. h2
if it is an h2
), apply the original element's font-size
, and return the element offsetHeight
. This is the height
of 1 line
of the element (i.e. line-height
, pc
, in
, cm
, mm
to px
In most browsers, when the line-height
is specified in pt
, pc
, in
, cm
or mm
, the computedStyle
value is in the same unit.
To solve this problem, we use the standard ratios of conversion to pixels to make a conversion to pixels.
font-size in IE6In IE6, numeric
s (e.g. font-size: 2.3
) are returned without a unit.
To solve this problem, we treat this number as an em
since it is relative as well. To do that, we set the element's style to "numeric value" + "em"
, compute and save the font-size
, remove the temporary style. This conversion gives us the unit in pt
which we know how to deal with from before.
In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint via grunt and test via npm test
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Joni turned vegan in 1991, and started training for and competing in strongman events around 2000 in the 105kg weight category. Since then he has developed an impressive level of strength, with personal bests of 150kg for bench press, 230kg for squat and a deadlift of 262.5kg. His bodyweight is 107kg.
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"If people see someone punching a dog, they would say something is wrong there. To me being vegan is not more complex than that, it's just a reaction to something which is clearly wrong."
"The diet in strongman and other similar kind of sports is not strict. The calorie needs can be up to 6000 calories a day during competition season and one cant get that from super strict 'healthy' sources alone."
Joni is a founder of Vegan Fitness, an online community for vegans at all level of fitness and sport.
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England's Strongest Man U105kg http://www.youtube.com/embed/EZkqp4pj3UI
Joni attempts Atlas Stones (he is on the far side): http://www.youtube.com/embed/7eYXttNVRyE
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Food Day Brings Food Trucks to City Hall for the First Time; Worms to American Sardine Bar
The holiday celebrates fresh, affordable and sustainable food.
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Implement Your Own Proxy-Based AOP Framework
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is well-suited to managing
application crosscutting concerns, such as logging, security, and
transaction management. AOP provides a complement to object-oriented programming (OOP), which is still the most common and
powerful methodology to address core business concerns. AOP can
reduce code scattering, tangling, and duplication in applications.
Based on their implementation approaches, AOP frameworks can be
classified into two categories:
- Class-weaving-based, such as
"http://eclipse.org/aspectj/">AspectJ and
"http://www.jboss.org/products/aop">JBoss AOP. Core and
crosscutting concerns are implemented independently. Class weaving
is the process of integrating the concern implementations to form
the final system. Weaving can be performed at compile, load, and
run time. Both AspectJ and JBoss AOP are very powerful AOP
implementations. They provide field interception, caller side
interception, and constructor interception. - Proxy-based, such as
"http://www.springframework.org/">Spring AOP,
"http://nanning.codehaus.org/">Nanning, and
"https://dynaop.dev.java.net/">dynaop. With proxies, method
invocations on an object can be intercepted to inject custom code.
The aforementioned AOP frameworks use "http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/reflection/proxy.html">JDK
dynamic proxy, "http://cglib.sourceforge.net/">CGLIB proxy, or both. Unlike
the class-weaving-based ones, proxy-based AOP frameworks are simpler and
often focus on method interception. Most of the time, Java
developers use method interception only. Some proxy-based AOP
implementations, such as Spring AOP, provide close integration
with AspectJ to take advantage of its capabilities.
JDK dynamic proxy has been available since JDK 1.3. The proxy
class, which implements a list of interfaces specified at runtime,
is dynamically created by the JVM. Method invocations on the proxy
class are delegated to the underlying proxied object. JDK dynamic
proxy is simple to use, but, like all reflective code, it is
somewhat slower. For most situations, the overhead is not critical.
Another limitation is that it can only implement interfaces.
What if you want to proxy legacy classes that do not have
interfaces? You can use CGLIB. CGLIB is a powerful, high-performance code generation library. Under the cover, it uses
ASM, a small but fast
bytecode manipulation framework, to transform existing byte code to
generate new classes. CGLIB is faster than the JDK dynamic proxy
approach. Essentially, it dynamically generates a subclass to
override the non-final
methods of the proxied class
and wires up hooks that call back to the user-defined interceptors.
To help you understand and demystify AOP, this article shows you
how to create a simple AOP framework using both JDK dynamic proxy
and CGLIB. This framework supports declarative transaction
management. This article uses Java 5 features, including
annotations and generics. Since JDK dynamic proxy is simpler, this
article starts with dynamic proxy.
Creating a Proxy Factory
A proxy factory is the central place to create proxies for the
requested target classes. Clients of proxies do not know how the
proxies are created.
[prettify]public interface DynamicProxyFactory{
<T> T createProxy(Class<T> clazz,
T target,
AOPInterceptor interceptor);
To create a dynamic proxy, you need a list of proxy interfaces
and a target object. There is a set of rules about the proxy
interfaces. You can look at the
documentation for details. Forsimplicity, this article uses a single interface only. You can
ignore the interceptor argument for now; it will be discussed in
the next section.
