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Q: Testing via npm command line I have two types of test suites - normal and coverage.
At present, I am allowing one of them via npm test and one of them via npm start:
  "scripts": {
    "test": "node scripts/run-truffle-tests.js",
    "start": "node scripts/run-sol-coverage.js"
  }

I have a feeling that npm start was not originally designated for this purpose.
Is there a better way to implement this?
I was thinking of passing an argument to npm test, but I'm not sure that npm would pass it on to the script which it is set to invoke.

A: Add more scripts.
I usually have the tests for actual, full, single run unit tests to work with CI and other scripts for variations:
{
  "scripts": {
    "test": "node scripts/run-truffle-tests.js && npm run test:coverage",
    "test:continuous": "karma start some.config --run-continuous",
    "test:coverage": "node scripts/run-sol-coverage.js"
    "start": "node index.js"
  }
}

You can also chain commands with && which will cause the script to be run in sequence and the "total" error code will propagate.  In other words, using the test I have above, will run both the unit test and the coverage test.  If either of them return a non-zero exit code, npm will consider the whole test process to have failed.

Bear in mind that for custom scripts not named exactly start and test as well as the other designated scripts found in the docs here: npm#scripts, must be run with
npm run scriptname

instead of just
npm scriptname

So in my above example, you would test coverage with:
npm run test:coverage

Also, the : is just a convention.  As far as I know it's not special.

Additionally, you can

pass [argument] on to the script which it is set to invoke

Whenever use use npm test, what is basically happening is that npm runs whatever String value is set in the package.json's scripts.test as a process, as though you had typed that String into the shell yourself.  It then looks at the return code and if it's 0, it reports as everything being ok; if it's non-zero, it prints an error.

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This is another very common reason why women skip breakfast. I used to skip breakfast for this very reason. The thought of eating food in the morning left me feeling nauseous, so I ended up fueling my body with coffee until lunchtime…and then I often wondered why I felt like crap in the middle of the afternoon. I'd have an energy dip and quite often would develop headaches that just wouldn't go away. At the time, I was working in a busy office setting so I had to push through the rest of the day, even though I was feeling like garbage.
I would also find myself feeling ravenous by the time dinner came around and I would eat WAY more food than my body needed in the nighttime just because it felt like it was starving all day long. Binging was a common occurrence for me, especially on the evenings when I would be alone with no one to judge me. So much guilt and shame around that…and it was compounded by the fact that I was gaining weight. I later realized that consuming the bulk of my calories in the evening was a sure-fire way for me to put on extra weight.
Later on, I started working with my own nutritional therapist who really encouraged me to find a way to eat some food in the mornings. Even if it was just a small bite or two. Over time my body began to get used to food in the morning and now it expects it. I find that how I feel for the day is very much determined by whether I eat breakfast or not. I very rarely skip breakfast anymore because I know that this is one of the ways that I can ensure optimal brain and energy function for the whole day.
Eating breakfast helps me keep my blood sugar stable for the day, and as you know from Part 2 of this series, stable blood sugar is a very important thing. One reason that I would feel so bad in the "old days" when I would skip breakfast is that it would cause my blood sugar to become unstable and that leads to all of the symptoms I was experiencing (energy crashes, brain fog, moodiness, fatigue, binging, etc.).
Speaking of blood sugar, this could be a very good reason why some women feel queasy at the thought of food early in the day. Both hyperglycemia (elevated blood sugar levels) or hypoglycemia (blood sugar levels that are too low) may cause nausea. If you are regularly experiencing nausea in the mornings then it might be a good idea to speak with your practitioner about what could be going on for it. Your doctor may suggest having you check your morning fasting blood sugar to see what your readings are so you can have a better idea of what is going on with your body.
If you really want to feel empowered and in control of your health, you can get a blood sugar monitoring device quite affordable and start tracking it on your own. You don't need a doctor to do this. If you notice that your readings are running high, then you can take that information to your doctor or practitioner and work together to figure out a game plan. This is the monitoring device I recommend (and the one Chris Kresser recommends on his site as well).
Speaking of sleep, sleep is critical to maintaining stable blood sugar. While this is a topic that I will save for another blog post, just know that some research has shown that a single night of poor quality sleep can leave you with blood sugar readings similar to a Type 2 diabetic. One night of bad sleep doesn't make you diabetic, but if you were to check your blood sugar levels after a night of poor sleep, you are likely to see much higher readings. And poor sleep over time can lead to worse and worse blood sugar readings.
Sleep can affect your blood sugar levels, and your blood glucose control can also affect your sleep. It's a vicious cycle. As the amount of sleep decreases, blood sugar increases, escalating the issue. Lack of sleep has been shown to increase blood sugar levels and the risk of diabetic issues.
Getting quality sleep is going to be important to manage your blood sugar, but managing your blood sugar is going to be important to get quality sleep. More to come on this in a future post. In addition to blood sugar problems, a few other reasons why you may feel like skipping breakfast could be adrenal dysfunction (low cortisol), eating too late or too much the night before, and digestive issues (low hydrochloric acid or pancreatic enzymes).
If you are feeling queasy in the morning, you will need to re-train your body to want food. This process can move quickly or it might go slowly. But retraining is possible. It took me a few weeks until my body was happy having food in the mornings, but then soon after that everything stabilized and breakfast just became a normal part of my routine — no nausea in sight.
To start, eat something small. Don't try to eat too much at once. Starting out with a small amount of protein, fat, and carbs will be a good way to ease your body into wanting breakfast. Try a spoonful of nut butter, a single scrambled egg, some avocado, a small piece of sausage or bacon, or even a tiny smoothie. Just enough to get a little food in the belly, but not enough to where you feel sick.
Next week, I will be sharing part 5 (the final part) of this series, all about The Effect of Skipping Meals on Weight Loss.


