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Q: Java applet can't find JavaPOS configuration files I've created an applet that uses JavaPOS to communicate with a payment terminal on the user's local system.
When run from within the Eclipse IDE, the applet works fine, but not when run in a browser. In a browser, the applet can't seem to find the jpos/res/jpos.properties and jposxml.cfg files.
When the following statements are executed in the applet (in the start() method, not init()):
JposEntryRegistry registry = JposServiceLoader.getManager().getEntryRegistry();
registry.load();

this is the output I see in the Java console window:
jpos/res/jpos.properties file not found
jpos/res/jpos.properties file not found
jpos/res/jpos.properties file not found

And no entries are loaded in the JposEntry registry.
I've tried the following to get the applet to "see" the two files:

*

*jpos/res/jpos.properties is already present in one of the jars referenced by the applet. Nevertheless, I've added this file to the applet's main jar. I've also tried adding it to the directory on the server containing the jars (with the correct relative path). None of this works.

*I can work around the inability of jpos.properties to be found by setting System properties with the appropriate values, like this:
System.setProperty("jpos.loader.serviceManagerClass", "jpos.loader.simple.SimpleServiceManager");
System.setProperty("jpos.config.populatorFile", "jposxml.cfg");
System.setProperty("jpos.util.tracing.TurnOnNamedTracers", "JposServiceLoader,SimpleEntryRegistry,SimpleRegPopulator,XercesRegPopulator");
System.setProperty("jpos.util.tracing.TurnOnAllNamedTracers", "ON");

However, the applet still can't find jposxml.cfg. This file is present in the root of the applet's main jar file. I've tried putting on the server in the same directory as the jars. I've also tried creating a separate jar file containing only jposxml.cfg, but that doesn't work either. I get the following output in the Java console window:
[AbstractRegPopulator]getPopulatorFileIS(): populatorFileName=jposxml.cfg
[JposServiceLoader]manager.getEntryRegistry().load() OK
[AbstractRegPopulator]getPopulatorFileIS(): populatorFileName=jposxml.cfg

But the list of JposEntries is empty. As a result the applet can't communicate with the payment terminal.
The applet is loaded via a JNLP file (and all required jars via a JNLP extension). Both JNLP files have security set to <all-permissions/>. All jars are signed with the same certificate. The same code works perfectly in Eclipse. Any ideas on what the problem is?

A: This is for the reference of anyone facing a similar problem.
I couldn't get the JavaPOS code to see the jpos.properties file, but loading the values into System properties as described above works, so I'll stick with that for now.
To have JavaPOS load jpos.xml or jposxml.cfg from a URL, you need to set the property jpos.config.populatorFileURL and not jpos.config.populatorFile. This can be set either in jpos.properties, or failing that, as a System property.

A: Faced same problem.
JposServiceLoader uses classpath to look for the root of path.
For example, if local classpath for application is
C:/myapp/target/classes

then jpos.properties should be by path
C:/myapp/target/classes/jpos/res/jpos.properties

P.S. Maybe it is not a best way to place jpos files, but at least it is something you can start with solving this issue.

A: you have 2 ways:

*

*ignore this error and set properties from the code(as mentioned before)
 System.setProperty("jpos.config.populatorFile", "jposxml.cfg");
 System.setProperty("jpos.util.tracing.TurnOnNamedTracers", "JposServiceLoader,SimpleEntryRegistry,SimpleRegPopulator,XercesRegPopulator");
 System.setProperty("jpos.util.tracing.TurnOnAllNamedTracers", "ON");
 System.setProperty("jpos.loader.serviceManagerClass", "jpos.loader.simple.SimpleServiceManager")

*extract you jposXXX.jar(usually XXX means version),
add jpos.properties and jpos.xml files to the folder jposXXX/jpos/res/,
convert folder jposXXX to jar file
for example via command in terminaljar cvf jposXXX.jar jposXXX
put jar file to app/libs/ folder
add to your gradle dependencies line
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
enjoy


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Q: Check if relation isset with value attribute of CDataColumn I am aware that one can use a form of conditional statement inside the value attribute of CDataColumn, as outlined in the question conditional statements inside of 'value' for CDataColumn. I was wondering if there is a way to check if a model actually has a value set before trying to display it. My problem arises as my model Source has an optional relation 'country' that is not neccessarily set for all instances of Source. So when I access the country name in a Source CDataColumn, I get the PHP

Trying to get property of non-object

.. if any of the Sources in that grid do not have their country set. I
s there any way to check if the relation is set inside the 'value' attribute of the column?

A: You should try this (you should replace name with the needed attribute) :
array(
  'name'=>'country',
  'value'=>'(isset($data->country)) ? $data->country->name : ""',
),

You could also use a getter in your Source model, e.g. :
public function getCountryName()
{
  // I assume country_id is the foreign key
  if (isset($this->country_id) && isset($this->country))
    return $this->country->name;

  return '';
}

And with this getter, you just need to add this to your gridview columns :
  'countryName',

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AISD Staff Shake-up
Under Cruz, AISD staff get a reorganization
By Richard Whittaker, May 15, 2015, News
Austin Independent School District's senior staff will be losing several key positions in a major administrative shake-up. Superintendent Paul Cruz said, "Big or small, we've always had some changes to the organizational structure, and this next school year will be no different." However, it is different because it's the first time Cruz, as superintendent, has driven the changes.
Cruz said his re-org "really comes down to some big concepts of making the organization much more efficient, much more aligned, and that teachers and principals get the same messages." His plan is designed to tackle two problems. First, unnecessary duplication and division of tasks between departments. Second, saving money. With a tough budget year ahead, and no sign of school finance reform (see "Lege Lines," p.18), Cruz hopes to cut administrative costs by $801,000.
This cabinet shuffle comes six months after he took office, a much less aggressive timeline than that adopted by previous Superintendent Meria Carstarphen. On her second day on the job in 2009, she issued a revamped cabinet structure (see "AISD Staff Shake-Up," July 3, 2009). The stated purpose at the time was efficiency: Too many senior staffers were stuck in too many meetings. With hindsight, that argument verges on the laughable: Carstarphen's tenure was marked by so many back-to-back meetings that staff would complain that there was no time to do their actual jobs.
At the highest levels, there are four very significant changes:
• Gone: Superintendent's Chief of Staff. Replaced by: General Counsel. Carstarphen had promoted former counsel Mel Waxler to become her Chief of Staff, a controversial move leaving the board of trustees reliant on expensive external counsel for legal advice.
• Gone: Chief Academic Officer and Chief Schools Officer. Replaced by: Chief Teaching and Learning Officer.Cruz was the Chief Schools Officer before becoming Superintendent, and Associate Superintendent of High Schools Edmund Oropez serves as his interim successor.
• Gone: Chief Operations Officer. The post currently held by Lawrence Fryer will be completely dissolved, and its responsibilities and reports split between the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Human Capital Officer.
• Gone: Chief Performance Officer. Currently vacant, this job will have its responsibilities formally handed to other departments.
There are major shifts lower in the structure too, not least the trickledown effect of those senior changes. There will also be new posts, like a Chief Officer for Learning Systems. Intended to implement the district's technology plan, Cruz described the ideal candidate as someone "that understands new technology systems, but also understands how to implement that at a campus."
The effects will not be immediate. All staff will be invited to apply for the new positions: Those that are not successful, but are still under an existing three-year contract, will be re-assigned. However, it seems inevitable that some familiar faces around AISD will be packing their bags.

