All packets must be sent to Alice Chou, Assistant Tournament Editor at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Any packet sent to Alice that does not meet the tournament formatting guidelines will be returned to the submitting party immediately. Any packet that does not meet the tournament question category distribution will be returned to the submitting party immediately. A packet will not be considered "submitted" in terms of discounts and deadlines until it meets the required specifications. Any returned packet will be sent back with specific instructions how to cure any defects in the packet.
"B" teams are required to submit packets as well. However, if there is space for any "C" teams, such teams will not be required to submit a packet.
Any questions regarding packet requirements should be directed to Rick Grimes<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and John Edwards (Jedwards72@aol.com), Editors-in-Chief. Formatting questions directed to Alice Chou (achou@midway.uchicago.edu). Any questions about tournament logistics and registration should be sent to Mike Zarren (mikez@tiac.net).
We urge all teams to read John Sheahan's thorough and insightful Question Writing Supplement for the 1998 ACF National Tournament. The directors of the 1999 Championship adopt this document in its entirety. The Sheahan guidelines can be found here.
Teams should also read the new ACF Formatting Guidelines. Packets are required to follow these guidelines.
If teams have sent in a packet before Jan 31 but are, for some reason, not allowed to participate, the packet will be returned to them & not used in the tournament. This is possible, but unlikely.
This system seems to us to be the fairest way to let the broadest number of schools into the tourney while not compromising quality amongst B-teams, etc.
TO REGISTER, do the following: send an email to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with "ACF REG" in the subject line & an appropriate message in the body saying what school's team(s) you're registering. Do not put "ACF REG" in the subject unless you are registering; for questions and other email info please see below. Please do not register a team unless you are relatively certain it will be attending. If you're going to be claiming any moderator or buzzer discounts, please also let us know (either when you register or later) at the same address/subject. I will attempt to confirm receipt of all registration emails within one week. If you've heard nothing back after that time, please contact me again.
$100 per team is the base fee for this tournament. Significant discounts can be earned depending on the date of your submission of packets. A $40 discount plus a free copy of all packets used for the tournament can be earned if the packet is submitted by January 15, 1999. A $40 discount can be earned if the packet is submitted by January 31, 1999. A $30 discount can be earned if the packet is submitted by February 15, 1999. A $10 discount can be earned if the packet is submitted by February 22, 1999. Packets must be submitted by March 1, 1999 to escape penalties. A $15 penalty will incur for a packet submitted between March 2-March 8 A $30 penalty will incur for a packet submitted between March 9-March 15 A $60 penalty will incur for a packet submitted between March 16-March 29 No packet will be accepted after March 29, 1999, and teams which have not submitted packets by that date (except for teams exempt from writing duties) will lose their tournament spot. $40 minimum fee. -$5 working buzzer, notified before 2/15. We will only take 20 of these discounts. 1st come, 1st served. -$10 experienced moderator, approved by TD by 2/15. We will only take 10. 1st come 1st served., 1/school. -$20 if your school has never attended ACF NCT before. -$05, packet formatted exactly_ according to specs. +$15 for packets; +$20 for packs if you didn't play.
In terms of getting from the hotel to campus, the hotel has a small shuttle but if enough teams need it, we will arrange a larger bus to get you from there to here (it is about 13 blocks); I will be taking a survey for this as the tourney approaches (do not email me now). If you're bringing a car, there's parking both at the tourney site & at the hotel, so you should be fine.
If you need other travel info, feel free to email me; I will be sending out a more detailed transportation info email to registered teams once I have the hotel squared away (or not).
Thanks,
Mike Zarren
ACF NCT TD


