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Looking up this location...
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Searching for " + searchTerm +"...
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Looking for " + searchTerm +"...
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So you need help? Here are some commands you can try:

";

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Search for science
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How do I get to Admissions from here?
";
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Take me to the SCC
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Tell me about Volen
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When is the Faculty Club open?
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Start the self-guided tour
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Show me the list of locations
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Read this to me
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Open settings and switch to U.S. customary units
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Where am I?
";
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What's nearby?
";
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What's happening here?
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";

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You're currently at "+Session.get("inLocation")[0].name+".
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Welcome!
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"+loc.function+"
";
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And here's more info for your perusal.";

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Taking you to the list of locations at Brandeis.
"

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Reading.
"

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Once more.
"

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I'm listening! Tap again to stop listening and start processing
")
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function speak() {
    var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance(Session.get("micResponse"));
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function clarifyLoc() {
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    r = "";
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        case 1:r+="I didn't quite get that name. Could you try that again?"; break;
        case 2:r+="I didn't get it this time either. Again?"; break;
        case 3:r+="We seem to be having an issue. Could you try that once more?"; break;
        case 4:r+="We didn't get that this time around either. Remember, you can also look at the list of locations to look at what's on campus."; break;
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    Session.set("micResponse",r);
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"+r+"
");
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}

function disambiguate(entity) {
    var dis = "";
    var disambiguated = false;
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        dis = "Did you mean the Shapiro Science Center, Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center, Shapiro Campus Center, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, or Shapiro Hall in Massell Quad?";

        Session.set("micResponse","Did you mean the Shapiro Science Center, Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center, Shapiro Campus CEnter, Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, or Shapiro Hall in Massell Quad?");

        Session.set("disambiguationChoices",disambiguationChoices);

        disambiguated = true;
    }
    if (entity == "Rabb") {
        disambiguationChoices = ["The Rabb School of Continuing Studies","Rabb Graduate Center"];
        dis = "Did you mean the Rabb School of Continuing Studies or Rabb Graduate Center?";

        Session.set("micResponse","Did you mean the Rabb School of Continuing Studies or Rabb Graduate Center?");

        Session.set("disambiguationChoices",disambiguationChoices);

        disambiguated = true;
    }

    if (disambiguated) {
        speak();
        $("#result").append("
"+dis+"
");
    }
    return disambiguated;
}

function navigateCommand(entities) {
    r = "Navigating to ";
    var rSay = "Navigating to ";
    var disDestination = "";
    if (entities["end"] != undefined) {
        disDestination = disambiguate(entities["end"].value);
        if (!disDestination) {
            // if the location is actually a location
            if (Locations.findOne({"name":entities["end"].value}) != undefined) {
                r += ""+entities["end"].value+"";
                Session.set("navigateTo",entities["end"].value);
                rSay += entities["end"].value;
                numClarify = 0;
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            else {
                clarifyLoc();
            }

        }
    }
    else {
        if (entities["deis_loc"] != undefined) {
            //console.log(entities["deis_loc"]);
            disDestination = disambiguate(entities["deis_loc"].value);
            if (!disDestination) {
                if (Locations.findOne({"name":entities["deis_loc"].value}) != undefined) {
                    r += ""+entities["deis_loc"].value+"";
                    Session.set("navigateTo",entities["deis_loc"].value);
                    rSay += entities["end"].value;
                    numClarify = 0;
                }
                else {
                    clarifyLoc();
                }
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    if (entities["start"] != undefined) {
        var disStart = disambiguate(entities["start"].value);
        if (!disStart) {
            if (entities["start"] == "this_loc") {
                r+= " from this location";
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");
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Demi Moore - The Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood
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From her Hollywood debut at the age of 19 to her latest venture, this biography traces the events and circumstances that have shaped Demi Moore's extraordinary character and propelled her from aspiring model to movie superstar. The book describes Demi's troubled childhood and her crusade to quit high school to find a career in modelling, as well as the trauma of her stepfather's suicide two years later. It reveals the truth behind her relationship with actor Emilio Estevez and why she broke off their engagement, her up-and-down relationship with husband Bruce Willis and her alleged affair with Leornardo DiCaprio. It also: relates how Demi's drug and alcohol addiction almost led to her departure from the set of "St Elmo's Fire"; looks at the history behind her nude appearances both on and off screen; and details behind-the-scenes information from the sets of her movies past and present, including her roles in "Indecent Proposal", "Striptease" and Woody Allen's "Deconstructing Harry".
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PlayUp is hoping to list on the Nasdaq in the US and ASX via a reverse takeover of Perth-based renewable energy minnow Mission NewEnergy, according to company filings by Mission in the US last week.
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Q: using a list of characters to search characters in a string I have not long been learning python and after going through the basics have been going through some tasks I have found online.
For this one I'm to use a list of characters in this case the alphabet to count the amount of those characters in a sentence.
I have got to the point where it is counting something but cuts out on character c giving me a value of 30 when there is only 1 c in there and the return:
  File "/home/pi/main.py", line 17, in <module>
    if statementLower[l] == alphabet[m]:
IndexError: string index out of range

Code attached
alphabet = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
statement = "This is my task I want to complete. But I am stuck!!!!!!"
statementLower = statement.lower()
m = 0
l=0
count = 0
print(statementLower)

for i in alphabet:
    frequency = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
    #print("i for alphabet")
    #print("-" + i + "-")
    for k in statementLower:
        #print("k statement Lower")
        #print(k)
        if statementLower[l] == alphabet[m]:
            #print(count)
            count = count+1
            frequency[m] = count
            l+l+1
            continue
        else:
            #print("else continue loop")
            l=l+1
            continue

    if frequency[m] != 0:
        #print("frequency loop")
        print(str(alphabet[m]+ ":" + str(frequency[m])))
        m=m+1
        count = 0
        l=0
        continue

Can anyone give me any assistance in what I'm doing wrong I can see that I am constantly getting stuck in that count if statement but its not incrementing to the next index of the string even when I am increasing that value.
my only current returns are
a:44
b:20
c:30
then the string index out of range

A: I've noticed two errors in your code:

*

*You are only resetting the counter variables if the current frequency value is not 0, meaning that it will error out eventually after encountering a character that isn't present in the target string. Resetting these values outside of the if statement makes your code go beyond "c", but will still result in invalid values.

