New figures show the government has approved an unprecedented number of new schools since 2010. More than 400 new free schools and technical schools have been approved across England, amounting to more than 200,000 new school places.
These new schools are a vital part of the government’s plan for education as they increase choice for parents and help to drive up standards across the board.
Since 2010 the government has opened:
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more than 250 free schools
- new schools set up and run by teachers, parents and charities, rather than local councils or Westminster politicians. 79 of these open for the first time this term, while a further 76 are in the pipeline
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30 University Technical Colleges
- new colleges developed in partnership with universities and employers that train young people for careers in key industries such as engineering and science. More than 500 employers are now involved in
UTCs
, including Hitachi Rail Europe, Jaguar Land Rover and Bentley. 13 of these
UTCs
open for the first time this term, and a further 26 are in development
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37 studio schools
- new schools that prepare young people for the workplace by offering a rigorous academic education alongside employer-backed technical and vocational qualifications. More than 400 employers are involved in studio schools, including the BBC, Barclays, Sony and Talk Talk. 12 of these studio schools open for the time this month, and a further 9 are in development
These diverse schools have introduced new ideas and approaches to the system that are increasingly helping all schools to raise standards, with more children now having the opportunity to go to a good or outstanding school than ever before.
The number of openings in just over 4 years is underlined by the fact that it took 4 years to open the first 27 academies, and 7 years to open the first 70 academies. Only 15 City Technology Colleges were opened in 5 years.
Also since 2010 more than 900 weak schools have been turned into sponsored academies - this means they are now getting the help they need from strong sponsors with a proven track record of improving education for pupils in long-term under-performing schools.
A further 2,800 schools have been granted academy freedoms. These include powers to set the length of the school day and term and freedoms over how they spend their money and design their curriculum.
It means that in total there are now more than 4,000 academies in England - almost 20 times as many as there were in May 2010, when all 203 academies were sponsored secondary schools. 87% of academies support other schools in some way, leading to a system of school-to-school support where institutions share expertise and challenge one another in order to improve standards across the sector.
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said:
Delivering the best schools and skills for our young people is part of our long-term economic plan and opening more free schools, academies,
UTCs
and studio schools is vital to this as they help to drive up standards for all.
They help those parents that want to exercise choice, but I know that many parents just want their child to be able to go to a good local school. In helping to raise standards for all, these new free schools, academies and others are helping to make this possible.
Analysis shows free schools are helping young people from all backgrounds fulfil their potential. The vast majority of mainstream free schools (72%) are in areas most in need of more school places, while half of all free schools are in the 30% most deprived communities in England.
Among the new schools opening their doors for the first time this term are:
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Holyport College
, a secondary free school in Windsor. The school is backed by Eton College and holds a strong academic ethos and places great emphasis on a rounded education. A longer school day will allow for extensive extra-curricular activities including opportunities to make use of Eton’s sports and drama facilities. Oversubscribed in its first year, Holyport College is the first free school to offer boarding - with just under half of its 500 places set aside for boarders
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King’s College London Maths School
, a highly innovative university-backed maths free school for 16- to 19-year-olds opening this September. The school, which was heavily over-subscribed for its first year, will take 120 students from across London when full. It will provide a stretching curriculum focused on maths and physics, including mentoring and teaching from university academics
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LIPA Primary School
, a free school in Liverpool. Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) was co-founded in 1995 by lead patron Sir Paul McCartney and Principal Mark Featherstone-Witty
OBE
, it is now opening a primary school in the heart of Liverpool. The school will immerse children in the creative and performing arts to enrich teaching and learning. The school has proven popular with local parents and is already oversubscribed for its first year of operation;
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Bolton Wanderers Free School
, a free school for 16- to 19-year-olds. Bolton Wanderers Football Club’s school will provide up to 400 places for young people and will specialise in sport, business, health and social care courses. Students on the sports programme will have the unique opportunity to train with professional coaches from the football club, as well as highly-trained coaches in other sports. The school is supported by local prominent businesses and has excellent links with Bolton University
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The Ruth Gorse Academy
, a secondary free school in Leeds. It will offer 1,580 places for secondary school pupils in Leeds. It aims to ensure that young people living in the inner-south part of Leeds can access an inspirational education. Ruth Gorse will mirror the aspirations and standards set by the Farnley and Morley Academies rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted
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Tottenham
UTC
in North London, which will provide more than 900 places when full. Led by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, in partnership with Middlesex University, the
UTC
will specialise in technology and science for sport, health and engineering and will be located within Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium regeneration scheme
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UTC
Cambridge
, which will provide more than 650 places when full. It will specialise in biomedical and environmental sciences and is sponsored by Cambridge University Health Partners, Cambridge Regional College and a range of employers including Napp Pharmaceuticals and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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Space Studio Banbury
, a studio school in Oxfordshire, which when full will provide 300 14- to 18-year-olds with a rigorous education in science, maths and technology, with a focus on space-related industries. The school will be sponsored by the Aspirations Academies Trust with support from the National Space Agency, Comdev and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory


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Dreamz Infra MD arrested in Mumbai
She had jumped bail and was absconding
by Special CorrespondentIn a breakthrough in the multi-crore Dreamz Infra India Ltd. scam in which thousands of home-buyers were allegedly duped by the developer, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on Monday arrested Disha Choudhary, the managing director of the company, in Mumbai.
She is the wife of the prime accused, Sachin Nayak, who is a director in the company. During the course of the investigation, the CID learnt that the accused had set up several other companies.
Disha, Sachin and another accused were arrested in April 2017 for cheating investors of several crores of rupees, but she managed to get bail.
“Disha constantly changed her residential address and jumped bail. The court had cancelled her bail and issued more than 35 warrants and 10 summons to appear but she was absconding,” said a senior police official.
A special team was formed by the economic offences wing of the CID. They tracked her down to a hideout in Mumbai and arrested her on Sunday. She was produced in court on Monday and remanded in judicial custody.
As many as 82 cases have been filed against the accused in various police stations. Police believe that the couple duped around 3,700 investors of ₹1,500 crore.
The companies floated by them include Dreamz Infra India Private Limited, TGS Construction Private Limited and Gruha Kalyan Private Limited who together advertised 48 projects across Bengaluru.


