Police update on latex gimp man who terrorised Westcountry village
There were several reports of the latex clad gimp over the summer
by Heather Pickstock, Jamie HawkinsPolice say two men who were arrested in connection with incidents of a masked gimp terrorising a Westcountry village have been released.
Locals of the sleepy Claverham in Somerset were left terrorised over the summer following several reports that a man clad in a black bodysuit and head mask was approaching people late at night.
One woman, in her 20s, said she encountered a man in the village who was grunting and breathing heavily.
The woman says she pushed the person away while screaming, and he ran off, Bristol Live reports.
The incidents prompted a police response with helicopter and dogs in July.
Residents spoke of being scared to walk home alone with the latex clad pest on the loose with various stories emerging about freakish encounters.
Some then speculated the area had been plagued by the 'gimp' for years - with police revealing they had already received numerous reports about the odd behaviour.
Police have now confirmed the two men have been released without charge - and say there have been no further gimp-related incidents.
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said: “Detectives carried out a thorough investigation into a series of incidents in which a man wearing disguises approached people in the Claverham/Yatton area.
“Two men, aged 28 and 34, were arrested on suspicion of indecency offences but due to insufficient evidence were later released with no further action taken against them.
“Thankfully, we’ve not received any more reports of similar incidents since the most recent report of a man wearing a black body suit approaching a woman on 11 July."
Speaking after an incident in July, one victim said she was afraid to go out following her brush with the leather-suited man.
She told the BBC: "Everything was running through my head. I thought: 'This is it, I'm going to get attacked'.
She added that she had been left feeling "panicked" by the ordeal, which saw her confronted down a dark lane.
She said: "It's not just a man jumping out at me going boo. Every time I close my eyes I just see that face."


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These things are great except I experienced severe anxiety. I have anxiety and I take medication for it, so its under control.
I havent had a problem with anxiety for years now.
I only took 2 Modafinils, which were 200 mg each. They worked excellent at not letting me feel tired the whole entire day, but the anxiety was so horrid that it actually wasnt worth it. I was so worried about ridiculous things and afraid I was getting fired for NO reason. I know u must be thinking that anxiety isnt THAT bad, but it was mind blowing bad! I felt so scared the whole day.
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Slow Dynamics and High Variability in Balanced Cortical Networks with Clustered Connection
Action potential is the principal mode of neural communication. It’s a way to represent and process information through the temporal and spatial pattern of spikes. These spiking patterns are very variable, even across similar trials. Normally, these variabilities are treated as arising from stochastic (Poisson) generation of spikes on the basis of a firing rate. In network simulations, it is a common practise to assume random homogeneous connectivity between neurons i.e. a uniform network. However, anatomical studies indicate that is not a good approximation. To combat this, models are often designed to allow firing rates to themselves be variable across trials. Thus, the observed data is often ‘doubly stochastic’: a variable firing rate gives rise to variable spiking. Although this allows for a good description of the data, there is no known biophysics of neurons to account for this.
This paper shows how a simulated network of spiking neurons can exhibit both spontaneous firing rate fluctuations and spontaneous spiking variability as a network property with deterministic neurons, without endowing a firing rate directly. To do this, the principle of balanced excitation and inhibition is employed. To induce firing rate fluctuations, clustered connections are introduced in a balanced network of spiking neurons - the connection probability for two neurons in the same cluster is higher than for two neurons belonging to different clusters. These clusters cause a group of spiking neurons to act like a firing rate unit, yielding the desired behaviour in firing-rate fluctuations. It is interesting to note that these fluctuations can emerge when less than 4% of the connections of a network are rearranged to form clusters. Such a small modification is sufficient to increase the cluster excitation by five times!
The paper further investigates the effects of introducing clustered excitatory connections in balanced networks. A small network of uniform networks is stimulated. Clustering is then introduced in this network. To study how specific clusters increase/decrease their firing rates over long time periods, several statistical analysis methods are employed. Network models were simulated for 4000 excitatory neurons and 1000 inhibitory LIF neurons, without noise. For the clustered network, 50 clusters of 80 neurons each were introduced in the uniform network with a connection probability outside the cluster to be 2.5. The voltage trace and spike raster plot of excitatory neurons for uniform and clustered network show the irregular firing of the neurons. Neurons asynchronously fire as expected. As clustering is introduced, neurons in the same cluster act as a firing unit. Neurons now have synchronous irregular firing. Entire clusters either fire together or don’t fire at all. This bi-stability introduces slow dynamics during which clusters transiently increase/decrease their firing rate along with randomness in the spike times of individual neurons, yielding dynamics substantially different from those of the uniform network despite the small change in architecture.
