Example of including a file
Basic tests
Within a commented block
Within a center block
The following included file will be centered:
Within a blockquote
This is similar to the center block:
Before
After
Within an example block, it should not be possible to include a file.
#+INCLUDE: "./spec/html_examples/only-list.org"
Within a list
- A list that has an included file directive
- Only go to the first level
- when included it always goes to the first level and absorbs next list items
- 3rd level, though it should be a different list
Within a table, cannot be included
| One | Two | Three |
| #+INCLUDE: “./spec/html_examples/only-list.org” | Five | Six |
| Seven | Eight | Nine |
When including a file as an example
When including a file as an quote


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{{ weather.currently.temperature | round }} {{ weather.currently.temperature | fahrenheit }} C/F
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I'm a passionate and curious full stack developer with an obsession for user experience, problem-solving, and learning more. I'm highly adaptable, patient, and can persevere in any environment. Currently working on my Amazon Web Services Developer Associate Certificate. My interests include hip-hop, geography, cooking, hiking, and standup comedy!
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--- layout: post status: publish published: true title: 75+ Aggregated BizTalk Blogs author: display_name: Tomas Restrepo login: tomasr email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: http://winterdom.com/ author_login: tomasr author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>author_url: http://winterdom.com/ wordpress_id: 775 wordpress_url: http://winterdom.com/2006/08/75aggregatedbiztalkblogs date: '2006-08-28 17:46:06 +0000' date_gmt: '2006-08-28 17:46:06 +0000' categories: - BizTalk tags: [] comments: [] ---
I just noticed today that Stephen W. Thomas has created a place on his excellent BizTalkGurus.com site that aggregates more than 75 BizTalk-related blogs. Pretty cool, and a nice addition to the BizTalkGurus site which is already one of the best BizTalk resources on the net with all of Stephen's samples and the forums!


Things have changed in CreateRemoteThread due to a new feature in Vista: Session Separation. Session Separation ensures that core system processes included services always run in session 0 while all user processes run in different sessions. As a result, any process running in user session failed to inject DLL into system process as CreateRemoteThread did not work across session boundaries.


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| Batch Size: 5 Gallons | 7.5 lbs Maris Otter |
| Original Gravity: 1.053 | 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal malt 80L |
| Final Gravity: 1.013 | 1 lbs Chocolate Malt |
| SRM: 39 | 8 oz Roasted Barley |
| IBU's: 24.7 | 2.00 oz Crystal hops (3.10%AA) 90 minutes |
| Total Grain: 9.5 lbs | 0.50 oz Crystal hops (3.10%AA) 30 minutes |
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BoundedBlockingQueue wraps any Queue and turns the result into a BlockingQueue with a limited capacity.
An iterator over a ByteString.
A rope-like immutable data structure containing bytes.
A mutable builder for efficiently creating a akka.util.ByteString.
A mutable builder for efficiently creating a akka.util.ByteString.
The created ByteString is not automatically compacted.
ClassLoaderObjectInputStream tries to utilize the provided ClassLoader to load Classes and falls back to ObjectInputStreams resolver.
A compact ByteString.
A compact ByteString.
The ByteString is guarantied to be contiguous in memory and to use only as much memory as required for its contents.
An implementation of a ConcurrentMultiMap Adds/remove is serialized over the specified key Reads are fully concurrent <-- el-cheapo
An implementation of a ConcurrentMultiMap Adds/remove is serialized over the specified key Reads are fully concurrent <-- el-cheapo
Default implementation of TokenBucket that uses System.nanoTime
as the time source.
PriorityQueueStabilizer wraps a priority queue so that it respects FIFO for elements of equal priority.
StablePriorityBlockingQueue is a blocking priority queue that preserves order for elements of equal priority.
StablePriorityQueue is a priority queue that preserves order for elements of equal priority.
Typeclass which describes a classification hierarchy.
Typeclass which describes a classification hierarchy. Observe the contract between isEqual
and isSubclass
!
An atomic switch that can be either on or off
An immutable multi-map that expresses the value type as a type function of the key type.
An immutable multi-map that expresses the value type as a type function of the key type. Create it with a type constructor that expresses the relationship:
trait Key { type Type = T } case class MyValue[T](...) // type function from Key to MyValue type KV[K <: Key] = MyValue[K#Type] val map = TypedMultiMap.empty[Key, KV] // a plain Int => String map would use this function: type plain[K <: Int] = String // a map T => T would use this function: type identity[T <: AnyRef] = T
Caveat: using keys which take type parameters does not work due to conflicts
with the existential interpretation of Key[_]
. A workaround is to define
a key type like above and provide a subtype that provides its type parameter
as type member Type
.
Set of methods which allow easy implementation of hashCode
.
Set of methods which allow easy implementation of hashCode
.
Example:
override def hashCode: Int = { var result = HashCode.SEED //collect the contributions of various fields result = HashCode.hash(result, fPrimitive) result = HashCode.hash(result, fObject) result = HashCode.hash(result, fArray) result }
This is a minimized byte-code parser that concentrates exclusively on line numbers and source file extraction.
This is a minimized byte-code parser that concentrates exclusively on line numbers and source file extraction. It works for all normal classes up to format 52:0 (JDK8), and it also works for Lambdas that are Serializable. The latter restriction is due to the fact that the proxy object generated by LambdaMetafactory otherwise contains no information about which method backs this particular lambda (and there might be multiple defined within a single class).
A Timeout is a wrapper on top of Duration to be more specific about what the duration means.
(Since version 2.4-M1) Not in use.
A rope-like immutable data structure containing bytes. The goal of this structure is to reduce copying of arrays when concatenating and slicing sequences of bytes, and also providing a thread safe way of working with bytes.
TODO: Add performance characteristics


A help file written in simplified HTML.
Allows bold, emphasis, underline.
Images are supported:
Links to pendant screens, such as the Tool Settings.


Class Memory
Represents the WebAssembly memory. Memory is allocated in pages, which are 64k bytes in size.
Namespace: WasmerSharp
Assembly: WasmerSharp.dll
Syntax
public class Memory : WasmerSharp.WasmerNativeHandle
Constructors
Memory(UInt32, Nullable<UInt32>)
Constructor for memory, throws if there is an error.
Declaration
public Memory (uint minPages, Nullable<uint> maxPages = null);
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| System.UInt32 | minPages | Minimum number of allowed pages |
| System.Nullable<System.UInt32> | maxPages | Optional, Maximum number of allowed pages |
Properties
Data
Returns a pointer to the memory backing this Memory instance.
Declaration
public IntPtr Data { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.IntPtr | To be added. |
DataLength
Returns the current length in bytes of the given memory
Declaration
public uint DataLength { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.UInt32 | To be added. |
PageLength
Returns the current length in pages of the given memory
Declaration
public uint PageLength { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.UInt32 | To be added. |
Methods
Create(UInt32, Nullable<UInt32>)
Creates a memory block with the specified minimum and maxiumum limits
Declaration
public static WasmerSharp.Memory Create (uint minPages, Nullable<uint> maxPages = null);
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| System.UInt32 | minPages | Minimum number of allowed pages |
| System.Nullable<System.UInt32> | maxPages | Optional, Maximum number of allowed pages |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Memory | The object on success, or null on failure. You can use the LastError error property to get details on the error. |
Grow(UInt32)
Grows the memory by the specified amount of pages.
Declaration
public bool Grow (uint deltaPages);
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| System.UInt32 | deltaPages | The number of additional pages to grow |
Returns
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| System.Boolean | true on success, false on error. You can use the LastError property to get more details on the error. |


Young lady rejoices as she survives 2019 without getting pregnant
- A Nigerian lady has celebrated an unusual achievement on social media
- The excited lady revealed that she managed to scale through the most of 2019 without getting pregnant
- The post was received with mixed reactions from her followers
With just about a few weeks to the end of 2019, a lot of people are already taking out time to reflect on how the year has been for them, and how they have managed to stick to the resolutions they made at the start of the year.
Many have shared stories of how they achieved some of their goals as it concerns their careers and other aspects of their lives.
For a social media user identified as @Miss_Okikiola on micro blogging platform, Twitter, her goal was fully realised and she was filled with excitement as she shared the news with members of the internet community.
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Nigerians react as Davido takes his squad designer shopping in Dubai
In a post shared on her page, the lady said that the year is over and she managed not to get pregnant.
"I survived 2019 without getting pregnant. Guys I did it," her post read.
See tweet below:
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Reacting to the post, some of the users on the platform were sighted in her comment section reminding her that the year is not over, and anything can still happen. Read funny responses below:
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously gathered the report of popular cross-dresser Bobrisky, who got Nigerians talking after he said that he does not want to get pregnant yet. The controversial crossdresser took to his social media page to state his concerns about getting pregnant as he does not like to use 'protection'.
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The CaveView application is built from it's constituent ES6 modules and the three.js 3D library into a browser supported single script file using the rollup ES6 module bundler.
Follow the instructions for your platform to install node.js and git provided with those packages
Clone the CaveView.js repository from GitHub.
Run "npm install" to install all rqeuired npm packages.
To build uncompressed .js files, run "npm run build".
To build compressed .js files, run "npm run build-min".
The resultant scripts and associated resources (images, css and associated libraries) are assembled in the build/CaveView directory.


