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Overwatch is great!
There are several reasons why I love Overwatch:
Soldier 76
- I also like to play Soldier 76, he is my main attack character.
- He is simple to play, but hard to master.
- He is an all-around character, his heal makes him a team player.
- His ultimate is very effective at clearing the objective
D.Va
- I like to play D.Va, she is my main, because I am good at playing as her.
- She is a stellar tank, due to her defence matrix.
- D.Va's ultimate is good at clearing the objective
- Her mechless form is also quite effective
Winston
- I like to play Winston, he is a very effective tank due to his shield.
- He is also a very moblie character,due to his jump, he can bypass defences and jump to the point
- He is not my main tank, as I prefer D.Va
Reaper
- Reaper is an effective character up close, able to kill tanks extremely quick
- His teleport allows him to traverse vast distances in split second
- This allows him to be in the right place at the right time to win a match
- His wraith form makes him able to escape from sticky stiuations taking little damage
Lucio
- Lucio is a good healer, due to his abillity to heal his whole team at once
- Lucio does not skimp on offencive capabillities
- His push can clear the objective if used well
- His ultimate abillity is a game winner giving his team the massive health boost to win
Mercy
- Mercy is a good healer, to her concentraited heals on one character
- She is also very good being an offencive character due to her damage boost
- Her gun is also very similar to D.Va's out of mech side arm
- Her abillity to fly to her teammates allows her to travel across map easily
- Her ultimate can make or break a match


This event aims at applying the general knowledge of Chemical engineering.
Rounds scheme:
Round 1- Elimination Round
• The test consists of general chemical knowledge. 25 minutes will be given to complete the written test. Based on the score, participants will be selected for the next round.
Round 2- Ultimate Round
• There will be maximum 5 teams. It consists of following segments:
1. Questions based on topics of choice
2. Logical questions(how, why)
3. Buzzer round
4. Rapid fire
Rules:
1. Participants will be provided rough paper.
2. No textbooks or references will be allowed.
3. Elimination criteria will be decided on the basis of the results.
2 participants per team
9th March 2017
Round 1: 9:30 to 10:30 AM Round 2: 2:00 to 3:30 PM
Round 1: CR-11 Round 2: CR-10
50/-per team
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Julynter
Julynter is a linter for Jupyter Notebooks that aims at improving their Quality and Reproducibility based on the following guidelines [1]:
- Use short titles with a restrict charset (A-Z a-z 0-9 .-) for notebook files and markdown headings for more detailed ones in the body.
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- Declare the dependencies in requirement files and pin the versions of all packages.
- Use a clean environment for testing the dependencies to check if all of them are declared.
- Put imports at the beginning of the notebooks.
- Use relative paths for accessing data in the repository.
- Re-run notebooks top to bottom before committing.
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Authors
- João Felipe Pimentel (UFF)
- Leonardo Murta (UFF)
- Vanessa Braganholo (UFF)
- Juliana Freire (NYU)


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Clint Eastwood's new film American Snipe has broken box-office records in its first week on release. It is quite an achievement for the octogenarian director, the more so, perhaps, given its ornithological theme. American Snipe tells the true story of a snipe with a record number of kills. The film follows the bird as it flies around, swooping down to catch and gobble up crane flies, horse flies, deer flies, beetles, dragonflies, crickets, grasshoppers, ants, mayflies, butterflies, caddis flies and moths. No explicit moral judgements are made, though at one point an ornithologist, observing the slaughter, remarks “They're just insects”.
The film has provoked controversy in the United States, winning plaudits from right-wingers while those on the liberal left have condemned it for painting a picture of unalloyed avian savagery, instead of showing nature as twee and cuddly.
The role of the American snipe is played by an award-winning snipe with a particularly long slender pointy bill.


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New mini solution of DevKit State to monitor DevKit states and control the user LED with Azure IoT Hub device twins. Read the full release notes.


The task consists of annotating a given word in the context in which it plays. So remember to:
Annotate the word within the context in which it plays!
If the selected word is part of a multiword entity, the word has to be annotated with the class you would associate to the whole entity. For example if the selected word is Mean and the snippet shows "[...] Mean Avarage Precision [...]", the class to choose is Measure. So remember that:
A word within a multiword entity is the multiword entity!
If a word within the context referes to something, for example, using a pronoun or calling it with the class to which it belongs, the class to choose is None or Garbage. For example: if the selected word is metric and the snippet shows "[...] the last metric shown [...]", the class to choose is None; If the selected word is it and the snippet shows "[...] the last score is wonderful, it comes from a miracle [...]", the class to choose is Garbage. So remember that:
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This module uses the Box2D library to add physics to your iOS based Titanium games.
We strive to keep the API of this module as close as we can to the API of Box2D while making it simple for Titanium devs to work with.
This module is to be considered a beta, but as it is open source, we encourage all who can to contribute to it.
To access this module from JavaScript, you would do the following:
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The Box2D variable is a reference to the Module object.
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// Correct the KL divergence w.r.t. the exaggeration
error = (error - np.sum(P) * np.log(exaggeration)) / exaggeration
print("Iteration % 4d, error %.4f" % (iteration + 1, error))
grad_direction_flipped = np.sign(update) != np.sign(gradient)
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if should_call_callback:
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India has become the only nation so far to reach Mars on its first attempt. It will also have spent the least amount of money to do so.
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The Metrics Required for Raising a Series A Round | EquityZen | Where Private Investors Access Proven Startups
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www.ycombinator.com
You shouldn't start a company just because it's on this list. 1. It’s mostly here to help stimulate you to think about ideas.
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Comcast, which makes more money than Goldman Sachs despite being voted Worst Company in America twice, may be getting serious about improving ...
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From several meetings I had over the last week I discovered a myth in science and public opinion regarding the topic of CVC (Corporate Venture ...
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Intro This page is a supplement to the the SaaS Metrics 2.0 blog post. It provides detailed definitions for each of the key metrics used i
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Yesterday I took part in the heats of the App Throwdown at IBM Connect.


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This tool allows you to send sticker to your facebook friends.
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Post Holdings, Inc. (POST) CEO Rob Vitale on Q4 2019 - Earnings Call Transcript
by SA Transcripts, https://seekingalpha.com/author/sa-transcriptsPost Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:POST) Q4 2019 Earnings Conference Call November 22, 2019 9:00 AM ET
Corporate Participants
Jennifer Meyer - Investor relations
Rob Vitale - President and Chief Executive Officer
Jeff Zadoks - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Chris Growe - Stifel
Andrew Lazar - Barclays
Kevin Lehmann - Evercore ISI
Bill Chappell - SunTrust
Ken Zaslow - Bank of Montreal
John Baumgartner - Wells Fargo
Michael Lavery - Piper Jaffray
Operator
Welcome to Post Holdings Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2019 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. Hosting the call today from Post are Rob Vitale, President and Chief Executive Officer and Jeff Zadoks, Chief Financial Officer. Today's call is being recorded and will be available for replay beginning at 12:00 PM Eastern Time. The dial-in number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and the passcode is 9777955. At this time all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Jennifer Meyer, Investor relations of Post Holdings for introductions. You may begin
Jennifer Meyer
Good morning and thank you for joining us today for Post's fourth quarter 2019 earnings call. With me today are Rob Vitale, our President and CEO and Jeff Zadoks, our CFO. Rob and Jeff will begin with prepared remarks and afterwards we'll have a brief question-and-answer session. The press release that supports these remarks is posted on our Web site in both the Investor Relations and the SEC filing sections at postholdings.com. In addition the release is available on the SECs Web site.