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Gosecks solcirkel är en neolitisk konstruktion i orten Goseck i Burgenlandkreis i Sachsen-Anhalt i Tyskland. I augusti 2003 kom det till allmänhetens kännedom att arkeologer i Goseck hade funnit den 7000 år gamla konstruktionen som kan ha använts till årstidsberäkning. Vad som återstår av konstruktionen idag är ett antal cirkulära diken. Då dess herrar levde på 4000-talet f.Kr. omgavs den cirkulära mittpunkten, som mäter 75 meter i diameter, även av ett högt staket av ek. I staketet, som omgivit ön i mitten, fanns det tre stycken portar som placerats parallellt mot varandra.

Upptäckten
Gosecks cirkel upptäcktes 2001, ett år innan den blev omtalad i media, av forskarna Peter Biehl (professor vid Halle-Wittenbergs universitet, och vid universitetet i Cambridge) och arkeologen Francois Bertemes. Vid upptäckten hade de dock ingen aning om att de skulle finna vad som skulle kunna vara världens äldsta astronomiska mätningsredskap. Innan dess hade man endast anat konstellationen genom att studera markmönster, som gett sig till känna i olika satellitbilder.

Vidare beskrivning
Konstruktionen har tre portar, varav de två södra tros ha markerat sommar- och vintersolstånden. Tidigare trodde man inte att de enkla bönder som måste ha tillverkat cirkeln hade någon kunskap om hur årstiderna fungerar, men nu har man kommit på andra tankar. Runtomkring i Tyskland, Österrike, Tjeckien, och ända ner till Kroatien har man under hela 1900-talet funnit liknande konstruktioner; men då tagit för givet att staketet och cirklarna fungerat som djurfållor. Samtliga konstruktioner (runt 250 stycken) byggdes troligen under en tvåhundraårig period 4800-4500 f.Kr. Även om konstruktionerna skiljer sig från varandra rent storleksmässigt (18 - 150 meter i diameter) så är deras gemensamma karaktäristiska drag påfallande; cirkulära diken, ett omgivande staket, och 2 till 4 parallella öppningar i staketet. Monumenten har alltid placerats på en kulle en bit ifrån dåvarande bebyggelse. Varför människorna valde att överge de vitt spridda platserna under bronsåldern har forskarna ännu inte kunnat lista ut, men man har åtminstone inte hittat något som tyder på att det gått våldsamt till.

Användning
I cirkelns mitt har man funnit offer av olika slag: kvinnliga lerfigurer, porslin, spjut, och djur. I vissa fall har man till och med funnit spår av människooffer; särskilt tydligt är detta vid en bayersk cirkel då dess exakta mitt markerades av ett begravt kvinnoskelett. Konstellationerna har med andra ord även fungerat som religiösa centrum, i vilka man förmodligen riktat uppmärksamheten mot olika stjärnkonstellationer och himlakroppar. Man tror även att dessa tidiga konstruktioner markerar övergången från jägar/samlar-samhälle till ett jordbrukssamhälle med territorium.

Med hjälp från astrofysikern Wolfhard Schlosser från Ruhrs universitet kunde man genom användning av historisk data och GPS satellit-teknologi fastslå att den sydöstra porten vid Goseck korresponderar med den punkt på horisonten där solen gick upp i början av vintersolståndet för 7000 år sedan. Den sydvästra porten har samma uppgift, fast där vintersolstånd byts ut till sommarsolstånd. Efter dessa observationer är det mer eller mindre uppenbart att cirkelkonstruktionerna haft en väldigt stor betydelse inom jordbruket; de berättade för dåtidens bönder när det var dags att så för att få så bra skörd som möjligt. Förmodligen var den person som ansvarade och förstod sig på konstruktionen väldigt högt aktad, då han/hon styrde över skörden. I cirkeln grävde man för 7000 år sedan även stora gropar i vilka man sedan tände stora eldar. Dagens arkeologer har även funnit många benrester i dessa gropar; man har bland annat funnit ett huvudlöst skelett vars kött hade skrapats bort.

Rekonstruktion
Inför 2005 års vintersolstånd (21 december) lät delstaten Sachsen-Anhalt återuppbygga konstruktionen vid Goseck så som den sett ut för 7000 år sedan, med 2000 ekstockar uppställda kring mittringen. Vid vintersolståndet samma år samlades 2000 människor från hela Tyskland och omgivande länder i ett firande av kulturminnet med bland annat fackelbärare, säckpipor och en traditionell matmeny.

Externa länkar
 http://www.archaeology.org/0607/abstracts/henge.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20060813234607/http://www.neara.org/MiscReports/12-08a-03.htm

