In this tutorial you'll get a full tour through Keptn. Before we get started you'll get to know what you will learn while you walk yourself through this tutorial.
You'll find a time estimate until the end of this tutorial in the right top corner of your screen - this should give you guidance how much time is needed for each step.
Before you can get started, please make sure to have Keptn installed on your Kubernetes cluster.
If not, please follow one of these tutorials to install Keptn on your favourite Kubernetes distribution.
For enabling the Keptn Quality Gates, we are going to use Dynatrace as the data provider. Therefore, we are going to setup Dynatrace in our Kubernetes cluster to have our sample application monitored and we can use the monitoring data for both the basis for evaluating quality gates as well as a trigger to start self-healing.
If you don't have a Dynatrace tenant yet, sign up for a free trial or a developer account.
DT_TENANT
has to be set according to the appropriate pattern:{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com
{your-domain}/e/{your-environment-id}
kubectl
command itself.DT_TENANT=yourtenant.live.dynatrace.com
DT_API_TOKEN=yourAPItoken
DT_PAAS_TOKEN=yourPAAStoken
If you used the variables, the next command can be copied and pasted without modifications. If you have not set the variable, please make sure to set the right values in the next command.kubectl -n keptn create secret generic dynatrace --from-literal="DT_TENANT=$DT_TENANT" --from-literal="DT_API_TOKEN=$DT_API_TOKEN" --from-literal="DT_PAAS_TOKEN=$DT_PAAS_TOKEN"
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn-contrib/dynatrace-service/0.7.1/deploy/manifests/dynatrace-service/dynatrace-service.yaml
keptn configure monitoring dynatrace
Verify Dynatrace configuration
Since Keptn has configured your Dynatrace tenant, let us take a look what has be done for you:
Follow the next steps only if your Dynatrace OneAgent does not work properly.
kubectl get pods -n dynatrace
might look as follows:NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
dynatrace-oneagent-operator-7f477bf78d-dgwb6 1/1 Running 0 8m21s
oneagent-b22m4 0/1 Error 6 8m15s
oneagent-k7jn6 0/1 CrashLoopBackOff 6 8m15s
env:
- name: ONEAGENT_ENABLE_VOLUME_STORAGE
value: "true"
kubectl edit oneagent -n dynatrace
At the end of your installation, please verify that all Dynatrace resources are in a Ready and Running status by executing kubectl get pods -n dynatrace
:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
dynatrace-oneagent-operator-7f477bf78d-dgwb6 1/1 Running 0 8m21s
oneagent-b22m4 1/1 Running 0 8m21s
oneagent-k7jn6 1/1 Running 0 8m21s
A project in Keptn is the logical unit that can hold multiple (micro)services. Therefore, it is the starting point for each Keptn installation.
To get all files you need for this tutorial, please clone the example repo to your local machine.
git clone --branch release-0.6.2 https://github.com/keptn/examples.git --single-branch
cd examples/onboarding-carts
Create a new project for your services using the keptn create project
command. In this example, the project is called sockshop. Before executing the following command, make sure you are in the examples/onboarding-carts
folder.
Recommended: Create a new project with Git upstream:
To configure a Git upstream for this tutorial, the Git user (--git-user
), an access token (--git-token
), and the remote URL (--git-remote-url
) are required. If a requirement is not met, go to the Keptn documentation where instructions for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket are provided.
keptn create project sockshop --shipyard=./shipyard.yaml --git-user=GIT_USER --git-token=GIT_TOKEN --git-remote-url=GIT_REMOTE_URL
Alternatively: If you don't want to use a Git upstream, you can create a new project without it but please note that this is not the recommended way:
keptn create project sockshop --shipyard=./shipyard.yaml
For creating the project, the tutorial relies on a shipyard.yaml
file as shown below:
stages:
- name: "dev"
deployment_strategy: "direct"
test_strategy: "functional"
- name: "staging"
deployment_strategy: "blue_green_service"
test_strategy: "performance"
- name: "production"
deployment_strategy: "blue_green_service"
remediation_strategy: "automated"
This shipyard contains three stages: dev, staging, and production. This results in the three Kubernetes namespaces: sockshop-dev, sockshop-staging, and sockshop-production.
After creating the project, services can be onboarded to our project.
keptn onboard service carts --project=sockshop --chart=./carts
keptn add-resource --project=sockshop --stage=dev --service=carts --resource=jmeter/basiccheck.jmx --resourceUri=jmeter/basiccheck.jmx
keptn add-resource --project=sockshop --stage=staging --service=carts --resource=jmeter/load.jmx --resourceUri=jmeter/load.jmx
basiccheck.jmx
as well as load.jmx
for your service. However, you must not rename the files because there is a hardcoded dependency on these file names in the current implementation of Keptn's jmeter-service.Since the carts service requires a mongodb database, a second service needs to be onboarded.
--deployment-strategy
flag specifies that for this service a direct deployment strategy in all stages should be used regardless of the deployment strategy specified in the shipyard. Thus, the database is not blue/green deployed.keptn onboard service carts-db --project=sockshop --chart=./carts-db --deployment-strategy=direct
After onboarding the services, a built artifact of each service can be deployed.
keptn send event new-artifact --project=sockshop --service=carts-db --image=docker.io/mongo --tag=4.2.2
keptn send event new-artifact --project=sockshop --service=carts --image=docker.io/keptnexamples/carts --tag=0.11.1
kubectl port-forward svc/bridge -n keptn 9000:8080
Configuration change
events). During a deployment, Keptn generates events for controlling the deployment process. These events will also show up in Keptn's Bridge. Please note that if events are sent at the same time, their order in the Keptn's Bridge might be arbitrary since they are sorted on the granularity of one second.kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | grep carts
sockshop-dev carts-77dfdc664b-25b74 1/1 Running 0 10m
sockshop-dev carts-db-54d9b6775-lmhf6 1/1 Running 0 13m
sockshop-production carts-db-54d9b6775-4hlwn 2/2 Running 0 12m
sockshop-production carts-primary-79bcc7c99f-bwdhg 2/2 Running 0 2m15s
sockshop-staging carts-db-54d9b6775-rm8rw 2/2 Running 0 12m
sockshop-staging carts-primary-79bcc7c99f-mbbgq 2/2 Running 0 7m24s
echo http://carts.sockshop-dev.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
echo http://carts.sockshop-staging.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
echo http://carts.sockshop-production.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
Now that the service is running in all three stages, let us generate some traffic so we have some data we can base the evaluation on.
Change the directory to examples/load-generation/cartsloadgen
. If you are still in the onboarding-carts directory, use the following command or change it accordingly:
cd ../load-generation/cartsloadgen
Now let us deploy a pod that will generate some traffic for all three stages of our demo environment.
kubectl apply -f deploy/cartsloadgen-base.yaml
The output will look similar to this.
namespace/loadgen created
deployment.extensions/cartsloadgen created
Optionally, you can verify that the load generator has been started.
kubectl get pods -n loadgen
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
cartsloadgen-5dc47c85cf-kqggb 1/1 Running 0 117s
During the evaluation of a quality gate, the Dynatrace SLI provider is required that is implemented by an internal Keptn service, the dynatrace-sli-service. This service will fetch the values for the SLIs that are referenced in an SLO configuration.
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keptn-contrib/dynatrace-sli-service/0.4.1/deploy/service.yaml
Configure the already onboarded project with the new SLI provider:
keptn configure monitoring dynatrace --project=sockshop
Keptn requires a performance specification for the quality gate. This specification is described in a file called slo.yaml
, which specifies a Service Level Objective (SLO) that should be met by a service. To learn more about the slo.yaml file, go to Specifications for Site Reliability Engineering with Keptn.
Activate the quality gates for the carts service. Therefore, navigate to the examples/onboarding-carts
folder and upload the slo-quality-gates.yaml
file using the add-resource command:
Make sure you are in the correct folder examples/onboarding-carts
. If not, change the directory accordingly, e.g., cd ../../onboarding-carts
.
keptn add-resource --project=sockshop --stage=staging --service=carts --resource=slo-quality-gates.yaml --resourceUri=slo.yaml
This will add the SLO.yaml
file to your Keptn - which is the declaritive definition of a quality gate. Let's take a look at the file contents:
---
spec_version: "0.1.1"
comparison:
aggregate_function: "avg"
compare_with: "single_result"
include_result_with_score: "pass"
number_of_comparison_results: 1
filter:
objectives:
- sli: "response_time_p95"
key_sli: false
pass: # pass if (relative change <= 10% AND absolute value is < 600ms)
- criteria:
- "<=+10%" # relative values require a prefixed sign (plus or minus)
- "<600" # absolute values only require a logical operator
warning: # if the response time is below 800ms, the result should be a warning
- criteria:
- "<=800"
weight: 1
total_score:
pass: "90%"
warning: "75%"
You can take a look at the currently deployed version of our "carts" microservice before we deploy the next build of our microservice.
echo http://carts.sockshop-dev.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
echo http://carts.sockshop-staging.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
echo http://carts.sockshop-production.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
http://carts.sockshop-production.YOUR.DOMAIN
for viewing the carts service in your production environment and you should receive an output similar to the following:keptn send event new-artifact --project=sockshop --service=carts --image=docker.io/keptnexamples/carts --tag=0.11.2
dev
and staging
environments by opening a browser for both environments. Get the URLs with these commands:echo http://carts.sockshop-dev.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
echo http://carts.sockshop-staging.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
After triggering the deployment of the carts service in version v0.11.2, the following status is expected:
echo http://carts.sockshop-dev.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
echo http://carts.sockshop-production.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
Take a look in the Keptn's bridge (that you opened earlier in this tutorial) and navigate to the last deployment. You will find a quality gate evaluation that got a fail
result when evaluation the SLOs of our carts microservice. Thanks to this quality gate the slow build won't be promoted to production but instead automatically rolled back.
keptn send event new-artifact --project=sockshop --service=carts --image=docker.io/keptnexamples/carts --tag=0.11.3
Version: v3
.kubectl get deployments -n sockshop-production
NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
carts-db 1 1 1 1 63m
carts-primary 1 1 1 1 98m
kubectl describe deployment carts-primary -n sockshop-production
...
Pod Template:
Labels: app=carts-primary
Containers:
carts:
Image: docker.io/keptnexamples/carts:0.11.3
Next, you will learn how to use the capabilities of Keptn to provide self-healing for an application with feature flags based on the Unleash feature toggle framework.
To quickly get an Unleash server up and running with Keptn, follow these instructions:
cd examples/unleash-server
keptn create project
command:keptn create project unleash --shipyard=./shipyard.yaml
keptn onboard service
command:keptn onboard service unleash-db --project=unleash --chart=./unleash-db
keptn onboard service unleash --project=unleash --chart=./unleash
keptn send new-artifact
command:keptn send event new-artifact --project=unleash --service=unleash-db --image=postgres:10.4
keptn send event new-artifact --project=unleash --service=unleash --image=docker.io/keptnexamples/unleash:1.0.0
unleash.unleash-dev.KEPTN_DOMAIN
):echo http://unleash.unleash-dev.$(kubectl get cm keptn-domain -n keptn -o=jsonpath='{.data.app_domain}')
You should be able to login using the credentials keptn/keptn.
In this tutorial, we are going to introduce feature toggles for two scenarios:
To set up both feature flags, navigate to your Unleash server and log in.
Now, everything is set up in the Unleash server. For Keptn to be able to connect to the Unleash server, we have to add a secret with the Unleash API URL as well as the Unleash tokens.
kubectl -n keptn create secret generic unleash --from-literal="UNLEASH_SERVER_URL=http://unleash.unleash-dev/api" --from-literal="UNLEASH_USER=keptn" --from-literal="UNLEASH_TOKEN=keptn"
kubectl delete pod -l=run=remediation-service -n keptn
cd examples/onboarding-carts
) and add the following remediation instructionsremediations:
- name: "Response time degradation"
actions:
- action: featuretoggle
value: EnableItemCache:on
- name: "Failure rate increase"
actions:
- action: featuretoggle
value: EnablePromotion:off
using the command:keptn add-resource --project=sockshop --service=carts --stage=production --resource=remediation_feature_toggle.yaml --resourceUri=remediation.yaml
Note: The file describes remediation actions (e.g., featuretoggle
) in response to problems/alerts (e.g., Response time degradation
) that are sent to Keptn.Now that everything is set up, next we are going to hit the application with some load and toggle the feature flags.
remediation.yaml
before, Keptn will find a remediation action and will trigger the corresponding action that will disable the feature flag.Thanks for taking a full tour through Keptn!
Although Keptn has even more to offer that should have given you a good overview what you can do with Keptn.
shipyard
file.stages:
- name: "dev"
deployment_strategy: "direct"
test_strategy: "functional"
- name: "staging"
deployment_strategy: "blue_green_service"
test_strategy: "performance"
- name: "production"
deployment_strategy: "blue_green_service"
remediation_strategy: "automated"
slo
file.---
spec_version: "0.1.1"
comparison:
aggregate_function: "avg"
compare_with: "single_result"
include_result_with_score: "pass"
number_of_comparison_results: 1
filter:
objectives:
- sli: "response_time_p95"
key_sli: false
pass: # pass if (relative change <= 10% AND absolute value is < 600ms)
- criteria:
- "<=+10%" # relative values require a prefixed sign (plus or minus)
- "<600" # absolute values only require a logical operator
warning: # if the response time is below 800ms, the result should be a warning
- criteria:
- "<=800"
weight: 1
total_score:
pass: "90%"
warning: "75%"
Keptn can be easily extended with external tools such as notification tools, other SLI providers, bots to interact with Keptn, etc.
While we do not cover additional integrations in this tutorial, please feel fee to take a look at our integration repositories:
Please visit us in our Keptn Slack and tell us how you like Keptn and this tutorial! We are happy to hear your thoughts & suggestions!
Also, please follow us on Twitter to get the latest news on Keptn, our tutorials and newest releases!