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The Canary Murder Case (film)
1929 film by Frank Tuttle, Malcolm St. Clair
The Canary Murder Case
Malcolm St. Clair
Frank Tuttle (added sound scenes)
Louis D. Lighton
S. S. Van Dine
Albert S. Le Vino
Florence Ryerson
Herman J. Mankiewicz (titles)
the novel The Canary Murder Case
by S. S. Van Dine
Karl Hajos
Cliff Blackstone
Harry Fischbeck
William Shea
The Canary Murder Case is a 1929 American Pre-Code crime-mystery film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle. The screenplay was written by Willard Huntington Wright (as S.S. Van Dine), Albert S. Le Vino, and Florence Ryerson, based on novel The Canary Murder Case by S.S. Van Dine. It was the first film in the series of Philo Vance films adapted from the novels, starring William Powell as Philo Vance, Jean Arthur, James Hall and Louise Brooks as "the Canary".
4 Accolades
Plot[edit]
Charles Spotswoode's son Jimmy became involved with "the Canary", a conniving showgirl. The Canary, determined to force Jimmy to marry her so she can join the social elite, threatens to reveal that Jimmy was embezzling from his father. She turns down the elder Spotswoode's bribe to leave Jimmy alone. She telephones two men she has been blackmailing, Cleaver and Mannix, and demands one final generous gift from each of them by the next day. She makes the same request of "creepy" admirer Dr. Lindquist. Her ex-husband Tony Sheel eavesdrops and wants half, but she refuses to give him anything, even after he hits her. Cleaver, Mannix and Lindquist are all shown lurking about her apartment building late that night.
Spotswoode visits her at her apartment around midnight, but cannot get her to change her mind. After he reaches the lobby of her building, he and another person hear screams from her place. They knock on the door, but she assures them that she is fine.
The Canary is found strangled the next day. The coroner places the time of death around midnight. District Attorney Markham investigates, aided by Philo Vance (a close friend of Charles Spotswoode) and Police Sergeant Heath. After all the suspects are brought in for questioning, Vance asks Markham to keep them waiting for a few hours. Markham agrees. Vance subtly maneuvers Cleaver, Mannix, Lindquist and the two Spotswoodes into playing poker to pass the time so he can observe their personality traits. Only one shows the daring, imagination and discipline required for the crime; that man bluffs Vance, betting everything with just a pair of deuces. The suspects are then released.
Sheel, who witnessed the murder while hiding in the closet, sends the killer several blackmail letters. He too is strangled. A pen found at the scene has Jimmy's name on it, so Heath arrests him for the murder. Jimmy then confesses to both murders, but Vance knows better.
He telephones Charles Spotswoode with the news and suggests they meet in an hour. Spotswoode speeds to the city from his country estate to confess, but his chauffeur makes a fatal mistake by trying to beat a train to a crossing, and Spotswoode is killed. Now Vance has to show how Charles murdered the Canary in order to free Jimmy. He is able to prove that the Canary was dead before Spotswoode left her apartment that night. Spotswoode had made a recording (Vance speculates it was Spotswoode himself pretending to be the woman) to fool a stuttering witness into believing the Canary was alive after her death. The recording is found in the apartment, and Jimmy is released.
Cast[edit]
William Powell as Philo Vance
James Hall as Jimmy Spotswoode
Louise Brooks as Margaret Odell (the Canary)
Jean Arthur as Alyce LaFosse
Charles Lane as Charles Spotswoode
Eugene Pallette as Sgt. Ernest Heath
Gustav von Seyffertitz as Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
Lawrence Grant as Charles Cleaver
Ned Sparks as Tony Sheel
Louis John Bartels as Louis Mannix
E. H. Calvert as Dist. Atty. John F.X. Markham
Tim Adair as George Y. Harvey
Margaret Livingston as Margaret Odell (voice)
Production[edit]
Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case
This film was initially made as a silent picture, then reworked as a sound film. Louise Brooks' refusal to cooperate in the sound version had a major impact on her career.
After filming the silent version, Brooks left for Germany to make two films for director G. W. Pabst. Her option with Paramount Pictures was up, and since the studio would not give her a raise, she saw no reason to remain in Hollywood. Months later, Paramount decided to re-shoot some scenes of Canary with recorded dialogue. The studio cabled Brooks in Berlin, demanding that she return to record her lines. She refused, taking the position that she no longer had an obligation to Paramount. Under the purported threat that she would never work in Hollywood again after such open defiance, she bluntly replied, "Who wants to work in Hollywood?"
Paramount spent considerable money[citation needed] to hire actress Margaret Livingston (the "Woman from the City" in F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) to dub the dialogue for Brooks where possible, as well as to re-shoot some scenes, with Livingston seen only in profile or from behind. When Brooks found herself back in Hollywood, she was unable to get good roles. Though her time as a star was over, her battle with studio moguls helped add to her eventual legend.
Accolades[edit]
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
2003: AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
Philo Vance – Nominated Hero[1]
^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-05.
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Q: Civilization 6 - Relics - what happen when you run out of Relic slots? I'm playing as Poland and I got Kandy as a city right next door. Since I'm suzerain I'm getting Relics for Nature Wonders.
Question is this: when I get a Relic but have no slot for it what happens with the Relic? Goes into storage? Disappears? I can't find definitive answer to this after searching the internet... I know one can have quite a few of them, but most threads concentrate on maximizing Relics. I'm pretty early into game and looking at at least 6-7 relics with scouting I have out there already.