Se även
 Arkeoastronomi
 Stonehenge
 Knowth
 Newgrange

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Jarrod Ramos Has Been Charged With Five Counts Of First-Degree Murder For The Maryland Newspaper Shooting
The 38-year-old is accused of opening fire in the Capital Gazette's newsroom in Annapolis Thursday.
By Elizabeth Pears and Mary Ann Georgantopoulos and Molly Hensley-Clancy
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Last updated on June 29, 2018, at 2:29 p.m. ET
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ANNAPOLIS — A man who had a long-running grudge against a Maryland newspaper was charged with five counts of first-degree murder Friday over the mass shooting at the company's newsroom that left five people dead.
Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, is accused of opening fire in the Capital Gazette offices in Annapolis on Thursday, killing five staffers and injuring two others.
During a hearing Friday morning, he was ordered held without bail.
Late Thursday, somber officials announced the names of the victims: Wendi Winters, an award-winning reporter who covered community news; Robert Hiaasen, an editor known for his humor; Gerald Fischman, an editorial writer; Rebecca Smith, a new sales assistant; and John McNamara, who had worked for the Capital Gazette in various roles for more than 20 years and loved sports.
Molly Hensley-Clancy
The alleged gunman entered the newspaper's building Thursday afternoon with a shotgun, walked through the lower level "looking for victims," and opened fire, Anne Arundel County Acting Police Chief Bill Krampf said Thursday.
"This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette," Krampf told reporters. "This person was prepared today to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm."
State Prosecutor Wes Adams said prior to entering the building, the suspect barricaded a back entrance so people couldn't escape.
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, Timothy Altomare, Anne Arundel County police chief, said officers found the suspect hiding. No shots were exchanged with law enforcement.
Altomare said officers collected evidence from the suspect's home "showing the origination of planning."
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The suspect used a 12-gauge pump action shotgun that was legally purchased about a year ago, Altomare said, adding that the alleged shooter has not been cooperating with authorities since his arrest.
"We're not getting very much communication," the police chief said, adding that officials used facial recognition software to identify the man.
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"We will not ever leave your side," he said. "So our warmest, best wishes and regrets."
At the Capital's offices, a memorial grew in front of a large stone sign reading "888 Bestgate," the address a Capital intern had tweeted frantically to police on Thursday in the midst of the shooting.
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Ramos had unsuccessfully sued the newspaper for defamation in 2012 after it published a column about his guilty plea to criminal harassment.
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One week before the statute of limitation for defamation expired, the suspect sued Hartley, Capital Gazette Communications, and Tom Marquardt, the paper's then-editor and publisher.
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The judge in that case granted the defendant's motion to dismiss after the plaintiff was unable to give "a single example of how he had been harmed by the article." He appealed the decision and in 2013 a Maryland appeals court upheld the original decision.
In November 2011, the suspect appeared to create a Twitter account that he used to attack Hartley, Marquardt, and the newspaper.
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The tutorial was targeted at about 40 students, postdocs and researchers interested in applying high-throughput computations in their research, and in particular to those interested in learning how to use the AiiDA platform.
It started in the morning of Wednesday 22 June. After the registration formalities and a short introduction by the workshop organizers, Giovanni Pizzi (EPFL) gave a first introduction talk on AiiDA and the design concepts behind it, essential to understand the code but more generally to efficiently manage high-throughput computations: the ADES model, the concepts of provenance and reproducibility, and how these can be achieved using AiiDA.
After the coffee break, we started the first of a series of hands-on sessions with AiiDA. The room was large enough to host all participants, each of them working on a different computer (either their laptop, or on machines provided by EPFL). Each session was always introduced by the instructors, who briefly explained the aim of the session. The detailed instructions on the tasks to achieve were then provided on a printed booklet (and also on a PDF file), so that participants could learn at their own pace. Eight instructors (see list below) were available throughout all sessions to answer to specific questions any participant could have had.
Sessions were interleaved with invited talks (see below) and with coffee breaks.
Participants were extremely interested in learning the code – actually, instructors were quite surprised to see that most participants were so eager to learn that they would not leave the room during coffee breaks, and had to be "pushed out" out of the room!!
The workshop, however, was also focused more generally on teaching general techniques to be used in high-throughput computations, independent of the code used. For this reason, we have invited three experts in the domain of high-throughput computations.
The first talk, on Wednesday afternoon, was given by Kristian S. Thygesen (DTU, Denmark), with title "Computational screening for new solar energy materials". The second talk by Gábor Csányi (University of Cambridge, UK) was on Thursday morning and it was titled "Fitting interatomic potentials to moderate and large amounts of DFT data". Finally, Geoffroy Hautier (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) gave a talk on Friday morning on "Accelerating materials discovery through high-throughput computing and data mining".
All speakers discussed extremely interesting results from their research, showing in particular how they performed computational searches of materials inside known classes, how filtering of results could be performed to reduce the number of candidates and perform very expensive calculations only on a subset of them, and explaining methods that can be applied to extract information from simulations using machine-learning techniques.
In order to encourage discussions and exchange between participants, a poster session was organised in the evening of the first day (22nd June), together with a standing dinner. Seventeen posters were presented, and the participants seemed very interested in discussing in detail each other's work.
Moreover, each morning started with a half-an-hour discussion session, where each participant was encouraged to ask questions either on technical questions on the AiiDA code, but more generally on their high-throughput research. It was interesting to see how the participants were discussing among them on different ways to solve common problems to tackle when running large numbers of simulations.
Finally, a social dinner took place on Thursday evening at the restaurant "Le Debarcadère" in Saint Sulpice. We were lucky enough to have a very nice and pleasant weather, that allowed us to have dinner on the terrace on the lakeside, facing the Alps, with a beautiful natural landscape.
Finally, it's worth mentioning that, thanks to the generous support of funding entities (Psi-K, MARVEL and MaX), it has been possible to provide financial support for the accommodation in a hotel on campus to 23 participants (additionally to covering the organization expenses, and all coffee breaks, the standing dinner during the poster session, and the social dinner on Thursday evening).
This has made it possible to some participants to take part to the tutorial.
The tutorial that the instructors prepared in the weeks preceding the event was organised to allow for a smooth learning curve, and to get participants interested to learn more, rather than bored by technical details.
For this reason, from the very first session, users were starting to use the code directly, without any initial session on how to install the code. To achieve this, the tutorial was running on Amazon AWS machines, that provided a very consistent and homogeneous environment to all participants, giving at the same time to each of them a different machine to test, learn and practice.
After the end of the tutorial the virtual machines have also been distributed as a downloadable VirtualBox appliance (on http://www.aiida.net/tutorials). In this way, it becomes extremely easy for participants to run again the tutorial in the future (e.g., optional parts). Most importantly, also for people who could not attend the tutorial can profit of the learning material, and start learning the code with almost zero time required for initial setup (it's just needed to install VirtualBox, download the appliance and start it).
Finally, both the instructor sessions and the invited speaker talks have been recorded and will be available soon online.
The first sessions focused both on understanding the basic commands to interact with the code, but at the same time participants were getting acquainted with the concept of directed graphs (the way AiiDA internally stores calculations, data and their relationships).
Later, they started to learn how to submit calculations (using Quantum ESPRESSO) with AiiDA. Since in real life errors always occur, we decided to avoid to present a "perfect" tutorial that always works. Instead, the instructions were explicitly asking the user to submit a 'wrong' calculation that (for various reasons) would crash, to then teach them how to understand where things went wrong, and how to fix potential problems.
The second day was focused on more advanced topics. First, on how to efficiently query calculations in the database. A test database comprising about 300 calculations on a family of perovskites was already provided, and participants could perform various queries to understand the data, with the final aim of producing a plot to understand which perovskites were metallic, and which were magnetic.
The second very important topic was "workflows". We first started by introducing the concept of provenance, why it is important to keep track of what has happened, and how to run simulations without "breaking" it. Examples were shown from very simple use cases (like an equation of state). Participants learned how, with a single line, one can ask AiiDA to store the representation of a python function in the database for later querying (using 'workfunctions') and how to write full-fledged workflows to automatically obtain a result of interest that originates from a long sequence of calculations.
The session on workflows extended into the morning of the final (third) day, that ended with an explanation of how to install AiiDA and extend it with plugins.
We also had a presentation by Nicolas Mounet, that showed a real-case study from his research: using AiiDA, he could screen over 200,000 materials from 3D databases (ICSD and COD) to filter out only those that are layered (~6000). Those were further refined with extensive DFT calculations to calculate the binding energy and produce a very interesting database of those (~1800) that are indeed weakly (Van der Waals) bonded and are potentially realisable in the lab using exfoliation techniques.
The feedback received from the participants has been extremely positive. We have been therefore strongly encouraged by them to organize a new event in May 2017, whose registrations are (to date) open: http://nccr-marvel.ch/en/events/aiida-tutorial-may-2017. We report below the main results of the feedback form.
Finally, 81.5% of the participants declared that they would strongly recommend their colleagues to participate to a similar tutorial on high-throughput computations using AiiDA.
Additional pictures of the event can be found at the following links: day 1, day 2 and day 3.
17 among the participants also presented a poster during the evening of the first day.


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Justin Seubert, born in Wurzburg, Germany in 1837, became a premier cigar maker in Syracuse. He established his own business in 1866, and then partnered with William H. Warner to form the Seubert-Warner Company, charging five and ten cents for their cigars. Because of a love of literature, Seubert named his first brand Pickwick Club based on the title of Charles Dickens' first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
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He gave interesting names to other brands as well: Optimates, Conchas, Chicas, Perfection, May Queen, and Sunshine. The Seubert-Warner Company dissolved in 1888 and Seubert became the sole proprietor of the company. Under the name, Justin Seubert, Inc., he managed two cigar making factories, one in New York City that employed 350 people, the other in Syracuse that employed 100 people.