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The following constitutes the checklist that should become the natural way to resolve issues. It is intended to be exhaustive, so as to cover each base.
It should be noted that often not all steps are applicable for successfully resolving a ticket. If so, the respective steps can quickly be checked off as N/A. It should also be noted that the list is not intended to be written out in such detail that it becomes obstructive of the actual implementation process by taking too much time. The list is intended, however, to serve as a guideline for what in due time should become the natural approach to resolve tickets.
The following Team Members are recognized in this process:
For each step a single role/person is respionsible (optionally assisted by Scrum Master or QA)
When an End User or stakeholder has the idea that something shold be changed or added to the system, it should be clear what problem the idea addresses.
The product owner should be able to summarize the goal should in one or two sentences.
Any relevant information should be gathered together in an IDEA ticket.The content of the ticket should be clear, without explaning it in person. This can be validated with the Scrum Master. Once the ticket is clear it should be validated by the stake-holder to make sure the ticket represents their reality.
Responsibility of: Stakeholder
The product owner should be able to asses what the idea will cost in terms of investement (time, resources, money) and how the idea will improve the business value of the system.
High-level estimates should be provided to indicate what the financial value of the idea is expected to be. What are the implementation costs? How many hours will the idea take to implement? For which year are these changes budgeted? What are these figures based upon?
It should also be noted if the idea will impact Key Performance Indicators (KPI). I.e. how will this help the business in achieving their objectives and reaching their targets.
Responsibility of: Product Owner
If the idea is user-facing, how will the user be impacted? Does it pertain to Consumers, Dealers, Employees? Does the UI have to be changed? Will import have an impact on the user experience?
If the idea is mostly machine facing, how does it impact the existing stack? Will systems communictaion be influenced? Do API need to change?
Responsibility of: Product Owner
Which area's within the business are involved? Are there departements that need to be informed or collaborated with?
Responsibility of: Product Owner
Can all relevant fields be filled in, based on the information gather up until now? If not, more clarity is needed.
When all of the information has been placed in an issue, it should be checked with the stakeholders to manage their expectations and validate that their idea and the proposal match.
Responsibility of: Product Owner
In order to clearly communicate which changes need to be made to the existing applications in order to successfuly implement the proposal, specifications need to be created.
There are various tools available to make matters more clear. Depending on the subject, one or more of the following can be used to paint a clear picture:
Instead of creating these deliverables themselves, a product owner can delegate tasks to the development team.
Eventually Acceptance Criteria should be apparent. This includes both Success Scenario's for when the process flow goes as planned as well as Failure Scenario's for when reality deviates from the desired flow.
Responsibility of: Product Owner
Once all of the specifications are clear and can be understood by the team, the relevant information should be added to a project ticket so work on the issue can start.
If specifications are unclear or incomplete, more work is needed to retrieve information and add it to the issue in an understandable fashion.

If not, what is missing? Who is responsible for the deliverable?
Responsibility of: Product Owner
Once all relevant deliverables have been added to story ticket, work on the issue can be planned.
Responsibility of: Product Owner
Once it is clear what needs to be built, the developers need to decide how it will be built.
This is basically a complete implementation plan for the actual program code.
Responsibility of: + Developer
Responsibility of: + Developer
A description about this step, extra questions, etc.
Responsibility of: Scrum Master + Quality Assurance + User eXperience + Graphic Designer + Programmer


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THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT A film review by George McAdams Copyright 1996 George McAdams
Grade *** out of ****
Thirty years ago, if you were told that women would become beat policemen, serial killers, or spies, chances are you seriously doubted the first two suggestions, but not the third, after all the exploits of Mata Hari had been indoctrinated into the beliefs of the American male. While the last thirty years has seen women become an integral part of police departments everywhere and an occasional woman serial killer has surfaced, the female spy has only taken a supplementary role in the cinema. In The Long Kiss Goodnight ( http://www.longkiss.com/ ), Geena Davis, under the direction of her husband Renny Harlin, has broken, not only the screen image "sweetness" that she has been saddled with since her television days on "Buffalo Bill," and continued with "A League of Their Own" and "Speechless," but she has given us a credible female spy/action figure with her characterization of "Charly Baltimore, a former CIA agent, who everyone thought had been killed, but who was really living the life of her undercover character, Samantha Caine. Of course, she's not the first female to play a spy or an action figure, Cynthia Rothrock tried, and Anne Parilla, in La Femme Nikita, succeeded, but while it's one thing to succeed in France, one's not really successful until the movie's made in Hollywood--and please don't even think about Bridget Fonda's remake of Nikita, Point of No Return, being successful because it lacked Parilla's conviction, however misguided. As Geena Davis morph's into the character of Charly Baltimore, she takes on a toughness that comes from living on the edge with glee. As her past creeps upon her, and her lurid past becomes an exciting present, a spark returns to her life that Samantha Caine, schoolteacher, had unknowingly suppressed. For me the image of Charly, rolling a shot glass of booze over her cheek until it's wrapped around her lips, speaks more of her character than the hundreds of bullets she shoots from the guns that abound every other frame of this action packed adventure. The web pages for The Long Kiss Goodnight are exceptional in their delivery of behind the screens interviews from not only Geena Davis ( http://www.longkiss.com/Geena/gnacontnt.html ), but also Samuel L. Jackson ( http://www.longkiss.com/Sam/samcontnt.html ). Whole scenes of dialogue are also available, with even storyboards of crucial ones such as the scene where Charly is being tortured by being immersed underwater ( http://www.longkiss.com/Wheel.sc/wheelscript.html ) If you long for a credible action movie and can accept that the lead actor is a woman, then The Long Kiss Goodnight is just the movie for you. For web links to other movie sites, check-out the Movies-in-the-Net web page at http://www.primenet.com/~george
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| #define | HIDAUDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTIN 0x03 |
| Address of the HID interrupt IN endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDAUDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTOUT 0x04 |
| Address of the HID interrupt OUT endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDAUDD_Descriptors_ISO_DATAOUT 0x02 |
| Audio data out endpoint number. More... | |
| #define | CDCAUDD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 0x04 |
| Address of the CDC interrupt-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCAUDD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 0x03 |
| Address of the CDC bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCAUDD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 0x02 |
| Address of the CDC bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCAUDD_Descriptors_ISO_DATAOUT 0x01 |
| Address of the Audio ISO-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 3 |
| Address of the CDC0 interrupt-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 3 |
| Address of the CDC0 interrupt-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 3 |
| Address of the CDC0 interrupt-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 2 |
| Address of the CDC0 bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 2 |
| Address of the CDC0 bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 2 |
| Address of the CDC0 bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 1 |
| Address of the CDC0 bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 1 |
| Address of the CDC0 bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 1 |
| Address of the CDC0 bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION1 6 |
| Address of the CDC1 interrupt-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN1 5 |
| Address of the CDC1 bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT1 4 |
| Address of the CDC1 bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTIN 4 |
| Address of the HID interrupt IN endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTOUT 5 |
| Address of the HID interrupt OUT endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDMSDD_Descriptors_BULKOUT 2 |
| Address of the Mass Storage bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDMSDD_Descriptors_BULKIN 3 |
| Address of the Mass Storage bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDMSDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTIN 4 |
| Address of the HID interrupt IN endpoint. More... | |
| #define | HIDMSDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTOUT 5 |
| Address of the HID interrupt OUT endpoint. More... | |
| #define | MSDD_Descriptors_BULKOUT 4 |
| Address of the Mass Storage bulk-out endpoint. More... | |
| #define | MSDD_Descriptors_BULKIN 5 |
| Address of the Mass Storage bulk-in endpoint. More... | |
| #define CDCAUDD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 0x03 |
Address of the CDC bulk-in endpoint.
| #define CDCAUDD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 0x02 |
Address of the CDC bulk-out endpoint.
| #define CDCAUDD_Descriptors_ISO_DATAOUT 0x01 |
Address of the Audio ISO-out endpoint.
| #define CDCAUDD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 0x04 |
Address of the CDC interrupt-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 2 |
Address of the CDC0 bulk-in endpoint.
Address of the CDC bulk-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 2 |
Address of the CDC0 bulk-in endpoint.
Address of the CDC bulk-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN0 2 |
Address of the CDC0 bulk-in endpoint.
Address of the CDC bulk-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAIN1 5 |
Address of the CDC1 bulk-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 1 |
Address of the CDC0 bulk-out endpoint.
Address of the CDC bulk-out endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 1 |
Address of the CDC0 bulk-out endpoint.
Address of the CDC bulk-out endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT0 1 |
Address of the CDC0 bulk-out endpoint.
Address of the CDC bulk-out endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_DATAOUT1 4 |
Address of the CDC1 bulk-out endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 3 |
Address of the CDC0 interrupt-in endpoint.
Address of the CDC interrupt-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 3 |
Address of the CDC0 interrupt-in endpoint.
Address of the CDC interrupt-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION0 3 |
Address of the CDC0 interrupt-in endpoint.
Address of the CDC interrupt-in endpoint.
| #define CDCD_Descriptors_NOTIFICATION1 6 |
Address of the CDC1 interrupt-in endpoint.
| #define HIDAUDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTIN 0x03 |
Address of the HID interrupt IN endpoint.
| #define HIDAUDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTOUT 0x04 |
Address of the HID interrupt OUT endpoint.
| #define HIDAUDD_Descriptors_ISO_DATAOUT 0x02 |
Audio data out endpoint number.
| #define HIDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTIN 4 |
Address of the HID interrupt IN endpoint.
| #define HIDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTOUT 5 |
Address of the HID interrupt OUT endpoint.
| #define HIDMSDD_Descriptors_BULKIN 3 |
Address of the Mass Storage bulk-in endpoint.
| #define HIDMSDD_Descriptors_BULKOUT 2 |
Address of the Mass Storage bulk-out endpoint.
| #define HIDMSDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTIN 4 |
Address of the HID interrupt IN endpoint.
| #define HIDMSDD_Descriptors_INTERRUPTOUT 5 |
Address of the HID interrupt OUT endpoint.
| #define MSDD_Descriptors_BULKIN 5 |
Address of the Mass Storage bulk-in endpoint.
| #define MSDD_Descriptors_BULKOUT 4 |
Address of the Mass Storage bulk-out endpoint.