*You have a l+l+1 statement in your code; probably a typo, and you meant l=l+1.

Correcting these errors result in your code working as intended. Below is your original source file (without the initializers at the top); I have left comments documenting what these errors are (and added some tips on how to make your code more "pythonic").
for i in alphabet:
    frequency = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
    for k in statementLower:
        if statementLower[l] == alphabet[m]:
            count = count + 1 # Can be simplified to count += 1
            frequency[m] = count # You don't have to have the "count" variable at all; instead, you can simply use frequency[m]. That'll save you the hassle of keeping track of an extra variable.
            # If you want to stop using the "count" variable, simply replace the above two lines with "frequency[m] += 1". You can then delete all lines referencing "count".
            l+l+1 # This statement will do nothing; you probably meant the first "+" to be a "=".
            continue
        else:
            # These assignments can be moved outside the else-if; and, as this is the only statement in the else-if,
            # the else can be removed completely.
            l=l+1
            continue

    if frequency[m] != 0:
        print(str(alphabet[m]+ ":" + str(frequency[m])))
        # You are only resetting your counter variables if the current frequency value is not 0.
        # The reason why your code didn't execute correctly after "c" is because there are no
        # "d" characters in the string; so you're not updating m, count, and l after you encounter such a character.
        m=m+1
        count = 0
        l=0
        continue

Also, your script can be simplified to this:
alphabet = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
statement = "This is my task I want to complete. But I am stuck!!!!!!"
statementLower = statement.lower()
m = 0
l=0
count = 0
print(statementLower)

frequency = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

# For each letter index of the array "alphabet"
for i in range(len(alphabet)):
    # For each character of the string "statementLower"
    for k in statementLower:
        # If the character is equal to the character under the alphabet index i...
        if k == alphabet[i]:
            # ...add 1 to the frequency under that index.
            frequency[i] += 1

# Print out the frequencies
for i in range(len(alphabet)):
    if frequency[i] != 0:
        print(str(alphabet[i]+ ": " + str(frequency[i])))
        # bonus: f-strings! they're cool, fancy, and are more pythonic! :3
        # print(f"{alphabet[i]}: {frequency[i]}")

Best of luck in your Python endeavors!

A: I've come up with this, similar to first answer:
alphabet = ["a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"]
statement = "This is my task I want to complete. But I am stuck!!!!!!"

statementLower = statement.lower()

print(statementLower)

setz = [i for i in statementLower if i in alphabet ] #list of char in statementLower if they are in alphabet
print(setz)

#freqs = [(item, setz.count(item)) for item in set(setz)] #freq as list, uses .count() method on set() of setz

freqs = dict([(item, setz.count(item)) for item in set(setz)]) # freqs as dictionary, see above

print(freqs)

output:
this is my task i want to complete. but i am stuck!!!!!!
['t', 'h', 'i', 's', 'i', 's', 'm', 'y', 't', 'a', 's', 'k', 'i', 'w', 'a', 'n', 't', 't', 'o', 'c', 'o', 'm', 'p', 'l', 'e', 't', 'e', 'b', 'u', 't', 'i', 'a', 'm', 's', 't', 'u', 'c', 'k']
{'w': 1, 'm': 3, 'b': 1, 'n': 1, 'c': 2, 'a': 3, 'k': 2, 'h': 1, 'l': 1, 'u': 2, 'o': 2, 'e': 2, 'y': 1, 's': 4, 'i': 4, 'p': 1, 't': 7}

my bad that from Python 3.6 dictionary preserve inserting order while mine doesnt follow alphabet, see: Are dictionaries ordered in Python 3.6+?

A: As has already been said, collections.Counter is ideal for this. However, if you want to do this without importing anything, you could consider using a dictionary (which is essentially how Counter is implemented). The dictionary will be keyed on any letters in the range a-z found in the statement string.
statement = 'This is my task I want to complete. But I am stuck!!!!!!'

result = {}

for letter in statement.lower():
    if letter.isalpha():
        result[letter] = result.get(letter, 0) + 1

for key, value in sorted(result.items()):
    print(f'{key}={value}')

Output:
a=3
b=1
c=2
e=2
h=1
i=4
k=2
l=1
m=3
n=1
o=2
p=1
s=4
t=7
u=2
w=1
y=1

A: First option: use collections.Counter. As suggested by Steven Rumbalski:
frequency = collections.Counter(filter(str.isalpha, statement.lower()))

If you want a bit more work, then there is the str.count() method. Suggestion: let's make frequency a dict instead of a list
frequency = {}
for a in alphabet:
    frequency[a] = statementLower.count(a)

If you want still more work, ok:
frequency = {a:0 for a in alphabet} #or use a defaultdict instead
for a in alphabet:
    for ch in statementLower:
        if a == ch:
            frequency[a] += 1

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News World Joe Biden flags G7 move on China forced labour
3:08pm, Apr 24, 2021 Updated: 4:16pm, Apr 24
Joe Biden flags G7 move on China forced labour
US President Joe Biden hopes to convince other G7 leaders to act as one on China. Photo: EPA
Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt
The United States will urge its Group of Seven allies to increase pressure on China over the use of forced labour in its northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim Uyghur minority.
US President Joe Biden will attend a meeting of the G7 advanced economies in person in Britain in June, where he is expected to focus on what he sees as a strategic rivalry between democracies and autocratic states, particularly China.
Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser to Mr Biden and deputy director of the National Economic Council, said the G7 meeting in Cornwall would focus on health security, a synchronised economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, concrete actions on climate change, and "elevating shared democratic values within the G7".
"These are like-minded allies, and we want to take tangible and concrete actions that show our willingness to co-ordinate on non-market economies, such as China," Mr Singh told Reuters.
"The galvanising challenge for the G7 is to show that open societies, democratic societies, still have the best chance of solving the biggest problems in our world, and that top-down autocracies are not the best path," he said.
Mr Singh said Washington has already taken strong action against China over human rights challenges in Xinjiang, but would seek to expand the effort with G7 allies.
The G7 consists of the United States, the UK, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, and Canada.
Joint sanctions against Chinese officials accused of abuses in the province were announced last month by the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada.
China denies all accusations of abuse and has responded with punitive measures of its own against the EU.
"We've made our views clear that our consumers deserve to know when the goods they're importing are made with forced labour," he said.
"Our values need to be infused in our trading relationships."
Activists and UN rights experts say at least one million Muslim Uyghurs have been detained in camps in Xinjiang.
The activists and some Western politicians accuse China of using torture, forced labour and sterilisations. China says its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
Scott Morrison resists pressure to set new climate goals as US pledges to halve emissions