Lado Bokuchava is creative director of Atelier Kikala. He graduated Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2011. In 2012 he started work at Kikala Studio as art director. Then he showed his debut collection for Atelier Kikala at Tbilisi Fashion Week in 2013.
Atelier Kikala is an young brand from Georgia. Atelier Kikala was established on basis of photo studio "Kikala Studio". "Kikala Studio" has been functioning since 2005 as an advertising photo studio. Since then "Kikala Studio" has implemented a number of successful photo projects. In 2011 "Kikala Studio" started a series of photo projects Butoh Garden, The Liquid Sky, Virgin Suicide, Les Fleurs Du Mal, where clothes created under own design were used for the first time. These successful projects and peoples positive feedback gave the basis to the idea of "Atelier Kikala". Atelier Kikala started functioning on 1st September, 2012. During this time our items wore such It-Girls and Celebrities like: Iggy Azalea, Sky Ferreira,Miroslava Duma, Lena Perminova, Natalie Joos, Daria Shapovalova, Sonya Esman and etc . Since that time about us wrote in T magazine ,Vogue (USA,Russia and Ukraine),Harper's Bazaar Russia,Buro 24/7,Interview Russia and etc. Creative director of Atelier Kikala is Lado Bokuchava. Owner of the brand is photographer of Kikala Studio Mamuka Kikalishvili.
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Q: Not getting proper json responses using python requests.get().json() on amazon ec2 Something really weird is happening that I don't know if I can properly explain.
My python program sends a simple request and parses it as follows
    urlN = u'https://air.makemytrip.com/air/screen/ifsearch?tripType=O&' \
             'itinerary='+source+'-'+dest+'-D-
             '+str(date0)+'&paxType=A-1&' \
             'cabinClass='+cl

    page = requests.get(urlN, verify=False, timeout=15).json()

its inside a loop that increments the date by one, waits 5 sec, and so on.
Now the program works fine on my pc and laptop, but when I convert it to exe using pyinstaller, and run it on an amazon ec2 server, after 3 iterations, all the responses give the same error : json decode error
    json decode error expecting value line 1 column 1(char 0)

Am I missing something ? I did the same for domestic flights on make my trip (the request url changes), and it worked fine, but international flights are sometimes giving incomplete json responses, which i figured by printing page, while at other times I have no idea what's wrong.
Please help !!
(PS: I have also tried json.load to no avail)

A: It means that the data that you're getting is not a valid JSON.
It'll be also more pythonic if you had used format functions or %s placeholders:
url_template = (
    'https://air.makemytrip.com/air/screen/ifsearch?tripType=O&'
     'itinerary=%(source)s-%(dest)s-D-%(date0)s&paxType=A-1&'
     'cabinClass=%(c1)s'
)
page = requests.get(url_template % locals(), verify=False, timeout=15).json()


In your opinion, is there a market for application-specific storage systems? For example, a storage system integrated from disk to controller to software for Exchange. If so, what is a typical customer profile and what are the apps best suitable for such systems?
Yes, I think there is a market for application specific storage systems. The question is, is the market big enough to justify the effort and costs. The DAFS NAS offerings today can be thought of as application-specific storage systems since they are sold to work with databases. I think e-mail and databases make the most sense because they have some special characteristics and are crucial to businesses such that they will pay more for a product. I would think the customer has to be a larger company to afford to pay extra.


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Reolink E1 Pro review: This indoor home security cam delivers a great picture at great price
This 4MP Super HD pan-and-tilt smart home security camera offers amazing image quality and premium features for much less than $100.
By Michael Ansaldo
Freelance contributor, TechHive |
Reolink E1 Pro
Simple setup, easy-to-use app
Reolink adds another winner to its estimable stable of home security cameras. The E1 Pro is the latest model in the company's line to feature crystal-clear 4MP Super HD video. It also packs in a host of premium features, but keeps the cost to a modest $55.
The E1 Pro is a tennis-ball style camera that measures about 3 inches wide by 4 inches high. Most of the camera's hardware—including the daylight sensor, status LED, built-in mic, microSD card slot, and reset button—are located on its glossy black face. The speaker and power jack are located around the back.
The camera delivers video resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels, versus the 1920 x 1080 pixels you get with a Full HD camera, or the 1280 x 720 pixels that an HD camera produces. If all that sounds like Greek to you, just know that the net result is a significantly more detailed image. That's coupled with a pan-and-tilt feature—355 degrees horizontal, 50 degrees vertical—that gives you whole-room coverage.
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The E1 Pro supports dual-band Wi-Fi for better connectivity.
The E1 also comes with essential security features like motion detection, two-way audio, and night vision that provides up to 40 feet of illumination in the dark.
Reolink provides considerable flexibility for saving security video. Motion-detected clips are recorded locally to a microSD card (up to 64GB). You can pair that with a Reolink Cloud subscription for offsite backup, which is a prudent choice as it will preserve any forensic evidence if an intruder compromises the camera. There's a free plan with purchase that saves up to 1GB of clips for seven days. The Standard plan supports up to five cameras and gives you 10GB of cloud storage for with a 30-day history for $3.49 a month or $35 a year. The Premier plan bumps that up to 10 cameras and 50GB with the same 30-day history for $7 a month or $69 annually. Finally, Reolink offers a Business plan, which supports up to 30 cameras and gives you 100GB of cloud storage with a 60-day history for $10.49 a month or $104 a year.
If you want to enable 24/7 monitoring, you can connect the camera with Reolink's 8-channel or 16-channel NVR (network video recorder). These are sold separately for $230 and $330 respectively.
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The E1 Pro's pan-and-tilt feature allows whole room coverage.
Virtually every Reolink camera I've used has been a breeze to set up, and the E1 Pro continues that trend thanks to a voice prompt that guides you through the steps. Once you scan the device's QR code with the Reolink app, it's just a couple of steps to connecting it to your Wi-Fi network. Once that's done, you can just set the camera on a table or shelf or mount it to a ceiling or wall with the supplied hardware.
The E1 Pro appears on the app's device page along with any other Reolink cameras you have connected. A dedicated cog icon opens camera settings where you can tell the E1 Pro how to behave when it detects activity. Motion detection, recording, and notification settings are all here, as are on/off toggles for the automatic night vision and the camera's onboard alarm .
Selecting the E1 Pro from the device list opens its home screen. The layout is nearly identical to the one used with the Reolink C2 Pro . Under the live-feed pane, there's a toolbar with controls for the video stream, and a toggle for the camera's resolution. Pan-and-tilt, push-to-talk, and video-clip playback controls are all on the bottom of the screen.
Not surprisingly, the 4MP Super HD video is startlingly sharp. In some instances, I could see individual hairs in my dog's coat. If that sounds like overkill for a lot of throwaway surveillance footage, consider that it can make a world of difference when identifying the facial features or clothing of an intruder.
One of my favorite features of the Reolink C2 Pro has been ported over here. If you want to take a close look at something in the camera's current live view, you can press a button labeled "Clip." This opens a screen capture of the live feed at the bottom of the screen, with a small box overlaid on it. Drag the box to different parts of the image, and a zoomed-in view of that crop appears in the camera's live view pane. It's great for getting a closer look at anything in the scene that warrants closer inspection.
The app's pan-and-tilt controls, which include a joystick and directional buttons you can tap, work well for the most part. The joystick allows you to make continuous sweeps of the room, while the buttons are for incremental movements. The camera would often take a couple seconds to respond to input, but once it did, its motion was always smooth and controlled. In addition to manual control, the app offers a marking feature the lets you set and name waypoints, and an "auto" button that rotates the camera back and forth horizontally a couple of times to give you a complete look at the room before returning to its starting point.
You can set different motion detection sensitivity for up to four time frames.
Motion detection was uniformly accurate when I used it keep tabs on my kids summertime comings and goings. The motion sensor has a sensitivity scale that's adjustable from 1 to 50, and you can customize it to be higher or lower during certain times of day.
You can also establish motion zones to restrict the monitoring area and reduce false alerts. Usually, this is a pretty surefire solution, but I wasn't crazy about the implementation here. Instead of using the typical grid layout, where you selecte a series of individual squares to block out an area, Reolink has opted for a pen-and-eraser input that has you color in an area to block it from motion detection.
It's more time consuming and fussier, as it's difficult to apply uniform pressure for any length of time, and that inevitably results in small missed areas that you'll need to go back over until the desired area is selected. Erasing a blocked-out area posed the same issues.
The camera works with Google Assistant for hands-free control. Once you add the camera to your Google Home smart speaker, you can say "Hey Google, show me [tje room where the camera is located]" to view a live feed on your Google Nest Hub or Chromecast-enabled TV.
The Reolink E1 Pro impresses with its user friendliness and astounding video quality. It was a cinch to set up, and, a couple of nitpicks aside, a delight to use. If picture quality and price are your top considerations, the E1 Pro is a very good choice. If you're willing to give up its high resolution, consider the Xiaomi Mi Home Security Camera, which delivers 1080p resolution but that has many of the same capabilities—plus a more straightforward motion-zone feature.
Correction: This review previously reported that the the Reolink E1 Pro was the company's first to support 4MP Super HD Video. Reolink already has several cameras with this feature. We regret the error.
Reolink's E1 Pro is an excellent security camera if picture quality and price are your top priorities.
Superb image clarity
Pan-and-tilt gives you full room coverage
Customizable motion detection and alerts
Motion zone's pen-and-eraser input can be fussy
Pan-and-tilt is sometimes slow to respond
Michael Ansaldo is a veteran consumer and small-business technology journalist. He contributes regularly to TechHive and writes the Max Productivity column for PCWorld.