National Outdoor 10,000m Championships for Serbia and Montenegro
Men (3 runnings)
05 Nov 2005 Bar 34:18.8 Dragoljub Koprivica
06 Nov 2004 Beograd 31:50.59 Miroslav Komarcevic
19 Apr 2003 Beograd 30:40.94 Ramiz Taipi (SER)
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If forced to name a celebrity I'm completely tired of seeing and hearing about, the names Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron would be blurted out just after Jennifer Lopez and right before Kate Hudson. Not only do Keanu and Charlize have ridiculous names, they've also appeared in three films apiece in the last six months, most of which were formulaic crap (him: The Replacements, The Watcher and The Gift; her: The Yards, Men of Honor and The Legend of Bagger Vance). Hey, why not put them in a film together? It's almost as if Hollywood senses I'm on the brink of a workplace shooting and is trying to nudge me off the fence.
Sweet November is a remake of moderately entertaining 1968 film that starred Sandy Dennis and Anthony Newley (think of a young Charles Grodin, only with charisma and hair). Both films are about a dying woman who takes on one dysfunctional man each month of her last year on Earth in some bizarre attempt to...to...okay, I have no idea why she does it. The 2001 version, lifelessly directed by Pat O'Connor (Dancing at Lughnasa), swaps the woman's cool Greenwich Village loft for a cramped San Francisco walkup and totally blows the ending, turning the subtle, well-done original into something extraordinarily unpleasant and plodding.
Theron plays Sara Deever, a less-annoying version of Jenna Elfman's Dharma. Sara is Hollywood eccentric, which means she has close-cropped hair, clothes that don't match and wears a lot of weird hats and scarves. Her "November" is Nelson Moss (Reeves), an advertising executive portrayed as a high-powered, workaholic version of Darrin Stephens. Nelson's life is ruled by his work and everything else, including his lovely but perpetually ignored girlfriend (Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham), is pushed aside.
The two "meet cute" at the DMV, where Sara offers to make Nelson her "November." Confused (a stretch for Reeves, I'm sure), Nelson writes her off as a kook, but takes her up on the offer after getting fired and dumped on the same day. He's still wary of Sara's motives - heck, I'd be expecting her to turn into Kathy Bates in Misery, or find out Satan is somehow involved (Reeves and Theron were in The Devil's Advocate together) - but eventually they fall in love, otherwise there wouldn't be a movie.
When Nelson pesters Sara about her strange monthly arrangements, she replies, "I told you - I can't tell you my reasons."  Sure enough, about an hour into the film, she starts acting mysterious, sweaty and tired, and you can only sit back and wait for the inevitable, which drags out with the exciting pace of a nursing home Bingo game.
 Okay, it was me, but you get the point. There's plenty of other stuff to get pissed off about, like the fact that it's a Warner Bros. film that shamelessly plugs several of its products (America Online, CNN and Sports Illustrated, among others). Look for the scene where Nelson and his buddy (Greg Germann, Down to Earth) talk to each other on their cell phones, even though they're walking right next to each other (just like Clueless). If that wasn't bad enough, there's also a karaoke scene where Keanu shows he's a better singer than an actor. But that's kind of like saying George W. Bush is a lot smarter than people give him credit for.
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Rashford still believes top-four finish is attainable
Cape Town - Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is refusing to give up on a top-four finish, saying it's "nowhere near impossible".
The Red Devils are 10th in the Premier League table after picking up just 13 points from their first 11 games, with Rashford scoring five goals in that time.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's troops have won only three games all season and defeats to Crystal Palace, West Ham United, Newcastle United and Bournemouth have put the pressure on the Norweigan.
They are now ten points behind Leicester City and Chelsea who currently occupy third and fourth in the top flight.
After drawing with Liverpool and beating Norwich, United looked to have found their rhythm, with Anthony Martial and Rashford causing problems.
Martial and midfield ace Paul Pogba have struggled with injury problems all season but Rashford believes they will go close once they are all fit and ready to play.
He told Soccer Saturday: "It's going to be tough (to get into the top four), but it's nowhere near impossible. We don't need to focus on any other teams; we play our best football when we focus on ourselves and us improving.
"Old Trafford is a special place, and if we do that with the fans behind us, it's a tough place to come.
"With the tempo, we play at when we're at our best, it's very hard to stop us so we use it as a template, and we need to get back to doing that."
United will try to return to winning ways on Thursday when they take on Partizan in the Europa League group stage.
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After a two-week international break, they then face Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.
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- PackageInfo
class PackageInfo |
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A class that gives one the option to easily extract information from the license.manifest
file (generated by YOCTO) - attributes like version, recipe name and license - and export it
into various easily parsable formats: JSON, XML and CSV. |
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Methods defined here:
- __init__(self, licenseManifestFile, release_id='Q', xmlout='', jsonout='', csvout='')
- Object constructor. The absolute path to the license.manifest file is mandatory, while the
others are entirely optional. Setting the other parameters determines whether or not that
type of export will be performed.
- buildPKGInfoCSV(self, packageInfoDict)
- Build a CSV file that contains all packages and their versions
- buildPKGInfoJSON(self, packageInfoDict)
- This builds a JSON file that contains only a list of packages and their
version. It's functionality should be extended only if this requirement is
agreed with the stakeholders.
- buildPKGInfoXML(self, packageInfoDict)
- Builds an XML that contains only a list of the packages and their
attributes.
- extractPackageInfo(self)
- This is the main method that triggers package info processing. No arguments are passed, while the method itself prints out the files that were generated after the run.
- gatherPackageInfo(self)
- Parses the license.manifest file and extracts all available information about each and
every listed package, building a dictionary based on this info, which is returned.
- getCSVOutputFile(self)
- Returns the current value of csvOutputFile
- getJSONOutputFile(self)
- Returns the current value of jsonOutputFile
- getXMLOutputFile(self)
- Returns the current value of xmlOutputFile
- setCSVOutputFIle(self, outputFilePath)
- Sets the CSV output file path to the supplied value. As a direct effect, CSV processing will be performed.
- setJSONOutputFile(self, outputFilePath)
- Sets the JSON output file path to the supplied value. As a direct effect, JSON processing will be performed.
- setXMLOutputFile(self, outputFilePath)
- Sets the XML output file path to the supplied value. As a direct effect, XML processing will be performed.
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Britt's Practice is located at the south end of Salt Lake valley in Bluffdale, UT. She primarily serves clients living in southern Salt Lake county and northern Utah county.
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Brittany graduated from Utah College of Massage Therapy in 2013 and has been actively practicing ever since. She has experience working for and managing massage spas, but prefers her work as a solo practitioner in her private practice. This allows her to better develop strong relationships and a deep understanding of each of her client's needs.
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Brittany Cates is an incredibly fun person to be around, she has an amazing energy about her, and a very
uplifting personality. Her friends say “She can change someone’s mood instantly just because she is always
the happy one in the room!” She cares deeply for every person she comes in contact with, and always wants to
make sure they know she is truly concerned about their wellbeing, and what their current needs are.
Brittany has alove for new adventures,and is always looking for ways to create exciting memories, and
experiences with others. She spends most of her free time outdoors under the sun. She sees the importance
of taking a break from her daily responsibilities, and clearing her own head so that she can continue to
give freely to those around her. She prefers to do this by practicing yoga, and has a strong appreciation
for what yoga does for her personally.
Brittany is not only known for being a loving and caring individual, but she has a reputation for being an
extremely
hard worker who is goal oriented. She is always determined to reach expectations she sets for herself.
Anyone that gets
to know her, sees that she is quite the ambitious 22-year-old. It is this combination of personality traits
that made
Brittany decide to open up her own massage practice. She found her passion for massage because of what it
can do for
people mentally, physically, and emotionally. She is able to facilitate healing on a daily basis by
providing
individuals her time and attention during a session. Her work is a combination of Deep Tissue, Trigger
Point, and
Injury. Brittany prides herself in being able to make sessions like these still very connective and
relaxing, so that
her clients are able to unwind and work on the mental/emotional side of things, while she works on the
outer, and
physical side of things. Brittany sincerely believes the most important thing a therapist can offer to their
clients is
a mindful, considerate, and loving presence. This type of compassion facilitates the innate healing ability
within the
recipient more so than any technique.
Brittany and her brother James are both therapists and decided back in 2015 to open up their own practice
together so
that they could provide the type of service to their clients they truly believe is effective. Some of the
core values
they choose to live by are the following: Continuous improvement, Facilitate healing, Meticulous,
Honest/trustworthy A
commitment to doing good for the whole (Total Wellness), A commitment to innovation and excellence,
Respected,
Passionate, Inspirational. They want to do all they can in their power to bring their clients back to a
balanced,
mental, emotional, and physical state. Their peace, comfort, and happiness is what bring James and Brittany
the most
Joy.
Brittany Cates is an incredibly fun person to be around, she has an amazing energy about her, and a very uplifting personality. Her friends say “She can change someone’s mood instantly just because she is always the happy one in the room!” She cares deeply for every person she comes in contact with, and always wants to make sure they know she is truly concerned about their wellbeing, and what their current needs are. Brittany has alove for new adventures,and is always looking for ways to create exciting memories, and experiences with others. She spends most of her free time outdoors under the sun. She sees the importance of taking a break from her daily responsibilities, and clearing her own head so that she can continue to give freely to those around her. She prefers to do this by practicing yoga, and has a strong appreciation for what yoga does for her personally.