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Try to choose names which are both easy to remember and
meaningful. Some silliness is OK at the module naming level
(see twisted.spread
...) but when
choosing class names, be as precise as possible.
Try to avoid overloaded terms. This rule is often broken,
since it is incredibly difficult, as most normal words have
already been taken by some other software. More importantly,
try to avoid meaningless words. In particular, words like
handler
, processor
, engine
, manager
and component
don't really indicate what something does,
only that it does something.
Use American spelling in both names and docstrings. For compound technical terms such as 'filesystem', use a non-hyphenated spelling in both docstrings and code in order to avoid unnecessary capitalization.
Twisted development should always be test-driven. The complete test suite in the head of the SVN trunk is required to be passing on supported platforms at all times. Regressions in the test suite are addressed by reverting whatever revisions introduced them. For complete documentation about testing Twisted itself, refer to the Test Standard. What follows is intended to be a synopsis of the most important points.
The Twisted test suite is spread across many subpackages of the
twisted
package. Many tests are in
twisted.test
. Others can be found at places such as
twisted.web.test
or twisted.internet.test
.
Parts of the Twisted test suite may serve as good examples of how to
write tests for Twisted or for Twisted-based libraries (newer parts of
the test suite are generally better examples than older parts - check
when the code you are looking at was written before you use it as an
example of what you should write). The names of test modules should
begin with test_
so that they are automatically discoverable by
test runners such as Trial. Twisted's unit tests are written using
twisted.trial
, an xUnit library which has been
extensively customized for use in testing Twisted and Twisted-based
libraries.
Implementation (ie, non-test) source files should begin with a
test-case-name
tag which gives the name of any test
modules or packages which exercise them. This lets tools discover a
subset of the entire test suite which they can run first to find tests
which might be broken by a particular change.
It is strongly suggested that developers learn to use Emacs, and use
the twisted-dev.el
file included in the TwistedEmacs
package to bind the F9 key to run unit tests
and bang on it
frequently. Support for other editors is unavailable at this time but
we would love to provide it.
To run the whole Twisted test without using emacs, use trial:
$ bin/trial twisted
To run an individual test module, such as
twisted/mail/test/test_pop3.py
, specify the module
name:
$ bin/trial twisted.mail.test.test_pop3
To run the tests associated with a particular implementation file,
such as twisted/mail/pop3.py
, use the
testmodule
option:
$ bin/trial twisted/mail/pop3.py
All unit test methods should have docstrings specifying at a high level the intent of the test. That is, a description that users of the method would understand.
If you modify, or write a new, HOWTO, please read the Lore documentation to learn how to format the docs.
Whenever a new file is added to the repository, add the following license header at the top of the file:
# Copyright (c) Twisted Matrix Laboratories. # See LICENSE for details.
When you update existing files, if there is no copyright header, add one.
Indentation is 4 spaces per indent. Tabs are not allowed. It is preferred that every block appear on a new line, so that control structure indentation is always visible.
Lines are flowed at 79 columns. They must not have trailing whitespace. Long lines must be wrapped using implied line continuation inside parentheses; backslashes aren't allowed. To handle long import lines, please repeat the import like this:
from very.long.package import foo, bar, baz from very.long.package import qux, quux, quuux
Top-level classes and functions must be separated with 3 blank lines, and class-level functions with 2 blank lines. The control-L (i.e. ^L) form feed character must not be used.
Modules must be named in all lower-case, preferably short, single words. If a module name contains multiple words, they may be separated by underscores or not separated at all.
Modules must have a copyright message, a docstring and a reference to a test module that contains the bulk of its tests. Use this template:
new_module_template.pyIn most cases, modules should contain more than one class, function, or method; if a module contains only one object, consider refactoring to include more related functionality in that module.
Depending on the situation, it is acceptable to have imports that look like this:
from twisted.internet.defer import Deferredor like this:
from twisted.internet import deferThat is, modules should import modules or classes and functions, but not packages.
Wildcard import syntax may not be used by code in Twisted. These imports lead to code which is difficult to read and maintain by introducing complexity which strains human readers and automated tools alike. If you find yourself with many imports to make from a single module and wish to save typing, consider importing the module itself, rather than its attributes.
Relative imports (or sibling imports) may not be used by code in Twisted. Relative imports allow certain circularities to be introduced which can ultimately lead to unimportable modules or duplicate instances of a single module. Relative imports also make the task of refactoring more difficult.
In case of local names conflicts due to import, use the as
syntax, for example:
from twisted.trial import util as trial_util
The encoding must always be ASCII, so no coding cookie is necessary.
Package names should follow the same conventions as module names. All modules must be encapsulated in some package. Nested packages may be used to further organize related modules.
__init__.py
must never contain anything other than a
docstring and (optionally) an __all__
attribute. Packages are
not modules and should be treated differently. This rule may be
broken to preserve backwards compatibility if a module is made
into a nested package as part of a refactoring.
If you wish to promote code from a module to a package, for example, to break a large module out into several smaller files, the accepted way to do this is to promote from within the module. For example,
# parent/ # --- __init__.py --- import child # --- child.py --- import parent class Foo: pass parent.Foo = Foo
Every package should be added to the list in
setup.py
.
Packages must not depend circularly upon each other. To simplify
maintaining this state, packages must also not import each other
circularly. While this applies to all packages within Twisted, one
twisted.python
deserves particular attention, as it may
not depend on any other Twisted package.
When using string formatting
operations like formatString % values
you should always
use a tuple if you're using non-mapping values
. This is to
avoid unexpected behavior when you think you're passing in a single value,
but the value is unexpectedly a tuple, e.g.:
def foo(x): return "Hi %s\n" % x
The example shows you can pass in foo("foo")
or
foo(3)
fine, but if you pass in foo((1,2))
,
it raises a TypeError
. You should use this instead:
def foo(x): return "Hi %s\n" % (x,)
Docstrings should always be used to describe the purpose of methods, functions, classes, and modules.
Docstrings are never to be used to provide semantic information about an object; this rule may be violated if the code in question is to be used in a system where this is a requirement (such as Zope).
Docstrings should be indented to the level of the code they are documenting.
Docstrings should be triple-quoted. The opening and the closing of the docstrings should be on a line by themselves. For example:
class Ninja(object): """ A L{Ninja} is a warrior specializing in various unorthodox arts of war. """ def attack(self, someone): """ Attack C{someone} with this L{Ninja}'s shuriken. """
Docstrings should be written in epytext format; more documentation is available in the Epytext Markup Language documentation.
Additionally, to accommodate emacs users:
For example,
def foo2bar(f): """ Convert L{foo}s to L{bar}s. A function that should be used when you have a C{foo} but you want a C{bar}; note that this is a non-destructive operation. If this method can't convert the C{foo} to a C{bar} it will raise a L{FooException}. @param f: C{foo} @type f: str For example:: | import wombat | def sample(something): | f = something.getFoo() | f.doFooThing() | b = wombat.foo2bar(f) | b.doBarThing() | return b """ # Optionally, actual code can go here.
Comments marked with XXX or TODO must contain a reference to the associated ticket.
The API documentation should be marked up with version information.
When a new API is added the class should be marked with the epytext
@since:
field including the version number when
the change was introduced, eg. @since: 8.1
.
For each script
, that is, a program you expect a Twisted user
to run from the command-line, the following things must be done:
twisted.scripts
which contains a callable global named run
. This
will be called by the command line part with no arguments (it
will usually read sys.argv
). Feel free to write more
functions or classes in this module, if you feel they are useful
to others.bin/
directory; for
example, bin/twistd
. For sub-projects, it should be placed
in bin/<subproject>
; for example, the key-generation tool
for the Conch sub-project is in bin/conch/ckeygen
.
#!/usr/bin/env python
To make sure that the script is portable across different UNIX like
operating systems we use the /usr/bin/env
command. The env
command allows you to run a program in a modified environment. That way
you don't have to search for a program via the PATH
environment
variable. This makes the script more portable but note that it is not a
foolproof method. Always make sure that /usr/bin/env
exists or
use a softlink/symbolic link to point it to the correct path. Python's
distutils will rewrite the shebang line upon installation so this policy
only covers the source files in version control.
