I would like share a little bit of my history. My name is Joe, I was recently arrested and spent 2 weeks in jail and am now rather isolated from my friends that I had before hand, now Iím moving into a more positive environment and I have stopped the use of drugs just for recration and I am now a inspiring psychonaut rather focusing on the spiritual side of drugs then recreational. I have had a long period of isolation since I am now on house arrest, but please donít think of me as a criminal. I have done a lot of reading on this topic of being a psychonaut and also have some experience, but right now I am in a stage of research, as if I were taking classes and lab experiments in order to become a doctor.
So I decided that I was ready to experience my first salvia trip. I have smoked it before in the past but I have not ever done this amount and done it for the experience rather than the fact that others were doing it.  I have made my own home made version of Alex Grey's mindfold. If you don't know what that is, its basically a blindfold were u can open your eyes in and still see total darkness. I was very exited about trying it out for the first time.
So the day came were I was going to try it. I made the preparations and removed all items that could cause harm and made sure no one was home that would bother me/ walk in on me. I loaded half a bowl of the salvia and placed the mindfold atop my head.
At 10am I took one long deep hit and held it in for about 30sec and then took another just the same. Upon taking my second hit I started to feel a sensation through out my body, I started to feel as if I need to hurry up, there was something pushing me to be in a rush. After the second hit I felt energy flowing out of every inch of my skin. Since I was in a hurry I took a final 3rd hit that I held in for 15 seconds. Immediately I put the mindfold over my eyes. The energy I was feeling through out my body had intensified to the point were everything I touched felt sharp but did not hurt.
To my surprise when put on the mindfold and open my eyes I could see my room. I was in the exact same spot as I was, on the top right corner of the bed siting with my legs over the side. Every where I turned to look seemed to blur and now that I can think about it, it felt dreamy. Still in the mode of rushing, I was thinking my mindfold was not on, so I kept trying to adjust it but it was on perfectly. I thought 'How can I still be in my room? Am I looking trough the goggles that I spent so much time making sure I couldn't?.'
I heard a voice it was a girls voice she said to me 'Joe, silly you forgot to unplug the phone.' the night before I had read on a salvia handbook online that you should unplug to phone so you don't have to worry about answering the phone or not. So when I heard her, I stood up and went to my phone witch was at the other corner of the bed. I rather stumbled over to the phone in a rush and I had not realized I still had the mindfold on.
When I walked over to the phone I looked back to where I was sitting, there was a girl and a boy in there teens sitting were I was. They said to me, 'Hurry up! Someoneís gunna call!' At this moment I was completely unaware of the fact that these people in my room were not there, I felt as if they had always been there. I felt I was still living a reality and what was happening to me felt like I was still living everyday life. It felt good knowing that I wasn't alone.
I bent down to where the phone was and I reached to grab it, but I felt nothing. I could see the phone moving with my eyes when I tried to hold it, but I could not grasp anything. Thatís when I realized that my mindfold was on, and took it off and then I realized that those people that were there weren't really there.  Lay down Joe, lay down.' I didn't pay any attention to what I saw when I took the mindfold off because I had come to that realization, so I apologize for not being able to share.
So I immediately put my mindfold back on and jumped on my bed and hugged a pillow tightly. Again I saw my room and I saw the two people sitting there on the side with their backs to me. I had completely forgotten that I just realized that they were not there. So I said to them 'Guys Iím so alive so real!' they both said in monotone 'We know Joe' as if they had done this all before. All this time I had still felt that feeling of energy pouring out of my body and feeling as if I had to hurry up.
This is were I started coming back to reality, the colors seemed do dim it turned into globs of light as if I just looked at the sun and now Iím looking away and still see it. So I took off my mindfold and began the process of shaking it out and returning to baseline. I looked at the clock and it was 10:16am, I felt like it was only 2min ago when I took those hits.
All in all I was very happy with the outcome when I gave it some thought. I think those people were there to comfort me, since I have had a long period of isolation from friends. I think they new I was feeling lonely and were there to keep me company. Yet I do not understand why my trip took place in my room when I was blindfolded, but I hope I will better understand it when I give it further thought.
I really appreciate it if you took the time to read this, thanks a bunch.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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Third Maoist suspect identified
Alan and Thaha remanded in police custody from Friday
by Special CorrespondentA special team of the Kozhikode City police has claimed that it had identified the third suspect in the Maoist link case.
A senior officer said C.P. Usman, 40, hailing from Pandikkad, Malappuram district and who has been involved in several cases in north Kerala, was charged with at least four cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in Wayanad, Malappuram and Thrissur districts.
He was arrested on similar charges of having association with the CPI(Maoist) and reportedly indulging in carrying out the propaganda of the banned outfit in 2016. One of the cases was registered at the Karuvarakundu police station, Malappuram.
The police have been trying to find the third suspected Maoist in the case after they had taken two CPI(M) workers, Alan Suhaib and Thaha Fasal, into custody on November 1.
Both were booked under the UAPA for alleged Maoist links.
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Usman who was with the duo has been on the run since then. However, investigators had not been able to trace his identity even after they secured Alan and Thaha in custody for interrogation.
Meanwhile, Alan and Thaha were produced before the Kozhikode Sessions Court on Monday and remanded in police custody from Friday. Sessions Judge M.R. Anitha remanded both of them in judicial custody.
Also, public prosecutor and government pleader K.N. Jayakumar in the case did not press for their further custodial interrogation.


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Why JuiceKit? JuiceKit is not the only choice for visualization. Here are some alternatives
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| Birdeye | An open-source project to bring visualization to Flex | |
| Axiis | An open-source framework built on Degraffa and Flex data binding | |
| Flare | An open-source ActionScript framework that implements many modern visualizations. | |
| Flex charting | The built-in charting components that are a part of Flex Professional | |
| flextreemap | An open source treemap component by Flex evangelist Josh Tynjala |
Let's review the key design features of JuiceKit and the areas where we feel it is a better choice than specific other options.
Speed matters, and JuiceKit allows you to see more data in ways that other solutions can’t.
JuiceKit makes it easy to start working with data.
JuiceKit builds on the declarative open source framework Flare for visualizations.
Adobe Flex is open source and JuiceKit is a perfect complement.
The design inspiration of this page is the Git comparison site Why git is better than X. Updates and corrections are welcomed, please email.


