a)
d-array can be represented as general binary heap. The array representation is also same as the array representation of binary heap. In the array representation, three children of a node are stored continuously. The following methods help to access the parent and child nodes in d-array.
// Returns the index the parent of the child located at index i
PARENT(i)
return
// Returns jth child’s index of any parent
CHILD(i ,j)
return
Example:
• Consider a 3-ary heap. The root 22 is located at, as usual, at index 0.
The first, second and third children of 22 are located at index 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
• Similarly children of 21, are located at index 4, 5 and 6.
• So, from this we can say that for any parent i have children at 3*parent_index + 1, 3*parent_index + 2 and 3*parent_index + 3.
• So in general for any d-ary heap the children of parent at index i is at d*parent_index +1, d*parent_index+2……. d*parent_index +d.
• Also, the parent of a node located at index i in 3-ary heap can be found at index floor (i-1/3).
• In general the parent of child that is located at index i, can be found at floor (i-1/d).
b)
• At any level i the number of nodes are d i where d is the level of that heap.
• Consider the height of the tree to be h. Then number of nodes in the heap will be determined as:
(Where n = total number of nodes) …… (1)
• Since, the equation (1) is Geometric Progression so,
Now, apply the formula to calculate the sum of geometric progression:
• Take logarithm on both sides,
Or,
• So,
(By base change property of log)
Hence, the height of a d -ary heap of n elements in terms of n and d is .
c)
The procedure d-ARY-HEAP-EXTRACT-MAX also works similar to HEAP-EXTRACT-MAX and calls d-ARY-MAX-HEAPIFY.
Explanation:
• The d-ARY_EXTRACT_MAX returns the first element in the array. And replaces the first place with the last element in the array.
• Also, it calls d-ARY-MAX-HEAPIFY to maintain the max-heap property.
• In d-ARY-MAX-HEAPIFY, first if condition is used to check the overflow using condition and A[d*i + k]>A[j] is used to check whether max-heap property is followed or not.
• If the above condition is true, it updates the largest value which is holding the index of an element to index of its parent.
• Next if condition is used to check whether the largest value is updated or not. If the largest value is updated, then the parent and the node located at index largest are swapped.
• After that, the program recursively calls d-ARY-MAX-HEAPIFY on largest node, to maintain the max-heap property.
Running-time analysis:
• The running time of this algorithm is because at each depth we are doing d loops, and then recurse to the depth of the tree.
• In function user compare the ith node and each of its children to find max in all of the nodes. Then if the maximum child is greater than its parent swap them and recurse on child.
Therefore, the run time complexity should be
d)
The algorithm given below is used to insert a new node in the heap .The Initial key value of the new node is initialized to .
• Since it is the lowest value possible it is inserted at the end of the heap and the heapSize is increased by 1.
• Now this new node is to be updated with its required key value , for which it uses the INCREASE-KEY(A ,i ,key) method that is described in the part (e)
Running-time analysis:
• Running time complexity depends upon the INCREASE-KEY(A, A.heapSize ,key) method. Since, in the worst case, this method traverses the full height of the tree that is from leaf node to the root.
• Since, the height of d-ary heap as discussed above is
So, the complexity is
e)
First the method checks whether the input number is greater or not .If not then there is no need to change in heap .Otherwise insert the input value into the node.
The algorithm for the same is described below:
Running time analysis:
• Since it may be possible to have the index of child is at bottom, then in the worst case the Algorithm traverses the full height of the tree that is ,
Therefore the run time complexity is


Deploying Vms On Kubernetes Glusterfs Kubevirt
Kubernetes is traditionally used to deploy and manage containerized applications. Did you know Kubernetes can also be used to deploy and manage virtual machines? This guide will walk you through installing a Kubernetes environment backed by GlusterFS for storage and the KubeVirt add-on to enable deployment and management of VMs.
Contents
- Prerequisites
- Known Issues
- Installing Kubernetes
- Installing GlusterFS and Heketi using gk-deploy
- Installing KubeVirt
- Deploying Virtual Machines
Prerequisites
You should have access to at least three baremetal servers. One server will be the master Kubernetes node and other two servers will be the worker nodes. Each server should have a block device attached for GlusterFS, this is in addition to the ones used by the OS.
You may use virtual machines in lieu of baremetal servers. Performance may suffer and you will need to ensure your hardware supports nested virtualization and that the relevant kernel modules are loaded in the OS.
For reference, I used the following components and versions:
- baremetal servers with CentOS version 7.4 as the base OS
- latest version of Kubernetes (at the time v1.10.1)
- Weave Net as the Container Network Interface (CNI), v2.3.0
- gluster-kubernetes master commit 2a2a68ce5739524802a38f3871c545e4f57fa20a
- KubeVirt v0.4.1.
Known Issues
- You may need to set SELinux to permissive mode prior to running “kubeadm init” if you see failures attributed to etcd in /var/log/audit.log.
- Prior to installing GlusterFS, you may need to disable firewalld until this issue is resolved: https://github.com/gluster/gluster-kubernetes/issues/471
- kubevirt-ansible install may fail in storage-glusterfs role: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt-ansible/issues/219
Installing Kubernetes
Create the Kubernetes cluster by using kubeadm. Detailed instructions can be found at https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/install-kubeadm/.
Use Weave Net as the CNI. Other CNIs may work, but I have only tested Weave Net.
If you are using only 2 servers as workers, then you will need to allow scheduling of pods on the master node because GlusterFS requires at least three nodes. To schedule pods on the master node, see “Master Isolation” in the kubeadm guide or execute this command:
kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/master-
Move onto the next step when your master and worker nodes are Ready.
[root@master ~]# kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
master.somewhere.com Ready master 6d v1.10.1
worker1.somewhere.com Ready <none> 6d v1.10.1
worker2.somewhere.com Ready <none> 6d v1.10.1
And all of the pods in the kube-system namespace are Running.
[root@master ~]# kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
etcd-master.somewhere.com 1/1 Running 0 6d
kube-apiserver-master.somewhere.com 1/1 Running 0 6d
kube-controller-manager-master.somewhere.com 1/1 Running 0 6d
kube-dns-86f4d74b45-glv4k 3/3 Running 0 6d
kube-proxy-b6ksg 1/1 Running 0 6d
kube-proxy-jjxs5 1/1 Running 0 6d
kube-proxy-kw77k 1/1 Running 0 6d
kube-scheduler-master.somewhere.com 1/1 Running 0 6d
weave-net-ldlh7 2/2 Running 0 6d
weave-net-pmhlx 2/2 Running 1 6d
weave-net-s4dp6 2/2 Running 0 6d
Installing GlusterFS and Heketi using gluster-kubernetes
The next step is to deploy GlusterFS and Heketi onto Kubernetes.
GlusterFS provides the storage system on which the virtual machine images are stored. Heketi provides the REST API that Kubernetes uses to provision GlusterFS volumes. The gk-deploy tool is used to deploy both of these components as pods in the Kubernetes cluster.
There is a detailed setup guide for gk-deploy. Note each node must have a raw block device that is reserved for use by heketi and they must not contain any data or be pre-formatted. You can reset your block device to a useable state by running:
wipefs -a <path to device>
To aid you, below are the commands you will need to run if you are following the setup guide.
On all nodes:
# Open ports for GlusterFS communications
sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 2222 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 24007 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 24008 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 49152:49251 -j ACCEPT
# Load kernel modules
sudo modprobe dm_snapshot
sudo modprobe dm_thin_pool
sudo modprobe dm_mirror
# Install glusterfs-fuse and git packages
sudo yum install -y glusterfs-fuse git
On the master node:
# checkout gluster-kubernetes repo
git clone https://github.com/gluster/gluster-kubernetes
cd gluster-kubernetes/deploy
Before running the gk-deploy script, we need to first create a topology.json file that maps the nodes present in the GlusterFS cluster and the block devices attached to each node. The block devices should be raw and unformatted. Below is a sample topology.json file for a 3 node cluster all operating in the same zone. The gluster-kubernetes/deploy directory also contains a sample topology.json file.
# topology.json
{
"clusters": [
{
"nodes": [
{
"node": {
"hostnames": {
"manage": [
"master.somewhere.com"
],
"storage": [
"<IP_ADDRESS>"
]
},
"zone": 1
},
"devices": [
"/dev/vdb"
]
},
{
"node": {
"hostnames": {
"manage": [
"worker1.somewhere.com"
],
"storage": [
"<IP_ADDRESS>"
]
},
"zone": 1
},
"devices": [
"/dev/vdb"
]
},
{
"node": {
"hostnames": {
"manage": [
"worker2.somewhere.com"
],
"storage": [
"<IP_ADDRESS>"
]
},
"zone": 1
},
"devices": [
"/dev/vdb"
]
}
]
}
]
}
Under “hostnames”, the node’s hostname is listed under “manage” and its IP address is listed under “storage”. Multiple block devices can be listed under “devices”. If you are using VMs, the second block device attached to the VM will usually be /dev/vdb. For multi-path, the device path will usually be /dev/mapper/mpatha. If you are using a second disk drive, the device path will usually be /dev/sdb.
Once you have your topology.json file and saved it in gluster-kubernetes/deploy, we can execute gk-deploy to create the GlusterFS and Heketi pods. You will need to specify an admin-key which will be used in the next step and will be discovered during the KubeVirt installation.