Fluctuations in firing rate exist due to the competition between clusters. Each cluster tries to excite itself and get in the upstate while inhibiting the others. When one cluster becomes active, it tends to stay active while continually suppressing the others. Hence, the active cluster has an elevated overall firing rate. Later, a different cluster may win the competition and become active. This ongoing competition between the clusters produces extended fluctuations in firing rate.
In conclusion we can now reproduce experimental data in simulations without the need of external factors but instead just from the behaviour of the clustered networks itself. It successfully shows that a small alteration of the connectivity in a uniform network leads to the introduction of dynamical phenomena, namely the slow firing rate fluctuations in spontaneous conditions while spike time variability remains intact.


| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| Configuration |
The main Configuration interface.
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| ConfigurationComparator |
Comparator for configurations interface.
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| ConfigurationConsumer<T> |
A Configuration task that may throw a ConfigurationException.
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| ConfigurationDecoder |
An interface for decoding encoded values from a configuration source.
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| FileBasedConfiguration |
An interface which combines the
FileBased and Configuration interfaces. |
| HierarchicalConfiguration<T> |
An interface for mutable hierarchical configurations.
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| ImmutableConfiguration |
The main interface for accessing configuration data in a read-only fashion.
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| ImmutableHierarchicalConfiguration |
An interface for immutable hierarchical configurations.
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| Initializable |
Definition of an interface to be implemented by
Configuration implementations which support a special
initialization method. |
| PropertiesConfiguration.IOFactory |
Definition of an interface that allows customization of read and write operations.
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| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AbstractConfiguration |
Abstract configuration class.
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| AbstractHierarchicalConfiguration<T> |
A specialized configuration class that extends its base class by the ability of keeping more structure in the stored
properties.
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| AbstractYAMLBasedConfiguration |
A base class for configuration implementations based on YAML structures.
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| BaseConfiguration |
Basic configuration class.
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| BaseConfigurationXMLReader |
A specialized SAX2 XML parser that processes configuration objects.
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| BaseHierarchicalConfiguration |
A specialized hierarchical configuration implementation that is based on a structure of
ImmutableNode
objects. |
| BaseHierarchicalConfiguration.BuilderVisitor |
A specialized visitor base class that can be used for storing the tree of configuration nodes.
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| CombinedConfiguration |
A hierarchical composite configuration class.
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| CompositeConfiguration |
CompositeConfiguration allows you to add multiple Configuration objects to an aggregated
configuration. |
| ConfigurationConverter |
Configuration converter.
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| ConfigurationLookup |
A specialized implementation of the
Lookup interface which uses a Configuration object to resolve
variables. |
| ConfigurationMap |
The
ConfigurationMap wraps a configuration-collection Configuration
instance to provide a Map interface. |
| ConfigurationUtils |
Miscellaneous utility methods for configurations.
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| ConfigurationXMLReader |
A base class for "faked"
XMLReader classes that transform a configuration object in a set of SAX
parsing events. |
| DatabaseConfiguration |
Configuration stored in a database.
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| DataConfiguration |
Decorator providing additional getters for any Configuration.
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| DynamicCombinedConfiguration |
DynamicCombinedConfiguration allows a set of CombinedConfigurations to be used.
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| EnvironmentConfiguration |
A Configuration implementation that reads the platform specific environment variables using the map returned by
System.getenv() . |
| HierarchicalConfigurationXMLReader<T> |
A specialized SAX2 XML parser that "parses" hierarchical configuration objects.
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| INIConfiguration |
A specialized hierarchical configuration implementation for parsing ini files.
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| JNDIConfiguration |
This Configuration class allows you to interface with a JNDI datasource.
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| JSONConfiguration |
A specialized hierarchical configuration class that is able to parse JSON documents.
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| MapConfiguration |
A Map based Configuration.
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| PatternSubtreeConfigurationWrapper |
Wraps a BaseHierarchicalConfiguration and allows subtrees to be accessed via a configured path with replaceable
tokens derived from the ConfigurationInterpolator.
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| PropertiesConfiguration |
This is the "classic" Properties loader which loads the values from a single or multiple files (which can be chained
with "include =".
