The fourth planet from the Sun (227,940,000 km), Mars is our solar systems Red Planet.
With recent explorations to the planet by the Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars Pathfinder missions, a portal has been opened to a planet that could possibly sustain primitive live Martians.
Temperatures on the Martian surface range widely from -135 degrees C to 27 degrees C during winter at the ice capped poles. The poles, containing bright crystallized ice are composed of solid carbon dioxide or dry ice. Since, missions to Mars have begun to transform into a scientific reality, the Martian landscape had to be thoroughly examined for possible landing sites. Although a possible ancient living ground, the Martian surface still holds expanses of plains, ridges, and rift valleys.
| Olympus Mons | The largest known mountain in the Solar System at a height of 24 km and a base of more than 500 km in diameter |
| Tharsis | A huge extension of the surface that is approximately 4000 km across and about 10 km high |
| Valles Marineris | A group of canyons and craters that span 4000 km long of the planet's surface |
| Hellas Planitia | An exaan impact crater in the southern hemisphere over 6 km deep and 2000 km in diameter |
Mars has a very thin atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide (95.3%), nitrogen (2.7%), argon (1.6%) with traces of oxygen (0.15%) and water (0.03%).
The pressure on the surface is only one percent of that of Earth's, but the pressure varies greatly throughout the Martian landscape.
Mars is closely orbited by two tiny satellites: Phobos and Deimos.


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For more detailed information on Parity Signer, please see https://wiki.parity.io/Parity-Signer-Mobile-App
This is the recommended, and if done correctly, the most secure, way of generating a Polkadot address. This will allow you to use a separate, air-gapped mobile device as your only way of interacting with your account.
Obtain an iOS or Android device. Note that this device will need to be used solely for this purpose. That is, you will “convert” your device into a storage mechanism for interacting with your DOTs. It will not be usable for other functionality (e.g. browsing the Internet, making phone calls, running other apps, etc.)
Perform a full factory reset on your device.
Ensure that you set a strong password that cannot be easily guessed. It is recommended that you do not use biometric security such as keypress access or facial recognition.
If this is an iOS device or a newer Android device, full-disk encryption should already be on by default. If it is an older Android device, turn on full-disk encryption. Note that this may take a long time (an hour or more) and turning the system off midway through will cause you to lose all data. The instructions for turning on full-disk encryption here: https://source.android.com/security/encryption/full-disk.
Connect to the Apple Store or Google Play store and search for the Parity Signer app.
Click the appropriate button to install.
After the application is installed, you should then turn on Airplane Mode and turn off all wireless connectivity options (generally, wifi and Bluetooth). This will minimize the “attack surface” of the phone - that is, it will reduce the number of ways that an attacker could gain access to your phone. Eliminating network connectivity means that an attacker would need to have physical access to your phone in order to access your key.
Note that although Parity Signer will work with network connectivity, you will see a message indicating that you are “Not Secure”. You can use Parity Signer without turning off network connectivity, but is not recommended as it is then possible for others to potentially remotely access the phone and obtain your seed.
After this, it is recommended that you use this phone only for accessing your account. It will be able to unlock your account by signing transactions without ever exposing your seed to a device connected to a network. All communication will be done through a very limited communication pathway (displaying and scanning QR codes).
Go to the “Home” screen and find the Parity Signer app, then click on it to run it. The icon for the Parity Signer app looks like this:
When you start this program for the first time, a series of disclaimers and information will be displayed. Be sure to read and ensure that you understand all of the information presented. If you have any questions or wish to delve deeper into Parity Signer, it is open source and you can see the code here: https://github.com/paritytech/parity-signer.
Indicate that you have read, understood, and agree to the terms and conditions by selecting the checkboxes and pressing the appropriate buttons.
At this point, you should be at the main screen. Click the “+” at the top right of the screen, and then select “New Account”.
This may sound repetitive, but it is important to realize that your seed is the key to your entire account. Someone who knows your seed has uncontested control over your account.
 The Web3 Foundation will not be able to override this - any DOTs in that account will not be accessible to you until you find the seed.
Thus, it is imperative to store the seed somewhere safe, secret, and secure. If your device fails for some reason, you can simply re-enter your seed on a new device after following the setup instructions here, and have access to your account once again.
For maximum security, the seed should be written down on paper or another non-digital device and stored in a safe place. You may also want to protect your seed from physical damage, as well (e.g. by storing in a sealed plastic bag to prevent water damage, storing it in a fireproof safe, etc.) It is recommended that you store multiple copies of the seed in geographically separate locations (e.g., one in your home safe and one in a safety deposit box at your bank).
You should definitely not store your seed on any kind of computer which has or may have access to the Internet in the future.
When you have finished, click on “Backup Done”.
You will have to verify that you have written down your seed before moving on. Remember, if you have not written down your seed, and your device breaks or is otherwise unavailable, you will not able to access your DOTs or do anything from this account.
You will now have to select a Personal Identification Number (PIN) which will act as your “password” for this account. This prevents somebody who gains hold of your device to use your account unless they know the PIN as well. Be sure that your PIN is secure (not easy to guess for others) but that you can remember it easily.
You will need to enter your PIN for any transactions done with this account.
You will need to enter the PIN twice to ensure that there are no typos. When you have entered the PIN in both input boxes, click “Done”.
Congratulations, you now have a Kusama address! However, you now need to
Remember that the address itself is not secret; it is fine to share publicly, although you may wish to take care to not have it associated with you.
On your computer, go to the polkadot.js site at https://polkadot.js.org/apps/.On the sidebar, click “Accounts”.