### Twisted Preamble # This makes sure that users don't have to set up their environment # specially in order to run these programs from bin/. import sys, os if os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]).find(os.sep+'Twisted') != -1: sys.path.insert(0, os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]), os.pardir, os.pardir))) if not hasattr(os, "getuid") or os.getuid() != 0: sys.path.insert(0, os.getcwd()) ### end of preamble
from twisted.scripts.yourmodule import run run()
man
folder
of a subproject's doc
folder. On Debian systems
you can find a skeleton example of a manpage in
/usr/share/doc/man-db/examples/manpage.example
.This will insure your program will work correctly for users of SVN, Windows releases and Debian packages.
For example scripts you expect a Twisted user to run from the command-line, add this Python shebang line at the top of the file:
#!/usr/bin/env python
When using the extension version of a module for which there is also a Python version, place the import statement inside a try/except block, and import the Python version if the import fails. This allows code to work on platforms where the extension version is not available. For example:
try: import cPickle as pickle except ImportError: import pickleUse the "as" syntax of the import statement as well, to set the name of the extension module to the name of the Python module.
Some modules don't exist across all supported Python versions. For
example, Python 2.3's sets
module was deprecated in Python 2.6
in favor of the set
and frozenset
builtins. When
you need to use sets or frozensets in your code, please use
the set
and frozenset
provided
by twisted.python.compat
. There are some
differences between sets.Set
and set
, that are
explained in the set
PEP. Please be sure to not rely on the behavior of one or the other
implementation.
Classes are to be named in mixed case, with the first letter capitalized; each word separated by having its first letter capitalized. Acronyms should be capitalized in their entirety. Class names should not be prefixed with the name of the module they are in. Examples of classes meeting this criteria:
Examples of classes not meeting this criteria:
An effort should be made to prevent class names from clashing with each other between modules, to reduce the need for qualification when importing. For example, a Service subclass for Forums might be named twisted.forum.service.ForumService, and a Service subclass for Words might be twisted.words.service.WordsService. Since neither of these modules are volatile (see above) the classes may be imported directly into the user's namespace and not cause confusion.
Classes and instances in Python come in two flavors: old-style or
classic, and new-style. Up to Python 2.1, old-style classes were the
only flavour available to the user, new-style classes were introduced
in Python 2.2 to unify classes and types. All classes added to Twisted
should be written as new-style classes. If x
is an instance of a new-style class, then type(x)
is the same as x.__class__
.
Methods should be in mixed case, with the first letter lower
case, each word separated by having its first letter
capitalized. For example, someMethodName
,
method
.
Sometimes, a class will dispatch to a specialized sort of
method using its name; for example, twisted.reflect.Accessor.
In those cases, the type of method should be a prefix in all
lower-case with a trailing underscore, so method names will
have an underscore in them. For example, get_someAttribute
.
Underscores in method names in twisted code are therefore
expected to have some semantic associated with them.
Some methods, in particular addCallback
and its
cousins return self to allow for chaining calls. In this case,
wrap the chain in parenthesis, and start each chained call on
a separate line, for example:
return (foo() .addCallback(bar) .addCallback(thud) .addCallback(wozers))
There are several methods whose purpose is to help the user set up
callback functions, for example Deferred.addCallback
or the
reactor's callLater
method. To make
access to the callback as transparent as possible, most of these methods
use **kwargs
to capture arbitrary arguments
that are destined for the user's callback. This allows the call to the
setup function to look very much like the eventual call to the target
callback function.
In these methods, take care to not have other argument names that will
steal
the user's callback's arguments. When sensible, prefix these
internal
argument names with an underscore. For example, RemoteReference.callRemote
is
meant to be called like this:
myref.callRemote("addUser", "bob", "555-1212") # on the remote end, the following method is invoked: def addUser(name, phone): ...
where addUser
is the remote method name. The user might also
choose to call it with named parameters like this:
myref.callRemote("addUser", name="bob", phone="555-1212")
In this case, callRemote
(and any code that uses the
**kwargs
syntax) must be careful to not use
name
, phone
, or any other name that might overlap with
a user-provided named parameter. Therefore, callRemote
is
implemented with the following signature:
class SomeClass(object): def callRemote(self, _name, *args, **kw): ...
Do whatever you can to reduce user confusion. It may also be
appropriate to assert
that the kwargs
dictionary does not contain parameters with names that will eventually
cause problems.
The augmented assignment protocol, defined by __iadd__
and other
similarly named methods, can be used to allow objects to be modified in
place or to rebind names if an object is immutable -- both through use
of the same operator. This can lead to confusing code, which in turn
leads to buggy code. For this reason, methods of the augmented
assignment protocol should not be used in Twisted.
Functions should be named similiarly to methods.
Functions or methods which are responding to events to
complete a callback or errback should be named _cbMethodName
or
_ebMethodName
, in order to distinguish them from normal
methods.
Attributes should be named similarly to functions and
methods. Attributes should be named descriptively; attribute
names like mode
, type
, and
buf
are generally discouraged. Instead, use
displayMode
, playerType
, or
inputBuffer
.
Do not use Python's private
attribute syntax; prefix
non-public attributes with a single leading underscore. Since
several classes have the same name in Twisted, and they are
distinguished by which package they come from, Python's
double-underscore name mangling will not work reliably in some
cases. Also, name-mangled private variables are more difficult
to address when unit testing or persisting a class.
An attribute (or function, method or class) should be considered private when one or more of the following conditions are true:
Database tables will be named with plural nouns.
Database columns will be named with underscores between words, all lower case, since most databases do not distinguish between case.
Any attribute, method argument, or method name that corresponds directly to a column in the database will be named exactly the same as that column, regardless of other coding conventions surrounding that circumstance.
All SQL keywords should be in upper case.
Wherever possible, C code should be optional, and the default python implementation should be maintained in tandem with it. C code should be strict ANSI C, and must build using GCC as well as Visual Studio for Windows, and really shouldn't have any problems with other compilers either. Don't do anything tricky.
C code should only be used for efficiency, not for binding to external libraries. If your particular code is not frequently run, write it in Python. If you require the use of an external library, develop a separate, external bindings package and make your twisted code depend on it.
The commit messages are being distributed in a myriad of ways. Because of that, you need to observe a few simple rules when writing a commit message.
The first line of the message is being used as both the subject of the commit email and the announcement on #twisted. Therefore, it should be short (aim for < 80 characters) and descriptive -- and must be able to stand alone (it is best if it is a complete sentence). The rest of the e-mail should be separated with hard line breaks into short lines (< 70 characters). This is free-format, so you can do whatever you like here.
Commit messages should be about what, not how: we can get how from SVN diff. Explain reasons for commits, and what they affect.
 If you can't summarize your changes in one short line, this is probably a sign that they should be broken into multiple checkins.
Twisted currently uses Subversion for source control. All development should occur using branches; when a task is considered complete another Twisted developer may review it and if no problems are found, it may be merged into trunk. The Twisted wiki has a start. Branches must be used for major development. Branches should be managed using Combinator (but if you can manage them in some other way without anyone noticing, knock yourself out).
Certain features of Subversion should be avoided.
Do not set the svn:ignore
property on any
file or directory. What you wish to ignore, others may wish to examine.
What others may wish you ignore, you may wish you examine.
svn:ignore
will affect everyone who uses
the repository, and so it is not the right mechanism to express personal
preferences.
If you wish to ignore certain files use the
global-ignores
feature of
~/.subversion/config
, for example:
[miscellany] global-ignores = dropin.cache *.pyc *.pyo *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~
In case of conventions not enforced in this document, the reference documents to use in fallback is PEP 8 for Python code and PEP 7 for C code. For example, the paragraph Whitespace in Expressions and Statements in PEP 8 describes what should be done in Twisted code.
These things aren't necessarily standardizeable (in that code can't be easily checked for compliance) but are a good idea to keep in mind while working on Twisted.
If you're going to work on a fragment of the Twisted codebase, please consider finding a way that you would use such a fragment in daily life. Using a Twisted Web server on your website encourages you to actively maintain and improve your code, as the little everyday issues with using it become apparent.
Twisted is a big codebase! If you're refactoring something, please make sure to recursively grep for the names of functions you're changing. You may be surprised to learn where something is called. Especially if you are moving or renaming a function, class, method, or module, make sure that it won't instantly break other code.