[prettify]public <T> T createProxy(Class<T> clazz,
T target, AOPInterceptor interceptor) {
InvocationHandler handler =
new DynamicProxyInvocationHandler(target,
return (T)Proxy.newProxyInstance(
new Class<?>[] {clazz},
The implementation of the proxy factory is simple. First, it
creates an instance of InvocationHandler
, which is one
of the two key dynamic proxy APIs. Then, it uses the static method
to create a proxy that
implements the interface passed in as its second parameter. Note
that the second argument of the newProxyInstance
method is an array of
instead of Class<T>
Arrays cannot be created if the element type is generic, but an
unbounded wildcard can be used.
All method invocations on the generated proxy class are
forwarded to InvocationHandler
's single method:
[prettify] public Object invoke(Object proxy,
Method method, Object[] args)
Let's see how this method is implemented in
[prettify]public class DynamicProxyInvocationHandler
implements InvocationHandler {
private Object target;
private AOPInterceptor interceptor;
public DynamicProxyInvocationHandler(Object target,
AOPInterceptor interceptor) {
this.target = target;
this.interceptor = interceptor;
public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method,
Object[] args) throws Throwable{
try {
interceptor.before(method, args);
Object returnValue = method.invoke(target, args);
interceptor.after(method, args);
return returnValue;
} catch(Throwable t) {
interceptor.afterThrowing(method, args, t);
throw t;
} finally {
interceptor.afterFinally(method, args);
If you ignore the interceptor-related code, the implementation
of the invoke method is straightforward. It uses reflective invocation
on the Method
object to delegate to the target
Adding an Interceptor
As discussed in the preceding section, all method invocations on the
proxy class are forwarded to the invoke
method of
. The invoke
delegates calls to the target
object. Since all method
calls have to go through the single invoke
method, you
can apply the decorator pattern on that method, or even immediately
return without further delegating to the target object. If you
decorate that method before delegating to the target object, you
are essentially applying AOP before advice. If you add custom code
after delegating to the target object, you are essentially applying
AOP after advice. If, instead of delegating to the target object,
you route method calls to a different path, you are applying
"around" advice. Now it should be easy for you to figure out what
and afterReturn
mean. For details on each kind of advice, you can refer to the book AspectJ in
In this article, some method advices are grouped into the
. As its name implies, it intercepts
method invocations on the target object through decorating the
invoke method of InvocationHandler
, as shown in the
class. The method
advices should be decoupled in the real world. Advices for
blocks are not common, but are added here for
demonstration purposes.
[prettify]public interface AOPInterceptor {
void before(Method method, Object[] args);
void after(Method method, Object[] args);
void afterThrowing(Method method, Object[] args, Throwable throwable);
void afterFinally(Method method, Object[] args);
AOP Framework in Action
Typically, you do not want to intercept all of the method calls.
That is, advices are applied only to the methods or classes you are
interested in. You can set the classes and methods through regular
expressions in XML files, annotations, or other mechanisms. At
run time, your framework should be able to decide whether or not
to apply any advices by matching the current class and method with
those specified in your configuration files or annotations. Even
the runtime argument values for a method can be used to determine
which advice should be applied.
The TransactionAnnotation
is a simple annotation,
as shown below:
public @interface TransactionAnnotation {
String value();
The @Retention meta-annotation is set to
so that it can be accessed via
reflection. You can attach annotations to methods only since the
meta annotation is set to
Assume you have a business service, called
. It requires a new transaction in
its save
method, but transactions are not supported in
its load
[prettify]public interface PersistenceService {
void save(long id, String data);
String load(long id);
Now you need a transaction. Assume you have a transaction API
like this:
[prettify]public interface Transaction{
void open();
void rollBack();
void commit();
void closeIfStillOpen();
The transaction starts by calling the open
and must be closed after use. Here is the transaction interceptor
that performs declarative transaction management for
[prettify]public class TransactionInterceptor
implements AOPInterceptor {
private Transaction transaction;
public void before(Method method, Object[] args) {
if (isRequiresNew(method)) {
transaction = new TransactionAdapter();
public void after(Method method, Object[] args) {
if (transaction != null) {
public void afterThrowing(Method method,
Object[] args, Throwable t) {
if (transaction != null) {
public void afterFinally(Method method, Object[] args) {
if (transaction != null) {
transaction = null;
protected boolean isRequiresNew(Method method) {
TransactionAnnotation transactionAnnotation =
if (transactionAnnotation != null) {
if ("REQUIRES_NEW".equals(
return true;
return false;
Now you can plug in the transaction interceptor into a proxy
when the proxy is created.