Note that Angular animations come in a separate module. We're including
NoopAnimationsModule here, but could have used BrowserAnimationsModule instead, to have full-fledged
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Material / Card
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Material / Card Header
Header and an image.
Material / Buttons
Adding some actions....
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Parenthesis can be used in Javascript for a few different thing. They are used to call functions to execute when a function is defined. They can also be used to group conditions or statements.
Brackets are most commonly used for arrays. They are used to both define arrays and access data in arrays.
Also known as curly brackets (cute). These are used to group sets of code together. Most commonly used to group together statments which come under a function.
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Among the navagrahas, Sri Saneeswara Bhagavan is the only God holding the Easwaran appellation. Sri Saneeswara Bhagavan is considered as the God who makes and breaks fortunes by his influence and position in the planetary system for which he is especially worshipped. There are myriad of prayers and hymns eulogizing Lord Sri Saneeswara Bhagavan, one among the nine planets. There is hardly any separate temple for this Lord, nor any correct description of him.
Our Mission is to construct a temple dedicated to Saniswara Baghavan, it must be necessary for every devotee to give an iota of contribution for the construction of this temple.
The foundation stone for the temple was laid on 05.06.2015.The present Managing Trustee Shri K. Manikandan S/o Shri G.K. Murthy (The Author & Founder of Trust) and a large number of devotees participated inthe function.
Then Artist Mr. G.K. Manikandan, has taken the responsibility of building the Lord Shani Bhaghavan temple.
Throughout the Universe diverse creations in countless forms along with the oceans, Mountains, flora and fauna thrive b a Divine Order of Destiny. These mortals are happy or sorrowful as per their "KARMA"and as ordered by primordial force the "ADI SHAKTHI".
As per Cosmic order SHE apportions our life with shares of happiness and anguish. A study of ancient scriptures and writings of Astrology clearly reveal the cosmic plan that the Omnipotent "Devi" orders these dispensations not directly but only through the Navagrahas.
Shri.G.K.Murthy - Journal Artist
Four National Award Winner
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The mission was started as early as during the year 1993. Shri.G.K.Murthy is the Founder Trustee for the concept of constructing - Exclusive temple for Lord Shani Bhaghavan.
The mission has been functioning since 2015.
Sri Saniswara Bhavan statue work completed and is ready for worship at Padagacherry village near Alangudy Gurusthalam at Thiruvarur District at its own place.
Construction site of the temple has been recently provided with Electricity facility.
After the completion of innovative architectural plan for Lord Shani Bhaghavan temple. The construction work started.
Now the construction work is going in full swing.
Devotees are requested to activity participate, donate liberally for the on-going temple projects which will annihilates all sins, bestows immense punya and assures mukthi not only to the individual but also to ancestors.
Offering help we could for a good cause is called Punniya (Meritorious) Karma. Temple Renovation, Reconstruction, Kumbabhishekam, etc. are all considered extremely noble deeds. We all should do whatever we can with respect to this and earn Punniya Karma. Whatever we offer, it may be a brick, but as long as that brick is there in that temple, we will spend that much time (thousands of years) in Kailsash or Vaikuntham. Kanchi Maha Periyava
Offering help we could for a good cause is called Punniya (Meritorious) Karma. Temple Renovation, Reconstruction, Kumbabhishekam, etc. are all considered extremely noble deeds. We all should do whatever we can with respect to this and earn Punniya Karma. Whatever we offer, it may be a brick, but as long as that brick is there in that temple, we will spend that much time (thousands of years) in Kailsash or Vaikuntham. Kanchi Maha Periyava
Offering help we could for a good cause is called Punniya (Meritorious) Karma. Temple Renovation, Reconstruction, Kumbabhishekam, etc. are all considered extremely noble deeds. We all should do whatever we can with respect to this and earn Punniya Karma. Whatever we offer, it may be a brick, but as long as that brick is there in that temple, we will spend that much time (thousands of years) in Kailsash or Vaikuntham. Kanchi Maha Periyava
Sri Saneeswara Bhaghavan Garbhagruha in Stone
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Thiruvaduthurai Adheenam, Mutt Pontiff performed Bhoomi Puja for the temple in 2015 ....
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In 2015 K.Manikandan, (Managing Trustees of the Sayaputhiran Temple) and along with other Trustees went to Kanchipuram....
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I was greatly elated into a state of super joy when I was at Patachery in connection with "Bhommi Puja"for Sarvamangala Sayaputhiran temple. In this connection I would like to say that I could extend my financial assistance for laying foundation work.
Chennai
On seeing information regarding the construction of sayaputhiran temple on your website I send a DD for RS. 5001-/ towards construction work.
Kumbakonam
I am very much pleased to note that Sayaputhiran Shri Saneswara Bagavan temple trust will have Goshala and VedaPatsahala. This project facilities me to offer financial assistance for maintenance of Goshala and VedaPatsahala for a period of one year
Gurgaon
When I visited Sri Ramalinga Swami Temple at Padagachery Village, I came to know that you are constructing a temple dedicated to Shri Saneswara Bagavan. Immediately I made up my mind to contribute something towards the construction of the temple. I am happy to send a cheque for Rs.10, 000/- in favour of your Trust.
Kumbakonam


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HTML forms for interacting with the REST API
This page contains a couple of HTML forms that GET and POST to the
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A daemon (or service) is a background process that is designed to run autonomously,with little or not user intervention. The Apache web server http daemon (httpd) is one such example of a daemon. It waits in the background listening on specific ports, and serves up pages or processes scripts, based on the type of request.
Creating a daemon in Linux uses a specific set of rules in a given order. Knowing how they work will help you understand how daemons operate in userland Linux, but can operate with calls to the kernel also. In fact, a few daemons interface with kernel modules that work with hardware devices, such as external controller boards, printers,and PDAs. They are one of the fundamental building blocks in Linux that give it incredible flexibility and power.
Throughout this HOWTO, a very simple daemon will be built in C. As we go along, more code will be added, showing the proper order of execution required to get a daemon up and running.
First off, you'll need the following packages installed on your Linux machine to develop daemons, specifically:
GCC 3.2.2 or higher
Linux Development headers and libraries
If your system does not already have these installed (not likely, but check anyway), you'll need them to develop the examples in this HOWTO. To find out what version of GCC you have installed, use:
gcc --version
A daemon should do one thing, and do it well. That one thing may be as complex as managing hundreds of mailboxes on multiple domains, or as simple as writing a report and calling sendmail to mail it out to an admin.
In any case, you should have a good plan going in what the daemon should do. If it is going to interoperate with some other daemons that you may or may not be writing, this is something else to consider as well.
Daemons should never have direct communication with a user through a terminal. In fact, a daemon shouldn't communicate directly with a user at all. All communication should pass through some sort of interface (which you may or may not have to write), which can be as complex as a GTK+ GUI, or as simple as a signal set.
When a daemon starts up, it has to do some low-level housework to get itself ready for its real job. This involves a few steps:
A daemon is started either by the system itself or a user in a terminal or script. When it does start, the process is just like any other executable on the system. To make it truly autonomous, a child process must be created where the actual code is executed. This is known as forking, and it uses the fork() function:
pid_t pid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
Notice the error check right after the call to fork(). When writing a daemon, you will have to code as defensively as possible. In fact, a good percentage of the total code in a daemon consists of nothing but error checking.
The fork() function returns either the process id (PID) of the child process (not equal to zero), or -1 on failure. If the process cannot fork a child, then the daemon should terminate right here.
If the PID returned from fork() did succeed, the parent process must exit gracefully. This may seem strange to anyone who hasn't seen it, but by forking, the child process continues the execution from here on out in the code.
In order to write to any files (including logs) created by the daemon, the file mode mask (umask) must be changed to ensure that they can be written to or read from properly. This is similar to running umask from the command line, but we do it programmatically here. We can use the umask() function to accomplish this:
pid_t pid, sid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { /* Log failure (use syslog if possible) */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0);
By setting the umask to 0, we will have full access to the files generated by the daemon. Even if you aren't planning on using any files, it is a good idea to set the umask here anyway, just in case you will be accessing files on the filesystem.
This part is optional, but it is recommended that you open a log file somewhere in the system for writing. This may be the only place you can look for debug information about your daemon.
From here, the child process must get a unique SID from the kernel in order to operate. Otherwise, the child process becomes an orphan in the system. The pid_t type, declared in the previous section, is also used to create a new SID for the child process:
pid_t pid, sid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0); /* Open any logs here */ /* Create a new SID for the child process */ sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { /* Log any failure */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
Again, the setsid() function has the same return type as fork(). We can apply the same error-checking routine here to see if the function created the SID for the child process.
The current working directory should be changed to some place that is guaranteed to always be there. Since many Linux distributions do not completely follow the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy standard, the only directory that is guaranteed to be there is the root (/). We can do this using the chdir() function:
pid_t pid, sid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0); /* Open any logs here */ /* Create a new SID for the child process */ sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { /* Log any failure here */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Change the current working directory */ if ((chdir("/")) < 0) { /* Log any failure here */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
Once again, you can see the defensive coding taking place. The chdir() function returns -1 on failure, so be sure to check for that after changing to the root directory within the daemon.
One of the last steps in setting up a daemon is closing out the standard file descriptors (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR). Since a daemon cannot use the terminal, these file descriptors are redundant and a potential security hazard.
The close() function can handle this for us:
pid_t pid, sid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0); /* Open any logs here */ /* Create a new SID for the child process */ sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { /* Log any failure here */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Change the current working directory */ if ((chdir("/")) < 0) { /* Log any failure here */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Close out the standard file descriptors */ close(STDIN_FILENO); close(STDOUT_FILENO); close(STDERR_FILENO);
It's a good idea to stick with the constants defined for the file descriptors, for the greatest portability between system versions.
At this point, you have basically told Linux that you're a daemon, so now it's time to write the actual daemon code. Initialization is the first step here. Since there can be a multitude of different functions that can be called here to set up your daemon's task, I won't go too deep into here.
The big point here is that, when initializing anything in a daemon, the same defensive coding guidelines apply here. Be as verbose as possible when writing either to the syslog or your own logs. Debugging a daemon can be quite difficult when there isn't enough information available as to the status of the daemon.
A daemon's main code is typically inside of an infinite loop. Technically, it isn't an infinite loop, but it is structured as one:
pid_t pid, sid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0); /* Open any logs here */ /* Create a new SID for the child process */ sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { /* Log any failures here */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Change the current working directory */ if ((chdir("/")) < 0) { /* Log any failures here */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Close out the standard file descriptors */ close(STDIN_FILENO); close(STDOUT_FILENO); close(STDERR_FILENO); /* Daemon-specific initialization goes here */ /* The Big Loop */ while (1) { /* Do some task here ... */ sleep(30); /* wait 30 seconds */ }
This typical loop is usually a while loop that has an infinite terminating condition, with a call to sleep in there to make it run at specified intervals.
Think of it like a heartbeat: when your heart beats, it performs a few tasks, then waits until the next beat takes place. Many daemons follow this same methodology.
Listed below is a complete sample daemon that shows all of the steps necessary for setup and execution. To run this, simply compile using gcc, and start execution from the command line. To terminate, use the kill command after finding its PID.
I've also put in the correct include statements for interfacing with the syslog, which is recommended at the very least for sending start/stop/pause/die log statements, in addition to using your own logs with the fopen()/fwrite()/fclose() function calls.
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <syslog.h> #include <string.h> int main(void) { /* Our process ID and Session ID */ pid_t pid, sid; /* Fork off the parent process */ pid = fork(); if (pid < 0) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got a good PID, then we can exit the parent process. */ if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } /* Change the file mode mask */ umask(0); /* Open any logs here */ /* Create a new SID for the child process */ sid = setsid(); if (sid < 0) { /* Log the failure */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Change the current working directory */ if ((chdir("/")) < 0) { /* Log the failure */ exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* Close out the standard file descriptors */ close(STDIN_FILENO); close(STDOUT_FILENO); close(STDERR_FILENO); /* Daemon-specific initialization goes here */ /* The Big Loop */ while (1) { /* Do some task here ... */ sleep(30); /* wait 30 seconds */ } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
From here, you can use this skeleton to write your own daemons. Be sure to add in your own logging (or use the syslog facility), and code defensively, code defensively, code defensively!


