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LAS VEGAS, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- proDAD, the highly acclaimed developer of digital video effects and image enhancement technologies today announced ProDrenalin, a revolutionary all-in-one software application for GoPro action/sports camera users to significantly improve their videos by removing fisheye & perspective distortion, stabilizing, correcting rolling-shutter distortion, de-noising, color correction, and adjusting the brightness & contrast of the video – all in a single effective, affordable application with batch processing capability. The famous Mercalli Stand Alone (SAL) professional video stabilizer moves to Version 3 with automatic stabilization profile selection, batch processing, and support for 4K & 2.7K video clips.
ProDrenalin – The essential tool to make GoPro videos even better.
GoPro Hero action cameras are billed as the world's most versatile cameras and they are becoming increasingly popular among consumers and video professionals. proDAD's new ProDrenalin action camera enhancement software gives users the ability to optimize their videos prior to sharing them or bringing into a video editor. ProDrenalin is a stand-alone Windows application.
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- Rock-steady stabilization – proDAD's video stabilizer, the gold standard in post-capture video stabilization is part of ProDrenalin and it's fully automatic;
- Rolling-shutter correction – Improves the skew & jello that sometimes happens during fast action panning;
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- Simple color correction, brightness & contrast adjustment tools to give videos more of a "film look" for the best impression;
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- Ahead-of-the-curve support for 4K and 2.7K video resolutions;
- Batch processing allows an unlimited number of clips to be loaded into ProDrenalin for optimization (with individual settings for each clip) instead of processing them one by one or needing to bring them into a video editor;
- Side-by-side comparison shows the original and optimized video prior to rendering and exporting in popular industry standard formats;
- Fully compatible with all GoPro Hero cameras in all supported resolutions, with the ability to import other action camera profiles made by proDAD's Defishr™ application.
- Batch processing - Instead of stabilizing videos one at a time, users can now load an unlimited number videos into Mercalli V3 SAL for automated batch processing;
- Automatic profile selection – Mercalli V3 SAL can analyze a video clip and automatically select the most appropriate stabilization profile, thus streamlining the stabilization process;
- Support for 4K and 2.7K video clips; many NLEs don't even support this yet!
- Export stabilized video in industry standard formats, including MP4!
- New native 64-bit and 32-bit Windows stand-alone applications with multi-core/multi-thread optimization and support for unlimited video resolutions.


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The Increasing Visibility of Driver Health
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Hailey French's Story – When millions barely cover the bills.
PennDOT to Increase Number of Pennsylvania Bridges with Weight Restrictions
Federal Court Upholds Majority of Hours-of-Service Rule
New Jersey to consider allowing police to search cell phones to combat distracted driving
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Bringing the Shore to Your Door
A new season of outreach is underway as Oregon Coast Aquarium educators travel all over Oregon in their colorful education van, bringing marine science to grade schools throughout the region. The van, made possible by grants from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Trust Management Services, LLC and the Jackson Foundation, is painted with a ... more
The Sea of Lights
The Oregon Coast Aquarium will be decked out for the holidays surrounded by a sea of twinkling lights, holiday music, a new photography exhibit and unique gift ideas. The 19th Annual Sea of Lights is a festive holiday celebration Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm both evenings. A tradition for many families, visitors come from all over the region during the h... more
Creatures Helps Restock Food Pantries
The Oregon Coast Aquarium's annual Halloween event, Creatures, crept back to the Aquarium Saturday, with visitors bringing in a total of 4,295 pounds of food for Food Share of Lincoln County and Newport Food Pantry. It also brought in pet food for the Central Coast Humane Society. Admission to the event was $2 and two items of food or pet food.The annual family Halloween celebration is now two ... more
The Last Sixty Days of Swampland
With two months left to see the Swampland, visitors are invited to discover the animals and habitats of three different types of swamps during "The Last Sixty Days of Swampland," before it is dismantled beginning January 3, 2012.Swampland is an elaborate immersive experience, with colorful murals depicting three different types of swamps. Exotic creatures make their homes here among replicated ... more
The Sea of Lights Dec. 2 and 3
The Oregon Coast Aquarium will be decked out for the holidays surrounded by a sea of twinkling lights, holiday music, a new photography exhibit and unique gift ideas. The 19th Annual Sea of Lights is a festive holiday celebration Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm both evenings. A tradition for many families, visitors come from all over the region during the holiday seas... more
"Creatures" October 29
The Oregon Coast Aquarium's annual Halloween event, "Creatures," will creep back to the Oregon Coast Aquarium Saturday, October 29 with two events. "Creatures of the Day" is a gentler event for goblins 9 years old and under from 10 am to 4 pm. The Aquarium will then close its doors from 4 pm to 6:30 pm and quietly mutate into an ominous landscape for the annual soiree of the sinister, "Creatur... more
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Illinois Researchers Localize 3D Matter Waves
A new University of Illinois study, demonstrating how material defects can affect three-dimensional conduction, could profoundly alter ultrasonic waves used in medical imaging, lasers, superconductors, and more, the college reported in a press release Friday.
