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Airport therapy cat helping calm nervous travelers in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Flying can be especially stressful during the holidays, but a four-legged furball is helping put travelers at ease.
Stitches is the new therapy cat at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. She's an 11-year-old tabico, a mixture of tabby and calico.
Stitches rides around in a stroller that has a sign that says "pet me."
RELATED: Lilou the therapy pig is still making people smile in San Francisco
She's the first comfort cat at the airport. She will join about 100 therapy dogs that go around helping soothe the nerves of frazzled travelers.
When she's not working, Stitches enjoys relaxing at home and loves to watch "Law and Order: SVU." "She loves Ice-T's voice," Stitches' owner told The Twin Cities Pioneer Press.


To quote the great philosopher and poet, Gil Scott-Heron: "...the fact is, this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can . . . even if it's only as far as last week! Not to face now or tomorrow but to face backwards."
This was his criticism of America's and the Reagan administration's preoccupation with returning to the 1950's. Glorious days of unambiguous morals, two parent families, innocent chaste virtue, and whites-only drinking fountains. I'd say that in the Clinton years our stalker-like obsession with nostalgia has ebbed somewhat. Don't believe me? Just look at how fewer movies produced today are based on old tv shows as opposed to before. Huh? Huh? ... ....Of course, um . . . that's also likely to be because the vein's been pretty well tapped. I mean. You can't deny the barrel's being pretty well scraped when the latest two projects are Mr.Magoo and LOST IN SPACE.
Don't give me that face, you and I both know that Lost In Space was not a good show. Oh, it was certainly likeable, entertaining, and definitely a lot of fun. Like the 60's Batman show, I didn't appreciate its humor until I was older, and I admire that it predates Star Trek, but I'm still not gonna say it was "good." Let's face it, Lost In Space was the science fiction equivalent of Gilligan's Island- 1) Every week the cast struggled to get back home. 2) Every week their plan was monkey-wrenched by the same member that got them in their fix in the first place.  Of course, the obvious answer was that without Dr.Smith there was no reason to watch the show. Jonathan Harris (the actor) turned a character that was originally supposed to be killed off in the third episode into one of the great cowardly, comedic, effeminate villain archetypes of all time . . . Possibly inspiring the character that got BRAVEHEART picketed. BUT ENOUGH of my esoteric rambling, you want to know about LOST IN SPACE the movie:
The first thing you probably want to know is whether it's campy like the tv show or not. Well, as you probably gathered from the trailers it is serious . . . but before you exhale let me say, that's not always a good thing. In fact, the movie is filled with many such dichotomies and double-edged swords. For instance, the conceptual artists did a fantastic job of designing everything and updating the characters. A good 40% of the movie IS computer graphics which are all Bee-Yoo-Tee-ful! ...Unfortunately, they look unrealistic, to the point of distraction. Similar to looking at the panoramic shots in TITANIC or a poorly done breast augmentation.
It's the year 2058 and the Robinson Family blast off in the Jupiter 2 for Alpha Centauri in search of an inhabitable world, preferably in less than twenty years when the earth will no longer be liveable. The ship is secretly sabotaged by the traitorous Dr. Zachary Smith who doesn't make it off before lift off. He's unable to abort his plan and the ship is thrown way off course. The crew is lost in space. Just like in the show.
This first half does a nice job of fleshing out these concepts. The script isn't great but it shows lots of potential, like so many Hollywood movies do . . . until the third act, where most of them fall apart. Simultaneously, as the Jupiter2 is attacked so does the story find it's structural integrity compromised. The true "hull breach" comes at 55 minutes into the movie when the crew discovers and adopts a very "cute"ewok/ snarf /abu-like alien and are attacked by a swarm of unconvincing computer-generated spiders. The plot then turns into more of a comic book- and for those of you who actually read comics and know how good some of them can be, I meant that in the way the general public thinks of "comic books." Think $.25 bins, circa 1978. We're treated to such pseudoscience as equipment made of adamnatium (a metal which I assure you only exists in Marvel comics) and flying through the sun at warp speed making you travel forward in time . . . Don't get me started on the time travel issues. There's more than enough other plot holes to go around. I guarantee that if you go see this before the end of the film you'll notice everyone in the theater turn to each other looking puzzled. Had the movie not gone the serious route some of these things might've worked. Alas . . .
But really, who cares about the story? It's the characters that made Lost In Space! What about the characters? ...Hmmn . . . ...Really, most of the dialog was too bad for the actors to transcend the material and they leave you with no lasting impression, including the robot. Gary Oldman does a decent enough Dr.Smith.  Amazingly, he shows a restraint which makes his Dr.Smith more potent, almost scary. As the movie's second hour spins out of control he slips in more of the classic "Smith-isms" but by this time it's too little too late. Jonathan Harris retains his title.
The only performances that really stuck out we're those of Matt LeBlanc and William Hurt, who I now have a new respect for. He breathed alot of life into the character of John Robinson, making him more like Reed Richards. I completely felt him as a work-obsessed father/husband/ scientific genius who had his life on the back burner for the last three years while he worked on a project to try to save the earth. Next to the artists he's the best thing in the movie. I respect him even more for not wearing a hairpiece.