Art exhibited at the gallery is nearly always for sale.
You will find work very reasonably priced.
Please consider visiting the gallery if looking for a piece of 2D or 3D artwork for the home.
In addition to the larger pieces of exhibited work, many of the resident artists have prints and cards for sale.
The steward on duty will be able to take your payment.


You may have heard lately that if you drink cold water, you will lose weight. Although the benefits of drinking lots of water might help you lose weight, drinking cold water might not be that helpful.
Some nutritionists promote that you burn more calories drinking cold water vs. warm water, yet the difference is so little that you won't notice any weight loss by simply changing the temperature of the water you drink. So how many calories do you burn drinking cold water? According to the University of Arkansas Medical Center, you burn about 8 extra calories warming cold water up to your body temperature. By the way, a kilocalorie is the approximate amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. For the sake of convenience we use the word calorie in the U.S. instead of the more technically correct word kilocalorie.
Back to our discussion… research still supports that drinking plenty of water every day, at any temperature, may help you lose weight by replacing high calorie beverages, making you feel full longer, and helping you have more energy (to burn calories) because your body simply works better when it is well hydrated.
There may be some benefit to drinking cold water when you are exercising because drinking cold water benefits you by lowering your body temperature more quickly than drinking warmer water would. But staying well hydrated seems to provide the most benefit of all. The current recommendation is to drink about 8 (8 oz.) glasses of water each day, perhaps more if you are exercising or outside on a very hot day. All fluids do count towards meeting your requirements. Drinking excess fluids, like a gallon per day, is usually not helpful and may cause other problems.
The good news for all of us is that water has become the second most popular drink now, just under soda. The bad news; it should be number one since it's what your body actually needs. Your body doesn't need extra sugar, artificial sweeteners or artificial flavors and colors. Besides, drinking plenty of water lowers your risk of kidney stones, whereas drinking soda can raise your risk of kidney stones.
To entice yourself to choose water over other less-healthy beverages, try drinking lemon water or using other fruits as a water enhancer to add a twist of delicious natural flavor to your glass.


Walther CPA Newsletter September 2018 – Walther Partners Inc.
First a sales tax permit is required, it's against the law to collect sales tax without one.
If your business has a physical location (or locations), you'll need to configure your checkout system to charge the appropriate sales tax for each location.
You can file your taxes and submit your payments online with each state, but be sure to check the requirements. Depending on the size of your business, or how much revenue you have in a particular state, you might have to file monthly or quarterly. If you collect very little tax, you might only need to file once a year. But even if you don't collect any tax for a given period, in many states you still need to file.
Some states offer a discount if you file on time.
Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow .
Virtual currencies are created by "mining," in which the miner, using powerful computers, authenticates a transaction in the blockchain, a digital ledger of transactions. Besides bitcoin, the most familiar virtual currency, hundreds of others have been created, with more appearing all the time. Digital currency can be traded on third-party digital trading platforms such as Coinbase, used as payment for goods and services, held for investment, and loaned to others.
Although IRS guidance on virtual currency is sparse, Notice 2014-21 lays out some ground rules. Chief among them is that virtual currency is treated as property for tax purposes, and transactions involving virtual currency are governed by the general tax principles for property transactions. When paid as employee compensation, the fair market value (FMV) of the virtual currency (at the time it is paid) must be included in the employee's W-2 wages, and the employer must withhold income and employment taxes. Similar rules apply when virtual currency is received as payment for services provided as an independent contractor.
In Lender Management LLC, T.C. Memo. 2017-246, the Tax Court concluded that a taxpayer was engaged in the trade or business of providing investment management services and, therefore, could benefit from having its expenses treated as fully deductible business expenses under Sec. 162 rather than being treated as expenses for the production of income under Sec. 212 subject to the Sec. 67(a) 2%-of-adjusted-gross-income floor for miscellaneous itemized deductions. The court ruled that the operations of the company consisted of activities that were beyond those of an investor even though the clients it provided investment management services to were primarily family entities, and its primary source of income was an allocation of profits (i.e., an incentive allocation, or carried interest) from various partnerships to which it provided these services.
During the years covered in the case (2010-2012), Lender Management provided direct management services to three limited liability companies (LLCs) taxed as partnerships for federal income tax purposes. The only members in these three LLCs were the families.
Each LLC had a distinct investment strategy, with one investing in private equities, one investing in public equities, and the third investing in hedge funds. The end-level owners of the three LLCs were, in all cases, children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren.
Given the familial relationship of the owners of Lender Management and the investors of the investment LLCs, the court reviewed the economic arrangement between the entities with a heightened scrutiny. Specifically, the court examined whether the arrangement was a bona fide business relationship or an arrangement due to the familial relationship. Applying this heightened scrutiny, the court noted: (1) There was no requirement or understanding that Lender Management would remain the manager of the assets held by the LLCs indefinitely; (2) investors could withdraw their individual money at any time (subject to the LLC's liquidity restrictions); (3) Keith, as one of the investors in the LLCs, would still have benefited from the investment returns of ownership of the LLCs if he did not work for Lender Management, and any additional income to him was due to the services he provided to Lender Management; and (4) while each investor was a member of the Lender family, the members did not act collectively and, in some cases, did not know each other or were in conflict with each other. The Tax Court found that even though the investors were all members of the Lender family, Lender Management provided investment advisory services and managed investments for each of its clients individually.
Ultimately, the Tax Court held that the activities of Lender Management rose to the level of a trade or business, and it was entitled to deduct its expenses under Sec. 162.
Lender Management affirms the position that an investment adviser can be in a trade or business even if the primary source of its income is from the allocation of profits from underlying managed partnerships. In considering these structures, it is critical that taxpayers and their advisers consider the specific facts and circumstances of each particular situation for the structure to be respected.


