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Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones.
The series is filmed at Paint Hall Studios in Belfast, and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia and Iceland.
Highly anticipated since its early stages of development, Game of Thrones has been very well received by viewers and critics. Its first season was nominated for or won numerous awards, including Outstanding Drama Series for the Emmy Awards and Best Television Series – Drama at the Golden Globes;
Peter Dinklage also won the Emmys's and Golden Globes's Best Supporting Actor award for his role as Tyrion Lannister. Criticism aimed at the series has primarily focused on its increased use of sex.
The cable television series closely follows the multiple storylines of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and author Martin has stated that the show's pilot script was very faithful to his work.
Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's noble families for control of the Iron Throne; as the series opens, additional threats from the snow and ice covered region north of Westeros and from the eastern continent across a narrow sea are simultaneously beginning to rise.
Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's noble families for control of the Iron Throne.
Set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Game of Thrones chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the kingdom's noble families for control of the Iron Throne.
The series began development in January 2007. HBO, after acquiring the rights to the novels with the intent of turning them into an international cable television series, hired David Benioff.
The Game of Thrones's budget has been compared to that of the TV series Rome. D. B. Weiss to write and executive produce the series, which would cover one novel's worth of material per season. The pilot reportedly cost HBO between US$5 and 10 million, and the total budget for the first season has been estimated at US$50–60 million.
HBO hired expert language creator David J. Peterson from the Language Creation Society to develop the Dothraki language – "possessing its own unique sound, extensive vocabulary of more than 1,800 words and complex grammatical structure" – to be used in the series.
The first and second drafts of the pilot script, written by Benioff and Weiss, were submitted in August 2007 and June 2008, respectively. While HBO found both drafts to their liking, a pilot was not ordered until November 2008, with the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike possibly delaying the process.
The correspondence between the seasons and the novels they adapt is approximate rather than exact: Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have said that they think of Game of Thrones as an adaptation of the novel series as a whole, rather than of individual books, which gives them the liberty to move scenes back and forth across books according to the requirements of the screen adaptation.
Principal photography for the first season was scheduled to begin on July 26, 2010. The primary location was the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Exterior scenes in Northern Ireland were filmed at Sandy Brae in the Mourne Mountains (standing in for Vaes Dothrak), Castle Ward (Winterfell), Saintfield Estates (the Winterfell godswood), Tollymore Forest (outdoor scenes), Cairncastle (the execution site), the Magheramorne quarry (Castle Black) and at Shane's Castle (the tourney grounds). Doune Castle in Stirling, Scotland, was also used for exterior scenes at Winterfell
HBO hired expert language creator David J. Peterson from the Language Creation Society to develop the Dothraki language – "possessing its own unique sound, extensive vocabulary of more than 1,800 words and complex grammatical structure" – to be used in the series.
The first and second drafts of the pilot script, written by Benioff and Weiss, were submitted in August 2007 and June 2008, respectively. While HBO found both drafts to their liking, a pilot was not ordered until November 2008, with the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike possibly delaying the process.
HBO hired expert language creator David J. Peterson from the Language Creation Society to develop the Dothraki language – "possessing its own unique sound, extensive vocabulary of more than 1,800 words and complex grammatical structure" – to be used in the series.
The first and second drafts of the pilot script, written by Benioff and Weiss, were submitted in August 2007 and June 2008, respectively. While HBO found both drafts to their liking, a pilot was not ordered until November 2008, with the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike possibly delaying the process.
HBO hired expert language creator David J. Peterson from the Language Creation Society to develop the Dothraki language – "possessing its own unique sound, extensive vocabulary of more than 1,800 words and complex grammatical structure" – to be used in the series.
The first and second drafts of the pilot script, written by Benioff and Weiss, were submitted in August 2007 and June 2008, respectively. While HBO found both drafts to their liking, a pilot was not ordered until November 2008, with the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike possibly delaying the process.


Man, 66, struck and killed by vehicle in Regina intersection
Police in Regina say a 66-year-old man is dead after he was struck by a vehicle Friday night in Regina.
by The Canadian PressPolice in Regina say a 66-year-old man is dead after he was struck by a vehicle Friday night in Regina.
Investigators say the man was crossing at the intersection of Dewdney Avenue and Robinson Street just after 9:30 p.m. when he was hit.
They say he was rushed to hospital where his death was confirmed.
The man’s name is not being released.
Police say the accident remains under investigation, but no further information was immediately released.


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Updated website for Crimestoppers
by CrimestoppersMonday 18 November 2019
Crimestoppers New Zealand launched its updated website www.crimestoppers-nz.org today. As well as catering for traditional anonymous reports the site now supports mobile users and allows files and images to be attached. The changes support people of all ages to do the right thing and anonymously report serious crime and misconduct where people are unable or unwilling to report directly to the Police, Customs, Immigration and Corrections.
The website mobile-friendly updates have been worked on and tested for the last six months. Ensuring websites reflect best practice isn’t easy with ongoing IT developments but Crimestoppers CEO – Hadyn Smith, thinks they have struck a good balance.
“The big thing for Crimestoppers is allowing New Zealanders to stop, prevent or deter some of the incredibly destructive behaviour, such as the supply of methamphetamine or violence against women, that no reasonable person wants in New Zealand. Our job is to support the authorities, but we are separate from them and as such need to ensure both the website and our 0800 555 111 line reflect both our anonymous requirements and the easy user functionality that will allow people to safely speak up.”
Crimestoppers is also focused on supporting the growing numbers that are suffering the indignity of serious internet crime and scams. We are working with CERT NZ and hope to include support for reporting cyber security issues in the coming months.
About Crimestoppers - 0800 555 111 or www.crimestoppers-nz.org
Crimestoppers is an independent charity formed in 2009 that helps New Zealanders to support and uphold community responsibility using an anonymous reporting platform.
Crimestoppers has received over 200,000 telephone reports and Police have recorded over 75,000 entries in their intelligence database.
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Hi everyone, sorry if this is not the right place to ask, please let me know.
I am wondering if anyone could clear my head on how data should be stored, processed and viewed when dealing with sampling based on unixtime stamps.
The situation is I am saving each energy reading with a column containing the unixtimestamps.
My hosting server is located somewhere in USA, so time difference is around 8 or 9 hours
My location is Israel, so I am +2.
I am saving information in a table named "data" like this
id unix_time datetime energy(w)
1<PHONE_NUMBER> 2014-02-03 12:48:40 145
2<PHONE_NUMBER> 2014-02-03 12:48:50 150
etc etc
I am doing an INSERT with time() in the query so that sets the unix_time correctly.
When dealing with graphs visualization using fplot,
I belive I am doing it right by setting "localTimezone: true," in the chart.
Now when trying toprocess the data and store it in a "resume" table, things get difficut.
Once very hour, a php runs some code to generate or update values of totals for each day. I want to set a query that will group by days. However, I cant figure out how to define the START and END of the day times.
I guess I will need to only focus on the location of the device to know the start and end of day?
I tried this... (where "B" is the unixtimestamp)
$table_query =
"SELECT
B,
FROM_UNIXTIME((B),'%Y-%m-%d') as date_formatted,
COUNT( B ) AS num_reg_day,
MIN(B) AS MINB,
MAX(B) AS MAXB,
MAX( Apparent_power ) AS consumo_maximo,
MIN( Apparent_power ) AS consumo_minimo,
SUM( Apparent_power ) AS lasuma,
AVG( Apparent_power ) AS lamedia,
AVG(temp_amb) AS meantemperature,
MIN(temp_amb) AS min_temperature,
MAX(temp_amb) AS max_temperature
FROM `data`
WHERE B > $unix_time_start
GROUP BY date_formatted
ORDER BY B DESC
";
Could someone help me a little bit? I am very lost.
Dealing with unixstamp, local time and server time
Submitted by Sergegsx on Mon, 03/02/2014 - 10:56Hi everyone, sorry if this is not the right place to ask, please let me know.
I am wondering if anyone could clear my head on how data should be stored, processed and viewed when dealing with sampling based on unixtime stamps.
The situation is I am saving each energy reading with a column containing the unixtimestamps.
My hosting server is located somewhere in USA, so time difference is around 8 or 9 hours
My location is Israel, so I am +2.
I am saving information in a table named "data" like this
id unix_time datetime energy(w)
1<PHONE_NUMBER> 2014-02-03 12:48:40 145
2<PHONE_NUMBER> 2014-02-03 12:48:50 150
etc etc
I am doing an INSERT with time() in the query so that sets the unix_time correctly.
When dealing with graphs visualization using fplot,
I belive I am doing it right by setting "localTimezone: true," in the chart.
Now when trying to process the data and store it in a "resume" table, things get difficut.
Once very hour, a php runs some code to generate or update values of totals for each day. I want to set a query that will group by days. However, I cant figure out how to define the START and END of the day times.
I guess I will need to only focus on the location of the device to know the start and end of day?
I tried this... (where "B" is the unixtimestamp)
Could someone help me a little bit? I am very lost.
Thank you very much