Freemasonry as we know it today, has been in existence since the early eighteenth century, when four Masonic lodges in London united to form a Grand Lodge to charter new groups and coordinate their activities.
The system practiced by those lodges is called Speculative Masonry as opposed to Operative Masonry, the craft of stonemasons. Freemasonry combines concepts from the building trade with a myth based on King Solomon's building of the holy temple in Jerusalem. It is thus a "system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols." Freemasonry is not a religion but includes persons of all religious traditions, as well as those who have no religious affiliation.
Freemasonry looks farther back, however, through the Rosicrucians of the Renaissance, the guilds of cathedral builders in the Middle Ages, along with the Troubadours, Albigensians, and Templars, to the ancient Mysteries of Orpheus, Isis, and Eleusis. It has symbolic links with other similar initiatory orders throughout human history, being the chief modern form of the ancient Mysteries.
In its outer form, Freemasonry is an organization of persons for study, for charitable and social cooperation and betterment, and for mutual support. In its inner form, however, it seeks, through the working of ancient rituals, to develop and integrate the individual Freemason in a balanced way, to bring about an inner realization of the link we each have with the Life force of the universe, to form a working unit for the evolution of humanity as a whole, and generally to serve the wellbeing of the planet and our fellows.
Freemasonry has no doctrine. It is a system of symbols with implications for a way of living that leads to self-improvement through service to the world. As such, it is compatible with a variety of worldviews and religious or philosophical traditions, without being itself limited to any one of them.
Freemasonry is a design for living which, when followed, leads its initiates to a knowledge of their own inner divine nature and of their harmonious linkage with all life on the planet. It gives Freemasons a training that can eventually bring them to a gateway opening upon the Path that all human beings can walk to self-knowledge and to mutual support and cooperation.
To achieve spiritual unfoldment on any path, the aspirant must earnestly seek after truth. All of us have the ability of realizing our inner potential, but like a seed planted in the soil, our potential has to be cared for and fostered before it can grow and bloom. Freemasonry provides a regimen of self-cultivation in the company of other aspirants to the Path.
Freemasonry has its spiritual roots in the ancient Mysteries and is today the modern form of those mysteries. It is said to have been established on this planet by Great Ones, representatives of the universal and eternal Grand Lodge, who came to guide their younger brothers and sisters. Throughout the ages, Freemasonry has preserved the Ancient Wisdom of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth, which might otherwise have been lost to humanity during periods of darkness. The symbols by which that Ancient Wisdom is expressed have varied with time and place, as civilizations have come and gone, but the fundamental design of the work and its great truths have remained unchanged. Modern Freemasonry is a treasury of spiritual values drawn from the Great Lodge above and following the Plan of the Great Architect.
Some Freemasons are unaware of the depth of their heritage and of the spiritual power inherent in their ceremonies. They are satisfied with the ideal of brotherhood and the ethics and charitable work of Freemasonry. However, Bro. W. L. Wilmshurst, a noted authority in the masculine Order, has this to say about the nature of Freemasonry and its inner meaning:
“It proclaims the fact that there exists a higher and more secret path of life than that which we normally tread. When the outer world and its pursuits and rewards lose their attractiveness for us, as sooner or later they will, we are compelled to turn back upon ourselves, to seek and knock at the door of a world within. It is upon this inner world, and the path to and through it, that Freemasonry promises light, charts the way, and indicates the qualifications and conditions of progress.”
Co‑Freemasonry adds two salient strengths to those shared by all Freemasonry. First, it is international, linking together people of various cultures in the shared task of building the spiritual temple of human unity. Second, it restores full Masonic privileges to women, and has thus taken an important step to restoring the spiritual splendor of the ancient Mysteries, in which the participation of both men and women was an essential factor. The term “Co-Freemasonry” or “Co-Masonry” was adopted to distinguish the Order from exclusively masculine or feminine groups and to indicate that both men and women are admitted to membership on equal footing. These strengths of universality and equality are essential elements for all Masonic work.
In the Eastern Order of International Co‑Freemasonry, the three Craft Degrees are worked, as well as Degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and several Degrees of the York Rite. The Order is headquartered in India, but the term “Eastern” in its name refers to the symbolic East, the rising place of Light, rather than to a geographical direction. That spiritual orientation is expressed in a motto of the Eastern Order: Ex Oriente Lux (Light from the East).
Co-Freemasonry started in France in the late nineteenth century to correct a flaw in the interpretation of the traditional 'landmarks' (the fundamental principles, of Freemasonry). That flaw was the exclusion of women from the order. Although women have long been admitted to Masonic practices in various ways, Co-Freemasonry is dedicated to complete equality between the sexes, as well as among all races and religions.
In the early 1880s a French lodge of masculine Freemasons determined to carry out Masonic principles of equality with consistency, and therefore initiated a woman. As a result of that act of conscience, a few years later a new lodge was formed in Paris, from which eventually developed several Orders of Freemasonry that admit men and women equally as well as several all-women Orders.
The Eastern Order of International Co-Freemasonry is a twenty-first-century reform that practices traditional Masonry, but with a conscious realization of its inner, esoteric, psychological and spiritual significance as a contemporary expression of the Mysteries. It admits into its fellowship all properly prepared persons on equal footing, without distinction of race, religion, or sex.
During the latter half of the nineteenth century, several French Freemasons urged the admission of women into Masonry. They claimed that the rules adopted in earlier centuries were obsolete and that rules governing the physical qualifications of candidates, based only upon the customs of a particular time and place, could and should be changed. They emphasized the educational advantages and the splendid preparation for citizenship to be derived from Masonic teaching.
In 1882 the concern for equality of the sexes resulted in the application of Marie Deraismes—a writer and lecturer on behalf of women’s rights—for membership in the Lodge Les Libres Penseurs (The Free Thinkers) at Le Pecq, near Paris. That lodge, working under the recently formed Symbolic Grand Lodge of France, asked for authorization to enter Mme. Deraismes. Being refused, the lodge withdrew from the French Grand Lodge and proceeded to carry out the initiation. Marie Deraismes was made a Mason in the presence of a large number of visitors. But French Freemasonry was not yet ready for such a forward step. Les Libres Penseurs lost its standing and became dormant.
In 1893, however, Dr. Georges Martin, a French Senator and strong feminist supporter, began again. He had been present at the initiation of Marie Deraismes, and he knew Bro. Houbron, who had been Wor. Master of Les Libres Penseurs at the time of Mme. Deraismes’s initiation. He persuaded these two, together with several other French Freemasons, to start a new organization open to men and women equally. The result was the formation of a new Grand Lodge devoted to the equality of the sexes, and that same year Worshipful Lodge Human Rights, Co‑Masonry (La Respectable Loge Le Droit Humain, Maçonnerie Mixte) was opened in Paris. Sixteen other prominent French women were entered, passed, and raised.
Annie Besant, an English woman who was a prominent champion of women’s rights, especially for the poor and underprivileged, a leading figure in the Theosophical Society, and the first woman and only non-Indian to become President of the Indian National Congress, was initiated into the Co-Masonic Order in Paris. She returned to London and founded there the first Co-Masonic Lodge in the English-speaking world, consecrated on September 26, 1902. Soon, many other Lodges were started in Britain and, as Annie Besant traveled around the globe, her enthusiasm for and understanding of the inner side of Freemasonry spread to India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world, making Co-Masonry into an international body.
Annie Besant also restored to Co-Masonic practice certain traditional elements that had been omitted from the French workings, such as belief in a Supreme Divine Intelligence (God, by whatever name and under whatever image conceived), the presence of a Volume of Sacred Lore on which Obligations are taken, and the shared great principles of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth. A version of the traditional Masonic ritual developed in India and known as the “Dharma Ritual” was adopted and became the basis for the rituals used around the world by Lodges that descend from her work.
The Eastern Order of International Co-Freemasonry is directly descended from the Masonic Lodges founded as a result of Annie Besant’s pioneering work for Co-Masonry. It has fraternal relations with other independent Orders also derived from Annie Besant’s work, such as the Grand Lodge of Freemasonry for Men and Women in Great Britain. The term “Eastern” in its name, as noted elsewhere, refers not to geography but to the symbolic East, the dawning place of Light. It became an independent Co-Masonic Order dedicated to preserving the traditional ideals of Masonry restored by Annie Besant and to carrying on the work of Masonry as a spiritual discipline or form of Yoga: the Way of the Craftsman.
Individuals become Freemasons for many different reasons. Each Mason, no doubt, has a different reason or set of reasons for entering the Order. But, whatever their initial motivations, all Freemasons share certain ideals and aspirations of fraternity, charity, and truth. In addition, all Co-Freemasons share a conviction about the equality of the sexes. And members of the Eastern Order of International Co-Freemasons place a particular emphasis on the inner, spiritual life of Freemasonry and on its application to living.
What, then, are the most telling reasons for entering modern speculative Masonry? Essentially, they are two. As Bro. F. de P. Castells expresses one of them:
"And what is the aim of our Fraternity but to promote the world's progress and to guide men . . . to the Throne of God, the highest source of light, so aptly symbolized by the Fire in the Burning Bush that was ever ablaze but never consumed?"
The first reason for entering Masonry, and Co-Freemasonry more specifically, is to promote the world's progress. It is a means for service to humanity. The energies generated by a meeting of a Co-Masonic lodge, when released at the end of the meeting, add a pure and powerful spiritual force to the inner planes for the benefit of any who are in need of it.
A second important reason for entering Freemasonry is that it offers a method for the mastery of one's emotional, mental, and spiritual nature. It puts the Freemason in touch with himself or herself. It is a form of Yoga, to use that popular Sanskrit term. In the words of the Very Ills. Bro. Louis Goaziou 33°:
"The development of moral character is an individual undertaking, the most important in this existence. Each individual must take the same path, overcome the same obstacles, and learn the same lessons that each and every other man has been obliged to do in his quest for Light and Truth."
The Co-Masonic system of self-discovery deals with the application of order, knowledge, strength, and symmetry to those aspects of one's nature that are in a state of disharmony or confusion. It is a systematic, scientific approach to wholeness, indicated by the Masonic axiom "Ordo ab Chao" - order out of chaos. Thus Freemasonry is service: spiritual service to humanity and spiritual service to oneself so that one may better serve others.