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Yemen deal calls for government reshuffle, unifying forces in south
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi-brokered deal between Yemen’s government and southern separatists signed on Tuesday calls for a new cabinet with equal southern representation and bringing all armed forces under state control.
A copy of the deal seen by Reuters, reached to end a power struggle in the south of Yemen, stipulated that the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) be included in any political negotiations to end the country’s more than four-year war.
All military and security forces would be incorporated into the defense and interior ministries.


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| typedef std::vector< Meta_T > | MetaSet_T |
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| T & | at (Id_T handle) |
| const T & | at (Id_T handle) const |
| T & | operator[] (Id_T handle) |
| const T & | operator[] (Id_T handle) const |
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| Id_T | emplace (Params... args) |
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| IdSet_T | emplaceItems (int n, Params... args) |
| DenseSet_T::iterator | begin () |
| DenseSet_T::const_iterator | cbegin () const |
| DenseSet_T::iterator | end () |
| DenseSet_T::const_iterator | cend () const |
| size_t | erase (Id_T handle) |
| size_t | eraseItems (const IdSet_T &handles) |
| Id_T | insert (T &&i) |
| Id_T | insert (const T &i) |
| void | clear () _NOEXCEPT |
| void | reset () _NOEXCEPT |
| bool | isValid (Id_T handle) const |
| size_t | size () const _NOEXCEPT |
| size_t | capacity () const _NOEXCEPT |
| template<typename Compare > | |
| size_t | defragment (Compare comp, size_t maxSwaps=0) |
| DenseSet_T & | getItems () |
| const DenseSet_T & | getItems () const |
| MetaSet_T & | getMeta () |
| const MetaSet_T & | getMeta () const |
| IdSet_T & | getIds () |
| const IdSet_T & | getIds () const |
| uint32_t | getFreeListFront () const |
| uint32_t | getFreeListBack () const |
| uint16_t | getItemTypeId () const |
| uint32_t | getInnerIndex (Id_T handle) const |
| handle_map (uint16_t itemTypeId, size_t reserveCount) | |
Stores objects using a dense inner array and sparse outer array scheme for good cache coherence of the inner items. The sparse array contains handles (outer ids) used to identify the item, and provides an extra indirection allowing the inner array to move items in memory to keep them tightly packed. The sparse array contains an embedded FIFO freelist, where removed ids push to the back while new ids pop from the front.
| T | type of item to be stored |
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| itemTypeId | typeId used by the Id_T::typeId variable for this container |
| reserveCount | reserve space for inner storage |
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Get a direct reference to a stored item by handle
| [in] | handle | id of the item |
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iterators over the dense set, they are invalidated by inserting and removing
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Removes all items, leaving the m_sparseIds set intact by adding each entry to the free- list and incrementing its generation. This operation is slower than reset
, but safer for the detection of stale handle lookups later (in debug builds). Prefer to use reset
if safety is not a concern. Complexity is linear.
| size_t griffin::handle_map< T >::defragment | ( | Compare | comp, |
| size_t | maxSwaps = 0 |
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defragment uses the comparison function comp
to establish an ideal order for the dense set in order to maximum cache locality for traversals. The dense set can become fragmented over time due to removal operations. This can be an expensive operation, so the sort operation is reentrant. Use the maxSwaps
parameter to limit the number of swaps that will occur before the function returns.
| [in] | comp | comparison function object, function pointer, or lambda |
| [in] | maxSwaps | maximum number of items to reorder in the insertion sort before the function returns. Pass 0 (default) to run until completion. |
| Compare | comparison function object which returns ?true if the first argument is greater than (i.e. is ordered after) the second. The signature of the comparison function should be equivalent to the following: bool cmp(const T& a, const T& b); |
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create one item with default initialization
| Params | initialization arguments passed to constructor of item |
| IdSet_T griffin::handle_map< T >::emplaceItems | ( | int | n, |
| Params... | args | ||
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create n items with initialization args specified by Params, return vector of ids
| [in] | n | number of items to create |
| Params | initialization arguments passed to constructor of each item created |
| size_t griffin::handle_map< T >::erase | ( | Id_T | handle | ) |
remove the item identified by the provided handle
| [in] | handle | id of the item |
| size_t griffin::handle_map< T >::eraseItems | ( | const IdSet_T & | handles | ) |
remove the items identified in the set of handles
| [in] | handles | set of ids |
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these functions provide direct access to inner arrays, don't add or remove items, just use them for lookups and iterating over the items
| Id_T griffin::handle_map< T >::insert | ( | T && | i | ) |
add one item, forwarding the provided i into the store, return id
| [in] | i | rvalue ref of of the object to move into inner storage |
| Id_T griffin::handle_map< T >::insert | ( | const T & | i | ) |
add one item, copying the provided i into the store, return id
| [in] | i | const ref of of the object to copy into inner storage |
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Removes all items, destroying the m_sparseIds set. Leaves the container's capacity, but otherwise equivalent to a default-constructed container. This is faster than clear
, but cannot safely detect lookups by stale handles obtained before the reset. Use clear
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Apple Expects to Sell 100 Million 5G iPhones Next Year
by Charlotte HenryApple reportedly expects to sell over 100 million 5G iPhones in 2020 (via AppleInsider). Sources in Taiwan told DigiTimes that the supply chain in the country is preparing to produce that number of devices.
iPhone 5G Sales Expected to Beat iPhone 11 Sales
If correct, this would fairly significant uptick in sales. It is understood that Apple expects to sell between 70 and 80 million units of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Of course, there has been no official confirmation that a 5G iPhone is on its way. However, such a device is widely expected. Qualcomm said on its recent earnings call that it expects that 200 million 5G smartphones will be sold in 2020. The chipmaker suggested this will include a flagship device in the Autumn. Analysts understood this to mean an iPhone.