Before we continue, I would like to remind you that this call will contain forward-looking statements which are subject to risks and uncertainties that should be carefully considered by investors as actual results could differ materially from these statements. These forward-looking statements are current as of the date of this call and management undertakes no obligation to update these statements. As a reminder, this call is being recorded and an audio replay will be available on our Web site.
And finally, this call will discuss certain non-GAAP measures. For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the nearest GAAP measure see our press release issued yesterday and posted on our Web site.
With that, I will turn the call over to Rob.
Rob Vitale
Hey, good morning. Thanks Jennifer and thank you all for joining us.
This morning, I'm going to very briefly go over our 2019 results. Most of my comments address our strategic activities and our 2020 expectations. Our fourth quarter came in as expected. Each business performed reasonably well.
For the full year consolidated adjusted EBITDA of 1.21 billion landed at the midpoint of our guidance range. This represents a growth rate of 5.4% on a pro forma basis, which exceeds our long-term algorithm of 3%. Jeff will discuss the breakdown of our segment performance.
The key strategic initiative for 2019 was the IPO of our Active Nutrition business now known as BellRing Brands Inc. It began trading on the NYSC on October 17, under the ticker BRBR. I want to thank and congratulate our teams for the exceptional effort that made the IPO possible.
The legal and tax structure is complicated, but in essence Post sold to the public approximately 29% of its equity interest in the Active Nutrition business and retained ownership of 71%. A document illustrating the structure is posted on our Web site and on the SECs Web site. BellRing is well-positioned as a leader in convenient nutrition and we look forward to continuing to support its growth. You can hear directly from the BellRing leadership team on our conference call later this morning.
We continue to believe that we should receive government clearance for our acquisition of the TreeHouse Ready-to-Eat Cereal business. We believe that there is intense competition in the cereal business and that this deal is unambiguously pro-consumer and the efficiencies achieved will allow us to compete more aggressively. We are surprised that this combination has received the degree of scrutiny that it has, but we are actively engaging with the FTC and we hope to convince the FTC to approve the transaction soon.
Our outlook for fiscal 2020 adjusted EBITDA including 100% contribution from BellRing is $1.22 billion to $1.27 billion, which added to midpoint is in line with our 3% long-term growth algorithm. We expect modest favorability to the second half of the year. As you likely have seen BellRing has guided for fiscal 2020 adjusted EBITDA at a range of $192 million to $202 million.
Our guidance incorporates among others the following assumptions. We continue to see the domestic in U.K. cereal markets as flat to slightly declining. Our promotional timing favors the second half of 2020 in response to product introductions and competitive activities. Demand growth remains strong for our food service business, our retail side dish business and our convenient nutrition products.
We faced commodity inflation in our retail businesses, but we have various tools to offset it including pricing and cost reduction. Labor markets remain tight through most of our manufacturing footprint. Accelerating demand in food service and retail refrigerated potato products have pressured category wide capacities, we will incur costs associated with expanding trap capacity and third-party sourcing as we navigate the supply constraint. These capacity limitations will temporarily dampen the consumption growth.
BellRing adjusted EBITDA growth is expected to be below historical trends for 2020 as we invest to support substantial top-line growth and incur approximately $7 million of incremental public company cost. And last, we assume a pound to dollar exchange ratio of 1.28.
Again, we expect these assumptions to build to a year that will be in line with our long-term algorithm, both with respect to growth and with respect to cash generation.
Recall that Post owns approximately 6% of the common equity of 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, we do not consolidate 8th Avenue because the capital structure and the control provisions are more akin to a minority investment. 8th Avenue had a challenging 2019 and its adjusted EBITDA forecast for 2020 in range of 100 million to 105 million. The capital structure includes net debt and preferred equity of 920 million at September 30. These estimates exclude any impact of the planned acquisition we announced last week.
Regarding capital allocation, in 2019, we generated 688 million in operating cash flow and we invested approximately 270 million in internal capital projects. We repurchased 3.3 million shares of common stock for $331 million. Considering adjusted EBITDA growth organically generated cash flow and the proceeds from the IPO, we meaningfully reduced leverage.
For 2020, I would anticipate a similar approach to capital allocation, which earmarks free cash flow towards investment in shares M&A or debt reduction and opportunistically uses the balance sheet depending on capital market conditions.
With that, I will now turn the call over to Jeff.
Jeff Zadoks
Thanks, Rob, and good morning everyone.
Our consolidated results this quarter met our expectations. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter and fiscal year were $303.6 million and $1.21 billion respectively. Pro forma net sales for the quarter grew 2.4%. Post consumer brands grew net sales and volumes by 3.5% and 1.6% respectively. Average net pricing improved 1.9% despite unfavorable mix primarily resulting from private labeled volume gains.
We saw a good improvement in segment adjusted EBITDA this quarter, which grew 6% compared to the prior year, primarily benefiting from the growth in net sales. Consistent with the third quarter pricing fully offset year-over-year systemic inflation in commodities, freight and wages this quarter.
Weetabix net sales decreased 2.6% over the prior year quarter driven by the weak British pound, which created the headwind to net sales growth of approximately 550 basis points. Average net pricing increased 12.5% year-over-year as we continue to lap our promotional strategy reset.
Strong volume growth in private label biscuit volumes was offset by declines in non-biscuit products resulting from capacity constraints on extruded products. Core Weetabix branded biscuit volumes continued to stabilize. Weetabix's adjusted EBITDA declined 8% more than half of which resulted from the unfavorable currency exchange rate. The balance of the decline was caused by greater investments in brand-building restoration of incentive compensation at a premium level and increased raw material costs.
It is important to note that for the full year the Weetabix segment grew adjusted EBITDA approximately 2% in spite of a currency headwind in excess of 500 basis points and the increased investments in brands and building and incentive compensation.
Net sales in food service increased 4.5% with volumes up 3.7% driven by strong growth in both ag and potato products. Volume growth and favorable product mix supported by gains in higher value added egg products grew up year-over-year adjusted EBITDA growth of 6%. The refrigerated retail segment had a good fourth quarter with net sales and volumes growing 2% and 3% respectively.
Side dish volumes remain healthy growing 9.4% this quarter. While Bob Evans branded side dishes continued to grow with volumes up nearly 15%, the capacity constraints Rob mentioned will temporarily inhibit the growth rate in 2020.
Segment adjusted EBITDA grew 3.8% this quarter and benefited from volume growth and an improved price cost relationship for sausage products. Higher side dish manufacturing costs were modest offset to this growth.
Interactive nutrition segment net sales decreased 2.5%, while adjusted EBITDA grew 4.7% benefiting from favorable input costs. You can hear further detail about Active Nutrition's results this quarter on the BellRing fourth quarter conference call which will be held later this morning.
Before moving to our guidance, I would like to provide a brief explanation of how we will report the Active Nutrition business going forward. As Rob mentioned, the structure of the IPO and related transactions is complicated, but I will keep this discussion at a high level. The IPO did not impact our fourth quarter or fiscal 2019 reporting perspectively Post will continue to consolidate the BellRing business, but will report a non-controlling interest for the 29% beneficially owned by its public shareholders.
BellRing Brands Inc., will have its own SEC filings, earnings releases and conference calls which may overlap but not necessarily duplicate Post disclosures. We have designated BellRing Brands Inc., and its subsidiaries as unrestricted under the terms of our credit agreements as such neither BellRing nor Post or obligor's or guarantors of the other party's debt.
Accordingly, we will report leverage statistics proposed independent of BellRing debt and adjusted EBITDA. Post pro forma net leverage on this basis is approximately 4.8x. This reflects $1.225 billion term loan repayment we made in October following the close of the IPO.