Cardify 2.0 is a jQuery plugin that makes easy to add a simple hover effect to your images. This plugin finds all the images with class "imgCardify" inside a container and replace them with a new element that contains the image () as well as a with the text of the "alt" attribute of the image.
To install cardify 2.0 locally in your project follow these steps:
Users can install cardify locally to their projects. For a local installation they must download the files from github.
The following example shows how users can add the plugin to their projects.


Current count:
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Get current count
Increment count
Clear log
Run Custom Command
Enter an address and view its balance
Get balance
Current balance:
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Transfer between addresses
From:
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Does a shallow comparison of two objects, returning false if the keys or values differ.
The purpose of this lib is to do the fastest comparison possible of two objects when the values will predictably be primitives.
false
is returned.Install with npm
$ npm i is-equal-shallow --save
var equals = require('is-equal-shallow');
equals(object_a, object_b);
Examples
equals({a: true, b: true}, {a: true, b: true});
//=> 'true'
equals({a: true, b: false}, {c: false, b: false});
//=> 'false'
equals({a: true, b: false}, {a: false, b: false});
//=> 'false'
Strict comparison for equality:
equals({a: true, b: true}, {a: true, b: 'true'});
//=> 'false'
When values are not primitives, false
is always returned:
equals({ b: {}}, { b: {}});
//=> 'false'
equals({ b: []}, { b: []});
//=> 'false'
Other object utils:
Object
constructor.Install dev dependencies:
$ npm i -d && npm test
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue
Jon Schlinkert
Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb-cli on June 22, 2015.


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{% include "order_info.html" %}To edit or cancel your order, follow this link.
Your order number, for safe keeping, is {{order.id}}.
We'll let you know when your items are on their way.
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hydrostreamer_simple_tutorial.Rmd
The development of ‘hydrostreamer’ was inspired by a study, where one component was estimating water availability in rural villages. In that study, water availability was estimated using a regional distributed hydrological model with 5km grid resolution. The problem in the study was how it represented the available water quantity at a village. First, the grid size was too coarse to represent the stream network accurately. A regional model with 5km grid size is quite fine, but for a village level estimates where distance to water source was an important attribute. Field representation (which raster in essence is) was not satisfactory.
Hence, hydrostreamer was conceived. hydrostreamer takes an off-the-shelf runoff product of an arbitrary resolution, and assigns runoff to an explicitly represented river network. To keep things simple and approachable, there is no runoff modelling involved in the use of hydrostreamer, rather, it post-processes results from either hydrological or land surface models and with minimal input requirements. The concept of hydrostreamer is very simple and easy to grasp, with a design philosophy that it should be easy to use for anyone, without background in hydrology.
In practise, similar ideas have been used in a number of existing solutions; for instance river routing software HydroROUT, RAPID, or mizuRoute. These also take off-the-shelf runoff products, and apply river routing algorithms to predict streamflow at explicit (vector) river segments. What sets hydrostreamer apart from these solutions is that it is written in R, is easy to install and use, and most importantly, focus is not in river routing, but in the downscaling step.
This tutorial aims to explain the workflow in hydrostreamer and showcase some of it’s capabilities. More specific tutorials will be added in time, which concentrate on different parts of hydrostreamer
Some example data have been included to the package for tutorial purposes. It includes
1 by 1 degree DEM at located in Southeast Asia. The DEM is originally ALOS World 3D at 30 meter resolution (Tanado et al 2014), which has been resampled to 0.005 degree resolution.
1 by 1 degree runoff timeseries in the same area as the DEM. Runoff is sourced from the Linear Optimal Runoff Aggregate (LORA) at 0.5 degree resolution (see Hobeichi et al 2019). The unit of runoff is mm/s (kg/m2/s), and are provided with a monthly timestep.
A river network derived from the provided DEM with 216 river segments.
River segment specific catchment areas, delineated from the provided DEM. Catchments are provided for a subset (n = 41) of the river segments.
Let’s first load the data and inspect it:
library(hydrostreamer)
library(raster)
library(lubridate)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(tidyr)
data(example_rivers)
data(example_basins)
runoff <- brick(system.file("extdata", "runoff.tif", package = "hydrostreamer"))
data(example_dem)
plot(runoff[[1]])
plot(st_union(basins), add=TRUE)
plot(river, add=TRUE)
hydrostreamer main workflow occurs in four steps (and four functions):
The raster layers are converted to polygons in order to do all the computations using only vector processing. Each cell of the raster is polygonized, and if an area of interest is provided, the polygons are clipped to it. This removes any unneeded grid cells. The resulting HSgrid object is a standard ‘sf’ object with information about each raster cell. The runoff timeseries (a tsibble) can be found in a named list column runoff_ts. The elements are named by the ID, and can be accessed with the ‘$’ notation.
We use raster_to_HSgrid to convert a raster timeseries to a HSgrid. Below, runoff is a RasterBrick, date is the date of the first layer in runoff, aoi is the area of interest.
HSgrid <- raster_to_HSgrid(runoff,
date = ymd("1980-01-01"),
timestep = "month",
aoi = st_union(basins),
names = "LORA")
names(HSgrid)
#> [1] "gridID" "runoff_ts" "area_m2" "n_ts" "geometry"
plot(HSgrid[,"area_m2"])
HSgrid$runoff_ts$`1`
#> # A tsibble: 396 x 2 [1D]
#> Date LORA
#> <date> <dbl>
#> 1 1980-01-01 0.00000344
#> 2 1980-02-01 0.00000166
#> 3 1980-03-01 0.000000993
#> 4 1980-04-01 0.000000874
#> 5 1980-05-01 0.000000815
#> 6 1980-06-01 0.0000279
#> 7 1980-07-01 0.0000185
#> 8 1980-08-01 0.0000503
#> 9 1980-09-01 0.0000815
#> 10 1980-10-01 0.0000557
#> # ... with 386 more rows
HSgrid can also be created from an ‘sf’ (polygon) object and a runoff timeseries using function create_HSgrid.
Once the raster has been converted to HSgrid, we can compute the weights. compute_HSweights() provides a possibility to weight the segments by their respective catchment area, or by using river segment properties. In this tutorial we will use the provided catchment areas, and the river network itself to compute the weights.
Below we provide five arguments to the segment weighting: HSgrid - which we just created in the previous step, river - the river network, “length” for weights - we’ll use the river segment length as the basis of weighting, union of basins for area of interest - because we want only river segments within the area of interest. Finally, we tell the function that the river contains unique ID’s in the column called “SEGMENT_ID”.