Tanzania holds local elections boycotted by the opposition
Tanzania on Sunday held local government elections, viewed as a test case ahead of national polls next year, with the main opposition party boycotting the ballot citing violence and intimidation.
The long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President John Magufuli is therefore set for a sweeping victory.
The nationwide polls, with over 19 million registered voters, elect the lowest rung of local government leaders.
The posts, for the chair of villages and streets, are critical for organising public meetings and mobilising grass-root support campaigning.
Chadema, the main opposition party, said in November it would not be taking part because its candidates were too fearful, or were unfairly disqualified from running by stringent rules they say were used to block them.
Five other smaller parties have also joined the boycott.
De facto one-party system
Chadema say their activists have been kidnapped and beaten, and at least one has blamed authorities for an attack in 2017, which saw him shot multiple times.
Several have disappeared and turned up murdered.
“Our party believes it is wiser not to support such electoral cheating,” Chadema president Freeman Mbowe said in November. “To continue to participate in elections of this kind is to legitimise illegality.”
In the economic capital Dar es Salaam, many poll centres were closed because the CCM candidate stood unopposed, and was therefore automatically elected, an AFP reporter said.
Three out of Tanzania’s 26 mainland regions — Katavi, Ruvuma and Tanga — will not hold polls at all due to the opposition boycott.
In a few voting stations, candidates from small opposition parties are standing.
The government has dismissed Chadema’s claims as excuses.
Rights, democratic gains under threat
Rights groups say the intimidation of political opponents has escalated sharply under Magufuli, a strongman elected in 2015 whose administration has wielded wide-ranging laws to silence government critics.
Political analysts say the vote offers a preview of the bigger polls set for 2020.
“The sign of rain is clouds,” said Deus Kibamba, head of the Tanzania Citizens’ Information Bureau, a research think-tank.
“To me, what happens in the local elections is a picture of the general election.”
Magufuli, who is expected to run for another five-year term in 2020, has overseen a democratic backslide in Tanzania, according to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
Free media has been cowed by draconian cybercrime laws, critical newspapers and bloggers have been silenced, and opposition activists harassed unlawfully, the rights groups say.
“This so-called multiparty system in which people are beaten, thrown in jail or killed for their opinions is worse than a one-party state,” said Elizeus Yanga, a high school teacher from the northwestern Mwanza region.
“Magufuli has done everything to make Tanzania a de facto one-party system.”
In the last local elections, in 2014, Magufuli’s CCM took almost three-quarters of the more than 12,000 posts. Chadema won 15 percent.
“Why is there this mistreatment of opposition parties, which are already weak?” Kibamba questioned, saying that the ruling party would still dominate in free and fair polls.
“The opposition has been banned from rallies and other political activities in the last four years,” Kibamba added.
2020 elections
CCM – and its pre-union predecessor TANU – has ruled Tanzania continuously since independence in 1961. The country will hold general elections at the end of 2020 and president Magufuli, in power since 2015, is expected to seek a second term.
Critics accuse the ruling party of deliberately blurring the line between state and party. One-party rule in Tanzania only ended in 1992.
Observers say Sunday’s elections will give clues on public sentiment about Magufuli’s rule ahead of the 2020 general polls.
Preliminary results are due on Monday.
africanews and news agencies