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Forwarder
Delegation made readable.
Rational
It seems that Ruby's built in Forwardable
module does a decent job
to provide for delegation. However its syntax is more than terse, it is, IMHO,
unreadable. At a certain moment it came to me that relearning the correct
application of def_delegator
, frequent usage non withstanding is not
what I want to use my time for.
From that desire Forwarder
was created. As Forwardable
it is not
intruisive but once a module is extended with it the following methods spring
into live: forward
, forward_all
and forward_to_self
. The
first two replace and enhance the functionality of def_delegator
and
def_delegators
, while the third is a kind of a alias_method
on
steroids.
Examples
- forward
Forwards to a target. The target must be specified by the :to
keyword
parameter and can be either a Symbol
(or String
), thus representing
an instance method or an instance variable, a lambda that will be evaluated
in the instance's context. If an arbitrary object shall be the receiver of the
message, than the :to
keyword can be replaced by the :to_object
keyword parameter.
class Employee extend Forwarder forward :complaints, to: :boss end
This design, implementing some wishful thinking that will probably not pass
acceptance tests, will forward the complaints
message, sent to an instance
of Employee
, to the object returned by this very instance's boss
method.
The following adjustment was made, in desperate hope to fix the bug:
class Employee extend Forwarder forward :complaints, to: :boss, as: :suggestions end
This behavior being clearly preferable to the one implemented before because the
receiver of complaints
is still forwarding the call to the result of the
call of its boss
method, but to the suggestion
method.
Finally, however, the implementation looked like this
class Boss extend Forwarder forward_all :complaints, :problems, :tasks, to: first_employee end
However this did not work as no first_employee
was defined. This seems
simple enough a task, so that a method for this seems too much code bloat, here
are two possible implementations with Forwarder
class Boss extend Forwarder forward :first_employee, to: :@employees, as: :[], with: 0 forward_all :complaints, :problems, :tasks, to: :first_employee end
As a side note, I do not enourage the exposure of instance variables as in the
example above, but I do not like to impose. As Forwardable
can delegate to
instance variables I decided to provide the same functionality with
Forwarder
.
Or alternatively
class Boss extend Forwarder forward :first_employee, to: :@employees, as: :first forward_all :complaints, :problems, :tasks, to: first_employee end
The above, however is a little bit verbose, we can shorten it with the :to_chain
parameter
class Boss extend Forwarder forward_all :complaints, :problems, :tasks, to_chain: [:@employees, :first] end
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Paul Pogba has ankle cast removed as Man Utd midfielder edges closer to return
The World Cup winner has been sidelined since the end of the September, but could soon be back playing for the Red Devils
by Ned KeatingManchester United have been handed a big boost after midfielder Paul Pogba had his ankle cast removed on Monday.
The World Cup winner has been sidelined since the end of September after aggravating a long-standing ankle issue in Utd's 1-1 draw at home to Arsenal in the Premier League .
During the international break in October, the former Juventus man headed to Dubai for some warm weather training in a bid to get over the niggle, but was unable to do so.
The France international subsequently had a cast fitted around his ankle in order to aid his recovery and the 26-year-old passed a huge landmark in his rehabilitation on Monday.
Pogba travelled to Amsterdam to have the cast removed and recorded the procedure, with the clip later uploaded to his Instagram account.
The Frenchman could be seen smiling as the cast was taken off using a drill, no doubt knowing a frustrating period in his career will soon be over.
However, the 26-year-old is still a few weeks away from making a playing return with Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer himself admitting earlier this month that Pogba will likely not be back until early December.
It means the ex-Juve man will spend the next few weeks building his fitness up, with the Manchester derby against fierce rivals City on December 7 a possible date for his return.
In Pogba's absence, Scott McTominay and Fred have begun building a good partnership in the heart of the pitch for the Red Devils and the Frenchman may have a battle on his hand to regain his starting spot.
Brazil international Fred has been a revelation for Utd in recent weeks and Solskjaer was full of praise for the midfielder following a win over Brighton at the weekend.
"He set us off today with his midfield play, we won the ball, had to get after them," said the Norwegian.