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| PropertiesConfiguration.DefaultIOFactory |
A default implementation of the
IOFactory interface. |
| PropertiesConfiguration.JupIOFactory |
An alternative
PropertiesConfiguration.IOFactory that tries to mimic the behavior of Properties (Jup) more closely. |
| PropertiesConfiguration.JupPropertiesReader |
A
PropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesReader that tries to mimic the behavior of Properties . |
| PropertiesConfiguration.JupPropertiesWriter |
A
PropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesWriter that tries to mimic the behavior of Properties . |
| PropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesReader |
This class is used to read properties lines.
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| PropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesWriter |
This class is used to write properties lines.
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| PropertiesConfigurationLayout |
A helper class used by
PropertiesConfiguration to keep the layout of a properties file. |
| StrictConfigurationComparator |
Strict comparator for configurations.
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| SubnodeConfiguration |
A specialized hierarchical configuration class with a node model that uses a tracked node of another node model as
its root node.
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| SubsetConfiguration |
A subset of another configuration.
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| SystemConfiguration |
A configuration based on the system properties.
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| XMLConfiguration |
A specialized hierarchical configuration class that is able to parse XML documents.
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| XMLPropertiesConfiguration |
This configuration implements the XML properties format introduced in Java 5.0, see
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html.
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| YAMLConfiguration |
A specialized hierarchical configuration class that is able to parse YAML documents.
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The Configuration main package. It contains the definition of the Configuration
interface and frequently used
implementations like PropertiesConfiguration
(dealing with .properties
files) or
XMLConfiguration
that can load XML documents.
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I have learned that I tend to set high expectations and therefore underestimate myself a lot as a result especially in terms of my programming ability, I learnt that my mindset and mentality are critical in determining how fast I can learn or even if I can learn a new skill, and that having emotional intelligence is highly important in any field of life no matter how it seems to favour traditional intelligence or IQ.
I think that in programming you are constantly faced with challenges, even the easiest problems can create bugs if you aren't paying your full attention, and so therefore you are often dealing with a lot of tedious debugging and frustration. I think that being aware of this is critical in being a consistenly good programmer as it is easy to let your emotions get the better of you and get angry, both at yourself and potential people you are working with too who might be facing similar issues on seemingly straightforward tasks. I think having values is important too as often it can be easy to get lost in the idea that the best programmers are the ones who can write the shortest code, or solve problems the fastest, when in reality I think that programmers who are able to be objective about their ability and self aware are usually the most successful as they are unlikely to be inhibited by their ego.
I was really fascinated with the neuroplasticity and mindset sections especially the research that was put into them, it allowed me to reflect on past endavours in my life and how I might have been successfull or failed, I tended to notice that these mindsets often have correlated with success in my life previously, and it helped me pinpoint why other things may not have worked out as I hoped by evaluating what my mindset was in those moments of learning.
I think generally just sharing my reflections and ideas with other people was pretty daunting at first (and maybe still is). I do a lot of thinking about myself but never tend to share these ideas with other people which creates several challenges mainly trying to verbalise what I am actually thinking in a way that someone else can understand it properly.
I would say because programming is a field where you are constantly needing to learn and absorb new information, it makes sense to focus not on the information itself but the ability to learn and retain new things comfortably and consistently. This can be an especially hard thing to do because you can always feel like you are a beginner or seeing something for the first time. I think having the tools to cope with these kinds of experiences regularly is a huge benefit in the industry and probably helps a lot with things like mental health as well, and I can imagine would be vital in the longevity of people's careers.
I think it feels like a good use of time. I like that it adds a more human aspect to coding whereas in the past it feels like coding is treated more like a maths or science type of subject where all that matters is the data and results. I think that developing the self awareness in any sort of subject is really valuable and understanding what is happening under the hood of your brain when you are trying to learn something new will help with things like getting stuck or not understanding something properly.


The version 3.5 and 3.6 are not backward compatible.
We’ve tried to make this transition as simple as possible.
You will find below a migration guide to migrate from 3.5.x to 3.6.
Before the 3.6 version, Jawr used a specific type for image handling (img). Since 3.6, Jawr introduces a more general binary handler component, which can manages every binary resources (images, fonts, …).
So you will have to update your web.xml file like below.