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Why did NASA set up a computing facility in Bermuda in the Mercury epoch?
I'm reading Hidden Figures, and I'm puzzled by an assertion Shetterly makes in a section describing the first few electronic computers installed at NASA, in the run-up to the Mercury project at around 1959-1960 (p. 209 paperback). Shetterly writes
The agency set up a third computer, a slightly smaller IBM 709, in a data center in Bermuda.
with no further details given. This feels much too early for outsourcing and offshoring of computing operations; instead, you'd really want to keep the computer next to its programmers next to the engineers and scientists they supported. What kind of computations did this facility do, why was it so important, and where can I read more about it?
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Bermuda was one of the tracking stations for the Mercury program. Bermuda was critical as it had a good view of much of the ascent trajectory. In this image, all of the tracking stations are shown along with one of the Mercury flight paths. BDA=Bermuda.
Requirements. Early in the design of the Mercury system it was considered mandatory to receive information on a real-time basis and to provide for instantaneous computation and display of mission data from lift-off to landing. To meet these requirements, new data transmission equipment and computer peripheral gear were required. A new concept in large-scale, real-time data processing was required to tailor computations to a computer cycle and to manage the priorities of the computations performed automatically.
In all phases of the Mercury mission, it was vital that the many different forms of calculations be performed with exact precision and the data be made available almost instantaneously. For example, in a matter of seconds after launch-vehicle cut-off and spacecraft insertion into orbit, the computers were required to furnish data based on tracking information for evaluating whether or not the mission should be permitted to continue.
At the start of the Mercury program, there was no real-time computer link available between Bermuda and the USA, or at least none with enough capacity to transfer e.g. radar data to the US. So they had to make some of the flight control decisions in Bermuda instead of running everything from the US.
Before the Bermuda submarine cable was installed, it was decided to supplement the Goddard-Cape Canaveral complex with a secondary computing station at Bermuda. Installed there was an IBM 709 computer that received the inputs of the Bermuda FPS-16 (radar) and Verlort radars. The role of Bermuda was twofold: it served as a backup remote control center during the launch phase and as a tracking site thereafter. Specifically, it performed the following computing tasks:
Provided all the necessary trajectory information to drive the display devices in the Bermuda control center.
Computed an independent go-no-go at insertion based on Bermuda data.
Computed retrofire times to be used in the event of an abort to land the spacecraft in one of the designated recovery areas.
Computed refined landing points for several abort cases.
Computed orbital characteristics.
Sent postinsertion conditions to Goddard.
After the submarine cable was installed in April 1962, the Bermuda computer was removed and all the computations listed above were programed in the Goddard computers.
HobbesHobbes
$\begingroup$ Yes, correct. They were unable to run everything out of Goddard at the start of the Mercury program. $\endgroup$
– Hobbes
$\begingroup$ Must have been rough to have been assigned Bermuda duty :) $\endgroup$
– Organic Marble
$\begingroup$ @OrganicMarble - That was my first thought. If you've got a fat pork-barrel project, you might as well put it in Bermuda instead of Poughkeepsie $\endgroup$
– Richard
$\begingroup$ Poughkeepsie wasn't in the middle of the Mercury ascent trajectory... $\endgroup$
$\begingroup$ @Richard Delaware is right next to Maryland. Bermuda is much further east. Surely Bermuda can monitor more area not already covered by the Goddard station, no? $\endgroup$
– jpmc26
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Q: Ingresar a paginaweb usando dominio que apunte a ip pública con puerto determinado en mi homelab desde mi linux server, intento crear un contenedor (docker) con la pag web en python con flask sirviendo desde gunicorn que apunte hacia mi ip publica.
Ejemplo:

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*Ip linux serv 192.168.1.100 -hecho.

*Puerto designado para la página web: 5000 - hecho. (configurado en ufw, contenedor, gunicorn y router de ethernet)

*ejemplo de acceso, ip publica. 189.150.150.1:5000 - hecho. puedo acceder sin problema a mi página web desde fuera de mi red lan.

*acceder a la pagina web desde un dominio (en google domains) www.webpage.com - hecho.  Para esto, lo que hice fue forwardear en mi proveedor de dominio hacia mi ip publica con el puerto 5000. Funciona todo ok.
El problema es que al teclear www.webpage.com y al entrar en la página web no me muestra mi dominio, sino que me muestra mi ippublica:5000 y quiero que se mantenga el nombre del dominio que estoy usando.
Es cuestión de configurarle algo en el proveedor de dominio o en el linux server?
Al final lo que deseo poder aprender es a como servir, desde mi homelab,  varias páginas web desde una sola ip publica pero desde distintos puertos. Quizas y esta no sea la forma de hacerlo, me podrían indicar si es la mas óptima para hacerlo desde mi red de casa?
He intentado usar ngnix pero es mas avanzado y me pierdo mucho con el dockercompose.
El ddns lo tengo resuelto con un cron 24/7 que vaya y actualice la ip publica de mi proveedor de dominio cuando esta cambie.