Little Texas will headline Kickin' it at Kimbrough on Monday.
When Little Texas — the multi-platinum country band that first hit big in the 1990s — was signed by Warner Bros., it was the youngest band to ever be signed in country music.
In the nearly 30 years since, what was a six-man band is now a quartet, though they're all original members. They're still releasing new music and touring, including headling the Kickin' It at Kimbrough as part of Canyon's Fourth of July celebrations.
And, according to bassist/vocalist Duane Propes, they've done quite a bit of growing up.
"For 10 years of our lives, we were constantly on the road — at times on the road for six months at a time," Propes said.
That's one reason why the band split ways in 1997 — to learn what life outside a tour bus could be like.
"It made us grow up and get into the real world, to see how normal people live their lives," Propes said. "It gave us the foundation and the stability to do this and not kill yourself — to work smarter and not harder."
While churning out hits like "Some Guys Have All the Love," "God Blessed Texas," "What Might Have Been" and "My Love," the band had three different lead singers between 1989 and 1994, then broke up after the 1997 release of their self-titled album.
Propes returned to his native Texas to work in Houston for a couple of years, then moved back to Nashville to work for Curb Records and then Gibson Guitars.
"I got a real good education as to what corporate America is, and it ain't nothing but adult day care," Propes said. "I'd much rather work for myself."
When the band reunited in 2004, the quartet decided not to tour as strenuously as they had before, sticking mostly to weekend runs.
"We probably have the longest run coming up since we got back together — 10 days," Propes said. "I haven't done laundry on the road in a long, long time."
Though they're still releasing new music — the band's eighth album, Young for a Long Time, came out last year — Propes said they're not expecting to break through on mainstream country radio.
"We just recorded it like we wanted to do," Propes said.
One song — "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" — specifically rags on the state of modern country.
"It's basically completely making fun of the bro-country movement," he said. "We put in 138 cliches in one song that you hear on mainstream radio every single day. The one thing we forgot to put in there was catfish."
But though he said he didn't want to say if modern country is either "good or bad," he did say the overproduced sounds are similar to what his daughter listened to on the Disney Channel when she was younger.
"I'm more on the classic rock side of country, when you didn't ProTool everything to death," he said. "Music today is too perfect. Don't autotune things to perfection. ... That's what made it good, the mistakes. That stuff has heart and soul."
Propes said the band is looking forward to its Fourth of July gig in Canyon — its first time in the city, though Propes himself came through as a child.
"I haven't been to (the area) since I was 12 and saw Texas," he said. "I think we have a day off in town too, and we're planning on staying an extra day. ... I told the drummer we have to get Texas tickets. I've been wanting to go back and see it since (that first time)."
Kickin' It at Kimbrough opens at 6:30 p.m. at Kimbrough Memorial Stadium on Interstate 27 near Canyon. Amarillo band Next to Kin will open. Tickets are $5, and admission is free for children 5 and younger.


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Amapiano (del zulú i del xosa "els pianos" ) és un estil de música house que va sorgir a Sud-àfrica  el 2012. És un híbrid de música deep house, jazz i lounge que es caracteritza per l'ús de sintetitzadors, pads i línies de baix percussives i amples. Es distingeix per melodies de piano elèctric (o Rhodes o piano de tons aguts), línies de baix Kwaito, un so de baix únic nadiu del FL Studio (D.A.W) anomenat Log-Drum que es troba al VST de Image-Line dit Fruity DX10, ritmes sudafricans de baix tempo dels anys 90 a un tempo de 90 Bpm a 120 BPM (icònicament de BPMs 108 a 115) El shaker juga un paper principal ja que està present en tot el beat/tema i també presència de percussions d'un altre subgènere local de house conegut com Bacardi.

Orígens
Encara que el gènere va guanyar popularitat a Katlehong, un municipi a l'est de Johannesburg, hi ha molta ambigüitat i debat sobre els seus orígens, amb diversos relats dels estils musicals als municipis de Johannesburg: Soweto, Alexandra, Vosloorus i Katlehong. A causa de les similituds del gènere amb Bacardi, algunes persones afirmen que el gènere va començar a Pretòria. Diverses teories sobre qui va formar el gènere popular fan impossible identificar amb precisió els seus orígens.

Un element important del gènere és l'ús del tambor d'escletxa, que s'ha atribuït a Mdu, també conegut com TRP. El pioner d'Amapiano Kabza De Small va declarar:No sé què va passar. No sé com va descobrir el tambor d'escletxa. La música amapiano sempre ha estat allà, però ell és el que va inventar el so del tambor d'escletxa. A aquests nois els agrada experimentar. Sempre comproven noves connexions. Així que quan Mdu ho va descobrir, va córrer amb ell.