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Default Dropdown
The dropdown is designed to resemble other Fundamental input components. The options can be divided in groups, which
are
visually separated and can have a small group header text.
Disabled State
Dropdown with Icon
It can also include complementary information like an icon.
Contextual Menu
The contextual menu component is an opinionated composition of the “fd-popover” and “fd-menu” components with the use
of
a styled button. A More icon or the word “More”, is used to indicate there are more options than room to display
them.
On click or tap, a contextual menu opens.
Infinite Scroll Dropdown
It is possible to implement an infinite scroll function using the fdInfiniteScroll directive. It allows you to load more data as the user scrolls down the parent element. It is important to remember that the InfiniteScrollModule
is required for this feature.
Toolbar Dropdown


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Module baseObjects ::
Class Record
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record.DomRecord,
record.MarcRecord,
record.SaxRecord
Records in the system are stored in an XML form. Attached to the
record is various configurable metadata, such as the time it was inserted
into the database and by which user. Records are stored in a RecordStore
database and retrieved via a persistent and unique document identifier.
The record data may be retrieved as a list of SAX events, as regularised
XML or as a DOM tree.


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I'm Suilong, but I also go by my other name Peter, and I'm currently a computer science major with a math minor student at Pennsylvania State University. I am an aspiring software engineering with the focus of making people's life more comfortable. On this page, you can find the projects that I have previous done, my reflection on my technical writing class and my resume.
My interests in this field are Tutoring and Teaching, Competitive Coding, Algorithms Design, and Software Design. I have participated in numerous coding competition such as the ACM ICPC Regionals, HackPSU, and Google Code Jam and practice challenging coding problems in my free time. I have traveled around east coast and participated in numerous hackathon and assisted in the development of few cool Projects and also helped organize the HackPSU Spring 2017.
Outside of programming, some of my favorite activities are tennis, ice skating, bowling and pool. I also love to travel around the world to experience different cultures that exists.
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An RPN is a MIDI Registered Parameter Number, which is encoded as a series of Control Changes, and refers to some parameter officially defined in the MIDI specification. The sequence is as follows:
There are only two RPNs supported by the Digital Chroma for input, and only on the USB host and serial MIDI input ports. Neither use the Data LSB:
| RPN 0,0 | Pitch Bend Range in semitones. The total range is plus or minus this amount. This has nothing to do with lever 2, which is normally used internally for pitch bend. | |
| RPN 0,6 | MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). This is only recognized on channel 1 or 16. The Data MSB specifies the number of channels above 1, or below 16, that are to be used as member channels in the same zone as the master channel 1 or 16. 0 turns off MPE for the zone. The channel count can be as high as 15 if only one zone is used; otherwise, the sum of the two counts is limited to 14. |
When MIDI Polyphonic Expression is used, the data are coalesced into channels 1 or 16, using the Digital Chroma's internal encoding for polyphonic controls. See {MIDI_polyphonic_controls} and {MIDI_pitch_controls} for how things are re-encoded as MIDI if they are output to an external sequencer for recording and playback.


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The Burrows-Wheeler transform, revisited
In my previous post, I discussed the Burrows-Wheeler transform, and embedded an HTML form on the page which dynamically computed the forward and inverse Burrows-Wheeler transforms with an additional move-to-front compression step. My initial implementation of this form was done in pure JavaScript with no particular care for efficiency, and in particular used \(O(n^2 \log n)\) space and time. The new implementation on the same page reduces this complexity to \(O(n \log n)\) time and \(O(n)\) space, making the form usable on larger texts. It is possible, as noted in the paper of Gil and Scott, that this time complexity can be reduced to \(O(n)\) by using linear time suffix array construction algorithms.
The new implementation has been rewritten in TypeScript, which makes it much easier on the eyes. The full source code is available on GitHub.
To show off the new efficiency improvements, and the efficacy of the Burrows-Wheeler transform, we can try to compress the entire text of an English translation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, which is made available for free online thanks to Project Gutenberg. In this case, after a few seconds of execution on my laptop, we can observe the completed transformation. A visual inspection of the BWT itself reveals long chunks of repeated characters throughout. The following tables contains statistics on the resulting compression:
| Bit Count | Compression Ratio | |
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| Original (UTF-8) | 9,434,200 | 1.00 |
| MTF | 8,122,221 | 0.86 |
| BWT+MTF | 3,336,189 | 0.35 |
How does the Burrows-Wheeler transform perform on texts written in a different language? In my personal experience, French text is absolutely full of extraneous characters, especially e’s, a’s, u’, and s’s, so this might suggest the Burrows-Wheeler transform to be effective in compressing French text. We ran the algorithm on Zola’s Germinal:
| Bit Count | Compression Ratio | |
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| Original (UTF-8) | 8,415,728 | 1.00 |
| MTF | 7,188,574 | 0.85 |
| BWT+MTF | 2,947,192 | 0.35 |
Interestingly, the compression behaved almost identically as on the English text!
We also consider Chinese text–in this case, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The results follow:
| Bit Count | Compression Ratio | |
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| Original (UTF-8) | 14,735,232 | 1.00 |
| MTF | 7,460,164 | 0.51 |
| BWT+MTF | 5,229,807 | 0.35 |
Surprisingly to me, the 35% compression ratio returns, even with the enormous number of unique characters used in the Chinese text: 4225, when compared to Crime and Punishment’s 97 and Germinal’s 103.


