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gus wrote: I think i found the cause:
As you can see, the visual representation and the physic representation are not in the same place, which is troublesome.
But the strangest thing it's not only the Z axis. The physic representation is centered on the position of the actor(or at least it should), so that mean that the visual representation isn't. Is it the normal behavior?
Star-Demon wrote: You can actually see the result of this behavior in my videos.
Is the physics node a child of the mesh node?
I would guess it's just offset incorrectly.
Worse yet, it's possible that we're dealing with a problem with the data in nif.
I'd say quick fix is to set the position of the physic representation to 0,0,0 as a child of the entitynode that the mesh is attached to.
or the dumb fix, which is to make the offset center on the player by force. This requires playing with it until it looks good.
Zini wrote: Since physics uses the same code for NPCs and objects; and objects are handled correctly, obviously the NPC rendering code is at fault.
Star-Demon wrote: Good point - but I wonder why would our NPCs be rendered to the rightish?
I guess we'll just have to go back and fix it.
Zini wrote: Regular objects are just a simple mesh (or a hierarchy of meshes). NPCs are constructed via code from various body parts. This code probably has a bug (mixing a center coordinate point with a corner coordinate point or something; I am just guessing here).
gus wrote: But you can also see another problem: the capsuleShape is too low/too small. But I can't really correct that if the visual representation is wrong (as i have to adjust the capsule shape position/size to the visual representation position/size by hand).
Zini wrote: Jhooks wrote the NPC rendering code. Maybe he has an idea what can be done about it.
If everything else fails, we could go for a temporary workaround that at least gives an approximately correct result. IIRC jhooks said, that the NPC rendering code needs a rewrite anyway.
jhooks1 wrote: Yes, the npc rendering code right now works with scenenodes. The proper way to render them would be to instead use the base_anim skeleton.
In order to render them correctly in this method, you must use Entity->attachObjectToBone(). Each body part mesh attaches to the respective bone of the skeleton. You can check out my NPCAnim and animation branches for an example of how this could be implemented.
The problem we have with this new implementation is at the moment we have no way to mirror/reflect the meshes. This means the npc would have two left feet, two left arms, etc. There is an ogre package meshmagick that has what we need to reflect the meshes, but we would have to integrate the library into openmw.
I would recommend not writing physics for the scenenode npcs since we need to start over with skeleton npcs anyway.
Zini wrote: Okay. A quick workaround then. Doesn't have to be perfect, but activating a NPC should be possible without fiddling around. If I understand the situation right, the correct method is to adjust the position of the meshes/the screennode to match that of the physics shape.
gus wrote: I don't have the time to do this task right now. But for testing purpose, just use the debug rendering mode, you will be able to see the true physical shape.
jhooks1 wrote: I don't know anything about bullet or activation, but I will look into this.
Zini wrote: The problem is that either the NPC or the bullet collision shape is not centred on the NPC's coordinates as specified in the world model. I think the consent was that the NPC is misaligned.


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Mr Petrov, who is a senior researcher at the Moscow Centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was together with Lilya Shibanova, head of GOLOS, an NGO monitoring elections in Russia, invited by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee to share analysis of the latest developments in Russia.
The Role of Russian Ngo- "Golas"
The demonstrations that we now see in Russia are protests against how the government is treating the people. The opposition against the government is massive, and young people are using the internet and particularly social media to voice their dissatisfaction with the current regime. The campaigns on social media has enormous significance said Lilya Shibanova, Head of GOLOS, during her presentation. OLOS was essential in documenting and disseminating information about election fraud and irregulations during the Duma elections in December 2011. At the seminar, Mrs Shibanova gave accounts of the ways in which such documentation had been ignored or attempted explained away by relevant authorities. She painted a dark picture of the situation her organization faces. Representatives of the government seem to employ all sorts of means to prevent GOLOS from conducting its work, including unreasonable eviction, cutting off the electricity, blocking web-sites and more. Mrs Shibanova stated that she was under the impression that the authorities most of all would like to see the organization shut down, and that she and her colleagues therefore were now concerned with transferring their skills and knowledge to other organizations.
Russia is at a crossroads. We will see election fraud also in the presidential elections on March 4, and people will respond to it. Russia urgently needs to pass new elections code and to reform the electoral system. This can make it possible to transform the people in the streets into a legitimate opposition, said Shibanova. – International support to the civil society in Russia is crucial, and here European countries, and Scandinavian countries in particular, can play a key role, Shibanova continued.
N. Petrov on protests in Russia
The current demonstrations were triggered by the way in which Putin announced his candidacy and the cynical manipulation of the Duma elections, said Nikolay Petrov in his presentation. This will also be the case during the presidential elections. Even without fraud on election day, the elections cannot be labelled free and fair due to the context in which they are taking place, Petrov argued. – Putin has chosen all the other candidates and is controlling the framework for the election. After the Duma election, the Kremlin has, through its policies, made clear that federal and local leaders who do not deliver positive results for Putin will be replaced, Petrov continued.
Petrov argued that it is a problem for Putin that public discontent has no possibility of being channelled via a real opposition. – Putin is currently a weak leader behaving like a strong one, and the elites at some point will want to replace him. Petrov predicted that Putin will win the election, but that he will hardly stay for the whole term. – In terms of real power, Putin will be out in 1.5-2 years, however, for real political change to take place, it is not sufficient to replace Putin with another person. What is needed is reform of the political system, including the introduction of checks and balances which can limit the presidential power, Petrov underlined in his presentation. In his view, this is also in the interest of the elites. Petrov did not seem to fear the return to authoritarian rule. -The society is changing, and authorities are too. They are not interested in paternalistic structures anymore. The risk is chaos or nationalism, he argued.
Marie Eriksen: Norway should stand by its principles
Ine-Marie Eriksen-Søreide from the Conservative Party and head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the Norwegian Parliament and Bård- Vegard Solhjell from the Socialist Left Party and member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of the Norwegian Parliament participated in a panel discussion following the introductions by Shibanova and Petrov. Eriksen-Søreide emphasized that Norwegian authorities should lead a consistent human rights policy, without regards to political cost. She expressed concern about the illegitimacy of the current political system in Russia and feared further tightening of civil and political freedoms in connection with the organization of the Olymics in Sotchi in 2014. Eriksen-Søreide called for increased dialogue with Russian authorities as well as continued support to the Russian civil society.
