Stock Purchase Plan Coverage
Recommendation, 2007 April 15
Editor:
Chuck Allen, HR-XML Consortium, Inc.
Kim Bartkus, HR-XML Consortium, Inc.
Contributors:
Members of Stock workgroup
Copyright © 2007 HR-XML Consortium, Inc..
Abstract
The document describes the StockPurchasePlanCoverage component of the HR-XML Consortium’s Benefits Enrollment schema. This component can be used to support the transmission of participant enrollment data for employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The StockPurchasePlanCoverage feature of the HR-XML Enrollment schema can be used in concert with the HR-XML Consortium’s Employee Stock Plans Interface schemas to support a wide-range of data exchanges necessary in the administration of employee stock purchase plans.
Table of Contents
1.2.2 Items Outside of Design Scope
1.4 Common Employee Stock Plan Terminology
2 Process Flow – Employee Stock Purchase Plans
4 Implementation Considerations
5 Appendix A - Document Version History
6 Appendix B – Related Documents
7 Appendix C – Reference Examples
To attract and retain employees, many employers offer employees the opportunity to purchase stock through an ESPP. A third-party administrator or broker often handles the administration of the programs and selling of stock. Because no e-business standards for ESPP programs have been available, expensive custom interfaces often are built between employer systems and those of the stock program – or alternatively, the transactions simply are handled via forms, faxes, phone calls, or similar manual means.
StockPurchasePlanCoverage was designed as a component of the HR-XML’s Consortium’s Benefits Enrollment schema. Including support for ESPP enrollments within the multi-purpose Benefits Enrollment schema offers HR and benefit enrollment solution providers programming and other efficiencies.
StockPurchasePlanCoverage is a simple component containing basic information necessary to execute an ESPP enrollment with a plan administrator and to provide that administrator certain information necessary to administer an ESPP participant’s account.
StockPurchasePlanCoverage was specifically designed as a component of the HR-XML’s Consortium’s Benefits Enrollment schema. In addition to supporting ESPP enrollments, HR-XML’s enrollment schema supports:
There are optional components within the Enrollment schema relating to these types of coverage that can be ignored for purposes of ESPP enrollments.
Broadly speaking, for any type of enrollment, information must be transmitted identifying the participant who is being enrolled as well as information about what program or benefit in which the person is enrolling. Enrollments also may need to transmit a variety of other specifics the plan administrator may need to know to execute the enrollment or administer the benefit.
In the context of an ESPP enrollment, an implementer of the HR-XML’s Benefits Enrollment schema would use the appropriate components available within the Organization/Subscriber/PersonInfo node of that schema to transmit the information about who is enrolling in the ESPP. The StockPurchasePlanCoverageType is available within the Organization/Subscriber/Coverage node of Enrollment schema to carry information identifying the plan in which the participant is enrolling as well as other details the plan administrator requires to administer the participant’s account. (e.g., the identify of a broker to which shares are transferred upon issuance).
The roles related to the operation of employee stock purchase plans are:
Company: The organization responsible for sponsoring the employee stock plan and whose shares are offered through the plan. Each individual company’s plan has its own rules for the issuance and administration of stock options.
Administrator: The organization responsible for maintaining plan data, facilitating transactions, and enforcing plan rules. The role of the Administrator can be held by the Company, the Broker, or a third-party.
Participant: An individual, usually an employee of the Company but sometimes possibly an outside consultant, board member, independent contractor or a beneficiary - who stands to become an equity owner or otherwise benefit financially through plan participation.
Payroll: The organization responsible for processing the payroll of the company
Broker: A company that buys or sells securities on behalf of the Participant or Company
Terms specific to a country will be identified accordingly.
Common Stock: Securities which represent an ownership interest in the Company.
ESPP: Employee Stock Purchase Plans. See terminology for Stock Purchase Plans.
Participant: A participant in the employee stock plan. Often referred to as an “optionee.”
Stock Purchase Plan: Stock purchase plans are plans whereby employees use their own funds to purchase employer stock at market price or a modest discount. Employees usually (but not always) receive unrestricted rights to the stock at the time of payment. In the US, these plans typically involve regular payroll deductions for employees electing to participate. These funds are used to purchase shares either on the open market (using a broker) or directly from the issuing company. The shares are held by the broker or other agent until withdrawn by the employee. These plans often include provisions for reinvestment of dividends in company stock.
Stock Purchase Setup
The diagram shows the interactions between the parties involved (Company, Payroll, Administrator, Participant and Broker) to set up an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP). The Enrolment block specifies a transaction using the StockPurchasePlanCoverage schema as a subset of the Enrollment schema. Details on the purchase and sale of stock may be found in the EmployeeStockPlansInterface specification. See Appendix B – Related Documents.
Enrollment coverage information is available within the Subscriber and Dependent elements of the Enrollment schema. The first diagram shows where the Stock Purchase Plan Coverage information resides. For details on the Enrollment specification see Appendix B – Related Documents.
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Elements and Attributes [Global types listed alphabetically in following table.] |
ContentModel* |
Definition |
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/ |
- StockPurchasePlanCoverageType
- (1/1) |
A container of information pertaining to a participant's enrollment within an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
- xsd:string - S (1/1) |
A code that applies to the
individual records within a batch. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
- LocalDateType - S (0/1) |
The date of the enrollment. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
- EntityIdType - S (1/1) |
An identifier for the stock purchase plan elected by the participant. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
StartDate - LocalDateType - S (1/1) |
A period of time in which an
offering is valid. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
OfferingPeriod/ |
- LocalDateType - S (1/1) |
Contains the
(inclusive) date, period, or interval the event becomes active or begins. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
OfferingPeriod/ |
- LocalDateType - S (1/1) |
Contains the (inclusive) date,
period, or interval the event becomes inactive or ends. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
type - ShareIssuanceType
- |
Contains information on how shares are to be handled when issued. Allows the specification of broker with which the shares should be deposited as well as information about a person or organization in whose name the shares should be registered. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ |
- ShareIssuanceType - |
Further defines the associated
element in the context provided. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ |
Broker - OrganizationType
- S (0/1) |
Contains information identifying the Broker with which stock plan shares should be deposited upon issuance. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ BrokerInfo/ |
- OrganizationType - S (0/1) |
A firm or person that buys and sell shares for customers. [2] Context definition: This is the broker designated by a participant to receive shares when they are issued under the plan. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ BrokerInfo/ |
- EntityIdType - S (0/1) |
The number, code or other identifier assigned to an account. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ |
PersonInfo - [complexType] - C (1/*) |
Contains information on a person or organization in whose name the shares are registered. Shares typically would be registered in the name of the participant, but could be registered in joint tenancy with a spouse, for their child, with an alternate address. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ ShareIssuance/
ShareRegistrationInfo/ |
PersonName - PersonNameType - S (1/1) |
Contains various data about a person. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ ShareRegistrationInfo/ PersonInfo/ |
- PersonNameType - S (1/1) |
The name of a person. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ ShareRegistrationInfo/ PersonInfo/ |
- PostalAddressType - S (0/1) |
A mailing address. Describes a postal address used for delivery of mail. The address may include the country code, postal code, a region, municipality, delivery address, and the recipient. See PostalAddress Recommendation for further information. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ShareIssuance/ ShareRegistrationInfo/ |
- EntityIdType - S (0/1) |
The number, code or other identifier assigned to an account. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
MaximumPurchaseQuantity - xsd:decimal - S (0/1) |
Contains information on limits a stock plan may place on shares that may be purchased by a stock plan participant. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
SharePurchaseRestrictions/ |
- xsd:decimal - S (0/1) |
A numerical limit on the quantity of items or services that can be purchased. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
SharePurchaseRestrictions/ |
xsd:extension base: xsd:decimal |
A monetary limit on the amount of items or services that can be purchased. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
SharePurchaseRestrictions/ MaximumPurchaseAmount/ |
- CurrencyCodeType - |
A three-letter code identifying the
currency of a monetary amount. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
xsd:restriction base: xsd:decimal |
Specifies a contribution as a percentage of pay. The pay base to which the percentage is applied would be defined in the plan. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
xsd:extension base: xsd:decimal |
Contains the monetary value of the contribution. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/
ContributionAmount/ |
- CurrencyCodeType - |
A three-letter code identifying
the currency of a monetary amount. |
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/ StockPurchasePlanCoverage/ |
- UserAreaType - S (0/1) |
Allows the user to extend the specification in order to provide additional information that is not captured in the standard. |
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Global
types |
ContentModel* |
Definition |
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/ |
xsd:restriction base: xsd:string [Enumerations]: IssueCertificate, StockDeposit, SellOnDeposit |
Globally scoped data type. See element or attribute declaration for definition. |
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/ |
- [Union]: BasicShareIssuanceTypes, xStringPatternExtensionType |
Globally scoped data type. See element or attribute declaration for definition. |
Human resources data, by its very nature, is personal data. The laws of many jurisdictions as well as codes of fair information practice require organizations to handle personal data in a way that protects individuals from loss of privacy.
The data exchange specifications developed by the HR-XML Consortium are designed to be useful across many jurisdictions and within a variety of business contexts. It is not feasible for the HR-XML Consortium to develop specific privacy guidance for every jurisdiction or business context in which the Consortium's specifications might be implemented. When implementing data exchanges using the HR-XML Consortium's data definitions (or, for that matter, using any other type of data exchange mechanism), organizations are advised to examine the privacy protections that may be required under applicable law and codes of fair information practice.
For information on protecting personal data, general references include: European Union Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC); the Association Computing Machinery Code of Ethics (1992); Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information (1995 – PIPEDA); and U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Principles and FAQs (2000).
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Date |
Description |
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2003-11-13 |
Initial draft |
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2004-03-24 |
Changed MinimumPurchaseQuantity to decimal. Updated doc based on workgroup feedback. |
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2004-04-28 |
Renamed Name to PersonName and Person to PersonInfo (changed to multiple occurrence). Made ShareIssuanceType extensible. Removed MinimumPurchaseQuantity/Amount. Updated doc based on workgroup feedback. |
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2006-Feb-28 |
Approved by Consortium |
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2007-Apr-15 |
Approved by Consortium |
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Reference |
Link |
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StockPurchasePlanCoverage schema |
http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_5/HR-XML-2_5/Stock/StockPurchasePlanCoverage.xsd |
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Enrollment Specification |
http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_5/HR-XML-2_5/Enrollment/Enrollment.html |
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Employee Stock Plans Interface Specification |
http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_5/HR-XML-2_5/Stock/EmployeeStockPlansInterface.html |
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Company A offers an ESPP. Eligible employees are those
employed more than 20 hours per week and having been employed more than 6
months.
The plan operates 6 month offering periods with the price set as the lower of
the share price at the beginning or end of the offering period, less a 15%
discount.
Enrollment is permitted in the 30 days prior to the start of an offering
period. Employees can elect to contribute between 1% and 10% (whole percentages
only) of their cash compensation. Participants are permitted to withdraw from
the plan and receive a refund of contributions during the offering period and
may change their contribution election for subsequent offering periods.
Participation in the plan will continue until the employee withdraws from the
plan or terminates employment.
Contributions are limited to USD 21,250 per year, or USD 10,625 per offering
period. In addition, no more than 5,000 shares can be purchased in an offering
period.
John is a full time employee and has worked for Company A for 6 years. He
elects to participate and contribute at 8%.
The following example includes the stock plan coverage within an enrollment transaction.
<Enrollment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://ns.hr-xml.org/2007-04-15" xsi:schemaLocation="http://ns.hr-xml.org Enrollment.xsd" creationDate="2003-11-28T10:24:27-01:00" transactionType="Change" originatorId="COA" originatorName="CompanyA" recipientId="FI" recipientName="Fidelity Investments">
<Organization organizationId="01234" organizationName="CompanyA">
<BenefitsAdministrativeAffiliate>
<OrganizationName>Acme Online Benefits Services</OrganizationName>
<EntityRole>Third Party Administrator</EntityRole>
<AccountNumber>123456</AccountNumber>
<ContactInformation>
<Use>business</Use>
<Location>office</Location>
<Telephone>
<FormattedNumber>602 457 1233</FormattedNumber>
</Telephone>
<PostalAddress>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<PostalCode>92037</PostalCode>
<Region>CA</Region>
<Municipality>La Jolla</Municipality>
<DeliveryAddress>
<AddressLine>5 La Jolla Boulevard </AddressLine>
</DeliveryAddress>
</PostalAddress>
</ContactInformation>
</BenefitsAdministrativeAffiliate>
<Subscriber>
<SubscriberType>
<SubscriberTypeCode>Employment</SubscriberTypeCode>
<StartDate>2004-01-01</StartDate>
</SubscriberType>
<Person>
<IdentificationCode>
<IdValue name="Employee Number">522-412-112</IdValue>
</IdentificationCode>
<PersonName>
<FormattedName>John Adams</FormattedName>
</PersonName>
<Gender>1</Gender>
<DateOfBirth>1983-10-28</DateOfBirth>
<ContactInformation>
<Use>business</Use>
<Location>office</Location>
<Telephone>
<FormattedNumber>902 124 4566</FormattedNumber>
</Telephone>
<PostalAddress>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<PostalCode>90123</PostalCode>
<Region>CA</Region>
<Municipality>La Jolla</Municipality>
<DeliveryAddress>
<AddressLine>521</AddressLine>
<StreetName> Orange Street</StreetName>
<BuildingNumber>134</BuildingNumber>
<Unit>5B</Unit>
</DeliveryAddress>
<Recipient>
<PersonName>
<FormattedName>John Adams</FormattedName>
</PersonName>
</Recipient>
</PostalAddress>
</ContactInformation>
</Person>
<Coverage>
<StockPurchasePlanCoverage>
<TransactionCode>Add</TransactionCode>
<EnrollmentDate>2004-01-01</EnrollmentDate>
<ElectedPlanId>
<IdValue>123-98765</IdValue>
</ElectedPlanId>
<OfferingPeriod>
<StartDate>2004-01-01</StartDate>
<EndDate>2004-06-30</EndDate>
</OfferingPeriod>
<ShareIssuance type="StockDeposit">
<BrokerInfo>
<Broker>
<OrganizationName>Fidelity Investments</OrganizationName>
<OrganizationId>
<IdValue>FI</IdValue>
</OrganizationId>
<DunsNumber dunsNumberType="standard Duns">958973711</DunsNumber>
<ContactInfo purpose="Sales">
<ContactName>
<FormattedName>John Merritt</FormattedName>
</ContactName>
<ContactMethod>
<Use>business</Use>
<Location>office</Location>
<WhenAvailable>9:00-17:00, Weekdays</WhenAvailable>
<Telephone>
<FormattedNumber>123-456-7890</FormattedNumber>
</Telephone>
</ContactMethod>
</ContactInfo>
</Broker>
<AccountIdentifier validFrom="2000-01-01">
<IdValue>MS9999</IdValue>
</AccountIdentifier>
</BrokerInfo>
<ShareRegistrationInfo>
<PersonInfo>
<PersonName>
<FormattedName>Mr. John Adams</FormattedName>
</PersonName>
<PostalAddress>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<PostalCode>93121</PostalCode>
<Region>CA</Region>
<Municipality>Sunnyvale</Municipality>
<DeliveryAddress>
<AddressLine>5911</AddressLine>
<StreetName>Oxford Street</StreetName>
</DeliveryAddress>
<Recipient>
<PersonName>
<FormattedName type="presentation">Mr. John Adams</FormattedName>
</PersonName>
</Recipient>
</PostalAddress>
</PersonInfo>
</ShareRegistrationInfo>
</ShareIssuance>
<SharePurchaseRestrictions>
<MaximumPurchaseAmount currencyCode="USD">10625.00</MaximumPurchaseAmount>
</SharePurchaseRestrictions>
<ContributionPercentage>8</ContributionPercentage>
<UserArea/>
</StockPurchasePlanCoverage>
<UserArea/>
</Coverage>
<Employment employeeId="522-412-1122">
<EmploymentStatus>
<EmploymentStatusCode>Active</EmploymentStatusCode>
<StartDate>1998-01-01</StartDate>
</EmploymentStatus>
<EmploymentLevel>
<EmploymentLevelCode>Full Time</EmploymentLevelCode>
<StartDate>1998-01-01</StartDate>
</EmploymentLevel>
<HireDate>1998-01-01</HireDate>
</Employment>
<UserArea/>
</Subscriber>
</Organization>
<UserArea/>
</Enrollment>