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DUBAI: HSBC Holdings has laid off about 40 bankers in the UAE and Emirates NBD is cutting around 100 jobs, as banks in the Arab world’s second-biggest economy reduce costs.
The cuts come amid weak economic growth, especially in Dubai, which is suffering from a property downturn.
HSBC’s redundancies came after the London-based bank reported a sharp fall in earnings and warned of a costly restructuring, as interim CEO Noel Quinn seeks to tackle its problems head-on.
HSBC has about 3,000 staff in the UAE, part of a nearly 10,000-strong workforce in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
The cuts at Dubai’s largest lender Emirates NBD came in consumer sales and liabilities, one source said, while a second played down the significance of the move.
HSBC and Emirates NBD declined to comment.
“The cuts are part of cost cutting and rationalizing to drive efficiencies in a challenging market,” the second source said.
Other banks have also reduced staff this year. UAE central bank data shows local banks laid off 446 people in the 12 months until the end of September. Foreign banks added staff in the same period.
Staff at local banks account for over 80 percent of the 35,518 banking employees in the country.
The merger between Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Union Commercial Bank and Al Hilal Bank saw hundreds of redundancies.
Commercial Bank International (CBI) said it would offer voluntary retirement to employees in September, which sources said saw over 100 departures. Standard Chartered, too, cut over 100 jobs in the UAE in September.
Rating agency Fitch warned in September a weakening property market would put more pressure on the UAE’s banking sector.