A: There was this one time that I had an apostle with Martyr promotion - you get a relic when this apostle dies in combat. I lost him in theology combat and I had no appropriate slot for the relic. The end result that I can assure you is:

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*You won't get any relic out of the event.

*You won't have the option to move your existing art to make room for the new relic, etc

In my case, the apostle died and the game notified me about losing a unit but there was no notification about wasting a relic opportunity whatsoever as far as I can remember. The game just proceeds as if that apostle has no promotion.
When I reloaded the game, made some room for the relic and put the apostle into his doom again, I got the relic.
This was quite some time ago and my scenario is about Martyr promotion rather than a bonus from city state but I believe the game would proceed the same way for both scenarios. I encourage you to test it out and share it to the community :)


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Trump and Netanyahu: Tainted Love Furthers Self-Destructive Tribalism
by Brian E. Frydenborg
Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump are seen during their meeting at the King David hotel in Jerusalem. 22 May 2017. Source: Flickr, Haim Zach / GPO
Great relationships tend to bring out the best, while toxic relationships tend to do the opposite. When it comes to relationships between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Republican Party and Israel's Likud, and Israel and America overall, we sadly find an enabling toxicity in which darker impulses are magnified in a negative feedback loop.
Israel most certainly sees itself as a singular nation in the Middle East, wholly special and apart from its neighbours, and while it is undeniably unique in many important ways, its tribalism is unimpressively banal in a region rife with tribalism, even if the Israeli version is somewhat less lethal. While some parts of the Middle East continue to avoid the ever-present danger of falling into sectarian and ethnic strife (Lebanon, for example) or may finally be turning a corner after long periods of such (like Iraq), Israeli's tribalism is only intensifying, as is America's, the two sharing stunning parallels and disturbing overlaps.
Coming Together Under Similar Circumstances for Similar Goals
Politically, Netanyahu is a cat with nine lives, thus far weathering a series of major scandals that would have toppled any previous Israeli prime minister, a situation resembling Trump's ability to survive scandals that would have surely consumed his predecessors. This time Netanyahu may pay the price and lose power, though few have made money betting against him in previous elections. It remains to be seen if the upcoming April elections really will be what unseats Netanyahu, who is very close to becoming Israel's longest-serving prime minister.
His scandals and the test they present for Israel's fidelity to the rule of law domestically are the closest thing the country has ever experienced to the even more intense crisis in the United States over Donald Trump and his many scandals. Despite predictions and (often hedged) reporting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe will be winding down quite soon, there are also indications that this is not the case, even as other major and almost certainly very damaging lines of inquiry into possible criminal and ethical misconduct of Trump and his circle are pursued.
On the issues, an incident last autumn that attracted international attention involved Israel trying to ban Arab-American student Lara Alqasem from studying in Israel, even though her visa was approved and she had the support of the relevant Israeli academic institutions. Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs claimed she was a dangerous threat because of her (apparently former) support of the BDS movement to boycott Israel, hardly surprising for someone whose father is of Palestinian descent. It was the Israeli court system that finally stepped in to save Israel from this silly and misguided public relations own-goal, a process with echoes of the far larger fight between the Trump Administration and the US courts over the Muslim ('travel') ban that would be similarly damaging to America. Unsurprisingly, the Trump Administration did not even lift a finger in support of American student Alqasem.
Furthermore, the inane politics surrounding the 'the wall' for the US southern border bear remarkable similarities to how Trump's formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital played out, with majoritarians spiking the ball to rub in the face of the disempowered exactly who is in charge and who is not, who is included and who is excluded.