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Disease Ontology : 12 A complex cortical dysplasia with other brain malformations that has material basis in heterozygous mutation in the TUBB2A gene on chromosome 6p25.
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I recently came across this quote in a quaint little cafe and was quite intrigued at the reaction my friends had to this.
They all scoffed at it and brushed it aside immediately. A world without our phones and laptops and tablets? Unimaginable.
Now, today's youth does not really need a special introduction as tech-savvy, everyone knows about it- our parents look for us when the WiFi is not working, and our grandparents look for us when their small keypad phone isn't ringing as loudly as it used to.
Although, who can blame us?
The very task that once needed a computer can now be done by a gadget which fits into our palms.
When I say "task", I mean all tasks, everything imaginable under the sun.
Sure, smartphones are useful but there is a very grey line between us using it for work, and us just using it because we are addicted.
We often do not realize but our phones become a constant companion, except this one can turn out to be quite harmful to our mental and physical health.
Upon talking to several school psychologists, I found out that an astonishing number of school students (between the ages of 14-18) in India nowadays are haplessly addicted to their phones, and the tantalizing apps they contain.
Some go to bed crying because they could not finish the last level in "Subway Surfers", some keep refreshing their Facebook notifications hoping for any activity by any friend and some keep uploading every minute detail of their life on their Instagram stories.
It is not just the phone in our hands to blame, or the social media apps in them, but also the constant need of validation from others, psychologists feel. It is not just among impressionable teenagers, but also applies to adults. The urge to connect, and to always stay connected often makes you feel empty when there is no communication from the other side – the vast expanse of Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat.
It is also a great tool of procrastination that also provides momentary enjoyment and distraction from the task at hand.
Keeping this problem at mind, the solution suggested by many is to "Disconnect, to Reconnect".
"Digital Detoxification" camps have come up in USA and UK, to tackle this very problem.
They recognize the digital world as toxic, and help customers get over that toxicity and look at life without the crutches of a smartphone. Not just look, but also feel and enjoy.
"Camp Grounded" is also another camp which has been described to be like a "Summer Camp for Adults" where people surrender all their gadgets and gizmos and reacquaint themselves with living in the present real world, and not the virtual.
But you do not always need to enroll yourself in a digital detox camp, you can also take small steps at home which will allow you to slowly remove the addiction.
The moment you feel a physical tiredness kick in even though you have been sitting at home with your phone all day, you will know it's time for some detoxification. When the feeling of looking at your phone increases your anxiety, or not being able to look at it, check your notifications after a second or two causes stress, you will know it's time.
When you start asking yourself, "how much online is too much?", you will know that you have to unplug yourself from your phone or even, your laptop.
Switch it off and give it to a family member and go out for a walk or a jog. Breathe in the fresh air outside.
Read the book you have always wanted to but somehow never managed to find the time for you will be surprised at the amount of time you'll have the moment you leave your gadget.
Talk to your family members or have a chat with your friends, face to face.
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There will be a reading from the book at 5 pm and door prizes.
We will be offering champagne/wine and cheese.
HR Jakes will also sign copies of the book.
Special thanks to Brooks and Joyce Kaufmann.