radeontop- Enable colored output:
radeontop --color- Select a specific GPU (the bus number is the first number in the output of `lspci`):
radeontop --bus bus_number- Specify the display refresh rate (higher means more GPU overhead):
radeontop --ticks samples_per_second


Watch: Dhoni sings classic Bollywood number at event to applause
by Sports DeskBy: Sports Desk | Updated: December 9, 2019 1:58:58 pm
Dhoni was spotted singing classic Bollywood number ‘Main Pal do Pal ka Shayar Hoon’ from the movie Kabhie Kabhie (1976). (Screengrab)
Since India’s exit from the World in the semi-finals earlier this year, former Indian captain MS Dhoni has not represented India but has continued to make headlines. The latest clip of the cricketer to go viral is a video of him singing at an event.
In the video, Dhoni is seen singing the classic Bollywood number ‘Main pal do pal ka shayar hoon‘ from the film 1976 film Kabhie Kabhie. The audience is heard clapping as the former Indian captain sings.
After India’s exit from the World Cup, there have been questions regarding Dhoni’s retirement, but the former captain has refused to divulge his future plans. His return to international cricket remains doubtful, but it’s certain that the wicketkeeper-batsman will be playing in the lucrative Indian Premier League for the next season. He will be leading Chennai Super Kings and has already begun his training for the tournament.
The 38-year-old was recently seen batting in the nets against Jharkhand U-23 bowlers and has also been training for an impactful return.
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uFlash¶
THIS MODULE ONLY WORKS WITH PYTHON 3.
A utility for flashing the BBC micro:bit with Python scripts and the MicroPython runtime. You pronounce the name of this utility “micro-flash”. ;-)
It provides two services:
- A library of functions to programatically create a hex file and flash it onto a BBC micro:bit.
- A command line utility called uflash that will flash Python scripts onto a BBC micro:bit.
Several essential operations are implemented:
- Encode Python into the hex format.
- Embed the resulting hexified Python into the MicroPython runtime hex.
- Extract an encoded Python script from a MicroPython hex file.
- Discover the connected micro:bit.
- Copy the resulting hex onto the micro:bit, thus flashing the device.
Installation¶
To install simply type:
$ pip install uflash
...and the package will download from PyPI. If you wish to upgrade to the latest version, use the following command:
$ pip install --no-cache --upgrade uflash
Command Usage¶
To read help simply type:
$ uflash help
If you type the command on its own then uflash will attempt to find a connected BBC micro:bit and flash an unmodified version of the MicroPython runtime onto it:
$ uflash
Flashing Python to: /media/ntoll/MICROBIT/micropython.hex
To flash a version of the MicroPython runtime with a specified script embedded within it (so that script is run when the BBC micro:bit boots up) then pass the path to the Python script in as the first argument to the command:
$ uflash my_script.py
Flashing Python to: /media/ntoll/MICROBIT/micropython.hex
At this point uflash will try to automatically detect the path to the device. However, if you have several devices plugged in and/or know what the path on the filesystem to the BBC micro:bit already is, you can specify this as a second argument to the command:
$ uflash myscript.py /media/ntoll/MICROBIT
Flashing Python to: /media/ntoll/MICROBIT/micropython.hex
To extract a Python script from a hex file use the “-e” flag like this:
$ uflash -e something.hex myscript.py
This will save the Python script recovered from “something.hex” into the file “myscript.py”. If you don’t supply a target the recovered script will emit to stdout.
Development¶
The source code is hosted in GitHub. Please feel free to fork the repository. Assuming you have Git installed you can download the code from the canonical repository with the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/ntoll/uflash.git
Ensure you have the correct dependencies for development installed by creating a virtualenv and running:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
To locally install your development version of the module into a virtualenv, run the following command:
$ python setup.py develop
There is a Makefile that helps with most of the common workflows associated with development. Typing “make” on its own will list the options thus:
$make
There is no default Makefile target right now. Try:
make clean - reset the project and remove auto-generated assets.
make pyflakes - run the PyFlakes code checker.
make pep8 - run the PEP8 style checker.
make test - run the test suite.
make coverage - view a report on test coverage.
make check - run all the checkers and tests.
make package - create a deployable package for the project.
make publish - publish the project to PyPI.
make docs - run sphinx to create project documentation.
Contributing to uFlash¶
Hey! Many thanks for wanting to improve uFlash.
Contributions are welcome without prejudice from anyone irrespective of age, gender, religion, race or sexuality. Good quality code and engagement with respect, humour and intelligence wins every time.
- If you’re from a background which isn’t well-represented in most geeky groups, get involved - we want to help you make a difference.
- If you’re from a background which is well-represented in most geeky groups, get involved - we want your help making a difference.
- If you’re worried about not being technical enough, get involved - your fresh perspective will be invaluable.
- If you think you’re an imposter, get involved.
- If your day job isn’t code, get involved.
- This isn’t a group of experts, just people. Get involved!
- We are interested in educational, social and technical problems. If you are too, get involved.
- This is a new community. No-one knows what they are doing, so, get involved.
We expect contributors to follow the Python Software Foundation’s Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
Feedback may be given for contributions and, where necessary, changes will be politely requested and discussed with the originating author. Respectful yet robust argument is most welcome.
- Your code should be commented in plain English (British spelling).
- If your contribution is for a major block of work and you’ve not done so already, add yourself to the AUTHORS file following the convention found therein.
- Try to include tests!
- Have fun!
API¶
This module contains functions for turning a Python script into a .hex file and flashing it onto a BBC micro:bit.
-
uflash.
embed_hex
(runtime_hex, python_hex=None)[source]¶ Given a string representing the MicroPython runtime hex, will embed a string representing a hex encoded Python script into it.
Returns a string representation of the resulting combination.
Will raise a ValueError if the runtime_hex is missing.
If the python_hex is missing, it will return the unmodified runtime_hex.
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uflash.
extract
(path_to_hex, output_path=None)[source]¶ Given a path_to_hex file this function will attempt to extract the embedded script from it and save it either to output_path or stdout
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uflash.
extract_script
(embedded_hex)[source]¶ Given a hex file containing the MicroPython runtime and an embedded Python script, will extract the original Python script.
Returns a string containing the original embedded script.
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uflash.
find_microbit
()[source]¶ Returns a path on the filesystem that represents the plugged in BBC micro:bit that is to be flashed. If no micro:bit is found, it returns None.
Works on Linux, OSX and Windows. Will raise a NotImplementedError exception if run on any other operating system.
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uflash.
flash
(path_to_python=None, path_to_microbit=None)[source]¶ Given a path to a Python file will attempt to create a hex file and then flash it onto the referenced BBC micro:bit.
If the path_to_python is unspecified it will simply flash the unmodified MicroPython runtime onto the device.
If the path_to_microbit is unspecified it will attempt to find the device’s path on the filesystem automatically.
If the automatic discovery fails, then it will raise an IOError.
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uflash.
get_version
()[source]¶ Returns a string representation of the version information of this project.
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uflash.
hexlify
(script)[source]¶ Takes the byte content of a Python script and returns a hex encoded version of it.
Based on the hexlify script in the microbit-micropython repository.
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uflash.
main
(argv=None)[source]¶ Entry point for the command line tool ‘uflash’.
Will print help text if the optional first argument is “help”. Otherwise it will ensure the optional first argument ends in ”.py” (the source Python script).
An optional second argument is used to reference the path to the micro:bit device. Any more arguments are ignored.
Exceptions are caught and printed for the user.
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uflash.
save_hex
(hex_file, path)[source]¶ Given a string representation of a hex file, this function copies it to the specified path thus causing the device mounted at that point to be flashed.
If the hex_file is empty it will raise a ValueError.
If the filename at the end of the path does not end in ‘.hex’ it will raise a ValueError.
License¶
Copyright (c) 2015 Nicholas H.Tollervey and others.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO A film review by Sarah M. Elkins Copyright 1993 Sarah M. Elkins
*THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO* -- 1993, drama, based on (the few known) historical facts
PLOT/KICK-OFF: Society woman Josephine Monaghan is kicked out by her father and heads out West to make a new life for herself. After escaping a rape attempt, she cuts her hair and dresses as a man (illegal at the time) so she can survive life in the mining camp she's trying to reach to make her fortune.
CHARACTERS/ACTING: Suzy Amis is totally believable as Jo in both parts (as well as the transition). Ian McKellen plays the cold, strange Percy who teaches Jo survival skills in the West and gets her out of mining.  David Chung gives a wonderfully subtle performance as "Tin Man" ("The correct pronunciation is "Tien Mahn" (sp?) he tells Jo with dignity), an escaped railroad laborer whom Jo later rescues from Frank's attempted lynching.  Writer-director Maggie Greenwald is generous with unspoken scenes: she allows characters to develop as much or more through looks and body language as dialog.
CINEMATOGRAPHY/FX: Uncompromising look at life in Montana in the 1860's; the viewer's impressions of the wide-open vistas and the stark surroundings Jo endures will suffer a bit on the small screen. Some of the scenes are annoyingly intercut in an attempt to be artistic, I guess, but for the most part the editing is straightforward.
SCORE/SOUND: We know it's a Western from the banjo and fiddle opening music as we watch Jo trudge along the "road." I liked the music; mostly instrumental, but some female folk/country-ish vocals.
VIOLENCE/GORE/LANGUAGE: As I said, uncompromising. Jo mars her face with a razor to complete her disguise; we also see a prostitute who has been slashed with a knife for refusing Percy's request for alternate sex, and a slain family of immigrants (victims of a cattle rancher/sheep herder range war); also a shoot-out.
SKIN/SITUATIONS: The most *tender* erotic scenes I've seen since *Autumn Moon* at the Toronto Film Festival last year. After all her years alone, Jo's feelings of longing and wistfulness at seeing (the gorgeous shot of) Tin Man washing in the river have quite an impact. The role reversal of seeing short-haired, rough Jo and Tin Man, with unbraided long silky black hair, in bed (both bare-chested) is intriguing.
ANALYSIS: I went afraid this movie would be cute, preachy or romanticized; happily, it greatly exceeded my expectations. This movie is not flawless, but the unexpected irony (the audience laughed out loud several times) and gentle humor, plus the depth of characterizations of Jo and the others, make this movie worth watching, if you can take the upsetting scenes (not gratuitous!) mentioned above. I liked the ending, too.
- Sarah Elkins<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
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caterpillar
Businessmodel of Caterpillar
Customer Segments
Caterpillar has a niche market business model, with a specialized customer segment.
It sells the majority of its machinery and power systems to independently owned and operated dealers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to meet the demands of their customers and the end users.
Key end markets include infrastructure & building construction, mine & quarry machinery, forestry, paving, tunneling, industrial, waste processing, electric power, petroleum, marine and rail-related end markets.
Value Proposition
Caterpillar focuses on delivering valued, quality products, services and solutions to its customers that provide them the best economic proposition for their business. This value proposition, enabled by their unmatched customer support, creates the largest global field population, highest customer loyalty and attractive profitability through the business cycle.
The company offers five primary value propositions:
- Integrity – The company delivers what it promises and believes in being trustworthy and complete fair service.
- Excellence – It takes pride in its quality, have an intense, acute focus on its customers, acts with a sense of urgency and achieves excellence through the Caterpillar Production System and 6 Sigma.
- Teamwork – It utilizes the unique talents of its available resources and collaborates with employees, dealers, distributors and suppliers to create value.
- Commitment – The company is committed to deliver class-leading services and is personally accountable to meet its client’s goals.
- Sustainability – It creates and captures value through sustainable products, services, solutions and operations. The company follows a ‘Vision 2020’ target where they aspire to be recognized as the leader across all verticals, helps succeed its clients through its products, services and solutions; offer competitive advantage through its distribution system and supply chain, drive superior results through its business model and consistently rewards its stockholders.
Channels
Caterpillar has a distribution network and supply chain that is world class, which provides a significant competitive advantage.
The company distributes principally through a worldwide organization of dealers, 48 located in the United States and 127 located outside the United States, serving 182 countries and operating 3,593 places of business, including 1,274 dealer rental outlets.
Reciprocating engines are sold principally through the dealer network and to other manufacturers for use in products. The FG Wilson branded electric power generation systems are sold through its worldwide network of 290 distributors located in 145 countries.
Some of the large, medium speed reciprocating engines are also sold under the MaK brand through a worldwide network of 19 distributors located in 130 countries.
Some products, primarily turbines and locomotives, are sold directly to end customers through sales forces employed by the company.
Customer Relationships
Caterpillar lays special emphasis on customer service, quality and building strong relationships.
It has dealers in over 180 countries that provide expert service and knowledgeable advice to the customers and end users to enhance every aspect of the operation so as to increase efficiency.
The company’s dealers do not deal exclusively with its products; however, in most cases sales and servicing of its products are the dealers’ principal business.
Some products, primarily turbines and locomotives, are sold directly to end customers through sales forces employed by the company. At times, these employees are assisted by independent sales representatives to deliver effective customer service.
It runs Caterpillar University which offers classes, e-learning and development opportunities to sharpen the skills of its dealers, suppliers and most importantly its customers.
Key Activities
Caterpillar’s business model entails manufacturing and selling of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives worldwide.
Key Partners
The company has partnered with industry, government and academic institutions around the world to leverage world-class expertise and speed up the pace of research and development
Key Highlights
- 28 strategic partner schools
- More than 50 affiliated schools for research and talent
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Affinity and technical partnerships Government and industry research partnerships
- Energy Technologies Institute
- DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
- S. Department of Energy
- Diesel Technology Forum
- NASA
- Sandia, Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories
- InnovateUK
- European Union Research Executive Agency
- OCEARCH ### Key Resources
Caterpillar’s main resources are its human resources. They include over 105,700 persons employed across the globe including 58,000 outside the US.
The company has 500 facilities including manufacturing, marketing, logistics, service, R&D and related facilities at various locations including the US, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, India, Hungary, Indonesia, Poland, Russia, UK and Singapore among others.
Cost Structure
Caterpillar operates in a highly competitive market with a focus on high product quality along with a superior shareholder return.
The company has substantially reduced its operating costs through enhanced restructuring and cost reductions plans implemented in recent years.
Its biggest cost driver is cost of sales, a variable expense. Other major drivers are in the areas of sales/marketing, research/development, and administration, all fixed costs.
Revenue Streams
Caterpillar has various revenue streams including:
- Sale of machinery in infrastructure and building construction applications, and mining and quarrying applications
- Sale of engines, turbines, diesel-electric locomotives and related parts across industries serving power generation, industrial, oil and gas and transportation applications
- Financing provided to retail and wholesale customers for purchase of various Caterpillar products