Turning to guidance, we expect adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2020 to be in the range of $1.22 billion to $1.27 billion including a 100% contribution from BellRing. Additionally, we expect to make capital expenditure investments in fiscal 2020 between $240 million and $260 million. Finally, exclusive of BellRing, we estimate cash taxes for fiscal 2020 will be approximately $95 million and we expect cash interest expense to be approximately $315 million.
With that, I'd like to turn the call back over to the operator for questions. Operator?
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Chris Growe of Stifel.
Chris Growe
Hi. Good morning.
Rob Vitale
Hi, Chris.
Chris Growe
Hi. I just wanted to ask if I could first, Rob, in relation to the guidance you gave for the year for Post. I guess first of all, you talked about 3% long-term rate, is that a reasonable rate for the company going forward?
And then, just understand kind of the factors that could push it to the upper end or the lower end. Are there some areas that whether be costs or maybe some of the capacity constraints that may limit your EBITDA growth in 2020?
Rob Vitale
Yes. We've long talked about the 3% being the long-term algorithm when you break the portfolio into roughly half cash generation, half growth and those aren't pure definitions because both sides of the business do both aspects of growing and generating cash flow. In terms of what would make the guidance higher or lower, it's a $50 million range on at the midpoint, just shy of 1.25. So relatively small changes could impact that range, cereal category being zero instead of down 1 is a meaningful contribution to that, slight changes in the demand equation on any of our -- where rapidly growing businesses could change that. And then, certainly there are cost implications throughout the portfolio. It's a six business unit portfolio. So, there are lot of moving pieces that could impact that guidance range.
Chris Growe
Okay. And just one follow-on question that -- and you have six different businesses as you noted, but just from like an input cost inflation and maybe in relation to, whether it be pricing or opportunity that offset that inflation, how would you look at that balance? We're not going through each business but in general for fiscal '20?
Rob Vitale
So I think it's important to note that I precisely mentioned inflation in the context of the retail business because of the Foodservice business while it has inflation, has a different pricing mechanism that we've talked about. So we tend to think about inflation different in that sector. So, it really impacts our more traditionally priced retail businesses.
And I think that when you look at the commodity infrastructure around sugar, grains, corn, oats. We're seeing what I would characterize as modest but persistent inflation across the categories and that through mix pricing, promotional activities and cost reduction, we expect to be able to offset enough of it to maintain the 3% growth that we have predicted.
Chris Growe
And just, sorry, one quick follow-on, are there any businesses where you've announced price increase already for this year for any of your divisions?
Rob Vitale
Carryover but not new.
Chris Growe
Okay. Thanks so much.
Rob Vitale
Thank you.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Andrew Lazar of Barclays.
Andrew Lazar
Good morning, everybody.
RobVitale
Good morning, Andrew.
Andrew Lazar
So first off, I think there seems to be some building concern over the fact that Post has been a pretty consistent market share gainer in the RTE business for some time. And that category competitive dynamics are going to somehow catch up to the company, so to speak this coming fiscal year. I guess given, one wouldn't expect either of the two largest players to accept being, I guess share donors sort of consistently. So I guess maybe can you perhaps discuss this in the context of your expectations for RTE in the coming year? Maybe expectations for category growth, sort of share performance and the type of maybe flexibility or so if you are building in to account for some of that potentially?
Rob Vitale
Well, certainly, I think we would be naive to assume that competitors has resource tenants talented as ours would consistently be shared donors. So, we certainly expect them to be aggressive and vibrant competitors not this year in each year. We have had good fortune in the last handful of years and I think a large part of that good fortune is that we were early in moving into some of the growth year areas around licensed sweetened products and that [indiscernible] has been perhaps overly addressed.
And that as we now look forward, we've talked about all this I think in some detail that we need to -- as a category and as a company, we look at innovation a bit bolder and broader manner and many of the changes that we have made over the last 18 months starting with changing leadership, all the way to looking at planning processes to free up cost for reinvestment are aimed at driving that category growth, so that it's real category growth rather than kicking up dust within a handful of licensed sweet products. But we look at that as an ongoing both challenge and opportunity and fully expect each if not all of our key competitors to be highly engaged and to compete for share. I would tell you that not all share is created equal, so that we look at trying to make sure that we are focused our competitive activities on fighting for the right share rather than each share.
Andrew Lazar
Okay. And then, I know it gets a little harder to sort of track deal sort of synergies and cost saves a little bit as integration sort of progresses. But could you remind us again what you have, that is sort of expected to be incremental cost saves from some of the recent deals that still flow into fiscal '20. Just trying to get a sense of how much of an EBITDA growth essentially can kind of come from discrete areas like deal cost saves that you would -- usually have better clarity here.
Rob Vitale
Sure. So I'm going to beg some latitude, because I'm going out for memory on deals that are a couple of years old and have blended between deal results and just additional continuous improvement. So, forgive me of relatively high margin for error but we are --
Andrew Lazar
That's how I live my life, Rob.
RobVitale
We closed the Clinton facility that we acquired with the Weetabix transaction at the end of the year. So that will roll over a $5 million to $7 million cost reduction into 2020. We have an ongoing cost reduction effort at Weetabix aimed at closing half of their facility that will occur in 2020 and then we have an ongoing integration in the supply chain at Bob Evans, it is actually in excess of the amounts we announced at acquisition, but longer in duration and more expensive because it involves more aggressive IT conversions than we announced when we undertook it.
All told in the portfolio, there is between $10 million and $20 million of cost reduction flowing through '20, but given that number in the magnitude of the EBITDA, it's difficult to directly track it from that number to where it flows through on the P&L.
Andrew Lazar
Okay. Thank you.
Rob Vitale
Sure.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of David Palmer of Evercore ISI.
Kevin Lehmann
Hi, good morning. Kevin Lehmann on for David. Question on CapEx this year, you had a step up of about $85 million, most of that I think it was to boost capacity in value-added eggs. So, two questions on that. Will some of that spend bleed into 2020? Then also how will you plan on measuring and ultimately judging the ROI on that spending? And then, what is the growth rate in value-added eggs that you're assuming to get there? Thanks.
Jeff Zadoks
In reverse order, the growth rate on value-added eggs is mid-single digits. Skipping to the first part of your question, there will be some spillover from 2019 to 2020 as we finalize the factory, which has now been commissioned and is producing products. So, yes, there is some carryover. And with respect to this project, we will look toward the utilization of the factory a year out, the utilization of our capacity related to value added eggs and measure the lift and that should be the resulting return on the capital invested.
We are being more aggressive in capital investments as labor costs are higher, and capital costs are lower. So we are being a bit more active in terms of identifying internal capital opportunities.
Kevin Lehmann
Got it. Thank you.
Jeff Zadoks
Thanks, Kevin.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Bill Chappell of SunTrust.
Bill Chappell
Thanks, good morning. Rob, I want to ask, what does the M&A pipeline look like? But I would want to know kind of the thought process behind the aggressive share repurchase in the quarter versus holding some of that cash back for potential M&A?
RobVitale
Well, I think as you know, we tend to look at relative value on a constant basis and make capital allocation decisions accordingly. We don't necessarily look at just the cash on our balance sheet as the source of capital available for M&A. So we look at it as a dynamic equation and look more for the opportunity side and then source it. Let me rephrase that. We opportunistically look at both the investment side and the sourcing side and act independently of each other.
Bill Chappell
So is that a way to say that you felt like your stock was cheaper than some of the deals that you're looking at?