The study, which was led by physics professor Brian DeMarco, resulted in complete localization of quantum matter waves in three dimensions, which was reportedly originally theorized some 50 years ago. DeMarco and his colleagues published their findings in the latest edition of the journal Science.
"The impact of disorder on waves depends strongly on their energy in three dimensions," the University press release said. "The high-energy red wave can freely propagate outward through the disordered green laser in the experiment, but the low-energy blue wave is trapped, or localized, by reflections from the disorder."
While defects in materials are common, according to the researchers, their effects are often not understood. By trying to figure out how flaws in a material impacts how waves traveling through it, referred to as the "physics behind disorder" by DeMarco, could well be "fundamental to understanding the impact of unavoidable material imperfections on these kinds of applications," he said.
According to the press release, this is the first time that scientists have been able to observe "a phenomenon known as Anderson localization," which is defined as a "strong disorder" capable of creating "interference on all sides can trap a matter wave in one place."
DeMarco compared it to a trumpet player performing in a concert hall that had been filled with special barriers that reflect sound waves. Normally, the sound would travel in all directions, but due to the barriers' reflective properties, the sound remains at its source and there is complete silence throughout the entire concert hall.
"That´s exactly the case in our experiment, although we use quantum matter waves instead of sound, and the barriers are created using a speckled green laser beam," he said.
In order to simulate electrons moving in waves through a metal, DeMarco and his associates used ultra-cold atoms travelling together as laser light. According to the media release, the team demonstrated that the laser beam "could completely localize the atoms — the first direct observation of three-dimensional Anderson localization of matter."
"This means that we can study Anderson localization in a way that is relevant to materials," DeMarco added. "Now, theories of Anderson localization in 3-D can be compared to our 'material' and tested for the first time."
Image 1: An illustration of Anderson localization. The green balloons represent disordered barriers that localize the sound of the trumpet at its source. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
Image 2: Physics professor Brian DeMarco, center, and graduate students Stanimir Kondov, left, and William McGehee were the first to trap waves of quantum matter in three dimensions. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
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East Texas Town Unfairly Branded As Racist After 1998 Hate Crime
City still struggles with image as Sept. 21 execution of convicted murderer nears
As the Sept. 21 execution date looms for a man convicted for his role in chaining and dragging a black man to his death, attention again will be focused on the small East Texas town of Jasper, vilified worldwide as racist after the 1998 murder.
But a study done over a 13-year period by researchers Cassy Burleson, Ph.D., and Mia Moody, Ph.D., in Baylor University's department of journalism and media arts, shows that the reputation of Jasper – population of about 8,000 – was fueled largely by stereotyping of the town by major global media. In contrast, the community's weekly newspaper – The Jasper Newsboy – had a head start in understanding the city's true politics and culture, which helped other journalists report the event more realistically soon after the coverage began. But the change came too late, the study found. An article about Baylor researchers' study of how media globally handled coverage will be published in November in the Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas.
By the time major media began to portray the tragedy as an exception to the rule in Jasper, the damage had been done – and continues to affect the city's reputation and cultural and political climate today, the researchers said. Three Jasper men were convicted of the hate crime against James Byrd Jr., who was beaten, chained by his ankles to a pickup truck and hauled for miles, leaving body parts scattered along the road.
Lawrence Russell Brewer is on Texas' Death Row and scheduled to die Sept. 21. Also sentenced to die is John William King, whose case is on appeal, while Shawn Berry, who was recruited by the other men – parolees –was sentenced to life in prison.
"The small town paid a high price for a hate crime three people committed," the researchers wrote in their article, "Through a glass darkly: A comparison of Jasper Newsboy coverage with elite publications during the James Byrd Jr. Murder."
For their research, Moody and Burleson – under the auspices of Baylor's Institute for Oral History – compared and contrasted coverage by The New York Times, USA Today, the Houston Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times with that of the Jasper paper. They also interviewed 15 African-American and Caucasian residents, among them Byrd's sisters, former and current mayors, a former Newsboy publisher/editor and a former sheriff.