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Ryanair cabin baggage policy 'abusive' and invalid — Spanish court
by Rachael KennedyRyanair has been dealt its latest blow after a Spanish court ruled its controversial cabin baggage policy to be "abusive" and would no longer be valid in Spain.
The court made the ruling Wednesday after hearing the case of a customer who was forced to pay €20 to take her 10kg of hand luggage onboard a flight from Madrid to Brussels.
It ordered the airline refund the woman the €20 plus interest, and further found that the company's policy "curtailed the rights that the passenger has recognized by law" and would be banned in Spain.
However, the woman was not awarded a further €10 she sought as compensation for the distress she felt.
The Ryanair baggage scheme, which was introduced last year, hands passengers an additional fee if they bring anything but a small personal bag on board a flight as hand luggage.
It was seen as a controversial decision by the budget airline, which once allowed passengers to use small suitcases as hand luggage for free.
In a statement on Wednesday, Ryanair said: "This ruling will not affect Ryanair’s baggage policy, either in the past or in the future, as it is an isolated case that misinterpreted our commercial freedom to determine the size of our cabin baggage."
The Spanish court said the decision could not be appealed; however, it is not currently clear whether the airline will file an appeal with the European Court of Justice.


#include <GrSkinInst.h>
Public Member Functions | |
| GrSkinInst (GrMeshInst *targetMeshInst) | |
| the skin takes over the pointers passed in. | |
| ~GrSkinInst () | |
| GrSkin * | GetSkin () const |
| returns the skin. | |
| void | Pick (GrMesh::TriHitArray &triHits, const MRay &ray) const |
| picks against the animated mesh. | |
| unsigned int | GetBoneCount () const |
| bone management. | |
| const tstring & | GetBoneName (unsigned int id) const |
| unsigned int | GetBoneId (const char *name) const |
| void | SetBoneMatrix (unsigned int boneId, const MMat4x4 &matrix) |
| void | ApplySkin () |
| skin the mesh. |
Definition at line 28 of file GrSkinInst.h.
| GrSkinInst::GrSkinInst | ( | GrMeshInst * | targetMeshInst | ) |
the skin takes over the pointers passed in.
class GrSkinInst
ctor & dtor
ensure that a valid mesh was passed in!
store the target mesh and skin data.
ensure that the mesh passed in is skinned!
ensure that the skinning information is valid.
invert all of the modelToBone matrices as they're currently set to their bind pose (bone->model... we want model->bone).
Definition at line 40 of file GrSkinInst.cpp.
| GrSkinInst::~GrSkinInst | ( | ) |
Definition at line 74 of file GrSkinInst.cpp.
| void GrSkinInst::ApplySkin | ( | ) |
skin the mesh.
update our bone matrices if needed.
update our bone matrices by concatenating the inverse bind pose matrix and the animated bone matrices. This has the effect of moving vertices into bone space, then animating them back into model space.
calculate the matrix for animating the vertex position.
calculate the matrix for rotating the tangent space basis.
we're no longer dirty, so clear the dirty flag.
min/max of skinned vertices
get source vertex data.
get target vertex data.
get vertex bone ids/weights.
skin.
calculate positional bone influences. bone 0.
bone 1.
bone 2.
take the min/max for each vertex to calculate a new AA box.
copy to the destination vertex.
calculate tangent space basis bone influences.
bone 0.
bone 1.
bone 2.
normalize.
copy to the destination TSB vector.
next TSB vector.
next vertex data.
flag mesh components as dirty.
Definition at line 136 of file GrSkinInst.cpp.
| unsigned int GrSkinInst::GetBoneCount | ( | ) | const |
| unsigned int GrSkinInst::GetBoneId | ( | const char * | name | ) | const |
Definition at line 111 of file GrSkinInst.cpp.
| const tstring & GrSkinInst::GetBoneName | ( | unsigned int | id | ) | const |
Definition at line 103 of file GrSkinInst.cpp.
| GrSkin* GrSkinInst::GetSkin | ( | ) | const [inline] |
| void GrSkinInst::Pick | ( | GrMesh::TriHitArray & | triHits, | |
| const MRay & | ray | |||
| ) | const |
| void GrSkinInst::SetBoneMatrix | ( | unsigned int | boneId, | |
| const MMat4x4 & | matrix | |||
| ) |
mark bones as dirty. If we really want, we can keep a per bone dirty flag, but this generally won't do jack since all of the bones will most likely get changed and set once per frame before we perform the skinning anyways.
set the matrix.
Definition at line 119 of file GrSkinInst.cpp.