STAND AND DELIVER
A film review by Jeff Meyer
Copyright 1988 Jeff Meyer
Telling a newsgroup populated by computer scientists and mathematicians that STAND AND DELIVER (side note: I cannot say this without thinking of John Cleese as Dennis Moore) is entertaining is rather like advising basketball fans to see HOOSIERS: you've got a pretty good shot that the readers will agree with you. However, in this case the film has other things going for it than the subject, i.e., a teacher who inspires a group of East-L.A. Chicano kids to study math and take the A.P. advanced calculus tests.  Seeing kids becoming enthused over learning, and watching their confidence bloom over their intellectual abilities, is great viewing material, and it's handled well here. Edward James Olmos does a wonderful job as the math teacher who pushes his students and himself hard (perhaps too hard at times), and shows his pupils, their parents and the school that limits, defined by class, background and race are non-existent. That the film is based on a true story seems almost irrelevant -- anyone watching the film would know that it either did happen or could happen. It's just nice to be reminded of that fact.
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Mathematics
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GSoC- Google Summer of Code 2021 Final Work Product
Detailed weekly tasks, progress and work done can be found here
Abstract
We have changed some points of my project in the first meeting. Specifically, we focused the efforts into developing a streaming system using the WebRTC protocol that could be used in more generic scenarios than just the network visualization. In addition to that, we have opted to develop the network visualization for fury as a separated repository and package available here. The name Helios was selected for this new network visualization system based on the Fury rendering pipeline.
Proposed Objectives
- Create a streaming system (stadia-like) for FURY
- Should work in a low-bandwidth scenario
- Should allow user interactions and collaboration across the Internet using a web-browser
- Helios Network System objectives:
- Implement the Force-Directed Algorithm with examples
- Implement the ForceAtlas2 algorithm using cugraph with examples
- Implement Minimum-Distortion Embeddings algorithm (PyMDE) and examples
- Non-blocking network algorithms computation avoiding the GIL using the Shared Memory approach
- Create the documentation and the actions for the CI
- Stretch Goals:
- Create an actor in FURY to draw text efficiently using shaders
- Add support to draw millions of nodes using FURY
- Add support to control the opengl state on FURY
Objectives Completed
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Create a streaming system (stadia-like) for FURY
There are several reasons to have a streaming system for data visualization. Because I am doing my Ph.D. in developing country, I always need to think of the less expensive solutions to use the computational resources available. For example, with the GPU’s prices increasing, it is necessary to share the a single machine with GPU with other users at different locations.
To construct the streaming system for my project we have opted to follow three main properties and behaviors:
- avoid blocking the code execution in the main thread (where the vtk/fury instance resides)
- work inside of a low bandwidth environment
- make it easy and cheap to share the rendering result. For
example, using the free version of
ngrok
To achieve the first property we need to circumvent the GIL and allow python code to execute in parallel. Using the threading module alone is not good enough to reach real parallelism as Python calls in the same process can not execute concurrently. In addition to that, to achieve better organization it is desirable to define the server system as an uncoupled module from the rendering pipeline. Therefore, I have chosen to employ the multiprocessing approach for that. The second and third property can be only achieved choosing a suitable protocol for transfering the rendered results to the client. We have opted to implement two streaming protocols: the MJPEG and the WebRTC. The latter is more suitable for low-bandwidth scenarios [1].
The image below shows a simple representation of the streaming system.

The video below shows how our streaming system works smothly and can be easily integrated inside of a Jupyter notebook.
Video: WebRTC Streaming + Ngrok
Video: WebRTC Streaming + Jupyter
Pull Requests: * https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/pull/480
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2D and 3D marker actor
This feature gave FURY the ability to efficiently draw millions of markers and impostor 3D spheres. This feature was essential for the development of Helios. This feature work with signed distance fields (SDFs) you can get more information about how SDFs works here [4] .
The image below shows 1 million of markers rendered using an Intel HD graphics 3000.
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Fine-Tunning the OpenGl State
Sometimes users may need to have finer control on how OpenGL will render the actors. This can be useful when they need to create specialized visualization effects or to improve the performance.
In this PR I have worked in a feature that allows FURY to control the OpenGL context created by VTK
Pull Request:
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Helios Network Visualization Lib: Network Layout Algorithms
Case 1: Suppose that you need to monitor a hashtag and build a social graph. You want to interact with the graph and at the same time get insights about the structure of the user interactions. To get those insights you can perform a node embedding using any kind of network layout algorithm, such as force-directed or minimum distortion embeddings.
Case 2: Suppose that you are modelling a network dynamic such as an epidemic spreading or a Kuramoto model. In some of those network dynamics a node can change the state and the edges related to the node must be deleted. For example, in an epidemic model a node can represent a person who died due to a disease. Consequently, the layout of the network must be recomputed to give better insights.
In the described cases, if we want a better (UX) and at the same time a more practical and insightful application of Helios, the employed layout algorithms should not block any kind of computation in the main thread.
In Helios we already have a lib written in C (with a python wrapper) which performs the force-directed layout algorithm using separated threads avoiding the GIL problem and consequently avoiding blocking the main thread. But what about the other open-source network layout libs available on the internet? Unfortunately, most of those libs have not been implemented like Helios force-directed methods and consequently, if we want to update the network layout the Python interpreter will block the computation and user interaction in your network visualization.
My solution for having PyMDE and CuGraph-ForceAtlas not blocking the main thread was to break the network layout method into two different types of processes: A and B and communicate both process using the Shared Memory approach. You can more information about this PR through my following posts [2], [3].
The image below show an example that I made and is available at https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/blob/main/docs/examples/viz_mde.py
Pull Requests:
- MDE Layout: https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/6
- CuGraph ForceAtlas2 https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/13
- Force-Directed and MDE improvements https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/14
- Helios Network Visualization Lib: Visual Aspects
I’ve made several stuffs to give Helios a better visual aspects.  Because the layout computations happens into a different process that the process responsible to render the network was necessary to record the positions and communicate the state of layout between both process.
The GIF below shows how the network layout through IPC behaved before these modification

below, you can see how after those modifications the visual aspect is better.