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BSD_SIGNAL
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2013-10-22
Index
Return to Main Contents
NAME
bsd_signal - signal handling with BSD semantics
SYNOPSIS
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <signal.h>
typedef void (*sighandler_t)(int);
sighandler_t bsd_signal(int signum, sighandler_t handler);
DESCRIPTION
The
bsd_signal()
function takes the same arguments, and performs the same task, as
signal(2).
The difference between the two is that
bsd_signal()
is guaranteed to provide reliable signal semantics, that is:
a) the disposition of the signal is not reset to the default
when the handler is invoked;
b) delivery of further instances of the signal is blocked while
the signal handler is executing; and
c) if the handler interrupts a blocking system call,
then the system call is automatically restarted.
A portable application cannot rely on
signal(2)
to provide these guarantees.
RETURN VALUE
The
bsd_signal()
function returns the previous value of the signal handler, or
SIG_ERR
on error.
ERRORS
As for
signal(2).
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
bsd_signal()
function is thread-safe.
CONFORMING TO
4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of
bsd_signal(),
recommending the use of
sigaction(2)
instead.
NOTES
Use of
bsd_signal()
should be avoided; use
sigaction(2)
instead.
On modern Linux systems,
bsd_signal()
and
signal(2)
are equivalent.
But on older systems,
signal(2)
provided unreliable signal semantics; see
signal(2)
for details.
The use of
sighandler_t
is a GNU extension;
this type is defined only if the
_GNU_SOURCE
feature test macro is defined.
SEE ALSO
sigaction(2),
signal(2),
sysv_signal(3),
signal(7)
Index
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Nominations have been received for the AGM on 21st May 2017. You can view the nominations here. As there are still vacancies, further nominations will be accepted from the floor at the meeting Nominations have been received for the AGM on 21st May 2017. You can view the nominations here. As there are still vacancies, further nominations will be accepted from the floor at the meeting.
ABN: 73-365-249-138
All members are advised that the Annual General Meeting (AGM), of North Queensland Ensembles Inc will take place at Pimlico Performing Arts Centre, Fulham Road, Pimlico on Sunday 21st May 2017, commencing at 2:00pm.
A copy of the agenda can be provided. The following points should be noted:
· Membership renewals were due by 31 January 2017. You must be a current financial member to vote on any issue raised at the AGM, to be eligible for nomination for election to the Management Committee and to make such a nomination(s).
· Nominations are called for the positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer and for seven positions of Committee Members. Nomination forms are enclosed. Nominations close on 12th May, 2017 and will be displayed on the Association web-site, (www.nqorchestra.com.au) as from Monday 15th May 2017.
Members are urged to consider making themselves available for Committee membership so that there is a sound level of continuity.Proxy Vote form is also provided. Proxy Votes are to be lodged with the Secretary prior to the commencement of the meeting.
All are invited to join in an Open Members’ Forum immediately following the formal meeting.If you have any ideas you would like discussed please give them to the Secretary.
Please send apologies to Secretary (477 96852) or<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Lorraine Gray -McConnell
Secretary
P0 Box 576
TOWNSVILLE QLD 4810
A very pleasant Sunday afternoon in Queens Gardens was attended by approximately three and half thousand satisfied music lovers. This free concert organised to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the AFCM was also a fitting opportunity for BRO to celebrate its 15th Anniversary with it’s first ever outdoor public performance.
The tastes of all music lovers was satiated. The concert opened with the ceremonial and pompous Brass composition by Aaron Copland titled Fanfare for the Common Man, followed by the equally ceremonial Imperial March by William Walton. Genuine fun and musical camaraderie emanated from the performance by Camerata of St Johns with their virtuosic classical performance. In addition they ably accompanied Amy Dickson in her flawless saxophone performance with her distinctive tone clearly displaying the reason she is sought after around the world.
1RAR Big Band played to the high standard Townsville audiences are familiar. They had the audience tapping their feet to their musical and vocal compositions. Cheryl Barker’s powerful soprano rang across the park and most likely was heard on Castle Hill as she sang two arias accompanied by BRO and conducted by UK conductor Nicholas Daniel.
The finale of the afternoon which included musicians from all three ensembles was the 1812 Overture. It was delightful to see the audience enthusiastically participate in this finale. This pleasant afternoon can only be rated as a huge success and may prove to be the first of many performances in years to come.
Dance and music go together like a, ahem, horse and carriage or in 2016 a iPhone and thumb! But unlike the old song you certainly can have one without the other and the Barrier Reef Orchestra’s first concert for the year Dreams and Dances definitely proved that. The first half of the program featured dance music in its many variations.
The program, selected by our Conductor of long standing Richard McIntyre, opened with the exciting and exotic “Bacchanale” from St. Saens’ opera Samson and Delilah – compelling from the onset, with Bernard Girard’s evocative oboe solo. Rhythmic drive was strong and the string section made a fine job of the glorious central “Love” theme. You wouldn’t have been surprised if seven of the women player’s silk scarves floated up to perform a sinuous dance above the Orchestra.
A Pavane is a majestic processional dance and Gabriel Faure’s rather haunting version featured fine ensemble and character from the woodwind section and excellent melodic contributions from the strings. Debussy’s dreaming Faun inspired some beautiful, intricate and delicate music. Solo contributions from Shinako Macdonald on Flute and Lea Li on the Harp reinforced our previous discovery on how well these two instruments complement each other.
Danzon No 2 by Mexican composer Arturo Marquez provided and exhilarating conclusion to the first half of the concert with ever increasing pace and intensity. Excellent solo contributions from trumpeter Arthur Florence, Clarinetist Jacinta Payne, pianist Stephanie Rigano and many others made the music a pleasure for the audience, what’s more the whole Orchestra looked as if they were enjoying themselves immensely.
After interval we were treated to a Symphony written by Cesar Frank and finished in 1888. This Symphony in D Minor had clear repeating themes and although considered a difficult piece the Orchestra conveyed the full joyousness of it to an appreciative audience, especially at the end. Overall this was another highly accomplished concert; the program had a mixture of familiar and not so familiar-but-should-be pieces which was just perfect. It is great to hear favourite pieces live and to learn new favourites. The Orchestra is well balanced, highly professional and well-polished and musicians seem to enjoy playing as much as the audience enjoys listening to them. The music notes by Dr David Salisbury were informative and helped the understanding of what was being played.
I know many people agree with me that this has been the best concert yet. Bravo all who made it happen.
LGM (with a little help from a friend)
The World Music Concert was a breath of fresh air to Townsville music lovers who had just about reached classical music saturation following AFCM.
Andrew Ryder poured his expertise and enthusiasm into this opportunity provided through Townsville City Council sponsorship. Andrew developed the concept for the concert; sourced the music which involved him personally arranging some of the music; liaising with the professional performers; and rehearsing and conducting the Barrier Reef Orchestra.
The performance delighted more than one sense through the visual backdrop showing scenery pertinent to the music and the amazing musical sound evoking toe tapping, clapping, singing and sheer enjoyment.
The world tour began with David Hudson on didgeridoo, guitar and vocals synchronizing with the visual backdrop to grab the audiences’ attention, performing the popular John Williamson ballad Raining on the Rock. The tour continued through Korea and Cuba courtesy of a quality Barrier Reef Orchestral performance. Next, virtuosic Domenico Taraborrelli on piano accordion and vocalist Adam Lopez, supported by the Orchestra, engaged the audience with Latin American pieces. Unfortunately the balance was a little off, with the soloists being much louder.
The second half began with the Barrier Reef Orchestra creating an American theme through Aaron Copland before heading off to Europe with the Orchestra supporting Domenico once again in Italy, John Ferguson on bagpipes with vocalist Cynthia Clark in Scotland and Adam Lopez in Spain.
The tour aptly returned to Australia with all the soloists returning to the stage to present a rousing and emotive performance of I am Australian.
This very enjoyable performance once again demonstrated the talented people choosing to live in Townsville and able to produce such a high class production, equal to anywhere. This was reinforced by the willingness of quality professional musicians to come to Townsville and perform with the Barrier Reef Orchestra. I feel certain if more was known about the concert the Civic Theatre would easily have been at capacity.
Helen Land
2015 was our 15 year anniversary and featured several concerts that highlighted not only the enhanced quality of musical performance from the orchestra but an increasing recognition from our audience, benefactors and the wider community.
In May BRO was asked to perform at the Townsville ARTS Awards, a first for the orchestra, with a selection from Frozen, not your standard repertoire but well received by the audience and an indication that the orchestra can is and capable of taking on a diverse range of music. This was to be a feature in the last 12 months.
August was another first for BRO as were invited to perform at a free public concert as part of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Supported by Townsville City Council and featuring other ensembles such as 1RAR band and Camerata of St. John’s string ensemble. The performance culminated in Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture Op.49 with a twist. Involving the audience simulating the cannons with paper bags and car keys…. you had to be there. The audience was in excess of 4000 and proved very popular. So much so we have been invited back for another performance in 2016. Thank you Justin.
As is often the case rehearsals for the World Music Concert were well under way prior to the AFCM concert. World Music Concert offered a music tour of the world featuring Adam Lopez (Vocalist), Domenico Tarraborrelli on Accordion and David Hudson on digeridoo, vocals and guitar. Audio/Visual was used throughout the concert and several of the arrangements were specifically written for the performance. As it involved 21 pieces of music and extra musicians for 1RAR and further afield. Sally our Orchestra Manager had her work cut out for her and I am pleased to say rose to the challenge. I had the privilege to produce direct and conduct the performance. After the performance which was well received by the audience, given the letters and feedback we received, we had a big exhale at completing such a mammoth task.
This concert was hired in by Townsville Civic Theatre, another first for BRO. As was our next performance which was a collaboration with Dancenorth in their presentation of a unique work titled Twilight written and directed by Ng Chor Guan an international artist and located on the headlands of Kissing Point. It involved elements of BRO Brass section performing music in response to the environment. With no music written it was up the musicians to play given limited guidelines; certainly a challenge for those of us who are used to using written music. From all reports it was particularly effective.
Rounding out the year was A Musical Feast in November conducted by Mark Shiell. Mark commented that he thought the orchestra and improved musically since he last worked with the BRO, pleasing feedback from a professional. A potpourri of music that was enjoyed by all.
2016 was soon upon us commencing with the launch at the Pier restaurant with a performance from the Strings and a last minute addition of soprano Siobhan Patrick, a spell binding performance that I think will lead to further collaborations with her. The launch also allowed me to reinforce our Commitment to TPAC (www.tpac.net.au) while we had the Mayor’s full attention. This continues to be an ongoing concern that requires all of us to push TPAC forward at every opportunity.
Plunging head-long into rehearsals for Dreams and Dances conducted by Richard McIntyre. Ric once again come up with an interesting program the highlight being the Marquez, full of Latin rhythms and percussion. A piece I hope we get to perform again soon.
Finally it brings us to our performance in the Townsville 150 concert centre piece for the T150 celebrations. Once again by invitation from Townsville Civic Theatre in collaboration with 1RAR, we provided music for all of the artists and were on stage for the whole performance. A hugely successful event due in large to BRO.
Conducted by the new Major Domino of 1RAR band the stage was filled with over 60 musicians. David Campbell who was the headline act commented at his one and only rehearsal that the assembled ensemble was first class and would come back to Townsville any time as he was thrilled to have such a fine orchestra to sing with. It was a full house and the BRO received many accolades as a result of playing too many in the audience that had not previously heard BRO.
We initially set a program of three performances and completed eight in the last 12 months. To make all this happen you need an Orchestra Manager that is tireless in her commitment and ready to make it all happen We are so fortunate to have Sally as our Orchestra Manager. Many thanks Sally, words are not enough to reward you for all of the extra work that you give us.
The engine room that keeps everything heading in the right direction is our indomitable committee. As I won’t be standing this year as President, it brings my two year reign of terror to an end. I thank you all for your support and hard work that you all put in to make this happen for the musicians and the audience. Again words are not enough.
I must draw your attention to our Treasurer, Annette who has so capably steered the financial ship for several years. Your professionalism could always be relied upon and your advice was always on the money pardon the pun. As you are stepping down please accept my thanks on behalf of the BRO for all of your hard work. I note that the Sturt Business Centre will be continuing their support to BRO so I know we will still have close contact with you. For those that have an interest in joining the BRO committee I can assure you, you will find it challenging, stimulating and a group of people on the committee who stand ready to help.
Thank You
Those among us in the capacity audience in the Civic theatre to celebrate Townsville’s 150th anniversary had a real treat of a birthday present. The Variety concert would have had about 97% Townsville connected content and showcased what talent is in Townsville.
Ex Kirwan boy Kurt Phelan was a charming host and made some great 20thC songs his own with some interesting arrangements. Like-wise for Luke Kennedy who also sang one of his own compositions and different rendering of now classic songs. David Campbell also gave us perfect covers of, amongst others, Bobby Darin and Sammy Davis Jr. works.
I have heard of some towns being “nests” which seem to produce multiple sports and artistic greats. This concert showed us Townsville can certainly be considered a “music nest” and can be proud of all its performing arts companies. Richard Florida in Rise of the Creative Class wrote that creating an environment that encourages artists, writers and geeks is an important engine for economic growth in the post industrial world. I feel that Townsville has a head start in this.The Barrier Reef Orchestra showed its versatility yet again. It accompanied the singers perfectly and shone in its own right with Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5. The 1RAR Band was also superb and in its element when backing Jade, Kurt, Luke and David. Conductor Maj. Glenn Rogers was at the centre of it all, effortlessly conducting the diverse variety of music presented. I’m told “Glenn’s calm approach during rehearsals came to the fore during the one and only rehearsal with David Campbell. Glenn quickly picked the changes David asked for which translated to a freshness during the performance. Glenn is also a remarkable arranger and produced an orchestral arrangement of one of Kurt’s original songs. So moving was the music it brought tears to Kurts eyes as he sang it with the Orchestra”. Both the Orchestra and the 1RAR Band were on the stage the whole evening, only getting a break when the two dance companies were performing.
But even with such a high standard set it was the ladies who were the sensation of the evening. Greta Sheriff was spot on – she had the poise, the looks, the moves and a fantastic vocal range. Jade O’Halloran was all sultriness and emotion in Skyfall and Bronwyn Douglass, the mezzo soprano who won 2015 Australian Concerto and Vocal Competition vocal section, showed us why she is winning yet more awards. As part of Bronwyn’s prize she was to sing with the Orchestra but unfortunately all the Orchestra’s dates at the theatre (pre-booked 2 years ago) were unsuitable for Bronwyn as she is very much in demand. We were very fortunate that the Variety Concert provided the Orchestra an opportunity to perform two of the best known arias in opera with her – Habanera from Carmen and Mon Coeur from Samson and Delilah. Too little I know but every second was wonderful and we are grateful for that.
Combined choir and soloists from Townsville Choral Society and North Queensland Opera and Music Theatre ensemble gave us excerpts from Les Miserables. What can be said except well done you again. It is these group’s high standards and professionalism that nurture young talent like Luke, Greta and Kurt and others (same as for the BRO who have had many young players go on to tertiary studies in music). The highlight of this section for me was Alex Thomas singing Bring Him Home but Soloists, Ensemble and Orchestra all combined to give us a memorable moment.
I have heard of some towns being “nests” which seem to produce multiple sports and artistic greats. This concert showed us Townsville can certainly be considered a “music nest” and can be proud of all its performing arts companies. Richard Florida in Rise of the Creative Class wrote that creating an environment that encourages artists, writers and geeks is an important engine for economic growth in the post industrial world. I feel that Townsville has a head start in this.
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| Buffers can either be the FrontBuffer(), BackBuffer() or an ImageBuffer() Default buffer is the FrontBuffer |
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| Lesson 4: Component Composition and Radio Communication
Last updated 31 July 2003 |
This lesson introduces two concepts: hierarchical decomposition of
component graphs, and using radio communication. The applications that
we will consider are CntToLedsAndRfm and RfmToLeds. CntToLedsAndRfm
is a variant of Blink that outputs the current counter value to
multiple output interfaces: both the LEDs, and the radio communication
stack. RfmToLeds receives data from the radio and displays it
on the LEDs. Programming one mote with CntToLedsAndRfm will
cause it to transmit its counter value over the radio; programming
another with RfmToLeds causes it to display the received
counter on its LEDs - your first distributed application!
If you're using mica2 or mica2dot motes, you will need to ensure
that you've selected a radio frequency compatible with your motes
(433MHz vs 916MHz motes). If your motes are unlabeled, see "How to determine the operating
frequency range of a MICA2 or MICA2DOT mote" for information on
recognizing which kind of mote you have. To tell the compiler which
frequency you are using, edit the Makelocal
file in the apps directory, defining either CC1K_DEF_PRESET (see tinyos-1.x/tos/platform/mica2/CC1000Const.h
for preset values), or CC1K_DEF_FREQ
with an explicit frequency
(see example in Makelocal).
Look at CntToRfmAndLeds.nc. Note that this application only consists of a configuration; all of the component modules are located in libraries!
CntToLedsAndRfm.nc
configuration CntToLedsAndRfm { |
The first thing to note is that a single interface requirement (such as Main.StdControl or Counter.IntOutput) can be fanned out to multiple implementations. Here we wire Main.StdControl to the Counter, IntToLeds, IntToRfm, and TimerCcomponents. (All of these components can be found in the tos/lib/Counters directory.) The names of the various components tell you what they do: Counter receives Timer.fired() events to maintain a counter. IntToLeds and IntToRfm provide the IntOutput interface, that has one command, output(), which is called with a 16-bit value, and one event, outputComplete(), which is called with result_t . IntToLeds displays the lower three bits of its value on the LEDs, and IntToRfm broadcasts the 16-bit value over the radio.
So we're wiring the Counter.Timer interface to TimerC.Timer, and Counter.IntOutput to both IntToLeds and IntToRfm. The NesC compiler generates code so that all invocations of the Counter.IntOutput.output() command will invoke the command in both IntToLeds and IntToRfm. Also note that the wiring arrow can go in either direction: the arrow always points from a used interface to a provided implementation.
Assuming you are using a Mica mote, try building and installing this
application with make mica install; you should see a 3-bit
binary counter on the mote's LEDs. Of course the mote is also
transmitting the value over the radio, which we describe next.
In any messaging layer, there are 5 aspects involved in successful communication:
Let's look at IntToRfm.nc:
IntToRfm.nc
configuration IntToRfm |
This component provides the IntOutput and StdControl interfaces. This is the first time that we have seen a configuration provide an interface. In the previous lessons we have always used configurations just to wire other components together; in this case, the IntToRfm configuration is itself a component that another configuration can wire to. Got it?
In the implementation section, we see:
components IntToRfmM, GenericComm as Comm;The phrase "GenericComm as Comm" is stating that this configuration uses the GenericComm component, but gives it the (local) name Comm. The idea here is that you can easily swap in a different communication module in place of GenericComm, and only need to change this one line to do so; you don't need to change every line that wires to Comm.
We also see some new syntax here in the lines:
IntOutput = IntToRfmM;The equal sign (=) is used to indicate that the IntOutput interface provided by IntToRfm is "equivalent to" the implementation in IntToRfmM. We can't use the arrow (->) here, because the arrow is used to wire a used interface to a provided implementation. In this case we are "equating" the interfaces provided by IntToRfm with the implementation found in IntToRfmM.
StdControl = IntToRfmM;
The last two lines of the configuration are:
IntToRfmM.Send -> Comm.SendMsg[AM_INTMSG];The last line is simple; we're wiring IntToRfmM.StdControl to GenericComm.StdControl. The first line shows us another use of parameterized interfaces, in this case, wiring up the Send interface of IntToRfmM to the SendMsg interface provided by Comm.
IntToRfmM.StdControl -> Comm;
The GenericComm component declares:
provides {
...
interface SendMsg[uint8_t id];
...In other words, it provides 256 different instances of the SendMsg interface, one for each uint8_t value. This is the way that Active Message handler IDs are wired together. In IntToRfm, we are wiring the SendMsg interface corresponding to the handler ID AM_INTMSG to GenericComm.SendMsg. (AM_INTMSG is a global value defined in tos/lib/Counters/IntMsg.h.) When the SendMsg command is invoked, the handler ID is provided to it, essentially as an extra argument. You can see how this works by looking at tos/system/AMStandard.nc (the implementation module for GenericComm):
}
command result_t SendMsg.send[uint8_t id]( ... ) { ... };Of course, parameterized interfaces aren't strictly necessary here - the same thing could be accomplished if SendMsg.send took the handler ID as an argument. This is just an example of the use of parameterized interfaces in nesC.
Now we know how IntToRfm is wired up, but we don't know how message communication is implemented. Take a look at the IntOutput.output() command in IntToRfmM.nc:
IntToRfmM.nc
bool pending; |
The command is using a message structure called IntMsg, declared in tos/lib/Counters/IntMsg.h. It is a simple struct with val and src fields; the first being the data value and the second being the message's source address. We assign these two fields (using the global constant TOS_LOCAL_ADDRESS for the local source address) and call Send.send() with the destination address (TOS_BCAST_ADDR is the radio broadcast address), the message size, and the message data.
The "raw" message data structure used by SendMsg.send() is struct TOS_Msg, declared in tos/system/AM.h. It contains fields for the destination address, message type (the AM handler ID), length, payload, etc. The maximum payload size is TOSH_DATA_LENGTH and is set to 29 by default; you are welcome to experiment with larger data packets but some nontrivial hacking of the code may be required :-) Here we are encapsulating an IntMsg within the data payload field of the TOS_Msg structure.
The SendMsg.send() command is split-phase; it signals the SendMsg.sendDone() event when the message transmission has completed. If send() succeeds, the message is queued for transmission, and if it fails, the messaging component was unable to accept the message.
TinyOS Active Message buffers follow a strict alternating ownership protocol to avoid expensive memory management, while still allowing concurrent operation. If the message layer accepts the send() command, it owns the send buffer and the requesting component should not modify the buffer until the send is complete (as indicated by the sendDone() event).
IntToRfmM uses a pending flag to keep track of the
status of the buffer. If the previous message is still being sent, we
cannot modify the buffer, so we drop the output() operation
and return FAIL. If the send buffer is available, we can fill
in the buffer and send a message.
Recall that IntToRfm's SendMsg interface is wired to GenericComm, a "generic" TinyOS network stack implementation (found in tos/system/GenericComm.nc). If you look at the GenricComm.nc, you'll see that it makes use of a number of low-level interfaces to implement communication: AMStandard to implement Active Message sending and reception, UARTNoCRCPacket to communicate over the mote's serial port, RadioCRCPacket to communicate over the radio, and so forth. You don't need to understand all of the details of these modules but you should be able to follow the GenericComm.nc wiring configuration by now.
If you're really curious, check out AMStandard.nc for some details on how the ActiveMessage layer is built. For example, it implements SendMsg.send() by posting a task to take the message buffer and send it over the serial port (if the destination address is TOS_UART_ADDR or the radio radio (if the destination is anything else). You can dig down through the various layers of code until you see the mechanism that actually transmits a byte over the radio or UART.
The RfmToLeds application is defined by a simple configuration that uses the RfmToInt component to receive a message, and the IntToLeds component to display the received value on the LEDs. Like IntToRfm, the RfmToInt component uses GenericComm to receive messages. Most of RfmToInt.nc should be familiar to you by now, but look at the line:
RfmToIntM.ReceiveIntMsg -> GenericComm.ReceiveMsg[AM_INTMSG];This is how we specify that Active Messages received with the AM_INTMSG handler ID should be wired to the RfmToIntM.ReceiveMsg interface. The direction of the arrow might be a little confusing here. The ReceiveMsg interface (found in tos/interfaces/ReceiveMsg.nc)only declares an event: receive(), which is signaled with a pointer to the received message. So RfmToIntM uses the ReceiveMsg interface, although that interface does not have any commands to call -- just an event that can be signaled.
Memory management for incoming messages is inherently dynamic. A message arrives and fills a buffer, and the Active Message layer decodes the handler type and dispatches it. The buffer is handed to the application component (through the ReceiveMsg.receive() event), but, critically, the application component must return a pointer to a buffer upon completion.
For example, looking at RfmToIntM.nc,
RfmToIntM.nc
/* ... */ |
Note that the last line returns the original message buffer, since the application is done with it. If your component needs to save the message contents for later use, it needs to copy the message to a new buffer, or return a new (free) message buffer for use by the network stack.
TinyOS messages contain a "group ID" in the header, which allows multiple distinct groups of motes to share the same radio channel. If you have multiple groups of motes in your lab, you should set the group ID to a unique 8-bit value to avoid receiving messages for other groups. The default group ID is 0x7D. You can set the group ID by defining the preprocessor symbol DEFAULT_LOCAL_GROUP.
DEFAULT_LOCAL_GROUP = 0x42 # for example...
Use the Makelocal file to set the group ID for all your applications.
In addition, the message header carries a 16-bit destination node address. Each communicating node within a group is given a unique address assigned at compile time. Two common reserved destination addresses we've introduced thus far are TOS_BCAST_ADDR (0xfff) to broadcast to all nodes or TOS_UART_ADDR (0x007e) to send to the serial port.
The node address may be any value EXCEPT the two reserved values described above. To specify the local address of your mote, use the following install syntax:
make mica install.<addr>where <addr> is the local node ID that you wish to program into the mote. For example,
make mica install.38compiles the application for a mica and programs the mote with ID 38. Read Programming Devices for additional information.