Popularitat
El 2019 el gènere va experimentar una popularitat creixent a tot el continent africà amb augments notables de les transmissions digitals i temes a les llistes d'èxits a països lluny del seu origen sud-africà.

El 2022 el portal de música Beatport va afegir "Amapiano" com a gènere.

Artistes i productors musicals d'arreu del món han començat a poc a poc a utilitzar el gènere.

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The National Park Service staff at New River Gorge National River will be hosting an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday, July 26th 2007. The blood drive will take place at the historic Glen Jean Bank (across from the post office and National Park Service headquarters) from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM and is open to all members of the public.
This year the American Red Cross is providing donors an opportunity to win a 2008 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster motorcycle, as well as an opportunity to win WVU season tickets. Donors also will be receiving a special biker T-shirt and refreshments will be provided.


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Lady Gaga And Tony Bennett Go 'Cheek To Cheek' In Aid Of WellChild At Royal Albert Hall
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The legendary crooner and Mother Monster took London by storm and even Prince Harry came to have a look.
Lady GaGa and Tony Bennett brought their 'Cheek to Cheek' show to London's Royal Albert on Monday evening, for a night of classic songs and old fashioned glamour all in aid of children's charity WellChild.
Gaga and Bennett onstage together at the Royal Albert Hall.
The charity, which supports seriously ill children and their families across the UK, sent along royal patron Prince Harry to enjoy the evening's festivities and the 5th in line to the throne managed to get up close and personal with the two singers.
Meeting the pair before the gig, the Prince was told, "We think you are fantastic," by Gaga, while Bennett added "Your mum was a good friend of mine, I did many benefits with her." Harry was also joined at the gig by supporters of the charity as well as nurses and their families who were given seats in the Royal Box for the performance.
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While Bennett and Gaga might seem like an unlikely duo to some, the pair who share a sixty year age difference, have bonded over a mutual love of old standards. Last November they released their Grammy winning collaborative album Cheek to Cheek and over the past few months they've been enjoying bringing the songs to life onstage together.
Gaga and Bennett have a unique chemistry despite their age gap.
Writing in The Guardian, Caroline Sullivan described the onstage relationship between the two as 'mutually beneficial'. Adding. 'He gives her gravitas, she gives him energy – and the chemistry is real.'
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The Telegraph's Neil McCormack also saw the pair's unique chemistry as he wrote that the 'unlikely duo seemed to be having most fun on swinging numbers full of flirtatious comedy and bravado but the union actually made most sense on deep ballads…when the age gap of voice and style was bridged by pure emotion.'
The concert is reported to have raised more than £100,000 for WellChild, with another sold out performance scheduled for tonight (June 9th). "WellChild is thrilled that Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are supporting WellChild through this concert," the charity's chief executive Colin Dyer said in a statement. "The proceeds will be a massive boost to our work to support seriously ill children and their families across the UK."
The pair will play a second concert tonight (June 9th).
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Fendt's beautiful beast wins big
By Denene Erasmus
By winning a platinum award in the world's biggest international design competition, the Fendt IDEAL combine harvester has proved that it's both beautiful and brawny.
According to AGCO, the Fendt IDEAL has undergone extensive testing in a variety of regions and offers ground-breaking quality, cost-effectiveness and automation.
Photo: AGCO
More than any of its other notable attributes, it was the attractive design of the Fendt IDEAL combine harvester that made this machine stand out from the other candidates from 106 countries, persuading the international panel of experts to award it a platinum prize in the A'Design Award competition's category for agriculture, horticulture and fisheries.
The award was presented at a gala evening at the Teatro Sociale in Como, Italy, recently.
According to a statement released by Fendt and its parent company, AGCO, the combine harvester had been designed entirely from scratch.
"With the Fendt IDEAL, the challenge was to work with a global, intercontinental team to meet the needs of different customers and harvesting conditions.
"The threshing mechanism and cleaning system came from the Danish firm Randers, the TrackRide from Jackson, US, and all the electronics were developed in Marktoberdorf, Bavaria [in Germany]," said the statement.
The IDEAL Combine
Farmers and contractors from around the world were asked which combine requirements they would choose if they had to design the ideal harvesting machine.
It was the culmination of this customer input, the experience of its developers, and the opportunity the company had to test the Fendt IDEAL all year round in different regions under the harshest operating conditions "that make the Fendt IDEAL the most modern and innovative combine on the market".
The Platinum A'Design Award "confirms what we already knew, that this machine design has an important role to play in the development of new machines," said Roland Schmidt, vice-president, Fendt marketing.
He was also quoted as saying the Fendt IDEAL was a "unique combination of innovation in technology and design" and, with the colour graphite as a design feature, the machine had a particularly high recognition value within the industry.
New threshing system
The power output of the Fendt IDEAL 7, 8 and 9 models ranges from 336kW to 483kW. The IDEAL 7 has an AGCO Power engine, while the 8 and 9 feature two different MAN engines.
The innovative threshing system is designed to provide the most efficient output and cleanest results for every type of crop and under all conditions.
According to Fendt, the IDEAL stands out from other combines due to its outstanding Single (IDEAL 7) and Dual Helix (IDEAL 8 and 9) processor, which provides the highest output and best threshing quality with gentle crop handling and low energy consumption.
The Helix processor offers the user a combination of maximum output, best grain quality and low energy consumption with optimal straw quality. To make it simpler for farmers to achieve these results, the machine is fitted with the IDEALharvest system. This automatically adjusts to a farmer's pre-selected harvest strategy, thus achieving the best threshing results.
Using the system, the driver can quickly and easily select from three key harvesting strategies: minimise breakages, minimise grain loss or optimise grain purity.
The system also enables the driver to use the slider to prioritise throughput performance.
In addition, rotor and fan speed, top and bottom sieve openings and forward speed are continually optimised to suit the selected strategy.
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Trump threatens years-long shutdown and national emergency if he doesn't get wall funding
But he's still saying Mexico will pay for it.
by Rex Santus
Jan 4 2019, 9:22pm
President Donald Trump once again unleashed what's become his presidential hallmark: a bizarre, winding, threatening press conference, this time following his White House meeting with Democratic leaders Friday to try to break the impasse causing the government shutdown.
In a long, meandering briefing in the Rose Garden, Trump told reporters the partial shutdown now heading into its third week could go on for months, even years, if Democrats don't give him the $5.6 billion he's demanding to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The Democrats have steadfastly refused. The shutdown has affected some 800,000 federal workers — 420,000 of them forced to work without pay — since Dec. 22.
"This is national security we're talking about," Trump said. "We're not talking about games."
When asked if there was any "safety net" for workers going without pay as the shutdown continues, Trump responded: "The safety net is going to be having a strong border."
Trump also floated another way he could get his wall: declaring a state of national emergency over border security to build it without congressional approval.
"I could do it if I wanted," Trump said.
Trump continued to refuse responsibility for workers affected by the shutdown, telling the press:
• Landlords should "go nice and easy" on federal workers who can't afford rent.
• Mexico will pay for the border wall through a new trade deal with the U.S., a claim that is not backed by evidence.
• Democrats probably won't see him act on DACA — which protects some immigrants brought the U.S. illegally as children — unless they concede on border wall funding.
• "I think we'll have to build a steel wall as opposed to a concrete wall."
• That he can't be impeached because he's doing a good job, which he said in response to newly sworn-in Rep. Rashida Tlaib's promise to impeach that "motherfucker." "I think she dishonored herself," Trump said. "And I think she dishonored her family."
The conference came after Trump's long meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about border security funding. Pelosi told the press that the meeting was "contentious," while Schumer said Trump threatened to prolong a government shutdown for years if Democrats wouldn't give him the $5.6 billion
The government shutdown is about to enter its third week over the president's feud with Democrats over border security money. House Democrats passed two bills aimed at ending the shutdown in its first day in session Thursday, though neither of them will become law because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won't bring them to the Senate floor.
Cover: President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House after a meeting with Congressional leaders on border security, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Hundreds joined together at the AT&T Conference Center for the 14th annual Ethics in Business & Community Awards. This ceremony recognizes outstanding ethical business practices and celebrates the idea that doing good is good business in Central Texas. The ceremony honored recipients in five categories, followed by the presentation of the Anita & Earl Maxwell Lifetime Achievement Award. The program encourages the partnership between business and community in order to make Central Texas stronger.
Nominations are made by the community online at RecognizeGood.org, then vetted by business students at Concordia University. Concordia students trim the nominations to three finalists in each category. Next, students present the finalists to a selection committee of business and community leaders. This committee is led by Dr. Lynette Gillis, Dean of the College of Business at Concordia University Texas. Proceeds from this event benefited the Samaritan Center. The Center presented the Ethics in Business Awards until the program's adoption by RecognizeGood in 2011.
Finalists for this year's awards included NXP Semiconductors and Pinnergy in the Large Business category, Five Stone Tax Advisers LLC and TASUS Texas in the Mid-size Business category, BLGY Architecture and the Bommarito Group in the Small Business category, Foundation For The Homeless and Thundering Paws Animal Sanctuary in the Nonprofit category, and Mark Kiester and Ingrid Weigand in the Individual category.
Earl Maxwell of St. David's Foundation and the RecognizeGood Board of Directors emceed the event. Previous winners, including Sandy Dochen of IBM, Andrew Cooper of the TyRex Group, Josh Behjat of Hagbros Precision, Jerry Davis of Goodwill Central Texas and Patti C. Smith of KVUE, presented the awards. The official ballot-counter for the awards was Atchley & Associates.