For catchment-based weighting, the only difference is that the weights argument gets value “area”, and we provide the basins object to the argument with the same name.
river_weights <- compute_HSweights(HSgrid,
river,
weights = "length",
aoi = st_union(basins),
riverID = "SEGMENT_ID")
catchment_weights <- compute_HSweights(HSgrid,
river,
weights = "area",
basins = basins,
aoi = st_union(basins),
riverID = "SEGMENT_ID")
To illustrate the differences between these two approaches, we can plot the weights element in the resulting HSweights object.
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(river_weights$weights[,"gridID"], reset=FALSE)
plot(st_union(basins), add=TRUE)
plot(catchment_weights$weights[,"gridID"])
The river segments and catchments are split at the borders of the runoff polygons. Weights are then divided among the river segments within each individual runoff polygon. The weights inside each runoff polygon always add to 1.
par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(river_weights$weights[,"weights"], reset=FALSE)
plot(st_union(basins), add=TRUE)
plot(catchment_weights$weights[,"weights"])
river_weights$weights %>%
group_by(gridID) %>%
summarise(sum_of_weights = sum(weights))
#> Simple feature collection with 4 features and 2 fields
#> geometry type: MULTILINESTRING
#> dimension: XY
#> bbox: xmin: 107.3325 ymin: 12.2975 xmax: 107.6075 ymax: 12.995
#> epsg (SRID): 4326
#> proj4string: +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
#> # A tibble: 4 x 3
#> gridID sum_of_weights geom
#> <int> <dbl> <MULTILINESTRING [Â°]>
#> 1 1 1 ((107.4325 12.5, 107.4325 12.5025), (107.43 12.5, ~
#> 2 2 1 ((107.6 12.5, 107.5975 12.5025, 107.6025 12.5075, ~
#> 3 3 1 ((107.4125 12.2975, 107.4075 12.3025, 107.4025 12.~
#> 4 4 1 ((107.5925 12.4475, 107.5875 12.4525, 107.5875 12.~
The other elements of HSweights are the (routed) river network and the HSgrid object provided in the input to thhe constructing function.
Once a HSweights object has been created, we can apply the actual downscaling. The function condences the three elements of HSweights into an ‘sf’ object containing the river routing information, downscaled runoff timeseries (the unit is converted from a field, mm/s, to volume, m^3/s).
catchment_downscaled <- downscale_runoff(catchment_weights)
( river_downscaled <- downscale_runoff(river_weights) )
#>
#> Hydrostreamer
#> No. objects: 41
#> No. runoff inputs: 2
#> Included runoff timeseries: [1] "LORA"
#>
#>
#> Simple feature collection with 41 features and 5 fields
#> geometry type: LINESTRING
#> dimension: XY
#> bbox: xmin: 107.3325 ymin: 12.2975 xmax: 107.6075 ymax: 12.9975
#> epsg (SRID): 4326
#> proj4string: +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
#> # A tibble: 41 x 6
#> riverID NEXT PREVIOUS runoff_ts UP_SEGMENTS geom
#> <dbl> <dbl> <list> <list> <dbl> <LINESTRING [Â°]>
#> 1 56 70 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.4125 12.2975, 107.40~
#> 2 65 99 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.4425 12.3425, 107.43~
#> 3 67 83 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.5475 12.3625, 107.54~
#> 4 69 70 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.3525 12.3675, 107.35~
#> 5 70 102 <dbl [2]> <tsibble~ 3 (107.3675 12.3725, 107.37~
#> 6 77 89 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.5175 12.4125, 107.51~
#> 7 79 83 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.5625 12.4275, 107.55~
#> 8 83 89 <dbl [2]> <tsibble~ 3 (107.5575 12.4375, 107.56~
#> 9 85 109 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.5925 12.4475, 107.58~
#> 10 88 99 <dbl [1]> <tsibble~ 1 (107.4525 12.4575, 107.44~
#> # ... with 31 more rows
The downscaled runoff in runoff_ts is a named list column where each element is a tsibble. Like with HSgrid, each element can be accessed by its name - the ID of the river segment.
( runoff180 <- catchment_downscaled$runoff_ts$`180` )
#> # A tsibble: 396 x 2 [1D]
#> Date LORA
#> <date> <dbl>
#> 1 1980-01-01 0.0961
#> 2 1980-02-01 0.0465
#> 3 1980-03-01 0.0277
#> 4 1980-04-01 0.0244
#> 5 1980-05-01 0.0228
#> 6 1980-06-01 0.778
#> 7 1980-07-01 0.516
#> 8 1980-08-01 1.40
#> 9 1980-09-01 2.27
#> 10 1980-10-01 1.56
#> # ... with 386 more rows
We can compare the downscaled results from the two approaches.
plotdata <- left_join(runoff180,
river_downscaled$runoff_ts$`180`,
by="Date")
colnames(plotdata) <- c("Date", "Catchment", "River")
plotdata <- gather(plotdata,
Approach,
Runoff,
-Date)
ggplot(plotdata, aes(Date, Runoff, color=Approach)) +
geom_line() +
labs(title = "Downscaled runoff at river segment 180",
y = 'Runoff in m3/s',
x = NULL)
While the downscaled runoff at each river segment is already useful for many applications, often knowing river discharge is also desirable. hydrostreamer provides three simple river routing algorithms for this purpose: instantaneous routing, useful for e.g. estimating runoff in the entire upstream catchment of each river segment, simple lag based routing, and Muskingum routing scheme.
Each routing method is accessible through the function accumulate_runoff(). Since the catchment provided here is small, and the timestep in runoff is one month, we’ll just use instantaneous routing here. There would be negligible difference between lag routing and instantaneous routing in this case.
catchment_discharge <- accumulate_runoff(catchment_downscaled,
method = "instant")
river_discharge <- accumulate_runoff(river_downscaled,
method = "instant")
We can also plot the estimated discharge from the two approaches at segment 180 by accessing the new list column discharge_ts. The predictions can be very different.
plotdata <- left_join(catchment_discharge$discharge_ts$`180`,
river_discharge$discharge_ts$`180`,
by="Date")
colnames(plotdata) <- c("Date", "Catchment", "River")
plotdata <- gather(plotdata,
Approach,
Discharge,
-Date)
ggplot(plotdata, aes(Date, Discharge, color=Approach)) +
geom_line() +
labs(title = "Downscaled discharge at river segment 180",
y = 'Q m3/s',
x = NULL)
As seen from the plot, the two approaches can lead into very different estimations in small catchments - but as the river basin size increases, their predictions come closer and closer to one another. In this example basin, the big difference can be explained by the relationship between the runoff polygons and the river network; there are larger rivers which meet in the northern part of the basin. If weighted by line segments, the two rivers rare share the same grid. If weighted by basin, the catchments on both sides of the river cross over to the other runoff polygon.
We recommend that segment specific catchments be used instead of river lines for weighting whenever possible, because it creates more realistic division of runoff into the river segments.
hydrostreamer also contains a function to export the results as a GeoPackage, since it is much easier to explore the data in a GIS software with GUI.
# HSwrite(catchment_discharge, "downscaled_streamflow.gpkg")
# HSwrite(catchment_discharge, "downscaled_streamflow", what = "discharge")
T. Tadono, H. Ishida, F. Oda, S. Naito, K. Minakawa, H. Iwamoto : Precise Global DEM Generation By ALOS PRISM, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol.II-4, pp.71-76, 2014.
Hobeichi, S., Abramowitz, G., Evans, J., and Beck, H. E.: Linear Optimal Runoff Aggregate (LORA): a global gridded synthesis runoff product, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 851-870, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-851-2019, 2019.