On the flip side there's Matt LeBlanc as Maj. Don West . . . and his performance stood out for the exact opposite reason. From the old show Don West was my favorite character (next to Dr.Smith, of course). I'm sure to most of you he was just the studly guy who was Judy's (the oldest daughter) boyfriend. To me he was cool because he was the only one who wasn't fooled by or tolerant of Dr.Smith. I lived for those moments when he'd get fed up, grab Smith by the collar and beg John to let him go out back and work him over. Surrounded by big brains he was the only one with common sense.  Matt's character on FRIENDS is my favorite character on the show, but he proves that his range extends no farther than that 30 minutes. His portrayal of Don West consists of nothing more than holding his arms out to his sides, talking in a deep voice and reciting his lines as if he was filling in for a sick friend. It doesn't help that he has the worst dialog in the movie (especially in the scenes he shares with Heather Graham) but I never got the impression he could do more if it'd been better.
The only other character of note is "Blarp" the aforementioned cutesy comic-relief alien. He's the kind of character that's annoying to everybody except kids too young to be admitted into the movie in the first place. He was most likely put in as a harkening back to Debbie The Bloop ( a chimp with fake long ears) from the original series. If you don't remember "Debbie" it's because she was discreetly yanked after two episodes... with good reason. Adding insult to injury, Blarp's completely computer generated and resembles a cross between a muppet and the HoneyCombs cereal's mascot. He's only slightly less annoying than Lacey Chabert's voice- which sounds EXACTLY like she snorted helium between each take (How is anyone able to sit through an entire episode of PARTY OF FIVE?). ‘"Oh, the pain!!"
-MARTIN
-- This week: LOST IN SPACE PLUS! We're celebrating the one year anniversary of me and Brian being on the show!
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This file provides interfaces for MX28-specific functions. More...
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| void | MX28_SetMultiTurnOffset (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel, int16_t offset) |
| For an actuator in multi-turn mode, this applies a tunable offset to all positions. That is it allows you to change where the actuator considers position 0 to be. For an actuator not in multi-turn mode, this setting has no effect. More... | |
| void | MX28_SetResolutionDivider (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel, uint8_t divider) |
| Unimplemented. This function should change the resolution divider, allowing for more precise or less precise control settings depending on the value. More... | |
| void | MX28_SetDGain (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel, uint8_t DGain) |
| Sets the value of the derivative gain used in the motor's PID controller. More... | |
| void | MX28_SetIGain (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel, uint8_t IGain) |
| Sets the value of the integral gain used in the motor's PID controller. More... | |
| void | MX28_SetPGain (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel, uint8_t PGain) |
| Sets the value of the proportional gain used in the motor's PID controller. More... | |
| void | MX28_SetGoalAcceleration (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel, float goalAcceleration) |
| Sets the goal acceleration. The argument should be in units of degree/s^2. More... | |
| void | MX28_EnterMultiTurnMode (Dynamixel_HandleTypeDef *hdynamixel) |
| Activates multi-turn mode, which allows the actuator to have a range of controllable position values from -28672 to 28672. More... | |
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| const uint8_t | MX28_MAX_VELOCITY |
| const uint8_t | MX28_DEFAULT_BAUD_RATE |
| const uint16_t | MX28_DEFAULT_CCW_ANGLE_LIMIT |
| const uint8_t | MX28_DEFAULT_HIGHEST_VOLTAGE_LIMIT |
| const uint8_t | MX28_DEFAULT_D_GAIN |
| const uint8_t | MX28_DEFAULT_I_GAIN |
| const uint8_t | MX28_DEFAULT_P_GAIN |
| const uint16_t | MX28_DEFAULT_PUNCH |
This file provides interfaces for MX28-specific functions.
Definition in file MX28.h.


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Letters - November 22, 2019
Celebrate Lancashire Day this November
by James ReaderMay I, on behalf of Friends of Real Lancashire, encourage Lancashire folk to celebrate our wonderful county on Wednesday, November 27 - whether it’s having drink with friends, holding a Lancashire quiz or a charity event, or even visiting somewhere in Lancashire you’ve never been to before.
Town criers will be out and about giving the Lancashire Day Cry.
Of course, we are very honoured as a county as her Majesty the Queen is Duke of Lancaster.
Perhaps schools may like to give a little time in their curriculum to talk about Lancashire.
It’s worth remembering that this day is about ‘Real Lancashire’. In other words, the historic, geographical, traditional or, as some will say, “Proper Lancashire”.
That’s the area from the River Duddon in the north to the River Mersey in the South, from the Irish Sea to the Pennines.
The term ‘Old Lancashire’ should never be used because the boundaries are still there.
Because so much attention has been given to the smaller administration area of Lancashire since 1974, there are many younger people who will not be aware of how large our real county is.
The boundary is approximately 432 miles!
You cannot talk about the history or traditions of Lancashire without including the cities of Manchester, Salford and Liverpool or the towns of Warrington, Wigan, St Helens, Southport, Oldham, Rochdale and Bury.
Then there are the Lake District towns of Barrow and Ulverston and the villages of Grange-over-Sands, Coniston and Hawkshead.
Friends of Real Lancashire and our parent organisation, the Association of British Counties, have been campaigning for nearly 30 years to have proper signage restored on our county boundaries.