Next: Introduction
Up: Contents
Foreword [from the first edition]
For a number of years our group has been investigating methods for real-time ECG rhythm analysis. In the course of this work, we have developed an extensive annotated digital ECG database. The database has been enormously helpful to us in algorithm development and evaluation. The creation of this resource required a major effort, and was funded, in part, by both government and industry. We feel it is highly desirable to make this database available to other academic and industrial groups, and hence have prepared it for distribution. This catalog contains detailed descriptions of the database tapes.
We acknowledge with gratitude the many dedicated hours of work which went into this project on the part of cardiologists, Holter technicians, laboratory assistants, and engineers in our laboratories at MIT and at Beth Israel Hospital. We also acknowledge the help of our colleagues at Washington University, St. Louis (particularly Russell Hermes) in assuring a compatible data format. We especially wish to recognize:
Roger Mark
Walter Olson
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September, 1980
During the eight years since we first published this book, nearly one hundred academic and industrial research groups worldwide have used the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. We thank these organizations for their support.
In addition to those listed above, we also wish to recognize the contributions of:
In lieu of reprinting the first edition of this volume, we have made use of modern printing technology to produce a far more readable and complete record of the contents of the database.
In June, 1987, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation published its Recommended Practice for Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection Algorithms (AAMI ECAR-1987), which may be obtained from AAMI, 3330 Washington Boulevard, Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22201. The MIT-BIH and AHA Databases provide developers and evaluators of arrhythmia detectors with standard test data; the AAMI Recommended Practice provides guidelines for using these databases in a standard way, and for describing detector performance in a manner that facilitates comparisons between detectors. We urge all users of our database to follow the AAMI recommendations when preparing performance statistics for publication.
A package of C-language software for using the MIT-BIH and AHA Databases is available from MIT. The package includes programs for plotting ECGs with annotations, sampling rate conversion, and beat-by-beat comparison of annotation files following the AAMI recommended practice, as well as a variety of other useful programs. All the programs access the database via a common library of subroutines, which are also provided as part of the package and which may be used with user programs.
We have made several other sets of ECG recordings available, including specialized databases for ventricular fibrillation, atrial fibrillation, and ST segment changes. These databases are not annotated beat-by-beat.
George Moody
Roger Mark
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August, 1988
Since the publication of the second edition, the database has been made available in CD-ROM format. Continued strong interest in the database has made it possible to prepare a second edition of the CD-ROM and a third edition of this book. The CD-ROM includes the additional specialized databases mentioned above, and the second edition of the CD-ROM also contains the software package mentioned above.
Compatible databases of ECGs and other physiologic signals are beginning to appear. Of particular interest to users of our database is the European ST-T Database, which consists of ninety two-hour ECG recordings with beats, rhythms, and signal quality annotated as in the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database, and with additional annotations to indicate ST and T-wave morphology changes. For information, write to: CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Computer Laboratory, via Trieste, 41, 56100 Pisa, Italy.
I wish to thank all of those who have supported this project over these years, especially Roger Mark, who has guided it from its inception in 1975.
George Moody
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July, 1992
Although the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database has been available for almost 17 years at this writing, it remains in demand among researchers and instrument developers. This edition of the Directory accompanies the third edition of the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database CD-ROM; it is the first to appear in hypertext form.
If you have installed Netscape on your system, and have set up as a Netscape helper application either wavescript (see Controlling WAVE from a web browser) or wvscript (see Setting up WVSCRIPT), you may follow the links from this guide to the records.
Once again, I wish to thank everyone who has supported this project through their continued interest in this database.
George B. Moody (george@mit.edu)


Directives
A "Directive" is a small building block used for creating arbitrarily complex route structures. Akka HTTP already pre-defines a large number of directives and you can easily construct your own:
Basics
Routes effectively are simply highly specialised functions that take a RequestContext and eventually complete it, which could (and often should) happen asynchronously.
With the complete directive this becomes even shorter:
Route route = complete("yeah");
Writing multiple routes that are tried as alternatives (in-order of definition), is as simple as using the route(route1, route2), method:
Route routes = route(
pathSingleSlash(() ->
getFromResource("web/calculator.html")
),
path("hello", () -> complete("World!))
);
You could also simply define a "catch all" completion by providing it as the last route to attempt to match. In the example below we use the get() (one of the MethodDirectives) to match all incoming GET requests for that route, and all other requests will be routed towards the other "catch all" route, that completes the route:
Route route =
get(
() -> complete("Received GET")
).orElse(
() -> complete("Received something else")
)
If no route matches a given request, a default 404 Not Found response will be returned as response.
Structure
The general anatomy of a directive is as follows:
directiveName(arguments [, ...], (extractions [, ...]) -> {
... // inner route
})
It has a name, zero or more arguments and optionally an inner route (The RouteDirectives are special in that they are always used at the leaf-level and as such cannot have inner routes).
Additionally directives can "extract" a number of values and make them available to their inner routes as function arguments. When seen "from the outside" a directive with its inner route form an expression of type Route.
What Directives do
A directive can do one or more of the following:
- Transform the incoming RequestContext before passing it on to its inner route (i.e. modify the request)
- Filter the RequestContext according to some logic, i.e. only pass on certain requests and reject others
- Extract values from the RequestContext and make them available to its inner route as "extractions"
- Chain some logic into the RouteResult future transformation chain (i.e. modify the response or rejection)
- Complete the request
This means a Directive completely wraps the functionality of its inner route and can apply arbitrarily complex transformations, both (or either) on the request and on the response side.
Composing Directives
TODO rewrite for Java API
Contents


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Throughout its history, Ferrari has supplied racing cars to other entrants, aside from its own works Scuderia Ferrari team. In the 1950s and '60s, Ferrari supplied Formula One cars to a number of private entrants and other teams. One famous example was Tony Vandervell's team, which raced the Thinwall Special modified Ferraris before building their own Vanwall cars. The North American Racing Team's entries in the final three rounds of the 1969 season were the last occasions on which a team other than Scuderia Ferrari entered a World Championship Grand Prix with a Ferrari car.[21] Ferrari supplied cars complete with V8 engines for the A1 Grand Prix series, from the 2008-09 season.[22] The car was designed by Rory Byrne and is styled to resemble the 2004 Ferrari Formula one car. Ferrari currently runs a customer GT program for a racing version of its 458, and has done so for the 458's predecessors, dating back to the 355 in the late 1990s. Such private teams as the American Risi Competizione and Italian AF Corse teams have been very successful with Ferrari GT racers over the years. This car, made for endurance sportscar racing to be competed against such racing versions of the Audi R8, McLaren MP4-12C, and BMW Z4 (E89) has proven to be successful, but not as successful as its predecessor, the F430. The Ferrari Challenge is a one make racing series for the Ferrari 458. The FXX is not road legal, and is therefore only used for track events.


Designing and implementing an effective change strategy is an agile, iterative process. The aim (and how you know you’ve been successful!) is high levels of end-user adoption, confidence, and usage that meet stated outcomes, be they related to a new system, process, reorg, or cultural shift.
Change impacts people. People - as we know - are unique, dynamic, and can change their minds from day-to-day. They are also notoriously resistant to changes they don’t understand, feel connected to, or see the value of. A meaningful and successful change strategy supports the people-side of change with a defined and dynamic (read: evolving) framework within the context it operates.
The key elements to consider - and include - in a results-oriented change strategy are as follows:
Ready to create your impactful change strategy? Contact me now for a free initial consultation.


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We focus on particularly hard-hit communities, including QTBIPOC, single parents, sex workers, precariously housed persons, those with medical conditions or disabilities, newly-arrived immigrants, and the elderly.
We are a volunteer-run, grassroots initiative providing home cooked meals and grocery bundles to those in need. We serve those who are struggling financially or are otherwise unable to provide food for themselves and their families.
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Each week we deliver home cooked meals and grocery bundles throughout Toronto
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Our volunteer chefs have prepared hundreds of meals. Each meal is customized based on the number of people in your household, your preferences, and any dietary restrictions. Our volunteers then deliver these meals directly to you for a non-contact drop-off. If you're in need of a meal, we encourage you to apply through our request form. Our request form is open from Friday at 9am until Sunday at 2pm. Once the request form closes, we randomly select {{settings.MEALS_LIMIT}} recipients for the week.
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- Road Songs With a #@!%ing Twist
The classic American road song gets (at least) the PG-13 treatment when it’s about I-95.
The classic American road song gets (at least) the PG-13 treatment when it’s about I-95.
The 95 Express Project has gotten traffic moving. But maybe too well?
In a few of the initial stories from The End of the Road project, we’ve pointed out that living in Broward County and working in Miami-Dade County is by far the most popular county-to-county work situation in South Florida.
“Lexus lanes” may have been too cheap for Miami. Saturday morning, South Florida drivers trade in for “Lamborghini lanes.”
The maximum possible toll on the 95 Express lanes increased from $7.00 to $10.50 — the mininum has doubled to 50 cents — in response to record numbers of motorists forking over what was thought to be a discouragingly high amount of money.
“That day you paid seven bucks, we were trying to get you not to go there,” said Rory Santana, who oversees Miami-Dade County’s stretch of 95 Express for the Florida Department of Transportation.
Indeed, the goal of the 95 Express’ dynamic tolling increase is simple: keep the fast lanes fast by limiting the number of motorists. That glowing toll amount has nothing to do with how good or how bad traffic is in the non-express lanes.
“If [the toll’s] seven dollars and everybody piles in [the express lanes],” said Santana, “we lost our opportunity to try and keep the spaces between the vehicles there and keep the speed up and keep the flow going… And if it breaks down, the general purpose lanes breaks down.”
FDOT numbers show that the express lanes, of late, have failed to provide a reliably free-flowing trip during peak traffic hours, most notably the 4-7 p.m. northbound trip.