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| org.mockito |
Mockito is a mock library for java - see
Mockito class for usage. |
| org.mockito.invocation |
Public API related to mock method invocations.
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| org.mockito.mock |
Mock settings related classes.
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| org.mockito.session | |
| org.mockito.stubbing |
Stubbing related classes.
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interface |
MockitoFramework
Mockito framework settings and lifecycle listeners, for advanced users or for integrating with other frameworks.
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interface |
MockitoSession
MockitoSession is an optional, highly recommended feature
that helps driving cleaner tests by eliminating boilerplate code and adding extra validation. |
interface |
MockSettings
Allows mock creation with additional mock settings.
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Invocation
A method call on a mock object.
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InvocationContainer
Although this class is a part of public API, please don't provide your own implementations.
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InvocationOnMock
An invocation on a mock.
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Location
Describes the location of something in the source code.
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MockCreationSettings<T>
Informs about the mock settings.
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MockitoSessionBuilder
Fluent builder interface for
MockitoSession objects. |
interface |
MockitoSessionLogger
Logger for hints emitted when
finishing mocking for a
MockitoSession . |
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interface |
BaseStubber
Base interface for stubbing consecutive method calls with
Mockito.doReturn(Object) syntax. |
interface |
LenientStubber
Used for declaring optional stubbings with
Mockito.lenient() |
interface |
Stubber
Allows to choose a method when stubbing in doThrow()|doAnswer()|doNothing()|doReturn() style
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interface |
Stubbing
Stubbing declared on the mock object.
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Sunday Long Reads: Films, books, air emergency and more
When Frank Capra arrived at India’s first international film festival to foil a ‘Soviet conspiracy’.
What Delhi can learn from Beijing’s battle against the Airpocalypse
On February 28, 2015, a TED-style talk on China’s pollution crisis got 100 million views on major Chinese video streaming sites like Tencent, Youku, and People’s Daily Online within 48 hours of its release. Chai Jing, a former investigative reporter with the state-owned China Central Television (CCTV), wove a narrative that was both emotional and rational. She used statistics, interviews and personal stories including that of a six-year-old girl from the coal mining province of Shanxi who had never seen stars or white clouds in her life. China News Service reported at the time that after Chai’s 103-minute long, self-financed Under the Dome released, the then-newly appointed minister for environment protection, Chen Jining, said he thanked her for focusing attention on environmental problems.
National Award-winning filmmaker Bhaskar Hazarika on his brave new film ‘Aamis’, and why Assam grounds his work
“Stop making creepy movies!” This piece of advice to filmmaker Bhaskar Hazarika comes not from a film critic. Or a producer. But from his 10-year-old daughter, Leela, who has the most insightful conversations with her father. “A few months ago, she told me she was bored. I asked her to go write a poem. She said she had nothing to write about. So I told her to write a poem on ‘nothing’. And she did!” says Hazarika. The two are now writing a children’s film together, quite a departure from Hazarika’s dark oeuvre, where popular Assamese folktales get macabre twists and warm, fuzzy love stories take sinister turns.
Families in Food: Tastes like Bhandara
Winter is here and so are historical walks in and around Old Delhi. Many of these early chilly morning walks end at Shiv Mishthan Bhandar on Kucha Ghasi Ram, the road leading up to Red Fort. Breakfast in that part of town is synonymous, mostly, with their bestselling bedmi poori and Nagori halwa.
Down in Jungleland: A thought on the environmental legacy we are burdening children with
“Go, tidy up your room!
How many millions of kids have been thus harangued by their parents and teachers day in and day out? And these days, additionally: “Put away that smartphone!”; “You spend far too many hours watching TV and on the internet.” And then the killer, which today must make even the most lead-brained parent, baulk a bit and swallow back. “Go out and play! Get some fresh air. Bond with nature!”
Excuse me? Go out and play? Get some fresh air? Exactly where if you’re living anywhere in north India, and, especially, in places like Delhi? Sorry, that’s not available anymore and will be in short supply for, well, who knows how long. Mostly permanently.
When India’s first international film festival was suspected to be a ‘communist shenanigan’
An international film festival was still a novelty when India decided to hold one in 1952. In fact, the first International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in January-February 1952 in four (now metro) cities was the first such event held anywhere in Asia. The festival which starts this week in Goa will be celebrating its 50th edition this year. There were only eight international film festivals in the world at that time and all of them were in Europe, including the oldest in Venice.
Let the children decide what books to pick, and when
Picture this. Children flitting about like butterflies from one storytelling venue to another. Organisers and young volunteers scurrying about, escorting authors and artists for their sessions, making sure everything is happening as scheduled. The atmosphere is electrifying, yet there is an unusual serenity in being at a literature festival, being around books and people who love books.
More than words: Priya Kuriyan’s illustrations capture the world of everyday quirks
Of the many things that leap out of a Priya Kuriyan illustration, the strongest — and, often, the most relatable — is her sense of humour and her eye for the everyday quirky. The Bengaluru-based illustrator, animator and comic book artist, 38, was declared the winner of the Big Little Book Awards in the illustrator category this week for her burgeoning body of work. Here are some of the works by the NID graduate that stand out for their ability to add depth and nuance to the narrative while ensuring that it is always fun.
This day and age: A 110-year-old grandmother’s guide to growing older
At my ancestral home in Goa, the most important antique is my paternal grandmother: she turns 111 on December 8. Ours is a single-storeyed, 180-year-old house, with lush garden, an overgrown backyard and now a defunct well. In the setting sun, it radiates a beauty of its own. And its history evokes awe: it’s fun to watch people’s jaws drop when they get to know my grandmother’s age.
A graphic novel that documents the horrors of Vanni in Sri Lanka
In September 2008, as the war between the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) mounted in the country’s north, UN workers began moving out of Kilinochchi, Vanni. Benjamin Dix was one of them. He had arrived on the island in 2004 to help the victims of the devastating tsunami, and had stayed on as the conflict worsened. The UN’s departure from the country, as the Sri Lankan government gained control of areas under the LTTE, left many Tamilians vulnerable. “I left Vanni with a huge collection of interviews, photographs and reports, along with my own lived experiences and relationships within the Tamil community…. A deep sense of shame and guilt engulfed me as I drove out of Kilinochchi in the last UN convoy on 16 September 2008,” recalls Dix, who lives in London.
How traditional form and modern technology exist together in Delhi’s ISKCON temple
There is never an easy way to reach god, and New Delhi’s ISKCON temple doesn’t take you there directly.
It took 880 tonnes of steel, 5,500 tonnes of cement, 25,000 sq ft of marble, 75,000 sq ft of stone to build the Radha-Parthasarathi Temple, popularly known as the ISKCON (The International Society for Krishna Consciousness) Temple. Sitting on a hill, its red-and-white latticed towers rise high. It sits in the middle of two equally important religious sites, the Lotus Temple, with its modernist twist to the Baha’i faith and the Akshardham temple, which recalls the traditional designs of Gujarat.
To bridge the divide in Manipur, the effects of a long cycle of violence should be accepted
In the history of resistance in British India, one of the seminal events recorded in the north-eastern part of the country is the Kuki Rebellion of 1917-1919. In 1917, as World War I raged on, the British pressed the Nagas, Lushais, Kukis and other tribes into service as part of the Imperial army’s Labour Corps. The Kukis refused, leading to the Kuki Rebellion of 1917-1919.
Why we fight on Twitter equally over Ayodhya verdict and who a Big Boss contestant looks like
The internet is made of mundane things. Be it the obsessive recording of who ate what and what they look like on our social media streams or the continuous transaction of data and money that powers the e-commerce of our click-and-buy times.  We seem to become counters who track, collect, store, share, and forget the minutiae of our humdrum days, only to start the process all over again. Once in a while, this prosaic production of our life gets punctuated by the appearance of an opinion, an idea, an encounter that shakes us out of our scroll-a-day practices and shakes us into excitement. But this state of excited interest is rare, and often triggered by clickbait headlines and messages crafted with the promise of titillation but the reality of a damp squib.