Solhjell agreed that with regards to Russia, Norwegian authorities should stand for the same international legal principles as with regards to any other country. He did question the extent to which one can claim there is democracy in Russia today, end identified problem areas such as corruption, lack of rule of law and election fraud. Norway is in special situation being a neighboring country and should have close relations with Russia. An extensive dialogue is necessary. Also, support to free media and civil society is crucial.
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Age-Appropriate Exercise Programs
May 16, 2014 - Tony DiCosta
Do you still spend money like you did when you were a teenager? Back then, your idea of a good investment might well have been spending your entire week's pay on a pair of designer jeans for the hot date you had coming up on Saturday night. (Actually, maybe not such a bad investment, looking back!) But as you got older, your idea of a good investment of a week's pay should have (hopefully) changed.
In a similar way, your exercise program should reflect the changing realities of your present biological age. Here is what I mean: As a teenager (or twenty-something) your fitness program may have consisted of whatever training was required for the sport you were involved in at high school or college. And, being young, you really did not need much more than that. The training was most likely quite intense, long in duration and short on concern for your body. Which was fine because you were young, strong and had the armor-plated recuperative powers of youth.
After that, with the onset, for many, of career and family obligations, if you worked out at all it was probably by running or gym work. And later, maybe a Jane Fonda or Richard Simmons video or two (wearing the now-embarrassing outfits that era was famous for). But, for the most part, your workouts remained an extension of your youthful training practices which paid little heed to the less bullet-proof nature of your new pressed-for-time circumstances. Yet, you were still young enough that your body was able to shrug off any ill effects.
In your thirties and forties, if you continued your exercise habits you had probably begun to experience the joint and muscle damage that occurs when youthful training programs are deployed to an aging platform (your body). And if you were one of those who did not exercise, the accumulating insults of disuse and aging likely caused a plethora of their own "issues" ranging from weight gain ("middle age spread") to muscle loss to a kind of general stiffness and lack of energy arising from inactivity.
So where does that leave you? Well, you either need to begin a good program or you need to change your existing one to reflect a more long-term strategy—one that will keep you in shape throughout your (later) years without extracting an unacceptable toll of its own on your physical resources.
Which leads us back to the question I posed in my previous column: How do we choose from among the many fitness options available to us, competing rabidly for our exercise time (and dollar)? Being able to make those choices wisely will depend on how well we understand what it is that our aging bodies really need. That is what will help us to put together a proper, age-appropriate exercise program. And that will be the topic of the next column.
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Off probation, Eversole has a new career as a lobbyist
Former Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole, who resigned in 2011 as a part of a plea deal in a federal corruption trial, has landed a new gig in the public arena: lobbyist.
Accused of taking $100,000 in cash and gifts from friend and real estate developer Mike Surface in exchange for steering county contracts and appointments to Surface and his companies, Eversole resigned his office in October 2011 and pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents, a felony.
His sentence - three years' probation - was terminated early with U.S. District Judge David Hittner's approval on Jan. 9. A week later, the Harris County Department of Education, facing a bill in the Texas Legislature to abolish it and hand its duties to the Commissioners Court, cut him a check for lobbying.
Eversole also has done work, as far back as last May, for regular county contractor ESPA Corp., an engineering firm founded by Commissioner El Franco Lee; the commissioner sold his stake in the firm eight years ago.
Eversole was taciturn in discussing his work Thursday, saying department of education officials approached him. His contract will pay $45,000, plus expenses, between Dec. 1, 2012, and Aug. 31, and calls for him to help raise awareness of the benefits of the department's programs with local, state and federal officials.
"I have the right to work and make a living," Eversole said. "And I'll say that the person who has a problem with me is (County Judge) Ed Emmett. So, if you want comments about what's wrong with me and about any of my convictions and why I was convicted, he seems to know everything, so you can call him. That's really all I have to say."
Emmett, through a spokesman, declined to respond to Eversole's comments.
Other lobbyists
The department, which is governed by an elected board of trustees and is not part of Harris County government, also has hired lobbyists and former state representatives Rob Eissler, who was paid $10,125 in December and January, and Stan Schlueter, who was paid $6,125 in January. The department did not produce Eissler and Schlueter's contracts by deadline.
Department Superintendent John Sawyer is on vacation until March 19 and unavailable for comment, spokeswoman Tammy Lanier said.
Board of trustees President Angie Chesnut said Sawyer was within his authority to make the hires but said she disagrees with the move.
"Had the decision been mine - and I do not speak for the board - I would not have done that," she said. "And that's no disrespect to Mr. Eversole. It's just that I think it creates in the public's mind a question that doesn't need to surround HCDE. There most certainly must have been other alternatives."
Colleen Vera, a retired teacher who believes the department is a waste of money and who has been deluging its officials with open records requests, raised the issue of Eversole's contract at a board of trustees meeting Wednesday.
"I'm sorry, but if somebody applies to a school district who is on probation with a felony conviction, the odds of them being hired would be nil," she said Thursday. "A teacher cannot be hired, so why can they hire someone else, and pay them with our tax money? It blows my mind."
Right to work
Spokesmen for Emmett and commissioners Jack Cagle and Jack Morman said Eversole has not discussed the department of education with their bosses. Commissioner Steve Radack said had talked to Eversole about it but still wants to abolish the agency.
"I talk to Jerry frequently about all kinds of things, he's a friend of mine," Radack said. "I would compliment the department of education for actually hiring somebody that might know what they're doing, which I think is a little unusual over there, but the fact is I remain opposed to the department of education. I would love to see it abolished."
Morman met with Eversole and ESPA president Karun Sreerama on May 21, 2012. Emmett, Cagle and Radack have not discussed ESPA with Eversole; Sreerama could not be reached for comment. It was not clear whether Lee had discussed either item with Eversole.
"Jerry Eversole is a very talented man. He has a right to make a living," Radack said. "If anybody wants to criticize him for wanting to work they can criticize, but he has a right to do it. I wish him well."