Rob Vitale
I think I'm just going to repeat what I said. So that I --
Bill Chappell
Well, then moving to private brands, which we don't talk about as much on 8th Avenue. Can you help us understand, I mean are things improving there? I think the original thought was the business would have had close to $100 million of EBITDA a year ago or in this year we just completed. So and that's kind of the goal for next year where are we in that path and what size do we see for improvement?
RobVitale
I think you precisely laid it out, we're about a year behind. We intended for 2019 to be the year in which we took these three discrete businesses and melded them into one go-to market and one integrated model and that went poorly. So the execution of that has set us back 12 months. It is going better. We have over resourced it now, I think we under resourced it. So, when you look at the categories and you look at the strategic outlook, I expect to have some skepticism on this comment, but I remain fairly optimistic on the business. But we executed poorly and we need to fix that.
Bill Chappell
Got it. Thanks so much.
Rob Vitale
Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Ken Zaslow of Bank of Montreal.
Ken Zaslow
Hey, good morning everyone.
Rob Vitale
Hi, Ken.
Ken Zaslow
Can you just talk about the capacity constraints and how you get over the two of them? You said in the cereals in Weetabix, and then you obviously said the one in the U.S. Can you talk about how that came about and what's the way to overcome it and timing?
Rob Vitale
Let me start with the one in the US. It's really a dual sided issue. We've had terrific growth in demand of our refrigerated potato products both in foodservice and in retail. So that's driving very high category utilization. So intermediate term, we have plans to address trap capacity, longer term we likely need to add capacity to the category.
Unfortunately, at the same time in our Mars Hill facility which is a relatively smaller facility in Maine. We have three lines, one of them had a failure related to an equipment breakdown that we have consciously chosen to defer to repair that until after our busy season. So this is not to add disruption that takes high-single digits of capacity out that we have to manage through retail inventory and trying to drive output elsewhere. So I said a dual-sided equation of a very positive problem that we need to fix for in a short-term unfortunate that will be fixed in January.
In the U.K., we have had some capacity that we are trying to take out. So in taking out the capacity, we probably overshot a bit and are having a little bit of customer service execution issues that we will rebuild in the next handful of months, no more than two quarters to get customer service levels back where they need to be.
Ken Zaslow
Okay. And then my second question is, what is the progress on your licensed cereals? And I'll leave it there.
Rob Vitale
I'm sorry. Can you ask that question again? What is the progress, what?
Ken Zaslow
On your licensed cereals, how they do, which ones you are going to keep? How do you think about it, now that you've kind of tested them out, what the prognosis is?
Rob Vitale
Yes. So I'm not going to comment on specific brand level products. What I will share with you is that I think it's an important part of our overall portfolio. It's an important part of the category, but it can't be the only tool in the innovation toolbox. So, we need to broaden it, but it remains and will remain an important part of our overall product mix.
Ken Zaslow
Okay. I'll leave it there. Thank you.
Rob Vitale
Thanks, Ken.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of John Baumgartner of Wells Fargo.
John Baumgartner
Good morning, thanks for the question.
Rob Vitale
Hey, John.
John Baumgartner
Rob, I wondered if you could just dig a bit more into the foodservice business, just given the lack of visibility with the exposure to non-measured channels. Can you just walk through expectations for FY '20 in terms of how we should think about the timing of the ramp in precooked capacity? Are there any new business wins you anticipate in potatoes? Just any highlights that will be helpful in terms of how you're thinking about business development from here?
RobVitale
I would assume that the outlook for Michael looks a lot like the recent past for Michael, that it's consistent steady growth. This is not a business that should see major step-ups. It's a business that given our considerable position in the categories we are in, grows steadily as we drive demand within the categories.
As it relates to the ramp up tied to Norwalk, just logistically what we will do is first fill Norwalk where we have better cost because it's our newer facility that will deleverage some of our older facilities as we backfill them. So, there will be a margin pickup. But it won't be as full as it will be once the entire system remains or is returned to an optimal capacity, just a step function of a new factory. Kind of thinking what was the third part of the question, or was that it?
John Baumgartner
That was it. But actually I have a follow-up. In terms of cereals, just getting back to Andrew's question thinking about somebody asked me the game theory, the competitive environment. I'm curious one of the things that I've noticed if you look at your General Mills, getting great growth and lucky charms, Cheerios is down, Kellogg's is back to growth in some other taste cereals to health and wellness cereals are lower. When you think about the cereal category in totality, do you think that it's reasonable to think that both the taste and the health and wellness cereals can both grow at the same time? Or is it really kind of a trade-off one or the other based on what's kind of more or less on trend for that period? And based on that, how does it really inform how you're thinking about the level of reinvestment or more promotion aggressive pricing in some parts of the category?
Rob Vitale
Well, I don't want to sound pollyannaish because a lot of people have tried to solve that equation of great taste and great health. But like those other people who have tried, we believe that can be solved but it hasn't been solved effectively. And the first step in driving that solution is to create the resources to do it, which is what we've been attempting to do in the last 18 months with some of the changes we're making.
So I don't want to be the latest person to say, we're going to have a great tasting product that cures whatever ills you have, but we continue to strive toward being able to grow the entirety of our portfolio and not just one sub-segment of it.
John Baumgartner
Okay. Thanks for your time.
RobVitale
Thanks, John.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Michael Lavery of Piper Jaffray.
Michael Lavery
Thank you. Good morning.
Rob Vitale
Hey, Mike.
Michael Lavery
Just two more quick ones on cereals. One is, historically you had outperformance in unmeasured channels. Is there any reason to think that might not continue and I guess just as we look at the scanner data and trying to model out from current momentum and looking ahead, is that something that has any shift in the dynamic or that will keep going on? And then second, just as you talked about some of the opportunity to look at more maybe premiumization or wide spaces, how do you see the portfolio evolving there? Is there some ways you can give a little peek ahead of how you might be able to look at some new innovation?
Rob Vitale
Taking those in reverse order, I wouldn't want to talk in this kind of forum about our innovation. What I would tell you is that the questions you're asking are the right questions. But this isn't the right forum to respond to that.
With respect to non-measured channels, I would tell you over the course of multiple quarters or a year, there shouldn't be material changes. But what I would caution you as that quarter-to-quarter, there can be material changes because club is such a big portion of non-measured channel that as they have promotional events, they can swing short-term results fairly meaningfully.
Michael Lavery
Okay. That's helpful. Thanks a lot.
RobVitale
Thank you.
Operator
And ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the allotted time for Q&A today. This will conclude today's conference call. We wish you a great day and you may now disconnect.
Rob Vitale
Thank you.


Match Play. Red leads 4-0 to 13. How should Red play 64?
pips Red=121 White=132
(CorrectAnswer= 0/0, ErrorScore= 0)
For money 8/2*, 6/2 would be very clear, going for the gammon.
With a 4-0 lead and the cube on 2 things are a little different because White will be able to take a redouble much later than usual.
The correct tactic here is to play 24/14. If White fans Red will play for the gammon. If White anchors on the 2-pt then he will have a take (just) of Red’s redouble. If White enters but doesn’t anchor or hit, he must drop Red’s redouble.
24/14 reduces the volatility of the position from Red’s perspective which is exactly what he wants.
With a 4-0 lead and the cube on 2 things are a little different because White will be able to take a redouble much later than usual.
The correct tactic here is to play 24/14. If White fans Red will play for the gammon. If White anchors on the 2-pt then he will have a take (just) of Red’s redouble. If White enters but doesn’t anchor or hit, he must drop Red’s redouble.
24/14 reduces the volatility of the position from Red’s perspective which is exactly what he wants.