Curried chicken, one of my childhood comfort foods, over rice noodles.
I'm having a hard time settling in this week, as winter holidays come and go, approach and recede, as personal and national losses do the same.
So I go to the kitchen.
The hills and bare trees and apartment roofs that stretch to the east bear witness through the windows. I write as I do my little jobs–if I think of them as little, building like snowflakes into larger things, they are easier to begin. I jot down thoughts, recipe ideas, insights that spring on me like the birds who dive past. Sunrise glows dimly through the clouds.
Since the rest of the world feels sad and chaotic, I create order in my corner of it: there are the clean dishes dried and warmed by the gas stove pilot lights. Now to stack the mixing bowls by size and slip them into the cabinet, organize the post-Cookie Party baking pans, and ponder which ingredients are to be used up next out of the freezer and fridge. Here's the softness of a purple dish towel, water splashing everywhere while I clean the last of the teacups, and that final step: wiping down the counters and sink, sweeping the floor. Now to the cooking.
Frozen chicken thighs started me off, and some of the Community Garden string beans I had managed to harvest and de-string and freeze before my last visit with J–and a rock-solid jar of cooking juices, added to each time I'd roasted or baked chicken since June. When defrosted, the glass was golden-full of olive oil, salt, floating bits of garlic, Pappadew sweet piquante pepper seasoning, and chicken fat.
The broth blended with milk and sautéed dried onion on the way to my mother's Curried Chicken sauce. The original recipe appeared decades before curry was a household word in the U.S., in Redbook, or Good Housekeeping, or some other 1960s ladies' magazine; I'm sure they promised an exotic meal, able to be put together in 30 minutes or less, conveniently utilizing leftover cooked poultry. Originally the sauce was served over rice (red-boxed "Minute Rice" in Mom's kitchen) mixed with dried parsley, always with a side of canned pineapple chunks.
But horrors!–the bag of brown basmati rice (standard in my interpretation of the dish) was empty, and so I hurriedly dug through the cabinets to find rice noodles, purchased for another, more modern curry dish–Thai coconut and Kaffir lime. Since the comfort-food sauce was almost finished, I quickly boiled the noodles like a wheat-based spaghetti, and they turned out to be a wonderful substitution.
After eating, I walked into the rest of the apartment where chores awaited patiently: the end of year budget, memorabilia to be sorted, work research and networking to be initiated. I brought in the sense of order from my clean kitchen and home-cooked meal, lit a candle, later burned some incense, and calmly did small parts of huge projects.
I drank tea, cried about tragedies, and thought about some joys as well.
Candle and tea, for the shadowed afternoons.
Later in the week I wanted to use up the rest of the dried noodles, so I hot-soaked them and then stir-fried with a jarred Pad Thai sauce I'd bought for "some day when I wanted Thai but didn't want to order out or cook from scratch." I managed to employ this sauce, the rice noodles, about ten frozen raw shrimp left from Thanksgiving appetizers, some eggs and broccoli and aging celery, even had salted peanuts hiding behind the dried pasta; only had to buy fresh cilantro and bean sprouts.
I trust that if I eat up all the food I have, there will be more.
Shrimp pad thai, with crushed peanuts and cilantro leaf. Oh, and broccoli and celery and bean sprouts. And a little egg.
This week, in the spirit of being empty, I even skipped a writing deadline, deliberately watching the clock tick down and observing my reactions. The piece I wanted to submit just wasn't ready yet, so I didn't force it. I trust that it's stewing inside me, and I'll know it's ready, if I keep close watch on the pot.
So instead of indulging the A+ student, I hiked for hours along the Niskayuna Bike Path, on the last sunny afternoon predicted for a while, then hunkered down for the blowzy day on Friday.
I trust there will be other opportunities in my writing life; that missing this one won't be the end of me.
I conversed on the day of solstice with author E.P. Beaumont (http://epbeaumont.com). E.P. describes late fall as "the end of things, the beginning of things, a gateway time, where the gates to the other world are wide open–and remember the other world includes The Past, as well." This is a time for processing, meditating, mulling. It reminds us of other darknesses that will inevitably come, and trains us to hold on to the memory of light and lightness, which will also inevitably return.
Though deeper cold chills the landscape and bits of snow flew outside this morning, winter solstice has come and gone and the days increase, even if imperceptibly for now. I will continue consuming my culinary caches, making order, making messes, identifying my life's work through my daily work. Lighting candles and cooking noodles. Drinking tea. Trusting I carry my peace and emptiness with me, into the darkness, as I seek the growing light.
The list of cached freezer food grows shorter.
Mom's Curried Chicken Recipe: Saute 1 1/2 tsp curry powder and 1 TB instant minced onion in 3 TB of margarine. Remove from heat and add 3 TB flour, 3/4 tsp sugar, 3/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp ginger. Stir until thickened. Add 1 cup milk and 1 cup chicken broth. Put back on heat and bring to a boil. Simmer one minute, Remove from heat and stir in 1 cup cooked cut up chicken, 3/4 tsp lemon juice. Serve on top of rice mixed with parsley flakes.
I usually double all the ingredients, thoroughly mix in more flour than recommended so the sauce will be thicker, and whisk the roux incrementally with the liquids, before heating, to avoid lumps. This time I also added 32 oz of cooked Community Garden green beans along with the chicken. And more chicken than recommended. Of course.
Shrimp Pad Thai. I used a whole jar of Thai Kitchen Pad Thai sauce, and followed the instructions on the label for stir-frying 2 eggs first, then the shrimp, then the sliced veggies, mixing in bean sprouts at the end, topping with crushed peanuts and cilantro. I followed the directions on the rice noodles for hot soaking, then stir fried them with the sauce, again per the Thai Kitchen label. Nice and easy….
Last week's blog did not get finished or posted–all because I made an inedible pot of soup.
In a hurry; measurement ignored; ingredients tossed together; forgot to break up the frozen chard so instead of tasty green bits, slimy strings floated; didn't realize the pinto beans had been freezer burnt by a crack in the container until they were already in the stew; frugally used up an open beef bouillon concentrate, but the whole thing tasted too dark and earthy, not savory.
Finally I admitted to myself that beef base just didn't work here, and neither did anything else. Staring at the congealed mess in the stockpot: How did I come to make this lousy food?
Fear. The word bubbled up, like the greenish-brown liquid in the pot. It's fear.
A discussion before Thanksgiving at a local barbecue restaurant prompted this reaction. One friend had grown up in an Italian family, but not one that stuffed him like a manicotti; plenty to eat, but no forcing, "take however much or little you want." Therefore, few food issues emerged afterward, and he is able to enjoy a bit of protein, or a bit of sweet, knowing pretty instantly when he might be over-eating. My other friend grew up with nutrition from the pantry at her church, sometimes shamed by charity, and sometimes sending back food that was so unpleasant her family couldn't accept it, for others more desperate than them. Later food allergies made meal preparation tedious and very limited.
After sharing our stories, we three studied our plates and take-out containers in shock, individually mulling over alternate universes–What would it be like to live with his relationship to food? With hers? With mine?
Weeks later, this led to my realization and then extended thoughts about fear, as I stood over my unpalatable potage, but a different fear interrupted–about meeting the Friday writing deadline. All this thinking is taking too long!
Then I remembered the book I've been slowly reading lately: Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big Life, wherein she says some very cogent things about Running Out of Time and Attachment to Outcomes.
With a sigh, I went back to page 36. Susanka reminded me to not make the end product the goal, but rather the process; the process of figuring out what I wanted to say, the process of understanding myself–that was the goal.
The A+ Student in me got sent to a time-out, to cool her proverbial heels for a week, and I lived my life and read my book and wrote pages and pages about my childhood and young-married life, and my relationship with food.
J's crazy-cats keep me company while I write and ponder.
Now multiple essays are emerging, all linked by a challenge I've set for myself.
Don't worry–it's not a challenge that will cause the A+ Student to come roaring from her room with fangs out and lists streaming behind her. It's just a challenge to gently help me and the A+ Student identify what ideational platforms I'm standing on, where they come from, and ask: Are they true? Are they helpful?
So…I now take a vow to clear out old food, to undo the feeling of scarcity in my eating life. No more stuffing the freezer and shelves with food because I am worried about not having enough.
In fact, I am going to "spend down" my supplies. I will buy the fresh things necessary for daily use, or specific ingredients to make something fun or follow a recipe, but no more stockpiling. If a food item is past due, or icky, it's gone. After cooking, I can put an extra portion away, but will share it or eat it within a short period.
Reminding myself: it's one person for many meals, little amounts of food, not like when I was cooking for a family of four, which with teenagers makes it more like six, and their friends, plus leftovers for the food needs that will come a few hours or a day later– Whoops, better cook for eight or ten.
Homemade pizza with a big family used to mean two 9 X 12 cookie sheets. Today I eat one piece, with salad and fruit. Lasagna in the past? Twelve pieces for today, twelve pieces for the freezer, regardless of the future texture. Who cared about that? It was speed, availability, and quantity! Nowadays, lasagna is layered with vegetables, a delicate sauce, fresh cheeses, and no more than two or three servings over several days. Yes, life is different and the action I'm taking will be accompanied by meditating and writing.
A list is posted now in my kitchen, what's kept cold and what's kept frozen and what's kept waiting in the pantry, along with a few lovely potential recipes. A month of this, and the new year has a chance to begin fresh and open.
How will it feel to have emptier cabinets, an almost empty freezer?
Approaching frozen containers was too daunting after the soup fiasco, so I started by opening a can of sweetened condensed milk whose "best by" date I can't even admit to. It tastes fine, the texture is merely thicker and the color more caramel than usual, and I am using it instead of the standard turbinado and milk to lace my morning tea. It's beautiful in J's cat-covered mug, and stirs up nicely. A good start, I say.
Next week the menu includes Broccoli Macaroni and Cheese, and a side of My Personal History with Commodity (Government) Cheese. Soon to come: Phyllo Chicken Pot Pie accompanied by Women & Preparedness; Losing Books and the Purpose of Stuff; a dessert of Poverty, Pie, and the Possibility of Blizzards.
See? I tell myself. There's still fullness, and not just of food.
Creamy and filling, the tea with sweetened condensed milk–whose time had finally come!