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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Review
By: Evan Bee
Simulation games are one of the more exhaustive types of Role-playing games, if only because they require the ability to grasp and execute multiple mechanics and concepts simultaneously and early on. If you misjudge a strategic estimation, you may end up paying for it in the long run. Therefore, it's crucial that any simulation game firmly establishes its roots before letting the player off the hook. This is important, of course, only if they have a great number of systems.
If this is the case, then a game probably shouldn't soft-lock during its tutorial.
Halcyon 6 is a space simulation game where the player assumes the role of commanding officer on the titular space station. After the eldritch Chruul wipe out your most powerful ships with ease and raze the New Terran Federation, your crew aboard the derelict Halcyon 6 must maintain a stable foothold in what is now a very unstable galaxy.
In order to do this, you'll need to manage your space station, the safety of the planets in your system, and the unsteady alliances with other factions throughout the galaxy. These three elements each have their own layers of depth, mostly revolving around the same resources, so it's up to you to micromanage your way to victory. Crew members can be sourced from colonies, dark matter can be drawn from arcane facilities, materials from asteroid fields, and fuel from nebulae. All of these are needed to craft spaceships, develop technology on board the Halcyon 6, or improve the productivity of all the other systems.
However, you'll need to either perform shipments by sending out your own officer-crewed vessels to cart them back and forth, or automate them through the development of delivery drones, a costly tech tree on your space station. This is just one of the few early-game decisions you'll need to make, and whether or not you'll be on the offensive against the Chruul will matter a great deal.
Halcyon 6 has an extremely extensive ecosystem of gameplay elements, from establishing trade routes and base-building, to both space and ground turn-based battle systems. Space battles against the Chruul and other forces of the Space Pirate, Space Merchant, and Space Robot variety take place over planets, with each ship acting separately by selecting from a variety of attack abilities that operate on turn cooldowns. The game's primary method of varying ship function and depth are its seven different status afflictions. Each ship possesses varying resistances, and certain attacks will inflict status as well as exploit them for additional damage. Exploits work as follows: if you attack an enemy with a status affliction, you can simultaneously bestow another while wiping the previous clean for extra punch. Keep in mind, this is atop the ship – and Officer – exclusive status effects and abilities. Although ground-based battles happen infrequently in the early moments of the game, they will escalate as the plot progresses squadrons of two "green shirt" Cadets will engage in enemies, lead by their commanding Officer. During these battles, there are a set of seven unique, yet essentially similar status effects that ground units can perform upon enemies.
Officers are a hugely important resource in Halcyon 6, as they can perform essential tasks on the space station and also command each space vessel. Recruiting Officers is a resource-intensive process, but it also relies on preexisting Officer experience – if you want to have four Officers, you'd better have at least one of your previous three at a certain level. Officers can come in three categories, able to pilot one of the three ship classes, although there are two titles per category and categories have two sub-classes. If you think that sentence was hard to follow, yes. You are right. Officers have their own individual skill trees, Cadets can be upgraded through Halcyon 6's facilities, ships advance through several stages of classes and can only be piloted by increasingly experienced Officers, who in turn can be recruited at higher levels through investing in certain facility upgrades. The Space Station must be powered and needs a certain amount of reactors in order to function. Its own structure can be reinforced in case of enemy attack, and one can micromanage the morale of their troops by running propaganda campaigns through facilities. Yes, there's plenty to do in Halcyon 6, and because of its hourly and daily scheduling of events and real-time space travel, managing all of these elements might seem a bit too overwhelming.
Except, the game actually pulls it off. By pressing the plus button on your controller of choice, you can freeze time at any point (unless you're in combat) in order to review your options. If some unexpected event should occur on your timeline, you can check your notifications and react to it, even canceling a great deal of the facility processes your Officers are performing (resulting in a loss of resources, though this can be a necessary sacrifice). The result is a game that feels like an immense amount of decision making during a single play-session despite giving the player plenty of time to think things over.
Narrative and Aesthetics
The scenario established at the start of the previous section is precisely how complicated Halcyon 6 wants to get with its narrative. All of the beats are fairly standard, existing only to get the player from one tech tree to the next. The game's various alien races – as vibrant as they might be – all possess dialogue centered around a handful of their specific characteristics. The Space Robots are cheerily cheeky, the Space Merchants are fast-talking and profit-oriented, and the Space Pirates are cutthroat backstabbers. Their individual micro-narratives play out much as you'd expect they would. This isn't to say that the scenario dialogue isn't both charming and funny, however. The game's writing is very oddball, with characters acting extremely dense in the most enjoyable way possible. The player is given a variety of options in order to sort out diplomatic issues, as well – as long as everyone is worried about the Chruul, you can use this fear to your advantage, or attempt to subjugate all other denizens in the galaxy. There are several randomized instances that are extremely amusing, involving matter replicators, dark cults, and super soldier serums.
Halcyon 6 may be a complex game, but its visuals are bright and simplistic, allowing for easy identification of information. The game's pixel art is based around utilizing distinctive shapes in order to convey a variety of details. Your Officers will usually be grouped with their vessel type, so seeing the ship models will help the player recall each unit's role. That being said, the ships possess the majority of the character in the game, with some neat designs that draw upon all sorts of science fiction material as well as offering some unique twists. All the factions in the game possess their own unique ship designs, complicating as they go up their tiers, and covering each of the three vessel types. The sprite work also highlights the amusing character design, with ground battles showing off some impressive enemy biology and all the alien types given loads of personality. The characters aren't the only thing that are a joy to look at, either – all of the game's menus are very clean, and its backgrounds are both pleasing to look at and pulsing with subtle signs of life, whether its arcs of lightning across the surface of the planet or the writhing of a Chruul Spire's interior.
Impressions and Conclusion
With all of this praise towards the systems and visuals, one might wonder why Halcyon 6 received such a foreboding introduction. Despite its impressive and enjoyable gameplay, there are some issues regarding performance that hold the game back a bit. With such a lengthy list of mechanics, it would be great if the tutorial wouldn't soft lock after encouraging the player to enter the submenus for various functions. While this might seem like I was asking for trouble, it occurred in three different parts of the tutorial, leading me to have to restart the whole thing. Likewise, the game's turn-based nature could make it the ideal candidate for the Switch's handheld mode, but you cannot reset controller options within the game, meaning you'll have to close out the title and re-open it with a new controller if you want to play it in a different configuration. The in-game cursor is accurate enough, but its movement speed cannot be modified, which can lead to some tedious trips across the screen in order to press certain buttons. To top it all off, the game seems to be lacking in optimization, as just about every screen transition triggered by a button input is accompanied by a healthy dose of lag.
There is one particularly infamous aspect of Halcyon 6 that dates back to its original classic form, which is the nature of one of its final skirmishes. Simply put, the game warns you of an impending battle about twenty in-game days in advance, and then springs a surprising and completely unreadable four additional skirmishes out that have mandatory completion once the battle begins. This is a difficulty spike of insane proportions, as no other battle has been structured as such previously and the final ship will simply tear the Halcyon 6 apart as the player scrambles to take out the other fleets. It is not telegraphed and exists on every difficulty level. After playing around three – to the four – hundred in-game days, that this battle can completely wipe a campaign is very aggravating, and the best possible strategy would be to simply know that this event will come in the future and plan far in advance. If you didn't already realize, this is pretty much the exact opposite of a natural and enjoyable simulation.
For some, these performance issues will be a bit too much to handle. While they didn't entirely ruin my experience with Halcyon 6, I could see it being a problem for others. The addictive "one more turn" aspect of the gameplay was enough to get me hooked, as you are almost constantly making micro – and macro – management decisions in order to improve the efficiency of your dealings, as well as keep your galaxy safe. If it weren't for these technical hurdles, I would go as far as to say that Halcyon 6 is a must-own for the Switch, but you'll have to watch some gameplay in order to see if those hiccups are worth the entry price. Either way, I can't recommend it enough, as long as you know what you're getting yourself into.
A review copy was provided by the publisher.
Our Scale:
Great: Must Play.
Good: Worth Your Time.
OK: Some Notable Flaws.
Bad: Avoid.
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package org.apache.gobblin.util.io;