Additionally, there is the issue of UNRWA, the main UN agency supporting vulnerable Palestinian refugees from various wars. After forceful advocacy from Jared Kushner, Trump's Jewish son-in-law and close friend of Netanyahu, and just weeks after Netanyahu had asked Trump to terminate all US funding for the agency (in a manner much like Trump, without even consulting his security and intelligence professionals, many of whom had argued against such a move), Trump did just that.
Another issue in which the worse angels of America's and Israel's natures are empowering each other is Iran, with both Team Trump and Team Netanyahu lying in throwing their respective intelligence professionals under the bus when it comes to assessments of Iran's nuclear activities and capabilities and in the service of pushing for war with the Islamic republic.
Donald Trump sharing an image from Benjamin Netanyahu's Instagram page on 7 February 2019. The slogan, part of his election campaign, reads: 'Netanyahu: In a different league.'
Two Wars for the Souls of Two Nations, Each Nation Meddling in the Other's
In both cases, we are seeing a true war over the souls of these respective nations: will each hold up to their democratic ideals and operate as pluralistic, multi-ethnic, and religiously diverse nations, or will majoritarian ethno-religio-centrism (the rule of law be damned) eclipse the spirits of each nation's better angels? For Israel, this question is more complicated, as from the beginning it was conceived as a refuge for the Jewish people. Yet the same questions remain pressing and unresolved about whether the laws will be ignored, bent, or destroyed to suit the oppressive whims of the majority and their political leaders in pursuit of the establishment of identity-driven hierarchy ranging from de facto to formal in nature, whether each nation stands to become primarily an ethno-religio-supremacist state (such being the echoes of historical fascism) that abandons the spirit of equality before the law. Even now, both American white Christians and Israeli Jews increasingly throw their ethnic-religious majority status in the face of all other minorities as both nations experience a rise of a range of intolerant behaviours ranging from indifference to how those not in the majority think or feel on one end to outright dehumanising hostility and even violence, including mass murder, on the other. As Israelis consider their support of Trump, they might want to take note that such support empowers forces that foster sharply rising anti-Semitism in the US.
As politics become more extreme in both nations, Netanyahu lies about Iran and falsely tries to associate the Holocaust with Palestinians, just as Trump copies Netanyahu on Iran and perpetuates his own lies about immigrants, declaring a fake 'national emergency' over 'caravans' (in addition to lying about just about everything else). Both try to downplay or even turn blind eyes towards violent extremism coming from the far-right political bases from which they draw political support.
It's no wonder that Likud is campaigning with giant building-size billboards of Netanyahu and Trump shaking hands, which the US president has shared on Instagram: Israel is one of a handful of nations where Trump is actually popular (69 percent of Israelis were confident in Trump in 2018 according to Pew, which is roughly an amazing thirty points more popular than he is in America).
Netanyahuism and Trumpism: Heading Hand-in-Hand in the Wrong Direction
I have noted before that tribalism has run amok in both the Middle East and America, and there were even Israeli efforts to interfere in the 2016 US election to help Trump, using methods similar to Russia's. Under Trump, the US is actively enabling tribalism and extremism in Israel in unprecedented ways, but the enabling role of America goes far beyond the president and his administration. As one example, American evangelical Christians have for years lobbied for and funded (often with tax-exempt donations) Jewish right-wing extremists in Israel, especially the controversial settler community living on (and taking ever more) land internationally recognised as Palestinian. In the latest example, Netanyahu has just allied with the racist far-right extremist party Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power, comprised of the acolytes of Meir Kahane. This American-Israeli rabbi's original party, Kach, was banned in Israel and labelled a terrorist organisation by the US State Department after one of its American-Israeli members, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 praying Palestinians at a major West Bank mosque in 1994 (for this atrocity the movement's followers honour his memory annually at his tomb-shrine).