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◆ bUseVertexWeights
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◆ MaxBonesPerVertex
◆ MaxDeviationPercentage
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◆ NormalsThreshold
◆ NumOfTrianglesPercentage
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◆ ReductionMethod
◆ ScreenSize
◆ ShadingImportance
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Skyr Yogurt
- 4 cups
- 13 hours
- 196 Flavors
- Meat
4 quarts
skimmed milk3/4 cup
plain skyr4 drops
liquid vegetarian rennet1/4 cup
lukewarm water (at 97 F / 36°C)
In a non-stick saucepan, bring the milk to a boil, at a temperature between 185 F and 210 F (85°C and 100°C) maximum. This step should take about 15 to 20 minutes. Stir the milk regularly with a metal spoon to prevent it from sticking or burning. Towards the end of this step, if the milk starts to stick to the bottom of the pot, reduce the heat to medium-low and stop stirring.
Remove the pan from the heat and allow the milk to cool to a temperature of 115 F (45°C).
Pour the plain skyr into a bowl. Once the milk has cooled, pour 1 cup (250 ml) of cooled milk over the skyr and mix. Pour the liquid rennet into lukewarm water and whisk, then immediately pour this mixture into the milk while whisking (the rennet loses its effectiveness very quickly).
This mixture should sit for 12 hours before proceeding to the rest of the recipe.
To do this, cover the pan with a thick cotton cloth and place it in a warm, draft-free place for 12 hours. During these 12 hours of rest, the curd separates from the whey, which is necessary for the manufacture of skyr.
Pour the curd thus obtained into the cheesecloth. Hang the cheesecloth on a roasting pan in a cool room, or place the cheesecloth in a colander over a large bowl in the refrigerator. Allow the remaining whey to drain until the skyr is ready, and is very thick.
The skyr will keep for 3 weeks, covered, in the refrigerator.