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TBB parallel execution policy. More...
#include <parallel_execution_tbb.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| parallel_execution_tbb () noexcept | |
| Default construct a TBB parallel execution policy. More... | |
| parallel_execution_tbb (int concurrency_degree, bool order=true) noexcept | |
| Constructs a TBB parallel execution policy. More... | |
| void | set_concurrency_degree (int degree) noexcept |
| Set number of grppi threads. More... | |
| int | concurrency_degree () const noexcept |
| Get number of grppi trheads. More... | |
| void | enable_ordering () noexcept |
| Enable ordering. More... | |
| void | disable_ordering () noexcept |
| Disable ordering. More... | |
| bool | is_ordered () const noexcept |
| Is execution ordered. More... | |
| void | set_queue_attributes (int size, queue_mode mode, int tokens) noexcept |
| Sets the attributes for the queues built through make_queue<T>() More... | |
| template<typename T > | |
| mpmc_queue< T > | make_queue () const |
| Makes a communication queue for elements of type T. Constructs a queue using the attributes that can be set via set_queue_attributes(). The value is returned via move semantics. More... | |
| int | tokens () const noexcept |
| template<typename... InputIterators, typename OutputIterator , typename Transformer > | |
| void | map (std::tuple< InputIterators... > firsts, OutputIterator first_out, std::size_t sequence_size, Transformer transform_op) const |
| Applies a trasnformation to multiple sequences leaving the result in another sequence using available TBB parallelism. More... | |
| template<typename InputIterator , typename Identity , typename Combiner > | |
| auto | reduce (InputIterator first, std::size_t sequence_size, Identity &&identity, Combiner &&combine_op) const |
| Applies a reduction to a sequence of data items. More... | |
| template<typename... InputIterators, typename Identity , typename Transformer , typename Combiner > | |
| auto | map_reduce (std::tuple< InputIterators... > firsts, std::size_t sequence_size, Identity &&identity, Transformer &&transform_op, Combiner &&combine_op) const |
| Applies a map/reduce operation to a sequence of data items. More... | |
| template<typename... InputIterators, typename OutputIterator , typename StencilTransformer , typename Neighbourhood > | |
| void | stencil (std::tuple< InputIterators... > firsts, OutputIterator first_out, std::size_t sequence_size, StencilTransformer &&transform_op, Neighbourhood &&neighbour_op) const |
| Applies a trasnformation to multiple sequences leaving the result in another sequence. More... | |
| template<typename Input , typename Divider , typename Solver , typename Combiner > | |
| auto | divide_conquer (Input &&input, Divider &÷_op, Solver &&solve_op, Combiner &&combine_op) const |
| Invoke Divide/conquer pattern. More... | |
| template<typename Input , typename Divider , typename Predicate , typename Solver , typename Combiner > | |
| auto | divide_conquer (Input &&input, Divider &÷_op, Predicate &&predicate_op, Solver &&solve_op, Combiner &&combine_op) const |
| Invoke Divide/conquer pattern. More... | |
| template<typename Generator , typename... Transformers> | |
| void | pipeline (Generator &&generate_op, Transformers &&...transform_op) const |
| Invoke Pipeline pattern. More... | |
| template<typename InputType , typename Transformer , typename OutputType > | |
| void | pipeline (mpmc_queue< InputType > &input_queue, Transformer &&transform_op, mpmc_queue< OutputType > &output_queue) const |
| Invoke Pipeline pattern comming from another context that uses mpmc_queues as communication channels. More... | |
TBB parallel execution policy.
This policy uses Intel Threading Building Blocks as implementation back end.
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inlinenoexcept |
Default construct a TBB parallel execution policy.
Creates a TBB parallel execution object.
The concurrency degree is determined by the platform.
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inlinenoexcept |
Constructs a TBB parallel execution policy.
Creates a TBB parallel execution object selecting the concurrency degree.
| concurrency_degree | Number of threads used for parallel algorithms. |
| order | Whether ordered executions is enabled or disabled. |
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inlinenoexcept |
Get number of grppi trheads.
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inlinenoexcept |
Disable ordering.
| auto grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::divide_conquer | ( | Input && | input, |
| Divider && | divide_op, | ||
| Solver && | solve_op, | ||
| Combiner && | combine_op | ||
| ) | const |
Invoke Divide/conquer pattern.
| Input | Type used for the input problem. |
| Divider | Callable type for the divider operation. |
| Solver | Callable type for the solver operation. |
| Combiner | Callable type for the combiner operation. |
| ex | Sequential execution policy object. |
| input | Input problem to be solved. |
| divider_op | Divider operation. |
| solver_op | Solver operation. |
| combine_op | Combiner operation. |
| auto grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::divide_conquer | ( | Input && | input, |
| Divider && | divide_op, | ||
| Predicate && | predicate_op, | ||
| Solver && | solve_op, | ||
| Combiner && | combine_op | ||
| ) | const |
Invoke Divide/conquer pattern.
| Input | Type used for the input problem. |
| Divider | Callable type for the divider operation. |
| Predicate | Callable type for the stop condition predicate. |
| Solver | Callable type for the solver operation. |
| Combiner | Callable type for the combiner operation. |
| ex | Sequential execution policy object. |
| input | Input problem to be solved. |
| divider_op | Divider operation. |
| predicate_op | Predicate operation. |
| solver_op | Solver operation. |
| combine_op | Combiner operation. |
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inlinenoexcept |
Enable ordering.
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inlinenoexcept |
Is execution ordered.
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inline |
Makes a communication queue for elements of type T. Constructs a queue using the attributes that can be set via set_queue_attributes(). The value is returned via move semantics.
| void grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::map | ( | std::tuple< InputIterators... > | firsts, |
| OutputIterator | first_out, | ||
| std::size_t | sequence_size, | ||
| Transformer | transform_op | ||
| ) | const |
Applies a trasnformation to multiple sequences leaving the result in another sequence using available TBB parallelism.
| InputIterators | Iterator types for input sequences. |
| OutputIterator | Iterator type for the output sequence. |
| Transformer | Callable object type for the transformation. |
| firsts | Tuple of iterators to input sequences. |
| first_out | Iterator to the output sequence. |
| sequence_size | Size of the input sequences. |
| transform_op | Transformation callable object. |
[get<I>(firsts), next(get<I>(firsts),sequence_size))
are valid. [first_out, next(first_out,sequence_size)]
are valid. | auto grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::map_reduce | ( | std::tuple< InputIterators... > | firsts, |
| std::size_t | sequence_size, | ||
| Identity && | identity, | ||
| Transformer && | transform_op, | ||
| Combiner && | combine_op | ||
| ) | const |
Applies a map/reduce operation to a sequence of data items.
| InputIterator | Iterator type for the input sequence. |
| Identity | Type for the identity value. |
| Transformer | Callable object type for the transformation. |
| Combiner | Callable object type for the combination. |
| first | Iterator to the first element of the sequence. |
| sequence_size | Size of the input sequence. |
| identity | Identity value for the reduction. |
| transform_op | Transformation callable object. |
| combine_op | Combination callable object. |
[first,last)
are valid. | void grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::pipeline | ( | Generator && | generate_op, |
| Transformers &&... | transform_op | ||
| ) | const |
Invoke Pipeline pattern.
| Generator | Callable type for the generator operation. |
| Transformers | Callable types for the transformers in the pipeline. |
| generate_op | Generator operation. |
| transform_ops | Transformer operations. |
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inline |
Invoke Pipeline pattern comming from another context that uses mpmc_queues as communication channels.
| InputType | Type of the input stream. |
| Transformers | Callable types for the transformers in the pipeline. |
| InputType | Type of the output stream. |
| input_queue | Input stream communicator. |
| transform_ops | Transformer operations. |
| output_queue | Input stream communicator. |
| auto grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::reduce | ( | InputIterator | first, |
| std::size_t | sequence_size, | ||
| Identity && | identity, | ||
| Combiner && | combine_op | ||
| ) | const |
Applies a reduction to a sequence of data items.
| InputIterator | Iterator type for the input sequence. |
| Identity | Type for the identity value. |
| Combiner | Callable object type for the combination. |
| first | Iterator to the first element of the sequence. |
| sequence_size | Size of the input sequence. |
| last | Iterator to one past the end of the sequence. |
| identity | Identity value for the reduction. |
| combine_op | Combination callable object. |
[first,last)
are valid.
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inlinenoexcept |
Set number of grppi threads.
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inlinenoexcept |
Sets the attributes for the queues built through make_queue<T>()
| void grppi::parallel_execution_tbb::stencil | ( | std::tuple< InputIterators... > | firsts, |
| OutputIterator | first_out, | ||
| std::size_t | sequence_size, | ||
| StencilTransformer && | transform_op, | ||
| Neighbourhood && | neighbour_op | ||
| ) | const |
Applies a trasnformation to multiple sequences leaving the result in another sequence.
| InputIterators | Iterator types for input sequences. |
| OutputIterator | Iterator type for the output sequence. |
| Transformer | Callable object type for the transformation. |
| firsts | Tuple of iterators to input sequences. |
| first_out | Iterator to the output sequence. |
| sequence_size | Size of the input sequences. |
| transform_op | Transformation callable object. |
[get<I>(firsts), next(get<I>(firsts),sequence_size))
are valid. [first_out, next(first_out,sequence_size)]
are valid.
|
inlinenoexcept |
Get num of tokens.


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Save Big On Select DOSS Bluetooth Speakers Today
Today, Amazon is discounting a number of DOSS Bluetooth Speakers, where you can save up to 38-percent on these speakers.
This is part of Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day, which means that this price is only going to be good today only. And these prices will expire at midnight PST.
This deal brings DOSS' speakers down as low as $19. The DOSS Soundbox Touch Wireless is just $19.57, and that's down from $39.99 (good for more than 38-percent off of its regular price). This is a really good entry-level Bluetooth speaker. It's going to sound okay, but you won't be blown away by it.
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There's also the DOSS Soundbox XL, which has 32W of power and it is priced at just $44.98. That is a really great price for a speaker that has a ton of power.
The DOSS E-go Alexa enabled Speaker is also on sale for just $24.48. This is much cheaper than the Echo Dot, and it's portable. With Alexa inside, you're going to be able to take Alexa anywhere you go. And it's also a pretty small speaker, so it's not going to take up a lot of space in your backpack or other bag.
The DOSS E-go II is also on sale for $24.99. This one does not have Amazon Alexa included, but it is a pretty small speaker. And considering the size, it's pretty impressive that it can put out this kind of power in a speaker.
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These are just some of the DOSS speakers that are on sale right now from Amazon. You can check out all of the DOSS speakers that are part of Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day by clicking here. Remember that these prices are good today only and will expire at midnight PST, so you'll want to grab one before it's gone.


Coffee Run is a hack project by Cong and Luu in order to explore the possibility of Slack as a platform to connect and interact with users and intelligent bot. Source code is available here. Design is available here.
The site was typesetted in Open Sans & Roboto Mono.


--- layout: news title: "Evil Romance Upon the Astral Sea?" author: Kay White characters: Moxie and Dhun’Galil Galanodel thread: Illicit Escapism date: 2018-07-01 ---
The pyromaniacal alchemist Moxie and Madness of the Dhun’galil, both of the Circle of Nemeses, were recently spotted dancing together atop the planar dreadnought, “The Little Conqueror”. What does this mean for the world? Is this a sign of a villainous romance? Can love even truly blossom amongst the wicked?
More to come, as the situation develops.
Moxie created by Amy
Dhun'Galil Galanodel created by Zachary Pickett


The Colibri service requires the user to authenticate in the RCTSaai federation.
The authentication process is performed by you, on your institution's server, using the credentials that you normally use on the network in other internal services such as your institutional e-mail or when you access the eduroam wireless network.
To start the authentication process press the button below.