The coming April election, and whether or not the scandal-ridden Netanyahu remains prime minister (as opposed to serving time in jail), pose major questions about the future and health of Israeli democracy. The same can be said for the 2020 elections in the US regarding Trump and American democracy. One thing is for sure: the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu, and both America's and Israel's increasingly extremist conservatives with each other, are not advancing the protection of minority rights, so essential to democracy, or the rule of law, nor are they reducing ethnic and religious tribalism; rather, they are fostering such divisions at home and in their counterparts' countries in ways that fundamentally threaten both democracy and the rule of law, and will only continue to do so. Whether the decline of each continues, is checked, or reversals commence, only time will tell.
Brian E. Frydenborg is a freelance writer, academic, and consultant from the greater New York City area. He is based in Amman and specialises in politics, policy, history, democracy, human rights, conflict, humanitarian aid, and international development, researching and writing for a wide variety of outlets and institutions about such topics in the context of the Middle East, the US, and beyond, even in regards to ancient Rome. You can follow him on Twitter @bfry1981 and can see most of his work on his new news website, Real Context News.
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The Rabbit Meets the Magic Stick by mama4dukes
Books » Twilight Rated: T, English, Romance & Family, Bella, Paul, Words: 85k+, Favs: 757, Follows: 441, Published: 7/2/2018 Updated: 7/29/2018}
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Pairing: Paul/Bella
Genre: Romance/Family/Comedy
Category: Alternate Universe/Out of Character/Extremely Over The Top
Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author-mama4dukes. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
This story was originally published by mama4dukes on Tricky Raven on December 12, 2015.
The Rabbit Meets the Magic Stick
by mama4dukes
The threesome walked.
And walked.
And walked for hours before realizing they were getting nowhere. Paul looked around the forest desperately. He wanted to phase so he could run to the reservation and get help, but he couldn't leave Jacob and Bella alone in the forest. That would be irresponsible. He cursed at himself. Since when did he become responsible? He knew the answer, too. It was when two innocent humans placed their lives in his hands.
They walked for a half an hour more before coming to a familiar house in the middle of the forest. All three of them stared at the Cullen's abandoned house.
Paul was the first to speak up. "Can a house fall into this much disrepair after only six months?"
"Yeah, no kidding," Bella agreed. There were overgrown weeds, the paint was peeling off of the siding, and the house looked dilapidated—not at all like the pristine home that Esme Cullen kept. "Well, I know for a fact that the family isn't coming back. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if we went in. I really need to sit down."
"I'm not so sure if breaking and entering is such a good idea," Paul said. He was also worried about the almost unbearable vampire stench, which he was sure to encounter in the house.
"Oh, don't worry. I know a way in." Bella led the weary group to the back of the house. She pointed to a gigantic boulder resting against the clapboard siding by the back door. "We're going to have to move this rock. It'll probably take all three of us to do it." While the Cullens could easily move the boulder, there was no way that any normal human being—no matter how strong he was—could.
Jake tried moving it, but couldn't even budge it. It wasn't until Paul stepped in to help that they were able to move the boulder aside. Bella opened up a hidden panel by the back door and reached for a set of keys. "Bingo!" she cried excitedly. "Gee, these look a little old." She took one of the keys and tried it in the back door lock. It clicked open. "Well, come on. Let's go inside."
The crew of three walked into the home. "Gee whiz, I never knew the Cullens were so old fashioned," Jake commented. "This stuff is older than the stuff at Old Quil's house."
Meanwhile, Bella and Paul were standing stock still with their mouths hanging open.
"Um, this looks different. Very different," Bella commented. She scratched her head and walked through the house with Paul and Jake following close behind. The house looked like a museum—a very vintage museum.
Paul pointed to a painting. I recognize Carlisle Cullen, but who are the rest of these guys and why are they wearing tights?
"Um…I think I was told they were like vamp…uh…European royalty from the 1700's."
"Vampire royalty? Are you serious?" Paul questioned. "So, you're telling me that these yobos are still alive?"
"I didn't say vampire. I said European." Bella quickly corrected her mistake. She couldn't believe that she almost gave the Cullen's secret away.
"Bullshit. You were going to say vampire."
"Yeah, I heard it, too, Bells. You said vamp then switched to European," Jacob agreed.
"Oh, God, help," she pleaded and then switched to, "Oh, Taha Aki, help."