Here is a example of a web.xml configuration before the 3.6 version :
<servlet> <servlet-name>JawrImgServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>net.jawr.web.servlet.JawrServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>configLocation</param-name> <param-value>/jawr.properties</param-value> </init-param> <!-- init-param> <param-name>mapping</param-name> <param-value>/jwrImg/</param-value> </init-param --> <init-param> <param-name>type</param-name> <param-value>binary</param-value> </init-param> <!-- Start Jawr Img servlet before Jawr CSS servlet --> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet>
You’ll have to update the type init-parameter from img to binary.
<servlet> <servlet-name>JawrBinaryServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>net.jawr.web.servlet.JawrServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>configLocation</param-name> <param-value>/jawr.properties</param-value> </init-param> <!-- init-param> <param-name>mapping</param-name> <param-value>/jwrBin/</param-value> </init-param --> <init-param> <param-name>type</param-name> <param-value>binary</param-value> </init-param> <!-- Start Jawr Binary servlet before Jawr CSS servlet --> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet>
It’s important to note that for previous version, this servlet should be started before the CSS one.
There are 2 properties which have been renamed :
Jawr used internally a specific handler for image : net.jawr.web.resource.ImageResourcesHandler. This class has been refactored to net.jawr.web.resource.BinaryResourcesHandler.
To retrieve this handler, Jawr used below code :
ImageResourcesHandler imgRsHandler = (ImageResourcesHandler) servletContext.getAttribute( JawrConstant.IMG_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE);
Now, you’ll have to use :
BinaryResourcesHandler binaryRsHandler = (BinaryResourcesHandler) servletContext.getAttribute( JawrConstant.BINARY_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE);
One method has been renamed :
| Old method name in ImageResourcesHandler | New method name in ImageResourcesHandler | | public MapString, String getImageMap() | public MapString, String getBinaryPathMap() |
Before the 3.6 version, the MBean which handled images was named imgMBean. It has been renamed to binaryMBean.
It is important to note that the 3.5 version requires at least the use of java 6 and servlet API 2.5, while the 3.3.x required at least the use of java 1.4 and servlet API 2.3
For better maintainability, the Jawr project has been divided in multiple modules.
Since, the version 3.5, Jawr has the following modules :
jawr-core : The jawr core module
Prior to the 3.5 version, the user used the jawr.jar (maven reference net.jawr:jawr-3.3.jar). Now the pom reference has changed. To used the new version, you need to replace the old jawr dependency by the following one :
<dependency> <groupId>net.jawr</groupId> <artifactId>jawr-core</artifactId> <version>3.5</version> </dependency>
Now to use the extensions, you’ll need to add them in your dependencies (See below for more detail)
jawr-wicket-extensions : The jawr wicket extension module
This module allows the integration of Jawr with Wicket. Please check the wicket integration documentation for more detail. The wicket version supported is 6.x versions. Here is the dependency to add to your pom to add this module.
<dependency> <groupId>net.jawr.extensions</groupId> <artifactId>jawr-wicket-extension</artifactId> <version>3.5</version> </dependency>
jawr-spring-2.0.x-extension : The jawr spring 2.0.x integration module
This module allows the integration of jawr with spring 2.0.x. Please check the spring integration documentation for more detail. Unfortunately for the time being, there is no support for spring 2.5.x and spring 3.x. This will probably be done in a future release. If someone wants to help, he is welcome. Here is the dependency to add to your pom to add this module.
<dependency> <groupId>net.jawr.extensions</groupId> <artifactId>jawr-spring-2.0.x-extension</artifactId> <version>3.5</version> </dependency>
jawr-dwr-2.x-extension : The jawr dwr 2.x integration module
This module allows the integration of jawr with dwr 2.x. Please check the dwr integration documentation for more detail. Unfortunately for the time being, there is no support for dwr 3.x. This will probably be done in a future release. If someone wants to help, he is welcome. Here is the dependency to add to your pom to add this module :
<dependency> <groupId>net.jawr.extensions</groupId> <artifactId>jawr-dwr-2.x-extension</artifactId> <version>3.5</version> </dependency>
jawr-grails-extension : The jawr grails integration module
This module allows the integration of jawr with grails. Please check the grails integration documentation for more detail. Here is the dependency to add to your pom to add this module :
<dependency> <groupId>net.jawr.extensions</groupId> <artifactId>jawr-grails-extension</artifactId> <version>3.5</version> </dependency>
Since the version 3.5, Jawr allows the users to define their custom GeneratorPathResolver. This means that the users can now define generators, which will be triggered by prefix path (like built-in ‘jar:’ or ‘message:’ prefixes) or with for example a specific path suffix (like ‘*.less’ resources).