Pull Requests:
- OpenGL SuperActors: https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/1
- Fixed the flickering effect https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/10
- Improvements in the network node visual aspects https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/15
- Smooth animations when using IPC layouts https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/17
- Helios Network Visualization Lib: CI and Documentation
Because Helios was an project that begins in my GSoC project It was necessary to create the documentation, hosting and more. Now we have a online documentation available at https://heliosnetwork.io/ altough the documentation still need some improvements.
Below is presented the Helios Logo which was developed by my mentor Filipi Nascimento.

Pull Requests:
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CI and pytests: https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/5, https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/20
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Helios Logo, Sphinx Gallery and API documentation https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/18
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Documentation improvements: https://github.com/fury-gl/helios/pull/8
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Objectives in Progress
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Draw texts on FURY and Helios
This two PRs allows FURY and Helios to draw millions of characters in VTK windows instance with low computational resources consumptions. I still working on that, finishing the SDF font rendering which the theory behinds was developed here [5].
Pull Requests:
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GSoC weekly Blogs
Weekly blogs were added to the FURY Website.
Pull Requests:
- First Evaluation: https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/pull/476
- Second Evaluation: TBD
References
[1] ( Python GSoC - Post #1 - A Stadia-like system for data visualization - demvessias s Blog, n.d.; https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/demvessiass-blog/post-1-a-stadia-like-system-for-data-visualization/
[2] Python GSoC - Post #2: SOLID, monkey patching a python issue and network layouts through WebRTC - demvessias s Blog, n.d.; https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/demvessiass-blog/post-2-solid-monkey-patching-a-python-issue-and-network-layouts-through-webrtc/
[3] Python GSoC - Post #3: Network layout algorithms using IPC -demvessias s Blog, n.d.) https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/en/demvessiass-blog/post-3-network-layout-algorithms-using-ipc/
[4] Rougier, N.P., 2018. An open access book on Python, OpenGL and Scientific Visualization [WWW Document]. An open access book on Python, OpenGL and Scientific Visualization. URL https://github.com/rougier/python-opengl (accessed 8.21.21).
[5] Green, C., 2007. Improved alpha-tested magnification for vector textures and special effects, in: ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Courses on -SIGGRAPH ‘07. Presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 courses, ACM Press, San Diego, California, p. 9. https://doi.org/10.1145/1281500.1281665


--- layout: post title: 'Shock Therapy: Self-organisation in Scrum, Jeff Sutherland' date: 2009-04-02 00:00:00 categories: business software-development ---
Shock Therapy: Self-organisation in Scrum, Jeff Sutherland
Jeff started scrum 1993, CTO of 9 companies. Rolled out Scrum in 5. Works 1 week/month with VC group, 12 companies w/investments so far: "each one is a laboratory for how you work with Scrum".
Scrum is not a methodology, a defined process or set of procedures. it's an open dev framework. The rules are constraints on behaviour that cause a complex adaptive system to self-organise into an intelligent state... enabling an average team to self-organise into a super-intelligent team that goes 10 times as fast as normal teams. The goal: high quality, productivity, fun work. In the VC world, a company has to be 10x better to be worth the investment.
Scrum scales linearly across geographies.
Double speed of coding = 5% improvement end-to-end. You need more than a productivity improvement to see end-to-end gains.
The challenge is to understand self-organisation and how to avoid destroying it. Teams entering this state are often surprised at themselves. There is a common strategy for reaching this state. Management frequently systematically destroys most such teams.
The good news: reaching this state is like learning to ride a bicycle. Once you've learned to do it, you can do it again... given the right conditions. People are not "pluggable resources".
Scrum consists of roles (PO, SM, Team), meetings (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, retrospective), and social objects (impediment list, burndown chart, product backlog, sprint backlog).
It's a pull-based system - practically everything you learn about lean manufacturing can be applied to a Scrum team.
PO needs to deliver really valuable stories at the front; otherwise garbage in, garbage out. If teams get to DONE well, velocity doubles and defects go down 40%. Next doubling occurs when the backlog is in a good state and there is zero in-sprint churn. Next doubling occurs with team self-organising in sprint.
Most companies are more like a Dilbert cartoon: drop planning and docs, just write code and whine. This is ScrumButt! Nokia had the habit of writing 300-400 pages of spec before doing anything, they broke through this cycle but still had the right amount of docs.
In a show of hands, half the people in the room doing Scrum admit to passing the first 3 questions of the Nokia Test.
Only 10% of teams meet all criteria. (I'd say only one of our two teams is currently doing this)
Even ScrumButt brought a measured 35% benefit to teams using it.
Challenges for new agile developers:
As investors, Jeffs VC group invests only in Scrum+XP companies. Scrum is driven at board level. Many run management team, marketing, client services and support with Scrum.
What's the secret sauce? They want to change the face of investment in the US.
Some companies see 300% improvement in 3 2-week sprints - it used to take years.
Waterfall : 2 function points/dev pcm.
Scrum: 17.8 function points/dev pcm (w/ Mike Cohn test)
SirsiDynix: linearly scalability of a distributed team, 15.3 function points/dev pcm with team split between Moscow and US.
Xebia: half the team in Holland, half India. 15.1 function points/dev pcm. Their definition of "done" is the customer doing acceptance tests and judging complete before the end of a sprint.
Takes MySpace as an example: 1/3 of the company is waterfall, 1/3 ScrumButt, 1/3 Scrum. They have hundreds of developers, owned by Fox News, have founders running development. Management doesn't understand Agile and isn't committed. They brought in 30 project leaders who tried Scrum and thought it was "getting in the way of controlling projects". They've been trying to get rid of it.
They've tried "shock therapy": a set of good practices, but no choice. In agile, we want self-managing teams, but when the team doesn't know how to do this there's a problem.
Leadership changes from directing (telling the team) to coaching (involving the team) to supporting (team takes the lead) to delegating (team does it all). The goal of a Scrummaster is to work themselves out of a job as fast as possible.
Shows Aikido picture.
It's like learning the tango. You need a coach. "There are many of us in agile practice who have worked in martial arts, and there are lots of similarities".
Scott at Myspace takes 2.9 days per team member to improve team velocity by 240%. He's not necessarily popular!
Scrum as a framework gives teams lots of options. In practice, this overwhelms many teams. Just as customers don't know what they want, many agile teams don't know what to do til they're doing it. Scott's rules stay in effect until a team meets their goals for 3 sprints.
Scott makes the largest, nastiest impediment go away in 2 days. This underscores the fact that he takes the team seriously and is there to make their world better. His impermanent placement with a team gives him the ability to be a bit confrontational. He tends to leave teams with a 500% improvement.
Teams using this quick format approach hit their velocity quicker.  Teams stay in touch :)
Teams estimate sprint backlogs in story points.
Gives examples of teams: one team dispersed in an office move. One got a command-and-control manager who removed the PO and split the team up, they want back from a 300% improvement to 100%. The fourth team lost their PO and have been looking for one ever since, they're not delivering much of value.
Gives an example of a team which did well, disbanded (lost all productivity), and regrouped (got it all back).
It's good to have an experience SM to hand; and a good senior developer with agile experience.
Shows video of Maori Hacka (sp?). "Most IT teams aren't like this".
My question: "As a service company doing work to order. we find that our customers have grown up with the notion that fixed-price fixed-scope contracts are reasonable. In our experience velocity can improve as familiarity with a customer or product develops, and can vary between teams and projects.
So two questions: what alternative models are there for contracts that better fit a Scrum team?
And what strategies are there for fitting a Scrum development process around a fixed-price fixed-scope contract?"
A: The "money for nothing, change for free" model where you have a standard fixed-price contract with an additial clause stating that (a) at sprint boundaries, customers can substitute equivalent-sized features for any not yet begun, with no penalty - encouraging acceptance of change, and (b) customer can walk away before end of project when they've realised the value they wanted, sharing savings with the supplier.
Jeff is seeing consultancies used to 15% margins chasing 60% margins by deliberately making customer aware of ROI cut-off points, and thereby ending projects after 3 months instead of after 20, seeing margins increase as a result.