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The December 2012 issue includes the following articles:
The Visit of Patriarch Ignatius IV to the United States, pg. 4
Getting Old in a Spiritual Way: Embracing God's Will in Aging, pg. 6
by Fr. Josiah B. Trenham
The Kiss of Peace: A Seal of Reconciliation, pg. 13
by Fr. Bassam Nassif
Conflict in Syria, pg. 20
by Dr. Najib Saliba
The Rise of Social Orthodoxy, pg. 26
by Fr. Ayman Kfouf
Works of the Order in Action: The More You Know Them, The More You Love Them, pg. 32
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Ethics Corner: Pictures of Pain
By: Allan Wolper
The Journal News has become a target of the gun lobby and of journalists in print, television, radio, and politics from the left and right for allegedly violating the privacy of people who have their gun permits on file in state offices in Westchester and Rockland County, N.Y. In other words, the paper got attacked simply doing what it is supposed to be doing: telling its readers what they need to know.
The upstate Gannett daily reprised a theme from the movie "Network," in which a freaked-out television anchor asks his nationwide audience to rush to their window and shout that they were mad as hell and weren't going to take it anymore.
The attacks on the paper were totally knee-jerk responses. Gun permits are public records. That means those records belong to the public. Posting them or shouting them out a window does not violate anyone's privacy.
That is why it is difficult to understand why journalists who complained about the Journal News reporting on the gun registration records applauded the over-the-top coverage of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in rural Newtown, Conn., of 20 small children, six school officials, the mother of the shooter, and the shooter himself.
The media trucks that swamped the Sandy Hook area stole some of the most private moments from friends and relatives of the victims without worrying whether those pictures, posted online across the Internet, would haunt them forever.
The free press is supposed to call attention to this kind of local terrorism. But it is difficult to support that hard-edged version of journalism and defend the so-called privacy of public records that allow people such as Adam Lanza, 20, to shoot a classroom full of children, their teachers, his mother, Nancy, and finally take his own life.
The argument posed by the pro-gun privacy groups made no sense. The overwhelming majority of the gun permits are given out to peaceful people with no criminal records. But Adam Lanza had never been in trouble with the police, or with anyone else. The Journal News was doing its journalistic due diligence by notifying its readers that their neighbors may own a gun or two.
In fact, there were repeated stories in the local paper, The Newtown Bee, as well as the Journal News, about Newtown residents shooting off their guns near the homes of people with no arrests, according to published reports. That fact alone shows that the so-called sleepy village of Newtown is hardly the rural paradise the media makes it out to be. Newtown is also the headquarters of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for America's gun manufacturers.
After Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Aurora, the Journal News had obviously had enough. It was time to reprise its 2006 story on gun owners in the area, telling its Westchester readership once again that its high-priced neighborhoods are full of registered handguns. And that is what the paper did, on Dec. 23.
The outcry against the Journal News' use of public records to out the gun people was much louder, it seemed, than the raw pictures that the media showed of the families and friends of the victims. The paper, critics felt, should have asked the gun owners for permission to publish their names.
No one in the media asked Alissa and Robbie Parker if they wanted a picture taken of their private pain after being told their daughter Emilie, 6, was one of the children gunned down at Sandy Hook, but millions of people probably saw that photo.
Photographers didn't tap Chris and Lynn McDonnell on their shoulder to ask if they cared whether the picture of them holding each other after learning their daughter, Grace, 7, was another victim of that massacre was posted anywhere. After all, that unbelievably painful photo was news, not an invasion of privacy.
There were no complaints from the loudmouth media about the dramatic photo of the line of children, hands on the shoulders or backpack of the child in front of them, being escorted across the parking lot by Sandy Hook teachers. And surely no one asked one little girl in that line, her mouth open and obviously hysterical, whether taking her picture was a violation of her privacy.
That's a photo she will have to live with for the rest of her life, a photo by Shannon Hicks of the Newtown Bee that is now a front runner for the Pulitzer Prize.
The news media who set up their cameras directly across the street from the Sandy Hook Firehouse where parents, relatives, and friends had gathered to wait for news of their children, hoping against hope that they had not been one of the victims, didn't seem to worry about invading the privacy of those people.
The media even went out to the home of one of the victims to snap a picture of an empty house, guarded by a state police car. All of this was considered news that had to be told, that had to be shared.
The photojournalists seemed determined to capture every single painful moment of the massacre. No one was immune to their intrusive lenses. Not even an unidentified woman, in tears, her head down, her hands barely holding herself together, as she stood next to a car in the school parking lot. She should know that breaking down in public made her a public figure.
The Journal News gave some ammunition to the Second Amendment soldiers by publishing incorrect or outdated information about who had legally registered guns and who didn't. The paper apologized, but that didn't stop the criticism. Soon afterward, bloggers posted the names and addresses of the paper's editors and reporters.
I did like the idea of reporters having their telephone numbers out there. Newspaper readers have been complaining for years about the difficulty of getting journalists to pay attention to their gripes. This lack of connection is one reason that papers are losing so many readers. Publishing their home numbers probably produced a notebook full of new sources and might even lead to some terrific stories.
I am not saying that those reporters deserved to get the kind of hate calls and emails that traumatized their homes. But it sure said something about the kind of gun-toting people there are in America that the Journal News had to hire private guards to protect its staffers from those deranged callers.
And the National Rifle Association and its allies managed to insert an amendment to a gun control bill signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that allows gun owners to remove their weapon registration from the public records. A loss for the First Amendment.
Allan Wolper is a professor of journalism at Rutgers-Newark University and host/producer of "Conversations with Allan Wolper," a broadcast on WBGO 88.3, an NPR affiliate in the New York area.


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The Filibuster
What fool GM do you think is going to overpay for Josh Hamilton?
Fort Worth, TX
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein said that. Jon Daniels DID that.
He and the Rangers made their qualifying offer to Sir Parties-a-Lot and now they can sit back and let madness ensue knowing they'll at least get a nice draft pick if and when some insane club with house money decides to give Josh Hamilton what he wants. (From what I have been reading on Twitter and some other baseball-centric forums, dude is asking for 7 years, $175 million.)
Right? WTF Josh Hamilton? SEVEN YEARS? ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS?!?
If this doesn't prove Nietzsche's god is dead lesson, I don't know what does. Look, I'm impressed with the healthy Josh Hamilton just as much as any one else, but the problems with handing Hamilton a multi-year $100 million+ contract are as well known and documented as Hamilton is out of touch with reality.
1) Dude is a china doll. Can't stay healthy.