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---
layout: game-page
redirect_from: /game/regen
title: Regen
year: 2010
semester: Fall
description: "Get hurt to grow bigger!
Created in one week for the \"Regeneration\" contest, in Regen you get hit strategically in order to grow bigger. Get hit too often and you die, but if you have time to heal you will be stronger!"
tags: Windows Mac Linux Singleplayer
# tag options: "Windows", "Mac", "Linux",
# "Singleplayer", "Multiplayer",
# "Controller-Compatible", "VR",
# "Game-Jam"
project_members: {
Dave Turka: "Programming, Design",
Joe Apple: Programming,
Matt Kaemmerer: Programming,
Sharon Hoosein: "Art, Audio"
}
stage_game_path: regen/
builds: {
Windows: regen_win.zip,
Mac OS X: regen_mac.zip,
Linux: regen_linux.zip
}
screenshots: [
regen-1.png,
regen-2.PNG
]
top-img-fit: cover
# top-img-fit options:
# "cover" - Cover the entire top area with the image, without squashing/stretching
# "fill" - Fit the FULL image into the top area, squashing/stretching as necessary
---


Getting Started
- The number key row (from ` to =) plays bass notes from C to C
- The qwerty row (from q to \) plays the twelve major chords from C to C
- To play minor chords, hold the shift key
- To play dominant 7th chords, hold the control key
- To play minor 7th chords, hold the shift and control keys
- To play power chords, hold the alt key


| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| <Unnamed> | |
| com.technipun.dc.algorithm |
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
private static Tree<WaveProcessNode> |
ElectionMain.waveTree
The wave tree.
|
private static java.util.ArrayList<WaveProcessNode> |
ElectionMain.waveTreeNodes
The wave tree nodes.
|
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description |
|---|---|
class |
ElectionProcessNode
This class defines a Election Process node extending the Wave Process node.
|
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
|---|---|
private WaveProcessNode |
ElectionProcessNode.leadingCandidate
The current leading candidate.
|
private WaveProcessNode |
ReceiveIndicator.node
The node.
|
private WaveProcessNode |
MessageHeader.receiver
The receiver.
|
private WaveProcessNode |
MessageHeader.sender
The sender.
|
protected WaveProcessNode |
WaveProcessNode.silentNeigh
The silent neigh.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
protected WaveProcessNode |
WaveProcessNode.findSilentNeighbour()
Find silent neighbour.
|
WaveProcessNode |
ReceiveIndicator.getNode()
Gets the node.
|
WaveProcessNode |
MessageHeader.getReceiver()
Gets the receiver.
|
WaveProcessNode |
MessageHeader.getSender()
Gets the sender.
|
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
protected void |
WaveProcessNode.send(WaveProcessNode recepient,
MessageType messageType)
Send to a node.
|
protected void |
WaveProcessNode.send(WaveProcessNode recepient,
MessageType messageType,
java.lang.Object message)
Send.
|
protected void |
WaveProcessNode.sendToken(WaveProcessNode recepient,
MessageType messageType)
Send token for wave process
|
protected void |
ElectionProcessNode.sendToken(WaveProcessNode recepient,
MessageType messageType)
Send token for election process.
|
void |
ReceiveIndicator.setNode(WaveProcessNode node)
Sets the node.
|
void |
MessageHeader.setReceiver(WaveProcessNode receiver)
Sets the receiver.
|
void |
MessageHeader.setSender(WaveProcessNode sender)
Sets the sender.
|
| Constructor and Description |
|---|
ReceiveIndicator(WaveProcessNode node)
Instantiates a new receive indicator.
|


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If you wish to prototype intercooler interfaces locally, with no server, or if you wish to avoid server round trips for certain elements, you can take advantage of the prototyping system built into intercooler:
ic-ignore
class to it.
No content will be processed in this section, so you can use intercooler attributes without risk of triggering
things like polling, event support, etc.
ic-local-*
attributes to return status codes or custom intercooler headers to
more fully simulate server requests.
ic-ignore
section, to better
visually simulate your UX.
Using this technique, you can build prototype or local-content UX with no Javascript whatsoever!


Boy, 16, dies after being struck by car in Limerick
by By Digital Desk staffA teenage boy has died after he was struck by a car in Co Limerick.
Gardaí at Newcastle West are investigating the crash which happened in Garraunboy, Adare in the early hours of this morning at approximately 3.45am.
A boy, 16, was fatally injured when he was struck by a car. His body remains at the scene and will be removed shortly to Limerick University Hospital where a post mortem will take place.
The male driver, who is in his late 40s, was uninjured.
The scene is currently preserved and Garda forensic collision investigators will conduct their examination shortly. The road remains closed which is the N21 at the Newcastle West side of Adare village and local diversions are in place.
Gardaí at Newcastle West are appealing for any witnesses to this road traffic collision to come forward, particularly any motorists who were travelling in the area at the time and may have dashcam footage.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Newcastle West Garda Station on 069 - 20650, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda Station.
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DynamoDBMapper
provides an easy way to map POJOs to data in DynamoDB
.
Most of the code POJOs are verbose and it makes a perfect sense to use Immutables to reduce boilerplate.
NOTE: provided snippets show the idea that could be improved and / or modified to address specific needs.
In the project with more than one entity it makes sense to create custom Style
that would allow
to enable Immutables for POJO.
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
@Value.Style(
create = "new",
isInitialized = "wasInitialized",
allParameters = true,
beanFriendlyModifiables = true,
passAnnotations = {
DynamoDBTable.class,
DynamoDBHashKey.class,
DynamoDBRangeKey.class,
DynamoDBAttribute.class,
DynamoDBTyped.class,
DynamoDBTypeConvertedEnum.class
// more DynamoDB annotations to be added
}
)
public @interface DynamoDBStyle {}
Application of the newly created style could look like:
@DynamoDBStyle
@Value.Immutable
@Value.Modifiable
@DynamoDBTable(tableName = "people")
public interface Person {
@DynamoDBHashKey(attributeName = "name")
String getName();
@DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = "age")
int getAge();
}
We apply both @Value.Immutable
and @Value.Modifiable
. The former is bread and butter
of Immutables as it provides all nice features while the latter enables usage
of generated classes with DynamoDBMapper
. DynamoDBMapper
expects the POJO to have no-arg ctor with setters and newly created DynamoDBStyle
annotation configures Immutables to generated the required structure.
The usage is pretty straightforward with only one caveat: Modifiable...
implementation
should be used any time data is loaded from the DynamoDB
.
// assuming mapper is an instance of `DynamoDBMapper`
Person john = ImmutablePerson.of("John", 42);
mapper.save(john);
john = mapper.load(ModifiablePerson.class, "John");
System.out.println(john); // prints ModifiablePerson{name=John, age=42}


Adama Traore a joy to have at Wolves, says Conor Coady
Skipper Conor Coady insists it is a pleasure to have the ‘brilliant’ Adama Traore at Wolves.
by Joe EdwardsTraore has caught the eye so far this campaign with his ferocious speed and improved end-product.
His form even saw him receive his first Spain call-up – after interest from Mali – before he had to pull out through injury.
The 23-year-old was instrumental in the 2-1 victory over old club Villa before the international break, but Coady said: “It is not just the big games he is doing it in. He is improving in every single game.
“He is a brilliant professional, he works so hard.
“It is a pleasure to have him at the club.”
Traore struggled to make an impact last season for Wolves after being snapped up from Middlesbrough for £18million.
But, this season, he has chipped in with two goals – a double in the 2-0 masterclass at reigning Premier League champions Manchester City – and five assists across all competitions.
Traore was then reported to have agreed to represent Mali internationally, but he told the Express & Star that was not the case.
Spain later called him up in place of the injured Valencia striker Rodrigo.
However, a hamstring injury picked up against Villa meant he had to pull out.
Traore, though, is expected to be fit for Saturday’s trip to Bournemouth as Wolves return to league action – looking to extend their unbeaten run in the top flight to eight games.
“He can run and run. He is improving game on game and he is a brilliant person,” added Coady.
“He trains so hard every single day to get better and better.
“He attracts people to him to help him get better.
“I think when you have players like that in your team you are always a threat on the counter-attack.”


{% load i18n %}
{% trans "Hi there!" %}
{% trans "Congratulations! Your application to organize Django Girls workshop in your city has been accepted. We’re delighted to have you with us!" %}
{% trans "Below you can find all details and access to your chapter." %}
{% blocktrans with email=event.email %}Your e-mail is {{ email }}.{% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans with email=event.email %}
You can login here: http://mail.djangogirls.org/
Username: {{ email }} (@djangogirls.com works too!)
{% endblocktrans %}
{% spaceless %}
{% if password %}
{% trans "Password:" %} {{ password }}
{% else %}
{% trans "Previous organizers should have password to this account. Let us know if you need to reset it." %}
{% endif %}
{% endspaceless %}
{% trans "You can also add this inbox to your email client:" %}
- IMAP: imap.gmail.com (SSL, port 993)
- SMTP: smtp.gmail.com (SSL, port 465)
{% trans "Or you can forward incoming mail to your private email account by following these instructions." %}
{% blocktrans trimmed with page_url=event.page_url %} Your website address is https://djangogirls.org/{{ page_url }} {% endblocktrans %}
{% trans "You should receive a separate email with auto generated password and instructions to login." %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %} Your website is currently hidden for public, you can only see it if you’re logged in. If you want to make it available for everyone, go here and edit your website changing the “is live” option. {% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %} More instructions on editing your website: https://organize.djangogirls.org/website/ {% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %} Django Girls has a growing community of more than 2346 organizers. If you are a new organizer and not already Django Girls Slack, please reach out to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and we will invite you to join -- this is where you can chat with other organisers, ask for their help or advice. Use it wisely and plenty! {% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %} If you need to cancel or postpone your event, it’s not a problem at all! Please let us know by sending an email and we’ll help. {% endblocktrans %}
{% blocktrans trimmed %} Don’t forget about Organiser’s FAQ, Manual or to post questions to our Google Group of Django Girls Organizers or Slack channel - there are always more people there that can help you! :) {% endblocktrans %}
{% trans "Good luck!" %}
{% trans "Hugs, rainbows and sunshines!" %}
{% trans "Django Girls team" %}