The accounts published the first few days after the murder clearly portrayed Jasper as a racist community. Throughout history, Moody and Burleson wrote, media often have depicted Texas residents as "traditional, self-righteous, simple-minded, violent and racist on the one hand; and possessing a love for God, land and family on the other."
In keeping with that, "out-of-town scribes scalded Jasper's image under the media's magnifying glass, a glass made darker by reporters looking for a Gothic novel, revealing only a blurred outline of the truth," Burleson and Moody wrote.
But later reports in 1998 portrayed the city as a victim of stereotyping. Major media changed their perspective after townspeople turned away the Ku Klux Klan, which tried to use the situation to gather support, and after Byrd's family turned away offers by the Black Panthers to seek revenge, the researchers said. Local leaders pleaded that the community not be branded as racist because of the actions of a violent few.
From the beginning, the Newsboy– knowledgeable about the town's political climate, leadership and race relations – positively portrayed Jasper, which did not fit the bill as racist, the researchers said. Among its black leaders were several elected officials, a hospital administrator and the chair of the chamber of commerce.
The Jasper newspaper served as an information clearinghouse for out-of-town reporters seeking background about the town and individuals to interview, the researchers wrote.
Over time, by blending civic journalism with crisis communication, the Newsboy – ranked by the Texas Press Association as the top community weekly for general excellence in 2010 – has aided the town somewhat in refuting its image as racist, the researchers wrote.
"But Jasper still hasn't restored its image and has had a recent controversy regarding reverse discrimination in the news," Burleson said.
The town's predominantly black city council recently opted for a black police chief, whom many townspeople argue is less qualified than white applicants. Sixteen applicants have filed reverse discrimination suits.
Moody and Burleson plan to continue interviews with Jasper residents.
"We want to preserve multiple viewpoints as a path to the truth of this story – for posterity and so it will never happen again," Burleson said.
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January 1, 2014
Overlooked No More
Michigan Humane Society creates Overlooked Pets program to help expedite adoption of languishing pets, using a three-step process: identify, promote, and track.
November 1, 2013
Shine a Light
Shelters and rescues are finding ways to promote the animals who, for one reason or another, don't find homes as easily. Social media can provide a big boost.
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Anatomy of a Puppy Mill Raid
Puppy mill rescues are often the culmination of months of preparation, and, when they happen, they're a methodical step toward putting one of an estimated 10,000 puppy mills in the U.S. out of business.
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San Francisco SPCA teams with Macy's to showcase adoptable pets during the holiday season. In addition to spreading good cheer, the promotion boosts adoption and raises money for the SPCA.
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Mouthpieces: Don't Leave Pets in Hot Cars
This reproducible poster reminds owners that, even after summer ends, warm weather still makes it dangerous to leave pets alone in parked cars.
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Unforgettable: From Puppy Mill Hell to Doing Quite Well
A roadside rescue in Texas leads a Maltese and her pups away from puppy mill hell and into the comfort of loving homes.
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Free to Good Home
There was a time when the concept of adopting out "free" cats would prompt a chorus of hisses from cat advocates. Not so much anymore, as many shelters are waiving adoption fees and getting positive results for their felines.
September 1, 2013
Location, Location, Location
Find out how, after years of facing the challenges that come with being situated in an undesirable or remote location, some shelters are pulling up stakes, heading downtown, and finding a place in the spotlight.
July 1, 2013
One Clear Moment
Just months after longtime rescue volunteer Theresa Strader saw a puppy mill in person for the first time, she founded National Mill Dog Rescue, a group that rescues and rehabilitates discarded puppy mill dogs.
July 1, 2013
New York's Kindest
New York City Animal Care & Control's "New York's Kindest" campaign encourages the community to help animals in need by adopting a pet or volunteering their time or treasure to the shelter.


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Toni Kroos caught the Frankfurt defence off guard with a powerful header hitting the post as textbook pressing from the visitors quickly gave them control of the game.
Mandzukic did better in the 13th minute, drilling in a wonderful volley for its second win in two league games.
VfL Wolfsburg, with new signing Luiz Gustavo making his first start a day after joining from Bayern Munich, stunned Schalke 04 4-0 including three goals in 12 minutes.
Schalke's Klaas-Jan Huntelaar rattled the post with a fine low drive but Wolfsburg struck four times in the second half with Robin Knoche tapping in from close range and Vieirinha shaking off two defenders to fire past keeper Timo Hildebrand.
Defender Naldo added another in the 67th and Stefan Kutschke completed their first win of the season on the final whistle.
Hoffenheim, which needed a relegation playoff to stay up last season, crushed Hamburg with the visitors scoring four times in a dazzling second half and Frenchman Anthony Modeste grabbing a brace.