2) Dude is (and always will be) an addict.
3) Dude is also a well documented RELAPSE just waiting to happen.
One minute Josh is manning left field, hitting bombs, the next minute he's doing t***y shots off your college aged daughter, making it rain with whipped cream and pay-puh. Don't believe me? Do some Google image searching.
Too risky. Way. Too. Risky. I wouldn't give him anything over three years. Period. I'd pay him what he's worth — close to the $20 million a year threshold if healthy (and sober). But no way I'd trust him for anything more than three years. His record speaks for itself.
And while I'm all for giving folks second, third, fourth chances, I'm also smart enough to know when to say when. Hamilton (and his enablers) seem to have a problem with that.
The good news, for sanity's sake, is that most of the big pocketed clubs don't have any room for Hamilton. I hear the Braves are interested but don't want to be too left handed. And the breakout Orioles are in the mix too. But don't expect L.A. or New York or Boston to go there. I'm not sure the night life in those cities could handle a potential Hamilton disaster either, and that's really saying something.
So go ahead. Hate me 'cuz I'm hatin' on Hamilton's free agency, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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Sunday, March 22, 2009
...and maybe sitting down in a minute with a Shiner and some Netflix.
Tomorrow, I'm going to show you the most awesomest thing that we did today. You will not freakin' believe it.
It's that awesome.
3 comments:
- Abby said...
welcome home. if you are scheduling any private c/d workshops at barefoot...note we will be closed for a bit for the move. you may want to check in with scott if you are thinking there might be a conflict. it would be pretty terrible for you to show up and the shop be closed or completely torn apart and diapers packed away. :)
- March 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- cake said...
so glad you're home. and, i love that shiner bock is your beer of choice. it sure is mine. i thought they only sold it in texas, and was SO thrilled when i found some at big red. not at texas prices, but, at least they have it.
- March 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- julie said...
Mmmm, Shiner. Several years ago there was a Shiner shout-out on the X-Files, too, and I've ALWAYS wanted to go to ShinerFest.
My mother bought me this bottle cutter a few months ago because she cannot handle having ahold of Papa's credit card, and you should totally collect your Shiner bottles and then come over because I'm collecting my Shiner bottles and my big plan is to cut them in half to make votive candle holders for the big wooden table in the living room, hopefully preserving part of the label.
And ONLY with Shiner bottles.
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Leon Richards appointed chancellor of Kapiolani Community CollegeUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Posted: Jul 27, 2007PEARL CITY, Oʻahu — At its monthly meeting held this week at Leeward Community College, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) approved the appointment of Leon Richards as chancellor of Kapiʻolani Community College. Richards' appointment is for a three-year period, effective August 1, 2007.
He has been serving as interim chancellor of the campus since July 2005, replacing John Morton who is now the vice president for community colleges for the UH System.
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TencentCloud API authenticates every single request, i.e., the request must be signed using the security credentials in the designated steps. Each request has to contain the signature information (Signature) in the common request parameters and be sent in the specified way and format.
The security credential used in this document is a key, which includes a SecretId and a SecretKey. Each user can have up to two pairs of keys.
You can apply for the security credentials through the following steps:
TencentCloud API comes with SDKs for seven commonly used programming languages, including Python, Java, PHP, Go, NodeJS and .NET. In addition, it provides API Explorer which enables online call, signature verification, and SDK code generation. If you have any troubles calculating a signature, consult these resources.
Compatible with the previous HmacSHA1 and HmacSHA256 signature algorithms, the TC3-HMAC-SHA256 signature algorithm is more secure and supports larger requests and JSON format with better performance. We recommend using TC3-HMAC-SHA256 to calculate the signature.
TencentCloud API supports both GET and POST requests. For the GET method, only the Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded protocol format is supported. For the POST method, two protocol formats, Content-Type: application/json and Content-Type: multipart/form-data, are supported. The JSON format is supported by default for all business APIs, and the multipart format is supported only for specific business APIs. In this case, the API cannot be called in JSON format. See the specific business API documentation for more information. The POST method is recommended, as there is no difference in the results of both the methods, but the GET method only supports request packets up to 32 KB.
The following uses querying the list of CVM instances in the Guangzhou region as an example to describe the steps of signature splicing. We chose this API because:
In the example, we try to choose common parameters and API parameters that are prone to mistakes. When you actually call an API, please use parameters based on the actual conditions. The parameters vary by API. Do not copy the parameters and values in this example.
Assuming that your SecretId and SecretKey are AKIDz8krbsJ5yKBZQpn74WFkmLPx3EXAMPLE and Gu5t9xGARNpq86cd98joQYCN3EXAMPLE, respectively, if you want to view the status of the instance in the Guangzhou region whose CVM instance name is "unnamed" and have only one data entry returned, then the request may be:
curl -X POST https://cvm.tencentcloudapi.com \
-H "Authorization: TC3-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIDz8krbsJ5yKBZQpn74WFkmLPx3EXAMPLE/2019-02-25/cvm/tc3_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host, Signature=72e494ea809ad7a8c8f7a4507b9bddcbaa8e581f516e8da2f66e2c5a96525168" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
-H "Host: cvm.tencentcloudapi.com" \
-H "X-TC-Action: DescribeInstances" \
-H "X-TC-Timestamp: 1551113065" \
-H "X-TC-Version: 2017-03-12" \
-H "X-TC-Region: ap-guangzhou" \
-d '{"Limit": 1, "Filters": [{"Values": ["\u672a\u547d\u540d"], "Name": "instance-name"}]}'
The signature calculation process is explained in detail below.
Concatenate the canonical request string (CanonicalRequest) in the following pseudocode format:
CanonicalRequest =
HTTPRequestMethod + '\n' +
CanonicalURI + '\n' +
CanonicalQueryString + '\n' +
CanonicalHeaders + '\n' +
SignedHeaders + '\n' +
|Field Name
|HTTP request method (GET or POST). This example uses
|URI parameter. Slash ("/") is used for API 3.0.
|The query string in the URL of the originating HTTP request. This is always an empty string "" for POST requests, and is the string after the question mark (?) for GET requests. For example: Limit=10&Offset=0。
CanonicalQueryString must be URL-encoded, referencing RFC3986, the UTF8 character set. We recommend using the programming language library. All special characters must be encoded and capitalized.
|Header information for signature calculation, including at least two headers of
host and
content-type. Custom headers can be added to participate in the signature process to improve the uniqueness and security of the request.