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Responsible Gambling Code of Conduct
1. Availability of the Responsible Gambling Code of Conduct
The Code is available on the Mega Dash Raffle website at MegaDashRaffle.org. Mega Dash Raffle is a registered business of **enterprise name (TBD)**, the holder of the Commercial Raffle Organizer’s license.
2. Responsible Gambling Message
** Nombre de la empresa** as Mega Dash Raffle is committed to selling raffle tickets responsibly to support dash community and charitable organizations. This message will be displayed on the Mega Dash Raffle website and on material developed by Mega Dash Raffle for the promotion and conduct of raffles on behalf of Dash community and charitable organizations.
3. Responsible Gambling Information
Information about the following is available on the Mega Dash Raffle website at MegaDashRaffle.org
4. Gambling Product Information
The terms and conditions for the conduct of a raffle will be showed on the ticket buying process and/or information material designed to promote the raffle, and the Mega Dash Raffle website at MegaDashRaffle.org
5. Customer Loyalty Scheme Information
Mega Dash Raffle does not make provision for a customer loyalty scheme.
6. Interaction with Customers
As an online fundraising service, Mega Dash Raffle has minimal interaction with ticket buyers/backers however, Mega Dash Raffle staff will assist customers who request it with information about help with any gambling problem. This information will include referral details to any local Gambler’s Help telephone service and/or information materials prepared by Gambler’s Help services.
In addition, for customers who have indicated that they have a gambling problem or may be overextending themselves financially:
* Mega Dash Raffle will remind customers at time of ticket purchase how to gamble responsibly
* At time of purchase, Raffle will instruct buyers to review the Terms & Conditions of ticket purchase on our Mega Dash Raffle website – Terms.
* Where the raffle website page for ticket purchases is promoted in person, suggest that the baker take a moment to reflect on whether they wish to purchase tickets/as many tickets (cooling off period)
7. Interaction with Staff
Staff are NOT permitted to purchase raffle tickets being sold through Mega Dash Raffle.
8. Interaction with Problem Gambling Support Services
The Manager or a senior staff member of Mega Dash Raffle will contact local Gambler’s Help services twice a year to obtain updated publications and any changes to contact details or available services. This information will be communicated to staff, and made available for use with Dash community, as soon as practicable after it is received.
9. Backers Complaints
A baker may lodge a complaint with Mega Dash Raffle regarding the Gambling Code of Conduct by writing to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Mega Dash Raffle will investigate the complaint, as soon as possible, and will take the following steps to resolve a complaint:
Should a complaint not be resolved through the regular process mentioned above, then the following independent process will commence:
10. Compliance with the prohibition on gambling by minors
Mega Dash Raffle does not wish to encourage early gambling habits in children. Mega Dash Raffle will not target any promotion and asks the Non-profit Organization Representative (NPOR) not to execute sales campaign at minors and will not knowingly sell raffle tickets to minors.
Mega Dash Raffle will display a message on the ticket purchase page stipulating that a person must be over the age of 18 years old to purchase a ticket.
11. The Gambling Environment
The Mega Dash Raffle online selling facility is a platform open to all dash community to back project they want to support
Mega Dash Raffle will discourage repeatedly excessive purchase of tickets by backers by not engaging in hard/pressure sales techniques
12. Financial Transactions
Mega Dash Raffle does not extend credit to customers to purchase raffle tickets.
13. Responsible Advertising Promotions
Any advertising and promotions undertaken by NPORs in relation to a raffle will:
Code Review Process
1) Mega Dash Raffle’s Code will be reviewed each year on the anniversary of its commencement.
2) Input will be obtained from management and staff and a sample of patrons about the operation and effectiveness of the Code.


Conditions are hazardous. Extra measures are recommended. Alert everyone of high risk conditions and review protective measures. A designated knowledgeable person should be on site to modify work activities and set work/rest schedules.
Reminders to help keep workers safe (see OSHA’s heat illness campaign site for more information and resources):
Water and Shade:
- Drinking water must be on site.
- Drink plenty of water, even if you’re not thirsty – every 15 minutes (about 4 cups/hour).
- Set up cool, shaded rest areas.
Emergency planning and response:
- Make sure medical help (clinic, hospital, emergency services) is nearby – if not, first aid must be on site.
- Call 911 and cool a worker who is unconscious, confused, or uncoordinated. This may be heat stroke, which is a medical emergency.
- Know where you are in case you need to call 911.
Work and rest:
- Gradually build up the workload and allow more breaks over a week (acclimatize workers).
- Establish and follow a work/rest schedule (amount of work time and rest time each work hour)
- Take routine rest breaks in cool, shaded area
- Remove protective clothing (if possible) while resting
- Increase rest time as heat index rises or if workers show signs of heat illness
- Adjust work activities
- Do heavy tasks earlier in the day
- Decrease the pace of heavy job tasks
- Look for other ways to adjust work activities (add more workers, rotate jobs)
- Use more precautions for work in layers of protective clothing and in the direct sun - see OSHA's heat illness campaign site
- Use sunscreen and wear light-colored clothing.
Training:
- Review heat-related illness topics before work begins
- How to recognize heat-related illness
- How to prevent it
- What to do if someone gets sick
Watching out for heat illness:
- Watch out for each other.
- Set up a buddy system.
- Supervisors should maintain communications at all times with crew and watch for signs of heat illness.