# from gluster-kubernetes/deploy
./gk-deploy -g -v -n kube-system --admin-key my-admin-key
Add the end of the installation, you will see:
heketi is now running and accessible via http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8080 . To run
administrative commands you can install 'heketi-cli' and use it as follows:
# heketi-cli -s http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8080 --user admin --secret '<ADMIN_KEY>' cluster list
You can find it at https://github.com/heketi/heketi/releases . Alternatively,
use it from within the heketi pod:
# /usr/bin/kubectl -n kube-system exec -i heketi-b96c7c978-dcwlw -- heketi-cli -s http://localhost:8080 --user admin --secret '<ADMIN_KEY>' cluster list
For dynamic provisioning, create a StorageClass similar to this:\
Take note of the URL for Heketi which will be used next step.
If successful, 4 additional pods will be shown as Running in the kube-system namespace.
[root@master deploy]# kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
...snip...
glusterfs-h4nwf 1/1 Running 0 6d
glusterfs-kfvjk 1/1 Running 0 6d
glusterfs-tjm2f 1/1 Running 0 6d
heketi-b96c7c978-dcwlw 1/1 Running 0 6d
...snip...
Installing KubeVirt and setting up storage
The final component to install and which will enable us to deploy VMs on Kubernetes is KubeVirt. We will use kubevirt-ansible to deploy KubeVirt which will also help us configure a Secret and a StorageClass that will allow us to provision Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) on GlusterFS.
Let’s first clone the kubevirt-ansible repo.
git clone https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt-ansible
cd kubevirt-ansible
Edit the inventory file in the kubevirt-ansible checkout. Modify the section that starts with “#BEGIN CUSTOM SETTINGS”. As an example using the servers from above:
# BEGIN CUSTOM SETTINGS
[masters]
# Your master FQDN
master.somewhere.com
[etcd]
# Your etcd FQDN
master.somewhere.com
[nodes]
# Your nodes FQDN's
worker1.somewhere.com
worker2.somewhere.com
[nfs]
# Your nfs server FQDN
[glusterfs]
# Your glusterfs nodes FQDN
# Each node should have the "glusterfs_devices" variable, which
# points to the block device that will be used by gluster.
master.somewhere.com
worker1.somewhere.com
worker1.somewhere.com
#
# If you run openshift deployment
# You can add your master as schedulable node with option openshift_schedulable=true
# Add at least one node with lable to run on it router and docker containers
# openshift_node_labels="{'region': 'infra','zone': 'default'}"
# END CUSTOM SETTINGS
Now let’s run the kubevirt.yml playbook:
ansible-playbook -i inventory playbooks/kubevirt.yml -e cluster=k8s -e storage_role=storage-glusterfs -e namespace=kube-system -e glusterfs_namespace=kube-system -e glusterfs_name= -e heketi_url=http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8080 -v
If successful, we should see 7 additional pods as Running in the kube-system namespace.
[root@master kubevirt-ansible]# kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
virt-api-785fd6b4c7-rdknl 1/1 Running 0 6d
virt-api-785fd6b4c7-rfbqv 1/1 Running 0 6d
virt-controller-844469fd89-c5vrc 1/1 Running 0 6d
virt-controller-844469fd89-vtjct 0/1 Running 0 6d
virt-handler-78wsb 1/1 Running 0 6d
virt-handler-csqbl 1/1 Running 0 6d
virt-handler-hnlqn 1/1 Running 0 6d
Deploying Virtual Machines
To deploy a VM, we must first grab a VM image in raw format, place the image into a PVC, define the VM in a yaml file, source the VM definition into Kubernetes, and then start the VM.
The containerized data importer (CDI) is usually used to import VM images into Kubernetes, but there are some patches and additional testing to be done before the CDI can work smoothly with GlusterFS. For now, we will be placing the image into the PVC using a Pod that curls the image from the local filesystem using httpd.
On master or on a node where kubectl is configured correctly install and start httpd.
sudo yum install -y httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd
Download the cirros cloud image and convert it into raw format.
curl http://download.cirros-cloud.net/0.4.0/cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk.img -o /var/www/html/cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk.img
sudo yum install -y qemu-img
qemu-img convert /var/www/html/cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk.img /var/www/html/cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk.raw
Create the PVC to store the cirros image.
cat <<EOF | kubectl create -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: gluster-pvc-cirros
annotations:
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: kubevirt
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 5Gi
EOF
Check the PVC was created and has “Bound” status.
[root@master ~]# kubectl get pvc
NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE
gluster-pvc-cirros Bound pvc-843bd508-4dbf-11e8-9e4e-149ecfc53021 5Gi RWO kubevirt 2m
Create a Pod to curl the cirros image into the PVC.
Note: You will need to substitute
cat <<EOF | kubectl create -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: image-importer-cirros
spec:
restartPolicy: OnFailure
containers:
- name: image-importer-cirros
image: kubevirtci/disk-importer
env:
- name: CURL_OPTS
value: "-L"
- name: INSTALL_TO
value: /storage/disk.img
- name: URL
value: http://<hostname>/cirros-0.4.0-x86_64-disk.raw
volumeMounts:
- name: storage
mountPath: /storage
volumes:
- name: storage
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: gluster-pvc-cirros
EOF
Check and wait for the image-importer-cirros Pod to complete.
[root@master ~]# kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
image-importer-cirros 0/1 Completed 0 28s
Create a Virtual Machine definition for your VM and source it into Kubernetes. Note the PVC containing the cirros image must be listed as the first disk under spec.domain.devices.disks.
cat <<EOF | kubectl create -f -
apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1alpha2
kind: VirtualMachine
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
labels:
kubevirt.io/ovm: cirros
name: cirros
spec:
running: false
template:
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
labels:
kubevirt.io/ovm: cirros
spec:
domain:
devices:
disks:
- disk:
bus: virtio
name: pvcdisk
volumeName: cirros-pvc
- disk:
bus: virtio
name: cloudinitdisk
volumeName: cloudinitvolume
machine:
type: ""
resources:
requests:
memory: 64M
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
volumes:
- cloudInitNoCloud:
userDataBase64: IyEvYmluL3NoCgplY2hvICdwcmludGVkIGZyb20gY2xvdWQtaW5pdCB1c2VyZGF0YScK
name: cloudinitvolume
- name: cirros-pvc
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: gluster-pvc-cirros
status: {}
Finally start the VM.
export VERSION=v0.4.1
curl -L -o virtctl https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/download/$VERSION/virtctl-$VERSION-linux-amd64
chmod +x virtctl
./virtctl start cirros
Wait for the VM pod to be in “Running” status.
[root@master ~]# kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
image-importer-cirros 0/1 Completed 0 28s
virt-launcher-cirros-krvv2 0/1 Running 0 13s
Once it is running, we can then connect to its console.
./virtctl console cirros
Press enter if a login prompt doesn’t appear.


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Catch the ubiquitous Eevee and evolve it in Pokémon Sword & Shield!
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Are you hankering to get your hands on your favorite Eeveeolution? Can't wait to bolster your roster with a Vaporeon, Flareon or Leafeon? Are you stuck and wondering how to acquire that elusive Umbreon? Simply want to catch them all? Find out how here!
Where to find Eevee
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Eevee can be found in the grass on Route 4 at any time during the day or night. You'll arrive at Route 4 after taking the train from Wedgehurst.
Eevee is very elusive, so it's going to take a while for it to appear. Keep wandering around in the tall yellow grass and keep an eye out for those adorable tell-tale ears sticking out.
How to catch Eevee
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- Enter into a Pokémon battle with Eevee.
- Weaken it with one of your Pokémon until its HP is in the 'red' zone.
- Throw a Poké Ball and hope for the best!
How to evolve Eevee
Evolving Eevee in Pokémon Sword and Shield is relatively easy. Simply level up your Eevee a little bit so it is at least level 15 and then use one of the following stones on it:
- Flareon = Use a fire stone
- Jolteon = Use a thunder stone
- Vaporeon = Use a water stone
- Leafeon = Use a leaf stone
- Glaceon = Use an ice stone
An easy place to find these stones is on the narrow strip of land on the other side of the Lake of Outrage. However, you'll need to be far enough in the game to be able to ride your bike over the water. On this strip of land, you'll find a tall ring of stones. Each one has an element stone next to it.
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- Espeon
- Umbreon
For Espeon and Umbreon the process is slightly different as you must raise your friendship level with your Eevee in your camp by playing with it, feeding it and using it to practice fighting in your camp. Once your friendship with that Eevee has been maxed out, the next time it evolves it will transform into either Espeon if it levels up during the day or Umbreon if it levels up during the night.
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A great way to increase your Pokémon's friendliness in a hurry is by having it hold the Soothe Bell. This is a special item which you get from a blonde-haired woman inside a house in Hammerlocke. The house is immediately on the right once you enter the city. Additionally, another person in the same home, can tell you what your Pokémon's friendship level currently is.
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Heading Indicator
Basically, the heading indicator is a mechanical device meant to facilitate the use of the magnetic compass. Errors in the magnetic compass are numerous, making it difficult to achieve straight flight and precise turns to headings, particularly in turbulent air. However the forces that make the magnetic compass difficult to perceive are not influenced by a heading indicator.
The working of the heading indicator depends on the rigidity principle in space. In a vertical plane, the rotor turns and a compass card is attached to the rotor. The points on the card keep the same location in space relative to the vertical plane of the gyro since the rotor stays rigid in space. The aircraft simply rotates around the rotating gyro, not the other way around. Since the instrument case and the aircraft revolve around the vertical axis of the gyro the card offers simple and precise heading information.