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2.6 One spinner to rule them all?
In the examples in this section we used different spinners to represent different distributions. However, all of the examples assumed the same generic spinner: the needle was infinitely precise and “equally likely” to land on any value on the axis around the spinner. We modeled different distributions simply by changing the values on the axis.
Consider the standard continuous spinner in Figure ??, corresponding to a Uniform(0, 1) distribution. By relabeling the axes on this spinner, we could have constructed the spinners for any of the other examples.
For example, to obtain the spinner in Figure 2.3, start with the Uniform(0, 1) spinner and map
- The range (0, 0.1] to 1,
- The range (0.1, 0.3] to 2,
- The range (0.3, 0.6] to 3,
- The range (0.6, 1] to 4
Then the probability that the Uniform(0, 1) spinner lands in the range (0.3, 0.6] is 0.3, so the spinner resulting from this mapping would return a value of 3 with probability 0.3. (The probability of the infinitely precise needle landing on a specific value like 0.3 (that is, \(0.300000000\ldots\)) is 0, so it doesn’t really matter what we do with the endpoints of the intervals.)
For non-uniform values on a continuous scale, we could construct a spinner according to the distribution of interest by rescaling and stretching/shrinking the axis of the Uniform(0, 1) spinner to correspond to intervals of larger/smaller probability. For example, if we want to simulate values according to the distribution illustrated in Figure ?? we could start with the Uniform(0, 1) spinner and then transform the axis values \(u \mapsto -\log(1-u)\) to obtain the spinner in Figure 2.6. As discussed in Section 2.5.5, the spinner in Figure 2.6 generates values which follow the distribution is Figure ??.
In Section 2.5.5 we started with the transformation \(u\mapsto -\log(1-u)\) of the Uniform(0, 1) spinner and saw what distribution the transformed values followed via simulation. But what about the reverse question: given a particular distribution, how do we find the transformation of Uniform(0, 1) that will generate values according to the specified distribution? We will return to this question in Section XX.
The only example in this section where a Uniform(0, 1) spinner could not be used was the SAT example in Section 2.5.8, where we described a “globe” for simulating values. However, we will see in Section XX that we actually can use a Uniform(0, 1) to generate a pair of SAT scores, but we will need to suitably transform the results of two spins.
Through the examples in this chapter we have seen that, in principle, we can start with a Uniform(0, 1) spinner and via a suitable transformation of the axis (and possibly multiple spins) generate values according to any distribution of interest. This is the idea behind what is sometimes referred to as “universality of the uniform”, and we will explore it further in Section XX.