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If you do not have your mobile BC Services Card set up, please visit the BC Services Card website for instructions.
If you are not eligible for a BC Services Card, you can access fill-print-fax versions of the PharmaCare Special Authority forms on the PharmaCare website for prescribers.


Class: ActiveSupport::Testing::Parallelization
Do not use. This class is for internal use only.
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| Inherits: | Object |
| Defined in: | activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb, activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization/server.rb, activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization/worker.rb |
Class Attribute Summary
- .after_fork_hooks (also: #after_fork_hooks) readonly
- .run_cleanup_hooks (also: #run_cleanup_hooks) readonly
Class Method Summary
Instance Attribute Summary
- #after_fork_hooks readonly
- #run_cleanup_hooks readonly
Instance Method Summary
Constructor Details
.new(worker_count) ⇒ Parallelization
Class Attribute Details
.after_fork_hooks (readonly) Also known as: #after_fork_hooks
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 18
cattr_reader :after_fork_hooks
.run_cleanup_hooks (readonly) Also known as: #run_cleanup_hooks
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 26
cattr_reader :run_cleanup_hooks
Class Method Details
.after_fork_hook(&blk)
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 14
def self.after_fork_hook(&blk) @@after_fork_hooks << blk end
.run_cleanup_hook(&blk)
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 22
def self.run_cleanup_hook(&blk) @@run_cleanup_hooks << blk end
Instance Attribute Details
#after_fork_hooks (readonly)
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 18
cattr_reader :after_fork_hooks
#run_cleanup_hooks (readonly)
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 26
cattr_reader :run_cleanup_hooks
Instance Method Details
#<<(work)
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 41
def <<(work) @queue_server << work end
#shutdown
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 49
def shutdown @queue_server.shutdown @worker_pool.each { |pid| Process.waitpid pid } end
#size
[ GitHub ]# File 'activesupport/lib/active_support/testing/parallelization.rb', line 45
def size @worker_count end


K
- The type of the keysV
- The type of the valuespublic class Cache<K,V>
extends java.lang.Object
Cache is a simple concurrent cache that supports time-based and weight-based evictions, with notifications for all evictions. The design goals for this cache were simplicity and read performance. This means that we are willing to accept reduced write performance in exchange for easy-to-understand code. Cache statistics for hits, misses and evictions are exposed.
The design of the cache is relatively simple. The cache is segmented into 256 segments which are backed by HashMaps. Each segment is protected by a re-entrant read/write lock. The read/write locks permit multiple concurrent readers without contention, and the segments gives us write throughput without impacting readers (so readers are blocked only if they are reading a segment that a writer is writing to).
The LRU functionality is backed by a single doubly-linked list chaining the entries in order of insertion. This LRU list is protected by a lock that serializes all writes to it. There are opportunities for improvements here if write throughput is a concern.
Evictions only occur after a mutation to the cache (meaning an entry promotion, a cache insertion, or a manual
invalidation) or an explicit call to refresh()
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static class |
Cache.CacheStats |
| 限定符和类型 | 字段和说明 |
|---|---|
static int |
NUMBER_OF_SEGMENTS |
| 限定符和类型 | 方法和说明 |
|---|---|
V |
computeIfAbsent(K key,
CacheLoader<K,V> loader)
If the specified key is not already associated with a value (or is mapped to null), attempts to compute its
value using the given mapping function and enters it into this map unless null.
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int |
count()
The number of entries in the cache.
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V |
get(K key)
Returns the value to which the specified key is mapped, or null if this map contains no mapping for the key.
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void |
invalidate(K key)
Invalidate the association for the specified key.
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void |
invalidateAll()
Invalidate all cache entries.
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java.lang.Iterable<K> |
keys()
An LRU sequencing of the keys in the cache that supports removal.
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protected long |
now()
The relative time used to track time-based evictions.
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void |
put(K key,
V value)
Associates the specified value with the specified key in this map.
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void |
refresh()
Force any outstanding size-based and time-based evictions to occur
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Cache.CacheStats |
stats()
The cache statistics tracking hits, misses and evictions.
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java.lang.Iterable<V> |
values()
An LRU sequencing of the values in the cache.
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long |
weight()
The weight of the entries in the cache.
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public static final int NUMBER_OF_SEGMENTS
protected long now()
public V get(K key)
key
- the key whose associated value is to be returnedpublic V computeIfAbsent(K key, CacheLoader<K,V> loader) throws java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException
CacheLoader
implementations on the same key concurrently may result in only the first
loader function being called and the second will be returned the result provided by the first including any exceptions
thrown during the execution of the first.key
- the key whose associated value is to be returned or computed for if non-existentloader
- the function to compute a value given a keyjava.util.concurrent.ExecutionException
- thrown if loader throws an exception or returns a null valuepublic void put(K key, V value)
key
- key with which the specified value is to be associatedvalue
- value to be associated with the specified keypublic void invalidate(K key)
RemovalNotification.RemovalReason
INVALIDATED.key
- the key whose mapping is to be invalidated from the cachepublic void invalidateAll()
RemovalNotification.RemovalReason
INVALIDATED.public void refresh()
public int count()
public long weight()
public java.lang.Iterable<K> keys()
Iterator.remove()
. The result of iteration under any other mutation is
undefined.Iterable
over the keys in the cachepublic java.lang.Iterable<V> values()
Iterable
over the values in the cachepublic Cache.CacheStats stats()


Incredible Photo Of Chase Young After Today’s Win vs. Penn State
by Alek ArendOhio State defensive end Chase Young has taken the college football world by storm. Young is the best player in college football and proves it each and every week.
After the Buckeyes’ 28-17 victory over Penn State on Saturday afternoon, fans and photographers stormed the field. Who’d they surround?
Check out this incredible photo of Young after the win.
Talk about stardom. Young is on top of the college football world right now. Deservedly so.
After his performance against Penn State on Saturday, people are starting to argue Young should win this year’s Heisman Trophy. Is there any player as dominant as he is right now?
LSU QB Joe Burrow is certainly up there. But many feel it’s time for a defensive player to win the award.
If Young were to win this year’s Heisman Trophy, he’d be the first defensive player to do so since 1997. That season, Michigan’s Charles Woodson took home the coveted award. That’d certainly be something to have a second defensive Heisman Trophy winner come from the Big Ten.
For Young, he’ll have two more chances to prove to the Heisman voters he’s worthy of the award.
Ohio State gets back to work next week against Michigan before the Big Ten title game.


Dicey Dungeons is getting more updates, mod support
by Jody MacgregorTerry Cavanagh, creator of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, released his latest game Dicey Dungeons three months ago. The combat-focused RPG about heroes who've been transformed into dice has apparently had an even more successful launch than either of his previous commercial games, and those were nothing to be sneezed at. As he wrote on his blog, "Within just its first month, Dicey Dungeons outsold the lifetime sales of my previous two games on Steam combined."
Dicey Dungeons already received a Halloween-themed update and several patches, but Cavanagh has said he's committed to more post-release support. The 1.7 update will be focused on modding support, and "hopefully we’ll be doing more stuff like the Halloween Special in future."
Thanks, RPS.