There is still some way to go but in April we were encouraged by the release of a document by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government - Guidance on Celebrating the Historic Counties of England.
The eight-page guidance was designed to encourage community pride and help families learn about local traditions.
It stated that local authorities should also fly their county flags and erect signs which show where historic boundaries lie.
Work has already started. Trafford Council erected a sign on the River Mersey at Flixton, showing that the river was the historic boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire.
We hope other councils will follow.
For more information about Real Lancashire, please visit our website www.forl.co.uk
Philip Walsh
Chairman
Friends of Real Lancashire
Praise
Thanks for your help after my fall
Last Monday I had a bad fall at Blackpool north station. I would like to sincerely thank all those who came to my aid. The cabbies and the station staff were wonderful and did everything they could to make me comfortable until the ambulance arrived.
I would also like to thank the paramedics and the overworked staff in A&E at Blackpool Victoria Hospital for their care.
Leslie Ince
Blackpool
Appeal
Help pets over this Christmas
PDSA is a vital lifeline for pets and owners, saving thousands of sick and injured pets’ lives every year and keeping families together. But with no government funding, we need your help to take care of precious pets in need of urgent treatment this Christmas.
Our devoted vet teams will treat over 41,000 much-loved pets this December including fixing broken bones, treating chronic conditions and relieving suffering and pain.. If it wasn’t for us, many of these much-loved pets wouldn’t get the care they desperately need and deserve.
All pets are stars in our eyes, and we’ll do all that we can to keep them shining bright. It’s only with your donations that we can help keep best friends side-by-side this Christmas.
Pet lovers can support our #SaveAStar appeal by visiting www.pdsa.org.uk/stars where you can read real life stories about pets we’ve saved and cared for.
Even the smallest gift can make the biggest difference to pets in need, and will help make Christmas the happy and special time it should be.
On behalf of the pets whose lives you’ll help save, thank you.
Olivia Anderson-Nathan
PDSA Veterinary Surgeon
Appeal
Helping you to leave a will
It has been well documented that several high-profile celebrities have died recently without a will - including musicians Avicii, Prince and Amy Winehouse. However, despite this raising pertinent questions about the estates of some well-known individuals, this has not translated into enough awareness among the general public about why we all need a will.
At Will Aid, the charity will-writing campaign, we recently carried out a survey which revealed that half of adults in the UK do not have this vital piece of paperwork. This month there are solicitors around the UK offering to produce this document in exchange for a voluntary donation to Will Aid – so there has never been a better time than right now to get your affairs in order.
We want to talk to all the people out there who have avoided confronting the inevitability of death – and urge them to plan ahead to make what will be an awful time for friends and family, that little bit easier.
Will Aid Month happens every November and encourages people to get a professionally written will with the help of a solicitor. Law firms volunteer their time and expertise to write basic wills, waiving their fee, with clients being invited to make a voluntary donation to Will Aid instead. Donations support the vital work of the nine partner charities. (ActionAid, Age UK, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, NSPCC, Save the Children, Sightsavers, SCIAF (Scotland) and Trocaire (Northern Ireland).
To find your nearest solicitor or for more information, visit www.willaid.org.uk.
Peter de Vena Franks
Campaign Director
Will Aid


Manifest Gets His First Ever Credit On Grammys For His Contribution On Burna Boy’s Album
by vanessa nordziGhanaian rapper, singer and songwriter, Manifest has received his first ever Grammy’s credit.
Manifest who won Best Rapper and Hip-Hop song of the year at the 2017 Ghana Music Awards, has been credited for his appearance on Nigeria’s Burna Boy’s “African Giant” album.
Burna Boy’s 19- track album was listed in the “Best World Music Album” category alongside “Celia” by sensational singer Angelique Kidjo, amongst others.
This clearly indicates that Manifest automatically earns a credit for his contribution to the album.
This is also a big win for Ghana as Shatta Wale and Manifest were the only two artists to be credited for the Grammys.
Maifest has worked with Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen, Erykah Badu, and is featured on five songs on the Rocket Juice and The Moon album.
Checkout the full list of songs on the Best World Music Album below;
Gece — Altin Gün
What Heat — Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley
African Giant — Burna Boy
Fanm D’ayiti — Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet
Celia — Angelique Kidjo


Ayodhya verdict: CJI Gogoi meets UP chief secy and DGP, reviews law & order
The judgement on the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute was reserved on October 16 after a marathon hearing of 40 days.
by Press Trust of IndiaChief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi Friday held a meeting with Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and director general of police and took stock of security arrangements ahead of the verdict to be pronounced next week in the politically-sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case, sources said.
They said the meeting was held in the chamber of CJI for around one hour during which UP Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari and DGP Om Prakash Singh apprised him about the security arrangements made to maintain law and order in the state.
No further detail about the deliberations was made available.
The judgement on the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute was reserved on October 16 after a marathon hearing of 40 days. The judgement is likely to be pronounced before November 17 as Justice Gogoi's tenure as the CJI comes to end on that day.


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This section focuses on explaining the general functionalities of the package, and how its components interact with each other. Then two tutorials are provided:
For an installation guide, please check here
Package Description
General package architecture
The Causal Discovery Toolbox is a package for causal discovery in the observational setting. Therefore support for data with interventions is not available at the moment, but is considered for later versions.