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java.lang.Object interbase.interclient.XAResource
public class XAResource
The XAResource interface is a Java mapping of the industry standard XA interface based on the X/Open CAE Specification (Distributed Transaction Processing: The XA Specification).
The XA interface defines the contract between a Resource Manager and a Transaction Manager in a distributed transaction processing (DTP) environment. A JDBC driver or a JMS provider implements the XA interface to support association between a global transaction and a database or message service connection.
The XAResource interface can be supported by any transactional resource that is intended to be used by application programs in an environment where transactions are controlled by an external transaction manager. An example of such a resource is a database management system. An application may access data through multiple database connections. Each database connection has a resource manager that is registered with the transaction manager. The transaction manager obtains an XAResource for each resource manager participating in a global transaction. It uses the start method to associate the global transaction with the XA resource, and it uses the end method to dissociate the transaction from the resource. The resource manager is responsible for associating the global transaction to all work performed on its data between the start and end method invocation.
At transaction commit time, these XA resource managers are informed by the transaction manager to prepare, commit, or rollback a transaction according to the two phase commit protocol.
XAConnection
,
Xid
| Field Summary | |
|---|---|
static int |
TMENDRSCAN
End a recovery scan. |
static int |
TMFAIL
Dissociates the caller and mark the transaction branch rollback-only. |
static int |
TMJOIN
Caller is joining existing transaction branch. |
static int |
TMNOFLAG
Use TMNOFLAG to indicate no flags value is selected. |
static int |
TMONEPHASE
Caller is using one-phase optimization. |
static int |
TMRESUME
Caller is resuming association with with suspended transaction branch. |
static int |
TMSTARTRSCAN
Start a recovery scan. |
static int |
TMSUCCESS
Dissociate caller from transaction branch. |
static int |
TMSUSPEND
Caller is suspending (not ending) association with transaction branch. |
| Fields inherited from interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource |
|---|
TMNOFLAGS, XA_OK, XA_RDONLY |
| Constructor Summary | |
|---|---|
XAResource()
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| Method Summary | |
|---|---|
void |
commit(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid,
boolean onePhase)
Commit the global transaction specified by xid. |
void |
end(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid,
int flags)
Ends the work performed on behalf of a transaction branch. |
void |
forget(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid)
Tell the resource manager to forget about a heuristically completed transaction branch. |
int |
getTransactionTimeout()
Obtain the current transaction timeout value set for this XAResource instance. |
boolean |
isSameRM(javax.transaction.xa.XAResource xares)
This method is called to determine if the resource manager instance represented by the target object is the same as the resouce manager instance represented by the parameter xares. |
int |
prepare(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid)
Ask the resource manager to prepare for a transaction commit of the transaction specified in xid. |
javax.transaction.xa.Xid[] |
recover(int flag)
Obtain a list of prepared transaction branches from a resource manager. |
void |
rollback(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid)
Inform the resource manager to roll back work done on behalf of a transaction branch |
boolean |
setTransactionTimeout(int seconds)
Set the current transaction timeout value for this XAResource
instance. |
void |
start(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid,
int flags)
Start work on behalf of a transaction branch specified in xid |
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
|---|
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
| Field Detail |
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public static final int TMENDRSCAN
public static final int TMFAIL
public static final int TMJOIN
public static final int TMNOFLAG
public static final int TMONEPHASE
public static final int TMRESUME
public static final int TMSTARTRSCAN
public static final int TMSUCCESS
public static final int TMSUSPEND
| Constructor Detail |
|---|
public XAResource()
| Method Detail |
|---|
public void commit(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid, boolean onePhase) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
commit
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xid
- A global transaction identifieronePhase
- If true, the resource manager should use a one-phase
commit protocol to commit the work done on behalf of xid.
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible XAExceptions
are XA_HEURHAZ, XA_HEURCOM, XA_HEURRB, XA_HEURMIX, XAER_RMERR,
XAER_RMFAIL, XAER_NOTA, XAER_INVAL, or XAER_PROTO.
If the resource manager did not commit the transaction and the paramether onePhase is set to true, the resource manager may raise one of the XA_RB* exceptions. Upon return, the resource manager has rolled back the branch's work and has released all held resources.
public void end(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid, int flags) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
end
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xid
- A global transaction identifier that is the same as
what was used previously in the start method.flags
- One of TMSUCCESS, TMFAIL, or TMSUSPEND
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible XAException
values are XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAILED, XAER_NOTA, XAER_INVAL,
XAER_PROTO, or XA_RB*.public void forget(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
forget
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xid
- A global transaction identifier
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible exception
values are XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL, XAER_NOTA, XAER_INVAL, or
XAER_PROTO.public int getTransactionTimeout() throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
XAResource.setTransactionTimeout
was not use prior to invoking this method, the return value
is the default timeout set for the resource manager; otherwise,
the value used in the previous setTransactionTimeout
call is
returned.
getTransactionTimeout
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible exception
values are XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL.public int prepare(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
prepare
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xid
- A global transaction identifier
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible exception
values are: XA_RB*, XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL, XAER_NOTA, XAER_INVAL,
or XAER_PROTO.public javax.transaction.xa.Xid[] recover(int flag) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
recover
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
flag
- One of TMSTARTRSCAN, TMENDRSCAN, TMNOFLAGS. TMNOFLAGS
must be used when no other flags are set in flags.
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible values are
XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL, XAER_INVAL, and XAER_PROTO.public void rollback(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
rollback
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xid
- A global transaction identifier
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurredpublic boolean setTransactionTimeout(int seconds) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
XAResource
instance. This value overwrites the default transaction timeout
value in the resource manager. The newly assigned timeout value
is effective for the life of this XAResource
instance unless
a new value is set.
setTransactionTimeout
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
seconds
- the transaction timeout value in seconds.
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible exception values
are XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL, or XAER_INVAL.public void start(javax.transaction.xa.Xid xid, int flags) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
start
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xid
- A global transaction identifier to be associated
with the resourceflags
- One of TMNOFLAGS, TMJOIN, or TMRESUME
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible exceptions
are XA_RB*, XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL, XAER_DUPID, XAER_OUTSIDE,
XAER_NOTA, XAER_INVAL, or XAER_PROTO.public boolean isSameRM(javax.transaction.xa.XAResource xares) throws javax.transaction.xa.XAException
isSameRM
in interface javax.transaction.xa.XAResource
xares
- An XAResource object whose resource manager instance is to be compared
with the resource manager instance of the target object.
javax.transaction.xa.XAException
- An error has occurred. Possible exceptions
are XAER_RMERR, XAER_RMFAIL.
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| DOSE: T+ 0:00 |
repeated |
smoked |
Cannabis |
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| T+ 0:05 |
100 mg |
oral |
MDMA |
(powder / crystals) |
| T+ 0:10 |
12 mg |
oral |
2C-E |
(powder / crystals) |
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repeated |
smoked |
Cannabis |
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A friend of mine, and one of his friends I hadn't met before came over to smoke. His friend was rolling for the first time, and I mentioned I had never done MDMA before. My friend immediately offered me 100mg of molly(MDMA) that he said was some of the best molly he has had. We smoked a few bowls out of my bong and I was thinking about taking the molly or not.
I decided to take it, it was aprox. 8-9pm I can't remember.
After I dosed it, he asked me if I wanted to try a low dose of 2CE also, like 5mg. I suggested about 10mg and he grabbed a pinch out of his bag an put it on the scale an it weighed to be 12-13mg - so thats what he gave me to dose.
After dosing both, my friend an his friend left to go dose LSD, I didn't go with them because my plan was to stay home and paint.
I was starting to feel the come up from the MDMA, I took some more bong rips of some Chemdawg x Bluemoon and some Blue Cheese (the names of the marijuana strains). I was starting to feel very euphoric, music sounded good, my jaw was starting tensing up a little from both the drugs.
I started painting while listing to music w/ earbuds on, I was feeling happy and energetic. As I was painting, the 2CE hit me in the face, the colors on the canvas looked like there was paint thinner poured over it an they were melting away. But then they would re-appear; this is when I realized I was tripping balls.
I noticed that depending on the angle I looked at the canvas, the image would dynamically change, I believe this was happening because the light would reflect off the wet canvas in different ways as I moved. Also the grain of the canvas (the texture of the surface), and texture of the paint / brushstrokes became more lively and 3 dimensional.
At one point while I was painting, I was looking at a photo of a girl I miss a lot for reference on my computer, and I felt like I could manipulate my painting's composition without painting.
When I would look at my canvas it was constantly changing even when I wasn't painting. The colors would shift from one to another, and they would melt, and vibrate around on the surface of the canvas. I remember being confused about what the painting actually looked like, because it was so dynamic - I could see the general image of the painting, but since it was moving and changing I wasn't sure where the paint actually was on the canvas.
At some point in the middle of the night I took a break from painting and got some sorbet out of my freezer. When I opened the lid of the sorbet I noticed there was frost on the inside of the lid, an I was seeing fractal like visuals in the texture of the frost.
I ended up painting until 4 or 5am, then going to sleep. I can't recall everything, so I'm going to wrap this report up here. Overall I found 2CE to be one of the most visual trips I've had - things that have patterns, colors, textures reflections from light became very trippy when focusing on them. I'm not really sure what MDMA feels like because I was tripping so hard once the 2CE kicked in, but I'm sure it helped keep my trip positive.
The only negative I had from my experience was my jaw tensing up / chattering from the MDMA & 2CE, I experienced my jaw tensing up the day after my trip also.
I think I would try this combination again in the future, but I think I'd want to wait a while to space it out.
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Resize loading image
A transformer chain two ImageProcessing together.
adjust the image brightness
Transform byte array(original image file in byte) to OpenCVMat
image channel normalize
random change the channel of an image
Channel normalization with scale factor.
Random adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation
expand image, fill the blank part with the meanR, meanG, meanB
a Preprocessing that convert ImageFeature to a Tensor.
Fill part of image with certain pixel value
Crop a fixed area of image
Flip the image horizontally
Adjust image hue
transform opencv mat to tensor
Flip the image horizontally and vertically
Transform byte array(pixels in byte) to OpenCVMat
Pixel level normalizer, data(i) = data(i) - mean(i)
Random crop a cropWidth
x cropHeight
patch from an image.
Random cropper on uniform distribution with fixed height and width.
Randomly apply the preprocessing to some of the input ImageFeatures, with probability specified.
Randomly apply the preprocessing to some of the input ImageFeatures, with probability specified. E.g. if prob = 0.5, the preprocessing will apply to half of the input ImageFeatures.
Randomly resize an image between minSize and maxSize and scale height and width to each other.
Random sample a bounding box given some constraints and crop the image This is used in SSD training augmentation
horizontally flip the roi
horizontally flip the roi
whether the roi is normalized, i.e. in range [0, 1]
Normalize Roi to [0, 1]
Project gt boxes onto the coordinate system defined by image boundary
Project gt boxes onto the coordinate system defined by image boundary
whether need to meet center constraint, i.e., the center of gt box need be within image boundary
resize the roi according to scale
resize the roi according to scale
whether the roi is normalized, i.e. in range [0, 1]
Adjust image saturation
ImageSet wraps a set of ImageFeature
Transforms tensors that map inputKeys and targetKeys to sample
Flip the image horizontally and vertically
Normalizes the norm or value range Per image, similar to opencv::normalize https://docs.opencv.org/ref/master/d2/de8/groupcorearray.html #ga87eef7ee3970f86906d69a92cbf064bd ImageNormalize normalizes scale and shift the input features.
Normalizes the norm or value range Per image, similar to opencv::normalize https://docs.opencv.org/ref/master/d2/de8/groupcorearray.html #ga87eef7ee3970f86906d69a92cbf064bd ImageNormalize normalizes scale and shift the input features. Various normalize methods are supported. Eg. NORM_INF, NORM_L1, NORM_L2 or NORM_MINMAX. Pleas notice it's a per image normalization.
a Preprocessing that converts a Spark Row to a BigDL ImageFeature.
Random crop a
cropWidth
xcropHeight
patch from an image. The patch size should be less than the image size.