The heading indicator creeps or drifts from a heading to which it is fixed due to precession caused by friction. The amount of drift depends largely on the state of the instrument, among other factors. The drift could be extreme if the bearings are tired, dirty, or poorly lubricated. The fact that the gyro is centered in space and the Earth is revolving in space at a rate of 15° in 1 hour this creates another error in the heading indicator. The heading indicator may therefore indicate as much as 15 ° error for every hour of service, discounting precession induced by friction.
A magnetic north reference is obtained from a magnetic slave transmitter by certain heading indicators referred to as horizontal situation indicators (HSI) and typically requires no modification. A magnetometer is known as the magnetic slave transmitter.
Turn Coordinator
One of three gyro-driven instruments in your training airplane panel is the turn coordinator. The gyro of the turn coordinator is positioned at a 30-degree angle upward from the aircraft's longitudinal axis.
The turn coordinator is essentially two instruments in one. It detects motions of rolling, yawing, and turning, and shows those movements through two components: a needle that looks like an airplane that rotates right or left, and the inclinometer, a black ball suspended in liquid that rolls right, left, or stays in the center, depending on whether during a turn you apply the right amount of rudder. The turn coordinator is comparable to the turn and bank indicator that senses the roll and shows the turn rate.
The electrical device will power up the gyro of the turn coordinator when you turn on the airplane's master switch, and its alarm flag should be stored within around 30 seconds to let you know that it is functional. (The whirring noise you hear when you turn on the master switch is likely the gyros in the turn coordinator spinning up.) However the flag just signals the existence of electrical energy. The turn coordinator will struggle and read incorrectly if the gyro stops running. Some turn coordinators are only operated by the vacuum pump in older aircraft.
Attitude Indicator
AIs, also referred to as gyros or artificial horizons, work with a gyroscope that displays the height at which the aircraft is ground-oriented. The degree of bank or roll is indicated by rotating the gyroscope around the longitudinal axis, while the lateral axis indicates pitch-nose up, nose down or level. At a lateral axis for pitch attitude, and a longitudinal axis for roll, the gyroscope is gimbaled.
The gyroscope operates when rotating by producing a rigidity in space and is positioned to take the tilting of the instrument into account. An AI operates properly when its gyroscope remains vertically upright while the aircraft rolls and pitches around it
There must be minimal friction on the bearings in AIs. A small amount also puts a pressure on the gyroscope, causing it to tilt. To mitigate this tilting, when the gyroscope tilts from its vertical location, a mechanism within the instrument applies a force. The gyroscope is restored by this force to its upright position.
In addition to the rotor assembly, all mechanical gyroscopes in a gimbal assembly have inner and outer bearings. Bearings contain anti-friction bearing oil and are made to work at high speeds.
Inertial Navigation Systems
INS are navigational systems that are used to calculate the position of the aircraft, usually relative to a reference point or to a set coordinate. An INS is composed of at least 3 orthogonal gyroscopes and 3orthogonal accelerometers, which enable them to derive and calculate a navigation route for the pilots. This reading provides the heave, sway and surge (X,Y and Z coordinate). In Aviation, this is known as a type of dead reckoning system. The concept behind this INS system is known as the measurement of changes in relative motion (Measurement of acceleration).
By using the accelerometer to measure the translational acceleration and the gyroscope to measure rotational acceleration. We are able to derive the position of the aircraft at any definite time. The INS can provide us with a continuous and reliable determination on the position.
INS with different capabilities fall into two groups, Gimbaled and Strap Down. One that requires a rigid frame with rotating bearings is a gimbal device. The assisted body would be free of rotational inertia if the bearings could be made frictionless and the frames perfectly balanced. It can feel some torque from bearing friction or instability due to frame balance when a gyroscope is placed in the frame. Feedback can be given to zero out all the forces that do not have a relevant impact on the gyroscope. At least three axes or gimbals are required to isolate a supported body and are referred to as roll, pitch, and yaw.
With one important difference, the inertial sensors in a strapdown system are just like those in a gimbal rig. There is no mechanical correction scheme. The gimbaled structure that is assisted is missing. The sensors are all anchored or "strapped down" to the monitored object. The machine conducts all the calculations in this type of scheme to fulfill the maximum six degrees of motion. Strapdown platforms are more sensitive than gimbaled units to shock and vibration. When installing these devices in areas where vibration may influence the operation of the system, special precautions need to be taken.
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Lego Nissan GT-R Nismo Looks Like One Fast Brick
The new Speed Champions set goes on sale early in 2020.
by Jeff PerezThere are a lot of awesome auto-themed Lego sets out there. Bugatti offers a Chiron Technic set, Land Rover has a Defender Technic set coming in 2020, too, and the current crop of the Speed Champions includes vehicles like the Ferrari F40, Mini Cooper, McLaren Senna, and Dodge Demon, among others. But Nissan's latest kit could leave us more broke than we already are.
Nisan will offer a GT-R Nismo Lego set beginning in 2020. Debuting as part of the Speed Champions set (meaning it won't be as technical as the larger Technic sets) with 298 individual elements, the Nissan and Lego designed the set to, "capture the authentic and intricate details of the life-size race car." Based on the images, we agree.
The Lego GT-R Nismo uses elements found on the life-sized, road-going model like Nissan's V-Motion grille, the red front splitter and side skirts, the carbon fiber-mimicking wheels, and the supercar's signature massive rear wing. It also adopts the same black-and-white Motul livery from the GT-R Nismo race car.
"The Nissan GT-R and the Lego brand are both renowned and loved by fans of all ages throughout the world, and we are honored to be the first-ever Japanese car manufacturer to partner with the LEGO Group," Executive Officer and Vice President for Nissan, Asako Hoshino says.
Gallery: Lego Nissan GT-R Nismo
The GT-R Nismo Lego kit doesn't have a price yet, but those interested in purchasing the real thing can take home a Nissan GT-R Nismo for just over $210,000. The life-sized version uses a twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V6 producing 600 horsepower (447 kilowatts). And the best part is, Nissan builds it for you.
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Since the introduction of the LEGO® wheel in 1962, cars have played a central role in thousands of LEGO sets and in the hearts, minds and play of millions of children across the world. Today, the LEGO Group and Nissan have revealed a model that pays tribute to one of the most iconic Japanese supercars, the Nissan GT-R NISMO. This is the first-ever partnership between LEGO and a Japanese automaker.
The LEGO model was revealed by LEGO Group CEO Niels B. Christiansen and Asako Hoshino, executive vice president at Nissan, at the automaker’s global headquarters in Yokohama today.
Niels B. Christiansen said: “In addition to offering a wonderful and fun building and play experience, we hope the model will also inspire children to learn more about engineering and how to create things in real life. Just as engineers across decades have improved the design and performance of this car, children build, unbuild and rebuild during play – stimulating and developing crucial skills, such as creativity, resilience, problem-solving and critical thinking. Inspiring them to become the builders of tomorrow is our mission.”
Asako Hoshino said: “The Nissan GT-R and the LEGO brand are both renowned and loved by fans of all ages throughout the world, and we are honored to be the first-ever Japanese car manufacturer to partner with the LEGO Group. Many of our Nissan customers can trace their automotive passion back to when they built LEGO cars as children. With this partnership, everyone can be a `takumi’ – the specialized craftsmen that build the GT-R. And, it’s the GT-R’s 50th anniversary this year, so what better way to celebrate than to share the GT-R with Nissan and LEGO fans around the world!”
Iconic taillights recreated in bricks
The LEGO Speed Champions Nissan GT-R NISMO will be available globally in January 2020. It's one of the first in the 2020 Speed Champions themed sets, which will be 25% bigger than in previous years. The GT-R NISMO model, made from 298 LEGO elements, captures the authentic and intricate details of the life-size race car in a relatively small LEGO model. This posed an interesting challenge for LEGO design lead Chris Stamp.
"In LEGO Speed Champions, we always aim to include new types of racing vehicles. And when we focused on drifting and racing, the record-breaking Nissan GT-R, and especially the new GT-R NISMO, was at the top of our wish list. Authenticity is always our main concern, and we spent a lot of time exploring different building techniques to correctly recreate the taillights, as they are one of the most recognizable details on the car. I am really happy with the end result!"
Hiroshi Tamura, Nissan's chief product specialist for the GT-R – known informally as "Mr. GT-R" – gave the scaled-down LEGO version his stamp of approval: "The GT-R has been part of my life since I was 10 years old. Working with the LEGO Group was like awakening my inner 10-year-old self to rediscover what makes the GT-R so special to me. It's amazing how much the LEGO Group's attention to detail reminds me of our own craftsmen."
Appearing alongside the LEGO Speed Champions Nissan GT-R NISMO at today's event was the 2020 GT-R NISMO. Available now, the most extreme, most capable GT-R in history features carbon-fiber front and rear bumpers, roof, trunk and rear spoiler; carbon-fiber front fenders with special scalloped vents; new lightweight wheels and new tires; tuned suspension and transmission; Brembo carbon brakes; and new turbochargers.