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java.lang.Object dxf2svg.util.DxfParser
Reads and parses either an ASCII or Binary AutoCAD DXF file.
Specifically it reads the DXF file, organizes the data into DxfElementPairs
and stacks them in one of seven different containers ready for use by
the rest of the conversion process.
This parser was designed for Dxf2Svg but is flexible enough to
not require any additions to be useful for other
applications that need to parse Dxf files.
If you are wanting to reuse this class for other purposes you will need
DxfElementPair to make it work.
DxfElementPair
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DxfParser.UndefinedDxfGroupCodeException
This exception is thrown if a binary DXF file contains an unknown group code. |
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BLOCKS
BLOCKS section |
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CLASSES
CLASSES section |
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ENDSEC
ENDSECtion |
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ENTITIES
ENTITIES section |
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HEADER
HEADER section |
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OBJECTS
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ParserVersion
Parser version |
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TABLES
TABLES section |
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THUMBNAIL section (optional) |
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DxfParser(java.lang.String DXFFileName,
ProcessorManager pManager,
boolean VerboseMode)
This constructor was specifically designed to dove-tail into Dxf2Svg. |
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protected java.lang.String |
determineValueString(int Code,
java.io.DataInputStream Strm)
This method takes a code read from the stream and returns a string representation of the data collected in the next series of bytes as determined by the code collected. |
protected DxfElementPair |
getNextPair(java.io.BufferedReader Strm)
reader methods for the different streams |
protected DxfElementPair |
getNextPair(java.io.DataInputStream Strm)
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protected int |
getSection()
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parse()
Reads and parses a DXF, encapsulates the data into DxfElementPairs and packs the data into the appropriate index of a Vector[] array. |
protected int |
readDxfBoolean(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
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protected int |
readDxfByte(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
for Binary streams |
protected double |
readDxfDouble(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
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protected int |
readDxfInteger(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
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protected int |
readDxfIntegerWide(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
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protected java.lang.String |
readDxfString(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
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protected void |
setLineNumber()
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protected void |
setLineNumbers(int num)
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protected void |
setSection(java.lang.String val)
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java.lang.String |
toString()
Prints out parser version and credits. |
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait |
| Field Detail |
public static final java.lang.String ParserVersion
public static final int HEADER
public static final int CLASSES
public static final int TABLES
public static final int BLOCKS
public static final int ENTITIES
public static final int OBJECTS
public static final int THUMBNAIL
public static final int NONE
public static final int ENDSEC
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public DxfParser(java.lang.String DXFFileName, ProcessorManager pManager, boolean VerboseMode)
DXFFileName
- Name of the DXF file.VerboseMode
- switch setting for outputting lots of messages| Method Detail |
public java.lang.String toString()
public void parse() throws java.io.IOException
java.io.IOException
- If there is an error reading the DXF.
java.lang.NullPointerException
- if the DXF file ends unexpectedly.protected DxfElementPair getNextPair(java.io.BufferedReader Strm) throws java.io.IOException
java.io.IOException
protected DxfElementPair getNextPair(java.io.DataInputStream Strm) throws java.io.IOException
java.io.IOException
protected java.lang.String determineValueString(int Code, java.io.DataInputStream Strm) throws java.io.IOException
DxfParser.UndefinedDxfGroupCodeException
- if the parser finds an unknown group code.
This means the parser would not know what type of data to expect next.
java.io.IOException
protected void setSection(java.lang.String val)
protected int readDxfByte(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
protected int readDxfBoolean(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
protected double readDxfDouble(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
protected int readDxfInteger(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
protected int readDxfIntegerWide(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
protected java.lang.String readDxfString(java.io.DataInputStream DS)
protected void setLineNumbers(int num)
protected void setLineNumber()
protected int getSection()
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public class IndexRequestBuilder extends ReplicationRequestBuilder<IndexRequest,IndexResponse,IndexRequestBuilder> implements WriteRequestBuilder<IndexRequestBuilder>
action, client, request
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IndexRequestBuilder(ElasticsearchClient client,
IndexAction action) |
IndexRequestBuilder(ElasticsearchClient client,
IndexAction action,
java.lang.String index) |
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setCreate(boolean create)
Set to true to force this index to use
org.elasticsearch.action.index.IndexRequest.OpType#CREATE . |
IndexRequestBuilder |
setId(java.lang.String id)
Sets the id to index the document under.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setOpType(DocWriteRequest.OpType opType)
Sets the type of operation to perform.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setParent(java.lang.String parent)
Sets the parent id of this document.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setPipeline(java.lang.String pipeline)
Sets the ingest pipeline to be executed before indexing the document
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setRouting(java.lang.String routing)
Controls the shard routing of the request.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(byte[] source,
int offset,
int length,
XContentType xContentType)
Sets the document to index in bytes form (assumed to be safe to be used from different
threads).
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(byte[] source,
XContentType xContentType)
Sets the document to index in bytes form.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(BytesReference source,
XContentType xContentType)
Sets the source.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,?> source)
Index the Map as a JSON.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,?> source,
XContentType contentType)
Index the Map as the provided content type.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(java.lang.Object... source)
Constructs a simple document with a field name and value pairs.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(java.lang.String source,
XContentType xContentType)
Sets the document source to index.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(XContentBuilder sourceBuilder)
Sets the content source to index.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setSource(XContentType xContentType,
java.lang.Object... source)
Constructs a simple document with a field name and value pairs.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setType(java.lang.String type)
Sets the type to index the document to.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setVersion(long version)
Sets the version, which will cause the index operation to only be performed if a matching
version exists and no changes happened on the doc since then.
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IndexRequestBuilder |
setVersionType(VersionType versionType)
Sets the versioning type.
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setIndex, setTimeout, setTimeout, setWaitForActiveShards, setWaitForActiveShards
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
request, setRefreshPolicy, setRefreshPolicy
public IndexRequestBuilder(ElasticsearchClient client, IndexAction action)
public IndexRequestBuilder(ElasticsearchClient client, IndexAction action, @Nullable java.lang.String index)
public IndexRequestBuilder setType(java.lang.String type)
public IndexRequestBuilder setId(java.lang.String id)
public IndexRequestBuilder setRouting(java.lang.String routing)
public IndexRequestBuilder setParent(java.lang.String parent)
public IndexRequestBuilder setSource(BytesReference source, XContentType xContentType)
public IndexRequestBuilder setSource(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,?> source)
source
- The map to indexpublic IndexRequestBuilder setSource(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,?> source, XContentType contentType)
source
- The map to indexpublic IndexRequestBuilder setSource(java.lang.String source, XContentType xContentType)
Note, its preferable to either set it using setSource(org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder)
or using the setSource(byte[], XContentType)
.
public IndexRequestBuilder setSource(XContentBuilder sourceBuilder)
public IndexRequestBuilder setSource(byte[] source, XContentType xContentType)
public IndexRequestBuilder setSource(byte[] source, int offset, int length, XContentType xContentType)
source
- The source to indexoffset
- The offset in the byte arraylength
- The length of the dataxContentType
- The type/format of the sourcepublic IndexRequestBuilder setSource(java.lang.Object... source)
Note: the number of objects passed to this method must be an even number. Also the first argument in each pair (the field name) must have a valid String representation.
public IndexRequestBuilder setSource(XContentType xContentType, java.lang.Object... source)
Note: the number of objects passed as varargs to this method must be an even number. Also the first argument in each pair (the field name) must have a valid String representation.
public IndexRequestBuilder setOpType(DocWriteRequest.OpType opType)
public IndexRequestBuilder setCreate(boolean create)
org.elasticsearch.action.index.IndexRequest.OpType#CREATE
.public IndexRequestBuilder setVersion(long version)
public IndexRequestBuilder setVersionType(VersionType versionType)
VersionType.INTERNAL
.public IndexRequestBuilder setPipeline(java.lang.String pipeline)


'Shine for us' Birmingham City fans react to star's four-word message
For the second time this season Birmingham City's Jefferson Montero came off the bench in the closing stages of a match and terrorised the visitors’ defence
by Brian Dick, https://www.facebook.com/blueswriterbriandick/?fref=tsJefferson Montero reminded Birmingham City fans what they had been missing with a thrilling cameo at the end of Saturday’s loss to Fulham.
The on-loan winger ended a spell of more than two months on the sidelines to make just his third appearance since his summer move from Swansea.
For the second time this season he came on in the closing stages and terrorised the visitors’ defence, setting up a chance for Lukas Jutkiewicz and sending over a series of crosses from the bye-line that suggested a way back for Blues .
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You can follow our Blues reporter Brian Dick on Twitter, and his email address is<EMAIL_ADDRESS>The equaliser didn’t come but Montero was still pleased to be back in contention having been carried off with a thigh injury at the end of August.
On his official Twitter account he posted a 40-second video of him pulling at the Fulham defence with the message ‘Glad to come back’.
The supporters who reacted shared that sentiment.
@DuffersKRO: You were the only reason we nearly got something on Saturday Jefferson.


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Scrollspy was created to link any point of a document that you want and create a sidebar navigation for that.


This inspection searches for lists with first list item without a blank line before.
Some processors require a blank line before before the first list item. Otherwise, the list item is parsed as a lazy continuation of previous text.