The following Jelly tag libraries are defined in this project.
This tag library is also available as an XML Schema
| Tag Name | Description |
|---|---|
| statusCode | This is generally useful for programatically creating the error page. |
| redirect | |
| parentScope | |
| out | |
| once | |
| nbsp | |
| isUserInRole | |
| include | |
| header | |
| findAncestor | |
| documentation | This tag should be placed right inside the root element once, to describe the tag and its attributes. Maven-stapler-plugin picks up this tag and generate schemas and documentations. The description text inside this tag can also use Textile markup |
| doctype | |
| customTagLibrary.StaplerDynamic | More concretely, in Jelly, this often shows up as a problem as inability to access the "attrs" variable from inside a body, because every org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.DynamicTag invocation sets this variable in a new scope.To counter this effect, this class temporarily restores the original "attrs" when the body is evaluated. This makes the name resolution of 'attrs' work like what programmers normally expect. The same problem also shows up as a lack of local variables ? when a tag calls into the body via <d:invokeBody/>, the invoked body will see all the variables that are defined in the caller, which is again not what a normal programming language does. But unfortunately, changing this is too pervasive. |
| copyStream | |
| contentType | |
| compress | |
| attribute | This tag should be placed right inside org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DocumentationTag to describe attributes of a tag. The body would describe the meaning of an attribute in a natural language. The description text can also use Textile markup |
| adjunct |
This is generally useful for programatically creating the error page.
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
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| value (required) | int |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
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| url (required) | String |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
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| value (required) | Expression |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
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| role (required) | String |
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
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| page (required) | String | |
| it | Object | |
| from | Object | |
| class | java.lang.Class | |
| optional | boolean |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name (required) | String | |
| value (required) | String |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| var | String | |
| tag | String | |
| namespaceContext | java.util.Map |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
This tag should be placed right inside the root element once, to describe the tag and its attributes. Maven-stapler-plugin picks up this tag and generate schemas and documentations.
The description text inside this tag can also use Textile markup
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| publicId (required) | String | |
| systemId (required) | String |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
More concretely, in Jelly, this often shows up as a problem as inability to access the "attrs" variable from inside a body, because every
org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.DynamicTag invocation sets this variable in a new scope.To counter this effect, this class temporarily restores the original "attrs" when the body is evaluated. This makes the name resolution of 'attrs' work like what programmers normally expect.
The same problem also shows up as a lack of local variables ? when a tag calls into the body via <d:invokeBody/>, the invoked body will see all the variables that are defined in the caller, which is again not what a normal programming language does. But unfortunately, changing this is too pervasive.
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| template | Script |
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| reader | Reader | |
| inputStream | InputStream | |
| file | File | |
| url | URL |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| value (required) | String |
This tag does not accept any child elements/text.
This tag should be placed right inside
org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DocumentationTag to describe attributes of a tag. The body would describe the meaning of an attribute in a natural language. The description text can also use Textile markup| Attribute Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name (required) | String | |
| use | String | By default, use="optional" is assumed. |
| type | String | |
| deprecated | boolean |
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Cross compiling Go applications
I often write blog posts on different computers. Sometimes I write on my Macbook (which is where I run a local Hugo server to test things out), other times I SSH into my Raspberry Pi and write there until I am on my Macbook again. While writing my Why I learned Python blog post I asked some friends for feedback, however, I did not want to push an unfinished post to Github Pages, so I decided to serve my Hugo blog from my Raspberry Pi. I soon realized that I would have to install Hugo from source which could mean trouble…
Version mess
I bought a Raspberry Pi in late 2012, so I have one of the original Raspberry Pi Model B which are… well… pretty underpowered. This is usually not a problem as I tend to run services which do not need much resources. In it, I am running a headless setup of Debian 8, which as we all know probably has some outdated packages, but this tends not to be a problem, until now.
My blog is designed to work with Hugo 0.18+, however, it is not available in
the Debian repositories (well, no version is available actually). This should
be a non-issue, as all it takes is a go get
to pull and compile the latest
version. Little did I know that the latest Go version available for Debian 8
seems to be 1.3 which is not new enough for building Hugo. I could always
compile a new Go version, but there’s a big gotcha, with Go 1.5 the compiler
and runtime were rewritten in Go, meaning that Go 1.4+ is needed for building
it. This means that in order to install Hugo 0.18 I would have to compile Go
1.4 first and then compile Go 1.8. All of that on a Raspberry Pi? No thank you.
Cross compilation to the rescue
I figured that there must be a simpler way of getting Hugo 0.18 on there, so I started doing some research to see whether it was possible (and how hard it would be) to compile a Hugo binary on another architecture (x86_64 in this case). I soon came across this blog post that explained how to go about cross compiling code. I decided to try this on my Macbook, as it was what I was using. The instructions seemed a bit too simple though, I was sure I was going to run into other issues. Cross compiling could not be this easy, could it? Well yes, it was. I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth it all went and how quick it was. All it took was running:
env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=6 go build -v github.com/spf13/hugo
I then scp
-ed my freshly built binary and BAM! It worked flawlessly!
Feeling dumb as bricks
It turns out it did not have to go through all this trouble to get Hugo on Brinstar (thats what my Pi is called), as the Hugo releases page has binaries for ARM (though I did not test if they worked or not). Not only that, the Go downloads page provides ARMv6l binaries which for sure work on my model, I could have just downloaded that!
The moral of the story is: always look for pre-built binaries. All jokes aside, I was surprised at how uncomplicated cross compiling a Go binary was, which depending on what type of software you’re building could be a very big plus.


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Queens Gardens, 2017
Pricing
FREE - Family Event
Event Details
- Date: Sunday, 30 July 2017.
- Time: 3:00pm
- Location: Queens Gardens
Intro
Co-presented by Townsville City Council, this hugely popular garden concert has become a firm favourite on the events calendar for locals and visitors alike. Set in the leafy grounds of Queens Park, this 90 minute concert provides audiences with a variety of entertainment – not all of it chamber music.
Visiting Festival artists will be joined by local talent including the Barrier Reef Orchestra and the 1RAR band. The program includes Cheryl Barker and Peter Coleman-Wright performing arias from the operas Carmen and Tosca, and fast becoming a tradition, Tchaikovsky’s explosive 1812 Overture. Bring your picnic, some chairs and enjoy a truly delightful afternoon in the park.


Immutable infrastructure is an approach to managing services and software deployments on IT resources wherein components are replaced rather than changed. An application or services is effectively redeployed each time any change occurs.
Immutable Infrastructure
Does not mean Read Only in this case
Blue Green Deployments
Cattle
Rotate, Repave, and Repair
Blue Green
Faster is safer
Rotate datacenter credentials every few minutes or hours. Repave every server and application in the datacenter every few hours from a known good state. Repair vulnerable operating systems and application stacks consistently within hours of patch availability.
Justin Smith - Pivotal
Tools
Tools
Classic IaaS (AWS/Openstack)
Colocated Microservices and single page javascript apps
React/Angular2/Django/Node/Nginx/Postgres
Some third party services (auth and payment)
Platform
Platform
3 different projects deployed so far
Managed via an ops repo
Gitlab/Bash/Ansible/Python
Boto3/Shade
Testing
Testing
Gitlab CI Pipelines
Unit Tests
Functional Tests (Selenium, overnight and on demand)
Manual Testing (with self service environment builds)
UAT Testing
Infrastructure tests (full environment build per commit)
Scheduler
Jez Humble says build your own tools
Python boto/shade and gitlab triggers
Approximately 2K Lines
Scheduler
Scheduler
What should exist?
What does exist?
Recognise the delta
Alert
Modify to achieve desired state
Does not currently autoscale
Lessons
Obvious
Microservices and II do not require docker!
Docker is a good fit for building Microservices and II
Build times are slow(er) with VMs
Immutable is the default state for containers and not VMs
Keep dev/ci/staging/prod as similar as possible
B/G + DB requires thought (expand/contract)
Obvious
You need to ship logs
Ensure only one canonical source of configuration
Its easy to ignore alerts (Andon cord)
Stuck with VMs as the unit of scaling
Managing releases is inevitable
Decreasing the attack surface of VMs is difficult
Not So Obvious
Invest as much time as possible in sprint0
Aim for a working unit test pipeline for your first commit
Build an ops code pipeline to test your infrastructure as code
A number of related projects running in AWS and Catalyst Cloud
Manifest describes desired state of environments (dev/staging/prod)
What do these things do?
Infrastructure as code
+
Test driven development
=
Test driven infrastructure as code
Scripts
Python3/boto3/openstack
Alerts about state mismatches
Update dashboard with state and mismatches (dynamodb)
Manifest describes a schedule for termination and instantiation
Total waste of time
VMs not containers
Should replace the whole lot with Kubernetes
Giving me a lot more free time to debug Kubernetes network issues
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Woman shot at Chch house, armed police at the scene
A woman has been taken to hospital after being shot in the leg at a Christchurch house this afternoon.
Police were called to the property in Spreydon at 3.10pm after receiving a report from someone in the area who heard what sounded like a gunshot.
"The victim had already been taken to hospital when emergency services arrived," a police spokeswoman said.
"Police are speaking to the victim and people at the property to establish exactly what has taken place."
Police officers armed with rifles and one with a riot shield, a dog unit and an armed response team could be seen outside the Strickland Road property.
Part of the street has also been cordoned off.


A complete list of free resources and companies that are offering waived fees during COVID-19 pandemic.