Concatenation rules:
content-type:application/json; charset=utf-8\nhost:cvm.tencentcloudapi.com\n.
content-type must match the actually sent content. In some programming languages, a charset value would be added even if it is not specified. In this case, the request sent is different from the one signed, and the sever will return an error indicating that signature verification failed.
|Header information for signature calculation, indicating which headers of the request participate in the signature process (they must each individually correspond to the headers in CanonicalHeaders).
Content-type and
host are required headers.
Concatenation rules:
|Hash value of the request payload (i.e., the body, such as
{"Limit": 1, "Filters": [{"Values": ["\u672a\u547d\u540d"], "Name": "instance-name"}]} in this example). The pseudocode for calculation is Lowercase(HexEncode(Hash.SHA256(RequestPayload))) by SHA256 hashing the payload of the HTTP request, performing hexadecimal encoding, and finally converting the encoded string to lowercase letters. For GET requests,
RequestPayload is always an empty string. The calculation result in this example is
According to the rules above, the
CanonicalRequest string obtained in the example is as follows:
content-type:application/json; charset=utf-8
The string to sign is concatenated as follows:
StringToSign =
Algorithm + \n +
RequestTimestamp + \n +
CredentialScope + \n +
|Field Name
|Signature algorithm, which is currently always
|Request timestamp, i.e., the value of the common parameter
X-TC-Timestamp in the request header, which is the UNIX timestamp of the current time in seconds, such as
1551113065 in this example.
|Scope of the credential in the format of
Date/service/tc3_request, including the date, requested service and termination string (tc3_request).
Date is a date in UTC time, whose value should match the UTC date converted by the common parameter
service is the product name, which should match the domain name of the product called. The calculation result in this example is
|Hash value of the CanonicalRequest string concatenated in the steps above. The pseudocode for calculation is Lowercase(HexEncode(Hash.SHA256(CanonicalRequest))). The calculation result in this example is
- Date has to be calculated from the timestamp "X-TC-Timestamp" and the time zone is UTC+0. If you add the system's local time zone information (such as UTC+8), calls can succeed both day and night but will definitely fail at 00:00. For example, if the timestamp is 1551113065 and the time in UTC+8 is 2019-02-26 00:44:25, the UTC+0 date in the calculated Date value should be 2019-02-25 instead of 2019-02-26.
- Timestamp must be the same as your current system time, and your system time and standard time must be synced; if the difference between Timestamp and your current system time is larger than five minutes, the request will fail. If your system time is out of sync with the standard time for a while, the request will fail and return a signature expiration error.
According to the preceding rules, the string to be signed obtained in the example is as follows:
1) Calculate the derived signature key with the following pseudocode:
SecretKey = "Gu5t9xGARNpq86cd98joQYCN3EXAMPLE"
SecretDate = HMAC_SHA256("TC3" + SecretKey, Date)
SecretService = HMAC_SHA256(SecretDate, Service)
SecretSigning = HMAC_SHA256(SecretService, "tc3_request")
|Field Name
|The original SecretKey, i.e.,
|The Date field information in
Credential, such as
2019-02-25 in this example.
|Value in the Service field in
Credential, such as
cvm in this example.
2) Calculate the signature with the following pseudocode:
Signature = HexEncode(HMAC_SHA256(SecretSigning, StringToSign))
The Authorization is concatenated as follows:
Authorization =
Algorithm + ' ' +
'Credential=' + SecretId + '/' + CredentialScope + ', ' +
'SignedHeaders=' + SignedHeaders + ', ' +
'Signature=' + Signature
|Field Name
|Signature algorithm, which is always
|The SecretId in the key pair, i.e.,
|Credential scope (see above). The calculation result in this example is
|Header information for signature calculation (see above), such as
content-type;host in this example.
|Signature value. The calculation result in this example is
According to the rules above, the value obtained in the example is:
TC3-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIDz8krbsJ5yKBZQpn74WFkmLPx3EXAMPLE/2019-02-25/cvm/tc3_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host, Signature=72e494ea809ad7a8c8f7a4507b9bddcbaa8e581f516e8da2f66e2c5a96525168
The following example shows a finished authorization header:
POST https://cvm.tencentcloudapi.com/
Authorization: TC3-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIDz8krbsJ5yKBZQpn74WFkmLPx3EXAMPLE/2019-02-25/cvm/tc3_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host, Signature=72e494ea809ad7a8c8f7a4507b9bddcbaa8e581f516e8da2f66e2c5a96525168
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Host: cvm.tencentcloudapi.com
X-TC-Action: DescribeInstances
X-TC-Version: 2017-03-12
X-TC-Timestamp: 1551113065
X-TC-Region: ap-guangzhou
{"Limit": 1, "Filters": [{"Values": ["\u672a\u547d\u540d"], "Name": "instance-name"}]}
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
public class TencentCloudAPITC3Demo {
private final static Charset UTF8 = StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
private final static String SECRET_ID = "AKIDz8krbsJ5yKBZQpn74WFkmLPx3EXAMPLE";
private final static String SECRET_KEY = "Gu5t9xGARNpq86cd98joQYCN3EXAMPLE";
private final static String CT_JSON = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
public static byte[] hmac256(byte[] key, String msg) throws Exception {
Mac mac = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
SecretKeySpec secretKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(key, mac.getAlgorithm());
return mac.doFinal(msg.getBytes(UTF8));
public static String sha256Hex(String s) throws Exception {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
byte[] d = md.digest(s.getBytes(UTF8));
return DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(d).toLowerCase();
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String service = "cvm";
String host = "cvm.tencentcloudapi.com";
String region = "ap-guangzhou";
String action = "DescribeInstances";
String version = "2017-03-12";
String algorithm = "TC3-HMAC-SHA256";
String timestamp = "1551113065";
//String timestamp = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000);
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
// Pay attention to the time zone; otherwise, errors may occur