The results: VfB Stuttgart 0 lost to Bayer Leverkusen 1 (Schwaab 42-og); VfL Wolfsburg 4 (Knoche 55, Vieirinha 61, Naldo 67, Kutschke 90+1) bt Schalke 04 0; Werder Bremen 1 (Ekici 23) bt Augsburg 0; Freiburg 1 (Freis 71) lost to Mainz 05 2 (Zimling 64, Mueller 68); Hamburg 1 (van der Vaart 44-pen) lost to Hoffenheim 5 (Roberto Firmino 5, 78, Volland 51, Modeste 67, 75); Eintracht Frankfurt 0 lost to Bayern Munich 1 (Mandzukic 13).


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Originally posted by expresso
What an active player really is could be discussed of course, but I do think that at least an hour a week with occasional vacation breaks is a good measurement.
From what I hear Blizz count people who have money left on their account so exactly the number of players that are active could be discussed. Not that they still aren't the largest western MMO or anything but it is really Blizzards monthly earnings on the game that matters, not the exact number of players anyways. Which of course is why they add more stuff for players to buy.
But the question here is if making the game F2P actually would increase their earnings or not. It do for smaller games, we seen that a lot but that doesn't prove it will for a game of Wows size as well. If Activision believes it will they will likely lobby for Blizzard to make the game F2P but Blizzard do have some self reliance so don't read too much into this just yet.
I don't think many would be surprised if the game went F2P but the same could be said for it staying P2P.
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Originally posted by Loke666
No. Blizzard or rather Netease does not count accounts as active just because they have unused credits left. This is often mentioned but false information. Only if credits where used up in the past 30 days. Its clearly defined by Netease what an active account is. And Blizzard defines active accounts under the same definition as subscriptions even if its not really a sub and no Asian puplisher using the same model for their MMOs calls them subs either. Blizzard is riding big on this situation as few Western MMOs are released in China or Asia in general and only Asian MMOs are still in the millions but have no tradion to hype "active accounts" up like Blizzard. In Asia only total access during betas and peak concurrency is the big thing, where for latter WoW is not even 2nd place even just in the P2P category.
The major difference between a subscription plan and the general Asian (people forget Asia is not just China) pay as you play methods are
a) the credits are not going away after 1 or 3 or 6 months. They technically go away after last I remember was 3 years after the last transaction was made in case of NetEase P2P MMOs. In theory a Chinese player could be accounted as a like 8 year long "subscriber" and still have spent less on the game than a Western player just buying the box with a free month in the West. The argument here is not that every Chinese always only plays 1 hour ever month like fanbots try to twist it into, but the fact that the game can and is played extremely cassualy at a very low price and there is no forced monthly plan alienating player who would cancel or take enitre breaks from the subscription if they play too occasionally .
b) After 3 years of inactivity an account will be treated as if all credits where "used up" immediately for accounting. They are not deleted but used up for nothing. Its not put out of question whether these accounts then are also treated as an active account again for at least 30 days because of the transaction and as a "subscription" under Blizzards extended definition of subs.
c) you don't pay for expansion at all. This is very convenient with a credit based system. You can leave the game with credits on your account and come back half a year later for the expansion and pay NOTHING because they don't run out. More so called "subs" for Blizzard. This completely overthrows the idea that "subs" are either "new" or where "ractivated" if subs rise when an expansion was launched. This is not entirely true. Many hundredthousands, if not millions may simply just have "come back and use up old credits on their account" and go inactive after a month or two again.
d) The hourly price is variable. WoWs hourly pricing in China is about 10% below the price of quality P2P MMOs.
Whiteknights and apologist just love to argue around the objective nature of the time model and argue against trivial matters, generalizations like "Chinese are people too (but only if they play Wow)" even if no one claimed any different and "they pay we pay so its all the same" or paraphrasring the objective and rational arguments into something that doesnt make any sense anymore.
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Originally posted by Loke666
1. According to Blizzard the player needed to be active in the last month or he would not be counted in the total subscription number. So no access during the past month = no active subscription.
Of course as usual Blizzard is lying according to the dudes around the internet.
2. Just a few days ago Blizzard in Korea (what are they doing there ?) confirmed WOW will not go free to play.
3. The Blizzard cash shop will be using a "new" Battle coin as standard currency. It is rather clear that Battle coin comes from BattleNet and Blizzard is more than WOW games, so this Blizzard shop will cover mostly the new free to play game called Hearthstone instead of WOW.
A smart man may already see the effects it could have in the long run: linking games and virtual items.
Hearthstone will be a boost to WOW, while Diablo 3 was a WOW drainer. Hence the new mutual Blizzard store.