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Neural network demo in pure JS
This is a demo of a neural network applied to the problem of learning a polynomial function given a set of noisy points sampled from that function. Use the slider bars below to see the effect of various parameters on the function approximation.
Left-click the mouse inside the image to add a new point.
Fork this code on Github.
This network is learning to map an input x to an output y by minimising the squared difference between the two. The optimisation is being done using stochastic gradient descent (using one training example to update the weights). Stochastic gradient descent tends to take a zig zag route to the minimum and this explains the oscillations during training. These can be reduced by lowering the learning rate, but too low of a learning rate means it will take longer to converge. The more complex the network, the more likely it is to overfit the training points and be unable to generalise to new ones. Also, be aware that the larger the network, the longer it takes to train - so be patient!


You will be given a random number at the start of the game.
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There are four crystals below. By clicking on the crystals, you will add a specific amount of point to your total score.

- The value of each crystal is hidden from you untill you click on it.
- Each time when the game starts, the game will change the value of each crystal.
- The value of each crystal is hidden from you untill you click on it.
- Each time when the game starts, the game will change the value of each crystal.
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--- layout: page status: publish published: true title: Salt Lake County 2 Meter Contours author: display_name: Rick Kelson login: rkelson email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>url: '' author_login: rkelson author_email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>wordpress_id: 875 wordpress_url: http://gis.utah.gov/?page_id=875 date: '2011-08-15 18:09:14 -0600' date_gmt: '2011-08-15 18:09:14 -0600' categories: [] tags: - sgid - Data - utah - gis - map - mapping - dataset - download - agrc - layer - metadata - digital - geographic - information - database - state - statewide - elevation - terrain - DEM - raster - topography - contour - meter - contours - 2 meter ---
AGRC has 2 meter contours derived from 2 meter LiDAR for Salt Lake County. No smoothing has been applied to the contour data but a 'Smooth Line' in ArcMap with a '50 meter Smoothing Tolerance' cleans the data up nicely. Although the data is refered to as 2 meter, the contour intervals are .5 meter. SLCo_2m_Index is a shapefile that can be used to determine what files to download. These contour shapefiles cover 4,000 X 4,000 meter blocks. This data has a UTM NAD83 meters projection.


forcePrologInterrupt/0
forcePrologInterrupt/0 | - force interrupt on next call
callWithDelayedInterrupt/1 | - call goal, setting delayed interrupt
callWithDelayedInterrupt/2 | - call goal, setting delayed interrupt
FORMS
forcePrologInterrupt
callWithDelayedInterrupt(Call)
callWithDelayedInterrupt(Module,Call)
DESCRIPTION
forcePrologInterrupt forces an interrupt on the next call by setting the heap safety margin to a
sufficiently large number which is guaranteed to be larger than the actual heap
margin.
callWithDelayedInterrupt(Call)acts like call/1, invoking Call. However, it arranges the system so that an interrupt will take place on the
first call occurring after the invocation of Call.
callWithDelayedInterrupt(Module,Call)
acts like
callWithDelayedInterrupt/1, except that it invokes Call within module Module.
SEE ALSO
setPrologInterrupt/1, getPrologInterrupt/1, User Guide (Prolog Interrupts).