1. Cubeful 2-ply 24/14 Eq.: +0.892 0.780 0.191 0.004 - 0.220 0.041 0.001 2. Cubeful 2-ply 8/2* 6/2 Eq.: +0.839 (-0.053) 0.730 0.411 0.010 - 0.270 0.068 0.003 3. Cubeful 0-ply 24/18 7/3 Eq.: +0.592 (-0.300) 0.680 0.210 0.008 - 0.320 0.080 0.002 4. Cubeful 0-ply 24/18 6/2* Eq.: +0.587 (-0.305) 0.671 0.292 0.007 - 0.329 0.110 0.004 5. Cubeful 0-ply 24/18 13/9 Eq.: +0.543 (-0.349) 0.674 0.214 0.008 - 0.326 0.112 0.006


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title=Safari For Windows! Huzzah!
date=2007-06-13
type=post
tags=blog
status=published
~~~~~~
Apple's got Safari available for Windows (is this a surprise to anyone though?).
The site wasn't as funny as when iTunes came out and the website had something to the effect of, "Hell's frozen over: iTunes for Windows." Good news, nonetheless!


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Up: Vocabulary Structure
Previous: Vocabulary Structure
When the vocabulary is small (e.g. contains less than 300 lines of code) and represents a domain which cannot be divided in sub domains, it should be saved within one single file.
If the number of contributors is relatively small and the domain of the vocabulary is very focused, organizing it into one single file might be possible, even if it exceeds 300 lines of code.
However, if the comprehensibility is exacerbated, splitting it into different files should be considered (P-S2).
lavdim
2015-08-12


Growing software teams: size DOES matter
Growing software teams
The problem
Consider the amount of different communication channels (that relate directly to communication overhead and potential misunderstandings) on teams growing in size using the formula N*(N-1)/2:
- 1 person: 0 channels
- 2 persons: 1 channel
- 3 persons: 3 channels
- 4 persons: 6 channels
- 5 persons: 10 channels
- 6 persons: 15 channels
- 7 persons: 21 channels
- 8 persons: 28 channels
- 9 persons: 36 channels
- 10 persons: 50 channels
- …
Having a team of 10 people creates 50 potential communication channels, and I can guarantee that, the more channels you have, the worse the communication between them gets.
The solution
If your project starts to require bigger teams, I would advise you to consider context mapping and align your teams with your bounded contexts…
I have seen way to many teams not understanding Conway’s law properly and creating a huge amount of overhead and problems that could be easily fixed by organizing the teams in a similar way that the software is organized : keep responsibilities properly divided in both teams and software development ….. Of course you need to understand the overhead of integrating both teams and software, but that is another story altogether.
PS: this a blog post based on a comment I wrote.
PPS: I’m for hire from Februari 2014, so if you might have an interesting project for me, please let me know.


Index
G
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K
G
getBoardBoundaryByEdgeCuts (C++ function)
getBoardBoundaryByPinLocation (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::get_overlap_cost (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::get_temperature (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::get_total_cost (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::get_wirelength_cost (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_base_lam (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_bb_ec (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_initial_move_radius (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_initial_temperature (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_iterations_moves (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_lam (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_lambda_schedule (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_lamtemp_update (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_num_iterations (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_rtree (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_two_sided (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::set_wirelength_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedPlacer::test_hplacer_flow (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter (C++ class)
GridBasedRouter::get_diagonal_wirelength_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_enlarge_boundary (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_grid_scale (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_layer_change_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_num_iterations (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_pad_obstacle_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_routed_num_bends (C++ function)
,
[1]
GridBasedRouter::get_routed_num_vias (C++ function)
,
[1]
GridBasedRouter::get_routed_wirelength (C++ function)
,
[1]
GridBasedRouter::get_total_cost (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_track_obstacle_step_size (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_track_obstacle_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_via_obstacle_step_size (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_via_obstacle_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::get_wirelength_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::GridBasedRouter (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::initialization (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::route (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_diagonal_wirelength_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_enlarge_boundary (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_grid_scale (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_layer_change_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_net_all_layers_pref_weights (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_net_layer_pref_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_num_iterations (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_pad_obstacle_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_track_obstacle_step_size (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_track_obstacle_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_via_obstacle_step_size (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_via_obstacle_weight (C++ function)
GridBasedRouter::set_wirelength_weight (C++ function)
K
kicadPcbDataBase (C++ class)
kicadPcbDataBase::buildKicadPcb (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getCompBBox (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getComponent (C++ function)
,
[1]
kicadPcbDataBase::getComponents (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getCopperLayers (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getFileName (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getInstance (C++ function)
,
[1]
kicadPcbDataBase::getInstances (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getInstancesCount (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getLargestClearance (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getLayerId (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getLayerName (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getNet (C++ function)
,
[1]
kicadPcbDataBase::getNetclass (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getNetclasses (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getNets (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getNumCopperLayers (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getNumNets (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getPadstackRotatedWidthAndHeight (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getPcbRouterInfo (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getPinLayer (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getPinPosition (C++ function)
,
[1]
,
[2]
,
[3]
kicadPcbDataBase::getPinShapeRelativeCoordsToModule (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::getUnconnectedPins (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::isComponentId (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::isCopperLayer (C++ function)
,
[1]
kicadPcbDataBase::isInstanceId (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::isNetclassId (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::isNetId (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::kicadPcbDataBase (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printClearanceDrc (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printComp (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printDesignStatistics (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printFile (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printInst (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printKiCad (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printLayer (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printLockedInst (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printNet (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printNetclass (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printNodes (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printPcbRouterInfo (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printRoutedSegmentsWLAndNumVias (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printSegment (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::printUnconnectedPins (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::removeRoutedSegmentsAndVias (C++ function)
kicadPcbDataBase::testInstAngle (C++ function)
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title: Breweries or Wineries ??
subtitle: Whats your states poison ?
date: 2017-04-29
tags: ["qgis"]
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When you think about Texas, the first thing that would come in mind is barbecue which of course pairs well with a good beer. In this post I have mapped each state in the
US ranked based on the breweries or wineries present. I got the data from the Brewers Association and the American Winery Guide. With data visualization being so
important in representing the dataset I have used hexbins shapefile from Don Meltz's repo.
Below are the maps for how the states are ranked .


cod does message oriented communication. Messages are entirely defined by serializers.
The default serializer in cod uses Ruby object marshaling as a form of on-the-wire communication that is both efficient and fast. The downside is that you cannot communicate with other versions of Ruby.
It is, on the other hand, nice to be able to transmit almost any Ruby object, with only a few exceptions:
cod has a mechanism built in where you can transmit cod channels via almost any other cod channel. This mechanism mostly does what you’d expect - give you access to a channel on the other side. Some cases don’t work yet - and will be extended as the need arises.
So this works:
read, write = Cod.pipe.split
write.put read
# Transmitted the read-end of the channel itself!
read.get.object_id == read.object_id # => true
Let’s have a look at how the default serializer is implemented:
class DefaultSerializer
def en(obj) # (1)
Marshal.dump(obj)
end
def de(io) # (2)
if block_given? # (3)
Marshal.load(io, Proc.new)
else
Marshal.load(io)
end
end
end
Message encoding (1) is really simple. You get the message to encode passed as parameter and you return a string that should be sent through the communication channel. You have to worry about delimiting the message yourself.
Message decoding (2) operates directly on the channels IO stream. It should read one message and return the message object to its caller.
If a block is given (3) to the decoding mechanism, it should call that block for each object that it decodes. The block then returns the object to insert into the decoded object graph. This is used for turning on-the-wire versions of objects that cannot otherwise be serialized into a corresponding object.