String date = sdf.format(new Date(Long.valueOf(timestamp + "000")));
// ************* Step 1: Concatenate the CanonicalRequest string *************
String httpRequestMethod = "POST";
String canonicalUri = "/";
String canonicalQueryString = "";
String canonicalHeaders = "content-type:application/json; charset=utf-8\n" + "host:" + host + "\n";
String signedHeaders = "content-type;host";
String payload = "{\"Limit\": 1, \"Filters\": [{\"Values\": [\"\\u672a\\u547d\\u540d\"], \"Name\": \"instance-name\"}]}";
String hashedRequestPayload = sha256Hex(payload);
String canonicalRequest = httpRequestMethod + "\n" + canonicalUri + "\n" + canonicalQueryString + "\n"
+ canonicalHeaders + "\n" + signedHeaders + "\n" + hashedRequestPayload;
// ************* Step 2: Concatenate the string to sign *************
String credentialScope = date + "/" + service + "/" + "tc3_request";
String hashedCanonicalRequest = sha256Hex(canonicalRequest);
String stringToSign = algorithm + "\n" + timestamp + "\n" + credentialScope + "\n" + hashedCanonicalRequest;
// ************* Step 3: Calculate the signature *************
byte[] secretDate = hmac256(("TC3" + SECRET_KEY).getBytes(UTF8), date);
byte[] secretService = hmac256(secretDate, service);
byte[] secretSigning = hmac256(secretService, "tc3_request");
String signature = DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(hmac256(secretSigning, stringToSign)).toLowerCase();
// ************* Step 4: Concatenate the Authorization *************
String authorization = algorithm + " " + "Credential=" + SECRET_ID + "/" + credentialScope + ", "
+ "SignedHeaders=" + signedHeaders + ", " + "Signature=" + signature;
TreeMap<String, String> headers = new TreeMap<String, String>();
headers.put("Authorization", authorization);
headers.put("Content-Type", CT_JSON);
headers.put("Host", host);
headers.put("X-TC-Action", action);
headers.put("X-TC-Timestamp", timestamp);
headers.put("X-TC-Version", version);
headers.put("X-TC-Region", region);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("curl -X POST https://").append(host)
.append(" -H \"Authorization: ").append(authorization).append("\"")
.append(" -H \"Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8\"")
.append(" -H \"Host: ").append(host).append("\"")
.append(" -H \"X-TC-Action: ").append(action).append("\"")
.append(" -H \"X-TC-Timestamp: ").append(timestamp).append("\"")
.append(" -H \"X-TC-Version: ").append(version).append("\"")
.append(" -H \"X-TC-Region: ").append(region).append("\"")
.append(" -d '").append(payload).append("'");
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import hashlib, hmac, json, os, sys, time
from datetime import datetime
# Key Parameters
secret_id = "AKIDz8krbsJ5yKBZQpn74WFkmLPx3EXAMPLE"
secret_key = "Gu5t9xGARNpq86cd98joQYCN3EXAMPLE"
service = "cvm"
host = "cvm.tencentcloudapi.com"
endpoint = "https://" + host
region = "ap-guangzhou"
action = "DescribeInstances"
version = "2017-03-12"
algorithm = "TC3-HMAC-SHA256"
#timestamp = int(time.time())
timestamp = 1551113065
date = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
params = {"Limit": 1, "Filters": [{"Name": "instance-name", "Values": [u"unnamed"]}]}
# ************* Step 1: Concatenate the CanonicalRequest string *************
http_request_method = "POST"
canonical_uri = "/"
canonical_querystring = ""
ct = "application/json; charset=utf-8"
payload = json.dumps(params)
canonical_headers = "content-type:%s\nhost:%s\n" % (ct, host)
signed_headers = "content-type;host"
hashed_request_payload = hashlib.sha256(payload.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
canonical_request = (http_request_method + "\n" +
canonical_uri + "\n" +
canonical_querystring + "\n" +
canonical_headers + "\n" +
signed_headers + "\n" +
# ************* Step 2: Concatenate the string to sign *************
credential_scope = date + "/" + service + "/" + "tc3_request"
hashed_canonical_request = hashlib.sha256(canonical_request.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
string_to_sign = (algorithm + "\n" +
str(timestamp) + "\n" +
credential_scope + "\n" +
# ************* Step 3: Calculate the Signature *************
# Function for computing signature digest
def sign(key, msg):
return hmac.new(key, msg.encode("utf-8"), hashlib.sha256).digest()
secret_date = sign(("TC3" + secret_key).encode("utf-8"), date)
secret_service = sign(secret_date, service)
secret_signing = sign(secret_service, "tc3_request")
signature = hmac.new(secret_signing, string_to_sign.encode("utf-8"), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
# ************* Step 4: Concatenate the Authorization *************
authorization = (algorithm + " " +
"Credential=" + secret_id + "/" + credential_scope + ", " +
"SignedHeaders=" + signed_headers + ", " +
"Signature=" + signature)
print('curl -X POST ' + endpoint
+ ' -H "Authorization: ' + authorization + '"'
+ ' -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8"'
+ ' -H "Host: ' + host + '"'
+ ' -H "X-TC-Action: ' + action + '"'
+ ' -H "X-TC-Timestamp: ' + str(timestamp) + '"'
+ ' -H "X-TC-Version: ' + version + '"'
+ ' -H "X-TC-Region: ' + region + '"'
+ " -d '" + payload + "'")
The following situational error codes for signature failure may occur. Please resolve the errors accordingly.
|Error Code
|Signature expired. Timestamp and server time cannot differ by more than five minutes.
|The key does not exist. Please go to the console to check whether it is disabled or you copied fewer or more characters.
|Signature error. It is possible that the signature was calculated incorrectly, the signature does not match the content actually sent, or the SecretKey is incorrect.
|Temporary certificate token error.
|Invalid key (not a TencentCloud API key type).


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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Friday, January 08, 2010
Welcome (back) to the future
I've got nothing to back this up, of course. I just believe that it happens.
It's stuff like this:
Shortly after KAL from Autism Twins won the Ice Out '08 competition on my blog, we discovered that we went to college together. We graduated from the same university the same year. We didn't know each other, but I bet we passed each other in the student union and said hello. I bet I dropped my student ID in the dining hall and she picked it up and handed it back to me. I bet we took Intro to Psych in the same massive lecture hall. And I bet the professor even mentioned autism. We were probably sitting next to each other that day. I bet there were all kinds of coincidences. We just didn't know it.