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Trekkies (1999) 4 stars out of 4. A documentary directed by Roger Nygard.
If you know the name of the bit actor who played the red-shirted security officer zapped within the first minute of episode eight of the second season, or if you can speak Klingon, than "Trekkies" is your kind of movie.
"Trekkies," directed by Roger Nygard, is a documentary about one of the largest fan phenomenons in pop culture.
And the truly amazing aspect of Nygard's look at some of these eccentric people is that he treats them with respect.
How easy it would have been to make a documentary mocking the obsession of these fanatics. Instead, Nygard displays an affection for them. His approach is non-judgmental.
The movie has no narration; these people speak for themselves.
Our guide through this strange world is Denise Crosby, who serves as the film's co-executive producer, and who played Lt. Tasha Yar on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" before deciding to leave the show.
Crosby takes us into the conventions, the homes and workplaces of people and families to whom "Star Trek" is more than a television series.
In "Trekkies" we meet such people as Barbara Adams of Little Rock, Ark. Adams had been chosen for jury duty in the Whitewater trial and wore her Starfleet uniform every day.
Some people may consider such behavior odd, but, as Adams sincerely explains, as Lt. Cmdr. Barbara Adams she never leaves home without her rank pips, tricorder, phaser and communicator badge.
Adams has embraced the philosophy of "Star Trek" and lives her life accordingly. We see her at various "Star Trek" conventions signing autographs. Because of the publicity affored her by wearing her uniform to the trial, she has become a minor celebrity in her own right, admired by others for her convictions.
Then there is Dr. Denis Bourguignon, an Orlando, Fla., dentist whose office has a "Star Trek" theme. He and his entire staff wear "Star Trek" uniforms, and his office is a treasure trove of "Trek" memorabilia.
"Trekkies" may elicit some rather odd reactions. At first you may feel embarrassed for some of these people.  You think to yourself that you wouldn't want to be caught dead in the same room with them.
But as you watch and listen, a feeling of understanding and respect and possibly even a bit of admiration creeps into your psyche. They may be different, but they are principaled and decent human beings.
They are devoted individuals who have found a purpose in "Star Trek."
And that is this documentary's greatest asset. Cast members from the various "Star Trek" series and films are included and they speak with awe and great affection of their fans.
Even William Shatner, who mocked them years ago in a famous "Saturday Night Live' sketch in which he told the Trekkies to "get a life," speaks of his regard for these individuals.
"Trekkies" is a warm, enjoyable experience, as cuddly as a tribble and as refreshing as a cup of tea - Earl Grey.
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Before Change
print("The provided file is a directory:", output_file)
sys.exit(0)
if os.path.exists(output_file):
os.remove(output_file)
def extract_and_save(path):
try:
X = extract_fn(path, **params)
except Exception as e:
After Change
print("The provided file is a directory:", output_file)
sys.exit(0)
if os.path.exists(output_file):
print("Output file already exists! cotinue ...")
with open(output_file+".label", "r") as f:
labels = [os.path.join(image_path, x) for x in f.read().splitlines()]
pending_files = [x for x in files if x not in labels]
files = pending_files
print("Pending files:", len(files))
def extract_and_save(path):
try:
X = extract_fn(path, **params)
except Exception as e:


Partner on National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) SF
San Francisco has historically been known to welcome anyone and everyone into its Golden Gate. Yet that reputation is fading as The City becomes less affordable for some while a playground for others.
The time is ripe for Code for San Francisco to re-center its projects around positive, measurable impact for the people of San Francisco. We want to deliver, and NDoCH 2017 is all about bringing tech industry best practices to the communities most in need, whether they’re our dedicated civil servants, our expanding homeless population, or others.
SF's National Day of Civic Hacking is a chance for participants to build their skills in a variety of areas: human-centered design, open source software, community-driven design, user research, technical project scoping, and others. After the event, projects will continue their work and be incubated within the Code for San Francisco weekly hack night.
We want to partner with you to make a better San Francisco, using the National Day of Civic Hacking to kick things off. Below are different ways to support the event, starting a conversation together as partners.
Partnership Opportunities
Project/Challenges
Propose and plan a project or challenge to be worked on at Code for SF
Fundraising
Promote NDoCH to your community and organizational donor-base.
Provide Expertise
Recruit an expert in a topic or skillset to provide on-site consulting with project teams as needed.
Recruit Community Members
Use your community connections to ensure projects have their "end users" as teammates and collaborators.
Recruit Volunteers
Recruit and bring 3+ volunteers for event support.
Workshops
Plan a workshop during NDoCH.
Feedback on Projects
Provide 2+ community members or subject matter experts to offer feedback on Code for SF projects.
Social Media NDoCH Promotion
Promote NDoCH 2x/week to social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) beforehand, and 3x/day on Twitter at the event.
Lead a Project
Use your subject matter expertise to lead a small team of volunteers on a project at Code for SF
Your Idea Here
Send us another idea for how we can partner with you during NDoCH. How can we work together?
Partnership Levels
Bronze
Media & Outreach Partner
Promote NDoCH Throughout Your Community & Connect Code for SF with Community Partners
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Social Media:
Acknowledgement with other Media & Outreach Partners in Social Media - Eventbrite page, Twitter, Facebook.
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Logo Placement in Digital:
Small logo placement on digital materials related to San Francisco’s NDoCH, including CodeForSanFrancisco.org’s NDoCH webpage and all digital materials following the event
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Entry Tickets:
4 free entry tickets
Perks
Silver
Supportive Community Partner
Contribute to any 3 opportunities
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All benefits of the Bronze package
Plus the below.
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Code for SF Meeting:
Quarterly 30-minute meeting with Code for San Francisco leadership
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Recruitment for Tech Help:
One recruitment slide in our weekly Hack Night welcome deck until position is filled
Perks
Gold
Integrated Community Partner
Contribute to any 5 opportunities
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All benefits of the Bronze and Silver packages
Plus the below.
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Talk to Attendees:
Invitation to address attendees for 3 minutes at your time of choosing
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Logo Placement on Digital:
Large logo placement on digital materials related to San Francisco’s NDoCH, including CodeForSanFrancisco.org’s NDoCH webpage and all digital materials following the event
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Code for SF Meeting:
Monthly 30-minute meeting with Code for San Francisco leadership
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Mentorship
Regular project counseling and mentorship to ensure your project is a success, regardless of whether you need tech, community, or government help.
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Entry Tickets:
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- Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>with your organization’s name and contact information and how many attendees you would like to provide complimentary tickets.
- Your organization will be listed on CodeForSanFrancisco.org as having helped make the 2017 National Day of Civic Hacking a reality for all San Franciscans.
- Acknowledgement on @SFBrigade Twitter as making San Francisco affordable for everyone


I know that some times you just dont want everyone to know that are you and your friends in a platoon talking about.
Battlelog Encrypter, encrypts/decrypts your and your's friends platoon messages based on a platoon password key. You just have to set all the same password key.
I know that some times you just dont want everyone to know that are you and your friends in a platoon talking about, so :
Battlelog Encrypter, encrypts/dectypts your and your's friends platoon messages based on a platoon password key. You just have to set all the same password key.
Thank "Mark Percival" for his encryption library :)
Looks neat so far. :-)
Amkhatar
Theme Developer
DarkThanos wrote:
I know that some times you just dont want everyone to know that are you and your friends in a platoon talking about, so :
Battlelog Encrypter, encrypts/dectypts your and your's friends platoon messages based on a platoon password key. You just have to set all the same password key.
Looks interesting...can you please explain how is it works ? put maybe one or two screenshots ?
Explain where to find the id of the platoon ?
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DarkThanos
Topicstarter
DarkThanos
Plug in was updated to work with the lattest version of battlelog.
Post any questions you have about it.
Amkhatar
Theme Developer
Well..i'm already waiting for answers :
Looks interesting...can you please explain how is it works ? put maybe one or two screenshots ?
Explain where to find the id of the platoon ?
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GreatApo
GreatApo
I do not know if it still works (encode - decode) but here are the info you want:
Location / Settings:
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How it works:
You set a keyword for a specific platoon. When you go to your platoon messages you will see an "encode" button (under the area where you write a new message).  The plugin will encode your message based to the keyword you have set for this platton. Every person that has this plugin and has set the same keyword, will be able to decode your message and see it!
So, only your platoon memebers will be able to see what you are writing (you will set a keyword that all the platoon members will use).
P.S.: I will contact Darkthanos to tell him to improve this plugin. It is very useful.
Edited: It works like a charm ^_^
GameFreakBoy
What about people that do not have bblog. Will they not be able to see it at all?