"Alright, I'll make a deal with you, Bella Swan. You tell me about the Cullens and I'll tell you about Taha Aki. It'll be our secret. Jacob Black, you just sit your ass down and listen."
"Deal," Bella agreed, "but you tell me about Taha Aki first."
Jake and Bella sat on the sofa while Paul planted himself on an upholstered chair. A cloud of dust sprang up from the furniture as soon as they sat. The three kids started coughing.
"Oh, gross!" Jake cried. "This is like Old Quil's house!"
Paul began his story. "The legend about the Quileute being wolves is true. All of it. Except Taha Aki wasn't a god, he was the original wolf. Jake's great-grandfather, Ephraim Black, made a treaty with the Cullens when they first moved to Forks in 1936. If the Cullens hunted within the boundaries of Forks and didn't drain any humans, the wolves wouldn't dismantle them. In return, the Cullens would keep our secret."
"How come you know this and I don't? I'm the Chief's son," Jake pointed out.
"Right. Follow me. That's far enough," he told Jake and Bella when they got to the doorway. Stand right there. Paul went a bit further outside before he concentrated and phased into his wolf form.
"Holy crap!" Jake screamed. "Bells, Bells, did you see that? Paul turned into a wolf."
Bella's reaction was completely calm. She walked up to Paul and stroked his fur before giving him a big hug. Paul, who was completely surprised by her reaction, nuzzled his nose in her hair. That's when he realized that the girl smelled incredibly wonderful. It was almost as if she was a walking bouquet of fresh cut flowers on a bright spring day. He moved away from her and returned to human form. He grinned at Bella, then turned his attention towards Jacob, who was stunned and in shock.
"You're a wolf," Bellanoted.
"Clearly. I changed because the Cullens moved back to Forks. So did Sam Uley, Jared Cameron, and Embry Call. Vampires activate a gene in certain members of the Quileute tribe—we were the first four to change. Now, maybe you can tell us about the Cullens because I know you dated that Edward guy, who was a known vampire."
"It's true. I dated a vampire."
"You've got to be joking, right, Bells?" Jacob asked. "Why would you date a freaky vampire?"
"The Cullens were vampires—all of them. I don't know why I dated Edward when I think about it now. I suppose it was because he acted like he cared, but in reality, he was just bossing me around and trying to change my personality to his standards. I know that now."
"You know something? That's all in the past," Paul said. "I want to know about this royalty business."
"Oh, sure. They're called the Volturi. Apparently, they rule the vampire world. They live in a place called Volterra in Italy. Carlisle Cullen used to live with them, but he couldn't handle how inhumane they were so he left them."
"What do you mean by inhumane, Bella?" Jacob asked.
"Like most vampires, they feed off of humans."
"Humans? Did…did…did you let Edward eat you?"
"Eat me? No! Of course not! The Cullens were vegetarian vampires. They fed from animals."
"If they ate animals, wouldn't they be considered carnivores?"
"Gee, that's a really good point. I never thought about it that way. The animal activists would have a field day if they ever found out about the Cullens. Draining animals of their life blood is pretty inhumane when you think about it."
"Alright, enough about the Cullens! We need to find out what the hell is going on because this house isn't normal!" Paul shouted. "I mean everything looks so old!"
"Yeah, you're right, it's not the same house. I'm going to see if the upstairs looks different, too." Bella walked upstairs with Jacob and Paul trailing close behind. She opened each bedroom door and realized that the entire house seemed to have gone through some sort of retro makeover.
"The whole house is screwed up. There are no beds," Paul pointed out.
"Obviously. They don't sleep."
"Yeah, but don't they…uh…they…you know?"
"No, I don't know. Don't they what?"
"Don't they have sex?"
Bella put a finger under her chin and started thinking. Did the Cullens have sex? She wasn't quite sure. Edward always felt that sex was an inappropriate subject for innocent ears so they never really broached the subject. "I'm not sure," she replied. I think Rosalie and Emmett have sex, but I think they said they do it in the forest away from prying ears."
"Kinky. So here's my next question: Do the rooms upstairs look different to you?"
"Yeah, they do. Oh my God, they do. The entire house looks like it went back in time to the olden days. And you know what else?"
"Jasper and Alice's room is being used as some sort of an elaborate sewing room. How weird? Um, maybe we should get out of here. Something definitely isn't right."
The threesome quickly left the house and locked it up, replacing the key back in the hidden panel and the boulder back to its original location.