And then there's Niksmom from Maternal Instincts. We discovered about a year ago that we had a mutual Facebook friend. It seems that Pearl, a woman who is like family to me, the mother of my dear friend Kay, worked with Niksmom in the late eighties. Upon discovering the connection, Pearl produced a twenty-year-old photograph of Niksmom sitting in their living room - a living room so familiar to me that it could be my own. For all I know, I arrived at their house as that gathering was breaking up. Perhaps Niksmom and I passed in the driveway. Maybe I sat down in the chair she'd just vacated before the seat was even cold.
And now that I think about it, Kay and I are friends from college. Kay was probably KAL's lab partner in some general education science course.
I think this stuff happens. All. The. Time.
Interestingly enough, I've been thinking about this because I've been thinking about Brad Paisley and my friend Kiki.
In late August, 2007, to celebrate our mutual birthdays, my friend Kiki and I traveled two hours to a county fair to see a Brad Paisley concert. On the way, I told her the remarkable story of Bud and Dierks Bentley's hair - a story that had unfolded two weeks earlier. A few months later, Kiki and I went together to see Dierks Bentley.
Then, this past July, I was at home when my cell phone rang. It was Kiki, who was vacationing with her husband and son in Washington, D.C.
"You will never believe where I am," she said when I answered. "I'm at the Lincoln Memorial, standing twenty five feet away from Brad Paisley."
Brad was there shooting a video. Kiki and her family just happened to be walking by, and they stayed to watch. Then they were invited to join the crowd as the crew started filming some footage.
Less than two months later, I was with Kiki when I saw that Brad's video had been released online. The song was Welcome To The Future - a song that, in fact, I'd blogged about the previous month.
We pulled the video up on my laptop. It prominently featured children - including children with disabilities. Its message was one of hope, of promise, and of potential. Before it was over, I was crying - but not crying so hard that I missed the images of Kiki's family, their hands in the air, singing along with Brad Paisley.
Two weeks later, I stood backstage at the very same county fairground where Kiki and I had seen Brad two years earlier, almost to the day. I stood with Brad and Dierks and Bud, my boy whose disability had made this meeting possible - my boy, who at that very moment, was so full of hope, of promise, and of potential.
As we stood there together, the crew on stage next to us tested equipment and the opening strains of Welcome to the Future filled the air. Despite my preoccupation with keeping Bud regulated, I thought of Kiki and felt like I should somehow acknowledge the bigger picture - the coincidence, the synchronicity - this fairground on this weekend, these lives that have intersected, this child with this disability, this song and this video - this hope, this promise, this potential. But I didn't have the words. And so I let the moment pass.
But I'm thinking that Brad Paisley might want to pull out some of his old photo albums and check out the background of pictures from his childhood trips to Disneyworld and the like. Because I have a hunch that he just might see me standing there somewhere, perhaps looking distracted in line for It's A Small World.
Or maybe he'll see my friend Kiki.
12 comments:
- Niksmom said...
I love the synchronicity of all of this. And I adore Pearl. I have often felt very connected to you even before we knew about the connection with P. No accidents.
- January 08, 2010 8:25 PM
- KAL said...
I love this idea and adore how it's played itself out in your life so much, especially with your friend Kiki and Brad Paisley. So cool.
Before we knew each other, my husband and I would spend every single Sunday morning, for a year+, at the same starbucks — hunkered down at tables, maybe next to each other, with our papers and coffee. We only found out after we officially met elsewhere and started dating. How many times did he hold the door for me or move his chair so that I could pass by? How many times did I tap my foot impatiently behind him in line, this guy, the father of my eventual children?
No accidents? I've always believed that. Or maybe it's more about meeting people when we're ready to, when it's meant to be.
And I know you're right — I'm sure we took the same Intro to Psych so long ago.
- January 08, 2010 10:44 PM
- Island Mom said...
Thanks for this -- I had a great and much needed cry watching Brad Paisley's video. Bless that man, I'm not much for contemporary country music, but he and Dierks have won me over.
When my son was diagnosed w/ASD, I discovered that the clients I'd been working for for years had a philanthropic foundation that was funding the research of the doctor I was desperate to get my son in to see. Truly, there are no accidents.
At the end of difficult days, I frequently check your blog postings to help quiet my mind, and remember to celebrate the daily miracles which always occur within the daily struggle. So thanks for writing more often lately, it's much appreciated.
I did improv comedy for 11 years which unknowingly prepped me (as well as that's possible anyway) for maintaining my sense of humor while single-parenting my son -- the core philosophy of improv is "there are no mistakes, only gifts". Isn't that fantastic? It's true every day.
- January 08, 2010 10:53 PM
- BRJ said...
Logged on to read your blog today and read the title "Welcome (back) to the Future"... had just watched the movie "Back to the Future" with my sons this evening- does that count?! ;-) In all seriousness, these kinds of situations that you talk about happen to me all the time. It really is a small world!
- January 09, 2010 1:02 AM
- Judy Jeute said...
I had stumbled upon your blog with Bud's adventure to meet DB and have been crying along with it ever since. Until today though, it was somewhat of a guilty pleasure because I have three healthy children. Doesn't that sound ridiculous? But I am so respectful of what parents of special needs children do, that I almost felt as if I were imposing or something. This was a great reminder that I came across this blog for a reason. Thank you so much for sharing your personal experiences and I really enjoy your writing.
- January 09, 2010 6:41 AM
- pixiemama said...
It IS a very small world.
Do you know Michelle O'Neil (fullsoulahead)? She and I grew up in neighboring towns.
My husband and I met by a very small chance. Years later realized we had been at the same concert several years before. It was a great concert, even though it wasn't the day we met.
- January 09, 2010 9:18 AM
- jess said...
Just yesterday I read an article in a magazine (fine - it was People, whatever) about an adopted man and his birth mother who reunited after thirty some years. It turned out that they were both actors and that they had not only passed one another at auditions without knowing it, but they'd actually shared a stage without knowing it. Upon finally meeting and figuring all of this out, the mother said something like 'well, you can't say God didn't try to get us together all these years!' I thought it was so moving.
The day that I met my husband, we both swore we'd met before. Thirteen years later, we still don't know where - but it's certainly not unlikely.
- January 09, 2010 10:56 AM
- Beth Allums said...