Blizzard will stay far away from real in game money like Diablo 3. Lessons learned.
I predict the following.
By mid/late 2014 the subscriptions of WOW will be full on the rise again by using the mechanic in part 3. Simply because you'll get combo play of WOW, HS and Blizz DOTA.
The f2P WOW themed games can boost active subscriptions by adding stuff to WOW subscriptions. It will work in both ways. You either gain extra stuff with a WOW sub or a WOW sub gives you extra stuff in these F2P games.
Anyone will play free to play Blizzard games (massively) and most people will say "what the heck", why pay 10 dollars for 10 packs of HS if I get a WOW sub along with it. Even more will be done with Blizzard ALL Stars.
It is quite obvious with their new BattleNet coin system and even more apparent : HS is already announced in China to go along with WOW.
With that CCG and DOTA system it will be a long long time before they reach bottoms of active WOW subs and the money gained from such a combo system is practically endless as the fixed WOW subs will be attached to free to play games with ... the same currency even.
Cheers for Blizzard to not let go the fixed subs, because once you leave that, you'll never return.
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Postcolonial theory and literature, 21st century literature, colonial literature, multiethnic British and American Literature, literary theory, international cinema, especially Indian film, international and ethnic women's writing.
Research Interests: South Asian and Southern African literature and theory; 21st century global fiction in English; postcolonial theory for the new millennium.
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Dr. Rastogi is currently finishing a book-length project titled Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating the Catastrophe in the 21st Century. The monograph studies the literary narration of iconic disasters, both natural and human, in South Asia and Southern Africa over the last 15 years. In focusing on how aesthetic narration can flesh out the work done by the more policy-oriented field of Disaster Studies, Postcolonial Disaster brings together the humanities and the social sciences to enhance our psycho-sociological understanding of disaster as well as its practical management.
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"'I am British But...': Black and Asian Women's (Self) Determination in Prose" in The Cambridge Companion to Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1945-2010. Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Deirdre Osborne. Forthcoming Spring 2015.
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"When East Meets East: Framing the Sino-South Asian Diaspora." in Journal of Commonwealth Studies(JCL). March 2009.
Introduction to Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary Heritage within Britain; with Dr. Jocelyn Fenton Stitt. 1-14.
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Due: Friday, October 4, 2014 by midnight.
Your assignment is to update your secure system from Assignment 1 and add three new operations designed to introduce a covert channel into the system. You will implement the channel and use it to signal information from a high level user to a low level user. Finally, you will measure and report the bandwidth of the channel.
Make sure that all members of your group understand the code and contribute equally, as much as possible, to its development. If anyone gets a free ride, they'll be very disadvantaged later. For this assignment:
java CovertChannel v inputfilename java CovertChannel inputfilenameYour output file should be named inputfilename.out. That is, take the supplied input filename and append ".out" to it. If the call has the "v" (for "verbose") option, you should also output to a file called "log" the instructions that you generate. (See below.)
CREATE subject_name object_name DESTROY subject_name object_name RUN subject_nameAgain, instructions are NOT case-sensitive.
The semantics of CREATE is that a new object is added to the state with SecurityLevel equal to the level of the creating subject. It is given an initial value of 0. If there already exists an object with that name at any level, the operation is a no-op.
DESTROY will eliminate the designated object from the state, assuming that the object exists and the subject has WRITE access to the object according to the *-property of BLP. Otherwise, the operation is a no-op.
RUN allows the named subject to execute some arbitrary private code. It has no access to any of the state objects, and so should be irrelevant to the security of the system. It models whatever processing the subject may do with the value it has just read. You should code this as a method within your SecureSubject class. For this assignment, the point of RUN is to allow Lyle to do whatever processing is necessary to input the value from Hal, add it to a byte he's creating, and if the byte is complete, write it to the output.
Note that calls to RUN will do different things, depending on the value of the local state, particularly the executing subject. That is, RUN does very different things for Lyle than for Hal. The code that RUN executes can do anything to the local state of the running Subject but must not access any of the system objects. You can have local variables and manipulate those as you like, but cannot access any of the SecureObjects.
As with the previous assignment, you will define two subjects Hal and Lyle, but no objects initially. You will generate the instructions necessary to pass information from Hal to Lyle using the covert channel we described in class. (See below.) However, generate the instructions to be executed on the fly rather than reading them from an external file. That means that your program generates instructions and executes them as needed. There is no file of instructions. (If you generated them, wrote them to a file, and then read them back in your performance would suffer quite badly from the extra IO.)