PSTOEDIT(1) Conversion Tools PSTOEDIT(1) NAME pstoedit - a tool converting PostScript and PDF files into various vector graphic formats SYNOPSIS FROM THE COMMAND SHELL pstoedit [-v -help] pstoedit [-include name of a PostScript file to be included] [-df font name] [-nomaptoisolatin1] [-dis] [-q] [-nq] [-nc] [-nsp] [-mergelines] [-filledrecttostroke] [-mergetext] [-dt] [-adt] [-ndt] [-correctdefine‐ font] [-pti] [-pta] [-xscale number] [-yscale number] [-xshift number] [-yshift number] [-centered] [-minlinewidth number] [-split] [-v] [-usebbfrominput] [-ssp] [-uchar character] [-nb] [-page page number] [-flat flatness factor] [-sclip] [-ups] [-rgb] [-useagl] [-noclip] [-t2fontsast1] [-keep] [-gstest] [-nfr] [-glyphs] [-useoldnormalization] [-rotate angle (0-360)] [-fontmap name of font map file for pstoedit] [-pagesize page format] [-help] [-gs path to the ghostscript exe‐ cutable/DLL ] [-bo] [-psarg argument string] [-pslanguagelevel PostScript Language Level to be used 1,2, or 3] -f "format[:options]" [-gsregbase GhostScript base registry path] [ inputfile [outputfile] ] FROM GSVIEW Pstoedit can be called from within gsview via "Edit | Convert to vector format" FROM PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT THE ALDUS GRAPHIC IMPORT FILTER INTERFACE pstoedit can also be used as PostScript and PDF graphic import filter for several programs including MS-Office, PaintShop-Pro and PhotoLine. See http://www.pstoedit.net/importps/ for more details. DESCRIPTION RELEASE LEVEL This manpage documents release 3.60 of pstoedit. USE pstoedit converts PostScript and PDF files to various vector graphic for‐ mats. The resulting files can be edited or imported into various drawing packages. Type pstoedit -help to get a list of supported output formats. Pstoedit comes with a large set of format drivers integrated in the binary. Additional drivers can be installed as plugins and are available via http://www.pstoedit.net/plug‐ ins/. Just copy the plugins to the same directory where the pstoedit binary is installed or - under Unix like systems only - alternatively into the lib directory parallel to the bin directory where pstoedit is installed. However, unless you also get a license key for the plugins, the addi‐ tional drivers will slightly distort the resulting graphics. See the doc‐ umentation provided with the plugins for further details. PRINCIPLE OF CONVERSION pstoedit works by redefining the some basic painting operators of Post‐ Script, e.g. stroke or show (bitmaps drawn by the image operator are not supported by all output formats.) After redefining these operators, the PostScript or PDF file that needs to be converted is processed by a Post‐ Script interpreter, e.g., Ghostscript (gs(1)). You normally need to have a PostScript interpreter installed in order to use this program. However, you can perform some "back end only" processing of files following the conventions of the pstoedit intermediate formate by specifying the -bo option. See "Available formats and their specific options" below. The output that is written by the interpreter due to the redefinition of the drawing operators is a sort of 'flat' PostScript file that contains only simple operations like moveto, lineto, show, etc. You can look at this file using the -f debug option. This output is read by end-processing functions of pstoedit and triggers the drawing functions in the selected output format driver sometime called also "backend". NOTES If you want to process PDF files directly, your PostScript interpreter must provide this feature, as does Ghostscript. Aladdin Ghostscript is recommended for processing PDF and PostScript files. OPTIONS GENERAL OPTIONS [-include name of a PostScript file to be included] This options allows to specify an additional PostScript file that will be executed just before the normal input is read. This is helpful for including specific page settings or for disabling potentially unsafe PostScript operators, e.g., file, renamefile, or deletefile. [-xscale number] scale by a factor in x-direction [-yscale number] scale by a factor in y-direction [-xshift number] shift image in x-direction [-yshift number] shift image in y-direction [-centered] center image before scaling or shifting [-minlinewidth number] minimal line width. All lines thinner than this will be drawn in this line width - especially zero-width lines [-split] Create a new file for each page of the input. For this the output filename must contain a %d which is replaced with the current page number. This option is automatically switched on for output for‐ mats that don't support multiple pages within one file, e.g. fig or gnuplot. [-usebbfrominput] If specified, pstoedit uses the BoundingBox as is (hopefully) found in the input file instead of one that is calculated by its own. [-page page number] Select a single page from a multi page PostScript or PDF file. [-rgb] Since version 3.30 pstoedit uses the CMYK colors internally. The -rgb option turns on the old behavior to use RGB values. [-useagl] use Adobe Glyph List instead of the IsoLatin1 table (this is experimental) [-noclip] don't use clipping (relevant only if output format supports clip‐ ping at all) [-rotate angle (0-360)] Rotage image by angle. [-pagesize page format] set page size for output medium. This option sets the page size for the output medium. Currently this is just used by the libplot output format driver, but might be used by other output format drivers in future. The page size is specified in terms of the usual page size names, e.g. letter or a4. [-help] show the help information [-gs path to the ghostscript executable/DLL ] tells pstoedit which ghostscript executable/DLL to use - over‐ writes the internal search heuristic [-bo] You can run backend processing only (without the PostScript interpreter frontend) by first running pstoedit -f dump infile dumpfile and then running pstoedit -f format -bo dumpfile outfile. [-psarg argument string] The string given with this option is passed directly to Ghost‐ script when Ghostscript is called to process the PostScript file for pstoedit. For example: -psarg "-r300x300". This causes the resolution to be changed to 300x300 dpi. (With older versions of GhostScript, changing the resolution this way has an effect only if the -dis option is given.) If you want to pass multiple options to Ghostscript you can use multiple -psarg options -psarg opt1 -psarg opt2 -psarg opt2. See the GhostScript manual for other possible options. [-pslanguagelevel PostScript Language Level to be used 1,2, or 3] PostScript Language Level to be used 1,2, or 3 You can switch Ghostscript into PostScript Level 1 only mode by -pslanguagelevel 1. This can be useful for example if the PostScript file to be converted uses some Level 2 specific custom color models that are not supported by pstoedit. However, this requires that the Post‐ Script program checks for the PostScript level supported by the interpreter and "acts" accordingly. The default language level is 3. -f "format[:options]" target output format recognized by pstoedit. Since other format drivers can be loaded dynamically, type pstoedit -help to get a full list of formats. See "Available formats and their specific options " below for an explanation of the [:options] to -f format. If the format option is not given, pstoedit tries to guess the target format from the suffix of the output filename. However, in a lot of cases, this is not a unique mapping and hence pstoedit demands the -f option. [-gsregbase GhostScript base registry path] registry path to use as a base path when searching GhostScript interpreter This option provides means to specify a registry key under HKLM/Software where to search for GS interpreter key, ver‐ sion and GS_DLL / GS_LIB values. Example: "-gsregbase MyCompany" means that HKLM/Software/MyCompany/GPL GhostScript would be searched instead of HKLM/Software/GPL GhostScript. TEXT AND FONT HANDLING RELATED OPTIONS [-df font name] Sometimes fonts embedded in a PostScript program do not have a fontname. For example, this happens in PostScript files generated by dvips(1). In such a case pstoedit uses a replacement font. The default for this is Courier. Another font can be specified using the -df option. -df Helvetica causes all unnamed fonts to be replaced by Helvetica. [-nomaptoisolatin1] Normally pstoedit maps all character codes to the ones defined by the ISO-Latin1 encoding. If you specify -nomaptoisolatin1 then the encoding from the input PostScript is passed unchanged to the out‐ put. This may result in strange text output but on the other hand may be the only way to get some fonts converted appropriately. Try what fits best to your concrete case. [-dt] Draw text - Text is drawn as polygons. This might produce a large output file. This option is automatically switched on if the selected output format does not support text, e.g. gnuplot(1). [-adt] Automatic Draw text - This option turns on the -dt option selec‐ tively for fonts that seem to be no normal text fonts, e.g. Sym‐ bol.. [-ndt] Never Draw text - fully disable the heuristics used by pstoedit to decide when to "draw" text instead of showing it as text. This may produce incorrect results, but in some cases it might never‐ theless be useful. "Use at own risk". [-correctdefinefont] Some PostScript files, e.g. such as generated by ChemDraw, use the PostScript definefont operator in way that is incompatible with pstoedit's assumptions. The new font is defined by copying an old font without changing the FontName of the new font. When this option is applied, some "patches" are done after a definefont in order to make it again compatible with pstoedit's assumptions. This option is not enabled per default, since it may break other PostScript file. It is tested only with ChemDraw generated files. [-pti] Precision text - Normally a text string is drawn as it occurs in the input file. However, in some situations, this might produce wrongly positioned characters. This is due to limitiations in most output formats of pstoedit. They cannot represent text with arbi‐ tray inter-letter spacing which is easily possible in PDF and PostScript. With -pta, each character of a text string is placed separately. With -pti, this is done only in cases when there is a non zero inter-letter spacing. The downside of "precision text" is a bigger file size and hard to edit text. [-pta] see -pti [-uchar character] Sometimes pstoedit cannot map a character from the encoding used by the PostScript file to the font encoding of the target format. In this case pstoedit replaces the input character by a special character in order to show all the places that couldn't be mapped correctly. The default for this is a "#". Using the -uchar option it is possible to specify another character to be used instead. If you want to use a space, use -uchar " ". [-t2fontsast1] Handle type 2 fonts same as type 1. Type 2 fonts sometimes occur as embedded fonts within PDF files. In the default mode, text using such fonts is drawn as polygons since pstoedit assumes that such a font is not available on the users machine. If this option is set, pstoedit assumes that the internal encoding follows the same as for a standard font and generates normal text output. This assumption may not be true in all cases. But it is nearly impossi‐ ble for pstoedit to verify this assumption - it would have to do a sort of OCR. [-nfr] In normal mode pstoedit replaces bitmap fonts with a font as defined by the -df option. This is done, because most output for‐ mats can't handle such fonts. This behavior can be switched off using the -nfr option but then it strongly depends on the applica‐ tion reading the the generated file whether the file is usable and correctly interpreted or not. Any problems are then out of control of pstoedit. [-glyphs] pass glyph names to the output format driver. So far no output format driver really uses the glyph names, so this does not have any effect at the moment. It is a preparation for future work. [-useoldnormalization] Just use this option in case the new heuristic introduced