API Documentation¶
-
class
flirimageextractor.
FlirImageExtractor
(exiftool_path='exiftool', is_debug=False, palettes=[<matplotlib.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap object>, <matplotlib.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap object>, <matplotlib.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap object>])¶ -
check_for_thermal_image
(flir_img_filename)¶ Given a valid image path, return a boolean of whether the image contains thermal data :param flir_img_filename: Input path for the flir image :return: Bool
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extract_embedded_image
()¶ extracts the visual image as 2D numpy array of RGB values
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static
extract_float
(dirtystr)¶ Extract the float value of a string, helpful for parsing the exiftool data :return:
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extract_thermal_image
()¶ extracts the thermal image as 2D numpy array with temperatures in oC
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get_image_type
()¶ Get the embedded thermal image type, generally can be TIFF or PNG :return:
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get_metadata
(flir_img_file)¶ Given a valid file path or file-like object get relevant metadata out of the image using exiftool
- Parameters
flir_img_file –
- Returns
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get_rgb_np
()¶ Return the last extracted rgb image :return:
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get_thermal_np
()¶ Return the last extracted thermal image :return:
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plot
(palette=<matplotlib.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap object>)¶ Plot the rgb and thermal image (easy to see the pixel values), include a matplotlib colormap to change the colors :return:
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process_image
(flir_img_file, RGB=False)¶ Given a valid image path, process the file: extract real thermal values and a thumbnail for comparison (generally thumbnail is on the visible spectre) :param flir_img_file: Input path for the flir image :param RGB: Boolean for whether to extract the embedded RGB image :return:
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static
raw2temp
(raw, E=1, OD=1, RTemp=20, ATemp=20, IRWTemp=20, IRT=1, RH=50, PR1=21106.77, PB=1501, PF=1, PO=-7340, PR2=0.012545258)¶ convert raw values from the flir sensor to temperatures in C # this calculation has been ported to python from # https://github.com/gtatters/Thermimage/blob/master/R/raw2temp.R # a detailed explanation of what is going on here can be found there
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save_images
(min=None, max=None, bytesIO=False)¶ Save the extracted images :return:
-


This is a folder that contains the Language files for different locales.
If you're building an internationalized application that needs support for multiple languages, you'll want to pull all of the static strings out of your application, then provide a translation file for each of your target languages.
/views/about.ejs

<%= __('whatIsApp?') %>

 <%= __('appDescription') %>

More about this implementation: https://github.com/mashpie/i18n-node
This file is provided in the folder as an example: Note that this is part of a campaign to rebrand our app for the German market as Bleistift Buben (or "Pencil Boys")
module.exports = {
// Key : Value
// e.g.
'whatIsApp?' : 'Was ist Bleistift Buben?',
appDescription : 'Bleistift Buben ist eine App für den Aufbau und die Aufrechterhaltung ' +
'Freunde, mit denen Sie Darlehen Bleistifte. Mit Funktionen wie Bleistift '+
'Ledger, In-App-Zahlungen, und Vintage-Foto-Filter ermöglicht PP eine schöne ' +
'neue Welt der Rechenschaftspflicht für die #1, #2 UND #3 Bleistifte. ' +
'Du wirst nie verlieren einen Freund über eine verlorene Bleistift nie wieder!'
};
The above technique works great out of the box for server-side views. But what about rich client apps? HTML 5, SPAs, PhoneGap, Chrome Extensions and stuff? What if your HTML templates are being served from a CDN? If you are using client-side templates, you can reuse Sails' i18n support to help you get your translated templates to the browser.
If you want to use Sails to internationalize your client-side templates, just put your front-end templates in a subdirectory of your app's /views
folder.
+ In development mode, you should retranslate and precompile your templates each time the relevant stringfile or template changes using grunt-contrib-watch, which is already installed by default in new Sails projects.
+ In production mode, you'll want to translate and precompile all templates on lift(). In loadtime-critical scenarios (e.g. mobile web apps) you can even upload your translated, precompiled, minified templates to a CDN like Cloudfront for further performance gains.
Alternatively, if you're writing a native Objective C or Android application, you may find the following resources helpful: + Apple's Official i18n Docs for iOS: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/BPInternational.html + Google's Official i18n Docs for Android: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization.html


The WSO2 SOA platform has the capabilities of Axis2 to add modules to extend its capabilities. The global modules will affect all the services deployed within the server. If you want to globally engage a particular module, click Manage > Modules > List. On the Deployed Modules page, you can globally engage any listed module.
A module is an archive file that bundles a set of classes, related libraries and third party library dependencies. You can learn more about Axis2 modules from the Axis2 manuals at: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_5_1/modules.html
To upload your module archive, all the class files and the module.xml descriptor file have to be available in the archive.
The folder structure of the module archive file will look as follows.
Test.mar - META-INF - module.xml TestModule.class TestHandler.class
Figure 1: Uploading module archive files.
Once the server has been restarted, the module will be active and displayed on the Deployed Modules page.
The module list contains the following entries for each module.
Figure 2: Available modules
All the available modules are shown above the currently engaged modules. The WS-Addressing module is always globally engaged. This list will be updated when you engage other available modules.


BUFFALO 66 A film review by Matt Williams
RATING: * 1/2* out of * * * *
Buffalo 66 is a quirky independent comedy that's heavy on the quirky and independent, and light on the comedy. Vincent Gallo's directoral debut, the film is a meandering mess that almost comes together at the end.
Billy Brown (Gallo) has just got out of prison after serving time for a crime (that he says) he didn't commit.
However, none of those three goals are as easy as they at first seem...particularly his parental visit.  Instead, they believe he is a successful businessman with a beautiful young wife.
To continue the deception, he enlists the help of Layla (Christina Ricci), a young student he kidnaps from a tap dancing studio. At first she is an unwilling accomplice, but she soon warms to Billy, and, much to his dismay, starts taking charge of the situation.
Billy Brown isn't a very likable character, and he's not interesting enough to carry the film along with that flaw. Layla is a tad more sympathetic, but she remains a complete question mark throughout the movie. Why is she desperate enough for love that she clings to her kidnapper? We never learn.
Billy's parents are amusing when they are first introduced, but they quickly outlast their welcome. Unfortunately, Buffalo 66 milks this gag for much more than it's worth. As a result, we get to spend extended time with these one-note characters, and the film suffers almost as much as the audience.
There are a couple of nearly-redemptive scenes toward the very end. We start to get a sense of what the film might have been with a little tighter direction by star Vincent Gallo. Alas, it is too little, too late.
With its off-key characters, unusual shooting styles and dialogue-heavy script, Buffalo 66 seems like the quintessential "indie film". Unfortunately, it's the type of indie film which gives "indie films" a bad name: style-heavy, pointless and just a tad pretentious.
Copyright 1998 Matt Williams
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I enjoy building tech products that solve problems. I design, code and do research. I am familiar with javascript and front end development with a past in java (enterprise stuff...). I've spent the last three years managing mobile apps for an airline.
I enjoy working on products and cooking them myself.
Feel free to reach me on github. Nikita's Github


3 hairstyle trends from Hollywood celebs to inspire your next look
by Sarah PriceKARACHI: Hollywood celebrities have taken over Instagram with trending hair and makeup looks to inspire us for our next event.
Taking cue from the late 90s and early 2000s, we can’t get over their modern take on these key styles. Think old-Hollywood side-parts, messy high buns and, of course, the full bangs.
If you’re looking to try something a bit different with your tresses, look to Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima or Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner. They are two very different looks, yet easy to manage if you want to experiment with something more than just your average blowdry or centre-part. And of course, Umbrella hit maker Rihanna shows us how the full fringe should be done.
Let’s take a look at the celebrities catching our eye of late and taking on these key beauty trends.
The side-part
It is back and we are here for it. The middle-parting craze is finally dimming down and we can see celebrities trying out different glamorous styles for formal events. Check out Lima channeling old world charm and looking drop dead gorgeous with sharp winged liner. Use a flat iron to curl your locks and set with a texturing hairspray for extra volume.
Messy high bun
We are sure Jonas Brother’s Joe would be impressed by his actor-wife Sophie when she stunned in this updo for an event. It seems the biggest hairstyles right now are heavily influenced by the 90s and early 2000s because messy buns with face-framing tendrils are back in fashion. Pair the look with a plum lipstick and gold hoops like the star to achieve a fun yet elegant look.
Full bangs
We remember bangs and they are returning with a bang too! Superstar singer Rihanna has been sporting the trend again recently and we adore how the very French-esque style makes our eyes pop out in all the right ways. Opt for a soft fringe that just touches the eyes to accentuate all the right features.
If you’re looking to experiment with the fringe further, try out British actor and activist Jameela Jamil’s signature style with natural waves and neon eyeliner. We are sure you’ll stand out from the crowd!