The execution of the instructions you generate should implement a covert channel passing information one bit at a time from Hal to Lyle. You can assume that Hal and Lyle are the only two subjects and have those names. Also note that you can eliminate most parsing and syntax checking since you'll be generating only correct instructions.
If your program is running with the "v" parameter, you should log the instructions that you generate one per line to a file called "log". This will allow us to ensure that you are actually using the covert channel to transfer the information. For your timing runs, don't use the "v" parameter.
Implement the following covert channel. (If you think you have a better channel that you'd like to implement, go for it, but discuss it with me first.) For this channel, to send a 0 bit Hal executes:
RUN HAL CREATE HAL OBJTo send a 1 bit, Hal just does a RUN HAL. (Note: You may not even need for HAL to do RUN. It depends on how you structure your code. If you don't need it, don't use it.) Lyle senses the bit (the presence or absence of the object) by executing:
CREATE LYLE OBJ WRITE LYLE OBJ 1 READ LYLE OBJ DESTROY LYLE OBJ RUN LYLEIf Lyle sees a value of 1 returned from the READ, then his CREATE succeeded, and Hal has not previously created the object (sending a 1 bit). If Lyle sees a value of 0 returned from the READ, then Hal has previously created the object, Lyle's CREATE has failed, and Hal has sent a 0 bit. (Notice that the value of 1 in the WRITE could have been any non-zero value.)
Lyle's RUN statement allow him to do whatever he has to do to record the bit into his internal state, add it to the byte he's creating, and output the byte if he's received the 8th bit for that byte. You definitely need RUN for Lyle. You're not allowed do this stuff in the top-level routine.
The goal is to send an arbitrary stream of bits (actually a complete ASCII file) over this channel. I advise getting your program running by sending some small fixed number of bits and making sure they arrive correctly. However, the version you will submit will take a filename parameter on the command line. Your program will read the file contents (probably one byte at a time using a ByteArrayInputStream), convert each byte to 8 bits, send them through the covert channel, reconstruct the byte on the receiving side and write it out to a file. The idea is to transfer the contents of an arbitrary ASCII file over the channel.
As an alternative to using a ByteArrayInputStream, you can read a line in the file into a String and access the bits from there. Don't read the entire file into a String. That's not scalable.
Your program may work for non-ASCII file types, but doesn't have to. In a realistic system where the subjects were running as concurrent threads, that would be very useful because Lyle would have to know when he can stop receiving. If you only worry about ASCII files, you can assume that only ASCII characters appear in the file. That means you can use a non-ASCII character to signal the end of the input. E.g., if Lyle receives a null byte 00000000, then he knows he can stop receiving. But for this version, your main program probably knows when Hal is out of bits to send and just stops generating instructions for Lyle. That is, you probably don't have to worry about sending an end byte from Hal to Lyle. I think that's true, but I'm not absolutely certain!
Ideally, reading bytes from the file, breaking them into bits, etc. should be done by the subjects themselves using their RUN operation. But you can use your main function to handle Hal's portion of that kind of thing if you want to. That is, you can treat the entire program as a big covert channel engine, feeding Hal one bit at a time, as long as you implement the covert channel according to the directions above and don't cheat. (A better thing to do is for Hal to read in the bytes, break them into bits, and send them using his RUN operation for all that, but that's harder.)
The output file should be essentially identical to the input file. Make sure to check that you preserve the first and last characters in the file. I suggest using the Linux diff utility to compare the files.
Note that line endings are represented differently in different systems. Early teletype printers used the CR and LF control characters, respectively, to move the print head left and then scroll down one line. But line termination is treated differently by different modern operating system: Macintosh uses a CR (ASCII 13); Linux uses a LF (ASCII 10); Windows uses both. Most FTP programs substitute appropriate line endings if transferring in ``text mode.'' If in ``binary mode'' no translations occur. This shouldn't matter to you unless you transferred your input file onto a different system in binary mode. In that case, your program might not recognize the end of lines correctly. This past summer, some students' programs didn't handle the end of line characters correctly so a file with lines ended up as one long line.
Finally, time your program execution on several different input files and compute the channel's average bandwidth in bits / second. Your program should compute and write to standard output the timing and bandwidth for a given run. Also, record that information for several runs, compute the average, and include that information along with the machine type and clock speed in the README file for your program. You won't be graded on the bandwidth, but we'll collect the results and see which group's program was the most efficient.
For a ballpark, one group in a recent class reported the following bandwidths for different documents:
|Pride and Prejudice
|717,571 bytes
|600 bits/ms
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Three stories about the same thing. maybe about the same people. Maybe about different people who interconnected with the same people. Cleverly written but very confusing.