S&S is a locally owned facility providing self storage in New Hope, Minnesota and serving the northwest suburbs of the Twin Cities. Conveniently located in between Highways 100 and 169, S & S provides the most reasonably priced, convenient, and secure self storage in the New Hope area. And has been doing so for over 30 years.
Storage can be expensive. It doesn't have to be.
We don't require a security/clean-up deposit to get into your unit.
Leases are month-to-month right from the start.
Available when you need us.
Our storage facility is located on Winpark Drive, one block east of Winnetka Ave N and just north of 32nd Ave. N. in New Hope, Mn.
Google Mapsrates are subject to change
No food of any sort – canned or otherwise
Don’t store grass seed or bird seed in your locker
Use good boxes of same size for stacking
Use totes
Avoid garbage bags for clothes or other soft items
Use pallets when available under boxes or drop a sheet of poly down – our units are always dry but have concrete floors
Put mattresses and box springs in plastic covers
Did we mention, NO FOOD
Stack the back as high as your items will allow
Bring a lock when renting your unit (Ace Hardware is a couple blocks away and has good locks for under $10)
Occasionally we have a need to auction a unit (or a few) in order to make it available to rent again. And, of course, to recover lost rents.
When a bidder wins a unit at one of our auctions we ask that the unit be empty within 48 hours. We can sometimes work with you depending on our inventory of units.
If you would like to be notified by email of our next auction please send us your email address in the form below. We will not use your email address for any other purpose and will not publish it, sell it, or allow any other entity to have access to it. We respect your privacy.
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Class TileLayer
The TileLayer class representing Tiled tile layer.
Info:
- Copyright: Łukasz Durniat, Jan-2018
- License: MIT
- Author: Łukasz Durniat
Methods
| TileLayer:init (data, map) | Create a new instance of a TileLayer object. |
| TileLayer:toggleVisibility () | Toggle visibility of the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:show () | Shows the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:hide () | Hides the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:getVisual () | Gets the TileLayers visual. |
| TileLayer:getTilesWithProperty (name) | Gets a list of Tiles on this TileLayer that have a specified property. |
| TileLayer:addObject (displayObject) | Adds a display object to the layer. |
| TileLayer:setPosition (x, y) | Sets the position of the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:move (x, y) | Moves the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:setRotation (angle) | Sets the rotation of the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:rotate (angle) | Rotates the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:create () | Creates the visual representation of the layer. |
| TileLayer:build () | Builds the physical representation of the TileLayer. |
| TileLayer:destroy () | Completely removes all visual and physical objects associated with the TileLayer. |
Methods
- TileLayer:init (data, map)
-
Create a new instance of a TileLayer object.
Parameters:
- data The XML data.
- map The current Map object.
Returns:
-
The newly created tileLayer.
- TileLayer:toggleVisibility ()
- Toggle visibility of the TileLayer.
- TileLayer:show ()
- Shows the TileLayer.
- TileLayer:hide ()
- Hides the TileLayer.
- TileLayer:getVisual ()
- Gets the TileLayers visual.
- TileLayer:getTilesWithProperty (name)
-
Gets a list of Tiles on this TileLayer that have a specified property.
Parameters:
- name The name of the Property to look for.
Returns:
-
A list of found Tiles. Empty if none found.
- TileLayer:addObject (displayObject)
-
Adds a display object to the layer.
Parameters:
- displayObject The display object to add.
Returns:
-
The added display object.
- TileLayer:setPosition (x, y)
-
Sets the position of the TileLayer.
Parameters:
- x The new X position of the TileLayer.
- y The new Y position of the TileLayer.
- TileLayer:move (x, y)
-
Moves the TileLayer.
Parameters:
- x The amount to move the ObjectLayer along the X axis.
- y The amount to move the ObjectLayer along the Y axis.
- TileLayer:setRotation (angle)
-
Sets the rotation of the TileLayer.
Parameters:
- angle The new rotation.
- TileLayer:rotate (angle)
-
Rotates the TileLayer.
Parameters:
- angle The angle to rotate by.
- TileLayer:create ()
-
Creates the visual representation of the layer.
Returns:
-
The group containing the newly created layer.
- TileLayer:build ()
- Builds the physical representation of the TileLayer.
- TileLayer:destroy ()
- Completely removes all visual and physical objects associated with the TileLayer.


Master's in Computer Science
August 2017 - May 2019
Courses : Data Science, Programming for Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering
June 2011 - July 2015
Courses : Web Application Development, Computer Graphics, Distributed Computing, Parallel Programming, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Compiler Design
Software Engineer
Software Engineering Intern
Master's of Computer Science
Systems Engineer
Bachelor's Of Engineering in Computer Engineering.
Ranked 3rd in the Class
Dr. Jeevraj Mehta Memorial Award
Graduate From HighSchool
DR Amin Memorial HighSchool
Data Science Enthusiast
I am a 24 year old Geek who loves coding as well as developing new things and especially discussing it with like minded people.


INSTRUCTIONS: Start logging, reproduce the problem, and then stop logging. Make sure to send the email before starting to log again. Otherwise, the log will be deleted.
Logs can be loaded in net-internals of desktop Chrome.
WARNING: Logs contain a list of sites visited from when logging started to when logging stopped. They may also contain general network configuration information, such as DNS and proxy configuration. If private information is not stripped, the logs also contain cookies and credentials.
ADVANCED: This section should normally be left alone.


{{/* This is a comment for the human readers. It does not affect the template */}}
{{ define "title" }}Sample template title (will be used between title tags on the page){{end}}
{{ template "title" }}
This is a sample file demonstrating an injection by using .In inside of "moustache":
{{.In}}.


[gecode-users] Ordering of propagators
Christian Schulte
cschulte at kth.se
Tue Apr 10 16:11:35 CEST 2007
Well, you cannot rely on that no other propagator does it. At least not in
real life...
What are you trying to do? If you have a propagator composed from a cheap
and an expensive stage you might want to consider staged propagation. Just
see the paper I mentioned before. We use it regularly in Gecode to great
benefit.
Cheers
Christian
--
Christian Schulte, http://www.imit.kth.se/~schulte/
-----Original Message-----
From: peter.tiedemann at gmail.com [mailto:peter.tiedemann at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Peter Tiedemann
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:40 PM
To: cschulte at kth.se
Cc: users at gecode.org
Subject: Re: [gecode-users] Ordering of propagators
> What do you mean with how the cost function is used? Could you
> elaborate, please?
I was just wondering how the cost affected the ordering, but it seems that
this is explained in the reference you just gave me. From a quick scan of
it, it would seem that if i choose the highest cost (and no other
propagators do the same), then i am in fact 100% sure that my propagator
will only be asked to propagate when all other propagators have stabilized,
which is exactly the effect i was hoping for.
Thanks for the quick answer, you guys really have short response times :)
Regards,
Peter Tiedemann
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Classes
The following classes are available globally.
-
Represents a Sketch artboard Artboards act as containers for other layers
See moreDeclaration
Swift
public class Artboard : LayerContainer
-
Represents an RGB color in Sketch
See moreDeclaration
Swift
public class Color : NSObject, JSONDictEncodable
-
Represents a Group in Sketch. Container for other layer types.
See moreDeclaration
Swift
public class Group : LayerContainer
-
Represents a generic Sketch layer. This is the base class for all the layer types
This is an abstract class, do not instantiate directly!
See moreDeclaration
Swift
public class Layer : NSObject, JSONDictEncodable
-
Represents a SymbolMaster in sketch, these should go in their own special separate Symbols Page. If you want to have nested dropdowns use a
See more/
in the name. i.e.Button/Blue/Small
Declaration
Swift
public class SymbolMaster : LayerContainer
-
Instance of a Symbol in Sketch.
References a
SymbolMaster
.Must have the same name as the SymbolMaster it’s referencing
See moreDeclaration
Swift
public class SymbolInstance : Layer