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"""Functions for common command line formatting and procedures."""
import os
import re
import textwrap
from blessings import Terminal
# Formatting
_term = Terminal()
#: Constant for string prepended to input prompts
PROMPT_PREFIX = '> '
#: Constant for string used for terminal indentation
INDENT = ' ' * 3
#: Color/formatting functions for different types of output
COLORS = {
None: str,
'error': _term.bold_red,
'warning': _term.yellow,
'success': _term.green,
'info': _term.cyan,
'prompt': _term.magenta,
'title': _term.blue,
'emphasize': _term.bold,
}
# Printing
[docs]def print_exception(e):
"""Format and print the string representation of an exception
:param e: The exception to print
"""
print(COLORS['error'](str(e)))
[docs]def print_warning(text):
"""Format and print a warning message
:param text: Warning message to print
"""
print(COLORS['warning'](text))
[docs]def print_info(text):
"""Format and print info message
:param text: Info message to print
"""
print(COLORS['info'](text))
[docs]def print_shortened(text, placeholder='...', indent='', fmt=None):
"""Print a string, shorten if it's longer than the current terminal width
Essentially a wrapper around :meth:`textwrap.shorten` (and optionally
:meth:`textwrap.indent`) that truncates based on the terminal width
If the printed string should be formatted, it is recommended to set the
``fmt`` parameter instead of passing in a formatted string. If a formatted
string is truncated, then the colors aren't reset, causing subsequent
terminal output to be formatted as well
:param text: Text to print
:param placeholder: (Default = '...') Placeholder to use when truncating
the string
:param indent: (Optional) If set, indent using this string
:param fmt: (Optional) A key in :const:`COLORS` to use for formatting when
printing the text
"""
width = _term.width - len(indent)
fmt_method = COLORS.get(fmt, str)
text = textwrap.indent(
fmt_method(textwrap.shorten(text, width=width, placeholder=placeholder)),
indent)
print(text)
# User Input
[docs]class ValidationError(Exception):
"""Exception raised if input validation fails"""
pass
[docs]def print_validation_change(message_format, original, changed):
"""Inform the user of changes to their input during validation.
Used to keep output format consistent
:param message_format: A format string with 2 positional fields, one for
the original value and one for the altered value. These fields should
be surrounded with double quotes for better readability.
example:
'"{0}" changed to "{1}" for compatibility'
:param original: The original user input
:param changed: The input after being altered
"""
print_info(message_format.format(original, changed))
[docs]def validate_nonempty(text):
"""Input validation function. Raises ValidationError if text is empty
:param text: Text to validate
:return: Validated text
"""
if not text:
raise ValidationError('Please enter some text.')
return text
[docs]def validate_choice(choices, shorthand_choices={}, error_msg=None):
"""Returns a validation function for input with specific choice options
:param choices: A list of **lowercase** strings the user can choose from
:param shorthand_choices: (Optional) A dictionary mapping short hand
answers to options in ``choices``. If user answers prompt with one of
the keys in ``shorthand_choices``, the validation function will treat
their answer as ``shorthand_choices[answer]``.
The following example values would allow 'y' and 'n' to be accepted as
'yes' and 'no', respectively:
.. code-block:: python
choices = ['yes', 'no']
shorthand_choices = {
'y': 'yes',
'n': 'no',
}
validate_yes_no = validate_choice(choices, shorthand_choices)
# Both of the following return 'yes'
result0 = validate_yes_no('yes')
result1 = validate_yes_no('y')
:param error_msg: (Optional) Custom validation error message. By default,
validation errors will have the message:
``'Please select a valid choice: [<choices>]'``
where ``<choices>`` is a comma separated representation of the values
in ``choices``.
:return: A validation function that accepts a string and returns the
corresponding item from ``choices`` if the string is valid
"""
if error_msg is None:
error_msg = 'Please select a valid choice: [{}]'.format(', '.join(choices))
def val(answer):
answer = answer.lower().strip()
if answer in shorthand_choices:
answer = shorthand_choices[answer]
if answer not in choices:
raise ValidationError(error_msg)
return answer
return val
[docs]def validate_yn(answer):
"""Validate y/n prompts
:param answer: User response to y/n prompt. If a boolean value is passed
(e.g. if a prompt received parsed_input=True), it is treated as a y/n
answer and considered valid input
:return: True if user answered yes, False if user answered no
"""
# If a boolean value was passed, return it
if isinstance(answer, bool):
return answer
answer = answer.lower().strip()
if answer not in ['y', 'yes', 'n', 'no']:
raise ValidationError('Please enter "y" or "n".')
return answer in ['y', 'yes']
def _validate_python_identifier(identifier):
"""Removes and replaces characters and returns a valid python identifier
Python identifiers include letters, numbers, and underscores and cannot
begin with a number
:param identifier: The desired identifier string
:return: Modified identifier with invalid characters removed or replaced
"""
# Trim outer whitespace and replace inner whitespace and hyphens with underscore
validated_identifier = re.sub(r'\s+|-+', '_', identifier.strip())
# Remove non-alphanumeric or _ characters
validated_identifier = re.sub(r'[^\w\s]', '', validated_identifier)
# Remove leading characters until we hit a letter or underscore
validated_identifier = re.sub(r'^[^a-zA-Z_]+', '', validated_identifier)
if not validated_identifier:
raise ValidationError('Please enter a valid python identifier.')
return validated_identifier
[docs]def validate_package_name(package_name):
"""Removes and replaces characters to ensure a string is a valid python package name
:param package_name: The desired package name
:return: Modified package_name with whitespaces and hyphens replaced with
underscores and all invalid characters removed
"""
try:
validated_package_name = _validate_python_identifier(package_name)
except ValidationError as e:
raise ValidationError('Please enter a valid package name.')
# Alert user of any changes made in validation
if package_name != validated_package_name:
print_validation_change(
'"{0}" was changed to "{1}" in order to be a valid python package',
package_name, validated_package_name
)
return validated_package_name
[docs]def validate_module_name(module_name):
"""Removes and replaces characters to ensure a string is a valid python
module file name
:param module_name: The desired module name. If the name ends in .py, the
extension will be removed
:return: Modified module_name with whitespaces and hyphens replaced with
underscores and all invalid characters removed
"""
# Strip .py extension if present
module_name, ext = os.path.splitext(module_name.strip())
try:
validated_module_name = _validate_python_identifier(module_name)
except ValidationError as e:
raise ValidationError('Please enter a valid module name.')
# Alert the user of any changes made in validation
if module_name != validated_module_name:
print_validation_change(
'"{0}" was changed to "{1}" in order to be a valid python module file',
module_name, validated_module_name
)
return validated_module_name
[docs]def validate_module_filename(module_filename, suppress_ext_change=True):
"""Removes and replaces characters to ensure a string is a valid python
module file name
Essentially a wrapper around :func:`validate_module_name` that makes sure a
.py extension is added to the end if needed
:param module_filename: The desired module file name. If the .py extension
is excluded, it will be appended after validation
:param suppress_ext_change: (Default: True) If False, print message when
appending .py extension to file name. Suppressed by default, as the
user shouldn't typically be required to append .py themselves
:return: Modified module_filename with whitespaces and hyphens replaced with
underscores, all invalid characters removed, and a '.py' extension
appended (if necessary)
"""
# Strip .py extension if present
module_name, ext = os.path.splitext(module_filename.strip())
validated_module_name = validate_module_name(module_name)
# Append .py extension
validated_module_filename = validated_module_name + '.py'
if ext != '.py' and not suppress_ext_change:
print_info('Added .py extension for filename')
return validated_module_filename
[docs]def validate_class_name(class_name):
"""Removes and replaces characters to ensure a string is a valid python
class name
:param class_name: The desired class name
:return: Modified class_name with invalid characters removed/replaced
"""
# TODO: Validate differently than packages? (e.g. 'class name' -> 'ClassName'?)
try:
validated_class_name = _validate_python_identifier(class_name)
except ValidationError as e:
raise ValidationError('Please enter a valid class name.')
# Alert the user of any changes made in validation
if class_name != validated_class_name:
print_validation_change(
'"{0}" was changed to "{1}" in order to be a valid python class name',
class_name, validated_class_name
)
# Print warning if first letter isn't capital
# (python is forgiving about class names but convention says it should be camel case)
if validated_class_name[0] != validated_class_name[0].upper():
print_warning('Warning: Class name should start with a capital letter')
return validated_class_name
[docs]def prompt(text, *description, default=None, validate=validate_nonempty,
parsed_input=None, trailing_newline=True):
"""Prompt the user for input and validate it
:param text: Text to display in prompt
:param description: (Optional) Positional arguments after text will be printed once before user is prompted for
input. Each argument will be printed on a new line
:param default: (Optional) default value
:param validate: (Default = validate_nonempty) Validation function for input
:param parsed_input: (Default = None) If ``parsed_input`` is set to
something other than ``None``, parser will attempt to validate it. If
validation is successful, the input prompt will be skipped and the
validated value of ``parsed_input`` will be returned. This allows for
input to be passed through command line arguments, but still prompt the
user in the event that it can't be validated
:param trailing_newline: (Default = True) Print a blank line after receiving user
input and successfully validating
:return: Validated input
"""
# Attempt to bypass prompt if parsed_input is not None
if parsed_input is not None:
try:
val = validate(parsed_input)
except ValidationError as e:
print_exception(e)
else:
# If no errors were raised, return validated input
return val
# Input prompt
if description:
print(*description, sep='\n')
prompt_text = '{} [{}]: '.format(text, default) if default is not None else text + ': '
prompt_text = COLORS['prompt'](PROMPT_PREFIX + prompt_text)
while True:
val = input(prompt_text).strip()
if default is not None and not val:
val = default
try:
val = validate(val)
except ValidationError as e:
print_exception(e)
continue
break
if trailing_newline:
print('')
return val