Unfortunately I did not enjoy this book.the main characters lacked moral fortitude and i could not like them maybe I could appreciate it more after a second reading but i think this style of writing is just not for me
Auster has earned his chops in the book biz, but his arguably postmodern style is not to my taste. I'm not really sure what postmodern means, but insofar as City of Glass defines it, it ain't for me. Auster's prose seems to be all higgledy-piggledy to me, if Auster is his real name, but I lost track of Quinn too many times, he was adrift in the story, adrift in New York, adrift in his mind, if Quinn was his real name, and I wanted more structure, and somewhat more elegant dialog, if dialog is the right word, because sometimes I wasn't really sure that I was reading the book, I felt like I was scrambling to get out of the story, and my skin was crawling, if that's the right word….
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Paul Auster is this (Brooklyn) borough's poster-boy for story-telling – but I don't get it.
The New York Trilogy is the work that first put him on the literary map. This is my third novel by Paul Auster (or, if you count each third of the Trilogy as a novel – which he apparently does – my fifth. And still, I don't get it.
Auster's prose is certainly competent – even compelling, as I discovered in the first two-thirds of "The Locked Room" – the third story in the Trilogy – but for my money at least, his story-telling leaves a lot to be desired.
To quote from that same "Locked Room": "(t)he entire story comes down to what happened at the end, and without that end inside me now, I could not have started this book. The same holds for the two books that come before it, "City of Glass" and "Ghosts." These three stories are finally the same story, but each one represents a different stage in my awareness of what it is about. I don't claim to have solved any problems. I am merely suggesting that a moment came when it no longer frightened me to look at what had happened. If words followed, it was only because I had no choice but to accept them, to take them upon myself and go where they wanted me to go. But that does not necessarily make the words important. I have been struggling to say goodbye to something for a long time now, and this struggle is all that really matters. The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle" (p. 346).
I beg to differ, but I think the story is in the words – if you're a writer. We all struggle, Paul. But we don't all claim to be writers.
I'll conclude this review with one other citation, this one on p. 370: "I lost my way after the first word, and from then on I could only grope ahead, faltering in the darkness, blinded by the book that had been written for me."
As a very good and close friend used to say to me decades ago whenever I'd raise some ridiculous 'philosophical' point: "That's the kind of epistomo-ontologico-metaphysico question I don't deal with." I have to say the same thing after having just finished Paul Auster's New York Trilogy.
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Looking at the reviews here on Goodreads it's clear that Paul Auster's New York Trilogy is a divisive book, and really that's no surprise. Those who go into it expecting an actual trilogy of mystery stories will almost certainly be disappointed, as will those who want a book that reaches any form of resolution or delivers any concrete message. Instead the New York Trilogy will be loved by those willing to let the experience wash over them, and by those who enjoy noticing connections and themes repeated between the three works but who don't mind the fact that these connections don't really amount to anything in the end. It's a book where the atmosphere is the main draw, and as the same atmosphere pervades all three stories you're likely to either quite like this work or else very much despise it.
The atmosphere Auster creates is one of perpetual uncertainty, where many of the things we rely upon to make sense of life have eroded without much explanation. Identities are constantly shifting, with people adopting new names and patterns of behavior or else getting those names and actions forced upon them. Disguises are worn, or masks, and characters disappear suddenly or perhaps reappear down the road (or is it just someone with the same name? We've no way of knowing). Auster repeatedly explores the idea that names are inadequate means of identification, as names are mutable, and aren't even unique to begin with. Furthermore identity isn't something that exists inherently, as again and again characters find their identities subsumed by the identities of others. In addition to the shifting identities the actions of the many characters are also divorced from reality. Again and again we read as a character lets himself fall deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole, restraining himself from doing something he wants or forcing himself to do something he hates or doesn't understand for no discernable reason. Men of means degenerate into crazy homeless people, throw away relationships, put their lives and livelihoods on the line because of forces or motivations they don't discuss, or perhaps they themselves are ignorant of what's pushing them. Men hire private detectives for reasons that make a kind of sense, but which nevertheless feels like it's logic from another world. Finally each of the three stories ends, but doesn't resolve. The characters fade away, or go on the run, or some threshold is crossed, but almost no answers or explanation is given, either to the reader or to the characters.