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3.2 Some Common Tasks3.2.1 Problem: Making a text block flush leftFor visual clarity or to identify the role of text, blocks of text are often indented—especially in prose-oriented documents (but log files, configuration files, and the like might also have unused initial fields). For downstream purposes, indentation is often irrelevant, or even outright incorrect, since the indentation is not part of the text itself but only a decoration of the text. However, it often makes matters even worse to perform the very most naive transformation of indented text—simply remove leading whitespace from every line. While block indentation may be decoration, the relative indentations of lines within blocks may serve important or essential functions (for example, the blocks of text might be Python source code). The general procedure you need to take in maximally unindenting a block of text is fairly simple. But it is easy to throw more code at it than is needed, and arrive at some inelegant and slow nested loops of string.find() and string.replace() operations. A bit of cleverness in the use of regular expressions—combined with the conciseness of a functional programming (FP) style—can give you a quick, short, and direct transformation. flush_left.py# Remove as many leading spaces as possible from whole block from re import findall,sub # What is the minimum line indentation of a block? indent = lambda s: reduce(min,map(len,findall('(?m)^ *(?=\S)',s))) # Remove the block-minimum indentation from each line? flush_left = lambda s: sub('(?m)^ {%d}' % indent(s),'',s) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys print flush_left(sys.stdin.read()) The flush_left() function assumes that blocks are indented with spaces. If tabs are used—or used combined with spaces—an initial pass through the utility untabify.py (which can be found at $PYTHONPATH/tools/scripts/) can convert blocks to space-only indentation. A helpful adjunct to flush_left() is likely to be the reformat_para() function that was presented in Chapter 2, Problem 2. Between the two of these, you could get a good part of the way towards a "batch-oriented word processor." (What other capabilities would be most useful?) 3.2.2 Problem: Summarizing command-line option documentationDocumentation of command-line options to programs is usually in semi-standard formats in places like manpages, docstrings, READMEs and the like. In general, within documentation you expect to see command-line options indented a bit, followed by a bit more indentation, followed by one or more lines of description, and usually ended by a blank line. This style is readable for users browsing documentation, but is of sufficiently complexity and variability that regular expressions are well suited to finding the right descriptions (simple string methods fall short). A specific scenario where you might want a summary of command-line options is as an aid to understanding configuration files that call multiple child commands. The file /etc/inetd.conf on Unix-like systems is a good example of such a configuration file. Moreover, configuration files themselves often have enough complexity and variability within them that simple string methods have difficulty parsing them. The utility below will look for every service launched by /etc/inetd.conf and present to STDOUT summary documentation of all the options used when the services are started. show_services.pyimport re, os, string, sys def show_opts(cmdline): args = string.split(cmdline) cmd = args[0] if len(args) > 1: opts = args[1:] # might want to check error output, so use popen3() (in_, out_, err) = os.popen3('man %s | col -b' % cmd) manpage = out_.read() if len(manpage) > 2: # found actual documentation print '\n%s' % cmd for opt in opts: pat_opt = r'(?sm)^\s*'+opt+r'.*?(?=\n\n)' opt_doc = re.search(pat_opt, manpage) if opt_doc is not None: print opt_doc.group() else: # try harder for something relevant mentions = [] for para in string.split(manpage,'\n\n'): if re.search(opt, para): mentions.append('\n%s' % para) if not mentions: print '\n ',opt,' '*9,'Option docs not found' else: print '\n ',opt,' '*9,'Mentioned in below para:' print '\n'.join(mentions) else: # no manpage available print cmdline print ' No documentation available' def services(fname): conf = open(fname).read() pat_srv = r'''(?xm)(?=^[^#]) # lns that are not commented out (?:(?:[\w/]+\s+){6}) # first six fields ignored (.*$) # to end of ln is servc launch''' return re.findall(pat_srv, conf) if __name__ == '__main__': for service in services(sys.argv[1]): show_opts(service) The particular tasks performed by show_opts() and services() are somewhat specific to Unix-like systems, but the general techniques are more broadly applicable. For example, the particular comment character and number of fields in /etc/inetd. conf might be different for other launch scripts, but the use of regular expressions to find the launch commands would apply elsewhere. If the man and col utilities are not on the relevant system, you might do something equivalent, such as reading in the docstrings from Python modules with similar option descriptions (most of the samples in $PYTHONPATH/tools/ use compatible documentation, for example). Another thing worth noting is that even where regular expressions are used in parsing some data, you need not do everything with regular expressions. The simple string.split() operation to identify paragraphs in show_opts() is still the quickest and easiest technique, even though re.split() could do the same thing. Note: Along the lines of paragraph splitting, here is a thought problem. What is a regular expression that matches every whole paragraph that contains within it some smaller pattern pat? For purposes of the puzzle, assume that a paragraph is some text that both starts and ends with doubled newlines ("\n\n"). 3.2.3 Problem: Detecting duplicate wordsA common typo in prose texts is doubled words (hopefully they have been edited out of this book except in those few cases where they are intended). The same error occurs to a lesser extent in programming language code, configuration files, or data feeds. Regular expressions are well-suited to detecting this occurrence, which just amounts to a backreference to a word pattern. It's easy to wrap the regex in a small utility with a few extra features: dupwords.py# Detect doubled words and display with context # Include words doubled across lines but within paras import sys, re, glob for pat in sys.argv[1:]: for file in glob.glob(pat): newfile = 1 for para in open(file).read().split('\n\n'): dups = re.findall(r'(?m)(^.*(\b\w+\b)\s*\b\2\b.*$)', para) if dups: if newfile: print '%s\n%s\n' % ('-'*70,file) newfile = 0 for dup in dups: print '[%s] -->' % dup[1], dup[0] This particular version grabs the line or lines on which duplicates occur and prints them for context (along with a prompt for the duplicate itself). Variations are straightforward. The assumption made by dupwords.py is that a doubled word that spans a line (from the end of one to the beginning of another, ignoring whitespace) is a real doubling; but a duplicate that spans paragraphs is not likewise noteworthy. 3.2.4 Problem: Checking for server errorsWeb servers are a ubiquitous source of information nowadays. But finding URLs that lead to real documents is largely hit-or-miss. Every Web maintainer seems to reorganize her site every month or two, thereby breaking bookmarks and hyperlinks. As bad as the chaos is for plain Web surfers, it is worse for robots faced with the difficult task of recognizing the difference between content and errors. By-the-by, it is easy to accumulate downloaded Web pages that consist of error messages rather than desired content. In principle, Web servers can and should return error codes indicating server errors. But in practice, Web servers almost always return dynamically generated results pages for erroneous requests. Such pages are basically perfectly normal HTML pages that just happen to contain text like "Error 404: File not found!" Most of the time these pages are a bit fancier than this, containing custom graphics and layout, links to site homepages, JavaScript code, cookies, meta tags, and all sorts of other stuff. It is actually quite amazing just how much many Web servers send in response to requests for nonexistent URLs. Below is a very simple Python script to examine just what Web servers return on valid or invalid requests. Getting an error page is usually as simple as asking for a page called http://somewebsite.com/phony-url or the like (anything that doesn't really exist). urllib is discussed in Chapter 5, but its details are not important here. url_examine.pyimport sys from urllib import urlopen if len(sys.argv) > 1: fpin = urlopen(sys.argv[1]) print fpin.geturl() print fpin.info() print fpin.read() else: print "No specified URL" Given the diversity of error pages you might receive, it is difficult or impossible to create a regular expression (or any program) that determines with certainty whether a given HTML document is an error page. Furthermore, some sites choose to generate pages that are not really quite errors, but not really quite content either (e.g, generic directories of site information with suggestions on how to get to content). But some heuristics come quite close to separating content from errors. One noteworthy heuristic is that the interesting errors are almost always 404 or 403 (not a sure thing, but good enough to make smart guesses). Below is a utility to rate the "error probability" of HTML documents: error_page.pyimport re, sys page = sys.stdin.read() # Mapping from patterns to probability contribution of pattern err_pats = {r'(?is)<TITLE>.*?(404|403).*?ERROR.*?</TITLE>': 0.95, r'(?is)<TITLE>.*?ERROR.*?(404|403).*?</TITLE>': 0.95, r'(?is)<TITLE>ERROR</TITLE>': 0.30, r'(?is)<TITLE>.*?ERROR.*?</TITLE>': 0.10, r'(?is)<META .*?(404|403).*?ERROR.*?>': 0.80, r'(?is)<META .*?ERROR.*?(404|403).*?>': 0.80, r'(?is)<TITLE>.*?File Not Found.*?</TITLE>': 0.80, r'(?is)<TITLE>.*?Not Found.*?</TITLE>': 0.40, r'(?is)<BODY.*(404|403).*': 0.10, r'(?is)
.*?(404|403).*?
': 0.15, r'(?is)<BODY.*not found.*': 0.10, r'(?is)
.*?not found.*?
': 0.15, r'(?is)<BODY.*the requested URL.*': 0.10, r'(?is)<BODY.*the page you requested.*': 0.10, r'(?is)<BODY.*page.{1,50}unavailable.*': 0.10, r'(?is)<BODY.*request.{1,50}unavailable.*': 0.10, r'(?i)does not exist': 0.10, } err_score = 0 for pat, prob in err_pats.items(): if err_score > 0.9: break if re.search(pat, page): # print pat, prob err_score += prob if err_score > 0.90: print 'Page is almost surely an error report' elif err_score > 0.75: print 'It is highly likely page is an error report' elif err_score > 0.50: print 'Better-than-even odds page is error report' elif err_score > 0.25: print 'Fair indication page is an error report' else: print 'Page is probably real content' Tested against a fair number of sites, a collection like this of regular expression searches and threshold confidences works quite well. Within the author's own judgment of just what is really an error page, erro_page.py has gotten no false positives and always arrived at at least the lowest warning level for every true error page. The patterns chosen are all fairly simple, and both the patterns and their weightings were determined entirely subjectively by the author. But something like this weighted hit-or-miss technique can be used to solve many "fuzzy logic" matching problems (most having nothing to do with Web server errors). Code like that above can form a general approach to more complete applications. But for what it is worth, the scripts url_examine.py and error_page.py may be used directly together by piping from the first to the second. For example: % python urlopen.py http://gnosis.cx/nonesuch | python ex_error_page.py Page is almost surely an error report 3.2.5 Problem: Reading lines with continuation charactersMany configuration files and other types of computer code are line oriented, but also have a facility to treat multiple lines as if they were a single logical line. In processing such a file it is usually desirable as a first step to turn all these logical lines into actual newline-delimited lines (or more likely, to transform both single and continued lines as homogeneous list elements to iterate through later). A continuation character is generally required to be the last thing on a line before a newline, or possibly the last thing other than some whitespace. A small (and very partial) table of continuation characters used by some common and uncommon formats is listed below: \ Python, JavaScript, C/C++, Bash, TCL, Unix config _ Visual Basic, PAW & Lyris, COBOL, IBIS ; Clipper, TOP - XSPEC, NetREXX = Oracle Express Most of the formats listed are programming languages, and parsing them takes quite a bit more than just identifying the lines. More often, it is configuration files of various sorts that are of interest in simple parsing, and most of the time these files use a common Unix-style convention of using trailing backslashes for continuation lines. One could manage to parse logical lines with a string module approach that looped through lines and performed concatenations when needed. But a greater elegance is served by reducing the problem to a single regular expression. The module below provides this: logical_lines.py# Determine the logical lines in a file that might have # continuation characters. 