Note: Most of the enumeration scripts will do post exploitation gathering too if run as Administrator/root!
Linux
https://github.com/mubix/post-exploitation/wiki/Linux-Post-Exploitation-Command-List
Windows
http://www.handgrep.se/repository/cheatsheets/postexploitation/WindowsPost-Exploitation.pdf
https://github.com/mubix/post-exploitation/wiki/windows
The best tool these days for understanding windows networks is Powerview [1].
It's worth reading everything written by it's author [2], especially [3], [4],
[5], and [6]. Powershell itself is also quite powerful [7]. As there are still
many windows 2000 and 2003 servers without powershell, you also have to learn
the old school [8], with programs like netview.exe [9] or the windows builtin
"net view". Other techniques that I like are:
1) Downloading a list of file names
With a Domain Admin account, you can download a list of all filenames in
the network with powerview:
Invoke-ShareFinderThreaded -ExcludedShares IPC$,PRINT$,ADMIN$ |
select-string '^(.*) \t-' | %{dir -recurse $_.Matches[0].Groups[1] |
select fullname | out-file -append files.txt}
Later, you can read it at your leisure and choose which files to download.
2) Reading email
As we've already seen, you can download email with powershell, and it has a
lot of useful information.
3) Reading sharepoint
It's another place where many businesses store a lot of important
information. It can also be downloaded with powershell [10].
4) Active Directory [11]
It has a lot of useful information about users and computers. Without being
Domain Admin, you can already get a lot of info with powerview and other
tools [12]. After getting Domain Admin, you should export all the AD
information with csvde or another tool.
5) Spy on the employees
One of my favorite hobbies is hunting sysadmins. Spying on Christian Pozzi
(one of Hacking Team's sysadmins) gave me access to a Nagios server which
gave me access to the rete sviluppo (development network with the source
code of RCS). With a simple combination of Get-Keystrokes and
Get-TimedScreenshot from PowerSploit [13], Do-Exfiltration from nishang
[14], and GPO, you can spy on any employee, or even on the whole domain.
[1] https://github.com/PowerShellEmpire/PowerTools/tree/master/PowerView
[2] http://www.harmj0y.net/blog/tag/powerview/
[3] http://www.harmj0y.net/blog/powershell/veil-powerview-a-usage-guide/
[4] http://www.harmj0y.net/blog/redteaming/powerview-2-0/
[5] http://www.harmj0y.net/blog/penetesting/i-hunt-sysadmins/
[6] http://www.slideshare.net/harmj0y/i-have-the-powerview
[7] https://adsecurity.org/?p=2535
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwrKhgMd7E
[9] https://github.com/mubix/netview
[10] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rcormier/2013/03/30/how-to-perform-bulk-downloads-of-files-in-sharepoint/
[11] https://adsecurity.org/?page_id=41
[12] http://www.darkoperator.com/?tag=Active+Directory
[13] https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit
[14] https://github.com/samratashok/nishang
Complete
https://adsecurity.org/?p=3719
http://adsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/NoVaPowerShellUsersGroup2015-ActiveDirectoryPowerShell.pdf


FAQ
Do I need to learn a new frontend framework for django-unicorn
?
Nope! django-unicorn
gives you some magical template tags and HTML attributes to sprinkle in normal Django HTML templates. The backend code is a simple class that ultimately derives from TemplateView
. Keep using the same Django HTML templates, template tags, filters, etc and the best-in-class Django ORM without learning another new framework of the week.
Do I need to build an entire API to use django-unicorn
?
Nope! Django REST framework
is pretty magical on its own, and if you will need a mobile app or other use for a REST API, it's a great set of abstractions to follow REST best practices. But, it can be challenging implementing a robust API even with Django REST framework
. And I wouldn't even attempt to build an API up from scratch unless it was extremely limited.
Do I need to need to install GraphQL to use django-unicorn
?
Nope! GraphQL looks like an awesome technology for specific use-cases and solves some pain points around creating a RESTful API. But, it is another peiece of technology to wrestle with.
Do I need to run an annoying separate node.js process or learn any tedious Webpack configuration incantations to use django-unicorn
?
Nope! django-unicorn
installs just like any normal Django package and is seamless to implement. There are a few "magic" attributes to sprinkle into a Django HTML template, but other than that it's just like building a regular server-side application.
Does this replace Vue.js or React?
Nope! In some cases, you might need to actually build an SPA in which case django-unicorn
really isn't that helpful. In that case you might have to invest the time to learn a more involved frontend framework. Read Using VueJS alongside Django for one approach.
Isn't calling an AJAX endpoint on every input slow?
Not really! django-unicorn
is ideal for when an AJAX call would already be required (such as hitting an API for typeahead search or update data in a database). If that isn't required, the lazy and debounce modifiers can also be used to prevent an AJAX call on every change.
But, what about security?
django-unicorn
follows the best practices of Django and requires a CSRF token to be set on any page that has a component. This ensures that no nefarious AJAX POSTs can be executed. django-unicorn
also creates a unique component checksum with the Django secret key on every data change which also ensures that all updates are valid.
What browsers does django-unicorn
support?
django-unicorn
mostly targets modern browsers, but the project would appreciate any PRs to help support legacy browsers.
How to make sure that the new Javascript is served when a new version of django-unicorn
is released?
django-unicorn
works great with whitenoise's ability to serve static assets with a filename based on a hash of the file. CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage works great for this purpose and is used by django-unicorn.com for this very purpose. Example code can be found at https://github.com/adamghill/django-unicorn.com/.


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by None at 2020-09-17 17:29:25.@hackmastera Looks good, but there's a failing test.
Oh the failing spec is mine. I'll deal with it.
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by Trey Pendragon at 2020-09-17 15:40:08.Oh also! A release note seems relevant here.
@hackmastera Should be ready to look at.
oh, looks like you already saw that!
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by Christina Chortaria at 2020-09-17 14:11:11.Coverage remained the same at 80.355% when pulling 79aad54dd36377d06bcdb92b0d5776595cc022b4 on 752-update-nodejs-12x into a12df0a37eb1df7e155142897fed49a01f33a9b3 on master.
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by None at 2020-09-17 15:27:52.Coverage increased (+0.7%) to 81.034% when pulling 99fe99c7ec3d3bc8e60b94d01ece46a52d94cf6d on i789-access-rake into a12df0a37eb1df7e155142897fed49a01f33a9b3 on master.
thanks @carolyncole !
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by Christina Chortaria at 2020-09-17 17:18:13.How to identify a valid user:
I have asked for clarification on what we should do in instances where we have a duplicate netid with one row with On Campus marked "Y" and another row with it marked "N".
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by Christina Chortaria at 2020-09-17 19:03:02.@hackmastera It was hard to determine if your changes had broken anything since the tests were also changed so drastically. I went ahead and reverted your changes to the controller test and was happy to say they all still passed. Looks good to me. I will not merge since @christinach wants to review.
Awesome; thank you for double-checking.
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by Christina Chortaria at 2020-09-17 20:03:47.The logic of how the duedate is displayed is not obvious in marcliberation. I added the comment in the test so that I remember not to add the duedate in a test where the duedate is older more that 30 days from now. But yes it can be removed as a comment and we can add a new test to test the due_date on the availability. I'll open an issue for that.
No I will not add a new issue we can use this one for adding a spec.
This is where it is coming from https://github.com/pulibrary/voyager_helpers/blob/37b62ad83ed2f1af6185e54534d901e23e5fdf30/lib/voyager_helpers/liberator.rb#L699
Examples for the duedate spec:
**1. bibid: 189356**
- itemid: 202844
- currentduedate: 2020-09-15 23:59:00
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/189356 with status display: checked_out
- The availability includes the duedate because it is in the last 30 days range from today (09/17/2020) https://bibdata.princeton.edu/availability?id=189356 with status: Overdue
2. bib_id: 5655647
- itemid: 5261955
- currentduedate: 2020-08-15 21:00:00
- https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/5655647 with status display: checked_out
- The availability does not include the duedate because it is older than the 30 days range from today (09/17/2020)
https://bibdata.princeton.edu/availability?id=5655647 with status: Overdue
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The descendants of Issachar
1 Issachar's four sons were Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
2 Tola's sons were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel. They were all leaders of the clans descended from them.
In the record of Tola's descendants were the names of 22,600 men who were able to be in the army during the time that David was the king of Israel.
3 Uzzi's son was Izrahiah. Izrahiah's five sons were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. Izrahiah and his sons were all leaders of their clans.
4 In the record of Izrahiah's descendants were the names of 36,000 men who were able to be in the army because they had many wives and children.
5 In the records of the clans descended from Issachar were the names of 87,000 men able to be in the army.
The descendants of Benjamin
6 The three sons of Benjamin were Bela, Beker, and Jediael.
7 Bela's five sons were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were all leaders of clans.
In the records of the clans descended from Bela there were names of 22,034 men who were able to be in the army.
8 Beker's sons were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth.
9 In the records of the clans descended from Beker were the names of 20,200 men and leaders of the clans who were able to be in the army.
10 Jediael's son was Bilhan. Bilhan's sons were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11 They were all leaders of clans descended from them.
There were 17,200 of them who were able to be in the army.
12 Shuppim and Huppim were also members of this clan.
One of the descendants of Dan was Hushim.
Naphtali's sons
13 Naphtali's sons were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. They were all descendants of Jacob's slave wife Bilhah.
Manasseh's descendants
14 This is a list of Manasseh's descendants. Manasseh had a slave wife who was from Aram. She was the mother of Asriel and Makir.
Makir was the father of Gilead.
15 Makir had two wives. They were from the clans of Huppim and Shuppim.
One of Makir's wives was named Maacah.
Makir had another son whose name was Zelophehad. Zelophehad had no sons; he had only daughters.
16 Makir's wife Maacah gave birth to two sons whom she named Peresh and Sheresh. Sheresh's sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17 Ulam's son was Bedan.