In the version 3.3.x, the generator should implement the method “getMappingPrefix”. This method has been replaced by “ResourceGeneratorResolver getResolver()” method. Jawr defines built-in ResourceGeneratorResolvers :
To replace the following your custom generator, you need to replace
public class SampleJsGenerator extends AbstractJavascriptGenerator { /* (non-Javadoc) * @see net.jawr.web.resource.bundle.generator.ResourceGenerator#getResolver() */ public String getMappingPrefix() { return "foo"; } ... }
With the following :
public class SampleJsGenerator extends AbstractJavascriptGenerator { /** The resolver */ private ResourceGeneratorResolver resolver; public SampleJsGenerator(){ resolver = new PrefixedPathResolver("foo"); } /* (non-Javadoc) * @see net.jawr.web.resource.bundle.generator.ResourceGenerator#getResolver() */ public ResourceGeneratorResolver getResolver() { return resolver; } ... }
Jawr use internally a object to iterate over resource bundle path.
The signature of the following method has changed :
| Old method name in ResourceBundlePathsIterator | New method name in ResourceBundlePathsIterator | | public String nextPath() | public BundlePath nextPath() |
From version 3.3.x to 3.5 the jsf namespace has changed.
Namespace until 3.3.x was :
xmlns:jawr="https://jawr.dev.java.net/jsf/facelets"
Namespace since 3.5 version is :
xmlns:jawr="https://jawr.java.net/jsf/facelets"


command
Interface for asyncronously operating on new commands.
Note: currently the implementation is done in a separate thread for each new command,
as there is no possibility to read or write asynchronously from file descriptors.
class ICommandProvider * CreateCommandProvider(class IIoMux * iomux)
Function to allocate the CommandProvider resource, to be called from the app-main, so that the real
CommandProvider can be replaced by a unit-test implementation.
class ICommand * CreateCommand(class IInstanceLog * const log, class UTask * user, const char * command, int expectedExitCode, size_t initialReadLength = 0)
Creates a new instance of ICommand. ICommand is derived from ITask, so the ITask/UTask mechanisms are used for progress and completion.
The ITask::Start function is called inside CreateCommand, so it is not needed to call this function on your own.
- class IInstanceLog * const log
- The related log interface.
- class UTask * user
- The UTask user which shall receive the UTask callbacks.
- const char * command
- The command which will be executed, e.g. ls -l /var/.
- int expectedExitCode
- If expectedExitCode is < 0, the exit code is not checked, otherwise TaskFailed is triggered if the exit code does not match.
- size_t initialReadLength
- If initialReadLength is > 0, the read function is called with length at once.
ICommand
ICommand class for read/write operation on an executed command. The buffer of the read data is maintained within this class.
STDERR is automatically redirected and can be fetched afterwards with Error(). Note that max 8192 bytes are fetched from STDERR, the remaining data is discarded.
General handling
The TaskProgress progress parameter is used differently, depending on a previous Read or Write. Valid values are:
- COMMAND_PROGRESS_READ
- COMMAND_PROGRESS_WRITE
- The TaskComplete callback is triggered when the process has terminated and all data has been read or after ICommand::Close() has been called.
- The TaskFailed callback is triggered when something failed. In this case the command has already terminated.
- The TaskProgress(this, COMMAND_PROGRESS_READ) callback is triggered after a previous Read(...) call when the data is available. You can retrieve the data with Get() afterwards.
- The TaskProgress(this, COMMAND_PROGRESS_WRITE) callback is triggered after a previous Write(...) call when the data has been written.
Functions
- void Read(size_t length)
-
Initiates reading of the next block. May be called after TaskProgress for the
previous block.
You mustn't call several reads without waiting for the TaskProgress callback which indicates that the data has been read.
- void Get(const byte * & data, size_t & length)
-
Gets a pointer to the read block of data. May be called after the TaskProgress
for the read operation. The pointer is valid until the next call to Read. If the length is not equal to the length of a previous Read call, the end of the stream is reached and you'll get a TaskComplete/TaskFailed afterwards.
- void Write(byte * data, size_t length, bool last = false)
-
Initiates writing of data with the given length. May be called after TaskProgress for the previous block.
You mustn't call several writes without waiting for the TaskProgress callback which indicates that the data has been written.
last indicates that this is the last block.