--- layout: post title: Using slicehost + DNS + MySQL + Subversion setup date: 2009-08-23 08:23:24.000000000 -07:00 categories: [] tags: - cloud mysql slicehost status: publish type: post published: true ---
I bought a slice on slicehost since I had heard good things.
This morning in 2 hours I have a running mysql and subbversion daemon and have pointed one of my domain names to the sliced host. I used the Fedora 11 image, mainly because I think at work we will be going with that distribution, no other reason.
I learned that yum is a great package manager to use with Fedora.
Here are some links that got me going along the way.
MySQL link:
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/installing-configuring-mysql-server
Subversion + Apache links:
http://www.technize.com/2008/05/27/how-to-configure-svn-subversion-server-on-fedora-core-with-apache22-under-selinux/
http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/02/setup-a-subversion-server-in-4-minutes/
Setting up DNS on Slicehost:
http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/10/24/creating-dns-records


Firstly, "Twin Falls Idaho" goes for the too cute punning movie title, sort of along the lines of "Good Will Hunting" being side-swiped by a certain David Lynch TV series. Once we get over this fact, groaning if necessary, we have a neat little indie movie with a certain Lynchian spirit of the ordinary grotesque; I don't think the title's allusion to "Twin Peaks" is coincidental. Ignore it's occassional obviousness, like we see in the title: the film is worth seeing.
The basic plot of the film involves an archetypal hooker with a heart of gold, named Penny in this case, going to a seedy hotel to meet her next john. This john isn't Richard Gere, come to rescue her from her troubles; this john turns out to be the conjoined Falls twins. Freaky.
Certainly Penny thought so, as she panics and leaves as they're in the bathroom politely getting her a glass of water. Realizing her purse was left in the room, she sheepishly goes back to claim it, and finds that the twins are busy having a quiet birthday celebration for themselves. With this sad scene, we begin the strange friendship that turns into a love story between Penny and Blake, the stronger of the twins.
Here and there, the "twins" and "pairs" images and puns are a little strong and unnecessary.  Perhaps the most heavy-handed image is when the twins are in public, drying to reach their hotel room during daylight: they sit down, exhausted with their flight, and a crowd gathers around them to take pictures of this spectacle of Siamese twins. Yes, the bars represent how zoo-like the scene is, and how the twins are treated by most of us as animals, not humans. We get it.
Along with the love story, a love story in which the two lovers can never be alone, the film develops the twisted family relationship of the twins. Their mother abandoned them; they are brothers that can never be apart; and so on. The notion of solitude and the unending lack thereof is, of course, a central theme. The movie is primarily a series of quiet conversations between the twins and Penny -- the twins themselves speak to each other in whispers -- exploring these ideas. The set-piece exception is a Halloween party Penny takes them to: the twins are simply "in costume" there, and can move around in the open without stares.
Ultimately the story moves in this direction. In the film's last act, Francis, the weaker twin, falls mortally ill, and it becomes clear that the twins will have to undergo their own separation. The split is final: Francis won't survive the operation. The dreamy sequence showing this works well, far better than any of the other more obvious symbols the film tosses at us. I feel that it's the climax of the film, though there is a nice, bucolic coda that follows, tying up the lose ends.
Overall, despite my harping on the film's occasional heavy-handedness, I liked the film. Certainly it's different from the usual, action-laden summer flick. Further, the twins are each fully realized individuals, nothing like stock evil-twin-good-twins or angry-at-world-misfits from Central Screenwriting. Real people. And the pace is slow: it allows you to savor the characters the Polish brothers have created here, the appreciate the strangeness of the situation.
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| string | antlr_version_str = "3.0.1" |
@brief Baseclass for generated tree parsers. A parser for a stream of tree nodes. "tree grammars" result in a subclass of this. All the error reporting and recovery is shared with Parser via the BaseRecognizer superclass.
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| e | |||
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Prefix error message with the grammar name because message is always intended for the programmer because the parser built the input tree not the user.
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Hopefully this report will be useful as the chemicals involved are quite new and rare in the drug scene. First, some background information: I'm a male 17 years of age, and have experience with various stimulants, psychedelics and depressants. This combination of chemicals was used to enhance the experience of a large rave gig; as I was attending with friends with no or little experience of the types of drug involved, 2C-I dosage was kept low and instead of much more desirable MDMA, an off-the-shelf 'party-pill' analysed to contain bk-MBDB (butylone) and mCPP was used. You've got to start somewhere ;)
The 2C-I was taken by myself and two others about an hour before the gig started. The pills were dropped about an hour after the 2C-I was taken, by myself and three others.
Little effects were felt as the first band performed, however an increasing anticipation marked the come-up of the combination of chemicals taken. As the headliner took the stage, this anticipation became more than a rush of adrenaline; the arena became more alive and mood was elevated. I began to notice some signature effects of 2C-I; greater contrast between colours, persistence of vision and enhanced perspective - the arena appeared much more spacious. It's harder for me to place the effects of the bk-MBDB - our moods were certainly elevated, but there were no overwhelming rushes of euphoria. Just a contented wellbeing.
Dancing was uninhibited and energetic; this was the responsibility of mCPP, providing a constant and lucid stream of energy. Mid-set, a friend and I went to rehydrate with water, also bringing some for the other friends. When walking through the corridor to the toilets, the excess energy was noticable when it wasn't being used. Back to the gig and we continued dancing until the gig ended. Mood was still elevated throughout the set and we were still buzzing walking out of the venue. We then went to our car (driven by someone completely sober who had not attended the gig) and to a service station where we had a room booked to stay.
By this time, I noticed the bk-MBDB had worn off. Mood was back to normal, however the strong stimulant effect of the mCPP was in full force; side-effects included a constantly high heart rate (and most likely blood pressure) and dilated, dark pupils. Oddly, the presence of this stimulant seemed to diminish the psychadelia of the 2C-I. Even in small doses, 2C-I is able to take me to an interesting headspace. This was barely felt throughout the evening, only the visual effects were observed. It was impossible to sleep for another four hours, and the mCPP produced undesirable dry mouth, a constant thirst and an excess of energy.
After a couple hours of sleep, the effects of all the chemicals had worn off and we were back to baseline. I took some 5-HTP supplements to ensure serotonin levels wouldn't take too much of a hit.
In conclusion, this was a novel combination of chemicals for a gig experience. I find 2C-I to be a very versatile drug, producing both a true psychadelic headspace and interesting visuals. In this case, the other chemicals seemed to reduce this to just visual enhancement. I would best describe this as a 'sparkle' to the evening. bk-MBDB seems to produce a very natural mood elevation, but no rushes of euphoria, and no apparent dopaminergic activity. Despite this being a positive property, one friend thought this effect weak; ironically, he has no prior drug experience bar alcohol (he had not taken the 2C-I). I couldn't assess the stimulant property without the abscence of mCPP. This was the let-down of the combination, mCPP. Whilst it provided useful, lucid energy, the comedown, side-effects and awkward duration heightens my dislike for piperazines and I would not like to use it again.
Ultimately, MDMA and 2C-I would have provided a much more enjoyable experince overall, although too intense for first-time users. However, each of us had a fantastic evening and for my three friends, it proved a good introduction to the use of 'dance-drugs'.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


Events
Goal
Learn the common mouse and keyboard events so JavaScript may respond to a user's interactions.
Technologies
- JavaScript
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Dumb link (preferred)
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Click event using HTML attribute JavaScript
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Introduction
This documentation aims to provide all the information you need to work with our API.
Base URL
http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency
Authenticating requests
This API is not authenticated.
Authentication
APIs for authenticating users
Login
Example request:
curl -X POST \
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/login" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"email":"suscipit","password":"voluptas"}'
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/login"
);
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
let body = {
"email": "suscipit",
"password": "voluptas"
}
fetch(url, {
method: "POST",
headers,
body: JSON.stringify(body),
}).then(response => response.json());
Received response:
Request failed with error:
Driver
APIs for driver trips
Trips
requires authentication
Example request:
curl -X GET \
-G "http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips?status=corporis" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips"
);
let params = {
"status": "corporis",
};
Object.keys(params)
.forEach(key => url.searchParams.append(key, params[key]));
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
fetch(url, {
method: "GET",
headers,
}).then(response => response.json());
Example response (401):
{
"message": "Unauthenticated."
}
Received response:
Request failed with error:
Update trip Status
requires authentication
Example request:
curl -X PUT \
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips/libero/update_status" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"status":"mollitia"}'
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips/libero/update_status"
);
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
let body = {
"status": "mollitia"
}
fetch(url, {
method: "PUT",
headers,
body: JSON.stringify(body),
}).then(response => response.json());
Received response:
Request failed with error:
Upload on loading image
requires authentication
Example request:
curl -X PUT \
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips/ea/upload_on_loading_image" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-F "on_loading_image=@C:\Users\Abdelrahman\AppData\Local\Temp\php206D.tmp"
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips/ea/upload_on_loading_image"
);
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "multipart/form-data",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
const body = new FormData();
body.append('on_loading_image', document.querySelector('input[name="on_loading_image"]').files[0]);
fetch(url, {
method: "PUT",
headers,
body,
}).then(response => response.json());
Received response:
Request failed with error:
Upload completed image
requires authentication
Example request:
curl -X PUT \
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips/et/upload_completed_image" \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-F "completed_image=@C:\Users\Abdelrahman\AppData\Local\Temp\php207D.tmp"
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/trips/et/upload_completed_image"
);
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "multipart/form-data",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
const body = new FormData();
body.append('completed_image', document.querySelector('input[name="completed_image"]').files[0]);
fetch(url, {
method: "PUT",
headers,
body,
}).then(response => response.json());
Received response:
Request failed with error:
Store location
requires authentication
Example request:
curl -X POST \
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/locations/voluptatum" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"trip_id":16,"lat":"velit","lng":"in"}'
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/locations/voluptatum"
);
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
let body = {
"trip_id": 16,
"lat": "velit",
"lng": "in"
}
fetch(url, {
method: "POST",
headers,
body: JSON.stringify(body),
}).then(response => response.json());
Received response:
Request failed with error:
Update profile data
requires authentication
Example request:
curl -X POST \
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/profile" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"enim","email":"dolores","fcm_token":"adipisci"}'
const url = new URL(
"http://mudunelmanar.theportal.agency/api/driver/profile"
);
let headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json",
};
let body = {
"name": "enim",
"email": "dolores",
"fcm_token": "adipisci"
}
fetch(url, {
method: "POST",
headers,
body: JSON.stringify(body),
}).then(response => response.json());
Received response:
Request failed with error:


I am Chief Architect for Cloud OPerations and Analytics at Huawei’s European Research Center in Munich, Germany. I am also Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and affiliated to the Information Systems Group.
My current research involves the development of the next generation of Cloud Management Platforms (CPM), Cloud Automation solutions, Cloud Business Process Management (BPM), and High Performance BPM systems. More precisely,
- Develop new fault injection techniques to improve the reliability of complex, large distributed cloud platforms, such as the Open Telekom Cloud from Deutsche Telekom.
- Use event processing technologies to detect anomalies in cloud platforms in real time.
- Adapt approaches from the field of data mining, such as Bayesian networks and Markov processes, to automatically detect and localize failures in cloud platforms.
- Incorporate new resilient mechanisms into the OpenStack cloud operating system and Huawei FusionSphere to increase its reliability and availability.
You can find more about my research on Cloud Computing, BPM, Semantic Web, Web Services, and Enterprise Systems at: Google Scholar, DBLP, and LinkedIn.
Open Positions
- MSc thesis. Reliability of OpenStack usign Fault Injection
- MSc thesis. Intelligently Instrument OpenStack.
- PhD student. OpenStack Reliability
- PhD student. Data Science.
- PhD student. Orchestration of cloud services/microservices.
- Permanent position. Cloud Reliability Engineer
- Permanent position. OpenStack Software Engineer
- Permanent position. Junior/Senior Researcher Large-scale Distributed Systems
Research Interests
- Cloud Platforms Reliability and Resilience
- Data Science as a Service
- Use the open source Cloud platform OpenStack to provision services
- Implement new algorithms from the field of Data Science to process streaming data using e.g., Kafka and Storm and publish them as microservices.
- Use new workflow languages such as Mistral to orchestrate microservices
- Build POC to show the value of aggregating these technologies to manage Cloud Reliability and Large-scale Cloud Monitoring.
News
- International Industry-Academia Workshop on Cloud Reliability and Resilience, 7-8 November 2016, Berlin, Germany.
- I am looking for MSc students to work on a research project (with T-Systems and Deutsche Telekom) to evaluate the Reliability of OpenStack usign Fault Injection and Intelligently Instrument OpenStack. Drop me an e-mail if you are interrested.
- Our article “Modeling Service Level Agreements with Linked USDL Agreement” will soon be published by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (Impact Factor 2016: 3.049) (under publication).
- José María García, Carlos Pedrinaci, Manuel Resinas, Jorge Cardoso, Pablo Fernández, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés. Linked USDL Agreement: Effectively Sharing Semantic Service Level Agreements on the Web, The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), June 27 - July 2, 2015, New York, USA. (Acceptance Rate: 17.4%)
- Jorge Cardoso and Carlos Pedrinaci, Evolution and Overview of Linked USDL. 6th International Conference Exploring Services Science, IESS 2015, Porto, Portugal, February 4-6, 2015, LNBIP, Vol. 201, Novoa, Henriqueta, Dragoicea, Monica (Eds.), 2015.
- Pedrinaci, C.; Cardoso, J. and Leidig, T. Linked USDL: A Vocabulary for Web-scale Service Trading. In 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete, Greece, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 25%)
- Cardoso, J.; Binz, T.; Breitenbucher, Uwe; Kopp, O. and Leymann, F. Cloud Computing Automation: Integrating USDL and TOSCA. In 25th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2013), pages 1-16, Springer, LNCS, Vol. 7908, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 16,6%)
- Francesco Guerra (Chair) and Jorge Cardoso (Vice-Chair). COST Action IC1302: semantic KEYword-based Search on sTructured data sOurcEs, 2013-2017.
- On 23rd of March 2015 we organised an SAP CodeJam event around SAP HANA Cloud Platform to demonstrate how Cloud Computing is being explored by companies. This event was part of the Service Engineering course of the Master in Computer Science. Take a look at some of the pictures and a more detailed description of the CodeJam.
- On February 2015, five students from the course Information Systems Management received the ITIL Foundation certification. The certification was given in partnership with the consulting company Deloitte. Congratulations to all.
About me
Prof. Dr. Jorge Cardoso is Chief Architect for Cloud Operations and Analytics at Huawei’s European Research Center in Munich, Germany and Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
His current R&D work focuses on increasing the Reliability of Cloud Platforms to support mission critical applications with five nines. The work is being done jointly by Huawei and Deutsche Telekom, and applied to the Open Telekom Cloud operated by T-Systems in Magdeburg. Our approach uses fault-injection techniques and conceptually follows the so-called Chaos Engineering methodology from Netflix. The first prototypes were made available in Q2 2016 and a running system will be ready in Q1 2017.
Previously he worked for several major companies such as SAP Research (Germany) on the Internet of Services, The Boeing Company in Seattle (USA) on Enterprise Application Integration and CCG/Zentrum fur Graphische Datenverarbeitung on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
He has authored and co-authored more than 135 scientific publications and has been part of more than 120 program committees and organization bodies (journals and conferences). He his author/editor of 9 books. He holds a US and EU patents on “System and method of measuring process compliance” and “Multi-Phase High Performance Business Process Management System”. GoogleScholar shows more than 6100 citations for his research work with an h-index of 36. His last book, titled Fundamentals of Service Systems from Springer, compiles results from the research work of his areas of interest: cloud computing, business process management, semantic Web, the Internet of Services, and service engineering.
He participated in European, German, US, and National research projects financed by the European Commission (FP7, EACEA), the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), SAP Research (SAP) and Portuguese NSF (FCT). He is a founding member of the IFIP Working Group 12.7 on Social Semantics. He created and led until 2009 the development of the W3C Unified Service Description Language (USDL).
He has a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (US, 2002) and a MSc and BSc in Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra (1995 and 1998, Portugal).
Resources
Humour
A good researcher says, "Lets find out", others say "Nobody knows". When a good researcher makes a mistake, he says, I was wrong", others say "It wasn't my fault". A good researcher works harder than others and has more time. Others are always "too busy" to do what is necessary.
Adapted from Web page n. 1.236.784.322.345 of the Internet
Contact
Prof. Jorge Cardoso
Departamento de Engenharia Informatica
Universidade da Coimbra
3030-290 Coimbra
Portugal
Tel: + 351 239 790 051, jcardoso [*.A._.T$] dei | uc | pt


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Test Case
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UPDATE-0010 |
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Title
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Confirm the Update Frequency and the Use of HTTPS to query the API |
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Objective
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This test case is intended to verify the following implied or specified requirements:
- sfwiWeather shall collect weather information only from public sites available via the world wide web.
- sfwiWeather shall collect weather information only using secure interfaces (HTTPS).
- The server shall collect information to be presented on a client HTTP query GET.
- The collection interval shall be less than half the update interval of the data being collected for those interfaces updated periodically (eg forecast).
- Asynchronous updates (eg alerts) shall be collected on demand.
This test case confirms that the server collects weather data from the API at appropriate rates and that HTTPS is used to collect the data. |
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Setup
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- INST-0020 must have been run prior to this test case.
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Actions
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- Using tcpdump on the server computer, monitor queries to api.weather.gov.
- tcpdump -s0 -w update-0010.log.raw -c 20000
- api.weather.gov forecasts should be updated every hour, so make sure the queries occur at least every 1/2 hour.
- Verify the queries are over the https port (443).
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Expected
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The API queries will use HTTPS and they will be faster than 2x the update rates of the forecast information and on demand for the alert data. |
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Results
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FAILED |
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Cleanup
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Requirements
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SFWIWEATHER-EXT-IF-040, SFWIWEATHER-EXT-IF-040.001, SFWIWEATHER-PR-INFO-010, SFWIWEATHER-PR-INFO-020, SFWIWEATHER-PR-INFO-030 |