Descendants of Ephraim
20 This is a list of the descendants of Ephraim.
One son of Ephraim was Shuthelah.
Shuthelah's son was Bered.
Bered's son was Tahath.
Tahath's son was Eleadah.
Eleadah's son was also named Tahath.
21 Tahath's son was Zabad.
Zabad's son was Shuthelah.
Ephraim's other sons, Ezer and Elead, went to the city of Gath to steal some cows and sheep. But they were both killed by some of the men from that city.22 Their father Ephraim cried for them for many days, and his family came to comfort him.
23 Then he and his wife slept together again; she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah which resembles the word 'trouble' because of the trouble that his family had experienced.
24 Ephraim's daughter was Sheerah. Her workers built three towns: Lower Beth Horon, Upper Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah.
25 Another son of Ephraim was Rephah.
Rephah's son was Resheph.
Resheph's son was Telah.
Telah's son was Tahan.
26 Tahan's son was Ladan.
Ladan's son was Ammihud.
Ammihud's son was Elishama.
27 Elishama's son was Nun.
Nun's son was Joshua, the man who led the Israelites after Moses died.
28 This is a list of the cities and areas where the descendants of Ephraim lived:
Bethel and the nearby villages;
Naaran to the east;
Gezer to the west and the nearby villages; and
Shechem and the nearby villages. Those villages extended north as far as Ayyah and the nearby villages.
29 Along the border of the area where the descendants of Manasseh lived were these towns: Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the nearby villages.
The people who lived in all those places were descendants of Jacob's son Joseph.
The descendants of Asher
30 Asher's sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Their sister was Serah.
31 Beriah's sons were Heber and Malkiel.
Malkiel was the father of Birzaith
32 Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham. Their sister was Shua.
33 Japhlet's sons were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath.
34 Japhlet's younger brother was Shomer. Shomer's sons were Rohgah, Hubbah, and Aram.
35 Shomer's younger brother was Hotham . Hotham's sons were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
36 Zophah's sons were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran whose other name was Jether, and Beera.
38 Jether's sons were Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.
39 Another descendant of Asher was Ulla, whose sons were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All those men were descendants of Asher, and they were all leaders of their clans. They were brave warriors and excellent leaders. In the record of the clans that are descended from Asher are the names of 26,000 men who were able to be in the army.


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Our group decided to pair LED lights with the Piezo Buzzer to perform a sequences of buzzes that coincided with Morse Code. In the sections below we will cover the hardware used along with an indepth look at exactly what challenges we ran into and what we learned along the way.
The Arduino Uno R3 is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started. (info from https://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/arduino-uno.aspx) I found it interesting that certain ports contain a modulator that helps with the buzzers pitch. I also think the test light on the board came in handy when running simple test and definetly saved us time. The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega16U2 (Atmega8U2 up to version R2) programmed as a USB-to-serial converter.
We used a piezo buzzer that was controlled by the microcontroller for our project. The Piezo buzzer is an electronic device commonly used to produce sound. Light weight, simple construction and low price make it usable in various applications like car/truck reversing indicator, computers, alarms, and more. The Piezo buzzer is based on the inverse principle of piezo electricity, discovered in 1880 by Jacques and Pierre Curie. It is the phenomena of generating electricity when mechanical pressure is applied to certain materials and the vice versa is also true. The faster you bend the material, the higher the pitch of the noise that’s produced. This rate is called frequency.
During the development of our project we used various tools in order to complete our work. In addition to the hardware that was required, there
was also additional software that was involved. All of the tools that were used are detailed below.
Hardware:
Arduino Uno R-3 Microcontroller
Breadboard
220 Ohm Resistors
Power Wires
USB Adapter
Piezo Buzzer
LED Lights
Software:
Arduino IDE
mVim
GitHub
AVR-tools Makefile (by rblack42)
CMD Line
For our experiment we initially picked a servo to work with. We couldn’t find anything we were passionate about to experiment with the servo with
the amount of time we had. So, we moved on to working with the piezo buzzer Our initial goal was to play a few Christmas melodies with the piezo buzzer, but the documentation
for the tone and digital write function was very hard to find. It became more of a challenge than we had time to complete. We really wanted to get something working in assembly
for our project, and converting the Arduino code to C and then assembly for the type of functions we were to perform to play a song was a monumental task. Wanting a finished product
to show, we moved on to something we would be able to write and compile given our earlier practice with assembly blinking and led and buzzing a buzzer. Keeping with the Christmas theme
we then decided to send a “Merry Christmas” message using Morse code. We could reuse the majority of the code from the homework assignments and modify it to do what we wanted it to do.
This took quite a bit of trial and error getting our delay function right to send Morse code, and also to do a slowed down version so we could decipher the Morse code and see that
it was correct. Ultimately, we prevailed and the experiment was a success. Consulting we another group we also managed to get a led blinking in tandem with the Morse code signals.
Unfortunately, this is not multitasking. But just initiating another function call that happened so fast you don’t see it.
The device is very simple, but can do many things with the right instructions. We learned a lot about microcontrollers as we progressed through this experiment. You need first and foremost to identify the ports and pins your devices to be controlled are connected to. Writing this in assembly and C isn’t as intuitive as one would think. We had to look at a diagram of the connections from the CPU to the individuals pins to obtain the information we needed to make our device work. Although the device is simple, it is not forgiving if you give it bad instructions. It took a lot of trial and error to get the device to do what we wanted it to. Hardwiring devices to the controller was another skill no one in our group had. At first we limped our way through not knowing what was going on, but eventually gained the knowledge we needed to wire our devices using the breadboard and the proper resistors. Even something as simple as grounding one rail of the breadboard, and then connecting the devices grounds to that rail was something we learned during our experimentation. A few things we would like to continue on with would be to learn how to multitask with the Arduino. We found code and examples using the Arduino IDE, and that would be a great place to start. We had talked in depth about the possibility of making a Rube Goldberg machine using servos and other devices for the Arduino. That would be a great project to dive into multitasking and the interrupting of the processor, as opposed to delaying with a function call.
All 3 group members contributed to the coding of the Arduino, troubleshooting, and researching the various failed and successful experiments.