As a proof of concept, cod also contains a (google) protobuf serializer that transmits its messages as protobuf objects. The format chosen here is generic – class name is transmitted along with the actual object data. This method can be used to transmit any protobuf object.
If you have only a few objects to transmit, I suggest you roll your own serializer. Once you arrange your definitions so that you don’t have to transmit lengths and class name, communication can be very efficient.
protobuf serialization is also useful for communication with servers NOT written in Ruby.
Here’s how you use the protobuf serializer in your own code:
# gem install protobuf...
serializer = Cod::ProtocolBuffersSerializer.new
pipe = Cod.pipe(serializer)
tcp = Cod.tcp('foo:1234', serializer)
# .. and so on.
Cod also implements various text protocols. This means that line ends delimit messages and that only strings can be transmitted.
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out = Cod.stdio(Cod::LineSerializer.new)
out.put 'holler' # puts 'holler' to stdout
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panzer is a web server using cod. The whole HTTP protocol implementation lives inside a cod serializer, which turns HTTP traffic into a rack compatible request with the aid of net-http-server. Ok, now I have a headache.
A lot of serializers are waiting to be written. YAML, JSON, … who wants to be the first?


1.3 The Future of Game AI
The next big thing in game AI is learning. Rather than have all nonplayer character behavior be predestined by the time a game ships, the game should evolve, learn, and adapt the more it's played. This results in a game that grows with the player and is harder for the player to predict, thus extending the play-life of the game. It is precisely this unpredictable nature of learning and evolving games that has traditionally made AI developers approach learning techniques with a healthy dose of trepidation.
The techniques for learning and reacting to character behavior fall under the nondeterministic AI we talked about earlier, and its difficulties apply here too. Specifically, such nondeterministic, learning AI techniques take longer to develop and test. Further, it's more difficult to really understand what the AI is doing, which makes debugging more difficult. These factors have proven to be serious barriers for widespread use of learning AI techniques. All this is changing, though.
Several mainstream games, such as Creatures, Black & White, Battlecruiser 3000AD, Dirt Track Racing, Fields of Battle, and Heavy Gear, used nondeterministic AI methods. Their success sparked a renewed interest in learning AI methods such as decision trees, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and probabilistic methods.
These successful games use nondeterministic methods in conjunction with more traditional deterministic methods, and use them only where they are needed and only for problems for which they are best suited. A neural network is not a magic pill that will solve all AI problems in a game; however, you can use it with impressive results for very specific AI tasks within a hybrid AI system. This is the approach we advocate for using these nondeterministic methods. In this way, you can at least isolate the parts of your AI that are unpredictable and more difficult to develop, test, and debug, while ideally keeping the majority of your AI system in traditional form.
Throughout this book we cover both traditional game AI techniques as well as relatively new, up-and-coming AI techniques. We want to arm you with a thorough understanding of what has worked and continues to work for game AI. We also want you to learn several promising new techniques to give you a head start toward the future of game AI.
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On the average, no correlation was established between degree of lymphocyte infiltration in breast tumor and age and menopause onset. In smoking menopausal patients, lymphocyte infiltration was found to be higher than in non-smokers (p < 0.05). There was a direct correlation between the rate of lymphocyte infiltration and the level of progesterone receptors in tumor. Some subgroups displayed a direct correlation between infiltration and sex-binding globulin, cholesterol, luteinizing hormone in blood, and lean body mass. It was matched by an inverse correlation between lymphocyte infiltration and blood-thyroid hormone concentration, urine catecholamines and free cortisol excretion and fat/lean body mass ratio. Considering the abovesaid as well as the lymphocyte ability to perform the dual function of immunocytes and hormonocytes, it is suggested that the results may be used in both the study of lymphocyte infiltration and research in means of its control.


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ChiantiPy.base package¶
Submodules¶
ChiantiPy.base._IonTrails module¶
Base classes used in the ChiantiPy.core.ion and ChiantiPy.core.spectrum classes. Mostly printing, plotting and saving routines.
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ChiantiPy.base._IonTrails.
ionTrails
¶ Bases:
object
Base class for ChiantiPy.core.ion and ChiantiPy.core.spectrum
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argCheck
(temperature=None, eDensity=None, pDensity='default', em=None, verbose=0)¶ to check the compatibility of the three arguments and put them into numpy arrays of atleast_1d
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intensityList
(index=-1, wvlRange=None, wvlRanges=None, top=10, relative=0, outFile=0, rightDigits=4)¶ List the line intensities. Checks to see if there is an existing Intensity attribute. If it exists, then those values are used. Otherwise, the intensity method is called.
This method prints an ASCII table with the following columns:
- Ion: the CHIANTI style notation for the ion, e.g. ‘c_4’ for C IV
- lvl1: the lower level of the transition in the CHIANTI .elvlc file
- lvl2: the upper level of the transition in the CHIANTI .elvlc file
- lower: the notation, usually in LS coupling, of the lower fine structure level
- upper: the notation, usually in LS coupling, of the upper fine structure level
- Wvl(A): the wavelength of the transition in units as specified in the chiantirc file.
- Intensity
- A value: the Einstein coefficient for spontaneous emission from level ‘j’ to level ‘i’
- Obs: indicates whether the CHIANTI database considers this an observed line or one obtained from theoretical energy levels
Regarding the intensity column, if ‘flux’ in the chiantirc file is set to ‘energy’, the intensity is given by,
\[I = \Delta E_{ij}n_jA_{ij}\mathrm{Ab}\frac{1}{N_e} \frac{N(X^{+m})}{N(X)}\mathrm{EM},\]in units of ergs cm-2 s-1 sr-1. If ‘flux’ is set to ‘photon’,
\[I = n_jA_{ij}\mathrm{Ab}\frac{1}{N_e}\frac{N(X^{+m})}{N(X)} \mathrm{EM},\]where,
- \(\Delta E_{ij}\) is the transition energy (ergs)
- \(n_j\) is the fractions of ions in level \(j\)
- \(A_{ij}\) is the Einstein coefficient for spontaneous emission from level \(j\) to level \(i\) (in s-1)
- \(\mathrm{Ab}\) is the abundance of the specified element relative to hydrogen
- \(N_e\) is the electron density (in cm-3)
- \(N(X^{+m})/N(X)\) is the fractional ionization of ion as a function of temperature
- \(\mathrm{EM}\) is the emission measure integrated along the line-of-sight, \(\int\mathrm{d}l\,N_eN_H\) (cm-5) where \(N_H\) is the density of hydrogen (neutral + ionized) (cm-3)
Note that if relative is set, the line intensity is relative to the strongest line and so the output will be unitless.
Parameters: - index (int,optional) – Index the temperature or eDensity array to use. -1 (default) sets the specified value to the middle of the array
- wvlRange (tuple) – Wavelength range
- wvlRanges (a tuple, list or array that contains at least 2) – 2 element tuples, lists or arrays so that multiple wavelength ranges can be specified
- top (int) – Number of lines to plot, sorted by descending magnitude.
- relative (int) – specifies whether to normalize to strongest line default (relative = 0) specified that the intensities should be their calculated values
- outFile (str) – specifies the file that the intensities should be output to default(outFile = 0) intensities are output to the terminal
- rightDigits (int) – specifies the format for the wavelengths for the number of digits to right of the decimal place
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intensityPlot
(index=-1, wvlRange=None, top=10, linLog='lin', relative=False, verbose=False, plotFile=0, em=0)¶ Plot the line intensities. Uses Intensity if it already exists. If not, call the intensity method.