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38 of the best Christmas gifts for fitness and wellness lovers, including Fitbits, crystals and sports gear
by Precious AdesinaFor many, Christmas is a time for mince pies and mulled wine, but we all have fitness fans in our lives who favour a five mile run over tipple.
And those same people probably prefer a good wellness box over Quality Streets, or possibly picking a new compression top rather than a tie out of their stocking.
From general well-being to unique gear, get your sporty loved ones something they'll cherish for a long time by looking through our list of Christmas gifts for fitness fanatics.
Here's a round-up of the best fitness gifts for Christmas 2019.
Best gifts for cyclists
1. Beeline for Bicycles Navigation Device
This user-friendly navigation device attaches to your bike handlebars and will guide you to your destination with a simple arrow on its display.
2. GORE® C5 Women GORE-TEX INFINIUM™ Soft Lined Thermo Jacket
This soft lined jacket is breathable and since it is made for cold weather riding, it prevents soak through from road spray and light rain. Fashionable and practical, what more do you need?
3. Rapha Pro Team Training Jacket
Rapha is one for cyclists who like to go luxe. This pro team Training Jacket Pro Team Training Jacket works to regulate heat while also protecting against the elements.
4. The Orb Light Up Bottle
Designed in London for the city-slicking cyclist, The Orb uses superbright USB-charged LEDs to illuminate the 700ml bottle, giving your ride 360° visibility and making you unmissable on the roads.
Best gifts for gym bunnies
5. Sweaty Betty Power Crop Gym Vest
With a super stretchy fabric suitable for all sports and quick dry fabric, this two-in-one top from Sweaty Betty is ideal for any work out. And it looks good too.
6. JTX Freedom Air Rower
A top pick from Telegraph Recommended last year, the JTX Freedom Air Rower is a lightweight bit of kit which is not only foldable so can be moved from room to room, but comes with a chest strap for monitoring heart rate, speed, distance and stroke rate.
7. Pilates Core Set
If Pilates is more their vibe then this handy set will make doing a session at home more effective. It includes a resistance ring, resistance band and an Exer-Soft ball as well as a poster depicting eight illustrated exercises.
8. Varley Catherine cropped stretch-jersey track pants
These track pants are probably one of the most elegant ones we've come across in a while. Activewear is pretty much an actual fashion trend now so they'll love some pants that combine both form and function.
9. CooSpo Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor Sensor with Chest Strap
If they're on a mission with their fitness goals then treat them to this heart rate monitor. Once strapped in, they'll have access their heart rate and calories burnt.
10. Manduka Prolite Yoga and Pilates Mat
Another favourite from Telegraph Recommended last year, the Manduka yoga mat is extremely durable as well as being ethically made. It's lightweight but cushioned and comes in black, purple, blue, burgundy and grey.
11. Eastpak Bust Shell Backpack
They can keep all their stinky gym kit in this backpack. And it's resilient enough to withstand a good outdoor weekend adventure too.
Best gifts for runners
12. Men's UA HeatGear® Armour Long Sleeve Compression Shirt
This ultra-tight compression shirt with stretch-mesh underarm panels to deliver strategic ventilation is ideal for working out in the sun as its UPF 30+ protects your skin from the its harmful rays.
13. Camelbak Eddy Water Bottle
A stocking filler for a loved one who's always on the move. The Camelbak reusable water bottle has a sleek spill-proof design with no tipping required.
14. Nike Lean Armband
The idea of going for a run without some music or a podcast to listen to is horrendous. How else are you supposed to distract yourself from the pain and sweat? This arm band by Nike makes it easy to take your smartphone with you.
15. Fitbit Unisex Versa Health Fitness Smartwatch
Anyone with health and fitness goals for the New ear will find the Fitbit Versa Smartwatch to be invaluable. It's water-resistant, provides personalised guidance, on-screen work outs, notifications and has a four day battery life.
Best gifts for wellness
16. Mad Millie Kefir Kit
Kefir is a fermented drink full of live cultures that promotes good gut health as well as boosting the immune system. And as your wellness obsessed friend will know, ready made versions are expensive, so this at-home kit will be a welcome addition to their kitchen.
17. Gemstone Chakra Yoga Bracelets
The different gemstones have different healing qualities. The rose quartz used in the pink bracelets are said to "teach one to walk with an open heart, bringing love, compassion and a sense of oneness".
18. Well Done: Wellness by Anthropologie Crystal Gift Set
Your friend or relative can embrace the power of crystals with this self love set from Anthropologie which includes rose quartz, rhodonite, crystal quartz, amethyst, citrine.
19. Lululemon Crescent Long Sleeve T-shirt
Let them know they can still look good while keeping fit. This comBuy it nowfortable top may be exactly what they need to finally kick the habit of working out in their pyjama tops.
20. B Vibrant Wellness Box
With organic essential oils, a chakra crystal, water bottle and travel pillow, this is an absolute dream of a gift for someone looking for balance this Christmas.
21. Mr Nice 5% CBD Oil
CBD oil is all the rage in 2019. It's said to alleviate insomnia and help with anxiety and pain. These drops may be just what they are looking for to get their well being on track.
22. NutriBullet 1200 Series with Smart Technology
This 12 piece set includes an extractor blade, handled cup, an insulated stainless steel cup, lids, a user guide and a recipe book so they'll be ready to make their own insanely healthy smoothies from the minute they unwrap the 1200 Series NutriBullet on Christmas morning.
23. Neom Organics London Scent To De-Stress Real Luxury Natural Multi Mineral Bath Salts
Sleep is essential if they want to boost their overall well being so help them drop off with these delicious lavender, jasmine and Brazilian rosewood bath salts.
24. MYnd Map My Journal
This 90 day journal will help to inspire and empower your loved one for the months ahead. Whether your loved one knows exactly what they want to achieve in 2020, or they're looking for a new goal or passion, this will help them get started.
25. Ponderlily Undated Weekly Planner
Ponderlily's planner is undated so there are no time restrictions on when they start using it. It features prompts to schedule self-care and will help users keep track of their goals.
26. Native Sister The Mind and Body Box
Each item in this Native Sister box has been chosen to help create a sense of peace, something which is sorely lacking in today's anxious world. They'll find a book of calm, chamomile tea, a lavender mist spray and an agate blue geode crystal, believed to be good for alleviating stress and clearing the mind. Yes please.
27. The Art Of Living Well and Finding Happiness According To Your Star Sign
Pick the book that matches their star sign and inside they'll find insight into themselves, a guide to the art of astrology and tips on how making sense of the stars can improve lives.
28. Luxe + Hardy Striped Sleep Set
Top and bottom, £95 each, Luxe + Hardy
The gift of a comfortable and stylish sleep will always be on a wellness lover's wish list, so give them this gorgeous sleep set by Luxe + Hardy. Don't be surprised if they wear it every day between Christmas and New Year.
Best gifts for sports enthusiasts
29. Apatchy Sporting Hero Gift Set
Sporty bods will find a personalised boot bag, mouth guard case, boot brush and water bottle in this nifty set by Apatchy. A great gift for football, hockey and rugby players.
30. Golf Ball Monogram Stamper
Golf balls are always getting lost but with this stamper kit, wannabe Rory Mcllroys will never be in doubt as to whether the one closest to the hole is theirs...
31. Goal! Football Trumps Game
A stylishly illustrated trumps game about the greatest football players of all time. Names like Maradona and Messi go up against each other in categories including trophies, caps and charisma.
32. Bespoke Cricket Bat Experience
Cricket players will feel like they've won the Ashes as they watch their own bespoke bat being crafted before their eyes at Somerset County Cricket Ground. The lucky recipient of this generous gift will have a bat designed to perfectly fit their specifications and will even get to choose the wood that's used to make it.
33. Personalised Man City Dressing Room Framed Print
£29.99, Personalised Football Gifts
Put their name on a Man City FC shirt hanging in the team dressing room and they'll love you forever. You can also have this personalised print made for fans of Manchester United, Arsenal, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and West Ham so don't worry if Man City is their nemesis.
34. Surf Pizza and Prosecco For Two
Send them off to Fistral Bay Surf School for a lesson in riding the waves followed by pizza and Prosecco. Sounds like a dreamy day to us.
35. Playstation Fifa 20
Football fans who prefer to play inside can live out their goal scoring dreams with the latest edition of Fifa for the Playstation.
36. 60 Minute Golf Lesson with PGA Professional
Any amateur golfer will relish the opportunity to learn from a PGA professional. In this hour long lesson they'll get expert advice and tips on every aspect of their game, tailored to their own experience and skill level.
37. Viva Soul London Tennis Retro Sport Cigarette Card Print
You don't even need to be into tennis to appreciate the retro design of this print featuring cigarette cards originally released in 1936. Each card depicts a tennis move as well as a famous player of the time. See if you can spot Fred Perry.
38. Limited Edition 'Elements' Parka with Faux Fur Trim
£680, Troy London x Amanda Wakeley
Ski bunnies will love this luxe parka which is not only stylish enough for the city in winter with its chic belt and velvet trim, but will also keep them warm on the slopes. There's even a special pocket for their ski pass.
For more Christmas features and gift guides, see www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas
All the products mentioned in this article are selected independently by our journalists. The Telegraph makes money by adding affiliate links to some of the products.


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A vegan ran across the country eating 8,000 calories a day in smoothies, cold pasta, and coconut milk ice cream
by Gabby Landsverk- Endurance athlete Robbie Balenger ran across the country – 3,275 miles – in 75 days on an entirely vegan diet.
- He set off from LA to New York City to raise awareness of the benefits of a vegan diet for ethical, environmental, and health reasons.
- Balenger’s 8,000 calorie-per-day meal plan included oatmeal, coconut milk, smoothies, cold pasta, and peanut butter.
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Robbie Balenger never intended to run across the country when he first laced up his shoes six years ago. Back then, he was simply looking for stress relief from his hectic career in the restaurant business.
But in May, he crossed a finish line in Central Park, marking the end of a 3,275-mile journey from coast to coast. That’s an average of 45 miles, or more than a marathon and a half, every day, for 75 days in a row.
And, he did it all on a diet of entirely plant-based meals, he told fellow plant-powered ultramarathoner Rich Roll in a recent podcast interview.
Balenger isn’t the first to tackle impressive mileage without eating animal products. Vegan ultra runner Scott Jurek has broken multiple records, including the fastest time to complete the 2,189-mile Appalachian trail.
Balenger said he hoped to continue raising awareness of the benefits of going plant-based, even for elite endurance athletes.
“My motivation was from an advocacy standpoint to promote a plant-based lifestyle, and to really show what is possible on a plant-based diet,” Balenger told Runner’s World.
Balenger ate an average of 8,000 calories a day, including coconut milk, bananas, peanut butter, and cold pasta
Balenger stopped every five miles to refuel on high-fat, high-carb meals and snacks. In all, he said he had to eat a whopping 8,000 calories each day just to sustain his body through the serious strain of daily ultramarathons. For comparison, most people require between 2,000 to 3,000 calories a day to meet their energy needs.
In the mornings before he began running, Balenger said his breakfast was typically oatmeal loaded with chia seeds, bananas, maple syrup, nuts, and sometimes chocolate, along with a cup of coffee.
Four times a day, he consumed 1,000-calorie smoothies made of Soylent meal replacement powder, with added coconut milk, chia seeds, bananas, and veggies. He avoided drinking plain water, instead hydrating with electrolyte powder that also added additional calories.
“When you’re doing something like this, you need to get those calories whenever you can and wherever you can,” he told Roll.
For meals, Balenger said he stuck to easy-to-digest carbs like cold pasta tossed in olive oil, potatoes, and quesadillas with vegan cheese. Initially, his favorite meal was a vegan banh mi sandwich, but Balenger said bread quickly got soggy and was hard to manage.
“Bread was not working for me,” he said on the podcast.
Balenger told Runner’s World he supplemented with energy gels and ended the day with double serving of a vegan camping meal, or pre-made, dehydrated food designed for backpackers, and a cold IPA.
Balenger also had dessert at the ready. Non-dairy ice cream company NadaMoo sponsored his trek, as did the nonprofit Switch4Good, which encourages people to give up dairy and adopt a plant-based diet.
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