The package is structured in 5 modules:
Causality:
cdt.causality
implements algorithms for causal discovery, either in the pairwise setting or the graph setting.Independence:
cdt.independence
includes methods to recover the dependence graph of the data.Data:
cdt.data
provides the user with tools to generate data, and load benchmark data.Utils:
cdt.utils
provides tools to the users for model construction, graph utilities and settings.Metrics:
cdt.metrics
includes scoring metrics for graphs, taking as inputnetworkx.DiGraph
All methods for computation adopt a ‘scikit-learn’ like interface, where .predict()
manages to launch the algorithm on the given data to the toolbox, .fit()
allows
to train learning algorithms Most of the algorithms are classes, and their
parameters can be customized in the .__init__()
function of the class.
Note
The .predict()
function is often implemented in the base class
(cdt.causality.graph.GraphModel
for causal graph algorithms).
.predict()
is often a wrapper calling sub-functions depending on the
arguments fed to the functions. The sub-functions, such as
.orient_directed_graph()
for cdt.causality.graph
models (which is
called when a directed graph is fed as a second argument ), are
implemented and documented in the various algorithms.
Hardware and algorithm settings
The toolbox has a SETTINGS class that defines the hardware settings. Those
settings are unique and their default parameters are defined in
cdt/utils/Settings
.
These parameters are accessible and overridable via accessing the class:
>>> import cdt
>>> cdt.SETTINGS
Moreover, the hardware parameters are detected and defined automatically
(including number of GPUs, CPUs, available optional packages) at the import
of the package using the cdt.utils.Settings.autoset_settings
method, ran at
startup.
These settings are overriddable in two ways:
By changing
cdt.SETTINGS
attributes, thus changing the SETTINGS for the whole python session.By changing the parameters of the functions/classes used. When their default value in the class definition is
None
, thecdt.SETTINGS
value is taken, by using thecdt.SETTINGS.get_default
function. This allows for quick and temporary parameter change.
The graph class
The whole package revolves around using the graph classes of the networkx
package.
Most of the methods have the option of predicting a directed graph
(networkx.DiGraph) or an undirected graph (networkx.Graph).
The networkx
library might not be intuitive to use at first, but it comes
with many useful tools for graphs. Here is a list of handy function, to
understand the output of the toolbox’s outputs:
>>> import networkx as nx
>>> g = nx.DiGraph() # initialize a directed graph
>>> l = list(g.nodes()) # list of nodes in the graph
>>> a = nx.adj_matrix(g).todense() # Output the adjacency matrix of the graph
>>> e = list(g.edges()) # list of edges in the graph
Please refer to networkx ‘s documentation for more detailed information: https://networkx.github.io/documentation/stable/


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18 Jun 2016 |
GNOME
GSoC
This week concluded weeks 3-4 of my GSoC project on adding ownCloud support to GNOME Music. Carrying on from my previous post, after adding support for ownCloud Music in GOA, I’ve been working on implementing a grilo plugin for the same.
To a task that seemed fairly straightforward with ownCloud Music’s implementation of the Ampache API, it suffered a bit of a roadblock since the app didn’t support the Album Artist ID3 tag (TPE2). This was crucial since the grilo plugin would be used by gnome-music at a later stage which uses the tag quite often.
There seems to be a bit of an ambiguity around the usage of the Album Artist tag. After digging around a bit, Michael Koby’s article on the topic makes it pretty clear. Adding support for the tag in ownCloud music required changing the schema and rewriting a fair bit of the queries. On the frontend of ownCloud’s music app, the albums will now be grouped by Album Artists instead of Track Artists which makes finding albums easier at one place in case they have tracks by different artists. The code for the above changes is being reviewed and can be accessed at GitHub.
Moving on, I was excited to write the grilo plugin in LUA. While I didn’t have much experience with the language, it didn’t feel strange at all perhaps because of my familiarity with Python. Kudos to Tyler Neylon’s screencast on working with the C API and the LUA stack in particular, which immensely helped me in writing some wrapper methods in C.
Shout out to Bastien Nocera and Victor Toso who helped me all along during the development of the plugin and the required wrapper methods :) Next up, working on queries and moving over to the gnome-music side of things!
07 Jun 2016 |
GNOME
GSoC
GNOME Online Accounts (GOA) has had support for ownCloud since quite some time. As a part of my project, I’ve been extending the ownCloud provider to add support for the Music feature.
ownCloud provides a neat music app which allows users to access their music collection, while at the same time, it provides application developers with a rich API. The Ampache API rightly supports authentication and requires a password to be generated which is distinct from the user’s ownCloud credentials.
While one can manually generate a password for the Ampache API via ownCloud’s settings, we decided it would be better to automatically generate the password when the user sets up the ownCloud account on GOA for the first time, and store it along with the ownCloud credentials in the Keyring. This meant extending ownCloud’s music app to provide some endpoints for password generation (to be covered in detail in another post).
Since ownCloud’s music app isn’t a part of ownCloud core, there were a few special cases that needed attention:
- If the music app isn’t enabled on ownCloud’s end, the music feature is disabled.