Parameters: - index (integer) – specified which value of the temperature array or eDensity array to use. default (index=-1) sets the specified value to the middle of the array
- wvlRange (2 element tuple, list or array determines the wavelength range)
- top (integer) – specifies to plot only the top strongest lines, default = 10
- linLog (str) – default(‘lin’) produces a plot where the intensity scale is linear if set to ‘log’, produces a plot where the intensity scale is logarithmic
- normalize (= 1 specifies whether to normalize to strongest line) – default (relative = 0) specified that the intensities should be their calculated values
- plotFile – default=0, the plot is not saved to a file othewise, the plot is saved to the ‘plotFile’
- em (emission measure) – if an Intensity attribute needs be created, then the emission measure is applied
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intensityRatio
(wvlRange=None, wvlRanges=None, top=10)¶ Plot the intensity ratio of 2 lines or sums of lines. Shown as a function of density and/or temperature. For a single wavelength range, set wvlRange = [wMin, wMax] For multiple wavelength ranges, set wvlRanges = [[wMin1,wMax1],[wMin2,wMax2], …] A plot of relative emissivities is shown and then a dialog appears for the user to choose a set of lines.
Parameters: - wvlRange (array-like) – Wavelength range, i.e. min and max
- wvlRanges (a tuple, list or array that contains at least 2) – 2 element tuples, lists or arrays so that multiple wavelength ranges can be specified
- top (int) – specifies to plot only the top strongest lines, default = 10
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intensityRatioSave
(outFile=0)¶ Save the intensity ratio to a file.
The intensity ratio as a function to temperature and eDensity is saved to an asciii file. Descriptive information is included at the top of the file.
Parameters: outFile – default(0): the plot of the intensity ratio is not saved str/unicode: the plot is saved to the file names ‘outFile’
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ChiantiPy.base._SpecTrails module¶
Base class used in several ChiantiPy objects
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class
ChiantiPy.base._SpecTrails.
specTrails
(temperature, density)¶ Bases:
object
a collection of methods for use in spectrum calculations
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convolve
(wavelength=0, filter=(<function gaussianR>, 1000.0), label=0, verbose=0)¶ the first application of spectrum calculates the line intensities within the specified wavelength range and for set of ions specified
wavelength will not be used if applied to ‘spectrum’ objects
wavelength IS need for ‘bunch’ objects - in this case, the wavelength should not extend beyond the limits of the wvlRange used for the ‘bunch’ calculation
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ionGate
(elementList=None, ionList=None, minAbund=None, doLines=1, doContinuum=1, doWvlTest=1, verbose=0)¶ creates a list of ions for free-free, free-bound, and line intensity calculations if doing the radiative losses, accept all wavelength -> doWvlTest=0 the list is a dictionary self.Todo
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lineSpectrumPlot
(index=0, integrated=0, saveFile=0, linLog='lin')¶ to plot the line spectrum as a function of wavelength
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spectrumPlot
(index=-1, integrated=0, saveFile=0, linLog='lin')¶ to plot the spectrum as a function of wavelength
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Module contents¶
Base classes for ion- and spectrum-related objects.


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What Guru Maharaj Ji Said About Tinubu’s ‘2023 Presidential Ambition’
by Donatus AnichukwuezeThe founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has said that the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu is fit and suitable for presidency from the southern part of the country in 2023.
Maharaj Ji stated this on Wednesday at a news conference held at his Maharaj Ji village to herald the Family’s golden age festival.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Maharaj Ji said, “Anybody can become the president of Nigeria as long as he or she places the interest of the country above personal interest.
“If there is anyone who is fit in the south, it is Sen. Bola Tinubu. So, I will offer him for president if the presidency would be zoned to South-West.
“This is because he has been able to play the role of a mobiliser and bridge-builder across the country. Also, Peter Obi is a fine choice from the South-East,” he said.
Maharaj Ji added that there was no rift between President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, saying it was the fifth columnists creating crisis between the two leaders.
He called on government to establish education bank to avail indigent Nigerians access to quality education.
According to him, “the bank can pay for individual’s education so that the person pays back upon getting a job after graduation. This will be paid back through a stipulated percentage of salary over a period of time.”
Maharaj Ji expressed dissatisfaction with the state of affairs of the country, urging Buhari to do more in salvaging the situation.
“Nigeria has the highest number of mosques and churches, but can’t produce a pen. We need to get our priority right by making our factories more functional.
“We must also ensure that more jobs are created for our teeming youths to be fully engaged. We are a nation blessed with resources and industrious youths,” he said.


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This Project is part of my University final project which was to make 3d printed, easy to customize prosthetic hand. Our focus was on the fabricating of low-cost prosthetic hand which can be affordable to handicapped people and easy to operate. Our first aim was to build the 3d printed prosthetic mechanical operated hand which can able to grab things such as water bottles, Mobile, and tools used in his day to day life.
Staying between the criteria, I set some goals for the Design.
I started making concept design. at first, I thought of the extensor tendon and Flexor tendon mechanism as we
humans have.
Tendons are the soft tissue that connects our muscles to the bone allowing them to be a pully and subsequently produce movement. Tendons differ from muscles because they are mainly made up of collagen and elastin; this means they cannot
contract themselves, but they are incredibly strong and stiff. They also have a much smaller blood supply, reducing their metabolism.
Their stiffness means tendons have a remarkable ability to store and release energy like a spring. So much that the Achilles tendon can be responsible for 55-60% of your force production when running!
Front View
Back View
my Extensor and Flexor :)
I chose 0.3 mm copper wires as Extensor tendon which will move fingers by servo and elastic rubber bands as flexor tendon. I made some small slots in finger modules to place a rubber. Initially, I thought this will save my time to make extra holes for elastic bands and the design will be simpler. But, the idea of a rubber band was not physically possible in this design. so, I made some modifications in designs, and instead of a rubber band, I used elastic strings which will do the same theoretically.
Fibonacci Sequence
The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo Fibonacci, an Italian mathematician who wrote about the pattern in his journals as he observed how
rabbits reproduce.
The Fibonacci sequence works like this. Let’s say you have two segments of a specific length, A and B, where A is bigger than B. If these two segments are in a Fibonacci sequence, the bigger piece divided by the smaller piece
will be
approximately 1.618.
golden ration
Also, if you make A’s length and add it to B’s length, then divide by A’s length, you will get the same number: 1.618. This ratio is called the golden ratio.
For example, the following numbers are a Fibonacci sequence: 3, 5, 8,13, 21, 34, 55, etc. When we divide 5 by 3, we get about 1.6. Divide 8 by 5 you also get about 1.6. 13 divided by 8? About 1.6 again!
The ratio of the bigger number divided by the smaller number, which always equals 1.6, is denoted by the Greek letter Phi (Φ) and is called the Golden Ratio. You can find Phi in the above Fibonacci example: 13 / 8 = 1.615.
 Each of your fingers has three bones in it called phalanges (phalanx for singular). When you measure the length of the phalanges in order from the wrist to the tip of each finger, you will find that the sequence of lengths is pretty close to a Fibonacci sequence.
Parametric relations of Finger
Now I know the mathematical relations between different phalanx in fingers. I can make a proper finger that can grip the object naturally without any complex design implementation.
Palm design
Palm design was much harder to make because I was not able to define proper thumb position which is an important part of the design.
In the human hand, our thumb has two degrees of freedom and it can change its position according to the size and length of the object. This level of complexity was hard to achieve for me at this level so I gave a fixed
position for the thumb.
First hand Model
Note: I did some minor modifications in Palm. After some test prints of the palm, I realize I need some stopper in the palm joint which will stop the finger to go another way... although it will be not visible in the current render in 3d prints section it will be there.