Class Dashboard
Dashboard
Namespace: DashboardBundle\Entity
Orm\entity(repositoryclass="dashboardbundle\repository\dashboardrepository")
Orm\table(name="dh_dashboard")
Located at DashboardBundle/Entity/Dashboard.php
Orm\entity(repositoryclass="dashboardbundle\repository\dashboardrepository")
Orm\table(name="dh_dashboard")
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Quizzes
We will have four quizzes this quarter and will drop your lowest quiz score automatically. These quizzes will be "take home" quizzes where you have a 24 hour window to complete the quiz and up to 30 minutes to finish it once you start. The questions will be:
- Short answer
- Writing small code snippets
- Finding errors in code we supply
- Explain out complex code, where background is explained but not coded


Kumaranalloor Sree Nagaraja Temple
ഓം നാഗരാജായ നമഃ
Kumaranallor Srinagaraja temple is one of the most serpent temple in Kerala.It was situated in Kumaranalloor ,a small village in Kottayam district.The Nagaraja temple was constructed and Punaprathishta during the year 1978.The first ThiruUtsav was held on the year 1979.The UpasanaMoorthi Nagaraja,Nagayekshi,Nagamathavu from Ullanur illom gave the devotees to the Tamil viswakarma for to bless the land forever with his eternal presence. The Madura illom has the right to do poojas in this temple and the Kadiyakkol illom has the right of thanthrika karmam.
Nagaraja is a Sanskrit word and its meaning is ‘King of Snakes’.Adishesha or Anantha and Vasuki are known as Nagarajas.Lord Anantha is the thousand-headed immortal and infinite snake upon whom rests Lord Vishnu in the primordial ocean of milk (Kshirasagara). The Lord of Serpents, Sheshanaga was incarnated to the earth in the form of Lakshmana during Treta Yuga and during the Dwapara Yuga, he incarnated as Balarama. He is said to be an eternal companion of Vishnu in all incarnations.Lord Vasuki is the necklace of Lord Shiva and he represents the dormant energy, called Kundalini, the serpent power.Anantha,Vasuki,Takshaka,Padma,Mahapadma, Gulika,Shamghapala and Karkkodaka are the Ashtanagas(eight great snakes) described in Hindu Puranas. Kashyapa and Kadru are considered as the parents of all snakes.


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Instructions: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement?


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Project: npn13g2v_VBIC_Q118 --- Model: VBIC (Rev.1.15)
Accuracy and Valid Range of the Model
Relative errors between simulated and measured data
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Valid ranges with best accuracy
Valid ic :
- <(0.0035*Nx*...) A
Valid vbe :
- (0.... - ...) V
Valid vce :
- (...- ...) V
Valid temperature :
- -40C - +125C


Generate multiple download links of a particular series in one click
[Currently supports series from O2tvseries.com and Tvshows4mobile.com for now]


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6.9. Executing Macros on a Region
A special command
lets you
execute a macro on each line in a region. How frequently do you
encounter an email with text that you want to yank, but that is
quoted several indentation levels? Of course, we can think of several
ways to delete the indentation quickly, but a line-oriented macro is
a quick approach too. You define the macro and execute it on a region
by typing C-x C-k r (for apply-macro-to-region-lines). Remember that
earlier we said that macros should set themselves up to repeat? This
command is different because it expects to work on one line at a
time. You don't want to set it up to repeat by
moving to the next line; it does that automatically.
Table 6-5 shows a quick line-oriented macro that
deletes indentation marks from text quoted in an email or
newsgroup message.
Table 6-5. Macro for deleting indentation marks|
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Course Schedule¶
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Course Topics |
Readings |
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Test |
Bonus Test (Optional) |
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September 7-13 |
TBD |
About this course |
Math Diagnostic |
Test 0: Course policies |
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2 |
September 14-20 |
TBD |
Chapter 2: Kinematics in 1 D |
Chapter 2 HW |
Diagnostic (Pre) |
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September 21-27 |
TBD |
Chapter 3: Vectors and Coordinate Systems |
Chapter 3 HW |
Test 1: Chapters 2 & 3 |
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4 |
September 28 - Oct 4 |
TBD |
Chapter 4: Kinematics in 2D |
Chapter 4 HW |
Bonus Test 1 |
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5 |
October 5 - 11 |
TBD |
Chapter 5: Force and Motion |
Chapter 5 HW |
Test 2: Chapters 4 & 5 |
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6 |
October 12 - 18 |
TBD |
Rest and Catchup (no new material) |
No HW |
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7 |
October 19 - 25 |
TBD |
Chapter 6: Dynamics I: Motion along a line |
Chapter 6 HW |
Bonus Test 2 |
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8 |
October 26 - Nov 1 |
TBD |
Chapter 7: Newton’s third law |
Chapter 7 HW |
Test 3: Chapters 6 & 7 |
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9 |
November 2 - 8 |
TBD |
Chapter 8: Dynamics II: Motion in a Plane |
Chapter 8 HW |
Bonus Test 3 |
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10 |
November 9 - 15 |
TBD |
Chapter 9: Work and Kinetic Energy |
Chapter 9 HW |
Test 4: Chapters 8 & 9 |
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11 |
November 16 - 22 |
TBD |
Chapter 10: Interactions and Potential Energy |
Chapter 10 HW |
Bonus Test 4 |
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November 23 - 29 |
TBD |
Chapter 11: Impulse and momentum |
Chapter 11 HW |
Test 5: Chapters 10 & 11 |
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November 30 - Dec 6 |
TBD |
Review and recap |
Practice Final Exam Qs |
Diagnostic (Post) Bonus Test 5 |


Global Functions in Namespace cppu
in Sourcefile unotype.hxx
- getTypeFavourUnsigned
template< typename T >
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- A working replacement for getCppuType (see there).
- Description
- There are three overloads of this function that together form the replacement
of getCppuType. The replacement has exactly the same semantics as
getCppuType, in that it returns correct results for the UNO type UNSIGNED
SHORT but not for the UNO type CHAR.
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- A working replacement for getCppuType (see there).
- Description
- There are three overloads of this function that together form the replacement
of getCppuType. The replacement has exactly the same semantics as
getCppuType, in that it returns correct results for the UNO type UNSIGNED
SHORT but not for the UNO type CHAR.
- Since
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SHORT but not for the UNO type CHAR.
- Since
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| workhorses {pomp} | R Documentation |
These functions mediate the interface between the user's model and the package algorithms. They are low-level functions that do the work needed by the package's inference methods.
They include
rinit
which samples from the initial-state distribution,
dinit
which evaluates the initial-state density,
dmeasure
which evaluates the measurement model density,
rmeasure
which samples from the measurement model distribution,
emeasure
which computes the expectation of the observed variables conditional on the latent state,
vmeasure
which computes the covariance matrix of the observed variables conditional on the latent state,
dprocess
which evaluates the process model density,
rprocess
which samples from the process model distribution,
dprior
which evaluates the prior probability density,
rprior
which samples from the prior distribution,
skeleton
which evaluates the model's deterministic skeleton,
flow
which iterates or integrates the deterministic skeleton to yield trajectories,
partrans
which performs parameter transformations associated with the model.
Aaron A. King
basic model components, elementary algorithms, estimation algorithms
More on pomp workhorse functions:
dinit()
,
dmeasure()
,
dprior()
,
dprocess()
,
emeasure()
,
flow()
,
partrans()
,
pomp-package
,
rinit()
,
rmeasure()
,
rprior()
,
rprocess()
,
skeleton()
,
vmeasure()