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MONTANA (director: Jennifer Leitzes; screenwriter:Erich Hoeber/Jon Hoeber; cinematographer: Ken Kelsch; editor: Norman Buckley; cast: Stanley Tucci (Nick Roth), Kyra Sedgwick (Claire Kelsky), Robbie Coltrane (Boss), Robin Tunney (Kitty), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Duncan), John Ritter (Dr. Wexler), Ethan Embry (Jimmy), Paul Calderon (Boulez), Jerry Grayson (Benny), Richard Zobel (Simms), 1998)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
I think I've seen this film before: it's called Pulp Fiction. But that aside, this is a very funny crime caper, involving double-crosses, kidnappings, and outrageous shootouts. It is stylized noir-- meaning noir is no more to be taken seriously as in the post-WW11 noir films. It is now used by many directors as a spoof of the genre, as it is here, by the first-time woman director, Jennifer Leitzes. The film relies on its characters to make things happen, as the story really is too slight to do the complete job, of making Montana bigger than the small state of mind it is.
Nick Roth (Tucci) is dying of cancer. Claire Kelsky (Sedgwick) is Nick's hit man partner in the big city syndicate, with the big boss being Robbie Coltrane, someone Claire has worked for during the last twelve years and is very loyal to, as she feels she owns him all that she has.
The title of the film is derived from Montana being thought of as a symbol of what is ideal, an escape from the rotten world of big cities and crime. It is the state to go to when one is through trying to play the crime game or thinks about when one is dying and needs to be comforted.
Claire and Nick bring in an Asian bagman who robbed their boss but who doesn't have the money on him. In a very funny scene, where they get the wrong Asian, at first, in the trunk of their car and when they realize their mistake toss him out on the gutter and get the Asian they wanted, and then cuff him to the radiator in the boss's headquarters so they can sweat the information of where the money is out of him. But they are being set-up by the organization's moneyman, Duncan (Philip Seymour Hoffman). He gets the boss's ear and poison-tongues the only two in the syndicate who remain loyal to the boss.
The boss's sexy girlfriend Kitty (Tunney), who wants to leave the boss but can't, slips the handcuffed bagman a gun. When the boss interrogates the bagman, he tries to kill the boss before revealing where the money is. Nick shoots him before he can fire. Meanwhile, Kitty has taken a powder, and the boss doesn't know who gave the bagman the gun, concluding that he wasn't searched properly.
As a punishment for screwing up, the boss sends Claire and Nick, to retrieve the money. He also insists they take along his obnoxious and mentally deficient son, Jimmy (Embry). Nick tracks the suitcase of money down by talking with the bagman's wife.  Nick and Claire know they are in trouble now, that it will be hard to explain this to the boss. But Claire says she has faith that the boss will trust her after all those years together. Nick tells her not to go alone to the boss.
Another partner of the boss's, a silent one, Dr. Thomas Wexler (Ritter), who has written a book on the Step Program, one of those self-help motivational books, that has gotten him quite a following, is doing an infomercial when Claire and Nick approach him. He is the one who gave the money to the bagman, and he reveals to them that he has hired Duncan and most of the men in the boss's organization to double-cross the boss.
Wexler orders his men to kill Claire, and in a funny scene Claire is seen digging her grave while two of the gangsters watch, as a little boy curious as to what she is doing questions her. Claire will outwit the men and kill them. The little boy returns, curiously seeing her now filling up the hole and wanting to know where the men are. There is also a spoof shootout scene, with all the boss's men coming after Claire and Nick in a swank hotel room, their guns blazing away. It was scenes like this, coming in flashes, that kept the film alive.
Stanley Tucci is a marvelous actor and is a joy to watch here. Kyra Sedgwick works well with Tucci and significantly adds to the farcical nature of the film. Philip Seymour Hoffman never gives a bad performance; here he is the creepy turncoat, a part he can do in his sleep by now. But he does it well. The high level of acting raises this ordinary film in stature, but does not make it into anything more than a highly entertaining and derivative film.
REVIEWED ON 3/28/2000 GRADE: B-
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by Howard LloydChildren and parents were left stunned at the lack of Christmas spirit after an eagle-eyed traffic warden gave the Stagecoach Santa bus a parking ticket in Exeter on Saturday.
Eye-witnesses say the specially-decorated Christmas bus, which travels 'around the South West filled with giveaways and fun for all' according to their website, was parked by Exeter library when it fell foul of parking restrictions.
Despite the bus acting as a grotto, plenty of excited kids and the driver - who was dressed as Gary the Rabbit - pleading his case, the traffic warden was unmoved and gave the ticket anyway.
Witnesses report the warden even insisted that Gary remove his bunny head to issue the ticket to him directly.
"He tried to explain that it's planned event but the parking officer kept saying that he's just doing his job," said witness Gosia Bartram.

"The bus outside library was turned into a grotto. The driver is the one dressed as a bunny.