- In case the music app is disabled after the the password has been generated, EnsureCredentials would return failure.
- A new method, RetryFeature will be available on the Account Interface which would allow the user to enable Music feature at a later time, in case ownCloud’s music app was not available initially.
The code for the above mentioned features is being reviewed and should hopefully be merged soon :)
What’s next?
Now that GOA supports storing the Ampache API credentials, we can retrieve and use them for the implementation of a grilo plugin. The Lua-factory plugin allows writing Grilo sources in LUA and I’ve recently extended it to support password based GOA accounts. In the coming week, I plan to work on the lua plugin for ownCloud/Ampache.
18 May 2016 |
GNOME
GSoC
Hi everyone! My name’s Gaurav Narula and I’m a third year undergrad student at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus. I’m pursuing a double major in Economics and Computer Science.
I’ve been using GNOME since a long time - the first instance I recall is when I got a Live CD of Ubuntu 6.10 via ShipIt. GNOME’s evolved a lot since then and has still remained my go to DE over all these years. I started with GTK+ development rather recently, with some contributions to gnome-mpv, a GTK+ frontend for the MPV Media Player around October 2015.
A few months later, I stumbled upon GNOME Music while searching for a new music player and it soon became my default music player. I then decided to become more involved with the project. I dived into its source and tried to fix some small bugs around February with assistance from Felipe Borges, Victor Toso and Carlos Garnacho all along.
Coming to my project, GNOME Music currently only allows access to one’s local music collection. Over the past few years, GNOME apps have integrated well with ownCloud to sync and retrieve files stored remotely and Music shouldn’t be an exception to the same :) The goal of the project is to allow playing and searching ones music collection over ownCloud. ownCloud’s music app exposes an Ampache API which will be used to develop a Grilo Plugin to allow remote media discovery in Music. Victor’s work in GSoC 2013 would allow writing the plugin in LUA and will be of great help to quickly get things working. Recent changes in ownCloud’s music App with help from Moris Jobke have set the stage and I can’t wait to begin work!
I’m fortunate to have Felipe Borges (GNOME) and Lukas Reschke (ownCloud) as my mentors along with many other people from both the organisations who’ve helped me all along. Looking forward to an exciting summer ahead! Stay tuned for more updates :)
10 Apr 2016 |
Security
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is something you might have come across if
you’re into web development. Even if you’re not, its always good to have an
idea about how you might be vulnerable to it.
I’ve been working on GNOME Music and ownCloud’s music app lately and a
particular feature required exposing an internal
endpoint. This post is largely
inspired by ownCloud’s sophisticated design to prevent CSRF attacks.
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25 Mar 2016 |
It’s been a while since I blogged so here’s another attempt at it. Posts here
would usually be about the projects I’m working on or on my opinionated
workflow ;)
Hope you guys find something useful here in the days to come!


class QuestionTest
extends java.lang.Object
| Modifier and Type | Field and Description |
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(package private) java.time.LocalDateTime |
expectedDateCreated |
(package private) java.lang.String |
expectedEmail |
(package private) java.lang.String |
expectedFirstName |
(package private) java.lang.String |
expectedLastName |
(package private) java.lang.String |
expectedScreenName |
(package private) java.lang.String |
expectedText |
(package private) java.lang.String |
expectedTitle |
(package private) java.lang.String |
inappropriateFlag |
(package private) java.lang.String |
irrelevantFlag |
| Constructor and Description |
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QuestionTest() |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
(package private) void |
testAddAnswer()
Test for adding an Answer to a Question.
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(package private) void |
testDownvote()
Tests downvoting a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetAnswers()
Test for getting Answers to a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetAuthor()
Test for returning author of a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetDate()
Test for returning date that a Question was created.
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(package private) void |
testGetGroup()
Test for returning group of a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetMembership()
Test for returning membership of a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetPoints()
Test for getting points of a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetText()
Test for returning text of a Question.
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(package private) void |
testGetTitle()
Test for returning a title of a Question.
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(package private) void |
testIsInappropriate()
Test for checking if this question is marked as correct.
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(package private) void |
testIsIrrelevant()
Test for checking if this question is marked as correct.
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(package private) void |
testPost()
Test is not writable due to the nature of Posts.
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(package private) void |
testQuestion()
Test for creating an Question.
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(package private) void |
testQuestionDateComparator() |
(package private) void |
testQuestionPointsComparator()
Test for using the PostPointsComparator().
|
(package private) void |
testSetFlag()
Test that the private setFlag method works correctly.
|
(package private) void |
testSetMembership()
Test for setting the membership of a Question.
|
(package private) void |
testSetText()
Test for setting text of a Question.
|
(package private) void |
testSetTitle()
Test for setting a title of a Question.
|
(package private) void |
testToString()
Test for getting data of a Question in string format.
|
(package private) void |
testUpvote()
Tests upvoting a Question.
|
java.time.LocalDateTime expectedDateCreated
java.lang.String expectedFirstName
java.lang.String expectedLastName
java.lang.String expectedScreenName
java.lang.String expectedEmail
java.lang.String expectedTitle
java.lang.String expectedText
java.lang.String inappropriateFlag
java.lang.String irrelevantFlag
@Test void testQuestion()
@Test void testGetTitle()
@Test void testSetTitle()
@Test void testAddAnswer()
@Test void testGetAnswers()
@Test void testToString()
@Test void testPost()
@Test void testGetText()
@Test void testGetDate()
@Test void testSetText()
@Test void testGetAuthor()
@Test void testGetGroup()
@Test void testGetMembership()
@Test void testSetMembership()
@Test void testGetPoints()
@Test void testDownvote()
@Test void testUpvote()
void testSetFlag()
@Test void testIsInappropriate()
@Test void testIsIrrelevant()
@Test void testQuestionDateComparator()
@Test void testQuestionPointsComparator()


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Package org.gdal.gdal
package org.gdal.gdal
Provides the classes necessary to handle GDAL rasters.