in 3.5 doesn't produce correct results - however, this normalization of font encoding will always be a best-effort approach since there is no real general solution to it with reasonable effort [-fontmap name of font map file for pstoedit] The font map is a simple text file containing lines in the fol‐ lowing format: document_font_name target_font_name Lines beginning with % are considerd comments If a font name contains spaces, use the "font name with spaces" notation. Each font name found in the document is checked against this mapping and if there is a corresponding entry, the new name is used for the output. If the -fontmap option is not specified, pstoedit automatically looks for the file drivername.fmp in the installation directory and uses that file as a default fontmap file if available. The installation directory is: * Windows: The same directory where the pstoedit executable is located * Unix: <The directory where the pstoedit executably is located> /../lib/ The mpost.fmp in the misc directory of the pstoedit distibution is a sam‐ ple map file with mappings from over 5000 PostScript font names to their TeXequivalents. This is useful because MetaPost is frequently used with TeX/LaTeX and those programs don't use standard font names. This file and the MetaPost output format driver are provided by Scott Pakin (scott+ps2ed_AT_pakin.org). Another example is wemf.fmp to be used under Windows. See the misc directory of the pstoedit source distribution. DEBUG OPTIONS [-dis] Open a display during processing by Ghostscript. Some files only work correctly this way. [-q] quiet mode - do not write startup message [-nq] No exit from the PostScript interpreter. Normally Ghostscript exits after processing the pstoedit input-file. For debugging it can be useful to avoid this. If you do, you will have to type quit at the GS> prompt to exit from Ghostscript. [-v] Switch on verbose mode. Some additional information is shown dur‐ ing processing. [-nb] Since version 3.10 pstoedit uses the -dDELAYBIND option when calling GhostScript. Previously the -dNOBIND option was used instead but that sometimes caused problems if a user's PostScript file overloaded standard PostScript operator with totally new semantic, e.g. lt for lineto instead of the standard meaning of "less than". Using -nb the old style can be activated again in case the -dDELAYBIND gives different results as before. In such a case please also contact the author. [-ups] write text as plain string instead of hex string in intermediate format - normally useful for trouble shooting and debugging only. [-keep] keep the intermediate files produced by pstoedit - for debug pur‐ poses only [-gstest] perform a basic test for the interworking with GhostScript DRAWING RELATED OPTIONS [-nc] no curves. Normally pstoedit tries to keep curves from the input and transfers them to the output if the output format supports curves. If the output format does not support curves, then pstoedit replaces curves by a series of lines (see also -flat option). However, in some cases the user might wish to have this behavior also for output formats that originally support curves. This can be forced via the -nc option. [-nsp] normally subpathes are used if the output format support them. This option turns off subpathes. [-mergelines] Some output formats permit the representation of filled polygons with edges that are in a different color than the fill color. Since PostScript does not support this by the standard drawing primitives directly, drawing programs typically generate two objects (the outline and the filled polygon) into the PostScript output. pstoedit is able to recombine these, if they follow each other directly and you specify -mergelines. However, this merging is not supported by all output formats due to restrictions in the target format. [-filledrecttostroke] Rectangles filled with a solid color can be converted to a stroked line with a width that corresponds to the width of the rectangle. This is of primary interest for output formats which do not support filled polygons at all. But it is restricted to rec‐ tangles only, i.e. it is not supported for general polygons [-mergetext] In order to produce nice looking text output, programs producing PostScript files often split words into smaller pieces which are then placed individually on adjacent positions. However, such split text is hard to edit later on and hence it is sometime bet‐ ter to recombine these pieces again to form a word (or even sequence of words). For this pstoedit implements some heuristics about what text pieces are to be considered parts of a split word. This is based on the geometrical proximity of the different parts and seems to work quite well so far. But there are certainly cases where this simple heuristic fails. So please check the results carefully. [-ssp] simulate sub paths. Several output formats don't support Post‐ Script pathes containing sub pathes, i.e. pathes with intermediate movetos. In the normal case, each subpath is treated as an inde‐ pendent path for such output formats. This can lead to bad looking results. The most common case where this happens is if you use the -dt option and show some text with letters like e, o, or b, i.e. letter that have a "hole". When the -ssp option is set, pstoedit tries to eliminate these problems. However, this option is CPU time intensive! [-flat flatness factor] If the output format does not support curves in the way Post‐ Script does or if the -nc option is specified, all curves are approximated by lines. Using the -flat option one can control this approximation. This parameter is directly converted to a Post‐ Script setflat command. Higher numbers, e.g. 10 give rougher, lower numbers, e.g. 0.1 finer approximations. [-sclip] simulate clipping. Most output formats of pstoedit don't have native support for clipping. For that pstoedit offers an option to perform the clipping of the graphics directly without passing the clippath to the output driver. However, this results in curves being replaced by a lot of line segments and thus larger output files. So use this option only if your output looks different from the input due to clipping. In addition, this "simulated clipping" is not exactly the same as defined in PostScript. There might be lines drawn at the double size. Also clipping of text is not sup‐ ported unless you also use the -dt option. INPUT AND OUTFILE FILE ARGUMENTS [ inputfile [outputfile] ] If neither an input nor an output file is given as argument, pstoedit works as filter reading from standard input and writing to standard out‐ put. The special filename "-" can also be used. It represents standard input if it is the first on the command line and standard output if it is the second. So "pstoedit - output.xxx" reads from standard input and writes to output.xxx AVAILABLE FORMATS AND THEIR SPECIFIC OPTIONS pstoedit allows passing individual options to a output format driver. This is done by appending all options to the format specified after the -f option. The format specifier and its options must be separated by a colon (:). If more than one option needs to be passed to the output for‐ mat driver, the whole argument to -f must be enclosed within double-quote characters, thus: -f "format[:option option ...]" To see which options are supported by a specific format, type: pstoedit -f format:-help The following description of the different formats supported by pstoedit is extracted from the source code of the individual drivers. psf - Flattened PostScript (no curves) No driver specific options ps - Simplified PostScript with curves No driver specific options debug - for test purposes No driver specific options dump - for test purposes (same as debug) No driver specific options gs - any device that GhostScript provides - use gs:format, e.g. gs:pdfwrite No driver specific options ps2ai - Adobe Illustrator via ps2ai.ps of GhostScript No driver specific options gmfa - ASCII GNU metafile [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate gmfb - binary GNU metafile [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot - GNU libplot output types, e.g. plot:type X [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-cgm - cgm via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-ai - ai via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-svg - svg via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-ps - ps via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-fig - fig via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-pcl - pcl via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-hpgl - hpgl via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate plot-tek - tek via GNU libplot [plotformat string] plotutil format to generate magick - MAGICK driver This driver uses the C++ API of ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick to finally produce different output formats. The output format is determined auto‐ matically by Image/GraphicsMagick based on the suffix of the output file‐ name. So an output file test.png will force the creation of an image in PNG format. No driver specific options swf - SWF driver: [-cubic] cubic ??? [-trace] trace ??? xaml - eXtensible Application Markup Language [-localdtd] use local DTD [-standalone] create stand-alone type svg [-withdtd] write DTD [-withgrouping] write also ordinary save/restores as SVG group [-nogroupedpath] do not write a group around pathes [-noviewbox] don't write a view box [-texmode] TeX Mode [-imagetofile] write raster images to separate files instead of embedding them [-notextrendering] do not write textrendering attribute [-border number] additional border to draw around bare bounding box (in percent of width and height) [-title string] text to use as title for the generated document wemfnss - Wogls version of EMF - no subpathes [-df] write info about font processing [-dumpfontmap] write info about font mapping [-size:psbbox] use the bounding box as calculated by the PostScript frontent as size [-size:fullpage] set the size to the size of a full page [-size:automatic] let windows calculate the bounding box (default) [-keepimages] debug option - keep the embedded bitmaps as external files [-useoldpolydraw] do not use Windows PolyDraw but an emulation of it - sometimes needed for certain programs reading the EMF files [-OO] generate OpenOffice compatible EMF file hpgl - HPGL code [-penplotter] plotter is pen plotter (i.e. no support for specific line widths) [-pencolorsfromfile] read pen colors from file drvhpgl.pencolors in pstoedit data directory [-pencolors number] maximum number of pen colors to be used by pstoedit (default 0) - [-filltype string] select fill type e.g. FT 1 [-hpgl2] Use HPGL/2 instead of HPGL/1 [-rot90] rotate hpgl by 90 degrees [-rot180] rotate hpgl by 180 degrees [-rot270] rotate hpgl by 270 degrees pcl - PCL code [-penplotter] plotter is pen plotter (i.e. no support for specific line widths) [-pencolorsfromfile] read pen colors from file drvhpgl.pencolors in pstoedit data directory [-pencolors number] maximum number of pen colors to be used by pstoedit (default 0) - [-filltype string] select fill type e.g. FT 1 [-hpgl2] Use HPGL/2 instead of HPGL/1 [-rot90] rotate hpgl by 90 degrees [-rot180] rotate hpgl by 180 degrees [-rot270] rotate hpgl by 270 degrees pic - PIC format for troff et.al. [-troff] troff mode (default is groff) [-landscape] landscape output [-portrait] portrait output [-keepfont] print unrecognized literally [-text] try not to make pictures from running text [-debug] enable debug output asy - Asymptote Format No driver specific options cairo - cairo driver generates compilable c code for rendering with cairo [-pango] use pango for font rendering [-funcname string] sets the base name for the generated functions and variables. e.g. myfig [-header string] sets the output file name for the generated C header file. e.g. myfig.h cfdg - Context Free Design Grammar Context Free Design Grammar, usable by Context Free Art (http://www.con‐ textfreeart.org/) No driver specific options dxf - CAD exchange format [-polyaslines] use LINE instead of POLYLINE in DXF [-mm] use mm coordinates instead of points in DXF (mm=pt/72*25.4) [-ctl] map colors to layers [-splineaspolyline] approximate splines with PolyLines (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasnurb] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasbspline] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineassinglespline] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasmultispline] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasbezier] use Bezier splines in DXF format (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineprecision number] number of samples to take from spline curve when doing approxima‐ tion with -splineaspolyline or -splineasmultispline - should be >= 2 (default 5) [-dumplayernames] dump all layer names found to standard output [-layers string] layers to be shown (comma separated list of layer names, no space) [-layerfilter string] layers to be hidden (comma separated list of layer names, no space) dxf_s - CAD exchange format with splines [-polyaslines] use LINE instead of POLYLINE in DXF [-mm] use mm coordinates instead of points in DXF (mm=pt/72*25.4) [-ctl] map colors to layers [-splineaspolyline] approximate splines with PolyLines (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasnurb] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasbspline] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineassinglespline] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasmultispline] experimental (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineasbezier] use Bezier splines in DXF format (only for -f dxf_s) [-splineprecision number] number of samples to take from spline curve when doing approxima‐ tion with -splineaspolyline or -splineasmultispline - should be >= 2 (default 5) [-dumplayernames] dump all layer names found to standard output [-layers string] layers to be shown (comma separated list of layer names, no space) [-layerfilter string] layers to be hidden (comma separated list of layer names, no space) fig - .fig format for xfig The xfig format driver supports special fontnames, which may be produced by using a fontmap file. The following types of names are supported : General notation: "Postscript Font Name" ((LaTeX|PostScript|empty)(::special)::)XFigFontName Examples: Helvetica LaTeX::SansSerif Courier LaTeX::special::Typewriter GillSans "AvantGarde Demi" Albertus PostScript::special::"New Century Schoolbook Italic" Symbol ::special::Symbol (same as Postscript::special::Symbol) See also the file examplefigmap.fmp in the misc directory of the pstoedit source distribution for an example font map file for xfig. Please note that the Fontname has to be among those supported by xfig. See - http://www.xfig.org/userman/fig-format.html for a list of legal font names [-startdepth number] Set the initial depth (default 999) [-metric] Switch to centimeter display (default inches) [-usecorrectfontsize] don't scale fonts for xfig. Use this if you also use this option with xfig [-depth number] Set the page depth in inches (default 11) xfig - .fig format for xfig See fig format for more details. [-startdepth number] Set the initial depth (default 999) [-metric] Switch to centimeter display (default inches) [-usecorrectfontsize] don't scale fonts for xfig. Use this if you also use this option with xfig [-depth number] Set the page depth in inches (default 11) tfig - .fig format for xfig Test only [-startdepth number] Set the initial depth (default 999) [-metric] Switch to centimeter display (default inches) [-usecorrectfontsize] don't scale fonts for xfig. Use this if you also use this option with xfig [-depth number] Set the page depth in inches (default 11) gcode - emc2 gcode format See also: http://linuxcnc.org/ No driver specific options gnuplot - gnuplot format No driver specific options gschem - gschem format See also: http://www.geda.seul.org/tools/gschem/ No driver specific options idraw - Interviews draw format (EPS) No driver specific options java1 - java 1 applet source code [java class name string] name of java class to generate java2 - java 2 source code [java class name string] name of java class to generate kil - .kil format for Kontour No driver specific options latex2e - LaTeX2e picture format [-integers] round all coordinates to the nearest integer lwo - LightWave 3D Object Format No driver specific options mma - Mathematica Graphics [-eofillfills] Filling is used for eofill (default is not to fill) mpost - MetaPost Format No driver specific options noixml - Nemetschek NOI XML format Nemetschek Object Interface XML format [-r string] Allplan resource file [-bsl number] Bezier Split Level (default 3) pcbi - engrave data - insulate/PCB format See http://home.vr-web.de/~hans-juergen-jahn/software/devpcb.html for more details. No driver specific options pcb - pcb format See also: http://pcb.sourceforge.net and http://www.pen‐ guin.cz/~utx/pstoedit-pcb/ [-grid missing arg name] attempt to snap relevant output to grid (mils) and put failed objects to a different layer [-snapdist missing arg name] grid snap distance ratio (0 < snapdist <= 0.5, default 0.1) [-tshiftx missing arg name] additional x shift measured in target units (mils) [-tshifty missing arg name] additional y shift measured in target units (mils) [-grid missing arg name] attempt to snap relevant output to grid (mils) and put failed objects to a different layer [-mm] Switch to metric units (mm) [-stdnames] use standard layer names instead of descriptive names [-forcepoly] force all objects to be interpreted as polygons pcbfill - pcb format with fills See also: http://pcb.sourceforge.net No driver specific options pdf - Adobe's Portable Document Format No driver specific options rib - RenderMan Interface Bytestream No driver specific options rpl - Real3D Programming Language Format No driver specific options sample - sample driver: if you don't want to see this, uncomment the corre‐ sponding line in makefile and make again this is a long description for the sample driver [-sampleoption integer] just an example sk - Sketch Format No driver specific options svm - StarView/OpenOffice.org metafile StarView/OpenOffice.org metafile, readable from OpenOffice.org 1.0/StarOffice 6.0 and above. [-m] map to Arial [-nf] emulate narrow fonts text - text in different forms [-height number] page height in terms of characters [-width number] page width in terms of characters [-dump] dump text pieces tgif - Tgif .obj format [-ta] text as attribute tk - tk and/or tk applet source code [-R] swap HW [-I] no impress [-n string] tagnames vtk - VTK driver: if you don't want to see this, uncomment the corresponding line in makefile and make again this is a long description for the VTKe driver [-VTKeoption integer] just an example wmf - Windows metafile [-m] map to Arial [-nf] emulate narrow fonts [-drawbb] draw bounding box [-p] prune line ends [-nfw] Newer versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista) will not accept WMF/EMF files generated when this option is set and the input con‐ tains Text. But if this option is not set, then the WMF/EMF driver will estimate interletter spacing of text using a very coarse heuristic. This may result in ugly looking output. On the other hand, OpenOffice can still read EMF/WMF files where pstoedit dele‐ gates the calculation of the inter letter spacing to the program reading the WMF/EMF file. So if the generated WMF/EMF file shall never be processed under Windows, use this option. If WMF/EMF files with high precision text need to be generated under *nix the only option is to use the -pta option of pstoedit. However that causes every text to be split into single characters which makes the text hard to edit afterwards. Hence the -nfw options provides a sort of compromise between portability and nice to edit but still nice looking text. Again - this option has no meaning when pstoedit is executed under Windows anyway. In that case the output is portable but nevertheless not split and still looks fine. [-winbb] let the Windows API calculate the Bounding Box (Windows only) [-OO] generate OpenOffice compatible EMF file emf - Enhanced Windows metafile [-m] map to Arial [-nf] emulate narrow fonts [-drawbb] draw bounding box [-p] prune line ends [-nfw] Newer versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista) will not accept WMF/EMF files generated when this option is set and the input con‐ tains Text. But if this option is not set, then the WMF/EMF driver will estimate interletter spacing of text using a very coarse heuristic. This may result in ugly looking output. On the other hand, OpenOffice can still read EMF/WMF files where pstoedit dele‐ gates the calculation of the inter letter spacing to the program reading the WMF/EMF file. So if the generated WMF/EMF file shall never be processed under Windows, use this option. If WMF/EMF files with high precision text need to be generated under *nix the only option is to use the -pta option of pstoedit. However that causes every text to be split into single characters which makes the text hard to edit afterwards. Hence the -nfw options provides a sort of compromise between portability and nice to edit but still nice looking text. Again - this option has no meaning when pstoedit is executed under Windows anyway. In that case the output is portable but nevertheless not split and still looks fine. [-winbb] let the Windows API calculate the Bounding Box (Windows only) [-OO] generate OpenOffice compatible EMF file NOTES AUTOTRACE pstoedit cooperates with autotrace. Autotrace can now produce a dump file for further processing by pstoedit using the -bo (backend only) option. Autotrace is a program written by a group around Martin Weber and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/. PS2AI The ps2ai output format driver is not a native pstoedit output format driver. It does not use the pstoedit postcript flattener, instead it uses the PostScript program ps2ai.ps which is installed in the GhostScript distribution directory. It is included to provide the same "look-and-feel" for the conversion to AI. The additional benefit is that this conversion is now available also via the "convert-to-vector" menu of Gsview. However, lot's of files don't convert nicely or at all using ps2ai.ps. So a native pstoedit driver would be much better. Anyone out there to take this? The AI format is usable for example by Mayura Draw (http://www.mayura.com). Also a driver to the Mayura native format would be nice. An alternative to the ps2ai based driver is available via the -f plot:ai format if the libplot(ter) is installed. You should use a version of GhostScript greater than or equal to 6.00 for using the ps2ai output format driver. METAPOST Note that, as far as Scott knows, MetaPost does not support PostScript's eofill. The metapost output format driver just converts eofill to fill, and issues a warning if verbose is set. Fortunately, very few PostScript programs rely on the even-odd fill rule, even though many specify it. For more on MetaPost see: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html CONTEXT FREE - CFDG The driver for the CFDG format (drvcfdg) defines one shape per page of PostScript, but only the first shape is actually rendered (unless the user edits the generated CFDG code, of course). CFDG doesn't support multi-page output, so this probably a reasonable thing to do. For more on Context Free see: http://www.contextfreeart.org/ LATEX2E * LaTeX2e's picture environment is not very powerful. As a result, many elementary PostScript constructs are ignored -- fills, line thicknesses (besides "thick" and "thin"), and dash patterns, to name a few. Furthermore, complex pictures may overrun TeX's memory capacity. * Some PostScript constructs are not supported directly by "pic‐ ture", but can be handled by external packages. If a figure uses color, the top-level document will need to do a "\usepack‐ age{color}". And if a figure contains rotated text, the top-level document will need to do a "\usepackage{rotating}". * All lengths, coordinates, and font sizes output by the output for‐ mat driver are in terms of \unitlength, so scaling a figure is simply a matter of doing a "\setlength{\unitlength}{...