import java.io.FilterInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import com.codahale.metrics.Meter;
import com.google.common.base.Optional;

import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

/**
 * A {@link FilterInputStream} that counts the bytes read from the underlying {@link InputStream}.
 */
@Slf4j
public class MeteredInputStream extends FilterInputStream implements MeteredStream {

  /**
   * Find the lowest {@link MeteredInputStream} in a chain of {@link FilterInputStream}s.
   */
  public static Optional<MeteredInputStream> findWrappedMeteredInputStream(InputStream is) {
    if (is instanceof FilterInputStream) {
      try {
        Optional<MeteredInputStream> meteredInputStream =
            findWrappedMeteredInputStream(FilterStreamUnpacker.unpackFilterInputStream((FilterInputStream) is));
        if (meteredInputStream.isPresent()) {
          return meteredInputStream;
        }
      } catch (IllegalAccessException iae) {
        log.warn("Cannot unpack input stream due to SecurityManager.", iae);
        // Do nothing, we can't unpack the FilterInputStream due to security restrictions
      }
    }
    if (is instanceof MeteredInputStream) {
      return Optional.of((MeteredInputStream) is);
    }
    return Optional.absent();
  }

  private BatchedMeterDecorator meter;

  /**
   * Builds a {@link MeteredInputStream}.
   * @param in The {@link InputStream} to measure.
   * @param meter A {@link Meter} to use for measuring the {@link InputStream}. If null, a new {@link Meter} will be created.
   * @param updateFrequency For performance, {@link MeteredInputStream} will batch {@link Meter} updates to this many bytes.
   */
  @Builder
  private MeteredInputStream(InputStream in, Meter meter, int updateFrequency) {
    super(in);
    this.meter = new BatchedMeterDecorator(meter == null ? new Meter() : meter, updateFrequency > 0 ? updateFrequency : 1000);
  }

  @Override
  public int read() throws IOException {
    int bte = super.read();
    if (bte >= 0) {
      this.meter.mark();
    }
    return bte;
  }

  @Override
  public int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
    int readBytes = super.read(b, off, len);
    this.meter.mark(readBytes);
    return readBytes;
  }

  @Override
  public Meter getBytesProcessedMeter() {
    return this.meter.getUnderlyingMeter();
  }
}

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On April 14, Kelly Clarkson announced the birth of her son, Remington Alexander. It was another excruciating 10 days before she finally got around to sharing her first pics of little Remy, but it was totally worth the wait; the kid's adorable. The singer, who's known for sharing some amazing baby pics, has recently stepped up her game, and now Kelly Clarkson's first family photo with Remington Instagram will absolutely blow you away.
Aside from those first pics of Remy, Clarkson's timeline last caught our attention when she posted a Game of Thrones themed Christmas card with River; her husband, Brandon Blackstock; and Brandon's children, Seth and Savannah. The newest family portrait doesn't show the parents (she's less than two weeks post-partum and I don't blame her at all), but features all four of the kids for the first time. It seems that the family hauled an antique fainting couch onto their beautifully manicured lawn, as one does, and dressed the children in grayscale for a look that says, "Yes, this is impossibly posed and unrealistic, by by gum, our children and home are gorgeous, and we just wanted you to know that." Savannah cradles baby Remy at one end of the couch while Seth and River gaze at each other lovingly and make me almost regret my choice to only have one kid.
Clarkson married talent manager Blackstock in 2013, when Savannah and Seth were 12 and six years old, and at the time, she told People, "They're awesome, and I actually really dig the mom thing." According to the Los Angeles Times, prior to getting married, the singer told Rachael Ray, "I never wanted kids, and now I want babies. ... I really want to make the time." It seems that Savannah and Seth changed her mind. So are there any more babies on the horizon? No way! In March, Clarkson appeared on Australia's KIIS FM, according to Entertainment Tonight, and when asked about more babies, she responded, "Oh good Lord, yes, I can't be pregnant again. This will be our number four total, so we're good." Clarkson's first pregnancy was difficult, and apparently the second one was even harder: "I just get hospitalized, and I have to get fluids. It's just, like, my body was not made to be pregnant." No need to apologize; four kids are plenty... And plenty cute, too.