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Drake
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The most fundamental object in multibody mechanics is the coordinate frame, or just frame.
Unless specified otherwise, all frames we use are right-handed Cartesian frames with orthogonal unit-vector axes x, y, and z forming a basis that represents the frame's orientation, and an origin point O serving as the location of the frame. We use capital letters to denote frames, such as A and B. Here is a typical Drake frame F:
Fz ^ Fy | / | / Frame F | / o ------> Fx Fo
Frame F's origin point is \(F_O\) (Fo
in code) and its basis is the set of three mutually orthogonal unit vectors \(F_x, F_y, F_z\) (Fx
, Fy
, Fz
). The basis is right-handed because \(F_z = F_x \times F_y\).
There is a unique inertial frame commonly called the World frame W, sometimes called Ground G or the Newtonian Frame N. (Inertial here means not rotating and not accelerating; any frame that has a fixed pose in W is also inertial.) Drake supports the notion of a Model frame, fixed in W and hence inertial, so that a simulation may be built up from multiple independent models each defined with respect to its own Model frame. This corresponds to the <model>
tag in an .sdf
file.
To simplify notation, we allow a frame to be specified in unambiguous contexts where only a point or a basis is required. In those cases, either the frame origin point, or the frame basis formed by its axes, are understood instead. You can infer what is being used by looking at the quantity symbol. For example, for a position vector p_AB
we are using points Ao
and Bo
, while for an angular velocity vector w_AB
we are using the bases Ax,Ay,Az
and Bx,By,Bz
.
A body is fundamentally a frame, so we use the same symbol for both a body and its body frame. For example, a body B has an associated body frame B. When we speak of the "location" or "pose" of a body, we really mean the location of the body frame origin Bo or pose of the body frame B, respectively. Body properties such as inertia and geometry are given with respect to the body frame. We denote a body's center of mass point as \(B_{cm}\) (Bcm
); its location on the body is specified by a position vector from Bo to Bcm. For a rigid body, any frames attached to it are fixed with respect to the body frame. For a flexible body, deformations are measured with respect to the body frame.
When a user initially specifies a body, such as in a <link>
tag of an .sdf
or .urdf
file, there is a link frame L that may be distinct from the body frame B that is used by Drake internally for computation. However, frames L and B are always related by a constant transform that does not change during a simulation. User-supplied information such as mass properties, visual geometry, and collision geometry are given with respect to frame L; Drake transforms those internally so that they are maintained with respect to B instead.
Given a frame F, we commonly need to work with another frame that is rigidly fixed to frame F, with all axes aligned, but with its origin shifted from Fo to some other point R. We call that an offset frame. In our mathematical notation we would write that \( F_R \). In code we don't have subscripts so we lowercase the point name to make it look like one: Fr
is the closest we can come. Recall that we also permit frame names and body names to serve as points (by using their origins), so if we have a frame E or body B we can create Fe
(rigidly aligned with F but with origin at Eo) or Fb
(rigidly aligned with F but with origin at Bo). Here is a typical example to clarify the use of this notation:
We have the spatial velocity V_WP ( \( ^WV^P \)) of frame P in World, and the spatial velocity V_PB of a frame B that moves with respect to P. We would like to get V_WB, the spatial velocity of frame B in World. To do that we must shift V_WP to get V_WPb ( \( ^WV^{P_B} \)), where Pb is a frame rigidly aligned with P but with its origin at Bo.
This notation is not fully satisfactory since you may not always have available a convenient one-letter name for the point. In that case we suggest that you first define the offset frame by explaining where its origin is to be placed, and give it a locally-meaningful frame name. Then work with the newly-named frame rather than deriving the name from the original frame. When in doubt, use comments to clarify your precise meaning. That's a good idea even if the notation fits since some readers of your code may not be facile with this notation.
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Why was the Victoria’s Secret fashion show cancelled after 23 years?
The Victoria’s Secret fashion show has officially been cancelled after 23 years.
Since 1995, Victoria’s Secret have held a runway show with top models – branded ‘angels’ – to show off all of their wildest wares.
This year however the angels will not be taking flight as the show will not be taking place.
Why has the Victoria’s Secret fashion show been cancelled?
The show has been cancelled after years of falling views.
Last year, 3.3 million people tuned in to the runway show. This might sound impressive, however these numbers pale in comparison to the show in 2001 which drew in 12 million viewers.
In third quarter results announced earlier this week, Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands reported a net loss of $252m (£195.1m) in third quarter results announced this week.
When asked if the show would be taking place, Stuart Burgdoerfer, the chief financial officer of the company, replied: ‘We’ll be communicating to customers, but nothing that I would say is similar in magnitude to the fashion show.
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This news also comes after chief marketing officer Ed Razek stepped down, following comments he made about how the brand didn’t think ‘transsexuals’ should be part of the Victoria’s Secret show. He later apologised.
It’s not yet known whether the show will be taking place again next year.


Creating Localized Pages for a Language
How to create localized pages for a language that has been added to the site but does not yet have localized pages created. This can occur if localization was enabled when a language was disabled or if localization was enabled but not all pages were set as translatable, therefore the individual pages need to be chosen. Users must be granted Edit Module/Add Content permissions to the Languages module.
Localized content must be enabled. See "Enabling Localized Content"
- Navigate to Admin > Advanced Settings > Languages - OR - Go to a Languages module.
- Select the Languages tab.
- Optional. In the Enabled column of the Culture grid, beside the language if it is not yet enabled.
- In the Content Location - No of Pages column of the Culture grid, click the Create Pages In This Language button beside the required language.
- This opens the Localize Pages page that displays the number of pages that will be localized at the "Number of Pages to Localize" field.
- Click the Localize Pages button.
- This displays a progress bar that lists each of the pages and content that is being created for the chosen language.
- Once all the translations are completed, you are returned to the Languages module and you can see the current status of translations for the language. E.g. There are 12 pages of translations created which is 100% of the total number of site pages and of those 12 pages, zero percent ( 0% ) have been marked as translation completed. The language is not active on the site.
Next Steps: You are now ready to begin translations for this language. See "Translating a Page" and See "Translating a Module"


Tizen Package API
Input package path to Install:
Package Installation Status:
Input package ID to Uninstall:
Package Uninstallation Status:
Input package id:
Package Information:
Packages Information:
Notifications:


MR. NANNY A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1993 James Berardinelli
MR. NANNY
Rating (Linear 0 to 10): 1.1
Date Released: 10/8/93 Running Length: 1:23 Rated: PG (Violence)
Starring: Terry "Hulk" Hogan, Sherman Hemsley, Austin Pendleton, Robert Gorman, Madeline Zima, Raymond O'Connor Director: Michael Gottlieb Producer: Bob Engelman Screenplay: Edward Rugoff and Michael Gottlieb Music: David Johansen and Brian Koonin Released by New Line Cinema
How's this for a pitch: Hulk Hogan as a babysitter wearing a tutu. While I freely admit that it doesn't sound promising, it's nevertheless astounding that the production team was able to take this simple idea and create one of the most monstrously agonizing motion pictures to come along this year. By comparison, STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT is actually watchable.
Hulk Hogan plays down-on-his-luck ex-wrestler Sean Armstrong, a man who's afraid to get into the ring again because of recurring bad dreams (these sequences are so violent that they may disturb young viewers). To give Sean something to do, his best buddy and manager Barney (Sherman Hemsley) gets him a job as a bodyguard for computer genius Alex Mason (Austin Pendleton). Mason has invented a new super computer chip and a psycho is out to get it, so the engineer needs someone to look after his two motherless children (played by Raymond O'Connor and Madeline Zima). Reluctantly, Sean agrees, but only because they already have a nanny and his job will be strictly protection. No sooner has he arrived, however, than the nanny quits and Armstrong finds himself babysitting two demons incarnate.
For a movie to rank alongside CHILDREN OF THE CORN 2, it has to be undeniably awful. Few who see MR. NANNY will disagree. Even by the generally low-quality standards of television movies, this film is unacceptable. Watching the whole thing is sort of like being strapped to a chair and forced to watch the worst three re-runs of THREE'S COMPANY in succession.
I'm not going to talk about the plot. It doesn't make any sense, but it probably wasn't intended to. After all, it's nothing but a vehicle to get Hogan into the tutu. Everything that happens before and after that scene is meaningless and nonsensical; you might as well sleep through the rest of the movie - at least your dreams would have a chance of entertaining you.
No one expects Hulk Hogan to act. That's a given. So why does the script burden him with several semi-dramatic scenes? He can't handle them - we know he can't - but he's forced to stumble through them anyway.
No one in this cast can act to save a limb. Sherman Hemsley is still George Jefferson and Austin Pendleton looks like he got lost on the way to a mad scientists' convention.
Most of the so-called humor in this films comes at the expense of Hogan, as might be expected. He's hit on the head with bowling balls, drenched with water, covered in flour, and electrocuted. Not one of these instances is funny, and it isn't just because of the inept direction of Michael Gottlieb. Such comedy, while once funny with HOME ALONE, has long since worn out its welcome. Here, it's handled in such a pedestrian manner that it comes across with the audible clunk of a standup comic's joke falling flat.
It's hard to convey the barrenness of this motion picture's virtues. The production values are poor, the music score is annoying, the dialogue is stilted and insipid, and the action scenes are shoddily photographed. MR. NANNY never comes close to entertainment, even in the much-publicized tutu scene, which is an anticlimax for anyone who's seen Hogan's Right Guard commercials.
Do whatever is necessary to avoid this movie. If one your children mistakenly believe that this would be a good way to spend an afternoon, offer them anything to change their minds. And if you somehow find yourself in a darkened theater watching the opening credits to MR. NANNY, forget the money you paid, and run for the exits. Perhaps your sanity will be salvageable. The mere fact that I sat through this entire movie is proof that it's already too late for me.
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HELLO WORLD! How you doin'
I've just about completed my first week of DevBootcamp Phase 0 and I must say, I'm impressed the amount of material covered in such short time. It's now drilled into my core that understanding how to use commands in the terminal is like the trunk of my DBC education tree, off of which each branch will grow from. I'm happy to have a curriculum to guide me through this toolbox of UNIX magic, and to recognize that I have the know-how to research and find what I need within the dev community.
OK Recap!--Let's talk version control. What are the benefits?
- Collaborate on projects with other people and work simulteanously
- Track and merge all major changes to a file from multiple people
- Keep a master version unpolluted by funky code
- Test different versions before declaring it final
The way I see it, a world without version control would be a very scary, unproductive and confusing place, with hundreds of local versions of the same files and no safe or efficient way to ever merge changes!
This would be like sending an essay to 3-4 people to critique, and then receiving dozens of mysterious, untracked changes. You'd have to compare 4 different versions and find all the changes yourself! How awful! Fortunately, version control has made it so developers will never need to experience such woes.
So how do you implement version control you ask? You use a version control system like Git!
Git is a software that lives on your local machine and you can use it within your terminal. It helps you keep track of your changes by creating branched versions off of your master copy. Your master is just as it sounds--the very final version of whatever you're working on. You can work on each branch separately and then merge them all together into the master when they're absolutely ready. There are a few key commands you need to use git:
- git checkout -b [name]
The [name] placeholder is where you would put your branch name. This command creates a new branch from your master version. - git status
This command shows whether any of the files or directories in your branch have any changes, and in what stage they're in for the version control process. They can either be "untracked", "added", or "staged to commit". When you commit the changes, they disappear from your status log. - git add
This adds a file so that it's 'staged to commit' and the changes can be tracked and committed as final. - git commit
This step saves your changes and updates your local repository with the new version.
So why use GitHub?
GitHub is an online Git repository hosting service where you can push and store your local git versions. This is useful so you can work together with others on the same project, and everything is stored in the cloud, making it more accessible. GitHub also provides a social networking and community-driven environment for reviewing and collaborating on projects.
Thanks for reading my very first blog post for DevBootcamp, Phase 0 Week 1!