Devon County Council said no efforts had been made to contact them in advance of the event, and 'suitable parking arrangements could have been made' had they done so.
A Devon County Council spokesperson said: “One of our parking enforcement officers issued a penalty charge notice (PCN) to a bus parked in an area of Rougemont Place, outside the library, where parking is not permitted.
"Unfortunately, we hadn’t received notification of this event in advance, otherwise suitable parking arrangements could have been made for the vehicle.”
The Stagecoach website confirms that the bus was scheduled to be in Exeter on Saturday for a 'High Street & Castle Street Family Christmas Fair'.
It is heading to Barnstaple Carnival on Thursday, November 28 and Children's Hospice South West on Thursday, December 12.
The Santa Bus involves a Stagecoach driver dressing up as Santa 'to raise as much money as possible for a worthy cause'.
The website continues: "The driver will be distributing goodwill and goodies to anyone that boards his specially decorated ‘Santa bus'."
Stagecoach have been contacted for a comment on this story.


Stack¶
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class
quantipy.
Stack
(name='', add_data=None)¶ Container of quantipy.Link objects holding View objects.
A Stack is nested dictionary that structures the data and variable relationships storing all View aggregations performed.
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add_data
(data_key, data=None, meta=None)¶ Sets the data_key into the stack, optionally mapping data sources it.
It is possible to handle the mapping of data sources in different ways:
- no meta or data (for proxy links not connected to source data)
- meta only (for proxy links with supporintg meta)
- data only (meta will be inferred if possible)
- data and meta
Parameters: - data_key (str) – The reference name for a data source connected to the Stack.
- data (pandas.DataFrame) – The input (case) data source.
- meta (dict or OrderedDict) – A quantipy compatible metadata source that describes the case data.
Returns: Return type: None
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add_link
(data_keys=None, filters=['no_filter'], x=None, y=None, views=None, weights=None, variables=None)¶ Add Link and View defintions to the Stack.
The method can be used flexibly: It is possible to pass only Link defintions that might be composed of filter, x and y specifications, only views incl. weight variable selections or arbitrary combinations of the former.
TODO: Remove
variables
from parameter list and method calls.Parameters: - data_keys (str, optional) – The data_key to be added to. If none is given, the method will try to add to all data_keys found in the Stack.
- filters (list of str describing filter defintions, default ['no_filter']) – The string must be a valid input for the pandas.DataFrame.query() method.
- y (x,) – The x and y variables to constrcut Links from.
- views (list of view method names.) – Can be any of Quantipy’s preset Views or the names of created view method specifications.
- weights (list, optional) – The names of weight variables to consider in the data aggregation
process. Weight variables must be of type
float
.
Returns: Return type: None
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add_nets
(on_vars, net_map, expand=None, calc=None, rebase=None, text_prefix='Net:', checking_cluster=None, _batches='all', recode='auto', mis_in_rec=False, verbose=True)¶ Add a net-like view to a specified collection of x keys of the stack.
Parameters: - on_vars (list) – The list of x variables to add the view to.
- net_map (list of dicts) –
The listed dicts must map the net/band text label to lists of categorical answer codes to group together, e.g.:
>>> [{'Top3': [1, 2, 3]}, ... {'Bottom3': [4, 5, 6]}] It is also possible to provide enumerated net definition dictionaries that are explicitly setting ``text`` metadata per ``text_key`` entries:
>>> [{1: [1, 2], 'text': {'en-GB': 'UK NET TEXT', ... 'da-DK': 'DK NET TEXT', ... 'de-DE': 'DE NET TEXT'}}]
- expand ({'before', 'after'}, default None) – If provided, the view will list the net-defining codes after or before the computed net groups (i.e. “overcode” nets).
- calc (dict, default None) –
A dictionary that is attaching a text label to a calculation expression using the the net definitions. The nets are referenced as per ‘net_1’, ‘net_2’, ‘net_3’, … . Supported calculation expressions are add, sub, div, mul. Example:
>>> {'calc': ('net_1', add, 'net_2'), 'text': {'en-GB': 'UK CALC LAB', ... 'da-DK': 'DA CALC LAB', ... 'de-DE': 'DE CALC LAB'}}
- rebase (str, default None) – Use another variables margin’s value vector for column percentage computation.
- text_prefix (str, default 'Net:') – By default each code grouping/net will have its
text
label prefixed with ‘Net: ‘. Toggle by passing None (or an empty str, ‘’). - checking_cluster (quantipy.Cluster, default None) – When provided, an automated checking aggregation will be added to the
Cluster
instance. - _batches (str or list of str) – Only for
qp.Links
that are defined in thisqp.Batch
instances views are added. - recode ({‘extend_codes’, ‘drop_codes’, ‘collect_codes’, ‘collect_codes@cat_name’},) – default ‘auto’ Adds variable with nets as codes to DataSet/Stack. If ‘extend_codes’, codes are extended with nets. If ‘drop_codes’, new variable only contains nets as codes. If ‘collect_codes’ or ‘collect_codes@cat_name’ the variable contains nets and another category that summarises all codes which are not included in any net. If no cat_name is provided, ‘Other’ is taken as default
- mis_in_rec (bool, default False) – Skip or include codes that are defined as missing when recoding from net definition.
Returns: The stack instance is modified inplace.
Return type: None
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add_stats
(on_vars, stats=['mean'], other_source=None, rescale=None, drop=True, exclude=None, factor_labels=True, custom_text=None, checking_cluster=None, _batches='all', recode=False, verbose=True)¶ Add a descriptives view to a specified collection of xks of the stack.
Valid descriptives views: {‘mean’, ‘stddev’, ‘min’, ‘max’, ‘median’, ‘sem’}
Parameters: - on_vars (list) – The list of x variables to add the view to.
- stats (list of str, default
['mean']
) – The metrics to compute and add as a view. - other_source (str) – If provided the Link’s x-axis variable will be swapped with the (numerical) variable provided. This can be used to attach statistics of a different variable to a Link definition.
- rescale (dict) – A dict that maps old to new codes, e.g. {1: 5, 2: 4, 3: 3, 4: 2, 5: 1}
- drop (bool, default True) – If
rescale
is provided all codes that are not mapped will be ignored in the computation. - exclude (list) – Codes/values to ignore in the computation.
- factor_labels (bool / str, default True) – Writes the (rescaled) factor values next to the category text label. If True, square-brackets are used. If ‘()’, normal brackets are used.
- custom_text (str, default None) – A custom string affix to put at the end of the requested statistics’ names.
- checking_cluster (quantipy.Cluster, default None) – When provided, an automated checking aggregation will be added to the
Cluster
instance. - _batches (str or list of str) – Only for
qp.Links
that are defined in thisqp.Batch
instances views are added. - recode (bool, default False) – Create a new variable that contains only the values which are needed for the stat computation. The values and the included data will be rescaled.
Returns: The stack instance is modified inplace.
Return type: None
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add_tests
(_batches='all', verbose=True)¶ Apply coltests for selected batches.
Sig. Levels are taken from
qp.Batch
definitions.Parameters: _batches (str or list of str) – Only for qp.Links
that are defined in thisqp.Batch
instances views are added.Returns: Return type: None
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aggregate
(views, unweighted_base=True, categorize=[], batches='all', xs=None, bases={}, verbose=True)¶ Add views to all defined
qp.Link
inqp.Stack
.Parameters: - views (str or list of str or qp.ViewMapper) –
views
that are added. - unweighted_base (bool, default True) – If True, unweighted ‘cbase’ is added to all non-arrays. This parameter will be deprecated in future, please use bases instead.
- categorize (str or list of str) – Determines how numerical data is handled: If provided, the
variables will get counts and percentage aggregations
(
'counts'
,'c%'
) alongside the'cbase'
view. If False, only'cbase'
views are generated for non-categorical types. - batches (str/ list of str, default 'all') – Name(s) of
qp.Batch
instance(s) that are used to aggregate theqp.Stack
. - xs (list of str) – Names of variable, for which views are added.
- bases (dict) – Defines which bases should be aggregated, weighted or unweighted.
Returns: Return type: None, modify
qp.Stack
inplace- views (str or list of str or qp.ViewMapper) –
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apply_meta_edits
(batch_name, data_key, filter_key=None, freeze=False)¶ Take over meta_edits from Batch definitions.
Parameters: - batch_name (str) – Name of the Batch whose meta_edits are taken.
- data_key (str) – Accessing this metadata:
self[data_key].meta
Batch definitions are takes from here and this metadata is modified. - filter_key (str, default None) – Currently not implemented!
Accessing this metadata:
self[data_key][filter_key].meta
Batch definitions are takes from here and this metadata is modified.
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cumulative_sum
(on_vars, _batches='all', verbose=True)¶ Add cumulative sum view to a specified collection of xks of the stack.
Parameters: - on_vars (list) – The list of x variables to add the view to.
- _batches (str or list of str) – Only for
qp.Links
that are defined in thisqp.Batch
instances views are added.
Returns: The stack instance is modified inplace.
Return type: None
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describe
(index=None, columns=None, query=None, split_view_names=False)¶ Generates a structured overview of all Link defining Stack elements.
Parameters: - columns (index,) – optional Controls the output representation by structuring a pivot-style table according to the index and column values.
- query (str) – A query string that is valid for the pandas.DataFrame.query() method.
- split_view_names (bool, default False) – If True, will create an output of unique view name notations split up into their components.
Returns: description – DataFrame summing the Stack’s structure in terms of Links and Views.
Return type: pandas.DataFrame
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freeze_master_meta
(data_key, filter_key=None)¶ Save
.meta
in.master_meta
for a defined data_key.Parameters: - data_key (str) – Using:
self[data_key]
- filter_key (str, default None) – Currently not implemented!
Using:
self[data_key][filter_key]
- data_key (str) – Using:
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static
from_sav
(data_key, filename, name=None, path=None, ioLocale='en_US.UTF-8', ioUtf8=True)¶ Creates a new stack instance from a .sav file.
Parameters: - data_key (str) – The data_key for the data and meta in the sav file.
- filename (str) – The name to the sav file.
- name (str) – A name for the sav (stored in the meta).
- path (str) – The path to the sav file.
- ioLocale (str) – The locale used in during the sav processing.
- ioUtf8 (bool) – Boolean that indicates the mode in which text communicated to or from the I/O module will be.
Returns: stack – A stack instance that has a data_key with data and metadata to run aggregations.
Return type: stack object instance
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static
load
(path_stack, compression='gzip', load_cache=False)¶ Load Stack instance from .stack file.
Parameters: - path_stack (str) – The full path to the .stack file that should be created, including the extension.
- compression ({'gzip'}, default 'gzip') – The compression type that has been used saving the file.
- load_cache (bool, default False) – Loads MatrixCache into the Stack a .cache file is found.
Returns: Return type: None
-
static
recode_from_net_def
(dataset, on_vars, net_map, expand, recode='auto', text_prefix='Net:', mis_in_rec=False, verbose=True)¶ Create variables from net definitions.
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reduce
(data_keys=None, filters=None, x=None, y=None, variables=None, views=None)¶ Remove keys from the matching levels, erasing discrete Stack portions.
Parameters: filters, x, y, views (data_keys,) – Returns: Return type: None
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refresh
(data_key, new_data_key='', new_weight=None, new_data=None, new_meta=None)¶ Re-run all or a portion of Stack’s aggregations for a given data key.
refresh() can be used to re-weight the data using a new case data weight variable or to re-run all aggregations based on a changed source data version (e.g. after cleaning the file/ dropping cases) or a combination of the both.
Note
Currently this is only supported for the preset QuantipyViews(), namely:
'cbase'
,'rbase'
,'counts'
,'c%'
,'r%'
,'mean'
,'ebase'
.Parameters: - data_key (str) – The Links’ data key to be modified.
- new_data_key (str, default '') – Controls if the existing data key’s files and aggregations will be overwritten or stored via a new data key.
- new_weight (str) – The name of a new weight variable used to re-aggregate the Links.
- new_data (pandas.DataFrame) – The case data source. If None is given, the original case data found for the data key will be used.
- new_meta (quantipy meta document) – A meta data source associated with the case data. If None is given, the original meta definition found for the data key will be used.
Returns: Return type: None
-
remove_data
(data_keys)¶ Deletes the data_key(s) and associated data specified in the Stack.
Parameters: data_keys (str or list of str) – The data keys to remove. Returns: Return type: None
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restore_meta
(data_key, filter_key=None)¶ Restore the
.master_meta
for a defined data_key if it exists.Undo self.apply_meta_edits()
Parameters: - data_key (str) – Accessing this metadata:
self[data_key].meta
- filter_key (str, default None) – Currently not implemented!
Accessing this metadata:
self[data_key][filter_key].meta
- data_key (str) – Accessing this metadata:
-
save
(path_stack, compression='gzip', store_cache=True, decode_str=False, dataset=False, describe=False)¶ Save Stack instance to .stack file.
Parameters: - path_stack (str) – The full path to the .stack file that should be created, including the extension.
- compression ({'gzip'}, default 'gzip') – The intended compression type.
- store_cache (bool, default True) – Stores the MatrixCache in a file in the same location.
- decode_str (bool, default=True) – If True the unicoder function will be used to decode all str objects found anywhere in the meta document/s.
- dataset (bool, default=False) – If True a json/csv will be saved parallel to the saved stack for each data key in the stack.
- describe (bool, default=False) – If True the result of stack.describe().to_excel() will be saved parallel to the saved stack.
Returns: Return type: None
-
variable_types
(data_key, only_type=None, verbose=True)¶ Group variables by data types found in the meta.
Parameters: - data_key (str) – The reference name of a case data source hold by the Stack instance.
- only_type ({'int', 'float', 'single', 'delimited set', 'string',) – ‘date’, time’, ‘array’}, optional Will restrict the output to the given data type.
Returns: types – A summary of variable names mapped to their data types, in form of {type_name: [variable names]} or a list of variable names confirming only_type.
Return type: dict or list of str
-