This package provides the classes for the Dataset, Band, Driver,... objects that are used for handling GDAL rasters.
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ClassDescriptionClass Band is an uninstanciable class providing various methods to access a single raster band (or channel).Class ColorTable represents a color table / palette.Class Dataset is an uninstanciable class providing various methods to access a set of associated raster bands, usually from one file.Class Driver is an uninstanciable class providing various methods for a format specific driver.Class gdal is an uninstanciable class providing various utility functions as static methods.Class used for object with metadata.Class used to report progression of long operations.The RasterAttributeTable (or RAT) class is used to encapsulate a table used to provide attribute information about pixel values.Class used for simple progress report to terminal.Class used for image to image transformer.


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Banksy designed Royksopp cover of ‘Melody A.M.’ has been sold for a huge price
It was one of only 100 hand-painted by the elusive artist in 2002
Banksy has sold an iconic vinyl cover of Royksopp‘s 2001 breakthrough album ‘Melody A.M.’ for a record price.
The cover, which you can view below, was one of only 100 hand-painted by Banksy himself, back in 2002.
It sold for $10,256 (over £8000), making it the highest-priced sale ever seen on Discogs.
The cover shows the duo’s name in a standard green, stencilled font. Below it is a green design that look like pixellated treetops.
Royksopp’s debut album was a huge success for the Norwegian band and peaked at Number 9 in the official UK albums chart.
Last month, Banksy launched his very own online store, selling iconic items from as little as £10.
The haul included the stab vest Stormzy wore for his headline slot at this year’s Glastonbury festival, an Ultra HD TV, mugs, cushions and his Tony The Tiger rug.
Many of the products advertised featured at a recent art installation in Croydon, which has now closed even though it never officially opened.
Royksopp last released their final album the ‘Inevitable End’ in 2014. They have since continued to release one off songs including 2016 single ‘Never Ever’.
The song featured Susanne Sundfor, who previously featured on the songs ‘Running To The Sea’ and ‘Save Me’ on ‘The Inevitable End’ and Royksopp’s cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Ice Machine’ from their ‘Late Night Tales’ compilation.


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by SL SocialBy now, the Kaizer Chiefs fanbase will have become accustom to the 2019/20 kit, however a local artist recently designed a bespoke kit with various looks. Check it out!
Ahead of the new campaign, it can be said that fans had mixed opinions on the 2019/20 Amakhosi kits with social media sent into a frenzy during the kit release period.
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The main tools are scas and scwr.

As long as it says 'device: complete' at the end, scwr has succeeded.
C:\sctools> scas foo.sc foo.scb
No errors. Wrote: foo.scb
C:\sctools> scwr foo.scb
Looking for Soarer's Converter: found
...
device: complete
On Windows, you may find scaswr more convenient. It simply combines the two steps.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| scas | Assembles one or more config text files to a config binary file |
| scdis | Dissassembles a config binary file to a config text file |
| scwr | Writes a config binary file to the converter |
| scrd | Reads a config binary file from the converter |
| scboot | Causes the converter to jump to the bootloader v1.0+ |
| scinfo | Displays converter's version and memory information v1.0+ |
| scaswr | Combination of scas and scwr (Windows only) v1.1+ |
Assembles one or more config text files to a config binary file.
Usage:
scas <text_config> [<text_config> ...] <binary_config>
Output, if everything is fine:
No errors. Wrote: foo.scb
Output, if there's an error:
error at line 4: invalid argument
Output, if there's an error in an included file in an included file:
error at line 4: error at line 5: error at line 5: invalid argument
To find the error, start with the last line number given, which will be an include command.
Then look in that file for the next to last line number given, and so on.
The first line number given is where the actual error is.
Only the first error found is reported.
Alternatively, check that included files assemble successfully on their own, before including into another config.
Dissassembles a config binary file to a config text file.
Usage:
scdis <binary_config> [<text_config>]
There is no output unless an error occurs.
This tool might be useful to validate that your config assembles as you expected (it was very useful while I was writing scas).
Writes a config binary file to the converter.
Usage:
scwr <binary_config>
Output:
scwr: looking for Soarer's Converter: found
scwr: reading file: 139 bytes: ok
scwr: sending info request: ok
device: ok
protocol version check: converter=1.00, scwr=1.00: ok
settings version check: converter=1.01, file=1.01: ok
settings length check: max=1018, file=137 bytes: ok
scwr: sending write request for 137 bytes: ok
device: ok
device: ready
scwr: sending 60 bytes: ok
device: ok
device: ready
scwr: sending 60 bytes: ok
device: ok
device: ready
scwr: sending 17 bytes: ok
device: ok
device: complete
Reads a config binary file from the converter.