'logical_lines()' returns a # list. The self-test prints the logical lines as # physical lines (for all specified files and options). import re def logical_lines(s, continuation='\\', strip_trailing_space=0): c = continuation if strip_trailing_space: s = re.sub(r'(?m)(%s)(\s+)$'%[c], r'\1', s) pat_log = r'(?sm)^.*?$(?<!%s)'%[c] # e.g. (?sm)^.*?$(?<!\\) return [t.replace(c+'\n','') for t in re.findall(pat_log, s)] if __name__ == '__main__': import sys files, strip, contin = ([], 0, '\\') for arg in sys.argv[1:]: if arg[:-1] == '--continue=': contin = arg[-1] elif arg[:-1] == '-c': contin = arg[-1] elif arg in ('--string','-s'): strip = 1 else: files.append(arg) if not files: files.append(sys.stdin) for file in files: s = open(sys.argv[1]).read() print '\n'.join(logical_lines(s, contin, strip)) The comment in the pat_log definition shows a bit just how cryptic regular expressions can be at times. The comment is the pattern that is used for the default value of continuation. But as dense as it is with symbols, you can still read it by proceeding slowly, left to right. Let us try a version of the same line with the verbose modifier and comments: >>> pat = r''' ... (?x) # This is the verbose version ... (?s) # In the pattern, let "." match newlines, if needed ... (?m) # Allow ^ and $ to match every begin- and end-of-line ... ^ # Start the match at the beginning of a line .... *? # Non-greedily grab everything until the first place ... # where the rest of the pattern matches (if possible) ... $ # End the match at an end-of-line ... (?<! # Only count as a match if the enclosed pattern was not ... # the immediately last thing seen (negative lookbehind) ... \\) # It wasn't an (escaped) backslash''' 3.2.6 Problem: Identifying URLs and email addresses in textsA neat feature of many Internet and news clients is their automatic identification of resources that the applications can act upon. For URL resources, this usually means making the links "clickable"; for an email address it usually means launching a new letter to the person at the address. Depending on the nature of an application, you could perform other sorts of actions for each identified resource. For a text processing application, the use of a resource is likely to be something more batch-oriented: extraction, transformation, indexing, or the like. Fully and precisely implementing RFC1822 (for email addresses) or RFC1738 (for URLs) is possible within regular expressions. But doing so is probably even more work than is really needed to identify 99% of resources. Moreover, a significant number of resources in the "real world" are not strictly compliant with the relevant RFCs—most applications give a certain leeway to "almost correct" resource identifiers. The utility below tries to strike approximately the same balance of other well-implemented and practical applications: get almost everything that was intended to look like a resource, and almost nothing that was intended not to: find_urls.py# Functions to identify and extract URLs and email addresses import re, fileinput pat_url = re.compile( r''' (?x)( # verbose identify URLs within text (http|ftp|gopher) # make sure we find a resource type :// # ...needs to be followed by colon-slash-slash (\w+[:.]?){2,} # at least two domain groups, e.g. (gnosis.)(cx) (/?| # could be just the domain name (maybe w/ slash) [^ \n\r"]+ # or stuff then space, newline, tab, quote [\w/]) # resource name ends in alphanumeric or slash (?=[\s\.,>)'"\]]) # assert: followed by white or clause ending ) # end of match group ''') pat_email = re.compile(r''' (?xm) # verbose identify URLs in text (and multiline) (?=^.{11} # Mail header matcher (?<!Message-ID:| # rule out Message-ID's as best possible In-Reply-To)) # ...and also In-Reply-To (.*?)( # must grab to email to allow prior lookbehind ([A-Za-z0-9-]+\.)? # maybe an initial part<EMAIL_ADDRESS>[A-Za-z0-9-]+ # definitely some local user<EMAIL_ADDRESS>@ # ...needs an at sign in the middle (\w+\.?){2,} # at least two domain groups, e.g. (gnosis.)(cx) (?=[\s\.,>)'"\]]) # assert: followed by white or clause ending ) # end of match group ''') extract_urls = lambda s: [u[0] for u in re.findall(pat_url, s)] extract_email = lambda s: [(e[1]) for e in re.findall(pat_email, s)] if __name__ == '__main__': for line in fileinput.input(): urls = extract_urls(line) if urls: for url in urls: print fileinput.filename(),'=>',url emails = extract_email(line) if emails: for email in emails: print fileinput.filename(),'->',email A number of features are notable in the utility above. One point is that everything interesting is done within the regular expressions themselves. The actual functions extract_urls() and extract_email() are each a single line, using the conciseness of functional-style programming, especially list comprehensions (four or five lines of more procedural code could be used, but this style helps emphasize where the work is done). The utility itself prints located resources to STDOUT, but you could do something else with them just as easily. A bit of testing of preliminary versions of the regular expressions led me to add a few complications to them. In part this lets readers see some more exotic features in action; but in greater part, this helps weed out what I would consider "false positives." For URLs we demand at least two domain groups—this rules out LOCALHOST addresses, if present. However, by allowing a colon to end a domain group, we allow for specified ports such as http://gnosis.cx:8080/resource/. Email addresses have one particular special consideration. If the files you are scanning for email addresses happen to be actual mail archives, you will also find Message-ID strings. The form of these headers is very similar to that of email addresses (In-Reply-To: headers also contain Message-IDs). By combining a negative look-behind assertion with some throwaway groups, we can make sure that everything that gets extracted is not a Message-ID: header line. It gets a little complicated to combine these things correctly, but the power of it is quite remarkable. 3.2.7 Problem: Pretty-printing numbersIn producing human-readable documents, Python's default string representation of numbers leaves something to be desired. Specifically, the delimiters that normally occur between powers of 1,000 in written large numerals are not produced by the str() or repr() functions—which makes reading large numbers difficult. For example: >>> budget = 12345678.90 >>> print 'The company budget is $%s' % str(budget) The company budget is $12345678.9 >>> print 'The company budget is %10.2f' % budget The company budget is 12345678.90 Regular expressions can be used to transform numbers that are already "stringified" (an alternative would be to process numeric values by repeated division/remainder operations, stringifying the chunks). A few basic utility functions are contained in the module below. pretty_nums.py# Create/manipulate grouped string versions of numbers import re def commify(f, digits=2, maxgroups=5, european=0): template = '%%1.%df' % digits s = template % f pat = re.compile(r'(\d+)(\d{3})([.,]|$)([.,\d]*)') if european: repl = r'\1.\2\3\4' else: # could also use locale.localeconv()['decimal_point'] repl = r'\1,\2\3\4' for i in range(maxgroups): s = re.sub(pat,repl,s) return s def uncommify(s): return s.replace(',','') def eurify(s): s = s.replace('.','\000') # place holder s = s.replace(',','.') # change group delimiter s = s.replace('\000',',') # decimal delimiter return s def anglofy(s): s = s.replace(',','\000') # place holder s = s.replace('.',',') # change group delimiter s = s.replace('\000','.') # decimal delimiter return s vals = (12345678.90, 23456789.01, 34567890.12) sample = '''The company budget is $%s. Its debt is $%s, against assets of $%s''' if __name__ == '__main__': print sample % vals, '\n-----' print sample % tuple(map(commify, vals)), '\n-----' print eurify(sample % tuple(map(commify, vals))), '\n-----' The technique used in commify() has virtues and vices. It is quick, simple, and it works. It is also slightly kludgey inasmuch as it loops through the substitution (and with the default maxgroups argument, it is no good for numbers bigger than a quintillion; most numbers you encounter are smaller than this). If purity is a goal—and it probably should not be—you could probably come up with a single regular expression to do the whole job. Another quick and convenient technique is the "place holder" idea that was mentioned in the introductory discussion of the string module. |
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|---|---|---|
| Heal Hero or Ally | 3 gold | One health point is restored to the hero or ally. |
| Cure Poison | 2 gold coins | A hero is cured of one Poison card |
| Resurrect Hero | 10 gold coins | One dead hero is brought back to life with two health points. The hero returns to life with all of his or her gold coins and any unused Item and/or Spell cards. They may pay to be healed further by the Healer. The resurrected hero starts playing in the next room. |
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When the heroes arrive at Izchak the Merchant during the Exploration Phase, they may use their gold to buy items to aid them in their quest. The Overseer shuffles the deck of Item cards and flips over six cards for the players to examine. These items are available for purchase or the players can pay two gold coins to see the next card on the top of the Item card deck. There is no limit as to how many times they may do this. Any player can purchase any number of the revealed Item cards provided they meet the requirements. Players may pool their gold coins to assist in the purchase of items. When an item has been purchased, the gold coins are returned to the Treasury. The Item card is assigned to the hero by placing it in the designated area on the hero’s player mat. As an additional service, a map may be purchased from the Merchant by any hero for two gold coins. When the map is paid for, all the Room cards in the catacomb are flipped over, thus revealing the path leading to the Catacomb Lord.
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I'm a young, creative guy who's really laid back and would enjoy a slice of pizza on any given day.
My favorite food in the world is pizza. I love the variety of it, on how one thing can have so many variations and be so diverse, yet be so yummy at the same time!
I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer, but boy do I sure love playing games, whether it be on my phone, or on my playstation, I'm definitely down for it.
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This cycle was the time to work on our final project. I decided to make a laptop stand with LED underglow.
Sadly, I was too focused on the project and forgot to take a whole bunch of pictures, so I only have one of
the completed project.
There were a decent amount of setbacks this time. First, I had to figure out a way to cut the wood to size
without using the band saw because it was making an awful noise. Second, I didn't drill big enough pilot
holes, so my wood cracked at some parts. Third, my LEDs didn't stick with the backing on them, so I had to
tear it off by hand and reglue all of it on. Finally, the way the Bluetooth connects makes it very difficult
to connect while on campus. The problem should be nonexistant at home.