Reminds me of a book I read you should check out "There are no coincidences - The synchronicity of our Lives"
By the way - I'm so glad you're back! I have missed you. And I wept tears of joy the whole way through the Deirks concert post.
- January 09, 2010 6:15 PM
Like Island Mom, I am not a country music fan, but me and my sons have fallen in love with Dierks thanks to you and this song is just GORGEOUS...the video is incredible! I will have to open my mind about Brad Paisley, too, I think! Thank you so much for your writing and for sharing it all with us.
xo karen
P.S. Dierks Bentley is really handsome and so is Brad Paisley! Dang those guys are cute! :-)
- January 09, 2010 7:16 PM
- Jordan said...
This gave me goosebumps. I love it!
- January 09, 2010 8:54 PM
- Stimey said...
Amazing. And I think there is interconnectedness around as well. And I believe that coincidence happens more often than not. I have had this sort of thing happen too. It's crazy. And cool.
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- Melissa said...
Love this post ... you've just inspired one of my own. :)
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In some contexts, such as Sri Lanka, women from the minority have been demanding positive reform in the existing separate legal system that is binding upon Muslims and in the Philippines an entire alternative Code has been drafted; in Israel, Arab women's groups have focused on demanding access to the State Family Court, rather than reforming the Shari'a Courts).
Tandis que de plus en plus de mouvements politiques de droite - y compris les mouvements fondamentalistes qui affectent le plus la vie des femmes, nous contraignent et nous enferment dans une identité unique, nous luttons pour réclamer nos identités multiples, concomitantes, et non antagonistes: genre, classe, ethnicité, race, religion, culture, etc.
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The Dossier is dedicated to a question which comes up again and again in the discussions about women in the Muslim world: the centrality of religion as an analytical concept. Most articles included in this issue discuss, under one form or another the right to define oneself as secular vs a "natural" religious identity, and all the potential epistemological bias in the analysis of a specific situation that could follow the lack of conceptual clarity in these matters.
History is replete with examples of use of religion for social-political mobilization and for community control. The backdrop for this Dossier reflects processes leading sociological Muslims to becoming institutionalised subjects of organised Islamic nation states, communities and families.
Fundamentalist political movements and their onslaught on women have been subject to much debate over the years and have become one of the key concerns of our network.
The increased labeling of diverse immigrant communities of Muslim background in Europe as having a common culture since they share a common religion is appearing as a dominant trend. Religion is becoming equated with "culture".
The Dossiers explore and synthesize a broad range of feelings, interpretations and strategies of women on issues of feminism, nationalism, internationalism, and religion. Our dossiers had announced the first two Asian lesbian conferences; we are now beginning to recieve articles about the situation of lesbians in Muslim countries and communities which we will be publishing in the future issues.


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If the title of the new courtroom drama starring Michael Douglas and Amber Tamblyn seems a little unwieldy, it's because the movie is a remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film, and titles didn't have to fit onto a DVD cover back then. It's also a well-known legal term, one that has particular bearing on the movie's plot, which is all about circumstantial evidence and how it can be misleading. In fact, whenever a courtroom drama is looking for a title, the language of lawyers is always the first place to turn, as seen in such films as The Juror, Class Action, Hostile Witness, Trial by Jury, Presumed Innocent and Witness for the Prosecution. We put together a list of legalese words and phrases that we think would make great movies -- and not just in the plain-old legal thriller vein, either.
All Rise
After his brother is sentenced to death for terrorism, an explosives expert wires every bench in the offending judge's courtroom to explode if enough of the people in each row stand up. A courthouse employee finds out about it, but the terrorists kidnap his family to keep him quiet, so he has to find a less-obvious way to convince the judge to cancel the session, and to keep the bailiff from saying... "All Rise!"
Everyone knows that lawyers are blood-suckers, but this one actually is, after he's attacked by a vampire one night on the streets of New York and becomes undead himself. He quits his high-paying gig defending the rich to get a job as a public defender in night court, but when a client is accused of killing a pimp and draining him of all his blood, the guilt-ridden lawyer finds himself braving the daylight to prevent a good man from being punished... for a crime he, the man's lawyer, actually committed.
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The sole court stenographer in a small town is hired by two out-of-towners to translate a section of transcription from a stenotype machine. However, she realizes that the text contains corporate secrets, and after she asks too many questions, her employers decide to kill her, sending her on the run.
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A fashion-loving Manhattan girl with dreams of starting her own label is accidentally left behind at a catwalk show after everyone has gone home, where she witnesses the murder of the show's designer. Now the star witness at the trial of the century, she has to dress to impress a courtroom full of the designer's fashion-industry peers, as well as help put the scumbag who did it behind bars.
Approach the Bench
A stringbean pre-law college student is tired of getting turned down by the ladies at his football-obsessed school, so he tries out for the team and, through a fluke, makes it as a third-stringer. When he finds out that the football team's star quarterback, who is also pre-law, is having trouble in class, he agrees to trade study help for football practice. Luckily, most of the American legal system has some sort of analogy in football, which is revealed in the final test-prep montage, right before the big game.
In Terrorem
After a man dies under suspicious circumstances, his teenage son is left several mysterious objects in his will. At first, the boy is uninterested, but when his uncle approaches him and offers to buy them off of him, he realizes that his father specifically didn't want his uncle to have these items, and has to solve the mystery of what they are and who killed his dad.
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Xzibit, the rapper, movie star and host of Pimp My Ride, is up for the role of a lawyer in the new John Grisham movie, but he knows nothing about the law, so he shadows a real-life lawyer to prepare for the audition. When the lawyer starts getting death threats and wants to bow out of the case, Xzibit and his crew step to the assassins and help their new pal prosecute the crook.
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HONOLULU — The Honolulu Community College (HCC) Lunar Habitat Student Design Competition team has been named "overall winner" of the national Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) Lunar Outpost Student Design Competition. The event was part of PISCES' first ever conference held last week in Hilo.
"For our students to win a national competition such as this truly shows that not only HCC students, but all community college students can compete at any level," said HCC Chancellor Ramsey Pederson.
HCC, the only community college in the competition, bested teams from schools such as Purdue University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Colorado, after being selected as a finalist for the competition that charges students to design a habitat capable of sustaining human life on the moon. HCC's entry featured four interconnected spheres that formed a habitat with a unit for sleeping, command, biomass production and community activities.
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