Usage:
scrd <binary_config>
Output:
scrd: looking for Soarer's Converter: found
scrd: sending read request: ok
device: has 137 bytes: ok
scrd: ready
device: sent 64 bytes: ok
scrd: ok
scrd: ready
device: sent 64 bytes: ok
scrd: ok
scrd: ready
device: sent 9 bytes: ok
scrd: ok
scrd: complete
scrd: writing file: 139 bytes: ok
Causes the converter to jump to the bootloader.
Usage:
scboot
After running this command, the converter should be ready to have new firmware loaded into it. Note that, at this point, the converter will not be working as a keyboard any more! To cancel the bootloader mode, simply disconnect the converter from the computer and reconnect it.
Output:
scboot: looking for Soarer's Converter: found
scboot: sending boot request: ok
device: ok
Displays converter's version and memory information.
Usage:
scinfo
Output:
Code Version: v1.00
Max Settings Version: v1.01
Current Settings Version: v1.01
SRAM Size: 2560 bytes
SRAM Free: 1817 bytes
EEPROM Size: 1024 bytes
EEPROM Free: 883 bytes
A combination of scas and scwr, designed so you can simply drag'n'drop a config file onto it (or a shortcut to it). It will assemble the text config and then write the resulting binary config to the converter, in a single step.
Of course, it can also be used from the command line...
Usage:
scaswr <text_config>
Source code is provided, along with makefiles etc., to natively build on Windows, Linux and OS-X.
Additionally, a mingw32 cross-compile can be used to build the Windows tools on Linux.
To rebuild the tools, change directory to the sub-directory of build that's right for your OS, and type make.
The tools are built for Windows using MS Visual Studio 2003. Porting to later versions should be trivial.
scwr, scrd, scboot and scinfo rely on a small library of RAWHID routines from PJRC.
For Windows, this library was compiled to a DLL using the Microsoft DDK.
The tools are built for Linux using gcc etc.
The tools are built for Mac OS-X on Snow Leopard using Xcode 3.2.6 and the version 10.6 SDK.


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| void | b2GetPointStates (b2PointState state1[b2_maxManifoldPoints], b2PointState state2[b2_maxManifoldPoints], const b2Manifold *manifold1, const b2Manifold *manifold2) |
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void | b2CollideCircles (b2Manifold *manifold, const b2CircleShape *circleA, const b2Transform &xfA, const b2CircleShape *circleB, const b2Transform &xfB) |
| | Compute the collision manifold between two circles.
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| |
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void | b2CollidePolygonAndCircle (b2Manifold *manifold, const b2PolygonShape *polygonA, const b2Transform &xfA, const b2CircleShape *circleB, const b2Transform &xfB) |
| | Compute the collision manifold between a polygon and a circle.
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void | b2CollidePolygons (b2Manifold *manifold, const b2PolygonShape *polygonA, const b2Transform &xfA, const b2PolygonShape *polygonB, const b2Transform &xfB) |
| | Compute the collision manifold between two polygons.
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void | b2CollideEdgeAndCircle (b2Manifold *manifold, const b2EdgeShape *polygonA, const b2Transform &xfA, const b2CircleShape *circleB, const b2Transform &xfB) |
| | Compute the collision manifold between an edge and a circle.
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void | b2CollideEdgeAndPolygon (b2Manifold *manifold, const b2EdgeShape *edgeA, const b2Transform &xfA, const b2PolygonShape *circleB, const b2Transform &xfB) |
| | Compute the collision manifold between an edge and a circle.
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int32 | b2ClipSegmentToLine (b2ClipVertex vOut[2], const b2ClipVertex vIn[2], const b2Vec2 &normal, float32 offset, int32 vertexIndexA) |
| | Clipping for contact manifolds.
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bool | b2TestOverlap (const b2Shape *shapeA, int32 indexA, const b2Shape *shapeB, int32 indexB, const b2Transform &xfA, const b2Transform &xfB) |
| | Determine if two generic shapes overlap.
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bool | b2TestOverlap (const b2AABB &a, const b2AABB &b) |
| |
Structures and functions used for computing contact points, distance queries, and TOI queries.


[gecode-users] python binding - Gecode does not find a solution on first run, finds a solution on consecutive runs.
Stefan Krastanov
stefan.krastanov at yale.edu
Tue Jul 14 20:46:06 CEST 2015
Hopefully you can still help me with the questions about determinism:
Is the search for solution always exhaustive?
Can the search give no solutions when there are existing solutions?
On 14 July 2015 at 14:38, Christian Schulte <cschulte at kth.se> wrote:
> Please do not ask questions about Gecode bindings. This is about Gecode and
> we do not maintain these indings (explained on the webpages).
>
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Schulte, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On
>> Behalf Of Stefan Krastanov
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 8:24 PM
>> To: users at gecode.org
>> Subject: [gecode-users] python binding - Gecode does not find a solution
> on first
>> run, finds a solution on consecutive runs.