On last=true, the writing file descriptor will be closed. Depending on the used command, this maybe the first point where
a Read can be issued after a previous Write.
- void Close()
-
Terminates the process if it is still running. You do not need to call Close() if you do not want to kill the process before it ends on its own.
- const char * Error()
-
Returns the output of STDERR or NULL if nothing has been written to STDERR.


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WIFI network is RoxburyInnovationCenter
, the password is: connectstartgrow
&
Welcome to Code Across 2016!
A few quick things...
- Code of Conduct: We have a code of conduct for all of our events, please read it and respect it.
- GitHub: Here's Code for Boston on GitHub. If you don't know what GitHub is yet, don't worry - we'll teach you!
- Hackpad: We use hackpad to collaborate as we brain-storm and work through problems. It's like Google Docs. Each team has their own hackpad document set up. Your team's hackpad lives here.
- Have fun!
Need something?
Ask any one of these fine individuals.
{% include team-grid.html %}
The Schedule
Saturday
- 9:30 - 10:00 Doors Open & Breakfast
- 10:00 - 10:45 Intro talks and pitches
- 10:45 - 11:30 Form teams and icebreaker activity
- 11:30 - 12:30 Design workshop I: Intro to Design Thinking, User Interview, Personas and Problem Framing with Shanfan
- 12:30 - 01:00 Lunch
- 01:00 - 01:45 Open hacking time
- 02:00 - 03:00 Workshops:
- A: HTML and CSS for beginners workshop (Think Space) with Del
- B: Github Fundamentals (Learn Lab) with Alex
- 03:00 - 04:00 Open hacking time
- 04:00 - 05:00 Workshops:
- A: Getting started with jQuery (Think Space) with Lauren
- B: Basics of using a REST API (Learn Lab) with Noah
- 05:00 - 05:30 Open hacking time
Sunday
- 09:30 - 10:00 Doors Open & Breakfast
- 10:00 - 12:00 Open hacking time
- 12:00 Lunch
- 12:00 - 12:30 Workshops: An intro to open-source software (Learn Lab) with Nimit
- 12:30 - 03:00 Open hacking time
- 03:00 - 03:30 Team Presentations
- 03:30 - 04:00 Snacks and mingling
Challenge Statements
- Resilient Coders: How might we enable better communication with a probation officer?
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative: How might we help students show that they were late to school due to transit delays?
- Boston Department of Youth Engagement & Employment: How might we help young people better prepare for a career by helping them understand the impact of their online presence and social media usage?
- Boston Department of Youth Engagement & Employment: How might we help students to show off the courses and workshops they have taken from local non-profits to potential employers and each other?
- Youth Hub Boston: How might we tap into and leverage the existing youth social networks to promote trusted resources that help youth achieve their educational and career goals?
- Have your own idea? Fill out the CodeAcross 2016 pitch form. We'll take a look and connect with you the morning of the event!
Getting Started on Your Project
When your team is ready to get started,
check out the Getting Started Hackpad
to make sure your team is set up for a successful hackathon. We have information on communication, documentation, and more that we think will be useful to you as you begin to address your chosen challenge.
Social Media
- Follow us @CodeForBoston, and tweet all your awesome pictures, quotes, and everything else at us!
- Tweet with hashtags #CodeAcross (or #CodeAcrossBOS for tweets to only local participants).
- We plan to take photos of the event and share them via our social media channels. Please approach one of the organizers before the event or email us if you do not want us to take your photo.
Getting to Roxbury Innovation Center
CodeAcross will be at the Roxbury Innovation Center, at 2300 Washington St, Boston, MA 02119, on the second floor of the Bolling Building (take the elevator or stairs up; it's right above Dudley Dough). The best public transit options are by bus – the RIC is very close to Dudley Station, and is accessible by the 1, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 28, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47, 66, 170, 171, 191, CT3, SL4, and SL5 buses. If you are driving, there is both street parking and a municipal lot nearby.
Useful links


Goals
- Consolidate primary project servers to the OSUOSL
- WHY: Simplify server management, take advantage of shared resources/services offered by the OSUOSL.
- Migrate to Puppetmaster-based configuration management infrastructure
- WHY: Gain inventory and status reporting from puppet-managed nodes, open up ability to easily bootstrap new servers, fix lack of orchestration and quality/delivery pipeline for Jenkins' own infrastructure
- Migrate key asset ownership to the SPI
- WHY: Too much bus factor on domains and server ownership by Unknown User (rtyler)
- Upgrade core developer services, e.g. Confluence, JIRA.