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POLY HIST FORTE- doxylamine succinate and phenylephrine hydrochloride tablet
Poly Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Disclaimer: Most OTC drugs are not reviewed and approved by FDA, however they may be marketed if they comply with applicable regulations and policies. FDA has not evaluated whether this product complies.
Active ingredients
(in each tablet)
Doxylamine Succinate 7.5mg
Active ingredients
(in each tablet)
Phenylephrine HCl 10 mg
Purpose
Nasal Decongestant
Uses
Temporarily relieves these symptoms due to the common cold, hay fever (allergic rhinitis)or other upper respiratory allergies:
- nasal congestion
- reduces swelling of nasal passages
- runny nose
- sneezing
- itching of nose or throat
- itchy, watery eyes
Do not exceed recommended dosage.
Do not use this product
- if you are now taking a prescription monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) (certain drugs for depression, psychiatric, or emotional conditions, or Parkinson’s disease), or for 2 weeks after stopping the MAOI drug. If you do not know if your prescription drug contains an MAOI, ask a doctor or pharmacist before taking this product.
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I am leaving IBM and joining Bandwidth.com.
When Joe Gregorio exited my team at IBM during the summer of 2007, he opaquely announced that he was joining Google by outlining that his job moves coincided with road construction providing faster routes to his previous employer.
I recently got a new pair of glasses. Here I am with my daughter just two weeks ago:
And then I began to talk with my wife about when I got new glasses throughout my life. I could not help notice the irony that within weeks of a major life event, I got a new pair of glasses. I am reminded of Christopher Guest teasing Eugene Levy on the commentary track of "A Mighty Wind" of Levy's peculiarity of selecting glasses before filming.
Junior High.
Upon graduating from elementary school, it was soon discovered that I needed glasses. I was quite young, and the late 80's was not exactly kind to the optically challenged community:
Today's youth have a much better selection of stylish frames.
I should note that I went through about a dozen of these frames. It was not long before my mother realized the economics of purchasing the warranty that covered broken frames. Replacing fractured frames became so commonplace during this stage of my life that I would go to the store to get them refitted on my bike. I do not recall whether I thought it was a good idea to ride my bike with impaired vision.
High School.
Awkwardness is one of several words I would describe myself during high school. I think I may have predated Harry Potter with the frames I had during this period of my life.
Nevertheless, I did play football. Between my freshman and sophomore year, I bulked up with my weight lifting. Further, glasses do not exactly go well with the football field. Thus, I would often wear contacts. Except I am petrified of touching my eye. Even to this day. My mother would pin me down on the ground, pry open an eye and jab in the contact until it stuck. I did not make it easy.
Abroad.
Between high school and college I went abroad to South Africa for two years like many do from my church. During this time I got my first "modern" pair of glasses (and stopped parting my hair).
Undergraduate degree. And the band.
Throughout my undergraduate degree at Arizona State University I played the bass guitar for the band Before Braille. (We just released an album of unreleased tracks, it is pretty good.)
Married. Masters degree.
I got married and got serious about school and finished at Arizona State. Which led me to pursuing my masters degree at Carnegie Mellon. Just before starting graduate school I wanted a more academic look.
IBM.
I had just completed graduate school before joining IBM and had gotten new glasses. I remember feeling compelled to get glasses with a more "professional" look. In retrospect, they were boring. The glasses were the memory kind that bend back into shape. Here I am with my girls. They are quite active which proved useful for the flexible frames.
Bandwidth.com
Which leads me back to my transition to Bandwidth.com next week.


The Outdoor Girls in Florida
by Laura Lee Hope
Chapter VIII: "Launching the Boat"
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1913
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Hope, L. L. (1913) The Outdoor Girls in Florida. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
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- Word Count: 1,515
- Genre: Adventure
- Keywords: florida stories, the outdoor girls in florida
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"Can you smell the orange blossoms?"
"Yes. Aren't they delicious!"
"It reminds me of a wedding—hark, can you hear the strains of Mendelssohn?"
"Those are frogs, Betty," laughed Mollie.
The girls and Mr. and Mrs. Stonington were driving in a big canopy-topped carriage along a Florida road, toward the orange grove on the outskirts of the town of Bentonville. Their journey was over and at last they were in Florida.
"Oh, see the magnolias!" cried Grace, as they passed a tree in full bloom, the fragrance being almost overpowering. "They are just like those the boys sold us when the train stopped."
"Only they smell much sweeter," said Betty.
"Yes, almost too sweet," added Mollie.
Their trip had been practically without incident, and certainly without accident. There had been one or two delays, caused by various small happenings, but finally they had steamed into the junction station, where they took a way train for Bentonville.
This last was a short trip, the one in the compartment car, without change, having been rather monotonous. And yet not dull, for the girls found much to talk about, to speculate upon and to wonder at.
The snow, the cold and biting winds had gradually been left behind, and Nature, coy and uncertain at first, had, with the advance into the South, grown bolder. They had come from the land of bleakness and barrenness—from the place of leafless trees—into the region of Summer, almost in a day and night. They had exchanged snows for flowers.
Mrs. Stonington had stood the trip well, though a trifle weary and worn as the end of the journey came in sight. But the warm and balmy air of the South seemed to revive her, and her cheeks, that had been pale, took on a tinge of color.
"Oh, I am so glad," murmured Amy, and the others were glad with her.
They had delayed at the Bentonville station long enough to make sure that Betty's boat had arrived, and to send home telegrams telling of their safe journey.
They had been met by a man from the orange grove, a kindly Southern worker, whose very nature seemed a protest against haste and worry.
"Well," he greeted them slowly, "I see you all has arrived. Welcome, folks! Now when you're ready we'll move along; but don't be in no rush. It's too pow'ful warm to rush."
Indeed it was warm, and the girls, who had changed to some of their summer garments, felt the truth of this.
"Oh, for a lawn waist and a white skirt, low canvas shoes and a palm leaf fan!" sighed Mollie, as they drove beneath great trees that tempered the heat of the sun.
"Anything else?" asked Betty with a laugh.
"Lemonade," suggested Amy. "Or, no, since we are on an orange plantation I suppose orangeade would be more appropriate, girls."
"Anything as long as it's cool," sighed Grace. "I declare, all my chocolates have run together," and she looked with dismay into a box of the confection she had been carrying.
"No wonder—it's summer, and we left winter behind us," said Betty. "You'll have to give up chocolates down here, Grace, my dear."
"Or else keep them on ice," ventured Amy.
A turn of the road brought them in full view of the orange grove in which Mr. Stonington was interested, and at the sight a murmur of pleased surprise broke from the girls.
"And to think of going out there and picking oranges as one would apples!" exclaimed Amy. "Doesn't it seem odd to see oranges that aren't in a crate, or a fruit store?"
"Some of those will be in crates 'fore night," said the driver. "We're picking every day now. It's a good season, and we're making the most of it," he added to Mr. Stonington.
"Glad to hear it. You'll have to ship them as fast as you can with four orange-hungry girls on hand," and he laughed at Amy and her chums.
"Oh, Uncle Stonington!" Amy cried. "As if we could eat all the oranges here!" and she looked over the rows and rows of fruit-laden trees.
 "They taste different from the ones you Northerners have, I tell you!"
One of the foremen, whom Mr. Stonington had met before, came from the grove to welcome them, and to show them the way to the bungalow they were to occupy during their stay in the South.
"We hope you will like it here," said the overseer, a Mr. Hammond.
"I don't see how we could help it," said Mrs. Stonington. "I am in love with the place already, and I feel so much better even with this little taste of Summer."
"That's good!" exclaimed her husband, with shining eyes.
As the carriage stopped in front of a cool-looking bungalow, a "comfortable-looking" colored "mammy" came to the door smiling expansively.
"Bress all yo' hea'ts!" she exclaimed. "Climb right down, and come in yeah! I's got de fried chicken an' corn pone all ready fo' yo'all. An' dere's soft crabs fo' dem as wants 'em, an' chicken-gumbo soup, an'—"
"Hold on, Aunt Hannah!" exclaimed Mr. Hammond with a laugh. "Have a little mercy on them. Maybe they are not hungry for all your good things."
"Oh, aren't we, though!" cried Mollie. "Just try me. I've always wanted chicken fried in the Southern style."
"You'll get it here," said Mr. Stonington.
Let us pass over that first meal—something that the girls did not do by any means—but the mere details of our friends arriving, getting settled, and then of resting to enjoy life as they had never enjoyed it before, can have little of interest to the reader. So, as I said, let us pass over a few days.
Each one, it is true, brought something new and of peculiar interest to the girls, but it was only because they had never before been in Florida. To the residents it was all an old story—even the picking of oranges.
The grove was near a beautiful stream, not such a river as was the Argono of Deepdale, but broader, more shallow and sluggish.
"I wonder if there are alligators in it?" asked Betty, of one of the pickers.
"Not around here," he answered. "You have to go into the bayous, or swamps, for them critters. Don't yo'all worry 'bout the 'gators."
"We won't when we get in the Gem," said Betty. "I wonder when they will bring her up and launch her?"
"Let's go to the depot and find out," suggested Amy. "We can have a carriage and team with a driver any time we want it, Uncle Stonington said."
At the freight office the boat was promised to them for the following day, but it was two before this promise was kept.
"You mustn't fret," said Mr. Stonington, when Betty grew rather impatient. "Remember you are down South. Few persons hurry here."
But finally the Gem arrived, and after some hard work she was launched. Proudly she rode the river, as proudly as at Deepdale, and Betty, with a little cry of joy, took her place at the wheel.
Batteries and magneto were in place, some gasoline was provided, and a little later the motor boat was ready for her first trip in Southern waters.
"All aboard!" cried Betty, as the engine was started.
Slowly, but with gathering speed, the trim craft shot out into the middle of the Mayfair.
"Oh, this is just perfect!" breathed Mollie. There was a little cloud on the face of Grace. They all knew what it was, and sympathized with her. No news had come about Will.
They puffed along, to the wonder and admiration of many of the colored pickers, who stopped to look—any excuse was good enough for stopping—especially the sight of a motor boat. Suddenly Grace, who was trailing her hand over the stern, gave a startled cry, and sprang up.
"Oh! oh!" she screamed. "An alligator. I nearly touched the horrid thing! Go ashore, Betty!"