}". * The output format driver currently supports one output format driver specific option, "integers", which rounds all lengths, coordinates, and font sizes to the nearest integer. This makes hand-editing the picture a little nicer. * Why is this output format driver useful? One answer is portabil‐ ity; any LaTeX2e system can handle the picture environment, even if it can't handle PostScript graphics. (pdfLaTeX comes to mind here.) A second answer is that pictures can be edited easily to contain any arbitrary LaTeX2e code. For instance, the text in a figure can be modified to contain complex mathematics, non-Latin alphabets, bibliographic citations, or -- the real reason Scott wrote the LaTeX2e output format driver -- hyperlinks to the sur‐ rounding document (with help from the hyperref package). CREATING A NEW OUTPUT FORMAT DRIVER To implement a new output format driver you can start from drvsampl.cpp and drvsampl.h. See also comments in drvbase.h and drvfuncs.h for an explanation of methods that should be implemented for a new output format driver. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES A default PostScript interpreter to be called by pstoedit is specified at compile time. You can overwrite the default by setting the GS environment variable to the name of a suitable PostScript interpreter. You can check which name of a PostScript interpreter was compiled into pstoedit using: pstoedit -help -v. See the GhostScript manual for descriptions of environment variables used by Ghostscript most importantly GS_FONTPATH and GS_LIB; other environment variables also affect output to display, print, and additional filtering and processing. See the related documentation. pstoedit allocates temporary files using the function tempnam(3). Thus the location for temporary files might be controllable by other environ‐ ment variables used by this function. See the tempnam(3) manpage for descriptions of environment variables used. On UNIX like system this is probably the TMPDIR variable, on DOS/WINDOWS either TMP or TEMP. TROUBLE SHOOTING If you have problems with pstoedit first try whether Ghostscript success‐ fully displays your file. If yes, then try pstoedit -f ps infile.ps test‐ file.ps and check whether testfile.ps still displays correctly using Ghostscript. If this file doesn't look correctly then there seems to be a problem with pstoedit's PostScript frontend. If this file looks good but the output for a specific format is wrong, the problem is probably in the output format driver for the specific format. In either case send bug fixes and reports to the author. A common problem with PostScript files is that the PostScript file rede‐ fines one of the standard PostScript operators inconsistently. There is no effect of this if you just print the file since the original Post‐ Script "program" uses these new operator in the new meaning and does not use the original ones anymoew. However, when run under the control of pstoedit, these operators are expected to work with the original seman‐ tics. So far I've seen redefinitions for: * lt - "less-then" to mean "draw a line to" * string - "create a string object" to mean "draw a string" * length - "get the length of e.g. a string" to a "float constant" I've included work-arounds for the ones mentioned above, but some others could show up in addition to those. RESTRICTIONS * Non-standard fonts (e.g. TeXbitmap fonts) are mapped to a default font which can be changed using the -df option. pstoedit chooses the size of the replacement font such that the width of the string in the original font is the same as in the replacement font. This is done for each text fragment displayed. Special character encod‐ ing support is limited in this case. If a character cannot be mapped into the target format, pstoedit displays a '#' instead. See also the -uchar option. * pstoedit supports bitmap graphics only for some output format drivers. * Some output format drivers, e.g. the Gnuplot output format driver or the 3D output format driver (rpl, lwo, rib) do not support text. * For most output format drivers pstoedit does not support clipping (mainly due to limitations in the target format). You can try to use the -sclip option to simulate clipping. However, this doesn't work in all cases as expected. * Special note about the Java output format drivers (java1 and java2). The java output format drivers generate a java source file that needs other files in order to be compiled and usable. These other files are Java classes (one applet and support classes) that allow to step through the individual pages of a con‐ verted PostScript document. This applet can easily be activated from a html-document. See the contrib/java/java1/readme_java1.txt or contrib/java/java2/readme_java2.htm file for more details. FAQS 1. Why do letters like O or B get strange if converted to tgif/xfig using the -dt option? This is because most output format drivers don't support composite paths with intermediate gaps (moveto's) and second don't support very well the (eo)fill operators of PostScript (winding rule). For such objects pstoedit breaks them into smaller objects whenever such a gap is found. This results in the "hole" beeing filled with black color instead of bee‐ ing transparent. Since version 3.11 you can try the -ssp option in combi‐ nation with the xfig output format driver. 2. Why does pstoedit produce ugly results from PostScript files gen‐ erated by dvips? TeX documents usually use bitmap fonts. Such fonts cannot be used as native font in other format. So pstoedit replaces the TeX font with another native font. Of course, the replacement font will in most cases produce another look, especially if mathematical symbols are used. Try to use PostScript fonts instead of the bitmap fonts when generating a PostScript file from TeX or LaTeX. AUTHOR Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz35_AT_pstoedit.net, http://de.linkedin.com/in/wolf‐ gangglunz CANONICAL ARCHIVE SITE http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit/ At this site you also find more information about pstoedit and related programs and hints how to subscribe to a mailing list in order to get informed about new releases and bug-fixes. If you like pstoedit - please express so also at Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/pstoedit/260606183958062. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS * Klaus Steinberger Klaus.Steinberger_AT_physik.uni-muenchen.de wrote the initial version of this manpage. * Lar Kaufman revised the increasingly complex command syntax dia‐ grams and updated the structure and content of this manpage fol‐ lowing release 2.5. * David B. Rosen rosen_AT_unr.edu provided ideas and some PostScript code from his ps2aplot program. * Ian MacPhedran Ian_MacPhedran_AT_engr.USask.CA provided the xfig output format driver. * Carsten Hammer chammer_AT_hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de provided the gnuplot output format driver and the initial DXF output format driver. * Christoph Jaeschke provided the OS/2 metafile (MET) output format driver. Thomas Hoffmann thoffman_AT_zappa.sax.de did some further updates on the OS/2 part. * Jens Weber rz47b7_AT_PostAG.DE provided the Windows metafile (WMF) output format driver, and a graphical user interface (GUI). * G. Edward Johnson lorax_AT_nist.gov provided the CGM Draw library used in the CGM output format driver. * Gerhard Kircher kircher_AT_edvz.tuwien.ac.at provided some bug fixes. * Bill Cheng bill.cheng_AT_acm.org provided help with the tgif for‐ mat and some changes to tgif to make the output format driver eas‐ ier to implement. http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/ * Reini Urban rurban_AT_sbox.tu-graz.ac.at provided input for the extended DXF output format driver.(http://autocad.xarch.at/) * Glenn M. Lewis glenn_AT_gmlewis.com provided RenderMan (RIB), Real3D (RPL), and LightWave 3D (LWO) output format drivers. (http://www.gmlewis.com/) * Piet van Oostrum piet_AT_cs.ruu.nl made several bug fixes. * Lutz Vieweg lkv_AT_mania.robin.de provided several bug fixes and suggestions for improvements. * Derek B. Noonburg derekn_AT_vw.ece.cmu.edu and Rainer Dorsch rd_AT_berlepsch.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de isolated and resolved a Linux-specific core dump problem. * Rob Warner rcw2_AT_ukc.ac.uk made pstoedit compile under RiscOS. * Patrick Gosling jpmg_AT_eng.cam.ac.uk made some suggestions regarding the usage of pstoedit in Ghostscript's SAFER mode. * Scott Pakin scott+ps2ed_AT_pakin.org for the Idraw output format driver and the autoconf support. * Peter Katzmann p.katzmann_AT_thiesen.com for the HPGL output for‐ mat driver. * Chris Cox ccox_AT_airmail.net contributed the Tcl/Tk output format driver. * Thorsten Behrens Thorsten_Behrens_AT_public.uni-hamburg.de and Bjoern Petersen for reworking the WMF output format driver. * Leszek Piotrowicz leszek_AT_sopot.rodan.pl implemented the image support for the xfig driver and a JAVA based GUI. * Egil Kvaleberg egil_AT_kvaleberg.no contributed the pic output format driver. * Kai-Uwe Sattler kus_AT_iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de implemented the output format driver for Kontour. * Scott Pakin, scott+ps2ed_AT_pakin.org provided the MetaPost and LaTeX2e output format driver. * Burkhard Plaum plaum_AT_IPF.Uni-Stuttgart.de added support for complex filled paths for the xfig output format driver. * Bernhard Herzog herzog_AT_online.de contributed the output format driver for sketch ( http://www.skencil.org/ ) * Rolf Niepraschk (niepraschk_AT_ptb.de) converted the HTML man page to LaTeX. This allows to generate the UNIX style and the HTML man‐ ual from this base format. * Several others sent smaller bug fixed and bug reports. Sorry if I don't mention them all here. * Gisbert W. Selke (gisbert_AT_tapirsoft.de) for the Java 2 output format driver. * Robert S. Maier (rsm_AT_math.arizona.edu) for many improvements on the libplot output format driver and for libplot itself. * The authors of pstotext (mcjones_AT_pa.dec.com and bir‐ rell_AT_pa.dec.com) for giving me the permission to use their sim‐ ple PostScript code for performing rotation. * Daniel Gehriger gehriger_AT_linkcad.com for his help concerning the handling of Splines in the DXF format. * Allen Barnett libemf_AT_lignumcomputing.com for his work on the libEMF which allows to create WMF/EMF files under *nix systems. * Dave dave_AT_opaque.net for providing the libming which is a mul‐ tiplatform library for generating SWF files. * Masatake Yamoto for the introduction of autoconf, automake and libtool into pstoedit * Bob Friesenhahn for his help and the building of the Magick++ API to ImageMagick. * But most important: Peter Deutsch ghost_AT_aladdin.com and Russell Lang gsview_AT_ghostgum.com.au for their help and answers regard‐ ing GhostScript and gsview. LEGAL NOTICES Trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Some code incorporated in the pstoedit package is subject to copyright or other intellectual property rights or restrictions including attribution rights. See the notes in individual files. pstoedit is controlled under the Free Software Foundation GNU Public License (GPL). However, this does not apply to importps and the addi‐ tional plugins. Aladdin Ghostscript is a redistributable software package with copyright restrictions controlled by Aladdin Software. pstoedit has no other relation to Ghostscript besides calling it in a subprocess. The authors, contributors, and distributors of pstoedit are not responsi‐ ble for its use for any purpose, or for the results generated thereby. Restrictions such as the foregoing may apply in other countries according to international conventions and agreements. Conversion Tools August 2011 PSTOEDIT(1)


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Client expectations. Some clients know exactly what they want in a web application from the get-go.