- WHY: Some of core developer services have reached an end-of-life status from their vendors, making the continued secure operation of those services impossible.
- Revamp infrastructure monitoring
- WHY: Current monitoring infrastructure (Nagios-based) is not reliable and doesn't provide sufficient insight into the state of services, mostly just machines. More often downtime is noticed via Twitter/IRC rather than alerts.
- Clean-up/prune mirroring system
- WHY: Primary mirrors (OSUOSL), and secondaries are not intended to be the binary archive for all historical releases and need to save disk space for other projects
Projects
Migration to a modern Puppet infrastructure
Owner: Unknown User (rtyler)
Phases of work
- Set up Puppet Enterprise (Should be done in an automated fashion (no snowflakes!))
- Create a continuous delivery pipeline in Jenkins for our infra
- Define a good testing/deployment workflow that Jenkins and Puppet Labs can point to and say "this is how things should be done in 2014+"
- Add first production host to PE and start provisioning it via the CD pipeline
- Blog about progress thus far
- Migration strategy
- Developer testing and deployment pipeline
- ??
- Shift existing infrastructure over to the new model piece by piece
- Move primary/core services already managed by masterless Puppet, e.g. DNS, WWw, package repos
- Puppetize less-critical, more hacked together services (e.g. butlerbot, pieces of MirrorBrain)
Assigning ownership of key assets to SPI
Owner: Unknown User (kohsuke)
Core user/developer Service Upgrades
Owner: Unknown User (rtyler)
Phases of work
- Puppetize JIRA installation
- Puppetize Confluence installation
- Migrate production JIRA
- Migrate production Confluence
Mirror cleaning
Owner: Unknown User (kohsuke)
*COMPLETED*
Monitoring Revamp
Owner: Unknown User (rtyler)
Phases of work
- Evaluation different monitoring solutions
- Sensu - overly complex for monitoring our small deployment
- collectd
- Nagios
- Deploy/monitor one node
- Roll out to rest of cluster
Jenkins JIRA: Components/workflow refactoring
Owners: Unknown User (danielbeck), Unknown User (oleg_nenashev)
More info: 2014 JIRA Components Refactoring
Jenkins IRC Bot Improvements
Owner: Unknown User (oleg_nenashev)
Phases of work
- Unknown User (rtyler) - Puppetize IRC Bot => DONE
- Unknown User (oleg_nenashev) - Describe the deployment flow on GitHub/Wiki => DONE
- Unknown User (oleg_nenashev) - Introduce new commands (component management, etc.) => IN_PROGRESS
- Unknown User (oleg_nenashev) - Improve IRC Bot's testability (local debug, test suites) => IN_PROGRESS


Siddhartha (1973) 86m.
This adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel was obviously a personal project for producer-director-screenwriter Conrad Rook. Those who have embraced the book should be relieved that it was placed in good hands. Simple tale recounts the life of young Brahmin Siddhartha who leaves his village to become a sadhu (a wandering holy man who lives on the charity of others) in order to achieve enlightenment. Story appeals because it brings large philosophical ideas down to a basic human level that we are able to relate to. Siddharta's journey takes him from Brahmin to ascetic to lover to laborer to father. He undergoes a spiritual rebirth with each new step, until he becomes his own teacher. What is most interesting about this film is that we never feel in any position to judge Siddhartha as he shifts from one lifestyle to another - we simply accept it as part of a learning curve he must put himself through. This, of course, is what Hesse is propounding all along. But there is certainly no cause for us to feel smug: Siddhartha voices his thoughts and revelations so eloquently that we are always respectful of him (I particularly like his speech at the end of the film about the stone). Even though the characters sum up enlightenment in a few words ("Everything returns"; "I can think, I can wait, I can fast"), it doesn't come across as axiomatic or trite: these simple expressions reassure us that such discoveries are not exclusive to holy men.
Rook uses images (gorgeously photographed by Sven Nykvist in Northern India) and music to bring the book to life without sacrificing any of its gentleness. The dialogue, as spoken by Shashi Kapoor (as Siddharta) and his companions, has a gentle rhythm of its own. Even the name 'Siddharta' alone is pronounced with a relaxing, peaceful lilt. It's almost as if Rook knows just how far to go before making his audience nod off into sleep. Hesse's slim novel translates to the screen more comfortably than his other voyage-of-discovery story STEPPENWOLF.