[prettify]DynamicProxyFactory proxyFactory = new DynamicProxyFactoryImpl();
AOPInterceptor interceptor = new TransactionInterceptor();
PersistenceService proxy =
new PersistenceServiceImpl(),
proxy.save(1, "Jason Zhicheng Li");
String data = proxy.load(1);
You can run the manual test from the attached source code to see
the results. As annotated in the PersistenceService
interface, the save
method is executed in a new
transaction context, but there is no transaction for the
Without much coding, you can externalize the proxy creation
through dependency injection. If you have experience in dependency
injection frameworks, like
"http://www.springframework.org/">Spring, it should be familiar
to you. All you need to do is to configure interface type, target,
and interceptor in your proxy factory. You can even add a layer of
abstraction for the target by passing a target holder instance into
the proxy factory. The target holder has a reference to the real
target and it can be instantiated without a real target. Then you
can implement advanced features such as hot swapping or pooling of
real targets and virtual proxies.
Alternative Implementation Using CGLIB
Similar to InvocationHandler
and Proxy
in dynamic proxy, there are two key APIs in CGLIB proxy,
and Enhancer
. The
is the general callback interface
used by Enhancer
, which dynamically generates
subclasses to override the non-final methods of the superclass.
is responsible for intercepting all
method calls in the generated proxy. You can invoke custom code
before and after the invocation of the super methods, and even skip
invocation of the super methods. Typically, a single callback is
used per enhanced class, but you can use
to control which callback to use for a
Let's first create a CGLIB MethodInterceptor
[prettify]public class CGLIBMethodInterceptor
implements MethodInterceptor {
private AOPInterceptor interceptor;
public CGLIBMethodInterceptor(AOPInterceptor interceptor) {
this.interceptor = interceptor;
public Object intercept(Object object, Method method,
Object[] args, MethodProxy methodProxy )
throws Throwable {
try {
interceptor.before(method, args);
Object returnValue =
methodProxy.invokeSuper(object, args);
interceptor.after(method, args);
return returnValue;
} catch(Throwable t) {
interceptor.afterThrowing(method, args, t);
throw t;
} finally {
interceptor.afterFinally(method, args);
The implementation is very similar to
in dynamic proxy, but
note that there is no target
object and the type
is the concrete class type, not the interface type
as in DynamicProxyFactory
. The real method is invoked
by using MethodProxy
, which is faster, instead of the
object. Now let's create the proxy factory:
[prettify]public class CGLIBProxyFactoryImpl
implements CGLIBProxyFactory {
public <T> T createProxy(Class<T> clazz,
AOPInterceptor interceptor) {
MethodInterceptor methodInterceptor =
new CGLIBMethodInterceptor(interceptor);
Enhancer enhancer = new Enhancer();
return (T)enhancer.create();
After you set the superclass type and method interceptor, you
simply call the create()
method on the
object to create a proxy. Optionally, you can
configure CallbackFilter
to map a method to a callback
by calling the setCallbackFilter(CallbackFilter)
In addition, you can specify the proxy class to implement a set of
interfaces. In this CGLIB implementation, since no interface is
specified, the transaction attributes must be declared in the
implementation instead of the
Similarly, you can implement interceptors to address logging,
validation, auditing, caching, and security, which are orthogonal to
core business concerns. As shown above, both dynamic proxy and
CGLIB implementation are simple to implement, but you must be aware
that important issues such as performance, exception handling, and
threading are not covered here.
The AOP implementation in this article is simplified for
clarity, but it shows you the essentials of proxy-based AOP
frameworks. AOP decouples crosscutting concerns, such as
the transaction management demonstrated in this article, from
application core concerns. With aspect-oriented design and
programming, you can significantly simplify your design and
implementation. In some cases, however, third-party AOP frameworks
cannot be used due to non-technical reasons, such as corporate
policies and license issues. As shown in this article, you can
implement your own AOP framework that is tailored to meet your
needs. JDK dynamic-proxy-based implementation is simpler, since it
uses standard Java. That means there are no third-party libraries
or build-time bytecode instrumentation. Alternatively, you can
choose CGLIB to proxy legacy classes and have better performance,
but you need to introduce multiple third-party libraries into your
system. At that moment, you should ask yourself if you need to pick
an available AOP framework, which is often more complete and
sophisticated than your roll-your-own AOP implementation.
- Complete source code can be downloaded from "http://www.lizjason.com">www.lizjason.com.
- "
Programming (AOP) in Java:" A good presentation by Mark
Volkmann. - AspectJ in
Action by Ramnivas Laddad (Manning, 2003): A good source of
AOP concepts and AspectJ details. - CGLIB project website.
- "Using the ASM
Toolkit for Bytecode Manipulation:" A good introduction to ASM
by Eugene Kuleshov. - Spring Application
Jason Zhicheng Li would like to thank Brian Paulsmeyer
and Mark Volkmann for their help in reviewing this
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