#include <GrPolygonEdgeList.h>
Classes | |
| struct | SEdge |
Public Member Functions | |
| GrPolygonEdgeList (GrPolygonGroup *group) | |
| class GrPolygonEdgeList | |
| ~GrPolygonEdgeList () | |
| unsigned int | GetEdgeCount () const |
| edge iteration. | |
| const SEdge & | GetEdge (unsigned int edgeIdx) const |
| unsigned int | GetNeighbor (unsigned int polygonIdx, unsigned int polygonEdge) const |
| public methods |
Definition at line 19 of file GrPolygonEdgeList.h.
| GrPolygonEdgeList::GrPolygonEdgeList | ( | GrPolygonGroup * | group | ) |
class GrPolygonEdgeList
ctor & dtor
allocate space for edge data.
build the edge list.
Definition at line 39 of file GrPolygonEdgeList.cpp.
| GrPolygonEdgeList::~GrPolygonEdgeList | ( | ) |
Definition at line 56 of file GrPolygonEdgeList.cpp.
| const SEdge& GrPolygonEdgeList::GetEdge | ( | unsigned int | edgeIdx | ) | const [inline] |
Definition at line 35 of file GrPolygonEdgeList.h.
| unsigned int GrPolygonEdgeList::GetEdgeCount | ( | ) | const [inline] |
| unsigned int GrPolygonEdgeList::GetNeighbor | ( | unsigned int | polygonIdx, | |
| unsigned int | polygonEdge | |||
| ) | const |
public methods
returns the neighboring polygon on the edge of the polygon specified.
Definition at line 70 of file GrPolygonEdgeList.cpp.


TS Raymond forecast to weaken as it heads toward Los Cabos
by The Associated PressMEXICO CITY — Tropical Storm Raymond is forecast to weaken over the Pacific as it moves toward Mexico’s resort-studded Los Cabos.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Saturday that Raymond’s maximum sustained winds remained around 50 mph (85 kph).
The storm’s centre was about 455 miles (735 kilometres) south-southwest of the tip of the Baja California Peninsula, and it was heading north at 9 mph (15 kph).
The hurricane centre said Raymond should dump 3 to 5 inches of rain over southern parts of the peninsula, threatening dangerous floods.
The storm was forecast to degrade into a tropical depression as it nears the area late Sunday and become a remnant low Monday.
The twin cities of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo are popular beach destinations for foreign and domestic travellers.
The Associated Press