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Will Jackson decommits, but UConn appears to strong with Derrick Jones
As UConn bids adieu to one Class of 2015 recruit, it appears to be in pretty good standing with another.
Will Jackson, who committed to UConn back in February, has decommitted and instead lent his commitment to Georgia, according to multiple reports:
Ga Stars 2015 PG Will Jackson has decommitted from UCONN and committed to Georgia
— Shun Williams (@OntheRadarHoops) July 7, 2014
Along with Prince Ali's recent decision to re-open his commitment, that leaves talented Boston guard Jalen Adams as the Huskies' only Class of 2015 commit at this point.
But it looks like UConn is in good with Philadelphia's Derrick Jones, the No. 33-ranked player in his class, according to rivals.com. Jones, a 6-foot-6 small forward who plays at Archbishop Carroll in Philly, visited UConn last Monday with his AAU coach -- who just happens to be New Haven native and former Hillhouse standout Terrell Myers.
"I think Coach (Kevin) Ollie did a great job while we were there," said Myers, who knows Ollie from his college playing days at St. Joseph's, as well as from playing against him in pro-am leagues. "They crossed the t's, dotted the i's, explained what UConn basketball is all about. He really, really enjoyed his visit. It's a place he can really, really thrive."
Myers added that Jones is "a great kid, an amazing kid, probably the most athletic player we have right now. He has the ability to do so many things."
"He's extremely athletic, and really knows how to play the game of basketball, as well. He understands the nuances of it, all the small details. That's the greatest thing about him. His upside can be tremendous, he's just still scratching the surface. He's so athletic, people don't understand other things he can do because he wows you with his athleticism."
Jones does need to get stronger, but, as Myers noted, so does Daniel Hamilton. And so did DeAndre Daniels and Jeremy Lamb and any number of recent talented UConn recruits.
Jones went to the Syracuse Elite camp last summer and has visited a few schools locally, but doesn't have anything else lined up at the moment.
"He's 17, so making a decision for college is tough," Myers noted. "He's trying to figure out what to wear tomorrow."
His visit to UConn came largely as a result of Myers coming back to the area.
"I was coming up that way," Myers said, "and I thought it would be a good opportunity for him to see the school."
Myers used to run a basketball camp each summer at which Ollie would come to speak.
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Jones isn't the only player on the Philly-based We-R1 AAU team that UConn is interested in. There's also Sedee Keita, a 6-9, Class of 2016 center from Delaware who plays at Vermont Academy. And the Huskies have also inquired about Malik Ellison, a 6-5, Class of '15 swingman who is the son of former Louisville star "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison.
"UConn's a great place with a great basketball history," Myers said. "I think Coach Ollie is a guy who's gonna take it to another level."
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How can we improve the feedback loop when releases require significant compliance work?
I'm a software engineer working in a regulated industry. Releasing our product involves significant work which is required to evaluate risks and potentially submit a filling to the regulator.
As this work can't be automated to reduce the workload, we have settled into a yearly release cadence. Our product is also an integration system, meaning it is hard to effectively evaluate features in a short demo. As a result we are struggling to get effective feedback to sprints. What techniques can we use to more effectively improve the feedback we receive?
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"Our product is also an integration system, meaning it is hard to effectively evaluate features in a short demo." - could you expand on this please? What do you mean by 'an integration system'? – Barnaby Golden Apr 27 '20 at 17:19
The product interacts with various other third party systems, and they are the primary interface. In its expected use, there is the no expectation for anyone to interact directly with the system. – user1937198 Apr 27 '20 at 17:45
I have seen some teams go to the extent of creating a fake front-end on their product just so they can demo it to stakeholders. This only makes sense if the value of the feedback from your stakeholders exceeds the time/effort put into building the fake front-end though. – Barnaby Golden Apr 27 '20 at 21:21
Does the product include hardware (like an embedded system)? Does functional safety play a role? – Peter Mortensen Apr 27 '20 at 23:23
@PeterMortensen It doesn't include hardware, but functional safety requirements are a big part of the problem. – user1937198 Apr 28 '20 at 8:48
After having worked in a few different regulated contexts, I find it difficult to believe that you can't automate at least portions of the work needed to satisfy your compliance requirements. In my experiences, the claim that you can't is based on reading too much into the regulations and standards and relying on common misinterpretations rather than actual definitions or intents.
That said, depending on what happens as part of a release process, perhaps an annual cadence is appropriate with respect to the cost of the release process and how often your customers and users are able to accept a new version of the system.
My suggestion is to create a demonstration or sandbox environment that is updated much more frequently than yearly. It should be updated to track against proposed changes such that the version of all components on it when the release process starts is the same set of versions that are going through the release process. Then, use this environment in two ways. You can invite customers to use it for non-production data and to ensure that integrations and processes won't be affected by upcoming changes. Your sales, marketing, and support teams can also use it to make sure that their material is up-to-date and they understand what they are selling and supporting well before it goes live. Since these people also know the users, they can offer feedback on how customers and users may respond to changes.
The frequency of updates may still differ from your Sprint cadence but should be related. Your Sprint cadence should be designed to align your development teams with the business and reduce risk. The same rules of Scrum would apply - each Sprint would have a fully working and integrated system and the Product Owner would make the decision to release or not. In this case, release would be to the sandbox environment.
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I would say it's less that we can't automate any of it, and more that we've automated what the development team understands as automatable, and what is left is still enough of a burden. – user1937198 Apr 27 '20 at 10:51