This lack of solution is sure to frustrate some readers, as these stories are couched in the world of dime-store mysteries, with private eyes tracking down suspects and investigating leads. Such stories typically end with some answer being reached, but such is not the case here. In a way, however, this has to be the way in which the stories end. You can't explore the lack of identity if you let a character reaffirm their identity by solving a problem, you can't discuss the meaninglessness and irrationality of life by revealing a logical reason for the events of the story occurring, you can't present the idea that characters are creations subsumed and consumed by their stories if you give those characters a happily-ever-after ending, or even any type of ending. The final story explicitly references the other two stories, and it makes a claim that the stories are all the same story told in different ways, for the purpose of illustrating how characters can't let go of the story they're assigned to tell, but this eleventh-hour explanation doesn't ring true. There is no resolution or message here, except for perhaps an extratextual one that you invent for yourself, and the ideas of identity and the nature of fiction presented aren't likely things you've never thought of before, but that wasn't enough to sink the book for me.
Does the above description sound appealing to you? If so then definitely pick this book up, as the other aspects of the book won't give you reason to regret your decision. The stories are well written, and the feeling of New York City pseudo-noir is pulled off impressively well. Characters often feel very similar, but that's part of the theme of the book after all. Overall because I was in the mood for something like this I enjoyed Auster's New York Trilogy, despite the lack of resolution or fresh ideas, because the atmosphere was so masterfully done. If you're on the fence give it a try, and if you're not feeling it by the end of sixty or seventy pages (or certainly by the end of the first story) don't feel bad about dropping it, since if you stuck with it you'd be exploring the same labyrinth passages for the rest of the book- although you might be walking on the maze's ceiling the next time around instead of the floor.
If you want to try a metafictional detective novel, then look no further than The New York Trilogy by Paul Austen. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, these three interconnecting stories have been since collected into a single volume. Heavily influenced by the post-modernist movement, this novel blends elements of neo-realism, soft-boiled fiction and of course, metafiction. Even the pulp style cover (illustrated by Art Spiegelman) has a metafictional style to it.
I really wish I had a better grasp on post-modernism; there is a lot of literary theory that must go into fully understanding a novel like The New York Trilogy. My level of understanding of post-modernism might hinder this review but I will do my best to add something valuable here. Starting with a look at any example of one of the narrators; such as the one known as Peter Stillman, or is he? Maybe his name is something entirely different; maybe it is Paul Auster. This gives you an idea of just how you have to read this book; continuously questioning everything and assuming things are not as they have been told. This does make the novel difficult to read, I had to take my time with it and reread almost everything.
The first story City of Glass follows a detective fiction writer that becomes a private investigator. This unnamed narrator explores layers of identity and reality; often to Paul Auster (the author), Paul Auster (the writer), Peter Stillman (the mark), the other Peter Stillman (the son) and finally Daniel Quinn (the protagonist). The story follows this narrator as he descends into madness as the reader follows close behind. This is story that explores the relationship between the author, characters and the reader in a twisted kind of way. Essentially asking us to consider who has the real power in this relationship?
Ghosts follows the story of a private eye called Blue who is hired to follow Black; he has been hired by White to write down everything Black does. Only problem is that Black doesn't do too much apart from sit and write all day, which means Blue spends all day sitting and writing. This is a story that explores the issue of who has the real power, the author or their characters. Paul Auster is showing us his views towards writing (sitting and watching what the character does).
Finally in The Locked Room, the title suggests that the story is referencing the locked room mystery archetype. It tells the story of a writer that doesn't have the creativity to produce any fiction. When a childhood friend disappears, he has been hired to write his works and determine if they should be published. While one this job he finds himself taking the place of his friend and becoming husband and father to his family. This final story looks at the relationship between character and reader and asks us to consider if we are under the control of the author or do we interpret what is happening for ourselves.
It is interesting that a novel like The New York Trilogy can leave you perplexed and confused but when you try to articulate what happened and slowly dissect the novel into its three parts it all makes sense. I'm often surprised with how much I get out of a post-modern novel, especially since I often freak out and feel like I have not understood it. Then it all makes sense and I often wonder how I did not pick up on this while reading or after reading the novel. I hope I've made enough sense out of The New York Trilogy, a bizarre novel that requires very close attention but I've conquered it and I feel proud.
This review originally appeared on my blog; http://literary-exploration.com/2014/04/13/the-new-york-trilogy-by-paul-austen/
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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
City of Glass
As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might hace written
Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired to spy on Black. From a window of a rented house on Orange street, Blue stalks his subject, who is staring out of his window
The Locked Room
Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and a cache of novels, plays, and poems. What happened?First time in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps, rough front, and luxurious packaging Features an introduction from Luc Sante and incredible cover illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers
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City of glass: A writer of a detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author. Ghosts: Introduces Blue, a private detective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek is lured into the very trap he created. The locked room: The nameless hero journeys into the unknown as he attempts to reconstruct the past which he has experienced almost as a dream.… (more)
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