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Ashcroft, Elsie Margaret
| Birth Name | Ashcroft, Elsie Margaret |
| Gender | female |
| Age at Death | 77 years, 3 months, 14 days |
Narrative
Elsie Ashcroft married Fred Kidd, Grandson of the Hon. John Kidd of "Blair Athol", Campbelltown, who was the local Member of State Parliament. Mr Fred Kidd died suddenly while on a visit to Scotland.
Mrs Kidd married Clifford Leake a member of the 1st A.I.F. after the 1st World War. Mr. Leake was an Architect, who built "Maryvale" on the western side of Liverpool, where they lived for several years. It is from this home & property that the suburb of Maryvale was named. The house is still there.?? A son of her second marriage was Pilot Officer Leake, R.A.A.F. lost his life on a mission over Europe in the 2nd World War. Mrs. Leake must have lived with her daughter Jean Railton at Willoughby, when she died at St. Vincents Hoispital.
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1886-08-16 | Liverpool NSW #19481 | ||
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| Death | 1963-11-30 | St Vincents Hospital (age 77yrs) | ||
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| Burial | 1963-12-02 | Northern Suburbs Crem, Neiche #212.S.G. | ||
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Parents
| Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father | Ashcroft, Edward James | 1853-01-17 | 1920-11-26 | |
| Mother | Fowler, Eliza | 1852-12-12 | 1931-09-18 | |
| Sister | Ashcroft, Amy Eliza | 1876-03-13 | 1958-12-25 | |
| Brother | Ashcroft, Edward Thomas Harrington “Ted” | 1877-12-31 | 1950-12-08 | |
| Sister | Ashcroft, Mary “Eva” | 1880-02-16 | 1965-08-02 | |
| Brother | Ashcroft, Leslie James | 1882-03-03 | 1955-03-31 | |
| Brother | Ashcroft, Thomas | 1884-08-18 | 1970-04-01 | |
| Ashcroft, Elsie Margaret | 1886-08-16 | 1963-11-30 | ||
| Brother | Ashcroft, Oswald Harold | 1890-02-20 | 1913-03-26 | |
| Brother | Ashcroft, Cecil Alfred | 1893-04-04 | 1945-06-13 | |
| Sister | Ashcroft, Beatrice Elizabeth | 1894-11-18 | 1981-09-10 |
Families
Family of Kidd, Frederick Norman John and Ashcroft, Elsie Margaret |
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| Married | Husband | Kidd, Frederick Norman John ( * 1879 + 1911-09-22 ) | ||||||||||||||
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Frederick Kidd age 27, Grazier of Minto, Parents John Kidd & Sophia Collier, Grazier. |
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| Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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| Kidd, John Edward “Jack” | 1909 | 1987-03-06 |
| Kidd, Jean Ashcroft | 1910 | 1994-03-28 |
| Type | Value | Notes | Sources |
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| _UID | 3E60341ECCFBDA1195228CA6437075520508 |
Family of Leake, Clifton Downs and Ashcroft, Elsie Margaret
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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| Marriage | 1919-05-24 | St Lukes CofE Liverpool NSW #6683 | ||
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Marriage Clifton Leake age 27yrs, from Goulburn, son of Walter Henry Leake, Manager in A.M.P. & Rosina W. Woolley.
| Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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| Leake, Roslyn Downs | 1923-01-03 | 1944-11-06 |
| Type | Value | Notes | Sources |
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| _UID | E523BE98C503DB119522EFD36A6B387E1623 |
Attributes
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| _UID | 2660341ECCFBDA1195228CA643707552ED88 |


Java Simon API provides support for implementing an internal application performance monitoring. Monitors (called Simons) have to be incorporated directly into the code and API provides additional management features for these monitors.
Java Simon is not a tool for profiling in the first place - it is rather a library that helps to implement performance (and other metrics) monitoring directly in the application as the integral part of it. Measured metrics can be sampled and stored persistently for later processing, trend analyzing, problem tracking, etc. It helps to give an additional perspective (history) to the application.
{@link org.javasimon.Stopwatch} is probably the most often used monitor. Simple use case looks like this:
Stopwatch stopwatch = SimonManager.getStopwatch("stopwatch-name"); Split split = stopwatch.start(); //... measured code split.stop();
Monitors are always obtained from the {@link org.javasimon.Manager} - in this case so called "default manager" is used via convenient utility class {@link org.javasimon.SimonManager}. Every time the same name of the monitor is requested the same monitor is returned.
If there is no need for explicit {@code stopwatch} reference, the first two lines can be shortened to:
Split split = SimonManager.getStopwatch("stopwatch-name").start();
Instead of stopping the stopwatch directly, there is the {@link org.javasimon.Split} object that represents the measured time-span. Client code has to keep this reference in order to stop the measuring, but it also allows for multiple splits measured in parallel without binding them to specific threads.
Simon names form a hierarchy similar to Java Logging API. It is possible to disable whole subtrees of Simons to minimiaze performance penalty (mostly neglectable) or use {@link org.javasimon.utils.SimonUtils} to perform other operations on the hierarchy (print Simon tree, aggregations, ...).
 Manager provides access to the Simons (one manager, one hierarchy) and other management operations related to one set of Simons. Whole manager can be disabled which is even stronger form of disabled Simon (with close to no performance overhead - see DisabledEnabledComparison from example classes).
Being able to put a Stopwatch anywhere is powerful because one is not limited to method beginning or end, split allows to stop the stopwatch in a different thread, etc. Drawback is that the code might get poluted with various Simon code. Simon API provides a few tools how to get results quickly with minimal to no coding:
In addition to this Simon provides JMX support (see {@link org.javasimon.jmx}) or simple EJB/CDI intercpetor.
It is also very easy to hook onto Simon events (create/destroy of the Simon, measuring, start/stop, ...) using {@link org.javasimon.callback.Callback} facility (set up on the Manager object).


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These are the slides from Kerry Buckley's talk on background processing:
http://www.slideshare.net/kjbuckley/background-processing


I’m A Celebrity’s Jacqueline Jossa wants to prove she’s ‘no pushover’ after husband Dan Osborne’s alleged flings
by Rebecca LewisFORMER EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa intends to use her stint on I’m A Celebrity to prove that she’s not a “pushover”.
The 27-year-old is married to ex-Towie star Dan Osborne but, following a series of affair allegations, the actress has admitted she thinks “some people see me as a pushover or doormat – I am not”.
Now, going on the hit ITV reality show, Jacqueline has opened up on the public perception of her, suggesting she is more “up for a laugh” than people think.
“I also think some people pity me. I want to show I am fine, I am up for a laugh and that I will go for it and try my best,” she said.
Jacqueline has two children – four-year-old Ella and 17-month-old Mia – with Dan, and is also step-mother to his son Teddy.
The pair, who’ve been rocked by cheating accusations since marrying in June 2017, are thought to be hoping the six-week break will bring them closer together – just like when Dan went into Celebrity Big Brother.
They split in 2018 after a series of rows over Dan allegedly kissing Love Island star Alexandra Crane on a night out.
Their marriage was also strained when he began working away from home on a fitness camp with another Love Island star, Gabby Allen.
Marcel Somerville then accused girlfriend Gabby of cheating with Dan while they were still together, something which they both denied.
Jacqueline and Dan were back on by June 2018 and a source close to the pair told The Sun that they believe “that being apart while she’s on the show will mean they’re closer than ever when she comes back to the UK – absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that”.
However Jacqueline has said that the hardest part of her time in the jungle will be not seeing her girls.
“I didn’t know how to face even telling them. In the end, I thought the best idea was to say ‘mummy is going away for work’ and I would see them soon. My family is so close-knit and I will miss them all terribly,” she added.
In the first I’m A Celebrity advert featuring the 2019 all-star line-up, the mum-of-two shared that she doesn’t “really know why I’m doing the jungle actually”.
“I don’t like heights, I don’t like spiders, I’m not the best swimmer…
She added: “I’m dramatic so there will be screams and there will definitely be tears. There will be noises you probably haven’t heard before.”


Each platform ({@link nl.nikhef.browsers.BrowsersWindows Windows}, {@link nl.nikhef.browsers.BrowsersMacOSX Mac OS X} and {@link nl.nikhef.browsers.BrowsersUnix Unix/Linux}) has its own method of running the web browsers, of detecting which browsers are installed, and of discovering which is the system default. All platforms share a list of known browsers, however, which is defined in {@code browsers.properties}. Generally, only these browsers can be invoked.
For client-side SSL authentication, it may be needed to install a certificate and corresponding private key into the browser. This is done by the method {@link nl.nikhef.browsers.IBrowsers#installPKCS12}, which expects a PKCS#12 file to import from. After this, you can use {@link nl.nikhef.browsers.IBrowsers#openUrl} to open a HTTPS page.


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| Source0..n | InformationSourceType |
The Source field contains information describing the identity, resources and timing of involvement for a single contributing Source. This field is implemented through the xsi:type extension mechanism. The default type is CIQIdentity3.0InstanceType in the http://stix.mitre.org/extensions/Identity#CIQIdentity3.0-1 namespace. This type is defined in the extensions/identity/ciq_identity.xsd file or at the URL http://stix.mitre.org/XMLSchema/extensions/identity/ciq_identity/1.1.1/ciq_identity.xsd. Those who wish to express a simple name may also do so by not specifying an xsi:type and using the Name field. |