@user1937198, in a regulated environment, some things just have to become part of the daily routine (e.g. traceability) and some times you need to go into a discussion with the notified body how you can ease the perceived burden while remaining compliant with the intent of the regulation. – Bart van Ingen Schenau Apr 29 '20 at 13:14
I would propose setting up in-house a mini-site that mirrors all the (important) functionality of the live site.
This way you can Release & Test to your test site as often as you want. You can get continuous feedback from an internal testing team. You could even propose to your customer to review select interim releases and provide feedback.
Another advantage would be that you can create and test a comprehensive "roll-out" document so that your yearly release will have a well documented and tested document.
Each Sprint will consist of an entire internal cycle; coding, testing the release document, testing the new features, and feedback.
About 15 years ago I helped launch a nationwide Telcom Carrier and we did just that: Create a miniature telcom site with all the same functionally and we would tweak & test the miniature site using predefined documented procedures before upgrading the live site using the same document.
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We would be able to replicate one site, though as we deploy to multiple prod sites with different third party systems, this would miss many of the important issues. Still it would be an improvement. I will look into it. – user1937198 Apr 27 '20 at 10:28
Even though you have an annual release cadence, you would still have sprint deliverables for your scrum team. Your Product Manager would have defined these sprint deliverables at the start of your PI.
Use these sprint deliverables as a checklist (a fully set up functionality is not required for a demo). To improve your feedback loop, set up a sprint deliverable demo at the end of each sprint. Invite the Product team to the demo. Since at the end of each sprint, you would be promoting your code to the staging environment, use that for your demo. Even if your feature is purely technical with no UI - still showcase it and talk about it. If your Product Manager is non-technical, you may need to explain the business aspects of the deployed code. The PM will have questions - and this will act as your feedback conduit. But make sure to stick to the sprint deliverables checklist. Hope this helps.
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Hi Aayush - as you mentioned PI (as program increment) and Product Manager, I believe you're implying the OP is working under a scaled agile framework, would that be the case? – Tiago Cardoso♦ Apr 27 '20 at 7:30
Yes, you are correct. The question mentioned that they had to "settle into a yearly cadence" - looks like they had to do it even though they wanted a faster release cycle. Since the OP does use sprints, having regular checkins after each sprint can be considered as a possibility. This is where a defined sprint deliverable checklist comes into the picture. – Aayush Jain Apr 27 '20 at 8:11
Due to the nature of our product, we don't deploy to a prod environment under our control, but release it to third parties. As such, most staging environment style deployment happens after release, and we can only do limited testing without full integration testing with external dependencies before release. – user1937198 Apr 27 '20 at 10:03
That feedback the product team is currently able to provide is limited, even when presented with the feature, as it's most echoing back what they passed to the Dev team for implementing. This is our problem. (And yes our product has nothing you directly interact with, all interaction happens through third party products) – user1937198 Apr 27 '20 at 10:08
As this work can't be automated
Factually wrong.
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Hi, I believe your answer would fit better as a comment. To be fair, I agree with you - automation may be challenging but should be possible - but the point is that your answer, as it stands, doesn't seem to be addressing OP problem. – Tiago Cardoso♦ Apr 27 '20 at 7:32
Unfortunately the platform concept doesn't apply in our case, as we are dealing with a single regulation, and our product is a monolith, where the platform code is what changes most often. As for the autogeneration, I'm not clear how the tool handles integration risks coming from the interaction of multiple components. – user1937198 Apr 27 '20 at 9:54
I agree with Tiago ... you make a very interesting comment about a very useful concept, then tell us nothing (here) about what and how you did it! You only say(!) ... "what's your excuse?" (Huh?) Please revise your post to add some details! – Mike Robinson Apr 27 '20 at 13:47
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Since launching in 2009, there have been over nine billion check-ins on Foursquare across the globe. Celebrating its seventh anniversary, the startup pushed an update to its mobile application on the App Store which includes a handy new history features.
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Cabaye left for just under £20m and the Toon failed to replace him before the window closed.
His departure has coincided with a poor run of form but Pardew is confident of building on his side's last-gasp 1-0 win over Aston Villa with Tiote at the helm.
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It all started in November 2000; no matter how, no matter with who. He composed four songs until January 2001 [Following the Black Star of Thoughts, The Feeling of not Belonging, War, Vomiting Bitter Tears of Disgust], moment when the project fell into oblivion. This lasted for more than one year: it is only in March 2002 that he decided to carry on with Unholy Matrimony. He composed four new tracks [A Prelude to Love and Death, La Fatalité de l`Amour Véritable, Memory Must Remain, Selbstmord] and recorded "Love & Death" by himself, in his bedroom, in March 2002. The tracklist was containing the four songs composed in 2000, the four ones composed in 2002, and two old instrumental symphonic creations whose concept were dealing with "Love & Death". Around November 2002, Unholy Matrimony signed a record deal with the French label Melancholia records, which started distributing "Love & Death" worldwide.
The new Unholy Matrimony album is entitled "Misologie" and has been released on Melancholia Records in September 2003. It was entirely composed and recorded in one month, in December 2002. Again, he took care of the recording which took place in his bedroom and on his own little material. The new tracks are faster, more intense and more compact than the ones you can find on the previous release.
Участники группы Unholy Matrimony
Vladimir Cochet (Основатель). В группе с: 2000 - . Роль в группе: Guitars, bass, vocals, keyboards, programming
Сторонние проекты: Accurst Journey, Deafening Loneliness, Mirrorthrone, Weeping Birth
CD: Love & Death (2002) Трэклист.
CD: Misologie (2003) Трэклист.