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This simulation is based on Isaac Newton's famous thought experiment and illustration of firing a projectile from a high mountaintop at various speeds as described in A Treatise of the System of the World.


Add Shadow Effect in CanvasJS Charts
This plugin allows you to add shadow effect to datapoints in CanvasJS Chart.
Live Example
CanvasJS
CanvasJS is an HTML5 & JavaScript based Charting Library that runs on all modern devices including iPhone, Android, Desktops, etc. Charts are beautiful and API is very simple to use.
CanvasJS Features:
- Simple API and easy to use
- Supports 30+ different types of Charts / Graphs
- 10x faster than conventional Flash / SVG based Charting Libraries
- Comes with Several beautiful looking themes
- Well Maintained and Updated Documentation
- Works across browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE8+)
- Can be integrated with Serverside and Frontend technologies like ASP.Net, PHP, Spring MVC, JSP, jQuery, Angular, React, etc.
How to Use?
- Enable shadow by setting shadowEnabled to true
- Customize the color and positioning of shadow by setting color, offset & blur properties.
var chart = new CanvasJS.Chart("chartContainer", {
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//Chart Options
shadowEnabled: true,
shadowStyle: {
color: "black",
offsetX: 4,
blurLevel: 4
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});
chart.render();
Resources:
Code: Github Repo
Documentation: Github Wiki


Focusing On The Heart
by Jay Wamsley | Photos by Jay DrownsA dozen years ago, soon-to-be UVU student Fabio Sagebin was doing research - on whether or not higher education was for him and, if so, where he should enroll. A dozen years from now, Dr. Sagebin will again likely be doing research - this time on better ways to repear hearts.
Currently a member of the University of Rochester Medical Center's cardiothoracic surgery integrated residency program, Sagebin says a decade ago, he was "fully intending to finish high school, go on a mission, and come home and work construction with my dad." His family - who had emigrated when he was 3 years old to Utah from a small city in southern Brazil, near the Uruguayan border - had begun a successful business, building steel-frame homes. His mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had taken him to New York City, specifically Brooklyn and Queens.
A visit with his mission president "changed the trajectory for me," Sagebin remembers. "I worked closely with my mission president, and during that mentorship he planted the seed that I really needed a formal education.
"Unfortunately, I had not really prepared for that at that point. My parents were wonderful people, hardworking people, but we didn't have the social infrostructure necessary for college prep. It was not something that was inculcated in my family culture. I didn't take the SAT of the ACT, and I really hadn't prepared for college. So, when I came home, I just looked for an open-enrollment college."


This modules provides the features of the facility can manage event and categories for classes
Students and Teachers can see all the information about all the Event Month Wise.
Student can do registration for event, just fill few information like participant name and event name.
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I was in my friends' room at around 10:00 working on a painting while drinking a 40 of Colt 45. They had all snorted several lines of klonopin before I got there, and were acting in a way that could only be described as 'silly.' Stumbling around, laughing giddily at small things, etc. I finished my 40 at around 10:30.
At 11:00, I asked my friends, given their state, if I would be able to keep working on the painting if I blew some lines as well. They said I'd be fine, and although I was skeptical, I snorted two 0.5mg pills' worth and resumed my work. Within 5 minutes, my body was tingling. As time went on, I found that I thoroughly enjoyed any type of motion - specifically in my legs. I was, for the most part, stationary at a drafting table this whole time.
After approximately 15 minutes, I decided to take a break to move around the room, and immediately realized that I was far more influenced than I previously thought. I had a slight buzz going from the 40, but aside from that, my mind was fully there. On the other hand, my body was doing its own thing.
Around 11:30, I crushed up another 0.5mg pill and snorted it. This hit me almost instantly, I was loopy, reveling in a much more intense version of the soma shakes.
I stopped keeping track of time at this point, but not too long after the last line, we packed a couple bongs and finished them off in short order. My mind was in a warm, fuzzy place, but at the same time I was still thinking very clearly. I was able to buckle down and control my motor skills enough to do more work on the painting, with no mistakes.
I went to bed at around 1:00 am and enjoyed a blissful sleep. I overslept for my class in the morning, but that was more a product of not caring enough to get up. I didn't feel at all groggy.
I don't know if I'll be trying klonopin again any time soon, due to its availability and the potential for addiction, but if it comes around once in a while, I certainly wouldn't turn it down.
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