/customer/update
Update customer record.
Parameters
| Name |
Type |
Required |
Example |
Description |
| clientId |
string(40) |
yes |
04f78...9f9f3 |
Client id is a unique user identifier provided by GetFiveStars. |
| customerEmail |
string(email) |
no |
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
Customer email address. |
| customerFirstName |
string |
no |
John |
Customer first name. |
| customerId |
integer |
yes |
1 |
Customer id. |
| customerLastName |
string |
no |
Smith |
Customer last name. |
| customerPhoneNumber |
string |
no |
555 5555 5555 |
Customer mobile phone number. |
| hash |
string(64) |
yes |
bd13a40...303f3c5 |
Hash is a digital request signature. Learn how to generate hash here. |
Request
POST https://getfivestars.com/api/customer/update
[Content-Type: application/json]
{
"customerId": 1,
"clientId": "04f78076fbfc66940169d2199af7c6698019f9f3",
"customerEmail"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"customerFirstName": "John",
"customerLastName": "Smith",
"hash": "67fbca027648a3caf08e47ca685d772aa2d92fb526b8b6e91d74286301c99988",
}
Response
{
"errorCode": 0,
"errorMessage": "Success"
}
Errors
| errorCode |
errorMessage |
| -1 |
Unknown error |
| 1 |
Invalid hash sign |
| 2 |
Invalid clientId |
| 5 |
This user cannot manage selected business |
| 6 |
Invalid businessId |
| 7 |
Invalid customerFirstName |
| 8 |
Invalid customerLastName |
| 9 |
Invalid customerEmail |
| 44 |
Customer not found |
| 47 |
You can not update feedback history record |
| 48 |
Customer with this email already exists |


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Abstract
This paper presents a study of a deep reinforcement learning technique that uses a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient network for application in navigation of mobile robots. In order for the robot to arrive to a target on a map, the network has 10 laser range findings, the previous linear and angular velocity, and relative position and angle of the mobile robot to the target as inputs. As outputs, the network has the linear and angular velocity. From the results analysis, it is possible to conclude that the deep reinforcement learning's algorithms, with continuous actions, are effective for decision-make of a robotic vehicle. However, it is necessary to create a good reward system for the intelligent agent to accomplish your objectives. This research uses different virtual simulation environments provided by ROBOTIS in the robot simulation software Gazebo in order to test the performance of the algorithm. A supplementary video can be accessed at the following link: https://youtu.be/NhGxEC3g7sU. That shows the performance of the proposed system.
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Play anything you hear.
Without thinking, the same way that you talk.
I am a musician who performs a lot in the community where I live, in multiple genres.
There is no substitute for making friends.
Ideas about exploring on your own.
Is improvisation for me? Self study can help determine that.
You can memorize the circle of fifths, and become completely comfortable with jumping around the circle.
Get comfortable with playing through the circle with various scale and phrase patterns, without thinking about key sigs.

It's a natural but long process, like learning a foreign language.
Total fluency is a lifelong goal.
If you are participating in a musical community, your rate of progress will skyrocket.
Navigate a song without measure numbers or sections designated by letters. Learn songs efficiently, using standard forms as a departure point.
Get fluency in the five additional diatonic modes, in addition to major and minor.
80% of playing is supporting other players, 20% is soloing.
This presentation:
https://wtomed.github.io/scale-improv
Please feel free to use it as you see fit, and send me suggestions.


Jialuo Chen, Jingyi Wang, Xingjun Ma, Youcheng Sun, Jun Sun, Peixin Zhang, and Peng Cheng, “QuoTe: Quality-oriented Testing for Deep Learning Systems”, TOSEM 2023, [PDF, Bibtex]
Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Jun Sun, Xinyu Wang, Guoliang Dong, Xingen Wang, Ting Dai, and Jinsong Dong, “Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers through Adversarial Sampling”, TSE 2021, [PDF, Bibtex]
Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Jun Sun, Guoliang Dong, Xinyu Wang, Xingen Wang, Jinsong Dong, and Ting Dai, “White-box Fairness Testing through Adversarial Sampling”, ICSE 2020 (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper, ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlight). [PDF, Bibtex, Slide, Video]
Yizhen Dong, *Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Shuang Liu, Jun Sun, Jianye Hao, Xinyu Wang, Li Wang, Jinsong Dong, and Dai Ting, “An Empirical Study on Correlation between Coverage and Robustness for Deep Neural Networks”, ICECCS 2020. [PDF, Bibtex]
Jingyi Wang, Guoliang Dong, Jun Sun, Xinyu Wang, and Peixin Zhang, “Adversarial Sample Detection for Deep Neural Network through Model Mutation Testing”, ICSE 2019. [PDF, Bibtex, Slide]
Jingyi Wang, Peixin Zhang, Pengfei Yang, Jun Sun, Dongxia Wang, and Xinyu Wang, “Detecting Adversarial Samples of Deep Neural Networks through Mutation Testing”, ARXIV. [PDF, Bibtex]
Xinyu Wang, Jun Sun, Zhenbang Chen, Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, and Yun Lin, “Towards Optimal Concolic Testing”, ICSE 2018 (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper). [PDF, Bibtex, Slide]


ISGREATER
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2014-01-27
Index
Return to Main Contents
NAME
isgreater, isgreaterequal, isless, islessequal, islessgreater,
isunordered - floating-point relational tests without exception for NaN
SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>
int isgreater(x, y);
int isgreaterequal(x, y);
int isless(x, y);
int islessequal(x, y);
int islessgreater(x, y);
int isunordered(x, y);
Link with -lm.
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
All functions described here:
-
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
or
cc -std=c99
DESCRIPTION
The normal relation operations (like
<,
"less than")
will fail if one of the operands is NaN.
This will cause an exception.
To avoid this, C99 defines the macros listed below.
These macros are guaranteed to evaluate their arguments only once.
The arguments must be of real floating-point type (note: do not pass
integer values as arguments to these macros, since the arguments will
not
be promoted to real-floating types).
- isgreater()
-
determines (x) > (y) without an exception
if
x
or
y
is NaN.
- isgreaterequal()
-
determines (x) >= (y) without an exception
if
x
or
y
is NaN.
- isless()
-
determines (x) < (y) without an exception
if
x
or
y
is NaN.
- islessequal()
-
determines (x) <= (y) without an exception
if
x
or
y
is NaN.
- islessgreater()
-
determines (x) < (y) || (x) > (y)
without an exception if
x
or
y
is NaN.
This macro is not equivalent to x != y because that expression is
true if
x
or
y
is NaN.
- isunordered()
-
determines whether its arguments are unordered, that is, whether
at least one of the arguments is a NaN.
RETURN VALUE
The macros other than
isunordered()
return the result of the relational comparison;
these macros return 0 if either argument is a NaN.
isunordered()
returns 1 if
x
or
y
is NaN and 0 otherwise.
ERRORS
No errors occur.
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
isgreater(),
isgreaterequal(),
isless(),
islessequal(),
islessgreater(),
and
isunordered()
macros are thread-safe.
CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
Not all hardware supports these functions,
and where hardware support isn't provided, they will be emulated by macros.
This will result in a performance penalty.
Don't use these functions if NaN is of no concern for you.
SEE ALSO
fpclassify(3),
isnan(3)
Index
- NAME
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- RETURN VALUE
-
- ERRORS
-
- ATTRIBUTES
-
- Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
-
- CONFORMING TO
-
- NOTES
-
- SEE ALSO
-
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Time: 02:55:04 GMT, September 18, 2014