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Let’s talk about the asymmetries in our lives today.
After reading Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I am convinced by the presence and importance of asymmetries in all walks of our lives. Moreover, these asymmetries are almost always associated with a “rare”(low probability), “unforeseeable”, highly consequential event (called a Black Swan).
Turning a blind eye to them can result in a massive blowup – the much fraught unbecoming. Thus, we all should be aware of these asymmetries and take the necessary steps to guard our interests against them, at the bare minimum; possibly, try to gain from them.
In order to shore up our defences against the brewing storm of the asymmetry, the first step is to notice them around us.
A fundamental problem with these asymmetries is that all of them are too plain to be noticed by us in our day-to-day lives. This is why we do not acknowledge them, let alone guard against them.
For example, look at how you input the plus sign(+) and the minus sign(-) from your computer’s keyboard. Notice it yet?
The Shift key looks mighty important now, doesn’t it?
We might think that such asymmetries are probably inconsequential to us and we would rather do well to not bother with them - they just complicate our world even further. However, it’s all smooth sailing for us – until the Black Swan hits us on our head and we are left to resent our ignorance/casual attitude.
 There are Black Swans waiting to be discovered by you.
Let me know what you find in the comments below.


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The Enterprise Family nurtures Vietnamese entrepreneurs who have established their businesses in Singapore as well as young Vietnamese with high entrepreneur spirit. The Family’s mission is to support the business activities of the members, to promote entrepreneurship among the young Vietnamese and to facilitate the business connection between Singapore and Vietnam.
The Enterprise Family also partners with various business associations in Singapore, including the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI).
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This article was renumbered from Article XV to be Article XVII by Const Con 1978 and election Nov7, 1978.
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Section 1. Revisions of or amendments to this constitution may be proposed by constitutional convention or by the legislature. [Ren Const Con 1978 and election Nov7, 1978]