Others only know that they want one.
Most of the time reality falls somewhere in between.
I've developed projects that started with a general idea of expectations and look and feel but
specifics were refined during development.
The key to successfully navigating project development is listening -
to what clients say and how they say it, with equal importance given to what isn't said.
Perception in all three areas gives a clear foundation from which to start.
- Firebug. Wonderful. I tried Fiddler for a while but recoiled when (uhg!) I saw all traffic going through the proxy.
- Device-oriented development. Getting ready for my first app. Late to the table.
- JavaScript. I remember ArcIMS and its introduction to spaghetti code. And now the ESRI web development I'm doing is with the JS API.
- Dojo. Really like the DOM manipulation and ui elements.
- ESRI.
- A website is a better communication method than a power-point presentation.
- Managing your own servers. If I were to set up a shop from scratch today I'd use nothing but EC3s (see next item).
- Amazon. I'm thinking about switching careers to AWS.
- Designing for different browsers. What a pain in the a... and have to do it.
- Geoprocessing models. These were really nice to get into - pushing GIS to a browser.
- GISP certification. I've always said that I'd wait until it carried the same weight as other professional certifcation. Or maybe I'm just lazy.
- Knowing when to stop. "There is no such thing as a perfect layout, there is no such thing as a perfect layout, there is no such thing ..."
- The project management career vs. the technical career. If I had to choose I'd go technical.
- The demise of the Web ADF. Raise your hand if you've had to re-write. I wouldn't be surprised to see ESRI bring back server-side rendering (these things seem to be cyclical).
- User interface design. Simple and effective is best.


@(addUserForm: Form[models.users.Customer], user: models.users.User)
@import helper._
@import models.users._
@main("New User",user) {
@if(flash.containsKey("success")) {
@form(action = routes.Application.addUserSubmit(), 'id -> "register-form", 'class -> "form-horizontal", 'role->"form", 'enctype -> "multipart/form-data") {
@inputText(addUserForm("email"), '_label -> "Email",'class -> "form-control", 'type -> "email")
@inputText(addUserForm("name"), '_label -> "Name",'class -> "form-control")
@inputPassword(addUserForm("password"), '_label -> "Password",'class -> "form-control")
@inputText(addUserForm("street1"), '_label -> "Street 1",'class -> "form-control")
@inputText(addUserForm("street2"), '_label -> "Street 2",'class -> "form-control")
@inputText(addUserForm("town"), '_label -> "Town",'class -> "form-control")
@inputText(addUserForm("postCode"), '_label -> "Postcode",'class -> "form-control")
Why Register?
By registering for an account you can do the following:
Add items to your shopping cart
Return to your cart later
Complete your purchase
Ability to update your details
Ability to delete your account anytime!
}


Slipstream Sports and Garmin have welcomed Sharp as a new co-title sponsor of the team. The team is UCI-registered as Team Garmin-Sharp and team materials will refer to it as Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda. The new team kit featuring a prominent Sharp logo and the distinctive Garmin and Barracuda logos was unveiled today.
Hesjedal's journey to victory began with a solid performance in the opening prologue, where he finished ahead of the other GC contenders aboard his Cervélo P5, which he rode again in the Team Time Trial, a stage Team Garmin-Barracuda.
Hesjedal's journey to victory began with a solid performance in the opening prologue, where he finished ahead of the other GC contenders aboard his Cervélo P5, which he rode again in the Team Time Trial, a stage Team Garmin-Barracuda.
Hesjedal's journey to victory began with a solid performance in the opening prologue, where he finished ahead of the other GC contenders aboard his Cervélo P5, which he rode again in the Team Time Trial, a stage Team Garmin-Barracuda.
A historic moment for cycling – Hesjedal becomes the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour riding his Cervélo P5 into victory on the final stage.
3479kms, 20 stages, 1 prologue… and 22 brand new event dashboards on the Cervélo web site to keep you, day after day, up to speed with team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda's latest news.
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This site was originally developed to be a tool to find the best nursing home you can afford, but once we saw the map we knew there was something bigger going on. Why are there so many nursing homes in our area with the worst possible rating? Is that normal?
Illinois ranks near the bottom nationally for nursing home quality, according to Families for Better Care. There are several reasons:
This Chicago Tribune nursing home series by David Jackson and Gary Marx is a great place to learn more about the recent history of nursing home issues in Illinois.
A 2010 Long-Term Care Reform Bill improved the situation; however, other concerns with Illinois nursing homes include:
We're showing you the Medicare Ratings for these places. This Medicare Data has received some deserved criticism, but it's getting better. Here's a description of the five-star quality ratings from Medicare.
We're not experts. We just did a lot of reading, talked to some people and then made a website. Here are some groups who are working on this problem.
This project began with an August 2014 story in the New York Times by Katie Thomas called "Medicare Star Ratings Allow Nursing Homes to Game the System." The story got quite a bit of attention, including in Chicago's civic tech community.
At Chi Hack Night a group formed to build an app to do something about it.
All the code is open source on GitHub, and contributions are welcome!
Have suggestions, questions or just want to get in touch? Tweet me!


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Interaction Model test
Monocle will move to a new interaction model with the 3.0 release:
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A tap in the left/right margins immediately turns the page.
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A horizontal swipe beginning in the left/right margins lifts
the page to track the cursor. If a swipe starts left and goes
right, go back one page. If a swipe starts right and goes left,
go forward one page. If a swipe starts left and goes left,
or starts right and goes right, cancel the lift.
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A tap in left/right third of the content will turn page
unless the content cancels the action.* There
will be no visible indicator until the end event has fired.
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A swipe that starts in content will turn the page in the direction
of the swipe irrespective of where it starts unless the
content cancels the action.* There will
be no visible indicator until the end event.
* The content can cancel the action in two ways: 1) any of the
constituent events (start/move/end) are defaultPrevented
;
or 2) a selection event occurs at any point.


Wilder ‘disappointed’ with draw but pleased as Blades come ‘roaring back’
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder admits he was left disappointed as the Blades gave up a two goal lead to trail 3-2 before Oli McBurnie’s 90th equaliser secured a point at Bramall Lane.
United were woeful for the first 70 minutes of the game and were completely outplayed by the Blades who looked to be cruising to victory after John Fleck and Lys Mousset had put them two goals up.
But goals from Brandon Williams, Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford in the space of seven minutes looked to have completed a remarkable turnaround for the Red Devils, before Oli BcBurnie’s 90th minute strike secured a deserved point for the home side.
Wilder told Sky Sports: “They were 2-0 down and we were in control. Little bit disappointed. Couple of hours on and couple of beers we’ll look back on it.
“We might get undone a couple of times and we got undone today, but we came roaring back.
“Little bit disappointed they got the first goal to get back to into the game.
“We’re not in League One. If you lose a little energy they’ll turn the ball over.”