"I'm going to phase. That means turn into a wolf," Paul explained. "I want you both to climb onto my back afterwards. I'm going to run us back to the reservation. It'll be faster that way."
"Of course, you'd have to be super-fast to catch vampires," Bella breathed with admiration in her eyes.
"Exactly." Once in his wolf form, Paul got down on his haunches so Bella and Jacob could climb onto his back. As soon as he was sure that they were hanging on as tight as possible, he started running. He didn't run as fast as he was capable of out of fear that his two charges would fall off. He stopped as soon as he got to the woods behind Sam's house. He returned to his human form once his passengers climbed down. "We should walk from here."
"Why are we behind Sam Uley's house?" Jake asked.
"Because he can help us."
"How the heck is Sam Uley going to help us?"
"He's the current alpha of the wolf pack. He has to help us."
As the trio approached the house, Paul did a double take. Emily's garden was gone—probably uprooted by the twister, and the house had a brand new paint job. The painters were really quick because it was only yesterday that Emily had been complaining to Sam about how the house hadn't been painted in at least twenty years. Paul walked in through the back door and called, "Sam, we're back. I have Jake and Bella with me. We're all okay."
"Who the hell are you?" a middle aged man dressed in business pants and a dress shirt asked. He had his arms folded in front of his chest and a scowl on his face. Paul thought he looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn't place him.
"Excuse me, we're looking for Sam Uley."
"Uley? It figures you're looking for them. They live four doors down in the gray house." The man eyed Paul up and down. "What happened to your clothes, boy?"
"I…I…lost them."
"Lost them? Who the hell loses his clothes? You need to put something on. We're a respectable tribe here. We don't hold with none of this teenaged, clothes shedding nonsense like you Makahs do."
"Makah? Excuse me? Who are you?"
Before the man could answer Paul's question, the front door swung open and a teenaged boy with a mullet walked inside holding a massive oversized boom box with Boy George's "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" blaring from it. Paul could identify the song because it was his father's favorite tune to croon whenever he was drunk.
"Adam Lahote, where the hell have you been? It's almost 6 pm! I told you I wanted you home right after school, boy! You're failing Spanish; you should be home studying! Your mom is searching the reservation high and low for you—now where were you? Were you chasing after that Gloria girl again? I told you I didn't want you to have anything to do with that family! Answer me, boy!"
Paul's eyes widened. He shoved Jake and Bella out of the house and ran into the woods with them. "What the hell is going on? That was my grandfather and my dad! Only my dad was my age!"
"Um, guys, did you see the TV in the house? It was old and huge! I think my grandmother had one like that and it had some weird, old show on it."
"It wasn't just the TV, Jake! It was everything! The clothes everyone was wearing, the appliances, the furniture. Oh my God! Have we traveled back in time or something?" Bella questioned, completely aghast.
"You know something else?"
"What?" Paul and Bella both turned their attention to Jacob.
"Four doors down is not the Uley house, it's the Clearwater house."
"Clearwater—as in your dad and my dad's fishing buddy Harry Clearwater—the master of the fish fry?" Bella questioned.
"The one and only."
"So why did that guy say it was the Uley house?"
The three teens sat on the forest floor in horror and shock as they let this new information sink into their brains. They had no idea what was going on, except that they were sure that something was wonky in the Olympic Peninsula.
"There's only one way to verify if we're in some sort of time warp. I am going to walk to the tribal store and check the date on a newspaper," Bella declared and stood up. She had a determined expression on her face.
"You aren't going there alone!"
"Yeah, Bella. I'm with Paul on this. You can't go there alone because if we're doing some sort of a weird Harry Potter time turner thing, we need to stick together—all three of us!"
"Paul can't exactly walk around naked with his dongle swaying in the wind, can he?"
"This is true. We need to find some clothes for you, Paul. You can't be walking around the reservation naked. You'll scare the bejesus out of everyone."
"And just where the hell am I supposed to find clothes for myself?" He turned to Bella. "Dongle? For real?"
"Well, I'm not going to call it the p-word or the d-word. I don't like those words."
"A dongle, though? Can't you think of another word?"
"I'll work on it."
"Fine, now where should I find clothes?"
"At the Cullen house, where else?" Jacob suggested.
"You want me to put on some bloodsucker's clothes?" Paul asked incredulously.
"Sure, why not?" he shrugged his shoulders and twirled Old Quil's stick in his hand.