3D Printing
Copper string and elastic String
inserting string
first finger assembly
I did print only one finger to know if any modification was needed, and yes there are many changes required.
Updates in model
I included angular stoppers in fingers so they will stop rotation at some point and it will help to grab things easily.
Palm
Did some minor changes in grooves inside the palm, modified stoppers at the back so the finger can rotate smoothly, and did some minor changes in thumb position based on last design observations.
finger Modifications
Model
3D printing
0.5 mm steel strings
First Full model prototype
It can Hold :)
I tested the hand model by trying to grab my mouse. in the below image I am pulling the elastic strings by hand! but this design has some major issues I have found during the design procedure. I have listed some drawbacks below.
This was our work related to the final project. I am not proud of the end-design, yet, I am proud of the learning and progress I made during this project. Now, I know a lot of things I need to take care of before jumping on direct projects
like this. making a list of design requirements and getting insight into its working, in the end, it's important. I also admit I have a lot to learn if I want to work in a field like Robotics as a designer but this project gave me a good
amount of experience, I was lacking...
"some things you learn hard way!"
This section is part of my experiments with finger design. As I was working on my final projects I realized I should explore more on the finger mechanism alone first. if I can make one compact and definite finger motion that can replicate the human finger motion, then designing Palm will be more accurate and reliable.
Because one of the drawbacks was the tediousness of working with strings I thought to remove the elastic strings. Working with elastic string has more issues than just complexity, it was not giving definite motion each time because of hysteresis loss. I also wanted to remove angular constraints because it was reducing the contact area and so the gripping.
so I decided to replace it with the spring mechanism. I was gonna use torsional strings to store the rotational energy. it will help fingers to go in the initial position.
Mechanism Configuration
I first try to know which mechanical Configuration will work to replicate finger design motion. later I design to remove the top of the finger mechanism to make it more simple for design.
Finger Design
3D print and assembly
Finger mechanism with torsional spring has much definite motion than string design and I may like to work with it more in future but for now, I would like to explore one more mechanism I have in my mind. I don't want to jump to a conclusion that this design will be perfect!
I did some modification in spring design and thought I can try a small gear drive below the finger mechanism which will move the fingers. I think this design will able to transfer force to fingers more conveniently and because of gears I will not nave to store and release the energy as before. the only limitation I am seeing now is somehow I have to make it compact to use in a prosthetic hand.
CAD
Did some modifications to the previous finger design. I was happy with the outcome, the finger was looking good. :)
Full Design
Mechanism
Full model
The mechanism turns out to be good and definite as I wanter in the first place. I didn't need any extra mechanism to store the rotation energy as the previous design and I will make movements more accurate.
Watching the finger movement gave me so much happiness. One can also see the updates I made on fasteners. I used 3 mm Allen head bolts of different lengths. they will work as good pivots.
This was my work related to Prosthetics so far, after working on my college project till February 2020 I started working on these finger designs. before lockdown began in our country I managed to get some parts mainly servos and fasteners
and started experimenting on my finger designs. The last design took two months to complete, because of my inconsistency in lockdown.
After completing the design, I get to know how much more I needed to learn in this field. in the future, my focus will be to embed the pully mechanism in my fingers and try to make it more compact somehow. Right now I am studying some YouTuber's work to get some good insights.


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| bool | subGridVisible () const |
| bool | antialiasedSubGrid () const |
| bool | antialiasedZeroLine () const |
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| QPen | subGridPen () const |
| QPen | zeroLinePen () const |
| void | setSubGridVisible (bool visible) |
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Simulation Examples
OESjs Core 0
A minimal architecture for Object Event Simulation (OES), supporting models with (global) model variables and functions, object types, event types, and simple simulation experiments.
OESjs Core 1
Extends the OESjs Core 0 simulator by adding fixed-increment time progression, a seedable random number generator, a set of sampling functions from various probability distributions (uniform, triangular, normal, exponential, etc.), multiple scenarios per model, multiple experiment types per model, model parameters, parameter variation experiments, as well as persistent storage and export of experiment results.
OESjs Core 2
Extends the OESjs Core 1 simulator by adding support for activities, which may be resource-constrained.


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OpenFulcrum Beta
You can test OpenFulcrum by installing the mock server via Docker. If you want to suggest changes go to the OpenInvest GitHub repo.
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Uninjured Hang Glider Stuck in a Tree
by RogerUninjured hang glider stuck in a tree near St. Mary's Seminary at 1964 Los Canoas Road. SB City Fire Dept Truck 1 responding with Engine 7.
Uninjured hang glider stuck in a tree near St. Mary's Seminary at 1964 Los Canoas Road. SB City Fire Dept Truck 1 responding with Engine 7.


WWCode Holiday Hackday
Women Take on Tech
Women Who Code presents a Hackathon designed to showcase women as they take on tech. Join our community of changemakers for WWCode Atlanta Hackathon October 13-15, 2017 to make something great.
A Hackathon like no other the WWCode Holiday Hackday will provide all the usual trappings of a hackathon: a fun-filled day of coding and MVP product development surrounded by good food and plenty of coffee.


I have always been interested in drugs and altered states of consciousness, but not being very enthusiastic about getting arrested, I have been trying to seek out legal alternatives to experiment with.
I procured some herbs from a local shop: an ounce of guarana, ephedra (ma-huang), yerba mate, and yohimbe. I tried all of the herbs by themselves in various doses as a tea, and also mixed them together in different amounts.
I make the teas by crushing the herb into a powder (if it isnít already), steeping the desired amount in hot water for about 10 minutes, and then filtering it through a cheese cloth/old tee-shirt/whatever.
Guarana I find to be only slightly stimulating in doses around 1-3 teaspoons in a cup of water. It tastes surprisingly good (compared to some other herbs), and the effects are about the same as a strong cup of coffee. On one occasion I increased the dose to around 4-5 teaspoons and the effects were unpleasant, like too much caffeine. Guarana also tastes pretty good and adds some extra kick to a cup of coffee if you throw in a teaspoon or so. For this herb Iíd stick to low doses for a nice coffee alternative, unless of course you are fond of caffeine jitters and anxiousness.
Ephedra is fun. I usually take a dose of 2 teaspoons in a tea, which is stimulating, but not as edgy as caffeine. It doesnít taste great but itís bearable. Iím not sure of the ephedrine content of the dry herb, so I have not tried very high doses, but it is an enjoyable experience nonetheless
Yerba mate is a wonderful herb, it tastes great and I have never had a bad experience with it even at very high doses. I think itís supposed to have caffeine in it but I have never had the anxiety that I associate with caffeine. The stimulation is very pleasant. It gives me a clearheaded feeling rather than just a speedy sensation. I drink at least two cups of Yerba a day, usually about 5-6 teaspoons. Itís supposed to be pretty nutritious too, so I highly recommend it.
Yohimbe is strange. I have had a couple bad experiences with it, and a couple really good ones. At a dose of 1 teaspoon its stimulating and kind of euphoric, at 2 teaspoons the feelings of euphoria and stimulation increase. But a couple times I overdid it, taking 3+ teaspoons is generally unpleasant. Racing heart and nausea usually occur. This doesnít taste too bad either, but Iím going to stick to low doses from now on.
I have also mixed these herbs together, using Yerba Mate as a base for the tea and adding about 1 teaspoon of guarana, ephedra, and yohimbe. This may be unwise, because it is probably fairly unhealthy to mix all these stimulants. But in any case, the tea taste good and is very stimulating, great for staying up and writing or studying. But I am a big boy of 250 pounds.
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