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Short summary of the last couple of years in my life.
2019
Software Engineer & Consultant
eCube GmbH
2018
Java Developer
IcamSystems GmbH
2017
Java Developer
LMX Holding GmbH
einsupershop
eCommerce
B. Sc.
Angewandte Informatik
Frameworks
Tools
Principles
Likes
Java 12, Spring
IntelliJ, Git, OpenAPI, Elastic Stack, Docker, MongoDB
KISS, event driven, DDD, GitFlow
2019
Dropwizard, Mockito, JUnit 5, Vavr, Camel, Resilience4J
MySQL, Gradle, Kibana, Grafana
TDD, functional programming, continuous deployment
2018
Spring, Vaadin, JUnit 4
MongoDb, Kafka, OpenAPI, Maven, Docker
Microservicse, Domain-driven Design, REST
2017
Hibernate, Eclipse SWT, eBay
MySQL, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, OXID eCommerce
Parallel computation, Ease of use


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| decodingtype | decoding type 0: low 1: high |
| binauralquality | binaural upmix quality 0: parametric 1: filtering |
| hrtfmodel | HRTF model 0: kemar 1: vast 2: mps_vt |
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| filename | audio output file name |
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vector of input channels stream (sample = input[channel][sample index])
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object energies (NRG[channel][chunk])
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vector of input channels stream (sample = output[channel][sample index])
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A box of pastries to accompany the first coffee break which always kicks off the day nicely:).
Being approachable and open to those around me for for help and advice, bouncing ideas off one another to develop as a team.
We are benfitting from a lot of free opensource software and I shall give back to the community where I can.
I am not bad in construction department having overhauled a few properties fitting kitchens and bathrooms so if you are faced with an emergency or just want some friendly advice please give me a shout.
Afterall "sharing is caring" which leads on us forging great relationships with the amazing people of this world.


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I'm a full-stack developer specializing in front-end development. I love crafting pixel perfect user experiences for web & mobile.
There's a big difference between meeting minimum requirements and creating something beautiful
I'm always learning and seeking to improve. A truly special user experience depends on mastery of the handoff between content and UI.
A few personal portfolio items. I'm currently loving effortless state management and reactivity of Vue.js


Inequality is the primary driver of the United States economy. The different abilities of individuals allow them to contribute value to one another's lives, thus creating value. Throughout much of the United States history, we were not a knowledge-based economy. Therefore, the fact that some information was restricted did not significantly contribute to inequality as much as rigid social structures. In the 21st century, the United States has shifted towards a knowledge-based economy. Now, information is what is valued and sought after by Western Society. Given this new paradigm, patents and the IP system are throttling the opportunity for others to improve their socio-economic status.
The benefits of the IP system with our knowledge-based economy is that it allows those with patents to achieve wealth like never before. However, these are clearly outweighed by the costs of limiting social mobility.
Open Source offers a compelling alternative to the outdated patent system. This new system would leave information unrestricted and allow the application of the information to be the primary driver of the world, still allowing for individuals to shine and rise. The democratization of information would clearly result in an inherently more balanced system which allows more growth to occur without penalizing those who worked for the knowledge. For example, Tesla does not file patents for much of their developments and they are still a thriving company. This case study displays the power of an open source solution.
An objection to Open Source would be that the system doesn't incentivize people to create new innovations and inventions because they don't have as much incentive to put in all of the effort required. While this objection has some merit, it falls short when faced with examples like Tesla and several other thriving open source companies and products.


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Relationship issues, sexuality, divorce and separation, depression.
Relationship Issues: Conflict separation, parenting, infidelity, negotiation, communication, behavior change requests.

Do you and your partner resolve your disagreements? If not you may be a good candidate for Resentment Reduction Therapy.
Traditional couples counseling typically focuses on improving communication skills, looking at how you talk to your spouse or the "problems" that you are having in your marriage.
Resentment Reduction Therapy (RRT) addresses these issues as well as focusing on the behaviors that each member of the couple engages in that creates frustration, anger, and bitterness toward their mate. Only by identifying the source of the resentment (and how powerful each resentment generating behavior is) can individuals understand what behaviors they need to work on first.
After understanding what each person needs to do to get their house in order and convince their partner that they can have hope of long and sustained change. Resentment Reduction Therapy also focuses on helping individuals understand the behaviors they engage in that derail their arguments. This may mean yelling, rolling their eyes, interrupting, bringing things up from the past, etc. All of these behaviors can keep arguments from being resolved.
When arguments go unresolved, they build up and lead to emotional disconnection. Resentment Reduction Therapy addresses this by having individuals download and complete the "Barriers to Resolving Conflicts Questionnaire" which can be found on the "downloads" tab. This helps the therapist quickly understand which behaviors cause individuals to give up, give in, or go off in some new direction. Resentment Reduction Theory believes that when a critical mass of resentment builds up between a couple, they start to disconnect emotionally and this leads to a cascade of problems ranging from affairs to starting to focus more on their kids, job, shopping or substance abuse.


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Photos: Varun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan get snapped as they step out for a meeting
by TIMESOFINDIA.COMVarun Dhawan and Sara Ali Khan will be sharing screen space for the first time in David Dhawan's 'Coolie No. 1' and it seems like the audience have already started liking the new onscreen pair. The duo often gets snapped in the characters on the sets of the film. Pictures and videos of the same are all over the internet.
On Monday night, Varun and Sara were clicked as they stepped for a meeting in the city. For the occasion, Varun was in an all-black look while Sara looked pretty in a white salwar suit. They were all smiles as paparazzi captured them on cameras.
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Meanwhile, 'Coolie No. 1' is a remake of Govinda and Karisma Kapoor's 1995 blockbuster film with the same. It also stars Paresh Rawal and Sahil Vaid in pivotal roles. The film has been slated to release on 1st May next year.