"You can put Emmett's stuff on. He was really nice and, as an added bonus, he was buff like you," Bella told him.
"Guys, I need to enlighten you about one fact."
"What's that?"
"Bloodsuckers smell foul to us."
"Well, did the Cullen house smell foul to you?"
"Uh…not really. I think it's been vacant for a long time so any lingering smell has long since dissipated."
"Then I don't see why you can't just borrow their clothes," Jacob said. "This is no time to be stubborn."
"Hell no! I would rather steal clothes off of a clothesline."
"If it helps, Emmett always thought Edward was a prick," Bella said. "I agree with Jacob; we have to go back to the Cullen house. It's our only safe haven."
Paul suddenly noticed the stick that Jacob had been spinning. "Not our only safe haven. We have another option."
"Go ahead. What other option do we have?"
He took the stick from Jacob and grinned. "Old Quil."
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The simple answer is that nobody has tried to find out.
For the first few years of its existence, Sia has struggled with the challenge of building a decentralized storage network that functions at all. It hasn't left them much time to capture performance metrics.
In addition, testing on the production Sia network is expensive. To test, you have to make real payments to storage sellers.
Why don't we know how much Sia costs?
Sia is decentralized. When clients purchase data on Sia, they're not purchasing it from a single entity, but rather from a variety of storage sellers, each with their own prices for upload, download, and storage.
The software currently doesn't offer buyers much control or visibility into costs. It allows them to specify a maximum budget, but that's about it. As a buyer, you don't know how much it will cost you to upload a file until you've uploaded it.
Because these are only estimates, we don't know how accurately they reflect real-world usage.
I'm interested in Sia's limits.
I'm looking for new software projects, and I may build something on top of Sia. But to do that, it's pretty important for me to know whether its maximum storage is 300 GB or 300 TB. And I'd like to know ahead of time if the cost for storing that data is $3 or $3,000.
To find out the answers, I'm going to perform a rigorous test of Sia's limits. I will determine the maximum amount of data I can upload from a single Sia node and measure how much it costs.
In the first test case, I will upload a set of files where each file's size is exactly 41942760 bytes (~40 MiB).
When Sia processes files for upload, it breaks them into "chunks" of 41942760 bytes. Uploading files that match this size exactly should yield optimal storage capacity.
This test will provide an upper bound on Sia's performance.
In the second test case, I will upload a set of files where each file's size is exactly 1 byte.
Because Sia uses ~40 MiB data chunks, a file of 1 byte is Sia's worst case. It causes Sia to generate a ~40 MiB chunk where all but 1 byte is unused space.
This test will provide a lower bound on Sia's performance.
Unlike the first two tests, which use simulated data to exercise Sia's limits, the final test will use real-world data.
Whenever I buy a DVD or Blu-ray, I rip the disc image to my local storage server, then encode the video data to MP4 for streaming. I buy a lot of Blu-rays, so I have 4.33 TB of disc data.
I will upload these files to Sia to determine performance on real-world data.
The test plan is open to community feedback until Saturday, Feb. 10th at 12pm ET. If you have suggestions or see gaps in the design, feel free to comment below or send me an email at michael@spaceduck.io.
When the feedback window closes, I will update this post with the final test plan, then perform the test as defined.
I aim to publish results by Feb. 16th, 2018.
Edit (2018-02-16): Tests are taking a bit longer than I predicted. I'm currently about 70% through test one of three. New ETA for full results is Feb. 25th, 2018. See the metrics collector post for some initial findings.
Edit (2018-02-27): The first test is STILL running. I'm regretting not setting a time limit on it, but I'm going to just let the test run until it either drops below 3 Mbps or hits 10 TiB. It's currently uploaded over 38,000 files and uploaded 6.186 TiB to the network.
To avoid publication bias, I will publish regardless of the outcome, even if results are inconclusive due to measurement error.
I will provide everything any interested party needs to perform the same tests. These tools will also be reusable in future versions of Sia, allowing the community to benchmark improvements in Sia's metrics over time.
The Sia bounty contributors group has generously funded Sia wallets for use in this test. The group will collect any unused funds at the test's conclusion.
Thanks to Luke Champine, David Vorick, James Muller, Salvador Herrera for their contributions to the test plan.