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Ability to detect code and resource changes runtime and reload them.
Full support for all versions of the HTTP protocol built on top of a asynchronous I/O engine.
Support for web applications similar to the ones found in servlet based application servers.
Web socket support.
Support for RESTful services with automatic conversion of beans to and from JSON and XML.
XSP - template language with an ultra fast compiler which compiles pages directly into Java classes.
Built in support for handling multipart content efficiently.
Integration with Eclipse through a plugin.
Deployment and rollback of web applications to a production site from command line or Eclipse.
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You have old_passwords=1 in your my.cnf. I'm guessing this is because you used one of the my-small.cnf, my-large.cnf etc. templates provided with your MySQL distribution.
These files can easily win the "most outdated sample configuration file contest".
Usually it's no big deal: if some parameter isn't right, you just go and change it. Some variables, though, have a long-lasting effect, and are not easily reversed.
What's the deal with old_passwords?
No one should be using these anymore. This variable makes the password hashing algorithm compatible with that of MySQL 4.0. I'm pretty sure 4.0 was released 9 years ago. I don't know of anyone still using it (or 4.0 client libraries).
The deal is this: with old_passwords you get a 16 hexadecimal digits (64 bit) hashing of your passwords. With so called "new passwords" you get 40 hexadecimal digits (plus extra "*"). So this is about better encryption of your password. Read more on the manual.
How do I upgrade to new password format?
You can't just put a comment on the "old_passwords=1" entry in the configuration file. If you do so, the next client to connect will attempt to match a 41 characters hashed password to your existing 16 characters entry in the mysql.users table. So you need to make a simultaneous change: both remove the old_passwords entry and set a new password. You must know all accounts' passwords before you begin.
Interestingly, old_passwords is both a global and a session variable. To work out an example, let's assume the account 'webuser'@'localhost' enters with '123456'. Take a look at the following:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SET SESSION old_passwords=0; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SELECT PASSWORD('123456'); +-------------------------------------------+ | PASSWORD('123456') | +-------------------------------------------+ | *6BB4837EB74329105EE4568DDA7DC67ED2CA2AD9 | +-------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SET SESSION old_passwords=1; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SELECT PASSWORD('123456'); +--------------------+ | PASSWORD('123456') | +--------------------+ | 565491d704013245 | +--------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec
So, the PASSWORD() function consults the old_passwords session variable.
To upgrade 'webuser'@'localhost''s password we do:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SET SESSION old_passwords=0; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SET PASSWORD FOR 'webuser'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('123456')
Go ahead and see the password entry on the mysql.users table.
What we've just done is to set a 41 characters password hash for that account. Now, the next time the client wishes to connect, it must know in advance it is to expect a new password, otherwise it will encode a 16 characters hash, and try to match it with our new 41 characters hash. It is now time to perform:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>SET GLOBAL old_passwords=0; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec
This will apply to all new connections made from that moment on (not affecting any existing connections). So, make sure you have updated passwords for all accounts.
To wrap it up, don't forget to set old_passwords=0 in the my.cnf file, or, better yet, completely remove the entry.
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EBD - Easton Bible DIctionary
Lawyer
LAWYER
"LAWYER "among the Jews, was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he expounded in the schools and synagogues (
Matthew 22:35
;
Luke 10:25
). The functions of the “lawyer” and “scribe” were identical. (See DOCTOR.)
"LAWYER "among the Jews, was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he expounded in the schools and synagogues (Matthew 22:35; Luke 10:25). The functions of the “lawyer” and “scribe” were identical. (See DOCTOR.)


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I must admit, No Doubt's single "New" is quite catchy. It was bouncy and energetic enough to get me to go see this new film from director Doug Limon, the man who had brought us the humorous Swingers a little while back. The result? A movie that's just as good as that song, really.
It follows the lives of several individuals over the course of one weekend. First we hear about a grocery bagger (Sara Polley) who runs into a monetary situation problem and ends up selling bogus drugs at a rave (with bad results, as a drug dealer feels he's been swindled by her); then comes the story of an English grocery store worker (same store) who heads to Vegas for the weekend with friends, where sex, gunplay, and stolen car trouble come into play; then we see the story of two gay movie actors (played by Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr) who deal with a cop's strange insurance presentation and hitting a girl (Sara) with their car; and, finally, we come to another grocery worker (Katie Holmes) who has a strange fascination with said drug dealer (the one mentioned earlier).
Really, it's all confusing to keep track of in review format, your best bet is to just, well, go. The movie features some very good acting from all angles, and Limon adds the same humorous energy he had with Swingers to this particular product. The dialogue is pretty snappy and the resolution is pretty well realized, not going for the sappy happy ending nor the dreaded bad ending. Think of it as a, well, ending.
The intertwining of stories is a particularly good element to the movie, as it's never really confusing and tells different sides of the story, like Sliding Doors kinda did. However, it's better suited for the younger generation who want a little spice in their flicks, which Sliding Doors kinda isn't.
 How annoying...
RATING: 7 (out of 10)
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Businessmodel of MINDBODY
Customer Segments
MINDBODY has a niche market business model, with a specialized customer segment. The company targets its offerings at organizations in the health and wellness services industries.
Value Proposition
MINDBODY offers four primary value propositions: accessibility, performance, risk reduction, and brand/status.
The company creates accessibility by providing a wide variety of options. Its solutions are designed to engage both the demand and supply sides of the wellness services industry. The industry encompasses a broad range of activities, including health and fitness, salon and spa, integrated health, children’s activities, and fine arts.
The company demonstrates strong performance through tangible results. Specific positive outcomes for clients include the following:
- Jean Paul Salon used MINDBODY’s solutions to increase its gift card sales by 27%
- Flying Fantastic used MINBODY’s solutions to boost its revenues by 83% in one year and get 97% of its clients to book reservations online
- Wee Sally used MINDBODY’s solutions to increase its revenues by 33%, obtain 25% more clients, and increase its retention rate to 36% within one year
- CrossFit Inferno used MINDBODY’s solutions boost its revenues by 27%, increase its recurring revenues by 27%, and retain 63% of its members within one year
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Powerflow Yoga used MINDBODY’s solutions to increase its revenues by 50%, boost its recurring revenues by 112%, and increase its retention by 63% within one year The company reduces risk by maintaining high safety and security standards. Specific efforts include:
- Security Data Centers – The company utilizes secure Tier 4 data centers that are monitored on a 24x7x365 basis by experienced information technology professionals.
- Secure Transmission and Sessions – The company utilizes Transport Layer Security (TLS), a form of data encryption, to ensure that all Internet communications remain private.
- PCI-DSS & HIPAA Compliance – The company undergoes an annual audit to maintain PCI Level 1 certification for its network protocols, and its annual HIPAA risk assessment has been approved by the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program.
- Network Protection – The company’s servers are protected by best-of-class router technology, layer 7 firewalls, and TLS encryption to guard against data breaches, hackers, spyware, and other threats. Its networks are monitored through a Security Incident Event Management (SIEM) system that obtains logs from all network systems and sets off alert triggers based on related events.
- Data Backups – The company stores client data on a secure server that requires access authentication. To prevent data loss, snapshots of data are made every 15 minutes.
- Vulnerability Analysis and Reporting – The company utilizes third-party security specialists and tools to monitor production and application infrastructure in order to quickly identify vulnerabilities.
- Incident and Breach Notification – The company maintains “runbooks“ with more than 500 procedures detailing how to respond to system alerts and a Crisis Communications Plan providing instructions on how to notify customers in the case of a large-scale event.
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Disaster Recovery (DR) – The company maintains a Disaster Recovery data center to ensure the availability of its systems in the case of a serious issue at its primary data center. The company has established a strong brand due to its success. It bills itself as the top provider of cloud-based business management software for the wellness services industry. It serves more than 60,000 businesses and 329,000 wellness practitioners in more than 130 countries. These groups serve millions of end users. Lastly, it has won many honors, including the following:
- The Best In Show 2016 W3 Award in the Mobile App/Sites: Health and Wellness category and the Gold 2016 W3 Award in the Mobile App/Sites: Fitness category
- A 2017 Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile App for the Connected Lifestyle
- A 2017 BIG Innovation Award winner for its branded mobile app solution, Engage
- Recognition as one of the Best Large Companies to Work for by Glassdoor
- Ranking in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 ### Channels
MINDBODY’s main channel is its direct sales team. The company promotes its offerings through its website, social media pages, search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, online display advertising, print advertising, and participation in industry events such as trade shows and conferences. It hosts an annual conference called BOLD at which it invites customers to network.
Customer Relationships
MINDBODY’s customer relationship is primarily of a personal assistance nature. The company assists customers in the following ways:
Support Services – The company provides general phone, e-mail, and chat support. It also offers premium support, providing a dedicated product expert to address an individual client’s needs. The expert’s specific activities include customer service, onboarding, and staff training. There are two levels of support plans:
- Premium Start – Company associates offer up to six hours of time to build a new site and conduct training calls
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Premium Start Plus – Company associates offer up to 10 hours of time to build sites and conduct training calls; recommended for multi-use businesses Professional Services – The company provides consultants who offer guidance in the following areas:
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI) assessment
- Pricing
- Payroll
- The Sales Process
- Client Retention
- Creating Marketing Materials, Website, and Brand
- Improving Schedule/Class/Appointment Offerings
- Creating a Marketing Plan, Targets, and Action Plan
- Creating Better Systems: Check-In, Online Registration, etc.
- Hiring Staff and Training
- Budgeting and Cash Flow Despite this orientation, there is a self-service component. The company operates MINDBODY University (MBU), a program through which it offers online training courses on a self-paced basis. The program costs $35 per month with a minimum three-month commitment. Its website features a “Business Resources“ section that includes useful tools such as white papers, case studies, infographics, webinars, and videos. The site also provides answers to frequently asked questions.
Key Activities
MINDBODY’s business model entails designing and developing its software products and delivering related services to customers.
Key Partners
MINDBODY maintains the following types of partnerships:
- Technology Integration – The company works with organizations that build websites, mobile apps, and other digital applications that utilize the MINDBODY API
- Solution Collaboration – The company works with organizations to collaborate on the development of wellness products and services for its customers
- Branding Collaboration – The company works with organizations in co-branding partnerships Specific partners include FitBit, Manduka, Xero, Zenrez, Perkville, Emma, Fitmetrix, and Zumba.
Beyond these partnerships, MINDBODY also operates a referral program through which it invites clients to promote its offerings through their platforms (websites, mobile apps, etc.). Leads that result in new business earn the referring party a commission.
Key Resources
MINDBODY’s main resources are its human resources, who include the technology employees that design and develop its products and services, the sales employees that promote them, the consulting employees that provide advisory services, and the customer service employees that provide support. It places a high priority on intellectual property, with several pending U.S. and foreign patents.
Cost Structure
MINDBODY has a value-driven structure, aiming to provide a premium proposition through significant personal service and frequent service enhancements. Its biggest cost driver is sales/marketing expenses, a fixed cost.
Other major drivers are cost of revenues, a variable expense, and research/development and administration, both fixed costs.
Revenue Streams
MINDBODY has three revenue streams:
Subscription Revenues – Revenues generated from the sale of subscriptions for its cloud-based management software to customers. There are four plans:
- Starter – Offers basic features for managing schedules, streamlining tasks, and selling services
- Pro – Offers features for identifying growth opportunities and expanding services
- Accelerate – Offers advanced retention and marketing tools for expanding reach and increasing engagements
- Ultimate – Offers custom mobile apps, analytics, and enterprise-grade features Service Revenues – Revenues generated from the sale of related services such as online learning
Payment Revenues – Revenues generated from revenue-share arrangements with third-party payment processors on transactions between the company’s subscribers and their customers
Product and Other Revenues – Revenues generated from the sales of physical gift cards and point-of-sale system products to customers