One weekend, a good friend gave around 5 grams of some dried mushrooms as a favour. (I was complaining that no-one is interested in acid anymore in our area) I have taken mushrooms before, and was excited as to the unique experience that my mind was about to create, but nothing would prepare me for the journey that lay ahead.
At about 11pm on the Sunday, I decided to brew a tea with the mushrooms and (foolishly) spend the night by myself, cavorting in the deepest realms of my inner conciousness. I began to feel the effects around 20 minutes later, (I had been fasting all evening) and they were very intense but enjoyable - colors and surges of intense empathy and love with all living things. Then it suddenly became more intense. I was switching the tv from cartoons to music videos and all of a sudden they began playing backwards almost slowing down as they did so.
I found this hilarious and began to laugh hysterically only to find that the effect had begun to wear off slightly. As I lay back down on my bed rather disappointed, I smoked a joint and the effect returned almost immediately, this time much more intense than the previous, and, because my body and mind were both unprepared for this sudden surge of emotion, my stomach became cramped and I felt both very nervous and uncomfortable.
An ice hockey game was now on tv and I heard the commentator mumble something about a 'young man who overdosed on mushrooms'. Now I know that an overdose is practically impossible as our stomachs simply aren't big enough to ingest a fatal dose, but I was pretty far gone by this point.
Panic!
The emotion overwhelmed me like a wave. Was I dying? Was I dead?.
30 minutes after ingesting the little creatures I felt dissolved.
The mushrooms have never come on as sudden as this before and although the cramps and discomfort had long gone, I perceived this as a sign that I was no longer alive. I chased and chased the only rational thought that was running through my mind at the time, and I eventually figured out how to use the telephone and called my friend to come over. I find it strange that I could remember his phone number through the mess of data that was my memory. (I can't recall any of the conversation but my friend says that I was repeating the phrase 'I don't know what's happening' over and over)
My friend unfortunately has no experience with psychedelic drugs, and did not know what to do to distract me and I could not think rationally. Every few minutes (or was it seconds?)
I would think that I was holding my breath and gasp for air, panicking at the thought of suffocating. The only thing I could think of was the hospital. I was absolutely terrified and wanted the doctors to tell me I was not going to die so we drove to the hospital and that was when the trip became totally different. I had accepted death by this time and I can remember letting myself 'drift off'.
I had convinced myself that my 24 years on this planet had been my life 'flashing before my eyes' and I began to forgive all of my enemies, even love them as I regained an appreciation for this unique and wonderful gift of life that we have received. I had visions of loved ones with open arms and memories of childhood as I lay with my eyes closed. The next hour or so I cant quite recall, but I remember one of the nurses asking if I felt tired and I think the mere suggestion of this was enough to send me to sleep if only for a short time.
We drove home and I told my friend to get some sleep as I explored the colors and strange new dimensions of my room in the remaining afterglow of my trip. Because I thought that I was dying, the mushrooms forced me to examine my life fully. (Probably for the first time ever.)  I was extremely unhappy with my 'friends' who turned out to be nothing like true friends, and it wasn't until i thought i was dying that i realised this and it was up to me to make MYSELF happy.
This is my message to all you non-believers out there.
Life is for living friends, live now before its too late...
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.


This package provides predefined types, such as Mass, Angle, Time, based on the international standard on units, e.g.,
type Angle = Real(final quantity = "Angle", final unit = "rad", displayUnit = "deg");
Some of the types are derived SI units that are utilized in package Modelica (such as ComplexCurrent, which is a complex number where both the real and imaginary part have the SI unit Ampere).
Furthermore, conversion functions from non SI-units to SI-units and vice versa are provided in subpackage Conversions.
For an introduction how units are used in the Modelica standard library with package SIunits, have a look at: How to use SIunits.
Copyright © 1998-2019, Modelica Association and contributors


[Update: On sale now] The OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren is the brand’s most expensive device ever at £799
by Damien WildeAt the OnePlus 7T Pro launch in London, the company also unveiled its more ‘luxury’ limited edition OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren version with the highest price-tag yet.
The second collaboration with F1 manufacturer McLaren, the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren edition offers you a more ‘premium’ or ‘luxury’ OnePlus experience in a fresh new outfit.
Under the hood, you’ll find the Snapdragon 855+ chipset, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of non-expandable onboard storage and a 4,085mAh battery. The McLaren edition acts as the high-end model in the 7T Pro line.
[Update: 11/05]: The OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren is now available to purchase over on the official OnePlus website with that (still not bad) £799 price-tag. For those of you in the US, you’ll need to wait a little longer but you will be getting a 5G-connected version of the superfast smartphone at some point later this year.
As this is a limited edition, if you are planning on picking up the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren Edition you might not want to hang around as it could easily sell out pretty fast.
It too gets the battery bump with a 4,085mAh battery complete with the slightly faster Warp Charge 30T fast charger in the box. It does, however, have a unique McLaren-inspired design. The signature Papaya Orange color is everywhere, with a braided charge cable and black charge brick coming with the 7T Pro McLaren edition.
The same camera hardware found on the standard OnePlus 7T Pro also makes the jump, with the very same minor hardware and software tweaks. That means a dedicated macro photography mode, Google Lens integration and enhanced Nightscape 2.0 mode.
The tweaks don’t stop there, as at the rear you’ll see a unique Alacantara design that mimics the shell of the highest-end McLaren supercars. It too has a Papaya Orange trim that really makes this version of the 7T Pro stand-out.
Much like the collaboration last year, there are some limited edition wallpapers for those that opt for the pricey limited model. There are also some minor cosmetic changes to Oxygen OS 10.0 that, of course, are built upon Android 10.
There will be other limited trinkets within the box for fans to get to grips with once the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren edition goes on sale on November 5th. It is also set to be OnePlus’ most expensive smartphone to date with a price-tag of £799. You’ll be able to pre-order the high-end smartphone directly from the official OnePlus website.
More on OnePlus:
- OnePlus 6T vs OnePlus 7T: Worth the upgrade? [Video]
- Alleged OnePlus 8 renders leak w/ curved display, punch-hole notch [Gallery]
- OnePlus 7 Pro no longer sold through T-Mobile as its carrier sales decline
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Baylor, Nova meet in Conway
by Associated PressVillanova (4-1) vs. Baylor (4-1)
Myrtle Beach Invitational , HTC Center, Conway, South Carolina; Sunday, 5 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Villanova is preparing to take on Baylor in the Myrtle Beach Invitational. Baylor earned a 77-65 win over Coastal Carolina in its most recent game, while Villanova won 83-76 against Mississippi State in its last outing.
LEADING THE CHARGE: Baylor’s Jared Butler has averaged 18.8 points and two steals while MaCio Teague has put up 15.2 points and 4.6 rebounds. For the Wildcats, Jeremiah Robinson-Earl has averaged 14.2 points and 9.6 rebounds while Collin Gillespie has put up 13 points and 5.8 assists.JUMPING FOR JEREMIAH: Robinson-Earl has connected on 38.5 percent of the 13 3-pointers he’s attempted and has made 5 of 13 over the last five games. He’s also made 87.5 percent of his free throws this season.
ASSIST-TO-FG RATIO: The Wildcats have recently converted buckets via assists more often than the Bears. Baylor has an assist on 38 of 76 field goals (50 percent) across its previous three matchups while Villanova has assists on 65 of 92 field goals (70.7 percent) during its past three games.
DID YOU KNOW: Baylor has posted an excellent offensive rebound percentage of 37.9 percent this year. That rate is ranked 23rd in Division 1. The offensive rebound percentage for Villanova stands at just 27.6 percent (ranked 200th).
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This was generated by Automated Insights, http://www.automatedinsights.com/ap, using data from STATS LLC, https://www.stats.com


Adapted from Figure 1 of Hill and Ming 2012. Annual-mean (a) radiative flux perturbation (W m^2), (b) anomalous surface temperature (K), and (c) anomalous precipitation (mm/day) in a simulation with sea salt aerosol concentrations artificially increased within the three boxed regions. For areas shaded white, the changes were deemed statistically insignificant given a null hypothesis of no change from the control simulation.
Citation and access
Hill, Spencer A. and Yi Ming. “Nonlinear climate response to regional brightening of tropical marine stratocumulus.” Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L15707, 5 pp. doi: 10.1029/2012GL052064. PDF. Supplementary material PDF
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Spraying sea salt into subtropical low-lying clouds could buy the world time to decarbonize, but things don’t add up when three different regions are seeded at once.
Summary
Exhaustively decarbonizing the world economy will be difficult, so much so that many fear we won’t be able to do so in time to avert dangerous risks of climate change. A band-aid solution, then, is “geoengineering,” i.e. the deliberate manipulation of Earth’s climate so as to counteract greenhouse gas warming. Many geoengineering methods have been suggested, such as spraying reflective sulfate particles into the stratosphere in order to (slightly) dim the sun. In this work, we investigated another, called cloud seeding.
(The term cloud seeding has two main connotations, one related to climate and the other to weather. The climate one is this geoengineering method. The weather one refers to efforts to manipulate storms by injecting them with aerosols, silver iodide being a popular option.)
Behind the scenes
This was my first ever peer-reviewed article! The work began in Summer 2010 when I worked as an intern with Yi Ming at GFDL as part of the NOAA Hollings Scholarship program. Yi had performed the simulations ahead of time, and I spent the 10 weeks while there learning how to analyze them. So on a personal level, the actual scientific content of this work, satisfied enough though I am with how it turned out, was vastly less important than the knockon effects of getting to work with Yi, as we took a liking to one another, ultimately fueling my coming back to Princeton to work with him for my PhD in Fall 2011.
In a harbinger of how my future research would tend to go (and still goes), completing the work took longer than I had allocated, and so we worked on it off and on in spurts over the next two years, before finally getting it submitted to GRL in early summer of 2012.
Postscripts
- May 2020: It has been fun to see in recent months that this very applied work has been useful for some theoretical work. In particular, Jian Lu at PNNL let Yi an dI know that it informed his work on developing a Green’s function for climate.