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Takata airbag recall: We join the tireless search for ticking time bombs
Car makers are going to the ends of the earth to replace potentially deadly Takata airbags, and yet thousands of motorists refuse to bring their cars to a nearby dealership.
by Joshua Dowling- shares
EXCLUSIVE
We’re on our way to a remote Aboriginal community in the central north of Western Australia.
After being granted permission to enter – having applied for access weeks earlier – we need to sign-in before searching the streets to locate one car.
The 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer is one of more than 100 million vehicles worldwide equipped with a ticking time bomb.
So far, 3.4 million airbags have been replaced in 2.8 million cars in Australia. However, more than 400,000 potentially deadly airbags remain on our roads, and they are becoming harder to find.
A contractor in the nearby mining town of Newman wishes us luck locating the wanted vehicle. We are about to embark on a six-hour round trip in the middle of the desert not knowing if the mission will be successful.
Mitsubishi has been pursuing this car – and thousands of others – for months. Today, though, the effort will pay dividends.
We find the faded silver sedan parked behind a gate, alongside a house on the fringes of the Jigalong community. Covered in thick red dust, inside and out, it has a flat tyre and looks like it hasn’t been driven for some time.
Even though the car’s days may be numbered, the airbag inflator needs to be replaced in case the vehicle is driven again, or eventually used for spare parts.
Faulty Takata airbags – which don’t deploy randomly, but whose inflators can spray deadly shrapnel by exploding with too much force when activated by a crash – are believed to have claimed at least two lives in Australia and given two other motorists permanent, disfiguring injuries in the past two years alone.
The most recent fatality – in a BMW 3 Series made between 1997 and 2000 – involves a type of Takata airbag not in the original recall. The case is still before the coroner.
The incident came to light last week after BMW Australia pleaded with all 12,663 owners of affected vehicles to stop driving immediately, following a death in the past three months. The matter is so serious, BMW will pay for a rental vehicle, supply a loan car, reimburse taxi fares, or buy back affected models.
In total, 21 brands are affected by the Takata recall, from Ford to Ferrari, McLaren to Tesla, and Citroen to Skoda.
Because Takata is a Japanese company, fellow Japanese brands such as Toyota-Lexus (537,409), Honda (403,351), Mazda (273,204), Subaru (270,732), Nissan (262,330) and Mitsubishi (163,520) have the largest share of faulty airbags in Australia, accounting for more than 1.9 million between them.
Holden also has a sizeable number of Takata airbags (313,610), as do BMW (193,999), Mercedes-Benz (115,549), Volkswagen (99,697), Ford (85,985), Audi (38,787) and Jaguar-Land Rover (17,342).
The affected vehicles are made from 1997 to 2017, though the age range varies by model and brand (click here for the full list).
The Australians harmed so far by faulty Takata airbags are among the tragic tally of at least 29 deaths and 320 serious injuries worldwide.
Unlike other airbags, the Takata airbags at the centre of the recall have an ammonium nitrate-based propellant, the same type of explosive material used in the Bali terror attacks in 2002 and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
Against expert advice, Takata used ammonium nitrate in millions of airbags because it was cheaper than other types of propellants.
Without a chemical drying agent to counter the effects of heat and humidity, over time the ammonium nitrate becomes unstable causing it to explode with too much force when deployed in a crash, turning the inflator’s metal housing into deadly shrapnel.
There may have been many more fatalities and serious injuries – years earlier – that went unreported because the warning signs that led to the world’s biggest automotive recall were not known until 2015.
One example yet to be formally linked to the Takata recall is a crash in Canberra in 2014, uncovered by The Sydney Morning Herald last year.
The male passenger of a 2005-model BMW suffered severe lacerations to his face after the airbag was deployed in a crash. The owner of the BMW received a recall notice months later, but before the Takata safety campaign received global recognition.
The owner of the Honda CR-V in the Takata airbag fatality in Sydney in July 2017 was sent five recall notices, though the family said they only received two of those letters and did not understand the consequences could be deadly.
Tragically, the vehicle was booked in to a Honda dealer to have the airbag replaced two days before the crash, but the family was unable to make the appointment and the booking was rescheduled for October.
The journey to this remote Aboriginal community is not the first or only mission of this type, but it’s a stark example of the extraordinary measures some car companies are now taking in their attempts to find and replace potentially deadly Takata airbags.
For this particular safety recall, an engineer has flown across the country to Perth, then taken another flight to Newman before embarking on a three-hour drive to the Aboriginal town of Jigalong, a community of about 300 people in the middle of the Pilbara on the western edge of the Little Sandy Desert.
We’re here because the nearest Mitsubishi dealership is 750km away in Karratha, rarely visited by people from the community and, as one local put it, it would take two days and more than two tanks of petrol to get there and back.
The airbag replacement exercise took the better part of 48 hours for the technician, but at this point carmakers are not worried about the time or expense, they just want to have all affected airbags accounted for or replaced.
They must have a 100 per cent clearance rate – or prove the vehicle is in a wrecking yard, has been exported, or written off in a crash – by the end of 2020. To the end of September 2019, the airbag replacement ratio for most brands ranges from 64 per cent to 94 per cent of all affected vehicles (see graphs below).
As luck would have it, the technician found a second car in Jigalong affected by the recall – a 2007 Mitsubishi Triton ute – after a street-by-street search for other likely vehicles.
After asking the owner’s permission to check the vehicle’s identifying numbers, the technician was able to replace the driver’s airbag inflator. The vehicle also had a flat tyre and had clearly seen better days, but it was repaired regardless, in a matter of about 30 minutes.
On the late afternoon drive back to Newman, on a long straight section of dirt road more than 100km from town, we flag down another Mitsubishi Triton driving towards us. It’s in the age range of affected vehicles.
The driver pulls over and the occupants are understandably suspicious. A quick check of the vehicle reveals this airbag has already been replaced. There’s relief from both parties as the locals continue their journey.
Technicians have at times become detectives in their search for deadly airbags. If they spot a potentially affected car – for example, while on a lunch break in a small town or waiting at a regional airport – they will check the registration against digital records and chase down the owner if the car is outstanding.
Even though car companies now have access to the most up-to-date registration records, some vehicles are next to impossible to find because they may be registered in one state but driven in another. Or the registration lapsed years ago.
The week before our visit to the middle of the Western Australian desert, we accompanied another technician – also armed with a pouch of tools and boxes of replacement airbag inflators – to Horn Island, off the northern most tip of mainland Australia.
We got a lift from the airport in a 2008 Ford Ranger ute. Fortunately, its Takata airbag had already been replaced, we learned after discreetly checking the vehicle’s details on Ford’s website.
This 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer was hard to find because it had changed owners several times in recent years and the details weren’t updated.
After removing a few hidden bolts the entire dashboard was out in a matter of minutes, and then the technician hits pay dirt: this Takata airbag inflator is covered in surface rust at either end.
About the size of a can of soft drink, it looks like a mini pipe bomb. The technician says it’s likely the explosive material inside would have been affected by the heat and humidity, the two biggest contributors to the deterioration of these particular airbags.
The faulty airbag (pictured below, beneath a new replacement device), along with all the others collected on this journey, will be sent back to Japan for testing or to be destroyed.
The next morning we fly to two more islands in the middle of the Torres Strait not far from Papua New Guinea, our nearest international neighbour.
In the search for more airbags, a charter plane first takes us to Mabuiag Island (population 200) and the smallest commercial air strip in Australia – about 400 metres long if you include the runoff area and the grass at each end of the runway. The pilot needs to have a good aim: if you run out of grass, you’ll run into the ocean at either end of the landing strip.
The owner of the 2009 Mitsubishi Pajero left the vehicle unlocked for us, next to the concrete airport shelter. The technician got working on the car right away and had the driver’s and front passenger’s airbag replaced in about an hour, capturing the process on camera in case authorities need photographic proof.
From there it’s back on the plane for the short hop to Badu Island (population 800) to locate a 2008 Mitsubishi Triton. With no taxis or rental cars available we start walking a couple of kilometres in sweltering conditions before a local kindly offers us a ride.
It was a double dose of luck. We had been heading to the wrong side of the island and the good samaritan knows the car we’re trying to find.
There was another reason this car was difficult to locate: it’s still registered to a town in West Australia, more than 3500km away, even though we are on a remote island in Queensland.
Before the Mitsubishi technician puts a spanner on the Triton, a local in a RAV4 drives up and asks if we’re from Toyota to fix their airbag. They’re coming next week, apparently. It was a reassuring sign that, even in isolated areas, some motorists are getting the message and understanding the importance of this recall.
Other manufacturers have ventured far and wide but not every brand has gone to such lengths to replace faulty Takata airbags. However, that may soon change as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which is overseeing the first ever compulsory recall, isn’t one for excuses.
Honda fixed a handful of vehicles in the Torres Strait after transporting them by barge to Thursday Island in late 2017. Nissan has trained third parties and independent mechanics to cover regional areas. However, a Nissan owner at Jigalong told us she had been asked to drive 500km to the nearest dealer in Port Hedland to have her Takata airbag replaced – and says she’s unlikely to make the expensive and time-consuming two-day round trip.
Mitsubishi and others are using charter flights to fix vehicles on remote islands because it’s not financially viable to ship cars to and from the mainland.
Locals say most car insurance claims in the Torres Strait are instant write-offs because putting a vehicle on a barge to Cairns costs more than $1400 each way.
The cars are often worth less than the cost of shipping and repairs, so each island has a large population of battered vehicles that are still mechanically sound even if they look like they’re falling apart. It also means island locals are comfortable with cars that are far from perfect, so a recall notice is easy to ignore. After all, there isn’t a car dealership on these islands to fix them.
Even though the Takata airbag recall is serious, it can be easily dismissed by owners who say the chances of a crash are small due to the lower speeds and lack of traffic in isolated communities. That may be the case but, in addition to the safety of the current owners, the car industry is worried where parts from these vehicles may end up one day.
Against this backdrop of chartering planes to reach some of the most isolated parts of Australia, some car companies are becoming increasingly frustrated by the complacency of thousands of motorists who refuse to take their vehicles to a nearby dealership for the free-of-charge repair.
Some owners won’t even allow a technician to come to their home or work, a last-resort offer after numerous unsuccessful attempts to make an appointment at their local dealer.
In most cases there is no reason given for a reluctance to co-operate. Some owners believe it’s an elaborate plan to get people to pay for a vehicle service, others just say they’re too busy.
“Most people have no concept of how dangerous these airbags could be,” says Mitsubishi technician Geoff Easton (pictured below), who has replaced more than 400 airbags in remote areas over the past 12 months.
Technicians and private contractors are now literally knocking on doors, noting the time and date of each attempt to make contact, so they can show the ACCC every effort that has been made.
Car companies face fines for not clearing or accounting for all affected vehicles, but the ACCC is yet to announce the penalty.
All states except Victoria have put in place registration renewal bans on cars equipped with the ‘Alpha’ type of Takata airbag, which are older, more likely to have deteriorated, and have a one-in-two chance of spraying shrapnel in a crash.
The ACCC has labelled these as “critical” and advises owners not to drive cars equipped with these devices. At last count, about 19,600 ‘Alpha’ type Takata airbags – from a total of approximately 90,000 – remain on Australian roads.
However, the car industry wants governments to extend the ban on registration transfers and renewals to include vehicles with the ‘Beta’ type of Takata airbag. Although they are currently not listed as “critical” they are still a serious danger due to their sheer numbers: more than 400,000 of this type are still on Australian roads.
To date, one death and one serious injury in Australia have been attributed to the ‘Beta’ type Takata airbag.
A second death and another serious injury – both of which came to light last week – involve BMW cars with a type of airbag not recalled before: Takata NADI (non-azide driver inflator) type 5AT.
Perversely, there are currently no registration bans on the two groups of Takata airbags that have killed or maimed motorists in Australia.
In the meantime, the car industry continues its endless search for faulty Takata airbags in the hope there are no more preventable deaths or serious injuries.
Why will some cars need their airbag inflators replaced twice?
Even if all 3.8 million airbag inflators are replaced or accounted for by the end of 2020, the story won’t end there.
Hundreds of thousands of vehicles will need to have their airbag inflators replaced a second time over the next few years because the devices being fitted today have the exact same explosive material that can deteriorate over time.
The like-for-like replacements were done as a stop-gap measure because it would have taken too long to re-engineer and re-certify new airbag inflators – with more stable explosive material – for the dozens of different car models affected worldwide.
Research shows the Takata airbags at the centre of the recall deteriorate after five to 10 years and most will be replaced for a second time with a permanent solution within the next three years.
Some cars have already had their second airbag fitted while other brands are either waiting for a permanent replacement or have been able to supply new airbag inflators with a safer explosive material that others will eventually adopt.
Received a recall notice but your replacement airbag inflator is not ready yet?
The car industry is prioritising and replacing the oldest and most dangerous airbags first. Some customers have been sent a recall notice only to be told their replacement airbag is months away.
However, technical experts insist these are well within the safety margin for these airbags. With a limited number of airbag manufacturers worldwide, it was impossible to replace every airbag at the same time, so the industry is working to a rolling roster of oldest to newest, notifying customers months in advance so they know they are in the queue.
How much is the Takata recall scandal going to cost?
Car companies are footing the bill for airbag inflator replacements and will later seek compensation and/or reimbursement from Takata and their insurers while the airbag manufacturer remains operational after declaring bankruptcy.
The car industry is sourcing replacement airbag inflators from at least three other suppliers. Takata says about 70 per cent of the replacement airbag inflators it is manufacturing now use a more stable propellent. The remaining 30 per cent are like-for-like airbag inflators that will be replaced again in the next few years with devices that contain the new propellent.
The car industry won’t say how much the Takata recall has cost so far but experts estimate the bill will top more than $1 billion to locate and replace 3.8 million faulty airbag inflators in Australia alone, not including going the extra distance to replace devices in isolated areas.
Takata was fined a record $1 billion by US authorities in January 2017 after pleading guilty to “misleading customers about the safety and reliability of its ammonium nitrate-based airbag inflators”.
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