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Austin Powers:The Spy Who Shagged Me [comedy] Rating: * (out of 4) 1999, PG-13, 95 minutes Cast: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Seth Green, Michael York Directed by Jay Roach Written by Mike Myers, Michael McCullers
The new Austin Powers film continues a movie tradition begun in the eighties. Produce something, anything, that will get the high school and junior high kids in the theater because they buy more soda and popcorn than senior citizens. The usual hallmarks of this filmmaking tradition are all here.  And the film is a strong contender in the current race to be cruder, grosser and more outrageous than that last film. What the film is not, however, is funny.
The plot centers around the return of Dr.Evil, who goes back in time to steal Austin Powers' mojo (a liquid with red stuff in it extracted from Austin's pelvis) which gives Austin his sexual prowess and the charisma to defeat his enemies. Austin must go after him, and returns to the swinging sixties where free love and sexy secret agents had their heyday.
I almost avoided this film because I did not like the original. But the films premise sounded like an excellent comic vehicle and the film received many good reviews. I wish I had stuck to my first impression.
Myers is trying to be the Jerry Lewis of this generation. And he has the talent to do it, at least as an actor. But the material he is working with here, much of it his own, falls short of anything resembling comic genius.  After some of these scenes, one has to wonder how gross the next generation of films will have to go to get an audiences attention.
The direction also helps the film achieve a new low point in cinematic humor. For the most part, I felt as if I was watching a Saturday morning chalderns live action TV show. There is no sense of comic timing or subtlety. The director just throws the material at us, giving us nothing except the hope that anyone with a camera could be a film director.
I am sure the film will have appeal to many of the under 22 crowd, at least the one's who have yet to discover literacy. Certainly the movie is directed towards the generation that prefers everything described as 'in your face, kick you in the teeth, take no prisoners, (action-verb +blah blah blah).' If you see the film and you find you're not laughing, there is nothing wrong with you. It just means you grew up since seventh grade.
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Make your offer a no-brainer
How to make your offer so strong that it becomes irresistible?
To make your offer a no-brainer, you need to do the following four things.
- First, emotionally sell them on what we offer.
- Manage buyer’s remorse and refunds.
- Remaining objections.
- The fourth one is secretly genius, you will see.
Let’s start with increasing the value of your offer to the point where it’s a no-brainer for your clients. Understanding your target market is the first step in selling them emotionally. Write compelling copy that speaks to them and meets them exactly where they are.
Assume, for example. You’re promoting a diet.
The number one mistake I see is people going out and saying, “This is what other personal trainers charge.” I only charge this, and I’m better than them. Nothing matters because I don’t want what you have yet, and they don’t believe you can solve their problems because they are unique. And they don’t think you can help them. What do we do? Simple, we must address the mental conversation of your prospect.
Say you’re selling a weight loss program.
There’s a girl in her mid-20s who can’t lose weight. She wants to lose 20 lbs. She’s been trying for a year and still can’t do it. We’ll talk about her pain points and how I remember you looking great in high school. But now they’ve tried on your 20-year-old jeans. They no longer fit. You go to the beach with your friends, but you’re not comfortable in your bikini. So you avoid going to the beach.  You’re trying to lose weight while eating dessert, and no matter what you do, you can’t seem to lose that belly fat.
She’ll be listening.
The science says what matters is what your prospect feels, so she feels like she’s tried everything. And she can’t lose weight to change her life, so that’s the one we’ll address.
The first rule of sales is to make your prospects feel understood. They’ll automatically assume you know the answer. Before talking about the features and benefits, you need to get this right. Knowing your target audience and demonstrating that you understand them is critical.
Let’s say you offer email marketing as a service.
You’re calling your prospect. Your client says previous freelancers blew it. Most freelancers would immediately jump in and say, “Oh well, I’m not like them; I’m way better, and here’s why, and I charge less, and I’m reliable, and…” Features and benefits are irrelevant here. You haven’t sold them yet.
Say I get it.
Most freelancers are unreliable. They constantly lie and give you shoddy work and have difficulty communicating. You must always follow up, and it is never up to par. And, to be honest, no matter how many times you tell them, they never get your brand voice right.
I understand.
 They’ll say, “Oh, he gets it because of what you just said.”
What do you think they’ll decide? You have extensive industry knowledge and experience. Two, you’re not like other freelancers who are late, don’t capture the brand voice, are unreliable. You made them understand this without you having to hard-sell yourself.
After we’ve sold them emotionally, they feel understood. You seem to understand and have a solution. The prospect is now hyper-alert. Now you can discuss your work and the benefit of working with you.
 But, you know, I’m determined to get 50 people in the best shape of their lives for this new case study program. I’ll give those 50 people personalized meal plans, workouts, supplement recommendations, and daily accountability text check-ins for just $200 instead of the usual $100 an hour.
Initially, they would not have been interested in hearing about your offer, but now that you’ve soled them emotionally, they’re much more receptive, and they’re like, that sounds like a no-brainer sign me up.
But we’re not done yet because people still believe they are unique.
Everyone has their own set of reasons why they are different, unique, or why they’ve tried this before and failed, or why you are no different from the other coaches out there, and you must handle this. Social proof testimonials and results from previous clients, preferably clients in a worse situation than the client you’re talking to, are a great way to overcome such objections.
For example, this prospect claims to have the worst genetics ever. My fat genes make me unable to lose weight no matter how hard I try.  What can you do now?
We’ll talk about Ann, your client, who you’ve been working with for six months. The worst genetics you’ve ever seen, she began a hundred pounds overweight. She had a history of diabetes and obesity, and previous diets had failed her. And none of her previous personal trainers worked, but I started working with Ann six months ago.
We created a custom diet, nutrition, and exercise plan. Ann has been losing five pounds every month, and she is now in the best shape of her life and loving it.
The best way to handle those kinds of objections is through proof of other people who have done it, starting from worse situations.
When people want to join my program, I get many objections.
- I have a family.
- I work full-time.
- I have another business.
- I’m not sure I’ll have time to do it.
To overcome objections, show examples of others who have done it, starting from worse situations.
Here’s a bonus pro tip.
The fourth super ninja way to make the value of your offer a no-brainer and eliminate any objections from your prospects is to remove friction from your offer. How can you reduce friction to a minimum? The most significant stumbling block is upfront payment. They have to pay you three grand, two grand, 1500 dollars, or whatever it is upfront, and they’re hesitant.
The prospect’s objection is that they are unsure if you can deliver value and if they’re going to make a return on their investment. This offer is ideal for starters who don’t have many clients yet. Once you get a few clients, I can tell you that everything becomes much more manageable.
Then you can offer them a great value proposition.
I’m that confident in my services and results. I’ll write you two weeks’ worth of free emails, and if they don’t work, don’t pay me. If they work better than your current emails, my usual rate is $200 an hour. And we can discuss what it might look like if we worked together sounds fair? It’s a no-brainer.
 But if you crush it for them, they’ll gladly pay you ten grand in commission if you make them a hundred grand.
Think about how you can make your offer as frictionless as possible, and I guarantee you will start signing more clients than ever.
That’s how to make your offer so compelling that it’s a no-brainer.
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