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using:
>>
>> gecode-python 0.27
>> gecode 3.7.3
>> (newer versions from the debian repository do not work with gecode-python)
>>
>> I have a python function `my_function` that builds a `gecode.space()`
> object with
>> around 200 000 linear IRT_NQ constraints and 3 IRT_EQ constraints on 9 int
>> variables with domain 1-to-10. One final constraint is `minimize` over the
> sum of
>> the variables.
>>
>> My python function returns `list(space.search())` at the end.
>>
>> The first call to this function usually takes ~1minute and does not return
> any
>> solutions. Consecutive calls take less than a second and return solutions.
>>
>> Why is this happening? Is the search non-deterministic?
>>
>> Can the search give no solutions when there are existing solutions?
>>
>> Why is the first call slow and returns no solutions while consecutive
> calls are fast
>> and return solutions? Especially so given that I recreate the space each
> time? Is
>> there some fancy caching happening?
>>
>> In any case, thanks for the great software. This is the first time I am
> using a
>> constraint solver and it is quite amazing what it can do.
>>
>> Best,
>> Stefan
>>
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Source code for phone
"""
Phone
~~~
This file contains code for traversing the directories recursively and printing the indian phone number from CSV files.
"""
import fnmatch
import os
import csv
import re
[docs]def main(rootPath, fileExtension, numberRegex):
"""This is the main function
:param rootPath: The root path where we should start the search from.
:param fileExtension: File extension which should be searched.
:param numberRegex: Regex of the number which should be searched
:return indianNumberList: List of Indian phone numbers
:rtype: list.
"""
indianNumberList = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(rootPath):
for filename in fnmatch.filter(files, fileExtension):
fname = os.path.join(root, filename)
file = open(fname, 'rU')
next(file)
try:
reader = csv.reader(file)
for row in reader:
if re.search(numberRegex, row[0]):
indianNumberList.append(row[0])
finally:
file.close()
return indianNumberList
if __name__ == '__main__':
rootPath = '.'
fileExtension = '*.csv'
numberRegex = r"[789]\d{9}"
indianNumberList = main(rootPath, fileExtension, numberRegex)
for number in indianNumberList:
print number


The independent
entrepreneurial dealer has been the origin and lifeblood of the
security industry for more than 50 years. At any given time during
this period, there have been 12,000 to 15,000 reported dealers in
the security and alarm business.
Due to the ease of entry into the security industry and the
relatively low capital requirements, the small and entry-level
dealer population has seen an annual recycling of companies
approaching 25 percent. Even so, some of these dealers have grown
into very large and successful local and regional businesses.
As the potential of the security industry has become apparent,
larger national companies have entered the market to sell and
install products. Dramatic pressures have been created by the entry
of very large and well-capitalized utilities (telephone or power)
into the industry, including bundling of service offerings to the
end user and the relentless acquisition of the regional and
nationally recognized companies.
However, local and independent dealer-based businesses continue
to dominate the electronic security market. Many of these dealers
have had difficulty effectively making the transition from an
entrepreneurial company to one that can compete against those large
and national providers.
The independence of the small dealers leaves them in an exposed
and tenuous position. Whom do they seek assistance from? Where can
they develop financing to compete with the new selling plans from
the larger companies? How do they secure consistent and lower-priced
product to competitively serve their customers? Can they afford to
advertise to the same extent that a large, consumer-based utility or
multinational company can?
The solution may be to enroll in a dealer program. Such programs,
which are becoming more and more prevalent, can keep independent
dealers competitive via sales and marketing, administrative,
financial and other support services.
Many Companies Offer Valuable Assistance
Dealer programs for the security industry, as well as the home
automation/entertainment industry market, are offered from a wide
array of industry-related businesses, such as monitoring,
manufacturing, distributing, financing and other companies.
Dealer Programs Are Available in 3 Forms
In general, there are three different types of affiliation
programs: franchise; authorized dealer; and associated dealership.
Various providers may identify these under other categories, but the
differentiation remains the same.
Keep Up With Products Via Technical Support
Technical support usually is based on specific or proprietary
product lines that the participating dealer has or will have access
to. The support may include training at the provider facilities,
regional training sessions, or on-site at the dealer premises,
depending on the complexity of the product or service.
Marketing Support May Include Ad Materials
Sales and marketing support is probably the most critical area
for the success of the affiliation relationship.
Administrative Support May Include Billing
Administrative services and support may also be offered in a
dealer program. Where there are long-term financial relations to be
administered between the end user and the provider, or where there
must be clear definitions of the services being offered, it is
always prudent to utilize a contract that spells it all out.
Additional Support May Involve Networking
One of the greatest, but most intangible mechanisms, to develop a
dealer organization is through networking. Dealers should be
supportive of each other in representing the product or service,
even if they may be competitive in geographic presence.
Financial Support Comprised of 4 Kinds
Financial services fall into four general categories: leases,
loans, conditional loans and purchases.
Make Sure Affiliation Contract Is Reasonable
No program can effectively be managed unless there are means to
measure and quantify the result of the efforts. Sales results are a
necessity regardless of the product or service offered. Market
demographics are also a management tool to determine the results of
advertising expense or promotional programs.
Programs Breed Success, Growth
There is greater strength in the combined efforts of the dealer
and the provider than either can reach on their own.