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You can write an Image object into a file or a byte string buffer (blob) as format what you want.
If you wonder what is image’s format, use format property.
>>> image.format
'JPEG'
The format property is writable, so you can convert images by setting this property.
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as img:
img.format = 'jpeg'
# operations to a jpeg image...
If you want to convert an image without any changes of the original, use convert() method instead:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as original:
with original.convert('jpeg') as converted:
# operations to a jpeg image...
pass
Note
Support for some of the formats are delegated to libraries or external programs. To get a complete listing of which image formats are supported on your system, use identify command provided by ImageMagick:
$ identify -list format
In order to save an image to a file, use save() method with the keyword argument filename:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as img:
img.format = 'jpeg'
img.save(filename='pikachu.jpg')
You can write an image into a output stream (file-like object which implements write() method) as well. The parameter file takes a such object (it also is the first positional parameter of save() method).
For example, the following code converts pikachu.png image into JPEG, gzips it, and then saves it to pikachu.jpg.gz:
import gzip
from wand.image import Image
gz = gzip.open('pikachu.jpg.gz')
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as img:
img.format = 'jpeg'
img.save(file=gz)
gz.close()
Want just a binary string of the image? Use make_blob() method so:
from wand.image import Image
with image(filename='pikachu.png') as img:
img.format = 'jpeg'
jpeg_bin = img.make_blob()
There’s the optional format parameter as well. So the above example code can be simpler:
from wand.image import Image
with Image(filename='pikachu.png') as img:
jpeg_bin = img.make_blob('jpeg')


These are tools that we found helpful in designing our own robot, and hope you will too.
PTC Creo is our software of choice for designing robots. It features an easy to use interface, with powerful built in tools.
This is a library of tetrix pieces for PTC Creo. It holds most of the available tetrix pieces and are useful to use as references.
This guide, made by First, gives a good overview on how to design and 3D Print custom parts for your robot. It is very helpful if you are just starting out in 3D Printing and Designing.
These are tools that we found helpful in programming our robot, and hope you will too.
Android Studio is our software of choice to program our robot. It offers a variety of customization and holds capabilites unseen with other softwares.
Official Github Repository for the FTC Robot Controller Android Studio Project.
The Java Development Kit is required for Android Studio Install and programming in Java for the FTC Robot Controller.


Inline vs Inline Block
Inline Block: Any elements that comes in as a block (divs, paragraph, headers) will automatically take up the full width of the page, regardless of how much or how little content you put in. However, Inline Block makes an element a block box with height and width while also allowing other elements to sit next to it on the same line, as shown in the picture below.
Inline: Similar to Inline Block, Inline makes the element sit on the same line as another element, but without formatting it like a block. It only takes up as much width as it needs. As you can see on the left picture below, all the "divs" got squished to the smallest possible width because they do not maintain their dimensions. An element with display: inline cannot have a height, width, or a vertical margin.
Using Inline on divs
Using Inline on paragraph


Retrospective: Starship Troopers (1997)
By Eugene Z. Xia
One can enjoy this film if one is in the right mood. The film gives exactly the kind of respect the original story deserves--a juvenile sci-fi action flick with some pseudo-philosophy thrown in. Or as Scott Renshaw put it: "For one thing, you sense that the film-makers are aware of the pulp nonsense they have as source material".
Those who criticize the film for its technical and military "plot holes" probably should observe how an 8 year old boy play war games--they are more interested in imagining shooting automatic rifles than pushing buttons to launch missiles they cannot see. Once one realizes this aspect, one sees the frame of mind the director is in when he made the film:
An eight year old boy keeps nagging his dad (the director) to play space alien with him. He was of course not very interested, but the boy is after all his son. So he comes up with this brilliant idea. At 8, the boy has a lot of absurd but charming ideas, so he will play along but exaggerate the absurdity. The 8 year old will be seriously disappointed if the dad says that all he has to do is push a few buttons to launch a few nuke and the game is over, so he gave him a machine gun (the reason it is a machine gun rather than a 90's high tech ray-gun is probably a legacy of the 50's and also due the sense of humor on the part of the director).  Both had a great time.
There is a scene in the film where a soldier was decapitated by a flying bug. Ordinarily if this scene were set in a serious film or anything with a darker under tone such as Alien, I would be horrified and probably feel nauseated, but in this comic circus like atmosphere, I bursted out into a spontaneous laughter--the way I did when the huge guy exploded in a French restaurant in Monty Python's Meaning of Life (warning this scene is pretty gross too)--The absurdity of it all.
Beyond its entertainment value, the film did manage to convey a serious and subtle message to the adults. This kind of game is fun to play with the kids, but one has to recognize it for what it is and make sure that boys grow up to be adults. And a warning that adults should never play this game with other adults--look at the uniforms. In the end, the Doogie Hauser character in his black jacket and his boyish charm, said something like, "This is not a game any more. We are doing it for real now". One can't fail to recognize the menacing and sinister under tone of what he said.
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